What the hell was your college doing using that in your ID? Mine is year of entry, initials, 4 numbers.
Anyway, it doesn't have to broadcast your actual student ID, just something unique to that card. That way if the card is lost its access can be revoked and you issued with a new one without changing your student ID.
Similar but admittedly not dorms, our school is considering going major RFID cards with *every* door lock. Each card is keyed to a unique person, and they can have room access tailored accordingly. Staff and 6th Form students will have them. It will also be used to check out library books, have a 'top-up' system for buying lunch and snacks.
Why not integrate RFID tags into college IDs? Each dorm can then be locked to all except those who are actually in that dorm, but the building is locked to far fewer people. If you're particularly worried, use RFID for most locks but require secure ones (Such as individual dorm doors) to have the card inserted into a smartchip reader.
Have you come across essays written in txtesque yet? The best laugh I had in ages was one (Admittedly a very good parody) of "rmeo n jlet", with the memorable line "wer4 rt tho rmeo?".
Seriously though, I had grammar and punctuation drilled into me from a very young age. Typos are understandable, and/.ers leap on them far too eagerly, but sometimes you have sentences which roll on and on with no form of punctuation in sight. Grammar isn't too bad, but evidently some kids just don't get it.
I believe they're aimed at developing countries, where they're likely to be treated with a bit more respect. To many kids these would be amazing pieces of technology, be they 5 or 15.
Umm... because it's a beta and we want to see what could possibly be around the corner?
I've not met anybody who goes "OMG VISTA ROX J00 USE IT NOW!!!". I have met people who install it on a PC to give it a whirl and see what happens. I've even seen people who *gasp* report bugs on it!
I've got an ECDL. It's Microsoft all the way. I've also got an A level in ICT. It's Microsoft all the way. I've also got a CLAIT certification. It's Microsoft all the way.
The MCSE I'm taking, well. I think you can guess that yourself.
Trouble is, these are the qualifications employers look for. I can roll out Cisco qualifications, Macromedia certifications and a perfect portfolio and they go "Oh, you're not qualified in Microsoft".
But it is handy for those who do know what admin is about, because it is effectively a lockdown by default. Software vendors will notice this in testing because, unlike XP, it will be difficult to write software with lazy approaches without noticing.
Anything which forces more things to be user-oriented (Settings, save files etc) by default is good in my book. Still, I agree we'll have to see what happens.
If you get hold of the CTP, you'll find that Vista actually does this. If something needs to prod around with something which should need admin (Registry, system folder etc) then you will be prompted for your admin password. Even if you're logged in with an admin account, it will ask you again.
I think a lot would move, since (think about this) those who would have.xxx filtered out are most likely to be under 18, and therefore unable to purchase a subscription. Porn sites would be effectively signing up to limit their audience to those who are capable of paying, and are therefore not wasting bandwidth on kids with strange fetishes who are never gonna pay.
Parents win, porn sites win, filter companies have more time to spend doing useful stuff (Perhaps then winehq.org won't be classed as Drugs/Alcohol), and 12 year olds get a nice clean(er) internet. What more could be wanted?
Take a look at the Automated Transfer Vehicle. It's ESA (So not affected by NASA), and specifically designed to move stuff to the ISS and then burn up on re-entry with the waste. It launches on an Ariane 5, which has more than enough raw lifting capacity.
No, *YOU* don't need a GUI for everything. The guy who walks into PC World and says "I want a computer with the internet and Microsoft" does. Because whilst going Start -> Run -> "cmd" -> "ipconfig/release/renew" is perfectly acceptable, it's far nicer for users to right click the network connection and select "Repair".
The beauty of tape is you only need one drive, and can store huge (huge) libraries of data. I've seen one installation in a datacentre where the tape racks literally had a robotic arm picking the appropriate tape, moving it from the fireproof vault to a seperate drive, inserting it, doing the backup/restore, then replacing the tape. Thousands of TB of backup data there.
Admittedly for smaller servers a removable HDD may prove far better given the usage vs. cost, but for large installations it's near impossible to beat the fact that your backup is turned into a physically removable and storable object which can be handled automatically.
If you read up on Blue Security's actual implementation they never sent more unsubscribe requests than emails recieved. They sent one on behalf of the whole community first, then if that was ignored they sent one unsubscribe request for every email recieved from that spammer to a Blue Security customer.
It's exactly the same amount of traffic as everybody who recieved the email sending their own "Piss off and leave me alone" request.
On the subject of OS DoS, it won't work because the network will be too easily exploitable. However, something which used a supernode system to distribute the load would work quite well.
Personally I'm waiting for Google to step in, collect the pieces of Blue Security, then offer it as an automatic feature built into gMail. Spam gMail (x million accounts), someone checks that it really is spam, and then the spammer effectively gets a message saying "Stop spamming Google customers". Ignore it, and that's x million identical requests sent by one mother of a system.
It's like any patent is immediately a new and shiny technology if you append "on the INTERNETS!!!!". After all, being able to record content online is totally different from being able to record that movie you watched on Cable. I mean, one comes down a wire in the ground and the other... umm...
For specialised tasks certainly a PC won't be used in the near future. However, I still reckon that until someone, be it Microsoft, Apple, or [Insert *nix Vendor Here] comes up with a reliable way of syncing information from anything to anything without converting formats etc. then the PC will remain if only to provide a common base.
If I put a CD in my player in my room, I damn well want the music available on my stereo downstairs, my iPod, and on my X-Box 360. I don't want to worry about where to store it, since each of those devices should have sufficient storage to feasibly hold everything they will need. The CD player rips it to something open and then the network just replicates it. Wireless or not, I don't care.
Likewise contacts should just share themselves. My PDA, mobile phone, house phone, MSN contacts list, Skype contacts list, and gaming friends list should be common, synced information. I add an email address in one place, it's replicated.
Until that happens, I still need a PC precicely because it can hold everything, and sync to specific devices. Even this needs some more development, because at the moment the only things that just work are my PDA to Outlook, my phone to Outlook and my iPod to iTunes.
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Fingertip to arse goes through shoulder, which is conveniently located on your upper torso.
Your heart lives in your upper torso. This may cause even more potent issues for left handed users.
Defaulted to least priveledged on my machine when I installed Beta 2 today.
What the hell was your college doing using that in your ID? Mine is year of entry, initials, 4 numbers.
Anyway, it doesn't have to broadcast your actual student ID, just something unique to that card. That way if the card is lost its access can be revoked and you issued with a new one without changing your student ID.
There's a reason the collective noun for lawyers is a "prey"
Similar but admittedly not dorms, our school is considering going major RFID cards with *every* door lock. Each card is keyed to a unique person, and they can have room access tailored accordingly. Staff and 6th Form students will have them. It will also be used to check out library books, have a 'top-up' system for buying lunch and snacks.
Why not integrate RFID tags into college IDs? Each dorm can then be locked to all except those who are actually in that dorm, but the building is locked to far fewer people. If you're particularly worried, use RFID for most locks but require secure ones (Such as individual dorm doors) to have the card inserted into a smartchip reader.
Have you come across essays written in txtesque yet? The best laugh I had in ages was one (Admittedly a very good parody) of "rmeo n jlet", with the memorable line "wer4 rt tho rmeo?".
/.ers leap on them far too eagerly, but sometimes you have sentences which roll on and on with no form of punctuation in sight. Grammar isn't too bad, but evidently some kids just don't get it.
Seriously though, I had grammar and punctuation drilled into me from a very young age. Typos are understandable, and
I believe they're aimed at developing countries, where they're likely to be treated with a bit more respect. To many kids these would be amazing pieces of technology, be they 5 or 15.
Umm... because it's a beta and we want to see what could possibly be around the corner?
I've not met anybody who goes "OMG VISTA ROX J00 USE IT NOW!!!". I have met people who install it on a PC to give it a whirl and see what happens. I've even seen people who *gasp* report bugs on it!
I've got an ECDL. It's Microsoft all the way.
I've also got an A level in ICT. It's Microsoft all the way.
I've also got a CLAIT certification. It's Microsoft all the way.
The MCSE I'm taking, well. I think you can guess that yourself.
Trouble is, these are the qualifications employers look for. I can roll out Cisco qualifications, Macromedia certifications and a perfect portfolio and they go "Oh, you're not qualified in Microsoft".
You're onto something there. I think this could stop people using phones in cinemas and restaraunts!
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Windows Media Player 11 *doesn't* need admin rights, hopefully in preparation for Vista.
At least one application has got the idea, even if it is from the company behind the OS.
Technically it wasn't a real Digital Music CD.
I'm curious as to why a foreign manufacturer would build backdoors in their hardware.
But it is handy for those who do know what admin is about, because it is effectively a lockdown by default. Software vendors will notice this in testing because, unlike XP, it will be difficult to write software with lazy approaches without noticing.
Anything which forces more things to be user-oriented (Settings, save files etc) by default is good in my book. Still, I agree we'll have to see what happens.
If you get hold of the CTP, you'll find that Vista actually does this. If something needs to prod around with something which should need admin (Registry, system folder etc) then you will be prompted for your admin password. Even if you're logged in with an admin account, it will ask you again.
I think a lot would move, since (think about this) those who would have .xxx filtered out are most likely to be under 18, and therefore unable to purchase a subscription. Porn sites would be effectively signing up to limit their audience to those who are capable of paying, and are therefore not wasting bandwidth on kids with strange fetishes who are never gonna pay.
Parents win, porn sites win, filter companies have more time to spend doing useful stuff (Perhaps then winehq.org won't be classed as Drugs/Alcohol), and 12 year olds get a nice clean(er) internet. What more could be wanted?
Make sure you get it installed with the viewscreen and navigation console options.
Take a look at the Automated Transfer Vehicle. It's ESA (So not affected by NASA), and specifically designed to move stuff to the ISS and then burn up on re-entry with the waste. It launches on an Ariane 5, which has more than enough raw lifting capacity.
Interestingly, same for mobiles even without SIMs. If the handset is capable of talking to any network, it should be able to dial emergency calls.
No, *YOU* don't need a GUI for everything. The guy who walks into PC World and says "I want a computer with the internet and Microsoft" does. Because whilst going Start -> Run -> "cmd" -> "ipconfig /release /renew" is perfectly acceptable, it's far nicer for users to right click the network connection and select "Repair".
The beauty of tape is you only need one drive, and can store huge (huge) libraries of data. I've seen one installation in a datacentre where the tape racks literally had a robotic arm picking the appropriate tape, moving it from the fireproof vault to a seperate drive, inserting it, doing the backup/restore, then replacing the tape. Thousands of TB of backup data there.
Admittedly for smaller servers a removable HDD may prove far better given the usage vs. cost, but for large installations it's near impossible to beat the fact that your backup is turned into a physically removable and storable object which can be handled automatically.
If you read up on Blue Security's actual implementation they never sent more unsubscribe requests than emails recieved. They sent one on behalf of the whole community first, then if that was ignored they sent one unsubscribe request for every email recieved from that spammer to a Blue Security customer.
It's exactly the same amount of traffic as everybody who recieved the email sending their own "Piss off and leave me alone" request.
On the subject of OS DoS, it won't work because the network will be too easily exploitable. However, something which used a supernode system to distribute the load would work quite well.
Personally I'm waiting for Google to step in, collect the pieces of Blue Security, then offer it as an automatic feature built into gMail. Spam gMail (x million accounts), someone checks that it really is spam, and then the spammer effectively gets a message saying "Stop spamming Google customers". Ignore it, and that's x million identical requests sent by one mother of a system.
It's like any patent is immediately a new and shiny technology if you append "on the INTERNETS!!!!". After all, being able to record content online is totally different from being able to record that movie you watched on Cable. I mean, one comes down a wire in the ground and the other... umm...
For specialised tasks certainly a PC won't be used in the near future. However, I still reckon that until someone, be it Microsoft, Apple, or [Insert *nix Vendor Here] comes up with a reliable way of syncing information from anything to anything without converting formats etc. then the PC will remain if only to provide a common base.
If I put a CD in my player in my room, I damn well want the music available on my stereo downstairs, my iPod, and on my X-Box 360. I don't want to worry about where to store it, since each of those devices should have sufficient storage to feasibly hold everything they will need. The CD player rips it to something open and then the network just replicates it. Wireless or not, I don't care.
Likewise contacts should just share themselves. My PDA, mobile phone, house phone, MSN contacts list, Skype contacts list, and gaming friends list should be common, synced information. I add an email address in one place, it's replicated.
Until that happens, I still need a PC precicely because it can hold everything, and sync to specific devices. Even this needs some more development, because at the moment the only things that just work are my PDA to Outlook, my phone to Outlook and my iPod to iTunes.