I have to say that I am very happy with the antispyware package that they have released. It consistently finds more spyware on my girlfriend's PC than any other program I have tried.
Products such as this, and released for free, start to wash away Microsoft's evil image
I would also want to point out that with access to the Tivo software, Apple could easily port it to OS X making a media center option more appealing than those offered on the PC side.
Furthermore, Tivo's position in the market place now is similar to that of Apple's a few years back, people are forecasting death for a company that created innovative products in the market. I'd think that a CEO who is familiar with that situation would do well with it once more.
it would probably use an intelligent redraw...the entire image wouldn't need to be refreshed, just parts of it. if there were some type of buffer where the data for one screen was held then they could just check to see if that pixel needed to be updated, if so they could update it...if not then they could save power.
An LCD on the other hand has constant power requirements, even if the image is static.
once they are in color...and can better 60 fps...but the technology looks awesome right now... I'm glad that there are finally some more solid advancements in this digital paper idea.
It's funny everyone always talked about creating digital paper, so people could read the news like they do on a regular newspaper, but by the time it comes around no one will read the paper anymore...I bet that I have a weeks worth of newspapers on my door step right now...getting the news that way is too damn slow...
will they still keep it up to date? Or was making it free just the result of the realization that they would then be held responsible for keeping the definitions up to date?
Being a mac user I normally wouldn't care, but I bought my GF a PC so she could play the Sims, so I kinda have to keep it working for her.
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although I'll probably get modded down for this I have to say that after reading all of Dan Brown's books I find his plot structure to be exactly the same in every novel, and he exercises very poor character development.
It's almost as if the man had a NYT Best seller creating mad-lib. His Idea of character development is giving them a disability, or a tweed coat:)
Although I have never dealt with anyone who was diagnosed with a disability as severe(apologies if that is a frowned upon term) as your brother's, I have spent a great deal of time instructing people in various types of mathematics or in the general usage of computing technology.
Although the desire to use technology is always seen in the more technologically savvy you will most likely find that unless you are able to make a determination as to how your brother learns introducing technology will not help very much.
I don't seriously buy in to the argument that you should work more to cope with the disability and help your brother do the same, that is just accepting defeat before even beginning.
Finding out how your brother learns best should be your first task, perhaps he learns best when information is provided to him as if he already understands it, maybe he needs everything given to him step by step, maybe he needs more creative mnemonic devices. Find out if he is a visual learner, auditory learner, or even kinesthetic learner. You may find that creating a DDR type learning game(perhaps with a nintendo power pad interface) will aid him best at learning due to his ability to correlate concepts with physical motions.
If you can't find out the best way to get information into his mind no amount of technology will help you.
we could just take it a step further and sensationalize the entire internet to everyone and scare those people away
I love this idea more than any other proposed so far:) I suppose that the best way to combat malware is through education, but until everyone is ready to learn we'll just be right where we are now.
I suppose that I am somewhat making your point for you, but only because the two of us are definitely in agreement about a lot of this.
I do see your point that when many users see a page that informs them of limited usage that they might switch right away, but I suspect that if the page made it sound like switching opened their computers up to a multitude of threats and if the process of switching was sufficiently complicated that many users might not want to see a page about the worlds fattest kitten or some other such nonsense.
And I must point out that I never said that my solution is perfect, the weak point will always be the end user. I did however want to point out that my solution works, and could be fairly easily scaled to a national ISP.
And I do understand that I am doing this on a college campus so everyone has at least a high school diploma, but you would be surprised at how poor the computer skills of even some Phd's are. I used to think that anyone with Dr. in front of their name would at least have the ability to use MS Word, but it is sadly not the case.
I seriously doubt that anyone who doesn't understand how to keep their computer from being bogged down by spyware would think that their ISP had something to do with their not being able to do something. They would more likely think that the internet was broken.
And it really wouldn't be all that hard to have the firewall return a page stating that the ISP has them on a more secure network along with instructions to move themselves to the open network.
The reason that I see a system like this being somewhat practical is the fact that I have been a part of administering one for quiet some time now. You wouldn't believe the number of people who didn't even notice that they were on a limited network. As long as they could check their e-mail, IM, and view most sites they were happy.
I don't doubt that a system like this will work, I do however doubt that any ISPs are going to work on implementing such a system until malware seriously effects their bottom line.
From an ISPs stand point a nonworking PC just frees up more bandwidth for everyone else.
I'd really recommend that the uneducated user forget about a firewall. I suppose that if the ISP found that a firewall really did much for their users they could offer 2 networks, one that was behind a firewall allowing access only to ports for http, smtp, etc.. and then a second network for "pro" users that would give them raw access.
A web based form could allow users to switch themselves to whichever network they preferred.
We do this on our campus networks. Basically we get pissed off people calling us and we provide them with a disk containing a virus scanner(McAffee in our case) and some antispyware tools(Ad-aware for now, although MS's adware offering is looking surprisingly promising ATM) and a page with instructions on how to install the software and run the scans.
The pages even have lovely pictures so the users can't(read: shouldn't be able to once they have removed their heads from their asses) make a mistake.
When the user think that they are clean we rescan their network traffic and if everything checks out we place them back on the standard network.
Last year almost the entire campus fell victim to adware, spyware, and virii... this year only a handful. It seems to work.
If they get re-infected they lose their internet access again.
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I think he was kidding about the G4 having an iPod dock...not to mention the fact that Apple now ships the G5.
or does the guy in the picture look a lot like one of the creators of south park?
I have to say that I am very happy with the antispyware package that they have released. It consistently finds more spyware on my girlfriend's PC than any other program I have tried.
Products such as this, and released for free, start to wash away Microsoft's evil image
I would also want to point out that with access to the Tivo software, Apple could easily port it to OS X making a media center option more appealing than those offered on the PC side.
Furthermore, Tivo's position in the market place now is similar to that of Apple's a few years back, people are forecasting death for a company that created innovative products in the market. I'd think that a CEO who is familiar with that situation would do well with it once more.
Steve Jobs is no mere mortal! :D
Wait! You must be using a PC :)
but there was never an x86 computer released that was innovative.
picking up a phone at your neighbor's house and having your entire address book available, or previous CID info.
not to be insulting, but why? I really would like to know your reasoning. Do you have children? If not did you ever desire children?
it would probably use an intelligent redraw...the entire image wouldn't need to be refreshed, just parts of it. if there were some type of buffer where the data for one screen was held then they could just check to see if that pixel needed to be updated, if so they could update it...if not then they could save power.
An LCD on the other hand has constant power requirements, even if the image is static.
once they are in color...and can better 60 fps...but the technology looks awesome right now... I'm glad that there are finally some more solid advancements in this digital paper idea.
It's funny everyone always talked about creating digital paper, so people could read the news like they do on a regular newspaper, but by the time it comes around no one will read the paper anymore...I bet that I have a weeks worth of newspapers on my door step right now...getting the news that way is too damn slow...
...what if we brought life to mars?
will they still keep it up to date? Or was making it free just the result of the realization that they would then be held responsible for keeping the definitions up to date?
Being a mac user I normally wouldn't care, but I bought my GF a PC so she could play the Sims, so I kinda have to keep it working for her.
although I'll probably get modded down for this I have to say that after reading all of Dan Brown's books I find his plot structure to be exactly the same in every novel, and he exercises very poor character development. :)
It's almost as if the man had a NYT Best seller creating mad-lib.
His Idea of character development is giving them a disability, or a tweed coat
MythTV can and does :)
Although I have never dealt with anyone who was diagnosed with a disability as severe(apologies if that is a frowned upon term) as your brother's, I have spent a great deal of time instructing people in various types of mathematics or in the general usage of computing technology.
Although the desire to use technology is always seen in the more technologically savvy you will most likely find that unless you are able to make a determination as to how your brother learns introducing technology will not help very much.
I don't seriously buy in to the argument that you should work more to cope with the disability and help your brother do the same, that is just accepting defeat before even beginning.
Finding out how your brother learns best should be your first task, perhaps he learns best when information is provided to him as if he already understands it, maybe he needs everything given to him step by step, maybe he needs more creative mnemonic devices. Find out if he is a visual learner, auditory learner, or even kinesthetic learner. You may find that creating a DDR type learning game(perhaps with a nintendo power pad interface) will aid him best at learning due to his ability to correlate concepts with physical motions.
If you can't find out the best way to get information into his mind no amount of technology will help you.
we could just take it a step further and sensationalize the entire internet to everyone and scare those people away :)
I love this idea more than any other proposed so far
I suppose that the best way to combat malware is through education, but until everyone is ready to learn we'll just be right where we are now.
I suppose that I am somewhat making your point for you, but only because the two of us are definitely in agreement about a lot of this.
I do see your point that when many users see a page that informs them of limited usage that they might switch right away, but I suspect that if the page made it sound like switching opened their computers up to a multitude of threats and if the process of switching was sufficiently complicated that many users might not want to see a page about the worlds fattest kitten or some other such nonsense.
And I must point out that I never said that my solution is perfect, the weak point will always be the end user. I did however want to point out that my solution works, and could be fairly easily scaled to a national ISP.
And I do understand that I am doing this on a college campus so everyone has at least a high school diploma, but you would be surprised at how poor the computer skills of even some Phd's are. I used to think that anyone with Dr. in front of their name would at least have the ability to use MS Word, but it is sadly not the case.
I wouldn't come to your room, I'd just remove your internet access...if you wanted to laugh at me you could still do so.
I seriously doubt that anyone who doesn't understand how to keep their computer from being bogged down by spyware would think that their ISP had something to do with their not being able to do something. They would more likely think that the internet was broken.
And it really wouldn't be all that hard to have the firewall return a page stating that the ISP has them on a more secure network along with instructions to move themselves to the open network.
The reason that I see a system like this being somewhat practical is the fact that I have been a part of administering one for quiet some time now. You wouldn't believe the number of people who didn't even notice that they were on a limited network. As long as they could check their e-mail, IM, and view most sites they were happy.
I don't doubt that a system like this will work, I do however doubt that any ISPs are going to work on implementing such a system until malware seriously effects their bottom line.
From an ISPs stand point a nonworking PC just frees up more bandwidth for everyone else.
I'd really recommend that the uneducated user forget about a firewall. I suppose that if the ISP found that a firewall really did much for their users they could offer 2 networks, one that was behind a firewall allowing access only to ports for http, smtp, etc.. and then a second network for "pro" users that would give them raw access. A web based form could allow users to switch themselves to whichever network they preferred.
why not just get your mum a mac? That would solve both problems, and I hear that they just started selling a relatively inexpensive, headless model :D
what does that story have to do with anything? Maybe you should learn a little about the "Chinese empire" before you link to propaganda sites.
We do this on our campus networks. Basically we get pissed off people calling us and we provide them with a disk containing a virus scanner(McAffee in our case) and some antispyware tools(Ad-aware for now, although MS's adware offering is looking surprisingly promising ATM) and a page with instructions on how to install the software and run the scans.
The pages even have lovely pictures so the users can't(read: shouldn't be able to once they have removed their heads from their asses) make a mistake.
When the user think that they are clean we rescan their network traffic and if everything checks out we place them back on the standard network.
Last year almost the entire campus fell victim to adware, spyware, and virii... this year only a handful. It seems to work. If they get re-infected they lose their internet access again.
it's funny that you mention a windows "feature"