I don't know about you guys, but I just don't feel comfortable trusting the company who leaves holes in software for viruses to exploit to defend me against them.
It seems that they're saying "Ok - we can't fix all of the holes.. so we'll give you software to protect you from our own software."
Don't look to me, Bill. I will stay with my Symantec products.
During the Dot-bomb era, all these companies popped up. Remember them? The ones like Pets.com, medsonline.com, etc. The philosophy was that all this new technology was so going to permeate into every home in the world by 2000 - and every time someone needed a Tylenol for their headache they would be going online to buy it.
Turns out, as all of us know, that was dead wrong. But the companies, before going bust, kept yelling one message to the Telcos and IP providers - "WE NEED BANDWIDTH" and "WE NEED LOTS OF IT". Come on - there are literally millions of miles of fiber optics out there - each capable of handling TONS of gigabits of capacity.
Want reality? I don't know the exact numbers or anything, but I seem to recall from somewhere that over 60% of the fiber out there is DARK. Yes, that's right - DARK FIBER! Capable of handling those OC-192+s.
Ok, the laws of economics are supposed to tell us that if you have a demand the price goes up, and more of a supply and the price goes down. If carriers would only open more supply up (which, mind you, they already have), prices would drop for that bandwidth, and VOILA - we don't have bandwidth problems any more because the companies it's sucking on (Cnet,/., etc.) can afford more bandwidth!
It seems silly to me that we're fussing over bandwidth issues when we have literally gigabits of the stuff laying under the roads we drive every day that's not turned on. Now, if I could only get come of that optical stuff in front of my house I'd be doing good!
I'd love to see more of a tool like IEAK - where I can customize Firefox to have that "provided by" in the toolbar, change the setup graphics, homepage, etc. That does a lot of it... but it's not quite something I can pack up and send out on an ISP distro cd..... (Some people like them and no, it's not required to use the service.)
The Air Force operates several hospitals, and many medical devices used in operating rooms also use commercial operating systems, including Microsoft's Windows.
I'm not sure if I would want my life support system running Windows XP...
Telex and Inscape Data both make Wireless ISP CPE bridges that are POE with integrated radios and directional antennas. Retail for about $320. Put two of those up and you have a extremely reliable link.
A number of companies sell them.... Connectronics is a supplier I use.. They're a dealer but afaik they will retail sale parts as well.
The whole concept of this is incredible. The fact that he's actually doing it is great.
As far as the legality of it - look at the circumstances he does it under. Historical Record. Doesn't that qualify for some sort of educational usage and therefore fall under fair use? Like he says - he doesn't burn CDs, he doesn't let the kids use iPods on it - he's cataloging years of musical history.
Of course, DMCA got rid of fair use reallly quickly, but if the RIAA would haul this guy into court, I think that he would have a _very_ good defense. The fact that he's an Attorney also helps and that he probably is familiar with what he can and can't get away with.
I would love to do the same thing - but there's no way I can afford the SAN infrastructure I would need to do it. I would do it on the PC platform though - using iTunes. Simple interface and great features. Yeah - a fibre channel SAN dedicated to holding Music. Actually, if I would do it, I would do it with Movies also. Or anything I could get my hands on. Just to mirror all internet-connected intellectual property in the world. Oh, no, I wouldn't ever watch the movies or share the music - that would be pirating. Neither would I install the software programs I'm protecting. I'm merely keeping a backup copy of everything in case we actually find some WMDs in Iraq. Oh - and for safekeeping, i'll work with NASA and start beaming the collection off the planet to the moon or Mars - so that civilization can rebuild itself and have a nice collection of music, software, and movies to do it with.
Now, why people stay with it I have no idea. Who actually uses their "premium content" anyway? I mean - if you want to know something about something go to google and find it. It's there, believe me... out of the realm of AOL.
I starting a new ISP.... I'm not planning on even making a fancy subscriber website. I'm making a website/client care section that they can do account maintenance in.. but for content why would I want to make that? I can push that off to Google and the rest of the web publishers on the Internet and make loads of $$ while doing it.
... I think I need to just rant a minute here. (Forgive me please:-p)
It consistently amazes me the verocity of the RIAA, MPAA, etc. What they are going after is the same intellectual property that they protect. Software, movies, videos, audio, and music.. it's all valuable Intellectual Property. Now, yes, it can be used for Illegal usage (Kazaa, bittorrent as it seems, Morpheus, etc.), but what about the illegal usage of software like, oh, let's say, Word? To construct a document that is completely against the law, about harboring terrorism, etc.
Or the illegal possibilities of using a FTP server or web server? IIS and Apache.. look out! Someone stick up a site that can serve up some divx files or some mp3s and they DOWN... but the software behind it's just fine?
Let's not go off too much here. How many RIAA/MPAA employees' kids are using this is what I want to know (let alone the lawyers defending them). I guess my point here is just that any software can be Illegal. Any service can be used illegally - go after UUNet and Broadwing and all the backbones - for providing the high speed platform for sharing the files. (I'll probably get slammed for saying that now because asir it's not legally possible to go after the ISP for user's issues... but it would be in the same sense that the software company's allowing illegal content to be distributed over their system.)
Let's just figure out a way to use software like this for a use like http://www.akamai.com/.. Mirroring the web and all of its content (legal or illegal) on the web would make all of our lives easier:-)
Out in the Rural areas of USA (where sewers don't run) we have these things called Aerobic septic systems. Basically they take the waste water from homes, bubble air through it, chlorinate it (using some sort of a biosanitizer tablet chemical), and then store it in a tank until there's enough to spray off through a series of sprinkler heads.
My family cut the sprinkler heads off and uses it to water our flower beds and landscaping... but supposedly the water that comes out of it is clean enough to drink. We haven't had anyone brave enough to try it, though.
As I recall Microsoft decided that WinFS would be a separate addition to Longhorn... not included with the base distribtion. But I could be off..
It is very interesting the amount of information that this thing can search for... but then again it is a search tool. It does nothing but what Google has done for years.. provide simple access to the most relevant information around..
Oh, and you guys who think desktop Search is sending your queries to the internet - It doesn't. It sends their standard anonymous usage data back... same as with google toolbar. If you don't like that oh well. Also, the way they handle integration to the google.com interface is pretty genius... the desktop search process intercepts the HTTP request from google.com, performs the local search, and intercepts the returned HTML document to insert the local results under the heading information. Your local search results never went to google.com.
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It seems that they're saying "Ok - we can't fix all of the holes.. so we'll give you software to protect you from our own software."
Don't look to me, Bill. I will stay with my Symantec products.
During the Dot-bomb era, all these companies popped up. Remember them? The ones like Pets.com, medsonline.com, etc. The philosophy was that all this new technology was so going to permeate into every home in the world by 2000 - and every time someone needed a Tylenol for their headache they would be going online to buy it.
Turns out, as all of us know, that was dead wrong. But the companies, before going bust, kept yelling one message to the Telcos and IP providers - "WE NEED BANDWIDTH" and "WE NEED LOTS OF IT". Come on - there are literally millions of miles of fiber optics out there - each capable of handling TONS of gigabits of capacity.
Want reality? I don't know the exact numbers or anything, but I seem to recall from somewhere that over 60% of the fiber out there is DARK. Yes, that's right - DARK FIBER! Capable of handling those OC-192+s.
Ok, the laws of economics are supposed to tell us that if you have a demand the price goes up, and more of a supply and the price goes down. If carriers would only open more supply up (which, mind you, they already have), prices would drop for that bandwidth, and VOILA - we don't have bandwidth problems any more because the companies it's sucking on (Cnet, /., etc.) can afford more bandwidth!
It seems silly to me that we're fussing over bandwidth issues when we have literally gigabits of the stuff laying under the roads we drive every day that's not turned on. Now, if I could only get come of that optical stuff in front of my house I'd be doing good!
I'd love to see more of a tool like IEAK - where I can customize Firefox to have that "provided by" in the toolbar, change the setup graphics, homepage, etc. That does a lot of it... but it's not quite something I can pack up and send out on an ISP distro cd..... (Some people like them and no, it's not required to use the service.)
I'm not sure if I would want my life support system running Windows XP...
A number of companies sell them.... Connectronics is a supplier I use.. They're a dealer but afaik they will retail sale parts as well.
As far as the legality of it - look at the circumstances he does it under. Historical Record. Doesn't that qualify for some sort of educational usage and therefore fall under fair use? Like he says - he doesn't burn CDs, he doesn't let the kids use iPods on it - he's cataloging years of musical history.
Of course, DMCA got rid of fair use reallly quickly, but if the RIAA would haul this guy into court, I think that he would have a _very_ good defense. The fact that he's an Attorney also helps and that he probably is familiar with what he can and can't get away with.
I would love to do the same thing - but there's no way I can afford the SAN infrastructure I would need to do it. I would do it on the PC platform though - using iTunes. Simple interface and great features. Yeah - a fibre channel SAN dedicated to holding Music. Actually, if I would do it, I would do it with Movies also. Or anything I could get my hands on. Just to mirror all internet-connected intellectual property in the world. Oh, no, I wouldn't ever watch the movies or share the music - that would be pirating. Neither would I install the software programs I'm protecting. I'm merely keeping a backup copy of everything in case we actually find some WMDs in Iraq. Oh - and for safekeeping, i'll work with NASA and start beaming the collection off the planet to the moon or Mars - so that civilization can rebuild itself and have a nice collection of music, software, and movies to do it with.
Now, why people stay with it I have no idea. Who actually uses their "premium content" anyway? I mean - if you want to know something about something go to google and find it. It's there, believe me... out of the realm of AOL.
I starting a new ISP.... I'm not planning on even making a fancy subscriber website. I'm making a website/client care section that they can do account maintenance in.. but for content why would I want to make that? I can push that off to Google and the rest of the web publishers on the Internet and make loads of $$ while doing it.
It consistently amazes me the verocity of the RIAA, MPAA, etc. What they are going after is the same intellectual property that they protect. Software, movies, videos, audio, and music.. it's all valuable Intellectual Property. Now, yes, it can be used for Illegal usage (Kazaa, bittorrent as it seems, Morpheus, etc.), but what about the illegal usage of software like, oh, let's say, Word? To construct a document that is completely against the law, about harboring terrorism, etc.
Or the illegal possibilities of using a FTP server or web server? IIS and Apache.. look out! Someone stick up a site that can serve up some divx files or some mp3s and they DOWN... but the software behind it's just fine?
Let's not go off too much here. How many RIAA/MPAA employees' kids are using this is what I want to know (let alone the lawyers defending them). I guess my point here is just that any software can be Illegal. Any service can be used illegally - go after UUNet and Broadwing and all the backbones - for providing the high speed platform for sharing the files. (I'll probably get slammed for saying that now because asir it's not legally possible to go after the ISP for user's issues... but it would be in the same sense that the software company's allowing illegal content to be distributed over their system.)
Let's just figure out a way to use software like this for a use like http://www.akamai.com/.. Mirroring the web and all of its content (legal or illegal) on the web would make all of our lives easier :-)
Out in the Rural areas of USA (where sewers don't run) we have these things called Aerobic septic systems. Basically they take the waste water from homes, bubble air through it, chlorinate it (using some sort of a biosanitizer tablet chemical), and then store it in a tank until there's enough to spray off through a series of sprinkler heads.
My family cut the sprinkler heads off and uses it to water our flower beds and landscaping... but supposedly the water that comes out of it is clean enough to drink. We haven't had anyone brave enough to try it, though.
As I recall Microsoft decided that WinFS would be a separate addition to Longhorn... not included with the base distribtion. But I could be off.. It is very interesting the amount of information that this thing can search for... but then again it is a search tool. It does nothing but what Google has done for years.. provide simple access to the most relevant information around.. Oh, and you guys who think desktop Search is sending your queries to the internet - It doesn't. It sends their standard anonymous usage data back... same as with google toolbar. If you don't like that oh well. Also, the way they handle integration to the google.com interface is pretty genius... the desktop search process intercepts the HTTP request from google.com, performs the local search, and intercepts the returned HTML document to insert the local results under the heading information. Your local search results never went to google.com.