The didn't rip off the design or how it works - but I bet they wouldn't be doing any motion sensing if Nintendo wasn't making a big impression with it. They knew Nintendo were on to a good thing and they've copied it for this generation of consoles. In saying that, is this is really a bad thing? Who gives a toss "who rips off who"? Why should we worry?
Connexion by Boeing, whose Internet service is already offered on nearly 200 international flights a day, notes that there have been no complaints of in-cabin incidents about the technology. The Connexion service is regularly used by passengers to make VoIP calls.
Really??
I tried the wireless Boeing Connexion service on a flight from Singapore to Australia late last year. Ping times at best were around 2000ms and often I lost connection completely - needless to say - no way would VoIP work with those conditions.
Has anyone had any luck with this service and if so, where abouts or is this just marketing hype?
If I do something stupid and 8 people see, I might shrug it off. If I do something stupid and 80 people see, I might not hang around that part of town. But if I do something stupid and 80,000 people see, then I might be scarred for life. It's just not meant to work that way.
Hey, you're not alone, especially not on slashdot. The same thought goes through every Open Source coders mind when they submit code to the repository.
Why? Why are online scams so much more successful than offline?
It's easier to attempt to scam more people at a time online, thus the ratio of suckers is higher.
Also, and more importantly, most people still don't understand the internet / web / email, etc and how it all works. So they're going to be in a far more vunerable position online. Most people don't think to check to see what web site that link takes them to - it looks like eBay - that's good enough. Most people wouldn't even think to look at that ugly URL bar in the browser and why would they - they can't make sense of it - dozens of letters, numbers and squiggles.
Learning the internet is like learning another language and another culture in the real world and it can take a great deal of time and experience to get to grips with it. For example, I bet it's much easier to scam a tourist or a new immigrant visiting your local country than it is to scam them in their home country.
You move to a new country - most people will learn as much as they can about it. You want to use the internet? same thing - but how many people are there who really want to learn about it - most people just want to use it but it doesn't work that way. Well it can, but like in the real world - you end up making yourself more vunerable and more susecptable to making mistakes.
Well, you got me there. I admit, I'd never heard of that before and it's pretty interesting reading.
I had no idea this was happening and I'd imagine many NZer's don't either - it's not exactly mainstream information. However, in the US, residents know what's happening (the original topics story links to an article in a mainstream newspaper - USA Today), but the majority just don't seem to care.
Ignorance is one thing, but looking the other way and ignoring the problem is another.
What amazes me about the US is that I constantly hear from many of the people there how great a country is because it's free. Freedom, freedom, "land of the FREE", etc etc etc. Most of this sort of shit comes from the people who SUPPORT the opposite of freedom like that scary government you guys have got. Where I'm from (New Zealand) we don't go on about how great it is to be free because we live it. It's normal to us, it's what we're used to we take it for granted and that's the way it should be. I'm sure many will argue that point that it can't be taken for granted and say things like, "Your Freedom should be DEFENDED". Maybe for you but not for me. If it's not being attacked it doesn't need defence.
We don't have no NSA, FBI, CIA, weird gun laws, death penalties and when it comes to crime - shit if a cat gets stuck up a tree it's basically front page news!
The USA and Korea are not the two extremes of the world - get out and travel a bit more, I think you may be surprised what your country is missing.
Why do they do it? because they can and because they believe it may be useful - easy to create a database with easily obtainable data with information that they believe may be useful - I don't think there's a master plan to it - it's more like, "let's do it cos we can". And when they give themselves a reason of NATIONAL SECURITY they make it very hard to argue against. If they honestly believe it may be useful of course they're going to do it, especially when it's in the name of "National Security".
Amstrad Action was brilliant. The writing was so damn funny (especially in the later issues).
It was also the first magazine in the world to mount cover cassettes with demos, games, utils, etc. It was also one of the longest running 8 bit computer mags running from 85 til 95 even outlasting Zzap64 I believe.
I didn't realise until now but it was a major influence on me back then and I probably wouldn't be typing this now on slashdot without that influence - some of the segments from the mag had a real cool hacker side and you could learn how to do some pretty cool stuff with computers back then from these mags which at the time were pretty mainstream.
PC Format was great too, in the early to mid 90's anyway - very similar to AA back then but has since lost it's touch - far too glammy and glitzy these days.
I've read the article and while it's a very informative collection of statistics, I don't believe that Security Professionals are responsible for many of the "Security Failures" listed, nor can they fix the problems. Security Consultants already know most of this stuff and can say what they like to a business, but they do not make the final decision. The holes are in the OS's and the platforms businesses choose and generally the priority isn't security - it's usability, ROI, cost, etc.
Another point: What are we comparing this to anyway. What I mean is, "bad security" compared to what? How many millions of attempts at compromising security are foiled vs those that get through? The times when businesses actually follow what a security consultant recommends, I guarantee they become a hell of a lot more secure than those that don't.
Scary shit if you ask me... but pretty amazing what they did with a budget of $300K USD. If this had been built in the US they probably would had to have poured millions into development for the same result.
Sorry?? How big is Apple's Mac market share over the mass produced PC?
If you're alluding to the iPod, Apple may have a lot of iPod's out there but how strong a showing do you think they would have today with the average joe if it wernt for the iTunes service. That service has enabled them to capture the market over everyone else very quickly.
The money's not in hardware anymore - hasn't been for a long time unless you can supply a massive like and do it well. Professional Services is where it's at now - IBM learned this in the early 90's.
Big hardware companies need to seriously change their outlook - if it can be done with a PC, it will eventually be done with a PC cheaply, the question is not what the "box" does, it's who's the best at providing the service.
What I find fascinating is that in 150 years time, from as far back as Jules Verne, science fiction writers have explored almost every imaginable type of high technology, computer, robot, and space ship, as well as every concievable plot and story...
...except the one which has become our eventuality - a world who put every ounce of faith in its almighty petroleum god and woke up one morning to find it expended with a vital infrastructure which couldn't exist without it. Now THAT'S a plot!
Check out Mad Max or the sequel. Part 3 was a bit crap from memory though.
I HATE dialog boxes. Get rid of them I say - find a different standard way to present the information.
Like yourself, I mindlessly click through dialog boxes, occasionally missing important information because 90% of the time, Windows dialog boxes offer me nothing important or new so I automatically "Ok" them.
I got one of those Mac Mini's when they first came out - my first experience with a Mac and it was only 3 months later that I realised the main reason I found it much friendlier to use was that it seldom popped up dialog boxes or other useless / unimportant information.
Bit short on the HDD space (20GB), especially given that these devices are intended to be used for data consumption - I'd expect there'd be a little more space for movies, etc. Battery life really needs to be sorted out too at 2 hours.
Other than that - cool!
One question though - how do you hold these things safely? You know, like Laptops not being recommended for use in your lap? Laptops (or notebooks, whatever), will sit fine on a table, these things don't look like they would. I noticed a small stand on the back of the image but - I dunno - it seems more like a device I'd want to hold rather than have it set up on a table or desk - sort of kills the portability aspect for me.
US's work culture of long working days, unpaid overtime & too few holidays is killing you.
I don't think that (in bold) reeeaally makes a difference, though I didn't realise the numbers - only 10 days annual leave? That's crazy!! No wonder most American's don't have passports - how do they get time to travel?!
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The didn't rip off the design or how it works - but I bet they wouldn't be doing any motion sensing if Nintendo wasn't making a big impression with it. They knew Nintendo were on to a good thing and they've copied it for this generation of consoles. In saying that, is this is really a bad thing? Who gives a toss "who rips off who"? Why should we worry?
Connexion by Boeing, whose Internet service is already offered on nearly 200 international flights a day, notes that there have been no complaints of in-cabin incidents about the technology. The Connexion service is regularly used by passengers to make VoIP calls.
Really??
I tried the wireless Boeing Connexion service on a flight from Singapore to Australia late last year. Ping times at best were around 2000ms and often I lost connection completely - needless to say - no way would VoIP work with those conditions.
Has anyone had any luck with this service and if so, where abouts or is this just marketing hype?
If I do something stupid and 8 people see, I might shrug it off. If I do something stupid and 80 people see, I might not hang around that part of town. But if I do something stupid and 80,000 people see, then I might be scarred for life. It's just not meant to work that way.
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Hey, you're not alone, especially not on slashdot. The same thought goes through every Open Source coders mind when they submit code to the repository.
Why? Why are online scams so much more successful than offline?
It's easier to attempt to scam more people at a time online, thus the ratio of suckers is higher.
Also, and more importantly, most people still don't understand the internet / web / email, etc and how it all works. So they're going to be in a far more vunerable position online. Most people don't think to check to see what web site that link takes them to - it looks like eBay - that's good enough. Most people wouldn't even think to look at that ugly URL bar in the browser and why would they - they can't make sense of it - dozens of letters, numbers and squiggles.
Learning the internet is like learning another language and another culture in the real world and it can take a great deal of time and experience to get to grips with it. For example, I bet it's much easier to scam a tourist or a new immigrant visiting your local country than it is to scam them in their home country.
You move to a new country - most people will learn as much as they can about it. You want to use the internet? same thing - but how many people are there who really want to learn about it - most people just want to use it but it doesn't work that way. Well it can, but like in the real world - you end up making yourself more vunerable and more susecptable to making mistakes.
Any word that reminds me of Vanilla Ice should be illegal.
Well, you got me there. I admit, I'd never heard of that before and it's pretty interesting reading.
I had no idea this was happening and I'd imagine many NZer's don't either - it's not exactly mainstream information.
However, in the US, residents know what's happening (the original topics story links to an article in a mainstream newspaper - USA Today), but the majority just don't seem to care.
Ignorance is one thing, but looking the other way and ignoring the problem is another.
Thanks for the link - I plan to read much more
Yeah, and the US is much better???
What amazes me about the US is that I constantly hear from many of the people there how great a country is because it's free. Freedom, freedom, "land of the FREE", etc etc etc. Most of this sort of shit comes from the people who SUPPORT the opposite of freedom like that scary government you guys have got. Where I'm from (New Zealand) we don't go on about how great it is to be free because we live it. It's normal to us, it's what we're used to we take it for granted and that's the way it should be. I'm sure many will argue that point that it can't be taken for granted and say things like, "Your Freedom should be DEFENDED". Maybe for you but not for me. If it's not being attacked it doesn't need defence.
We don't have no NSA, FBI, CIA, weird gun laws, death penalties and when it comes to crime - shit if a cat gets stuck up a tree it's basically front page news!
The USA and Korea are not the two extremes of the world - get out and travel a bit more, I think you may be surprised what your country is missing.
Why do they do it? because they can and because they believe it may be useful - easy to create a database with easily obtainable data with information that they believe may be useful - I don't think there's a master plan to it - it's more like, "let's do it cos we can". And when they give themselves a reason of NATIONAL SECURITY they make it very hard to argue against. If they honestly believe it may be useful of course they're going to do it, especially when it's in the name of "National Security".
Amstrad Action was brilliant. The writing was so damn funny (especially in the later issues).
It was also the first magazine in the world to mount cover cassettes with demos, games, utils, etc. It was also one of the longest running 8 bit computer mags running from 85 til 95 even outlasting Zzap64 I believe.
I didn't realise until now but it was a major influence on me back then and I probably wouldn't be typing this now on slashdot without that influence - some of the segments from the mag had a real cool hacker side and you could learn how to do some pretty cool stuff with computers back then from these mags which at the time were pretty mainstream.
PC Format was great too, in the early to mid 90's anyway - very similar to AA back then but has since lost it's touch - far too glammy and glitzy these days.
I've read the article and while it's a very informative collection of statistics, I don't believe that Security Professionals are responsible for many of the "Security Failures" listed, nor can they fix the problems. Security Consultants already know most of this stuff and can say what they like to a business, but they do not make the final decision. The holes are in the OS's and the platforms businesses choose and generally the priority isn't security - it's usability, ROI, cost, etc.
Another point: What are we comparing this to anyway. What I mean is, "bad security" compared to what? How many millions of attempts at compromising security are foiled vs those that get through? The times when businesses actually follow what a security consultant recommends, I guarantee they become a hell of a lot more secure than those that don't.
According to the Wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EveR-1 it made it's first public appearance on the 4th of May.
Scary shit if you ask me... but pretty amazing what they did with a budget of $300K USD.
If this had been built in the US they probably would had to have poured millions into development for the same result.
Sorry?? How big is Apple's Mac market share over the mass produced PC?
If you're alluding to the iPod, Apple may have a lot of iPod's out there but how strong a showing do you think they would have today with the average joe if it wernt for the iTunes service. That service has enabled them to capture the market over everyone else very quickly.
The money's not in hardware anymore - hasn't been for a long time unless you can supply a massive like and do it well. Professional Services is where it's at now - IBM learned this in the early 90's.
Big hardware companies need to seriously change their outlook - if it can be done with a PC, it will eventually be done with a PC cheaply, the question is not what the "box" does, it's who's the best at providing the service.
SGI's press release here: http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060508/sfm098.html?.v= 45
Comparing apples to apples is no challange for Justice Mann - caped crusader of the courts!
What I find fascinating is that in 150 years time, from as far back as Jules Verne, science fiction writers have explored almost every imaginable type of high technology, computer, robot, and space ship, as well as every concievable plot and story...
...except the one which has become our eventuality - a world who put every ounce of faith in its almighty petroleum god and woke up one morning to find it expended with a vital infrastructure which couldn't exist without it. Now THAT'S a plot!
Check out Mad Max or the sequel. Part 3 was a bit crap from memory though.
I HATE dialog boxes. Get rid of them I say - find a different standard way to present the information.
Like yourself, I mindlessly click through dialog boxes, occasionally missing important information because 90% of the time, Windows dialog boxes offer me nothing important or new so I automatically "Ok" them.
I got one of those Mac Mini's when they first came out - my first experience with a Mac and it was only 3 months later that I realised the main reason I found it much friendlier to use was that it seldom popped up dialog boxes or other useless / unimportant information.
Bit short on the HDD space (20GB), especially given that these devices are intended to be used for data consumption - I'd expect there'd be a little more space for movies, etc. Battery life really needs to be sorted out too at 2 hours.
Other than that - cool!
One question though - how do you hold these things safely? You know, like Laptops not being recommended for use in your lap? Laptops (or notebooks, whatever), will sit fine on a table, these things don't look like they would. I noticed a small stand on the back of the image but - I dunno - it seems more like a device I'd want to hold rather than have it set up on a table or desk - sort of kills the portability aspect for me.
I don't know what clown was installing this thing, but you do not need to take the motherboard out for EXOS installation.
Aha! I found him!
Damn those clowns!!!!
Perhaps they need to finid a spell checker! :-)
making them cooler to wear on the subway.
:-)
Because it's cool to wear shades underground.
Jar Jar: "Leia, Yoousee mesa Sister!"
US's work culture of long working days, unpaid overtime & too few holidays is killing you.
I don't think that (in bold) reeeaally makes a difference, though I didn't realise the numbers - only 10 days annual leave? That's crazy!! No wonder most American's don't have passports - how do they get time to travel?!
Gibert: She's not that kind of girl, Booger.
Booger: Why? Does she have a penis?
Duffman says, hey - you may think that, but it's not the duff way!
You need some of Duffman's Duff Beer for that duff logic effect!
ooooooh yeah!