People made an awful big fuss of this. The fact is that you had to delibrately do something to even enable the Hot Coffee feature. Sure the company put it in there, but the user had to make a choice and do several things to enable it. Wasn't like it was there for all to see willy-nilly.
What's more important to an organisation like the recording industry folks? Education, fighting disease, global energy security? - or profits? They'd like to get there name in those lights, sure, but I agree.
While I feel that this system is generally useful and productive, how often do tsunamis happen? I wonder if this "early warning system" will even be used in the next 50 years.
In fact, I wouldn't mind a drive that burned anything at all. My last one 'cookied' about 12 discs before it fucked up and my computer wouldn't start if it was connected. Being able to burn any format would certainly be useful though.
Isn't this more traceable than just clicking on some IP in Russia? If I got an email asking me to phone any company, I'd be first looking for a landline. If it was a scam why couldn't I just call the phone company, give them the number and then they'd be able to trace it to an address or person?
It probably wouldn't amount to shit, but I'm tracked everywhere I go. ID'd at work, the bank, the post office. Not to mention all the thousands of times I'm photographed going about my business every year. All that stuff is superflous though, ISPs in the UK tend to follow whatever rules America is following. They state it as 'policy'.
You can basically make your own laws, if you're an ISP, for this purpose. Just call them policies or put clauses in your terms of service.
I live in shared accomodation, the electricity bill is part of the rent. Why should I care? I recycle, I seperate all my glass, plastics and papers... I do what my local council gives provisions for. I also leave my computer on 24 hours a day... The electricity cost of that is pence per day.
I accidentally left my iron on a couple of weeks ago. Got back to a boiling hot flat after work. Whoops, but that little accident probably cost as much as three solid years of leaving my PC on.
I work for a massive global company. I bet it's bigger than yours (three letters), but that's not the point. We run on thin clients and it is fucking awful! There's so much downtime it's unreal. I started at the company and we had 486 boxes and CRT monitors (granted the new LCD ones are a godsend), but everything ran perfectly then. They introduced remote computing, Citrix and all that stuff. I don't think they realised the 'small details' they would be impacting. For instance, before the 'upgrade' if the network went down, we could write some letters, work on some spreadsheets etc... Now with the new 'upgrade', if the network goes down, we can't do anything. Not even write a letter, send an email, none of that stuff....
Virtualisation is NOT the way forwards, it's actually a hinderence to most common business-use functions. For so many reasons. For some reason, networks go down at least twice a week. (In several companies I've worked for)
These sheriffs are driving around searching for open networks.... Computer users are frequently warned not to store critical or sensitive data on their hard drives, but rather on backup media like CDs or DVDs. What's the worst that could happen to the owner of the router anyway through unauthorised use of it?
From TFA:
"If someone is driving by on the street they could easily use your internet access to commit a crime, whether it's fraudulent credit card transactions or surfing child porn or something else,"
Commiting card fraud? They could always use the local college or library to do that anyhow. Even easier is for the criminal to use a proxy setting in their browser.
Child porn? Maybe... It's unlikely though (not impossible). Perhaps ISPs rather than, or in conjunction with informing the authorities could offer a warning for a 'first offense' - eg
"Dear sir,
We have noticed unusual activity on your account of an illegal nature. This may be due to an open wireless connection in your possesion. We suggest this....."
The whole thing sounds well-intentioned, but grossly misguided.
There doesn't seem to be any mention of the GoogleNet. While it may not be used for figuring out sums and what-not, it does have an estimated 126 terraflops of computing power. I'd say that's notable. I bet at least half those terraflops are devoted to advertising aswell.
Many mobile phone producers have their own completely adequate chipset solutions. I'm not sure how many cellphone producers rebrand chips they use though. I am sure that if a phone provider needed Intel hardware for whatever reason, they could simply buy and or rebrand the chips or rights from Intel if the need arises.
The best way to prevent accidental firing of a gun is to outlaw them completely, like here in the UK. Many Americans cite the first ammendment and their right to defend themselves, and sure people should have a right to defend themselves. If it's hard for just anyone to get a gun though, then you're less likely to be defending yourself against a gun. Whatever happened to "putting up your dukes".
There was some artist/magician that swallowed a camera pod a while back. I forget the magician/artists name, but I remember they swallowed a pod shaped camera so as to demonstrate the digestive process. I wish I could remember the link. Anyway, he swallowed this camera thing in front of a sizable audience, and it got stuck in his digestive system. They had to abort the presentation. It was fairly recent, hopefully someone else can remember it.
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There are ladies on Slashdot?
People made an awful big fuss of this. The fact is that you had to delibrately do something to even enable the Hot Coffee feature. Sure the company put it in there, but the user had to make a choice and do several things to enable it. Wasn't like it was there for all to see willy-nilly.
I used to get "popups" all the time when I used to search for warez and see porn.
National Information Exchange Model
On some level, information has always been exchanged between these powers. Now they're using XML. Cool.
aircraft don't carry fire suppression equipment capable of extinguishing lithium fires.
s _29_18/ai_n6280927. Planes don't carry water??
I googled it quickly and found this http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0UBT/i
What's more important to an organisation like the recording industry folks? Education, fighting disease, global energy security? - or profits? They'd like to get there name in those lights, sure, but I agree.
http://www.adlogger.org/ - Works well for me.
If you used any kind of germicide or the like on your wires / kit, you'd be screwed!
While I feel that this system is generally useful and productive, how often do tsunamis happen? I wonder if this "early warning system" will even be used in the next 50 years.
Sorry I was hungry and paranoid about security, so I was thinking of cookies.
I wouldn't mind a drive that burned all formats.
In fact, I wouldn't mind a drive that burned anything at all. My last one 'cookied' about 12 discs before it fucked up and my computer wouldn't start if it was connected. Being able to burn any format would certainly be useful though.
Isn't this more traceable than just clicking on some IP in Russia? If I got an email asking me to phone any company, I'd be first looking for a landline. If it was a scam why couldn't I just call the phone company, give them the number and then they'd be able to trace it to an address or person?
It probably wouldn't amount to shit, but I'm tracked everywhere I go. ID'd at work, the bank, the post office. Not to mention all the thousands of times I'm photographed going about my business every year. All that stuff is superflous though, ISPs in the UK tend to follow whatever rules America is following. They state it as 'policy'.
You can basically make your own laws, if you're an ISP, for this purpose. Just call them policies or put clauses in your terms of service.
I live in shared accomodation, the electricity bill is part of the rent. Why should I care? I recycle, I seperate all my glass, plastics and papers... I do what my local council gives provisions for. I also leave my computer on 24 hours a day... The electricity cost of that is pence per day.
I accidentally left my iron on a couple of weeks ago. Got back to a boiling hot flat after work. Whoops, but that little accident probably cost as much as three solid years of leaving my PC on.
I work for a massive global company. I bet it's bigger than yours (three letters), but that's not the point. We run on thin clients and it is fucking awful! There's so much downtime it's unreal. I started at the company and we had 486 boxes and CRT monitors (granted the new LCD ones are a godsend), but everything ran perfectly then. They introduced remote computing, Citrix and all that stuff. I don't think they realised the 'small details' they would be impacting. For instance, before the 'upgrade' if the network went down, we could write some letters, work on some spreadsheets etc... Now with the new 'upgrade', if the network goes down, we can't do anything. Not even write a letter, send an email, none of that stuff....
Virtualisation is NOT the way forwards, it's actually a hinderence to most common business-use functions. For so many reasons. For some reason, networks go down at least twice a week. (In several companies I've worked for)
Who runs anything *real* on a virtual server?
Are we no longer going to be offered software that is "Product 20xx" before the year 20xx actually happens?!?!
From TFA:
Commiting card fraud? They could always use the local college or library to do that anyhow. Even easier is for the criminal to use a proxy setting in their browser.
Child porn? Maybe... It's unlikely though (not impossible). Perhaps ISPs rather than, or in conjunction with informing the authorities could offer a warning for a 'first offense' - eg
"Dear sir,
We have noticed unusual activity on your account of an illegal nature. This may be due to an open wireless connection in your possesion. We suggest this....."
The whole thing sounds well-intentioned, but grossly misguided.
Let's hope nobody sneezes!
ACHOO!!!! Ahhh crap... Gotta start again.
There doesn't seem to be any mention of the GoogleNet. While it may not be used for figuring out sums and what-not, it does have an estimated 126 terraflops of computing power. I'd say that's notable. I bet at least half those terraflops are devoted to advertising aswell.
But how much does a cup of coffee cost??
Many mobile phone producers have their own completely adequate chipset solutions. I'm not sure how many cellphone producers rebrand chips they use though. I am sure that if a phone provider needed Intel hardware for whatever reason, they could simply buy and or rebrand the chips or rights from Intel if the need arises.
How the heck is it anything like shutting your eyes and walking onto Platform 9¾?
Maybe if the Chinese authorities found you on board this 'train', they could act like those terrible dementor things I guess.
The best way to prevent accidental firing of a gun is to outlaw them completely, like here in the UK. Many Americans cite the first ammendment and their right to defend themselves, and sure people should have a right to defend themselves. If it's hard for just anyone to get a gun though, then you're less likely to be defending yourself against a gun. Whatever happened to "putting up your dukes".
There was some artist/magician that swallowed a camera pod a while back. I forget the magician/artists name, but I remember they swallowed a pod shaped camera so as to demonstrate the digestive process. I wish I could remember the link. Anyway, he swallowed this camera thing in front of a sizable audience, and it got stuck in his digestive system. They had to abort the presentation. It was fairly recent, hopefully someone else can remember it.