The middle-class isn't ready for that. Most Americans don't need the 1,000 songs the iPod can store, and would rather go to the megaplex than edit movies on their computers
Heck, I can d/l every movie I like from morpheus, but I simply don'T do it.
I mean who prefers watching movies on a PC to going to the megaplex?
The same with mp3 here, yeah, download 'em all, put them on the iPod, have your mp3s everywhere you go.
Do you really want that?
I don't need a portable mp3 player, I have an FM/AM radio at the size of a lighter and the 15 min a day when I'm alone, not at home AND bored i switch it on to hear some news or even good music (yes, they play good music on the radio, just find the right channel).
So, what do I want to tell here?
Everything is oh-so-cool, oh-so-portable and oh-so-oh-so. But do we need this stuff?
Why don'T they concentrate on making a stable, fast uncrashable system based on open standards and good compatibility?
A computer should be a computer, not a thing that is defined by it'S oh-so-coolness...
Hmmm... no alternative cable providers?
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Here in Austria each Town has it's own private cable provider. They get their channels via sat and broadcast via cable only in their region. They choose if they wish to provide broadband to their customers.
Basically they have only a small network, a more or less fat uplink to our country's backbone. They do everything inhouse, with a small crew.
The logical consequence is that they kick the shit out of the big companies by making special agreements like
"We have #N Mbit to the backbone and #M customers, so the bandwidth for an individual is N/M Mbit. If the useres increase, we will upgrade our pipes. Fair use."
Sure it's a bit more expensive, but who gets 2Mbit down/512kup to his home for like 35$?
DSL services in my area would cost the same but would only provide me with 512d/64u/1GB traffic included...
So, I can't imagine that this works in a country where monopolism is more or less perfectly legal, but not in the states...
Well I don'T want to bash anyone here, but I'm afraid this is not going to help...
Mostly other products containing the word "windows" or derrivates of it in them, are programs designed to run under the windows operating system. Thus they support the popularity of Microsoft Windows.
Lindows is exactly the opposite, it does not support the os by using a phonetically similar name, but it creates a counterproduct under this name.
I guess this why MS is going nuts here, and I'm afraid I have to admit that the law is on their side in this case...
sometimes I can not understand where this is going.
Now we talk about the legality of a system created to prevent illegality, besides that it does not work it's far away from being accepted.
Why all this trouble?
The stuff I like I buy on CD, if I just hear stuff on air and think i might like it, I download it.
If I accidentially bought a "defective" CD I may (a) download it, or (b) drag me thru the more or less painful process of ripping it via some analog cables.
That is my solution, come what may, nobody can kill systems like gnutella.
So why do we even care? Let the RIAA mofos do what they want, let them waste their money, I couldn't care less.
I know where I'll get my music. Everybody should. I know most of you already do.
I think after a long time of several users being modded down for this comment, it still has its meaning:
"Imagine a beowulf cluster of theese..."
The power definetely lies in clustering, who wants to/can control which clusters are built?
Some nice 2.2 Ghz Northwoods add up number crunching power very quickly...
Why should anyone want to explicitly hack the sat itself?
With all the posts above (or below.. whatever) describing how hard it would be to talk to a bird, I would say that hacking the ground station is much easier.
Think about ex-employees, some social engineering, exploitable firewalls, stupid proxy flaws, "unguarded" workstations etc etc.
I think it's not how do I secure my sattelite, it's more about how do i secure my office at all, because this IS the weakest point of this chain of communication.
Having the best hardware/software encryption doesn't help much when someone installs such trivial things like keyloggers etc...
"We must standardize on the dollar, a symbol of freedom and privacy"
How many terroristic/illegal groups are using the dollar as their currency? See, this is not going to happen with the Euro.
So what is better? Giving the bad guys a shiny insecure currency to conduct "business" with, or try everything to make this world (Europe...) more secure?
... this whole thing would have never happend.
At first we had napster, the CD sales increased. Somehow the RIAA didn't like this, nobody knows why.
Now they try to copy-protect CDs (which is not going to work anyways). What is the simple consequence? People won't buy such "defective" CDs, instead download the songs they like.
But it comes even better, some sickminded consulting people think that a pay-for-download-AND-listen system would work.
Now some bands have to jump in and tell the RIAA that they are going the wrong way.
And what's the outcome:
The RIAA spent more money on copy protection and lawsuits than they will ever get back from it.
Guess who they think has to pay for this... and guess who is not going to pay but download instead, and it goes on like that...
Can anyone tell me where this stuff is going to end?
I'm sick of it.
hmm because like 10 people did before me... which maybe is reason to the question why I post such a thing in general.. well.. hmm... I was just bored.. and had the urge to tell something more or less funny... at least I'm no karma whore;)
"Check out the A HREF='http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/12/18/com puter.lip.read.idg/index.html">CNN Story, Intel Press Release, and project home page.'"
yes, it's the typical/. behaviour when it comes comes down to jobs/functions/code/etc from/by/at microsoft.
This kind of bashing is definitely not ok. You know NOTHING about this guy, I'm sure he is VERY high qualified and he is not to blame for the philosophy of a company.
Hey chrisd, do you have any idea which education you must have to become a Chief Security Advisor at Microsoft? Do you?
Demonizing Microsoft, that is what the script kiddies, crackers, etc do. It should not be commited by a sane, open minded community.
For example I know a guy who teaches ppl how to pass the mcse certificates. I once asked him why he is doing this microsoft stuff. He told me that he no fan of Microsoft itself as a company, but it's good money, a nice job.
In his free time he is a sun/java developer and truly fan of linux.
Maybe we shouldn't categorize people because of their jobs. And believe me, Mr. Schmidt knows more OS than win98...
Saying "w1nd0wz sux0rZ, h4X0r1ng m$ r00lez" is just embarassing...
"We need you to come to the park and enjoy the park"
Imagine your laptop in one hand, some candy in the other one and getting chased by 23 security officers running over and knocking down mickey and his fellows...
I'm sure this scene is going to make it into "password: swordfish 2"
...of the microfan array for CPU cooling somebody was talkin about.
Now you'll ask what has this thing to do with a turbine?
I guess it's true for both of them that if they are in use they get dirty, no matter from what, enthropy is everywhere something moves.
I can imagine ONE turbine only 4mm in diameter is kinda hard to clean. What if you have to clean 100 or 1000? How easy can you reach it when it sits inside your laptop/nightvision/etc?
So, how useful are they?
There is.
It's MS FlightSim 2002.
I have a P4 1,8 Ghz, a Ti500, 384 MBRam, running win2k as a gaming platform.
An MS FlightSim just performs good, far from perfect...
sure, one app doesn't justify every piece of new hardware, but i just wanted to stress that the kill-app IS out there, and there are more to come.
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Time to move to Austria, methinks. You do speak Australian there, right? :P
;)
No, but the Kangoroos are really jumpy!
Damn, this is going nowhere...
The middle-class isn't ready for that. Most Americans don't need the 1,000 songs the iPod can store, and would rather go to the megaplex than edit movies on their computers
Heck, I can d/l every movie I like from morpheus, but I simply don'T do it.
I mean who prefers watching movies on a PC to going to the megaplex?
The same with mp3 here, yeah, download 'em all, put them on the iPod, have your mp3s everywhere you go.
Do you really want that?
I don't need a portable mp3 player, I have an FM/AM radio at the size of a lighter and the 15 min a day when I'm alone, not at home AND bored i switch it on to hear some news or even good music (yes, they play good music on the radio, just find the right channel).
So, what do I want to tell here?
Everything is oh-so-cool, oh-so-portable and oh-so-oh-so. But do we need this stuff?
Why don'T they concentrate on making a stable, fast uncrashable system based on open standards and good compatibility?
A computer should be a computer, not a thing that is defined by it'S oh-so-coolness...
Here in Austria each Town has it's own private cable provider. They get their channels via sat and broadcast via cable only in their region. They choose if they wish to provide broadband to their customers.
Basically they have only a small network, a more or less fat uplink to our country's backbone. They do everything inhouse, with a small crew.
The logical consequence is that they kick the shit out of the big companies by making special agreements like
"We have #N Mbit to the backbone and #M customers, so the bandwidth for an individual is N/M Mbit. If the useres increase, we will upgrade our pipes. Fair use."
Sure it's a bit more expensive, but who gets 2Mbit down/512kup to his home for like 35$?
DSL services in my area would cost the same but would only provide me with 512d/64u/1GB traffic included...
So, I can't imagine that this works in a country where monopolism is more or less perfectly legal, but not in the states...
So, no small towns with small cable providers?
Well I don'T want to bash anyone here, but I'm afraid this is not going to help...
Mostly other products containing the word "windows" or derrivates of it in them, are programs designed to run under the windows operating system. Thus they support the popularity of Microsoft Windows.
Lindows is exactly the opposite, it does not support the os by using a phonetically similar name, but it creates a counterproduct under this name.
I guess this why MS is going nuts here, and I'm afraid I have to admit that the law is on their side in this case...
sometimes I can not understand where this is going.
Now we talk about the legality of a system created to prevent illegality, besides that it does not work it's far away from being accepted.
Why all this trouble?
The stuff I like I buy on CD, if I just hear stuff on air and think i might like it, I download it.
If I accidentially bought a "defective" CD I may (a) download it, or (b) drag me thru the more or less painful process of ripping it via some analog cables.
That is my solution, come what may, nobody can kill systems like gnutella.
So why do we even care? Let the RIAA mofos do what they want, let them waste their money, I couldn't care less.
I know where I'll get my music. Everybody should. I know most of you already do.
I think after a long time of several users being modded down for this comment, it still has its meaning:
"Imagine a beowulf cluster of theese..."
The power definetely lies in clustering, who wants to/can control which clusters are built?
Some nice 2.2 Ghz Northwoods add up number crunching power very quickly...
Why should anyone want to explicitly hack the sat itself?
With all the posts above (or below.. whatever) describing how hard it would be to talk to a bird, I would say that hacking the ground station is much easier.
Think about ex-employees, some social engineering, exploitable firewalls, stupid proxy flaws, "unguarded" workstations etc etc.
I think it's not how do I secure my sattelite, it's more about how do i secure my office at all, because this IS the weakest point of this chain of communication.
Having the best hardware/software encryption doesn't help much when someone installs such trivial things like keyloggers etc...
"We must standardize on the dollar, a symbol of freedom and privacy"
How many terroristic/illegal groups are using the dollar as their currency? See, this is not going to happen with the Euro.
So what is better? Giving the bad guys a shiny insecure currency to conduct "business" with, or try everything to make this world (Europe...) more secure?
this was intentional... you know chargon file compatibility... ;)
... this whole thing would have never happend.
At first we had napster, the CD sales increased. Somehow the RIAA didn't like this, nobody knows why.
Now they try to copy-protect CDs (which is not going to work anyways). What is the simple consequence? People won't buy such "defective" CDs, instead download the songs they like.
But it comes even better, some sickminded consulting people think that a pay-for-download-AND-listen system would work.
Now some bands have to jump in and tell the RIAA that they are going the wrong way.
And what's the outcome:
The RIAA spent more money on copy protection and lawsuits than they will ever get back from it.
Guess who they think has to pay for this... and guess who is not going to pay but download instead, and it goes on like that...
Can anyone tell me where this stuff is going to end?
I'm sick of it.
hmm because like 10 people did before me... which maybe is reason to the question why I post such a thing in general.. well.. hmm... I was just bored.. and had the urge to tell something more or less funny... at least I'm no karma whore ;)
"Check out the A HREF='http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/12/18/com puter.lip.read.idg/index.html">CNN Story, Intel Press Release, and project home page.'"
/. staff for posting such things? ;)
Dear editor, please check this out first...
I'm sure chrisd wanted to have the l33t first (story)post..why can't we mod down
Nice, looks like another comment written in TrollMaster2000...
Every song I don't download gets dropped out of the charts... ;)
So I do my best to help the industry
Hmmm.. as the name says "Security Advisor".
Giving advice to the programmers/testers/etc...
I'm afraid what they do with it is more or less beyond the scope of the secadv...
I'm just trying to tell that not everybody who works at microsoft is an idiot...
Sure, in the aspects of security win is sometimes shitty.
But think about handling, hardware compatibility or the speed of IIS when delivering static HTMl...
I really try not to flame now.
first "How do you know?" answer:
No matter how insecure some products of Microsoft are, they won'T hire an idiot as secadv.
"I don't know. Please tell me." answer:
see answer "first 'How do you know?' answer"
second "How do you know?" answer:
see answer "first 'How do you know?' answer"
About that incoherent, far-fetched bomb stuff you wrote:
It's pretty sick and immature to compare a software company to a terroristic organisation.
You are exactly the type of person to make the whole open source movement look like a bunch of script kiddies.
yes, it's the typical /. behaviour when it comes comes down to jobs/functions/code/etc from/by/at microsoft.
This kind of bashing is definitely not ok. You know NOTHING about this guy, I'm sure he is VERY high qualified and he is not to blame for the philosophy of a company.
Hey chrisd, do you have any idea which education you must have to become a Chief Security Advisor at Microsoft? Do you?
Demonizing Microsoft, that is what the script kiddies, crackers, etc do. It should not be commited by a sane, open minded community.
For example I know a guy who teaches ppl how to pass the mcse certificates. I once asked him why he is doing this microsoft stuff. He told me that he no fan of Microsoft itself as a company, but it's good money, a nice job.
In his free time he is a sun/java developer and truly fan of linux.
Maybe we shouldn't categorize people because of their jobs. And believe me, Mr. Schmidt knows more OS than win98...
Saying "w1nd0wz sux0rZ, h4X0r1ng m$ r00lez" is just embarassing...
2001-11-29 15:40:51 simple SMS kills cell phones (articles,security) (rejected)
sorry, I know that someone is going to mod me down for this... BUT THAT IS NOT FAIR!!!
If someone with the same expierence reads this please reply or tell me about your unfair rejection by email me(at)sluggie.org.
Thanks!
sluggie out.
besides how usefull this camera and vcr taping stuff is, this map shows anyone who wants which cameras a person HAS to pass to reach the target.
So wouldn't it be better to pass more "less polpulated" cameras than the "main route" iSee suggests?
Kein Verständniss für die deutsche Sprache... zzz...
"Ich bin ein Binary" muss es heissen...
stay xund ppl...
"The case in question is Adobe vs Softman..."
"The full ruling is available in PDF format here."
Was that intentionally?
come on! don't ruin the tense in this scene ;)
besides that the zaurus is a cool piece of hardware...
"We need you to come to the park and enjoy the park"
;)
Imagine your laptop in one hand, some candy in the other one and getting chased by 23 security officers running over and knocking down mickey and his fellows...
I'm sure this scene is going to make it into "password: swordfish 2"
this sounds like a big heap of enjoyment to me
...of the microfan array for CPU cooling somebody was talkin about.
Now you'll ask what has this thing to do with a turbine?
I guess it's true for both of them that if they are in use they get dirty, no matter from what, enthropy is everywhere something moves.
I can imagine ONE turbine only 4mm in diameter is kinda hard to clean. What if you have to clean 100 or 1000? How easy can you reach it when it sits inside your laptop/nightvision/etc?
So, how useful are they?
"There is no "killer app" available today "
There is.
It's MS FlightSim 2002.
I have a P4 1,8 Ghz, a Ti500, 384 MBRam, running win2k as a gaming platform.
An MS FlightSim just performs good, far from perfect...
sure, one app doesn't justify every piece of new hardware, but i just wanted to stress that the kill-app IS out there, and there are more to come.