"They also conducted the energy of a collision into the passengers a lot more efficiently."
Not if you were in a mid-70s LTD. You were pretty much guaranteed to survive a collision with anything short of a tank if you were driving in an LTD and had your seatbelt on.
We *DO* have onboard NICs that are pretty responsive even if an OS crashes, as they're meant to be usable for wake on lan requests/power on lan requests. So, just build a router into a computer in the same fashion. Let the PC be off, but stil serve some power to the internal onboard router.
I've had this idea in my head for at least four years, I'm surprised nobody has made a product, yet. I certainly can't have been the first to think of this.
"Stability: I don't want my whole network going down because I installed some updates or have bad software, poorly cooled hardware, etc."
Remember Cisco running scared because an IOS exploit was made public? Yea, so much for stability or security argument.
"Power consumption: I don't want a 100+W system on 24/7 just to maintain my network."
As opposed to the multi kilowatt internet backbone that's already on 24/7 to provide you with connectivity? Sure, you've got a lower power device, but lower power devices are in theory less secure because there's a thermodynamic limit and thus less powerful devices just aren't able to move as many electrons as needed to say, do realtime heuristic scanning of incoming packets and such to detect and stop intrusion.... Just invest in some real hardware, ignore consumer-grade crap, becase it's exactly that, crap.
"Hardware suitability: I don't want to need to have all my network stuff (wires, modem, etc) sitting under/near my desk when I can have my hub tucked away in a closet."
I point you to your first point: "poorly cooled hardware"
"Also, I don't want to have a bunch of NICs in my computer, using up slots and causing potential power problems."
I know you meant stability issues, so here's the fix - use the same NIC model, thus you only have to worry about one set of drivers. If slots are a problem, well, hey, you can always get a single-slot PCI-Express MULTINIC! As if we haven't had those types of cards for, oh, I dunno, nearly a decade and a half. It's just a roboboard with ethernet instead of phone jacks!
"Also, a dedicated routing device is more reliable than a PC, generally won't blue screen or get viruses. "
Nope but given the current shit state of electronics now days I'd not expect that piece of hardware to be worth the PCB it's built upon.
To date, since 2002, I've had: 5 Linksys routers 1 Buffalo Router 4 Netgear Routers 2 D-Link Routers And a whole slew of other no-name generic routers, FAIL.
Most of the Linksys ones just can't handle more than 2-3 wireless clients with a full ethernet switch load. Netgears all crap out when ANY torrent starts coming in. The Buffalo (with DD-WRT firm) overheated and died, and the D-links couldn't maintain a wireless connection to save any person's life. The generic routers? Never got full speed links. never got more than 25mbit in any direction.
Also, last I checked, Cisco had to do some SERIOUS patching because a flaw in IOS was exposed, where it could be infected with a virus and spread, IIRC. What was that about being better? I don't think so. I've built more secure routing boxes and wireless repeaters using old pentium-2 age hardware and BSD.
"Because Japan doesn't have the landmass... they have fewer lines to lay and less overhead."
If we lit up all of our dark fiber we'd surpass most nations. the telcos and cable companies aren't doing it, though, preferring to overcharge and under-deliver.
They should be sued for $200 BILLION for fraud and contractual violations.
No, it doesn't suck. We have a 45mbit symmetrical plan, have had it since 1996 - ain't nobody suing the fuck out of the Telcos and cable companies to force their ass to roll it out, uncapped.
I'm willing to bet those that wish could easily opt-out of this. However, there's still the chance that Amazon will screw up and modify someone's works even though they had opted out, and in that case they have every right to sue Amazon for Copyright Infringement (unauthorized duplication/modification of a work.)
We have had flying cars for some time, now. At least two decades.
But to alow regular people access to those vehicles would cause far more problems than it's worth. They can barely stay on a road, you think they're going to fare better in the air?
How about we have a single chunk of data and executable code/libraries needed to run across any OS or any architecture? If you're going to call it universal you'd best damn-well make it universal! Take the idea of what OSX does for their apps and apply it to every OS possible? Even if the stuff has to be compressed to fit onto a single DVD you can have that decompress itself but still stay a single file (at least on the user end, the OS would still be able to read each file individually inside the archive.) For example, most games only need a different executable, the data (textures, maps, etc) stays the same.
You could even make it able to run on different distributions of the same kernel! No more stupid dependencies, no more RPM hell, and best of all there'd be no reason for it to just wipe out other installed software, such a beta versions of libraries and what not.
And then you could lock it down by making that file read-only. If there's an exploit, it won't destroy your software as it can't modify it, unless that exploit somehow allows write access.
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"They also conducted the energy of a collision into the passengers a lot more efficiently."
Not if you were in a mid-70s LTD. You were pretty much guaranteed to survive a collision with anything short of a tank if you were driving in an LTD and had your seatbelt on.
"The trouble with this argument is that WiFi very rarely "just works" without "fiddling about with drivers" while bluetooth always "just works""
LMFAO.
Bluetooth "JUST WORKS" in XP, maybe. Tried it with Vista lately? I can't get fuck al to work with my Targus adapter in Vista and they have drivers.
"I 100% agree with you. Routers are Routers and PC's are PC's don't mix the two!"
I can't stop laughing at this insanely stupid comment. Seriously?
ROUTERS ARE SPECIALIZED PCs. NOT MIXING IS IMPOSSIBLE PURELY BY THEIR VERY NATURE OF OPERATION.
"Many great applications have died or never taken off because of it."
They've also never taken off because requiring an open port to the internet meant sure destruction at the hands of some unhappy hacker.
NAT didn't break a damned thing - companies are just to fucking lazy to act as an intermediary so the connections actually WORK.
Why would anybody trust a GPU maker to make a router product?
We *DO* have onboard NICs that are pretty responsive even if an OS crashes, as they're meant to be usable for wake on lan requests/power on lan requests. So, just build a router into a computer in the same fashion. Let the PC be off, but stil serve some power to the internal onboard router.
I've had this idea in my head for at least four years, I'm surprised nobody has made a product, yet. I certainly can't have been the first to think of this.
Several Dial-up ISPs back in the 90s offered software to let one computer dial-in and act as the server for the rest of the computers in the house.
What, you never heard of AOL?
"Stability: I don't want my whole network going down because I installed some updates or have bad software, poorly cooled hardware, etc."
Remember Cisco running scared because an IOS exploit was made public? Yea, so much for stability or security argument.
"Power consumption: I don't want a 100+W system on 24/7 just to maintain my network."
As opposed to the multi kilowatt internet backbone that's already on 24/7 to provide you with connectivity? Sure, you've got a lower power device, but lower power devices are in theory less secure because there's a thermodynamic limit and thus less powerful devices just aren't able to move as many electrons as needed to say, do realtime heuristic scanning of incoming packets and such to detect and stop intrusion.... Just invest in some real hardware, ignore consumer-grade crap, becase it's exactly that, crap.
"Hardware suitability: I don't want to need to have all my network stuff (wires, modem, etc) sitting under/near my desk when I can have my hub tucked away in a closet."
I point you to your first point: "poorly cooled hardware"
"Also, I don't want to have a bunch of NICs in my computer, using up slots and causing potential power problems."
I know you meant stability issues, so here's the fix - use the same NIC model, thus you only have to worry about one set of drivers. If slots are a problem, well, hey, you can always get a single-slot PCI-Express MULTINIC! As if we haven't had those types of cards for, oh, I dunno, nearly a decade and a half. It's just a roboboard with ethernet instead of phone jacks!
"Also, a dedicated routing device is more reliable than a PC, generally won't blue screen or get viruses. "
Nope but given the current shit state of electronics now days I'd not expect that piece of hardware to be worth the PCB it's built upon.
To date, since 2002, I've had:
5 Linksys routers
1 Buffalo Router
4 Netgear Routers
2 D-Link Routers
And a whole slew of other no-name generic routers, FAIL.
Most of the Linksys ones just can't handle more than 2-3 wireless clients with a full ethernet switch load. Netgears all crap out when ANY torrent starts coming in. The Buffalo (with DD-WRT firm) overheated and died, and the D-links couldn't maintain a wireless connection to save any person's life. The generic routers? Never got full speed links. never got more than 25mbit in any direction.
Also, last I checked, Cisco had to do some SERIOUS patching because a flaw in IOS was exposed, where it could be infected with a virus and spread, IIRC. What was that about being better? I don't think so. I've built more secure routing boxes and wireless repeaters using old pentium-2 age hardware and BSD.
"Because Japan doesn't have the landmass... they have fewer lines to lay and less overhead."
If we lit up all of our dark fiber we'd surpass most nations. the telcos and cable companies aren't doing it, though, preferring to overcharge and under-deliver.
They should be sued for $200 BILLION for fraud and contractual violations.
No, it doesn't suck. We have a 45mbit symmetrical plan, have had it since 1996 - ain't nobody suing the fuck out of the Telcos and cable companies to force their ass to roll it out, uncapped.
TELECOMMUNICATIONS ACT OF 1996.
I'm willing to bet those that wish could easily opt-out of this. However, there's still the chance that Amazon will screw up and modify someone's works even though they had opted out, and in that case they have every right to sue Amazon for Copyright Infringement (unauthorized duplication/modification of a work.)
And with an easy SSN lookup for easier identification for employers that would very much like to keep morons like this out of their companies.
"When was the last time you heard of someone crashing their car due to mechanical failure, in or out of warranty?"
Toyota Prius. You lose power you lose brakes, ALL BRAKES.
Spoken like Ben Franklin, the founder of the Party of Common Sense, of which it seems I'm the only member of now days.
I mean, you'd think it was OBVIOUS if you ever saw Jack Thompson!
We have had flying cars for some time, now. At least two decades.
But to alow regular people access to those vehicles would cause far more problems than it's worth. They can barely stay on a road, you think they're going to fare better in the air?
I could get that with two 9800GTX+ cards.
Too much hardware here for too little performance.
Geocities offered a WYSIWYG page builder - you didn't need to know HTML.
You don't need a lot of cache when you have a system designed to work with smaller data chunks at a faster pace.
How about we have a single chunk of data and executable code/libraries needed to run across any OS or any architecture? If you're going to call it universal you'd best damn-well make it universal! Take the idea of what OSX does for their apps and apply it to every OS possible? Even if the stuff has to be compressed to fit onto a single DVD you can have that decompress itself but still stay a single file (at least on the user end, the OS would still be able to read each file individually inside the archive.) For example, most games only need a different executable, the data (textures, maps, etc) stays the same.
You could even make it able to run on different distributions of the same kernel! No more stupid dependencies, no more RPM hell, and best of all there'd be no reason for it to just wipe out other installed software, such a beta versions of libraries and what not.
And then you could lock it down by making that file read-only. If there's an exploit, it won't destroy your software as it can't modify it, unless that exploit somehow allows write access.
You use it on a connection not connected to the business network, like a tethered phone modem, or a wireless 3G service, etc.
Never ever demo an exploit while connected to the business network - what insane fool would do that?
Wait, don't answer that. :)
Good pot only lasts about 1 1/2 hours before I have to toke up again. Even the melatonin supplements can only help out so much.
It's like blackmail, you pay me to keep my mouth shut.
Make yourself a laptop with a deep freeze image. this way you can infect the system at will, reboot and it's clean.
Show the people using your system just how badly a zero-day exploit can hose a system.
Reboot, show the next group. Rinse, repeat.