RE:"So, what will happen. The card-manufacturer might fix the bug, nobody updates"
There are millions of wifi hardware in all the Staples, OfficeDepot, CompUSA, Walmart, etc... all with a CDrom with the vulerable driver and joe & jane sixpack are going to buy it and never bother to find an updated driver...
while in office and while GWB is alive i think it is obvious why his profile will be protected, i hope in a few years time history will look more objectively towards the nations leaders (including GWB), displaying thier blunders and mistakes as vividly as their success...
as a US citizen (like many others) i have been bombed and hounded by advertising for so long now that i automatically ignore all advertizing like ignoring the background noise in a factory...
i would like to see a graphical qeualizer or something similar so i can remove all the loud music (drama effect) in TV shows, i hate it when the music is drownding out the dialog/conversation
as anyone knows reading my coments knows i am no IT guy, but i do work construction and done it for years, most commercial office buildings are built not with lumber and a lot of what is called sheetmetal stud and track, also there is sheetmetal HVAC ducts & etc.; lots of metal, well anyhow metal always blocks radio signals so within a large building with enough walls to go through i can see why wireless will have limitations...
i would imagine a large enough office building would benefit from a repeater system like some ham and commercial radio systems already use...
i barely trust the internet on my PC, there is no way i want the rest of my household appliances having internet access, and especially being run by MS-Windows...
i hear ya bro, i wont even get on another person's wintel box to check things as trivial as email for fear that trojanized keyloggers could steal my info & send it do some CyberCrook...
i tend to think the internet is what the individual surfing the interweb makes of it, to the *nix guru it is a great place to share info and software, to the not so informed doze user loaded with spyware and kludge it is a racket that is about to steal his identity & etc...
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i keep an older version of adobe's acrobat reader for Linux version 5.0 and copy & paste in to a text editor works in it too...
i hate the new acrobat reader. some claim it calls home to the mothership(Adobe) which i dont approve of either (spyware)...
RE:"So, what will happen. The card-manufacturer might fix the bug, nobody updates"
There are millions of wifi hardware in all the Staples, OfficeDepot, CompUSA, Walmart, etc... all with a CDrom with the vulerable driver and joe & jane sixpack are going to buy it and never bother to find an updated driver...
because that is the nature of governments to usurp more power at the expense of its citizens either by force or deception...
exactly my sentiments, i trust natural selection over a profit driven corperation any day...
considering the dark side of human nature and what geneitic manipulation corperations like Monsanto are doing i applaud Norway for doing this...
while in office and while GWB is alive i think it is obvious why his profile will be protected, i hope in a few years time history will look more objectively towards the nations leaders (including GWB), displaying thier blunders and mistakes as vividly as their success...
Most hated distro, ever! -comicbook guy
as a US citizen (like many others) i have been bombed and hounded by advertising for so long now that i automatically ignore all advertizing like ignoring the background noise in a factory...
RE:"And what can us consumers do about it?"
swich to something better, nobody is forceing you to use microsoft's product http://linux.com/
its no fun being a shill when no money comes in from it...
i would like to see a graphical qeualizer or something similar so i can remove all the loud music (drama effect) in TV shows, i hate it when the music is drownding out the dialog/conversation
loved those books, Niven & Pournelle rock! Lucifer's Hammer & FootFall come to mind...
i declair a jihad against all draconian corporate greed, specially the MPAA & RIAA...
the internet gets more expensive and restricted than it already is i will be forced to cancel and pull the plug...
i take it you dont want a new laptop/cellphone/digitalcamera/webcam/gps/pda/wali e-talkie-gmrs/ all in one super duper megagadget
as anyone knows reading my coments knows i am no IT guy, but i do work construction and done it for years, most commercial office buildings are built not with lumber and a lot of what is called sheetmetal stud and track, also there is sheetmetal HVAC ducts & etc.; lots of metal, well anyhow metal always blocks radio signals so within a large building with enough walls to go through i can see why wireless will have limitations...
i would imagine a large enough office building would benefit from a repeater system like some ham and commercial radio systems already use...
i noticed that too, hopefully this story will be duped when Expo gets a detailed home page. so far the home page shows up as empty...
maybe they wont be able to patent it due to prior art :p
i barely trust the internet on my PC, there is no way i want the rest of my household appliances having internet access, and especially being run by MS-Windows...
RE:""This really opened our eyes to what goes on in the real world,""
its about time, this comes only about 10 years too late...
i hear ya bro, i wont even get on another person's wintel box to check things as trivial as email for fear that trojanized keyloggers could steal my info & send it do some CyberCrook...
you slammed it home :)
RE:"but at least I had them put it in their drawers."
ouch!
RE:"will make the web a more stable marketplace. God knows it needs to be."
yes! very much so!
i tend to think the internet is what the individual surfing the interweb makes of it, to the *nix guru it is a great place to share info and software, to the not so informed doze user loaded with spyware and kludge it is a racket that is about to steal his identity & etc...