First of all, PCS phones don't have that large of a screen, so I'm not sure how they'd have banners, unless its like TV, where you stop and take a break for adverstisements... but anyway, i'm guessing this is how it'll go...
you'll be able to have internet, on your cell phone, as today, without ads, but you still have to pay
or you'll be able to sign up for services such as netzero, bluelight... et al, for your wireless phone, where you have advertisements, but then you get cheaper, or free internet service.
Sure, a nice invention... but it'll never be as good as my perpetual motion machine, which was discreted by those damn scientists... YOU PHYSICISTS HAVE TO LEARN THAT THE LAWS OF THERMONUCLEAR PHYSICS DON'T ALWAYS APPLY!#)$*^&@#
Well, the NSA applied for a patent , for a device... or mechanism, that takes conversations, and basically summarizes the topics of those coversations. Now, the significance of this is that they can basically use highly advanced speech recogition software(are you saying the NSA wouldn't be able to attain/develop such a thing!?!... much more developed than any commercial software) to catalog coversations, use this device that has been patented to summarize the topic of the conversation, and if it has anything to do with bomb, terrorism, or any other keywords, then it would notify the proper authorities.
Of course, my whole view on the NSA-Echelon situation is... my life is pretty boring... so if the NSA wants to spy on me and others to prevent terrorism, so be it.
Oh, and by the way, the website i found the link for the patent is ACLU's Echelonwatch.... i still think there should be a ACLUWatch though =).
I agree with the ADL, that hatred is bad and all, but I don't agree with the way they're going about preventing it. Companies like Yahoo, have their terms of service and other guidelines in place in case they need to use them, but they don't always enforce them, and they aren't expected to. On the other hand, the ADL comes in and tried to exploit Yahoo's terms of service by telling them that they basically have to terminate certain users clubs/accounts/websites... whatever... because they violate the terms of service. If Yahoo removed the material from their website, I wouldn't care, but people from the outside trying to force them to do it, doesn't seem right.
Here's a website that is a "reference point for ICANN news and developments, in order to promote informed discussion and debate in shaping this institution"; ICANNWatch.
Hmm, I-CAN sounds like some kind of self-esteem things, but I-CAN-Watch.... that sounds a little strange... =)
An Article on news.com -"Spurred by this week's widespread Web attack, President Clinton has rounded up experts, government officials and high-tech business leaders for an emergency Web security summit."
Of course, these attacks are useless, and serve as much purpose as banging your head against the wall. I'm not going to get into why people do these useless types of attacks, but it is in one way or another to get attention, or recieve recognition. Either way, whoevers doing this is could screw the rest of us over. Maybe the president, in his ultimate wisdom, along with his other attempts to gain political favor before he leaves the white house, will propose to instate IPv6. People who hear about these attacks on the news think that Yahoo (et al) were really hacked, and due to this the general public might approve. Well, these lame DoS kiddies would have really fscked us over(that is depending on your view of IPv6).
Obviously, this is similar to the NSA-based Echelon. Although, echelon does monitor all technology based communication, while the russian system doesn''t. The major problem, though, with the Russian system, of goverment-mandated black boxes that monitor all internet traffic, is that people can possibly tamper with them. On the other hand, since the "No Such Agency"'s Echelon system uses the concept of security by obscurity, and since no one know's truly anything about it, besides what it does, there is almost no chance that it could be broken into.
The funniest part of Echelon, is that, there might not even be an Echelon.
I also asked the same question, but looking at wired online, i realized what he's talking about. It isn't illegalize, but there is a SMALL possibilty that it may become illegalized. BILLs have been proposed to legislators, but, there is strong opposition to some of the bills. Article at Wired online.
I'm not aware of the illegalization. I read an article in december (not on/.) that said it was banned in one town, and it was the only town in the US. Reguardless, these laws are usually unenforceable, so i don't think it would. You must, by law, wear a seatbelt, in most states, yet the only time you would get caught is when you are pulled over, or when officers are specifically checking. Therefore, people do not always wear there seatbelts, so I feel that many people would many people would not obey this law. Since, this would not be greatly affected.
I think that the filtering software avaliable is easy to get around, and works as a broad sword (it takes out what you want, but also much more). I think that children and parents should have a good enough relationship that the children can be trusted not to look at it, otherwise they can still get around, if its hacking software, or going somewhere else.
Although, I do feel that a child could mistakenly access pornography. For example, if you goto lyricssearch.com (notice thats not a link), you will find pornography. Also, children could be mislead, since many sites decieve you to going to pornography sites. And also, children could mistakenly access these sites through search engines.
Although, I still won't let you look at my history/cache. =P. Just kidding.
I can't remember where I read this, but this is how it goes... AOL 4.0 Can run on windows 2000, although it may warn you when you run it, it still should run fine. On the other hand, AOL 5.0 does not work with windows 2000, since it is insecure. AOL is working on it... and they have a website for it... here, but i haven't seen any changes in the past few months.
"We can't just trust the end-user to solve these problems themselves," Valentine said.
So basically the word "anymore" is implied at the end....
A preliminary version of the product also was put on the Internet to enable users to look for security breaches, Valentine said. Within two weeks, four denials of service bugs were found, but no breaches were discovered, he said.
I don't know anything about this test, but wouldn't it be a scaled down version? I mean, I'm pretty sure they wouldn't set it up as if they were a normal end-user... right out of the box, and running all services (you know what i mean).
Included in Microsoft's plans are 24-hours-per-day, seven-days-a-week security hot lines, consultations, and collaboration with other vendors on security issues, Valentine said. Microsoft will re-launch its security response centers to provide the around-the-clock responses and will respond to issues within 24 hours, Valentine said.
This quotes, among others, make this seem as if they are trying to port CERT to the Windows 2000 OS =P. The key word in the (CERT) acronym, is Response... they are trying to fix the probelms after they have been discovered, not being more careful, and preventing these problems from ever occuring. I feel that this is more of Customer Support than Security.
I don't want to start another trendy annoying buzzword, but that is what this is, crime. I mean, lets just say they broke into they system, or even took this information information, I don't have much of a problem with that. But, when people start to actually do this these type of things, they're crossing a line, and its not just playing around anymore. Even though journalists try to make everyone who uses a computer out to be a criminal, this feeds this true-lifeish evil-hacker-sensationalism.
I really hope this online credit card, or any type of information ransom, doesn't start to become a trend.
Ok, I am a proud owner of a minidisc, but there's one major advantage the rio has over the minidisc, that you can transfer songs quickly. The minidisc on the other hand, takes the actual length of the songs.
That is, except this sharp one i've seen, actually there was a/. discussion on it.... Mp3/MD Combo Player....
"Yes, there is a secret message, and this is it: Transmeta's policy has been to remain silent about its plans until it had something to demonstrate to the world. On January 19th, 2000, Transmeta is going to announce and demonstrate what Crusoe processors can do. Simultaneously, all of the details will go up on this Web site for everyone on the Internet to see. Crusoe will be cool hardware and software for mobile applications. Crusoe will be unconventional, which is why we wanted to let you know in advance to come look at the entire Web site in January, so that you can get the full story and have access to all of the real details as soon as they are available."
Radioshack does still sells the FM Wireless Microphone kits for $11.99... I just called.
Radioshack (n)(ripoff) "One of the largest retailers of consumer electronic products and services in America, Tandy's RadioShack retail operation includes more than 7,000 stores and dealer/franchise outlets nationwide. "
Ok, i think the initial post was good... but this Anon Coward seems like its too good to be true.. i mean, just that he seems to prove your point, but you can't prove its not you b/c he's anonymous.... not that it always would... But either way 'fist prost'... that doesn't seem like that would happen... i mean... yeah...
maybe i'm just ignorant and everyone else realizes this whole anon post?
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First of all, PCS phones don't have that large of a screen, so I'm not sure how they'd have banners, unless its like TV, where you stop and take a break for adverstisements... but anyway, i'm guessing this is how it'll go...
you'll be able to have internet, on your cell phone, as today, without ads, but you still have to pay
or you'll be able to sign up for services such as netzero, bluelight... et al, for your wireless phone, where you have advertisements, but then you get cheaper, or free internet service.
Sure, a nice invention... but it'll never be as good as my perpetual motion machine, which was discreted by those damn scientists... YOU PHYSICISTS HAVE TO LEARN THAT THE LAWS OF THERMONUCLEAR PHYSICS DON'T ALWAYS APPLY!#)$*^&@#
Hmmm, but lets see... if I was a moderator... sure, I'd moderate that redundant, but then again... i'd moderate you as offtopic! =P
But keep in mind, replying to something that is offtopic usually gets you moderated too... oops.
Well, the NSA applied for a
patent , for a device... or mechanism, that takes conversations, and basically summarizes the topics of those coversations. Now, the significance of this is that they can basically use highly advanced speech recogition software(are you saying the NSA wouldn't be able to attain/develop such a thing!?!... much more developed than any commercial software) to catalog coversations, use this device that has been patented to summarize the topic of the conversation, and if it has anything to do with bomb, terrorism, or any other keywords, then it would notify the proper authorities.
Of course, my whole view on the NSA-Echelon situation is... my life is pretty boring... so if the NSA wants to spy on me and others to prevent terrorism, so be it.
Oh, and by the way, the website i found the link for the patent is ACLU's Echelonwatch.... i still think there should be a ACLUWatch though =).
ZDNET story about it here .
I agree with the ADL, that hatred is bad and all, but I don't agree with the way they're going about preventing it. Companies like Yahoo, have their terms of service and other guidelines in place in case they need to use them, but they don't always enforce them, and they aren't expected to. On the other hand, the ADL comes in and tried to exploit Yahoo's terms of service by telling them that they basically have to terminate certain users clubs/accounts/websites... whatever... because they violate the terms of service. If Yahoo removed the material from their website, I wouldn't care, but people from the outside trying to force them to do it, doesn't seem right.
Hmmm, Ebay may buy Sotheby's for $1.6 Billion... I'm guessing that they won't send the check, that's my experience with EBay. =)
Here's a website that is a "reference point for ICANN news and developments, in order to promote informed discussion and debate in shaping this institution"; ICANNWatch.
Hmm, I-CAN sounds like some kind of self-esteem things, but I-CAN-Watch.... that sounds a little strange... =)
Lets just hope they don't get to close to each other and get autokicked to death.
An Article on news.com -"Spurred by this week's widespread Web attack, President Clinton has rounded up experts, government officials and high-tech business leaders for an emergency Web security summit."
Of course, these attacks are useless, and serve as much purpose as banging your head against the wall. I'm not going to get into why people do these useless types of attacks, but it is in one way or another to get attention, or recieve recognition. Either way, whoevers doing this is could screw the rest of us over. Maybe the president, in his ultimate wisdom, along with his other attempts to gain political favor before he leaves the white house, will propose to instate IPv6. People who hear about these attacks on the news think that Yahoo (et al) were really hacked, and due to this the general public might approve. Well, these lame DoS kiddies would have really fscked us over(that is depending on your view of IPv6).
Obviously, this is similar to the NSA-based Echelon. Although, echelon does monitor all technology based communication, while the russian system doesn''t. The major problem, though, with the Russian system, of goverment-mandated black boxes that monitor all internet traffic, is that people can possibly tamper with them. On the other hand, since the "No Such Agency"'s Echelon system uses the concept of security by obscurity, and since no one know's truly anything about it, besides what it does, there is almost no chance that it could be broken into.
The funniest part of Echelon, is that, there might not even be an Echelon.
I also asked the same question, but looking at wired online, i realized what he's talking about. It isn't illegalize, but there is a SMALL possibilty that it may become illegalized. BILLs have been proposed to legislators, but, there is strong opposition to some of the bills. Article at Wired online.
I'm not aware of the illegalization. I read an article in december (not on /.) that said it was banned in one town, and it was the only town in the US. Reguardless, these laws are usually unenforceable, so i don't think it would. You must, by law, wear a seatbelt, in most states, yet the only time you would get caught is when you are pulled over, or when officers are specifically checking. Therefore, people do not always wear there seatbelts, so I feel that many people would many people would not obey this law. Since, this would not be greatly affected.
I think that the filtering software avaliable is easy to get around, and works as a broad sword (it takes out what you want, but also much more). I think that children and parents should have a good enough relationship that the children can be trusted not to look at it, otherwise they can still get around, if its hacking software, or going somewhere else.
Although, I do feel that a child could mistakenly access pornography. For example, if you goto lyricssearch.com (notice thats not a link), you will find pornography. Also, children could be mislead, since many sites decieve you to going to pornography sites. And also, children could mistakenly access these sites through search engines.
Although, I still won't let you look at my history/cache. =P. Just kidding.
I have tried both (usually tcp/ip), but i have also tried dialup. They both seemed to work flawlessly (minus the warning-dialog box).
I can't remember where I read this, but this is how it goes... AOL 4.0 Can run on windows 2000, although it may warn you when you run it, it still should run fine. On the other hand, AOL 5.0 does not work with windows 2000, since it is insecure. AOL is working on it... and they have a website for it... here, but i haven't seen any changes in the past few months.
Not that I want to run it, but other users do...
"We can't just trust the end-user to solve these problems themselves," Valentine said.
So basically the word "anymore" is implied at the end....
A preliminary version of the product also was put on the Internet to enable users to look for security breaches, Valentine said. Within two weeks, four denials of service bugs were found, but no breaches were discovered, he said.
I don't know anything about this test, but wouldn't it be a scaled down version? I mean, I'm pretty sure they wouldn't set it up as if they were a normal end-user... right out of the box, and running all services (you know what i mean).
Included in Microsoft's plans are 24-hours-per-day, seven-days-a-week security hot lines, consultations, and collaboration with other vendors on security issues, Valentine said. Microsoft will re-launch its security response centers to provide the around-the-clock responses and will respond to issues within 24 hours, Valentine said.
This quotes, among others, make this seem as if they are trying to port CERT to the Windows 2000 OS =P. The key word in the (CERT) acronym, is Response... they are trying to fix the probelms after they have been discovered, not being more careful, and preventing these problems from ever occuring. I feel that this is more of Customer Support than Security.
Here's an article from the Chicago Tribune about this. They claim there will be 1000 spots for low-power FM radio stations...
I don't want to start another trendy annoying buzzword, but that is what this is, crime. I mean, lets just say they broke into they system, or even took this information information, I don't have much of a problem with that. But, when people start to actually do this these type of things, they're crossing a line, and its not just playing around anymore. Even though journalists try to make everyone who uses a computer out to be a criminal, this feeds this true-lifeish evil-hacker-sensationalism.
I really hope this online credit card, or any type of information ransom, doesn't start to become a trend.
Don't forget, if you want to talk to the people at the MPAA: =)
Rich Taylor or Phuong Yokitis
MPAA
202/293-1966
Emily Kutner
MPAA
818/995-6600
John Stodder
Edelman Public Relations
323/857-9100
Ok, I am a proud owner of a minidisc, but there's one major advantage the rio has over the minidisc, that you can transfer songs quickly. The minidisc on the other hand, takes the actual length of the songs.
/. discussion on it.... Mp3/MD Combo Player....
That is, except this sharp one i've seen, actually there was a
Just an FYI.
As usual... there's a secret message in Transmeta.com's source(html)
"Yes, there is a secret message, and this is it:
Transmeta's policy has been to remain silent about its plans until it had something to demonstrate to the world. On January 19th, 2000, Transmeta is going to announce and demonstrate what Crusoe processors can do. Simultaneously, all of the details will go up on this Web site
for everyone on the Internet to see. Crusoe will be cool hardware and software for mobile applications. Crusoe will be unconventional, which is why we wanted to let you know in advance to come look at the entire Web site in January, so that you can get the full story and have access to all of the real details as soon as they are available."
Radioshack does still sells the FM Wireless Microphone kits for $11.99...
I just called.
Radioshack (n)(ripoff)
"One of the largest retailers of consumer electronic products and services in America, Tandy's RadioShack retail operation includes more than 7,000 stores and dealer/franchise outlets nationwide. "
And why aren't we raiding them?
Ok, i think the initial post was good... but this Anon Coward seems like its too good to be true.. i mean, just that he seems to prove your point, but you can't prove its not you b/c he's anonymous.... not that it always would... But either way 'fist prost'... that doesn't seem like that would happen... i mean... yeah...
maybe i'm just ignorant and everyone else realizes this whole anon post?
I know amiga is.... historic.. but has it done anything lately?