with all the new technologies to protect laptops, i wonder if we will see a movie about stealing laptops? gone in 60 seconds meets hackers perhaps. i can't wait to be an elite internet joyrider.
I've been mulling this over and the best analogy i can come up with is this:
Having a non-secured AP is like having a website with content that you don't want to share, but require no authentication. If you don't want others on it, secure it. Given that the visitor doesn't know if it's open intentionally or not, how are they to know they aren't supposed to have access? If you don't even disable broadcasting the ssid, then it becomes like complaining that your website is showing up on search engines too.
I'm sure flaws in this will be pointed out too, but it's a lot more akin to leeching wifi than walking into someone's unlocked house.
well, i'm sure some ppl are grateful to bin laden for what he did. he gave bush and crew the FUD blank check. symantec and mcafee prolly love this kid for the same reason. will we see symantec providing training and hardware to future virus writers too?
while it's nice to have new features and stuff to play with, most companies don't feel like retraining all their secrataries every year. i have users who get confused going from 2k to xp (mostly cuz of the new start menu). half the time, i set them up with the "classic" start menu. these are users who right down every single step, and any change leaves them stranded. in this case, constant innovation is a bad thing.
I don't if I would put gun manufacturers in the same boat as ignorant users. If anything, gun manufacturers are the ones creating the botnets. The shooters are the ones using them to send spam. Noone would be setting up botnets if there was no money in it. Same with guns. Ignorant users don't make a dime here. I guess you could say botnets are your fully automatic weapon. the former not needed for just sending email, the latter not needed for duck hunting.
is it just me, or does this seem like something straight out of a cartoon? one misplaced keystroke can be this costly? when YOU make it this easy to screw up, it's YOUR fault. esp if you are not training your employees properly. reminds me of the episode of simpsons when homer used a drinking bird toy to press y to vent the reactor.
it's funny how no matter how many speakers, they love to only have one subwoofer. 100.1? yeah, yeah, i know low frequencies are omnidirectional. but the "subwoofers" that most htib systems come with are just woofers. they have to go pretty high up in the freq range to compensate for the tiny, cheap satillites. that kinda kills the "omnidirectionalness". with most cheaper systems i've heard it's pretty easy to "hear" where the subwoofer is placed.
maybe the next wave will be walls and ceilings that are just a matrix of tiny speakers. they could be controlled like an lcd panel. you could have almost infinite flexability in created real life sound. or you could just go outside..
yeah, who the hell would want choices? interesting way to read the parent is to replace "Ogg Vorbis" with "linux", "AAC" with "Windows", and "format" with "OS". all of a sudden the post goes from Insightful to Flamebait.
i wonder how important usenet access is to most ppl. i used to use road runner in nyc, but thier news server sucked big time. after i switched to vz dsl, i found the news servers good enough that i don't need a commercial account. i may be lucky, cuz i get very close to the advertized speeds round the clock. i've had maybe 1hr worth of outage in the past 2 years. 3mb/768 is fast enough for almost anything i need to do from home.
if simply saying it "serves a public purpose" is all you need, you can do anything. "this mall will employ thousands of pimple-faced teenagers who would otherwise turn to drugs" or even just "my shiny new building will make the area look better". just needs the right spin. it's like getting work to pay for anything that is "work related". i should tell my boss i wouldn't have to buy soap if it wasn't for the job, therefore they should pay for it. it's all downhill from here.
i've got an "excuse": quality. 128k aac or wma is not "good enough". for the price of a full album online, i can buy the whole cd new. it may not be as convienent but offers higher quality and no drm. get this, i sometimes like to listen to music on my home audio system. it sounds a little bit better than my mp3 player. less for more, who's winning?
and raise the drawbridges. as soon as they have enough ppl legally downloading and illegal downloading moves to the fringes, drm restrictions will tighten and price will rise. remember the industry pushed for songs to be $1.35 last year? jobs said "wait.. it's like fishing, you have to make sure they are firmly on the hook". i could just be paranoid. maybe they really aren't out to make more money..
1. Fight new technology. Cry, threaten, sue.
2. Accept futility and grudingly play along.
3. Find out that new technology becomes new cash cow.
4. Profit!
5. Repeat
if this happens, i hope ppl start running programs that visit random websites, send random emails to null email address, download and erase random files from random servers to make the data useless. this will increase traffic for the isps, and make the information in the logs junk. the isps will complain that costs r going up in traffic and log size. i know, it's gonna clog things up and all, but we can't let the govt have their way with our rights. sometimes you have to throw that tantrum and just break stuff to get your point across. if they aren't going to treat us like adults, we should act like children.
sounds nothing like the ipod interface. the ipod interface is more like the current scroll wheel, just turned sideways so you can keep scrollig without lifting your finger. the touch sensativity is so that it does't have moving parts. some ppl will mod anything interesting. i know, i know. mod me down for not giving apple credit where credit is not due.
could also work for the riaa. i remember when i ran an ftp server hosting about 60gb of mp3s in the late 90's. i spent a lot of time downloading, organizing, and listening to music. that was also the period in my life when i bought the most music, about 250cds. why? getting all that music for free let me try stuff i never would have bought, and get hooked. 1. i listened diff artists and genres outside of my current tastes. 2. i was a music fiend, i was always listening to music. i'm not sure if this is the case for others, but pinto.umd.edu got me to spend more money on music.
I try to explain that computers are more like cars. they require a little maintainance. you can't expect to never change the oil or get a tuneup. of course some computers are more reliable/faster/cheaper/smaller than others, just as with cars. you can't expect the $300 computer to perform the same as a $1000 any more than you can expect a kia to perform as well as a honda. but in either case you will still need to do that basic maintaianance. would this make windows the jaguar? maybe companies should sell computers in pairs too:)
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with all the new technologies to protect laptops, i wonder if we will see a movie about stealing laptops? gone in 60 seconds meets hackers perhaps. i can't wait to be an elite internet joyrider.
I've been mulling this over and the best analogy i can come up with is this: Having a non-secured AP is like having a website with content that you don't want to share, but require no authentication. If you don't want others on it, secure it. Given that the visitor doesn't know if it's open intentionally or not, how are they to know they aren't supposed to have access? If you don't even disable broadcasting the ssid, then it becomes like complaining that your website is showing up on search engines too. I'm sure flaws in this will be pointed out too, but it's a lot more akin to leeching wifi than walking into someone's unlocked house.
well, i'm sure some ppl are grateful to bin laden for what he did. he gave bush and crew the FUD blank check. symantec and mcafee prolly love this kid for the same reason. will we see symantec providing training and hardware to future virus writers too?
stuff that matters. i guess this time the matter is wood.
while it's nice to have new features and stuff to play with, most companies don't feel like retraining all their secrataries every year. i have users who get confused going from 2k to xp (mostly cuz of the new start menu). half the time, i set them up with the "classic" start menu. these are users who right down every single step, and any change leaves them stranded. in this case, constant innovation is a bad thing.
I don't if I would put gun manufacturers in the same boat as ignorant users. If anything, gun manufacturers are the ones creating the botnets. The shooters are the ones using them to send spam. Noone would be setting up botnets if there was no money in it. Same with guns. Ignorant users don't make a dime here. I guess you could say botnets are your fully automatic weapon. the former not needed for just sending email, the latter not needed for duck hunting.
is it just me, or does this seem like something straight out of a cartoon? one misplaced keystroke can be this costly? when YOU make it this easy to screw up, it's YOUR fault. esp if you are not training your employees properly. reminds me of the episode of simpsons when homer used a drinking bird toy to press y to vent the reactor.
using hot water makes it faster than using cold water, right? at least that's what countless ppl believe despite explanations otherwise.
kinda like the ones against p2p companies?
these ppl r nuts, who in their right mind needs that many speakers?
ps. my computer runs just fine with 640KB of RAM
it's funny how no matter how many speakers, they love to only have one subwoofer. 100.1? yeah, yeah, i know low frequencies are omnidirectional. but the "subwoofers" that most htib systems come with are just woofers. they have to go pretty high up in the freq range to compensate for the tiny, cheap satillites. that kinda kills the "omnidirectionalness". with most cheaper systems i've heard it's pretty easy to "hear" where the subwoofer is placed. maybe the next wave will be walls and ceilings that are just a matrix of tiny speakers. they could be controlled like an lcd panel. you could have almost infinite flexability in created real life sound. or you could just go outside..
yeah, who the hell would want choices? interesting way to read the parent is to replace "Ogg Vorbis" with "linux", "AAC" with "Windows", and "format" with "OS". all of a sudden the post goes from Insightful to Flamebait.
i wonder how important usenet access is to most ppl. i used to use road runner in nyc, but thier news server sucked big time. after i switched to vz dsl, i found the news servers good enough that i don't need a commercial account. i may be lucky, cuz i get very close to the advertized speeds round the clock. i've had maybe 1hr worth of outage in the past 2 years. 3mb/768 is fast enough for almost anything i need to do from home.
if simply saying it "serves a public purpose" is all you need, you can do anything. "this mall will employ thousands of pimple-faced teenagers who would otherwise turn to drugs" or even just "my shiny new building will make the area look better". just needs the right spin. it's like getting work to pay for anything that is "work related". i should tell my boss i wouldn't have to buy soap if it wasn't for the job, therefore they should pay for it. it's all downhill from here.
so.... guerillas are fighting an 800 lbs gorilla?
depends, is your name frank?
or perhaps "mercedes" and "driveways"
i've got an "excuse": quality. 128k aac or wma is not "good enough". for the price of a full album online, i can buy the whole cd new. it may not be as convienent but offers higher quality and no drm. get this, i sometimes like to listen to music on my home audio system. it sounds a little bit better than my mp3 player. less for more, who's winning?
and raise the drawbridges. as soon as they have enough ppl legally downloading and illegal downloading moves to the fringes, drm restrictions will tighten and price will rise. remember the industry pushed for songs to be $1.35 last year? jobs said "wait.. it's like fishing, you have to make sure they are firmly on the hook". i could just be paranoid. maybe they really aren't out to make more money.. 1. Fight new technology. Cry, threaten, sue. 2. Accept futility and grudingly play along. 3. Find out that new technology becomes new cash cow. 4. Profit! 5. Repeat
if this happens, i hope ppl start running programs that visit random websites, send random emails to null email address, download and erase random files from random servers to make the data useless. this will increase traffic for the isps, and make the information in the logs junk. the isps will complain that costs r going up in traffic and log size. i know, it's gonna clog things up and all, but we can't let the govt have their way with our rights. sometimes you have to throw that tantrum and just break stuff to get your point across. if they aren't going to treat us like adults, we should act like children.
will cbs be filing a suit for being too close their show "numb3rs"? cbs is so leet! skeet skeet!
sounds nothing like the ipod interface. the ipod interface is more like the current scroll wheel, just turned sideways so you can keep scrollig without lifting your finger. the touch sensativity is so that it does't have moving parts. some ppl will mod anything interesting. i know, i know. mod me down for not giving apple credit where credit is not due.
could also work for the riaa. i remember when i ran an ftp server hosting about 60gb of mp3s in the late 90's. i spent a lot of time downloading, organizing, and listening to music. that was also the period in my life when i bought the most music, about 250cds. why? getting all that music for free let me try stuff i never would have bought, and get hooked. 1. i listened diff artists and genres outside of my current tastes. 2. i was a music fiend, i was always listening to music. i'm not sure if this is the case for others, but pinto.umd.edu got me to spend more money on music.
when it comes to dirt on m$, there are never enough dupes on /. seriously, do we need a post for every article that covers a story?
I try to explain that computers are more like cars. they require a little maintainance. you can't expect to never change the oil or get a tuneup. of course some computers are more reliable/faster/cheaper/smaller than others, just as with cars. you can't expect the $300 computer to perform the same as a $1000 any more than you can expect a kia to perform as well as a honda. but in either case you will still need to do that basic maintaianance. would this make windows the jaguar? maybe companies should sell computers in pairs too :)