Yes, just like the best Internet security solution is to never connect the computer to anything. No wait, in fact, don't even turn on the computer--don't even touch it. Then I promise, you'll never have any problems.
There are so many ways of securing a wireless network without the messy business of placing a mesh wire around the building. The university in the town I live in has a campus wide wireless network. They then use a vpn system (cisco, I believe) to regulate access. Simply, anyone can connect to the wireless network, but you are given no access unless you connect to the university's vpn. Then from there, depending on that account's permissions, you can access the Internet and the university network permissions. I think this system is probably the best ideas because very little additional hardware is required, each account has a separate username/password combination (if the password is compromised, you only are dealing with a single user), and has the added bonus of being able to access the university resources from home. Plus, it works flawlessly with Linux.
but what would the expected number of survivors be for a group that wasn't treated with this solution?
RTFA:
Because life expectancy for the 14,000 annual glioma patients in the United States is typically a matter of months, the results shore up animal research indicating that the venom protein may inhibit tumor growth even without a radioactive component, Mamelak said.
Um, then you can't watch ANY movies, because they've been doing this for years. You know how easy it is to splice footage and make it look natural. They've had technology for decades to do anything from make an actor blink a few more times ina scene, to today's bullet time in the Matrix movies. It's just been easier until now to simply tell the actor to do whatever it is (you ARE paying them for a reason) Really, with a little bit of clever foley, you may not even need to touch the image--the human mind gets most emotional information through sound. Think, what would affect you more, seeing a silent film of someone getting shot, or hearing the guy actually screaming? Usually your brain will "fix" the image on screen to match your sound, and unless you've seen it enough (or the foley is done badly) you never notice it. Honestly though, did you think the CG departments of those large studio houses sat around and did nothing? Green/Blue screen is one of the oldest cinema technologies. Studios are constantly "messing" with an actor's face to improve it. With that mindset, are you against makeup in drama and theatre? It's called acting for a reason. It's not real--we trick ourselves into believing it is. (I'm oddly reminded of the Thermians in Galaxy Quest)
Well, there is one difference. Unlike all of those mechanical examples, the CPU was actually designed to be the "brain" of a computer (no, not specifically, but the transistor is actually a very good mechanical equivilant to a neuron). The telephone switchboard is circular (The brain is a telephone switchboard, and it gets input, and puts out output, and what goes on in between is decided by the telephone operator, which is the brain. And how do they decide? Um...with...a brain!) But, even so, all of those examples (except for maybe the Greek one) actually do make sense and really are the same thing. We could design a large mechanical system that imitates the action of a cpu, or at least a transistor. For example, there is a machine with three pistons, where the middle piston has to be pushed down to complete a connection between the first and third. A large array of those and some tubes, and you have a cpu. Of course that'll be a very very slow and error prone device, but the analogy has stayed pretty much the same.
How many people's grandfather's died and they didn't see someone at the end of the bed? Or, even better, How many people saw something at the end of the bed and--no one had died? Who knows though, maybe you're just special...in your own special way.
I'm thinking Symantec is feeling the heat from Windows defender. Once people have that, a large number of people will probably be too unconcerned or too lazy to bother installing a different virus program. Symantec cannot be trusted for a neutral veiw (NPOV comes to mind).
Meanwhile grandma is still taking off her shoes and getting wanded at the airport.
As objectionable as this is, I think the bigger problem is the racial scanning that goes on at these airports. There are large groups of Middle Eastern people living in the US. Have they attempted any massive terrorist operation? To grandma, it's just an inconvenience. To these people, this is prejudice. Why do people go crazy over some dumb psp ad (which didn't even make it to the US) and skip over these issues?
I don't know. As much as embrace and extend is probably exactly what Microsoft wants to do, take a step back and look at history. Yes, it is a wonderfully effective means if wresting control from someone else. Now look at what happened as a result of the browser wars. Sure, Netscape is virtually destroyed, but there are plenty of other browsers that rose to take its place. And this is the kicker. I've been to many schools (I've moved all over the country) and I've taken several computer classes, several of which were, surprise, html coding. You know what the first thing that they told us? Do not use IE to test your code. They told that to every class, every semester, every year. That's a lot of people. As if that weren't enough, there were a lot of people who got F-ing F's for the first couple of weeks because they had tested their code with IE. And don't get me started on Javascript.
Anyways, it's been a while since I've stubled across a page Firefox couldn't open, unless it had Active X of course (which is sometimes an inconvenience, I'll admit), but the thing is, people are making better code now, and a site with broken code is usually a sure sign that it's probably unreliable. Also, IE now only has 80% market share. So what, you think, 20%. Actually, that is a LOT of money. Let's say your site gets a 100 thousand hits a day. Would you be willing to give up 20 thousand hits a day, that just slow down the servers with no results? Or even better, if you were in a management position, would you be willing to accept that loss because one of your employees was too lazy to write proper code? If you're afraid of embrace and extend, don't give your kids Microsoft office, give them open office. Then, if there's ever a compatibility problem of anykind at school, file a complaint. Call it discrimination because of OS or choice of format. Lawsuits don't always have to help the coorporations, people. We definetely have the higher moral ground. Why require students to purchase a product just to recieve their right to an education?
Oooh! I have a design I've been working on in the weekends, not that I'm an engineer or anything. If anyone had a link to where we can submit our designs...I'm sure I would win. Umm, they're not asking for a working prototype are they? So, when can I expect my 500 million?
What I've never understood is that if the PS3 will loose money on each sale, and it depends on games, why does it cost about 200-300 more than the other consoles. That is money that could potentially turn into Sony game sales, which actually do make money.
On a slighty offtopic note, has anyone noticed since the change of the Revolution to the Wii, all the names of the game consoles rhyme?
PS3
Wii
Xbox 360
If you get just a little traffic, you should have no problems. I used to have a site run off of a dsl connection (using dynamic dns) on a laptop. I took it down later, but it worked flawlessly, just read through the apache guides. One thing though, whatever you do, don't post it on slashdot.
Tag the story fud, stupid, etc. As the previous posters have pointed out, this just sounds like a load of bs. And a link to Popular Mechanics!?!? I stopped taking them seriously when I saw one cover that said "Secret Government Plane!!!111 Exclusive details inside!!!1111!!!" (ok, sans the exclamations, but really, seriously--come on!) It borders on yellow journalism, and whatever it is, it's not the most trustworthy resource.
Personally, I think Linux is already almost completely user friendly. Have you checked out the new Fedora Core 5 installation, or any installation using anaconda or something similar. I have to say setting it up was a breeze, and with tools like yum and guides like these (http://www.stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_insta llation_notes.html) I find it surprising that people find it difficult. Plus, I haven't tried it myself, but we've all heard of how great Ubuntu is. Linux has come a long way.
I don't think it's so much liking acronyms as for timing, usage, etc. Betamax failed because of Sony's unwillingness to let other manufacturers from using it. Minidisk and CD never had a format war, plus MiniDisk came years late. Once again Sony was too controlling of the format. LaserDisk came too early (imagine that) and was REALLY big. DVD "won" because the entire content industry agreed not to have a format war, so you could think of DVD as the successor of LaserDisk, not its competitor. If Sony's hardware department can manage not to get sniped by it's content arm, Blu-Ray has an excellent chance at victory, although due to the fact that the physical specs on both formats are the same, I'd say dual format players will be the winner.
you should check out http://www.ocremix.org/. Great place if you like that kind of stuff. Has everything form techno, rock, to orchestral. There's some really good stuff.
Just do what I do, set firefox to delete all cookies after the end of each session (aka when you close your browser) Then you can go and set exceptions for a few sites, and never have to worry about tracking again.
You do hear about it again. It's just that the investigation takes time and the public eye doesn't return until later. I mean, if you got news every day about the SCO case...that's a lot of junk you'd be getting. Court cases take time, and most people don't care about all the junk that goes on. People just want to hear the important bits.
Slashdot Mirror
What you can't do: spell.
Yes, just like the best Internet security solution is to never connect the computer to anything. No wait, in fact, don't even turn on the computer--don't even touch it. Then I promise, you'll never have any problems.
There are so many ways of securing a wireless network without the messy business of placing a mesh wire around the building. The university in the town I live in has a campus wide wireless network. They then use a vpn system (cisco, I believe) to regulate access. Simply, anyone can connect to the wireless network, but you are given no access unless you connect to the university's vpn. Then from there, depending on that account's permissions, you can access the Internet and the university network permissions. I think this system is probably the best ideas because very little additional hardware is required, each account has a separate username/password combination (if the password is compromised, you only are dealing with a single user), and has the added bonus of being able to access the university resources from home. Plus, it works flawlessly with Linux.
RTFA:
4. PROFIT!!!
Um, then you can't watch ANY movies, because they've been doing this for years. You know how easy it is to splice footage and make it look natural. They've had technology for decades to do anything from make an actor blink a few more times ina scene, to today's bullet time in the Matrix movies. It's just been easier until now to simply tell the actor to do whatever it is (you ARE paying them for a reason) Really, with a little bit of clever foley, you may not even need to touch the image--the human mind gets most emotional information through sound. Think, what would affect you more, seeing a silent film of someone getting shot, or hearing the guy actually screaming? Usually your brain will "fix" the image on screen to match your sound, and unless you've seen it enough (or the foley is done badly) you never notice it. Honestly though, did you think the CG departments of those large studio houses sat around and did nothing? Green/Blue screen is one of the oldest cinema technologies. Studios are constantly "messing" with an actor's face to improve it. With that mindset, are you against makeup in drama and theatre? It's called acting for a reason. It's not real--we trick ourselves into believing it is. (I'm oddly reminded of the Thermians in Galaxy Quest)
Well, there is one difference. Unlike all of those mechanical examples, the CPU was actually designed to be the "brain" of a computer (no, not specifically, but the transistor is actually a very good mechanical equivilant to a neuron). The telephone switchboard is circular (The brain is a telephone switchboard, and it gets input, and puts out output, and what goes on in between is decided by the telephone operator, which is the brain. And how do they decide? Um...with...a brain!) But, even so, all of those examples (except for maybe the Greek one) actually do make sense and really are the same thing. We could design a large mechanical system that imitates the action of a cpu, or at least a transistor. For example, there is a machine with three pistons, where the middle piston has to be pushed down to complete a connection between the first and third. A large array of those and some tubes, and you have a cpu. Of course that'll be a very very slow and error prone device, but the analogy has stayed pretty much the same.
How many people's grandfather's died and they didn't see someone at the end of the bed? Or, even better, How many people saw something at the end of the bed and--no one had died? Who knows though, maybe you're just special...in your own special way.
I'm thinking Symantec is feeling the heat from Windows defender. Once people have that, a large number of people will probably be too unconcerned or too lazy to bother installing a different virus program. Symantec cannot be trusted for a neutral veiw (NPOV comes to mind).
Meanwhile grandma is still taking off her shoes and getting wanded at the airport.
As objectionable as this is, I think the bigger problem is the racial scanning that goes on at these airports. There are large groups of Middle Eastern people living in the US. Have they attempted any massive terrorist operation? To grandma, it's just an inconvenience. To these people, this is prejudice. Why do people go crazy over some dumb psp ad (which didn't even make it to the US) and skip over these issues?
I don't know. As much as embrace and extend is probably exactly what Microsoft wants to do, take a step back and look at history. Yes, it is a wonderfully effective means if wresting control from someone else. Now look at what happened as a result of the browser wars. Sure, Netscape is virtually destroyed, but there are plenty of other browsers that rose to take its place. And this is the kicker. I've been to many schools (I've moved all over the country) and I've taken several computer classes, several of which were, surprise, html coding. You know what the first thing that they told us? Do not use IE to test your code. They told that to every class, every semester, every year. That's a lot of people. As if that weren't enough, there were a lot of people who got F-ing F's for the first couple of weeks because they had tested their code with IE. And don't get me started on Javascript.
Anyways, it's been a while since I've stubled across a page Firefox couldn't open, unless it had Active X of course (which is sometimes an inconvenience, I'll admit), but the thing is, people are making better code now, and a site with broken code is usually a sure sign that it's probably unreliable. Also, IE now only has 80% market share. So what, you think, 20%. Actually, that is a LOT of money. Let's say your site gets a 100 thousand hits a day. Would you be willing to give up 20 thousand hits a day, that just slow down the servers with no results? Or even better, if you were in a management position, would you be willing to accept that loss because one of your employees was too lazy to write proper code? If you're afraid of embrace and extend, don't give your kids Microsoft office, give them open office. Then, if there's ever a compatibility problem of anykind at school, file a complaint. Call it discrimination because of OS or choice of format. Lawsuits don't always have to help the coorporations, people. We definetely have the higher moral ground. Why require students to purchase a product just to recieve their right to an education?
Oooh! I have a design I've been working on in the weekends, not that I'm an engineer or anything. If anyone had a link to where we can submit our designs...I'm sure I would win. Umm, they're not asking for a working prototype are they? So, when can I expect my 500 million?
Remember: There is a world market for about 5 computers and 64k of memory should be enough for anyone!
Then I can sit in a corner and play with my Wii for a year or two
You need to get yourself a girl, mate. Oh, wait, I forgot where I was for a second.
What I've never understood is that if the PS3 will loose money on each sale, and it depends on games, why does it cost about 200-300 more than the other consoles. That is money that could potentially turn into Sony game sales, which actually do make money.
On a slighty offtopic note, has anyone noticed since the change of the Revolution to the Wii, all the names of the game consoles rhyme?
PS3
Wii
Xbox 360
If you get just a little traffic, you should have no problems. I used to have a site run off of a dsl connection (using dynamic dns) on a laptop. I took it down later, but it worked flawlessly, just read through the apache guides. One thing though, whatever you do, don't post it on slashdot.
Don't worry, I have mod points! Oh, wait...
Tag the story fud, stupid, etc. As the previous posters have pointed out, this just sounds like a load of bs. And a link to Popular Mechanics!?!? I stopped taking them seriously when I saw one cover that said "Secret Government Plane!!!111 Exclusive details inside!!!1111!!!" (ok, sans the exclamations, but really, seriously--come on!) It borders on yellow journalism, and whatever it is, it's not the most trustworthy resource.
Personally, I think Linux is already almost completely user friendly. Have you checked out the new Fedora Core 5 installation, or any installation using anaconda or something similar. I have to say setting it up was a breeze, and with tools like yum and guides like these (http://www.stanton-finley.net/fedora_core_5_insta llation_notes.html) I find it surprising that people find it difficult. Plus, I haven't tried it myself, but we've all heard of how great Ubuntu is. Linux has come a long way.
1. Make a 32 page image gallery with ads on every page
2. ???*POST TO SLASHDOT*
3. PROFFIT!
4. Watch your server melt into a pile of goo because of all the pictures.
I don't think it's so much liking acronyms as for timing, usage, etc. Betamax failed because of Sony's unwillingness to let other manufacturers from using it. Minidisk and CD never had a format war, plus MiniDisk came years late. Once again Sony was too controlling of the format. LaserDisk came too early (imagine that) and was REALLY big. DVD "won" because the entire content industry agreed not to have a format war, so you could think of DVD as the successor of LaserDisk, not its competitor. If Sony's hardware department can manage not to get sniped by it's content arm, Blu-Ray has an excellent chance at victory, although due to the fact that the physical specs on both formats are the same, I'd say dual format players will be the winner.
you should check out http://www.ocremix.org/. Great place if you like that kind of stuff. Has everything form techno, rock, to orchestral. There's some really good stuff.
Just do what I do, set firefox to delete all cookies after the end of each session (aka when you close your browser) Then you can go and set exceptions for a few sites, and never have to worry about tracking again.
You do hear about it again. It's just that the investigation takes time and the public eye doesn't return until later. I mean, if you got news every day about the SCO case...that's a lot of junk you'd be getting. Court cases take time, and most people don't care about all the junk that goes on. People just want to hear the important bits.
If the search activity was stored on the user's computer, wouldn't it be relatively easy to alter it? There sure is a lot of incenive.