I think that internet2 is a step in the right direction. It almost feels like internetting licenses should be passed out. If you are caught sending spam, or botnetting, your license gets revoked. I know that this is totally against almost everything that the internet is all about, but why the hell should i have to deal with:
I know that botnets are composed almost completely of winboxes with oblivious users, but that actually is their fault. If i get into a car that i don't know how to drive, and my inexperience results in me smashing into your living room, shouldn't i be held accountable?
Does anybody, even microsoft, really think that this is going to accomplish much other than pissing people off? I mean, granted microsoft does have a really GREAT image...so i guess it won't hurt them to piss off the I.T. community a little...so this is okay.
Lets pretend that microsoft wins a lawsuit against F/OSS software. Is it going to become illegal to use linux/bsd? IF that is the case, they should go talk to the MAFRIAA and see how well enforcing policies like that have been going. Are they planning to shut down all of the mirrors out there?
I'm a linux user at heart, but let me tell you something; Active Directory really is great, its easy to set up printers, its easy to manage users, and Group policy is pretty cool, but what else does microsoft have to offer me? Why would i go out and drop a couple of GRAND on microsoft's IIS, when I could do exactly what I did do, and grab an old machine from the garage at home, bring it in to work, and have apache up in running in an HOUR. One of our customers asked us for a data feed in a very specific text format a couple weeks ago, cracked out the perl and it up and running on my linbox in a few hours...complete with FTP. I wouldn't even KNOW where to start doing something like that on windows.
Enough rambling. Windows is just fine for my mom to use, its just great for me to use at my desk, or in active directory. When it comes down to the actually nitty gritty i-need-it-to-work-right-now stuff: Linux 100%.
i would like to know the long term side effects of this. Look at when breast implants were first appearing. They used silicon, and thought it was completely safe, but after some of the implants starting rupturing, they found out that some of the side effects can be horrendous. I would hate to see the same thing with this. I would especially hate to see that happen if using this substance wasn't ABSOLUTELY necessary. Imagine if use of this substance eventually becomes wide spread, people stop donating blood, and a year down the road we find out the stuff causes cancer or something.
IMHO, the research dollars would be better spent on developing a process to grow "natural" blood. Honestly i think that any research into the artificial growth of body parts, (like what has been done with mice and ears) is a step in the right direction. Use blood as a starting point and work up from there.
This is actually quite startling. What exactly inside of the ipod is giving off interference that effects the pacemaker? Is it the hard disk? If so, there is most likely quite a few more devices that could cause disruption.
Clearly this is a covert terrorist attempt by toshiba against bush!!!! Toshiba KNEW bush would buy an ipod, and thats why they included the secret ray gun device emmitter in their hardrives!!
-toshiba killed my best friend --I am an american ---I am an american ----I am an american
In linux, the default account is set up as a user, with only VERY minimal rights outside of/home/$username
IN windows, the default account is setup in HOLYGODADMINMODE
I've got a demonstration for you:
Sit down at a linux box as a user. Execute rm -rvf/....see how long it takes you to get the machine back into running order Now sit down at a windows box. Execute del C:\*.* see how long it takes you to reinst
I would liken linux patches to a database app i recently wrote for my company. I work in the automotive industry, and the app was designed to look through a database for a specific set of parameters. Basically it alerted people via email when certain types of vehicles got checked into our inventory. The app was done, it ran smoothly without crashing, but most importantly it ran. That was a couple of weeks ago. Now, i might be driving home from work, or sitting at my desk reading/. and an idea might *POP* into my head for a way to make the app just a SHADE faster, or some very obscure but totally cool other functionality that it could have. THAT is a linux patch, something that maybe isn't completely necessary, but is pretty darn cool, and might protect against an obscure sort of attack.
A windows patch would be something much more critical. IT would have been if i had released my app onto the webserver a couple of days before it was actually ready, then realized that it had some HUGE flaw (red cars crash the system or something crazy), but that i couldn't recall it, because that would involve re-signing up a few thousand people up for alerts...or migrating the data over by hand. Now pretend that half of these MISSION CRITICAL patches that i release also create other HUGE mission critical problems. Say, i fixed red cars crashing the system by calling them rouge, but now all the old RED cars are still there, now there are TWO of everything....so now if you search through the DB by VIN or something like that....you find two of everything...CRAP!!! BUT OH NO!!! sometimes we actually have the same car checked in twice intentionally!!! SO how do you tell which is whic0h!?!?
SO yes, linux also releases patches all the time, but they are MUCH less critical.
Don't forget shows about spoiled 16 year olds (super sweet 16), spoiled 30 year olds (cribs), and the daily "True Life - I'm a Whore" just to keep things in check.
i know you will never see this unless you watch your old posts for moderation like a hawk (like i do lol)...... but i have about 10k songs sitting on a mt-daapd server that i can snag via VPN from anywhere, and an iPod full of music and movies that i take biking/listen to while i sleep. I'm "good friends with one of the DJs at a local radio station who gets lots of promo cds that he gives me cause he doesn't want them"....i've also heard that people store music on alt.binaries.somethingorother, and something called FTD....errrr FTP or something like that?
While i understand the logic here to an extent, it is a bit of a knee jerk reaction. If somebody really needed ariel photos of a place for illicit purposes it would be MUCH easier for them to obtain them from a balloon, or even an airplane. Not to mention the fact that they would be much more up to date. Its not like google earth has chloe sitting there hacking into the secret reserved spy satelite and feeding a live stream to the turrists.
i hereby state copyright over the number 277, which is an expression of duality of the universe (heat/cold good/evil), and the fact all things, including 7, which is lucky,, are better in twos. Any expression of this piece of my work without my express written consent will be prosecuted to the full extent of any applicable laws.
--UPDATE--
I have noticed that some pirates have converted this note to a tone, they are calling it C sharp (277hz). My number is to be represented as a digit only, this is obviously an encryption circumvention technique and will not be tolerated. Please fork over 5 trillion dollars and your first born child.
There is a difference between being able to 'afford' to buy two very expensive laptops, and not being a complete jackass. Could i 'afford' to never put oil in my car? Yes. Is that a good idea? Well, i guess by your logic if i change my oil its because i can't afford a new car every 12 months.
I am exactly the same way man. I have names for every one of my machines. The old and busted server that i bought at ASU surplus property for 10 bucks (but that runs our VPN, our outgoing mail, a webserver, snort, a bunch of perl scripts that do some goofy things, a samba share for our network, and whatever other random thing that i need to work RIGHT NOW) is named 'gretta'. My old laptop (that got ran over:'( is named lily. My new one is named gibson. My blackberry is named 'hallie';-). As much as people will call you crazy for thinking so, sometimes having a good computer is better than having a good coworker. You learn to depend on it.
The original GPS program was built by the DOD, meaning nearly unlimited funds. Since GPS doesn't require subscription, i can't really imagine much of a business model for something like this. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for new tech, but really why is this needed? Does anybody really need anything better than CM accuracy (which is possible with today's tech). I suppose that i can see maybe construction crews and such benefiting from a system with extreme accuracy, but a site-based positioning system seems to be a better approach for something like that.
but what sorts of things are the schools using this spectrum for exactly anyhow? Are we talking high schools here? Or universities? TFA doesn't really say much other than that the schools have allowed their licenses to expire. Also, I don't believe that Sprint/Nextel are just doing this to police the FCC laws, there has GOT to be an angle. Companies that big aren't stupid (okay, some are) they wouldn't just dump a bunch of money worth of lawyers on this unless there was a chance for positive return.
If the record companies really want to play this game, then I say let them. If, when i purchase a cd or DVD, I am only actually buying a license to view/listen to the content contained on it, not the actual disk itself (the media companies could argue that the media is free, and that they are retaining ownership of it, you are buying a license), then so be it. However, now that I own the license to use this particular arrangement of 1s and 0s, it is my right as a licensee to obtain it in any form that i see fit. I can fire up my favorite NNTP reader and download it. I can keep a copy of it on my ipod, on my work computer, on my friends computer, on my mt-daap server, in my car etc. Also, if at any point i decide that i don't want it any more, i can return the leased media storage device to the copyright holder, and have my license to use it revoked. For a full refund that is. It will become part of the cost of their business to provide us with the CDs/DVDs/Blue Ray Disks/Tapes/Mp3s/whateverthehellthemarketdemands.
If you're me, and use your ipod to actually STORE all of your music, then this is a problem. It doesn't make any sense to keep 2 copies of you music when you really only need to have one. Also, if you move from computer to computer; I.E. home -> work -> laptop -> friends house -> party that needs some tunage -> etc, then the ipod has the potential to be a truly great device. The machine is not only a media player but a media storage device (which is why it is mounted as a hardisk under windows and mac by default).
This is nothing but marketing guys. If jobs was so anti-drm, why is it still so difficult to get music or videos OFF of the ipod? The DRM can even stay on the tracks, just add something in itunes to export music from the actual device to the disk of the computer it is attached to. I understand that there are already programs out there to do this, but it shouldn't have to be like that. Also, look at how successful the itunes store has been. I have bought a total of about 3 cds in my entire life, but i've also purchased 5-6 songs from the itunes store. Why? Because its convenient at work. If jobs said to the record labels "either drop/relax the DRM, or we're going to pull your music from the store" then we might actually see something happen. Until then, this is just marketing.
I was telling an engineer friend of mine that if she could make clothes that had dynamic writing on them, she would make a fortune. Imagine, a t-shirt that says: GOT ROOT? at one point, and GOT ROOT! at another;-) Or a tshirt with a short animation playing across it. Instead of riding' spinnaz', rappers could make songs about wearin' scrollaz'!
Because some people still depend on it. I've got a handful of inventory tracking devices built in the late 1990's that depend upon WEP if you want any sort of security at all. What needs to become that standard is VPN. Put all your wifi devices onto a separate lan, and only allow access to your "real" network via VPN. With companies like AML producing hand held inventory tracking devices build on debian, doing this with openvpn could actually become a reality. I recently demoed the model linked to above and the thing is really slick. Telnet access to it (with SSH available), a full shell available, and a generally rock solid device. The only reason we are still stuck with the late 1990's models is that the industry standard for inventory tracking devices has become an imager for a bar code reader, which isn't very well suited to scanning VIN barcodes through windshields (i work in the automotive industry).
I'm still waiting for the day when full drive encryption becomes standard. You power the machine on, input a password (or insert a USB key and input a password) and the machine then continues normally. While this might not stop completely determined information thieves, it should put an end to drives full of personal info showing up on ebay. What would be even better is if it became required practice for anyone working with sensitive data like that.
The Controllers are intellinet, and the amps are knoll......if that helps at all. I would pull one of the panels off the wall, but i'm assuming they're just some basic serial devices.
I came here to suggest the same thing. We have a setup very similar to this in our house. There is a room with a rack that has 4 Amps on it. Each one is individually controllable as far as volume goes (remotely). So that i can be in my bedroom with the music on VERY low, and the kids can be out in pool with the music on very LOUD. With this setup, you can also run different sources to different amps too. Its pretty slick. I'm still at work so i can't look at who makes the stuff. If this is something like what you want, i'll go look at who makes everything for you when i get there.:)
BTW, everything is controlled either from little panels that look like light switches in each room, or from a wireless tablet.
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I think that internet2 is a step in the right direction. It almost feels like internetting licenses should be passed out. If you are caught sending spam, or botnetting, your license gets revoked. I know that this is totally against almost everything that the internet is all about, but why the hell should i have to deal with:
Wed Apr 25 19:31:56 2007 [pid 31219] [Administrator] FAIL LOGIN: Client "00.00.000.000"
20,000 times in my log files?
I know that botnets are composed almost completely of winboxes with oblivious users, but that actually is their fault. If i get into a car that i don't know how to drive, and my inexperience results in me smashing into your living room, shouldn't i be held accountable?
Does anybody, even microsoft, really think that this is going to accomplish much other than pissing people off? I mean, granted microsoft does have a really GREAT image...so i guess it won't hurt them to piss off the I.T. community a little...so this is okay.
Lets pretend that microsoft wins a lawsuit against F/OSS software. Is it going to become illegal to use linux/bsd? IF that is the case, they should go talk to the MAFRIAA and see how well enforcing policies like that have been going. Are they planning to shut down all of the mirrors out there?
I'm a linux user at heart, but let me tell you something; Active Directory really is great, its easy to set up printers, its easy to manage users, and Group policy is pretty cool, but what else does microsoft have to offer me? Why would i go out and drop a couple of GRAND on microsoft's IIS, when I could do exactly what I did do, and grab an old machine from the garage at home, bring it in to work, and have apache up in running in an HOUR. One of our customers asked us for a data feed in a very specific text format a couple weeks ago, cracked out the perl and it up and running on my linbox in a few hours...complete with FTP. I wouldn't even KNOW where to start doing something like that on windows.
Enough rambling. Windows is just fine for my mom to use, its just great for me to use at my desk, or in active directory. When it comes down to the actually nitty gritty i-need-it-to-work-right-now stuff: Linux 100%.
This lawsuit won't do anything to change that.
i would like to know the long term side effects of this. Look at when breast implants were first appearing. They used silicon, and thought it was completely safe, but after some of the implants starting rupturing, they found out that some of the side effects can be horrendous. I would hate to see the same thing with this. I would especially hate to see that happen if using this substance wasn't ABSOLUTELY necessary. Imagine if use of this substance eventually becomes wide spread, people stop donating blood, and a year down the road we find out the stuff causes cancer or something.
IMHO, the research dollars would be better spent on developing a process to grow "natural" blood. Honestly i think that any research into the artificial growth of body parts, (like what has been done with mice and ears) is a step in the right direction. Use blood as a starting point and work up from there.
I see this plot goes much deeper than i could have even imagined.
This is actually quite startling. What exactly inside of the ipod is giving off interference that effects the pacemaker? Is it the hard disk? If so, there is most likely quite a few more devices that could cause disruption.
Clearly this is a covert terrorist attempt by toshiba against bush!!!! Toshiba KNEW bush would buy an ipod, and thats why they included the secret ray gun device emmitter in their hardrives!!
-toshiba killed my best friend
--I am an american
---I am an american
----I am an american
In linux, the default account is set up as a user, with only VERY minimal rights outside of /home/$username
/....see how long it takes you to get the machine back into running order
IN windows, the default account is setup in HOLYGODADMINMODE
I've got a demonstration for you:
Sit down at a linux box as a user. Execute rm -rvf
Now sit down at a windows box. Execute del C:\*.* see how long it takes you to reinst
------NO CARRIER------
That is the difference.
Killer penguin vs Devil animation in 3...2...
I would liken linux patches to a database app i recently wrote for my company. I work in the automotive industry, and the app was designed to look through a database for a specific set of parameters. Basically it alerted people via email when certain types of vehicles got checked into our inventory. The app was done, it ran smoothly without crashing, but most importantly it ran. That was a couple of weeks ago. Now, i might be driving home from work, or sitting at my desk reading /. and an idea might *POP* into my head for a way to make the app just a SHADE faster, or some very obscure but totally cool other functionality that it could have. THAT is a linux patch, something that maybe isn't completely necessary, but is pretty darn cool, and might protect against an obscure sort of attack.
A windows patch would be something much more critical. IT would have been if i had released my app onto the webserver a couple of days before it was actually ready, then realized that it had some HUGE flaw (red cars crash the system or something crazy), but that i couldn't recall it, because that would involve re-signing up a few thousand people up for alerts...or migrating the data over by hand.
Now pretend that half of these MISSION CRITICAL patches that i release also create other HUGE mission critical problems. Say, i fixed red cars crashing the system by calling them rouge, but now all the old RED cars are still there, now there are TWO of everything....so now if you search through the DB by VIN or something like that....you find two of everything...CRAP!!! BUT OH NO!!! sometimes we actually have the same car checked in twice intentionally!!! SO how do you tell which is whic0h!?!?
SO yes, linux also releases patches all the time, but they are MUCH less critical.
Don't forget shows about spoiled 16 year olds (super sweet 16), spoiled 30 year olds (cribs), and the daily "True Life - I'm a Whore" just to keep things in check.
i know you will never see this unless you watch your old posts for moderation like a hawk (like i do lol)......
but i have about 10k songs sitting on a mt-daapd server that i can snag via VPN from anywhere, and an iPod full of music and movies that i take biking/listen to while i sleep. I'm "good friends with one of the DJs at a local radio station who gets lots of promo cds that he gives me cause he doesn't want them"....i've also heard that people store music on alt.binaries.somethingorother, and something called FTD....errrr FTP or something like that?
While i understand the logic here to an extent, it is a bit of a knee jerk reaction. If somebody really needed ariel photos of a place for illicit purposes it would be MUCH easier for them to obtain them from a balloon, or even an airplane. Not to mention the fact that they would be much more up to date. Its not like google earth has chloe sitting there hacking into the secret reserved spy satelite and feeding a live stream to the turrists.
i hereby state copyright over the number 277, which is an expression of duality of the universe (heat/cold good/evil), and the fact all things, including 7, which is lucky,, are better in twos. Any expression of this piece of my work without my express written consent will be prosecuted to the full extent of any applicable laws.
--UPDATE--
I have noticed that some pirates have converted this note to a tone, they are calling it C sharp (277hz). My number is to be represented as a digit only, this is obviously an encryption circumvention technique and will not be tolerated. Please fork over 5 trillion dollars and your first born child.
NOW!
There is a difference between being able to 'afford' to buy two very expensive laptops, and not being a complete jackass. Could i 'afford' to never put oil in my car? Yes. Is that a good idea? Well, i guess by your logic if i change my oil its because i can't afford a new car every 12 months.
I am exactly the same way man. I have names for every one of my machines. The old and busted server that i bought at ASU surplus property for 10 bucks (but that runs our VPN, our outgoing mail, a webserver, snort, a bunch of perl scripts that do some goofy things, a samba share for our network, and whatever other random thing that i need to work RIGHT NOW) is named 'gretta'. My old laptop (that got ran over :'( is named lily. My new one is named gibson. My blackberry is named 'hallie' ;-). As much as people will call you crazy for thinking so, sometimes having a good computer is better than having a good coworker. You learn to depend on it.
The original GPS program was built by the DOD, meaning nearly unlimited funds. Since GPS doesn't require subscription, i can't really imagine much of a business model for something like this. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for new tech, but really why is this needed? Does anybody really need anything better than CM accuracy (which is possible with today's tech). I suppose that i can see maybe construction crews and such benefiting from a system with extreme accuracy, but a site-based positioning system seems to be a better approach for something like that.
but what sorts of things are the schools using this spectrum for exactly anyhow? Are we talking high schools here? Or universities? TFA doesn't really say much other than that the schools have allowed their licenses to expire. Also, I don't believe that Sprint/Nextel are just doing this to police the FCC laws, there has GOT to be an angle. Companies that big aren't stupid (okay, some are) they wouldn't just dump a bunch of money worth of lawyers on this unless there was a chance for positive return.
If the record companies really want to play this game, then I say let them. If, when i purchase a cd or DVD, I am only actually buying a license to view/listen to the content contained on it, not the actual disk itself (the media companies could argue that the media is free, and that they are retaining ownership of it, you are buying a license), then so be it. However, now that I own the license to use this particular arrangement of 1s and 0s, it is my right as a licensee to obtain it in any form that i see fit. I can fire up my favorite NNTP reader and download it. I can keep a copy of it on my ipod, on my work computer, on my friends computer, on my mt-daap server, in my car etc. Also, if at any point i decide that i don't want it any more, i can return the leased media storage device to the copyright holder, and have my license to use it revoked. For a full refund that is. It will become part of the cost of their business to provide us with the CDs/DVDs/Blue Ray Disks/Tapes/Mp3s/whateverthehellthemarketdemands.
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If you're me, and use your ipod to actually STORE all of your music, then this is a problem. It doesn't make any sense to keep 2 copies of you music when you really only need to have one. Also, if you move from computer to computer; I.E. home -> work -> laptop -> friends house -> party that needs some tunage -> etc, then the ipod has the potential to be a truly great device. The machine is not only a media player but a media storage device (which is why it is mounted as a hardisk under windows and mac by default).
This is nothing but marketing guys. If jobs was so anti-drm, why is it still so difficult to get music or videos OFF of the ipod? The DRM can even stay on the tracks, just add something in itunes to export music from the actual device to the disk of the computer it is attached to. I understand that there are already programs out there to do this, but it shouldn't have to be like that. Also, look at how successful the itunes store has been. I have bought a total of about 3 cds in my entire life, but i've also purchased 5-6 songs from the itunes store. Why? Because its convenient at work. If jobs said to the record labels "either drop/relax the DRM, or we're going to pull your music from the store" then we might actually see something happen. Until then, this is just marketing.
I was telling an engineer friend of mine that if she could make clothes that had dynamic writing on them, she would make a fortune. Imagine, a t-shirt that says: GOT ROOT? at one point, and GOT ROOT! at another ;-) Or a tshirt with a short animation playing across it. Instead of riding' spinnaz', rappers could make songs about wearin' scrollaz'!
Because some people still depend on it. I've got a handful of inventory tracking devices built in the late 1990's that depend upon WEP if you want any sort of security at all. What needs to become that standard is VPN. Put all your wifi devices onto a separate lan, and only allow access to your "real" network via VPN. With companies like AML producing hand held inventory tracking devices build on debian, doing this with openvpn could actually become a reality. I recently demoed the model linked to above and the thing is really slick. Telnet access to it (with SSH available), a full shell available, and a generally rock solid device. The only reason we are still stuck with the late 1990's models is that the industry standard for inventory tracking devices has become an imager for a bar code reader, which isn't very well suited to scanning VIN barcodes through windshields (i work in the automotive industry).
I'm still waiting for the day when full drive encryption becomes standard. You power the machine on, input a password (or insert a USB key and input a password) and the machine then continues normally. While this might not stop completely determined information thieves, it should put an end to drives full of personal info showing up on ebay. What would be even better is if it became required practice for anyone working with sensitive data like that.
sorry about the double post, but this website shows pretty much all the stuff you would need to do a setup exactly like mine.
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The Controllers are intellinet, and the amps are knoll......if that helps at all. I would pull one of the panels off the wall, but i'm assuming they're just some basic serial devices.
I came here to suggest the same thing. We have a setup very similar to this in our house. There is a room with a rack that has 4 Amps on it. Each one is individually controllable as far as volume goes (remotely). So that i can be in my bedroom with the music on VERY low, and the kids can be out in pool with the music on very LOUD. With this setup, you can also run different sources to different amps too. Its pretty slick. I'm still at work so i can't look at who makes the stuff. If this is something like what you want, i'll go look at who makes everything for you when i get there. :)
BTW, everything is controlled either from little panels that look like light switches in each room, or from a wireless tablet.