That's one of my top complaints about Google. The link farms and the results which require you to scroll way down to the bottom of the page to find the information. Google's approach worked well in the past when speed was more of an issue, but now that the web has adjusted to Google's stupid algorithm it's getting progressively worse.
The other annoyance with Google is that it can be a real pain searching for things if you don't know exactly what it is that you're looking for. And the seeming inability of Google to know the difference between freeware and free to download trials.
I spent some time a while back using Bing and quite honestly, there isn't that much of a difference in terms of quality of results. And for some things, the Bing approach is just better. Such as the way that it handles image searches. (Not necessarily the quality of results but the presentation)
That's why after the WEP fiasco they should've handed the problem off to somebody competent. WEP was pretty much always a joke, because you really do need a lot more security when things are going over the air than you do when they're going over the wire. At least when things are going over the wire you need some access to the equipment relaying the messages. With wireless you don't even need that.
As opposed to the current situation where one has little trouble figuring out the brand of hardware and with it the default password? If the status quo were to handle things securely, I'd agree. But this is a step up from leaving it blank or with the default password.
It might be a stupid idea, but it's less stupid than what people are currently doing.
This is a step up from defaulting to the empty string that we currently do, or an extremely weak one like "password," or "1234." At least this way it gives the person trying to log in some way of knowing whether it was an accident to leave it open or not, and some minimal degree of security rather than being completely wide open.
They should still be running their traffic through a VPN to a known secured point, but they'd have a bit more security than they would otherwise have as they'd only have to trust the hot spot provider.
But, I think most folks would be better off going with something like open mesh As it gives you a way of authenticating people for free without having to handle it on a case by case basis or make it completely open.
The phrase is correct. Encryption without trust is little better than an unencrypted transmission. You reduce the pool of people that can get at it, to the ones that already know what to do with it. And on top of that you've got that nice sense of security to ensure that you're not as careful as you would've been.
Cost. If you do that you'd have to print up the correct password card for each and every piece of equipment you sell or make them go online to get it. I suppose that they could probably get around that by setting the password to include the MAC address, but there again you have a problem as they'd no longer be able to use a standard image for the firmware and would have to give each one a subtly different firmware.
In the US we use Typesetter convention to govern that. There is no other practical reason for putting punctuation inside of the quotes unless it's intended to be a portion of the quote. Just that folks got used to reading printed books with certain punctuation marks in the quotation so that the equipment wouldn't break on larger runs of copy.
Slashdot has the best user moderation system I've ever seen. But it's all but impossible to eliminate abuse. And some of the moderations don't even make sense from that perspective. My favorites are when somebody gets modded flamebait for pointing out that the Slashdot mod system is abused.
If this were a smaller site and somebody working for Slashdot could go through a goodly chunk of the moderations and flag the problem mods it would probably work even better. Obviously on a site this size it would take a large number of people to do that, even if they were paid to do so full time.
It's because the infrastructure is there for ipv4, but not ipv6 and definitely not ipv6 over fiber. If they want to have a non-neutral net, they should at least have to build one from scratch.
Yeah. The concern I have is that they'll make it easier to get to their walled garden portion of the net and harder to get to the real net. And that they'll limit the amount of bandwidth available to the open portion. Similar in some respects to the major ISPs of the 90s. You could get to the internet by way of Compuserve, but it took an extra step do accomplish. It wasn't really a problem at that time because the internet wasn't seen as a right that even the most moronic could use to get more pictures of cats.
That whole part of the system is complete bullshit. Sort of like how for years after 9/11 they'd allow folks to have lighters with them on planes. The ban on liquids would be reasonable if it were much more extreme. None of those items ought to be allowed on planes if you're that concerned with them
The threat they pose is significant and it's always been suspicious that the TSA was willing to allow any of that on, while going to ever more extreme measures against other lesser threats.
You're solution involves people growing a spine and/or recognizing reality. Which judging from the fact that the voters decided to promote bipartisanship by giving the GOP a majority in the house is pretty clearly out of the question.
That's largely because they break more quickly than desktops and are harder to fix. On top of that most software isn't written to run well on a Laptop. It's written assuming the resources of a typical desktop.
The end result is that this technology is going to be much more useful for recycling, although if we can easily replace the HDD, optical drive, network card and video card, that would go a long way.
They've got a lower cost of living there, which both allows and requires that sort of thing. Anyways, repair is implicitly included in both reduce and reuse.
In some parts of the world, they've got machines the size of a house, which are hermetically sealed. In them they grind up and separate the component metals and particles for use elsewhere. Very little labor involved and quite a bit safer for the environment. You really don't want to have people exposed to the electronics as their recycling them. It's gotten better with newer standards, but there's still a lot of nasty stuff in the waste stream.
Not much point in that. Just do what we did in WA state. Make the manufacturers pay for the cost of recycling. Sure it gets passed on to the consumer, but the manufacturers are usually in the best position to minimize waste being produced.
It's one of the few areas where market forces actually works. You just have to make sure you keep an eye on how their disposing of the waste.
The problem always has been heat and power consumption as much as form factor. They can get away with standardization in desktops because those aren't particularly hard problems. Since it's always plugged in, the only reason for energy efficiency is not wanting to waste power, the thing isn't just going to go dead from that alone. And form factor, you can make it as big as you like without a whole lot of trouble, adding a fourth or fifth 5.25 bay isn't much of an issue.
OTOH Laptops a few ounces do make a difference, and nobody seriously wants to go back to the portable computers of the early 80s, which were essentially a desktop that folded up and included a handle.
Sure you could get standardization, doing it and having them not suck or be completely confusing is a much harder problem than you seem to realize.
Indeed, this whole problem is asking for a more Google gears style solution than a dedicated browser. Hell, even Firefox's Apps Tab is probably more useful for that purpose. I get that people experimenting is how we get new stuffs, but I can't imagine paying for that until it had gotten somewhere.
MP3 players hadn't failed up until the point. They just hadn't been dumbed down to the point where Apple users could use them. Apple had to infringe upon other people's IP and create a massive marketing campaign to get that thing off the ground.
That's possible. More likely you're going to see solutions like Google gears. Or whatever equivalent included in the browser is. By the time you've implemented enough of the standards for that sort of limited browser to work, you might as well implement the rest of them.
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That's one of my top complaints about Google. The link farms and the results which require you to scroll way down to the bottom of the page to find the information. Google's approach worked well in the past when speed was more of an issue, but now that the web has adjusted to Google's stupid algorithm it's getting progressively worse.
The other annoyance with Google is that it can be a real pain searching for things if you don't know exactly what it is that you're looking for. And the seeming inability of Google to know the difference between freeware and free to download trials.
I spent some time a while back using Bing and quite honestly, there isn't that much of a difference in terms of quality of results. And for some things, the Bing approach is just better. Such as the way that it handles image searches. (Not necessarily the quality of results but the presentation)
That's why after the WEP fiasco they should've handed the problem off to somebody competent. WEP was pretty much always a joke, because you really do need a lot more security when things are going over the air than you do when they're going over the wire. At least when things are going over the wire you need some access to the equipment relaying the messages. With wireless you don't even need that.
Yeah, Open Mesh has had this capability for quite a while with some extra bells and whistles.
As opposed to the current situation where one has little trouble figuring out the brand of hardware and with it the default password? If the status quo were to handle things securely, I'd agree. But this is a step up from leaving it blank or with the default password.
It might be a stupid idea, but it's less stupid than what people are currently doing.
This is a step up from defaulting to the empty string that we currently do, or an extremely weak one like "password," or "1234." At least this way it gives the person trying to log in some way of knowing whether it was an accident to leave it open or not, and some minimal degree of security rather than being completely wide open.
They should still be running their traffic through a VPN to a known secured point, but they'd have a bit more security than they would otherwise have as they'd only have to trust the hot spot provider.
But, I think most folks would be better off going with something like open mesh As it gives you a way of authenticating people for free without having to handle it on a case by case basis or make it completely open.
The phrase is correct. Encryption without trust is little better than an unencrypted transmission. You reduce the pool of people that can get at it, to the ones that already know what to do with it. And on top of that you've got that nice sense of security to ensure that you're not as careful as you would've been.
Cost. If you do that you'd have to print up the correct password card for each and every piece of equipment you sell or make them go online to get it. I suppose that they could probably get around that by setting the password to include the MAC address, but there again you have a problem as they'd no longer be able to use a standard image for the firmware and would have to give each one a subtly different firmware.
In the US we use Typesetter convention to govern that. There is no other practical reason for putting punctuation inside of the quotes unless it's intended to be a portion of the quote. Just that folks got used to reading printed books with certain punctuation marks in the quotation so that the equipment wouldn't break on larger runs of copy.
Slashdot has the best user moderation system I've ever seen. But it's all but impossible to eliminate abuse. And some of the moderations don't even make sense from that perspective. My favorites are when somebody gets modded flamebait for pointing out that the Slashdot mod system is abused.
If this were a smaller site and somebody working for Slashdot could go through a goodly chunk of the moderations and flag the problem mods it would probably work even better. Obviously on a site this size it would take a large number of people to do that, even if they were paid to do so full time.
I'm sorry analogy invalid. /. requires all analogies to involve cars.
It's because the infrastructure is there for ipv4, but not ipv6 and definitely not ipv6 over fiber. If they want to have a non-neutral net, they should at least have to build one from scratch.
Yeah. The concern I have is that they'll make it easier to get to their walled garden portion of the net and harder to get to the real net. And that they'll limit the amount of bandwidth available to the open portion. Similar in some respects to the major ISPs of the 90s. You could get to the internet by way of Compuserve, but it took an extra step do accomplish. It wasn't really a problem at that time because the internet wasn't seen as a right that even the most moronic could use to get more pictures of cats.
That whole part of the system is complete bullshit. Sort of like how for years after 9/11 they'd allow folks to have lighters with them on planes. The ban on liquids would be reasonable if it were much more extreme. None of those items ought to be allowed on planes if you're that concerned with them
The threat they pose is significant and it's always been suspicious that the TSA was willing to allow any of that on, while going to ever more extreme measures against other lesser threats.
You're solution involves people growing a spine and/or recognizing reality. Which judging from the fact that the voters decided to promote bipartisanship by giving the GOP a majority in the house is pretty clearly out of the question.
That's largely because they break more quickly than desktops and are harder to fix. On top of that most software isn't written to run well on a Laptop. It's written assuming the resources of a typical desktop.
The end result is that this technology is going to be much more useful for recycling, although if we can easily replace the HDD, optical drive, network card and video card, that would go a long way.
They've got a lower cost of living there, which both allows and requires that sort of thing. Anyways, repair is implicitly included in both reduce and reuse.
In some parts of the world, they've got machines the size of a house, which are hermetically sealed. In them they grind up and separate the component metals and particles for use elsewhere. Very little labor involved and quite a bit safer for the environment. You really don't want to have people exposed to the electronics as their recycling them. It's gotten better with newer standards, but there's still a lot of nasty stuff in the waste stream.
Not much point in that. Just do what we did in WA state. Make the manufacturers pay for the cost of recycling. Sure it gets passed on to the consumer, but the manufacturers are usually in the best position to minimize waste being produced.
It's one of the few areas where market forces actually works. You just have to make sure you keep an eye on how their disposing of the waste.
The problem always has been heat and power consumption as much as form factor. They can get away with standardization in desktops because those aren't particularly hard problems. Since it's always plugged in, the only reason for energy efficiency is not wanting to waste power, the thing isn't just going to go dead from that alone. And form factor, you can make it as big as you like without a whole lot of trouble, adding a fourth or fifth 5.25 bay isn't much of an issue.
OTOH Laptops a few ounces do make a difference, and nobody seriously wants to go back to the portable computers of the early 80s, which were essentially a desktop that folded up and included a handle.
Sure you could get standardization, doing it and having them not suck or be completely confusing is a much harder problem than you seem to realize.
Just as long as you realize that "Twitter Shitter" is not a good trademark to pursue.
I'm guessing that calling it "FacePalm" might've been too on the nose.
Indeed, this whole problem is asking for a more Google gears style solution than a dedicated browser. Hell, even Firefox's Apps Tab is probably more useful for that purpose. I get that people experimenting is how we get new stuffs, but I can't imagine paying for that until it had gotten somewhere.
MP3 players hadn't failed up until the point. They just hadn't been dumbed down to the point where Apple users could use them. Apple had to infringe upon other people's IP and create a massive marketing campaign to get that thing off the ground.
That's possible. More likely you're going to see solutions like Google gears. Or whatever equivalent included in the browser is. By the time you've implemented enough of the standards for that sort of limited browser to work, you might as well implement the rest of them.
Not really. The blood banks are pretty much always a few days from running out because blood doesn't keep very well.