Here's an example... I'm in a small web business where I have to pay for my home connection, but sometimes need to backup photo data between home and office, and depending on how I might setup synching, I might send the whole 400GB accidently twice within a month.
A lot of posts here sound like when they wanted to add radios to cars...
Think of when we have semi-autonomous cars that take over the driving for you when on busy freeways... perfect opportunity for wifi.
Think of all the non-visual web applications..
Think of being a bored passenger, and being happy the bah-humbuggers of Slashdot weren't able to prevent you having internet access...
Our site is down... Car Design News http://www.cardesignnews.com/
Our server is up (in Datacenter 2), but unfortunately our legacy EV1 nameservers are in Datacenter1...
We'll look at getting redundant nameservers setup after this (never thought we would need them, and probably never will actually)
I will assume any open network that doesn't say 'Private' is free to use. How are we to promote proliferation of shared private and public networks if everyone is living in fear of using services that people are putting in place for them?
In practice both city networks and home users don't always follow an accepted naming scheme, so it will never be clear to the end user. In my house there is a network called 'The Low Tide Lounge' (but it's not a bar, its just a home network), and I've seen a cafe base station set to "Apple Network.."... how could you tell what's a business or city network or whatever?
OK.. "Free at the point of need or provision"
We need more of these, partly to combat the silly ideas of those that would try to make it a crime to 'attempt to join an open network'
Its so simple... backup your data regularly. Lock the laptop with a cable lock.
Whenever it is stolen, claim on insurance. You get new computer!
You can't lose. This is what insurance is for... not having to build safe things on your desk, and leaving us to discuss important or interesting things...
This just sounds silly.
Use password security, encrypt documents, use a cable lock (You can get USB drives with this feature), but anything more sounds like overkill. Don't they have insurance and security rules and policies to cover anything that gets stolen while reasonably secured?
i.e. beyond you doing basic security measures, it shouldn't be your problem.
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Here's an example... I'm in a small web business where I have to pay for my home connection, but sometimes need to backup photo data between home and office, and depending on how I might setup synching, I might send the whole 400GB accidently twice within a month.
Isn't a dual-WAN router the simplest/cheapest method, whatever you are planning to put downstream of it? http://www.networkworld.com/reviews/2004/0913rev.html
Safari does this already. Typing 'audi' in the address bar goes to www.audi.com
A lot of posts here sound like when they wanted to add radios to cars... Think of when we have semi-autonomous cars that take over the driving for you when on busy freeways... perfect opportunity for wifi. Think of all the non-visual web applications.. Think of being a bored passenger, and being happy the bah-humbuggers of Slashdot weren't able to prevent you having internet access...
Our site is down... Car Design News http://www.cardesignnews.com/ Our server is up (in Datacenter 2), but unfortunately our legacy EV1 nameservers are in Datacenter1... We'll look at getting redundant nameservers setup after this (never thought we would need them, and probably never will actually)
I will assume any open network that doesn't say 'Private' is free to use. How are we to promote proliferation of shared private and public networks if everyone is living in fear of using services that people are putting in place for them?
In practice both city networks and home users don't always follow an accepted naming scheme, so it will never be clear to the end user. In my house there is a network called 'The Low Tide Lounge' (but it's not a bar, its just a home network), and I've seen a cafe base station set to "Apple Network .."... how could you tell what's a business or city network or whatever?
My point is that the poor user won't usually be able to tell the difference between an intentionally open vs accidentally open network.
OK.. "Free at the point of need or provision" We need more of these, partly to combat the silly ideas of those that would try to make it a crime to 'attempt to join an open network'
Its so simple... backup your data regularly. Lock the laptop with a cable lock. Whenever it is stolen, claim on insurance. You get new computer! You can't lose. This is what insurance is for... not having to build safe things on your desk, and leaving us to discuss important or interesting things...
This just sounds silly. Use password security, encrypt documents, use a cable lock (You can get USB drives with this feature), but anything more sounds like overkill. Don't they have insurance and security rules and policies to cover anything that gets stolen while reasonably secured? i.e. beyond you doing basic security measures, it shouldn't be your problem.
So is clicking on these links criminal? How can intent ever be known?
Search results: "5 year old sucks..."
Search results: "Child porn: Buy Photos"