2cts: I don't know how it works where you live, but here (in France) with public healthcare the government will have to pay your medical bills after you get an accident Or maybe there should be an exception ? "if you crash without helmet, you won't have healthcare. Take your responsibility"
Same with cars : you are adult enough to decide if you want to buckle up, but the whole community will pay for your "adultness" once you end in a wheelchair...
Wasn't there a similar debate with football a few months ago ? players get more long term injuries because they have an armor and feel safer, dress them as rugby players and they will reach 70.
Don't know for average Joes in US, but here in France the week after they put the "3 strikes and you're out" laws in place, everyone was subscribing to VPN or Usenet services. They start monitoring: everyone goes deeper to avoid detection. They then lose all kind of control/visibility they might have had before. A bit like what is described here:http://wikileaks.org/wiki/An_insight_into_child_porn
Then you get to see fake VPN services, built by labels/movie studios. Not to mention those created by mafia groups to harvest private data...
So, SOPA (or whatever name your local government uses) might provide more control/visibility, but not for a long time. What's next ? We'll be required to install a mandatory government spyware on our endpoints to be allowed access to the Internet ?
Well, part of what you're describing can be bought today. Appliances from Palo Alto Networks do just that : User awareness, L7 identification (even in SSL) so that allowing TCP 80 or 443 doesn't mean allowing everything,...
They still lack many things from Checkpoint/Juniper/Cisco (PBR or IPSec aren't fully there yet IMHO) but they're quite impressive. On some tests I did, it was able to see random encrypted UDP P2P packets as "Bittorrent". Not to mention that many webapps are seen as protocols (gmail, gmail chat, mail.ru, yahoo finance, etc...)
Kinda weird to define security policies by user|group/application instead of IP/port. (you can still do that if it makes you feel more comfortable: use RFC ports or self-defined ports)
Sexy HW architecture with FPGAs and dedicated CPUs for each tasks, nice web interface with reporting: it's a real gap from a typical appliance firewall, but it costs an arm and a leg...
Settings aren't the only issue,
think of feelings.
Ever seen a Quake3 LAN ?
each player has his own mouse, some
play with 4 buttons ones, some overclock
the PS2 port, not to mention the mouse pad.
Many pro quakers can't play without their
solid 150 Fps, logitech mouse, keytronic keyboard,
IIyama 19" and everglide mouse pad.
Yes, a year later, here in France we had the chance to see the SWHS, fully translated in French (think about that lovely french accent in wookie), and many things are great : The man disguised in woman (the cook) is dubbed by a woman (I don't think they realised it was a man), and I believe that for some scenes, they hadn't read the scenario, because it goes on improvisation (maybe it's the same in English, and they also translated the MMMMMMM....ERRRR...yes! ). This thing is great, because the men who made it managed to make it without Lucas watching them (imagine Lucas' face when he first saw the thing on TV, with all his friends). They were high on LSD when they wrote the final scene : wookies walking in space, with 70's colors everywhere. The fight (yes, it's a fight) of Han against a stormtrooper is memorable : the trooper tries to get his gun, and fells down the tree. Remember when Solo tries to take Chewbacca's son in his arms ? and the matt paintings so miserable that they look like cartoons ? Great thing. I still wonder how it managed to cross the ocean....
Do you remember the credits of some games from Lucasfilm/lucasart ??? They were really funny.
Now, many movies offer some "easter eggs" for people who wait till the end of the credits (I remember that at the end of lethal weapon 2, but there's many more).
You can also consider the people who develop under the HP 48 calculator : They made games like civilisation (grey levels)or Doom, demos (bouncing balls, real-time 3D), split screen games (from tron to a acing game), they rewrote all the graphic libs of the calculator (which are now part of the HP 49 ROM). Hardware stuff like radio cards (good to cheat in large class rooms).
I was wondering : If...let's say tomorrow, Bill Gates kills himself in a plane crash, how will the anti-microsoft react ? I think it would be quite morbid if they celebrate this day.
I've seen that people invented a coat that will be used in the planes to isolate the cockpit, allowing you to use your notebook during takeoff and landing. Maybe I should put it all around my room. But I don't think my TV will still work after this re-styling.
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2cts:
I don't know how it works where you live, but here (in France) with public healthcare the government will have to pay your medical bills after you get an accident
Or maybe there should be an exception ? "if you crash without helmet, you won't have healthcare. Take your responsibility"
Same with cars : you are adult enough to decide if you want to buckle up, but the whole community will pay for your "adultness" once you end in a wheelchair...
Wasn't there a similar debate with football a few months ago ? players get more long term injuries because they have an armor and feel safer, dress them as rugby players and they will reach 70.
Don't know for average Joes in US, but here in France the week after they put the "3 strikes and you're out" laws in place, everyone was subscribing to VPN or Usenet services. :http://wikileaks.org/wiki/An_insight_into_child_porn
They start monitoring: everyone goes deeper to avoid detection. They then lose all kind of control/visibility they might have had before.
A bit like what is described here
Then you get to see fake VPN services, built by labels/movie studios. Not to mention those created by mafia groups to harvest private data...
So, SOPA (or whatever name your local government uses) might provide more control/visibility, but not for a long time.
What's next ? We'll be required to install a mandatory government spyware on our endpoints to be allowed access to the Internet ?
Well, part of what you're describing can be bought today. ...
Appliances from Palo Alto Networks do just that : User awareness, L7 identification (even in SSL) so that allowing TCP 80 or 443 doesn't mean allowing everything,
They still lack many things from Checkpoint/Juniper/Cisco (PBR or IPSec aren't fully there yet IMHO) but they're quite impressive.
On some tests I did, it was able to see random encrypted UDP P2P packets as "Bittorrent". Not to mention that many webapps are seen as protocols (gmail, gmail chat, mail.ru, yahoo finance, etc...)
Kinda weird to define security policies by user|group/application instead of IP/port. (you can still do that if it makes you feel more comfortable: use RFC ports or self-defined ports)
Sexy HW architecture with FPGAs and dedicated CPUs for each tasks, nice web interface with reporting: it's a real gap from a typical appliance firewall, but it costs an arm and a leg...
My thought is that Cingular got a deal with Apple to sell iPhones bundled with a contract, so they can be cheaper.
The phone will be available unlocked, more expensive.
I guess Apple didn't want to tell that price, as everybody would be commenting on how expensive it is.
My 2c...
x86 doesn't mean "cheap DIY PC".
Apple would just use x86 as they are using PowerPC, and continue to sell their own machines.
And I can't find a reason why they should dump IBM for AMD or Intel.
The greatest thing in my opinion is that the same install of OS X will boot any supported mac.
I tried Tiger on my cube by booting it from an ibook in target mode.
Settings aren't the only issue,
think of feelings.
Ever seen a Quake3 LAN ?
each player has his own mouse, some
play with 4 buttons ones, some overclock
the PS2 port, not to mention the mouse pad.
Many pro quakers can't play without their
solid 150 Fps, logitech mouse, keytronic keyboard,
IIyama 19" and everglide mouse pad.
Will this be a LAN for newbies ?
Yes, a year later, here in France we had the chance to see the SWHS, fully translated in French (think about that lovely french accent in wookie), and many things are great :
The man disguised in woman (the cook) is dubbed by a woman (I don't think they realised it was a man), and I believe that for some scenes, they hadn't read the scenario, because it goes on improvisation (maybe it's the same in English, and they also translated the MMMMMMM....ERRRR...yes! ).
This thing is great, because the men who made it managed to make it without Lucas watching them (imagine Lucas' face when he first saw the thing on TV, with all his friends).
They were high on LSD when they wrote the final scene : wookies walking in space, with 70's colors everywhere.
The fight (yes, it's a fight) of Han against a stormtrooper is memorable : the trooper tries to get his gun, and fells down the tree.
Remember when Solo tries to take Chewbacca's son in his arms ? and the matt paintings so miserable that they look like cartoons ?
Great thing.
I still wonder how it managed to cross the ocean....
Do you remember the credits of some games from Lucasfilm /lucasart ??? They were really funny.
Now, many movies offer some "easter eggs" for people who wait till the end of the credits (I remember that at the end of lethal weapon 2, but there's many more).
You can also consider the people who develop under the HP 48 calculator : They made games like civilisation (grey levels)or Doom, demos (bouncing balls, real-time 3D), split screen games (from tron to a acing game), they rewrote all the graphic libs of the calculator (which are now part of the HP 49 ROM). Hardware stuff like radio cards (good to cheat in large class rooms).
I was wondering : If...let's say tomorrow, Bill Gates kills himself in a plane crash, how will the anti-microsoft react ? I think it would be quite morbid if they celebrate this day.
I've seen that people invented a coat that will be used in the planes to isolate the cockpit, allowing you to use your notebook during takeoff and landing. Maybe I should put it all around my room. But I don't think my TV will still work after this re-styling.