At the risk of overposting in this story, Video glasses generally have horrible "real" resolution, and rely upon an idealized face and idealized viewing positions / angles. In practice, their a blurry PITA to try to keep in the exact right position for even remotely viewable video, let alone 1080p levels. And, as an added bonus, they seem to make you more nauseous than normal 3D glasses.
If it's not something phone providers support and/or provide a warranty on, why do they sell locked-down, carrier-specific models of a specific phone?
Hate them all you want (and I do) but this is partially why companies (see: Verizon) get away with their ancient phones. They support what they sell, mostly.
When it comes to an 'unlocked' phone like the Nexus One, though, I completely understand the carrier telling people to PTFO. But if it's something the carrier sells...
Good article, I don't think it's too long, and as a tech that has been trying to deal with this SPAM I appreciate the research that has gone into it. This is the only SPAM which currently makes it through my filters which work on DNSBL's and Greylisting. I'm frustrated the MS has allowed this to go on for so long. Maybe the people who run Spamhaus, SORBS and other blacklists should take action by listing Hotmail's servers. If there was a security breach that isn't being remedied on anyone else's servers they would take action. Maybe that would get MS's attention.
Sega sold them domestically (US) in 1988 for the Master System. That's 22 years ago now, at mass market, for 50 bucks.
"Will your viewing experience really be that much elevated watching Lifestyles of Clueless Trust Account Celebutantes in 3D?"
Well, their primary assets are 3D, so in that case, yes, 3D might very well be an improvement.
The only reason we have to rely on either third party clouds or port forwarding, VPNs, and all this other mess is because IPv4 wasn't adequate in size or security.
With IPv6, everyone will have globally routable IPs with IPSEC as a standard feature. We will see a wave of new devices and software to take advantage of this. Want to sync your phone with your laptop, and your laptop with your desktop? Easy. Even home users will be able to do it if the software exists, and it won't require a third party. You'd need to have your phone, desktop, and LAN in your local, "trusted" network at home, or manually copy enough info to set up the IPSEC, and then done. You take your laptop and phone on vacation, it gets its MIPv6 address, it then sets up a connection with your home IPv6 address. Your desktop doesn't need a VPN, it has strong certificates you transferred at home to do IPSEC. Your desktop doesn't need port forwarding, you set up your stateful firewall to allow IPSEC and existing connections in, but block all unsolicited, insecure connections. Your desktop doesn't even need DynDNS because the address space is large enough that you will almost certainly get a large, very large range of static IPs, and MIPv6 will even let your phone and laptop carry their IPs with them on supporting carriers. If that fails, you can set up DynDNS or something like that on your desktop, and never have to worry about it again.
The reason we need globally unique IP addresses is because:
1. NAT isn't security.
2. NAT is just as much propping up the network security industry as Congress is propping up
Proper IPv6 will eliminate most of the need for VPNs, result in increased network resiliency and create new business opportunities. It's like going up a step on Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Yeah, we had fun scrounging around on the first couple layers, but making globally routable IPs standard gets you one step closer to self-actualization
And you're right, there is no reason a wireless screen has to talk to the outside world. That's why no one is recommending you remove stateful firewalls, no one is recommending you set your devices to promiscuously accept connections. Existing firewall technology, plus globally routable IPs, plus IPSEC equals win.
Thanks! Wonderfully lucid answer
I thought that being a good sysadmin, or a good tennis player, or a good anything depended on the experience and natural talent the person has, not his or her age. There are kids out there that can probably develop much, much better than many with years and years of experience in the field; hell, most of the hackers back in the day were kids themselves!
I think that actually letting these folks do something of importance with their skills is more laudable, since most companies that hire undergrads or high school students can only afford to give them low-risk projects that may or may not contribute to their development of in-field experience.
Seriously. This is the sort of thing twitter is really good at.
It's not knowing what Britney is eating for breakfast. Or how much a SKANK Malinda next door is. Or how much a bastard Billy is, oh but he's such a hunk. Or what color Aston K's turds are.
Thank goodness twitter popularity is dying.
2^84 atoms? That's only 32 moles! Did you mean 10^84 atoms?
Why would they promote a device with a receiver in it that provides a service they may sell
Oh the US providers would LOVE it provided that they could lock it out and charge extra to use it.
Are you ok with having a We can revoke this license at any time for any or no reason clause like Steam has?
If all else fails, lower your standards.
