Posted on 05/28/2005 7:46:54 AM PDT by Afronaut
I used to have a professor who seemed obsessed with robots gaining consciousness and what that would mean. I wanted to ask him if he had ever seen "The Terminator".
Colossus
"Secondly, I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but no one really cares what is on your hard drive; except for hackers and gov't agencies with a search warrent."
Really, only Hackers and The Government could access this information? I guess I have nothing to worry about! You can always trust our Government!
"This data would be sent back upstream via the internet"
Does not have to be if it can be viewed right on the hard drive. Sitting there is a nice file that I was stupid enought to create and serve up.
My main point is that technology is being created for the home user that continues to make access to all personnal information on a hard drive easier to view. Even with out a search warrent.
You've seen Dune and understood the implications?
So, am I to understand that you are surfing the internet, likely with broadband access; and you do not have a firewall?
No one, and I do mean no one; is going to be digging around in your machine if you spend 5 minutes setting up a firewall. A broadband wireless router will take all of 5 minutes, and will cost you around $50.
If you prefer to pay less; there are software firewalls available for free as a download. Black Ice and Zone Alarm come to mind as pretty easy to use and 'free' software downloads.
Then, there is also the free and built-in firewall in WindowsXP.
If you are connected to the internet, and are not using a firewall; the gov't is the least of your worries.
Dr. Forbin, I presume.
But my favorite question to people is when you use the MS update utility in XP, and the screen pops and asks, "No information is being transmitted to Microsoft at this time, do you believe that?
You would be impressed with my setup. I ran a Hardware site for 4 years. I gave it up because the curve flattened on impressive performance increases. I got bored with 4% increases for 500 bucks.
Any relation to the Terezaheinz chip?
Your second point contradicts your first assertion.
My whole point AGAIN, why are users making it so easy for people to gather information?
Not when you consider the fines/fees assessed to Real Network; and the fact that there are now numerous non-Real Network players for the .ram format. If you take a look at how Real Networks was (notice past tense) increasing in market share, and now is a non-market dominate force; you can see that the company forfeited consumer trust and goodwill for a short term and short sighted gain. RealNetworks is not considering Bankruptcy ... this would indicate to me that they have made some stupid decisions in the past that eroded consumer confidence. Now it's time to pay the piper.
""The free version of RealJukebox, which has about 13.5 million registered users, prompts new users for their names and e-mail addresses before they are assigned an identifying number," according to an E-Commerce Times story by Mary Hillebrand on November 9, 1999. Talk about a substantial market research survey group! "
The significance of the original article is that dual processors are going to become standard in a year. This is an incredible leap for regular users especially since the 2.8GHz is so inexpensive ($241). If you have ever used a dual machine, you know what I mean. Everything runs *very* smoothly. My old el cheapo dual Celeron 400MHz machine was smoother than my newer P4 2.26GHz machine.
I won't buy anything called "Extreme" or "Xtreme" or "Rad", just on principle.
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