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Eye.Fi is building 802.11g wireless (WiFi) networking into standard sized SD memory cards. They are targeting the digital camera market. Details are a little thin at the moment but this might be amazingly cool. My question is, how will this work? I mean, okay, I pop this SD card into my camera so now it has WiFi. But how do I use it? How do I configure it? My camera's software has no idea it is there. This part doesn't make any sense to me yet. My guess is that it can only connect with a computer that is running some custom eye.fi software which would sort of defeat the point (if I'm near my own computer I could just plug my camera in - I want WiFi so that when I'm out walking around the city I can use all the open networks to be uploading my pictures in real time.)
Kodak and Nikon both have WiFi camera models, but they suffer from the same problem I describe above. What we need is a WiFi camera that can find and connect to random open access points and then upload (probably smtp) to where ever I want on the net.
I basically never want to see anyone go to jail, even people I intensely dislike, but it's hard to work up much sympathy over this one: spam king Alan Ralsky has been busted. The rumors, as one would expect in such a situation, are that the feds have him so badly he is going to rat out the entire global spam network. We'll see, but it's a curiously pleasant thing to think about. And it's not too hard to believe that spammers would immediately turn into rats when faced with even a small amount of jail time.
I'll bet the real numbers (which we will never know) are astounding. I wouldn't be surprised if the reality was something like: the top 20 spammers in the world account for 10 percent of the traffic on the internet. Yes, I just totally made those numbers up. But I'll bet it's something like that. Others will step in to fill any shoes that are sent to prison, for sure, but the sheer outrageousness of scope that the top guys are operating with will not come back if they sweep up all the big guys.
I'll wait for the spam huntress' take on it, but I'm cautiously hopeful.