I have a 5" Galaxy S, I would never go back to smaller. Here is why:
- Battery life is better because it can hold a battery nearly twice the size (in mAH), with only a bit more consumption.
- Games, movies, any kind of media, freakin awesome on 5"
- Reading a book for hours possible on the 5" without killing your eyes.
- Still slips into my jean or khaki pocket
- Works as a turn by turn GPS on the dash...and its readable...
If you have not spent a week with a larger device, you are really missing out. Picking up an iPhone (which is where I came from) feels tiny and insignificant and browsing the web is kind of annoying on it. I think the author here has just never used a large device for very long.
My wife and I carry catastrophic coverage only ($1,500 out of pocket before it kicks in) because we take care of ourselves and have been blessed with good health otherwise. This is very cheap for me on a monthly basis, guess what, my insurance rates are about to climb from $0 to whatever the rest of the population who doesn't bother to lose weight, exercise, and eat better, drives it to be. Its a very frustrating thing to be dragged into something you have no need for. This is what pisses me off. I get you need the healthy people to carry the sick, but when 68.7% of America is overweight and obese, and obesity is the #1 cause of cancer, heart disease...etc...I do not feel the government should make me support the lifestyle choices of other Americans.
I think this niche is really already filled though. What you describe this is exactly why I use one of these. Since I do not have cell service at my home (and I live in NY state) it is difficult for me to justify a $100 / month phone. Especially since about the only time I'm not near wifi is when I'm driving between home / work. I'm not sure there is a market for what you are describing, so I hope they have a different plan.
This logic works just fine until the customer goes, oh! lets add our customer's information, transactions, etc. to that completely static tool that we never planned to need a real database for. Even very simple tools and services we at least use SQLite, with PDO connections it's (mostly) painless to move the system up a level or two in relational database capability. I've found that schemaless databases have there place, but the jump on the schemaless data band wagon has been premature for many software projects. That said, look at draw something's expansion, zero downtime as they increase capacity because they used a scalable schemaless database.
Just as a note, they call my Satellite link "broadband" and a good time is 900ms, most of the time it is around 1,500ms - 3,000ms....yes 1.5 - 3 SECONDS. It still beats dial-up, but remember you have ~500ms to space and back, and about twice as much equipment as well. It is a matter of perspective. I would imagine that the "last mile" customers might experience extra tolerable latency from the ISP perspective.
I seriously have to remove my battery, battery mount, and headlight assembly to replace the turn signal. I did it once myself, it was not worth it. Even simple repairs / maintenance are more complex these days. Well worth the $20 to have the mechanic do it.
I'm praying that if this is adopted is firmly based in research instead of what seems correct / what lobbyists can get in there (e.g. the diary industry). Incentives for behavioral change is a fantastic idea because it is the behavior that must change in an American diet. The one thing I read that makes me nervous is the family history thing, we like to put a lot of weight on this idea, my dad had a heart attack so I'm screwed. But it turns out your risk of premature death in the U.S. is 70% lifestyle (what I eat, and how much exercise I do), 10% lack of medical treatment (no insurance), 10% environmental (to close to a coal plant), and only 10% heredity. If you are overweight, you can blame 1 out of every 10lbs on your parents.
And as another note, there are lots of posts here about limiting carbs and fat, it is just limiting calories at the end of the day that matters for being a healthy weight. For weight loss / weight maintenance people can't figure out good vs bad carbs (peas have a lot of carbs, but they are complex carbs) and fat. Research shows us people can watch caloric intake if given lots of controlled practice (e.g. time to change their behaviors), but any more variables than that and they give up and have thoughts like "I'm gaining weight because I've had to much fat lately", when it should be "I'm gaining weight because I've had to many calories lately."
I'm not so sure I agree with the summary that "an externally powered enclosure, but that doesn't feel very elegant." There are lots of fantastic external enclosure systems now. A few posts here talk about how external enclosures and RAID never spin down. This is wrong. I have an 8TB (5x2TB) Raid 5 tower (SansDigital) that spins down after 60 mins of inactivity, and takes about 5 seconds to spin back up when someone wants a file. I use an intel dual core atom box (nvidia ion gpu, plays HD just great!) that is smaller than my cable modem with Ubuntu and XBMC. It sits on top of the RAID tower and you barely notice it. With the speed at which my family gathers data I will need to add another enclosure in about 14 months. The next one will be 10x3TB drives (assuming another better box doesn't hit the market) and should last a few years. When I get this one I plan on purchasing another Atom based box and moving it and the enclosures to the closet / leave one atom box hooked to the TV. Ubuntu / XBMC will mount the FS across the network. From my experience most of my family is using wireless (me being the one exception) and the RAID array can read at ~100mb/s and neither the network nor the RAID is ever maxed out even with 3-4 users streaming HD. I am the only one that ever comes close to saturating the network, but my desktop HD's are slower than the gigabyte connection (~60mb/s). I could spend more money on faster hard drives but when I can copy a couple gig file in a minute or two its not worth the cost.
This is a really good and valid concern, we have a small spring fed pond that is ~20 acres that has native brook trout, they thrive in this cool water (this species no more than 55F for happy fish, water ~48F fresh out of the ground in the middle of the summer). I did the math on what it would take in energy to kill them because we wanted to run a circulator and exchanger for low cost air conditioning. There really isn't anyway we could actually kill them given the thermal mass of the water and how fast it is refreshed from the ground. But if you keep going with the math, something like a datacenter could easily kill all the fish, or at the very least greatly hinder there lively-hood.
This sounds like a typical PEBKAC coding error. The dscl is probably (not much of a mac user here) running as root for indexing and such , but of course you do not need to be root to run it. Reminds me of when locate used to return / index all files, including ones that you did not have permission to, and of course now we have slocate. This is the kind error crops up in Microsoft vulnerabilities all the time. Its like they just didn't think it through from the black hat perspective at all.
Correct, I do not know of a good proxy solution with https. I should have been more specific, we cache at the application level, so this is not an issue for us, it was the compromise to support load balancing with https at fairly zippy speeds.
I live in Northern New York where there isn't even cell phone coverage. In 1999 there was an Ice Storm that put most people in 3 counties without power and phone for SEVERAL WEEKS in the winter time. There was no way for emergency services to communicate from even town to town because of the terrain and the reliance on repeaters. I sat in a firehouse one town over for 2 weeks with my rig and relayed information from ambulance to ambulance and town to town. This included communications for departments like the state police. You would be amazed how well prepared we were, and how unprepared your average government agency is. In fact we are now routinely called to participate in disaster training exercises because of that storm. Hams are an integral part of emergency communications where I live. Losing 70cm would suck.
I've always coded most forms, especially login forms, with random form names / ID's. This stops most generic javascript based attacks. While you could certainly code easily enough to submit form 0 and change value of DOM object 1, it adds to the complexity of the whole exploit, and would have stopped any successful attempts at a hard coded getElementById().
Coldfusion, "Whitespace Suppression" turned off looks exactly like this, poorly coded rails does to....would also explain some of the cost...since ColdFusion licenses are ridiculous. All though the headers say PHP 4....I've seen some shops change this for a little obscurity.
Original Article that TFA links to: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9HVCJF00&show_article=1
"[the FCC] has rejected M2Z's request that the agency demand that the winner of an auction for the radio spectrum provide free Internet service to anyone who connects to it. "
It didn't have anything to do with M2Z....but I can see why they shot down the "requirement that it be free"
There is a bunch of research out there pointing out that proper exercise can reduce your risk for Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia by something like 70-75%. So its great there is a test and all, but you can still effect the outcome SIGNIFICANTLY with your lifestyle choices. There is also a link to fruits / vegetable intake as well.
I was in my first week or so on the job with a firm about 2 years ago when this same thing happened. The IIS servers they ran were getting hit with a few thousand attempts / sec. There were a bunch of old coldfusion sites with SELECT * FROM table WHERE id=#url.id# floating around and many sites were compromised. Getting rid of the IIS header and the.cfm extension got rid of the bots attempts as we added filters to coldfusion. It was one of the worst weeks ever, I don't work there any more. There was even a slashdot post about the massive attack then to.
I use a $2.99 hard plastic screen cover on my iPod Touch, it gets scratched after 2 or 3 months and I replace it, the underlying screen is still flawless, and I throw it around pretty carelessly. It would be pretty trivial to design a protection scheme for a screen like this, much easier than replacing worn keys.
Fruits and Vegetables can also be high in carbohydrates. These are complex carbs that are much more difficult for our body to break down, and thus result in far fewer calories. I once talked with a lady who was convinced that peas were so high in carbs she shouldn't eat them because she would gain weight. In most of what we eat there is generally a correlation between lower carbohydrates and lower calories (because generally high carb food is loaded with simple sugars), this is why a low carb diet will help you lose weight. I run a medically managed weight loss program and we make patients eat a minimum of 5 full cups of fruits and / or vegetables a day, but many eat 10 - 20 servings in a day, and still lose weight, an AVERAGE of 60lbs to be precise. You can argue high fat, low carb, low fat, high carb, whatever, but at the end of the day obesity is about calories in / calories out, there is seriously no debating this fact. Its just a matter of how you get those calories, is it one trip to McDonald's or is it 30 CUPS of vegetables (good luck eating that many vegetables in a day, I guarantee you'll be stuffed, and feel great.) P.S. I am a meat eater...but controlling weight in American society is about eating lots of fruits and vegetables and walking some...
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I have a 5" Galaxy S, I would never go back to smaller. Here is why: - Battery life is better because it can hold a battery nearly twice the size (in mAH), with only a bit more consumption. - Games, movies, any kind of media, freakin awesome on 5" - Reading a book for hours possible on the 5" without killing your eyes. - Still slips into my jean or khaki pocket - Works as a turn by turn GPS on the dash...and its readable... If you have not spent a week with a larger device, you are really missing out. Picking up an iPhone (which is where I came from) feels tiny and insignificant and browsing the web is kind of annoying on it. I think the author here has just never used a large device for very long.
My wife and I carry catastrophic coverage only ($1,500 out of pocket before it kicks in) because we take care of ourselves and have been blessed with good health otherwise. This is very cheap for me on a monthly basis, guess what, my insurance rates are about to climb from $0 to whatever the rest of the population who doesn't bother to lose weight, exercise, and eat better, drives it to be. Its a very frustrating thing to be dragged into something you have no need for. This is what pisses me off. I get you need the healthy people to carry the sick, but when 68.7% of America is overweight and obese, and obesity is the #1 cause of cancer, heart disease...etc...I do not feel the government should make me support the lifestyle choices of other Americans.
I think this niche is really already filled though. What you describe this is exactly why I use one of these. Since I do not have cell service at my home (and I live in NY state) it is difficult for me to justify a $100 / month phone. Especially since about the only time I'm not near wifi is when I'm driving between home / work. I'm not sure there is a market for what you are describing, so I hope they have a different plan.
This logic works just fine until the customer goes, oh! lets add our customer's information, transactions, etc. to that completely static tool that we never planned to need a real database for. Even very simple tools and services we at least use SQLite, with PDO connections it's (mostly) painless to move the system up a level or two in relational database capability. I've found that schemaless databases have there place, but the jump on the schemaless data band wagon has been premature for many software projects. That said, look at draw something's expansion, zero downtime as they increase capacity because they used a scalable schemaless database.
I know its not quit the same but... http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Physics&dir=prev&action=history
Just as a note, they call my Satellite link "broadband" and a good time is 900ms, most of the time it is around 1,500ms - 3,000ms....yes 1.5 - 3 SECONDS. It still beats dial-up, but remember you have ~500ms to space and back, and about twice as much equipment as well. It is a matter of perspective. I would imagine that the "last mile" customers might experience extra tolerable latency from the ISP perspective.
I seriously have to remove my battery, battery mount, and headlight assembly to replace the turn signal. I did it once myself, it was not worth it. Even simple repairs / maintenance are more complex these days. Well worth the $20 to have the mechanic do it.
I'm praying that if this is adopted is firmly based in research instead of what seems correct / what lobbyists can get in there (e.g. the diary industry). Incentives for behavioral change is a fantastic idea because it is the behavior that must change in an American diet. The one thing I read that makes me nervous is the family history thing, we like to put a lot of weight on this idea, my dad had a heart attack so I'm screwed. But it turns out your risk of premature death in the U.S. is 70% lifestyle (what I eat, and how much exercise I do), 10% lack of medical treatment (no insurance), 10% environmental (to close to a coal plant), and only 10% heredity. If you are overweight, you can blame 1 out of every 10lbs on your parents. And as another note, there are lots of posts here about limiting carbs and fat, it is just limiting calories at the end of the day that matters for being a healthy weight. For weight loss / weight maintenance people can't figure out good vs bad carbs (peas have a lot of carbs, but they are complex carbs) and fat. Research shows us people can watch caloric intake if given lots of controlled practice (e.g. time to change their behaviors), but any more variables than that and they give up and have thoughts like "I'm gaining weight because I've had to much fat lately", when it should be "I'm gaining weight because I've had to many calories lately."
I'm not so sure I agree with the summary that "an externally powered enclosure, but that doesn't feel very elegant." There are lots of fantastic external enclosure systems now. A few posts here talk about how external enclosures and RAID never spin down. This is wrong. I have an 8TB (5x2TB) Raid 5 tower (SansDigital) that spins down after 60 mins of inactivity, and takes about 5 seconds to spin back up when someone wants a file. I use an intel dual core atom box (nvidia ion gpu, plays HD just great!) that is smaller than my cable modem with Ubuntu and XBMC. It sits on top of the RAID tower and you barely notice it. With the speed at which my family gathers data I will need to add another enclosure in about 14 months. The next one will be 10x3TB drives (assuming another better box doesn't hit the market) and should last a few years. When I get this one I plan on purchasing another Atom based box and moving it and the enclosures to the closet / leave one atom box hooked to the TV. Ubuntu / XBMC will mount the FS across the network. From my experience most of my family is using wireless (me being the one exception) and the RAID array can read at ~100mb/s and neither the network nor the RAID is ever maxed out even with 3-4 users streaming HD. I am the only one that ever comes close to saturating the network, but my desktop HD's are slower than the gigabyte connection (~60mb/s). I could spend more money on faster hard drives but when I can copy a couple gig file in a minute or two its not worth the cost.
This is a really good and valid concern, we have a small spring fed pond that is ~20 acres that has native brook trout, they thrive in this cool water (this species no more than 55F for happy fish, water ~48F fresh out of the ground in the middle of the summer). I did the math on what it would take in energy to kill them because we wanted to run a circulator and exchanger for low cost air conditioning. There really isn't anyway we could actually kill them given the thermal mass of the water and how fast it is refreshed from the ground. But if you keep going with the math, something like a datacenter could easily kill all the fish, or at the very least greatly hinder there lively-hood.
This sounds like a typical PEBKAC coding error. The dscl is probably (not much of a mac user here) running as root for indexing and such , but of course you do not need to be root to run it. Reminds me of when locate used to return / index all files, including ones that you did not have permission to, and of course now we have slocate. This is the kind error crops up in Microsoft vulnerabilities all the time. Its like they just didn't think it through from the black hat perspective at all.
Correct, I do not know of a good proxy solution with https. I should have been more specific, we cache at the application level, so this is not an issue for us, it was the compromise to support load balancing with https at fairly zippy speeds.
We use Pound for load balancing which makes requests to the cache servers, works great, very configurable, supports sessions, etc.
I live in Northern New York where there isn't even cell phone coverage. In 1999 there was an Ice Storm that put most people in 3 counties without power and phone for SEVERAL WEEKS in the winter time. There was no way for emergency services to communicate from even town to town because of the terrain and the reliance on repeaters. I sat in a firehouse one town over for 2 weeks with my rig and relayed information from ambulance to ambulance and town to town. This included communications for departments like the state police. You would be amazed how well prepared we were, and how unprepared your average government agency is. In fact we are now routinely called to participate in disaster training exercises because of that storm. Hams are an integral part of emergency communications where I live. Losing 70cm would suck.
I've always coded most forms, especially login forms, with random form names / ID's. This stops most generic javascript based attacks. While you could certainly code easily enough to submit form 0 and change value of DOM object 1, it adds to the complexity of the whole exploit, and would have stopped any successful attempts at a hard coded getElementById().
Scratch that....its Oracle-Application-Server-10g/10.1.3.0.0 Oracle-HTTP-Server, was looking at the wrong window. Even more expensive though...
Coldfusion, "Whitespace Suppression" turned off looks exactly like this, poorly coded rails does to....would also explain some of the cost...since ColdFusion licenses are ridiculous. All though the headers say PHP 4....I've seen some shops change this for a little obscurity.
Original Article that TFA links to: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9HVCJF00&show_article=1 "[the FCC] has rejected M2Z's request that the agency demand that the winner of an auction for the radio spectrum provide free Internet service to anyone who connects to it. " It didn't have anything to do with M2Z....but I can see why they shot down the "requirement that it be free"
There is a bunch of research out there pointing out that proper exercise can reduce your risk for Alzheimer's and other forms of dementia by something like 70-75%. So its great there is a test and all, but you can still effect the outcome SIGNIFICANTLY with your lifestyle choices. There is also a link to fruits / vegetable intake as well.
I was in my first week or so on the job with a firm about 2 years ago when this same thing happened. The IIS servers they ran were getting hit with a few thousand attempts / sec. There were a bunch of old coldfusion sites with SELECT * FROM table WHERE id=#url.id# floating around and many sites were compromised. Getting rid of the IIS header and the .cfm extension got rid of the bots attempts as we added filters to coldfusion. It was one of the worst weeks ever, I don't work there any more. There was even a slashdot post about the massive attack then to.
I use a $2.99 hard plastic screen cover on my iPod Touch, it gets scratched after 2 or 3 months and I replace it, the underlying screen is still flawless, and I throw it around pretty carelessly. It would be pretty trivial to design a protection scheme for a screen like this, much easier than replacing worn keys.
In fairness I get it, this is a great break through for low power devices if you could power them with sugar from your own blood. Very cool.
So I only need (3200 watts x 1,000,000uW) / 6.5uW = 492,307,693 rats to power my home!
Fruits and Vegetables can also be high in carbohydrates. These are complex carbs that are much more difficult for our body to break down, and thus result in far fewer calories. I once talked with a lady who was convinced that peas were so high in carbs she shouldn't eat them because she would gain weight. In most of what we eat there is generally a correlation between lower carbohydrates and lower calories (because generally high carb food is loaded with simple sugars), this is why a low carb diet will help you lose weight. I run a medically managed weight loss program and we make patients eat a minimum of 5 full cups of fruits and / or vegetables a day, but many eat 10 - 20 servings in a day, and still lose weight, an AVERAGE of 60lbs to be precise. You can argue high fat, low carb, low fat, high carb, whatever, but at the end of the day obesity is about calories in / calories out, there is seriously no debating this fact. Its just a matter of how you get those calories, is it one trip to McDonald's or is it 30 CUPS of vegetables (good luck eating that many vegetables in a day, I guarantee you'll be stuffed, and feel great.) P.S. I am a meat eater...but controlling weight in American society is about eating lots of fruits and vegetables and walking some...
That may not be easier http://xkcd.com/349/