They should be giving the glasses away for free. Each TV should come with 10 pair. Seriously, it's their biggest stumbling block. No one wants to get a TV, have people over to watch a movie, then find out they are 2 pair short and 2 people are going to have to stare at a blurry screen all night. Then you have the other problem of you might want to buy extra pairs. But they are expensive, and you only have people over so often... It's like a giant fail loop that we all saw coming and I'm sure the TV manufactures envisioned themselves making "Premium 3D glasses" and us paying through the nose for them. It's not going to happen, take a loss on the glasses, or your technology is doomed.
You don't need to password protect your wifi to secure your network. If you have it properly firewalled after the AP there's no need to secure the connection at all. Since Wifi security is pretty much worthless anyway, why bother? If someone connects to my AP they will get a big fat nothing. No internet connection, no access to the internal lan, nothing.
Because the meter only measures amperage at the cable leading into the home. He was taping into the mains cable and leading to apartments that were probably not on the main. So think about it like this, the owner had 1 cable coming in that fed all of the apartments and that cable was measured. The electrician added a second cable that came in another side of the building and ran that to , lets say, 1/3rd of the apartments. The landlord then just claims 1/3 of his apartments are vacant. The cable may have already even been there and the electrician just stumbled upon it while doing rutine work and had the idea. Well, after a few months the utility knows a lot more power is getting used in the general area but they don't know how. They probobly suspected a short of some sort. So they head out and start doing testing. They find this old cable that was supposed to have been disconnected 20 years ago and re-disconnect it. Suspecting foul play, they watch the site and wait. All the power is out to 1/3 of the apartments so the electrician comes back to reattach the illicit cable... viola.
Reality:
The market has already worked all this out. If sustainable energy were economically viable there'd be no room for nuclear power. The problems here are all regulatory. Nuclear energy would also be far less expensive if hippies got out of the way of things like Yukka Mountain.
An electric Semis battery would be dead in a matter of FEET not miles. For smaller trucks that stop a lot (like a UPS truck) it might make sense. But there are going to have to be some major advances in batteries before an actual Semi is viable.
This happens all the time in the USA as well. Either their voip server is compromised or their PBX... often because they leave the password set to whatever the default was. In some instances I've seen businesses that had proprietary voicemail systems, that had a "feature" in which a user could setup their voicemail to transfer a call to another number. The pin numbers are only 4 digits and they have dozens of users so it's relatively trivial for the attacker to just try random mailboxes until they find one that's got 1111 or 2222 as their pin. Once inside they set the mailbox to forward calls to some international location. Over a weekend a business can rack up $50k-$100k in charges. Most of the charges are international and therefor non-refundable.
I'm a programmer and database admin by trade. I also think our children should learn about computers in school. But what schools have been doing lately is insane. The only computers in the school should be in the computer lab. Cellphones and PDAs should be banned outright. Kids should be learning with pencils, paper and rulers. All essays should be required to be hand written. Computer Science classes should be mandatory but kept completely separate from other activities. In school we are teaching kids logic, how to solve problems, etc... Computers make that easier. Exactly what we don't want. It should be very difficult to solve a problem in school. Once you've got it down the hard way, then you can use the shortcut. Until then computers are just hampering the learning process.
Now I'm all for legalization simply because you CANT STOP people from getting the shit. But this silly shit they keep floating about how they are going to tax it and raise all this money off it is the most ridiculous shit I've ever heard. It's POT. You can grow it anywhere! I could have a plant 10feet high in my backyard and provide all the pots anyone within a quarter mile of me needs with little to no effort at all. Exactly how are they going to tax that?
It's pretty clear how most companies work today. They hire kids from the local community college that are half way to getting their 4yr degree and little more than they could make at McDonalds and then don't give them raises with the clear intention of driving them away so they can rehire other students even cheaper. Most places only have 1 or 2 people with any real experience. Usually those are the ones too lazy to go looking for something better.
Yes, really. The Silmarillion is Tolkiens best work. It's hard to read... REALLY hard to read... as in, like trying to read the entire bible in old English kinda hard. But the story is well worth it.
The Hobbit was 2 parts. The lord of the rings really should have been about 9 movies. but you know that'd never happen. God forbid they ever try and do the silmarillion.
or, there is a certain segment of players that, while not being the majority, are highly profitable for the developers. If you can make 10x the profit off 1 player than you can another, then losing 75% of your playerbase to switch to microtrans is a solid business choice for your game. But if the majority of games go this route, in the end the larger gaming community is going to become jaded and fed up.
I have a verizon phone and have this problem as well. There's not just the portal, there's a dozen other "apps" that make use of the dataplan and they have them all hotkeyed to the front of the phone. Not only can you open them by mistake, you can also set them off just by having it in your pocket. To me it was clearly intentional on verizons part. I called them and told them I not only didn't want a data plan, I also wanted them to shut off text and data to my phone entirely, so it couldn't be used. You can still hit those buttons and the apps still come up, but now I don't get charged.
Microtrans are destroying the gaming industry. People don't want to be nickle and dimed to death... and they also don't want to play against other players that paid $20 to get items that are going to make harder to kill. Why can't companies just sell me the god damned game and leave me alone anymore?
the "Theory of Everything" was probably his only really big mistake. The idea that SETI is dangerous is a point in fact. If our own history is anything to go by, the best thing for a less technologically advanced civilization to do is retreat further into the wilderness rather than seek out the wondrous explorers. I don't think there's a single point in history when the situation turned out beneficial for the "savages." If we're lucky they'll just show up, strip all resources from the outer planets and asteroid belts, then leave us alone. More likely they'll just detonate our star to make sure we don't turn into a threat.
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They should be giving the glasses away for free. Each TV should come with 10 pair. Seriously, it's their biggest stumbling block. No one wants to get a TV, have people over to watch a movie, then find out they are 2 pair short and 2 people are going to have to stare at a blurry screen all night. Then you have the other problem of you might want to buy extra pairs. But they are expensive, and you only have people over so often... It's like a giant fail loop that we all saw coming and I'm sure the TV manufactures envisioned themselves making "Premium 3D glasses" and us paying through the nose for them. It's not going to happen, take a loss on the glasses, or your technology is doomed.
You don't need to password protect your wifi to secure your network. If you have it properly firewalled after the AP there's no need to secure the connection at all. Since Wifi security is pretty much worthless anyway, why bother? If someone connects to my AP they will get a big fat nothing. No internet connection, no access to the internal lan, nothing.
If people didn't trust the media before... this is really going to give them pause for thought.
Because the meter only measures amperage at the cable leading into the home. He was taping into the mains cable and leading to apartments that were probably not on the main. So think about it like this, the owner had 1 cable coming in that fed all of the apartments and that cable was measured. The electrician added a second cable that came in another side of the building and ran that to , lets say, 1/3rd of the apartments. The landlord then just claims 1/3 of his apartments are vacant. The cable may have already even been there and the electrician just stumbled upon it while doing rutine work and had the idea. Well, after a few months the utility knows a lot more power is getting used in the general area but they don't know how. They probobly suspected a short of some sort. So they head out and start doing testing. They find this old cable that was supposed to have been disconnected 20 years ago and re-disconnect it. Suspecting foul play, they watch the site and wait. All the power is out to 1/3 of the apartments so the electrician comes back to reattach the illicit cable... viola.
Reality:
The market has already worked all this out. If sustainable energy were economically viable there'd be no room for nuclear power. The problems here are all regulatory. Nuclear energy would also be far less expensive if hippies got out of the way of things like Yukka Mountain.
An electric Semis battery would be dead in a matter of FEET not miles. For smaller trucks that stop a lot (like a UPS truck) it might make sense. But there are going to have to be some major advances in batteries before an actual Semi is viable.
Beat me to it... damn!
This happens all the time in the USA as well. Either their voip server is compromised or their PBX... often because they leave the password set to whatever the default was. In some instances I've seen businesses that had proprietary voicemail systems, that had a "feature" in which a user could setup their voicemail to transfer a call to another number. The pin numbers are only 4 digits and they have dozens of users so it's relatively trivial for the attacker to just try random mailboxes until they find one that's got 1111 or 2222 as their pin. Once inside they set the mailbox to forward calls to some international location. Over a weekend a business can rack up $50k-$100k in charges. Most of the charges are international and therefor non-refundable.
And you'd grow up to be shitty at math. Separate the wheat from the chaff.
So did apple pay slashdot to post this or what? Even if it's true, who gives a shit?
I'm a programmer and database admin by trade. I also think our children should learn about computers in school. But what schools have been doing lately is insane. The only computers in the school should be in the computer lab. Cellphones and PDAs should be banned outright. Kids should be learning with pencils, paper and rulers. All essays should be required to be hand written. Computer Science classes should be mandatory but kept completely separate from other activities. In school we are teaching kids logic, how to solve problems, etc... Computers make that easier. Exactly what we don't want. It should be very difficult to solve a problem in school. Once you've got it down the hard way, then you can use the shortcut. Until then computers are just hampering the learning process.
Now I'm all for legalization simply because you CANT STOP people from getting the shit. But this silly shit they keep floating about how they are going to tax it and raise all this money off it is the most ridiculous shit I've ever heard. It's POT. You can grow it anywhere! I could have a plant 10feet high in my backyard and provide all the pots anyone within a quarter mile of me needs with little to no effort at all. Exactly how are they going to tax that?
It's pretty clear how most companies work today. They hire kids from the local community college that are half way to getting their 4yr degree and little more than they could make at McDonalds and then don't give them raises with the clear intention of driving them away so they can rehire other students even cheaper. Most places only have 1 or 2 people with any real experience. Usually those are the ones too lazy to go looking for something better.
Yes, really. The Silmarillion is Tolkiens best work. It's hard to read... REALLY hard to read... as in, like trying to read the entire bible in old English kinda hard. But the story is well worth it.
It's a machine. It just doesn't have an AI. It's a machine wrapped around a rat brain.
Do you have the right to just fucking not remember?
It already is:
www.thepiratebay.org
What if they strike oil on the way down?
The Hobbit was 2 parts. The lord of the rings really should have been about 9 movies. but you know that'd never happen. God forbid they ever try and do the silmarillion.
or, there is a certain segment of players that, while not being the majority, are highly profitable for the developers. If you can make 10x the profit off 1 player than you can another, then losing 75% of your playerbase to switch to microtrans is a solid business choice for your game. But if the majority of games go this route, in the end the larger gaming community is going to become jaded and fed up.
I have a verizon phone and have this problem as well. There's not just the portal, there's a dozen other "apps" that make use of the dataplan and they have them all hotkeyed to the front of the phone. Not only can you open them by mistake, you can also set them off just by having it in your pocket. To me it was clearly intentional on verizons part. I called them and told them I not only didn't want a data plan, I also wanted them to shut off text and data to my phone entirely, so it couldn't be used. You can still hit those buttons and the apps still come up, but now I don't get charged.
All the air that exists, is in outerspace. So I'd say your argument is flawed.
Microtrans are destroying the gaming industry. People don't want to be nickle and dimed to death... and they also don't want to play against other players that paid $20 to get items that are going to make harder to kill. Why can't companies just sell me the god damned game and leave me alone anymore?
Wait... bad people make things hard for good people? Holy shit!
the "Theory of Everything" was probably his only really big mistake. The idea that SETI is dangerous is a point in fact. If our own history is anything to go by, the best thing for a less technologically advanced civilization to do is retreat further into the wilderness rather than seek out the wondrous explorers. I don't think there's a single point in history when the situation turned out beneficial for the "savages." If we're lucky they'll just show up, strip all resources from the outer planets and asteroid belts, then leave us alone. More likely they'll just detonate our star to make sure we don't turn into a threat.