Your racist terminology and willingness to murder people without even checking their race beforehand makes any observer think you are a right-wing nutbag who longs for the days when the KKK kept the darkies in check with lynchings. You disgust me and every civilized person who reads your post.
My sons black (actually from Africa) So after you're done taking your foot out of your mouth, go fuck yourself.
My mistake, information in the subject is stupid... but I should have caught it. I did not realize the OP was talking about an iPhone. That's entirely different. The iPhone is not CDMA, it's GSM. My apologies.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
That's not even remotely vague. It's clear as day. You need a warrant and that warrant should be public. Period. Any Judge that didn't see this as a violation of the 4th amendment should be strung up without a trial, since they don't feel the constitution is important.
Tempting to blame law enforcement for their increasingly-Orwellian tactics, but -- in my opinion -- that's their job: to do everything they are legally allowed to do to put the baddies away. The thing is, "legally allowed to do" should stop somewhat short 1984; the fact that it doesn't isn't their fault per se, but the fault of the courts for allowing this.
They aren't legally allowed to this. It's entirely illegal. On top of that, they take an oath to uphold the constitution when they get their badge and this clearly violates the constitution.
For far too long in this country we've decide that "criminals" are somehow non-citizens. We've declared them as an "Other" and not of us. This has allowed some people to rationalize their illegal behavior as somehow just. It's not. Violating even a criminals constitutional rights is wrong, and it wont be long before YOU are considered a criminal that no longer deserves his rights either.
yes it will, since it supports LTE WORLDWIDE and has a SIM SLOT at least for data
No it wont. CDMA means its locked to the Verizon network. You cannot take the phone to another network EVER. You cannot take a phone from outside the Verizon network and bring it in unless Verizon authorizes the phone and they do not do that. They use to, years ago, but not any longer. So if you buy a Verizon phone you can only use it if they have service where you're at. There's not even a point to having a simcard in the phone other than swapping it for another Verizon sim.
You can take your verizon phone and get an international plan. It's expensive, and you can only use it in areas where Verizon has deals with the local cellular companies (they do seem to have quite a few https://scache.vzw.com/dam/bus...) but their international rates border on insane. Roaming texts are 50cents PER RECIPIENT (meaning a text to 3 people would be $150) Data is $25/100mb. The voice rates vary. You'd be far better off getting a phone that was actually able to work on other networks and swapping sim cards.
It's just good talent retention. If your software is free to learn on... people will learn on it. Which increases your talent pool. Most of the Apple fanboys out there now are such because, when they were in highschool, apple was the only computer in the school... and therefor the only computer they had access to. You use what you know. It worked for Apple, it will work for Pixar... but kind of in reverse.
Well done, the first actual phone recommended in this thread that would do what the OP requested help with. Basically any AT&T phone on an international plan should work.
Get an unlocked phone with a removable SIM card (which excludes anything Verizon sells). Once she gets to Scotland have her buy a local SIM card and pop it in the phone. That way she will avoid costly international roaming charges. When she gets back to the US just pop the original SIM back in and you're good to go. The other option is to simply buy a phone in the UK.
That will not work. The phones Antenna has to support the frequencies of the local carrier. The US has very strange spectrum compared to the rest of the world, and most carriers and phones from the US will not work overseas. The simcard is irrelevant. AT&T is the only carrier I know of that is GSM (required everywhere but the US) and supports frequencies that are used outside the US. There may be a few acceptations but most carriers other than AT&T will work in very few areas outside the US unfortunately. I know because I've tried. An no, I don't work for AT&T (I did 10 years ago) don't like them and still don't have their service. But if you want international cellphone compatibility they are basically your only option.
When I was in rural Ethiopia a few years ago with about 20 other Americans, everyone was passing around the 3 phones that actually worked. They were all iPhones and all AT&T. My Verizon phone worked great as an MP3 player but that's about it. My wifes sprint phone would crash constantly and couldn't even be used for that (it was a dumbphone) I was told that the only international carrier that would work there was AT&T.
I HATE Apple with a passion, though I did use that phone because I wanted to call home a few times... and more importantly, one of the people in our group was a Microsoft salesman that had his, then, prototype windows phone. Every time I was talking on the phone while standing in the middle of creation, I'd look over at him, smile, and sometimes wink. It was great. It was well worth the Apple taint for that alone.
But, I wouldn't put up with Apple just for international calling. You can pick up a cheap dumb phone in just about any country for $20. In ethiopia they were under $10 and sold, along with phone cards, a small wooden booths next to random meat on a stick. I'd just have her do that (but stay away from the meat.) That way, if the phone doesn't work somewhere she can just dump it in a trash bin and get a new one rather than be out $600 on a smart phone. Or get her a smart phone for home AND a dumb phone with international voice only.
blah blah blah... You're trying to stop the wind. He's entirely right. This is something that's coming like a freight train and there's no stopping it. I've built guns, from scratch, for years. It's not even remotely difficult. What he's made with his thousand dollar 3D printer you could make by spending $10 at home depot on some pipe fittings and nails. Want it undetectable so you can take it on a plane? Drill a hole in a piece of oak, use a piece of graphite or other semi-hard substance for the firing pin. That's how simple this is. All these years you've been protected by ignorance. You're afraid of a myth.
People don't make this stuff because people aren't generally murders. The ones that are murders can find a lot easier ways to kill you. Your kids are far more likely to die at your own hand in a car accident than they are from any gun, much less a 3D printed gun.
Not only that, but there were people speaking publicly about this for YEARS prior to Snowden and they were also ignored: http://www.usatoday.com/story/... (warning, auto-start video)
The NSA tried to portray those people as crackpots until Snowden came along with proof. Remember, he didn't reveal anything new... he just provided details and corroborative evidence so the NSA could no longer ignore/deny it.
To this day, the NSA claims what they are doing is Legal. How on earth could Snowden have gotten anywhere without bringing this to the public's attention? It's going to take congressional action to even begin to limit what they are doing. There was no other way for that to happen than for him to go public. I'm not even sure if he went far enough.
$15 per hour is barely a livable wage currently; there's no way it will be in 2021.
and thanks for pointing out the problem with the minimum wage...
Its NEVER enough.
I'm not suggesting we do nothing about wage disparity, but the minimum wage does little to help the poor. Most of the poor don't have jobs to begin with, and raising the minimum wage will make that even worse.
The virtuaboy was DOA because it was a 5lb monochrome (red/black) monstrosity that had to sit on a table, with barely 3D wireframe games, no tracking, etc
I have one, and quite a few games for it. It's a great system, and the games are a lot of fun. It's easy to control, though figuring out how to hold the controller while looking into the headset is weird at first. It doesn't give anyone in my family headaches. The games aren't just wire frame. They were as good as any handheld out at the time. It's unfortunate that it wasn't done in color. But the red does give it its own very unique feel.
But again, you play that thing and the worlds dead to you. Taking your eyes out of the headset is like walking out of a movie theater after having seen Gone with the wind. You have to blink for a few minutes, try and remember this is the real world and you're not a pretty girl living on an idealic southern plantation. It's that disorienting.
One lonely dude sitting in the corner by himself. He can't interact with those around him... if his mom tells him to come to dinner he likely cant hear her and he definitely cant see her so he'll finally find out she's pissed when she slaps the headset off his head.
VR will become a thing when they figure out how to put the display free form in the air in front of you... or the headsets are transparent like Google glass. As long as they resemble the blast helmet Luke Skywalker used to practice Jedi magic, there is no chance these will become truly popular.
We switched our DB servers to SSDs and saw over 90% reduction in average query latency. Next up is our file stores, which use ZFS. Our next step is an SSD cache for ZFS, and then as prices continue to tumble, we'll switch to all SSDs everywhere.
That 50k iops were measured in what? 4k operations? 16k? What? I could claim I can pull 1 million amps out of my house socket, which would be true... as long as the voltage is 0.0018v. IOPs are just as meaningless.
SSDs are better. But so are Ferraris. Neither make much business sense outside of a drag race. Yea, if you have one small DB that's getting hit a LOT, then yes, they can make a difference. But in most operations upgrading to SSDs would costs millions and provide little benefit other than allow you to say you're cutting edge.
define "most" Every IT shop I've dealt with has been in a mad dash to become OS agnostic over the past 5 years. That wasn't to get away from our SUN boxes, I can assure you.
You need to understand... in most corporate environments, the majority of tools people use could easily be migrated to HTML frontends. Once that's done they're unimaginably easier to maintain. In the few cases where there are specialty software packages... Photoshop, Autocad, visual studio... those employees are already used to working in a unique environment. For a very long time you could only do cad on some flavor of Unix. Comapnies will have no problem at all telling those guys "Thats your cad machine... and next to it is your work computer" They're used to it. As more and more companies move off windows, all those big software vendors will port their products.
"Unpatchable" does not mean "Unsecured" in fact, I'd say it adds to security in many senses. A system that can't be patched, can also not be altered to do the attackers bidding. At the very least, any privileges the attacker may have access to can not be elevated to create some even worse situation. Worst case scenario you just disconnect power to the device in question. Submit it for warranty repair. If you're using a closed source software product out of warranty/support it's your own stupid fault.
"It interferes with the sanctity of search, which should be about getting people the most relevant results. Instead, it allows individuals to try to hide information about themselves, even if true. "
So only Google, governments & the MPAA/RIAA should be allowed to manipulate search results? Search results are already contaminated so how is giving everyone the chance to do it worse than a select few?
You're assuming she's ok with Current manipulation of search results, and I think that's an incorrect assumption.
What happens if, 10yrs from now, you run to be your local alderman... and someone brings up a "Quote" found here and attributes it to you? You'll never get a correction out of slashdot, that's for sure. Not that I'm likely to do that ever, but still... it's not right.
There was a documentary on the making of the chute for one of the rovers. Yes, they have all that down. It's a tad more complicated than just 1/3rd the weight though. The atmospheres way way thinner than earths as well so the chute doesn't work as efficiently. The most dangerous bit is the opening. The things coming in at an insane speed and if the chute opens incorrectly it can rip itself to threads.
That depends on you. If you're having trouble applying your skills to things outside of programming then you likely should stick to programming. I can do anything. I could walk into whatever your business is and start doing something valuable almost immediately. My only concern when applying for a new job is the culture of the people I'll be working with. If I can get along with my co-workers and the management bureaucracy isn't too frustrating I'll do well. If it's a shop full of self aggrandizing jerks or management can't wrap their heads around how you could write a process doc in something other than MS Word, then no, I'll likely not do well.
What I'd recommend for you is that you go out and volunteer. It will let you know if you can handle work outside your comfort zone. I've worked habitat for humanity, worked at the red cross, fed people on holidays. If you can be content handing out cookies to annoying people low on blood, you can be content anywhere.
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Your racist terminology and willingness to murder people without even checking their race beforehand makes any observer think you are a right-wing nutbag who longs for the days when the KKK kept the darkies in check with lynchings. You disgust me and every civilized person who reads your post.
My sons black (actually from Africa) So after you're done taking your foot out of your mouth, go fuck yourself.
My mistake, information in the subject is stupid... but I should have caught it. I did not realize the OP was talking about an iPhone. That's entirely different. The iPhone is not CDMA, it's GSM. My apologies.
How is this even a question?
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
That's not even remotely vague. It's clear as day. You need a warrant and that warrant should be public. Period. Any Judge that didn't see this as a violation of the 4th amendment should be strung up without a trial, since they don't feel the constitution is important.
Tempting to blame law enforcement for their increasingly-Orwellian tactics, but -- in my opinion -- that's their job: to do everything they are legally allowed to do to put the baddies away. The thing is, "legally allowed to do" should stop somewhat short 1984; the fact that it doesn't isn't their fault per se, but the fault of the courts for allowing this.
They aren't legally allowed to this. It's entirely illegal.
On top of that, they take an oath to uphold the constitution when they get their badge and this clearly violates the constitution.
For far too long in this country we've decide that "criminals" are somehow non-citizens. We've declared them as an "Other" and not of us. This has allowed some people to rationalize their illegal behavior as somehow just. It's not. Violating even a criminals constitutional rights is wrong, and it wont be long before YOU are considered a criminal that no longer deserves his rights either.
yes it will, since it supports LTE WORLDWIDE and has a SIM SLOT
at least for data
No it wont. CDMA means its locked to the Verizon network. You cannot take the phone to another network EVER. You cannot take a phone from outside the Verizon network and bring it in unless Verizon authorizes the phone and they do not do that. They use to, years ago, but not any longer. So if you buy a Verizon phone you can only use it if they have service where you're at. There's not even a point to having a simcard in the phone other than swapping it for another Verizon sim.
You can take your verizon phone and get an international plan. It's expensive, and you can only use it in areas where Verizon has deals with the local cellular companies (they do seem to have quite a few https://scache.vzw.com/dam/bus...) but their international rates border on insane. Roaming texts are 50cents PER RECIPIENT (meaning a text to 3 people would be $150) Data is $25/100mb. The voice rates vary. You'd be far better off getting a phone that was actually able to work on other networks and swapping sim cards.
It's just good talent retention. If your software is free to learn on... people will learn on it. Which increases your talent pool. Most of the Apple fanboys out there now are such because, when they were in highschool, apple was the only computer in the school... and therefor the only computer they had access to. You use what you know. It worked for Apple, it will work for Pixar... but kind of in reverse.
From what I'm seeing you can order it in 2 versions. "Asia" and "AT&T" The AT&T version covers both Europe and the west.
EMEA: 800/1800/2600 MHz
Asia: 900/1800/2100/2600 MHz
AT&T: 700/850/AWS/1900 MHz
The reason they aren't the same phone is because the frequencies overlap. Or at least, that's my understanding.
HTC ONE MINI 4G - LTE:
EMEA: 800/1800/2600 MHz
Asia: 900/1800/2100/2600 MHz
AT&T: 700/850/AWS/1900 MHz
So AT&T is the only option.
http://www.att.com/att/global/...
And Scotland has AT&T coverage in LTE.
Well done, the first actual phone recommended in this thread that would do what the OP requested help with.
Basically any AT&T phone on an international plan should work.
Get an unlocked phone with a removable SIM card (which excludes anything Verizon sells). Once she gets to Scotland have her buy a local SIM card and pop it in the phone. That way she will avoid costly international roaming charges. When she gets back to the US just pop the original SIM back in and you're good to go. The other option is to simply buy a phone in the UK.
That will not work. The phones Antenna has to support the frequencies of the local carrier. The US has very strange spectrum compared to the rest of the world, and most carriers and phones from the US will not work overseas. The simcard is irrelevant. AT&T is the only carrier I know of that is GSM (required everywhere but the US) and supports frequencies that are used outside the US. There may be a few acceptations but most carriers other than AT&T will work in very few areas outside the US unfortunately. I know because I've tried. An no, I don't work for AT&T (I did 10 years ago) don't like them and still don't have their service. But if you want international cellphone compatibility they are basically your only option.
Verizon is CDMA. It will not work outside their network AT ALL. It would be a very bad choice.
Anecdotal evidence. Take it for what it's worth:
When I was in rural Ethiopia a few years ago with about 20 other Americans, everyone was passing around the 3 phones that actually worked. They were all iPhones and all AT&T. My Verizon phone worked great as an MP3 player but that's about it. My wifes sprint phone would crash constantly and couldn't even be used for that (it was a dumbphone) I was told that the only international carrier that would work there was AT&T.
I HATE Apple with a passion, though I did use that phone because I wanted to call home a few times... and more importantly, one of the people in our group was a Microsoft salesman that had his, then, prototype windows phone. Every time I was talking on the phone while standing in the middle of creation, I'd look over at him, smile, and sometimes wink. It was great. It was well worth the Apple taint for that alone.
But, I wouldn't put up with Apple just for international calling. You can pick up a cheap dumb phone in just about any country for $20. In ethiopia they were under $10 and sold, along with phone cards, a small wooden booths next to random meat on a stick. I'd just have her do that (but stay away from the meat.) That way, if the phone doesn't work somewhere she can just dump it in a trash bin and get a new one rather than be out $600 on a smart phone. Or get her a smart phone for home AND a dumb phone with international voice only.
blah blah blah... You're trying to stop the wind. He's entirely right. This is something that's coming like a freight train and there's no stopping it. I've built guns, from scratch, for years. It's not even remotely difficult. What he's made with his thousand dollar 3D printer you could make by spending $10 at home depot on some pipe fittings and nails. Want it undetectable so you can take it on a plane? Drill a hole in a piece of oak, use a piece of graphite or other semi-hard substance for the firing pin. That's how simple this is. All these years you've been protected by ignorance. You're afraid of a myth.
People don't make this stuff because people aren't generally murders. The ones that are murders can find a lot easier ways to kill you. Your kids are far more likely to die at your own hand in a car accident than they are from any gun, much less a 3D printed gun.
Snowden DID use those channels, and the NSA ignored him:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
Not only that, but there were people speaking publicly about this for YEARS prior to Snowden and they were also ignored:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/... (warning, auto-start video)
The NSA tried to portray those people as crackpots until Snowden came along with proof. Remember, he didn't reveal anything new... he just provided details and corroborative evidence so the NSA could no longer ignore/deny it.
To this day, the NSA claims what they are doing is Legal. How on earth could Snowden have gotten anywhere without bringing this to the public's attention? It's going to take congressional action to even begin to limit what they are doing. There was no other way for that to happen than for him to go public. I'm not even sure if he went far enough.
$15 per hour is barely a livable wage currently; there's no way it will be in 2021.
and thanks for pointing out the problem with the minimum wage...
Its NEVER enough.
I'm not suggesting we do nothing about wage disparity, but the minimum wage does little to help the poor. Most of the poor don't have jobs to begin with, and raising the minimum wage will make that even worse.
The virtuaboy was DOA because it was a 5lb monochrome (red/black) monstrosity that had to sit on a table, with barely 3D wireframe games, no tracking, etc
I have one, and quite a few games for it. It's a great system, and the games are a lot of fun. It's easy to control, though figuring out how to hold the controller while looking into the headset is weird at first. It doesn't give anyone in my family headaches. The games aren't just wire frame. They were as good as any handheld out at the time. It's unfortunate that it wasn't done in color. But the red does give it its own very unique feel.
But again, you play that thing and the worlds dead to you. Taking your eyes out of the headset is like walking out of a movie theater after having seen Gone with the wind. You have to blink for a few minutes, try and remember this is the real world and you're not a pretty girl living on an idealic southern plantation. It's that disorienting.
All these headsets are dead on arrival. Just like the virtuaboy was. Why do these always fail?
This is why: http://i2.wp.com/www.roadtovr....
One lonely dude sitting in the corner by himself. He can't interact with those around him... if his mom tells him to come to dinner he likely cant hear her and he definitely cant see her so he'll finally find out she's pissed when she slaps the headset off his head.
VR will become a thing when they figure out how to put the display free form in the air in front of you... or the headsets are transparent like Google glass. As long as they resemble the blast helmet Luke Skywalker used to practice Jedi magic, there is no chance these will become truly popular.
You're being pedantic.
diameter and volume would be the same since ones used to calculate the other.
"larger" is used to denote size. So it's the correct word to mean a larger diameter/volume
We switched our DB servers to SSDs and saw over 90% reduction in average query latency. Next up is our file stores, which use ZFS. Our next step is an SSD cache for ZFS, and then as prices continue to tumble, we'll switch to all SSDs everywhere.
That 50k iops were measured in what? 4k operations? 16k? What? I could claim I can pull 1 million amps out of my house socket, which would be true... as long as the voltage is 0.0018v. IOPs are just as meaningless.
SSDs are better. But so are Ferraris. Neither make much business sense outside of a drag race. Yea, if you have one small DB that's getting hit a LOT, then yes, they can make a difference. But in most operations upgrading to SSDs would costs millions and provide little benefit other than allow you to say you're cutting edge.
define "most"
Every IT shop I've dealt with has been in a mad dash to become OS agnostic over the past 5 years. That wasn't to get away from our SUN boxes, I can assure you.
You need to understand... in most corporate environments, the majority of tools people use could easily be migrated to HTML frontends. Once that's done they're unimaginably easier to maintain. In the few cases where there are specialty software packages... Photoshop, Autocad, visual studio... those employees are already used to working in a unique environment. For a very long time you could only do cad on some flavor of Unix. Comapnies will have no problem at all telling those guys "Thats your cad machine... and next to it is your work computer" They're used to it. As more and more companies move off windows, all those big software vendors will port their products.
"Unpatchable" does not mean "Unsecured" in fact, I'd say it adds to security in many senses. A system that can't be patched, can also not be altered to do the attackers bidding. At the very least, any privileges the attacker may have access to can not be elevated to create some even worse situation. Worst case scenario you just disconnect power to the device in question. Submit it for warranty repair. If you're using a closed source software product out of warranty/support it's your own stupid fault.
Anecdotal evidence from one woman's opinion. Why again is Slashdot becoming a place to crosspost blog posts as fact?
Just for reference, I read this post in the same way this video sounds: http://news.slashdot.org/story...
and that's not a good thing.
"It interferes with the sanctity of search, which should be about getting people the most relevant results. Instead, it allows individuals to try to hide information about themselves, even if true. "
So only Google, governments & the MPAA/RIAA should be allowed to manipulate search results? Search results are already contaminated so how is giving everyone the chance to do it worse than a select few?
You're assuming she's ok with Current manipulation of search results, and I think that's an incorrect assumption.
What happens if, 10yrs from now, you run to be your local alderman... and someone brings up a "Quote" found here and attributes it to you? You'll never get a correction out of slashdot, that's for sure. Not that I'm likely to do that ever, but still... it's not right.
There was a documentary on the making of the chute for one of the rovers. Yes, they have all that down. It's a tad more complicated than just 1/3rd the weight though. The atmospheres way way thinner than earths as well so the chute doesn't work as efficiently. The most dangerous bit is the opening. The things coming in at an insane speed and if the chute opens incorrectly it can rip itself to threads.
That depends on you. If you're having trouble applying your skills to things outside of programming then you likely should stick to programming. I can do anything. I could walk into whatever your business is and start doing something valuable almost immediately. My only concern when applying for a new job is the culture of the people I'll be working with. If I can get along with my co-workers and the management bureaucracy isn't too frustrating I'll do well. If it's a shop full of self aggrandizing jerks or management can't wrap their heads around how you could write a process doc in something other than MS Word, then no, I'll likely not do well.
What I'd recommend for you is that you go out and volunteer. It will let you know if you can handle work outside your comfort zone. I've worked habitat for humanity, worked at the red cross, fed people on holidays. If you can be content handing out cookies to annoying people low on blood, you can be content anywhere.