That's why I use T-Mobile. They encourage tethering and were more than helpful in providing the information necessary to set it up. The caveat to this is I do pay a $20 monthly unlimited data fee, and they have never complained about the amount of data that I put through it.
Oh, contrare. I relish in the fact that when I'm in my home theater I don't have people sitting around shushing me when I tell the idiots on the screen what to do or how stupid they are. Additionally, I can use my cell phone to talk or text at my leisure with out pimply faced theater employees telling me I have to turn of my phone.
I do have to spill a softdrink on the floor a couple of hours before I use the room so that I don't miss out on the sticky shoe experience, however I am experimenting with fly paper to simulate this aspect..
The OLPC interface isn't even ready for my mom's desktop. She is on of the 20% in the U.S. who has never used email, and thinks remote controls are too confusing.
/. is not an addiction! Just because it's the only website I go to doesn't mean I can't quit it anytime I want! I just don't want to right now! I not hurting anyone. I only mod down trolls! What do you care who I mod.
I have been taking active steps in filtering content.
My TV has a V-Chip it's setup and active.
My Satellite receiver has parental controls which are setup and active.
I monitor what my kids watch and for how long.
What makes me mad is the inability to filter commercials which has the same content that I have blocked through other means. Quite honestly neither of my kids should be seeing ED, Adult Swim, or a hundred other commercials with questionable content during programs targeted for kids. (cartoons, preteen sitcoms).
It seems like it is OK to force the ratings on the programs being aired, but it's not OK to apply the same filters to advertisers? I mean, it would be a real tragedy if I couldn't buy their product because the commercial got filtered by the parental controls.
"With all that pirated material available, it creates tremendous disincentives to content owners who need to invest in new content," Cotton says, "and that just hurts consumers over time."'"
This explains why I don't watch TV anymore. There is nothing on worth watching because someone just threw up their hands and said, "Oh well, it's just not worth producing anything of value anymore."
My contention is that if networks produced something worth watching or listening too in a media format the consumer wants, that they wouldn't be facing these issues. If you provide people with a business model that is cheap and easy they won't pirate.
Mod this as redundant because it's been said a thousand times on/. before, but it is an underlying truth which needs repeating.
What makes me mad is that the guy in front of me with a walking stick that would make Merlin's staff look like a toothpick didn't receive a second glance from the TSA, but I have to play 20 questions about my laptop, electronics, an 3 ounces of cologne, mouth wash and toothpaste.
before an oil company buys the rights to the patent and buries this technology?
My guess is that a big oil company is already getting a team of lawyers together to stop this research due to some existing patent, or if there is no existing patent, the lawyers will figure out a way to sue the technology out of existence.
Big Oil will never let something like this see the light of day.
I tether my T-Mobile Blackberry with an unlimited internet access package all the time. It's not quite as fast as DSL but as long as I can get a signal I can get my/. fix. Fortunately, T-Mobile encourages tethering and their tech support even helped me get it setup and working. The only short fall is that I have to use Windows XP for the RIM Modem software to work. Best part is when I'm at an airport I don't have to buy wifi or hope that public wifi is available, I just hook up my Blackberry surf.
Yes, it is possible to hack modern UPS's. That's one of the reasons it is important to keep the firmware up to date, mostly to prevent some type of SNMP snooping/monitoring software from being used. However, I'm not sure if once hacked if the UPS could be made to self destruct, it might be possible if you could turn off the charge monitoring and force an overcharge on the batteries. Just a theory, and I'm sure there are people who know better than I if this is possible.
I don't think that Yahoo mail filters can get worse. I've setup 6 mail rules which pretty effectively weed out the spam better than their filters. OTH, during the process of defining and building the rules I noticed that each time I implemented one the spam email would change just enough to bypass the new rule. I started to think that Yahoo was sending the spam in order to get me to upgrade to a paid account.
Since I implemented my rules the nigerian stuff has pretty much died but I still get rolex, and drug emails on an almost hourly basis. If MSFT buys yahoo I'll dump that account and switch completely over to my domain and google accounts.
That's the problem with these things. The big names get all the credit. Proper recognition should be given to the CIA trainers who spent countless hours training and outfitting the fleet of herring that did all the actual grunt work. Heck - you think training squirrels is hard... you should try getting the lasers to stay on the Sea Bass.
One thing I haven't seen listed here is the rewrite of the GDM. While the core GDM is being rewritten it will not be included with Gnome 2.22 in Ubuntu, Mandriva, and Gentoo. These three main stream distributions have already stated in the GDM mail list that they will stay with the 2.20 version of GDM.
The reasons stated for these distributions not including the 2.22 GDM are configuration issues, lack of a themed login, GDM Configuration tool and lack of testing. While many areas of Gnome are receiving improvements the GDM is one of those areas where there is a significant enough degradation that distros are not including it.
The new version of the GDM may be several release versions away and ultimately be less functional than the current version. I don't necessarily call that an improvement.
You forgot about the TPS Reports.. You MUST put a cover on your TPS Reports, didn't you get the memo. Well from now on make sure that you put covers on your TPS Reports. Did I say TPS Reports enough times?
I can hear it now. My brother-in-law calling and asking if he should upgrade from Vista Ultimate to this new Windows 7, while ranting and raving about how much Vista Ultimate cost him and how long it took him to finally get it to work. I know he'll get mad at me when I tell him he never should have upgraded to Vista to start with, and to stop calling me if he is going to ask Windows questions. HHHMMMM, Maybe I should tell him that he has no choice but to upgrade by buying a new machine and sending me the system that he bought with Vista, because you know that Windows 7 is going to require all new hardware to run.
I'm really of the mindset that you can take Linux away from me when you pry the Live-CD out of my cold dead fingers, hell I just might have my coffin setup with wi-fi and a sub-notebook so that I can read/. in peace.
to justify further restrictions on P2P software. I'm sure they will be able to twist this attack into some type of political message to show that the P2P community is just a bunch of cracking criminals which need to be stopped.
While I hold little sympathy for RIAA in this matter, I would rather people found different and legal ways to thwart the RIAA's mission.
requires that ALL computers on the network never be powered down. They push updates out overnight and perform other sinister acts with the systems while there are no users on them. This is in the neighborhood of about 35000+ systems. There has to be a considerable amount of power consumption there. These machines generally run 24/7/365.
And if anything goes wrong, the guy AND the game makers will get sued for millions.
As far as rendering first aid to an accident victim, most states have a Good Samaritan law which exempts the person trying to render first aid from legal recourse. The game maker probably has some extremely small print disclaimer somewhere which states that they can not be held liable for anything in or resulting from participating in the game. It wouldn't suprise me if the disclaimer probably states something along the lines of 'procedures learned in the game should not be tried in real life.'
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Please provide a transcript of the shopping list my wife just gave me. I think that I may have forgotten to write something down.
That's why I use T-Mobile. They encourage tethering and were more than helpful in providing the information necessary to set it up. The caveat to this is I do pay a $20 monthly unlimited data fee, and they have never complained about the amount of data that I put through it.
Not really, one of my favorite shows.
I do have to spill a softdrink on the floor a couple of hours before I use the room so that I don't miss out on the sticky shoe experience, however I am experimenting with fly paper to simulate this aspect..
The OLPC interface isn't even ready for my mom's desktop. She is on of the 20% in the U.S. who has never used email, and thinks remote controls are too confusing.
2009 will be the year of the Suger desktop.
PCMCIA - Laptop (ATH0 drivers)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16839127003
PCI - Desktop (ATH0 drivers)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833127075
I have systems running these cards and just about every linux distro I tried found and configured them with no issues.
/. is not an addiction! Just because it's the only website I go to doesn't mean I can't quit it anytime I want! I just don't want to right now! I not hurting anyone. I only mod down trolls! What do you care who I mod.
My TV has a V-Chip it's setup and active.
My Satellite receiver has parental controls which are setup and active.
I monitor what my kids watch and for how long.
What makes me mad is the inability to filter commercials which has the same content that I have blocked through other means. Quite honestly neither of my kids should be seeing ED, Adult Swim, or a hundred other commercials with questionable content during programs targeted for kids. (cartoons, preteen sitcoms).
It seems like it is OK to force the ratings on the programs being aired, but it's not OK to apply the same filters to advertisers? I mean, it would be a real tragedy if I couldn't buy their product because the commercial got filtered by the parental controls.
Finally! A vista capable system.
This explains why I don't watch TV anymore. There is nothing on worth watching because someone just threw up their hands and said, "Oh well, it's just not worth producing anything of value anymore."
My contention is that if networks produced something worth watching or listening too in a media format the consumer wants, that they wouldn't be facing these issues. If you provide people with a business model that is cheap and easy they won't pirate.
Mod this as redundant because it's been said a thousand times on /. before, but it is an underlying truth which needs repeating.
What makes me mad is that the guy in front of me with a walking stick that would make Merlin's staff look like a toothpick didn't receive a second glance from the TSA, but I have to play 20 questions about my laptop, electronics, an 3 ounces of cologne, mouth wash and toothpaste.
before an oil company buys the rights to the patent and buries this technology?
My guess is that a big oil company is already getting a team of lawyers together to stop this research due to some existing patent, or if there is no existing patent, the lawyers will figure out a way to sue the technology out of existence.
Big Oil will never let something like this see the light of day.
I tether my T-Mobile Blackberry with an unlimited internet access package all the time. It's not quite as fast as DSL but as long as I can get a signal I can get my /. fix. Fortunately, T-Mobile encourages tethering and their tech support even helped me get it setup and working. The only short fall is that I have to use Windows XP for the RIM Modem software to work. Best part is when I'm at an airport I don't have to buy wifi or hope that public wifi is available, I just hook up my Blackberry surf.
Yes, it is possible to hack modern UPS's. That's one of the reasons it is important to keep the firmware up to date, mostly to prevent some type of SNMP snooping/monitoring software from being used. However, I'm not sure if once hacked if the UPS could be made to self destruct, it might be possible if you could turn off the charge monitoring and force an overcharge on the batteries. Just a theory, and I'm sure there are people who know better than I if this is possible.
I don't think that Yahoo mail filters can get worse. I've setup 6 mail rules which pretty effectively weed out the spam better than their filters. OTH, during the process of defining and building the rules I noticed that each time I implemented one the spam email would change just enough to bypass the new rule. I started to think that Yahoo was sending the spam in order to get me to upgrade to a paid account.
Since I implemented my rules the nigerian stuff has pretty much died but I still get rolex, and drug emails on an almost hourly basis. If MSFT buys yahoo I'll dump that account and switch completely over to my domain and google accounts.
There fixed that for you.
One thing I haven't seen listed here is the rewrite of the GDM. While the core GDM is being rewritten it will not be included with Gnome 2.22 in Ubuntu, Mandriva, and Gentoo. These three main stream distributions have already stated in the GDM mail list that they will stay with the 2.20 version of GDM.
The reasons stated for these distributions not including the 2.22 GDM are configuration issues, lack of a themed login, GDM Configuration tool and lack of testing. While many areas of Gnome are receiving improvements the GDM is one of those areas where there is a significant enough degradation that distros are not including it.
The new version of the GDM may be several release versions away and ultimately be less functional than the current version. I don't necessarily call that an improvement.
Mod +1 Funny, Man I wish I had mod points. Of course I vanished also.
Mit? Is that you?
You forgot about the TPS Reports.. You MUST put a cover on your TPS Reports, didn't you get the memo. Well from now on make sure that you put covers on your TPS Reports. Did I say TPS Reports enough times?
I'm really of the mindset that you can take Linux away from me when you pry the Live-CD out of my cold dead fingers, hell I just might have my coffin setup with wi-fi and a sub-notebook so that I can read /. in peace.
While I hold little sympathy for RIAA in this matter, I would rather people found different and legal ways to thwart the RIAA's mission.
requires that ALL computers on the network never be powered down. They push updates out overnight and perform other sinister acts with the systems while there are no users on them. This is in the neighborhood of about 35000+ systems. There has to be a considerable amount of power consumption there. These machines generally run 24/7/365.
As far as rendering first aid to an accident victim, most states have a Good Samaritan law which exempts the person trying to render first aid from legal recourse. The game maker probably has some extremely small print disclaimer somewhere which states that they can not be held liable for anything in or resulting from participating in the game. It wouldn't suprise me if the disclaimer probably states something along the lines of 'procedures learned in the game should not be tried in real life.'