News flash! if you open the SCADA boxes you have full access to it! That means over 200 Trillion SCADA systems are easily hacked! Al Kidea is just itching to blow up the world due to this huge security breach of using COMMON SCREWS to keep the enclosures closed.
Yes, in fact any of the current andrpod phones will use a bluetooth mini keyboard and utterly kicks the butt of the N900 hard. Problem is you are still looking at a useless 4 inch screen.
I carry a nexus 7 in a keyboard case. Simply fire it up using it's 3G and I can out SSH and out VNC any N900 fanboi withing seconds. ZOMG I have to carry two devices! oh the huge manatee!
"the micro USB port of my phone is broken. I can neither recharge it nor copy data through USB."
Hello use the 802.11n wireless works just fine for copying data back and forth.
Because my incredibly old and out of date Google Nexus HSPA+ (the galaxy nexus GSM as sold in europe.) has 802.11n.. and Wireless data access works fantastic, I just connect to the phone as it sits else where in the house. I can ssh into it, access files, etc... no problems at all.
Oh and a tip moving foreward, be more careful with your stuff that connector is incredibly easy to break, why cellphones have such an inferior connector on them I'll never understand.
1999 called and they want their pissing and moaning back, You also forgot your rant about not being able to easily remove the battery. (Another red herring that has been a non issue for over 5 years now.)
You are in a very small minority, because the large majority of smartphone users do not care at all about a microSD card slot in the age of 32gig phones.
the iphone 4s and iphone 5 as well as many other phones have penta band radios in them that support All cellular bands and technology. Verizon is just being Scumbaggy by demanding that any phone they allow on their networks to be LOCKED to their networks forever.
It's an example of a company being highly dishonest and nobody calling them out on their dishonest behavior.
If you use this for AV automation, you are already on the fail train. Buy a low end real controller designed for AV integration and call it done instead of cobbling things together.
It's not a valid point. If you need those buy a micro iTX board..
What's next, you guys going to complain that Arduino doesnt have SATA, USB3.0 and GigaE? If you think that these boards need that, then you have no clue as to what you are doing.
You havent learned about phone tech in a long time. Your PSTN has been Voip from the local switch for decades. Some places like NYC has building boxes that change it to a type of VoIP at the building to allow 8 apartments in a building to use the last 2 copper pairs that are still working.
A pound of coffee = 12 ounces now. Go ahead look at the bag of starbucks coffee and see how it's not a pound, but you still pay the "pound" price... Most other coffee packages have also started scamming consumers that way.
AT&T networks crumble when there is only 10,000 people in a small area like that. WE have a small motorcycle rally here in July and the 8000 to 10,000 people will utterly crush the nearest 3 cell sites for the entire weekend for AT&T. Verizon does better, but data is completely useless.
I just wish it was not a half baked platform. The big display remotes should be seperate screens so that Mario Kart would have the Big TV a overhead display and the remote is your driving display, or, status information control display with a 4 split screen on the big TV..
You are interested in a Wii U yet you call the Wii outdated...
You do realize the Wii U is simply a Wii with 720p and a overpriced external screen that does nothing except show you what is on the TV. I was going to get one until I realized it offered nothing at all over the Wii.
Smart Charger.... you keep using that word.. I dont think it means what you think it means.
"smart chargers" dont connect to the internet and then a global system for management. Smart charger means it knows how to stop charging and switch charging modes based on load draw and voltage spikes as well as feedback from the battery. If you think they put in an internect connection to every single "smart charger" I stringly suggest you actually read up on the subject.
Mostly because they all have cablemodems on them and use telnet with a root password of 12345
"not secure" as in they dont have a armed guard near them? they are as secure as a power substation that if you simply start shooting out insulators can cause a LOT more problems with the electrical grid than 10 car charging stations could.
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News flash! if you open the SCADA boxes you have full access to it! That means over 200 Trillion SCADA systems are easily hacked! Al Kidea is just itching to blow up the world due to this huge security breach of using COMMON SCREWS to keep the enclosures closed.
Why? your laptop doesnt have wireless? Wierd.... Because I do this at work, home, in my car, woods, secret bunker under the whitehouse....
And all their phones are at least 2 years out of date on the OS. HTC has the WORST track record for pushing out OS updates.
Yes, in fact any of the current andrpod phones will use a bluetooth mini keyboard and utterly kicks the butt of the N900 hard. Problem is you are still looking at a useless 4 inch screen.
I carry a nexus 7 in a keyboard case. Simply fire it up using it's 3G and I can out SSH and out VNC any N900 fanboi withing seconds. ZOMG I have to carry two devices! oh the huge manatee!
"the micro USB port of my phone is broken. I can neither recharge it nor copy data through USB."
Hello use the 802.11n wireless works just fine for copying data back and forth.
Because my incredibly old and out of date Google Nexus HSPA+ (the galaxy nexus GSM as sold in europe.) has 802.11n.. and Wireless data access works fantastic, I just connect to the phone as it sits else where in the house. I can ssh into it, access files, etc... no problems at all.
Oh and a tip moving foreward, be more careful with your stuff that connector is incredibly easy to break, why cellphones have such an inferior connector on them I'll never understand.
1999 called and they want their pissing and moaning back, You also forgot your rant about not being able to easily remove the battery. (Another red herring that has been a non issue for over 5 years now.)
You are in a very small minority, because the large majority of smartphone users do not care at all about a microSD card slot in the age of 32gig phones.
It's not disabled, its plain old not there.
the iphone 4s and iphone 5 as well as many other phones have penta band radios in them that support All cellular bands and technology. Verizon is just being Scumbaggy by demanding that any phone they allow on their networks to be LOCKED to their networks forever.
It's an example of a company being highly dishonest and nobody calling them out on their dishonest behavior.
If you use this for AV automation, you are already on the fail train. Buy a low end real controller designed for AV integration and call it done instead of cobbling things together.
It's not a valid point. If you need those buy a micro iTX board..
What's next, you guys going to complain that Arduino doesnt have SATA, USB3.0 and GigaE? If you think that these boards need that, then you have no clue as to what you are doing.
" Should they crush all the chips into a fine powder"
Yes that would allow faster consumption without delay. You need a promotion for that fine idea!
"However, the PSTN is 99% ANALOG. "
You havent learned about phone tech in a long time. Your PSTN has been Voip from the local switch for decades. Some places like NYC has building boxes that change it to a type of VoIP at the building to allow 8 apartments in a building to use the last 2 copper pairs that are still working.
"You can't prevent ads without either an onerous EULA with over-the-top enforcement or some hardcore DRM."
So my blocking hosts file in my android phone is "hardcore DRM"? I prevent ads on my android devices just fine.
"There's been a hell of a lot of money utterly wasted with homeland security since 2001."
Fixed that for you.. you seemed to have made a very common mistake assuming that the money was spent well and not blown on completely useless things.
500 landlines do NOT have 500 outbound connections. there are about 125 outbound connections. Therefore it is very easy to overwhelm the system.
Why is it this way? Because phone companies are cheap bastards that are in it for money and not reliability.
A pound of coffee = 12 ounces now. Go ahead look at the bag of starbucks coffee and see how it's not a pound, but you still pay the "pound" price... Most other coffee packages have also started scamming consumers that way.
If you got accepted into the beta program, you would know this. Yes they do and yes I have one on it's way in my prescription.
Secretly? you wearing it under your gimp mask?
No baby! I'm not recording you, I just had a blinking led added to my horribly mis-shapen head...
The guys at Ubuntu have not figured it out in 2 years and 3 iterations. And it seems the Gnome 3 guys also refuse to give up their horrid UI as well.
AT&T networks crumble when there is only 10,000 people in a small area like that. WE have a small motorcycle rally here in July and the 8000 to 10,000 people will utterly crush the nearest 3 cell sites for the entire weekend for AT&T. Verizon does better, but data is completely useless.
PS3 as a inferior MythTV frontend compared to a $39.00 Raspberry Pi.
No thanks, I'll buy the superior Raspberry Pi for media consumption from MythTV and XBMC.
I just wish it was not a half baked platform. The big display remotes should be seperate screens so that Mario Kart would have the Big TV a overhead display and the remote is your driving display, or, status information control display with a 4 split screen on the big TV..
You are interested in a Wii U yet you call the Wii outdated...
You do realize the Wii U is simply a Wii with 720p and a overpriced external screen that does nothing except show you what is on the TV.
I was going to get one until I realized it offered nothing at all over the Wii.
Smart Charger.... you keep using that word.. I dont think it means what you think it means.
"smart chargers" dont connect to the internet and then a global system for management. Smart charger means it knows how to stop charging and switch charging modes based on load draw and voltage spikes as well as feedback from the battery. If you think they put in an internect connection to every single "smart charger" I stringly suggest you actually read up on the subject.
Mostly because they all have cablemodems on them and use telnet with a root password of 12345
"not secure" as in they dont have a armed guard near them? they are as secure as a power substation that if you simply start shooting out insulators can cause a LOT more problems with the electrical grid than 10 car charging stations could.