"Can you imagine spending even $5k for a computer now? Or $2k?"
Yes I can as well as a lot of others. In the pro world we do that a lot.
My last video editor cost me $5000.00 for just the computer. The laptop I just bought for my field tech cost $3500.00 and It's a dual core i3 (Panasonic Toughbook)
If you look outside the world of really low end consumer, Most of us that use computers for a living actually pay those prices.
Voice mail is better, using a real service like an asterisk box or google voice parsing all the incoming calls is better. I have a land line coming in that goes into a FXO card on my asterisk box, all the cisco phones in the house have a soft button programmed as "BLACKLIST" if we get a unwanted sales call we push it without saying a word and that number will never ever ring the phone again but go directly to voicemail, it then get's dumped into a "torture the sales drone" que.
My 80 year old mother has an answering machine.... go and try to fin those endless casette tapes for the outgoing message... hers is so used you can hear other calls under the current call...
It's based on the "honestly" of the company. and people need to have the balls to call them out. People need to publicall call companies DISHONEST when they do things like that.
You call the phone company and demand they block all third party charges. They will hem and haw about how your life will suck without them. also with that block all fee phone number exchanges... yes they can do that as well. I got further and block all international calling as well. If I want to talk to Gunther in Germany, I'll use Skype or a calling card that is massively cheaper.
Honestly they need to default to all this crap being blocked and you have to call to enable it.
Dont need lead based paint. go and buy " magnetic paint" it has a TON of iron in it so that magents will stick to kids walls. well 3 coats of this and painting in a copper strip to ground = a significant attenuation of RF. so much that a cellphone will NOT work in my daughters room.
The funny part is that history already has those answers to draw upon. with minor changes that can easily be done you can upgrade what we used to do in cities before the flush toilet existed.
Look at london, NYC, etc... a lot of the world had large cities without plumbing and sewage answers for a very long time. But there are no answers for dense populations without having a way of sewage removal, unless they invent the portable black hole and give them away for free to everyone.
Not only did i read the summary but I read the FA as well. they are trying to apply technology that will not be fricking used for a problem that a solution was discovered several thousand years ago.
You dont crap where you drink and eat. A proper outhouse is the solution. they talk about children playing in sewage, that is because these people are just crapping randomly or in open pits. where a proper outhouse IS the answer.
Blowing money to find a solution that has existed forever is dumb.
A proper privy is sanitary, stinky, but still sanitary. I think he has finally went over to the nutter side. a flush toilet that wastes precious water is NOT the answer.
The answer is teach these people how to build a proper outhouse with venting and propery locate it AWAY from your water supply. Many photos sent by friends that are in Peace Corps shows people crapping basically on top of their water source.
How about making it cheap and easy to purify any water for thee people FIRST... the greatest way to reduce disease is to give everyone a source of clean water.
Physical security like control your Wireless signal. place the AP in a location where it does not spill outside. I.E. actually understand RF energy and how to control it.
I have an Open AP that unless you are in the house or up against my glass you are NOT getting in. and no you posers claiming you can do it with a cantenna cant. I have a 27db gain 2 foot dish and I cant get into it until I am 4 feet from the house. There are advantages to having aluminum siding and aluminum window screens plus the AP residing in the basement on the floor.
MY city installed several EV charging stations for people to use for free...
Yes they cut police to the point that we do not have police officers patrolling some neighborhoods at night.
I am glad the rich people get to charge their EV's for free! Now I have to go shopping for floodlights because of the asshole teenage boys that like to vandalize.
"The drive containing evidence will be cloned through a "hardware write blocker", a device designed and certified to ignore all ATA/SATA/SAS/SCSI/whatever commands that have the potential to modify data on the drive, and only allow readback."
Works great until they try it against someone that wrote their own firmware for a drive. Buddy of mine in college did that . he reverse engineered an old Deathstar drive's Firmware and added for fun a "no soup for you" function.
If the drive was ever accessed without sending it a command to write to sector -1 a specific pattern it would return random garbage to every command. It was clever as hell. and a fun way to hide his porn.
so this device unless it replaces the circuit board on the drive and talks to the heads directly will completely fail.
In fact if someone came up with selling drives that have a "screw you copper" function like that they could get really rich.
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Because we all know home use is all about moving 500GB or larger around from place to place....
Idiot.
"Can you imagine spending even $5k for a computer now? Or $2k?"
Yes I can as well as a lot of others. In the pro world we do that a lot.
My last video editor cost me $5000.00 for just the computer.
The laptop I just bought for my field tech cost $3500.00 and It's a dual core i3 (Panasonic Toughbook)
If you look outside the world of really low end consumer, Most of us that use computers for a living actually pay those prices.
VGA existed before that. 5BNC video was very common the hd15 plug is simply the consumer version.
Colloidal silver will save us all!
Also get rid of all technology because EM is draining your soul....
Answering machine? What is this 1984?
Voice mail is better, using a real service like an asterisk box or google voice parsing all the incoming calls is better. I have a land line coming in that goes into a FXO card on my asterisk box, all the cisco phones in the house have a soft button programmed as "BLACKLIST" if we get a unwanted sales call we push it without saying a word and that number will never ever ring the phone again but go directly to voicemail, it then get's dumped into a "torture the sales drone" que.
My 80 year old mother has an answering machine.... go and try to fin those endless casette tapes for the outgoing message... hers is so used you can hear other calls under the current call...
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/routers/ps9923/ps9925/data_sheet_c78-501225.html
Home router with dual wan...
I love the arrogance here...... "Company spokesman Steve Swasey said. 'To most people, it's a latte or two,' he added.""
I have no interest in doing business with a company that has people that are that far out of touch with reality.
It's based on the "honestly" of the company. and people need to have the balls to call them out. People need to publicall call companies DISHONEST when they do things like that.
You call the phone company and demand they block all third party charges. They will hem and haw about how your life will suck without them. also with that block all fee phone number exchanges... yes they can do that as well. I got further and block all international calling as well. If I want to talk to Gunther in Germany, I'll use Skype or a calling card that is massively cheaper.
Honestly they need to default to all this crap being blocked and you have to call to enable it.
I know what will. required prison time and $100,000 in fines for killing a bicyclist with a car. THAT will make people aware of bicyclists.
But then I also want it to cover motorcycles and pedestrians as well.
Dont need lead based paint. go and buy " magnetic paint" it has a TON of iron in it so that magents will stick to kids walls. well 3 coats of this and painting in a copper strip to ground = a significant attenuation of RF. so much that a cellphone will NOT work in my daughters room.
The funny part is that history already has those answers to draw upon. with minor changes that can easily be done you can upgrade what we used to do in cities before the flush toilet existed.
Look at london, NYC, etc... a lot of the world had large cities without plumbing and sewage answers for a very long time.
But there are no answers for dense populations without having a way of sewage removal, unless they invent the portable black hole and give them away for free to everyone.
Not only did i read the summary but I read the FA as well. they are trying to apply technology that will not be fricking used for a problem that a solution was discovered several thousand years ago.
You dont crap where you drink and eat. A proper outhouse is the solution. they talk about children playing in sewage, that is because these people are just crapping randomly or in open pits. where a proper outhouse IS the answer.
Blowing money to find a solution that has existed forever is dumb.
A proper privy is sanitary, stinky, but still sanitary. I think he has finally went over to the nutter side. a flush toilet that wastes precious water is NOT the answer.
The answer is teach these people how to build a proper outhouse with venting and propery locate it AWAY from your water supply. Many photos sent by friends that are in Peace Corps shows people crapping basically on top of their water source.
How about making it cheap and easy to purify any water for thee people FIRST... the greatest way to reduce disease is to give everyone a source of clean water.
And I assumed it was a fake profile.. This is incredibly funny that it really was him.
Physical security like control your Wireless signal. place the AP in a location where it does not spill outside. I.E. actually understand RF energy and how to control it.
I have an Open AP that unless you are in the house or up against my glass you are NOT getting in. and no you posers claiming you can do it with a cantenna cant. I have a 27db gain 2 foot dish and I cant get into it until I am 4 feet from the house. There are advantages to having aluminum siding and aluminum window screens plus the AP residing in the basement on the floor.
Give me an example of an unrestricted capitalist economy that has thrived. Go ahead, I can wait.
MY city installed several EV charging stations for people to use for free...
Yes they cut police to the point that we do not have police officers patrolling some neighborhoods at night.
I am glad the rich people get to charge their EV's for free! Now I have to go shopping for floodlights because of the asshole teenage boys that like to vandalize.
"The drive containing evidence will be cloned through a "hardware write blocker", a device designed and certified to ignore all ATA/SATA/SAS/SCSI/whatever commands that have the potential to modify data on the drive, and only allow readback."
Works great until they try it against someone that wrote their own firmware for a drive. Buddy of mine in college did that . he reverse engineered an old Deathstar drive's Firmware and added for fun a "no soup for you" function.
If the drive was ever accessed without sending it a command to write to sector -1 a specific pattern it would return random garbage to every command. It was clever as hell. and a fun way to hide his porn.
so this device unless it replaces the circuit board on the drive and talks to the heads directly will completely fail.
In fact if someone came up with selling drives that have a "screw you copper" function like that they could get really rich.
The republicans are trying to fix that pesky constitution thing.
Which is why I'll type in my "screw you" password that reveals absolutely nothing.
Real patriots encrypt using Truecrypt and use plausible deniability.
But you cant lick the moon. you CAN lick the rock though.
And no it does not taste like cheese...
"Is it theft for me to take the newsprint from your recycle bin to use in my gardening,"
if my newsprint was in my kitchen waste bin and you broke in to take it? YES.
This is what he did. he Tresspassed to get to it.
Oh jesus no...
If texas lays claim to the Moon none of us will ever hear the end of it.
and bragged about it to everyone he could find.