It is ragingly retarded if it was not firewalled simply with a custom cingular.WAP.BN that those sim cards are only authorized on. It's brain dead easy and if AT&T did not do that from step one then they deserve the pain they are about to recieve.
All AT&T data is currently through cingular.WAP and auths and bills based on your sim number. They have had the capability of having a username and password forever on it but have never used it. There's another way for them to do the same..
Honestly, are all these corporations ran by bungling idiots that dont think of these things? seeing that device the first words out of my mouth in the boardroom would be, "what's to stop someone from taking out the sim and using it in a laptop with a 3G WWAN card?"
news flash, violating a contract is not Theft. It's not my fault they are too stupid to put all those sim cards on a special WAP that only goes to B&N's network.
Let me guess, I'm stealing from BMW when I dont use their oil and filter....
Which is why the current paypal system works better. I dont have to buy a Security certificate for my web store. you order your crap and buy it on my non-secure site, and when it needs to be secure, it drops you to paypal where you verify the amount and click on "yes, send the money"
I have ZERO interest in using their new system if it will cost me more money by having to buy a cert I really do not need.
Sorry I live in america, I work with americans all day.
They are in fact stupid. Very stupid. and yes a great majority do not have the IQ to understand a cellphone contract, let alone how to turn on the projector and select the Laptop as an input source.
I agree, problem is most of us here in the USA are already used to the oppressive laws against consumers so we already do our DMCA violations in secret.
I have to live as if the SS will come smashing down my door in search of contraband. All because I'm a wierdo that wants to have his own Video on demand system with a server full of my DVD's, HDDVD's and Blu Rays, ready to play in any room.
I'm evil, destroying all that is American by not being patriotic and switching discs and cluttering up my living room with cabinets full of discs (Destroying the economy by not buying furniture to hold them! OMG!)
Honestly I took the stand that I don't give a rats-ass what laws are passed and what they say. The laws are un-just so I not only ignore them, I am in contempt of them. I'll do what I want, if I have to design in a system to automatically destroy "evidence" when they storm the house, then so be it. It's the price I pay for living in a country where we gave up being by the people and for the people.
The USA is for the Corporations and by the Corporations....Anyone saying otherwise is either blind or watches Fox News too much.
I have friends that are cops. and some of them have mentioned that more cops need to be shot and killed for their behavior before it will get better.
The cops firmly believe they are better than you and they have special rights over you. They are even told this. They protect their own to make sure that they dont get persecuted for violating rights. Hell they can kill someone and they get a free vacation with pay.
If a cop off duty is speeding,they should lose their job and the ability to be a cop for the rest of their life. Cops should be held to a higher standard with ZERO tolerance to breaking any law.
They should have explained already if they have any respect for you and what you do.
Only smaller companies actually respect the employees today. Look for places with 50 or less employees total to get some respect and recognition anymore.
I've got a desk full of awards that did not mean crap at at fortune 50 company. They change upper and mid managers so much that nobody ever remembers what you did let alone who you are and what you do......
Until you leave and they cant hire anyone to do what you did... They stop calling with questions when you say, "my consultation rate is $120.00 an hour with a minimum of 1 hour billing..."
Problem is most people are idiots and crank up their cost of living with their salary increase.
you lived on $60,000 a year just fine, just because you are now making $120,000 does not mean you HAVE TO live in a mc-mansion and drive a BMW525i the idiots piddle it away on that. The geniuses do not change their lifestyle and stick the extra away so they can retire really early.
My nephew is doing that. He lives on a $40,000 a year income lifestyle, he makes $180,000 a year as an architect. He is currently 29 years old and told me that as his plan is figured out, he will retire at age 43 with enough money to travel the world until he dies of old age. Much Sooner if the stock market recovers.
it's why he has made even more money over the past 4 years while everyone else has lost their shirt.
2003 wants it's business model back. In the tech world going management does not equal "big salaries" I went from Senior IT lead to IT manager and made less if you calculate in hours. I was pulling in 60 hour work weeks as top of the pile IT grunt, all that OT adds up fast. As manager I got a 25% increase and switched to Salaried Exempt. I now work 60 hour weeks and get LESS cash.
If they are moving you from hourly to salaries ask for enough to make up the difference and then some.
Carriers are 100X easier to build than battleships. If we had our full compliment of battleships we would have ended the pacific theater war far earlier.
Carriers back then were simple as hell to build compared to the 18" thick hulls of the Big Iowa class battleships.
The thing is, they will never achieve their goal. It is very easy to fool a set of rules.
communicate in pig latin and replace key words with a word from a list.
Bomb = tree, fat cat, snotty bunny, or Taco. Meet at = Go to lunch, fly a kite near, I eat hamburgers across from, etc....
And those rules are very easy to get to your operatives and can be parsed quickly. If you release new phrasebooks you can confuse the hell out of the detection systems well past the time you need to. Remember, if they detect your communication a day late, then you were 100% successful.
That is the benefit of being a human, you can easily parse silly shit into real data even when it's from a pool of silly words.
and that's just for in the clear comms. It's brain dead easy to send an encrypted message they will either miss or cant decode until it's too pate.
You think that is fun, Try doing a commercial shoot with a team at an airport.
"Ok, we need to set up there and there. we can start shooting when the 12:30 planes arrive to get good coverage as the most people will be here."
Homeland security and TSA people are very dumb and can not understand Film or TV jargon. Nothing like having your entire team detained past the shooting time because the morons refuse to call to administration to clear things up.
Teenage example. Daughter is boy crazy and doing incredibly retarded things like loaning things to friends that are not reliable and with destroy or lose her stuff, she is getting D's and E's in school.
Son is Straight A, on the track team and makes very smart decisions on friends. he does not universally trust everyone like his sister.
The boy is smarter. Not IQ smarter, because she can if she actually tries, kick his ass in mathematics.
But I'm giving the boy the smarter tag simply because he IS living smarter instead of living like an idiot.
I dont care if you have a 175IQ. if you live like a moron, you ARE a moron.
Let me guess, you are from western Europe where your idea of wilderness is the large park where you cant easily see the other side.
Hiking in the national forests in the rockies. I'm 3 days from civilization and the only way you can get to me is a helicopter. Snap your foot there without the GPS locator and you are animal food.
Here in the USA we have huge expanses of winderness with actual wild animals unlike fancy-pants western europe.
you're going travelling, to experience new cultures, people and ideas
put down the computer; the world won't end if you can't access slashdot and your email for a few months
And how does he keep all his friends updated on his Facebook?
I went on a cross country trip on a motorcycle. I posted on my blog at every stop along with a GPS coordinate. It made my family and friends happier and they knew that if I did not post the next morning to contact the authorities along my path.
SPOT personal location beacon. when I press OK it sends a nice email to family of my location and "I'm OK" works great and needs no cellphone coverage. I can press the help button when I break an ankle and know that someone knows I need help and my exact location.
It doesn't really matter, I give this guy a week before his laptop, phone, and wallet are stolen, and his body is tossed out in god forsaken nowhere
You know human organ trafficking is really popular in South America. I dont think they will find much of his body.
"Hey we found this skull, I wonder who's it is? Screw that, let's bleach it and put a candle on top and sell it to the Goth kids on the next bus! Help me get that femur from that dog.. I'm gonna carve some symbols in it and sell it for 300 pesos!"
Solar power plants need panel replacement annually. There is a swap out program. and the selenium and other metals in there makes Uranium mining and waste look eco friendly.
Liquid SALT power plants on the other hand are far more eco friendly... problem is we wont build any here.
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to do useless fancy web2.0 crap. it really is not needed. We disabled it automatically across the company.
so you dont buy Dell or sony then.... they comes with exploding as a feature!
Noooo....
Laptop batteries are made to higher standards..
we cant have laptop batteries bursting in flames or exploding. so we pay more for them to be made better!
It is ragingly retarded if it was not firewalled simply with a custom cingular.WAP.BN that those sim cards are only authorized on. It's brain dead easy and if AT&T did not do that from step one then they deserve the pain they are about to recieve.
All AT&T data is currently through cingular.WAP and auths and bills based on your sim number. They have had the capability of having a username and password forever on it but have never used it. There's another way for them to do the same..
Honestly, are all these corporations ran by bungling idiots that dont think of these things? seeing that device the first words out of my mouth in the boardroom would be, "what's to stop someone from taking out the sim and using it in a laptop with a 3G WWAN card?"
news flash, violating a contract is not Theft. It's not my fault they are too stupid to put all those sim cards on a special WAP that only goes to B&N's network.
Let me guess, I'm stealing from BMW when I dont use their oil and filter....
Which is why the current paypal system works better. I dont have to buy a Security certificate for my web store. you order your crap and buy it on my non-secure site, and when it needs to be secure, it drops you to paypal where you verify the amount and click on "yes, send the money"
I have ZERO interest in using their new system if it will cost me more money by having to buy a cert I really do not need.
Sorry I live in america, I work with americans all day.
They are in fact stupid. Very stupid. and yes a great majority do not have the IQ to understand a cellphone contract, let alone how to turn on the projector and select the Laptop as an input source.
I agree, problem is most of us here in the USA are already used to the oppressive laws against consumers so we already do our DMCA violations in secret.
I have to live as if the SS will come smashing down my door in search of contraband. All because I'm a wierdo that wants to have his own Video on demand system with a server full of my DVD's, HDDVD's and Blu Rays, ready to play in any room.
I'm evil, destroying all that is American by not being patriotic and switching discs and cluttering up my living room with cabinets full of discs (Destroying the economy by not buying furniture to hold them! OMG!)
Honestly I took the stand that I don't give a rats-ass what laws are passed and what they say. The laws are un-just so I not only ignore them, I am in contempt of them. I'll do what I want, if I have to design in a system to automatically destroy "evidence" when they storm the house, then so be it. It's the price I pay for living in a country where we gave up being by the people and for the people.
The USA is for the Corporations and by the Corporations....Anyone saying otherwise is either blind or watches Fox News too much.
I have friends that are cops. and some of them have mentioned that more cops need to be shot and killed for their behavior before it will get better.
The cops firmly believe they are better than you and they have special rights over you. They are even told this. They protect their own to make sure that they dont get persecuted for violating rights. Hell they can kill someone and they get a free vacation with pay.
If a cop off duty is speeding ,they should lose their job and the ability to be a cop for the rest of their life. Cops should be held to a higher standard with ZERO tolerance to breaking any law.
It's like we turned into Hack-A-Day... look I glued this to a piece of paper!
That's why you ask for a limo and driver.... DUH! you youngins' know nothing about how to negotiate a promotion...
They should have explained already if they have any respect for you and what you do.
Only smaller companies actually respect the employees today. Look for places with 50 or less employees total to get some respect and recognition anymore.
I've got a desk full of awards that did not mean crap at at fortune 50 company. They change upper and mid managers so much that nobody ever remembers what you did let alone who you are and what you do......
Until you leave and they cant hire anyone to do what you did... They stop calling with questions when you say, "my consultation rate is $120.00 an hour with a minimum of 1 hour billing..."
Problem is most people are idiots and crank up their cost of living with their salary increase.
you lived on $60,000 a year just fine, just because you are now making $120,000 does not mean you HAVE TO live in a mc-mansion and drive a BMW525i the idiots piddle it away on that. The geniuses do not change their lifestyle and stick the extra away so they can retire really early.
My nephew is doing that. He lives on a $40,000 a year income lifestyle, he makes $180,000 a year as an architect. He is currently 29 years old and told me that as his plan is figured out, he will retire at age 43 with enough money to travel the world until he dies of old age. Much Sooner if the stock market recovers.
it's why he has made even more money over the past 4 years while everyone else has lost their shirt.
2003 wants it's business model back. In the tech world going management does not equal "big salaries" I went from Senior IT lead to IT manager and made less if you calculate in hours. I was pulling in 60 hour work weeks as top of the pile IT grunt, all that OT adds up fast. As manager I got a 25% increase and switched to Salaried Exempt. I now work 60 hour weeks and get LESS cash.
If they are moving you from hourly to salaries ask for enough to make up the difference and then some.
Carriers are 100X easier to build than battleships. If we had our full compliment of battleships we would have ended the pacific theater war far earlier.
Carriers back then were simple as hell to build compared to the 18" thick hulls of the Big Iowa class battleships.
The thing is, they will never achieve their goal. It is very easy to fool a set of rules.
communicate in pig latin and replace key words with a word from a list.
Bomb = tree, fat cat, snotty bunny, or Taco.
Meet at = Go to lunch, fly a kite near, I eat hamburgers across from, etc....
And those rules are very easy to get to your operatives and can be parsed quickly. If you release new phrasebooks you can confuse the hell out of the detection systems well past the time you need to. Remember, if they detect your communication a day late, then you were 100% successful.
That is the benefit of being a human, you can easily parse silly shit into real data even when it's from a pool of silly words.
and that's just for in the clear comms. It's brain dead easy to send an encrypted message they will either miss or cant decode until it's too pate.
You think that is fun, Try doing a commercial shoot with a team at an airport.
"Ok, we need to set up there and there. we can start shooting when the 12:30 planes arrive to get good coverage as the most people will be here."
Homeland security and TSA people are very dumb and can not understand Film or TV jargon. Nothing like having your entire team detained past the shooting time because the morons refuse to call to administration to clear things up.
It depends...
Teenage example. Daughter is boy crazy and doing incredibly retarded things like loaning things to friends that are not reliable and with destroy or lose her stuff, she is getting D's and E's in school.
Son is Straight A, on the track team and makes very smart decisions on friends. he does not universally trust everyone like his sister.
The boy is smarter. Not IQ smarter, because she can if she actually tries, kick his ass in mathematics.
But I'm giving the boy the smarter tag simply because he IS living smarter instead of living like an idiot.
I dont care if you have a 175IQ. if you live like a moron, you ARE a moron.
MIT used the pyramid scheme. You don't have to find a balloon, just get 5 people under you to find 5 people and so on.
It's not MIT tactics... It's AMWAY tactics...
Maybe you should get a brain.
Let me guess, you are from western Europe where your idea of wilderness is the large park where you cant easily see the other side.
Hiking in the national forests in the rockies. I'm 3 days from civilization and the only way you can get to me is a helicopter. Snap your foot there without the GPS locator and you are animal food.
Here in the USA we have huge expanses of winderness with actual wild animals unlike fancy-pants western europe.
http://www.gadgetvenue.com/spot-satellite-gps-emergency-beacon-07231020/
Screw internet security.. I prefer to have a way to let someone know my ass is in a bind and I need help RIGHT NOW!..
I use mine to keep family happy on cross country motorcycle rides or when I go backwoods backpacking. I press the "I'm ok" button at every break.
you're going travelling, to experience new cultures, people and ideas
put down the computer; the world won't end if you can't access slashdot and your email for a few months
And how does he keep all his friends updated on his Facebook?
I went on a cross country trip on a motorcycle. I posted on my blog at every stop along with a GPS coordinate. It made my family and friends happier and they knew that if I did not post the next morning to contact the authorities along my path.
It's just a smart thing to do. When I do backwood backpacking I email friends every 2 hours... I use a http://www.gadgetvenue.com/spot-satellite-gps-emergency-beacon-07231020/
SPOT personal location beacon. when I press OK it sends a nice email to family of my location and "I'm OK" works great and needs no cellphone coverage. I can press the help button when I break an ankle and know that someone knows I need help and my exact location.
It doesn't really matter, I give this guy a week before his laptop, phone, and wallet are stolen, and his body is tossed out in god forsaken nowhere
You know human organ trafficking is really popular in South America. I dont think they will find much of his body.
"Hey we found this skull, I wonder who's it is? Screw that, let's bleach it and put a candle on top and sell it to the Goth kids on the next bus! Help me get that femur from that dog.. I'm gonna carve some symbols in it and sell it for 300 pesos!"
You dont have to clear cut, just trim. you would be suprised how tall the trees can be with rooftop solar still working unshaded.
I had 4 200 foot trees in my front yard and still had working solar. Plus the shading benefit of the house is replaced by the solar panels.
Solar power plants need panel replacement annually. There is a swap out program. and the selenium and other metals in there makes Uranium mining and waste look eco friendly.
Liquid SALT power plants on the other hand are far more eco friendly... problem is we wont build any here.