Lets be honest here, RIM lets all governments read user emails, it's just that in some countries it gets more publicity than in others. You can't seriously believe that privacy-neutral states like US or UK do not have a backdoor into RIM infrastructure.
Remember Palm (a pioneer in PDA's and a very profitable entity) and what happened to them after the flop of Palm Foleo? BlackBerry's Playbook is their Foleo.
People still shop for electronics at brick and mortar stores?
Agreed - you can get stuff a lot cheaper on Amazon these days and real men don't need extended warranties; besides how is denying yourself business a punishment for the customer?
I think BestBuy is hoping that this will discourage other people from taking them to court when they screw them over. Looks like they want to learn the hard way about bullying consumers.
Electronic typewriters are the best - it's like a computer with direct I/O bus output to a printer, with no need for drivers or underlaying operating system. It's a tablet in reverse, technology of the future!
I think the Slashdot repost is missing the point in the article:
It's calling on its inspector general to expand an investigation launched into Workforce Central Florida last month. WFTV prompted that investigation when it reported the agency spent $250,000 tax dollars on staff cars.
Now there's the overspending for you. Unless you call this motivation for their own staff, in which case never mind.
It does say that it works with 3,000 different phones and the fact that most manufacturers will stick to same types of jacks for their product lines, probably limits the number of jacks cops have to have in the cruiser to maybe a dozen or two.
There's another type of drive similar to this, only it wipes itself if power is ever cut. Sure, law enforcement count swipe the computer, but odds are they'd turn it off before taking it.
"Wipes" itself how? With a large magnet or a hammer? Because I doubt that it will be able to write itself with random data 5-7 passes, if it has no power. What's to prevent someone from "unformatting" it?
Question I have is - who wants to lose their data every time TSA decides to "inspect" their laptop and tries to clone their drive?
I guess it makes sense if you don't want to pay or contribute to get your answers. I contribute and therefore have access to the answers, so it's a very useful site.
'Hacking' refers to modifying something to function in ways not facilitated by the designer. Surgeons don't hack, they fix.
P.S. Except for plastic surgeons, specifically the sex change ones. Those are really hacky indeed.
Why can't they jut make a simple, reasonably-sized USB proximity dongle that sends a Windows+L keystroke (instead of using stupid third party "lockscreens").
Any punishment that the government can inflict upon him for doing this, will be nothing compared to what his wife will do to him once she's back in the country.
How much damage to the show's popularity can a Twitter post or a Facebook picture do? If anything, they're running a rick of one of the "badly shot videos" going viral and 25 million people tuning in to see what it supposed to look like during the actual episode.
Placebo effect applies to other things too. For example, most elevator "close doors" buttons have been "wired" to do absolutely nothing for the past 20 years or so.
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Porn industry should be all over this for next step in the "live webcam" experience methinks.
Lets be honest here, RIM lets all governments read user emails, it's just that in some countries it gets more publicity than in others. You can't seriously believe that privacy-neutral states like US or UK do not have a backdoor into RIM infrastructure.
I think this entire article is just trolling for posts in the comments. Making statements/questions like that on Slashdot is a little obvious...
Remember Palm (a pioneer in PDA's and a very profitable entity) and what happened to them after the flop of Palm Foleo? BlackBerry's Playbook is their Foleo.
People still shop for electronics at brick and mortar stores?
Agreed - you can get stuff a lot cheaper on Amazon these days and real men don't need extended warranties; besides how is denying yourself business a punishment for the customer?
I think BestBuy is hoping that this will discourage other people from taking them to court when they screw them over. Looks like they want to learn the hard way about bullying consumers.
Electronic typewriters are the best - it's like a computer with direct I/O bus output to a printer, with no need for drivers or underlaying operating system. It's a tablet in reverse, technology of the future!
"Stream of Wii", nice.
It's calling on its inspector general to expand an investigation launched into Workforce Central Florida last month. WFTV prompted that investigation when it reported the agency spent $250,000 tax dollars on staff cars.
Now there's the overspending for you. Unless you call this motivation for their own staff, in which case never mind.
It does say that it works with 3,000 different phones and the fact that most manufacturers will stick to same types of jacks for their product lines, probably limits the number of jacks cops have to have in the cruiser to maybe a dozen or two.
You see what your child can accomplish if they don't spend hours in front of a TV?
Daniel Ek, is that you?
There's another type of drive similar to this, only it wipes itself if power is ever cut. Sure, law enforcement count swipe the computer, but odds are they'd turn it off before taking it.
"Wipes" itself how? With a large magnet or a hammer? Because I doubt that it will be able to write itself with random data 5-7 passes, if it has no power. What's to prevent someone from "unformatting" it?
Question I have is - who wants to lose their data every time TSA decides to "inspect" their laptop and tries to clone their drive?
I guess it makes sense if you don't want to pay or contribute to get your answers. I contribute and therefore have access to the answers, so it's a very useful site.
A tool alone is useless; without synergy with the knowledge of how to leverage and utilize that tool. Cloud computing.
'Hacking' refers to modifying something to function in ways not facilitated by the designer. Surgeons don't hack, they fix. P.S. Except for plastic surgeons, specifically the sex change ones. Those are really hacky indeed.
Dennis Montgomery and his phony secret terrorist message decoding software comes to mind for some reason...
I don't have a Facebook account. No, really, I don't. Now what? I don't get hired? Sounds like a lawsuit to me.
Why can't they jut make a simple, reasonably-sized USB proximity dongle that sends a Windows+L keystroke (instead of using stupid third party "lockscreens").
Any punishment that the government can inflict upon him for doing this, will be nothing compared to what his wife will do to him once she's back in the country.
PETA will be all over this if you try to actually test it on an animal. You'll need some volunteer sumo wrestlers.
How much damage to the show's popularity can a Twitter post or a Facebook picture do? If anything, they're running a rick of one of the "badly shot videos" going viral and 25 million people tuning in to see what it supposed to look like during the actual episode.
Can't use PEBKAC when there is no keyboard. For iPhone issues it should be PEBCAP - "Problem Exists Between Chair and Problem" :P
That looks very thorny, I feel bad for the elephant tasked with expelling one of those so that someone can make $300...
Placebo effect applies to other things too. For example, most elevator "close doors" buttons have been "wired" to do absolutely nothing for the past 20 years or so.
I can finally use girls as fridge-magnets :)