This kid is an assclown, and deserves to have the book thrown at him.
POS's like him are the reason you now get sued for breaching someone's network, rather than given a job.
Hopefully He's already seen Office Space, so FPMITAP (Federal Pound Me In The Arse Prison) won't be so foreign to him (In reality, He'll be stuck in Lompoc Federal Criminal Training Center... Err Correctional Facility).
Seriously, the act, dessiminating the information and just being a straight assclown for the fame of it makes him deserving of a technical Darwin award. And thanks for taking the legitimacy out of security work, idiot.
That's the problem. The market information is publicly viewable by the FCC.
Neilsen isn't a government entity, it's a private corporation trying to conceal through obscurity.
The FCC is the one that decides what your market is going to be. The FCC is the one who DICTATES what your antenna pattern will be. The FCC is the one who DICTATES what your market will be. The FCC is the one who APPROVES what your format will be (talk, music, etc).
Nielsen is nothing more than a company that created a niche market by taking the information from ULS and other FCC databases and made the public think it was theirs. It isn't, wasn't, never will be.
Neilsen is trying to protect information that is actually public by trying to make people believe it is THEIR information. In actuality, it's public information that can be gotten from FOIA.
Uh huh. I can really do this from, literally, a thousand miles away. With a shattered right leg, shattered right pelvis and broken right shoulder.
Oh, I agree with you, we had the talk, and grandmother can get her car fixed. The next move is to have her declared incompetent, and that's easier said than done.
My grandmother IS an ex cop. She KNOWS she should be off the road, but refuses because it would cause her an inconvenience. Her inconvenience is more important to her than the safety of the masses.
Read my other post about elderly people and their mental faculties.
Anywho, been there, done that, hard to control someone from thousands of miles away. Thank goodness my Uncle is a piece of work that cares more about making money than taking care of his mother..... Considering he IS a millionaire, I can see his point. You MUST have more money than you can spend.. Especially when you have NO children or other heirs. Leave it to the doggie, idiot!
In most areas, there are viable alternatives for the elderly.
The problem stems (and this comes from my 80+ y/o grandmother and her senior center 'interviews') from the fact that the elderly have a sense of entitlement. Most of them have given a LOT to their country, and believe in the 'freedoms' they fought for.
The issue steps up, when you figure that these "older" people can't 'function'. I mean, there's a reason we sent a bunch of spring chicken into D-Day, rather than our 'seasoned vets' from WWI.
My grandmother, as I said, has been in 3 accidents. Says she should be off the road. Still drives because she finds the "inconvenience" of having to make appointments for driving from the resources from senior center and mass transit. (You have to give the senior transit system about 90 minutes prior, and you have to keep to your schedule, or they will bypass you, and you have to get another appointment).
It's a drag, literally and figuratively. Old people have that sense of entitlement. Of course, it has been proven that our mental faculties drop to those of a teen / even earlier, and we all know how well adjusted teens and younger are when it comes to common sense, right?:)
Also, the WRTV (World Radio and Television Handbook) has been in existence for literally decades. This lists EVERY known station in the WORLD, their location, power output, frequencies of operation, sometimes antenna structures, etc., etc., etc... WAY more than Neilsen ever produced.
NOW, if the information was gleaned directly from Neilsen, then yes, it's copyrightable. BUT, if they only used FCC.gov, or ANY of the radio afficianado sites on the internet (and I know of literally a hundred plus) to look up information, then it's complete bullshit.
HOWEVER, as someone else had said, it is wrong for them to take the pages down, just on a DMCA. WRONG. The DMCA was enacted to protect things. The DMCA should be followed, but a standard should be set that after the DMCA has been followed, the offending pages removed, their should be some type of review to see if the pages where, in fact, in violation.
Anywho, it's funny. Nielsen is trying to copyright information available on the internet from nearly every government spectrum management association.
My 80 yr old grandmother has been in 3 accidents in as many months. SHE states she needs to be off the road, but at the same time, she refuses to let her freedom go.
I call bullshit. Let the ARRP get some people to help the elders. They just DON'T have the reaction time that younger (relatively) drivers have.
But, I guess we can't say anything bad about the elderly. After all, nobody is entitled to bring anyone else down in these U.S. of America.
But seriously.... My grandfather sold his 80K dollar travel trailer, truck and everything when HE realized that it wasn't safe. Then he became one of the WORST people against old people driving, just because he had enough common sense to "get off the road".
The electoral college was originally set up because most people in the US of A where illiterate at the time of the inception of the country.
Electoral college members would come from each "community" within a state, the number of EC members being proportionate to the amount of populace in each state. These "members" would cast a vote, based upon what their "community" wanted... IE, they where nothing more than people who counted the Yea's and Nay's at the local pub, then brought that to the state / county seat and cast a single vote to represent the masses.
It works then, and it works now. With the people I see posting on most other sites (slashdot members I've noticed have more of an education or literacy rate higher than most other 'forums'), I don't WANT their vote counted towards picking our president.
I mean, the electoral college is a flawed system in this day and age, but do you honestly want the next president picked by Britney, Lindsey and Nicole?
Hence the reason I went the way of an I-6 engine when I bought my truck... I went a 2006 Dodge CTD 4X4.
I get upwards of 18 MPG unloaded at 70 MPH, flat ground.
I get > 10 MPG pulling my 10K pound (11,500 pound loaded) 5th wheel travel trailer.
I get > 10 MPG pulling my 49' (LOA) flatbed trailer, loaded up to 26K pounds at a time, for a gross combined of 35K pounds (I'm tagged to 33K, but get trip permits when I must go over).
Yeah, you got a bigger GCWR, but I have 100K miles on my truck, all pulling trailers. Found my 3 axel flatbed brakes where bad at 50K miles, meaning I had 30K miles on the truck pulling a load, using only truck brakes.... I replaced the front and back pads and rotors at 85K.
Ford builds a piece of crap. I bought them for many years as manager of the 2nd largest tow company in so-cal. Since the introduction of the 6 liter IH/Powerstroke, they haven't had an engine I would write home about.
GM is the same way. About 20 percent of their current gen diesels didn't start after being unloaded from the carhaulers, a la the 2003 6 liter powerstroke fiasco.
I'm truly sorry to hear about your MPG woas. 11 MPG sucks.
Flashed, my truck gets > 13 MPG loaded. The numbers above where the stock truck tune, completely stock, sans the K & N airfilter and cold-air intake.
Pariculate filters have been made mandatory (although I can't remember the year) by the US Government on all classes of truck, not just passenger (which is what they are using them on now, with the V8 Ford and GM engines and the Inline Cummins Dodge venture) trucks.
They are a comin, thats for sure.
DPF's are a great thing. I've driven a Cummins that had one, and I hardly knew. You just have to drive it like a Diesel with a DPF, not a gas motor.
Microsoft shill my ass.... I just use things that work. I don't find the need to suck the collective dicks of the moderators, or you, here, or anywhere else. I tell it like I see it, and you are free to disagree. Just don't try disagreeing by putting words in my mouth. It's amazing how much your mind can open up when you realize you don't have to jump on the "I h8 XXX bandwagon" just to be popular.
Mine are stock, stock AT&T issued phones. I don't have the problems you do. Bottom line.
You can't "increase the amount of wireless space". Spectrum is a finite substance, the only thing we can do is figure out a way to share it more efficiently.
The technology being talked about here is nothing more than a trunking system.
Reference Motorola and Erricson's trunk system as well as others.
It's very simple why people choose to interview IT people, and test them.
IT is one of the only professions left that calls themselves 'engineers', without ANY Engineering background or schooling.
Lawyers. They take a test, it's called the BAR Association.
Doctors. They take a test. They also spend years honing their skills and being 'interviewed' by their peers (hear of a internship or doing 'your residency').
Engineers. They have their own schools of thought.
None of the major, high paid, engineering or other type jobs let you get away with calling yourself whatever you want in a title... They require more than a "diploma and a couple certs". Try becoming a real Electrical Engineer, or a Nuclear Engineer, or a D.D.s. Or any other type of doctor.
It's simple. People in IT lie, cheat and steal to get a better job. Too many people have been burned by self-titled "engineers" and professionals, and honestly, all those certifications you have mean little to shit to the average hiring manager.
Seriously, as a Fortune 5 level IT manager, I found that most of my problems came from my "certified" employees, whereas the self-taught ones that didn't have the "I have an ***insert_title_here*** cert, so I know I'm right" usually got it wrong.
That's the reason behind testing. Too many people in IT either lie about their skills, lie about their person, or simply embellish the truth to the point of where it makes no semblance of sense as to what they are trying to convey.
Maybe you should look to the crap your vendor installed, or the crap software you installed on your phone.
Seriously, I don't have any of the problems you stated are with the phones. Granted, I don't have your model phone, but still... Your disparaging the entire O/S because of your experience with a single phone (brand / model)...
I don't have either of those problems, but then, I don't install every application I can find over bittorrent, either.
It's simple. Don't use substandard hardware you buy at (insert chain here) in the bargain bin, and windows won't crash. Don't buy a 3 dollar 1 gig xSD card at Longs Drugs, and you won't have failing ram problems.
I never understood the people that stand up, bitch the loudest, only to find out they are trying to get their 4 megabyte RAM AGP card to work on Vista....
Dog slow and unreliable. Sounds like... An IPhone Luser?
Or, to put it a bit more bluntly, bullshit pieces of hardware and substandard software bundled and dished out to the techno-wannabe-geeks that get turned on by stupid commercials with idiots making fools of themselves BUT THEY HAVE LITTLE WHITE CORDS.
I have a friend with an IPhone. She brought it over to show me how cool it was. I showed her my HTC pocketPC phone. I can do MORE on mine than she can do on hers. Mine was cheaper. Mine has a lower monthly rate plan. All around, I have a better phone (doesn't have to be jailbroken to be useful), still has a warantee (doesn't have to be jailbroken to be useful), can be tethered (doesn't have to be jailbroken to be useful)... I see a pattern here.
My 'friend' only bought the IPhone because her "work" commped her for it. Because her boss HAD to have one. He has a Blackberry now, and her IPhone that was SO FUCKING WONDERFUL, now sits gracing the bottom of her purse more often than not.
--Toll_Free
in the IPhone's defense, it does do fairly well as a phone. Always a clear connection, and rarely does she state she drops calls. Still a piece o sh1t, though.
A bill drafted by the commun**** err I mean, Democrats. introduced by Biden, but then he doesn't even vote on his own bill! Any earmarks to be found in or around it?
But seriously, this is no different than the fact that if you grow marijuana or cook meth in a rental house, and get caught, the owner of the house can lose his house because of your actions.
No different, I mean. Break the law, and expect NOT to have someone to catch you? Might not agree with IP police, but at the same time, the law is the law, and Obama's VP pick wants to keep it that way.
I suggest the Obama fanboi's remember this come election day. I mean, it pissed me off to read it, and I'm NOT a fan of Obama. He might make a good president, but he has no real track record other than being able to excite the masses.
The last person elected like that had a funny mustache and hated people of Yiddish decent, although he was himself.
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This kid is an assclown, and deserves to have the book thrown at him.
POS's like him are the reason you now get sued for breaching someone's network, rather than given a job.
Hopefully He's already seen Office Space, so FPMITAP (Federal Pound Me In The Arse Prison) won't be so foreign to him (In reality, He'll be stuck in Lompoc Federal Criminal Training Center... Err Correctional Facility).
Seriously, the act, dessiminating the information and just being a straight assclown for the fame of it makes him deserving of a technical Darwin award. And thanks for taking the legitimacy out of security work, idiot.
--Toll_Free
He's using 3G
He's been downloading since he got the modem.
Movies will be available my months end. Or, at least, 1 movie.
We hope.
You bringing popcorn?
--Toll_Free
Anyone else read this as a dollar a gigabyte monthly?
Unlimited (but a 3 gig a day cap applies)
When did unlimited become a daily limit?
--Toll_Free
So is Neilsens data.
That's the problem. The market information is publicly viewable by the FCC.
Neilsen isn't a government entity, it's a private corporation trying to conceal through obscurity.
The FCC is the one that decides what your market is going to be. The FCC is the one who DICTATES what your antenna pattern will be. The FCC is the one who DICTATES what your market will be. The FCC is the one who APPROVES what your format will be (talk, music, etc).
Nielsen is nothing more than a company that created a niche market by taking the information from ULS and other FCC databases and made the public think it was theirs. It isn't, wasn't, never will be.
Neilsen is trying to protect information that is actually public by trying to make people believe it is THEIR information. In actuality, it's public information that can be gotten from FOIA.
--Toll_Free
Uh huh. I can really do this from, literally, a thousand miles away. With a shattered right leg, shattered right pelvis and broken right shoulder.
Oh, I agree with you, we had the talk, and grandmother can get her car fixed. The next move is to have her declared incompetent, and that's easier said than done.
My grandmother IS an ex cop. She KNOWS she should be off the road, but refuses because it would cause her an inconvenience. Her inconvenience is more important to her than the safety of the masses.
Read my other post about elderly people and their mental faculties.
Anywho, been there, done that, hard to control someone from thousands of miles away. Thank goodness my Uncle is a piece of work that cares more about making money than taking care of his mother..... Considering he IS a millionaire, I can see his point. You MUST have more money than you can spend.. Especially when you have NO children or other heirs. Leave it to the doggie, idiot!
Anywho, enough dirty laundry.
--Toll_Free
In most areas, there are viable alternatives for the elderly.
The problem stems (and this comes from my 80+ y/o grandmother and her senior center 'interviews') from the fact that the elderly have a sense of entitlement. Most of them have given a LOT to their country, and believe in the 'freedoms' they fought for.
The issue steps up, when you figure that these "older" people can't 'function'. I mean, there's a reason we sent a bunch of spring chicken into D-Day, rather than our 'seasoned vets' from WWI.
My grandmother, as I said, has been in 3 accidents. Says she should be off the road. Still drives because she finds the "inconvenience" of having to make appointments for driving from the resources from senior center and mass transit. (You have to give the senior transit system about 90 minutes prior, and you have to keep to your schedule, or they will bypass you, and you have to get another appointment).
It's a drag, literally and figuratively. Old people have that sense of entitlement. Of course, it has been proven that our mental faculties drop to those of a teen / even earlier, and we all know how well adjusted teens and younger are when it comes to common sense, right? :)
--Toll_Free
Yup.
Just ask the Mexicans how good the gun ban in their country is working.
Or ask any of the knife victims. Or shooting victims.
--Toll_Free
Ahh, thanks Google.
I mean, I hated actually having free will to watch what I wanted. It was HORRIBLE having to actually monitor my children on the internet as well.
IOW, Fuck You, Google! Censorship is censorship, period. If it wasn't for Google, after all, where would I find my videos to watch?
--Toll_Free
The problem with this, you can go to http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/searchLicense.jsp to get pretty much ANY information that they publish.
Also, the WRTV (World Radio and Television Handbook) has been in existence for literally decades. This lists EVERY known station in the WORLD, their location, power output, frequencies of operation, sometimes antenna structures, etc., etc., etc... WAY more than Neilsen ever produced.
NOW, if the information was gleaned directly from Neilsen, then yes, it's copyrightable. BUT, if they only used FCC.gov, or ANY of the radio afficianado sites on the internet (and I know of literally a hundred plus) to look up information, then it's complete bullshit.
HOWEVER, as someone else had said, it is wrong for them to take the pages down, just on a DMCA. WRONG. The DMCA was enacted to protect things. The DMCA should be followed, but a standard should be set that after the DMCA has been followed, the offending pages removed, their should be some type of review to see if the pages where, in fact, in violation.
Anywho, it's funny. Nielsen is trying to copyright information available on the internet from nearly every government spectrum management association.
--Toll_Free
Or Cracker Barrel.
OK, let me mince words.
This is bullshit.
My 80 yr old grandmother has been in 3 accidents in as many months. SHE states she needs to be off the road, but at the same time, she refuses to let her freedom go.
I call bullshit. Let the ARRP get some people to help the elders. They just DON'T have the reaction time that younger (relatively) drivers have.
But, I guess we can't say anything bad about the elderly. After all, nobody is entitled to bring anyone else down in these U.S. of America.
But seriously.... My grandfather sold his 80K dollar travel trailer, truck and everything when HE realized that it wasn't safe. Then he became one of the WORST people against old people driving, just because he had enough common sense to "get off the road".
--Toll_Free
The electoral college was originally set up because most people in the US of A where illiterate at the time of the inception of the country.
Electoral college members would come from each "community" within a state, the number of EC members being proportionate to the amount of populace in each state. These "members" would cast a vote, based upon what their "community" wanted... IE, they where nothing more than people who counted the Yea's and Nay's at the local pub, then brought that to the state / county seat and cast a single vote to represent the masses.
It works then, and it works now. With the people I see posting on most other sites (slashdot members I've noticed have more of an education or literacy rate higher than most other 'forums'), I don't WANT their vote counted towards picking our president.
I mean, the electoral college is a flawed system in this day and age, but do you honestly want the next president picked by Britney, Lindsey and Nicole?
--Toll_Free
Damn, sucks to be you.
Hence the reason I went the way of an I-6 engine when I bought my truck... I went a 2006 Dodge CTD 4X4.
I get upwards of 18 MPG unloaded at 70 MPH, flat ground.
I get > 10 MPG pulling my 10K pound (11,500 pound loaded) 5th wheel travel trailer.
I get > 10 MPG pulling my 49' (LOA) flatbed trailer, loaded up to 26K pounds at a time, for a gross combined of 35K pounds (I'm tagged to 33K, but get trip permits when I must go over).
Yeah, you got a bigger GCWR, but I have 100K miles on my truck, all pulling trailers. Found my 3 axel flatbed brakes where bad at 50K miles, meaning I had 30K miles on the truck pulling a load, using only truck brakes.... I replaced the front and back pads and rotors at 85K.
Ford builds a piece of crap. I bought them for many years as manager of the 2nd largest tow company in so-cal. Since the introduction of the 6 liter IH/Powerstroke, they haven't had an engine I would write home about.
GM is the same way. About 20 percent of their current gen diesels didn't start after being unloaded from the carhaulers, a la the 2003 6 liter powerstroke fiasco.
I'm truly sorry to hear about your MPG woas. 11 MPG sucks.
Flashed, my truck gets > 13 MPG loaded. The numbers above where the stock truck tune, completely stock, sans the K & N airfilter and cold-air intake.
--Toll_Free
Not true.
The current crop of diesel engines is so clean not because of forced induction, it's more because of direct injection.
Direct Injection created cleaner, quieter, and a LOT more horsepower diesel engines.
--Toll_Free
Pariculate filters have been made mandatory (although I can't remember the year) by the US Government on all classes of truck, not just passenger (which is what they are using them on now, with the V8 Ford and GM engines and the Inline Cummins Dodge venture) trucks.
They are a comin, thats for sure.
DPF's are a great thing. I've driven a Cummins that had one, and I hardly knew. You just have to drive it like a Diesel with a DPF, not a gas motor.
--Toll_Free
Horsepower numbers mean little to nothing, except to the uneducated.
It's the torque number, and more importantly, the "under the curve" torque number, that actually has meaning.
You can create a horsepower band anywhere you want, as long as you have the technology to gear accordingly, and you have enough torque to pull it off.
--Toll_Free
I suggest reading comprehension.
Nowhere did I mention I modified mine.
What an idiot. Arguing just for the sake.
Microsoft shill my ass.... I just use things that work. I don't find the need to suck the collective dicks of the moderators, or you, here, or anywhere else. I tell it like I see it, and you are free to disagree. Just don't try disagreeing by putting words in my mouth. It's amazing how much your mind can open up when you realize you don't have to jump on the "I h8 XXX bandwagon" just to be popular.
Mine are stock, stock AT&T issued phones. I don't have the problems you do. Bottom line.
--Toll_Free
This has already been done.
You can't "increase the amount of wireless space". Spectrum is a finite substance, the only thing we can do is figure out a way to share it more efficiently.
The technology being talked about here is nothing more than a trunking system.
Reference Motorola and Erricson's trunk system as well as others.
--Toll_Free
It's very simple why people choose to interview IT people, and test them.
IT is one of the only professions left that calls themselves 'engineers', without ANY Engineering background or schooling.
Lawyers. They take a test, it's called the BAR Association.
Doctors. They take a test. They also spend years honing their skills and being 'interviewed' by their peers (hear of a internship or doing 'your residency').
Engineers. They have their own schools of thought.
None of the major, high paid, engineering or other type jobs let you get away with calling yourself whatever you want in a title... They require more than a "diploma and a couple certs". Try becoming a real Electrical Engineer, or a Nuclear Engineer, or a D.D.s. Or any other type of doctor.
It's simple. People in IT lie, cheat and steal to get a better job. Too many people have been burned by self-titled "engineers" and professionals, and honestly, all those certifications you have mean little to shit to the average hiring manager.
Seriously, as a Fortune 5 level IT manager, I found that most of my problems came from my "certified" employees, whereas the self-taught ones that didn't have the "I have an ***insert_title_here*** cert, so I know I'm right" usually got it wrong.
That's the reason behind testing. Too many people in IT either lie about their skills, lie about their person, or simply embellish the truth to the point of where it makes no semblance of sense as to what they are trying to convey.
--Toll_Free
Wow, sucks to be you.
I don't have that problem, on an HTC Wizard.
Nor does my gf on her Tilt.
Maybe you should look to the crap your vendor installed, or the crap software you installed on your phone.
Seriously, I don't have any of the problems you stated are with the phones. Granted, I don't have your model phone, but still... Your disparaging the entire O/S because of your experience with a single phone (brand / model)...
Sounds silly to me.
--Toll_Free
I don't have either of those problems, but then, I don't install every application I can find over bittorrent, either.
It's simple. Don't use substandard hardware you buy at (insert chain here) in the bargain bin, and windows won't crash. Don't buy a 3 dollar 1 gig xSD card at Longs Drugs, and you won't have failing ram problems.
I never understood the people that stand up, bitch the loudest, only to find out they are trying to get their 4 megabyte RAM AGP card to work on Vista....
Dog slow and unreliable. Sounds like... An IPhone Luser?
--Toll_Free
"Potentially visionary ideas, incompetent execution..."
Or, to put it a bit more bluntly, bullshit pieces of hardware and substandard software bundled and dished out to the techno-wannabe-geeks that get turned on by stupid commercials with idiots making fools of themselves BUT THEY HAVE LITTLE WHITE CORDS.
I have a friend with an IPhone. She brought it over to show me how cool it was. I showed her my HTC pocketPC phone. I can do MORE on mine than she can do on hers. Mine was cheaper. Mine has a lower monthly rate plan. All around, I have a better phone (doesn't have to be jailbroken to be useful), still has a warantee (doesn't have to be jailbroken to be useful), can be tethered (doesn't have to be jailbroken to be useful)... I see a pattern here.
My 'friend' only bought the IPhone because her "work" commped her for it. Because her boss HAD to have one. He has a Blackberry now, and her IPhone that was SO FUCKING WONDERFUL, now sits gracing the bottom of her purse more often than not.
--Toll_Free
in the IPhone's defense, it does do fairly well as a phone. Always a clear connection, and rarely does she state she drops calls. Still a piece o sh1t, though.
As a windows user since 1, and a WM user since it was... Um, CE, I want to know, what exactly is unpleasant about it?
The fact that it works? Works better than something Apple came up with (phones)? The fact that Microsoft has something better?
Why do you have to wait for Google to have Android? As the person above you said, you can damn near program for WM with a bevy of different languages.
So, what exactly sucks about windows mobile?
--Toll_Free
"Desktop Linux's future is starting to look brighter."
Oh gee, have I heard this anywhere before?
--Toll_Free
This is funny.
A bill drafted by the commun**** err I mean, Democrats. introduced by Biden, but then he doesn't even vote on his own bill! Any earmarks to be found in or around it?
But seriously, this is no different than the fact that if you grow marijuana or cook meth in a rental house, and get caught, the owner of the house can lose his house because of your actions.
No different, I mean. Break the law, and expect NOT to have someone to catch you? Might not agree with IP police, but at the same time, the law is the law, and Obama's VP pick wants to keep it that way.
I suggest the Obama fanboi's remember this come election day. I mean, it pissed me off to read it, and I'm NOT a fan of Obama. He might make a good president, but he has no real track record other than being able to excite the masses.
The last person elected like that had a funny mustache and hated people of Yiddish decent, although he was himself.
--Toll_Free