You are willing to stay home 24/7 with a cocked, loaded gun waiting to hear the floorboards creak. Some people do things like go out to work or to catch a ballgame.
Your value system is such that you believe material possessions are worth risking your life over, by confronting a completely unknown individual in a violent manner.
Thieves are NOT dummies, they know the difference.
I think you're being rather generous to a very broad cross-section of people. Some thieves are not dummies. But some thieves are complete fucking dummies. Go watch some of the videos on baitcar.com if you don't believe me.
Not sure whether it would run afoul of the booby trap laws, but I've often thought it would be a nifty trick to set some kind of device that sprays the perp with indelible purple dye. Then you just tell the cops "look for the guy who's going to be bright purple for the next few days - you can't miss him."
If anybody needs proof that Mariposa is the superior botnet just ask yourself this question: is anybody lining up for 12 hours in the rain to get trojaned by anything else?
You're missing my point. I don't feel that I'm missing out on anything. As far as I'm concerned my existing BB is "something decent" and I feel little compulsion to line up around the block at some store downtown in order to replace it with another device.
Regardless of whether I need it for business, I have to say I kind of like having one device in my pocket that functions as a photo album, web browser, mp3 player, digital camera, gps nav device, map book, pocket calculator, alarm clock, plus a few dozen other trivial things.
I don't get this artificial distinction between "business" users and "non business" users.
I carry a blackberry for business. But I explicitly chose a model that has MP3, WiFi, camera, and GPS because those features made it a whole lot more useful to me as a personal device.
I once had a recruiter contact me about a position at Research in Motion. For the next 2-3 days as we corresponded back and forth, I kept receiving emails titled "re: Rim Job" "re: re: Rim Job" "re: re: re: Rim Job".
I suppose I'm lucky they weren't all immediately filtered as spam.
iPhone vs. Android -- they're currently seen as more "personal" phones, whereas Blackberry's market dominance is largely based on businesses, a market in which neither is remotely competitive with Blackberry yet
At the company where I work, tons of my co-workers have picked up the iPhone. Corporate IT has been forced to offer Outlook email integration for iPhone in addition to Blackberry (they offer no such support for any other smartphone OS, including Palm, Android, and Windows). I'm happy to stick with my Blackberry as it does everything I want in a smartphone, but to say none of the others are remotely competitive is to ignore the reality on the ground.
The child goes to the local school because that local school is supported by the taxes paid by the student's family and community.
The child also goes to the local school because his feet would be bleeding by the time he walked to the good suburban school 10 miles down the road. Except of course for those mornings when his inner-city single mom working 3 minimum wage jobs hops in her Lexus to whisk him off to the 'burbs.
Kids attending disadvantaged schools in disadvantaged neighbourhoods tend to be... well, disadvantaged.
How do you know they aren't paying to get the superior performance and power delivery afforded by the torque characteristics of electric motors in the drivetrain?
If the FBI wants to build databases of people who make offhand, whimsical comments in online forums I say more power to them. I work for a major storage vendor.
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Keep telling yourself that.
Option 2 also assumes:
Thieves are NOT dummies, they know the difference.
I think you're being rather generous to a very broad cross-section of people. Some thieves are not dummies. But some thieves are complete fucking dummies. Go watch some of the videos on baitcar.com if you don't believe me.
Many jurisdictions have fire codes that ban double-keyed deadbolts for exactly this reason.
Not sure whether it would run afoul of the booby trap laws, but I've often thought it would be a nifty trick to set some kind of device that sprays the perp with indelible purple dye. Then you just tell the cops "look for the guy who's going to be bright purple for the next few days - you can't miss him."
They should name the dog HMO.
If anybody needs proof that Mariposa is the superior botnet just ask yourself this question: is anybody lining up for 12 hours in the rain to get trojaned by anything else?
Exactly
Are you insane? With a facebook login, these people could mess with my FarmVille and CafeWorld apps.
You're missing my point. I don't feel that I'm missing out on anything. As far as I'm concerned my existing BB is "something decent" and I feel little compulsion to line up around the block at some store downtown in order to replace it with another device.
Regardless of whether I need it for business, I have to say I kind of like having one device in my pocket that functions as a photo album, web browser, mp3 player, digital camera, gps nav device, map book, pocket calculator, alarm clock, plus a few dozen other trivial things.
I don't get this artificial distinction between "business" users and "non business" users.
I carry a blackberry for business. But I explicitly chose a model that has MP3, WiFi, camera, and GPS because those features made it a whole lot more useful to me as a personal device.
I once had a recruiter contact me about a position at Research in Motion. For the next 2-3 days as we corresponded back and forth, I kept receiving emails titled "re: Rim Job" "re: re: Rim Job" "re: re: re: Rim Job".
I suppose I'm lucky they weren't all immediately filtered as spam.
How many people buy a windows computer and tell everyone "I bought an NT kernel based computing device!"?
Hey! I have that exact t-shirt!
iPhone vs. Android -- they're currently seen as more "personal" phones, whereas Blackberry's market dominance is largely based on businesses, a market in which neither is remotely competitive with Blackberry yet
At the company where I work, tons of my co-workers have picked up the iPhone. Corporate IT has been forced to offer Outlook email integration for iPhone in addition to Blackberry (they offer no such support for any other smartphone OS, including Palm, Android, and Windows). I'm happy to stick with my Blackberry as it does everything I want in a smartphone, but to say none of the others are remotely competitive is to ignore the reality on the ground.
This means telling the people deifying FDR and the people trying to wedge creationism into science to both go to hell.
The same hell? That would make for some sweet reality TV.
The child goes to the local school because that local school is supported by the taxes paid by the student's family and community.
The child also goes to the local school because his feet would be bleeding by the time he walked to the good suburban school 10 miles down the road. Except of course for those mornings when his inner-city single mom working 3 minimum wage jobs hops in her Lexus to whisk him off to the 'burbs.
Kids attending disadvantaged schools in disadvantaged neighbourhoods tend to be ... well, disadvantaged.
Every planet on the country besides one is on the metric system. 62miles is about 100km.
FTFY
How do you know they aren't paying to get the superior performance and power delivery afforded by the torque characteristics of electric motors in the drivetrain?
I think I heard Porsche has a couple okay engineers on staff.
You realize that every country in the history of humanity has done the exact same things, right?
Even Liechtenstein?
If the FBI wants to build databases of people who make offhand, whimsical comments in online forums I say more power to them. I work for a major storage vendor.
Now if you're really serious about hijinks, fill it with neutron star, and don't worry about bolting it to anything.
Peer pressure mostly.
I think there has been at least a dozen horror and apocalyptic films that have started with this exact event.
Considering this event happened five billion years ago, there's a good possibility it's more than a dozen.
This is probably the most lucid thing that is going to get written on this topic. We should just censor everything else from this point forward.