I should have read page 2 before commenting, it states: "Windows NT was the city's standard OS at the time." As the study implies the city could have saved money by staying on XP, which they apparently didn't yet have, it leaves one to wonder about the validity of the rest of the study...
I noticed this too. There is likely more to it than this, but saying the city should have stayed with 10 year old obsolete software just to stay w/ Windows isn't reasonable. Isn't MS trying real hard to get everyone (else anyway) off of XP?
...chose a poor way to go about it. Selling it to me service as 'Unlimited', then charging me an exorbitant rate for exceeding some level they never warned me about is garbage. They should have been up front and told me I would pay 'X' dollars for the fist 'Y' amount, then so much per GB after that. This deal of suckering me in with promises of 'Unlimited', then turning me off, or restricting me, or sending me an exorbitant 'overage' charge at the end of the month I had no way to prepare for is out of line.
I'm betting they could even program their system to email me a periodic report so I'd know where I stand.
It's really not possible to track it my end because they also charge for what they attempt to send, but I never received. Learned this lesson the hard way, on my cell phone...
Their earliest patent filing from the document at the embedded link is 1997, but Visioneer came out w/ the PaperMax in 1994 and it was advertised to do this. They defaulted to a proprietary format, but could also be output to a PDF and attached to an email. I got my 1st Visioneer about 1996 or so.
As Xerox bought out Visioneer a few years ago, I assume they got any patents and licensing.
I wonder if this is why the trolls are going after the users instead of the manufactures. Minolta, HP, and the others selling equipment to do this are probably operating under Xerox licenses and there's nothing to go after there.
While I do think there is a some truth to your basic argument, we become vassals by our own free choice. We can be with one today, and choose to walk away tomorrow.
Granted, it could be difficult. I still know people that can't give up AOL.
...and Ombudsman, assuming your state has one. I think most states have a utility regulatory agency as well. I think these would be the best places to start with the type of billing issues you're speaking of.
The FCC might not be bad as well, but I don't think they get involved unless there is something about the licensing that was tied to the billing as in that recent issue with 4G spectrum and some companies inability to charge extra for the higher speed as it was a condition of the license to start with.
I do seem to recall something as well about ISPs charging for packets the attempted to deliver, whether they were delivered or not. As the packets never showed up at your end, they wouldn't show in your logs. I'm not saying I agree with it, I am just aware that this is one of the ways they count data to keep your bill as high as possible.
For all I know, they have a method for charging for packets they were expecting from you, but didn't receive. This way they can get you NOT coming or going;)
I suspect that, much in the way the Samsung/Apple case started out, the 2.5% is something intended to start negotiations with. They likely expect Microsof to come back with something just as unreasonably low. Reality is expected to come out somewhere in between.
If you read the article, it says the FCC has gotten the major carriers to agree to start one. I haven't heard of actual implementation as yet. It seems like if it had started yet, theft should be decreasing and there would be no reason for the article.,
Too funny. The page that the artice you linked to is on has a link to a more recent article on the same subject. The database is scheduled to be up and running in late 2013. We have a year to go yet.
If they were emails left in my Inbox, they might have a case. Maybe. And if they are ones left in my Inbox, it's likely I haven't figured out what to do with them and really don't care about the privacy asspect of them. I just have a difficult time throwing stuff away.
Email that I consider important is also keep on Gmail, even after I've read it. I also have it sorted into separate folders similarly to how one would put them in a filing cabinet. They are there specifically for archival/documentation purposes.
When people feel safe, they tend to take risks not taken previously. When you learn to ride a bicycle without a helmet, as I did, it only takes a couple spills and you learn there are things and situations to be avoided. If you're wearing a helmet, it removes the consequences and you don't learn.
It is already known that since air-bags, people push the limits driving farther than they did before. Why? With the air bag, they are confident they won't die.
I have also noticed this with hikers and hunters and snowmachiners, etc.
They have their rescue beacons, or whatever, and go places and do things they would not have attempted before because they know that rescue is a 9-1-1 call away. I wouldn't mind so much (as a taxpayer funding these rescues), but they tend to leave common sense behind.
Redhat (6.1 - 9.0) -> SuSE Linux Professional -> Fedora -> Android, as daily drivers.
On the side, I tried Debian, Gentoo, Puppy, Slackware, Vector, Novell Linux Desktop, Centos, Linux Mint. Of these, the only ones I seriously considered changing to were Gentoo & Novell. Centos seemed like a good server, but I'm basically a desktop user.
From the standpoint of our laws in this country and Google's terms of service, the poster of this video seems to be within their rights.
I think is is also OK that Google has limited it viewing geographically because when I was going to school, the teachers were still teaching that my rights stop at the end of your nose. Your rights also stop at the end of mine.
Yes. In this country we have the right of free speech, among others. I also believe that when exercising these rights that we have a corresponding duty to avoid trampling the rights of others.
This geographical censoring may not dampen the fire much, but I think Google is already walking a tightrope on this.
We are constantly finding ways around things thought to be secure, but then somebody thinks of an attack vector that nobody thought of before. We find this in the world in general.
Look at padlocks for instance. We all thought Master Locks were pretty secure at one time. Now we find that someone thought of mounting a lock-pick to an electric file or toothbrush and now anyone can open one in seconds. Kryptonite bicycle locks have suffered a similar fate. I think both companies honestly believed they had reasonably secure products, so did the rest of the world.
I think the only way we can reasonably justify holding software developers to this is if the developer of a particular piece of software is willing to put forth this type of guarantee.
I'm not a fan of flash, but needed something to tide me over until everyone gets changed over to HTML5, or whatever it is were all going to change to...
It actually seems to work fairly well on my Nexus 7. Better (more stable) than on my Atrix 4G, XYBoard, or regular Linux bases desktops. So far anyway.
It seems like most corporate and government spaces have plants. If all of them become sensory inputs to the establishment's electronic monitoring system...
I see some intriguing possibilities here. Just being in the same room as the plant will likely be enough to register you.
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My Android phone already switches to configured WiFI when available, or am I supposed to buy accounts w/ all the carriers in my area?
I don't see how bonding 2 connections to the same access point helps me any.
I know I can bond multiple connections from my network, but is bonding connections from different carriers even possible?
I agree... Bad Idea.
Let's start with people using our open connection to steal our identity, and anything else they can find one our network;
People using it to access things it isn't legal for them to access, and we get the blame. Or at least looked at r-e-e-e-a-al hard;
Then there is our ISP charging us for exceeding our bandwidth caps;
The MPAA suing us because someone used our connection to download copyrighted material;
etc; etc; etc...
Letting others openly use our connection sounds all nice and altruistic, but there's a price to pay.
I should have read page 2 before commenting, it states: "Windows NT was the city's standard OS at the time." As the study implies the city could have saved money by staying on XP, which they apparently didn't yet have, it leaves one to wonder about the validity of the rest of the study...
I noticed this too. There is likely more to it than this, but saying the city should have stayed with 10 year old obsolete software just to stay w/ Windows isn't reasonable. Isn't MS trying real hard to get everyone (else anyway) off of XP?
...chose a poor way to go about it. Selling it to me service as 'Unlimited', then charging me an exorbitant rate for exceeding some level they never warned me about is garbage. They should have been up front and told me I would pay 'X' dollars for the fist 'Y' amount, then so much per GB after that. This deal of suckering me in with promises of 'Unlimited', then turning me off, or restricting me, or sending me an exorbitant 'overage' charge at the end of the month I had no way to prepare for is out of line.
I'm betting they could even program their system to email me a periodic report so I'd know where I stand.
It's really not possible to track it my end because they also charge for what they attempt to send, but I never received. Learned this lesson the hard way, on my cell phone...
Their earliest patent filing from the document at the embedded link is 1997, but Visioneer came out w/ the PaperMax in 1994 and it was advertised to do this. They defaulted to a proprietary format, but could also be output to a PDF and attached to an email. I got my 1st Visioneer about 1996 or so.
As Xerox bought out Visioneer a few years ago, I assume they got any patents and licensing.
I wonder if this is why the trolls are going after the users instead of the manufactures. Minolta, HP, and the others selling equipment to do this are probably operating under Xerox licenses and there's nothing to go after there.
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/culture/articles/941128/archive_013727_3.htm
While I do think there is a some truth to your basic argument, we become vassals by our own free choice. We can be with one today, and choose to walk away tomorrow.
Granted, it could be difficult. I still know people that can't give up AOL.
she carries a cell phone w/ GPS.
...and Ombudsman, assuming your state has one. I think most states have a utility regulatory agency as well. I think these would be the best places to start with the type of billing issues you're speaking of.
The FCC might not be bad as well, but I don't think they get involved unless there is something about the licensing that was tied to the billing as in that recent issue with 4G spectrum and some companies inability to charge extra for the higher speed as it was a condition of the license to start with.
I do seem to recall something as well about ISPs charging for packets the attempted to deliver, whether they were delivered or not. As the packets never showed up at your end, they wouldn't show in your logs. I'm not saying I agree with it, I am just aware that this is one of the ways they count data to keep your bill as high as possible.
For all I know, they have a method for charging for packets they were expecting from you, but didn't receive. This way they can get you NOT coming or going ;)
defining "fair and reasonable"?
I suspect that, much in the way the Samsung/Apple case started out, the 2.5% is something intended to start negotiations with. They likely expect Microsof to come back with something just as unreasonably low. Reality is expected to come out somewhere in between.
It took a few seconds on my setup before it started working, but pretty funny once it did...
When I go there... I not only have to scroll down past the iPad ad, I have to click a link to another page.
I don't see anything particularly apologetic either. It is just a statement that the findings of the lawsuit were in Samsung's favor, not Apple's.
We are all teachers. Even when we give a kid a tablet. We give them direction by the choice of tablet we give them and what it contains.
Too funny. The page that the artice you linked to is on has a link to a more recent article on the same subject. The database is scheduled to be up and running in late 2013. We have a year to go yet.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/10/20/thefts-cell-phones-on-rise-across-america/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fscitech+%28Internal+-+SciTech+-+Mixed%29
Facebook's stock will finish tanking and they just go away.
If they were emails left in my Inbox, they might have a case. Maybe. And if they are ones left in my Inbox, it's likely I haven't figured out what to do with them and really don't care about the privacy asspect of them. I just have a difficult time throwing stuff away.
Email that I consider important is also keep on Gmail, even after I've read it. I also have it sorted into separate folders similarly to how one would put them in a filing cabinet. They are there specifically for archival/documentation purposes.
But I'm not surprised to see Communist News Network put in those terms.
I would say it is a luxury for some, a needed business tool for many. In this country anyway.
It is already known that since air-bags, people push the limits driving farther than they did before. Why? With the air bag, they are confident they won't die.
I have also noticed this with hikers and hunters and snowmachiners, etc.
They have their rescue beacons, or whatever, and go places and do things they would not have attempted before because they know that rescue is a 9-1-1 call away. I wouldn't mind so much (as a taxpayer funding these rescues), but they tend to leave common sense behind.
I believe we are considered mammals...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regeneration_%28biology%29#Humans
Redhat (6.1 - 9.0) -> SuSE Linux Professional -> Fedora -> Android, as daily drivers.
On the side, I tried Debian, Gentoo, Puppy, Slackware, Vector, Novell Linux Desktop, Centos, Linux Mint. Of these, the only ones I seriously considered changing to were Gentoo & Novell. Centos seemed like a good server, but I'm basically a desktop user.
From the standpoint of our laws in this country and Google's terms of service, the poster of this video seems to be within their rights.
I think is is also OK that Google has limited it viewing geographically because when I was going to school, the teachers were still teaching that my rights stop at the end of your nose. Your rights also stop at the end of mine.
Yes. In this country we have the right of free speech, among others. I also believe that when exercising these rights that we have a corresponding duty to avoid trampling the rights of others.
This geographical censoring may not dampen the fire much, but I think Google is already walking a tightrope on this.
We are constantly finding ways around things thought to be secure, but then somebody thinks of an attack vector that nobody thought of before. We find this in the world in general.
Look at padlocks for instance. We all thought Master Locks were pretty secure at one time. Now we find that someone thought of mounting a lock-pick to an electric file or toothbrush and now anyone can open one in seconds. Kryptonite bicycle locks have suffered a similar fate. I think both companies honestly believed they had reasonably secure products, so did the rest of the world.
I think the only way we can reasonably justify holding software developers to this is if the developer of a particular piece of software is willing to put forth this type of guarantee.
I'm not a fan of flash, but needed something to tide me over until everyone gets changed over to HTML5, or whatever it is were all going to change to...
It actually seems to work fairly well on my Nexus 7. Better (more stable) than on my Atrix 4G, XYBoard, or regular Linux bases desktops. So far anyway.
It seems like most corporate and government spaces have plants. If all of them become sensory inputs to the establishment's electronic monitoring system...
I see some intriguing possibilities here. Just being in the same room as the plant will likely be enough to register you.
Microsoft has a long history of this kind of behavior.
In the 90s, nobody would be using the web because we would all be signing on to MSN Network (or whatever they called it)
They didn't seem to like Sun's Java and had to create their own giving rise to ActiveX, which we love so much.
They didn't like the Javascript every one else was using and created their own.
Then of course there was jscript, vertical text, obfuscated script, & embedded fonts.