I have a "smart" thermostat already. It cost me $60 at Lowe's. I set the temperatures I want for my weekly schedule (every day is programmable, with 4 different settings per day). Over the course of a week or two, it figures how long it typically takes to reach the desired temperature. So if I want it to go from 78 degrees during the day down to 74 degrees when I get home at 4, it will turn the AC at just the right time so that it reaches 74 degrees at 4pm. It's very nice.
It's practically impossible to get a Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH in this day and age. They are now selling the WZR-HP-G300NH2, even though the box says its just the NH. There is no DD-WRT support to speak of for the NH2, last I checked. But if you use the professional firmware, you can fix the broken NAT Loopback (or lack thereof)
Just go into the “Administration” menu and the “Commands” submenu. Save the text string below as a “Firewall command.” In other words, paste the command in, and then click the “Save Firewall” button. It will now apply itself after every reboot. Be sure to paste it as a single line. Be sure to change the network (“192.168.1.0) to the appropriate address of your network.
But those areas are all very low population areas, so most of the world could potentially be hit by this. As the article mentions, it's most likely it will hit water anyway.
I RTFA and it said that the satellite may fall anywhere between the UK and the tip of south America. I was going to say your math was way off because there are a lot of people that could never be in the path of the falling satellite. Unfortunately, I was wrong about how much area this thing will cover. Of course there are still people that cannot possibly be hit, including anyone who is currently working in the Antarctic area. Possibly people in parts of the former USSR countries too, I don't know. I am too lazy to look at exactly how far north some of those areas are.
I should add that she also coaches college volleyball and the girls on her team can't even grasp how Facebook can cause problems not only for themselves, but the team and the university. And that is after many discussions on the topic!
That does sound like a good example for high school kids. I think the biggest problem I see with high school kids (my girlfriend teaches HS), is that the kids really have no understanding of basic privacy, and security, and how they can ruin their lives for a long time through digital technologies. Of course, if you're teaching this to a class of computer nerds, you probably don't need to cover these subjects. But just having a discussion on how computers do everything for us, and how the internet never forgets, can be useful knowledge for kids that aren't ever going to be interested in programming.
In my opinion anyone can learn to program. However, only certain people have the right mindset to solve problems in a logical way. Those are the kinds of people that should be encouraged to learn about computers. The rest just need to know enough to understand how the technology affects their lives.
Well consider yourself lucky. I have a nephew on Kaiser. He was apparently born with a heart defect that manifested itself around his 1st birthday. Kaiser does not have a specialist who is licensed and board certified to perform heart surgery on a child under 2 years old. So, rather than pay the cost to have him get the surgery the acknowledge he will definitely need, they make him stay in the hospital for 5 weeks while they try various medicines that are somewhat dangerous to take, until they found a medicine that would keep the problem under control until he is old enough for a Kaiser doctor to perform the surgery. I'm glad I don't have Kaiser..
Don't believe them. I work closely with the military and I know that they are A) Reopening a closed AFB in Kuwait, to provide air support over Iraq. So that means that we will still have troops deployed, they just will not be in Iraq directly. B) The State dept is opening the "largest embassy" as the people I know like to call it. They are taking over military bases in Iraq as the army and other groups leave.
I've crawled in many an attic in my time, installing insulation and other fiberglass products. I've yet to encounter something up there that makes me itch, though I do not like to breath in fiberglass, so I wear a dust mask. It must suck to be you! Although I do find the warm stuffy air from dust masks to be quite uncomfortable.
I was born and raised in California and I have never seen a Border Patrol checkpoint along I-5 or anywhere else in the state. I do know that they stop people at the border, but that is normal. I have a friend whose dad is a CBP officer, and have never heard him talk about checkpoints anywhere except along the border. I've been into and out of Mexico several times, even with Mexican friends. I can't say that we've ever been slowed down, or even looked at twice when coming back into the US. Maybe its a problem, but I definitely have never seen it.
I hate to use Wikipedia in a response but, you can see the case cited at the bottom of this article. The Supreme court has ruled that stopping a person without probable cause is unconstitutional. The case is Delaware v. Prouse, 440 U.S. 648 (1979). Now granted, there are so many laws on the book an officer can pretty much pull you over for anything. You're pretty much guaranteed to have violated some traffic law in front of the officer. But the search was definitely not legal and they should have gotten into trouble. Had you retained a lawyer and sued them, I'd be willing to bet someone would have gotten into a boat load of trouble.
That may be, but there is a constitutional right that protects you from unreasonable SEARCH or seizure.
2. Welcome to the Interstate, it doesn't belong to you and it's not a national park.
I sense that you are trolling at this point.
3. Out west they've been doing this for decades looking for vehicles trafficking in illegal immigrants and illegal drugs.
That would be illegal. I was born and raised "Out west" and I know for a fact that the police cannot stop you without probable cause. Not even for a Terry stop. And they certainly cannot search your vehicle without your consent or probable cause, as I mentioned the constitutions protects us from that.
4. Do you mind if we search your computer?
You're referring to when you enter into the country. The courts have decided that the Federal government can search anything on your person when you enter the country. I can't say that I agree with this, but I am not sure the constitution was designed to protect against this. After all, they've had customs houses for a long tme.
Did Ron Paul indicate how he would run the NHC without NOAA? I'm not saying that they couldn't track the weather without the bureaucracy of NOAA, but it sounds like he is just willfully slashing departments without indicating that the valuable services provided by those departments will be continued. Sure you could relegate the weather forecasting to a private company, but I don't believe that would be in the best interest of the people. And lets face it, if you cut NOAA and move the NHC over to the DOD or something to that effect, the DOD will add bureaucracy to oversee the actions of the NHC. Will there be a net gain in savings? Perhaps, but I'd be willing to bet his numbers are overly optimistic on that front.
No more weather forecasting either. It's not just the US that depends on NOAA's National Hurricane Center. Many Caribbean countries that would be hard pressed to track hurricanes depend on this service.
I have neck problems from a sporting injury. I can tell you right now that I am somewhat concerned about the quality of my life over the next 50 years, let alone 100+ years. No thanks.
That is where you are incorrect. They definitely do not limit the cost of those calls. The rates are outrageous. Someone from a county jail kept trying to call my cell phone collect for about a month. I eventually had to call the county and ask them to block my number. Now you better not try and call me with your free call!
Actually, I have an Android and HP Touchpad tablet. I used to prefer the Android Tablet as it was faster and more reliable. Battery life was also better. Then I found an article online talking about improving the Touchpad's speed by disabling all the logging they do on the blasted device. Now my HP Touchpad is faster and more responsive than my Transformer, or an iPad 2
I wasn't annoyed with your post. I just wanted to voice my opinion that he wasn't trying to troll. And I caught his correction about the iOS download being the 700MB. I just assumed that he was counting the entire update because he didn't pay attention (and we all know what happens when you assume).
As for the DFU mode problem, that was with a buggy iOS release. I want to say it was 3.0.1 or something along those lines. That update also happened to turn my iPhone into an egg cooker. For some reason one of the radios (I think 3G) would get stuck on and the phone would become physically hot to the touch through a bulky Agent 18 case. It wasn't so hot that I would drop it, but it was uncomfortable. When that would happen it would occasionally cause hangs. The next release fixed that particular problem.
No, he's not. You two aren't looking at the same thing
I don't think anything at all you've said in your posts is right?
1) A brand new full iTunes download is 103mb, not 700 as you claimed.
Oh really? because iTunes was a 78MB download for me. But then there was an additional (almost) 1GB of data for a Lion stability update and a Lion recovery update. So, he's probably counting the entire set of updates
I just dragged iTunes to the trash. OSX asked for my password. I entered it. It deleted.
Lion seems to be very resistive to deleting things. I've had difficulty deleting apps on Lion on more than one occassion
4) If you're not comfortable with GUI instructions and are at all competent with a bash/csh commandline, just fire up terminal and using su or sudo delete to your heart's contact. kextstat / kextunload / kextload can be used to view, load, and unload kernel extensions, but I've only ever had to use those commands when I was developing one. sudo rm -fr/Applications/iTunes.app/ etc
MAC OS just works, right? So why does he need to use the CLI?
5) Absolutely false what you claimed about Apple expecting a crashed iPhone to just drain off the battery.
I'm afraid I've only fed into your ego honey pot, but whatever...
That is true, except when it isn't. I've had my iPhone 3G not respond to the double button press. I didn't have to wait for the battery to drain, but it did take 5-10 minutes for the watchdog to kick in.
This guy DOES sound like an arrogant ass. And he clearly has too much time on his hands, as well. Especially like how he thought Bezos's memo was ludicrous and then later on goes to basically say the Bezos is a visionary because of that memo. Either way, I think Amazon's site is pretty damn easy to use and if he doesn't agree, and Google is really as selective as he thinks they are, then he must have definitely slipped into the company thru a crack.
Yes and no. There are some unfortunate individuals in the armed forces that are so good at what they do they are often deprived of the opportunity to advance in rank. For instance, if you have a super star in your unit, that keeps everything running, you do not let him leave for military schooling. If he's enlisted, he cannot pass E4 without going to school. So, if they don't have good leadership, they'll stay at E4 until they become frustrated and just leave. It's very sad and short sided. This happens in the professional world too. The sucky people get promoted quickly, or transferred around so that their boss doesn't have to deal with them anymore.
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I have a "smart" thermostat already. It cost me $60 at Lowe's. I set the temperatures I want for my weekly schedule (every day is programmable, with 4 different settings per day). Over the course of a week or two, it figures how long it typically takes to reach the desired temperature. So if I want it to go from 78 degrees during the day down to 74 degrees when I get home at 4, it will turn the AC at just the right time so that it reaches 74 degrees at 4pm. It's very nice.
It's practically impossible to get a Buffalo WZR-HP-G300NH in this day and age. They are now selling the WZR-HP-G300NH2, even though the box says its just the NH. There is no DD-WRT support to speak of for the NH2, last I checked. But if you use the professional firmware, you can fix the broken NAT Loopback (or lack thereof)
Just go into the “Administration” menu and the “Commands” submenu. Save the text string below as a “Firewall command.” In other words, paste the command in, and then click the “Save Firewall” button. It will now apply itself after every reboot. Be sure to paste it as a single line. Be sure to change the network (“192.168.1.0) to the appropriate address of your network.
iptables -t nat -I POSTROUTING -o br0 -s 192.168.1.0/24 -d 192.168.1.0/24 -j MASQUERADE
But those areas are all very low population areas, so most of the world could potentially be hit by this. As the article mentions, it's most likely it will hit water anyway.
Just like nearly nobody wants to write his/her own OS kernel just to get the real work done.
Those people just don't have enough free time on their hands.
I RTFA and it said that the satellite may fall anywhere between the UK and the tip of south America. I was going to say your math was way off because there are a lot of people that could never be in the path of the falling satellite. Unfortunately, I was wrong about how much area this thing will cover. Of course there are still people that cannot possibly be hit, including anyone who is currently working in the Antarctic area. Possibly people in parts of the former USSR countries too, I don't know. I am too lazy to look at exactly how far north some of those areas are.
I should add that she also coaches college volleyball and the girls on her team can't even grasp how Facebook can cause problems not only for themselves, but the team and the university. And that is after many discussions on the topic!
That does sound like a good example for high school kids. I think the biggest problem I see with high school kids (my girlfriend teaches HS), is that the kids really have no understanding of basic privacy, and security, and how they can ruin their lives for a long time through digital technologies. Of course, if you're teaching this to a class of computer nerds, you probably don't need to cover these subjects. But just having a discussion on how computers do everything for us, and how the internet never forgets, can be useful knowledge for kids that aren't ever going to be interested in programming.
In my opinion anyone can learn to program. However, only certain people have the right mindset to solve problems in a logical way. Those are the kinds of people that should be encouraged to learn about computers. The rest just need to know enough to understand how the technology affects their lives.
Well consider yourself lucky. I have a nephew on Kaiser. He was apparently born with a heart defect that manifested itself around his 1st birthday. Kaiser does not have a specialist who is licensed and board certified to perform heart surgery on a child under 2 years old. So, rather than pay the cost to have him get the surgery the acknowledge he will definitely need, they make him stay in the hospital for 5 weeks while they try various medicines that are somewhat dangerous to take, until they found a medicine that would keep the problem under control until he is old enough for a Kaiser doctor to perform the surgery. I'm glad I don't have Kaiser..
You should sell it while it's high.
I make all of my storage media pass a drug test before I will even buy it.
Don't believe them. I work closely with the military and I know that they are A) Reopening a closed AFB in Kuwait, to provide air support over Iraq. So that means that we will still have troops deployed, they just will not be in Iraq directly. B) The State dept is opening the "largest embassy" as the people I know like to call it. They are taking over military bases in Iraq as the army and other groups leave.
I've crawled in many an attic in my time, installing insulation and other fiberglass products. I've yet to encounter something up there that makes me itch, though I do not like to breath in fiberglass, so I wear a dust mask. It must suck to be you! Although I do find the warm stuffy air from dust masks to be quite uncomfortable.
I was born and raised in California and I have never seen a Border Patrol checkpoint along I-5 or anywhere else in the state. I do know that they stop people at the border, but that is normal. I have a friend whose dad is a CBP officer, and have never heard him talk about checkpoints anywhere except along the border. I've been into and out of Mexico several times, even with Mexican friends. I can't say that we've ever been slowed down, or even looked at twice when coming back into the US. Maybe its a problem, but I definitely have never seen it.
I hate to use Wikipedia in a response but, you can see the case cited at the bottom of this article. The Supreme court has ruled that stopping a person without probable cause is unconstitutional. The case is Delaware v. Prouse, 440 U.S. 648 (1979). Now granted, there are so many laws on the book an officer can pretty much pull you over for anything. You're pretty much guaranteed to have violated some traffic law in front of the officer. But the search was definitely not legal and they should have gotten into trouble. Had you retained a lawyer and sued them, I'd be willing to bet someone would have gotten into a boat load of trouble.
1. Driving is a privilege, not a right.
That may be, but there is a constitutional right that protects you from unreasonable SEARCH or seizure.
2. Welcome to the Interstate, it doesn't belong to you and it's not a national park.
I sense that you are trolling at this point.
3. Out west they've been doing this for decades looking for vehicles trafficking in illegal immigrants and illegal drugs.
That would be illegal. I was born and raised "Out west" and I know for a fact that the police cannot stop you without probable cause. Not even for a Terry stop. And they certainly cannot search your vehicle without your consent or probable cause, as I mentioned the constitutions protects us from that.
4. Do you mind if we search your computer?
You're referring to when you enter into the country. The courts have decided that the Federal government can search anything on your person when you enter the country. I can't say that I agree with this, but I am not sure the constitution was designed to protect against this. After all, they've had customs houses for a long tme.
Did Ron Paul indicate how he would run the NHC without NOAA? I'm not saying that they couldn't track the weather without the bureaucracy of NOAA, but it sounds like he is just willfully slashing departments without indicating that the valuable services provided by those departments will be continued. Sure you could relegate the weather forecasting to a private company, but I don't believe that would be in the best interest of the people. And lets face it, if you cut NOAA and move the NHC over to the DOD or something to that effect, the DOD will add bureaucracy to oversee the actions of the NHC. Will there be a net gain in savings? Perhaps, but I'd be willing to bet his numbers are overly optimistic on that front.
No more weather forecasting either. It's not just the US that depends on NOAA's National Hurricane Center. Many Caribbean countries that would be hard pressed to track hurricanes depend on this service.
I have neck problems from a sporting injury. I can tell you right now that I am somewhat concerned about the quality of my life over the next 50 years, let alone 100+ years. No thanks.
That is where you are incorrect. They definitely do not limit the cost of those calls. The rates are outrageous. Someone from a county jail kept trying to call my cell phone collect for about a month. I eventually had to call the county and ask them to block my number. Now you better not try and call me with your free call!
Actually, I have an Android and HP Touchpad tablet. I used to prefer the Android Tablet as it was faster and more reliable. Battery life was also better. Then I found an article online talking about improving the Touchpad's speed by disabling all the logging they do on the blasted device. Now my HP Touchpad is faster and more responsive than my Transformer, or an iPad 2
Wish I had mod points for you. I agree with you wholeheartedly.
I wasn't annoyed with your post. I just wanted to voice my opinion that he wasn't trying to troll. And I caught his correction about the iOS download being the 700MB. I just assumed that he was counting the entire update because he didn't pay attention (and we all know what happens when you assume).
As for the DFU mode problem, that was with a buggy iOS release. I want to say it was 3.0.1 or something along those lines. That update also happened to turn my iPhone into an egg cooker. For some reason one of the radios (I think 3G) would get stuck on and the phone would become physically hot to the touch through a bulky Agent 18 case. It wasn't so hot that I would drop it, but it was uncomfortable. When that would happen it would occasionally cause hangs. The next release fixed that particular problem.
Ok so it looks like he was referring to the iOS update. But there are an additional set of updates that seemed to push today or just recently.
Are you trolling?
No, he's not. You two aren't looking at the same thing
I don't think anything at all you've said in your posts is right?
1) A brand new full iTunes download is 103mb, not 700 as you claimed.
Oh really? because iTunes was a 78MB download for me. But then there was an additional (almost) 1GB of data for a Lion stability update and a Lion recovery update. So, he's probably counting the entire set of updates
I just dragged iTunes to the trash. OSX asked for my password. I entered it. It deleted.
Lion seems to be very resistive to deleting things. I've had difficulty deleting apps on Lion on more than one occassion
4) If you're not comfortable with GUI instructions and are at all competent with a bash/csh commandline, just fire up terminal and using su or sudo delete to your heart's contact. kextstat / kextunload / kextload can be used to view, load, and unload kernel extensions, but I've only ever had to use those commands when I was developing one. sudo rm -fr /Applications/iTunes.app/ etc
MAC OS just works, right? So why does he need to use the CLI?
5) Absolutely false what you claimed about Apple expecting a crashed iPhone to just drain off the battery.
I'm afraid I've only fed into your ego honey pot, but whatever...
That is true, except when it isn't. I've had my iPhone 3G not respond to the double button press. I didn't have to wait for the battery to drain, but it did take 5-10 minutes for the watchdog to kick in.
This guy DOES sound like an arrogant ass. And he clearly has too much time on his hands, as well. Especially like how he thought Bezos's memo was ludicrous and then later on goes to basically say the Bezos is a visionary because of that memo. Either way, I think Amazon's site is pretty damn easy to use and if he doesn't agree, and Google is really as selective as he thinks they are, then he must have definitely slipped into the company thru a crack.
Yes and no. There are some unfortunate individuals in the armed forces that are so good at what they do they are often deprived of the opportunity to advance in rank. For instance, if you have a super star in your unit, that keeps everything running, you do not let him leave for military schooling. If he's enlisted, he cannot pass E4 without going to school. So, if they don't have good leadership, they'll stay at E4 until they become frustrated and just leave. It's very sad and short sided. This happens in the professional world too. The sucky people get promoted quickly, or transferred around so that their boss doesn't have to deal with them anymore.