My line of thought was more like the situation in north america, where in a lot of areas there is effectively no competition. You've got DSL if you aren't too far from the CO, or perhaps cable. if those suck you're pretty much stuck with satellite, which... leaves something to be desired.
At least if the only provider was govn't owned, you could write to your local seat of govn't, or vote on the issue. whatever.
Yeah, it's so much better to be held at the mercy of a corporation that has no accountability to you, vs. the government that has at least some accountability.
As much as I agree with your intent, this is a lot more like having phone tapping equipment available, in the case that it is required, rather than actively tapping you.
The whole database idea seems sort of goofy to me though, can't see it being terribly effective. (how many people wear adidas superstars?)
I seriously doubt that. these aren't 1960's logic gates, this is heavily integrated stuff. lots of work and fancy equipment required, and at the end of the day, there isn't a hell of a lot of margin on it either.
Besides, Broadcom makes a ton of decoder / transcoder type stuff for set top boxes and the like, which is firmly under lock and key and has a large portion of the market. they ain't going anywhere anytime soon.
This is excellent. I've been having to run 2.4 on the routers I've been hacking with, because that was the only kernel they had a binary blob for, iirc. Should definitely make things easier.
Now if they'd release pinouts of their chips without a fucking NDA, I might not consider them to be evil anymore.
I've got an old western electric 500 (the phone in the picture at the top of the page...) on my bench.
ma bell sure made em nice. Sounds so much better to me than a modern landline phone. I guess making a phone and shipping it across the world for a grand total of $6 means cutting corners.
Doubles as a weapon to bludgeon intruders with too, and it will still work to call the police with afterward.;-)
I've heard that it's some sort of fail deadly uh... like keep alive. You know, fire on loss of transmission. but, I kind of doubt it too. Who knows. Very neat though.
There was a beta for 10.0, it was dropped because of security issues. They're been "working on" a proper 64bit release, but there doesn't seem to be an ETA, so who knows when that will happen.
I can't see hacking that being too big of a deal, then again I guess that's my trade.
Most folks don't have a POE switch, though, so I can't see a factory POE one hitting as low of prices, unless they get picked up by industry, just because of numbers.
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I'm rather surprised I didn't break any of my controllers or TV after playing that dirty bugger.
I did have a friend that claimed to be able to beat it. Forget if I ever witnessed anyone do it, though.
For example 130km/h (80mph) like everywhere in Europe except UK, Holland and Serbia is fairly reasonable.
Serbia is also 130km/h, as far as my memory tells?
I'd usually drive a good bit faster though, only got a ticket once, but that was on a secondary road, not autoput.
My line of thought was more like the situation in north america, where in a lot of areas there is effectively no competition. You've got DSL if you aren't too far from the CO, or perhaps cable. if those suck you're pretty much stuck with satellite, which... leaves something to be desired.
At least if the only provider was govn't owned, you could write to your local seat of govn't, or vote on the issue. whatever.
Yeah, it's so much better to be held at the mercy of a corporation that has no accountability to you, vs. the government that has at least some accountability.
As much as I agree with your intent, this is a lot more like having phone tapping equipment available, in the case that it is required, rather than actively tapping you.
The whole database idea seems sort of goofy to me though, can't see it being terribly effective. (how many people wear adidas superstars?)
I seriously doubt that. these aren't 1960's logic gates, this is heavily integrated stuff. lots of work and fancy equipment required, and at the end of the day, there isn't a hell of a lot of margin on it either.
Besides, Broadcom makes a ton of decoder / transcoder type stuff for set top boxes and the like, which is firmly under lock and key and has a large portion of the market. they ain't going anywhere anytime soon.
oh drat. I was looking forward to having openwrt with 2.6 on my broadcom based G routers.
But this is still better than a kick in the teeth, I'll take it.
amen. I'm sick of being stuck with 2.4, or having non-functional wifi. Definitely a step in the right direction!
This is excellent. I've been having to run 2.4 on the routers I've been hacking with, because that was the only kernel they had a binary blob for, iirc. Should definitely make things easier.
Now if they'd release pinouts of their chips without a fucking NDA, I might not consider them to be evil anymore.
I know, and agree. I've been known to pass on the right no less.
I love when people are sitting like a dildo in the left lane, going 50, because they have to turn left in 400 miles. argh.
It was just the first example that came to mind.
In other news, I've decided I'm going to start shooting out the tires of cars that I witness passing on the right.
or should I be going after Ford?
I've got an old western electric 500 (the phone in the picture at the top of the page...) on my bench.
ma bell sure made em nice. Sounds so much better to me than a modern landline phone. I guess making a phone and shipping it across the world for a grand total of $6 means cutting corners.
Doubles as a weapon to bludgeon intruders with too, and it will still work to call the police with afterward. ;-)
What was wrong with the "MOS inside" sticker?!
I'll take limp home mode over being stranded 100 miles from civilization, any day of the week.
argh. i had meant to reply to you, not myself!
I grew up in Saskatchewan, so I know all about cold!
we never really got ice storms like you guys down east get, though. Sure would be a pain.
I thought using the trains as generators was bloody genius though. Never heard of anyone doing that before.
Wow that's wild. I hadn't heard about that. neat :))
Seem to recall having an issue getting a SIM in England, but it's been a while...
What surprises me is that China wasn't /already/ doing this.
For the record, the Sega GameGear is still my favourite portable gaming device and, yes, I still have one.
Did you get stock in eveready at the same time? Christ they were mean on batteries.... backlit screen was nice, though.
It's obviously XORed with the headline from today's New York Times.
It could say turn to page 356 of the 35th edition of the soviet spy's handbook, and preform whatever is described in there.
Would be a lot easier than explaining it all in cryptic messages.
Yeah, I was thinking more along the lines of lighting up some indicator in each silo, and disabling the first safety or so.
"I'm afraid I don't understand something,
Alexiy. Is the Premier threatening to
explode this if our planes carry out their
attack?"
"No sir. It is not a thing a sane man would
do. The doomsday machine is designed to to
trigger itself automatically."
bingo.
I've heard that it's some sort of fail deadly uh... like keep alive. You know, fire on loss of transmission. but, I kind of doubt it too. Who knows. Very neat though.
There was a beta for 10.0, it was dropped because of security issues. They're been "working on" a proper 64bit release, but there doesn't seem to be an ETA, so who knows when that will happen.
I can't see hacking that being too big of a deal, then again I guess that's my trade.
Most folks don't have a POE switch, though, so I can't see a factory POE one hitting as low of prices, unless they get picked up by industry, just because of numbers.
Got me curious now, might have to pick one up.