100mpg is doable with modern technology... just not if you want to keep up with the safety and air quality regs.... stuff like antilock brakes, airbags, and catalytic converters add weight. and the catalytic converter in particular also restricts airflow through the exhaust system, which limits the capabilities of the engine.
How hard would it be for the dock manufacturers to come up with a clip in baseplate with a standard interface model the same. in fact to take it further, the same dock could be used for iPhones and android phones by having a USB adaptor in the iPhone base (or visa versa)
There's currently less than 10 versions of the iPhone on the market. If you add versions of the iPod, you're still talking less than 20 different shapes of devices.
By contrast, LG currently has more than 30 different types/shapes of Android-based phones out there in the wild. That's not even counting offerings from Samsung, HTC, and Motorola, and without even considering the smaller manufacturers out there, or manufacturers like Huawei which are much bigger in some parts of the world than they are on this continent.
So you tell me... how hard would it be for them to create inserts for every Android-based phone there is out there, and keep those inserts up to date with every new phone coming out?
$60 a month is a lot of money, perhaps your independently wealthy, but for most people that is a lot of money that they could be using for other things. That's just about more than the cost of a voice plan around here.
Actually, for a *lot* of people, $60/month is the difference between paying rent and not. And for people not quite that hard up, $60/mo is still the ability to eat out another time per month, or an extra tank of gas, or or or.
Or put another way, $60/month is more than I'm paying for my current cell phone contract in and of itself, and I am getting 300 anytime minutes, unlimited nationwide long distance (in a big country, Canada, not a tiny country like Lichtenstein), unlimited incoming calls, 5pm evenings/weekends, data, unlimited global texting, call display, voicemail, and 3-way calling. And that's not a retention plan or special offer... actually, I'm on month to month with a plan you can get from them as a new customer today. For my bill to go up by $60/mo to add a couple of features I wouldn't actually use (or already have on my mid-range LG Smartphone... that was high end a year ago when I bought it) would be extremely offensive.
I don't have an iPhone 4s. I have an iPhone 4. I didn't really feel like I needed a new phone right now, so I chose to skip this round... but every time I see a 4s commercial I start to question my choice to skip. Those are powerful ads.
To Apple users. To me, I really don't see any reason to buy an iPhone when I can get all of the features I want for half the cost. (keeping in mind that I flatly refuse to sign a contract with a cell provider, so I'm paying retail, not a subsidized cost). Most of the iPhone sales I see happening right now appear to be people upgrading their old iPhone. The smartphone market is basically saturated, and the few people I know who've switched from one brand to another were actually switching from iPhone to an Android device, not the other way around.
And no, those ads won't convince me to buy an HTC. I have very specific requirements in a phone, and HTC doesn't currently have anything on the market that meets them all. They did, however, convince my brother to get an HTC phone, because he just wants a phone that works. That's the message in that campaign: that the phone just works with what you want to do with it. And honestly... I'll concede my bias in the matter if you concede yours: I am biased against iPhones, because I don't like the way Apple does business and because they don't bring any features to the game that I haven't seen and can't get elsewhere. You are biased against this kind of advertising, because you already have a phone that "just works" for you.
More than that... standardizing on a single spot for the cable would also require standardizing on certain dimensions for the phone itself... that would prevent certain form factors and features from being added to the phone... stuff like, for example, having an actual honest-to-goodness hardware keyboard, which is a feature I won't buy a phone without. If, the next time I need a phone, I can't get an Android with a real keyboard, then I will end up buying a WinMo phone, as HTC makes one that isn't completely crappy and has the keyboard I want.
Watch those, and tell me with a straight face that this is advertising for nerds, by nerds, and by people who have no concept what the words "user experience" means.
Incidentally, every phone shown in those 3 ads is an Android phone.
I've seen people who've been in earthquakes before panic in a 5.0, and run out into the streets... from the safety of a high rise building which is built with dampeners in the basement and is intended to withstand an 8.5 according to code (there's a fault line that runs directly down the street behind the building I work in, hence the code requiring that).... would have been funny if one of 'em got hit by a falling roofing tile from the building next door, since that high rise was the safest place you could be in such a quake.... Earthquakes trigger something primal in people, and even people who've experienced them before will sometimes go into a fight-or-flight mode when they're caught in one.
Bingo. But while it addresses, it also raises my biggest concern about this. In TFS they had a warrant to obtain location data through the cellular network, and while it's grey area as to whether that warrant extends to the use of a device like the Stingray, the device itself doesn't have enough finesse to only trick the hardware you're trying to locate. It'll trick any hardware on the same network that's within range, including potentially hundreds of innocent bystanders, all of whose information would be available on the device as well... considering that this is an alleged identity thief we're talking about, do you really want them getting that information in discovery?
That's probably why they're deleting the information (at least, that's a plausible explanation that I'd accept for them deleting the information from the device), but it does raise serious privacy concerns for those people whose information is on the device in the first place. It may or may not be illegal to use it to track the person they've got a warrant to track, but in most parts of the civilized world, it certainly *is* illegal for them to use it to track everybody else.
When you have 15,000 qualified applicants for a single programming job (the kind of ratio that a company like Facebook or Google sees, and that's being conservative), you start adding criteria that have nothing to do with the job to the job description in order to weed out candidates... stuff like requiring bilingualism for an English-language copywriter, or the ability to prove that pi is exactly 3. It's not about excluding people who'd be able to do the job, it's about reducing the number of resumes and interviews that they have to conduct, which is an expensive process for them, both in time and energy.
In most laptops, the keyboard is a user-changeable part. It's trivially simple for me to switch the keyboard in my laptop... there's a bezel at the top of the keyboard that conceals a single screw that holds the keyboard in. Undo the screw, the keyboard pops up, and there's a small ribbon connector under it. Disconnect the ribbon connector, it's really easy to switch out.
The *only* other piece of hardware that's regionally different is the 3-prong connector to the wall. The A/C brick itself is universal input... I have used mine in Canada, Italy, France the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands Antiles. That makes sense from a logistical sense... fewer parts means less money spent duplicating manufacturing processes. With the power brick specifically, it means less hassle for somebody like me, as I only need to buy an adapter kit for the wall jack, rather than a whole new power brick when I travel. This is why the wireless card, for example, is a firmware switch, and not actually physically different in my Canadian wifi card versus a French wifi card. The French card has a few channels available to it at the upper end (in Canada, it's 1-11, in France it's 1-14), but there's absolutely no reason to manufacture hardware specific to the Canadian/US market when they can simply disable the extra channels in software.
That same reasoning with the wifi card is why they wouldn't bother to make a US-specific version of the hardware that disables the feature. If they did anything, they'd simply implement it in the BIOS, but even that is pushing the bounds of reality... Dell/HP/Lenovo etc. want you to buy their product, and they're smart enough to realize that if you can buy essentially the same hardware from Acer without that limitation, then you're going to buy it from Acer if that limitation would prevent you from using their product. It's unlikely you'd *ever* see that kind of limitation imposed by Acer, because they're based in Europe and are governed by different laws than a US-based manufacturer like Dell. That said, it's unlikely you'd *ever* see that kind of limitation from Dell, either, considering how Dell actively supports Linux development, and bundles Linux on several of its consumer models of system. (in fact, the laptop I'm typing this on came pre-installed with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on it.)
You think that there'd be good wifi coverage from a wifi base station in a car in a parking lot when the game system is in a concrete-reinforced-with-rebar room some distance away?
If they can't figure out how to make the wifi unusable when the PS3/XBoX/Wii is already sitting in what's essentially a Faraday cage, something's wrong with the people they pay to figure that kind of thing out.
Speaking of, they could always get a Nintendo Wii. That doesn't have an Ethernet port in the device unless you buy a USB dongle for it, so they could easily gibble its ability to get on the Internet without actually damaging the device itself. And the Wii is perfectly usable without a working Internet connection... if you run a game that requires a newer firmware on the console, *gasp* it'll install it from the game disc without having to connect to the Internet.
Actually, what freaks me out isn't that their password is stored in a recoverable format, it's that their tools/accesses are set up in such a way as to allow the first person you speak with on the phone to see it. Even if they're going to store the passwords in a recoverable way (which is bad juju, others have covered), they could at least restrict access to higher levels up the echelon, or create some kind of small back office team to handle that kind of thing.
It is surprising though. Everywhere I've worked that handles customer accesses handles it in such a way that the passwords are unrecoverable and never written down. If we need access, and the customer doesn't know the password, the only thing we can do is reset the password.
... is your pharmacy in the stone age? With my pharmacy, as long as you have the prescription number, you can order refills over the phone through an IVR, and the prescription number is printed on the label on the bottle. You still have to go in in person to pick it up, but my family has never had problems picking up prescriptions for me... something about knowing a prescription was phoned in that same day for me helps the pharmacy know that maybe the person going to pick it up has some connection to me. If I run out of refills, I can have my doctor phone in a refill to the pharmacy, or I can see the doctor for a new script, but as long as there's refills left on the script, my pharmacy has never given me anything approaching trouble.
It might be different if I were ordering narcotics or other controlled substances, but you usually don't get any refills on a prescription like that... not with any doctor that wants to keep their license at least.
Actually, the simplest solution would be to simply print out a list of your passwords and store it next to the computer....
If you want something more secure, put that list of passwords in a fire safe that you keep in a known location or a safety deposit box.
If you want something more digital, then use some kind of password database, either in the form of a KeePass or similar program, or even just in a password-protected Excel sheet, and give the master password to your lawyer. If you want to secure that even further, store the database itself on a thumb drive that you put in the afore-mentioned safety deposit box or fire safe.
Realistically, though, if you're going to go with a software solution, you don't want to put your survivors through the hassle of finding X software and installing it on their computer so that they can access your systems. For that reason, you probably don't want to use KeePass or similar software/services. You can get away with using an Excel spreadsheet because that's pretty ubiquitous these days, but you may not even want to encrypt it if you're going to keep the thumb drive that it's on in a safe. I have an old 32MB thumb drive that I use for exactly that purpose... the passwords are stored in plain text on that thumb drive, and it's in the fire safe. Access to the fire safe requires a code that I know, and that my lawyer knows. If I die, my lawyer will release the key to open the safe to my executor along with instructions on where to find the passwords.
Why do people keep trying to overthink this? You don't need to 100% secure it against all possible forms of intrusion, you just need to make it enough of a pain in the ass that nobody's going to bother until you're dead.
So put it in a fire safe with a combination lock, and give the combination to your lawyer to put in your will. Get in the habit of closing the door on the safe every time you leave your computer (if it's passwords you can't keep in your head), and you should be fine.
You should be doing that anyway, in case your home is destroyed in a fire. Along with anything else that's valuable enough to worry about, but not valuable enough to want to put in a safety deposit box in a bank. At the absolute worst-case scenario, your family can call a locksmith to get into the safe and retrieve that information, but the chances of them going to that trouble while you're still alive are very slim.
Or maybe that they were acting in good faith and were unwittingly helping the botnet people do their nefarious work, and that now that they have egg on their face, they welcome the chance to have help establishing procedures that would prevent it from happening again?
Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.
Sure. 700MHz processor with 256MB of RAM is just about on the money for a 2001-2002 desktop, too. With the right OS and software that's properly designed for the system's capability, that would run quite well. That probably means you'd be using a browser like Midori rather than Firefox, but you can still quite easily shoehorn a full modern OS, complete with compositing effects, into less than that. You just need to pick the right desktop environment for the job. Heck, the laptop I'm typing this on is only using 280MB of RAM right now, and that's with Pidgin and Firefox with 5 tabs (including Facebook and GMail) open, and I'm not even trying to restrict memory use.
More likely, the cartel kidnapped the family of somebody in Anonymous because they owe them money or something stupid like that, and the person decided to organize a posse. Kidnappings like that are common place in the parts of Mexico affected by the drug war.
Actually, from what I've heard, grounding the entire fleet is better for the customers than the random disruptions of service that were being caused by rolling walk-outs by the union leading up to it.
Actually, looking at statistics like voter turnout, and who's got the money to lobby for changed laws in government, the 1% are the ones making the laws....
Rolling strike and work stoppages, at unannounced locations and times. According to QANTAS' news releases, it's costing the airline about 2 million AUD per day.
A 747 overshot a runway in 1999 due to hydroplaning. That can be considered a "crash" by some standards, but it wasn't a flight into terrain situation, and nobody was injured. Other airlines have lost planes and had fatalities in similar situations, which is why you could consider it a crash, though in large part it depends on the airport: that was in Bangkok, which has a large overshot area. A more recent incident of losing a plane, for example, was when Air France lost an A340 in 2005 in Toronto, Canada, in a very similar incident, because Toronto has a very short overshot area, followed by a ravine. Nobody was hurt in the Air France incident either, but because the plane fell into the ravine and caught fire, it was lost.
Actually, the only injuries Quantas has had since 1988 were caused by an autopilot failure in October 2008, which caused the plane to suddenly descend twice (losing about 1000 feet altitude total), in which 13 people were injured. The plane was still able to land safely, and had minor damage.
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100mpg is doable with modern technology... just not if you want to keep up with the safety and air quality regs.... stuff like antilock brakes, airbags, and catalytic converters add weight. and the catalytic converter in particular also restricts airflow through the exhaust system, which limits the capabilities of the engine.
How hard would it be for the dock manufacturers to come up with a clip in baseplate with a standard interface model the same.
in fact to take it further, the same dock could be used for iPhones and android phones by having a USB adaptor in the iPhone base (or visa versa)
There's currently less than 10 versions of the iPhone on the market. If you add versions of the iPod, you're still talking less than 20 different shapes of devices.
By contrast, LG currently has more than 30 different types/shapes of Android-based phones out there in the wild. That's not even counting offerings from Samsung, HTC, and Motorola, and without even considering the smaller manufacturers out there, or manufacturers like Huawei which are much bigger in some parts of the world than they are on this continent.
So you tell me... how hard would it be for them to create inserts for every Android-based phone there is out there, and keep those inserts up to date with every new phone coming out?
$60 a month is a lot of money, perhaps your independently wealthy, but for most people that is a lot of money that they could be using for other things. That's just about more than the cost of a voice plan around here.
Actually, for a *lot* of people, $60/month is the difference between paying rent and not. And for people not quite that hard up, $60/mo is still the ability to eat out another time per month, or an extra tank of gas, or or or.
Or put another way, $60/month is more than I'm paying for my current cell phone contract in and of itself, and I am getting 300 anytime minutes, unlimited nationwide long distance (in a big country, Canada, not a tiny country like Lichtenstein), unlimited incoming calls, 5pm evenings/weekends, data, unlimited global texting, call display, voicemail, and 3-way calling. And that's not a retention plan or special offer... actually, I'm on month to month with a plan you can get from them as a new customer today. For my bill to go up by $60/mo to add a couple of features I wouldn't actually use (or already have on my mid-range LG Smartphone... that was high end a year ago when I bought it) would be extremely offensive.
I don't have an iPhone 4s. I have an iPhone 4. I didn't really feel like I needed a new phone right now, so I chose to skip this round... but every time I see a 4s commercial I start to question my choice to skip. Those are powerful ads.
To Apple users. To me, I really don't see any reason to buy an iPhone when I can get all of the features I want for half the cost. (keeping in mind that I flatly refuse to sign a contract with a cell provider, so I'm paying retail, not a subsidized cost). Most of the iPhone sales I see happening right now appear to be people upgrading their old iPhone. The smartphone market is basically saturated, and the few people I know who've switched from one brand to another were actually switching from iPhone to an Android device, not the other way around.
And no, those ads won't convince me to buy an HTC. I have very specific requirements in a phone, and HTC doesn't currently have anything on the market that meets them all. They did, however, convince my brother to get an HTC phone, because he just wants a phone that works. That's the message in that campaign: that the phone just works with what you want to do with it. And honestly... I'll concede my bias in the matter if you concede yours: I am biased against iPhones, because I don't like the way Apple does business and because they don't bring any features to the game that I haven't seen and can't get elsewhere. You are biased against this kind of advertising, because you already have a phone that "just works" for you.
More than that... standardizing on a single spot for the cable would also require standardizing on certain dimensions for the phone itself... that would prevent certain form factors and features from being added to the phone... stuff like, for example, having an actual honest-to-goodness hardware keyboard, which is a feature I won't buy a phone without. If, the next time I need a phone, I can't get an Android with a real keyboard, then I will end up buying a WinMo phone, as HTC makes one that isn't completely crappy and has the keyboard I want.
It's because Android devices are marketed for nerds, by nerds. And nerds don't understand marketing or user experience.
Never seen HTC's "You" campaign, have you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lUkF1vVudA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-QhxjJFl7E
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=md52PdldJ1U
Watch those, and tell me with a straight face that this is advertising for nerds, by nerds, and by people who have no concept what the words "user experience" means.
Incidentally, every phone shown in those 3 ads is an Android phone.
I've seen people who've been in earthquakes before panic in a 5.0, and run out into the streets... from the safety of a high rise building which is built with dampeners in the basement and is intended to withstand an 8.5 according to code (there's a fault line that runs directly down the street behind the building I work in, hence the code requiring that).... would have been funny if one of 'em got hit by a falling roofing tile from the building next door, since that high rise was the safest place you could be in such a quake.... Earthquakes trigger something primal in people, and even people who've experienced them before will sometimes go into a fight-or-flight mode when they're caught in one.
Bingo. But while it addresses, it also raises my biggest concern about this. In TFS they had a warrant to obtain location data through the cellular network, and while it's grey area as to whether that warrant extends to the use of a device like the Stingray, the device itself doesn't have enough finesse to only trick the hardware you're trying to locate. It'll trick any hardware on the same network that's within range, including potentially hundreds of innocent bystanders, all of whose information would be available on the device as well... considering that this is an alleged identity thief we're talking about, do you really want them getting that information in discovery?
That's probably why they're deleting the information (at least, that's a plausible explanation that I'd accept for them deleting the information from the device), but it does raise serious privacy concerns for those people whose information is on the device in the first place. It may or may not be illegal to use it to track the person they've got a warrant to track, but in most parts of the civilized world, it certainly *is* illegal for them to use it to track everybody else.
And yet, oddly, it can be imported into Thunderbird when you install it on a system that has Outlook installed....
When you have 15,000 qualified applicants for a single programming job (the kind of ratio that a company like Facebook or Google sees, and that's being conservative), you start adding criteria that have nothing to do with the job to the job description in order to weed out candidates... stuff like requiring bilingualism for an English-language copywriter, or the ability to prove that pi is exactly 3. It's not about excluding people who'd be able to do the job, it's about reducing the number of resumes and interviews that they have to conduct, which is an expensive process for them, both in time and energy.
In most laptops, the keyboard is a user-changeable part. It's trivially simple for me to switch the keyboard in my laptop... there's a bezel at the top of the keyboard that conceals a single screw that holds the keyboard in. Undo the screw, the keyboard pops up, and there's a small ribbon connector under it. Disconnect the ribbon connector, it's really easy to switch out.
The *only* other piece of hardware that's regionally different is the 3-prong connector to the wall. The A/C brick itself is universal input... I have used mine in Canada, Italy, France the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands Antiles. That makes sense from a logistical sense... fewer parts means less money spent duplicating manufacturing processes. With the power brick specifically, it means less hassle for somebody like me, as I only need to buy an adapter kit for the wall jack, rather than a whole new power brick when I travel. This is why the wireless card, for example, is a firmware switch, and not actually physically different in my Canadian wifi card versus a French wifi card. The French card has a few channels available to it at the upper end (in Canada, it's 1-11, in France it's 1-14), but there's absolutely no reason to manufacture hardware specific to the Canadian/US market when they can simply disable the extra channels in software.
That same reasoning with the wifi card is why they wouldn't bother to make a US-specific version of the hardware that disables the feature. If they did anything, they'd simply implement it in the BIOS, but even that is pushing the bounds of reality... Dell/HP/Lenovo etc. want you to buy their product, and they're smart enough to realize that if you can buy essentially the same hardware from Acer without that limitation, then you're going to buy it from Acer if that limitation would prevent you from using their product. It's unlikely you'd *ever* see that kind of limitation imposed by Acer, because they're based in Europe and are governed by different laws than a US-based manufacturer like Dell. That said, it's unlikely you'd *ever* see that kind of limitation from Dell, either, considering how Dell actively supports Linux development, and bundles Linux on several of its consumer models of system. (in fact, the laptop I'm typing this on came pre-installed with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS on it.)
You think that there'd be good wifi coverage from a wifi base station in a car in a parking lot when the game system is in a concrete-reinforced-with-rebar room some distance away?
If they can't figure out how to make the wifi unusable when the PS3/XBoX/Wii is already sitting in what's essentially a Faraday cage, something's wrong with the people they pay to figure that kind of thing out.
Speaking of, they could always get a Nintendo Wii. That doesn't have an Ethernet port in the device unless you buy a USB dongle for it, so they could easily gibble its ability to get on the Internet without actually damaging the device itself. And the Wii is perfectly usable without a working Internet connection... if you run a game that requires a newer firmware on the console, *gasp* it'll install it from the game disc without having to connect to the Internet.
The problem is you get people who are radical Keynesians (not people from Kenya!)
No, that would be Kenyans. Keynesians are people from Milton Keynes.
Actually, what freaks me out isn't that their password is stored in a recoverable format, it's that their tools/accesses are set up in such a way as to allow the first person you speak with on the phone to see it. Even if they're going to store the passwords in a recoverable way (which is bad juju, others have covered), they could at least restrict access to higher levels up the echelon, or create some kind of small back office team to handle that kind of thing.
It is surprising though. Everywhere I've worked that handles customer accesses handles it in such a way that the passwords are unrecoverable and never written down. If we need access, and the customer doesn't know the password, the only thing we can do is reset the password.
Clearly, you need to put a bomb in the safe, connected to your house's wifi connection. If the connection drops, boom.
Just remember to turn it off if you have to reboot the router for any reason. ;)
... is your pharmacy in the stone age? With my pharmacy, as long as you have the prescription number, you can order refills over the phone through an IVR, and the prescription number is printed on the label on the bottle. You still have to go in in person to pick it up, but my family has never had problems picking up prescriptions for me... something about knowing a prescription was phoned in that same day for me helps the pharmacy know that maybe the person going to pick it up has some connection to me. If I run out of refills, I can have my doctor phone in a refill to the pharmacy, or I can see the doctor for a new script, but as long as there's refills left on the script, my pharmacy has never given me anything approaching trouble.
It might be different if I were ordering narcotics or other controlled substances, but you usually don't get any refills on a prescription like that... not with any doctor that wants to keep their license at least.
Actually, the simplest solution would be to simply print out a list of your passwords and store it next to the computer....
If you want something more secure, put that list of passwords in a fire safe that you keep in a known location or a safety deposit box.
If you want something more digital, then use some kind of password database, either in the form of a KeePass or similar program, or even just in a password-protected Excel sheet, and give the master password to your lawyer. If you want to secure that even further, store the database itself on a thumb drive that you put in the afore-mentioned safety deposit box or fire safe.
Realistically, though, if you're going to go with a software solution, you don't want to put your survivors through the hassle of finding X software and installing it on their computer so that they can access your systems. For that reason, you probably don't want to use KeePass or similar software/services. You can get away with using an Excel spreadsheet because that's pretty ubiquitous these days, but you may not even want to encrypt it if you're going to keep the thumb drive that it's on in a safe. I have an old 32MB thumb drive that I use for exactly that purpose... the passwords are stored in plain text on that thumb drive, and it's in the fire safe. Access to the fire safe requires a code that I know, and that my lawyer knows. If I die, my lawyer will release the key to open the safe to my executor along with instructions on where to find the passwords.
Why do people keep trying to overthink this? You don't need to 100% secure it against all possible forms of intrusion, you just need to make it enough of a pain in the ass that nobody's going to bother until you're dead.
So put it in a fire safe with a combination lock, and give the combination to your lawyer to put in your will. Get in the habit of closing the door on the safe every time you leave your computer (if it's passwords you can't keep in your head), and you should be fine.
You should be doing that anyway, in case your home is destroyed in a fire. Along with anything else that's valuable enough to worry about, but not valuable enough to want to put in a safety deposit box in a bank. At the absolute worst-case scenario, your family can call a locksmith to get into the safe and retrieve that information, but the chances of them going to that trouble while you're still alive are very slim.
Or maybe that they were acting in good faith and were unwittingly helping the botnet people do their nefarious work, and that now that they have egg on their face, they welcome the chance to have help establishing procedures that would prevent it from happening again?
Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.
Sure. 700MHz processor with 256MB of RAM is just about on the money for a 2001-2002 desktop, too. With the right OS and software that's properly designed for the system's capability, that would run quite well. That probably means you'd be using a browser like Midori rather than Firefox, but you can still quite easily shoehorn a full modern OS, complete with compositing effects, into less than that. You just need to pick the right desktop environment for the job. Heck, the laptop I'm typing this on is only using 280MB of RAM right now, and that's with Pidgin and Firefox with 5 tabs (including Facebook and GMail) open, and I'm not even trying to restrict memory use.
More likely, the cartel kidnapped the family of somebody in Anonymous because they owe them money or something stupid like that, and the person decided to organize a posse. Kidnappings like that are common place in the parts of Mexico affected by the drug war.
Actually, from what I've heard, grounding the entire fleet is better for the customers than the random disruptions of service that were being caused by rolling walk-outs by the union leading up to it.
Actually, looking at statistics like voter turnout, and who's got the money to lobby for changed laws in government, the 1% are the ones making the laws....
Rolling strike and work stoppages, at unannounced locations and times. According to QANTAS' news releases, it's costing the airline about 2 million AUD per day.
A 747 overshot a runway in 1999 due to hydroplaning. That can be considered a "crash" by some standards, but it wasn't a flight into terrain situation, and nobody was injured. Other airlines have lost planes and had fatalities in similar situations, which is why you could consider it a crash, though in large part it depends on the airport: that was in Bangkok, which has a large overshot area. A more recent incident of losing a plane, for example, was when Air France lost an A340 in 2005 in Toronto, Canada, in a very similar incident, because Toronto has a very short overshot area, followed by a ravine. Nobody was hurt in the Air France incident either, but because the plane fell into the ravine and caught fire, it was lost.
Actually, the only injuries Quantas has had since 1988 were caused by an autopilot failure in October 2008, which caused the plane to suddenly descend twice (losing about 1000 feet altitude total), in which 13 people were injured. The plane was still able to land safely, and had minor damage.
http://aviation-safety.net/database/operator/airline.php?var=4842