Partition magic has an option that will write 0's to every sector of a drive, thereby overwriting any previous traces. you can also use dd to do this, dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda
This will effectively destroy any data on the drive, although it may also hose the drive too....
Those are not smartphones, those are PDA's that had phone functionality put in after the fact. The smartphone is the exact opposite (smartphone as a generic term not MS crap). It was a phone designed with PDA functionality.
Might be nit picking, but there is a world of difference.
actually, any tivo supports network, do a search on google for Turbonet or Turbo Net and Tivo. The Tivo system boards (all of them, or atleast the first series does), have the header to hook up a network card, plug it in, and boot the system, and it works (they compiled eth support into the kernel that is distributed as part of tivo). Then you just change the dial out number to some wierd code (I forgot off the top of my head), and the tivo will use network to pull down info. Although, since mine is hooked to the phone line anyways, I am not sure if it sends the data it sends over the network or not.
Popups suck, all types od advertising suck, but unfortunately ad's are here to stay.
However, some sites seem to be alot less annoying about it then others. And I say... get ISP's and backbones to start null routing traffic from all sites that use obnoxious advertising practices.
Creating a secure WiFi enviroment is not hard. So waht, you are broadcasting everything over the air to anyone within range. Big deal, with a few precautions and some know how, you can easily secure the wireless network.
Put the AP itself on a port of its own on the firewall (not on of those cheap appliances, but something that will do nat/ipsec/ip firewalling). Do not use DHCP, disable broadcasting so that for someone to connect to the network they have to actually know it is there.
Use ipsec to connect the clients to the firewall, and have the firewall block ALL traffic coming from the wireless network, except traffic from specific IP's, use static addressing and natting, not dynamic (all this traffic should be encapsulated using ipsec). You can use wep which is almost completely useless for an added bonus.
ie.. Internet gateway/firewall AP (on dedicated port on firewall) wireless clients.
Using IPsec, who cares if anyone sniffs the traffic off the network, it will take them years to decrypt it if you use ipsec. They may still be able to connect to your network, but the firewall is dropping the traffic as it is not encrypted, and your dropping all traffic from all ip's other then those clients you permit at the firewall. The wep would just encapsulate the ipsec, and give a minor added bonus.
It is currentlly still like this, secureid is used for everything, from my AIM logon (and to debunk other peoples theories, AIM file transfers, and direct connects only work internally to corp machines, no external networks machines can use the file transfer service, so no trojan could have been installed... email is another story though)... To email.
Your wrong, home users do have something that is worth stealing, bandwidth anonymouty.
Currently hackers use exploited/infected machines to abuse their bandwidth, and remain anonymous. The bandwidth is used for ddos attacks, you would be surprised what 500 infected cable customers machines can do to almost any network, regardless of its size.
There are also trojans that run as proxy servers and mail relays, to be abused by spammers to send mail and annoying messenger spam out, since it always looks like it came from an infected machine, and there are never logs on said infected machine.
Your wrong, when you first purchase the game, you get the first month free. You are still required to click through the license a few dozen (if not more) times during your trial period, once that is up, you pay or move on, if you pay, that is implying you have agreed to the license which you agreed to so many times before hand during your free trial. Just because said people have not read it, does not make it any less legally binding.
Everything inside EQ belongs to Sony, they can dictate to you what they want.
On the otherside (yes I play eq, no I dont use showeq), the seq peeps can do whatever they like as well.. what it comes down to is, both parties need to obey the law, whether or not they do is irrelavent, they just need to follow one simple rule... "Don't get caught"
Sony scanning machines etc, and the seq peeps reverse eng. the encryption, are technically both illegal according to current US law, but if neither party gets caught, who cares:)
I have one, in fact I have 2, an ipaq and visor prism, neither have ever been used for anything other then using my wireless devices (omnisky for visor and goamerica for ipaq/laptop). Comes in usefull for checking movies, directions (gps for ipaq is nice, street level mapping). For the most part, I use it to write SMS messages and send them via my cell phones IR, its much much much easier then typing on on the damn phone itself. Putting names and numbers into the phone is also easier using ipaq. Also. further more, since I have a fancy phone (well I have had 2, previous was Ericsson T68i, current is Samsung SGH-S105). Both these phones support full colour pictures (T68 supports 256 colour images, the SGH supports 65k colour pictures). The samsung also supports ring tones. Why pay insane amounts of money from cell phone sites to SMS these items to your phone, when you can just beam them from your IPAQ, Visor, and send them directly to your phone.
Point being, PDA's are not neccesarily strictly for appointments and buisness purposes, they have good recreational and Private uses too:)
Perhaps it's time for ISPs to charge per megabyte? There's no such thing as 'unlimited' or 'free'
This may apply for ISP's outside the US getting service from major backbone providers of which most if not all are based in the US, and are charged by the amount of data they use.
However inside the US, ISP's pretty much pay flat fees from backbone providers, and in alot of cases, ISPs have peering agreements with each other, so source and destination traffic stays within the respective source and destination networks.
However once you have to cross the ocean, your being charge by the amount of data (whether undersea lines or satellite). The problem is, the US providers don't bear any of the costs, whether its someone in the US sending data to an ISP outside the US, or that ISP sending data to the US, that ISP bears ALL the costs
This is exactly the kind of model needed for online distribution of music. Build it into my ISP monthly bill and I'll gladly pay up to $5.00 per onth to legally download/upload all the music I want. Send that money to the artists who deserve it and I will be completely happy with the arrangement.
I disagree here somewhat, I'm not about to pay a surcharge to my isp for the ability to download music, when at present I don't have the ability to do so without taking ages. I'm in an area, where I don't have access to broadband, my cable company sucks so badly I have switched to directv (adelphia), and Satellite net is just not worth it at the moment, too expensive for hardware, and too expensive for service.
With regards to verizon sponsering this.. I think its a joke, verizon are only doing this so they can most likely use it to promote their broadband dsl services, which they are slowly squashing out the compatition. And the fact they are dragging their heals with rollout of dsl hardware in their co's (I know, slightly offtopic). I trust verizon less then I trust the riaa, and I despise the riaa.
Actually, your idea has merit. Taking an idea from Handspring (not everyones favourite, but I'm not talking about their products, only how they implemented modular expansion)
When I dropped my merlin celluler modem into the prism I had, it setup the software right from the device I plugged in.
Why can we have a moduler windows of sort, you plug in a device, those device drivers that are stored within the device automatically get loaded into the system (okay that could push the price of devices up abit). and similairly, when the device is removed or unpluged, said drivers are removed from the system.
Maybe for example network cards can be supplied with a variety of browser software options on the CD that comes with the network device, and put the drivers on the actual device. In other words, for large programs, you would include the software on a CD or sorts instead of on the device. It would make for painless device addition/removal, and allow the device manufacturer to say bundle, IE, Netscape, Opera and (not or) $browser_name_here. That way, user pops CD in, and is presented with the options, pick and chose your network programs.
IE, netscape, and most other browsers have always been free, same goes for audio software that just plays. Why not place that software on CD's and bundle it with the associated hardware (kinda like DX has also been supplied with most games, although I have no idea if developers pay for dx8 ability to put on their cd's or not).
That way, the user him/her self can chose what they want.
I used to do tech support for Erols Internet.. shortly before RCN bought em. This was a while ago, and yes pay sucked, but it was a start. Doing Tech support is a good inroad into the industry, atleast it used to be. It taught new IT people patience, and how to find a solution to a problem if there was no canned response available to resolve the problem. But like I said, this was a long time ago, when most companies actually had their own tech support call centers.
I find these days, companies are either outsourcing, or completely dropping the tech support call centers, or merging tech support with customer service (which in the past really only handled billing and non technical related problems) Todays support/customer service groups are almost completely useless, their call volume gets higher, while companies are either cutting back on staff, or no longer hiring as their customer base increases.
What this does, is put increased pressure on support staff to resolve a problem, or dump it off on someone else as fast as possible. When I say dump it off on someone else.. I mean blame say MS (if your an ISP), or anyone other then youself to get them off the call.
Hell, even back in the day, as a senior support person who dealt with escalated issues, I was repeatably bitched at for taking too long to resolve an issue since I tend to go that extra mile to make sure a problem was resolved before finishing the call. But the company would rather I give a customer a solution, and tell them to try it and end the call, if that did not work the customer had to call back, and sometimes wait for hours on hold in the queue.
Alot of bad tech support is from clueless people having the job dumped on them, but I suspect most of the problems come from teh fact, that the company VP's see tech support as something that they can live without, and would rather pump cash into sales and marketting, and deal with problems later. Which results in low support salleries, which in turn results in very high employee turnover, as no one wants to sit in a very high stress job and get paid peanuts. This in turn results in a knowledge base drain, where the people who actually did know something leave for greener pastures, and the only people left are those who are not as knowledgable but can read from scripted solutions, which rarely work.
Anyways, enough of my ranting, I'm no longer in tech support due to the crappy pay, companies not willing to train their support people so they could possibly further their career within that company. I personally think that if companies invested in their employees (specifically support), those people would stay within that company in most cases, and that would result in better service.
But VP's only see the bottom line, and to them tech support is a drain on their funds, so they will always try to cut corners there, which is why support will always suck
You do realise, that anyone of those people you hate so much, could print out these threads where people like to voice their oppinions and aim vulgarity at the people whos mind's we need to sway, and submit them during their hearings, to completely discredit us as raving lunatics in said hearings.. use your brain.. Vent all you want, but chose your words carefully, cos in then end they could just as easily come back and bite us all in the ass.
Club Fed for life: A vote on life imprisonment for malicious hackers has been postponed.
The House Judiciary committee was supposed to consider the Cyber Security Enhancement Act this week, but postponed a vote until next week because of a full schedule.
A subcommittee has already approved the bill, after rewriting it to cover more types of computer intrusions.
Err.. This seems a little bit on the harsh side.. what so they plan on doing with said criminals... put em in with the murderers and rapists in a maximum security prison.. hell while there at it.. why not go for the death penalty...
This really does suck.. and people wonder why I.. as an American, and sometimes proud to be one, am applying for my citizenship in a European country.
Uggg
You really should do more research before making a statement like that.
Your not allowed to use any electronic devices during take off and landing, thats cell phones to walkmans to laptops. This is pure a safety precaution, not because they want you to use their phones. Seconadly, after take off.. you can't use your cell phone because if my memory serves me right, Cell phones don't get a signal over 10k feet into the air, when you fly at 30k feet your phones useless. And yes, you turn them off and they don't want you to use them, cos it only takes one cell phone made by cheap generic manufacturer that may or may not cause interferance with the instruments or the flight of the plane.
Personally, I would rather not take that chance 30k in the air.
The phone itself, like most of the high end GSM phones are tri band world phones, they will work anywhere they can pickup a signal on 900/1800/1900 ranges.... However at $2 a min roaming overseas... its cheaper to take your phone, pop out your local providers sim card, and go buy yourself prepaid sim cards from whatever provider is in your part of the world your headed.
I was looking into the Treo, I already have voicestream GSM/GPRS on my motorola timeport P280 (which has a really stupid IR issue of it being off by default and having to hit the menu's to activate it, does not support phone number entry beaming via the irDA... and crashes when you attempt to use anytype of GSM software to sync your address book with a pda or anything via irDA (yes 300 or so numbers went poof.. always remember to store your numbers in the sim card not the phone if you use a P280. This problem appears to be specific with the P280 which requires the rather expensive datakit ($69 USD) that has Starfish Truesync to sync the phone as the std AT command set does not work on the P280. However the P260 and other phones have no problems with this).
I ended up buying a Ipaq and a Timeport to Ipaq data cable (ouch, $59 USD.. almost as much as the datakit for the timeports from motorola) which allows me to use the irDA on both the phone and the ipaq to connect to each other and use both GPRS and std dialup (the latter chewing up min on your phone service, not metered by bandwidth, but I have unlimited weekend and evening hours with voicestream).
End of story, with the research I did before going out and chosing my present setup, if your going to get a Treo, its gonna cost you around $550 for the phone unless you get it with service, then its only $300 (and for those of us who were already voicestream customers.. you get screwed, we gotta pay the full price, which is why I got an ipaq and data cable instead at around the same cost). I would recomend you wait till mid 2002, when they release the Treo 280, its a colour version, and will have all the support you need, and will run about $600ish (according to handsprings site).
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The original target was actually the white house, they were picked up on radar, and air control ordered them to change paths, they then did a 270 degree turn and dropped below radar before hitting the pentagon
I am afraid its too late for that. A country (unknown for sure, but we are pretty positive who) harboured the suspect in question for 20+ years. They had ample time to hand over this person for past terrorist acts he commited. This attack was a act of war, a serious blow to our way of life. If the US does not act accordingly, the world will lose all faith in us, and america will seem like a pushover, ripe for every attack any terrorist can imagine. It is now time for action, those terrorists did not care about the innocent people they killed, and the people of those countries harbouring them for so long may have been able to prevent this had given over the terrorist long ago. The people made the choice not to oppose the existing government which is the main culprit for harbouring terrorists. It is time for action, a show of force to say we will not take this anymore. I may not agree with the idiots (US politicians in general), but I love this country, even though I was born in another to American parents. In my present state of mind I would have bombed every single country that was involved with terrorism in the past, and only left a smoking crater where a country once used to be. Thank god I do not thave that power.
As far as I can tell, there is nothing wrong with the patent.
It permits free use of the code to anyone who wants to
use it for non commercial purposes, and requires a seperate license for
anyone who wants to use the code to make money. This is how patents
should all be. Rather then the patent holder attempting to create something then extort
insane ammounts of cash from anyone trying to use the technology.
Having not read the article yet, since I cannot connect ot it for some apparent reason unknown to me, I would hazard a guess that the network signal would prolly piggy back over the GPS signal since a plane always has contact with atleast 3 GPS sat's at any point in time.
Actually, the no electronics law/rule is really only during take off and landing, atleast as far as I know, I have used plrenty of electronic devices on planes.
For those who are really interested in who is defacing what, and which companies where defaced and teh defacement of said site, http://defaced.alldas.de is also mirroring defacements.
I don't think its the case itself he does not understand, the court cases involving the mpaa and decss where widely publicised. What I believe he meant was he did not understand the details between associating code with free speech.
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Partition magic has an option that will write 0's to every sector of a drive, thereby overwriting any previous traces. you can also use dd to do this, dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/hda
This will effectively destroy any data on the drive, although it may also hose the drive too....
Those are not smartphones, those are PDA's that had phone functionality put in after the fact. The smartphone is the exact opposite (smartphone as a generic term not MS crap). It was a phone designed with PDA functionality.
Might be nit picking, but there is a world of difference.
actually, any tivo supports network, do a search on google for Turbonet or Turbo Net and Tivo. The Tivo system boards (all of them, or atleast the first series does), have the header to hook up a network card, plug it in, and boot the system, and it works (they compiled eth support into the kernel that is distributed as part of tivo). Then you just change the dial out number to some wierd code (I forgot off the top of my head), and the tivo will use network to pull down info. Although, since mine is hooked to the phone line anyways, I am not sure if it sends the data it sends over the network or not.
Popups suck, all types od advertising suck, but unfortunately ad's are here to stay.
However, some sites seem to be alot less annoying about it then others. And I say... get ISP's and backbones to start null routing traffic from all sites that use obnoxious advertising practices.
Creating a secure WiFi enviroment is not hard. So waht, you are broadcasting everything over the air to anyone within range. Big deal, with a few precautions and some know how, you can easily secure the wireless network.
Put the AP itself on a port of its own on the firewall (not on of those cheap appliances, but something that will do nat/ipsec/ip firewalling).
Do not use DHCP, disable broadcasting so that for someone to connect to the network they have to actually know it is there.
Use ipsec to connect the clients to the firewall, and have the firewall block ALL traffic coming from the wireless network, except traffic from specific IP's, use static addressing and natting, not dynamic (all this traffic should be encapsulated using ipsec). You can use wep which is almost completely useless for an added bonus.
ie.. Internet gateway/firewall AP (on dedicated port on firewall) wireless clients.
Using IPsec, who cares if anyone sniffs the traffic off the network, it will take them years to decrypt it if you use ipsec. They may still be able to connect to your network, but the firewall is dropping the traffic as it is not encrypted, and your dropping all traffic from all ip's other then those clients you permit at the firewall. The wep would just encapsulate the ipsec, and give a minor added bonus.
The Lifebook series by Fujitsu, and much better specs. http://webshop.fujitsupc.com/fpc/Ecommerce/buildse riesbean.do?series=P1
It is currentlly still like this, secureid is used for everything, from my AIM logon (and to debunk other peoples theories, AIM file transfers, and direct connects only work internally to corp machines, no external networks machines can use the file transfer service, so no trojan could have been installed... email is another story though)... To email.
Your wrong, home users do have something that is worth stealing, bandwidth anonymouty.
Currently hackers use exploited/infected machines to abuse their bandwidth, and remain anonymous. The bandwidth is used for ddos attacks, you would be surprised what 500 infected cable customers machines can do to almost any network, regardless of its size.
There are also trojans that run as proxy servers and mail relays, to be abused by spammers to send mail and annoying messenger spam out, since it always looks like it came from an infected machine, and there are never logs on said infected machine.
Your wrong, when you first purchase the game, you get the first month free. You are still required to click through the license a few dozen (if not more) times during your trial period, once that is up, you pay or move on, if you pay, that is implying you have agreed to the license which you agreed to so many times before hand during your free trial. Just because said people have not read it, does not make it any less legally binding.
:)
Everything inside EQ belongs to Sony, they can dictate to you what they want.
On the otherside (yes I play eq, no I dont use showeq), the seq peeps can do whatever they like as well.. what it comes down to is, both parties need to obey the law, whether or not they do is irrelavent, they just need to follow one simple rule... "Don't get caught"
Sony scanning machines etc, and the seq peeps reverse eng. the encryption, are technically both illegal according to current US law, but if neither party gets caught, who cares
I have one, in fact I have 2, an ipaq and visor prism, neither have ever been used for anything other then using my wireless devices (omnisky for visor and goamerica for ipaq/laptop). Comes in usefull for checking movies, directions (gps for ipaq is nice, street level mapping). For the most part, I use it to write SMS messages and send them via my cell phones IR, its much much much easier then typing on on the damn phone itself. Putting names and numbers into the phone is also easier using ipaq. Also. further more, since I have a fancy phone (well I have had 2, previous was Ericsson T68i, current is Samsung SGH-S105). Both these phones support full colour pictures (T68 supports 256 colour images, the SGH supports 65k colour pictures). The samsung also supports ring tones. Why pay insane amounts of money from cell phone sites to SMS these items to your phone, when you can just beam them from your IPAQ, Visor, and send them directly to your phone.
:)
Point being, PDA's are not neccesarily strictly for appointments and buisness purposes, they have good recreational and Private uses too
This may apply for ISP's outside the US getting service from major backbone providers of which most if not all are based in the US, and are charged by the amount of data they use.
However inside the US, ISP's pretty much pay flat fees from backbone providers, and in alot of cases, ISPs have peering agreements with each other, so source and destination traffic stays within the respective source and destination networks.
However once you have to cross the ocean, your being charge by the amount of data (whether undersea lines or satellite). The problem is, the US providers don't bear any of the costs, whether its someone in the US sending data to an ISP outside the US, or that ISP sending data to the US, that ISP bears ALL the costs
I disagree here somewhat, I'm not about to pay a surcharge to my isp for the ability to download music, when at present I don't have the ability to do so without taking ages. I'm in an area, where I don't have access to broadband, my cable company sucks so badly I have switched to directv (adelphia), and Satellite net is just not worth it at the moment, too expensive for hardware, and too expensive for service.
With regards to verizon sponsering this.. I think its a joke, verizon are only doing this so they can most likely use it to promote their broadband dsl services, which they are slowly squashing out the compatition. And the fact they are dragging their heals with rollout of dsl hardware in their co's (I know, slightly offtopic). I trust verizon less then I trust the riaa, and I despise the riaa.
Actually, your idea has merit. Taking an idea from Handspring (not everyones favourite, but I'm not talking about their products, only how they implemented modular expansion)
When I dropped my merlin celluler modem into the prism I had, it setup the software right from the device I plugged in.
Why can we have a moduler windows of sort, you plug in a device, those device drivers that are stored within the device automatically get loaded into the system (okay that could push the price of devices up abit). and similairly, when the device is removed or unpluged, said drivers are removed from the system.
Maybe for example network cards can be supplied with a variety of browser software options on the CD that comes with the network device, and put the drivers on the actual device. In other words, for large programs, you would include the software on a CD or sorts instead of on the device. It would make for painless device addition/removal, and allow the device manufacturer to say bundle, IE, Netscape, Opera and (not or) $browser_name_here. That way, user pops CD in, and is presented with the options, pick and chose your network programs.
IE, netscape, and most other browsers have always been free, same goes for audio software that just plays. Why not place that software on CD's and bundle it with the associated hardware (kinda like DX has also been supplied with most games, although I have no idea if developers pay for dx8 ability to put on their cd's or not).
That way, the user him/her self can chose what they want.
I used to do tech support for Erols Internet.. shortly before RCN bought em. This was a while ago, and yes pay sucked, but it was a start. Doing Tech support is a good inroad into the industry, atleast it used to be. It taught new IT people patience, and how to find a solution to a problem if there was no canned response available to resolve the problem. But like I said, this was a long time ago, when most companies actually had their own tech support call centers.
I find these days, companies are either outsourcing, or completely dropping the tech support call centers, or merging tech support with customer service (which in the past really only handled billing and non technical related problems) Todays support/customer service groups are almost completely useless, their call volume gets higher, while companies are either cutting back on staff, or no longer hiring as their customer base increases.
What this does, is put increased pressure on support staff to resolve a problem, or dump it off on someone else as fast as possible. When I say dump it off on someone else.. I mean blame say MS (if your an ISP), or anyone other then youself to get them off the call.
Hell, even back in the day, as a senior support person who dealt with escalated issues, I was repeatably bitched at for taking too long to resolve an issue since I tend to go that extra mile to make sure a problem was resolved before finishing the call. But the company would rather I give a customer a solution, and tell them to try it and end the call, if that did not work the customer had to call back, and sometimes wait for hours on hold in the queue.
Alot of bad tech support is from clueless people having the job dumped on them, but I suspect most of the problems come from teh fact, that the company VP's see tech support as something that they can live without, and would rather pump cash into sales and marketting, and deal with problems later. Which results in low support salleries, which in turn results in very high employee turnover, as no one wants to sit in a very high stress job and get paid peanuts. This in turn results in a knowledge base drain, where the people who actually did know something leave for greener pastures, and the only people left are those who are not as knowledgable but can read from scripted solutions, which rarely work.
Anyways, enough of my ranting, I'm no longer in tech support due to the crappy pay, companies not willing to train their support people so they could possibly further their career within that company. I personally think that if companies invested in their employees (specifically support), those people would stay within that company in most cases, and that would result in better service.
But VP's only see the bottom line, and to them tech support is a drain on their funds, so they will always try to cut corners there, which is why support will always suck
You do realise, that anyone of those people you hate so much, could print out these threads where people like to voice their oppinions and aim vulgarity at the people whos mind's we need to sway, and submit them during their hearings, to completely discredit us as raving lunatics in said hearings.. use your brain.. Vent all you want, but chose your words carefully, cos in then end they could just as easily come back and bite us all in the ass.
You really should do more research before making a statement like that.
Your not allowed to use any electronic devices during take off and landing, thats cell phones to walkmans to laptops. This is pure a safety precaution, not because they want you to use their phones. Seconadly, after take off.. you can't use your cell phone because if my memory serves me right, Cell phones don't get a signal over 10k feet into the air, when you fly at 30k feet your phones useless. And yes, you turn them off and they don't want you to use them, cos it only takes one cell phone made by cheap generic manufacturer that may or may not cause interferance with the instruments or the flight of the plane.
Personally, I would rather not take that chance 30k in the air.
Bleh
The phone itself, like most of the high end GSM phones are tri band world phones, they will work anywhere they can pickup a signal on 900/1800/1900 ranges.... However at $2 a min roaming overseas... its cheaper to take your phone, pop out your local providers sim card, and go buy yourself prepaid sim cards from whatever provider is in your part of the world your headed.
I was looking into the Treo, I already have voicestream GSM/GPRS on my motorola timeport P280 (which has a really stupid IR issue of it being off by default and having to hit the menu's to activate it, does not support phone number entry beaming via the irDA... and crashes when you attempt to use anytype of GSM software to sync your address book with a pda or anything via irDA (yes 300 or so numbers went poof.. always remember to store your numbers in the sim card not the phone if you use a P280. This problem appears to be specific with the P280 which requires the rather expensive datakit ($69 USD) that has Starfish Truesync to sync the phone as the std AT command set does not work on the P280. However the P260 and other phones have no problems with this).
I ended up buying a Ipaq and a Timeport to Ipaq data cable (ouch, $59 USD.. almost as much as the datakit for the timeports from motorola) which allows me to use the irDA on both the phone and the ipaq to connect to each other and use both GPRS and std dialup (the latter chewing up min on your phone service, not metered by bandwidth, but I have unlimited weekend and evening hours with voicestream).
End of story, with the research I did before going out and chosing my present setup, if your going to get a Treo, its gonna cost you around $550 for the phone unless you get it with service, then its only $300 (and for those of us who were already voicestream customers.. you get screwed, we gotta pay the full price, which is why I got an ipaq and data cable instead at around the same cost). I would recomend you wait till mid 2002, when they release the Treo 280, its a colour version, and will have all the support you need, and will run about $600ish (according to handsprings site).
Bleh
The original target was actually the white house, they were picked up on radar, and air control ordered them to change paths, they then did a 270 degree turn and dropped below radar before hitting the pentagon
I am afraid its too late for that. A country (unknown for sure, but we are pretty positive who) harboured the suspect in question for 20+ years. They had ample time to hand over this person for past terrorist acts he commited. This attack was a act of war, a serious blow to our way of life. If the US does not act accordingly, the world will lose all faith in us, and america will seem like a pushover, ripe for every attack any terrorist can imagine. It is now time for action, those terrorists did not care about the innocent people they killed, and the people of those countries harbouring them for so long may have been able to prevent this had given over the terrorist long ago. The people made the choice not to oppose the existing government which is the main culprit for harbouring terrorists. It is time for action, a show of force to say we will not take this anymore. I may not agree with the idiots (US politicians in general), but I love this country, even though I was born in another to American parents. In my present state of mind I would have bombed every single country that was involved with terrorism in the past, and only left a smoking crater where a country once used to be. Thank god I do not thave that power.
Jason
As far as I can tell, there is nothing wrong with the patent.
It permits free use of the code to anyone who wants to
use it for non commercial purposes, and requires a seperate license for
anyone who wants to use the code to make money. This is how patents
should all be. Rather then the patent holder attempting to create something then extort
insane ammounts of cash from anyone trying to use the technology.
Having not read the article yet, since I cannot connect ot it for some apparent reason unknown to me, I would hazard a guess that the network signal would prolly piggy back over the GPS signal since a plane always has contact with atleast 3 GPS sat's at any point in time.
Actually, the no electronics law/rule is really only during take off and landing, atleast as far as I know, I have used plrenty of electronic devices on planes.
For those who are really interested in who is defacing what, and which companies where defaced and teh defacement of said site, http://defaced.alldas.de is also mirroring defacements.
I don't think its the case itself he does not understand, the court cases involving the mpaa and decss where widely publicised. What I believe he meant was he did not understand the details between associating code with free speech.
But I could be wrong