Well, just as a follow-up on the hacks, This site has some good stuff on hacking Series 2 - it looks like they finally can get shell on the new units, like they could on the old ones.
Maybe the rich snobs in their Lincoln Navigators and Ford Excursions don't like paying more than the poor guy in the Geo Metro?
What's really sad about this, is that rich people are still less affected (as a percentage of their income) than poor people are. And before you say that poor people can just use Tri-Met or some other public transport, remember how much of Oregon is rural.
By the way, if I still lived there, my first challenge to that law would be to have them prove that my car wasn't on a flatbed truck when it was moving around, with the flatbed truck presumably reporting its own movements for taxation purposes, already. And I'd like to see them try to charge me for building an encasing box for the unit to block GPS reception when I'm not at the inspection site, if they win that battle.
What happened to Janet Danahey could have happened to any of us or to our own children. Youth is often so dangerously careless and carefree in its exuberance.
'Oh, yes, they meant to set a fire, and no, they didn't warn anyone when they saw it was going to burn the place, they just ran off and hid, but gee, don't punish Janet for killing 4 people, anyone could have done it, besides, you didn't punish any of her friends.'
Anyone that lacking in intelligence and self control ('it wasn't their fault, they were drunk, haven't we all done crazy stuff like that?') is a threat to society.
This makes me see more clearly why some people are driven to become Republicans.
Dow chemical suing people who have a yearly income of $1000 for $10000 after the tragedy in Bhopal (which still hasn't been cleaned up) is so low and disgusting that one wonders what kind of snarling inhuman lunatics run that company.
Greenpeace has their own spin, but. as has been stated by others here, Dow probably had to spend money to clean up the chemicals the protestors brought with them, etc.
Two wrongs don't make a right. Did those protestors think about how they were spreading the environmental impact by collecting chemicals from one location and potentially contaminating another? Or just about what good press they would get?
I can't carry on because I am absolutely speechless with disgust at those fucking bastards.
Which ones? The ones who, having made a mistake, half-assedly tried to clean it up and then abandoned their work, or the ones deliberately trying to cause (or at least threaten) environmental harm not only to the culprit but to anyone nearby?
I'm disgusted by Greenpeace's role in this. They've figuratively gone from trying to block Japanese whalers to dragging whale carcasses into a city and leaving them in front of a building where the whalers have offices, not caring that it's a public street and others would have to clean up their mess.
The protesters' attitudes might have been summarized by "they messed up our backyard, let's mess up theirs," but where does that lead, except to two messed up backyards?
It wasn't even single sex accommodation, so we couldn't engage in the fun and games of para-homosexual activities
...which you dearly missed from your public school days, and the all-but-institutionalized homosexual relationships you forged with your cohort and masters. Only those privileged enough to attend Catholic school here are guaranteed the opportunity to get the benefit of that experience.
If your wicket's not already sticky in reverie, I have two more words taken from the British Boy's Own Lexicon: soggy biscuits, a treat seemingly unique to the cuisine of that northern island country of queens.
I'm not serious, of course - I love England, and we'll pretend I didn't wish I could have spent my formative years in boarding school there, myself. The point is, you're making (ethnic?) prejudicial slurs against "the Greeks", begging comparison back to your own quirky system. In the U.S., the partying buffoons are allowed to expose themselves, have a good time, burn out, and eventually become used-car dealers and fast-food restaurant managers; in yours, they seem rather more likely to become "captains of industry." That's only natural, since you've had a few hundred more years to build up the Old Boy (bedsheet) Network.
You can do that, at least with Tivo. Just say "first run only".
It's my understanding that "first run" isn't first-time-Tivo-sees-it, it's first-time-shown-on-tv, a flag that doesn't always get set in the databases these guys resell.
I have an additional complaint about Tivos, or at least the DirecTivo I had access to recently: the response is sometimes almost as slow as those notorious digital cable boxes that show ads at the bottom of every screen while you are flipping channels. I want my menus to go by fast - with my regular VCR, when I hit channel up, it doesn't think about it, it just does it.
My Tivo is built into my DirecTV box. It is the cable box. No messy IR, complete integration with the TV Guide. That's how it's supposed to work. When every cable box comes with a PVR, that's when they'll really take off.
Plus, if you subscribe to the highest premium package levels, they waive the monthly subscription fee.
Unfortunately, new customers can no longer buy a lifetime subscription, and good luck finding one of the series 1 units on a new subscription so you can do the better hacks - they only ship series 2, now. Still, you're right, PVRs built into the tuners for cable and satellite are the right path to take. You didn't even mention the fact that you have 2 tuners, not just 1 like with the standalone unit.
Since slashdot in the bathtub and pool is out, some people resort to
reading
I love reading in the bathtub sometimes, but I also love running Cat5+ to the bathroom and balancing a laptop on the pile of discarded books and magazines and dirty clothes so I can surf while relaxing. I need to remember to keep the incense away from the intakes, though.
Don't forget that a major consumer push for bandwidth has been for streaming (steaming?) video, alongside warez and mp3s. And what kind of video? Not CNN News or ESPN Sports or a movie rental website, that's for sure!
Which means that the road for buying/selling media over the Internet will from that point be open for everyone. This means e.g. that it becomes a real possibility for artists to sell their own music over the Internet for normal prices.
Uh... are you for real? They already can do that on the Internet using open and free standards. The restrictive-format/storage-device-du-jour can never make things more "open" than already-open formats like Ogg Vorbis, etc. It will actually prove to be another barrier to independent artists who can ill afford to use what will surely be expensive/highly-guarded technologies for DRM.
Who benefits most from DRM? The small artists who have to pay licensing fees for their server, or the global distributor who can eat fixed costs a lot more easily? And if you say, well, the small artists can opt not to use the DRM, well, that's where we are now.
And what happens when you try to move your licensed music off your old laptop to another computer, so you can wipe and sell your laptop, etc.?
The driver for this technology, like most things, is pr0n. The article (which you read, right?) mentions masturbation in the bathtub with the book, etc.
the website for the Powell's used/new bookstore chain based out of Portland, Oregon. The flagship store, of course, is Powell's city-block-sized "City of Books," which is listed in every tour guide I've seen for the northwest. They have an area in the science fiction section where tons of science fiction writers who have come through magic-markered their names on the post/wall/whatever, and they have big-name book tours all the time.
Why you should use their website, of course, is that every book in inventory (and a few that aren't - *cough, cough*), new or used, rare, collectible, is in their online search system. If you live in the area, you can even have them collect your order at one of their stores for pickup, which, when I lived there, I often did.
Oh, yah, if that's not enough to convince you to try them out in person or online, they apparently now have a free shipping deal, as well.
Disclaimer: I don't work for Powell's, but I spent lots of money there, and they were(are) an important customer of my former employer. I selfishly want you to buy from them so they're still around next time I visit!
before there was ever a cry to 'Free Dimitry Sklyarov', Free Kevin Mitnick was the call of many.
I'd have bought bumperstickers and picketed for Skylarov (if I felt it would accomplish anything), but not for Mitnick. The fact that Mitnick was abused by the legal system after being caught does not change the fact that, to my mind, he was a real criminal, and Skylarov was not. That's based on my own moral and ethical sense, of course, and I am no lawyer, but it's something I feel strongly about.
The article says that the software may or may not decide who to save in what order.
There's no way they can do that, ethically or morally. You may have someone with a weak heartbeat listed as taking precedence over someone with a strong heartbeat, but that doesn't tell you whether the person with the strong heartbeat has the same amount of oxygen left, or whether the snow above is about to collapse and fill up the pocket.
If they really want to make devices to save people in the mountains, they needa cheap version of a device I saw in one of the James Bond movies, that blows up a big protective balloon around the person wearing it. Of course, the tanks would need to be filled with a compressed mix similar to environmental ratio, because whoever wears it is going to need to collapse it quickly for breathable air...
Supposedly, the simulator lets you experience what it's like to be in a real ultralight. If this is true, yes, you'd want to have mockups of the tail and wings, so you could look out and see the pieces performing as they would in real life.
However, from the illustration, the device looks nothing like a real ultralight, or at least no design I've ever seen - real ultralights have the seat mounted below the wings and tail and engine, to start with. If I'm correct, since the design already fails to be realistic at such a rudimentary level, the wings and tail are totally unnecessary, and in fact do more harm than good for anyone attempting to train with it.
I've got years of mail archived in.pst format for Outlook. This is what's keeping me from switching my mail over to something on SuSE (or even, God help me, Gentoo). If there's a reliable program that will suck mail out of that file and sort it into the directory structure in which it's currently put, I can finally retire my Office 2000 install.
A number of people who weblog are introverts in person, and that's the real issue. In a lot of work environments, getting ahead (or keeping your job) actually has a lot to do with how well you socialize with others at work, and not just how well you do the stated tasks of the job.
Seriously. It's not something to complain about, it's the unwritten rule: you have to play well with others. Most people, if they have to choose between promoting (or keeping) one of two equally qualified people, will keep the person they feel most comfortable and at ease with.
This is also true when people are asked to recommend others. You don't think about the guy in the cubicle next to you who only talks to you when he wants to show off something he downloaded or wrote, you think about the girl across from you who always asks how you're doing, shows you the new piercing she just got, and hopefully invites you to her next party. Sure, he may actually be a better coder or better at fixing customer issues, but that girl's pretty friendly...
There are books on "Networking Essentials." But the ones in the career section of the bookstore are as useful as the ones in the computer section, know what I mean?
I have an *ancient* Geocities home page, that was set up before Yahoo acquired them. I am "yoderm" on Yahoo and was on Geocities before the acquisition. Unfortunately, the GC home page is not associated with my Yahoo account. I now have no way of logging into the thing, and really want it deleted.
When my Geocities account was subsumed by Yahoo!, they added a.geo to the end of my name, because someone else had the same account name already on that service.
Try logging in as yoderm.geo and your old password, etc. They were supposed to have sent you mail with that info, though, so if it doesn't work they changed it to something else. If they still had a search by "avenues" you could have checked the new name out that way, but, well, I think Yahoo! would be just as happy if all the Geocities pages disappeared.
In addition, I wonder how many people actually want to have a single online identity for everything? It might be safer then using the same username/password over and over again, but I don't really know if people want to have their every move tracked and databased... although it does seem like a lot of people don't care.
Even the unwashed masses care, when they find out it's from the same company that is behind Hotmail (regardless of who actually runs either).
Seriously, though, Microsoft's credibility to manage databases takes a big hit every time a new Hotmail exploit is uncovered, or even just every time someone gets a mailbox full of spam within days of opening the account.
A bunch of commoditized services that every ISP can offer is much better.
I helped my mother through the "upgrade," reading all the new agreements and not letting her download any new software. We got to a point in the activation where it said "upgrading your system" and then it said it had changed her Outlook Express settings automatically - this from within what was either a Java or ActiveX-based browser page, without us hitting any "ok" on any downloads, and running IE with "medium" level security, no default acceptance of certificates, etc.
I'm wondering, how could it do this? She never had the original software installed (I set up RASPPPoE instead until I could get her a router - SBC is still behind the times here, using PPPoE and not ATM), and the idea that something could just start changing settings in other programs from within a browser, without any warning, worries me. Shouldn't this be considered a security vulnerability?
Oh, you want a high-paying IT job? Better start thinking about your own business, and I don't mean consulting. It's death valley for IT in Oregon right now.
When I moved into the area for an ISP engineering job, I thought I had found heaven, at least in terms of the scenery, the relative quiet, and the smaller city size. But then I got laid off, and had to move back home again. Now I'm trying to find a job back in Texas, and Portland and Oregon's coast have to be relegated to future vacation plans.
The nice thing about the reviews, whether they are valid or not, is that they lead to more books being shown if your recommendations list. Why is this good? Remember: if you buy something from Amazon based on its recommendation, and you didn't like it, they'll take it back.
This is probably going to attract people who hope to be able to make money from the being in the game (we see this in just about all other online games, where they sell items and equipment for real life money) - it may also be a way for nolife nerds to make a living without leaving their sofa!
Except that the stuff degrades, so you can't exactly build up a cache and then sell it on Ebay (although I admit it would encourage people to pay up faster).
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Well, just as a follow-up on the hacks, This site has some good stuff on hacking Series 2 - it looks like they finally can get shell on the new units, like they could on the old ones.
What's really sad about this, is that rich people are still less affected (as a percentage of their income) than poor people are. And before you say that poor people can just use Tri-Met or some other public transport, remember how much of Oregon is rural.
By the way, if I still lived there, my first challenge to that law would be to have them prove that my car wasn't on a flatbed truck when it was moving around, with the flatbed truck presumably reporting its own movements for taxation purposes, already. And I'd like to see them try to charge me for building an encasing box for the unit to block GPS reception when I'm not at the inspection site, if they win that battle.
Oh, I love the stupidity of that page:
'Oh, yes, they meant to set a fire, and no, they didn't warn anyone when they saw it was going to burn the place, they just ran off and hid, but gee, don't punish Janet for killing 4 people, anyone could have done it, besides, you didn't punish any of her friends.'
Anyone that lacking in intelligence and self control ('it wasn't their fault, they were drunk, haven't we all done crazy stuff like that?') is a threat to society.
This makes me see more clearly why some people are driven to become Republicans.
I'm sure it was the "English" Canadians, though. The "French" Canadians would have called it "biscuits du creme fraiche," or something like that
Greenpeace has their own spin, but. as has been stated by others here, Dow probably had to spend money to clean up the chemicals the protestors brought with them, etc.
Two wrongs don't make a right. Did those protestors think about how they were spreading the environmental impact by collecting chemicals from one location and potentially contaminating another? Or just about what good press they would get?
Which ones? The ones who, having made a mistake, half-assedly tried to clean it up and then abandoned their work, or the ones deliberately trying to cause (or at least threaten) environmental harm not only to the culprit but to anyone nearby?
I'm disgusted by Greenpeace's role in this. They've figuratively gone from trying to block Japanese whalers to dragging whale carcasses into a city and leaving them in front of a building where the whalers have offices, not caring that it's a public street and others would have to clean up their mess.
The protesters' attitudes might have been summarized by "they messed up our backyard, let's mess up theirs," but where does that lead, except to two messed up backyards?
If your wicket's not already sticky in reverie, I have two more words taken from the British Boy's Own Lexicon: soggy biscuits, a treat seemingly unique to the cuisine of that northern island country of queens.
I'm not serious, of course - I love England, and we'll pretend I didn't wish I could have spent my formative years in boarding school there, myself. The point is, you're making (ethnic?) prejudicial slurs against "the Greeks", begging comparison back to your own quirky system. In the U.S., the partying buffoons are allowed to expose themselves, have a good time, burn out, and eventually become used-car dealers and fast-food restaurant managers; in yours, they seem rather more likely to become "captains of industry." That's only natural, since you've had a few hundred more years to build up the Old Boy (bedsheet) Network.
It's my understanding that "first run" isn't first-time-Tivo-sees-it, it's first-time-shown-on-tv, a flag that doesn't always get set in the databases these guys resell.
I have an additional complaint about Tivos, or at least the DirecTivo I had access to recently: the response is sometimes almost as slow as those notorious digital cable boxes that show ads at the bottom of every screen while you are flipping channels. I want my menus to go by fast - with my regular VCR, when I hit channel up, it doesn't think about it, it just does it.
Plus, if you subscribe to the highest premium package levels, they waive the monthly subscription fee.
Unfortunately, new customers can no longer buy a lifetime subscription, and good luck finding one of the series 1 units on a new subscription so you can do the better hacks - they only ship series 2, now. Still, you're right, PVRs built into the tuners for cable and satellite are the right path to take. You didn't even mention the fact that you have 2 tuners, not just 1 like with the standalone unit.
I love reading in the bathtub sometimes, but I also love running Cat5+ to the bathroom and balancing a laptop on the pile of discarded books and magazines and dirty clothes so I can surf while relaxing. I need to remember to keep the incense away from the intakes, though.
Don't forget that a major consumer push for bandwidth has been for streaming (steaming?) video, alongside warez and mp3s. And what kind of video? Not CNN News or ESPN Sports or a movie rental website, that's for sure!
Uh... are you for real? They already can do that on the Internet using open and free standards. The restrictive-format/storage-device-du-jour can never make things more "open" than already-open formats like Ogg Vorbis, etc. It will actually prove to be another barrier to independent artists who can ill afford to use what will surely be expensive/highly-guarded technologies for DRM.
Who benefits most from DRM? The small artists who have to pay licensing fees for their server, or the global distributor who can eat fixed costs a lot more easily? And if you say, well, the small artists can opt not to use the DRM, well, that's where we are now.
And what happens when you try to move your licensed music off your old laptop to another computer, so you can wipe and sell your laptop, etc.?
The driver for this technology, like most things, is pr0n. The article (which you read, right?) mentions masturbation in the bathtub with the book, etc.
the website for the Powell's used/new bookstore chain based out of Portland, Oregon. The flagship store, of course, is Powell's city-block-sized "City of Books," which is listed in every tour guide I've seen for the northwest. They have an area in the science fiction section where tons of science fiction writers who have come through magic-markered their names on the post/wall/whatever, and they have big-name book tours all the time.
Why you should use their website, of course, is that every book in inventory (and a few that aren't - *cough, cough*), new or used, rare, collectible, is in their online search system. If you live in the area, you can even have them collect your order at one of their stores for pickup, which, when I lived there, I often did.
Oh, yah, if that's not enough to convince you to try them out in person or online, they apparently now have a free shipping deal, as well.
Disclaimer: I don't work for Powell's, but I spent lots of money there, and they were(are) an important customer of my former employer. I selfishly want you to buy from them so they're still around next time I visit!
I'd have bought bumperstickers and picketed for Skylarov (if I felt it would accomplish anything), but not for Mitnick. The fact that Mitnick was abused by the legal system after being caught does not change the fact that, to my mind, he was a real criminal, and Skylarov was not. That's based on my own moral and ethical sense, of course, and I am no lawyer, but it's something I feel strongly about.
There's no way they can do that, ethically or morally. You may have someone with a weak heartbeat listed as taking precedence over someone with a strong heartbeat, but that doesn't tell you whether the person with the strong heartbeat has the same amount of oxygen left, or whether the snow above is about to collapse and fill up the pocket.
If they really want to make devices to save people in the mountains, they needa cheap version of a device I saw in one of the James Bond movies, that blows up a big protective balloon around the person wearing it. Of course, the tanks would need to be filled with a compressed mix similar to environmental ratio, because whoever wears it is going to need to collapse it quickly for breathable air...
Supposedly, the simulator lets you experience what it's like to be in a real ultralight. If this is true, yes, you'd want to have mockups of the tail and wings, so you could look out and see the pieces performing as they would in real life.
However, from the illustration, the device looks nothing like a real ultralight, or at least no design I've ever seen - real ultralights have the seat mounted below the wings and tail and engine, to start with. If I'm correct, since the design already fails to be realistic at such a rudimentary level, the wings and tail are totally unnecessary, and in fact do more harm than good for anyone attempting to train with it.
I wonder if they chose green for the Slashdot friend icon because they're "mostly harmless"?
I've got years of mail archived in .pst format for Outlook. This is what's keeping me from switching my mail over to something on SuSE (or even, God help me, Gentoo). If there's a reliable program that will suck mail out of that file and sort it into the directory structure in which it's currently put, I can finally retire my Office 2000 install.
A number of people who weblog are introverts in person, and that's the real issue. In a lot of work environments, getting ahead (or keeping your job) actually has a lot to do with how well you socialize with others at work, and not just how well you do the stated tasks of the job.
Seriously. It's not something to complain about, it's the unwritten rule: you have to play well with others. Most people, if they have to choose between promoting (or keeping) one of two equally qualified people, will keep the person they feel most comfortable and at ease with.
This is also true when people are asked to recommend others. You don't think about the guy in the cubicle next to you who only talks to you when he wants to show off something he downloaded or wrote, you think about the girl across from you who always asks how you're doing, shows you the new piercing she just got, and hopefully invites you to her next party. Sure, he may actually be a better coder or better at fixing customer issues, but that girl's pretty friendly...
There are books on "Networking Essentials." But the ones in the career section of the bookstore are as useful as the ones in the computer section, know what I mean?
When my Geocities account was subsumed by Yahoo!, they added a
Try logging in as yoderm.geo and your old password, etc. They were supposed to have sent you mail with that info, though, so if it doesn't work they changed it to something else. If they still had a search by "avenues" you could have checked the new name out that way, but, well, I think Yahoo! would be just as happy if all the Geocities pages disappeared.
Even the unwashed masses care, when they find out it's from the same company that is behind Hotmail (regardless of who actually runs either).
Seriously, though, Microsoft's credibility to manage databases takes a big hit every time a new Hotmail exploit is uncovered, or even just every time someone gets a mailbox full of spam within days of opening the account.
A bunch of commoditized services that every ISP can offer is much better.
I helped my mother through the "upgrade," reading all the new agreements and not letting her download any new software. We got to a point in the activation where it said "upgrading your system" and then it said it had changed her Outlook Express settings automatically - this from within what was either a Java or ActiveX-based browser page, without us hitting any "ok" on any downloads, and running IE with "medium" level security, no default acceptance of certificates, etc.
I'm wondering, how could it do this? She never had the original software installed (I set up RASPPPoE instead until I could get her a router - SBC is still behind the times here, using PPPoE and not ATM), and the idea that something could just start changing settings in other programs from within a browser, without any warning, worries me. Shouldn't this be considered a security vulnerability?
When I moved into the area for an ISP engineering job, I thought I had found heaven, at least in terms of the scenery, the relative quiet, and the smaller city size. But then I got laid off, and had to move back home again. Now I'm trying to find a job back in Texas, and Portland and Oregon's coast have to be relegated to future vacation plans.
The nice thing about the reviews, whether they are valid or not, is that they lead to more books being shown if your recommendations list. Why is this good? Remember: if you buy something from Amazon based on its recommendation, and you didn't like it, they'll take it back.
Except that the stuff degrades, so you can't exactly build up a cache and then sell it on Ebay (although I admit it would encourage people to pay up faster).