I actually did try using data over SMS. Yes, it's horribly slow. It's *perfect* for sending status updates from things like automatic remote machinery, and passing commands back.
These days, unlimited data solves a lot of those problems...
I didn't plant those ones, but there are about 75,000 others I *have* planted. In about ten years time the softwood will be ready to cut down (mostly sitka, some lodge pole pine) but the hardwood trees will still be there long after I'm gone.
What have you done that's likely to last a hundred years?
Ah, an American. Do I detect a tinge of jealousy there? Don't worry, in a couple of hundred years you won't be the new boys any more. I'll still have trees in my garden older than your whole country, though.
The BT Homehub doesn't ship with a default wifi password, or open wifi. Out of the box the first thing you must do before it will even pass wired traffic is change the admin password. It doesn't require you to change the SSID or default WPA key, which is a biggish string of alphanumerics generated by some pseudorandom process. The SSID and WPA card are supplied on a plastic card inside the box, and don't appear to be (trivially) derived from the MAC address or serial number.
2) Instruct them to put the keys on the dash, roof, or toss them out the window (as appropriate for the level of the stop).
How does that work with keyless ignition? Most cars that have that would need you to throw the keys a good couple of hundred metres, and won't stop if you drive out of range. Not even if you drive all the way into town leaving the keyfob on the kitchen table. Yes, there's a story behind that.
While I would never wish for you to need the services of a police officer, if you ever find yourself doing so, I assume you wouldn't make such a statement. If you ever plan on doing so, let me know when and where so I can watch.
I don't know about the original poster, but the last thing I would ever consider doing in *any* situation is calling the police.
You would think with all the news about police beatings of people with curiosity that people wouldn't be curious anymore. Really, the common sense that is taught in pretty much all education is don't do things to give police a reason to wonder whether or not they should beat you
No, common sense teaches that the only sensible thing to do if you see police is to shoot them on sight, before they have the chance to attack you.
I have a SCSI-to-IDE bridge attached to a 2G flash drive in my ESi4000. It's quick and silent, unlike the rattly old SCSI drive I used to use.
Funny you should say about going down the hardware route - I used to use softsynths, to the extent of even developing a couple (http://www.nekosynth.co.uk) but have since ditched using computers and gone back to hardware synths, sequencers and samplers. Computers get in your way, and it's too easy to end up trolling/. instead of making music...
That's exactly why I have 3.5" double-sided double-density floppies - an Ensoniq Mirage, and Ensoniq EPS and a Cheetah SX16. Of that three only the EPS has SCSI - and still needs to boot from floppy to format a new SCSI disk.
Everything that intentionally emits a wireless signal has to have a prototype sent to the FCC here in the USA.
That's only if you plan on using it in the USA, without a licence that makes it exempt from FCC approval. A lot of phones available in Europe aren't FCC-tested, because there's no point shipping them to the US since they don't have the infrastructure to use them.
would anything x264 only be considered free software where the shackles of 'patented software' don't apply
You can't patent software. Well, you *can* in the USA, but they seem to be happy to legislate themselves into a technological backwater. I hope the rest of the world hasn't left them too far behind when they finally figure it out.
As one of those hapless travelers who got stuck in Europe when he'd much rather be in the good ol' U. S. of A., here's a thought: why couldn't they let only some flights go, when all of their passengers have signed waivers of liabilities (and purchased life insurances, if necessary) and the pilots and crew have been paid hazard pay (along with life insurance premiums)?
Are you prepared to pay your share of replacing pretty much every external part of the aircraft, including the engines?
One way out would be to move somewhere with a better climate, so that you don't have to refridgerate your house.
Another thing you could try - if you *must* have your house refridgerated continuously - is to ditch the electrically-powered air-conditioning units with their big power-hungry compressors, and replace them with a diesel-powered compressor from a refridgerated artic trailer or shipping container.
your average speed can still net you a ticket ... and that's exactly the point. Having a GATSO-type camera with a Doppler speed detector and zebra-stripes on the road is worse than useless, because *people slow down for the camera and speed up once they've passed it*. That's really helpful for the guy half a mile down the twisty country road from the camera who is sick of people blatting past at 80mph, isn't it?
The whole idea is to ensure that people stick to an average speed that is within the speed limit over a measured part of the road. If the cameras are a mile apart and you go between them in less than a minute, you were breaking the 60mph speed limit *at some point* on that journey. People tend not to drive part of the mile at 30mph then part of it at 90mph.
They were originally a dull grey. The law was changed to require them to have fluorescent high-vis panels and prominent signs ahead of them.
Another thing worth pointing out is that any area with CCTV cameras must be clearly marked and have signs with contact details for the camera operator. If the sign isn't there, the cameras can be removed and the operator can be fined a seriously unpleasant amount.
The numbers you hear cited by vegetarians to support their cause as more ecologically sound almost *always* cite this number for the pounds of grain it takes to make one pound of beef.
But what they don't take into consideration is that the amount of grain that *doesn't* get turned into meat gets turned into fertiliser. Growing arable crops without "input" from livestock farming is pretty much impossible. You could use only petrochemical-derived fertilisers to grow vegetables and make no use of animal products, but it would be woefully inefficient and ecologically damaging.
The other thing the "ZOMG MEAT IS SO NOT GREEN" whiners forget is that in commercial arable farming, you take a bit of land and strip *every single living thing* off it, and out of the soil to the depth of about half a metre. Once it's thoroughly killed and sterilised, you can let Monsanto in to plant their frankencorn. Yay for ecology.
it's much more efficient to eat bread and vegetables in terms of how much food grown makes it to you
Not really, because bread and vegetables are harder to digest than meat. Furthermore, if you can't grow grain for bread, you can't (efficiently) make bread. Look at the vast majority of the world's livestock farms and see if you can figure out how to grow grain on them.
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I don't think it should be called a hung parliament until someone shows up with 6500 metres of good strong rope.
However terrorist attacks are almost completely irrelevant to the lives of anyone living anywhere except for Iraq.
Or Ireland.
I actually did try using data over SMS. Yes, it's horribly slow. It's *perfect* for sending status updates from things like automatic remote machinery, and passing commands back.
These days, unlimited data solves a lot of those problems...
SMS is free...
Yeah, actually, that *is* cool. Don't think I'll plant one of those, I doubt I'll see the the thing even start to take.
I didn't plant those ones, but there are about 75,000 others I *have* planted. In about ten years time the softwood will be ready to cut down (mostly sitka, some lodge pole pine) but the hardwood trees will still be there long after I'm gone.
What have you done that's likely to last a hundred years?
No offense to Brits
Ah, an American. Do I detect a tinge of jealousy there? Don't worry, in a couple of hundred years you won't be the new boys any more. I'll still have trees in my garden older than your whole country, though.
The newest article there is two years old, and is talking about a vulnerability in a model of Homehub that was obsolete even then ;-)
The BT Homehub doesn't ship with a default wifi password, or open wifi. Out of the box the first thing you must do before it will even pass wired traffic is change the admin password. It doesn't require you to change the SSID or default WPA key, which is a biggish string of alphanumerics generated by some pseudorandom process. The SSID and WPA card are supplied on a plastic card inside the box, and don't appear to be (trivially) derived from the MAC address or serial number.
2) Instruct them to put the keys on the dash, roof, or toss them out the window (as appropriate for the level of the stop).
How does that work with keyless ignition? Most cars that have that would need you to throw the keys a good couple of hundred metres, and won't stop if you drive out of range. Not even if you drive all the way into town leaving the keyfob on the kitchen table. Yes, there's a story behind that.
While I would never wish for you to need the services of a police officer, if you ever find yourself doing so, I assume you wouldn't make such a statement. If you ever plan on doing so, let me know when and where so I can watch.
I don't know about the original poster, but the last thing I would ever consider doing in *any* situation is calling the police.
You would think with all the news about police beatings of people with curiosity that people wouldn't be curious anymore. Really, the common sense that is taught in pretty much all education is don't do things to give police a reason to wonder whether or not they should beat you
No, common sense teaches that the only sensible thing to do if you see police is to shoot them on sight, before they have the chance to attack you.
I have a SCSI-to-IDE bridge attached to a 2G flash drive in my ESi4000. It's quick and silent, unlike the rattly old SCSI drive I used to use.
Funny you should say about going down the hardware route - I used to use softsynths, to the extent of even developing a couple (http://www.nekosynth.co.uk) but have since ditched using computers and gone back to hardware synths, sequencers and samplers. Computers get in your way, and it's too easy to end up trolling /. instead of making music...
What have you got that has an IDE header? The only IDE-equipped samplers I've seen are some of the later Yamaha ones. Even the Akai S6000 uses SCSI...
That's exactly why I have 3.5" double-sided double-density floppies - an Ensoniq Mirage, and Ensoniq EPS and a Cheetah SX16. Of that three only the EPS has SCSI - and still needs to boot from floppy to format a new SCSI disk.
... is that if we do it properly, we won't even need the whole 6460m of rope. We can probably reuse a few nooses.
Everything that intentionally emits a wireless signal has to have a prototype sent to the FCC here in the USA.
That's only if you plan on using it in the USA, without a licence that makes it exempt from FCC approval. A lot of phones available in Europe aren't FCC-tested, because there's no point shipping them to the US since they don't have the infrastructure to use them.
would anything x264 only be considered free software where the shackles of 'patented software' don't apply
You can't patent software. Well, you *can* in the USA, but they seem to be happy to legislate themselves into a technological backwater. I hope the rest of the world hasn't left them too far behind when they finally figure it out.
As one of those hapless travelers who got stuck in Europe when he'd much rather be in the good ol' U. S. of A., here's a thought: why couldn't they let only some flights go, when all of their passengers have signed waivers of liabilities (and purchased life insurances, if necessary) and the pilots and crew have been paid hazard pay (along with life insurance premiums)?
Are you prepared to pay your share of replacing pretty much every external part of the aircraft, including the engines?
Well, I live in Scotland. That's got a pretty good climate. It's currently warm and sunny, and about 12C in my back garden.
Hawaii looks like a terrible place to live. Why the hell would you want to live somewhere so hot?
One way out would be to move somewhere with a better climate, so that you don't have to refridgerate your house.
Another thing you could try - if you *must* have your house refridgerated continuously - is to ditch the electrically-powered air-conditioning units with their big power-hungry compressors, and replace them with a diesel-powered compressor from a refridgerated artic trailer or shipping container.
your average speed can still net you a ticket
... and that's exactly the point. Having a GATSO-type camera with a Doppler speed detector and zebra-stripes on the road is worse than useless, because *people slow down for the camera and speed up once they've passed it*. That's really helpful for the guy half a mile down the twisty country road from the camera who is sick of people blatting past at 80mph, isn't it?
The whole idea is to ensure that people stick to an average speed that is within the speed limit over a measured part of the road. If the cameras are a mile apart and you go between them in less than a minute, you were breaking the 60mph speed limit *at some point* on that journey. People tend not to drive part of the mile at 30mph then part of it at 90mph.
For now.
They were originally a dull grey. The law was changed to require them to have fluorescent high-vis panels and prominent signs ahead of them.
Another thing worth pointing out is that any area with CCTV cameras must be clearly marked and have signs with contact details for the camera operator. If the sign isn't there, the cameras can be removed and the operator can be fined a seriously unpleasant amount.
The numbers you hear cited by vegetarians to support their cause as more ecologically sound almost *always* cite this number for the pounds of grain it takes to make one pound of beef.
But what they don't take into consideration is that the amount of grain that *doesn't* get turned into meat gets turned into fertiliser. Growing arable crops without "input" from livestock farming is pretty much impossible. You could use only petrochemical-derived fertilisers to grow vegetables and make no use of animal products, but it would be woefully inefficient and ecologically damaging.
The other thing the "ZOMG MEAT IS SO NOT GREEN" whiners forget is that in commercial arable farming, you take a bit of land and strip *every single living thing* off it, and out of the soil to the depth of about half a metre. Once it's thoroughly killed and sterilised, you can let Monsanto in to plant their frankencorn. Yay for ecology.
it's much more efficient to eat bread and vegetables in terms of how much food grown makes it to you
Not really, because bread and vegetables are harder to digest than meat. Furthermore, if you can't grow grain for bread, you can't (efficiently) make bread. Look at the vast majority of the world's livestock farms and see if you can figure out how to grow grain on them.