If you consider giving your credit card information to potentially shady overseas organizations "safe" sure it's "safe."
That's why you use a temporary one-time-use credit card number. Discover Card provides these free of charge. Also, credit card companies are normally pretty good at resolving issues if you get overcharged.
I would think he meant that without drivers, MythTV is useless. So, to him, it doesn't matter if the problem was MythTV or IVTV, it just wasn't working out.
I've found that on my setup, MythTV output (live and recorded) looks just as good as the direct-from-cable feed. I bought the PVR-350 and put it in an old P-III box w/an upgraded hard drive. The best part about the 350 is that it has a hardware MPEG-2 decoder on board and being that it's the same card that did the encoding, it seems highly unlikely that there'd be any encoding/decoding errors. Also, because the card does the encoding and decoding, I was able to get away with a much lower horse power box.
Most in store sales types work on comission and are only trained in the "Free phone w/contract" options. It's in their best intrest to get you hooked onto a contract, even if you are providing your own phone. They also get better incentives for higher priced plans. If you're fed a "must have a contract" line at one place, go to another. Call customer service. Try the Internet. Most providers do have a month-to-month option, but what they really want is to get you locked in to a contract.
I'm pretty sure that it is made for Windows Mobile 2003. It seems that the Visual Studio 2005 version allows managed code (using the.NET framework) that is designed for Windows Mobile 5 (supports the two soft keys, etc).
No, he definately was not there for a week. In fact, he was only there for a few hours. He also mentioned that he only had one time where he actually felt like he was in danger and it wasn't even that he was in anymore danger than normal but that he simply realized where he was.
So no week spent on the road doing convoys and certainly no year spent living with it all:).
However, I would like a system that could wash and dry my clothes without me transfering the clothes, and if I'm lucky, it would even fold and hang them. It's the manual steps I don 't like.
When my wife and I were looking at washers and dryers, we saw one that could, in fact, wash and dry the clothes in the same machine. We seriously considered buying it for both the space saving and convience aspects. However, as we researched more on it, we found it that it really sucked. It washed clothes in the typical amount of time, but took somewhere in the neighborhood of 4 hours to dry them. It also cost as much as bying a seperate washer and dryer... and if you wanted anything less than a 5 hour cycle time, you needed to buy a dryer on top of that and only use the built in drying in situations where you don't have a large pile of dirty clothes. So in the end we didn't go with it.
There's this neat little invention called a watch. It has this uncanny ability to tell you the current time. Combine that with some simple math skills (say a load of laundry takes 45 minutes. Current time is 11:15 = load will be done at 12:00) and presto. Want to get really fancy? Use that countdown timer on a cheap Timex Ironman.
I work hard (normally) and when I come home the last thing I want to do is have to do the washing. Unlike ovens, most washing machines don't have timers. If I do a wash in the morning and leave it in all day, it will stink when I come home (which would be OK if i was a sys admin, but I'm not). So I want to have my wash cycle finish when I get home. Instead of having to set up timeswitches and playing around with plugs (which are behind the heavy machine in any case) I think that being able to do this over teh interweb would be A Good Thing (TM)
Or, for much less money (for the embedded computer) and hassel (running network cables to the washer or getting it working on wireless) a simple timer could be put in the washer that has a "start the cycle in x hours" type function. Maybe I should patent this fabulous idea. Oh wait, it already exists. In fact, the washer I already own has it!
Funny you should mention Al Franken. I've actually seen him in person once... at a military base in Iraq. Granted, he didn't arrive by convoy. He actually took a Blackhawk in. However, our base was known to be frequently mortared and was small enough that even the center of the base (which is where both he and the landing zone were) could easily be reached by mortars and RPGs.
Perhaps I'm nieve, but it seems to me that if you're willing to go to the point of having something the user must posess that connects to the computer, it seems like this would be a fairly easy problem to solve... except for the API part.
Instead of giving some kind of time-based-number generator to the customer, give them a USB key that contains an unexportable private key. The public key can then be given to the bank. When the user want to complete a transaction, it is sent to the users computer for verification (much like current "Are you sure" pages, but slightly different -- here's the API part). When the click on "Yes", the non-exportably private key device digitally signs the transaction and sends it back to the bank.
This could also be used for authentication. The server sends some largish random string and requests that the device signs it. A proper signature for a large string can only be generated by the proper private key, so it wouldn't matter if phishers sent a string to be signed unless they could predict exactly what string the bank was going to send.
If the "MPAA, RIAA, and just about every Hollywood movie house" exert that much influance over the police... especially the police in a foreign nation, then we truely do live in a corrupt society. Unless there's something more than meets the eye (the next few days should be pretty telling), there's some major political clout to be won here.
Well, in the closed source community, we just put that kind of stuff in config files instead of in the source code. You should try it.
I've had plenty of instances where an IP address can certain by changed... as long as you don't want the software that runs on that machine to keep running. This is mostly due to licenseing, not a lack of source code, but I dislike asking 5 different companies if it's OK to change the IP address of a license server.
It's also a choice here in the US. My wife and I will be going in for our ultrasound in the next month and have been talking quite a bit as to weather or not we're going to find out. I think we will and we'll most likely tell everybody once we do.
But I still don't think I'd put it on an airline ticket. I mean, what if the ultrasound was wrong? Or what if, once the time actually got closer, we decided we didn't like the name we picked? Until it's on a birth certificate, it's still trivially easy to change:).
I haven't managed to see a picture of it yet, but that is possible. My current phone (a PPC6700) doesn't have a keypad and requries dialing by touching the on screen dialpad. A bit of a pain, but not impossible.
I know this was a joke, but I used to be at Abu Ghraib and 90% of the time I had a camera on me. There was no policy against having a camera, just taking pictures of detainees (not because of the abuse scandel, but because it's against the Geneva Conventions). My employer, however, which has nothing to do with any sort of classified information or even many trade secrets to speak of has a policy against phones with cameras (apparently because they can be used to take a picture in the bathroom).
I have a love of country music. More than 95% of my MP3s (and 100% of my legal ones) are of country music. And I am strongly opposed to DRM and additional copyright restrictions. In fact, I am in favor of reducing copyright. I saw a post the other day here that really made me start thinking. Why is it that when I put in my 40+ hours of work, I get paid for exactly that 40+ hours. If I don't come back the next week, I don't get any more money. But when an artist produces something (music, movie, whatever) they seem to feel that they have the right to make money from that work for years to come. I'm all for artists getting compensation for their work, but I think a much shorter copyright term would accomplish that. Then, in order to continue to be compensated, they'd have to continue to produce art. See, shorter copyright actually promotes more culture!
Or for that matter, the SCO lawsuit... the stock skyrocketed after they sued IBM... how'd that work out?
The difference here is that Apple sued Burst and Burst's stock shot up. It's not uncommon for the company doing the suing to get higher stock (hey, they're committing to a lawsuit, they must have something, right?!?). But in this case, it was the opposit.
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Except for the obvious thing that anything in the URL (read, anything sent via GET) appears in the server logs and client history. Server logs probably aren't that big of a deal because they're (hopefully, at least) just about as secure as the database. However client history is another story all together.
Enter SSL. Now, not only are the above two things considerations, but add to it the fact that (unless I'm mistaken) anything POSTed is sent encrypted while anything encoded in the URL (eg, GET) is sent in clear text.
Not to second guess you so far after the fact, but did you try sending it by simply giving it a.txt extention? Even today, content filtering is rarely done and file type filtering is mostly done using extentions.
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That's why you use a temporary one-time-use credit card number. Discover Card provides these free of charge. Also, credit card companies are normally pretty good at resolving issues if you get overcharged.
I would think he meant that without drivers, MythTV is useless. So, to him, it doesn't matter if the problem was MythTV or IVTV, it just wasn't working out.
I've found that on my setup, MythTV output (live and recorded) looks just as good as the direct-from-cable feed. I bought the PVR-350 and put it in an old P-III box w/an upgraded hard drive. The best part about the 350 is that it has a hardware MPEG-2 decoder on board and being that it's the same card that did the encoding, it seems highly unlikely that there'd be any encoding/decoding errors. Also, because the card does the encoding and decoding, I was able to get away with a much lower horse power box.
Verizon actually just started doing this. Right around the same time that Sprint increased their ETF.
Most in store sales types work on comission and are only trained in the "Free phone w/contract" options. It's in their best intrest to get you hooked onto a contract, even if you are providing your own phone. They also get better incentives for higher priced plans. If you're fed a "must have a contract" line at one place, go to another. Call customer service. Try the Internet. Most providers do have a month-to-month option, but what they really want is to get you locked in to a contract.
Some instruments (such as a clamp) are designed for the express purpose of keeping them in the body during a surgery but not to stay there afterward.
I'm pretty sure that it is made for Windows Mobile 2003. It seems that the Visual Studio 2005 version allows managed code (using the .NET framework) that is designed for Windows Mobile 5 (supports the two soft keys, etc).
No, he definately was not there for a week. In fact, he was only there for a few hours. He also mentioned that he only had one time where he actually felt like he was in danger and it wasn't even that he was in anymore danger than normal but that he simply realized where he was.
:).
So no week spent on the road doing convoys and certainly no year spent living with it all
When my wife and I were looking at washers and dryers, we saw one that could, in fact, wash and dry the clothes in the same machine. We seriously considered buying it for both the space saving and convience aspects. However, as we researched more on it, we found it that it really sucked. It washed clothes in the typical amount of time, but took somewhere in the neighborhood of 4 hours to dry them. It also cost as much as bying a seperate washer and dryer... and if you wanted anything less than a 5 hour cycle time, you needed to buy a dryer on top of that and only use the built in drying in situations where you don't have a large pile of dirty clothes. So in the end we didn't go with it.
There's this neat little invention called a watch. It has this uncanny ability to tell you the current time. Combine that with some simple math skills (say a load of laundry takes 45 minutes. Current time is 11:15 = load will be done at 12:00) and presto. Want to get really fancy? Use that countdown timer on a cheap Timex Ironman.
Or, for much less money (for the embedded computer) and hassel (running network cables to the washer or getting it working on wireless) a simple timer could be put in the washer that has a "start the cycle in x hours" type function. Maybe I should patent this fabulous idea. Oh wait, it already exists. In fact, the washer I already own has it!
Funny you should mention Al Franken. I've actually seen him in person once... at a military base in Iraq. Granted, he didn't arrive by convoy. He actually took a Blackhawk in. However, our base was known to be frequently mortared and was small enough that even the center of the base (which is where both he and the landing zone were) could easily be reached by mortars and RPGs.
Perhaps I'm nieve, but it seems to me that if you're willing to go to the point of having something the user must posess that connects to the computer, it seems like this would be a fairly easy problem to solve... except for the API part.
Instead of giving some kind of time-based-number generator to the customer, give them a USB key that contains an unexportable private key. The public key can then be given to the bank. When the user want to complete a transaction, it is sent to the users computer for verification (much like current "Are you sure" pages, but slightly different -- here's the API part). When the click on "Yes", the non-exportably private key device digitally signs the transaction and sends it back to the bank.
This could also be used for authentication. The server sends some largish random string and requests that the device signs it. A proper signature for a large string can only be generated by the proper private key, so it wouldn't matter if phishers sent a string to be signed unless they could predict exactly what string the bank was going to send.
If the "MPAA, RIAA, and just about every Hollywood movie house" exert that much influance over the police... especially the police in a foreign nation, then we truely do live in a corrupt society. Unless there's something more than meets the eye (the next few days should be pretty telling), there's some major political clout to be won here.
I've had plenty of instances where an IP address can certain by changed... as long as you don't want the software that runs on that machine to keep running. This is mostly due to licenseing, not a lack of source code, but I dislike asking 5 different companies if it's OK to change the IP address of a license server.
It's also a choice here in the US. My wife and I will be going in for our ultrasound in the next month and have been talking quite a bit as to weather or not we're going to find out. I think we will and we'll most likely tell everybody once we do.
:).
But I still don't think I'd put it on an airline ticket. I mean, what if the ultrasound was wrong? Or what if, once the time actually got closer, we decided we didn't like the name we picked? Until it's on a birth certificate, it's still trivially easy to change
Unless I'm missing something, Mythbusters don't do a 'trick my ride' type of thing. You'd have to encompass it into an urban legend.
"There's a myth that you can power your automobile with a fuel cell powered phone... what do you think Jamie, is it gonna happen?"
I haven't managed to see a picture of it yet, but that is possible. My current phone (a PPC6700) doesn't have a keypad and requries dialing by touching the on screen dialpad. A bit of a pain, but not impossible.
Or even better... I can take my laptop with me and fly the plane from the cabin!
Yep. Which I believe was the entire point of the original post.
You're my new hero.
I know this was a joke, but I used to be at Abu Ghraib and 90% of the time I had a camera on me. There was no policy against having a camera, just taking pictures of detainees (not because of the abuse scandel, but because it's against the Geneva Conventions). My employer, however, which has nothing to do with any sort of classified information or even many trade secrets to speak of has a policy against phones with cameras (apparently because they can be used to take a picture in the bathroom).
I have a love of country music. More than 95% of my MP3s (and 100% of my legal ones) are of country music. And I am strongly opposed to DRM and additional copyright restrictions. In fact, I am in favor of reducing copyright. I saw a post the other day here that really made me start thinking. Why is it that when I put in my 40+ hours of work, I get paid for exactly that 40+ hours. If I don't come back the next week, I don't get any more money. But when an artist produces something (music, movie, whatever) they seem to feel that they have the right to make money from that work for years to come. I'm all for artists getting compensation for their work, but I think a much shorter copyright term would accomplish that. Then, in order to continue to be compensated, they'd have to continue to produce art. See, shorter copyright actually promotes more culture!
The difference here is that Apple sued Burst and Burst's stock shot up. It's not uncommon for the company doing the suing to get higher stock (hey, they're committing to a lawsuit, they must have something, right?!?). But in this case, it was the opposit.
Except for the obvious thing that anything in the URL (read, anything sent via GET) appears in the server logs and client history. Server logs probably aren't that big of a deal because they're (hopefully, at least) just about as secure as the database. However client history is another story all together.
Enter SSL. Now, not only are the above two things considerations, but add to it the fact that (unless I'm mistaken) anything POSTed is sent encrypted while anything encoded in the URL (eg, GET) is sent in clear text.
Not to second guess you so far after the fact, but did you try sending it by simply giving it a .txt extention? Even today, content filtering is rarely done and file type filtering is mostly done using extentions.