THIS! I too have major hate of forced localization, everytime I set-up a new browser and load up Google, it goes to google.de (I'm in Germany, I speak the language well enough, but I want the content that I want, you stupid f'ing websites!). Even worse is Comedy Central and their South Park clips, an English-language blog embeds a clip from a South Park from Comedy Central, I click play, and guess what happens? The clip is dubbed in German! Aaarrrrggghhh!!!
Also trying to read myspace profiles (why, why?) gets pretty fucking irritating when it localizes the standard terms as "Favorite music", "Comments", etc, but then after the ":" displays the stuff the user's filled in, in their original language (usually English), meaning you have to read localized and then English words within the same sentence.
Interestingly, determining the ethnicity and refusing the service has been done by humans so far. Summary: NY Apple Store refused to sell iPhone 4's to Asians because the geniuses there thought they were tourists who were going to take them home.
Indeed, a browser built-in "You have unsaved changes" alert would be useful there, GMail has that feature coded in JS, but most sites aren't GMail are they.
Holy crap, WTF is that? It's German alright, sounds like a news broadcast, the lady also sounded like a familiar news-reader.
[ ] saniert werden, erstmals [ ] Situation nur mit Hilfe von [ ] aufgebracht werden. Deshalb ist es fuer viele Katholiken besonders aergerlich, dass neben der Wohnheim auch eine eigene Kapelle von zirka achtzig Quadrat
The last sentence says "Because of this, it is especially aggravating for many Catholics that next to the dorm building there is an own chapel with ca. 80 quadrat".
So is the buzzer another radio with a dial, that when it stopped beeping somebody dialled the tuner to locate the beeps, and got a German radio station instead?
Holy crap, slashdot used to be good, but reading this post I can see now it's full of crap and misled morons, I guess the tracer-t kid is not a new phenomenon.
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Reading is so passé, why have YouTube if you have to read? 3-step instruction? Don't read, listen to some nerd with dweeby voice ramble about it for 10 minutes on YouTube!
Made me think more of the future, and Idiocracy...
"Durrr we're too dumb to spell so we'll just use icons!"
But then again, it's less presses than using the keyboard, and maybe more universal. Although I remember reading an MSDN article about the universality of icon languages... not everybody in the world might interpret "@" as "at"...
I suppose one AP in the car is enough, with another antenna/server in your garage that would automatically look for/connect to the SSID "MyCar".. then you can just upload files to the car's IP as long as it's connectable.
How do UPnP AV MediaServers announce their presence on the network? Via ZeroConf?
Well, I don't have a car and so no need for in-car entertainment, so I have no use for this idea.
There's a cool app on the App Store called "Air Video", it requires a server app on your normal PC (Windows/Mac), and a client App on the phone, the server reads your videos from its disk, converts it on the fly to an iPhone-compatible format, and streams it over WiFi (or 3G if your 3G is good enough) to the phone.
I suppose for the ultimate in-car entertainment hackery, one could store an SSD-disked PC in the trunk, with WiFi that can connect to the "MyGarage" SSID, as well as offering in-car WiFi (or would that have to go the other way around, the home PC/server connecting to the "MyCar" SSID?), and with a network drive so you can just drag&drop stuff from your home PC "into" your "car". Maybe cron-job too for TV episodes. Add Wake-on-Bluetooth too so you can just click a button to turn on the in-car PC from the comfort of your own desk.
Would surely save a lot of time compared to doing an offline conversion/USB sync...
To be pedantic, emergency calls are priority-routed through any available GSM network, and it even works without a SIM card in the phone. Although apparently they want to disable that last feature because too many idiots call up 911 without a card in the phone, and they can't trace them.
Barely used? I think the killer argument is the supposed (never checked myself) size and speed savings. Speed is enough to get anyone to miss it if it's not there, and therefore Opera wins. Of course it's inherently insecure, etc, I know this, and if I'm just going to read CNN.com (wait, CNN is overflowing with shit, I meant news.bbc.co.uk), I won't care if Opera knows about it, and if I want to do online banking I'll switch to Safari. Even giving them my Facebook login is acceptable, I think they're a trustworthy company. More trustworthy than Apple and Facebook in my mind. Speaking of Apple, heh, Jobs' excitement was iAds, he must be happy that he's going to get a massive load of money for making ad-delivery devices that people pay 500 bucks to own...
There was a research once that analyze these parameters and said it can be an alternative (or additive) to password entry, they can tell by the typing speed/interval between particular letters whether the person is the same person as the previous typist or not...
There was an anecdote on one of the Opera employee's blogs on how they looking to buy new servers, which nowadays are of course managed via a web-interface. They got offers and test equipment from some server companies, and one of the higher ups in the company was doing the evaluation, so he had to use the web-interface. He opened it up in his browser (you can guess which it is he's using), and immediately came the pop-up message "This browser is not supported".
Interestingly Microsoft offers Virtual PC VM's with Windows XP and different IE versions in them, it's on their site somewhere, if you google for it.
an incompetent, backward, authoritarian Third World oligarchy.
I somehow find that hard to believe.
Got healthcare yet? Harboring any war criminals with impunity there? (Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld, Yoo, heck the entire Bush admin). What do most Americans think of climate change? Or the theory of evolution?
This 1/6.5 billionth of the rest of the world thinks the USA, on average, is pretty backwards.
Guess what, they're already on track to become that (a superpower). I've heard of a story of a friend (non-American, but went to college there) who's leaving that country to go to China instead. Think of how everyone wanted to go to the USA, hmm, I don't know, since the Irish famine until up to 1 year ago? I'd wager in 5 years it'll be China which is the new destination...
On the topic of encryption, I think all modern drives do that anyway, with the decryption key either stored passwordless, or stored encrypted using a user-modifiable password - this is done so a user can quickly change the password in BIOS without needing to decrypt and re-encrypt the whole disk, just the decryption key.
Neat huh? Finding citation is an exercise left to the reader!
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If you think journalists are full of shit, then you'll enjoy this excellent condemnation by the always pissed off Glenn Greenwald...
You might be able to do some sort of geographical IP lookup, I know mine narrows it down to about three houses.
That's not how IP works...
THIS! I too have major hate of forced localization, everytime I set-up a new browser and load up Google, it goes to google.de (I'm in Germany, I speak the language well enough, but I want the content that I want, you stupid f'ing websites!). Even worse is Comedy Central and their South Park clips, an English-language blog embeds a clip from a South Park from Comedy Central, I click play, and guess what happens? The clip is dubbed in German! Aaarrrrggghhh!!!
Also trying to read myspace profiles (why, why?) gets pretty fucking irritating when it localizes the standard terms as "Favorite music", "Comments", etc, but then after the ":" displays the stuff the user's filled in, in their original language (usually English), meaning you have to read localized and then English words within the same sentence.
God damned morons all of them...
Interestingly, determining the ethnicity and refusing the service has been done by humans so far. Summary: NY Apple Store refused to sell iPhone 4's to Asians because the geniuses there thought they were tourists who were going to take them home.
Indeed, a browser built-in "You have unsaved changes" alert would be useful there, GMail has that feature coded in JS, but most sites aren't GMail are they.
Surely Google has some sort of tool to see if another page/site contains some word...
Adding adjectives would be interesting, "BP to plug oil leak" will then become "Bastards BP to plug fucking oil leak".
Holy crap, WTF is that? It's German alright, sounds like a news broadcast, the lady also sounded like a familiar news-reader.
The last sentence says "Because of this, it is especially aggravating for many Catholics that next to the dorm building there is an own chapel with ca. 80 quadrat".
So is the buzzer another radio with a dial, that when it stopped beeping somebody dialled the tuner to locate the beeps, and got a German radio station instead?
Holy crap, slashdot used to be good, but reading this post I can see now it's full of crap and misled morons, I guess the tracer-t kid is not a new phenomenon.
Can I coin the phrase "get off my e-lawn!"?
From their Wiki:
Reading is so passé, why have YouTube if you have to read? 3-step instruction? Don't read, listen to some nerd with dweeby voice ramble about it for 10 minutes on YouTube!
Made me think more of the future, and Idiocracy...
"Durrr we're too dumb to spell so we'll just use icons!"
But then again, it's less presses than using the keyboard, and maybe more universal. Although I remember reading an MSDN article about the universality of icon languages... not everybody in the world might interpret "@" as "at"...
excuse me, but 127.0.0.1 is lolcathost!
I suppose one AP in the car is enough, with another antenna/server in your garage that would automatically look for/connect to the SSID "MyCar".. then you can just upload files to the car's IP as long as it's connectable.
How do UPnP AV MediaServers announce their presence on the network? Via ZeroConf?
Well, I don't have a car and so no need for in-car entertainment, so I have no use for this idea.
There's a cool app on the App Store called "Air Video", it requires a server app on your normal PC (Windows/Mac), and a client App on the phone, the server reads your videos from its disk, converts it on the fly to an iPhone-compatible format, and streams it over WiFi (or 3G if your 3G is good enough) to the phone.
I suppose for the ultimate in-car entertainment hackery, one could store an SSD-disked PC in the trunk, with WiFi that can connect to the "MyGarage" SSID, as well as offering in-car WiFi (or would that have to go the other way around, the home PC/server connecting to the "MyCar" SSID?), and with a network drive so you can just drag&drop stuff from your home PC "into" your "car". Maybe cron-job too for TV episodes. Add Wake-on-Bluetooth too so you can just click a button to turn on the in-car PC from the comfort of your own desk.
Would surely save a lot of time compared to doing an offline conversion/USB sync...
To be pedantic, emergency calls are priority-routed through any available GSM network, and it even works without a SIM card in the phone. Although apparently they want to disable that last feature because too many idiots call up 911 without a card in the phone, and they can't trace them.
Makes me think of the movie Brazil... in the xxAA future you'll go to jail or not based on a boolean return value.
Of a closed source program.
Barely used? I think the killer argument is the supposed (never checked myself) size and speed savings. Speed is enough to get anyone to miss it if it's not there, and therefore Opera wins. Of course it's inherently insecure, etc, I know this, and if I'm just going to read CNN.com (wait, CNN is overflowing with shit, I meant news.bbc.co.uk), I won't care if Opera knows about it, and if I want to do online banking I'll switch to Safari. Even giving them my Facebook login is acceptable, I think they're a trustworthy company. More trustworthy than Apple and Facebook in my mind. Speaking of Apple, heh, Jobs' excitement was iAds, he must be happy that he's going to get a massive load of money for making ad-delivery devices that people pay 500 bucks to own...
Could it be that what looked like the muzzle of an RPG-launcher is a camera-lens?
There was a research once that analyze these parameters and said it can be an alternative (or additive) to password entry, they can tell by the typing speed/interval between particular letters whether the person is the same person as the previous typist or not...
please leave the store!
i.e. whoever's holding the mic?
Imagine if it said "VIRUS DETECTED!" just as you were about to really get it on instead.
Ah, here's the story, told better.
There was an anecdote on one of the Opera employee's blogs on how they looking to buy new servers, which nowadays are of course managed via a web-interface. They got offers and test equipment from some server companies, and one of the higher ups in the company was doing the evaluation, so he had to use the web-interface. He opened it up in his browser (you can guess which it is he's using), and immediately came the pop-up message "This browser is not supported".
Interestingly Microsoft offers Virtual PC VM's with Windows XP and different IE versions in them, it's on their site somewhere, if you google for it.
Got healthcare yet? Harboring any war criminals with impunity there? (Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld, Yoo, heck the entire Bush admin). What do most Americans think of climate change? Or the theory of evolution?
This 1/6.5 billionth of the rest of the world thinks the USA, on average, is pretty backwards.
Guess what, they're already on track to become that (a superpower). I've heard of a story of a friend (non-American, but went to college there) who's leaving that country to go to China instead. Think of how everyone wanted to go to the USA, hmm, I don't know, since the Irish famine until up to 1 year ago? I'd wager in 5 years it'll be China which is the new destination...
On the topic of encryption, I think all modern drives do that anyway, with the decryption key either stored passwordless, or stored encrypted using a user-modifiable password - this is done so a user can quickly change the password in BIOS without needing to decrypt and re-encrypt the whole disk, just the decryption key.
Neat huh? Finding citation is an exercise left to the reader!