The first thing I read on their comment page was a guy asking for a switch for his guitar pedal.
They need to return to that niche market and market it well. Look at Lowes or Home Depot, or Napa Auto Parts. You go to Napa or Lowes and usually, the staff is at least of some help. Where the hell do you go for electronics nationally? No, I'm serious! You're out of town and that glass fuse in your laptop's car charger blew, and you're fucked.
Where do you go? When I was a kid, you went to motherfuckin' radio shack, you handed the guy the blown fuse, and he handed you one back that was relatively close in amperage. They knew their shit. Sure, they wanted my home address to buy it, but even at 12 years old, I knew to make somethin up. Kinda wish it was that way again. I needed brushes for a motor to a radiator fan on my car today. WTF was I gonna go? Nowhere. I bought the motor new, because it had to be done today.
but could be done wirelessly from a "service van" close by.
Shit man, take a look at the post above mine. I got cleaned out because of some asshole in a Diebold van, I'm sure of it. Well, Bank of America got cleaned out.
Not Bank of America. I got cleaned out via PIN, and I think it was actually a Diebold employee too. Someone in a Diebold van was nearby acting suspicious once when I made a withdrawal, but then 3 months later I got cleaned out.
It took some fighting - one lady summarily denied my claim because when she asked me if it was fraud or not, I (in typical law student fashion) told her I couldn't tell her that. It could have been just an error on their part, that's not fraud. They also used my response to the question "Did you follow the rules and not write your PIN anywhere?" against me: If I'd never given my pin to anyone or written it down, how did someone get it? Eventually, however, I was sent a letter stating that they now consider my temporary credit to be a "permanent credit." Whatever. I got my money back.
Uh, hi there. Why can't the kids pay for their own college, like I just finished doing?
Maybe they wouldn't be such worthless little shits if they had to. And I'm in the position to call them worthless little shits. I had to inspect and repair their living quarters and make sure they didn't kill eachother or themselves with drugs/alcohol/failure to cook right all year.
I gotta say I was a little wrong there too. Enfeoffment is getting the land: Hey lord, I'll give ya 1/3rd of the wheat I grow every year for rights to 5 acres of your land. Or whatever. "Livery of seisen" is the clod-tossing part.
As far as I know, and IANACS (I am not a computer scientist), but I don't think jailbreaking would be the correct term for what's done to an xbox. An executable must be signed to run on the xbox, but as soon as it is, it gets access to everything. It's an all or nothing ordeal.
I'm a little less clear on how it works for the iPhone. However, I do know that any program you get from the App Store runs in a (chroot?) jail and does not have complete access to the underlying system hardware. So, even if you do get your program signed the official way, you still need to break out of that jail.
Does a health inspector need a warrant to search a restaurant or food plant? Does a BATF inspector need a warrant to search a distillery? Does a safety inspector need a warrant to search a manufacturing plant? In all these cases the answer is no. They can freely inspect commercial establishments to ensure the companies are following the law.
In all these cases the commercial entity applied for a license to operate where they probably gave these agencies permission to inspect the premises. I need not a license to live just yet.
I'll buy your logic on the supreme court ruling, but it's fucking marijuana. It's not like they knocked on the door and heard shots fired. It was fucking pot. What's next, bashing in my door for breaking the "no smoking indoors" law? The SWAT team surrounding the club because they smelled alcohol and heard loud music, so there MUST be a VIP in there somewhere?
I just finished up a property class in law school. Way back in the day, people thought it nuts to purchase or transfer rights as opposed to a real, tangible thing like, say, gold. For instance, rights to land. You can't transfer land, I can't pick up my little corner of the earth and carry it over to you, only plate tectonics can do such a thing. So, people came up with "enfeoffment:" When I sell you land, I gotta hand you a clump of dirt, or a handful of wheat, or put your hand on the door to the house or somethin' weird like that.
To me, smells a lot like the fear of fiat money. All you guys are just scared to transfer rights, or in this case, a measurement of the value of your services/wealth.
That simple. Money doesn't have to be tied to shit, just like an estate.
If you're interested and not a member of a Commonwealth country or derivation thereof, take a look at estates in land under the English fuedal system after William the Conqueror. Owning a piece of land is a lot more complicated than you would expect.
My close friend from college and I were discussing our plans after graduation at the bar a few days before we all left for good.
I had just finished up a degree in human development and family studies. I had completed a non-paid internship developing and executing a reading comprehension improvement program for at-risk adolescents at a local low income housing complex. I had no job lined up after graduation, I was hoping to get into grad school.
My buddy had just finished up a degree in electromechanical engineering technology. He had completed a paid internship developing weapons of mass destruction, specifically, missile guidance systems. He had a $55,000+ a year job lined up after graduation, he was hoping to buy a house and a new truck.
Bottom line: Society values death. Society does not value its fellow man or society.
Well, considering that I'm in the top 30% of my country just because I have a bachelor's degree, MacOS didn't do a great job.
Let's take it a step further: I was the kid in elementary and middle school who had to repair all the macs and fix software when a teacher let the grading software eat all the records. I was the school district's tech genius.
I'm now a law student. I do not plan on being in any sort of technical field. MacOS fail. Perhaps I gave it credit too soon.
after a few dozen technical taps the splice came apart and I didn't want to take another hour to put it back together
Ha! I haven't heard that term in forever. I don't work in a technology field, so when I have to play IT guy and give something like a $10,000 copier the "technical tap", most people give me a quizzical look and insist that I call the repair guy.
The repair guy comes, smacks the copier, and hands over a bill for $250. Technical tap indeed.
You'd be frequenting those stores if you ever shopped based on price, not customer service. Most slashdot readers don't need the customer service. I scored a 42" Panasonic 1080p plasma there for like $550 or somethin' cheap, and right next to the TVs on the wall were boxes of wholesale HDMI cables, $6 or $10 for a 6 footer, I believe.
Of course, they have the Monster HDMI cables right by the checkout at $50 a pop. Even the cheap Dynex shit is that much. I suppose if you walk by the bins full of $6 cables while the high school worker pushes your TV to the front, the expensive ones are more convenient...
I'll join the fray with my experience as an operator on college summer temp jobs. I ran a high speed printer, and if the engineers wanted to touch it, they had to ask me first. In fact, 99% of the time, it was me that had to get the engineer and then only because certain areas of the machine were not accessible without a key. Any adjustments to the machine were made by me, and I was also responsible for almost all routine maintenance. The only things the engineer did were things the vendor required that he do.
The constitution does not protect you from the implied threat of government legal action. The constitution does not protect you from all government legal action. The constitution does not protect you from government legal action unless it lacks due process.
You have a right to due process. You do not have a right to not go through the process. You never have, and you never will unless you move off to the land of nature, where human law does not apply. You will not find this place, as it does not exist.
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NIST has a police force...
The TIME POLICE?!
I think he knows that. The BEA has made comment, and they didn't really have shit to report.
Whoever modded you funny didn't have to get on an international flight via an Airbus days after the crash.
Truth, tho. Truth.
The first thing I read on their comment page was a guy asking for a switch for his guitar pedal.
They need to return to that niche market and market it well. Look at Lowes or Home Depot, or Napa Auto Parts. You go to Napa or Lowes and usually, the staff is at least of some help. Where the hell do you go for electronics nationally? No, I'm serious! You're out of town and that glass fuse in your laptop's car charger blew, and you're fucked.
Where do you go? When I was a kid, you went to motherfuckin' radio shack, you handed the guy the blown fuse, and he handed you one back that was relatively close in amperage. They knew their shit. Sure, they wanted my home address to buy it, but even at 12 years old, I knew to make somethin up. Kinda wish it was that way again. I needed brushes for a motor to a radiator fan on my car today. WTF was I gonna go? Nowhere. I bought the motor new, because it had to be done today.
but could be done wirelessly from a "service van" close by.
Shit man, take a look at the post above mine. I got cleaned out because of some asshole in a Diebold van, I'm sure of it. Well, Bank of America got cleaned out.
Not Bank of America. I got cleaned out via PIN, and I think it was actually a Diebold employee too. Someone in a Diebold van was nearby acting suspicious once when I made a withdrawal, but then 3 months later I got cleaned out.
It took some fighting - one lady summarily denied my claim because when she asked me if it was fraud or not, I (in typical law student fashion) told her I couldn't tell her that. It could have been just an error on their part, that's not fraud. They also used my response to the question "Did you follow the rules and not write your PIN anywhere?" against me: If I'd never given my pin to anyone or written it down, how did someone get it? Eventually, however, I was sent a letter stating that they now consider my temporary credit to be a "permanent credit." Whatever. I got my money back.
Someone will publish that Wikipedia is on Wikipedia's page about World Wonders.
Five minutes later, [citation needed] is replaced.
I get that too in Phoenix, living 16 blocks from downtown right now. But then, all day long downtown, I get maybe 250kbps down, 128 up?
This is why some countries favor the dictatorship.
Uh, hi there. Why can't the kids pay for their own college, like I just finished doing?
Maybe they wouldn't be such worthless little shits if they had to. And I'm in the position to call them worthless little shits. I had to inspect and repair their living quarters and make sure they didn't kill eachother or themselves with drugs/alcohol/failure to cook right all year.
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Yes it has.
I gotta say I was a little wrong there too. Enfeoffment is getting the land: Hey lord, I'll give ya 1/3rd of the wheat I grow every year for rights to 5 acres of your land. Or whatever. "Livery of seisen" is the clod-tossing part.
As far as I know, and IANACS (I am not a computer scientist), but I don't think jailbreaking would be the correct term for what's done to an xbox. An executable must be signed to run on the xbox, but as soon as it is, it gets access to everything. It's an all or nothing ordeal.
I'm a little less clear on how it works for the iPhone. However, I do know that any program you get from the App Store runs in a (chroot?) jail and does not have complete access to the underlying system hardware. So, even if you do get your program signed the official way, you still need to break out of that jail.
In all these cases the commercial entity applied for a license to operate where they probably gave these agencies permission to inspect the premises. I need not a license to live just yet.
I'll buy your logic on the supreme court ruling, but it's fucking marijuana. It's not like they knocked on the door and heard shots fired. It was fucking pot. What's next, bashing in my door for breaking the "no smoking indoors" law? The SWAT team surrounding the club because they smelled alcohol and heard loud music, so there MUST be a VIP in there somewhere?
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What, exactly, has to make it have value?
I just finished up a property class in law school. Way back in the day, people thought it nuts to purchase or transfer rights as opposed to a real, tangible thing like, say, gold. For instance, rights to land. You can't transfer land, I can't pick up my little corner of the earth and carry it over to you, only plate tectonics can do such a thing. So, people came up with "enfeoffment:" When I sell you land, I gotta hand you a clump of dirt, or a handful of wheat, or put your hand on the door to the house or somethin' weird like that.
To me, smells a lot like the fear of fiat money. All you guys are just scared to transfer rights, or in this case, a measurement of the value of your services/wealth.
That simple. Money doesn't have to be tied to shit, just like an estate.
If you're interested and not a member of a Commonwealth country or derivation thereof, take a look at estates in land under the English fuedal system after William the Conqueror. Owning a piece of land is a lot more complicated than you would expect.
This surprises anyone?
My close friend from college and I were discussing our plans after graduation at the bar a few days before we all left for good.
I had just finished up a degree in human development and family studies. I had completed a non-paid internship developing and executing a reading comprehension improvement program for at-risk adolescents at a local low income housing complex. I had no job lined up after graduation, I was hoping to get into grad school.
My buddy had just finished up a degree in electromechanical engineering technology. He had completed a paid internship developing weapons of mass destruction, specifically, missile guidance systems. He had a $55,000+ a year job lined up after graduation, he was hoping to buy a house and a new truck.
Bottom line: Society values death. Society does not value its fellow man or society.
Well, considering that I'm in the top 30% of my country just because I have a bachelor's degree, MacOS didn't do a great job.
Let's take it a step further: I was the kid in elementary and middle school who had to repair all the macs and fix software when a teacher let the grading software eat all the records. I was the school district's tech genius.
I'm now a law student. I do not plan on being in any sort of technical field. MacOS fail. Perhaps I gave it credit too soon.
Props to you, sir. I grew up on MacOS in the US school system, using iOS on my phone now, Linux on my media server, and Windows on the daily computer.
None are perfect. All are excellent at their jobs, for sure.
after a few dozen technical taps the splice came apart and I didn't want to take another hour to put it back together
Ha! I haven't heard that term in forever. I don't work in a technology field, so when I have to play IT guy and give something like a $10,000 copier the "technical tap", most people give me a quizzical look and insist that I call the repair guy.
The repair guy comes, smacks the copier, and hands over a bill for $250. Technical tap indeed.
I'd take that bet, I have audio cables behind this very computer that have to be older than me, and they're from the rat shack.
You'd be frequenting those stores if you ever shopped based on price, not customer service. Most slashdot readers don't need the customer service. I scored a 42" Panasonic 1080p plasma there for like $550 or somethin' cheap, and right next to the TVs on the wall were boxes of wholesale HDMI cables, $6 or $10 for a 6 footer, I believe.
Of course, they have the Monster HDMI cables right by the checkout at $50 a pop. Even the cheap Dynex shit is that much. I suppose if you walk by the bins full of $6 cables while the high school worker pushes your TV to the front, the expensive ones are more convenient...
Ever seen Dead Hitler? No?
I'll join the fray with my experience as an operator on college summer temp jobs. I ran a high speed printer, and if the engineers wanted to touch it, they had to ask me first. In fact, 99% of the time, it was me that had to get the engineer and then only because certain areas of the machine were not accessible without a key. Any adjustments to the machine were made by me, and I was also responsible for almost all routine maintenance. The only things the engineer did were things the vendor required that he do.
The constitution does not protect you from the implied threat of government legal action. The constitution does not protect you from all government legal action. The constitution does not protect you from government legal action unless it lacks due process.
You have a right to due process. You do not have a right to not go through the process. You never have, and you never will unless you move off to the land of nature, where human law does not apply. You will not find this place, as it does not exist.