I think it'll be a couple years before humans evolve past war. That being the case, we may as well make sure our cruise missiles are as accurate as possible and hit their targets rather than the orphanage next door.
Hmm here in the states I never cared much for my Nokias (granted the only two I've had have been a 5190 and an early 3something). I always felt like they got crappy reception. And they had NiCd batteries so if I didn't wait for them to die completely before I charged them I'd get like 15min of talk time. I can't count the number of times both of them would just be dead in my pocket when I'd talked for like 10 minutes. I swore them off then and have been biased ever since. Although admitedly the reception problems were more due to me using Cingular's craptastic GSM service. And no doubt the batteries have been improved. Maybe I'll look again sometime...
Of course my CDMA/AMPS Audiovox still gets far and away the best reception I've ever had on a phone (compared to Nokia, Ericcsson, and Motorolas I've used).
More accurately, the law puts the entire "problem" as the hacker's. That's not only wrong, that's a lie.
Ok, the problem's a little bit of A, a little bit of B. Just because the system was insecure doesn't mean you should let just anybody waltz on in.
If I accidently left my keys in my car and someone took it for a joy ride, I'd be damn sure I called the cops.
I'm sick of people defending these guys. If you find an open system you shouldn't go poking around in it any more than you should take a nap in my car if the door's unlocked. Or if it just had poor security (all it takes is a slim-jim to get into a lot of cars...should it be legal to mess around with those?)
So yeah, the sysadmin needs to take some responsibility. But so does the hacker, he's far from being a victim for getting busted himself...
people will become paranoid and turn file sharing off. They'll become leachers.
This has already happened. Truth is, most people I know used to share everything. Now I can quite honestly say I don't know a single person who leaves sharing enabled. In fact, making sure Kazaa has sharing disabled has become as important as making sure there's a virus scanner when any of us has to fix a friend's/relative's computer.
I was talking with some friends about this the other day. While it sucks for the network users, it just comes down to the fact that you would have to be friggin INSANE to leave your computer sharing lots of files right now. Why not just put a sign up that says "Hey, RIAA! Come sue me!" No thank you.
What/. tends to forget is that the VAST majority of p2p users ARE downloading copyrighted songs. And if we got sued, the vast majority of us would lose even if the RIAA had the most incompetent lawyers on the planet (which I'm sure they don't...) It takes someone who really didn't break the law to challenge these suits. For the rest of us, it's simply not worth the risk, so we'll just pull our machines off line and wait for a more secure way to do things. I can certainly do without the music for a while...
Digital cable would win for me, if they didn't force you to use their god-awful boxes and have the guide software run from their end. I know four people with digital cable and 3 of them have to use that slow as hell "TV Guide" guide. There's at least a one second lag on pushing ANY button on the box (it's usually about 2sec) and there are so many ads on it you can only see 30min at a time in the channel list. Worst interface ever.
That and their "digital quality" is typically covered with REALLY obvoius artifacts. Ugh. Give me satellite or give me analog.
Strange, I'm in California. I've only voted in Santa Barbara county, though. I'm in San Mateo Co now so I'll see what happens then.
But I was under the impression that CA required all residents over 18 to have either a DL or a state ID, so I'm not sure what the problem would be with making you show it...
Or maybe it's my imagination. I could swear I had to show it, but I admit I had never given it much thought before.
Can't they remotely check the settings on the box?
Only if you have it plugged into the phone line, which you'd have to be crazy to do if you're not paying for it.
If they ever were able to get a system where the boxes talk to the satellite, it'd be much harder for people to get away with it, but show me a satellite that can take data streams from thousands of customers and can stream hundreds of digital video/audio feeds at the same time...
Besides, then it'd just be a matter of hacking the data that gets returned to DTV in addition to the keys used in the box to determine if you're allowed to watch that ppv porn or not...
Except nowadays the only time you get a bad connection is when you're talking on a cell phone, and probably won't IM anyway. Maybe a quick text message and a single response is all you're going to do then (although I'm sure some people have whole conversations that way...)
Naturally calls to 3rd world nations and to satellite phones in the middle of nowhere are exceptions...
GSM service in the USA sucks big floppy donkey dick.
I've had friends on AT&T who loved their TDMA service then got forced into GSM and now HATE it. Coverage is only a tiny fraction of what it used to be (see https://www.attws.com/images/maps/ngnn-nat.gif, Cingular, T-Mobile, and Sprint are even worse), even inside major cities. I used to be on Cingular GSM and literally more than 50% of the time I was unable to make calls and I kept getting phamtom voicemail indicators sometimes even six hours after the call was made.
The ONLY service I've been able to actually make a call whenever I wanted has been Verizon's CDMA. Great service, but boring phones.
I have no problem with gadgets on phones, but why oh why can't they put some of that money into making the phones work??? I'd love to get one of those cool little T610s, but I've yet to find a phone that can even come CLOSE to the reception I get on my Audiovox CDM-9500...
I don't mind the traffic lights, I like em bright when the sun's at a bad angle (at least when I'm visiting backwards states like Virginia where they've yet to discover the concept of multiple sets of lights for each direction...come on people, it's not rocket science!)
But I'm with you on the headlights. Even today driving to work at 8:30am I had to have my mirror dimmed cuz of some jackass who was driving with his ultra high bi-xenon industrial stadium lighting turned on. I'd love to have some on my car for mountain roads at night. But we don't need to use them when stuck in traffic on 101 at 8:30 in the morning! His SUV was twice the size of my Escort, not like I needed more help to see him...
Not everyone lives somewhere where that's possible. I'm in San Mateo now, so my friend in the building can get like 10 HDTV channels off a set of rabbit ears. But I was in Santa Barbara before and could only get one channel in analog (vhf, got a few uhf) but not a single digital one could make it to the house. We tried an outside antenna too, but ended up returning it.
That said I'd still like to know why DTV doesn't broadcast the networks in high-def...
I believe my D-Link and Linksys have done the same. They're all crappy. Not only do they reboot when you forward ports, at least on my D-Link, you have to reboot FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL PORT AS YOU ENTER IT. If I'm setting up some app that uses several ports (some p2p apps or whatever) it's a pain in the ass. Particularly since I'm on the wireless so it takes another 10secs or so for the radios to sync up even after it reboots.
I was under the impression that the vast majority of masters students were working professionally in addition to getting the degree. I know lots of people with masters, but only a handful of them actually did full-time school.
I'm gonna start getting my MS next month and working full-time. I'll just be on the 3 year masters plan taking 1-2 classes a quarter. That way I get to keep my nice paychecks coming and (more importantly) not miss out on experience. But I get to have a nice fancy piece of paper to impress PHBs with too (and hopefully learn something in the process).
I graduated in June with a BS CmpE from UC Santa Barbara and am pulling in $60k doing firmware for a small (but very profitable) chip design company.
But my school provided a lot of practical education (actual design work...) and I've been working every summer since I was a Junior in high school for very well-known corporations (Northrop Grumman and Agilent)...
Damn, wish my school did that (Santa Clara Engineering). I'm starting on my MSCE next month. Ah the joy of 7-9am class followed by 9-7 work for 3 years (I'm only doing 4 units/quarter)
Or the ones who don't pay attention - I was playing blackjack in Tahoe a couple weeks ago and made $10 on a hand that I'd bet $20. I almost said something cuz I figured I'd added wrong and won the hand and that I should've got $20. Then I noticed I'd pushed. Of course after gambling all night off of $100, I walked out a few hours later with $110. Thanks stupid dealer! I only would've broken even if it weren't for you!
I think you got modded down cuz you don't know what you're talking about. BLACK??? You're not talking about the picture of the cardboard box there are you? It's silver (well aluminum)...And it's shaped like a tower and about the same dimensions as a typical PC. It'd fit anywhere a tower would.
And actually, I saw one at the USB Compliance Workshow a couple weeks back in Milpitas and thought it looked sweet....Unfortunately I was stationary and didn't have a chance to see it in action. But the Apple guys said the speed difference between the G5s and the G4s would blow you away. Damn I wish I'd had the chance to take a better look:( *Sob*
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As the parent said, to replace the old dumb weapons with new smart(er) ones...
I think it'll be a couple years before humans evolve past war. That being the case, we may as well make sure our cruise missiles are as accurate as possible and hit their targets rather than the orphanage next door.
Hmm here in the states I never cared much for my Nokias (granted the only two I've had have been a 5190 and an early 3something). I always felt like they got crappy reception. And they had NiCd batteries so if I didn't wait for them to die completely before I charged them I'd get like 15min of talk time. I can't count the number of times both of them would just be dead in my pocket when I'd talked for like 10 minutes. I swore them off then and have been biased ever since. Although admitedly the reception problems were more due to me using Cingular's craptastic GSM service. And no doubt the batteries have been improved. Maybe I'll look again sometime...
Of course my CDMA/AMPS Audiovox still gets far and away the best reception I've ever had on a phone (compared to Nokia, Ericcsson, and Motorolas I've used).
More accurately, the law puts the entire "problem" as the hacker's. That's not only wrong, that's a lie.
Ok, the problem's a little bit of A, a little bit of B. Just because the system was insecure doesn't mean you should let just anybody waltz on in.
If I accidently left my keys in my car and someone took it for a joy ride, I'd be damn sure I called the cops.
I'm sick of people defending these guys. If you find an open system you shouldn't go poking around in it any more than you should take a nap in my car if the door's unlocked. Or if it just had poor security (all it takes is a slim-jim to get into a lot of cars...should it be legal to mess around with those?)
So yeah, the sysadmin needs to take some responsibility. But so does the hacker, he's far from being a victim for getting busted himself...
people will become paranoid and turn file sharing off. They'll become leachers.
/. tends to forget is that the VAST majority of p2p users ARE downloading copyrighted songs. And if we got sued, the vast majority of us would lose even if the RIAA had the most incompetent lawyers on the planet (which I'm sure they don't...) It takes someone who really didn't break the law to challenge these suits. For the rest of us, it's simply not worth the risk, so we'll just pull our machines off line and wait for a more secure way to do things. I can certainly do without the music for a while...
This has already happened. Truth is, most people I know used to share everything. Now I can quite honestly say I don't know a single person who leaves sharing enabled. In fact, making sure Kazaa has sharing disabled has become as important as making sure there's a virus scanner when any of us has to fix a friend's/relative's computer.
I was talking with some friends about this the other day. While it sucks for the network users, it just comes down to the fact that you would have to be friggin INSANE to leave your computer sharing lots of files right now. Why not just put a sign up that says "Hey, RIAA! Come sue me!" No thank you.
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Digital cable would win for me, if they didn't force you to use their god-awful boxes and have the guide software run from their end. I know four people with digital cable and 3 of them have to use that slow as hell "TV Guide" guide. There's at least a one second lag on pushing ANY button on the box (it's usually about 2sec) and there are so many ads on it you can only see 30min at a time in the channel list. Worst interface ever.
That and their "digital quality" is typically covered with REALLY obvoius artifacts. Ugh. Give me satellite or give me analog.
Strange, I'm in California. I've only voted in Santa Barbara county, though. I'm in San Mateo Co now so I'll see what happens then.
But I was under the impression that CA required all residents over 18 to have either a DL or a state ID, so I'm not sure what the problem would be with making you show it...
Or maybe it's my imagination. I could swear I had to show it, but I admit I had never given it much thought before.
Can't they remotely check the settings on the box?
Only if you have it plugged into the phone line, which you'd have to be crazy to do if you're not paying for it.
If they ever were able to get a system where the boxes talk to the satellite, it'd be much harder for people to get away with it, but show me a satellite that can take data streams from thousands of customers and can stream hundreds of digital video/audio feeds at the same time...
Besides, then it'd just be a matter of hacking the data that gets returned to DTV in addition to the keys used in the box to determine if you're allowed to watch that ppv porn or not...
First, let's make people show ID before voting.
Um aren't we doing this now? I've never been allowed to vote without first showing my ID...
Really no cable with Adelphia there? My dad's in Ashburn and has had a cable modem for just under a year...
Took a while after he moved there, mostly because it was a new community and the cable line went up to the edge of the neighborhood, but not into it.
non-volatile and RAM are not mutually exclusive.
No, it's not DRAM or SRAM, or any other volatile memory, but it's still a random-access memory, is it not?
Except nowadays the only time you get a bad connection is when you're talking on a cell phone, and probably won't IM anyway. Maybe a quick text message and a single response is all you're going to do then (although I'm sure some people have whole conversations that way...)
Naturally calls to 3rd world nations and to satellite phones in the middle of nowhere are exceptions...
I started with a Mac back in the day, so I just throw everything on the desktop and clear it out once a month or so...
GSM service in the USA sucks big floppy donkey dick.
I've had friends on AT&T who loved their TDMA service then got forced into GSM and now HATE it. Coverage is only a tiny fraction of what it used to be (see https://www.attws.com/images/maps/ngnn-nat.gif, Cingular, T-Mobile, and Sprint are even worse), even inside major cities. I used to be on Cingular GSM and literally more than 50% of the time I was unable to make calls and I kept getting phamtom voicemail indicators sometimes even six hours after the call was made.
The ONLY service I've been able to actually make a call whenever I wanted has been Verizon's CDMA. Great service, but boring phones.
I have no problem with gadgets on phones, but why oh why can't they put some of that money into making the phones work??? I'd love to get one of those cool little T610s, but I've yet to find a phone that can even come CLOSE to the reception I get on my Audiovox CDM-9500...
Yup, a friend of mine got out of a lot of BS 15% "restocking fees" by claiming the contract was void since he was a minor.
Don't forget your wagon yoke.
But what a fun life it was until you died of dysentery...
On a big bag of baby carrots:
Ingredients: Carrots
I don't mind the traffic lights, I like em bright when the sun's at a bad angle (at least when I'm visiting backwards states like Virginia where they've yet to discover the concept of multiple sets of lights for each direction...come on people, it's not rocket science!)
But I'm with you on the headlights. Even today driving to work at 8:30am I had to have my mirror dimmed cuz of some jackass who was driving with his ultra high bi-xenon industrial stadium lighting turned on. I'd love to have some on my car for mountain roads at night. But we don't need to use them when stuck in traffic on 101 at 8:30 in the morning! His SUV was twice the size of my Escort, not like I needed more help to see him...
Not everyone lives somewhere where that's possible. I'm in San Mateo now, so my friend in the building can get like 10 HDTV channels off a set of rabbit ears. But I was in Santa Barbara before and could only get one channel in analog (vhf, got a few uhf) but not a single digital one could make it to the house. We tried an outside antenna too, but ended up returning it.
That said I'd still like to know why DTV doesn't broadcast the networks in high-def...
I believe my D-Link and Linksys have done the same. They're all crappy. Not only do they reboot when you forward ports, at least on my D-Link, you have to reboot FOR EACH INDIVIDUAL PORT AS YOU ENTER IT. If I'm setting up some app that uses several ports (some p2p apps or whatever) it's a pain in the ass. Particularly since I'm on the wireless so it takes another 10secs or so for the radios to sync up even after it reboots.
Lame lame lame.
I was under the impression that the vast majority of masters students were working professionally in addition to getting the degree. I know lots of people with masters, but only a handful of them actually did full-time school.
I'm gonna start getting my MS next month and working full-time. I'll just be on the 3 year masters plan taking 1-2 classes a quarter. That way I get to keep my nice paychecks coming and (more importantly) not miss out on experience. But I get to have a nice fancy piece of paper to impress PHBs with too (and hopefully learn something in the process).
*shrug*
I graduated in June with a BS CmpE from UC Santa Barbara and am pulling in $60k doing firmware for a small (but very profitable) chip design company.
But my school provided a lot of practical education (actual design work...) and I've been working every summer since I was a Junior in high school for very well-known corporations (Northrop Grumman and Agilent)...
Damn, wish my school did that (Santa Clara Engineering). I'm starting on my MSCE next month. Ah the joy of 7-9am class followed by 9-7 work for 3 years (I'm only doing 4 units/quarter)
Or the ones who don't pay attention - I was playing blackjack in Tahoe a couple weeks ago and made $10 on a hand that I'd bet $20. I almost said something cuz I figured I'd added wrong and won the hand and that I should've got $20. Then I noticed I'd pushed. Of course after gambling all night off of $100, I walked out a few hours later with $110. Thanks stupid dealer! I only would've broken even if it weren't for you!
I think you got modded down cuz you don't know what you're talking about. BLACK??? You're not talking about the picture of the cardboard box there are you? It's silver (well aluminum)...And it's shaped like a tower and about the same dimensions as a typical PC. It'd fit anywhere a tower would.
:( *Sob*
And actually, I saw one at the USB Compliance Workshow a couple weeks back in Milpitas and thought it looked sweet....Unfortunately I was stationary and didn't have a chance to see it in action. But the Apple guys said the speed difference between the G5s and the G4s would blow you away. Damn I wish I'd had the chance to take a better look