My cell phone works with 911 even if you cancel all other service to the phone. Does that mean broadband and Voip companies will have to do the same?
I always wondered why it was that my cell phone always has to have 911 access, yet Ma Bell can cut my service and I get no dial tone if I don't pay my bills.
What good is it to get a page when you are back country skiing if you are truly the only tech guy there is? If the servers are all down, you can't very well VPN/telnet in (or choose your remote technology) and fix the problem. Bottom line is you're still stuck away from the machines. I'd have to think it would be more cost effective to have a slightly trained person monitor the status, via a normal phone or pager and then leave you a message at your hotel or whatever. Then you can call this person back and walk them through fixing it.
It seems like the satellite pager is a bit of overkill I guess, at least in my eyes. Just hire an assistant.
Gather 'round all ye geeks and I shall tell ye the tale of the linux PDA! 'Tis a grand beast, known only to those worth of total geekdom, and cared about be even fewer. Dare ye join the ranks of such geeks who actually care?
BORING!! Come on, why is this important enough to make front page news? Slashdot is puching the limits of when I actually believe they are more than just an advertisement for whomever they are in bed with this week...
Here's a link to a similar tape drive. Ours is slightly older, and a bit smaller I believe, but I'm not the guy in charge of nightly backups, so I can't give you the exact model at the moment...
Thank you...you show me the hard drive that holds as much as my tape drive does, then we'll talk. And I certainly don't have room in the drive tower for another 7 drives.
I can understand that, Sprint does seem to have limited coverage in some areas. I have used it in Seattle, St Louis, Hawaii (all of the islands), San Juan, Miami, and all over Michigan and Ohio on various occasions. But like you said, all major cities for the most part.
Too bad they don't expand a little. You CAN get Sprint PCS and just get a plan with analog roam for like $5 extra, which gives you nearly the coverage of Verizon and Nextel (or so I hear) but then again, it isn't digital so it's a win/lose if you ask me.
I rarely go to Detroit (or the east side of the state). I live in lansing, and spend most of my time in the center and west side of the state. I do find that Cingular (ATT?) has better reception traveling north to Travers City, whenever leaving a major highway. But I have Sprint all the way into the U.P. when on the highways. In the U.P., all bets are off, no matter what carrier you have.
That's why I no longer have Verizon. Who cares if some jackass on a commercial can talk when he's in Death Valley...I couldn't get a signal inside. Now with my Sprint phone, at least I get one bar, which is just enough to get calls and head for the window. Verizon has nothing on Sprint or Nextel, both of which consistantly get better service here in Michigan. (at least for everyone I know)
Ok, so is Ebay just a huge advertising firm these days? I mean, is the best way to promote your new book (grilled cheese sandwitch, forehead) really Ebay?
Are there that many millionaires out there surfing Ebay that they will buy any and all advertising space in the world? It seems to me like more and more often, the way to make a quick buck is to plant your ad on Ebay and watch the cash flow in.
Are the old methods of getting advertisers (and selling advertisements) just not as effective as Ebay? Will we see Ebay take a nosedive when all of the sudden every auction you see is just a clickthrough to someone trying to promote themselves? couldn't this (presumably, but not to me) well-knonw author have sold his ad space more effectively somewhere else?
Just my two cents...all I know is that he is lucky he didn't end up with a certain Online Casino's name on every page in his book.
Who the heck cares if 'Joe Public' can get my info. There's a hundred ways for my name to be seen by the public. It's much easier to go fish for names on YelowPages.com or whatever your favorite site is...Google your phone number, it likely comes up with your name and address unless you have gone to the trouble of removing it.
My point is, the registrar is one of the least of my worries about my address/phone being found by 'Joe Public', it's all over the place already.
And when the government sends a subpeona to the 'third party' for your name, it takes an extra 5 minutes for them to track you down. I'm sorry, but if you are hosting something bad enough (or spamming millions of messages I guess) for the FBI or whoever to come after you, a third party registrar isn't going to help much.
Most of us will pay to register them with a credit card or a check or something with our identity attached to it anyway. If anyone really wanted to find out who owns/runs the domain it wouldn't be too hard. Most of the time, they could also figure it out by tracing where it is hosted and finding some information on who pays the bills there as well.
If you want a free (and anonymous) web page, sign up for some cheesy service online where you are a subdomain of someone else. If not, then pony up and give some legit information to the company you buy the domain from.
I myself have done many of these offers. 3 of them from Gratis, the company responsible for Freeipods.com. So far, from that company alone I have gotten a 20GB iPod, a 40GB photo iPod, and a 1GB shuffle iPod.
I get absolutely NO spam from them in my inbox, and I know because I created a Gmail account just for this purpose. I have also gotten no increase in snail mail junk either.
The offers I did cost me a grand total of $6.95. Two of them were free, and one of them cost me $6.95 in shipping and handling. I'd say that isn't too shabby.
I get my referrals from random clicks on my sig here at slashdot, and in large part to my web site that I set up mostly for this purpose. It works well, and takes maybe 5-10 minutes of my day to post on my web site and try to get people to help me (and others) out with the deals.
If you want to try an offer out from this company, try the free PSP link in my sig. Same company. They're legit, it is easy, and it is free.
No, they are not selling me anything. They are selling advertisers the right to show me links. Which, I might add are less annoying than the flashing picture ads on every other site.
But regardless, they are not selling me anything. They are advertising TO ME, but I ignore them.
I don't care what they do or how many sites they have that are trying to "control my online experience". Right now, I use their search engine and their email. Their maps look pretty, but it is still easier to use mapquest for me.
It's nice to read things like this article, because until Google is "selling" me something, and it comes preloaded (or pre-bookmarked) on my computer, I am not concerned in the least bit. Why do we have to hear about why or why not they have a consipracy to take over the world? They write good stuff for the web, and people use their stuff by choice. I've never heard someone outside of Slashdot say "Man, that company Google is taking over my life. I can't do anything online without being forced into using Google."
I do like the part at the end of the article about MS having to test their new browser against Gmail, Google Maps, and Google itself. It does add a bit of irony that finally MS and IE have to worry about being compatible instead of the other way around.
Hell no, why would I want to see an ad banner or pay $39 for my web browser when there are two (or more) great ones for free? I'll download an image blocker plugin before I pay money for a web browser. And what is the point of getting rid of the ads on web pages if the browser has built in ads??? Opera blows until it is free.
For now though, my high speed internet keeps me surfing fast and Firefox avoids most of the ads just fine (especially with a few key extensions).
I would say you're completely backwards here. Most users discover the ability to pirate large movies/music/files AFTER they get broadband. They don't usually buy broadband just to start pirating, it's just a side effect. So based on that theory, they will still keep their broadband to surf the web or whatever their original intent was. Perhaps the ISP's will be able to increase each user's "available" bandwidth if the select few stop sucking it all up with PSP crap?
I for one, have vowed never to give up my high speed internet ever since the first day I had it 6 years ago. A lot of things have changed since then, but it sure hasn't gotten easier to surf the web on a dial up connection. There are so many pointless graphics on most sites these days, that a dial up connection is becoming useless.
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My cell phone works with 911 even if you cancel all other service to the phone. Does that mean broadband and Voip companies will have to do the same?
I always wondered why it was that my cell phone always has to have 911 access, yet Ma Bell can cut my service and I get no dial tone if I don't pay my bills.
I for one worship our super-rodent masters.
(rtfa, it's there)
What good is it to get a page when you are back country skiing if you are truly the only tech guy there is? If the servers are all down, you can't very well VPN/telnet in (or choose your remote technology) and fix the problem. Bottom line is you're still stuck away from the machines. I'd have to think it would be more cost effective to have a slightly trained person monitor the status, via a normal phone or pager and then leave you a message at your hotel or whatever. Then you can call this person back and walk them through fixing it.
It seems like the satellite pager is a bit of overkill I guess, at least in my eyes. Just hire an assistant.
Leave it to the numbnuts at Slashdot to completely miss the humor of a simple joke. Was it funny? Maybe not. But it wasn't a troll you idiots.
"I can imagine lots of applications for this new battery including my own laptop."
I think I'll keep all of that radioactive stuff as far away from the family jewels as I can...thank you very much.
And hopefully your customer is smart enough not to buy a solution from you which is built on hardware that is no longer supported?
Gather 'round all ye geeks and I shall tell ye the tale of the linux PDA! 'Tis a grand beast, known only to those worth of total geekdom, and cared about be even fewer. Dare ye join the ranks of such geeks who actually care?
BORING!! Come on, why is this important enough to make front page news? Slashdot is puching the limits of when I actually believe they are more than just an advertisement for whomever they are in bed with this week...
Now Slashdot has to tell me what case designers have know for ages? Hmmm...maybe that's why my case has a fan right next to the hard drive.
Must be a slow news day...
Here's a link to a similar tape drive. Ours is slightly older, and a bit smaller I believe, but I'm not the guy in charge of nightly backups, so I can't give you the exact model at the moment...
_ _LTO_Tape_Library/270032-100/p/404584
http://www.superwarehouse.com/Exabyte_Magnum_6x60
Thank you...you show me the hard drive that holds as much as my tape drive does, then we'll talk. And I certainly don't have room in the drive tower for another 7 drives.
Are the foxes guarding the henhouse when it comes to government and privacy?
Why no, it seems that the Gator is guarding the henhouse in this case.
I can understand that, Sprint does seem to have limited coverage in some areas. I have used it in Seattle, St Louis, Hawaii (all of the islands), San Juan, Miami, and all over Michigan and Ohio on various occasions. But like you said, all major cities for the most part.
Too bad they don't expand a little. You CAN get Sprint PCS and just get a plan with analog roam for like $5 extra, which gives you nearly the coverage of Verizon and Nextel (or so I hear) but then again, it isn't digital so it's a win/lose if you ask me.
I rarely go to Detroit (or the east side of the state). I live in lansing, and spend most of my time in the center and west side of the state. I do find that Cingular (ATT?) has better reception traveling north to Travers City, whenever leaving a major highway. But I have Sprint all the way into the U.P. when on the highways. In the U.P., all bets are off, no matter what carrier you have.
Uh no, not inside a building.
That's why I no longer have Verizon. Who cares if some jackass on a commercial can talk when he's in Death Valley...I couldn't get a signal inside. Now with my Sprint phone, at least I get one bar, which is just enough to get calls and head for the window. Verizon has nothing on Sprint or Nextel, both of which consistantly get better service here in Michigan. (at least for everyone I know)
Ok, so is Ebay just a huge advertising firm these days? I mean, is the best way to promote your new book (grilled cheese sandwitch, forehead) really Ebay?
Are there that many millionaires out there surfing Ebay that they will buy any and all advertising space in the world? It seems to me like more and more often, the way to make a quick buck is to plant your ad on Ebay and watch the cash flow in.
Are the old methods of getting advertisers (and selling advertisements) just not as effective as Ebay? Will we see Ebay take a nosedive when all of the sudden every auction you see is just a clickthrough to someone trying to promote themselves? couldn't this (presumably, but not to me) well-knonw author have sold his ad space more effectively somewhere else?
Just my two cents...all I know is that he is lucky he didn't end up with a certain Online Casino's name on every page in his book.
Who the heck cares if 'Joe Public' can get my info. There's a hundred ways for my name to be seen by the public. It's much easier to go fish for names on YelowPages.com or whatever your favorite site is...Google your phone number, it likely comes up with your name and address unless you have gone to the trouble of removing it.
My point is, the registrar is one of the least of my worries about my address/phone being found by 'Joe Public', it's all over the place already.
And when the government sends a subpeona to the 'third party' for your name, it takes an extra 5 minutes for them to track you down. I'm sorry, but if you are hosting something bad enough (or spamming millions of messages I guess) for the FBI or whoever to come after you, a third party registrar isn't going to help much.
Most of us will pay to register them with a credit card or a check or something with our identity attached to it anyway. If anyone really wanted to find out who owns/runs the domain it wouldn't be too hard. Most of the time, they could also figure it out by tracing where it is hosted and finding some information on who pays the bills there as well.
If you want a free (and anonymous) web page, sign up for some cheesy service online where you are a subdomain of someone else. If not, then pony up and give some legit information to the company you buy the domain from.
I myself have done many of these offers. 3 of them from Gratis, the company responsible for Freeipods.com. So far, from that company alone I have gotten a 20GB iPod, a 40GB photo iPod, and a 1GB shuffle iPod.
I get absolutely NO spam from them in my inbox, and I know because I created a Gmail account just for this purpose. I have also gotten no increase in snail mail junk either.
The offers I did cost me a grand total of $6.95. Two of them were free, and one of them cost me $6.95 in shipping and handling. I'd say that isn't too shabby.
I get my referrals from random clicks on my sig here at slashdot, and in large part to my web site that I set up mostly for this purpose. It works well, and takes maybe 5-10 minutes of my day to post on my web site and try to get people to help me (and others) out with the deals.
If you want to try an offer out from this company, try the free PSP link in my sig. Same company. They're legit, it is easy, and it is free.
No, they are not selling me anything. They are selling advertisers the right to show me links. Which, I might add are less annoying than the flashing picture ads on every other site.
But regardless, they are not selling me anything. They are advertising TO ME, but I ignore them.
I don't care what they do or how many sites they have that are trying to "control my online experience". Right now, I use their search engine and their email. Their maps look pretty, but it is still easier to use mapquest for me.
It's nice to read things like this article, because until Google is "selling" me something, and it comes preloaded (or pre-bookmarked) on my computer, I am not concerned in the least bit. Why do we have to hear about why or why not they have a consipracy to take over the world? They write good stuff for the web, and people use their stuff by choice. I've never heard someone outside of Slashdot say "Man, that company Google is taking over my life. I can't do anything online without being forced into using Google."
I do like the part at the end of the article about MS having to test their new browser against Gmail, Google Maps, and Google itself. It does add a bit of irony that finally MS and IE have to worry about being compatible instead of the other way around.
Hell no, why would I want to see an ad banner or pay $39 for my web browser when there are two (or more) great ones for free? I'll download an image blocker plugin before I pay money for a web browser. And what is the point of getting rid of the ads on web pages if the browser has built in ads??? Opera blows until it is free.
For now though, my high speed internet keeps me surfing fast and Firefox avoids most of the ads just fine (especially with a few key extensions).
Ha! I guess so. Even the preview didn't help me catch that one. D'oh!
You are correct. Although I am sure they meant:
1 10 million billion billionths of a second
or
1/(10 million billion billion) seconds
Either way, they were not very clear, or correct.
I would say you're completely backwards here. Most users discover the ability to pirate large movies/music/files AFTER they get broadband. They don't usually buy broadband just to start pirating, it's just a side effect. So based on that theory, they will still keep their broadband to surf the web or whatever their original intent was. Perhaps the ISP's will be able to increase each user's "available" bandwidth if the select few stop sucking it all up with PSP crap?
I for one, have vowed never to give up my high speed internet ever since the first day I had it 6 years ago. A lot of things have changed since then, but it sure hasn't gotten easier to surf the web on a dial up connection. There are so many pointless graphics on most sites these days, that a dial up connection is becoming useless.