Old news.... Not an Android issue... Not an AT&T issue... Sounds like a disgruntled Pocket user... This is what you get when you can't be bothered to set a passkey on your voice mail. Hacking....P'shaw...
All Android apps installed from the App store tell you exactly what they are requesting access to. So, if you download a game and it says it can make phone calls you may want to think twice about installing it.
Flipping the option to download unsigned apps from outside the marketplace is also a user's choice on most Android handsets. Although, some carriers have disabled this feature (HTC Aria from AT&T for example).
Basically, they have put the responsibility in the user's hands; not in the hands of a large corp that makes the decisions for you. If you want to play in a sandbox and have somebody watch over you and hold your hand; buy an IPhone. If you want to have more control over handset, get an Android.
30 second google search could have spared you the ridicule you are getting here. They asked you to purchase a 'Strap' not a heart rate monitor first of all. That's for hygiene; the straps get stinky.... Second, they are not EKG machines for goodness sake.
Crawl back into your cave and protect your plot of land; they are coming to take it away from you.
Hmm, and if you use google to search for the same thing, at the bottom of the page is has 'Apple So Expensive' as related searches. A Why is Mac So Expensive shows up on the second page of the google search.
Is this the only example you have of 'Microsoft Tainted Search Results'?
I work with high school students programming both Lego Robots and National Instruments cRIO-based controller robot. We program with that with C++ and LabView.
You can actually put a JVM on the Lego NXT (brain for the Mindstorm). You can also program the NXT with the full blown version of LabView. You can even program your NXT in C# or VB.Net using Microsoft Robotics Studio.
If you were insulted by the Mindstorm, you didn't do enough research into the extraordinarily open platform that you had within your reach.
Also, don't make the assumption that all students have the same access to computers that you do. In my team of 4 students beta testing the new National Instruments cRIO for FIRST robotics, we only had one student with a computer and internet at home.
The nice thing about Mindstorms is that you can also use a C-Like language called RobotC (www.robotc.net), Java (lejos.sourceforge.net), NXT (comes with the robot made by National Instruments) and/or LabView (grown up version of the NXT language, www.nationalinstruments.com)
If you are really ambitious take on the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC, www.usfirst.org) and setup a robotics program.
Being able to get the immediate feedback from a robot after programming it is a good motivator for the students. It also adds a dimension for those students who are more mechanically inclined.
If you are interested in more info about this program take a look at Texas Institute of Educational Robotics, Northwest Vista College, San Antonio, TX.
So proximity to a satellite office of Microsoft is irrefutable evidence? Do you think that if the NSA wanted on your computer that doing it with any other OS would be that big of challenge?
Come one, you can do better than that. Ask yourself why the NSA would care about your computer? Doing something illegal? No, then they don't care about you. Yes, well, you may have to take your medicine.
Construction on the new NSA facility (old Sony bldg) started long before MS had finalized work to build the data center in San Antonio. The two are not related in anything other than the fact that they are both in San Antonio; it's not like they can walk over to MS Datacenter with a thumb drive and ask for all their data. It's _just_ a datacenter; coordination between MS and NSA would likely happen in Washington or Redmond.
There are other datacenters in the Westover Hills part of San Antonio; Lowes (or Home Depot, I can't remember) and Stream Realty to name two.
So, for all the conspiracy theory fanatics out there. It comes down to the all-mighty dollar, not some nefarious deed to spy on your daily surfing and email habits....unless of course your are a child predator, drug dealer, human trafficker, organized crime-lord, etc.
This is silly. All large businesses do this and it's no wrong either! If you simply consider the cost of a item you are selling to be the raw materials then your price can be the same across the board. But that is a VERY simplistic way to look at the cost of an item. In the real world there are costs not directly related to the raw materials. They include other factors like: advertising, support, warranties, packaging, etc.
The interesting part of that post was that the government pricing was the cheapest. Ha! It's only the $1500.00 toilet seat covers that get the press, not the fact that there are many areas where the govt. recieves better pricing.
Just a note about the certs. If your job requirements fit the cert then you CAN use tuition assistance to pay for the cert. Keep in mind though there is a $4500.00 annual cap on how much you spend. But, if you stay away from those dern boot camps and actually take good courses from real instructors you can do it. Also, the good sys admins, learn by doing and if you are willing to put in the time and show that your not a complete idiot you'll get the chance.
Since I've been in I've helped switch from a Novell based network (small) to a very large NT Domain set up. We had an area that was too expensive to wire ~250k so they let us try this new 802.11 thing, then ~70k. That was about 5 years ago, no one was even seriously considering it then and it worked. I taught myself how to deply a host of MS based stuff the correct way (no, toto you don't need the CD). Oh yeah, this was all before I crossed over into the IT part of the AF.
The military is just like any other employment; it's what YOU make of it not what OTHERS make if it for you!
Officer's have no need to sit in on the classes with Airmen - All the time. Now, if their NCO's are not sitting in there with them, then there is your crime. Let the O's deal with their stuff and clear the way for the E's to get the work done.
It's not any different than the days of the cold war. There is a certain advantage for the liberals in our government and for countries that are less than friendly toward the US for predict failure and loss. First, it's good for their supports to see them standing the line. Second, it actually supports those that would injure our way of life by giving attempting to erode confidence in our military.
Yes, there will be losses. Yes, it will be expensive. Yes, we probably didn't help the situation with our support in de-stabalizing the region in the late 80's and early 90's to thwart the attempt to hinder the spread of the USSR.
What we will not do is stand by and let these radical islamic fundamentalist rock us to the core. There is a price that this organization of terrorist will pay. They will find out what that cost is; it may not be tomorrow or the next day. But, guaranteed they will pay the price for their aggressions.
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Old news.... Not an Android issue... Not an AT&T issue... Sounds like a disgruntled Pocket user... This is what you get when you can't be bothered to set a passkey on your voice mail. Hacking....P'shaw...
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All Android apps installed from the App store tell you exactly what they are requesting access to. So, if you download a game and it says it can make phone calls you may want to think twice about installing it.
Flipping the option to download unsigned apps from outside the marketplace is also a user's choice on most Android handsets. Although, some carriers have disabled this feature (HTC Aria from AT&T for example).
Basically, they have put the responsibility in the user's hands; not in the hands of a large corp that makes the decisions for you. If you want to play in a sandbox and have somebody watch over you and hold your hand; buy an IPhone. If you want to have more control over handset, get an Android.
S
Hmm, yeah, that's what it is made of.... --glancing over my sholder at the angry mob--
Because twitter is a waste of time? >
There are other sites out there like this one. http://www.redcross.org/en/volunteertime
Sean
SimKit, Discrete Event Simulation Library, also from the Naval Postgraduate School....
http://diana.nps.edu/Simkit/
Sean
30 second google search could have spared you the ridicule you are getting here. They asked you to purchase a 'Strap' not a heart rate monitor first of all. That's for hygiene; the straps get stinky.... Second, they are not EKG machines for goodness sake.
Crawl back into your cave and protect your plot of land; they are coming to take it away from you.
Pro-Apple FUD Alert
Hmm, and if you use google to search for the same thing, at the bottom of the page is has 'Apple So Expensive' as related searches. A Why is Mac So Expensive shows up on the second page of the google search.
Is this the only example you have of 'Microsoft Tainted Search Results'?
Go to the back of the line.....
Sean
After a session on tech support w/ Symantec (30 mins, no progress from them at all) I removed their products from my computers and installed Clamwin.
Back when Norton meant something in the PC world he should be embarrassed that they are still using his name.
Look elsewhere for AV on your computers.
I work with high school students programming both Lego Robots and National Instruments cRIO-based controller robot. We program with that with C++ and LabView.
You can actually put a JVM on the Lego NXT (brain for the Mindstorm). You can also program the NXT with the full blown version of LabView. You can even program your NXT in C# or VB.Net using Microsoft Robotics Studio.
If you were insulted by the Mindstorm, you didn't do enough research into the extraordinarily open platform that you had within your reach.
Also, don't make the assumption that all students have the same access to computers that you do. In my team of 4 students beta testing the new National Instruments cRIO for FIRST robotics, we only had one student with a computer and internet at home.
TimeOut
The nice thing about Mindstorms is that you can also use a C-Like language called RobotC (www.robotc.net), Java (lejos.sourceforge.net), NXT (comes with the robot made by National Instruments) and/or LabView (grown up version of the NXT language, www.nationalinstruments.com)
If you are really ambitious take on the FIRST Tech Challenge (FTC, www.usfirst.org) and setup a robotics program.
Being able to get the immediate feedback from a robot after programming it is a good motivator for the students. It also adds a dimension for those students who are more mechanically inclined.
If you are interested in more info about this program take a look at Texas Institute of Educational Robotics, Northwest Vista College, San Antonio, TX.
http://www.accd.edu/nvc/programs/tier/default.htm
TimeOut
So proximity to a satellite office of Microsoft is irrefutable evidence? Do you think that if the NSA wanted on your computer that doing it with any other OS would be that big of challenge?
Come one, you can do better than that. Ask yourself why the NSA would care about your computer? Doing something illegal? No, then they don't care about you. Yes, well, you may have to take your medicine.
TimeOut
Construction on the new NSA facility (old Sony bldg) started long before MS had finalized work to build the data center in San Antonio. The two are not related in anything other than the fact that they are both in San Antonio; it's not like they can walk over to MS Datacenter with a thumb drive and ask for all their data. It's _just_ a datacenter; coordination between MS and NSA would likely happen in Washington or Redmond.
There are other datacenters in the Westover Hills part of San Antonio; Lowes (or Home Depot, I can't remember) and Stream Realty to name two.
So, for all the conspiracy theory fanatics out there. It comes down to the all-mighty dollar, not some nefarious deed to spy on your daily surfing and email habits....unless of course your are a child predator, drug dealer, human trafficker, organized crime-lord, etc.
TimeOut
This is silly. All large businesses do this and it's no wrong either! If you simply consider the cost of a item you are selling to be the raw materials then your price can be the same across the board. But that is a VERY simplistic way to look at the cost of an item. In the real world there are costs not directly related to the raw materials. They include other factors like: advertising, support, warranties, packaging, etc.
The interesting part of that post was that the government pricing was the cheapest. Ha! It's only the $1500.00 toilet seat covers that get the press, not the fact that there are many areas where the govt. recieves better pricing.
Sean
If the FBI is willing to dump Carnivore, then that means they don't need it anymore and there must be another method they are using.
This article sounds just like a show that was on NPR the other day http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2003/Dec/hour2_ 121203.html
They had 'experts' talking about why supersonic commercial flight isn't hot, explains where our personal aircraft are at, sub orbital flights, etc.
It was an interesting listen!
Sean
Bravo,
Just a note about the certs. If your job requirements fit the cert then you CAN use tuition assistance to pay for the cert. Keep in mind though there is a $4500.00 annual cap on how much you spend. But, if you stay away from those dern boot camps and actually take good courses from real instructors you can do it. Also, the good sys admins, learn by doing and if you are willing to put in the time and show that your not a complete idiot you'll get the chance.
Since I've been in I've helped switch from a Novell based network (small) to a very large NT Domain set up. We had an area that was too expensive to wire ~250k so they let us try this new 802.11 thing, then ~70k. That was about 5 years ago, no one was even seriously considering it then and it worked. I taught myself how to deply a host of MS based stuff the correct way (no, toto you don't need the CD). Oh yeah, this was all before I crossed over into the IT part of the AF.
The military is just like any other employment; it's what YOU make of it not what OTHERS make if it for you!
TimeOut
Officer's have no need to sit in on the classes with Airmen - All the time. Now, if their NCO's are not sitting in there with them, then there is your crime. Let the O's deal with their stuff and clear the way for the E's to get the work done.
Plus, 10 hour days are cool if you love IT.
TimeOut
It's not any different than the days of the cold war. There is a certain advantage for the liberals in our government and for countries that are less than friendly toward the US for predict failure and loss. First, it's good for their supports to see them standing the line. Second, it actually supports those that would injure our way of life by giving attempting to erode confidence in our military.
Yes, there will be losses. Yes, it will be expensive. Yes, we probably didn't help the situation with our support in de-stabalizing the region in the late 80's and early 90's to thwart the attempt to hinder the spread of the USSR.
What we will not do is stand by and let these radical islamic fundamentalist rock us to the core. There is a price that this organization of terrorist will pay. They will find out what that cost is; it may not be tomorrow or the next day. But, guaranteed they will pay the price for their aggressions.
TimeOut
TimeOut