Kaspersky found who was behind the Twitter handle by using the highly specialized tool...Google.
He used the same HAL9999999 handle when posting to a dating site.
Protip to eleeet spy teefs: Don't do stuff like that.
I have been neutral on Macs. Right now, I am not very pleased at the fact that Macs do not allow you to install Linux on the internal SSD, even with T2 chip security off....
Try a Chromebook. They run Android and there is beta steam that installs Linux natively.
My HP Chromebook X2 runs OpenOffice and GIMP, that were installed with a sudo app-get install,
The only problem at present is the scaling of the fonts in the windows but that's being addressed.
I know it's an anecdote, but my neighbor's display has developed a bunch of stuck pixels in 3 years or so. Annoying. I don't know if that's a common issue, though. It used TI's original chipset, I don't know if it was licensed to other parties though, so that may be a moot point.
1) You can cancel the TV portion of UVerse but it's cheap enough in the package that it's just as easy to keep it. 2) It's not SBC. It's at&t.
I think you'll find that the UVerse Internet + VoIP phone is cheaper and faster than aDSL + POTS phone.
You're subscribing to BOTH UVerse TV and Comcast and you think you can live with none? Whatever.
These days the good stuff like "Breaking Bad" and "Justified" is on the basic cable's AMC and USA networks, so OTA isn't going to cut it but I guess the torrent cloud would have those.
When I recently had an appointment for CableCARD adds to my newly acquired Tivo Series 3. Comcast robo-called me incessantly! I work from home on a business line and didn't need the literally 4 robo calls reminding me I had an appointment tomorrow.
I finally called 800-Comcast and waited the 20 minutes to talk to a human.
"Sir, those are automated calls. We didn't call you." (Doh!)
If i get ONE MORE CALL not only will I cancel the appointment, I WILL CANCEL MY SERVICE!
"I will note that."
The result is my phone never rang again - not even when the tech came, where they usually call to tell you he's on the way.
Does Amazon Marketplace work with blocked books?
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Am I wrong or doesn't the "Available New and Used from $nn from these..." Marketplace Sellers listing still work when Amazon themselves won't stock the book?
There's still a very competitive new and used book marketplace,.
Bunch of crybabies....I'd be upset too, if I didn't know that apple released new products yearly with their masterplan of planned obsolescence.
Of course, if the "masterplan" was thwarted and Apple didn't release new products every year it would be, "What's up with Apple! The iXxxxxxx hasn't been updated in OVER A YEAR! C'Mon! Competitor nnnnn just brought out the Nnnnnn iXxxxxx-killer and Apple didn't answer! The iXxxxx is getting very old in the tooth."
Here's the newsflash: NOBODY needs this week's model lest they starve,
As for loyalty, I've been a loyal gas, water and electricity user my whole life but the utilities still don't seem to want to give me a break. I'm going to call and write nasty emails and letters and let them know I will NOT STAND FOR IT!
It really doesn't matter when they do it -- February, June, two years ago, two years from now. Either way, they'll still have 2 million clueless idiots cussing out at their TVs wondering what happened to their TV signal. And all of those 2 million will be technologically clueless senior citizens -- anyone under the age of, say, 40, already gets most of their TV from the internet, where it's on demand and there's far fewer commercials.
There will be 4 million who have portable TVs that are in no way likely to work well with digital converter boxes. I keep thinking about people working in kiosks, stores, trucks, RVs, and newsstands...and yeah, a lot of poor and elderly people with 13" TVs.
But you forget. It is a voluntary search as you give them permission by boarding. They will say that you did not have to enter the boarding areas that are usually clearly marked.
Oh well, if you drive or take the bus or train you still have some rights that are upheld. But to get people to refuse to fly and hurt the airline industry in a way that makes them listen probably will not happen.
You know. They don't want the guy/girl flying the plane to have weapons to overpower the pilot and take control of the plane. (Chicago actually searched planes and pilots for this reason until Mayor Daley finally took the shortcut and bulldozed Meigs Field to save it from terrorists.)
Ive heard stories that relate to this. And its not that someone outside hooked this piece of equipment up, its something they have forgot about.
I read about a server that was in a room, and the room had some modifications done to it, and they ended up drywalling the server inside the wall (i dont know know how they did it). It ended up being like 5 years later they had no idea where this PDC signal was coming from and they had to physically follow the network cable to the computer and found it....
Amazingly, Comcast HAS improved their customer service.
After several horrible experiences and arguments with Comcast over the years, I had to go to them as the best alternative to get HD on my TiVo after DirectTV stoped dealing in TiVo DVRs. (DirecTV pulled the ever-higher-rates for ever-less-product trick, but that's another story.)
I bit the bullet, fastened my seat belt, renewed my valium prescription...and it wasn't so bad.
The call center reps were fine, polite and professional. The installer was decent, although they screwed up so my 1-2 install took 4 hours because they didn't give him 2 CableCARDs. The product - the channels - (as long as you're not getting a Comcast DVR) is OK. It would be nice if they had more HD, but I expect they will.
I seriously thought that Comcast had a culture where they actually were proud of their customer prevention attitude. Even they changed!
The old HeathKits, like oscilliscopes and ham radios, were of value as exercises in assembly and part identification. Beyond getting a general sense of what the circuitry was about, I never learned anything about electronics from building such stuff. I built a lot of Heathkits in the day. There was a retail store in town.
The Heathkit assembly manuals always included a small "How it works" section, but I agree that wasn't enough to get you a through understanding.
Heathkit had projects as large a 27" console color television. The manual had to tell you how to tune and align it as you were building it.
Where I work flash is blocked from installing, my morning routine used to be to open Dilbert and have a read while some of the other apps I use slowly load... At my work Dilbert is blocked.
I think the PHBs suspected the Dilbert site was a security breach because all of their latest and greatest ideas showed up in Dilbert.
OMG! The "8 second jump back"! What an amazing, novel concept! Hold us back, lest we froth at the mouth at this momentous innovation!
Spoken like a person who never had it.
The innovation is not only that it can jump back 8 seconds, but that there is a single button right your finger to do it. What's obvious is rewind. A one-button "Wait! What was that just now?" rewind is and was novel.
The jump back is so essential, I've caught myself reaching for it on the car radio.
I held off buying an iPod until the Apple genius showed how I could backup podcasts sorta the same way (it needs to be ONE button).
I want jump back in life. I tried to replay things I see out the window!
What slashdotters should keep in mind was that the founding TiVo developers were Linux hackers - one of us. I suspect those pioneers have been gone from TiVo for years - lost during the early hard times, but we should appreciate that they built what we wanted. That legacy is reflected that TiVo never really came down hard on TiVo hacking. They even knew the hackability was a sales feature. I was surveyed as such years ago.
Again, what's sad is TiVo's inability to come up with a business model with the film industry and TV services fighting them at every step. It never helped that you couldn't explain the product in a sentence.
TiVo has patents on the "jump to tick" on the timeline and the 8 second jump back among other things.
No. Those features DID NOT exist until Tivo came out with them, and you won't see them on any other other PVR - due to the patent.
TiVo's UI and remote and functionality is the absolute best thought out.
I'm going to have to give it up soon, thanks to DirecTV and TiVo divorcing, and TiVo deciding to diss legacy (Lifetime) customers with the removal of discount rates for additional units.
I really hate that situation.
I'll be signing with AT&T UVerse as soon as they get my house address listed as green in the database. I wish they used CableCARDs so I could keep my HD TiVo. *sigh*
Microsoft only wants the userbase and the brand, not the products. If Microsoft were to acquire Yahoo!, all their technology (Apache, Oracle, MySQL, PHP, Java, etc running on top of Linux and BSD) would be replaced by Windows servers running IIS. That would make most of the Yahoo! engineers redundant.
That would make most of the Yahoo Network servers become Microsoft NotWork servers.
The problem is, of course, that they are trying to transmit all of their hundreds of channels to your TV simultaneously, and let the decoder pick out the interesting bits. If they only sent the one that you were watching, there wouldn't be a problem.
Which is exactly how IPTV like AT&T UVerse works. Then the complaint is there isn't enough bandwidth because you want them to send "the one you're watching" and the two you're recording on the DVR to watch later and the 4 other "ones" doing the same at the TVs in the other 4 rooms of the house, all in full, barely compressed, HD.
It'll be a while before you have the required dedicated 155mbps to do that coming to your house.
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Kaspersky found who was behind the Twitter handle by using the highly specialized tool ...Google.
He used the same HAL9999999 handle when posting to a dating site.
Protip to eleeet spy teefs: Don't do stuff like that.
I have been neutral on Macs. Right now, I am not very pleased at the fact that Macs do not allow you to install Linux on the internal SSD, even with T2 chip security off. ...
Try a Chromebook. They run Android and there is beta steam that installs Linux natively. My HP Chromebook X2 runs OpenOffice and GIMP, that were installed with a sudo app-get install, The only problem at present is the scaling of the fonts in the windows but that's being addressed.
I know it's an anecdote, but my neighbor's display has developed a bunch of stuck pixels in 3 years or so. Annoying. I don't know if that's a common issue, though. It used TI's original chipset, I don't know if it was licensed to other parties though, so that may be a moot point.
I've got the same problem on my 73" Mitsu DLP. The "acne" is a common problem due to a run of bad DLP chips. The mirrors stick. You can replace the DLP chip for $159 http://www.shopjimmy.com/samsung-mitsubishi-toshiba-4719-001997-dlp-chip.htm
I still love my DLP and I'm tempted to get a bigger one when they get even cheaper.
1) You can cancel the TV portion of UVerse but it's cheap enough in the package that it's just as easy to keep it.
2) It's not SBC. It's at&t.
I think you'll find that the UVerse Internet + VoIP phone is cheaper and faster than aDSL + POTS phone.
You're subscribing to BOTH UVerse TV and Comcast and you think you can live with none? Whatever.
These days the good stuff like "Breaking Bad" and "Justified" is on the basic cable's AMC and USA networks, so OTA isn't going to cut it but I guess the torrent cloud would have those.
When I recently had an appointment for CableCARD adds to my newly acquired Tivo Series 3. Comcast robo-called me incessantly! I work from home on a business line and didn't need the literally 4 robo calls reminding me I had an appointment tomorrow.
I finally called 800-Comcast and waited the 20 minutes to talk to a human.
"Sir, those are automated calls. We didn't call you." (Doh!)
If i get ONE MORE CALL not only will I cancel the appointment, I WILL CANCEL MY SERVICE!
"I will note that."
The result is my phone never rang again - not even when the tech came, where they usually call to tell you he's on the way.
Am I wrong or doesn't the "Available New and Used from $nn from these..." Marketplace Sellers listing still work when Amazon themselves won't stock the book?
There's still a very competitive new and used book marketplace,.
I know. Not for ebooks.
Bunch of crybabies. ...I'd be upset too, if I didn't know that apple released new products yearly with their masterplan of planned obsolescence.
Of course, if the "masterplan" was thwarted and Apple didn't release new products every year it would be, "What's up with Apple! The iXxxxxxx hasn't been updated in OVER A YEAR! C'Mon! Competitor nnnnn just brought out the Nnnnnn iXxxxxx-killer and Apple didn't answer! The iXxxxx is getting very old in the tooth."
Here's the newsflash: NOBODY needs this week's model lest they starve,
As for loyalty, I've been a loyal gas, water and electricity user my whole life but the utilities still don't seem to want to give me a break. I'm going to call and write nasty emails and letters and let them know I will NOT STAND FOR IT!
Oh, joy.
Now when Microsoft ends support for Windows 2005, you can upgrade for $400, plus $250,000 for the extra 4GB of DASD it requires.
It really doesn't matter when they do it -- February, June, two years ago, two years from now. Either way, they'll still have 2 million clueless idiots cussing out at their TVs wondering what happened to their TV signal. And all of those 2 million will be technologically clueless senior citizens -- anyone under the age of, say, 40, already gets most of their TV from the internet, where it's on demand and there's far fewer commercials.
There will be 4 million who have portable TVs that are in no way likely to work well with digital converter boxes. I keep thinking about people working in kiosks, stores, trucks, RVs, and newsstands...and yeah, a lot of poor and elderly people with 13" TVs.
I have a 2char-2digit who is record.
If I could just sucessfuly reclaim it.
An integrated, detachable motorbike would probably be more useful.
My buddy carries a moped, but he has a large twin. We can haul a regular or folding bicycle, or an electric scooter, and there is a fold up mini-bike.
Just rent a car.
You try renting a car in DeKalb, Illinois at 3 PM on a Saturday. I had to divert for weather.
That's not what this is for, but it took me 10 hours to get home when I was only ~150 miles away.
Quote from their website:"Drive to your local airport, fly up to 400nm, land, convert, and drive directly to your destination."
Call me back when this thing can fly above one billionth of a meter.
Not to ruin a geek guffaw, but this nm = nautical miles.
But you forget. It is a voluntary search as you give them permission by boarding. They will say that you did not have to enter the boarding areas that are usually clearly marked.
Oops that still is the rule in Canada but in the US it is no longer the case http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/08/court-says-trav.html as you pretty much cannot enter the airport without automatically agreeing to be searched at any time.
Oh well, if you drive or take the bus or train you still have some rights that are upheld. But to get people to refuse to fly and hurt the airline industry in a way that makes them listen probably will not happen.
This still leaves private aircraft.
The TSA is moving headlong into screwing around with private aircraft, too (pdf) .
You know. They don't want the guy/girl flying the plane to have weapons to overpower the pilot and take control of the plane. (Chicago actually searched planes and pilots for this reason until Mayor Daley finally took the shortcut and bulldozed Meigs Field to save it from terrorists.)
I was wondering whether there was any hope of getting websites to start saying "requires a PDF reader" instead of "requires Adobe's PDF reader".
This is only going to happen after this kind of thing is called an "Acrobat Reader exploit" rather than a "PDF exploit" though.
Yeah sure. You expect to hear that things are called a "Windows exploit" rather than "Web exploit," too?
cat "ebay.com 127.0.0.1" >> /etc/hosts
No more ripoffs.
Ive heard stories that relate to this. And its not that someone outside hooked this piece of equipment up, its something they have forgot about.
I read about a server that was in a room, and the room had some modifications done to it, and they ended up drywalling the server inside the wall (i dont know know how they did it). It ended up being like 5 years later they had no idea where this PDC signal was coming from and they had to physically follow the network cable to the computer and found it. ...
It was a Novell server at the University of North Carolina....at the time that Microsoft and its MCSE drones were saying "Of course, you have to reboot the server every weekend..."
I saved the page from one our Novell servers at the time showing the uptime of 2 1/2 years.
Before anyone goes blathering on about "ufair" this and "innacurate" that, follow my test.
1. Visit Dell.com on two different browser tabs. ...
You'd be better off visiting in two different browsers. Else the site knows it's you because you have a common cookie.
I have had better luck getting unique results by using two different browsers.
Amazingly, Comcast HAS improved their customer service.
After several horrible experiences and arguments with Comcast over the years, I had to go to them as the best alternative to get HD on my TiVo after DirectTV stoped dealing in TiVo DVRs. (DirecTV pulled the ever-higher-rates for ever-less-product trick, but that's another story.)
I bit the bullet, fastened my seat belt, renewed my valium prescription...and it wasn't so bad.
The call center reps were fine, polite and professional. The installer was decent, although they screwed up so my 1-2 install took 4 hours because they didn't give him 2 CableCARDs. The product - the channels - (as long as you're not getting a Comcast DVR) is OK. It would be nice if they had more HD, but I expect they will.
I seriously thought that Comcast had a culture where they actually were proud of their customer prevention attitude. Even they changed!
The Heathkit assembly manuals always included a small "How it works" section, but I agree that wasn't enough to get you a through understanding.
Heathkit had projects as large a 27" console color television. The manual had to tell you how to tune and align it as you were building it.
I think the PHBs suspected the Dilbert site was a security breach because all of their latest and greatest ideas showed up in Dilbert.
Spoken like a person who never had it.
The innovation is not only that it can jump back 8 seconds, but that there is a single button right your finger to do it. What's obvious is rewind. A one-button "Wait! What was that just now?" rewind is and was novel.
The jump back is so essential, I've caught myself reaching for it on the car radio.
I held off buying an iPod until the Apple genius showed how I could backup podcasts sorta the same way (it needs to be ONE button).
I want jump back in life. I tried to replay things I see out the window!
What slashdotters should keep in mind was that the founding TiVo developers were Linux hackers - one of us. I suspect those pioneers have been gone from TiVo for years - lost during the early hard times, but we should appreciate that they built what we wanted. That legacy is reflected that TiVo never really came down hard on TiVo hacking. They even knew the hackability was a sales feature. I was surveyed as such years ago.
Again, what's sad is TiVo's inability to come up with a business model with the film industry and TV services fighting them at every step. It never helped that you couldn't explain the product in a sentence.
TiVo has patents on the "jump to tick" on the timeline and the 8 second jump back among other things.
No. Those features DID NOT exist until Tivo came out with them, and you won't see them on any other other PVR - due to the patent.
TiVo's UI and remote and functionality is the absolute best thought out.
I'm going to have to give it up soon, thanks to DirecTV and TiVo divorcing, and TiVo deciding to diss legacy (Lifetime) customers with the removal of discount rates for additional units.
I really hate that situation.
I'll be signing with AT&T UVerse as soon as they get my house address listed as green in the database. I wish they used CableCARDs so I could keep my HD TiVo. *sigh*
Which is exactly how IPTV like AT&T UVerse works. Then the complaint is there isn't enough bandwidth because you want them to send "the one you're watching" and the two you're recording on the DVR to watch later and the 4 other "ones" doing the same at the TVs in the other 4 rooms of the house, all in full, barely compressed, HD.
It'll be a while before you have the required dedicated 155mbps to do that coming to your house.