They want to CHARGE YOU THROUGH THE NOSE for the PRIVILEGE of using the net. And you are expected TO THANK AND *PAY* THEM FOR IT. Everything else are just excuses.
You do realize that it's *Congress* that actually determines how money is spent right? That a President can ask but Congress doesn't have to listen, right?
And you do realise the current US regime seriously believes a signing statement allows him to ignore anything he doesn't like in bills that reaches his desk? That most of the time Jr. is threatening to veto or outright ignore bills (when there's enough votes to override his veto) through signing statements?
How do people suspend their critical thinking enough to believe these things?
Do not blame the victims, for they face an age old physiological problem that cannot be overcome; that when blood is rerouted from the head above the waist to the one below, no critical thinking is even remotely feasible.
Assuming the phone was "off the hook" for the entire 48 hours and only one call is placed at any given time, that's 2880 minutes, or $4.17 a minute. Any phone company charging that kind of rate per minute will get call into the capital by state utility commission (AT&T charges just over a buck a minute for cellphone roaming calls originating in Asia.)
I code. I work 12 hrs a day, six days a week, sometimes seven (no, we don't get overtime. no, we're not a start up.) So please, eat your own bull instead of slinging it around at others.
Encrypting the whole Internet wouldn't be a bad idea anyway (not just for the reasons presented here). Each user or at least each computer on the Internet should have a set of keys.
You do realise that it's a matter of time before mandatory backdoor to all encrypted traffic is required by law.
...THIS NEEDS TO STOP. What we need are smart cards. That would solve all these problems once and for all.
Except that issuing smart cards to millions of "customers" costs THEM money and generates no revenue, but forcing another "optional" service onto "customers" does. As a profiteering company, the choice is obvious.
Not having read the said documentation yet, is it readable? A lot of documentations from design centers in non-English speaking countries are frequently written in incomprehensible or ambiguous Engrish that are more often than not, nearly useless. Kudos for trying however...
With data density so high of late, drives not accessed 'regularly' (according to a former cow-orker that used to work for Quantum and Maxtor) will start losing its content in matter of months.
Depends on the manufacturer and dye formulation. Some have failed in as short of a time as eight months while others are good after nearly ten years. For very important stuff, it is far too risky to be relying on the manufacturer. It's probably safer to make it a habit of regularly make multiple backups your data.
About lawyers...me, too. Some of my best e-mail "customers" for nasty lawyer jokes are lawyers. They often have to deal with the real dickheads that give rise to the stereotypes, and they love to skewer them as much as we do.
Sadly not. Most hardware documentation is wrong, and errata updates are the exception rather than the norm. However, understanding what the hardware was supposed to do from reading the documentation is often better than reading a magic number filled chunk of source code. Please note that this is not a criticism of the VIA code, which may be a model of well written and documented code...
Basic problem is that with ASIC work being done in places like Taiwan or China (or for that matter, non-English speaking countries in general) the typical Engrish documentations are generally near worthless.
Just like the Apple II classic. Teach them capitalism so they don't end up on drugs;)
Am I the only one find it funny that the original game (shipped on a cassette tape and loads in 16k Apple II) has morphed into a 1MB compressed file for Windows XP?
The established 'business' entities have too much... 'investments' riding on patents, as such a meaningful reform will never happen. What winning card player will ask to be dealt a new hand?
Why not have a monetary penalty awarded to the victim from the budget of the agency? Like $1000 per incorrectly tapped phone call? (Not per tap, but per call that occurred while that tap was in place.)
What would be the point? It would be paid for by YOUR tax dollars. The douche bags involved lets off the hook. Now if we start talking about SERIOUS jail time in MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISON (where Ex-Feds will be fearing for their lives daily) then there might be some deterrent value.
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The time we start dictating what a genetic 'standard' is and classifying variations as 'mutations' is when we start playing God.
Has the manufacturing process being studied in detail? I am more concerned about the process that may contaminated the environment.
They want to CHARGE YOU THROUGH THE NOSE for the PRIVILEGE of using the net. And you are expected TO THANK AND *PAY* THEM FOR IT. Everything else are just excuses.
My all time favorite - "You shouldn't be reading this" dialog box from (antiqued version of) Microsoft Office.
It will really take off (in more ways than one) when there's force feedback gloves to go with it.
If they're actually paying attention to market research, they would've known that DRM completely kills it for a lot of (otherwise) PAYING customers.
And you do realise the current US regime seriously believes a signing statement allows him to ignore anything he doesn't like in bills that reaches his desk? That most of the time Jr. is threatening to veto or outright ignore bills (when there's enough votes to override his veto) through signing statements?
Do not blame the victims, for they face an age old physiological problem that cannot be overcome; that when blood is rerouted from the head above the waist to the one below, no critical thinking is even remotely feasible.
Assuming the phone was "off the hook" for the entire 48 hours and only one call is placed at any given time, that's 2880 minutes, or $4.17 a minute. Any phone company charging that kind of rate per minute will get call into the capital by state utility commission (AT&T charges just over a buck a minute for cellphone roaming calls originating in Asia.)
Then he should "voluntarily enroll" himself in his "final solution" and save the rest of the planet a lot of trouble.
I code. I work 12 hrs a day, six days a week, sometimes seven (no, we don't get overtime. no, we're not a start up.) So please, eat your own bull instead of slinging it around at others.
You do realise that it's a matter of time before mandatory backdoor to all encrypted traffic is required by law.
Except that issuing smart cards to millions of "customers" costs THEM money and generates no revenue, but forcing another "optional" service onto "customers" does. As a profiteering company, the choice is obvious.
Not having read the said documentation yet, is it readable? A lot of documentations from design centers in non-English speaking countries are frequently written in incomprehensible or ambiguous Engrish that are more often than not, nearly useless. Kudos for trying however...
With data density so high of late, drives not accessed 'regularly' (according to a former cow-orker that used to work for Quantum and Maxtor) will start losing its content in matter of months.
Depends on the manufacturer and dye formulation. Some have failed in as short of a time as eight months while others are good after nearly ten years. For very important stuff, it is far too risky to be relying on the manufacturer. It's probably safer to make it a habit of regularly make multiple backups your data.
Isn't this one of the reason that bit torrent exists?
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equilibrium_(2002_film).
Sadly not. Most hardware documentation is wrong, and errata updates are the exception rather than the norm. However, understanding what the hardware was supposed to do from reading the documentation is often better than reading a magic number filled chunk of source code. Please note that this is not a criticism of the VIA code, which may be a model of well written and documented code ...
Basic problem is that with ASIC work being done in places like Taiwan or China (or for that matter, non-English speaking countries in general) the typical Engrish documentations are generally near worthless.The established 'business' entities have too much... 'investments' riding on patents, as such a meaningful reform will never happen. What winning card player will ask to be dealt a new hand?
With all the black holes springing up in the network, surely the natives suspect something?
Would this not kill Guitar Rising (http://www.guitarrising.com) outright?