When you think about it: 1 hour to the airport, 2 hours security, 1 hour flight time to anywhere (assuming they're actually on time), and then another hour to where you want to be.
Now if this is true for you (especially the 2 hours security), you must really live in a fucked up country. I recently took a flight from Weeze (Germany) to Wroclaw (Poland). It took me a 50 minute drive to the airport. I was there one hour before depature to be sure, but in fact 30 minutes would have done easily. Security checkings took 1 minute (30 seconds for a agent to check if my self-printed boarding pass matches with my identity card, another 30 seconds to get my backpack through the x-ray and myself through the metal-detector). The flight was 1 hour and 20 minutes and at Wroclaw a 30 minute drive (by bus) into the town. Total time: 3 hours 40 minutes, and cut be cut to 3 hours 10 minutes.
I think you are betraying yourself by making airline travel look worse to justify your decision to drive with the car. Granted driving by car has the advantages you listed, but you neglect the downsides is has, as: Beeing forced to stay sharp and concentrate on the traffic for hours, beeing force to sit for hours (breaks increase the total travel time), beeing forced to stop if you need to go to the toilet, drinking (non-alcoholic) and eating while driving is possible but dangerous, you can't read/work/sleep while driving etc...
Well the flight attendant described it as a charge for disposing of rubbish that wasn't theirs - I think it was about 2 Euros
One more thing: If the alledged fee is for disposing, you can easily avoid it by taking your rubbish with you. If you were able to take food with packaging into the plane, you will as easy be able to take only the packaging out of the plane again. As i said ryanair.com encourages people to take food to the plane and does not tell a charge and i did not experienced that on my flight, but in fact such a charge would make sense businesswise and passengers can be avoid that fee easily (like most other fees). The concept is called no-frills.
A friend of my girlfriend just got back from a trip to Spain with Ryanair, and claims she was charged for eating her own food on the plane....Well the flight attendant described it as a charge for disposing of rubbish that wasn't theirs - I think it was about 2 Euros....so its a great way of discouraging people from bringing their own food on board.
I claim BS. The ryanair.com website explicitely states that you are allowed to bring your own food on board. I've travelled with Ryanair two weeks ago and many people brought their own food, nobody was charged.
> Ryanair is not the largest airline in Europe. "Classical" airline like air France or Lufthansa or BA, have more passenger volume per year.
Partially untrue. Only Air France KLM and Lufthansa - but not BA - have more passengers than Ryanair which is currently number three in Europe. And when you look at international flights, Ryanair is number one.
So what? Joe Random Phisher puts the fake website at https://www.citybank.com------------foobarbaz.com/ (or a similar obfuscated address, which is we all have seen before) and gets a genuine SSL certificate for it. To get a SSL certificate for any domain all you need is a credit card number and access to an email-address under the target domain. Joe Random Phisher has both and many people will fall for this trick. If you really beleave that SSL-Certificates involve the trust you are talking about, you are misleaded. Careless and fully automated CAs have long abandoned trust for more profit. As other pointed out its also not too complicated to get phony certificates for the "real" domain. I know automated CAs who only require you to have one of a rather large list of possible email-adresses under the domain, e.g. postmaster@, hostmaster@, sslmaster@,... In some cases (especially on webmail providers) its possible for anyone to get access to one of these addresses. Hell, some years ago i was even able to get postmaster@do.main from one providers webmail.
A non-phone device (fax, modem) plugged into one of the N sockets is supposed to have two electronic switches inside which will chain-through the line to the next socket when the device does not use the line. So if you are not sending a fax or surfing the net, you will be able to use the phone normally. However when the fax/modem takes over, the phone will be cut off. This clever trick prevents you from interfering with the transmission by picking up the phone.
One addition: The design can also be used to detect if the chained-through phone is picked up. This allows to design for example a answering machine (plugged into N) in such a way that the machine automatically stops when the phone is picked up, allowing the human user to "take over" the call from the machine.
Sorry, most of what you said or suspected is wrong. The system is actually a very clever design which prevents interruption of data/fax calls by the phone and in fact also eavesdropping from another phone inside the house.
The "multi-way phone sockets" are usually of the NFN-Type. Here F means "Fernsprecher" (Phone) while N means "Nicht-Fernsprecher" (Non-Phone). The socket is designed so that the line goes first to the left N socket , then to the right N socket and finally to the F socket. The phone will always be the last in chain. A non-phone device (fax, modem) plugged into one of the N sockets is supposed to have two electronic switches inside which will chain-through the line to the next socket when the device does not use the line. So if you are not sending a fax or surfing the net, you will be able to use the phone normally. However when the fax/modem takes over, the phone will be cut off. This clever trick prevents you from interfering with the transmission by picking up the phone.
As you are not supposed to plug two phones into one box, this also prevents eavesdropping. Overload prevention is not the reason. There were and are devices available which either are put before the NFN-box and allow to wire another NFN-box or contain a F or NFN socket themselves. Both will allow to wire a second phone and of course you could use more than one of these devices. These device however contain a automatic switch will will cut-off the other phone when one is in use. But they will all ring.
Dear media outlets: Please accept the fact that you are fighting a war that you cannot win. Even with custom-tailored laws at your will the internet won't change and piracy won't go away at large. It is also still doubtful that it is piracy what is causing your alledged losses and not a general loss of quality in and appreciation of music. For the latter part it's even you who is to blame: Music is nowadays everywhere - with your permission. Bad versions of your "hits" are sold as overly annoying cell phone ringtones - with your permission and appraisal.
Some parts of the media business already have learned that both giving away for free and piracy is actually increasing business, not hurting it. Eric Flint, a sci-fi writer has pointed this out: http://baens-universe.com/articles/salvos8 and http://baens-universe.com/articles/The_Economics_of_Writing Instead of treating your customers like shit, making a witch-hunt and introducing bull shit like DRM which only scares away your loyal customers towards piracy - pirated versions don't have silly limitations - you should finally realize that you need to do what every business in trouble need to do: Adapt. Or die. Whatever.
When i read this, i felt the need to puke. This guy says he is together with his girlfriend for two years and want to marry her but yet he does still not know what she likes. And in order to find out he shows a total lack of integrity and installs a keylogger on her machine! This is a cruel break of trust. I really hope she finds out and tosses him. This is imho absolutely sick behaviour. And whats even worse that he apparently is even proud of his act of dishonesty and blogs about it.
I don't believe that to be the reason. All pages state "AT&T Stores" and "Apple RETAIL Stores". The layout of the page mentioned by me leaves no room for a link to the online store, and when the store was available shortly after the update there still was a link to the Apple Online Store which is now gone. And the fact that it says "AT&T Stores" but explicitely adds "Retail" when mentioning Apple Stores is enough of a hint.
The "Where to buy" page (http://www.apple.com/iphone/buy/) no longer lists it as available through the online apple store. Apparently it will only be available through apple or AT&T stores, so they will likely force you to sign a AT&T contact when buying the phone. It seems this is their answer to the hacks which allowed activation of the iPhone without getting a AT&T contact.
Christopher Tarnovsky, the guy portrayed in the article, IS Flylogic. Yes, this is slashdot and nobody reads the article, but it even links to flylogic.net.
Such a scheme where the additional bandwith costs more than the included bandwith is not uncommon. This can be explained in two ways: First, the included bandwith is priced below cost. Its just marketing: People choose the ISP/Carrier which offers the most bang for the buck, while on the other side the majority of users bandwith usage will not even come close to the marketed cap. This also explains why ISP/Carriers dislike people who actually use that much bandwith as advertised because it breaks their calculation. Second, such a scheme might force users who know that they will come close to the allowance (when the ISP/Carrier would lose money) and might excess it into a higher priced package (where the ISP/Carrier once again makes a profit) with more bandwith included just to be on the safe side.
I had a similar experience. A mobile phone operator (now defunct) allowed its customers to get mailadresses under their domain. So i got postmaster@domain which was accepted happily by the system. I deleted the alias a few days later though, because the amount of mail really got out of hand. I heard from another sysadmin who using the forged name "Andreas Buse" registered the mailadress abuse@... with his provider.:-)
Auslöser für die Aktion waren den Angaben der Staatsanwaltschaft zufolge Strafanzeigen der Rechteinhaber. Bei der Razzia sei es vorwiegend um Patente für Datenkompressionsverfahren, DVB-Standards und DVDs gegangen, sagte Kriminaloberrat Oliver Stock, der die Aktion koordiniert hatte und sich über einen "erfolgreichen Abschluss" freute.
Bad translation (by me):
According to the public prosecutors office complaints by holders of rights were reason for the action. Law enforcement senior councillor Oliver Stock who coordinated the action and was glad about the "successfull completion" said target of the raid where mainly patents for data compression, DVB standards and DVDs.
There were some initial (wrong) reports that reason for the raid was counterfeiting (iPhone look-a-likes) but these reports were later corrected, see for example http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/104591 (in english).
The reaction seems just so strange when you remember that German companies have too moved lots of manufacturing jobs from Germany, [...]
The difference: Other companies did not lie to their employees till the last possible moment. Employees told at a news report that they had to work easter, that they had to work on 2nd day of christmas, that they had to work overtime. It is now suspected that they had to work christmas and overtime to compensate for the work losses which are now forced by strikes of pissed employees. So nokia planned this very well. Employees told that nokia thanked them at the end of last year and asserted them what a good and wonderful job they are doing at the Bochum site. Nokia has always told them that the romanian site is only for additional manufacturing capabilities, not to replace the bochum site. And then nokia did not even had the courage to tell the employees firsthand about the bad news - no, they learned from radio and television broadcasts. How very sweet. Sorry, but it seems that nokia management consists only of stinking and heartless liars.
Really, it is one thing to close a facility - even if the real reason is apparently not the cost of work but the fact that nokia did no investment into the bochum site for long time and would now have to invest lots of money for modernisation - but it is another thing to treat your employees like shit. Thank you for working your ass off for us, but now bugger off, we have made maximum profit from your factory and now we are to cheap to invest money. What, you have 15% unemployment in your region and losing your jobs will destroy your plans and future? We couldn't care less, we go for a 2% cost savings.
Fuck off nokia, i'm a longtime user of your phones and i still think they are superiour to others, but you lost me as your customer for life.
Oh, WoW is surely not better than sex, but it certainly is better than making babies. Babies cost money and rob your sleep. While WoW might rob your sleep as well, the monthly fee for WoW is lot less than what a baby would cost. But there is actually no need to make a baby, just use a contraceptive.
But on the other hand for most slashdot readers this discussion is purely academic and they have no choice but to play WoW:-)
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When you think about it: 1 hour to the airport, 2 hours security, 1 hour flight time to anywhere (assuming they're actually on time), and then another hour to where you want to be.
Now if this is true for you (especially the 2 hours security), you must really live in a fucked up country. I recently took a flight from Weeze (Germany) to Wroclaw (Poland). It took me a 50 minute drive to the airport. I was there one hour before depature to be sure, but in fact 30 minutes would have done easily. Security checkings took 1 minute (30 seconds for a agent to check if my self-printed boarding pass matches with my identity card, another 30 seconds to get my backpack through the x-ray and myself through the metal-detector). The flight was 1 hour and 20 minutes and at Wroclaw a 30 minute drive (by bus) into the town. Total time: 3 hours 40 minutes, and cut be cut to 3 hours 10 minutes.
I think you are betraying yourself by making airline travel look worse to justify your decision to drive with the car. Granted driving by car has the advantages you listed, but you neglect the downsides is has, as: Beeing forced to stay sharp and concentrate on the traffic for hours, beeing force to sit for hours (breaks increase the total travel time), beeing forced to stop if you need to go to the toilet, drinking (non-alcoholic) and eating while driving is possible but dangerous, you can't read/work/sleep while driving etc...
Well the flight attendant described it as a charge for disposing of rubbish that wasn't theirs - I think it was about 2 Euros
One more thing: If the alledged fee is for disposing, you can easily avoid it by taking your rubbish with you. If you were able to take food with packaging into the plane, you will as easy be able to take only the packaging out of the plane again. As i said ryanair.com encourages people to take food to the plane and does not tell a charge and i did not experienced that on my flight, but in fact such a charge would make sense businesswise and passengers can be avoid that fee easily (like most other fees). The concept is called no-frills.
A friend of my girlfriend just got back from a trip to Spain with Ryanair, and claims she was charged for eating her own food on the plane....Well the flight attendant described it as a charge for disposing of rubbish that wasn't theirs - I think it was about 2 Euros....so its a great way of discouraging people from bringing their own food on board.
I claim BS. The ryanair.com website explicitely states that you are allowed to bring your own food on board. I've travelled with Ryanair two weeks ago and many people brought their own food, nobody was charged.
What you neglected is the reality in which quite a few CAs don't require paperwork for their lowcost certs.
So check again. See the low-cost certificates of Komodo and RapidSSL.
> Ryanair is not the largest airline in Europe. "Classical" airline like air France or Lufthansa or BA, have more passenger volume per year.
Partially untrue. Only Air France KLM and Lufthansa - but not BA - have more passengers than Ryanair which is currently number three in Europe. And when you look at international flights, Ryanair is number one.
So what? Joe Random Phisher puts the fake website at https://www.citybank.com------------foobarbaz.com/ (or a similar obfuscated address, which is we all have seen before) and gets a genuine SSL certificate for it. To get a SSL certificate for any domain all you need is a credit card number and access to an email-address under the target domain. Joe Random Phisher has both and many people will fall for this trick. If you really beleave that SSL-Certificates involve the trust you are talking about, you are misleaded. Careless and fully automated CAs have long abandoned trust for more profit. As other pointed out its also not too complicated to get phony certificates for the "real" domain. I know automated CAs who only require you to have one of a rather large list of possible email-adresses under the domain, e.g. postmaster@, hostmaster@, sslmaster@, ... In some cases (especially on webmail providers) its possible for anyone to get access to one of these addresses. Hell, some years ago i was even able to get postmaster@do.main from one providers webmail.
It violates RFCs and causes problems like we are reading about now. It needs to stop.
It is also illegal in certain jurisdictions, e.g. in Germany. Its called unlawful suppression of entrusted messages (202, Section 2 StGB).
A non-phone device (fax, modem) plugged into one of the N sockets is supposed to have two electronic switches inside which will chain-through the line to the next socket when the device does not use the line. So if you are not sending a fax or surfing the net, you will be able to use the phone normally. However when the fax/modem takes over, the phone will be cut off. This clever trick prevents you from interfering with the transmission by picking up the phone.
One addition: The design can also be used to detect if the chained-through phone is picked up. This allows to design for example a answering machine (plugged into N) in such a way that the machine automatically stops when the phone is picked up, allowing the human user to "take over" the call from the machine.
Sorry, most of what you said or suspected is wrong. The system is actually a very clever design which prevents interruption of data/fax calls by the phone and in fact also eavesdropping from another phone inside the house.
The "multi-way phone sockets" are usually of the NFN-Type. Here F means "Fernsprecher" (Phone) while N means "Nicht-Fernsprecher" (Non-Phone). The socket is designed so that the line goes first to the left N socket , then to the right N socket and finally to the F socket. The phone will always be the last in chain. A non-phone device (fax, modem) plugged into one of the N sockets is supposed to have two electronic switches inside which will chain-through the line to the next socket when the device does not use the line. So if you are not sending a fax or surfing the net, you will be able to use the phone normally. However when the fax/modem takes over, the phone will be cut off. This clever trick prevents you from interfering with the transmission by picking up the phone.
As you are not supposed to plug two phones into one box, this also prevents eavesdropping. Overload prevention is not the reason. There were and are devices available which either are put before the NFN-box and allow to wire another NFN-box or contain a F or NFN socket themselves. Both will allow to wire a second phone and of course you could use more than one of these devices. These device however contain a automatic switch will will cut-off the other phone when one is in use. But they will all ring.
Dear media outlets: Please accept the fact that you are fighting a war that you cannot win. Even with custom-tailored laws at your will the internet won't change and piracy won't go away at large. It is also still doubtful that it is piracy what is causing your alledged losses and not a general loss of quality in and appreciation of music. For the latter part it's even you who is to blame: Music is nowadays everywhere - with your permission. Bad versions of your "hits" are sold as overly annoying cell phone ringtones - with your permission and appraisal.
Some parts of the media business already have learned that both giving away for free and piracy is actually increasing business, not hurting it. Eric Flint, a sci-fi writer has pointed this out: http://baens-universe.com/articles/salvos8 and http://baens-universe.com/articles/The_Economics_of_Writing Instead of treating your customers like shit, making a witch-hunt and introducing bull shit like DRM which only scares away your loyal customers towards piracy - pirated versions don't have silly limitations - you should finally realize that you need to do what every business in trouble need to do: Adapt. Or die. Whatever.
Sincerely
Reality
> http://formyrebecca.blogspot.com/
When i read this, i felt the need to puke. This guy says he is together with his girlfriend for two years and want to marry her but yet he does still not know what she likes. And in order to find out he shows a total lack of integrity and installs a keylogger on her machine! This is a cruel break of trust. I really hope she finds out and tosses him. This is imho absolutely sick behaviour. And whats even worse that he apparently is even proud of his act of dishonesty and blogs about it.
WTF are you talking about? This is a 10/100 Switch.
I don't believe that to be the reason. All pages state "AT&T Stores" and "Apple RETAIL Stores". The layout of the page mentioned by me leaves no room for a link to the online store, and when the store was available shortly after the update there still was a link to the Apple Online Store which is now gone. And the fact that it says "AT&T Stores" but explicitely adds "Retail" when mentioning Apple Stores is enough of a hint.
Contract, not contact, of course.
The "Where to buy" page (http://www.apple.com/iphone/buy/) no longer lists it as available through the online apple store. Apparently it will only be available through apple or AT&T stores, so they will likely force you to sign a AT&T contact when buying the phone. It seems this is their answer to the hacks which allowed activation of the iPhone without getting a AT&T contact.
Christopher Tarnovsky, the guy portrayed in the article, IS Flylogic. Yes, this is slashdot and nobody reads the article, but it even links to flylogic.net.
Such a scheme where the additional bandwith costs more than the included bandwith is not uncommon. This can be explained in two ways: First, the included bandwith is priced below cost. Its just marketing: People choose the ISP/Carrier which offers the most bang for the buck, while on the other side the majority of users bandwith usage will not even come close to the marketed cap. This also explains why ISP/Carriers dislike people who actually use that much bandwith as advertised because it breaks their calculation. Second, such a scheme might force users who know that they will come close to the allowance (when the ISP/Carrier would lose money) and might excess it into a higher priced package (where the ISP/Carrier once again makes a profit) with more bandwith included just to be on the safe side.
I'm in germany and it just works.
I had a similar experience. A mobile phone operator (now defunct) allowed its customers to get mailadresses under their domain. So i got postmaster@domain which was accepted happily by the system. I deleted the alias a few days later though, because the amount of mail really got out of hand. I heard from another sysadmin who using the forged name "Andreas Buse" registered the mailadress abuse@... with his provider. :-)
Once again: The iphone look-a-like was not confiscated, see http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/104591
Law enforcement officials acknowledged that the raids were only for patent violations.
No, actually you got it wrong. It was acknowledged by law enforcement officials that the raid was about patents. From http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/104657:
Auslöser für die Aktion waren den Angaben der Staatsanwaltschaft zufolge Strafanzeigen der Rechteinhaber. Bei der Razzia sei es vorwiegend um Patente für Datenkompressionsverfahren, DVB-Standards und DVDs gegangen, sagte Kriminaloberrat Oliver Stock, der die Aktion koordiniert hatte und sich über einen "erfolgreichen Abschluss" freute.
Bad translation (by me):
According to the public prosecutors office complaints by holders of rights were reason for the action. Law enforcement senior councillor Oliver Stock who coordinated the action and was glad about the "successfull completion" said target of the raid where mainly patents for data compression, DVB standards and DVDs.
There were some initial (wrong) reports that reason for the raid was counterfeiting (iPhone look-a-likes) but these reports were later corrected, see for example http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/104591 (in english).
The reaction seems just so strange when you remember that German companies have too moved lots of manufacturing jobs from Germany, [...]
The difference: Other companies did not lie to their employees till the last possible moment. Employees told at a news report that they had to work easter, that they had to work on 2nd day of christmas, that they had to work overtime. It is now suspected that they had to work christmas and overtime to compensate for the work losses which are now forced by strikes of pissed employees. So nokia planned this very well. Employees told that nokia thanked them at the end of last year and asserted them what a good and wonderful job they are doing at the Bochum site. Nokia has always told them that the romanian site is only for additional manufacturing capabilities, not to replace the bochum site. And then nokia did not even had the courage to tell the employees firsthand about the bad news - no, they learned from radio and television broadcasts. How very sweet. Sorry, but it seems that nokia management consists only of stinking and heartless liars.
Really, it is one thing to close a facility - even if the real reason is apparently not the cost of work but the fact that nokia did no investment into the bochum site for long time and would now have to invest lots of money for modernisation - but it is another thing to treat your employees like shit. Thank you for working your ass off for us, but now bugger off, we have made maximum profit from your factory and now we are to cheap to invest money. What, you have 15% unemployment in your region and losing your jobs will destroy your plans and future? We couldn't care less, we go for a 2% cost savings.
Fuck off nokia, i'm a longtime user of your phones and i still think they are superiour to others, but you lost me as your customer for life.
You are a dumbass. Of course making babies involves sex, but while sex is better then WoW, the downsides of making babies make it worse than WoW.
Oh, WoW is surely not better than sex, but it certainly is better than making babies. Babies cost money and rob your sleep. While WoW might rob your sleep as well, the monthly fee for WoW is lot less than what a baby would cost. But there is actually no need to make a baby, just use a contraceptive.
:-)
But on the other hand for most slashdot readers this discussion is purely academic and they have no choice but to play WoW