won't matter if the thief is stealing the phone to part it out. You can't remotely kill a screen. You can only remote-kill the SIM, possibly the handset CPU via an IMEI lock.
This. Back in 2008 I came to the realisation that it was cheaper to part out a secondhand laptop than sell it as a complete unit. So, instead of a £75 (by the bluebook for the spec) loss-leader as a functional laptop, I sold the lid hinges for £70, the screen for £120, the mainboard for £150, the processor for £65, the RAM for £30, the hard drive for £40, the DVD burner for £80, case plastics for £90 all told and the battery for £40... I got more for the laptop in PIECES than what it originally cost NEW.
10-bit input. That's ten keys, so my wrists don't have to move. All that's needed is a slight flexing of each digit. How much faster could I type if my hands didn't have to move *at all*?
Ten bits is 1024 characters. That's ten times as many keys as an enhanced AT keyboard has.
That'll also more than cover the entire Latin block of the Unicode set (up to 024F).
Hell, even 8-bits is still 256 characters. My first home computer had all of 128 characters (including control and escape characters) in its entire lexicon, and I was dialling out to bulletin boards with that thing.
Aspartame. Oh wait, no they didn't. They just took the paid-for conclusion by the FDA that ant killer makes a safe substitute for refined sugar. Thalidomide. Oh wait, no, they completely ignore the MASSES of evidence of the harmful effects of thalidomide (missing limbs, protruding spinal clusters, etc) and give the go ahead to reintroduce it as a fucking antidepressant! Dietery fat and its connection to heart disease. Oh, wait, nope again. Not one single peer reviewed study into the connection at all, ever, anywhere by anybody yet the BMJ continues to publish unfounded claims that fat=bad. The resurgence of poliomyelitis and the concurrent (some might say contemporaneous) emergence of a previously little-known condition variously called Lou Gehrig's Disease, ALS, Motor Neurone Disease, Post Polio Residual Paralysis... all sharing the same root cause and displaying shockingly similar symptomology yet the BMJ being an industrial journal pursues the industry line that it's most certainly definitely NOT actually caused by the live polio vaccine in spite of ample evidence that puts it beyond the Black Swan level of anomaly and firmly into the "merits further study" box.
When somebody says something is impossible, and someone else proves them wrong by a SINGLE proof sample, that's not an anomaly, that's SCIENCE.
I wonder at what point copyright and trademark enforcement diverged, in that if a company fails to defend its trademarks (or even monetise them), they lose the right of claim on it?
and more and bigger guns and better trained marksmen than Boris Johnson's private army.
When Government is so afraid of its people that it feels the need not only to disarm them, but to arm itself against an UNARMED foe, there is something SERIOUSLY FUCKED UP about the situation.
go beyond the BBC, and you'll find that not only had the Taliban throttled opium, they'd actually gotten farmers around to the shocking idea of growing food crops.
Now, if that's not evil and despotic, you tell me what is?
Back when opium dens were to be found next door to the Old Bailey and off the reception atria of every barrister in London. Often in the same building, too - occasionally you'd even find a room full of very young girls (or boys, if that was your poison). It all came in on the East India Company Docks. Where CANARY WHARF now stands.
And according to his biography "Starman" by Paul Trynka, Bowie hasn't lived in Switzerland since 1976. In fact he's spent most of his time between touring, in New York, London and Hamburg.
funnily enough, Citi own the other tall building that isn't Canary Wharf Tower (AKA Canary Wharf Group) or HSBC UK HQ on the Wharf... lowrises include Morgan Stanley, Barclays, Reuters news agency, Waitrose, Jamie Oliver's Kitchen, and the Financial Conduct Authority hidden away in the middle there somewhere... influence much?
(that has to be the most money-dense twenty acres on the entire fucking planet).
HSBC was FOUNDED on the ORIGINAL Silk Road. That heroin highway that ran through the Far East and extended tendrils through Hong Kong, Shanghai (hence the name) and London, Paris, Berlin and Rome.
that too... typical weights for copper vs aluminium using standard alloys for the same load are 1:0.54 and cross sectional area 1:1.56, so even though aluminium is thicker for the same load, it's still lighter (by a factor of ~4). As far as costing goes, in the long term (ie the lifetime of the conductor, including repairs and general maintenance) there is no difference whatsoever. The considerations therefore are reduced to how much space you have and the market price of the raw materials. Right now, and for quite a while (at least 25 years?) the price of copper has been higher than for aluminium ($2.58/lb vs $0.85/lb. Source: Infomine), but you still have to consider loads and following calculations.
(Citation: GE Industrial white paper: Pryor, et. al.)
Addendum: yes, they're Techlink. I have a slew of 1.5m audio cables and if I am allowed to have a favourite cable, it'd have to be the ten metre S-Video cable I use for my camera in studio mode.
the fuck?? It wasn't one of those blue sheathed jobs for use with Minidisc, was it?
(bought a job lot of those cables years ago for a quid a pop, they were marked at £45 each(!), there is NO difference between those and standard Tandy dangle-off-hooks cables. I only bought 'em because they're blue. I think they were Techlink, I'd have to root around under my desk to tell you for sure).
HDMI is not tolerant of line noise, and that is entirely dependent on the length of the cable. Whether the cable actually works, therefore, is a binary condition: it does work, or it doesn't work. It doesn't "work but the picture's snowy". Similarly for ethernet: the TCP/IP transport protocol is a binary method: the packet did transmit successfully or it didn't. If it didn't, resend. If it did, send the next one. It also does not matter what dopants are in your cable. It could be cotton (known to happen - early DC flex is copper-doped cotton), an electrical signal propagates at the same speed through a copper conductor (0.7c). It's SLOWER through gold for the simple reason that gold is denser. The reason gold is used on connectors isn't an improved signal transfer, it's because gold is chemically inert. If gold was so good as some idiots are claiming then entire conductors would be solid gold. Ask then answer, why aren't they? BECAUSE GOLD SUCKS. COPPER is a: better for signal propagation in terms of consistency and b: WAY cheaper.
*Yes, HV lines are aluminium, but that's again due to the propagation speed of the AC current. It's faster through aluminium than it is copper because aluminium is less dense. Why then not use aluminium for audio cables? Because it's a: difficult to refine, b: difficult to render to 28 gauge (ever tried to render aluminium foil? Scrape off the surface and watch it react with the air in front of your eyes - it is that highly reactive it will spontaneously react and oxidise on contact with room air) and c: not very ductile - see b for why. Drawing aluminium for HV uses a spinning process that involves some NASTY chemicals intended to keep the wire clean and prevent it from reacting with air. Once it's formed and mounted, the oxide layer thus formed protects the rest of the wire that then sits there for the next half century or so feeding the grid.
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won't matter if the thief is stealing the phone to part it out. You can't remotely kill a screen. You can only remote-kill the SIM, possibly the handset CPU via an IMEI lock.
this is the entire point of bike thefts. They're not stolen to order, never have been. They're stolen for PARTS.
This. Back in 2008 I came to the realisation that it was cheaper to part out a secondhand laptop than sell it as a complete unit. So, instead of a £75 (by the bluebook for the spec) loss-leader as a functional laptop, I sold the lid hinges for £70, the screen for £120, the mainboard for £150, the processor for £65, the RAM for £30, the hard drive for £40, the DVD burner for £80, case plastics for £90 all told and the battery for £40... I got more for the laptop in PIECES than what it originally cost NEW.
Name one. Just ONE.
Uh huh.
10-bit input. That's ten keys, so my wrists don't have to move. All that's needed is a slight flexing of each digit. How much faster could I type if my hands didn't have to move *at all*?
Ten bits is 1024 characters. That's ten times as many keys as an enhanced AT keyboard has.
That'll also more than cover the entire Latin block of the Unicode set (up to 024F).
Hell, even 8-bits is still 256 characters. My first home computer had all of 128 characters (including control and escape characters) in its entire lexicon, and I was dialling out to bulletin boards with that thing.
Aspartame. Oh wait, no they didn't. They just took the paid-for conclusion by the FDA that ant killer makes a safe substitute for refined sugar.
Thalidomide. Oh wait, no, they completely ignore the MASSES of evidence of the harmful effects of thalidomide (missing limbs, protruding spinal clusters, etc) and give the go ahead to reintroduce it as a fucking antidepressant!
Dietery fat and its connection to heart disease. Oh, wait, nope again. Not one single peer reviewed study into the connection at all, ever, anywhere by anybody yet the BMJ continues to publish unfounded claims that fat=bad.
The resurgence of poliomyelitis and the concurrent (some might say contemporaneous) emergence of a previously little-known condition variously called Lou Gehrig's Disease, ALS, Motor Neurone Disease, Post Polio Residual Paralysis... all sharing the same root cause and displaying shockingly similar symptomology yet the BMJ being an industrial journal pursues the industry line that it's most certainly definitely NOT actually caused by the live polio vaccine in spite of ample evidence that puts it beyond the Black Swan level of anomaly and firmly into the "merits further study" box.
When somebody says something is impossible, and someone else proves them wrong by a SINGLE proof sample, that's not an anomaly, that's SCIENCE.
HSBC: Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Company.
Fuck me, do I have to spell it out for you??
make them sit up and take notice: the original retail price of the game - each game summed - and multiplied against the number of class plaintiffs.
So instead of basing the suit on just one title or title class and ten plaintiffs, name TEN titles and claim ten times ten times the retail.
You're straight from small claims to supreme court with the stroke of a pen.
I wonder at what point copyright and trademark enforcement diverged, in that if a company fails to defend its trademarks (or even monetise them), they lose the right of claim on it?
the bastards!
and more and bigger guns and better trained marksmen than Boris Johnson's private army.
When Government is so afraid of its people that it feels the need not only to disarm them, but to arm itself against an UNARMED foe, there is something SERIOUSLY FUCKED UP about the situation.
go beyond the BBC, and you'll find that not only had the Taliban throttled opium, they'd actually gotten farmers around to the shocking idea of growing food crops.
Now, if that's not evil and despotic, you tell me what is?
who modded this funny? I was being serious.
yes, and diamorphine, too.
Back when opium dens were to be found next door to the Old Bailey and off the reception atria of every barrister in London. Often in the same building, too - occasionally you'd even find a room full of very young girls (or boys, if that was your poison). It all came in on the East India Company Docks. Where CANARY WHARF now stands.
Funny, that.
funny, according to this http://virtualglobetrotting.co... his Swiss home is in Féchy.
And according to his biography "Starman" by Paul Trynka, Bowie hasn't lived in Switzerland since 1976. In fact he's spent most of his time between touring, in New York, London and Hamburg.
HSBC ran the original Silk Road. It actually moved silk and opium. HSBC's fortune was made on opium.
funnily enough, Citi own the other tall building that isn't Canary Wharf Tower (AKA Canary Wharf Group) or HSBC UK HQ on the Wharf... lowrises include Morgan Stanley, Barclays, Reuters news agency, Waitrose, Jamie Oliver's Kitchen, and the Financial Conduct Authority hidden away in the middle there somewhere... influence much?
(that has to be the most money-dense twenty acres on the entire fucking planet).
HSBC was FOUNDED on the ORIGINAL Silk Road. That heroin highway that ran through the Far East and extended tendrils through Hong Kong, Shanghai (hence the name) and London, Paris, Berlin and Rome.
can take care of the the entire homeless problem. Let's start with seizing that.
that too... typical weights for copper vs aluminium using standard alloys for the same load are 1:0.54 and cross sectional area 1:1.56, so even though aluminium is thicker for the same load, it's still lighter (by a factor of ~4). As far as costing goes, in the long term (ie the lifetime of the conductor, including repairs and general maintenance) there is no difference whatsoever. The considerations therefore are reduced to how much space you have and the market price of the raw materials. Right now, and for quite a while (at least 25 years?) the price of copper has been higher than for aluminium ($2.58/lb vs $0.85/lb. Source: Infomine), but you still have to consider loads and following calculations.
(Citation: GE Industrial white paper: Pryor, et. al.)
Addendum: yes, they're Techlink. I have a slew of 1.5m audio cables and if I am allowed to have a favourite cable, it'd have to be the ten metre S-Video cable I use for my camera in studio mode.
the fuck??
It wasn't one of those blue sheathed jobs for use with Minidisc, was it?
(bought a job lot of those cables years ago for a quid a pop, they were marked at £45 each(!), there is NO difference between those and standard Tandy dangle-off-hooks cables. I only bought 'em because they're blue. I think they were Techlink, I'd have to root around under my desk to tell you for sure).
HDMI is not tolerant of line noise, and that is entirely dependent on the length of the cable. Whether the cable actually works, therefore, is a binary condition: it does work, or it doesn't work. It doesn't "work but the picture's snowy". Similarly for ethernet: the TCP/IP transport protocol is a binary method: the packet did transmit successfully or it didn't. If it didn't, resend. If it did, send the next one. It also does not matter what dopants are in your cable. It could be cotton (known to happen - early DC flex is copper-doped cotton), an electrical signal propagates at the same speed through a copper conductor (0.7c). It's SLOWER through gold for the simple reason that gold is denser. The reason gold is used on connectors isn't an improved signal transfer, it's because gold is chemically inert. If gold was so good as some idiots are claiming then entire conductors would be solid gold. Ask then answer, why aren't they? BECAUSE GOLD SUCKS. COPPER is a: better for signal propagation in terms of consistency and b: WAY cheaper.
*Yes, HV lines are aluminium, but that's again due to the propagation speed of the AC current. It's faster through aluminium than it is copper because aluminium is less dense. Why then not use aluminium for audio cables? Because it's a: difficult to refine, b: difficult to render to 28 gauge (ever tried to render aluminium foil? Scrape off the surface and watch it react with the air in front of your eyes - it is that highly reactive it will spontaneously react and oxidise on contact with room air) and c: not very ductile - see b for why. Drawing aluminium for HV uses a spinning process that involves some NASTY chemicals intended to keep the wire clean and prevent it from reacting with air. Once it's formed and mounted, the oxide layer thus formed protects the rest of the wire that then sits there for the next half century or so feeding the grid.
I wish I was stoned right now.
I would be fucking off to the origin-of-the-universe discussion over there.
Next you'll be crapping on about wire bend radius and how a sudden change in direction affects signal latency in a double twisted pair...
...a zero and a one arrive out of order.
I blame the cables.