+1 informative, explains it really well for pretty much everybody, and +1 funny for the reference to the Proclaimers song. I really didn't know that about the "coincidence"...
problem with Noscript et al, is the same problem with softwalls like Zonealarm - the content is already downloaded to your computer for the parser to analyse before it's passed to the rendering engine. It's already in your system. Like Zonealarm, it should be considered the LAST line of defence. The first line of defence should be in your router. Have a blacklist, at the very least, of IPs of advertising domains. If your router doesn't offer blacklisting (my shitbox of a Netgear does, I'd be surprised if any more modern router didn't), use an old laptop and run everything through a softwall on that, that then passes through to your network. That's how I used to do it back when I had a cable connection through a Terajet 210 (which is actually just a modem with one ethernet port and fuck all else).
you're right. Three's new ToU and Fair Use policy sets a monthly cap of 1,000GB/month, which equates to you saturating your perfect conditions 3G connection 24/7. By that logic, in everyday use it is IMPOSSIBLE to exceed this cap. I've never managed it, and I've burned phones out (not to mention at least two mobile relays).
All-you-can-eat data. If you have All-you-can-eat data units as part of your package or with an Add-on, there are no hidden ‘fair use policies’ within the UK. If you’re in a Feel At Home destination, you can use up to 25,600 data units (which converts into 25 GB of data as 1 data unit converts automatically on use into 1MB of data) each month. All-you-can-eat data units should give you all the access to the internet you would normally need, without worrying about hefty bills. It’s worth noting that even if you used your phone for every minute of every day you’d only use, subject to TrafficSense, around 1,000 GB each month. That’s why we’ve set a usage cap at 1,000 GB, in order to identify commercial use of the service, for example, which is not permitted under the Terms for Three Services.
All-you-can-eat texts and minutes. There’s no hidden “fair use policies” with our All-you-can-eat text units or voice units allowances either when in the UK – we just ask that you use this allowance in accordance with our Terms for Three Services – that is, for personal use only, and not for any illegal, commercial or improper purposes. In addition to these All-you-can-eat UK allowances, you also get 5,000 text units and 3,000 voice units to use respectively each month, when in a Feel At Home destination, which convert respectively into 5,000 text messages back to the UK and 3,000 minutes of calls to UK landline and mobile numbers."
FYI, Feel At Home is a worldwide roaming allowance, available on all price plans.
there is a Flash exploit that STILL isn't patched, that only requires a user to visit a site with a bit of compromised embedded flash content like a banner ad, and BOOM, owned. You don't even have to click a link, just visit a domain hosting the content on a page.
It is my very humble opinion that constant access to tech kills the ability to think, and encourages laziness in critical analysis (often completely annihilating it as people go for that panacea for factual argument, Wikipedia, in attempts to "prove" their arguments, ironically often proving them wrong but like some sort of broken thing they insist that the bloody peer reviewed encyclopedia is wrong!). Back when I was at school, we found out the speed of sound through experiments. Wikipedia wasn't even a pipedream back then, you couldn't just look it up. That's just one example. Hell, whatever happened to you know, just *talking* to people?
yeah, reading this thread has left me so utterly confused I've actually (gasp!) taken to actually reading up on it. Seems Thunderbolt is a serial connection comprising PCIe (essentially extending the PCIe bus with external channels) and DisplayPort, and DC power, through a 20-pin Mini Displayport connector. Each host port can drive up to four discrete devices, six in a daisychain, including direct serial connection with other Thunderbolt hosts. The difference between Thunderbolt and USB/Firewire is that Thunderbolt devices must each have its own Thunderbolt controller. I would assume that this reduces the handshake between host and device to merely detection and assumption that the connected device is a streaming serial device like a composite video adapter (to throw an example out there). This being a residual effect of the original design specification of Thunderbolt being an optical pair rather than a duplexed copper system.
For me, while this is faster than USB, it doesn't offer me the flexibility I need in my real world application (which is cramming as much hardware as I possibly can through each port, call me a hoarder). USB offers the 127-device-per-channel expandibility, there are 120-port hubs (the hub counts as a device and most systems these days come with 2, 4 or more hubs even if they only come with 1 physical port which sometimes happens), I have a 120-port hub and it's wonderful thank you though a 5V80A power supply is a bit bulky, it comfortably powers every drive I have plugged in.
that's your opinion and you're welcome to it, valueless to anyone else though it is. I was offering a theory, all you've offered is a character attack, which not knowing me clearly marks YOU as the troll. Now, kindly fuck off and die.
ya learn something new every day... though in today's climate, Meucci would have lost his caveat on legal challenge since he never capitalised on the invention.
well, going on what the radical religious claim, something that proves that nothing in the universe can possibly be older than ~6630 years? (we've got organisms on this planet, for example a 5,000 year old bristlecone pine, that are older than that, and they spend their entire lives metabolising - no dormant stages for them. Carrion beetles and hydras are both known as organisms that absent physical hazards, are basically immortal. Those three examples alone show the religious right to be a bunch of crocks).
the mouse wasn't Xerox, it was Douglas Engelbart out of Stanford in the 1960s, which itself was a progression of the trackball invented in 1946 and kept a military secret. Simon had a virtual keyboard. APPLE DID NOT INVENT IT. Hell, Windows 95 had a virtual keyboard. Even then it was nothing new. Touchscreens with virtual backgrounds were invented in 1972 by Hearst Samuel.
IBM Simon: 1992. iPhone: 2007 Elisha Gray (the guy who actually invented the telephone! Bell beat him to the patent office by a mere twenty minutes) patented an electronic handwriting capture system in 1888(!). Cadre marketed the first commercial predecessor for the tablet/slate PC (which was just a tablet input device for a desktop) in 1982. The first x86-based tablet that used a commercial OS was the 1985 Pencept. Not having a touchscreen it required an electronic stylus. The first tablet touchscreen (AKA slate) was the Grid in 1989 that ran on DOS. I still own and use a Fujitsu Stylistic 3500 tablet PC that runs on Windows ME (it originally ran 98SE) from 2001. iPad: 2010
Oh, and the thing that started it all, the iPod? Sorry, that is pretty much entirely based on a Kane Kramer patent from 1979 called the IXI plastic music box. The Touch, which came out in September 2007, was the direct predecessor of the iPhone - pretty much all they did was throw in a SIM and the actual phone electronics in place of the main storage (heck of a compromise, eh?). The iPad was a forked progression of the 1st Generation iPhone which pretty much just got bigger and bigger screens until it surpassed "phablet" status and became a full-fledged tablet - with the iPod Touch screen interface.
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+1 informative, explains it really well for pretty much everybody, and +1 funny for the reference to the Proclaimers song. I really didn't know that about the "coincidence"...
problem with Noscript et al, is the same problem with softwalls like Zonealarm - the content is already downloaded to your computer for the parser to analyse before it's passed to the rendering engine. It's already in your system. Like Zonealarm, it should be considered the LAST line of defence. The first line of defence should be in your router. Have a blacklist, at the very least, of IPs of advertising domains. If your router doesn't offer blacklisting (my shitbox of a Netgear does, I'd be surprised if any more modern router didn't), use an old laptop and run everything through a softwall on that, that then passes through to your network. That's how I used to do it back when I had a cable connection through a Terajet 210 (which is actually just a modem with one ethernet port and fuck all else).
you're right. Three's new ToU and Fair Use policy sets a monthly cap of 1,000GB/month, which equates to you saturating your perfect conditions 3G connection 24/7. By that logic, in everyday use it is IMPOSSIBLE to exceed this cap. I've never managed it, and I've burned phones out (not to mention at least two mobile relays).
http://www.three.co.uk/Privacy...
If you can't be arsed clicking:
"Terms & Conditions.
> All-you-can-eat explained
All-you-can-eat data.
If you have All-you-can-eat data units as part of your package or with an Add-on, there are no hidden ‘fair use policies’ within the UK. If you’re in a Feel At Home destination, you can use up to 25,600 data units (which converts into 25 GB of data as 1 data unit converts automatically on use into 1MB of data) each month. All-you-can-eat data units should give you all the access to the internet you would normally need, without worrying about hefty bills. It’s worth noting that even if you used your phone for every minute of every day you’d only use, subject to TrafficSense, around 1,000 GB each month. That’s why we’ve set a usage cap at 1,000 GB, in order to identify commercial use of the service, for example, which is not permitted under the Terms for Three Services.
All-you-can-eat texts and minutes.
There’s no hidden “fair use policies” with our All-you-can-eat text units or voice units allowances either when in the UK – we just ask that you use this allowance in accordance with our Terms for Three Services – that is, for personal use only, and not for any illegal, commercial or improper purposes. In addition to these All-you-can-eat UK allowances, you also get 5,000 text units and 3,000 voice units to use respectively each month, when in a Feel At Home destination, which convert respectively into 5,000 text messages back to the UK and 3,000 minutes of calls to UK landline and mobile numbers."
FYI, Feel At Home is a worldwide roaming allowance, available on all price plans.
tell that to Kim Dotcom.
this is pissing me off. Might go back to my Three wireless, it was only 7MBit down and 150ms+ ping, but it fucking worked.
there is a Flash exploit that STILL isn't patched, that only requires a user to visit a site with a bit of compromised embedded flash content like a banner ad, and BOOM, owned. You don't even have to click a link, just visit a domain hosting the content on a page.
Think "Autoplay", that's how fucking easy it is.
just one question: could you survive without it? If not, there is something wrong with you.
I've failed interviewees who couldn't perform simple addition in their heads.
The fuck am I supposed to do with them when the power goes out and I've got a shop full of paying customers??
It is my very humble opinion that constant access to tech kills the ability to think, and encourages laziness in critical analysis (often completely annihilating it as people go for that panacea for factual argument, Wikipedia, in attempts to "prove" their arguments, ironically often proving them wrong but like some sort of broken thing they insist that the bloody peer reviewed encyclopedia is wrong!). Back when I was at school, we found out the speed of sound through experiments. Wikipedia wasn't even a pipedream back then, you couldn't just look it up. That's just one example. Hell, whatever happened to you know, just *talking* to people?
Am I getting old??
Thunderbolt requires controllers at both ends of the cable anyway, what's your issue again?
my four year old netbook doesn't have an optical drive.
I usually reimage using the SD card slot or a thumb stick in one of the usb ports.
yeah, reading this thread has left me so utterly confused I've actually (gasp!) taken to actually reading up on it. Seems Thunderbolt is a serial connection comprising PCIe (essentially extending the PCIe bus with external channels) and DisplayPort, and DC power, through a 20-pin Mini Displayport connector. Each host port can drive up to four discrete devices, six in a daisychain, including direct serial connection with other Thunderbolt hosts. The difference between Thunderbolt and USB/Firewire is that Thunderbolt devices must each have its own Thunderbolt controller. I would assume that this reduces the handshake between host and device to merely detection and assumption that the connected device is a streaming serial device like a composite video adapter (to throw an example out there). This being a residual effect of the original design specification of Thunderbolt being an optical pair rather than a duplexed copper system.
For me, while this is faster than USB, it doesn't offer me the flexibility I need in my real world application (which is cramming as much hardware as I possibly can through each port, call me a hoarder). USB offers the 127-device-per-channel expandibility, there are 120-port hubs (the hub counts as a device and most systems these days come with 2, 4 or more hubs even if they only come with 1 physical port which sometimes happens), I have a 120-port hub and it's wonderful thank you though a 5V80A power supply is a bit bulky, it comfortably powers every drive I have plugged in.
it's a lot of money *now*. I say that as someone who is, in fact, broke.
that's your opinion and you're welcome to it, valueless to anyone else though it is. I was offering a theory, all you've offered is a character attack, which not knowing me clearly marks YOU as the troll. Now, kindly fuck off and die.
ya learn something new every day... though in today's climate, Meucci would have lost his caveat on legal challenge since he never capitalised on the invention.
...wouldn't bother me that a kernel doesn't support it.
So that's not a dealbreaker for me.
well, going on what the radical religious claim, something that proves that nothing in the universe can possibly be older than ~6630 years?
(we've got organisms on this planet, for example a 5,000 year old bristlecone pine, that are older than that, and they spend their entire lives metabolising - no dormant stages for them. Carrion beetles and hydras are both known as organisms that absent physical hazards, are basically immortal. Those three examples alone show the religious right to be a bunch of crocks).
a 14 billion year birthday card standing on the mantel?
saturation marketing.
Here was I, thinking it was all about dropping ferret bombs down caves, roadside IEDs and suicide bombers... how wrong was I, eh?
the mouse wasn't Xerox, it was Douglas Engelbart out of Stanford in the 1960s, which itself was a progression of the trackball invented in 1946 and kept a military secret.
Simon had a virtual keyboard. APPLE DID NOT INVENT IT. Hell, Windows 95 had a virtual keyboard. Even then it was nothing new. Touchscreens with virtual backgrounds were invented in 1972 by Hearst Samuel.
the British government already has a well established global propaganda unit. See title.
IBM Simon: 1992.
iPhone: 2007
Elisha Gray (the guy who actually invented the telephone! Bell beat him to the patent office by a mere twenty minutes) patented an electronic handwriting capture system in 1888(!).
Cadre marketed the first commercial predecessor for the tablet/slate PC (which was just a tablet input device for a desktop) in 1982. The first x86-based tablet that used a commercial OS was the 1985 Pencept. Not having a touchscreen it required an electronic stylus. The first tablet touchscreen (AKA slate) was the Grid in 1989 that ran on DOS.
I still own and use a Fujitsu Stylistic 3500 tablet PC that runs on Windows ME (it originally ran 98SE) from 2001.
iPad: 2010
Oh, and the thing that started it all, the iPod? Sorry, that is pretty much entirely based on a Kane Kramer patent from 1979 called the IXI plastic music box. The Touch, which came out in September 2007, was the direct predecessor of the iPhone - pretty much all they did was throw in a SIM and the actual phone electronics in place of the main storage (heck of a compromise, eh?). The iPad was a forked progression of the 1st Generation iPhone which pretty much just got bigger and bigger screens until it surpassed "phablet" status and became a full-fledged tablet - with the iPod Touch screen interface.
-1 redundant.
(that's a prompt for +1 headscratch-funny)
luckily hydrogen and helium aren't that dense.