First, we don't know for sure that this is not a Facebook problem (an organization not renowned for technical competence). Second, the company currently known as AT&T has no connection with the original AT&T other than the name.
> Yes the default is bing, but all the major search engines are there and they > are listed in Alphabetical order. Maybe that's why they changed their name > to Bing, though.
> It also implies bringing back all of the alignment issues of CRTs and > rear-projection TVs.
Indexed beam technology should take care of that (though it was never commercialized for CRTs). Alternatively, one could use three lasers operating at three different wavelengths and three phosphors each sensitive to one of the lasers. Still seems like a CRT with moving parts, though.
In any case, the Trinitron I'm using right now has never had any alignment problems.
Yes. Wrong, but easy. Soda-lime glass, the kind you are probably thinking of, has more in it than silica. But these guys are chemists. To a chemist "glass" is a term for a large class of materials, some containing no silica at all.
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> The MiFi does not require a valid session to commit changes to configuration
> settings.
That sounds like there may be all sorts of "interesting" possibilities.
> Apparently they don't emphasise soldering skills.
Certainly not! Heavens! The children could burn themselves! Children must never be allowed to handle dangerous tools! (i.e., any tools at all)
> This COTS product is irreplaceable...
The company, however, is quite replaceable.
> It is not strictly driven by the government. And it is controlled by the
> parliament.
So the German parliament is some sort of a private club and not part of the government?
> Indeed. These corporations deserve to die, and the world will be a better
> place for it!
Same goes for the locked-in governments.
> Because you're on a cellular network and the company providing service wants
> to know where its users are using them so they can plan the network.
They know what cells you are using and the signal strength. That's all they need.
First, we don't know for sure that this is not a Facebook problem (an organization not renowned for technical competence). Second, the company currently known as AT&T has no connection with the original AT&T other than the name.
> ...Lucent, nee Bell Labs...
Nee Western Electric.
> Yes the default is bing, but all the major search engines are there and they
> are listed in Alphabetical order. Maybe that's why they changed their name
> to Bing, though.
No, then they would have changed it to Aardvark.
Percentage of queries is not market share: it's user share. Market share would be percentage of advertising revenue.
You're going to get such a universal ID, like it or not (I don't).
You want it there as well.
> What the article is talking about is a unique address per person that
> bridges multiple devices.
Exactly. The IPv6 address of your embedded RFID chip.
> I don't want to go through the trouble of adding every known benign site to
> my white list.
I find that very few benign sites need JavaScript (though many claim to).
No. I know exactly what it does and how to use it. Magic SysReq Key
> Not encrypting everything just paints a huge target on the exact data you
> are wanting to hide in the first place.
Right. So just encrypt the kitten videos and send lots of tantalizing stuff in the clear. That'll fix 'em.
> Might be a nice counter-response to all those stupid chinese zombies hitting
> my SSH honeypot with dictionary attacks....
Right. Make them log in as Falun Gong.
> This is going to go down as the biggest piece of corporate "do-gooding"
> since Henry Ford did the $5 day.
That wasn't "do-gooding". That was a rational business decision.
> Doesn't PLASMA tv use lasers...
No.
> It also implies bringing back all of the alignment issues of CRTs and
> rear-projection TVs.
Indexed beam technology should take care of that (though it was never commercialized for CRTs). Alternatively, one could use three lasers operating at three different wavelengths and three phosphors each sensitive to one of the lasers. Still seems like a CRT with moving parts, though.
In any case, the Trinitron I'm using right now has never had any alignment problems.
I bet you could do that with electron beams too! And with no moving parts! I should patent that...
> You know, a big business that has its own army and basically can control the
> government by military force.
There is a word for that. It is called a "government". The owner is usually referred to as "Dear Leader", "President for Life", or similar.
> Why should I have to pay somebody else money to upload a file to a friend...
You don't. Just connect to your friend's server and upload away.
> For that matter, how would a Linux user put it together? dd?
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Mod parent up. It's ridiculous to compare MMPI results from 1938 to those from the 2000 version of the test. The society has changed too much.
> Easy, huh?
Yes. Wrong, but easy. Soda-lime glass, the kind you are probably thinking of, has more in it than silica. But these guys are chemists. To a chemist "glass" is a term for a large class of materials, some containing no silica at all.