The wiki is wrong - digital odometers are the easiest things to roll back. MUCH easier than the old-style ones, which had a tendancy to "bounce" if you hit the dash after they were turned back. Just go to any border crossing where vehicles are being trans-shipped - they're adjusted from miles to kilometers or vice versa with nothing more complicated than a laptop. As for vehicles that aren't trans-shipped - I've seen a Jeep Cherokee go from 68,000 km to 20,000 km after a visit to "the shop" - the guy who does this from his home. Obviously, I don't approve - as far as I'm concerned, it's theft - but going digital made it easier, not harder, to cheat.
Of course, they do it on the cheap, so that other computers on the car will have a discrepancy - but who checks ANY of the computers for tampering? Nobody - the dealer who buys to resell might suspect, but as long as he doesn't check, he can always claim "I didn't know."
NEVER let the car dealer pick up your plates for you. A lot of people write their mileage on the back when trading in their car - the dealer doesn't want you to see the old reg, so he'll offer to pick up your new plates "as a convience to you." I saw an employee of Silver Star (BMW dealer) try to pick up a set of plates with a mileage declaration of 80,000 km, when the title said 135,000 km., so don't think that even BMWs are that hard to monkey with.
Customer: This car isn't new!
Salesturd: Sure it is!
Customer: It has 10,000 miles on it!
Salesturd: It's a display model. Don't worry about it. Same as new!
Fact: The "demonstrator" cars you buy are actually used, and usually have a lot more mileage than they indicate - it's easier for the dealer to roll back the odometer on new cars than it was a couple of decades ago. $150 if you know the right person.
How else do you think that long-term leased car that you brought back with 50,000 miles passes through Adesa a week later with "only" 28,000 miles on the clock? And did you think you sere getting a "special deal" when the dealer said he'd ignore the over-mileage charges if you leased another car?
Y'know what else comes in times of great stress? A botched rush-job.
Which is why they never have time to di it right, but there's always time to do it over...
What they're basically saying is that they are incompetent managers, unable to create either realistic deadlines or the processes to meet them, and that they should be fired. Deming would have recommended the lot be given their walking papers for just that reason.
I don't generally call people from the toilet, so it's not an issue. Perhaps it would be for you. In my opinion video chat has not caught on because it is expensive and charged at extortionate rates. I expect that to change. Look at desktop computers and you'll see video chat being used all over the world.
No, but people often seem to call me at the worst times... Also, the video phone came with a flat-rate off-peak plan - it was a dud. People just don't want video chat when they're talking on their cell - probably because, if they're on their cell, they're doing something else at the same time... like driving, shopping, out walking the dogs, cooking, whatever. It's a dud. We've had video chat on the pc for a decade, and conference-style standard-def video-in-a-server for almost a decade - it's a dud there too except in very limited scenarios...
It's hard to make sense of the sales figures because a lot of them are driven by "it's all they have". As for the iPhone (and other phones) I don't know anyone who uses them to actually "surf the net..." we've all got laptops for that, and there's ALWAYS a computer nearby. We want to get AWAY from the internet when we're doing other shit:-)
A snazzy Blackberry Storm- $100 A brand new netbook with Linux installed = $300
The Blackberry Storm is $500 without a contract... the netbook is *still* only $300 without a contract... not paying $3000 (3 years @$80/month) so I can "pay only $100 for a Blackberry", priceless:-)
Me, I didn't want to go in the first place, so no downside for me
Well, that's certainly taking the short-term view.
Actually, it's taking the long-term view. I have zero interest in spending eternity with a bunch of jesus freaks (or any other religion, for that matter - but since they're the ones who believe in the foolishness of "the rapture"...:-).
After all, if they're there, it sure ain't heaven.
USB keys aren't an attack vector on Win95 - no USB support.
Ditto for the external drive - how are you going to get the OS to talk to the non-functioning USB port
CDs? This setup has been used for 15 years as a 2-machine isolated setup. Nobody's going to be inserting suspect CDs into it. Any program trying to auto-install will fail - too many libraries missing/out of date - bad/missing msi installer, etc.
RE Video Chat: We've had phones with video calling for a couple of years now - it's a dud despite their initial heavy promotion by Rogers (which I could have told them). Nobody wants to show other people that they're in the toilet, or in bed, or that they haven't got their makeup on, or that they're with friends when they said they'd be working late, or that they're naked in front of their PC surfing pr0n, or any one of a number of things...
RE: email: Get caught checking your email while driving, even in places that allow hands-free phone calls, and you'll have a nice ticket, demerit points, higher car registration and insurance fees.
RE: "lug a laptop around": Since you're not doing it while driving, you're probably somewhere with a computer nearby. Or if it's REALLY important, they can, you know - PHONE YOU!:-) Email isn't used for top-priority communications. Are you going to email the fire department or the cops when there's an emergency? No, you call 911.
A lot of people have recently bought smartphones because of the push by cell phone companies to lock people into a voice+data plan. However, many people are finding the smartphone to be a dumb idea. They're bulky, the screens crack just from sitting in your pocket, and for the most part, they're just cheap not-as-good-as-a-crackberry for people who don't want to pay for a blackberry.
As for the iPhone, it's just too damn bulky to be interesting. We spent a couple of decades making these things smaller so they'd be more convenient. The iPhone is like a brick next to today's regular cell phones - bulky and inconvenient.
In the summer, when friends come over, I chuck a few beers in the freezer a half-hour before opening them - the depressurization upon opening produces a layer of ice chips in the neck of the bottle (and the ice formation means that the beer has a higher alcohol content, raising it form 6.6 to ~9%).
The study predicts that situation will continue until one operator obtains a share of at least 9.5 per cent of the overall mobile market.
If it were realy just 1%, as yu said, we'd already be passed the threshold - symbian is at 3.2% of the entire mobile market...
Smartphones currently make up about five per cent of the total mobile market, and the most popular smartphone operating system, Symbian, has 64.3 per cent of the smartphone market -- that's 3.2 per cent of the mobile market overall.
I'd say just clone the system to a new hard drive (partitioned to 4 partitions of 2 gigs or less, and just ignore the rest of the space), shove the hard drive in a new box, with not more than 256 megs of ram, and if the old software and OS runs (which it might - it's old, so it's not exactly bleeding-edge), problem solved. Alternatively, there's some open-source animal shelter software that might have enough included functionality for veterinarieans - after all, shelters do have vets either on call or on staff, and they do do billing for things like fixing the animals, shots, sales of animals, food, toys, accessories, putting them down, etc.
All this talk of quad core / raid is just stupid. Today's netbooks are "good enough". Heck, a smartphone would probably be good enough if you could hook it up to the printer.
The other reason to go with a more reasonable upgrade cycle is that computers now tend to be interconnected, and having a 10 or 15 year old system you can no longer patch for security holes means its not as safe to leave on a network of any kind.
The two machines only talk to each other - nobody's throwing a downloaded game cd or web browser on either of them.
...when the iPhone's marketshare reaches the kind of threshold this article talks about that results in it being the most popular target for spreading malicious code. Because the irony will be lost on a lot of people here.
Probably won't happen. Too many people just want a phone. I won't even consider an iPhone because it's too bulky. I want a flip-phone so that I can fold it up and ignore it - not have to worry about scratching it. Lets face it - how many times do you drop your phone...
Also, how many times do you simply *lose* your phone?
Ask them what drugs they're on. If they deny it, suggest they need meds. And have their flux capacitor reworked. And that they need to find a bucket of steam.
People want phones first and foremost to make phone calls. A smart phone, for many of us, is a dumb decision - it's too bulky, while at the same time it doesn't have enough screen to replace even a netbook... and for people who tend to lose their phones on an annual basis, it gets expensive fast. Phones, for most people, are semi-disposable commodities. If someone loses it, or it gets stolen, or they drop it one time too many, it's not THAT big a deal. And for the majority, that's the way it should stay, because, like hard drive failures, it's not a question of if, but when - when you lose it, drop it, it dies, or it gets swiped.
The japanese are using DOCSIS 3 modems over the cable network - $60 per house for the upgrade to 160mbit. At that price/point, fiber-optic is a waste of time and money.
Also, burying ANYTHING in an urban area is expensive, mostly because there's already so much buried (power, gas, water, data, traffic sensors, lighting...) but also because it has to be done to the standards set by the municipality for buried lines. Stringing coax along a pole is a LOT cheaper.
It costs nothing more than postage and toner and paper for him to send them a DMCA notice.
Additionally, he should include in his demand a request for all the revenue they've generated from sales and licensing of his artwork, as well as a copy of any contracts in their possession.
They'll have to turn it over to him eventually if he goes to court, and they'll quickly realize that it's not worth going to court over piddling sums. The only one who will want to drag this out is the lawyers... since they get paid no matter what.
Now if he had stenagrphically embedded an mp3 recording, he could ask for statutory damages of $150,000.00 per copy...
Uh no. If you start stringing cables along utility poles you get residents worried about the 'radiation' being 'emitted' by the coaxial line. Appearing on TV. Demanding the cable be buried in the ground. But Not In Their Backyard.
Uh no. Most places, you'll find that land deeds include servitudes for public utilities, and if the pole or conduit is already there, just string it along - no permission needed (not even permission to access the property 24/7/365 without notice).
The building itself is a different story... but since this uses the existing cable tv infrastructure, it's not a big issue.
You're lucky, you can at least make toast one slice at a time. I bought one, and when I opened the box, it turns out I got stuck with one of those "BSD" brand toasters, and it really smells funky - I think it's dead (either that, or the smell of the people who developed it has worn off onto it).
They're using the existing cable network, and sending their customers upgraded modems ($60 a pop) that can handle up to 160mpbs. No digging, no rewiring.
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The wiki is wrong - digital odometers are the easiest things to roll back. MUCH easier than the old-style ones, which had a tendancy to "bounce" if you hit the dash after they were turned back. Just go to any border crossing where vehicles are being trans-shipped - they're adjusted from miles to kilometers or vice versa with nothing more complicated than a laptop. As for vehicles that aren't trans-shipped - I've seen a Jeep Cherokee go from 68,000 km to 20,000 km after a visit to "the shop" - the guy who does this from his home. Obviously, I don't approve - as far as I'm concerned, it's theft - but going digital made it easier, not harder, to cheat.
Of course, they do it on the cheap, so that other computers on the car will have a discrepancy - but who checks ANY of the computers for tampering? Nobody - the dealer who buys to resell might suspect, but as long as he doesn't check, he can always claim "I didn't know."
NEVER let the car dealer pick up your plates for you. A lot of people write their mileage on the back when trading in their car - the dealer doesn't want you to see the old reg, so he'll offer to pick up your new plates "as a convience to you." I saw an employee of Silver Star (BMW dealer) try to pick up a set of plates with a mileage declaration of 80,000 km, when the title said 135,000 km., so don't think that even BMWs are that hard to monkey with.
Customer: This car isn't new!
Salesturd: Sure it is!
Customer: It has 10,000 miles on it!
Salesturd: It's a display model. Don't worry about it. Same as new!
Fact: The "demonstrator" cars you buy are actually used, and usually have a lot more mileage than they indicate - it's easier for the dealer to roll back the odometer on new cars than it was a couple of decades ago. $150 if you know the right person.
How else do you think that long-term leased car that you brought back with 50,000 miles passes through Adesa a week later with "only" 28,000 miles on the clock? And did you think you sere getting a "special deal" when the dealer said he'd ignore the over-mileage charges if you leased another car?
Y'know what else comes in times of great stress? A botched rush-job.
Which is why they never have time to di it right, but there's always time to do it over ...
What they're basically saying is that they are incompetent managers, unable to create either realistic deadlines or the processes to meet them, and that they should be fired. Deming would have recommended the lot be given their walking papers for just that reason.
I don't generally call people from the toilet, so it's not an issue. Perhaps it would be for you. In my opinion video chat has not caught on because it is expensive and charged at extortionate rates. I expect that to change. Look at desktop computers and you'll see video chat being used all over the world.
No, but people often seem to call me at the worst times ... Also, the video phone came with a flat-rate off-peak plan - it was a dud. People just don't want video chat when they're talking on their cell - probably because, if they're on their cell, they're doing something else at the same time ... like driving, shopping, out walking the dogs, cooking, whatever. It's a dud. We've had video chat on the pc for a decade, and conference-style standard-def video-in-a-server for almost a decade - it's a dud there too except in very limited scenarios ...
It's hard to make sense of the sales figures because a lot of them are driven by "it's all they have". As for the iPhone (and other phones) I don't know anyone who uses them to actually "surf the net ..." we've all got laptops for that, and there's ALWAYS a computer nearby. We want to get AWAY from the internet when we're doing other shit :-)
The Blackberry Storm is $500 without a contract ... the netbook is *still* only $300 without a contract ... not paying $3000 (3 years @$80/month) so I can "pay only $100 for a Blackberry", priceless :-)
Me, I didn't want to go in the first place, so no downside for me
Well, that's certainly taking the short-term view.
Actually, it's taking the long-term view. I have zero interest in spending eternity with a bunch of jesus freaks (or any other religion, for that matter - but since they're the ones who believe in the foolishness of "the rapture" ... :-).
After all, if they're there, it sure ain't heaven.
Cisco takes the hardware (servers, solaris, etc)
RedHat takes Java
Everybody's happu
... after all, why not? They know how to make a profit.
USB keys aren't an attack vector on Win95 - no USB support.
Ditto for the external drive - how are you going to get the OS to talk to the non-functioning USB port
CDs? This setup has been used for 15 years as a 2-machine isolated setup. Nobody's going to be inserting suspect CDs into it. Any program trying to auto-install will fail - too many libraries missing/out of date - bad/missing msi installer, etc.
No downside?! What do you call all these damn locusts with scorpions' tails, then?
A really bad case of the crabs?
RE Video Chat: We've had phones with video calling for a couple of years now - it's a dud despite their initial heavy promotion by Rogers (which I could have told them). Nobody wants to show other people that they're in the toilet, or in bed, or that they haven't got their makeup on, or that they're with friends when they said they'd be working late, or that they're naked in front of their PC surfing pr0n, or any one of a number of things ...
RE: email: Get caught checking your email while driving, even in places that allow hands-free phone calls, and you'll have a nice ticket, demerit points, higher car registration and insurance fees.
RE: "lug a laptop around": Since you're not doing it while driving, you're probably somewhere with a computer nearby. Or if it's REALLY important, they can, you know - PHONE YOU! :-) Email isn't used for top-priority communications. Are you going to email the fire department or the cops when there's an emergency? No, you call 911.
A lot of people have recently bought smartphones because of the push by cell phone companies to lock people into a voice+data plan. However, many people are finding the smartphone to be a dumb idea. They're bulky, the screens crack just from sitting in your pocket, and for the most part, they're just cheap not-as-good-as-a-crackberry for people who don't want to pay for a blackberry.
As for the iPhone, it's just too damn bulky to be interesting. We spent a couple of decades making these things smaller so they'd be more convenient. The iPhone is like a brick next to today's regular cell phones - bulky and inconvenient.
In the summer, when friends come over, I chuck a few beers in the freezer a half-hour before opening them - the depressurization upon opening produces a layer of ice chips in the neck of the bottle (and the ice formation means that the beer has a higher alcohol content, raising it form 6.6 to ~9%).
Barbarian enough? :-)
You're off by an order of magnitude ... the estimate for efficient propagation of a virus was much more than 1%, as per the cbc article.
The study predicts that situation will continue until one operator obtains a share of at least 9.5 per cent of the overall mobile market.
If it were realy just 1%, as yu said, we'd already be passed the threshold - symbian is at 3.2% of the entire mobile market ...
Smartphones currently make up about five per cent of the total mobile market, and the most popular smartphone operating system, Symbian, has 64.3 per cent of the smartphone market -- that's 3.2 per cent of the mobile market overall.
Just use a couple USBs
Win95 == no USB support.
I'd say just clone the system to a new hard drive (partitioned to 4 partitions of 2 gigs or less, and just ignore the rest of the space), shove the hard drive in a new box, with not more than 256 megs of ram, and if the old software and OS runs (which it might - it's old, so it's not exactly bleeding-edge), problem solved. Alternatively, there's some open-source animal shelter software that might have enough included functionality for veterinarieans - after all, shelters do have vets either on call or on staff, and they do do billing for things like fixing the animals, shots, sales of animals, food, toys, accessories, putting them down, etc.
All this talk of quad core / raid is just stupid. Today's netbooks are "good enough". Heck, a smartphone would probably be good enough if you could hook it up to the printer.
The other reason to go with a more reasonable upgrade cycle is that computers now tend to be interconnected, and having a 10 or 15 year old system you can no longer patch for security holes means its not as safe to leave on a network of any kind.
The two machines only talk to each other - nobody's throwing a downloaded game cd or web browser on either of them.
The rapture will come on a Sunday.
Psst ... hate to be the one to tell you, but it already happened. You got left behind.
Me, I didn't want to go in the first place, so no downside for me ...
Must be a slow news day ... oh, right, it's Sunday.
...when the iPhone's marketshare reaches the kind of threshold this article talks about that results in it being the most popular target for spreading malicious code. Because the irony will be lost on a lot of people here.
Probably won't happen. Too many people just want a phone. I won't even consider an iPhone because it's too bulky. I want a flip-phone so that I can fold it up and ignore it - not have to worry about scratching it. Lets face it - how many times do you drop your phone ...
Also, how many times do you simply *lose* your phone?
every phone will be android
Ask them what drugs they're on. If they deny it, suggest they need meds. And have their flux capacitor reworked. And that they need to find a bucket of steam.
People want phones first and foremost to make phone calls. A smart phone, for many of us, is a dumb decision - it's too bulky, while at the same time it doesn't have enough screen to replace even a netbook ... and for people who tend to lose their phones on an annual basis, it gets expensive fast. Phones, for most people, are semi-disposable commodities. If someone loses it, or it gets stolen, or they drop it one time too many, it's not THAT big a deal. And for the majority, that's the way it should stay, because, like hard drive failures, it's not a question of if, but when - when you lose it, drop it, it dies, or it gets swiped.
It doesn't hurt that most people don't run MS-Word and Outlook on their phones. Or an easily-compromised web server. Or have a bunch of open ports.
Ironically, unlike a PC, there's only a few ways for a virus to phone home on a phone.
The japanese are using DOCSIS 3 modems over the cable network - $60 per house for the upgrade to 160mbit. At that price/point, fiber-optic is a waste of time and money.
Also, burying ANYTHING in an urban area is expensive, mostly because there's already so much buried (power, gas, water, data, traffic sensors, lighting ...) but also because it has to be done to the standards set by the municipality for buried lines. Stringing coax along a pole is a LOT cheaper.
Additionally, he should include in his demand a request for all the revenue they've generated from sales and licensing of his artwork, as well as a copy of any contracts in their possession.
They'll have to turn it over to him eventually if he goes to court, and they'll quickly realize that it's not worth going to court over piddling sums. The only one who will want to drag this out is the lawyers ... since they get paid no matter what.
Now if he had stenagrphically embedded an mp3 recording, he could ask for statutory damages of $150,000.00 per copy ...
Uh no. If you start stringing cables along utility poles you get residents worried about the 'radiation' being 'emitted' by the coaxial line. Appearing on TV. Demanding the cable be buried in the ground. But Not In Their Backyard.
Uh no. Most places, you'll find that land deeds include servitudes for public utilities, and if the pole or conduit is already there, just string it along - no permission needed (not even permission to access the property 24/7/365 without notice).
The building itself is a different story ... but since this uses the existing cable tv infrastructure, it's not a big issue.
You're lucky, you can at least make toast one slice at a time. I bought one, and when I opened the box, it turns out I got stuck with one of those "BSD" brand toasters, and it really smells funky - I think it's dead (either that, or the smell of the people who developed it has worn off onto it).
They're using the existing cable network, and sending their customers upgraded modems ($60 a pop) that can handle up to 160mpbs. No digging, no rewiring.