Swiffers are great for floors, especially if you have pets. I've never seen a paper towel suck up dog hair like a Swiffer does. Nor does it do as good a job dusting surfaces, especially on electronics.
I used to believe them until I found out how much phones cost overseas: less than they cost here with a 2yr contract
You can buy lots of things at lower retail costs overseas. Take the recent discussions about textbook costs. But the higher price in the US isn't because of the retailer making a higher margin, it's because their wholesale cost is higher.
So even though a consumer may be able to buy phone x overseas for USD200, it doesn't mean that the US carrier doesn't have to pay USD250 for them.
In the US, you can NOT buy your phone, and then plug it into ANY wireless carrier. In an open wireless market, you can switch providers ANY TIME and keep the same physical phone.
You can, as long as the carriers in question are using the same technology, and you didn't benefit from a healthy subsidy on the phone. Go buy a full retail-priced GSM phone, and get a SIM card for whatever carrier you want to use. Buy a full price CDMA phone, and you can have whatever CDMA carrier you want service it.
It's the subsidies that the carriers provide on handsets that create most of the problems. They've spent a lot of money on you up front, and they want to get that back. You can't blame them for that, but it sure makes life a PITA for the rest of us. I spent the time researching how to get pictures and ringtones on my phone without paying my carrier for it, and many others do the same.
It seems though, that given the money people have been willing to cough up for an iPod, that perhaps Moto should release the damn thing unlocked and let early adopters fork over the cash for it. Once there's good buzz around it, the first carrier to give in and subsidize the phone will get a lot of people who want it, but didn't want to pay full fare.
IIRC, the real issue with Vonage and 911 is that they'll route a 911 call to a published number for public safety. Unfortunately, this particular number may not even be answered in off-hours - it may strictly be the 'business line.'
Yep, because Copps is one of the biggest puritans there when it comes to indecency. Funny how he doesn't depend on the market to deal with that issue...
for the past few weeks as it's been reminding me my subscription (which i never paid for; or wanted for that matter) is up for renewal
I'm sure the newer versions are a bit more sophisticated, but on the older versions of NAV, you just needed to search for the 'DefAnnuity' key or some such and advance the start date to keep getting updates.....
It was an ok machine for the price back then, but today, it's crap
That's odd, because I've still got plenty of K6-2 350s and 400s in service, running everything from NT to XP. And they're plenty speedy. I have to wonder how much memory you've got in them, and what you've got for hard drives.
Amen. I've been watching a lot of reruns on TNT lately, and the standalone episodes are the best. The ones that try to build the mythology just keep leading to confusion.
and lord knows every nerd worth his salt enjoys looking at Gillian Anderson
Have you seen the recent pictures of her? http://www.sky.com/showbiz/article/0,,30200- 116234 1,00.html
Any gig where you can get tips can be quite lucrative. A friend of mine recently started a limo company, and I'm helping him as a driver. Cash payment, plus tips, and you're helping people who are out to enjoy themselves.
Well, I suspect that it's less an issue of being tracked, but more an issue of providing any such info to someone who may use it for other purposes. Many of these sites, after all, are the same ones who are ripping their content from other sites. And they're famous for advertising one thing and delivering another. So how do I know they won't do something fishy with my information?
Granted, you can minimize the risk by using virtual account numbers on your credit card, etc. But how is a pr0n-hound to know which sites he can trust?
First they would need to install the lava plug in for their browser. Also, Java Applets are slow to start on older machines, and are often blocked by firewalls. However, it's not a bad idea, but if someone uses this technique, they should beef up their help desk.
You're confusing client and server-side Java. The original suggestion was to use Java on the server to stream the images, rather than just make them readable by the web server.
But it won't keep someone serious about swiping the images from doing so.
THG's use of a flat panel display simplified things for connecting to a computer. As someone who has an older laptop with a dead backlight, I'd love to give it a shot with that display. Anyone know of any good references to tell me how to connect that panel to a PC's video card output?
Anyway wouldn't a Dremel work better if you freeze the pumpkin first?
Good question. We carved three pumpkins yesterday. It was the first time using the 'skinning' technique. One was the gargoyle-looking one from the Dremel site, and the others were Marvin the Martian and the Tazmanian Devil from elsewhere.
In addition to using a Dremel, I also used some dental picks. The WB characters were a bit too detailed to get much use out of the Dremel, so they were mostly done with the picks. As I worked in an area where I needed a very narrow ridge of skin left, it was tough to be very precise, as that ridge would always flex. I was pondering then whether a frozen pumpking would work better.
Second which is the best Dremel to buy?
Depends on what you're doing. I bought a kit a few years back that included a variable speed tool, the flexible shaft attachment, and a bunch of bits in a case. Works for most of what I use it for, which is mainly the cutoff wheels, a sanding drum for the dogs' toenails, and now pumpking carving.
Indeed. And it's exactly why most police cars have video cameras on the dash, and many officers have tape records with them. It provides evidence for court when needed, but also protects the officer against frivilous claims.
If your fridge or freezer isn't full, it's a good idea to keep some water jugs in there anyway. Think back to your chemistry classes, and recall that while it takes more electricity to initially cool that water, it's not going to heat up right away every time you open the door, unlike a lot of empty airspace. So you're making your appliance more efficient for normal situations, and extending the time you can be without power.
Maybe the political notes should go to politics.slashdot.org and not so much here, eh?
Do you think that you can actually isolate politics from this? Whoever wins in November will most likely be appointing at least one Supreme Court justice. Do you really think Bush would be picking nominees who feel that PATRIOT is unconstitutional? That would be one of those 'activist' judges....
Yup. Lousy job of this whole thing. They show a patch available for Win2K with IE6 SP1, yet scanning said system with their tool says there is no vulnerability. Or did the fix magically get added into a different update that was already run?
Another system claims that there 'may' be vulnerabilities. Installed all the patches that would apply. The tool still says the same thing.
Another pretty stupid thing is that they have this run as part of Windows Update, but they really need to be able to have a way for the average user to run it multiple times. After all, if Joe User sees that he has vulnerabilities, and then goes off to do other updates, he's going to have to find the download page for the tool later to recheck. This one has disaster written all over it.
However, at least if you find a good breeder you have a snow-ball's chance in Hell that the puppy will be healthy and good tempered where as a mix breed it's a complete gamble (what makes the mix breed's quality any better than the poorly bred purebred in the newspaper? It isn't. It's one and the same)
Sure, a random mixed-breed may have problems, but remember that the 'breed-specific' problems are frequently the result of inbreeding and recessive genes. If breed A frequently has a recessive genetic trait, and breed B does not, mixing the two can't result in the problem.
As you totally gloss over all the extra medical problems that purebreeds are prone to.
Not to mention the fact that there are tons of people out there breeding dogs who don't have a clue, and are only doing it for the money. It's very easy to get AKC paperwork for dogs, and therefore sell AKC registered puppies. Too many people think this is some kind of guarantee that the puppy will be healthy and free from problems.
A good breeder screens their animals for breed-specific problems. A good breeder also won't be selling their dogs in a parking lot or sending them to a pet store.
Oh yes. Be sure to get your information from a certified security industry cartel member. That way you can buy the hardware at a 5000% markup and have it professionally installed so you don't realize that most of the stuff is decades old technology.
And most of it isn't terribly complicated. We have a system installed by ADT at our office. ADT does the monitoring. System started alarming due to a low backup battery. ADT was going to charge a $40 service call, plus another $50 for the new battery, but they couldn't come out for a few days. Took the battery out, went to a local supplier, and got a new battery for $20.
When we were vacating some office space, I did some searching on how to get around the installer code, and removed those sensors from the system.
Sure, your average person should probably rely on a security company for anything like this, but the average slashdotter should be able to deal with it.
Stations are required to monitor at least two sources of EAS data. To spoof a manned station, you'd need at least two transmitters.
Good info up until that statement. The reason you're required to monitor at least two stations is for redundancy, not confirmation.
With EBS, you only monitored one upstream station, creating a weak link. EAS requires multiple sources to prevent this problem, but doesn't cross-check the other sources.
Think of a weather warning, where the local NWS office issues an EAS alert. All stations monitoring NOAA weather radio in the area will receive it. Some will relay it. A small station will likely get the alert direct from NOAA and from another station they monitor. So even if a station did verify with two sources, a single spoofed alert could give them two identical alerts.
Yup. Seems simple enough. You modify what the VSS is feeding out the port, and suddenly, the device records much lower speeds.
Also, does the OBDII port provide a constant 12V feed? If not, how would the device know if you remove it? Driving at the the 'dangerous' times? Yank it.
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Swiffers are great for floors, especially if you have pets. I've never seen a paper towel suck up dog hair like a Swiffer does. Nor does it do as good a job dusting surfaces, especially on electronics.
the courts are the place to fight the law. But to fight the law in court, you start by breaking it and trying to make a precedent with your case.
You just have to make sure you get one of 'them activist judges' who actually take the whole checks and balances thing seriously...
I used to believe them until I found out how much phones cost overseas: less than they cost here with a 2yr contract
You can buy lots of things at lower retail costs overseas. Take the recent discussions about textbook costs. But the higher price in the US isn't because of the retailer making a higher margin, it's because their wholesale cost is higher.
So even though a consumer may be able to buy phone x overseas for USD200, it doesn't mean that the US carrier doesn't have to pay USD250 for them.
In the US, you can NOT buy your phone, and then plug it into ANY wireless carrier. In an open wireless market, you can switch providers ANY TIME and keep the same physical phone.
You can, as long as the carriers in question are using the same technology, and you didn't benefit from a healthy subsidy on the phone. Go buy a full retail-priced GSM phone, and get a SIM card for whatever carrier you want to use. Buy a full price CDMA phone, and you can have whatever CDMA carrier you want service it.
It's the subsidies that the carriers provide on handsets that create most of the problems. They've spent a lot of money on you up front, and they want to get that back. You can't blame them for that, but it sure makes life a PITA for the rest of us. I spent the time researching how to get pictures and ringtones on my phone without paying my carrier for it, and many others do the same.
It seems though, that given the money people have been willing to cough up for an iPod, that perhaps Moto should release the damn thing unlocked and let early adopters fork over the cash for it. Once there's good buzz around it, the first carrier to give in and subsidize the phone will get a lot of people who want it, but didn't want to pay full fare.
IIRC, the real issue with Vonage and 911 is that they'll route a 911 call to a published number for public safety. Unfortunately, this particular number may not even be answered in off-hours - it may strictly be the 'business line.'
Yep, because Copps is one of the biggest puritans there when it comes to indecency. Funny how he doesn't depend on the market to deal with that issue...
for the past few weeks as it's been reminding me my subscription (which i never paid for; or wanted for that matter) is up for renewal
I'm sure the newer versions are a bit more sophisticated, but on the older versions of NAV, you just needed to search for the 'DefAnnuity' key or some such and advance the start date to keep getting updates.....
It was an ok machine for the price back then, but today, it's crap
That's odd, because I've still got plenty of K6-2 350s and 400s in service, running everything from NT to XP. And they're plenty speedy. I have to wonder how much memory you've got in them, and what you've got for hard drives.
absurd continuity of the plots
- 116234 1,00.html
Amen. I've been watching a lot of reruns on TNT lately, and the standalone episodes are the best. The ones that try to build the mythology just keep leading to confusion.
and lord knows every nerd worth his salt enjoys looking at Gillian Anderson
Have you seen the recent pictures of her?
http://www.sky.com/showbiz/article/0,,30200
Any gig where you can get tips can be quite lucrative. A friend of mine recently started a limo company, and I'm helping him as a driver. Cash payment, plus tips, and you're helping people who are out to enjoy themselves.
I do have a couple of friends I trade services or things with.
Yup, that's pretty much the way I do it too. I fix a few things for a florist, and I end up getting free flowers when I want to send some to the wife.
I help out a mechanic friend, and I get to make use of the lifts at his shop.
Well, I suspect that it's less an issue of being tracked, but more an issue of providing any such info to someone who may use it for other purposes. Many of these sites, after all, are the same ones who are ripping their content from other sites. And they're famous for advertising one thing and delivering another. So how do I know they won't do something fishy with my information?
Granted, you can minimize the risk by using virtual account numbers on your credit card, etc. But how is a pr0n-hound to know which sites he can trust?
First they would need to install the lava plug in for their browser. Also, Java Applets are slow to start on older machines, and are often blocked by firewalls. However, it's not a bad idea, but if someone uses this technique, they should beef up their help desk.
You're confusing client and server-side Java. The original suggestion was to use Java on the server to stream the images, rather than just make them readable by the web server.
But it won't keep someone serious about swiping the images from doing so.
THG's use of a flat panel display simplified things for connecting to a computer. As someone who has an older laptop with a dead backlight, I'd love to give it a shot with that display. Anyone know of any good references to tell me how to connect that panel to a PC's video card output?
Anyway wouldn't a Dremel work better if you freeze the pumpkin first?
Good question. We carved three pumpkins yesterday. It was the first time using the 'skinning' technique. One was the gargoyle-looking one from the Dremel site, and the others were Marvin the Martian and the Tazmanian Devil from elsewhere.
In addition to using a Dremel, I also used some dental picks. The WB characters were a bit too detailed to get much use out of the Dremel, so they were mostly done with the picks. As I worked in an area where I needed a very narrow ridge of skin left, it was tough to be very precise, as that ridge would always flex. I was pondering then whether a frozen pumpking would work better.
Second which is the best Dremel to buy?
Depends on what you're doing. I bought a kit a few years back that included a variable speed tool, the flexible shaft attachment, and a bunch of bits in a case. Works for most of what I use it for, which is mainly the cutoff wheels, a sanding drum for the dogs' toenails, and now pumpking carving.
Indeed. And it's exactly why most police cars have video cameras on the dash, and many officers have tape records with them. It provides evidence for court when needed, but also protects the officer against frivilous claims.
If your fridge or freezer isn't full, it's a good idea to keep some water jugs in there anyway. Think back to your chemistry classes, and recall that while it takes more electricity to initially cool that water, it's not going to heat up right away every time you open the door, unlike a lot of empty airspace. So you're making your appliance more efficient for normal situations, and extending the time you can be without power.
Maybe the political notes should go to politics.slashdot.org and not so much here, eh?
Do you think that you can actually isolate politics from this? Whoever wins in November will most likely be appointing at least one Supreme Court justice. Do you really think Bush would be picking nominees who feel that PATRIOT is unconstitutional? That would be one of those 'activist' judges....
Yup. Lousy job of this whole thing. They show a patch available for Win2K with IE6 SP1, yet scanning said system with their tool says there is no vulnerability. Or did the fix magically get added into a different update that was already run?
Another system claims that there 'may' be vulnerabilities. Installed all the patches that would apply. The tool still says the same thing.
Another pretty stupid thing is that they have this run as part of Windows Update, but they really need to be able to have a way for the average user to run it multiple times. After all, if Joe User sees that he has vulnerabilities, and then goes off to do other updates, he's going to have to find the download page for the tool later to recheck. This one has disaster written all over it.
However, at least if you find a good breeder you have a snow-ball's chance in Hell that the puppy will be healthy and good tempered where as a mix breed it's a complete gamble (what makes the mix breed's quality any better than the poorly bred purebred in the newspaper? It isn't. It's one and the same)
Sure, a random mixed-breed may have problems, but remember that the 'breed-specific' problems are frequently the result of inbreeding and recessive genes. If breed A frequently has a recessive genetic trait, and breed B does not, mixing the two can't result in the problem.
As you totally gloss over all the extra medical problems that purebreeds are prone to.
Not to mention the fact that there are tons of people out there breeding dogs who don't have a clue, and are only doing it for the money. It's very easy to get AKC paperwork for dogs, and therefore sell AKC registered puppies. Too many people think this is some kind of guarantee that the puppy will be healthy and free from problems.
A good breeder screens their animals for breed-specific problems. A good breeder also won't be selling their dogs in a parking lot or sending them to a pet store.
Oh yes. Be sure to get your information from a certified security industry cartel member. That way you can buy the hardware at a 5000% markup and have it professionally installed so you don't realize that most of the stuff is decades old technology.
And most of it isn't terribly complicated. We have a system installed by ADT at our office. ADT does the monitoring. System started alarming due to a low backup battery. ADT was going to charge a $40 service call, plus another $50 for the new battery, but they couldn't come out for a few days. Took the battery out, went to a local supplier, and got a new battery for $20.
When we were vacating some office space, I did some searching on how to get around the installer code, and removed those sensors from the system.
Sure, your average person should probably rely on a security company for anything like this, but the average slashdotter should be able to deal with it.
Stations are required to monitor at least two sources of EAS data. To spoof a manned station, you'd need at least two transmitters.
Good info up until that statement. The reason you're required to monitor at least two stations is for redundancy, not confirmation.
With EBS, you only monitored one upstream station, creating a weak link. EAS requires multiple sources to prevent this problem, but doesn't cross-check the other sources.
Think of a weather warning, where the local NWS office issues an EAS alert. All stations monitoring NOAA weather radio in the area will receive it. Some will relay it. A small station will likely get the alert direct from NOAA and from another station they monitor. So even if a station did verify with two sources, a single spoofed alert could give them two identical alerts.
Yup. Seems simple enough. You modify what the VSS is feeding out the port, and suddenly, the device records much lower speeds.
Also, does the OBDII port provide a constant 12V feed? If not, how would the device know if you remove it? Driving at the the 'dangerous' times? Yank it.
To tell if you're speeding, the system would need GPS, and a knowledge of the speed limits in the area.
No, as it's using the OBDII data connector. This includes data on the vehicle speed.
And it's pretty safe to say that if you're regularly doing 80, you're exceeding the speed limit.