Even if TFA was talking about diamonds instead of CZ- they've been making lab diamonds indistinguishable from earth diamonds. The only reason diamonds aren't a penny a pound is because of women and DeBeers.
My LG VX-6100 battery was going to be $60something plus 7% tax- and thats for a battery that doesn't require resoldering/dissasembling my phone fore. Since my one year was up on the phone, I bought a new one at new contract price and for about $10 less than the cost of the old battery, I got a new phone with bluetooth. I realize replacing the iPhone at $500+ isn't as plain an option since the phones aren't subsidized, but my point was that another $20 for a resolder job and not having tax isn't too crazy.
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I was in the cub scouts- didnt learn shit- didn't do shit. Our particular pack/den was worthless.
his home number is just plain blocked. He doesnt have time to decide whether each call is business (especially at 3A) or personal and figure out how to make the phone company change the ID. He just has analog telephone service (no VOIP) - so he doesnt have much of a choice. If the phone company had a *something option that toggled between the two- maybe he'd use it, but if his beeper goes off he's on the phone in seconds- i'm not sure he'd want to muck with it.
I understand where you're coming from. I hate blocked calls too- but there are legitimate reasons is all I'm saying.
But there are a lot of people who would commit cell phone theft that would not commit bank fraud or identity theft outright, but once that information is in their hands and theyre safely at home, it might serve as a 'gateway drug' to bigger and badder crime.
My dad is a physician and often makes calls from home- he does not want patients calling him directly at 3AM- there is a paging system in place through the office that pages the correct (and on call) doctor for the night.
Sure, but youd think theyd already be doing things like that if it weren't going to make life difficult in other ways. They run non-full loads for other reasons than not caring about the environment. Some include wanting to have a bigger plane at the destination for a different flight. This might make positioning equipment harder. Even if there are exemptions for that, you can bet that the increased competition for seats will raise the prices even more and the consumer will be the one getting frustrated and the airlines will lose even more customers. Flying will become something only for the elite like cars were early on.
but why put extra pressure on a crumbling industry right now? Another year or two isn't going to make much of a difference in the scheme of the environment. The waste per passenger must be lower than that of driving a car (speculation). Even if planes were the most horrible polluters, now doesn't seem like the time?
That and the fact that many of us are trained professional drivers used to using radios or having a load full of passengers. If youre going to ban cell phones, ban CB radios, work radios (dispatch for tow trucks, etc) as well. As others have mentioned, passengers can talk too.
Some people are just bad drivers and the cell phone doesn't help any, some people get bad when on the cell phone, and some people are literally unchanged by the cell phone. Some people just multi-task better.
What if these kinds of sites started running on custom equipment that didn't have removeable ram chips and ran off a bootable ROM and did all the web transactions completely stateless? There'd literally be nothing to log, and nowhere to log it.
You'd have to make a co-chip to the ram that can peek in on the state- or just make two ram sticks, during non-forensic mode, both copies are updated on write, and during forensic mode they can be addressed separately for reading.. so your program would run in the regular ram and would read the copy ram. This still doesn't take into account program state, cpu registers, stack pointer, instruction pointer, etc, and you still would have no real idea what that snapshot was really saying.
Obviously the judge doesn't understand. Say you could keep a log of every change to the ram since powerup- eg initial state all zeroes, address 1234 changes to 0xAA, address 1235 changes to 0x55, and so on until power off.. The data is still without context- without knowing precisely what was running and what the instruction pointers were and what the cpu registers were and all that for every single change to the ram, it would be impossible to figure out what was truly in the ram.
If the judge wants the servers to log every ip address it comes in contact with, then that would be addressed in the kernel/tcp stack of the OS, not the hardware. Coming up with a neighbor chip to the ram that logs all that would be impossible (to do with context).
The burden should be on the accusers to come up with the evidence through trained individuals in law enforcement. If I get sued/arrested, you can bet your ass I don't trust Mediacom/Comcast/MaCableCo to keep perfectly accurate/unaltered logs. I don't necessarily implicitly trust the government's snooping ability either, but I'm at least willing to take their word for it.
The more you make companies do, the less likely they're going to do it well. In the end, the consumer and the company get screwed.
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Even if TFA was talking about diamonds instead of CZ- they've been making lab diamonds indistinguishable from earth diamonds. The only reason diamonds aren't a penny a pound is because of women and DeBeers.
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My LG VX-6100 battery was going to be $60something plus 7% tax- and thats for a battery that doesn't require resoldering/dissasembling my phone fore. Since my one year was up on the phone, I bought a new one at new contract price and for about $10 less than the cost of the old battery, I got a new phone with bluetooth. I realize replacing the iPhone at $500+ isn't as plain an option since the phones aren't subsidized, but my point was that another $20 for a resolder job and not having tax isn't too crazy.
I was in the cub scouts- didnt learn shit- didn't do shit. Our particular pack/den was worthless.
Sign me up for your group. (I'm now 26)
Another use for lead paint?
What about tablets, tackballs, and people who have multiple USB pointing devices hooked up- monitor them all?
his home number is just plain blocked. He doesnt have time to decide whether each call is business (especially at 3A) or personal and figure out how to make the phone company change the ID. He just has analog telephone service (no VOIP) - so he doesnt have much of a choice. If the phone company had a *something option that toggled between the two- maybe he'd use it, but if his beeper goes off he's on the phone in seconds- i'm not sure he'd want to muck with it.
I understand where you're coming from. I hate blocked calls too- but there are legitimate reasons is all I'm saying.
But there are a lot of people who would commit cell phone theft that would not commit bank fraud or identity theft outright, but once that information is in their hands and theyre safely at home, it might serve as a 'gateway drug' to bigger and badder crime.
My dad is a physician and often makes calls from home- he does not want patients calling him directly at 3AM- there is a paging system in place through the office that pages the correct (and on call) doctor for the night.
while not the ZDNet blog, I found it before someone posted the ZDNet link above and seems to contain the same quote/general information.
http://www.smdailyjournal.com/article_preview.php? type=wnews&id=76472&eddate=
this might help.
www.launchy.com takes you to a squatter site
I presume he meant:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/launchy
Sure, but youd think theyd already be doing things like that if it weren't going to make life difficult in other ways. They run non-full loads for other reasons than not caring about the environment. Some include wanting to have a bigger plane at the destination for a different flight. This might make positioning equipment harder. Even if there are exemptions for that, you can bet that the increased competition for seats will raise the prices even more and the consumer will be the one getting frustrated and the airlines will lose even more customers. Flying will become something only for the elite like cars were early on.
fly at X feet and save gas, or fly at X+5,000 and get repeat customers who didn't puke all over themselves ;)
unfortunately there's only so much optimization that can be done given storms and having to fly near beacons
but why put extra pressure on a crumbling industry right now? Another year or two isn't going to make much of a difference in the scheme of the environment. The waste per passenger must be lower than that of driving a car (speculation). Even if planes were the most horrible polluters, now doesn't seem like the time?
Original XBox live had this (unknown if Xbox 360 does), but it left much to be desired and many asked people to turn them off.
That and the fact that many of us are trained professional drivers used to using radios or having a load full of passengers. If youre going to ban cell phones, ban CB radios, work radios (dispatch for tow trucks, etc) as well. As others have mentioned, passengers can talk too.
Some people are just bad drivers and the cell phone doesn't help any, some people get bad when on the cell phone, and some people are literally unchanged by the cell phone. Some people just multi-task better.
They're actually not usually air-tight- there's usually at least one small hole with a silica pouch and/or filter behind it.
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What if these kinds of sites started running on custom equipment that didn't have removeable ram chips and ran off a bootable ROM and did all the web transactions completely stateless? There'd literally be nothing to log, and nowhere to log it.
You'd have to make a co-chip to the ram that can peek in on the state- or just make two ram sticks, during non-forensic mode, both copies are updated on write, and during forensic mode they can be addressed separately for reading.. so your program would run in the regular ram and would read the copy ram. This still doesn't take into account program state, cpu registers, stack pointer, instruction pointer, etc, and you still would have no real idea what that snapshot was really saying.
Obviously the judge doesn't understand. Say you could keep a log of every change to the ram since powerup- eg initial state all zeroes, address 1234 changes to 0xAA, address 1235 changes to 0x55, and so on until power off.. The data is still without context- without knowing precisely what was running and what the instruction pointers were and what the cpu registers were and all that for every single change to the ram, it would be impossible to figure out what was truly in the ram.
If the judge wants the servers to log every ip address it comes in contact with, then that would be addressed in the kernel/tcp stack of the OS, not the hardware. Coming up with a neighbor chip to the ram that logs all that would be impossible (to do with context).
The burden should be on the accusers to come up with the evidence through trained individuals in law enforcement. If I get sued/arrested, you can bet your ass I don't trust Mediacom/Comcast/MaCableCo to keep perfectly accurate/unaltered logs. I don't necessarily implicitly trust the government's snooping ability either, but I'm at least willing to take their word for it.
The more you make companies do, the less likely they're going to do it well. In the end, the consumer and the company get screwed.