All of these phones know their serial numbers. Just make it totally impossible to ever register a stolen serial number for new service and this should slow way down.
And the number of people capable of doing a brain transplant on an Android phone is probably in the 10,000s. Millions and millions of people are vulnerable and there isn't much they can do about it other than taking a hammer to the phone.
In late January, when every pundit expects an Apple Tablet rollout, what will be rolled out is another Apple phone - perhaps not called an iPhone - which is not tied to the AT&T network.
OK, you don't want me? The second I can get out of my contract I am buying a Droid and you won't ever have to worry about me overpaying for the 300 MB I use in the average month.
There is really no reason for XP on a netbook any more. You aren't using it a high end gaming platform. You aren't running Adobe Creative stuff on it.
You are using it to run FireFox, edit documents, read, IM and send email.
Linux has all that covered and is even document-compatible with Windows.
I have a Eee 900A with a 32GB SSD in it running Xubuntu and I connect to a corporate Radius network, bluetooth tether to my phone, and even use the web version of outlook on it to get at calendars.
Flash even works.
The only thing I can't do that would be nice is play Netflix movies as the Moonlight package does not have DRM in it (and likely never will.)
I read that this storm was abnormal in that there was a lot of seawater sucked up into it.
You know how weather sometimes causes fish and frogs and such to rain from the sky?
What if amazing numbers of small crustaceans were in that cloud? What if they PLUGGED the pitot tubes?
Radar would not see that the squall line up ahead was full of waterbugs.
A blocked pitot tube would mean you had no real airspeed indication. The static port would still feed the altimeter, but if you climbed your indicated airspeed would go down and the computer would throttle up, and if you descended the indicated airspeed would go up and the computer would command throttle down.
And as they became blocked there would be a change in the pressure of the system that would result in a throttle-up.
And if the static port were blocked, the vertical airspeed alert would not have happened.
What we really WANTED was a high-end Unix machine, but Zenith couldn't afford it, so we got a couple of 166 MHz (zoom!) Gateways and installed Slackware on them.
We (we being cable systems architecture and advance development group) used them for cross-development, as servers, and workstations. I installed netatalk on one and used it to translate between our Network Appliances RAID box and the Macs we used for day-to-day work. I recall having to change some of the disk size calculations to bigints as the size of the RAID was much larger than netatalk could deal with.
Let email ports and ssh ports and telnet ports and port 80 through ahead of everything else, let the rest of the stuff have the rest of the bandwidth, dropping any of those packets on the floor that will not fit.
This way people reading their emails or looking at CNN or logging into the shell at work will not have to wait behind the 50 teenage boys downloading "Butt Banging Babes 31" and without actually denying those users "best effort" service.
IANAL, but if I understand this correctly, what they are doing is literally extortion and is a felony in most states. And you can recover damages in a suit.
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Sue him in England.
As we all know, UK libel law, even as "reformed" presumes his guilt once accused.
If long term maintenance of existing products were free, I would be a pauper.
...Amazon has a very low cost of ownership for Android, after all. Apple wrote the vast majority of iOS.
All of these phones know their serial numbers. Just make it totally impossible to ever register a stolen serial number for new service and this should slow way down.
Does anybody know what he gained or expected to gain by doing this?
...that PCs no longer become obsolete at the rate they once did.
I had an iMac die the other day, one I bought in 2004. I was still using it, and it was still useful for the things it was purchased for.
It used to be that manufacturers depended on a 2 year obsolescence cycle.
...we will hear every year for the next 20 how this year is the year of OpenStack on the desktop?
A shame you can't arm the next one.
And the number of people capable of doing a brain transplant on an Android phone is probably in the 10,000s. Millions and millions of people are vulnerable and there isn't much they can do about it other than taking a hammer to the phone.
Nobody is so good that they should not have their code reviewed.
If you think you are that good, this is the first sign that you shouldn't be coding. Management Needs You.
I don't think so.
It's the nature of bleeding-edge tech.
In late January, when every pundit expects an Apple Tablet rollout, what will be rolled out is another Apple phone - perhaps not called an iPhone - which is not tied to the AT&T network.
And the service is terrible.
OK, you don't want me? The second I can get out of my contract I am buying a Droid and you won't ever have to worry about me overpaying for the 300 MB I use in the average month.
Jerks.
I agree. I will never, ever spend a dime at WalMart.
Hell, I wouldn't take their stuff were it free.
No, that's a reason for OSX (which does run on this machine.) :-D
The exploit is known...
So somebody needs to turn the exploit into a patch.
Shouldn't be that hard.
There is really no reason for XP on a netbook any more. You aren't using it a high end gaming platform. You aren't running Adobe Creative stuff on it.
You are using it to run FireFox, edit documents, read, IM and send email.
Linux has all that covered and is even document-compatible with Windows.
I have a Eee 900A with a 32GB SSD in it running Xubuntu and I connect to a corporate Radius network, bluetooth tether to my phone, and even use the web version of outlook on it to get at calendars.
Flash even works.
The only thing I can't do that would be nice is play Netflix movies as the Moonlight package does not have DRM in it (and likely never will.)
OK, here is a workaround;
http://blog.hep-cat.de/?p=4760#Mac
Basically it rolls the Airport firmware back to 10.5.7
It's a terminal-based solution.
Tried it and it works.
And they broke WiFi Internet sharing - Doesn't work any more. Comes up, works for about 3 minutes and then 100% failure.
I wonder if they will even bother fixing it, or if they hope to force us all to buy Snow Leopard?
I can confirm this.
I spent about 6 hours trying to find a good workaround over the weekend, but could not.
"Caused?"
I defy you to prove that.
The forces involved in an earthquake are so far beyond what man can control or cause that it is not even funny.
I read that this storm was abnormal in that there was a lot of seawater sucked up into it.
You know how weather sometimes causes fish and frogs and such to rain from the sky?
What if amazing numbers of small crustaceans were in that cloud? What if they PLUGGED the pitot tubes?
Radar would not see that the squall line up ahead was full of waterbugs.
A blocked pitot tube would mean you had no real airspeed indication. The static port would still feed the altimeter, but if you climbed your indicated airspeed would go down and the computer would throttle up, and if you descended the indicated airspeed would go up and the computer would command throttle down.
And as they became blocked there would be a change in the pressure of the system that would result in a throttle-up.
And if the static port were blocked, the vertical airspeed alert would not have happened.
What do you think?
What we really WANTED was a high-end Unix machine, but Zenith couldn't afford it, so we got a couple of 166 MHz (zoom!) Gateways and installed Slackware on them.
We (we being cable systems architecture and advance development group) used them for cross-development, as servers, and workstations. I installed netatalk on one and used it to translate between our Network Appliances RAID box and the Macs we used for day-to-day work. I recall having to change some of the disk size calculations to bigints as the size of the RAID was much larger than netatalk could deal with.
Let email ports and ssh ports and telnet ports and port 80 through ahead of everything else, let the rest of the stuff have the rest of the bandwidth, dropping any of those packets on the floor that will not fit.
This way people reading their emails or looking at CNN or logging into the shell at work will not have to wait behind the 50 teenage boys downloading "Butt Banging Babes 31" and without actually denying those users "best effort" service.
And you need a lawyer right now.
IANAL, but if I understand this correctly, what they are doing is literally extortion and is a felony in most states. And you can recover damages in a suit.
No, you only need one set up as a NAS with the drive on it.