Hard drive encryption doesn't really offer much to a machine sitting in a data center though. The real value is on laptop hard drives where there is a much greater chance of having your machine stolen at some point. Built-in full disk encryption will help prevent the crook from getting at all of your data.
How did you get 5 insightful on that piece of crap? What the hell does the sunspot cycle (with an 11 year cycle) have to do with climate change as measured over decades?!?
The idea is that some people would get the coupons but then not use them (they get cable, buy a new TV, move out of the country, etc...) and they wanted the coupons to revert to people who still needed them. Not to mention all of the people who sign up for them because they see the ad, get confused when it comes in the mail and throws them away. If you've requested them but you let your coupons expire you can re-request the coupons. Of course that won't help now that the program is out of money, but blame all of those folks who got coupons they don't need.
It probably means they will have to add a hardware feature to put a sound over the ringer speakers (even when muted!) when the camera is activated. I imagine that the worst offenders would just patch out a firmware fix.
This is bad news for things like the iPhone however, since it would mean you would have to disallow third party access to the camera to insure your phone doesn't run afoul of the law, which would be a problem for people who want to use the camera for things besides taking pantyshots, like games.
Wouldn't it be easier to just hide it somewhere (out in the woods for instance) instead of involving a third person who could potentially id both of you if the army comes looking?
My guess is that like so much stuff found in second hand shops near bases, the MP3 player was stolen from the previous owner and sold for beer money. The files on it probably weren't classified or particularly sensitive and the previous owner was using it as a fancy thumb drive.
Not all old folks are set in their ways, but the ones that are will likely resist getting broadband. I have one grandma that will use email at my aunt's house, but she has no interest at all at getting it in her house.
The people I know who don't want internet are all older folks who are very set in their ways. They don't want to do anything new and that includes the internet. They don't really know what the internet is and they don't want to know. You could give them free broadband and a free computer and they still wouldn't use it.
It apparently matters to someone, since China apparently got the price lowered as well. I have to wonder if it was worth all of the international hooplah to reduce the price of the single copy of Windows they bought.
It seems to me that instead of flexible computer screens (which already exist), this could be more interesting to the hobbyist market where you could sell an inkjet printer that had conductive ink cartridges to print out circuit boards for people to play with.
Sure, there are already low cost fab options out there, and people can always use breadboards, but this seems like it would let you do small one-off projects that aren't obviously built on a breadboard.
Just print out the board (with included markings for all of the components), attach the components somehow (solder won't burn through paper, but I don't know about the ink--is it heat resistant?) and watch your project light up. It might even be easier: Print the paper out, paste it on a piece of dense foam, and poke your components through the paper, maybe with a tiny dab of electrical paste/glue on each one.
I could see kits being sold to kids in the vein of those old Radio Shack kits that had springs to attach each wire, only this would let you build something better than a primitive two bit adder. I'm thinking about "make your own laser pointer", build a programmable remote control, build your own robot control board (with attachment points for the leads to the servo motors).
The downside is that ink-jet cartridges are not in any way standardized, and the companies are downright hostile to third parties that try to create compatible cartridges. Convincing HP or Lexmark to make expensive (well, ok, they already like expensive) low volume cartridges is a lost cause as well.
I still think it's ridiculous that instead of getting a photo id to check the cards name, every wage slave cashier in the world is supposed to be a handwriting analysis expert. The signature on the back of your card is security theater at its worst. Not only is it completely worthless at stopping someone from using a stolen card, it also leaves your signature right out in the open.
Don't get me wrong though, I believe that writing your signature on the cashier's copy still has merit, mostly for going back after the fact and proving that whoever used your card is not you, by a trained handwriting analyst, using a sample you provide. It's the signature on the card that's completely worthless.
Why wait 20 years? You have people who do that today, and people believe them. The kind of people who believe that are the ones that want to believe it. All of the evidence in the world won't stand up against a couple of things they think they've found that "prove" they're right.
Isn't it more likely that the internet just killed them? With people shopping around and buying electronics online, it's hard for a store like CC to exist. The Apple store is doing fine because they have that whole cult of personality thing going on and Apple's pricing model/lockin means you usually can't find it any cheaper online. The fact that Apple went to a lot of trouble to make the store pleasurable to shop in doesn't hurt either.
That's not my experience at all. The Circuit City folks here were typically way more helpful and knowledgeable than Best Buy's. They were by no means experts, and sometimes the only thing they were good at was hovering over you shooing off other salespeople hungry for the commission, but typically they could answer any basic questions you had.
Unlike Best Buy, it was never hard to get a salesguy in Circuit City. Typically they would be on you within 10 seconds of walking in the door. Granted, that was annoying most of the time, but if you were looking for something that requires a salesguy to complete the transaction, like a TV, then it was nice. The only other thing I really didn't like is that they drank the Monster Cable Kool-aid and always tried to shove those stupid overpriced cables down your throat whenever you bought something, but Best Buy does that too.
In computing, service-oriented architecture (SOA) provides methods for systems development and integration where systems group functionality around business processes and package these as interoperable services. SOA also describes IT infrastructure which allows different applications to exchange data with one another as they participate in business processes. Service-orientation aims at a loose coupling of services with operating systems, programming languages and other technologies which underlie applications.[1] SOA separates functions into distinct units, or services[2], which developers make accessible over a network in order that users can combine and reuse them in the production of business applications.[3] These services communicate with each other by passing data from one service to another, or by coordinating an activity between two or more services. Many commentators[who?] see SOA concepts as built upon and evolving from older concepts of distributed computing[3][2] and modular programming.
Shoot, I dropped the big bucks on the 8800GTX when it came out and it's still an able performer. It looks like it's going to be another 6 months or maybe even a year before I have to dial back from "ultra extreme" settings to merely "high" settings on new games (although I didn't try Crysis).
They used to do that around here until the portable detectors got good enough to be used as evidence. Your jurisdiction should probably consider retiring their ancient clunker, especially since it can result in people getting off when the station gets really busy and the perp ends up sitting around for a few hours before being analyzed.
It seems likely to me that you would just be charged with both the DUI and the open container violation. The Breathalyzer is but one of the pieces of evidence submitted in a DUI case. To be honest, your suggestion sounds like first-year law student/fratboy advice. Something that sounds like it would work on paper, but is in fact a completely boneheaded thing to do in real life. It will probably work just about as well as those guys who sue the state every year claiming that taxes are illegal.
Then she should return it. If they don't take returns, my guess is that the company will run afoul of German consumer protection laws.
Also, despite what companies and lawyers what to make you think, EULAs (and most contracts) are not "law". You won't be brought up on criminal charges if you break it. EULAs are a civil matter, so the company would have to sue her, and if she brought her story into court there's a very good chance (no guarantees, I am not a Lawyer, etc...) that the court would rule in her favor. Note that some places have bad laws on the books that can elevate things like EULAs and corporate policy into criminal law, but that shouldn't apply here.
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However, it also decreases the chance of recovering data from a failed drive if your backup system has a malfunction and a drive goes.
Hard drive encryption doesn't really offer much to a machine sitting in a data center though. The real value is on laptop hard drives where there is a much greater chance of having your machine stolen at some point. Built-in full disk encryption will help prevent the crook from getting at all of your data.
How did you get 5 insightful on that piece of crap? What the hell does the sunspot cycle (with an 11 year cycle) have to do with climate change as measured over decades?!?
Maybe it behaves like real paintball, where after you shoot someone instead of falling down they walk out of the map.
Or, if you're like the punk kids at my local range, after you're shot you walk behind a building and being playing again.
The idea is that some people would get the coupons but then not use them (they get cable, buy a new TV, move out of the country, etc...) and they wanted the coupons to revert to people who still needed them. Not to mention all of the people who sign up for them because they see the ad, get confused when it comes in the mail and throws them away. If you've requested them but you let your coupons expire you can re-request the coupons. Of course that won't help now that the program is out of money, but blame all of those folks who got coupons they don't need.
It probably means they will have to add a hardware feature to put a sound over the ringer speakers (even when muted!) when the camera is activated. I imagine that the worst offenders would just patch out a firmware fix.
This is bad news for things like the iPhone however, since it would mean you would have to disallow third party access to the camera to insure your phone doesn't run afoul of the law, which would be a problem for people who want to use the camera for things besides taking pantyshots, like games.
15 years seems like a long time to figure out the punishment for a guy after he's found guilty.
Wouldn't it be easier to just hide it somewhere (out in the woods for instance) instead of involving a third person who could potentially id both of you if the army comes looking?
Wasn't that John Romero?
My guess is that like so much stuff found in second hand shops near bases, the MP3 player was stolen from the previous owner and sold for beer money. The files on it probably weren't classified or particularly sensitive and the previous owner was using it as a fancy thumb drive.
Not all old folks are set in their ways, but the ones that are will likely resist getting broadband. I have one grandma that will use email at my aunt's house, but she has no interest at all at getting it in her house.
The people I know who don't want internet are all older folks who are very set in their ways. They don't want to do anything new and that includes the internet. They don't really know what the internet is and they don't want to know. You could give them free broadband and a free computer and they still wouldn't use it.
It apparently matters to someone, since China apparently got the price lowered as well. I have to wonder if it was worth all of the international hooplah to reduce the price of the single copy of Windows they bought.
I'd offer that your average home enthusiast is more likely to own an ink-jet printer than a laser printer.
It seems to me that instead of flexible computer screens (which already exist), this could be more interesting to the hobbyist market where you could sell an inkjet printer that had conductive ink cartridges to print out circuit boards for people to play with.
Sure, there are already low cost fab options out there, and people can always use breadboards, but this seems like it would let you do small one-off projects that aren't obviously built on a breadboard.
Just print out the board (with included markings for all of the components), attach the components somehow (solder won't burn through paper, but I don't know about the ink--is it heat resistant?) and watch your project light up. It might even be easier: Print the paper out, paste it on a piece of dense foam, and poke your components through the paper, maybe with a tiny dab of electrical paste/glue on each one.
I could see kits being sold to kids in the vein of those old Radio Shack kits that had springs to attach each wire, only this would let you build something better than a primitive two bit adder. I'm thinking about "make your own laser pointer", build a programmable remote control, build your own robot control board (with attachment points for the leads to the servo motors).
The downside is that ink-jet cartridges are not in any way standardized, and the companies are downright hostile to third parties that try to create compatible cartridges. Convincing HP or Lexmark to make expensive (well, ok, they already like expensive) low volume cartridges is a lost cause as well.
I still think it's ridiculous that instead of getting a photo id to check the cards name, every wage slave cashier in the world is supposed to be a handwriting analysis expert. The signature on the back of your card is security theater at its worst. Not only is it completely worthless at stopping someone from using a stolen card, it also leaves your signature right out in the open. Don't get me wrong though, I believe that writing your signature on the cashier's copy still has merit, mostly for going back after the fact and proving that whoever used your card is not you, by a trained handwriting analyst, using a sample you provide. It's the signature on the card that's completely worthless.
Why wait 20 years? You have people who do that today, and people believe them. The kind of people who believe that are the ones that want to believe it. All of the evidence in the world won't stand up against a couple of things they think they've found that "prove" they're right.
Don't forget that you also get an average of 30 words per page to go with the picture.
Isn't it more likely that the internet just killed them? With people shopping around and buying electronics online, it's hard for a store like CC to exist. The Apple store is doing fine because they have that whole cult of personality thing going on and Apple's pricing model/lockin means you usually can't find it any cheaper online. The fact that Apple went to a lot of trouble to make the store pleasurable to shop in doesn't hurt either.
That's not my experience at all. The Circuit City folks here were typically way more helpful and knowledgeable than Best Buy's. They were by no means experts, and sometimes the only thing they were good at was hovering over you shooing off other salespeople hungry for the commission, but typically they could answer any basic questions you had. Unlike Best Buy, it was never hard to get a salesguy in Circuit City. Typically they would be on you within 10 seconds of walking in the door. Granted, that was annoying most of the time, but if you were looking for something that requires a salesguy to complete the transaction, like a TV, then it was nice. The only other thing I really didn't like is that they drank the Monster Cable Kool-aid and always tried to shove those stupid overpriced cables down your throat whenever you bought something, but Best Buy does that too.
So it's a network with clients and servers on it?
Shoot, I dropped the big bucks on the 8800GTX when it came out and it's still an able performer. It looks like it's going to be another 6 months or maybe even a year before I have to dial back from "ultra extreme" settings to merely "high" settings on new games (although I didn't try Crysis).
They used to do that around here until the portable detectors got good enough to be used as evidence. Your jurisdiction should probably consider retiring their ancient clunker, especially since it can result in people getting off when the station gets really busy and the perp ends up sitting around for a few hours before being analyzed.
It seems likely to me that you would just be charged with both the DUI and the open container violation. The Breathalyzer is but one of the pieces of evidence submitted in a DUI case. To be honest, your suggestion sounds like first-year law student/fratboy advice. Something that sounds like it would work on paper, but is in fact a completely boneheaded thing to do in real life. It will probably work just about as well as those guys who sue the state every year claiming that taxes are illegal.
Then she should return it. If they don't take returns, my guess is that the company will run afoul of German consumer protection laws.
Also, despite what companies and lawyers what to make you think, EULAs (and most contracts) are not "law". You won't be brought up on criminal charges if you break it. EULAs are a civil matter, so the company would have to sue her, and if she brought her story into court there's a very good chance (no guarantees, I am not a Lawyer, etc...) that the court would rule in her favor. Note that some places have bad laws on the books that can elevate things like EULAs and corporate policy into criminal law, but that shouldn't apply here.