I love how every time the concept of Alacarte cable comes up, the industry tells us that it would mean higher bills for everyone and much less money going to content producers. The cable industry is telling us to our face that if we want to choose channels they'll rip us off as much as possible, and that's a lot because they are a monopoly. I believe them too. They've been a monopoly for so long they don't even know what customer satisfaction is anymore.
Yeah, once you change the cards once the scammer will know something is up. Once there is a discrepancy between the publicly available information and his back channel he will bail. You can fold a lot to reduce the amount of information you make public, but sooner or later you gotta show your hand.
It's common enough that there are bots that troll Github looking for anything that looks like a private key and immediately tries to take over any account it finds.
Unencrypted HTTP back channel? I would be tempted to leave this running and wait for someone to try to use it, then at a crucial times (on a big bet) change what is being sent back to them to make my hand look weaker than it is. Then you tell your AV to nuke it and change your passwords.
I've always thought this would be a good twist for one of those "Oh, I've got a time machine, lets go back and assassinate Hitler." stories, where they screw it up and end up just getting him replaced by someone competent.
Healthy as in popular titles are available on Linux and work without complaint. You don't have to find some obscure file on an FTP site somewhere, copy specific files off of the Windows DVD and then mess with weird X settings to get games working anymore. You just open up Steam and click "play".
Given the innate natural tendency for men to want to try to show off in front of attractive women, this seems like it could actually work. They can harness the instinct to motivate programmers to pound out code. It is devious, but a little dangerous since it can lead to competition instead of cooperation between the programmers. The women have to walk a fine line between appearing interested but not too interested in any one guy to avoid anger and jealousy. They're playing with fire here.
It has those too, but you have to take your eyes off of the road to use them, so people use the steering wheel buttons to choose the mode instead. The steering wheel only has the "next input" option.
Ubuntu is kind of the default choice for someone in your situation. It also happens to be the distro that Valve uses for their Steam integration work, so is probably a good choice for you.
Satellite Radio is pretty easy to avoid though. Just don't subscribe and leave your head unit in AM/FM mode. The only annoyance is having to cycle through the Satellite Radio input when switching between USB/CD/AM/FM modes. One whole extra button push. Worst case is that if you accidentally push the mode button one too many times you hear the canned "please buy our overpriced ClearChannel rebroadcast" message for a second and have to go around again.
You buy games, not versions of games on Steam. So if there is a Linux or Mac install of a game you bought on Windows, it automatically appears in your list on the other platforms. Surprisingly, Steam's cloud saves generally work cross platform as well, so you can start a game on Windows and then finish it on Linux, or play a round on the Mac and then go back to your Linux box.
You might be surprised at how healthy gaming is becoming on Linux. The Linux Steam client is helping a lot. I've been playing through Torchlight II and Bioshock Infinite (my backlog is kind of long at this point) on Linux and they just work. No mess no fuss just launch them from Steam and play. In my Steam catalog maybe half of the games are playable on the Linux side, and admittedly the Linux list is heavily weighted towards indie titles, but Steambox has been convincing some of the big name publishers to put in the relatively minimal amount of effort necessary for Linux support.
A lot of it comes down to the engines too. If you build on Unity then Linux support is a no brainer. If you build on Unreal then you probably won't have Linux support, but even that is changing as engine developers are adding Linux build options now.
That said, some big name titles are not getting native Linux versions in the foreseeable future. If you want to play GTAV you need a Windows machine, or really a console because the PC port was so halfassed to begin with. Generally if the Windows version of a game is barely functional they won't have a Linux version either. An exception is apparently Arkham Knight, which had a terribad PC port but somehow is still going to make it to Linux this fall apparently.
From my pile of Dell, HP, and other brand SFF machines sitting right here? I don't think this card would work in any of them without me pulling out the NIC and replacing the annoyingly sized power supply.
That's what they were doing already. People who upgrade every time sell their old phones back to apple for about half what they paid for it and Apple then refurbs and resells them.
Most SFF cases I've seen don't have two slots for the video card. At best you're going to be covering up your only other expansion slot with this card. Most SFF power supplies aren't set up to feed 175W cards either. I can see this being useful in a specialist setting, like a gamer STB, but as a drop in replacement for people with SFF machines it's going to be problematic.
The cost is pretty much exactly new phone and Applecare + for the year. Apple is offering what is effectively a 0% interest loan. It's a bad deal if you don't want to upgrade every year, but for people who absolutely must have the new shiny and spring for the insurance it is break even.
The problem is that there is just no room to work with in your average phone. The glass backs on some iPhones don't help either. It would be difficult to install a switch that was properly recessed and not tremendously fragile.
I was just wondering how much you could ship via FedEx for the $25 airline baggage fee? Certainly not 23 kilos in a 1m x.6m x.4m bag. The checked bag fee starts to look almost reasonable when you consider the price of bulk shipping.
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I love how every time the concept of Alacarte cable comes up, the industry tells us that it would mean higher bills for everyone and much less money going to content producers. The cable industry is telling us to our face that if we want to choose channels they'll rip us off as much as possible, and that's a lot because they are a monopoly. I believe them too. They've been a monopoly for so long they don't even know what customer satisfaction is anymore.
Yeah, once you change the cards once the scammer will know something is up. Once there is a discrepancy between the publicly available information and his back channel he will bail. You can fold a lot to reduce the amount of information you make public, but sooner or later you gotta show your hand.
It's common enough that there are bots that troll Github looking for anything that looks like a private key and immediately tries to take over any account it finds.
Unencrypted HTTP back channel? I would be tempted to leave this running and wait for someone to try to use it, then at a crucial times (on a big bet) change what is being sent back to them to make my hand look weaker than it is. Then you tell your AV to nuke it and change your passwords.
Maybe they were going to fill in the URL later and forgot? It's not like the Slashdot editors are going to verify the links are working...
Anyway, there is a good bit of information about the Orion spacecraft on NASA's official page.
I've always thought this would be a good twist for one of those "Oh, I've got a time machine, lets go back and assassinate Hitler." stories, where they screw it up and end up just getting him replaced by someone competent.
Healthy as in popular titles are available on Linux and work without complaint. You don't have to find some obscure file on an FTP site somewhere, copy specific files off of the Windows DVD and then mess with weird X settings to get games working anymore. You just open up Steam and click "play".
Given the innate natural tendency for men to want to try to show off in front of attractive women, this seems like it could actually work. They can harness the instinct to motivate programmers to pound out code. It is devious, but a little dangerous since it can lead to competition instead of cooperation between the programmers. The women have to walk a fine line between appearing interested but not too interested in any one guy to avoid anger and jealousy. They're playing with fire here.
It has those too, but you have to take your eyes off of the road to use them, so people use the steering wheel buttons to choose the mode instead. The steering wheel only has the "next input" option.
Bah, that's what I get for going from memory instead of double checking. I was off by a version.
Ubuntu is kind of the default choice for someone in your situation. It also happens to be the distro that Valve uses for their Steam integration work, so is probably a good choice for you.
Satellite Radio is pretty easy to avoid though. Just don't subscribe and leave your head unit in AM/FM mode. The only annoyance is having to cycle through the Satellite Radio input when switching between USB/CD/AM/FM modes. One whole extra button push. Worst case is that if you accidentally push the mode button one too many times you hear the canned "please buy our overpriced ClearChannel rebroadcast" message for a second and have to go around again.
It is built into the vehicle's radio antenna.
You buy games, not versions of games on Steam. So if there is a Linux or Mac install of a game you bought on Windows, it automatically appears in your list on the other platforms. Surprisingly, Steam's cloud saves generally work cross platform as well, so you can start a game on Windows and then finish it on Linux, or play a round on the Mac and then go back to your Linux box.
Win 7 and Win 8 users automatically get a copy of Win 10 for free. So you're only pirating Win 10 if you're already pirating Win 7 or Win 8.
You might be surprised at how healthy gaming is becoming on Linux. The Linux Steam client is helping a lot. I've been playing through Torchlight II and Bioshock Infinite (my backlog is kind of long at this point) on Linux and they just work. No mess no fuss just launch them from Steam and play. In my Steam catalog maybe half of the games are playable on the Linux side, and admittedly the Linux list is heavily weighted towards indie titles, but Steambox has been convincing some of the big name publishers to put in the relatively minimal amount of effort necessary for Linux support.
A lot of it comes down to the engines too. If you build on Unity then Linux support is a no brainer. If you build on Unreal then you probably won't have Linux support, but even that is changing as engine developers are adding Linux build options now.
That said, some big name titles are not getting native Linux versions in the foreseeable future. If you want to play GTAV you need a Windows machine, or really a console because the PC port was so halfassed to begin with. Generally if the Windows version of a game is barely functional they won't have a Linux version either. An exception is apparently Arkham Knight, which had a terribad PC port but somehow is still going to make it to Linux this fall apparently.
From my pile of Dell, HP, and other brand SFF machines sitting right here? I don't think this card would work in any of them without me pulling out the NIC and replacing the annoyingly sized power supply.
That's what they were doing already. People who upgrade every time sell their old phones back to apple for about half what they paid for it and Apple then refurbs and resells them.
Most SFF cases I've seen don't have two slots for the video card. At best you're going to be covering up your only other expansion slot with this card. Most SFF power supplies aren't set up to feed 175W cards either. I can see this being useful in a specialist setting, like a gamer STB, but as a drop in replacement for people with SFF machines it's going to be problematic.
The cost is pretty much exactly new phone and Applecare + for the year. Apple is offering what is effectively a 0% interest loan. It's a bad deal if you don't want to upgrade every year, but for people who absolutely must have the new shiny and spring for the insurance it is break even.
Or an adult. At least cursive is dying out so you don't end up with the absolute worst case scenario as much anymore (sloppy cursive).
The computers at my local library are always busy. They do have Wifi though, so bringing your own is an option.
Space mostly. There's just no room to add anything to a modern smartphone. Every cubic mm is accounted for.
The problem is that there is just no room to work with in your average phone. The glass backs on some iPhones don't help either. It would be difficult to install a switch that was properly recessed and not tremendously fragile.
I was just wondering how much you could ship via FedEx for the $25 airline baggage fee? Certainly not 23 kilos in a 1m x .6m x .4m bag. The checked bag fee starts to look almost reasonable when you consider the price of bulk shipping.