If someone is popping the zipper they could just pull out a knife and slash the luggage instead. Don't check valuable easy to steal objects. That stuff is for carry on.
If someone actually cared enough to try to be sneaky with this, it's pretty easy to remove most zipties with a spudger or really any flat object. Even just a fingernail in some cases. Back when I was a poor college student I would reuse zip ties several times for different tasks because I couldn't afford to buy new ones. I'm sure you could make ones that are harder to defeat, but those won't be the ones you find 100 in a bag for $5 at Big Lots.
Isn't this exactly why "TSA approved" locks exist? Customs has always said that if they want to inspect your bag, they're going to inspect your bag. Putting a lock on it just means you get a broken lock. Doing something weird and crazy with internal zip ties is just asking for it to be slashed open with a knife. It's not their job to give a crap about your luggage, their job is to find contraband.
Traveling around South America recently I noticed that the airports down there have these services where they will wrap your luggage in cling wrap and put a giant sticker on it so you can tell if someone has gone through your luggage. It's an interesting take on the problem and also helps people with shitty suitcases that can't survive airport baggage services.
Phone batteries tend to be around 50-60% of their original capacity after a couple of years. Here is the thing though, it may be difficult but it is not impossible to replace the battery in something like an iPhone. It requires a special screwdriver, but that is easily found online from the same places that sell replacement batteries. The actual procedure isn't especially difficult on most phones. It's not something you would do regularly, but as something you do maybe once to a phone its really not so bad. The tradeoff is that the phone is thinner and lasts longer on the charge. You also lose the ability to carry extra batteries with you on a trip and swap them in as needed, but that was not typical even when it was possible, and less necessary with the higher capacity "permanent" batteries on phones.
The one thing you do miss is the ability to pull the battery from your phone if you suspect it has been compromised and is spying on you. With baseband hacks you can never be sure if the phone is completely off the way you could back when you could yank the battery.
It depends. Ubuntu is terrible at keeping the driver up to date, which is a problem when you run into games that specifically require a newer version of the driver. There is also the longstanding bug where every time the kernel is updated (about twice a week) it breaks the nVidia driver and the devs just don't seem to care. They even know it's a major problem because the webpage it forwards you to tells you that it's a very frequently reported bug and to not comment because it would break the comment system.
Luckily other distros are better at managing binary drivers, but Ubuntu is the one that's supposed to be user friendly.
In some ways the Macintosh was a success in spite of itself. Everybody else knew that you couldn't do bitmapped graphics on a consumer priced machine because memory was too expensive, except for Steve Jobs. So he forced his vision through all of the naysayers and brought it to market, where it was mostly an overpriced toy that couldn't even do moderate word processing without running out of memory, but paved the way for proper Macs a few years later with the 512k Fat Mac and the Mac Plus.
More smartphone cases should have a little slider that you can slip over the cameras when you are not using them. I know the original manufacturer is already hamstrung by the size of the lenses relative to the thickness of their phones, but case manufacturers have more leeway.
A Paypal account? Paypal locks your account if you so much as blink too fast or too slow. They're never going to see the money. Plus, what is their plan for getting the money out? Having Paypal mail them a check?
Predictive services are a double edged sword. On one hand it's great if your phone can do something for you before you even know you need it, but it's very easy for a scenario like that to backfire unexpectedly and disastrously.
"Beep boop, you almost forgot your anniversery, I have ordered flowers for your SO".
"But, my anniversery isn't for another 4 months...oh shit the mistress!"
"Honey, why is there a charge on our card to the flower shop for an anniversary special? And where are the flowers?"
Third article on that link: "Should You Be Concerned About “Game of Thrones,” Even If You Don’t Get HBO?"
Bottom line: "So yes, we should be concerned about Game of Thrones, even if there’s a 0% chance your child will see it, because it’s influence will be felt throughout primetime in very short order."
Sounds like it's time to start writing some letters.
I'm thinking it would have to launch the harpoon at a spinning comet and wrap the tether around the comet at least once before applying the brakes. There's no way in hell the harpoon alone is going to withstand 10G of accel without pulling out. The downside is that the probe and comet are whizzing past each other at 10km/s so there is not much time to do anything. All in all this smells like another space elevator. One of those cool ideas that just doesn't pan out when you do the math.
Most of the people complaining have never watched it. They are just writing letters because that's what the group is rallying against this week. The kind of people who write letters to the FCC aren't the ones who stay up late to watch pay cable.
As a Fairfax county resident, those machines haven't been widely used in years. Most people get scantrons. The machines are mostly just for blind people and the non-english speakers, because they have audio out and can read the ballots in multiple languages. The last time everybody used them was 2004, which coincidentally was the last time the state voted for a Republican president.
Nowadays you don't see nearly as much gain from overclocking. You still get 200Mhz, but that's only 10% more performance instead of 50%.
Benchmarks. Note the memory score as well as the Integer and Floating point scores. Half of the speedup comes from the cpu crunching, and the other half comes from the memory and GPU.
But you don't have to take my word for it. If you has Raspbian installed you can try it yourself in like 60 seconds. Just run raspi-config and go into the overclocking menu. You do have to reboot afterward, but that's pretty quick. You will probably be surprised at how noticeable the difference is, especially when working with memory hungry applications like Chromium.
When I want something that can fit in my pants pocket, ebooks fail - but paperbacks deliver.
What kind of e-reader are you using? A regular size Kindle is way thinner and about the same size otherwise as a typical paperback. It is also quite a bit lighter. Even if you put a protective case on it, the thing will still be no less portable than a dead tree book.
I read most of my ebooks on my phone, which obviously fits in my pocket just fine.
I'm currently reading A Clash of Kings via Overdrive. I also read the first four books of the Culture series, a Canticle for Liebowitz, the Forever War, the Martian (the waitlist was epic for this one--good thing it is a quick read), and the Hyperion Cantos.
Amusingly, my library offers Game of Thrones in two formats: a 4 book set with the first 4 books of A Song of Ice and Fire, and a 5 book set that also includes the most recent one. I thought they were awfully optimistic about my ability to read all 5 books of A Song of Ice and Fire in 3 weeks.
Overdrive has a couple of quirks. The first is that the "online reading" mode sucks ass. Never use it. Always download the book to your device. Trust me. The other is that renewals are handled somewhat awkwardly. The book still self destructs on your device and you have to download it again every time you renew. It does at least remember your place in the book when you do this.
The best thing about Overdrive is that it is on my phone, so it is always with me. If I ever find myself with time to kill, I can just fire it up and read a few more pages. It's not quite as nice as a dedicated e-reader, but the convenience factor is huge. I liken it to the way cameraphones killed off point and shoot cameras. They aren't as good, but the convenience factor outweighs the downsides. How many times have you been stuck in a waiting area going "I should have brought a book"? Never again.
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If someone is popping the zipper they could just pull out a knife and slash the luggage instead. Don't check valuable easy to steal objects. That stuff is for carry on.
If someone actually cared enough to try to be sneaky with this, it's pretty easy to remove most zipties with a spudger or really any flat object. Even just a fingernail in some cases. Back when I was a poor college student I would reuse zip ties several times for different tasks because I couldn't afford to buy new ones. I'm sure you could make ones that are harder to defeat, but those won't be the ones you find 100 in a bag for $5 at Big Lots.
Isn't this exactly why "TSA approved" locks exist? Customs has always said that if they want to inspect your bag, they're going to inspect your bag. Putting a lock on it just means you get a broken lock. Doing something weird and crazy with internal zip ties is just asking for it to be slashed open with a knife. It's not their job to give a crap about your luggage, their job is to find contraband.
Traveling around South America recently I noticed that the airports down there have these services where they will wrap your luggage in cling wrap and put a giant sticker on it so you can tell if someone has gone through your luggage. It's an interesting take on the problem and also helps people with shitty suitcases that can't survive airport baggage services.
Phone batteries tend to be around 50-60% of their original capacity after a couple of years. Here is the thing though, it may be difficult but it is not impossible to replace the battery in something like an iPhone. It requires a special screwdriver, but that is easily found online from the same places that sell replacement batteries. The actual procedure isn't especially difficult on most phones. It's not something you would do regularly, but as something you do maybe once to a phone its really not so bad. The tradeoff is that the phone is thinner and lasts longer on the charge. You also lose the ability to carry extra batteries with you on a trip and swap them in as needed, but that was not typical even when it was possible, and less necessary with the higher capacity "permanent" batteries on phones.
The one thing you do miss is the ability to pull the battery from your phone if you suspect it has been compromised and is spying on you. With baseband hacks you can never be sure if the phone is completely off the way you could back when you could yank the battery.
I suppose Gnuradio is out of the question? It probably is given how awful the user experience is with Gnuradio.
It depends. Ubuntu is terrible at keeping the driver up to date, which is a problem when you run into games that specifically require a newer version of the driver. There is also the longstanding bug where every time the kernel is updated (about twice a week) it breaks the nVidia driver and the devs just don't seem to care. They even know it's a major problem because the webpage it forwards you to tells you that it's a very frequently reported bug and to not comment because it would break the comment system.
Luckily other distros are better at managing binary drivers, but Ubuntu is the one that's supposed to be user friendly.
Oh yes, that totally sounds like something the government would do. How silly of me.
In some ways the Macintosh was a success in spite of itself. Everybody else knew that you couldn't do bitmapped graphics on a consumer priced machine because memory was too expensive, except for Steve Jobs. So he forced his vision through all of the naysayers and brought it to market, where it was mostly an overpriced toy that couldn't even do moderate word processing without running out of memory, but paved the way for proper Macs a few years later with the 512k Fat Mac and the Mac Plus.
More smartphone cases should have a little slider that you can slip over the cameras when you are not using them. I know the original manufacturer is already hamstrung by the size of the lenses relative to the thickness of their phones, but case manufacturers have more leeway.
I have to wonder if the scammers insist that they Paypal the money to their "official FBI address", something like: alexey.petrakov@yandex.ru.
A Paypal account? Paypal locks your account if you so much as blink too fast or too slow. They're never going to see the money. Plus, what is their plan for getting the money out? Having Paypal mail them a check?
Predictive services are a double edged sword. On one hand it's great if your phone can do something for you before you even know you need it, but it's very easy for a scenario like that to backfire unexpectedly and disastrously.
"Beep boop, you almost forgot your anniversery, I have ordered flowers for your SO".
"But, my anniversery isn't for another 4 months...oh shit the mistress!"
"Honey, why is there a charge on our card to the flower shop for an anniversary special? And where are the flowers?"
Third article on that link: "Should You Be Concerned About “Game of Thrones,” Even If You Don’t Get HBO?"
Bottom line: "So yes, we should be concerned about Game of Thrones, even if there’s a 0% chance your child will see it, because it’s influence will be felt throughout primetime in very short order."
Sounds like it's time to start writing some letters.
I'm thinking it would have to launch the harpoon at a spinning comet and wrap the tether around the comet at least once before applying the brakes. There's no way in hell the harpoon alone is going to withstand 10G of accel without pulling out. The downside is that the probe and comet are whizzing past each other at 10km/s so there is not much time to do anything. All in all this smells like another space elevator. One of those cool ideas that just doesn't pan out when you do the math.
Most of the people complaining have never watched it. They are just writing letters because that's what the group is rallying against this week. The kind of people who write letters to the FCC aren't the ones who stay up late to watch pay cable.
So you envision a libertarian paradise with strongly enforced environmental regulations? I daresay you have a unique take on libertarianism.
You don't need the translations for the names, you need them for the ballot initiatives. School bonds and the like.
I was really expecting the statue to be an androided version of the Stay-Puft Marshmallow man. The statue is a little disappointing.
As a Fairfax county resident, those machines haven't been widely used in years. Most people get scantrons. The machines are mostly just for blind people and the non-english speakers, because they have audio out and can read the ballots in multiple languages. The last time everybody used them was 2004, which coincidentally was the last time the state voted for a Republican president.
Nowadays you don't see nearly as much gain from overclocking. You still get 200Mhz, but that's only 10% more performance instead of 50%.
Benchmarks. Note the memory score as well as the Integer and Floating point scores. Half of the speedup comes from the cpu crunching, and the other half comes from the memory and GPU.
But you don't have to take my word for it. If you has Raspbian installed you can try it yourself in like 60 seconds. Just run raspi-config and go into the overclocking menu. You do have to reboot afterward, but that's pretty quick. You will probably be surprised at how noticeable the difference is, especially when working with memory hungry applications like Chromium.
No, although there is a package called uselessd that provides enough systemd hooks to get Gnome running if that's your thing.
IIRC the patch came in a bit after the cutoff for 10.2. It will probably be MFC for 10.3.
What kind of e-reader are you using? A regular size Kindle is way thinner and about the same size otherwise as a typical paperback. It is also quite a bit lighter. Even if you put a protective case on it, the thing will still be no less portable than a dead tree book.
I read most of my ebooks on my phone, which obviously fits in my pocket just fine.
I'm currently reading A Clash of Kings via Overdrive. I also read the first four books of the Culture series, a Canticle for Liebowitz, the Forever War, the Martian (the waitlist was epic for this one--good thing it is a quick read), and the Hyperion Cantos.
Amusingly, my library offers Game of Thrones in two formats: a 4 book set with the first 4 books of A Song of Ice and Fire, and a 5 book set that also includes the most recent one. I thought they were awfully optimistic about my ability to read all 5 books of A Song of Ice and Fire in 3 weeks.
Overdrive has a couple of quirks. The first is that the "online reading" mode sucks ass. Never use it. Always download the book to your device. Trust me. The other is that renewals are handled somewhat awkwardly. The book still self destructs on your device and you have to download it again every time you renew. It does at least remember your place in the book when you do this.
The best thing about Overdrive is that it is on my phone, so it is always with me. If I ever find myself with time to kill, I can just fire it up and read a few more pages. It's not quite as nice as a dedicated e-reader, but the convenience factor is huge. I liken it to the way cameraphones killed off point and shoot cameras. They aren't as good, but the convenience factor outweighs the downsides. How many times have you been stuck in a waiting area going "I should have brought a book"? Never again.