The iPod is basically a rubber-mounted hard drive attached to a solid-state chip. Normally, the drive is powered down. However, every twenty minutes it spins up to feed the solid-state part the next twenty minutes worth of music. (This is also how it gets its twenty minutes of shock protection, btw.)
Point. But it's one more hurdle in his way. Sort of like how locking your car doors won't prevent the chop shop guys from stealing your car, but it'll stop most of the stupider joyriders from taking your wheels and upping your insurance premium.
True. 128-bit WEP is a wussy encryption. However, it does keep the moron l33t hax0r teenager down the block from swiping your credit card number when you're ordering from eddiebauer.com in the hammock.
Would all the anti-MS bigots do us all a favor and grow the hell up and understand that the reason that Microsoft's OS is all over the place is that there is *not* a viable option for the 98% of the people that use a Microsoft OS that doesn't want to spend a week installing their OS and finding that it's not going to work with their hardware because someone getting drunk at frat parties at college hasn't written a stable-enough driver.
HEY! I'll have you know that some damn fine code has been written by drunken fratboys at obscene, post-saturnal hours of the night. Hell, I'm running some of mine right now.
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The iPod is basically a rubber-mounted hard drive attached to a solid-state chip. Normally, the drive is powered down. However, every twenty minutes it spins up to feed the solid-state part the next twenty minutes worth of music. (This is also how it gets its twenty minutes of shock protection, btw.)
Point. But it's one more hurdle in his way. Sort of like how locking your car doors won't prevent the chop shop guys from stealing your car, but it'll stop most of the stupider joyriders from taking your wheels and upping your insurance premium.
True. 128-bit WEP is a wussy encryption. However, it does keep the moron l33t hax0r teenager down the block from swiping your credit card number when you're ordering from eddiebauer.com in the hammock.
Would all the anti-MS bigots do us all a favor and grow the hell up and understand that the reason that Microsoft's OS is all over the place is that there is *not* a viable option for the 98% of the people that use a Microsoft OS that doesn't want to spend a week installing their OS and finding that it's not going to work with their hardware because someone getting drunk at frat parties at college hasn't written a stable-enough driver.
HEY! I'll have you know that some damn fine code has been written by drunken fratboys at obscene, post-saturnal hours of the night. Hell, I'm running some of mine right now.