that DOES NOT WORK. After you launch the latest version, it connects online and "upgrades" your account. Once upgraded, if you try to launch an older version of teamviewer and sign in with your account, "you can no longer use this version of teamviewer, please install the latest update".
BS like that, that's why I left. "OK then, so if you're so into using forced online verification, why can't you let me install it on all the machines here so long as I'm only USING it on one at a time?" They refused to answer that. "Money" of course was the correct answer. I can see pulling a stunt like that for the free users, but we paid for a license and they still gave us the shaft. Bad move to do that to a paying customer.
For now I think you're "safe" as long as you keep the old app, and never login (anywhere) with version 9 and allow it to "upgrade" your account. They don't appear to have been planning to do this in 8, so it doesn't force you to upgrade. I'm sure that's been "fixed" in the latest version.
MY account on the other hand, is ruined, sorry to say. I don't think you can make an earlier version account with 8 anymore either. (I should test that)
TeamViewer recently pushed an "update" that imposes a fairly short time limit on the free connections. This was not mentioned to the users prior to running the update. It also "upgraded your account" online so you can no longer run the older unlimited version of teamviewer.
That, combined with the obsession about not wanting you to install your licensed copy on more than one support computer (despite being totally online and trivially blocked from simultaneous instances) lead me to drop my support for them as well. We even bought a license, but having to bump someone from the machine it's registered on just to remote into someone else here is a hassle. Just another example of making users "regret upgrading". That's a horrible business model.
There really isn't any good free 3rd party alternative out there that I've seen. I can map ports and even have set up remote check-ins to manage changing IP addresses, but being able to automatically traverse routers (uPNP) I haven't managed to replicate yet. The easiest thing for me at this point, since I run mac, is to simply use FaceTime's screen sharing, which provides the auto check-in for dynamic IPs and also does a good job of getting in through routers. The last os upgrade was free even, which makes it a bit cheaper than LogMeIn or TeamViewer;)
Now, do you have a good way to deal with messages that are two-lines instead of one line?
Since SED and GREP only like to work on single lines, in some applications I will use TR to change linefeeds to some other character (like/x01) and do my replacements and then TR them back to linefeeds. I know SED supports pattern buffers but I have yet to take the time to play with it.
And what's wrong with apple's grep?
I forget. I know I've ran into problems in the past but I just grabbed an older build from an earlier version of OS X one time when I needed it. I honestly can't recall why I needed to do that. Either a behavior change or a bug I believe it was. Might have been a string length limitation that cropped up. (important if you're removing linefeeds)
TR, GREP, CUT, and SED together tend to do whatever I need doing. I also use BBEdit quite a lot for handling large text files. Its find and replace supports regular expressions. For one-offs it's often easier to do transformations with BBEdit. If you haven't used CUT before, you'll want to look into it and all its modes of operation. Often CUT is a simpler option than SED.
Final note: If your script works fine from command line but mysteriously fails when run by cron, check to see what is and isn't in cron's PATH. I've ran into that issue on several occasions when trying to do periodic batch file processing. (specific lack of SBIN iirc was the biggie)
In the case of the 2008 and the 2.2/2.4 mbp's, the problem was actually Nvidia, fault, not Apple.. Apple pushes the design limits of their components pretty close to the edge to keep their designs small, light, and enduring. The frame and cooling was designed to only slightly exceed required cooling for nvidia's GPU, according to their provided specifications.
Nvidia lied about the cooling requirements of their GPU, describing it as requiring less cooling than it actually did. (probably as a selling point to get Apple to use it) As a result, the machine didn't adequately cool it under very high stress. (playing WoW for an extended time was a known cause of failure) As a result, boards and GPUs flexed, ball solder joints failed, and gpus stopped functioning. (this is not a gpu defect or a ball problem, it's a mechanical problem, caused by thermal stress due to inadequate cooling)
After Apple had encountered a larger number of in-warranty failures than expected, they contacted Nvidia, who denied the problem. Bad logic boards continued to pour in and get repaired under the one year warranty, but replaced boards were frequently failing again, and users were sometimes seeing 2-4 replacements within the first year. A few customers got a new machine per Apple's policy on "three major repairs within warranty", some of which had gpu failures on their replacement machines as well. Apple put their own engineers to work testing new GPUs, and found that the cooling requirements were significantly above Nvidia's stated specs.
Although they were aware of this issue well before the first year, Apple's SOP on an issue like this is to stay quiet until the units start dropping out of their first year's warranty, and then issue a Repair Extension on them. (probably trying to mitigate a drop in sales on a "defective model") Coverage time for REPs vary, and only extend the warranty on the specific part, and only for the specific failure. REPs typically extend coverage to the 2, 3, or 4 year point after purchase. It does not stack with applecare extended warranty. This REP I believe went the maximum at four years from date of purchase.
Apple has issued a dozen or so REPs in the last ten years. Considering the units sold, the variety of models offered, and the cutting-edge technology they'r fond of using, this is actually a pretty low failure rate, as well as a very good manufacturer's response.
2011 is not a new computer, it's going on three years old. Referring to them as "dropping dead" makes it sound like it's a very early failure (first year or so) I think the article is being sensational and a bit deceptive to link-bait. Apple expects their products to last 3-5 years before they get replaced. Considering how fast tech advances, and that Apple users typically want new and cutting-edge tech, this isn't at all unreasonable. With as many models as they make, there are going to be those that fail sooner than others, and that you can expect to get less than 7-8 years out of. This may just be one of them. It happens. And it can suck to be the unlucky one that owns one. But "only" getting three years out of a laptop may not be desirable, but it's hardly a travesty. If Apple were to refuse to cover failures inside the one year warranty, or not extend coverage to units failing frequently in the 2-3 year area, that'd be newsworthy. This really isn't.
the same technique can be applied to any log file that you can manage to parse consistently. devs that don't understand the need to escape delimiters in text fields can make your day go bad.
the identification of some kind of 6502 assembly code in the Terminator's red overlay,
fyi, one of those was a Merlin Pro disassembly of the layout of the VTOC (Volume Table of Contents) of the DOS 3.3 catalog track, from an Apple ][. I don't recall if the other one was or not.
There's really no better way to scan a log file for odd log entries than to write a big regexp that filters out whitelisted entries. Lets you find log entries you're NOT expecting. (and occasionally, log entries that not even the developers are expecting)
Editing them of course is a royal pain, (not to mention debugging!) so I usually write a script to compose the regexp. I just checked on one of mine, and it composes a 17,000+ character single-liner that scans my wired.log file.
I've got a smaller one that keeps an eye on secure.log for anomalies.
A friend showed me how easy it was to use, and we decided to give it a try at our shop, where we do computer sales and service. Being able to do remote support would be very useful, we have several customers that live a good distance away from us and that occasionally need to schedule us to come out and help them, and this would allow us to help them at significantly lower rates.
We set up team viewer 6 (iirc) and bought one license. Come to find out that it could only be installed on one physical computer. We were used to remote apps that only allow one simultaneous USE at a time, and that's all we needed. Too bad the GM installed it on his computer before we could stop him. So now we have to go into his office to do remote support. (or HE has to do it)
I discussed this with teamveiwer and they basically told me to buy another seat or get lost. More on principle than cost I think, we continued to use it from that machine. They have a nice tool to create a wrapped installer that you put on your web site and your customers just click to download. It installs, and immediately launches, configures, and connects to us. I must admit that's slick. Too bad it only connected to the GM's computer.
So more frequently lately I just connect from my computer to the customer the more manual way. It pops up a "for non commercial use only" note on launch but hey we already paid for our license and I'm the only using it so whatever, it works fine. We never use more than one instance at a time, so as far as I see it, we're playing fair, we paid for one instance and are using one instance,
I had been seeing an update notice for teamviewer and I made the [i]mistake[/i] of running it and it upgraded me to version 7. Now it disconnects me after 15 minutes. Back to 6 I guess. Finally found the old app in a backup and reinstalled it. Nope! They "upgraded" my account online and now I can't use teamviewer 6 anymore. Bastards. I really hate it when computer software actively fights me trying to get my job done. (6 is compatible with 7, the only difference apparently is the timeout they added, so don't be a fool and "upgrade") So they're not on my Good List anymore. I have to pay twice to use once, and they absolutely do NOT care to work with me on it. Greed wins over customer service with them, unfortunately.
I hate to see that happen with good products. Alsoft DiskWarrior is the same way, incredibly useful product, horrible customer service.
to balance the interests of national security and intelligence gathering with privacy and 'protecting democracy, civil liberties, and the rule of law.'
Am I reading that right? The "rule of law" is getting "balanced" by something else? I didn't think LAW was negotiable? Maybe that's the problem here? Someone's trying to "strike a balance" between legal and national security?
Government policy shouldn't be trying to draw a line between security and legality. Legality is THE LINE that is not crossed over, ever. If you can't do it legally, that means you shouldn't BE doing it. The correct response is not to consider bending the laws.
That will only work if the chief legal counsel believes the odds are against them.
Don't forget that an action that saves a few thousand dollars, that has a 10% chance of costing a million, is still a very bad risk, statistically speaking. That risk/loss multiplier is frequently a game-changer. We don''t buy insurance because we think we're going to run into a tree, we buy insurance because we can't afford it if we do - the odds of it happening aren't high, but aren't small enough to be able to ignore, and the loss if it happens is simply too great.
Possession of a scale and drugs of almost any quantity here will get you "with intent to distribute" tacked on. An ex dealer I know said all the dealers in town have small personal safes they keep their scales in. That totally confused me until they filled me in on that minor little legal detail. (not that a safe often stops the cops, but apparently it can help)
It is amazing how "intent" can be made illegal. How can you really prove intent without a telepath?
I live in Iowa. We grow a lot of corn here. But there are other crops, things like soybean and sunflower. You know what happens when the demand for ethanol goes up? The price of corn goes up. And then what? People stop planting as much soybean and sunflower because corn is making them more. And then what? The price of soybean and sunflower goes up because there's a drop in supply.
And that's why a large bag of sunflower seed for my birdfeeder darn near doubled in price a few years ago, everyone was pulling out their sunflower and replacing it with corn. You don't really notice all these effects until they start hitting you.
Farmers will hedge their bets, plant multiple kinds of crops in case one of them tanks due to weather, but the ratio they mix in varies, to balance return and risk. When return on their main crop goes up, they can take bigger risks by pulling more of the less profitable crops out.
I had considered that, but the issue there is, underburn results in not getting as far away from a gravity well as you intended, and that should introduce an exponentially increasing energy requirement to recover. In other words, if you only burn 10 liters in the time you meant to burn 12, you can't just burn 2 and make up for it, because it's going to require a little more than that to get where you should be?
five minutes is a pretty long correcting burn... I hope they didn't go through most of their spare fuel in the process. (TBH I wouldn't have expected them to have that much available in the first place, lifting spare fuel isn't like throwing a spare headlight in the trunk, five minutes' fuel is more like throwing a spare tire in the back seat) Anyone have any data on how much "buffer fuel" they carried, and how much they went through with this fix?
I thought work was being done on "battery swap" charge stations? If you can swap a battery, it can't be that hard to just drop one? I don't know if tesla cars support anything like that though
I'd agree with that. "skype" is becoming a verb at this point. "I'll skype you when I get home".
Too bad to see MS is gonna kill backward compatibility with hardware. I know a LOT of people still using skype vers 2 because of all the crap that happened to it recently. MS sure loves to increment product version numbers. Oooo look we moved the Close button, bump the version!
Unless there's a lot of information we're not seeing here, someone's going to get burned for this. (send me a link and I'll contribute to the kindling fund)
Yes the warranty has to spell out what is to be searched for. But there are at least two issues then. First, was the warrant loosely worded, was the area searched and items taken within that verbiage, and was it illegally loosely worded? and second, officers often have some leeway to take contraband when searching for other things - if they bust down a door for a meth lab warrant, they can take that full auto assault rifle they find in plain sight too, even if it's not on the warrant.
Bigger courts tend to take a very dim view on exposing a reporter's sources. If someone manages to follow the money and tie the target of the whistleblowing to the raid, things will get real exciting. One other thing here, messing with the media's rights tends to get a lot more publicity than messing with Joe Citizen's rights. (they kinda "look after their own") so I hope this gets all the massive media attention it deserves. (it's also much more difficult to muzzle or pay off the media)
could this be a consequence of Microsoft not releasing 8.1 RTM to developers?
Seriously? They didn't seed that to the devs for a week or two? That's just plain stupid. Only reason I can see for pulling that is if there was a serious problem they needed to get fixed quickly.
Also raises the question of how much they really care about the performance and stability of RT on other manufacturers' boxes?
airlines need to be required to have a demo seat for cattle-class to try out at the check-in counter. Set it up with a pokey wall to the left where the passenger division is, so you know you won't be sticking your elbow in the other fellow's lap. And have the front partitioned to show the seat in front of you reclined.
Similar on topic, I'd like to see someone do a volumetric comparison between airline seats, all now, and comparing against previous years. A nice graph to show hard numbers of how seating space has steadily declined over the years.
Bonus points for airports that set up a row of seats in the lobby, so you can compare and decide who NOT to get a ticket from.
I've had to do it on a few different jobs, where I was hired by a distant company to provide support for a customer in my area. For them I telecommuted for meetings etc.
I think one point that's been missed so far is that you only have a limited path of communication. It's generally one person talking to one other person. Interrupting may be rude but sometimes it's necessary, especially when you have people that ramble or that are being unproductive by repeating the same things over and over. It also gives others the opportunity to briefly voice their agreement. Things like "it's a problem when you do this". "You're the only one that's had any..." (and two other people suddenly speak up to disagree)
Also people don't behave the same when they're online with someone. It's pretty well known that some people act one way on a forum or in a chat room and are completely different in person. Same thing applies to video conferencing. But in this case I think it's a positive change. People that would normally be timid in a personal meeting get more brave and participate more, and will push their opinions harder. It really helps timid people contribute more. Otherwise these people get dominated by those with a stronger outgoing personality.
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that DOES NOT WORK. After you launch the latest version, it connects online and "upgrades" your account. Once upgraded, if you try to launch an older version of teamviewer and sign in with your account, "you can no longer use this version of teamviewer, please install the latest update".
BS like that, that's why I left. "OK then, so if you're so into using forced online verification, why can't you let me install it on all the machines here so long as I'm only USING it on one at a time?" They refused to answer that. "Money" of course was the correct answer. I can see pulling a stunt like that for the free users, but we paid for a license and they still gave us the shaft. Bad move to do that to a paying customer.
For now I think you're "safe" as long as you keep the old app, and never login (anywhere) with version 9 and allow it to "upgrade" your account. They don't appear to have been planning to do this in 8, so it doesn't force you to upgrade. I'm sure that's been "fixed" in the latest version.
MY account on the other hand, is ruined, sorry to say. I don't think you can make an earlier version account with 8 anymore either. (I should test that)
TeamViewer recently pushed an "update" that imposes a fairly short time limit on the free connections. This was not mentioned to the users prior to running the update. It also "upgraded your account" online so you can no longer run the older unlimited version of teamviewer.
That, combined with the obsession about not wanting you to install your licensed copy on more than one support computer (despite being totally online and trivially blocked from simultaneous instances) lead me to drop my support for them as well. We even bought a license, but having to bump someone from the machine it's registered on just to remote into someone else here is a hassle. Just another example of making users "regret upgrading". That's a horrible business model.
There really isn't any good free 3rd party alternative out there that I've seen. I can map ports and even have set up remote check-ins to manage changing IP addresses, but being able to automatically traverse routers (uPNP) I haven't managed to replicate yet. The easiest thing for me at this point, since I run mac, is to simply use FaceTime's screen sharing, which provides the auto check-in for dynamic IPs and also does a good job of getting in through routers. The last os upgrade was free even, which makes it a bit cheaper than LogMeIn or TeamViewer ;)
Since SED and GREP only like to work on single lines, in some applications I will use TR to change linefeeds to some other character (like /x01) and do my replacements and then TR them back to linefeeds. I know SED supports pattern buffers but I have yet to take the time to play with it.
I forget. I know I've ran into problems in the past but I just grabbed an older build from an earlier version of OS X one time when I needed it. I honestly can't recall why I needed to do that. Either a behavior change or a bug I believe it was. Might have been a string length limitation that cropped up. (important if you're removing linefeeds)
TR, GREP, CUT, and SED together tend to do whatever I need doing. I also use BBEdit quite a lot for handling large text files. Its find and replace supports regular expressions. For one-offs it's often easier to do transformations with BBEdit. If you haven't used CUT before, you'll want to look into it and all its modes of operation. Often CUT is a simpler option than SED.
Final note: If your script works fine from command line but mysteriously fails when run by cron, check to see what is and isn't in cron's PATH. I've ran into that issue on several occasions when trying to do periodic batch file processing. (specific lack of SBIN iirc was the biggie)
In the case of the 2008 and the 2.2/2.4 mbp's, the problem was actually Nvidia, fault, not Apple.. Apple pushes the design limits of their components pretty close to the edge to keep their designs small, light, and enduring. The frame and cooling was designed to only slightly exceed required cooling for nvidia's GPU, according to their provided specifications.
Nvidia lied about the cooling requirements of their GPU, describing it as requiring less cooling than it actually did. (probably as a selling point to get Apple to use it) As a result, the machine didn't adequately cool it under very high stress. (playing WoW for an extended time was a known cause of failure) As a result, boards and GPUs flexed, ball solder joints failed, and gpus stopped functioning. (this is not a gpu defect or a ball problem, it's a mechanical problem, caused by thermal stress due to inadequate cooling)
After Apple had encountered a larger number of in-warranty failures than expected, they contacted Nvidia, who denied the problem. Bad logic boards continued to pour in and get repaired under the one year warranty, but replaced boards were frequently failing again, and users were sometimes seeing 2-4 replacements within the first year. A few customers got a new machine per Apple's policy on "three major repairs within warranty", some of which had gpu failures on their replacement machines as well. Apple put their own engineers to work testing new GPUs, and found that the cooling requirements were significantly above Nvidia's stated specs.
Although they were aware of this issue well before the first year, Apple's SOP on an issue like this is to stay quiet until the units start dropping out of their first year's warranty, and then issue a Repair Extension on them. (probably trying to mitigate a drop in sales on a "defective model") Coverage time for REPs vary, and only extend the warranty on the specific part, and only for the specific failure. REPs typically extend coverage to the 2, 3, or 4 year point after purchase. It does not stack with applecare extended warranty. This REP I believe went the maximum at four years from date of purchase.
Apple has issued a dozen or so REPs in the last ten years. Considering the units sold, the variety of models offered, and the cutting-edge technology they'r fond of using, this is actually a pretty low failure rate, as well as a very good manufacturer's response.
2011 is not a new computer, it's going on three years old. Referring to them as "dropping dead" makes it sound like it's a very early failure (first year or so) I think the article is being sensational and a bit deceptive to link-bait. Apple expects their products to last 3-5 years before they get replaced. Considering how fast tech advances, and that Apple users typically want new and cutting-edge tech, this isn't at all unreasonable. With as many models as they make, there are going to be those that fail sooner than others, and that you can expect to get less than 7-8 years out of. This may just be one of them. It happens. And it can suck to be the unlucky one that owns one. But "only" getting three years out of a laptop may not be desirable, but it's hardly a travesty. If Apple were to refuse to cover failures inside the one year warranty, or not extend coverage to units failing frequently in the 2-3 year area, that'd be newsworthy. This really isn't.
for what it's worth:
http://vftp.net/virtual1/temp/comb
the same technique can be applied to any log file that you can manage to parse consistently. devs that don't understand the need to escape delimiters in text fields can make your day go bad.
fyi, one of those was a Merlin Pro disassembly of the layout of the VTOC (Volume Table of Contents) of the DOS 3.3 catalog track, from an Apple ][. I don't recall if the other one was or not.
There's really no better way to scan a log file for odd log entries than to write a big regexp that filters out whitelisted entries. Lets you find log entries you're NOT expecting. (and occasionally, log entries that not even the developers are expecting)
Editing them of course is a royal pain, (not to mention debugging!) so I usually write a script to compose the regexp. I just checked on one of mine, and it composes a 17,000+ character single-liner that scans my wired.log file.
I've got a smaller one that keeps an eye on secure.log for anomalies.
BEST use of "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" tag I've seen in at least a year.
TeamViewer has issues you should be aware of.
A friend showed me how easy it was to use, and we decided to give it a try at our shop, where we do computer sales and service. Being able to do remote support would be very useful, we have several customers that live a good distance away from us and that occasionally need to schedule us to come out and help them, and this would allow us to help them at significantly lower rates.
We set up team viewer 6 (iirc) and bought one license. Come to find out that it could only be installed on one physical computer. We were used to remote apps that only allow one simultaneous USE at a time, and that's all we needed. Too bad the GM installed it on his computer before we could stop him. So now we have to go into his office to do remote support. (or HE has to do it)
I discussed this with teamveiwer and they basically told me to buy another seat or get lost. More on principle than cost I think, we continued to use it from that machine. They have a nice tool to create a wrapped installer that you put on your web site and your customers just click to download. It installs, and immediately launches, configures, and connects to us. I must admit that's slick. Too bad it only connected to the GM's computer.
So more frequently lately I just connect from my computer to the customer the more manual way. It pops up a "for non commercial use only" note on launch but hey we already paid for our license and I'm the only using it so whatever, it works fine. We never use more than one instance at a time, so as far as I see it, we're playing fair, we paid for one instance and are using one instance,
I had been seeing an update notice for teamviewer and I made the [i]mistake[/i] of running it and it upgraded me to version 7. Now it disconnects me after 15 minutes. Back to 6 I guess. Finally found the old app in a backup and reinstalled it. Nope! They "upgraded" my account online and now I can't use teamviewer 6 anymore. Bastards. I really hate it when computer software actively fights me trying to get my job done. (6 is compatible with 7, the only difference apparently is the timeout they added, so don't be a fool and "upgrade") So they're not on my Good List anymore. I have to pay twice to use once, and they absolutely do NOT care to work with me on it. Greed wins over customer service with them, unfortunately.
I hate to see that happen with good products. Alsoft DiskWarrior is the same way, incredibly useful product, horrible customer service.
Am I reading that right? The "rule of law" is getting "balanced" by something else? I didn't think LAW was negotiable? Maybe that's the problem here? Someone's trying to "strike a balance" between legal and national security?
Government policy shouldn't be trying to draw a line between security and legality. Legality is THE LINE that is not crossed over, ever. If you can't do it legally, that means you shouldn't BE doing it. The correct response is not to consider bending the laws.
that didn't do much to stop the vietnam war or the gulf war.
Don't forget that an action that saves a few thousand dollars, that has a 10% chance of costing a million, is still a very bad risk, statistically speaking. That risk/loss multiplier is frequently a game-changer. We don''t buy insurance because we think we're going to run into a tree, we buy insurance because we can't afford it if we do - the odds of it happening aren't high, but aren't small enough to be able to ignore, and the loss if it happens is simply too great.
Possession of a scale and drugs of almost any quantity here will get you "with intent to distribute" tacked on. An ex dealer I know said all the dealers in town have small personal safes they keep their scales in. That totally confused me until they filled me in on that minor little legal detail. (not that a safe often stops the cops, but apparently it can help)
It is amazing how "intent" can be made illegal. How can you really prove intent without a telepath?
hah... nice. reminds me of Port Knocking
I live in Iowa. We grow a lot of corn here. But there are other crops, things like soybean and sunflower. You know what happens when the demand for ethanol goes up? The price of corn goes up. And then what? People stop planting as much soybean and sunflower because corn is making them more. And then what? The price of soybean and sunflower goes up because there's a drop in supply.
And that's why a large bag of sunflower seed for my birdfeeder darn near doubled in price a few years ago, everyone was pulling out their sunflower and replacing it with corn. You don't really notice all these effects until they start hitting you.
Farmers will hedge their bets, plant multiple kinds of crops in case one of them tanks due to weather, but the ratio they mix in varies, to balance return and risk. When return on their main crop goes up, they can take bigger risks by pulling more of the less profitable crops out.
I had considered that, but the issue there is, underburn results in not getting as far away from a gravity well as you intended, and that should introduce an exponentially increasing energy requirement to recover. In other words, if you only burn 10 liters in the time you meant to burn 12, you can't just burn 2 and make up for it, because it's going to require a little more than that to get where you should be?
five minutes is a pretty long correcting burn... I hope they didn't go through most of their spare fuel in the process. (TBH I wouldn't have expected them to have that much available in the first place, lifting spare fuel isn't like throwing a spare headlight in the trunk, five minutes' fuel is more like throwing a spare tire in the back seat) Anyone have any data on how much "buffer fuel" they carried, and how much they went through with this fix?
I thought work was being done on "battery swap" charge stations? If you can swap a battery, it can't be that hard to just drop one? I don't know if tesla cars support anything like that though
I'm just glad the deer over here in Iowa aren't jet-propelled yet.
I'd agree with that. "skype" is becoming a verb at this point. "I'll skype you when I get home".
Too bad to see MS is gonna kill backward compatibility with hardware. I know a LOT of people still using skype vers 2 because of all the crap that happened to it recently. MS sure loves to increment product version numbers. Oooo look we moved the Close button, bump the version!
Unless there's a lot of information we're not seeing here, someone's going to get burned for this. (send me a link and I'll contribute to the kindling fund)
Yes the warranty has to spell out what is to be searched for. But there are at least two issues then. First, was the warrant loosely worded, was the area searched and items taken within that verbiage, and was it illegally loosely worded? and second, officers often have some leeway to take contraband when searching for other things - if they bust down a door for a meth lab warrant, they can take that full auto assault rifle they find in plain sight too, even if it's not on the warrant.
Bigger courts tend to take a very dim view on exposing a reporter's sources. If someone manages to follow the money and tie the target of the whistleblowing to the raid, things will get real exciting. One other thing here, messing with the media's rights tends to get a lot more publicity than messing with Joe Citizen's rights. (they kinda "look after their own") so I hope this gets all the massive media attention it deserves. (it's also much more difficult to muzzle or pay off the media)
Seriously? They didn't seed that to the devs for a week or two? That's just plain stupid. Only reason I can see for pulling that is if there was a serious problem they needed to get fixed quickly.
Also raises the question of how much they really care about the performance and stability of RT on other manufacturers' boxes?
airlines need to be required to have a demo seat for cattle-class to try out at the check-in counter. Set it up with a pokey wall to the left where the passenger division is, so you know you won't be sticking your elbow in the other fellow's lap. And have the front partitioned to show the seat in front of you reclined.
Similar on topic, I'd like to see someone do a volumetric comparison between airline seats, all now, and comparing against previous years. A nice graph to show hard numbers of how seating space has steadily declined over the years.
Bonus points for airports that set up a row of seats in the lobby, so you can compare and decide who NOT to get a ticket from.
I've had to do it on a few different jobs, where I was hired by a distant company to provide support for a customer in my area. For them I telecommuted for meetings etc.
I think one point that's been missed so far is that you only have a limited path of communication. It's generally one person talking to one other person. Interrupting may be rude but sometimes it's necessary, especially when you have people that ramble or that are being unproductive by repeating the same things over and over. It also gives others the opportunity to briefly voice their agreement. Things like "it's a problem when you do this". "You're the only one that's had any..." (and two other people suddenly speak up to disagree)
Also people don't behave the same when they're online with someone. It's pretty well known that some people act one way on a forum or in a chat room and are completely different in person. Same thing applies to video conferencing. But in this case I think it's a positive change. People that would normally be timid in a personal meeting get more brave and participate more, and will push their opinions harder. It really helps timid people contribute more. Otherwise these people get dominated by those with a stronger outgoing personality.
Sounds like the DDoS version of "backscatter spam".