Yeah....because you really need to karma whore when you already have +2.
Try again.
They were getting/.'ed believe it or not (although I'm sure your super k-rad enough to have inside sources and access to their network and server load monitoring). Then they aparrantly took down the graphics in the article and it appears fine again.
Authorities in China are turning to technology to nab vandals--they use a computer program that spams the wrongdoers' mobile phones until they turn themselves in.
Officials in Hangzhou, the capital of China's Zhejiang province, have developed a system which bombards mobile phones with pre-recorded voice messages, according to the official newspaper, the People's Daily.
Businessmen who put up illegal advertisements which contain mobile numbers have become the target of the computerized phone-spammer.
According to the report, illegal stickers have become an eyesore in recent years, with China's coastal and urbanized areas blighted with a blizzard of advertisements.
This is because the postcard-sized stickers, which promote everything from fake identity cards to counterfeit academic certifications, are cheap to produce and offer some anonymity.
The new system rings the mobile phone numbers of illegal advertisers at 20-second intervals, said the People's Daily.
Upon answering the call, the wrongdoer hears the pre-recorded message--"You have broken the law by posting illegal ads. You must immediately stop this activity and go to the Hangzhou Urban Administrative Bureau for punishment."
Those who prefer to change their "poisoned" number rather than face punishment incur the fees and inconvenience of switching, and also lose any business their ad might have generated.
The system also dents the advertisers' bottom line as ad respondents are unlikely to get through, thanks to the mobile barrage. As the anti-sticker scheme is newly launched, results have yet to come in, said the report.
Ordinary folks need not worry about being spammed by mistake as the phone numbers are taken from photos of illegal advertisements, said Wei Yunxiang, an official with the Hangzhou Urban Administrative Bureau.
The numbers are also checked manually and require the approval of a senior official before the bombardment can begin, he told the People's Daily.
And I heard that the first few companies who were caught violating the PA DNC list are being prosecuted, possibly as we speak. The people wjho complained are entitled to a chunk of the fine ($400 or $500 for the $4000 or $5000 fine, I believe).
the military getting into consumer products, seems bad in general
WHAT? Do you live in a cave?
TONS of consumer technology has its roots in military-developed technology. You wouldn't be able to waste your time on/. if it weren't for a military research project.
Then you'd be just another uneducated user paying too much for dial-up. There are plenty of alternatives.
Since I don't travel all the time, but do need dial-up when I'm away, I've started used Budget dialup. You pre-pay for TIME, which doesn't expire, and their dialer applet is mostly unintrusive and has a current (and extensive) list of pops. If you don't like the dialer, it's not actually needed (but makes it nice for finding pops without going online first).
Standard disclaimer: I have nothig to do with Budget Dialup. I'm just a satisfied user. See them at http://www.budgetdialup.com/
Not to put up a useless "me too" post, but....me too. I've had my domain for a good 5 years and it allows me to switch ISPs all I want. Bandwidth is nothing more than a commodity at this point.
I can't believe a product like this is being marketed. Your power supply fan will simply not be able to push through outside-wall insulation. Even assuming an inside wall venting into an attic, the static pressure of a hot attic will be enough to overcome the stoutest of power supply or case fans, rendering your airflow non-existant, or possibly even in reverse, blowing hot air back through your case.
It is also a cose violation to install anything like this. That's a no-brainer.
I've heard of this too. Sales people who worked primarily off-site had a safe installin their homes where both their laptop HDD and their IBM credentials/passcards/keys were to be stored when not in the physical posession of the droid.....errrr...employee.
Ok, you win. From now on I will start hating my DSL connection and bitching about how slow and inconsistent it is:)
That's all I ask for. You may now continue posting on/.
But, seriously. I have cable now, and have had DSL in the past. I've had both good and bad cable and DSL. The last mile transit is not typically the issue when you are having bandwidth problems. It's crappy providers.
From the pictures, it sure looks like it has two screen, but I don't see a keyboard. So is looks like an even more niche version of the already too niche market tablet PC.
Not necessarily, seems cable would be more sensitive to what other people in your immediate surroundings are doing, whereas with DSL the effect is more spread out over all the subscribers.
It may "seem like" it to you, but you are WRONG. The aggregation point for DSL is the DSLAM, which is at your local telco wiring cetner. The closest aggregation point for cable is often much smaller. Then it is fed to another shared network about the size of the subscriber base that a DSLAM would service. It doesn't matter where it's happening. It's still happening.
But don't take my word for it. I just build global WAN solutions for a living. What would I know about bandwidth aggregation?
Why do the majority of DSL users think that their connection is not shared? Oh yeah....marketing drive that they've bought hook, line, and sinker.
Cable: Ethernet or USB to your cable bridge device, which is on a shared network, which shares internet access with other shared segments.
DSL: Ethernet or USB to your DSL "modem" which has a private link back to the telco's DSLAM. The same DSLAM all of you neighbors are on. And then your access is aggregated to T3/ATM/etc on that device.
The point is, who cares where the sharing takes place. It's the same damn thing in the end.
Buy a T1 from most providers and you're just sharing your upstream with the other people who've bought T1/frame. ITS ALL SHARED. The problem is NOT sharing. It's providers that oversubscribe too much.
You're obviously more confused than I have time to deal with, but FYI, a T1 is 1.54 MBit, in both directions. I'm sure you aren't really talking about a T1, nor have you ever "used" one other than at an office/school and as upstream transit.
While it is true that the hardware cost of consoles are subsidized, there is one big element that most people seem to miss: the price of the TV set. I do not own a TV
Most people don't "seem to miss" it. It's a given that most people own a TV. You're just a freak. And most likely one who thinks he's better than everyone else because of it.
To address just one point of the article: extended warranties....
Have any of you ever actually tried to USE one of these warranties? I'm not talking about the "no questions asked replacement unit" ones, which are usually quite expensive and often unavailable, but the repair warranties.
The are most often serviced (the warranty) by GE or some other large unit, which may or may not depot repair you stuff. The may send it to a local shop. Either way, you bring it back to you reatiler and it disappear for some time between two weeks and god only knows how long. There is an obvious and fundamental disconnect in information....you call the reatiler and ask for a staus, and they have no idea. They have to make a couple phone calls, which in turn kick of a few more sometimes. A day or so later you get blown off again.
Then the device comes back and it's either not fixed or something else is wrong with it. And you go through the whole thing again.
Don't know if theye have ben bough by someone else, but I used to (3 years ago) have a BellSouth GSM phone when I was in North Carolina. There was no GSM coverage on the I95 corridor through Virginia at that point.....kinda made it suck when driving back and forth to PA.
Re:Just to remind people why more bits is good..
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2^64 is certainly enough for at least a hundred years:)
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
"I have travelled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processings is a fad that won't last out the year." - The editor in charge of business books for Prentice-Hall, 1957
"But what...is it good for?" - Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of DEC
Come on....you HAD to know that was coming.
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239 MPG Car
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Uhhh....driving a 150k+ mile '97 F150 which I have SERVICED and MAINTAINED. Runs fine, only had one semi-major repair (steering box leaked after I had to beat the pittman arm off to replace it). The problem is less with American cars and more with Americans drivers who don't maintain their vehilces properly.
Slashdot Mirror
Yeah....because you really need to karma whore when you already have +2.
/.'ed believe it or not (although I'm sure your super k-rad enough to have inside sources and access to their network and server load monitoring). Then they aparrantly took down the graphics in the article and it appears fine again.
Try again.
They were getting
Authorities in China are turning to technology to nab vandals--they use a computer program that spams the wrongdoers' mobile phones until they turn themselves in.
Officials in Hangzhou, the capital of China's Zhejiang province, have developed a system which bombards mobile phones with pre-recorded voice messages, according to the official newspaper, the People's Daily.
Businessmen who put up illegal advertisements which contain mobile numbers have become the target of the computerized phone-spammer.
According to the report, illegal stickers have become an eyesore in recent years, with China's coastal and urbanized areas blighted with a blizzard of advertisements.
This is because the postcard-sized stickers, which promote everything from fake identity cards to counterfeit academic certifications, are cheap to produce and offer some anonymity.
The new system rings the mobile phone numbers of illegal advertisers at 20-second intervals, said the People's Daily.
Upon answering the call, the wrongdoer hears the pre-recorded message--"You have broken the law by posting illegal ads. You must immediately stop this activity and go to the Hangzhou Urban Administrative Bureau for punishment."
Those who prefer to change their "poisoned" number rather than face punishment incur the fees and inconvenience of switching, and also lose any business their ad might have generated.
The system also dents the advertisers' bottom line as ad respondents are unlikely to get through, thanks to the mobile barrage. As the anti-sticker scheme is newly launched, results have yet to come in, said the report.
Ordinary folks need not worry about being spammed by mistake as the phone numbers are taken from photos of illegal advertisements, said Wei Yunxiang, an official with the Hangzhou Urban Administrative Bureau.
The numbers are also checked manually and require the approval of a senior official before the bombardment can begin, he told the People's Daily.
And I heard that the first few companies who were caught violating the PA DNC list are being prosecuted, possibly as we speak. The people wjho complained are entitled to a chunk of the fine ($400 or $500 for the $4000 or $5000 fine, I believe).
the military getting into consumer products, seems bad in general
/. if it weren't for a military research project.
WHAT? Do you live in a cave?
TONS of consumer technology has its roots in military-developed technology. You wouldn't be able to waste your time on
Then you'd be just another uneducated user paying too much for dial-up. There are plenty of alternatives.
Since I don't travel all the time, but do need dial-up when I'm away, I've started used Budget dialup. You pre-pay for TIME, which doesn't expire, and their dialer applet is mostly unintrusive and has a current (and extensive) list of pops. If you don't like the dialer, it's not actually needed (but makes it nice for finding pops without going online first).
Standard disclaimer: I have nothig to do with Budget Dialup. I'm just a satisfied user. See them at http://www.budgetdialup.com/
Not to put up a useless "me too" post, but....me too. I've had my domain for a good 5 years and it allows me to switch ISPs all I want. Bandwidth is nothing more than a commodity at this point.
I can't believe a product like this is being marketed. Your power supply fan will simply not be able to push through outside-wall insulation. Even assuming an inside wall venting into an attic, the static pressure of a hot attic will be enough to overcome the stoutest of power supply or case fans, rendering your airflow non-existant, or possibly even in reverse, blowing hot air back through your case.
It is also a cose violation to install anything like this. That's a no-brainer.
This is just rediculous. Couldn't we focus on giving them something a little more practical like, you know, food, clean water, and medical supplies?
And teaching them how to spell words like ridiculous.
Members of the public interested in attending by telephone should call (toll free) 1-899-7785 or (toll) 1-913-312-4169
Huh?????
I've heard of this too. Sales people who worked primarily off-site had a safe installin their homes where both their laptop HDD and their IBM credentials/passcards/keys were to be stored when not in the physical posession of the droid.....errrr...employee.
Ok, you win. From now on I will start hating my DSL connection and bitching about how slow and inconsistent it is :)
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That's all I ask for. You may now continue posting on
But, seriously. I have cable now, and have had DSL in the past. I've had both good and bad cable and DSL. The last mile transit is not typically the issue when you are having bandwidth problems. It's crappy providers.
From the pictures, it sure looks like it has two screen, but I don't see a keyboard. So is looks like an even more niche version of the already too niche market tablet PC.
http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:GmJgBGbHXCsC: dualscreen.com/+Estari%E2%80%99s+2-VU%E2%84%A2+Dua l+Screen+Computer&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
Not necessarily, seems cable would be more sensitive to what other people in your immediate surroundings are doing, whereas with DSL the effect is more spread out over all the subscribers.
It may "seem like" it to you, but you are WRONG. The aggregation point for DSL is the DSLAM, which is at your local telco wiring cetner. The closest aggregation point for cable is often much smaller. Then it is fed to another shared network about the size of the subscriber base that a DSLAM would service. It doesn't matter where it's happening. It's still happening.
But don't take my word for it. I just build global WAN solutions for a living. What would I know about bandwidth aggregation?
Why do the majority of DSL users think that their connection is not shared? Oh yeah....marketing drive that they've bought hook, line, and sinker.
Cable: Ethernet or USB to your cable bridge device, which is on a shared network, which shares internet access with other shared segments.
DSL: Ethernet or USB to your DSL "modem" which has a private link back to the telco's DSLAM. The same DSLAM all of you neighbors are on. And then your access is aggregated to T3/ATM/etc on that device.
The point is, who cares where the sharing takes place. It's the same damn thing in the end.
Buy a T1 from most providers and you're just sharing your upstream with the other people who've bought T1/frame. ITS ALL SHARED. The problem is NOT sharing. It's providers that oversubscribe too much.
You're obviously more confused than I have time to deal with, but FYI, a T1 is 1.54 MBit, in both directions. I'm sure you aren't really talking about a T1, nor have you ever "used" one other than at an office/school and as upstream transit.
With all the article dupes on /. to begin with, do we really need to re-cap AGAIN?
Eggs you moron.
What do you need an AP for? You can share in ad-hoc mode.
While it is true that the hardware cost of consoles are subsidized, there is one big element that most people seem to miss: the price of the TV set. I do not own a TV
Most people don't "seem to miss" it. It's a given that most people own a TV. You're just a freak. And most likely one who thinks he's better than everyone else because of it.
Your brother is aparrantly smarter than you. DirectTV DSL _is_ DSL service. The satellite services are called DirecPC and DirectWay.
To address just one point of the article: extended warranties....
Have any of you ever actually tried to USE one of these warranties? I'm not talking about the "no questions asked replacement unit" ones, which are usually quite expensive and often unavailable, but the repair warranties.
The are most often serviced (the warranty) by GE or some other large unit, which may or may not depot repair you stuff. The may send it to a local shop. Either way, you bring it back to you reatiler and it disappear for some time between two weeks and god only knows how long. There is an obvious and fundamental disconnect in information....you call the reatiler and ask for a staus, and they have no idea. They have to make a couple phone calls, which in turn kick of a few more sometimes. A day or so later you get blown off again.
Then the device comes back and it's either not fixed or something else is wrong with it. And you go through the whole thing again.
Don't know if theye have ben bough by someone else, but I used to (3 years ago) have a BellSouth GSM phone when I was in North Carolina. There was no GSM coverage on the I95 corridor through Virginia at that point.....kinda made it suck when driving back and forth to PA.
2^64 is certainly enough for at least a hundred years:)
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
"I have travelled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processings is a fad that won't last out the year."
- The editor in charge of business books for Prentice-Hall, 1957
"But what...is it good for?"
- Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of DEC
Come on....you HAD to know that was coming.
Uhhh....driving a 150k+ mile '97 F150 which I have SERVICED and MAINTAINED. Runs fine, only had one semi-major repair (steering box leaked after I had to beat the pittman arm off to replace it). The problem is less with American cars and more with Americans drivers who don't maintain their vehilces properly.