I wasn't waiting on any call. There is no one listening on marine VHF bands on most of the Delaware River. If you need help or a tow, you have to make a phone call or swim to shore.
I normally put it in a plastic bag. I was stupid, broke my normal procedure, and put it in my pocket as I was loading the boat.
I dropped my old one from a boat I was look at to buy on the trailer onto a concrete garage floor (about 7 feet up from where it was on my belt). Bezel scratch. Nothing else.
Was loading the same boat on to the trailer a few months after I bought it and had forgotten the phone was in my pocket. That was the end of it.
Irrelevant comment: I'd still have it now - I have the 3G, and it's really not doing anything for me that the old one didn't.
Good points - it sounds reasonable enough that I could see it flying in court. Of course, you always have the oldster judge that falls asleep at the first mention of anything like "FTP" or "server logs" and "time stamps." But that's our justice system.
Mind you, you're talking to a sworn law enforcment officer (yes....really. My part time job is as fire marshal of a small town).
Yes, these things vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction....even judge to judge. But some basic structure remains - most times electronic evidence will not be held with the same level of credibility unless 1.) it is reasonably protected from tampering or 2.) someone is sitting in the court room that can say "Yes, your honor, this IS an accurate representation of what I saw." (which is why I can use a regular old DSLR for documenting scenes - I'm in court to say that I took the picture and that it accurately represents what I found)
and saves images a jpeg, not a proprietary lossy compressed stream.
Too bad that you need one of those lossy, proprietary compressed schemes to be considered evidenciary (as many of those attempt to proove the image hasn't been manipulated).
Now if you happen to use say, gmail, then you're out of luck. You can't read your mail, can't compose replies, can't IM people in the next room. All you can do is sit there and wait for somebody to fix the problem.
I can't im somebody, but I sure can queue outbound mail and read already delivered mail....I use IMAP with gmail.
In both cases they had information necessary for the project that nobody else could get to, even when their hard drives were retrieved. The results are that after several years, the stuff is still sitting somewhere unusable because the people who attempted to get to it were stymied. Enforcing PGP on an entire network could multiply this problem.
Actually, enforcing TreuCrypt or a non-enterprise version of PGP can. If you do it right, the enterprise admin will be able to decrypt data from anyone. This would be the #1 reason to use the (evil, have to pay for it) PGP version over TrueCrypt.
From where do you draw this opinion? Not trolling here....if the iPhone is average, that means most phones have it's basic functionality. "Most Phones" certainly do not include Blackberries, Qs, etc. The average (mobile) phone is more like a Razr or a low end Nokia.
While I don't agree with this whole powering down thing, that is certainly not even close to the top of my list. If its not part of a farm of identical servers, my boxen have redundant PSUs (which is obviously an extremely common thing on any decent server - even my 1Us have the capability, though I don't always use it). The likelihood of a double PSU failure is extremely low.
This is exactly what my blade chassis does. I get a power savings of about 1/3 over 1U servers. And it's just a low end Dell chassis - nothing special.
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No, that thing is the size of a reasonable class C motor home, which can be had for $65k or so, MUCH less used. It does 60 MPH, can be fitted with solar cells, and actually has running water and waste water storage.
The fuser gets up to 2k F to melt the toner on the paper.
WHAT? You really think the fuser gets hotter than the ignition temperature of dry paper? What the hell does your output tray look like?
Most fusers are nothing more than an incandescent light bulb. They get to a few hundred degrees, sometimes as much as 3-something depending on the speed of the printer.
I think they were trying to offer a volume discount to the students, but they don't have a way to opt-out and save money!
The school wants them to all have the same device with the same capabilities. That's why they can't opt out.
And the best idea would be to ditch it the program altogether because I don't see these devices significantly improving the student's education.
Obviously you missed the point of this exercise. The school thinks the exact opposite, and believes that everyone having the same device will allow them to better utilize it (the school and the students). Duke has had a rather successful program using iPods for several years now.
Most engines are designed with a particular kind of plug in mind. Don't be fooled by platinum, plus, plus 2 plus 4 iridium, etc. They won't necessarily make you engine run any better/more fuel efficient/more horsepower. This is dyno proven. On some cares, yes, on most, no. Google will easily confirm this.
There are sweet spots for driving which is usually specific to the type of vehicle, the gearing, etc.
Type of vehicle - specifically its coefficient of drag - compared to it's gearing and power band are huge. But people want some magic easy number that they can remember. Hmmm...seems that the manufacturers already KNOW that number for each car.
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I wasn't waiting on any call. There is no one listening on marine VHF bands on most of the Delaware River. If you need help or a tow, you have to make a phone call or swim to shore. I normally put it in a plastic bag. I was stupid, broke my normal procedure, and put it in my pocket as I was loading the boat.
Stop it. You've made too much sense for the Internet.
I dropped my old one from a boat I was look at to buy on the trailer onto a concrete garage floor (about 7 feet up from where it was on my belt). Bezel scratch. Nothing else. Was loading the same boat on to the trailer a few months after I bought it and had forgotten the phone was in my pocket. That was the end of it. Irrelevant comment: I'd still have it now - I have the 3G, and it's really not doing anything for me that the old one didn't.
Good points - it sounds reasonable enough that I could see it flying in court. Of course, you always have the oldster judge that falls asleep at the first mention of anything like "FTP" or "server logs" and "time stamps." But that's our justice system.
Uploading to WHAT 3rd party?
Mind you, you're talking to a sworn law enforcment officer (yes....really. My part time job is as fire marshal of a small town).
Yes, these things vary from jurisdiction to jurisdiction....even judge to judge. But some basic structure remains - most times electronic evidence will not be held with the same level of credibility unless 1.) it is reasonably protected from tampering or 2.) someone is sitting in the court room that can say "Yes, your honor, this IS an accurate representation of what I saw." (which is why I can use a regular old DSLR for documenting scenes - I'm in court to say that I took the picture and that it accurately represents what I found)
and saves images a jpeg, not a proprietary lossy compressed stream.
Too bad that you need one of those lossy, proprietary compressed schemes to be considered evidenciary (as many of those attempt to proove the image hasn't been manipulated).
Illegal in more jurisdictions. 911 only to be called by humans, in order to cut the signal to noise ratio of false alarms.
Now if you happen to use say, gmail, then you're out of luck. You can't read your mail, can't compose replies, can't IM people in the next room. All you can do is sit there and wait for somebody to fix the problem.
I can't im somebody, but I sure can queue outbound mail and read already delivered mail....I use IMAP with gmail.
That's just a feature. You know you love it.
I don't disagree with anything you said.
Then why would you bother to respond? How are we supposed to start a retarded Internet fight this way?
Having a rendundant PSU is great, but there still can be components that will release their ghost due to a surge.
Yes...letting out the magic smoke is bad. It's very difficult to get back in there.
In both cases they had information necessary for the project that nobody else could get to, even when their hard drives were retrieved. The results are that after several years, the stuff is still sitting somewhere unusable because the people who attempted to get to it were stymied. Enforcing PGP on an entire network could multiply this problem.
Actually, enforcing TreuCrypt or a non-enterprise version of PGP can. If you do it right, the enterprise admin will be able to decrypt data from anyone. This would be the #1 reason to use the (evil, have to pay for it) PGP version over TrueCrypt.
Not sure about the rest of the world....but in the US out iPhones have a slider to turn off 3G in Setsings->General->Network.
Quite why they didn't use wifi - i dont know
Because that would have made the story a non-story.
From where do you draw this opinion? Not trolling here....if the iPhone is average, that means most phones have it's basic functionality. "Most Phones" certainly do not include Blackberries, Qs, etc. The average (mobile) phone is more like a Razr or a low end Nokia.
While I don't agree with this whole powering down thing, that is certainly not even close to the top of my list. If its not part of a farm of identical servers, my boxen have redundant PSUs (which is obviously an extremely common thing on any decent server - even my 1Us have the capability, though I don't always use it). The likelihood of a double PSU failure is extremely low.
That server is an absolute exception, and a no brainer to power down.
This is exactly what my blade chassis does. I get a power savings of about 1/3 over 1U servers. And it's just a low end Dell chassis - nothing special.
No, that thing is the size of a reasonable class C motor home, which can be had for $65k or so, MUCH less used. It does 60 MPH, can be fitted with solar cells, and actually has running water and waste water storage.
We all know that nothing is "true" until it has been posted on Slashdot.
...and confirmed my Netcraft.
The fuser gets up to 2k F to melt the toner on the paper.
WHAT? You really think the fuser gets hotter than the ignition temperature of dry paper? What the hell does your output tray look like?
Most fusers are nothing more than an incandescent light bulb. They get to a few hundred degrees, sometimes as much as 3-something depending on the speed of the printer.
And with the iPod and capus wifi, it's trivially easy to use it as a SIP phone.
I think they were trying to offer a volume discount to the students, but they don't have a way to opt-out and save money!
The school wants them to all have the same device with the same capabilities. That's why they can't opt out.
And the best idea would be to ditch it the program altogether because I don't see these devices significantly improving the student's education.
Obviously you missed the point of this exercise. The school thinks the exact opposite, and believes that everyone having the same device will allow them to better utilize it (the school and the students). Duke has had a rather successful program using iPods for several years now.
Fit iridium spark plugs.
What? No.
Most engines are designed with a particular kind of plug in mind. Don't be fooled by platinum, plus, plus 2 plus 4 iridium, etc. They won't necessarily make you engine run any better/more fuel efficient/more horsepower. This is dyno proven. On some cares, yes, on most, no. Google will easily confirm this.
Excuse me....did you say ute?
There are sweet spots for driving which is usually specific to the type of vehicle, the gearing, etc.
Type of vehicle - specifically its coefficient of drag - compared to it's gearing and power band are huge. But people want some magic easy number that they can remember. Hmmm...seems that the manufacturers already KNOW that number for each car.