But if not contributing to car accidents is your primary concern, you could simply not make cars. Likewise, if you're more concerned about your code not being used in a bad way, than about it being used at all, why write it?
The people who make their livings in the car or software industries aren't going to like this.
You could take that further and say if reducing drain on the world's resources and reducing pollution are your goal, you could simply bury yourself alive.
It would have the side effect of reducing your exposure to car accidents as well! A win-win situation if I ever heard of one.
I love torchwood but the mini series was awful. They never explain what the 456 is or even why they want the children. Same goes for Doctor Who, love the weekly shows but can't stomach the christmas specials.
You probably should have tried watching it.
The 456 were alien junkies.
The children were used to produce drugs for the 456.
The christmas specials are always aimed at young children. They are god-awful but the true fans sit through them anyway because the material in them is included in canon. British TV, particularly the BBC, has a long tradition of producing awful sugary-sweet christmas specials. You think the Doctor Who ones are silly? Try watching the Are You Being Served christmas specials.
Then you get labeled non-cooperative and your silence is used against you.
That's what they want you to believe, at least.
It's one of the tricks they use to get people to talk themselves into confessing, even to things they haven't done. Watch any episode of Law and Order and watch how frustrated the detectives get when their suspects clam up.
The only thing you should say to them is that you will not talk to them without your lawyer.
A cell I can't take the battery out and replace it (because it will invariably NOT last for long) is the definition of a throwaway cell. Best to throw it away right away.
Throw them in my direction.
I'm using a 1st generation iPhone with the original "non-removable" battery.
It's almost 4 years old and the battery charge still lasts almost as long as it did when it was new.
I stopped reading at the bottom of page 1, where there was a comparison chart detailing that both tablets scored pretty much the same on all the tests, with a slight edge for the iPad in one of the tests.
Really, why bother reading beyond the point that the Xoom scores average 8.0 and the iPad scores average 8.4?
U-Verse TV is paid for per month per box anyway. I don't know of any provider that meters TV service; do you?
Since most U-Verse subscribers are only using a small fraction of their U-Verse DSL line's speed (mine shows a 36Mbps line speed, but I only pay for 3Mbps Internet service), I'm not sure why we would expect the TV service to be metered. It's not like Comcast bills their users for how much of the cable RF bandwidth the video signals are using.
U-Verse TV service is however limited - no matter how many boxes I rent (I have two, I think you can go up to eight), I can only have three HD streams coming into the house at one time (plus a couple more SD streams). I have seen the DVR recording 5 shows simultaneously, but that's the absolute limit, so technically there is a cap on the TV service.
AT&T not counting their U-Verse video traffic is effectively the same as Comcast not counting their video bandwidth too. It doesn't matter if the service provider delivers their own video content via IP multicast (U-Verse), RF (Comcast) or discs strapped to trained pigeons.
Any download cap by any ISP who also provides video service is anti-competitive.
And how is this different from the USA? If you can't afford to pay your lawyer long enough to win the case then you'll still go broke. If you don't have a lawyer chances are you make some legal fumbles that make you lose when you could have won.
At the risk of stating the obvious, this is different from the USA, because in the USA if you are sued by a big company and you then hire a lawyer and your lawyer wins the case for you, you still lose because you still have to pay for your lawyer, even though the company's suit had no merit. In the USA, someone with deep pockets can bankrupt you by filing suits against you even if they know they will lose. That's the threat they use to extort settlements from innocent defendents. In Sweden, the company would have to reimburse you for your lawyer.
I believe the point is that the voice service is so cheap it obviates the need for VOIP. Cellular calling is awfully reliable these days, compared to VOIP over cellular data.
The only downside I see to what you want to do, apart from the fact that you'll have to carry two devices, is that Clear's website shows the battery life of the Clear Spot 4G to be only 4 hours - and usually these advertised figures are optimistic. Do you have a way around that, other than carrying a third device, namely a battery?
I hear this a lot, that Ham radio is useful in disasters, but can anyone give some examples?
Is it useful to someone trapped in an earthquake zone for them to be able to contact someone outside their area? Surely nowadays everything around the world is pretty well monitored, isn't it? I'm think of things like the big tsunami a few years back, and the Australian flooding which we in the USA saw pretty much every detail of.
Aren't the circumstances where Ham radio is useful and no other form of modern communication technology would work also the same circumstances where nobody could help anyway?
I have friends who are into Ham radio, and I think it's kind of a neat hobby, but isn't the disaster recovery aspect of it kind of overstated?
That being said, selling off spectrum that's allocated internationally sounds like a non-starter. It's just not going to happen.
Seriously, "I even wear a hat always when I go outdoors, never carry a cell phone, and never look up"?
Unless you're wearing the hat because you're bald and want to protect your scalp from UV exposure or the cold, or are a fugitive from justice, you probably should seek some psychiatric or counseling help.
Over 90% of the world would rather stick with a PC, despite its occasional troubles, than switch to a Mac.
Similarly, I'd rather have the occasional aching balls than a castration.
Capisce?
Are you threatening the previous poster like some sort of Microsoft-affiliated mobster, or implying that moving from a Windows PC to a Mac is somehow a downgrade?
The Mac I'm using is far more powerful than the Windows PC it replaced. I only have to restart it when I want to, not when it wants to, it has an operating system that was designed from the ground up for security, and I haven't had a hardware failure in at least seven years on any of our Apple machines - in the meantime I have a stack of dead or unusable Windows machines of various brands. I do have Apple machines that are no longer used, but that's because things like a G3 are obsolete by today's standards - they will still work though.
Not similar to having your balls removed at all.
P.S. you might want to get those things looked at. They're not supposed to ache.
This can't hold in general; if someone is getting more than what they paid in, someone wlse is getting less. There might be an argument for allowing this in the case of healthcare and the like, but I think you start to stretch your moral currency thin if you try to argue the same for free iPads...
You forgot about deficit spending. Governments in many countries spend more than they take in, selling the debt to overseas suckers with more money than sense.
That means that in any particular country, it is possible for all taxpayers to receive government benefits in excess of their tax.
If you're a moderator today, and you modded this comment as troll, I suggest you undo your mistake by posting in this discussion, thereby undoing your moderation.
Only affects iDevices that were jailbroken - Once you do that, how can you blame Apple for anything that happens? (hint: you can't)
Only affects iDevices that were jailbroken and had sshd installed and the default ssh password left unchanged! (hint: don't install ssh unless you're also smart enough to change the freaking default password!)
So, really what you're saying is that if I modify a device that I've bought, and my modification causes a security vulnerability that someone else can exploit, then the original manufacturer of the device is somehow to blame?
Yes, I know everyone here on slashdot is a superstar programmer earning $10m + a year just in stock options, just think of us little guys as you're snorting cocaine off hookers' tits on one of your yachts.
He's not a programmer, but other than that detail, you just described Charlie Sheen's life pretty closely.
Without any server hardware to run it on, why is there even a server setup?
The Xserve was really not much more than a rackmount Mac Pro. OS X Server runs just fine on pretty much any Mac.
My office uses a Mac Mini Server as our main office server (our customer-facing services run on other machines). I bought a Mac Mini Server as soon as they came out and it's been running 24/7 ever since. Inexpensive, reliable and even uses less space and power than the machine it replaced.
Strangely, that google image search results in several pictures of Steve Ballmer already. He really needs a PR (public relations, not Puerto Rican) minder.
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But if not contributing to car accidents is your primary concern, you could simply not make cars. Likewise, if you're more concerned about your code not being used in a bad way, than about it being used at all, why write it?
The people who make their livings in the car or software industries aren't going to like this.
You could take that further and say if reducing drain on the world's resources and reducing pollution are your goal, you could simply bury yourself alive.
It would have the side effect of reducing your exposure to car accidents as well! A win-win situation if I ever heard of one.
I love torchwood but the mini series was awful. They never explain what the 456 is or even why they want the children. Same goes for Doctor Who, love the weekly shows but can't stomach the christmas specials.
You probably should have tried watching it.
The 456 were alien junkies.
The children were used to produce drugs for the 456.
The christmas specials are always aimed at young children. They are god-awful but the true fans sit through them anyway because the material in them is included in canon. British TV, particularly the BBC, has a long tradition of producing awful sugary-sweet christmas specials. You think the Doctor Who ones are silly? Try watching the Are You Being Served christmas specials.
Then you get labeled non-cooperative and your silence is used against you.
That's what they want you to believe, at least.
It's one of the tricks they use to get people to talk themselves into confessing, even to things they haven't done. Watch any episode of Law and Order and watch how frustrated the detectives get when their suspects clam up.
The only thing you should say to them is that you will not talk to them without your lawyer.
Watch a law professor tell you why.
Nobody has ever talked themselves out of a crime. Don't talk to the police.
A cell I can't take the battery out and replace it (because it will invariably NOT last for long) is the definition of a throwaway cell. Best to throw it away right away.
Throw them in my direction.
I'm using a 1st generation iPhone with the original "non-removable" battery.
It's almost 4 years old and the battery charge still lasts almost as long as it did when it was new.
Posting anonymously for an obvious reason.
We're still tracking you.
I stopped reading at the bottom of page 1, where there was a comparison chart detailing that both tablets scored pretty much the same on all the tests, with a slight edge for the iPad in one of the tests.
Really, why bother reading beyond the point that the Xoom scores average 8.0 and the iPad scores average 8.4?
U-Verse TV is paid for per month per box anyway. I don't know of any provider that meters TV service; do you?
Since most U-Verse subscribers are only using a small fraction of their U-Verse DSL line's speed (mine shows a 36Mbps line speed, but I only pay for 3Mbps Internet service), I'm not sure why we would expect the TV service to be metered. It's not like Comcast bills their users for how much of the cable RF bandwidth the video signals are using.
U-Verse TV service is however limited - no matter how many boxes I rent (I have two, I think you can go up to eight), I can only have three HD streams coming into the house at one time (plus a couple more SD streams). I have seen the DVR recording 5 shows simultaneously, but that's the absolute limit, so technically there is a cap on the TV service.
AT&T U-Verse traffic is not included in the cap.
AT&T not counting their U-Verse video traffic is effectively the same as Comcast not counting their video bandwidth too. It doesn't matter if the service provider delivers their own video content via IP multicast (U-Verse), RF (Comcast) or discs strapped to trained pigeons.
Any download cap by any ISP who also provides video service is anti-competitive.
And how is this different from the USA? If you can't afford to pay your lawyer long enough to win the case then you'll still go broke. If you don't have a lawyer chances are you make some legal fumbles that make you lose when you could have won.
At the risk of stating the obvious, this is different from the USA, because in the USA if you are sued by a big company and you then hire a lawyer and your lawyer wins the case for you, you still lose because you still have to pay for your lawyer, even though the company's suit had no merit. In the USA, someone with deep pockets can bankrupt you by filing suits against you even if they know they will lose. That's the threat they use to extort settlements from innocent defendents. In Sweden, the company would have to reimburse you for your lawyer.
I believe the point is that the voice service is so cheap it obviates the need for VOIP. Cellular calling is awfully reliable these days, compared to VOIP over cellular data.
The only downside I see to what you want to do, apart from the fact that you'll have to carry two devices, is that Clear's website shows the battery life of the Clear Spot 4G to be only 4 hours - and usually these advertised figures are optimistic. Do you have a way around that, other than carrying a third device, namely a battery?
I hear this a lot, that Ham radio is useful in disasters, but can anyone give some examples?
Is it useful to someone trapped in an earthquake zone for them to be able to contact someone outside their area? Surely nowadays everything around the world is pretty well monitored, isn't it? I'm think of things like the big tsunami a few years back, and the Australian flooding which we in the USA saw pretty much every detail of.
Aren't the circumstances where Ham radio is useful and no other form of modern communication technology would work also the same circumstances where nobody could help anyway?
I have friends who are into Ham radio, and I think it's kind of a neat hobby, but isn't the disaster recovery aspect of it kind of overstated?
That being said, selling off spectrum that's allocated internationally sounds like a non-starter. It's just not going to happen.
Seriously, "I even wear a hat always when I go outdoors, never carry a cell phone, and never look up"?
Unless you're wearing the hat because you're bald and want to protect your scalp from UV exposure or the cold, or are a fugitive from justice, you probably should seek some psychiatric or counseling help.
It's not healthy to live in constant paranoia.
Over 90% of the world would rather stick with a PC, despite its occasional troubles, than switch to a Mac.
Similarly, I'd rather have the occasional aching balls than a castration.
Capisce?
Are you threatening the previous poster like some sort of Microsoft-affiliated mobster, or implying that moving from a Windows PC to a Mac is somehow a downgrade?
The Mac I'm using is far more powerful than the Windows PC it replaced. I only have to restart it when I want to, not when it wants to, it has an operating system that was designed from the ground up for security, and I haven't had a hardware failure in at least seven years on any of our Apple machines - in the meantime I have a stack of dead or unusable Windows machines of various brands. I do have Apple machines that are no longer used, but that's because things like a G3 are obsolete by today's standards - they will still work though.
Not similar to having your balls removed at all.
P.S. you might want to get those things looked at. They're not supposed to ache.
"Money from the government is free! Yay!"
It is if you get out more than you paid in.
This can't hold in general; if someone is getting more than what they paid in, someone wlse is getting less. There might be an argument for allowing this in the case of healthcare and the like, but I think you start to stretch your moral currency thin if you try to argue the same for free iPads...
You forgot about deficit spending. Governments in many countries spend more than they take in, selling the debt to overseas suckers with more money than sense.
That means that in any particular country, it is possible for all taxpayers to receive government benefits in excess of their tax.
Whoosh...
Pencil was the password Matthew Broderick's character used to break into his school's computer system in the movie Wargames.
How did this get modded troll?
If you're a moderator today, and you modded this comment as troll, I suggest you undo your mistake by posting in this discussion, thereby undoing your moderation.
Oh, come on, give Safari some credit. IE6 is the William Hung of today. Safari is probably that "Pants on the floor" guy.
You're thinking of "Pants on the Ground".
The pants on the floor guy is something Apple feels you shouldn't look at unless you're over 17.
The app allows you to access mature content. Apple does this across the board. - j
Then Safari should show a warning at some point too.
I usually like Apple stuff, but this move on Apple's part is just pathetic.
The example you're talking about:
So, really what you're saying is that if I modify a device that I've bought, and my modification causes a security vulnerability that someone else can exploit, then the original manufacturer of the device is somehow to blame?
That's just stupid.
Yes, I know everyone here on slashdot is a superstar programmer earning $10m + a year just in stock options, just think of us little guys as you're snorting cocaine off hookers' tits on one of your yachts.
He's not a programmer, but other than that detail, you just described Charlie Sheen's life pretty closely.
Maybe they're envisioning people buying a lot of widget-style apps.
It sure seems like it would be convenient for people like my parents.
Without any server hardware to run it on, why is there even a server setup?
The Xserve was really not much more than a rackmount Mac Pro. OS X Server runs just fine on pretty much any Mac.
My office uses a Mac Mini Server as our main office server (our customer-facing services run on other machines). I bought a Mac Mini Server as soon as they came out and it's been running 24/7 ever since. Inexpensive, reliable and even uses less space and power than the machine it replaced.
Combine this picture: http://blogs.seattleweekly.com/dailyweekly/sweaty_ballmer.jpeg
with something from a google image search for "chair throwing".
Strangely, that google image search results in several pictures of Steve Ballmer already. He really needs a PR (public relations, not Puerto Rican) minder.