If you bring it to school then the school can impose rules on how you use it. Don't bring it to school if you don't like it. You might as well complain about having to get vaccinated or having to wear pants or leaving your bong at home.
This is going to mean higher cell phone bills for me. I don't send text messages. Therefore all the chumps that run up high cell phone bills with text messages are effectively subsidizing me by letting the phone company offer me basic cell phone service at a lower rate. I don't believe the cell phone companies simply will earn less gratuitous profit if you remove the ring-tone and text messaging markets from profitability. Instead if you lower their margins in one area you will simply drive them up in another.
We don't like monopolies when they deny us a choice. I had to us PCs for corporate reasons. The Office document hegemony was grating even after I swtichted to a mac.
I choose to use apple products because I want them not because I have no alternatives.
Indeed I've fallen for buying cheaper "better" speced products many times since entering the apple ecosystem. Each time I do something like "plays for sure" or the inability of my Linux device do do what I want without some multi-hour install of some undocumented source forge project brings me back. I simply get more done with less frustration.
That is to say, they are competing on productivity enhancement for me, and winning. Not because they have a monopoly.
back in the 1990s Sun was pushing the idea of a signet ring that would carry all your data and credentials, powered by a java interface. It finally came to realization in 1998.
At the time I thought it was a splendid idea. The concept was to have public kiosks that would intermediate between the ring and your mainframe to do what ever you wanted to do. Or the ring could authenticate you to some point of sale, or carry your medical records. etc... Remember this was early 90s.
What is really telling about this is that our microprocessors and motherboard are sufficiently backwards compatible. It tells you how x86 has stunted progress. Itanium was supposed to be a break out. So was powerPC. Yet they dies on the consumer vine (even though they live on in the server and embedded world).
Whenever I hear "too much time on his hands" I think it's really someone saying "I'm jealous because my life is grey and dull without an imagination".
What is really "imaginative" here is even daring to think you could get DOS to run on an old machine without an RS232/RS488 port. Either sheer arrogance, stupidity, or cleverness.
Since Blade Runner if one of the best films attempts to leach off of it are pathetic.
However the film itself is not simply an adaptation of "do andorids dream of electric sheep". Instead it is steeped in other Philip K Dick books, like the atmosphere of post WWII pacific states of Asian-america found in the man in the high castle books. Likewise the ideas that healthy and wealthy humans have moved off world leaving behind a lower class society with pockets of wealth is found in other PKD themes. Most of all the rich Noir aspect was not found in any PKD book but transplanted from Noir detective cinema. And Of course there was just the visual design.
All of those are fair game. You can embed lots of plot lines in a world like that. Indeed things like Firefly sort of took the same approach, embedding in to a western. And that was pretty good eh? Ghost in the shell had a semi-noir but more techno background. Again strong.
What will suck is if they try to have the same characters. That would diminish the original I think. But you could imagine something like a CSI series set in the future.
This advice reminds me of what became a solution rooted dells. TOss it and buy a new one. If you earn $100 and hour then yooooou cost your company about 2x in overhead. By the time you spend an hour diagnosing and 2 or 3 hours restoring your OS from scratch then you might as well have bought a more modern computer with the OS already installed.
So apparently people now have to throw their cell phones out every time they lose confidence in them. Will we have to run Virus software on all android phones? Lovely.
Presumably Skype and Magic Jack allow Voip calls from your computer to premium lines if you have signed up for the right kind of outbound service.
Additionally most people with voip have their voip modems as their frontline firewall on the internet. If anyone manages to either breakinto to those or otherwise sniff their handshaking then presumably one could make loads of calls and bill them to the voip plan (again assuming one has a plan that allows calls to premium numbers.)
It's sad they had to steal from him. He would gladly have paid 200K just to continue the fake relationship for more years. It seems to me that 200K compensation for being a fake online girl ought to be plenty for a Nigerian Scammer, so why not just continue the relationship for a 200K fee instead.
Well that's just it isn't it. When you are doing anything where you move, chew gum (literally) or fine detail work like painting or assmbly , you can notice the flicker. It's really obvious, just move your hand in front of the light and it strobes. Same with chewing gum or eating, your eyes strobe (Not making this up-- it's well documented).
To date all the LED replacement bulbs I've bought I had to remove. they were a hostile blue color and flicker at 120hz. awful to work under, hideous to look at. Wake me up when they start making DC rectified ones for standard 120v sockets. While you can find ones that have a redder spectrum they are also very low lumen models so can't replace 90W halogens or even 50W halogens.
Widows 3 was half baked too. Imagine for a moment there was no iphone (or mac) to compare andorid (win 3) to. both would seem amazing. But the are kind of a joke compared to the seamlessness of the apple garden. Win3 more so. andorid is pretty polished.
The difference this time is that there's no substantial price differential. even the cheapest android is only a couple hundred less than the apple model. not so in the days of win 3. Also the Apple SDK has made it more not less enterprise ready.
I firmly believe the revolution in Egypt was aided by closing the internet. People walked away from their keyboards and got outside. If they wanted to see what was happening they had the Al jazeera sattelite at a freinds house. But without communncation their imaginations could soar a bit and they could look awayf from the screen.
Circuses are well known to keep the roman masses happy.
because it is aping a viable economic system that everyone is satisfied with. When you invent a new one that works let's switch to that. note emphasis on the word "works".
Actually I really like this DRM proposal and here is why.
When I lend a real book, I no longer have it. I even am taking a risk I will lose it. This addresses both of those.
first, imagine a transferable DRM system. I can lend my book to someone else. But I have to transfer the ownership to them so that I no longer can read it or lend it to anyone else. That seems fair in the way that it emulates the rights I have for physical property I own. I think this might be a headache to implement. I recall that some softwares I've owned in the past came with a lic agreement that was exactly that: treat it like a book; you can lend it to someone else but you can't both be using it at the same time. They did not enforce it with DRM, but that was the licesnce. I thought that was fair. If two seats are using it, then I should purchase two copies, but all seats are transferable since I own them.
Second, suppose that when I lent my book, and transfered away my liscence, I could pay $1.99 to keep a copy for myself? That would be awesome. That way I get to lend it and for a pittance not lose my copy of it.
Which is exactly what this licence is proposing.
1) treat it like a book (meaning there is one copy but it is transferable) 2) but never lose your copy for a small fee.
On my mac HP sofware is the most invasive POS I have. it's runs multiple daemons and keeps re-installing itself when I remove only parts of it. It's not compatible with the managed users (parental controls). It uses a few percent of my CPU. Since I hardly ever use my scanner I don't actually need to have it ready to respond to it. When I want to use my scanner I'd just as soon start up an ap to listen. I don't need the daemons running all the time. And of course they only make the software for you particular model fo 5 years. then along comes some OS update and wham, the software is spweing errors into your logs and chewing up wads of CPU. This has happened to me twice no on two different HPs. I was dumb enough to assume they would have learned from the first five years of making crap, how to make a good driver. The second one is just as bad as the first in terms of software design, excess cpu, and invasiveness. The printer itself is quite good.
You know the rules and so do I A full commitment's what I'm thinking of You wouldn't get this from any other guy I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling Gotta make you understand
Never gonna give you up Never gonna let you down Never gonna run around and desert you Never gonna make you cry Never gonna say goodbye Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
We've known each other for so long Your heart's been aching but You're too shy to say it Inside we both know what's been going on We know the game and we're gonna play it
THink about it.... Do you enter a passwrod when start your phone? No? well then how is the built-in keychain locked? it's not. et might be encoded but the phone itself has to have the password. If you can jailbreak it or if like android, it's already jailbroken for you, then you have no password security.
1) an unintentional auto-complete disaster 2) disgruntled employee 3) Hacked twitter account used to launder code in to public domain 4) A diversion: A secondary easily revoked key, not the master, being used to take the piss out of efforts to to find the real master....??? what is your guess?
What I'd like for my AT&T phone is something that unlocks it but does NOT jail break it. (I tried using a rebel sim and it nearly broke my sim slot before I tossed the POS). I want something that does not install any software besides causing the unlock and does not interferre with updating the phone. I want a relible phone. I just want it on T-mobile. I would think I'm in the majority of people who use jailbreaks.
It seems like this should be possible. Many companies will provide an unlock for the phone that is permenant (once you pay it off). This is done via Itunes and some magic code. Why can't someone crack that code right in iTunes? That way the phone is not altered and can be updated.
Tethering has been moot since AT&T went away from unlimited data plans. And moreover they are going to allow tethering shortly since Verizon does.
Most people can live without pirate-ware utilities. And as for NES and such, do you really need to run that on your phone? Just get a gameboy or something. Is it possible this is actually in demand by more than a few people? or is it simply the novelty of running linux on your netgear router or toaster that excites people, who then forget about it after achieving the challenge.
I'm not complaining. I just don't get it? surely this is a tiny number of poeple, all of them could live without it, and the cost in time,effort, and risk (to the device and their security) is not even cost effective?
What I'd like for my AT&T phone is something that unlocks it but does NOT jail break it. (I tried using a rebel sim and it nearly broke my sim slot before I tossed the POS). I want something that does not install any software besides causing the unlock and does not interferre with updating the phone. I want a relible phone. I just want it on T-mobile. I would think I'm in the majority of people who use jailbreaks.
What is the point? It's one thing to jailbreak your phone so you can unclock the carrier and another to allow arbitrary app deployment. In my case I unlock my at&T iphone to use tmobile (AT&T does not allow iphones in my zipcode if they use more than 1/2 their minutes here). But I find the jailbreaking a Giant pain in the ass since it means I can't easily update my phone to the latest OS. The process of doing it is so fragile and so poorly documented that one takes a risk every time of bricking it or ending up with a base band you can't change to the carrier you want. (and please don't argue that it's easy to do, I've done it many times. it's always a bit crazy and takes hours of time to make sure you have the right pieces for your phone model and iOS and baseband.)
I always wonder who these folks are that want to jailbreak for purposes other than unlocking. What is the point? oh sure there are a few convincing reasons for developers to do it. But ordinary people? who cares? For those folks that say it's about "freedom" then Isn't knowing you could leave the prison any time you want as good as taking the gate off it's hinges? it's much safer to leave the gates in place to avoid intruders.
In the case of verizon then, why unlock? what can you do with an unlocked verizon phone? maybe sell it to some other country that uses CDMA? SO unlocking is as pointless as jailbreaking.
Cheating is hard work. Why not simply hire some smart kid from pakistan or china to just enroll in school as you. He/shee can take all your classes. You won't not even have to pay them, just pay them with the tuition your not spending. You can still be on campus, live in the dorm, since you, or at least your name is enrolled and matriculation. party for four years and get a degree and a great GPA. Maybe audit a few classes if there's a hot chick. Your impersonator goes home with a great education.
I mean seriously, why not? If cheating makes sense then does this not even make more sense. Plus your not even stealing from your fellow students. They are still competing against a fellow student. Just one that is smart and not cheating.
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If you bring it to school then the school can impose rules on how you use it. Don't bring it to school if you don't like it. You might as well complain about having to get vaccinated or having to wear pants or leaving your bong at home.
This is going to mean higher cell phone bills for me. I don't send text messages. Therefore all the chumps that run up high cell phone bills with text messages are effectively subsidizing me by letting the phone company offer me basic cell phone service at a lower rate. I don't believe the cell phone companies simply will earn less gratuitous profit if you remove the ring-tone and text messaging markets from profitability. Instead if you lower their margins in one area you will simply drive them up in another.
We don't like monopolies when they deny us a choice. I had to us PCs for corporate reasons. The Office document hegemony was grating even after I swtichted to a mac.
I choose to use apple products because I want them not because I have no alternatives.
Indeed I've fallen for buying cheaper "better" speced products many times since entering the apple ecosystem. Each time I do something like "plays for sure" or the inability of my Linux device do do what I want without some multi-hour install of some undocumented source forge project brings me back. I simply get more done with less frustration.
That is to say, they are competing on productivity enhancement for me, and winning. Not because they have a monopoly.
Spam sent from zombies will be encrypted and signed with the certificate of the zombied computer. so how does this help?
back in the 1990s Sun was pushing the idea of a signet ring that would carry all your data and credentials, powered by a java interface. It finally came to realization in 1998.
http://www.javaworld.com/jw-04-1998/jw-04-ringfever.html
At the time I thought it was a splendid idea. The concept was to have public kiosks that would intermediate between the ring and your mainframe to do what ever you wanted to do. Or the ring could authenticate you to some point of sale, or carry your medical records. etc... Remember this was early 90s.
What is really telling about this is that our microprocessors and motherboard are sufficiently backwards compatible. It tells you how x86 has stunted progress. Itanium was supposed to be a break out. So was powerPC. Yet they dies on the consumer vine (even though they live on in the server and embedded world).
Whenever I hear "too much time on his hands" I think it's really someone saying "I'm jealous because my life is grey and dull without an imagination".
What is really "imaginative" here is even daring to think you could get DOS to run on an old machine without an RS232/RS488 port. Either sheer arrogance, stupidity, or cleverness.
Since Blade Runner if one of the best films attempts to leach off of it are pathetic.
However the film itself is not simply an adaptation of "do andorids dream of electric sheep". Instead it is steeped in other Philip K Dick books, like the atmosphere of post WWII pacific states of Asian-america found in the man in the high castle books. Likewise the ideas that healthy and wealthy humans have moved off world leaving behind a lower class society with pockets of wealth is found in other PKD themes. Most of all the rich Noir aspect was not found in any PKD book but transplanted from Noir detective cinema. And Of course there was just the visual design.
All of those are fair game. You can embed lots of plot lines in a world like that. Indeed things like Firefly sort of took the same approach, embedding in to a western. And that was pretty good eh? Ghost in the shell had a semi-noir but more techno background. Again strong.
What will suck is if they try to have the same characters. That would diminish the original I think. But you could imagine something like a CSI series set in the future.
This advice reminds me of what became a solution rooted dells. TOss it and buy a new one. If you earn $100 and hour then yooooou cost your company about 2x in overhead. By the time you spend an hour diagnosing and 2 or 3 hours restoring your OS from scratch then you might as well have bought a more modern computer with the OS already installed.
So apparently people now have to throw their cell phones out every time they lose confidence in them. Will we have to run Virus software on all android phones? Lovely.
Presumably Skype and Magic Jack allow Voip calls from your computer to premium lines if you have signed up for the right kind of outbound service.
Additionally most people with voip have their voip modems as their frontline firewall on the internet. If anyone manages to either breakinto to those or otherwise sniff their handshaking then presumably one could make loads of calls and bill them to the voip plan (again assuming one has a plan that allows calls to premium numbers.)
It's sad they had to steal from him. He would gladly have paid 200K just to continue the fake relationship for more years. It seems to me that 200K compensation for being a fake online girl ought to be plenty for a Nigerian Scammer, so why not just continue the relationship for a 200K fee instead.
Well that's just it isn't it. When you are doing anything where you move, chew gum (literally) or fine detail work like painting or assmbly , you can notice the flicker. It's really obvious, just move your hand in front of the light and it strobes. Same with chewing gum or eating, your eyes strobe (Not making this up-- it's well documented).
To date all the LED replacement bulbs I've bought I had to remove. they were a hostile blue color and flicker at 120hz. awful to work under, hideous to look at. Wake me up when they start making DC rectified ones for standard 120v sockets. While you can find ones that have a redder spectrum they are also very low lumen models so can't replace 90W halogens or even 50W halogens.
Widows 3 was half baked too. Imagine for a moment there was no iphone (or mac) to compare andorid (win 3) to. both would seem amazing. But the are kind of a joke compared to the seamlessness of the apple garden. Win3 more so. andorid is pretty polished.
The difference this time is that there's no substantial price differential. even the cheapest android is only a couple hundred less than the apple model. not so in the days of win 3. Also the Apple SDK has made it more not less enterprise ready.
So it's hard to make comparisons.
I firmly believe the revolution in Egypt was aided by closing the internet. People walked away from their keyboards and got outside. If they wanted to see what was happening they had the Al jazeera sattelite at a freinds house. But without communncation their imaginations could soar a bit and they could look awayf from the screen.
Circuses are well known to keep the roman masses happy.
because it is aping a viable economic system that everyone is satisfied with. When you invent a new one that works let's switch to that. note emphasis on the word "works".
Actually I really like this DRM proposal and here is why.
When I lend a real book, I no longer have it. I even am taking a risk I will lose it. This addresses both of those.
first, imagine a transferable DRM system. I can lend my book to someone else. But I have to transfer the ownership to them so that I no longer can read it or lend it to anyone else. That seems fair in the way that it emulates the rights I have for physical property I own. I think this might be a headache to implement. I recall that some softwares I've owned in the past came with a lic agreement that was exactly that: treat it like a book; you can lend it to someone else but you can't both be using it at the same time. They did not enforce it with DRM, but that was the licesnce. I thought that was fair. If two seats are using it, then I should purchase two copies, but all seats are transferable since I own them.
Second, suppose that when I lent my book, and transfered away my liscence, I could pay $1.99 to keep a copy for myself? That would be awesome. That way I get to lend it and for a pittance not lose my copy of it.
Which is exactly what this licence is proposing.
1) treat it like a book (meaning there is one copy but it is transferable)
2) but never lose your copy for a small fee.
perfect.
On my mac HP sofware is the most invasive POS I have. it's runs multiple daemons and keeps re-installing itself when I remove only parts of it. It's not compatible with the managed users (parental controls). It uses a few percent of my CPU. Since I hardly ever use my scanner I don't actually need to have it ready to respond to it. When I want to use my scanner I'd just as soon start up an ap to listen. I don't need the daemons running all the time. And of course they only make the software for you particular model fo 5 years. then along comes some OS update and wham, the software is spweing errors into your logs and chewing up wads of CPU. This has happened to me twice no on two different HPs. I was dumb enough to assume they would have learned from the first five years of making crap, how to make a good driver. The second one is just as bad as the first in terms of software design, excess cpu, and invasiveness. The printer itself is quite good.
Here's the transcript of mubarack speech tonight:
You know the rules and so do I
A full commitment's what I'm thinking of
You wouldn't get this from any other guy
I just wanna tell you how I'm feeling
Gotta make you understand
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Never gonna make you cry
Never gonna say goodbye
Never gonna tell a lie and hurt you
We've known each other for so long
Your heart's been aching but
You're too shy to say it
Inside we both know what's been going on
We know the game and we're gonna play it
http://tinyurl.com/2g9mqh
Yea, well, mine's better, I use rot13 twice! Crack this, sucker!
I decrypted your message by applying ROT2 thirteen times.
THink about it.... Do you enter a passwrod when start your phone? No? well then how is the built-in keychain locked? it's not. et might be encoded but the phone itself has to have the password. If you can jailbreak it or if like android, it's already jailbroken for you, then you have no password security.
Why did this happen? A few theories:
1) an unintentional auto-complete disaster ....???
2) disgruntled employee
3) Hacked twitter account used to launder code in to public domain
4) A diversion: A secondary easily revoked key, not the master, being used to take the piss out of efforts to to find the real master
what is your guess?
What I'd like for my AT&T phone is something that unlocks it but does NOT jail break it. (I tried using a rebel sim and it nearly broke my sim slot before I tossed the POS). I want something that does not install any software besides causing the unlock and does not interferre with updating the phone. I want a relible phone. I just want it on T-mobile. I would think I'm in the majority of people who use jailbreaks.
It seems like this should be possible. Many companies will provide an unlock for the phone that is permenant (once you pay it off). This is done via Itunes and some magic code. Why can't someone crack that code right in iTunes? That way the phone is not altered and can be updated.
Tethering has been moot since AT&T went away from unlimited data plans. And moreover they are going to allow tethering shortly since Verizon does.
Most people can live without pirate-ware utilities. And as for NES and such, do you really need to run that on your phone? Just get a gameboy or something. Is it possible this is actually in demand by more than a few people? or is it simply the novelty of running linux on your netgear router or toaster that excites people, who then forget about it after achieving the challenge.
I'm not complaining. I just don't get it? surely this is a tiny number of poeple, all of them could live without it, and the cost in time,effort, and risk (to the device and their security) is not even cost effective?
What I'd like for my AT&T phone is something that unlocks it but does NOT jail break it. (I tried using a rebel sim and it nearly broke my sim slot before I tossed the POS). I want something that does not install any software besides causing the unlock and does not interferre with updating the phone. I want a relible phone. I just want it on T-mobile. I would think I'm in the majority of people who use jailbreaks.
What is the point?
It's one thing to jailbreak your phone so you can unclock the carrier and another to allow arbitrary app deployment. In my case I unlock my at&T iphone to use tmobile (AT&T does not allow iphones in my zipcode if they use more than 1/2 their minutes here). But I find the jailbreaking a Giant pain in the ass since it means I can't easily update my phone to the latest OS. The process of doing it is so fragile and so poorly documented that one takes a risk every time of bricking it or ending up with a base band you can't change to the carrier you want. (and please don't argue that it's easy to do, I've done it many times. it's always a bit crazy and takes hours of time to make sure you have the right pieces for your phone model and iOS and baseband.)
I always wonder who these folks are that want to jailbreak for purposes other than unlocking. What is the point? oh sure there are a few convincing reasons for developers to do it. But ordinary people? who cares? For those folks that say it's about "freedom" then Isn't knowing you could leave the prison any time you want as good as taking the gate off it's hinges? it's much safer to leave the gates in place to avoid intruders.
In the case of verizon then, why unlock? what can you do with an unlocked verizon phone? maybe sell it to some other country that uses CDMA? SO unlocking is as pointless as jailbreaking.
Cheating is hard work. Why not simply hire some smart kid from pakistan or china to just enroll in school as you. He/shee can take all your classes. You won't not even have to pay them, just pay them with the tuition your not spending. You can still be on campus, live in the dorm, since you, or at least your name is enrolled and matriculation. party for four years and get a degree and a great GPA. Maybe audit a few classes if there's a hot chick. Your impersonator goes home with a great education.
I mean seriously, why not? If cheating makes sense then does this not even make more sense. Plus your not even stealing from your fellow students. They are still competing against a fellow student. Just one that is smart and not cheating.