This is the same grade of science that declares otherwise harmless things to be harmful to human health. They overdose the subject and declare that it's all harmful. Look, if I take twelve Tylenol, I'm going to bork my liver, but that doesn't mean that the FDA should take it off the market!
And GSM is no different than CDMA or TDMA. If the protocol was harmful, the we'd all be dead anyway because it saturates the atmosphere. It's the exposure to the high powered radio frequency that is harmful. It could be TDMA, CDMA, GSM, or good old CB or ham band, or hell, morse code, it doesn't matter, if you're too close to the transmitter at that power, you're going to get hurt.
One thing to keep in mind is that sales droids are probably not familiar with the wonderful world of minerology and/or science minded. They are sales people for a reason. They aren't the people who understand these concepts. (If anyone should understand the concept, it is you, the reader.) So as such, if you go and apply a dremel tool to, say, a platinum wedding ring you have in mind for your wife and, lo and behold, it's showering yellow sparks, the first thing through their mind is not going to be something to the effect of "aw dammit, I've been found out!", it's going to be more like "Holy f*ck! This f*cker just damaged my merchandise! POLICE!". You can't talk logic into them, and the police are more likely to side with the jeweler. Sure, you might be able to prove the jeweler wrong in a court of law and countersue for false advertising (and expose him as a fraud), but having to fart around with legal crap for months is, for one, not my idea of a good time.
This is very much a point where Hanlon's Razor can be applied.
T-Mobile has been doing that for years.
The thing is, as another user pointed out, there is no guarantee that one of $carrier's branded phones will actually work, but speaking for t-mo, their tier 3 department seems to have some pretty decent tools to make it work. Some things don't work much of the time for non-branded phones (like downloading content from their internal wap site), but otherwise things tend to work.
The summary listed here is complete bullshit. I'm amazed it survived the firehose!
The bill has nothing driectly ot do with considering the intertubes a terrorist threat, and has everything to do with constricting DHS and preventing so-called home grown terrorism.
I'm flying home to California for Christmas from Seattle, and I was lucky too get a flight into Ontario instead of John Wayne on my miles - and UA wanted me to pay not only airport taxes, but if I booked on the phone, they wanted me to pay $25. To a call center in India where they didn't understand "slow down" as I tried to write my itinerary on a slip of paper.
Now, they do this.
This is just another reason I will no longer fly Untied Airlines. After this, what few miles I have left can just go to charity, and I'm flying Alaska or Southwest from here.
Note too that the stock plummeted by nearly half at the tail end of today's trading day owing to the news, and at last report it is at thirty seven cents.
Honestly, Mr. Gay, my thought is that RMS has the right idea - but in his simplicity is pedantry.
Maybe he has forgotten that the persistent use of gcc and emacs (the latter of which I use ardently for just about any editing task) effectively forbids us of forgetting the 20 years of GNU dev, though. Granted, I don't use emacs in tribute to this, I just use it 'cause I like it.
I just read the post. My earlier post here was correct - LJ isn't going to ToS somebody because a meme they linked to was pranked. The LJ entry is pure dramaqueenery.
See, this is why, whenever I link to a site, I try and make sure that it's not going to be something nefarious. Granted, the occasional meme has turned up a pic of Goatse.
What I see happening is this: LJ, with their history, will provide a warning. If it was a meme and it got goatse'd, then yeah, the blogger is technically responsible, but I'm fairly sure they won't be ToS'd because of some fuckwit's prank that they apparently think is laughable. On the other hand, if the person is posting links to child porn and it's clearly intentional...well, as near as I can tell, this is what it's for.
I'll have to toss this by my attorney, see what s/he thinks of it.
Lessee. Procmail in 1991, even so far back as an alias with a shell script back in the days of RFC 822. I don't think we'll have any problems with prior works.
Checked out Freecycle lately? I managed to score a couple of old T-Mobile phones - a Samsung R225 and a Nokia 3390 - last year on this, and these phones are pretty simple: they only do SMS, and the Samsung has an LED that can change colors.
Good question. I do this for a living for the data side.
Short version: $gsm_carrier can provide the settings, but while it usually works, it's not guaranteed to work, and they don't acutally support the phone.
Long version is like this - as long as $gsm_phone is unlocked, then $gsm_carrier can usually get it working without too much effort, and will talk you, the user, through the process - but it comes with no guarantee that it will actually work on the network. Some phones have odd quirks, and don't always work. Voice is usually no big issue, and my understanding is something like "just add SIM card and a few button presses, and it'll Just Work" - but, since data and voice are effectively two different parts of any GSM network (and I do data only), I could be wrong. For data, you will have to provide the data service gateway (usually an IP address), an access point name, and a MMS center for multimedia messaging. Either way, if the phone still doesn't want to work, you'll need to call $gsm_phone_maker for help.
In short, cash is exceedingly hard to trace. Yes, even with receipts. Receipts can be forged, deposits can be fudged, and cash can "just vanish without a trace". And forget about asking where George is, that's just an experiment.
So, that said, the university has to take a means that reduces lossage. Take certifiable or tractable funds. You know, checks, credit cards, money orders, cashiers checks, that sort of thing.
Word of advice: get a checking account, or look into options like MIO or ADP. If you really don't like banks, find a good credit union.
1) Get an old PC that's really nice and compact. Something you can run Linux on. Install it up, making sure you get something like chbg on it. Make sure mom has a network connection in her home if you want to remotely access it. Do wifi or do an ethernet connection. Creatively hide this. Tell her to never, EVER turn it off - she doesn't need to and it burns a minimal amount of power anyway.
(Note, if she has no broadband connection and doesn't have the means to get it, you can set the box up with wifi, have it act as a node, and just log in and upload from your laptop when you swing by.)
2) Attach to it a 15" flatpanel monitor. Get something that would look nice in her home on the hearth or something. You probably won't hang it up on the wall.
3) Use the images swap as an excuse to visit mom. She'll like this. So that you have a maximum amount of face time with her, make sure you use a shell script or make gratuitous use of rsync.
The solution should be preferable because 1) you have control over everything, 2) you know how it works, and 3) mom doesn't have to interact with the computer.
As much as I hate to admit, I used to play with Applesoft Basic on my Apple//c when growing up. You do Ctrl-C, and vavoom, you have a breakpoint.
Now, let's go before that, to when I used to tool around on a TI 99/4A, using TI Basic. You hit Ctrl-C during your code's execution, and not only do you get a breakpoint, you get "BREAKPOINT AT n" (n being the line number) for the response. This alone was...oh, I want to say 25 years ago, roughly.
So if this went through, somebody's deserving of a nice little LARTing.
This is why, in the real world, if you're going to do "sneaker attacks", you make absolutely positively sure you have a contract. It gives them an understanding as to what can happen, and more importantly, it covers your ass if you find something that blows up the system.
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What remaining SCO user base? McDonald's comes to mind.
And GSM is no different than CDMA or TDMA. If the protocol was harmful, the we'd all be dead anyway because it saturates the atmosphere. It's the exposure to the high powered radio frequency that is harmful. It could be TDMA, CDMA, GSM, or good old CB or ham band, or hell, morse code, it doesn't matter, if you're too close to the transmitter at that power, you're going to get hurt.
This is very much a point where Hanlon's Razor can be applied.
T-Mobile has been doing that for years. The thing is, as another user pointed out, there is no guarantee that one of $carrier's branded phones will actually work, but speaking for t-mo, their tier 3 department seems to have some pretty decent tools to make it work. Some things don't work much of the time for non-branded phones (like downloading content from their internal wap site), but otherwise things tend to work.
The summary listed here is complete bullshit. I'm amazed it survived the firehose! The bill has nothing driectly ot do with considering the intertubes a terrorist threat, and has everything to do with constricting DHS and preventing so-called home grown terrorism.
The term "pyrrhic victory" comes to mind here.
OK, the servers are supposed to melt down after the post on Slashdot.
Now, they do this.
This is just another reason I will no longer fly Untied Airlines. After this, what few miles I have left can just go to charity, and I'm flying Alaska or Southwest from here.
I'm more inclined to say that Danny Boy was more upset that Tom Brokaw was the one who was invited to emcee the initial rollout back in July.
Ah, OK. Thank you for the insight. If I had mod zorch, I'd +1 informative you. =)
Note too that the stock plummeted by nearly half at the tail end of today's trading day owing to the news, and at last report it is at thirty seven cents.
Maybe he has forgotten that the persistent use of gcc and emacs (the latter of which I use ardently for just about any editing task) effectively forbids us of forgetting the 20 years of GNU dev, though. Granted, I don't use emacs in tribute to this, I just use it 'cause I like it.
People just need to grow the fuck up already.
What I see happening is this: LJ, with their history, will provide a warning. If it was a meme and it got goatse'd, then yeah, the blogger is technically responsible, but I'm fairly sure they won't be ToS'd because of some fuckwit's prank that they apparently think is laughable. On the other hand, if the person is posting links to child porn and it's clearly intentional...well, as near as I can tell, this is what it's for.
I'll have to toss this by my attorney, see what s/he thinks of it.
Lessee. Procmail in 1991, even so far back as an alias with a shell script back in the days of RFC 822. I don't think we'll have any problems with prior works.
Checked out Freecycle lately? I managed to score a couple of old T-Mobile phones - a Samsung R225 and a Nokia 3390 - last year on this, and these phones are pretty simple: they only do SMS, and the Samsung has an LED that can change colors.
Good question. I do this for a living for the data side.
Short version: $gsm_carrier can provide the settings, but while it usually works, it's not guaranteed to work, and they don't acutally support the phone.
Long version is like this - as long as $gsm_phone is unlocked, then $gsm_carrier can usually get it working without too much effort, and will talk you, the user, through the process - but it comes with no guarantee that it will actually work on the network. Some phones have odd quirks, and don't always work. Voice is usually no big issue, and my understanding is something like "just add SIM card and a few button presses, and it'll Just Work" - but, since data and voice are effectively two different parts of any GSM network (and I do data only), I could be wrong. For data, you will have to provide the data service gateway (usually an IP address), an access point name, and a MMS center for multimedia messaging. Either way, if the phone still doesn't want to work, you'll need to call $gsm_phone_maker for help.
Look, man, I don't know what planet you live on, but if I go to the post office, I'm lucky if it takes fifteen minutes! =^_^=
In short, cash is exceedingly hard to trace. Yes, even with receipts. Receipts can be forged, deposits can be fudged, and cash can "just vanish without a trace". And forget about asking where George is, that's just an experiment.
So, that said, the university has to take a means that reduces lossage. Take certifiable or tractable funds. You know, checks, credit cards, money orders, cashiers checks, that sort of thing.
Word of advice: get a checking account, or look into options like MIO or ADP. If you really don't like banks, find a good credit union.
(Note, if she has no broadband connection and doesn't have the means to get it, you can set the box up with wifi, have it act as a node, and just log in and upload from your laptop when you swing by.) 2) Attach to it a 15" flatpanel monitor. Get something that would look nice in her home on the hearth or something. You probably won't hang it up on the wall.
3) Use the images swap as an excuse to visit mom. She'll like this. So that you have a maximum amount of face time with her, make sure you use a shell script or make gratuitous use of rsync.
The solution should be preferable because 1) you have control over everything, 2) you know how it works, and 3) mom doesn't have to interact with the computer.
Dude, what am I going to do without all those blinkenlights in my computer room?! It's not a computer without them!
Now, let's go before that, to when I used to tool around on a TI 99/4A, using TI Basic. You hit Ctrl-C during your code's execution, and not only do you get a breakpoint, you get "BREAKPOINT AT n" (n being the line number) for the response. This alone was...oh, I want to say 25 years ago, roughly.
So if this went through, somebody's deserving of a nice little LARTing.
...before they decided to stop competing. I mean, are they really competition for each other?
Besides, Myspace is evil anyway.
All you have to do to find out is to look at The SCO Group. It may not financially ruin the company, but boy, that reputation sure precedes them.