That's what I meant to say, buy lots of insurance, don't keep personal info on your computer (including any access to e-mail) and be sure that everything on the computer is backed up. Then the friendly people at the insurance company will give you full replacement value for everything that was taken and for all repairs needed as a result of the smashing to get in. They are happy whenever something like this happens because it helps them sell more insurance. And it makes it easy for people like the original poster to avoid the common sense Besides the obvious approach of just taking the temptation out of the car.
If you're going to insist on Besides the obvious, then the best that I can offer you is to leave the car unlocked, and protect the windows by leaving them wound down into the door where they may be safer. That way the thief might not break a $300 window while grabbing a $99 GPS (or even a few lose CDs, or change, or other shiny objects). Thieves sometimes steal cars by "popping the ignition", using a large screwdriver or similar pry-bar to break the lock. So I'll also suggest that you can prevent the expense of a broken ignition lock by gluing something into the keyhole where they would normally try to insert the screwdriver, blocking it. I suggest gluing in the original key.
Of course they are not the same. But they are not unrelated either. As a program grows in memory footprint it generally takes more resources to compile and link. That sure looks like what is happening here. Your flaming name calling is completely inappropriate, you should be able to make your point without it.
I saw problems months ago, when I accepted the (then) latest update on my older 512 meg XP based HP notebook and Firefox suddenly could no longer open more than just a few tabs before bogging down completely. I mentioned that in Slashdot and the insightful people here told me I was stupid and didn't know what I was talking about.
These dolts seems to be presenting a "system" that they believe will give you a very high chance of winning if you play a lot of minimal bets. If they really believe that they should get out of academia and into the real world and do some "research" in actual casinos. If only I could bet on the casinos and against Cornell University math nerds.
To put it another way, in the state of Massachusetts I think I could write a better algorithm just by predicting that everyone approaching the intersection will run the light if they can. Assuming that you don't count the ones that actually go through when the light is still green as "wrong", I think the above will do better than 85%. If you allow me to add that they will stop if there is a car stopped in each lane in front of them (but will swerve around any stopped car in their lane if another lane is open) then it will do even better, even though I lose a few percent for the rare cars that do actually stop.
They likely only got 85% accuracy because they felt the need to predict that some cars would stop.
To put it another way, for Massachusetts I think I could write a better algorithm just by predicting that everyone approaching the intersection will run the light if they can. Assuming that you don't count the ones that actually go through when the light is still green as "wrong", I think the above will do better than 85%. If you allow me to add that they will stop if there is a car stopped in each lane in front of them (but will swerve around any stopped car in their lane if another lane is open) then it will do even better, even though I lose a few percent for the rare cars that do actually stop.
They likely only got 85% accuracy because they felt the need to predict that some cars would stop.
MIT? The M in that TLA stands for Massachusetts. I've visited the state and seen the drivers, and I'm pretty sure that red light running there is mandatory. As near as I could figure, the law there is if you ever see the green or yellow as you approach the intersection, then the light is still considered green for you. I'll wait for research from somewhere else.
Wonderful. We have relatively loose and liberal immigration laws, and already have tons of foreigners coming into the country to take jobs. Not just farming or service job labor, but even taking technical jobs and thus keeping wages low for Americans. Not to mention the job shortages of a weak economy. Now we have someone announcing plans to further erode what little imagined protection American workers have.
I'm sure I've offended someone who thinks that the United States just has to open its boarders to everything even though other nations protect themselves from the same problems, and thus will soon be modded down so my voice is silenced. After all, even the governor of Texas wants to charge lower tuition to illegal aliens (meaning criminals, look up illegal) than to honest tax paying Americans from other states, even though the illegals couldn't legally work in his state after getting an education! But consider that there just might be some valid reasons for a sound and balanced immigration and work visa program and don't applaud everyone who wants to circumvent it.
FXI hasn’t set pricing yet for the Cotton Candy, but expects it to cost considerably less than $200 per unit.
So it might be less than $200, but maybe not. At anywhere near that price it would make a lot more sense to just buy a low end Android device that you can carry with you than to try to make this thing work with other devices. And I don't believe the claim that you can just plug this into anything with a USB port and somehow magically take it over. Might work on a few Windows boxes, but there is no way that they can design it to take over everything with a USB port on it.
I figured out it was a big mistake as soon as I found it wouldn't play content like Hulu or the networks. I'll go with a multi-media PC. Others here responded to me that it was great because it didn't have a noisy fan. I can't imagine buying this at any price, even a fire sale going out of business price. With a multi-media PC I can actually watch stuff on my TV, and play graphic intensive games on my big HD screen.
Curiously, the fix is rather simple, but they just don't do it: Let the browser ID itself as any stock PC browser rather than reveal that it is Google TV. Then the user could play the content that they want on it. Treating this as different than any other computer is stupid.
Of course, I would still avoid it because of the high price and the lock-in for even higher prices for accessories (anyone notice how expensive it is if you want to attach a web-cam to this? It doesn't take most inexpensive Logitech web-cams, just the overpriced Review web-cam.)
However, even by the shortest route, the distance between the two cities is nearly 400 miles, meaning that an equidistant SuperCharger would be no use to owners of Model S sedans with smaller 160 or 230-mile battery packs.
Wake up, it isn't about usefulness. It's about hype.
Several years ago when I first learned of HDLC, I posted here into a thread about the "new" high-definition technology warning that there was a new connector coming (it became HDMI) and a new nasty form of DRM going along with it (HDLC) and that people should hold off because the early adopters were going to get screwed. The response was a lot of angry posts telling me that I didn't know what I was talking about, early adopters told me that their expensive TV sets could play HD just fine, and I was modded down, apparently so people considering buying an early set without HDMI and HDLC would not see my warning.
Now people who bought those amazingly expensive early "monitors" can't watch HD content from a Blu-Ray player or on-line streaming service on them (although they can enjoy grainy 480 line service). Why? Apparently we can get angry enough when a bank tries to charge $60 a year to spend our own money via a debit card, but we are not able to get angry enough with the content providers when they screw us and make it clear their intent is to buy congressmen to subvert the intention of Copyright as stated in the U.S. Constitution. So the content providers are going to keep screwing their customers. I'm sure that they would like to screw more people, but so far they have only figured ut how to screw the artists and the customers, aside for some random lawsuits that assume if you are not signing up for the screwing then you mist be a criminal.
What do you mean it didn't work? DRM schemes such as Microsoft's "Play Anywhere" are abandoned and then the customer who paid good money for the music has to buy it again if they still want it,. DRM works exactly as planned and intended/
The approach that I would take is to distribute decryption software and a key or one time pad to anyone I felt was appropriate, siblings, executor, whoever, and then be sure to always keep an encrypted copy of my passwords and account info on the computer or a flash drive. The only down side is that the information has to always be kept current, must be updated after every change. But even if the computer or flash drive are stolen the information should be safe as long as the thief isn't one of the people holding the decryption key and doesn't know who those people are.
This, of course, assumes that the flash drive or data file can make its way to someone after you pass on. I had seen a program years ago that promised to do things like send such files after you were dead (or delete all of your porn), but it was so unreliable that it was useless, would take action with no warning on minor events such as recovery from extended power outage, repair of failed system, or incorrect clock setting. A good dead man's switch program would be the prefect match for such an encrypted file.
Well, it seems likely that some register users will be getting a lot of spam soon. Even if the list didn't get sent directly to a spammer it might have gone to someone who wants to teach the Register an important lesson.
I always use disposable addresses when signing up for anything, and even give them to my friends. I've had one Linux forum make my address publicly visible. I've had multiple vendors send out things to lists with CC information in plain sight. I've had friends who had their accounts hacked and their contact information harvested. Always using disposable addresses lets you cut off just the problem rather than having to abandon an entire e-mail account (which I had to do years ago when it suddenly started receiving hundreds of e-mails a day, so much that my normal e-mail was being rejected because my "mailbox was full")..
I use a great free service from Spamgourmet.com. I have no relationship with them other than being a satisfied user for many years. As far as I know my actual e-mail (which I obviously had to give to them for forwarding) has never been compromised or leaked and I've never received any form of junk mail from them. They are not the only such option, but whichever you choose to use you should definitely use one if you want to protect yourself from spam and worse.
As the article says, the current birds are not made for this, and that is one orbit that you really don't want to play Angry Birds in. It would make much more sense to mandate that if you want GEO orbital space any new satellite would have to be highly modular and repairable, and maybe even plan for refiling (although if you think fuel is expensive here just wait to see the cost there). With an insane amount of money you might kluge together something with the current scrap, but I doubt it could offset the cost of getting the robots to do it there in the first place. Far better and safer to cut losses on the old junk and stop sending up unfix-able designs.
It wasn't that long ago that I read a/. article about someone who won a prize of a trip to the space station, but had to turn it down because of the phenomenal tax liability he would face if he accepted such a "prize". I don't see this as any different, the average guy just can't afford to win such a prize without facing ruin from the taxes. Why does/. even continue to hype such prizes, or don't the editors eat their own dog food?
I'm not sure that I want or need my games running in a browser, and I'm certainly no fan of Steam (I will never buy a DRMed game that depends on another company continuing to exist for me to continue to own it), but what in the world does or even directly in Steam even mean? I have used Steam (I bough Half-life pre-Steam and it was later "upgraded" to force me to use Steam, and I've used it for some free demos). It certainly doesn't seem likely or desirable that the little Steam tray thing would run a game, and that anyone would want it to. Why worry about keeping flash embedded in Steam up to date, when keeping the browser current is enough grief?
Typing and searching isn't the answer. Occasionally I don't even know the actual file name of what I'm looking for in Start, but I can easily find it by the name of the folder (application) and where I've stored it in the start menu hierarchy. Searches on my system (with several 2 TB drives) can take prohibitively long, particularly since I don't store all applications on the C system hard drive. This change is a big mistake, and will cause a flood of third party solutions. Unfortunately, although the Start menu was populated automatically by the install process, third party applications will miss this capability and thus will fall short as a substitute. But it isn't as if Microsoft really cares about their users.
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That's what I meant to say, buy lots of insurance, don't keep personal info on your computer (including any access to e-mail) and be sure that everything on the computer is backed up. Then the friendly people at the insurance company will give you full replacement value for everything that was taken and for all repairs needed as a result of the smashing to get in. They are happy whenever something like this happens because it helps them sell more insurance. And it makes it easy for people like the original poster to avoid the common sense Besides the obvious approach of just taking the temptation out of the car.
If you're going to insist on Besides the obvious , then the best that I can offer you is to leave the car unlocked, and protect the windows by leaving them wound down into the door where they may be safer. That way the thief might not break a $300 window while grabbing a $99 GPS (or even a few lose CDs, or change, or other shiny objects). Thieves sometimes steal cars by "popping the ignition", using a large screwdriver or similar pry-bar to break the lock. So I'll also suggest that you can prevent the expense of a broken ignition lock by gluing something into the keyhole where they would normally try to insert the screwdriver, blocking it. I suggest gluing in the original key.
It is sure good that we don't award patents for obvious things and that no one except Google ever had the idea for a driverless vehicle.
Of course they are not the same. But they are not unrelated either. As a program grows in memory footprint it generally takes more resources to compile and link. That sure looks like what is happening here. Your flaming name calling is completely inappropriate, you should be able to make your point without it.
I saw problems months ago, when I accepted the (then) latest update on my older 512 meg XP based HP notebook and Firefox suddenly could no longer open more than just a few tabs before bogging down completely. I mentioned that in Slashdot and the insightful people here told me I was stupid and didn't know what I was talking about.
These dolts seems to be presenting a "system" that they believe will give you a very high chance of winning if you play a lot of minimal bets. If they really believe that they should get out of academia and into the real world and do some "research" in actual casinos. If only I could bet on the casinos and against Cornell University math nerds.
To put it another way, in the state of Massachusetts I think I could write a better algorithm just by predicting that everyone approaching the intersection will run the light if they can. Assuming that you don't count the ones that actually go through when the light is still green as "wrong", I think the above will do better than 85%. If you allow me to add that they will stop if there is a car stopped in each lane in front of them (but will swerve around any stopped car in their lane if another lane is open) then it will do even better, even though I lose a few percent for the rare cars that do actually stop.
They likely only got 85% accuracy because they felt the need to predict that some cars would stop.
To put it another way, for Massachusetts I think I could write a better algorithm just by predicting that everyone approaching the intersection will run the light if they can. Assuming that you don't count the ones that actually go through when the light is still green as "wrong", I think the above will do better than 85%. If you allow me to add that they will stop if there is a car stopped in each lane in front of them (but will swerve around any stopped car in their lane if another lane is open) then it will do even better, even though I lose a few percent for the rare cars that do actually stop.
They likely only got 85% accuracy because they felt the need to predict that some cars would stop.
MIT? The M in that TLA stands for Massachusetts. I've visited the state and seen the drivers, and I'm pretty sure that red light running there is mandatory. As near as I could figure, the law there is if you ever see the green or yellow as you approach the intersection, then the light is still considered green for you. I'll wait for research from somewhere else.
Wonderful. We have relatively loose and liberal immigration laws, and already have tons of foreigners coming into the country to take jobs. Not just farming or service job labor, but even taking technical jobs and thus keeping wages low for Americans. Not to mention the job shortages of a weak economy. Now we have someone announcing plans to further erode what little imagined protection American workers have.
I'm sure I've offended someone who thinks that the United States just has to open its boarders to everything even though other nations protect themselves from the same problems, and thus will soon be modded down so my voice is silenced. After all, even the governor of Texas wants to charge lower tuition to illegal aliens (meaning criminals, look up illegal) than to honest tax paying Americans from other states, even though the illegals couldn't legally work in his state after getting an education! But consider that there just might be some valid reasons for a sound and balanced immigration and work visa program and don't applaud everyone who wants to circumvent it.
Fewer kids get religious propaganda this way. Seems fine to me.
FXI hasn’t set pricing yet for the Cotton Candy, but expects it to cost considerably less than $200 per unit.
So it might be less than $200, but maybe not. At anywhere near that price it would make a lot more sense to just buy a low end Android device that you can carry with you than to try to make this thing work with other devices. And I don't believe the claim that you can just plug this into anything with a USB port and somehow magically take it over. Might work on a few Windows boxes, but there is no way that they can design it to take over everything with a USB port on it.
I figured out it was a big mistake as soon as I found it wouldn't play content like Hulu or the networks. I'll go with a multi-media PC. Others here responded to me that it was great because it didn't have a noisy fan. I can't imagine buying this at any price, even a fire sale going out of business price. With a multi-media PC I can actually watch stuff on my TV, and play graphic intensive games on my big HD screen.
Curiously, the fix is rather simple, but they just don't do it: Let the browser ID itself as any stock PC browser rather than reveal that it is Google TV. Then the user could play the content that they want on it. Treating this as different than any other computer is stupid.
Of course, I would still avoid it because of the high price and the lock-in for even higher prices for accessories (anyone notice how expensive it is if you want to attach a web-cam to this? It doesn't take most inexpensive Logitech web-cams, just the overpriced Review web-cam.)
However, even by the shortest route, the distance between the two cities is nearly 400 miles, meaning that an equidistant SuperCharger would be no use to owners of Model S sedans with smaller 160 or 230-mile battery packs.
Wake up, it isn't about usefulness. It's about hype.
Several years ago when I first learned of HDLC, I posted here into a thread about the "new" high-definition technology warning that there was a new connector coming (it became HDMI) and a new nasty form of DRM going along with it (HDLC) and that people should hold off because the early adopters were going to get screwed. The response was a lot of angry posts telling me that I didn't know what I was talking about, early adopters told me that their expensive TV sets could play HD just fine, and I was modded down, apparently so people considering buying an early set without HDMI and HDLC would not see my warning.
Now people who bought those amazingly expensive early "monitors" can't watch HD content from a Blu-Ray player or on-line streaming service on them (although they can enjoy grainy 480 line service). Why? Apparently we can get angry enough when a bank tries to charge $60 a year to spend our own money via a debit card, but we are not able to get angry enough with the content providers when they screw us and make it clear their intent is to buy congressmen to subvert the intention of Copyright as stated in the U.S. Constitution. So the content providers are going to keep screwing their customers. I'm sure that they would like to screw more people, but so far they have only figured ut how to screw the artists and the customers, aside for some random lawsuits that assume if you are not signing up for the screwing then you mist be a criminal.
What do you mean it didn't work? DRM schemes such as Microsoft's "Play Anywhere" are abandoned and then the customer who paid good money for the music has to buy it again if they still want it,. DRM works exactly as planned and intended/
The approach that I would take is to distribute decryption software and a key or one time pad to anyone I felt was appropriate, siblings, executor, whoever, and then be sure to always keep an encrypted copy of my passwords and account info on the computer or a flash drive. The only down side is that the information has to always be kept current, must be updated after every change. But even if the computer or flash drive are stolen the information should be safe as long as the thief isn't one of the people holding the decryption key and doesn't know who those people are.
This, of course, assumes that the flash drive or data file can make its way to someone after you pass on. I had seen a program years ago that promised to do things like send such files after you were dead (or delete all of your porn), but it was so unreliable that it was useless, would take action with no warning on minor events such as recovery from extended power outage, repair of failed system, or incorrect clock setting. A good dead man's switch program would be the prefect match for such an encrypted file.
Not sure how you figure a 60% increase. By my math 9 bucks for both services before changing to 16 bucks now is over a 77% increase.
They should raise prices to make up for the lost customers.
Well, it seems likely that some register users will be getting a lot of spam soon. Even if the list didn't get sent directly to a spammer it might have gone to someone who wants to teach the Register an important lesson.
I always use disposable addresses when signing up for anything, and even give them to my friends. I've had one Linux forum make my address publicly visible. I've had multiple vendors send out things to lists with CC information in plain sight. I've had friends who had their accounts hacked and their contact information harvested. Always using disposable addresses lets you cut off just the problem rather than having to abandon an entire e-mail account (which I had to do years ago when it suddenly started receiving hundreds of e-mails a day, so much that my normal e-mail was being rejected because my "mailbox was full")..
I use a great free service from Spamgourmet.com. I have no relationship with them other than being a satisfied user for many years. As far as I know my actual e-mail (which I obviously had to give to them for forwarding) has never been compromised or leaked and I've never received any form of junk mail from them. They are not the only such option, but whichever you choose to use you should definitely use one if you want to protect yourself from spam and worse.
As the article says, the current birds are not made for this, and that is one orbit that you really don't want to play Angry Birds in. It would make much more sense to mandate that if you want GEO orbital space any new satellite would have to be highly modular and repairable, and maybe even plan for refiling (although if you think fuel is expensive here just wait to see the cost there). With an insane amount of money you might kluge together something with the current scrap, but I doubt it could offset the cost of getting the robots to do it there in the first place. Far better and safer to cut losses on the old junk and stop sending up unfix-able designs.
It wasn't that long ago that I read a /. article about someone who won a prize of a trip to the space station, but had to turn it down because of the phenomenal tax liability he would face if he accepted such a "prize". I don't see this as any different, the average guy just can't afford to win such a prize without facing ruin from the taxes. Why does /. even continue to hype such prizes, or don't the editors eat their own dog food?
OK, it's rare. But at atomic number 21 I'm not clear how anyone can say it is in the rare earth group, those are much heavier elements.
I'm not sure that I want or need my games running in a browser, and I'm certainly no fan of Steam (I will never buy a DRMed game that depends on another company continuing to exist for me to continue to own it), but what in the world does or even directly in Steam even mean? I have used Steam (I bough Half-life pre-Steam and it was later "upgraded" to force me to use Steam, and I've used it for some free demos). It certainly doesn't seem likely or desirable that the little Steam tray thing would run a game, and that anyone would want it to. Why worry about keeping flash embedded in Steam up to date, when keeping the browser current is enough grief?
Typing and searching isn't the answer. Occasionally I don't even know the actual file name of what I'm looking for in Start, but I can easily find it by the name of the folder (application) and where I've stored it in the start menu hierarchy. Searches on my system (with several 2 TB drives) can take prohibitively long, particularly since I don't store all applications on the C system hard drive. This change is a big mistake, and will cause a flood of third party solutions. Unfortunately, although the Start menu was populated automatically by the install process, third party applications will miss this capability and thus will fall short as a substitute. But it isn't as if Microsoft really cares about their users.