I've loved my WRT54GL. It will always hold a special place in my heart. That said, it could not keep up with a recent upgrade my provider rolled out, taking me from 30Bit to 60Mbit. It never moved data faster than 42Mbit. I replaced it with a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite and a PicoStation M2HO which is their high power AP that will handle N and MIMO. I've never been happier. The router is a beast, rated as the 1st 1,000,000 packet-per-second router under $100, and it runs Linux, just like all their products. I was designed to complete with Cisco and Juniper routers in the $4,000-6,000 price range with three fully configurable gigabits ports. Best of all the current firmware includes easy to use wizards that will have you set up and surfing in minutes, if all you need is a basic SOHO configuration!
Probably not, but I'd advise against astronomers observing it too closely, lest it decide to smash into the Earth, at which point we'll have to destroy it by launching a lethal nuclear counterattack.
Cute that you think Ron Paul won't use the IRS to collect taxes.
RP's stance on the IRS is that it should be disbanded and everyone should be flat taxed. Offtopic, yes, but relevant to your uninformed comment.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5SHXkRUVGM
Yes it is. No, I don't have issues. I support freedom and equality for ALL people. I despise special interest groups. They promote a "Me, but not you" sort of attitude toward whatever agenda they're promoting. I look at what groups actually DO, not so much what they say. In the cases of feminist affirmative action, as people point out referencing lately the Queen of Facebook, Sheryl Sandberg, there is a push to see women in power in major corporate management. I however feel that Ms. Sandberg earned her way to her position, based on her referenced credentials and accomplishments. It's all in the spin of media and propaganda how it is perceived by the public, and thus the "RAH-RAH FEMINISM" lemmings.
I believe EVERYONE is entitled to what they EARN. In the US, people feel they have the right to happiness. What they seem to forget is that our founding documents guaranteed us the inalienable right to "the PURSUIT of happiness."
“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.” -Theodore Roosevelt
Feminism and all affirmative action processes are well meaning, but essentially worthless, assuming the environment exists where one is judged by their actions and accomplishments, as opposed to some other factor.
Basically, this feminist can't take a joke... Her tweet
She gets the guy fired, and gets fired herself for her troubles.
Nobody wins, because feminism is in of itself, sexism at it's finest. Poor pitiful females that can't defend themselves. Bullshit. They have carved themselves a niche in popular culture that they are untouchable, and because of that they have adopted and invincible attitude, until they feel they have been somehow wronged, and then they turn on the tear-jerking water works about how defenseless they are. Comedian Bill Burr has it right...
People need to learn how to take a joke. HR departments need to be wiped out, because in this age, they have long since outlived their usefulness. They had their time, but it has since passed.
If women want equal rights, then there should be no feminists.
I liked Ender's Game and it's sequels. He addressed infidelity and all kinds of political angles. As for voting with my wallet, It's not really my business what he thinks. I'll vote with my actual vote in national elections. As long as his books are good, I'll keep reading them. As narrow minded as I feel his thoughts may be, I support the U.S. Constitution, and thus his right to speak his mind. that said, I also feel he's wrong, as per the Constitution, all should be equal, regardless of sexual orientation. The day his books turn into his own personal propaganda machine is the day I cease to read his material.
+1 for UniFi!
I'm using unifi for a public internet project in my town. Instead of the usual stock UniFi APs I'm using their Picostation M2HP with the available alternative firmware what ports it to UniFi operation. They're cheap and weather proof and offer a bit more range than the basic APs. They continue to operate if the controller goes offline with the only downside occurring that captive portal functions don't work. If you can deal with that you'll have a robust system that can notify you of offline hardware and usage metrics on a per machine basis, giving you plenty of flexibility as an administrator. VLAN support is nice and it can help a lot with ensuring privacy against unauthorized users.
Just a reference video from M.D.s... I know it's 2009, but nothing new has really come forth in a negative light about e-cigs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ7q36Q8ItQ
So the question is, If they test for positive Nicotine presence, does that equal "smoker?"
I say no.
As a user of an electronic nicotine inhaler device (also known as a e-cigarette), I would fail this test, yet I no longer use tobacco products.
I ceased tobacco use for personal health reasons, as well as being considerate to those around me. Though not an officially FDA approved device, I had no difficulty in changing over to a vapor inhaler, which produces nothing but nicotine-laced water vapor. These devices pose no threat to those around me, via secondhand inhalation or clinging to person or fabric. Being a very tobacco-sensitive person, my mother thought I quit outright. Yet I would either not be hired, or lose my job because I would fail this test.
I submit that the test (if it should be allowed at all), should test for more than just testing nicotine-positive. By itself, nicotine is no more harmful than caffeine, as it is the other substances in tobacco products that are responsible for 99% of health issues rising from tobacco use. Would you want to be discriminated against because you had a cup of coffee this morning?
I was considering the purchase of a Fire. No longer. Instead of me paying $15 to opt out, how about Amazon pays ME a $15 credit in the store to PERMIT them to display ads on MY device? DAMN! Sorry. My common sense keeps getting in the way of progress.
The problem with Apple's model is that THEY want to set the standard and force other's compliance for licensing fees. The problem for them is that existing standards are already in place, causing Apple to look like a spoiled child when something doesn't go their way.
The European Commission announced in 2009 that 10 mobile phone producers, including Apple, LG, Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Qualcomm, Research in Motion, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, and Texas Instruments, agreed to adopt a standardized charger in order to minimize the "needless electronic waste" caused by the proliferation and regular updating of mobile phone.
Why not create some goodwill amongst the users here, Fruit-boys? My Infuse4G does HDMI just fine out of this port (yes, it uses a dongle, but just build the tech into the dock!).
Sometimes the "I'll take my ball and go home!" attitude is a bit much.
I have a dSLR with a 32GB SD card. I have an old Asus Eee 1000HA netbook with a 2GB RAM upgrade and Win7Pro. I upgraded the hard drive to a 750GB because of all the media I like to keep portable. When I go on holiday, I snap all the pics I like with my dSLR, and when I get back to the car/hotel I just run a simple batch file script that mirrors them all locally to the netbook to a datestamped folder with robocopy. That way I have a day-by-day structure to the archive (not that file datestamps arent enough, really). Following this, the script checks to see if my external USB drive is connected, and mirrors to that from the netbook's local drive. If the drive is not connected, it skips this step. After the copy completes, and all the files are verified, it wipes the SD card. Back into the camera it goes. Simple.
If I have internet access available, I run a second script that connects to my VPN box at home and launches a second robocopy to my desktop's fileshare. This way I can dump and wipe my SD card even if I don't have internet. The automatic syncing method is too unsure for me. This way, I'm responsible for my own data. If I wanted, I could chain them into one script very easily, but I prefer to have the dump as a quick option independent of the upload.
Sometimes people just make this too hard. I wrote the scripts in about 5 minutes, and didn't have to add any software (since my netbook runs Win7Pro). I already had VPN set up for secure remote operations, so no additional steps were needed. If you didn't have VPN, I'm sure you could manage with sFTP too, for the long haul home. Filezilla is free, so in all you can have a total investment of $0 and just a bit of time.
Pity that a licensed tech won, but who can blame people when you have the hardware accelerated decoding in billions of handsets worldwide. I'm not opposed to people making money, but not at the cost of making devices prohibitively expensive.
Here's to hoping that "Fair, Reasonable and Nondiscriminatory" licensing fees stay that way.
Not really... I WAS one of these kids. Well, I was when my Grandfather built HIS house.
Because of what I learned watching and helping my grandfather with projects like this, I became an engineer. I enjoy building things, from models to houses. I plan to build my own once I manage to find some suitable land.
Kids today are so distracted by over 9000 activities around them, that it's no small wonder why most are diagnosed with ADD. Picking a task and sticking with it until it's finished is a valuable skill itself. I loved building that house, and knowing while I lived in it, that I was responsible for making it a reality. I knew that behind walls in my house were framed-in doors, just in case we ever decided that we needed a door there later. Planning ahead was how my grandfather rolled. As a 5-year-old, I had intimate knowledge of the construction of that residence, and I LOVED IT!
I won't deny my kids the same experience of knowing that you brought something into existence with hard work and willpower OTHER than an unwanted welfare child.
So this research is a bit spurious: in their analysis they make NO attempt to isolate cases of natural and innocent curiosity with cases of malicious intent, they just assume all access of the device was malicious.
Well, I think that's what they might have been going for when they noted that 96% of devices had been accessed, but then specifying all the OTHER areas of the phone that were accessed, such as passwords and other more gray areas of privacy. They also included stats about accessing corporate networks, and that's something I'd never delve into unless all other attempts at scrounging contact info had failed.
That said, if he wasn't using good passwords, I'd probably pity him. Who puts those damn things in a text file, anyway?!? (besides nitwits)
I always look for a contact named ME, HOME, MOM, WIFE, ICE, etc. so that I can find out who the phone belongs to and get it properly returned. I also look through the photo thumbnails or check a logged in Facebook or Twitter profile to see if I can locate a selfpic for current or future identification of the owner when I return the device. I have returned no less than 10 phones this way. Some might call this a little invasive, but I do make an honest effort to refrain from prying TOO much outside of attempts to attain reasonable owner contact information. I have also returned a locked phone by contacting the carrier and reporting the IMEI number and allowing the carrier to contact the owner and arrange a return.
My phone has basic owner info on the lockscreen and a warning that 10 lockfails = wipe. I have had my phone returned to me once this way. There was no failed attempt to bypass my lock.
Sometimes there are good people in the world. I try to be among them.
I think it's more about creating an artificial bone to custom specifications that can be used in the creation of other items. As they stated, bone has a great strength to weight ratio, similar to the way spidersilk is stronger than steel fiber at the same scale. Nature is a hell of an engineer. It might take millions of years to get something right, but the field trials yield awesome results... and it never leaves Beta.
Kinda like Google...
Uh except that you could go to court yourself. And if you are accused of a crime you get a free lawyer if you can't afford one.
Sadly, the usual lawyers that go into public defense are ones that have a good sense of public justice and decency but are of only average skill.
The problem is that all the REALLY good lawyers have developed a mercenary-like tendency to work for whatever law practice or client that can provide sufficient financial compensation to access the latest model BMW. That is the reason that tort reform has been such an important issue. It is important to ensure that both parties in a legal battle have access to equal and fair representation.
If Verizon offered across-the-board free text messaging as an aggressive move against AT&T, the latter would be forced to follow suit. If Sprint offered 20 gigabytes of data for the same price that T-Mobile wants for 2, etc.
Precisely. AT&T doesn't even consider Sprint and Nextel to be competitors in most markets, anyway. T-Mo has been pushing the "2 Lines, Unlimited Everything for $50/line (100.00+Tax monthly bill)+ free smartphone w/2yr contract" deal lately. I have an Unlimited AT&T plan that I pay 132.00/mo. per single line. I went into the AT&T store and asked about their competing plan...
Surprise... They don't have one. Competition my ass.
The cellphone business is just Collusion that our government is supposed to protect us from. It's Big Corporation and Big Government fucking each other right in our front lawn for everyone to see.
"Raising taxes over and over is a snake eating its own tail."
The Wheel of Government turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving Constitutions to become memories that become legend. Legends fade to myth and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Bush-Obama Administrations by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a Movement of the People began in The United States of America. The Movement was not THE beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Government. But it was A beginning.
Unfriendly foreign power (or neighbor): Carrot and stick
That'd be a Beer and a Hockey Stick if we're talking about Canada. I'm pretty sure the Carrot and Stick would work in Mexico, though. They all ride burros down there anyways.
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I've loved my WRT54GL. It will always hold a special place in my heart. That said, it could not keep up with a recent upgrade my provider rolled out, taking me from 30Bit to 60Mbit. It never moved data faster than 42Mbit. I replaced it with a Ubiquiti EdgeRouter Lite and a PicoStation M2HO which is their high power AP that will handle N and MIMO. I've never been happier. The router is a beast, rated as the 1st 1,000,000 packet-per-second router under $100, and it runs Linux, just like all their products. I was designed to complete with Cisco and Juniper routers in the $4,000-6,000 price range with three fully configurable gigabits ports. Best of all the current firmware includes easy to use wizards that will have you set up and surfing in minutes, if all you need is a basic SOHO configuration!
Probably not, but I'd advise against astronomers observing it too closely, lest it decide to smash into the Earth, at which point we'll have to destroy it by launching a lethal nuclear counterattack.
We find out that we excel at the use of spreading bullshit even earlier than we thought... The joys of being human!
Cute that you think Ron Paul won't use the IRS to collect taxes.
RP's stance on the IRS is that it should be disbanded and everyone should be flat taxed. Offtopic, yes, but relevant to your uninformed comment. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5SHXkRUVGM
I believe EVERYONE is entitled to what they EARN. In the US, people feel they have the right to happiness. What they seem to forget is that our founding documents guaranteed us the inalienable right to "the PURSUIT of happiness."
“Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well.”
-Theodore Roosevelt
Feminism and all affirmative action processes are well meaning, but essentially worthless, assuming the environment exists where one is judged by their actions and accomplishments, as opposed to some other factor.
She gets the guy fired, and gets fired herself for her troubles.
Nobody wins, because feminism is in of itself, sexism at it's finest. Poor pitiful females that can't defend themselves. Bullshit. They have carved themselves a niche in popular culture that they are untouchable, and because of that they have adopted and invincible attitude, until they feel they have been somehow wronged, and then they turn on the tear-jerking water works about how defenseless they are. Comedian Bill Burr has it right...
People need to learn how to take a joke. HR departments need to be wiped out, because in this age, they have long since outlived their usefulness. They had their time, but it has since passed.
If women want equal rights, then there should be no feminists.
I liked Ender's Game and it's sequels. He addressed infidelity and all kinds of political angles. As for voting with my wallet, It's not really my business what he thinks. I'll vote with my actual vote in national elections. As long as his books are good, I'll keep reading them. As narrow minded as I feel his thoughts may be, I support the U.S. Constitution, and thus his right to speak his mind. that said, I also feel he's wrong, as per the Constitution, all should be equal, regardless of sexual orientation. The day his books turn into his own personal propaganda machine is the day I cease to read his material.
+1 for UniFi! I'm using unifi for a public internet project in my town. Instead of the usual stock UniFi APs I'm using their Picostation M2HP with the available alternative firmware what ports it to UniFi operation. They're cheap and weather proof and offer a bit more range than the basic APs. They continue to operate if the controller goes offline with the only downside occurring that captive portal functions don't work. If you can deal with that you'll have a robust system that can notify you of offline hardware and usage metrics on a per machine basis, giving you plenty of flexibility as an administrator. VLAN support is nice and it can help a lot with ensuring privacy against unauthorized users.
Just a reference video from M.D.s... I know it's 2009, but nothing new has really come forth in a negative light about e-cigs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ7q36Q8ItQ
So the question is, If they test for positive Nicotine presence, does that equal "smoker?"
I say no.
As a user of an electronic nicotine inhaler device (also known as a e-cigarette), I would fail this test, yet I no longer use tobacco products.
I ceased tobacco use for personal health reasons, as well as being considerate to those around me. Though not an officially FDA approved device, I had no difficulty in changing over to a vapor inhaler, which produces nothing but nicotine-laced water vapor. These devices pose no threat to those around me, via secondhand inhalation or clinging to person or fabric. Being a very tobacco-sensitive person, my mother thought I quit outright. Yet I would either not be hired, or lose my job because I would fail this test.
I submit that the test (if it should be allowed at all), should test for more than just testing nicotine-positive. By itself, nicotine is no more harmful than caffeine, as it is the other substances in tobacco products that are responsible for 99% of health issues rising from tobacco use. Would you want to be discriminated against because you had a cup of coffee this morning?
P.S. A Nook Color + Cyanogen + Aldiko beats this, hands down.
I was considering the purchase of a Fire. No longer. Instead of me paying $15 to opt out, how about Amazon pays ME a $15 credit in the store to PERMIT them to display ads on MY device? DAMN! Sorry. My common sense keeps getting in the way of progress.
Nope. Never buying one now.
The EU introduced their standard for charging via micro-USB and forced Apple to release an adapter to comply.
The European Commission announced in 2009 that 10 mobile phone producers, including Apple, LG, Motorola, NEC, Nokia, Qualcomm, Research in Motion, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, and Texas Instruments, agreed to adopt a standardized charger in order to minimize the "needless electronic waste" caused by the proliferation and regular updating of mobile phone.
Why not create some goodwill amongst the users here, Fruit-boys? My Infuse4G does HDMI just fine out of this port (yes, it uses a dongle, but just build the tech into the dock!).
Sometimes the "I'll take my ball and go home!" attitude is a bit much.
It's being emulated by a Commodore 64 in southern Wales. Torchwood set it up just to keep us guessing.
I have a dSLR with a 32GB SD card. I have an old Asus Eee 1000HA netbook with a 2GB RAM upgrade and Win7Pro. I upgraded the hard drive to a 750GB because of all the media I like to keep portable. When I go on holiday, I snap all the pics I like with my dSLR, and when I get back to the car/hotel I just run a simple batch file script that mirrors them all locally to the netbook to a datestamped folder with robocopy. That way I have a day-by-day structure to the archive (not that file datestamps arent enough, really). Following this, the script checks to see if my external USB drive is connected, and mirrors to that from the netbook's local drive. If the drive is not connected, it skips this step. After the copy completes, and all the files are verified, it wipes the SD card. Back into the camera it goes. Simple.
If I have internet access available, I run a second script that connects to my VPN box at home and launches a second robocopy to my desktop's fileshare. This way I can dump and wipe my SD card even if I don't have internet. The automatic syncing method is too unsure for me. This way, I'm responsible for my own data. If I wanted, I could chain them into one script very easily, but I prefer to have the dump as a quick option independent of the upload.
Sometimes people just make this too hard. I wrote the scripts in about 5 minutes, and didn't have to add any software (since my netbook runs Win7Pro). I already had VPN set up for secure remote operations, so no additional steps were needed. If you didn't have VPN, I'm sure you could manage with sFTP too, for the long haul home. Filezilla is free, so in all you can have a total investment of $0 and just a bit of time.
Pity that a licensed tech won, but who can blame people when you have the hardware accelerated decoding in billions of handsets worldwide. I'm not opposed to people making money, but not at the cost of making devices prohibitively expensive.
Here's to hoping that "Fair, Reasonable and Nondiscriminatory" licensing fees stay that way.
Because of what I learned watching and helping my grandfather with projects like this, I became an engineer. I enjoy building things, from models to houses. I plan to build my own once I manage to find some suitable land.
Kids today are so distracted by over 9000 activities around them, that it's no small wonder why most are diagnosed with ADD. Picking a task and sticking with it until it's finished is a valuable skill itself. I loved building that house, and knowing while I lived in it, that I was responsible for making it a reality. I knew that behind walls in my house were framed-in doors, just in case we ever decided that we needed a door there later. Planning ahead was how my grandfather rolled. As a 5-year-old, I had intimate knowledge of the construction of that residence, and I LOVED IT!
I won't deny my kids the same experience of knowing that you brought something into existence with hard work and willpower OTHER than an unwanted welfare child.
So this research is a bit spurious: in their analysis they make NO attempt to isolate cases of natural and innocent curiosity with cases of malicious intent, they just assume all access of the device was malicious.
Well, I think that's what they might have been going for when they noted that 96% of devices had been accessed, but then specifying all the OTHER areas of the phone that were accessed, such as passwords and other more gray areas of privacy. They also included stats about accessing corporate networks, and that's something I'd never delve into unless all other attempts at scrounging contact info had failed.
That said, if he wasn't using good passwords, I'd probably pity him. Who puts those damn things in a text file, anyway?!?
(besides nitwits)
I always look for a contact named ME, HOME, MOM, WIFE, ICE, etc. so that I can find out who the phone belongs to and get it properly returned. I also look through the photo thumbnails or check a logged in Facebook or Twitter profile to see if I can locate a selfpic for current or future identification of the owner when I return the device. I have returned no less than 10 phones this way. Some might call this a little invasive, but I do make an honest effort to refrain from prying TOO much outside of attempts to attain reasonable owner contact information. I have also returned a locked phone by contacting the carrier and reporting the IMEI number and allowing the carrier to contact the owner and arrange a return.
My phone has basic owner info on the lockscreen and a warning that 10 lockfails = wipe. I have had my phone returned to me once this way. There was no failed attempt to bypass my lock.
Sometimes there are good people in the world. I try to be among them.
I think it's more about creating an artificial bone to custom specifications that can be used in the creation of other items. As they stated, bone has a great strength to weight ratio, similar to the way spidersilk is stronger than steel fiber at the same scale. Nature is a hell of an engineer. It might take millions of years to get something right, but the field trials yield awesome results... and it never leaves Beta. Kinda like Google...
Uh except that you could go to court yourself. And if you are accused of a crime you get a free lawyer if you can't afford one.
Sadly, the usual lawyers that go into public defense are ones that have a good sense of public justice and decency but are of only average skill.
The problem is that all the REALLY good lawyers have developed a mercenary-like tendency to work for whatever law practice or client that can provide sufficient financial compensation to access the latest model BMW. That is the reason that tort reform has been such an important issue. It is important to ensure that both parties in a legal battle have access to equal and fair representation.
Unfortunately, this rarely happens.
If Verizon offered across-the-board free text messaging as an aggressive move against AT&T, the latter would be forced to follow suit. If Sprint offered 20 gigabytes of data for the same price that T-Mobile wants for 2, etc.
Precisely.
AT&T doesn't even consider Sprint and Nextel to be competitors in most markets, anyway.
T-Mo has been pushing the "2 Lines, Unlimited Everything for $50/line (100.00+Tax monthly bill)+ free smartphone w/2yr contract" deal lately. I have an Unlimited AT&T plan that I pay 132.00/mo. per single line.
I went into the AT&T store and asked about their competing plan...
Surprise... They don't have one.
Competition my ass.
The cellphone business is just Collusion that our government is supposed to protect us from. It's Big Corporation and Big Government fucking each other right in our front lawn for everyone to see.
"Raising taxes over and over is a snake eating its own tail."
The Wheel of Government turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving Constitutions to become memories that become legend. Legends fade to myth and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. In one Age, called the Bush-Obama Administrations by some, an Age yet to come, an Age long past, a Movement of the People began in The United States of America. The Movement was not THE beginning. There are neither beginnings nor endings to the turning of the Wheel of Government. But it was A beginning.
Unfriendly foreign power (or neighbor): Carrot and stick
That'd be a Beer and a Hockey Stick if we're talking about Canada.
I'm pretty sure the Carrot and Stick would work in Mexico, though. They all ride burros down there anyways.
Video...how do you think you're going to play all those h264 in 80 years, when your computer is a little sliver of plastic embedded in your thumb?
On the inside of my eyeballs... DUH!!!