what if you've entered the passwords and they're still stored in RAM when the cops nab your machine?
It's unlikely they'd do any work on it on-site. Typically they never boot up a confiscated host because of the possibility of a dead-mans-switch. For example, you could have a bootscript that erases all of the data if the command "ImStillAlive" isn't manually run within 10 mins of boot.
However, this does not mean that this is not a problem as the memory pages may still exist in the page file. Many people have their OS set to zero this file on shutdown, a wise but sometimes time-consuming move.
Do you have any examples of a P2P file getting downloaded to a "million" people?
I'm certain it's happened several times. Albums are often leaked early onto the internet and while the original uploader won't have seen a million unique visits you can hit a million easily. Consider all of the car-boot sales around the world that sell pirated goods...they get their stuff from the net regularly, especially newly leaked material. What originally begins as a scene release of a popular international artist will then go onto countless p2p networks and protocols and be spread to fans around the world, all before the release date.
The AC reply to your post mentions the army removing distributor arms as an early immobilizer. I knew a guy who used to do this until around 10 years ago. He said that during WW2 there were laws about doing this so that if the Germans were to invade the UK, they couldn't just steal vehicles to assist their attack.
I have noticed of late that when someone's cell phone rings in my house it's almost like a mini EMP just went off. If the phone is close to a set of speakers you can often tell before the phone even rings that there's a call incoming
This is not recent as you suggest; I saw the same thing around ten years ago. Generally it's "cheaper" systems that get interfered with the most.
If you live in a Virgin (NTL) area, I'd recommend their connection. I've had it for 6+ years, very few outages. Got the 10 meg one at the moment, get full speed whenever the remote site allows.
Well, they should add a new mod category: Paid for Shrill. That post reads like so many scientology releases that I am 90% certain it was written by them.
You just need to apply the "Michael Jackson Methodology". It's quite simple:
There are two Michael Jacksons. Black Michael was around in the 70s/80s and was involved in some of the most influential music of our time. Certain songs of his continue to fill dance floors around the word to this day.
Conversely, White Michael replaced Black Michael in the 90s. Anything that takes place after this point has nothing to do with Black Michael. He's dead.
The question is; when did Tom Cruise die? I'd guess sometime before Mission Impossible sequels and a little after Interview with a Vampire.
Until you can *prove* that corporations pay people to post positive PR, I'm classifying this under "urban legend."
Proving it would be next-to-impossible unless you know the poster personally.
However, it's well known that sites like digg and reddit have third-party companies offering to get your story onto the front page for a cost. It's not really a huge leap to think that some of these marketing groups are also running shrill accounts. And there have been many online memes that turned out to be artificial campaigns. Examples include Ashley Simpson, LonelyGirl (great name, superb marketing) and various other incidents. Washington DC has been caught out before and here in this weeks Scottish elections there was newspaper that caught the candidates faking responses to an online poll.
So, to make the assumption that the most internet-aware industry (I.T.) isn't doing this is downright naive.
Unless you have the backing of major shareholders and any hedge funds holding stake in Google, I wouldn't expect this to pass.
Disclaimer: I'm a shareholder in several major tech companies, not Google though.
This will NEVER pass. Not in a million years. There are similar points on most Annual General Meeting's agendas, introduced by the shareholders. Here's what you usually get:
Proposal 1
Elect John A.B.C. Smith to the board
Proposal 2
Shareholders proposal: try to be more ethical
Now, you always get a piece of paper saying "Vote yes to 1 and no to 2"; this is the boards recommendations. That's the way the vote always goes.
You mention South Korea as it it's some bumfuck backwards country, That may be the impression many people have, but South Korea is highly technologically advanced.
To be honest, most folks in the USA believe the whole world is bumfuck backwards. Saying that anything might be slightly better in a foreign country is considered traitorous.
Right, of course, just like WGA, the users "demand" it.
Have you ever worked in a forward support unit, covering 10000 users across the globe? Each one of them with an itchy trigger stylus waiting to screw up your settings and install Bonzi Buddy?
You can't handle the truth!
Besides, it's not just the users, some carriers are assholes about locking things down. I don't agree with this, but it's their right to do it.
we would rather just install a software package on his device. The fewer server applications & configurations we have to support, the better.
If that's the case, just get him a blackberry. If support cost is an issue, picking up a new, untried and untested client application just for one guy is a bit much.
in addition to the mandatory.net 1.0 VM, which nothing in the universe uses
It's not mandatory, my phone doesn't have it. I've never installed it because, as you say, nothing uses it.
Useless, expensive binary signing?
Can't blame MS for that, the telcos and the corporate clients demand it. Trust me, you think it's bad writing software for mobile devices? Try doing it in a configuration where the lusers can bork their phones without really trying. Unless it's a tech audience, lock it down!!
My audio setup has an ancient AWE Soundblaster 64 Gold ISA card, sending a digital audio signal over a cheap homemade cable to a mid-range amp. Sounds great, no interference from PC components whatsoever. I used to use the analogue outputs on the same card and they were pretty good as well despite the box also serving as a network server with four HDs running.
The card cost about 15 UK Pounds when I bought it.
unless Microsoft or Sony creates their next-gen system right now with a motion-sensitive remote controller.
I take it you've not actually played the PS3 then? The controller is the same shape as the old dual-shock one but is much lighter. It loses the rumble and replaces it with bluetooth and the same 6-axis stuff as the Wii Remote. I've played it on some driving games and it works remarkably well, especially with the new analog shoulder buttons like the xbox has.
As far as replacing Indium or other rare earth metals... I don't understand that at all.
I believe the main benefit is the cost of Indium and similar substances.
specific color properites of Indium compounds and how they enhance the color gamut
This substance isn't intended to be part of the light emitting (or blocking) part of a display. It's for the wiring to those parts, built into the screen. By making it more transparent, the light level required can be reduced which saves battery life in laptops and possibly the cost of the light components.
Visit Windows Update. It can't Update until I install some ActiveX stuff so I can use the latest version of the site. That done, it recommends maybe 50 or 60 updates. Reboot. Go back to the site, spend a half hour downloading SP2 and another 2 installing it.
Don't bother with the bit I've bolded. The Service Pack may render many if not most of those updates as pointless. Just keep the latest Service Pack on CD-ROM and go from there to Windows Update.
what geek here can't go get a 500' spool and wire their house in a weekend?
One who rents his apartment/home? One advantage about WiFi is that it can be "installed" in a home with almost zero effort and no damage to the building.
Personally, I own my flat and I've wired it for ethernet years ago. But the laptop I'm currently typing on is using WiFi. If I used ethernet, my VMware images would drop their network connections between rooms. WiFi ensures continuous connection as you go from room to room.
There is a demand for smart phones from people who think they're super important and *think* they need to have connectivity at all moments.
I'm not super important, but I use my smartphone all the time to stay in touch with friends. I use SMS, phone and email regularly, along with web browsing and IM. I'm one of those sending messages when you get off the plane. Mine generally read "see you in the pub" or "get the kettle on, home shortly".
I'd rather just get decent but cheap phone, and pack an iPod with me then buy an expensive phone that has some limited mp3 playback functionality. My $160 canon camera takes 4MP pictures, can store them on my $50 2GB SD cards, and runs off plain AA batteries [re: no expensive battery packs].
I see where you are coming from, but look at my situation. I have a phone and a camera that both take SD cards. The phone has WiFi and a VPN to my home network. I can pop the card out my camera, send the photos home and replace them with that new album I just downloaded. I only carry two types of batteries (AAs for the phone and two for my phone). That's it. The phone is charged by USB or mains and can be used as a USB Storage Device (no drivers required on any modern OS). I also have satnav, SSH (phone has qwerty) and a decent sync solution with my PC.
As for the cost, my smartphone was only 90 UKP with a 1 year contract. The camera is just a standard Canon one. The phone has a free (beer) devkit and you can install anything you want on it.
"The iPhone's relevance lies not in its convergence of phone and iPod or even the mobilization of OS X, but that it's the first-ever, mass-market computer with a third-generation UI."
HOUSE!! Do I win buzzword-bingo?:-)
That statement is worthless. "mobilization of OS X", what is so special about that over the dozen existing embedded platforms? They are saying an unreleased OS which they know nothing about is better than one with 5-10 years of evolution?
"convergence of phone and iPod". Welcome to 2004, I had a clone iPod media player on my phone back then. I didn't use it at all, there were far better (free) media players available. With the iPhone, you can't change anything like that, so you'd better pray that what they give you is decent. If I don't like anything on my phone, I can whip out the dev kit and change it.
"first-ever, mass-market computer with a third-generation UI.". Define "third-generation UI" and what it means to me. And do this with a straight face while explaining that it's the first phone interface that Apple has designed.
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It's unlikely they'd do any work on it on-site. Typically they never boot up a confiscated host because of the possibility of a dead-mans-switch. For example, you could have a bootscript that erases all of the data if the command "ImStillAlive" isn't manually run within 10 mins of boot.
However, this does not mean that this is not a problem as the memory pages may still exist in the page file. Many people have their OS set to zero this file on shutdown, a wise but sometimes time-consuming move.
"I work for $COMPANY so I am really getting a kick..." is a FARK cut & paste cliché.
The AC reply to your post mentions the army removing distributor arms as an early immobilizer. I knew a guy who used to do this until around 10 years ago. He said that during WW2 there were laws about doing this so that if the Germans were to invade the UK, they couldn't just steal vehicles to assist their attack.
This is not recent as you suggest; I saw the same thing around ten years ago. Generally it's "cheaper" systems that get interfered with the most.
If you live in a Virgin (NTL) area, I'd recommend their connection. I've had it for 6+ years, very few outages. Got the 10 meg one at the moment, get full speed whenever the remote site allows.
But this was done by the organizers. A hack is something done quietly, such as switching the crowd cards for a football game.
Well, they should add a new mod category: Paid for Shrill. That post reads like so many scientology releases that I am 90% certain it was written by them.
You just need to apply the "Michael Jackson Methodology". It's quite simple:
There are two Michael Jacksons. Black Michael was around in the 70s/80s and was involved in some of the most influential music of our time. Certain songs of his continue to fill dance floors around the word to this day.
Conversely, White Michael replaced Black Michael in the 90s. Anything that takes place after this point has nothing to do with Black Michael. He's dead.
The question is; when did Tom Cruise die? I'd guess sometime before Mission Impossible sequels and a little after Interview with a Vampire.
Proving it would be next-to-impossible unless you know the poster personally.
However, it's well known that sites like digg and reddit have third-party companies offering to get your story onto the front page for a cost. It's not really a huge leap to think that some of these marketing groups are also running shrill accounts. And there have been many online memes that turned out to be artificial campaigns. Examples include Ashley Simpson, LonelyGirl (great name, superb marketing) and various other incidents. Washington DC has been caught out before and here in this weeks Scottish elections there was newspaper that caught the candidates faking responses to an online poll.
So, to make the assumption that the most internet-aware industry (I.T.) isn't doing this is downright naive.
Disclaimer: I'm a shareholder in several major tech companies, not Google though.
This will NEVER pass. Not in a million years. There are similar points on most Annual General Meeting's agendas, introduced by the shareholders. Here's what you usually get:
Now, you always get a piece of paper saying "Vote yes to 1 and no to 2"; this is the boards recommendations. That's the way the vote always goes.
To be honest, most folks in the USA believe the whole world is bumfuck backwards. Saying that anything might be slightly better in a foreign country is considered traitorous.
Have you ever worked in a forward support unit, covering 10000 users across the globe? Each one of them with an itchy trigger stylus waiting to screw up your settings and install Bonzi Buddy?
You can't handle the truth!
Besides, it's not just the users, some carriers are assholes about locking things down. I don't agree with this, but it's their right to do it.
If that's the case, just get him a blackberry. If support cost is an issue, picking up a new, untried and untested client application just for one guy is a bit much.
It's not mandatory, my phone doesn't have it. I've never installed it because, as you say, nothing uses it.
Can't blame MS for that, the telcos and the corporate clients demand it. Trust me, you think it's bad writing software for mobile devices? Try doing it in a configuration where the lusers can bork their phones without really trying. Unless it's a tech audience, lock it down!!
My audio setup has an ancient AWE Soundblaster 64 Gold ISA card, sending a digital audio signal over a cheap homemade cable to a mid-range amp. Sounds great, no interference from PC components whatsoever. I used to use the analogue outputs on the same card and they were pretty good as well despite the box also serving as a network server with four HDs running.
The card cost about 15 UK Pounds when I bought it.
Em, no. Fiancee can refer to either the man or the woman.
I take it you've not actually played the PS3 then? The controller is the same shape as the old dual-shock one but is much lighter. It loses the rumble and replaces it with bluetooth and the same 6-axis stuff as the Wii Remote. I've played it on some driving games and it works remarkably well, especially with the new analog shoulder buttons like the xbox has.
I believe the main benefit is the cost of Indium and similar substances.
This substance isn't intended to be part of the light emitting (or blocking) part of a display. It's for the wiring to those parts, built into the screen. By making it more transparent, the light level required can be reduced which saves battery life in laptops and possibly the cost of the light components.
Don't bother with the bit I've bolded. The Service Pack may render many if not most of those updates as pointless. Just keep the latest Service Pack on CD-ROM and go from there to Windows Update.
One who rents his apartment/home? One advantage about WiFi is that it can be "installed" in a home with almost zero effort and no damage to the building.
Personally, I own my flat and I've wired it for ethernet years ago. But the laptop I'm currently typing on is using WiFi. If I used ethernet, my VMware images would drop their network connections between rooms. WiFi ensures continuous connection as you go from room to room.
The people who can afford the iPhone won't have problems with their ducts. They already have the most expensive ones!
Because most people don't RTFM and Slashdot is reaping the page views on this discussion. Are you new here? :-)
I'm not super important, but I use my smartphone all the time to stay in touch with friends. I use SMS, phone and email regularly, along with web browsing and IM. I'm one of those sending messages when you get off the plane. Mine generally read "see you in the pub" or "get the kettle on, home shortly".
I see where you are coming from, but look at my situation. I have a phone and a camera that both take SD cards. The phone has WiFi and a VPN to my home network. I can pop the card out my camera, send the photos home and replace them with that new album I just downloaded. I only carry two types of batteries (AAs for the phone and two for my phone). That's it. The phone is charged by USB or mains and can be used as a USB Storage Device (no drivers required on any modern OS). I also have satnav, SSH (phone has qwerty) and a decent sync solution with my PC.
As for the cost, my smartphone was only 90 UKP with a 1 year contract. The camera is just a standard Canon one. The phone has a free (beer) devkit and you can install anything you want on it.
HOUSE!! Do I win buzzword-bingo? :-)
That statement is worthless. "mobilization of OS X", what is so special about that over the dozen existing embedded platforms? They are saying an unreleased OS which they know nothing about is better than one with 5-10 years of evolution?
"convergence of phone and iPod". Welcome to 2004, I had a clone iPod media player on my phone back then. I didn't use it at all, there were far better (free) media players available. With the iPhone, you can't change anything like that, so you'd better pray that what they give you is decent. If I don't like anything on my phone, I can whip out the dev kit and change it.
"first-ever, mass-market computer with a third-generation UI.". Define "third-generation UI" and what it means to me. And do this with a straight face while explaining that it's the first phone interface that Apple has designed.