Go for a drive around town running netstumbler or kismet. I can pick up two hundred access points in 5-10 miles, and the vast majority of them are unprotected... Probably more than 80%. Even more interesting than that is the fact that you can tell which people have actually tried to configure their access points. Many people are using default SSID's and no protection. Kind of scary if you ask me, but hey, it almost guarantees free internet in some neighborhoods.
del.icio.us is a pretty cool replacement/complement to bookmarks as it allows you to share and categorize interesting links and also gives you an rss feed in return. Along with that, there's a slight soical networking aspect.
Apart from trust, it's not like they make reliable products in the first place. The only things from Belkin that I have use without having to return them because they didn't work are:
1. USB hubs and PCI cards
2. Power strips
3. Cans of compressed air
Most likely, they don't even make 2 and 3, and the only time I buy those from Belkin are because they're free after rebate. Even the USB stuff you can get a reliable alternative for cheaper most of the time.
Even if Google stock falls to $1 a share (very unlikely), Yahoo would still make $2.7 million. It's not like the license costs Yahoo anything; they'll make plenty of money in any case.
You know, I feel insulted. That's a perfectly legitimate Hindu name. There's tens of thousands of Indians in New York, and in the tech field for that matter. Don't be so culturally apathetic.
I think the average highschool student probably does know that much....although they probably doesn't know who (apart from Armstrong), when, why, and how.
I am on the board of a 501(c)(3) and when we got the designation from the IRS they said it was retroactive to the date that the organization started.. I don't know if this applies to all organizations or not.
I don't think it has anything to do with them not promoting XP. I think MS has simply realized that many people who use Win98 simply don't care enough or don't have a need to move to XP. Once they made that realization, it couldn't have taken long for them to see the money they could make in an extra two years of support.
Slightly stereotypical observation: People that use older OS's don't mind having to or think they have to pay support fees, because they don't want to change what already works for them.
Well, the price here has gone up from $40 to $52 for new subscribers in the last few years and after a bankruptcy and acquisition. The problem is that Comcast has such a monopoly on the local market that they can charge whatever they want.
Yeah... but with all those features is it really cost/time efficient? I can't see this providing enough cashflow to support a person, let alone a family.
I do like the idea, but spending that much time isn't worth it. I only see effiency here if it is a 50/50 split with someone else that knows how the system works.
Why did the US decide to keep it so that cell phones shared numbers with landline area codes, unlike other countries, such as India, who have dedicated cell area codes?
It is so impractical because cell phone numbers are constantly changing, whereas landline numbers are not. Even with this new law, people still move around, and wouldn't mind keeping the same cell number, esp. when they have a billion minutes...
Who said you had to keep the same number.. It's not like the law says you can only have one cell phone - if all else fails, start a new number before you cancel the old one!
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XULplanet also looks like a good resource to me.
It's targeted for Firefox extensions, but should serve your purpose pretty well.
Go for a drive around town running netstumbler or kismet. I can pick up two hundred access points in 5-10 miles, and the vast majority of them are unprotected... Probably more than 80%. Even more interesting than that is the fact that you can tell which people have actually tried to configure their access points. Many people are using default SSID's and no protection. Kind of scary if you ask me, but hey, it almost guarantees free internet in some neighborhoods.
Go start>run>msconfig.exe, then to the startup tab - you can disable anything you want that is set to start up automatically.
del.icio.us is a pretty cool replacement/complement to bookmarks as it allows you to share and categorize interesting links and also gives you an rss feed in return. Along with that, there's a slight soical networking aspect.
Apart from trust, it's not like they make reliable products in the first place. The only things from Belkin that I have use without having to return them because they didn't work are: 1. USB hubs and PCI cards 2. Power strips 3. Cans of compressed air Most likely, they don't even make 2 and 3, and the only time I buy those from Belkin are because they're free after rebate. Even the USB stuff you can get a reliable alternative for cheaper most of the time.
Even if Google stock falls to $1 a share (very unlikely), Yahoo would still make $2.7 million. It's not like the license costs Yahoo anything; they'll make plenty of money in any case.
I am not affiliated with nor am I a customer of Speakeasy...
Or IBM could buy Sun...
Firefox does practically the same thing, except it searches google by default.
I know LaCie makes some 1 terabyte+ stuff. I think it's been mentioned on /. before.
You know, I feel insulted. That's a perfectly legitimate Hindu name. There's tens of thousands of Indians in New York, and in the tech field for that matter. Don't be so culturally apathetic.
You obviously care if you clicked on it...
I think the average highschool student probably does know that much. ...although they probably doesn't know who (apart from Armstrong), when, why, and how.
I am on the board of a 501(c)(3) and when we got the designation from the IRS they said it was retroactive to the date that the organization started.. I don't know if this applies to all organizations or not.
Is that some new type of disease?
Well, if it was part of something that wasn't made of metal, like a $20 bill, you could microwave it...
bandwidth, packet loss, high latency, bad optimization (of qos,etc) to name a few
I don't think it has anything to do with them not promoting XP. I think MS has simply realized that many people who use Win98 simply don't care enough or don't have a need to move to XP. Once they made that realization, it couldn't have taken long for them to see the money they could make in an extra two years of support.
Slightly stereotypical observation: People that use older OS's don't mind having to or think they have to pay support fees, because they don't want to change what already works for them.
Well, the price here has gone up from $40 to $52 for new subscribers in the last few years and after a bankruptcy and acquisition. The problem is that Comcast has such a monopoly on the local market that they can charge whatever they want.
Look at the colorful map courtesy of BBC. Orissa is clearly on the right side of the map!
Yeah... but with all those features is it really cost/time efficient? I can't see this providing enough cashflow to support a person, let alone a family.
I do like the idea, but spending that much time isn't worth it. I only see effiency here if it is a 50/50 split with someone else that knows how the system works.
Why did the US decide to keep it so that cell phones shared numbers with landline area codes, unlike other countries, such as India, who have dedicated cell area codes? It is so impractical because cell phone numbers are constantly changing, whereas landline numbers are not. Even with this new law, people still move around, and wouldn't mind keeping the same cell number, esp. when they have a billion minutes...
Who said you had to keep the same number.. It's not like the law says you can only have one cell phone - if all else fails, start a new number before you cancel the old one!
How about intelligent life on slashdot? ;)