Most wireless phones in the US don't have that option. You have to get a certain telephone that only works with that particular service (example: my Samsung phone only works on Sprint).
This just sounds like a gigantic waste of money to me.
From the article:
Devices that identify faces, or almost any other body part, are becoming increasingly cheap and accessible. The latest models from the same manufacturer now sell for about $2,500 to $5,000 each.
Assuming Canadian dollars (since it's a Canadian paper):
2,500.00 CAD = 1,941.77 USD = 1,533.02 EUR
5,000.00 CAD = 3,883.54 USD = 3,066.04 EUR
Most likely, either the corporate parent is paying for this, and/or the store will write it off as a business expense.
Upon reading this slashdot article, you took it upon yourself to arbitrarily update a production server, evidently *without* testing on a spare box, and apparently without permission.
You decided to do this at the beginning of the day, instead of waiting until night (or even better, the weekend).
You don't seem to have a spare server to swap with the hosed one (what would you have done if the server had crashed naturally?).
Finally, instead of taking repsonsibility for your screw-up, you're hopeing to squeak by for the rest of the say, then head out of town.
You're exactly the type of person that gives sysadmins a bad name, & I hope you reap what you sow.
I live in southern PG County MD (right outside of DC) - I pay Comcast $60.95 US/month for 3 Mb down/256 Kb up (too far out for decent DSL, fastest I could get is 256/256). At least service is stable, the last time my IP address reset (and the only major outage in about 2 years) was after hurrican^W tropical storm Isabel.
"The process of confiscating bootleg CDs from street vendors is exactly what the RIAA should be doing," said Jason Schultz, a staff attorney for the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
I hope this shuts up some of the "call the EFF" crowd.
While I'm willing to concede that they (the RIAA) shouldn't imply that they are law enforcement, isn't this what they *should* be doing? (That is, going after the bootleggers & street vendors instead of suing 12 year-old kids & grandparents).
I have yet to read *one* post suggesting any type of alternative that the RIAA can try (maybe subpeonaing street vendors, working with real law-enforcement in stings, etc).
I remember popping off a corner of the cube, removing all the other corners & pieces, then putting them back together in the right order (IMO, this is a valid solution). Has anyone ever timed this to see how long it would take? I used to be able to do it in about 2 minutes.
Splicing/grafting plants together is not that hard, but I thought this could only be done with plants of the same eh..family.
According to
http://www.museums.org.za/bio/plants/solanaceae/, tomatoes & tobacco are both in the same family (Solanaceae), along with potatoes, peppers and eggplants. I don't know how closely they have to be related for splicing/grafting tho.
I've only been able to get Real Player 9 to work about 25% of the times I've installed it. You can install the Real Player 9 codecs for Real Player 8 (have to hunt for them on Real's site tho).
I always thought it was some type of partition with rescue tools, etc. Doesn't matter, since I remove that partition generally (or reformat it as/boot).
I mean, its funny, nobody talks about how superman can fly, but then they mention something like this.
Read
The Science of Superman by Mark Wolverton and Roger Stern. Also, the Complete Guide to Marvel Comics (or whatever it was called) had pseudo-scientific explanations for most of the characters' powers.
Why doesn't the RIAA go after the person selling $5 bootleg CDs on the street? In my opinion, prosecuting the real criminals would make more sense than chasing college students/homemakers/etc who aren't making a profit. Why does the RIAA alienate their target audience?
I guess this article was written before the ftp.gnu.org compromise. However, has there been *any* reason given on why ftp.gnu.org was running wu-ftpd (
which has a restrictive license) when there are at least 2 GPL ftp daemons (
proftpd and
vsftpd) available? Especially given wu-ftpd's long, sad history of insecurity.
It's really a combination of bandwidth, hardware & apache configuration. A T1 or higher link, fast enough processor (or SMP system) with 512 MB RAM or more & a decent apache configuration (sorry I'm not on Linux right now, or I'd be more specific) should be enough to survive a slashdotting.
Slashdot Mirror
Most wireless phones in the US don't have that option. You have to get a certain telephone that only works with that particular service (example: my Samsung phone only works on Sprint).
You do realize that some sites block direct links from slashdot (in order to avoid a slashdotting), don't you?
That works in Mozilla 1.6, I just tried it. See Edit -> Preferences -> Smart Browsing, then put a checkmark in "Domain Guessing".
From the article:
Devices that identify faces, or almost any other body part, are becoming increasingly cheap and accessible. The latest models from the same manufacturer now sell for about $2,500 to $5,000 each.
Assuming Canadian dollars (since it's a Canadian paper):
2,500.00 CAD = 1,941.77 USD = 1,533.02 EUR
5,000.00 CAD = 3,883.54 USD = 3,066.04 EUR
Most likely, either the corporate parent is paying for this, and/or the store will write it off as a business expense.
You're exactly the type of person that gives sysadmins a bad name, & I hope you reap what you sow.
I live in southern PG County MD (right outside of DC) - I pay Comcast $60.95 US/month for 3 Mb down/256 Kb up (too far out for decent DSL, fastest I could get is 256/256). At least service is stable, the last time my IP address reset (and the only major outage in about 2 years) was after hurrican^W tropical storm Isabel.
"The process of confiscating bootleg CDs from street vendors is exactly what the RIAA should be doing," said Jason Schultz, a staff attorney for the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF).
I hope this shuts up some of the "call the EFF" crowd.
I have yet to read *one* post suggesting any type of alternative that the RIAA can try (maybe subpeonaing street vendors, working with real law-enforcement in stings, etc).
Good scenery & lower labor costs, I would suppose.
I remember popping off a corner of the cube, removing all the other corners & pieces, then putting them back together in the right order (IMO, this is a valid solution). Has anyone ever timed this to see how long it would take? I used to be able to do it in about 2 minutes.
According to http://www.museums.org.za/bio/plants/solanaceae/, tomatoes & tobacco are both in the same family (Solanaceae), along with potatoes, peppers and eggplants. I don't know how closely they have to be related for splicing/grafting tho.
As has been stated in previous posts, see Fedora.
Why couldn't mysql, postgresql or another open source DB be used? Last time I checked, Oracle was expensive.
In the United States, the Supreme Court is appointed, not elected.
Try cargo pants or pants with baggy pockets; also have your gf carry a slightly larger than usual purse stuffed with goodies.
I've only been able to get Real Player 9 to work about 25% of the times I've installed it. You can install the Real Player 9 codecs for Real Player 8 (have to hunt for them on Real's site tho).
Are thre any memory leak issues that you've noticed by doing that?
18:24:54 (198.56 KB/s) - `OOo_1.1.0_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz' saved [78347712/78347712]
I always thought it was some type of partition with rescue tools, etc. Doesn't matter, since I remove that partition generally (or reformat it as /boot).
Read The Science of Superman by Mark Wolverton and Roger Stern. Also, the Complete Guide to Marvel Comics (or whatever it was called) had pseudo-scientific explanations for most of the characters' powers.
Why doesn't the RIAA go after the person selling $5 bootleg CDs on the street? In my opinion, prosecuting the real criminals would make more sense than chasing college students/homemakers/etc who aren't making a profit. Why does the RIAA alienate their target audience?
So who's right?
By the way, at least I'm willing to *not* post as an AC, as well as willing to publically admit I may have been wrong.
I guess this article was written before the ftp.gnu.org compromise. However, has there been *any* reason given on why ftp.gnu.org was running wu-ftpd ( which has a restrictive license) when there are at least 2 GPL ftp daemons ( proftpd and vsftpd) available? Especially given wu-ftpd's long, sad history of insecurity.
It's really a combination of bandwidth, hardware & apache configuration. A T1 or higher link, fast enough processor (or SMP system) with 512 MB RAM or more & a decent apache configuration (sorry I'm not on Linux right now, or I'd be more specific) should be enough to survive a slashdotting.
Labels by the Genius - anti-record company rant that manages to name just about every major label in existence at the time (early 90s I think).