Even with the 4G surcharge, a voice+data plan on Sprint is still cheaper than a comparable plan on Verizon or AT&T (plus, the Sprint plan is unlimited mobile-to-mobile, as well as unlimited 3G/4G data).
How much (more) are people willing to pay for data on a Verizon iPhone? None of the articles I've read even mention this.
I think Sprint is a likelier target, given that a) they already have a 4G network deployed in a lot of cities b) their customers are prepared to pay a surcharge for 4G - $10/month c) said data plan is unlimited.
Wouldn't a better hack be to spoof the location reported by your phone? After all, if the feds subpoena your cell phone records & get your actual location, wouldn't that destroy your foursquare/facebook alibi (as well as making you look more suspicious)?
For all of you armchair geniuses saying these are obvious and/or invalid patents...why don't you file a challenge instead of whining on here? Every time we hear about a patent on Slashdot, I see a lot of people say a patent is obvious or that there's prior art, but I never hear about anyone sending a letter to the USPTO or to an organization like the EFF (which I believe has both technical & legal knowledge to form an opinion as to the validity of a patent).
I have 2 gpus in my laptop (Intel & ATI, I can switch between them on-the-fly).
If I wanted, I could upgrade the hard drive, optical drive, RAM, wireless card, and possibly even the screen (a higher resolution that fits in the same chassis) & CPU.
For heat management it also has Speedstep, or I could use an external device such as a cooling pad.
One of the suggested origins of football games (of any type) is that they were played on foot as opposed to on a horse (like polo). So that would make "American football" as legitimate a term as "association football".
Most of the very early references to the game speak simply of "ball play" or "playing at ball". This reinforces the idea that the games played at the time did not necessarily involve a ball being kicked.
Why would "slashdotted" be any less stupid than "tweeted"? Both of the terms in their current contexts are derived from specific websites. Comparing the userbases, more people would know what "to tweet" means than "to slashdot".
That's because the big movie company either already owns the rights, has paid (or promised to pay) the rights holder(s), or has the money to litigate if they get sued.
Over half of those games pulled use the word Tetris in the title (which is a trademark). Of those, some use other trademarks/copyrights in the title (Barbie Tetris, Shrek in Tetris, etc). That would be a red flag right there.
What did the clone makers think would happen when The Tetris Company found out, that they would get a free pass? (I'm not defending The Tetris Company, but a simple google search would have revealed that they have a habit of doing this).
I hate when people make generalizations about the US judicial system (probably based on movies/television, & having no basis in actual fact).
Not all prisons in the US are PMITA (especially for non-violent crimes). He'd probably end up in a country-club (minimum security, populated by other non-violent offenders) prison, and that's only if he was convicted (his lawyer could argue diminished faculties, for instance).
Just because the maximum possible sentence is 50 years, that doesn't mean he'd be sentenced to 50 years. Multiple charges could run concurrently, or charges could get dropped if the prosecutor decides there's not enough evidence, etc.
Even in the unlikely case he was sentenced to 50 years, he could appeal his sentence & get it reduced or even overturned.
Disclaimer: IANAL, but the above are things that can be researched with a minimum amount of effort.
You could forward your phone calls through a VoIP application, or use the wifi at Starbucks & leave your phone line open. As for the SSH connection - there's
GNU screen.
Since when has any first-time offender committing a non-violent crime in a highly publicized case ever received the maximum sentence? I say he serves 2 years at most in a country-club prison, then a year or so of probation & no Internet. Alternatively, he may be sentenced to house arrest & no Internet.
Has anyone on here ever bothered to follow up on cases posted here to find out a) how long the sentence was b) if the offender actually went to jail?
Unless it's in a field where there is limited competition, how would your former employer know about your new employer? As far as I know, they don't have the legal right to know who your new employer is (at least in the US).
At the least, the Instinct HD should have been Android-based. Thankfully, I'm eligible for a new phone in October, the HTC Evo is at the top of my list.
I have a Samsung Instinct HD on Sprint. You can copy videos to/from the phone & play them (on the phone or on an HD display) without any restrictions that I can see.
The irony is that they put that hideous piece of crap on the cover instead of the SR-71 Blackbird (on page 59, sorry but I can't figure out how to link it).
Quote from article: "What's the SR-71 really doing? Again, only God and the Pentagon know, with the usual results".
What class of SD cards are you using? The higher the class, the faster the write speed (fastest currently available that I know of is Class 6). See
this wikipedia article for more information.
In a sense, the horse & buggy haven't gone away.
We compare engines by their horsepower, & some buggy manufacturers became automobile body builders (for example,
Fisher Body(note their logo).
It really irritates me when I-95 between Baltimore & DC is referred to as "the Beltway". There are TWO separate beltways in the area: the
Baltimore Beltway circling Baltimore, & the
Capital Beltway circling DC.
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Even with the 4G surcharge, a voice+data plan on Sprint is still cheaper than a comparable plan on Verizon or AT&T (plus, the Sprint plan is unlimited mobile-to-mobile, as well as unlimited 3G/4G data).
How much (more) are people willing to pay for data on a Verizon iPhone? None of the articles I've read even mention this.
I think Sprint is a likelier target, given that a) they already have a 4G network deployed in a lot of cities b) their customers are prepared to pay a surcharge for 4G - $10/month c) said data plan is unlimited.
Just because a product's name is dumb doesn't mean it won't be successful. See: Nintendo Wii, Apple iPad.
I almost want to say "get off my lawn"...
Wouldn't a better hack be to spoof the location reported by your phone? After all, if the feds subpoena your cell phone records & get your actual location, wouldn't that destroy your foursquare/facebook alibi (as well as making you look more suspicious)?
For all of you armchair geniuses saying these are obvious and/or invalid patents...why don't you file a challenge instead of whining on here? Every time we hear about a patent on Slashdot, I see a lot of people say a patent is obvious or that there's prior art, but I never hear about anyone sending a letter to the USPTO or to an organization like the EFF (which I believe has both technical & legal knowledge to form an opinion as to the validity of a patent).
Have you ever heard of Gorilla® Glass?
I have 2 gpus in my laptop (Intel & ATI, I can switch between them on-the-fly).
If I wanted, I could upgrade the hard drive, optical drive, RAM, wireless card, and possibly even the screen (a higher resolution that fits in the same chassis) & CPU.
For heat management it also has Speedstep, or I could use an external device such as a cooling pad.
From the wikipedia entry:
Most of the very early references to the game speak simply of "ball play" or "playing at ball". This reinforces the idea that the games played at the time did not necessarily involve a ball being kicked.
Why would "slashdotted" be any less stupid than "tweeted"? Both of the terms in their current contexts are derived from specific websites. Comparing the userbases, more people would know what "to tweet" means than "to slashdot".
That's because the big movie company either already owns the rights, has paid (or promised to pay) the rights holder(s), or has the money to litigate if they get sued.
Over half of those games pulled use the word Tetris in the title (which is a trademark). Of those, some use other trademarks/copyrights in the title (Barbie Tetris, Shrek in Tetris, etc). That would be a red flag right there.
What did the clone makers think would happen when The Tetris Company found out, that they would get a free pass? (I'm not defending The Tetris Company, but a simple google search would have revealed that they have a habit of doing this).
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aEgU_TIgfK1U&refer=home
I hate when people make generalizations about the US judicial system (probably based on movies/television, & having no basis in actual fact). Not all prisons in the US are PMITA (especially for non-violent crimes). He'd probably end up in a country-club (minimum security, populated by other non-violent offenders) prison, and that's only if he was convicted (his lawyer could argue diminished faculties, for instance). Just because the maximum possible sentence is 50 years, that doesn't mean he'd be sentenced to 50 years. Multiple charges could run concurrently, or charges could get dropped if the prosecutor decides there's not enough evidence, etc. Even in the unlikely case he was sentenced to 50 years, he could appeal his sentence & get it reduced or even overturned. Disclaimer: IANAL, but the above are things that can be researched with a minimum amount of effort.
You could forward your phone calls through a VoIP application, or use the wifi at Starbucks & leave your phone line open. As for the SSH connection - there's GNU screen.
Since when has any first-time offender committing a non-violent crime in a highly publicized case ever received the maximum sentence? I say he serves 2 years at most in a country-club prison, then a year or so of probation & no Internet. Alternatively, he may be sentenced to house arrest & no Internet.
Has anyone on here ever bothered to follow up on cases posted here to find out a) how long the sentence was b) if the offender actually went to jail?
Unless it's in a field where there is limited competition, how would your former employer know about your new employer? As far as I know, they don't have the legal right to know who your new employer is (at least in the US).
At the least, the Instinct HD should have been Android-based. Thankfully, I'm eligible for a new phone in October, the HTC Evo is at the top of my list.
I have a Samsung Instinct HD on Sprint. You can copy videos to/from the phone & play them (on the phone or on an HD display) without any restrictions that I can see.
The irony is that they put that hideous piece of crap on the cover instead of the SR-71 Blackbird (on page 59, sorry but I can't figure out how to link it).
Quote from article: "What's the SR-71 really doing? Again, only God and the Pentagon know, with the usual results".
Nice.
(Bonus points to anyone that gets the reference).
What class of SD cards are you using? The higher the class, the faster the write speed (fastest currently available that I know of is Class 6). See this wikipedia article for more information.
In a sense, the horse & buggy haven't gone away.
We compare engines by their horsepower, & some buggy manufacturers became automobile body builders (for example, Fisher Body(note their logo).
It really irritates me when I-95 between Baltimore & DC is referred to as "the Beltway". There are TWO separate beltways in the area: the Baltimore Beltway circling Baltimore, & the Capital Beltway circling DC.