When the phone is on-hook a minor current is still flowing through it. This is enough for sensitive equipment to pick up the background sound in the room, and this mode of monitoring has actually been used in US court cases, as well as US intelligence gathering operations. It only works with old-school analog phones though.
You are welcome to post anything you want here that complies with the quite liberal/. TOS. I'm not going to promise to boycott your unfaves though. Any company of decent size has unhappy customers. Having been in customer service and totally committed to customer satisfaction, I have still found customers I could not please. Some customers just don't want to be happy.
Q: "We've refunded your purchase price not once, but twice - and let you keep both the product and a replacement product as well. We fired the salesman, his supervisor, and the manager over him as well as all of the office staff who had anything to do with the transaction. We evacuated the office responsible for selling you the product and burned it to the ground. Is there anything else we can do to satisfy you?"
I get +2 automatically because I have high Karma and I'm a subscriber. You get +1 for each of those. You could get the subscriber bonus for about $1/month. The high karma thing you have to work at. Karma is easier to get and lose though when all of your posts are +1 because you're a subscriber.
I could discount these in my settings, and I used to. Most subscribers with high Karma do, as they consider posting at 3 "shouting". If my Karma falls back to normal, I probably will do that. Once upon a time I had such bad Karma I was posting at -1. But I recovered.
I would still post just at 1, but the retarded sockpuppets and idiots do need shouting down with confidence. The price I pay for this is that I almost never get mod points.
It's this for-pay shovelware that's driving people to Android. Android tablets and phones, iPhones and iPads for the most part don't have it. You don't have to spend three hours disabling shovelware to get to what you want to do on an Android tablet. You turn it on, log in, and go.
The myth of deep pockets is that they are stupid. They didn't get deep pockets by being stupid. They know value when they see it, and Windows 8 ain't it.
Activating phones to eavesdrop predates cellular phones by several decades. By default rotary dial phones shared with the central office any sound within range. It was assumed that if you hadn't called a number the device was dead, but that was not so.
In the Beaufort Sea just north of Canada's Yukon there's a spot that has been covered in ice in the winter and exposed to the sun in the summer, for a billion years - give or take some ice ages - back to when the substrate was actually near the equator. And the sediment there on the sea floor has more to tell us about our climate, global insolation and biological action than these antarctic cores do. Worse still, oil drillers are actively drilling in this area and willing to give up the cores for free as they are an unavoidable byproduct of their operations. Why are we not hearing about the research into these arctic sediment cores?
Your cell phone is a tracking device. It always has been and always will be. That it's also useful it how you're induced to carry a tracking device with you every where you go.
I'm not OK with that. There are some things the government should stay out of. This is a case where we citizens should shout down the idiots, rather than a moment where the government should protect us from idiots. If we want the government to send armed men to protect us from idiots, their first objective should be the halls of Congress, not a funeral.
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I'm not even going to address the rest of your post.
You know that, I know that, and most everyone on slashdot knows that.
Then why did you say it?
Maybe you were thinking religion. That is definitely how religion works.
Excuse me, but that is not how science works. At all.
Like I said, you're welcome to try any exemplar in the field and give it a go. It's not like you can't get them for $20 on eBay.
Believe it or not, oil drillers are even more interested in scientific findings about their cores than most of us are.
When the phone is on-hook a minor current is still flowing through it. This is enough for sensitive equipment to pick up the background sound in the room, and this mode of monitoring has actually been used in US court cases, as well as US intelligence gathering operations. It only works with old-school analog phones though.
Do you know the difference between a schematic and a device?
If you know what's to be found in exploratory ice cores, why drill them at all?
You are welcome to post anything you want here that complies with the quite liberal /. TOS. I'm not going to promise to boycott your unfaves though. Any company of decent size has unhappy customers. Having been in customer service and totally committed to customer satisfaction, I have still found customers I could not please. Some customers just don't want to be happy.
Q: "We've refunded your purchase price not once, but twice - and let you keep both the product and a replacement product as well. We fired the salesman, his supervisor, and the manager over him as well as all of the office staff who had anything to do with the transaction. We evacuated the office responsible for selling you the product and burned it to the ground. Is there anything else we can do to satisfy you?"
A: "Die."
I get +2 automatically because I have high Karma and I'm a subscriber. You get +1 for each of those. You could get the subscriber bonus for about $1/month. The high karma thing you have to work at. Karma is easier to get and lose though when all of your posts are +1 because you're a subscriber.
I could discount these in my settings, and I used to. Most subscribers with high Karma do, as they consider posting at 3 "shouting". If my Karma falls back to normal, I probably will do that. Once upon a time I had such bad Karma I was posting at -1. But I recovered.
I would still post just at 1, but the retarded sockpuppets and idiots do need shouting down with confidence. The price I pay for this is that I almost never get mod points.
Exactly.
And at that point you may as well install BSD, which is more performant and has less malware targeted at it.
OTOH, a tablet can carry 50,000 books. A good sized library. Good luck fitting that many paper books into your pocket.
I'm guessing you never disassembled one to see how it actually worked. I did. Go ahead and find an exemplar and give it a go.
It's this for-pay shovelware that's driving people to Android. Android tablets and phones, iPhones and iPads for the most part don't have it. You don't have to spend three hours disabling shovelware to get to what you want to do on an Android tablet. You turn it on, log in, and go.
So... is this a suicide note?
The myth of deep pockets is that they are stupid. They didn't get deep pockets by being stupid. They know value when they see it, and Windows 8 ain't it.
I once trained an Australian Shepherd to fetch beer from the refrigerator. But I wouldn't recommend it as a business model.
Not to put too fine a point on it, but: "shenanigans".
Activating phones to eavesdrop predates cellular phones by several decades. By default rotary dial phones shared with the central office any sound within range. It was assumed that if you hadn't called a number the device was dead, but that was not so.
In the Beaufort Sea just north of Canada's Yukon there's a spot that has been covered in ice in the winter and exposed to the sun in the summer, for a billion years - give or take some ice ages - back to when the substrate was actually near the equator. And the sediment there on the sea floor has more to tell us about our climate, global insolation and biological action than these antarctic cores do. Worse still, oil drillers are actively drilling in this area and willing to give up the cores for free as they are an unavoidable byproduct of their operations. Why are we not hearing about the research into these arctic sediment cores?
Your cell phone is a tracking device. It always has been and always will be. That it's also useful it how you're induced to carry a tracking device with you every where you go.
You should maybe try one. You'll find it different from your expectation.
I'm not OK with that. There are some things the government should stay out of. This is a case where we citizens should shout down the idiots, rather than a moment where the government should protect us from idiots. If we want the government to send armed men to protect us from idiots, their first objective should be the halls of Congress, not a funeral.
If you'd like to preferentially hire people like this, I'm sure we'd all love to know who you are. So we can avoid your business.