I remember loads of people saying exactly the same thing about upgrading from windows whatever to XP - now all of them run XP and say exactly the same thing about upgrading to Vista.
Change, people like to drag their feet and whine about it I guess.
This is an entire non-event that is barely slashdot worthy at best. This issue is the exact same one faced by every other touch screen in existence. It is not a pitfall in any way at all. Simply a circumstance of the technology. I've seen some excellent touch screen interfaces that do provide a good level of feedback anyway - flashy colours when you punch a button, dragging fingers across the screen to move windows...
Now I'm all for conspiracy theories and the intrigue of a good old spy thriller, but here's the rub. I spent a decade in the military, then a bit more working as a civilian for the department of defense, the entire time I held a TS security clearance and had access to perhaps far more than I should have - mostly because I'm a curious little bastard. That said, never once did I come across the public release of information for specific hardware simply because there was better equipment in the pipeline. As close as it ever gets would be RADAR. Common sense dictates that certain modes are rarely, if ever, switched on so as to prevent 'the other side' from getting a good look.
Skunkworks or not, one thing I learned was that secrets don't stay secret forever. Release of information is most frequently intentional, far reaching, but only intended for a few key individuals. Far less often is it accidental or malicious. Conspiracies are few and far between.
Besides, those grey's don't even know how to make coffee, they do nothing but sit down in the basement and blink all day long.
Domestically yes, though if you want to stick a load of electronics in your basement that can intercept 'foreign' communications, the laws are exactly the opposite to what you have said.
This is good for 3 letter agencies and those companies with a corporate espionage department, though not so good for people going overseas that want to call home to family and friends, discuss business deals, or anything that would be otherwise considered confidential and private on home soil.
I wouldn't imagine those restrictions will last long, someone will figure out a way to open up the simlocks, there is a great pile of gold just waiting for the first one to do it.
>>> This is due in large part to geographic size, and the nature of the marketplace as mobile telephone services were rolled out in the United States.
No, it isn't. Take a look at how the service providers hack away and restrict firmware on any remotely modern handset. Restricting things like wifi, bluetooth, file transfers over cable, hell, probably even infra-red, this has absolutely nothing to do with services that were rolled out in the past. It has everything to do with making more money from existing infrastructure.
Take a look at how many 'billions' of dollars the telco's were able to cough up when buying spectrum. The limitations are fully artificial. The US is indeed lagging several years behind most other countries when it comes to mobile communications. Here in the Philippines the entire country is covered with all the latest little GSM acronyms. A country which you US types have a tendency to refer to as '3rd world' There might be the odd bit of corruption here (sarcasm), but it is most definitely a country with 1st world amenities and technology throughout.
You are incorrect about the origins and purpose of SMS. The ss7 spec has always included space for short messages. It is a well thought out implementation that is now massively used throughout the world by just about every carrier in one way or another.
I'm guessing you've never had to wait in line for Nokia to approve a developer certificate for anything remotely more complicated than a hello world script. Ok, it's not quite that bad, but if you are wanting to change something as simple as the operator logo, browse certain directories, or access a few of the multi-media functions, it's not going to happen unless you have a few kilograms of cash in hand, and a good deal of patience.
I would presume the iPhone might use the same certificate based crap that Noika settled upon, hope I'm wrong on that though.
Plenty of businesses still own and run old hardware - it still works so why upgrade. In your world the problem is insignificant simply because you have the money available in such quantities that you don't need to care and can afford to be arrogant to the issues others face. The problem is simplistic, how do the remaining masses address your oddball (incompatible) MS-2007 xml document format. Is there a patch or plug-in for Abiword, applixware, koffice, gnome office, openoffice, frame maker, etc, etc, etc. Explain to me why I should lay out the bucks just to run an MS based machine to deal with your standard factory acceptance of the microsoft way.
Sure, there's a free one for other versions of Microsoft Office, but almost none for any other suite. Your logic is intriguing, all us nutjob nux/FOSS gearheads are so apathetic we don't want to accept it simply because it's different. No concept that some of us might be using other operating systems or have a different bottom line that dictates how and why we do things.
The rest of the world isn't as cut and dry as your tiny one.
I didn't get an error message while checking your card numbers, though oddly enough the first 8 digits do happen to match the dimensions of one 'battle star galactica'.
Same deal in the Philippines. Windows XP Home (OEM) costs Php4900 ($106 US) retail. While Office 2007 off the shelf is Php8000 ($172 US) for the cheapest version. Minimum legal wage set by the government is Php8400 per month, in reality people are lucky if they make half of that though.
Linux is pretty popular over here, you can have it installed wherever you buy a PC, though many retailers charge more to install it than an original licensed copy of windows for some stupid and illogical reason.
In what real world do you mean? I have the most recent offerings from Nokia (N95) and Sony Ericsson (K800/P990), none of these give the throughput the networks claim they provide. WiFi is slow on the N95/N80 and not worthy of the 802.11G label.
I'm far from being a supporter of the big bang, and certainly no expert, but my understanding is that the big bang didn't start from a single chunk of mass at some defined point, rather that it occurred everywhere at the same time.
If you were somehow instantly able to travel to the edge 13.7 billion light years away, what would you see? I would guess that there is no edge, and space is significantly bigger than that and filled with just as many galaxies as we can see from here.
I used to live where it was relatively cold in Australia. I got at most 1 flu a year, pretty mild ones really, sometimes none. After moving to one or two tropical Asian countries, the first 3 years I spent fairly miserably getting a cold every other month. How is that explained? Having now spent 7 years in Asia I'm back down to getting maybe 1 or 2 a year.
I personally think temperature is of little relevance. Population, and ones movement through it matter much more.
You are right, I have had that happen a few times. If only I could edit my post. For some reason I pictured this thing as either being fully on or off, not somewhere in between which will probably happen regularly enough to anger a lot of people.
Theft aside, how could this possibly inconvenience paying customers when it is done a single time while paying for it? I don't get the logic? Maybe the customer is inconvenienced for the few seconds it takes to activate it, but how does this really matter?
It's not an anti-piracy measure, it's an anti-theft system just like the summary says. I think it'd inconvenience store owners more than anyone else. They'll probably be left footing the bill for the hardware.
I'm not sure where you got your info from (or why the mods might think it interesting), though you are misinformed. Attenuation in modern fiber is about 0.3db/km (or less), scattering is more of a problem than attenuation. The cable run between repeaters is closer to 200 kilometres. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber-optic_communica tion
The big hook is used to find the cable so that they can drag it up to the ship, the last thing they are going to do with a multi-billion dollar investment is damage it further by snapping it completely in half based on where they 'think' the break should be.
As you mentioned, undersea cables are fairly heavy, how you figure such a beast might float to the surface is beyond me. (Though you made me laugh)
The reason it took them so long to fix the cables off the coast of Taiwan was because there were several of them, all damaged at many points along along their length. With only a tiny handful of ships capable of doing the job, most of it during stormy sea conditions, they did a brilliant job to get it done in the short time that they did.
You're not an exception - you're the norm. It's the fan boys and girls who like to waste energy and flood forums with their little factory idiot tags that spout system stats that nobody else on the planet cares about.
The military most commonly use encryption keys delivered by safe hand, as do many other government branches. The few places that OTP's have any big advantage are rare and generally only applicable to agencies that deal in human intelligence gathering (HUMINT)
Then why not use IMAP instead? It's frustratingly slow at times, just like web mail, with the added convenience that your messages are stored safely on a server somewhere out in the world.
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I remember loads of people saying exactly the same thing about upgrading from windows whatever to XP - now all of them run XP and say exactly the same thing about upgrading to Vista.
Change, people like to drag their feet and whine about it I guess.
This is an entire non-event that is barely slashdot worthy at best. This issue is the exact same one faced by every other touch screen in existence. It is not a pitfall in any way at all. Simply a circumstance of the technology. I've seen some excellent touch screen interfaces that do provide a good level of feedback anyway - flashy colours when you punch a button, dragging fingers across the screen to move windows...
Do we really need to make stories from nothing?
Now I'm all for conspiracy theories and the intrigue of a good old spy thriller, but here's the rub. I spent a decade in the military, then a bit more working as a civilian for the department of defense, the entire time I held a TS security clearance and had access to perhaps far more than I should have - mostly because I'm a curious little bastard. That said, never once did I come across the public release of information for specific hardware simply because there was better equipment in the pipeline. As close as it ever gets would be RADAR. Common sense dictates that certain modes are rarely, if ever, switched on so as to prevent 'the other side' from getting a good look.
Skunkworks or not, one thing I learned was that secrets don't stay secret forever. Release of information is most frequently intentional, far reaching, but only intended for a few key individuals. Far less often is it accidental or malicious. Conspiracies are few and far between.
Besides, those grey's don't even know how to make coffee, they do nothing but sit down in the basement and blink all day long.
I'm guessing the difference between 'then' and 'than' never took hold, looks like the whole 'not listening' part went both ways.
Domestically yes, though if you want to stick a load of electronics in your basement that can intercept 'foreign' communications, the laws are exactly the opposite to what you have said.
This is good for 3 letter agencies and those companies with a corporate espionage department, though not so good for people going overseas that want to call home to family and friends, discuss business deals, or anything that would be otherwise considered confidential and private on home soil.
I wouldn't imagine those restrictions will last long, someone will figure out a way to open up the simlocks, there is a great pile of gold just waiting for the first one to do it.
>>> This is due in large part to geographic size, and the nature of the marketplace as mobile telephone services were rolled out in the United States.
No, it isn't. Take a look at how the service providers hack away and restrict firmware on any remotely modern handset. Restricting things like wifi, bluetooth, file transfers over cable, hell, probably even infra-red, this has absolutely nothing to do with services that were rolled out in the past. It has everything to do with making more money from existing infrastructure.
Take a look at how many 'billions' of dollars the telco's were able to cough up when buying spectrum. The limitations are fully artificial. The US is indeed lagging several years behind most other countries when it comes to mobile communications. Here in the Philippines the entire country is covered with all the latest little GSM acronyms. A country which you US types have a tendency to refer to as '3rd world' There might be the odd bit of corruption here (sarcasm), but it is most definitely a country with 1st world amenities and technology throughout.
You are incorrect about the origins and purpose of SMS. The ss7 spec has always included space for short messages. It is a well thought out implementation that is now massively used throughout the world by just about every carrier in one way or another.
See http://www.pt.com/tutorials/ss7/index.html for a good breakdown.
I'm guessing you've never had to wait in line for Nokia to approve a developer certificate for anything remotely more complicated than a hello world script. Ok, it's not quite that bad, but if you are wanting to change something as simple as the operator logo, browse certain directories, or access a few of the multi-media functions, it's not going to happen unless you have a few kilograms of cash in hand, and a good deal of patience.
I would presume the iPhone might use the same certificate based crap that Noika settled upon, hope I'm wrong on that though.
I do agree with you otherwise.
Sorry, posting to undo an accidental negative moderation.
Plenty of businesses still own and run old hardware - it still works so why upgrade. In your world the problem is insignificant simply because you have the money available in such quantities that you don't need to care and can afford to be arrogant to the issues others face. The problem is simplistic, how do the remaining masses address your oddball (incompatible) MS-2007 xml document format. Is there a patch or plug-in for Abiword, applixware, koffice, gnome office, openoffice, frame maker, etc, etc, etc. Explain to me why I should lay out the bucks just to run an MS based machine to deal with your standard factory acceptance of the microsoft way.
Sure, there's a free one for other versions of Microsoft Office, but almost none for any other suite. Your logic is intriguing, all us nutjob nux/FOSS gearheads are so apathetic we don't want to accept it simply because it's different. No concept that some of us might be using other operating systems or have a different bottom line that dictates how and why we do things.
The rest of the world isn't as cut and dry as your tiny one.
I didn't get an error message while checking your card numbers, though oddly enough the first 8 digits do happen to match the dimensions of one 'battle star galactica'.
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Second search result in google for me. http://scifipedia.scifi.com/index.php/Battlestar_
Coincidence? I think not.
Same deal in the Philippines. Windows XP Home (OEM) costs Php4900 ($106 US) retail. While Office 2007 off the shelf is Php8000 ($172 US) for the cheapest version. Minimum legal wage set by the government is Php8400 per month, in reality people are lucky if they make half of that though.
Linux is pretty popular over here, you can have it installed wherever you buy a PC, though many retailers charge more to install it than an original licensed copy of windows for some stupid and illogical reason.
I'm not quite sure what my point is though.
In what real world do you mean? I have the most recent offerings from Nokia (N95) and Sony Ericsson (K800/P990), none of these give the throughput the networks claim they provide. WiFi is slow on the N95/N80 and not worthy of the 802.11G label.
How is it a 'security feature' when any local user can type (straight out of the box) -> sudo passwd root
I'm far from being a supporter of the big bang, and certainly no expert, but my understanding is that the big bang didn't start from a single chunk of mass at some defined point, rather that it occurred everywhere at the same time.
If you were somehow instantly able to travel to the edge 13.7 billion light years away, what would you see? I would guess that there is no edge, and space is significantly bigger than that and filled with just as many galaxies as we can see from here.
I used to live where it was relatively cold in Australia. I got at most 1 flu a year, pretty mild ones really, sometimes none. After moving to one or two tropical Asian countries, the first 3 years I spent fairly miserably getting a cold every other month. How is that explained? Having now spent 7 years in Asia I'm back down to getting maybe 1 or 2 a year.
I personally think temperature is of little relevance. Population, and ones movement through it matter much more.
You are right, I have had that happen a few times. If only I could edit my post. For some reason I pictured this thing as either being fully on or off, not somewhere in between which will probably happen regularly enough to anger a lot of people.
Theft aside, how could this possibly inconvenience paying customers when it is done a single time while paying for it? I don't get the logic? Maybe the customer is inconvenienced for the few seconds it takes to activate it, but how does this really matter?
It's not an anti-piracy measure, it's an anti-theft system just like the summary says. I think it'd inconvenience store owners more than anyone else. They'll probably be left footing the bill for the hardware.
I'm not sure where you got your info from (or why the mods might think it interesting), though you are misinformed. Attenuation in modern fiber is about 0.3db/km (or less), scattering is more of a problem than attenuation. The cable run between repeaters is closer to 200 kilometres.a tion
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiber-optic_communic
The big hook is used to find the cable so that they can drag it up to the ship, the last thing they are going to do with a multi-billion dollar investment is damage it further by snapping it completely in half based on where they 'think' the break should be.
As you mentioned, undersea cables are fairly heavy, how you figure such a beast might float to the surface is beyond me. (Though you made me laugh)
The reason it took them so long to fix the cables off the coast of Taiwan was because there were several of them, all damaged at many points along along their length. With only a tiny handful of ships capable of doing the job, most of it during stormy sea conditions, they did a brilliant job to get it done in the short time that they did.
I have one as well, it's just a pity that HP wont release drivers for x64 based systems.
You're not an exception - you're the norm. It's the fan boys and girls who like to waste energy and flood forums with their little factory idiot tags that spout system stats that nobody else on the planet cares about.
The military most commonly use encryption keys delivered by safe hand, as do many other government branches. The few places that OTP's have any big advantage are rare and generally only applicable to agencies that deal in human intelligence gathering (HUMINT)
Then why not use IMAP instead? It's frustratingly slow at times, just like web mail, with the added convenience that your messages are stored safely on a server somewhere out in the world.
Only if you believe in relativity!