Since none of the articles linked to by the summary felt it was relevant to mention what these skimmers actually look like, here's an article from Consumerist.
That's an ATM skimmer, which are different to gas pump skimmers. Because the attackers don't have access to the inside of the ATM, everything is done by sticking gizmos on the outside of the ATM. With gas pumps, I don't think there are any signs that a user can see that a skimmer has been installed -- it's all internal to the gas pump.
That wouldn't matter, since that just lowers the net, and he had a cut of gross. Though I'm sure other people had a cut of net, and maybe he had a cut of net as well in the mix.
AFAIK, New Line sold rights such as merchandising rights to sister companies. Those sister companies made boatloads of money, but the "gross" revenue from merchandising was calculated based on how those sister companies paid the film company -- and that was below market (and even if it had been at market rates, it would have been based on a net figure).
They didn't go there to photograph the police, they went to photograph the system.
They were using cameras that could have been turned on the cops in an instant if anything happened. That's enough of a threat in the minds of the police and rent-a-cops. I don't think that "word has gone down", but instead, every cop is very aware of the Johannes Mehserle case.
Sometime the authorities can be stupid beyond belief. Do the think that there isn't any imagery [google.com] of their precious system? Or perhaps that detailed satellite imagery [google.com] doesn't exist with convient, detailed maps of all potential routes of escape and schedules even? Holy shit, look at that! [google.com] Better go arrest Google.
It's not about imagery of the system. The guy in charge of security told them that they could take photographs. It's about the police not wanting people to photograph them abusing their positions and power.
Back when I was a county investigator I pulled peoples records on a regular basis. The records showed all arrests and the results of the arrests. After you turn 18 nothing is removed.
How would you know if something had been purged from the system?
But, because of stupid fears we have more bureaucracy,
No, the police fear being the next Johannes Mehserle. IMHO, there would not have been a trial if Mehserle had not had several cameras pointed at him when he shot Oscar Grant in the back.
Consider the Vertex: without TRIM, and when used, its sequential read speed for 1,024KB files is 137MB/sec; the Macbook Air manages 105MB/sec. With TRIM, the Vertex manages 258MB/sec in this same test.
According to their tests, TRIM has a big impact on read speeds, yet according to their explanation, TRIM should only have a significant affect on write speeds.
Not many handsets support it now. I think only some Blackberry models, but other handsets that support this are available on eBay.
Once the handset connects via WiFi, it makes and receives calls just like a normal cellphone. The only difficulty is if the WiFi network has some kind of click-through agreement. The phones support WEP, WPA, WPA2.
I suspect that ASCAP is not going to ask congress to stop people giving away their work with no restrictions (hence allowjng other "artists" to make money from it), rather they will ask the lawmakers to remove copyright protection from works that people want to release under a Creative Commons or similar license.
In other words, it is an attack on the GPL and similar licenses.
My phone doesn't have GPS, yet the tracking for emergency services is pretty accurate.
Some time ago, I called 911 to report the presence of an obstruction on a freeway. Before I spoke to anyone, the phone call was redirected to the highway patrol and I received an automated message telling me that they knew about the obstruction. To do this, they would have to have a farily accurate location for me and this was without GPS.
I just got a robocall that was not compliant with the law (incoming caller-id blocked, no human intro, no phone number given) "by" Mitt Romney on behalf of Meg Whitman.
Let me ask you, did you feel uncomfortable with the fact that they already have this authority with your electric infrastructure? Your water? You're local emergency services? This is no different.
Yes, it is different. People don't put their data in their water lines, or on their power lines.
Presumably, this would cover cellphone networks, which again are significantly different to water and power.
Does the definition of a private network include my LAN?
Their Balanced architecture made it hard to debate its real advantages during the Megahertz war
That was certainly the claim -- that their processors did more work than would be impled by pure clocks speeds. However, at my company, we benchmarked a 400MHz Sun/SPARC machine running Solaris against an 800MHz PIII Xeon running Linux. The Linux machine was twice as fast. Now our primary applications were large single-threaded jobs, and had we been running multi-threaded applications, perhaps the Sun would have performed better. For us, the equation was simple: X86 running Linux was half the cost and twice as fast.
I assume other people came to the same conclusion as us, hence reducing the market effectively available to Sun. My industry moved over to Linux and we never had a reason to look at Sun again. When Sun produced X86_64 boxes running Solaris, it was too late, all the software had been ported to Linux.
As for the weapon licensing thing, what kind of rifle is it?
It's a.22 used for target shooting.
But I think that it is also possible to legally own shotguns. It used to be significantly easier to get a license for a shotgun than a license for a rifle.
bear in mind is I am British - over here, it is illegal to own guns other than hunting rifles and those require a licence.
Since the (non-hunting and fully licensed) rifle that my father legally owns in Britain proves that the statement you make above is wrong, I'll take your comments about the laws in Britain with more than a grain of salt.
But in the case I cited, the charge was related to carrying something that could be used for housebreaking (the aformentioned screwdriver), and nothing at all related to carryng a weapon.
Hell, if I wanted to, I could even buy a set of lockpicks and go to town. (Or more to the point, go to your house.)
I would not advise that, at least not where I live. Some time back, a mechanic who was driving me home (after dropping my car at a transmission shop) told me that, later that day, he had to meet with the local DA because they were threatening to prosecute his son (also a mechanic) for walking the streets with a screwdriver in his pocket.
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That's an ATM skimmer, which are different to gas pump skimmers. Because the attackers don't have access to the inside of the ATM, everything is done by sticking gizmos on the outside of the ATM. With gas pumps, I don't think there are any signs that a user can see that a skimmer has been installed -- it's all internal to the gas pump.
They were using cameras that could have been turned on the cops in an instant if anything happened. That's enough of a threat in the minds of the police and rent-a-cops. I don't think that "word has gone down", but instead, every cop is very aware of the Johannes Mehserle case.
It's not about imagery of the system. The guy in charge of security told them that they could take photographs. It's about the police not wanting people to photograph them abusing their positions and power.
How would you know if something had been purged from the system?
No, the police fear being the next Johannes Mehserle. IMHO, there would not have been a trial if Mehserle had not had several cameras pointed at him when he shot Oscar Grant in the back.
According to their tests, TRIM has a big impact on read speeds, yet according to their explanation, TRIM should only have a significant affect on write speeds.
Not many handsets support it now. I think only some Blackberry models, but other handsets that support this are available on eBay.
Once the handset connects via WiFi, it makes and receives calls just like a normal cellphone. The only difficulty is if the WiFi network has some kind of click-through agreement. The phones support WEP, WPA, WPA2.
I suspect that ASCAP is not going to ask congress to stop people giving away their work with no restrictions (hence allowjng other "artists" to make money from it), rather they will ask the lawmakers to remove copyright protection from works that people want to release under a Creative Commons or similar license.
In other words, it is an attack on the GPL and similar licenses.
My phone doesn't have GPS, yet the tracking for emergency services is pretty accurate.
Some time ago, I called 911 to report the presence of an obstruction on a freeway. Before I spoke to anyone, the phone call was redirected to the highway patrol and I received an automated message telling me that they knew about the obstruction. To do this, they would have to have a farily accurate location for me and this was without GPS.
How about:
for C in $GOOGLE_COMMANDS; do alias $C="google $C" ; done
Put in a script that is executed by all users.
I just received a robocall (no human, no incoming caller-id) in support of Meg Whitman.
I just got a robocall that was not compliant with the law (incoming caller-id blocked, no human intro, no phone number given) "by" Mitt Romney on behalf of Meg Whitman.
Yes, it is different. People don't put their data in their water lines, or on their power lines.
Presumably, this would cover cellphone networks, which again are significantly different to water and power.
Does the definition of a private network include my LAN?
That was certainly the claim -- that their processors did more work than would be impled by pure clocks speeds. However, at my company, we benchmarked a 400MHz Sun/SPARC machine running Solaris against an 800MHz PIII Xeon running Linux. The Linux machine was twice as fast. Now our primary applications were large single-threaded jobs, and had we been running multi-threaded applications, perhaps the Sun would have performed better. For us, the equation was simple: X86 running Linux was half the cost and twice as fast.
I assume other people came to the same conclusion as us, hence reducing the market effectively available to Sun. My industry moved over to Linux and we never had a reason to look at Sun again. When Sun produced X86_64 boxes running Solaris, it was too late, all the software had been ported to Linux.
While you succeed at funny, you fail at RTFA -- it wasn't a rover.
I care about Win16. The one thing I use Wine for is to run a 16-bit Windows application.
Corrected that for you!
There is probably a law, along the lines of Murphy's law, that describes this very common phenomenon.
It's a .22 used for target shooting.
But I think that it is also possible to legally own shotguns. It used to be significantly easier to get a license for a shotgun than a license for a rifle.
English FAIL!
Since the (non-hunting and fully licensed) rifle that my father legally owns in Britain proves that the statement you make above is wrong, I'll take your comments about the laws in Britain with more than a grain of salt.
But in the case I cited, the charge was related to carrying something that could be used for housebreaking (the aformentioned screwdriver), and nothing at all related to carryng a weapon.
I would not advise that, at least not where I live. Some time back, a mechanic who was driving me home (after dropping my car at a transmission shop) told me that, later that day, he had to meet with the local DA because they were threatening to prosecute his son (also a mechanic) for walking the streets with a screwdriver in his pocket.
The CEO of British Airways was on board was on board their test flight.
And what OS? Windows CE or Linux?
Or is a version of Windows on ARM in progress already?