I use to work in the Network Solutions Ecommerce department (netsol sux btw, fired half the staff feb 09 because they chased all their customers away). We had A LOT of adult shops and porn sites. Sub-shop.com is the only one that still comes to mind, but it doesn't have much porn on it. They would need help with adding pictures or videos or whatever. Had to make sure the videos played correctly and the pictures lined up.
"specialize in removing cameras from phones, such as the iPhone."
I was thinking the same thing. Would it be so hard to gently "dig" the camera out of there, then epoxy a small round plastic piece the same size of the hole and the same color of the iPhone? Then when he says "no camera" he can inspect it all he wants and look, no camera. If you wanna get really technical you can use the same techniques used for auto body repairs, with the buffing and sanding, etc. If done right you'd never be able to tell a hole was ever there. Here's a guide on how to take your iphone apart, one section even completely removes the camera.
"The price of storage per gigabyte is going to drop precipitously," Mr. Lawrence said.
Also did anyone tell them hard drives are already less than 10 cents a gigabyte? So instead of buying a new burner and $50 500gb holographic disks in 3 years, it'd be cheaper to buy a 500gb external USB drive today.... well, almost cheaper, it's $62, but I could almost probably guarantee it'll be at least $12 cheaper by 2011.
"...I only get 250 safe miles out of a tank. Of course, I can then instantly fill it back up..."
Very true, but how often do you drive the car 250 miles in a day, where you can't park it somewhere to charge overnight?
I'm very impressed with the 241 miles the car managed to get. This is a real road course, not some "range of 200 miles" crap we keep hearing, where 200 miles is if it's rolling off a mountain and you'll really be lucky to get 100 miles. This course covered highways and mountain roads, with varying speeds and inclines. No fakery here, and it had room to spare. Gives me a lot of hope that electric cars could actually be realistic.
Now if they could just shove a small gas generator in there somewhere so I don't have to worry about being stranded. I'd rather get going again with a 5 gallon gas can then waiting for a tow truck.
"You have to draw a line somewhere, and put a price under it."
You're always bandwidth capped, so it could be unlimited given the maximum bandwidth you have, meaning even if they max'd the bandwidth 24/7 all month they would not reach the cap.
"In this case, I wonder if 'public intoxication' might not be a better charge."
Agreed. I think unless you're driving a vehicle requiring a license and/or plates, it should be considered public intoxication. Charging people with DUI for riding a horse, bicycle, scooter, skateboard (while drunk? That's talent) just seems kinda stupid to me, that they'ed put skateboard in same category as 100+ mph capable 7,000 lbs 4x4 truck.
I think they guy was smart with the jury trial because I'd sure as hell never convict him of DUI on a 5hp bar stool.
Actually the question was if it could be taken down by hackers, not if the mainlines in the ocean being cut would take down the internet.
from article: "Alan: That's a great tip. One last question: in 1998, the members of L0pht testified in front of the US Congress that a committed team of hackers could take down the entire Internet in 30 minutes...Do you think that statement still holds today?"
"Dino: Yes, and I probably shouldn't say much more about it than that. "
"Please post the google maps pictures of the crowd...I cant wait to see it!"
Am I the only one that read this article and thought "Gee it'd be fun to walk down the street with a flashmob all snapping photos of the houses and posting them all over flicker!"
"What poor math!....Yeah, for a 7 day work week... A 24 hour work day. Yeah!"
They don't get to come out on weekends, so yes, it is a 7 day work week, and while some people argue "sleeping shouldn't count" I say they are still in the capsule and if the scientists decided to simulate a explosion in the middle of the night they would have to get up and tend to it so yes they are still "working" while they sleep.
"$20,000/100 Days = $200 dollars, day. $200/24 hours = $8.33/hour"
In this economy, I'm sure plenty of people would be very happy to make 20k for lounging in a 19,500 cubic feet capsule for 3 months. Actually I'm sort of doing that now, except instead of a capsule it's a house, and instead of making $20,000 I'm actually paying to live here.
From the article: "This time, conditions will be much improved, with team members allowed to bring DVDs, laptops and books with them."
with hard drives as cheap as they are, put me in there with a couple terabyte of TV episodes and movies over the last 30 years and I'd be happy.
"scheduled for December, which will see another group of volunteers spending over 500 days in the same conditions. "
"The guys "problem" is that women are coming up to him and talking to him? "
Agreed. This guy needs a reality check.
What dog gets more women, the tiny 4 lbs maltese or the 40 lbs pit bull?
What car gets more women, the supercharged stroked 600hp 2002 Z28 or the 2000 mercedes convertible?
You don't want big manly. Big manly impresses.... men. I don't want men coming up to me and saying "hey nice car! what's in there? 350? 383?" I want women walking by saying "Nice car..." or "awww your dog is soooo cute!"
"They keep limiting their audience to the USA, as if they can't figure out that ads don't have to be limited to one market."
give it time, it's still a relatively new idea. It'll get to the point where you'll fill out a brief survey to subscribe to the service (DOB, sex, children, address, pets, etc) and they'll deliver custom content specifically designed for you.
Internet TV is a MUCH better advertising stream than TV will ever be. Imagine filling out a survey saying you have a dog and a new baby and getting ads for baby formula and diapers and dog food but not getting ads for cat food or school supplies? TV could never do this, which is why whoever figures out how to set that up and make it work well will own the future of TV.
"Personal printers are horribly unreliable and very expensive to maintain."
According to who? If these are kids living on campus then why not have a personal laser printer in their dorm room? Amazon has severallaserprinters under $100 each. Toner refills are about $5 to $10 each. I own two of these under $100 laser printers, a samsung and a lexmark, and they've worked great for the past several years. Sure if you're printing 100,000+ pages a robust $1,000 office laser printer might be cheaper in the long run, but for the average student printing off a couple hundred pages a month a $100 laser printer is plenty.
I haven't been on campus in awhile, is everyone dragging laptops everywhere now? Seems to me it might have been easier ten years ago since every 100 feet there was another computer lab you could run in and check your mail within a minute. If they close the labs you'll have to whip out your laptop, wait a few minutes for it to boot, find a connection, and finally get your mail.
I can understand campuses closing labs if they saw a large drop in usage in recent years, but I can't imagine college without a computer lab. Most of the time I was in college was spent in the 24/7 computer labs. Many times I'd be working on a project the last minute and a classmate would walk-in and we could compare notes. Very useful indeed. I guess now they can keep the library open 24/7 and have one floor just for laptop users to go to when they need to get away from the dorms to study.
"I can tell you we don't give a damn how old someone is if they're good at the job"
I'm wondering how the interviewer will even know the age of the potential employee? I've never put my age on a resume (who does?), and nothing on my resume indicates how old I am. Once you've taken some college there's really no need to put high school on a resume, and unless you're putting every job you've had since age 16 then no one will really know your true age.
"Only 15% actually know how much of the planet is covered in water (47% if you accept a rough approximation of the exact number)"
"15% got it right, 47% came close."
Wait... seriously that's what that meant? I misunderstood too, the way it's worded it sounds like 47% of the earth is water.
So what did the other 15% do, round it up to the closest 4 significant digit? If someone said 75% or 70% that should be right without saying nonsensical "74.3242112%".
Sounds like this article was created on hype. "OMG 85% of US adults don't know (exactly) how much of the earth is covered in water! Sound the alarm! Americans are stupid!"
FTA:
"The approximately correct answer range for this question was defined as anything between 65% and 75%. Only 15% of respondents answered this question with the exactly correct answer of 70%."
"ErrorDocument 403 "Sorry, this website is only available to people living in."
Don't forget to add "Do you believe you've reached this error document in error and should have access to this page? Click here to email the admin" or something similar. No error page should give people no way out without an explaination of who to contact because you never know, someone try to access from their cellphone and IP gets bounced around or other circumstances.
"Brent did a fine turn as this character. We should quit while we're ahead. Cast son-of-Data with another actor if you must, but don't ruin what we have."
Exactly. Don't tell me Data was the only android ever. Wouldn't be hard to create a google-spewing humanoid today much less 50 years from now. The japanese already create incredibly life-like androids compared to the crap we had in the 80s. Add some walking and you're done. Can you imagine what another 20-30 years will bring?
I can envision a android that has a wifi connection to the ship's computer where you can ask it questions and it return results kinda like a walking Ask Jeeves. And it makes sense, having a friendly interface to information rather than a textbox, especially when speaking with aliens that might not like the idea of them running to the computer to search for information between every sentence.
I'd also LOVE to know why they don't have bluetooth headsets or wireless cameras or anything in first gen startrek. I wish a movie or episode would explain that. TNG finally added it but everything was speakerphone which seems silly if you're trying to be stealthy, and a wireless camera would solve a lot of "What do you see?.... Hello?.... What's happening?!" questions.
"...especially since base exchanges have the latest stuff at low prices."
AAFES prices aren't great, closer to MSRP and Walmart will always beat them, but usually the kids have great credit after basic and creditors know they can call your CO and get you in troulbe if you don't pay your bills unlike the civilian world where your boss could care less.
"Forget the charger, and get him something nice that runs on AAs."
Good luck. There's almost no mp3 players or cameras that run on AAs. However Energizer has the Energi To Go that charges most devices with regular AAs, including a version for iPods and one that has a mini-USB plug that's very popular on many digital cameras and cellphones. I'd suggest buying a device that can be charged with those.
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You had me until you said "make some sort of robot brain out of it."
"there are people who get PAID to view porn?!"
I had a job like this.
I use to work in the Network Solutions Ecommerce department (netsol sux btw, fired half the staff feb 09 because they chased all their customers away). We had A LOT of adult shops and porn sites. Sub-shop.com is the only one that still comes to mind, but it doesn't have much porn on it. They would need help with adding pictures or videos or whatever. Had to make sure the videos played correctly and the pictures lined up.
"specialize in removing cameras from phones, such as the iPhone."
I was thinking the same thing. Would it be so hard to gently "dig" the camera out of there, then epoxy a small round plastic piece the same size of the hole and the same color of the iPhone? Then when he says "no camera" he can inspect it all he wants and look, no camera. If you wanna get really technical you can use the same techniques used for auto body repairs, with the buffing and sanding, etc. If done right you'd never be able to tell a hole was ever there. Here's a guide on how to take your iphone apart, one section even completely removes the camera.
If you're not comfortable doing it yourself, iResQ does it for $99, or this guy says he'll do it for $40
dupe from just a week ago: Time Warner Cable Won't Compete, Seeks Legislation
At least he got something right:
"The price of storage per gigabyte is going to drop precipitously," Mr. Lawrence said.
Also did anyone tell them hard drives are already less than 10 cents a gigabyte? So instead of buying a new burner and $50 500gb holographic disks in 3 years, it'd be cheaper to buy a 500gb external USB drive today.... well, almost cheaper, it's $62, but I could almost probably guarantee it'll be at least $12 cheaper by 2011.
"The good people of Wilson, NC pay $99/month for 10/10 Mbps internet service, 81 TV channels and telephone service. How'd they manage that, you ask?"
They got the Charter Bundle? Except it's 100+ channels, the internet is closer to 10/1 Mbps and the support sucks.
"Note that "Enterprise" has a long history even outside of fiction."
Here's a link to that long history you were talking about. According to the list there had been nearly two dozen ships named Enterprise before Star Trek was even thought of. Here's a few that made it to wikipedia.
It's thought that the Star Trek Enterprise was named after this famous aircraft carrier which was the most-decorated U.S. Navy vessel of World War II.
So even without Star Trek it's likely that we would see many vessels named Enterprise.
"...I only get 250 safe miles out of a tank. Of course, I can then instantly fill it back up..."
Very true, but how often do you drive the car 250 miles in a day, where you can't park it somewhere to charge overnight?
I'm very impressed with the 241 miles the car managed to get. This is a real road course, not some "range of 200 miles" crap we keep hearing, where 200 miles is if it's rolling off a mountain and you'll really be lucky to get 100 miles. This course covered highways and mountain roads, with varying speeds and inclines. No fakery here, and it had room to spare. Gives me a lot of hope that electric cars could actually be realistic.
Now if they could just shove a small gas generator in there somewhere so I don't have to worry about being stranded. I'd rather get going again with a 5 gallon gas can then waiting for a tow truck.
"You have to draw a line somewhere, and put a price under it."
You're always bandwidth capped, so it could be unlimited given the maximum bandwidth you have, meaning even if they max'd the bandwidth 24/7 all month they would not reach the cap.
"In this case, I wonder if 'public intoxication' might not be a better charge."
Agreed. I think unless you're driving a vehicle requiring a license and/or plates, it should be considered public intoxication. Charging people with DUI for riding a horse, bicycle, scooter, skateboard (while drunk? That's talent) just seems kinda stupid to me, that they'ed put skateboard in same category as 100+ mph capable 7,000 lbs 4x4 truck.
I think they guy was smart with the jury trial because I'd sure as hell never convict him of DUI on a 5hp bar stool.
Actually the question was if it could be taken down by hackers, not if the mainlines in the ocean being cut would take down the internet.
from article:
"Alan: That's a great tip. One last question: in 1998, the members of L0pht testified in front of the US Congress that a committed team of hackers could take down the entire Internet in 30 minutes...Do you think that statement still holds today?"
"Dino: Yes, and I probably shouldn't say much more about it than that. "
Honestly, I think the guy's full of it.
"Please post the google maps pictures of the crowd...I cant wait to see it!"
Am I the only one that read this article and thought "Gee it'd be fun to walk down the street with a flashmob all snapping photos of the houses and posting them all over flicker!"
"What poor math!....Yeah, for a 7 day work week... A 24 hour work day. Yeah!"
They don't get to come out on weekends, so yes, it is a 7 day work week, and while some people argue "sleeping shouldn't count" I say they are still in the capsule and if the scientists decided to simulate a explosion in the middle of the night they would have to get up and tend to it so yes they are still "working" while they sleep.
"$20,000/100 Days = $200 dollars, day. $200/24 hours = $8.33/hour"
In this economy, I'm sure plenty of people would be very happy to make 20k for lounging in a 19,500 cubic feet capsule for 3 months. Actually I'm sort of doing that now, except instead of a capsule it's a house, and instead of making $20,000 I'm actually paying to live here.
From the article: "This time, conditions will be much improved, with team members allowed to bring DVDs, laptops and books with them."
with hard drives as cheap as they are, put me in there with a couple terabyte of TV episodes and movies over the last 30 years and I'd be happy.
"scheduled for December, which will see another group of volunteers spending over 500 days in the same conditions. "
Where do I sign up?
"The guys "problem" is that women are coming up to him and talking to him? "
Agreed. This guy needs a reality check.
What dog gets more women, the tiny 4 lbs maltese or the 40 lbs pit bull?
What car gets more women, the supercharged stroked 600hp 2002 Z28 or the 2000 mercedes convertible?
You don't want big manly. Big manly impresses.... men. I don't want men coming up to me and saying "hey nice car! what's in there? 350? 383?" I want women walking by saying "Nice car..." or "awww your dog is soooo cute!"
"They keep limiting their audience to the USA, as if they can't figure out that ads don't have to be limited to one market."
give it time, it's still a relatively new idea. It'll get to the point where you'll fill out a brief survey to subscribe to the service (DOB, sex, children, address, pets, etc) and they'll deliver custom content specifically designed for you.
Internet TV is a MUCH better advertising stream than TV will ever be. Imagine filling out a survey saying you have a dog and a new baby and getting ads for baby formula and diapers and dog food but not getting ads for cat food or school supplies? TV could never do this, which is why whoever figures out how to set that up and make it work well will own the future of TV.
"Personal printers are horribly unreliable and very expensive to maintain."
According to who? If these are kids living on campus then why not have a personal laser printer in their dorm room? Amazon has several laser printers under $100 each. Toner refills are about $5 to $10 each. I own two of these under $100 laser printers, a samsung and a lexmark, and they've worked great for the past several years. Sure if you're printing 100,000+ pages a robust $1,000 office laser printer might be cheaper in the long run, but for the average student printing off a couple hundred pages a month a $100 laser printer is plenty.
I haven't been on campus in awhile, is everyone dragging laptops everywhere now? Seems to me it might have been easier ten years ago since every 100 feet there was another computer lab you could run in and check your mail within a minute. If they close the labs you'll have to whip out your laptop, wait a few minutes for it to boot, find a connection, and finally get your mail.
I can understand campuses closing labs if they saw a large drop in usage in recent years, but I can't imagine college without a computer lab. Most of the time I was in college was spent in the 24/7 computer labs. Many times I'd be working on a project the last minute and a classmate would walk-in and we could compare notes. Very useful indeed. I guess now they can keep the library open 24/7 and have one floor just for laptop users to go to when they need to get away from the dorms to study.
"I can tell you we don't give a damn how old someone is if they're good at the job"
I'm wondering how the interviewer will even know the age of the potential employee? I've never put my age on a resume (who does?), and nothing on my resume indicates how old I am. Once you've taken some college there's really no need to put high school on a resume, and unless you're putting every job you've had since age 16 then no one will really know your true age.
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"Come on, Serenity?" Colbert said on his March 10 show. "That's not a space module, that's a Glade plug-in."
hatemail in 3....2....1....
"Only 15% actually know how much of the planet is covered in water (47% if you accept a rough approximation of the exact number)"
"15% got it right, 47% came close."
Wait... seriously that's what that meant? I misunderstood too, the way it's worded it sounds like 47% of the earth is water.
So what did the other 15% do, round it up to the closest 4 significant digit? If someone said 75% or 70% that should be right without saying nonsensical "74.3242112%".
Sounds like this article was created on hype. "OMG 85% of US adults don't know (exactly) how much of the earth is covered in water! Sound the alarm! Americans are stupid!"
FTA: "The approximately correct answer range for this question was defined as anything between 65% and 75%. Only 15% of respondents answered this question with the exactly correct answer of 70%."
Really? 70%? Guess that means the quiz at the US Geological Survey's website is wrong, because they say the answer is 75%.
Sounds like the scientists aren't sure how much of the world is covered in water either.
"ErrorDocument 403 "Sorry, this website is only available to people living in ."
Don't forget to add "Do you believe you've reached this error document in error and should have access to this page? Click here to email the admin" or something similar. No error page should give people no way out without an explaination of who to contact because you never know, someone try to access from their cellphone and IP gets bounced around or other circumstances.
"Brent did a fine turn as this character. We should quit while we're ahead. Cast son-of-Data with another actor if you must, but don't ruin what we have."
.... Hello? .... What's happening?!" questions.
Exactly. Don't tell me Data was the only android ever. Wouldn't be hard to create a google-spewing humanoid today much less 50 years from now. The japanese already create incredibly life-like androids compared to the crap we had in the 80s. Add some walking and you're done. Can you imagine what another 20-30 years will bring?
I can envision a android that has a wifi connection to the ship's computer where you can ask it questions and it return results kinda like a walking Ask Jeeves. And it makes sense, having a friendly interface to information rather than a textbox, especially when speaking with aliens that might not like the idea of them running to the computer to search for information between every sentence.
I'd also LOVE to know why they don't have bluetooth headsets or wireless cameras or anything in first gen startrek. I wish a movie or episode would explain that. TNG finally added it but everything was speakerphone which seems silly if you're trying to be stealthy, and a wireless camera would solve a lot of "What do you see?
"...especially since base exchanges have the latest stuff at low prices."
AAFES prices aren't great, closer to MSRP and Walmart will always beat them, but usually the kids have great credit after basic and creditors know they can call your CO and get you in troulbe if you don't pay your bills unlike the civilian world where your boss could care less.
"Forget the charger, and get him something nice that runs on AAs."
Good luck. There's almost no mp3 players or cameras that run on AAs. However Energizer has the Energi To Go that charges most devices with regular AAs, including a version for iPods and one that has a mini-USB plug that's very popular on many digital cameras and cellphones. I'd suggest buying a device that can be charged with those.
"Since anything you're taught about computers is mostly obsolete in a few years..."
You're not a programmer, are you? I ask because no programmer would ever say that.
The C programming language came out in 72, and C++ came a few years later. Both are in the top three most popular programming languages "based on the number of skilled engineers world-wide, courses and third party vendors" and they make up 25% out of the top 20 languages in the list. Although the number one language, Java, makes up 19%, it "derives much of its syntax from C and C++" and Java came out in 1995.
Other sources say C is still responsible for nearly 50% of new open source projects, followed by Java with 28%.
So even if you took a programming class 30 years ago it would still very much apply today.