it is entirely another when you take out a whole cell tower or several cell towers do to either malicious programing or just bad programming
Don't be silly. You drank the Apple FUD coolaid. Anybody can build, or even easier, buy a GSM scrambler for a small range. Make it a bit more powerful and you can blanket whole blocks. You could have done so for decades.
And now Apple (and others) are getting comments on their closed ecosystem, and they respond with FUD: "teh evil terr'ists can COMPLETELY jam our phones ZOMG". And you actually believe there isn't a much easier way?
If there's a pattern to who you refuse service to, it can get you into big trouble. For instance, if you consistently refuse service to black people, you are in violation of a number of civil rights laws.
I is tellin' ya, they all are a goddam' bunch-'a file-sharin' carrrriminals!
I was so sensitive that, if someone else were turning the Wifi on and off, I could be in a different room in the house and still tell when it was on.
That's rather hard to believe. Three different studies found people unable to make the distinction (see below).
I do believe Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity exists, though, in the sense that the complaints are real.
[1] Regel, Sabine; Sonja Negovetic, Martin Roosli, Veronica Berdinas, Jurgen Schuderer, Anke Huss, Urs Lott, Niels Kuster, and Peter Achermann (August 2006). UMTS base station-like exposure, well-being, and cognitive performance. Environ Health Perspect 114 (8): 1270–5. PMID 16882538. PMC 1552030. [2] Rubin, James; G Hahn, BS Everitt, AJ Clear, Simon Wessely (2006). Within-participants, double-blind, randomised provocation study. British Medical Journal 332: 886–889. doi:10.1136/bmj.38765.519850.55 [3] Wilen, J; A Johansson, N Kalezic, E Lyskov, M Sandstrom (April 2006). "Psychophysiological tests and provocation of subjects with mobile phone related symptoms". Bioelectromagnetics 27 (3): 204–14. doi:10.1002/bem.20195. PMID 16304699
I do understand the advantages of buying a second-hand laser, but there's an advantage to the new inkjets: all-in-ones. These pack a scanner and stand-alone copier, too, which IMHO is awfully handy.
Printers aren't just for printing anymore. I agree however, that the disadvantages of the inkjet remain.
Actually, I copied a nicely looking template file from another student, and didn't pay attention to whatever he put in the header. Not sure if it used PostScript fonts.
Made me think about how I created beautiful reports, using LaTeX, on a simple 100 MHz Pentium machine running Slackware Linux. Now there's Office 2010 coming up, and I'm not sure what the system requirements are, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't do ligatures.
(Ligatures: when you write "finally", the dot on the i looks funny next to the top of the f, thus LaTeX creates one specially designed character, a ligature, just to make it look good.)
Yeah, that's a problem... but I'm going to take this as a lesson. Shop-owners also need to know that these bulbs don't last as long and that they're going to get customer complaints -- it's the only way.
But I agree, logically people will throw away the receipt after purchase.
If you actually GO to the site, you'll see a lot of old, outdated posts mostly people asking for gossip and very few actually providing gossip. This is just another lazy journalist creating a story out of nothing.
I was really hoping for pictures of pretty students making photo's of themselves in the mirror. But this journalist could not even be bothered to post a few of those himself. Truly lazy!!
The mentioned uses in the article of the summary ("very wide spreadsheets" and "watching video while surfing the web") are laughable though. That's pretty narrow. Think about ANY copy/paste routine, keeping documentation open, keeping an e-mail app open etc, THESE are the productivity increases.
I can imagine what Norton Antivirus will look like on the iPhone. [...] battery life would be cut in half [...]
Cutting my current iPhone its batterylife in half would mean that I need a USB connection in the toilet. Just to be able to browse Slashdot while taking a dump.
That's why this is not about companies looking for IPs in P2P networks. It's about a court actually granting discovery on 30.000 IP addresses
Yeah, but that time will come in most countries. There is too much at stake to ignore the P2P issue. In fact there is so much at stake that I expect the record companies to harvest IP addresses on P2P network, "just in case" the time suddenly is ripe in country X to get a discovery granted.
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You must be a fucking blast at parties.
...says NoPantsJim... :-D
If the laptop goes missing, I know the bad guy isn't able to access my web accounts - and my Gmail accounts are important to me.
Google was ahead of you: Remote sign out on GMail.
it is entirely another when you take out a whole cell tower or several cell towers do to either malicious programing or just bad programming
Don't be silly. You drank the Apple FUD coolaid. Anybody can build, or even easier, buy a GSM scrambler for a small range. Make it a bit more powerful and you can blanket whole blocks. You could have done so for decades.
And now Apple (and others) are getting comments on their closed ecosystem, and they respond with FUD: "teh evil terr'ists can COMPLETELY jam our phones ZOMG". And you actually believe there isn't a much easier way?
If there's a pattern to who you refuse service to, it can get you into big trouble. For instance, if you consistently refuse service to black people, you are in violation of a number of civil rights laws.
I is tellin' ya, they all are a goddam' bunch-'a file-sharin' carrrriminals!
Real complaints do not imply that *what* they are complaining about is real.
I totally agree with you -- we are in the same camp. Complains do not prove anything.
That said, I think there's progress to be made by following up complaints with compassion instead of denial.
I was so sensitive that, if someone else were turning the Wifi on and off, I could be in a different room in the house and still tell when it was on.
That's rather hard to believe. Three different studies found people unable to make the distinction (see below).
I do believe Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity exists, though, in the sense that the complaints are real.
[1] Regel, Sabine; Sonja Negovetic, Martin Roosli, Veronica Berdinas, Jurgen Schuderer, Anke Huss, Urs Lott, Niels Kuster, and Peter Achermann (August 2006). UMTS base station-like exposure, well-being, and cognitive performance. Environ Health Perspect 114 (8): 1270–5. PMID 16882538. PMC 1552030.
[2] Rubin, James; G Hahn, BS Everitt, AJ Clear, Simon Wessely (2006). Within-participants, double-blind, randomised provocation study. British Medical Journal 332: 886–889. doi:10.1136/bmj.38765.519850.55
[3] Wilen, J; A Johansson, N Kalezic, E Lyskov, M Sandstrom (April 2006). "Psychophysiological tests and provocation of subjects with mobile phone related symptoms". Bioelectromagnetics 27 (3): 204–14. doi:10.1002/bem.20195. PMID 16304699
this lends a lot of weight to the idea that the people that claim to be allergic to wifi are just a bunch of luddite scaremongers
It's called electromagnetic hypersensitivity. I know a guy who says he suffers from it.
The point is: he doesn't give a shit what you think about it. He just feels that he suffers from it, and is trying his best to minimize exposure.
I do understand the advantages of buying a second-hand laser, but there's an advantage to the new inkjets: all-in-ones. These pack a scanner and stand-alone copier, too, which IMHO is awfully handy.
Printers aren't just for printing anymore. I agree however, that the disadvantages of the inkjet remain.
Actually, I copied a nicely looking template file from another student, and didn't pay attention to whatever he put in the header. Not sure if it used PostScript fonts.
Well, it's really a print feature. The ligature shouldn't appear unless it's actually printed.
That's pretty funny.
Made me think about how I created beautiful reports, using LaTeX, on a simple 100 MHz Pentium machine running Slackware Linux. Now there's Office 2010 coming up, and I'm not sure what the system requirements are, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't do ligatures.
(Ligatures: when you write "finally", the dot on the i looks funny next to the top of the f, thus LaTeX creates one specially designed character, a ligature, just to make it look good.)
... and put it in a case.
And it worked.
Worked, past tense.
He hosted TFArticle on the abomination, and it apparently decided to put itself out of its misery.
Yeah, that's a problem... but I'm going to take this as a lesson. Shop-owners also need to know that these bulbs don't last as long and that they're going to get customer complaints -- it's the only way.
But I agree, logically people will throw away the receipt after purchase.
At my old house they burned out a lot on me. Back then they were $5 a pop
Just curious -- have you tried to bring 'em back to the store?
I'd rather have a CPU-frequency governor which scales up as soon as I run Flash or transform a photo or whatever, not having to press a turbo button.
I sure as fuck don't.
OOOh! Technology, apathy and profanity -- all rolled into one little golden nugget!
Thanks goodness the Nokia n900 is coming out - in spite of all the rough edges I'm sure it'll have, that's the one I'm going for
Just don't expect to be able to easily download quality games, utilities, navigation apps, etc. and you'll be fine.
As much as I hate the closed ecosystem around the iPhone, it's thriving at the moment -- at the total and utter expense of others.
Very interesting window manager. At work, I use Debian (and boot into Gnome). I'm sure to take a shot using Awesome.
If you actually GO to the site, you'll see a lot of old, outdated posts mostly people asking for gossip and very few actually providing gossip. This is just another lazy journalist creating a story out of nothing.
I was really hoping for pictures of pretty students making photo's of themselves in the mirror. But this journalist could not even be bothered to post a few of those himself. Truly lazy!!
My god man, you should write for The Onion. Bravo!
No comment has yet cited this blog post citing several sources. Basically you can assume that an extra display pays itself back in productivity.
The mentioned uses in the article of the summary ("very wide spreadsheets" and "watching video while surfing the web") are laughable though. That's pretty narrow. Think about ANY copy/paste routine, keeping documentation open, keeping an e-mail app open etc, THESE are the productivity increases.
Additionally, the injection point for bad code on iPhones is the desktop computer
The phones also have an AppStore icon, which makes it possible to download software right on the phone.
I can imagine what Norton Antivirus will look like on the iPhone. [...] battery life would be cut in half [...]
Cutting my current iPhone its batterylife in half would mean that I need a USB connection in the toilet. Just to be able to browse Slashdot while taking a dump.
Exactly, and that's why F-Secure says "well the iPhone is not exactly invulnerable" but then forgets to put their software on Cydia.
That's why this is not about companies looking for IPs in P2P networks. It's about a court actually granting discovery on 30.000 IP addresses
Yeah, but that time will come in most countries. There is too much at stake to ignore the P2P issue. In fact there is so much at stake that I expect the record companies to harvest IP addresses on P2P network, "just in case" the time suddenly is ripe in country X to get a discovery granted.