How did they manage to turn on their iPhone and get a decent enough signal for this testing? I'm sure it helps that it was probably sitting on a table and not being held^d^d^d^dattenuated by a human hand, but still.
This is incredibly well thought out. I forgot that since this was a free service, you're not permitted to have any concerns about the integrity of information stored on it. Man I'm an ass.
Would love to hear how your tune changes when someone starts sending penis enlargement emails to your grandmother directly from your GMail account.
One of my associates manages the Facebook page of a local baseball team. A while back, they started getting iPhone spam posted to their team's Facebook page. No one could tell why. He was changing passwords, taking away peoples' access, running offline virus scans on their hard drives... Losing his mind with it. Each time one of these messages got posted, they'd lose 1,000 fans due to the spam. That's a big deal for companies that use Facebook.
Turns out, the issue was due to the "mobile updates" feature. According to him, there's a random email address that you send updates to, and that gets posted to your page. This is not something you can disable, you can only request that the address be changed. The result is that you can basically spam a whole ton of random email addresses in this format and get your message posted to a load of random Facebook pages. Facebook has not been helpful in stopping this or disabling this feature for their account.
Since then, I have seen this happen to my girlfriend's Facebook page as well as her friends', etc. This vulnerability is a wide spread problem. It may not be what happened in TFA (I did not read it), but it's out there. And it's insane.
"Living in a country where everyone can own a gun, but most good people choose not to for some reason, so the bad guys who do have guns (And break the law to do so) essentially own the streets because everyone else is too passive and dreamy to think that "self preservation" is someone else's job."
Wow man... The plastic gets hot, no? Metal (the heatsink) touching the plastic will heat up, which means it's drawing heat away from the plastic. Tht heat comes from somewhere. The fan then pulls the heat away from the heatsink, which gets cooler, and can accept more heat from the plastic, which can accept more heat from the internal workings of the power supply.
These rich people aren't hoarding their money in mattresses. They're putting it in the bank (Which then uses it for loans and investments) or investing it (which supports other businesses). No matter what you do with your money, you are redistributing it. Unless of course, you actually DO favor that stuffing it in the mattress approach.
I concur! I had my game-ending EBay/PayPal fiasco where they not only sided with the big guy, but they also shut down my account (Later reopened after an irate email) after the big guy then countered my claim with a claim saying that I never payed him. Add that on to the fact that if you buy anything firearm related with your PayPal account (Even if it is 100% legal) they will close your account..... Well... Byeeeeeeee.
For auctions, I have moved to EBid, which is sadly under-populated, and I have yet to find another good online money transactor.
Interesting... Once again, we have a parallel to gun control here. I would assume from the conversation that all parent posts to this would also agree that just as this tangential law won't stop a criminal from communicating, nor will a given gun-ban stop a criminal from obtaining and using an illegal firearm. If you outlaw encrypted VOIP, only criminals will have encrypted VOIP. And the rest of us are screwed.
Is there some law in China against circumventing the censorship laws? Like.... What is the potential punishment that you are probably incurring upon whatever China-person you "help out"?
I love how terrified so many Slashdotters are about a federal driver's license database, even when they've been given no real reason to fear it, they still have a (legitimate) problem with the idea.
Now imagine how Pro-2A citizens feel... Our rights HAVE been attacked, ARE under attack... There is precedence for us to be concerned with Uncle Sam creating a database of us. We may not be doing anything wrong, but by God, the power given to "big brother" through such a database is disturbing.
So how long before I recieve a call in the middle of dinner asking me if I'd like to buy the following new hit single:
[music]Oh tell me baby, how was I supposed to know, that somethin' wasn't right yeah...[/music]
I really don't want to be telemarketed to by Britney Spears, some indie artist, or, god forbid, some Indian guy getting paid to do his best to present the work to me.
Spend some time discussing the 2nd ammendment with either side of the argument, and you'll see that a fairly large section of our government and our society would much rather blame the technology. After our, people are absolutely helpless and need someone else to protect and guide them.
Remember, Skype doesn't record people, people record people.
If your open-standards method of DRM seems strong enough to the music industry that the work they see as theirs will remain theirs, they would have no reason not to support your standard, assuming that it's not inferior, and the market shows interest. As everyone has said, the RIAA is greedy. That won't change. However, a few of you smart Slashdotter's who are capable of more than just talk surely can muster up the business sense, find some interested backers for your technology, sell it, and not only make money, but get that open standard out into the market. You have to appeal to their wallets and not their sense of "OMG THE RIAA SUX0rZ!!1111oneoneone". Show them you can make them money, and they'll be interested.
Once again, this is how capitalism works. If you don't like Apple's DRM, don't buy apple. Buy the other guy's. If you don't like the other guy's... Then that means both of them have an inferior product. So, what do you do? You enter the market with a new, standards compliant, competing product. If it is indeed superior to the other two, wooha, everyone wants to buy yours. When people complain about the way companies work, and then tell Congress to do something about it, you're basically telling the government that you are helpless, and want them to do everything for you. Capitalism allows consumers to have all of the power. They just have to not be lazy about it. Don't buy it if it sucks, sell your own if there's no suitable replacement.
It paid $15/hour, which I thought was great. I mean, all I have to do is drive, right? Well, when hours are from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m., and you factor in the potential cost of meals and lodging... Not to mention the fact that sitting in one precise position for that long is KILLER... I drove 550 miles in one day, and didn't actually end up going anywhere, because we just drove every road back and forth to cover an entire area. I don't think I was ever more than 30 miles from where I started. It's really crippling, psychologically, to be all "Wow, I can't wait 'til we get there!" because you feel like you're on a road trip. And then you realize... "Oh yeah... I'm just gonna end up back where I started." After a while, it was pretty enjoyable though, because I went nuts and was entertained by everything I saw on the side of the road.
Didn't really learn much as far as wireless goes, though I talked to the engineer a lot... Long car trips not to. Here's what I don't get...
Sprint wants to test their cell reception and compare it to their competitors... They hire company A to do it. Company A calls Company B for staffing. Company A pays Company B, and Engineer is hired, and paid by Company B. Company B then calls Company C to inquire about a drive. Company B pays Company C, and Company C find and pays the drive. Turning in hours was maddening. And think about how freaking expensive these drives are when you figure that everyone is making a profit in that multi-tiered platform. Sheesh!
P.S... Normally, the signs say "Watch For Children". But there were a few in the Blacksburg area I think that said "Watch Children". I was quite disappointed when I didn't see kids on the side of the road twirling plates, juggling chainsaws, and performing magic tricks for my entertainment.
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How did they manage to turn on their iPhone and get a decent enough signal for this testing? I'm sure it helps that it was probably sitting on a table and not being held^d^d^d^dattenuated by a human hand, but still.
This is incredibly well thought out. I forgot that since this was a free service, you're not permitted to have any concerns about the integrity of information stored on it. Man I'm an ass. Would love to hear how your tune changes when someone starts sending penis enlargement emails to your grandmother directly from your GMail account.
One of my associates manages the Facebook page of a local baseball team. A while back, they started getting iPhone spam posted to their team's Facebook page. No one could tell why. He was changing passwords, taking away peoples' access, running offline virus scans on their hard drives... Losing his mind with it. Each time one of these messages got posted, they'd lose 1,000 fans due to the spam. That's a big deal for companies that use Facebook. Turns out, the issue was due to the "mobile updates" feature. According to him, there's a random email address that you send updates to, and that gets posted to your page. This is not something you can disable, you can only request that the address be changed. The result is that you can basically spam a whole ton of random email addresses in this format and get your message posted to a load of random Facebook pages. Facebook has not been helpful in stopping this or disabling this feature for their account. Since then, I have seen this happen to my girlfriend's Facebook page as well as her friends', etc. This vulnerability is a wide spread problem. It may not be what happened in TFA (I did not read it), but it's out there. And it's insane.
Between Sony's adopted mantra of "Do all evil possible" and Google's of "Do no evil", when they get together that must become "Do nothing".
Depends on how long before a negligent parents gives one to the kid and ignores him/her for the next 15 years of his/her life.
Interestingly, one of the biggest unforeseen hurdles for this project was the fire ants....
If you live in Texas, you know why.
Between spying on Americans and disarming Americans?
Conservatives are accused of one, liberals are accused of the other.
"I wouldn't want a young child reading some of the posts on here."
And I just wish we didn't have so many young children posting on here. Except for the funny ones. They make me laugh. Ho ho.
Ha, that should be...
"So passive and dreamy that they think Self Preservation is someone else's job." And I proofread it too. (Sigh)
Oh well. Guess I sure made an ignorant redneck out of myself on that one.
More accurately,
"Living in a country where everyone can own a gun, but most good people choose not to for some reason, so the bad guys who do have guns (And break the law to do so) essentially own the streets because everyone else is too passive and dreamy to think that "self preservation" is someone else's job."
Self preservation is YOUR RESPONSIBILITY.
Wow man... The plastic gets hot, no? Metal (the heatsink) touching the plastic will heat up, which means it's drawing heat away from the plastic. Tht heat comes from somewhere. The fan then pulls the heat away from the heatsink, which gets cooler, and can accept more heat from the plastic, which can accept more heat from the internal workings of the power supply.
These rich people aren't hoarding their money in mattresses. They're putting it in the bank (Which then uses it for loans and investments) or investing it (which supports other businesses). No matter what you do with your money, you are redistributing it. Unless of course, you actually DO favor that stuffing it in the mattress approach.
NPR is right-wing?!
I concur! I had my game-ending EBay/PayPal fiasco where they not only sided with the big guy, but they also shut down my account (Later reopened after an irate email) after the big guy then countered my claim with a claim saying that I never payed him. Add that on to the fact that if you buy anything firearm related with your PayPal account (Even if it is 100% legal) they will close your account..... Well... Byeeeeeeee.
For auctions, I have moved to EBid, which is sadly under-populated, and I have yet to find another good online money transactor.
"Condoms are for sex with anyone!" Or maybe... anything?
Interesting... Once again, we have a parallel to gun control here. I would assume from the conversation that all parent posts to this would also agree that just as this tangential law won't stop a criminal from communicating, nor will a given gun-ban stop a criminal from obtaining and using an illegal firearm. If you outlaw encrypted VOIP, only criminals will have encrypted VOIP. And the rest of us are screwed.
Is there some law in China against circumventing the censorship laws? Like.... What is the potential punishment that you are probably incurring upon whatever China-person you "help out"?
I love how terrified so many Slashdotters are about a federal driver's license database, even when they've been given no real reason to fear it, they still have a (legitimate) problem with the idea.
Now imagine how Pro-2A citizens feel... Our rights HAVE been attacked, ARE under attack... There is precedence for us to be concerned with Uncle Sam creating a database of us. We may not be doing anything wrong, but by God, the power given to "big brother" through such a database is disturbing.
So how long before I recieve a call in the middle of dinner asking me if I'd like to buy the following new hit single:
[music]Oh tell me baby, how was I supposed to know, that somethin' wasn't right yeah...[/music]
I really don't want to be telemarketed to by Britney Spears, some indie artist, or, god forbid, some Indian guy getting paid to do his best to present the work to me.
Spend some time discussing the 2nd ammendment with either side of the argument, and you'll see that a fairly large section of our government and our society would much rather blame the technology. After our, people are absolutely helpless and need someone else to protect and guide them.
Remember, Skype doesn't record people, people record people.
I was under the impression that a felony was a crime which carries with it a minimum of 10 years in prison?
If your open-standards method of DRM seems strong enough to the music industry that the work they see as theirs will remain theirs, they would have no reason not to support your standard, assuming that it's not inferior, and the market shows interest. As everyone has said, the RIAA is greedy. That won't change. However, a few of you smart Slashdotter's who are capable of more than just talk surely can muster up the business sense, find some interested backers for your technology, sell it, and not only make money, but get that open standard out into the market. You have to appeal to their wallets and not their sense of "OMG THE RIAA SUX0rZ!!1111oneoneone". Show them you can make them money, and they'll be interested.
Once again, this is how capitalism works. If you don't like Apple's DRM, don't buy apple. Buy the other guy's. If you don't like the other guy's... Then that means both of them have an inferior product. So, what do you do? You enter the market with a new, standards compliant, competing product. If it is indeed superior to the other two, wooha, everyone wants to buy yours. When people complain about the way companies work, and then tell Congress to do something about it, you're basically telling the government that you are helpless, and want them to do everything for you. Capitalism allows consumers to have all of the power. They just have to not be lazy about it. Don't buy it if it sucks, sell your own if there's no suitable replacement.
It paid $15/hour, which I thought was great. I mean, all I have to do is drive, right? Well, when hours are from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m., and you factor in the potential cost of meals and lodging... Not to mention the fact that sitting in one precise position for that long is KILLER... I drove 550 miles in one day, and didn't actually end up going anywhere, because we just drove every road back and forth to cover an entire area. I don't think I was ever more than 30 miles from where I started. It's really crippling, psychologically, to be all "Wow, I can't wait 'til we get there!" because you feel like you're on a road trip. And then you realize... "Oh yeah... I'm just gonna end up back where I started." After a while, it was pretty enjoyable though, because I went nuts and was entertained by everything I saw on the side of the road.
Didn't really learn much as far as wireless goes, though I talked to the engineer a lot... Long car trips not to. Here's what I don't get...
Sprint wants to test their cell reception and compare it to their competitors... They hire company A to do it. Company A calls Company B for staffing. Company A pays Company B, and Engineer is hired, and paid by Company B. Company B then calls Company C to inquire about a drive. Company B pays Company C, and Company C find and pays the drive. Turning in hours was maddening. And think about how freaking expensive these drives are when you figure that everyone is making a profit in that multi-tiered platform. Sheesh!
P.S... Normally, the signs say "Watch For Children". But there were a few in the Blacksburg area I think that said "Watch Children". I was quite disappointed when I didn't see kids on the side of the road twirling plates, juggling chainsaws, and performing magic tricks for my entertainment.