This is a bit involved, but will work if you have the time and know how to set it up.
You can likely port your landline number to a VOIP service and then setup asterisk. Use IVR to play a message when you are called. Have a code that your friends and family know that will allow them to break out of the IVR and ring an extention.. Funnel everything else to voicemail or whatever you want.. You will only get a ring when it is someone who knows the code.
Three years ago, I tried an ecig on a lark, and actually quit smoking without intending to, which to me seems like a miracle!
I went through a month or two of coughing up stuff from my lungs, but I never felt the need to smoke cigarettes.
I still have a nicotine addiction, but have been slowly weaning myself down to weaker and weaker e-juice. On day I will quit, but I feel a hell of a lot better than I did when I was smoking!
The main contributing factor to fiber being inexpensive is that most lines are run above ground here in Tokyo.
NTT has a monopoly on Fiber. I haven't researched this, but I would be shocked if Sony wasn't riding on NTT fiber.
I don't have a motivation to change though. I have a 200/200 capable fiber line (realistically I get 60 to 70 up and down), and bandwidth is never a limiting factor for me.
Option 4.The government pays for the test and justice is served. A million bucks is not a huge amount when we are talking about government budgets.
You are right though, there is a an amount and a level of certainty where it doesn't make sense to do the test, but a million bucks to keep a serial rapist (or perhaps two) off the streets, would likely pay for itself.
They need to address the needs of the corporate market. If you can make solid phones and have them integrate well into a corporate environment, offering the features corporations needs you are not just another provider, you are solving problems.
Features I think they should have;
Built in remote management features and "Mobile Device Management Software." This is always a top priority and usually a costly solution. Make it simple to push approved patches, software, and updates. Make it simple to remote wipe and remote install phones. Anti Virus. An easy way to flag Personal vs Corporate calls. An easy way to separate Corporate vs Personal App purchases. Centralized accounting of corporate calls and app purchases. A method for joining Active Directory domains. IPsec and OpenVPN capable. Easy file sharing for corporate file shares.
I am sure a few natives sat around the fire on occasion and podered the same thing.
"Imagine if there were people across the water."
"Nah couldn't happen."
"Yeah but what if there were, I wonder what they'd be like..."
Given the infinite possibilities that are out there in the vastness of space and time, it could just as easily be explorers, conquerors, pilgrams, something we can't possibly comprehend, or even creatures like us. Anything is possible.
Why not? The motion at the the far end occurs exactly at the same time as the motion at the near end. Combined with a key determining how far it moves have different meanings and you have meaningful information being transferred.
What if you had a non compressible pole that was light years long. You push the pole at one end and it moves at the other. That is information passing at speeds faster than light..
Wow, you experience mirrors my own to large degree. Right down to the slackware on floppy. I remember the 24 hour kernel compiles, that would take 36 for me because my GF at the time would trip a breaker with her hair drier, with frightening consitency.
These days I work in IT and have a few servers at home running Debian, but never really seriously thought about running Linux on my desktop. I ran Windows 2000 until there were no more patches, then grudgingly switched to XP.
Christmas 2008 found me back in Canada visiting my family. A very strong Yen combined with a few Walmart Specials meant that I could grab a laptop, for what felt to me like 300 Bucks. It even came with Vista Home version at that price. It was an AMD64 machine with 3GB of Ram and an ATI GPU. I had bought my wife a Magazine for the flight (she's a computer geek too) that had an Ubuntu install disk with it and figured let's go full 64bit and see how Ubuntu shapes up.
I was incredibly impressed with the install and have been using the computer as my primary workstation ever since. It is meeting my needs 100%. Sure there have been issues, but there are always issues even with Windows.
Anyhow, you may have no incentive to switch now, but at some point you will have to switch to something. As another old fart in here I'd recommend giving Linux a try. Especially if it's free as in beer.
Name 1 virus that can hack a Windows PC, from there hack a Citrix console, from there Hack a Redhat web server, from there hack an AIX application server, and from there hack a DB2 or Oracle database on a mainframe...
Sorry, but, err, can you include version numbers please...For my...research project.
Living In Japan and having 100MB Fiber for over 7 years, I can say a couple things about this matter.
1) I am pretty sure fiber is more popular than cable. It definitely had a first mover advantage over cable. ADSL was held back because getting phone lines here used to be so damn expensive (you had to basically buy the line from the phone company and it was around $800). Plus the fact that the majority of the lines here used to be ISDN. ADSL got around this by allowing a rental line that was used specifically for ADSL, but it couldn't compete in terms of fiber for speed.
2)Trenching cable? TRENCHING in Tokyo? LOL Tokyo is pole city. Overheard cables everywhere! Perhaps this is why the cost is $20/house. Japan, home of the modern and backwards living in perfect harmonious discord. But at least its fast!
If it hasn't already been patented and you are confident of the acceptance of the invention in the the targeted area then by god man find an investor to fund the patent for a percentage of the potential licensing fees.
Patents were originally created specifically for people like you, to encourage and reward people who provide useful inventions by allowing them a limited monopoly on the sales of the invention in return for making the knowledge public.
Heck, if you are that sure, and you can sell me on the idea, I will fund your patent.
An MBA managing tech is a waste of time. You already know how to manage tech. Even if you aren't a manager, you know what it takes to manage tech.
What you need to do is manage the business stakeholders. Get a Finance MBA, or a Marketing MBA. Then you will speak the language of the Business and the language of Tech. You will also learn that the business is not neccessarily as dumb as a lot of techies make it to be. You will also learn that is simultaneously exactly as dumb as a lot of techies make it out to be.
Anyhow I went from tech to manager and then got an MBA. I miss the tech, but love the money.
EXECUTIVE: Hmm.... So let me get this straight... we have a 95% percent chance that the answer is somewhere between 45.1 and 52.8, with our point estimate being 49.0.
So essentially your team has used a month of resources to assure me (quite accurately assure me) that we are 95% sure that rather than the odds being 50/50, they are 49/51.
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welcome our new Sexbot Overlords!
Back in the 90s, I had a job teaching MS Office to people. One class I was hired for was to teach a bunch of local judges how to use Word.
While discussing how to change fonts, one of the judges says, "Huh! Anal font, what the hell is an ANAL font!"
Maybe it is the same judge!
This is a bit involved, but will work if you have the time and know how to set it up.
You can likely port your landline number to a VOIP service and then setup asterisk. Use IVR to play a message when you are called. Have a code that your friends and family know that will allow them to break out of the IVR and ring an extention.. Funnel everything else to voicemail or whatever you want.. You will only get a ring when it is someone who knows the code.
I smoked for years, and could never quit.
Three years ago, I tried an ecig on a lark, and actually quit smoking without intending to, which to me seems like a miracle!
I went through a month or two of coughing up stuff from my lungs, but I never felt the need to smoke cigarettes.
I still have a nicotine addiction, but have been slowly weaning myself down to weaker and weaker e-juice. On day I will quit, but I feel a hell of a lot better than I did when I was smoking!
For me, the patch isn't even close !
The main contributing factor to fiber being inexpensive is that most lines are run above ground here in Tokyo.
NTT has a monopoly on Fiber. I haven't researched this, but I would be shocked if Sony wasn't riding on NTT fiber.
I don't have a motivation to change though. I have a 200/200 capable fiber line (realistically I get 60 to 70 up and down), and bandwidth is never a limiting factor for me.
And like a coward with nothing to offer but empty words he flees.
I prefer my trolls to have bigger balls.
And to put together an argument or point of discussion.
Please indulge me, or I'll have to go back to debating with my 4 old, who seems to be only slightly less well read than yourself.
Churchill would be proud my man! You have the wit of a demigod, and an intelligence well suited to your wit!
Option 4.The government pays for the test and justice is served. A million bucks is not a huge amount when we are talking about government budgets.
You are right though, there is a an amount and a level of certainty where it doesn't make sense to do the test, but a million bucks to keep a serial rapist (or perhaps two) off the streets, would likely pay for itself.
I don't even know where to start with this...you either either drunk or a troll or both. Since this is Slashdot, I have to assume the latter.
Many arguments to be made, please choose a coherent one and try again.
The justice system shouldn't be haggling over price.
They have suspects they are sure that did it. They have a method of determining which one, but they are dicking around because of cost?
Unacceptable.
Do the CPU's have Virtualization Extensions...oh wait of course they don't; they are ancient!
They need to address the needs of the corporate market. If you can make solid phones and have them integrate well into a corporate environment, offering the features corporations needs you are not just another provider, you are solving problems.
Features I think they should have;
Built in remote management features and "Mobile Device Management Software." This is always a top priority and usually a costly solution.
Make it simple to push approved patches, software, and updates. Make it simple to remote wipe and remote install phones.
Anti Virus.
An easy way to flag Personal vs Corporate calls.
An easy way to separate Corporate vs Personal App purchases.
Centralized accounting of corporate calls and app purchases.
A method for joining Active Directory domains.
IPsec and OpenVPN capable.
Easy file sharing for corporate file shares.
And of course security.
Finance reports to IT!
I am sure a few natives sat around the fire on occasion and podered the same thing.
"Imagine if there were people across the water."
"Nah couldn't happen."
"Yeah but what if there were, I wonder what they'd be like..."
Given the infinite possibilities that are out there in the vastness of space and time, it could just as easily be explorers, conquerors, pilgrams, something we can't possibly comprehend, or even creatures like us. Anything is possible.
Why not? The motion at the the far end occurs exactly at the same time as the motion at the near end. Combined with a key determining how far it moves have different meanings and you have meaningful information being transferred.
Care to elaborate?
What if you had a non compressible pole that was light years long. You push the pole at one end and it moves at the other. That is information passing at speeds faster than light..
Wow, you experience mirrors my own to large degree. Right down to the slackware on floppy. I remember the 24 hour kernel compiles, that would take 36 for me because my GF at the time would trip a breaker with her hair drier, with frightening consitency.
These days I work in IT and have a few servers at home running Debian, but never really seriously thought about running Linux on my desktop. I ran Windows 2000 until there were no more patches, then grudgingly switched to XP.
Christmas 2008 found me back in Canada visiting my family. A very strong Yen combined with a few Walmart Specials meant that I could grab a laptop, for what felt to me like 300 Bucks. It
even came with Vista Home version at that price. It was an AMD64 machine with 3GB of Ram and an ATI GPU. I had bought my wife a Magazine for the flight (she's a computer geek too) that had an Ubuntu install disk with it and figured let's go full 64bit and see how Ubuntu shapes up.
I was incredibly impressed with the install and have been using the computer as my primary workstation ever since. It is meeting my needs 100%. Sure there have been issues, but there are always issues even with Windows.
Anyhow, you may have no incentive to switch now, but at some point you will have to switch to something. As another old fart in here I'd recommend giving Linux a try. Especially if it's free as in beer.
That's what I have been doing wrong!
Name 1 virus that can hack a Windows PC, from there hack a Citrix console, from there Hack a Redhat web server, from there hack an AIX application server, and from there hack a DB2 or Oracle database on a mainframe...
Sorry, but, err, can you include version numbers please...For my ...research project.
Thanks ;)
Are the Lawyers the only ones in here that don't ANAL?
Nice! The phone companies have promised 10 Gig to the home by 2010, but I don't know if they will make it.
Are you already on Fiber, or are you on ADSL or cable?
Living In Japan and having 100MB Fiber for over 7 years, I can say a couple things about this matter.
1) I am pretty sure fiber is more popular than cable. It definitely had a first mover advantage over cable. ADSL was held back because getting phone lines here used to be so damn expensive (you had to basically buy the line from the phone company and it was around $800). Plus the fact that the majority of the lines here used to be ISDN. ADSL got around this by allowing a rental line that was used specifically for ADSL, but it couldn't compete in terms of fiber for speed.
2)Trenching cable? TRENCHING in Tokyo? LOL Tokyo is pole city. Overheard cables everywhere! Perhaps this is why the cost is $20/house. Japan, home of the modern and backwards living in perfect harmonious discord. But at least its fast!
This is the first step, as it could have already been done.
http://www.google.com/patents
http://www.uspto.gov/main/profiles/acadres.htm
If it hasn't already been patented and you are confident of the acceptance of the invention in the the targeted area then by god man find an investor to fund the patent for a percentage of the potential licensing fees.
Patents were originally created specifically for people like you, to encourage and reward people who provide useful inventions by allowing them a limited monopoly on the sales of the invention in return for making the knowledge public.
Heck, if you are that sure, and you can sell me on the idea, I will fund your patent.
An MBA managing tech is a waste of time. You already know how to manage tech. Even if you aren't a manager, you know what it takes to manage tech.
What you need to do is manage the business stakeholders. Get a Finance MBA, or a Marketing MBA. Then you will speak the language of the Business and the language of Tech. You will also learn that the business is not neccessarily as dumb as a lot of techies make it to be. You will also learn that is simultaneously exactly as dumb as a lot of techies make it out to be.
Anyhow I went from tech to manager and then got an MBA. I miss the tech, but love the money.
I can do tech on my own time!
EXECUTIVE: Hmm.... So let me get this straight... we have a 95% percent chance that the answer is somewhere between 45.1 and 52.8, with our point estimate being 49.0.
So essentially your team has used a month of resources to assure me (quite accurately assure me) that we are 95% sure that rather than the odds being 50/50, they are 49/51.
Thanks for that! Now fuck off! :)