The "big news" is that they are making it mandatory for first time offenders. In Michigan we have them as well, but they aren't always used for first timers. A friend of mine had to have one installed after his second DUI though.
RIM seems to be able to keep stricter control over the Blackberry, probably partly because they develop both the hardware and the OS and due to their tendency to be more "business oriented".
Not really. I just counted 22 junk icons on my Blackberry 9700. The BIS servers (carrier controlled I believe) that run the consumer devices are capable of pushing down a service book with new bloatware at any moment.
On BES there is an IT policy to prevent the bloatware service books from being pushed down.
Well, you could "hide" them on a Blackberry, but they were still there. Was easy to uninstall them, though you had to go into the "modules" options instead of "applications" to uninstall the T-Mobile installed crap. Never quite figured that out... why does MySpace _need_ to be on my Blackberry, T-Mobile?
I'm not sure what Blackberry OS your referring to, but since at least OS 4.5 the bloatware is actually service books that are pushed down to the device every single time it boots up. They are simple pre-configured browser shortcuts with home screen icons. If you remove the revelant service books from your device when, the next time it boots they are right back on your desktop.
My solution is to make one folder called "Garbage" and put all 22 icons in it and then hide the folder.
Let's be honest, whether we are talking about Android, Blackberry, or whatever this is simple greed on the part of the wireless carriers. Simply paying your bill isn't enough to make them happy, they have to partner up with everyone who is willing to give them $1 to put an icon on your phone.
Songbird was far from perfect, but overall it was my favorite media player. Guess I'll just be sticking to VLC and loose the media library functionality.
I think everyone that has a SSH server must have the exact same issues. I have a CentOS server behind my firewall that I use for a little web development (personal projects, nothing major or really interesting) and just testing out different things but for some reason the chinese army seems hell bent on breaking in. I just set iptables to block every/8 IP range that I could find that was even loosely related to china. Personally, I don't understand why anyone would allow their network/machine to communicate with chinese IP ranges, there just seems to be no real need. Honestly, this cut invalid login attempts from thousands to a handful. As said before make use of your authorized_keys file and I'd also recomend that you double check that login by root is disabled.
Come on, throw Ubuntu on and put Mac4Lin on it and tell them its a Mac. Ubuntu is definitely easy enough to use. Its what I use and I've switched several family members over to Ubuntu because they were worried about keylogger spyware and internet banking. Songbird is a wonderful Firefox based music player that is very close to iTunes (minus the store) that syncs with many portable devices including iPods. If you already converted them to Firefox and/or OpenOffice on Windows then the experience isn't much different on Ubuntu and makes the transition much easier.
How about the FTC just convinces the rest of the Government that we really need to change the third party doctrine to keep up with the growing use of the cloud? Oh wait, that would mean that law enforcement investigators would once again have to do real investigating instead of having their work handed to them on a silver platter without even needing a warrant.
The first thing that I though of was how EA effectively ruined the fantastic Sega NFL2k franchise by licensing the exclusive rights to player and team names from the NFL. Does this ruling effectively invalidate these exclusivity arrangements?
GM has had their best and brightest working on this car for some time now and since this is a sort of "halo" car for them I'm sure that they are doing their best to mitigate any potential problems. They also have more experience than any automaker with plug-ins, and they have decided to back it with a 10 year/150,000 mile warranty. What more could you ask for? Before everyone gets down on GM just remember that they produce some of the finest cars on the planet (Yea, I said it!;-) ). Their C6.R race cars have dominated GT1 racing for the past 5 years at least, enough to drive the likes of Ferrari and Porsche out of the game. The Corvette ZR-1 is faster than cars 3x its price and the current record holder at the Nurburgring.
Their focus for the last 10 years has just been on the trucks, and before you and everyone else faults them for that just remember that it was the most profitable segment since early to mid 90s. Shame on them for chasing profits! Its proven that Americans don't want small cars until gas gets around $3.50 - $4 so unless you outlaw trucks (what obama did) or artificially increase gas prices, there is no way to sell the smaller cars. Now we can argue the merits of tinkering with free market and required CAFE numbers, but that's for another discussion.
Its already been proven that the Government won't let anything happen to GM. Plus, GM has the best balance sheet in the industry because of it's bankruptcy. Have you seen any other automaker's debt-ratio lately?
This isn't the first plug-in the General has produced, remember the EV-1? I'm sure there's lots of lessons they learned from that endeavor that have been applied to the Volt. As far as plug-ins go, GM is the first and only only large automaker I know of that has produced one in the past (large = excludes tesla's 1,000 or so cars they want to produce per year).
And if I had some moderator points you'd be getting marked as -1 Troll for saying
Factor in battery replacements. Unless GM has also made a lifespan breakthrough in Li-Ion battery technology, so that you can use the same battery pack for 10 years of harsh all-conditions charging and discharging.
Actually, you don't have to factor in battery replacements because GM is supplying the Volt with a 10 year 150,000 mile warranty on the Li batteries.
Ok, but if the majority of people say "We don't want this" and would like to make it law then laws are what we get. Government is for the people by the people after all and majority rules. If this is what the majority wants thats what they should get.
"We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free." I'd say that applies to the market just like any individual.
Your whole majority rules speech is missing the part about minority rights...
There is no light rail system in the world that can compete with a hybrid car in terms of environmental friendliness. Take a look at Patrick Bedard's article "Save Energy, Take the Car" from the December Car and Driver.
'"Most light-rail systems use as much or more energy per passenger mile as the average passenger car, several are worse than the average light truck, and none is as efficient as a Prius,â writes Randal Oâ(TM)Toole in a new study from the Cato Institute titled âoeDoes Rail Transit Save Energy or Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions?"'
http://www.caranddriver.com/features/columns/c_d_staff/patrick_bedard/save_energy_take_the_car_column
You can't delete your home page, but you can unpublish it. Check the box next to your home page then under "More Actions" select unpublish. This effectively does the same thing as deleting your home page.
I have had a Blackberry 7100t for awhile and love it. I previously had a Treo 600 and a Nokia 6600. The 7100's battery life is far superior to that of either device, because a magnet is used to sense when it is in its holster and go to sleep. The 7100 is also alot more like a phone then previous Blackberrys. Alot of people on message boards knock the SureType that the 7100 uses, but its really not that hard to get used to.
AC doesn't really hurt slashdot at all because unless you change the default setting to browse at a lower threshold of 0 you won't see them. This doesn't hurt the system, because responsible moderators have the choice to moderate the comments up.
There are web pages that send a "flash mob" to their sites. You disable your browsers cache and then open the web page and it repeaditly loads images from the 419 sites. If a lot of people have the page open it will consume all of the bandwidth of the 419 sites. Kind of like the Make Love Not Spam screensaver that Lycos made. Essentially by a bunch of people constandly downloading the images from the sites it creates a DDoS attack on the site. I'm not too sure about the legality of an "attack" like this, but it is a cool idea.
Why would you encode the CDs losslessly? Correct me if I'm wrong but I do believe that FM radio is about half the quality of a normal CD, so you could encode the songs in something like MP3 or Ogg and still not have your listeners notice a difference in quality. This would save you disk space so you could then run a redundant disk array to protect against hd failure.
No, newer twin engine planes such as the Boeing 777 can lose one engine and continue to fly. The engines are so powerful that it only takes one engine to keep the plane flying. I don't think they could take off with one engine, but they certainly could maintain crusing speed and altitude with the loss of one engine.
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The "big news" is that they are making it mandatory for first time offenders. In Michigan we have them as well, but they aren't always used for first timers. A friend of mine had to have one installed after his second DUI though.
RIM seems to be able to keep stricter control over the Blackberry, probably partly because they develop both the hardware and the OS and due to their tendency to be more "business oriented".
Not really. I just counted 22 junk icons on my Blackberry 9700. The BIS servers (carrier controlled I believe) that run the consumer devices are capable of pushing down a service book with new bloatware at any moment. On BES there is an IT policy to prevent the bloatware service books from being pushed down.
Well, you could "hide" them on a Blackberry, but they were still there. Was easy to uninstall them, though you had to go into the "modules" options instead of "applications" to uninstall the T-Mobile installed crap. Never quite figured that out... why does MySpace _need_ to be on my Blackberry, T-Mobile?
I'm not sure what Blackberry OS your referring to, but since at least OS 4.5 the bloatware is actually service books that are pushed down to the device every single time it boots up. They are simple pre-configured browser shortcuts with home screen icons. If you remove the revelant service books from your device when, the next time it boots they are right back on your desktop. My solution is to make one folder called "Garbage" and put all 22 icons in it and then hide the folder. Let's be honest, whether we are talking about Android, Blackberry, or whatever this is simple greed on the part of the wireless carriers. Simply paying your bill isn't enough to make them happy, they have to partner up with everyone who is willing to give them $1 to put an icon on your phone.
Songbird was far from perfect, but overall it was my favorite media player. Guess I'll just be sticking to VLC and loose the media library functionality.
I think everyone that has a SSH server must have the exact same issues. I have a CentOS server behind my firewall that I use for a little web development (personal projects, nothing major or really interesting) and just testing out different things but for some reason the chinese army seems hell bent on breaking in. I just set iptables to block every /8 IP range that I could find that was even loosely related to china. Personally, I don't understand why anyone would allow their network/machine to communicate with chinese IP ranges, there just seems to be no real need. Honestly, this cut invalid login attempts from thousands to a handful. As said before make use of your authorized_keys file and I'd also recomend that you double check that login by root is disabled.
Come on, throw Ubuntu on and put Mac4Lin on it and tell them its a Mac. Ubuntu is definitely easy enough to use. Its what I use and I've switched several family members over to Ubuntu because they were worried about keylogger spyware and internet banking. Songbird is a wonderful Firefox based music player that is very close to iTunes (minus the store) that syncs with many portable devices including iPods. If you already converted them to Firefox and/or OpenOffice on Windows then the experience isn't much different on Ubuntu and makes the transition much easier.
How about the FTC just convinces the rest of the Government that we really need to change the third party doctrine to keep up with the growing use of the cloud? Oh wait, that would mean that law enforcement investigators would once again have to do real investigating instead of having their work handed to them on a silver platter without even needing a warrant.
The first thing that I though of was how EA effectively ruined the fantastic Sega NFL2k franchise by licensing the exclusive rights to player and team names from the NFL. Does this ruling effectively invalidate these exclusivity arrangements?
GM has had their best and brightest working on this car for some time now and since this is a sort of "halo" car for them I'm sure that they are doing their best to mitigate any potential problems. They also have more experience than any automaker with plug-ins, and they have decided to back it with a 10 year/150,000 mile warranty. What more could you ask for? Before everyone gets down on GM just remember that they produce some of the finest cars on the planet (Yea, I said it! ;-) ). Their C6.R race cars have dominated GT1 racing for the past 5 years at least, enough to drive the likes of Ferrari and Porsche out of the game. The Corvette ZR-1 is faster than cars 3x its price and the current record holder at the Nurburgring.
Their focus for the last 10 years has just been on the trucks, and before you and everyone else faults them for that just remember that it was the most profitable segment since early to mid 90s. Shame on them for chasing profits! Its proven that Americans don't want small cars until gas gets around $3.50 - $4 so unless you outlaw trucks (what obama did) or artificially increase gas prices, there is no way to sell the smaller cars. Now we can argue the merits of tinkering with free market and required CAFE numbers, but that's for another discussion.
Its already been proven that the Government won't let anything happen to GM. Plus, GM has the best balance sheet in the industry because of it's bankruptcy. Have you seen any other automaker's debt-ratio lately?
This isn't the first plug-in the General has produced, remember the EV-1? I'm sure there's lots of lessons they learned from that endeavor that have been applied to the Volt. As far as plug-ins go, GM is the first and only only large automaker I know of that has produced one in the past (large = excludes tesla's 1,000 or so cars they want to produce per year).
And if I had some moderator points you'd be getting marked as -1 Troll for saying
assuming that a GM car will last for 10 years
Factor in battery replacements. Unless GM has also made a lifespan breakthrough in Li-Ion battery technology, so that you can use the same battery pack for 10 years of harsh all-conditions charging and discharging.
Actually, you don't have to factor in battery replacements because GM is supplying the Volt with a 10 year 150,000 mile warranty on the Li batteries.
Ok, but if the majority of people say "We don't want this" and would like to make it law then laws are what we get. Government is for the people by the people after all and majority rules. If this is what the majority wants thats what they should get.
"We are in bondage to the law in order that we may be free." I'd say that applies to the market just like any individual.
Your whole majority rules speech is missing the part about minority rights...
Fuel isn't burnt because the traditional combustion engine is turned off and the vehicle runs off of battery power.
There is no light rail system in the world that can compete with a hybrid car in terms of environmental friendliness. Take a look at Patrick Bedard's article "Save Energy, Take the Car" from the December Car and Driver. '"Most light-rail systems use as much or more energy per passenger mile as the average passenger car, several are worse than the average light truck, and none is as efficient as a Prius,â writes Randal Oâ(TM)Toole in a new study from the Cato Institute titled âoeDoes Rail Transit Save Energy or Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions?"' http://www.caranddriver.com/features/columns/c_d_staff/patrick_bedard/save_energy_take_the_car_column
100% True...I don't have any points, so mods please mod parent up +1 Insightful
You can't delete your home page, but you can unpublish it. Check the box next to your home page then under "More Actions" select unpublish. This effectively does the same thing as deleting your home page.
Mods, Please mod parent Funny (obvious refrence to Office Space)
I have had a Blackberry 7100t for awhile and love it. I previously had a Treo 600 and a Nokia 6600. The 7100's battery life is far superior to that of either device, because a magnet is used to sense when it is in its holster and go to sleep. The 7100 is also alot more like a phone then previous Blackberrys. Alot of people on message boards knock the SureType that the 7100 uses, but its really not that hard to get used to.
AC doesn't really hurt slashdot at all because unless you change the default setting to browse at a lower threshold of 0 you won't see them. This doesn't hurt the system, because responsible moderators have the choice to moderate the comments up.
There are web pages that send a "flash mob" to their sites. You disable your browsers cache and then open the web page and it repeaditly loads images from the 419 sites. If a lot of people have the page open it will consume all of the bandwidth of the 419 sites. Kind of like the Make Love Not Spam screensaver that Lycos made. Essentially by a bunch of people constandly downloading the images from the sites it creates a DDoS attack on the site. I'm not too sure about the legality of an "attack" like this, but it is a cool idea.
I guess I really was wrong, and corrected.
Why would you encode the CDs losslessly? Correct me if I'm wrong but I do believe that FM radio is about half the quality of a normal CD, so you could encode the songs in something like MP3 or Ogg and still not have your listeners notice a difference in quality. This would save you disk space so you could then run a redundant disk array to protect against hd failure.
Yes, my former high school just implimented Moodle and although I don't know the specifics, it looks like a great tool.
No, newer twin engine planes such as the Boeing 777 can lose one engine and continue to fly. The engines are so powerful that it only takes one engine to keep the plane flying. I don't think they could take off with one engine, but they certainly could maintain crusing speed and altitude with the loss of one engine.