My Nexus6 wont connect to wifi in China if the phone is connected.... why? because Google considers a network to be seriously broken if you can't access Google's servers.... so Google thinks your expensive roaming connection is the only valid connection you have
You can get around this by doing the counter intuitive going into flight mode and then tuirning on wifi
While it's arguable that the connection IS broken it's still useful (wechat works for example) even if you're stuck with bing
for heaven's sake grow up - if you really believe this, and aren't just trolling, and have actually escaped your parents' basement, then stop posting as the eponymous Anonymous Coward
This suit is not about the US govt stopping the President from having his/her say.... it's about the president (ie the govt) stopping citizens from having their say - this is a suit from people who have been silenced and are unable to respond to Trump's tweets
When I visit other countries, including the US, I often buy a SIM card, get a temporary phone number, now some orange dingbat in the US tells me I was supposed to have remembered all those phone numbers I've had over the past 5 years.
Oh, and I design VOIP hardware and software.... do you want ALL those numbers too? I can't remember them, is it a big form? lots of room
Don't you guys have an NSA or something to keep track of all this stuff for us
So when NASA tells us that invisible planets light years away are real we all clap, but when it tells us that climate change right here is happening some how it's all a big con?
No for the past 30 years you've been competing on the world stage... and failing....
The problem is that you want trading partners that will sell you cheap stuff, but want to sell your own stuff at far higher prices... a free and open market doesn't work that way
Seriously think about how kids learn how to use and appreciate money - using an ATM card is just not the same as holding coins, counting them, feeling the weight in your pocket.
And (USA I'm looking at you) start including sales tax in advertised prices - explaining to a 5 year old that yes he has enough for that ice cream, but he has to calculate 6% in his head and add that to the price, is just insane
You are confusing the state budget with the ratio of federal taxes and money received back from the feds - they are quite different things
California's budget is deeply hamstrung by Regan era meddling that makes hard to raise money for simple things like schools - it's the main reason why the state's schools used to be rated #1 in the nation and are now at the bottom
You are quite wrong - look at the real numbers Californian's pay more in taxes proportionally than they receive back in benefits from the federal govt.
It's the bible belt states, Trump's big supporters, who really suck at the teat of federal government, paid for by those very people in California you deride
you don't need to change the constitution to get a winner of the popular vote become president - the constitution says the states decide how to choose electors, used to be in some states you didn't get a vote your state govt did, the whole people voting thing is a relatively recent idea - if enough states, those representing at least the number of electors+1, choose to assign all their electors to the winner of the popular vote it simply happens - no constitutional change whatsoever
Of course it should - essentially Trump won by an accident of geography... largely because of a system designed for the days befopre the invention of the telegraph where throwing someone on a horse and sending him off to represent you in the final caucus to vote for the President was the most practical thing to do.
Times have changed, a national vote is completely practical, certainly less unwieldy than sending someone to vote for you.
It's also time we got rid of a system that effectively gives every voter in Wyoming 3 votes for every 1 a California voter gets
Oh for heaven's sake, the Hawking knows the planet is a sphere, if you use a vertical dipole sure you don't send a whole lot straight up, and you radiate more of your energy horizontally away from the antenna.... and while the photons head out in a donut away from that antenna, which is poking up from the surface of a sphere, as they move away from their source the ground falls away and any photons that don't hit anything... radiate away into space in that same donut shape, inverse squaring to infinity (and beyond!)
yes, there's also vapour escaping from around that point for 10-20 seconds prior to the explosion - were they pressure testing the upper stage tanks? (unlikely with live fuel) or loaded the wrong tanks by mistake?
Of course one person's "dangerous neighbourhood" is someone else's "home".... crowd sourcing the distinction is probably a silly idea - or was there an "Occupying Army" switch they forgot to turn on to tell it what side they were on?
I spent a decade building set top boxes, I did the network protocol stack and the crypto.... I've implemented most of the US cable and satellite crypto at one time or an other.... and cablecard too
Most of the US has cable plants built in the US have one of two types of head-ends - built by two different companies - they're very not compatible - if you want to build a set top for a Motorola (or whatever they're called these days) plant you need some Motorola crypto hardware in your box, if you want to build for a SA (or whatever they are this week) plant you need some of their hardware.
Essentially a cablecard is just that particular bit of hardware wrapped around a common hardware/software interface.
So opening up the set top market means what? I guess this hardware and the secret protocol info that goes with it - a set top's going to need both sets of hardware and both sets of software - the rest of the hardware can be shared - the qams and video are mostly the same, the out-of-band tuner can be shared if it's agile enough (simply qpsk transport streams vs davic ATM frames) - it's an enormous amount of work - at least 5 man years from personal experience
How did anyone think this was a good idea? it wasn't just that some lone hacker snuck this in.... there were committees, marketing buy in, engineers who did the work, management who OK'd the budgets..... and no one stood up and said "this is not a good ioea"? no one?
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My Nexus6 wont connect to wifi in China if the phone is connected .... why? because Google considers a network to be seriously broken if you can't access Google's servers .... so Google thinks your expensive roaming connection is the only valid connection you have
You can get around this by doing the counter intuitive going into flight mode and then tuirning on wifi
While it's arguable that the connection IS broken it's still useful (wechat works for example) even if you're stuck with bing
I suffered from having a fax machine with a number one off of a local pharmacy's .... I got everyone's medical secrets
for heaven's sake grow up - if you really believe this, and aren't just trolling, and have actually escaped your parents' basement, then stop posting as the eponymous Anonymous Coward
This suit is not about the US govt stopping the President from having his/her say .... it's about the president (ie the govt) stopping citizens from having their say - this is a suit from people who have been silenced and are unable to respond to Trump's tweets
he designed dishwashers ...
it's not Big Brother looking after you, it's simply Harvard applying a douche filter to enroll a better class of students
When I visit other countries, including the US, I often buy a SIM card, get a temporary phone number, now some orange dingbat in the US tells me I was supposed to have remembered all those phone numbers I've had over the past 5 years.
Oh, and I design VOIP hardware and software .... do you want ALL those numbers too? I can't remember them, is it a big form? lots of room
Don't you guys have an NSA or something to keep track of all this stuff for us
Yes just think about us poor unfortunates 'Down Under' with our gigabit fibre to the home ....
Australia may have bungled its fibre rollout, but NZ's seems to be sailing ahead ....
Can I have the password so I can look through your laptop?
No it's in my checked baggage I haven't got to the baggage carousel yet
They haven't thought this through have they
Surely you mean "Click through for more information, and the list of the 22 U.S. cities being suggested for hyperloop destinations."
Unless of course they're makng a big star with a switch in the middle
So when NASA tells us that invisible planets light years away are real we all clap, but when it tells us that climate change right here is happening some how it's all a big con?
No for the past 30 years you've been competing on the world stage ... and failing ....
The problem is that you want trading partners that will sell you cheap stuff, but want to sell your own stuff at far higher prices ... a free and open market doesn't work that way
Seriously think about how kids learn how to use and appreciate money - using an ATM card is just not the same as holding coins, counting them, feeling the weight in your pocket.
And (USA I'm looking at you) start including sales tax in advertised prices - explaining to a 5 year old that yes he has enough for that ice cream, but he has to calculate 6% in his head and add that to the price, is just insane
I've looked back through this thread and can't for the life of me figure out who SJW is that you are responding to .... is it someone you just made up?
You are confusing the state budget with the ratio of federal taxes and money received back from the feds - they are quite different things
California's budget is deeply hamstrung by Regan era meddling that makes hard to raise money for simple things like schools - it's the main reason why the state's schools used to be rated #1 in the nation and are now at the bottom
You are quite wrong - look at the real numbers Californian's pay more in taxes proportionally than they receive back in benefits from the federal govt.
It's the bible belt states, Trump's big supporters, who really suck at the teat of federal government, paid for by those very people in California you deride
REF: http://www.theatlantic.com/bus...
you don't need to change the constitution to get a winner of the popular vote become president - the constitution says the states decide how to choose electors, used to be in some states you didn't get a vote your state govt did, the whole people voting thing is a relatively recent idea - if enough states, those representing at least the number of electors+1, choose to assign all their electors to the winner of the popular vote it simply happens - no constitutional change whatsoever
Of course it should - essentially Trump won by an accident of geography ... largely because of a system designed for the days befopre the invention of the telegraph where throwing someone on a horse and sending him off to represent you in the final caucus to vote for the President was the most practical thing to do.
Times have changed, a national vote is completely practical, certainly less unwieldy than sending someone to vote for you.
It's also time we got rid of a system that effectively gives every voter in Wyoming 3 votes for every 1 a California voter gets
Oh for heaven's sake, the Hawking knows the planet is a sphere, if you use a vertical dipole sure you don't send a whole lot straight up, and you radiate more of your energy horizontally away from the antenna .... and while the photons head out in a donut away from that antenna, which is poking up from the surface of a sphere, as they move away from their source the ground falls away and any photons that don't hit anything ... radiate away into space in that same donut shape, inverse squaring to infinity (and beyond!)
yes, there's also vapour escaping from around that point for 10-20 seconds prior to the explosion - were they pressure testing the upper stage tanks? (unlikely with live fuel) or loaded the wrong tanks by mistake?
pigs with wings? devils in uggs?
Of course one person's "dangerous neighbourhood" is someone else's "home" .... crowd sourcing the distinction is probably a silly idea - or was there an "Occupying Army" switch they forgot to turn on to tell it what side they were on?
So now we have private companies setting up gross hoovering of network traffic worldwide - listening in to all the world's net traffic.
Why was it the powers that be want to get rid of good encryption again? certainly not to protect my credit card data when I buy stuff.
The time for crypto everywhere is now!
I spent a decade building set top boxes, I did the network protocol stack and the crypto .... I've implemented most of the US cable and satellite crypto at one time or an other .... and cablecard too
Most of the US has cable plants built in the US have one of two types of head-ends - built by two different companies - they're very not compatible - if you want to build a set top for a Motorola (or whatever they're called these days) plant you need some Motorola crypto hardware in your box, if you want to build for a SA (or whatever they are this week) plant you need some of their hardware.
Essentially a cablecard is just that particular bit of hardware wrapped around a common hardware/software interface.
So opening up the set top market means what? I guess this hardware and the secret protocol info that goes with it - a set top's going to need both sets of hardware and both sets of software - the rest of the hardware can be shared - the qams and video are mostly the same, the out-of-band tuner can be shared if it's agile enough (simply qpsk transport streams vs davic ATM frames) - it's an enormous amount of work - at least 5 man years from personal experience
How did anyone think this was a good idea? it wasn't just that some lone hacker snuck this in .... there were committees, marketing buy in, engineers who did the work, management who OK'd the budgets ..... and no one stood up and said "this is not a good ioea"? no one?