It's higher quality because the broadcast version was converted to standard TV by pointing a video camera at a screen showing the transmitted version.
I knew it! Those NASA bastards exploited the analog hole. Quick, get the MPAA on the phone and have somebody distract NewYorkCountryLawyer so he can't interfere. We finally have NASA right where we want them.....
google and microsoft are still around they better have financial services arms, research schools and foundations, perhaps construction and development branches and raw materials investments if they want to be able to support the cost of wahtever tech will be the buzz at that time.
Added bonus: The financial services arm doesn't even have to be profitable. You can run that part of the business into the ground and Uncle Sam will give you to money to continue operating.
He's a tard for pointing out that the guy who was trained in nuclear technology should have known better than the guy who got the 'C' average from Yale and whose main accomplishment prior to elective office was running a few businesses into the ground? Sounds like we should be waiting for your troll moderation:)
Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you *keep* it a *secret*! Why didn't you tell the world, EH?
It was to be announced at the Party Congress on Monday. As you know, the Premier loves surprises.
What's so bad about the emergence of "free crap?" Gmail, Google Earth, Bing, Hulu, Google Docs are all pretty solid services considering the price tag...
And at least one of those (Hulu) probably isn't going to survive as a free service due to the expense of providing it.
I love people that are so utterly self-absorbed and oblivious to their surroundings that they can do something this foolish. Wanna lay odds that when she gets her drivers license in a few years she'll be one of the asshats that flies down the road, cell phone in one hand, make-up in the other, paying absolutely no attention to the road? Then when she gets into an accident she'll say "I never saw it coming!".
I'll get yelled at for saying this but it's a pity she didn't earn herself a Darwin award. Now she's going to breed and pass on her stupidity to the next generation.
I know what I'm going to be trying when I finish this shift.
Why wait till you finish? It's one small step from reading/. at work to playing Civ2;) And it's small enough that you can install it on a thumbdrive, not that I've ever done anything like that.....
I could never do it because I always got sucked into a war. Even when I had an entire island/continent to myself, an NPC would invariably land a settler and found a city within the radius of one of my cities and start stealing my developed land. A few dozen turns later and that particular NPC would be lain waste.
I didn't fall real far behind in technology while fighting wars because the computer players would usually switch to fundamentalism to keep up with your war machine. If they didn't and started to pull away in the tech race there's always the possibility of espionage to keep up. You did fall behind in the city building race though.
All the modules should had been installed by now and the space vehicle should be on its way already!
Not if you plan on winning by global conquest. People actually launched the ship in that game? I always paid on bloodlust -- or if I wanted a challenge I'd allow spaceships and race to conquer my enemies before theirs reached Alpha Centauri.
Why pour resources into exploration when you can pour them into global conquest instead?;)
It is if you were foolish enough to believe that the RFC/protocol standards would be obeyed and wrote code that relies on a NXDOMAIN response to detect a bad hostname. Now you are going to an 'A' record that points to a Comcast server. This will break various applications but they don't give a damn because it's all about the ad revenue and who uses the internet for anything other than surfing anyway?
What are those? The last RFC that I read was titled "How to make the largest pile of cash while providing the least amount of service". I think it's RFC666 and is the one that most modern day ISPs seem to operate under.....
The E911 feature can be activated remotely on any modern cell phone with a working battery (yes, you can have the phone turned off, and the E911 can be turned on remotely)... again, so emergency responders can find you (like in a kidnapping).
I think you need to take your tinfoil hat off. In order to remotely turn on your phone da man would need to be able to communicate with it. Your phone isn't connected to the network (or anything else for that matter) when powered off.
I think the investigators make use of the GPS system in your cell phone
That'd be a neat trick on GSM phones that don't have GPS systems installed in them. GPS is only required on CDMA phones. GSM uses triangulation to locate you for e911 services. A GSM phone doesn't need a GPS chipset, although some of the higher-end ones come with one anyway for mapping applications.
but it is part of the flimsy nature of the cellphone as evidence.
I don't think the cellphone is as flimsy as many think it is. You obviously can't take the location information from Verizon as gospel but it's one hell of a starting point for the investigation. Mr. sonnejw0, your cell phone was active near the location of the murder, but you claim you weren't there, how do you explain this? If you deny that it was then they have to track down the person(s) you called and get them to testify as to whether or not they spoke with you on the phone.
You can't (and shouldn't) be found guilty just because Verizon says you were near the murder scene but the legal system (i.e: judge and jury) should certainly be able to consider it alongside the other evidence when trying to reach a conclusion.
I do think they should have to get a warrant before law enforcement can get hands on the information in the first place though. I also think that the carrier shouldn't be retaining the information in the first place any longer than required. Why do they need to keep it once you've paid your bill?
You assume that the network has the ability to determine that your phone is set to silent. I think this is a false assumption. The network just knows that your phone is connected -- it has no idea if your phone is set to ring/vibrate/silent, what ringtone you use, etc.
Furthermore, why should it matter what setting your phone is on? You either have privacy (i.e: law enforcement needs a warrant to view your location information) or you don't. Why are we even talking about the 'silent' setting, as though that should make an iota of difference in either direction?
do have this 'GPS' thing on my phone with the option to either turn it on for all calls, or turn it off except for 911 calls. Does this mean that 911 can determine my GPS location if I call them? I don't see any way that I can view my lattitude/longitude/elevation from my phone which is too bad since I'd use it for geocaching or something probably.
You can't view it because most phones don't have real GPS capability. They have A-GPS, which relies on the network to determine your location.
It's still going to be in contact w/ the towers and it's location will be known
Small nitpick, but the exact location is not known unless you are actively engaged in a call/data session. GSM has "location areas" set up for idle phones. When a call/SMS comes in for your phone a paging message is broadcast on every tower within that location area. The page tells your phone to connect to the network to receive the call/SMS. Until your phone responds to that page the carrier has only a vague idea of where it is. The size of the location area varies depending on population and other factors but they are generally large enough that it would be pretty hard to locate you based solely on an idle phone.
I'm not as familiar with CDMA but I believe it uses a similar concept to handle the paging of idle phones. It makes good sense when you think about it -- if the phone had to contact the network every single time you moved between towers you'd drain the battery a lot faster while in motion. In this manner it only has to contact the network when you move between location areas, which happens a lot less, thus saving battery life.
Having the smallest arsenal != reducing their arsenal. They are in the process of modernizing and expanding their arsenal. See the Type 94 submarines and road mobile DF-31 missiles for more information. They are also expanding their conventional forces and are not being particularly forthcoming with their goals or intentions.
A more than slightly crazy musician and probable child molester dies and it's all the news can talk about for three weeks as people cry in the streets and memorial concerts are held all over the country. A man who was partially responsible for guiding the world through the cold war without destroying modern civilization dies and no one even knows who he is.
You forgot the part where the crazy probable child molester pushed the coverage of the struggle in Iran off the front pages.......
Citation needed. China has not been very open or forthcoming at all with regards to their weapons programs, nuclear or conventional. In fact they are currently in the process of building new ballistic missile submarines and deploying road mobile ICBMs. How is this compatible with "reducing" their arsenal?
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It's higher quality because the broadcast version was converted to standard TV by pointing a video camera at a screen showing the transmitted version.
I knew it! Those NASA bastards exploited the analog hole. Quick, get the MPAA on the phone and have somebody distract NewYorkCountryLawyer so he can't interfere. We finally have NASA right where we want them.....
I don't know what's worse... the fact that I agree with you or the fact that someone with mod points agrees with you.
google and microsoft are still around they better have financial services arms, research schools and foundations, perhaps construction and development branches and raw materials investments if they want to be able to support the cost of wahtever tech will be the buzz at that time.
Added bonus: The financial services arm doesn't even have to be profitable. You can run that part of the business into the ground and Uncle Sam will give you to money to continue operating.
He's a tard for pointing out that the guy who was trained in nuclear technology should have known better than the guy who got the 'C' average from Yale and whose main accomplishment prior to elective office was running a few businesses into the ground? Sounds like we should be waiting for your troll moderation :)
Of course, the whole point of a Doomsday Machine is lost, if you *keep* it a *secret*! Why didn't you tell the world, EH?
It was to be announced at the Party Congress on Monday. As you know, the Premier loves surprises.
What's so bad about the emergence of "free crap?" Gmail, Google Earth, Bing, Hulu, Google Docs are all pretty solid services considering the price tag...
And at least one of those (Hulu) probably isn't going to survive as a free service due to the expense of providing it.
I can't wait for my girlfriend (and her pussy) to get back from vacation
As opposed to your girlfriend leaving her pussy on vacation? I think I saw something about that in the National Enquirer once.....
Texting is hard! http://gizmodo.com/5312623/teenager-falls-into-open-manhole-while-texting [gizmodo.com]
I love people that are so utterly self-absorbed and oblivious to their surroundings that they can do something this foolish. Wanna lay odds that when she gets her drivers license in a few years she'll be one of the asshats that flies down the road, cell phone in one hand, make-up in the other, paying absolutely no attention to the road? Then when she gets into an accident she'll say "I never saw it coming!".
I'll get yelled at for saying this but it's a pity she didn't earn herself a Darwin award. Now she's going to breed and pass on her stupidity to the next generation.
my dad listens to right wing hate radio
Tell us what you really think :)
I know what I'm going to be trying when I finish this shift.
Why wait till you finish? It's one small step from reading /. at work to playing Civ2 ;) And it's small enough that you can install it on a thumbdrive, not that I've ever done anything like that.....
I could never do it because I always got sucked into a war. Even when I had an entire island/continent to myself, an NPC would invariably land a settler and found a city within the radius of one of my cities and start stealing my developed land. A few dozen turns later and that particular NPC would be lain waste.
I didn't fall real far behind in technology while fighting wars because the computer players would usually switch to fundamentalism to keep up with your war machine. If they didn't and started to pull away in the tech race there's always the possibility of espionage to keep up. You did fall behind in the city building race though.
All the modules should had been installed by now and the space vehicle should be on its way already!
Not if you plan on winning by global conquest. People actually launched the ship in that game? I always paid on bloodlust -- or if I wanted a challenge I'd allow spaceships and race to conquer my enemies before theirs reached Alpha Centauri.
Why pour resources into exploration when you can pour them into global conquest instead? ;)
The sky isnt falling.
It is if you were foolish enough to believe that the RFC/protocol standards would be obeyed and wrote code that relies on a NXDOMAIN response to detect a bad hostname. Now you are going to an 'A' record that points to a Comcast server. This will break various applications but they don't give a damn because it's all about the ad revenue and who uses the internet for anything other than surfing anyway?
while breaking internet standards
What are those? The last RFC that I read was titled "How to make the largest pile of cash while providing the least amount of service". I think it's RFC666 and is the one that most modern day ISPs seem to operate under.....
The E911 feature can be activated remotely on any modern cell phone with a working battery (yes, you can have the phone turned off, and the E911 can be turned on remotely)... again, so emergency responders can find you (like in a kidnapping).
I think you need to take your tinfoil hat off. In order to remotely turn on your phone da man would need to be able to communicate with it. Your phone isn't connected to the network (or anything else for that matter) when powered off.
I think the investigators make use of the GPS system in your cell phone
That'd be a neat trick on GSM phones that don't have GPS systems installed in them. GPS is only required on CDMA phones. GSM uses triangulation to locate you for e911 services. A GSM phone doesn't need a GPS chipset, although some of the higher-end ones come with one anyway for mapping applications.
but it is part of the flimsy nature of the cellphone as evidence.
I don't think the cellphone is as flimsy as many think it is. You obviously can't take the location information from Verizon as gospel but it's one hell of a starting point for the investigation. Mr. sonnejw0, your cell phone was active near the location of the murder, but you claim you weren't there, how do you explain this? If you deny that it was then they have to track down the person(s) you called and get them to testify as to whether or not they spoke with you on the phone.
You can't (and shouldn't) be found guilty just because Verizon says you were near the murder scene but the legal system (i.e: judge and jury) should certainly be able to consider it alongside the other evidence when trying to reach a conclusion.
I do think they should have to get a warrant before law enforcement can get hands on the information in the first place though. I also think that the carrier shouldn't be retaining the information in the first place any longer than required. Why do they need to keep it once you've paid your bill?
You assume that the network has the ability to determine that your phone is set to silent. I think this is a false assumption. The network just knows that your phone is connected -- it has no idea if your phone is set to ring/vibrate/silent, what ringtone you use, etc.
Furthermore, why should it matter what setting your phone is on? You either have privacy (i.e: law enforcement needs a warrant to view your location information) or you don't. Why are we even talking about the 'silent' setting, as though that should make an iota of difference in either direction?
do have this 'GPS' thing on my phone with the option to either turn it on for all calls, or turn it off except for 911 calls. Does this mean that 911 can determine my GPS location if I call them? I don't see any way that I can view my lattitude/longitude/elevation from my phone which is too bad since I'd use it for geocaching or something probably.
You can't view it because most phones don't have real GPS capability. They have A-GPS, which relies on the network to determine your location.
But if I have the phone set to meeting/silent, my expectation is of privacy
No, your expectation is not to be disturbed. If you wanted privacy you would have turned the phone off......
It's still going to be in contact w/ the towers and it's location will be known
Small nitpick, but the exact location is not known unless you are actively engaged in a call/data session. GSM has "location areas" set up for idle phones. When a call/SMS comes in for your phone a paging message is broadcast on every tower within that location area. The page tells your phone to connect to the network to receive the call/SMS. Until your phone responds to that page the carrier has only a vague idea of where it is. The size of the location area varies depending on population and other factors but they are generally large enough that it would be pretty hard to locate you based solely on an idle phone.
I'm not as familiar with CDMA but I believe it uses a similar concept to handle the paging of idle phones. It makes good sense when you think about it -- if the phone had to contact the network every single time you moved between towers you'd drain the battery a lot faster while in motion. In this manner it only has to contact the network when you move between location areas, which happens a lot less, thus saving battery life.
Having the smallest arsenal != reducing their arsenal. They are in the process of modernizing and expanding their arsenal. See the Type 94 submarines and road mobile DF-31 missiles for more information. They are also expanding their conventional forces and are not being particularly forthcoming with their goals or intentions.
Happy now dickshit?
A more than slightly crazy musician and probable child molester dies and it's all the news can talk about for three weeks as people cry in the streets and memorial concerts are held all over the country. A man who was partially responsible for guiding the world through the cold war without destroying modern civilization dies and no one even knows who he is.
You forgot the part where the crazy probable child molester pushed the coverage of the struggle in Iran off the front pages.......
Fourth estate indeed.
China is also reducing its arsenal
Citation needed. China has not been very open or forthcoming at all with regards to their weapons programs, nuclear or conventional. In fact they are currently in the process of building new ballistic missile submarines and deploying road mobile ICBMs. How is this compatible with "reducing" their arsenal?