I've switched to LCDs as soon as I could get my hands on them and I've been feeling better since the move. I'm one of those very sensitive people where if I keep a cell phone longer than 5 minutes next to my ear I get a headache and my ear starts to hurt but not if I use a headphone. I happen to work in a hospital and whenever I pass through the radiology rooms I instantly get dizzy and feel like passing out in less than 5-10 of being in them. This is not a phobia, I'm not afraid of them, but my body picks up and feels the extremely strong presence of radiation even when the equipment is not in use.
I have been using CRTs very heavily in the 80's and have noticed that my vision deteriorated extensively in less than a year of serious usage (8+ hours a day) so I believe there may be a strong correlation there. Also, I'm sure that all the x-ray radiation emitted by the CRTs over your lifetime will potentially have a negative effect on your body so don't be surprised if you end up with some weird tumor or mysteriously die! I can't even think of a single positive thing (health wise) about CRTs, if you can, I definitely would love to hear about it! The real question now is, ARE LCDs safe? Given how sensitive I am I think not since I have yet to encounter any negative symptoms from heavy LCD usage.
Time to call an attorney and start a class action suite to sue those damn CRTs companies for causing my vision loss and the thousands I've spent on glasses and contacts over the years. I know I'm not the only one here!
From my understanding the internet service is available only on Lufthansa's BOEING fleet of airplanes like the 747. I haven't seen the service offered on thier Airbus fleet.
I used to do what you do but I had to abandon that idea. That defensive tactic won't get rid of those who setup the spam server to autogenerate millions of addresses to your domain. I still get tons of spam to valid mail boxes where in the "TO" field I usually find 50+ different variations of addresses similar to the actual email address.
Why do you think Ireland will be a contender? Show us some proof or statistics.
Ireland is a well developed country and fairly expensive just like the rest of Western Europe. Unless there something you know that no one else knows I'm getting the impression that you just pulled the idea out of your ass.
Complete nonsense, peeple don't constantly misspeel words on/. We is a far more edumicated bunch than the audience CNN targets! Just look at Jesse Jackson, he's living proof that the US is one of the best edumicated societies.
Sig of the day: Raise your IQ, eat gifted children.
Just great, another Star Wars project! Just one question, the original Star Wars was supposed to scare the Russians. But now that they're out of the picture, who are we trying to scare this time, Bin Laden? lol
It amazes me that our state of the art satellites from space can zoom in and take a snapshot of your license plate but they can't find Bin Laden anywhere on planet earth.
Sig of the day: Be sure to work hard, millions on welfare are depending on you!
Or perhaps such a card with an easily hackable characteristic,
such as removing a jumper or cutting a trace to disable the broadcast flag... So
it can be sold with broadcast flag honoring enabled but have it reasonably
easily undone with a cut and a pullup/down resistor to the appropriate chip's
appropriate input or something like that... Could not enabled hardware disallow
an open-source driver to remove the flag via software, but when hacked in such a
way then allow any driver to run whether the driver honors the flag or
not?
Ahhhhh....this
reminds me of those good old days of analog hacking. I remember back in the
scanner days, there were quite a few scanners where you could easily hack
by removing a diode and magically unlock quite a few interesting frequencies
that covered bands like cellular bands, and misc government freqs.
Unfortunately, "The Peoples Republic of Bush" (our new government) is well aware
of such tactics. It's also illegal to sell such easily modifiable
devices since the introduction of a law back in 1994, which prohibited
manufactures from creating easily hackable hardware. This was only applicable to
hardware that had capabilities of accessing banned/illegal content that the gov
considered sensitive. I consider the PC the ultimate hacking device with access
to senstive info, why haven't they banned it yet?;-)
Should the
"Peoples Republic of Bush " discover that a manufacturer has bundled a nice
easter-egg with their device that allows access to banned/illegal material,
they're not going to like it when they get F'd by a D*** big enough for an
elephant.
Sig of the day: Crime does not pay -nearly- as well as
politics...
Great, now he will run his operation from prison at the tax payers' expense. There's a good chance he will teach those idiots in the big house how to spam too in exchange for a pack of cigarettes and soap-on-a-rope and make millions in the process.
Yes, there are. A German medical journal over 2 years ago did show correlation that children born and raised in very clean environments are more likely to develop allergies and tend to have more allergies than children raised in normal households.
Same holds true for dogs. Mutts living on the streets are usually the healthiest dogs needing the least amount of health care.
Do a search on Dice.com or any related job search engine and see what pays well. Then beef-up your skills in those in-demand areas and try to land that nice gig.
This holds true regardless of how the economy does. There will always be HOT unfilled positions no mater what.
These days if you have security clearance, you can land just about any high paying 100k+ job. Just like in the good old dot com days.
Two years from now the next hot in-demand skill might be...VP of Janitorials - Those automated toilets will need someone to fix someday, especially if they are run on Windows CE.;-)
True, some big Fortune 500 company with millions of dollars to spend on TV advertising will probably not care about running an ad on a parking meter. But, what about the stores and other businesses that the vehicle is parked next to? Most, are small private businesses that would love to get customers in the door.
I run a small business and I think it would be a great idea to have the meter advertise my local business. I would very likely offer a discount or prize if they watch the ad and mention the promotional code from the meter. I think this would kick off a trend once other businesses catch onto this.
Having the display show informational data like headline news, stock market data, etc. combined with ads would definitely get most people to at least peek at it for a few seconds. If you can at least achieve that, then the concept would be a complete success.
The previous posts are right on the money as far as the potential usefulness, and cost savings of these meters.
1 . I could see it as very useful especially if they program these up to send SMS messages to your cell phone when time is about to expire and allow you to recharge the meters via your cell phone.
2. Turn them into potential advertising machines. The LCD screens can run mini commercials on a small screen and generate more money for the city. I can also see this as a perk, you get free parking for watching the ads and responding to the questions just to ensure you're really watching the ads.
3. Have them accept smart cards or credit cards only. This would eliminate the need to hire people to manually go to each meter and collect money out of them.
4. Set them up to take a picture of your plates when your meter runs out they could just send you a parking ticket to the address of the vehicle's owner. This could save money by eliminating parking enforcement officers and making easy money for all those expired meters that enforcement officers never catch.
The cool possibilities are endless. I just hope that they figure out a way to keep them secure from people like me and the rest of the/. hacker community.
Plumbers that run their own plumbing business with two trainees can easily rake in 250k per year but will have to work 12-14 hours a day 7 days a week. Pay is excellent if you don't mind smelling like shit when you come home.
Same holds true for "water damage" techs. They earn 150k very easily 5 days a week putting in 8 hours of somewhat hard labor. Those that dedicate thier life to it, say 7 days a week 12-14 hours easily earn 350k+
I used to be in IT, now I come home smelling like shit but I love taking baths in my gold plated tub;-)
I would have to disagree. I run my laptop all day (8+) hours from a car battery.
In the mornings when I arrive to my destination, I just leave my laptop on at full power (downloading software via my cellular connection) for as long as 8 hours a day while I'm working elsewhere. Haven't had any problems starting the car either.
I'm sure you could get 16-20 hours of usage out of a car battery, but make sure to watch the volatge to ensure you're not draining it too much or you may kill it.
I have the perfect solution. To be allowed to vote, enter a quarter and pull the lever, if you get three pictures of George Bushes face in a row then you loose your quarter, if you get any other presidential candidates face in a row you win $10,000 and cast a vote for that candidate at the same time. This is a perfect way to vote and pay of the giant deficit that lunar Bush has created. If your desired candidate's face does not appear 3 times in a row then keep playing. Odds of not getting George Bushes face in a row are 1 in 8,000,000. Good luck and be sure to bring lots of quarters to the next election!
HA! I can beat that offer, on E-bay I'm selling 1-acre lots on the moon starting at $20,000. Perfect for your next home building project.
Building your next home on the moon has many perks:
1. No Pollution - at least not yet
2. No pollen - great for people with allergies
3. Spectacular views of the planet Earth with ocean front views.
Mission to the moon, taxes, rocket fuel, and NASA clearence fee, building permit, and contractors to build you house, sold seperatly.
Buy now and get 1000 free hours of AOL via satelite to planet Earth.
True! I used to be a IT slave and now I make much more running my own little Enron;-) Someday, I too will milk millions out of the US population while my hard working sweat shops in India, co-owned with Cathy Lee Gifford, crank out millions of lines of C++ code for me. mua-hahaha
Great, knowing how well MS did with "The most Secure OS ever" (WinXP) I can rest assured that their solution to block ads will be better than Mozilla's;)
Now where's my WinXP messenger spam script....hmmmm...
I agree with Steve Jobs 100%. There really aren't too many practical uses for it now.
Maybe UPS and FedEx will want to migrate to a bigger and less reliable tablet and run a MS OS which would BSOD whenever a customer signs their signature.
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I've switched to LCDs as soon as I could get my hands on them and I've been feeling better since the move. I'm one of those very sensitive people where if I keep a cell phone longer than 5 minutes next to my ear I get a headache and my ear starts to hurt but not if I use a headphone. I happen to work in a hospital and whenever I pass through the radiology rooms I instantly get dizzy and feel like passing out in less than 5-10 of being in them. This is not a phobia, I'm not afraid of them, but my body picks up and feels the extremely strong presence of radiation even when the equipment is not in use.
I have been using CRTs very heavily in the 80's and have noticed that my vision deteriorated extensively in less than a year of serious usage (8+ hours a day) so I believe there may be a strong correlation there. Also, I'm sure that all the x-ray radiation emitted by the CRTs over your lifetime will potentially have a negative effect on your body so don't be surprised if you end up with some weird tumor or mysteriously die! I can't even think of a single positive thing (health wise) about CRTs, if you can, I definitely would love to hear about it! The real question now is, ARE LCDs safe? Given how sensitive I am I think not since I have yet to encounter any negative symptoms from heavy LCD usage.
Time to call an attorney and start a class action suite to sue those damn CRTs companies for causing my vision loss and the thousands I've spent on glasses and contacts over the years. I know I'm not the only one here!
From my understanding the internet service is available only on Lufthansa's BOEING fleet of airplanes like the 747. I haven't seen the service offered on thier Airbus fleet.
I used to do what you do but I had to abandon that idea. That defensive tactic won't get rid of those who setup the spam server to autogenerate millions of addresses to your domain. I still get tons of spam to valid mail boxes where in the "TO" field I usually find 50+ different variations of addresses similar to the actual email address.
Why do you think Ireland will be a contender? Show us some proof or statistics.
Ireland is a well developed country and fairly expensive just like the rest of Western Europe. Unless there something you know that no one else knows I'm getting the impression that you just pulled the idea out of your ass.
Complete nonsense, peeple don't constantly misspeel words on /. We is a far more edumicated bunch than the audience CNN targets! Just look at Jesse Jackson, he's living proof that the US is one of the best edumicated societies.
Sig of the day: Raise your IQ, eat gifted children.
Just great, another Star Wars project! Just one question, the original Star Wars was supposed to scare the Russians. But now that they're out of the picture, who are we trying to scare this time, Bin Laden? lol
It amazes me that our state of the art satellites from space can zoom in and take a snapshot of your license plate but they can't find Bin Laden anywhere on planet earth.
Sig of the day: Be sure to work hard, millions on welfare are depending on you!
Ahhhhh....this reminds me of those good old days of analog hacking. I remember back in the scanner days, there were quite a few scanners where you could easily hack by removing a diode and magically unlock quite a few interesting frequencies that covered bands like cellular bands, and misc government freqs.
Unfortunately, "The Peoples Republic of Bush" (our new government) is well aware of such tactics. It's also illegal to sell such easily modifiable devices since the introduction of a law back in 1994, which prohibited manufactures from creating easily hackable hardware. This was only applicable to hardware that had capabilities of accessing banned/illegal content that the gov considered sensitive. I consider the PC the ultimate hacking device with access to senstive info, why haven't they banned it yet?
Should the "Peoples Republic of Bush " discover that a manufacturer has bundled a nice easter-egg with their device that allows access to banned/illegal material, they're not going to like it when they get F'd by a D*** big enough for an elephant.
Sig of the day: Crime does not pay -nearly- as well as politics...
Great, now he will run his operation from prison at the tax payers' expense. There's a good chance he will teach those idiots in the big house how to spam too in exchange for a pack of cigarettes and soap-on-a-rope and make millions in the process.
Yes, there are. A German medical journal over 2 years ago did show correlation that children born and raised in very clean environments are more likely to develop allergies and tend to have more allergies than children raised in normal households.
Same holds true for dogs. Mutts living on the streets are usually the healthiest dogs needing the least amount of health care.
hahaha, tell that to Michel Dell, Bill Gates or Larry Ellison.
This just shows stupid how college droupouts really are.
It's what you do in life and business, not just the education you have that will make you successful.
Do a search on Dice.com or any related job search engine and see what pays well. Then beef-up your skills in those in-demand areas and try to land that nice gig.
;-)
This holds true regardless of how the economy does. There will always be HOT unfilled positions no mater what.
These days if you have security clearance, you can land just about any high paying 100k+ job. Just like in the good old dot com days.
Two years from now the next hot in-demand skill might be...VP of Janitorials - Those automated toilets will need someone to fix someday, especially if they are run on Windows CE.
Seek and you shall find...
True, some big Fortune 500 company with millions of dollars to spend on TV advertising will probably not care about running an ad on a parking meter. But, what about the stores and other businesses that the vehicle is parked next to? Most, are small private businesses that would love to get customers in the door.
I run a small business and I think it would be a great idea to have the meter advertise my local business. I would very likely offer a discount or prize if they watch the ad and mention the promotional code from the meter. I think this would kick off a trend once other businesses catch onto this.
Having the display show informational data like headline news, stock market data, etc. combined with ads would definitely get most people to at least peek at it for a few seconds. If you can at least achieve that, then the concept would be a complete success.
The previous posts are right on the money as far as the potential usefulness, and cost savings of these meters.
/. hacker community.
1 . I could see it as very useful especially if they program these up to send SMS messages to your cell phone when time is about to expire and allow you to recharge the meters via your cell phone.
2. Turn them into potential advertising machines. The LCD screens can run mini commercials on a small screen and generate more money for the city. I can also see this as a perk, you get free parking for watching the ads and responding to the questions just to ensure you're really watching the ads.
3. Have them accept smart cards or credit cards only. This would eliminate the need to hire people to manually go to each meter and collect money out of them.
4. Set them up to take a picture of your plates when your meter runs out they could just send you a parking ticket to the address of the vehicle's owner. This could save money by eliminating parking enforcement officers and making easy money for all those expired meters that enforcement officers never catch.
The cool possibilities are endless. I just hope that they figure out a way to keep them secure from people like me and the rest of the
Plumbers that run their own plumbing business with two trainees can easily rake in 250k per year but will have to work 12-14 hours a day 7 days a week. Pay is excellent if you don't mind smelling like shit when you come home. Same holds true for "water damage" techs. They earn 150k very easily 5 days a week putting in 8 hours of somewhat hard labor. Those that dedicate thier life to it, say 7 days a week 12-14 hours easily earn 350k+ I used to be in IT, now I come home smelling like shit but I love taking baths in my gold plated tub ;-)
I would have to disagree. I run my laptop all day (8+) hours from a car battery.
In the mornings when I arrive to my destination, I just leave my laptop on at full power (downloading software via my cellular connection) for as long as 8 hours a day while I'm working elsewhere. Haven't had any problems starting the car either.
I'm sure you could get 16-20 hours of usage out of a car battery, but make sure to watch the volatge to ensure you're not draining it too much or you may kill it.
I have the perfect solution. To be allowed to vote, enter a quarter and pull the lever, if you get three pictures of George Bushes face in a row then you loose your quarter, if you get any other presidential candidates face in a row you win $10,000 and cast a vote for that candidate at the same time. This is a perfect way to vote and pay of the giant deficit that lunar Bush has created. If your desired candidate's face does not appear 3 times in a row then keep playing. Odds of not getting George Bushes face in a row are 1 in 8,000,000. Good luck and be sure to bring lots of quarters to the next election!
HA! I can beat that offer, on E-bay I'm selling 1-acre lots on the moon starting at $20,000. Perfect for your next home building project. Building your next home on the moon has many perks: 1. No Pollution - at least not yet 2. No pollen - great for people with allergies 3. Spectacular views of the planet Earth with ocean front views. Mission to the moon, taxes, rocket fuel, and NASA clearence fee, building permit, and contractors to build you house, sold seperatly. Buy now and get 1000 free hours of AOL via satelite to planet Earth.
True! I used to be a IT slave and now I make much more running my own little Enron ;-) Someday, I too will milk millions out of the US population while my hard working sweat shops in India, co-owned with Cathy Lee Gifford, crank out millions of lines of C++ code for me. mua-hahaha
Great, knowing how well MS did with "The most Secure OS ever" (WinXP) I can rest assured that their solution to block ads will be better than Mozilla's ;)
Now where's my WinXP messenger spam script....hmmmm...
I agree with Steve Jobs 100%. There really aren't too many practical uses for it now. Maybe UPS and FedEx will want to migrate to a bigger and less reliable tablet and run a MS OS which would BSOD whenever a customer signs their signature.