Define "intentional"... I have a friend who wired up a bunch of crap in his truck and he did so by purchasing a spool of 14ga wire, Blue. Everything was blue wire; auxilliary power outlets, stereo, speakers, ham radio, driving lights, offroad lights, etc... His truck was named "Zippy".. After the second engine compartment fire, we renamed it "Zippo". He jokes about selling it. "Comes with fire extinguisher (only used twice)."
Disagree. Honda tried to make a truck for the antiquing market... But Toyota did mighty fine in the mid-size pickup market and they're doing great with the Tundra market... Around here (Alberta), the Tundra sems to be the pickup for the successful redneck vs. the Ford/Dodge/Chevy. I predict Nissan will do great now that it has licensed the Cummins for 2015 (and Dodge is going Italian diesel)...
Not everyone who wants a pickup wants to use it to tow a boat or RV. I have had a pickup that only rarely towed things and it wasn't for a status symbol. I used it to haul my Mtn Bike around, or my Skis, or to sleep under the canopy... People use them to haul dogs, tools, parts, lumber, appliances, and to help their friends move.
People tow with big trucks. An F-150 is not a big tow rig... It's a half ton that might do ok towing your speed boat down to the lake but my wife's Honda Pilot can do that. An F-150 is not going to tow a 3 bedroom dual-hottub with 6 deep friers 5th wheel out to the Mesa.
He's going after the F-150 market, not the Dodge 5500 market.
Lets say I'm a company like ZTE or Huawei and I make my own BB part... My BB can theoretically have access to all SMS and IP traffic going through it. Could I not put a special hook waiting for just the right really long string in an SMS to suddenly start repeating all incoming/outgoing text messages to another phone number? Sure, this sort of thing would quickly show up on a users' cellphone bill unless they had an unltd texting plan or similar; which business users are more likely to have...
I'm not in the BB business so I'm largely speaking out of my ass... But is it conceivable?
I've also finally managed to order a Nexus-5 to replace my iphone 4... I haven't got it yet but have used and own other Android devices... There are a handful of annoyances with Android devices that iphones don't have but the reverse is also true... I'm switching my phone from IOS to Android primarily due to cost and screen size. My general perception is that IOS is just cleaner and Android is more hacky...
My annoyances with the Android devices I've owned or used before:
- When a text message comes in, it should appear as a notification on the lock screen. I shouldn't have to unlock my phone, and drill down to the messaging app to see what's up. I gather this might be vendor specific but on the Motorola Atrix I had, there was no way to do this. - The mail client should allow me to edit my quoted text so I can reply with comments in-line instead of forcing me to top-post.. (this might also be vendor specific but my Asus and Atrix both seemed to have the same limitation). - Inconsistency in user interface... The buttons at the bottom seem to change purpose depending on the app; and in inconsistent ways. ie: changing settings is different depending on application... Also probably vendor specific.
My biggest beef is the addon garbage forced on you by the vendor creating an inconsistency from device to device. IOS devices are largely the same from a usability perspective.
If CP goes away, you still have your local data, but you can't read it. Unless you know how to parse the CP backup files without the CP software... I specifically asked CP if it was possible to restore from my backups if I was disconnected from the net or if CP went out of business, and was told no, that restore wouldn't work if they went out of business.
I'm also using Crashplan to backup to my own servers (one here and one at a remote site)... I'm quite happy with it..
Unfortunately, if Crashplan goes out of business, all of my backups are toast... You can't restore without contacting crashplan.com... This is something I understand and acknowledge but it's important to note for people who may not already know.
My backup actually saved my ass this morning in fact... I inadvertantly deleted some code I hadn't checked in yet...
Here's what's news (to me)... I have an iphone 4... I tried to buy a Nexus 4 but by the time they were available in Canada, they were sold out (ok, I was out of town for a couple of days and missed the short period they were for sale)... This morning I tried to buy a Nexus 5 and they sold out right away but regardless of this fact, they aren't shipping to Canada anyway so I lose again. I'll keep my iphone a while longer I guess.
yes, from google. When I check out, it gives my home address as greyed out and a little text box that says "Seller does not ship to this address". I have an option to add a new address but the Country drop down only says "US - United States". There are no other options.
"I treat my shareholders the way I would want to be treated. I extract the maximum amount of revenue from my customers while giving them as little value as possible so as to keep my margins as high as possible and stay just on this side of 'legal' so as to give my shareholders the maximum return for their investment"...
oops, Now I'm now treating my customers the way I would want to be treated as a customer... What to do?
My son's school has a "use whatever you want as long as you can collaberate" policy so of course I encouraged my son to use OOo and LO... He found it practically impossible to work with fellow students with Microsoft Office... So unfortunately, it's a non-starter.
The wiki community had their chance to standardize on a markup language but instead we have an atrocious assortment of wildly disparate syntaxes with Mediawiki unfortunately leading the charge... Now we need another one?
Ok; I'm old. I grew up using LaTeX for everything. Even generated invoices automatically from an ascii file of client/project/hours direct to printer using a Makefile. Now I don't 'write' anymore. I edit with vim and if I need to publish to html, I wrap the file with... I simply don't care about formatting anymore. Content is where it's at.
Your immense size is not my fault. If I recline my seat and you shove it forcefully forward; I won't look back. I will recline it again. If you push it forward one more time; I will simply call the flight attendant and explain the problem. You will be dealt with. I paid as much for my seat as you did (more or less) so you don't get to inflict your physical disabilities on me. If you don't want me to recline my seat; then pay extra for a 1st class ticket and STFup.
Don't worry though; I stopped travelling when sexual molestation became authorized by the US government.
I have put lots of effort into monitoring my son's internet usage... I started with a socks5 proxy and a crowdsourced whitelist/blacklist.. He figured out how to bypass proxy settings. I've tried legislation... I've even set up my cisco switch to duplicate packets from his network port (and the wifi basestation) to a packet capture host filtering on his traffic... By the time he was 10 years old; he had learned how to disable dhcp and give himself a static address. He'd learned how to disable the proxy. He'd broken in to the neighbors wifi access point to bypass my network completely. He's not trying to do anything nefarious (that I know of); he's just a problem solver... If the firewall is a problem, he'll solve it. He's 12 now. If we take away his computers, ipad, ipod, cellphone, etc... He finds them in the middle of the night... We've reverted to education about the dangers and pitfalls. Ultimately, it's better to teach your child to make smart choices than to micromanage and microlegislate them... I'm not saying my son is smarter than I am, I'm saying he will find a way to get around whatever obstacles I put up... Every child is unique. I have friends with kids who happily stay within the constraints of 'parental controls' settings. My son got past those when he was 8.
My in-laws are in the camp that their lives aren't interesting so if some guy in the US wants to read my sis-in-law's text messages, who cares... Or find out what brand of tampons she buys... She figures it's better to be safe from "terrists" and lose a bit of insignificant privacy than the alternative... I'm a tinfoil hat wearing paranoid freak, to them, because I refuse to have a passport...
As others have mentioned, if gubmint wanted to track you, they'd use your license plate because everybody has to have one of those whereas these toll passes are optional... In my city (Calgary, Alberta) the municipal government uses bluetooth ID's to track phones/cars as they travel down the roads to generate traffic information. We have handy signs that report the expected time to various exits. I've found it handy because I know about how long it should usually take to a specific exit and if the reported time is wildly different, I can choose to exit sooner and take an alternate route...
I suppose I could surmise that the municipal government has some way to tie my cellphone to my name and is tracking me... But I think it largely improbable and I can always turn off my bluetooth if I'm doing something nefarious just as NYCers can put their tags in a metal box.
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Define "intentional"... I have a friend who wired up a bunch of crap in his truck and he did so by purchasing a spool of 14ga wire, Blue. Everything was blue wire; auxilliary power outlets, stereo, speakers, ham radio, driving lights, offroad lights, etc ... His truck was named "Zippy".. After the second engine compartment fire, we renamed it "Zippo". He jokes about selling it. "Comes with fire extinguisher (only used twice)."
I always thought they were Catholic Converters... huh.
Disagree. Honda tried to make a truck for the antiquing market... But Toyota did mighty fine in the mid-size pickup market and they're doing great with the Tundra market... Around here (Alberta), the Tundra sems to be the pickup for the successful redneck vs. the Ford/Dodge/Chevy. I predict Nissan will do great now that it has licensed the Cummins for 2015 (and Dodge is going Italian diesel)...
God didn't build your Powerstroke...
Not everyone who wants a pickup wants to use it to tow a boat or RV. I have had a pickup that only rarely towed things and it wasn't for a status symbol. I used it to haul my Mtn Bike around, or my Skis, or to sleep under the canopy... People use them to haul dogs, tools, parts, lumber, appliances, and to help their friends move.
People tow with big trucks. An F-150 is not a big tow rig... It's a half ton that might do ok towing your speed boat down to the lake but my wife's Honda Pilot can do that. An F-150 is not going to tow a 3 bedroom dual-hottub with 6 deep friers 5th wheel out to the Mesa.
He's going after the F-150 market, not the Dodge 5500 market.
Here's a straw-monkey ...
Lets say I'm a company like ZTE or Huawei and I make my own BB part... My BB can theoretically have access to all SMS and IP traffic going through it. Could I not put a special hook waiting for just the right really long string in an SMS to suddenly start repeating all incoming/outgoing text messages to another phone number? Sure, this sort of thing would quickly show up on a users' cellphone bill unless they had an unltd texting plan or similar; which business users are more likely to have...
I'm not in the BB business so I'm largely speaking out of my ass... But is it conceivable?
I've also finally managed to order a Nexus-5 to replace my iphone 4... I haven't got it yet but have used and own other Android devices... There are a handful of annoyances with Android devices that iphones don't have but the reverse is also true... I'm switching my phone from IOS to Android primarily due to cost and screen size. My general perception is that IOS is just cleaner and Android is more hacky...
My annoyances with the Android devices I've owned or used before:
- When a text message comes in, it should appear as a notification on the lock screen. I shouldn't have to unlock my phone, and drill down to the messaging app to see what's up. I gather this might be vendor specific but on the Motorola Atrix I had, there was no way to do this.
- The mail client should allow me to edit my quoted text so I can reply with comments in-line instead of forcing me to top-post.. (this might also be vendor specific but my Asus and Atrix both seemed to have the same limitation).
- Inconsistency in user interface... The buttons at the bottom seem to change purpose depending on the app; and in inconsistent ways. ie: changing settings is different depending on application... Also probably vendor specific.
My biggest beef is the addon garbage forced on you by the vendor creating an inconsistency from device to device. IOS devices are largely the same from a usability perspective.
Yes, you're correct. That's how I console myself into being 'ok' with it. It works remarkably well all things considered.
Try disconnecting your internet connection and then try to do a restore. The SW refuses to run without being able ot contact CP.
If CP goes away, you still have your local data, but you can't read it. Unless you know how to parse the CP backup files without the CP software... I specifically asked CP if it was possible to restore from my backups if I was disconnected from the net or if CP went out of business, and was told no, that restore wouldn't work if they went out of business.
I'm also using Crashplan to backup to my own servers (one here and one at a remote site)... I'm quite happy with it..
Unfortunately, if Crashplan goes out of business, all of my backups are toast... You can't restore without contacting crashplan.com... This is something I understand and acknowledge but it's important to note for people who may not already know.
My backup actually saved my ass this morning in fact... I inadvertantly deleted some code I hadn't checked in yet...
Yes.
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Here's what's news (to me)... I have an iphone 4... I tried to buy a Nexus 4 but by the time they were available in Canada, they were sold out (ok, I was out of town for a couple of days and missed the short period they were for sale)... This morning I tried to buy a Nexus 5 and they sold out right away but regardless of this fact, they aren't shipping to Canada anyway so I lose again. I'll keep my iphone a while longer I guess.
yes, from google. When I check out, it gives my home address as greyed out and a little text box that says "Seller does not ship to this address". I have an option to add a new address but the Country drop down only says "US - United States". There are no other options.
I would have dearly loved to order one; in fact got one in my cart and everything. Seller does not ship to Canada though... Pity.
"I treat my shareholders the way I would want to be treated. I extract the maximum amount of revenue from my customers while giving them as little value as possible so as to keep my margins as high as possible and stay just on this side of 'legal' so as to give my shareholders the maximum return for their investment"...
oops, Now I'm now treating my customers the way I would want to be treated as a customer... What to do?
I checked when I got the notice the other day. You can't opt out of the ads. You have two buttons you can click:
- I want Random ads
- I want target ads
There is no:
- I don't want ads
button.
My son's school has a "use whatever you want as long as you can collaberate" policy so of course I encouraged my son to use OOo and LO... He found it practically impossible to work with fellow students with Microsoft Office... So unfortunately, it's a non-starter.
It'll go the way of the bluetooth headset ... extinct except for the hardcore douchebag.
"Excuse me sir, you seem to have a little bit of douchebag on the side of your... oh nevermind, that's your bluetooth..."
The wiki community had their chance to standardize on a markup language but instead we have an atrocious assortment of wildly disparate syntaxes with Mediawiki unfortunately leading the charge... Now we need another one?
Ok; I'm old. I grew up using LaTeX for everything. Even generated invoices automatically from an ascii file of client/project/hours direct to printer using a Makefile. Now I don't 'write' anymore. I edit with vim and if I need to publish to html, I wrap the file with ... I simply don't care about formatting anymore. Content is where it's at.
Self entitled much?
Your immense size is not my fault. If I recline my seat and you shove it forcefully forward; I won't look back. I will recline it again. If you push it forward one more time; I will simply call the flight attendant and explain the problem. You will be dealt with. I paid as much for my seat as you did (more or less) so you don't get to inflict your physical disabilities on me. If you don't want me to recline my seat; then pay extra for a 1st class ticket and STFup.
Don't worry though; I stopped travelling when sexual molestation became authorized by the US government.
Now we're closer to an imessage SMS gateway...
I have put lots of effort into monitoring my son's internet usage... I started with a socks5 proxy and a crowdsourced whitelist/blacklist.. He figured out how to bypass proxy settings. I've tried legislation... I've even set up my cisco switch to duplicate packets from his network port (and the wifi basestation) to a packet capture host filtering on his traffic... By the time he was 10 years old; he had learned how to disable dhcp and give himself a static address. He'd learned how to disable the proxy. He'd broken in to the neighbors wifi access point to bypass my network completely. He's not trying to do anything nefarious (that I know of); he's just a problem solver... If the firewall is a problem, he'll solve it. He's 12 now. If we take away his computers, ipad, ipod, cellphone, etc... He finds them in the middle of the night... We've reverted to education about the dangers and pitfalls. Ultimately, it's better to teach your child to make smart choices than to micromanage and microlegislate them... I'm not saying my son is smarter than I am, I'm saying he will find a way to get around whatever obstacles I put up... Every child is unique. I have friends with kids who happily stay within the constraints of 'parental controls' settings. My son got past those when he was 8.
My in-laws are in the camp that their lives aren't interesting so if some guy in the US wants to read my sis-in-law's text messages, who cares... Or find out what brand of tampons she buys... She figures it's better to be safe from "terrists" and lose a bit of insignificant privacy than the alternative... I'm a tinfoil hat wearing paranoid freak, to them, because I refuse to have a passport...
As others have mentioned, if gubmint wanted to track you, they'd use your license plate because everybody has to have one of those whereas these toll passes are optional... In my city (Calgary, Alberta) the municipal government uses bluetooth ID's to track phones/cars as they travel down the roads to generate traffic information. We have handy signs that report the expected time to various exits. I've found it handy because I know about how long it should usually take to a specific exit and if the reported time is wildly different, I can choose to exit sooner and take an alternate route...
I suppose I could surmise that the municipal government has some way to tie my cellphone to my name and is tracking me... But I think it largely improbable and I can always turn off my bluetooth if I'm doing something nefarious just as NYCers can put their tags in a metal box.
Our contraptions have 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and sometimes higher.