Well, the AT&T femtocell only allows registered cellphones on it, so the issue about bad connection or eavesdropping is irrelevant.
It only allows AT&T registered numbers on it. It doesn't care who those numbers belong to, as long as they're with AT&T.
I have two of these devices at work and after getting them registered (using a AT&T number on our corporate account) I've been able to add any AT&T number I've tried to them, ranging from other people on the corporate account to clients or guests who were just visiting the office for one day. As long as it's an AT&T number, it will work, and it will make calls using the device.
So I'd say eavesdropping would definitely be a concern, if calls could be handed off from a normal cell tower to a micro-cell.
I was about to ask this as well. Though the functionality didn't really appear to be implemented yet, I enjoyed reading the tags that get stuck on various submissions.
It looks to me like the crappy key binding system, along with the horrible kindergarden-sized interface, is a byproduct of its simultaneous development as a console game. I really, really hate the way the menus work, although BTMod helps with the size somewhat. I still wish I had separate buttons for my map, character, skills, etc., instead of hitting tab and then clicking 45 times to check my quest and equip a weapon.
Fair enough. In all honesty though, at first it was hard for me to tell if you were really being serious, based on the amount of extraneous personal info. It isn't TOO much of a stretch for someone to think you were trolling in that first post at least.
It does suck that someone apparently spent all their mod points rating your other posts down as well... but I guess it happens.
That is the same reason, IMNSHO, that you don't see popular WoW mods included in patches (ArmorCraft, bag thingies, etc. )
Except this is exactly what does happen with the better WoW mods. Almost all the real interface improvements in the last year have been inspired by popular mods:
The improved (still crappy, IMO) raid UI was inspired by CT_Raid Assist
Detailed numbers and hideable reputation bars
Additional hotbars on the bottom and side of the screen
Detailed player and guild notes
Meeting stones (a failure, but still based on functionality that first came around in a mod)
There are plenty more that I can't even think of right now. Of course I'm not expecting to see anything like Gatherer or ItemRack incorporated into the default UI, but I don't by any means think that incorporating some of the more general-use mods would discourage modders from doing what they do.
If it hadn't been modded Troll it should have at least been modded Offtopic. It's great that you're friends with the guy and all, but what does that have to do with anything? The OP has a valid reaction/response to the article and you call him out because you're friends with the guy?
Honestly, the part about you and your wife being disappointed about not being able to go to the wedding... If that doesn't sound like a troll, I don't know what does.
Wasn't there an incident last year where a terminal had to be reprocessed after they discovered a metal detector had actually been turned off for like an hour?
Yes. Originally they reported that it wasn't even plugged in. Then they decided it was just "out of calibration." As in, "The plug was out of calibration with the electrical socket."
It's not really the same type of game at all, but I do enjoy playing both of them. It's an open ended, single player RPG, and it offers a lot of innovations for the genre, especially in how the NPC's act. I can't do it justice here, so check out one of the many fansites and decide for yourself. Another big plus is that modding is actively supported, and you can find mods to change just about anything. Honestly, the ones on this list are a pretty poor sample of what's really available, but you're not going to know what kind of mods (if any) you want until you play the game yourself.
My favorite feature is that in Oblivion, the server NEVER goes down... even on Tuesdays.
I think we're arguing about two different scenarios. You seem to be implying that these pr0n sites are purposely disguising themselves as kid-friendly sites, which honestly, I find dubious based on both my "experience" and common sense. I'm talking about search engine results where a seemingly innocent combination of terms leads someone onto an entirely different kind of website than what they were looking for.
I completely agree with you if there's actual intent to deceive. I just thought your choice of analogies was not entirely applicable to the GP's post.
*shrug* Just call me a metaphor-nazi.
That's a bad analogy. It's more like seeing a store called "Tasty Treats" and assuming it's a candy store, walking in and immediately realizing it's an adult novelty shop, and then getting upset because there wasn't a bouncer outside the door warning you before entering.
As opposed to Slashdot summaries where those additional two words completely spin the summary and subsequent discussion off in some other direction, and you're 50 comments in before somebody bothers to RTFA and bring people back to reality.
Huh? I think you're remembering this wrong. There's no tunnel or train involved in this scene; he's placing the calls from the motel room.
"Hello, operator? Oh that's right, you have punch in the numbers nowadays.... Eight-six-seven-five-three-oh-nine... wait, that's not right. Damn you Tommy Tutone!"
Wow. Defensive much? I suggest you contact the police immediately, because someone has stolen your sense of humor. It wasn't an attack on Rush Limbauh; it wasn't an attack on conservatives; it wasn't an attack on fat people. It was a freakin joke based on the setup provided by the previous poster.
That's some wonderful information, but not really the point. This has nothing to do with people skipping out on probation.
If you'd RTFA... or hell, even RTFS, you'd see that this is about monitoring people who have previously violated a restraining order. The article goes on to point out that the target is a specific subset of criminals, namely sex offenders and domestic abusers. The word "probation" only appears once in the article, and it's in reference to those criminals whose conditions of probation prohibit them from going certain places (e.g., near schools, or their ex's workplace).
These aren't people who are trying to sneak away; they're *refusing* to go away.
It works perfectly for me with Firefox 1.0 and fully patched WinXP -- I didn't even have to restart the browser or clear the cache or anything
I can't tell if you're trying to be funny. The point being made here, is that once you restart your browser, the setting no longer prevents you from loading the spoofed page.
I agree with your point, but you contradict yourself at the end.
If "it's only when you start uploading that you have problems" then it's exactly those people that are sharing/uploading that they'd want to find -- and those are the ones whose IPs you can get just by connecting to the tracker. Anyone interested in bringing a lawsuit wouldn't need to set up their own tracker, because the moment they connected they would see the IPs of those people sharing. And I may be wrong, but I don't think entrapment applies to civil suits brought by private parties -- it's only when law enforcement encourages you to engage in behavior that you wouldn't otherwise engage in that it becomes entrapment. Not to mention, that the very nature of the bittorrent protocol is set up so that all peers are both downloading AND uploading. It is possible, with some clients, to disable uploading, but most members of the bittorrent community look poorly upon this, and most new users aren't aware of that functionality. In any case, if there weren't at least one person uploading, the torrent would be dead.
Some guy wrote software that makes copies of copyrighted material (putting aside whatever quasi-legal "purpose" this software might have had, i can certainly guess what its primary use was) and then gets pissed when people start using it without paying for it?
Brilliant.... It's like rain on your wedding day.... ya think?
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Well, the AT&T femtocell only allows registered cellphones on it, so the issue about bad connection or eavesdropping is irrelevant.
It only allows AT&T registered numbers on it. It doesn't care who those numbers belong to, as long as they're with AT&T.
I have two of these devices at work and after getting them registered (using a AT&T number on our corporate account) I've been able to add any AT&T number I've tried to them, ranging from other people on the corporate account to clients or guests who were just visiting the office for one day. As long as it's an AT&T number, it will work, and it will make calls using the device.
So I'd say eavesdropping would definitely be a concern, if calls could be handed off from a normal cell tower to a micro-cell.
I was about to ask this as well. Though the functionality didn't really appear to be implemented yet, I enjoyed reading the tags that get stuck on various submissions.
Except that's not even close to what they're doing. Read the lore on the site. You're citing some made-up crap that was debunked several days ago.
It looks to me like the crappy key binding system, along with the horrible kindergarden-sized interface, is a byproduct of its simultaneous development as a console game. I really, really hate the way the menus work, although BTMod helps with the size somewhat. I still wish I had separate buttons for my map, character, skills, etc., instead of hitting tab and then clicking 45 times to check my quest and equip a weapon.
Fair enough. In all honesty though, at first it was hard for me to tell if you were really being serious, based on the amount of extraneous personal info. It isn't TOO much of a stretch for someone to think you were trolling in that first post at least.
It does suck that someone apparently spent all their mod points rating your other posts down as well... but I guess it happens.
That is the same reason, IMNSHO, that you don't see popular WoW mods included in patches (ArmorCraft, bag thingies, etc. )
Except this is exactly what does happen with the better WoW mods. Almost all the real interface improvements in the last year have been inspired by popular mods:
There are plenty more that I can't even think of right now. Of course I'm not expecting to see anything like Gatherer or ItemRack incorporated into the default UI, but I don't by any means think that incorporating some of the more general-use mods would discourage modders from doing what they do.
If it hadn't been modded Troll it should have at least been modded Offtopic. It's great that you're friends with the guy and all, but what does that have to do with anything? The OP has a valid reaction/response to the article and you call him out because you're friends with the guy?
Honestly, the part about you and your wife being disappointed about not being able to go to the wedding... If that doesn't sound like a troll, I don't know what does.
Wasn't there an incident last year where a terminal had to be reprocessed after they discovered a metal detector had actually been turned off for like an hour?
Yes. Originally they reported that it wasn't even plugged in. Then they decided it was just "out of calibration." As in, "The plug was out of calibration with the electrical socket."
It's not really the same type of game at all, but I do enjoy playing both of them. It's an open ended, single player RPG, and it offers a lot of innovations for the genre, especially in how the NPC's act. I can't do it justice here, so check out one of the many fansites and decide for yourself. Another big plus is that modding is actively supported, and you can find mods to change just about anything. Honestly, the ones on this list are a pretty poor sample of what's really available, but you're not going to know what kind of mods (if any) you want until you play the game yourself.
My favorite feature is that in Oblivion, the server NEVER goes down... even on Tuesdays.
I think we're arguing about two different scenarios. You seem to be implying that these pr0n sites are purposely disguising themselves as kid-friendly sites, which honestly, I find dubious based on both my "experience" and common sense. I'm talking about search engine results where a seemingly innocent combination of terms leads someone onto an entirely different kind of website than what they were looking for. I completely agree with you if there's actual intent to deceive. I just thought your choice of analogies was not entirely applicable to the GP's post. *shrug* Just call me a metaphor-nazi.
That's a bad analogy. It's more like seeing a store called "Tasty Treats" and assuming it's a candy store, walking in and immediately realizing it's an adult novelty shop, and then getting upset because there wasn't a bouncer outside the door warning you before entering.
As opposed to Slashdot summaries where those additional two words completely spin the summary and subsequent discussion off in some other direction, and you're 50 comments in before somebody bothers to RTFA and bring people back to reality.
I agree as well. I only wish I had mod points.
Huh? I think you're remembering this wrong. There's no tunnel or train involved in this scene; he's placing the calls from the motel room. "Hello, operator? Oh that's right, you have punch in the numbers nowadays.... Eight-six-seven-five-three-oh-nine... wait, that's not right. Damn you Tommy Tutone!"
Wow. Defensive much? I suggest you contact the police immediately, because someone has stolen your sense of humor. It wasn't an attack on Rush Limbauh; it wasn't an attack on conservatives; it wasn't an attack on fat people. It was a freakin joke based on the setup provided by the previous poster.
(I recall hearing somewhere that Rush Limbaugh is a big Mac advocate too)
Obviously. He sure didn't get that fat eating McSalads.
It certainly isn't extremist. It's actually true. (Zoom all the way in.)
--n
That's some wonderful information, but not really the point. This has nothing to do with people skipping out on probation.
If you'd RTFA... or hell, even RTFS, you'd see that this is about monitoring people who have previously violated a restraining order. The article goes on to point out that the target is a specific subset of criminals, namely sex offenders and domestic abusers. The word "probation" only appears once in the article, and it's in reference to those criminals whose conditions of probation prohibit them from going certain places (e.g., near schools, or their ex's workplace).
These aren't people who are trying to sneak away; they're *refusing* to go away.
--n
Mod parent up, this is actually useful.... Or is it really true that NOBODY here uses Windows?
It works perfectly for me with Firefox 1.0 and fully patched WinXP -- I didn't even have to restart the browser or clear the cache or anything
I can't tell if you're trying to be funny. The point being made here, is that once you restart your browser, the setting no longer prevents you from loading the spoofed page.
Dare I ask... what is PEBKAC?
I agree with your point, but you contradict yourself at the end.
If "it's only when you start uploading that you have problems" then it's exactly those people that are sharing/uploading that they'd want to find -- and those are the ones whose IPs you can get just by connecting to the tracker. Anyone interested in bringing a lawsuit wouldn't need to set up their own tracker, because the moment they connected they would see the IPs of those people sharing. And I may be wrong, but I don't think entrapment applies to civil suits brought by private parties -- it's only when law enforcement encourages you to engage in behavior that you wouldn't otherwise engage in that it becomes entrapment.
Not to mention, that the very nature of the bittorrent protocol is set up so that all peers are both downloading AND uploading. It is possible, with some clients, to disable uploading, but most members of the bittorrent community look poorly upon this, and most new users aren't aware of that functionality. In any case, if there weren't at least one person uploading, the torrent would be dead.
--nick
Actually, at this point there are zero electoral votes in. The electoral college doesn't actually vote until December 13.
But it's clear what's happening, and I think we should start focusing on some new numbers:
1462 days until the Presidential election in 2008
So let me get this straight...
... It's like rain on your wedding day.... ya think?
Some guy wrote software that makes copies of copyrighted material (putting aside whatever quasi-legal "purpose" this software might have had, i can certainly guess what its primary use was) and then gets pissed when people start using it without paying for it?
Brilliant.