Here in the Netherlands our largest cable providers (Ziggo and UPC) also turned every home cable modem into a public hotspot about a year or two ago. All customers are given an account to use the hotspot network anywhere in the country. It can be pretty handy if you are with a laptop in a city and need internet access. Your laptop will get get a connection and away you go. They are on separate IP space, and don't affect your usable bandwidth or throughput as they are lower priority traffic than your own subscription traffic.
While this functionality is opt out rather than opt in, you can just login to the console of your cable modem and disable it as desired. When you opt out like that however you also lose the access to use hotspot network entirely. The cost of using the network is to participate.
The only thing that I see wrong with it is that it is an opt out system rather than an opt in. But I can also see that something like this wouldn't reach the "critical mass" to make it all work otherwise.
For the curious, it takes approximately 4 layers of aluminum foil to block a scanner from activating the RFID signal when your Al lined wallet is point blank from a standard scanner.
(After receiving an RFID enabled ID card here in the Netherlands last year, I tested it on our office copy/scanner RFID reader, and then simply lined my wallet with double the number of layers it took to block the signal. Works like a charm!)
With recent news about certain Android apps sending private information to whomever created it, I have recently installed DroidWall to filter access (e.g. - Battery meter apps!? Puh-leez!) to my phone's data connection.
If some app expects me to allow a data connection just to prove I am not a thief, sorry, I won't be buying it! And yes, I do purchase apps that I consider worthy.
And what happens if someone is abroad? Would they have to pay $20 in roaming charges to play some bubble bobble game for an hour while waiting in some airport?
Where do you suggest they go to get "proper training" for a motorized office chair?;-)
Since they were using it on the streets, they could start by getting a driving license like everyone else that operates a motorized method of transport in public.
Now I am not sure about this, but I think in Germany you can't get a drivers license until you are 18 (and they were 17). Ironically, it probably would be safer for these guys to be driving a car on the streets than that contraption they built.
I am all for inventing things like that and having fun with it - but on private property where they can only hurt themselves and their own property not other people if something happens to go wrong.
We have these same toilets here in Holland, and I have also seen them in Spain. They don't seem to have the same problems the article, but I did notice one big difference in the way they are operated is this:
Here in Europe you have to pay 50c to use them. In Seattle they seemed to have been free.
I doubt any junkie that has to scrape together money for a fix will waste an extra 50c so they can sit on a toilet while they shoot up. I bet that little 50c hassle is probably enough to deter most of people that cause all the problems.
4) Your desk should face the door. Otherwise, people will always walk up behind you.
This one is absolutely correct, and I would also add - Don't have your back to a Window either! My desk is next to a window (sideways facing) and I can look out and into the offices of a bank across the parking lot. With a good pair of binoculars, I bet I would be able to easily make out the text on the dozens of monitors I can see.
It's all Intel's fault. They put USB on everything, but didn't put FireWire on anything until very recently, if they even have by now. So USB "won".
If you really wanted to blame someone, you can at least partially blame Steve Jobs. Wikipedia mentions that one of the reason Firewire wasn't as popular as USB was the high licensing and manufacturing costs compared to USB. (One of the IP owners is Apple). This gentleman mentions that just when Apple was going to give away licenses for a fairly cheap price (1997 or something), Steve came back to Apple and decided that maybe they should charge more. This made everyone unhappy (including Intel) and the rest is history.
I suppose nobody will read this as the topic is pretty old now, but oh well.
Actually, they seem to base their conclusion on the fact that Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 don't seem to have entered the termination shock at the same distance from the earth.
Actually, they seem to base their conclusion not only on that fact, but also because they had theorized that it might be that way from computer models that predicted when Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 reached the termination. So far Voyager 1 (actually, not sure on V1) and Voyager 2 reached the termination shock around where they thought they would according to the model that the Solar System is asymmetrical as described in TFA. (Thisarcicle briefly mentions the computer model)
Right now, most of the 3G chipsets are still relatively bulky and draw fairly high-power - by 2008 that should change. But the current iPhone has really good battery life - adding 3G to that today would hurt. Apple's also stated this directly. This already has recently changed. Broadcom just developed a new compact chip that supports all the major 3G technologies plus other things (Bluetooth, FM Radio). I forget where I heard this from, but a quick Google has a reference here.
IMHO, the "we cant do 3G because of battery issues" is just an excuse to stall wait for the 3G market in the US to develop a bit more first.
Example: TSS-1R. Space Shuttle Columbia deployed this as part of NASA's series of experiments with orbital tethers (for "hanging" craft from other craft and for raising and lowering orbits).
That was a nice tid bit of information, thank-you. Looking it up out of curiosity, it also appears that the TSS-1R experiment on STS-75 was the first time Linux was used in orbit! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-75#Trivia)
I am one of the Systems Admin for a company with 2000+ users. We use WSUS for updating our clients, and our WSUS settings are set to not install any updates of any kind what so ever unless we explicitly approved of them.
Yesterday ALL of our users suddenly got the Windows Desktop Search app. We double checked our WSUS settings, confirmed that updates only install with approval, and also explicitly "Declined" the Windows Desktop Search. It still continued to roll out, even though we said we didn't want it!
We use Lotus Notes for our corperate e-mail, and so Outlook is not installed on any computers, and so of course since Windows Desktop Search indexes your Outlook e-mail, and since we didn't have it, everytime a user logs on now, they get two error messages about that it can't find Outlook and can't index your e-mail. Ridiculus!!!!!
Called Microsoft for support (we have an enterprise license) and said they would "look into it" and "get back to us". No matter that our users are calling like crazy and wondering what is going on...
Because here in the Netherlands I recently got a 3G phone (Sony Ericsson W880i) and included with my subscription is ~9 channels of televsion. My TV is streamed over the 3G connection, and only buffers for about 3 seconds when I switch channels, with stereo sound too. No artifacts or funny business even with low signal strength, nor switching between cell towers (I only use the TV when travelling to and from work on the train)
Also in my subscription is a couple of free songs that I can download using the 3G. I have any downloaded song within a minute. Web browsing (on Opera Mini, with HTML and NOT mobile pages) feels nearly as fast as my computer at home. Can EDGE, at only 0.2 Mb do that????
Of course, maybe it does, as I have never used EDGE, but at least would try BOTH technologies before I claim one is better than the other.
You are correct, it is an engineering camera.
The article states (http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/10/20071009_kaguya_e.html#at01) that the images are from a camera specifically there to monitor the high gain antenna.
I can't wait for the HD camera photos, those ones will probably be really nice!
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Google, you probably have, sorry, had, one of the only set of ad servers I never blocked. Until now.
Sorry, but anything that moves without my propmpting it is a distraction and will be blocked.
P2P phones...maybe. Doesn't have a nice ring to it though does it? Hmmm, emmy see here. The phones are always moving around through aren't they? Maybe they should be called "mobile" phones. Like they are currently called in Sweden.
Doesn't AT&T have any features that tell you what your current balance is?
Here in the Netherlands, I had a contract with Orange. You can send an SMS to a number and it will then reply to you with either: a) How many minutes you have left on your plan for that month, or b) what your next bill will be if you never use your phone again for the month if you are over your minutes.
And to add to that.
A friend of mine went to Spain for a vacation and brought his laptop with a UMTS (3G) card in it. After two days in spain, his mobile carrier called him him, and told him that his data usage was already at 200 euros while only roaming for two days so far, and were just making sure he *knew* that he was using it like crazy, before he racked it up any further. He was extreamly thankful they called to tell him that, as he had no idea the roaming charges were up until then (he never bothered to look it up) How is that for customer service?
Doesn't any carrier in the US have things like this??? Letting people get to $4800 without them knowing it, when the carrier *knows* 99% of their customers can't afford something like that is completely retarded IMHO.
The Azureus BitTorrent client online support wiki maintains a list. Quite handy for trouble shooting download speed problems and which ISPs to avoid if you intend to use BitTorrent (even for legitimate purposes)
I used to think that was a good idea, until I under realized the true power of stupid people.
As a system admin at my company, we got a call from a user who said she was a victim of a phishing scam, and wanted to see if we could get a copy of the phising e-mail she was sent so she could forward it to her bank and the police, but since she had already deleted it.
We managed to recover the phising e-mail. It was a standard phishing e-mail, however, it was not sent to her form the phisher him/herself, but from a friend of hers!
The subject had the FWD: tag at the begining, and the first line of the e-mail said, "Hey look! A banking scam! Why don't we all put in bogus information and screw them up! hehe!", but this user clicked on the link and entered her *real* information, as she thought it really was from her bank after she read the "security warning" below her friends comment.
I fail to see how this might make a difference in getting Linux sold on a larger scale. The company I work for only gets our servers from Dell, and one of the operating choices for an OS is RadHat Enterprise. They have been offering Linux on their servers for years!
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Here in the Netherlands our largest cable providers (Ziggo and UPC) also turned every home cable modem into a public hotspot about a year or two ago. All customers are given an account to use the hotspot network anywhere in the country. It can be pretty handy if you are with a laptop in a city and need internet access. Your laptop will get get a connection and away you go. They are on separate IP space, and don't affect your usable bandwidth or throughput as they are lower priority traffic than your own subscription traffic. While this functionality is opt out rather than opt in, you can just login to the console of your cable modem and disable it as desired. When you opt out like that however you also lose the access to use hotspot network entirely. The cost of using the network is to participate. The only thing that I see wrong with it is that it is an opt out system rather than an opt in. But I can also see that something like this wouldn't reach the "critical mass" to make it all work otherwise.
For the curious, it takes approximately 4 layers of aluminum foil to block a scanner from activating the RFID signal when your Al lined wallet is point blank from a standard scanner.
(After receiving an RFID enabled ID card here in the Netherlands last year, I tested it on our office copy/scanner RFID reader, and then simply lined my wallet with double the number of layers it took to block the signal. Works like a charm!)
With recent news about certain Android apps sending private information to whomever created it, I have recently installed DroidWall to filter access (e.g. - Battery meter apps!? Puh-leez!) to my phone's data connection.
If some app expects me to allow a data connection just to prove I am not a thief, sorry, I won't be buying it! And yes, I do purchase apps that I consider worthy.
And what happens if someone is abroad? Would they have to pay $20 in roaming charges to play some bubble bobble game for an hour while waiting in some airport?
Since they were using it on the streets, they could start by getting a driving license like everyone else that operates a motorized method of transport in public.
Now I am not sure about this, but I think in Germany you can't get a drivers license until you are 18 (and they were 17). Ironically, it probably would be safer for these guys to be driving a car on the streets than that contraption they built.
I am all for inventing things like that and having fun with it - but on private property where they can only hurt themselves and their own property not other people if something happens to go wrong.
We have these same toilets here in Holland, and I have also seen them in Spain. They don't seem to have the same problems the article, but I did notice one big difference in the way they are operated is this: Here in Europe you have to pay 50c to use them. In Seattle they seemed to have been free. I doubt any junkie that has to scrape together money for a fix will waste an extra 50c so they can sit on a toilet while they shoot up. I bet that little 50c hassle is probably enough to deter most of people that cause all the problems.
So the other 500 million or so people outside of the U.S. that do have 3G coverage don't count?
E. Revoke their charter of incorporation.
I bet they would start to get the point after the first few.
...what happens when you lick it?
Better or worse than a 9V battery?
This one is absolutely correct, and I would also add - Don't have your back to a Window either! My desk is next to a window (sideways facing) and I can look out and into the offices of a bank across the parking lot. With a good pair of binoculars, I bet I would be able to easily make out the text on the dozens of monitors I can see.
Sort of like backups, isn't it? We all know we should do it, but we never really do until it is too late...
If you really wanted to blame someone, you can at least partially blame Steve Jobs. Wikipedia mentions that one of the reason Firewire wasn't as popular as USB was the high licensing and manufacturing costs compared to USB. (One of the IP owners is Apple). This gentleman mentions that just when Apple was going to give away licenses for a fairly cheap price (1997 or something), Steve came back to Apple and decided that maybe they should charge more. This made everyone unhappy (including Intel) and the rest is history.
I suppose nobody will read this as the topic is pretty old now, but oh well.
Actually, they seem to base their conclusion not only on that fact, but also because they had theorized that it might be that way from computer models that predicted when Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 reached the termination. So far Voyager 1 (actually, not sure on V1) and Voyager 2 reached the termination shock around where they thought they would according to the model that the Solar System is asymmetrical as described in TFA. (Thisarcicle briefly mentions the computer model)
Example: TSS-1R. Space Shuttle Columbia deployed this as part of NASA's series of experiments with orbital tethers (for "hanging" craft from other craft and for raising and lowering orbits).
That was a nice tid bit of information, thank-you. Looking it up out of curiosity, it also appears that the TSS-1R experiment on STS-75 was the first time Linux was used in orbit! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-75#Trivia)
Actually, TFA is not misleading at all.
I am one of the Systems Admin for a company with 2000+ users. We use WSUS for updating our clients, and our WSUS settings are set to not install any updates of any kind what so ever unless we explicitly approved of them.
Yesterday ALL of our users suddenly got the Windows Desktop Search app. We double checked our WSUS settings, confirmed that updates only install with approval, and also explicitly "Declined" the Windows Desktop Search. It still continued to roll out, even though we said we didn't want it!
We use Lotus Notes for our corperate e-mail, and so Outlook is not installed on any computers, and so of course since Windows Desktop Search indexes your Outlook e-mail, and since we didn't have it, everytime a user logs on now, they get two error messages about that it can't find Outlook and can't index your e-mail. Ridiculus!!!!!
Called Microsoft for support (we have an enterprise license) and said they would "look into it" and "get back to us". No matter that our users are calling like crazy and wondering what is going on...
I *hate* Microsoft now.
Because here in the Netherlands I recently got a 3G phone (Sony Ericsson W880i) and included with my subscription is ~9 channels of televsion. My TV is streamed over the 3G connection, and only buffers for about 3 seconds when I switch channels, with stereo sound too. No artifacts or funny business even with low signal strength, nor switching between cell towers (I only use the TV when travelling to and from work on the train)
Also in my subscription is a couple of free songs that I can download using the 3G. I have any downloaded song within a minute. Web browsing (on Opera Mini, with HTML and NOT mobile pages) feels nearly as fast as my computer at home. Can EDGE, at only 0.2 Mb do that????
Of course, maybe it does, as I have never used EDGE, but at least would try BOTH technologies before I claim one is better than the other.
You are correct, it is an engineering camera. The article states (http://www.jaxa.jp/press/2007/10/20071009_kaguya_e.html#at01) that the images are from a camera specifically there to monitor the high gain antenna. I can't wait for the HD camera photos, those ones will probably be really nice!
...and blocked.
Google, you probably have, sorry, had, one of the only set of ad servers I never blocked. Until now.
Sorry, but anything that moves without my propmpting it is a distraction and will be blocked.
You're right, they are not "cell" phones anymore!
P2P phones...maybe. Doesn't have a nice ring to it though does it? Hmmm, emmy see here. The phones are always moving around through aren't they? Maybe they should be called "mobile" phones. Like they are currently called in Sweden.
Doesn't AT&T have any features that tell you what your current balance is?
Here in the Netherlands, I had a contract with Orange. You can send an SMS to a number and it will then reply to you with either: a) How many minutes you have left on your plan for that month, or b) what your next bill will be if you never use your phone again for the month if you are over your minutes.
And to add to that.
A friend of mine went to Spain for a vacation and brought his laptop with a UMTS (3G) card in it. After two days in spain, his mobile carrier called him him, and told him that his data usage was already at 200 euros while only roaming for two days so far, and were just making sure he *knew* that he was using it like crazy, before he racked it up any further. He was extreamly thankful they called to tell him that, as he had no idea the roaming charges were up until then (he never bothered to look it up) How is that for customer service?
Doesn't any carrier in the US have things like this??? Letting people get to $4800 without them knowing it, when the carrier *knows* 99% of their customers can't afford something like that is completely retarded IMHO.
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.
-Ralph W. Sockman
The Azureus BitTorrent client online support wiki maintains a list. Quite handy for trouble shooting download speed problems and which ISPs to avoid if you intend to use BitTorrent (even for legitimate purposes)
The link: http://www.azureuswiki.com/index.php/Bad_ISPs
Time Warner is not in the U.S. list, but since it is a wiki, we could just add it. (Unless it is listed under a different name I don't know about)
I used to think that was a good idea, until I under realized the true power of stupid people.
As a system admin at my company, we got a call from a user who said she was a victim of a phishing scam, and wanted to see if we could get a copy of the phising e-mail she was sent so she could forward it to her bank and the police, but since she had already deleted it.
We managed to recover the phising e-mail. It was a standard phishing e-mail, however, it was not sent to her form the phisher him/herself, but from a friend of hers!
The subject had the FWD: tag at the begining, and the first line of the e-mail said, "Hey look! A banking scam! Why don't we all put in bogus information and screw them up! hehe!", but this user clicked on the link and entered her *real* information, as she thought it really was from her bank after she read the "security warning" below her friends comment.
Don't under estimate the power of the stupid.
I fail to see how this might make a difference in getting Linux sold on a larger scale. The company I work for only gets our servers from Dell, and one of the operating choices for an OS is RadHat Enterprise. They have been offering Linux on their servers for years!