And, for that matter, Verizon FiOS telephone service is a very similar concept, except it's sent over a dedicated fiber optic mode (for multi-mode fiber service areas) or over a dedicated fiber optic line (for single-mode fiber service areas). It likewise doesn't use VoIP. Like cable telephony, FiOS telephone service also works perfectly with security systems, fax, etc.
The telephone land line you get from traditional cable companies like Cox and Comcast *is not* VoIP. It is digital telephony over dedicated cable TV channels. This is similar to how cable modems move data over multiple cable TV channels.
So, unless you specifically subscribed to VoIP service, you are using digital telephony, and that's not internet.
The land line still requires power and a backup battery at your premises, but it does not use the internet, and it works *perfectly* with security systems, fax machines, TTY for the deaf, and just about everything else that uses copper phone lines.
Is XEmacs moribund? It was my go-to editor since GNU Emacs still can't handle multiple columns properly on a terminal window. Unfortunately it feels like someone ported the bad terminal code from GNU Emacs a few years ago into XEmacs and now they both suck in Linux terminal windows.
Umm, what? Turn your head. And position your mirrors so you have to lean your head to see the side of your car.
Traffic is never so dense you can't force yourself in if you just turn your head to look.
I drive a truck with limited visibility in heavy Washington DC and New York City traffic. I don't understand how people have so much trouble turning their heads.
Yeah, it sucks, but, then, C not an easy programming environment.
Pointer arithmetic aside, I remember the days when you had to run a preprocessor to be able have a C program to query a database. As bad as the code we wrote had looked for consumption by the preprocessor, the code coming out the other end of it was barely readable and nearly impossible to debug and profile.
So we had to write stubs that return baked database data structures during development to keep our sanity and be able to even debug the thing. We'd defer the embedded SQL part until later in the implementation phase, and that mess introduces problems of its own, like stack overflows, buffer overruns, and mutual exclusion deadlocks (along with other multi-threaded problems which are another can of worms).
It was a cold, wet, hairy ball of pain and panic that I'm glad to see has gone away.
C++ is kind of better, Java and C# are simply amazing, and the newest scripting languages (am I still allowed to call them that?) are just phenomenal.
What? VirtualBox is a very good type 2 hypervisor with hardware graphics acceleration and all the features anyone would need. I routinely run 6 large VMs on my workstation using VirtualBox under Windows.
There's no need to spread false ideas about VirtualBox.
Woz is jumping the gun on BlueTooth. It's fine, but the adapters are wildly inconsistent and even if they support the better codecs, certain brands don't handshake with other brands and have to fall back to the lower-quality SBC or low-bitrate MP2.
Back when I decided to install BlueTooth adapters to play music from phones and iPods through nice stereos at home and in the car, I went through three BlueTooth receiving units that claimed to support the aptX codec until I found one that successfully worked with my most often used devices.
Even then, that unit (a well-known brand name) would not support aptX with certain Android tablets but did support at least one high-definition codec (the sound quality change is demonstrable).
Unfortunately both consumers and the industry at large do not have good understanding of how BlueTooth works for A2DP in regards to codec selection and handshake. Try to look on the label, and if it has aptX, and it's a well-known brand name that starts with the letter "L," it should support high-quality audio with anything. I haven't seen ones that specifically mention anything except aptX codec, probably because the license to use aptX likely requires the label.
And if you're connecting to a car, all bets are off.
Some people don't remember that Cisco started manufacturing servers several years ago after getting snubbed on costs by a certain large maker of servers and cancelling their partnership.
I don't know why this is getting all this attention.
If you want to keep your old, obsolete router, then want you to pay extra.
If you want to get a new, modern, router for no charge, then you pay nothing. You then magically get higher speed data.
Source: I have the new FiOS router. I pay nothing extra for it. I am now getting 50+ megabits for no extra charge. I am also able to get 1 Gigabit service. I am using my existing DD-WRT router with full inbound/outbound access.
This is not a problem for anyone and it costs nothing.
You call Verizon and they send you a new FiOS router.
You plug in your existing router (say it's DD-WRT or whatever) into the new FiOS router.
You set your existing router (DD-WRT or whatever) in the DMZ or pass-through setting in the new FiOS router, just like you did before.
Your existing router (DD-WRT or whatever) has full inbound/outbound internet access with no restrictions.
No extra costs apply. Your speeds get faster. You gain the ability to sign up for a 1 Gigabit internet connection.
This article has generated some seriously bad Slashdot knee-jerk coverage here. I have the new FiOS router. I do not pay more money. I am using the same DD-WRT router I have been using for years which still has complete inbound/outbout access.
This affects nobody. You can use any router you want, and you do want to use the new FiOS router to get the highest speeds over the MoCa connection.
You merely set the router you want to use to be exposed to the internet using the "DMZ" feature. I have the latest FiOS router and it works perfectly with DD-WRT just fine. I have full inbound/outbound control without restrictions.
It's not about government surveillance. It's because the FBI director needs to bring his laptop into secure facilities which require such things to be disabled and/or covered up. It's easier to have an easy-to-see thing over the lens than to have to certify that the camera is disabled.
The only reason the director blocked the camera is because it's required to not have recording devices in secure locations.
They will block the camera and sometimes press needles into the microphones. If the laptop or device is required to be in the secure facility most of the time then they will physically remove the circuit boards that hold the cameras and microphones and put a label on the device somewhere noting that the devices have been removed. They may also remove or cut the traces to the BlueTooth and WiFi circuits, too.
Zuckerberg is making a gratuitous assumption about something he saw. He is being fooled if they told him it was for any sort of "personal privacy" reason and actually believed it.
I think it's interesting to observe how so many people assume he is so incredibly much smarter than anyone else and his random assumptions and beliefs are automatically some kind of amazing fact.
"Help other members to migrate Ubuntu desktop to SW64 and Loongson architecture (SW64 is Shen Wei 64-bit, based on Alpha; and Loongson is a kind of machine of MIPs)."
And: "At present, Migrating several Applications to Ubuntu desktop under SW64 and Loongson architecture (it is mainly about qemu development with qemu upstream members)."
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And, for that matter, Verizon FiOS telephone service is a very similar concept, except it's sent over a dedicated fiber optic mode (for multi-mode fiber service areas) or over a dedicated fiber optic line (for single-mode fiber service areas). It likewise doesn't use VoIP. Like cable telephony, FiOS telephone service also works perfectly with security systems, fax, etc.
The telephone land line you get from traditional cable companies like Cox and Comcast *is not* VoIP. It is digital telephony over dedicated cable TV channels. This is similar to how cable modems move data over multiple cable TV channels.
So, unless you specifically subscribed to VoIP service, you are using digital telephony, and that's not internet.
The land line still requires power and a backup battery at your premises, but it does not use the internet, and it works *perfectly* with security systems, fax machines, TTY for the deaf, and just about everything else that uses copper phone lines.
Fine, but please don't replace your rendering engine. We need to have an independent page rendering engine that competes with WebKit.
No, no no. Alto was out before Google Inbox. The Google Inbox service was a ripoff of an early 2014 version of Alto.
This was a few months after AOL Reader was launched to lure people who were abandoned by Google Reader.
It's not like we haven't had 1Password, LastPass, and Password Safe for at least the past decade.
What year is this? Seriously, man, what decade is this?
Is XEmacs moribund? It was my go-to editor since GNU Emacs still can't handle multiple columns properly on a terminal window. Unfortunately it feels like someone ported the bad terminal code from GNU Emacs a few years ago into XEmacs and now they both suck in Linux terminal windows.
No. Facebook was to lease part of the payload. Facebook has nothing to do with the satellite otherwise.
What kind of journalism is this? The satellite did not "belong to Facebook." The company was merely leasing part of the payload.
Apple doesn't usually misses out on these things.
Umm, what? Turn your head. And position your mirrors so you have to lean your head to see the side of your car.
Traffic is never so dense you can't force yourself in if you just turn your head to look.
I drive a truck with limited visibility in heavy Washington DC and New York City traffic. I don't understand how people have so much trouble turning their heads.
Oh, so like a locomotive's dead-man's switch.
They should call this new feature the "dead-man's switch."
That name will fit the fate of many of their customers.
Yeah, it sucks, but, then, C not an easy programming environment.
Pointer arithmetic aside, I remember the days when you had to run a preprocessor to be able have a C program to query a database. As bad as the code we wrote had looked for consumption by the preprocessor, the code coming out the other end of it was barely readable and nearly impossible to debug and profile.
So we had to write stubs that return baked database data structures during development to keep our sanity and be able to even debug the thing. We'd defer the embedded SQL part until later in the implementation phase, and that mess introduces problems of its own, like stack overflows, buffer overruns, and mutual exclusion deadlocks (along with other multi-threaded problems which are another can of worms).
It was a cold, wet, hairy ball of pain and panic that I'm glad to see has gone away.
C++ is kind of better, Java and C# are simply amazing, and the newest scripting languages (am I still allowed to call them that?) are just phenomenal.
What? VirtualBox is a very good type 2 hypervisor with hardware graphics acceleration and all the features anyone would need. I routinely run 6 large VMs on my workstation using VirtualBox under Windows.
There's no need to spread false ideas about VirtualBox.
Woz is jumping the gun on BlueTooth. It's fine, but the adapters are wildly inconsistent and even if they support the better codecs, certain brands don't handshake with other brands and have to fall back to the lower-quality SBC or low-bitrate MP2.
Back when I decided to install BlueTooth adapters to play music from phones and iPods through nice stereos at home and in the car, I went through three BlueTooth receiving units that claimed to support the aptX codec until I found one that successfully worked with my most often used devices.
Even then, that unit (a well-known brand name) would not support aptX with certain Android tablets but did support at least one high-definition codec (the sound quality change is demonstrable).
Unfortunately both consumers and the industry at large do not have good understanding of how BlueTooth works for A2DP in regards to codec selection and handshake. Try to look on the label, and if it has aptX, and it's a well-known brand name that starts with the letter "L," it should support high-quality audio with anything. I haven't seen ones that specifically mention anything except aptX codec, probably because the license to use aptX likely requires the label.
And if you're connecting to a car, all bets are off.
Some people don't remember that Cisco started manufacturing servers several years ago after getting snubbed on costs by a certain large maker of servers and cancelling their partnership.
Wow, here's someone who doesn't actually own or ever bothered to use an Amazon device.
Or you're trolling.
Next!
I don't know why this is getting all this attention.
If you want to keep your old, obsolete router, then want you to pay extra.
If you want to get a new, modern, router for no charge, then you pay nothing. You then magically get higher speed data.
Source: I have the new FiOS router. I pay nothing extra for it. I am now getting 50+ megabits for no extra charge. I am also able to get 1 Gigabit service. I am using my existing DD-WRT router with full inbound/outbound access.
Reading comprehension is not a crime.
This is not a problem for anyone and it costs nothing.
You call Verizon and they send you a new FiOS router.
You plug in your existing router (say it's DD-WRT or whatever) into the new FiOS router.
You set your existing router (DD-WRT or whatever) in the DMZ or pass-through setting in the new FiOS router, just like you did before.
Your existing router (DD-WRT or whatever) has full inbound/outbound internet access with no restrictions.
No extra costs apply. Your speeds get faster. You gain the ability to sign up for a 1 Gigabit internet connection.
This article has generated some seriously bad Slashdot knee-jerk coverage here. I have the new FiOS router. I do not pay more money. I am using the same DD-WRT router I have been using for years which still has complete inbound/outbout access.
I also now have 50+ megabit for no extra charge.
This affects nobody. You can use any router you want, and you do want to use the new FiOS router to get the highest speeds over the MoCa connection.
You merely set the router you want to use to be exposed to the internet using the "DMZ" feature. I have the latest FiOS router and it works perfectly with DD-WRT just fine. I have full inbound/outbound control without restrictions.
Yeah, especially when their content producers are dishonest about how they "earn" that money.
http://www.theverge.com/2016/7...
Yeah, you can't do anything without the PIN. Very interesting observation about his report that omitted any acknowledgement of the PIN camera.
It's not about government surveillance. It's because the FBI director needs to bring his laptop into secure facilities which require such things to be disabled and/or covered up. It's easier to have an easy-to-see thing over the lens than to have to certify that the camera is disabled.
The only reason the director blocked the camera is because it's required to not have recording devices in secure locations.
They will block the camera and sometimes press needles into the microphones. If the laptop or device is required to be in the secure facility most of the time then they will physically remove the circuit boards that hold the cameras and microphones and put a label on the device somewhere noting that the devices have been removed. They may also remove or cut the traces to the BlueTooth and WiFi circuits, too.
Zuckerberg is making a gratuitous assumption about something he saw. He is being fooled if they told him it was for any sort of "personal privacy" reason and actually believed it.
I think it's interesting to observe how so many people assume he is so incredibly much smarter than anyone else and his random assumptions and beliefs are automatically some kind of amazing fact.
"Write off" doesn't mean what you think it means.
And if you think Uber/Lyft pay anywhere near the $0.54/mile rate that an employer would pay, you're in for a shock. It's a small fraction of that.
You obviously need a tax advisor, and if you already have one you definitely need a new one.
Check this LinkedIn profile:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/ch...
"Help other members to migrate Ubuntu desktop to SW64 and Loongson architecture (SW64 is Shen Wei 64-bit, based on Alpha; and Loongson is a kind of machine of MIPs)."
And:
"At present, Migrating several Applications to Ubuntu desktop under SW64 and Loongson architecture (it is mainly about qemu development with qemu upstream members)."