Back when ATMs were a new thing I financed a holiday on credit by exploiting a bug in ATMs. Apparently the banks in those days did batch processing overnight and were unable to handle messages from their ATMs. So late at night you could withdraw money and push your account into debt.
Yes, agreed. My son has a very practical solar reading light. The battery pack and solar cell are in a removable module which I occasionally put on top of a post in the back yard to charge. Works okay with that architecture.
I pirated CP/M but now I run Linux and BSD. I didn't pay for either but the people who wrote linux and BSD somehow get paid. I am not sure that we have changed as much as we think.
How is this for a scenario: Missiles fly into the Hormuz in the wake of commercial airliners. Once overhead their target (and in the cone of silence of surveillance radars) they hit the target from above?
US naval ships won't have to be at their base in Bahrain. They might be patrolling the gulf, half way to Iran. So about 70 miles. Possibly a lot less if they are close to Iranian territorial waters.
Why? Iran has a few cruise missiles and no way to strike at the US home base. The US has several complete navies and a home base in Iraq, right next door. They also have hundreds of cruise missiles available. I real military terms nobody can take on the US directly.
Linus has made it clear in the past that it should be possible to change the license by broadcasting a proposal on the kernel developer mailing lists. I think is objection has more to do with the desires of corporations using the kernel in embedded applications with signed boot loaders.
GPL3 licensed code in the Linux kernel would have made a huge difference to people building their own versions of android to install on phones. But Linus didn't want to go there.
Can't stand the guy to be honest. I didn't suggest he install ubuntu to the laptop because I just know it will be a support nightmare for years to come. I helped him back up his own files when his system started to fail and I will help him with the win 7 reinstall. Hopefully that will be the end of my involvement.
Probably using metrics which measure how long test subjects spend looking at certain elements. Being hard to read slows down the user and makes the element seem more important to analysts.
Its nice to use on the touchpad. Feels a little bit laggy at times but that may be more from a lack of processing grunt than the choice of UI technology. For example rendering a web page takes longer than on a faster desktop.
You make an interesting point. I work in the field of transportation. Previously on traffic signals and now on air traffic control so I suppose buggy whips are in the same industry. You need to start up to date and current of course.
I am currently helping a family friend who's windows 7 laptop is loaded with cruft. He used my wifi a few months ago and I noticed it was exchanging UDP packets with various ADSL lines around the world. I advised him to reinstall it then but he pointed to all the shields on IE and insisted that they meant it was secure. So now his web browsers refuse to work at all. He doesn't have his installation disk here. It has to be sent from Malaysia. I hope his family are sending him the actual disk which came with the laptop and not one they got for ten RM in a market. In the mean time he is up and running with an ubuntu live CD.
The implication of this article is that the same mess is going to start happening with phones and tablets,
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Back when ATMs were a new thing I financed a holiday on credit by exploiting a bug in ATMs. Apparently the banks in those days did batch processing overnight and were unable to handle messages from their ATMs. So late at night you could withdraw money and push your account into debt.
md5sum `find . -type f` | sort
...and so on
POS apps
No, I don't think Eclipse runs in DOS.
Yes, agreed. My son has a very practical solar reading light. The battery pack and solar cell are in a removable module which I occasionally put on top of a post in the back yard to charge. Works okay with that architecture.
If it wasn't for gaming I'd be 100% free software
I pirated CP/M but now I run Linux and BSD. I didn't pay for either but the people who wrote linux and BSD somehow get paid. I am not sure that we have changed as much as we think.
You can get cheap solar battery chargers. In the right climate this phone might charge okay with one of those.
I am eagerly awaiting the discovery of Titanite.
There is dedicated hardware and online communities for that already.
How is this for a scenario: Missiles fly into the Hormuz in the wake of commercial airliners. Once overhead their target (and in the cone of silence of surveillance radars) they hit the target from above?
US naval ships won't have to be at their base in Bahrain. They might be patrolling the gulf, half way to Iran. So about 70 miles. Possibly a lot less if they are close to Iranian territorial waters.
Why? Iran has a few cruise missiles and no way to strike at the US home base. The US has several complete navies and a home base in Iraq, right next door. They also have hundreds of cruise missiles available. I real military terms nobody can take on the US directly.
Linus has made it clear in the past that it should be possible to change the license by broadcasting a proposal on the kernel developer mailing lists. I think is objection has more to do with the desires of corporations using the kernel in embedded applications with signed boot loaders.
If we are smart about it, it can last billions of years. The question is: are we smart?
Do you mean that the Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race?
GPL3 licensed code in the Linux kernel would have made a huge difference to people building their own versions of android to install on phones. But Linus didn't want to go there.
You don't sound like a very good friend
Can't stand the guy to be honest. I didn't suggest he install ubuntu to the laptop because I just know it will be a support nightmare for years to come. I helped him back up his own files when his system started to fail and I will help him with the win 7 reinstall. Hopefully that will be the end of my involvement.
Probably using metrics which measure how long test subjects spend looking at certain elements. Being hard to read slows down the user and makes the element seem more important to analysts.
Its nice to use on the touchpad. Feels a little bit laggy at times but that may be more from a lack of processing grunt than the choice of UI technology. For example rendering a web page takes longer than on a faster desktop.
You make an interesting point. I work in the field of transportation. Previously on traffic signals and now on air traffic control so I suppose buggy whips are in the same industry. You need to start up to date and current of course.
They do where I work.
...not to accept a non-engineering position. There is always demand for people who can make and fix things.
Without generic PCs I doubt Linux would survive. And without Linux you lose android. Without android the demand for generic PCs increases.
I am currently helping a family friend who's windows 7 laptop is loaded with cruft. He used my wifi a few months ago and I noticed it was exchanging UDP packets with various ADSL lines around the world. I advised him to reinstall it then but he pointed to all the shields on IE and insisted that they meant it was secure. So now his web browsers refuse to work at all. He doesn't have his installation disk here. It has to be sent from Malaysia. I hope his family are sending him the actual disk which came with the laptop and not one they got for ten RM in a market. In the mean time he is up and running with an ubuntu live CD.
The implication of this article is that the same mess is going to start happening with phones and tablets,
by Anonymous Coward on 2012-01-01 16:07 (#38554182)
Mmmm Peking duck.