You seem to be assuming the FBI kept them running all this time because they gave a crap about the affected people.
How delightfully quaint...
By the way - this message may come as a surprise but it turns out, I have a Nigerian Prince in my family who is struggling to make an overseas transfer. Please send me your Name, Address, Telephone Number, SSN, CC numbers (with PINs and CVV's) and bank account details (with web login passwords) and I'll cut you in for a $ couple of million.
I get most of that, but where'd you get 28.5 from?? It's 30.4 if that's for (the average number of) "days in a month"
So I get 3206.25GB. That's GIGABYTES by the way - you GIBIstards can stfu.
That is, 3206.25GB to regular folks. If you want to fit it on a hard drive you'll need a 3.5TB drive, because hard drive manufacturers, like Gibistards, are not regular folks.
I didn't think that comment was particularly offtopic. I've been saying for years that storage and not generation, is a bigger problem.
Solar panels are getting pretty cheap - although it pisses me off that they keep pumping money into making them more efficient rather than making them cheaper. While I'd love to have super-efficient panels that mean I never have to plug in my phone or laptop again, I'd sooner have "normal" dirt cheap panels I can replace the tiles on my roof with.
I'm still waiting for my Sodium Sulfur Battery - 50kWh storage in a fridge sized unit with a 10 year life cycle @$4k...
Of course, once we've figured out how to store free power cheaply, it doesn't take a genius to figure out who's holding us back from that...
His made up figures *at least* he got one part right - he put it in terms of PROFIT.
In other words he wasn't arguing that publishing is free. He was arguing that the publishers get the lion's share of the PROFIT - which seems to be a fairly well established fact...
Jeez, you kids are young...
Did you never wonder where the phrase "Hold the line, please" comes from?
It's a request to keep the line open. The caller being able to keep the line open, is by design.
Perhaps some providers no longer adhere to this standard but if yours do, there's your answer.
Ok, so let me get this right. You have to agree to permissions for everything an android app does?
Yes.
Do you just spend your whole life agreeing to stuff on your phone?
[Sarcasm]Yes that's right, because I spend every waking moment installing apps on my phone...[/Sarcasm]
I'll take my iPhone, it works, and it always works thank you.
Ok, so let me get this right. You hand over ALL your trust to the app store, and you don't care what permissions an app gets. Because the iDrones at the app store would never make a mistake and let a bad app through, right? You have an iProduct because you like it simple, and reviewing what an app has permission to do while you're installing it is far too complicated for you?
I before E except after C AND 924 other exceptions, making it one of the stupidest "rules" ever. In fact there are more exceptions than the rule, which is why it's no longer taught in schools...
Who's to say they "snuck" in? There are probably a thousand valid reasons why you'd *let* someone use your computer - and you don't stand over their shoulder to make sure they're not doing anything they shouldn't. And yes, the same arguments could *and should* be used in child porn, etc cases. Otherwise you are prosecuting people without having proven *beyond all reasonable doubt* that it was them.
Quite right, too. If you're going to prosecute someone for child porn and ruin their lives, you better be *damn* sure they're guilty.
No clear benefit? Did you bother reading the post? You have heard of a flash drive, have you? You make "carrying bootable equipment" sound like a big deal. Mine's a 16Gb Corsair. Fill that sucker up with mp3's and tell me I got no benefit. Hell, my *phone's* got 4Gb. That's before I even whip the 250gb usb laptop drive out my pocket.
Guns...Who said anything about *not* reporting it stolen? Who said anything about *not noticing* it was stolen until after the fact. Do *you* check your gun safe every day to make sure it's still there? Oh, and you seem to have conveniently overlooked "(unless party 'a' were somehow proven to be implicated or was somehow negligent)" which makes you a journalist, or a lawyer.:-)
Didn't we go throught he same crap a few years ago with monitor sizes, that led to monitor specs needing to be "actual size" rather than some "actual viewable size" in the (very) fine print?
All that's going to happen here, is that drive manufacturers will be forced to dial down their figures a bit, to comply with what *everybody except them* calls a gigabyte...
Flash in the pan, folks... nothing to see here other than a trend towards not getting a drive that's actually only 90% in "real life" of what it's advertised as.
Personally never had a problem with it, tbh, being something 99.999% of us knew about and lived with.
"They know you can secure access to your own computer and will attribute responsibility for it."
HAHAHAhahahahaha.....
Give the right person physical access, and all bets are off. In fact, I'm surprised none of the defence lawyers have used this to their advantage. Set up a demonstration in the courtroom of exactly how "hard" it is to get into the average computer if you have physical access.
You don't even need to touch their HD or break their passwords (barring a bios password). Bootable flash drive? Portable apps anyone?
Well, that, plus it's the same as prosecuting party 'a' because party 'b' stole their firearm and used it in a crime, which would never stand up in court (unless party 'a' were somehow proven to be implicated or was somehow negligent).
But then laws do seem open to interpretation, to suit the crime^h^h^h^h^hmoney?
The money I sent him to help get out with the cash was for him to HIRE a helicopter, dammit, not create all this publicity! Now how's he going to get 14 crates of President Liposuction's gold out of the damn country discretely?
A $40M, 3 year study into motor vehicle accidents has revealed a startling statistic.
"People don't seem to realise it, but these incidents happen far more than previously thought. It is now clear, that there is almost a 100% probability of a moving vehicle passing within 3M of another. Furthermore, if the vehicles are travelling in opposite directions, they will do so at a relative speed to one another of up to 120mph."
"...but, the study concluded, the most alarming fact of all to be revealed is that these vehicles are not only missing other vehicles by a few meters, but pedestrians (and children!) too. Clearly, the government needs to take immediate action, and fund another subcomittee to keep us in work^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hprotect these vulnerable children".
Since I'm on the road much of the time these days, rarely get the opportunity (or inclination) to post anything on/.
Rarely have I EVER been even close to tempted, to stop what I'm doing and reply to a post.
This really is the most pointless and ridiculous article I've seen on the front page for a long time, and I've seen some ridiculous articles believe me...
Love the picture on the front page though.
Only goes to show a girl CAN take it from behind and build a PC at the same time. GO GIRLS. Next, perhaps we should give them the vote and let them out of the kitchen once in a while. Who knew how much we'd underestimated them all these years...
Tape drive? TAPE DRIVE? And you skipped 8 inch floppies? You were lucky... We had to get up at 10.30pm, half an hour before we went to bed, and work a 29 hour day at... Oh, wait a minute... drifted off for a moment there...
Our flight simulator software was on paper tape... which loaded onto 2Kb "core store" (memory with actual magnets woven into a 3d mesh of x, y and sense wires). One mainframe we had to bootstrap by programming registers with toggle switches...
When I left the Air Force and joined civvy life my first job was working on a system that still used punched cards (although we did upgrade to 2Mb hard disc packs)...
Nostalgia isn't about fond memories of anything in particular... it's fond memories of YOUTH...
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You seem to be assuming the FBI kept them running all this time because they gave a crap about the affected people.
How delightfully quaint...
By the way - this message may come as a surprise but it turns out, I have a Nigerian Prince in my family who is struggling to make an overseas transfer. Please send me your Name, Address, Telephone Number, SSN, CC numbers (with PINs and CVV's) and bank account details (with web login passwords) and I'll cut you in for a $ couple of million.
iNo, iBut iYou iAre iNfected iWith iThe iFanboi iTroll iVirus, iWhich iS iNfinitely iMore iAnnoying...
Didn't the UK recently refuse to extradite a rapist, Shawn Sullivan, because "he will be treated inhumanely in Minnesota's justice system"?
Do something that's a crime in BOTH countries, get away with it.
Do something that's NOT a crime in your home country, get extradited anyway.
So the British government are basically sending the message rape is okay, but tell someone where to find an MP3 and you're fucked.
UK - The "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Hollywood"
That is absurd. They are not a "sore loser", they literally cannot be since they are currently whining by any measure.
There, fixed that for ya. Your're welcome.
I get most of that, but where'd you get 28.5 from?? It's 30.4 if that's for (the average number of) "days in a month"
So I get 3206.25GB. That's GIGABYTES by the way - you GIBIstards can stfu.
That is, 3206.25GB to regular folks. If you want to fit it on a hard drive you'll need a 3.5TB drive, because hard drive manufacturers, like Gibistards, are not regular folks.
You mean RAPE - guilty until proven innocent as opposed to "RAPE" - innocent until proven guilty?
I didn't think that comment was particularly offtopic. I've been saying for years that storage and not generation, is a bigger problem.
Solar panels are getting pretty cheap - although it pisses me off that they keep pumping money into making them more efficient rather than making them cheaper. While I'd love to have super-efficient panels that mean I never have to plug in my phone or laptop again, I'd sooner have "normal" dirt cheap panels I can replace the tiles on my roof with.
I'm still waiting for my Sodium Sulfur Battery - 50kWh storage in a fridge sized unit with a 10 year life cycle @$4k...
Of course, once we've figured out how to store free power cheaply, it doesn't take a genius to figure out who's holding us back from that...
The gp actually was more believable than you...
His made up figures *at least* he got one part right - he put it in terms of PROFIT.
In other words he wasn't arguing that publishing is free. He was arguing that the publishers get the lion's share of the PROFIT - which seems to be a fairly well established fact...
Jeez, you kids are young... Did you never wonder where the phrase "Hold the line, please" comes from? It's a request to keep the line open. The caller being able to keep the line open, is by design. Perhaps some providers no longer adhere to this standard but if yours do, there's your answer.
Ok, so let me get this right. You have to agree to permissions for everything an android app does?
Yes.
Do you just spend your whole life agreeing to stuff on your phone?
[Sarcasm]Yes that's right, because I spend every waking moment installing apps on my phone...[/Sarcasm]
I'll take my iPhone, it works, and it always works thank you.
Ok, so let me get this right. You hand over ALL your trust to the app store, and you don't care what permissions an app gets. Because the iDrones at the app store would never make a mistake and let a bad app through, right? You have an iProduct because you like it simple, and reviewing what an app has permission to do while you're installing it is far too complicated for you?
468 corporate lawyers wring their hands in glee...
I before E except after C AND 924 other exceptions, making it one of the stupidest "rules" ever. In fact there are more exceptions than the rule, which is why it's no longer taught in schools...
Personally, I find that I am slowly developing an RSI type problem wrt touchpads and touchscreens, preventing extensive use. Anyone else?
Indeed. I notice my hands cramp up a lot faster on my Storm II than they did on my Bold 9700. I thought it was just me...
Bastards. It's all a cover story. They've declared war on The Clangers.
Who's to say they "snuck" in? There are probably a thousand valid reasons why you'd *let* someone use your computer - and you don't stand over their shoulder to make sure they're not doing anything they shouldn't. And yes, the same arguments could *and should* be used in child porn, etc cases. Otherwise you are prosecuting people without having proven *beyond all reasonable doubt* that it was them.
:-)
Quite right, too. If you're going to prosecute someone for child porn and ruin their lives, you better be *damn* sure they're guilty.
No clear benefit? Did you bother reading the post? You have heard of a flash drive, have you? You make "carrying bootable equipment" sound like a big deal. Mine's a 16Gb Corsair. Fill that sucker up with mp3's and tell me I got no benefit. Hell, my *phone's* got 4Gb. That's before I even whip the 250gb usb laptop drive out my pocket.
Guns...Who said anything about *not* reporting it stolen? Who said anything about *not noticing* it was stolen until after the fact. Do *you* check your gun safe every day to make sure it's still there? Oh, and you seem to have conveniently overlooked "(unless party 'a' were somehow proven to be implicated or was somehow negligent)" which makes you a journalist, or a lawyer.
Didn't we go throught he same crap a few years ago with monitor sizes, that led to monitor specs needing to be "actual size" rather than some "actual viewable size" in the (very) fine print?
All that's going to happen here, is that drive manufacturers will be forced to dial down their figures a bit, to comply with what *everybody except them* calls a gigabyte...
Flash in the pan, folks... nothing to see here other than a trend towards not getting a drive that's actually only 90% in "real life" of what it's advertised as.
Personally never had a problem with it, tbh, being something 99.999% of us knew about and lived with.
"They know you can secure access to your own computer and will attribute responsibility for it."
.....
HAHAHAhahahahaha
Give the right person physical access, and all bets are off. In fact, I'm surprised none of the defence lawyers have used this to their advantage. Set up a demonstration in the courtroom of exactly how "hard" it is to get into the average computer if you have physical access.
You don't even need to touch their HD or break their passwords (barring a bios password). Bootable flash drive? Portable apps anyone?
Well, that, plus it's the same as prosecuting party 'a' because party 'b' stole their firearm and used it in a crime, which would never stand up in court (unless party 'a' were somehow proven to be implicated or was somehow negligent).
But then laws do seem open to interpretation, to suit the crime^h^h^h^h^hmoney?
I tried, but he could only take Western Union.
The money I sent him to help get out with the cash was for him to HIRE a helicopter, dammit, not create all this publicity! Now how's he going to get 14 crates of President Liposuction's gold out of the damn country discretely?
A $40M, 3 year study into motor vehicle accidents has revealed a startling statistic.
"People don't seem to realise it, but these incidents happen far more than previously thought. It is now clear, that there is almost a 100% probability of a moving vehicle passing within 3M of another. Furthermore, if the vehicles are travelling in opposite directions, they will do so at a relative speed to one another of up to 120mph."
"...but, the study concluded, the most alarming fact of all to be revealed is that these vehicles are not only missing other vehicles by a few meters, but pedestrians (and children!) too. Clearly, the government needs to take immediate action, and fund another subcomittee to keep us in work^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hprotect these vulnerable children".
Since I'm on the road much of the time these days, rarely get the opportunity (or inclination) to post anything on /.
Rarely have I EVER been even close to tempted, to stop what I'm doing and reply to a post.
This really is the most pointless and ridiculous article I've seen on the front page for a long time, and I've seen some ridiculous articles believe me...
Love the picture on the front page though.
Only goes to show a girl CAN take it from behind and build a PC at the same time. GO GIRLS. Next, perhaps we should give them the vote and let them out of the kitchen once in a while. Who knew how much we'd underestimated them all these years...
"What's your least favorite "anti-social" behavior?"
That would be some smeghead videoing me with a camera embedded in his cap...
Well damn... and there was me thinking the pound was a unit of currency equal to 240d
Tape drive? TAPE DRIVE? And you skipped 8 inch floppies? You were lucky... We had to get up at 10.30pm, half an hour before we went to bed, and work a 29 hour day at... Oh, wait a minute... drifted off for a moment there...
Our flight simulator software was on paper tape... which loaded onto 2Kb "core store" (memory with actual magnets woven into a 3d mesh of x, y and sense wires). One mainframe we had to bootstrap by programming registers with toggle switches...
When I left the Air Force and joined civvy life my first job was working on a system that still used punched cards (although we did upgrade to 2Mb hard disc packs)...
Nostalgia isn't about fond memories of anything in particular... it's fond memories of YOUTH...
FTL? WTF? Everybody knows that FTL drives are a work of fiction.
No, my friend, what you need is a warp drive.
Hmm... With a bit of luck they'll cure tourette next...