For example, XP will defrag your disk without you asking it to as soon as you're marginally idle
XP will not. OS X will. In fact, OS X will defrag your thumb drive without your permission. It was bad enough that it was wearing my disk for no benefit, but it also made my thumb drive remarkably non-resiliant to power outages.
XP *will* in fact. Just check the task manager when idle, you'll notice the defrag program running in the background with HDD activity. That's why I can leave my Windows XP workstations on 24/7 and then when I decide to defrag once a month, there isn't much to defrag at all. I never knew why until I caught my system doing a "hidden" defrag via task manager one day when I noticed HDD activity and nothing was going on with the desktop.
Within a week, Obama's poll numbers took a nosedive and McCain led in both national polls and electoral vote count.
Where have you been, last I checked Obama/McCain were still neck and neck in the polls. Just goes to show no one really cared about Palin except for the 15 minutes of fame she got before everyone found out who she really was.
I particularly like the little bit about how they will hold off on implementation while these important privacy concerns can be addressed.
Who wants to bet that addressing this means waiting under a rock until no one's looking and then going forward with substantially the same nonsense?
I agree, it will be a "wait until they forget" approach or "wait until we pay off enough people that no one can do anything regardless" instead.
Either way, if it should someone make it out, then the best way to fight back is to attack the wallet and make all the data collected "useless" in a sense.
This site uses a small script and the clients who visit with their web browser as a tool to visit junk, random, or non-existent sites so that they won't be able to collect any meaningful data. Get enough people doing it on the ISP and fill their log files with garbage all day.
This site to pollute nebuad like devices at the ISP: http://wanip.org/anti-nebuad/
Here is a high speed BitTorrent Link for the download link above. It's the Windows, US-English version. Mainly, if for some reason you gotta have it now and the download link is too busy, this may work. I wouldn't encourage this as a way to bypass the download link to mess with the Mozilla counter, but mainly for those that need this particular version and the download servers are too busy at the moment when they gotta have it.
It's a shame that can't count how many unique downloads come from a BT download. I'll keep seeding this one for a while though, as it might make a good overflow during the rush.
That's a big leak and a big privacy breach, but can this realistically lead to legal action against BT? Whether it does or not, someone has already taken the initiative to setup a page to generate fake web pages (or real ones) to pollute the data they collect. So if you can't get them out legally, you can make the data they collect useless, which hits them in the pocketbook and might be more effective than legal countermeasures.
You'll find the site here: http://wanip.org/anti-nebuad/ in which every browser becomes a data-mining polluter when it's run. Get enough those on a suspect ISP and watch the CEO's have a heart attack from the "pollution attack".
Also, I never said motors made us safer, I said that they shouldn't share the road with bikes, the speed difference thing again. The speed difference is moot, even if you can do the speed limit, they will still pass you. I can keep up with any speed limit under 45 MPH on my electric bike and people still insist on blowing past you as fast as they can. I don't know how may times I was doing 40 MPH in a 30 MPH lane and people, still speed past you, all of them in the slow lane go out of their way to pass you instead of just following.
It's less about speed difference and more about respect which many motorist don't have for cyclist, plain and simple. At least it's that was over in the USA, other countries are better as this from what my foreign cyclist friends tell me.
I even have a video of such incidents, watch this one here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3995379778782687414&hl=en
and fast forward it to 7 minutes 20 seconds. I'm doing the speed limit "in the bike lane" and someone (black truck) still cut me off while both of us were going very fast. It's a good thing that bicycles can stop way better than vehicles, but still, it's just another example of no respect.
Speed can be an issue, but as a avid cyclist, respect is the real issue all cyclist encounter way more times than the speed issue.
Unfortunately, everyone has already realized that PHP is an insecure, featureless piece of crap. Real web developers have moved onto other platforms, or stuck with Perl. I think I hear this every time someone has been hurt by a buddy who was able to code circles around them in PHP while they struggled in Perl. Real web developers use every tool at their disposal, not just Perl or PHP only. Your statement alone shows the conceit you have about your own skills as compared to everyone else that makes a living doing web development, apparently much more successfully than you.
Even if every/.'er did this, it still would be a drop in a bucket compared to the number of folks who happily pay the fee.
For example, many pay wifi points can be circumvented just by connecting to a VPN over UDP (since they're only filtering TCP requests). I doubt they're going broke due to that issue though.. Here's how in Firefox.
Download and install the "User Agent Switcher", then add new user agent with:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1C28 Safari/419.3
Go to StarBucks and hit up the wi-fi, you get the standard login screen that the iPhone uses, put in a valid phone number and well free wi-fi I guess. It's also interesting to visit websites to see what kind of iPhone page they have this way (cnn.com for example)
Go back to old school games that run fantastic on new hardware like NWN. I've been running a game server for the NWN world for over 6 years and when it comes to social interaction and new quest and areas to keep players busy, WOW has nothing on us. Go here for more info if you like, but I figured I would post this comment rather than use my mod points;-)
http://ooapw.net/
Well, everyone seems to be missing the fact that he's using AC current from the outlet to supply the power. How exactly is this producing free energy again? I can hear the buzz when he switches it on, it's the classic hum of AC power through an electric motor. Just because it spins up to 100 RPM means really nothing. The videos do not lend to any anything except speculation since we can't see this unit doing this in a middle of a large area with no power cords running up to it.
"Nearly every document stored by every business in the world is stored in Microsoft formats at this point."
Well I wasn't sure what to do with my mod points, but I just had to reply to this one. The Microsoft format, while very popular, is not "the" format for all and every business. I know many of private business and government agencies just in my area alone that use Open Office to store all documents. Converting to Microsoft word when someone just has to have it in that format. I've helped many more convert to some kind of Open Office or the likes format for many business. Business don't care what format it is, as long as it's portable and best of all is cheap (or free). I don't know how many IT admins have thank me for clearing up the tremendous trash that Microsoft builds up in their files to make a simple one page letter eat 10 times more space than an Open Office document of the exact same text on their file servers. It's nice to see letters and spreadsheets that don't eat up so much space for so little data inside (at least the data that the business cares about anyway).
So yeah, it's popular, but the world certainly not 100% all Microsoft documents.
This is not the exact battery in question, but this is not the first time some voltage cut off problems have been observed with those batteryspace.com packs. You'll find a very detailed posting about the 37V/8AH Lipoly here:
http://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5 05
This was back in March, so the problem existed in earlier batteries as well. As a NiMH battery owner from batteryspace.com I've been a happy customer, but I can't speak for the Lipoly batteries as I have not tried them myself.
Didn't work for me. First it gives you a warning, which for me would be a red flag, but if you click to launch anyway, nothing happens. So what version of Firefox did they mean? I'm using 2.0.0.4 on Windows XP and as far as I can tell, this exploit is a non-exploit.
I downloaded the plugin just to give it a try. Never had any problems with embedded video except at cnn.com I thought maybe the plugin would fix that problem. After installing and giving firefox a restart, it still won't work with the cnn.com and nothing else appears to be different. Not sure what the point of the plugin was, but don't waste your time with it like I did. It solved nothing from what it appears to me.
Using Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Windows XP Pro SP2
No more maintenance that any other battery. If you want to get some feedback from people that are already using these, check out this electric vehicle forum. http://endless-sphere.com/forums/
I think they are already ahead of what most think is possible with electric vehicle transportation.
Now, unless you know what mosaic settings I used, I don't see anyone cracking these numbers anytime soon. I think this sounds good in theory, but no good in practice unless everyone is using the exact same software to do the mosaic modification.
I have one and do exactly that. It has about 500 feet radius range and works wonders during the movie. No phone calls. If anyone has to make a phone call, they see that they have no signal and just leave the theater for the rest of us to enjoy the movie. Illegal to use, yes. Illegal to buy, no.
"I couldn't make the switch because the Thunderbird search wasn't as good as the Eudora search and Thunderbird couldn't do simple things like sort search result dates in "date order". Maybe it's better now...guess I'll find out one way or another."
Huh? I use the search all the time and sort by date? Click the "Date" Column and that should take care of it. That's been around for a long time now in Thunderbird, but hopefully this information will help:-)
It's true there are a lot of fake videos on youtube, but don't let it smear the real ones.
I have a video of my daughter on youtube, not because it's fake, but for a real experience of the troubles her mother is causing our family. Because the mother has drained my resources in court, I've setup a donation page hoping that anyone out in the world would be nice enough to donate to the legal fund.
YouTube was a good way for a lot of people to see my video and visit my webpage to further my cause or shrug their shoulders and say too bad for her.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne63cXIUWAA
I agree that DRM is a hassle, but a lot of people are still buying music for the format. I kind of see like spam e-mail. No one wants it, but enough people buy into it to keep it going. Any music you buy from iTunes, Wal-mart, etc that uses DRM only gives you a short term license to play the music anyway. So you have to download that DRM full of happiness file quickly or fork out more money for the same song. That's what really bothers me about how iTunes and all the others handle these DRM files they sell. I know a friend who spent thousands of dollars on iTunes songs. One day his computer had a HD crash and guess what, he lost all the music. So we rebuild his computer got iTunes back on and well crap he couldn't download those songs from iTunes again without having to repurchase them? WTF!
The only site that allowed him to re-download the file after a year was http://ind-muisc.com/ because 1) they don't sell DRM music and 2) they allow 2 years (yes years!) to download the file you purchased. I think even if it was 5 years you could e-mail them and get the files just because they hate DRM so much.
So DRM music is just like spam, no one wants it, too many people don't know any better, so it will continue to exist until people vote with their wallets and give business to the online music stores that sell DRM free music. Which plenty exist out there, they just don't have the advertising budget that Apple or Microsoft have.
Other than IE, most every other browser has the option to "delete everything" when you exit the program, I'm not sure how this one will be any different. Maybe it has lower memory footprint that may appeal to those with resource taxed systems.
The thing about the Wallet though will not work, to block signals you have to have something to ground to and a wallet is basically a floating circuit with no ground, thus will not block signals at all or as well if it were grounded.
I certainly agree that range is really where it's at. On average, I need to do about 10 miles a day for errands and other business related things. That's why instead of hauling around my SUV or even getting a hybrid electric car I made an hybrid electric bike. I can bypass all traffic in my town, it gets me around very fast and it only cost pennies to run. Plus the added health benefits, and fresh air can't be beat for the price. Really though , as futuristic as my bike may seem, the same thing could have been built 20 years ago and it's not really using modern technology.
If you want some more info or screen shots, you can find it all in the link below for the curious:-)
http://endless-sphere.com/index.php?option=com_con tent&task=view&id=13&Itemid=27
Slashdot Mirror
XP will not. OS X will. In fact, OS X will defrag your thumb drive without your permission. It was bad enough that it was wearing my disk for no benefit, but it also made my thumb drive remarkably non-resiliant to power outages.
XP *will* in fact. Just check the task manager when idle, you'll notice the defrag program running in the background with HDD activity. That's why I can leave my Windows XP workstations on 24/7 and then when I decide to defrag once a month, there isn't much to defrag at all. I never knew why until I caught my system doing a "hidden" defrag via task manager one day when I noticed HDD activity and nothing was going on with the desktop.
Within a week, Obama's poll numbers took a nosedive and McCain led in both national polls and electoral vote count.
Where have you been, last I checked Obama/McCain were still neck and neck in the polls. Just goes to show no one really cared about Palin except for the 15 minutes of fame she got before everyone found out who she really was.
I particularly like the little bit about how they will hold off on implementation while these important privacy concerns can be addressed.
Who wants to bet that addressing this means waiting under a rock until no one's looking and then going forward with substantially the same nonsense?
I agree, it will be a "wait until they forget" approach or "wait until we pay off enough people that no one can do anything regardless" instead.Either way, if it should someone make it out, then the best way to fight back is to attack the wallet and make all the data collected "useless" in a sense.
This site uses a small script and the clients who visit with their web browser as a tool to visit junk, random, or non-existent sites so that they won't be able to collect any meaningful data. Get enough people doing it on the ISP and fill their log files with garbage all day.
This site to pollute nebuad like devices at the ISP: http://wanip.org/anti-nebuad/
Here is a high speed BitTorrent Link for the download link above. It's the Windows, US-English version. Mainly, if for some reason you gotta have it now and the download link is too busy, this may work. I wouldn't encourage this as a way to bypass the download link to mess with the Mozilla counter, but mainly for those that need this particular version and the download servers are too busy at the moment when they gotta have it.
It's a shame that can't count how many unique downloads come from a BT download. I'll keep seeding this one for a while though, as it might make a good overflow during the rush.
Link: http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4244809
I even have a video of such incidents, watch this one here: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3995379778782687414&hl=en and fast forward it to 7 minutes 20 seconds. I'm doing the speed limit "in the bike lane" and someone (black truck) still cut me off while both of us were going very fast. It's a good thing that bicycles can stop way better than vehicles, but still, it's just another example of no respect.
Speed can be an issue, but as a avid cyclist, respect is the real issue all cyclist encounter way more times than the speed issue.
Download and install the "User Agent Switcher", then add new user agent with:
Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/1C28 Safari/419.3
Go to StarBucks and hit up the wi-fi, you get the standard login screen that the iPhone uses, put in a valid phone number and well free wi-fi I guess. It's also interesting to visit websites to see what kind of iPhone page they have this way (cnn.com for example)
Go back to old school games that run fantastic on new hardware like NWN. I've been running a game server for the NWN world for over 6 years and when it comes to social interaction and new quest and areas to keep players busy, WOW has nothing on us. Go here for more info if you like, but I figured I would post this comment rather than use my mod points ;-)
http://ooapw.net/
Well, everyone seems to be missing the fact that he's using AC current from the outlet to supply the power. How exactly is this producing free energy again? I can hear the buzz when he switches it on, it's the classic hum of AC power through an electric motor. Just because it spins up to 100 RPM means really nothing. The videos do not lend to any anything except speculation since we can't see this unit doing this in a middle of a large area with no power cords running up to it.
"Nearly every document stored by every business in the world is stored in Microsoft formats at this point."
Well I wasn't sure what to do with my mod points, but I just had to reply to this one. The Microsoft format, while very popular, is not "the" format for all and every business. I know many of private business and government agencies just in my area alone that use Open Office to store all documents. Converting to Microsoft word when someone just has to have it in that format. I've helped many more convert to some kind of Open Office or the likes format for many business. Business don't care what format it is, as long as it's portable and best of all is cheap (or free). I don't know how many IT admins have thank me for clearing up the tremendous trash that Microsoft builds up in their files to make a simple one page letter eat 10 times more space than an Open Office document of the exact same text on their file servers. It's nice to see letters and spreadsheets that don't eat up so much space for so little data inside (at least the data that the business cares about anyway).
So yeah, it's popular, but the world certainly not 100% all Microsoft documents.
This direct link appears to work better than the website embedding they have setup.
Direct Link to Movie File
http://www.terrafugia.com/mov_terrafugia_landing.mov
This is not the exact battery in question, but this is not the first time some voltage cut off problems have been observed with those batteryspace.com packs. You'll find a very detailed posting about the 37V/8AH Lipoly here: http://endless-sphere.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=5 05
This was back in March, so the problem existed in earlier batteries as well. As a NiMH battery owner from batteryspace.com I've been a happy customer, but I can't speak for the Lipoly batteries as I have not tried them myself.
Didn't work for me. First it gives you a warning, which for me would be a red flag, but if you click to launch anyway, nothing happens. So what version of Firefox did they mean? I'm using 2.0.0.4 on Windows XP and as far as I can tell, this exploit is a non-exploit.
I downloaded the plugin just to give it a try. Never had any problems with embedded video except at cnn.com I thought maybe the plugin would fix that problem. After installing and giving firefox a restart, it still won't work with the cnn.com and nothing else appears to be different. Not sure what the point of the plugin was, but don't waste your time with it like I did. It solved nothing from what it appears to me. Using Firefox 2.0.0.3 on Windows XP Pro SP2
No more maintenance that any other battery. If you want to get some feedback from people that are already using these, check out this electric vehicle forum. http://endless-sphere.com/forums/ I think they are already ahead of what most think is possible with electric vehicle transportation.
Long ago, I posted up a picture about Vonage 911 and a screenshot for dslreports.com long ago.0 c31ec1520970b77229393b7d713/vonage.png
You'll find it here:
http://www.dslreports.com/r0/download/800075~433b
Now, unless you know what mosaic settings I used, I don't see anyone cracking these numbers anytime soon. I think this sounds good in theory, but no good in practice unless everyone is using the exact same software to do the mosaic modification.
I have one and do exactly that. It has about 500 feet radius range and works wonders during the movie. No phone calls. If anyone has to make a phone call, they see that they have no signal and just leave the theater for the rest of us to enjoy the movie. Illegal to use, yes. Illegal to buy, no.
"I couldn't make the switch because the Thunderbird search wasn't as good as the Eudora search and Thunderbird couldn't do simple things like sort search result dates in "date order". Maybe it's better now...guess I'll find out one way or another."
:-)
Huh? I use the search all the time and sort by date? Click the "Date" Column and that should take care of it. That's been around for a long time now in Thunderbird, but hopefully this information will help
It's true there are a lot of fake videos on youtube, but don't let it smear the real ones. I have a video of my daughter on youtube, not because it's fake, but for a real experience of the troubles her mother is causing our family. Because the mother has drained my resources in court, I've setup a donation page hoping that anyone out in the world would be nice enough to donate to the legal fund. YouTube was a good way for a lot of people to see my video and visit my webpage to further my cause or shrug their shoulders and say too bad for her. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ne63cXIUWAA
I agree that DRM is a hassle, but a lot of people are still buying music for the format. I kind of see like spam e-mail. No one wants it, but enough people buy into it to keep it going. Any music you buy from iTunes, Wal-mart, etc that uses DRM only gives you a short term license to play the music anyway. So you have to download that DRM full of happiness file quickly or fork out more money for the same song. That's what really bothers me about how iTunes and all the others handle these DRM files they sell. I know a friend who spent thousands of dollars on iTunes songs. One day his computer had a HD crash and guess what, he lost all the music. So we rebuild his computer got iTunes back on and well crap he couldn't download those songs from iTunes again without having to repurchase them? WTF!
The only site that allowed him to re-download the file after a year was http://ind-muisc.com/ because 1) they don't sell DRM music and 2) they allow 2 years (yes years!) to download the file you purchased. I think even if it was 5 years you could e-mail them and get the files just because they hate DRM so much.
So DRM music is just like spam, no one wants it, too many people don't know any better, so it will continue to exist until people vote with their wallets and give business to the online music stores that sell DRM free music. Which plenty exist out there, they just don't have the advertising budget that Apple or Microsoft have.
Other than IE, most every other browser has the option to "delete everything" when you exit the program, I'm not sure how this one will be any different. Maybe it has lower memory footprint that may appeal to those with resource taxed systems.
The thing about the Wallet though will not work, to block signals you have to have something to ground to and a wallet is basically a floating circuit with no ground, thus will not block signals at all or as well if it were grounded.
I certainly agree that range is really where it's at. On average, I need to do about 10 miles a day for errands and other business related things. That's why instead of hauling around my SUV or even getting a hybrid electric car I made an hybrid electric bike. I can bypass all traffic in my town, it gets me around very fast and it only cost pennies to run. Plus the added health benefits, and fresh air can't be beat for the price. Really though , as futuristic as my bike may seem, the same thing could have been built 20 years ago and it's not really using modern technology. If you want some more info or screen shots, you can find it all in the link below for the curious :-)
http://endless-sphere.com/index.php?option=com_con tent&task=view&id=13&Itemid=27