If you are worth his kind of money, I think carrying $1,000 is a non-issue. He was, after all, staying at one of the Hilton's places, and depending on where he was going perhaps he preferred to pay for fuel in cash? I dunno, I used to carry $200 with me all the time and that was when I was earning $22K a year. If I was loaded I sure would carry $1k just on the occasion I needed it (10 x $100 bills is nothing, same in my pocket as $5 and 5 $1s)
My sisters and I have one wish before we die. And it may sound strange As if our minds are deranged Please don't ask us why Beneath the sheltering sky We have this strange obsession You have the means in your possession Tea in the sahara with you...
I don't know why, didn't RTFA but something about the summary about spending time in the desert with a bedouin made me think of this song. One of my faves from the Syncronicity II album. I think I still have it on vinyl in the basement somewhere in addition to MP3 on the Nano.
I love my Gmail account. I have never used my ISP email for anything. The day that people stop blocking Gmail accounts is the day that I cry... I did that once before when mailandnews.com stopped offering free email.
I really wish that Gmail had remained an invite only system. Obviously Captcha isn't stopping people from running bot networks. Can Gmail still remain an open system? I don't know. What about a reverification by everyone who owns a gmail address? Send out a blanket email with instructions for reverifying. Sure, there would be people who couldn't figure out how to get it done, but I'd bet it would eliminate millions of spammer addresses (though certainly not all). Once the verification is done, close it back up to invite only.
I am tired of fuzzy cameraphone shots. Heck, I had a camera on my palm pilot years ago and it took nothing but fuzzy 640x320 pictures. Nasty, and not a feature I can see anyone needing. You need to take pictures? Grab a proper $100 digital camera.
I have never played WoW, finding the monthly fee a bit too steep (and thinking I am too late to join in now anyway). But I used to play Diablo2 a lot. One day I found MapHack, a tool used to light up dungeons, highlight drops and other things. I got very used to playing with it on... so much so, that when Blizzard finally completely banned it and anyone using the tool, the game was almost completely unplayable.
The thing is, that tool was an enhancement to features of the game I found "broken". The first was that the dungeons were almost too dark, and the sight distances ridiculously short even when leveled up. The second was the insame amount of left clicking/mousing - the MapHack tool showed all items so you knew which ones to click on and which ones not to bother with.
Oh well, I was a cheat. Now I don't bother, even though DII was a really fun game for a long time. I have no idea what the WoW experience is like, but have to wonder if there is some baby-out-with-the-bathwater going on at Blizzard when they ban all cheats.
Yep, I get the 5 minute restriction all the time, especially when I am actively reading and posting. I agree it sucks. I also am a fast typist and get the "you must wait X seconds between hitting reply and posting" all the time. Presumably those restrictions are forcing me to be more thoughtful about my responses, and thus clutter the threads less with offtopic, trollish or redundant posts.
Trees are fairly "low maintainence" and produce at least one useful by product. Some (including one which should be obvious to Canadians) produce more than one useful product.
Agreed with this one. My laptop* won't hibernate, and sleep mode still uses some power (plus keeping the old non-switched transformer going). So I usually shut down. Anything that would make it come up quicker would be a bonus. Disabling all unnecessary services, like Bluetooth, was helpful.
I know when I am at work, I am supposed to be working. Nevertheless, there really doesn't need to be an all or nothing policy as it improves employee morale to allow some personal flexibility in the workplace. I know my company tries very hard to lock things down, and yet does allow some off-topic internet browsing (Slashdot, right now for example) and the occasional personal telephone call. They are, however, quick to remind us that the electronic networks to which we connect are a) company property and b) exposed as a security risk anytime we try and connect a personal electronic device. Thumb drives, iPods, PDAs, cell phones etc. are all blocked from connecting to the network.
It is all a balancing act, and a tough one at that. In the end, and no matter how much I might dislike it at times, however, they are right to restrict my access to these devices. In a funny way, they are helping me with my addiction problem - getting me off the Web.
I just redirected my DNS queries to OpenDNS, mostly because of the content/phishing filtering they offer but also some of the statistics on my connection. They make their money, or propose to, by doing this very thing... redirecting Domain Not Found error messages to ad supported pages.
WEP + MAC filtering may be good enough, and it is what I used for the past 9 months. However, my work requires WPA2 w/ an AES key in order to use my laptop on my home wireless network. Given the better security of WPA2 generally, I did not see a problem to "upgrade". I think it would be nice to have WPA2 capability on the next edition.
It has also been argued that this is exactly what the founding fathers intended in creating the electoral college, and the divided houses of congress. I have heard that the smaller population states wanted greater influence, and did not want to be bullied by the comparatively gargantuan New York and Pennsylvania at the time. Hence, you do have larger electoral college blocks with the larger states, but it is not proportionally larger.
Not to say "ditto", but I get the same thing here. I live 3 miles from a CO. Originally I purchased a 3Mbps connection, however I could not get more than 1.2Mbps. So I had the technician out to check the line, and he said my line quality plus the distance from the CO meant I could never get more than 1.5Mbps. We bumped down the line speed to 1.5Mbps, which in practice means my max speed is still 1.2Mbps. I only wish I could get 6Mbps!
We are on of the trial communities getting fiber optic television and data. However, because of the buried telephone lines they are unwilling to extend that service into my neighborhood. They claim they will have to dig up all the lines, and our small few streets are not worth it. I had hoped that having fiber optic at the street corner would up my internet speeds, given that the distance to the CO is potentially no longer and issue. But it does not seem to have made a difference.
By reading this, it does not appear that you will do damage using this USB to charge other devices, but you certainly cannot get data from the phone without using their cable *and* their software.
BTW, I have a Motorola phone via Tracfone. It has just about every feature disabled because they want you to use minutes to transfer everything to and from the phone via email. I have lots of crappy pictures from the phone that cant' go anywhere unless I pay $2 or so per picture to get it off the phone. Talk about locked down!!!
If I were HP (or Ford or AT&T), I wouldn't be a good "netizen" before giving consideration to what the blocks of/8 addresses are worth. If they wait another 365 days or so, perhaps folks will start getting desperate enough to pay for them. Can you imagine the value those addresses will have to a rapidly expanding internet enabled population, like China, that also has the means to pay for it? It might be a whole lot cheaper for China to buy the blocks than implementing iPv6, even at an exorbitant, over-the-barrel rates HP might be able to get.
On the other hand, what is being a good player in the internet enabled worth anyway? Is there some intrinsic value in being good, or using the Google philosophy "Don't be evil"?
If I were HP (or Ford or AT&T), I wouldn't be a good "netizen" without giving consideration to what the blocks of/8 addresses are worth. If they wait another 365 days or so, perhaps folks will start getting desperate enough to pay for them. Can you imagine the value those addresses will have to a rapidly expanding internet enabled population, like China, that also has the means to pay for it? It might also be a whole lot cheaper to buy the blocks than implementing iPv6.
On the other hand, what is being a good player in the internet enabled world anyway? Is there some intrinsic value in being good, or using the Google philosophy "Don't be evil"?
The thing is, hobbies are expensive. The fact that you have an opportunity to make some money on it is just an extra bonus. Think the guy who is into sailing moans about the $10-$200K he has in gear, and how "the man" (e.g. the Coast Guard) makes all these laws conspiring against him earning some income off his investment? Or how about the airplane pilot, with $200,000 sunk into his private plane that cannot take private passengers for hire?
What makes musicians so special and whiney? It is a hobby, albeit an expensive one, that if you are really really good at, you can get paid to do. Same with pilots. Same with boat captains. No one owes anyone an income from their hobby.
The summary talks about the sujects being told to act suspicious. So, if you are told to be suspicious does this make any difference from someone who is actually planning something nasty? I suppose it is difficult to find subjects who are unaware they are being observed, and yet also intent on doing something bad. Nevertheless, I'd hypothesize there might be significant, observable differences between the two groups.
Ain't that the truth. My last job I left I hated my boss. Absolutely loved the job, but couldn't pass up an opportunity to change jobs for an increase in pay. Now I miss the job tremendously and am not satisfied with the new one. I wonder when I will grow up and find a job I really like?!?! Midlife crisis coming up!
The trouble with your argument, is that we typically live in a closed economic system. By giving away "hundreds of billions of our hard-earned tax dollars to liars, cheaters, thieves, swindlers, murderers, and war criminals of every stripe", we are funding our own salaries. Many readers of slashdot are employed by these people directly, and if not, then probably earn a living doing something for the beneficiaries of such developments.
Any improvements to the GDP, whether military or planting flowers, have benefits to society at large. How you choose to go about creating that GDP, and how much those services are valued, is what determines a rich country from a poor.
There is a key on your keyboard, typically below the Caps Lock key and the Enter button, that you might find helpful. It allows readers of your prose to understand more clearly when you are beginning a new sentence. I applaud your use of the period (.), but need to point out how much more useful capital letters are for your readers.
I don't know why, but I always though of Mars as a planet without an atmosphere. Perhaps like our Moon, just much bigger. So when first reading the article, I thought that as soon as the carbon dioxide gas sublimated, it would be lost to space.
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If you are worth his kind of money, I think carrying $1,000 is a non-issue. He was, after all, staying at one of the Hilton's places, and depending on where he was going perhaps he preferred to pay for fuel in cash? I dunno, I used to carry $200 with me all the time and that was when I was earning $22K a year. If I was loaded I sure would carry $1k just on the occasion I needed it (10 x $100 bills is nothing, same in my pocket as $5 and 5 $1s)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCSaQeZEL48
My sisters and I have one wish before we die.
And it may sound strange
As if our minds are deranged
Please don't ask us why Beneath the sheltering sky We
have this strange obsession
You have the means in your possession
Tea in the sahara with you...
I don't know why, didn't RTFA but something about the summary about spending time in the desert with a bedouin made me think of this song. One of my faves from the Syncronicity II album. I think I still have it on vinyl in the basement somewhere in addition to MP3 on the Nano.
I love my Gmail account. I have never used my ISP email for anything. The day that people stop blocking Gmail accounts is the day that I cry... I did that once before when mailandnews.com stopped offering free email.
I really wish that Gmail had remained an invite only system. Obviously Captcha isn't stopping people from running bot networks. Can Gmail still remain an open system? I don't know. What about a reverification by everyone who owns a gmail address? Send out a blanket email with instructions for reverifying. Sure, there would be people who couldn't figure out how to get it done, but I'd bet it would eliminate millions of spammer addresses (though certainly not all). Once the verification is done, close it back up to invite only.
I am tired of fuzzy cameraphone shots. Heck, I had a camera on my palm pilot years ago and it took nothing but fuzzy 640x320 pictures. Nasty, and not a feature I can see anyone needing. You need to take pictures? Grab a proper $100 digital camera.
So will I get the really good pron results if I put 'gang!' in my search?
I have never played WoW, finding the monthly fee a bit too steep (and thinking I am too late to join in now anyway). But I used to play Diablo2 a lot. One day I found MapHack, a tool used to light up dungeons, highlight drops and other things. I got very used to playing with it on... so much so, that when Blizzard finally completely banned it and anyone using the tool, the game was almost completely unplayable.
The thing is, that tool was an enhancement to features of the game I found "broken". The first was that the dungeons were almost too dark, and the sight distances ridiculously short even when leveled up. The second was the insame amount of left clicking/mousing - the MapHack tool showed all items so you knew which ones to click on and which ones not to bother with.
Oh well, I was a cheat. Now I don't bother, even though DII was a really fun game for a long time. I have no idea what the WoW experience is like, but have to wonder if there is some baby-out-with-the-bathwater going on at Blizzard when they ban all cheats.
Yep, I get the 5 minute restriction all the time, especially when I am actively reading and posting. I agree it sucks. I also am a fast typist and get the "you must wait X seconds between hitting reply and posting" all the time. Presumably those restrictions are forcing me to be more thoughtful about my responses, and thus clutter the threads less with offtopic, trollish or redundant posts.
I want numerical karma back too.
Hockey sticks?
Agreed with this one. My laptop* won't hibernate, and sleep mode still uses some power (plus keeping the old non-switched transformer going). So I usually shut down. Anything that would make it come up quicker would be a bonus. Disabling all unnecessary services, like Bluetooth, was helpful.
*IBM T30
I know when I am at work, I am supposed to be working. Nevertheless, there really doesn't need to be an all or nothing policy as it improves employee morale to allow some personal flexibility in the workplace. I know my company tries very hard to lock things down, and yet does allow some off-topic internet browsing (Slashdot, right now for example) and the occasional personal telephone call. They are, however, quick to remind us that the electronic networks to which we connect are a) company property and b) exposed as a security risk anytime we try and connect a personal electronic device. Thumb drives, iPods, PDAs, cell phones etc. are all blocked from connecting to the network.
It is all a balancing act, and a tough one at that. In the end, and no matter how much I might dislike it at times, however, they are right to restrict my access to these devices. In a funny way, they are helping me with my addiction problem - getting me off the Web.
Actually they replaced 1,000 worth of equipment at taxpayers expense... so "their expense" in this case is really you, if you live in the U.K.
I just redirected my DNS queries to OpenDNS, mostly because of the content/phishing filtering they offer but also some of the statistics on my connection. They make their money, or propose to, by doing this very thing... redirecting Domain Not Found error messages to ad supported pages.
WEP + MAC filtering may be good enough, and it is what I used for the past 9 months. However, my work requires WPA2 w/ an AES key in order to use my laptop on my home wireless network. Given the better security of WPA2 generally, I did not see a problem to "upgrade". I think it would be nice to have WPA2 capability on the next edition.
It has also been argued that this is exactly what the founding fathers intended in creating the electoral college, and the divided houses of congress. I have heard that the smaller population states wanted greater influence, and did not want to be bullied by the comparatively gargantuan New York and Pennsylvania at the time. Hence, you do have larger electoral college blocks with the larger states, but it is not proportionally larger.
Not to say "ditto", but I get the same thing here. I live 3 miles from a CO. Originally I purchased a 3Mbps connection, however I could not get more than 1.2Mbps. So I had the technician out to check the line, and he said my line quality plus the distance from the CO meant I could never get more than 1.5Mbps. We bumped down the line speed to 1.5Mbps, which in practice means my max speed is still 1.2Mbps. I only wish I could get 6Mbps!
We are on of the trial communities getting fiber optic television and data. However, because of the buried telephone lines they are unwilling to extend that service into my neighborhood. They claim they will have to dig up all the lines, and our small few streets are not worth it. I had hoped that having fiber optic at the street corner would up my internet speeds, given that the distance to the CO is potentially no longer and issue. But it does not seem to have made a difference.
Except motorola uses a non-standard layout on the mini-USB plug. http://www.pinout.net/browse.php?conid=377
By reading this, it does not appear that you will do damage using this USB to charge other devices, but you certainly cannot get data from the phone without using their cable *and* their software.
BTW, I have a Motorola phone via Tracfone. It has just about every feature disabled because they want you to use minutes to transfer everything to and from the phone via email. I have lots of crappy pictures from the phone that cant' go anywhere unless I pay $2 or so per picture to get it off the phone. Talk about locked down!!!
Sorry, I should have previewed!
If I were HP (or Ford or AT&T), I wouldn't be a good "netizen" before giving consideration to what the blocks of /8 addresses are worth. If they wait another 365 days or so, perhaps folks will start getting desperate enough to pay for them. Can you imagine the value those addresses will have to a rapidly expanding internet enabled population, like China, that also has the means to pay for it? It might be a whole lot cheaper for China to buy the blocks than implementing iPv6, even at an exorbitant, over-the-barrel rates HP might be able to get.
On the other hand, what is being a good player in the internet enabled worth anyway? Is there some intrinsic value in being good, or using the Google philosophy "Don't be evil"?
I say hold out for a while.
If I were HP (or Ford or AT&T), I wouldn't be a good "netizen" without giving consideration to what the blocks of /8 addresses are worth. If they wait another 365 days or so, perhaps folks will start getting desperate enough to pay for them. Can you imagine the value those addresses will have to a rapidly expanding internet enabled population, like China, that also has the means to pay for it? It might also be a whole lot cheaper to buy the blocks than implementing iPv6.
On the other hand, what is being a good player in the internet enabled world anyway? Is there some intrinsic value in being good, or using the Google philosophy "Don't be evil"?
I say hold out for a while.
The thing is, hobbies are expensive. The fact that you have an opportunity to make some money on it is just an extra bonus. Think the guy who is into sailing moans about the $10-$200K he has in gear, and how "the man" (e.g. the Coast Guard) makes all these laws conspiring against him earning some income off his investment? Or how about the airplane pilot, with $200,000 sunk into his private plane that cannot take private passengers for hire?
What makes musicians so special and whiney? It is a hobby, albeit an expensive one, that if you are really really good at, you can get paid to do. Same with pilots. Same with boat captains. No one owes anyone an income from their hobby.
Over 9000 bots!
The summary talks about the sujects being told to act suspicious. So, if you are told to be suspicious does this make any difference from someone who is actually planning something nasty? I suppose it is difficult to find subjects who are unaware they are being observed, and yet also intent on doing something bad. Nevertheless, I'd hypothesize there might be significant, observable differences between the two groups.
Ain't that the truth. My last job I left I hated my boss. Absolutely loved the job, but couldn't pass up an opportunity to change jobs for an increase in pay. Now I miss the job tremendously and am not satisfied with the new one. I wonder when I will grow up and find a job I really like?!?! Midlife crisis coming up!
The trouble with your argument, is that we typically live in a closed economic system. By giving away "hundreds of billions of our hard-earned tax dollars to liars, cheaters, thieves, swindlers, murderers, and war criminals of every stripe", we are funding our own salaries. Many readers of slashdot are employed by these people directly, and if not, then probably earn a living doing something for the beneficiaries of such developments.
Any improvements to the GDP, whether military or planting flowers, have benefits to society at large. How you choose to go about creating that GDP, and how much those services are valued, is what determines a rich country from a poor.
There is a key on your keyboard, typically below the Caps Lock key and the Enter button, that you might find helpful. It allows readers of your prose to understand more clearly when you are beginning a new sentence. I applaud your use of the period (.), but need to point out how much more useful capital letters are for your readers.
Thank you.
I don't know why, but I always though of Mars as a planet without an atmosphere. Perhaps like our Moon, just much bigger. So when first reading the article, I thought that as soon as the carbon dioxide gas sublimated, it would be lost to space.
However, the atmosphere is just really thin: http://starryskies.com/solar_system/mars/martian_atmosphere.html
So, thanks to Slashdot, I once again expand my knowledge of the universe and learned something new today!
Maybe now the ending scene in Total Recall makes some more sense? I'll have to rewatch it and see...