I stopped into a VZW store to get a BB Storm, and from what I heard when a customer service person was talking to a customer about VZW's new VoIP deal is that Verizon Wireless and Verizon (teleco) are essentially two separate entities.
I keep seeing people post about the warrent, but the link to the posting by Matthew Simpson clearly says:
"Today at 6:00am, the FBI conducted an unwarranted early morning raid of our 2323 Bryan Street Datacenters, on the 7th and 24th floors."
So which is it? Did they have a warrant and the "unwarranted" is meaning uncalled for, or did they literally use the new technique of not obtaining a warrant and doing what they want anyhow?
Guess you didn't read the posting on the first link:
"Today at 6:00am, the FBI conducted an unwarranted early morning raid of our 2323 Bryan Street Datacenters, on the 7th and 24th floors."
"In 2007 director Eli Roth blamed an online leak of his horror film Hostel: Part II for reducing box office returns."
Or maybe it had to do with the fact I saw the first one, which wasn't horrible but besides some of the more "entertaining scenes" was a bit.. typical.
Did I see the second in theaters? Nope, didn't really appeal too much. Seemed like a cheap follow up to the first one. Maybe it wasn't the leak of the movie that killed box office sales, maybe there were many others out there who, like me, just didn't care to see it in theaters.
This holds true with a lot of movies. All I can say is, I'm glad I didn't pay to see Quarantine. The first maybe half hour or so was actually entertaining, but after that it went to hell real quick.
Do you know if they fixed the Desktop "icon" delete bug?
I tried KDE 4.0 or 4.1... I can't remember beause it was a very short period of time I actually used it and that experience was horrid... but if something was placed into the ~/Desktop folder it would show up on the desktop as an "icon" or whatever they are. I'd hate to call them icons since they at the time were not, I'm not sure what they were!
If you right clicked and deleted the thing on the Desktop, the "icon link" would be removed, but if you "cd ~/Desktop | ls" the file its self was STILL THERE. I think the reserve held true as well (when you "rm -f ~/Desktop/*" the icons still appeared on the Desktop)
"and it cannot do auto-login for single-user systems even now)"
You may want to re-checked... I've been running GNOME on my laptop for the last.. well long enough, but Ubuntu 7.10 (IIRC) and Ubuntu 8.04+ (I know for sure) allow for single user auto-login. That's how my laptop is setup.
Instead of making the text near impossible for people to read, or a 3d select a box deal, why can't they use a universally embeddable video format to play a short clip and underneath a question you have to answer? Or even easier, an animated.GIF picture that again has a question you must answer to something about the animated.GIF image?
It may still be easy for them to decode the GIF and figure it out, but it's at least harder to do than a simple text picture.
The only other option I see is send the captcha encrypted, and use a javascript or some other client side script that decodes the captcha and displays it. Maybe use the IP or some other "semi-random" number to encode the random captcha so it's harder to figure out exactly what the captcha is?
Just take a look at some of those review sites people post links to right here on slashdot.
They contain so many ads from different addresses they make the client look up, plus a review of TWO items tend to be split over 10 pages, which each page being a single paragraph or ONE PICTURE.
Slashdot! Save the bandwidth! Don't like to those sites, or if someone does, don't follow! Think of the URL requests we as slashdot could save if we didn't all follow a link to a site that has 100+ URL requests per page for 10 pages!
Nothing in the Steam posting says you can't. The copy of the game you downloaded has some marker inserted to indicate it's your copy, and you can only run that game on one machine at a time.
Nothing in the article or press release says you are unable to run two *DIFFERENT* games on two different PC's at the same time. It's just like games in the past, where if you were logged into a game from one machine, and tried to log into the same game from a different machine, it would disconnect the first session (XBox Live, Socom for PS2, etc). It doesn't seem any different than those in functionality.
Anyone in the know I'm sure wouldn't trust many, if any, anti-virus/malware companies from utilizing a tool like this... but imagine how it could potentially help the anti-virus companies.
Rootkits, worms, etc wouldn't be able to disable the anti-virus software, as it wouldn't be able to detect it's even running, let alone try to shut down the anti-virus software. Plus, it would make hiding malware, worms, etc from the anti-virus software themselves!
You had to BUY the app off of the IPhone Store, right? The author of the iPhone app just made money, right? They are using a service Google provides without compensating Google in any fashion, right?
So which part of that wouldn't constitute charging people to use Googles' service, since it sure seems you had to BUY the app which gave the iPhone programmers MONEY, and the app used GOOGLES SERVICE to send the SMS MESSAGES...
Honestly that's crazy. I know in this area the burst went up to around 12mbps, though they do advertise 16mbps in some cases (not sure if that's not offered here yet or if we're a little too far out/on a semi-loaded up loop).
Very rarely does mine last at that speed for 20-30MB, mostly that seems to be with Microsoft's website downloading an app for someone in need. Most of the time it tops at about 6mbps which is the reg rate (as you post).
Either your numbers aren't quite right and are exaggerated, Comcast is giving you a nice deal, or you're on a different plan I haven't seen available in this area. I'm not saying either is right, but if it *is* the second option I'm jealous. Most of the files I download sit between 30MB to 50MB and having the 40-60mbps would be sweet!
I *did* read the article (imagine that!). The writer is way too eager to blame it on Netflix with very little, if any, proof it's their fault. Here's my main arguements, which I posted on his blog:
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"âoeThe overall slow down combined with the huge discrepency between the two experiences (Netflix-enabled device and my PC) made me decide to start Googling and see if I could figure out what was going on â" I smelled shenanigansâ¦â
What discrepancy? The service is sucking on both. Maybe the client software is written slightly different on each platform?
âoeNow we have confirmed that Netflix is throttling instant streaming PC-users to a rediculous 50 or 60 KB/sec capâ¦â
Uhh⦠yeah⦠no you didnâ(TM)t. All you proved is thereâ(TM)s an issue somewhere between your computer and the netflix service. Where did you, at any point, prove itâ(TM)s not Qwest putting in an artificial limit? Maybe itâ(TM)s a peering problem somewhere on the route. Traceroute isnâ(TM)t going to show you where the bad link is. Lets say Qwest is filtering the video service, well ping and traceroute wouldnâ(TM)t show a damn difference compared to normal.
Personally I think this is a non-story as far as itâ(TM)s written until further, better proof can be obtained. For now, this is someone who knows just enough to do basic network diagnostics and who jumps to conclusions, rather than taking a more âoescientific approachâ to solving the problem. Go around asking other people with Netflix streaming over other ISPâ(TM)s who watch about as many movies a month as the writer if their service has crapped out, then maybe youâ(TM)ll have more of an âoeEducated Guessâ rather than your âoejust pointing a fingerâ answer."
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Call me crazy, but it seems more like jumping to conclusions rather than figuring out the common denominator between any other users who may be experiencing slowdowns/poor service themselves.
Figure out what ISP's are in your area, and whitelist them.
For example, comcast and verizon typically have the State and City in their addresses (though the city may be one close by and not the actual city).
Penn State Univ also shows the campus in the address, etc.
So how long does a Patent on the Fat16/32 last? I know for drugs the patents last what, 5 or 7 years? it's been 10+ years since Windows 95 was released, so when's the patent run out?
I've torn apart quite a few 286 and 386 computers where the chip clearly says "Intel 286" or "Intel 386SX" and in small print down by the serial # for the processor, it is stamped "AMD" or "Made by AMD" or something along those lines (I can't exactly remember how the AMD part was worded)
"Maybe the reason for this is that the 2D surface with the bump map resembles the look of water we expect in a game"
Naw, the top is how the water in the lake my friends and I take my boat out on looks. Trust me, we should know. We met it face first quite a few times trying to learn to wakeboard a few years ago
I absolutely agree. This was my first thought as well. Unless there was a surface fog over the water that was managing to reflect the light onto the boat like that and give the water that hazy look, the light should have been more of a drastic difference on the side of the boat vs the top, and the reflections off of the water.
"Police need Probable Cause to search without a warrant. School administrators need only "Reasonable Belief", also called "Reason to Suspect" or one of many other phrases. As long as the student or the property are on school grounds, a school administrator has full and complete privilege to any of that students belongings, and the option to detain the student against their will until Police arrive.
So, what constitutes Reasonable Belief? Quote simple, really: anything at all. Did the kid look funny? Did the administrator think they overheard a foul comment? Reason to believe."
What you said above is wrong in so many ways (not saying you're wrong, just saying to me it's wrong wrong). The administration should not be allowed to hold even someone under 18 against their will. Are they not citizens of the US even if they are under 18? Do they not have birth certificates saying so?
Also, searching a phone because someone was using it in class is not a reason for probable cause. What if someone was "acting suspicious" or so an administrator thought, but here they were on say birth control and didn't want anyone else to know? Or some anti-depressant (legitimately), ADD med, cancer patient, etc and they are not emotionally ready to come forward yet?
In my eyes it's still an over-reaching and extremely controversial "power" the administrators have.
My ex-employer decided to stop sending paper stubs to employees with direct deposit to save money. Sure that sounds good and all, but in reality it's a major burden.
After leaving because of unresolved pay issues (bonuses and what not), I applied for unemployment to help hold me over until a new job came along. Problem was, I needed to know the last few weekly earnings after I left to file the bi-weekly claims. Since I was not receiving paper stubs, I had no physical access to my weekly earnings, not mailed to me or for pick up at the store. The "e-stubs" as I called them were available only on the HR website, which required us to use our employee credentials to access. The kicker: once you were terminated in the system, so you couldn't access in store systems, your credentials were invalid for the HR website. You could no longer simply log in and look up your weekly hours + earnings to file unemployment.
This also makes it a pain if you're one who keeps all pay stubs for the past year to double check your W2 and for other tax reasons. You could print them, but it was a hell of a pain and didn't print as an actual "pay stub" but more just a screen shot of the overall website. Since they used frames to display everything, the stubs required you to scroll down to see all of it, as only about one-half would show at a time. Sure you could copy/paste, but again it was a major PITA.
As for the Verizon payment, I ran into that years ago when I switched to Sprint (briefly). I couldn't log into the website to see if there was any balance due, or make a payment, until I received a letter there was $30 due and it was past due so they tacked on extra fees.
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I stopped into a VZW store to get a BB Storm, and from what I heard when a customer service person was talking to a customer about VZW's new VoIP deal is that Verizon Wireless and Verizon (teleco) are essentially two separate entities.
I keep seeing people post about the warrent, but the link to the posting by Matthew Simpson clearly says:
"Today at 6:00am, the FBI conducted an unwarranted early morning raid of our 2323 Bryan Street Datacenters, on the 7th and 24th floors."
So which is it? Did they have a warrant and the "unwarranted" is meaning uncalled for, or did they literally use the new technique of not obtaining a warrant and doing what they want anyhow?
Guess you didn't read the posting on the first link: "Today at 6:00am, the FBI conducted an unwarranted early morning raid of our 2323 Bryan Street Datacenters, on the 7th and 24th floors."
"In 2007 director Eli Roth blamed an online leak of his horror film Hostel: Part II for reducing box office returns." Or maybe it had to do with the fact I saw the first one, which wasn't horrible but besides some of the more "entertaining scenes" was a bit.. typical. Did I see the second in theaters? Nope, didn't really appeal too much. Seemed like a cheap follow up to the first one. Maybe it wasn't the leak of the movie that killed box office sales, maybe there were many others out there who, like me, just didn't care to see it in theaters. This holds true with a lot of movies. All I can say is, I'm glad I didn't pay to see Quarantine. The first maybe half hour or so was actually entertaining, but after that it went to hell real quick.
Do you know if they fixed the Desktop "icon" delete bug? I tried KDE 4.0 or 4.1... I can't remember beause it was a very short period of time I actually used it and that experience was horrid... but if something was placed into the ~/Desktop folder it would show up on the desktop as an "icon" or whatever they are. I'd hate to call them icons since they at the time were not, I'm not sure what they were! If you right clicked and deleted the thing on the Desktop, the "icon link" would be removed, but if you "cd ~/Desktop | ls" the file its self was STILL THERE. I think the reserve held true as well (when you "rm -f ~/Desktop/*" the icons still appeared on the Desktop)
"and it cannot do auto-login for single-user systems even now)" You may want to re-checked... I've been running GNOME on my laptop for the last.. well long enough, but Ubuntu 7.10 (IIRC) and Ubuntu 8.04+ (I know for sure) allow for single user auto-login. That's how my laptop is setup.
Instead of making the text near impossible for people to read, or a 3d select a box deal, why can't they use a universally embeddable video format to play a short clip and underneath a question you have to answer? Or even easier, an animated .GIF picture that again has a question you must answer to something about the animated .GIF image?
It may still be easy for them to decode the GIF and figure it out, but it's at least harder to do than a simple text picture.
The only other option I see is send the captcha encrypted, and use a javascript or some other client side script that decodes the captcha and displays it. Maybe use the IP or some other "semi-random" number to encode the random captcha so it's harder to figure out exactly what the captcha is?
Just take a look at some of those review sites people post links to right here on slashdot. They contain so many ads from different addresses they make the client look up, plus a review of TWO items tend to be split over 10 pages, which each page being a single paragraph or ONE PICTURE. Slashdot! Save the bandwidth! Don't like to those sites, or if someone does, don't follow! Think of the URL requests we as slashdot could save if we didn't all follow a link to a site that has 100+ URL requests per page for 10 pages!
Nothing in the Steam posting says you can't. The copy of the game you downloaded has some marker inserted to indicate it's your copy, and you can only run that game on one machine at a time. Nothing in the article or press release says you are unable to run two *DIFFERENT* games on two different PC's at the same time. It's just like games in the past, where if you were logged into a game from one machine, and tried to log into the same game from a different machine, it would disconnect the first session (XBox Live, Socom for PS2, etc). It doesn't seem any different than those in functionality.
Anyone in the know I'm sure wouldn't trust many, if any, anti-virus/malware companies from utilizing a tool like this... but imagine how it could potentially help the anti-virus companies. Rootkits, worms, etc wouldn't be able to disable the anti-virus software, as it wouldn't be able to detect it's even running, let alone try to shut down the anti-virus software. Plus, it would make hiding malware, worms, etc from the anti-virus software themselves!
You had to BUY the app off of the IPhone Store, right? The author of the iPhone app just made money, right? They are using a service Google provides without compensating Google in any fashion, right? So which part of that wouldn't constitute charging people to use Googles' service, since it sure seems you had to BUY the app which gave the iPhone programmers MONEY, and the app used GOOGLES SERVICE to send the SMS MESSAGES...
Honestly that's crazy. I know in this area the burst went up to around 12mbps, though they do advertise 16mbps in some cases (not sure if that's not offered here yet or if we're a little too far out/on a semi-loaded up loop). Very rarely does mine last at that speed for 20-30MB, mostly that seems to be with Microsoft's website downloading an app for someone in need. Most of the time it tops at about 6mbps which is the reg rate (as you post). Either your numbers aren't quite right and are exaggerated, Comcast is giving you a nice deal, or you're on a different plan I haven't seen available in this area. I'm not saying either is right, but if it *is* the second option I'm jealous. Most of the files I download sit between 30MB to 50MB and having the 40-60mbps would be sweet!
I *did* read the article (imagine that!). The writer is way too eager to blame it on Netflix with very little, if any, proof it's their fault. Here's my main arguements, which I posted on his blog: ---------- "âoeThe overall slow down combined with the huge discrepency between the two experiences (Netflix-enabled device and my PC) made me decide to start Googling and see if I could figure out what was going on â" I smelled shenanigansâ¦â What discrepancy? The service is sucking on both. Maybe the client software is written slightly different on each platform? âoeNow we have confirmed that Netflix is throttling instant streaming PC-users to a rediculous 50 or 60 KB/sec capâ¦â Uhh⦠yeah⦠no you didnâ(TM)t. All you proved is thereâ(TM)s an issue somewhere between your computer and the netflix service. Where did you, at any point, prove itâ(TM)s not Qwest putting in an artificial limit? Maybe itâ(TM)s a peering problem somewhere on the route. Traceroute isnâ(TM)t going to show you where the bad link is. Lets say Qwest is filtering the video service, well ping and traceroute wouldnâ(TM)t show a damn difference compared to normal. Personally I think this is a non-story as far as itâ(TM)s written until further, better proof can be obtained. For now, this is someone who knows just enough to do basic network diagnostics and who jumps to conclusions, rather than taking a more âoescientific approachâ to solving the problem. Go around asking other people with Netflix streaming over other ISPâ(TM)s who watch about as many movies a month as the writer if their service has crapped out, then maybe youâ(TM)ll have more of an âoeEducated Guessâ rather than your âoejust pointing a fingerâ answer." ----------- Call me crazy, but it seems more like jumping to conclusions rather than figuring out the common denominator between any other users who may be experiencing slowdowns/poor service themselves.
Figure out what ISP's are in your area, and whitelist them. For example, comcast and verizon typically have the State and City in their addresses (though the city may be one close by and not the actual city). Penn State Univ also shows the campus in the address, etc.
The way the summary does make it seem as if it's a replacement option for the Wiimote. I was thinking the same thing as the OP
Doh I was mixing up exclusivity and patents... sorry 20 years for drugs
So how long does a Patent on the Fat16/32 last? I know for drugs the patents last what, 5 or 7 years? it's been 10+ years since Windows 95 was released, so when's the patent run out?
I've torn apart quite a few 286 and 386 computers where the chip clearly says "Intel 286" or "Intel 386SX" and in small print down by the serial # for the processor, it is stamped "AMD" or "Made by AMD" or something along those lines (I can't exactly remember how the AMD part was worded)
"Maybe the reason for this is that the 2D surface with the bump map resembles the look of water we expect in a game"
Naw, the top is how the water in the lake my friends and I take my boat out on looks. Trust me, we should know. We met it face first quite a few times trying to learn to wakeboard a few years ago
I absolutely agree. This was my first thought as well. Unless there was a surface fog over the water that was managing to reflect the light onto the boat like that and give the water that hazy look, the light should have been more of a drastic difference on the side of the boat vs the top, and the reflections off of the water.
"Police need Probable Cause to search without a warrant. School administrators need only "Reasonable Belief", also called "Reason to Suspect" or one of many other phrases. As long as the student or the property are on school grounds, a school administrator has full and complete privilege to any of that students belongings, and the option to detain the student against their will until Police arrive. So, what constitutes Reasonable Belief? Quote simple, really: anything at all. Did the kid look funny? Did the administrator think they overheard a foul comment? Reason to believe." What you said above is wrong in so many ways (not saying you're wrong, just saying to me it's wrong wrong). The administration should not be allowed to hold even someone under 18 against their will. Are they not citizens of the US even if they are under 18? Do they not have birth certificates saying so? Also, searching a phone because someone was using it in class is not a reason for probable cause. What if someone was "acting suspicious" or so an administrator thought, but here they were on say birth control and didn't want anyone else to know? Or some anti-depressant (legitimately), ADD med, cancer patient, etc and they are not emotionally ready to come forward yet? In my eyes it's still an over-reaching and extremely controversial "power" the administrators have.
My ex-employer decided to stop sending paper stubs to employees with direct deposit to save money. Sure that sounds good and all, but in reality it's a major burden. After leaving because of unresolved pay issues (bonuses and what not), I applied for unemployment to help hold me over until a new job came along. Problem was, I needed to know the last few weekly earnings after I left to file the bi-weekly claims. Since I was not receiving paper stubs, I had no physical access to my weekly earnings, not mailed to me or for pick up at the store. The "e-stubs" as I called them were available only on the HR website, which required us to use our employee credentials to access. The kicker: once you were terminated in the system, so you couldn't access in store systems, your credentials were invalid for the HR website. You could no longer simply log in and look up your weekly hours + earnings to file unemployment. This also makes it a pain if you're one who keeps all pay stubs for the past year to double check your W2 and for other tax reasons. You could print them, but it was a hell of a pain and didn't print as an actual "pay stub" but more just a screen shot of the overall website. Since they used frames to display everything, the stubs required you to scroll down to see all of it, as only about one-half would show at a time. Sure you could copy/paste, but again it was a major PITA. As for the Verizon payment, I ran into that years ago when I switched to Sprint (briefly). I couldn't log into the website to see if there was any balance due, or make a payment, until I received a letter there was $30 due and it was past due so they tacked on extra fees.
Chrome works under Wine..
The IE4Linux or whatever is it has an option to install IE7. It worked for me, winetricks also helped getting it running. Never tried with IE8
And Windows 2000 was just a rebadge of NT with a shiny desktop...