P.S. Starting on October 10th we also get full NATIVE IPv6 support, with entire/64 prefixes allocated via DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation, for users behind routers.
Romanian ISP, metropolitan area, the server on the other end that i used to test the speed with is about 390 km/242 miles away (by road), about 300 km in a straight line.
costs me about 28 euro / 42 usd per month and it includes some basic cable tv service that i don't use (my parents watch tv, not me), a fixed land line phone and a mobile phone with unlimited minutes in their network (and very, very cheap elsewhere). It also includes a 3G wireless usb modem (modem device cost=zero, in custody), unlimited traffic (fair use speed-capped) and also free unlimited 3G wireless data (fair-use speed capped, again) for my mobile phone AND tethering is allowed.
Voice/3G service coverage is not that good once you step out of the major cities/highways areas, but i have a backup phone for those situations, on a prepay plan with another provider, and i only refill it once every 6 months or so with 5 euro, just enough to keep the sim card active.
Nor anyone who installed OSX on a hackintosh, for that matter.
huh? are you that clueless? does Psystar ring any bells? They even bought PROPER Mac OS X licenses for EACH and every system that they installed it on and they still got sued into bankruptcy.
Uhm, I think you're either leaving something out of your description, or you're confused. MAC addresses aren't transmitted across the Internet. They stop at the first router they come to. Meaning in most sane situations only your DSL modem's MAC is transmitted, and it never leaves your ISP.
newsflash: the WIRELESS MAC address address might not be transmitted across the internet but it sure is broadcast via radio. Add Google street view//norc.eu//other gps+photography+wardriving service into the mix and you've got a gps-to-router_wifi_mac lookup database.
Since when has dd-wrt been "Open Source?" It's very much closed-source. OpenWRT is actually open source, as in, you can download the code, modify, and compile it yourself. dd-wrt is closed, and often includes proprietary drivers.
China (and S. Korea too) are also using a first-to-file patent law system (and trademarks work the mostly same way too!, first-to-file) and there is a nightmare over there with competitors filing for patents and then blocking sales and exports of various products because they infringe their newly-granted patents or trademarks
http://www.chinalawblog.com/2009/11/china_trademarks_the_apple_of.html quote from China law blog: China is a first to file country, which means that, with very few exceptions, whoever files for a particular trademark in a particular category gets it. So if the name of your company is XYZ and you make shoes and you have been manufacturing your shoes in China for the last three years and someone registers the XYZ trademark for shoes, that other company gets the trademark. And then, armed with the trademark, that company has every right to stop your XYZ shoes from leaving China because they violate its trademark./quote
These folks aren't getting it. Bigger is better. I work with many businesses and they would all love a bigger tablet - the size of a piece of paper - like a 13" model. They'd snap those up so fast, it would make the HP fire sale look amateurish.
bigger is better? then how about a 21-inch or a 24-inch one? not exactly portable but they work almost like a tablet if you don't need to move around.
actually...scratch that.. i looked through the zip file again, the source code for the UI dll (HamsterEbookConverterUI.dll) doesn't appear directly as a source file... maybe it's generated by another source file?
i think you're right, this is not a gpl violation, according to their server the source code zip archive was uploaded (and possibly also made available) on july 21. This includes the source code for that dll file.
here in our country, the DoB forms a MAJOR part of the government id number/SSN (which is formed by appending a few numbers to the DoB numbers), so OF COURSE i wasn't going to let FB have my SSN, even if only part of it. The DoB that i used is close enough to the real one so as to remember my friends when my bday is, but it's not exactly spot on.
and as to the privacy settings for the phone number, FYI they were ALREADY set to "me only", but that doesn't mean crap to normal FB admins. The access rights to the login security usually require different administrative rights on FB than those rights needed by regular FB maintenance admins that can look at your private data (yes, even if you set it to "me only") but not at the login security auth data.
i got locked out of my (rarely-used) fb account because i have login approval required via phone but no phone number defined on profile!!!!!!
This happened because i deleted my phone number from my public profile but i didnt mean to also delete it from the login security section. However, when i changed my public profile, their stupid site also deleted the phone number from the security login approval section too, while keeping active the mandatory login approval via sms.
That results in a catch-22 scenario, i cannot login until i get a sms with an auth code, but i cannot get the code since there's no phone number listed to send the sms to.
Since there's no phone number left to send sms to, and i don't currently have a device that's already authorized (i run ccleaner weekly to clear cookies and other crap) that effectively means their system gives me no other way to recover my account and they get to sit on and steal my private data without letting me have any say in it.
At least with Google's 2-factor auth sms security i have some printed recovery codes i can use, but they didn't give me anything:(
And they dont want to turn off the mandatory sms auth (or convert it to email-based auth) for accounts that no longer have a phone number listed. It's impossible to send a sms to a non-existing number.
As to my government-issued id, i'm NOT going to send that, because OF COURSE i didn't use the name that the government uses for me but i used the name most of my friends know me by. (and neither the DoB i used for sign up is the real one...)
i'd rather abandon my fb account (and maybe create another one, i can create all the email addresses that i want since i manage my own internet domains) than send my id (bearing my government-issued id number, similar in function to the SSNs) to who knows where in india/russia/other place. How would you feel if some stranger asked you to send your social security number and all other id info just because their own team is stupid and can't properly manage a login sequence?
Copiepresse is not a newspaper, it is the copyright management / law firm representing the newspapers. The court order didn't say anything about removing copiepresse's content, just the newspaper content.
Practically, copiepresse had some big cojones, they used the wave of publicity generated by the case to screw their customers' sites on Google and rise their own pagerank score. Interesting SEO method, almost like a company-managed Streissand Effect and i'm almost sure it was intentional. RIAA/MAFIAA should be proud of the example they set being followed to the letter - screwing your customers (artists) and your customers' customers (their audience) is good business for the law firm. Maybe not in the long run but who cares?
the court order says to remove the data from "all their sites... any form of cache". Google would have been in violation of the court order if they DID NOT REMOVE the sites from the index. See bottom of page 2 of the court order: http://images.chillingeffects.org/notices/5133.pdf
since the index fits both those conditions, all Google could do was to dump the sites entirely. Remember that even presenting a link to the site is a form of cache in itself since it caches the title and the name of the paper.
short description of the court order that copiepresse requested (and obtained): The judge let them have all the rope they wanted to hang themselves.
i think apple uses non-oxidizing contacts (lightly gold plated) but also the contact blades inside the connector have a small spring-loaded mechanism on them so they technically do wipe, but the travel distance is much shorter (around a millimeter or so)
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*facePALM*
read TFA again pls, that $100,000 number you quoted is not the regular income but it was the MAXIMUM they had ever made in an year, long ago.
they make much less than that per year these days.
i found a few pictures of the flooded WD factory here:
(flip forward in the photo album)
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10150371103772908
P.S. Starting on October 10th we also get full NATIVE IPv6 support, with entire /64 prefixes allocated via DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation, for users behind routers.
since you mentioned Romania...
http://speedtest.net/result/1551464284.png
Romanian ISP, metropolitan area, the server on the other end that i used to test the speed with is about 390 km/242 miles away (by road), about 300 km in a straight line.
costs me about 28 euro / 42 usd per month and it includes some basic cable tv service that i don't use (my parents watch tv, not me), a fixed land line phone and a mobile phone with unlimited minutes in their network (and very, very cheap elsewhere).
It also includes a 3G wireless usb modem (modem device cost=zero, in custody), unlimited traffic (fair use speed-capped) and also free unlimited 3G wireless data (fair-use speed capped, again) for my mobile phone AND tethering is allowed.
Voice/3G service coverage is not that good once you step out of the major cities/highways areas, but i have a backup phone for those situations, on a prepay plan with another provider, and i only refill it once every 6 months or so with 5 euro, just enough to keep the sim card active.
Nor anyone who installed OSX on a hackintosh, for that matter.
huh? are you that clueless? does Psystar ring any bells?
They even bought PROPER Mac OS X licenses for EACH and every system that they installed it on and they still got sued into bankruptcy.
http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20110929014241932
http://www.groklaw.net/staticpages/index.php?page=Psystar
Uhm, I think you're either leaving something out of your description, or you're confused. MAC addresses aren't transmitted across the Internet. They stop at the first router they come to. Meaning in most sane situations only your DSL modem's MAC is transmitted, and it never leaves your ISP.
newsflash: the WIRELESS MAC address address might not be transmitted across the internet but it sure is broadcast via radio. Add Google street view//norc.eu//other gps+photography+wardriving service into the mix and you've got a gps-to-router_wifi_mac lookup database.
refs:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-20005051-266.html
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30684_3-20009223-265.html
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/05/wifi-data-collection-update.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porpoise
I wouldn't advise to do that, just get your own phone with you and it will probably work ok (90%).
huh?
why wouldn't you advise buying a simple sim card? roaming access is usually expensive as hell, and bank-breaking if used for long lengths of time.
Since when has dd-wrt been "Open Source?" It's very much closed-source. OpenWRT is actually open source, as in, you can download the code, modify, and compile it yourself. dd-wrt is closed, and often includes proprietary drivers.
the source IS AVAILABLE and has always been.
svn co svn://svn.dd-wrt.com/DD-WRT
http://svn.dd-wrt.com/browser
China (and S. Korea too) are also using a first-to-file patent law system (and trademarks work the mostly same way too!, first-to-file) and there is a nightmare over there with competitors filing for patents and then blocking sales and exports of various products because they infringe their newly-granted patents or trademarks
patents in China
http://preview.tinyurl.com/Chinese-Patent-doc
trademarks in China:
http://www.ipaustralia.gov.au/pdfs/general/trade_mark_protection_China.pdf
http://www.chinalawblog.com/2009/11/china_trademarks_the_apple_of.html /quote
quote from China law blog:
China is a first to file country, which means that, with very few exceptions, whoever files for a particular trademark in a particular category gets it. So if the name of your company is XYZ and you make shoes and you have been manufacturing your shoes in China for the last three years and someone registers the XYZ trademark for shoes, that other company gets the trademark. And then, armed with the trademark, that company has every right to stop your XYZ shoes from leaving China because they violate its trademark.
good artists copy, great artists steal. And we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas
Source: Steve Jobs himself
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU
hey... the ONION is finally publishing non-fiction?
hmm.. i guess that WAS fiction back in february 2000 when that article was published... currently not anymore though.
try imagining that nightmare multiplied 5 times... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_Roundabout_(Swindon)
this is a large roundabout that's actually composed of 5 smaller roundabouts in close proximity
and some clips about it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrfdQIg4ap0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPANKRHL9HU
simple, move to Canada :p
These folks aren't getting it. Bigger is better. I work with many businesses and they would all love a bigger tablet - the size of a piece of paper - like a 13" model. They'd snap those up so fast, it would make the HP fire sale look amateurish.
bigger is better? then how about a 21-inch or a 24-inch one? not exactly portable but they work almost like a tablet if you don't need to move around.
here:
24 inch: http://www.engadget.com/2011/08/18/wacom-cintiq-24hd-approved-by-fcc-makes-us-wish-we-went-to-art/
21 inch (and 12 inch) ones:
http://www.wacom.com/en/Products/Cintiq/Compare%20Models.aspx
actually...scratch that.. i looked through the zip file again, the source code for the UI dll (HamsterEbookConverterUI.dll) doesn't appear directly as a source file... maybe it's generated by another source file?
i think you're right, this is not a gpl violation, according to their server the source code zip archive was uploaded (and possibly also made available) on july 21. This includes the source code for that dll file.
media.hamstersoft.com/hamster.ebookconverter.project.zip
HTTP headers returned by media.hamstersoft.com:
[...snip...]
Content-Type: application/zip
Content-Length: 64444164
Last-Modified: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 07:53:35 GMT
here in our country, the DoB forms a MAJOR part of the government id number/SSN (which is formed by appending a few numbers to the DoB numbers), so OF COURSE i wasn't going to let FB have my SSN, even if only part of it. The DoB that i used is close enough to the real one so as to remember my friends when my bday is, but it's not exactly spot on.
and as to the privacy settings for the phone number, FYI they were ALREADY set to "me only", but that doesn't mean crap to normal FB admins. The access rights to the login security usually require different administrative rights on FB than those rights needed by regular FB maintenance admins that can look at your private data (yes, even if you set it to "me only") but not at the login security auth data.
i got locked out of my (rarely-used) fb account because i have login approval required via phone but no phone number defined on profile!!!!!!
This happened because i deleted my phone number from my public profile but i didnt mean to also delete it from the login security section. However, when i changed my public profile, their stupid site also deleted the phone number from the security login approval section too, while keeping active the mandatory login approval via sms.
That results in a catch-22 scenario, i cannot login until i get a sms with an auth code, but i cannot get the code since there's no phone number listed to send the sms to.
Since there's no phone number left to send sms to, and i don't currently have a device that's already authorized (i run ccleaner weekly to clear cookies and other crap) that effectively means their system gives me no other way to recover my account and they get to sit on and steal my private data without letting me have any say in it.
At least with Google's 2-factor auth sms security i have some printed recovery codes i can use, but they didn't give me anything :(
And they dont want to turn off the mandatory sms auth (or convert it to email-based auth) for accounts that no longer have a phone number listed. It's impossible to send a sms to a non-existing number.
As to my government-issued id, i'm NOT going to send that, because OF COURSE i didn't use the name that the government uses for me but i used the name most of my friends know me by. (and neither the DoB i used for sign up is the real one...)
i'd rather abandon my fb account (and maybe create another one, i can create all the email addresses that i want since i manage my own internet domains) than send my id (bearing my government-issued id number, similar in function to the SSNs) to who knows where in india/russia/other place. How would you feel if some stranger asked you to send your social security number and all other id info just because their own team is stupid and can't properly manage a login sequence?
link?
http://www.delicious.com/
Copiepresse is not a newspaper, it is the copyright management / law firm representing the newspapers. The court order didn't say anything about removing copiepresse's content, just the newspaper content.
the newspapers represented by copiepresse are: http://www.copiepresse.be/liens.php?classement=01
La Dernière Heure - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Adhnet.be
La Libre Belgique - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alalibre.be
Le Soir - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alesoir.be
Groupe régional des éditions de l'Avenir - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Avotrejournal.be
Groupe régional Sudpresse - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Asudpresse.be
L'Echo - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alecho.be
Grenz-Echo - http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Agrenzecho.be
Practically, copiepresse had some big cojones, they used the wave of publicity generated by the case to screw their customers' sites on Google and rise their own pagerank score. Interesting SEO method, almost like a company-managed Streissand Effect and i'm almost sure it was intentional.
RIAA/MAFIAA should be proud of the example they set being followed to the letter - screwing your customers (artists) and your customers' customers (their audience) is good business for the law firm. Maybe not in the long run but who cares?
the court order says to remove the data from "all their sites... any form of cache". Google would have been in violation of the court order if they DID NOT REMOVE the sites from the index. See bottom of page 2 of the court order: http://images.chillingeffects.org/notices/5133.pdf
since the index fits both those conditions, all Google could do was to dump the sites entirely. Remember that even presenting a link to the site is a form of cache in itself since it caches the title and the name of the paper.
short description of the court order that copiepresse requested (and obtained): The judge let them have all the rope they wanted to hang themselves.
please RTFA, this was not a final judgement, it was to determine BAIL amount.
i think apple uses non-oxidizing contacts (lightly gold plated) but also the contact blades inside the connector have a small spring-loaded mechanism on them so they technically do wipe, but the travel distance is much shorter (around a millimeter or so)
also, i found this: :)
http://www.instructables.com/id/MagSafe-for-the-Rest-of-Us-A-DIY-Magnetic-Power-A/
a guide to making your own MagSafe adapter at home