I thought telegrams were transmitted using morse code
Sure, a century ago they were sent using telegraph wires, but a 'telegram' doesn't mean 'morse code.'
When Roger O. Thornhill sends a telegram in North by Northwest it would have gone by telex machine. The 'Congratulations!' telegrams we sent and received in my youth were sent by telex.
Because, while most men are respectable individuals - Family men, husbands, boyfriends, parents - We're also about 1% away from being sexually-driven monkeys. If I were to post a link below to a nude picture of Zooey Deschanel, everyone would click it, and then ones who would claim they hadn't would either be lying or gay. Your boyfriend is likely a great guy, but never underestimate what's lurking below the surface for the vast majority of men... Political correctness is what keeps us in check.
So your argument is that you are too stupid to think of something, so it *must* be impossible? Because that's how it sounds to me.
No, it sounds to me like he's saying "Give me some examples of how the NSA can track a burner phone purchased with cash." If you're not 'stupid' just explain it to us.
I err on the side of citizen freedom - I don't want the government listening to my phone calls. spying on my internet traffic or decrypting my PC.
However... Fellow citizens who feel this way must understand the price - You have to understand that the 'price of freedom' is that, from time to time, extremely rare events will occur where people will die. Planes and trains will be bombed. Kids will be blown up. One day a dirty or chemical bomb might go off in a big city.
You can't on the one hand say "Don't read my mail!" and then on the other hand complain if the government fails to detect a terror cell operating in Sioux City. If you want to live in a nanny-state bubble well loss of freedom is the price.
and can retire around 45 at this rate... too bad you suck at money
It's fine that you've decided not to have kids, but that's not for everybody. While some days they drive me bananas, on most days having kids is pretty awesome.
Absolute Software has been in the business of tracking and recovering stolen computers for years. They've recovered nearly 29,000 stolen computers, and they've just expanded to phones - Samsung has just integrated their technology in the firmware level on the S4, with other devices coming soon. Their tracking agent will survive a phone reset and their forensic tools (deployed post-theft) mean that they can actually catch the guy that knocked you over the head and stole your phone.
Unlike a software solution only, the Absolute Software LoJack system is both a hardware and software solution. Starting with the Samsung Galaxy S4, Absolute's persistence technology is built into the firmware of the S4 and cannot be removed, even if the device is restored to factory settings.
The Galaxy S4 has the technology built in now, but the necessary Absolute software solution is not yet available. When it is available, you will be able to remotely lock your device, locate it, erase the data from the device and storage card, or have the Absolute Investigation and Recovery Services Team attempt to recover it.
The Recovery Team is made up of experts from law enforcement, the FBI, the Marines, the US Army, and other government positions. To date, they have recovered 28,000+ devices (laptops and PCs) in over 95 countries.
nobody has ever used the shitty iPod camera for anything meaningful
Hey Anonymous Coward, define 'anything meaningful.' I have tons of great pictures of my kids shot with my iPod Touch. I have beautiful shots taken out of airplane windows as the earth scrolled by below...
Take your awkward, unnatural metric system back to europe where it belongs
I agree this is nothing the USA can afford to do right now. After all, you need that money to fight the drug war and build more aircraft carriers.
However, while the metric system is many things, 'awkward and unnatural' isn't one of them. You look up 'awkward' in the dictionary and there's the Imperial system. 5280 feet in a mile? 16 ounces in a pound? Water freezes at 32 degrees?
What the hell? It's like if my toddler invented a system of weights and measures.
One of the reasons I don't fear The Omnipotent Facebook is due to their inability to serve up a single ad that is of interest to me. I've been on FB for three years, I post content and links a few times a day, both from a PC and mobile. I live in a city of two million, 'check in' here and there and have a network if probably 100 friends. Yet FB is completely incapable of serving up a single ad that I might click. Ever.
Well, looks like developers finally found a way to drive GameStop and its ilk out of business
If you watch GameStop's ads, you'll see that they're already shifting their business model - A lot of their ads are about trading in iPads and Nexus tablets, not games.
If you've never been pulled over by police in a hispanic country for being white, and threatened with jail time for no crime if you didn't bribe them away, you can't talk about conspiracies or paranoia.
I'm afraid this kind of talk isn't permitted on Slashdot.
It doesn't matter how much of a corrupt, despotic, oppressive hell-hole free of the rule of law you're talking about, according the rules of Slashdot the USA is ALWAYS worse than any other region or nation on the planet. ALWAYS. Once you understand that, browsing Slashdot will be much easier.
And no, I'm not American and I don't live in the USA.
I remember back in the day all my friends had an email account and that was how you could reach them. Now you have to remember how to reach each friend. Some of them are Facebook People, so you have to message there. Some use SMS. For some of them all you have is their @ISP email, which languishes for months when you fail to realize they've moved to gmail... Not only do you have to know their address, you have to know the conduit...
"Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress."
Sometimes you don't have any choice in the hours you and your kids need to keep.
If you want to hang out at The Olive Garden at 9pm get a sitter, or don't have kids. Forcing some poor exhausted toddler to sit in a high chair because your work hours means you can't enjoy unlimited breadsticks until after their bedtime is child abuse.
Except your body won't stay on NYC time. It'll align itself with the sunlight hours you're now experiencing in LA. If you're a night owl in NYC, you'll be a night owl in LA, after that period
Only because you keep staying up late.
I travel a lot for business, and, if the schedule allows it, I'll often stay on my 'old' time zone, sometimes for 4 or 5 nights. It's not hard because it's what you're used to.
I tell people my 2 year old goes to be at 7:30PM and wakes up at 7:00AM, then has a 2 hours nap. I've gotten everything from incredulous stares to accusations that I'm somehow a bad parent for letting my kid sleep that much
Same here - Lights out at 7:30 and a big nap in the afternoon, Although my 2 year old boy seems to be ready to get up at 6am most mornings.
I think the reason you (we) get stares is parents have to adjust their lifestyles if they want their kids to get enough sleep, and they're not keen on that. I see people hauling their exhausted kids around at 9pm and I'm like "What the hell?"
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I thought telegrams were transmitted using morse code
Sure, a century ago they were sent using telegraph wires, but a 'telegram' doesn't mean 'morse code.'
When Roger O. Thornhill sends a telegram in North by Northwest it would have gone by telex machine. The 'Congratulations!' telegrams we sent and received in my youth were sent by telex.
Because, while most men are respectable individuals - Family men, husbands, boyfriends, parents - We're also about 1% away from being sexually-driven monkeys. If I were to post a link below to a nude picture of Zooey Deschanel, everyone would click it, and then ones who would claim they hadn't would either be lying or gay. Your boyfriend is likely a great guy, but never underestimate what's lurking below the surface for the vast majority of men... Political correctness is what keeps us in check.
So your argument is that you are too stupid to think of something, so it *must* be impossible? Because that's how it sounds to me.
No, it sounds to me like he's saying "Give me some examples of how the NSA can track a burner phone purchased with cash." If you're not 'stupid' just explain it to us.
I'm curious of the same thing.
Where are your kid-expenses in those calculations? diapers, preschool tuition, braces, trips to Disneyland...
please place your item in the bagging area thank you please place your item in the bagging area thank you.
I err on the side of citizen freedom - I don't want the government listening to my phone calls. spying on my internet traffic or decrypting my PC.
However... Fellow citizens who feel this way must understand the price - You have to understand that the 'price of freedom' is that, from time to time, extremely rare events will occur where people will die. Planes and trains will be bombed. Kids will be blown up. One day a dirty or chemical bomb might go off in a big city.
You can't on the one hand say "Don't read my mail!" and then on the other hand complain if the government fails to detect a terror cell operating in Sioux City. If you want to live in a nanny-state bubble well loss of freedom is the price.
and can retire around 45 at this rate ... too bad you suck at money
It's fine that you've decided not to have kids, but that's not for everybody. While some days they drive me bananas, on most days having kids is pretty awesome.
That's the end of the discussion.
Wrong. I work in the security field. Now that CIOs and CEOs are starting to lose their jobs because of breaches, attention is being paid to security.
Absolute Software has been in the business of tracking and recovering stolen computers for years. They've recovered nearly 29,000 stolen computers, and they've just expanded to phones - Samsung has just integrated their technology in the firmware level on the S4, with other devices coming soon. Their tracking agent will survive a phone reset and their forensic tools (deployed post-theft) mean that they can actually catch the guy that knocked you over the head and stole your phone.
http://www.zdnet.com/new-lojack-solution-for-galaxy-s4-makes-theft-meaningless-7000016433/
Unlike a software solution only, the Absolute Software LoJack system is both a hardware and software solution. Starting with the Samsung Galaxy S4, Absolute's persistence technology is built into the firmware of the S4 and cannot be removed, even if the device is restored to factory settings.
The Galaxy S4 has the technology built in now, but the necessary Absolute software solution is not yet available. When it is available, you will be able to remotely lock your device, locate it, erase the data from the device and storage card, or have the Absolute Investigation and Recovery Services Team attempt to recover it.
The Recovery Team is made up of experts from law enforcement, the FBI, the Marines, the US Army, and other government positions. To date, they have recovered 28,000+ devices (laptops and PCs) in over 95 countries.
Near-revolution brewing in an American ally, and nearly zero mention on the home pages of CNN, Fox or MSNBC.
We now return you to the Kardashians. Sigh.
nobody has ever used the shitty iPod camera for anything meaningful
Hey Anonymous Coward, define 'anything meaningful.' I have tons of great pictures of my kids shot with my iPod Touch. I have beautiful shots taken out of airplane windows as the earth scrolled by below...
You ran a 10K? You're pretty fit.
You drank a whole 2 liter bottle of Coke? You fat bastard.
It's below zero - We might get snow.
It's 200K to Seattle? We'll, we're averaging 100 kph so we'll be there in a couple of hours.
Take your awkward, unnatural metric system back to europe where it belongs
I agree this is nothing the USA can afford to do right now. After all, you need that money to fight the drug war and build more aircraft carriers.
However, while the metric system is many things, 'awkward and unnatural' isn't one of them. You look up 'awkward' in the dictionary and there's the Imperial system. 5280 feet in a mile? 16 ounces in a pound? Water freezes at 32 degrees?
What the hell? It's like if my toddler invented a system of weights and measures.
One of the reasons I don't fear The Omnipotent Facebook is due to their inability to serve up a single ad that is of interest to me. I've been on FB for three years, I post content and links a few times a day, both from a PC and mobile. I live in a city of two million, 'check in' here and there and have a network if probably 100 friends. Yet FB is completely incapable of serving up a single ad that I might click. Ever.
Now, where did I put those LANtastic disks? I need to get this 386SX on the network so I can share its Epson printer.
Laptops arent locked down platforms with no way to see under the hood.
A Macbook Air comes pretty close.
Well, looks like developers finally found a way to drive GameStop and its ilk out of business
If you watch GameStop's ads, you'll see that they're already shifting their business model - A lot of their ads are about trading in iPads and Nexus tablets, not games.
As long as I can keep running VisiCalc on my TRS-80 I should be fine.
If you've never been pulled over by police in a hispanic country for being white, and threatened with jail time for no crime if you didn't bribe them away, you can't talk about conspiracies or paranoia.
I'm afraid this kind of talk isn't permitted on Slashdot.
It doesn't matter how much of a corrupt, despotic, oppressive hell-hole free of the rule of law you're talking about, according the rules of Slashdot the USA is ALWAYS worse than any other region or nation on the planet. ALWAYS. Once you understand that, browsing Slashdot will be much easier.
And no, I'm not American and I don't live in the USA.
I remember back in the day all my friends had an email account and that was how you could reach them. Now you have to remember how to reach each friend. Some of them are Facebook People, so you have to message there. Some use SMS. For some of them all you have is their @ISP email, which languishes for months when you fail to realize they've moved to gmail... Not only do you have to know their address, you have to know the conduit...
"Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress."
The point is, in an emergency there is no checklist
Hey Anonymous Coward, there sure as hell is. The whole point of a checklist is you remain calm and 'work the problem.'
If you're in the cockpit of a 747 and the engines flame out at 35K feet the first thing you do is grab your checklist.
Sometimes you don't have any choice in the hours you and your kids need to keep.
If you want to hang out at The Olive Garden at 9pm get a sitter, or don't have kids. Forcing some poor exhausted toddler to sit in a high chair because your work hours means you can't enjoy unlimited breadsticks until after their bedtime is child abuse.
Except your body won't stay on NYC time. It'll align itself with the sunlight hours you're now experiencing in LA. If you're a night owl in NYC, you'll be a night owl in LA, after that period
Only because you keep staying up late.
I travel a lot for business, and, if the schedule allows it, I'll often stay on my 'old' time zone, sometimes for 4 or 5 nights. It's not hard because it's what you're used to.
I tell people my 2 year old goes to be at 7:30PM and wakes up at 7:00AM, then has a 2 hours nap. I've gotten everything from incredulous stares to accusations that I'm somehow a bad parent for letting my kid sleep that much
Same here - Lights out at 7:30 and a big nap in the afternoon, Although my 2 year old boy seems to be ready to get up at 6am most mornings.
I think the reason you (we) get stares is parents have to adjust their lifestyles if they want their kids to get enough sleep, and they're not keen on that. I see people hauling their exhausted kids around at 9pm and I'm like "What the hell?"