It seems that if you try to take anything other than clothes and the most common of consumer electronics with you they will give you hassle. I was very near having a LED lightbulb taken off me because the ignorant, uneducated fucker running the show had never seen one before. They also routinely take jars of jam because they argue it takes them too long to check if something is real jam as well as send people back because the resealable plastic bag is slightly too big.
They really could do with trimming down a lot of perfectly normal every day items off the prohibited items list, even sharp items because since 9/11 no hijacker will get very far anyway. Fuck it, most people want to carry guns on board only do so because they want to bring the gun to their destination.
I don't understand why anyone would still waste money on a private jet if you are going to be restricted and treated like cattle at the airport anyway.
If such a device is available it will only be a matter of time before someone makes a network using only these type of devices and perhaps slightly more powerful ones with an outdoor antenna. Its already possible to set up your own GSM network using a USRP and route the calls over SIP.
Give it a few more years and they will have femtocells for 4G. The only 'mobile operator' that will be necessary is some guy with a server to do the accounting (which femtocell gets the most traffic and allocate credits from its users to the owner) and an ordinary SIP/XMPP server. Maybe people won't even bother with such trivial issues as tracking down bandwidth usage as broadband quality improves. then we can just think of femtocells as a sort of long-range open wifi system.
Where no coverage is available satellite would act as a backup, transceivers for this are also much smaller and cheaper than they were a few short years ago. The only thing holding it back is the governments who are as usual very slow to react to change and keen on their lucrative mobile network licensing deals. I have been using SIP over open Wifi networks since '06 with Nokia E-series phones and the only real problem is the range. the rest is just a few small software issues
I would rather they focus on making things other than JavaShit faster, i try to leave it switched off when I can. I don't use Slashdot 2.0 or Web 2.0 apps so JavaShit speed is pretty much irrelevant to me.
If he had a decent connection and was downloading all the time. Unfortunately if I tried it I would be well inside the 1c per MB excess usage tariff within a day. and my ISP is owned by bankrupt Australians who need every 1c they can get
First killer aliens that are going to kill us all and now this? He is starting to sound a lot like James Lovelock - once a useful scientist now just cashing in on his reputation before he retires or kicks the bucket.
You can't just live your life in fear of what could go wrong. sure bad things will happen eventually but things like the sun burning out and nuclear warfare are not really on the agenda these days. If some ecological disaster comes along it will most likely be easier to fix than finding a whole new planet and terraforming it
Lets just hope this laptop only has support for yesteryear's encryption such as ROT-13 lest the Indian government causes a fuss about not being able to spy on OLPC user's traffic and outlaws its like they did with satellite phones.
Here in ireland the refinery price for petrol is ~42c per litre. But with tax, transport, more tax and whatever the petrol station adds onto the price it costs 1.27e to 1.37e per litre.
There are 3 separate taxes on petrol - excise which is like a 'sin tax' is about 60c, VAT is just over 20c and a ~5c 'carbon tax'. Ethanol isn't subsidised but has a reduced excise tax.
So you probably wouldn't be paying all *that* much for it if you weren't being taxed to the hilt
There is no one fix to this problem. For the past 100 years or so oil was an all you can drink buffet but now the end is in sight. There is talk of a Peak Uranium which may already have passed. Nuclear has its uses as a reliable base load but its not the one great solution that will solve all our energy problems.
Solar, wind, geothermal, pumped storage all have their place but really the national grid should be designed to better accomodate micro-generation and 'unreliable' generators like wind turbines - efficient power plants that can easily reduce their output in a way that actually saves fuel so that no wind or solar energy ends up wasted.
Doesn't work everywhere, its slow but somewhat cheaper than BGAN and you only need a handheld satellite phone for it to work.
but still at $5 per MB I would be writing a script to compress my RSS feeds using PAQ8 so I can download them over TFTP and writing a custom binary protocol IM client to save bandwidth
When they saw the potential for global warming to be used to justify tax increases, bans of certain products and making otherwise harmless but enjoyable activities into a crime they changed it to 'climate change' in order to to instill it as a permanent stick to beat the population into compliance long after the much exaggerated threat of global warming induced disasters has passed. The only thing constant is change and that includes climate change - the climate has always been changing and will continue to do so.
Environmentalists won't stop until everybody is forced to move into huge city centre apartment blocks and not allowed to consume any energy other than for their government-supplied 'nettop' used for delivering propaganda and possibly one CFL bulb.
The good life is being regulated out of existence at an alarming rate in the name of security, safety and now 'protecting' the environment. Driving a car is almost considered a sin at this stage because not only is a 'mere human' driver being passed of as a danger to others and their children but they are also accused of ruining the environment. It won't stop until we are all forced to live in a purely receptive society where no individual is allowed to think for himself, just sit there in that cell with one CFL waiting for instructions from the government.
it seems that changing the password would render this hack fairly useless. also many routers are only accessible through a private IP, so even changing the router's IP would work unless the script tries all the addresses on the local network and then tries to brute force the router, but that would take years since I would assume its written in JavaShit
I wonder if it would have much of an impact if they switched from the verbose JSON/XML over HTTP formats for the API to a binary UDP-based protocol. Twitter seems well suited to such a protocol since it is so simple and the messages ar so short
Is it that they are doing too much processing on the data, wasting too much bandwidth or is their database causing trouble? Since its twitter obviously any bandwidth used is a waste, but you know what I mean
A lot of the traffic on the new network (and current one) is from remote transceiver units rather than satellite phones. of course the new phones will be a lot smaller. there are satellite phones out there now that don't look a whole lot dissimilar to a normal smartphone but of course if it improves the performance I would rather carry around one that has a large antenna.
The antenna isn't really an issue for me or anyone who really needs these phones. If it meant it would be more reliable, send faster data or better quality calls they could put a 3ft antenna on it and I wouldnt care
Just give Eric Schmidt a call, tell him you have nothing to hide from his company or the government and they will replace all your machines with shiny new Google Chrome OS based "Net tops", put all your data on their servers, give you a brand new direct fibre optic connection to their nearest office and all they want in return is the ability to meticulously sift through your data in order to find the best way to bombard you with text-based ads.
If it was up to Google HTTP would be the only way of sending data over a network. Everything you did before with 10 times more protocol overhead and an easy pathway for integration with Google AdSense
My Pico ITX server uses only 15w, the router uses a similar amount. I was thinking if I could get a cheap USB-powered ADSL modem and Wifi dongle for it I could get rid of the router and maybe save about 30e worth of electricity a year. Nobody wants USB DSL modems and you'd almost get a wifi dongle for free on a box of matches these days so it would pay for itself within about 3 months. The only problem is I'd still need a switch and if I got one of those it wouldn't save me anything.
It's hard to tell if your friends have been affected by this 'bug'. If someone unfriends you then you might never know, yet when you add a new one it's all over everyone else's page
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It seems that if you try to take anything other than clothes and the most common of consumer electronics with you they will give you hassle. I was very near having a LED lightbulb taken off me because the ignorant, uneducated fucker running the show had never seen one before. They also routinely take jars of jam because they argue it takes them too long to check if something is real jam as well as send people back because the resealable plastic bag is slightly too big.
They really could do with trimming down a lot of perfectly normal every day items off the prohibited items list, even sharp items because since 9/11 no hijacker will get very far anyway. Fuck it, most people want to carry guns on board only do so because they want to bring the gun to their destination.
I don't understand why anyone would still waste money on a private jet if you are going to be restricted and treated like cattle at the airport anyway.
If such a device is available it will only be a matter of time before someone makes a network using only these type of devices and perhaps slightly more powerful ones with an outdoor antenna. Its already possible to set up your own GSM network using a USRP and route the calls over SIP.
Give it a few more years and they will have femtocells for 4G. The only 'mobile operator' that will be necessary is some guy with a server to do the accounting (which femtocell gets the most traffic and allocate credits from its users to the owner) and an ordinary SIP/XMPP server. Maybe people won't even bother with such trivial issues as tracking down bandwidth usage as broadband quality improves. then we can just think of femtocells as a sort of long-range open wifi system.
Where no coverage is available satellite would act as a backup, transceivers for this are also much smaller and cheaper than they were a few short years ago. The only thing holding it back is the governments who are as usual very slow to react to change and keen on their lucrative mobile network licensing deals. I have been using SIP over open Wifi networks since '06 with Nokia E-series phones and the only real problem is the range. the rest is just a few small software issues
I would rather they focus on making things other than JavaShit faster, i try to leave it switched off when I can. I don't use Slashdot 2.0 or Web 2.0 apps so JavaShit speed is pretty much irrelevant to me.
maybe he was running a TOR node then?
If he had a decent connection and was downloading all the time. Unfortunately if I tried it I would be well inside the 1c per MB excess usage tariff within a day. and my ISP is owned by bankrupt Australians who need every 1c they can get
For anyone who doesn't know, BlackBerry email service means that all emails go through RIM's servers
This shows once again that the little bit of a subsidy the network gives is never worth it.
Remember lads this is in the UK where all networks offer good SIM-only plans and prepaid doesn't suck ass like it does in the States.
First killer aliens that are going to kill us all and now this? He is starting to sound a lot like James Lovelock - once a useful scientist now just cashing in on his reputation before he retires or kicks the bucket.
You can't just live your life in fear of what could go wrong. sure bad things will happen eventually but things like the sun burning out and nuclear warfare are not really on the agenda these days. If some ecological disaster comes along it will most likely be easier to fix than finding a whole new planet and terraforming it
Lets just hope this laptop only has support for yesteryear's encryption such as ROT-13 lest the Indian government causes a fuss about not being able to spy on OLPC user's traffic and outlaws its like they did with satellite phones.
Here in ireland the refinery price for petrol is ~42c per litre. But with tax, transport, more tax and whatever the petrol station adds onto the price it costs 1.27e to 1.37e per litre.
There are 3 separate taxes on petrol - excise which is like a 'sin tax' is about 60c, VAT is just over 20c and a ~5c 'carbon tax'. Ethanol isn't subsidised but has a reduced excise tax.
So you probably wouldn't be paying all *that* much for it if you weren't being taxed to the hilt
assuming the plastic bottles are free, how much does it cost to make a boat out of them?
There is no one fix to this problem. For the past 100 years or so oil was an all you can drink buffet but now the end is in sight. There is talk of a Peak Uranium which may already have passed. Nuclear has its uses as a reliable base load but its not the one great solution that will solve all our energy problems.
Solar, wind, geothermal, pumped storage all have their place but really the national grid should be designed to better accomodate micro-generation and 'unreliable' generators like wind turbines - efficient power plants that can easily reduce their output in a way that actually saves fuel so that no wind or solar energy ends up wasted.
Doesn't work everywhere, its slow but somewhat cheaper than BGAN and you only need a handheld satellite phone for it to work.
but still at $5 per MB I would be writing a script to compress my RSS feeds using PAQ8 so I can download them over TFTP and writing a custom binary protocol IM client to save bandwidth
When they saw the potential for global warming to be used to justify tax increases, bans of certain products and making otherwise harmless but enjoyable activities into a crime they changed it to 'climate change' in order to to instill it as a permanent stick to beat the population into compliance long after the much exaggerated threat of global warming induced disasters has passed. The only thing constant is change and that includes climate change - the climate has always been changing and will continue to do so.
Environmentalists won't stop until everybody is forced to move into huge city centre apartment blocks and not allowed to consume any energy other than for their government-supplied 'nettop' used for delivering propaganda and possibly one CFL bulb.
The good life is being regulated out of existence at an alarming rate in the name of security, safety and now 'protecting' the environment. Driving a car is almost considered a sin at this stage because not only is a 'mere human' driver being passed of as a danger to others and their children but they are also accused of ruining the environment. It won't stop until we are all forced to live in a purely receptive society where no individual is allowed to think for himself, just sit there in that cell with one CFL waiting for instructions from the government.
it seems that changing the password would render this hack fairly useless. also many routers are only accessible through a private IP, so even changing the router's IP would work unless the script tries all the addresses on the local network and then tries to brute force the router, but that would take years since I would assume its written in JavaShit
SN account to have 'multiple personalities'
Basically you want Facebook to cater to the fact that you are two-faced, or n-faced.
Still I'd like to have one in the shed so I can take it out for a cruise on a nice sunny day.
and if I dont feel like going for a cruise on a sunny day I'll just leave it outside, connected to a grid tie inverter
I wonder if it would have much of an impact if they switched from the verbose JSON/XML over HTTP formats for the API to a binary UDP-based protocol. Twitter seems well suited to such a protocol since it is so simple and the messages ar so short
Is it that they are doing too much processing on the data, wasting too much bandwidth or is their database causing trouble? Since its twitter obviously any bandwidth used is a waste, but you know what I mean
Use UDP?
A lot of the traffic on the new network (and current one) is from remote transceiver units rather than satellite phones. of course the new phones will be a lot smaller. there are satellite phones out there now that don't look a whole lot dissimilar to a normal smartphone but of course if it improves the performance I would rather carry around one that has a large antenna.
The antenna isn't really an issue for me or anyone who really needs these phones. If it meant it would be more reliable, send faster data or better quality calls they could put a 3ft antenna on it and I wouldnt care
Just give Eric Schmidt a call, tell him you have nothing to hide from his company or the government and they will replace all your machines with shiny new Google Chrome OS based "Net tops", put all your data on their servers, give you a brand new direct fibre optic connection to their nearest office and all they want in return is the ability to meticulously sift through your data in order to find the best way to bombard you with text-based ads.
Everything is more shiny with Google.
You are supporting communism! Thats right, the CEO of Huawei is a fully paid up member of the Chinese Communist Party.
In 2001 you had to go through the trouble of Pirating MP3's to support communism but these days you only have to buy the modem.
If it was up to Google HTTP would be the only way of sending data over a network. Everything you did before with 10 times more protocol overhead and an easy pathway for integration with Google AdSense
My Pico ITX server uses only 15w, the router uses a similar amount. I was thinking if I could get a cheap USB-powered ADSL modem and Wifi dongle for it I could get rid of the router and maybe save about 30e worth of electricity a year. Nobody wants USB DSL modems and you'd almost get a wifi dongle for free on a box of matches these days so it would pay for itself within about 3 months. The only problem is I'd still need a switch and if I got one of those it wouldn't save me anything.
It's hard to tell if your friends have been affected by this 'bug'. If someone unfriends you then you might never know, yet when you add a new one it's all over everyone else's page