In my experience, electric dog collars don't work with truly big, mean, motivated dogs. The big dogs just sit on the periphery taking in the tolerable threshold of pain, all the time going grrrrr, grrrrr, grrrr, until the batteries in the collar fail and the big dogs are then free to chase and maul unimpeded.
Whereas I can distintly recall an instance about 2-3 months ago when I accessed maps.google.com, (or was it maps.google.nl but nevermind because both fail now), and maps.google.com worked fine on my Nokia N9 built-in webkit browser, but the interface was un-usable actually. Switching to the built-in Nokia Maps application, (which I previously absently-mindly forgot about), worked wonders at the time when I needed it.
See Vador wouldn't do that. Vador isn't like that at all. Vador is all about having an order to things. Structure. Reliability. Every sysadmin should look up to Lord Vador for his sense of order. Vador is someone you can trust to set things straight.
Since he already has a (SIP-compatible) Droid smartphone, and he knows about the Raspberry Pi already, get that old fart into low energy server-connectivity pronto I say!
This is called being 'grandfathered'. Consider yourself lucky when it happens to you. Bottom-line is if you signed up to the favorable terms on-time, you're in. Otherwise, you're out.
Yeah really RMS, who do you look up to yourself? I'll venture to guess Ralph Nadar and perhaps even Mr. Fred Rodgers who are both, (also) impressive Americans that have worked to set stellar examples in their field.
Jolla's Sailfish OS/hardware (not sure what exactly at this early date) can run the Mer as well as Android OS. So Jolla does more than multiple user accounts on a single phone.
This development will help a lot of folks who don't have reliable access to power. Just because it doesn't matter where you live doesn't mean this feat of technology does not matter to other people somewhere else.
Agreed. If I was Microsoft, or Apple for that matter, I'd be all over Adobe for ruining The Platform. Linux users are SOL so far as Adobe is involved, but the linux users already knew that.
Statistically speaking, you seem correct. Consider the brute-force possibilities of all those many millions of Skype users, some with dubious motivations, and how many of them must have tried this at least once and paid attention?
Or, maybe they did, and just kept quiet about it?
And profited?
Think about the billions.
Skype was never exactly motivated to further innovate, or engineer to a higher level; possibly with security enhancements. Skype has always been about the numbers. The numbers also indicate someone would have brute-forced them by now though, if this minor-hack is true.
No, I think this should ding Sony's 'green rating', because of a too-short lifespan and no little-to-none recycling-to-keep-in-use options. Is everyone expected to suddenly buy a new TV set every now and then? Gimme a break. All Sony has to do is allow user-mods to happen. Imagine if a classic car owner was not allowed to 3d-print the broken dashboard controller-thing just to keep it alive. I dunno, something like a plastic turn-signal lock doo-hickey which otherwise makes the car illegal (except when hand-signals are used). Same difference.
Admittedly I am biased because I see an old PC, and I think, 'will it run linux?'
But then again, this is Sony that refuses even the U.S. Military the right to run linux on their paid-for playstations. Apple lost its soul a long time ago, and Sony continues to show them the way.
Good points. May I add, had they not spent all that money on personality tests and whatnot, but instead compensated the employees for, I dunno, more than they could probably earn elsewhere and just generally showed them respect, maybe things would start working out in the company's favor?
Slavery is so over. We all need to work and pay our bills due. We're all like little companies trying to do the capitalist-thang, by selling our own time, effort, and skills. This is how we compete, to earn a living.
In one of the Pierce Brosnan movies, I think GoldenEye, the bad guy chains Bond and the girl to a (grounded) helicopter pilot's seat. There is a timer set to trigger bombs that will explode the helicopter, unless Bond manages to escape. Which he does by loosening his hands in-time just enough to trigger, the ejection seat, of the helicopter.
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In my experience, electric dog collars don't work with truly big, mean, motivated dogs. The big dogs just sit on the periphery taking in the tolerable threshold of pain, all the time going grrrrr, grrrrr, grrrr, until the batteries in the collar fail and the big dogs are then free to chase and maul unimpeded.
This is kind of the thing isn't it?
...This is all part of evil Larry's plan for World Domination. Larry did it.
I'll glady trade you the predator on my back for... a library of congress?
Yes, I can confirm this as true now.
Whereas I can distintly recall an instance about 2-3 months ago when I accessed maps.google.com, (or was it maps.google.nl but nevermind because both fail now), and maps.google.com worked fine on my Nokia N9 built-in webkit browser, but the interface was un-usable actually. Switching to the built-in Nokia Maps application, (which I previously absently-mindly forgot about), worked wonders at the time when I needed it.
You mean can you run Android on something like a Nokia N9 (linux, harmatten) phone? Or perhaps upcoming phones from Jolla? Sure! Check out nitdroid:
http://my-meego.com/software/applications.php?name=NITdroid&fldAuto=1380&faq=7
http://forum.nitdroid.com/
See Vador wouldn't do that. Vador isn't like that at all. Vador is all about having an order to things. Structure. Reliability. Every sysadmin should look up to Lord Vador for his sense of order. Vador is someone you can trust to set things straight.
Since he already has a (SIP-compatible) Droid smartphone, and he knows about the Raspberry Pi already, get that old fart into low energy server-connectivity pronto I say!
http://nerdvittles.com/?p=3026
Charge him up with credit from 12voipand that that man go.
For that matter, why aren't you browsing privately to begin with. Problem solved, no need to delete the cookies.
This is called being 'grandfathered'. Consider yourself lucky when it happens to you. Bottom-line is if you signed up to the favorable terms on-time, you're in. Otherwise, you're out.
I think I just heard Nelson say "ha ha!"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_clause
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AN3gSjHsr1o
Now unless you want to get yourself soaking wet, step away from that last remaining dry patch of grass, please.
Yeah really RMS, who do you look up to yourself? I'll venture to guess Ralph Nadar and perhaps even Mr. Fred Rodgers who are both, (also) impressive Americans that have worked to set stellar examples in their field.
Jolla's Sailfish OS/hardware (not sure what exactly at this early date) can run the Mer as well as Android OS. So Jolla does more than multiple user accounts on a single phone.
Huh? There is no such AI yet? What are you talking about? Just scale this up and make it mobile, ok?
From 2010:
http://singularityhub.com/2010/12/16/south-koreas-robot-machine-gun-turret-can-see-you-coming-3-km-away/
Commenting only to un-do a twitchy mod.
Yes thanks! Mod up!
This development will help a lot of folks who don't have reliable access to power. Just because it doesn't matter where you live doesn't mean this feat of technology does not matter to other people somewhere else.
http://www.haitianproject.org/updates/2012/9/living-son
Agreed. If I was Microsoft, or Apple for that matter, I'd be all over Adobe for ruining The Platform. Linux users are SOL so far as Adobe is involved, but the linux users already knew that.
Said the Anonymous Coward. Another classic, sensational Anonymous Coward comment. Let this serve as an example, as if we needed more.
Statistically speaking, you seem correct. Consider the brute-force possibilities of all those many millions of Skype users, some with dubious motivations, and how many of them must have tried this at least once and paid attention?
Or, maybe they did, and just kept quiet about it?
And profited?
Think about the billions.
Skype was never exactly motivated to further innovate, or engineer to a higher level; possibly with security enhancements. Skype has always been about the numbers. The numbers also indicate someone would have brute-forced them by now though, if this minor-hack is true.
No, I think this should ding Sony's 'green rating', because of a too-short lifespan and no little-to-none recycling-to-keep-in-use options. Is everyone expected to suddenly buy a new TV set every now and then? Gimme a break. All Sony has to do is allow user-mods to happen. Imagine if a classic car owner was not allowed to 3d-print the broken dashboard controller-thing just to keep it alive. I dunno, something like a plastic turn-signal lock doo-hickey which otherwise makes the car illegal (except when hand-signals are used). Same difference.
http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/campaigns/climate-change/cool-it/Campaign-analysis/Guide-to-Greener-Electronics.
Admittedly I am biased because I see an old PC, and I think, 'will it run linux?'
But then again, this is Sony that refuses even the U.S. Military the right to run linux on their paid-for playstations. Apple lost its soul a long time ago, and Sony continues to show them the way.
Is /. even relevant enough to block it in Texas? I mean, really, Texas?
Good points. May I add, had they not spent all that money on personality tests and whatnot, but instead compensated the employees for, I dunno, more than they could probably earn elsewhere and just generally showed them respect, maybe things would start working out in the company's favor?
Slavery is so over. We all need to work and pay our bills due. We're all like little companies trying to do the capitalist-thang, by selling our own time, effort, and skills. This is how we compete, to earn a living.
Larry Ellison? Oh wait.
In one of the Pierce Brosnan movies, I think GoldenEye, the bad guy chains Bond and the girl to a (grounded) helicopter pilot's seat. There is a timer set to trigger bombs that will explode the helicopter, unless Bond manages to escape. Which he does by loosening his hands in-time just enough to trigger, the ejection seat, of the helicopter.
Oh man! I had no idea how much I needed one of these until you linked to it. I had no idea Fiskar made these.
obligatory XCID: https://xkcd.com/705