Also, I recognize that you do have to continually think about your conversation during a voice call, but you at least have the ability to keep your eyes on the road...
How can it be easier? A voice call distracts you for a few seconds, tops- with speeddial, voice dialing, and other options, it takes little to no time.
Even if you're texting proficient, you still have to look at the screen to check your output multiple times, distracting you from the road.
While I'm normally a person that is against the "nanny state", idiots who get distracted while driving are not only a danger to themselves, they are a danger to every other person around them.
Make them openly viewable, but lock them for editing via password and put the name and address, and account email on the title page. That will let people use the ebooks as they want, but strongly deter people from uploading them or freely sharing them with people who haven't bought the book.
...Mozilla cannot write every extension. A LOT of addons weren't updated for the Firefox 2 betas or RCs, but were updated within a few days for Firefox 2.0 final.
In the meantime, why don't you email the developer of your extension and ask?
Having a collaborative tool that makes it easier to keep profiles up to date is better.
The CIA also doesn't have to worry about vandalism- no one is going to blank a page and replace it to the word "penis" when every edit is tied to their name... plus, being in the CIA is serious work, so I'd imagine the maturity level is higher anyways.
It sounds like your living in some internet stone age where regional monopolies are trying to squeeze every dime out of you they can without having to provide much service to their customers at all
That's about right. I have a choice between DSL and Cable for high speed internet (satellite is too high latency). Luckily my cable company treats me well (15mbps/2mbps for $55/mo) but the DSL service is horrible. If the cable company made changes like these I wouldn't have much of an alternative...
It's ridiculous. I hope somebody who actually has a brain gets in the FCC and forces the telcos to actually use the $200 Billion we've given them so far to improve the infrastructure...like we PAID them for with tax dollars.
Sure, I can buy an unlocked phone and bring it to AT&T.
Assume I bought a $300 phone that would have been $50 with a 2 year contract.
Well, great! No commitment. Just one (big) problem: I don't get any sort of pricing commitment. The whole reason the ridiculous discounts work is because the discounts provided are just put in the cost of plans! If I don't get any sort of discount, why bother?
A further disincentive against buying your own cell phone? The different standards and activation. Sure, AT&T may be GSM as well as TMobile, but Sprint & Verizon are CDMA... and some refuse to let off network cell phones on. Verizon won't activate ESN's that are not from their own phones. If you have no commitment, but you paid $200 more for the phone that you can't use on another network when the service sucks? You'd still probably stick, to get your money's worth out of the phone.
I hope that the FCC forces providers to allow unlocked & unbundled (with service) phones on their network, as it would encourage a better wireless industry for consumers (e.x. lower prices, minutes for incoming calls being free like Europe, incoming texts being free, lower rates, etc.).I also hope that the FCC makes providers offer lower priced plans to people who bring their own phones- or they'll be no incentive to go without a contract...
Depends on your phone. Basic phone, $20. Smartphone, $30. Certain smartphones are $50.
And, having used both of those, the difference isn't THAT big, other than eye candy...
Japan is CDMA, so they'd have to make a new phone (which, thanks to the exclusivity contract, they couldn't sell in the US). China is CDMA, Korea is CDMA, I believe Thailand is still PHS, I also believe that D-AMPS is in use in Malaysia, and Thailand is actually GSM.
There *are* GSM networks in some of those countries, but they don't have as nearly as much coverage as the other systems...
I think that part of the reason for the greatly increased data usage is the fact that the iPhone rate plans (which are actually priced pretty well) have much more reasonably priced data plans than the competition.
The fact that Mobile Safari performs well helps, but my phone is easy enough to use online, I just can't see paying $50 for the data usage on top of my already exorbitant rate plan with AT&T...
OpenMoko has the Neo1973 out for developers), they're trying to get the V2 (with Wi-Fi, Quad-band compatibility, and other new goodies) called the FreeRunner to market. At $400, it's expensive, but considering that a commitment is not required, it's not bad at all.
Sadly, I hear the current software isn't that stable (they ARE still developing it), and without a deal to land these in stores, it faces an uphill battle for adoption, at least in the USA.
Personally, I'm waiting to see how Android turns out. That could be really innovative...
I could see that as the reason. What will probably happen is like the relationships that labels have with online music stores.
Advertising is put in the video, Youtube gets a cut, Viacom gets some.
As far as the loss of free copies...I could see some arguments. For one, if you want to pull an episode (want to drum up DVD sales or something), you can do that if you publish the content- you can't just pull other copies. They probably want copyright information included, station, producers, etc.
Personally, I'm glad that Viacom is embracing such an idea. I don't mind a little advertising if the quality is consistently good, in sync, and I can send friends links/bookmark shows without worrying that they'll be pulled for copyright in five minutes.
Yeah, some of the questions I received were about the Beatles and Russian History. Those seem like historical knowledge tests, not intelligence quotient...
Saying that AV is completely useless is something that applies to companies and home users alike, and I disagree with that.
By the way, I'm not saying that whitelisting is the devil, or that AV products are invincible. I think, however, in the majority of situations (home users), whitelists are impractical.
If I had a server to manage? Whitelisting, on demand AV with signatures and heuristics, heavily restricted and user separated accounts (NO way the webserver daemon runs as root), and if that server held anything of value, I'd be even more restrictive (no SSH, no dictionary passwords, password changes every XX days, SSH only, etc.)
Most consumer level service comes with an Acceptable Usage Policy. Mine says that (this is paraphrased) "At the sole discretion of big cable company (not comcast), users may be terminated for abuse or excessive usage".
So, we'll move from throttling to arbitrary caps. Maybe after XXGB your speeds are cut to 1/10th. Or maybe (like my cable company), they can just say "Well, we don't want you as a customer any more".
Explicit caps? We can complain or not subscribe if they're low- I'm for that if somebody is downloading 300GB+ per month, using my node. But
the idea of "Well, you downloaded 'too much'" is just as bad as lying about throttling.
"A better way of dealing with the unknown is to use whitelists â" where only authorised or approved software can execute, said Stewart."
So, either the AV company does the whitelist entirely (causing the AV companies to hold a lot of power), or the user can add things manually- which would lead to social engineering- "Make sure to add FunFreeScreenSaver.exe to your whitelist!"
Manually adding is a pain, and automatic (e.x. "Do you want to add WeirdProgram.exe to your whitelist? Yes or No") is bad too. Users would see it so much that they'd just start hitting yes blindly (e.x. ActiveX controls pre-SP2 XP)
It should. I'm a Thunderbird user. I still don't open dubious emails because remote code vulnerabilities are found ThunderBird. It's just good practice not to open suspicious emails "Your Bill - Email size 2.6MB from bill@yahoo-inc.com" is pretty suspect, why risk it when you don't have any paid yahoo services?
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Also, I recognize that you do have to continually think about your conversation during a voice call, but you at least have the ability to keep your eyes on the road...
How can it be easier? A voice call distracts you for a few seconds, tops- with speeddial, voice dialing, and other options, it takes little to no time.
Even if you're texting proficient, you still have to look at the screen to check your output multiple times, distracting you from the road.
While I'm normally a person that is against the "nanny state", idiots who get distracted while driving are not only a danger to themselves, they are a danger to every other person around them.
PDF includes encrypted protection on editing via password (which could be strong) and it is an ISO standard...
Make them openly viewable, but lock them for editing via password and put the name and address, and account email on the title page. That will let people use the ebooks as they want, but strongly deter people from uploading them or freely sharing them with people who haven't bought the book.
Bad form to reply to onself, but I failed at linking properly. Link to the comment I got the info from.
Well, I just gleaned that info from this comment http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/06/21/1219205, so take it with a grain of salt.
My bad. A Win 2k3 server is the frontend for RDP, which grants access to the NCP shares.
...Mozilla cannot write every extension. A LOT of addons weren't updated for the Firefox 2 betas or RCs, but were updated within a few days for Firefox 2.0 final.
In the meantime, why don't you email the developer of your extension and ask?
Having a collaborative tool that makes it easier to keep profiles up to date is better.
The CIA also doesn't have to worry about vandalism- no one is going to blank a page and replace it to the word "penis" when every edit is tied to their name... plus, being in the CIA is serious work, so I'd imagine the maturity level is higher anyways.
If you count every forged TCP RST packet as a violation, that would mean damages in the billions.
That's about right. I have a choice between DSL and Cable for high speed internet (satellite is too high latency). Luckily my cable company treats me well (15mbps/2mbps for $55/mo) but the DSL service is horrible. If the cable company made changes like these I wouldn't have much of an alternative...
It's ridiculous. I hope somebody who actually has a brain gets in the FCC and forces the telcos to actually use the $200 Billion we've given them so far to improve the infrastructure...like we PAID them for with tax dollars.
Sure, I can buy an unlocked phone and bring it to AT&T.
Assume I bought a $300 phone that would have been $50 with a 2 year contract.
Well, great! No commitment. Just one (big) problem: I don't get any sort of pricing commitment. The whole reason the ridiculous discounts work is because the discounts provided are just put in the cost of plans! If I don't get any sort of discount, why bother?
A further disincentive against buying your own cell phone? The different standards and activation. Sure, AT&T may be GSM as well as TMobile, but Sprint & Verizon are CDMA... and some refuse to let off network cell phones on. Verizon won't activate ESN's that are not from their own phones. If you have no commitment, but you paid $200 more for the phone that you can't use on another network when the service sucks? You'd still probably stick, to get your money's worth out of the phone.
I hope that the FCC forces providers to allow unlocked & unbundled (with service) phones on their network, as it would encourage a better wireless industry for consumers (e.x. lower prices, minutes for incoming calls being free like Europe, incoming texts being free, lower rates, etc.).I also hope that the FCC makes providers offer lower priced plans to people who bring their own phones- or they'll be no incentive to go without a contract...
Depends on your phone. Basic phone, $20. Smartphone, $30. Certain smartphones are $50. And, having used both of those, the difference isn't THAT big, other than eye candy...
Japan is CDMA, so they'd have to make a new phone (which, thanks to the exclusivity contract, they couldn't sell in the US). China is CDMA, Korea is CDMA, I believe Thailand is still PHS, I also believe that D-AMPS is in use in Malaysia, and Thailand is actually GSM.
There *are* GSM networks in some of those countries, but they don't have as nearly as much coverage as the other systems...
What do you mean they didn't even try to get Verizon? Verizon rejected Apple iPhone deal - USATODAY.COM...
I think that part of the reason for the greatly increased data usage is the fact that the iPhone rate plans (which are actually priced pretty well) have much more reasonably priced data plans than the competition.
The fact that Mobile Safari performs well helps, but my phone is easy enough to use online, I just can't see paying $50 for the data usage on top of my already exorbitant rate plan with AT&T...
OpenMoko has the Neo1973 out for developers), they're trying to get the V2 (with Wi-Fi, Quad-band compatibility, and other new goodies) called the FreeRunner to market. At $400, it's expensive, but considering that a commitment is not required, it's not bad at all.
Sadly, I hear the current software isn't that stable (they ARE still developing it), and without a deal to land these in stores, it faces an uphill battle for adoption, at least in the USA.
Personally, I'm waiting to see how Android turns out. That could be really innovative...
I could see that as the reason. What will probably happen is like the relationships that labels have with online music stores.
Advertising is put in the video, Youtube gets a cut, Viacom gets some.
As far as the loss of free copies...I could see some arguments. For one, if you want to pull an episode (want to drum up DVD sales or something), you can do that if you publish the content- you can't just pull other copies. They probably want copyright information included, station, producers, etc.
Personally, I'm glad that Viacom is embracing such an idea. I don't mind a little advertising if the quality is consistently good, in sync, and I can send friends links/bookmark shows without worrying that they'll be pulled for copyright in five minutes.
Somebody will make a downloader like Free Music Zilla (which does IMEEM and Pandora, among others), which will mean $2 albums. I'm not complaining!
Yeah, some of the questions I received were about the Beatles and Russian History. Those seem like historical knowledge tests, not intelligence quotient...
And for some reason I said "no SSH", I meant no telnet... d'oh. Secured connections only.
Saying that AV is completely useless is something that applies to companies and home users alike, and I disagree with that.
By the way, I'm not saying that whitelisting is the devil, or that AV products are invincible. I think, however, in the majority of situations (home users), whitelists are impractical.
If I had a server to manage? Whitelisting, on demand AV with signatures and heuristics, heavily restricted and user separated accounts (NO way the webserver daemon runs as root), and if that server held anything of value, I'd be even more restrictive (no SSH, no dictionary passwords, password changes every XX days, SSH only, etc.)
Most consumer level service comes with an Acceptable Usage Policy. Mine says that (this is paraphrased) "At the sole discretion of big cable company (not comcast), users may be terminated for abuse or excessive usage".
So, we'll move from throttling to arbitrary caps. Maybe after XXGB your speeds are cut to 1/10th. Or maybe (like my cable company), they can just say "Well, we don't want you as a customer any more".
Explicit caps? We can complain or not subscribe if they're low- I'm for that if somebody is downloading 300GB+ per month, using my node. But the idea of "Well, you downloaded 'too much'" is just as bad as lying about throttling.
"A better way of dealing with the unknown is to use whitelists â" where only authorised or approved software can execute, said Stewart."
So, either the AV company does the whitelist entirely (causing the AV companies to hold a lot of power), or the user can add things manually- which would lead to social engineering- "Make sure to add FunFreeScreenSaver.exe to your whitelist!"
Manually adding is a pain, and automatic (e.x. "Do you want to add WeirdProgram.exe to your whitelist? Yes or No") is bad too. Users would see it so much that they'd just start hitting yes blindly (e.x. ActiveX controls pre-SP2 XP)
It should. I'm a Thunderbird user. I still don't open dubious emails because remote code vulnerabilities are found ThunderBird. It's just good practice not to open suspicious emails "Your Bill - Email size 2.6MB from bill@yahoo-inc.com" is pretty suspect, why risk it when you don't have any paid yahoo services?