Toyota IQ has a pair of buttons on the doors where you press them in and it locks and for the next 5 seconds, you can wiggle the door handles and it will not open (i.e. it is locked) but if you wait longer than that it will open because it thinks you have forgotten something or there is some reason why you haven't gone away.
... but spend money on developing an operating system. Can they not just save all the hassle and choose Red Hat / Ubuntu / Debian / SlackWare / Mandriva / anything else at http://distrowatch.com?
I was going to post that they had enough nous to get a robots.txt but not to actually maintain their system. I wouldn't want that company on my CV even if I was the janitor. This is going to be a millstone for anyone who was involved in this going back from day 2 (I can just about forgive them for being stupid on day 1)
Yeah. The router is old and not very sophisticated so it has to go the journey. The asymmetry was never a surprise for me but I didn't realise that they monitored the upload stream also. You live and learn.
Well, I upgraded from 2Mbit/s to 20Mbit/s (Virgin Media) on Friday so the balance has swung a small distance the other way.;-)
However, I have now noticed that my router is only allowing ~6Mbit/s through it so I really need to get to a shop and buy a new one. Fortunately the torrent uploads are going at nominal values. I expect to have a Demonoid ratio of 3 later this week. Sad, but it gives me something to strive for.
Ah spit.
I was going to mod this informative but the damn laptop glidepad made me select Redundant instead. Just posting to remove my negative moderation.
Please tell me that there is going to either be prison time or a huge *personal* fine for the CEO of the tinpot company who thought that a lock and key was enough security. I'n not talking about firing the person who left it there or proped the door open to do the vacuuming, but the person at the top who says "Yes, this is cost effective and proper." We need to have people at board level think twice about storing our data so shockingly badly.
...could they not use Auto Archive to put them to a PST instead of doing it manually. You have the pain of the PST files but you don't have to rely on imbeciles to manually archive stuff. Eventually rotate the PSTs onto removable media and store them in a nice safe place that the government already owns.
So, backup onto floppy and post to underground storage next to the accelerators at Fermilab then.
Agreed. He is a rather attractive fellow in a greasy, bald kind of way. Ah, my mistake. I thought you were the Anonymous Coward from Bolton. Thanks for clearing it up.
I also suppose it depends on which neighbour you are taking about. For example, my neighbour to the left is a reasonably attractive divorcee whilst to the right I have a retired vicar in his 70's. They are both entirely different prospects...
I'm not saying that I trust librarians over veterinarians (by the time I was involved, it was fairly obvious that the dog was not suffering any ill effects and we had been told to just monitor her progress. I was just placating my girlfriend) I am saying that I needed to find something on the internet that said either "foam packaging can be polystyrene or corn starch" or "Buy our packaging material. You may choose between polystyrene or cornstarch." When I was searching myself, I just got loads of links for plastic food cartons and chip wrappers and other stuff which matched my query but not what I wanted.
The Internet is not a substitute for professional advice, but just using Google without a very precise search term gives you too many unhelpful results. Using ChaCha helped me because they did the winnowing, they did the going down dead ends and I caught up on e-mail whilst they were doing it. They are like academic research assistants: They do the leg work and give you the stuff you need to know and not the stuff you don't.
But I think we have veered a little from swapping Google to ChaCha, so I will stop now.
That's the problem. You chose three words whereas I chose a slightly different three words.
Apparently these are called "peanuts" which I would never have guessed. I could have chosen Expanded or honeycomb instead of foam, and Foodstuff or food instead of edible and they would have given different answers. In fact, I did search for a while myself before I went to ChaCha and the first guide drew a blank and the second one finally got what I wanted. Having the human element is what helps this search engine because they can choose different phraseology to get different results and save me a spit load of time and energy.
I came home the other night and the dog had eaten some foam packing from a parcel that had been delivered earlier that day. The girlfriend was very concerned about this to the point of phoning the vets (where she works) to check on out of hours availability.
I came in, looked at the foam and said "That's okay, it made from some kind of food stuff. Look when you put water on it, it kind of dissolves. She should be okay."
However, I had to prove it was safe and it is almost impossible to quickly use Google to get the answer (You get lots on packing for food stuffs not packing made from foodstuffs.)
ChaCha was the answer. I tried once, waited a bit and got someone who said it couldn't be fund and then clicked me off. But the second person was helpful, thorough and ultimately succeeded in finding a page which showed that you can get packaging made from cornstarch and the dog would not need surgery.
I could have been on Google for hours but ChaCha took all the pain out of it and did it quicker than I could. If ever I need something and can't face searching lists of search engines, reporting other search engines, reporting peoples web pages reporting the original search engine etc. etc. I go to ChaCha.
But as to how they get a business model out of it, I am none the wiser.
I have a growing pile of CDs/DVDs holding hundreds of GB of pr0n.
There. Corrected typo in story.
Now this question is applicable to me. I'll read the rest of the replies and mentally substitute "Rock" and "Country and Western" for "Straight" and "Water Games" etc.
Given enough late-night TV and phone-in games shows, in 25~30 years the average human should have become sufficiently simple that the contemporaneous human brain could be simulated by some shiny pebbles and lines drawn in the sand.
Disclaimer: I have Cable not *DSL.
You have to have a micro-filter on each of the extension sockets from the main phone line you want to put phone / data equipment on. There will be cross talk, line drops, radiation leaks and general carnage if you don't.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_filter makes slightly more sense out of it. If you have a master socket in your house with a hard wired (i.e. in the back of the box) extension you will nee a micro filter at all extension sockets you are going to use. If you have a master socket in your house with a removable (i.e. a cable fits into the master socket and provides two sockets of it's own) extension then you might be able to just have a micro-filter between your master socket and your extension system. This later scenario will require the *DSL equipment to only be connected to the micro-filter in the master socket. You can't have the master socket in the hall with an extension in the lounge, in the kitchen, in the front bedroom, in the back bedroom and expect to have a single filter in the hall but the *DSL kit connected in the back bedroom. you would need 4 micro-filters in that case.
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Robber is the one with the phone. Victim is the one with the card.
Which is what the two key "Plausible Deniability" feature is all about:
http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=plausible-deniability
Toyota IQ has a pair of buttons on the doors where you press them in and it locks and for the next 5 seconds, you can wiggle the door handles and it will not open (i.e. it is locked) but if you wait longer than that it will open because it thinks you have forgotten something or there is some reason why you haven't gone away.
Obviously you can't tell anyone once you have found out but there you go.
Seems like reinventing the wheel here.
You can think of the children just don't look at the children.
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I was going to post that they had enough nous to get a robots.txt but not to actually maintain their system. I wouldn't want that company on my CV even if I was the janitor. This is going to be a millstone for anyone who was involved in this going back from day 2 (I can just about forgive them for being stupid on day 1)
Not that I expect people to care, but it made my day ;-)
Yeah. The router is old and not very sophisticated so it has to go the journey. The asymmetry was never a surprise for me but I didn't realise that they monitored the upload stream also. You live and learn.
However, I have now noticed that my router is only allowing ~6Mbit/s through it so I really need to get to a shop and buy a new one. Fortunately the torrent uploads are going at nominal values. I expect to have a Demonoid ratio of 3 later this week. Sad, but it gives me something to strive for.
Ah spit. I was going to mod this informative but the damn laptop glidepad made me select Redundant instead. Just posting to remove my negative moderation.
And I defy your scanner to prove otherwise.
Please tell me that there is going to either be prison time or a huge *personal* fine for the CEO of the tinpot company who thought that a lock and key was enough security. I'n not talking about firing the person who left it there or proped the door open to do the vacuuming, but the person at the top who says "Yes, this is cost effective and proper." We need to have people at board level think twice about storing our data so shockingly badly.
Cisco CSO says "You are all going to die so put down the muesli bar and pick up that burger."
...could they not use Auto Archive to put them to a PST instead of doing it manually. You have the pain of the PST files but you don't have to rely on imbeciles to manually archive stuff. Eventually rotate the PSTs onto removable media and store them in a nice safe place that the government already owns.
So, backup onto floppy and post to underground storage next to the accelerators at Fermilab then.
I thought it was Stupidity.
Althought I can't see it on the new list...
I also suppose it depends on which neighbour you are taking about. For example, my neighbour to the left is a reasonably attractive divorcee whilst to the right I have a retired vicar in his 70's. They are both entirely different prospects...
I'm not saying that I trust librarians over veterinarians (by the time I was involved, it was fairly obvious that the dog was not suffering any ill effects and we had been told to just monitor her progress. I was just placating my girlfriend) I am saying that I needed to find something on the internet that said either "foam packaging can be polystyrene or corn starch" or "Buy our packaging material. You may choose between polystyrene or cornstarch." When I was searching myself, I just got loads of links for plastic food cartons and chip wrappers and other stuff which matched my query but not what I wanted.
The Internet is not a substitute for professional advice, but just using Google without a very precise search term gives you too many unhelpful results. Using ChaCha helped me because they did the winnowing, they did the going down dead ends and I caught up on e-mail whilst they were doing it. They are like academic research assistants: They do the leg work and give you the stuff you need to know and not the stuff you don't.
But I think we have veered a little from swapping Google to ChaCha, so I will stop now.
That's the problem. You chose three words whereas I chose a slightly different three words.
Apparently these are called "peanuts" which I would never have guessed. I could have chosen Expanded or honeycomb instead of foam, and Foodstuff or food instead of edible and they would have given different answers. In fact, I did search for a while myself before I went to ChaCha and the first guide drew a blank and the second one finally got what I wanted. Having the human element is what helps this search engine because they can choose different phraseology to get different results and save me a spit load of time and energy.
I came home the other night and the dog had eaten some foam packing from a parcel that had been delivered earlier that day. The girlfriend was very concerned about this to the point of phoning the vets (where she works) to check on out of hours availability.
I came in, looked at the foam and said "That's okay, it made from some kind of food stuff. Look when you put water on it, it kind of dissolves. She should be okay."
However, I had to prove it was safe and it is almost impossible to quickly use Google to get the answer (You get lots on packing for food stuffs not packing made from foodstuffs.)
ChaCha was the answer. I tried once, waited a bit and got someone who said it couldn't be fund and then clicked me off. But the second person was helpful, thorough and ultimately succeeded in finding a page which showed that you can get packaging made from cornstarch and the dog would not need surgery.
I could have been on Google for hours but ChaCha took all the pain out of it and did it quicker than I could. If ever I need something and can't face searching lists of search engines, reporting other search engines, reporting peoples web pages reporting the original search engine etc. etc. I go to ChaCha.
But as to how they get a business model out of it, I am none the wiser.
There. Corrected typo in story.
Now this question is applicable to me. I'll read the rest of the replies and mentally substitute "Rock" and "Country and Western" for "Straight" and "Water Games" etc.
Given enough late-night TV and phone-in games shows, in 25~30 years the average human should have become sufficiently simple that the contemporaneous human brain could be simulated by some shiny pebbles and lines drawn in the sand.
Disclaimer: I have Cable not *DSL.
You have to have a micro-filter on each of the extension sockets from the main phone line you want to put phone / data equipment on. There will be cross talk, line drops, radiation leaks and general carnage if you don't.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_filter makes slightly more sense out of it. If you have a master socket in your house with a hard wired (i.e. in the back of the box) extension you will nee a micro filter at all extension sockets you are going to use. If you have a master socket in your house with a removable (i.e. a cable fits into the master socket and provides two sockets of it's own) extension then you might be able to just have a micro-filter between your master socket and your extension system. This later scenario will require the *DSL equipment to only be connected to the micro-filter in the master socket. You can't have the master socket in the hall with an extension in the lounge, in the kitchen, in the front bedroom, in the back bedroom and expect to have a single filter in the hall but the *DSL kit connected in the back bedroom. you would need 4 micro-filters in that case.