One response only... "[citation needed]". Some of the stuff you listed are just random delusions that you can find in The Sun every time. Others seem like one-off crazy cases that can happen... but they happen more or less everywhere else too and when you present them stripped out of context, they don't really matter (they're usually connected to long-standing conflicts). I can only confirm the whole bin collection thing - it is just crazy and it is a big problem (although I don't know about any place that does the collection less than once a week).
Also, if only all bureaucracies worked as well as UK's! I don't mind filling loads of forms if they actually solve my problem in time - which was not always the case in other countries I lived in.
Agreed - the explanation seems weird. I'm not sure about Nokia patching scene, but most of the Siemens *45, *55, *65 phones could be completely reprogrammed and were well understood. SL45 was one of the best examples - it's annotated assembler firmware was so nice to work with that people simply wrote binary patches in assembler, or used C compiler + binary patched some jump addresses. There were complete design notes circulating on P2P networks. I'm not sure what can be so specific to Nokia 1100 that they don't want to reprogram any other device.
Even better - if they're good enough to reprogram Nokia to interact directly with SIM and GSM module, why won't they just buy GSM modules themselves and clone some random SIM cards? It's not like GSM transmitters are some controlled goods available only to Nokia et al. If you can afford 100 of them, they should be quite easy to obtain.
So yeah - it seems there's something more going on here. Or they're just some script kiddies who bought a "hacking technique" from someone more advanced and now they can only replicate the issue on that one device.
Pretty much every programming book presents a simplified view of the world. Because it teaches C, not systems. Try Rochkind's "Advanced unix programming" one day if you want something close to real world. fsync()'s fairly portable and can be redefined to noop where needed, so I don't see a problem there.
Of course "Adding fsync() all over the place wouldn't fix anything". On the other hand, adding it where it's supposed to go, will:) You cannot be both fast AND transactional in every operation.
Well - be there's arpeggio for vim: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2425
And apparently "The concept of this plugin is derived from Emacs' key-chord.el" - so there you go. All proper IDEs support it already;)
Do they have some kind of special wiring that can detect whether it's her grandkids calling or an angry scam victim?
Actually, they know which provider sent in the call. So they can point at the original company that allows spoofing.
Can they reach their fingers through the lines and stop the scammers from spoofing the old lady's phone number even through the call probably doesn't originate or even necessarily terminate on their lines?
I'm not sure which company regulates telecomunication laws in US, but I guess they have the authority to force it on PSTN and they *are* interested.
And the FBI. What do they have to go on? They know that someone, somewhere is spoofing her phone number. I'm not sure that is even illegal. So what basis do they have to justify the expense of an investigation?
I guess they will be interested if someone can spoof any number. Otherwise, you can call anyone passing yourself as a local FBI worker ("you can compare my caller id with your phonebook, I'm an FBI agent")
I've had my email address used by spammers as their return address.
Only clueless people will respond to a spammer - there is no defence here. But if someone blames you, you can easily prove you're right by email headers.
She should change her phone number.
Will you sponsor her new line, send notifications to all her friends&family and spend time correcting contact details in the bank, insurance company, etc.?
But, blaming users for using it to fill a need when there is no realistic alternative is silly. [...] Should I really have to get an IM account on google, yahoo, aim, microsoft, etc.... so I can deal with time-critical messages? And, for that matter, should everybody else? Local Jabber server is a good alternative, because your office messages should never leave office network - forget about google, yahoo, ms and everyone else. It's working out pretty well in my company. (dept. chat + global contact lists + other nice things)
And if you need instantaneous messages to other companies, there are always fax machines, so you can get feedback from other side about your message right away.
> maybe an important time-sensitive email never gets to its intended recipient
When will users learn...
Email is not instant messaging - with bad greylisting / random connection reset / busy server, you can get >=2 hours delay. And it's normal.
The problem starts the minute Google decides pushing information no one wanted pushed to people that never asked to receive it. And you never clicked "share" and you never confirmed "ok" on sharing when the feature was enabled?
Even if they don't like it, they won't have to do anything to NOT read it again. Because clicking "manage friends" -> "hide" is so much of a problem.
Google just keeps pushing it without any mechanism to turn it off. Apart from sharing a single tag for a group of people, turning off sharing, hiding feeds that you don't need,...
So if you are the producer there are only two ways to stop this: Delete all your content, or delete all your contacts. There is no way to continue doing things as you used to. No opt-out. 3 actually: delete contacts, stop sharing, or share only specified tags - each on different url - which don't get mixed up in general "shared items".
Google took away that freedom, and the only choices they give me are deleting all content or all contacts. Not nice, really. You've written it 3'rd time already and it's still not true. Your "shared items" are shared with everyone. Your public tags are shared only through url.
Ps: Again, in other words. There is no way to permanently opt-out of sending content (other than erasing everything) and no way to permanently opt-out of receiving it (you'll have to react each time Google decides to start pushing you a new feed). opt-out from sending shared: side menu -> manage friends -> "move or clear your shared items" -> move to tag; then make tag public. Easy? Yes.
opt-out from receiving: that's really google's fault that there's no "on/off" switch for it. But you can still just ignore it / hide friends. It's not the end of the world.
Better not to do it - they will die of hunger then. Some of Google's ideas on how to fish: (just from first page of results)
- "To fish with two rods at the same time you will need to enter the Tackle page from either the main menu or..." - "Open up your inventory and select the fishing rod. With your fishing rod in hand head out to one of the fishing areas (dock) face the water and press the "5" key...." - "How do I fish? First, you have to buy a fishing pole from Tom Nook. Then go to a river or ocean, find a little fish sillouhette walk up to it..." - "you need a fishing net on your ship,NOT a mechcanial arm.sail to a fish swarm.then use the fishing skill and wait awhile..." - "While wearing the rod, type/1cast, or simply click the 'cast' button on your rod menu. Repeat this each time you get a result..."
I really want to see their face when they read that.
I've seen people digging randomly - it doesn't go very well - really.
I've read about tests, I've seen dowsing by other people, I've tried it, I've studied physics. If anyone is trying to convince me, (s)he should try those things too. Which of those did YOU try? Things like this are popular with people who never had dowsing rod in hands;) - it doesn't hurt to try, seriously... It doesn't mean I can or will even try to explain how that happens. It just does.
Dowsing++ I don't know why that works - read some stuff about it lately, but it was mostly written by some strange maniacs that really *"believed"* in that - not very convincing. Anyways - my dad used to do that service for friends for many years - never advertised or anything - it was hobby, not a job. People recommended him to other people and those to other people... I haven't heard about even one case when he was wrong - maybe he was couple of times, but the amount of people that were happy with what he did was so big, it couldn't be just luck. I've seen him looking for water - on a big field, with low grass, very even ground - no special signs of anything -> and the rod moved - and I've seen good wells in those places later. I've tried it myself in my room once - you'd expect some slight feeling, if anything probably... Try it yourself:) you'll be surprised how strong the movement of the rod is - you don't have to do anything, but walk and try to keep it horizontally. There are some places when you won't be able to hold it straight and after 2 steps it will get back to normal. I don't accept opinions about dowsing from people who didn't try it. And I haven't met anyone who tried it and still thinks it's BS.
Great timing of that article - exactly now: - tinyurl.com: 500 - Internal Server Error - urltea.com: Service Temporarily Unavailable - shrinker.com: out of business -> parking site with ads
What problems? It's just history repeating itself. They just trade students now, but soon they will come with magic sticks that throw fire and all that US guy will be left with, is some land for his asian-tax-free casino;)
Seriously... who would've thought...
Why was it reported at all? Maybe another title would be better - "Shocking revelation: Nigerian boys also want to see sex". I'm not surprised - are you? I'd say that great majority of males on the intertubes browsed porn sites at least once - keyword statistics from search engines seem to agree.
Ohhh... ok - didn't know about Christian Science. There's just some level of weirdness that you don't even expect to exist:/ But even not representing Christians, I think that name could offend both real Christians and Scientists.
Data: Cpt., I feel encrypted by that last teleportation... Cpt.: What do you mean? Data: All my video data has been modified... and there is a number burned in my mind... it's 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0.
Placement, government, history, freedoms, being part of international organizations, military power, democracy (whatever state it's in),.... almost every single thing is different about Cuba and Poland. WTF was that question about?
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One response only... "[citation needed]". Some of the stuff you listed are just random delusions that you can find in The Sun every time. Others seem like one-off crazy cases that can happen... but they happen more or less everywhere else too and when you present them stripped out of context, they don't really matter (they're usually connected to long-standing conflicts). I can only confirm the whole bin collection thing - it is just crazy and it is a big problem (although I don't know about any place that does the collection less than once a week).
Also, if only all bureaucracies worked as well as UK's! I don't mind filling loads of forms if they actually solve my problem in time - which was not always the case in other countries I lived in.
> em with a wavelenght around 12.24 cm at 2.45 GHz
Redundant information is redundant. Besides, that's a wavelength of ~54 potrzebie
Agreed - the explanation seems weird. I'm not sure about Nokia patching scene, but most of the Siemens *45, *55, *65 phones could be completely reprogrammed and were well understood. SL45 was one of the best examples - it's annotated assembler firmware was so nice to work with that people simply wrote binary patches in assembler, or used C compiler + binary patched some jump addresses. There were complete design notes circulating on P2P networks. I'm not sure what can be so specific to Nokia 1100 that they don't want to reprogram any other device.
Even better - if they're good enough to reprogram Nokia to interact directly with SIM and GSM module, why won't they just buy GSM modules themselves and clone some random SIM cards? It's not like GSM transmitters are some controlled goods available only to Nokia et al. If you can afford 100 of them, they should be quite easy to obtain.
So yeah - it seems there's something more going on here. Or they're just some script kiddies who bought a "hacking technique" from someone more advanced and now they can only replicate the issue on that one device.
Pretty much every programming book presents a simplified view of the world. Because it teaches C, not systems. Try Rochkind's "Advanced unix programming" one day if you want something close to real world. fsync()'s fairly portable and can be redefined to noop where needed, so I don't see a problem there.
:) You cannot be both fast AND transactional in every operation.
Of course "Adding fsync() all over the place wouldn't fix anything". On the other hand, adding it where it's supposed to go, will
I could never do that research in my house. "Look honey, this is my new remote controlled..." MEOW! *swat* *nom nom nom*
A wife that goes "MEOW" and eats bugs would really disturb me. But if you like that...
Well - be there's arpeggio for vim: ;)
http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=2425
And apparently "The concept of this plugin is derived from Emacs' key-chord.el" - so there you go. All proper IDEs support it already
Do they have some kind of special wiring that can detect whether it's her grandkids calling or an angry scam victim?
Actually, they know which provider sent in the call. So they can point at the original company that allows spoofing.
Can they reach their fingers through the lines and stop the scammers from spoofing the old lady's phone number even through the call probably doesn't originate or even necessarily terminate on their lines?
I'm not sure which company regulates telecomunication laws in US, but I guess they have the authority to force it on PSTN and they *are* interested.
And the FBI. What do they have to go on? They know that someone, somewhere is spoofing her phone number. I'm not sure that is even illegal. So what basis do they have to justify the expense of an investigation?
I guess they will be interested if someone can spoof any number. Otherwise, you can call anyone passing yourself as a local FBI worker ("you can compare my caller id with your phonebook, I'm an FBI agent")
I've had my email address used by spammers as their return address.
Only clueless people will respond to a spammer - there is no defence here. But if someone blames you, you can easily prove you're right by email headers.
She should change her phone number.
Will you sponsor her new line, send notifications to all her friends&family and spend time correcting contact details in the bank, insurance company, etc.?
And if you need instantaneous messages to other companies, there are always fax machines, so you can get feedback from other side about your message right away.
> maybe an important time-sensitive email never gets to its intended recipient
When will users learn...
Email is not instant messaging - with bad greylisting / random connection reset / busy server, you can get >=2 hours delay. And it's normal.
opt-out from receiving: that's really google's fault that there's no "on/off" switch for it. But you can still just ignore it / hide friends. It's not the end of the world.
> in reponse to "How do I fish?" say "Google it".
/1cast, or simply click the 'cast' button on your rod menu. Repeat this each time you get a result..."
Better not to do it - they will die of hunger then. Some of Google's ideas on how to fish: (just from first page of results)
- "To fish with two rods at the same time you will need to enter the Tackle page from either the main menu or..."
- "Open up your inventory and select the fishing rod. With your fishing rod in hand head out to one of the fishing areas (dock) face the water and press the "5" key...."
- "How do I fish? First, you have to buy a fishing pole from Tom Nook. Then go to a river or ocean, find a little fish sillouhette walk up to it..."
- "you need a fishing net on your ship,NOT a mechcanial arm.sail to a fish swarm.then use the fishing skill and wait awhile..."
- "While wearing the rod, type
I really want to see their face when they read that.
> The Emperor's New Clothes
;) - it doesn't hurt to try, seriously... It doesn't mean I can or will even try to explain how that happens. It just does.
Read it already.
I've seen people digging randomly - it doesn't go very well - really.
I've read about tests, I've seen dowsing by other people, I've tried it, I've studied physics. If anyone is trying to convince me, (s)he should try those things too. Which of those did YOU try?
Things like this are popular with people who never had dowsing rod in hands
Dowsing++ :) you'll be surprised how strong the movement of the rod is - you don't have to do anything, but walk and try to keep it horizontally. There are some places when you won't be able to hold it straight and after 2 steps it will get back to normal.
I don't know why that works - read some stuff about it lately, but it was mostly written by some strange maniacs that really *"believed"* in that - not very convincing. Anyways - my dad used to do that service for friends for many years - never advertised or anything - it was hobby, not a job. People recommended him to other people and those to other people...
I haven't heard about even one case when he was wrong - maybe he was couple of times, but the amount of people that were happy with what he did was so big, it couldn't be just luck. I've seen him looking for water - on a big field, with low grass, very even ground - no special signs of anything -> and the rod moved - and I've seen good wells in those places later. I've tried it myself in my room once - you'd expect some slight feeling, if anything probably... Try it yourself
I don't accept opinions about dowsing from people who didn't try it. And I haven't met anyone who tried it and still thinks it's BS.
Great timing of that article - exactly now:
- tinyurl.com: 500 - Internal Server Error
- urltea.com: Service Temporarily Unavailable
- shrinker.com: out of business -> parking site with ads
Who broke the internet?!
In Soviet Russia jokes put you into where they want!
What problems? It's just history repeating itself. They just trade students now, but soon they will come with magic sticks that throw fire and all that US guy will be left with, is some land for his asian-tax-free casino ;)
Watch my karma go down, down, down...
It doesn't matter who will be the new driver. I want to know who will be the new Bonnie. And will they give her the nice oldschool look :)
Seriously... who would've thought... Why was it reported at all? Maybe another title would be better - "Shocking revelation: Nigerian boys also want to see sex". I'm not surprised - are you? I'd say that great majority of males on the intertubes browsed porn sites at least once - keyword statistics from search engines seem to agree.
"horrific combination of fascists and idiots"
Fulfilling Godwin's law...
Ohhh... ok - didn't know about Christian Science. There's just some level of weirdness that you don't even expect to exist :/
But even not representing Christians, I think that name could offend both real Christians and Scientists.
AFAIK there's nothing preventing Christian people from doing blood transfusion. Maybe you thought about some other religion?
Sorry - watched only one episode of ST. (GASP!) Go on - mod me down for that :)
Data: Cpt., I feel encrypted by that last teleportation...
Cpt.: What do you mean?
Data: All my video data has been modified... and there is a number burned in my mind... it's 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0.
Placement, government, history, freedoms, being part of international organizations, military power, democracy (whatever state it's in), .... almost every single thing is different about Cuba and Poland. WTF was that question about?
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