I've seen several: a couple along the NJ turnpike, one on the DC beltway. It's quite a sight with the thick black smoke. I felt bad for the driver; there's no way he could recover anything from the vehicle after that.
That said, I'm not sure how much of the burning was gasoline and how much was plastics, carpet, polyurethane, and etc. It all burns with black smoke.
This is why the Chinese are helpful to the technological world. If Intel or Honda makes a breakthrough and gets a patant. The Chinese will just copy is and sell it for dirt cheap. So the choice for consumers becomes Cheap and shady or Expensive and "clean" If Intel or Honda charge too much for their patent than cheap and shady will win. Its a ballance of powers.
If a Chinese product infringes on an American patent, importing the product becomes illegal. So then they can sell it to India or Malaysia or whoever doesn't have that patent registered in their system. I don't really find that helpful.
Patents in the US only last about 20 years, but it's usually more expedient and profitable to license such a patent.
Somebody give this post some mod points. I've got the same success with the tethering situation. My 3G iphone still works fine and I upgraded to 3.1 over the weekend. Go here to get it enabled. I haven't tried running the enabler after upgrading, so it's possible that won't work. From what I've read, it seems to be the 3GS phones that are SOL.
That said, I might just get rid of it and go back to my old RAZR v3. I'm getting tired of jumping through hoops for functionality.
Yes there are roads and they do drive up the mountain. They are not allowed to stray from the road. But it's the change in altitude that affects you physiologically. At breakfast you're fine, but before lunchtime your brain is oxygen-deprived and you're feeling not all there.
Can't really do that. 'Corporate personhood' is what allows a company rather than an individual to function under our set of laws. Corporations don't really have the rights or responsibilities of an individual person, but treating is as a single entity makes taxation and legal proceedings a lot simpler.
I wonder if they would have the same trouble dealing with the altitude in Antarctica. At the Keck observatory, researchers have to travel to the top of the mountain every day they do research. I heard nobody is allowed to live up there for environmental reasons. A daily 4000 meter ascent will make you delirious. My advisor said they had to spell out exactly what to do each day in their notebooks just to make sure they don't forget what they're doing while on the mountain.
So much for handing your email over to Google because it's more reliable than hosting locally...
This is still far more reliable, more convenient, and more powerful than my University's e-mail system, Hotmail, Yahoo mail and others I've had. If similar outages happened once a week, I would still stick with it.
Spending 3x more on marketing than product development is like buying a mid-1990s Honda Civic.
First you check out the overall condition of the body, then the engine. If you've got a little money to spare, you take it to a mechanic to give it a once-over. You spend some time and money to get something that is probably mechanically sound.
Once you think you've got a decent car, now you go out and buy a body kit, a loud exhaust system that doesn't actually improve your car's performance. You put a carbon tail fin on it and tint the windows limo black. Then you start shopping for body kits and get the flashiest, most expensive one you can find. Finally, give it a new paint job. Be sure to put giant kanji letters on it that kinda look cool but you don't really know what they mean, and make sure they're the shiniest you can find.
Now this car you probably spent $4000 on at the start has about $12000 worth of upgrades that make it really pretty on the outside. Of course, you didn't change the seats, fix up the engine, or even replace the stereo. In the end, it's yesteryear's model, worn out on the inside. Nobody can see that because you don't have to race it and since the windows are tinted so dark nobody can see inside anyways. Since looking good is all that really matters, you drive it around town really slowly with the radio blaring whatever's trendy. All your friends think it's cool because they go for that sort of thing and now they think you've got money and they want a car just like it.
Low power FM transmitters are legal in the US if their measured field strength is under 250 microvolts/meter at 3 meters. I believe the requirements in Canada are less stringent, but the UK requirements are similar. The EU may adopt a measure that allows only lower power, but hasn't yet AFAIK.
No, your typical Diehard is electrically neutral. The difference in potential between the terminals is due to the chemical properties of the battery. It is storing electrical energy by having dissimilar metals in an electrolytic solution. Putting a conductor between the terminals turns chemical potential energy into moving charge carriers.
If a Diehard stored a Coulomb of charge, it would be a capacitor, not a battery.
Drop a book in the tub and you have a wet book. The letters on each page are still there and you can read it after it's dry.
Scratch the back of a DVD and you may never be able to play it again.
There's a fundamental difference in robustness between old and modern media.
You can make copies of pages of books for personal use; if they prevent you from legally copying a DVD for backup, they are denying you your right to make a backup.
... but nobody eats US dollars. Except maybe rats?
So, assuming rats eat only dollar bills that have been shredded and discarded by the US Mint, how many rat hairs would it take to get an equivalent dose of cocaine?
I'm curious about how it works: i.e why the attacker wouldn't either disable the networking interfaces or re-install the software (depending on their intent), but I suppose it would be quite useful in the case of casual theft.
There is nothing to stop a thief from removing the software once they either have root access to your machine or have wiped the OS. If you need something that integrated, you might just have to put it in the BIOS or EFI or some kind of firmware. If I ever stole a laptop, I would surely keep it isolated from any networks until I had a chance to replace the OS.
Surely it would be more useful for the service to send the location data directly to one of the owner's servers, rather than OpenDHT?
That's the issue I've run into. I've been using Adeona for almost 6 months now. I've never been able to retrieve *any* pictures the software has supposedly taken and put on DHT.
I think the problem is that most places I work from (a University) have such firewalls that prohibit it from working properly.
I'm just going to find or make a program that takes the pictures and IP data, encrypts them, and uploads them automatically to one of several locations I control. There just doesn't seem to be a more reliable way to do it.
Funny, Apple was able to make the transition from insecure, single-user based OS to more secure, multi-user OS without too much trouble and keeping a compatibility layer for older apps. Why can't Microsoft do the same?
Maybe they shouldn't make $100 Million+ movies. Maybe they shouldn't use shady accounting practices to act like it costs $100M to make a movie. Maybe they should let movie theaters keep part of the money from the tickets they sell so that it doesn't cost $4.50 for a soda there. Maybe they should release movies in theaters and on DVD on the same day so I don't have a bunch of yammering teenagers kicking the seat behind me while the ice monster in Star Trek screams at 110 dB.
I don't think it's necessarily right to "steal" their content. But Hollywood is far from blameless for making it desirable to download movies.
I don't want to trigger a flamewar, but there are two extensions for Firefox that enable keyboard commands to make it just like your favorite text editor/quasi operating system:
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I've seen several: a couple along the NJ turnpike, one on the DC beltway. It's quite a sight with the thick black smoke. I felt bad for the driver; there's no way he could recover anything from the vehicle after that.
That said, I'm not sure how much of the burning was gasoline and how much was plastics, carpet, polyurethane, and etc. It all burns with black smoke.
If the heat is on someone else, it's not on you.
It's useful for staying out of trouble.
This is why the Chinese are helpful to the technological world. If Intel or Honda makes a breakthrough and gets a patant. The Chinese will just copy is and sell it for dirt cheap. So the choice for consumers becomes Cheap and shady or Expensive and "clean" If Intel or Honda charge too much for their patent than cheap and shady will win. Its a ballance of powers.
If a Chinese product infringes on an American patent, importing the product becomes illegal. So then they can sell it to India or Malaysia or whoever doesn't have that patent registered in their system. I don't really find that helpful.
Patents in the US only last about 20 years, but it's usually more expedient and profitable to license such a patent.
Somebody give this post some mod points. I've got the same success with the tethering situation. My 3G iphone still works fine and I upgraded to 3.1 over the weekend. Go here to get it enabled. I haven't tried running the enabler after upgrading, so it's possible that won't work. From what I've read, it seems to be the 3GS phones that are SOL.
That said, I might just get rid of it and go back to my old RAZR v3. I'm getting tired of jumping through hoops for functionality.
My favorite SMB2 exploits are detailed here.
Yes there are roads and they do drive up the mountain. They are not allowed to stray from the road. But it's the change in altitude that affects you physiologically. At breakfast you're fine, but before lunchtime your brain is oxygen-deprived and you're feeling not all there.
Can't really do that. 'Corporate personhood' is what allows a company rather than an individual to function under our set of laws. Corporations don't really have the rights or responsibilities of an individual person, but treating is as a single entity makes taxation and legal proceedings a lot simpler.
You must be new here.
I wonder if they would have the same trouble dealing with the altitude in Antarctica. At the Keck observatory, researchers have to travel to the top of the mountain every day they do research. I heard nobody is allowed to live up there for environmental reasons. A daily 4000 meter ascent will make you delirious. My advisor said they had to spell out exactly what to do each day in their notebooks just to make sure they don't forget what they're doing while on the mountain.
So much for handing your email over to Google because it's more reliable than hosting locally...
This is still far more reliable, more convenient, and more powerful than my University's e-mail system, Hotmail, Yahoo mail and others I've had. If similar outages happened once a week, I would still stick with it.
I imagine it would look a lot like the slow-mo sequences in Behind The Green Door.
Spending 3x more on marketing than product development is like buying a mid-1990s Honda Civic.
First you check out the overall condition of the body, then the engine. If you've got a little money to spare, you take it to a mechanic to give it a once-over. You spend some time and money to get something that is probably mechanically sound.
Once you think you've got a decent car, now you go out and buy a body kit, a loud exhaust system that doesn't actually improve your car's performance. You put a carbon tail fin on it and tint the windows limo black. Then you start shopping for body kits and get the flashiest, most expensive one you can find. Finally, give it a new paint job. Be sure to put giant kanji letters on it that kinda look cool but you don't really know what they mean, and make sure they're the shiniest you can find.
Now this car you probably spent $4000 on at the start has about $12000 worth of upgrades that make it really pretty on the outside. Of course, you didn't change the seats, fix up the engine, or even replace the stereo. In the end, it's yesteryear's model, worn out on the inside. Nobody can see that because you don't have to race it and since the windows are tinted so dark nobody can see inside anyways. Since looking good is all that really matters, you drive it around town really slowly with the radio blaring whatever's trendy. All your friends think it's cool because they go for that sort of thing and now they think you've got money and they want a car just like it.
Low power FM transmitters are legal in the US if their measured field strength is under 250 microvolts/meter at 3 meters. I believe the requirements in Canada are less stringent, but the UK requirements are similar. The EU may adopt a measure that allows only lower power, but hasn't yet AFAIK.
http://www.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/Mass_Media/Databases/documents_collection/pn910724.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FM_transmitter_(personal_device)
No, your typical Diehard is electrically neutral. The difference in potential between the terminals is due to the chemical properties of the battery. It is storing electrical energy by having dissimilar metals in an electrolytic solution. Putting a conductor between the terminals turns chemical potential energy into moving charge carriers.
If a Diehard stored a Coulomb of charge, it would be a capacitor, not a battery.
Drop a book in the tub and you have a wet book. The letters on each page are still there and you can read it after it's dry.
Scratch the back of a DVD and you may never be able to play it again.
There's a fundamental difference in robustness between old and modern media.
You can make copies of pages of books for personal use; if they prevent you from legally copying a DVD for backup, they are denying you your right to make a backup.
... but nobody eats US dollars. Except maybe rats?
So, assuming rats eat only dollar bills that have been shredded and discarded by the US Mint, how many rat hairs would it take to get an equivalent dose of cocaine?
I'm curious about how it works: i.e why the attacker wouldn't either disable the networking interfaces or re-install the software (depending on their intent), but I suppose it would be quite useful in the case of casual theft.
There is nothing to stop a thief from removing the software once they either have root access to your machine or have wiped the OS. If you need something that integrated, you might just have to put it in the BIOS or EFI or some kind of firmware. If I ever stole a laptop, I would surely keep it isolated from any networks until I had a chance to replace the OS.
Surely it would be more useful for the service to send the location data directly to one of the owner's servers, rather than OpenDHT?
That's the issue I've run into. I've been using Adeona for almost 6 months now. I've never been able to retrieve *any* pictures the software has supposedly taken and put on DHT.
I think the problem is that most places I work from (a University) have such firewalls that prohibit it from working properly.
I'm just going to find or make a program that takes the pictures and IP data, encrypts them, and uploads them automatically to one of several locations I control. There just doesn't seem to be a more reliable way to do it.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=leach+dictionary&l=1
Even when you have a million apps, it's not that hard.
You know times are tough when one gets modded "troll" for speaking the truth.
Funny, Apple was able to make the transition from insecure, single-user based OS to more secure, multi-user OS without too much trouble and keeping a compatibility layer for older apps. Why can't Microsoft do the same?
LOL, Microsoft sux!
I've been saying it since DOS 4.
Maybe they shouldn't make $100 Million+ movies. Maybe they shouldn't use shady accounting practices to act like it costs $100M to make a movie. Maybe they should let movie theaters keep part of the money from the tickets they sell so that it doesn't cost $4.50 for a soda there. Maybe they should release movies in theaters and on DVD on the same day so I don't have a bunch of yammering teenagers kicking the seat behind me while the ice monster in Star Trek screams at 110 dB.
I don't think it's necessarily right to "steal" their content. But Hollywood is far from blameless for making it desirable to download movies.
Maybe I'm just bitter.
Firemacs
Vimperator
or if you want to go the full monty: Conkeror
(unrelated to a famous red squirrel)
You don't have to break any civil laws to get sued for divorce, either.
I guarantee you that, using only sugar, I can disable your car before sunrise.
They've had a feed for months now.