Even more fun is if the person affected is trying to work from home over a VPN link. If it's set up for split tunnelling, it'll try to resolve a hostname using the default DNS first and only if that fails will it try the VPN. Hint: Windows uses DNS to resolve hostnames for fileshares.
Funny, the last three VPN setups I've used inserts the VPN allocated DNS servers as the top priority resolver on any clients I've connected with. I can't imagine a scenario where it wouldn't be the case. You don't want your 'secure connection' to be the last resort, that's a big, gaping hole on a number of levels, not just DNS, the equivalent of making the VPN gateway the lowest metric, etc.
Sure. But do you mean the general populace, or "me and my geek buddies"? From a quick straw poll amongst my non-geek friends, there wasn't one who thought that modding an Xbox to circumvent copy protection (LMAO, "to allow unsigned homebrew games"? Really? How many people are homebrew coding a 360 game?) wasn't wrong. Even amongst those who had a modded Xbox themselves. People do it, typically, because they realize that for the private person, there's an infinitesimally small chance they'll be caught and prosecuted, not because they believe they have a moral, ethical or legal right to "free games/music/movies".
The problem here is the presumption that common sense is that this should be legal, etc. Many Slashdotters may be in for a surprise when they find the population at large may not necessarily agree with them.
LMAO. So the perp walks up to get ready to reclaim the unit, sees your sign, keeps walking. If stopped as a result of surveillance, says he was intending to use it, and stopped as a result.
Several people have suggested this as a possible solution. I suggest you might need to adjust your logic and cause/effect tuning.
Where do you live that has no "Good Samaritan" law? (As a generality - an off duty professional is potentially treated differently) As far as I can tell, all states in the US have adopted them (and you are in law enforcement - surprised you haven't come across the concept).
CT is one state that only has such a law for those certified in first aid, but for other states, all of those questions your hypothetical lawyer asked you would be irrelevant, as you'd be immune under such coverage - consent can be implied if unable to be given, only active refusal being an exclusion, cracked ribs during CPR is not uncommon (there are often exemptions for 'reasonable recklessness' - if a person is trapped in a car but there is no reasonable risk of fire, and you, against protest, extricate them from the vehicle causing or exacerbating a spinal injury), and so on.
"When professional help arrives, I'll walk away without giving any information" - isn't that more bad advice? "Material witness", "leaving the scene of an accident" could both be thrown at you, dependent on jurisdiction.
Ironically, often those who may have most to fear from the above are people who are professionally trained. I have begun training as a paramedic - first thing drilled into me is the same as medical students: "You are NOT a paramedic/doctor until and unless you hold the bit of paper that says you are." The next is that as you are professionally trained and expected to know what you are doing, there can be, dependent upon jurisdiction, less latitude in Good Samaritan laws for events that could reasonably be attributed to incompetence on the part of your response. "Don't carry a 'whacker bag'." - "whacker" is an EMS/LE phrase for someone who likes to hang around the fringes of such professions, a 'wannabe', etc. If you're off-duty, respond and help out how and if you believe you can, but carrying a bag full of medical equipment like you're on duty is just going to get you burnt, in more ways than one - at the very least, your fire dept/chief is most definitely not going to be proud of your efforts.
On a related note, there's those baby wipes called "Baby Faces" and I so which I could photoshop those in real life and add an "e" to make it "Baby Faeces".
Don't even start me on the portable toilets called "Honey Bucket"...
Want to buy a netbook that exceeds the cookie cutter atom, 1 GB RAM 160GB HDD? Forget about it. Thanks to Microsoft you are shit out of luck.
Please, AC, do tell us all about how Microsoft is responsible somehow for what seems to be the ubiquitous configuration option for Netbooks! I'm dying to hear...
What phone would that be? It's certainly not the iPhone 3G, even by my wife's minimal-moderate usage (very little data, almost never WiFi, and not more than an hour calling a day, usually 20 minutes).
Nationalized care isn't the only option, but I'm amazed at people (in a generic sense) who think that our current system is effective and desirable. In Australia, all doctors practices are effectively the same as a "Urgent Care Facility" here in the US. You can walk in to any and will be triaged, and fit in with appointments, and you'll be seen within the same day, usually within an hour, even for a non urgent issue.
I was, as an anecdote, admitted to an ER in Australia, after showing up at 3am on a Saturday morning. Despite the waiting area being full, I was seen by a doctor within an hour and a half with my issue (which was a severe bout of seronegative arthritis in my foot. I was given analgesics and seen by the ER residents, at 7am I was moved to a ward, and at 9am the consultant rheumatologist was examining me. Over the course of nine days, I had X-rays, an MRI, aspirations, steroids, etc, and physical therapy. Upon discharge I was given painkillers, NSAIDs and steroids, and a bill for $18 for TV rental.
In Australia, an MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery) is a five year undergrad degree.
Great that you pointed out the 'out of network' costs. To me this is a cartel in action, preferential bundling of a customer base for medical care is boredline unethical. Insurance, as practised in the US, has very little to do with the "pure" principle of evaluating a risk and offering insurance against that risk. If you have a condition, change plans (and there's no material difference, both plans cover that condition), there should be no 'pre-existing condition' - the populace's propensity for that condition has not changed, but yet the insurer is allowed to deny you coverage. It's this bastardized model of amortized and aggregated payment plans for healthcare.
Medical equipment is another interesting area. Doctors are being advised (by who?) to invest in diagnostics. MRI scanners, and the like. $600,000 for an MRI machine, that can run diagnostics that can be billed at around $1800 for an hour procedure. Nice ROI there... Somewhat unsurprisingly, doctors who have such an investment are 3 1/2 times more likely to refer you for an MRI.
I'd rather have our bankruptcy process and a free market medical system than have yet another intrusion of Government into my life. "Buy this coverage or we'll fine you. Lose weight or we'll fine you. Don't eat that big mac that we've slapped a sin-tax or we'll fine you." I have choices right now. I'm doubtful that anything that comes out of Washington is going to increase the number of choices I have. History suggests the opposite.
FUD. FUD FUD FUD. Speaking as someone living in America now, having lived most of my life in Australia under nationalized health, and the UK under same, and making my living from the health insurance industry here, the system here is a travesty.
You do NOT get fined for being overweight. You don't get fined for being unhealthy. "I'm not going to let the government decide my health care! Instead, I'm going to praise the land of the free because my health insurer chooses to deny me cancer coverage because I forgot to mention I had appendicitis 20 years ago." "Instead of a government bureaucrat (and very rare is this the case), I'll happily let a HMO accountant with no medical training whatsoever decide what medical coverage I am entitled to!"
Instead, I get to pay $500 a month for health coverage, plus high deductibles, high out of pocket expenses, have no coverage for the things my wife and I desire. In Australia I paid 1% of my income as a tax, or 1.5% when my income hit 45,000 a year. Alternatively, I could opt in for private coverage, and pay as much or as little as I liked, and not have that tax.
"But I don't want to pay because you're unhealthy" - right, because when someone goes into an ER now because they have a cold, and walk out without paying the bill, who do you think eats the cost? Hint: an overnight stay in hospital doesn't really cost $10,000+. For bonus points: pay cash at your chiro for a $45/hour session. Pay through insurance and have them bill $150 for the same session. Think your insurance carrier is making that much on your premiums being invested that they're covering their costs, plus this? Nope, you're paying.
America is the ONLY country in the first world that doesn't have nationalized health care. Why is it you mainly hear about all this supposed dissatisfaction all over the world with their supposedly horrible health care from US news, not the BBC, or AP, or Reuters, or any other news agency actually in these countries? Instead, we pay twice as much per capita for health care than other first world countries, and have substantially worse than average first world metrics on everything from infant mortality, to life expectancy, to diabetes, to heart disease, to cancer. Yet for all this, there are people who continue to trumpet that everything is A-OK here, and that it's the best way to be.
That is similar to what cruise ships do, with cell towers on board. However, they've got in trouble for "forgetting" to switch them off in port, leading to people being charged exorbitant international roaming rates.
But for the most part, as you say, it's a behavioral issue, not a technological one. People are always just looking for the easy way out.
Very true, but that all depends on how the jamming is done. If it's done in cooperation with the cell companies, perhaps the "jam" can be some form of signal that puts the phones in "SOS Mode" (911 calls go through, everything else is blocked). I know when I have marginal signal on my AT&T BlackBerry (not enough to have any chance of completing a call, but enough to see that a tower is out there) it goes into this mode.
The last part first: It has nothing to do with what you described. Your phone goes into "SOS Mode" / "Emergency Calls Only" because it cannot see your towers at all (not marginal), but it can see a tower that you have no permission to roam onto, but which will route an emergency call from your handset, by law.
As for the first part: would suck to live near/next to a school, then, wouldn't it? "This home comes with all mod cons, but we must inform you that there will be no cellular reception from 8am to 3pm due to the high school two blocks away"...
Let me guess, you're the same teacher in denial above who was demanding cites for several supposedly "outrageous examples" which in fact have happened, and been covered extensively in the media, recently, including Supreme Court cases...
Teacher duct tapes kids mouth: here, and google for more
Teacher duct tapes kid to desk: here, and google for more
Teacher strip searches half a dozen prepubescent girl... the only one with a little hyperbole, a principal who strip searched a 13 yo girl because... "another student said she had motrin" (let's be clear here, motrin is an ibuprofen-based analgesic, nothing more): and google for more
Is that the kind of evidence you're looking for? Are you a teacher in self-righteous denial?
This is a big reason we suction the airways of babies immediately, before their first breath.
While it may be a big reason, suctioning for this is essentially useless and no longer recommended by the American Academy of Paediatrics Neonatal Resuscitation Program.
It uses an advanced Soundex-like algorithm to also include common misspellings, like 'paediatrician'.
Don't even joke. Read this article on the wisdom of the mob and vigilante "justice" gone awry, when the village idiots attacked a local paediatrician's home after confusing her title with "pedophile".
You're not understanding. The point is that there's little correlation. How many laptops does Best Buy sell? Saying "it's going to be pretty hard to sell 10x the number of computers the Apple store does" is kinda silly when you have two vastly differing markets in terms of scale, economy, model choice. "Is it easier to convince (for example) 3x to part with $1,000 than it is to convince x people to part with $3,000?"
The comparison to Tiffany's in revenue per sq ft is meaningless. "Consumer store sells more product than high end jewelery. More at 11!". Revenue per sq/ft is really only a measure of rental/lease costs on a property, and has very little to do with retail success.
Apple-fealty is not a required, nor desired trait.
Number of computers? Sales volume does not correlate to revenue per sq ft, perfectly. If I sell 10 $1000 laptops for every $3000 MBP you sell, well, I've trumped you in both revenue and volume.
These numbers suggest that just over 90% of computers that sold for over $1,000 were macs. That is pretty grim news for MS.
They did no such thing. They suggested that 90% of dollars spent on a "premium PC" was spent on a Mac. By the mechanism they used, one $5000 Mac Pro accounted the same as 5 $1000 Dells. See the flaw?
Really? In Olympia, WA, I can connect my N95 3G on AT&T to my laptop via USB or BT, go to speedtest and get around 700kbps+ down, 150kbps+ up. Definitely faster than EDGE for me, hell when I visit my mother-in-law's house I use it rather than her Wifi on 256kbps DSL.
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Funny, the last three VPN setups I've used inserts the VPN allocated DNS servers as the top priority resolver on any clients I've connected with. I can't imagine a scenario where it wouldn't be the case. You don't want your 'secure connection' to be the last resort, that's a big, gaping hole on a number of levels, not just DNS, the equivalent of making the VPN gateway the lowest metric, etc.
Sure. But do you mean the general populace, or "me and my geek buddies"? From a quick straw poll amongst my non-geek friends, there wasn't one who thought that modding an Xbox to circumvent copy protection (LMAO, "to allow unsigned homebrew games"? Really? How many people are homebrew coding a 360 game?) wasn't wrong. Even amongst those who had a modded Xbox themselves. People do it, typically, because they realize that for the private person, there's an infinitesimally small chance they'll be caught and prosecuted, not because they believe they have a moral, ethical or legal right to "free games/music/movies".
The problem here is the presumption that common sense is that this should be legal, etc. Many Slashdotters may be in for a surprise when they find the population at large may not necessarily agree with them.
Several people have suggested this as a possible solution. I suggest you might need to adjust your logic and cause/effect tuning.
CT is one state that only has such a law for those certified in first aid, but for other states, all of those questions your hypothetical lawyer asked you would be irrelevant, as you'd be immune under such coverage - consent can be implied if unable to be given, only active refusal being an exclusion, cracked ribs during CPR is not uncommon (there are often exemptions for 'reasonable recklessness' - if a person is trapped in a car but there is no reasonable risk of fire, and you, against protest, extricate them from the vehicle causing or exacerbating a spinal injury), and so on.
"When professional help arrives, I'll walk away without giving any information" - isn't that more bad advice? "Material witness", "leaving the scene of an accident" could both be thrown at you, dependent on jurisdiction.
Ironically, often those who may have most to fear from the above are people who are professionally trained. I have begun training as a paramedic - first thing drilled into me is the same as medical students: "You are NOT a paramedic/doctor until and unless you hold the bit of paper that says you are." The next is that as you are professionally trained and expected to know what you are doing, there can be, dependent upon jurisdiction, less latitude in Good Samaritan laws for events that could reasonably be attributed to incompetence on the part of your response. "Don't carry a 'whacker bag'." - "whacker" is an EMS/LE phrase for someone who likes to hang around the fringes of such professions, a 'wannabe', etc. If you're off-duty, respond and help out how and if you believe you can, but carrying a bag full of medical equipment like you're on duty is just going to get you burnt, in more ways than one - at the very least, your fire dept/chief is most definitely not going to be proud of your efforts.
Don't even start me on the portable toilets called "Honey Bucket"...
And yet, miraculously, their homicide rate per capita would still be THREE TIMES less than the USA...
You mean AT&T, a business that leases a portion of the spectrum of our airwaves? Sure. Let's let them do whatever the hell they want.
Please, AC, do tell us all about how Microsoft is responsible somehow for what seems to be the ubiquitous configuration option for Netbooks! I'm dying to hear...
What phone would that be? It's certainly not the iPhone 3G, even by my wife's minimal-moderate usage (very little data, almost never WiFi, and not more than an hour calling a day, usually 20 minutes).
I was, as an anecdote, admitted to an ER in Australia, after showing up at 3am on a Saturday morning. Despite the waiting area being full, I was seen by a doctor within an hour and a half with my issue (which was a severe bout of seronegative arthritis in my foot. I was given analgesics and seen by the ER residents, at 7am I was moved to a ward, and at 9am the consultant rheumatologist was examining me. Over the course of nine days, I had X-rays, an MRI, aspirations, steroids, etc, and physical therapy. Upon discharge I was given painkillers, NSAIDs and steroids, and a bill for $18 for TV rental.
In Australia, an MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery) is a five year undergrad degree.
Great that you pointed out the 'out of network' costs. To me this is a cartel in action, preferential bundling of a customer base for medical care is boredline unethical. Insurance, as practised in the US, has very little to do with the "pure" principle of evaluating a risk and offering insurance against that risk. If you have a condition, change plans (and there's no material difference, both plans cover that condition), there should be no 'pre-existing condition' - the populace's propensity for that condition has not changed, but yet the insurer is allowed to deny you coverage. It's this bastardized model of amortized and aggregated payment plans for healthcare.
Medical equipment is another interesting area. Doctors are being advised (by who?) to invest in diagnostics. MRI scanners, and the like. $600,000 for an MRI machine, that can run diagnostics that can be billed at around $1800 for an hour procedure. Nice ROI there... Somewhat unsurprisingly, doctors who have such an investment are 3 1/2 times more likely to refer you for an MRI.
FUD. FUD FUD FUD. Speaking as someone living in America now, having lived most of my life in Australia under nationalized health, and the UK under same, and making my living from the health insurance industry here, the system here is a travesty.
You do NOT get fined for being overweight. You don't get fined for being unhealthy. "I'm not going to let the government decide my health care! Instead, I'm going to praise the land of the free because my health insurer chooses to deny me cancer coverage because I forgot to mention I had appendicitis 20 years ago." "Instead of a government bureaucrat (and very rare is this the case), I'll happily let a HMO accountant with no medical training whatsoever decide what medical coverage I am entitled to!"
Instead, I get to pay $500 a month for health coverage, plus high deductibles, high out of pocket expenses, have no coverage for the things my wife and I desire. In Australia I paid 1% of my income as a tax, or 1.5% when my income hit 45,000 a year. Alternatively, I could opt in for private coverage, and pay as much or as little as I liked, and not have that tax.
"But I don't want to pay because you're unhealthy" - right, because when someone goes into an ER now because they have a cold, and walk out without paying the bill, who do you think eats the cost? Hint: an overnight stay in hospital doesn't really cost $10,000+. For bonus points: pay cash at your chiro for a $45/hour session. Pay through insurance and have them bill $150 for the same session. Think your insurance carrier is making that much on your premiums being invested that they're covering their costs, plus this? Nope, you're paying.
America is the ONLY country in the first world that doesn't have nationalized health care. Why is it you mainly hear about all this supposed dissatisfaction all over the world with their supposedly horrible health care from US news, not the BBC, or AP, or Reuters, or any other news agency actually in these countries? Instead, we pay twice as much per capita for health care than other first world countries, and have substantially worse than average first world metrics on everything from infant mortality, to life expectancy, to diabetes, to heart disease, to cancer. Yet for all this, there are people who continue to trumpet that everything is A-OK here, and that it's the best way to be.
Jobs would be envious of this RDF.
But for the most part, as you say, it's a behavioral issue, not a technological one. People are always just looking for the easy way out.
The last part first: It has nothing to do with what you described. Your phone goes into "SOS Mode" / "Emergency Calls Only" because it cannot see your towers at all (not marginal), but it can see a tower that you have no permission to roam onto, but which will route an emergency call from your handset, by law.
As for the first part: would suck to live near/next to a school, then, wouldn't it? "This home comes with all mod cons, but we must inform you that there will be no cellular reception from 8am to 3pm due to the high school two blocks away"...
Let me guess, you're the same teacher in denial above who was demanding cites for several supposedly "outrageous examples" which in fact have happened, and been covered extensively in the media, recently, including Supreme Court cases...
No idea why I'm humoring an AC who thinks that such claims are outrageous, all of these are real, and recent examples:
Is that the kind of evidence you're looking for? Are you a teacher in self-righteous denial?
While it may be a big reason, suctioning for this is essentially useless and no longer recommended by the American Academy of Paediatrics Neonatal Resuscitation Program.
Don't even joke. Read this article on the wisdom of the mob and vigilante "justice" gone awry, when the village idiots attacked a local paediatrician's home after confusing her title with "pedophile".
There, fixed that for you.
What the hell is so serious about your TF2 clan that you need people's home and work phone numbers for?!? Work?!?
The comparison to Tiffany's in revenue per sq ft is meaningless. "Consumer store sells more product than high end jewelery. More at 11!". Revenue per sq/ft is really only a measure of rental/lease costs on a property, and has very little to do with retail success.
Apple-fealty is not a required, nor desired trait.
Number of computers? Sales volume does not correlate to revenue per sq ft, perfectly. If I sell 10 $1000 laptops for every $3000 MBP you sell, well, I've trumped you in both revenue and volume.
They did no such thing. They suggested that 90% of dollars spent on a "premium PC" was spent on a Mac. By the mechanism they used, one $5000 Mac Pro accounted the same as 5 $1000 Dells. See the flaw?
Wait... according to a US university, '"America" can be used to refer to the continent or the US of A"?!? Gasp! Who'd have thought it? :)
Really? In Olympia, WA, I can connect my N95 3G on AT&T to my laptop via USB or BT, go to speedtest and get around 700kbps+ down, 150kbps+ up. Definitely faster than EDGE for me, hell when I visit my mother-in-law's house I use it rather than her Wifi on 256kbps DSL.
LMAO. Please please tell me that was a setup for someone to respond with some remark that you could then reply "WOOSH" to?