And if I were new here (perhaps a displaced/b/tard) and had RTFA, I would have known that the block actually only affects VZW.
Here's where 4chan organizes, everyone buys a 3G card and plan from VZW, and torrents like mad. When VZW's entire 3G network comes to a grinding halt, the message will have been made. I'd post this idea directly to/b/ (not really!!) but I'm in the last 5 days of a 2 week ban... meh... w/e.
But, you say, Verizon will be more than happy to take money from a bunch of/b/tards. Right, but will they be happy to lose business when their Droid, BlackBerry, and WinMo users have no access for a week, while AT&T's iPhone, BlackBerry, and WinMo users are unaffected? Will they be delighted at the lost income when tens of thousands of tweens and teens can't send MMS messages (remember, those are a data service, not sent via the control channel like SMS)?
Also, don't forget the likelihood that many of the type of people who would willingly participate in such a scheme are likely to: A) Open the account with fraudulent or stolen identity information or B) Not give two craps about their credit and just not pay the bill
In the end, should something like this occur, it would be BAD for Verizon.
I read the first 5 words of your post and was about to mod you troll. Then I finished the sentence.
Ok, now that I've made my funny, allow me to chime in with something useful.
My fiancee and I bought two identical laptops. I used mine in various rooms, at home and at work, on the road, at coffee shops... pretty much everywhere. She used hers in the bedroom.
Mine was frequently on an elevated surface, with proper ventilation, and was frequently running on battery power.
Hers sat on the bed or floor most of the time and was always on AC.
When we moved to a new apartment 2 years later, her usage pattern changed and she noted that her battery would last JUST long enough to move to another room and plug back in.
My laptop still lasted over 2hr on battery when I sold it shortly after. I offered to give her the good battery and sell it with her bad one, but she said she'd just ruin that one too (she's probably right) so she's still got a battery that lasts JUST long enough to move to another room.
I know it's only anecdotal, but we're talking identical hardware with the same OS and different usage patterns. That's gotta have more weight than "my laptop battery is fine".
What amazed me, though, is that she admits the issue was her fault.
Also..... I'm running Win7 and my battery is fine. Had to say it.
So the smart thing would be for Woz to tell them "I'm releasing details in 30 days. Initiate a recall prior to then or you're likely to be sued out of existence when people get curious and try it on the open road, against my cautions, of course."
Woz covers his own ass by cautioning people not to try the procedure, or to at least try the procedure in a private, open lot where they can't hit anything for at least a mile. Of course, it's important that he detail the RECOVERY instruction BEFORE the exploit instructions.
Think they won't fix it when it's in the wild and you've got drunk teenagers trying out a new trick in daddy's Prius every friday night?
Some people would prefer a device that "just works" AND allows then to fiddle with every little setting.
Ubuntu does that quite nicely for me; every system I've installed it on in the last 2 years has just worked, but I've been able to tweak the hell out of it if I wanted to.
Win7 seems to be a step in that direction, as well. It's been great on my little netbook.
Besides, Mozilla already allows itself to host patented code in other ways such as plugins, and extensions so what exactly is the problem here?
Uhmm... Plugins containing patent-protected code aren't distributed with Firefox? I'm not sure (it's not like it's obvious or anything), but I'd have to guess that's the fundamental difference between allowing patented plugins and including patented codecs.
Allowing and including are two different things, I don't get how people miss that.
No, I'm pretty sure the IR-lit nightshot mode on my current camcorder is NOTHING like that I'm talking about.
The Sony model in question (again, only on the market for a few months, and this was, I wanna say, back in '99) was something entirely different. It sure looked and acted a LOT like the thermal imaging cameras I've used in recent years.
Keep telling me I'm talking about nightshot, though. I find it rather amusing that you choose to ignore that I've already told you my current cam has that and it's different than the Sony cam I'm talking about.
I'm not talking about IR. Hell, I have a $90 vid cam that does IR imaging. The Sony cam had a thermal imaging mode and yes, if aimed at a window, it would fail; but if aimed at a poorly insulated wall, you could make out the outlines of your neighbors.
People were worried about being recorded doin' the naughty, when it was easily foiled by properly insulating your walls. Not to mention that the quality was... well... quality isn't the right word for the image it would give through even the thinnest of drywall, let alone studs and siding...
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And if I were new here (perhaps a displaced /b/tard) and had RTFA, I would have known that the block actually only affects VZW.
Here's where 4chan organizes, everyone buys a 3G card and plan from VZW, and torrents like mad. When VZW's entire 3G network comes to a grinding halt, the message will have been made. I'd post this idea directly to /b/ (not really!!) but I'm in the last 5 days of a 2 week ban... meh... w/e.
But, you say, Verizon will be more than happy to take money from a bunch of /b/tards. Right, but will they be happy to lose business when their Droid, BlackBerry, and WinMo users have no access for a week, while AT&T's iPhone, BlackBerry, and WinMo users are unaffected? Will they be delighted at the lost income when tens of thousands of tweens and teens can't send MMS messages (remember, those are a data service, not sent via the control channel like SMS)?
Also, don't forget the likelihood that many of the type of people who would willingly participate in such a scheme are likely to:
A) Open the account with fraudulent or stolen identity information
or B) Not give two craps about their credit and just not pay the bill
In the end, should something like this occur, it would be BAD for Verizon.
You DO realize that FIOS is NOT phone service, right?
Well... if you prepend an "Install Theora Now" message to all your h.264 encodings, by 2016 it won't be an issue, now, will it?
I read the first 5 words of your post and was about to mod you troll. Then I finished the sentence.
Ok, now that I've made my funny, allow me to chime in with something useful.
My fiancee and I bought two identical laptops. I used mine in various rooms, at home and at work, on the road, at coffee shops... pretty much everywhere. She used hers in the bedroom.
Mine was frequently on an elevated surface, with proper ventilation, and was frequently running on battery power.
Hers sat on the bed or floor most of the time and was always on AC.
When we moved to a new apartment 2 years later, her usage pattern changed and she noted that her battery would last JUST long enough to move to another room and plug back in.
My laptop still lasted over 2hr on battery when I sold it shortly after. I offered to give her the good battery and sell it with her bad one, but she said she'd just ruin that one too (she's probably right) so she's still got a battery that lasts JUST long enough to move to another room.
I know it's only anecdotal, but we're talking identical hardware with the same OS and different usage patterns. That's gotta have more weight than "my laptop battery is fine".
What amazed me, though, is that she admits the issue was her fault.
Also..... I'm running Win7 and my battery is fine. Had to say it.
I'm no Apple fan, but...
Are you trying to tell me than an idiot changed the face of consumer computing?
So the smart thing would be for Woz to tell them "I'm releasing details in 30 days. Initiate a recall prior to then or you're likely to be sued out of existence when people get curious and try it on the open road, against my cautions, of course."
Woz covers his own ass by cautioning people not to try the procedure, or to at least try the procedure in a private, open lot where they can't hit anything for at least a mile. Of course, it's important that he detail the RECOVERY instruction BEFORE the exploit instructions.
Think they won't fix it when it's in the wild and you've got drunk teenagers trying out a new trick in daddy's Prius every friday night?
Like hell they won't.
I think he was referring to the morons who outsource because it reduces labor cost.
Way to jump the gun and needlessly judge someone you've never met, you fucking psychopath.
If it's only 25nm, how do you use your hand?
Oh! NAND. Gotcha.
Well, when I caught my wife in bed with the mailman, he got hurt with a bullet.
She, on the other hand, was pistol-whipped.
TL;DR - Last night.
(disclaimer - SATIRE)
Actually... the claim is that it's not stealing because they still have it after you copy it. Otherwise, your post is spot on.
If they can get here they'll probably either come for research or just to fuck with us.
So, you're saying we're either Wikipedia or /b/?
The stylus reports pressure back to the tablet. You don't need a stylus with this new tech.
Some people would prefer a device that "just works" AND allows then to fiddle with every little setting.
Ubuntu does that quite nicely for me; every system I've installed it on in the last 2 years has just worked, but I've been able to tweak the hell out of it if I wanted to.
Win7 seems to be a step in that direction, as well. It's been great on my little netbook.
RHEL is free as in beer, you pay for support. You can download sources and compile them yourself, just just get no support if you do so.
See also: CEntOS
I've seen for-pay open source software.
It could work almost identically to BitTorrent and no sane ISP would block HTTP.
Anyone interested in working on a FOSS implementation, PM me.
Unfortunately, yes, it does.
Fortunately, I'm starting to see more and more citizen rage as a result.
Besides, Mozilla already allows itself to host patented code in other ways such as plugins, and extensions so what exactly is the problem here?
Uhmm... Plugins containing patent-protected code aren't distributed with Firefox? I'm not sure (it's not like it's obvious or anything), but I'd have to guess that's the fundamental difference between allowing patented plugins and including patented codecs.
Allowing and including are two different things, I don't get how people miss that.
Tell that to the guy who got the rat-poison tainted home-lab made Cialis that was sold via spam last month.
Only if said shark has a frickin' laser beam attached to its head.
Mod this +5, Ironic.
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No, I'm pretty sure the IR-lit nightshot mode on my current camcorder is NOTHING like that I'm talking about.
The Sony model in question (again, only on the market for a few months, and this was, I wanna say, back in '99) was something entirely different. It sure looked and acted a LOT like the thermal imaging cameras I've used in recent years.
Keep telling me I'm talking about nightshot, though. I find it rather amusing that you choose to ignore that I've already told you my current cam has that and it's different than the Sony cam I'm talking about.
Then I'm not sure WTF Sony had, but it could make out shapes pretty clearly on the other side of a sheet and vaguely through a hollow wall.
I'm not talking about IR. Hell, I have a $90 vid cam that does IR imaging. The Sony cam had a thermal imaging mode and yes, if aimed at a window, it would fail; but if aimed at a poorly insulated wall, you could make out the outlines of your neighbors.
People were worried about being recorded doin' the naughty, when it was easily foiled by properly insulating your walls. Not to mention that the quality was... well... quality isn't the right word for the image it would give through even the thinnest of drywall, let alone studs and siding...