I sure hope so. Cell coverage is pretty much nonexistant where I live. I have a cell, but it's a cheapo Virgin Mobile phone.
VoIP isn't a good idea either. Even though they CLAIM that all their equipment is battery-backed, I still lose signal immediately upon power failure, and my neighbors that have their VoIP service lose dialtone instantly.
I've tried all cell providers, and the best I can get at home is "you might get a signal, if the stars are in alignment, but if you make a call, talk fast because you'll get disconnected within 2 minutes, even if you go outside to make the call."
Not surprisingly, my cell usage averages about 4 minutes a month. It's just for calling home to see what color widget they wanted, or whatever. At $5/month into my account and 18 cents a minute coming out, after almost 2 years I now have > $100 saved in my account, because I just never use the thing.
Do you remember, or do they just convince you that you remember what they wanted you to remember?
I'd like to see a controlled experiment. Keep track of what someone had for dinner for a week, then have the pros come in and tell them that you know that guy had hamburgers for dinner on Tuesday, and you want them to get him to admit it, but you know he actually had fish on Tuesday, and hamburgers on Thursday.
Hell, I don't even know what day it is today most of the time, and I just eat whatever's sitting around. I'd have a hard time believing that they can extract info from me that was probably never there in the first place, but I have an easy time believing that they can insert it and make me believe it.
Depends. If you're trying to break the key, possibly true (assuming that we don't develop workable quantum computers in the next billion years). However, if you're breaking the passphrase, it totally depends on the strength of password that the person chose.
Well gee, since the ONLY thing I have done with CDs for years is to rip them to MP3 then stick them in a box, I guess this means that there's no point in me buying CDs at all anymore. If it's going to be illegal no matter what I do, I might as well just download it for free.
Their store in Ann Arbor, MI was quite good, at least for around here. They closed in the first round.
Their people there were actually fairly good at their job, knew pretty much what they were talking about, and their prices were good for this area. Also, they actually had EXTREMELY good stocking - I generally buy hard drives when they have big rebates. Walk into Best Buy looking for a drive with a $50 rebate, and they will ALWAYS be out. ALWAYS. Even if you are the first one in the door the day the sale starts. By contrast, the CompUSA store here stocked HUNDREDS of the drive that had the big rebate that week. I could walk in on Friday of the sale and they'd still have 50 drives in stock.
And, I keep track of my rebates, and I always got every one from CompUSA.
There is a Best Buy store about 3 stores down from their old location. I haven't bought anything from Best Buy for years - they're way overpriced, they seem to require you to have a lobotomy to work there, and they have said that they don't want the business of anyone who's actually bargain hunting - if you're the type that goes into the store and only buys things that are on sale, or if you actually send in your rebates, they don't want you.
No, but I wouldn't recommend something that she thought she could rely on, only to find out it was crap when she really needed it, either. I've had too many of my friends get bitten by RAID cards that use the CPU rather than their own. IMHO, either use something like Linux's built-in RAID, which you have full control over and can fix whatever screws up, or spend the money and buy a 3ware card.
I generally don't install patches very often. Or rather, I install them and defer the reboot if it asks (not every patch requires a reboot).
I don't use any Microsoft software other than Windows itself. Honestly, I've stopped running antivirus software too. I've been using the internet since it was a KA9Q packet driver running over MSDOS and I had to know IP addresses, and emails were all bangpath'd, and I have yet to get a virus installed on my machine. I've had them try to get in, for instance via email, but I've always said "That looks like a virus/trojan/etc to me" and sometimes I'd feed it to a virus scanner to confirm. I do still run an overnight virus scan from time to time, but I've gotten sick of losing a continually-increasing amount of CPU and disk time to resident scanners.
As far as open port attacks, well, that's what a hardware firewall is for.
My record for uptime on a Windows box is 283 days. That's because I don't have a UPS; otherwise it would be longer.
And you can. A friend set this up just last week. An old WRT54G with the Tomato firmware set to QOS an open Wifi connection to something like 128kbits, and the rest of the bandwidth set to the rest of his network including his Vonage box, and a firewall between the two. He set it up specifically so that his neighborhood would have a free wifi connection.
Interesting. The first thing I do when installing Windows is to shut off autorun on all drives and devices. I haven't reinstalled Windows that many times, because I don't download and install crud so I have Windows 2K and XP boxes that have been running for years without problems (often with 100+ day uptimes). I currently have 4 maxtors spinning at home that are > 4 years old. I have had Maxtors fail, but only after giving SMART warnings so I was able to get all my data off.
The last drive I had fail was a Seagate that came in my Compaq, it was only 2 months old and gave no SMART warnings, it just died in a blink of the eye.
The update APPLIED TO A NONSTANDARD DEVICE bricks the device. It's not the manufacturer's fault if, for instance, you apply the wrong firmware to your mainboard and brick it. The update is designed to work on an iPhone as shipped. You modify it, and it's no longer as-shipped, and the update may (or may not) cause trouble.
I honestly don't think Apple is TRYING to brick the phones. I'm no Apple fan, but I know updates are enough of a PITA anyway; I wouldn't expect them to go out and buy an unlocked iPhone to test the update against.
I believe that they are legitimately just warning users of the possibility; they don't KNOW it will cause trouble, but they can't guarantee it won't.
I think it's actually laudable that they gave a warning. They didn't have to.
If you have an unlocked iPhone, then IMHO you don't have an iPhone anymore, you have something you made yourself by using an iPhone as one of the components.
Yes, clearly the Toyota Prius, as well as all the full electrics and other hybrids out there, and radio controlled cars have only one setting; you push the pedal down and they immediately start going full speed.
I suggest you look up "motor controllers".
In fact, electric motors are highly controllable; much more so than gasoline engines. This was clearly a simple accident that could have happened with any vehicle.
There actually was a proposal back in the 50s to build a nuclear ramjet powered high speed unmanned multiple warhead delivery system. It got through a few rounds of discussion, but then someone said "Well, where does it go after it drops its last nuke?" One of the scientists said "Just have it zig-zag around the enemy's country as long as it can fly; it's cranking out enough radiation to kill everything it flies over." Then someone realized that it would have to fly over some allied countries to get to enemy countries, and they finally realized that maybe this wasn't a good idea.
The problem is that everyone's feed is customized. There are tens of thousands of channels available in the US (OK, generally only a few hundred, but on different services in different places). Everyone sets up their own feed. I've got mine at Dish Network, but have excluded the channels I never watch. So I only have about 40 channels worth of data. That works out to about 50K of XML per day of programming. I don't want to start downloading 10,000 channels worth of data because someone MIGHT want to get it from me 3 hours from now.
Because last I looked, zap2it wasn't selling subscriptions to individuals, they were talking to companies to bundle their services to many subscribers. That's basically what schedules direct has done; they're an interface to tmsdatadirect for free software users. I signed up on Sept 1. Their goal is $20/year. Right now they're higher so they can get started, and I didn't have any problem paying that little extra to help them get going.
Actually, I do dozens of rebates a year, from $5 to $200, and I keep track of all of them, and I have never been stiffed on one in the last 5 years since I've been keeping track. They have all come back. Probably easily over 100 rebates.
Interestingly enough, I never had any problems with physics. I never understood much about chemistry. That changed when I ran across an audiobook which started from basic principles and worked through all the branches of science; they literally snuck up on chemistry via particle physics. Once chemistry was explained to me in terms of quantum physics, I understood it a lot better. It stopped seeming like black magic and more like a quantifiable thing to me.
It looks like it's only "proving" the existance of an omniscient being, and that only by trick of logic. Even if the "proof" were true, it does not automatically follow that an omniscient being is "God". I don't see any limitation on it either. I state that there are 10 billion omniscient beings in the universe. Godel's proof should work for that as well. Pick any number. How many Gods can dance on the head of a pin?
I think you'll find that they buy pretty good discs and have their name stenciled on. I suggest a new burner. Really good ones that can write on anything are $30 these days. I used to have a burner that was finicky about discs. 3 years later, most of the discs it wrote are very difficult to read. The ones written by the drive I bought to replace it (some 2.9 years old) read just fine in everything. If you've got a finicky writer and your data matters to you at all, dump it in the trash and buy a new one.
Great plan. Throw away the only power you have over them. "Stop doing what you're doing, or I'll ignore you even harder and make it even easier for you to keep doing what you're doing, and to make more money and power for you and your friends."
Yeah, emergency responders just love the idea of a vehicle that can suddenly accelerate on electrical power (no startup/noise/warning) just because a keyfob is in the vicinity. Even more fun than having a side impact air bag fire while you're trying to extract someone.
Yup, my brother's truck has no working door locks, and the ignition is an on/off switch and the starter is a pushbutton. Nobody'd steal it though. Heck, even I check under/behind the seat before I get in; I'm always worried that some kind or animal will have started living in there and I might get bit.
From what I've read, any experienced car thief will have the lojack out before you know the car's gone. It's only good for catching thugs that don't really know what they're doing, and I'm not sure such people can really steal cars anymore given the passive antitheft systems that are in pretty much all cars these days.
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I sure hope so. Cell coverage is pretty much nonexistant where I live. I have a cell, but it's a cheapo Virgin Mobile phone.
VoIP isn't a good idea either. Even though they CLAIM that all their equipment is battery-backed, I still lose signal immediately upon power failure, and my neighbors that have their VoIP service lose dialtone instantly.
I've tried all cell providers, and the best I can get at home is "you might get a signal, if the stars are in alignment, but if you make a call, talk fast because you'll get disconnected within 2 minutes, even if you go outside to make the call."
Not surprisingly, my cell usage averages about 4 minutes a month. It's just for calling home to see what color widget they wanted, or whatever. At $5/month into my account and 18 cents a minute coming out, after almost 2 years I now have > $100 saved in my account, because I just never use the thing.
Do you remember, or do they just convince you that you remember what they wanted you to remember?
I'd like to see a controlled experiment. Keep track of what someone had for dinner for a week, then have the pros come in and tell them that you know that guy had hamburgers for dinner on Tuesday, and you want them to get him to admit it, but you know he actually had fish on Tuesday, and hamburgers on Thursday.
Hell, I don't even know what day it is today most of the time, and I just eat whatever's sitting around. I'd have a hard time believing that they can extract info from me that was probably never there in the first place, but I have an easy time believing that they can insert it and make me believe it.
Depends. If you're trying to break the key, possibly true (assuming that we don't develop workable quantum computers in the next billion years). However, if you're breaking the passphrase, it totally depends on the strength of password that the person chose.
Well gee, since the ONLY thing I have done with CDs for years is to rip them to MP3 then stick them in a box, I guess this means that there's no point in me buying CDs at all anymore. If it's going to be illegal no matter what I do, I might as well just download it for free.
Their store in Ann Arbor, MI was quite good, at least for around here. They closed in the first round.
Their people there were actually fairly good at their job, knew pretty much what they were talking about, and their prices were good for this area. Also, they actually had EXTREMELY good stocking - I generally buy hard drives when they have big rebates. Walk into Best Buy looking for a drive with a $50 rebate, and they will ALWAYS be out. ALWAYS. Even if you are the first one in the door the day the sale starts. By contrast, the CompUSA store here stocked HUNDREDS of the drive that had the big rebate that week. I could walk in on Friday of the sale and they'd still have 50 drives in stock.
And, I keep track of my rebates, and I always got every one from CompUSA.
There is a Best Buy store about 3 stores down from their old location. I haven't bought anything from Best Buy for years - they're way overpriced, they seem to require you to have a lobotomy to work there, and they have said that they don't want the business of anyone who's actually bargain hunting - if you're the type that goes into the store and only buys things that are on sale, or if you actually send in your rebates, they don't want you.
No, but I wouldn't recommend something that she thought she could rely on, only to find out it was crap when she really needed it, either.
I've had too many of my friends get bitten by RAID cards that use the CPU rather than their own. IMHO, either use something like Linux's built-in RAID, which you have full control over and can fix whatever screws up, or spend the money and buy a 3ware card.
I generally don't install patches very often. Or rather, I install them and defer the reboot if it asks (not every patch requires a reboot).
I don't use any Microsoft software other than Windows itself. Honestly, I've stopped running antivirus software too. I've been using the internet since it was a KA9Q packet driver running over MSDOS and I had to know IP addresses, and emails were all bangpath'd, and I have yet to get a virus installed on my machine. I've had them try to get in, for instance via email, but I've always said "That looks like a virus/trojan/etc to me" and sometimes I'd feed it to a virus scanner to confirm. I do still run an overnight virus scan from time to time, but I've gotten sick of losing a continually-increasing amount of CPU and disk time to resident scanners.
As far as open port attacks, well, that's what a hardware firewall is for.
My record for uptime on a Windows box is 283 days. That's because I don't have a UPS; otherwise it would be longer.
And you can. A friend set this up just last week. An old WRT54G with the Tomato firmware set to QOS an open Wifi connection to something like 128kbits, and the rest of the bandwidth set to the rest of his network including his Vonage box, and a firewall between the two. He set it up specifically so that his neighborhood would have a free wifi connection.
Interesting. The first thing I do when installing Windows is to shut off autorun on all drives and devices. I haven't reinstalled Windows that many times, because I don't download and install crud so I have Windows 2K and XP boxes that have been running for years without problems (often with 100+ day uptimes). I currently have 4 maxtors spinning at home that are > 4 years old. I have had Maxtors fail, but only after giving SMART warnings so I was able to get all my data off.
The last drive I had fail was a Seagate that came in my Compaq, it was only 2 months old and gave no SMART warnings, it just died in a blink of the eye.
Haha! How often do you see "Who's got the smallest?" matches?
The update APPLIED TO A NONSTANDARD DEVICE bricks the device.
It's not the manufacturer's fault if, for instance, you apply the wrong firmware to your mainboard and brick it.
The update is designed to work on an iPhone as shipped. You modify it, and it's no longer as-shipped, and the update may (or may not) cause trouble.
I honestly don't think Apple is TRYING to brick the phones. I'm no Apple fan, but I know updates are enough of a PITA anyway; I wouldn't expect them to go out and buy an unlocked iPhone to test the update against.
I believe that they are legitimately just warning users of the possibility; they don't KNOW it will cause trouble, but they can't guarantee it won't.
I think it's actually laudable that they gave a warning. They didn't have to.
If you have an unlocked iPhone, then IMHO you don't have an iPhone anymore, you have something you made yourself by using an iPhone as one of the components.
I didn't say it was a joke. I was referring to the parent.
Yes, clearly the Toyota Prius, as well as all the full electrics and other hybrids out there, and radio controlled cars have only one setting; you push the pedal down and they immediately start going full speed.
I suggest you look up "motor controllers".
In fact, electric motors are highly controllable; much more so than gasoline engines. This was clearly a simple accident that could have happened with any vehicle.
There actually was a proposal back in the 50s to build a nuclear ramjet powered high speed unmanned multiple warhead delivery system. It got through a few rounds of discussion, but then someone said "Well, where does it go after it drops its last nuke?" One of the scientists said "Just have it zig-zag around the enemy's country as long as it can fly; it's cranking out enough radiation to kill everything it flies over." Then someone realized that it would have to fly over some allied countries to get to enemy countries, and they finally realized that maybe this wasn't a good idea.
(yes, I know a joke when I see one).
I think it was Joy of Science from The Teaching Company.c id=1100&id=1100&pc=Science%20and%20Mathematics
http://www.teach12.com/ttcx/coursedesclong2.aspx?
Look in the library; you probably don't want to buy this one. ($300 as downloads is the cheapest other than transcripts)
The problem is that everyone's feed is customized. There are tens of thousands of channels available in the US (OK, generally only a few hundred, but on different services in different places). Everyone sets up their own feed. I've got mine at Dish Network, but have excluded the channels I never watch. So I only have about 40 channels worth of data. That works out to about 50K of XML per day of programming. I don't want to start downloading 10,000 channels worth of data because someone MIGHT want to get it from me 3 hours from now.
Because last I looked, zap2it wasn't selling subscriptions to individuals, they were talking to companies to bundle their services to many subscribers.
That's basically what schedules direct has done; they're an interface to tmsdatadirect for free software users.
I signed up on Sept 1. Their goal is $20/year. Right now they're higher so they can get started, and I didn't have any problem paying that little extra to help them get going.
Actually, I do dozens of rebates a year, from $5 to $200, and I keep track of all of them, and I have never been stiffed on one in the last 5 years since I've been keeping track. They have all come back. Probably easily over 100 rebates.
Interestingly enough, I never had any problems with physics. I never understood much about chemistry.
That changed when I ran across an audiobook which started from basic principles and worked through all the branches of science; they literally snuck up on chemistry via particle physics.
Once chemistry was explained to me in terms of quantum physics, I understood it a lot better. It stopped seeming like black magic and more like a quantifiable thing to me.
It looks like it's only "proving" the existance of an omniscient being, and that only by trick of logic. Even if the "proof" were true, it does not automatically follow that an omniscient being is "God". I don't see any limitation on it either. I state that there are 10 billion omniscient beings in the universe. Godel's proof should work for that as well. Pick any number. How many Gods can dance on the head of a pin?
I think you'll find that they buy pretty good discs and have their name stenciled on.
I suggest a new burner. Really good ones that can write on anything are $30 these days.
I used to have a burner that was finicky about discs. 3 years later, most of the discs it wrote are very difficult to read. The ones written by the drive I bought to replace it (some 2.9 years old) read just fine in everything. If you've got a finicky writer and your data matters to you at all, dump it in the trash and buy a new one.
Great plan. Throw away the only power you have over them.
"Stop doing what you're doing, or I'll ignore you even harder and make it even easier for you to keep doing what you're doing, and to make more money and power for you and your friends."
I bet they're terrified of your apathy-foo.
Yeah, emergency responders just love the idea of a vehicle that can suddenly accelerate on electrical power (no startup/noise/warning) just because a keyfob is in the vicinity. Even more fun than having a side impact air bag fire while you're trying to extract someone.
Yup, my brother's truck has no working door locks, and the ignition is an on/off switch and the starter is a pushbutton.
Nobody'd steal it though. Heck, even I check under/behind the seat before I get in; I'm always worried that some kind or animal will have started living in there and I might get bit.
From what I've read, any experienced car thief will have the lojack out before you know the car's gone. It's only good for catching thugs that don't really know what they're doing, and I'm not sure such people can really steal cars anymore given the passive antitheft systems that are in pretty much all cars these days.