Nokia has the patent (I'm too lazy to look up a link) on multi-user phones - that's why only Android tablets (not phones) have the feature (not saying all do, my Nexus 7 did).
I guess computers doing it for decades and phones basically being all-in-one computers wasn't enough to make this too obvious to patent...
The reader I use ("QR Code Reader" on Android) tells me what it says before giving me the option of executing it or not. I assumed they all did.
QR coding moving boxes is a great way to not have to cut boxes open to see what's inside without having it written on the outside for all to see (it has a link to a password protected page).
I use my voicemail number as my wifi password (my cell service has voicemail disabled; just knowing my cell number does not mean you get to leave me a message, you have to have the other number [that forwards to my cell - Google Voice] to leave a message if I don't answer). Anyone I like well enough to give that number to is welcome on my private network. This may change when I move, but is how I've done it for ~10 years.
If the Russians did not have nuclear weapons they would be just another 3rd world wannabe power.
This is factually wrong. Russia will always be "2nd world" by definition.
It's good you posted as A/C so as to prevent such a post from being associated with your identity. Words have meanings.
Coupled with the fact that the state of California has a higher GDP than Russia also means they have no economic leverage to on the international stage.
Big freaking deal. I have no love for Russia (or the mad man they have as a leader), but Caliornia's economy is HUGE.
The big surprise is that China has let NK get to this point without intervening. They could close their border and stop all deliveries of food, oil, and coal shipments. This would give NK just enough rope to hang themselves. Any hostile response directed from NK to China would give the Chinese all the reason they need remove all existing NK leadership and install their own people to govern the state. China would not face any criticism from the international community for their actions.
As it stands NK actions have resulted in all the surrounding countries upgrading their missile defense systems that when coupled with the increase in US missile defense systems could weaken China's nuclear deterrent.
China needs an unstable NK, but not too unstable. Too stable or unstable, they risk the Koreas reuniting and China does not want a powerful ally to the US right on their border.
Use a dumb bluetooth earpiece and do the processing on your phone.
Disorienting lag is a problem. One of my children lost quite a bit of hearing when she was very young (illness) - there is no way I would use a bluetooth option you describe for her* (not judging other people, just speaking for myself), I would sooner get a second job to repay the loan I took to buy her 'aids.
Now that said, if these can perform well enough (or cause other outfits to enter the arena that eventually do), heck yeah, that would be a huge blessing as those things aren't cheap & they don't last forever (she got 8 years out of her first pair, is on her second pair now).
*I may consider that for myself when I need it, but not for a developing child.
The assumption was that porting your landline to magicJack may free up enough money in the budget to buy home Internet from the cable company.
It's possible, but then it isn't really apples-to apples either; home internet + MJ is more expensive (typically, anyway & is some areas far, far worse - Charter only has a $60/mo + tax plan) than a cellphone. I pay $21 (rounding up, after taxes) for unlimited voice/sms/data (100MB regular LTE, then unlimited 128kbs LTE). Too slow for Netflix, but good enough for everything else (including Pandora).
Is this carrier willing to activate low-minute, voice-only service on a smartphone? Or is it like Virgin Mobile was a few years ago, where only flip phones qualified for this sort of low-usage service and people with smartphones had to settle for a substantially more expensive ($35/mo) plan intended for higher-usage subscribers, which includes 450 minutes and data? The notice "You cannot activate a 4G device on this plan" on Page Plus's page for the plan you describe worries me.
I don't currently use them, but last I checked the only restriction was iPhones - but data did not work on 4g phones on that plan (which is just as well as you'd go over in probably double-digit seconds - it's really for voice).
This is what causes people to disparage you. I'm one of the (seemingly rare) people that missed your posts (well, some of them;-) ), but posting the same thing over and over really doesn't benefit the conversation. I get that it is your style (ironic though it is), but I have things in my style that I leave off Slashdot.
Your premise that hostfiles are a good way to deal with advertising and malvertising is quite valid, but it only applies to Windows (please correct me if I am wrong) PCs, so it isn't really a '1-size fits all, all other methods be damned' solution. At the risk of inflating his ego, as KGIII says, security is a process, not an application. There's nothing wrong with a multi-pronged approach (and, in fact, it's typically better).
So, listen or don't, you're free to do largely as you wish, but I think you'd be more successful if you advocated your solution as a component of good security vis-à-vis ad/malvertising, rather than the only option.
I have 2 FP cellphones (my eldest 2 children) and had a few devices on the old WiMax. This is definitely a YMMV, but I have had no problems that weren't fairly easily solved (shaming them publicly via Twitter is the best method IME). My kids are on the $0 plan ($30 phones, promo at the time was free shipping & activation) and a widget on their phone monitors their usage. I also put a AMEX "gift card" (from a rebate) that has IIRC 37 cents available on it as their payment method, so while they could get cut off for going over (and they know this, so they watch closely), I can't get taken to the bank.
They aren't for trusting people (yeah, they will try to upsell you to a plan that is more than a major carrier), but if you're careful & watch for sales, they offer pretty decent, free service (with a very minor initial outlay for the device).
Whilst this is technically true, it's assuming a home internet connection (when the point I got from the story is you can't assume this). Also, there are cellphone options even cheaper (if you don't need many minutes); specifically, the plan I started my kids off with at $10 every 4 months (100minute pool to use over the course of the 4 months @ $2.50/mo, taxes included, PagePlus). If the primary use of the cell is for prospective employers to reach you, this is plenty of service. If you use a smartphone (maybe a hand-me-down, not everyone buys new), you can increase your minutes by using Google Voice when in wifi coverage (doesn't have to be your own, many businesses have free wifi and most people likely visit someone on occasion that has wifi even if they don't have it themselves.
If a friend or family member 'down on their luck' asked, I'm sure I could come up with one or two spare (older-model but working) smartphones to help them set something like this up & I'm far from wealthy. I haven't bought a new cellphone for myself in at least 6 years (I have picked up a couple used ones).
Hopefully this will be resolved with monitor technology; my 24" 4k is already about 150dpi, an 8k should get us close enough (I print at 600dpi, but 300 to 600 can't affect kerning that much, can it?).
I'm not going to do it (I actually rather like my real name:)), but how hard is it to track you through a name change? I mean, it would stop someone like me, I bet, but I wouldn't expect it to stop the govt. if they were trying to look, but where is it in the middle? Does your old name show up as an AKA every time law enforcement runs a check?
My (mostly Windows) Steam account is 947.3 GB per mysteamgauge.com & that sounds about right. Probably have 1/5 of that installed, though. Ugh, says I have averaged nearly 66 minutes a day (or just over 82 days) in the past 5 years playing... sigh. I shouldn't be surprised, I have 756 hours in the Fallout franchise alone.
No, that's not entirely true. If I get myself a talkshow in China and spend all my time critical of Mao (or some such), I expect the government to try to stop me. Might be through coercion, might be through threat of violence (or even actual violence), but either way, to stop me. If I do the same in the US of Obama, I might get picked up by Fox News. There may be people protesting me, and I may have to deal with mean worded emails, but this is the consequences of what I am saying. Not imprisonment or threat of imprisonment. Maybe the IRS will pull out a rubber glove with my name on it, but if someone gets caught using the IRS this way, they (theoretically) get in trouble for it. This is free speech. Not "You can say whatever you want with no consequences whatsoever."
I have done this for the better part of a decade, but I don't do appending - the company gets something like 'amazon@[mydomain]' - it used to be far more effective than it is now for determining who shared my address (looking at you, dropbox), but now it's great for phishing emails as amazon won't email me anywhere but amazon@... & I can see who they emailed.
I'll admit, I paused with a confused look on my face for about 2 whole seconds before considering what the next 'sole' would be... duhno if you originated that or stole it well, but it brought a smile to my face, cheers!
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Nokia has the patent (I'm too lazy to look up a link) on multi-user phones - that's why only Android tablets (not phones) have the feature (not saying all do, my Nexus 7 did).
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I guess computers doing it for decades and phones basically being all-in-one computers wasn't enough to make this too obvious to patent
The reader I use ("QR Code Reader" on Android) tells me what it says before giving me the option of executing it or not. I assumed they all did.
QR coding moving boxes is a great way to not have to cut boxes open to see what's inside without having it written on the outside for all to see (it has a link to a password protected page).
I use my voicemail number as my wifi password (my cell service has voicemail disabled; just knowing my cell number does not mean you get to leave me a message, you have to have the other number [that forwards to my cell - Google Voice] to leave a message if I don't answer). Anyone I like well enough to give that number to is welcome on my private network. This may change when I move, but is how I've done it for ~10 years.
Pics or it didn't happen.
Looks like you're spending too much time on Slashdot, Kettle.
No, the courts decide squirrels, not truth, but they are quite corrupt. Often, they do a terrible job, one not based on squirrels.
There are many types of court, the one you are referring to has a longer name, "Court of Law."
Yes, witnesses are instructed to speak the truth, but the function is law. I share your opinion regarding the media, but I see no solution.
printed it to pdf...
Still electronic
haha, no worries :)
Unless you're trying to be 'punny' it is spelled "googolplex"
Actually, the weather has been pretty nice in Texas this week.
I've used PIA off and on for years, but a few months ago I let my sub lapse because even US -> US was being blocked by Netflix. Has this improved?
If the Russians did not have nuclear weapons they would be just another 3rd world wannabe power.
This is factually wrong. Russia will always be "2nd world" by definition.
It's good you posted as A/C so as to prevent such a post from being associated with your identity. Words have meanings.
Coupled with the fact that the state of California has a higher GDP than Russia also means they have no economic leverage to on the international stage.
Big freaking deal. I have no love for Russia (or the mad man they have as a leader), but Caliornia's economy is HUGE.
The big surprise is that China has let NK get to this point without intervening. They could close their border and stop all deliveries of food, oil, and coal shipments. This would give NK just enough rope to hang themselves. Any hostile response directed from NK to China would give the Chinese all the reason they need remove all existing NK leadership and install their own people to govern the state. China would not face any criticism from the international community for their actions. As it stands NK actions have resulted in all the surrounding countries upgrading their missile defense systems that when coupled with the increase in US missile defense systems could weaken China's nuclear deterrent.
China needs an unstable NK, but not too unstable. Too stable or unstable, they risk the Koreas reuniting and China does not want a powerful ally to the US right on their border.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
Do you actually need those?
Yes
Use a dumb bluetooth earpiece and do the processing on your phone.
Disorienting lag is a problem. One of my children lost quite a bit of hearing when she was very young (illness) - there is no way I would use a bluetooth option you describe for her* (not judging other people, just speaking for myself), I would sooner get a second job to repay the loan I took to buy her 'aids.
Now that said, if these can perform well enough (or cause other outfits to enter the arena that eventually do), heck yeah, that would be a huge blessing as those things aren't cheap & they don't last forever (she got 8 years out of her first pair, is on her second pair now).
*I may consider that for myself when I need it, but not for a developing child.
The assumption was that porting your landline to magicJack may free up enough money in the budget to buy home Internet from the cable company.
It's possible, but then it isn't really apples-to apples either; home internet + MJ is more expensive (typically, anyway & is some areas far, far worse - Charter only has a $60/mo + tax plan) than a cellphone. I pay $21 (rounding up, after taxes) for unlimited voice/sms/data (100MB regular LTE, then unlimited 128kbs LTE). Too slow for Netflix, but good enough for everything else (including Pandora).
Is this carrier willing to activate low-minute, voice-only service on a smartphone? Or is it like Virgin Mobile was a few years ago, where only flip phones qualified for this sort of low-usage service and people with smartphones had to settle for a substantially more expensive ($35/mo) plan intended for higher-usage subscribers, which includes 450 minutes and data? The notice "You cannot activate a 4G device on this plan" on Page Plus's page for the plan you describe worries me.
I don't currently use them, but last I checked the only restriction was iPhones - but data did not work on 4g phones on that plan (which is just as well as you'd go over in probably double-digit seconds - it's really for voice).
Hi APK,
;-) ), but posting the same thing over and over really doesn't benefit the conversation. I get that it is your style (ironic though it is), but I have things in my style that I leave off Slashdot.
This is what causes people to disparage you. I'm one of the (seemingly rare) people that missed your posts (well, some of them
Your premise that hostfiles are a good way to deal with advertising and malvertising is quite valid, but it only applies to Windows (please correct me if I am wrong) PCs, so it isn't really a '1-size fits all, all other methods be damned' solution. At the risk of inflating his ego, as KGIII says, security is a process, not an application. There's nothing wrong with a multi-pronged approach (and, in fact, it's typically better).
So, listen or don't, you're free to do largely as you wish, but I think you'd be more successful if you advocated your solution as a component of good security vis-à-vis ad/malvertising, rather than the only option.
I have 2 FP cellphones (my eldest 2 children) and had a few devices on the old WiMax. This is definitely a YMMV, but I have had no problems that weren't fairly easily solved (shaming them publicly via Twitter is the best method IME). My kids are on the $0 plan ($30 phones, promo at the time was free shipping & activation) and a widget on their phone monitors their usage. I also put a AMEX "gift card" (from a rebate) that has IIRC 37 cents available on it as their payment method, so while they could get cut off for going over (and they know this, so they watch closely), I can't get taken to the bank.
They aren't for trusting people (yeah, they will try to upsell you to a plan that is more than a major carrier), but if you're careful & watch for sales, they offer pretty decent, free service (with a very minor initial outlay for the device).
Whilst this is technically true, it's assuming a home internet connection (when the point I got from the story is you can't assume this). Also, there are cellphone options even cheaper (if you don't need many minutes); specifically, the plan I started my kids off with at $10 every 4 months (100minute pool to use over the course of the 4 months @ $2.50/mo, taxes included, PagePlus). If the primary use of the cell is for prospective employers to reach you, this is plenty of service. If you use a smartphone (maybe a hand-me-down, not everyone buys new), you can increase your minutes by using Google Voice when in wifi coverage (doesn't have to be your own, many businesses have free wifi and most people likely visit someone on occasion that has wifi even if they don't have it themselves.
If a friend or family member 'down on their luck' asked, I'm sure I could come up with one or two spare (older-model but working) smartphones to help them set something like this up & I'm far from wealthy. I haven't bought a new cellphone for myself in at least 6 years (I have picked up a couple used ones).
Hopefully this will be resolved with monitor technology; my 24" 4k is already about 150dpi, an 8k should get us close enough (I print at 600dpi, but 300 to 600 can't affect kerning that much, can it?).
I'm not going to do it (I actually rather like my real name :)), but how hard is it to track you through a name change? I mean, it would stop someone like me, I bet, but I wouldn't expect it to stop the govt. if they were trying to look, but where is it in the middle? Does your old name show up as an AKA every time law enforcement runs a check?
My (mostly Windows) Steam account is 947.3 GB per mysteamgauge.com & that sounds about right. Probably have 1/5 of that installed, though. Ugh, says I have averaged nearly 66 minutes a day (or just over 82 days) in the past 5 years playing ... sigh. I shouldn't be surprised, I have 756 hours in the Fallout franchise alone.
Do you have slightly larger than medium size hands, too?
No, that's not entirely true. If I get myself a talkshow in China and spend all my time critical of Mao (or some such), I expect the government to try to stop me. Might be through coercion, might be through threat of violence (or even actual violence), but either way, to stop me. If I do the same in the US of Obama, I might get picked up by Fox News. There may be people protesting me, and I may have to deal with mean worded emails, but this is the consequences of what I am saying. Not imprisonment or threat of imprisonment. Maybe the IRS will pull out a rubber glove with my name on it, but if someone gets caught using the IRS this way, they (theoretically) get in trouble for it. This is free speech. Not "You can say whatever you want with no consequences whatsoever."
I have done this for the better part of a decade, but I don't do appending - the company gets something like 'amazon@[mydomain]' - it used to be far more effective than it is now for determining who shared my address (looking at you, dropbox), but now it's great for phishing emails as amazon won't email me anywhere but amazon@... & I can see who they emailed.
I'll admit, I paused with a confused look on my face for about 2 whole seconds before considering what the next 'sole' would be ... duhno if you originated that or stole it well, but it brought a smile to my face, cheers!