"I suspect SSDs will fill their own space in the market with mechanical HDs being reduced to storage or backup drives."
What else do hard drives do, again? Did you mean 'reduced to purposes where either capacity or lengevity are more important than speed or silence'?
You'll have to be more specific. Virtually every hard drive I've ever owned have been used for either storage or backup. Holding the OS is also a storage purpose, but you can figure that many drives need to hold an OS to be part of a useful system...
SSDs as speed-centric devices sounds more like massive cache to me. Really massive. Still storage.
Do they? Last time I flew Southwest (July 2009) they:
- Got me where I was going on time,
- Offered me two (2) packages of peanuts as a snack, and two packages of cookies as well.
- Had room for my bags in both directions.
The last time I flew Delta (July 2010) they:
- Would not let me change seats online.
- Would not tell me my seat assignment on the commuter segments until after boarding, so that 'passengers with special needs could be accomodated'. They seated three standby passengers before me on one flight, despite my having a confirmed ticket. I enjoyed oen of only four seats that did not recline. The passenger in front of me enjoyed reclining HIS seat, very much thank you. I can still smell it.
- Delayed me at EVERY stop to and from my destination.
- Gave me precisely one (1) package of peanuts, OR one (1) package of cookies, on each segment.
- Had no room in the bins for my bag on the first segment of my flight, and had to check them at the gate.
- On my return flight, delayed me at the destination gate for 20 minutes while they found a crew to offload our gate-checked baggage.
- On the connecting flight, delayed it 20 minutes due to a problem getting the incoming plane to the gate.
- On this connecting flight, delayed us 40 minutes to load on catering (food).
- On this connecting flight, waited 2 hours into a 5 hour flight to begin serving drinks and snacks to Coach (us).
MY wife flew back a few days later, and
- Was delayed an hour on the initial segment.
- Was that hour late for her connecting flight.
- Cancelled the connecting flight after a 90 minute delay, due to 'mechanical problems'.
- Flew in a replacement plane FROM THE INTENDED DESTINATION to replace the failed plane.
- Gave her a $6 food voucher for a meal. The least expensive sandwich she saw was $8.
- Eventually got her onboard and on her way to the destination, 6 hours late.
- Gave her a $25 travel voucher for her inconvenience. This is equal to the baggage allowance for one bag.
So Delta may have valued my wife's troubles at $4.16/hr, but she did not. We will not be using the travel voucher. 6 years ago, flying out of Portland, Maine, we took an early flight to Baltimore and then on to Orlando in January. We were delayed 4 hours as one of the engines would not start on an below-freezing day. It had been a long time since I sat on a cold Maine apron and got told the engine would not start. Southwest is beating Delta maintenance hands down in my experience.
ps- It is the height of inefficiency to permit maintenance to cause groundings and lost flights. Planes don't make any money on the ground; they make money in the air. And accidents are entirely inefficient. Now, claiming maintenance troubles for a lightly-loaded flight used to happen to me a fair amount in the 80s, and it was blatant. Sitting at a gate lounge with 6 other people for a flight from Boston to Bangor at 1900 on a Friday night, I got cancelled 50% of the time. Go up the next morning, we had maybe 10 people on board usually. And in Bangor, they had maybe 12 people waiting to go to Boston, 6 of them from last night. I'm not fooled by that.
Very little advantage to Southwest to add mechanical trouble to the 'act of God' list, but it belongs on 'force Majeure'. Even CF-18s fail and they get even better maintenance than 737s. No machine is perfect.
The USPS was, at one time, the only reliable nationwide letter and parcel delivery means. Maybe the ONLY means.
Then along came UPS. Parcel delivery, door to door, always a signature (back in the beginning), and reliable. Less damage. Fair price. Good deal.
Did the USPS try to kill UPS? Well, that's not clear, but the USPS enjoyed a postal monopoly from 1792 to 1825, limited and then expanded it from 1825 to 1872, and again from 1872 to 1979, with some intervening changes. UPS was not permitted to delvier 'letters', but parcels were and are their mainstay, along with RPS and DHL. Fedex and DHL got into the 'emergency delivery' business, and survived when the definition of a 'letter' allowed them to provide service.
Imagine that the USPS has been allowed to require competitors to deliberately downgrade their service, for instance requiring Fedex to deliver overnight packages as reliably as USPS? This would mean making their service both uneconomical (costs more than USPS, same delivery just as good/bad, darn) and without any advantage. No more Fedex.
Net neutrality would require ISPs to NOT favor one content provider over another, or to not favor one form of content over another. Imagine, as pointed out elsewhere in this thread, that Fox News was purposefully throttled while CNN was not. Well, if your ISP had a deal with CNN, they may have a business reason to do that. If your ISP is your cable TV company, do they have any reason to not permit Hulu, for instance, to send you data as fast and often as, say, their own Internet-based on-demand video service? Or imagine they tell you that you need the more expensive tier of Internet service to reach sites like Disney or Nikelodeon, but somehow they provide their own kid-centered web site in the basic tier? Or do they just sell a tiered service as an 'enhancement', when in fact they are privately throttling sites arbitrarily, to create demand for an 'improved' service? I personally would like to see that regulation be in place that would require ISPs to dislose how and when they throttle or otherwise interfere with data delivery, and under what conditions. My hope would be that in markets where there is more thna one ISP, at least one would offer 'better' service. This would at least for now be cable v DSL, but if a truly useful broadband wireless service comes up, that gives subscribers at last a chance to buy service with an informed judgement on the usefulness and true capability. Letting your ISP throttle silently deprives you of the leverage of information.
Not government control - government regulation, just as they do for any number of other products and services. It can be done.
Gotta keep fixing these things. The 'real' grassroots gets it. The leaders do too, but they get it put in their wallets. We get it taken out of our wallets.
I scored an X41 Tablet for about $150 total, with two worn batteries and a busted up stylus. Not a touch screen, but a tablet. Works fine, but that's not $35. I spend more than that for the recovery disk set. Yes, I am that obsessed.
For even $100, this gives Negroponte's dream a run for the money.
India strives for self-sufficiency. It;s not cheap to them, it's affordable and sustainable.
Which is why I suspect the Secret Service either has towers on site, or has the carriers locate them onsite. After this article, I would expect that. Now how to prevent such a hack when the users get off the property.
Oh, wait, surely WH staffers have properly encrypted phones, not just carrier encryption. And those that don't, they must be told to discuss nothing on the phone. Nothing.
"Meanwhile, another Black Hat presenter, Chris Paget plans to demonstrate a completely different way to intercept GSM calls. He's setting up a fake cellular tower that masquerades as a legitimate GSM network.
According to Paget, using open-source tools and a US$1,500 USRP radio, he can assemble his fake tower, called an IMSI (International Mobile Subscriber Identity) catcher. In a controlled experiment, he's going to set one up at Black Hat and invite audience members to connect their mobile phones. Once a phone has connected, Paget's tower tells it to drop encryption, giving him a way of listening in on calls."
Yes, the only question is how to get it to forward calls. A perverse thought is someone plugging a Magic Jack into it, but you probably need something more sophisticated. Like Skype, or Asterick and some SIP minutes. Maybe not even that.
Read Chris'sblogs. She's clever. ps - I assume she's a she, she carries a handbag and wears heels, but I'm somewhat limited in my outlook, acording to Chris. I can only tell her how I see it from my frame of reference.
TFA also points out that eavesdropping as 'easy' as making a fake tower, getting phones to connect to it, commanding them to drop encryption, and having enough disk space to save the conversations. Not very expensive, and not very difficult.
So this would work well if you brought a fake tower with you to an event, like a convention or even a press conference, and just gather conversations at will. Setting up a tower near the White House would not be impossible, unless they already understand this and have an onsite tower they can secure. The Secret Service is no doubt already working with this, if not already in place. If VZW or Sprint is their most common carrier, well, those are different standards so this is not the problem.
All said and done, it is not impractical to be able to eavesdrop on GSM phones, though it is nontrivial. Data intercept I don't know a lot about.
"Facebook attorney Lisa Simpson acknowledged on Tuesday that Zuckerberg and Ceglia had worked together on the street-mapping website but said the contract submitted by Ceglia was full of "inconsistencies, undefined terms and things that don't make sense."
Um, as if that means much. If the contract is otherwise legally correct, this is not the defense I would want to be counting on...
"We have serious questions about the authenticity of this contract," Simpson told U.S. District Judge Richard Arcara. "What the contract asserts is there is a relationship about Facebook and there isn't one."
This is the interesting statement. Does Ceglia need a relationship with Facebook, or with Zuckerman? Actually, doesn't he just need a contract?
I'm gonna enjoy this. What a show! Zuckerman is a lawsuit machine!
1. Does the LT paywall have any lessons for the NYT? They plan on doing this in 2011, maybe. And they plan to be blogger-friendly. Ok. I predict the same failure, but I'm not really expected to know.
2. Do you know where the term 'fishwrap' comes from?
If you really want to get off solor, you might want to consider Braille. Me, I'm willing to be dependent on solar in any of its forms just to avoid learning Braille.
This is an 'old' truth. What's the most perishable product the local supermarket sells?
Eggs? Nope.
Lettuce? Nu uh.
Milk? not even close.
Newspapers. They are delivered fresh every morning, and no matter how you store them, they are pretty much useless and unwanted by noon. Afternoon papers. were so perishable they woudl be delivered around 4pm and didn't even get past the dinner hour and useless. By 8pm no one wanted one. The stores made the publishers take them back the next day.
Unless you were moving and needed dishwrap, in which case you could usually buy the Sunday paper for half-price. Cheaper than actual wrapping paper.
They call it fish-wrap for a reason.
So the NYT is finding out not much has changed. The Internet has compressed the news cycle from about 4 hours (breakfast, paper, work, coffee pot, water cooler, lunch, on to the next story) to about 15 minutes (breakfast, email, Google, forwards to friends, blog, done). What we get now is the repetition of the current 's t o r y', and then on to the next one.
I recall knowing a lot of people in local television in the 80s. I spotted a reporterette out with her cameraman onw day downtown, and mentioned that I saw a competing station's crew down the street about 10 minutes ago. She panicked - "OH MY GOD, what did we miss?" Turns out a jewelry shop owner was running for mayor. She already did that story at city hall. But it was competitive. Guess where? The smallest market in the U.S. that had all 4 networks at the time. News has always been competitive. Now it's also more open. The big guys don't have the advantages. You don't need to buy ink by the barrel any more, just by the megabyte.
I assume DHS will be raiding libraries nationwide, removing books on bomb making, explosives, etc?
And of course many chemistry texts, especially those which focus on such experiments?
Then they can go and visit our colleges, universities, and technical schools, so that these institutions can discontinue any teaching of such dangerous and unacceptable subjects?
This is unfortunate and sad, that our Administration would stoop to such an infringement on our First Amendment. Ignore the futility of the act.
Let me repeat. This is a First Amendment violation.
Now the al-Qaeda stuff, if they were posting contact info and such, well, darn. Gotta stop that. No point in aiding and abetting.
But bomb-making by itself isn't a crime is it? I have a few friends that still live in the woods, and they have a bit of fun with blowing stuff up occasionally, like stumps and old cars. It's their property.
We're in trouble.
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B-52Gs, nuke bunkers, full boat of ECM. Yeah, an alert base, one of the last I guess.
TAC station was F-4Ds, RF-4Cs, nuke bunkers but no acknowlegement of actual nukes per national policy. TDY was F-4s, A-4s, and we never saw anything but shop and the C-2 that shuttled us. Not as much fun as it sounded when my first sergeant gave me the news. At least I got showers. I didn't fear the one nuke we knew we had.
" I've tremendously enjoyed the Smith/Gillan combo personally."
The Doctor rarely gets so involved with fans. His sidekicks I dunno, though Billie Piper seemed to be a lot of fun UNTIL she met the Doctor. He spoils them all, you know. Something about the Sonic Screwdriver probably. Just a common old screwdriver doesn't seem to make the same impression.
I wish.
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It won't include anyone who was ever stationed at a SAC base. I was, and I had merely a Secret clearance, and worked with NoForn-Confidential-Secret systems. I didn't get TS until I went to a TAC base, and that was just so I could go TDY elsewhere. I haven't asked for permission to travel to any of a dozen countries, but this was 30+ years ago, so I bet I could get permission just for the asking. No, Iraq is not one of them.
TS is still pretty exclusive, and just being a cook on a SAC base is not need-to-know. Even being a mechanic in OMS isn't enough. Heck, there were only three shops at our base that had any classified beyond NoForn, and I was in one. No TS there. Now, the pilots and Intelligence, they had some TS clearances, I bet, and my TDY did, but that was just great fun for a young jeep who thought he knew something back then. Thank God they didn't give me little screwdrivers...
When considering threats to our liberties, Constitutional protections, and property, the difference between transnational corporations and "big government" is immaterial and indistinguishable.
Both are to be feared and resisted. Equally. In fact, they act alike, and are too often in collusion.
First, newspapers suffered from "incessant trolling and anonymous slander" always. They dealt with it by limiting the number of pages given over to 'letters to the editor'. "incessant trolling and anonymous slander" BY the editors was considered expempt. of course.
Second, North Attleboro (and Mass by extension) is pretty much ALL "incessant trolling and anonymous slander". What the hell are they gonna put up on the blog now? Movie reviews and cat stories? Welcome to the Massachusetts experience. We don't call them 'Massholes' in Maine for no reason.
ps - You can't slander a Massachusetts politician. The truth is an absolute defense.
Hmm... My Cingular/AT&T Sony T637 took ringtones just fine. I could even use MP3s.
But I used floAt's Mobile Agent back then, and it kicks ass. I still have that T637, and after 5 years in a drawer, I take it out once a year, charge it, and it stays in standby for a week. I've dropped my SIM in and made a call. I may never give that phone up, it's my disaster go-to phone in case I brick my G1 or my wife's Curve stb again.
You should have gotten floAt running. Wiked cool. Sort of like BitPim. Do you suppose the Droid X will let ya drop ringtones on it? I can't wait.
Seriously, Motorola fuses the Droid X to prevent tampering with the bootloader, etc, etc. So if you attempt a mod, it bricks the phone?
Ok. Let's roll with this for a moment.
So I buy a Droid X, fulfill my 2-year contract, and I've fulfilled my obligations, paid my bills, and I'm off contract.
Does Motorola or VZW disclose that even after this, the phone is limited to official software rleases, and despite being both out of warranty and fully paid for, it's still 'locked' to official software?
Bogus. If I have paid for it and Moto and VZW have no further obligtation to support it or even repair it at any expense, why would they care? what does it matter to them if I mess with the software?
Well, it's not at all about what happenbs to the phone after contract. It's about the 2-year contract, and that's all.
Since most users ditch their phones after the contract and upgrade at the first opportunity, Moto/VZW have little incentive to accomodate users that keep the phone past the contract. The most obvious reason is to sell a new phone, AND and a new contract. Alternatively, though, why expend any effort to support a phone that is, by marketing, considered obsolete? Let it die, and the users will re-up with a new phone and all. Moto/VZW win, you just keep on paying for a phone no matter what.
And during the contract, Moto/VZW have learned from the Android community that those hacking root and installing custom ROMs is a non-trivial portion of their users. It brings with it support problems (l0sers bricking their fonz), possible network impacts (users bringing up WiFi hotspots and cranking data), and discontent from other users (asking "why don't you give me Android 3.0, the modders have it, I hate you", causing angst and loathing amongs the user community and possibly impacting future sales). Samsung is getting a dose of this for a couple of phones that aren't going to get Android 2.x OTA updates, and T-Mobile risked it with the G1 (my phone) not getting Android 2.x at all. So a big impact here is the fragementation of the user experience, all the reputaitonal damage, and just the complications.
But there is something EVEN MORE SINISTER at play here, and both Motorols and VZW are players well-experienced at this. It's ALL about revenue. That's right, this is about profits. Directly impacting the bottom line.
This is not the first time Moto/VZW have 'conspired' to lock users into their desired experience. Remember the RAZR? Many users could download ringtones and have some fun. But not VZW users. Not only were ringone downloads via USB blocked, but also on Bluetooth. Intentionally. Of course, you could BUY ringtones from VZW. Nice chunk of change, too. This happened with GPS services also, and wasn't limited to VZW.
I do not doubt that 'fusing' the Droid X is in part intended to keep the users on the VZW farm, and prevent them from installing non-Market apps, ROMs, and probably even getting services that VZW would rather you pay for. We'll find out about that very soon.
One more reason for me to avoid Verizon. As if I needed another. And Moto also. Just an in-your-face slapdown, reminding you they have an ownership stake in YOUR phone.
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"I suspect SSDs will fill their own space in the market with mechanical HDs being reduced to storage or backup drives."
What else do hard drives do, again? Did you mean 'reduced to purposes where either capacity or lengevity are more important than speed or silence'?
You'll have to be more specific. Virtually every hard drive I've ever owned have been used for either storage or backup. Holding the OS is also a storage purpose, but you can figure that many drives need to hold an OS to be part of a useful system...
SSDs as speed-centric devices sounds more like massive cache to me. Really massive. Still storage.
Do they? Last time I flew Southwest (July 2009) they:
- Got me where I was going on time,
- Offered me two (2) packages of peanuts as a snack, and two packages of cookies as well.
- Had room for my bags in both directions.
The last time I flew Delta (July 2010) they:
- Would not let me change seats online.
- Would not tell me my seat assignment on the commuter segments until after boarding, so that 'passengers with special needs could be accomodated'. They seated three standby passengers before me on one flight, despite my having a confirmed ticket. I enjoyed oen of only four seats that did not recline. The passenger in front of me enjoyed reclining HIS seat, very much thank you. I can still smell it.
- Delayed me at EVERY stop to and from my destination.
- Gave me precisely one (1) package of peanuts, OR one (1) package of cookies, on each segment.
- Had no room in the bins for my bag on the first segment of my flight, and had to check them at the gate.
- On my return flight, delayed me at the destination gate for 20 minutes while they found a crew to offload our gate-checked baggage.
- On the connecting flight, delayed it 20 minutes due to a problem getting the incoming plane to the gate.
- On this connecting flight, delayed us 40 minutes to load on catering (food).
- On this connecting flight, waited 2 hours into a 5 hour flight to begin serving drinks and snacks to Coach (us).
MY wife flew back a few days later, and
- Was delayed an hour on the initial segment.
- Was that hour late for her connecting flight.
- Cancelled the connecting flight after a 90 minute delay, due to 'mechanical problems'.
- Flew in a replacement plane FROM THE INTENDED DESTINATION to replace the failed plane.
- Gave her a $6 food voucher for a meal. The least expensive sandwich she saw was $8.
- Eventually got her onboard and on her way to the destination, 6 hours late.
- Gave her a $25 travel voucher for her inconvenience. This is equal to the baggage allowance for one bag.
So Delta may have valued my wife's troubles at $4.16/hr, but she did not. We will not be using the travel voucher. 6 years ago, flying out of Portland, Maine, we took an early flight to Baltimore and then on to Orlando in January. We were delayed 4 hours as one of the engines would not start on an below-freezing day. It had been a long time since I sat on a cold Maine apron and got told the engine would not start. Southwest is beating Delta maintenance hands down in my experience.
ps- It is the height of inefficiency to permit maintenance to cause groundings and lost flights. Planes don't make any money on the ground; they make money in the air. And accidents are entirely inefficient. Now, claiming maintenance troubles for a lightly-loaded flight used to happen to me a fair amount in the 80s, and it was blatant. Sitting at a gate lounge with 6 other people for a flight from Boston to Bangor at 1900 on a Friday night, I got cancelled 50% of the time. Go up the next morning, we had maybe 10 people on board usually. And in Bangor, they had maybe 12 people waiting to go to Boston, 6 of them from last night. I'm not fooled by that.
Very little advantage to Southwest to add mechanical trouble to the 'act of God' list, but it belongs on 'force Majeure'. Even CF-18s fail and they get even better maintenance than 737s. No machine is perfect.
The USPS was, at one time, the only reliable nationwide letter and parcel delivery means. Maybe the ONLY means.
Then along came UPS. Parcel delivery, door to door, always a signature (back in the beginning), and reliable. Less damage. Fair price. Good deal.
Did the USPS try to kill UPS? Well, that's not clear, but the USPS enjoyed a postal monopoly from 1792 to 1825, limited and then expanded it from 1825 to 1872, and again from 1872 to 1979, with some intervening changes. UPS was not permitted to delvier 'letters', but parcels were and are their mainstay, along with RPS and DHL. Fedex and DHL got into the 'emergency delivery' business, and survived when the definition of a 'letter' allowed them to provide service.
Imagine that the USPS has been allowed to require competitors to deliberately downgrade their service, for instance requiring Fedex to deliver overnight packages as reliably as USPS? This would mean making their service both uneconomical (costs more than USPS, same delivery just as good/bad, darn) and without any advantage. No more Fedex.
Net neutrality would require ISPs to NOT favor one content provider over another, or to not favor one form of content over another. Imagine, as pointed out elsewhere in this thread, that Fox News was purposefully throttled while CNN was not. Well, if your ISP had a deal with CNN, they may have a business reason to do that. If your ISP is your cable TV company, do they have any reason to not permit Hulu, for instance, to send you data as fast and often as, say, their own Internet-based on-demand video service? Or imagine they tell you that you need the more expensive tier of Internet service to reach sites like Disney or Nikelodeon, but somehow they provide their own kid-centered web site in the basic tier? Or do they just sell a tiered service as an 'enhancement', when in fact they are privately throttling sites arbitrarily, to create demand for an 'improved' service? I personally would like to see that regulation be in place that would require ISPs to dislose how and when they throttle or otherwise interfere with data delivery, and under what conditions. My hope would be that in markets where there is more thna one ISP, at least one would offer 'better' service. This would at least for now be cable v DSL, but if a truly useful broadband wireless service comes up, that gives subscribers at last a chance to buy service with an informed judgement on the usefulness and true capability. Letting your ISP throttle silently deprives you of the leverage of information.
Not government control - government regulation, just as they do for any number of other products and services. It can be done.
I don't think of the Daily Kos as 'small' in any way. How do you define that?
You wrote 'grassroots organizations'. I wrote 'grassroots'. Two different things.
"b) Sure as hell aren't political leaders"
Gotta keep fixing these things. The 'real' grassroots gets it. The leaders do too, but they get it put in their wallets. We get it taken out of our wallets.
"GOVERNMENT R BAD, CORPORATIONS R BAD"
At least get it right, ok? Even if it does invalidate your whine.
You can get a second-hand tablet for how much?
I scored an X41 Tablet for about $150 total, with two worn batteries and a busted up stylus. Not a touch screen, but a tablet. Works fine, but that's not $35. I spend more than that for the recovery disk set. Yes, I am that obsessed.
For even $100, this gives Negroponte's dream a run for the money.
India strives for self-sufficiency. It;s not cheap to them, it's affordable and sustainable.
Which is why I suspect the Secret Service either has towers on site, or has the carriers locate them onsite. After this article, I would expect that. Now how to prevent such a hack when the users get off the property.
Oh, wait, surely WH staffers have properly encrypted phones, not just carrier encryption. And those that don't, they must be told to discuss nothing on the phone. Nothing.
"Meanwhile, another Black Hat presenter, Chris Paget plans to demonstrate a completely different way to intercept GSM calls. He's setting up a fake cellular tower that masquerades as a legitimate GSM network.
According to Paget, using open-source tools and a US$1,500 USRP radio, he can assemble his fake tower, called an IMSI (International Mobile Subscriber Identity) catcher. In a controlled experiment, he's going to set one up at Black Hat and invite audience members to connect their mobile phones. Once a phone has connected, Paget's tower tells it to drop encryption, giving him a way of listening in on calls."
Yes, the only question is how to get it to forward calls. A perverse thought is someone plugging a Magic Jack into it, but you probably need something more sophisticated. Like Skype, or Asterick and some SIP minutes. Maybe not even that.
Read Chris's blogs. She's clever. ps - I assume she's a she, she carries a handbag and wears heels, but I'm somewhat limited in my outlook, acording to Chris. I can only tell her how I see it from my frame of reference.
TFA also points out that eavesdropping as 'easy' as making a fake tower, getting phones to connect to it, commanding them to drop encryption, and having enough disk space to save the conversations. Not very expensive, and not very difficult.
So this would work well if you brought a fake tower with you to an event, like a convention or even a press conference, and just gather conversations at will. Setting up a tower near the White House would not be impossible, unless they already understand this and have an onsite tower they can secure. The Secret Service is no doubt already working with this, if not already in place. If VZW or Sprint is their most common carrier, well, those are different standards so this is not the problem.
All said and done, it is not impractical to be able to eavesdrop on GSM phones, though it is nontrivial. Data intercept I don't know a lot about.
"Facebook attorney Lisa Simpson acknowledged on Tuesday that Zuckerberg and Ceglia had worked together on the street-mapping website but said the contract submitted by Ceglia was full of "inconsistencies, undefined terms and things that don't make sense."
Um, as if that means much. If the contract is otherwise legally correct, this is not the defense I would want to be counting on...
"We have serious questions about the authenticity of this contract," Simpson told U.S. District Judge Richard Arcara. "What the contract asserts is there is a relationship about Facebook and there isn't one."
This is the interesting statement. Does Ceglia need a relationship with Facebook, or with Zuckerman? Actually, doesn't he just need a contract?
I'm gonna enjoy this. What a show! Zuckerman is a lawsuit machine!
1. Does the LT paywall have any lessons for the NYT? They plan on doing this in 2011, maybe. And they plan to be blogger-friendly. Ok. I predict the same failure, but I'm not really expected to know.
2. Do you know where the term 'fishwrap' comes from?
Solar cells = electricty.
If you really want to get off solor, you might want to consider Braille. Me, I'm willing to be dependent on solar in any of its forms just to avoid learning Braille.
It's just that easy. Really.
Of course, you had that all along.
This is an 'old' truth. What's the most perishable product the local supermarket sells?
Eggs? Nope.
Lettuce? Nu uh.
Milk? not even close.
Newspapers. They are delivered fresh every morning, and no matter how you store them, they are pretty much useless and unwanted by noon. Afternoon papers. were so perishable they woudl be delivered around 4pm and didn't even get past the dinner hour and useless. By 8pm no one wanted one. The stores made the publishers take them back the next day.
Unless you were moving and needed dishwrap, in which case you could usually buy the Sunday paper for half-price. Cheaper than actual wrapping paper.
They call it fish-wrap for a reason.
So the NYT is finding out not much has changed. The Internet has compressed the news cycle from about 4 hours (breakfast, paper, work, coffee pot, water cooler, lunch, on to the next story) to about 15 minutes (breakfast, email, Google, forwards to friends, blog, done). What we get now is the repetition of the current 's t o r y', and then on to the next one.
I recall knowing a lot of people in local television in the 80s. I spotted a reporterette out with her cameraman onw day downtown, and mentioned that I saw a competing station's crew down the street about 10 minutes ago. She panicked - "OH MY GOD, what did we miss?" Turns out a jewelry shop owner was running for mayor. She already did that story at city hall. But it was competitive. Guess where? The smallest market in the U.S. that had all 4 networks at the time. News has always been competitive. Now it's also more open. The big guys don't have the advantages. You don't need to buy ink by the barrel any more, just by the megabyte.
Technically. Bt it's coercive and threatening.
And the hoster made misleading and possibly false statements. I'm beginning to think their customer has a cause for damages.
But the FBI intended to get the sites taken down. They did their job well.
I assume DHS will be raiding libraries nationwide, removing books on bomb making, explosives, etc?
And of course many chemistry texts, especially those which focus on such experiments?
Then they can go and visit our colleges, universities, and technical schools, so that these institutions can discontinue any teaching of such dangerous and unacceptable subjects?
This is unfortunate and sad, that our Administration would stoop to such an infringement on our First Amendment. Ignore the futility of the act.
Let me repeat. This is a First Amendment violation.
Now the al-Qaeda stuff, if they were posting contact info and such, well, darn. Gotta stop that. No point in aiding and abetting.
But bomb-making by itself isn't a crime is it? I have a few friends that still live in the woods, and they have a bit of fun with blowing stuff up occasionally, like stumps and old cars. It's their property.
We're in trouble.
B-52Gs, nuke bunkers, full boat of ECM. Yeah, an alert base, one of the last I guess.
TAC station was F-4Ds, RF-4Cs, nuke bunkers but no acknowlegement of actual nukes per national policy. TDY was F-4s, A-4s, and we never saw anything but shop and the C-2 that shuttled us. Not as much fun as it sounded when my first sergeant gave me the news. At least I got showers. I didn't fear the one nuke we knew we had.
" I've tremendously enjoyed the Smith/Gillan combo personally."
The Doctor rarely gets so involved with fans. His sidekicks I dunno, though Billie Piper seemed to be a lot of fun UNTIL she met the Doctor. He spoils them all, you know. Something about the Sonic Screwdriver probably. Just a common old screwdriver doesn't seem to make the same impression.
I wish.
It won't include anyone who was ever stationed at a SAC base. I was, and I had merely a Secret clearance, and worked with NoForn-Confidential-Secret systems. I didn't get TS until I went to a TAC base, and that was just so I could go TDY elsewhere. I haven't asked for permission to travel to any of a dozen countries, but this was 30+ years ago, so I bet I could get permission just for the asking. No, Iraq is not one of them.
TS is still pretty exclusive, and just being a cook on a SAC base is not need-to-know. Even being a mechanic in OMS isn't enough. Heck, there were only three shops at our base that had any classified beyond NoForn, and I was in one. No TS there. Now, the pilots and Intelligence, they had some TS clearances, I bet, and my TDY did, but that was just great fun for a young jeep who thought he knew something back then. Thank God they didn't give me little screwdrivers...
When considering threats to our liberties, Constitutional protections, and property, the difference between transnational corporations and "big government" is immaterial and indistinguishable.
Both are to be feared and resisted. Equally. In fact, they act alike, and are too often in collusion.
Trust no one.
"incessant trolling and anonymous slander"
First, newspapers suffered from "incessant trolling and anonymous slander" always. They dealt with it by limiting the number of pages given over to 'letters to the editor'. "incessant trolling and anonymous slander" BY the editors was considered expempt. of course.
Second, North Attleboro (and Mass by extension) is pretty much ALL "incessant trolling and anonymous slander". What the hell are they gonna put up on the blog now? Movie reviews and cat stories? Welcome to the Massachusetts experience. We don't call them 'Massholes' in Maine for no reason.
ps - You can't slander a Massachusetts politician. The truth is an absolute defense.
Hmm... My Cingular/AT&T Sony T637 took ringtones just fine. I could even use MP3s.
But I used floAt's Mobile Agent back then, and it kicks ass. I still have that T637, and after 5 years in a drawer, I take it out once a year, charge it, and it stays in standby for a week. I've dropped my SIM in and made a call. I may never give that phone up, it's my disaster go-to phone in case I brick my G1 or my wife's Curve stb again.
You should have gotten floAt running. Wiked cool. Sort of like BitPim. Do you suppose the Droid X will let ya drop ringtones on it? I can't wait.
Seriously, Motorola fuses the Droid X to prevent tampering with the bootloader, etc, etc. So if you attempt a mod, it bricks the phone?
Ok. Let's roll with this for a moment.
So I buy a Droid X, fulfill my 2-year contract, and I've fulfilled my obligations, paid my bills, and I'm off contract.
Does Motorola or VZW disclose that even after this, the phone is limited to official software rleases, and despite being both out of warranty and fully paid for, it's still 'locked' to official software?
Bogus. If I have paid for it and Moto and VZW have no further obligtation to support it or even repair it at any expense, why would they care? what does it matter to them if I mess with the software?
Well, it's not at all about what happenbs to the phone after contract. It's about the 2-year contract, and that's all.
Since most users ditch their phones after the contract and upgrade at the first opportunity, Moto/VZW have little incentive to accomodate users that keep the phone past the contract. The most obvious reason is to sell a new phone, AND and a new contract. Alternatively, though, why expend any effort to support a phone that is, by marketing, considered obsolete? Let it die, and the users will re-up with a new phone and all. Moto/VZW win, you just keep on paying for a phone no matter what.
And during the contract, Moto/VZW have learned from the Android community that those hacking root and installing custom ROMs is a non-trivial portion of their users. It brings with it support problems (l0sers bricking their fonz), possible network impacts (users bringing up WiFi hotspots and cranking data), and discontent from other users (asking "why don't you give me Android 3.0, the modders have it, I hate you", causing angst and loathing amongs the user community and possibly impacting future sales). Samsung is getting a dose of this for a couple of phones that aren't going to get Android 2.x OTA updates, and T-Mobile risked it with the G1 (my phone) not getting Android 2.x at all. So a big impact here is the fragementation of the user experience, all the reputaitonal damage, and just the complications.
But there is something EVEN MORE SINISTER at play here, and both Motorols and VZW are players well-experienced at this. It's ALL about revenue. That's right, this is about profits. Directly impacting the bottom line.
This is not the first time Moto/VZW have 'conspired' to lock users into their desired experience. Remember the RAZR? Many users could download ringtones and have some fun. But not VZW users. Not only were ringone downloads via USB blocked, but also on Bluetooth. Intentionally. Of course, you could BUY ringtones from VZW. Nice chunk of change, too. This happened with GPS services also, and wasn't limited to VZW.
I do not doubt that 'fusing' the Droid X is in part intended to keep the users on the VZW farm, and prevent them from installing non-Market apps, ROMs, and probably even getting services that VZW would rather you pay for. We'll find out about that very soon.
One more reason for me to avoid Verizon. As if I needed another. And Moto also. Just an in-your-face slapdown, reminding you they have an ownership stake in YOUR phone.
If you can't root it, it's not yours.