So store it on the card, and record it on the buses computer. Download the bus whenever it returns to the depot. Update the balance nightly from on a database. Flag cards that come back with a discrepancy at recharge time. If a card has a negative balance (i.e. tampered or spoofed), blacklist it. download the blacklist to the bus regularly.
Wait, I should patent that. Method and apparatus for a tamper resistant NFC fare card system.
Arguably Competition between governments is not a free market, as they collude in their own interests with some of the other members, for example OPEC, NATO, the old Warsaw pact. They also lobby and influence smaller players. This leads to what is largely an oligopoly of several large blocs and very small powerless players.
Good god - how idiotic does an OS have to be, to run executables from any media you happen to insert?
Not idiotic, just outdated. When Windows XP was released, way back in 2001, the assumption was that removable media was going to be a pressed CD or DVD and that these sources could be trusted. This assumption started to break down with the advent of cheap CD/DVD writers, and became completely absurd when inexpensive flash drives proliferated.
Autorun comes from Windows 95. Worth noting that cd writers were pretty cheap in 1998.
Perhaps those drinking 3 cups a day are more likely to be in jobs where they are virtually chained to a desk, so they rarely see the sun and thus less skin cancer.
The cynic in me says that even if it is a simple patch and recompile for existing android devices, we will never see it from any OEMs--it takes away some of the reason to buy the latest shiny.
Here's hoping for the community android rebuilds...
I just wish they would add bluetooth profiles to the iPad for microphone headsets and mice, although the latter I only want with RDP apps, although I think it might be handy if you were using a full-screen editor, too.
Of course there's no BT profile for BT microphone headsets and mice. This is consistent with Apple practice. - A microphone headset would let you make private calls with VOIP apps, which might mean less calls on your iphone, or even not need your iphone at all if properly implemented. - A mouse might allow development of apps which would require you to use your macbook less and/or not even buy a macbook in the first place.
Usually the problem isn't the left turning vehicle in the intersection when the light turns yellow, but the 3 or 4 other vehicles who pile in after them after the yellow. This shortens the time if the cross street has an advance left turn signal, thus leading the left turning drivers from the cross-street to do the same. Ad infinitum.
Thats the point though- this would theoretically be perpetrated by the cable providers, and they attempt to recoup all of their lost tv revenue via increased internet costs.
Comcast already did it without usage based billing- I have internet only and they jacked it up to $70/month from $40, if I bought a internet + tv package it'd be $75.
Canadian cable provider Shaw posted their new rate plans for internet only (were to start in November).. same thing, there was basically no difference between internet only and internet+cable in cost. I said "see ya!" and switched to a dsl provider at a substantial discount to the new internet rates.
You have to go deep into the Shaw cable website to find the real internet package pricing -- on their main page they proudly announced "29.95" for "Broadband 50". Going into the details:
INTRODUCTORY OFFER
For 6 Months $29.95/mo Bundled Price $59.00/mo Standalone Price $74.90/mo
There are some older packages available, not well advertised, and probably to be deleted in the future. Still, basic internet (when you find it on their site) is $42.50 a month with TV, and $52.50 a month without. That's at least $10 more than basic DSL service around here.
Complaining that nuclear cannot be profitable without government subsidies is just a little ironic given that every "green" "renewable" source has the same fate.
But that you say things like the governments have no money since the corporations took over, and joining that with actually trying to reference the Guardian... well, you're just a kook anyway.
Same goes for oil, gas, and coal--if it's owned by the people and held in trust by the state, as is typical for minerals and oil, but only a small fraction is charged in royalty to the extractor, that Is also a form of subsidy.
While 3dfx clung to a crippled OpenGL interface in favor of GLIDE, MesaGL on windows could run Quake 3 with graphical acceptability on twin voodoo2 cards, whereas 3dfx's driver that they refused to update would have ugly white boxes everywhere there was partial transparency used.
Don't forget the Black Box recording in modern cars that rat you out to police, insurance companies, and the car companies themselves on items that are none of their business such as how fast you drive, and how long before the collision it was that you braked. You certainly didn't knowingly agree to this in buying your last car, yet it's common for your opponents to be able to get this data after an accident, insurance claim, even a vehicle warranty issue. THIS SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED WITHOUT YOUR EXPLICIT CONSENT.
You car doesn't call the cops and rat you out for speeding; the data only gets pulled after a serious collision with airbags deployed. At that point it's a legitimate criminal investigation and not simply a matter of privacy.
Now that google has got all the free data they need, they can shut down the service and encourage people to buy more smartphones. It's really a shame, but not unexpected from any company; I was hoping for better from google.
Figures, just after I convinced my father to stop using the telco 411 (and paying the $$$) and to use GOOG-411.
Effectively in Canada there are two national providers.
Bell and Telus use the same frequencies, in fact they have sharing agreements across the country. Rogers / Fido is the other one, same company, different brands.
The new carrier, Wind Mobile, is only operating in Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Ottawa, and Vancouver. They are filling a role like Fido did before Rogers bought them. They run on the same frequency as T-Mobile's 3G network in the USA.
All these carriers use Sim cards.. most phones will run on Bell/Telus/Rogers (850 range), but some will run on all four (Nokia 5230 for example).
I'm on Bell Mobility in Canada (until July 2009 when I can change without penalty) and not only do we have the listed voice mail annoyances, we also pay $6 each a month for caller id and voicemail. Also there is no trick that a caller can use to skip the greeting. If you record your own, it appends "At the tone, leave your message" anyways.
Did I mention we have to pay about $20 more a month on average (even after currency conversion)?
Wouldn't a great way to spread democracy in Cuba, be to try to get the fastest, highest speed internet to their citizens, so they can hear about all the terrible deeds of their government?
Honestly, average number of pockets in a suit and dress pants or cargo pants: 7. Include a vest with the cargo pants and I can roll that up to about 14 pockets. Assuming you carry your keys and wallet, that leaves room for your napkin, i-pod, cell phone, a random 3 ft chord (lets just say ethernet), blackberry and deck of Magic: The Gathering.
I remember how excited all the nerds on/. were around 1998 about this, and then every subsequent year thereafter when another "breakthrough" on the path to the ultimate breakthrough was announce. If I recall correctly, the space elevator was supposed to be functional in 10 years from 1998.
I do wonder where all the money went. Will this be on one of those specials on Discovery Channel?
Some kids are just really good at it. I saw one on the train who could average 1 word per second. It's something that I could never do, but I bet that if most of us on/. grew up with text messaging, we could do it too.
I bought a Toshiba A100-TA9 laptop, with the promise of a free upgrade. When I go to the upgrade site, after I select the country (Canada), I am presented with blank drop-down boxes to select the current version I have. I assume this is due to multiple language versions (English and French) in Canada. Email to support is entirely unhelpful.
At the beginning of January, the form was working, but the server would time out at the very end.
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Free as in beer, or free as in gnu?
So store it on the card, and record it on the buses computer. Download the bus whenever it returns to the depot. Update the balance nightly from on a database. Flag cards that come back with a discrepancy at recharge time. If a card has a negative balance (i.e. tampered or spoofed), blacklist it. download the blacklist to the bus regularly.
Wait, I should patent that. Method and apparatus for a tamper resistant NFC fare card system.
Arguably Competition between governments is not a free market, as they collude in their own interests with some of the other members, for example OPEC, NATO, the old Warsaw pact. They also lobby and influence smaller players. This leads to what is largely an oligopoly of several large blocs and very small powerless players.
Good god - how idiotic does an OS have to be, to run executables from any media you happen to insert?
Not idiotic, just outdated. When Windows XP was released, way back in 2001, the assumption was that removable media was going to be a pressed CD or DVD and that these sources could be trusted. This assumption started to break down with the advent of cheap CD/DVD writers, and became completely absurd when inexpensive flash drives proliferated.
Autorun comes from Windows 95. Worth noting that cd writers were pretty cheap in 1998.
Perhaps those drinking 3 cups a day are more likely to be in jobs where they are virtually chained to a desk, so they rarely see the sun and thus less skin cancer.
The cynic in me says that even if it is a simple patch and recompile for existing android devices, we will never see it from any OEMs--it takes away some of the reason to buy the latest shiny.
Here's hoping for the community android rebuilds...
No microphone headset or bt mouse profile
I just wish they would add bluetooth profiles to the iPad for microphone headsets and mice, although the latter I only want with RDP apps, although I think it might be handy if you were using a full-screen editor, too.
Of course there's no BT profile for BT microphone headsets and mice. This is consistent with Apple practice.
- A microphone headset would let you make private calls with VOIP apps, which might mean less calls on your iphone, or even not need your iphone at all if properly implemented.
- A mouse might allow development of apps which would require you to use your macbook less and/or not even buy a macbook in the first place.
Usually the problem isn't the left turning vehicle in the intersection when the light turns yellow, but the 3 or 4 other vehicles who pile in after them after the yellow. This shortens the time if the cross street has an advance left turn signal, thus leading the left turning drivers from the cross-street to do the same. Ad infinitum.
Thats the point though- this would theoretically be perpetrated by the cable providers, and they attempt to recoup all of their lost tv revenue via increased internet costs.
Comcast already did it without usage based billing- I have internet only and they jacked it up to $70/month from $40, if I bought a internet + tv package it'd be $75.
Canadian cable provider Shaw posted their new rate plans for internet only (were to start in November).. same thing, there was basically no difference between internet only and internet+cable in cost. I said "see ya!" and switched to a dsl provider at a substantial discount to the new internet rates.
You have to go deep into the Shaw cable website to find the real internet package pricing -- on their main page they proudly announced "29.95" for "Broadband 50". Going into the details:
INTRODUCTORY OFFER
For 6 Months
$29.95/mo
Bundled Price
$59.00/mo
Standalone Price
$74.90/mo
There are some older packages available, not well advertised, and probably to be deleted in the future. Still, basic internet (when you find it on their site) is $42.50 a month with TV, and $52.50 a month without. That's at least $10 more than basic DSL service around here.
Complaining that nuclear cannot be profitable without government subsidies is just a little ironic given that every "green" "renewable" source has the same fate.
But that you say things like the governments have no money since the corporations took over, and joining that with actually trying to reference the Guardian... well, you're just a kook anyway.
Same goes for oil, gas, and coal--if it's owned by the people and held in trust by the state, as is typical for minerals and oil, but only a small fraction is charged in royalty to the extractor, that Is also a form of subsidy.
While 3dfx clung to a crippled OpenGL interface in favor of GLIDE, MesaGL on windows could run Quake 3 with graphical acceptability on twin voodoo2 cards, whereas 3dfx's driver that they refused to update would have ugly white boxes everywhere there was partial transparency used.
Chrome should allow you to close a tab and anything else attached to it, at any time. The current situation is unacceptable from a user's POV.
Chrome? Can't you use the Shift-Esc built in Chrome task manager and kill the window?
Don't forget the Black Box recording in modern cars that rat you out to police, insurance companies, and the car companies themselves on items that are none of their business such as how fast you drive, and how long before the collision it was that you braked. You certainly didn't knowingly agree to this in buying your last car, yet it's common for your opponents to be able to get this data after an accident, insurance claim, even a vehicle warranty issue. THIS SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED WITHOUT YOUR EXPLICIT CONSENT.
You car doesn't call the cops and rat you out for speeding; the data only gets pulled after a serious collision with airbags deployed. At that point it's a legitimate criminal investigation and not simply a matter of privacy.
Works well unless you're in Canada. Then any city in Alberta is "Calgary, is that right?" and any city in Ontario is "Toronto, is that right?"
Now that google has got all the free data they need, they can shut down the service and encourage people to buy more smartphones. It's really a shame, but not unexpected from any company; I was hoping for better from google.
Figures, just after I convinced my father to stop using the telco 411 (and paying the $$$) and to use GOOG-411.
Effectively in Canada there are two national providers.
Bell and Telus use the same frequencies, in fact they have sharing agreements across the country.
Rogers / Fido is the other one, same company, different brands.
The new carrier, Wind Mobile, is only operating in Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto, Ottawa, and Vancouver. They are filling a role like Fido did before Rogers bought them. They run on the same frequency as T-Mobile's 3G network in the USA.
All these carriers use Sim cards.. most phones will run on Bell/Telus/Rogers (850 range), but some will run on all four (Nokia 5230 for example).
For a second I thought this would be about some cruel and unusual punishment in a third-world country.
I'm on Bell Mobility in Canada (until July 2009 when I can change without penalty) and not only do we have the listed voice mail annoyances, we also pay $6 each a month for caller id and voicemail. Also there is no trick that a caller can use to skip the greeting. If you record your own, it appends "At the tone, leave your message" anyways.
Did I mention we have to pay about $20 more a month on average (even after currency conversion)?
Wouldn't a great way to spread democracy in Cuba, be to try to get the fastest, highest speed internet to their citizens, so they can hear about all the terrible deeds of their government?
I think you meant under 20,000.
I think you meant under 10,000.
I wonder if there's a market for selling low UID accounts.
The default install of Windows Vista Home is no difference than the way Ubuntu is set-up with respect to the user account and default permissions.
Honestly, average number of pockets in a suit and dress pants or cargo pants: 7. Include a vest with the cargo pants and I can roll that up to about 14 pockets. Assuming you carry your keys and wallet, that leaves room for your napkin, i-pod, cell phone, a random 3 ft chord (lets just say ethernet), blackberry and deck of Magic: The Gathering.
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So what pocket do you carry the condom in?
oh wait, this is
I remember how excited all the nerds on /. were around 1998 about this, and then every subsequent year thereafter when another "breakthrough" on the path to the ultimate breakthrough was announce. If I recall correctly, the space elevator was supposed to be functional in 10 years from 1998.
I do wonder where all the money went. Will this be on one of those specials on Discovery Channel?
Some kids are just really good at it. I saw one on the train who could average 1 word per second. It's something that I could never do, but I bet that if most of us on /. grew up with text messaging, we could do it too.
I bought a Toshiba A100-TA9 laptop, with the promise of a free upgrade. When I go to the upgrade site, after I select the country (Canada), I am presented with blank drop-down boxes to select the current version I have. I assume this is due to multiple language versions (English and French) in Canada. Email to support is entirely unhelpful.
At the beginning of January, the form was working, but the server would time out at the very end.