They're calling you because they want you to come fix it, personally. They don't want to do anything on their own, even if it's as simple as following verbal instructions over the phone. Users don't want to read an error to you. They either want to continue what they were working on before they were stopped unexpectedly, or continue researching kitten videos on Youtube.
I know the AT&T femtocells have a GPS chip built into them to prevent their use overseas. Can this device be used in another country? I would love to carry one of these with me when I travel to avoid international roaming fees.
Depends on the size of the laptop and where you'll be keeping it. If you're staying in a hotel for a week, you should be OK, but if you're backpacking through hostels, forget it - I hauled a 17" laptop in a backpack through New Zealand a couple of years ago. It was useful for writing blog entries and whatnot, but pointless when you can't find any (free) Wifi. To be honest, my T-Mobile Dash was more useful. I'd type up emails and entries on the phone then save them to the SD card. I'd then take the card to an Internet kiosk and pay for as little Internet as possible, just enough to copy/paste from the card into whatever I was sending to the cloud.
I'm going to make another trip to NZ in the near future, and will probably forgo the laptop this time in favor of my T-Mobile G1.
Not always. It's not legally required, and a lot of websites won't out of privacy concerns. The information would be divulged with a subpoena from a court.
The original poster can file a counternotification to determine that information. If the person who filed the claim does not have the right to control copyright matters for the work in question, the poster would be entitled to damages suffered. However, they'd have a pretty tough time proving a financial loss.
The government does not hold a monopoly on every driving surface on earth. What about private driveways? Unpaved roads? Tunnels? Moreover, why GPS? You can get the same system with a publicly displayed odometer.
If this is ever mandated to be in a vehicle, I'll be wrapping that little bundle of joy in aluminum foil.
Downloading been called no different than shoplifting by members of the music industry - why is it not prosecuted accordingly? This woman lifted $23.76 worth of music. If those were candy bars she'd be slapped on the wrist with a small fine or light jail time.
Could it be? A version of Windows that people might actually get excited about? Here's hoping that Microsoft will create a successor product that the market might actually enjoy and accept willingly, instead of coercing consumers into adopting a product that's arguably inferior to the one it was intended to replace.
As an aside, I can see how this would be useful for travelers and business folk on the go, but multitouch is rather pointless for your average worker doing data entry 8 hours a day.
Not sure what sort of information they're requesting access to, but if any data at all is of a sensitive nature, by supplying a password to them even in a read-only capacity increases your liability if that information is stolen through unauthorized access. Basically, if a third-party somehow acquires that username/password to steal a dump of every firstName, lastName, DOB, and social security number from the database, you could expose yourself to legal trouble for enabling the access in the first place.
I would err on the side of caution and explain you would rather third-party access not exist at all than open yourself up to the risks of unauthorized use of credentials.
I agree. I'm taking Inderal (which itself is a blood pressure medication) off-label specifically to treat a movement disorder. People use it for stage fright because it reduces (and nearly eliminates) the effects of adrenaline on the body. While I do not intend to use it for this purpose, I do have to live with it; I resent the notion that I might take it specifically to enhance my performance.
Deep Freeze is a product put out by Faronics that completely drops all changes made to the machine once the user reboots. You can set aside portions of the drive to retain data, and issue one-time password that expire at midnight should the user find the need to permanently install "undocumented" programs. This allows the user to run with administrative rights and eliminates a significant portion of support calls that I get from users.
Some of the clever abuses I've seen despite this:
-users going nuts during the brief window that their one-time password is valid
-users installing Bittorrent clients to download "legal" material to their data drive. They harvest the data somewhere else (CD, thumb drive, external hd, network share) then reboot the computer, knowing full well that all traces of the install have been eliminated. This can be mitigated by having the machine send a copy of logs to a network share somewhere on logout.
Google sells a GSA to a large agency that happens to be government. Is it news that they've sold identical hardware to other corporations? OH NOES, THE WORLD IS ENDING!
I'm no rocket scientist, but the article cites a concern that this wobbling cause space elevators to become more expensive and difficult to build. OK, I'll give you that adding a thruster system will increase the cost of your project, as feature creep often does, but wouldn't the cost of doing so be vastly exceeded by the very rocket launches that this elevator intends to replace? Wouldn't the costs of added complexity and materials be vastly exceeded by the cost of repeated rocket launches?
A laptop is probably not necessary - have you considered using a PDA or smartphone for your travels? Recently, I carried a T-Mobile Dash with me to New Zealand and went backpacking across the South Island. I use a blog capable of posting entries upon receipt of an email, so I setup a gmail account through the phone and updated my blog via email whenever I hopped on Wifi. That happened surprisingly little over the course of the excursion, so several days worth of emails would get sent out as soon as I found a hotspot to connect to. If you aren't keen on smartphones, a modern PDA will likely do the same with Wifi. The Dash, in particular, has a MicroSD slot that can be used to store large amounts of data (2GB is the most I've put in mine). In addition to taking photos with the Dash, MicroSD's usually come with an adapter to turn them into normal SD cards that can be used in many cameras and card readers. Take pictures with your Dash with the MicroSD, or using a camera with the MicroSD + Adapter. As others have said, it's probably a lot easier (and cheaper, and safer!) to mail SD cards back home than CD's; certainly MicroSD's are excellent in that regard.
I used my Dash every day to write emails, take pictures, and communicate over SMS (and occasionally voice, which I tended to avoid at $2/minute). It handled it fine, provided I charged it nightly. The Dash's battery life sucks though, so you might have better luck with a comparable device. You might also consider using Internet cafes wherever possible to use the Internet - save the text on your phone/PDA to MicroSD, then copy it into your blog from the card once you connect to the cafe internet. It's a great way to avoid lengthy connection charges when you're sending in bursts anyway.
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I'd be pretty cross if they pulled the battery out of my iPhone. They'll void my warranty!
Conficker controls 6.4 million computer systems in 230 countries
Are there even 230 countries in the entire world?
Finally,a use for hellajoules.
They're calling you because they want you to come fix it, personally. They don't want to do anything on their own, even if it's as simple as following verbal instructions over the phone. Users don't want to read an error to you. They either want to continue what they were working on before they were stopped unexpectedly, or continue researching kitten videos on Youtube.
I know the AT&T femtocells have a GPS chip built into them to prevent their use overseas. Can this device be used in another country? I would love to carry one of these with me when I travel to avoid international roaming fees.
Depends on the size of the laptop and where you'll be keeping it. If you're staying in a hotel for a week, you should be OK, but if you're backpacking through hostels, forget it - I hauled a 17" laptop in a backpack through New Zealand a couple of years ago. It was useful for writing blog entries and whatnot, but pointless when you can't find any (free) Wifi. To be honest, my T-Mobile Dash was more useful. I'd type up emails and entries on the phone then save them to the SD card. I'd then take the card to an Internet kiosk and pay for as little Internet as possible, just enough to copy/paste from the card into whatever I was sending to the cloud.
I'm going to make another trip to NZ in the near future, and will probably forgo the laptop this time in favor of my T-Mobile G1.
The implants will control brains in 2021.
Oh yeah, what an asshole. How dare he spend time and money to create something and not give it away! Moocher
Not always. It's not legally required, and a lot of websites won't out of privacy concerns. The information would be divulged with a subpoena from a court.
The original poster can file a counternotification to determine that information. If the person who filed the claim does not have the right to control copyright matters for the work in question, the poster would be entitled to damages suffered. However, they'd have a pretty tough time proving a financial loss.
Useful, practical, and educational. It's more of a power source, though technically I suppose it is a circuit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stirling_engine
Then they just mandate the use of GPS on bicycles. In urban areas they use the road too
FTFA: "'The Chevrolet Volt won't pay a penny of fuel tax,' Rahn said of the electric car that will make its debut next year".
Last time I checked, hybrids still had an ICE in them
The government does not hold a monopoly on every driving surface on earth. What about private driveways? Unpaved roads? Tunnels? Moreover, why GPS? You can get the same system with a publicly displayed odometer.
If this is ever mandated to be in a vehicle, I'll be wrapping that little bundle of joy in aluminum foil.
Downloading been called no different than shoplifting by members of the music industry - why is it not prosecuted accordingly? This woman lifted $23.76 worth of music. If those were candy bars she'd be slapped on the wrist with a small fine or light jail time.
Could it be? A version of Windows that people might actually get excited about? Here's hoping that Microsoft will create a successor product that the market might actually enjoy and accept willingly, instead of coercing consumers into adopting a product that's arguably inferior to the one it was intended to replace.
As an aside, I can see how this would be useful for travelers and business folk on the go, but multitouch is rather pointless for your average worker doing data entry 8 hours a day.
Like Paris Hilton on a pineapple?
Handling broken glass is bad enough, now we have engineered nano-shards of it? I hope nobody falls or steps on these
First of all, I am not a lawyer. YMMV, etc...
Not sure what sort of information they're requesting access to, but if any data at all is of a sensitive nature, by supplying a password to them even in a read-only capacity increases your liability if that information is stolen through unauthorized access. Basically, if a third-party somehow acquires that username/password to steal a dump of every firstName, lastName, DOB, and social security number from the database, you could expose yourself to legal trouble for enabling the access in the first place.
I would err on the side of caution and explain you would rather third-party access not exist at all than open yourself up to the risks of unauthorized use of credentials.
I agree. I'm taking Inderal (which itself is a blood pressure medication) off-label specifically to treat a movement disorder. People use it for stage fright because it reduces (and nearly eliminates) the effects of adrenaline on the body. While I do not intend to use it for this purpose, I do have to live with it; I resent the notion that I might take it specifically to enhance my performance.
Deep Freeze is a product put out by Faronics that completely drops all changes made to the machine once the user reboots. You can set aside portions of the drive to retain data, and issue one-time password that expire at midnight should the user find the need to permanently install "undocumented" programs. This allows the user to run with administrative rights and eliminates a significant portion of support calls that I get from users. Some of the clever abuses I've seen despite this: -users going nuts during the brief window that their one-time password is valid -users installing Bittorrent clients to download "legal" material to their data drive. They harvest the data somewhere else (CD, thumb drive, external hd, network share) then reboot the computer, knowing full well that all traces of the install have been eliminated. This can be mitigated by having the machine send a copy of logs to a network share somewhere on logout.
Google sells a GSA to a large agency that happens to be government. Is it news that they've sold identical hardware to other corporations? OH NOES, THE WORLD IS ENDING!
I'm no rocket scientist, but the article cites a concern that this wobbling cause space elevators to become more expensive and difficult to build. OK, I'll give you that adding a thruster system will increase the cost of your project, as feature creep often does, but wouldn't the cost of doing so be vastly exceeded by the very rocket launches that this elevator intends to replace? Wouldn't the costs of added complexity and materials be vastly exceeded by the cost of repeated rocket launches?
Note to self: no more sex in the living room.
A laptop is probably not necessary - have you considered using a PDA or smartphone for your travels? Recently, I carried a T-Mobile Dash with me to New Zealand and went backpacking across the South Island. I use a blog capable of posting entries upon receipt of an email, so I setup a gmail account through the phone and updated my blog via email whenever I hopped on Wifi. That happened surprisingly little over the course of the excursion, so several days worth of emails would get sent out as soon as I found a hotspot to connect to. If you aren't keen on smartphones, a modern PDA will likely do the same with Wifi. The Dash, in particular, has a MicroSD slot that can be used to store large amounts of data (2GB is the most I've put in mine). In addition to taking photos with the Dash, MicroSD's usually come with an adapter to turn them into normal SD cards that can be used in many cameras and card readers. Take pictures with your Dash with the MicroSD, or using a camera with the MicroSD + Adapter. As others have said, it's probably a lot easier (and cheaper, and safer!) to mail SD cards back home than CD's; certainly MicroSD's are excellent in that regard. I used my Dash every day to write emails, take pictures, and communicate over SMS (and occasionally voice, which I tended to avoid at $2/minute). It handled it fine, provided I charged it nightly. The Dash's battery life sucks though, so you might have better luck with a comparable device. You might also consider using Internet cafes wherever possible to use the Internet - save the text on your phone/PDA to MicroSD, then copy it into your blog from the card once you connect to the cafe internet. It's a great way to avoid lengthy connection charges when you're sending in bursts anyway.