I've got the same story with microsoft. I had a damaged xbox one that I tried to get repaired at a local shop they didn't have the parts to repair it. So I sent it in to microsoft. But since they broke the warranty seal to find they didn't have the parts microsoft would not repair it at any price. Ended up mailing it to Pro Console Repair in texas. Works great now but what's wrong with doing out of warranty work? Iirc if you disassembled your curta calculator years ago the manufacturer was happy to reassemble it for you for the low price of $300.
You've got to trust someone especially if you're replacing the part yourself. That's about as secure as it gets.
Now if I send it in to apple so it can be imaged and they can rummage through my contacts list after they fix my broken screen that's probably more secure right?
No I don't think apple actually does that but still yet If you didn't fix it yourself you will never know what's been done to it will you?
Well If I broke my keyboard I wouldn't be able to login to my computer either... But I've got more than a half dozen spare keyboards on hand so that's not an issue. Not being able to use a another keyboard because the original had a security key set by MomCorp would be awful.
Someone could place a sniffer in the device. Seriously? Now tell me if its so secure why is it that apple itself can replace the part when no one else can.
Yeah! They should have never started selling 1TBps fiber connections. We wouldn't have all these holovideos, remote windows and HD video ads that can't be muted. Most people don't even have their own computers anymore they just buy these mini-terminals and pay $10/mo applecorp for time on the applecore mainframe system.
Yep If no one had ever bothered to build the infrastructure lots of things like youtube, netflix, remote surgeons, drones, video calling and working from home wouldn't be possible today.
But yeah we could have just stayed in the dark on dialup and still had facebook and everyone would just have ascii art for their profile pic..
Only reason I have an account is to communicate with companies that don't have their own login system.
I'm on my second account now my first one was locked. Apparently I fell awry of their real name policy. For some reason they didn't believe my name was ikate facebork.
No its "Amazon Instant Video" The Martian was $4.99 for SD 30 days to start but only 48 hours to finish imho a 2 1/2 hour movie should have at least a 72 hour window. I pirated the $4.99 with no rush shipping credits.
Whats really stupid about this is that a lot of the time the dvd is cheaper than buying a digital copy even when the DVD includes a digital copy. Used dvds are in the $1 to $2 range where I live so even the digital rentals look rather high.
I was just trying to fill in the blank as the summary said "compared to" without actually giving anything for comparison. Is ITER cheaper, more expensive or the same? Tfs did not say.
Now that netflix is killing the majority of movie piracy in the united states. I've got a great idea let's genericize the meaning of piracy it's easy just replace I got it for free with "pirated"
Instead of saying I watched The Martian on amazon instant video for free using no rush shipping credits.
Say I watched The Mation on amazon instant video pirated using no rush shipping credits.
Or last week I pirated a drink with my big mac and fries.
Or I watched a movie on netflix uk in the us pirated with a VPN.
Next week we can expand on used merchandise so instead of I bought a used dvd of Reefer Madness for $1 We can say I pirated a dvd of Reefer Madness for $1
In all seriousness there does seem to be a war going on with the used media market especially when it comes to digital copies.
Also a lot of movies aren't available to rent online eg: guardians of the galaxy I'd like to see it but not for $15 I'd be happy with a $5 SD 48hr rental tho.
~cost about $5 billion, compared to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), the world's largest tokamak fusion reactor due to go online and begin producing energy in 2027. Which "is now expected to cost at least $21 billion and won't turn on until 2020 at the earliest." Cite: http://www.sciencemag.org/news...
Also worth noting is that ITER was also originally expected to only cost 5 billion to build.
Iirc after sandy people were looting the grocery stores of canned goods and perishables not that there was anyone there to pay.... But if offline transactions can be made that should be able to handle it even after a hurricane there should be no shortage of cars or car cellphone chargers.
Now if we're talking a emp then yeah you best be using a non digital currency.
Like I said earlier afaik offline transactions cannot be done with any of the current digital currency's but some commercial services do allow offline transactions already eg:Square.
Just to be clear by offline I mean with no internet connection. Some payment providers think it to mean transactions done in person.
While the USD reliably looses a bit of value every year due to inflation bitcoin can halve, quarter, double or quadruple its value in the same time its neither stable or consistent.
This doesn't make it unusable but I sure wouldn't want my savings in bitcoin at this point in time.
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Sounds like a reimplementation of the telecrapper.
tho the telecrapper is over 10 years old now I can understand how people would forget..
http://www.engadget.com/2005/0...
http://myplace.frontier.com/~p...
http://soundbytes.org/forums/t...
I've got the same story with microsoft. I had a damaged xbox one that I tried to get repaired at a local shop they didn't have the parts to repair it. So I sent it in to microsoft.
But since they broke the warranty seal to find they didn't have the parts microsoft would not repair it at any price.
Ended up mailing it to Pro Console Repair in texas. Works great now but what's wrong with doing out of warranty work?
Iirc if you disassembled your curta calculator years ago the manufacturer was happy to reassemble it for you for the low price of $300.
You've got to trust someone especially if you're replacing the part yourself. That's about as secure as it gets.
Now if I send it in to apple so it can be imaged and they can rummage through my contacts list after they fix my broken screen that's probably more secure right?
No I don't think apple actually does that but still yet If you didn't fix it yourself you will never know what's been done to it will you?
Well If I broke my keyboard I wouldn't be able to login to my computer either... But I've got more than a half dozen spare keyboards on hand so that's not an issue. Not being able to use a another keyboard because the original had a security key set by MomCorp would be awful.
Someone could place a sniffer in the device. Seriously? Now tell me if its so secure why is it that apple itself can replace the part when no one else can.
Yep we do.
My problem is At&t.
They want to run VoIP over my DSL line over my POTS line.
Sounds reliable don't it?
Yeah! They should have never started selling 1TBps fiber connections. We wouldn't have all these holovideos, remote windows and HD video ads that can't be muted. Most people don't even have their own computers anymore they just buy these mini-terminals and pay $10/mo applecorp for time on the applecore mainframe system.
Yep If no one had ever bothered to build the infrastructure lots of things like youtube, netflix, remote surgeons, drones, video calling and working from home wouldn't be possible today.
But yeah we could have just stayed in the dark on dialup and still had facebook and everyone would just have ascii art for their profile pic..
We have to dial 1 to make a long distance call and have to dial the area code even for local calls but pulse dialing still works here in oklahoma.
Actually they started this a couple months before it changed hands.
Still yet they should always put a link somewhere in the summary.
Iirc 90% of all windows computers running in china are non-genuine.
Actually since I started complaining about it today http://it.slashdot.org/comment... There has been two posts by Yaelk.
Still it would be a very short page.
yeah the mobile version is pretty much worthless.
I've noticed that. It doesn't do it all the time but when it does it's a serious PITA.
Right next to the title https://torrentfreak.com/googl...
Hopefully they will go back to putting links in the summary shortly.
Only reason I have an account is to communicate with companies that don't have their own login system.
I'm on my second account now my first one was locked.
Apparently I fell awry of their real name policy. For some reason they didn't believe my name was ikate facebork.
Thanks for posting! Timothy was about to drive us all nuts.
Whipslash on feb 2nd asking for suggestions on how to make /. better. Other than that no idea.
Bot or no timothy is not making the best choices on story selection...
Hopefully someone trip on his cord or accidentally unplug him while cleaning.
Every story on the last three pages was posted by you.
Please let someone else post something.
Everyone else please post something!
Here i'll start Amit Singhal, the longstanding chief of Google Search operations is leaving google after 15 years. http://www.wired.com/2016/02/a...
No its "Amazon Instant Video" The Martian was $4.99 for SD 30 days to start but only 48 hours to finish imho a 2 1/2 hour movie should have at least a 72 hour window. I pirated the $4.99 with no rush shipping credits.
Whats really stupid about this is that a lot of the time the dvd is cheaper than buying a digital copy even when the DVD includes a digital copy. Used dvds are in the $1 to $2 range where I live so even the digital rentals look rather high.
I was just trying to fill in the blank as the summary said "compared to" without actually giving anything for comparison. Is ITER cheaper, more expensive or the same? Tfs did not say.
Now that netflix is killing the majority of movie piracy in the united states.
I've got a great idea let's genericize the meaning of piracy it's easy just replace I got it for free with "pirated"
Instead of saying I watched The Martian on amazon instant video for free using no rush shipping credits.
Say I watched The Mation on amazon instant video pirated using no rush shipping credits.
Or last week I pirated a drink with my big mac and fries.
Or I watched a movie on netflix uk in the us pirated with a VPN.
Next week we can expand on used merchandise so instead of I bought a used dvd of Reefer Madness for $1
We can say I pirated a dvd of Reefer Madness for $1
In all seriousness there does seem to be a war going on with the used media market especially when it comes to digital copies.
Also a lot of movies aren't available to rent online eg: guardians of the galaxy I'd like to see it but not for $15 I'd be happy with a $5 SD 48hr rental tho.
~cost about $5 billion, compared to the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), the world's largest tokamak fusion reactor due to go online and begin producing energy in 2027. Which "is now expected to cost at least $21 billion and won't turn on until 2020 at the earliest."
Cite: http://www.sciencemag.org/news...
Also worth noting is that ITER was also originally expected to only cost 5 billion to build.
Iirc after sandy people were looting the grocery stores of canned goods and perishables not that there was anyone there to pay.... But if offline transactions can be made that should be able to handle it even after a hurricane there should be no shortage of cars or car cellphone chargers.
Now if we're talking a emp then yeah you best be using a non digital currency.
Like I said earlier afaik offline transactions cannot be done with any of the current digital currency's but some commercial services do allow offline transactions already eg:Square.
Just to be clear by offline I mean with no internet connection.
Some payment providers think it to mean transactions done in person.
While the USD reliably looses a bit of value every year due to inflation bitcoin can halve, quarter, double or quadruple its value in the same time its neither stable or consistent.
This doesn't make it unusable but I sure wouldn't want my savings in bitcoin at this point in time.
I would like to be able to adjust the displayed comment size so when gnaa decides to post it doesn't take up two pages.
I like browsing at -1 a lot of stories on here just don't get that many comments.
Also I would like a way to search my own comments.
An option to set the default text type. Although I may have just not found that one yet. I always use plain old text.