as i have had my house broken into, i can say that the only thing i can thank the criminals for was leaving my printer, because if they havent, i would have caught them. Thats right, i caught them.
they literally stole everything from my downstairs while i was sleeping upstairs, i came down stairs and everything that could be plugged in was stolen, i am a photographer and they stole $3000 worth of camera kit, 2 laptops, my home server with every picture i had ever taken on it, its two monitors and keyboard and mouse, my 42 plasma TV and my xbox 360 and all its games and controllers; roughly $8000 was stolen from me while i slept. the cops came, gave me useless self defense tips and left me there. they had stolen my wallet,ALL of my car keys, house keys and a few folders from my desk that had all my back up ID in it.
BUT they had left my printer! and it had a scanner! and a copier! and plenty of ink and paper. so i went to hand writing descriptions of EVERYTHING that was stolen, giving serial numbers when i could and as accurate as possible descriptions. i made about 20 copies and got someone to watch the house while i was out, found a ride and canvased every camera shop, computer repair and pawn dealer in the area. if i couldnt get them a copy i called them with the things that would most likely turn up.
three days later, a camera shop about 20 miles away in the next state called me to let me know that the police had just arrested two men trying to sell my camera kit. This shop i had been to a few times that year, and i had called them with serial numbers and descriptions the day before! they are a reputable dealer and called the cops...the suspects were arrested in the spot. but they couldnt hold them despite the fact the one guy was on parole. they claimed that they got the stuff from their "cousin" and didnt know it was stolen. they also had "my" xbox in their car...
so about a week later, i got yet another call, a computer repair 4 MILES FROM MY HOUSE, one that i go to everyfew weeks that i had delivered a list of stolen stuff to personally had called the cops...this time the SAME GUYS (really) had my server. It was pretty clear why they needed to visit a computer repair. they had tried to wipe the BIOS and were successful (mostly likely to because they felt that would deactivate services like LoJack the live in the BIOS) but because of my very particular hard drive setup, it wouldnt boot into windows, and i guess they didnt want to commit piracy or didnt know want Ubuntu is so they tried to recover my windows install from the hard drive.
Long story short, they got arrested on the spot. this time in Illinois, where the guy was supposed to be on house arrest. funny thign was that the cops wont search the guys house on the grounds the "his mother is helping them out" although nothing else of mine has turned up. funny thing is that i know they at least still had my xbox because the one that the cops recovered only had my hard drive, so when the cops powered it up they say the profile i told them about and hence CASE CLOSED. it wasnt my xbox. Mine had HDMI, this one was older and did not. i told the police and they said "its your xbox, it has your profile". Microsoft also agreed and said that i you just cant move the hard drive around (Microsoft could also tell me where my console is if some has gone online with it, but they wont without a subpoena) . it feels alot like the movie Changeling...people trying to pawn of some other kid on me.
Also i just could have my server back, pictures weren't good enough and the needed something to present to evidence so they wanted to keep my server, of course, it was the only computer i had at this point, and it had everything i needed to keep my business up and running so i REALLY needed it. i asked if i could take its hardware and leave the case. so on a hot day i had to go to the county jail with my two kids, a philips, my multitool and a big box to the county jail and take my whole computer apa
so does calling me a troll make your statement more effective? no it does not. and its clear you dont know how comcasts dnssec works, otherwise you wouldnt sound like a sony fanboy on the defensive.
i am right. you are wrong. even comcast says thats how their dnssec works. now kindly stfu.
lolwut? you clearly dont even know how it works....a DOMAIN KEY IS CHECKED AGAINST COMCASTS RECORDS TO VERIFY THE WEB ADDRESS. if it doesnt resolve, then you get gangbanged by ads. why am i not surprised that even comcast doesnt know how comcast's service work.
Gimmicks do not make the movie better
Simulating an extra dimension does not make the film more fun, it just adds an extra level of hassle to something you should just be able to sit down and enjoy.
If you are the guy that goes to 3d movies, stop it. You are just making it worse for everyone.
I I dont wear regular glasses....So I am not bitching about headaches. I just want to see an nice big screen with a nice bright picture. Not a bunch of bullshit gimmicks "flying" out of the screen because I am too lazy to go to another theatre with cheaper tickets or too stupid to care.
God damn this 3d shit really grinds my fucking gears.
i have to agree after doing some reading that this is k4 and not Buran. i was confused by the headline as well because i knew that Buran was destroyed. i guess when you come across a FREAKING SPACE SHUTTLE and you know that Russia only had one successful one then its the first thing to think.
Wikipedia says that it is "Partially dismantled, remains outside Tushino Machine Building Plant, near Moscow." It is sad to know that something pretty much as awesome as that is just sitting outside, but if thats how things are then i guess the only thing i could hope for would be to get to Russia so i can crawl around inside of it.
one thing i have noticed is that google maps stores the voice cache right at the top of the SD card in its own folder. so anyone with an SD card reader can plug in your phone and listen to the voice prompts for your route. i am sure that it using the same kind of caching for screens....but you dont need to be a "hacker" to find the voice prompts.
actually its a multi-processor phone. and the main processor is clocked down from 1.2GHZ. it has a GPU and application coprocessor that should take some of the heat off the CPU. i am excited about this phone, i just wish it had a row of number keys on the keyboard.
doesnt seem that hard....if you are running a business and you see ANY kind of squatter, walk up to them, tell them (or maybe post a clear set of rules or time limits AND ENFORCE IT) and kick people out when there time is up. every Panera Bread has free Wifi and they also have a clear set of rules posted. Honestly, TFA talks about being "disconnected" but they wont even walk up to these squatters and kick them out. instead of trying to preserve "the atmosphere" maybe they should be more concerned with maintaining services AND evicting deadbeats. Just eliminating a service seems like a lazy and spineless way to claim that you are being "unique" and preserving an specific atmosphere
What do they do about people like me that bring their own modem (and then turn on its router) and use my own UNRESTRICTED network? would they let me sit there all day and nurse a coffee for hours because they dont have have the balls to tell me to leave?
I agree with an earlier comment about putting dd-wrt on it if you can. but also put it on your new router too. Then setup QoS, connect your routers together and let people outside of your network have a sandbox with free internet. just set the QoS super low (like 100kbps down and 10kbps up) so it doesnt affect your day to day use. your neighbors will appreciate it and your router will like not being thrown away
well thats the thing and always has been. there is no profit in computer sales. i worked at BB for three years and learned that every time i sold a computer. it was always about the accessories and services. One time i got dragged back into in office and given a warning about my salesmanship because I helped a customer make their computer package better. They had bought $2000 worth of computer and $2500 of accessories (printers, cables, ink...all kinds of stuff). however i got yelled at because i swapped a piece of "learning place" software for a router, they had the same dollar value, but of course the router was less profit. But that wasn't the issue the REAL problem was that it lowered our stores daily sales numbers when applied to other Best Buy stores in the area (not against competing stores).
I was instructed time and time again to "walk" customers if they weren't getting additional accessories or services, and at least once a day i did. So even though we weren't "on commission", something we were told to tell every customer, that didnt matter because we treated everyone like we were.
i know these stories are told every time an article about Best Buy pops up, i just wish more people could hear them. It has never been about providing "exceptional products and services in a user friendly environment", it has ALWAYS been about the fact that BB loses money when they sell computers without attachments.
Actually, no payload is expendable, whether it be school teachers or satellites. When your truck can randomly explode with the brightness of the sun, any loss is a bad loss.You think that people wont be up in arms if an ARES V fails and loses 75 tons of supplies, satellites, science equipment or ANYTHING else. especially compared to the shuttles payload of about 25 tons. it would be like losing the dollar value of three shuttle payloads.
and about your "easier to retrieve" comment, i dont think that there has been any reason to separate the shuttle from the SRB's/fuel tank...ever. And even the ARES system doesnt allow for NASA to "pull" the crew module form the unlaunched SRB.
And about those SRB's...i think those were actually the problem with the Challenger, not the cargo or the crew. I dont know if you have really looked into ARES I, but it is nothing but an SRB with a crew module on top. Even Werner Braun Vaughn thought i was a bad idea to send people in to space on SRB's.
And again, the HL-20 isnt practical because its not cost effective to build a few multi-use vehicles, as opposed to using the cheap, reliable Soyuz or another variant.
I see how decrypting a phone call could be cool...if this was 1985 and i wanted to brag to my friends on BBS about it. I know it wouldnt be impossible but how difficult would it be to follow one user around all day with surveillance equipment waiting for them to make one phone call. i guess the thing to do would be to set up shop around a busy work place and setup a piece of hardware to log ALL of the GSM data traffic (text, net, and other packets) until you have a harddrive full of information. At some point you would luck out and get some poor schmoes passwords and dirty text messages.
or is that the actually concern.
there is a story floating around about terrorist using $26 software to watch the video feeds from UAV's. Basically they can do this because no one wants to spend the money to make the hardware and software secure...so the terrorist win. But the only people affected by this dont have any recourse against the government if they are killed because of intercepted information. But god forbid that my BFF Jill has her facebook password intercepted and stolen via text, because this will result in an endless series of lawsuits that will never fix the problem.
This doesn't have anything to doe with global government, they could care less (they are always one subpeona (if you are lucky) from ALL of your personal data). This comes down to the fact that, for what its worth, GSM encryption worked well enough, it was reliable, and most importantly, it had payed for itself.
So now, the real concerns is how can they replace it before GSM providers start getting their asses sued off, and how cheaply can they do it.
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as i have had my house broken into, i can say that the only thing i can thank the criminals for was leaving my printer, because if they havent, i would have caught them. Thats right, i caught them.
they literally stole everything from my downstairs while i was sleeping upstairs, i came down stairs and everything that could be plugged in was stolen, i am a photographer and they stole $3000 worth of camera kit, 2 laptops, my home server with every picture i had ever taken on it, its two monitors and keyboard and mouse, my 42 plasma TV and my xbox 360 and all its games and controllers; roughly $8000 was stolen from me while i slept. the cops came, gave me useless self defense tips and left me there. they had stolen my wallet,ALL of my car keys, house keys and a few folders from my desk that had all my back up ID in it.
BUT they had left my printer! and it had a scanner! and a copier! and plenty of ink and paper. so i went to hand writing descriptions of EVERYTHING that was stolen, giving serial numbers when i could and as accurate as possible descriptions. i made about 20 copies and got someone to watch the house while i was out, found a ride and canvased every camera shop, computer repair and pawn dealer in the area. if i couldnt get them a copy i called them with the things that would most likely turn up.
three days later, a camera shop about 20 miles away in the next state called me to let me know that the police had just arrested two men trying to sell my camera kit. This shop i had been to a few times that year, and i had called them with serial numbers and descriptions the day before! they are a reputable dealer and called the cops...the suspects were arrested in the spot. but they couldnt hold them despite the fact the one guy was on parole. they claimed that they got the stuff from their "cousin" and didnt know it was stolen. they also had "my" xbox in their car...
so about a week later, i got yet another call, a computer repair 4 MILES FROM MY HOUSE, one that i go to everyfew weeks that i had delivered a list of stolen stuff to personally had called the cops...this time the SAME GUYS (really) had my server. It was pretty clear why they needed to visit a computer repair. they had tried to wipe the BIOS and were successful (mostly likely to because they felt that would deactivate services like LoJack the live in the BIOS) but because of my very particular hard drive setup, it wouldnt boot into windows, and i guess they didnt want to commit piracy or didnt know want Ubuntu is so they tried to recover my windows install from the hard drive.
Long story short, they got arrested on the spot. this time in Illinois, where the guy was supposed to be on house arrest. funny thign was that the cops wont search the guys house on the grounds the "his mother is helping them out" although nothing else of mine has turned up. funny thing is that i know they at least still had my xbox because the one that the cops recovered only had my hard drive, so when the cops powered it up they say the profile i told them about and hence CASE CLOSED. it wasnt my xbox. Mine had HDMI, this one was older and did not. i told the police and they said "its your xbox, it has your profile". Microsoft also agreed and said that i you just cant move the hard drive around (Microsoft could also tell me where my console is if some has gone online with it, but they wont without a subpoena) . it feels alot like the movie Changeling...people trying to pawn of some other kid on me.
Also i just could have my server back, pictures weren't good enough and the needed something to present to evidence so they wanted to keep my server, of course, it was the only computer i had at this point, and it had everything i needed to keep my business up and running so i REALLY needed it. i asked if i could take its hardware and leave the case. so on a hot day i had to go to the county jail with my two kids, a philips, my multitool and a big box to the county jail and take my whole computer apa
so does calling me a troll make your statement more effective? no it does not. and its clear you dont know how comcasts dnssec works, otherwise you wouldnt sound like a sony fanboy on the defensive.
i am right. you are wrong. even comcast says thats how their dnssec works. now kindly stfu.
lolwut? you clearly dont even know how it works....a DOMAIN KEY IS CHECKED AGAINST COMCASTS RECORDS TO VERIFY THE WEB ADDRESS. if it doesnt resolve, then you get gangbanged by ads. why am i not surprised that even comcast doesnt know how comcast's service work.
but i want people to call me for a good time...but i dont want them to know who i am....i'll just write that my name is Jenny....
Gimmicks do not make the movie better
Simulating an extra dimension does not make the film more fun, it just adds an extra level of hassle to something you should just be able to sit down and enjoy.
If you are the guy that goes to 3d movies, stop it. You are just making it worse for everyone.
I I dont wear regular glasses....So I am not bitching about headaches. I just want to see an nice big screen with a nice bright picture. Not a bunch of bullshit gimmicks "flying" out of the screen because I am too lazy to go to another theatre with cheaper tickets or too stupid to care.
God damn this 3d shit really grinds my fucking gears.
geek humor...ruining it for everybody.
i do find it ironic that in an article about a learning robot that they have a summary typo.
thats a great idea! until other retailers....
start doing the same thing
customers stop asking questions and just pay for it.
this has less to do with best buy charging fee and more to do with ethical behavior.
instead of calling them backups shouldnt they be called BLACKUPS?
i have to agree after doing some reading that this is k4 and not Buran. i was confused by the headline as well because i knew that Buran was destroyed. i guess when you come across a FREAKING SPACE SHUTTLE and you know that Russia only had one successful one then its the first thing to think.
Wikipedia says that it is "Partially dismantled, remains outside Tushino Machine Building Plant, near Moscow." It is sad to know that something pretty much as awesome as that is just sitting outside, but if thats how things are then i guess the only thing i could hope for would be to get to Russia so i can crawl around inside of it.
get it? its a play on words.
one thing i have noticed is that google maps stores the voice cache right at the top of the SD card in its own folder. so anyone with an SD card reader can plug in your phone and listen to the voice prompts for your route. i am sure that it using the same kind of caching for screens....but you dont need to be a "hacker" to find the voice prompts.
actually its a multi-processor phone. and the main processor is clocked down from 1.2GHZ. it has a GPU and application coprocessor that should take some of the heat off the CPU. i am excited about this phone, i just wish it had a row of number keys on the keyboard.
doesnt seem that hard....if you are running a business and you see ANY kind of squatter, walk up to them, tell them (or maybe post a clear set of rules or time limits AND ENFORCE IT) and kick people out when there time is up. every Panera Bread has free Wifi and they also have a clear set of rules posted. Honestly, TFA talks about being "disconnected" but they wont even walk up to these squatters and kick them out. instead of trying to preserve "the atmosphere" maybe they should be more concerned with maintaining services AND evicting deadbeats. Just eliminating a service seems like a lazy and spineless way to claim that you are being "unique" and preserving an specific atmosphere
What do they do about people like me that bring their own modem (and then turn on its router) and use my own UNRESTRICTED network? would they let me sit there all day and nurse a coffee for hours because they dont have have the balls to tell me to leave?
what does the gansta specta of da beat have to do with this?
uhhh...actually they already do . I die a little inside thinking of people that buy that stuff.
I agree with an earlier comment about putting dd-wrt on it if you can. but also put it on your new router too. Then setup QoS, connect your routers together and let people outside of your network have a sandbox with free internet. just set the QoS super low (like 100kbps down and 10kbps up) so it doesnt affect your day to day use. your neighbors will appreciate it and your router will like not being thrown away
You're not allowed to install any device that interferes with the deployment of the air bag.
in all fairness. it is an i"pad", and pad are generally soft. plus this one is magical!
wow... a typo...really? thats the best you can do. so i am done here.
wow that was kind of an asshole response.
you can assume you didnt read anything else i read, so just STFU.
well thats the thing and always has been. there is no profit in computer sales. i worked at BB for three years and learned that every time i sold a computer. it was always about the accessories and services. One time i got dragged back into in office and given a warning about my salesmanship because I helped a customer make their computer package better. They had bought $2000 worth of computer and $2500 of accessories (printers, cables, ink...all kinds of stuff). however i got yelled at because i swapped a piece of "learning place" software for a router, they had the same dollar value, but of course the router was less profit. But that wasn't the issue the REAL problem was that it lowered our stores daily sales numbers when applied to other Best Buy stores in the area (not against competing stores).
I was instructed time and time again to "walk" customers if they weren't getting additional accessories or services, and at least once a day i did. So even though we weren't "on commission", something we were told to tell every customer, that didnt matter because we treated everyone like we were.
i know these stories are told every time an article about Best Buy pops up, i just wish more people could hear them. It has never been about providing "exceptional products and services in a user friendly environment", it has ALWAYS been about the fact that BB loses money when they sell computers without attachments.
your comment made me lol.
Actually, no payload is expendable, whether it be school teachers or satellites. When your truck can randomly explode with the brightness of the sun, any loss is a bad loss.You think that people wont be up in arms if an ARES V fails and loses 75 tons of supplies, satellites, science equipment or ANYTHING else. especially compared to the shuttles payload of about 25 tons. it would be like losing the dollar value of three shuttle payloads.
and about your "easier to retrieve" comment, i dont think that there has been any reason to separate the shuttle from the SRB's/fuel tank...ever. And even the ARES system doesnt allow for NASA to "pull" the crew module form the unlaunched SRB.
And about those SRB's...i think those were actually the problem with the Challenger, not the cargo or the crew. I dont know if you have really looked into ARES I, but it is nothing but an SRB with a crew module on top. Even Werner Braun Vaughn thought i was a bad idea to send people in to space on SRB's.
And again, the HL-20 isnt practical because its not cost effective to build a few multi-use vehicles, as opposed to using the cheap, reliable Soyuz or another variant.
Combo Breaker!
I see how decrypting a phone call could be cool...if this was 1985 and i wanted to brag to my friends on BBS about it. I know it wouldnt be impossible but how difficult would it be to follow one user around all day with surveillance equipment waiting for them to make one phone call. i guess the thing to do would be to set up shop around a busy work place and setup a piece of hardware to log ALL of the GSM data traffic (text, net, and other packets) until you have a harddrive full of information. At some point you would luck out and get some poor schmoes passwords and dirty text messages.
or is that the actually concern.
there is a story floating around about terrorist using $26 software to watch the video feeds from UAV's. Basically they can do this because no one wants to spend the money to make the hardware and software secure...so the terrorist win. But the only people affected by this dont have any recourse against the government if they are killed because of intercepted information. But god forbid that my BFF Jill has her facebook password intercepted and stolen via text, because this will result in an endless series of lawsuits that will never fix the problem.
This doesn't have anything to doe with global government, they could care less (they are always one subpeona (if you are lucky) from ALL of your personal data). This comes down to the fact that, for what its worth, GSM encryption worked well enough, it was reliable, and most importantly, it had payed for itself.
So now, the real concerns is how can they replace it before GSM providers start getting their asses sued off, and how cheaply can they do it.
uhhh...i hate to rain on your parade...but isnt "3 or 4" dropped calls pretty much around your own quoted number of 30%?