Posts by Eddy Ito 4662 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Apr 2007
I don't know, I was kind of thinking it was only a million dollars. Come on, for a start-up in San Francisco that obviously needs to hire a couple of people, especially a good security goo-roo, a million smacks is going to burn up faster than Skylab deorbiting.
I mean it's only a million dollars. Did anyone even notice when Facebook had a million bucks? Why is everyone paying attention to a little yo-yo? Put it another way, you can pay 10 guys a salary, benefits and taxes for about year but you still haven't paid the rent in San Francisco (a smart start-up lives in Idaho or Colorado where it's cheap) - what million dollars?
Actually no, there are five who work out of San Jose. The others are Davila, Jensen, Freeman and Whyte. Note that Judge Freeman only joined the group this year. Now notice the dates of those stories and the seniority of the Judge in question.
Is there forever going to be some AnonHole asking this question every time a case involving Koh crops up?
The salvage parts business is high hanging fruit as breaking a phone down is a good amount of work when you're trying to save as many "valuable" parts as you can. There's just no money in selling parts, consider screens are available on amazon for under $40 with free shipping and there are dozens of companies selling them in bulk on sites like alibaba for cheap money.
There are days when I wish they offered residential DSL so I could ditch my crappy Verizon line. What do you say John? How about a nice T-Mob mimo ofdm mofo olsr ospf phased array 802.11ya wifi mesh to the home?
Yeah, I had a few extra buzzwords (buzzacronyms?) that I had to use by the end of the day, and...?
If you look closely at the bottom left corner you can see part of Tim's original copyright mark just below the one added which wrongly attributes the copyright. Even if WhoSay was sent a cropped copy, someone must have noticed the remaining text and wondered where it came from because it's clearly different from a time/date stamp on a digital camera.
Excellent point. I also note the survey said "energy" and I'd wager the results would be considerably different if it said things people relate to like heat, electricity, auto fuel, postage, shipping, transportation and food. Energy is that big broad brush that few would grasp the extent of the meaning even if they do recognize that they use it daily.
I don't need to volunteer on that front Skippy as I've already been swatted so I already know much fun it isn't. But yes, it would have been a lot more pleasant and less costly all around if the cops did show up at the door and politely rang the bell. No instead I get tossed from a sound sleep to the sound of crashing wood and screaming armed thugs in uniform. So yes, you're DAMN right I prefer police treat people like dignified individuals when they are basing their smash and bash raid on the bovine excrement of some confidential informant or worse the "anonymous call"!
No, no, Skippy tell me how stressful it was for the guy wearing full body armor behind the badge and carrying a select fire M4 while the rest of us folks who were sleeping wearing next to nothing had no reason to worry while their liberty and property was being violated because the thugs in blue are from the government and are only here to help. How dare I ask WTF is going on with a jack boot pressed firmly down on my left shoulder? All I can say is the cops should lay off the 'roids and caffeine and just perhaps consider the veracity of the source.
Now then, run along and buy a clue. Later you can ask yourself why police departments all around the country are being militarized even in sleepy little hamlets. Nah, never mind. Keep on guzzling that kool-aid Skippy, the thin blue line is there to back you up. To hell with the victims of swatters and their tools; did I mention there Skippy that the SWAT team is just one of the swatters tools? I'd say you should think about it but I'm sure your mind is already made up.
You're aware that swatting is named for the police Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) units that are sent out and perform a paramilitary assault on the victim. It has nothing to do with being interwebby and more to do with the militarization of the police and their eagerness to play commando instead of starting with a more reasoned response.
We've had armed robots like MAARS for a while now so how is this a big deal? Can it really be long before someone straps a 12 ga. shotgun, flare gun, spear gun, crossbow, etc. to a quad-copter with remote view? Heck, they can do that now. I know, you're thinking that at least some of these are single shot deals but unless it's one mighty quad-copter they're all single shots.
My best guess is that they have a new thermal fluid for heat transfer. Previously the best you could do was 340 - 350 ºC on the high end so that would diminish a bit on the working end. That doesn't quite reach the threshold needed. I assume this means they have something that heats the steam to 570 ºC on the steam side of the working end which is a substantial boost in the high end on the transfer side and may provide the needed boost over the edge to make a substantial gain in conversion efficiency. If they are pulling if off, major kudos but I have to ask, how'd they get there?
I look forward to reading deeper into this discovery. Is it a newer thermal transport medium? I can only hope.
Actually I think pigs here in the US are leaner. The difference in the bacon is due to what part of the pig it's from. Canadian bacon is from the loin only, UK bacon is typically both loin and belly, which is often called back bacon in the US and finally US bacon is belly only. The mostly difference in the cut is what determines whether it's chewy or crispy. Of course then there are also several kinds of Chinese pork products that are from similar cuts.
Between the loin and belly it's a rather versatile hunk-o-hog. Hmmm, all this talk is making me hungry. Now if I only knew of a place to get gua bao at this hour.
Let me join the "it depends" camp. For typical unfancy cross-platform backups I'm running fwbackups. I've also recently used GParted Live, Redo Backup & Recovery, Clonezilla, Amanda and rsync depending on who needs, and is comfortable with, what. All have their advantages, disadvantages, focus and strengths. As you may have guessed, I tend toward the oss solutions but that's mostly because I've been bitten the arse more than once when a proprietary package decides to change formats for no good reason.
In a way those other tips were also in the SEAL Commander's speech. Out of his ten points two were "keep moving forward" and "be resourceful and innovative" which combined could be thought of as "don't go bankrupt" and instead of "keep your staff on your side" he said to "find the right people to help you" which is a slightly different take on the same theme. In all, I thought it a good speech but I liked the "You're not special" speech from Wellesley High School a year or two back a little better.
With that said, "failure" and "quit" are words that are both lauded and reviled at the same time. Seriously, am I a failure because I quit smoking? Let's toss in another idiom while we're here - 'timing is everything' or as Carl Lewis put it "life is about timing". Combine the three and we get something more realistic that says failure is not knowing when to quit. At some point it all comes down to spin, as Edison said: "I have not failed. I've just found 10000 ways that won't work."
The "swipe to unlock" patent, 8046721, is a utility patent and not a design patent. Let's have a look at that first claim and see if MS is in violation, shall we?
What is claimed is:1. A method of unlocking a hand-held electronic device, the device including a touch-sensitive display, the method comprising: detecting a contact with the touch-sensitive display at a first predefined location corresponding to an unlock image; continuously moving the unlock image on the touch-sensitive display in accordance with movement of the contact while continuous contact with the touch screen is maintained, wherein the unlock image is a graphical, interactive user-interface object with which a user interacts in order to unlock the device; and unlocking the hand-held electronic device if the moving the unlock image on the touch-sensitive display results in movement of the unlock image from the first predefined location to a predefined unlock region on the touch-sensitive display.
Is a Windows Phone is a hand-held electronic device - check. Touch-sensitive display - check. Method which involves continuously sliding the image of the WP8 lock-screen 'upward' in which the image is moved from covering the whole screen to a point where about half the screen is uncovered - fits nicely with the rest of claim 1 so, check.
Seems pretty clear, WP8 violates at least claim 1 and it wouldn't be hard to argue it violates several other claims as well. Could it be that they merely are throwing everything they have at certain 'enemies' and giving the better armed ones a free pass? Seems only smart.
I would imagine they would put the speaker on the inside of the wrist so the user merely looks to have a headache which would also account for why they are speaking to unseen voices.
"No, I can't do that now. [...] You don't understand I'm on a bus with 50 people, how do you expect me to... [...] yes [...] yes [...] Oh very well but this is all just going to be a bloody mess!"
Since when did cops start investigating accidents again? Last year a friend was rear ended on CA 60 which totaled his car. When he called the police they asked if anyone was hurt, he said no and their reply was to exchange information and call a tow truck along with a reminder he had to fill out an accident report within some number of days. They were emphatic that they don't send an officer unless someone is injured.
you're not going to be able to remove all the sensors in your new Ford C-MAX Hybrid Energi.
Ah, but I don't need to. I only need to neuter it's ability to make like ET. That is to say it has to communicate this data somehow and it won't be long before the local garage finds he has two kinds of customers. There will be the ones who don't care what happens to the data and ones who do and will likely be willing to pay call it a $35 fee for cutting the comms link and disabling the "black box".
Hell, you can get devices to reprogram car chips for better performance now, how hard could it be to set another few bits to 0? So ok, maybe we'll have to first jailbreak our cars but I'm not aware of any other device where that has proven to be an unsolvable problem.
It will likely be something like: "You turn the key to 'On', then 'Off', back to 'On' then 'Acc'. Then, within 5 seconds, simultaneously press and hold radio button 5 and the unlock button on the fob until you hear three quick door ajar chimes indicating the system is unlocked."
The real customers are those paying the remaining 2/3 of the price... service providers and other personal data "monetizers".....and they call the shots....
So you're saying the monthly bill doesn't include the loan/rent for the hardware itself and the $200-500 fee for opting out of the contract early is really because it is such a hassle tweaking the network to account for the change. You must be a laugh riot at parties.
Any of our American friends care to enlighten me on what the thinking is with this one?
When I was a wee lad, or some time thereabout, the general form was: 'as if I could care' or regionally 'because I could care?'. Over time these became commingled with 'I couldn't care less' and was shortened to become multiple distinct forms. One being, as you point out, the incorrect 'I could care less'. Ather being the much more terse and unclear 'as if' or 'because' which went on to carry multiple yet slightly different meanings. Today 'as if' generally addresses something claimed by someone else being short for "As if you could [do what was claimed]". The single word question 'because?' is a short form of "Are you telling me this because I could care less?" which implies the person telling you must think you could or should care and in the case of the latter they should get to the point of explaining why.
All of that said, I've used all forms in different situations with different people as each conveys a slightly different mood. One generally wouldn't say 'as if' to the boss and it's most often reserved to tweens and teens, well perhaps the t[w]eens of yesteryear.
Disirregardlessly, in the end it's a flammable inflammable topic.
4) Things are pretty cheap in China.
What many of these recent articles don't say is they are talking about Purchasing Power Parity based GDP not the more general GDP which has the US at about twice that of China. I'll leave the argument over which is a more betterer metric to the "experts".
Am I senior enough? I reckon so as I have several senior moments every day. I'd be happy to attend your fancy dress soirée. I've never been to the London Hotel in Soho so this should be a treat. Now then, be a good lad and fetch me a cuppa before my nap. I have to be well rested for when those nice folks from the London Soho registry stop by. Oh since you're up, would you mind handing me a sweater, it's getting a bit chilly.
@Stuart 22
I like to print things like my boarding pass before I head to the airport myself but I've never carried a printer and I've gone more places than just home and the office. I check where I'm staying on the other end ahead of time and the guesthouses I use all have a printer. Often it's an older office model they picked up second hand and frequently it's a parallel model attached via a network dongle but is still quite serviceable and I've never had a problem with IPP or LPD. Doubt any of those printers or their dongles were Chromed.
Also, I have checked in via gprs using my ancient Nokia as a modem because while the guesthouse had a networked printer their internet connection had been down for a number of weeks. Yes, I could have checked in at the airport but why change over a trivial speed bump.
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