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Comment CradlePoint MB1000/Kyocera KR2 + EVDO card (Score 1) 438

by BrianRaker (#29445619) Attached to: (Near) Constant Internet While RV'ing?

...works great for me. I have my EV-DO Kyocera KPC680 (Verizon) card with me everywhere and a Kyocera KR2 camps out in the car with its requisite DC-DC power adapter. Install a nice high-gain antenna (Wilson [eBay] has some decent +9/+13dB gain antennas for EV-DO/1xRTT and GSM/W-CDMA/UMTS bands) on the roof of the RV and make sure you have a decent groundplane if your roof is fiberglass (no worries if it is aluminum) and you should be fine for something like 95% of US roads traveled (you will drop to 1xRTT/EDGE in some areas, but 3G (EV-DO/W-CDMA/UMTS) is pretty well covered on most interstate routes, based on Verizon and at&t's service maps).

For Canada... I'm not too sure there as I'm a Yank and have not had a need to visit our friends to the north yet. You might be able to get a roaming data plan that includes Canada from your US cellular provider though.

FWIW, I work for Kyocera International, parent company of Kyocera Wireless.
The Internet

Submission + - Happy birthday, Internet!

Submitted by NobodyExpects
NobodyExpects writes: I'd like to wish a happy birthday to the Internet! Today marks it's 40th birthday! In fall 1969, computers sending data between two California universities set the stage for the Internet, which became a household word in the 1990s. On September 2nd 1969, in a lab at the University of California, Los Angeles, two computers passed test data through a 15-foot gray cable. Stanford Research Institute joined the fledging ARPANET network a month later; UC Santa Barbara and the University of Utah joined by year's end, and the internet was born.
Security

Submission + - FBI investigating laptops sent to US governors (idg.com.au)

Submitted by
angry tapir
angry tapir writes: "The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation is trying to figure out who sent five Hewlett-Packard laptop computers to West Virginia Governor Joe Mahchin a few weeks ago, with state officials worried that they may contain malicious software. According to sources familiar with the investigation, other states have been targeted too, with HP laptops mysteriously ordered for officials in 10 states. Four of the orders were delivered, while the remaining six were intercepted, according to a source who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation."
The Internet

Submission + - Sweden Bans "b", "a", "n", (circleid.com) 1

Submitted by netczar
netczar writes: According to a report by Patrik Fältström, Sweden's regulatory body, PTS, has notified the country's top-level domain registry .SE (The Internet Infrastructure Foundation) to blacklist sequence of characters 'b', 'a', 'n', and 'k' in all domain name registrations under the .se domain. Patrick writes: 'This is, as people know (except PTS obviously), is not how domain name registration works. Instead, one is strengthening the dispute resolution process so that it is more well known what will happen if some infringement is happening. Next step is of course to have more terms than 'bank' be added to this black list. Like registered trademarks in the world, and other terms. For example everything in Wikipedia!'

Comment Re:Cars (Score 2, Informative) 665

by BrianRaker (#27894701) Attached to: Alienware Refusing Customers As Thieves

Actually, it's Dell as a whole. I recently put in a call to Dell for support on a Latitude D820 that now fails to boot. It's covered under warranty for another year but Dell refuses to work on it because I'm not listed as the purchaser or authorized agent for the system. My business bought this system through an employee (via a reimbursement) who no longer works with the organization. I don't have any reasonable way to have this ex-employee 'vouch' that I own the system.

Whatever happened to the days where I could just give them my Express Service Code and actually get help instead of getting accusations of theft?
Security

A Cyber-Attack On an American City 461

Posted by timothy from the if-by-one-day-you-mean-already dept.
Bruce Perens writes "Just after midnight on Thursday, April 9, unidentified attackers climbed down four manholes in the Northern California city of Morgan Hill and cut eight fiber cables in what appears to have been an organized attack on the electronic infrastructure of an American city. Its implications, though startling, have gone almost un-reported. So I decided to change that."
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - Jack Thompson Disbarred, Permanently (gamepolitics.com) 1

Submitted by BrianRaker
BrianRaker writes: Thanks to GamePolitics for breaking the story, it looks like the Florida Supreme Court has affirmed Jack Thompson's permanent disbarment from practicing law. This change takes place in 30 days, and will prohibit him from practicing law, or ever reapplying to the bar, for ever.

Of course, Jack rebutts with his typical "Now The Fun Begins" rhetoric. Will this really be the end of Jack Thompson? We can only hope so, but my Magick 9-Ball says "Signs point to No".
XBox (Games)

Ghost in the Shell, Other Anime Coming to Xbox Live 49

Posted by Zonk from the aeria-gloris dept.
Joystiq is reporting that a large slice of the catalog for anime distributor Starz will be coming to Xbox Live. Some of their titles are already available via the service, while others will be placed into circulation in the coming months. High profile new content includes the stellar Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (Series 1 and 2), Read or Die, Macross Plus, Tokko, Virus, and X.
It's funny. Laugh.

Submission + - God Sued Over Pestilence And Terror 1

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A Nebrasken Court is being asked to make the ultimate judgement on the ultimate judge himself; God. Although there is some debate as to his, or indeed, her sex. According to the prosecutor, the accuased is guilty 'for causing "fearsome floods, egregious earthquakes, horrendous hurricanes, terrifying tornadoes, pestilential plagues" and other alliterative catastrophes.' Neither God nor his/her spokespersons could be contacted for comment. http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20070919/tod-us-justice-religion-offbeat-f62056d_1.html
Linux Business

Submission + - No Wine for Dell's Prebundled Linux Machines

Submitted by UCSF Geek
UCSF Geek writes: Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu Linux, does not want to position Ubuntu and Linux as a cheap alternative to Windows. As such, Dell will not include open-source software such as Wine, which lets users run Windows programs on Linux, with the PCs it plans to bundle with Ubuntu, he tells eWeek here(http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2125848, 00.asp). He goes on to say that "while Linux is an alternative to Windows, it is not cheap Windows. Linux has its own strengths, and users should want it because of those strengths and not because it's a cheap copy of Windows."
Software

Submission + - How Do You Convert Video For Flash Automatically?

Submitted by
JiveBay
JiveBay writes: "I'm sure Google and YouTube use some kind of script and application on the server that converts an uploaded video into a FLV. But I've yet to hear about what application they use to do so. I'm not sure of any Linux Application that converts video for Flash, because I can't see Google using Windows machines to do this, but I could be wrong. Google also states they say they manually view each video after it is submitted. I'm thinking that the person that watches these probably does so in fast forward, to cut their time down."
IBM

Submission + - Another Lenovo battery recall

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Lenovo has announced yet another ThinkPad battery recall — this time Sanyo batteries.
Worms

Submission + - Rinbot Worm Wreaks Havoc on Business Systems

Submitted by Scott Tracy
Scott Tracy writes: As reported by CNN Money, some major businesses in the U.S. are being hit by a worm that was apparently created by someone with a grudge against Symantec. This is also happening in Canada, where my company (which has hundreds of Windows PCs) has been completely off the Internet for days as IT tries to wipe the worm from every desktop and laptop.

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