Had mine repaired here and it's been working great since.

There's a design defect with the fire, IMO. I've not have nearly that problem with my other devices, and my phone is 5-6 years old.

Had mine repaired here and it's been working great since.

There's a design defect with the fire, IMO. I've not have nearly that problem with my other devices, and my phone is 5-6 years old.

We're getting to the point that, if given the choice between a random stranger and the NSA, I'd trust the stranger more.

We talking VNC or RDP? Whether RDP can be significantly improved--I don't know. However, I also find it happens to work very well, even across large distances. There is some lag, but very manageable with US-based ISP's. If you have a low latency, high bandwidth network, thin clients work just like a local desktop to any normal human being for word and web-browsing.

VNC, on the other hand, does not work this way. Despite having very low latency and high bandwidth, my VNC connection from just inside my house is terrible. There's significant lag and other problems. Across wide network links? It's horribly painful to use.

I'm not sure if you were describing the state of RDP or VNC, but given the article is about VNC, there's a tremendous amount of improvement that is possible in that protocol. RDP demonstrates this. We should realize this and make VNC closer (or better) than RDP.

Wait, according to wikipedia[1]:
"the bill would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, require abortion clinics to meet the same standards that hospital-style surgical centers do, and mandate that a doctor who performs abortions have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital"

This is a right wing agenda bill? These seem like VERY reasonable medical protections for women, and a fetus' viability starts around 23 weeks...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Davis_(politician)#2013_filibuster

Yeah, and then Xavier Bestel says:
Eh .. way too late :)

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/11/06/058249&mode=thread&tid=106&tid=185&threshold=4


/. Dupe!

While physical goods are inherently limited, digital goods can be limited artificially.

For instance:
1) the only reason the phoenix mount in WoW has value is that it's hard to get and people want it. Blizzard could make the supply endless, but chooses not to.
2) Furthermore, the reason items have significant value in Eve Online is that developers manage an economy which artificially limits supply.
3) Similarly, "cold hard cash" is limited in "real life" in the same way.

The government could easily print 1,000,000,000,000,000,000 bills and give them out to every US citizen, and the value of the US dollar would plummet.

The supply of a good can be limited by something other than the physics of the natural universe.

http://www.pcgamer.com/2012/10/22/eve-online-lost-cargo/
http://www.gamebreaker.tv/mmorpg/eve-online-battle-costs-thousands/

Yes, clearly:
1) "girlintraining" is a "dude"
2) GPS usage in every cellphone I've seen drains battery fast. I don't care what can be designed--the reality is GPS receivers in phones do drain battery fast
3) girlintraining has plenty of good constructive input, and it's very welcome here. That doesn't mean she's been right in every one of her posts, in fact, I've had a few horribly inaccurate posts of my own, as nearly everyone does.


Yes, I know I just fed the troll, but I felt it needed to be said, if only to let girlintraining know that there are some people who find many of her posts engaging and educational.

This is the reason why the fourth and fifth amendments exist. The fourth/fifth amendments does not exist for the purpose of protecting criminals. The fourth/fith amendments exist to protect innocent citizens from otherwise accidentally incriminating themselves. If it's extremely dangerous (and often incriminating) to speak to the police for a few hours in an interrogation, imagine what the police could do with years worth of email conversation.

This is how it works:
1) The government suspects you of a crime (rightly or wrongly)
2) The government looks up your email history to try to find something with which to convict or embarass you (do you honestly think that if you have years of email conversations that there's not SOMETHING in there that could do this?)
3) The government uses that as leverage against you

Remember, most people "don't have anything to hide", and therefore don't care that much about their privacy. The problem is that most Americans commit 3 felonies a day, and therefore, by definition do have something to hide, even IF they've done nothing wrong intentionally.

If you think it can't happen to you, think again. They searched for years and eventually found something to prosecute him with.

Seriously, watch the first video. 15 minutes now could very well save you from a life of jail, if the police come knocking.

As someone who works in biometrics, it's actually even easier than this. You're already rescanning the finger/iris/hand geometry/whatever when you verify or identify a user. When you have a successful identification or verification, you average the current stored template with the slight variations in the newly captured template. That way the templates gradually adjust over time without an explicit "re-scan" or re-enrollment of the user.

It's called adaptive templates, and it avoids this specific problem. Some of the biometrics do this, others do not... but it's easily done.

For users who enroll and then do not use the system for an extended period of time (years), there's a chance that they'll need re-enrollment. However, that doesn't happen often and if it does, it's not that hard to re-enroll them.

Have you ever read a 1040? It's already encrypted...

Here's a link to GS3, actually. They made some major fixes to its flaws and renamed it Gemstone IV.

https://www.play.net/gs4/

Note: I still play it, as Lothsahn. Still fun!

Mod parent up.

The RT-N16 doesn't have dual-band capability. Getting 62Mbit (my internet download speed) on 2.4 GHZ can be challenging, but it's not a problem on 5Ghz. For internal transfers, the 5GHZ goes even faster. I work from home--paying an extra $60 for my setup really isn't that big of a deal to me. Over a 5 year lifetime, that's $12/yr and I kept my last router for 12 years...

The $60 pays for a second transmitter and antennas on the 5GHZ band. Worth it to me.

The ASUS RT-N66U is rock solid stable using Toastman Tomato. I've been running it for 3 months with no crashes, lockups, dropped connections, or other problems. Unfortunately, it's $170, not under your $100 pricepoint. I got mine on sale with a free USB HD, so it was really like $120 at the time. It's also nearly impossible to brick.

I also have experience with the WNR3500Lv1, which has worked great for me (stable for years with no lockups). I see it's listed for $60 at Amazon, however, there is a new v2 hardware out which is VERY different from the v1, and software support is radically different. If you could get your hands on an old WNR3500Lv1, it'll work great. If you order a new one, you'll probably get a v2, which is NOT what you want. It's not dual-band, though.

The RT-N66U appears to be what most of the Tomato devs use, so that's what I would recommend. To me, it's worth the extra $$, as I plan on keeping it for many years and the 5Ghz gives me great speeds in my house (62Mbit reliable at pings only 2ms slower than wired).