KB3NZQ - Slashdot User

Comment Re:then are they going to internet connection (Score 1) 313

by KB3NZQ on Sunday March 21, 2010 @10:12AM (#31557330) Attached to: Every British Citizen To Have a Personal Webpage

And I pay about $20 a month for DSL from verizon, while my grandparents pay $100 a month for FiOS from verizon. Prices vary place to place, and tend to go up the better service you get. I'm not really seeing what point you are trying to make here... My confusion might have something to do with my not being able to understand a damn thing you are saying in the second half of that line though.

Regardless, the shittiest of dialups would be plenty for paying bills online, and if you can't afford that then you have some serious issues.

this guy had dialup and he hardly ever got on line cause it cost too much

Comment Re:then are they going to internet connection (Score 1) 313

by KB3NZQ on Saturday March 20, 2010 @08:25PM (#31553710) Attached to: Every British Citizen To Have a Personal Webpage

o_O

Er... you can get ADSL broadband for £6 (around $9) a month. That's (up to) 8Mb/s with a 10GB cap.

Perhaps your friend is very, very hard up, but although the UK doesn't have the cheapest broadband in the world, it's really not that bad, either. I think it compares reasonably well with the US.

at $50 US a month i had 512 X 512 KB cable with $4 a month for the modem in Johnstown PA at home in pittsburgh pa i have 15M by 1M dsl but only 3M by 512 KB is my and that is also $50 a month US

Comment Re:then are they going to internet connection (Score 1) 313

by KB3NZQ on Saturday March 20, 2010 @08:20PM (#31553680) Attached to: Every British Citizen To Have a Personal Webpage

this guy had a 56k dial up line

Comment then are they going to internet connection (Score 1) 313

by KB3NZQ on Saturday March 20, 2010 @07:54PM (#31553518) Attached to: Every British Citizen To Have a Personal Webpage

i have a friend in the UK and he hardly gets on line cause it costs too much so if the government is going to move all services online than what are they going to do about the cost for the internet

Comment Re:/dev/console (Score 1) 499

by KB3NZQ on Saturday March 13, 2010 @07:52PM (#31467954) Attached to: Toyota Acceleration and Embedded System Bugs

reprogram the ECU & black box to log it

Comment /dev/console (Score 1) 499

by KB3NZQ on Saturday March 13, 2010 @06:18PM (#31467200) Attached to: Toyota Acceleration and Embedded System Bugs

/dev/console read each line of code as it is getting executed and isolate the line that causes the sudden acceleration

Comment KB3NZQ (Score 1) 567

by KB3NZQ on Friday May 16, 2008 @02:14PM (#23437448) Attached to: Keeping Customer From Accessing My Database?

if your boss really wants this he should then by you a new server and setup a read only DB on that server all at his expence

Internet Black Holes 100

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday April 09, 2008 @10:17AM from the you-can't-get-there-from-here dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Hubble is a system that operates continuously to find persistent Internet black holes as they occur. Hubble has operated continuously since September 17, 2007. During that time, it identified 881,090 black holes and reachability problems. In the most recent quarter-hourly round, completed at 04:40 PDT, 04/09/2008, Hubble issued 46,846 traceroutes to 1,815 prefixes it identified as likely to be experiencing problems (of 78,772 total prefixes monitored by the system). Of these, it found 195 prefixes to be unreachable from all its vantage points and 139 to be reachable from some vantage points and not others." No relationship to that other Hubble which also tries to find black holes ;)

Scammers Exploit DTV Coupon Program 219

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday April 08, 2008 @07:01PM from the old-bait-and-switch dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Analog TV users must purchase a DTV converter box before broadcasts go digital in 2009, and the US Government is offering $40 coupons to support the transition. The coupon program requires retailers to become certified by the NTIA (the Government body running the program) before processing orders for the boxes. Apparently the certification program is a bit lax, as the frenzy to purchase DTV boxes using these coupons seems to have drawn unscrupulous fraud artists into the mix. Memsen, via its web site convertmy.tv and its hardware partner Maxmedia, partnered apparently to pull a bait-and-switch game on unsuspecting consumers and the US Government." Read on for details of the scam claimed by this anonymous reader.

$90 Asus Sound Card Whips Creative's Best 387

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday April 08, 2008 @06:19PM from the listen-up dept.

EconolineCrush writes "Sound card giant Creative caught plenty of flak for its recent driver debacle, and has long been criticized for bullying competitors and stifling innovation. But few have been willing to compete with Creative head-on, allowing the company to milk its X-Fi audio processor for more than two and a half years. Now the SoundBlaster has a new challenger in the form of Asus' $90 Xonar DX, which delivers much better sound quality than the X-Fi, PCI Express connectivity, and support for real-time Dolby Digital Live encoding. The Xonar can even emulate the latest EAX positional audio effects, providing the most complete competition to the X-Fi available on the market."

Apple Error Leaves iPhone Developers In the Lurch 379

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday April 08, 2008 @04:08PM from the pretty-glass-bricks dept.

canadacow writes "iPhone developers enrolled and active in the iPhone OS 2.0 beta program got a nasty surprise today when Apple inadvertently 'expired' the recently released version. While for a beta program this typically would not be an issue, Apple has yet to release a new deployment of the iPhone OS. So developers like myself who use their iPhone for both actual phone and iPod use are bricked. Of note, this particular expired build is just 11 days old."

California Lawmaker Proposes Music Download Tax 326

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday April 08, 2008 @10:31AM from the ideas-from-up-north-moving-south dept.

modemac writes "Sacramento, California Assemblyman Charles Calderon wants to expand a 75-year-old sales tax on 'tangible personal property' to include music downloads from iTunes and other music-download sites. The tax would specifically apply to music downloads, but the estimate used in this article for revenue generated by 'Net downloading also "includes pornography downloads." The measure, AB 1956, will be considered on Monday, April 14th."

Apple, New York City In Legal Dispute Over Logo 254

Posted by Zonk on Saturday April 05, 2008 @06:39PM from the oh-our-wacky-trademark-system dept.

Lemmy Caution writes "Apple, Inc. has filed a suit to prevent New York City's non-profit 'GreeNYC' initiative from using a logo that incorporates an apple in its design. Commentators have noted the substantial differences between the two designs, not to mention the irony of this sort of infringement claim. The city of New York has filed to have the claim rejected, and even possibly the cancellation of Apple's logo in light of the long history of the nickname 'The Big Apple' to describe the city."

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Will Be 64-Bit For Windows Only 478

Posted by kdawson on Friday April 04, 2008 @08:55AM from the takes-time-to-make-a-cup-of-cocoa dept.

HighWizard notes that Adobe Systems has shared the first scrap of information about its next version of Photoshop, CS4, and it's a doozy: there will be a 64-bit version of the photo-editing software, but only for Windows Vista and not for Mac OS X. Ars explains the history of how this conundrum came to pass — blame Apple and/or Adobe as you will.

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