Re: 30 Months behind bars...
So far they have found about 1.26 million going to this pair (976k to O'Hara and 289k to Perez) so probably not going to keep them in comfort for too long
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I suspect the police asked for records pertaining to one phone numbers outgoing calls,
Vodoafone dumped the outgoing calls from the account associated with that number not allowing for the fact it was a business account containing multiple phones.
depending on the wording of the original request made by the police vodafone may have given them exactly what they asked for
I can usually tell the difference between lossy / lossless, however for convenience / compatibility I tend to use high bitrate mp3 and accept the difference.
It doesn't take high end equipment to be able to hear the difference (unless creative labs megaworks 250 speakers are high end)
re: touchscreen stereos
I agree regarding the 100% touchscreen stereo systems, I went for an older model which (while still being touchscreen based) has a big volume knob next to the screen which has the nice addition of a single push of the knob (instead of turning) muting the system entirely no matter what it's doing (phone, pratnav or music)
another nice touch is that if I get an incoming phone call 1/2 of the screen is green "Answer" and the other half is red "Decline" meaning it's a big target to hit at a glance.
would you be referring to the eagle statue as the "Interesting Bug"?
that worked through RF resonance and harmonics which shifted very slightly with vibration (like sound)
all that was needed was a transmitter (on the right frequency) and a very sensitive receiver close by.
Still took them years to work out how it worked
if you want to try a cheap bluetooth set of headphones try the logitech h800.
They won't blow you away with sound quality but what they produce is not harsh, I tend to use them on the computer when I need to hear something but can't fire up the speaker system (someone else on the phone in the office) or for long train journeys.
I have NEVER had any issues with syncing or gaps in the sound etc
uBlox gps chips have a flight mode command switch which allows use above 12,000m as long as the speed of movement stays below a certain limit (300mph has been mentioned elsewhere)
different makers seem to have interpreted the gps restrictions in different ways,
ublox have taken the view that max height AND max speed = restriction
others have taken the view that max height OR max speed = restriction
I had a house where I couldn't switch providers because of an old unpaid bill of £20.
every month a bill arrived addressed to FAO : Abbey National
turned out that three owners before me the owner had died and the house had been reposessed by abbey national.
the fun part was that without the bill being paid the power company wouldn't allow changes to the tariff or allow the change of supplier. And they wouldn't accept payment from me for the bill in question because the bill was in no way my responsibility. (nice little lock-in technique there)
That was 8 years ago, I bet the current owner still gets that bill monthly.
maybe its because on most mobile devices the user doesn't have direct access to the file system or the data stored without going through the installed app they assume that means it is only ever accessible through or by the app concerned.
compare that to a laptop or desktop environment where the user has access to the file system and can usually see what is being stored where and how.
3 x Asus monitors (annoying touch buttons on the bezel)
Dell laptop (touch buttons for media control, play pause etc admittedly not on the bezel)
Sharp TV (touch buttons on the bezel for all controls)
The last place I want touch sensitive buttons is on a laptop screen bezel, sods law says that I will hit the power button when I adjust the screen angle to get rid of a reflection over what I am trying to see
I always wonder how many artists play with deliberate de-phasing at low frequencies, I can think of a few tracks that have the effect in them which when played on a full stereo system (or headphones) produce an interesting effect but when played back on a 2:1 / 5:1 or 7:1 system just has the effect of ramping the bass up and down.
"The criminal complaint against Faiella today alleges he "sold Bitcoins – the only form of payment accepted on Silk Road – to users seeking to buy illegal drugs on the site" between December 2011 and October 2013."
What next... going after ISP's because they sold internet access - the only way to access silk road - to users seeking to buy illegal drugs on the site?
The answer is not very dense.
Microsoft came out with SkyDrive at roughly the same time as bSkyb (better known as Sky) got into the ISP business with their Sky Broadband.
I know my first experience of SkyDrive was when a Sky Broadband customer used it to send some files to me (natural assumption was sky email address + file storage system with sky in the name = probably the same company)
@Zacherynuk
You may not give a car a bad review if it arrived without the keys, but You probably would give it a bad review if it came with an engine that was unable to start because there were too many other people in the world running a similar engine.
In my mind not being able to play a game because of a failure of a remote system shows up a fundamental failure of the games design.
Never had a problem with ebuyer (apart from citylink who cant decide whether my house exists or not)
had my fair share of returns with them too, got a couple of memory sticks waiting to go back right now (they failed after 9 months)
I generally detail the fault finding I have done to save them having to work though it with me.
I have done work with a similar retailer to ebuyer and worked on their tech support line, Best one I had was a customer wanting to return a brand new PC
they had gone for top of the line on everything for the machine aroud £7k (built to order) and a few of us had looked at the machine when it was built simply because it really was top notch.
customer was on the phone swearing at everyone that "this f*****g machine is no good, it won't f*****g turn on, you will refund my f*****g money right now" etc etc
eventually I calmed him down enough to work out he was pressing the reset button instead of the power switch.
Why don't they do something useful, insist every phone supports wireless charging, that way, no issue with connectors and a lot less waste as no wires to throw away.
Nice idea.....
now which standard for wireless charging were you thinking of?
Power Matters Alliance (PMA)
Wireless Power Consortium (WPC) (Qi)
Alliance for Wireless Power (A4WP)
a quick look at one of my honeypot accounts reveals the following variants all landing in the same honeypot within a short time of each other (suggesting the same source)
DHL Delivery Report - Delivery Status ID_{10 digit hex number}
DHL REPORT - DHL Report ID:{10 digit hex number}
HSBC Bank Plc - You Have (1) New Security Message
PayPal - Security measures against impairment of the safety information
Skype - Voice Message Notification
Skype Communications - You received a new message from Skype voicemail service
Skype Voice Message - New Voice Message
I think the next claim for this terrible infections capabilities will be encoding data and sending it by flashing the screen (at higher frequencies than the human eye can see) and any other device with a camera being instantly infected (your tablet, your phone, your digital camera and your old vhs camcorder)
re : the flyback on crt tv's
I wonder whether jake ever had the misfortune to spend time working on tv's.
I too can hear it, to the point where I could stand at a friends front door and tell them whether they had a tv on in the house. newer widescreen crt's seemed to have been demanding too much from the flyback in terms of power, they always had a nasty screech too them which changed massively with the brightness of the screen.
at the time it seemed to me that people that worked on tv's (repairing them) could clearly hear the flyback system but people that just watched tv seemed to have developed a natural notch filter around the noise since the noise (on a standard pal tv) was somewhere around 15kc and should have been well within normal hearing range but most people couldn't hear it
Decent Keyboard (the less extras the better)
sat here typing this on an original ibm ps2 keyboard (still has its sticker on the bottom showing 1988)
Wired Mouse
I have tried and tried with wireless mice and find that they always go to sleep, leading to a couple of seconds of shaking it to wake it up, or worse having to press a button to wake it (which of course registers on the pc wherever the mouse happens to be)
Wireless Headset
currently using the Logitech H800, simple / basic PC & bluetooth headset, 6 hour battery life and usb charging.
Extra monitor
Why stop at 2 screens?
I run 3 22" screens and didnt realise how much more they allow me to get done until one failed and had to be replaced (under warranty).
My only gripe with a triple monitor setup is that if you have the center screen set as primary windows messes up the background image (XP / 7 ultimate) since it uses top left of the primary screen as 0x0 for the positioning of the background meaning that the image stretches across the right screen before wrapping onto the left screen
Why cant it work via the plugin framework that exists in most browsers with a couple of treaks
the browser delivers the encrypted stream to the plugin system, if there is a suitable drm plugin installed then the plugin system feeds the encrypted stream in and accepts the decrypted stream out ready to pass to the renderer.
if it can be handled in this way then the drm plugin wouldnt have access to anything like history, passwords etc
As I see it the standard proposes being able to pass an encrypted stream through a 3rd party plugin before handing off to the video renderer, basically think along the lines of adding a netflix plugin to your browser to enable viewing netflix content via any browser that will support the plugin.
if that is all it is then I don't see it causing any harm
The sending mail server was exchange (I don't know the version) the receiving server was Mailenable (used internally by that dept.)
the 4tb was 3 2tb drives in a raid5 array.
As Tom pointed out the user had submitted the email to the 1st server and it had submitted fully, and it was the 1st server that was doing the stupid re-send even though the transfer was already in progress.