Sentences with phrase «about as locked»

To make a long story short, it's about as locked down as a 1999 - era web kiosk.

There is no USB port or wireless internet access, so they are about as locked down as you can get.

Not exact matches

As the hardware becomes more and more indistinguishable, the next focus of the smartphone wars will be about locking consumers into an ecosystem of content and services.

As the Journal story points out, YES signed a deal with the Yankees to lock up TV rights for 30 years at a cost of about $ 1.5 billion.

The Harvard law professor, who is locked in a tight race against Republican Scott Brown, has lost ground in recent weeks as she struggles to shake off stories about whether she used her unconfirmed Native American heritage to bolster her academic career.

Although the latter turned in fairly good numbers, investors were particularly concerned about a decline in subscribers at ESPN, which has been seen by many as an impregnable fortress due to its lock on sports.

As we were thinking about how to attack the connected home, and to make this really important safety stuff like smoke detectors and locks, we realized, «Do you want your lock to be quirky, or do you want it to be good?»

But with the Senate still locked in negotiations over what to do about Obamacare, an infrastructure deal looks as if it's months if not years away.

For one, Amazon, like other e-book sellers, has used a scheme known as «digital rights management» (DRM), which limits the types of devices that can read certain e-book formats.259 Compelling readers to purchase a Kindle through cheap e-books locks them into future e-book purchases from Amazon.260 Moreover, buying — or even browsing — e-books on Amazon's platform hands the company information about your reading habits and preferences, data the company uses to tailor recommendations and future deals.261 Replicated across a few more purchases, Amazon's lock - in becomes strong.

The device by the South Korean technology giant will have a strong focus on audio quality and the management of connected home appliances such as lights and locks, said the people, who asked not to be identified talking about private plans.

Retirement account lock - ups: I talked about this in more detail in this post, and do not see this as much of an issue.

We are worried about profit - taking in the short term, as nervous investors look to lock in gains and redeploy their capital in other opportunities.

Can say that I believe in every thing that you disbelief of when it comes to the Creator and the Creation of universe, life and guidance, God has given me hearing, seeing, thinking and heart feelings to see and experience signs and small miracles to have faith in him and continue with good deeds I was told of in his Holy Book although am not perfect at that but nothing to lose but contrary to that there are more to gain in life and life after... For those disbelievers they lose their senses by being locked and blocked from such experiences... It is all about souls as verses speak for them selves;

Indeed, as the Cardinals were preparing to be locked in, I somewhat naively wrote an article headlined «Now the conclave is about to begin, we can look forward with relief, not only to having a pope again, but to the secular media's sudden loss of interest.»

If I forget to lock my door, you are still a thief if you enter my house and take anything... meaning, the banks still chose to engage in the risky behavior that caused the financial meltdown... and yes, they knew it would happen, but as long as they made enough money in the short term, who needs to care about the long term?

Ah yes, lock into a single part, make more assertions without evidence, and ignore the part where it was shown clearly that you not only didn't know what you were talking about, but attempted to be dishonest as well.

As I walked the footsteps of Jesus through the land, I was reminded of a story Jesus told about a wealthy man who built a wall and locked the poor outside of it, a story often known as «the rich man and Lazarus.&raquAs I walked the footsteps of Jesus through the land, I was reminded of a story Jesus told about a wealthy man who built a wall and locked the poor outside of it, a story often known as «the rich man and Lazarus.&raquas «the rich man and Lazarus.»

And about economic realities — should the USA be so sensible as to re-direct the $ 10.2 million per day it hands the State of Israel (its military) to purchase more bombs, guns and weaponry to keep the Palestinians at bay and locked in prisons, or chased out of Palestine / Israel to so - called «safe havens», then I will readily agree to talk with anyone about economics and affordability of welcoming more strangers and people fleeing their land and homes.

Indeed, he creates a virtual phantasmagoria of suffering from actual instances of human barbarity that he has read about in Russian newspapers: Turkish soldiers cutting babies from their mother's wombs and throwing them in the air in order to impale them on their bayonets; enlightened parents stuffing their five - year - old daughter's mouth with excrement and locking her in a freezing privy all night for having wet the bed, while they themselves sleep soundly; Genevan Christians teaching a naive peasant to bless the good God even as the poor dolt is beheaded for thefts and murders that his ostensibly Christian society caused him to commit; a Russian general, offended at an eight - year - old boy for accidentally hurting the paw of the officer's dog, inciting his wolfhounds to tear the child to pieces; a lady and gentleman flogging their eight - year - old daughter with a birch - rod until she collapses while crying for mercy, «Papa, papa, dear papa.»

«Locking animals in gestation crates is simply indefensible, as is misleading investors and the public about that abuse.»

The Port Kembla Coal Terminal, south of Wollongong, locks out about 60 of its workers as part of an intensifying dispute about its future.

Just about as big of a lock as La - La Land was at the Oscars last year... oh wait.

He wraps his small fingers around my carpals in such a way as to clasp me in place and locks his gaze on mine with the anticipatory urgency of someone who is about to tell you that they signed you both up for karaoke.

I don't give a damn about games in October and November as long as the Warriors are locked in during the playoffs, when it matters.

Stakes: Arizona State has locked up the Pac - 12 South title, so this one is more about the future... as in, who will be USC's head coach moving forward?

Sampdoria fans and management should be happy about considering what the young striker has had to endure over the last few months as he watched his move to Juventus that looked to be a lock fall apart in a matter of a couple of days.

we already faced and went through what many married couples go through being married for 40 to 50 years such as death of a parent, death of many family members from different things (most deaths they were 20 and 40 yrs old), gun voilence due to an adult not locking the gun away, the victims were 12 years old, a house fire that destroyed just about everything, car accident which resulted in surgery with 2 years unable to work, inlaws, rasing children, ect...)

As ive mentioned in my own posts about my formula feeding - formula is under lock and key.

As Zach starts learning about the strange family next door, he soon discovers that Stine holds a dangerous secret: the creatures that his stories made famous are real, and Stine protects his readers by keeping them locked up in their books.

Lori, as someone who only knows closed (sealed, locked tight, don't even think about peeking) adoption.

Talk to you about safety precautions you should take, such as having your child wear a bike helmet while riding, making sure there is a fence around your pool if you have one, and keeping guns, if you own any, in a locked cabinet separate from the ammunition.

The best part about this is that the front wheel lock is on the handlebar as opposed to in the wheels.

OK, fine, but what if your job has a private space with a locking door that's not the bathroom where you can pump for as long as you need as often as you need so that you can use your industrial strength breast pump which by some miracle you can afford so you can now fill up bag after bag of fresh healthy milk every three hours at work for six months straight and your supportive husband can drive to work and pick it up for you so you don't even have to store it in the gross community refrigerator so as to avoid the all - too - inevitable jokes about whether you're going to «whip up a milkshake for everyone» or remarks such as, «Guess we'll be just fine when the coffee creamer runs out?»

Butà «do not worry about being locked in as it is easy to cancel online, no phone calls necessary, once your first order ships.

And if your baby also has an older sibling, this one's got a child - proof lock as well, so you don't have to worry about them playing with this unwittingly.

It's nice to see some comradely debate on the Left and some talk about the things that matter, it puts us in a good position to get organizing for the EMA protests on the 26th and the student protest on the 29th, and once you're breaking police lines or locked in a kettle together, a freezing Trot seems just about the same as a freezing Fabian.

Rather than receiving sanctuary, children are routinely disbelieved about their age and locked up in detention centres as adults.

This new period of interruption is about breaking into the new social and entertainment habits that people are now following - habits that are locking out traditional forms of media engagement, as well as traditional forms of advertising and marketing.

Putting aside the possibility of a referendum brought about the «lock mechanism», it looks as though only one party is currently set to promise the public an in / out choice in the next Parliament — and that, of course, is the Tories.

Gibson's opponents, meanwhile say that his reputation as an independent Republican voice says more about the lock - step nature of the GOP House caucus than his own political inclinations.

Aware that the Clinton campaign is already portrayed as dictating terms to the DNC, Baker raised the concern about making ballot access in primary states a criteria for getting on stage: If Sanders were locked out because of potential trouble qualifying in New Hampshire (given that he's not a registered Democrat), Baker was worried this would be seen as Clinton keeping him out.

For the last several weeks, we legislative leaders — for the first time since I've been at the Capitol — put aside party labels, locked ourselves in a room and talked as leaders and friends about the direction of the state of Connecticut and how collectively we could orchestrate a budget that fulfilled our expectations for a new Connecticut.

A Treasurer of Cape Coast North constituency of the NPP, Mr. Stephen Kojo Arhin popularly known in politics as Wewebi has therefore expressed disappointed about the action of aggrieved party activists who have gained notoriety in locking up state offices and chasing out District Chief Executives (DCE) and government officials.

McCluskey, dismissing Progress as an organisation whose ideas were locked in the past, said he was relaxed about defeating the thinktank in arguments and that the furore was due to the «amount of money being ploughed in» to the group.

Technically, the authorizers in this case are the State University of New York trustees, who recognize the value of locking in renewals now and asked the Regents to OK them: Doing so will give the schools, Bronx Better Learning and eight Success Academy charters, certainty about their futures, particularly as they consider expansions.

Giuliani was initially seen as a lock for the State Department, but questions about his international business ties and his public campaigning for the job are said to have given Trump pause.

The group downloaded about 85 percent of the data from the 370 - hour experiment while Columbia was in orbit — enough to see that it was working as expected — but the test depended on the full data, which was locked in a nearly 400 - megabyte commercial hard drive ensconced in a metal «card cage» and housed with other electronics in a larger vessel in the shuttle's cargo bay.

The particles flow along the entire cantilever in about 100 milliseconds, so a key advance that allowed the researchers to take rapid measurements at each point along the channel was the incorporation of a control system known as a phase - locked loop (PLL).

The epicenter of the April 25 event was located in the Gorkha District of Nepal, 75 kilometers to the west - northwest of Kathmandu, and propagated eastward at a rate of about 2.8 kilometers per second, causing slip in the north - south direction — a progression that the researchers describe as «unzipping» a section of the locked fault.

RICHLAND, Wash. — As the Arctic warms, tons of carbon locked away in Arctic tundra will be transformed into the powerful greenhouse gases carbon dioxide and methane, but scientists know little about how that transition takes place.