First, let the record show that I'm quite intrigued by bluetooth, and I think it's the future of mobile computing. Of course there are security issues to be addressed, but something like this technology will be needed eventually. Anyway:
Just how many hackers (or their equipment) could you get connecting to your fax machine within 10 meters from you?
I agree. Unless they're crouching in the broom closet, this hypothetical malicious hacker would have a hard time getting into your local bluetooth net. But a thought occurs to me(experts in this field, corect me if it's implausible): what about piggy-backing a signal? Say I want to get into an bluetooth handheld sitting on someone's desk in an office building. I get into a laptop two floors down over the 'net, then use its bluetooth chip to access its owner's mobile phone. From there I go up a floor to a printer, through a fax machine, and up into the aforementioned handheld. Granted, this is abit convoluted, and requires all the parties involved to stay in one place, but is it feasible? Could you write a program to seek out a route to any bluetooth unit, and more importantly, could you go through bluetooth unit like that without the owner's knowledge? -J
[/sarcasm] To be serious,I'm not sure which "shitty games" you're referring to. Certainly, they've made a couple Masterpieces of Badness (like that mosnter truck game... *shudder*), but on the other hand, Age of Empires is pretty good. So here's my question (I am not a hardcore gamer): What other really bad games have they made? Do these outweigh the occasional gems? -J
Anyone who watched Mission to Mars will doubtless realize that these recent meteorites were generated whent he martian emigration fleet blasted off.
I mean, come one. It's so obvious.
Disclaimer: I saw that on a transatlantic flight while suffering jetlag and sleep deprivation. i was bound to get some funny ideas, okay? -J
Heheh... if the processor is that hot, and you've got a plastic case on the laptop... well, the China Syndrome probably wouldn't be very comfortable if it happened in your lap. -J
I'm going to have nightmares of a midget being torn from a cylindrical, beeping robot, screaming about one pound heatsinks and producing robot offspring
Argh... I was reading this post, and shaking my head, and my lips were about to form the words, "Well, you have a point, but most of the stories tend to be on the level. I'm not sure who would stand to gain from such a rumor," but then I came to the last line. Thank you, MWoody. You have ruined my day. That image will haunt my waking and sleeping hours. Aieeeeee.... ;) -J
Hmm, i see your point about using CF for anything beyond storage. While there are some CF devices compatible with the TRG, it suggersts a bit of a dead-end in the devices design
So i wonder rhow long it will be until someone devleops a CF reader for the springboard slot...;) -J
I agree, but at the same time, I think handspring's decision to use their "springboard" format was rather silly. The TRGPro does the smae kind of thing, but with a CF slot - which is much more of an industry standard than the springboard slot. I seem to recall reading somewhere that springboard is actually the same interface as a current format (someone want to help me out here?), but the moduels still have to be specially shaped for the springboard slot. Anyway, I think Sony put the memory stick on the Clie because a) they can, and b) they need something to set it apart even more from existing handhelds. Otherwise it's just YAPDIANC (yet another palm device in a nifty case). -J
isn't one of the reasons why animals reproduce the fact that it feels good
IANAB either, but this sounds right to me (I've thought this for a while, but it's hard to discuss it with people: Me: "Say, did you know that everything we do we do because of sex?" Everybody: "I think I'll go sit over here...").
The end result of mating is the perpetuation of the species, which is, for some reason, the raison d'etre for all organisms (kinda recursive when you think about it...;)). But the organism needs some reason to mate; sexual satisfaction seems as good a reason as any. -J
CSS does solve a lot of these problems; web design is much easier with CSS. Or rather, it would be if you could trust every browser to render it the same way (not to mention implement the standards right). [/rant][/ot]
Anyway, we only see these little graphics on/. because the browser frames the image before it has finished loading it, and then only because of the black background. In a white Word document... well, there's no way to tell. -J
Think outside the box too, get a vegitarian friend to sue on grounds that sheep sacrafice is offensive. (Jews and Muslims sacrafice sheep all the time)
I'm sorry? Would you like to run that by me one more time? I'm Jewish and have never sacrificed anything (outside of a Nethack game...). -J
I was poking around at the Science Museum in London the day after their new "Wellcome Wing" opened, and I got on a tour of the then-still-under-construction floor about computers. There's was some nifty stuff (fingerpint recognition, facial scanning and remodeling, sound distortion, etc.), but the coolest part for me was this one alcove where a guy sat, playing with an Aibo. Apparently, his job was to train the thing to be nice to people and do interesting things. Anyway, he hands me the pink ball that the dog supposedly liked and said, "Here... show this to him, and he'll try to play football with it" (or something like that). So I hold the ball out the robotic critter, and suddenly it spins around, its eyes glowing red, and it rears up on its hind legs and paws furiously at the air, making distraught noises. I'm sure "Satan mode" is not included in the user manual...
Anyway, let's hope they're nicer to the referrees. BTW, I eventually got it kicking the ball. (sidenote: to be really mean, show it the ball, let it set up for a kick, then snatch the ball away. The aibo will follow through on the kick, then get all depressive because it didn't kick the ball.) -J
At one of the places I interned with this summer, we had to set up a second domain name, but link it to a subdirectory on our local NT server. I don't know if this is what virtual hosting is or not, but I do recall that it was only supported by HTTP 1.1 (not 1.0). This meant that any browser before 4.0, methinks, would not be have the right line in the request header and therefore not get the right site. (Our sysadmin was pretty confident that hardly anyone uses anything older than 4.x, but I wasn't so sure.) So the browser doesn't have to be that old... -J
"All right, helmsman, take her up. And remember: 5 points for time capsules, 10 points for lunar modules, 20 points for monkey corpses, and a 50 point bonus for any derelict Russian stations..."
Okay, so that's more of a Frogger inverse. Never mind.
I just realized how hard Frogger would be in such a situation, expecially if you're sitting on a big ol' solid-fuel rocket... yowch. -J
I can see it now... Today, we have problems with birds getting sucked into jet intakes. In 52001, there will be near-daily reports of orbital disasters as starvessels have their Bussard collectors fouled by one or two of the countless, pesky "time capsules" orbiting the planet.
(We might have to use those giant laser cannons to destroy all the time capsules!;) -J
Oh, give it up, Mr. Gore. Those more gullible among the US population might have believed the internet claim. But is is slashdot, Mr. Vice-President, and we know all about the space-time continuum here. You're not getting it by us this time.
Slashdot has changed from a "cool site" to a "news site"
But surely it can be both? I find some of the news very interesting. Of course, I really don't care that much about linux kernel releases and the like, but that's ok because the audience for/. is larger than just me. -J
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Yah, that was one of the things the article talked about. An intriguing idea, though it seems that it would produce more of a "quagga workalike." If I may draw a computer analogy, it might be more like an emulator than an the actual OS... very close, virutally identical in appearance, but not exactly the same. -J
It is just 1 BIG can of worms. or, as i heard someone once say (who was it?), "a whole box of pandoras."
In terms of God's role (and with that capital 'g' I refer to the Judeo-Christian god, but we can insert just about any god here), it seems to that the handy thing about God is that just about anything happens in our world can be easily attributed to the will of God. So it might turn out that this, too, is the 'will of god.' Note: I'm not religious myself, I happen to think religion clouds one's thinking. But I can't deny that for someone who really believes in a deity, well, that deity has a power of sorts over them. -J
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This reminds me of something I read a long time back... September 16, 1997, in the New York Times, there was an article about scientists trying to bring back the quagga. Some of them, if memory serves, were just trying to breed red horses, while others were trying to extract DNA from a mummified quagga (or something like that). Anyone know how they're doing? Maybe they should try quaffing a plaid potion...;) -J
No, it' s a nursery rhyme...or something... come to think of it, I can't remember either. The little voice in my head is shouting "nursery rhyme," but I can't recall a specific one. I think perhaps it should be "puss in boots." -J
Palm users must think alike; I posted the same thing at probably the exact same time!;) I have to agree with you. Not so much for the hopes of things like video (if I want that, I'll watch TV!), but for the hopes of better battery resilience. I am constantly annoyed at how five or ten minute sessions of a game like Reptoids drains by batteries by about 10%. I don't want be able to do anything significantly more complex on my palm. I want to do what I do now, but for longer. -J
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First, let the record show that I'm quite intrigued by bluetooth, and I think it's the future of mobile computing. Of course there are security issues to be addressed, but something like this technology will be needed eventually.
Anyway:
Just how many hackers (or their equipment) could you get connecting to your fax machine within 10 meters from you?
I agree. Unless they're crouching in the broom closet, this hypothetical malicious hacker would have a hard time getting into your local bluetooth net. But a thought occurs to me(experts in this field, corect me if it's implausible): what about piggy-backing a signal? Say I want to get into an bluetooth handheld sitting on someone's desk in an office building. I get into a laptop two floors down over the 'net, then use its bluetooth chip to access its owner's mobile phone. From there I go up a floor to a printer, through a fax machine, and up into the aforementioned handheld. Granted, this is abit convoluted, and requires all the parties involved to stay in one place, but is it feasible? Could you write a program to seek out a route to any bluetooth unit, and more importantly, could you go through bluetooth unit like that without the owner's knowledge?
-J
True... I seem to recall having an inordinate amount of fun moving trucks and trash cans all over the place. ;)
-J
... I thought Minesweeper was pretty good!
[/sarcasm]
To be serious,I'm not sure which "shitty games" you're referring to. Certainly, they've made a couple Masterpieces of Badness (like that mosnter truck game... *shudder*), but on the other hand, Age of Empires is pretty good. So here's my question (I am not a hardcore gamer): What other really bad games have they made? Do these outweigh the occasional gems?
-J
Anyone who watched Mission to Mars will doubtless realize that these recent meteorites were generated whent he martian emigration fleet blasted off.
I mean, come one. It's so obvious.
Disclaimer: I saw that on a transatlantic flight while suffering jetlag and sleep deprivation. i was bound to get some funny ideas, okay?
-J
Heheh... if the processor is that hot, and you've got a plastic case on the laptop... well, the China Syndrome probably wouldn't be very comfortable if it happened in your lap.
-J
About a pound, you say? Extra support struts, you say? Big flaming hot chip, you say?
I'm thinking that this will make laptop integration very difficult.
Agreements? Disagreements? Corrections?
-J
I'm going to have nightmares of a midget being torn from a cylindrical, beeping robot, screaming about one pound heatsinks and producing robot offspring
Argh... I was reading this post, and shaking my head, and my lips were about to form the words, "Well, you have a point, but most of the stories tend to be on the level. I'm not sure who would stand to gain from such a rumor," but then I came to the last line.
Thank you, MWoody. You have ruined my day. That image will haunt my waking and sleeping hours. Aieeeeee....
;)
-J
Hmm, i see your point about using CF for anything beyond storage. While there are some CF devices compatible with the TRG, it suggersts a bit of a dead-end in the devices design
;)
So i wonder rhow long it will be until someone devleops a CF reader for the springboard slot...
-J
We've been having a ball with this over at PalmStation: see this thread. ;))
(for palmstation, 40+ is a lot of posts, ok?
-J
I agree, but at the same time, I think handspring's decision to use their "springboard" format was rather silly. The TRGPro does the smae kind of thing, but with a CF slot - which is much more of an industry standard than the springboard slot. I seem to recall reading somewhere that springboard is actually the same interface as a current format (someone want to help me out here?), but the moduels still have to be specially shaped for the springboard slot.
Anyway, I think Sony put the memory stick on the Clie because a) they can, and b) they need something to set it apart even more from existing handhelds. Otherwise it's just YAPDIANC (yet another palm device in a nifty case).
-J
isn't one of the reasons why animals reproduce the fact that it feels good
;)). But the organism needs some reason to mate; sexual satisfaction seems as good a reason as any.
IANAB either, but this sounds right to me (I've thought this for a while, but it's hard to discuss it with people: Me: "Say, did you know that everything we do we do because of sex?" Everybody: "I think I'll go sit over here...").
The end result of mating is the perpetuation of the species, which is, for some reason, the raison d'etre for all organisms (kinda recursive when you think about it...
-J
CSS does solve a lot of these problems; web design is much easier with CSS. Or rather, it would be if you could trust every browser to render it the same way (not to mention implement the standards right). [/rant][/ot]
/. because the browser frames the image before it has finished loading it, and then only because of the black background. In a white Word document... well, there's no way to tell.
Anyway, we only see these little graphics on
-J
Think outside the box too, get a vegitarian friend to sue on grounds that sheep sacrafice is offensive. (Jews and Muslims sacrafice sheep all the time)
I'm sorry? Would you like to run that by me one more time?
I'm Jewish and have never sacrificed anything (outside of a Nethack game...).
-J
I was poking around at the Science Museum in London the day after their new "Wellcome Wing" opened, and I got on a tour of the then-still-under-construction floor about computers. There's was some nifty stuff (fingerpint recognition, facial scanning and remodeling, sound distortion, etc.), but the coolest part for me was this one alcove where a guy sat, playing with an Aibo. Apparently, his job was to train the thing to be nice to people and do interesting things.
Anyway, he hands me the pink ball that the dog supposedly liked and said, "Here... show this to him, and he'll try to play football with it" (or something like that). So I hold the ball out the robotic critter, and suddenly it spins around, its eyes glowing red, and it rears up on its hind legs and paws furiously at the air, making distraught noises.
I'm sure "Satan mode" is not included in the user manual...
Anyway, let's hope they're nicer to the referrees.
BTW, I eventually got it kicking the ball. (sidenote: to be really mean, show it the ball, let it set up for a kick, then snatch the ball away. The aibo will follow through on the kick, then get all depressive because it didn't kick the ball.)
-J
At one of the places I interned with this summer, we had to set up a second domain name, but link it to a subdirectory on our local NT server. I don't know if this is what virtual hosting is or not, but I do recall that it was only supported by HTTP 1.1 (not 1.0). This meant that any browser before 4.0, methinks, would not be have the right line in the request header and therefore not get the right site. (Our sysadmin was pretty confident that hardly anyone uses anything older than 4.x, but I wasn't so sure.) So the browser doesn't have to be that old...
-J
"All right, helmsman, take her up. And remember: 5 points for time capsules, 10 points for lunar modules, 20 points for monkey corpses, and a 50 point bonus for any derelict Russian stations..."
Okay, so that's more of a Frogger inverse. Never mind.
I just realized how hard Frogger would be in such a situation, expecially if you're sitting on a big ol' solid-fuel rocket... yowch.
-J
I can see it now... Today, we have problems with birds getting sucked into jet intakes. In 52001, there will be near-daily reports of orbital disasters as starvessels have their Bussard collectors fouled by one or two of the countless, pesky "time capsules" orbiting the planet.
;)
(We might have to use those giant laser cannons to destroy all the time capsules!
-J
Oh, give it up, Mr. Gore. Those more gullible among the US population might have believed the internet claim. But is is slashdot, Mr. Vice-President, and we know all about the space-time continuum here. You're not getting it by us this time.
;)
-J
Slashdot has changed from a "cool site" to a "news site"
/. is larger than just me.
But surely it can be both? I find some of the news very interesting. Of course, I really don't care that much about linux kernel releases and the like, but that's ok because the audience for
-J
Yah, that was one of the things the article talked about. An intriguing idea, though it seems that it would produce more of a "quagga workalike." If I may draw a computer analogy, it might be more like an emulator than an the actual OS... very close, virutally identical in appearance, but not exactly the same.
-J
It is just 1 BIG can of worms.
or, as i heard someone once say (who was it?), "a whole box of pandoras."
In terms of God's role (and with that capital 'g' I refer to the Judeo-Christian god, but we can insert just about any god here), it seems to that the handy thing about God is that just about anything happens in our world can be easily attributed to the will of God. So it might turn out that this, too, is the 'will of god.'
Note: I'm not religious myself, I happen to think religion clouds one's thinking. But I can't deny that for someone who really believes in a deity, well, that deity has a power of sorts over them.
-J
Oh. Really? Wow. OK. Well done, that cat.
-J
This reminds me of something I read a long time back... September 16, 1997, in the New York Times, there was an article about scientists trying to bring back the quagga. Some of them, if memory serves, were just trying to breed red horses, while others were trying to extract DNA from a mummified quagga (or something like that). Anyone know how they're doing? ;)
Maybe they should try quaffing a plaid potion...
-J
No, it' s a nursery rhyme...or something... come to think of it, I can't remember either. The little voice in my head is shouting "nursery rhyme," but I can't recall a specific one.
I think perhaps it should be "puss in boots."
-J
Palm users must think alike; I posted the same thing at probably the exact same time! ;)
I have to agree with you. Not so much for the hopes of things like video (if I want that, I'll watch TV!), but for the hopes of better battery resilience. I am constantly annoyed at how five or ten minute sessions of a game like Reptoids drains by batteries by about 10%. I don't want be able to do anything significantly more complex on my palm. I want to do what I do now, but for longer.
-J