Just how thorough of testing is being asked? Some security flaws escape eyes for years (see DNS flaw). Some flaws are obvious. But, in general, you can never be 100% certain of a program be 'secure' unless you know its has passed some milspec cert.
While optimistic, I think the new policy is a bit misguided in its wording.
I would love to be able to print my own replacement model parts. Next time I break a rotor blade on my heli, just print one out. Need a new control horn, print it out. Servo arms, wing assemblies...such a home capability might bring back a renaissance of RC building that is becoming a lost art due to RTF products.
Then wouldn't it be more logical for the airline to ask that person to desist from the obnoxious conversation then to get Congress to ban the usage of something that most people are quite capable of using without annoying those around them?
Next time a cell phone talker lights up their phone next to you on a bus, the street, anywhere...ask them in a pleasant voice to stop talking on the phone, it is causing noise pollution. Let me know the response you get.
The last time I did just that, using words like 'please' and a pleasant tone of voice got me a look that "f--- you" and they kept on talking.
While a majority may wish to have no cell phones on airplanes...
The majority is ruling, and complaining, about a minority that is making itself so obnoxious as to border on rude. If these cell phone talkers had any sense of respect of others and would turn off their digital leash for the flight, we wouldn't have this problem. But, noooo, we get hear all about Aunt Edna's colonoscopy and your cousin Fred's erectile dysfunction problem.
This would be an engineering feat worthy of study. A truly thin OS that offered access to hardware and provided th GUI primitives + modular applications that only loaded the necessary components quickly on demand. The key is thin.
BeOS? QNX? Windows Embedded? PalmOS?
I think we've seen this before under many other names.
It didn't make me ask the same question as the author. Maybe I've read too much cyberpunk in the last year and it has jaded me. Either way, it was an interesting story. Not great, but interesting.
Which property? What law was broken? What copyright was violated? Which patents? Any?
Scrabulous didn't use the Scrabble logo and didn't use the same board. It was similar, but that in itself is not infringement of anything in the US. Hasbro is hassling a perfectly legal implementation of a game which is roughly similar to Scrabble, but there are no laws (at least in the US) against creating a game with rules similar to another game.
Oh, please! It obviously meant to be Scrabble in everything but name. It even used the same word lists. Use some common sense here. You take a 2D board, put special value modifiers on some of the squares, then place lettered tiles to spell words, with each letter have a number value. Before Scrabble, this concept did not exist. I dare say that yes, anything that fits that general description is breaking copyright or trademark laws.
If the people behind Scrabulous have any pride, they'll tell Hasbro to go fuck themselves. They did a better Scrabble than Scrabble, and rather than compete, Hasbro turned to the law.
It was an unlicensed release of their property. They had the right to legally challenge its presence on Facebook. What I find unethical is the waiting of many months, but to condemn Hasbro for defending its ownership of Scrabble?
The 110th Congress Composition: 282 Democrats - 274 Republicans - 2 Independents. So please tell me how Republicans created this mess?
It is a band-wagon thing. Give it a few years and the generic complaint will be "Them darn democrats!". It is a default answer by the uninitiated and uneducated who would rather summarize a problem to its simplest and most inaccurate form such as to polarize any further conversation on the topic. This method is also used by those with an agenda and seek to sway the sheep. Rarely is any issue so black and white, but posters of such responses either don't know that, or don't want YOU to know that.
Semi-first world countries? Just goes to show how out of touch Americans really are with the rest of the world.
You must forgive us for naive view on things. We aren't used to having our internet snooped, arrested for trying to sell Nazi memorabilia, being video recorded on every street we walk/drive, having 66% of our income taken to pay for socialized medical care, giving our unemployed people "paid vacation" time and arrested for speaking out politically. From what I've seen, the concept of Freedom of Speech and Privacy have disappeared in the "first world" nations of Europe. So, yeah, we Americans are a bit out of touch with the ways ye olde worlde.
Maybe it is to save energy. By using a black background, those pixels don't have to be lit. If you save that one nanowatt of power, and billion other people do the same thing, we've saved...ummm...1 watt of power! Woo hoo!
Either they are bunch of self-involved liars with bloated claims, or their search algorithm sucks.
I did a search on Google for "bob and tom": 7.5 million page hits.
I did the same search on Cuil: No results found.
I don't think the "Bob and Tom Show" would be happy to know they don't exist. Cuil needs to stop with the marketing and the lies and deliver some actual results.
Yeah, except for the part where the motherboard claims to be ACPI compliant when it really isn't. That's sort of false advertising.
Not really. Foxconn claims to only be certified to run Windows. Thus, their claim of ACPI compliance is consistent with their advertisement.
So, while the Linuxan may be offended by this whole concept, Foxconn didn't do anything wrong. Their bottom line is apparently unaffected by linux buyers.
The speaker in my desk phone is an EM-emitting device. Maybe I should be worried about that! I think I may need some grant money to study the health side-effects of me having to answer the phone.
Evolutionists would have us believe that we are the result of a long process that started with single celled things in mud. If it can happen once, why not a second time on another planet? That is, if you believe the Evolutionists.
3 minutes is not very useful. By the time you reach your destination and actually get some good images, you've run out of time to return and have effectively lost your MAV. If they are meant to be throw-away, this is not a design flaw.
From my experience as an RC pilot, the smaller the craft, the more difficult it is to control. I would be curious to see how they've overcome the twitchiness of a such light weight.
Somewhere in the back of my mind I have this strange feeling that we are slowly heading into Asimov's world. And all the problems (and benefits) that come along with it...
We were promised our own robots back in the 1950's. So, we finally have them. Now where is my flying car?
Every console on the market already has lockout features. The Wii, PS3, and 360 have them right there in the system menu. The Nintendo DS does not, but portables aren't covered by this law.
So, we have a piece of feel-good legislation that does nothing, basically.
Oh, well then, I feel better already! Wait, I don't live in NY. I want some feel good laws in Ohio now! Please protect me from the evil violent video games, governor!
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Just how thorough of testing is being asked? Some security flaws escape eyes for years (see DNS flaw). Some flaws are obvious. But, in general, you can never be 100% certain of a program be 'secure' unless you know its has passed some milspec cert.
While optimistic, I think the new policy is a bit misguided in its wording.
I would love to be able to print my own replacement model parts. Next time I break a rotor blade on my heli, just print one out. Need a new control horn, print it out. Servo arms, wing assemblies...such a home capability might bring back a renaissance of RC building that is becoming a lost art due to RTF products.
Then wouldn't it be more logical for the airline to ask that person to desist from the obnoxious conversation then to get Congress to ban the usage of something that most people are quite capable of using without annoying those around them?
Next time a cell phone talker lights up their phone next to you on a bus, the street, anywhere...ask them in a pleasant voice to stop talking on the phone, it is causing noise pollution. Let me know the response you get.
The last time I did just that, using words like 'please' and a pleasant tone of voice got me a look that "f--- you" and they kept on talking.
While a majority may wish to have no cell phones on airplanes...
The majority is ruling, and complaining, about a minority that is making itself so obnoxious as to border on rude. If these cell phone talkers had any sense of respect of others and would turn off their digital leash for the flight, we wouldn't have this problem. But, noooo, we get hear all about Aunt Edna's colonoscopy and your cousin Fred's erectile dysfunction problem.
This would be an engineering feat worthy of study. A truly thin OS that offered access to hardware and provided th GUI primitives + modular applications that only loaded the necessary components quickly on demand. The key is thin.
BeOS? QNX? Windows Embedded? PalmOS?
I think we've seen this before under many other names.
If MS kills Windows as we know it an replaces it with Midori, it'll take at least 5 years to happen, and Midori will still be called Windows.
MS is a slow, lumbering marketing company, not a fast, agile technology company. They'll never walk away from the Windows brand.
But they will call it something fancy, like iWindows, or Windows: Internet Edition.
I read it. (sorry, I know it breaks SOP)
It didn't make me ask the same question as the author. Maybe I've read too much cyberpunk in the last year and it has jaded me. Either way, it was an interesting story. Not great, but interesting.
Which property? What law was broken? What copyright was violated? Which patents? Any?
Scrabulous didn't use the Scrabble logo and didn't use the same board. It was similar, but that in itself is not infringement of anything in the US. Hasbro is hassling a perfectly legal implementation of a game which is roughly similar to Scrabble, but there are no laws (at least in the US) against creating a game with rules similar to another game.
Oh, please! It obviously meant to be Scrabble in everything but name. It even used the same word lists. Use some common sense here. You take a 2D board, put special value modifiers on some of the squares, then place lettered tiles to spell words, with each letter have a number value. Before Scrabble, this concept did not exist. I dare say that yes, anything that fits that general description is breaking copyright or trademark laws.
If the people behind Scrabulous have any pride, they'll tell Hasbro to go fuck themselves. They did a better Scrabble than Scrabble, and rather than compete, Hasbro turned to the law.
It was an unlicensed release of their property. They had the right to legally challenge its presence on Facebook. What I find unethical is the waiting of many months, but to condemn Hasbro for defending its ownership of Scrabble?
Okay, 66% was tad off. 42% in France. 27% in Britain. I was using democratic party inspired math to support my views.
Yeesh, post an obviously inflammatory comment and not one troll, flame or off-topic? Karma was meant to be burned, not hoarded.
The 110th Congress Composition: 282 Democrats - 274 Republicans - 2 Independents. So please tell me how Republicans created this mess?
It is a band-wagon thing. Give it a few years and the generic complaint will be "Them darn democrats!". It is a default answer by the uninitiated and uneducated who would rather summarize a problem to its simplest and most inaccurate form such as to polarize any further conversation on the topic. This method is also used by those with an agenda and seek to sway the sheep. Rarely is any issue so black and white, but posters of such responses either don't know that, or don't want YOU to know that.
Semi-first world countries? Just goes to show how out of touch Americans really are with the rest of the world.
You must forgive us for naive view on things. We aren't used to having our internet snooped, arrested for trying to sell Nazi memorabilia, being video recorded on every street we walk/drive, having 66% of our income taken to pay for socialized medical care, giving our unemployed people "paid vacation" time and arrested for speaking out politically. From what I've seen, the concept of Freedom of Speech and Privacy have disappeared in the "first world" nations of Europe. So, yeah, we Americans are a bit out of touch with the ways ye olde worlde.
What's up with the black interfaces?
Maybe it is to save energy. By using a black background, those pixels don't have to be lit. If you save that one nanowatt of power, and billion other people do the same thing, we've saved...ummm...1 watt of power! Woo hoo!
Either they are bunch of self-involved liars with bloated claims, or their search algorithm sucks.
I did a search on Google for "bob and tom": 7.5 million page hits.
I did the same search on Cuil: No results found.
I don't think the "Bob and Tom Show" would be happy to know they don't exist. Cuil needs to stop with the marketing and the lies and deliver some actual results.
Yeah, except for the part where the motherboard claims to be ACPI compliant when it really isn't. That's sort of false advertising.
Not really. Foxconn claims to only be certified to run Windows. Thus, their claim of ACPI compliance is consistent with their advertisement.
So, while the Linuxan may be offended by this whole concept, Foxconn didn't do anything wrong. Their bottom line is apparently unaffected by linux buyers.
So, you basically add him to everyone's ignore list. That is a rather neat solution.
The speaker in my desk phone is an EM-emitting device. Maybe I should be worried about that! I think I may need some grant money to study the health side-effects of me having to answer the phone.
And you would be right. Was the summary that obvious?
Evolutionists would have us believe that we are the result of a long process that started with single celled things in mud. If it can happen once, why not a second time on another planet? That is, if you believe the Evolutionists.
Well, maybe we look strange to them, too. Ever think of that?
Hush, you ugly bag of mostly water.
I know this sounds incredible, but it's actually possible to be in a shower with a girl in person without the aid of technology.
You must be new here.
3 minutes is not very useful. By the time you reach your destination and actually get some good images, you've run out of time to return and have effectively lost your MAV. If they are meant to be throw-away, this is not a design flaw.
From my experience as an RC pilot, the smaller the craft, the more difficult it is to control. I would be curious to see how they've overcome the twitchiness of a such light weight.
Somewhere in the back of my mind I have this strange feeling that we are slowly heading into Asimov's world. And all the problems (and benefits) that come along with it ...
We were promised our own robots back in the 1950's. So, we finally have them. Now where is my flying car?
Get off my lawn, you little bits!
Every console on the market already has lockout features. The Wii, PS3, and 360 have them right there in the system menu. The Nintendo DS does not, but portables aren't covered by this law.
So, we have a piece of feel-good legislation that does nothing, basically.
Oh, well then, I feel better already! Wait, I don't live in NY. I want some feel good laws in Ohio now! Please protect me from the evil violent video games, governor!