I agreed with you at the beginning. But, on a second thought, pop-ups may also be a good way to catch people that, in fact, click on them. I mean, if people click on popups telling you they have a virus (and actually get one), why wouldn't they click on Comcast's window anyways. People that don't click on popups or have them blocked, will simply keep ignoring them. It could be annoying though, but may work.
You're right, proof of that is that IE and Safari still add the string Mozilla to their User-Agents.
If that ensures compatibility, of Palm's products, I guess they are making the effort to keep their customers happy (even though iTunes, at least for Windows, is the worst piece of software ever).
More important than the radio itself. I believe the biggest problem is if there is already a routing algorithm efficient enough to avoid draining the batteries of several cellphones just to find its way to the destination.
Cellphone operating frequencies are licensed and paid for. Reason why a Jammer wouldn't be illegal.
On the other hand non-licensed frequencies require to keep their transmission power below certain level. However, that means that if you want to block people using your wireless you shouldn't be able to interfere people using their wireless, which makes the Jammer useless (unless of course you want to jam your own wireless, which would be, well, silly).
If it were the case where emergency calls cannot be blocked, then I guess paint would be illegal too.
I'm guessing spotting a prisoner using a cellphone in an open area would be a bit easier than indoors.
On the other hand, I would believe that in general any RF device can be attached to an antenna to provide gain and direction. Isn't possible to have the Jammer high up and aim it down right to the middle of the field using a fairly good antenna?
Your analogy is more like a flier wrongly delivered. As far as I know, it's a federal crime opening packages that are not directly addressed to you. But this wasn't the case. They sent the information open to the recipient.
I think I'll setup POP on GMail, in case I get one of those emails, I'll get to keep my own personal copy.:)
Hey, they need to make cars that have a competitive market. If you have 100k USD to spend on your next car, what would you buy? You need to think of that kind of people to pay for the development of future technology. Government is betting on the fact that a sports car could generate market and of course revenue to keep going.
How many people have bought very expensive computers and cellphones, so others will get them later for around or less than $100 USD?
Sincerely, maybe they can even get some advise from Steve Jobs!;)
Hey, I had problems watching videos until I use the slider from Full Hardware Acceleration to Medium Hardware/Software acceleration. I thought that would take pressure from the crappy embedded graphics card and move it to the processor. Turns out the video runs now smoother than before.
Am I wrong thinking this slider uses the processor more now than before?
Also, the efficiency of pigeon carrier drops dramatically with packet losses:
1. Reliability: Acknowledgment of packets would require another mechanism, which increases costs.
2. Packet (or pigeon) losses, will get them into trouble with animal agencies, and will also be costly as the media also costs money.
3. Most important, possibility of being sued by people being sh*tted all over when massive data transmission is required.
If you ask me, I don't think this start-up will fly.
I believe there's tons of progress. It's not what Sci-Fi movies promised, but we have a very good platform.
Think of smartphones. To me those are Sci-Fi devices: fairly long lasting battery life device with tons of functionality. You have a great deal of information at your hands.
As many will argue, there are several advances in technology, that will not make it soon to the market for several reasons:
1. Commercial viable.
2. Standardization. More than progress, we are a bit condemned to follow more rules than before. Devices now require to meet several standard regulations from networking protocols to RF radiation.
3. Safety. I've known of mechanisms for unmanned cars, but until they meet safety regulations and tests, they won't be at the market. But AI has been making a good progress.
Even though economy drives the market, the fact that people resist to changes makes it even more complicated. (Note that now, before technology is deployed it also has to meet certain rules on society impact that were not necessary.
Progress has been done, but it's going to take now longer for people to see it because all the rules an regulations the should meet before they are released to the market as products.
During a real emergency, I'd assume some people fail to think about consequences of their acts. Some only think about the fastest way to get out of the place.
At this moment, it comes to mind that someone would try to go over the table, someone will follow that person, and when the table breaks, then it going to be a mess
I've talked to several people that havin their mind clear know perfectly what to do, but failed to follow those steps in real situations. Some situations as simple as a mouse running around generate stress the causes people to do unexpected things.
Now I'm wondering if this "simulation" had real stiuations or people were simply informed of the drill.
Sounds like a brilliant idea! What if laststatusupdate.com for example, changes my facebook status from single (we all know this is slashdot) to passed away.
Maybe my twitter could be along the lines of "now i'm in a better place than my parents basement".
Ok yes, it's creepy...
Although most likely the military has enough resources to track traffic down, I can see it pretty simple. In their networks, there are computer holding classified information, which could be ex-filtrated by bad practices. One, coming to my mind is stenography. Imagine now, that a computer is "posting pictures" on a facebook profile that does not necessarily corresponds to the computer user. Therefore, hiding the data in plain sight.
I think it's a good measure to avoid data ex-filtration, until better mechanisms to detect it can be found.
Although, I know it's probably meant to be a joke. I don't see what's the problem. The person asking/. said he could get that data from the network.
Therefore, you can stick to the plan of wiping out, ok, not the whole hard drive, but perhaps a partition where you put your off-line sensitive data. In case, you make the mistake of not disabling the script, you just need to get access to the internet, and download it again from whatever your repository is. For the trouble of asking here, outrageous answers should be expected. That doesn't make them unfeasible.
I would say that the GP may be even right. It is a physics professor for 9th graders. Perhaps the submitter could elaborate more to which part of physics relating to electronic devices he would like to teach and certainly better projects than voltage regulators for their cellphones will come up.
I believe, 9th graders want to see cool stuff. Bulbs are nice because they are a way of showing that "something" is working. I think visual or audio signals encourage people as they are seeing the result all the time. So I also agree with you (the parent, not the grand parent) that LEDs would be a good way.
Now as for the question: Physics related to electronics for 9th graders? Tough, my ideas:
LM741 was always in my student life. Op-amps for feedback, amplification but particularly filtering are nice. I can think of million applications from a simple 3-band equalizer using filters and a power output to drive a speaker. To perhaps systems with satellite speakers and sub-woofers (which should also relate to propagation of bass and treble audio signals in physics).
On top of that some filter to average the signals, and show the intensity of each band using some LEDs (The placement of the LEDs depends on how cool you want them to look).
Photo-resistors, light and physics or ultra-sound. Person counters or the like (reflection and difraction?)
I believe you're right pointing out that "spam" and "scam" are different, but people have now tied those two really tight.
As for replying to spam? I'm guilty. Before I knew it wouldn't work, I replied several times asking them to remove me from their lists. Turns out, little attention they pay, unless for using your address to annoy you even more.
But yeah, I've replied to them as I believe "remove me from your list" falls into that category. Shame on me.
i was in fact talking about this with a friend recently. I went to one of those studies, where they put one of my feet in ice cold water. I didn't say a single word and the guy making the study told me how I was the one to least complain. Later on I told him I would probably would have complained more if it weren't because of the hot girl he had assiting him (and holdibg the bucket where my foot was in). So, who knows.
it's the eternal fight between intepreted vs. compiled languages. You are arguing that html is easier to read. Well , it's not, neither latex. The fact that you have an interpreter that i's more common (a browser) is another thing. But don't be confused reading a plain html is as or more annoying than reading a tex file. Please also remember that the "compiled" output of latex is dvi, not ps or pdf.
It's alive! The iPhone has the feature of killing bugs by means of fever. Probably people with the reported devices had signs of swine flu, or... Were the iPhones just trying to kill their owners already? That's some impressive AI!
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I agreed with you at the beginning. But, on a second thought, pop-ups may also be a good way to catch people that, in fact, click on them.
I mean, if people click on popups telling you they have a virus (and actually get one), why wouldn't they click on Comcast's window anyways.
People that don't click on popups or have them blocked, will simply keep ignoring them. It could be annoying though, but may work.
You're right, proof of that is that IE and Safari still add the string Mozilla to their User-Agents.
If that ensures compatibility, of Palm's products, I guess they are making the effort to keep their customers happy (even though iTunes, at least for Windows, is the worst piece of software ever).
There fixed that for you! The UID doesn't seem like he's new.
More important than the radio itself. I believe the biggest problem is if there is already a routing algorithm efficient enough to avoid draining the batteries of several cellphones just to find its way to the destination.
Seriously, like these?. Think again.
Isn't professional wrestling fantasy anyways?
Cellphone operating frequencies are licensed and paid for. Reason why a Jammer wouldn't be illegal.
On the other hand non-licensed frequencies require to keep their transmission power below certain level. However, that means that if you want to block people using your wireless you shouldn't be able to interfere people using their wireless, which makes the Jammer useless (unless of course you want to jam your own wireless, which would be, well, silly).
If it were the case where emergency calls cannot be blocked, then I guess paint would be illegal too.
I'm guessing spotting a prisoner using a cellphone in an open area would be a bit easier than indoors.
On the other hand, I would believe that in general any RF device can be attached to an antenna to provide gain and direction. Isn't possible to have the Jammer high up and aim it down right to the middle of the field using a fairly good antenna?
What about Buccaneers? That should do it!
By the way, there's no "Ahoy" tag?
Your analogy is more like a flier wrongly delivered. As far as I know, it's a federal crime opening packages that are not directly addressed to you. But this wasn't the case. They sent the information open to the recipient.
:)
I think I'll setup POP on GMail, in case I get one of those emails, I'll get to keep my own personal copy.
Hey, they need to make cars that have a competitive market. If you have 100k USD to spend on your next car, what would you buy? You need to think of that kind of people to pay for the development of future technology. Government is betting on the fact that a sports car could generate market and of course revenue to keep going.
;)
How many people have bought very expensive computers and cellphones, so others will get them later for around or less than $100 USD?
Sincerely, maybe they can even get some advise from Steve Jobs!
Hey, I had problems watching videos until I use the slider from Full Hardware Acceleration to Medium Hardware/Software acceleration. I thought that would take pressure from the crappy embedded graphics card and move it to the processor. Turns out the video runs now smoother than before.
Am I wrong thinking this slider uses the processor more now than before?
Also, the efficiency of pigeon carrier drops dramatically with packet losses:
1. Reliability: Acknowledgment of packets would require another mechanism, which increases costs.
2. Packet (or pigeon) losses, will get them into trouble with animal agencies, and will also be costly as the media also costs money.
3. Most important, possibility of being sued by people being sh*tted all over when massive data transmission is required.
If you ask me, I don't think this start-up will fly.
I believe there's tons of progress. It's not what Sci-Fi movies promised, but we have a very good platform.
Think of smartphones. To me those are Sci-Fi devices: fairly long lasting battery life device with tons of functionality. You have a great deal of information at your hands.
As many will argue, there are several advances in technology, that will not make it soon to the market for several reasons:
1. Commercial viable.
2. Standardization. More than progress, we are a bit condemned to follow more rules than before. Devices now require to meet several standard regulations from networking protocols to RF radiation.
3. Safety. I've known of mechanisms for unmanned cars, but until they meet safety regulations and tests, they won't be at the market. But AI has been making a good progress.
Even though economy drives the market, the fact that people resist to changes makes it even more complicated. (Note that now, before technology is deployed it also has to meet certain rules on society impact that were not necessary.
Progress has been done, but it's going to take now longer for people to see it because all the rules an regulations the should meet before they are released to the market as products.
During a real emergency, I'd assume some people fail to think about consequences of their acts. Some only think about the fastest way to get out of the place.
At this moment, it comes to mind that someone would try to go over the table, someone will follow that person, and when the table breaks, then it going to be a mess
I've talked to several people that havin their mind clear know perfectly what to do, but failed to follow those steps in real situations. Some situations as simple as a mouse running around generate stress the causes people to do unexpected things.
Now I'm wondering if this "simulation" had real stiuations or people were simply informed of the drill.
Sounds like a brilliant idea! What if laststatusupdate.com for example, changes my facebook status from single (we all know this is slashdot) to passed away.
Maybe my twitter could be along the lines of "now i'm in a better place than my parents basement".
Ok yes, it's creepy...
Although most likely the military has enough resources to track traffic down, I can see it pretty simple. In their networks, there are computer holding classified information, which could be ex-filtrated by bad practices. One, coming to my mind is stenography. Imagine now, that a computer is "posting pictures" on a facebook profile that does not necessarily corresponds to the computer user. Therefore, hiding the data in plain sight.
I think it's a good measure to avoid data ex-filtration, until better mechanisms to detect it can be found.
It seems to keep failing miserably. At least in my neighborhood.
It seems contradictory to me: willfail and porn tags don't seem to go together! Meh, maybe it's just me.
Although, I know it's probably meant to be a joke. I don't see what's the problem. The person asking /. said he could get that data from the network.
Therefore, you can stick to the plan of wiping out, ok, not the whole hard drive, but perhaps a partition where you put your off-line sensitive data. In case, you make the mistake of not disabling the script, you just need to get access to the internet, and download it again from whatever your repository is.
For the trouble of asking here, outrageous answers should be expected. That doesn't make them unfeasible.
I believe, 9th graders want to see cool stuff. Bulbs are nice because they are a way of showing that "something" is working. I think visual or audio signals encourage people as they are seeing the result all the time. So I also agree with you (the parent, not the grand parent) that LEDs would be a good way.
Now as for the question: Physics related to electronics for 9th graders? Tough, my ideas:
I believe you're right pointing out that "spam" and "scam" are different, but people have now tied those two really tight.
As for replying to spam? I'm guilty. Before I knew it wouldn't work, I replied several times asking them to remove me from their lists. Turns out, little attention they pay, unless for using your address to annoy you even more.
But yeah, I've replied to them as I believe "remove me from your list" falls into that category. Shame on me.
i was in fact talking about this with a friend recently. I went to one of those studies, where they put one of my feet in ice cold water. I didn't say a single word and the guy making the study told me how I was the one to least complain. Later on I told him I would probably would have complained more if it weren't because of the hot girl he had assiting him (and holdibg the bucket where my foot was in). So, who knows.
it's the eternal fight between intepreted vs. compiled languages. You are arguing that html is easier to read. Well , it's not, neither latex. The fact that you have an interpreter that i's more common (a browser) is another thing. But don't be confused reading a plain html is as or more annoying than reading a tex file.
Please also remember that the "compiled" output of latex is dvi, not ps or pdf.
it isn't a bug, it's a feature
It's alive! The iPhone has the feature of killing bugs by means of fever. Probably people with the reported devices had signs of swine flu, or... Were the iPhones just trying to kill their owners already? That's some impressive AI!