It requires a memory dump of the system where the keys are used. Bad submitter. Is anyone filtering the submissions? This is starting to look like reddit.
It was supposed to be a joke about anything that disrupts online advertising being a good thing, but apparently my sense of humor is incompatible with Slashdot.
I use Millenicom, who resells Sprint, and in my area Sprint started injecting JavaScript into every page that comes over HTTP to recompress all the jpegs to a much lower quality setting.
That, at least, I could block. Now they just recompress all jpegs that come over http to a horrible level. If I want to keep the internet from looking like ass, I have to use a secure tunnel. Which is obnoxiously slow on 3G.
(Unfortunately, there's nothing Millenicom can do about it. It's up to Sprint. And there's no opt-out.)
How does that even work? The javascript would run locally on your computer, what effect would recompressing the images that area already downloaded have, other than pissing people off?
Let me make sure I understand your complaint... You went to a website that helps you apply for, and get in to schools. After you filled out applications for those schools you got upset when they called you to discuss the information you sent in your application? I don't understand where the problem is, am I missing something?
'Now, when you encounter encounters the letters T-A-J-M-A-H-A-L on any Web page, the computers suddenly start understanding that this document is about the monument, and this one is about the musician, and this one is about a restaurant,' Singhal says. 'That 'aboutness' is foundational to building the search of tomorrow.'"
Or, type:
taj mahal
and then follow that with:
"monument" or
"musician" or
"restaurant"
Depending on what you're fucking looking for.
Well, yes... I think you missed the point though. The knowledge graph doesn't interpret what you type, it interprets the pages that are searched for. So if you search for "taj mehal restaurant" it will know that a page that only contains "taj mahal" but never actually mentions "restaurant" is actually about restaurants version based on the rest of the page's context.
IIRC, your standard message pump in Windows won't send mouse events to your window if you don't have focus. Which means they had to do something extra to make it happen. Not for, say, Magnifier, but for a mere web browser.
Craziness.
Chrome (a mere web browser) receives mouse events when not in focus also. Just put another window on top of it and hover the mouse over the back button. You will see it's state change.
Maybe someone can answer this, but aren't netflix apps "aware" of the display quality of device they are on? For example, does Netflix on my ipod (640x960) request the same bitrate file as Netflix on my HDTV (1920x1080)?
Because if not, is it really fair to compare a wireless carrier's avg stream speed (mostly serving netflix to smartphones) to that of traditional in-the-ground ISP (mostly serving netflix to dedicated hi-def devices)?
My guess is that they are only using data from connections where the quality had to be lowered due to bandwidth constraints. Even at a bitrate lower than the maximum the data would still indicate that the link has a sustained minimum bandwidth of AT LEAST some amount.
It seems like a huge major shuffling of media sources has gone around behind the scenes, even apple itunes 11, youtube, and windows 8 have all been raped and dumbed down.
Maybe now that Console games are starting to get dumbed down and crippled to run on phones the console players will finally understand the frustration PC Gamers have been going through for the last 10 years or so.
How would something like this hold up under real world use? Clothing is bent and folded, individual fibers are often pinched very tightly and broken. Since electricity requires a closed circuit, wouldn't a break and a fiber render that fiber useless for producing electricity?
That means that when the US government sends them out on domestic civilian pacification/suppression/reconnaissance missions, the people can shoot them down without feeling bad about killing people
You mean other than the people that the downed chopper crashes on?
If they are "losing" money due to "piracy" then why does Piracy NEVER show up on the balance books for EACH movie?
I'm actually surprised that it doesn't. It would make the whole "Hollywood Accounting" thing easier to pull off, letting them pay the actors and writers even less because the film made less money.
You do realize that Steam is little more than an advertising platform for games, right?
Hell, I count 60 advertisements when I visit the steam store, between the games, Valve Store, Steam Mobile, Gifting on Steam, and, of course, Big Picture.
Hmm.. I shut down Steam and then opened it up fresh. This is the first screen that came up http://i.imgur.com/wviMA.jpg Not a single advertisement to be seen.
They have a built-in weight sensor, how come they don't know when they're full? At rush hour, elevators are always full and they still stop on every fucking floor because especially at rush hour, there are always people waiting outside. And of course nobody can get in and nobody wants to get out. That's hardly an optimization conundrum, it's sheer stupidity.
Just because the volume of the elevator is physically full of people doesn't mean that it's at it's maximum weight. Not every person weighs the same and takes up the same amount of floor space.
Point taken. However that doesn't change the fact that my money doesn't belong to someone else just because the money was once owned by them before it was paid to me.
And my salary is paid out of profits from the company I work for that came from other people buying things from them. That doesn't make it their money.
Whenever I hear these types of arguments I always think there must be some psychological term for this. That is, whenever someone has been deprived of some benefit, it is all too easy to get him to rally behind depriving others of the same.
I always think of it as "It was hard for me, so I'll make damn sure it's hard for you!" syndrome.
you are confused, modularity is about integrating parts into a single module and reducing part counts. It is the best solution targeting the majority of use cases, not the fringe hobbyist. look at your motherboard sometime, already hundreds of components already soldered in (see those little diodes, resistors, and capacitors? you would have them separately replaceable?)
If modularity were about reducing part count then the end goal would be a single part, which is the exact opposite of modular design.
No, I would not want each resistor in my motherboard to be socketed and replaceable, but I also do NOT consider those parts to be modular. If they were modular then they would be easily replaceable.
I haven't upgraded the CPU in a very long time. I do, however, buy my motherboard and CPU separately in the previous 4 systems I built in order to get the exact components that I want at the best prices.
Some things don't scale well. Like with the space race - humanity went from sending a pound of metal into low orbit to putting a man on the moon within 12 years. Everybody assumed that by 2012 we would be colonizing the moons of Jupiter. Yet it turned out human space travel becomes exponentially difficult with the distance.
I'm afraid the same thing goes for software. The more complicated it gets the more fragile it is.
It didn't become exponentially more difficult. It became exponentially more boring to the average person, and lost virtually all it's funding.
It's not so much the direct lack of LTE that's a problem for me, but the fact that not having LTE means it won't run on Verizon or Sprint's network. I was anxiously waiting for the new Android phones so that I could switch to Ting (which runs over Sprint).
Taking attendance pinpoints your location once an hour. RFID allows the school to pinpoint your location every second of the day. School uniforms don't allow you to track things like how many times a student goes to the restroom and how long she stays there each time. School uniforms don't allow you to analyze which other students she hangs around with or who her boyfriend is likely to be.
Umm.. No, it's doesn't. RFID isn't GPS. You need RFID readers to access the location. Unless they covered the entire school in RFID detecting wallpaper they don't know where the students are "every second of the day". I honestly don't know how the readers are laid out in this school, but based on every other RFID deployment I've seen they have readers located ONLY at the classroom entrances, and possibly the entrance and exits of the building it's self. All that will tell them is what the last classroom sensor they last passed was. Nothing about their romantic lives or who them hang out with, just what classroom they are in. It's no different than taking attendance.
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It requires a memory dump of the system where the keys are used. Bad submitter. Is anyone filtering the submissions? This is starting to look like reddit.
Which you can get VERY easily if the computer has a firewire port.
http://blogs.gnome.org/muelli/2010/04/reading-ram-using-firewire/
It was supposed to be a joke about anything that disrupts online advertising being a good thing, but apparently my sense of humor is incompatible with Slashdot.
So what you are saying is, there is no down side?
I use Millenicom, who resells Sprint, and in my area Sprint started injecting JavaScript into every page that comes over HTTP to recompress all the jpegs to a much lower quality setting.
That, at least, I could block. Now they just recompress all jpegs that come over http to a horrible level. If I want to keep the internet from looking like ass, I have to use a secure tunnel. Which is obnoxiously slow on 3G.
(Unfortunately, there's nothing Millenicom can do about it. It's up to Sprint. And there's no opt-out.)
How does that even work? The javascript would run locally on your computer, what effect would recompressing the images that area already downloaded have, other than pissing people off?
Let me make sure I understand your complaint... You went to a website that helps you apply for, and get in to schools. After you filled out applications for those schools you got upset when they called you to discuss the information you sent in your application? I don't understand where the problem is, am I missing something?
'Now, when you encounter encounters the letters T-A-J-M-A-H-A-L on any Web page, the computers suddenly start understanding that this document is about the monument, and this one is about the musician, and this one is about a restaurant,' Singhal says. 'That 'aboutness' is foundational to building the search of tomorrow.'"
Or, type:
taj mahal
and then follow that with:
"monument" or
"musician" or
"restaurant"
Depending on what you're fucking looking for.
Well, yes... I think you missed the point though. The knowledge graph doesn't interpret what you type, it interprets the pages that are searched for. So if you search for "taj mehal restaurant" it will know that a page that only contains "taj mahal" but never actually mentions "restaurant" is actually about restaurants version based on the rest of the page's context.
IIRC, your standard message pump in Windows won't send mouse events to your window if you don't have focus. Which means they had to do something extra to make it happen. Not for, say, Magnifier, but for a mere web browser.
Craziness.
Chrome (a mere web browser) receives mouse events when not in focus also. Just put another window on top of it and hover the mouse over the back button. You will see it's state change.
Maybe someone can answer this, but aren't netflix apps "aware" of the display quality of device they are on? For example, does Netflix on my ipod (640x960) request the same bitrate file as Netflix on my HDTV (1920x1080)?
Because if not, is it really fair to compare a wireless carrier's avg stream speed (mostly serving netflix to smartphones) to that of traditional in-the-ground ISP (mostly serving netflix to dedicated hi-def devices)?
My guess is that they are only using data from connections where the quality had to be lowered due to bandwidth constraints. Even at a bitrate lower than the maximum the data would still indicate that the link has a sustained minimum bandwidth of AT LEAST some amount.
It seems like a huge major shuffling of media sources has gone around behind the scenes, even apple itunes 11, youtube, and windows 8 have all been raped and dumbed down.
Maybe now that Console games are starting to get dumbed down and crippled to run on phones the console players will finally understand the frustration PC Gamers have been going through for the last 10 years or so.
How would something like this hold up under real world use? Clothing is bent and folded, individual fibers are often pinched very tightly and broken. Since electricity requires a closed circuit, wouldn't a break and a fiber render that fiber useless for producing electricity?
That means that when the US government sends them out on domestic civilian pacification/suppression/reconnaissance missions, the people can shoot them down without feeling bad about killing people
You mean other than the people that the downed chopper crashes on?
Exactly.
If they are "losing" money due to "piracy" then why does Piracy NEVER show up on the balance books for EACH movie?
I'm actually surprised that it doesn't. It would make the whole "Hollywood Accounting" thing easier to pull off, letting them pay the actors and writers even less because the film made less money.
You do realize that Steam is little more than an advertising platform for games, right?
Hell, I count 60 advertisements when I visit the steam store, between the games, Valve Store, Steam Mobile, Gifting on Steam, and, of course, Big Picture.
Hmm.. I shut down Steam and then opened it up fresh. This is the first screen that came up http://i.imgur.com/wviMA.jpg
Not a single advertisement to be seen.
...it's up there with the XBox 360...
It's jam-packed full of advertising, leaving 1/10th of the screen for actual content?
They have a built-in weight sensor, how come they don't know when they're full? At rush hour, elevators are always full and they still stop on every fucking floor because especially at rush hour, there are always people waiting outside. And of course nobody can get in and nobody wants to get out. That's hardly an optimization conundrum, it's sheer stupidity.
Just because the volume of the elevator is physically full of people doesn't mean that it's at it's maximum weight. Not every person weighs the same and takes up the same amount of floor space.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negligent_homicide
Point taken. However that doesn't change the fact that my money doesn't belong to someone else just because the money was once owned by them before it was paid to me.
Well, his salary is paid out of your taxes...
And my salary is paid out of profits from the company I work for that came from other people buying things from them. That doesn't make it their money.
Whenever I hear these types of arguments I always think there must be some psychological term for this. That is, whenever someone has been deprived of some benefit, it is all too easy to get him to rally behind depriving others of the same.
I always think of it as "It was hard for me, so I'll make damn sure it's hard for you!" syndrome.
you are confused, modularity is about integrating parts into a single module and reducing part counts. It is the best solution targeting the majority of use cases, not the fringe hobbyist. look at your motherboard sometime, already hundreds of components already soldered in (see those little diodes, resistors, and capacitors? you would have them separately replaceable?)
If modularity were about reducing part count then the end goal would be a single part, which is the exact opposite of modular design.
No, I would not want each resistor in my motherboard to be socketed and replaceable, but I also do NOT consider those parts to be modular. If they were modular then they would be easily replaceable.
soldering in the CPU cuts cost and makes for easier modular replacement with less troubleshooting if something goes wrong.
How does making the parts non-modular make for easier modular replacement?
I haven't upgraded the CPU in a very long time. I do, however, buy my motherboard and CPU separately in the previous 4 systems I built in order to get the exact components that I want at the best prices.
Some things don't scale well. Like with the space race - humanity went from sending a pound of metal into low orbit to putting a man on the moon within 12 years. Everybody assumed that by 2012 we would be colonizing the moons of Jupiter. Yet it turned out human space travel becomes exponentially difficult with the distance.
I'm afraid the same thing goes for software. The more complicated it gets the more fragile it is.
It didn't become exponentially more difficult. It became exponentially more boring to the average person, and lost virtually all it's funding.
It's not so much the direct lack of LTE that's a problem for me, but the fact that not having LTE means it won't run on Verizon or Sprint's network. I was anxiously waiting for the new Android phones so that I could switch to Ting (which runs over Sprint).
Taking attendance pinpoints your location once an hour. RFID allows the school to pinpoint your location every second of the day. School uniforms don't allow you to track things like how many times a student goes to the restroom and how long she stays there each time. School uniforms don't allow you to analyze which other students she hangs around with or who her boyfriend is likely to be.
Umm.. No, it's doesn't. RFID isn't GPS. You need RFID readers to access the location. Unless they covered the entire school in RFID detecting wallpaper they don't know where the students are "every second of the day". I honestly don't know how the readers are laid out in this school, but based on every other RFID deployment I've seen they have readers located ONLY at the classroom entrances, and possibly the entrance and exits of the building it's self. All that will tell them is what the last classroom sensor they last passed was. Nothing about their romantic lives or who them hang out with, just what classroom they are in. It's no different than taking attendance.