With digital (cable) TV here, the cable cos know what you are watching and how long.
As a former TV repair tech, I've seen how Nielsen rigs sets to track users; It's not just a set-top box that tracks your channel, but is WAY more intrusive than that.
Speaking of CRT TVs, they cut holes in the TV cabinet with leads from that box; these leads were wired to the V sync of the TV (don't know why, maybe verify the TV is on?) and the speakers (presumably to monitor volume and muting habits) and other places I can't remember....
I have not seen a more modern flat panel wigged with a Nielsen box yet...
Are we now to be harassed if badged-mongoloids see us on the internet and its not a blue "e" icon?
Akin to this previous/. story where one of them saw a student using a CLI
I was thinking the same thing. What if we had a wild worm that generated large "random" files named as a previous poster said "killobama.txt.crypt" or "bankaccounts.db.crypt" etc etc. Anything to set off carnivore and the rest of us can have legitimate files of the same name (but maybe not with implied-by-filename content)
This.
I hate applications that do not use the standard GUI - a user application should follow the same look and feel of the windowing system. If I have theme X on my desktop, all applications should look that way. Most of the main messengers do not adhere to UI (msn, aim, yim. I haven't used ICQ since 2000 - can't comment) of the host system. Not even looking at the ribbon of O'07, the frame of the windows doesn't even adhere to the current theme. I detested IE7+ because the menu bar can't be the topmost element on the UI.
I don't like using X-ported apps on windows because they generally have a shitty control UI
I remember many years ago a spot on the Discovery channel about cheap glasses for the village people in Africa, it was two lenses, one flexible with a tube protruding from one of the ear stems where you would pump clear epoxy in between the lenses to the desired focus, the epoxy would set and viola; cheap prescription glasses. These were already in production. TFA's idea is identical sans hardening of said liquid.
No one cares. And with the shim method, you can just sit in your car with the cables going through your window if you don't want to look like you are loitering.
And yes it is very common for SF'ers to sit in the car on an empty meter for 'errands', even double parking for a few minutes.
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With digital (cable) TV here, the cable cos know what you are watching and how long.
As a former TV repair tech, I've seen how Nielsen rigs sets to track users; It's not just a set-top box that tracks your channel, but is WAY more intrusive than that.
Speaking of CRT TVs, they cut holes in the TV cabinet with leads from that box; these leads were wired to the V sync of the TV (don't know why, maybe verify the TV is on?) and the speakers (presumably to monitor volume and muting habits) and other places I can't remember....
I have not seen a more modern flat panel wigged with a Nielsen box yet...
Again, kdawson fails at searching.
http://science.slashdot.org/story/04/11/23/161256/BrainPort-Allows-People-To-Reclaim-Damaged-Senses
Are we now to be harassed if badged-mongoloids see us on the internet and its not a blue "e" icon? /. story where one of them saw a student using a CLI
Akin to this previous
Looks like; cood head crash photos: http://www.astro.ufl.edu/~ken/crash/index.html
This is just a mock up, the video you see is edited in. As they pan/zoom around the video disconnects from the window.
You though thtis, too?
Every time I see "320x240" as a resolution I think "Doom!"
It'd be a fluke if you got it the first time.
Not a favorite author here for technicalities, but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deception_Point
Were they observed solo, or was the dog merely following herds of people crossing...
May 2007
Re: emoticons and east asia (japan) focusing on eyes:
http://science.slashdot.org/story/07/05/13/059239/Culture-Determines-Which-Emoticon-You-Use
I was thinking the same thing. What if we had a wild worm that generated large "random" files named as a previous poster said "killobama.txt.crypt" or "bankaccounts.db.crypt" etc etc. Anything to set off carnivore and the rest of us can have legitimate files of the same name (but maybe not with implied-by-filename content)
You may have a hidden volume inside an unencrypted one. It is essentially a disk image that TC mounts as an encrypted volume.
It's configurable since IE vForever.0
This.
I hate applications that do not use the standard GUI - a user application should follow the same look and feel of the windowing system. If I have theme X on my desktop, all applications should look that way. Most of the main messengers do not adhere to UI (msn, aim, yim. I haven't used ICQ since 2000 - can't comment) of the host system. Not even looking at the ribbon of O'07, the frame of the windows doesn't even adhere to the current theme. I detested IE7+ because the menu bar can't be the topmost element on the UI.
I don't like using X-ported apps on windows because they generally have a shitty control UI
I remember many years ago a spot on the Discovery channel about cheap glasses for the village people in Africa, it was two lenses, one flexible with a tube protruding from one of the ear stems where you would pump clear epoxy in between the lenses to the desired focus, the epoxy would set and viola; cheap prescription glasses. These were already in production. TFA's idea is identical sans hardening of said liquid.
Yes, syphilis is quite nasty.
Maglev?
Why not? I wouldn't mind having one as my landline.
No one cares. And with the shim method, you can just sit in your car with the cables going through your window if you don't want to look like you are loitering. And yes it is very common for SF'ers to sit in the car on an empty meter for 'errands', even double parking for a few minutes.
While we may be stuck with adobe for flash & shockwave, users should not be using reader at all. It is complete and utter bloatware.
FoxIt or Sumatra for Windows are the better, slimmer PDF reader alternatives. And Linux has its many other readers.
Never link to a bank (check) account, use a CC where you have some power to withhold transactions
Wait, you trusted them in the first place?
Digital Fortess, also by Dan Brown, is a year older than that and centers around cryptograpohy. Though it is Fiction.
Digital Fortress (Dan Brown) has some cryptology thrills in it as well, a year prior to Cryptonomicon
That is not visible to our eyes?
Dude.. Wait...
What?