But the official declined to say whether activating test mode requires additional hardware, software or simply additional knowledge of how the machines operate.
The official's reluctance to provide additional information on what is required to put it into test mode pretty much gives you your answer; you just need more information on how it works in order to put it in test mode.
I won't argue whether ads will make using it more of a bother than it is worth, but StreetView is useful in a non-novelty way in many situations.
Maybe you don't live in a city where this is an issue, but I often use it whenever I am traveling somewhere new (like a store or a persons home or apartment). This allows me to see a number of things that help me when I arrive: what does the store or building look like, so I can know when I see it? What is the parking situation like? Does it look like I ill be able to park in front, or is there a parking lot of some sort nearby?
In a city like San Francisco where I live, there is always a lot of traffic and not much parking, so you don't really have a chance to just drive slowly and try to figure it out when you get there. It is much easier to have an idea of what you will encounter before heading out.
Julian Heathcote Hobbins, General Counsel for the Federation Against Software Theft (FAST), spoke in defence of the software industry protecting its property rights
Could the guy have a more pretentious name? Really? Julian Heathcote Hobbins? Could that guy have any other job beside going around and telling people they are using the product they bought incorrectly?
I completely agree. I have only posted tweets for work purposes (an app we wrote has twitter support.... as everything does these days), but I search on twitter whenever I am trying to figure out up to the minute info on an event.
For example, a couple of days ago the police had a road near my house blocked off, and with a quick twitter search, I was able to learn that there were police and SWAT teams chasing a burglary suspect, and there were even posted pictures of the guy being taken into custody... all posted on twitter within a few minutes.
Twitter is perfect for that type of search, and up until now there has been nothing else that can satisfy that sort of up-to-date information gathering.
Strange... this would almost lead someone to conclude that these border patrol agents are some sort of collection of individuals whose behavior might vary.
Crypto wouldn't work... the cloner doesn't have to break the encryption to copy the chip.
Imagine in this way.... you have an encrypted hard drive, and someone wants to pass off their hard drive as yours. They don't have to break the encryption... they can copy the drive byte for byte, and hand it to the person who if verifying that is the original. The person checking the data is the one who does the decrypting.
I don't know if it will be that easy. These fingerprints seem to be based on the fact that all RFID chips have flaws, and they are all flawed in different ways.... including the device that is trying to act as the clone of the RFID. What this means is that this clone RFID has to be able to mimic EXACTLY the flaws of the real thing without giving itself away by its OWN flaws. Without knowing more details about the flaws they are trying to measure, it is hard to say whether that would be possible. If the flaws are easily mimicked in the sense that you can create a clone whose own defects are not detected because they are all superseded by the original's flaws, it may work. If they vary so much that every clone will have some flaw that is severe enough to shine through, it would be impossible.
There is a difference between a normal password and a password used for encryption. For example, a password to log in to a website does not need to be able to handle 4 million guesses a second.... it will be rate limited by the website way before that happens.
You only need to choose a large random password for encryption that you need to be able to handle a local access attack..... like hard drive encryption... so you most likely only need one. so it is probably something you don't have to type in very often..... and you can choose something you never change, as a local disk attack is unlikely to occur without you realizing it, at which point you can know to change your password to something new and very long.
So you have to physically open the safe every time you want to back up you data? That sounds like quite a bit of a hassle to me, and I can imagine you start skipping days because you it is too much work to open the black box, take out the hard drive, connect it, run the back up, put the drive back in the safe, and lock it back up... with an online backup, your backups can take place automatically every couple of hours without having to physically move anything.
I don't think this is necessarily fair. Laws inherently need to be complex, as they address complex issues. While you may find a person that can fully understand ONE area of law, it would be impossible to find a single congressperson (or any person) who could understand fully ALL the laws that cover all areas of government. Take an environmental protection law for example... to fully understand the consequences of a carbon tax, for example, you would need to be an expert in climate science, economics, etc... you will never find anyone that is an expert in all of the things required.
What you hope, is that a congressperson surrounds himself with the necessary experts, who brief him/her as well as they can on the things they have to know to come to a sound decision. Anyone who thinks they can understand all of the consequences of a law all by themselves is delusional.
of COURSE they aren't real researchers. The summary writer mistakenly thought the study authors were from UCLA, which would mean they would have been some of the smartest, unbiased, amazing people in the world. However, they were actually from USC, meaning they were spoiled, unprofessional, RIAA lapdogs who also smell.
And yes I happened to go to UCLA, but that is besides the point.
These guys are from USC, not UCLA. As a UCLA graduate, I am extremely upset that anyone would make this mistake. USC students and professors are smelly, unclean, spoiled children who work for the RIAA. UCLA students and professors are the opposite.
So how do you propose we pay for roads/police/fireman/military etc..... you are saying we are ALWAYS worse if the government takes some money to pay for these things? I think we would be much much worse if we weren't taxed and these things weren't paid for.
Coalinga is a shithole... literally... it is in California on I-5 between northern california and southern california.. and it is completely filled with cows..and smells like shit.. whenever I see the sign for Coalinga i know to roll up my windows and turn the AC on inside only.
Wow your math sucks. But don't worry, I will teach you math.. and it will only cost you a penny today, and then we will just double the cost every day after that for a month or so.
Well then it is a good thing that they never made any legal threats... if you RTFS, you will see that the law was never invoked. I am struggling to see how your post has any bearing on this case.
That would work if we started funding them like schools... it's not as if the money they make from athletics goes into the chancellor's pocket... it goes to fund the school.. whether better facilities, more classes, or what not. Universities (especially public ones) are underfunded a huge amount... and they have requirements that they MUST accept a certain percentage of students (at least for the University of California and the California State Universities).. so they have to find funding somewhere... I would rather they have a school football team than an increased tuition...
So given the percentage of total participants who were from china, the expected number of finalists if they were randomly selected would be about 15 out of 70... and it ends up being 20. This is hardly statistically significant, and given the countless ways this could be affected, to come to this strong conclusion about the support of math and science is just silly.
Although maybe making such a dubious conclusion with little statistically significant evidence actually supports the thesis that the US struggles with math... or at least slashdot submitters do
I think it is like the Superbowl, but instead of playing a sport they kick around a little ball and occasionally fall to the ground and roll around pretending they were shot.
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But the official declined to say whether activating test mode requires additional hardware, software or simply additional knowledge of how the machines operate.
The official's reluctance to provide additional information on what is required to put it into test mode pretty much gives you your answer; you just need more information on how it works in order to put it in test mode.
I won't argue whether ads will make using it more of a bother than it is worth, but StreetView is useful in a non-novelty way in many situations.
Maybe you don't live in a city where this is an issue, but I often use it whenever I am traveling somewhere new (like a store or a persons home or apartment). This allows me to see a number of things that help me when I arrive: what does the store or building look like, so I can know when I see it? What is the parking situation like? Does it look like I ill be able to park in front, or is there a parking lot of some sort nearby?
In a city like San Francisco where I live, there is always a lot of traffic and not much parking, so you don't really have a chance to just drive slowly and try to figure it out when you get there. It is much easier to have an idea of what you will encounter before heading out.
Julian Heathcote Hobbins, General Counsel for the Federation Against Software Theft (FAST), spoke in defence of the software industry protecting its property rights
Could the guy have a more pretentious name? Really? Julian Heathcote Hobbins? Could that guy have any other job beside going around and telling people they are using the product they bought incorrectly?
I completely agree. I have only posted tweets for work purposes (an app we wrote has twitter support.... as everything does these days), but I search on twitter whenever I am trying to figure out up to the minute info on an event.
For example, a couple of days ago the police had a road near my house blocked off, and with a quick twitter search, I was able to learn that there were police and SWAT teams chasing a burglary suspect, and there were even posted pictures of the guy being taken into custody... all posted on twitter within a few minutes.
Twitter is perfect for that type of search, and up until now there has been nothing else that can satisfy that sort of up-to-date information gathering.
Citation: http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/12/27/212221/German-Wikipedia-Passes-One-Million-Article-Mark?art_pos=1
Ha! I have been shaming and banning fat people for years now. Where is my patent?
Strange... this would almost lead someone to conclude that these border patrol agents are some sort of collection of individuals whose behavior might vary.
Nah, that is just silly.
Nowadays things still die when you kill them with fire
Crypto wouldn't work... the cloner doesn't have to break the encryption to copy the chip.
Imagine in this way.... you have an encrypted hard drive, and someone wants to pass off their hard drive as yours. They don't have to break the encryption... they can copy the drive byte for byte, and hand it to the person who if verifying that is the original. The person checking the data is the one who does the decrypting.
I don't know if it will be that easy. These fingerprints seem to be based on the fact that all RFID chips have flaws, and they are all flawed in different ways.... including the device that is trying to act as the clone of the RFID. What this means is that this clone RFID has to be able to mimic EXACTLY the flaws of the real thing without giving itself away by its OWN flaws. Without knowing more details about the flaws they are trying to measure, it is hard to say whether that would be possible. If the flaws are easily mimicked in the sense that you can create a clone whose own defects are not detected because they are all superseded by the original's flaws, it may work. If they vary so much that every clone will have some flaw that is severe enough to shine through, it would be impossible.
There is a difference between a normal password and a password used for encryption. For example, a password to log in to a website does not need to be able to handle 4 million guesses a second.... it will be rate limited by the website way before that happens.
You only need to choose a large random password for encryption that you need to be able to handle a local access attack..... like hard drive encryption... so you most likely only need one. so it is probably something you don't have to type in very often..... and you can choose something you never change, as a local disk attack is unlikely to occur without you realizing it, at which point you can know to change your password to something new and very long.
So you have to physically open the safe every time you want to back up you data? That sounds like quite a bit of a hassle to me, and I can imagine you start skipping days because you it is too much work to open the black box, take out the hard drive, connect it, run the back up, put the drive back in the safe, and lock it back up... with an online backup, your backups can take place automatically every couple of hours without having to physically move anything.
Also, what happens if the black box is stolen?
I don't think this is necessarily fair. Laws inherently need to be complex, as they address complex issues. While you may find a person that can fully understand ONE area of law, it would be impossible to find a single congressperson (or any person) who could understand fully ALL the laws that cover all areas of government. Take an environmental protection law for example... to fully understand the consequences of a carbon tax, for example, you would need to be an expert in climate science, economics, etc... you will never find anyone that is an expert in all of the things required.
What you hope, is that a congressperson surrounds himself with the necessary experts, who brief him/her as well as they can on the things they have to know to come to a sound decision. Anyone who thinks they can understand all of the consequences of a law all by themselves is delusional.
of COURSE they aren't real researchers. The summary writer mistakenly thought the study authors were from UCLA, which would mean they would have been some of the smartest, unbiased, amazing people in the world. However, they were actually from USC, meaning they were spoiled, unprofessional, RIAA lapdogs who also smell.
And yes I happened to go to UCLA, but that is besides the point.
These guys are from USC, not UCLA. As a UCLA graduate, I am extremely upset that anyone would make this mistake. USC students and professors are smelly, unclean, spoiled children who work for the RIAA. UCLA students and professors are the opposite.
Never, EVER, confuse us again.
That's not fair! They print on very nice paper.
I wasn't responding to the merits of sales vs. other taxes. I was responding to:
Every time the government sucks a penny out of the economy we are all the worse for it
Which would imply that ANY tax is always bad.
So how do you propose we pay for roads/police/fireman/military etc..... you are saying we are ALWAYS worse if the government takes some money to pay for these things? I think we would be much much worse if we weren't taxed and these things weren't paid for.
Coalinga is a shithole... literally... it is in California on I-5 between northern california and southern california.. and it is completely filled with cows..and smells like shit.. whenever I see the sign for Coalinga i know to roll up my windows and turn the AC on inside only.
Wow your math sucks. But don't worry, I will teach you math.. and it will only cost you a penny today, and then we will just double the cost every day after that for a month or so.
Well then it is a good thing that they never made any legal threats... if you RTFS, you will see that the law was never invoked. I am struggling to see how your post has any bearing on this case.
Here in San Francisco, I am pretty sure everyone and their mother has an iPhone. It feels like a novelty to see another phone.
That would work if we started funding them like schools... it's not as if the money they make from athletics goes into the chancellor's pocket... it goes to fund the school.. whether better facilities, more classes, or what not. Universities (especially public ones) are underfunded a huge amount... and they have requirements that they MUST accept a certain percentage of students (at least for the University of California and the California State Universities).. so they have to find funding somewhere... I would rather they have a school football team than an increased tuition...
So given the percentage of total participants who were from china, the expected number of finalists if they were randomly selected would be about 15 out of 70... and it ends up being 20. This is hardly statistically significant, and given the countless ways this could be affected, to come to this strong conclusion about the support of math and science is just silly.
Although maybe making such a dubious conclusion with little statistically significant evidence actually supports the thesis that the US struggles with math... or at least slashdot submitters do
I think it is like the Superbowl, but instead of playing a sport they kick around a little ball and occasionally fall to the ground and roll around pretending they were shot.