The good news is that they can only do this with highly directional lasers--as opposed to conventional lasers, which are not directional, I suppose coming from the use of non-coherent light . . .
Really, now. Is this a weak candidate for April 1 next year?
The California bar has sent out warning messages about these.
The version for attorneys has the attorney contacted from out of the country for help collecting a judgment, offering a typical contingency fee arrangement. The case quickly settles with the attorney involved, the attorney receives a cashier check, upon which no hold is put when he deposits it into his trust account (quite common for attorneys with a good relation with the bank who typically deposit institutional checks).
The attorney is then to wire the "client"'s share of the settlement to its own country . . .
Amazingly, many of these have been caught in time to save the attorney. I believe that some have been caught when the attorney called another attorney who had been named as the source of the "referral" who responded with, "who???".
somany ppl mock the bran-dead twits just for having n0thing 'mportant to say, fu elishly beleafing that 160 char messagesis senless. In fact, the explanation is
LyX was why I switched from Mac to Unix almost 15 years ago. You can both enter and edit equations from the keyboard.
The next best option is Word 4 or 5.1 for the mac--you can enter from the keyboard, and I had macros for matrices, integrals, etc.--but you can't edit *and* see the equation displayed at the same time.
My computational economics dissertation was on a theoretical genetics topic. We wanted to apply the algorithm to a real gene. The one for which which we had data was the ESR--the Estrogen Receptor Gene in swine--which influences litter size in swine.
The other way to look at it is that, being that I was at Iowa State, *of course* swine made it into my dissertation . . .
>I'm not sure why everyone keeps bringing this up.
Uhh, maybe because they destroyed a '58 Bel Air???
"Gee, why is everyone complaining that they destroyed some old picture of a lady that wasn't realy smiling while comparing the materials available to Michaelangelo to today's?":(
>Can you give a few examples of really original research?
1. BSOD 2. Putting a high level language (BASIC) onto an eight bit machine. 3. Moving the apple menu from the upper left to the lower left and
renaming it "start" 4. MBASIC5 was a significant forward leap for micros, particularly random file access and the
indexing (or whatever it was) of line numbers, so that the whole program didn't have to
be scanned on a GOTO or GOSUB. 5. MS Bob!:)
I did a statistical analysis off the year 2000 "recount" almost 9 years ago, looking at the counties with "unusual" results.
There were six counties in which the changed votes didn't fit the normal bell curve, four benefiting Gore and two Bush.
Both of Bush's and one of Gore's had rules in which replacement ballots were made for idiot voters who used an X rather than filling the bubble, explaining them.
One of Gore's had machine problems in the recount and stuck with the original figures.
And then there were the two counties, which accounted for the lion's share of the "correction" from the recount.
One of them was 50 standard deviations out--so far out that it is less likely than winning the California Lottery every week for thirteen weeks running . . .
I wasn't the only one to notice the oddity, but the sad fact is that noone cares . . .
Similar things have been reported for *at least* 30 years.
In the 1970's, I recall a sensor that clipped to eye glasses and connected to electrodes on the back of the user. I want to say that it was 16x16 or 32x32, but it provided enough "vision" to navigate and see objects.
A few months ago, iirc, was a report which used nerves on the tongue.
These reports are evolutionary, not revolutionary. A good thing, but it's not as if this is a breakthrough changing the world from "nothing to let the see" to "now they can see."
More efficient, easier to handle, lower cost--sure, but that's just the regular advancement of technology.
>Which is really as good as it can get - I mean when you design > for yourself in mind, you're bound to run into issues when its > released for someone not like you.
Yeah, they started hating other people's software:)
I did a bankruptcy program for myself a couple of years before I had secretaries (or that it set in that I *would* have them).
When forms changed, I bought another program. The secretaries were in within the week begging me to update mine.
My design specification and philosophy was simple: "Me human. You computer. Do the work."
If I had to enter the same information twice, or even something that I implied, it was wrong. E.g., any interface that asks for city, state, and zipcode is *WRONG*, and the author should be tortured.
Wait a minute, people *want* the emacs mouse heresy????
I stayed with an old version of emacs for years when that monstrosity happened, and gradually eliminated it for all but a couple of types of text replacement and reformatting.
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See, now if you had spent that long playing nethack, you'd be (almost) ready to ascend . . .
I dunno about these new-fangled games that you can win within five years.
And then there's them fancy "pic-tur" things in them. . . just not hte same as being attacked by a & and a D . . .
>"amazing considering that there was no trainer in the system;"
Execution of the less-skilled makes up for a lot of training . . .
The good news is that they can only do this with highly directional lasers--as opposed to conventional lasers, which are not directional, I suppose coming from the use of non-coherent light . . .
Really, now. Is this a weak candidate for April 1 next year?
At the tail end of XP/SP1 shipping (leftover units in the supply chain), some magazine tried to do a security article about it.
They found that it got compromised faster than it could download SP2, and that this was repeatable.
(yes, being behind a firewall probably would have made a difference).
hawk
We'll still call it "WinCE", which is what *really* matters . . .
The California bar has sent out warning messages about these.
The version for attorneys has the attorney contacted from out of the country for help collecting a judgment, offering a typical contingency fee arrangement. The case quickly settles with the attorney involved, the attorney receives a cashier check, upon which no hold is put when he deposits it into his trust account (quite common for attorneys with a good relation with the bank who typically deposit institutional checks).
The attorney is then to wire the "client"'s share of the settlement to its own country . . .
Amazingly, many of these have been caught in time to save the attorney. I believe that some have been caught when the attorney called another attorney who had been named as the source of the "referral" who responded with, "who???".
hawk, esq.
He left out the catches, though . . .
For some reason, my wife won't let me sit on the couch any more. I explained, but she insisted.
Changint the oil in two cars is hard work! I *need* to sprawl out afterwards . . . :)
hawk
somany ppl mock the bran-dead twits just for having n0thing 'mportant to say, fu
elishly beleafing that 160 char messagesis senless. In fact, the explanation is
Yeah, kittens are notorious for their dislike of red meat . . .
oh, wait . . . :)
hawk
Lyx for *entry* of equations, followed by LaTeX for editing of the document.
But then, my dissertation went on for pages at a time with matrix calculus . . . :)
LyX was why I switched from Mac to Unix almost 15 years ago. You can both enter and edit equations from the keyboard.
The next best option is Word 4 or 5.1 for the mac--you can enter from the keyboard, and I had macros for matrices, integrals, etc.--but you can't edit *and* see the equation displayed at the same time.
hawk
It's not that far-fetched.
My computational economics dissertation was on a theoretical genetics topic. We wanted to apply the algorithm to a real gene. The one for which which we had data was the ESR--the Estrogen Receptor Gene in swine--which influences litter size in swine.
The other way to look at it is that, being that I was at Iowa State, *of course* swine made it into my dissertation . . .
hawk
yeah, but they paid that "couple hundred" forty-two times, and still towed it . . .
It wasn't restored, but it was restorable (like the caddy in my garage).
hawk
>I'm not sure why everyone keeps bringing this up.
Uhh, maybe because they destroyed a '58 Bel Air???
"Gee, why is everyone complaining that they destroyed some old picture of a lady that wasn't realy smiling while comparing the materials available to Michaelangelo to today's?" :(
hawk
In fact, it sounds kind of like naming your daughter, "Chastity" . . .
hawk
>Can you give a few examples of really original research?
1. BSOD :)
2. Putting a high level language (BASIC) onto an eight bit machine.
3. Moving the apple menu from the upper left to the lower left and
renaming it "start"
4. MBASIC5 was a significant forward leap for micros, particularly random file access and the
indexing (or whatever it was) of line numbers, so that the whole program didn't have to
be scanned on a GOTO or GOSUB.
5. MS Bob!
hawk
Of course that's innovative. It replaced "doing what apple was doing eight years ago" at the time of System 5, err, I mean, Windows 95.
Inside stock tip: the next innovation will be "doing what IBM was doing 12 years ago." :)
hawk
I did a statistical analysis off the year 2000 "recount" almost 9 years ago, looking at the counties with "unusual" results.
There were six counties in which the changed votes didn't fit the normal bell curve, four benefiting Gore and two Bush.
Both of Bush's and one of Gore's had rules in which replacement ballots were made for idiot voters who used an X rather than filling the bubble, explaining them.
One of Gore's had machine problems in the recount and stuck with the original figures.
And then there were the two counties, which accounted for the lion's share of the "correction" from the recount.
One of them was 50 standard deviations out--so far out that it is less likely than winning the California Lottery every week for thirteen weeks running . . .
I wasn't the only one to notice the oddity, but the sad fact is that noone cares . . .
hawk
Similar things have been reported for *at least* 30 years.
In the 1970's, I recall a sensor that clipped to eye glasses and connected to electrodes on the back of the user. I want to say that it was 16x16 or 32x32, but it provided enough "vision" to navigate and see objects.
A few months ago, iirc, was a report which used nerves on the tongue.
These reports are evolutionary, not revolutionary. A good thing, but it's not as if this is a breakthrough changing the world from "nothing to let the see" to "now they can see."
More efficient, easier to handle, lower cost--sure, but that's just the regular advancement of technology.
hawk
The real risk would be a discovery that the combo is *less* vulnerable, or that all the vulnerabilities in the combo were on the IE side . . .
hawk
Not the least of which being the wheel spinning sideways, instead of in the plane perpendicular to its axle . . . :)
hawk
>Would you buy a car that didn't have a steering wheel?
Bah. That silly notion of Mr. Olds will blow over any day now. Wheels instead of tillers is just a fad.
OK, maybe next year it blows over. Next decade?
No way it will last a century.
Oh, wait . . .
hawk
>Which is really as good as it can get - I mean when you design
> for yourself in mind, you're bound to run into issues when its
> released for someone not like you.
Yeah, they started hating other people's software :)
I did a bankruptcy program for myself a couple of years before I had secretaries (or that it set in that I *would* have them).
When forms changed, I bought another program. The secretaries were in within the week begging me to update mine.
My design specification and philosophy was simple: "Me human. You computer. Do the work."
If I had to enter the same information twice, or even something that I implied, it was wrong. E.g., any interface that asks for city, state, and zipcode is *WRONG*, and the author should be tortured.
hawk
kids . . .
I learned programming cheating at star trek, loaded from tape . . .
Far more interesting than the atari . . .
what's a "nintendo"? Something you didn't mean to do, as in, "I nintended to shoot that klingon"?
hawk
Wait a minute, people *want* the emacs mouse heresy????
I stayed with an old version of emacs for years when that monstrosity happened, and gradually eliminated it for all but a couple of types of text replacement and reformatting.
hawk