They've had the ability to make cellphones waterproof for nearly 10 years and haven't bothered. My guess is it's an added expense and the make a lot of money from people that run their phones through the wash. Hell, I had one die after I left it on the counter while I took a shower. Think they've fix that with these "flexible" phones? I doubt it... and it's a far more common cause of phone failure than braking the actual phone.
Cashier hands customer small object warm off the 3D printer. "That will be $49.95 sir" Customer points object at cashier: BANG Walks out of store muttering: "That was easy!"
I dunno about this article. I've used just about everything out there... I used Kaspersky for a very long time, and in my opinion was the best for a long while. I very rarely got an infection. But when I switched to MS Security Essentials I was DONE with virus. I haven't had a single computer in my house (and I have 5) get infected since I started using it. And just so you know I'm not a Microsoft shill, fuck Microsoft, they suck, I pirate their god damned OS... fuck em. Anyways, Security essentials works great. I rutinely still scan with other AV if I'm having any sort of issue just to be sure, but nothing. I really think it comes down to useability. It just works well and integrates with windows well.
The article talks alot about 0-day exploits and such... but really, how many of us are going to get hit with one of those? I mean yes, I'd rather be protected, but at the expense of some of the draconian tactics some other packages lock your computer up in? Install Bit Deffender and then try installing some open source, macroing utility or something and the damned thing goes nuts.
Marketing departments push their most profitable product lines. That's what they do. I guarantee you this laptop is probably one of the most profitable consumer level laptops they have because of this. If it sells well at all, they'll be pushing it like mad.
You're stuck in a ship. Other players can join you in your ship. The ship has a computer that you can program, in assembly. You can install an operating system so you can use an easier language to get things done. Your view out of the ship will be VIA this computer... imagine what a 16 bit CPU can show you. Through this limited view, you can navigate, interact with other players etc... Multiple ships can be networked together... given that, you could potentially build a much more powerful CPU by having a networked "fleet" If something breaks on the ship, you have to physically run around the ship to fix it. There are guns so I'm assuming you can be boarded, or board other peoples ships When you log out, your ship is still active in the universe. Your computer can be programmed to do things while you're offline. They want the graphics to have a low polygon count "feel" even if the counts not all that low. Think "Tron"
This is my understanding of the game so far. I could be wrong on some parts and they could change a lot before release. I'm personally excited. It seems like it will have a very interesting 80s retro "lost in space" feel.
Infrared temp sensors can read temperatures at a distance. Put one on the front and back, and you could easily figure out where the user is and use the temp on the other side. Of course, that'd only get the temp of the room your in. But if you compared multiple readings all day, and only took ones that were close to what the local airport said, you could then throw out the rest. Obviously it's not 72 in Canada right now... but then the user walks outside and it drops suddenly to 25 degrees, and you have a reading.
Everyone calm down. It's only $50. Imagine for a second if it were $50 cheaper than the Windows version... All of Dells usual idiot customers would show up, find the computer, do a search for the model... see this linux thing... "Save $50?!?! Hell yea!" and order it... Once it arrives and they boot it up and try to install their casino poker game... they call up Dell support... "What do you mean I can't install this?!?!"
Dell NEEDS to put a barrier between the average customer and a product that could cause them a lot of support costs. They need to do their very best to make sure that only people who know what they are buying get this laptop. Money is the easiest way to do that. If you don't want to pay the $50, just order the windows version and wipe it when it arrives. It's not that hard.
In-dash car stereos suck... they always have, and they always will. Lets be honest here, these "Systems" are nothing more than glorified car stereos. If you want to save some money on your car, get one without this nonsense per-installed and install your own after-market system for $200. You can replace it whenever you want then. When you get the factory system, it's often so integrated, removing it becomes a real problem.
I've held a theory for a very long time, that I fear advanced civilizations snuff themselves out with science all the time. I fear, that it's almost inevitable that it happens, and that it's not nuclear war or global warming that does them in. Dangerous things that we see coming... But the sudden surprise discovery that does it. Lets say we invent some marvelous device... like the microwave... and it seems innocuous enough and eventually everyone has one in their homes... and then lets say we invent a new oven mitt made out of a new hybrid plastic that allows the user to touch hot things and not get burned... lets say there is something fundamental about physics that's very basic that we do not quite understand yet... and when this new plastic is irradiated with microwaves, they split quarks inside of it. So some housewife leaves her oven mitt in the microwave and viola... quark bomb... earth gone... Sounds silly... but really, we're inventing devices and materials not found in nature all of the time. We're also stumbling into very surprising physical phenomena all the time... how possible is it that there is something very very dangerous that we just don't have a clue about yet?
Don't forget equipment management, billing, HR, insurance, and everything else it takes to keep your employees that actually install, maintain and upgrade that equipment around. Last I checked, people were still required and they are, by far, the most expensive part of our data center.
I was on facebook... and had several "incidents" Finally, this hippy friend of my wife started doing this psychedelic artwork that she was making prints of and selling on some art website. Don't get me wrong, she was really talented, and the art was pretty good. But she's a hippie and a pothead, so when she posted a particularly ridiculous 60's looking psychedelic painting and linked it on facebook, I went to the site, took the imagine, Photoshopped a pot leaf into the middle of it and re-posted it with "There, I fixed it for you." She replied "You're a jerk" Which could have been mad... could have been funny... hard to tell on facebook but oh-well.
Well, it didn't end there. You see, in order to up the photo, for some reason I had to host it online. I can't remember why... anyways, so I just used the same art print auction site that she did. Well, my version of her print skyrocketed on the sites charts in a matter of a day or 2. I hadn't expected that at all, and wasn't really sure what to do. So I sent her the credentials to the bogus account I had made and told her to take it over so she could get all the proceeds. I didn't want to me making money off a joke version of her art. SHE DID NOT TAKE IT WELL. To say the least. I thought the money would have made her happy, but you'd think I'd killed her puppy.
I no longer use facebook. After about 6 months she finally was willing to come to our house again, walked in the door and said "We shall never speak of it again" and we didn't. I wonder how much money it made her...
OMG this is slashdot. How can you people not know that MAC addresses are as transient as IP addresses?!? If you own the entire network you're operating in, then yes, you can be relatively sure that a mac address is real, but on a public network? No way in hell. Most network cards allow you to change mac addresses at will, most android devices as well. I have a Bluetooth audio receiver that I bought several of because it was really handy. Unfortunately I can't use them anywhere near each other because they all have the same MAC address hard coded on the chip. I have one in my car and one in my wifes... if they could really uniquely identify you by these my wife and I heading in opposite directions to get to work would really fuck up their trial.
I disagree. While property rights are an important part of capitalism, and often we argue against "intellectual" property, a far more important facet of capitalism is a transparent market place. Buyers should know exactly what they are buying. Closed source software protects intellectual property, but obfuscates the "product" the customer is purchasing. It's all about compromises. Is it better to lose the property rights closed source protects in favor of the transparency open source provides? Most of us here think so. We just need to convince everyone else. Either way is entirely compatible with capitalism, it's just a matter of application. I think that in the long run we'll find that even our position is a bit too extreme and the real answer is somewhere in the middle.
Someone with access to MaxMind or something similar look up the IP blocks owned by this "Canipre" company and post them here. Then everyone can start hosting torrents with a spoofed return IP that's in their range. Once they start pulling down their own IP ranges maybe they'll figure out just how fucking stupid this idea is.
Why so much hate for this game? I found it terrifying. It's not the best game I ever played, but I certainly enjoyed myself. The part where if you looked in a mirror you saw your future in hell was an amazing piece of art. When you actually get to hell, it was pretty hellish imo... The shifting claustrophobia was well done... I can understand not liking it, but there are a lot worse games out there. (the latest version of Quake for example)
We're already phasing out the use of CFCs and will likely not produce any detectable amounts in the near future. Don't they think aliens would learn the same lesson? Giving us, at most, a 100yr window to catch their CFC use? Why do people have this incredibly close minded view of alien life that makes them think that not only will they be like us, with arms and legs, be based on water but also be stuck in the same time period as us as well?
I suspect that we'll eventually find life on nearly all of the planets and even some of the asteroids in our own solar system. Maybe even intelligent life that's trapped under heavy atmosphere that really has had no technological way to explore space. Imagine an intelligent creature floating in the atmosphere of Jupiter or Saturn. They'd have almost no material to build tools out of, much less spacecraft or telescopes. And MOST planets have atmospheres like theirs.
Yea, but what is the development and paid addons for? I return to my previous example... we've had it installed all year, now we want to do our taxes... oh wait, theres no API or export ability to get my data out... oh shit... call support... $25k to get the export module?!?!?
Yea, but that's just 1 building. Shit falling from those towers screwed up half of downtown. There were probably hundreds of leaks, small and large, all over the place that they had to deal with. You can imagine that nearly every building down there had a generator and tank of some sort on the roof. Just because it didnt cause the catastrophic collapse of a very large building, does not mean the city engineers didn't realize they had a potential future problem they needed to address.
Drug companies hate the flu vaccine. It's hard to make, expensive and the price is pretty much set by the governments. When we run short on vaccines or there is a production problem congress hauls the drug manufacturers CEOs in to chew them out in public so they can distract the public from whatever fiscal nightmare they've most recently sucked the country into.
Drug companies make money off of things like Viagra. It's cheap, easy to make, involves sex, no one dies, has a near unlimited shelf life and doesn't have Jenny McCarthy making her idiotic appearances on morning shows misinforming housewives everywhere about what it does.
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They've had the ability to make cellphones waterproof for nearly 10 years and haven't bothered. My guess is it's an added expense and the make a lot of money from people that run their phones through the wash. Hell, I had one die after I left it on the counter while I took a shower. Think they've fix that with these "flexible" phones? I doubt it... and it's a far more common cause of phone failure than braking the actual phone.
Cashier hands customer small object warm off the 3D printer.
"That will be $49.95 sir"
Customer points object at cashier: BANG
Walks out of store muttering: "That was easy!"
Wow... We're doomed then. Also, I need to 'modify' my bank balance.
I dunno about this article. I've used just about everything out there... I used Kaspersky for a very long time, and in my opinion was the best for a long while. I very rarely got an infection. But when I switched to MS Security Essentials I was DONE with virus. I haven't had a single computer in my house (and I have 5) get infected since I started using it. And just so you know I'm not a Microsoft shill, fuck Microsoft, they suck, I pirate their god damned OS... fuck em. Anyways, Security essentials works great. I rutinely still scan with other AV if I'm having any sort of issue just to be sure, but nothing. I really think it comes down to useability. It just works well and integrates with windows well.
The article talks alot about 0-day exploits and such... but really, how many of us are going to get hit with one of those? I mean yes, I'd rather be protected, but at the expense of some of the draconian tactics some other packages lock your computer up in? Install Bit Deffender and then try installing some open source, macroing utility or something and the damned thing goes nuts.
Marketing departments push their most profitable product lines. That's what they do. I guarantee you this laptop is probably one of the most profitable consumer level laptops they have because of this. If it sells well at all, they'll be pushing it like mad.
You're stuck in a ship.
Other players can join you in your ship.
The ship has a computer that you can program, in assembly.
You can install an operating system so you can use an easier language to get things done.
Your view out of the ship will be VIA this computer... imagine what a 16 bit CPU can show you.
Through this limited view, you can navigate, interact with other players etc...
Multiple ships can be networked together... given that, you could potentially build a much more powerful CPU by having a networked "fleet"
If something breaks on the ship, you have to physically run around the ship to fix it.
There are guns so I'm assuming you can be boarded, or board other peoples ships
When you log out, your ship is still active in the universe. Your computer can be programmed to do things while you're offline.
They want the graphics to have a low polygon count "feel" even if the counts not all that low. Think "Tron"
This is my understanding of the game so far. I could be wrong on some parts and they could change a lot before release.
I'm personally excited. It seems like it will have a very interesting 80s retro "lost in space" feel.
Infrared temp sensors can read temperatures at a distance. Put one on the front and back, and you could easily figure out where the user is and use the temp on the other side. Of course, that'd only get the temp of the room your in. But if you compared multiple readings all day, and only took ones that were close to what the local airport said, you could then throw out the rest. Obviously it's not 72 in Canada right now... but then the user walks outside and it drops suddenly to 25 degrees, and you have a reading.
Everyone calm down. It's only $50. Imagine for a second if it were $50 cheaper than the Windows version... All of Dells usual idiot customers would show up, find the computer, do a search for the model... see this linux thing... "Save $50?!?! Hell yea!" and order it... Once it arrives and they boot it up and try to install their casino poker game... they call up Dell support... "What do you mean I can't install this?!?!"
Dell NEEDS to put a barrier between the average customer and a product that could cause them a lot of support costs. They need to do their very best to make sure that only people who know what they are buying get this laptop. Money is the easiest way to do that. If you don't want to pay the $50, just order the windows version and wipe it when it arrives. It's not that hard.
In-dash car stereos suck... they always have, and they always will. Lets be honest here, these "Systems" are nothing more than glorified car stereos. If you want to save some money on your car, get one without this nonsense per-installed and install your own after-market system for $200. You can replace it whenever you want then. When you get the factory system, it's often so integrated, removing it becomes a real problem.
I've held a theory for a very long time, that I fear advanced civilizations snuff themselves out with science all the time. I fear, that it's almost inevitable that it happens, and that it's not nuclear war or global warming that does them in. Dangerous things that we see coming... But the sudden surprise discovery that does it. Lets say we invent some marvelous device... like the microwave... and it seems innocuous enough and eventually everyone has one in their homes... and then lets say we invent a new oven mitt made out of a new hybrid plastic that allows the user to touch hot things and not get burned... lets say there is something fundamental about physics that's very basic that we do not quite understand yet... and when this new plastic is irradiated with microwaves, they split quarks inside of it. So some housewife leaves her oven mitt in the microwave and viola... quark bomb... earth gone... Sounds silly... but really, we're inventing devices and materials not found in nature all of the time. We're also stumbling into very surprising physical phenomena all the time... how possible is it that there is something very very dangerous that we just don't have a clue about yet?
Don't forget equipment management, billing, HR, insurance, and everything else it takes to keep your employees that actually install, maintain and upgrade that equipment around. Last I checked, people were still required and they are, by far, the most expensive part of our data center.
What is an "expert hacker"??
Apparently someone with a rooted phone that can download a single file and type:
> adb push wlan_config /data/local/tmp/ /data/local/tmp/wlan_config /data/local/tmp/wlan_config --dry-run bt=
> adb shell chmod 777
> adb shell
Mac Address changed. What's your mac address? I might take a trip up to Canada and get you some speeding tickets...
I was on facebook... and had several "incidents" Finally, this hippy friend of my wife started doing this psychedelic artwork that she was making prints of and selling on some art website. Don't get me wrong, she was really talented, and the art was pretty good. But she's a hippie and a pothead, so when she posted a particularly ridiculous 60's looking psychedelic painting and linked it on facebook, I went to the site, took the imagine, Photoshopped a pot leaf into the middle of it and re-posted it with "There, I fixed it for you." She replied "You're a jerk" Which could have been mad... could have been funny... hard to tell on facebook but oh-well.
Well, it didn't end there. You see, in order to up the photo, for some reason I had to host it online. I can't remember why... anyways, so I just used the same art print auction site that she did. Well, my version of her print skyrocketed on the sites charts in a matter of a day or 2. I hadn't expected that at all, and wasn't really sure what to do. So I sent her the credentials to the bogus account I had made and told her to take it over so she could get all the proceeds. I didn't want to me making money off a joke version of her art. SHE DID NOT TAKE IT WELL. To say the least. I thought the money would have made her happy, but you'd think I'd killed her puppy.
I no longer use facebook. After about 6 months she finally was willing to come to our house again, walked in the door and said "We shall never speak of it again" and we didn't. I wonder how much money it made her...
God damn it, that's not even remotely possible.
OMG this is slashdot. How can you people not know that MAC addresses are as transient as IP addresses?!? If you own the entire network you're operating in, then yes, you can be relatively sure that a mac address is real, but on a public network? No way in hell. Most network cards allow you to change mac addresses at will, most android devices as well. I have a Bluetooth audio receiver that I bought several of because it was really handy. Unfortunately I can't use them anywhere near each other because they all have the same MAC address hard coded on the chip. I have one in my car and one in my wifes... if they could really uniquely identify you by these my wife and I heading in opposite directions to get to work would really fuck up their trial.
Because everyone knows it's impossible to spoof a mac address...
I disagree. While property rights are an important part of capitalism, and often we argue against "intellectual" property, a far more important facet of capitalism is a transparent market place. Buyers should know exactly what they are buying. Closed source software protects intellectual property, but obfuscates the "product" the customer is purchasing. It's all about compromises. Is it better to lose the property rights closed source protects in favor of the transparency open source provides? Most of us here think so. We just need to convince everyone else. Either way is entirely compatible with capitalism, it's just a matter of application. I think that in the long run we'll find that even our position is a bit too extreme and the real answer is somewhere in the middle.
Holy shit they had some commonsense for a change!
"distinguishing between commercial and non-commercial infringement."
Gorgeous! Now... someone said something about a planet or some such? All I could see was the redhead.
Someone with access to MaxMind or something similar look up the IP blocks owned by this "Canipre" company and post them here. Then everyone can start hosting torrents with a spoofed return IP that's in their range. Once they start pulling down their own IP ranges maybe they'll figure out just how fucking stupid this idea is.
Why so much hate for this game? I found it terrifying. It's not the best game I ever played, but I certainly enjoyed myself. The part where if you looked in a mirror you saw your future in hell was an amazing piece of art. When you actually get to hell, it was pretty hellish imo... The shifting claustrophobia was well done... I can understand not liking it, but there are a lot worse games out there. (the latest version of Quake for example)
We're already phasing out the use of CFCs and will likely not produce any detectable amounts in the near future. Don't they think aliens would learn the same lesson? Giving us, at most, a 100yr window to catch their CFC use? Why do people have this incredibly close minded view of alien life that makes them think that not only will they be like us, with arms and legs, be based on water but also be stuck in the same time period as us as well?
I suspect that we'll eventually find life on nearly all of the planets and even some of the asteroids in our own solar system. Maybe even intelligent life that's trapped under heavy atmosphere that really has had no technological way to explore space. Imagine an intelligent creature floating in the atmosphere of Jupiter or Saturn. They'd have almost no material to build tools out of, much less spacecraft or telescopes. And MOST planets have atmospheres like theirs.
Yea, but what is the development and paid addons for? I return to my previous example... we've had it installed all year, now we want to do our taxes... oh wait, theres no API or export ability to get my data out... oh shit... call support... $25k to get the export module?!?!?
Yea, but that's just 1 building. Shit falling from those towers screwed up half of downtown. There were probably hundreds of leaks, small and large, all over the place that they had to deal with. You can imagine that nearly every building down there had a generator and tank of some sort on the roof. Just because it didnt cause the catastrophic collapse of a very large building, does not mean the city engineers didn't realize they had a potential future problem they needed to address.
Drug companies hate the flu vaccine. It's hard to make, expensive and the price is pretty much set by the governments. When we run short on vaccines or there is a production problem congress hauls the drug manufacturers CEOs in to chew them out in public so they can distract the public from whatever fiscal nightmare they've most recently sucked the country into.
Drug companies make money off of things like Viagra. It's cheap, easy to make, involves sex, no one dies, has a near unlimited shelf life and doesn't have Jenny McCarthy making her idiotic appearances on morning shows misinforming housewives everywhere about what it does.