Don't worry, as soon as they have a drug the patent hammer will fall, as well as a million lawsuits. The drug will be $500/pill and we'll all wonder what the hell happened. (and don't tell me pills don't sell for $500 each, I've been prescribed them before and laughed my ass off when I tried to pick them up. Telling the pharmacist to go fuck themselves probably did more good than the pill would have anyway.)
Does are these countries also Banning SSL? Anyone that gave a shit could easily set up webmail with any one of thousands of hosts. I don't see how this does anything except make RIM look like a giant bunch of pussies. Most companies force their employees to use blackberries for the very reason that they think they are secure. Is that going to continue when not only are they insecure but they are publicly being monitored by countries that are world renown for their corruption? What happens when I fly to these countries? Does rim just hand over my account wholesale? Or do they just get access to what I do there? Or are these servers full mirrors already, so even what I do in the "free" world is indexed?
Why can't they get the guns in Mexico? Oh that's right... they have gun control. Gun control there I guess, only works on those who decide to obey it. But it'll be totally different here right?
The problem with the Ipad is that it's $500
These "alternatives" are also $500... they don't solve the problem.
People want to surf the net, read books, and maybe do word processing on these things. There's no reason they need to be so built up that they cost $500. I can build a relatively high-end gaming computer for that much. There's no reason a pad should cost that much.
You forgot C) This stuff doesn't really make a difference anyway. It's 90,000 pages of nothing. The collateral murder thing was news... it told us stuff we didn't know. All these documents did was reveal ground level Afghan informants to the world. The only people that gained useful information from this leak were the Taliban.
Firstly, I remember a miss-spent youth in which I and my friends would do all sorts of mean things to vending machines. Can you imagine what could be done to a machine with a 42" touchscreen lcd in just a few seconds? Secondly, a thumbprint payment system? Don't they know it's already been proven that thumbprint systems are incredibly easy to hack? (as in a photocopy of your thumb works on them) Just about every company that's attempted something similar has been sued into bankruptcy almost immediately after attempting to use the devices in the real world.
Good point. But I'd like the browser makers to think on this a little harder. They could do all sorts of things to make this mode more attractive. Options to turn off flash and Javascript... or delete all their temp files... Also, have an option to automatically switch to a proxy or VPN when switching to private mode. If it really were a lot more secure I could see it coming in handy for people living in countries not so friendly to free speech.
Again, it all depends on the application. How accurate do you need it? I was using mine while I built vacuum tube guitar amps so I could calibrate it well enough myself. If you really need a brand new $5k scope then fine... but I have no plans on building a cellphone from scratch in my spare time.
Because we were tribal people. There only needed to be 1 watchdog to wake the others. I happen to be one of the sad saps with such wiring. If someone even so much as walks by the front of my house at 3am, I'm up patrolling the halls making sure everything is the way it should be. Those that were like me, suffered poor sleep so the rest of the village could be safe. Now I just suffer for no apparent reason. Come on superscience, fix me!
That's actually pretty pathetic. An electric motor has FAR FAR more torque than a gasoline motor. I use to race R/C cars when I was a teenager and I would routinely bet foolish classmates that my R/C car could beat their real car in a quarter mile. I was using a 12volt battery pack and a 30,000 RPM motor. I'd condition the battery pack until it was capable of dumping 90amps wide open. My top speed was only about 50mph with it, but it was doing 50mph about 10 feet off the starting line. Sometimes I'd even melt the battery connector so i had to start hard soldering the battery into the car. The problem was my battery was usually dead when I got to the end of the strip and I was coasting across. Which is the same problem full size electric cars have.
very very easy... every time I here about someones brother or uncle got caught with it on their computer I always try and explain how easy something like this would be and we shouldn't jump to conclusions. But they always do anyway.
Get an old 12 gauge. You don't need to actually shoot the intruder. When you hear someone breaking in, aim it at something not all that valuable and set it off... They'll leave, trust me. Anyone else that's heard a shotgun go off indoors will be able to confirm the affect. Then all you have to do is fix the whole in the wall and change your underwear.
Get 50 of your friends to put turbans on, pack their suit cases with as many smoke detectors as they can fit and all try to board different flights at O'Hare airport the day before thanksgiving. That should pretty much stick it to them.
I thought this girl was supposed to know what she was talking about? Take a large gauge, solid core wire and connect the positive and negative terminals directly. You'll get a lot more than 1amp. Of course, the battery will probably melt. Maybe it's not safe to draw 1amp, but it's certainly possible.
I agree, great idea, but he's not very good at photoshop. Most slashdotters probably have the skills to do better. Although we usually use ours to edit walrus's into various hilarious positions.
Any cable route that's old enough is going to be like this. What they do is called "frogging" they will have a pair that goes out say 3000 feet and then is shorted or open... they'll cut that pair there... then they'll have another pair that has a short at 1000 feet... so they splice them together to leap frog over the short. What eventually ends up happening is you have a binder whos pairs do not match from end to end what originally were. So say pair 142 comes out on the other end as pair 523 now... It's a huge mess and it gets worse as the cable continues to degrade. Every splice makes it even worse. But in some of these low population areas the cost of laying a new cable far outweighs all the profits for the entire CO they are out of so they put it off until it's so bad they no longer have a choice.
Was the Washington Post a clear and present danger during the Watergate scandal? Perhaps the Government should have arrested Bob Woodward and prevent them from publishing papers anymore? Sounds equivalent to me.
If you are suspected of a crime the police/FBI can detain you for however long it takes to deem if there is probable cause to arrest you or not. If this stretched into days, obviously his lawyers would get involved, judge would review what information the FBI had order that he be released if they didn't have anything. So yes, 3hr detentions are common and make sense. The government probably believes that someone at wikileaks aided in the "theft" of the classified material and are trying to find out who. Remember that a federal crime was committed here. We don't think of it as so bad because the material released we feel should have been public anyway. But this just as easily could have been the leak of detailed weaknesses in our tanks or helicopters. Wikileaks may be responsible enough not to release that sort of information but the government can't assume that.
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Don't worry, as soon as they have a drug the patent hammer will fall, as well as a million lawsuits. The drug will be $500/pill and we'll all wonder what the hell happened. (and don't tell me pills don't sell for $500 each, I've been prescribed them before and laughed my ass off when I tried to pick them up. Telling the pharmacist to go fuck themselves probably did more good than the pill would have anyway.)
Does are these countries also Banning SSL? Anyone that gave a shit could easily set up webmail with any one of thousands of hosts. I don't see how this does anything except make RIM look like a giant bunch of pussies. Most companies force their employees to use blackberries for the very reason that they think they are secure. Is that going to continue when not only are they insecure but they are publicly being monitored by countries that are world renown for their corruption? What happens when I fly to these countries? Does rim just hand over my account wholesale? Or do they just get access to what I do there? Or are these servers full mirrors already, so even what I do in the "free" world is indexed?
I'd think RIM would be begging for the gag order. lol
Why can't they get the guns in Mexico? Oh that's right... they have gun control. Gun control there I guess, only works on those who decide to obey it. But it'll be totally different here right?
I think you're over-estimating the thoroughness of our law enforcement.
The problem with the Ipad is that it's $500 These "alternatives" are also $500... they don't solve the problem. People want to surf the net, read books, and maybe do word processing on these things. There's no reason they need to be so built up that they cost $500. I can build a relatively high-end gaming computer for that much. There's no reason a pad should cost that much.
You forgot C) This stuff doesn't really make a difference anyway. It's 90,000 pages of nothing. The collateral murder thing was news... it told us stuff we didn't know. All these documents did was reveal ground level Afghan informants to the world. The only people that gained useful information from this leak were the Taliban.
Firstly, I remember a miss-spent youth in which I and my friends would do all sorts of mean things to vending machines. Can you imagine what could be done to a machine with a 42" touchscreen lcd in just a few seconds? Secondly, a thumbprint payment system? Don't they know it's already been proven that thumbprint systems are incredibly easy to hack? (as in a photocopy of your thumb works on them) Just about every company that's attempted something similar has been sued into bankruptcy almost immediately after attempting to use the devices in the real world.
He wasn't under oath. That's the point.
Good point. But I'd like the browser makers to think on this a little harder. They could do all sorts of things to make this mode more attractive. Options to turn off flash and Javascript... or delete all their temp files... Also, have an option to automatically switch to a proxy or VPN when switching to private mode. If it really were a lot more secure I could see it coming in handy for people living in countries not so friendly to free speech.
Again, it all depends on the application. How accurate do you need it? I was using mine while I built vacuum tube guitar amps so I could calibrate it well enough myself. If you really need a brand new $5k scope then fine... but I have no plans on building a cellphone from scratch in my spare time.
Because we were tribal people. There only needed to be 1 watchdog to wake the others. I happen to be one of the sad saps with such wiring. If someone even so much as walks by the front of my house at 3am, I'm up patrolling the halls making sure everything is the way it should be. Those that were like me, suffered poor sleep so the rest of the village could be safe. Now I just suffer for no apparent reason. Come on superscience, fix me!
yes
Weren't they already found guilty of this?
That's actually pretty pathetic. An electric motor has FAR FAR more torque than a gasoline motor. I use to race R/C cars when I was a teenager and I would routinely bet foolish classmates that my R/C car could beat their real car in a quarter mile. I was using a 12volt battery pack and a 30,000 RPM motor. I'd condition the battery pack until it was capable of dumping 90amps wide open. My top speed was only about 50mph with it, but it was doing 50mph about 10 feet off the starting line. Sometimes I'd even melt the battery connector so i had to start hard soldering the battery into the car. The problem was my battery was usually dead when I got to the end of the strip and I was coasting across. Which is the same problem full size electric cars have.
very very easy... every time I here about someones brother or uncle got caught with it on their computer I always try and explain how easy something like this would be and we shouldn't jump to conclusions. But they always do anyway.
Get an old 12 gauge. You don't need to actually shoot the intruder. When you hear someone breaking in, aim it at something not all that valuable and set it off... They'll leave, trust me. Anyone else that's heard a shotgun go off indoors will be able to confirm the affect. Then all you have to do is fix the whole in the wall and change your underwear.
Get 50 of your friends to put turbans on, pack their suit cases with as many smoke detectors as they can fit and all try to board different flights at O'Hare airport the day before thanksgiving. That should pretty much stick it to them.
Because the number of people the US Marshals scan in a year, the TSA scans in less than a day.
Got mine on ebay for a ridiculously low price... but like someone else mentioned, what you use it for is rather important.
I thought this girl was supposed to know what she was talking about? Take a large gauge, solid core wire and connect the positive and negative terminals directly. You'll get a lot more than 1amp. Of course, the battery will probably melt. Maybe it's not safe to draw 1amp, but it's certainly possible.
I agree, great idea, but he's not very good at photoshop. Most slashdotters probably have the skills to do better. Although we usually use ours to edit walrus's into various hilarious positions.
Any cable route that's old enough is going to be like this. What they do is called "frogging" they will have a pair that goes out say 3000 feet and then is shorted or open... they'll cut that pair there... then they'll have another pair that has a short at 1000 feet... so they splice them together to leap frog over the short. What eventually ends up happening is you have a binder whos pairs do not match from end to end what originally were. So say pair 142 comes out on the other end as pair 523 now... It's a huge mess and it gets worse as the cable continues to degrade. Every splice makes it even worse. But in some of these low population areas the cost of laying a new cable far outweighs all the profits for the entire CO they are out of so they put it off until it's so bad they no longer have a choice.
Was the Washington Post a clear and present danger during the Watergate scandal? Perhaps the Government should have arrested Bob Woodward and prevent them from publishing papers anymore? Sounds equivalent to me.
If you are suspected of a crime the police/FBI can detain you for however long it takes to deem if there is probable cause to arrest you or not. If this stretched into days, obviously his lawyers would get involved, judge would review what information the FBI had order that he be released if they didn't have anything. So yes, 3hr detentions are common and make sense. The government probably believes that someone at wikileaks aided in the "theft" of the classified material and are trying to find out who. Remember that a federal crime was committed here. We don't think of it as so bad because the material released we feel should have been public anyway. But this just as easily could have been the leak of detailed weaknesses in our tanks or helicopters. Wikileaks may be responsible enough not to release that sort of information but the government can't assume that.