If you lived in a country where every square meter of real estate is extremely expensive, as is the case for Japan, you would understand that using 100 times more panels is not really an option.
Destroying the data if a secondary password is provided (or by any other "trigger") will not have any effect once your data/media is not with you anymore. The first step in any forensic analysis is to make a copy of the data, preserve the original and work on the copy. So if you screw it and destroy anything you can just revert to the original and start over.
Here in Brazil we had the same problem several years ago. Then a regulation was passed and now all the phone companies have to play a short message, like "this call is being forwarded to the voicemail box and will be subject to billing after the beep". Only after this message they can start playing the default greeting or a custom one recorded by the customer.
That people would be fine if they backed up their media, something DRM prevents.
If I buy a paper book and am savvy enough to expect it to be damaged over time, I can photocopy or even scan it
If I buy an audio or video tape and am savvy enough to know it can be damaged over time, I can make a copy
If I buy any other type of media that is DRM free I can do the same.
But with DRM not only they prevent me to make copies and be on the safe side should anything happen to my original media but I'm tied forever to the company from which I bought and if they go down so goes all my media.
That also makes me wonder whether people are going to lose fine manual dexterity as a result. Already kids do less manual craft (like building models) in favour of computer games. I wonder if lack of fine motor training will result in a generation that is unable to do anything more accurate with their hands than push buttons.
Just don't forget that video games also require some level (even if a bit different) of manual dexterity do play. Even motion sensing controllers do have some buttons, and for some games the tradicional two handed control is still the best way to play.
Web browsers don't qualify (they don't list available files for transmission);
How do you call it when you are going to upload a picture to your photolog or site of preference, and the browser lists the files on your HD for your to transmit? And once uploades, those files are being shared with anyone who visits said site.
And what kind of storage do you need for a study that takes days or weeks?
According to the summary:
The team is working to extend the technique to 3-D imaging with the same time resolution, and to increase the effective number of pixels in a given image from 2,500 to 100,000.
I don't think an image with 2.5k pixels (or even 100k pixels) take that much storage.
Or scratch-healing camera lenses (for both photography and video). It'd be a big plus having the front coating of an $1.5k+ lens with this, so you don't have to send it to repairs just because a minor scratch.
What the world really needs is secure storage with a self-destruct feature - when they ask you for the password, you give them X, which wipes the drive as quickly and as thoroughly as possible. (Preferably with a "decrypting, please wait" message)
To people dying from the dicease it would cure, as much as one that's already discovered, but you don't have the means to get.
Don't get me wrong. I understand the value of a patent for a new invention. But having seen people die (as I did) because they couldn't afford a drug that would have saved them, It's hard to me to accept that such an important thing as a drug that can save lives should be encumbered by a patent that would prevent it from reaching all the people in need of it.
Tried with some photos I've taken, and that were published in some mainstream press sites from my country (Brazil). The engine couldn't find any of them, even when I searched for the exact same picture. Don't know if their coverage is that good (yet).
In-car entertainment is something I cannot comprehend. If you've got kids they most certainly have a Gameboy or something like that, or they can read a book.
Or just look out and appreciate the landscape. I thought that a great portion of the fun in travelling to other places was to appreciate new sights.
Not completely true, because smaller fragments would burn (totally or parcially) once they enter the atmosphere.
Sure that some of them may still hit the surface, but the smaller ones would burn completely and the biggers would probably reduce in size before hitting.
So, not the same energy/mass
This is not necessarily true. Here in brazil more than 90% of the new cars sold in the last few years are flex fuel, in that they can run either on gasoline, sugar cane ethanol or a mixture of both in any proportion.
Thing is that here ethanol is cheaper than gasoline, and most people will fill their thanks with it instead of gasoline for this obvious reason.
People in general are more concerned with their money than "being green", and will fill their thanks with whatever is cheapers on the pumps, provided their cars can run on it.
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Then you just buy the parts and build your own. Actually you can probably build a superior spec for less money that way.
If you lived in a country where every square meter of real estate is extremely expensive, as is the case for Japan, you would understand that using 100 times more panels is not really an option.
Is there such a thing as disposable income?
What if forms start to disappear between scans? For example, a party starts to "take care" of forms with votes contrary to them.
In Japan it's called soroban. Search for this on youtube for a few cool videos.
Destroying the data if a secondary password is provided (or by any other "trigger") will not have any effect once your data/media is not with you anymore. The first step in any forensic analysis is to make a copy of the data, preserve the original and work on the copy. So if you screw it and destroy anything you can just revert to the original and start over.
Here in Brazil we had the same problem several years ago. Then a regulation was passed and now all the phone companies have to play a short message, like "this call is being forwarded to the voicemail box and will be subject to billing after the beep". Only after this message they can start playing the default greeting or a custom one recorded by the customer.
That people would be fine if they backed up their media, something DRM prevents. If I buy a paper book and am savvy enough to expect it to be damaged over time, I can photocopy or even scan it If I buy an audio or video tape and am savvy enough to know it can be damaged over time, I can make a copy If I buy any other type of media that is DRM free I can do the same. But with DRM not only they prevent me to make copies and be on the safe side should anything happen to my original media but I'm tied forever to the company from which I bought and if they go down so goes all my media.
That also makes me wonder whether people are going to lose fine manual dexterity as a result. Already kids do less manual craft (like building models) in favour of computer games. I wonder if lack of fine motor training will result in a generation that is unable to do anything more accurate with their hands than push buttons.
Just don't forget that video games also require some level (even if a bit different) of manual dexterity do play. Even motion sensing controllers do have some buttons, and for some games the tradicional two handed control is still the best way to play.
O use an Ironkey. It's waterproof (potted with epoxi), and you get encryption as a bonus too.
Web browsers don't qualify (they don't list available files for transmission);
How do you call it when you are going to upload a picture to your photolog or site of preference, and the browser lists the files on your HD for your to transmit? And once uploades, those files are being shared with anyone who visits said site.
And what kind of storage do you need for a study that takes days or weeks?
According to the summary:
The team is working to extend the technique to 3-D imaging with the same time resolution, and to increase the effective number of pixels in a given image from 2,500 to 100,000.
I don't think an image with 2.5k pixels (or even 100k pixels) take that much storage.
Or scratch-healing camera lenses (for both photography and video). It'd be a big plus having the front coating of an $1.5k+ lens with this, so you don't have to send it to repairs just because a minor scratch.
I've also being using the nav4all GPS application, which has turn-by-turn directions and other cool features. It's free until the end of 2009.
What the world really needs is secure storage with a self-destruct feature - when they ask you for the password, you give them X, which wipes the drive as quickly and as thoroughly as possible. (Preferably with a "decrypting, please wait" message)
www.ironkey.com
Doesn't need even to be the cache. Just scroll the page down until past the categories list and all the replies are there.
To people dying from the dicease it would cure, as much as one that's already discovered, but you don't have the means to get.
Don't get me wrong. I understand the value of a patent for a new invention. But having seen people die (as I did) because they couldn't afford a drug that would have saved them, It's hard to me to accept that such an important thing as a drug that can save lives should be encumbered by a patent that would prevent it from reaching all the people in need of it.
When an organization can get a patent on a drug it developed that no one else could (and yes this happens a lot), a patent is good.
Even if that's a drug that would save thousands of lives, but the manufacturer is selling it for a price that many cannot afford?
Same here. Closing the tab in FF 3.0.1 in Vista gives me back control over the clipboard.
Tried with some photos I've taken, and that were published in some mainstream press sites from my country (Brazil). The engine couldn't find any of them, even when I searched for the exact same picture. Don't know if their coverage is that good (yet).
Ever tried the Ironkey?
Alice, who the whooosh is Alice?
In-car entertainment is something I cannot comprehend. If you've got kids they most certainly have a Gameboy or something like that, or they can read a book.
Or just look out and appreciate the landscape. I thought that a great portion of the fun in travelling to other places was to appreciate new sights.
Not completely true, because smaller fragments would burn (totally or parcially) once they enter the atmosphere. Sure that some of them may still hit the surface, but the smaller ones would burn completely and the biggers would probably reduce in size before hitting. So, not the same energy/mass
This is not necessarily true. Here in brazil more than 90% of the new cars sold in the last few years are flex fuel, in that they can run either on gasoline, sugar cane ethanol or a mixture of both in any proportion. Thing is that here ethanol is cheaper than gasoline, and most people will fill their thanks with it instead of gasoline for this obvious reason. People in general are more concerned with their money than "being green", and will fill their thanks with whatever is cheapers on the pumps, provided their cars can run on it.