But now that the ITU has provided a standard against which the FCC and FTC can judge truth in advertising, T-Mobile's new 4G ad campaign is a 'bald-faced lie,' Gruman writes."
This looks like a job for...
Felten-man!!Dum-Da-Da-Dum!!!!
- "Luke, I am your father!"
- No, its "No, I am your father!"
- Geek check! (kicks the correcter in the balls) Uh-oh, twice for flinching! (kick kick!)
The one thing that always bothered me about students selling their textbooks after completing the course it that this action basically says "I took this class because the degree required it, and I will never have the need to recall this information for the rest of my days." Is this a cynical view, or just the practical reality? How many out there kept their textbooks and every once in awhile reference them or give them a good skim to refresh their knowledge?
In reference to e-textbooks I fear that DRM and/or format obsolescence will take away the option to hold onto the information, if that's what the student wants.
Photocopying? How 20th century. I've taken snapshots of textbook pages with my Droid that were quite readable, both on the Droid and pulled up onto my laptop. It'd take some doing to do this for an entire textbook, but it'd hardly be rocket surgery to rig up a stand to hold the smartphone/camera.
The headline sucks but the idea is in the "OK, that pretty clever" category:
According to Big Blue, the invention would require a piece of software running on each machine in a data center that would gather data generated by vibration sensors, known as MEMS accelerometers, within computer hard disk drives to analyze information generated by seismic events. This technique is enabled by collecting hard drive sensor data and transmitting it via high speed networking to a data processing center, which can analyze the data, classify the events, and enrich the data -- in real time, IBM says.
From there, it can be determined exactly when a seismic event started, how long a seismic event lasted, the intensity of a seismic event, the frequency of motion of a seismic event, direction of motion of a seismic event, IBM says. This invention is able to crowd-source important earthquake IBM stated.
Combine this data with the WTF was that?" posts on Twitter and you're all set. (Also, don't many new laptops also have accelerometers? Quake@Home!)
Facebook will have to man up and offer an ad-free / privacy-guaranteed subscriber model for $x dollars a month/year, before someone else does. Call it "Cadillac level service." I'd want this option before I'd ever consider getting an account, and I'd be more likely to "friend" someone if I knew they were paying extra for privacy.
I suspect the confusion comes from RSA Security, which is well known for its SecurID one-time-password token / key fobs, as well as an app version for mobile phones. The company was founded by RSA public key cryptography's inventors.
However this is still as space Facebook or Google or some other nice-guy-behemoth company could step into, which would offer better-than-usual password security for the great unwashed. (As long as they use it correctly, no writing their name and/or password on the key fob, that sort of thing.)
A good number of tweets just post links to other sites (e.g. "Check out this baby panda LOL http:\\bit.ly\whateveh\".) Tweets from companies or blogs do almost nothing but that. It'd be interesting to know what type of clickthrough rate these links get, which the analysis doesn't appear to address.
I always wondered what will happen when marijuana becomes legalized and the likes of Altria née Phillip Morris and Monsanto eventually get into it - New Marlboro White Widow! Roundup-Ready PPP! What's keeping them from (albeit quietly and behind the scenes) promoting legalization and creating new markets for themselves?
"My friends, if the courts start granting rights to legal fictions, then what's to keep them from granting rights to fictional characters? Should you have the right to marry Harry Potter? Why not grant privacy rights to ghosts, or robots, or horses, or zombies? If a fictional zombie is on your property, breaking into your house, going to eat your wife, your daughter, your grandma, and you've got a loaded shotgun in your hands, do you want to have to stop and worry about its rights? How about video game characters? Should Duke Nukem have to worry about being sued by the mutants he's gunning down? I mean, where does it end? The time is 5:28..."
These are people who looked up the app, saw that is cost TWO DOLLARS (the cost of one Red Bull! one subway ride! eight games of Galaga!), and instead of just clicking "Buy" and letting the app download and install itself automatically, did the cost/benefit analysis and decided it was worth their time to track down a pirated, unsupported, who-knows-what-additional-code-has-been-added version of the software and go through the added steps required to install it.
These aren't pirates - these are morons.
(Also, there's a free "light" version available too...)
"This is all your fault!" cried the CEO at the press conference, pointing his finger at the crowd. "We asked you, begged you to rewind, but you wouldn't, you just wouldn't, I... " His voice trailed off, then his eyes rolled back as he collapsed onto the podium, then into a heap on the stage, the toppled-over mics blasting everyone's ears with feedback, then falling silent.
Related to this, I've seen more TV-MA rated shows (The Whitest Kids Y'know, Eastbound and Down, others) that include child actors, often with the grown-ups swearing like drunken sailors and/or having "thematic" discussions with kids in the scene. I often wonder, how does this work? Do the kids actually get to see the show afterward? Do the adults use stand-in words with the kids and dub in the naughty bits later?
Also, the standards bar has moved when it comes to humor that's considered acceptable for children. For instance there was a time in the US when any sort of toilet humor would have gotten slapped with an R rating (think Blazing Saddles) and been barred from broadcast TV and non-premium cable channels. Now jokes about farting and shit make regular appearances in kids cartoons (check out Johnny Test and Total Drama Island.) I'm no prude, but considering the impact even vanilla cartoons can have on kids when they become adults (furries, cosplay, etc.), we can expect all kinds of weirdness coming off the assembly line now.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually the official sizes are Short Bang, Tall Bang, Grande Bang, and Vente Bang.
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The more transparent it is, the less energy it can absorb. What level of efficiency can it achieve?
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Well, damn, now what am I gonna do with this infinitely long spool of magnetic tape?
But now that the ITU has provided a standard against which the FCC and FTC can judge truth in advertising, T-Mobile's new 4G ad campaign is a 'bald-faced lie,' Gruman writes."
This looks like a job for... Felten-man!! Dum-Da-Da-Dum!!!!
But take one look into our sweet angelic faces and let it not be forgotten
That deep down at heart we're both really... ROTTEN.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vze3NVumZ2g
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The perfect theme song for the rebrand - let's get some marketing synergy going!
http://www.richardhell.com/lyrics2.html#BlankGeneration
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TP3x-VdOb44
(And of course: http://www.myspace.com/richardhellvoidoids )
It even addresses MySpace's problem:
I belong to the blank generation and
I can take it or leave it each time
I belong to the ______ generation but
I can take it or leave it each time
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"No, I am your father."
- "Luke, I am your father!"
- No, its "No, I am your father!"
- Geek check! (kicks the correcter in the balls) Uh-oh, twice for flinching! (kick kick!)
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The one thing that always bothered me about students selling their textbooks after completing the course it that this action basically says "I took this class because the degree required it, and I will never have the need to recall this information for the rest of my days." Is this a cynical view, or just the practical reality? How many out there kept their textbooks and every once in awhile reference them or give them a good skim to refresh their knowledge?
In reference to e-textbooks I fear that DRM and/or format obsolescence will take away the option to hold onto the information, if that's what the student wants.
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Photocopying? How 20th century. I've taken snapshots of textbook pages with my Droid that were quite readable, both on the Droid and pulled up onto my laptop. It'd take some doing to do this for an entire textbook, but it'd hardly be rocket surgery to rig up a stand to hold the smartphone/camera.
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According to Big Blue, the invention would require a piece of software running on each machine in a data center that would gather data generated by vibration sensors, known as MEMS accelerometers, within computer hard disk drives to analyze information generated by seismic events. This technique is enabled by collecting hard drive sensor data and transmitting it via high speed networking to a data processing center, which can analyze the data, classify the events, and enrich the data -- in real time, IBM says.
From there, it can be determined exactly when a seismic event started, how long a seismic event lasted, the intensity of a seismic event, the frequency of motion of a seismic event, direction of motion of a seismic event, IBM says. This invention is able to crowd-source important earthquake IBM stated.
Combine this data with the WTF was that?" posts on Twitter and you're all set. (Also, don't many new laptops also have accelerometers? Quake@Home!)
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Facebook will have to man up and offer an ad-free / privacy-guaranteed subscriber model for $x dollars a month/year, before someone else does. Call it "Cadillac level service." I'd want this option before I'd ever consider getting an account, and I'd be more likely to "friend" someone if I knew they were paying extra for privacy.
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Puppy Uppers and Doggy Downers
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I suspect the confusion comes from RSA Security, which is well known for its SecurID one-time-password token / key fobs, as well as an app version for mobile phones. The company was founded by RSA public key cryptography's inventors.
However this is still as space Facebook or Google or some other nice-guy-behemoth company could step into, which would offer better-than-usual password security for the great unwashed. (As long as they use it correctly, no writing their name and/or password on the key fob, that sort of thing.)
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A good number of tweets just post links to other sites (e.g. "Check out this baby panda LOL http:\\bit.ly\whateveh\".) Tweets from companies or blogs do almost nothing but that. It'd be interesting to know what type of clickthrough rate these links get, which the analysis doesn't appear to address.
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Look, do you want a SyFy original movie based on this critter (Swamp Beast!, starring Lucy Lawless and Erik Estrada) or don't you?
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I'm not trying to demonize pot. It clearly doesn't make you paranoid, that's for damn sure.
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I always wondered what will happen when marijuana becomes legalized and the likes of Altria née Phillip Morris and Monsanto eventually get into it - New Marlboro White Widow! Roundup-Ready PPP! What's keeping them from (albeit quietly and behind the scenes) promoting legalization and creating new markets for themselves?
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I put my trust in the force when I drive, and the plastic Jesus on my dashboard.
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Or The Big Sleep - now that's a challenge.
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Don't believe it-- it will give you a headache.
And how!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFgCu0uMWB0
(What, they canceled it? I'm totally shocked!)
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"My friends, if the courts start granting rights to legal fictions, then what's to keep them from granting rights to fictional characters? Should you have the right to marry Harry Potter? Why not grant privacy rights to ghosts, or robots, or horses, or zombies? If a fictional zombie is on your property, breaking into your house, going to eat your wife, your daughter, your grandma, and you've got a loaded shotgun in your hands, do you want to have to stop and worry about its rights? How about video game characters? Should Duke Nukem have to worry about being sued by the mutants he's gunning down? I mean, where does it end? The time is 5:28..."
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It seems pretty easy to me - perhaps the process varies per phone/carrier?
1) Look up app in Android Market
2) Click Buy
3) Review access requirements, click OK
4) Google Checkout - click Buy*
* you may need to add your credit card info the first time, but it remembers it afterward.
And if you don't like it after 24 hours, you can get your money back (admittedly haven't tried this yet.)
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These are people who looked up the app, saw that is cost TWO DOLLARS (the cost of one Red Bull! one subway ride! eight games of Galaga!), and instead of just clicking "Buy" and letting the app download and install itself automatically, did the cost/benefit analysis and decided it was worth their time to track down a pirated, unsupported, who-knows-what-additional-code-has-been-added version of the software and go through the added steps required to install it.
These aren't pirates - these are morons.
(Also, there's a free "light" version available too...)
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"This is all your fault!" cried the CEO at the press conference, pointing his finger at the crowd. "We asked you, begged you to rewind, but you wouldn't, you just wouldn't, I... " His voice trailed off, then his eyes rolled back as he collapsed onto the podium, then into a heap on the stage, the toppled-over mics blasting everyone's ears with feedback, then falling silent.
.
Related to this, I've seen more TV-MA rated shows (The Whitest Kids Y'know, Eastbound and Down, others) that include child actors, often with the grown-ups swearing like drunken sailors and/or having "thematic" discussions with kids in the scene. I often wonder, how does this work? Do the kids actually get to see the show afterward? Do the adults use stand-in words with the kids and dub in the naughty bits later?
Also, the standards bar has moved when it comes to humor that's considered acceptable for children. For instance there was a time in the US when any sort of toilet humor would have gotten slapped with an R rating (think Blazing Saddles) and been barred from broadcast TV and non-premium cable channels. Now jokes about farting and shit make regular appearances in kids cartoons (check out Johnny Test and Total Drama Island.) I'm no prude, but considering the impact even vanilla cartoons can have on kids when they become adults (furries, cosplay, etc.), we can expect all kinds of weirdness coming off the assembly line now.
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