If I owned one, I would have a sticker on it with the address of a youtube clip.
You know the one in Raiders of the Lost Ark where the Nazi's face melts off?
No, this does NOT require line of sight. The article says the weapon can fire up to 220 Miles. You should be thinking artillery, not rifle shots.
In other words, this thing can shoot well over the horizon. All you need is a spotter (and we have those in orbit now, check Google Earth if you don't believe me:) ) and a good targeting computer.
Yeah, that's just what I'm worried about, suddenly hundreds of people spontanously buy shitty detectors and they get tripped by a random event causing a panic. That's at the top of my list.
While Singh was climbing the academic ladder at MIT, McKinstry was trying to put his life back together after spending two and a half months in jail. But the suicidal standoff had given him a new sense of purpose. He liked to think that the police robot had deliberately misfired its tear gas canisters in an effort to save him "Maybe robots do have feelings," he later mused. By 1992, McKinstry had enrolled at the University of Winnipeg and immersed himself in the study of artificial intelligence.
I mean... that's inspiring.
And then, he falls apart and kills himself on the web years later, abandoning his dream because of a fundamental flaw, he was a geek but he didn't have business sense.
That's about as close to Greek Tragedy as you can get.
From TFA, to get masssive amounts of data to Google:
(Google people) are providing a 3TB drive array (Linux RAID5). The array is provided in "suitcase" and shipped to anyone who wants to send they data to Google.
Google doing this. And they use Linux "suitcases" for transport.
So a power grid is not going to be isolated from the internet?
Come on.
This is just so ridiculous it sounds like another story to make people afraid... to get more money and power.
I agree, but please let me add that one does not "license" a CD, one buys a copy of it. That copy is owned, not licensed, even though the owner does not have the rights to copy (beyond fair use).
A license is only needed when the copyright holder needs to give a limited set of copying rights (beyond fair use) to the licensee.
I'm not contradicting you: I think you were talking about online downloads. Those might indeed be licensed, I do not know because I stopped giving money to RIAA.
These are the asshats who legally harassed Clue Computing when they found the "clue.com" domain has been registered and was actually in use (i.e. not squatting).
Fortunately, Clue Computing stood up to them and won.
I'll say, I've used to website in the past. It's a great website. But, let's not kid ourselves, it is breaking real legitimate laws.
No, that's the point. It's in a place where it's not breaking any laws, and it pisses the MAFIAA off so much that they are buying off politicians left and right to try to shut it down.
BTW, the only way I've "used" the site is to read the letters from people saying that they have broken laws, and the responses telling them to fuck off.
Other than the fact that Sony is self-sabatoging their DRM-free sales.
Buy a card from a retail store? Fair enough. That seems reasonable.
Limited selection of music... well maybe they just want to test the waters. Although it sounds like the lack of quality (Britney Spears wasn't good even when she WAS good) may mean they are trying to purposefully set the program up for failure.
None of this is unreasonable to the customer, and I'd do it to buy legal, DRM-free music.
Except for the fact that this is Sony, which I have determined NEVER to give any money to again. These are the unrepentant bastards who infected millions of computers with rootkits (their executives should have gone to prison for that, but the corruption of the current government is for another discussion), put self destruct sequences in the Blu-Ray player specs, sell DVD's that won't play in many DVD players, shut down Lik-Sang, made digital music players that ONLY used a proprietary Sony music format, screwed the early adopters of HDTV (Blu-ray players won't work with non-drm'd inputs)...
"Microsoft's website is in the middle of a redesign that will feature a fully Silverlight-powered interface - doing away with HTML and everything else."
So Microsoft has embraced HTML, "extended" it with MSIE, and is attempting to extinguish it with a proprietary system that you will be forced to use if you want to interact with their website.
And this is different from their prior monopolistic tactics how?
Ok. How many years has it taken to go from linux kernel 2.0 to 3.0? About ten and counting right? Do you see my point?
Octave has had several "dot" revisions in between, and many of those constituted major progress.
And what is this "show stopper" stuff? If you are going to use Matlab or Octave, you damned well should vectorize your code, otherwise there's pretty much no point: pick a different language. The JIT is not a show stopper. I have done some very hardcore numerical work with Octave over the last five years. It works.
Very bright accompanied by a rapidly flashing strobe: indicates the car is braking maximally; antilock braking system is fully engaged. (At times like this, the car should do everything possible to get the attention of other drivers.)
And indicates that you will have some serious traffic accidents and deaths when some epileptics (including people who don't know they have it) go into seizures from those rapidly flashing strobes.
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If I owned one, I would have a sticker on it with the address of a youtube clip. You know the one in Raiders of the Lost Ark where the Nazi's face melts off?
In other words, this thing can shoot well over the horizon. All you need is a spotter (and we have those in orbit now, check Google Earth if you don't believe me :) ) and a good targeting computer.
So we have come full circle to the Voodoo 5 then?
Yeah, that's just what I'm worried about, suddenly hundreds of people spontanously buy shitty detectors and they get tripped by a random event causing a panic. That's at the top of my list.
I kept wondering why the FCC demanded analog TV be shut down next year. It all boils down to money.
Didn't they say something similar when they found out Sadaam had no WMD?
I read this part
I mean... that's inspiring.
And then, he falls apart and kills himself on the web years later, abandoning his dream because of a fundamental flaw, he was a geek but he didn't have business sense.
That's about as close to Greek Tragedy as you can get.
If internet access goes out over TV frequencies, does this give an "in" for the FCC to control internet content?
Google doing this. And they use Linux "suitcases" for transport.
Hide the chairs.
So a power grid is not going to be isolated from the internet? Come on. This is just so ridiculous it sounds like another story to make people afraid... to get more money and power.
I agree, but please let me add that one does not "license" a CD, one buys a copy of it. That copy is owned, not licensed, even though the owner does not have the rights to copy (beyond fair use).
A license is only needed when the copyright holder needs to give a limited set of copying rights (beyond fair use) to the licensee.
I'm not contradicting you: I think you were talking about online downloads. Those might indeed be licensed, I do not know because I stopped giving money to RIAA.
Fortunately, Clue Computing stood up to them and won.
How long is it going to be before Bush sends US diplomats to intervene on Microsoft's behalf again?
Other than the fact that Sony is self-sabatoging their DRM-free sales.
Buy a card from a retail store? Fair enough. That seems reasonable.
Limited selection of music... well maybe they just want to test the waters. Although it sounds like the lack of quality (Britney Spears wasn't good even when she WAS good) may mean they are trying to purposefully set the program up for failure.
None of this is unreasonable to the customer, and I'd do it to buy legal, DRM-free music.
Except for the fact that this is Sony, which I have determined NEVER to give any money to again. These are the unrepentant bastards who infected millions of computers with rootkits (their executives should have gone to prison for that, but the corruption of the current government is for another discussion), put self destruct sequences in the Blu-Ray player specs, sell DVD's that won't play in many DVD players, shut down Lik-Sang, made digital music players that ONLY used a proprietary Sony music format, screwed the early adopters of HDTV (Blu-ray players won't work with non-drm'd inputs)...
Sony is a bunch of asshats. Fuckem.
As in NO DRM is a standard. Digital Restrictions Management is a stupid idea from the get go.
"Microsoft's website is in the middle of a redesign that will feature a fully Silverlight-powered interface - doing away with HTML and everything else."
So Microsoft has embraced HTML, "extended" it with MSIE, and is attempting to extinguish it with a proprietary system that you will be forced to use if you want to interact with their website.
And this is different from their prior monopolistic tactics how?
A known, abusive monopoly isn't trying to cram Linux down the throats of it's customers.
Octave has had several "dot" revisions in between, and many of those constituted major progress.
And what is this "show stopper" stuff? If you are going to use Matlab or Octave, you damned well should vectorize your code, otherwise there's pretty much no point: pick a different language. The JIT is not a show stopper. I have done some very hardcore numerical work with Octave over the last five years. It works.
It doesn't work many times, and it destabilizes the browser, often times causing it to crash on pages that don't even have flash on them.
And indicates that you will have some serious traffic accidents and deaths when some epileptics (including people who don't know they have it) go into seizures from those rapidly flashing strobes.