I don't understand why he kept the information, but if he really wants to take a stand on this, he should delete it immediately, before they come in with a warrant.
Be sure to read the comparing the 14-bis to the Wright flyer. If you tack on enough qualifiers, you can make anything be the "first", but as the article mentions, the Wrights had a plane that flew for 20 miles a full year before the 14-bis made its first hop.
I remember reading an article from a security consultant awhile back. One of his clients, a bank, had hired him to try to break into their systems, and were quite cocky about how they'd sealed off external access.
So he took a bunch of thumb drives, put a Windows autorun backdoor installer on them, and scattered them around the entrances and outdoor smoking areas.
2. Cable/DSL modems that support IPV6 off the shelf.
3. (The biggie) ISPs that hand out IPV6 addresses.
In a vain attempt to forestall the inevitable followups:
Yes, I am aware that I could install new software in my WRT-54G, and convert my home network to IPV6. But as long as my upstream connection is IPV4, this gains me NOTHING except a bunch of aggravation and downtime getting the thing set up. No thanks. When my ISP supports IPV6, then and only then will it make sense for me to convert.
1. While the Y chromosome doesn't have many genes on it, it has a few, and some pertain to the development of sperm. So if you're going to make sperm from a genome that lacks a Y, your sperm may be... um... sub-optimal.
2. During meiosis, parental chromosomes swap sections of DNA to mix things up a bit. The article doesn't mention if that occurs or not, but that mixing and recombining is one of the biggest sources of new genetic diversity in a population. So even if they perfect this method, there will still be a need for the old-fashioned way.
My first programming job was on Datapoint machines, back in 1978. Ah, Databus...
ARC was cool, but there were a few issues. It wasn't routable. You could only have 255 machines on a segment. You could join multiple segments together, but no more than 255. Back then, that was a lot of machines, so you were probably fine for your installation, but it set an upper limit on how connected you could get. So I don't think it would have caught on big, even if they'd made it a standard.
I'd love to see this implemented ASAP. I'd save on insurance big time by only needing one car. Right now, I need one to drive to work in, and my wife needs one to drive the kids around and run errands during the day. I'd love to have the single car drop me off, then drive itself home. When it was time to leave, it could drive itself back to work and pick me up again.
You could even start a car-sharing co-op where 4 or 5 cars are shared by a couple dozen people. When you need one, call it on the phone and tell it to come and get you.
I'll even go so far as to say that within 20 years of these appearing, manual driving on highways and major roads will be outlawed.
Forget about land mines, or rescue operations or other such high-minded things. Not that they aren't worthwhile, but they don't speak to most peoples' everyday life.
This is incorrect. While they are perfectly within their rights to REQUEST to see the contents of your bag, you are within your rights to REFUSE that request.
The fact that it is their store means nothing. Think of it this way. Do you have the right to search any bags or packages that someone brings into your home? No. You can ask, and then you can ask that they leave if they refuse to show you, but beyond that, nothing.
Also, refusal to allow one's person or possessions to be search cannot be used as just cause for a search. So says the Supreme Court.
People are all excited about this thing, and I don't understand why. Is it the iPrefix somehow making people think this will be as big a deal as the iPod? The difference here is that the iPod came in at the beginning of a new market, while the iPhone is trying to crack an existing and highly-competitive one. And I'm just not seeing anything special.
Let's see.
It's expensive. It only works on one provider. And it's closed platform.
If it used a SIM card, and had an open API, I'd be a lot more impressed.
I can sympathize. My real name is Joe DiMaggio. My situation is a little different - he had the name first, so I've always had people comment on it, even when I was a kid.
But it does have a couple of advantages. People remember my name. And I get lost in the Google chaff.
True: I used to live on Marilyn Drive, which could be fun when ordering pizza.
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Online petitions aren't worth the paper they aren't printed on.
You can sign whatever you want, but as long as his movies make money, he'll keep making them.
Hint: If you don't like his movies, don't watch them.
All the emails it's sending are to names like sarah_conner@, sconner@, sarahc@, etc.
I don't understand why he kept the information, but if he really wants to take a stand on this, he should delete it immediately, before they come in with a warrant.
That would be Alberto Santos-Dumont.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alberto_Santos-Dumont
His plane: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14-bis
Be sure to read the comparing the 14-bis to the Wright flyer. If you tack on enough qualifiers, you can make anything be the "first", but as the article mentions, the Wrights had a plane that flew for 20 miles a full year before the 14-bis made its first hop.
No. They used something borrowed, and something blue.
Because USB ports are used for other things besides thumb drives. Notably, mice, keyboards, and printers.
I remember reading an article from a security consultant awhile back. One of his clients, a bank, had hired him to try to break into their systems, and were quite cocky about how they'd sealed off external access.
So he took a bunch of thumb drives, put a Windows autorun backdoor installer on them, and scattered them around the entrances and outdoor smoking areas.
Hey, presto, instant access.
Can I sue for my flying car?
You miss the point. What do I gain by converting to IPV6, when my upstream and current static IP address is IPV4?
And it will take more than "a few minutes" to get my DNS, email, web, and other misc server crap reconfigured for IPV6.
Like I said, it's just not worth the time and aggravation for me to convert.
When I can get an IPV6 connection from my ISP, which they will support should something go wrong, then I'll think about it.
1. Home routers that support IPV6 off the shelf.
2. Cable/DSL modems that support IPV6 off the shelf.
3. (The biggie) ISPs that hand out IPV6 addresses.
In a vain attempt to forestall the inevitable followups:
Yes, I am aware that I could install new software in my WRT-54G, and convert my home network to IPV6. But as long as my upstream connection is IPV4, this gains me NOTHING except a bunch of aggravation and downtime getting the thing set up. No thanks. When my ISP supports IPV6, then and only then will it make sense for me to convert.
"New Deal Government Jobs!"
I want me one of them.
Better watch out for shoggoths!
Before IPV6 gets popular, it needs:
1. Home routers that support it.
And/or
2. DSL and cable modems that support it.
I'd love to convert my home network to IPV6, but as long as I connect through an IPV4 ISP, and my wireless router only does IPV4, I'm hosed.
Joe D
1. While the Y chromosome doesn't have many genes on it, it has a few, and some pertain to the development of sperm. So if you're going to make sperm from a genome that lacks a Y, your sperm may be ... um ... sub-optimal.
2. During meiosis, parental chromosomes swap sections of DNA to mix things up a bit. The article doesn't mention if that occurs or not, but that mixing and recombining is one of the biggest sources of new genetic diversity in a population. So even if they perfect this method, there will still be a need for the old-fashioned way.
My first programming job was on Datapoint machines, back in 1978. Ah, Databus...
ARC was cool, but there were a few issues. It wasn't routable. You could only have 255 machines on a segment. You could join multiple segments together, but no more than 255. Back then, that was a lot of machines, so you were probably fine for your installation, but it set an upper limit on how connected you could get. So I don't think it would have caught on big, even if they'd made it a standard.
I'd love to see this implemented ASAP. I'd save on insurance big time by only needing one car. Right now, I need one to drive to work in, and my wife needs one to drive the kids around and run errands during the day. I'd love to have the single car drop me off, then drive itself home. When it was time to leave, it could drive itself back to work and pick me up again.
You could even start a car-sharing co-op where 4 or 5 cars are shared by a couple dozen people. When you need one, call it on the phone and tell it to come and get you.
I'll even go so far as to say that within 20 years of these appearing, manual driving on highways and major roads will be outlawed.
...about a new GR-DVD format, but I'm too lazy to flesh it out. Go ahead and pretend that I did, and mod this up.
I can never remember which one is faster, "Hi Speed" or "Full Speed".
we're probably going to wind up with yet another ambiguous name like "Extreme Speed" or "Max Speed".
Just call it USB 3.0 and be done with it.
No real applications?
Forget about land mines, or rescue operations or other such high-minded things. Not that they aren't worthwhile, but they don't speak to most peoples' everyday life.
How about self-driving cars?
It seems tailor-made for that one.
This is incorrect. While they are perfectly within their rights to REQUEST to see the contents of your bag, you are within your rights to REFUSE that request.
The fact that it is their store means nothing. Think of it this way. Do you have the right to search any bags or packages that someone brings into your home? No. You can ask, and then you can ask that they leave if they refuse to show you, but beyond that, nothing.
Also, refusal to allow one's person or possessions to be search cannot be used as just cause for a search. So says the Supreme Court.
If I had the spare cash, I'd take a swab from a slab of lunch meat and send that in. Or my cat.
But you can't change the SIM to change providers, which is my point.
And you can't develop apps that run natively on it, either. Calling browser-based apps "an API" is a bit disingenuous.
People are all excited about this thing, and I don't understand why. Is it the iPrefix somehow making people think this will be as big a deal as the iPod? The difference here is that the iPod came in at the beginning of a new market, while the iPhone is trying to crack an existing and highly-competitive one. And I'm just not seeing anything special.
Let's see.
It's expensive. It only works on one provider. And it's closed platform.
If it used a SIM card, and had an open API, I'd be a lot more impressed.
As it stands, I'll wait for the Openmoko.
I can sympathize. My real name is Joe DiMaggio. My situation is a little different - he had the name first, so I've always had people comment on it, even when I was a kid.
But it does have a couple of advantages. People remember my name. And I get lost in the Google chaff.
True: I used to live on Marilyn Drive, which could be fun when ordering pizza.
atto = 10^-18
zepto = 10^-21
yocto = 10^-24
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_prefix