Ok scratch that, looking at the picture before, its actually just normal technics lego, a bunch of single-width hinges, and strips... (thought that was something else first time I looked at it)...
But some of the advanced technics sets come with lights, and plenty of power-packs...need a close-up to really tell.
Indeed, they are, but the poster/editor was referring to the image after that, the outside shot... which to me looks like a bunch of those little "lights" single round see-through pieces, or possibly one of the antenna pieces from technics, but the point was the actual lighting I think, which if you look at the far side, looks like some sort of lego-fungus, or coral infront of a light projecting the shadows/light inside the cube, but given how many various sets of lego there are now, it might be from some sort of "biological lego"...or "sea-world lego" set or something.
Yes, but how many stations outside of the US, are still controlled by US companies? Do you listen to Internet Radio? if so... are they all outside of US control?
Pandora, for instance, used to be in the the UK, and Canada (among others), now its US only.
How many of these that are music/multimedia stations are based in the US?
I'd wager probably 90% of them, most of those that aren't, have 1000 users... this is probably great for them, as people hunt out new stations, in Soviet Russia Internet Radio Plays For You... but how long before they all start doing "Available In X Country Only" because of threats from this Label, or that Regulation... as soon as a station does that, it usually ends up the same as Radio-Radio... Top40, some obnoxious pseudo-DJ, and ads every second song, doesnt matter what language or country, no one really enjoys that.
Plus, how many of the songs you listen to are American/US bands? What if they were all band from the Stations outside the US?... And even if none are US bands, would it not bother you?...etc, etc, etc.
No it wasn't... the first (cellular) call of a mobile phone would have been somewhere in the mid-60's...
The first "mobile" phone call, was probably in the early 1900's, using radio, however it was limited to a few channels, but could be linked into an actual phone network, albeit cumbersome and annoying, with middle-men.
Yeah, I don't believe so either, not unless the there was already a specific deal between the Phone's manufacturer, and whoever is running the Network (or the FCC, or someone in power) which I believe is illegal, unless the network was established as being restricted as such from the start.
To the phones, and the network it would be the same as switching from Windows to Linux, it all gets crunched down to packets, which may contain information about the OS, but is generally (if not always) disregarded by the network and only pertinent to the end-receiver (if at all).
It's easily possible for any phone company/creator, or someone in control of the network to ignore messages from one phone to another, but, someone will find out very quickly, and there isn't any way of coming out of that with a profit.
Something like that, as funny as it sounds, it's not really that hard to believe, there was probably some Secret Door Manager in charge of it who didn't think it really mattered, no one else suspected its existance since that guy has been in there and hadn't said anything.
Stuff shipped in and out randomly, coulda been paper towels or post-it notes... la te da... then some inspection is due (insurance, maybe some mods to the building)... bam, what the hell is all this?
Although, since its on sega.com, unlike the Unreleased Atari 2600 Games Found At Flea Market, it could just be a promotional/marketing thing, build up some interest, a dash of nostalgia, ???, Profit.
But since no one else has commented, as far as I am aware its the same as any other Operating System, it has to be specifically designed for the hardware its going to run on, and unlike an full-fledged computer OS where it can have binaries and libraries tailored to all sorts of hardware requirements, Android would (presumably) be much more slim, and tailored for each device specifically, but that doesn't mean it wouldnt be possible to grab any phone that has some sort of OS on it, and swap it for Android, you would probably just have to get the right base kernel/libraries/drivers/etc for that device.
Android is based on the Linux Kernel (2.6x) which, may mean that it wont run on current Palm's, but should run on (almost?) anything that runs Windows Mobile, or SymbianOS, and most likely BlackBerry as well, as they either use 80386, or ARM Processors (although maybe not "legally")
Palm, is already planning on making a Linux derived OS, which presumably would mean it could be directly swapped for Android (if they don't just use Android to begin-with).
So, essentially, I think the answer is "yes, it could most likely be installed on most phones", but in some, possibly many cases, it may require that the phone's developers/manufacturers give Google (et al) access to what the phone has/does/is capable of, otherwise you'll end up with the same sort of problems as swapping OS' on a normal computer, no 3D drivers, or no network, etc.
I have no idea about which companies have better coverage than the next in the US, but if T-Mobile is indeed the smallest, then it makes a lot of sense for Google to partner up with them for their first(?) phone, the contracts are probably better than they would get from going with a bigger corporation, bit cheaper, not as much loss if it fails, and from T-Mobile's perspective, they can't really go wrong, since its already got them a lot of publicity, stocks probably went up, more website/store hits, etc...
As far as I am aware there is nothing keeping "Android" from also being used on any other phone that supports it (or vice versa), and that may happen more now if T-Mobile's attempt is even a moderate success.
Besides, its a little more demand for 3G/better networks, or at least more awareness of the need even if it does fail.
Yeah I was kinda wondering about that too, but from a different perspective... I mean: "So every time you solve that string of crooked letters, you may actually be helping historians digitally reconstruct a page from the 1908 New York Times."
What the hell is the problem with people? All text is apparently on a single page from the NY Times in 1908... I mean fuck, stop the press, cause its obviously all redundant shit anyways, just keep redistributing that one page across the world!
Should work... if not... in the "All Drug Olympics" "Sergei Akmudov(?)" is going for the world weightlifting record (over 1500 pounds)... and proceeds to rip his arms out of his sockets.
1) The glue and/or paper used
- May change area/store to store, and depend on when the envelope was manufactured. (X + Y chems, means 12:00am on X day, which means transport X would have sent it to X store, etc) 2) If its one of those ones with the pattern on the inside to prevent reading, that pattern.
- which may also have some sort of serial number in it (like money) 3) If you go really far into it, things like the chemicals on the envelope left behind by the store, transport, etc. 4) receipts. 5) surveillance cameras.
Plus less substantial things such as 1) "they" bought envelopes there before. 2) Proximity to residence/area they were in.
And im sure there is more, it all depends on how much time + money you are willing to spend to find out.
Just call them what they are and reference the fact that they are in fact that company that used to be called MediaSentry.
Oh, I get it, so you'd rather it was "SafeNet (Formerly Known As MediaSentry)"... What difference does it make? I'm sure a lot of people still refer to them as MediaSentry, either because they prefer to, or because they still think it's called that, internally and publicly, most likely because that is what it is still called.
Besides, there's no Wiki for SafeNet yet, only a line: "SafeNet - Owner of the online investigative companyMediaSentry."
Considering I don;t really give a damn, and wont bother to invesitage further, I find it interesting that A: There's no Wiki, and B: On the MediaSentry wiki, it says they were hired for this, and C:http://www.mediasentry.com/ does not redirect to http://www.safenet-inc.com/ it only mentions that SafeNet now owns MediaSentry, but MediaSentry still exists as a company.
But he said a conflict was identified involving the company's software and virus-protection software. A product advisory was issued in May, but Brunner said her office still is reviewing that explanation.
The votes have to be tallied internally (which may go from each v-machine to a main hub), then sent off to the main electoral college or main precinct, the machines themselves may or may not have a virus-scanner, but I bet that the main node(s) that they connect to does, cause it probably all gets tossed in an Excel sheet or some bullshit.
And embedded voting machines or not, im sure whatever that node is running, likely needs a firewall (AKA a "virus scanner" to most people - think about the potential, and obvious focal of attack), so I wouldnt doubt it if that machine(s) thought it was under attack (due to poor setup) and blocked the incoming messages/packets/etc for X amount of minutes or something, by the time someone noticed, the fancy little pop-up window vanished, it was logged, and the voting machines were stacked up and hauled off.
Just sayin' embedded might not be the answer... "dipshit".
That would probably only work if the game was demo, or had a lot of the features disabled (removed entirely). F-Free is fine, its the OSS that becomes a problem, licensing, etc and like a previous poster said, its basically just paper unless you can back it up in court (ie: money + time)
Otherwise you end up with the problem he/it/them apparently already had with people taking the idea and running with it (some EA snoop or something)
FOSS wouldnt make him a profit unless it was a MMORPG or similar where you can make the money from selling items and such, or just an account to access the items, or servers. MMORPGs are hugely profitable, but pretty hard to start without a decent backing to begin-with (and an addictive game) which he doesn't have.
But I think a lot of it depends on just how much he depends on the game to live, how soon he needs to depend on it.
How is it not? It may not be exponentially great, but it certainly isn't bad.
Those "Business Users" decide to use it for their home use, you start seeing more and more computers coming with it, more Linux boxes on store shelves, headlines about " X Company Switched To X Linux" then comes "hey, I should check that out too"
With "Business Users" generally creates a little more pressure on the dev's to fix/update/perfect the distro they are working on, and those that develop software packages, are more prone to add support to "Linux X".
However, although a lot of the time it creates more demand for interoperability (which I consider a good thing), it's also possible that it will narrow the Linux Field down to a Linux Patch Of Grass, ie: make the "popular" distro's a bit fewer/merged, but that isn't going to stop anyone from making new distro's, and will have very little effect on those that know the ins & outs of Linux.
You're starting to show your age... or just being an ass, the Surface is a good idea with our current technology, and will remain for quite a few years yet even if holographic stuff became popular/accessible because it doesnt interfere (think about schools and offices).
But, this is entirely different from the Surface, and I don't really mean just tech-wise, think about "there is no spoon", its almost a spiritual tool, the (possible) freedom is almost limitless in what you can do, almost as good as having your brain directly linked into the computer.
Having said that and probably some already stopped reading, depending on how (or when) portable it is, this could be a major problem, especially in the beginning with people walking around terrorizing young and/or old people, or causing traffic accidents etc "I swear Officer, there was a car there!".
There could also be problems with subliminal things, although it could be argued that its possible (and in some cases does happen) with current technology, it would be much easier and far less noticeable to embed slight alterations, and hidden messages into the the hologram/projection, I'm thinking about this in the context of later on when there might be people who have it on permanently (think of Strange Days).
However, as much as I am fond of Trains, Gas Guzlers, CRT's and Physical arts, I for one welcome our new holographic overlords.
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Ok scratch that, looking at the picture before, its actually just normal technics lego, a bunch of single-width hinges, and strips... (thought that was something else first time I looked at it)...
But some of the advanced technics sets come with lights, and plenty of power-packs...need a close-up to really tell.
Indeed, they are, but the poster/editor was referring to the image after that, the outside shot... which to me looks like a bunch of those little "lights" single round see-through pieces, or possibly one of the antenna pieces from technics, but the point was the actual lighting I think, which if you look at the far side, looks like some sort of lego-fungus, or coral infront of a light projecting the shadows/light inside the cube, but given how many various sets of lego there are now, it might be from some sort of "biological lego"...or "sea-world lego" set or something.
I don't, save the rain forest, hug a tree, prevent deforestation, stop logging now!
Yes, but how many stations outside of the US, are still controlled by US companies? Do you listen to Internet Radio? if so... are they all outside of US control?
Pandora, for instance, used to be in the the UK, and Canada (among others), now its US only.
How many of these that are music/multimedia stations are based in the US?
I'd wager probably 90% of them, most of those that aren't, have 1000 users... this is probably great for them, as people hunt out new stations, in Soviet Russia Internet Radio Plays For You... but how long before they all start doing "Available In X Country Only " because of threats from this Label, or that Regulation... as soon as a station does that, it usually ends up the same as Radio-Radio... Top40, some obnoxious pseudo-DJ, and ads every second song, doesnt matter what language or country, no one really enjoys that.
Plus, how many of the songs you listen to are American/US bands? What if they were all band from the Stations outside the US?... And even if none are US bands, would it not bother you?...etc, etc, etc.
"Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire."
No it wasn't... the first (cellular) call of a mobile phone would have been somewhere in the mid-60's...
The first "mobile" phone call, was probably in the early 1900's, using radio, however it was limited to a few channels, but could be linked into an actual phone network, albeit cumbersome and annoying, with middle-men.
Yeah, I don't believe so either, not unless the there was already a specific deal between the Phone's manufacturer, and whoever is running the Network (or the FCC, or someone in power) which I believe is illegal, unless the network was established as being restricted as such from the start.
To the phones, and the network it would be the same as switching from Windows to Linux, it all gets crunched down to packets, which may contain information about the OS, but is generally (if not always) disregarded by the network and only pertinent to the end-receiver (if at all).
It's easily possible for any phone company/creator, or someone in control of the network to ignore messages from one phone to another, but, someone will find out very quickly, and there isn't any way of coming out of that with a profit.
Something like that, as funny as it sounds, it's not really that hard to believe, there was probably some Secret Door Manager in charge of it who didn't think it really mattered, no one else suspected its existance since that guy has been in there and hadn't said anything.
Stuff shipped in and out randomly, coulda been paper towels or post-it notes... la te da... then some inspection is due (insurance, maybe some mods to the building)... bam, what the hell is all this?
Although, since its on sega.com, unlike the Unreleased Atari 2600 Games Found At Flea Market, it could just be a promotional/marketing thing, build up some interest, a dash of nostalgia, ???, Profit.
I can't reply intelligently... (pause)
But since no one else has commented, as far as I am aware its the same as any other Operating System, it has to be specifically designed for the hardware its going to run on, and unlike an full-fledged computer OS where it can have binaries and libraries tailored to all sorts of hardware requirements, Android would (presumably) be much more slim, and tailored for each device specifically, but that doesn't mean it wouldnt be possible to grab any phone that has some sort of OS on it, and swap it for Android, you would probably just have to get the right base kernel/libraries/drivers/etc for that device.
Android is based on the Linux Kernel (2.6x) which, may mean that it wont run on current Palm's, but should run on (almost?) anything that runs Windows Mobile, or SymbianOS, and most likely BlackBerry as well, as they either use 80386, or ARM Processors (although maybe not "legally")
Palm, is already planning on making a Linux derived OS, which presumably would mean it could be directly swapped for Android (if they don't just use Android to begin-with).
So, essentially, I think the answer is "yes, it could most likely be installed on most phones", but in some, possibly many cases, it may require that the phone's developers/manufacturers give Google (et al) access to what the phone has/does/is capable of, otherwise you'll end up with the same sort of problems as swapping OS' on a normal computer, no 3D drivers, or no network, etc.
But, im not intelligent...
Not good business? From which perspective?
I have no idea about which companies have better coverage than the next in the US, but if T-Mobile is indeed the smallest, then it makes a lot of sense for Google to partner up with them for their first(?) phone, the contracts are probably better than they would get from going with a bigger corporation, bit cheaper, not as much loss if it fails, and from T-Mobile's perspective, they can't really go wrong, since its already got them a lot of publicity, stocks probably went up, more website/store hits, etc...
As far as I am aware there is nothing keeping "Android" from also being used on any other phone that supports it (or vice versa), and that may happen more now if T-Mobile's attempt is even a moderate success.
Besides, its a little more demand for 3G/better networks, or at least more awareness of the need even if it does fail.
Yeah I was kinda wondering about that too, but from a different perspective... I mean: "So every time you solve that string of crooked letters, you may actually be helping historians digitally reconstruct a page from the 1908 New York Times."
What the hell is the problem with people? All text is apparently on a single page from the NY Times in 1908... I mean fuck, stop the press, cause its obviously all redundant shit anyways, just keep redistributing that one page across the world!
http://www.broadcaster.com/clip/9253
Should work... if not... in the "All Drug Olympics" "Sergei Akmudov(?)" is going for the world weightlifting record (over 1500 pounds)... and proceeds to rip his arms out of his sockets.
No I don't, but I can guess...
Things such as:
1) The glue and/or paper used
- May change area/store to store, and depend on when the envelope was manufactured.
(X + Y chems, means 12:00am on X day, which means transport X would have sent it to X store, etc)
2) If its one of those ones with the pattern on the inside to prevent reading, that pattern.
- which may also have some sort of serial number in it (like money)
3) If you go really far into it, things like the chemicals on the envelope left behind by the store, transport, etc.
4) receipts.
5) surveillance cameras.
Plus less substantial things such as
1) "they" bought envelopes there before.
2) Proximity to residence/area they were in.
And im sure there is more, it all depends on how much time + money you are willing to spend to find out.
lol... feul cell powered strap ons for your camera body... shit, im not keeping up on my fetish porn.
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Well, you could just tell them to walk until they fall off the edge of the world, those that don't find the edge, are executed.
That at least gives them a chance, right?
This is wonderful for the prophylactics industry...
"...[Phishers] basically are lazy"
I'm lazy, maybe I could be a phisher king...
"...all one needs to do to find this info is to reverse engineer a real phisher's website, look at their PHP script..."
Shit, I instrinsically fail.
Just call them what they are and reference the fact that they are in fact that company that used to be called MediaSentry.
Oh, I get it, so you'd rather it was "SafeNet (Formerly Known As MediaSentry)"... What difference does it make? I'm sure a lot of people still refer to them as MediaSentry, either because they prefer to, or because they still think it's called that, internally and publicly, most likely because that is what it is still called.
Besides, there's no Wiki for SafeNet yet, only a line: "SafeNet - Owner of the online investigative company MediaSentry."
Considering I don;t really give a damn, and wont bother to invesitage further, I find it interesting that A: There's no Wiki, and B: On the MediaSentry wiki, it says they were hired for this, and C: http://www.mediasentry.com/ does not redirect to http://www.safenet-inc.com/ it only mentions that SafeNet now owns MediaSentry, but MediaSentry still exists as a company.
But he said a conflict was identified involving the company's software and virus-protection software. A product advisory was issued in May, but Brunner said her office still is reviewing that explanation.
The votes have to be tallied internally (which may go from each v-machine to a main hub), then sent off to the main electoral college or main precinct, the machines themselves may or may not have a virus-scanner, but I bet that the main node(s) that they connect to does, cause it probably all gets tossed in an Excel sheet or some bullshit.
And embedded voting machines or not, im sure whatever that node is running, likely needs a firewall (AKA a "virus scanner" to most people - think about the potential, and obvious focal of attack), so I wouldnt doubt it if that machine(s) thought it was under attack (due to poor setup) and blocked the incoming messages/packets/etc for X amount of minutes or something, by the time someone noticed, the fancy little pop-up window vanished, it was logged, and the voting machines were stacked up and hauled off.
Just sayin' embedded might not be the answer... "dipshit".
That would probably only work if the game was demo, or had a lot of the features disabled (removed entirely). F-Free is fine, its the OSS that becomes a problem, licensing, etc and like a previous poster said, its basically just paper unless you can back it up in court (ie: money + time)
Otherwise you end up with the problem he/it/them apparently already had with people taking the idea and running with it (some EA snoop or something)
FOSS wouldnt make him a profit unless it was a MMORPG or similar where you can make the money from selling items and such, or just an account to access the items, or servers. MMORPGs are hugely profitable, but pretty hard to start without a decent backing to begin-with (and an addictive game) which he doesn't have.
But I think a lot of it depends on just how much he depends on the game to live, how soon he needs to depend on it.
How is it not? It may not be exponentially great, but it certainly isn't bad.
Those "Business Users" decide to use it for their home use, you start seeing more and more computers coming with it, more Linux boxes on store shelves, headlines about " X Company Switched To X Linux" then comes "hey, I should check that out too"
With "Business Users" generally creates a little more pressure on the dev's to fix/update/perfect the distro they are working on, and those that develop software packages, are more prone to add support to "Linux X".
However, although a lot of the time it creates more demand for interoperability (which I consider a good thing), it's also possible that it will narrow the Linux Field down to a Linux Patch Of Grass, ie: make the "popular" distro's a bit fewer/merged, but that isn't going to stop anyone from making new distro's, and will have very little effect on those that know the ins & outs of Linux.
+1 Informative?...lol...shit...
How about Les Horrible Cernettes
(note the "Welcome To Adobe GoLive 6" Header, can't beat quality like that)
You're starting to show your age... or just being an ass, the Surface is a good idea with our current technology, and will remain for quite a few years yet even if holographic stuff became popular/accessible because it doesnt interfere (think about schools and offices).
But, this is entirely different from the Surface, and I don't really mean just tech-wise, think about "there is no spoon", its almost a spiritual tool, the (possible) freedom is almost limitless in what you can do, almost as good as having your brain directly linked into the computer.
Having said that and probably some already stopped reading, depending on how (or when) portable it is, this could be a major problem, especially in the beginning with people walking around terrorizing young and/or old people, or causing traffic accidents etc "I swear Officer, there was a car there!".
There could also be problems with subliminal things, although it could be argued that its possible (and in some cases does happen) with current technology, it would be much easier and far less noticeable to embed slight alterations, and hidden messages into the the hologram/projection, I'm thinking about this in the context of later on when there might be people who have it on permanently (think of Strange Days).
However, as much as I am fond of Trains, Gas Guzlers, CRT's and Physical arts, I for one welcome our new holographic overlords.
Well, if it continued at this rate, wouldnt that make it about 11.5% 5 years from now? Or about 6500% if it was actually "28 times" every 1.5 years...