In the last 6-7 years I can think of 1 time when I went to power on my computer and it didn't work like expected. It is very expensive and difficult to have "multiple 9s" for 10 million users... it's rather easy for a single computer. I'll even say that mail server for 100 users probably has over 99% uptime... with outdated hardware and software and me generally slacking on PM.
You can keep it in your sig... that's the place for inflammatory statements here on/.. But your post was what I was talking about... as well as the other few that responded. But I do like the new sig!
Apparently you hate the idea of universal health care... but do you have to try to bring it up in every conversation? This has nothing to do with govt/market; it is about private companies that used to sell you a computer to do and save stuff now want you to rent a computer (for lack of better analogy) to do and store stuff.
While this might be nice to some who have no intention on maintaining a computer and care not for privacy, many people would not like these services (and some of the rates are outrageous... some not so bad). How did your bring the government in this convo? That makes me think you haven't really put any thought into your position on healthcare.
That isn't how most cattle spend most of their life... they may end up in place like that for a short time just before the end, but most get to roam around some field eating grass and looking bored for several years.
Alright asshole... have you read the patent? It constantly mentions "not having to use a computer" to do this "autoblogging". However, you are using a computer. A small one, designed for a specific purpose, but still a regular old computer. By your thinking the netbook is patentable. The laptop was too (although perhaps when first thought of this might have been patentable). But with the amount of small computer devices (phones, pdas, even computer controlled led-screened remote controls, netbooks and much more) that already have an IR port and can do all of this with a computer... this invention of a small computer to reproduce things that can already be done does not constitute a novel idea. If you think so, that's fine. But I will conclude that you are the one using stupid logic. If you think adding the words "facebook" and "twitter" make it novel, more power to you and your lifetime of following the crowd.
SNMP? Email? FTP? Hell even a web-service to upload the files to... There are a million ways of doing "twitter updates" already. The ubiquity is what makes it special... but just like you said any real use of this type of service probably shouldn't be broadcast to the world.
Except we don't have fusion power, certainly not portable... and we don't already have flying cars buzzing around. Your post is a good example of a straw man argument. You have heard of that before, right?
allows a viewer to autoblog about currently experienced media programming in real-time without having to resort to direct interaction with a computer to perform the autoblogging
It's a device run on electricity, controlled by a logic board/proc, uses a display device and keyboard/buttons for input/output, that sends and receives data via http, and can send IR signals to a compatible device.
How is this not interacting with a computer? And it doesn't sound all that novel now, does it?
It's nearly impossible to knock someone our bare handed with a blow to the temple
While perhaps this is true for the temple (and only the temple), I have seen way to many UFC fights to agree with the general idea of this statement. Catch the jaw just right with a solid blow and just about anyone will go down.
The gloves lessen the blow, but they also make it possible to sustain a fight for 10 rounds... that is where the damage occurs. Getting knocked out isn't that big of a deal, it's the repeated blows that mess you up.
You are comparing the 46 million number, the number of batteries like that made, to the number of incidents of the iphone battery, which is 10 or so.
That's bad logic... you need to compare the number of incidents 10 vs 100, then compare the number of them made. I don't have any idea how many of this battery have been made, but I think apple is well on their way to 100 incidents... will they step up and recall like nokia??? That is the comparison to make.
Fail. I don't think this has anything to do with searching for child porn. This is dealing with a highly organized collection of data at some company/organization. In that case, if you need to find 10 guys test results, then you use a where clause; otherwise it is the same thing as searching where an elephant cannot be housed... you will never find the test result of ARod housed in the record for McGwire. So you must use a properly formed query... just as you would when trying to pull a report on sales to make a business decision.
No it's news. This really does have all kinds of implications on future data searches. Apparently the cops saw it as "already got this query thingy open... might as well see what else they have in here". That's a huge issue for all kinds of privacy reasons.
Computer related.... check.
Privacy related..... check.
Does it matter?..... check.
And out of curiosity where is your line between pandering and providing a real service to your users?
Ok this is getting rather ridiculous. What's the point of having such a controller? If you're doing all that running around and stuff anyway, why not just go out and... you know, do some actual sports
Because it's hard to find a place and friends to play at night after my kid has gone to bed. Also it is hard to see the leather football after dark.
Why are they doing all of this and still leaving behind the single best application of the wiimote - swordfights
Because it would suck. What happens when you slash, but your opponent blocks? Now your hands are pointing at the ground because it didn't physically stop YOU... but in the game your sword is at chest level. There are other issues as well.
nor should you install any of your own licensed software on it..
Why? Other than privacy, which you shouldn't count on with your company laptop, I can't really see an issue. The only thing might be a policy to disallow this, but his employer doesn't sound like care that much.
Is there some legal issue I can't understand? Installation of a program on a company laptop would not imply transfer of ownership/license and I would think the company would be responsible to remove the software once it is returned to the IT dept, freeing up your license (although I would probably remove before handing over).
Awesome idea! You and the 30 other comments modded up saying the same basic thing. Now, how come nothing every happens? Because it is illegal! You can't bring it up willy-nilly if you have a job, like I do. You can't go around espousing the grand ideas marijuana legalization without raising some suspicion that you smoke it. Great now my boss, neighbor, landlord and the cop down the street think I am a "criminal".
So we can name a million reasons why it shouldn't be illegal, but until it is actually legal you have to assume that coming out and stating you are for marijuana usage and support this legislation is "social/business suicide". Now imagine you are a politician and throw in the fact that some of your constituents will not want this legislation; the easy way out is to not support legalization of marijuana, no matter your actual opinion.
Is to slowly destroy them physically. Back in the day we convinced our clueless boss that all drives had to be completely disassembled to prevent data theft; so we sat around when we were bored taking apart drives. We used the magnets, well, as magnets. But the electric motors were awesome! You can hook them up directly to power for a full on motor, or you can try to keep the drive in tact enough to still hook it up to the computer. Combined with some software (can't remember now) we were able to control the rpms and spin up of the disks. Made a great desk fan (ok actually you could buy a better one for 5 bucks than our hacked up version) or simply a good way to scare the crap out of someone when they sit on your desk.
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I think it's really simple: MS doesn't want you to write an open source OS... they want you to write open source programs for THEIR OS.
I see what you did!!! Clever. Of course there are bad things you could use this for as well.
In the last 6-7 years I can think of 1 time when I went to power on my computer and it didn't work like expected. It is very expensive and difficult to have "multiple 9s" for 10 million users... it's rather easy for a single computer. I'll even say that mail server for 100 users probably has over 99% uptime... with outdated hardware and software and me generally slacking on PM.
You can keep it in your sig... that's the place for inflammatory statements here on /.. But your post was what I was talking about... as well as the other few that responded. But I do like the new sig!
Apparently you hate the idea of universal health care... but do you have to try to bring it up in every conversation? This has nothing to do with govt/market; it is about private companies that used to sell you a computer to do and save stuff now want you to rent a computer (for lack of better analogy) to do and store stuff.
While this might be nice to some who have no intention on maintaining a computer and care not for privacy, many people would not like these services (and some of the rates are outrageous... some not so bad). How did your bring the government in this convo? That makes me think you haven't really put any thought into your position on healthcare.
That isn't how most cattle spend most of their life... they may end up in place like that for a short time just before the end, but most get to roam around some field eating grass and looking bored for several years.
By "no solution", you mean that the readout is completely crystallized? Ba-dump-bump!
Stop being an acetate. Ba-dump-bump!
Pathetic... It's really a basic solution.
Already answered.
Alright asshole... have you read the patent? It constantly mentions "not having to use a computer" to do this "autoblogging". However, you are using a computer. A small one, designed for a specific purpose, but still a regular old computer. By your thinking the netbook is patentable. The laptop was too (although perhaps when first thought of this might have been patentable). But with the amount of small computer devices (phones, pdas, even computer controlled led-screened remote controls, netbooks and much more) that already have an IR port and can do all of this with a computer... this invention of a small computer to reproduce things that can already be done does not constitute a novel idea. If you think so, that's fine. But I will conclude that you are the one using stupid logic. If you think adding the words "facebook" and "twitter" make it novel, more power to you and your lifetime of following the crowd.
SNMP? Email? FTP? Hell even a web-service to upload the files to... There are a million ways of doing "twitter updates" already. The ubiquity is what makes it special... but just like you said any real use of this type of service probably shouldn't be broadcast to the world.
Except we don't have fusion power, certainly not portable... and we don't already have flying cars buzzing around. Your post is a good example of a straw man argument. You have heard of that before, right?
allows a viewer to autoblog about currently experienced media programming in real-time without having to resort to direct interaction with a computer to perform the autoblogging
It's a device run on electricity, controlled by a logic board/proc, uses a display device and keyboard/buttons for input/output, that sends and receives data via http, and can send IR signals to a compatible device.
How is this not interacting with a computer? And it doesn't sound all that novel now, does it?
It's nearly impossible to knock someone our bare handed with a blow to the temple
While perhaps this is true for the temple (and only the temple), I have seen way to many UFC fights to agree with the general idea of this statement. Catch the jaw just right with a solid blow and just about anyone will go down.
The gloves lessen the blow, but they also make it possible to sustain a fight for 10 rounds... that is where the damage occurs. Getting knocked out isn't that big of a deal, it's the repeated blows that mess you up.
You are comparing the 46 million number, the number of batteries like that made, to the number of incidents of the iphone battery, which is 10 or so.
That's bad logic... you need to compare the number of incidents 10 vs 100, then compare the number of them made. I don't have any idea how many of this battery have been made, but I think apple is well on their way to 100 incidents... will they step up and recall like nokia??? That is the comparison to make.
Fail. I don't think this has anything to do with searching for child porn. This is dealing with a highly organized collection of data at some company/organization. In that case, if you need to find 10 guys test results, then you use a where clause; otherwise it is the same thing as searching where an elephant cannot be housed... you will never find the test result of ARod housed in the record for McGwire. So you must use a properly formed query... just as you would when trying to pull a report on sales to make a business decision.
No it's news. This really does have all kinds of implications on future data searches. Apparently the cops saw it as "already got this query thingy open... might as well see what else they have in here". That's a huge issue for all kinds of privacy reasons.
Computer related.... check.
Privacy related..... check.
Does it matter?..... check.
And out of curiosity where is your line between pandering and providing a real service to your users?
I was unaware that the VA diagnosed you? I thought doctors still had to do that?
Ok this is getting rather ridiculous. What's the point of having such a controller? If you're doing all that running around and stuff anyway, why not just go out and ... you know, do some actual sports
Because it's hard to find a place and friends to play at night after my kid has gone to bed. Also it is hard to see the leather football after dark.
Why are they doing all of this and still leaving behind the single best application of the wiimote - swordfights
Because it would suck. What happens when you slash, but your opponent blocks? Now your hands are pointing at the ground because it didn't physically stop YOU... but in the game your sword is at chest level. There are other issues as well.
And you think a little thing like that stopped the church from spreading such a myth?
nor should you install any of your own licensed software on it..
Why? Other than privacy, which you shouldn't count on with your company laptop, I can't really see an issue. The only thing might be a policy to disallow this, but his employer doesn't sound like care that much.
Is there some legal issue I can't understand? Installation of a program on a company laptop would not imply transfer of ownership/license and I would think the company would be responsible to remove the software once it is returned to the IT dept, freeing up your license (although I would probably remove before handing over).
Ok. We're looking up money laundering in a dictionary.
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For those who dare to phone different... just like millions of others.
Awesome idea! You and the 30 other comments modded up saying the same basic thing. Now, how come nothing every happens? Because it is illegal! You can't bring it up willy-nilly if you have a job, like I do. You can't go around espousing the grand ideas marijuana legalization without raising some suspicion that you smoke it. Great now my boss, neighbor, landlord and the cop down the street think I am a "criminal".
So we can name a million reasons why it shouldn't be illegal, but until it is actually legal you have to assume that coming out and stating you are for marijuana usage and support this legislation is "social/business suicide". Now imagine you are a politician and throw in the fact that some of your constituents will not want this legislation; the easy way out is to not support legalization of marijuana, no matter your actual opinion.
How do we change that?
Is to slowly destroy them physically. Back in the day we convinced our clueless boss that all drives had to be completely disassembled to prevent data theft; so we sat around when we were bored taking apart drives. We used the magnets, well, as magnets. But the electric motors were awesome! You can hook them up directly to power for a full on motor, or you can try to keep the drive in tact enough to still hook it up to the computer. Combined with some software (can't remember now) we were able to control the rpms and spin up of the disks. Made a great desk fan (ok actually you could buy a better one for 5 bucks than our hacked up version) or simply a good way to scare the crap out of someone when they sit on your desk.
But things got uglier, Isakson said, when Benjamin squeezed him around the neck and pressed him up against the wall.
I thought that was the nice way to treat customers?