And in India, it is illegal to have your car windows tinted black, because a few years ago, a Swiss tourist was raped in a car that had tinted windows and apparently that made it 'difficult' for the cops to know what was going on inside.
We've all read the reviews, and lots of us have even tried out Windows 7. It will of course, remain Windows, inherently flawed. But the improvement over Vista is huge. Businesses that are currently running Vista would be quite prompt to shift to Windows 7, because Windows 7 is everything that Vista is not. On the other hand, businesses running XP are more likely to be complacent with their current setup, and will most likely wait to see how other companies are responding to it, and what compatibility issues crop up.
I always suspected that they did. In fact, even rabbits and dogs do that kinda stuff. Not exactly voice modulation, but, you know, making that cute round face, running up to you and licking your legs whenever you grab something to eat from the kitchen. I seriously doubt the fact, however, that cats specifically found out what frequency our babies cry at, and then copied/used that frequency in their cries for food. It could be a coincidence.
The concept sounds interesting, and I do remember watching a video related to this earlier this year. But seriously, we've seen things like these before - Beryl, Visual based search engines and Micrsoft Surface. They look good, but end up becoming an all-play-no-use toy utility. And if it something that requires websites to be crafted specially for it, I say it is far away from becoming an everyday concept and replacing our traditional browsers.
Being a Slashdotter makes you too cynical I guess.
Just like public trackers on BitTorrent, Tor is surviving on the good will of a few people who will fight for anonymity on the internet. Its just that it needs a little advertising, so that the load from the few relays can be distributed and make the Tor network faster. Doing what you said would make Tor fall.
That is a harsh and forced way to get things done. A better way would be to ask for donations, and then buying dedicated (or non dedicated) machines in different parts of the world, using connections from different ISPs (therefore different IPs) and then using these machines solely towards serving as Tor relays.
If only we had more relays in the Tor network than the leeches. That's why Tor is really really slow these days. We need a restructure or major change in protocol for Tor to survive. A lot of people seem to be hopping onto the network these days, with companies becoming increasingly nosy.
I've just started going to college and so I've got quite some new gadgets - we have 4 phones at home (each with a different charger and connector), a camcorder, a bluetooth headset, and a rechargeable flashlight.
This is a new problem for me and to sort this out, I am trying to find some kind of a universal charger, something like a swiss knife, but for chargers. The problem is really serious as we have limited plug sockets in the wall, and we have fights on who gets to charge their phone first, and other times, who gets to charge their device WHERE.
Running out of time... doesn't seem very Google like to me. There certainly is something that Google is trying hard to bury here, possibly a leak. I think they'll rewrite it from scratch and include it in the next version.
Albert Einstein looks just in the right place here.
Do a search for 'Neanderthal' on Google Images, and next search for 'Homo Sapiens'. Then search for 'Einstein'.
Those who have read Cory Doctorow's 'Little Brother' would know that this is not at all something that would be a surprise. Though the method maybe different but Doctorow did visualise that such misuse of electronic identities would be way too easy. In his book, it was done through arphid cloners, where just brushing the device near a person who had his private data in a magnetic card in his pocket would suck all the info from it, and could then be transferred to another card. Teens used this to have fun, they went around exchanging people's data causing chaos, traffic jams, and huge shame to the people who originally introduced the system - the DHS.
Somehow, I get the feeling that Lawson'sidea isn't so original.
The concept sounds really interesting, but isn't it overpriced at $250? The Asus Eee PC was priced around $250 if I remember correctly. Why would anyone want to lose control over their system and pay more for it?
You guys are so late. I just came back from a counseling where I took admission to an IT Engineering course. Now I'm unemployed before being eligible to be employed.
This has to be the most awesome thing Google has done. Now, when Google has DNA from both your parents, they'll send you a free email alert in your GMail inbox, a day before you are expected to get a heart attack.
With Ubuntu in the market, the big corporation have starting considering Linux as a threat. They're scared because it isn't a regular competitor; they can't buy it out. The GPL ensures this.
So now they are trying to get involved and try to commercialize things. Recent developments such as -
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/08/202227 http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/31/1359204
show what the commercial players are upto. In such a scenario, anybody would be scared, and hence seek legal protection.
And the history of Microsoft is in any case, enough for any company to be afraid of them.
Albert Einstein's image in the post is running over and overlapping the 'Related Stories' bar which is not looking decent. I do not understang the need for three images when you could do with one.
All of us here are waiting for Google to do it's thing. Last year, it was very unimpressive, TiSP. I hope they come up with something better this year, probably something more real, related to the search engine or GMail.
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And in India, it is illegal to have your car windows tinted black, because a few years ago, a Swiss tourist was raped in a car that had tinted windows and apparently that made it 'difficult' for the cops to know what was going on inside.
Boy, talk about irony.
We've all read the reviews, and lots of us have even tried out Windows 7. It will of course, remain Windows, inherently flawed. But the improvement over Vista is huge. Businesses that are currently running Vista would be quite prompt to shift to Windows 7, because Windows 7 is everything that Vista is not. On the other hand, businesses running XP are more likely to be complacent with their current setup, and will most likely wait to see how other companies are responding to it, and what compatibility issues crop up.
I always suspected that they did. In fact, even rabbits and dogs do that kinda stuff. Not exactly voice modulation, but, you know, making that cute round face, running up to you and licking your legs whenever you grab something to eat from the kitchen. I seriously doubt the fact, however, that cats specifically found out what frequency our babies cry at, and then copied/used that frequency in their cries for food. It could be a coincidence.
The concept sounds interesting, and I do remember watching a video related to this earlier this year. But seriously, we've seen things like these before - Beryl, Visual based search engines and Micrsoft Surface. They look good, but end up becoming an all-play-no-use toy utility. And if it something that requires websites to be crafted specially for it, I say it is far away from becoming an everyday concept and replacing our traditional browsers.
Being a Slashdotter makes you too cynical I guess.
You moron, they counted the BitTorrent data transfers too.
I thought that you couldn't sue the President of America.
Just like public trackers on BitTorrent, Tor is surviving on the good will of a few people who will fight for anonymity on the internet. Its just that it needs a little advertising, so that the load from the few relays can be distributed and make the Tor network faster. Doing what you said would make Tor fall.
That is a harsh and forced way to get things done. A better way would be to ask for donations, and then buying dedicated (or non dedicated) machines in different parts of the world, using connections from different ISPs (therefore different IPs) and then using these machines solely towards serving as Tor relays.
If only we had more relays in the Tor network than the leeches. That's why Tor is really really slow these days. We need a restructure or major change in protocol for Tor to survive. A lot of people seem to be hopping onto the network these days, with companies becoming increasingly nosy.
Q. Where do these NASA guys get their pr0n from?
A. Oh yeah.. the USB drive.
Over there, it makes a news on Slashdot. Here in India, we've been doing this for years.
I've just started going to college and so I've got quite some new gadgets - we have 4 phones at home (each with a different charger and connector), a camcorder, a bluetooth headset, and a rechargeable flashlight.
This is a new problem for me and to sort this out, I am trying to find some kind of a universal charger, something like a swiss knife, but for chargers. The problem is really serious as we have limited plug sockets in the wall, and we have fights on who gets to charge their phone first, and other times, who gets to charge their device WHERE.
Running out of time... doesn't seem very Google like to me. There certainly is something that Google is trying hard to bury here, possibly a leak. I think they'll rewrite it from scratch and include it in the next version.
Albert Einstein looks just in the right place here. Do a search for 'Neanderthal' on Google Images, and next search for 'Homo Sapiens'. Then search for 'Einstein'.
Those who have read Cory Doctorow's 'Little Brother' would know that this is not at all something that would be a surprise. Though the method maybe different but Doctorow did visualise that such misuse of electronic identities would be way too easy. In his book, it was done through arphid cloners, where just brushing the device near a person who had his private data in a magnetic card in his pocket would suck all the info from it, and could then be transferred to another card. Teens used this to have fun, they went around exchanging people's data causing chaos, traffic jams, and huge shame to the people who originally introduced the system - the DHS.
Somehow, I get the feeling that Lawson'sidea isn't so original.
The concept sounds really interesting, but isn't it overpriced at $250? The Asus Eee PC was priced around $250 if I remember correctly. Why would anyone want to lose control over their system and pay more for it?
You guys are so late. I just came back from a counseling where I took admission to an IT Engineering course. Now I'm unemployed before being eligible to be employed.
Yang didn't want to have to shake hands with Ballmer.
This has to be the most awesome thing Google has done. Now, when Google has DNA from both your parents, they'll send you a free email alert in your GMail inbox, a day before you are expected to get a heart attack.
This is exactly the reason why RedHat wants Microsoft to get a vasectomy.
It's obvious. We get enough of that in public buses and malls already. Now we can't even take a flight in peace?
With Ubuntu in the market, the big corporation have starting considering Linux as a threat. They're scared because it isn't a regular competitor; they can't buy it out. The GPL ensures this. So now they are trying to get involved and try to commercialize things. Recent developments such as -
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/04/08/202227
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/31/1359204
show what the commercial players are upto. In such a scenario, anybody would be scared, and hence seek legal protection.
And the history of Microsoft is in any case, enough for any company to be afraid of them.
Albert Einstein's image in the post is running over and overlapping the 'Related Stories' bar which is not looking decent. I do not understang the need for three images when you could do with one.
Considering the harsh environmental conditions on Mars, only cockroaches could survive over there.
So you have to look for those black faecal pellets to find life on Mars.
All of us here are waiting for Google to do it's thing. Last year, it was very unimpressive, TiSP. I hope they come up with something better this year, probably something more real, related to the search engine or GMail.