It sounds like they specifically set it up so that people who paid for the program were NOT treated as "suspects." I don't understand what you're trying to say.
MEMS is a chip, but not just a normal chip with transisters and crap on it- it has thousands of tiny mirrors, each attached to a tiny motor. These mirrors flicker back and forth to reflect light onto whatever.
Seriously, get her a Leatherman multitool. I got one for my 18th birthday a few months ago, it's already saved my life once (literally) as well as just being damned handy all the time.
Did Sony actually know that Blizzard had this sort of thing going on, or do they just send letters like this out to every High Tech company under the theory that they've all probably got something going on?
There's a lady who works at my father's shop who has tried to get dad to buy a lead safe to keep the cash in because she honestly believes that the little black strip sewn into >$5 can be read from a satillite.
And she's actually pretty sane, otherwise... of course she does collect concrete goose clothing.
Heck, would it be that difficult to change the color of some random CGI extra in every print? Heck, here's a better idea:
In some crowd scene, there would be 32 alien creatures standing in a row looking around. If the creature is red, it's a 1. If the creature is blue, it's a 0. Send every theatre a print with a different combonation of colored aliens.
Bam, embedded 32 bit watermark. Don't tell anyone about it, make it unnoticable (only show the creatures for a few seconds, during some random crowd reaction to a pod race or something), and you'll be able to tell which theatre needs to stop letting people bring in cameras, or which reviewer needs to stop getting tapes, or whatever.
You could extend this to other movies easily with a little creativity... cityscapes could have short and tall buildings, gritty courtroom dramas could have the jury sitting in different orders, etc...
Nintendo did something like this, there was a game a few years ago called "Hey You, Pikachu!" that came with a microphone you plugged into your N64. It didn't matter WHAT you said into the thing, pikachu would just do the exact same thing... namely, walk into stuff. This was the least fun game I've ever rented. I knew it would be dumb when I got it, but I was hoping for a fun kind of dumb, you know...
I'm sure that Sony's PS2 version is much better, but I'll pass.
Just put a filter that moves any email that doesn't have your name (or server, in some cases)in the To: header field. So if it doesn't have geek.com or whatever in the headers, it goes to the spam box. I've been using that for a month, and it's only filtered one email that I was supposed to get into the spam bucket. (That was a newsletter that I subscribed to, and I quickly fixed that by adding an exception.)
Uh... extensions let you tell what a file is without having to open it. If I check my email and see a file called "monkey.exe" I'm not going to download it. If it's just called "monkey" I might. I like monkeys.
I don't see how having more information about something could be bad.
And the network problem you mentioned, I've never heard of anything like that... I suspect you may have something set up wrong if that happened to you. I've got a windows network set up here where every user has a directory that they can use on the file server, and no-one can get into each other's stuff or what's above their directory.
There was some guy a few years back who proposed on the super bowl... That's several million people./. gets something like 250,000 uniques a day last I heard.
That's a different crackpot. That one is a scam, for sure- that guy isn't selling the generator, he's selling stock in the generator. Once he gets some innane amout of money (which, of course, can't be checked) he's gonna start shipping these things. And hey, if you're skeptical about it, you can order a video for only $15.
To test this claim, I'll send a Thinkgeek t-shirt to the first person who finds a retraction of this 'free energy' story published by Reuters or any of the newspapers/media outlets that ran the original story.
It would probably be irresponsible to pull some strings at the newspaper I work at to have a retraction printed just for the t-shirt, wouldn't it...
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It sounds like they specifically set it up so that people who paid for the program were NOT treated as "suspects." I don't understand what you're trying to say.
MEMS is a chip, but not just a normal chip with transisters and crap on it- it has thousands of tiny mirrors, each attached to a tiny motor. These mirrors flicker back and forth to reflect light onto whatever.
Seriously, get her a Leatherman multitool. I got one for my 18th birthday a few months ago, it's already saved my life once (literally) as well as just being damned handy all the time.
You fucking win. I don't know if there was a contest, I don't know if there is any sort of competition going here, but you win no matter what.
Hi, I subscribe to Cingular's Wireless web and I just accessed porn on my cell phone. This article is absurdly misinformed.
Did Sony actually know that Blizzard had this sort of thing going on, or do they just send letters like this out to every High Tech company under the theory that they've all probably got something going on?
And she's actually pretty sane, otherwise... of course she does collect concrete goose clothing.
In some crowd scene, there would be 32 alien creatures standing in a row looking around. If the creature is red, it's a 1. If the creature is blue, it's a 0. Send every theatre a print with a different combonation of colored aliens.
Bam, embedded 32 bit watermark. Don't tell anyone about it, make it unnoticable (only show the creatures for a few seconds, during some random crowd reaction to a pod race or something), and you'll be able to tell which theatre needs to stop letting people bring in cameras, or which reviewer needs to stop getting tapes, or whatever.
You could extend this to other movies easily with a little creativity... cityscapes could have short and tall buildings, gritty courtroom dramas could have the jury sitting in different orders, etc...
In the industry, we call them "Cigarette burns."
That, I say, that I say, that was a joke, son.
I'm sure that Sony's PS2 version is much better, but I'll pass.
THANKS MICHAEL!
er... yeah... that's actually what I meant by name, my mistake. I wish slashdot allowed editing.
Just put a filter that moves any email that doesn't have your name (or server, in some cases)in the To: header field. So if it doesn't have geek.com or whatever in the headers, it goes to the spam box. I've been using that for a month, and it's only filtered one email that I was supposed to get into the spam bucket. (That was a newsletter that I subscribed to, and I quickly fixed that by adding an exception.)
Hope this helps!
Oh, well, sure; of course you can't browse through stuff you don't have access too... how's that a bug?
I don't see how having more information about something could be bad.
And the network problem you mentioned, I've never heard of anything like that... I suspect you may have something set up wrong if that happened to you. I've got a windows network set up here where every user has a directory that they can use on the file server, and no-one can get into each other's stuff or what's above their directory.
Why would anyone play this?
27 episodes as in 27 half hour blocks, each consisting of two 12 minute stories or 27 12 minute episodes?
Any word on whether it might be sold to, say, Cartoon Network? It'd look nice during Adult Swim.
There was some guy a few years back who proposed on the super bowl... That's several million people. /. gets something like 250,000 uniques a day last I heard.
There was an article on /. a year or two ago that stated that any two random websites were (on average) 11 links apart.
Did anyone get the page with PICS of the thing? check your cache... if you did by all means slap them up on tripod!
Different guy, though.
It would probably be irresponsible to pull some strings at the newspaper I work at to have a retraction printed just for the t-shirt, wouldn't it...
Oh well.
KaZaa hasn't shut down, they've just taken the program download off of their website. I've got KaZaa open right now, it's working fine.
Wasn't there some kind of cash prize for anyone who could break an oracle db?