Does anybody else think that eventually we might see some sort of tiny "stylus pad" that fits round the end of a finger? It could be a little white dot, so we can see where we're "clicking", there-by further decreasing fat finger syndrome.
The first thing that came to my mind when I read this was extended battery life. With my old phone, which was only a phone, the battery lasted for days and days. My Tilt won't make it 24 hours unless I never actually use it and I have good signal quality the whole time. Maybe, through virtualization, my phone could be "just a phone" until I need the rest of the stuff. If you run "phone" as one VM and "mobile computer" as another VM and only start it up when you actually need the mobile computer stuff. That's gotta lead to longer battery life... assuming, of course, the virtualization platform doesn't eat up what I'm saving by not running the extra stuff.
Alas, it will probably only be used as a marketing gimmick which will, in the end, just cost me more money.
I was thinking about this as I showed my 7 year-old daughter how we vote in MD (this year anyway...diebold is going away). She pressed the green button and the machine spit out my card with a "kachunk" and said my vote was registered.
I walked away feeling a bit incomplete. My daughter said, "That's it?"
That's how I felt about it. I felt the same way four years ago. How would I know if the computer actually registered my vote. I feel like if I can't slip a ballot into a box I should at least get a receipt.
Probably the most disappointing moment was when I had to get the I Voted sticker off the roll myself. I could have taken the whole roll if I wanted to. My daughter loves stickers.
Seriously though, does anyone have a story where they're certain the machine did NOT register their vote?
The Air Force must have completed the rewriting of the rules today at 1:00 PM. That might be the answer to why there are no new stories on/. since then.
Because no malware will ever come to you if you're smart. Because Firefox has never ever had a security hole discovered.
Probably not very good advice to just train the user to be smarter.
I've used AVG without any problem for a couple years. I prefer Ubuntu though.
I would guess that the keyboard used for the video was scoped before and the software was looking for that keyboard's particular output.
I noticed that the program expected a set number or characters to be captured "trust no one" is twelve keystrokes. The program terminated after the last character he typed, which I thought was odd.
If it wasn't sort of rigged to work the program would have continued listening for input until it was told to stop...
Sequestering all this CO2 underground scares me to no end. Ever see what happens to a balloon filled with CO2? Drops to the ground like a brick. What happens when we fill all these natural gas voids with CO2? The Earth will get too heavy to stay in orbit and we'll drop to the very bottom of the universe! It's bad bad bad.
I think the ad was pretty good... much better than the Seinfeld ones, anyway.
Right... which is exactly how they want you to feel. They released crappy ads that you hated and followed them up with ads which are only marginally better and you're calling them pretty good.
This ad campaign is no mistake.
What I'm about to say is so obvious I can't believe I'm actually taking the time to do so:
Microsoft releases Vista... it's crap and you hate it... Next comes Windows 7 which will be marginally better crap and you'll love it... all because you're taking to the TV based training so well...
This all just reminded me of something totally unrelated. I fed Microsoft Mojave into the internet anagram server recently...
Jive moms fart coo...
You can't take the government out of research. Think of a world without your iPod.
And I can't personally imagine a world without Matthew Lesko.
Seriously though, Matthew Lesko!
How would they know if it's something that interests them? Is there any evidence that even the NSA can crack, say, AES in a reasonable amount of time?
I would think the source of the files could tell them what's potentially interesting even if the contents can't be readily viewed. Simply the amount of data being stored could even be revealing when viewed over a longer period of time. Upswings in storage needs could indicate upswings in operational activity, which might give them clues as to when to watch for other types of traffic they monitor (presumably everything).
So whether or not they can crack AES might not matter. But if they can, I'm sure they'll not be admitting to it any time soon.
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bad form responding to my own post... but I jumped the gun. This article is better... shows a few different types... http://www.smartphonemag.com/cms/blog/788/finger-stylus-roundup
Does anybody else think that eventually we might see some sort of tiny "stylus pad" that fits round the end of a finger? It could be a little white dot, so we can see where we're "clicking", there-by further decreasing fat finger syndrome.
Maybe something like this? http://www.truetip.com/
The first thing that came to my mind when I read this was extended battery life. With my old phone, which was only a phone, the battery lasted for days and days. My Tilt won't make it 24 hours unless I never actually use it and I have good signal quality the whole time.
Maybe, through virtualization, my phone could be "just a phone" until I need the rest of the stuff. If you run "phone" as one VM and "mobile computer" as another VM and only start it up when you actually need the mobile computer stuff. That's gotta lead to longer battery life... assuming, of course, the virtualization platform doesn't eat up what I'm saving by not running the extra stuff.
Alas, it will probably only be used as a marketing gimmick which will, in the end, just cost me more money.
I was thinking about this as I showed my 7 year-old daughter how we vote in MD (this year anyway...diebold is going away). She pressed the green button and the machine spit out my card with a "kachunk" and said my vote was registered. I walked away feeling a bit incomplete. My daughter said, "That's it?" That's how I felt about it. I felt the same way four years ago. How would I know if the computer actually registered my vote. I feel like if I can't slip a ballot into a box I should at least get a receipt. Probably the most disappointing moment was when I had to get the I Voted sticker off the roll myself. I could have taken the whole roll if I wanted to. My daughter loves stickers. Seriously though, does anyone have a story where they're certain the machine did NOT register their vote?
The Air Force must have completed the rewriting of the rules today at 1:00 PM. That might be the answer to why there are no new stories on /. since then.
Because no malware will ever come to you if you're smart. Because Firefox has never ever had a security hole discovered. Probably not very good advice to just train the user to be smarter. I've used AVG without any problem for a couple years. I prefer Ubuntu though.
I love it! Primate-Based Emanation Disguising! (P-BED)
I would guess that the keyboard used for the video was scoped before and the software was looking for that keyboard's particular output. I noticed that the program expected a set number or characters to be captured "trust no one" is twelve keystrokes. The program terminated after the last character he typed, which I thought was odd. If it wasn't sort of rigged to work the program would have continued listening for input until it was told to stop...
I called my grandfather up to ask him about his dreams. He said he mostly dreams in sepia tones.
A quick search on news.google.com yields: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080924-kentucky-tries-to-seize-gambling-site-domain-names.html
I hope Canonical will just sell the install media (and download) with the codecs already in it
HOPE....
Sequestering all this CO2 underground scares me to no end. Ever see what happens to a balloon filled with CO2? Drops to the ground like a brick. What happens when we fill all these natural gas voids with CO2? The Earth will get too heavy to stay in orbit and we'll drop to the very bottom of the universe! It's bad bad bad.
I think the ad was pretty good... much better than the Seinfeld ones, anyway.
Right... which is exactly how they want you to feel. They released crappy ads that you hated and followed them up with ads which are only marginally better and you're calling them pretty good. This ad campaign is no mistake. What I'm about to say is so obvious I can't believe I'm actually taking the time to do so: Microsoft releases Vista... it's crap and you hate it... Next comes Windows 7 which will be marginally better crap and you'll love it... all because you're taking to the TV based training so well... This all just reminded me of something totally unrelated. I fed Microsoft Mojave into the internet anagram server recently ...
Jive moms fart coo...
Well it was either that or buy naming rights for a stadium. They may have made the wrong choice.
You can't take the government out of research. Think of a world without your iPod. And I can't personally imagine a world without Matthew Lesko. Seriously though, Matthew Lesko!
How would they know if it's something that interests them? Is there any evidence that even the NSA can crack, say, AES in a reasonable amount of time?
I would think the source of the files could tell them what's potentially interesting even if the contents can't be readily viewed. Simply the amount of data being stored could even be revealing when viewed over a longer period of time. Upswings in storage needs could indicate upswings in operational activity, which might give them clues as to when to watch for other types of traffic they monitor (presumably everything). So whether or not they can crack AES might not matter. But if they can, I'm sure they'll not be admitting to it any time soon.
But they stole my van too. Really though, I'm sure this was just a harmless lesson being taught by two perfectly sane looking women.
I guess the only people actually working is IT to keep the mail server up and running.
Which is why I spend ALL day e-mailing...just to make sure it's working... And I get paid to do this? What a country!
Ubuntu XP
with little white dots.
Air is provided for the engine through a snorkel... and what about air for the people up front? Ahhh... exhaust gasses might work...