This reminds me of the film Minority Report; retinas at-a-distance are quick and convenient in public. One of the concerns about eyeballs and fingers is that if someone wants to impersonate me is to forcibly take them. (xkcd #538 with knives, not wrenches.) Am I safe with brainwaves? Does that de-escalate it from knife back down to wrench?
Sure, I'll take you up on it. Let me just finish this script I'm working on, then we can count up the machines. On an unrelated note, the Shodan API is actually quite nice to work with...
This guy had one answer: "when I travel I take only my Linux laptop." If I'm already taking a laptop to do things that a chromebook can't do, why should I have to take a chromebook, as well?
For myself, I've got a Windows partition for things like this. But I can definitely see the chromebook advantage.
I just noticed tonight that it says to keep the remote key far away from the rear of the truck when washing it because splashing water could cause the automatic power liftgate to open if it sees a key nearby.
Wut?
"Oh, no! My shipment of prize fighting eels! I told you to walk around the front of the car!...Stop screaming, you baby. It's not like they're poisonous."
The point they're trying to make, and doing so badly, isn't that "Docs is one of the Google Apps", it's "Docs is fully integrated with Google Apps".
Wut?
On that page, they seem to be saying, "Here's the apps! Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets and Slides!" What muddies the water for me is that (on this page) "Docs" only seems to apply to the word processor, not the spreadsheets or anything else. I want to say that they were called Docs, collectively, when introduced, and Docs started to apply to the word processor only when Drive was introduced, but I really don't know for sure. I think GGP is on the right track: it's a branding issue.
Meanwhile, there is a growing ecosystem that depends on the API. We wouldn't want to swee all of that just suddenly stop working one day either.
This makes me think we're dealing with the inverse situation to that of the Riemann Hypothesis in mathematics: There is currently an ecosystem of math results that are currently tenuous because they rely on this huge unproven conjecture. One day, it will be proved or disproved, and all the dependent results will either be vindicated or swept away.
Why is this marked Troll? It shouldn't be marked Troll. It is informative, and has a perspective on GPL v2 3(b) that hasn't been expressed so far in the discourse.
It is not a big issue right now because it is very clearly opt-in. I can still buy coffee without my smartphone. I can't get a passport without a chip.
Intriguing. I stopped using my pen, ultimately, because the metal outer casing split down the length. I wasn't sufficiently impressed with the pen to pursue it with the company. Maybe someday I'll give it another chance.
Right. Which is exactly the sort of thing that engenders ill-will towards modders. "What? My character died permanently? And this could have been avoided if the modder were in jail instead of playing Borderlands? I'm going to write my Congressman!"
GP was suggesting that Microsoft is trying to generate this kind of social friction against the 1337h4x modding community.
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Will Beale fold, or see your bid? This is gripping!
I have no idea; it's in the second paragraph of TFA. What's more, this isn't the first prize he's offered: he's just upping this ante to $1M.
No, he showed that there are always statements that are undecidable. Most statements that interest mathematicians are decidable, and 100% so.
A little-known fact about Unity: Mark Shuttleworth stole the idea from a kid who dropped out of a bus-driving magnet school in Cape Town.
This reminds me of the film Minority Report; retinas at-a-distance are quick and convenient in public. One of the concerns about eyeballs and fingers is that if someone wants to impersonate me is to forcibly take them. (xkcd #538 with knives, not wrenches.) Am I safe with brainwaves? Does that de-escalate it from knife back down to wrench?
Granted, it would prevent drive-by tweeting if people would have to calm down before they could login... (grin)
I plan to set my passthought while browsing Reddit, so the only tweets I can send are drive-byes.
Sure, I'll take you up on it. Let me just finish this script I'm working on, then we can count up the machines. On an unrelated note, the Shodan API is actually quite nice to work with...
I suppose that this might be one reason: you can't know before you visit a site whether it's going to be a worthless, crappy, admonger.
This guy had one answer: "when I travel I take only my Linux laptop." If I'm already taking a laptop to do things that a chromebook can't do, why should I have to take a chromebook, as well?
For myself, I've got a Windows partition for things like this. But I can definitely see the chromebook advantage.
Two crazy hacks?
Indeed. The last thing I want is to be fishing for my keys when my arms are full of prize-fighting eels.
I just noticed tonight that it says to keep the remote key far away from the rear of the truck when washing it because splashing water could cause the automatic power liftgate to open if it sees a key nearby.
Wut?
"Oh, no! My shipment of prize fighting eels! I told you to walk around the front of the car! ...Stop screaming, you baby. It's not like they're poisonous."
The point they're trying to make, and doing so badly, isn't that "Docs is one of the Google Apps", it's "Docs is fully integrated with Google Apps".
Wut?
On that page, they seem to be saying, "Here's the apps! Gmail, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets and Slides!" What muddies the water for me is that (on this page) "Docs" only seems to apply to the word processor, not the spreadsheets or anything else. I want to say that they were called Docs, collectively, when introduced, and Docs started to apply to the word processor only when Drive was introduced, but I really don't know for sure. I think GGP is on the right track: it's a branding issue.
Meanwhile, there is a growing ecosystem that depends on the API. We wouldn't want to swee all of that just suddenly stop working one day either.
This makes me think we're dealing with the inverse situation to that of the Riemann Hypothesis in mathematics: There is currently an ecosystem of math results that are currently tenuous because they rely on this huge unproven conjecture. One day, it will be proved or disproved, and all the dependent results will either be vindicated or swept away.
Why is this marked Troll? It shouldn't be marked Troll. It is informative, and has a perspective on GPL v2 3(b) that hasn't been expressed so far in the discourse.
And a good point it was. Viz: "to rob", "to burglarize", and "to burgle"; but not "to burgled".
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It is not a big issue right now because it is very clearly opt-in. I can still buy coffee without my smartphone. I can't get a passport without a chip.
Intriguing. I stopped using my pen, ultimately, because the metal outer casing split down the length. I wasn't sufficiently impressed with the pen to pursue it with the company. Maybe someday I'll give it another chance.
No, of course we'll never see that. That would require manufacturers endorsing the modification of consoles. :c/
My experience with Fischer space pens was that they exhibited the blobbing problem.
Right. Which is exactly the sort of thing that engenders ill-will towards modders. "What? My character died permanently? And this could have been avoided if the modder were in jail instead of playing Borderlands? I'm going to write my Congressman!"
GP was suggesting that Microsoft is trying to generate this kind of social friction against the 1337h4x modding community.
Because there is a limit to the crap that can be thrown.
Usually when someone asks for interesting tech ideas on slashdot, they get piles of ideas, not elitist assholes...
Actually, in my experience when someone asks for interesting ideas on slashdot, they usually get a fair balance of both. :c/
Right. And it would be no less secure than the system that tied the account to the original GPU.