Well, yes, that is a possibility. But TFA quotes the store owner talking about the video footage of the morning's first shopper, who apparently shopped for 20 minutes, used the self-checkout, and left without realizing the store was empty.
I'll bet they counted the people using CCTV footage, so they would know exactly how many people there were and whether they paid, and whether they left their merchandise behind. My question is, were there 24 customers total, or were there only 24 customers who left with goods?
My hypothetical fantasy: there were 12 people who paid at the self-checkout, 6 who made it to the register and abandoned their goods, 3 who took their shopping with them without paying, and two who tried to lift everything they could transport away.
Shopper No. 24 was a hacker who, upon realizing that the store was unmanned, hacked into one of the regular registers and acted as his own cashier.
That might be part of it. However, the main aspect of plausible deniability for TrueCrypt is that the blob of encrypted data may hold two volumes, each accessed by a different passphrase. Then, I can have the software installed on my computer, and it is easy to see that I am probably using the software for hiding data. But it is impossible to tell whether I am only using one encrypted volume, or two. I can deny that I have created a passphrase for the second one, and there is no way to tell how much of the blob is storing information.
With this strategy, the presence of the software will probably remove any hope you had for plausible deniability. Not so with TrueCrypt.
Well, I must confess that I do not have any practical experience in these things. The largest thing I have ever driven on a regular basis is a large minivan, which got 18 mpg. But that is certainly not the kind of thing that Wal-Mart would use for delivering food. I said I had a hard time believing it, but I don't have data. It could be that trucks in the US really do only get 9 miles to the gallon. That seems paltry, but maybe its the truth.
My point, though, was that scale is probably a bigger obstacle than fuel costs. Someone else here mentioned that Publix, a grocery store chain based in Florida, had a food-delivery experiment which failed because there was not a demand for it. Wal-Mart is nothing if not a logistics/operations powerhouse, and I trust that if Americans want it bad enough, Wal-Mart can make it happen.
I think, however, that demand for these services is probably correlated with reliance on public transportation. Most of my grocery-delivery-shopping British friends are those who do not own a vehicle.
I don't know about malicious things, but I haven't heard of any bad repercussions for users of upside-down-ternet, which is not so malicious but disruptive.
It sure would be embarrassing to have a SWAT team just drop by with all these cable cluttering up the floor. I really need to do some dusting, and take care of the dishes in the den.
But there is enough of each image shown to right-click and open or save the image by itself. Or you could just go to the artists' site, as mentioned by someone below: http://fromme-toyou.tumblr.com/tagged/cinemagraph
It is interesting work based on a really nice concept.
Unleaded fuel costs twice as much in the UK as it does in the US. I have a hard time believing that British delivery trucks are that much more efficient than their new world counterparts. Scale is certainly the issue, and so the reason this is newsworthy is that Wal-Mart is the first American company that has the scale to deal with the sprawl in the States at a national level.
A link is just a reference. Transclusion means that each sentence is a distinct entity in your data structure, and that entity is embedded in the original document as well as the document which cites it. Both views of the sentence (in their various contexts) have information about the other views which are available.
One difference is that the new panel can automatically update with relevant material as you scroll through the page. Another is easily browsing the metamorphosis of versioned documents. Another is that these are two-way links, so for any given sentence I can find documents which cite it. And apparently it should work for audio and video at the same time, but that seems like a harder problem than text.
Actually, the superficial specs say that it does use an Intel Atom D525 1.8GHz Dual Core CPU with NVIDIA ION2 Graphics (DDR3 512MB). Don't know specifically how it compares to Asus's components, but it's still an Atom processor. There is no arguing that the case and keyboard are higher quality, though: the latter uses Cherry switches, which are miles ahead of any Eee unit.
I am totally with you on the Asus brand being unimpressive. This appeals to me just as much, though, because it is a solid machine. "They don't make them like they used to."
Probably. Although it is interesting to note that a very realistic simulation of fireworks would start with particles at rest, with an upward force applied at birth.
Except that their legacy site is still at www.fcc.gov, and they are actively seeking feedback for the beta. Wait until the Drupal-backed site is moved from beta.fcc.gov to become the default; then we'll see if this is really a bandwagon they are on.
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Well, yes, that is a possibility. But TFA quotes the store owner talking about the video footage of the morning's first shopper, who apparently shopped for 20 minutes, used the self-checkout, and left without realizing the store was empty.
I'll bet they counted the people using CCTV footage, so they would know exactly how many people there were and whether they paid, and whether they left their merchandise behind. My question is, were there 24 customers total, or were there only 24 customers who left with goods?
My hypothetical fantasy: there were 12 people who paid at the self-checkout, 6 who made it to the register and abandoned their goods, 3 who took their shopping with them without paying, and two who tried to lift everything they could transport away.
Shopper No. 24 was a hacker who, upon realizing that the store was unmanned, hacked into one of the regular registers and acted as his own cashier.
OP was talking about liability, not feasibility.
That might be part of it. However, the main aspect of plausible deniability for TrueCrypt is that the blob of encrypted data may hold two volumes, each accessed by a different passphrase. Then, I can have the software installed on my computer, and it is easy to see that I am probably using the software for hiding data. But it is impossible to tell whether I am only using one encrypted volume, or two. I can deny that I have created a passphrase for the second one, and there is no way to tell how much of the blob is storing information.
With this strategy, the presence of the software will probably remove any hope you had for plausible deniability. Not so with TrueCrypt.
Well, I must confess that I do not have any practical experience in these things. The largest thing I have ever driven on a regular basis is a large minivan, which got 18 mpg. But that is certainly not the kind of thing that Wal-Mart would use for delivering food. I said I had a hard time believing it, but I don't have data. It could be that trucks in the US really do only get 9 miles to the gallon. That seems paltry, but maybe its the truth.
My point, though, was that scale is probably a bigger obstacle than fuel costs. Someone else here mentioned that Publix, a grocery store chain based in Florida, had a food-delivery experiment which failed because there was not a demand for it. Wal-Mart is nothing if not a logistics/operations powerhouse, and I trust that if Americans want it bad enough, Wal-Mart can make it happen.
I think, however, that demand for these services is probably correlated with reliance on public transportation. Most of my grocery-delivery-shopping British friends are those who do not own a vehicle.
Here you go. I hope this is the way that poll ideas are supposed to be submitted: http://slashdot.org/submission/1542662/Poll-idea-WiFi-encryption
I don't know about malicious things, but I haven't heard of any bad repercussions for users of upside-down-ternet, which is not so malicious but disruptive.
It sure would be embarrassing to have a SWAT team just drop by with all these cable cluttering up the floor. I really need to do some dusting, and take care of the dishes in the den.
But there is enough of each image shown to right-click and open or save the image by itself. Or you could just go to the artists' site, as mentioned by someone below: http://fromme-toyou.tumblr.com/tagged/cinemagraph
It is interesting work based on a really nice concept.
Unleaded fuel costs twice as much in the UK as it does in the US. I have a hard time believing that British delivery trucks are that much more efficient than their new world counterparts. Scale is certainly the issue, and so the reason this is newsworthy is that Wal-Mart is the first American company that has the scale to deal with the sprawl in the States at a national level.
This is more insightful than the score would leave one to believe. (Mod parent up.)
The straight man wins again!
What he means is spending time on marketing, instead of actually being productive. It wasn't that hard; don't be dense.
My gut feeling is that this project hasn't caught on precisely because there is not a usable interface for it yet.
A link is just a reference. Transclusion means that each sentence is a distinct entity in your data structure, and that entity is embedded in the original document as well as the document which cites it. Both views of the sentence (in their various contexts) have information about the other views which are available.
One difference is that the new panel can automatically update with relevant material as you scroll through the page. Another is easily browsing the metamorphosis of versioned documents. Another is that these are two-way links, so for any given sentence I can find documents which cite it. And apparently it should work for audio and video at the same time, but that seems like a harder problem than text.
What bugs me is that with the size and shape of the Kinect, why doesn't it use stereo cameras?
Because stereo cameras would not help with object detection as currently implemented.
Actually, the superficial specs say that it does use an Intel Atom D525 1.8GHz Dual Core CPU with NVIDIA ION2 Graphics (DDR3 512MB). Don't know specifically how it compares to Asus's components, but it's still an Atom processor. There is no arguing that the case and keyboard are higher quality, though: the latter uses Cherry switches, which are miles ahead of any Eee unit.
I am totally with you on the Asus brand being unimpressive. This appeals to me just as much, though, because it is a solid machine. "They don't make them like they used to."
That is not the intention. Those mean "+1 Worth Reading".
Probably. Although it is interesting to note that a very realistic simulation of fireworks would start with particles at rest, with an upward force applied at birth.
It is, indeed, good for emacs to get some screen time. I am happy for it, and wish it well. After all, it never gets any time on my screen!
Yeah, an Open Source Content Management System war would be almost as absurd as people fighting over text editors, or something like that.
Except that their legacy site is still at www.fcc.gov, and they are actively seeking feedback for the beta. Wait until the Drupal-backed site is moved from beta.fcc.gov to become the default; then we'll see if this is really a bandwagon they are on.
Where I come from, we shorten that to "Whoosh!"
Why are we talking about Eastern fucking Libya on Slashdot again?
your description of the people of Libya applies to Alabama too.
Except I cannot recall the last time I saw Alabama mentioned on Slashdot.