Unless they are going to put the Shuttle Indoors, this is a horrible decision. If you're ever in NY go check out Cleopatra's Needle, which has been in Central park since 1881, but were built in ancient Egypt in around 1450 BC out of solid granite.
According to the USGS: The surface of the stone is heavily weathered, nearly masking the rows of hieroglyphs engraved on all sides. Photographs taken near the time the obelisk was erected in the park show that the inscriptions were still quite legible. The stone had lain in the Egyptian desert for nearly 3000 years but undergone little weathering. In a little more than a century in the climate of New York City, pollution and acid rain have heavily pitted its surfaces.
Good luck keeping the shuttle safe on an aircraft carrier, on the ocean from crumbling in a few years.
Have you ever seen a field or corn, wheat or strawberries? Those plants are packed in tight. This is completely opposite to how plants grow in the wild. It's so cruel that we force these plants to grow in tight, geometric formations, never able to get proper air circulation, we force grow them in pots which is never found in the wild and in densities never intended to by our mother, earth.
I find it really strange/coincidental that someone loses a device and it somehow finds it's way to a technology review website? We're not talking finding the Mona Lisa here where the average person would know what it is. We're talking someone in a bar finding a lost iPhone and then realizing that the best place for it would be in the hands of Gizmoto. Unless the Gizmoto guys were the ones that happened to find it. Again, like an employee of the Louvre finding the Mona Lisa.
I also find it odd that the bar would turn it over to a 3rd party, rather than holding on to it in case the original owner came back. Unless this bar has this behavior. For example, if you left your car keys there, they'd just give it to someone else.
I don't buy it. It might be a real iPhone prototype, but I think there's some shenanigans at work here. Maybe something along the lines of:
Apple: Hey gizmoto, we're going to "lose" an iPhone at a bar (really just hand it to you) then you write up a review of what you find as if you just happened to find it sitting at a table. If someone asks about it, we'll tell the media that "an internal source" has indeed lost a prototype.
Gotta love free advertising. I was wondering when the next iPhone/iPad/. frontpage article would take place. Also, the iPad does blend.
A) A working machine that has a rootkit installed. B) A machine that nolonger works.
Can you expect MSFT to test their patches against machines that have been modified via rootkits? Or should the patches themselves remove the rootkits. You are assuming that MSFT can remove the rootkit in the first place.
Would a security inspector even know what an LTO or 3592 tape cartridge looks like? I can fit a lot of music/movies on a tape. Come to think about it, most people on this earth or/. don't know what a LTO or a 3592 tape cartridge looks like. I don't even need to use the native encryption built into LTO-4 or the TS1130 drives.
Just hope they don't put me into a little room until they locate something to access the tape..
That's because you can do more with less hardware running Linux than Windows. And since Linux doesn't BSOD redundancy is not as critical an issue.
So if you think this is true, why don't you make a proposal to MSFT's IT dept as a way to save them millions of dollars in hardware/power/cooling by deploying Linux.
Please give us an update after you have made your proposal.
Back in the 90s (probably before most/. readers were born), there were these Magic Eye pictures which you had to stare at just right to see the 3d picture out of the seemingly random dots. Quite a few people couldn't see those either.
At the bank that I use, I can generate "temporary" credit cards in which I can specify a credit limit and a expiration date. If I want to use it for reoccurring charges, like my gym membership, I can specify what the max that can be charged each month, in my case $45. Therefore if my gym screws up and tries to double charge me one month, the credit card company won't let them due to insufficient balance.
I can't believe people provide debt card/checking account numbers to anybody as there's very little protection (ie: disputing/reversing charges) compared to a credit card.
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Who is iPad aimed at then?
The hipster crowd that drinks latte's all day while typing out the next great work of literat^H^H^H their blog.
One suggestion I've heard is to "look up recipes", well since it's a pad, how the hell are you going to look at the recipe while cooking? It'll be laying flat on the counter. Thereby reflecting the glare of your kitchen lights. Also,at least with a netbook/laptop, the screen is automatically propped up. I guess someone could come up with a way to hang this thing from an overhead cabinet, or you could use a book stand (for sheets of music) but I'm not sure those are strong enough for the weight of the iPad.
google wardrives everyone's wifi while they update streetview; your unique 48 bit mac address uniquely identifies your location if you are on a recorded wifi hotspot.
Doesn't this seem like a bit of an invasion of privacy? Since we love car analogies, would it be ok for google, while updating streetview to OCR the license plate of every car that it encountered in your driveway and update the mapping with that? That way, if you were cut off by someone while driving you could input their license plate into google and google could tell you where they lived. Or a criminal could go somewhere public, record all the license plates of the expensive cars and then figure out where those cars reside since, presumably if you have an expensive car, you would live in a nice home with expensive stuff inside.
Can you successfully sue your neighbor for other types of activities that cross the border between the properties? If you cook with some strong stuff (curries, bbq, peanuts) and the fumes from these foods makes him sick, can he actually win against you?
Since/. is a IT oriented site, and this story makes a comment like
"They even mention the health benefits of not touching displays."
I wouldn't mind a solution that solves the sanitary benefits of getting rid of hand scanners. I'm sorry, but I work in a colo, and there's a hand scanner next to the badge reader (you scan you badge, then your hand and the first door from security to the datacenter opens up). I carry a tube of hand sanitizer because I have no interest in following 500 people with whatever bacteria/viruses they are carrying since entering the facility, returning from lunch or the restroom.
Someone needs to invent a hand scanner that you don't need to put your hand on any type of surface.
It appears that you missed some level of social networking during school. I volunteered to work for the sysadmin at the community college I go to...I graduate in may and will go to uni in the fall, in the meantime, he put in a good word for me and it helped me get an internship at a sizeable area hospital that will look *great* on my resume (if they dont hire me when i finish uni)
Why is the parent modded +5 insightful? Let me translate this from 'holier art than thou' to English
Look at me, look at what I did, which you obviously didn't do. I'm so much cooler than you, because I did social networking, while you probably slaved away in your computer lab. I had someone put in a good reference for me. So as you can plainly see, it has nothing to do with your skills entering the job market, but the fact that I had a few beers with someone that would vouch for me. Now bow down to me playing the game
Way to be helpful, might as well utter that old adage, "You should have thought about it before."
Starting salary at IBM is about $50k. Additional Compensation: ---Employee Stock Purchase Plan. ---401k ---Options (maybe)
Pre-requisites: Atleast 4 years of college, optional advanced degrees. Experience with security and engineering solutions.
Starting Salary of Lebron James: ~$4m per year. Additional Compensation: ---$90m Nike Contract
Pre-requisites: Ability to dribble and score with a basketball better than any other kid in high school.
I can say this because I and millions of americans live in the suburbs. We enjoy our backyards, our gardens our patios. Living in a highrise with a "balcony" is not the same when it comes to telling your kids "go outside and play" which btw should not involve taking an elevator down 20 floors and crossing a major street to get to a park. You can't exactly open up the window on your 20th floor highrise and yell out to the kids to "come in for dinner", nor can you keep an eye on them.
Where I work, the company *may* (if you qualify and are VP approved) pay for your phone bill if you either get on the 'company calling/data plan' or identify the personal/work calls. However, they don't pay for any type of phone. You buy your phone out of your own pocket.
I live in the SanFrancisco area and I must admit the drivers out here are worse than in Boston or NewYork. Not because they are aggressive (which they are not), but because of the distractions. I see drivers with earbuds in, blocking their ability to hear another car and it's horn; having to fiddle with the DVD player for the kids in the back; programming the neverlost/mapping/GPS software on their console; and trying to make a call on their hands free handset.
Shit, most drive automatics anyhow, so their left foot isn't doing anything, so you could probably hook up 1/2 of a Wii-fit board to the dead pedal and let them do that. Display that on half of the windshield.
We've got tons of stop and go traffic during rush hour, and I absolute hate being the last car in the traffic jam, because about once a month the person behind isn't paying attention and comes screeching to a halt no matter how slowly I come to a stop.
I rather see innovations that make people better drivers, rather than a bunch of crutches or distractions. Anybody know how to read a fucking street map anymore rather than putting in Grandma's house into the GPS to get there? With the invention of self parking cars, that's one more skill that will be gone in a few years. I already have friends that cannot parallel park, and they don't have this feature on their car, so we just circle the block for 45min until they can find a spot we don't have to parallel park their fucking huge SUV.
Fighter Pilots have HUDs and take massive amounts of training prior to getting into an actual plane. We allow people to get behind the wheel as long as they have a licensed driver next to them. Can that licensed driver do anything in their Ford Festiva if the newbie gets into a problem? Nope. Now put a HUD in front of the new driver, or any driver for that matter and you're guarantee to distract them.
If the CIA creates a bunch of generic Human Rights websites (read: Honeypot), and Iran hacks them, can the US gov't via the United Nations or Fox News or whatever basically start telling the world that Iran as a gov't is hacking websites?
my Firefox updates when I start it up, my Flash and Java and Adobe Reader update essentially on their own, and Windows updates when I shut it down...Steam updates on its own...Trillian and uTorrent give me a button to push to update them
So that's 8 'auto-updaters' on your machine. How many resident update/callhome processes would you want to have your average user running? 10? 12? 20? Atleast you use Trillian, some people use both AOL/yahoo/skype IM clients...
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Unless they are going to put the Shuttle Indoors, this is a horrible decision. If you're ever in NY go check out Cleopatra's Needle, which has been in Central park since 1881, but were built in ancient Egypt in around 1450 BC out of solid granite.
According to the USGS:
The surface of the stone is heavily weathered, nearly masking the rows of hieroglyphs engraved on all sides. Photographs taken near the time the obelisk was erected in the park show that the inscriptions were still quite legible. The stone had lain in the Egyptian desert for nearly 3000 years but undergone little weathering. In a little more than a century in the climate of New York City, pollution and acid rain have heavily pitted its surfaces.
Good luck keeping the shuttle safe on an aircraft carrier, on the ocean from crumbling in a few years.
So TV doesn't in fact rot your brain?
I thought the cloud was secure?
Have you ever seen a field or corn, wheat or strawberries? Those plants are packed in tight. This is completely opposite to how plants grow in the wild. It's so cruel that we force these plants to grow in tight, geometric formations, never able to get proper air circulation, we force grow them in pots which is never found in the wild and in densities never intended to by our mother, earth.
I find it really strange/coincidental that someone loses a device and it somehow finds it's way to a technology review website? We're not talking finding the Mona Lisa here where the average person would know what it is. We're talking someone in a bar finding a lost iPhone and then realizing that the best place for it would be in the hands of Gizmoto. Unless the Gizmoto guys were the ones that happened to find it. Again, like an employee of the Louvre finding the Mona Lisa.
I also find it odd that the bar would turn it over to a 3rd party, rather than holding on to it in case the original owner came back. Unless this bar has this behavior. For example, if you left your car keys there, they'd just give it to someone else.
I don't buy it. It might be a real iPhone prototype, but I think there's some shenanigans at work here. Maybe something along the lines of:
Apple: Hey gizmoto, we're going to "lose" an iPhone at a bar (really just hand it to you) then you write up a review of what you find as if you just happened to find it sitting at a table. If someone asks about it, we'll tell the media that "an internal source" has indeed lost a prototype.
Gotta love free advertising. I was wondering when the next iPhone/iPad /. frontpage article would take place. Also, the iPad does blend.
Let's see what do I want?
A) A working machine that has a rootkit installed.
B) A machine that nolonger works.
Can you expect MSFT to test their patches against machines that have been modified via rootkits? Or should the patches themselves remove the rootkits. You are assuming that MSFT can remove the rootkit in the first place.
DOH... instead of bringing my 7-iron, I should have brought my big iron.
Would a security inspector even know what an LTO or 3592 tape cartridge looks like? I can fit a lot of music/movies on a tape. Come to think about it, most people on this earth or /. don't know what a LTO or a 3592 tape cartridge looks like. I don't even need to use the native encryption built into LTO-4 or the TS1130 drives.
Just hope they don't put me into a little room until they locate something to access the tape..
That's because you can do more with less hardware running Linux than Windows. And since Linux doesn't BSOD redundancy is not as critical an issue.
So if you think this is true, why don't you make a proposal to MSFT's IT dept as a way to save them millions of dollars in hardware/power/cooling by deploying Linux.
Please give us an update after you have made your proposal.
This was reported back in Dec of '09 with an iPhone App. There's even an wiki dedicated to Open311. In the US the app was created by CitySourced.
Squirt Guns, Tossing of Rice, Actors on Stage...
this was done back in the 70s... It didn't require Disney or China to "invent" this so called viewer participation.
Back in the 90s (probably before most /. readers were born), there were these Magic Eye pictures which you had to stare at just right to see the 3d picture out of the seemingly random dots. Quite a few people couldn't see those either.
At the bank that I use, I can generate "temporary" credit cards in which I can specify a credit limit and a expiration date. If I want to use it for reoccurring charges, like my gym membership, I can specify what the max that can be charged each month, in my case $45. Therefore if my gym screws up and tries to double charge me one month, the credit card company won't let them due to insufficient balance.
I can't believe people provide debt card/checking account numbers to anybody as there's very little protection (ie: disputing/reversing charges) compared to a credit card.
Who is iPad aimed at then?
The hipster crowd that drinks latte's all day while typing out the next great work of literat^H^H^H their blog.
One suggestion I've heard is to "look up recipes", well since it's a pad, how the hell are you going to look at the recipe while cooking? It'll be laying flat on the counter. Thereby reflecting the glare of your kitchen lights. Also,at least with a netbook/laptop, the screen is automatically propped up. I guess someone could come up with a way to hang this thing from an overhead cabinet, or you could use a book stand (for sheets of music) but I'm not sure those are strong enough for the weight of the iPad.
Doesn't this seem like a bit of an invasion of privacy? Since we love car analogies, would it be ok for google, while updating streetview to OCR the license plate of every car that it encountered in your driveway and update the mapping with that? That way, if you were cut off by someone while driving you could input their license plate into google and google could tell you where they lived. Or a criminal could go somewhere public, record all the license plates of the expensive cars and then figure out where those cars reside since, presumably if you have an expensive car, you would live in a nice home with expensive stuff inside.
Can you successfully sue your neighbor for other types of activities that cross the border between the properties? If you cook with some strong stuff (curries, bbq, peanuts) and the fumes from these foods makes him sick, can he actually win against you?
Since /. is a IT oriented site, and this story makes a comment like
"They even mention the health benefits of not touching displays."
I wouldn't mind a solution that solves the sanitary benefits of getting rid of hand scanners. I'm sorry, but I work in a colo, and there's a hand scanner next to the badge reader (you scan you badge, then your hand and the first door from security to the datacenter opens up). I carry a tube of hand sanitizer because I have no interest in following 500 people with whatever bacteria/viruses they are carrying since entering the facility, returning from lunch or the restroom.
Someone needs to invent a hand scanner that you don't need to put your hand on any type of surface.
It appears that you missed some level of social networking during school. I volunteered to work for the sysadmin at the community college I go to...I graduate in may and will go to uni in the fall, in the meantime, he put in a good word for me and it helped me get an internship at a sizeable area hospital that will look *great* on my resume (if they dont hire me when i finish uni)
Why is the parent modded +5 insightful? Let me translate this from 'holier art than thou' to English
Way to be helpful, might as well utter that old adage, "You should have thought about it before."
Starting salary at IBM is about $50k.
Additional Compensation:
---Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
---401k
---Options (maybe)
Pre-requisites: Atleast 4 years of college, optional advanced degrees. Experience with security and engineering solutions.
Starting Salary of Lebron James: ~$4m per year.
Additional Compensation:
---$90m Nike Contract
Pre-requisites: Ability to dribble and score with a basketball better than any other kid in high school.
Which would you choose?
"Get off my lawn!"
I can say this because I and millions of americans live in the suburbs. We enjoy our backyards, our gardens our patios. Living in a highrise with a "balcony" is not the same when it comes to telling your kids "go outside and play" which btw should not involve taking an elevator down 20 floors and crossing a major street to get to a park. You can't exactly open up the window on your 20th floor highrise and yell out to the kids to "come in for dinner", nor can you keep an eye on them.
Where I work, the company *may* (if you qualify and are VP approved) pay for your phone bill if you either get on the 'company calling/data plan' or identify the personal/work calls. However, they don't pay for any type of phone. You buy your phone out of your own pocket.
I live in the SanFrancisco area and I must admit the drivers out here are worse than in Boston or NewYork. Not because they are aggressive (which they are not), but because of the distractions. I see drivers with earbuds in, blocking their ability to hear another car and it's horn; having to fiddle with the DVD player for the kids in the back; programming the neverlost/mapping/GPS software on their console; and trying to make a call on their hands free handset.
Shit, most drive automatics anyhow, so their left foot isn't doing anything, so you could probably hook up 1/2 of a Wii-fit board to the dead pedal and let them do that. Display that on half of the windshield.
We've got tons of stop and go traffic during rush hour, and I absolute hate being the last car in the traffic jam, because about once a month the person behind isn't paying attention and comes screeching to a halt no matter how slowly I come to a stop.
I rather see innovations that make people better drivers, rather than a bunch of crutches or distractions. Anybody know how to read a fucking street map anymore rather than putting in Grandma's house into the GPS to get there? With the invention of self parking cars, that's one more skill that will be gone in a few years. I already have friends that cannot parallel park, and they don't have this feature on their car, so we just circle the block for 45min until they can find a spot we don't have to parallel park their fucking huge SUV.
Fighter Pilots have HUDs and take massive amounts of training prior to getting into an actual plane. We allow people to get behind the wheel as long as they have a licensed driver next to them. Can that licensed driver do anything in their Ford Festiva if the newbie gets into a problem? Nope. Now put a HUD in front of the new driver, or any driver for that matter and you're guarantee to distract them.
Maybe these guys can hook up with with Jediism nuts from a few days ago.
If the CIA creates a bunch of generic Human Rights websites (read: Honeypot), and Iran hacks them, can the US gov't via the United Nations or Fox News or whatever basically start telling the world that Iran as a gov't is hacking websites?
my Firefox updates when I start it up, my Flash and Java and Adobe Reader update essentially on their own, and Windows updates when I shut it down...Steam updates on its own...Trillian and uTorrent give me a button to push to update them
So that's 8 'auto-updaters' on your machine. How many resident update/callhome processes would you want to have your average user running? 10? 12? 20? Atleast you use Trillian, some people use both AOL/yahoo/skype IM clients...