You can make a fun spike mic to listen to people in another room with old parts.
Take an old phono cartridge and carefully attach a metal nail to the tiny stylus end (where the diamond is). Then plug it into an old phono amp as usual, and listen with headphones. If you drill a hole on your side of the wall, big enough so the nail doesn't touch the edges, but lightly presses against the wall of the next room, you might be able to hear what's going on. (Don't use this illegally!)
Eh, my experience is that a lot of things in the military are sold as systems, and that includes the OS that goes along with it.
So fire, or demote, the idiots who did not plan for a known future event (EOL of XP) when purchasing these systems. That includes the Generals, Admirals, etc..
It's not that easy. If they were migrating the OS and OTC software, it wouldn't be so problematic. But they run millions of lines of custom code, purpose written for specific devices. Changing OS would also require rewriting (and testing) all those specially apps.
It's been called a WORKSHOP or some close equivalent in various languages for something like 2000 years now! Why the heck do we need to make up a stupid name for it?
Because a 'workshop' or 'shop' is something you would find at a trade or tech school for future blue-collar workers.
A 'makerspace', although functionally identical (except for the Starbucks cups laying around), sounds like place you can go to make cool stuff while you are waiting for your 19th Century French poetry class to start.
...even if I managed to get my malware on a machine and then somehow got the sensitive data onto some sort of external media, I still don't have anything useful.
Unless the hack on that USB stick forces the target machine to start radiating data on RF via its monitor or other peripherals.
Those radiations could then be read from an external pickup. "Van Eck phreaking is a form of eavesdropping in which special equipment is used to pick up side-band electronic-magnetic emissions from electronics devices that correlate to hidden signals or data for the purpose of recreating these signals or data in order to spy on the electronic device. Side-band electromagnetic radiation emissions are present in, and with the proper equipment, can be captured from keyboards, computer displays, printers, and other electronic devices."
I'm guessing he's referring to the English phrase "sixes and sevens" meaning everything is mixed up or FUBAR.
I first heard this in Gilbert And Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore": "Fair moon, to thee I sing, Bright regent of the heavens, Say, why is everything Either at sixes or at sevens?"
... when self-driving cars become safer than human-driven cars, the public may outlaw the latter...
This may happen incrementally...
Imagine that left 'carpool' lane of the freeway turned into a 'auto-drive' only lane. 180 speed limit. Auto-drive cars merging effortlessly into and out of the lane. People sleeping, texting, eating, watching movies as they zip by.
After a few years, only the right lane is open for 'human driven' cars. They will be stuck behind whoever the slowest driver in their lane is. Their insurance rates will be crazy high.
You won't even need to outlaw human drivers, any more than you need to outlaw people taking a horse and buggy to commute to work these days.
...when autonomous vehicles can't decide what they should do and come to a stop, causing others to plow into them...
You realize you're describing a situation where the "plowing into" is being caused by fallible humans who were: following too close, distracted, and/or speeding.
...get around parts of a wrecked car, a stalled truck...
These would be an easier solve for a self-driving car than solving for a ped or bike. Neither one is moving.
...and then run a light that was on permanent red...
Once every car is self-driving, you won't need traffic lights. Every car will know where every other car is, they can pre-calculate and "riffle-shuffle" through an intersection.
After a while, people will no more be allowed to have human-drive cars, any more than they are allowed to ride horses down the freeway now.
Give me one example of a deer jumping out in front of an elevator. Or a multi-elevator pileup accident. An elevator hitting black ice?
Do you really think a drunk/sleepy/texting/burger eating/radio adjusting/sneezing/elderly human driver will handle these situations better than a high-speed computer that is never distracted?
And with networked, radar-equiped cars, do you really think there will still be multi-car pileup accidents?
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You can make a fun spike mic to listen to people in another room with old parts.
Take an old phono cartridge and carefully attach a metal nail to the tiny stylus end (where the diamond is).
Then plug it into an old phono amp as usual, and listen with headphones.
If you drill a hole on your side of the wall, big enough so the nail doesn't touch the edges, but lightly presses against the wall of the next room, you might be able to hear what's going on.
(Don't use this illegally!)
The Founders would look at you like a madman if you went back in time, showed them a drone...
More likely, they would have you burned as a witch.
Correct. It would not be criminal unless the student actually filed a formal police report.
They used to arrest people in the Los Angeles subways for the same thing - but the Mayor finally stopped the ridiculous practice:
"This is simply common sense. I want our law enforcement resources directed toward serious crime, not cell phone charging."
http://www.scpr.org/news/2014/...
Eh, my experience is that a lot of things in the military are sold as systems, and that includes the OS that goes along with it.
So fire, or demote, the idiots who did not plan for a known future event (EOL of XP) when purchasing these systems. That includes the Generals, Admirals, etc..
It's not that easy. If they were migrating the OS and OTC software, it wouldn't be so problematic.
But they run millions of lines of custom code, purpose written for specific devices.
Changing OS would also require rewriting (and testing) all those specially apps.
The best thing that Microsoft could do for the world is put Windows 7 into perpetual maintenance
That's sort of what they are doing with the free upgrade to Win10
We have a name for a video that you passively watch of fictitious or staged events. It's called a "movie,"
I've personally defended Nakatomi Plaza from terrorists on several occasions.
I'm conditioned to open every chest and box I come across...
...and apparently, strippers don't explode in a shower of cash when you shoot them.
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It's been called a WORKSHOP or some close equivalent in various languages for something like 2000 years now! Why the heck do we need to make up a stupid name for it?
Because a 'workshop' or 'shop' is something you would find at a trade or tech school for future blue-collar workers.
A 'makerspace', although functionally identical (except for the Starbucks cups laying around), sounds like place you can go to make cool stuff while you are waiting for your 19th Century French poetry class to start.
what useful task would this card capabilities be insufficient for? (useful in the sense with video output)
Video editing, image processing, or VFX.
Avid and Premier, Photoshop, and After Effects can use the CUDA processing power of this card.
...even if I managed to get my malware on a machine and then somehow got the sensitive data onto some sort of external media, I still don't have anything useful.
Unless the hack on that USB stick forces the target machine to start radiating data on RF via its monitor or other peripherals.
Those radiations could then be read from an external pickup.
"Van Eck phreaking is a form of eavesdropping in which special equipment is used to pick up side-band electronic-magnetic emissions from electronics devices that correlate to hidden signals or data for the purpose of recreating these signals or data in order to spy on the electronic device. Side-band electromagnetic radiation emissions are present in, and with the proper equipment, can be captured from keyboards, computer displays, printers, and other electronic devices."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V...
...The problem with 4K is that 1080p might be considered "good enough" for most consumers and they'll refuse to pay higher prices...
I agree. I'm an empirical test case on this. I'm running a 1080 projector onto a 10' screen, straight from Blu-Ray.
I can already see the film grain (on features shot on film.)
I don't feel like spending more for a new: projector/player/disk library just so I can see the film grain sharper.
and yes, I know 3840 is 2x1920, but still..
But remember that 1080x2 is 2k. But since it's twice as wide too it has to be 4k, right?
Well, sorta.
*Technically '2K' is 2048 × 1080 (native resolution) = 2,211,840 pixels (i.e. 2K)
--or--
'2K' is 1998 × 1080 (flat resolution) = 2,157,840 pixels (also 2K)
1080 x 1920 isn't really 'officially' 2K, although it equals 2,073,600 pixels.
*Per the "Digital Cinema Initiatives"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D...
nobody in display industry cares about Oculus Rift. For each Oculus Rift there is million phones sold. World is not Slashdot dot org.
I'm sure you're right.
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943
... fivevif and sixis?
I'm guessing he's referring to the English phrase "sixes and sevens" meaning everything is mixed up or FUBAR.
I first heard this in Gilbert And Sullivan's "HMS Pinafore":
"Fair moon, to thee I sing,
Bright regent of the heavens,
Say, why is everything
Either at sixes or at sevens?"
Probably archaic now...
You bought the burner @ Rite Aid?
Now, if they want to backtrack the phone to the POP, they will have lovely, multiple, security videos of your face.
At least give some random kid $5 bucks to go in the store and buy it for you.
Sort of the opposite of buying beer when you're a minor...
The videos are in third person, but they have confirmed it is 1st person with VR (Oculus support).
Oh, thank goodness! I got worried when I saw those 3rd person videos.
I've been HMD gaming for about 9 years, and I'm also a big Decent fan; so this should be great!
... when self-driving cars become safer than human-driven cars, the public may outlaw the latter...
This may happen incrementally...
Imagine that left 'carpool' lane of the freeway turned into a 'auto-drive' only lane. 180 speed limit. Auto-drive cars merging effortlessly into and out of the lane. People sleeping, texting, eating, watching movies as they zip by.
After a few years, only the right lane is open for 'human driven' cars. They will be stuck behind whoever the slowest driver in their lane is. Their insurance rates will be crazy high.
You won't even need to outlaw human drivers, any more than you need to outlaw people taking a horse and buggy to commute to work these days.
There is an extension to this as well:
The more self-driving cars are on the road, networked together, each able to predict the others behavior, the safer things will get in general.
I'm thinking back in the days when I first got a car so I can go cruising and also for going on dates.
Wouldn't you rather be humping your date in the back seat on the way to the restaurant, rather than sitting up front driving?
...when autonomous vehicles can't decide what they should do and come to a stop, causing others to plow into them...
You realize you're describing a situation where the "plowing into" is being caused by fallible humans who were: following too close, distracted, and/or speeding.
Checkmate, puny human!
...get around parts of a wrecked car, a stalled truck...
These would be an easier solve for a self-driving car than solving for a ped or bike. Neither one is moving.
...and then run a light that was on permanent red...
Once every car is self-driving, you won't need traffic lights. Every car will know where every other car is, they can pre-calculate and "riffle-shuffle" through an intersection.
After a while, people will no more be allowed to have human-drive cars, any more than they are allowed to ride horses down the freeway now.
Give me one example of a deer jumping out in front of an elevator. Or a multi-elevator pileup accident. An elevator hitting black ice?
Do you really think a drunk/sleepy/texting/burger eating/radio adjusting/sneezing/elderly human driver will handle these situations better than a high-speed computer that is never distracted?
And with networked, radar-equiped cars, do you really think there will still be multi-car pileup accidents?
It's too bad they seem to be building it as a 3rd person perspective.
This would be such a great game to play 1st person in 3D-stereo on the Oculus Rift, with maybe a force-feedback controller of some kind.