Seeing as the cover causes the Kindle to reboot (and not burst into flames), there's likely a current-limiter of some sort on the Kindle -- small current limiters are pretty simple to make. I suspect a shorted out Li-Ion could cause a lot more damage than a simple reboot...
Some poor/. user might get an iPad from his or her grandmother...and knowing the sentiment around here, that's bound to be the lamest tech moment of 2010 for that poor soul!
I know how to use a gas pedal, I must be an auto-mechanic.
I believe "race car driver" would be a more adequate analogy (one who uses -- rather than fixes -- cars/computers). Although I suspect Torvalds, Stallman, Knuth etc. can "fix a computer," that's not necessarily their claim to fame.
Of course, race car driver analogy sort of excludes the purely theoretical aspect of CS, so I guess the conclusion is that analogies aren't perfect...
Maybe I'm getting old too, but it seems like oncoming headlights have gotten way too bright when I'm driving.
In addition, I've noticed that some newer HID headlights seem to be more focused, which can make a car behind you going over speed bumps / potholes appear to be flashing its brights at you (with a more diffuse beam, this isn't an issue). This can certainly be distracting, especially driving an old car (when someone could very well be flashing their lights at you to let you know you've lost your running lights / your engine's billowing smoke / etc.).
It doesn’t take a computer expert. It just takes a botnet.
And personally, I think anyone who spells their nick with numbers in an effort to look “leet” automatically loses the ability to be called a “computer expert”.
Well, if you wanted to get snazzy, in addition to piggybacking off the power cable you could rewire the malicious box's first ethernet jack to the printer's ethernet jack (setting the MAC address to that of the printer of course), and then port forward to the printer (assumes two NICs on the malicious box). That way, you've got an IP and are privy to, at the very least, all print data. One could simply email the print jobs offsite from the malicious box. Who knows, maybe some juicy/confidential material will be printed out at some point.
It's not that their immune systems are not working; it's that, in the absence of real targets (bacteria) the immune system is targeting harmless compounds (allergens.)
So if an anti-tank auto targeting mechanism, in the absence of baddies, starts targeting passenger cars, that wouldn't fall under the category of "not working"?
It probably has something to do with the fact that an app gives you eyecandy, like swipy things, and the app downloads content for offline viewing, that are not as simple as with the iDevice web browser.
There could be a dedicated magazine app, though -- I believe books on an iPad are viewed through a particular app (as opposed to one app per book).
Honestly, I'm not sure why this is such a big deal -- it's as if we (Americans) think we have a God-given right to fly. Yet in everyday life, we must give up certain liberties; when I'm driving on public roads, I don't have the right to slam my foot to the floor and keep it there. But that's OK, because I voluntarily put myself in a car, on a public road.
In a similar fashion, I honestly don't mind a full-body scan (or whatever) at the airport, so long as I'm informed of this prior to buying my ticket. I see no reason why it's a violation of my rights, in the same way that I don't feel it's a violation of my rights to show a librarian the contents of my backpack when exiting the library. Knowingly putting yourself in a situation where your "normal" liberties must be compromised is your choice. You're welcome to take a bus, train, car or boat to your destination instead.
Racial profiling, on the other hand, is a completely different matter, IMHO.
That's like saying you want to believe in helicopters or fried chicken.
Not really -- quantum theory is not "right" or tangible (as are your examples). Rather, it accurately describes phenomena under certain circumstances. It's like Newtonian physics -- we know it's not "right," but it does describe things very accurately under certain circumstances.
It seems like a kernel command line option would be a great solution -- it would "just work" for the normal user, and the user with specific needs / servers / whatever could just append the appropriate few characters to the bootloader config.
The quote was translated by Google Translate, so I'm certainly taking it with a grain of salt; can any Russian speakers vouch for its accuracy?
Bear in mind that this is the same translation service which, when given a dumb English joke to translate into Russian and back, yields, A guy walked into a bar and said: "Oh."
me@mybox:~$ sudo ku
sudo: ku: command not found
me@mybox:~$ sudo apt-get install ku
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package ku
No one is claiming sudoku isn't computationally easy; it's the fact that bacteria are being used to solve problems mathematical in nature.
As an aside, 10 ms is about twenty million CPU cycles on a run-of-the-mill PC. So the fact that a handful of bacteria might be designed to solve a problem which takes you 20 million computations is pretty snazzy in my opinion. (The overhead of Python, the OS, your browser, the fact that the bacteria use a smaller sudoku grid etc. don't take away from any of this -- it's just a matter of degrees.)
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Get a sufficient air gap, and there's no circuit.
There's still a circuit -- it just looks like this: ---| |--- ;)
Depending on your contact you can see some pretty low values, which imply a pretty good connection between the two.
In any event, I really doubt that there's not a current limiter in there, though I of course could be wrong.
Seeing as the cover causes the Kindle to reboot (and not burst into flames), there's likely a current-limiter of some sort on the Kindle -- small current limiters are pretty simple to make. I suspect a shorted out Li-Ion could cause a lot more damage than a simple reboot...
Some poor /. user might get an iPad from his or her grandmother...and knowing the sentiment around here, that's bound to be the lamest tech moment of 2010 for that poor soul!
(Lame attempt at humor, not trying to troll...)
IIRC, there was some rationale about the manuals helping you learn better; ...
Dude, they're called man pages...and yeah, they do help you learn better ;)
I know how to use a gas pedal, I must be an auto-mechanic.
I believe "race car driver" would be a more adequate analogy (one who uses -- rather than fixes -- cars/computers). Although I suspect Torvalds, Stallman, Knuth etc. can "fix a computer," that's not necessarily their claim to fame.
Of course, race car driver analogy sort of excludes the purely theoretical aspect of CS, so I guess the conclusion is that analogies aren't perfect...
I say fragmentation and infighting.
Steve Jobs, is that you?
They run accross the monkey first...
With what? A Honda?
Well, if it was with a Toyota, then it very well could have been an (accelerator pedal related) accident...
Maybe I'm getting old too, but it seems like oncoming headlights have gotten way too bright when I'm driving.
In addition, I've noticed that some newer HID headlights seem to be more focused, which can make a car behind you going over speed bumps / potholes appear to be flashing its brights at you (with a more diffuse beam, this isn't an issue). This can certainly be distracting, especially driving an old car (when someone could very well be flashing their lights at you to let you know you've lost your running lights / your engine's billowing smoke / etc.).
It doesn’t take a computer expert. It just takes a botnet.
And personally, I think anyone who spells their nick with numbers in an effort to look “leet” automatically loses the ability to be called a “computer expert”.
Yeah, tell that to 7of9...
I guess this makes my nick even more lame (first level of lameness in that I didn't even get the right UID).
Well, if you wanted to get snazzy, in addition to piggybacking off the power cable you could rewire the malicious box's first ethernet jack to the printer's ethernet jack (setting the MAC address to that of the printer of course), and then port forward to the printer (assumes two NICs on the malicious box). That way, you've got an IP and are privy to, at the very least, all print data. One could simply email the print jobs offsite from the malicious box. Who knows, maybe some juicy/confidential material will be printed out at some point.
How will I ever be able to use my twittering armchair fart detector?
Well, you'll have to choose between a NAT twittering armchair fart detector and an IPv6 twittering armchair fart detector!
pissing off the whole planet isnt exactly a good idea.
Yeah, you'd need urine velocity in excess (due to wind resistance) of escape velocity. Talk about chaffing!
After all, a 2.048 MHz behemoth was barely enough to land something on the moon.
It's not that their immune systems are not working; it's that, in the absence of real targets (bacteria) the immune system is targeting harmless compounds (allergens.)
So if an anti-tank auto targeting mechanism, in the absence of baddies, starts targeting passenger cars, that wouldn't fall under the category of "not working"?
It probably has something to do with the fact that an app gives you eyecandy, like swipy things, and the app downloads content for offline viewing, that are not as simple as with the iDevice web browser.
There could be a dedicated magazine app, though -- I believe books on an iPad are viewed through a particular app (as opposed to one app per book).
...has no way to validate that the glue is the legit...glue. And so they will become poisoned.
Well, alcohol is a "poison" too, but I don't see you ranting about non-legit beer (Keystone, Natty, etc.)...
Honestly, I'm not sure why this is such a big deal -- it's as if we (Americans) think we have a God-given right to fly. Yet in everyday life, we must give up certain liberties; when I'm driving on public roads, I don't have the right to slam my foot to the floor and keep it there. But that's OK, because I voluntarily put myself in a car, on a public road.
In a similar fashion, I honestly don't mind a full-body scan (or whatever) at the airport, so long as I'm informed of this prior to buying my ticket. I see no reason why it's a violation of my rights, in the same way that I don't feel it's a violation of my rights to show a librarian the contents of my backpack when exiting the library. Knowingly putting yourself in a situation where your "normal" liberties must be compromised is your choice. You're welcome to take a bus, train, car or boat to your destination instead.
Racial profiling, on the other hand, is a completely different matter, IMHO.
That's like saying you want to believe in helicopters or fried chicken.
Not really -- quantum theory is not "right" or tangible (as are your examples). Rather, it accurately describes phenomena under certain circumstances. It's like Newtonian physics -- we know it's not "right," but it does describe things very accurately under certain circumstances.
It seems like a kernel command line option would be a great solution -- it would "just work" for the normal user, and the user with specific needs / servers / whatever could just append the appropriate few characters to the bootloader config.
The quote was translated by Google Translate, so I'm certainly taking it with a grain of salt; can any Russian speakers vouch for its accuracy?
Bear in mind that this is the same translation service which, when given a dumb English joke to translate into Russian and back, yields, A guy walked into a bar and said: "Oh."
me@mybox:~$ sudo ku
sudo: ku: command not found
me@mybox:~$ sudo apt-get install ku
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Couldn't find package ku
No one is claiming sudoku isn't computationally easy; it's the fact that bacteria are being used to solve problems mathematical in nature.
As an aside, 10 ms is about twenty million CPU cycles on a run-of-the-mill PC. So the fact that a handful of bacteria might be designed to solve a problem which takes you 20 million computations is pretty snazzy in my opinion. (The overhead of Python, the OS, your browser, the fact that the bacteria use a smaller sudoku grid etc. don't take away from any of this -- it's just a matter of degrees.)
an accretion disk could certainly form around a neutron star as well...
I feel as if yo mamma jokes are imminent...