That doesn't work - they are basically using their routers to snoop on the traffic as you browse. The only way to prevent that is to use a vpn to some proxy somewhere, but then whoever supplies internet to that proxy can snoop on that traffic...
The right thing to do with something that isn't yours is not to pick it up and sell it. Duh. He will learn a lesson from this.
Not sure that's the lesson here: They were paid $5000 for the phone, and only had to pay a fine of $250 each.
That's a cool $4500 profit.
Even if you take into account the 40 hours community service each that the 2 guys have to do - they are still earning a pretty decent rate of $60 an hour.
I guess crime really does pay - even if you are caught.
1) Because you can,
2) Because no-one else ever has,
3) Because there are useful lessons that can be learned by performing an exercise like this.
and I'll go ahead and speculate on the fourth and possibly best reason:
4) Because the developer enjoyed solving the problems involved in doing it
The time he spent doing this is probably equivalent to the time you spent watching all 5 seasons of the Battlestar Galactica. I'll leave it to you to decide which was the more monumental waste of time.
Even if that were true (instead of the tiles just using the energy already dissipated as waste heat and sound)
It is true - see my reply to a poster above about the half cm flex these tiles do.
, people in developed countries consume far more energy than they expend. The remainder is stored in fat reserves or excreted as waste.
*some* people in developed countries consume far more energy than they expend. What about the elderly? the poor? the injured or disabled?
I guess they'll just to shop somewhere else.
The Pavegen floor tiles flex a slight 5 millimeters when stepped on
That's an extra half cm against gravity for each step - so I don't think it is energy that is normally wasted as heat and sound - that is energy that you are being forced to supply.
Walking on these floor tiles requires more energy than regular floors.
So are they going to start paying brits for all the extra food that they need to eat in order to power these things?
Why the sarcasm? GP was talking about getting the USA to fund fission, while ITER is mostly run by the europeans (although the US does have a small stake), so I didn't consider ITER that relevant to the conversation.
NIF on the other hand is completely US based. Which is why I supplied a link to the NIF site at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in my comment. Once NIF is complete, the follow up project (called LIFE: https://lasers.llnl.gov/about/missions/energy_for_the_future/life/) is intended to design a commercializable system.
My understanding is that NIF is well on track, and that NIF will probably show a fusion reaction that gives off more energy than is required to maintain the reaction by the end of this year or early next year. So the current belief in NIF circles is that it will be only 10-20 years before the first commercial plants go online. Which is why I said construction might start in the next decade.
I agree with your last statement - that we will still need renewables and fission to maintain our current standard of living until that time.
Laser repetition rate seems to be on the way to being solved with the new move to semiconductor lasers that started recently.
Don't know much about the neutron proof optics issue, but the NIF design seems modular enough that surely some sort of timed shutters could handle that?
I am not a physicist, but the guys I've met that work there seem incredibly optimistic.
It has taken years to build, but it is currently being brought fully online, and we should see a successful fusion experiment later this year, or early next year, and with any luck - commercial reactors based on this design will start being built in the US within the decade.
Also like hotels that don't want to go to the cost of washing towels everyday - so write a long card justifying that it saves the environment - when really they are just doing it to save money.
UCSB EE department does a lot of great research. Personally, I'm a big fan of the work that they do in GaN and AlGaN devices. But I feel that this story might be the least interesting piece of research being done at the entire university.
Is this news for nerds just because it is open source? I mean - a potentiostat? Really?
Count me as one - I'm downloading it to my Linux box...
I've sshed in to my home server from work, and used wget to download the iso. I certainly couldn't do the same task remotely by command line using a windows system, and work would frown on me downloading a 5 gig iso using their network.
I'll run it in a vm to take a look, but I doubt there will be anything interesting enough to move me from linux:-)
"Let me give you a lesson in practical politics." Senator Burt looked at his wristwatch, leaned back and smiled. "It is a mistake," he said, "to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort.
"Now then, young man, don't ask me to stop the Pumping. The economy and comfort of the entire planet depend on it. Tell me, instead, how to keep the Pumping from exploding the Sun.
Lamont said, "There is no way, Senator. We are dealing with something here that is so basic, we can't play with it. We must stop it."
"Ah, and you can suggest only that we go back to matters as they were before Pumping."
"We must."
"In that case, you will need hard and fast proof that you are right."
"The best proof," Lamont said stiffly, "is to have the Sun explode."
'To say that it can't be done underestimates the ability of the good guys,' Boscovich said. 'People seem to be saying that the bad guys are smarter, better. But the answer to that is 'no.''"
This might be true - but the underlying assumption is that Microsoft has some of the good guys working for them... Microsoft seems to be chock full of barely competent guys these days. And the bad guys are easily smarter and better than those.
Yeah! Unity is awesome! I love having a flickering stripe of shite on the left side of my screen whenever I run full screen video.
Also - the brilliant way you either need twenty clicks or know the exact application name to launch any application which isn't in the unity bar is totally user friendly for newbs.
In case anyone is missing my sarcasm - Unity is nowhere near ready to be the default desktop environment for anything.
Slashdot Mirror
That doesn't work - they are basically using their routers to snoop on the traffic as you browse. The only way to prevent that is to use a vpn to some proxy somewhere, but then whoever supplies internet to that proxy can snoop on that traffic...
Really? That's weird. I have one of the original galaxy tabs (7" version) and flash works just fine.
Can't imagine why it wouldn't work in the 10.1.
The right thing to do with something that isn't yours is not to pick it up and sell it. Duh. He will learn a lesson from this.
Not sure that's the lesson here: They were paid $5000 for the phone, and only had to pay a fine of $250 each.
That's a cool $4500 profit.
Even if you take into account the 40 hours community service each that the 2 guys have to do - they are still earning a pretty decent rate of $60 an hour.
I guess crime really does pay - even if you are caught.
What kind of typo brings you to a porn website?
dictoinary.com used to. I accidentally typed that at work once. Awkward!!!
Three awesome reasons:
1) Because you can,
2) Because no-one else ever has,
3) Because there are useful lessons that can be learned by performing an exercise like this.
and I'll go ahead and speculate on the fourth and possibly best reason:
4) Because the developer enjoyed solving the problems involved in doing it
The time he spent doing this is probably equivalent to the time you spent watching all 5 seasons of the Battlestar Galactica. I'll leave it to you to decide which was the more monumental waste of time.
Even if that were true (instead of the tiles just using the energy already dissipated as waste heat and sound)
It is true - see my reply to a poster above about the half cm flex these tiles do.
, people in developed countries consume far more energy than they expend. The remainder is stored in fat reserves or excreted as waste.
*some* people in developed countries consume far more energy than they expend. What about the elderly? the poor? the injured or disabled?
I guess they'll just to shop somewhere else.
The Pavegen floor tiles flex a slight 5 millimeters when stepped on
That's an extra half cm against gravity for each step - so I don't think it is energy that is normally wasted as heat and sound - that is energy that you are being forced to supply.
Energy doesn't appear out of nowhere for free.
Walking on these floor tiles requires more energy than regular floors.
So are they going to start paying brits for all the extra food that they need to eat in order to power these things?
Yep - openwrt (http://openwrt.org/) or tomato (http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato) would be the more common open source router firmwares available.
dd-wrt is very much closed source.
lol - your post makes sense now.
Maybe you are holding it wrong :-)
Why the sarcasm? GP was talking about getting the USA to fund fission, while ITER is mostly run by the europeans (although the US does have a small stake), so I didn't consider ITER that relevant to the conversation.
NIF on the other hand is completely US based. Which is why I supplied a link to the NIF site at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in my comment. Once NIF is complete, the follow up project (called LIFE: https://lasers.llnl.gov/about/missions/energy_for_the_future/life/) is intended to design a commercializable system.
My understanding is that NIF is well on track, and that NIF will probably show a fusion reaction that gives off more energy than is required to maintain the reaction by the end of this year or early next year. So the current belief in NIF circles is that it will be only 10-20 years before the first commercial plants go online. Which is why I said construction might start in the next decade.
I agree with your last statement - that we will still need renewables and fission to maintain our current standard of living until that time.
Laser repetition rate seems to be on the way to being solved with the new move to semiconductor lasers that started recently.
Don't know much about the neutron proof optics issue, but the NIF design seems modular enough that surely some sort of timed shutters could handle that?
I am not a physicist, but the guys I've met that work there seem incredibly optimistic.
The US is. There is great work going on right now. Check out https://lasers.llnl.gov/
It has taken years to build, but it is currently being brought fully online, and we should see a successful fusion experiment later this year, or early next year, and with any luck - commercial reactors based on this design will start being built in the US within the decade.
Yes, this!
Also like hotels that don't want to go to the cost of washing towels everyday - so write a long card justifying that it saves the environment - when really they are just doing it to save money.
UCSB EE department does a lot of great research. Personally, I'm a big fan of the work that they do in GaN and AlGaN devices. But I feel that this story might be the least interesting piece of research being done at the entire university.
Is this news for nerds just because it is open source? I mean - a potentiostat? Really?
Come on slashdot - lift your game.
Count me as one - I'm downloading it to my Linux box...
:-)
I've sshed in to my home server from work, and used wget to download the iso. I certainly couldn't do the same task remotely by command line using a windows system, and work would frown on me downloading a 5 gig iso using their network.
I'll run it in a vm to take a look, but I doubt there will be anything interesting enough to move me from linux
"Let me give you a lesson in practical politics." Senator Burt looked at his wristwatch, leaned back and smiled. "It is a mistake," he said, "to suppose that the public wants the environment protected or their lives saved and that they will be grateful to any idealist who will fight for such ends. What the public wants is their own individual comfort.
"Now then, young man, don't ask me to stop the Pumping. The economy and comfort of the entire planet depend on it. Tell me, instead, how to keep the Pumping from exploding the Sun.
Lamont said, "There is no way, Senator. We are dealing with something here that is so basic, we can't play with it. We must stop it."
"Ah, and you can suggest only that we go back to matters as they were before Pumping."
"We must."
"In that case, you will need hard and fast proof that you are right."
"The best proof," Lamont said stiffly, "is to have the Sun explode."
Isaac Asimov 1972.
'To say that it can't be done underestimates the ability of the good guys,' Boscovich said. 'People seem to be saying that the bad guys are smarter, better. But the answer to that is 'no.''"
This might be true - but the underlying assumption is that Microsoft has some of the good guys working for them... Microsoft seems to be chock full of barely competent guys these days. And the bad guys are easily smarter and better than those.
Yeah! Unity is awesome! I love having a flickering stripe of shite on the left side of my screen whenever I run full screen video.
Also - the brilliant way you either need twenty clicks or know the exact application name to launch any application which isn't in the unity bar is totally user friendly for newbs.
In case anyone is missing my sarcasm - Unity is nowhere near ready to be the default desktop environment for anything.
But how is just over one third of a kilometer considered a near miss?
Or a browser?
Compiling up lynx would probably be not too hard...
Would it kill them to release video support for Android phones, like they did for iphone/itouch devices a while back?
I think they have already released video support for android on the HTC thunderbolt - but only if you are using the verizon network.
Bastards must have signed some sort of exclusivity agreement.
Of course that leaves those of us who live anywhere else in the world pretty much screwed.
If you have a gsm phone... If you are unfortunate to have a cdma phone - your internet connection will drop out every time someone calls you.
That could become annoying.
The article is extremely light on information
Of course it is - just because we can do quantum teleportation - doesn't actually mean there is anyone out there who understands how it works...