I don't see why you think his account has been hacked.
I wondered about that, but I took it to mean that the uncle clicked a link and entered his account details before asking what the link was about, and so was 'hacked' in that sense, not that hacking was needed to fake the From: header.
There's the question of how the email associated the recipient and sender names, but that just suggests that a mutual friend's machine was harvested for addresses.
Are they likely to be augmented reality? With a glass reflector in front of the eye, I expect it to be more of a translucent HUD overlay.
They may well have gps+compass-based direction indicators for navigating, but I doubt that they'd be capable of a solid-looking images tracking accurately over what you see.
I follow Curiosity on FaceBook (don't judge me) and it's silly that it's written from it's point-of-view, but seeing it announce that it would soon be Mayor of Mars actually made me laugh. Funnier than when it announced "I did a science!"
It's entertainingly done, and I get a feed of it's pictures without having to remember to check for them. Most missions are 'fire and forget" to much of the population, but this is staying in the news a lot more.
I just hope they don't hire Randall Munroe to write them.
I know a number of families that make kids share an iPad
You can usually get refurbished iPods (from Apple, so good condition and 1yr warranty) for under $200, especially if not the latest version. Ideal for kids, as long as they're in a thick rubber case.
(There's a joke opening in my last sentence if anyone wants it.)
The "wow" about iPhone, and later Android, was "look at all the things I can do with it! And the number of things I can do with it is growing like crazy!"
It's a bit surprising to remember that the app store didn't launch for over a year after the iPhone.
Buying a book from an ebbok bookseller doesn't have to mean DRM. While Amazon might force it, their competition does not.
That was the point - Amazon doesn't enforce it, it displays "this book is DRM-free at the request of the publisher" for some books now. But the poster was complaining that you still can't actually get that book without downloading it to a kindle.
The 'additional info' link in the announcement says they use SRP, which I'd not heard of but seems to be a hash-based system. http://srp.stanford.edu/
the server carries a verifier for each user, which allows it to authenticate the client but which, if compromised, would not allow the attacker to impersonate the client
Not just full physics simulations, even something simple like a bouncing ball. Or you need an npc to throw a projectile so that it hits you, smoothly rotate a camera to aim at something, find the closest point on a path to your current position....
A lot of the best answers have already been given, so to be different I'll add Cory Doctorow's "Little Brother". Technically it's a more upbeat book than 1984, but it's more relevant to today's society, giving it more impact.
It seemed to keep hinting towards clever and cute plot twists and resolutions (which you'd expect since it's pitched as a Young Adults book) but things kept resolving more realistically.
Oh and a some of Bob Shaw's work (particularly short stories) were pretty dark in tone.
I can't find the story now, but about a year ago a game publisher accused a reviewer of not playing a game much and used the server logs of the game to detail what the reviewer had and hadn't done.
The Nintendo President's attitude might be the way to save 3D: it's a good effect to improve immersion, it's no big deal, you can turn it off if you want.
That's the way it will become mainstream, not "YOU MUST BUY A NEW TV THIS YEAR!"
There's certainly less of a push now. At E3 last year it seemed that you couldn't see a game without having to put on special glasses. This year, I was only reminded of 3D when I saw the Virtual Boy at the Videogame History Museum
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I don't see why you think his account has been hacked.
I wondered about that, but I took it to mean that the uncle clicked a link and entered his account details before asking what the link was about, and so was 'hacked' in that sense, not that hacking was needed to fake the From: header.
There's the question of how the email associated the recipient and sender names, but that just suggests that a mutual friend's machine was harvested for addresses.
Unfortunately it's a 16K model, and a fairly early one at that, which won't run much software
Hey! I was still supporting the 16k version with a game released in NINETY-two.
I people won't believe this, but I used to get usenet to read the articles.
Are they likely to be augmented reality? With a glass reflector in front of the eye, I expect it to be more of a translucent HUD overlay.
They may well have gps+compass-based direction indicators for navigating, but I doubt that they'd be capable of a solid-looking images tracking accurately over what you see.
Especially all these potential customers who walk out talking about downloads - find out why they came in.
I follow Curiosity on FaceBook (don't judge me) and it's silly that it's written from it's point-of-view, but seeing it announce that it would soon be Mayor of Mars actually made me laugh. Funnier than when it announced "I did a science!"
It's entertainingly done, and I get a feed of it's pictures without having to remember to check for them. Most missions are 'fire and forget" to much of the population, but this is staying in the news a lot more.
I just hope they don't hire Randall Munroe to write them.
That's a great quote. I think I'll write it on a scrap of paper and post a picture of it to Google+.
I think I'll attribute it to......... Einstein. He's always a popular choice for quotes.
Sitting on a Cray, and seeing the Utah teapot.
I know a number of families that make kids share an iPad
You can usually get refurbished iPods (from Apple, so good condition and 1yr warranty) for under $200, especially if not the latest version. Ideal for kids, as long as they're in a thick rubber case.
(There's a joke opening in my last sentence if anyone wants it.)
The "wow" about iPhone, and later Android, was "look at all the things I can do with it! And the number of things I can do with it is growing like crazy!"
It's a bit surprising to remember that the app store didn't launch for over a year after the iPhone.
Buying a book from an ebbok bookseller doesn't have to mean DRM. While Amazon might force it, their competition does not.
That was the point - Amazon doesn't enforce it, it displays "this book is DRM-free at the request of the publisher" for some books now. But the poster was complaining that you still can't actually get that book without downloading it to a kindle.
I think of synergy as as being the emergence of new properties, not simply scaling existing productivity
If I have one VCR*, I can record and play shows. If I have two identical VRCs, a new feature emerges, I can duplicate tapes!
One person struggles to assemble furniture because the parts fall over, with two people, one holds the parts while the other joins them together.
*A type of DVR with a long, rolled-up hard drive.
People will still have to type 'amazon.com' into google first, right?
the server carries a verifier for each user, which allows it to authenticate the client but which, if compromised, would not allow the attacker to impersonate the client
They messed up the link in the article.
http://us.blizzard.com/en-us/securityupdate.html
Not just full physics simulations, even something simple like a bouncing ball. Or you need an npc to throw a projectile so that it hits you, smoothly rotate a camera to aim at something, find the closest point on a path to your current position....
I believe it was called 2439 -- the premise being
This, maybe? I still think of it whenever I hear mention of population growth predictions.
A lot of the best answers have already been given, so to be different I'll add Cory Doctorow's "Little Brother". Technically it's a more upbeat book than 1984, but it's more relevant to today's society, giving it more impact.
It seemed to keep hinting towards clever and cute plot twists and resolutions (which you'd expect since it's pitched as a Young Adults book) but things kept resolving more realistically.
Oh and a some of Bob Shaw's work (particularly short stories) were pretty dark in tone.
Unfinished Swan shows that there's no single good answer to this.
So who is this 'Nemoy' everyone is talking about?
There was some pixar movie about fish....
Wait, there's a "Robin Hood Airport"? And we can't even get an "Elvis Presley International Airport" and he was a real guy.
It's usual to only name buildings after people who are dead.
I can't find the story now, but about a year ago a game publisher accused a reviewer of not playing a game much and used the server logs of the game to detail what the reviewer had and hadn't done.
The Nintendo President's attitude might be the way to save 3D: it's a good effect to improve immersion, it's no big deal, you can turn it off if you want.
That's the way it will become mainstream, not "YOU MUST BUY A NEW TV THIS YEAR!"
There's certainly less of a push now. At E3 last year it seemed that you couldn't see a game without having to put on special glasses.
This year, I was only reminded of 3D when I saw the Virtual Boy at the Videogame History Museum
Can I run any software I want on my own device yet,
Forget that. Can it display the title of a podcast that's even moderately long?
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