I hear you can also have your phone conversation backed up by saying any of those keywords. Hell, I believe you can even dictate a to-do or grocery list just by picking up the phone and talking; no need to even dial.
BTW, thanks for requesting that they back this thread up. It's good to keep the useful responses around forever.
These days people don't care about watering down words. Witness cries of censorship whenever anyone imposes conditions one doesn't like, claims of a bricked device when it's really just a software issue, and now claims of net-non-neutrality when a bad choice is made regarding internet protocols (never mind the lack of profit motive). I find this kind of behavior disgusting, since it destorys the most important tools we have to describe situations where these serious matters are actually occurring.
What do I have to hide? Who cares where I go, or how I get there
Your vehicle was recorded as being near the scene of some horrible crime. Can you prove you didn't commit said horrible crime? No? Off to jail with you.
Even better: your vehicle was recorded as going to the scene just before the crime, leaving just after, and we have no record of your vehicle ever having gone to that part of town before. All other vehicles in that area at the time went there regularly.
How fortunate that a potentially major scientific discovery happens on President Bush's watch. His keen intellect, intense curiousity of the natural world, and scientific rationality has been such a boon to our country and indeed our world.
ZIPs don't care if you shove data in front of them. GIFs don't care if you shove data after them.
$ cat file.gif file.zip > file.gizip
Actually, a zip file's central directory has file offsets in it, which get broken by the above cat operation. I encountered some files in the past that had a GIF prepended (to act as an album cover for the music inside) and fixed the offsets in the central directory of one of these files, then everything worked properly again.
The lack of lead in solder is a technological issue and as such is solved by more advanced technology. Certainly there are few people here who are opposed to higher technology?
Opposed to unnecessary more complex and fragile solutions, yes. It's sort of like the proposal to ban incandescent lamps and wall transformers in Australia, even though the higher technology doesn't measure up.
The ratio is 3-1 alerts to false alarms. That is, 4 events, three of which are real and one a false positive. Given the real events for which security personnel are going to be looking (mugging, rape, vandalism, etc), it would quite a while before 4 total events come to pass and only one of those was a false alarm. I would not call that crying wolf.
This has to depend on how often genuine events occur. For example, if they never occur, every alert will be a false positive. Obviously it wouldn't be deployed where no events ever occur, but this does show that the rate depends on the mix of actual events occurring.
All I do is spoof my router's MAC to a random number, release and renew my IP (to chick they give me a new one) and my internet works PERFECT for 2 days until they start the process over again. Annoying, but it's amazing they are so stupid they won't associate my IP with my MODEMS MAC instead of the router/PC.
Thanks for reporting the problem and solution. We will implement it as soon as possible.
If you compare the price of OS X with the price of Vista and then compare the volume of each one and what you get for the money you'll quite easily find out that those $129 or whatever isn't enough for the OS.
I didn't spend a whole lot of time looking, but someone is likely to find some pot plants captured on Street View. That could cause big problems for residents.
Good thing you didn't go making a news posting about this and have thousands of people combing the pictures for illegal activity.
The LGPL does require that if you make changes to the library, you have to give them back. So if you make changes to glib, you gotta give them back. But you can make any app link to glib, and be completely proprietary, and it doesn't have to be open source.
Don't forget that it also requires that the user can use a changed version of the LGPL library with the (possibly proprietary) program. Usually that means making the LGPL library dynamically-linked, or shipping the source for the program that uses it.
Well, having the cell phone to my head makes me look like I'm talking on the phone. Having a bluetooth headset makes me look like I am talking to the voices in my head, or Dorkutis of Borg, depending on which side is seen.
Hmmm, maybe they could have a bluetooth transceiver that looks like a cellphone, so you could hold it up to your ear and look normal without frying your head. Or you could just hold one of those non-functional cellphones up while using a bluetooth earpiece.
Now consider that the skin of (say) a public city bus reflects the microwaves within the chamber, and you have a recipe for being toast.
I'll have to try preparing that next time I find myself hungry on the bus. So I just need to pull out a cell phone, verify that it's getting poor reception, and I'll find toast around me in a few minutes?
If you go shopping for groceries at two different stores, it would be a huge waste of time and energy if you had to go home and drop off the grocery shopping, call a robotic cab to pick you up again, and go to the second store, but the prospect of hauling that merchandise into a second store is equally unacceptable.
I sometimes shop at two different grocery stores while out on my bike or riding the bus. I usually bring the (cloth) bag of goods from the first store into the second while I shop there.
Good you could continue working (posting to Slashdot), but I think there's one small problem: the UPS is causing excessive newlines to be inserted into your outgoing stream.
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I hear you can also have your phone conversation backed up by saying any of those keywords. Hell, I believe you can even dictate a to-do or grocery list just by picking up the phone and talking; no need to even dial. BTW, thanks for requesting that they back this thread up. It's good to keep the useful responses around forever.
These days people don't care about watering down words. Witness cries of censorship whenever anyone imposes conditions one doesn't like, claims of a bricked device when it's really just a software issue, and now claims of net-non-neutrality when a bad choice is made regarding internet protocols (never mind the lack of profit motive). I find this kind of behavior disgusting, since it destorys the most important tools we have to describe situations where these serious matters are actually occurring.
So, the name he ended up using was Verizonsucksdonkeyballs, which was OK because it didn't have the word "shit" in it.
Even better: your vehicle was recorded as going to the scene just before the crime, leaving just after, and we have no record of your vehicle ever having gone to that part of town before. All other vehicles in that area at the time went there regularly.
I know you're joking, but Bush did find an error in some Fermilab calculations a while back. Don't underestimate him.
Actually, a zip file's central directory has file offsets in it, which get broken by the above cat operation. I encountered some files in the past that had a GIF prepended (to act as an album cover for the music inside) and fixed the offsets in the central directory of one of these files, then everything worked properly again.
Haha, they don't realize that they will bring about their own downfall:
1. Order prototype of prototype-making machine
2. Make your own prototypes.
3. ???
4. Profit!!!
Shhh, don't let their secret out. I guess Alzheimer's will protect one from being detained indefinitely...
Opposed to unnecessary more complex and fragile solutions, yes. It's sort of like the proposal to ban incandescent lamps and wall transformers in Australia, even though the higher technology doesn't measure up.
Unfortunately, you have only one body, and insurance won't help you if you're dead.
This has to depend on how often genuine events occur. For example, if they never occur, every alert will be a false positive. Obviously it wouldn't be deployed where no events ever occur, but this does show that the rate depends on the mix of actual events occurring.
Is posting on Slashdot a right? If so, how many chara
Or they could just send along some space ice cream, which isn't wet at all. Hopefully the Martians won't complain.
Thanks for reporting the problem and solution. We will implement it as soon as possible.
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Apparently there was a slight error in the experiment. It was found that Windows XP was actually installed on the machines, not Vista.
Do you mean "get-go"?
What do you mean "isn't enough for the OS"?
Good thing you didn't go making a news posting about this and have thousands of people combing the pictures for illegal activity.
For stress-testing? Sometimes it's useful to feed a compiler or processor garbage and see what happens.
Don't forget that it also requires that the user can use a changed version of the LGPL library with the (possibly proprietary) program. Usually that means making the LGPL library dynamically-linked, or shipping the source for the program that uses it.
So, in other words, EMBARQ will disclose CPNI to anyone it feels like, as long as it's legal?
Hmmm, maybe they could have a bluetooth transceiver that looks like a cellphone, so you could hold it up to your ear and look normal without frying your head. Or you could just hold one of those non-functional cellphones up while using a bluetooth earpiece.
I'll have to try preparing that next time I find myself hungry on the bus. So I just need to pull out a cell phone, verify that it's getting poor reception, and I'll find toast around me in a few minutes?
I sometimes shop at two different grocery stores while out on my bike or riding the bus. I usually bring the (cloth) bag of goods from the first store into the second while I shop there.
Good you could continue working (posting to Slashdot), but I think there's one small problem: the UPS is causing excessive newlines to be inserted into your outgoing stream.