See if the company was smart they'd leave "RFID" out of the documentation because all the tin foil hat nuts are going to freak about their mouse tracking brain patterns or something.
Holy shit! With this they can probably track every move you make at 600 dpi or more! When will they stop???
Self powered, never needs the batteries changed. And since precision doesnt matter the ball never needs cleaning, so it's not a disadvantage like it is for tracking.
I still use a classic mouse and when the rollers start to accumulate crud it drives me nuts since I can feel the "thump thump" when I do quick horizontal sweeps with my wrist. I've used mice with thick caked crud on the rollers and never encountered any accuracy problems.
Reuters reports that IBM and top scientific research organizations are joining forces in a humanitarian effort to tap the unused power of millions of [...]
At first I thought this was going to reference millions of humans, but alas, it's the usual science-will-solve-social-problems approach.
But the majority of these things being reported are exact copies of the original ROMs. You then take them and connect them to a TV or monitor, just like the original. Ergo, the experience has now been duplicated, and hence stolen.
How did you get from "duplicated" to "stolen"? In information terms, theft is duplication combined with deletion of the original; theft must involve something removed from the owner's possession.
The other limit is finding a suitably reflective material that is cheap enough to be used as media. X rays pass easily through plastics, and they are absorbed by lead. Gamma rays pass through most kinds of material. You need something that reflects well, and doesn't absorb the radiation, that can also be used to store distinct states and be mass produced easily.
Why does it have to reflect? Pass the beam through the medium, with the focal point at the data plane, then pick it up in the other side using similar optics as are currently used. The main problem with this seems to be keeping the pickup aligned with the laser.
We are talking about voter verifiable paper trails. You enter your vote on the machine and it prints out what you voted in human and ideally machine readable form so you can verify the machine did what you told it to do and there is a record that is put in a box like an old fashioned paper ballot.
Thus there are three possibly different sets of votes: the ones the machine tallies internally, the ones encoded in the machine-readable form on the printout, and the human-readable set of votes on the printout.
Even if the machine simply served as a fancy fill-in-the-ballot assistant and votes were tallied via the machine-readable version on the printout, there would still be no way for the voter to determine whether their vote was cast.
How do we know the open source we saw is actually running on the machine? It would be more than easy to get the GUI to SAY that it was running "so-and-so version X.X". How do we actually KNOW it's running that though?
And even if we have access to a compiler, how do we know that the machine code produced corresponds to the code we compiled?
I'd like to see a video of the eclipse of the server hosting the video of the eclipse. It happened so fast I doubt it would need to be sped up either. Only problem is finding a server to host it, once the server sees the video and cringes.
The hypoallergenic cats produced by ALLERCA will allow consumers to enjoy the love and companionship of a pet without the cost, inconvenience, risk, and limited effectiveness of current allergy treatments.
Yes, but will they cause an allergic reaction if I consume them?
The first PowerPCs used a (hardware) emulator to run virtually ALL software, since nothing was native at that point.
As far as I know, the Motorola 68K code was (and still is) emulated entirely in software. Maybe you're referring to the handful of POWER instructions implemented in hardware on the PowerPC 601, as a way to ease transition of compilers and code from the POWER line?
Is it just me or did anyone else think this article, based on its title alone, was going to be about a lawsuit from American Express regarding their "priceless" ad campaign (or is it VISA? Mastercard? I don't watch TV).
If the computer prints a human-readable version of the vote on the printout, along with a barcode, but only the barcode is counted, then the human can't verify the vote that's actually counted. He must trust the voting station to print a barcode with the same information. If they're trusting the station, they might as well just trust it to remember the vote too.
In theory, if Jeeves actually did a good job of understanding natural language--as good as decade-old AI--it would be very useful for certain kinds of searches that are difficult on Google (without using a certain amount of lateral thinking).
A program that understands a user's intentions predictably is useful: the user simply states his request. A program that doesn't try to be smart and just does what the user says, is also useful: the user translates his intentions into commands for the program, using a simple model. A program that tries to be smart but fails is not useful: the user has to correctly fool the program into doing what he intends it to do, using a complex model.
Hopefully they recovered the stolen code so Cisco could have it back. I bet they had to rewrite some of it while the original code was still missing. Oh, wait, they put the code on a website... did someone steal it from that site too? (and did they track down where it went)
Of course, what I want to know is how much 800MB of source code weighs.
I don't think the fish will become radioactive just by being near something radioactive (unless there is neutron emission). So the only immediate effect is damage done by the radiation coming from the bomb itself.
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...are any of them named "E.T." by any chance?
Oh, wait, wrong company.
...an extraneous apostrophe remover?
Stupid metric system... what's the conversion rate from boatloads to Libraries of Congress?
Apparently one boatload = one shoebox, so it's probably not many libraries of congress.
Now they can stop suing people in Europe.
See if the company was smart they'd leave "RFID" out of the documentation because all the tin foil hat nuts are going to freak about their mouse tracking brain patterns or something.
Holy shit! With this they can probably track every move you make at 600 dpi or more! When will they stop???
Self powered, never needs the batteries changed. And since precision doesnt matter the ball never needs cleaning, so it's not a disadvantage like it is for tracking.
I still use a classic mouse and when the rollers start to accumulate crud it drives me nuts since I can feel the "thump thump" when I do quick horizontal sweeps with my wrist. I've used mice with thick caked crud on the rollers and never encountered any accuracy problems.
Yes, what a great idea, let's INCREASE our dependency on fossil fuels for powering our portable electronics.
I take it you recharge your batteries with solar power only.
In the future, we'll be asking if images are CG fakes created with real objects...
...you'll have to change the definition of constant.
Reuters reports that IBM and top scientific research organizations are joining forces in a humanitarian effort to tap the unused power of millions of [...]
At first I thought this was going to reference millions of humans, but alas, it's the usual science-will-solve-social-problems approach.
In the bigger picture, this is the next step in the commodization of computers. This process is making them cheap as toilet paper [...]
And you can run Windows on them to match the strength of toilet paper.
But the majority of these things being reported are exact copies of the original ROMs. You then take them and connect them to a TV or monitor, just like the original. Ergo, the experience has now been duplicated, and hence stolen.
How did you get from "duplicated" to "stolen"? In information terms, theft is duplication combined with deletion of the original; theft must involve something removed from the owner's possession.
The other limit is finding a suitably reflective material that is cheap enough to be used as media. X rays pass easily through plastics, and they are absorbed by lead. Gamma rays pass through most kinds of material. You need something that reflects well, and doesn't absorb the radiation, that can also be used to store distinct states and be mass produced easily.
Why does it have to reflect? Pass the beam through the medium, with the focal point at the data plane, then pick it up in the other side using similar optics as are currently used. The main problem with this seems to be keeping the pickup aligned with the laser.
We are talking about voter verifiable paper trails. You enter your vote on the machine and it prints out what you voted in human and ideally machine readable form so you can verify the machine did what you told it to do and there is a record that is put in a box like an old fashioned paper ballot.
Thus there are three possibly different sets of votes: the ones the machine tallies internally, the ones encoded in the machine-readable form on the printout, and the human-readable set of votes on the printout.
Even if the machine simply served as a fancy fill-in-the-ballot assistant and votes were tallied via the machine-readable version on the printout, there would still be no way for the voter to determine whether their vote was cast.
How do we know the open source we saw is actually running on the machine? It would be more than easy to get the GUI to SAY that it was running "so-and-so version X.X". How do we actually KNOW it's running that though?
And even if we have access to a compiler, how do we know that the machine code produced corresponds to the code we compiled?
I'd like to see a video of the eclipse of the server hosting the video of the eclipse. It happened so fast I doubt it would need to be sped up either. Only problem is finding a server to host it, once the server sees the video and cringes.
The hypoallergenic cats produced by ALLERCA will allow consumers to enjoy the love and companionship of a pet without the cost, inconvenience, risk, and limited effectiveness of current allergy treatments.
Yes, but will they cause an allergic reaction if I consume them?
The first PowerPCs used a (hardware) emulator to run virtually ALL software, since nothing was native at that point.
As far as I know, the Motorola 68K code was (and still is) emulated entirely in software. Maybe you're referring to the handful of POWER instructions implemented in hardware on the PowerPC 601, as a way to ease transition of compilers and code from the POWER line?
Is it just me or did anyone else think this article, based on its title alone, was going to be about a lawsuit from American Express regarding their "priceless" ad campaign (or is it VISA? Mastercard? I don't watch TV).
If the computer prints a human-readable version of the vote on the printout, along with a barcode, but only the barcode is counted, then the human can't verify the vote that's actually counted. He must trust the voting station to print a barcode with the same information. If they're trusting the station, they might as well just trust it to remember the vote too.
Well, if the chimp was an employee of Primate Programming, Inc., that wouldn't surprise me.
...but it said I had to give my e-mail address so that it could anonymously share the article's html file with me.
In theory, if Jeeves actually did a good job of understanding natural language--as good as decade-old AI--it would be very useful for certain kinds of searches that are difficult on Google (without using a certain amount of lateral thinking).
A program that understands a user's intentions predictably is useful: the user simply states his request. A program that doesn't try to be smart and just does what the user says, is also useful: the user translates his intentions into commands for the program, using a simple model. A program that tries to be smart but fails is not useful: the user has to correctly fool the program into doing what he intends it to do, using a complex model.
Hopefully they recovered the stolen code so Cisco could have it back. I bet they had to rewrite some of it while the original code was still missing. Oh, wait, they put the code on a website... did someone steal it from that site too? (and did they track down where it went)
Of course, what I want to know is how much 800MB of source code weighs.
I don't think the fish will become radioactive just by being near something radioactive (unless there is neutron emission). So the only immediate effect is damage done by the radiation coming from the bomb itself.