That's a neat idea. I was also thinking that you could implement a filter based on whether or not a given segment has caption text. Many commercials do not, so it would be easy to flag those as segments to be skipped.
On the other hand, if such filtering became popular, it'd force more commercials to include captions, making the filtering less accurate, but if you're hearing-impaired, that's a good thing, right?
"According to Wikipedia, we are 70% white and 88% Christian."
According to Wikipedia, there are hundreds (about 300 listed) of branches of Christianity. As far as the 70% white, people with all kinds of different backgrounds have come to the US, whatever their color. Is someone from Czech the same as someone from France? Don't get diversity confused with how they want to use the word on college campuses (where "diversity" == more black people).
I think the whole Cal State college system (27 schools) uses this practice. How hard would it be to assign random student ID's?
I don't know what prior practices were at Cal State Fullerton, but when I applied earlier this year, I was given a generated ID number, so at least that school doesn't (at least for new students?) use SSN as an ID number.
W3Schools is a website for people with an interest for web technologies. These people are more interested in using alternative browsers than the average user. The average user tends to use Internet Explorer, since it comes preinstalled with Windows. Most do not seek out other browsers.
These facts indicate that the browser figures below are not 100% realistic. Other web sites have statistics showing that Internet Explorer is used by at least 80% of the users.
Those stats are just for visitors to w3schools.com; visitors who are more likely to use different browsers and OSes than the average web surfer.
I think the whole point of this article is that will no longer be a valid method of protecting your identity since you might be identified by your "radio fingerprint" or "footprint" or wtfever.
What I gathered from the article is that (when this tech gets integrated into IDS) you can't pretend to be someone else on a network with only specific authorized MACs.
You could still hide your identity pretty well with a spoofed MAC on an open network. Do you think the manufacturers keep a database of RF signatures for all their products, cross referenced with the MAC? I don't think so either.
If you want more proof, read this article by John Stossel, which takes a look at what the "Congressional Record" is really all about. Or like parent says, watch CSPAN.
I know people run headless servers, but short of SSH'ing into the shuffle, how would you get any feedback at all? redirect stdout to the headphone jack? That can't sound very nice...
Also, I can't imagine a music player without any network interfaces working very well as a firewall.
"Is there a slip of paper in your deposit box at the bank with websites, account names and passwords?"
What about a bit of money invested with instructions specifying that that money is to be used to continue payments for web hosting/domain registration for any website(s) that you have now and want to continue on after you're gone? This is something that I've considered, but to date, haven't acted on.
If you have a blog, maybe it'd be worth considering a plan to have it export it to static HTML and just having that hosted at Geocities/GooglePages, unless you plan on posting from beyond the grave.:)
I thought the whole concern over radiation from cell phones was that it would cause some kind of internal cancer, notably in your brain (or maybe your hip if that's where you keep your phone?). Is a skin-surface test going to be indicative of the kinds of sub-surface damage we're really concerned about?
At any rate, it will be good to have another study on this subject, to add weight either that the radiation is mostly harmless, or that we need to start wearing a layer of tin foil...
from TFA: "If your forearms and hands start to hurt, stop." Seems to be similar to that old doctor, doctor joke "doctor, doctor, it hurts when I do this" "well stop doing it then". Common sense, really. Who doesn't know this?
No kidding. Instead of doing all the texting from your phone, use your computer when you can. Many mobile phone providers have a web page from which you can send your message. Otherwise, try one of these services:
'The U.S. patent office on Wednesday issued its first of several anticipated final rejections of patents held by NTP Inc. related to Research in Motion's BlackBerry device, two days before a judge will hear arguments on an injunction on the wireless e-mail service.'
So is there a good legal reason why a judge would enforce an injunction against RIM if one of the patents has been rejected, and it looks like the others will be too?
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That's a neat idea. I was also thinking that you could implement a filter based on whether or not a given segment has caption text. Many commercials do not, so it would be easy to flag those as segments to be skipped.
On the other hand, if such filtering became popular, it'd force more commercials to include captions, making the filtering less accurate, but if you're hearing-impaired, that's a good thing, right?
"According to Wikipedia, we are 70% white and 88% Christian."
According to Wikipedia, there are hundreds (about 300 listed) of branches of Christianity. As far as the 70% white, people with all kinds of different backgrounds have come to the US, whatever their color. Is someone from Czech the same as someone from France? Don't get diversity confused with how they want to use the word on college campuses (where "diversity" == more black people).
I think the whole Cal State college system (27 schools) uses this practice. How hard would it be to assign random student ID's?
I don't know what prior practices were at Cal State Fullerton, but when I applied earlier this year, I was given a generated ID number, so at least that school doesn't (at least for new students?) use SSN as an ID number.
Maybe you should check the disclaimer on the page to which you linked:
Those stats are just for visitors to w3schools.com; visitors who are more likely to use different browsers and OSes than the average web surfer.
I think the whole point of this article is that will no longer be a valid method of protecting your identity since you might be identified by your "radio fingerprint" or "footprint" or wtfever.
What I gathered from the article is that (when this tech gets integrated into IDS) you can't pretend to be someone else on a network with only specific authorized MACs.
You could still hide your identity pretty well with a spoofed MAC on an open network. Do you think the manufacturers keep a database of RF signatures for all their products, cross referenced with the MAC? I don't think so either.
If you want more proof, read this article by John Stossel, which takes a look at what the "Congressional Record" is really all about. Or like parent says, watch CSPAN.
I can't believe HeadOn hasn't made it to the list. I mean, with a commercial this innovative, how can you not be a top brand?
...Captain Barrett Coldyron, in charge of the R.O.T.O.R. taskforce.
"Who are we who create such a thing?" he asks. "Heroes and villains?"
In 1999, Netflix started out with a heavy cardboard mailer. With only 100,000 subscribers, costs weren't a concern yet.
I dunno, you'd think a business with a small number of customers would be cost-conscious. But then 100,000 isn't all that small I suppose.
Don't forget to register for the Dell XPS 600 Renegade contest. It's Fueled by Fire!
It could be a portable usb linux firewall!
I know people run headless servers, but short of SSH'ing into the shuffle, how would you get any feedback at all? redirect stdout to the headphone jack? That can't sound very nice...
Also, I can't imagine a music player without any network interfaces working very well as a firewall.
"Is there a slip of paper in your deposit box at the bank with websites, account names and passwords?"
:)
What about a bit of money invested with instructions specifying that that money is to be used to continue payments for web hosting/domain registration for any website(s) that you have now and want to continue on after you're gone? This is something that I've considered, but to date, haven't acted on.
If you have a blog, maybe it'd be worth considering a plan to have it export it to static HTML and just having that hosted at Geocities/GooglePages, unless you plan on posting from beyond the grave.
and how exactly are they going to handel gettign a phone number for every yahoo account.?? so that the landlines can call?
It's not every yahoo account, just the ones that opt to pay the $2.99 monthly fee.
Are they related to Microsoft ENTerprise Operating System?
No, CentOS is actually a totally free equivalent of RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL for people who don't have the money to spend on an RHEL license).
I have found this host file from someonewhocares.org to be pretty good.
There's a several-months-old PC World article that says that fuel cells for mobile phones will be arriving (in Japan) in 2007.
Hmm...if that's the case...looks like there's going to be a good market for Faraday Cage hats and other outerwear.
I thought the whole concern over radiation from cell phones was that it would cause some kind of internal cancer, notably in your brain (or maybe your hip if that's where you keep your phone?). Is a skin-surface test going to be indicative of the kinds of sub-surface damage we're really concerned about?
At any rate, it will be good to have another study on this subject, to add weight either that the radiation is mostly harmless, or that we need to start wearing a layer of tin foil...
My bad, its not text message spam as my submitted article stats. Its pre-recorded phone call spam
Well thank goodness. Regular spam is bad enough, text message spam even worse, but text message spam from SCO? Icky.
I guess web 2.0 is whatever people say web 2.0 is. Popular, trendy websites that use buzzword technologies to offer useful services?
;-)
There's a Web 2.0 Innovation Map so you can see where some of these Web 2.0 companies are. And then there's the compendium of Web 2.0 logos and links, which spills over into Web 2.0 logos and links part 2(.0?)
from TFA: "If your forearms and hands start to hurt, stop." Seems to be similar to that old doctor, doctor joke "doctor, doctor, it hurts when I do this" "well stop doing it then". Common sense, really. Who doesn't know this?
No kidding. Instead of doing all the texting from your phone, use your computer when you can. Many mobile phone providers have a web page from which you can send your message. Otherwise, try one of these services:
Google SMS, send to phone extension - send web page text to your phone
TXT2Day.com - sends a text message to your phone
bitBomb.com - Schedule a reminder on your computer, get it on your cell phone
'The U.S. patent office on Wednesday issued its first of several anticipated final rejections of patents held by NTP Inc. related to Research in Motion's BlackBerry device, two days before a judge will hear arguments on an injunction on the wireless e-mail service.'
So is there a good legal reason why a judge would enforce an injunction against RIM if one of the patents has been rejected, and it looks like the others will be too?
I hear ya friend. One time I was having trouble with a table in a TeX document and (without thinking) Googled "LaTeX command table" for help.
a nd%20table
The results were neither pretty, nor work-safe.
The link, for those brave enough to click it:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=LaTeX%20comm
heh... Strong Bad might be able to help you out on that one :)
Do you mean Stong Bad?
Maybe it'd be feasible to send the polar bears to Antarctica should we lose the Arctic ice. They might like munching on penguins.