For the best audio quality, simply carry around uncompressed WAV's. The specs indicate that WAV is one of the supported music formats. Assuming 700 MB per CD, 5 GB of storage still gives you enough room to hold 7 uncompressed CD's. Pretty cool if you ask me.
It was the sounds made by the heads and platters of the IBM Microdrive as 1,000,000 salivating Slashdotters descend upon the innocent iPAQ. Nothing like the sound of a good Slashdotting in the morning.
Unfortunately, due to a recent vulnerability in Outlook, the ability to redirect a user to a webpage of your choice could be used for malicious purposes. The text below is an extract from Microsoft Security Bulletin MS01-038 (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-038.asp):
The Microsoft Outlook View Control is an ActiveX control that allows Outlook mail folders to be viewed via web pages. The control should only allow passive operations such as viewing mail or calendar data. In reality, though, it exposes a function that could allow the web page to manipulate Outlook data. This could enable an attacker to delete mail, change calendar information, or take virtually any other action through Outlook including running arbitrary code on the user's machine.
Hostile web sites would pose the greatest threat with respect to this vulnerability. If a user could be enticed into visiting a web page controlled by an attacker, script or HTML on the page could invoke the control when the page was opened. The script or HTML could then use the control to take whatever action the attacker desired on the user's Outlook data.
Granted, the patch for this problem has long been available, but, as Code Red illustrates, that does little to reduce the overall vulnerability.
I wish there was a bound copy of the Bibl^H^H^H^HGPL available, handily seperated by Chapter^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hparagraph and numbered by Verse^H^H^H^H^Hline. It would make citing so much easier:
"Though shoult have no other gods^H^H^H^Hliscenses before me." (GPL 19:46).
People prefer to read reviews that are positive, especially if they have recently purchased the item being reviewed. Nobody likes to rush home and then read that their newly purchased item should be reserved for dolts and fools.
For instance, when I purchase a CD that I am unsure about (I haven't read any reviews, I'm buying on the artists name only), one of my first reactions is to head over to AllMusic to see how the cd stacks up. I know it's shirking my duty as an "individualist", but I find it reassuring when my purchase is reviewed favorably. It's a little ego trip that I indulge in. Consumers are looking for the same thing in their reviews.
This is slightly offtopic, but not all magazines are simply carriers of advertisements. I can't speak for the computer world, but literary magazines such as Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, American Scholar, etc. tend to maintain a much higher S/N ratio. Granted, these probably don't appeal to the masses, but Harper's celebrated their 150th year of publication June of this year.
Assuming that these mysterious devices don't bring about the American Gestapo, they would be great additions to the entrances and passageways of your home, again assuming that they could perform DNA analysis. I don't want them for security reasons, I just want my home to recognize who is entering and leaving certain rooms and to adjust accordingly. Sure there are easier ways, but ideally this one could be done without any noticable interaction.
"Providing net cafes may help communities far more than, for example, providing electricity to every home. It is only when people have some access to education and information that they can hope to actually improve their situations."
While this may be slightly offtopic, it seems foolish to assume that Africa, one of the worlds most impoverished locations, would benefit from the introduction of internet cafes instead of basic necessities. Africa has been particularly devastated by the HIV virus. For an overview (yes, it's probably biased and not a perfect source) you can see the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Access to information will probably not aid the African problem.
"What you have not considered is the reason why Sudan or Chechnya (your examples) are impoverished. In most cases, poverty has little to do with a lack of resources and much more to do with politics."
This is entirely on target. Simply put, nobody wants to deal with Africa. The UN has made some minor steps, but very little action. Meanwhile, the continent is plagued with wars, rebellions, diseases, etc. After plundering Africa in the early 1900's most of the major nations seem to have washed their hands of it. Before Internet access will have any benefit, the political status of Africa needs to be changed.
As long as it was Natalie Portman, dressed in a goat suit, being drizzled in hot grits while being slowly petrified and using a Beowolf cluster, I'm sold. As long as it is cached on Google. Imagine the Slashdot effect on that!
There is more to producing a working nuclear weapon than merely slapping together a pile of "uranium or...pletonium [sic]". Simply bringing theory and practice into line forces the use of actual explosions to test if the bomb works as planned. Hence the prohibitions on nuclear testing: the US signs and promotes them because we have detonated bombs, and we possess adequate information and technology to simulate present and future technology. Smaller or poorer countries don't have the required funds to run simulations. The information that they are interested in (and I'm assuming that the US guards most stringently) is the real, practical data obtained by our past nuclear programs and experiments. Los Alamos is more concerned about protecting that than the theory behind the bomb.
I'm hardly a scientist, but this seems like it would be a perfect application for those new-fangled flywheels that were mentioned on/. not too long ago, unless the casings and whatnot begin to outweigh the advantages. Any suggestions on the feasability of flywheels?
Slashdot Mirror
http://www.daemonology.net/papers/htt.pdf
For the best audio quality, simply carry around uncompressed WAV's. The specs indicate that WAV is one of the supported music formats. Assuming 700 MB per CD, 5 GB of storage still gives you enough room to hold 7 uncompressed CD's. Pretty cool if you ask me.
...for the loss of life and loved ones, but also for the impending loss of personal freedoms and liberties.
It was the sounds made by the heads and platters of the IBM Microdrive as 1,000,000 salivating Slashdotters descend upon the innocent iPAQ. Nothing like the sound of a good Slashdotting in the morning.
Unfortunately, due to a recent vulnerability in Outlook, the ability to redirect a user to a webpage of your choice could be used for malicious purposes. The text below is an extract from Microsoft Security Bulletin MS01-038 (http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default .asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-038.asp):
Granted, the patch for this problem has long been available, but, as Code Red illustrates, that does little to reduce the overall vulnerability.
No highs, no lows, just Bose.
*BSD on the frontpage twice in twenty-four hours? Where are the real /. editors, and who the hell are you?
D.R. Baskerville Vice-President, Attention Allocation Services
Remember, video killed the radio star.
I wish there was a bound copy of the Bibl^H^H^H^HGPL available, handily seperated by Chapter^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hparagraph and numbered by Verse^H^H^H^H^Hline. It would make citing so much easier:
"Though shoult have no other gods^H^H^H^Hliscenses before me." (GPL 19:46).
People prefer to read reviews that are positive, especially if they have recently purchased the item being reviewed. Nobody likes to rush home and then read that their newly purchased item should be reserved for dolts and fools.
For instance, when I purchase a CD that I am unsure about (I haven't read any reviews, I'm buying on the artists name only), one of my first reactions is to head over to AllMusic to see how the cd stacks up. I know it's shirking my duty as an "individualist", but I find it reassuring when my purchase is reviewed favorably. It's a little ego trip that I indulge in. Consumers are looking for the same thing in their reviews.
This is slightly offtopic, but not all magazines are simply carriers of advertisements. I can't speak for the computer world, but literary magazines such as Harper's, Atlantic Monthly, American Scholar, etc. tend to maintain a much higher S/N ratio. Granted, these probably don't appeal to the masses, but Harper's celebrated their 150th year of publication June of this year.
...realized this would halt all his use of Microsoft Word's .doc files and Microsoft's now proprietary "smart quotes."
Assuming that these mysterious devices don't bring about the American Gestapo, they would be great additions to the entrances and passageways of your home, again assuming that they could perform DNA analysis. I don't want them for security reasons, I just want my home to recognize who is entering and leaving certain rooms and to adjust accordingly. Sure there are easier ways, but ideally this one could be done without any noticable interaction.
"For messages still en-route, it picks off four bytes as a byte encoded IP address in canonical format"
Maybe I'm just nitpicking, but after all the fuss over IPv6, I would think a new secure protocol would be developed with it in mind.
"Providing net cafes may help communities far more than, for example, providing electricity to every home. It is only when people have some access to education and information that they can hope to actually improve their situations."
While this may be slightly offtopic, it seems foolish to assume that Africa, one of the worlds most impoverished locations, would benefit from the introduction of internet cafes instead of basic necessities. Africa has been particularly devastated by the HIV virus. For an overview (yes, it's probably biased and not a perfect source) you can see the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Access to information will probably not aid the African problem.
"What you have not considered is the reason why Sudan or Chechnya (your examples) are impoverished. In most cases, poverty has little to do with a lack of resources and much more to do with politics."
This is entirely on target. Simply put, nobody wants to deal with Africa. The UN has made some minor steps, but very little action. Meanwhile, the continent is plagued with wars, rebellions, diseases, etc. After plundering Africa in the early 1900's most of the major nations seem to have washed their hands of it. Before Internet access will have any benefit, the political status of Africa needs to be changed.
As long as it was Natalie Portman, dressed in a goat suit, being drizzled in hot grits while being slowly petrified and using a Beowolf cluster, I'm sold. As long as it is cached on Google. Imagine the Slashdot effect on that!
There is more to producing a working nuclear weapon than merely slapping together a pile of "uranium or...pletonium [sic]". Simply bringing theory and practice into line forces the use of actual explosions to test if the bomb works as planned. Hence the prohibitions on nuclear testing: the US signs and promotes them because we have detonated bombs, and we possess adequate information and technology to simulate present and future technology. Smaller or poorer countries don't have the required funds to run simulations. The information that they are interested in (and I'm assuming that the US guards most stringently) is the real, practical data obtained by our past nuclear programs and experiments. Los Alamos is more concerned about protecting that than the theory behind the bomb.
I'm hardly a scientist, but this seems like it would be a perfect application for those new-fangled flywheels that were mentioned on /. not too long ago, unless the casings and whatnot begin to outweigh the advantages. Any suggestions on the feasability of flywheels?