The automotive market is ultra-saturated, fewer people buy cars because of the crisis these days, so we'll come up with any useless concept to sell them.
God forbid some poor people ended up next to each other and interfered with each other
Look at the bright side: in a few years time, when everybody has their very own body network, you'll be able to say "hey sweety, care if I insert my connector into your hub for some data sharing? No no, not there, the head socket will do just fine".
In some instances, like communicating to implants from the outside without breaching the skin barrier, I can understand the use of radio signals - although induction sounds simpler, less power-hungry and more localized to me.
But for implant-to-implant communication? This reminds me furiously of the wireless bicycle odometer idiocy, whereby a transmitter is used to transmit wheel rotation signals a couple of feet up to the odometer proper, using two batteries instead of one, and making the entire thing more expensive, less reliable and more prone to signal jamming, just for the sake of not running a 2-ft cable up a brake cable.
If they're going to implant devices in someone's organism, they should just run wires under the skin: bio-compatible materials exist that wires can be made of (heck, they're already implanting the devices anyway), they'll get better throughput and latency, the devices will require less power, will be less complicated, and more importantly, will be immune to outside signals.
Most C coders seem to achieve obfuscation without any additional incentive.
You got it wrong: bad coders create bad code. Good coders know how to create good code. In any language.
When someone knows C well enough to create a truly obfuscated or compressed piece of portable C code that follows the rule of the language to a tee, i.e. that can be compiled strict or linted, and wins the IOCCC, it's a very good sign that this someone can create excellent C code.
I should know, I won the IOCCC years ago, and used it many times in my resume. When would-be employers told me "what's the IOCCC?", I knew they weren't going to be good employers. When they told me "oh, I see you won the IOCCC", they knew I could code good C, and I knew they groked what I did. Winning the IOCCC helped me land a job a few times.
Do like I did: retrain and start a new career. I used to be an overworked software project manager with the love of coding drained out of me, and now I'm a happy gunsmith.
It's never too late to go back to school. No sense in living a life you don't like, you only have one life and you need to enjoy it to the fullest.
I can't be the only one thinking that an organism that is simple and can absorb heavy metals sounds almost too good to be true. Sounds like something that *could* be easy (in relative terms) to genetically modify for cleaning up toxic areas.
My neighbour's teenager absorbs great quantities of heavy metal every day (to the dismay of the entire neighborhood), doesn't seem to possess an IQ much higher than a single cell organism, lives in a toxic area he calls his "bedroom", and I can guarantee you no amount of genetic engineering is likely to convince him to clean it...
"Activating" a cellphone means little less than recovering a few personal details from the new customer, the phone's serial number or equivalent, stuffing everything in a database, working out some magic number based on some algorithm and send it back to the phone. Big deal... I can write an application like that without even being a specialist and not hose a small server with a million requests a day, let alone 100,000...
You can't possibly allow people to be permenently disconnected from the internet. To me personally, that is denial of freedoms. We couldn't enjoy things like Facebook.
I would think any law forcing people out of Facebook is a good law.
Perhaps you should have used denied access to Wikipedia as an example of a true loss in the lives of HADOPI victims instead...
Good advice for anybody living around the arctic circle, as "a day out basking in the sun" there translates into a 6 month exposure and an epic sunburn.
Years ago, I decided to get rid of my car and go by bicycle for personal transportation. For fun, I tried to evaluate the impact of my choice on the economy as a whole, taking into account, amongst other things:
- On the pro side: lesser oil consumption on my part, lesser burden on the national insurance system because I'm healthier, supporting the bicycle industry by purchasing bike parts, etc...
- On the con side: hurting automobile sales, which in turn contributes to layoffs, unemployment, hurting indirect jobs, etc...
I found that I had to make wild assumptions to come up with figures, and the further I went from the immediate impact of my decision, the dicier it was to come up with believable figures. But what I also found is that I could come up with an impressive and very serious-looking spreadsheet sheet that either proved that I had caused millions in damage to the economy, or vice-versa, depending on the premises I had chosen.
In short, you can make figures say anything, and even if they're BS, if they're presented in a synthetic, professional way, they still look credible.
Oh man... Android is FAR from unprofitable for Google. Sure, the OS itself doesn't generate any revenue, but it's a platform Google has control over (that alone is invaluable) and with which they can push their shit your way (more $ there).
Android is the proverbial cheap razor that allows Google to sell blades.
Magnetohydrodynamics has been around for quite a while and has long been one of the holy grails of submarine propulsion with prototypes existing now for years.
Pfft, soviet submarines have had MHD drives since 1984. I saw a documentary about it in 1990...
Fractional reserve banking actually creates money. It doesn't create an artificial scarcity.
Yep, it creates money and debases it in the process. So you're correct, it doesn't create artificial scarcity, but it creates real poverty in the long term for those who have a little money.
This kind of thing is the direct proof that the way the stock exchange is built is deeply flawed. Why don't they try to build it on sounder bases than "the fastest takes all" ?!?
I heard some european head of state (Sarkozy perhaps) suggest that stock transactions be taxed based on speed, i.e. speculators who buy and sell very fast to make a quick buck get taxed a lot, but real investors who're in for the long run and keep their stock for a long time don't. That sounds like a great idea to me. With a scheme like that, the super-fast transatlantic cable would make speculators be taxed even more heavily.
I've never had fond memories of using Yahoo: their front page has always been bloated, I preferred Altavista search results back when it existed for real, Yahoo made a mess of Egroups when they bought it and turned it into the loathsome Yahoo Groups of today...
Without knowing more details, it's impossible to say for sure. And honestly, since it is a my-word-against-yours situation... Absent a confession from either party that "yeah, I did it" or "yeah, I made the whole thing up", it's quite likely no one will ever be able to say 100% for sure what happened.
Well that's the thing: unless the whole event was grossly obvious and happened in front of witnesses who are willing to testify, or the victim had a hidden camera in her vagina, you can be sure it will be the victim's word against the TSA agent's. And in a country like the US today, the one with a badge and a uniform tends to prevail.
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The automotive market is ultra-saturated, fewer people buy cars because of the crisis these days, so we'll come up with any useless concept to sell them.
God forbid some poor people ended up next to each other and interfered with each other
Look at the bright side: in a few years time, when everybody has their very own body network, you'll be able to say "hey sweety, care if I insert my connector into your hub for some data sharing? No no, not there, the head socket will do just fine".
In some instances, like communicating to implants from the outside without breaching the skin barrier, I can understand the use of radio signals - although induction sounds simpler, less power-hungry and more localized to me.
But for implant-to-implant communication? This reminds me furiously of the wireless bicycle odometer idiocy, whereby a transmitter is used to transmit wheel rotation signals a couple of feet up to the odometer proper, using two batteries instead of one, and making the entire thing more expensive, less reliable and more prone to signal jamming, just for the sake of not running a 2-ft cable up a brake cable.
If they're going to implant devices in someone's organism, they should just run wires under the skin: bio-compatible materials exist that wires can be made of (heck, they're already implanting the devices anyway), they'll get better throughput and latency, the devices will require less power, will be less complicated, and more importantly, will be immune to outside signals.
Maybe I'm a little older than you think? :)
Most C coders seem to achieve obfuscation without any additional incentive.
You got it wrong: bad coders create bad code. Good coders know how to create good code. In any language.
When someone knows C well enough to create a truly obfuscated or compressed piece of portable C code that follows the rule of the language to a tee, i.e. that can be compiled strict or linted, and wins the IOCCC, it's a very good sign that this someone can create excellent C code.
I should know, I won the IOCCC years ago, and used it many times in my resume. When would-be employers told me "what's the IOCCC?", I knew they weren't going to be good employers. When they told me "oh, I see you won the IOCCC", they knew I could code good C, and I knew they groked what I did. Winning the IOCCC helped me land a job a few times.
... false positive.
Scrub hands thoroughly just before the test: you're in the clear.
TFA says the system is impossible to cheat. I'd like to see this presumptuous statement put to the test and stats released to believe it.
Do like I did: retrain and start a new career. I used to be an overworked software project manager with the love of coding drained out of me, and now I'm a happy gunsmith.
It's never too late to go back to school. No sense in living a life you don't like, you only have one life and you need to enjoy it to the fullest.
Stick a webcam in front of the screen, compress/pipe webcam output to the remote client. Voila, instant 3D remote display!
Actually, the best way to sell it is to call it iYeast and say it's a cloud-based service.
I can't be the only one thinking that an organism that is simple and can absorb heavy metals sounds almost too good to be true. Sounds like something that *could* be easy (in relative terms) to genetically modify for cleaning up toxic areas.
My neighbour's teenager absorbs great quantities of heavy metal every day (to the dismay of the entire neighborhood), doesn't seem to possess an IQ much higher than a single cell organism, lives in a toxic area he calls his "bedroom", and I can guarantee you no amount of genetic engineering is likely to convince him to clean it...
It doesn't use up the helium though .. once it's filled it's full.
Yeah, I kept those party balloons I got at my 15th birthday, I reuse them every year and they're doing great...
Oh the humanity...
"Activating" a cellphone means little less than recovering a few personal details from the new customer, the phone's serial number or equivalent, stuffing everything in a database, working out some magic number based on some algorithm and send it back to the phone. Big deal... I can write an application like that without even being a specialist and not hose a small server with a million requests a day, let alone 100,000...
Facebook's entire history is one of shady behind-the-user's-back shit.
Seriously, what's the deal with that "first time accepted submitter" thing? What does it bring to the story? Why do we care?
You can't possibly allow people to be permenently disconnected from the internet. To me personally, that is denial of freedoms. We couldn't enjoy things like Facebook.
I would think any law forcing people out of Facebook is a good law.
Perhaps you should have used denied access to Wikipedia as an example of a true loss in the lives of HADOPI victims instead...
Note to self... Don't sun-bathe in the arctic...
Good advice for anybody living around the arctic circle, as "a day out basking in the sun" there translates into a 6 month exposure and an epic sunburn.
Years ago, I decided to get rid of my car and go by bicycle for personal transportation. For fun, I tried to evaluate the impact of my choice on the economy as a whole, taking into account, amongst other things:
- On the pro side: lesser oil consumption on my part, lesser burden on the national insurance system because I'm healthier, supporting the bicycle industry by purchasing bike parts, etc...
- On the con side: hurting automobile sales, which in turn contributes to layoffs, unemployment, hurting indirect jobs, etc...
I found that I had to make wild assumptions to come up with figures, and the further I went from the immediate impact of my decision, the dicier it was to come up with believable figures. But what I also found is that I could come up with an impressive and very serious-looking spreadsheet sheet that either proved that I had caused millions in damage to the economy, or vice-versa, depending on the premises I had chosen.
In short, you can make figures say anything, and even if they're BS, if they're presented in a synthetic, professional way, they still look credible.
Oh man... Android is FAR from unprofitable for Google. Sure, the OS itself doesn't generate any revenue, but it's a platform Google has control over (that alone is invaluable) and with which they can push their shit your way (more $ there).
Android is the proverbial cheap razor that allows Google to sell blades.
Using VNC, one can now power down, power up, reboot, go into the BIOS, mount disk images on the network
Magnetohydrodynamics has been around for quite a while and has long been one of the holy grails of submarine propulsion with prototypes existing now for years.
Pfft, soviet submarines have had MHD drives since 1984. I saw a documentary about it in 1990...
Fractional reserve banking actually creates money. It doesn't create an artificial scarcity.
Yep, it creates money and debases it in the process. So you're correct, it doesn't create artificial scarcity, but it creates real poverty in the long term for those who have a little money.
This kind of thing is the direct proof that the way the stock exchange is built is deeply flawed. Why don't they try to build it on sounder bases than "the fastest takes all" ?!?
I heard some european head of state (Sarkozy perhaps) suggest that stock transactions be taxed based on speed, i.e. speculators who buy and sell very fast to make a quick buck get taxed a lot, but real investors who're in for the long run and keep their stock for a long time don't. That sounds like a great idea to me. With a scheme like that, the super-fast transatlantic cable would make speculators be taxed even more heavily.
I've never had fond memories of using Yahoo: their front page has always been bloated, I preferred Altavista search results back when it existed for real, Yahoo made a mess of Egroups when they bought it and turned it into the loathsome Yahoo Groups of today...
I say good riddance.
Without knowing more details, it's impossible to say for sure. And honestly, since it is a my-word-against-yours situation ... Absent a confession from either party that "yeah, I did it" or "yeah, I made the whole thing up", it's quite likely no one will ever be able to say 100% for sure what happened.
Well that's the thing: unless the whole event was grossly obvious and happened in front of witnesses who are willing to testify, or the victim had a hidden camera in her vagina, you can be sure it will be the victim's word against the TSA agent's. And in a country like the US today, the one with a badge and a uniform tends to prevail.