independent researchers have shown that there is a strong link between very high voltages coming from the accelerometers and the state of inebriation (and perhaps low IQ) of the player...
When being mugged, I envision something that sprays a liquid into the air that binds with the breath of your assailant and captures some of his DNA. The chemical is flourescent and can be swabbed off the floor.
Just remember not to breathe yourself until the forensics arrive to avoir contaminating the sample...
The obvious examples are the internet, GPS devices, super-glue, etc... (Incidentally, speaking of super-glue, it works very well for what the military originally had in mind for it, which is closing wounds: next time you have a bad cut, try it, it works wonders.)
I love the autumn season. So around september or october, I'm such in a good mood that I forget about my fear of needles and go to the pharmacy to get the year's flu shot. And get what? I never get the flu!
Unless face recognition has improved drastically, this company will just fail like the last couple companies which attempted to do anything with it.
Wrong: nowadays, anything that remotely has to do with security, identification, tracking and general populace control (to save us all from all these hordes of terrorists of course) is big money. Look at most of the advances in computing these days: they're almost all about biometrics, RFID, detectors of this-or-that... Most of it is hype, but it nets whomever spews it a lot of government money.
You forgot a step: Drink 10 beers, *then* start playing the Wii. See if you can break something then. Most (but not all, of course) of the incidents involving breaking stuff also involve plenty of alcohol
Yes, but then you can break your TV with a SNES gamepad as well, and I don't recall Nintendo ever being sued over that. Why would the Wii gamepad being wireless absolve people from taking responsability for their own stupidity?
A bunch of hyperactive excited morons with too much muscle break their TV, punch their friends in the face or cut themselves with the Wii remote, and they sue Nintendo, because naturally, Nintendo should be blamed for not making hardware solid enough for hyperactive excited morons?
I'm sorry, but I'm tried a friend's Wii and there's no way I would have dropped or launched the remote across the window, simply because I realize it's only an electronic game, and it doesn't cross my mind to treat a delicate piece of electronic like a jokari paddle. Talk about a lawyer-happy nation... Either that or they're trying to make a cheap buck off of Nintendo's back. Either way, I hope the morons lose.
It's rather difficult to load kernel obfuscation modules (like hiding processes and files) without header files and no compiler.
I'll tell you a little secret: if you know the kernel version number and target architecture, you can build a module on another, totally different machine. Wow! 2007 technology man!
Gee man, it's called an existentialist symlink, one of the new features of the Vista filesystem: the symlink is there, but it doesn't point at any file or serve any function. Pogue clearly demonstrates Vista's superiority here!
There are a few different IFD's out there. The geeks call them Live-CD's. They don't look to alive to me, but the geeks have a habit of choosing bad names for things, sad but true. You will have to know what an.iso file is and how to burn it. If that just scared you then just buy a large pizza with extra cheese and a six-pack of beer. Then invite your geek friend over to do it for you. This way is much easier and more fun.
So basically, once non-tech folks are excited about live-CDs and have downloaded the iso, they're freed and... need to con a geek into coming to their home to do the job because n00bs can't figure it out. Great, I'm sure countless people needed that advice.
Retake your Internet! Once again browse any page! Click any item! Surf with impunity!
1 - I've failed to "take my internet" so far, how will I retake it? 2 - I can already browse any page 3 - I can already click any item 4 - Does this mean I can download kiddie porn without fearing the police?
Seriously though, as soon as I read that first line, I stopped perusing this blog. It sounds very silly and useless...
I used to work as a developer and I find it perfectly normal that developers don't get the lion's share of the retail price. Why? because most man/hours in a software product aren't put in development, they're put in testing, QA and support.
"A French consumer group has filed 3 lawsuits against HP [CC], saying the company's practice of selling consumer PCs with Windows pre-installed violates a French law that 'prohibits linking the functionality of a product to another product'
FRENCH GUARD:
Allo! Who is eet? ARTHUR:
It is HP, and these are my Knights of the Round Table. Whose computer is this? FRENCH GUARD:
This is the computer of my master, Guy de Loimbard. ARTHUR:
Go and tell your master that we have been charged by God with a sacred quest. If he will give us his computer for the night, he can join us in our quest for the Holy Installation of Windows. FRENCH GUARD:
Well, I'll ask him, but I don't think he'll be very keen. Uh, he's already got Linux, you see. ARTHUR:
What? GALAHAD:
He says they've already got Linux! ARTHUR:
Are you sure he's got it? FRENCH GUARD:
Oh, yes. It's very nice-a. (I told him we already got Leenooks.) FRENCH GUARDS:
[chuckling] ARTHUR:
Well, u-- um, can we come up and have a look? FRENCH GUARD:
Of course not! You are English types-a! ARTHUR:
Well, what are you, then? FRENCH GUARD:
I'm French! Why do think I have this outrageous accent, you silly king-a?! GALAHAD:
What are you doing in with computers? FRENCH GUARD:
Mind your own business!
You're telling me that this is made for home use [bucknell.edu]? What is it supposed to do at my house? I used them for my robotics class in college and I wasn't too impressed.
It's made for Bill Gate's mansion, where the walls are so far apart the robot can crash and reboot at full speed and still have time to stop before hitting one. In a normal, not-for-ultrabillionaire houses such as yours or mine, there's always the Roomba, which incidentally can be hacked to work with Linux...
I hate to tell people what they can and can't create on their computer, but if there were a situation that warranted it this might be it. I guess the real question is whether this starts down the slippery slope.
As soon as start restricting anything people do *without hurting other people* on a moral basis, you're already slipping on the slope. I understand banning real child porn because children are hurt making it, and I can understand banning photoshopping greenbacks because the fiduciary system, and society in general is hurt, but whatever people do that hurts no-one should be nobody's business to regulate or ban, including peddling or collecting Nazi-ware, which is banned in Europe for some stupid reason I might add.
Any state trying to prevent you from making or watching Hentai smells of police state. Plain and simple. And given the UK's recent track record in this domain, I can't say I'm surprised.
It's always the same with religious folks (not just christians): we atheists always have to "respect" your beliefs, and if we dare say something about them, you get your pants in a knot and start getting very stiff-necked and angry. On the other, when we express the feeling the story of Jesus and the story of Peter Pan are about as credible, we get flamed.
All I said in that short sentence was (1) express my conviction that religious people believe in fairies, and (2) express my feeling that "christian" and "progressive" are words that inheritently don't go together. Perhaps I'll admit there was a bit of sarcasm in it too, but I sure wasn't antagonistic or insulting, yet look at your reaction: are you insecure in your beliefs or something?
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Hack-a-la Vista baby...
Giant squids have been found on other planets before, nothing new. I wonder if the crew of the japanese boat committed suicide though...
independent researchers have shown that there is a strong link between very high voltages coming from the accelerometers and the state of inebriation (and perhaps low IQ) of the player...
When being mugged, I envision something that sprays a liquid into the air that binds with the breath of your assailant and captures some of his DNA. The chemical is flourescent and can be swabbed off the floor.
Just remember not to breathe yourself until the forensics arrive to avoir contaminating the sample...
The obvious examples are the internet, GPS devices, super-glue, etc... (Incidentally, speaking of super-glue, it works very well for what the military originally had in mind for it, which is closing wounds: next time you have a bad cut, try it, it works wonders.)
Anybody got a tissue?
Slashdot is definitely the place to ask for tissues...
I love the autumn season. So around september or october, I'm such in a good mood that I forget about my fear of needles and go to the pharmacy to get the year's flu shot. And get what? I never get the flu!
Unless face recognition has improved drastically, this company will just fail like the last couple companies which attempted to do anything with it.
Wrong: nowadays, anything that remotely has to do with security, identification, tracking and general populace control (to save us all from all these hordes of terrorists of course) is big money. Look at most of the advances in computing these days: they're almost all about biometrics, RFID, detectors of this-or-that... Most of it is hype, but it nets whomever spews it a lot of government money.
You forgot a step: Drink 10 beers, *then* start playing the Wii. See if you can break something then. Most (but not all, of course) of the incidents involving breaking stuff also involve plenty of alcohol
Yes, but then you can break your TV with a SNES gamepad as well, and I don't recall Nintendo ever being sued over that. Why would the Wii gamepad being wireless absolve people from taking responsability for their own stupidity?
A bunch of hyperactive excited morons with too much muscle break their TV, punch their friends in the face or cut themselves with the Wii remote, and they sue Nintendo, because naturally, Nintendo should be blamed for not making hardware solid enough for hyperactive excited morons?
I'm sorry, but I'm tried a friend's Wii and there's no way I would have dropped or launched the remote across the window, simply because I realize it's only an electronic game, and it doesn't cross my mind to treat a delicate piece of electronic like a jokari paddle. Talk about a lawyer-happy nation... Either that or they're trying to make a cheap buck off of Nintendo's back. Either way, I hope the morons lose.
Because you think your internet communications are safe passing through the other providers? how quaint...
It's rather difficult to load kernel obfuscation modules (like hiding processes and files) without header files and no compiler.
I'll tell you a little secret: if you know the kernel version number and target architecture, you can build a module on another, totally different machine. Wow! 2007 technology man!
... with the Internet Freedom Disk!
Gee man, it's called an existentialist symlink, one of the new features of the Vista filesystem: the symlink is there, but it doesn't point at any file or serve any function. Pogue clearly demonstrates Vista's superiority here!
There are a few different IFD's out there. The geeks call them Live-CD's. They don't look to alive to me, but the geeks have a habit of choosing bad names for things, sad but true. You will have to know what an .iso file is and how to burn it. If that just scared you then just buy a large pizza with extra cheese and a six-pack of beer. Then invite your geek friend over to do it for you. This way is much easier and more fun.
So basically, once non-tech folks are excited about live-CDs and have downloaded the iso, they're freed and... need to con a geek into coming to their home to do the job because n00bs can't figure it out. Great, I'm sure countless people needed that advice.
Retake your Internet! Once again browse any page! Click any item! Surf with impunity!
1 - I've failed to "take my internet" so far, how will I retake it?
2 - I can already browse any page
3 - I can already click any item
4 - Does this mean I can download kiddie porn without fearing the police?
Seriously though, as soon as I read that first line, I stopped perusing this blog. It sounds very silly and useless...
I used to work as a developer and I find it perfectly normal that developers don't get the lion's share of the retail price. Why? because most man/hours in a software product aren't put in development, they're put in testing, QA and support.
are the friggin' laser beams and head mounts...
Sweet!
Tres groovy explicanation. Thank vous tres much!!
"A French consumer group has filed 3 lawsuits against HP [CC], saying the company's practice of selling consumer PCs with Windows pre-installed violates a French law that 'prohibits linking the functionality of a product to another product'
FRENCH GUARD:
Allo! Who is eet?
ARTHUR:
It is HP, and these are my Knights of the Round Table. Whose computer is this?
FRENCH GUARD:
This is the computer of my master, Guy de Loimbard.
ARTHUR:
Go and tell your master that we have been charged by God with a sacred quest. If he will give us his computer for the night, he can join us in our quest for the Holy Installation of Windows.
FRENCH GUARD:
Well, I'll ask him, but I don't think he'll be very keen. Uh, he's already got Linux, you see.
ARTHUR:
What?
GALAHAD:
He says they've already got Linux!
ARTHUR:
Are you sure he's got it?
FRENCH GUARD:
Oh, yes. It's very nice-a. (I told him we already got Leenooks.)
FRENCH GUARDS:
[chuckling]
ARTHUR:
Well, u-- um, can we come up and have a look?
FRENCH GUARD:
Of course not! You are English types-a!
ARTHUR:
Well, what are you, then?
FRENCH GUARD:
I'm French! Why do think I have this outrageous accent, you silly king-a?!
GALAHAD:
What are you doing in with computers?
FRENCH GUARD:
Mind your own business!
You're telling me that this is made for home use [bucknell.edu]? What is it supposed to do at my house? I used them for my robotics class in college and I wasn't too impressed.
It's made for Bill Gate's mansion, where the walls are so far apart the robot can crash and reboot at full speed and still have time to stop before hitting one. In a normal, not-for-ultrabillionaire houses such as yours or mine, there's always the Roomba, which incidentally can be hacked to work with Linux...
I hate to tell people what they can and can't create on their computer, but if there were a situation that warranted it this might be it. I guess the real question is whether this starts down the slippery slope.
As soon as start restricting anything people do *without hurting other people* on a moral basis, you're already slipping on the slope. I understand banning real child porn because children are hurt making it, and I can understand banning photoshopping greenbacks because the fiduciary system, and society in general is hurt, but whatever people do that hurts no-one should be nobody's business to regulate or ban, including peddling or collecting Nazi-ware, which is banned in Europe for some stupid reason I might add.
Any state trying to prevent you from making or watching Hentai smells of police state. Plain and simple. And given the UK's recent track record in this domain, I can't say I'm surprised.
It's always the same with religious folks (not just christians): we atheists always have to "respect" your beliefs, and if we dare say something about them, you get your pants in a knot and start getting very stiff-necked and angry. On the other, when we express the feeling the story of Jesus and the story of Peter Pan are about as credible, we get flamed.
All I said in that short sentence was (1) express my conviction that religious people believe in fairies, and (2) express my feeling that "christian" and "progressive" are words that inheritently don't go together. Perhaps I'll admit there was a bit of sarcasm in it too, but I sure wasn't antagonistic or insulting, yet look at your reaction: are you insecure in your beliefs or something?
Is it like a critical fairy tale believer?