Air bag sensors are commodity items by now. Why couldn't a system be created to release the pressure quickly in a controlled manner in the event of an impact? Something along the lines of "In the case of sudden impact/sudden pressure drop blow the explosive bolts holding the top lid of the tank off, venting the contents straight up". This way the contents of the tank wouldn't be vented sideways into the occupants.
(Watch out for lids punching holes in freeway overpases though:).... I guess you'd have to design it so the lids don't go flying off, but open on a very sturdy hinge.
If the main console manufacturers are licensing games to make up the too-cheap price of the console, the way out of this is simple: Pirate the games. This way the next generation of the console is sold at full price, & the open hardware version will be able to compete.
Diodes if biased properly are noisy. Transisters are noisy. You would think with millions of pn junctions laying around in the typical computer chip some of them would be noisy!
Those artifacts don't have to be there. There is something called variable bitrate encoding that will detect when extra information is needed to encode a sound. Also, what you've been listening to, 128kbps MP3, is definitely compressed too much. There is quite a difference between say 128 and 256.
If there were no copyright law, you wouldn't need GPL either.
Hmmm, I typed that out, thought about it a little & realised that it's just not true. The protection to the small software auther from the evil MS "embrace with proprietary extensions" Corporate Borg is actually provided by copyright law.
Option 5: Freenet: Host his site on freenet, causing everyone that accesses the site to automatically mirror, reducing congestion. Under Freenet, the more popular a site is, the quicker it loads.
The followup to that woman jumping from near orbit should be someone jumping from orbit wearing one of these engines. Re-entry ? Bah, Re-entry is for wimps:)
The whole reason you get Carpal tunnel is the blood supply is shut off to your hands for so long things start to die. You might notice that there are a completely different set of muscles moving your hands around than are moving your forearms around, allowing you to type and swing your arms around (in circles if you wanted too) at the same time.
Another interesting feature is for paraplegics: Hook up sensors on the arms to control robotic legs. If you have someone with amputated feet (frostbite perhaps) hook up robotic feet to sensors on their thighs and calves.
I have a hunch why the whole concept worked was that the neural net had both the perfect target set (the stick position) and the neuromuscular sensors, allowing very accurate real-time training.
An OS is an Abstraction Layer between the Apps and the Hardware.
Remove the OS, and you have to custom-write all your apps for each piece of hardware. What he is almost talking about is a return to DOS, that is, DOS + a hotkey based Program switcher.
Speaking of flawed assumptions, I thought the idea behind SETI was to find intelligence. Exactly how is SETI at home going to find signals that are only supposed to make sense to Intelligent Lifeforms if we are using computers (non-intelligent) to detect the signals???
Excellent, this make the free alternatives out there that much more palatable, because the pirate option is taken away. Think about it, if every company out there HAD to buy windows, & they realize the recurring expenses from upgrading every few years, the relative inexpense of linux/openbsd/whatever becomes That much more appealing. (of course the elite hackers will be able to hack windows anyway/run their own proxy registration servers/ fake the ip addr of the microsoft server to crack it.)
BTW: I would never install this software unless it was hacked based on the principle of the thing. Period.
Blipverts, huh. An easy way to subvert that would be to fingerprint 1 second intervals of video, & the second time the same scene is played, zap it.
This would have the effect of requiring the broadcasters to play unique ads. Hey, that's a great idea. You know those superbowl ads people will download because they like watching them!
I know someone that logs into their work network remotely using a "challenge-response" type system. The company issued each employee a pocket calculator like thing you type the code into from the remote side, hit enter, then copy the code from the calculator back to the remote interrogator. (Some kind of hash function with the response & a secret key, I guess).
Credit card companies should issue these challenge response cards instead of credit cards. Look at it this way: 95% of people that take CC's have some kind of connection to verify them anywayz.
Since the calculator requires you to enter a pin first, even you it got stolen it would still be useless.
Hmmm... What if you put a conduction sensitive keypad, a solar panel, & a electromagnetic strip into a credit card?? Take it out of your pocket, punch in your pin, it generates a new code based on the time and the # of transactions the card was used for, & you slide it through one of those gas pump card readers. Better yet, the credit card has a rf transducer that talks to the Mobil gas station, shows you how much money they want to charge you, then you tap in your passcode to authorize the transaction.
The browser options I use is Evil Internet umm err Internet Explorer:
tools->internet options, security tab
Internet Custom Level:
Disable Everything except for
+file download
+submit non-encrypted form data
?Prompt for java applets
Then, any site I like, I add to my Trusted Sites list. (tools->internet options, security tab, Trusted Sites, then click the [Sites...] button. These are the sites that I allow to run java, cookies etc.
No Popups, no funky javascript, fewer security holes. I also run Adextinguisher to kill the ads, but that's not required.
Yes, it's up to the admin to secure his own site. Think about it this way: Everything you say is speech. Everything your computer says is speech.
If I tell you "Give me your credit card number, I want to buy myself a car.", it's up to You to say "No".
If my computer tells your computer "Give me your credit card number", it's up to your computer to say "No".
Authentification/Identification is really what is needed. When you write a check at the store, they ask for your ID, because there is a stiff criminal penalty if you fake it. (Besides being difficult to fake.)
So really you need criminal penalties for stealing someone's private key.
Hey if I asked you for a piece of paper & you gave me 20 bucks in cash, that's your problem. It's also your computers problem if my computer asks for a list of files it's allowed to get & your computer gives me back the root password.
Yeah, I like the Poison idea. Create several email addresses, get them subscribed to all the spammers you can, then everytime those email addresses get spammed, block that message & sending address globally. Prefereably implemented at the ISP level.
Quote from that page:
"Please note that it is our policy only to maintain information from sites whose system administrators have given their approval. "
Hmmmm... What exactly is a router?
Let's see, operating system, listens for requests on ports, transmits replies. Yep, it's a server. So really, any time you are using the internet you're using "someone elses server".
BW overuse? Bah humbug, responses to searches can be a dcc chat.
Rather than have alternate roots, the ICANN needs a simple policy change: Any reasonable name collision results in a subdomain split:
Example:
Ford requests cars.com
ICANN grants the request because there is no cars.com registered.
Chevy requests cars.com
ICANN creates a web page at a web site they host named cars.com, which has links to both ford.cars.com & chevy.cars.com, revokes the cars.com url from ford, & grants ford.cars.com to Ford, and chevy.cars.com to Chevy.
Here it might be reasonable to order the links on the redirection page in order of their popularity.
Slashdot Mirror
How about IRC?
Duhh!
The whole server network already exists, dynamic ip's aren't a problem, etc etc.
Air bag sensors are commodity items by now. Why couldn't a system be created to release the pressure quickly in a controlled manner in the event of an impact? Something along the lines of "In the case of sudden impact/sudden pressure drop blow the explosive bolts holding the top lid of the tank off, venting the contents straight up". This way the contents of the tank wouldn't be vented sideways into the occupants. :).... I guess you'd have to design it so the lids don't go flying off, but open on a very sturdy hinge.
(Watch out for lids punching holes in freeway overpases though
If the main console manufacturers are licensing games to make up the too-cheap price of the console, the way out of this is simple: Pirate the games. This way the next generation of the console is sold at full price, & the open hardware version will be able to compete.
Diodes if biased properly are noisy. Transisters are noisy. You would think with millions of pn junctions laying around in the typical computer chip some of them would be noisy!
Those artifacts don't have to be there. There is something called variable bitrate encoding that will detect when extra information is needed to encode a sound.
Also, what you've been listening to, 128kbps MP3, is definitely compressed too much. There is quite a difference between say 128 and 256.
Come ON! Way back when, most people didn't have college educations, & they still understood what FREE SPEECH meant!
The point this country's founders realized is that you cannot harm someone by SAYING anything! The only harm can come about by DOING something.
Hmmm, I typed that out, thought about it a little & realised that it's just not true. The protection to the small software auther from the evil MS "embrace with proprietary extensions" Corporate Borg is actually provided by copyright law.
Computer programmers write the laws. I mean really, our job is making rule sets that work.
If they don't work, they crash.
Option 5:
Freenet: Host his site on freenet, causing everyone that accesses the site to automatically mirror, reducing congestion. Under Freenet, the more popular a site is, the quicker it loads.
Step 1: Search Google.com
Step 2: follow link
Step 3: Read page, says company named Chic has one
Step 4: Search google again for Chic + Wireless + optical:
Step 5: Click on link: all your mouse are belong to us
The followup to that woman jumping from near orbit should be someone jumping from orbit wearing one of these engines. Re-entry ? Bah, Re-entry is for wimps :)
The whole reason you get Carpal tunnel is the blood supply is shut off to your hands for so long things start to die. You might notice that there are a completely different set of muscles moving your hands around than are moving your forearms around, allowing you to type and swing your arms around (in circles if you wanted too) at the same time.
Another interesting feature is for paraplegics: Hook up sensors on the arms to control robotic legs. If you have someone with amputated feet (frostbite perhaps) hook up robotic feet to sensors on their thighs and calves.
I have a hunch why the whole concept worked was that the neural net had both the perfect target set (the stick position) and the neuromuscular sensors, allowing very accurate real-time training.
An OS is an Abstraction Layer between the Apps and the Hardware.
Remove the OS, and you have to custom-write all your apps for each piece of hardware. What he is almost talking about is a return to DOS, that is, DOS + a hotkey based Program switcher.
He is confusing the OS with the Window Manager.
Swap cards with your neighbor/next guy in line at the checkout counter.
Speaking of flawed assumptions, I thought the idea behind SETI was to find intelligence.
Exactly how is SETI at home going to find signals that are only supposed to make sense to Intelligent Lifeforms if we are using computers (non-intelligent) to detect the signals???
Ok, so the proper terms are:
class Queue
{
Queue();
~Queue();
void cat(long);
void tail(short);
};
So they really need to promote the re-usability and extensibility of the new queue::cat interface.
(of course the elite hackers will be able to hack windows anyway/run their own proxy registration servers/ fake the ip addr of the microsoft server to crack it.)
BTW: I would never install this software unless it was hacked based on the principle of the thing. Period.
This would have the effect of requiring the broadcasters to play unique ads. Hey, that's a great idea. You know those superbowl ads people will download because they like watching them!
Credit card companies should issue these challenge response cards instead of credit cards. Look at it this way: 95% of people that take CC's have some kind of connection to verify them anywayz.
Since the calculator requires you to enter a pin first, even you it got stolen it would still be useless.
Hmmm... What if you put a conduction sensitive keypad, a solar panel, & a electromagnetic strip into a credit card?? Take it out of your pocket, punch in your pin, it generates a new code based on the time and the # of transactions the card was used for, & you slide it through one of those gas pump card readers. Better yet, the credit card has a rf transducer that talks to the Mobil gas station, shows you how much money they want to charge you, then you tap in your passcode to authorize the transaction.
tools->internet options, security tab Internet Custom Level:
Disable Everything except for
+file download
+submit non-encrypted form data
?Prompt for java applets
Then, any site I like, I add to my Trusted Sites list. (tools->internet options, security tab, Trusted Sites, then click the [Sites...] button. These are the sites that I allow to run java, cookies etc.
No Popups, no funky javascript, fewer security holes. I also run Adextinguisher to kill the ads, but that's not required.
If I tell you "Give me your credit card number, I want to buy myself a car.", it's up to You to say "No".
If my computer tells your computer "Give me your credit card number", it's up to your computer to say "No".
Authentification/Identification is really what is needed. When you write a check at the store, they ask for your ID, because there is a stiff criminal penalty if you fake it. (Besides being difficult to fake.)
So really you need criminal penalties for stealing someone's private key.
Hey if I asked you for a piece of paper & you gave me 20 bucks in cash, that's your problem. It's also your computers problem if my computer asks for a list of files it's allowed to get & your computer gives me back the root password.
Yeah, I like the Poison idea. Create several email addresses, get them subscribed to all the spammers you can, then everytime those email addresses get spammed, block that message & sending address globally. Prefereably implemented at the ISP level.
Hmmmm
BW overuse? Bah humbug, responses to searches can be a dcc chat.
Ford requests cars.com
ICANN grants the request because there is no cars.com registered.
Chevy requests cars.com
ICANN creates a web page at a web site they host named cars.com, which has links to both ford.cars.com & chevy.cars.com, revokes the cars.com url from ford, & grants ford.cars.com to Ford, and chevy.cars.com to Chevy.
Here it might be reasonable to order the links on the redirection page in order of their popularity.