But you're forgetting the revised amendment that states if 25 posts have not yet been registered, you're actually not allowed to read the summary either. You have to base your comment 100% on the title only.
Wooo, a gigantic web-based backdoor with unknown remote login methods and an interception of all internet history tied directly to my company's cisco account with all our personally identifiable information?! WHERE CAN I GET ONE?! And by one, I mean the phone number for the account cancellation department.
By the way, my company actually runs some awful piece of crap from Cyberoam but now I'm slightly happier about that. Thanks, cisco.
It's difficult but not really all that difficult relatively speaking to slap an encrypted GPS transmitter on a weather or spy satellite. Since another slashdot article says we're running low on Earth-monitoring satellites for weather and stuff, the government always wants more spy satellites, and now they need an expanded encrypted GPS network, they could possibly justify launching a do-it-all satellite for cheaper than 3 separate ones. I believe cost was the reason all 3 of those haven't been launched much lately.
Or you could have not googled it and just read the 2nd paragraph of TFA: "The same method may have been used to bring down a US drone in Iran in 2011."
"But where do all the parts come from?"....anyway, it's expensive as hell to make something here but there's some business value and even cost saving in the fact that they can get any manufactured phone to any place in America in 1 day with Fedex. Even the fastest but still economical shipping methods from Asia are 2-3 weeks lead time at least because it's all ship-based. Get your stuff held up at the port? Time to order another couple thousands then because you've got waiting customers. The other option is to just over-order and pay lots of money to ship and guard your expensive inventory state-side and then have to put them on clearance when the sales figures don't match up with their overblown estimate. Do you know how much Nintendo lost on Wii shortages? Do you know how much HP lost on excess tablets? So there's some value in making things in the US from a cost saving perspective.
Let me save you some time reading that headline trolling + 1 page of fluff that they call an article. It's not really "sniffing" anything, as particles from drug production don't get that high in the air. They're just looking for abnormal tree patterns and smoke and vehicles and stuff. Of course, even years ago I saw a documentary showing how they camouflage their locations from aerial observation.
I don't want to tell these people how to do their jobs but it seems to me like they should also, at the same time, invent tested and working technology to stop an asteroid as well or it sort of defeats the purpose.
Since the tax penalty or getting health insurance now costs right around the same or more per year as a smartphone with a data plan, I'm thinking they'll be declining in the near future whether they are currently or not. And don't pretend while you're driving through a poor neighborhood that you don't see people with a smartphone in one hand and a cigarette and 2 dog leashes in the other. Guess which one of the three they'll be eliminating.
For the record, my company dropped all our blackberries 3 months ago in favor of Android because their awful memory leak of an enterprise software suite was a nightmare, not because we decided we don't need smartphones.
Most weather services can't even tell me what the temperature is right now or was yesterday. Maybe they should focus on reliably telling what the temperature will be and what the precipitation will be like before they start calculating individual raindrop trajectories.
Oh and by the way, this is impossible and they're lying. If there's a raindrop 500 feet into a pillar of rainfall, chances are it will be blocked so the radar waves would bounce off a raindrop closer to the edge first before even hitting an interior one. That's how radar works, after all. So they could track 1 raindrop on the very outer edge of a storm I guess, but that's even more useless.
There are 2 options here. 1, it can artificially seem focused when your eyes are actually focused on something distant which has been proven over and over to be bad for your eyes and brain. 2, it can actually be out of focus until your eyes adjust to an object about a quarter inch in front of them, which is straining and difficult and throws off your left-right eye depth combination abilities. This is going to be found to be bad for anyone's eyes at any age and kill the project before it even causes people to walk off cliffs and in front of cars and stuff.
By the way, I attempted for 2 weeks to get used to "see behind yourself" reverse mirrored tipped glasses. I have very fast eyes from gaming all my life and and better at multitasking than the average person and even I couldn't get used to quickly snapping focus back and forth between the two views, in front of me and behind me. It's just not possible to focus on 2 "video streams" (for lack of a better term) at the same time or hop back and forth between them quickly. The only way this will ever work is an overlay-based image replacement technology that intercepts real life and puts text or colors over top of buildings and streets but even a 25ms delay would make it seem unreal and no tracking system is that fast.
Awwww man, without flash player, how are people going to rig mobile websites to load viruses onto my phone? It was an even bigger plugin security hole than its PC counterpart.
And let's hope while he's spouting off all that BS, he's investing in solar and wind or he'll ride that company all the way to Juno and Kodak land. Those aren't drilling sites, I mean Juno that old dialup company and Kodak, the company that just declared bankruptcy lol.
What can we do with the Start menu to revive it, to give it some new identity, give it some new power?"
I know! They could have a text field grab focus as soon as the start button is clicked and whatever the user starts typing, it finds it instantly. That'd be so cool and efficient and everyone would use it...oh wait....
Let me break down my company's decision on this matter because I guess the author doesn't get it. $200+ ea for cheap thin clients. $400 ea for decent modern cheap PCs. Server to just store stuff and host quickbooks = $4000. Server(s) to run 50 thin clients = $20,000+ and a better network bandwidth capability so at least another $10,000. Hmmmmm. I guess it's thick clients.
If you're thinking "well that's kinda close"...oh yeah, that's right, we use photoshop, publisher, autocad, our 3D design software, our presentation laptops which stream realtime 60fps content, and we burn CDs and use flash drives. Not exactly a thin client candidate here and we're a pretty typical business. As far as I'm concerned, thin clients were old technology and they have almost no place in today's IT infrastructure given the cost of PCs.
Hmmm given all the evidence, I'd say it's actually a 49% chance red crucifix = UFO explosion over Japan (since apparently the radiation-stuffed trees were localized to just Japan I guess, although not many trees elsewhere live to be 1300 years old) and 49% chance there's an obvious link between reactor meltdown and the year 775 via a magic quantum portal time teleportation particle traveling effect thing that blasted carbon-14 into the past and 2% chance that we're all living in a computer simulation and some programmer left incorrect calculations in for trees in the year 775 on accident or for lolz or as an easter egg:-P
Maybe it has something to do with Japan being an island and having certain tree types. It was atmospheric carbon-14 which means it got down into the trees and maybe that only happens in certain weather and airflow patterns or something. Still, you would think it'd hit more of the Earth anyway like Hawaii or something but the article doesn't seem to indicate that.
I didn't get way into physics in high school but I was interested. Hearing this explanation confuses me so there are probably more people than me who are wondering this. How exactly can cosmics radiation can cause carbon atoms in the atmosphere to gain neutrons? No new carbon is being formed, obviously, so existing carbon atoms would have to be turning into carbon-14 and I didn't think it was possible to just slip in another neutrons without basically blowing up the nucleus of any atom. I mean we don't "make" tritium for example by stuffing in more nuetrons magically, we have to sort it out of seawater. I would bet I could randomly throw my mouse and hit 3 physicists here at slashdot so could someone explain what the correlation between supernovas and carbon 14 is?
You sort of buried the lead there. It also "does NOT work" in that it's not a targeted lightning bolt. It will hit whatever conducts the most electricity, so yeah, not cars in most cases and if it did, it wouldn't do much. But also, if you want to hit something that doesn't conduct more electricity than the thing next to it, you can't. That's not "directed," that's physics.
Directed lighting would project a slight ionic or otherwise charged particle trail towards a target that lightning would travel down, similar to how lightning strikes freaky-looking invisible charged particle tendrils coming off of ground objects during storms. I can't find that famous picture of them but you've probably all at least heard about how your hair rises for a few seconds before getting hit by lightning so if you feel it, you should run like hell or get as low as possible to break the static charge buildup trail rising into the air. So a directed gun would have to create an artificial path similar to that and launch the lightning down it.
With all the SSD money coming in instead of just SD cards, flash drives, and RAM, I bet the main companies will be able to fund this technology and implement it without even the need for external investors. That'll speed things along more than other projects. A lot of vaporware disappears because of a lack of investment money being available of course.
If I had to opt into a filter and the consequences were that my traffic has to go all the way from Austrialia to Chicago and back, that's not even about filtering anymore. Unacceptable ping time!!!
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But you're forgetting the revised amendment that states if 25 posts have not yet been registered, you're actually not allowed to read the summary either. You have to base your comment 100% on the title only.
Wooo, a gigantic web-based backdoor with unknown remote login methods and an interception of all internet history tied directly to my company's cisco account with all our personally identifiable information?! WHERE CAN I GET ONE?! And by one, I mean the phone number for the account cancellation department.
By the way, my company actually runs some awful piece of crap from Cyberoam but now I'm slightly happier about that. Thanks, cisco.
What loss? The article states they'll have a revenue decline of -30%. That's a 30% increase in revenue! How great for them lol.
It's difficult but not really all that difficult relatively speaking to slap an encrypted GPS transmitter on a weather or spy satellite. Since another slashdot article says we're running low on Earth-monitoring satellites for weather and stuff, the government always wants more spy satellites, and now they need an expanded encrypted GPS network, they could possibly justify launching a do-it-all satellite for cheaper than 3 separate ones. I believe cost was the reason all 3 of those haven't been launched much lately.
Or you could have not googled it and just read the 2nd paragraph of TFA: "The same method may have been used to bring down a US drone in Iran in 2011."
Quick question...how can a comment be modded redundant when it's the FIRST POST?!
Daaaaamn, what a waste, considering people have proven you can run Tetris on them. They could have had a whole arcade.
"But where do all the parts come from?"....anyway, it's expensive as hell to make something here but there's some business value and even cost saving in the fact that they can get any manufactured phone to any place in America in 1 day with Fedex. Even the fastest but still economical shipping methods from Asia are 2-3 weeks lead time at least because it's all ship-based. Get your stuff held up at the port? Time to order another couple thousands then because you've got waiting customers. The other option is to just over-order and pay lots of money to ship and guard your expensive inventory state-side and then have to put them on clearance when the sales figures don't match up with their overblown estimate. Do you know how much Nintendo lost on Wii shortages? Do you know how much HP lost on excess tablets? So there's some value in making things in the US from a cost saving perspective.
Let me save you some time reading that headline trolling + 1 page of fluff that they call an article. It's not really "sniffing" anything, as particles from drug production don't get that high in the air. They're just looking for abnormal tree patterns and smoke and vehicles and stuff. Of course, even years ago I saw a documentary showing how they camouflage their locations from aerial observation.
I don't want to tell these people how to do their jobs but it seems to me like they should also, at the same time, invent tested and working technology to stop an asteroid as well or it sort of defeats the purpose.
Since the tax penalty or getting health insurance now costs right around the same or more per year as a smartphone with a data plan, I'm thinking they'll be declining in the near future whether they are currently or not. And don't pretend while you're driving through a poor neighborhood that you don't see people with a smartphone in one hand and a cigarette and 2 dog leashes in the other. Guess which one of the three they'll be eliminating.
For the record, my company dropped all our blackberries 3 months ago in favor of Android because their awful memory leak of an enterprise software suite was a nightmare, not because we decided we don't need smartphones.
Most weather services can't even tell me what the temperature is right now or was yesterday. Maybe they should focus on reliably telling what the temperature will be and what the precipitation will be like before they start calculating individual raindrop trajectories.
Oh and by the way, this is impossible and they're lying. If there's a raindrop 500 feet into a pillar of rainfall, chances are it will be blocked so the radar waves would bounce off a raindrop closer to the edge first before even hitting an interior one. That's how radar works, after all. So they could track 1 raindrop on the very outer edge of a storm I guess, but that's even more useless.
There are 2 options here. 1, it can artificially seem focused when your eyes are actually focused on something distant which has been proven over and over to be bad for your eyes and brain. 2, it can actually be out of focus until your eyes adjust to an object about a quarter inch in front of them, which is straining and difficult and throws off your left-right eye depth combination abilities. This is going to be found to be bad for anyone's eyes at any age and kill the project before it even causes people to walk off cliffs and in front of cars and stuff.
By the way, I attempted for 2 weeks to get used to "see behind yourself" reverse mirrored tipped glasses. I have very fast eyes from gaming all my life and and better at multitasking than the average person and even I couldn't get used to quickly snapping focus back and forth between the two views, in front of me and behind me. It's just not possible to focus on 2 "video streams" (for lack of a better term) at the same time or hop back and forth between them quickly. The only way this will ever work is an overlay-based image replacement technology that intercepts real life and puts text or colors over top of buildings and streets but even a 25ms delay would make it seem unreal and no tracking system is that fast.
Awwww man, without flash player, how are people going to rig mobile websites to load viruses onto my phone? It was an even bigger plugin security hole than its PC counterpart.
And let's hope while he's spouting off all that BS, he's investing in solar and wind or he'll ride that company all the way to Juno and Kodak land. Those aren't drilling sites, I mean Juno that old dialup company and Kodak, the company that just declared bankruptcy lol.
I know! They could have a text field grab focus as soon as the start button is clicked and whatever the user starts typing, it finds it instantly. That'd be so cool and efficient and everyone would use it...oh wait....
Let me break down my company's decision on this matter because I guess the author doesn't get it. $200+ ea for cheap thin clients. $400 ea for decent modern cheap PCs. Server to just store stuff and host quickbooks = $4000. Server(s) to run 50 thin clients = $20,000+ and a better network bandwidth capability so at least another $10,000. Hmmmmm. I guess it's thick clients.
If you're thinking "well that's kinda close"...oh yeah, that's right, we use photoshop, publisher, autocad, our 3D design software, our presentation laptops which stream realtime 60fps content, and we burn CDs and use flash drives. Not exactly a thin client candidate here and we're a pretty typical business. As far as I'm concerned, thin clients were old technology and they have almost no place in today's IT infrastructure given the cost of PCs.
Hmmm given all the evidence, I'd say it's actually a 49% chance red crucifix = UFO explosion over Japan (since apparently the radiation-stuffed trees were localized to just Japan I guess, although not many trees elsewhere live to be 1300 years old) and 49% chance there's an obvious link between reactor meltdown and the year 775 via a magic quantum portal time teleportation particle traveling effect thing that blasted carbon-14 into the past and 2% chance that we're all living in a computer simulation and some programmer left incorrect calculations in for trees in the year 775 on accident or for lolz or as an easter egg :-P
Oh, I just realized not a lot of trees live to be 1300 years old. So...there's that, lol. Someone take a geiger counter to the redwood forests :-P
Maybe it has something to do with Japan being an island and having certain tree types. It was atmospheric carbon-14 which means it got down into the trees and maybe that only happens in certain weather and airflow patterns or something. Still, you would think it'd hit more of the Earth anyway like Hawaii or something but the article doesn't seem to indicate that.
I didn't get way into physics in high school but I was interested. Hearing this explanation confuses me so there are probably more people than me who are wondering this. How exactly can cosmics radiation can cause carbon atoms in the atmosphere to gain neutrons? No new carbon is being formed, obviously, so existing carbon atoms would have to be turning into carbon-14 and I didn't think it was possible to just slip in another neutrons without basically blowing up the nucleus of any atom. I mean we don't "make" tritium for example by stuffing in more nuetrons magically, we have to sort it out of seawater. I would bet I could randomly throw my mouse and hit 3 physicists here at slashdot so could someone explain what the correlation between supernovas and carbon 14 is?
You sort of buried the lead there. It also "does NOT work" in that it's not a targeted lightning bolt. It will hit whatever conducts the most electricity, so yeah, not cars in most cases and if it did, it wouldn't do much. But also, if you want to hit something that doesn't conduct more electricity than the thing next to it, you can't. That's not "directed," that's physics.
Directed lighting would project a slight ionic or otherwise charged particle trail towards a target that lightning would travel down, similar to how lightning strikes freaky-looking invisible charged particle tendrils coming off of ground objects during storms. I can't find that famous picture of them but you've probably all at least heard about how your hair rises for a few seconds before getting hit by lightning so if you feel it, you should run like hell or get as low as possible to break the static charge buildup trail rising into the air. So a directed gun would have to create an artificial path similar to that and launch the lightning down it.
Hey, the FBI takes cheating at Modern Warfare 3 VERY seriously, okay? (see Kim Dotcom's wikipedia page)
With all the SSD money coming in instead of just SD cards, flash drives, and RAM, I bet the main companies will be able to fund this technology and implement it without even the need for external investors. That'll speed things along more than other projects. A lot of vaporware disappears because of a lack of investment money being available of course.
If I had to opt into a filter and the consequences were that my traffic has to go all the way from Austrialia to Chicago and back, that's not even about filtering anymore. Unacceptable ping time!!!