Ever play the original Quake? There's a reason your eyes stayed visible when you grabbed the invisibility item... iD software knew you'd be blind otherwise!
Actually it made me think of an episode of Gargoyles, where they're all locked in electrified cages. One of them (forget their names, but it was the gangling teenage one) kept flicking the side of the cage to watch the lights go dim when he did, and that was the exact audio.
*bzzzt* Ow. *bzzzt* Ow. *bzzzt* Ow.
He was doing it out of boredom, though, rather than (just) stupidity.
Even a perfect optical cloak would still be detectable in many ways. Bear in mind that wearing a perfect optical cloak will render you blind. This means you'll have to navigate using other methods. You could wear infrared goggles, but that means you're visible in infrared light and therefore detectable. You could make yourself invisible to all wavelengths, perhaps, and then navigate by sonar. A microphone will pick that up easily enough. Likewise radar. You could, I suppose, navigate via a remote camera signal that displays your surroundings on a screen located inside the cloaking device. That would be disorienting but one could probably train for it or use a VR representation of your surroundings. Assuming, then, that you can obfuscate the video signal and avoid emitting any light yourself, then you'll be foiled by a cheap fog curtain at the entrance of a building. Or, if you want to be more practical about it, a metal detector. If the target of your assassination attempt is outdoors, you'd best hope that there's no precipitation, smoke, smog, or fog. And you won't be able just to point and shoot, either. Remember, you're blind.
Even assuming a partial optical cloak that lets you be invisible "enough" (perhaps in shadows) and still see somehow, you'll still be detectable. If this technology becomes available, technology to defeat it will, too. Off the top of my head... a sonar or radar (preferably sonar, I think humans are transparent to radar) system that compares the visual or infrared spectrum with the echos. You probably wouldn't even need a human to operate it; a computer could simply find the discrepancies between the images and report them. A detection system like this would probably be affordable even to smaller nations. If you wanted to get really paranoid, you could even have the computer automatically target human-shaped echo discrepancies and fire long range or remote tasers at them, killing the cloak as soon as it is spotted.
Or, save yourselves all the trouble, sprinkle sand everywhere and just watch for footprints. Or hold all public events in the middle of huge, 2-inch deep lakes.
Someone needs to do a re-edit like what happened with the Phantom Menace. Fans edited that movie into something a damn sight better than Lucas's version. Hopefully they'll do the same for Indy 4 and we'll have a fun, watchable movie.
From TFA: "Marisel Garcia is one of eight or nine women in the Gainesville, Florida who is a victim of a Webcam Spy Hacker voyeurism scandal, orchestrated by Craig Feigin."
Not a victim of having her privacy invaded, not merely being spied upon.. but a full-fledged Webcam Spy Hacker Voyeurism Scandal. A WSHVS. Dear god, WHAT HAVE WE COME TO? I think I'll found a WSHVS victim anonymous.
In my experience, lots of managers (particularly in small businesses) think that "salary" means the employee agrees to receive a flat rate per week, and overtime magically never applies. It's surprising to see that level of cluelessness in a company the size of Apple (hence the accusation that it was intentional, presumably relying on the employees' ignorance of wage law) because of the legal ramifications, but it's fairly common to find "salaried" low-level workers in the workforce as a whole. Unless your job is on the federal list of "exempt" professions, you are entitled to overtime pay for all hours worked over 40/week regardless of whether you're paid hourly or not.
Well Aion's been no secret, it was announced at least 2 years ago; I'm sure that GW2 has been developed with that in mind. My fear is that NCSoft has decided that Anet's play-for-free model just doesn't make them enough money and is working to capture Guild Wars's already-dwindling fanbase. That would secure more pay-per-month customers for NCSoft, at the expense of Arenanet. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but it sure seems like NCSoft is targeting would-be GW2 players with Aion.
I loathed the Awesomebar too. When I first started using it I would type "s" and it would list sites I only visited once, a year ago, because they had an "s" somewhere near the end of the URL, while sites with 's' near the beginning were listed much lower. This is obviously broken functionality, but I'm seeing less and less of that sort of thing the longer I use it. The longer you use it the better it gets; it has some kind of sorting algorithm that takes a while to get going properly. I have found typing a single word of the page title to relocate a page useful on occasion, and I now go for days at a time without cursing this unremovable feature.
Meteos. There needs to be more Meteos games. I did everything there is to do on the DS one and I want more Meteos, damn it. I actually -considered- purchasing the Disney-fied version of it just to have more levels to play. That, my friends, is desperation.
Yes. My first reaction upon reading the summary was.. "Duh?" What, did they have it plugged into the wall before that? A UPS becomes MORE critical, not less, as the cost of hardware (RAID arrays are expensive) goes up.
What if a thief removes the software, reinstalls the OS or doesn't connect to the Internet?
A motivated and sufficiently equipped or knowledgeable thief can always prevent Internet device tracking: he or she can erase software on the device, deny Internet access, or even destroy the device. For example, Adeona currently has no mechanisms for attempting to survive a disk wipe.
We point out that we do not believe this renders Adeona (and other location-tracking systems) useless. The Adeona system was designed to protect against the common thief -- for example, a thief that opportunistically decides to swipe your laptop from a coffee shop or your dorm room, and then wants to use it or perhaps sell it on online. Such thieves will often not be technologically savvy and will not know to remove Adeona from your system. While device tracking will not always work, systems like Adeona can work, and it is against the common-case thief that we feel tracking systems can add significant value.
Sure. This is betting on the fact that a lot of thieves are too dumb to do that, and either use or pawn the laptop without doing much to it. I'm willing to bet that's the case more often than not.
Actually, given what you listed there and the way the Democratic party's been behaving as a whole, I'd say Obama is the perfect leader for the Democratic party.
Heinlein's "Have Spacesuit Will Travel". I first read that when I was nine, and it was the first "real" sci-fi I read (L'Engle's stuff doesn't really count as sci-fi). It's not dark, it's not cynical, it's nicely anti-authoritarian and tons of fun. After that I read Dune. Quite a shift.
Sure. Avast Antivirus. Requires an email address to register the home version, but it's free for home users, updates at least daily, and is much less of a RAM hog than Norton. It's effective enough that I actually use the Pro version as my AV at work. The network management features are pretty good.
The reason for this disparity is simple. In the casino, every bit of money in the place either belongs to the casino already, or probably will soon. They have a vested interest in making sure everything is 100% safe, all the time.
In the banks, they have no incentive to care; it's YOUR money that will go missing.
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Every machine I've ordered from CDW has been preloaded with Windows XP, for which I thank them with my continued business. Vista has no place here.
Don't worry, it has a different meaning here, too.
Ever play the original Quake? There's a reason your eyes stayed visible when you grabbed the invisibility item... iD software knew you'd be blind otherwise!
Actually it made me think of an episode of Gargoyles, where they're all locked in electrified cages. One of them (forget their names, but it was the gangling teenage one) kept flicking the side of the cage to watch the lights go dim when he did, and that was the exact audio.
*bzzzt*
Ow.
*bzzzt*
Ow.
*bzzzt*
Ow.
He was doing it out of boredom, though, rather than (just) stupidity.
Whaddaya mean, no one watched Gargoyles?
Can I ask where you downloaded the BBC coverage from? Is it still available? I can't find it on (any of the) BBC news websites.
Even a perfect optical cloak would still be detectable in many ways. Bear in mind that wearing a perfect optical cloak will render you blind. This means you'll have to navigate using other methods. You could wear infrared goggles, but that means you're visible in infrared light and therefore detectable. You could make yourself invisible to all wavelengths, perhaps, and then navigate by sonar. A microphone will pick that up easily enough. Likewise radar. You could, I suppose, navigate via a remote camera signal that displays your surroundings on a screen located inside the cloaking device. That would be disorienting but one could probably train for it or use a VR representation of your surroundings. Assuming, then, that you can obfuscate the video signal and avoid emitting any light yourself, then you'll be foiled by a cheap fog curtain at the entrance of a building. Or, if you want to be more practical about it, a metal detector. If the target of your assassination attempt is outdoors, you'd best hope that there's no precipitation, smoke, smog, or fog. And you won't be able just to point and shoot, either. Remember, you're blind.
Even assuming a partial optical cloak that lets you be invisible "enough" (perhaps in shadows) and still see somehow, you'll still be detectable. If this technology becomes available, technology to defeat it will, too. Off the top of my head... a sonar or radar (preferably sonar, I think humans are transparent to radar) system that compares the visual or infrared spectrum with the echos. You probably wouldn't even need a human to operate it; a computer could simply find the discrepancies between the images and report them. A detection system like this would probably be affordable even to smaller nations. If you wanted to get really paranoid, you could even have the computer automatically target human-shaped echo discrepancies and fire long range or remote tasers at them, killing the cloak as soon as it is spotted.
Or, save yourselves all the trouble, sprinkle sand everywhere and just watch for footprints. Or hold all public events in the middle of huge, 2-inch deep lakes.
Someone needs to do a re-edit like what happened with the Phantom Menace. Fans edited that movie into something a damn sight better than Lucas's version. Hopefully they'll do the same for Indy 4 and we'll have a fun, watchable movie.
From TFA: "Marisel Garcia is one of eight or nine women in the Gainesville, Florida who is a victim of a Webcam Spy Hacker voyeurism scandal, orchestrated by Craig Feigin."
Not a victim of having her privacy invaded, not merely being spied upon.. but a full-fledged Webcam Spy Hacker Voyeurism Scandal. A WSHVS. Dear god, WHAT HAVE WE COME TO? I think I'll found a WSHVS victim anonymous.
In my experience, lots of managers (particularly in small businesses) think that "salary" means the employee agrees to receive a flat rate per week, and overtime magically never applies. It's surprising to see that level of cluelessness in a company the size of Apple (hence the accusation that it was intentional, presumably relying on the employees' ignorance of wage law) because of the legal ramifications, but it's fairly common to find "salaried" low-level workers in the workforce as a whole. Unless your job is on the federal list of "exempt" professions, you are entitled to overtime pay for all hours worked over 40/week regardless of whether you're paid hourly or not.
No, you're just expected to kill Simba and his father.
Well Aion's been no secret, it was announced at least 2 years ago; I'm sure that GW2 has been developed with that in mind. My fear is that NCSoft has decided that Anet's play-for-free model just doesn't make them enough money and is working to capture Guild Wars's already-dwindling fanbase. That would secure more pay-per-month customers for NCSoft, at the expense of Arenanet. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but it sure seems like NCSoft is targeting would-be GW2 players with Aion.
I loathed the Awesomebar too. When I first started using it I would type "s" and it would list sites I only visited once, a year ago, because they had an "s" somewhere near the end of the URL, while sites with 's' near the beginning were listed much lower. This is obviously broken functionality, but I'm seeing less and less of that sort of thing the longer I use it. The longer you use it the better it gets; it has some kind of sorting algorithm that takes a while to get going properly. I have found typing a single word of the page title to relocate a page useful on occasion, and I now go for days at a time without cursing this unremovable feature.
I'm sure Pratchett wants Pratchett on this stuff as well.
Meteos. There needs to be more Meteos games. I did everything there is to do on the DS one and I want more Meteos, damn it. I actually -considered- purchasing the Disney-fied version of it just to have more levels to play. That, my friends, is desperation.
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I loved Meteos and want more games like it.
I don't know about music, but there are USB dongles that allow you to pick up weather and radar data from XM. Here's one. Storm chasers love these.
Yes. My first reaction upon reading the summary was.. "Duh?" What, did they have it plugged into the wall before that? A UPS becomes MORE critical, not less, as the cost of hardware (RAID arrays are expensive) goes up.
Actually you can only make them spurt... er, shoot... er... SPIT purple goo. Although you can make them do it on command, as often as you like.
For under $50?
Actually they state as much right in their FAQ:
What if a thief removes the software, reinstalls the OS or doesn't connect to the Internet?
A motivated and sufficiently equipped or knowledgeable thief can always prevent Internet device tracking: he or she can erase software on the device, deny Internet access, or even destroy the device. For example, Adeona currently has no mechanisms for attempting to survive a disk wipe.
We point out that we do not believe this renders Adeona (and other location-tracking systems) useless. The Adeona system was designed to protect against the common thief -- for example, a thief that opportunistically decides to swipe your laptop from a coffee shop or your dorm room, and then wants to use it or perhaps sell it on online. Such thieves will often not be technologically savvy and will not know to remove Adeona from your system. While device tracking will not always work, systems like Adeona can work, and it is against the common-case thief that we feel tracking systems can add significant value.
Sure. This is betting on the fact that a lot of thieves are too dumb to do that, and either use or pawn the laptop without doing much to it. I'm willing to bet that's the case more often than not.
Actually, given what you listed there and the way the Democratic party's been behaving as a whole, I'd say Obama is the perfect leader for the Democratic party.
Heinlein's "Have Spacesuit Will Travel". I first read that when I was nine, and it was the first "real" sci-fi I read (L'Engle's stuff doesn't really count as sci-fi). It's not dark, it's not cynical, it's nicely anti-authoritarian and tons of fun. After that I read Dune. Quite a shift.
Sure. Avast Antivirus. Requires an email address to register the home version, but it's free for home users, updates at least daily, and is much less of a RAM hog than Norton. It's effective enough that I actually use the Pro version as my AV at work. The network management features are pretty good.
The reason for this disparity is simple. In the casino, every bit of money in the place either belongs to the casino already, or probably will soon. They have a vested interest in making sure everything is 100% safe, all the time.
In the banks, they have no incentive to care; it's YOUR money that will go missing.
EVERYTHING affects the economy.