Ok... here's a question. What would happen if you took a very hi-res picture of the bill using a digital camera? Would the camera refuse to take the picture? Could you download it onto your pc?
Or, what if you covered up the fancy little zeros... say with a simple piece of paper the same color as the background, then scanned it normally?
I just think there are lots of creative problem solver types out here who could pretty much find a way around anything.
I have no idea if something like this could be possible, but just playing devils advocate here.
Say, the software was used for target calculations for an artillery piece. For the sake of argument, say some "rogue" developer has added a bit of code that takes the coordinates from the GPS in the unit. Checks to see if they are in, say, a middle eastern country. If so, the shells, which found the target just fine in testing, are now missing the mark by 500 yards.
I wonder if they will use an HP/Indigo DigitalPress. These things are monster offset printers that can do huge jobs, but are able to print a different image/source on each successive page.
My local paper here probably wouldn't touch this in a million years. It would take up too much of their ad space. Half of the comics on Sunday are filled with grocery coupons or other bullshit...
Not to mention that the REST of the comics are still filled with such dreck as "Garfield", "Hagar the Horrible", "Beetle Bailey", "Wizard of Id" and any number of other pieces of shit that have not had an original idea in about 20 years.
Anyone out there with more knowledge than me answer me this? Why don't the P2P programs out there change their user systems? I mean, couldn't they assign multiple random numbered usernames for each user? Make it look like every user on the system is sharing, say, 10 files. Would the RIAA take the time to pick through all of these users and try to match up what belongs to who?
I must be the only one who read that headline as The RIAA were suing the Interview with the student. Which of course, makes no sense. But this is the RIAA we're talking about, so I guess anything is possible...
Could this be what is happening to my hotmail account? Every once in a while I'll get a autoreply of an undeliverable message that I never sent out. I don't use my hotmail for anything other than buying / signing up for stuff on the web and never send from it.
Anyone else notice that glaringly absent from this poll is my employer Hewlett-Packard? Agilent Tech is on there, because they got spun off before the whole massive downslide. They still live the HP Way. Whereas the parent company, and developer of the damn thing, has totally abandoned it. Ask any employee who has been here for more than a few years and they'll tell you the same thing.
Carly is driving us directly into the ground... In my humble opinion. When I started 4 years ago everyone I told said "Oooo... I heard thats a good place to work!". I agreed. But it has slid down ever since.
Now tell me... was there a game that ever had as many game play options as the classic Combat? There were DOZENS of them... planes, tanks, mazes, visible, invisible, bouncing rounds, rapid fire, etc. etc. etc.
I can still remember my little sister and I playing this for HOURS. Good times...
I just can't wrap my brain around something like this. What is the point of being on the web if you don't want people to visit your site? Provided, you actually want people to visit your site, don't you want to get your information out to as many as possible? (bandwidth issues not withstanding) Ergo, wouldn't you want every possible site that might be interested to link to your content?
Tough to think there is something you could refer to as "old fashioned" in regards to the web, but I can't find another way to describe it...
I was really wondering how long it was going to take before the RIAA kept up with their modus operendi to get their pound of flesh from EVERY possible location. Used CD's have been for sale for YEARS around here. I never thought that they would just let something as big and as out in the open as that just go.
This, just like everything else, probably won't turn out good for them. I forsee further alienation of their customers over this. Not that they seem to give a damn.
But if you're limited to 640x480, 64MB will hold a LOT of pictures. For my current camera, if I set it to 640x480 I can fit upwards of 140 pics on my 32MB card. Almost 300 pictures is more than enough for one day for me!
Something like this is just what I need for taking those candid shots when you're with your family or traveling. While my Olympus D-640 takes terrific pictures, it is sort of clumsy to carry around. Thus, I don't, and I end up not taking ANY pictures. I would love to have a small, ultra portable camera to just snap away with and not worry too much about.
"As entrants were required to enter personal details together with some form of identification--such as a passport or social security number--in the event that they won the competition, some are worried that their privacy has been compromised."
Doesn't anyone else just find that line HILLAIROUS!? I mean, c'mon... if anyone should be familiar with the vuneralbilities of a web server, and personal information found on said web server, it should be a bunch of "hackers". This is so stupid, I can't even believe it. It has to be a hoax...
Did anyone else read that as the "90210" model phone? I nearly had a wicked high school flashback of epic bad TV show proportions... So long as this phone doesn't just operate in Beverly Hills, everything is cool...
Another reason for the chip to count/disable/whatever is to thwart those companies who take empty carts, refill them them selves then sell them as "Oringinal" carts for full price. We have seen a lot of that here. People order their ink carts online, paying a slightly reduced price. Turns out, they were buying refilled carts and had no idea.
They prey on the people who don't want to refill their carts, and think they're getting a good deal.
This error was especially disturbing to me since I work for HP and we only have a TOTAL of 84,000 workers world wide. So, if we were to layoff a combined 150,000 HP would just about cease to exist...
"This will be the Southwest Airlines of subscription television"
Uh... has anyone else actually flown on Southwest? Talk about your bus of the skies. Frightening. But I suppose that would be the ideal metaphor for a TV/Net technology. Cheap, fast, and everywhere.
Plus, if the network "goes down", it's not quite such a bad thing!
All of a sudden?! You just been born or something? Apart from our out and out allies (read: NATO) the rest of the world at best despises us and at worst actively works for our distruction. We are the envy of the world, so by extension, we are disliked by the majority of people out there...
Hell, I'm an educated, straight, white, christian, american male, aged 18-35... I might as well be satan himself as far as the rest of the world is concerned...
So... does this processor demand 2 dinners at "Mendi" in exchange for an Armani suit?
"Mendi is the best, Jerry... the BEST."
For those of you not familiar with Seinfeld... Kenny Bania was a terrible commedian (hack) that Jerry couldn't stand. Although later, he became Bania's mentor writing the now imoratal "Ovaltine" routine...
"Why do they call it 'Ovaltine'? I mean, the jar is round... the glass is round... They should call it 'Roundtine'."
"This is GOLD, Jerry!"
Ok... so I need help. Damn tivo's ability to record every Sienfeld shown!
Can somone explain what "PR0N" is? I mean, I know what "p0rn" is, but this "pr0n" stuff is confusing me. First, I get multiple spam emails last week touting the latest and nastiest "pron" available anywhere... now I'm seeing it on/.
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Ok... here's a question. What would happen if you took a very hi-res picture of the bill using a digital camera? Would the camera refuse to take the picture? Could you download it onto your pc?
Or, what if you covered up the fancy little zeros... say with a simple piece of paper the same color as the background, then scanned it normally?
I just think there are lots of creative problem solver types out here who could pretty much find a way around anything.
I have no idea if something like this could be possible, but just playing devils advocate here.
Say, the software was used for target calculations for an artillery piece. For the sake of argument, say some "rogue" developer has added a bit of code that takes the coordinates from the GPS in the unit. Checks to see if they are in, say, a middle eastern country. If so, the shells, which found the target just fine in testing, are now missing the mark by 500 yards.
Not paranoid, just askin.
I wonder if they will use an HP/Indigo DigitalPress. These things are monster offset printers that can do huge jobs, but are able to print a different image/source on each successive page.
They are really quite amazing.
Check them here: HP.com
My local paper here probably wouldn't touch this in a million years. It would take up too much of their ad space. Half of the comics on Sunday are filled with grocery coupons or other bullshit...
Not to mention that the REST of the comics are still filled with such dreck as "Garfield", "Hagar the Horrible", "Beetle Bailey", "Wizard of Id" and any number of other pieces of shit that have not had an original idea in about 20 years.
No... I'm not bitter
Anyone out there with more knowledge than me answer me this? Why don't the P2P programs out there change their user systems? I mean, couldn't they assign multiple random numbered usernames for each user? Make it look like every user on the system is sharing, say, 10 files. Would the RIAA take the time to pick through all of these users and try to match up what belongs to who?
Just wondering.
I must be the only one who read that headline as The RIAA were suing the Interview with the student. Which of course, makes no sense. But this is the RIAA we're talking about, so I guess anything is possible...
Are you sure it's not monday?
Could this be what is happening to my hotmail account? Every once in a while I'll get a autoreply of an undeliverable message that I never sent out. I don't use my hotmail for anything other than buying / signing up for stuff on the web and never send from it.
Just wondering...
Jason
Anyone else notice that glaringly absent from this poll is my employer Hewlett-Packard? Agilent Tech is on there, because they got spun off before the whole massive downslide. They still live the HP Way. Whereas the parent company, and developer of the damn thing, has totally abandoned it. Ask any employee who has been here for more than a few years and they'll tell you the same thing.
Carly is driving us directly into the ground... In my humble opinion. When I started 4 years ago everyone I told said "Oooo... I heard thats a good place to work!". I agreed. But it has slid down ever since.
*sigh*
Jason
I absolutely LOVE Pai-Gow Poker... I can sit at a Pai-Gow table for hours and hours. Soaking up free drinks and earning comps.
Makes my trips to Vegas worthwhile!
Jason
Ya know folks... Just because something isn't very useful to the common public, doesn't necessarily mean that it is entirely useless.
I'm sure there are TONS of commercial/industrial uses that can't be predicted just yet...
Jason
Out... out-side? What is that? You mean like when you're playing QuakeIII on a server not part of your LAN? I just don't understand... :-)
Now tell me... was there a game that ever had as many game play options as the classic Combat? There were DOZENS of them... planes, tanks, mazes, visible, invisible, bouncing rounds, rapid fire, etc. etc. etc.
I can still remember my little sister and I playing this for HOURS. Good times...
Jason
I just can't wrap my brain around something like this. What is the point of being on the web if you don't want people to visit your site? Provided, you actually want people to visit your site, don't you want to get your information out to as many as possible? (bandwidth issues not withstanding) Ergo, wouldn't you want every possible site that might be interested to link to your content?
Tough to think there is something you could refer to as "old fashioned" in regards to the web, but I can't find another way to describe it...
Jason
"... or you can earn your degree... Choose from business management or accounting..."
I was really wondering how long it was going to take before the RIAA kept up with their modus operendi to get their pound of flesh from EVERY possible location. Used CD's have been for sale for YEARS around here. I never thought that they would just let something as big and as out in the open as that just go.
This, just like everything else, probably won't turn out good for them. I forsee further alienation of their customers over this. Not that they seem to give a damn.
What a way to run a railroad...
Jason
But if you're limited to 640x480, 64MB will hold a LOT of pictures. For my current camera, if I set it to 640x480 I can fit upwards of 140 pics on my 32MB card. Almost 300 pictures is more than enough for one day for me!
Jason
Something like this is just what I need for taking those candid shots when you're with your family or traveling. While my Olympus D-640 takes terrific pictures, it is sort of clumsy to carry around. Thus, I don't, and I end up not taking ANY pictures. I would love to have a small, ultra portable camera to just snap away with and not worry too much about.
But that's just me.
Jason
"As entrants were required to enter personal details together with some form of identification--such as a passport or social security number--in the event that they won the competition, some are worried that their privacy has been compromised."
Doesn't anyone else just find that line HILLAIROUS!? I mean, c'mon... if anyone should be familiar with the vuneralbilities of a web server, and personal information found on said web server, it should be a bunch of "hackers". This is so stupid, I can't even believe it. It has to be a hoax...
Jason
Did anyone else read that as the "90210" model phone? I nearly had a wicked high school flashback of epic bad TV show proportions... So long as this phone doesn't just operate in Beverly Hills, everything is cool...
Jason
Another reason for the chip to count/disable/whatever is to thwart those companies who take empty carts, refill them them selves then sell them as "Oringinal" carts for full price. We have seen a lot of that here. People order their ink carts online, paying a slightly reduced price. Turns out, they were buying refilled carts and had no idea.
They prey on the people who don't want to refill their carts, and think they're getting a good deal.
Jason
This error was especially disturbing to me since I work for HP and we only have a TOTAL of 84,000 workers world wide. So, if we were to layoff a combined 150,000 HP would just about cease to exist...
Jason
"This will be the Southwest Airlines of subscription television"
Uh... has anyone else actually flown on Southwest? Talk about your bus of the skies. Frightening. But I suppose that would be the ideal metaphor for a TV/Net technology. Cheap, fast, and everywhere.
Plus, if the network "goes down", it's not quite such a bad thing!
Jason
All of a sudden?! You just been born or something? Apart from our out and out allies (read: NATO) the rest of the world at best despises us and at worst actively works for our distruction. We are the envy of the world, so by extension, we are disliked by the majority of people out there...
Hell, I'm an educated, straight, white, christian, american male, aged 18-35... I might as well be satan himself as far as the rest of the world is concerned...
Get used to it... I have.
Jason
So... does this processor demand 2 dinners at "Mendi" in exchange for an Armani suit?
"Mendi is the best, Jerry... the BEST."
For those of you not familiar with Seinfeld... Kenny Bania was a terrible commedian (hack) that Jerry couldn't stand. Although later, he became Bania's mentor writing the now imoratal "Ovaltine" routine...
"Why do they call it 'Ovaltine'? I mean, the jar is round... the glass is round... They should call it 'Roundtine'."
"This is GOLD, Jerry!"
Ok... so I need help. Damn tivo's ability to record every Sienfeld shown!
Jason
Can somone explain what "PR0N" is? I mean, I know what "p0rn" is, but this "pr0n" stuff is confusing me. First, I get multiple spam emails last week touting the latest and nastiest "pron" available anywhere... now I'm seeing it on /.
Very odd indeed...
Jason