$120? What makes this router so special? In fact, what the heck IS a gaming router? My $20 Netgear wireless router with logging and access control works fine and it's $100 less. It might not have glowing blue lights and make a front page Slashvertisement, but it works fine for me.
The built in 4 port Gigabit switch might have something to do with that price tag.
You'll also notice that I didn't really put any limits there on _how_ it is to be delivered. I just said I should be able to order it, for no more than the original price. It can be a PDF, if it's a book, or it can be printed-to-order on a nearby color laser printer for comics, or whatever. They just have to keep making it _available_ to keep the copyright.
Sweet, so I can stock up on all those old paperback Sci Fi books for $0.25 each? That is what they are listed for in the back pages of many of book in my collection
It's kind of unfair to limit the company to original price 20 or 30 years later. At least allow for original price + inflation.
Even for fairly new books, moving to a print on demand setup involves higher cost per book than the bulk printings normally used. But if they did bulk printings for less popular books then they would have the upfront expense of paying for a bulk run, followed by the recurring expense of storing the excess for years until they had sold down.
Obviously some of this could be mitigated against by offering the work in a non-physical form, but I don't feel it would be out of line to charge somewhat extra for a otherwise out of print work than the normal market rate for mass produced copies. However I do agree there needs to be some protection from arbitrarily high rates.
Wouldn't it be easier to just look at the MAC address on the NIC. It is completely unique and the internet is just a gigantic network.
Not really. First you could trivially hide your computer by swapping out the NIC. New NIC = new MAC address.
And second placing your computer behind NAT hides its MAC address from anything upstream. They can only see the MAC address of the NAT device. (Which is also usually easy to change, in order to work with ISPs who attempt to lock the connection to the MAC address of the first network card to use it)
This new idea is suppose to be able to identify individual computers behind NAT and, apparently, since it relies on the motherboard's hardware clock skew it should also still ID a computer even if the NIC is swapped out.
"The feat would require a 60-megawatt microwave beam with a similar diameter to the sail. It would also have to be capable of tracking the craft as it accelerated away. But this power level could not be delivered by any existing microwave transmission system. The deep-space communications network that NASA uses to communicate with Mars rovers and the Cassini probe now orbiting Saturn can only manage half a megawatt. The Benfords say the power could be ramped up in future and hope to persuade NASA to consider doing this as part of a future upgrade to the network.
So basically NASA's currently-used equipment is 1/120th of the power needed to get this sail to Mars. I would say this idea is not in our near future for sure.
Um, NASA's current communications system puts out 1/120th of the power needed for this sail.
That's like saying since your cell phone can only put out 1/2 a watt it's impossible to heat things in your microwave.
A couple of points of reference, the radar mounted on US Aegis cruisers can put out 4 MWs and the stationary Cobra Dane early warning radar that went online in 1977 puts out 15.4 MW.
I don't think we are that far away from building a 60 MW transmitter now that we have a reason to.
Hm, lemme check, yep, the Space Station crew has a rescue plan: Jump into Soyuz and land back home.
Which works great for the Space Station crew.
Well actually it doesn't since the small size of the Soyuz, 3 people, limits the crew to much less than the designed crew size, 7. (Even before the lack of shuttle flights limited it even further, to 2, because the Russians can't send up enough supplies for 3 on their own).
But you stick 7 more crew from a damaged space shuttle onboard and now you have 9 people on board and a vehicle big enough for 3.
Plus the shuttle crew probably doesn't have the custom formed acceleration cushions used in Soyuz to mold the seats to the occupant. Each space station crewman carries one custom fitted to them. So the Soyuz can probably only take the two original station crew down.
I suppose in theory you could pay the Russians to send a few more Soyuz up with the necessary seat cushions and bring the shuttle crew down that way, but that isn't a great plan either.
Nice to see this article living up to the standards I expect from journalists. (I never said they were high standards)
The members of the MythTV community, who now do not have to pay monthly fees to rent set-top boxes or digital video recorders, have plenty of more mischievous company in trying to outwit the television industry
I'm fairly sure that MythTV boxes don't have digital cable decoders, since they aren't produced for computers. So they are going to be restricted to non-encrypted analog cable channels, or NTSC over the air broadcasts. Except for those people who buy HDTV tuners for their MythTV box, in which case they are going to be restricted to unencrypted over the air ATSC digital broadcasts. In other words channels that you didn't need a cable box or set-top box for anyway. Your HBO or Showtime channels will still need to be recorded by manipulating a cable or satellite set-top box, which you would have to pay monthly fees to your service provider for.
Not surprisingly, the repercussions - particularly the rapidly growing number of shows available for the plucking online - terrify industry executives, who remember only too well what Napster and other file-sharing programs did to the music industry.
Coincided with good sales volume and increased profits? The TV industry should be so lucky.
I'm glad they are recording me. Maybe once they hear me complain about the messages "We appreciate you call" etc. enough maybe they will fix them.
It not even being told over and over again how much they value me and asked to remain on the line. Its how every time they start it sounds like someone picked up the phone.
If the music was constant I could just leave it on muted speaker phone and ignore it until someone picked up. But as it is, it sounds like someone picks up approximately every 30 seconds. Wait on hold for 45 minutes with that and you are ready to shoot their hold system.
A lot of the confusion about 1 system vs. multiple systems comes from the character narrations during the opening of the episodes. These narrations were removed from the DVD release.
During this narration the character who is speaking talks about humans moving to a distant system and colonizing its planets and moons. Of course the Firefly setting doesn't really make sense as a single system, so removing the narration which referred to such (and talked about other things) causes anyone who has only seen the series on DVD to wonder how the heck this single system idea got into the fan's heads.
Presumably this would have been cleared up once and for all as the series continued.
So, to recap: the fact that the auto-parallel park will continue parking even if a 3 year old steps in the way is not a reason to withhold the feature. No, the threat of a lawsuit is the reason.
Seems to me like this is a classic example of why US lawsuits are a good thing (tm). They're preventing companies from rolling out products that could run over little kids without allowing the operator to override.
I didn't see anything in the article that even hinted that the operator couldn't override the auto park system.
I would be shocked if pressing the brake pedal didn't disengage the system just like it disengages cruise control. (And even if for some totally moronic reason the brake pedal didn't disengage the system, the brakes should be strong enough to stop the car anyway).
All the article said is that the system can't detect people or objects that obstruct the parking area.
This would leave the driver the responsibility of monitoring the area the car was entering and applying the brake if someone or something entered the area. Just like it is the drivers responsibility to correctly mark the opening for the cars computer. If you marked it wrong it would probably happily back into a parked car; but that would be the drivers fault as well.
Such a system could still be an improvement over manually parallel parking because it can free the drivers to more carefully monitor behind the car and not just where the curb is. Of course it could free the driver to totally ignore the operation which would be bad.
The key difference is that in Japan the automaker feels fairly confident that they won't be sued if a driver fails to stop for a child or moving car while using this system. But in the US they think they might very well be sued for was rightfully was the driver's negligence.
Given the price of these trips, I doubt that the added cost of having to fly to another country is going to significantly impact on customers' willingness to buy the service.
Hmm, and don't employ any US citizens. There is a treaty in place which makes a countries government responsible for any space launch activities of its citizens and companies regardless of where the launch takes place.
This made some sense back when the only people launching space missions were governments, and wasn't too brain-dead when only major corporations could launch. But now it means that the US is going to want to regulate US citizens anywhere in the world they try a space launch, since the US gov is on the hook if that rocket blows up and kills anyone.
It's called a pressure sensor. There is absolutely nothing stopping them from installing them on showers so that when the cold water goes off, the hot water also goes off. (Think about it. Wouldn't you rather stand there like an idiot without water for four seconds instead of getting scalded out of your skin?) They're mechanical versions of relays...to keep one path of water flowing, you need to keep water though the other path. They cost like four dollars. But no one makes drop-in shower versions for no obvious reason at all.
Actually around here, building code requires single handle shower controls that double as pressure sensors. The idea is to prevent scalding if the cold water was cut off for some reason.
Unfortunately as I discovered one time the ones installed in the showers in my home are sensitive either way. You need pressure on both the hot and cold lines for it to output water. I discovered this after my hot water heater sprung a leak and was shut off.
I couldn't get any water, even cold water, in the shower. So basically I had to turn on the water to the heater, have a shower, turn off the water and mop up the spill; or else have sponge baths from the sink until a new water heater could be installed.
1) There exists a group or type of satellite pictures which the US government already prevents commercial satellite vendors from selling (except to the US government).*
2) Currently it is possible to submit a Freedom Of Information Act request for the government to provide you with a copy of these restricted satellite pictures.
3) Presumably the fact that they are legally prohibited from being sold would be sufficient basis to deny any current FOIA requests for them.
4) So now the government is exempting this specific type of satellite image from FOIA requests (which they wouldn't have fulfilled anyway).
So basically they are trying to skip the paper work of formally refusing each FOIA request because of content on a per request basis, and moving to being able to reject them automatically as a group based on this same content.
Why is this on Slashdot?
* If there is anything to be outraged about it is this point and not this latest change.
I'd lose that Lifetime Service if I upgraded them to a Series 2 unit.
Actually you wouldn't. When DirecTV took over the DTiVo service from TiVo (the same time the monthly fee dropped to $4.95) they modified how the lifetime service works. You can't buy lifetime anymore, but for everyone who already purchased it that service switched from being tied to a specific receiver to being tied to the DirecTV account.
So as long as you don't cancel your DirecTV account any DTiVos you have will have lifetime service (possible limit of 8 per account), even if you remove your original DTiVo from the account.
My rapid examination concludes that the Cessna 150/152 fits the bill.
As pointed out in other posts, the Cessna 150 doesn't fit the bill. The stall speed is too fast and the certified weight is too heavy.
From the info page you linked to: Cessna 150/152 Stall speed
Flaps Up, Power Off - 48 Knots
Flaps Down, Power Off - 43 Knots
The linked overview states that the requirements are: a stall speed of 39 knots with lift enhancing devices or 45 knots without.
In fact the linked overview specifically states: However, it [a Light Sport Aircraft] will not include aircraft such as a Cessna 120, 140 or 150/152, Piper PA-18, Aeronca Chief, or American Champion 7 or 8 series mostly due to their maximum FAA-certificated gross weight.
In a nutshell, if the Visby was 100km from an enemy vessel it could see the enemy on its radar but not vice versa.
Hopefully this is the writers silly notion rather than something he was told. A stealth ship 100km away from any navy ship, but running its radar, is just broadcasting its position. (Naval vessels do have radar receivers you know).
Kind of like making a perfectly light absorbing black truck for night usage, then looking around with a giant searchlight!
That sounds like a very good idea. Considering that they're cheap, they give a feeling of safety, and are probably effective (they are used in race cars), why aren't they used for consumer cars?
Possibly something to do with the approximately half of humans who like to, at least occasionally, wear skirts. That 5th strap really only works with pants.
On a completely unsci-fi note, I really enjoy the bombing of Pearl Harbor in the movie Pearl Harbor. Sucks that there's this whole stupid movie built around it, but when the fight actually starts it rocks.
I like that section of the movie, but I have a hard time getting over the fact that there are 3 or 4 guided missile destroyers built in the 1970s parked in the middle of the 1941 attack! The movie even does close-ups and pan shots of them.
With the DVD I was even able to read off one of the ships' numbers and look it up on the Ships of the United States Navy page.
I could understand if they were accidentally caught in the background, but they show up center screen from 4 or 5 different angles.
gah, seriously, in the a new hope book, han DOES shoot in self defense. In the original print of the film the scene is imperceptible, the special edition just cleared it up.
Ah, but I'm going to have to trump your "new hope" book quoting. "Star Wars" by George Lucas, Del Ray books copyright 1976, Pages 104-105.
"Get up, Solo. I've been looking forward to this for a long time. You've embarrassed me in front of Jabba with your pious excused for the last time."
"I think you're right." Light and noise filled the little corner of the cantina, and when it had faded, all the remained of the unctuous alien was a smoking, slimy spot on the stone floor.
Solo brought his hand and the smoking weapon it held out from beneath the table, drawing bemused stares from several of the cantina's patrons and clucking sounds from its more knowledgeable ones. They had known the creature had committed its fatal mistake in allowing Solo the chance to get his hands under cover.
Hardly showing that Greedo shot first. Interestingly the scene where Solo confronts Jabba in the hanger, is in the book.
As for why your phone can't do it, well, it might be a privacy issue. Imagine some dumb user randomly installing an app on their cellphone(as the installers get easier) that constantly broadcasts your position....somebody who may or may not deserve it, may get robbed/hurt/taken away to the evil layer of the super-squirell.
Well since the output he is asking about is Bluetooth, which is very limited in range, I'd argue that anyone close enough to receive the signal announcing the GPS coordinates of the phone is close enough to see the person with the phone. And thus know their location (if not necessarily the actually coordinates) Doesn't seem to be much of a privacy issue.
Even if you hypothesized a unit secreted on or near the person to record where they go, that unit could always be swapped out with a GPS receiver itself, and not have to rely on the phone potentially leaking it current location.
Basically, worst case, you're broadcasting the current location of your phone to everyone within 100(?) feet of it. Big deal.
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I don't understand...why weren't you willing to break character? These were two frightened, lost people who were literally starting to question their own sanity. It seems almost cruel to handle it the way you handled it. Were the GMs going to punish you somehow for breaking character to help these poor mundanes?
Presumably because noone was sure that they were actually Mundanes and not carefully designed characters. Their story doesn't appear to be much different from that given by the 'paratrooper'. And frankly the idea that a couple of random people who weren't in the game would spend that much time interacting and not just leave the area seems unlikely.
Its not like they were set up in the middle of the woods where hikers could unexpectedly wander into the 'world' and might not know where the boundary was. These were wedding guests that wandered into what sounds like another part of the same building. Common sense would dictate that they should know the way back; or at least be willing to wander past "the end of the world" to look for it. Or head outside and circle the building looking for entrance they used to get to the party.
Given a role-playing game where (at least) some of the players backstories involve traveling from the real world to the game world, and a couple of people who seem determined not to leave the game world by mundane methods (i.e. walk out) a decent working theory is that they are roleplayers. Why would you break character when apparently dealing with other characters?
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It's kind of unfair to limit the company to original price 20 or 30 years later. At least allow for original price + inflation.
Even for fairly new books, moving to a print on demand setup involves higher cost per book than the bulk printings normally used. But if they did bulk printings for less popular books then they would have the upfront expense of paying for a bulk run, followed by the recurring expense of storing the excess for years until they had sold down.
Obviously some of this could be mitigated against by offering the work in a non-physical form, but I don't feel it would be out of line to charge somewhat extra for a otherwise out of print work than the normal market rate for mass produced copies. However I do agree there needs to be some protection from arbitrarily high rates.
And second placing your computer behind NAT hides its MAC address from anything upstream. They can only see the MAC address of the NAT device. (Which is also usually easy to change, in order to work with ISPs who attempt to lock the connection to the MAC address of the first network card to use it)
This new idea is suppose to be able to identify individual computers behind NAT and, apparently, since it relies on the motherboard's hardware clock skew it should also still ID a computer even if the NIC is swapped out.
That's like saying since your cell phone can only put out 1/2 a watt it's impossible to heat things in your microwave.
A couple of points of reference, the radar mounted on US Aegis cruisers can put out 4 MWs and the stationary Cobra Dane early warning radar that went online in 1977 puts out 15.4 MW.
I don't think we are that far away from building a 60 MW transmitter now that we have a reason to.
Well actually it doesn't since the small size of the Soyuz, 3 people, limits the crew to much less than the designed crew size, 7. (Even before the lack of shuttle flights limited it even further, to 2, because the Russians can't send up enough supplies for 3 on their own).
But you stick 7 more crew from a damaged space shuttle onboard and now you have 9 people on board and a vehicle big enough for 3.
Plus the shuttle crew probably doesn't have the custom formed acceleration cushions used in Soyuz to mold the seats to the occupant.
Each space station crewman carries one custom fitted to them. So the Soyuz can probably only take the two original station crew down.
I suppose in theory you could pay the Russians to send a few more Soyuz up with the necessary seat cushions and bring the shuttle crew down that way, but that isn't a great plan either.
I'm fairly sure that MythTV boxes don't have digital cable decoders, since they aren't produced for computers. So they are going to be restricted to non-encrypted analog cable channels, or NTSC over the air broadcasts.
Except for those people who buy HDTV tuners for their MythTV box, in which case they are going to be restricted to unencrypted over the air ATSC digital broadcasts. In other words channels that you didn't need a cable box or set-top box for anyway. Your HBO or Showtime channels will still need to be recorded by manipulating a cable or satellite set-top box, which you would have to pay monthly fees to your service provider for.
Coincided with good sales volume and increased profits? The TV industry should be so lucky.
Using the same site, and actually looking up the Mac mini using Crucial's system selector, a 1GB DIMM for it costs $226.99.
Now that $350 Apple charged doesn't look so good.
I'm glad they are recording me. Maybe once they hear me complain about the messages "We appreciate you call" etc. enough maybe they will fix them.
It not even being told over and over again how much they value me and asked to remain on the line. Its how every time they start it sounds like someone picked up the phone.
If the music was constant I could just leave it on muted speaker phone and ignore it until someone picked up. But as it is, it sounds like someone picks up approximately every 30 seconds. Wait on hold for 45 minutes with that and you are ready to shoot their hold system.
Hah, I knew I'd seen a laser lawn mower before. As always google is your friend. picture here
It looks like their web site has been updated claiming responsibility for the hoax. There is now an article explaining how and what they did.
A lot of the confusion about 1 system vs. multiple systems comes from the character narrations during the opening of the episodes. These narrations were removed from the DVD release.
During this narration the character who is speaking talks about humans moving to a distant system and colonizing its planets and moons. Of course the Firefly setting doesn't really make sense as a single system, so removing the narration which referred to such (and talked about other things) causes anyone who has only seen the series on DVD to wonder how the heck this single system idea got into the fan's heads.
Presumably this would have been cleared up once and for all as the series continued.
I would be shocked if pressing the brake pedal didn't disengage the system just like it disengages cruise control. (And even if for some totally moronic reason the brake pedal didn't disengage the system, the brakes should be strong enough to stop the car anyway).
All the article said is that the system can't detect people or objects that obstruct the parking area.
This would leave the driver the responsibility of monitoring the area the car was entering and applying the brake if someone or something entered the area. Just like it is the drivers responsibility to correctly mark the opening for the cars computer. If you marked it wrong it would probably happily back into a parked car; but that would be the drivers fault as well.
Such a system could still be an improvement over manually parallel parking because it can free the drivers to more carefully monitor behind the car and not just where the curb is. Of course it could free the driver to totally ignore the operation which would be bad.
The key difference is that in Japan the automaker feels fairly confident that they won't be sued if a driver fails to stop for a child or moving car while using this system. But in the US they think they might very well be sued for was rightfully was the driver's negligence.
This made some sense back when the only people launching space missions were governments, and wasn't too brain-dead when only major corporations could launch. But now it means that the US is going to want to regulate US citizens anywhere in the world they try a space launch, since the US gov is on the hook if that rocket blows up and kills anyone.
Unfortunately as I discovered one time the ones installed in the showers in my home are sensitive either way. You need pressure on both the hot and cold lines for it to output water. I discovered this after my hot water heater sprung a leak and was shut off.
I couldn't get any water, even cold water, in the shower. So basically I had to turn on the water to the heater, have a shower, turn off the water and mop up the spill; or else have sponge baths from the sink until a new water heater could be installed.
That was annoying.
Let me see if I understand this:
1) There exists a group or type of satellite pictures which the US government already prevents commercial satellite vendors from selling (except to the US government).*
2) Currently it is possible to submit a Freedom Of Information Act request for the government to provide you with a copy of these restricted satellite pictures.
3) Presumably the fact that they are legally prohibited from being sold would be sufficient basis to deny any current FOIA requests for them.
4) So now the government is exempting this specific type of satellite image from FOIA requests (which they wouldn't have fulfilled anyway).
So basically they are trying to skip the paper work of formally refusing each FOIA request because of content on a per request basis, and moving to being able to reject them automatically as a group based on this same content.
Why is this on Slashdot?
* If there is anything to be outraged about it is this point and not this latest change.
So as long as you don't cancel your DirecTV account any DTiVos you have will have lifetime service (possible limit of 8 per account), even if you remove your original DTiVo from the account.
From the info page you linked to:
Cessna 150/152 Stall speed
Flaps Up, Power Off - 48 Knots
Flaps Down, Power Off - 43 Knots
The linked overview states that the requirements are:
a stall speed of 39 knots with lift enhancing devices or 45 knots without.
In fact the linked overview specifically states:
However, it [a Light Sport Aircraft] will not include aircraft such as a Cessna 120, 140 or 150/152, Piper PA-18, Aeronca Chief, or American Champion 7 or 8 series mostly due to their maximum FAA-certificated gross weight.
Hopefully this is the writers silly notion rather than something he was told. A stealth ship 100km away from any navy ship, but running its radar, is just broadcasting its position. (Naval vessels do have radar receivers you know).
Kind of like making a perfectly light absorbing black truck for night usage, then looking around with a giant searchlight!
Also, they now provide a multiunit discount, after the first TiVo additional units are half price for monthly subscriptions.
With the DVD I was even able to read off one of the ships' numbers and look it up on the Ships of the United States Navy page.
I could understand if they were accidentally caught in the background, but they show up center screen from 4 or 5 different angles.
Even if you hypothesized a unit secreted on or near the person to record where they go, that unit could always be swapped out with a GPS receiver itself, and not have to rely on the phone potentially leaking it current location.
Basically, worst case, you're broadcasting the current location of your phone to everyone within 100(?) feet of it. Big deal.
Its not like they were set up in the middle of the woods where hikers could unexpectedly wander into the 'world' and might not know where the boundary was. These were wedding guests that wandered into what sounds like another part of the same building. Common sense would dictate that they should know the way back; or at least be willing to wander past "the end of the world" to look for it. Or head outside and circle the building looking for entrance they used to get to the party.
Given a role-playing game where (at least) some of the players backstories involve traveling from the real world to the game world, and a couple of people who seem determined not to leave the game world by mundane methods (i.e. walk out) a decent working theory is that they are roleplayers. Why would you break character when apparently dealing with other characters?