Perhaps no large distribution is willing to touch those keys and risk a court battle with Sony over it. It's all well and good for people to sign their own firmwares and install them, but a larger release brings risks.
Yes I'm sure long ago in the forgotten past someone said, "Hey! I've come up with a neat new word!" his friend curiously asks what is and is told "rape."
"Well what does it mean?"
"It's when someone forces another person to have sex with them."
"Wow... that's a great idea... why hasn't anyone done that before??"
"Well now we have a word for it, we CAN!"
I'm sure there were also similar conversations when words such as "murder", "war", "incest", "hatred", etc... were first invented.
Not to mention code audits being possible. With closed-source there's always the fear of backdoors and foreign software companies collaborating with their governments. It's true even with open source there's still the "Trusting Trust" problem, but at least you can tear things apart as far as you want and verify down to the lowest level possible... if so inclined.
Solar ovens work great in most of the 3rd world and provide essentially free energy for cooking on most days. Sadly they don't seem as well known as solar panels and LEDs.
I suppose of the problems is securing your food while you're gone for the day. Don't want to come home to a nicely fed neighbor and an empty oven.
Ahhh yes, the ole inverse, converse and contrapositive.
Let's say I'm about to leave my house. If it is raining... then I wear a raincoat. (True)
Inverse: We put a not on both sides of the statement. If it is not raining... then I do not wear a raincoat. (Why not? Not logically true... maybe I'm being cautious and it turns out not to rain)
Converse: We flip the P and Q. If I wear a raincoat... then it is raining. (Sorry, no magical raincoats)
The contrapositive, we both flip P and Q and add the nots. If I do not wear a raincoat... then it is not raining. (True because it's logically equivalent to the original statement.)
So the article summary is taking a statement and turning it into it's inverse, which is no longer logically consistent with the original statement.
If I shoot a monkey, then that monkey dies. != If I do not shoot a monkey, then that monkey comes back to life!
*** SPOILERS on movie you should have already seen *** (The Prestige)
If you cloned your mind and put it in another body you would have two minds that both believed they were you.
Yeah but if one of "you" randomly falls into a locked tank of water and the other stands before a cheering crowd the answer to that question is not so clear anymore.
Of course I'm talking about "The Prestige" and I think the original guy died every single time.
If they knew they'd loose the case then why would they start it? They knew their methods before the whole thing got moving, they knew who they hired to do the investigating. At what point before the judge yelling at them did they know they were going to lose the case?
Offtopic?? I'm replying to a +5 post with a joke in classic literature that discusses the same subject. ie: Everything we have now has been somewhere else before. The one noble king is reduced to being a piece of clay that plugs a hole in the wall or the bowl-movement that just won't pass.
The bullet holds a timing chip inside and simply does a countdown from the instant it's fired.
Which means the gun communicates the distance to the bullet. How does it talk to each bullet one after the other? It would be sensible to do so by a physical connection to the casing while it's chambered. But perhaps there was a fear of passing a current through a live round so they did it wirelessly.
What if it's done wirelessly? Dude on the other side of the wall has a laptop and hacks your bluetooth. He then sets your bullet to pop 0m from the barrel. Ouch.
If it were possible someone could rig up a cheap device and spread them around, a sort of TV-B-Gone or rather Soldier-B-Gone.
HAMLET To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander, till he find it stopping a bung-hole?
HORATIO 'Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.
HAMLET No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it: as thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is earth; of earth we make loam; and why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel? Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay, Might stop a hole to keep the wind away: O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe, Should patch a wall to expel the winter flaw!
If you went to a group of college seniors in computer science, how many of them would have ever heard about Grace Hooper? First classmen in the Naval Academy? (I would sure hope that the U.S. Naval Academy at least would have taught their computer science cadets something about Admiral Hooper, especially if they get assigned to the USS Hooper).
A very nice post but it made me go "Ouch!" every time you called her "Hooper".
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Perhaps no large distribution is willing to touch those keys and risk a court battle with Sony over it. It's all well and good for people to sign their own firmwares and install them, but a larger release brings risks.
Yes I'm sure long ago in the forgotten past someone said, "Hey! I've come up with a neat new word!" his friend curiously asks what is and is told "rape."
"Well what does it mean?"
"It's when someone forces another person to have sex with them."
"Wow... that's a great idea... why hasn't anyone done that before??"
"Well now we have a word for it, we CAN!"
I'm sure there were also similar conversations when words such as "murder", "war", "incest", "hatred", etc... were first invented.
I mean the actions come from the words.
Right?
Yet your six-digit user ID tells me that you ARE in fact new here. N00B!!
Not to mention code audits being possible. With closed-source there's always the fear of backdoors and foreign software companies collaborating with their governments. It's true even with open source there's still the "Trusting Trust" problem, but at least you can tear things apart as far as you want and verify down to the lowest level possible... if so inclined.
Solar ovens work great in most of the 3rd world and provide essentially free energy for cooking on most days. Sadly they don't seem as well known as solar panels and LEDs.
I suppose of the problems is securing your food while you're gone for the day. Don't want to come home to a nicely fed neighbor and an empty oven.
"he had wonderful skills, and was highly trained."
Perhaps he's an MCSE??
Ahhh yes, the ole inverse, converse and contrapositive.
Let's say I'm about to leave my house.
If it is raining... then I wear a raincoat. (True)
Inverse: We put a not on both sides of the statement.
If it is not raining... then I do not wear a raincoat. (Why not? Not logically true... maybe I'm being cautious and it turns out not to rain)
Converse: We flip the P and Q.
If I wear a raincoat... then it is raining. (Sorry, no magical raincoats)
The contrapositive, we both flip P and Q and add the nots.
If I do not wear a raincoat... then it is not raining. (True because it's logically equivalent to the original statement.)
So the article summary is taking a statement and turning it into it's inverse, which is no longer logically consistent with the original statement.
If I shoot a monkey, then that monkey dies. != If I do not shoot a monkey, then that monkey comes back to life!
No more satellite images? No more data and imagery??
Back to tea leaves then.
*** SPOILERS on movie you should have already seen *** (The Prestige)
If you cloned your mind and put it in another body you would have two minds that both believed they were you.
Yeah but if one of "you" randomly falls into a locked tank of water and the other stands before a cheering crowd the answer to that question is not so clear anymore.
Of course I'm talking about "The Prestige" and I think the original guy died every single time.
(Are there any fanboys I haven't offended with this? I'm trying to be thorough.)
I have a Virtual Boy you insensitive clod!
If they knew they'd loose the case then why would they start it? They knew their methods before the whole thing got moving, they knew who they hired to do the investigating. At what point before the judge yelling at them did they know they were going to lose the case?
This is what happens when Google tries to be Apple. Gotta cut deals, gotta play nice. We have the Google TV to thank for this.
How did you get the combination to my briefcase in your sig??
You sir, are enlightened.
Enjoy your Windows 7 phone.
What? Another Microsoft partner screwed over only to find that they were being used as a testbed for Microsoft's own plans??
I'm shocked. Shocked.
Offtopic?? I'm replying to a +5 post with a joke in classic literature that discusses the same subject. ie: Everything we have now has been somewhere else before. The one noble king is reduced to being a piece of clay that plugs a hole in the wall or the bowl-movement that just won't pass.
It's science in a witty Shakespeare quote.
Offtopic? yeah if you can't READ.
The bullet holds a timing chip inside and simply does a countdown from the instant it's fired.
Which means the gun communicates the distance to the bullet. How does it talk to each bullet one after the other? It would be sensible to do so by a physical connection to the casing while it's chambered. But perhaps there was a fear of passing a current through a live round so they did it wirelessly.
What if it's done wirelessly? Dude on the other side of the wall has a laptop and hacks your bluetooth. He then sets your bullet to pop 0m from the barrel. Ouch.
If it were possible someone could rig up a cheap device and spread them around, a sort of TV-B-Gone or rather Soldier-B-Gone.
It's a parody if it's mocking him, if it's just a representation of him they're profiting off his likeness.
Batman shagging catwoman is a parody.
Batman statues being sold at comic-cons is trademark infringement, that kind of thing.
HAMLET
To what base uses we may return, Horatio! Why may
not imagination trace the noble dust of Alexander,
till he find it stopping a bung-hole?
HORATIO
'Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so.
HAMLET
No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with
modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it: as
thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried,
Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is earth; of
earth we make loam; and why of that loam, whereto he
was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel?
Imperious Caesar, dead and turn'd to clay,
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away:
O, that that earth, which kept the world in awe,
Should patch a wall to expel the winter flaw!
Dude, why you arguing with yourself like that? It's kinda creepy.
What the heck is that Miley Cyrus with dreds??
Guess what, if anti-bacterials produce a nasty superbug that goes around killing everyone, it'll be your problem too.
If you went to a group of college seniors in computer science, how many of them would have ever heard about Grace Hooper? First classmen in the Naval Academy? (I would sure hope that the U.S. Naval Academy at least would have taught their computer science cadets something about Admiral Hooper, especially if they get assigned to the USS Hooper).
A very nice post but it made me go "Ouch!" every time you called her "Hooper".
Is the FLOSS ecosystem in danger of overpopulation or global climate change problems?
Nice link on Reflection, every now and then I wish I could do that but didn't know I could.