I keep waiting for someone to make these into Spidey gloves... would be pretty cool at first, til everyone realizes they don't lock their attic windows. Companies wondering how someone got inside when everything was locked, etc... it would completely change security practices. Pretty neat though when they figure out someone crawled in a skylight, across the ceiling and down the wall behind the cameras.
Still I hope someone makes these, it'll start some new extreme sport craze... wall-ball or something. Whee!
There are signs that consumers might be growing irritated by the Balkanization of the online music scene. Nielsen SoundScan reports that online music sales dropped during the second and third quarters of the year.
This bit of misinformation has been getting around lately, actually they claimed the same thing last year. Perhaps they're hoping that if they say it enough it will become true? (Paging Godwin)
Look 4Q is always the highest, think Thanksgiving and Christmas... followed by 1Q, think people using their iTunes gift cards or trying out the iTunes Store now that hey have a new iPod. I'm sure practically every consumer goods business has a similar sales graph where things drop off after Xmas. It's just interesting to me that analysts are using this to predict the death of the iPod... oooops, perhaps I've just hit the nail on the head there, the anti-Apple folks need something to predict for the next 20 years.:-)
A common garage door opener has more security than these RFID ATM cards. At LEAST a garage door opener has a table of codes that gets rotated through, it could take literally thousands of uses before the same code shows up twice. Yet what does an RFID ATM have to protect from cloning? Sad.
Imagine then that Google automates the process with an email to the registered domain owner with enough techincal information that they can narrow it down to which page causes the problem, and why.
Imagine then that they add an automated "Please retest my page" setup where the webmaster can submit their updated website for validation. This would be necessary given the large volume of webpages being delisted and re-added daily.
Now imagine a spammer can set up pages using different scamming techniques, wait til google delists them, and then tweak the page until it gets accepted again. Whamo, Google's SPAM catching Al-Gore-ithms become useless overnight. SPAMMERS have an automated system for finding flaws in Google's code and exploiting them basically as soon as they are updated.
This is why Google delisting is purposely somewhat vague. The assumption is that most of the pages being delisted deserve it, and I'm sure for 99% of the time they are right. Flipping the system around to make things easier for the 1% would generate way more work for them. Hey the SPAMMERS ruin it for everyone, they should be strung up by their short and curlies.
The structures are invisible to the naked eye and resemble minute hollow balls with carbon-rich shells. A chunk of meteorite no larger than a grape could contain a billion of the tiny globules.
Theoretically, their hollow-ball shape could have presented a homey environment of concentrated organic matter where early cellular life could develop.
Such theories boast little evidence but raise many intriguing questions.
So from what I read they structures found COULD assist organic life, but are not actual evidence of them.
Not being anti-Austrailian or anything, I just thought this would be a nice place to post my rant on colored money.
I'm sure it's very helpful and prevents mistakes, but this one scenario really bugs me.
Say I go into a liquor store / restraunt / whatever and have a wad of $1, a few $5, maybe a $10. It's not that much, and nobody is really interested in watching me count my $1's. Some kids like to appear rich to their friends by putting a $20 over a bunch of $1's, maybe in a different situation it'd be wise to put a $1 over a bunch of $20s. In each case I could have a $100 hidden in the middle and nobody would suspect it.
Now let's say instead we've all got colored money, $5 is green, $10 is orange, $20 is purple and $100 is red. You see the problem now? One glance at somebody counting their $$ at a register and you immediately know if the guy is loaded. Let's say one day some fool has a stack of reds in his hand, you can be sure all the wrong people will notice it.
That's my problem with colored money, it screams "ROB ME!!" whenever you have any significant amount with you. Of course you shouldn't carry too much at one time, or should spread it around over the body, blah blah... plenty of reasons it's "my fault" for having too much on me. Still, I don't like my money advertising to people what it is.
the deal gave Apple the money and the breathing room to build itself up
While I agree with most of your comment, I'm pretty sure that Apple had a few billion $$ in the bank at the time and Microsoft's investment was more of a good faith gesture than actually being badly needed cash.
The main problem with the printer at such resolutions is bleeding of the inks into the paper.
The trick is to actually render this page as a vector image, save the 256GB file on a network shared drive, and THEN open it on the other computer. Tada! 256GB on a single page IN a paperless office, how neat is that?
Of course the actual advantage of this is when the feds start looking through your files and find the image you tell them "Oh, I made a program to draw random shapes, but forgot to tell it when to stop."
(I would caution those who champion the Wii to take a closer look at what they're doing. They're saying it's great before they've even seen a unit in person. Some guy in another thread insinuated that PS3 purchasers were acting like sheep. Proclaining the Wii as "superior" without haveing every played it is absolutely no better)
I don't see why you should assume nobody has played it. There was a Wii demo at the local GameStop two days ago (In Salem Oregon of all places) there's got to be others out there already. I handed my license over to the guy at the counter and he handed me the wand. I played Excite Truck for fifteen minutes, it was awesome. It nearly felt like I was actually DRIVING one of these things. The physical movement it requires really pulls you into the action better than a D-pad does. Although it scared my wife enough that she refused to touch it. Heh. Personally as someone who grew up riding dirt bikes it was FUN. Sounds bizarre but some Wii games are actually going to scare some of those "non gamers" that it's aimed at. Regardless, when they see how much fun everyone else is having eventually they'll have to give it a try.
Didn't Maxim already do this by putting a magazine cover of theirs somewhere near Las Vegas? It showed up as an overlay in Google Earth so I wasn't sure if it was just a bitmap they paid Google to show, or if it's a representation of the actual billboard but overlaid on older satellite images.
Actually I remember an article here a while back about nanotubes being used to desalinize water. Apparently the perfectly smooth tubes aid the flow of water and defy the usual "size of pipe is proportional to water pressure" equations. What you could actually do in a 3D chip is leave extra nanotubes built in that simply flow in straight lines through the gaps in the chip where no conductive tubes are located, then pumping fluids through it wouldn't cause problems at all.
The excellent heat-transfer of nanotubes, plus the efficient water flow through them would make cooling them much better than current chips.
It's really simple and sorta lame that a dozen people have the same reply for me... hello! I wasn't alive 100 or so years ago when that happened, but you can be sure that those who were DID know when it happened.
Secondly, I didn't make it explicit in my post, but come on here! What are the odds that TWO commercial planes full of hundreds of people would BOTH be struck by lightning on the SAME DAY and crash into two buildings right next to each other, COLLAPSING BOTH OF THEM? It's probably a mathematical impossiblity, and you can be sure that there'd be a huge cry of "God is punishing us!" way louder than the one we already got.
Besides that as others have pointed out 911 is a very convenient number to remember.
Many of the 1044 comments that followed weren't much more enthusiastic.
I just browsed through that original article (link was busted, had to google it since/. search is useless), and while floating around at 5 I saw 15 posts and most were actually positive about it. Sure there were plenty that dissed it, but the mods sure seemed to think it was a decent device that day. Unless you somehow imagine the Apple fanbois outnumbered the Apple-haters that day. Doubtful 5 years ago. Perhaps certain segments of the Slashdot community wagged their heads but I wouldn't say they were representative of the whole.
Perhaps earlier demonstrations were simply advertisements, now it seems the customers have come and we get some REAL demonstrations of what they can do.
Call it paranoid if you like, the rest of us will call it what it is. A conflict of interest. It doesn't matter if you think abuse is unlikely, the situation is fundamentally wrong. Microsoft should in no way profit from vulnerabilities in Windows.
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I love that the video driving around the parking lot is all shot from the drivers side. :)
I keep waiting for someone to make these into Spidey gloves... would be pretty cool at first, til everyone realizes they don't lock their attic windows. Companies wondering how someone got inside when everything was locked, etc... it would completely change security practices. Pretty neat though when they figure out someone crawled in a skylight, across the ceiling and down the wall behind the cameras.
Still I hope someone makes these, it'll start some new extreme sport craze... wall-ball or something. Whee!
There are signs that consumers might be growing irritated by the Balkanization of the online music scene. Nielsen SoundScan reports that online music sales dropped during the second and third quarters of the year.
... oooops, perhaps I've just hit the nail on the head there, the anti-Apple folks need something to predict for the next 20 years. :-)
This bit of misinformation has been getting around lately, actually they claimed the same thing last year. Perhaps they're hoping that if they say it enough it will become true? (Paging Godwin)
Look 4Q is always the highest, think Thanksgiving and Christmas... followed by 1Q, think people using their iTunes gift cards or trying out the iTunes Store now that hey have a new iPod. I'm sure practically every consumer goods business has a similar sales graph where things drop off after Xmas. It's just interesting to me that analysts are using this to predict the death of the iPod
A common garage door opener has more security than these RFID ATM cards. At LEAST a garage door opener has a table of codes that gets rotated through, it could take literally thousands of uses before the same code shows up twice. Yet what does an RFID ATM have to protect from cloning? Sad.
Imagine then that Google automates the process with an email to the registered domain owner with enough techincal information that they can narrow it down to which page causes the problem, and why.
Imagine then that they add an automated "Please retest my page" setup where the webmaster can submit their updated website for validation. This would be necessary given the large volume of webpages being delisted and re-added daily.
Now imagine a spammer can set up pages using different scamming techniques, wait til google delists them, and then tweak the page until it gets accepted again. Whamo, Google's SPAM catching Al-Gore-ithms become useless overnight. SPAMMERS have an automated system for finding flaws in Google's code and exploiting them basically as soon as they are updated.
This is why Google delisting is purposely somewhat vague. The assumption is that most of the pages being delisted deserve it, and I'm sure for 99% of the time they are right. Flipping the system around to make things easier for the 1% would generate way more work for them. Hey the SPAMMERS ruin it for everyone, they should be strung up by their short and curlies.
So from what I read they structures found COULD assist organic life, but are not actual evidence of them.
Ahhhh, but the question is... "Who DID?"
Yeah I wouldn't want a browser either if I knew it was gonna be IE. :)
Not being anti-Austrailian or anything, I just thought this would be a nice place to post my rant on colored money.
I'm sure it's very helpful and prevents mistakes, but this one scenario really bugs me.
Say I go into a liquor store / restraunt / whatever and have a wad of $1, a few $5, maybe a $10. It's not that much, and nobody is really interested in watching me count my $1's. Some kids like to appear rich to their friends by putting a $20 over a bunch of $1's, maybe in a different situation it'd be wise to put a $1 over a bunch of $20s. In each case I could have a $100 hidden in the middle and nobody would suspect it.
Now let's say instead we've all got colored money, $5 is green, $10 is orange, $20 is purple and $100 is red. You see the problem now? One glance at somebody counting their $$ at a register and you immediately know if the guy is loaded. Let's say one day some fool has a stack of reds in his hand, you can be sure all the wrong people will notice it.
That's my problem with colored money, it screams "ROB ME!!" whenever you have any significant amount with you. Of course you shouldn't carry too much at one time, or should spread it around over the body, blah blah... plenty of reasons it's "my fault" for having too much on me. Still, I don't like my money advertising to people what it is.
the deal gave Apple the money and the breathing room to build itself up
While I agree with most of your comment, I'm pretty sure that Apple had a few billion $$ in the bank at the time and Microsoft's investment was more of a good faith gesture than actually being badly needed cash.
That's called faith my friend. Remember that the burden of proof is on the one who claims pink unicorns, not the one who doubts them.
The main problem with the printer at such resolutions is bleeding of the inks into the paper.
The trick is to actually render this page as a vector image, save the 256GB file on a network shared drive, and THEN open it on the other computer. Tada! 256GB on a single page IN a paperless office, how neat is that?
Of course the actual advantage of this is when the feds start looking through your files and find the image you tell them "Oh, I made a program to draw random shapes, but forgot to tell it when to stop."
Don't forget self-hiding bugs and cameras. Wheee Minority Report!
(I would caution those who champion the Wii to take a closer look at what they're doing. They're saying it's great before they've even seen a unit in person. Some guy in another thread insinuated that PS3 purchasers were acting like sheep. Proclaining the Wii as "superior" without haveing every played it is absolutely no better)
I don't see why you should assume nobody has played it. There was a Wii demo at the local GameStop two days ago (In Salem Oregon of all places) there's got to be others out there already. I handed my license over to the guy at the counter and he handed me the wand. I played Excite Truck for fifteen minutes, it was awesome. It nearly felt like I was actually DRIVING one of these things. The physical movement it requires really pulls you into the action better than a D-pad does. Although it scared my wife enough that she refused to touch it. Heh. Personally as someone who grew up riding dirt bikes it was FUN. Sounds bizarre but some Wii games are actually going to scare some of those "non gamers" that it's aimed at. Regardless, when they see how much fun everyone else is having eventually they'll have to give it a try.
The Wii is awesome, and I have tried it.
I think that, he was, secretly, watching his, Shatner, tapes, as well.
Didn't Maxim already do this by putting a magazine cover of theirs somewhere near Las Vegas? It showed up as an overlay in Google Earth so I wasn't sure if it was just a bitmap they paid Google to show, or if it's a representation of the actual billboard but overlaid on older satellite images.
Actually I remember an article here a while back about nanotubes being used to desalinize water. Apparently the perfectly smooth tubes aid the flow of water and defy the usual "size of pipe is proportional to water pressure" equations. What you could actually do in a 3D chip is leave extra nanotubes built in that simply flow in straight lines through the gaps in the chip where no conductive tubes are located, then pumping fluids through it wouldn't cause problems at all.
The excellent heat-transfer of nanotubes, plus the efficient water flow through them would make cooling them much better than current chips.
It's really simple and sorta lame that a dozen people have the same reply for me... hello! I wasn't alive 100 or so years ago when that happened, but you can be sure that those who were DID know when it happened.
Secondly, I didn't make it explicit in my post, but come on here! What are the odds that TWO commercial planes full of hundreds of people would BOTH be struck by lightning on the SAME DAY and crash into two buildings right next to each other, COLLAPSING BOTH OF THEM? It's probably a mathematical impossiblity, and you can be sure that there'd be a huge cry of "God is punishing us!" way louder than the one we already got.
Besides that as others have pointed out 911 is a very convenient number to remember.
If two airplanes had been hit by lightning and crashed into a New York skyscraper, few of us would be able to name the date on which it happened.'"
But I'm pretty sure if it happened on the same day and dropped both towers it'd be every bit as famous as the one we had.
Do people in Finland, Russia, Alaska, Canada, etc... live on average %15 longer than people who live in warmer climates?
Okay... those in warmer climates who die of old age, not starvation, disease, war, etc...
Many of the 1044 comments that followed weren't much more enthusiastic.
/. search is useless), and while floating around at 5 I saw 15 posts and most were actually positive about it. Sure there were plenty that dissed it, but the mods sure seemed to think it was a decent device that day. Unless you somehow imagine the Apple fanbois outnumbered the Apple-haters that day. Doubtful 5 years ago. Perhaps certain segments of the Slashdot community wagged their heads but I wouldn't say they were representative of the whole.
I just browsed through that original article (link was busted, had to google it since
Til they start giving away the players free. Then I'll get one... maybe.
Perhaps earlier demonstrations were simply advertisements, now it seems the customers have come and we get some REAL demonstrations of what they can do.
Call it paranoid if you like, the rest of us will call it what it is. A conflict of interest. It doesn't matter if you think abuse is unlikely, the situation is fundamentally wrong. Microsoft should in no way profit from vulnerabilities in Windows.
All Zune colors were present, brown, white (or off-white) and black. The brown design was by far my favorite color of the three.
Brown is the new white apparently.