I can see the camera resolution being a possible issue for right now*, but currently there are only a tiny handful of standard linear encodings; support the Big Four (UPC/EAN, Code 2 of 5, Code 3 of 9, and Code 128) and you decode 99.9% of linear codes. A de-facto standard(s) for 2-D codes hasn't yet emerged, but it will be some years yet before those become common.
* although in two years' time of cellphone manufacturers comparing dicks, you'll have 12MPx on your phone;-) For now photo stitching should work fine for the really long codes (Best Buy, Borders).
Or the analog joysticks we used on systems like C-64 before mice became popular. The ones I remember had a set of mechanical locks on the axes that changed its behavior between staying put in whatever position you left it in, or snapping back to the center like the analog sticks on modern game controllers do.
Was going to reply to all the idiots going on about "how stupid and wasteful it would be to put the drives to use, spinning 100 drives would take 1000W power...", but you beat me to it. Probably the best application for old mid-capacity drives is for offline / near-line backup, in which case you'd rarely if ever have need to spin more than 1 at a time, or more than a couple hours a week (or whatever backup interval) for that matter. I'm actually a bit surprised nobody has chimed in by now saying they had actually designed such a multiplexer and some quick-n-dirty software to switch drives and keep track of where the data was.
It also works if you've gotten 2 of the magnets stuck together by mistake. Once they reach their curie temperature they come right apart!:-)
Kidding aside - I just put a tiny screwdriver where the magnet is bonded to the plate and bop it with a hammer. It pops right off, and I haven't damaged a single magnet in the process so far. They're great with an energetic gerbil/wheel and thin magnet wire.
Very true. This reminds me of this scheme that floated through the energy-harvesting circles a few years ago - it proposed a backpack-worn apparatus of a couple kg with a spring-loaded weight that slid up and down on rails as the wearer walked, generating electricity. My boss (a mech/aero PhD) did some quick calculations and found that to walk with this 2-kg apparatus working against you was the equivalent of carrying *90kg* dead weight.
You can use it as a VoIP phone and even talk to real phones, but only if there's WiFi around. Of course, sexy as a DSLite is, it's not something I'd want to hold against my head for extended periods.
DS Lite, bitches. When you tire of SSH (and DSLinux + Boa as wearable web server), just VNC into your box through the coffeeshop's wireless. (I think it can play games too.)
As I write this via my Comcast link, a yellow box in my GMail window informs me that it thinks my "network administrator has blocked GMail chat." This happens semi-reliably when my housemate is torrenting (affected services include parts of GMail as well as FTP and VNC). Encryption solves this. Currently it appears that Comcast's BitTorrent blocker cannot reliably tell the difference between the individual streams and simply sends nukes indiscriminately at connections originating from the same modem where torrent activity has been detected.
So wait, how is the Mac supposed to know and warn the user that one of the.jpegs on their USB device will trigger a Windows-specific buffer overflow expliot? FTFS, even Windows antivirus products don't yet pick this one up.
So, if they start injecting RSTs into the stream, they obviously are monitoring the contents of the stream, know that it's p2p traffic, and are rewriting the contents on the fly (you could say "moderating" the packets). Does this affect their common-carrier status if they just interfere/slow down a transmission that happens to contain illegal material but permit it to (slowly) happen?
Simple, they just use disingenuous, lawyerly weasel words. They don't "block" the traffic outright (since some percentage of the packets are allowed through), they just interfere with it. It's like saying that to prevent people using my driveway to make u-turns, if I grease the road 100ft before and after it such that the cars trying to pull in just slide past, I've made it damn difficult to u-turn there but haven't technically "blocked" access to the driveway...
Or like Shift1, which seems to be simply abbreviated 'Shift' on my keyboards. Hold it down with a character, and a different (in this case capital) pixmap is produced.
A coal-fired power plant I once visited had similarly cool breakers, although in this case they didn't need to worry so much about sparks (in and of themselves). These were beefy and spring-loaded, with a big bellows that blew air through the contacts as they opened. With megawatts flowing through them current would happily begin arcing across as the contacts opened; the arc would be drawn out by the opening contacts and current would continue flowing across this ionized air path (even after the breaker had fully opened) if not for the bellows system to extinguish it.
Does the 70% subscribers refer only to TV, or cable Internet too? If it's a TV thing (for FCC to regulate and get their censorship hooks in), and cable co's don't want that, why on the green earth has Comcast structured its pricing such that it's $1 cheaper per month to have internet + basic cable than internet alone? (Right now at my house we have the bundle for this reason, but don't have a TV.)
I solved this problem with...eMule. I let the suckers who picked a format rip it, then with four clicks (two to download, two to play) I get a movie that works on my existing hardware. Always. Once commercial offerings begin to attain this sort of reliability, I might actually start buying again...
For the last several months, attempting to send messages or connect to the chat feature in Gmail from Comcast (and only Comcast; plugging the machine in at work does just fine) consistently fails with a "please try again" or similar generic error message. Adding an 's' (as in, https:/// ) to encrypt the traffic fixes this.
Hard to say. The spam post was some advertising copy from Dozier's site, bearing a payload link to Dozier's site (which a moderator replaced with a snarky comment). The diatribe from J. W. Dozier claimed they had nothing to do with the spam, but if that is actually the case, it raises the question of who would actually spend their time and bandwidth to spam on behalf of an unaffiliated third party. (Not to mention that copyrighted material from a company that primarily makes its money from *copyright litigation* gets posted by Who-Me-Anonymous, followed by a demand letter within a few days... *hmm*)
Ah yes, I've had contact from these yokels before. A while back a message board I administer got hit with a spam run, one of the spam posts advertised this company. One of the moderators cheerily replaced the payload link to Dozier's site with the text "Edited to remove references to legal company. Don't be so damn cheap, go and buy advertising."...prompting of course a demand letter from the company claiming defamation, copyright infringement (the spam consisted partly of advertising copy direct from their site) as a start.
Mr. Dozier served his legal process by creating an account on our forum and sending a poorly-spelled diatribe using the "report to moderator" feature. In the end I nuked the spam (it was spam, after all), but not before solving the "legal problem" once and for all by banning his account and IP block from the server.
Ok... the 5,000th Viagra PMITA joke is still funny, but does anyone have more information about TFA's all-too-casual reference to the spammers' attempts to silence a witness, and its major contribution to their sentences? That seems like a too juicy a tidbit to be swept under the rug.
...how about fixing the error resulting in a nondescript "please try again" Javascript box every (9 out of 10) time I try to send a mail through the service using Firefox 2.0.0.7 on Comcast? (It works fine in Firefox 2.0.0.7 at work.) Then fix the attachment bug that pops up when I switch to IE in desperation? Haven't debugged what the exact trouble is yet (good luck with that), but the service seems to be quickly becoming the Myspace of webmail:-(
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No, but Emacs hadn't been written yet and I was feeling lazy.
Assembler? Bah. Us Real Programmers use a floppy diskette, a needle and a horseshoe magnet.
I can see the camera resolution being a possible issue for right now*, but currently there are only a tiny handful of standard linear encodings; support the Big Four (UPC/EAN, Code 2 of 5, Code 3 of 9, and Code 128) and you decode 99.9% of linear codes. A de-facto standard(s) for 2-D codes hasn't yet emerged, but it will be some years yet before those become common.
* although in two years' time of cellphone manufacturers comparing dicks, you'll have 12MPx on your phone ;-) For now photo stitching should work fine for the really long codes (Best Buy, Borders).
Or the analog joysticks we used on systems like C-64 before mice became popular. The ones I remember had a set of mechanical locks on the axes that changed its behavior between staying put in whatever position you left it in, or snapping back to the center like the analog sticks on modern game controllers do.
Was going to reply to all the idiots going on about "how stupid and wasteful it would be to put the drives to use, spinning 100 drives would take 1000W power...", but you beat me to it. Probably the best application for old mid-capacity drives is for offline / near-line backup, in which case you'd rarely if ever have need to spin more than 1 at a time, or more than a couple hours a week (or whatever backup interval) for that matter. I'm actually a bit surprised nobody has chimed in by now saying they had actually designed such a multiplexer and some quick-n-dirty software to switch drives and keep track of where the data was.
It also works if you've gotten 2 of the magnets stuck together by mistake. Once they reach their curie temperature they come right apart! :-)
Kidding aside - I just put a tiny screwdriver where the magnet is bonded to the plate and bop it with a hammer. It pops right off, and I haven't damaged a single magnet in the process so far. They're great with an energetic gerbil/wheel and thin magnet wire.
Very true. This reminds me of this scheme that floated through the energy-harvesting circles a few years ago - it proposed a backpack-worn apparatus of a couple kg with a spring-loaded weight that slid up and down on rails as the wearer walked, generating electricity. My boss (a mech/aero PhD) did some quick calculations and found that to walk with this 2-kg apparatus working against you was the equivalent of carrying *90kg* dead weight.
You can use it as a VoIP phone and even talk to real phones, but only if there's WiFi around. Of course, sexy as a DSLite is, it's not something I'd want to hold against my head for extended periods.
DS Lite, bitches. When you tire of SSH (and DSLinux + Boa as wearable web server), just VNC into your box through the coffeeshop's wireless. (I think it can play games too.)
As I write this via my Comcast link, a yellow box in my GMail window informs me that it thinks my "network administrator has blocked GMail chat." This happens semi-reliably when my housemate is torrenting (affected services include parts of GMail as well as FTP and VNC). Encryption solves this. Currently it appears that Comcast's BitTorrent blocker cannot reliably tell the difference between the individual streams and simply sends nukes indiscriminately at connections originating from the same modem where torrent activity has been detected.
So wait, how is the Mac supposed to know and warn the user that one of the .jpegs on their USB device will trigger a Windows-specific buffer overflow expliot? FTFS, even Windows antivirus products don't yet pick this one up.
I tried to go green with my server rack one time, but ran out of spraypaint.
So, if they start injecting RSTs into the stream, they obviously are monitoring the contents of the stream, know that it's p2p traffic, and are rewriting the contents on the fly (you could say "moderating" the packets). Does this affect their common-carrier status if they just interfere/slow down a transmission that happens to contain illegal material but permit it to (slowly) happen?
Simple, they just use disingenuous, lawyerly weasel words. They don't "block" the traffic outright (since some percentage of the packets are allowed through), they just interfere with it. It's like saying that to prevent people using my driveway to make u-turns, if I grease the road 100ft before and after it such that the cars trying to pull in just slide past, I've made it damn difficult to u-turn there but haven't technically "blocked" access to the driveway...
Or like Shift1, which seems to be simply abbreviated 'Shift' on my keyboards. Hold it down with a character, and a different (in this case capital) pixmap is produced.
A coal-fired power plant I once visited had similarly cool breakers, although in this case they didn't need to worry so much about sparks (in and of themselves). These were beefy and spring-loaded, with a big bellows that blew air through the contacts as they opened. With megawatts flowing through them current would happily begin arcing across as the contacts opened; the arc would be drawn out by the opening contacts and current would continue flowing across this ionized air path (even after the breaker had fully opened) if not for the bellows system to extinguish it.
Does the 70% subscribers refer only to TV, or cable Internet too? If it's a TV thing (for FCC to regulate and get their censorship hooks in), and cable co's don't want that, why on the green earth has Comcast structured its pricing such that it's $1 cheaper per month to have internet + basic cable than internet alone? (Right now at my house we have the bundle for this reason, but don't have a TV.)
I solved this problem with...eMule. I let the suckers who picked a format rip it, then with four clicks (two to download, two to play) I get a movie that works on my existing hardware. Always. Once commercial offerings begin to attain this sort of reliability, I might actually start buying again...
Will they fix the Desktop Effects / Restricted Driver white-screen perma-fuck?
They are referred to as vendors on anti-spyware sites because if you refer to them as "scumwhores" their lawyers start neeping.
For the last several months, attempting to send messages or connect to the chat feature in Gmail from Comcast (and only Comcast; plugging the machine in at work does just fine) consistently fails with a "please try again" or similar generic error message. Adding an 's' (as in, https:/// ) to encrypt the traffic fixes this.
Hard to say. The spam post was some advertising copy from Dozier's site, bearing a payload link to Dozier's site (which a moderator replaced with a snarky comment). The diatribe from J. W. Dozier claimed they had nothing to do with the spam, but if that is actually the case, it raises the question of who would actually spend their time and bandwidth to spam on behalf of an unaffiliated third party. (Not to mention that copyrighted material from a company that primarily makes its money from *copyright litigation* gets posted by Who-Me-Anonymous, followed by a demand letter within a few days... *hmm*)
Ah yes, I've had contact from these yokels before. A while back a message board I administer got hit with a spam run, one of the spam posts advertised this company. One of the moderators cheerily replaced the payload link to Dozier's site with the text "Edited to remove references to legal company. Don't be so damn cheap, go and buy advertising." ...prompting of course a demand letter from the company claiming defamation, copyright infringement (the spam consisted partly of advertising copy direct from their site) as a start.
Mr. Dozier served his legal process by creating an account on our forum and sending a poorly-spelled diatribe using the "report to moderator" feature. In the end I nuked the spam (it was spam, after all), but not before solving the "legal problem" once and for all by banning his account and IP block from the server.
Ok... the 5,000th Viagra PMITA joke is still funny, but does anyone have more information about TFA's all-too-casual reference to the spammers' attempts to silence a witness, and its major contribution to their sentences? That seems like a too juicy a tidbit to be swept under the rug.
...how about fixing the error resulting in a nondescript "please try again" Javascript box every (9 out of 10) time I try to send a mail through the service using Firefox 2.0.0.7 on Comcast? (It works fine in Firefox 2.0.0.7 at work.) Then fix the attachment bug that pops up when I switch to IE in desperation? Haven't debugged what the exact trouble is yet (good luck with that), but the service seems to be quickly becoming the Myspace of webmail :-(