I can only assume that you are still young and have great eyesight. I've tried reading on small screen devices and either the font is too small to comfortably read, or too large so you get to read only a few sentences between "page flips". The appeal of the ebook readers is that they are legible and provide a good reading experience.
However, the closed formats have got to go! When somebody comes out with an affordable device which will take a wide range of open formats, then there will be one in my hands.
If the figure quoted above of 200,000 people per day passing through O'Hare airport is correct. A 1% false positive rate would be 2,000 people per day flagged as suspicious in just O'Hare. If they got the numbers down to less than 1/100 of 1% that would be only 20 people per day. That's still pretty bad if you are one of the 20, but the numbers would be manageable. (Please note that I am talking practical application, not my own belief, which is that this proposal is very very scary.)
The fee is for EACH credit reporting company. So that is $30 total. If you are married it is $60. Then another $10 per agency to get it lifted, again, per person. Hopefully the company you are applying to for credit will tell you which specific credit reporting company they will use. But still it is a chunk of money out of your pocket to protect yourself from something that you shouldn't have to pay for in the first place.
Do we really know for sure that the vaccine is safe? Yes, they've tested it. But there have been medicines before that have been tested and found "safe", only to be pulled from the market after their release.
At this early stage I think, and this is just my $0.02, that it should be readily available, and that the public should be educated about the benefits and risks, so that they can make up their own minds. After there is a proven track record, then consider making it mandatory.
Can you imagine the social impact if the drug were required for all school age girls, then a few years later they find out that there is a devastating long term effect that hadn't been discovered, or worse, had been discovered but was suppressed in the name of profit?
I think we should tread lightly when we consider forcing the public to take a newly released drug.
Check out http://www.parallax.com/ and their Basic Stamp series. They have a wide range or processors and great educational programs based on them. The also have robots and robotics based programs based upon the Basic Stamp.
The guy that can't spell Starforce is whoever transcribed part of the filed complaint onto the Kotaku.com website. If you read the original complaint his spelling is correct. Don't always assume that what you've read is correctly cited.
You don't say what the domain name is so we can't double check the registration. But if the owner of the domain is listed as your ex-employer, they own the domain, period. You will need them to transfer ownership of the domain to you. If they won't transfer it you're out of luck. And the lesson being, next time you register a domain for yourself, register it in your name. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but some lessons in life are that way.
The linked item sold by Damark is not illegal according to the interview with the DA. What they were looking for is an item, like a smoke detector, picture frame, etc, which has been modified to include survelience gear. Apparently selling a miniature camera is not illegal, nor should it be.
Unfortunately marinized computers are horifically expensive. Expect to pay $3k-$4k US for a low end configuration. They actually make laptops look like a price performance bargain.
I would also guess that marinized computers wouldn't fit the bill from a size and feature perspective either. If you're going to be putting something up on a pole you'll want it reasonably small. Most of the marinized systems I've seen are roughly the size of the old Compaq luggable (oops, I've dated myself.)
I would expect a single board computer with a PCI adapter slot would be a better solution. You should be able to be readily mount this in a much smaller water proof container.
The next issue to resolve would be the heat dispersion. Since you'll have no air circulation you'll have serious heat buildup problems.
The issue of ads is a double edged sword. In theory, sites get revenue as a result of click throughs, but published numbers are hard to come by. As a result, I'm tempted to allow ads to be displayed, and I click through if something is interesting. My rational is that I'm supporting a site.
However, there are a lot of bogus ads out there. For example, there is an ad cycling though/. for a vendor "giving away" an alpha linux system. Yet when you click to their site, no mention of it anywhere. Then there are ads like the incredably annoying "Punch the Monkey". There are a couple of sites which regularly have this ad running (Infoseek being one of them) which I no longer visit... at all.
The end result of all this? I've been using WRQ's AtGuard so I don't have to deal with ads, and in theory the privacy involving refers and cookies from sites which I don't want to give cookies to. Of course this doesn't help me on all systems I have access to, but it keeps a lid on my primary systems.
Does this harm the revenue stream to sites that I wish to support because I no longer click through? Probably. How much? Who knows. Do I like the added privacy protection? Definately!
The way I read that sentence was (fips) or (other proprietary software) of which I assume they were referring to Partition Magic.
You're corrected.
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That was my first response on seeing the posting as well.
On the other hand, I think they did go a little to far with the selection of five colors, and the color matching so well. But then again, as another person pointed out, what about all the beige boxes.
As you just pointed out, the BIOS "handles the initial bootstrap (loading the boot sector from the boot media)". Regardless of the OS the BIOS gets first control of the system. Unless you've invented a magic computer which can be boot-strapped from a disk without any knowledge of the underlying architecture of the system, including what kind of disk it is and where it is located, something will always get control of the system before the OS.
This means that they can inflict ads on you before the OS has any control of the system. Your only options, as I see it, would be to buy non Phoenix BIOS m/b or to write your own BIOS.
The other option is to/. Phoenix with our politely worded opions. They may listen; but face it, their after the millions of people that buy PCs from the neighborhood clone builder.
I didn't say it crashed. But it sure wasn't able to serve up the pages.
As I pointed out, I'm not convinced it was/. effect. I initially tried the site only a few minutes after the article was posted. I tried several more times before posting my comment. Maybe that was long enough that it was already being flooded.
In any case, they're telling people in newsletters and press releases to go and check out their product. They should be prepared for a large response. Especially a company like IBM which advertises themselves heavily as an Internet server company. Perceptions of a company and its abilities come from many sources. This is just one.
So much for IBM's much advertised webserver scalability! It seems way to soon after the article posting for this to be/. effect. One can only assume that they have other problems.
But I get quite a chuckle when a major name player spends a ton of money advertising how robust their product is, and then it falls flat on it's face.
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Ummmm, "through" should be "throw". Clearly time for another cup of coffee.
The courts say that evidence was flawed. They through out that case as clear cut abuse. And what does the DA do? The say they'll charge here again.
So in order to avoid further embarrassment they "let her off" with a charge of disorderly conduct.
She still got screwed for something she was a victim of!
And since I, and I gather a heck of a lot of other people, couldn't care less, big deal.
Actually, this almost smacks of a marketing ploy by Twitter to try and make people think that Twitter is actually worth something.
I can only assume that you are still young and have great eyesight. I've tried reading on small screen devices and either the font is too small to comfortably read, or too large so you get to read only a few sentences between "page flips". The appeal of the ebook readers is that they are legible and provide a good reading experience.
However, the closed formats have got to go! When somebody comes out with an affordable device which will take a wide range of open formats, then there will be one in my hands.
If the figure quoted above of 200,000 people per day passing through O'Hare airport is correct. A 1% false positive rate would be 2,000 people per day flagged as suspicious in just O'Hare. If they got the numbers down to less than 1/100 of 1% that would be only 20 people per day. That's still pretty bad if you are one of the 20, but the numbers would be manageable. (Please note that I am talking practical application, not my own belief, which is that this proposal is very very scary.)
We are rapidly turning into the latest Banana Republic.
The fee is for EACH credit reporting company. So that is $30 total. If you are married it is $60. Then another $10 per agency to get it lifted, again, per person. Hopefully the company you are applying to for credit will tell you which specific credit reporting company they will use. But still it is a chunk of money out of your pocket to protect yourself from something that you shouldn't have to pay for in the first place.
Yes... but...
Do we really know for sure that the vaccine is safe? Yes, they've tested it. But there have been medicines before that have been tested and found "safe", only to be pulled from the market after their release.
At this early stage I think, and this is just my $0.02, that it should be readily available, and that the public should be educated about the benefits and risks, so that they can make up their own minds. After there is a proven track record, then consider making it mandatory.
Can you imagine the social impact if the drug were required for all school age girls, then a few years later they find out that there is a devastating long term effect that hadn't been discovered, or worse, had been discovered but was suppressed in the name of profit?
I think we should tread lightly when we consider forcing the public to take a newly released drug.
Check out http://www.parallax.com/ and their Basic Stamp series. They have a wide range or processors and great educational programs based on them. The also have robots and robotics based programs based upon the Basic Stamp.
The link was a great short read that made sense of it to me. Thanks for the insight.
Rrrrriiiiiiiigggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhtttt tttttttttttttttttttt!
Seriously. I'm not a math major, etc. But I'm curious, is this of value? Other than of course as a curiosity.
The guy that can't spell Starforce is whoever transcribed part of the filed complaint onto the Kotaku.com website. If you read the original complaint his spelling is correct. Don't always assume that what you've read is correctly cited.
If you RTFA, then actually read the story that the Inquirer non-news item links to, you'll see that this was announced in February 2005.
Not to minimize the other aspects of the non-news story, but this is pretty ancient news.
You don't say what the domain name is so we can't double check the registration. But if the owner of the domain is listed as your ex-employer, they own the domain, period. You will need them to transfer ownership of the domain to you. If they won't transfer it you're out of luck. And the lesson being, next time you register a domain for yourself, register it in your name. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but some lessons in life are that way.
The linked item sold by Damark is not illegal according to the interview with the DA. What they were looking for is an item, like a smoke detector, picture frame, etc, which has been modified to include survelience gear. Apparently selling a miniature camera is not illegal, nor should it be.
Unfortunately marinized computers are horifically expensive. Expect to pay $3k-$4k US for a low end configuration. They actually make laptops look like a price performance bargain.
I would also guess that marinized computers wouldn't fit the bill from a size and feature perspective either. If you're going to be putting something up on a pole you'll want it reasonably small. Most of the marinized systems I've seen are roughly the size of the old Compaq luggable (oops, I've dated myself.)
I would expect a single board computer with a PCI adapter slot would be a better solution. You should be able to be readily mount this in a much smaller water proof container.
The next issue to resolve would be the heat dispersion. Since you'll have no air circulation you'll have serious heat buildup problems.
However, there are a lot of bogus ads out there. For example, there is an ad cycling though /. for a vendor "giving away" an alpha linux system. Yet when you click to their site, no mention of it anywhere. Then there are ads like the incredably annoying "Punch the Monkey". There are a couple of sites which regularly have this ad running (Infoseek being one of them) which I no longer visit... at all.
The end result of all this? I've been using WRQ's AtGuard so I don't have to deal with ads, and in theory the privacy involving refers and cookies from sites which I don't want to give cookies to. Of course this doesn't help me on all systems I have access to, but it keeps a lid on my primary systems.
Does this harm the revenue stream to sites that I wish to support because I no longer click through? Probably. How much? Who knows. Do I like the added privacy protection? Definately!
Ok.
The way I read that sentence was (fips) or (other proprietary software) of which I assume they were referring to Partition Magic.
You're corrected.
That was my first response on seeing the posting as well.
On the other hand, I think they did go a little to far with the selection of five colors, and the color matching so well. But then again, as another person pointed out, what about all the beige boxes.
I think Apple is off their rocker on this one.
Oh well. I guess that shows that the advertising machines missed their mark on me. :)
Hmmm. Somehow I don't think the Beef Institute had this in mind when they came up with that slogan.
As you just pointed out, the BIOS "handles the initial bootstrap (loading the boot sector from the boot media)". Regardless of the OS the BIOS gets first control of the system. Unless you've invented a magic computer which can be boot-strapped from a disk without any knowledge of the underlying architecture of the system, including what kind of disk it is and where it is located, something will always get control of the system before the OS.
/. Phoenix with our politely worded opions. They may listen; but face it, their after the millions of people that buy PCs from the neighborhood clone builder.
This means that they can inflict ads on you before the OS has any control of the system. Your only options, as I see it, would be to buy non Phoenix BIOS m/b or to write your own BIOS.
The other option is to
-Jim
I didn't say it crashed. But it sure wasn't able to serve up the pages.
/. effect. I initially tried the site only a few minutes after the article was posted. I tried several more times before posting my comment. Maybe that was long enough that it was already being flooded.
As I pointed out, I'm not convinced it was
In any case, they're telling people in newsletters and press releases to go and check out their product. They should be prepared for a large response. Especially a company like IBM which advertises themselves heavily as an Internet server company. Perceptions of a company and its abilities come from many sources. This is just one.
So much for IBM's much advertised webserver scalability! It seems way to soon after the article posting for this to be /. effect. One can only assume that they have other problems.
But I get quite a chuckle when a major name player spends a ton of money advertising how robust their product is, and then it falls flat on it's face.
-Jim