I wonder if they've used the Waze Map Editor to make sure their street is not marked as a "Primary Street". Waze isn't supposed to route to Streets, only Primary Streets.
They take over your webcam, and each moment your eyes drift close they move your mouse. Sometimes it can take an hour or more for them to cautiously position the mouse where they want it to take control over your computer, but they are patient, crafty little devils.
I'm not sure this has to do with AGW in the first place. The cost of renewables like solar have dropped an incredible amount in recent years. There is no conspiracy or "screwing over" of fossil fuel producers. Look at the historic price of solar panels. We're way under the "magical" $1 per watt price now, which people had been predicting for years. It was well known that low of a price of solar panels would cause significant adoption of solar power generation.
My other point is fossil fuels are finite. Was Canada expecting to economically produce oil at their current rate for the next hundred years? It's not going to last that long. Whether the transition happens now, or 50 years from now, it's going to happen either way.
According to the stats (direct link: http://www.gartner.com/newsroo...), Windows share fell by 1.8% across a single quarter. However, iOS's share fell by an even greater amount: 3.1%. Android's share increased by 5.3%. This could be because of a new market coming online, or China or India's growth in smartphone purchases (which would consist mostly of low-end Android phones).
The important statistic is the percentage in North America, which is responsible for the vast, vast percentage of app purchases. iOS share continues to grow in the USA, with Android and Windows staying fairly flat. iOS seemed to gobble up nearly every bit of Blackberry market as that platform diminished, which is how it grew while the others stayed flat. (source: http://www.statista.com/statis...)
Why should I, or anyone else for that matter, care what Snowden has to say on the matter (or any other matter for that matter)? He stole and leaked documents. That provides no basis whatsoever for him having the skills or certification for him to speak meaningfully into the technical nature of this particular issue.
First off, arcade games have been using these for years. Skip to 45 seconds in for an example (volume warning - it's in an arcade so it's loud): https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
There's another arcade game with little fish bowls that's also transparent. It's really cool just to look at.
Also, many years ago, around 20 or so, I took a calculator apart and removed the back-most layer of the LCD and... voila - it was transparent. This capability has existed for decades (in fact all LCD displays are transparent - it's only the more modern OLED where that hasn't been the case) but there have always been backlights or some other material placed behind them to make them contrast as much as possible.
I'm also pleased to announce that, in addition to there being 10 longest featured articles, there are also 10 shortest featured articles. There are 10 longest non-featured articles and 10 shortest non-featured articles too. There are 10 articles with the most pictures, and I would dare say there are at least 10 articles without any pictures at all! There are 10 articles containing the longest average word length, and 10 articles containing the shortest average word length. And, if you find all that fascinating, there are also 10 articles with the most edits, and 10 articles with the least edits.
E1 M2 Tribute, which is a kinda sorta recreation of the E1 M2 nuclear plant map from the original Doom. It’s a little hard to tell since the games look so different, but the maps have the same general layout, which recreates similar firefights.
At first glance, when I thought about the analog computer interface you see R2D2 using all the time, I thought "how stupid - a mechanical interface between computers". But then, the more I thought about it, it actually made sense. It's clear it is a rotational interface, like turning a dial. Well, what precision can an object be rotated to? How man "positions" can it be in? It's infinite. Pi never ends or repeats, so you can go into infinite precision as to the rotational position of a knob. They are only limited by their technological ability to detect rotational position (which could be done through an electromagnetic field). So it is conceivable they have the ability to detect the rotational position with some incredible precision, thus a single rotation of the knob, by stopping at some specific position, could transfer a vast amount of information. The interface can of course be 2-way. Sometimes R2 is rotating the interface, and sometimes the host machine is rotating. Anyway, I thought that was interesting.
Here's a great example of Netflix's UI where bells and whistles interfere with basic functionality. When you move your mouse pointer over the search button, it expands into an edit box. If you remove your mouse from the widget then the edit box goes away. Thus you must keep your mouse over top of the button in order to type (totally nonstandard in every way). I have a machine with no keyboard that I play music and videos with in my office. I simply use an onscreen keyboard whenever I need to type (which is seldom on that box). So it's a major pain in the butt to reposition the onscreen keyboard relative to the search button so I can move the mouse from the button directly onto the keyboard to prevent the search box from closing because it lost mouse hover. Just stupid.
Bozza discovered that, because the app doesn't use encryption in any way or form, an attacker, via a proxy on the local network, can intercept traffic coming from a device with the Magic Kinder app installed.
Oh come on. The likelihood of this being exploited is basically nil. There are tens of thousands of apps that would have this kind of vulnerability. This is not remotely newsworthy enough to be on Slashdot. It sounds like either this Bozza guy is wanting publicity, or a competitor wants to damage Magic Kinder's reputation. Either way I don't care, and I doubt anyone else here on Slashdot cares either.
The odds of it being a MMOD, especially given how little time it's been in orbit, is very low. Conversely, the fact that broke up so early in the mission would reinforce a hardware failure of some kind (battery explosion or cryo system overpressure as you said).
Brilliant idea. One single button. You have to push it repeatedly to go through every temperature setting with low fan, then press it repeatedly to go through all the temperatures again in high fan speed. Absolutely the stupidest design I've ever seen. I would like to see them design a computer keyboard. Those brilliant minds would give us a keyboard with one button you press repeatedly a hundred times to enter a single character.
It might be possible to do some sort of staging approach where one uses some set of batteries to nearly empty and then have them break off in a modular plane that returns to the ground site. But that itself would lead to all sorts of additional problems.
You just solved a big part of the problem! LOL Think about gliders. Once towed to altitude, they can soar for a long time. So Musk could have some kind of quadcopter type superstructure, which includes batteries, etc, which boosts the aircraft straight up to say 15,000 feet. The craft then releases and uses standard lifting surfaces and a small electric powered prop to propel it (aka it's a standard type airplane but electric). The quadcopter framework then returns straight back down to the launch point, and either swaps out batteries or recharges. It's just a vertical elevator essentially. If your flight is less than a hundred miles, which I bet most would be, you wouldn't need much extra propulsion in the airplane portion since you are already at such a high elevation to start with.
I'm sorry, but his "testing equipment" isn't all that great if it can't handle that. I mean, that's pretty much the simplest problem there can be right? Entire pins of the cable swapped. Ethernet testers are designed to catch this exact thing. Slap a diode on the frigging test equipment or something.
This is one of the advantages of Apple owning more of the rights to a connector and actively smacking down 3rd parties that don't license it properly. You don't see as much of this kind of thing going on, at the slightly greater expense to the end user of them taking a cut of the connectors that are sold.
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I wonder if they've used the Waze Map Editor to make sure their street is not marked as a "Primary Street". Waze isn't supposed to route to Streets, only Primary Streets.
They take over your webcam, and each moment your eyes drift close they move your mouse. Sometimes it can take an hour or more for them to cautiously position the mouse where they want it to take control over your computer, but they are patient, crafty little devils.
I'm not sure this has to do with AGW in the first place. The cost of renewables like solar have dropped an incredible amount in recent years. There is no conspiracy or "screwing over" of fossil fuel producers. Look at the historic price of solar panels. We're way under the "magical" $1 per watt price now, which people had been predicting for years. It was well known that low of a price of solar panels would cause significant adoption of solar power generation.
My other point is fossil fuels are finite. Was Canada expecting to economically produce oil at their current rate for the next hundred years? It's not going to last that long. Whether the transition happens now, or 50 years from now, it's going to happen either way.
Shouldn't that be Pacman 0? Or are they using something larger than a byte?
According to the stats (direct link: http://www.gartner.com/newsroo...), Windows share fell by 1.8% across a single quarter. However, iOS's share fell by an even greater amount: 3.1%. Android's share increased by 5.3%. This could be because of a new market coming online, or China or India's growth in smartphone purchases (which would consist mostly of low-end Android phones).
The important statistic is the percentage in North America, which is responsible for the vast, vast percentage of app purchases. iOS share continues to grow in the USA, with Android and Windows staying fairly flat. iOS seemed to gobble up nearly every bit of Blackberry market as that platform diminished, which is how it grew while the others stayed flat. (source: http://www.statista.com/statis...)
Why not add a touchscreen? For that matter, make the keypad a touchscreen too. Now that would be a head-turner.
Why should I, or anyone else for that matter, care what Snowden has to say on the matter (or any other matter for that matter)? He stole and leaked documents. That provides no basis whatsoever for him having the skills or certification for him to speak meaningfully into the technical nature of this particular issue.
First off, arcade games have been using these for years. Skip to 45 seconds in for an example (volume warning - it's in an arcade so it's loud): https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
There's another arcade game with little fish bowls that's also transparent. It's really cool just to look at.
Also, many years ago, around 20 or so, I took a calculator apart and removed the back-most layer of the LCD and... voila - it was transparent. This capability has existed for decades (in fact all LCD displays are transparent - it's only the more modern OLED where that hasn't been the case) but there have always been backlights or some other material placed behind them to make them contrast as much as possible.
I'm also pleased to announce that, in addition to there being 10 longest featured articles, there are also 10 shortest featured articles. There are 10 longest non-featured articles and 10 shortest non-featured articles too. There are 10 articles with the most pictures, and I would dare say there are at least 10 articles without any pictures at all! There are 10 articles containing the longest average word length, and 10 articles containing the shortest average word length. And, if you find all that fascinating, there are also 10 articles with the most edits, and 10 articles with the least edits.
From tfa:
E1 M2 Tribute, which is a kinda sorta recreation of the E1 M2 nuclear plant map from the original Doom. It’s a little hard to tell since the games look so different, but the maps have the same general layout, which recreates similar firefights.
the main difference is that they mandate the use of a more secure OS.
I think it's funny you word it that way. Secure from whom, exactly? Maybe we should all be using their OS since it's so "secure".
At first glance, when I thought about the analog computer interface you see R2D2 using all the time, I thought "how stupid - a mechanical interface between computers". But then, the more I thought about it, it actually made sense. It's clear it is a rotational interface, like turning a dial. Well, what precision can an object be rotated to? How man "positions" can it be in? It's infinite. Pi never ends or repeats, so you can go into infinite precision as to the rotational position of a knob. They are only limited by their technological ability to detect rotational position (which could be done through an electromagnetic field). So it is conceivable they have the ability to detect the rotational position with some incredible precision, thus a single rotation of the knob, by stopping at some specific position, could transfer a vast amount of information. The interface can of course be 2-way. Sometimes R2 is rotating the interface, and sometimes the host machine is rotating. Anyway, I thought that was interesting.
Design, Hardware, Software Error
Oh, is that all?
Here's a great example of Netflix's UI where bells and whistles interfere with basic functionality. When you move your mouse pointer over the search button, it expands into an edit box. If you remove your mouse from the widget then the edit box goes away. Thus you must keep your mouse over top of the button in order to type (totally nonstandard in every way). I have a machine with no keyboard that I play music and videos with in my office. I simply use an onscreen keyboard whenever I need to type (which is seldom on that box). So it's a major pain in the butt to reposition the onscreen keyboard relative to the search button so I can move the mouse from the button directly onto the keyboard to prevent the search box from closing because it lost mouse hover. Just stupid.
Bozza discovered that, because the app doesn't use encryption in any way or form, an attacker, via a proxy on the local network, can intercept traffic coming from a device with the Magic Kinder app installed.
Oh come on. The likelihood of this being exploited is basically nil. There are tens of thousands of apps that would have this kind of vulnerability. This is not remotely newsworthy enough to be on Slashdot. It sounds like either this Bozza guy is wanting publicity, or a competitor wants to damage Magic Kinder's reputation. Either way I don't care, and I doubt anyone else here on Slashdot cares either.
The odds of it being a MMOD, especially given how little time it's been in orbit, is very low. Conversely, the fact that broke up so early in the mission would reinforce a hardware failure of some kind (battery explosion or cryo system overpressure as you said).
The story was full of those low resolution samples. They are just 1x1 images. And they're white.
This reminds me of the worst interface design I've seen in a long time. This Holmes heater: http://www.amazon.com/Holmes-H...
Brilliant idea. One single button. You have to push it repeatedly to go through every temperature setting with low fan, then press it repeatedly to go through all the temperatures again in high fan speed. Absolutely the stupidest design I've ever seen. I would like to see them design a computer keyboard. Those brilliant minds would give us a keyboard with one button you press repeatedly a hundred times to enter a single character.
It might be possible to do some sort of staging approach where one uses some set of batteries to nearly empty and then have them break off in a modular plane that returns to the ground site. But that itself would lead to all sorts of additional problems.
You just solved a big part of the problem! LOL Think about gliders. Once towed to altitude, they can soar for a long time. So Musk could have some kind of quadcopter type superstructure, which includes batteries, etc, which boosts the aircraft straight up to say 15,000 feet. The craft then releases and uses standard lifting surfaces and a small electric powered prop to propel it (aka it's a standard type airplane but electric). The quadcopter framework then returns straight back down to the launch point, and either swaps out batteries or recharges. It's just a vertical elevator essentially. If your flight is less than a hundred miles, which I bet most would be, you wouldn't need much extra propulsion in the airplane portion since you are already at such a high elevation to start with.
When flying, isn't it weight rather than volume that matters?
What if you keep the weight the same and increase the volume until you're buoyant?
I'm sorry, but his "testing equipment" isn't all that great if it can't handle that. I mean, that's pretty much the simplest problem there can be right? Entire pins of the cable swapped. Ethernet testers are designed to catch this exact thing. Slap a diode on the frigging test equipment or something.
This is one of the advantages of Apple owning more of the rights to a connector and actively smacking down 3rd parties that don't license it properly. You don't see as much of this kind of thing going on, at the slightly greater expense to the end user of them taking a cut of the connectors that are sold.
What would be awesome is if high speed objects would have ever struck the surface of the Mars, thus already carving out holes all over the surface.
I don't think "logic bomb" means what the submitter thinks it means (the stories don't use that term). These were trojans.
Nuff said.