I was talking to a friend of mine about Google Maps a couple days ago. During the conversation she mentioned to me that if she ever gets a house she doesn't want it on Google Maps street view. I pressed her about this and I was stunned when she actually told me she was worried that someday she might have kids and she didn't want pedophiles looking at their pictures on street view. I couldn't believe it. Are we as a nation that paranoid now? Do we really think there are armies of pedophiles out there searching for blurry glimpses of kids in low res photos taken at 35 mph? If I had kids I'd be far more worried about some weird guy sitting in his car across from the playground with a camera.
Do webcams even work under VMware? The last time I tried that under VMware server, which was admittedly about two years back, it just threw up an error saying that it didn't support isochronous mode USB.
Just curious, why is a 64-bit Flash important to you? What does it do that a 32-bit Flash can't do?
Because I hate wasting space on 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the same libraries, and there are actually a number of libraries right now that I could remove except that they're being used by flash.
Those of us on x86-64 already have this, because Adobe doesn't feel a 64-bit flash is important and we have to run 32-bit Flash via nspluginwrapper. When flash crashes for me all that happens is that any flash objects on open web pages disappear and turn into empty white squares. I just hit reload and it starts up flash again.
I think a better analogy is that the Internet is the medium, and CB is like IRC. But if you want a more regulated chat, well, you can find those on the Internet too. There's room for both on the same network.
This was not a standard fluorescent bulb. The gas inside the capsule radiated visible light directly (no phosphor coating), and it was BRIGHT. It took me a few minutes but I finally found an article about it here
Are you referring to the effect where yuo see the light, look sharply left or right, and end up with a trail of dots in your visual field for a second or two? I get that a lot with brake lights these days.
I first noticed it a few years ago with the aircraft warning lights on antenna masts; it's only been the past 2 years or so where I've started noticing it on car brake lights as well.
I too have a real problem with standard fluorescents, but I use CFLs almost everywhere at home and find them quite comfortable. They don't flicker and they have a warm, pleasant color spectrum.
They'll also have a longer lifetime than CFLs. The article says they could last as long as 15 years, compared to CFLs which I believe have an expected life of about 7 years.
I did not say Gmail was OSS. I said "Two years of beta in the OSS community isn't unheard of." I'd edit to change the wording, but I can't.
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To properly filter such mail you really need to filter on the Received: lines, and even then you would need to filter by IP to be able to accurately identify what is coming from outside the US. Many smaller mail systems for example will actually filter out the entire Asia-Pacific IP range due to the large amounts of spam originating there.
My YouTube username is the same as my slashdot username, which is the same as the username part of my email address and also the same as my login for just about every web site I sign up for, with a few exceptions (amely web sites where I *do* want privacy.) I've been using this handle online since 1997 and my email address is on several open source projects including the MAINTAINERS file for at least some versions of the Linux kernel. Anyone with half a brain could connect me to my YouTube with a couple of Google searches. In fact if you google "Funaho", my home page is the third result.
Personally, I have nothing to hide in this case, but it DOES show that one can connect a YouTube username to a real person in at least some cases...and I'm sure I'm not the only person who uses the same username all over the place.
In a way, the switch to fiber optic DOES have to do with the price of copper. It's because pound for pound, you can put a hell of a lot more data through fiber than you can through copper, and once fiber got cheap enough it became more economical to string one fiber line instead of the dozens of equivalent copper cables.
In the old days when something broke you fixed it. Now we just replace things. Many "broken" LCDs just need a new backlight or power supply. In fact I'll bet there's a lot of "broken" electronics out there that just need simple fixes like that.
Maybe the price of electronics will go up enough that we'll see a rebirth of the electronics repair business. This is not necessarily a bad thing. I love my cheap electronics, but we have been spoiled.
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Then the medical costs of all the crippled soldiers.
I wouldn't worry about that; we're pretty good at screwing veterans these days. :/
REALLY creepy is when you pull up the shots in photoshop and he's already in them, even before you start editing.
I was talking to a friend of mine about Google Maps a couple days ago. During the conversation she mentioned to me that if she ever gets a house she doesn't want it on Google Maps street view. I pressed her about this and I was stunned when she actually told me she was worried that someday she might have kids and she didn't want pedophiles looking at their pictures on street view. I couldn't believe it. Are we as a nation that paranoid now? Do we really think there are armies of pedophiles out there searching for blurry glimpses of kids in low res photos taken at 35 mph? If I had kids I'd be far more worried about some weird guy sitting in his car across from the playground with a camera.
As has been observed, "terrorism" and "pedophilia" are the root passwords to the Constitution
Ok, I have GOT to get that printed on a tshirt...
Do webcams even work under VMware? The last time I tried that under VMware server, which was admittedly about two years back, it just threw up an error saying that it didn't support isochronous mode USB.
Hmm now Microsoft, they're a well-known attack vendor. :-)
Ever see the "X-SPAN" skit on Robot Chicken? :)
Yes, but, he likes doing coke "because it's a fun thing to do." That was by far my favorite ep of Better Know a District. :)
Just curious, why is a 64-bit Flash important to you? What does it do that a 32-bit Flash can't do?
Because I hate wasting space on 32-bit and 64-bit versions of the same libraries, and there are actually a number of libraries right now that I could remove except that they're being used by flash.
Those of us on x86-64 already have this, because Adobe doesn't feel a 64-bit flash is important and we have to run 32-bit Flash via nspluginwrapper. When flash crashes for me all that happens is that any flash objects on open web pages disappear and turn into empty white squares. I just hit reload and it starts up flash again.
I think a better analogy is that the Internet is the medium, and CB is like IRC. But if you want a more regulated chat, well, you can find those on the Internet too. There's room for both on the same network.
yes, but they had no era defined for what happened next
Ah, so the world will end not with a bang, but with a segfault.
This was not a standard fluorescent bulb. The gas inside the capsule radiated visible light directly (no phosphor coating), and it was BRIGHT. It took me a few minutes but I finally found an article about it here
Oh yeah I remember reading about those a few months back...the neat thing is they don't require any electrical contact with the fixture.
Are you referring to the effect where yuo see the light, look sharply left or right, and end up with a trail of dots in your visual field for a second or two? I get that a lot with brake lights these days.
I first noticed it a few years ago with the aircraft warning lights on antenna masts; it's only been the past 2 years or so where I've started noticing it on car brake lights as well.
I too have a real problem with standard fluorescents, but I use CFLs almost everywhere at home and find them quite comfortable. They don't flicker and they have a warm, pleasant color spectrum.
They'll also have a longer lifetime than CFLs. The article says they could last as long as 15 years, compared to CFLs which I believe have an expected life of about 7 years.
Think of the children! Won't anyone think of the children!?
Isn't that the whole problem they're trying to prevent? :)
I did not say Gmail was OSS. I said "Two years of beta in the OSS community isn't unheard of." I'd edit to change the wording, but I can't.
To properly filter such mail you really need to filter on the Received: lines, and even then you would need to filter by IP to be able to accurately identify what is coming from outside the US. Many smaller mail systems for example will actually filter out the entire Asia-Pacific IP range due to the large amounts of spam originating there.
Two years of beta in the OSS community isn't unheard of. Wine was in an alpha/beta state for what...16 years?
Hmm I wonder if I could port XGS to my Treo? :)
My YouTube username is the same as my slashdot username, which is the same as the username part of my email address and also the same as my login for just about every web site I sign up for, with a few exceptions (amely web sites where I *do* want privacy.) I've been using this handle online since 1997 and my email address is on several open source projects including the MAINTAINERS file for at least some versions of the Linux kernel. Anyone with half a brain could connect me to my YouTube with a couple of Google searches. In fact if you google "Funaho", my home page is the third result.
Personally, I have nothing to hide in this case, but it DOES show that one can connect a YouTube username to a real person in at least some cases...and I'm sure I'm not the only person who uses the same username all over the place.
In a way, the switch to fiber optic DOES have to do with the price of copper. It's because pound for pound, you can put a hell of a lot more data through fiber than you can through copper, and once fiber got cheap enough it became more economical to string one fiber line instead of the dozens of equivalent copper cables.
In the old days when something broke you fixed it. Now we just replace things. Many "broken" LCDs just need a new backlight or power supply. In fact I'll bet there's a lot of "broken" electronics out there that just need simple fixes like that.
Maybe the price of electronics will go up enough that we'll see a rebirth of the electronics repair business. This is not necessarily a bad thing. I love my cheap electronics, but we have been spoiled.