This is news because this thing has more technology in it than the last 3 weeks of slashdot articles. I'm impressed. I'm interested. Perhaps this article was meant for me and not you. STOP READING MY STORY!
As one industry observer pointed out when he first heard the Infinium Labs story, "You buy the console. You buy the games. Then you pay to play the games you bought on the console you bought. It's sort of like buying an arcade game but still having to put quarters in. And ads!"
Reminds me of "Funny Farm" when the telco installed a payphone in Chevy Chase's house.
why not at least require a literacy standard for voting
Because everyone in the US is affected by US policy, therefore everyone in the US needs to be represented. If illiterates weren't allowed to vote, should they also not be required to pay taxes since they are not represented by lawmakers? Anyway, why stop at illiteracy. Why not require IQ scores of 145+ or high SAT verbals? Or anything that would exclude you from voting. Would you like that?
There's something screwed up in this country when we place a higher value on delivering bombs than people.
The act of delivering bombs is a life-and-death matter, not just death. To me, that makes it infinitely more valuable than getting people to their destinations a few hours sooner.
Thanks. I just finished reading the *many* issues with favicons in bugzilla. It's not exactly a critical issue, but I expect my nearly perfect browser to be, well, nearly perfect!;-) I think I'm going to try Firebird on my home machine tonite and see how well it works.
Do website icons work for anybody the way I think they should work? I get the website icon in the URL bar, on the tab itself, but NOT in my bookmark list, which seems to contradict what the HELP file says. Can anyone confirm this?
..This is the beginning of the end of that drunken orgy of dollars spent on broadcast TV..
Good. I don't mind some advertising, but I'm not going to watch ads for things that I would never buy in a million years. Maybe if advertising start making better profits with more effective ads, they'll produce less ads.. *cough*.. *snort*..*mwahahahah!!!* Oh well, it sounded good in theory.
I still think the Total Recall version would be best, you just see bones and guns/bombs.
Yeah, I can't believe we're using this crappy x-ray stuff instead of getting the Total Recall special effects crew to sell us their obviously superior technology. Damn them!
Allow me to explain RFID tags in one easy-to-understand sentence:
They are exactly like bar code tags, except they are scanned by electromagnetic sensors, rather than lasers.
Boom! That's it. Yes, the paranoia is totally and completely stupid.
Right, but the distinction is between the laser and the electromagnetic sensors. Lasers have to "see" barcodes to scan them, RFID can be detected through layers of clothing, etc from several feet away. The idea of a purse snatcher stopping my wife, asking to see her wallet, and manually scanning each bill to see how much cash she's carrying doesn't scare me quite as much as the idea of the same person walking by wife with a sensor in his wristwatch, passing it by her purse, seeing how much she has, then turning around and clubbing her over the head.
The idea of giant barcodes on the hood of our vehicles being read by each traffic light doesn't scare me as much as the idea of each light picking up the unique ID of our RFID tags hidden on our car. You think those traffic light cameras area PITA, wait until each traffic light times how long it took you to get there from the previous traffic light, determines that you must have been speeding, and automatically sends you a ticket. Have a nice day.
The RIAA press release gives a nice list of artists who haven't a clue and shall never receive any $$ from me.
The Dixie Chicks, Grammy award winning and two-time Diamond award recipients said, "It may seem innocent enough, but every time you illegally download music a songwriter doesn't get paid. And, every time you swap that music with your friends a new artist doesn't get a chance. Respect the artists you love by not stealing their music. You're in control. Support music, don't steal it."
Wow, and every time I take a dump, a songwriter doesn't get paid, what's your point? Are you saying that if I didn't download that song, the artist would get paid? And how does swapping prevent new artists from "getting a chance?" Sharing is great for truly new artists that can't get mainstream CLEA^H^H^H^H radio play. I assume that by "new artist" you meant the latest "me too" group assembled just for the purpose of sounding exactly like the last chart-topping bile.
I have 3 Hotmail addresses, one I use when filling out online forms, one I use to email family, and one I've never, ever used at all. Guess what? I get ~60-80 spams per day @ *each* address. (yes, I made sure to uncheck all the "Send me stuff" boxes when signing up.)
Is the hotmail domain just targeted for brute spam attacks or does MS leak information intentionally?
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Not in open waters. We always have sonar and Radar
Once you detect the periscope, the sub is history via quick-launch helicopters.
This is news because this thing has more technology in it than the last 3 weeks of slashdot articles. I'm impressed. I'm interested. Perhaps this article was meant for me and not you. STOP READING MY STORY!
Hey, you stole my soon-to-patented business method !
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Looking at the thumbnail for this pic I can't help but think "OMG! It's destroying San Francisco!" :-)
What's this I hear about you not putting cover sheets on your TPS reports? Didn't you get the memo?
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Sounds more like a cellphone with a built-in CueCat or whatever. WILL IT EVER DIE?!
Yeah, sign me up!
Try this cool Slashdot method I've developed:
1) THINK
2) THINK AGAIN
3) POST!
4)
Whew! Afer years of work, I've finally got it!
The algorithm for factoring any large prime number (X) is:
Factors of X = X and 2.. Oh wait, d'oh!
Always making spelling mistakes! It's 0\/\/N3D!
Thanks. I just finished reading the *many* issues with favicons in bugzilla. It's not exactly a critical issue, but I expect my nearly perfect browser to be, well, nearly perfect! ;-) I think I'm going to try Firebird on my home machine tonite and see how well it works.
Do website icons work for anybody the way I think they should work? I get the website icon in the URL bar, on the tab itself, but NOT in my bookmark list, which seems to contradict what the HELP file says. Can anyone confirm this?
The idea of giant barcodes on the hood of our vehicles being read by each traffic light doesn't scare me as much as the idea of each light picking up the unique ID of our RFID tags hidden on our car. You think those traffic light cameras area PITA, wait until each traffic light times how long it took you to get there from the previous traffic light, determines that you must have been speeding, and automatically sends you a ticket. Have a nice day.
A little paranoia is a healthy thing to have.
MS is shutting down the "hotmail.com" domain?
I have 3 Hotmail addresses, one I use when filling out online forms, one I use to email family, and one I've never, ever used at all. Guess what? I get ~60-80 spams per day @ *each* address. (yes, I made sure to uncheck all the "Send me stuff" boxes when signing up.)
Is the hotmail domain just targeted for brute spam attacks or does MS leak information intentionally?
Mod Troll Down.
That was so subtle, I had to read your post twice to catch it. Luckily, I don't follow those books so I could care less.
Java Script, Java Beans, Java Swing, Java Status Quo!? Enough!
Yeah, like the Matrix. I tell you that you can't be told what Open Source is, but 10 minutes later proceed to do exactly that.