I don't think Mac is "breaking ranks with *Nix", they are simply changing the CPU that they are using. It will still be unix under the hood, the overall experience won't change.
If nothing else, it may be an amount to get Yahoo to take this seriously. Probably not $3 million worth, but I doubt that's even what the person wanted. They just wanted the pictures down. This may be done for the principle of the thing. Expect a settlement.
First reaction, cute, but what a stupid idea. I won't even go into how this is a technological innovation to enforce parenting, but if you really wanted to make sure someone was active instead of watching too much tv, why not hook an exercise bike up to a generator. You can watch tv as long as you pedal. This would sour kids on TV pretty quick, or get some exercise out of them. Either way, not a bad idea.
In Tokyo. I was visiting Japan, and happened to walk into the National Emerging Science and Technology museum. They had a little show where he would walk around and play rock paper scissors, and navigate two steps, up a platform on a box. It was pretty cool. It was definitely aimed at youngsters though, they had a show every 1/2 hour, and from the nonexistant Japanese I speak, the 'host' was trying to get the crowd geared up. Several small children chanted 'ASIMO', at some question (maybe 'Who do you want to see?') by the host. When it was done, it would walk backwards too. Pretty cool, overall.
The guy uses 5 passwords for his laptop, and I am sure that is fine for him.
Security for the sake of security, for example, can sometimes backfire.
For example, a company I used to work for had this policy that you had to change your password every 30 days, have at least 1 special character, one capital, one number, etc.
This was on an intranet, and most people hated this feature.
Most people ended up using a system like Jul@1996 for their password. Mon
Kind of defeats the whole purpose of security.
I tend to think one should use security proportional to sensitivity on certain matters, knowing that nothing is perfectly secure.
But enforcing 'security' for the sake of security, especially random, and unsupported 'security' can make the average user resentful, and the process much less secure.
Can you change your social security number? 9 digits seems enough for only one per person in the US, maybe 3 per person. I know they reuse these numbers over time. Why not have a 16 digit number, like credit cards do, so that you can change it and invalidate the old one if your identity gets stolen.
If we assumed that all transistors on a chip (say a P4) were this type of transistor, and could run at 600 GHz, I know there is time required for a signal to cross all of these transistors, etc., and that some chips have a billion transistors on them, how fast could the current chips run with these transistors?
Before the first atom bomb was detonated, there were some scientists that thought that the nuclear reaction would spread and ignite the entire atmosphere. Despite their reservations, the tests were done anyway. Screwing up has never been a risk people considered worthy enough to stop a scientific experiment.
In order to publish and SELL this information on CD/DVD, does the Wikipedia Foundation have to get the permission of all the article writers, or is there, perhaps, a clause on the website that says something like 'we own all the stuff put on here'. What would happen if Slashdot sold versions of article comments on DVD?
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I don't think Mac is "breaking ranks with *Nix", they are simply changing the CPU that they are using. It will still be unix under the hood, the overall experience won't change.
For negigence?
If nothing else, it may be an amount to get Yahoo to take this seriously. Probably not $3 million worth, but I doubt that's even what the person wanted. They just wanted the pictures down. This may be done for the principle of the thing. Expect a settlement.
First reaction, cute, but what a stupid idea. I won't even go into how this is a technological innovation to enforce parenting, but if you really
wanted to make sure someone was active instead of watching too much tv, why not hook an exercise bike up to a generator. You can watch tv as long
as you pedal. This would sour kids on TV pretty quick, or get some exercise out of them. Either way, not a bad idea.
In Tokyo. I was visiting Japan, and happened to walk into the National Emerging Science and Technology museum. They had a little show where he would walk around and play rock paper scissors, and navigate two steps, up a platform on a box. It was pretty cool. It was definitely aimed at youngsters though, they had a show every 1/2 hour, and from the nonexistant Japanese I speak, the 'host' was trying to get the crowd geared up. Several small children chanted 'ASIMO', at some question (maybe 'Who do you want to see?') by the host. When it was done, it would walk backwards too. Pretty cool, overall.
So if you use twisted pair quantum wiring for broadband, and setup vpn, would that be quantum tunneling? (Sorry) :-)
The guy uses 5 passwords for his laptop, and I am sure that is fine for him.
Security for the sake of security, for example, can sometimes backfire.
For example, a company I used to work for had this policy that you had to change your password every 30 days, have at least 1 special character, one capital, one number, etc.
This was on an intranet, and most people hated this feature.
Most people ended up using a system like
Jul@1996 for their password. Mon
Kind of defeats the whole purpose of security.
I tend to think one should use security proportional to sensitivity on certain matters, knowing that nothing is perfectly secure.
But enforcing 'security' for the sake of security, especially random, and unsupported 'security' can make the average user resentful, and the process much less secure.
There are some latency issues though.
Hmmm....
WIPD (whipped).
Sounds about right.
Not even subtle.
Oh well.
Don't be so sure. You need 3/4 of the states to agree to it and 2/3 of Congress. Even with the red states, I doubt you'd get these numbers.
sounds like California. Or at least close.
You must be new around here.
Sorry, didn't see that.
He might have meant that it is about time that somebody sued Comcast for this info. It's kind of ambiguous.
Stargate-SG1 and Atlantis are both filmed in Vancouver. Farscape was Australia(?), is all Sci-Fi destined to be outsourced?
How did the RIAA get access to Internet2 to begin with?
Can you change your social security number? 9 digits seems enough for only one per person in the US, maybe 3 per person. I know they reuse these numbers over time. Why not have a 16 digit number, like credit cards do, so that you can change it and invalidate the old one if your identity gets stolen.
Plastique Explosives.
If we assumed that all transistors on a chip (say a P4) were this type of transistor, and could run at 600 GHz, I know there is time required for a signal to cross all of these transistors, etc., and that some chips have a billion transistors on them, how fast could the current chips run with these transistors?
Before the first atom bomb was detonated, there were some scientists that thought that the nuclear reaction would spread and ignite the entire atmosphere. Despite their reservations, the tests were done anyway. Screwing up has never been a risk people considered worthy enough to stop a scientific experiment.
In order to publish and SELL this information on CD/DVD, does the Wikipedia Foundation have to get the permission of all the article writers, or is there, perhaps, a clause on the website that says something like 'we own all the stuff put on here'. What would happen if Slashdot sold versions of article comments on DVD?
has just been executed. Welcome to slashdot.
Says who? I don't see anything in the Constitution about it not applying to US citizens.
between file swapping and phishing.
also likes to beat a gag to death...It's an interesting form of humor.