Awesome! I loved reading Choose your own Adventure books as a kid. Of course, sometimes, I would just read the book straight through anyway, to try to figure out what was going on:-)
That would let people come in and make copies of the non-free stuff.
Yes, and they have a photocoper at the library. It is not the job of the library to force patrons to obey the copyright laws. That is the job of law enforcement (in the case of criminal violation). Most libraries I have been to have big signs all over near the photocopier explaining exactly what copyright law allows to be copied, and what is forbidden. They could have similar signs at the computer for burning CDs. Alternatively, they could have a computer set up as a kiosk that would only burn certain preapproved images.
True. However, 1PB would require over 5200 of them. Which would in turn require over 650 machines to stick them in (at 8 drives per node, itself probably a tad high since the bus would grind to a crawl in such a machine). All that adds up to at least half of a million dollars.
You don't really need to have all the drives in computers 7 to a box, you can stick them in a rack. In fact, a good SAN can hold a couple hundred drives.
Well, you could do it like Hushmail does, and encrypt the mail using a client-side java applet so the mail is already encrypted before it even gets to their servers.
First of all I do think the establishments do have the right to block them. I just don't think they should. If the theater took the time to embarassingly boot anyone who's phone rang, ALWAYS, it wouldn't be long until everyone made sure they were off or silent.
This is a great idea. I wish every theatre/opera house/cinema that is considering blocking cell phones instead posted big signs saying they reserved the right to eject people who create a disturbance, including ringing cell phones, and actually did it. You are right, it wouldn't be long until people stopped setting their phones to ring during the show. Of course, the trouble would be figuring out whose phone was ringing. I would hate to get ejected because the person next to me was negligent. Also, wouldn't the staff ejecting someone be at least as distracting as a phone ringing?
if Slashdot moderation were geared towards highly rating those posts that advertised for their sponsors...
By the way, check out ITManagersJournal.com, they have some very interesting things. Also, be sure to buy one of the new Sun rack mount servers, it runs linux and solaris really fast!
I wish a cell phone had an accelerometer and could judge it's situation to provide the correct ring. This would also include a sample from it's microphone (which would be easy to do with existing hardware) and select the correct thing: - use the vibrator only when it's likely in contact with a person - if it's been sitting on the table, then use a light ding instead - otherwise, if its on your person, sense the ambient noise & ring loudly only if needed. (there would be a pocket/hip/purse setting to know how much above ambient it needs to be to get to your ear)
That is a truly great idea. I hate when I am riding the Metro and don't hear my phone ring because I have the volume turned way down, so I turn it up, and the next time it rings (and I'm sitting at my computer) it is way too loud. About the closest thing currently in use is to have it ring progressively louder until answered. That way if you are in a quiet setting, you will hear it after the first ring, but if you are in a noisy setting you will have longer to wait before hearing the loud ring. Of course, by then voice mail picks up just as you are trying to dig the phone out of your pocket.
What is so 'unpalatable' about Firefox? I personally like that name. And the animal it is named after, the Red Panda is pretty neat as well. I just switched my mom over to firefox on windows, and she loves it! No more popups! She certainly didn't complain about the 'unpalatable' name.
the reason I don't use a flip style phone is that they feel too flimsy to me. I am sure they are probably really tough, but they just don't feel solid. I just know I am going to drop it while it's open, and the hinge will bend backwards or something.
I think it would depend on where you live. When I used to live in rural Missouri, it was relatively common for teenagers to blow up mailboxes with hairspray, etc. Obviously no terrorism was involved, just some punk kids. Now if you live in an area where this has never happened, and all of a sudden you find an exploded and burnt mailbox, you might be more worried.
At a train station I frequent, there is an elevator to the platform. Now normally, I never push the "close door" button in elevators, since they don't seem to do anything. This elevator is different. I push the button for the floor I want (there are only two floors, obviously I want the other one... perpahs *that* button is the placebo). The button lights up, and the elevator car just sits there. I have to actually push the "close door" button or the elevator will wait for at least a minute. (I thought I'd wait it out once to see if it would eventually go up but had to push the button eventually so I wouldn't miss the train). As soon as I push the button to close the door, it closes and the elevator rises.
btw, if anyone cares, this is the MARC/Amtrak platform elevator at New Carrolton Station, in Maryland.
That's a great story. I wish I had some mod points left. I think that hearing things like that makes me almost wish I had gone into ee instead of cs. On the other hand, considering my worse-than-usual grades in my analog electronics class, maybe it wasn't such a bad idea to go into software.:-)
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Awesome! I loved reading Choose your own Adventure books as a kid. Of course, sometimes, I would just read the book straight through anyway, to try to figure out what was going on :-)
Well, you could do it like Hushmail does, and encrypt the mail using a client-side java applet so the mail is already encrypted before it even gets to their servers.
check out Fictionwise, they frequently have huge discounts (sometimes even free) on hugo and nebula nominees.
yes, it is like selling someone your car/house for one dollar instead of giving it to them. It's a legal sale, much easier to transfer the title.
Yeah, I also noticed that the routing table can't hold a million entries *grin* but I was mostly just mentioning them as an alternative to Cisco.
yes, but that didn't include mu
What is so 'unpalatable' about Firefox? I personally like that name. And the animal it is named after, the Red Panda is pretty neat as well. I just switched my mom over to firefox on windows, and she loves it! No more popups! She certainly didn't complain about the 'unpalatable' name.
reminds me of Mirror Magic. Highly addictive. I spent hours and hours on that game.
the reason I don't use a flip style phone is that they feel too flimsy to me. I am sure they are probably really tough, but they just don't feel solid. I just know I am going to drop it while it's open, and the hinge will bend backwards or something.
I believe they use sodium nitrite now. And they don't mention shoulders, just pork and ham, salt, water, sugar, sodium nitrite.
this is a good point. If you are doing any encryption, I think you may be limited to 40 bit stuff.
Its a a quote from three dead trolls in a baggie, a canadian humor group
Or another example, SOMEBODY SET UP US THE BOMB!!!
sorry, couldn't resist
I think it would depend on where you live. When I used to live in rural Missouri, it was relatively common for teenagers to blow up mailboxes with hairspray, etc. Obviously no terrorism was involved, just some punk kids. Now if you live in an area where this has never happened, and all of a sudden you find an exploded and burnt mailbox, you might be more worried.
At a train station I frequent, there is an elevator to the platform. Now normally, I never push the "close door" button in elevators, since they don't seem to do anything. This elevator is different. I push the button for the floor I want (there are only two floors, obviously I want the other one... perpahs *that* button is the placebo). The button lights up, and the elevator car just sits there. I have to actually push the "close door" button or the elevator will wait for at least a minute. (I thought I'd wait it out once to see if it would eventually go up but had to push the button eventually so I wouldn't miss the train). As soon as I push the button to close the door, it closes and the elevator rises.
btw, if anyone cares, this is the MARC/Amtrak platform elevator at New Carrolton Station, in Maryland.
That's a great story. I wish I had some mod points left. I think that hearing things like that makes me almost wish I had gone into ee instead of cs. On the other hand, considering my worse-than-usual grades in my analog electronics class, maybe it wasn't such a bad idea to go into software. :-)