While school kids may yet learn to scam extra lunches and play hooky through the use of gummi candy biometrics, the headline is bogus. None of the linked articles reported that any kids anywhere are doing anything with gummi bears except fucking up their teeth.
Are you a federal government agency? You won't be allowed to pursue this foolishness of building PCs out of spare parts. You'll need an enterprise architecture plan and you'll need to document your proposed IT investments on Exhibits 300 and 53. See OMB Circular A-11. Uncle Sam doesn't want to wind up with a bunch of computer parts.
I would like to know if 2D graphene sheets are flammable, and if they will start standard charcoal briquettes without having to also use lighter fluid.
Isn't it illegal under FCC regs to operate a cell phone at high altitudes? Doesn't the RF signal get detected by large numbers of cell stations, thus confusing the cell phone system? This is supposedly the rationale for making you turn off your cell phone on commercial jetliners.
Your wife or GF doesn't go to the salon just to get clean hair. She goes to get out of the house. She goes to interact and gossip with the other people there. This device will sit unused no matter how effective it is in deterging oil and dirt from hair.
How about being a member of *any* group (non-religious, sexual, intellectual, ethnic . . . ) that is later legislated to be "dangerous" or "stupid", or is just plain discriminated against?
AEG is a front for billionaire Philip Anschutz. Remember the RIAA lawsuits against all those college students? Turns out the mastermind behind that scheme was Edgar Bronfman, the one who ran his family's liquor business into the ground and who then bought a record company.
I arrived in '75 for my freshman year at NYU, and I was one of a group of students who hung around the pinball machines at the dorm. Steve was a fellow student, known as a wheeler-dealer and an elite scalper who could get you front row at Madison Square Garden for anything, the Who, the Stones, sections A and R, front orchestra. We would serve as his ticket-buying crew, often lining up all night behind the metal barricades of the MSG box office. Anyway, Steve somehow wrested the dorm pinball concession away from the existing operator. I got the job of pinball repairman. The pinball machines of '75 were strictly electromechanical Gottliebs and Willamses which, of course, used lots of relays, solenoids and stepping motors. In '76 the first solid state (TTL) machine came out, Spirit of '76. No more relays and stepping motors, only the solenoids and contact sensors (e.g. rollovers and bumpers) remained. What an interesting challenge to go from troubleshooting electromechanical logic to TTL! We had a Pong, but the first real arcade vidgame was Atari Starship One followed by some submarine-hunt game with a periscope. Next came Breakout, Clean Sweep, and Lunar Lander, followed closely by Asteroids, Pac-Man and Galaxians. These last were huge moneymakers; Steve decided to expand. He set himself up as vidgame and pin purveyor to various candy stores and bodegas. One of these was out in Flushing, Queens, it was called Space Age Amusements. One day I get a service call that all of the machines have gone haywire. I observe that it is a hot summer day. I remember the National Semiconductor TTL Handbook and that the operating temperature range for commercial grade TTL ICs is 0-100 degrees F. I tell Steve I have to go and get some boxer fans from one of the (former) electronics surplus stores on Canal Street. He thinks I'm nuts, but after I put the fans in the back of the machines they suddenly started working again (and the game OEMs started building fans into their products). Now Steve thinks I'm a genius. He calls me "the fan man." The mob owned the machine distributors, probably still do, and occasionally we would go out to Jersey or Pennsylvania to buy the equipment. One time I'm driving this van Steve borrowed from this mob guy. I stop for some cannoli on 11th street and park the van on the street. Unfortunately the wiseguy never paid his NYC parking tickets and the van got towed. Steve and I had to go and explain to the mob guy what happened to his van. That was an experience I won't soon forget.
All they have to do is model the stock market after Swoopo. You can place an order to buy 10,000 shares of Exxon at 0.01, but it'll cost you 60c. But hey, Exxon for 0.01 is a great deal if you can get it.
No part of any Passenger Facility Charge, Sept. 11th Security Fee, or any other local airport tax or surcharge on airline travel, shall be spent on first-class air travel for any directors, managers, or employees of the local airport authority that collects the fee or tax.
Sooner or later it will be common for DNSSEC-enabled servers to have expired keys, and the sysadmin who installed DNSSEC (the only person who knows how to renew the key), will have moved on. At that point Aunt Maude will be surfing the Net and she'll get a popup, "Warning! Zone server key has expired!" (or whatever). Auntie will of course click on "Continue Anyway," because she's seen that popup and bypassed it many times before. Of course, sooner or later Maude will log on to what she thinks is the bank....
Um, because there is a large user base out there that needs a migration path? Because some of us still have Palm memo, contact, and calendar databases?
I was an att.net webmail business user (my philosophy is, you get what you pay for) but AT&T discontinued its in-house webmail service and dumped me onto Yahoo Mail, an email service for children. The first change was that I can't view more than one email account at a time, I have to log out and in and out again. Drives me nuts. Now I either have to put up with Yahoo's incompetence or change my email address that I've had for years. Good to know Google, at least, respects its users.
I probably should have tried harder to get a job there back in the day, when being a MS employee was a path to personal financial success. Nowadays every couple of months I get a call from some child MS recruiter, who doesn't actually work for MS but for some Recruitment Process Outsourcing company, who hasn't read my resume, and who wants me to do some job that anybody who actually did read my resume would realize is a lousy match to my skill set. Not only that, he wants me to work for some other outsourcing company so that they can take 1/3 of my bill rate and send me to work there with few benefits and a funny-colored badge that says Non-Microsoft Employee. They can stuff it. I assume their sheer size and inertia will carry them for another decade or two as a going concern, but I wouldn't give them much longer than that.
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But if the surface of the fingerprint scanner was covered in cyanoacrylate, good luck getting your fingerprint back....
While school kids may yet learn to scam extra lunches and play hooky through the use of gummi candy biometrics, the headline is bogus. None of the linked articles reported that any kids anywhere are doing anything with gummi bears except fucking up their teeth.
I'd settle for speedier, botless computers.
No, more like a 'without platformate/with platformate' story.
Are you a federal government agency? You won't be allowed to pursue this foolishness of building PCs out of spare parts. You'll need an enterprise architecture plan and you'll need to document your proposed IT investments on Exhibits 300 and 53. See OMB Circular A-11. Uncle Sam doesn't want to wind up with a bunch of computer parts.
Not "42." 52. As in 0o52. Don't any of you speak octal/i> anymore?
I would like to know if 2D graphene sheets are flammable, and if they will start standard charcoal briquettes without having to also use lighter fluid.
Isn't it illegal under FCC regs to operate a cell phone at high altitudes? Doesn't the RF signal get detected by large numbers of cell stations, thus confusing the cell phone system? This is supposedly the rationale for making you turn off your cell phone on commercial jetliners.
Your wife or GF doesn't go to the salon just to get clean hair. She goes to get out of the house. She goes to interact and gossip with the other people there. This device will sit unused no matter how effective it is in deterging oil and dirt from hair.
In the future, everyone will have to carry a GPS, not just "prisoners," and you won't be allowed in Beverly Hills without an appointment.
You mean the glitch in my PC is really POM dependent?
How about being a member of *any* group (non-religious, sexual, intellectual, ethnic . . . ) that is later legislated to be "dangerous" or "stupid", or is just plain discriminated against?
You mean like over-40 job applicants at Google?
AEG is a front for billionaire Philip Anschutz. Remember the RIAA lawsuits against all those college students? Turns out the mastermind behind that scheme was Edgar Bronfman, the one who ran his family's liquor business into the ground and who then bought a record company.
I've been reading slashdot too long. I thought it said "alzheimer's patents."
I arrived in '75 for my freshman year at NYU, and I was one of a group of students who hung around the pinball machines at the dorm. Steve was a fellow student, known as a wheeler-dealer and an elite scalper who could get you front row at Madison Square Garden for anything, the Who, the Stones, sections A and R, front orchestra. We would serve as his ticket-buying crew, often lining up all night behind the metal barricades of the MSG box office. Anyway, Steve somehow wrested the dorm pinball concession away from the existing operator. I got the job of pinball repairman. The pinball machines of '75 were strictly electromechanical Gottliebs and Willamses which, of course, used lots of relays, solenoids and stepping motors. In '76 the first solid state (TTL) machine came out, Spirit of '76. No more relays and stepping motors, only the solenoids and contact sensors (e.g. rollovers and bumpers) remained. What an interesting challenge to go from troubleshooting electromechanical logic to TTL! We had a Pong, but the first real arcade vidgame was Atari Starship One followed by some submarine-hunt game with a periscope. Next came Breakout, Clean Sweep, and Lunar Lander, followed closely by Asteroids, Pac-Man and Galaxians. These last were huge moneymakers; Steve decided to expand. He set himself up as vidgame and pin purveyor to various candy stores and bodegas. One of these was out in Flushing, Queens, it was called Space Age Amusements. One day I get a service call that all of the machines have gone haywire. I observe that it is a hot summer day. I remember the National Semiconductor TTL Handbook and that the operating temperature range for commercial grade TTL ICs is 0-100 degrees F. I tell Steve I have to go and get some boxer fans from one of the (former) electronics surplus stores on Canal Street. He thinks I'm nuts, but after I put the fans in the back of the machines they suddenly started working again (and the game OEMs started building fans into their products). Now Steve thinks I'm a genius. He calls me "the fan man." The mob owned the machine distributors, probably still do, and occasionally we would go out to Jersey or Pennsylvania to buy the equipment. One time I'm driving this van Steve borrowed from this mob guy. I stop for some cannoli on 11th street and park the van on the street. Unfortunately the wiseguy never paid his NYC parking tickets and the van got towed. Steve and I had to go and explain to the mob guy what happened to his van. That was an experience I won't soon forget.
All they have to do is model the stock market after Swoopo. You can place an order to buy 10,000 shares of Exxon at 0.01, but it'll cost you 60c. But hey, Exxon for 0.01 is a great deal if you can get it.
You mean if you win the award you have to actually go to Ottumwa? I thought towns with names like that were only found on job postings....
No part of any Passenger Facility Charge, Sept. 11th Security Fee, or any other local airport tax or surcharge on airline travel, shall be spent on first-class air travel for any directors, managers, or employees of the local airport authority that collects the fee or tax.
Montana dental floss isn't all it's cracked up to be, either.
Damn, I'm always running into people like you at job interviews.
Sooner or later it will be common for DNSSEC-enabled servers to have expired keys, and the sysadmin who installed DNSSEC (the only person who knows how to renew the key), will have moved on. At that point Aunt Maude will be surfing the Net and she'll get a popup, "Warning! Zone server key has expired!" (or whatever). Auntie will of course click on "Continue Anyway," because she's seen that popup and bypassed it many times before. Of course, sooner or later Maude will log on to what she thinks is the bank....
Um, because there is a large user base out there that needs a migration path? Because some of us still have Palm memo, contact, and calendar databases?
I was an att.net webmail business user (my philosophy is, you get what you pay for) but AT&T discontinued its in-house webmail service and dumped me onto Yahoo Mail, an email service for children. The first change was that I can't view more than one email account at a time, I have to log out and in and out again. Drives me nuts. Now I either have to put up with Yahoo's incompetence or change my email address that I've had for years. Good to know Google, at least, respects its users.
I probably should have tried harder to get a job there back in the day, when being a MS employee was a path to personal financial success. Nowadays every couple of months I get a call from some child MS recruiter, who doesn't actually work for MS but for some Recruitment Process Outsourcing company, who hasn't read my resume, and who wants me to do some job that anybody who actually did read my resume would realize is a lousy match to my skill set. Not only that, he wants me to work for some other outsourcing company so that they can take 1/3 of my bill rate and send me to work there with few benefits and a funny-colored badge that says Non-Microsoft Employee. They can stuff it. I assume their sheer size and inertia will carry them for another decade or two as a going concern, but I wouldn't give them much longer than that.
If a lot of people take a shower all at once will this cause a network latency?