It occurs to me that a jetpack would make a convenient escape vehicle after robbing a bank, since police cars would soon lose you. The only problem is that you'd need some means of securing the loot, and there would be a limit to how much you could carry. Oh, and too much load might through you off balance... Presumably, future jetpacks will overcome these limitations.
When I was having my eyes scanned at the office in preparation for LASIK (Dec. 1999), the scanning program raised an access violation as the technician went to save the data. That did not inspire confidence.
Best of all, it has a real inverted T set of arrow keys and a 3x2 set of home/end keys. I hate the way they've changed those on all their models they sell now.
Microsoft fixed the positions of these keys on their Natural 4000.
I still prefer the original Natural though, as it didn't have all those stupid multimedia keys.
The PNG specification allows for private (nonstandard) data chunks that can be flagged to be preserved by any program that doesn't understand them. That would seem to be the most straightforward way to hide redacted pixels in a recoverable way, at least if the input file is PNG.
One day at the Vatican, a papal aide rushes in to the Pope's office and says, "Your Holiness! Good news and bad news!" The Pope replies, "What's the good news?" "Jesus Christ is on the phone." "That's great news, what can be so bad?" "He's calling from Utah."
Just yesterday I wrote a simple program to consolidate two partially-downloaded copies of a file that existed in two dying torrents (no complete copies existed in circulation), based on the premise that the files had runs of zeroes wherever blocks hadn't been downloaded. The result was a more complete copy, which I was then able to redistribute.
It would be nifty to have a program on the laptop send you a list of the local WiFi SSIDs it can see if it ever connects to someone else's wireless network. With enough SSIDs, you may be able to approximate the location based on a sufficiently-large SSID wardriving map. Maybe something like this already exists? SSIDs like "Linksys" and "Default" won't be of any use, but chances are there will be a unique SSID nearby eventually.
Unfortunately, it's not vandalism. (sorry, posted this under the wrong comment earlier...then Slashdot wouldn't let me post a reply to your comment because the comment ID wasn't found...)
Columbia originally had ejection seats for the Commander and Pilot for the first few flights. After crews exceeded two people, however, they replaced the seats with normal ones because it wouldn't be fair for only two of the crew to be able to eject while the rest perished.
Tweak your pagerank algorithm so it improves the position of pages that are xhtml-strict, (or at least well-formed and don't use nonstandard tags), and publicize the fact. That will provide an incentive for people to start making their pages standards-compliant. Currently there is very little incentive to standardize.
Isaac Asimov once suggested that if one needed to determine whether a person claiming to be a scientist on To Tell the Truth was really a scientist or just an impostor, they could write 'unionize' on a piece of paper, hold it up, and ask the person to pronounce the word.
An impostor would probably say 'yoon-yun-ize' while a real scientist would more likely say 'un-ion-ize'.
When I read the headline, I was thinking of ions as well.
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We're not charged particles, so I fail to see what unionization will accomplish...
First atom: I think I've lost an electron!
Second atom: Are you sure?
First atom: Yes, I'm positive!
My girlfriend introduced me to Slashdot in '99.
I ended up marrying her. :)
It occurs to me that a jetpack would make a convenient escape vehicle after robbing a bank, since police cars would soon lose you. The only problem is that you'd need some means of securing the loot, and there would be a limit to how much you could carry. Oh, and too much load might through you off balance... Presumably, future jetpacks will overcome these limitations.
When I was having my eyes scanned at the office in preparation for LASIK (Dec. 1999), the scanning program raised an access violation as the technician went to save the data. That did not inspire confidence.
The surgery went fine, though.
Best of all, it has a real inverted T set of arrow keys and a 3x2 set of home/end keys. I hate the way they've changed those on all their models they sell now.
Microsoft fixed the positions of these keys on their Natural 4000.
I still prefer the original Natural though, as it didn't have all those stupid multimedia keys.
I think they bought the name from the original Atari.
...which is sold by Bell's Hammer Storage division...
I think the Screwdriver Storage Facility in my garage sounds more impressive.
The PNG specification allows for private (nonstandard) data chunks that can be flagged to be preserved by any program that doesn't understand them. That would seem to be the most straightforward way to hide redacted pixels in a recoverable way, at least if the input file is PNG.
One day at the Vatican, a papal aide rushes in to the Pope's office and
says, "Your Holiness! Good news and bad news!" The Pope replies, "What's
the good news?" "Jesus Christ is on the phone." "That's great news, what
can be so bad?" "He's calling from Utah."
Don't forget the Vatican also reversed its position on where unbaptized infants go when they die.
And those of us outside Europe consider it absurd to have to pay for a television license.
The SlashDot Borg Icon for Microsoft needs to be Ballmer not Gates.
I was thinking the same thing.
Perhaps a gorilla with a chair raised over his head?
Just yesterday I wrote a simple program to consolidate two partially-downloaded copies of a file that existed in two dying torrents (no complete copies existed in circulation), based on the premise that the files had runs of zeroes wherever blocks hadn't been downloaded. The result was a more complete copy, which I was then able to redistribute.
That project failed so he moved on to the next item on his agenda, naturally a radar absorbing paint.
Naturally. Because it's the logical next step after trying to grow radishes in worm excrement?
...that nobody posts the GPS coordinates of the dearly departed to a geocaching site.
...solar sail that will circle the Earth...
That's one big sail.
It would be nifty to have a program on the laptop send you a list of the local WiFi SSIDs it can see if it ever connects to someone else's wireless network. With enough SSIDs, you may be able to approximate the location based on a sufficiently-large SSID wardriving map. Maybe something like this already exists? SSIDs like "Linksys" and "Default" won't be of any use, but chances are there will be a unique SSID nearby eventually.
Unfortunately, it's not vandalism. (sorry, posted this under the wrong comment earlier...then Slashdot wouldn't let me post a reply to your comment because the comment ID wasn't found...)
Unfortunately, it's not vandalism.
Columbia originally had ejection seats for the Commander and Pilot for the first few flights. After crews exceeded two people, however, they replaced the seats with normal ones because it wouldn't be fair for only two of the crew to be able to eject while the rest perished.
...if you crossed the beams?
Tweak your pagerank algorithm so it improves the position of pages that are xhtml-strict, (or at least well-formed and don't use nonstandard tags), and publicize the fact. That will provide an incentive for people to start making their pages standards-compliant. Currently there is very little incentive to standardize.
Isaac Asimov once suggested that if one needed to determine whether a person claiming to be a scientist on To Tell the Truth was really a scientist or just an impostor, they could write 'unionize' on a piece of paper, hold it up, and ask the person to pronounce the word.
An impostor would probably say 'yoon-yun-ize' while a real scientist would more likely say 'un-ion-ize'.
When I read the headline, I was thinking of ions as well.
I managed to edit the markers for my former homes in the US, but the "edit" link is missing for the Canadian addresses I've tried.
This sounds a lot like KITT's microwave jammer.