How about a bidding war? I'll not only provide that service for 15 bucks, I'll sing instead of just humming. Wait...that will be doing the opposite of providing a service...maybe I should just offer to hum for 10 bucks. Screw originality.
Windows crashing is simply a power saving feature. It is your computer's way of telling you that you should be shutting your computer off at night.
Just like the blue screen of death is really the blue screen of rest. Bill Gates thought it would be usefull to force people to take breaks after doing lots of work. Haven't you noticed that your computer is much more likely to freeze when you just finished typing 30 pages of text (without backup of course) than after you just finished your first page.
"The U.S. Department of Defense, which faces the possibility of having its GPS-guided weapons come up against Russian-made GPS jammers in Iraq, has antijamming technology at its disposal."
and your article talks about the use of laser guided bombs and such to get around the jammers.
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from the article:
"The U.S. Department of Defense, which faces the possibility of having its GPS-guided weapons come up against Russian-made GPS jammers in Iraq, has antijamming technology at its disposal."
no, the Slashdot readers like these article double posts...because the people who got modded up on the last go around can post the exact same message again...get modded up again and get twice the karma.
along those same lines...My freshman year in college, my roommate used aol (poor guy), anyway his profile on AOL stated that he was from Miami (he never updated it when he went to school) so someone evidentially did a search on profiles and sent out an e-mail from a girl who was supposedly planning on visiting Miami, and needed someone to show her around. The e-mail then said to click the link to find out more about her. Once you click the link you were brought to a pay porn site. It was a rather interesting idea to get someone to click your links. I am guessing they did this for people in other towns as well...perhaps a script that looked at your AOL profile and inserted your home town into the e-mail.
If you watch Friends, you will see the danger of this. If you wife is going to catch you jacking off...it had better be to porn...and not some shark attack show on the discovery channel.
I don't see the problem...they are giving people who don't care about support the ability to access the backdoors. Sure, they could take them out...but they would likely loose the "hacking" customers that way. Now they get the best of both worlds, some people will buy the TIVO because they know it can be hacked...but TIVO can easily deny support to people who break their TIVO doing this since you used an encrypted code, and opened up your TIVO to find it.
I was compiling a program once (I sure as hell wish I remembered which program it was) and it told me that my refrigerator did not have enough beer. The program still compiled of course...it just flashed that error across the screen.
I saw a thing on TV guide once about it. If commercials do die, they may just charge more for TV. I don't remember offhand what the exact number was, but I remember that it really was not all that high.
Of course there are also product placements and such. TV companies can also scroll things in front of your TV screen.
The other day on TNT I was watching some movie about a secret service agent and a cheerleader ran across the screen with a sign advertising the start of college football. I sure hope that does not catch on, because it was annoying as hell.
So basically, there are other ways of making money...some more annoying than others. Personally, I hope that they will simply charge more for TV, it would be much better than dealing with annoying adds. I would also like it if you could choose all channels ala carte instead of paying for over 50 channels that you don't watch, and 10 that you do.
I don't think this is that helpful at this point.
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It is good that people are thinking about how to help the deaf, I just don't see this as all that useful. I am amazed that they have gotten up to 95% accuracy...though I suspect that this is with someone who went through a long training with the device, and they do mention that it has to be calibrated...a lot like the speech to text programs that never really caught on.
I think the annoyances would outweigh the benefits. They would be a pain to deal with...you would constantly have to turn them on and off so they don't start speaking when you are simply using your hands to say, pick something up. They would likely be very easy to break...your hands put things through a lot of stress.
Plus, a hearing person who is motivated can communicate with a deaf person if they put forth any effort. My high school had a program for deaf people, so I saw many of them around school...and never had a problem communicating with them. We did not use proper sign language like they used with each other, but a mix between gestures that we could all figure out, and lip reading. I have run into several of them since then and did not have any trouble communicating without pen or paper. My guess is many of them would rather communicate in this way, than deal with a flawed system that is a pain to use.
That being said...it is good that research is being done on the topic, because it not only opens people's eyes to the hassles that the deaf must go through...but it opens up a possibility where maybe in the future a system like this could be worked out that is more effective...though I think it would be very hard to do, perhaps it would not be impossible.
Notice,
If you are in a business that leaves it's doors unlocked at night, and you notice that someone writes "DUL" (which is engineer speak for doors unlocked) in chalk outside of your office building you might think about locking your doors at night.
When installing doors many people forget to lock them, and malicious users can check your doors and gain access to your company's building.
All these talks about 1984, and evil Bush in response to an article that is speculation are rather premature. The ID design is simply putting together a bunch of pieces from other countries with what the writer thought sounded cool.
*quote from the article* For now, the Bush administration is cool to the idea, but it's not hard to envision the Department of Homeland Security re-examining the concept if further terrorist attacks occur. More than 30 countries, from Italy to Malaysia, have already introduced "smart" ID cards. If you're eventually issued a national card, it will likely incorporate several of the technologies shown here, combined to make the card readable by both high- and low-tech devices. *end quote*
After reading that from the beginning of the article you know that the rest of the article is nothing more than the writers fantasy. Come on, their evidence for the ID card is "it's not hard to envision the Department of Homeland Security re-examining the concept if further terrorist attacks occur"
I could understand the article, and people's reaction if Bush currently said he was pushing the idea (I say currently since a lot of things were batted around right after the attacks that were abandoned when everyone calmed down) but the article itself admits that Bush is not fond of the idea.
If I want fantasy I can go read Terry Goodkind...at least there people will not flip out at the government because of something that is written.
The whole declaring war thing is really just for show anymore. After Nam, people realized that you don't even need to declare war for an extended campaign.
Anymore the government is more likely to simply decide to "liberate" the people of the offending country from their governments, and put a new one in place.
Really, the only chance of our declaring war again is if a powerful country (one that we cannot topple in about a week or so) really pisses us off. For example, if China were to start bombing the USA, we would likely declare war on them.
It does not matter if you are legally correct, if you do not have the money to prove it, the law is against you.
It is one of the annoying things about the US legal system...it is not really based on right or wrong, but on money. If you have enough money, you can twist the law to say just about anything you want it to. You can also swamp and innocent party with so many legal documents, and claims that they have no choice but to give in. It is kind of like a lawyer's version of a DoS, except it is perfectly legal, and accepted.
If you want to buy things cheap, wait till there is glut of the item.
For example, when the Harry Potter DVD came out, many were selling for above what I could buy them for at Best Buy. Many people noticed this, and a few days later there were about 30 copies of the Harry Potter DVD on sale, now going for half the price.
While many buyers to get caught up in the frenzy, sellers do that as well. They see something going for a high price, and all decide at once that they will sell the item as well, which drops the price considerably.
Actually, restricting libraries is something a lot of scientific publications are pushing for. They are getting pissed that people check out, or copy the journals that are in the libraries, instead of buying the journal.
To make matters more complicated, libraries are putting things online, so students of the University can read them at home. At UF we do that by logging into a proxy server.
Of course, the libraries pay a ton of money to buy the licences to do this...but not as much as if every student who used the article had paid for the journal.
If the major scientific journal publishers are able to win their fight...or at least gain some of what they want, maybe book publishers will start doing the same things.
As people start buying more and more things over the internet, we will see more of this. Publishers, Guilds, and such will be fighting to limit any money lost as much as they can.
A week or so ago my roommate was using my computer, and this happened to him. A pop up came up to install some program that connected to www.lop.com (he was at an unrelated website)...he was not paying attention and clicked it, and it changed all kinds of things on my computer. In changed my desktop to an active desktop...keeping my same background...but adding an swf file to the background that would load whenever my desktop refreshed. It also changed my IE favorites, my 404 error message, my search prefs...along with a bunch of other stuff.
I was able to fix everything but the 404 message. Instead of getting the default message, or even the Microsoft error (yes I use IE...and I will burn in hell for it) that lets you fix what you type...it takes me to www.lop.com. For example if I type: "http://www.asdflkj.com" I go to http://www.lop.com/dnserror.cgi?s=http://www.asdfl kj.com/
I cannot figure out how to fix this. Could someone please tell me how to get rid of the setting. I have tried looking for lop in the registry, uninstalling with the add remove programs, I have even banned www.lop.com from messing with my computer with my firewall. This has killed their adds...but it still goes to their page when I type an internet addy incorrectly.
and 2 warnings to everyone.
1)Never let a roommate use your computer.
2)Never install any program that says www.lop.com on it.
People keep asking why they don't know when it will hit"
"The re-entry is uncontrolled, and due to potential solar flux variations, time and location predictions will not be reliable until only a few hours before the re-entry event," said Scott Hull"
And contrary to what the original post says, the batteries are not 33 pounds each. That is the total weight of all of them.
Initial analysis indicates that only four small stainless-steel batteries, weighing a total of 15 kilograms (33 pounds) will survive re-entry."
I don't know if I really trust a machine to turn my voice into something that other people will want to hear.
If I am at a Karaoke bar...and drink enough beer, I might not actually sound any better...but at least I will not care that I suck...and will not remember it well enough to be embarrassed in the morning.
Though if I mixed the machine with alcohol, maybe I will have the best of both worlds
paying for the name is can sometimes be worth it...since they know that if something goes wrong, and they don't fix it...their name looks bad.
Both I, and one of my roommates have gateway computers. When any of the original hardware had problems (whether it was our fault, or gateway's) they replaced it free of charge without any hassle. I had a 10 gig hard drive crash twice, so they sent me a 30 gig to replace it for free. It did not take lots of hounding on my part (which I have had to deal with when dealing with other companies) I just told the tech support person, that a drive should not crash twice in a year, and if I reformat it again, it will simply crash again. He agreed, and sent me a new (larger) hard drive. I did not even pay shipping.
My roommate spilled coke on his keyboard and mouse...so they replaced them for free. When he wanted to upgrade to a P4, they walked him through the upgrade, and even found him a board that would let him use his old sdram (they did recommend that he not do it that way...but since it was cheaper that is what he wanted).
If I ever do buy a computer from a company again...as opposed to simply upgrading the one I have, it will be a gateway, simply because I liked dealing with them. I have dealt with IBM, Dell, and Compaq in the past (IBM for myself, and the others for friends/family) and gateway was much easier to deal with than the rest.
So, basically...paying for a name is not all that bad...IF the company lives up to their name.
It is also important to note that these teachers, often have a room packed full of desks, with 35 students, many of which don't want to learn...when the room is made for 28 students. They often don't even have the textbooks that they need. Add this to the fact that they follow a system of required topics, often mandated by the county telling them what they have to teach.
There simply is not the time, nor the room to set up stations for computer assembly at many public schools. Teachers have a hard enough time dealing with what they are required to teach.
If you don't get UPN and you wish to watch the show, be sure you check your other channels. I don't get UPN, but my provider puts popular UPN shows (such as voyager...and now Enterprise, Buffy, and Roswell) on WB. They often show at different times...for example Enterprise will be shown Thursday at 10:00pm (so the WB can show the Indian in the cupboard tonight) but, they are shown eventually. Check http://www.tvguide.com , for the listings in your area.
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How about a bidding war? I'll not only provide that service for 15 bucks, I'll sing instead of just humming. Wait...that will be doing the opposite of providing a service...maybe I should just offer to hum for 10 bucks. Screw originality.
Windows crashing is simply a power saving feature. It is your computer's way of telling you that you should be shutting your computer off at night.
Just like the blue screen of death is really the blue screen of rest. Bill Gates thought it would be usefull to force people to take breaks after doing lots of work. Haven't you noticed that your computer is much more likely to freeze when you just finished typing 30 pages of text (without backup of course) than after you just finished your first page.
True, but the USA has ways around them.
this is from the original article:
"The U.S. Department of Defense, which faces the possibility of having its GPS-guided weapons come up against Russian-made GPS jammers in Iraq, has antijamming technology at its disposal."
and your article talks about the use of laser guided bombs and such to get around the jammers.
from the article:
"The U.S. Department of Defense, which faces the possibility of having its GPS-guided weapons come up against Russian-made GPS jammers in Iraq, has antijamming technology at its disposal."
I generally tell credit card companies that I am alergic to plastic.
usually they get flustered and hang up...but the other day I had a guy ask if that ment I could not drink from coke bottles.
Out of all the things he could have thought of that would make having a plastic alergy bad...the best he could come up was drinking coke.
So I said...its Ok...I can still use the glass bottles. He then said "I'm sorry" about ten times and hung up.
Sadly...it does not always work. Today I used the same comment...and the woman from discover just said...But there is no annual fee.
no, the Slashdot readers like these article double posts...because the people who got modded up on the last go around can post the exact same message again...get modded up again and get twice the karma.
along those same lines...My freshman year in college, my roommate used aol (poor guy), anyway his profile on AOL stated that he was from Miami (he never updated it when he went to school) so someone evidentially did a search on profiles and sent out an e-mail from a girl who was supposedly planning on visiting Miami, and needed someone to show her around. The e-mail then said to click the link to find out more about her. Once you click the link you were brought to a pay porn site. It was a rather interesting idea to get someone to click your links. I am guessing they did this for people in other towns as well...perhaps a script that looked at your AOL profile and inserted your home town into the e-mail.
If you watch Friends, you will see the danger of this. If you wife is going to catch you jacking off...it had better be to porn...and not some shark attack show on the discovery channel.
I don't see the problem...they are giving people who don't care about support the ability to access the backdoors. Sure, they could take them out...but they would likely loose the "hacking" customers that way. Now they get the best of both worlds, some people will buy the TIVO because they know it can be hacked...but TIVO can easily deny support to people who break their TIVO doing this since you used an encrypted code, and opened up your TIVO to find it.
I was compiling a program once (I sure as hell wish I remembered which program it was) and it told me that my refrigerator did not have enough beer. The program still compiled of course...it just flashed that error across the screen.
I saw a thing on TV guide once about it. If commercials do die, they may just charge more for TV. I don't remember offhand what the exact number was, but I remember that it really was not all that high.
Of course there are also product placements and such. TV companies can also scroll things in front of your TV screen.
The other day on TNT I was watching some movie about a secret service agent and a cheerleader ran across the screen with a sign advertising the start of college football. I sure hope that does not catch on, because it was annoying as hell.
So basically, there are other ways of making money...some more annoying than others. Personally, I hope that they will simply charge more for TV, it would be much better than dealing with annoying adds. I would also like it if you could choose all channels
ala carte instead of paying for over 50 channels that you don't watch, and 10 that you do.
It is good that people are thinking about how to help the deaf, I just don't see this as all that useful. I am amazed that they have gotten up to 95% accuracy...though I suspect that this is with someone who went through a long training with the device, and they do mention that it has to be calibrated...a lot like the speech to text programs that never really caught on.
I think the annoyances would outweigh the benefits. They would be a pain to deal with...you would constantly have to turn them on and off so they don't start speaking when you are simply using your hands to say, pick something up. They would likely be very easy to break...your hands put things through a lot of stress.
Plus, a hearing person who is motivated can communicate with a deaf person if they put forth any effort. My high school had a program for deaf people, so I saw many of them around school...and never had a problem communicating with them. We did not use proper sign language like they used with each other, but a mix between gestures that we could all figure out, and lip reading. I have run into several of them since then and did not have any trouble communicating without pen or paper. My guess is many of them would rather communicate in this way, than deal with a flawed system that is a pain to use.
That being said...it is good that research is being done on the topic, because it not only opens people's eyes to the hassles that the deaf must go through...but it opens up a possibility where maybe in the future a system like this could be worked out that is more effective...though I think it would be very hard to do, perhaps it would not be impossible.
Notice,
If you are in a business that leaves it's doors unlocked at night, and you notice that someone writes "DUL" (which is engineer speak for doors unlocked) in chalk outside of your office building you might think about locking your doors at night.
When installing doors many people forget to lock them, and malicious users can check your doors and gain access to your company's building.
All these talks about 1984, and evil Bush in response to an article that is speculation are rather premature. The ID design is simply putting together a bunch of pieces from other countries with what the writer thought sounded cool.
*quote from the article*
For now, the Bush administration is cool to the idea, but it's not hard to envision the Department of Homeland Security re-examining the concept if further terrorist attacks occur. More than 30 countries, from Italy to Malaysia, have already introduced "smart" ID cards. If you're eventually issued a national card, it will likely incorporate several of the technologies shown here, combined to make the card readable by both high- and low-tech devices.
*end quote*
After reading that from the beginning of the article you know that the rest of the article is nothing more than the writers fantasy. Come on, their evidence for the ID card is "it's not hard to envision the Department of Homeland Security re-examining the concept if further terrorist attacks occur"
I could understand the article, and people's reaction if Bush currently said he was pushing the idea (I say currently since a lot of things were batted around right after the attacks that were abandoned when everyone calmed down) but the article itself admits that Bush is not fond of the idea.
If I want fantasy I can go read Terry Goodkind...at least there people will not flip out at the government because of something that is written.
The whole declaring war thing is really just for show anymore. After Nam, people realized that you don't even need to declare war for an extended campaign.
Anymore the government is more likely to simply decide to "liberate" the people of the offending country from their governments, and put a new one in place.
Really, the only chance of our declaring war again is if a powerful country (one that we cannot topple in about a week or so) really pisses us off. For example, if China were to start bombing the USA, we would likely declare war on them.
It does not matter if you are legally correct, if you do not have the money to prove it, the law is against you.
It is one of the annoying things about the US legal system...it is not really based on right or wrong, but on money. If you have enough money, you can twist the law to say just about anything you want it to. You can also swamp and innocent party with so many legal documents, and claims that they have no choice but to give in. It is kind of like a lawyer's version of a DoS, except it is perfectly legal, and accepted.
If you want to buy things cheap, wait till there is glut of the item.
For example, when the Harry Potter DVD came out, many were selling for above what I could buy them for at Best Buy. Many people noticed this, and a few days later there were about 30 copies of the Harry Potter DVD on sale, now going for half the price.
While many buyers to get caught up in the frenzy, sellers do that as well. They see something going for a high price, and all decide at once that they will sell the item as well, which drops the price considerably.
Actually, restricting libraries is something a lot of scientific publications are pushing for. They are getting pissed that people check out, or copy the journals that are in the libraries, instead of buying the journal.
To make matters more complicated, libraries are putting things online, so students of the University can read them at home. At UF we do that by logging into a proxy server.
Of course, the libraries pay a ton of money to buy the licences to do this...but not as much as if every student who used the article had paid for the journal.
If the major scientific journal publishers are able to win their fight...or at least gain some of what they want, maybe book publishers will start doing the same things.
As people start buying more and more things over the internet, we will see more of this. Publishers, Guilds, and such will be fighting to limit any money lost as much as they can.
A week or so ago my roommate was using my computer, and this happened to him. A pop up came up to install some program that connected to www.lop.com (he was at an unrelated website)...he was not paying attention and clicked it, and it changed all kinds of things on my computer. In changed my desktop to an active desktop...keeping my same background...but adding an swf file to the background that would load whenever my desktop refreshed. It also changed my IE favorites, my 404 error message, my search prefs...along with a bunch of other stuff. I was able to fix everything but the 404 message. Instead of getting the default message, or even the Microsoft error (yes I use IE...and I will burn in hell for it) that lets you fix what you type...it takes me to www.lop.com. For example if I type: "http://www.asdflkj.com" I go to http://www.lop.com/dnserror.cgi?s=http://www.asdfl kj.com/
I cannot figure out how to fix this. Could someone please tell me how to get rid of the setting. I have tried looking for lop in the registry, uninstalling with the add remove programs, I have even banned www.lop.com from messing with my computer with my firewall. This has killed their adds...but it still goes to their page when I type an internet addy incorrectly.
and 2 warnings to everyone.
1)Never let a roommate use your computer. 2)Never install any program that says www.lop.com on it.
Thank you
People keep asking why they don't know when it will hit"
"The re-entry is uncontrolled, and due to potential solar flux variations, time and location predictions will not be reliable until only a few hours before the re-entry event," said Scott Hull"
And contrary to what the original post says, the batteries are not 33 pounds each. That is the total weight of all of them.
Initial analysis indicates that only four small stainless-steel batteries, weighing a total of 15 kilograms (33 pounds) will survive re-entry."
I don't know if I really trust a machine to turn my voice into something that other people will want to hear.
If I am at a Karaoke bar...and drink enough beer, I might not actually sound any better...but at least I will not care that I suck...and will not remember it well enough to be embarrassed in the morning.
Though if I mixed the machine with alcohol, maybe I will have the best of both worlds
paying for the name is can sometimes be worth it...since they know that if something goes wrong, and they don't fix it...their name looks bad.
Both I, and one of my roommates have gateway computers. When any of the original hardware had problems (whether it was our fault, or gateway's) they replaced it free of charge without any hassle. I had a 10 gig hard drive crash twice, so they sent me a 30 gig to replace it for free. It did not take lots of hounding on my part (which I have had to deal with when dealing with other companies) I just told the tech support person, that a drive should not crash twice in a year, and if I reformat it again, it will simply crash again. He agreed, and sent me a new (larger) hard drive. I did not even pay shipping.
My roommate spilled coke on his keyboard and mouse...so they replaced them for free. When he wanted to upgrade to a P4, they walked him through the upgrade, and even found him a board that would let him use his old sdram (they did recommend that he not do it that way...but since it was cheaper that is what he wanted).
If I ever do buy a computer from a company again...as opposed to simply upgrading the one I have, it will be a gateway, simply because I liked dealing with them. I have dealt with IBM, Dell, and Compaq in the past (IBM for myself, and the others for friends/family) and gateway was much easier to deal with than the rest.
So, basically...paying for a name is not all that bad...IF the company lives up to their name.
It is also important to note that these teachers, often have a room packed full of desks, with 35 students, many of which don't want to learn...when the room is made for 28 students. They often don't even have the textbooks that they need. Add this to the fact that they follow a system of required topics, often mandated by the county telling them what they have to teach.
There simply is not the time, nor the room to set up stations for computer assembly at many public schools. Teachers have a hard enough time dealing with what they are required to teach.
If you don't get UPN and you wish to watch the show, be sure you check your other channels. I don't get UPN, but my provider puts popular UPN shows (such as voyager...and now Enterprise, Buffy, and Roswell) on WB. They often show at different times...for example Enterprise will be shown Thursday at 10:00pm (so the WB can show the Indian in the cupboard tonight) but, they are shown eventually. Check http://www.tvguide.com , for the listings in your area.