Well, when my power goes out, I'm still on the Internet for hours.
How nice for you. So am I, but only because my internet is DSL. Almost every time there is a power failure at my house (in a small town, 2000 people) the cable goes out. I have to assume that that means that my phone service would be down as well.
Fortunately, my landline phone has not failed since I moved into my house. In fact, I can recall only one time in my entire life that the phone service went out, but if I had a nickel for every time the cable went out (even without a power failure!) I'd be Bill Gates.
Maybe in New York this works, but here in the SF Bay Area it fails miserably. You can listen to the station that broadcasts traffic every 10 minutes, and since the Bay Area is so freaking huge, [i]they don't always announce all problems at all traffic breaks.[/i] So, you have to listen to the radio for 30 minutes to hear the announcement that the road you are on is slow, and oops, you're already in that traffic jam.
Radio and other passive communication methods completely fail - I need to be able to say "I'm on 17 in Campbell - what's traffic like?" and get an answer, not hope that some radio guy decided to get around to me sometime in the next 30 minutes.
Here's a thought: Protected witnesses in Iowa start dying. You don't know why, but suddenly you want to notify all protected witnesses in Iowa or any neighboring state, and perhaps relocate them.
You could spend 30 seconds crafting a query in some database to do this, or you could have 20 flunkies sifting through your paper files - and each flunky is a security risk.
Paper is irresponsible for any data you might actually need to do anything with. This information should be in a database that is not connected to anything except when access is needed.
But most likely this could not be used to cure osteosarcoma, as stimulating growth of a cancer is probably not the best idea.
I think his point assumed that the standard treatment for osteosarcoma is to remove a large chunk of bone. After that, it might be handy to grow the bone back rather than implant large numbers of rods/pins/screws and donor bone tissue that could be rejected.
You can no longer buy ReplayTV devices new, they only exist on the second hand market.
And yes, you can induce a 5500 machine to get 5000 level features, but you need a proxy server to "protect" it from the ReplayTV servers upgrading the software.
That said, ReplayTV + poopli rules. I never miss an episode of a show due to power failure or conflicts with other shows.
Fantasy-y - Triple Feature Saruman will build some creatures See ring-wraiths battle for the Ring of Power A great battle rages between two towers At the late night, triple feature, picture show
oh oh oh oh At the late night, triple feature, picture show
oh oh oh oh
Read speed: twice as much is better. Read time: Twice as much is worse.
From TFA:
According to Samsung, the SSD will read and write data at 57 MB/s and 32 MB/s, respectively. We will have to benchmark such a drive in our test lab to verify this claim but if correct, the Flash disk would be about twice as fast as the latest 1.8" hard drive generation, which was measured at a read speed of 24 MB/s by the engineers of Tom's Hardware. The acceleration is most likely not enough to enable instant-on computers, but we would expect Windows computers to cut the system boot time at least in half.
Even if it is reversible, the damage will be done. You leave the office for the weekend, and suddenly every server in your office stops doing whatever business critical stuff it was working on because someone is trying to blackmail Bill Gates.
Even if Microsoft gets it turned on again by Monday, there could be billions of dollars of losses.
If Microsoft or Sony can remotely brick your hardware, what do you want to bet that the security on their "bricking" system will be less strict than the security on your HDCP content?
What happens when some Russian mafia hacker breaks into the "brick hardware at will" system? I can't wait to see the class action lawsuit.
Me: Darn, I've got a fingerprint. [rub rub rub] iPod: Deleting all files, turning volume up to Pete Townsend, and pouring sugar in your gas tank.... [37% complete]
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How nice for you. So am I, but only because my internet is DSL. Almost every time there is a power failure at my house (in a small town, 2000 people) the cable goes out. I have to assume that that means that my phone service would be down as well.
Fortunately, my landline phone has not failed since I moved into my house. In fact, I can recall only one time in my entire life that the phone service went out, but if I had a nickel for every time the cable went out (even without a power failure!) I'd be Bill Gates.
When someone burns it down, you get even more energy out of it!
Maybe in New York this works, but here in the SF Bay Area it fails miserably. You can listen to the station that broadcasts traffic every 10 minutes, and since the Bay Area is so freaking huge, [i]they don't always announce all problems at all traffic breaks.[/i] So, you have to listen to the radio for 30 minutes to hear the announcement that the road you are on is slow, and oops, you're already in that traffic jam.
Radio and other passive communication methods completely fail - I need to be able to say "I'm on 17 in Campbell - what's traffic like?" and get an answer, not hope that some radio guy decided to get around to me sometime in the next 30 minutes.
Here is the real solution...
http://www.511.org/
Here's a thought:
Protected witnesses in Iowa start dying. You don't know why, but suddenly you want to notify all protected witnesses in Iowa or any neighboring state, and perhaps relocate them.
You could spend 30 seconds crafting a query in some database to do this, or you could have 20 flunkies sifting through your paper files - and each flunky is a security risk.
Paper is irresponsible for any data you might actually need to do anything with. This information should be in a database that is not connected to anything except when access is needed.
I think his point assumed that the standard treatment for osteosarcoma is to remove a large chunk of bone. After that, it might be handy to grow the bone back rather than implant large numbers of rods/pins/screws and donor bone tissue that could be rejected.
You must use a recursive acronym, like this:
ADHJACS: ADHJACS Doesn't Help, Just Amplifies Confusion and Silliness
Good luck with your quest, Don. Say hi to Sancho for me.
Yes, it really is "Leafs".
Can't Geordi just reverse the tacyon polarization?
You can no longer buy ReplayTV devices new, they only exist on the second hand market.
And yes, you can induce a 5500 machine to get 5000 level features, but you need a proxy server to "protect" it from the ReplayTV servers upgrading the software.
That said, ReplayTV + poopli rules. I never miss an episode of a show due to power failure or conflicts with other shows.
10 million songs * 3 minutes/song = 57 years.
I demand at least 70 years of free music.
You hear the howling of the E'Coli...
A 2 digit slashdot UID went for $115 two years ago.
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Truly an American icon.
I can hear it now:
Fantasy-y - Triple Feature
Saruman will build some creatures
See ring-wraiths battle for the Ring of Power
A great battle rages between two towers
At the late night, triple feature, picture show
oh oh oh oh
At the late night, triple feature, picture show
oh oh oh oh
Interesting choice. Honda actually builds the Acura NSX, which can give a Ferrari a run for it's money:
h tml
http://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/cars/nsx.
Read time: Twice as much is worse.
From TFA:
Yes, surely smithj@telus.net should be glad you so thoughtfully published his email address on slashdot.
How depressing a song Morrissey will write about the experience.
I'm soaking my cutting blades in alcohol right now...
I didn't believe this, but it's true!
And if your child was regularly having sex with me, maybe I'd link to it's website as well.
Even if it is reversible, the damage will be done. You leave the office for the weekend, and suddenly every server in your office stops doing whatever business critical stuff it was working on because someone is trying to blackmail Bill Gates.
Even if Microsoft gets it turned on again by Monday, there could be billions of dollars of losses.
If Microsoft or Sony can remotely brick your hardware, what do you want to bet that the security on their "bricking" system will be less strict than the security on your HDCP content?
What happens when some Russian mafia hacker breaks into the "brick hardware at will" system? I can't wait to see the class action lawsuit.
Me: Darn, I've got a fingerprint.
[rub rub rub]
iPod: Deleting all files, turning volume up to Pete Townsend, and pouring sugar in your gas tank.... [37% complete]
3) People who realized it was easier to sabotage the other people than to do a good job themselves.
Slashdot has only existed since 1997.