Suicidal terrorists would become homicide victims before they took the plane down. But normal people with guns aren't too accurate, may not react well under stress and will kill more innocent people than terrorists.
Terrorism is a risk that comes with freedom, you're much better worrying about getting killed in a car accident, by heart disease, getting eaten by Shamu, trampled in a stampede in Brooklyn, sucked through a jet turbine while skydiving, poisoned by the KGB or eaten by a rabid pack of bunnies.
I'd much rather have personal freedom than a.005% better chance of living next year.
It's hard to tell whether you're joking and some people may believe you so...
The Moller Skycar has been "just around the corner" since 1974, and the only test flights have been while the damn thing is tethered to a crane.
I want a flying car as much as anyone, but there are just so many hurdles.
I got old (fat) PSP for Christmas so I spent some time modding it out and here's what I've found.
4gb memory sticks can be found for $60 online and are a great investment.
You can use this program to backup your UMD disks and then compress them, put them on the memory stick, and tada.
iR Shell is awesome, it provides a the ability to control IR devices, nice skinnable shell, good file browser, lets you switch out of games (think alt-tab), play MP3s while you're playing a game and mute game music, toggle CPU speed, do adhoc wifi transfers between PSPs, take screenshots and much more, you can find a larger list of features (and the un-official forum) here.
PSP Vault has a very nice downloads section, tons of guides and very active forums. Psp-homebrew has a great list of homebrew you can sort by firmware version. compatibility QJ.net is another good resource.
PSP Radio lets you stream internet radio on your PSP.
There are NES, SNES, GB, GBC, GBA, Sega Genesis, Neo-Geo, N64, Atari 2600, C64 and probably others.
Wifisniffer is a great probably that does just what it says.
Portable VNC lets you control your PC with your PSP and there is software that will let you use your PSP as your gamepad for your PC.
PSP XTI is a TI-92 (Graphing calculator) emulator for the PSP.
GPS is soon coming to the PSP (USA only), it will be available as a UMD but no release date or price has been set.
There are many others, just browse the file collections and forums.
If you have a PSP with the factory firmware and wish to downgrade it can be an annoying process, it depends on what version firmware you're running. This forum post as has the information you need.
Used PSPs can be had for less than $100 in stores near me, including a 1gb pro-duo stick, I think I've squeezed $100 worth of features out of it.
Si Hoc Legere Scis Nimium Eruditionis Habes
I was reading about these earlier and one engineer who set a system up for his house said that even with so many lights each light is only on about 20% of the time, and 40,000+ lights only added $80 to his power bill per month. So it may not be as costly electricity wise as you think.
The show ran from September 16, 1989 to May 11, 1996 (according to wikipedia)and NBC is bringing it back on January 6th. If you've never seen this video from american gladiators you're missing out, they had some stupid gladiators.
The article says the National Academy of Sciences started the study in 2002, and it took 18 months, to give them the benefit of the doubt let's say that they finished the study in 2004 and found that the method was severely flawed. Then they waited an entire year to stop using the technique and the report they issued downplayed the severity of the issue saying that they still stood behind the science, even when they knew it could have been wrong. Nobody in the FBI or the Justice Department tried to identify the hundreds of cases that used their analysis, nor did they notify the defendants, prosecutors or judges involved in these cases.
What kind of twisted lies do you have to tell yourself to justify keeping possibly innocent people behind bars? They weren't just trying to ignore the science, they didn't notify defendants or their lawyers when they knew their time for appeal was almost up. Oh sorry, you appealed too late, no doubt the evidence against you is utter horseshit, but sorry, it's been a few years and everyone else has moved on, get used to jail.
It took 60 Minutes to actually get some progress on this, I hope all the people involved in keeping evidence that could exonerate someone get a fair punishment.
Brian Laptop: myspace is like the vegas of the internet.... a lot of people want to go but no one wants to admit what happens when they're there from bash
I'm not sure if I fully understood what you are saying, but regardless, this could be useful to somebody. You can add assembly code into your C programs. Something like this:
int myfunc() {
asm {
mov ax, 0;
}
return 0;
}
On intel compilers there's another way, just search google.
Actually Farnsworth won both patent lawsuits going against RCA, Sarnoff just pushed the engineers at RCA to work around the patents that Farnsworth had. RCA finally unveiled the television at the World's Fair in 1933 and claimed complete credit for it, despite the fact that they had in fact copied Farnsworth's method and just worked around the specifics. Sarnoff even sent his top engineer to Farnsworth's lab to look at the devices, Farnsworth belived it was out of intellectual curiousity, but it turned out to be an opportunity for RCA to steal the technology. The reason RCA was able to push forward with the television was because Farnsworth's patents expired just as television was become a viable medium and commonplace in houses.
I think slashdotters a missing a big use of this new Robo-conference technology. This is one of the first chances to see the BSOD in action. I can imagine it now, the presenter takes the stage to begin the presentation, only to be interrupted by 200 mini-robots falling out of line, dropping to the floor and yelling "Access violation at XXXX:XXXX" in a sort of monotone gurgling voice, hours of fun for the linux geeks, and it never gets old.
I was a contestant at the Intel 2002 International Science and Engineering Fair, and I had a chance to check out the sign language glove. It worked pretty well, and the recognition was fairly quick, it did require a little delay between signs but on the whole it was a very interesting project and something that has good practical applications. Also, as the above poster mentioned it it just a beginning, and a few steps away from implementing technology like this in other areas.
I know one piece of software that does they, they used to use it at my high school, it worked pretty well. It's called Deep Freeze, you could do anything you wanted to the computer, and when you rebooted the system was back just the way it was before, with all software installed during the last session gone, everything. You can find it here
How much more rediculous do these trials need to become before there is any actual public outrage rather that just some rambling on slashdot? This guy hadn't even finished creating the device (for DirectTV at least) which was somehow going to net him this incredible lump of money. I realize that it is standard practice for corporations to up the damages to the maximum possible, but there should at least be a point where common sense steps in and takes over...
It isn't even that they just claimed an insane amount of damages, they were awarded it! There original figure of $900 million is ludicrous, the final awarded damages is still just as bad from the perspective of someone without a wallet equivilent to that of Bill Gates. Five-hundred dollars a month, for 30,000 years ($180 million total in restitution). Now what could one man create, in a limited market (how many sattelite pirates could there possibly be?), that would cost a company $180 million assuming he was even able to finish it. Let's say that a DirectTV subscription will cost you $100 per month, now that's $1,200 dollars per household per year. So in order to reach that $180 million dollar figure, 150,000 people would have to buy this device and deprive DirectTV of $100 dollars every month, not to mention that it would be nearly impossible for this guy to produce that many devices, or even to have that many customers, or even 1/5th that many customers. Also, if the company was losing money due to these devices, how long do you think it would take them to change the protocol?
From the article: "An estimated 3 million people illegally watch satellite television using devices that unscramble satellite TV signals. The industry estimates it loses $4 billion a year in revenue."
THREE MILLION PEOPLE? How do they come up with this figure? Do they assume every person that cancels a subscription has turned to using a descrambler? I'd really love to know how they came up with those figures.
This case seems more like a sad reminder of the corporate presence in our legal system rather than a shining example of American justice. When we can be prosecuted for crimes that haven't happened using devices that haven't been built yet, we're in trouble...and it looks like that time is now.
Halo is hugely popular even today, some big tournaments just took place, the AGP ( www.theagp.com ) and Halo50k ( www.halo50k.com ). Both were 4 man events (4v4), I attended and even though my team didn't win (9th place at AGP, 5th at 50k) it was a lot of fun.
Another good video is Halo50k framework, you can find a mirror list here: http://halo.bungie.org/misc/frameworkmirrors.html. Another list of mirrors for the Red vs. Blue movies here: http://www.redvsblue.com/bloodgulch.shtml. A whole list of a bunch more movies here: http://halo.bungie.org/movies.html. And for those that play the game you can find gameplay tricks here: http://halo.bungie.org/tipsntricks/tricks.html
Actually the game designers thought of that. There is a shuffle mode, where the arrows are still at the same points, but turned different ways. There is also left, right, mirror, and a bunch of other options to change the gameplay. There are even freestyle competitions for DDR, you can watch videos of some at www.ddrfreak.com
I've been playing Dance Dance Revolution since the end of may of this year, and I can attest that it is indeed an addictive game, and a fairly fun one at that. When I started I, like so many technically inclined people, had absolutely no rhythm. DDR can be an aid for developing rhythm (most songs are in 4/4 time, there are a few exceptions). Here's a little info for those who haven't played or might be interested:
DDR is a great way to lose weight, when you get good you'll be sweating from just one song, granted it may be an expensive diet (see below for cheaper ways to play)
DDR can be basically free: there are a number of projects dedicated to bringing DDR to the PC (Konami released a version...but it isn't better than some of the freely available ones). There is Dance With Intensity, Diet Diet Revolution, and my personal favorite (also a sourceforge project), Stepmania, www.stepmania.com. You can play with the keyboard, but chances are you don't want to burn fat from just your fingers. You can build a dance pad (you even get a fun hardware project doing this!), you can find links and help on the forums on www.ddrfreak.com - ddrfreak also provides a nice little script that will spit out all the steps for a song, and another script that shows all known machine locations in the US!
If you are lazy (what?) you can buy Konamix (available at www.redoctane.com or Electronics Boutique, and some other places). It runs on a PS1, so you can use the ps2 to play it. You can get a very good (IMO) dance pad from www.redoctane.com for about $100, the ignition 2.0 pad is excellent. You can go with cheaper ones if you wish, but you'll be very frustrated when your skills improve, the mat sticks to your free, and you flop around like a fish out of water.
I know people who saw others playing DDR and thought it was easy, wow, you step on a little pad when an arrow hits the template...their views quickly changed when they played the game. For new players it can be very difficult, but once you are over that little peak you can really start to have fun. I enjoy the challenge of playing more difficult songs.
Slashdot Mirror
Suicidal terrorists would become homicide victims before they took the plane down. But normal people with guns aren't too accurate, may not react well under stress and will kill more innocent people than terrorists. Terrorism is a risk that comes with freedom, you're much better worrying about getting killed in a car accident, by heart disease, getting eaten by Shamu, trampled in a stampede in Brooklyn, sucked through a jet turbine while skydiving, poisoned by the KGB or eaten by a rabid pack of bunnies. I'd much rather have personal freedom than a .005% better chance of living next year.
It's hard to tell whether you're joking and some people may believe you so... The Moller Skycar has been "just around the corner" since 1974, and the only test flights have been while the damn thing is tethered to a crane. I want a flying car as much as anyone, but there are just so many hurdles.
I got old (fat) PSP for Christmas so I spent some time modding it out and here's what I've found.
4gb memory sticks can be found for $60 online and are a great investment.
You can use this program to backup your UMD disks and then compress them, put them on the memory stick, and tada.
iR Shell is awesome, it provides a the ability to control IR devices, nice skinnable shell, good file browser, lets you switch out of games (think alt-tab), play MP3s while you're playing a game and mute game music, toggle CPU speed, do adhoc wifi transfers between PSPs, take screenshots and much more, you can find a larger list of features (and the un-official forum) here.
PSP Vault has a very nice downloads section, tons of guides and very active forums.
Psp-homebrew has a great list of homebrew you can sort by firmware version. compatibility
QJ.net is another good resource.
PSP Radio lets you stream internet radio on your PSP.
There are NES, SNES, GB, GBC, GBA, Sega Genesis, Neo-Geo, N64, Atari 2600, C64 and probably others.
Wifisniffer is a great probably that does just what it says.
PSP Weather is another good one.
PSP HTTPD lets you use your psp as a webserver.
Portable VNC lets you control your PC with your PSP and there is software that will let you use your PSP as your gamepad for your PC.
PSP XTI is a TI-92 (Graphing calculator) emulator for the PSP. GPS is soon coming to the PSP (USA only), it will be available as a UMD but no release date or price has been set.
There are many others, just browse the file collections and forums.
If you have a PSP with the factory firmware and wish to downgrade it can be an annoying process, it depends on what version firmware you're running.
This forum post as has the information you need.
Used PSPs can be had for less than $100 in stores near me, including a 1gb pro-duo stick, I think I've squeezed $100 worth of features out of it.
Si Hoc Legere Scis Nimium Eruditionis Habes
I was reading about these earlier and one engineer who set a system up for his house said that even with so many lights each light is only on about 20% of the time, and 40,000+ lights only added $80 to his power bill per month. So it may not be as costly electricity wise as you think.
The show ran from September 16, 1989 to May 11, 1996 (according to wikipedia)and NBC is bringing it back on January 6th. If you've never seen this video from american gladiators you're missing out, they had some stupid gladiators.
The article says the National Academy of Sciences started the study in 2002, and it took 18 months, to give them the benefit of the doubt let's say that they finished the study in 2004 and found that the method was severely flawed. Then they waited an entire year to stop using the technique and the report they issued downplayed the severity of the issue saying that they still stood behind the science, even when they knew it could have been wrong. Nobody in the FBI or the Justice Department tried to identify the hundreds of cases that used their analysis, nor did they notify the defendants, prosecutors or judges involved in these cases.
What kind of twisted lies do you have to tell yourself to justify keeping possibly innocent people behind bars? They weren't just trying to ignore the science, they didn't notify defendants or their lawyers when they knew their time for appeal was almost up. Oh sorry, you appealed too late, no doubt the evidence against you is utter horseshit, but sorry, it's been a few years and everyone else has moved on, get used to jail.
It took 60 Minutes to actually get some progress on this, I hope all the people involved in keeping evidence that could exonerate someone get a fair punishment.
Are you saying this isn't how it works? This comic clearly states otherwise.
/. UID gets tossed around like a geek IQ, though unfair, I see people use it as a metric all the time.
Slashdot comic
Brian Laptop: myspace is like the vegas of the internet.... a lot of people want to go but no one wants to admit what happens when they're there
from bash
I'm not sure if I fully understood what you are saying, but regardless, this could be useful to somebody. You can add assembly code into your C programs. Something like this: int myfunc() { asm { mov ax, 0; } return 0; } On intel compilers there's another way, just search google.
Actually Farnsworth won both patent lawsuits going against RCA, Sarnoff just pushed the engineers at RCA to work around the patents that Farnsworth had. RCA finally unveiled the television at the World's Fair in 1933 and claimed complete credit for it, despite the fact that they had in fact copied Farnsworth's method and just worked around the specifics. Sarnoff even sent his top engineer to Farnsworth's lab to look at the devices, Farnsworth belived it was out of intellectual curiousity, but it turned out to be an opportunity for RCA to steal the technology. The reason RCA was able to push forward with the television was because Farnsworth's patents expired just as television was become a viable medium and commonplace in houses.
I think slashdotters a missing a big use of this new Robo-conference technology. This is one of the first chances to see the BSOD in action. I can imagine it now, the presenter takes the stage to begin the presentation, only to be interrupted by 200 mini-robots falling out of line, dropping to the floor and yelling "Access violation at XXXX:XXXX" in a sort of monotone gurgling voice, hours of fun for the linux geeks, and it never gets old.
I was a contestant at the Intel 2002 International Science and Engineering Fair, and I had a chance to check out the sign language glove. It worked pretty well, and the recognition was fairly quick, it did require a little delay between signs but on the whole it was a very interesting project and something that has good practical applications. Also, as the above poster mentioned it it just a beginning, and a few steps away from implementing technology like this in other areas.
I know one piece of software that does they, they used to use it at my high school, it worked pretty well. It's called Deep Freeze, you could do anything you wanted to the computer, and when you rebooted the system was back just the way it was before, with all software installed during the last session gone, everything. You can find it here
How much more rediculous do these trials need to become before there is any actual public outrage rather that just some rambling on slashdot? This guy hadn't even finished creating the device (for DirectTV at least) which was somehow going to net him this incredible lump of money. I realize that it is standard practice for corporations to up the damages to the maximum possible, but there should at least be a point where common sense steps in and takes over...
It isn't even that they just claimed an insane amount of damages, they were awarded it! There original figure of $900 million is ludicrous, the final awarded damages is still just as bad from the perspective of someone without a wallet equivilent to that of Bill Gates. Five-hundred dollars a month, for 30,000 years ($180 million total in restitution). Now what could one man create, in a limited market (how many sattelite pirates could there possibly be?), that would cost a company $180 million assuming he was even able to finish it. Let's say that a DirectTV subscription will cost you $100 per month, now that's $1,200 dollars per household per year. So in order to reach that $180 million dollar figure, 150,000 people would have to buy this device and deprive DirectTV of $100 dollars every month, not to mention that it would be nearly impossible for this guy to produce that many devices, or even to have that many customers, or even 1/5th that many customers. Also, if the company was losing money due to these devices, how long do you think it would take them to change the protocol?
From the article: "An estimated 3 million people illegally watch satellite television using devices that unscramble satellite TV signals. The industry estimates it loses $4 billion a year in revenue."
THREE MILLION PEOPLE? How do they come up with this figure? Do they assume every person that cancels a subscription has turned to using a descrambler? I'd really love to know how they came up with those figures.
This case seems more like a sad reminder of the corporate presence in our legal system rather than a shining example of American justice. When we can be prosecuted for crimes that haven't happened using devices that haven't been built yet, we're in trouble...and it looks like that time is now.
Halo is hugely popular even today, some big tournaments just took place, the AGP ( www.theagp.com ) and Halo50k ( www.halo50k.com ). Both were 4 man events (4v4), I attended and even though my team didn't win (9th place at AGP, 5th at 50k) it was a lot of fun. Another good video is Halo50k framework, you can find a mirror list here: http://halo.bungie.org/misc/frameworkmirrors.html. Another list of mirrors for the Red vs. Blue movies here: http://www.redvsblue.com/bloodgulch.shtml. A whole list of a bunch more movies here: http://halo.bungie.org/movies.html. And for those that play the game you can find gameplay tricks here: http://halo.bungie.org/tipsntricks/tricks.html
Actually the game designers thought of that. There is a shuffle mode, where the arrows are still at the same points, but turned different ways. There is also left, right, mirror, and a bunch of other options to change the gameplay. There are even freestyle competitions for DDR, you can watch videos of some at www.ddrfreak.com
I've been playing Dance Dance Revolution since the end of may of this year, and I can attest that it is indeed an addictive game, and a fairly fun one at that. When I started I, like so many technically inclined people, had absolutely no rhythm. DDR can be an aid for developing rhythm (most songs are in 4/4 time, there are a few exceptions). Here's a little info for those who haven't played or might be interested:
DDR is a great way to lose weight, when you get good you'll be sweating from just one song, granted it may be an expensive diet (see below for cheaper ways to play)
DDR can be basically free: there are a number of projects dedicated to bringing DDR to the PC (Konami released a version...but it isn't better than some of the freely available ones). There is Dance With Intensity, Diet Diet Revolution, and my personal favorite (also a sourceforge project), Stepmania, www.stepmania.com. You can play with the keyboard, but chances are you don't want to burn fat from just your fingers. You can build a dance pad (you even get a fun hardware project doing this!), you can find links and help on the forums on www.ddrfreak.com - ddrfreak also provides a nice little script that will spit out all the steps for a song, and another script that shows all known machine locations in the US! If you are lazy (what?) you can buy Konamix (available at www.redoctane.com or Electronics Boutique, and some other places). It runs on a PS1, so you can use the ps2 to play it. You can get a very good (IMO) dance pad from www.redoctane.com for about $100, the ignition 2.0 pad is excellent. You can go with cheaper ones if you wish, but you'll be very frustrated when your skills improve, the mat sticks to your free, and you flop around like a fish out of water.
I know people who saw others playing DDR and thought it was easy, wow, you step on a little pad when an arrow hits the template...their views quickly changed when they played the game. For new players it can be very difficult, but once you are over that little peak you can really start to have fun. I enjoy the challenge of playing more difficult songs.