I would assume the devices track and/or have the ability to be aimed. The point was: Shelter can very possibly be just a few meters away. You don't have to out run the range.
And I'm only 36. I personally want- as a minimum- adaptive cruise control tied to a proximity alarm. I want infrared lasers shooting out 8 ways from my car, measuring distance- and a heads-up-display readout plus audible alarms.
This tech has been avilable since the 1980s, but we've yet to see it in consumer-grade vehicles. Why is that? *queue music* munnamunna munna munna munna munna munna... Marxist Hacker42, a shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist. Mark Hack, a young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent, the powerless, the helpless in a world of criminals who operate above the law.
Then later: "Effective range is at least 500 meters," Do you know anyone that can run half a kilometre in 5 seconds? This isn't a pigskin. You have the option of running laterally. Perhaps behind the closest car or other large metal object?
Maybe I'll consider an LCD screen when I'm using all HD content, or if they start supporting adaptively blurring lower resolution content sufficiently.Does anyone know how Apple does this with lower screen resolutions in Mac OS X?
You don't need blackout curtains for acceptable black levels.
Spend a little on a Sony ChromaVue "black" projection screen. Throw in a cheap $600 projector and you have yourself a decent 80" image for $2000. Beats paying $150,000 for a Samsung HPR8082.
It really doesn't matter what you think of the Wii. The lines waiting for teh PS3 this morning were completely full. The prices on eBay are already legendary. You won't see that with Sunday's launch of the Wii.
Actually, I did see full lines at the Wii launch. Admittedly, the Wii lines only started around Friday and there was a conspicuous lack of muggings, shootings, and tramplings. But at the Target I got my Wii at there were 120 units sold with at least a hundred people turned away.
As for those "legendary" ebay prices: $999,999,999.00 bids? pwned. Completed ebay listings for PS3s today: ~$1200. Wii completed listings: ~$500. Both going for around 200%. Given that there was a whole lot more Wii demand slaked by the launch, I'm confident to say that the Wii is winning.
When I think of "visible from space" I think visible with the naked eye unassisted by electronic optics from an orbital distance. Not even the Pyramids at Giza claim that. Seriously, once you involve any electronics to see stuff, you can claim everything is "visible from space". I think the only man made things easily visible from space are on the scale of cities (maybe large bridges or highways).
This KFC thing wasn't meant for "space visibility", it was meant for "google maps visibility".
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4. Grind it up into powder and tiny shavings, mix it with your daily bowl of All Bran and notify Guinness WRs' that you just ate your Zune!
Someone somewhere at Blendtec just started his blender.
So you can't eat ice cream, or live in Antarctica, or whatever to fool it. Agreed. In fact, cooling your core body temperature by environmental means would actually cause you to burn more calories to maintain homeostasis.
At first glance my gut reaction is to think points in your post are stupid. But then I look at Japan's falling birth rate and many of the social parallels (albeit in a much more advanced state of disconnect) and start to worry about this country.
I went to verisign to get some facts direct. They have a "live chat" feature that pops up when you go to the faq. According to their customer rep "Doreen", there's really nothing special about this. What I got out of the chat session:
The encryption is the same, or possibly the same, but probably not better.
So far other CAs are not onboard with this (but "expected to follow suit" whoopee.)
The only informational resources they give their people are the faq page and the MS blog.
Doreen freely admits to knowing less about her own product than me, some interested schmuck.
There aren't white papers available for me to peruse. (presumably because there's no actual new technology involved)
Now, I understand that this is pretty low on the totem pole, but still I think it's indicative enough to start throwing around some assumptions.
<assumptions style="raging"> From a technical standpoint, "High Assurance SSL" is functionally the same as vanilla SSL. The only difference is that for supported browsers, the cert holder and issuer will be visible in the URL address bar. (Oh, and you can toggle between them by clicking, whoopee.) The main draw is that it's "more visible!!!".
So functionally, if the FF devs want to counter this ridiculous load of crap, all they have to do is stick the plain old vanilla certs into the URL bar and maybe highlight weird characters to show phishing attempts. Certainly, a whole lot more paperwork isn't going to stop the phishers if they're going to the trouble of getting a cert anyways. </assumptions>
Apple, on the other hand, only has to support a handful of models that they have produced themselves. They literally can have a single room somewhere with an example of every computer that their software needs to support.
What's to prevent you from using another box's authentication? Just forward the auth to another un-cracked box that you control. Note here that even a signed/encrypted diffie-hellman exchange won't work because you control the un-cracked box. Also, if WGA is using a system hash for verification, you can pass the hash from your clean system also.
The descendants of the genetic upper class would be tall, slim, healthy,...
Are these exclusive qualities of these two subsets of humanity? I fail to see how the "unhealthy", "underclass" subset of humanity will pass the fitness threshold for natural selection.
The point was that only total-conversion cyborgs, or near-total-conversion, would gain any significant boosts in ability to beyond the level that could be accomplished by a normal human - limb replacement is good enough in the case of injury, but wouldn't let you do very much that you weren't already able to do.
Yes, but consider: maximum attainable performance without atrophy or training. I'd imagine getting 2x the strength/agility of your average untrained, unmaintained human self could be feasible and not harmful. Not bad in a pinch, not bad at all.
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Oh god. Thanks for the laugh. You made my day.
This tech has been avilable since the 1980s, but we've yet to see it in consumer-grade vehicles. Why is that? *queue music* munnamunna munna munna munna munna munna...
Marxist Hacker42, a shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist. Mark Hack, a young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent, the powerless, the helpless in a world of criminals who operate above the law.
"Effective range is at least 500 meters," Do you know anyone that can run half a kilometre in 5 seconds? This isn't a pigskin. You have the option of running laterally. Perhaps behind the closest car or other large metal object?
Camoflage when the drop down an airliner's toilet?They have a blue one?
'Toss carriers 4tw!
Maybe I'll consider an LCD screen when I'm using all HD content, or if they start supporting adaptively blurring lower resolution content sufficiently.Does anyone know how Apple does this with lower screen resolutions in Mac OS X?
4. Because it's not flat. In the consumer mind, not-flat = technologically inferior.
You don't need blackout curtains for acceptable black levels.
Spend a little on a Sony ChromaVue "black" projection screen.
Throw in a cheap $600 projector and you have yourself a decent 80" image for $2000.
Beats paying $150,000 for a Samsung HPR8082.
This pretty much sums it up:
Actually, I did see full lines at the Wii launch. Admittedly, the Wii lines only started around Friday and there was a conspicuous lack of muggings, shootings, and tramplings. But at the Target I got my Wii at there were 120 units sold with at least a hundred people turned away.
As for those "legendary" ebay prices: $999,999,999.00 bids? pwned.
Completed ebay listings for PS3s today: ~$1200. Wii completed listings: ~$500.
Both going for around 200%. Given that there was a whole lot more Wii demand slaked by the launch, I'm confident to say that the Wii is winning.
When I think of "visible from space" I think visible with the naked eye unassisted by electronic optics from an orbital distance. Not even the Pyramids at Giza claim that. Seriously, once you involve any electronics to see stuff, you can claim everything is "visible from space". I think the only man made things easily visible from space are on the scale of cities (maybe large bridges or highways).
This KFC thing wasn't meant for "space visibility", it was meant for "google maps visibility".
Someone somewhere at Blendtec just started his blender.
So you can't eat ice cream, or live in Antarctica, or whatever to fool it.
Agreed. In fact, cooling your core body temperature by environmental means would actually cause you to burn more calories to maintain homeostasis.
From the Oxford English Dictionary:
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variant of archaeology
At first glance my gut reaction is to think points in your post are stupid. But then I look at Japan's falling birth rate and many of the social parallels (albeit in a much more advanced state of disconnect) and start to worry about this country.
According to their customer rep "Doreen", there's really nothing special about this.
What I got out of the chat session:
Now, I understand that this is pretty low on the totem pole, but still I think it's indicative enough to start throwing around some assumptions.
<assumptions style="raging">
From a technical standpoint, "High Assurance SSL" is functionally the same as vanilla SSL. The only difference is that for supported browsers, the cert holder and issuer will be visible in the URL address bar. (Oh, and you can toggle between them by clicking, whoopee.) The main draw is that it's "more visible!!!".
So functionally, if the FF devs want to counter this ridiculous load of crap, all they have to do is stick the plain old vanilla certs into the URL bar and maybe highlight weird characters to show phishing attempts. Certainly, a whole lot more paperwork isn't going to stop the phishers if they're going to the trouble of getting a cert anyways.
</assumptions>
Smells like a turd, looks like a turd.
And, in fact, they do.
http://developer.apple.com/labs/index.html
What's to prevent you from using another box's authentication? Just forward the auth to another un-cracked box that you control. Note here that even a signed/encrypted diffie-hellman exchange won't work because you control the un-cracked box. Also, if WGA is using a system hash for verification, you can pass the hash from your clean system also.
Are these exclusive qualities of these two subsets of humanity?
I fail to see how the "unhealthy", "underclass" subset of humanity will pass the fitness threshold for natural selection.
Telling the guy behind me that the Wii is an auto-erotic sex toy: priceless.
Psh! What-ever. You don't have 5TB of...
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oh. my. god...
I'm kinda curious, does styptic not work for you? (just for your razor burn I mean)
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Yes, but consider: maximum attainable performance without atrophy or training.
I'd imagine getting 2x the strength/agility of your average untrained, unmaintained human self could be feasible and not harmful.
Not bad in a pinch, not bad at all.