As far as I know, it takes 2 weeks to clean up the errors from the scan. 3d scanning is super glitchly right now and it takes a lot of work to manually clean them up. That's what I noticed when I went in to get 3d scanned. The raw scan had tons of polys in the wrong places
a couple thoughts... 3) maybe this is a woosh on my part, but the GP refers to TSA nut grabbing. This was just in the news yesterday cuz there was a bust at denver where a gay tsa officer was using coded signals to other officers so he would ahve the chance to grope people's nuts.
The TSA in Denver were only groping attactive people....
For a smartphones, I'd rather expect so-called "time of flight" cameras to catch-up before LIDARs. Basically, you have an array of LEDs which illuminate the scene using sine or square wave intensity modulation..
Unfortunately, emitted IR signals outside get too corrupted for ranges farther then 10m or so. I'm not sure about indoors but I can't find any ToF system that can go farther then 10m. Light Field cameras almost seem useful but they have their own limitations. Lidar is the only reasonable way to obtain depth information over long distances. And it's accurate too. ToF does work ok for short distances though, AFAIK
Forced their hand? Last time I checked, they are: 1) still operating the program, and 2) tenaciously defending it.
For shame!
As far as I know, they are still allowed to operate the program under the law. Hopefully, in June (or whenever the 215 provisions expire) they will no longer be legally allowed to operate. Then it'll probably cease to exist.
That being said, it seems weird that the top level administrators of the NSA have been bold face lying to congressional committees under oath and no-one in the Justice Department is interested in prosecuting them for perjury.... As far as I understand, that is a legitimate crime.
I hate to burst your bubble, but every example of component based programming that I've seen uses managers to access and control the individual components. You cannot use components otherwise. (At least, not in a memory restricted environment like a video game)
If you have ever worked on a large video games, then you know exactly what I am talking about.
It'll record your browsing experience and play it back for you later. It will even record links that you did not originally browse. (You have to configure the depth)
You seem to forget that getting the warrant is only the first step in the legal process. Next the actual surveillance (aka hacking) needs to be done and then the evidence needs to be presented in court in public. All of that requires time and energy. This is a heck of a lot better then the warrantless mass surveillance done by the NSA and company
IMHO, This is why warrant-based legal keyloggers and hacking will most likely become the norm and legally accepted. It gets rid of the need for mass survillance and trying to prevent mass encryption... It will require the cops to get wise on how to hack though...
Now I'm starting to think that the whole NSA spying thing, and government spying in general, is a direct result of the lack of physical control of the populace. In principal, people in the free countries can think what they want, but only if the government knows what people are thinking at all times. I guess monitoring everyone's thoughts like as if we were all prisoners on parole is a direct consequence of physical freedom. If people are granted the freedom to _do_ what they like, they must give up the right to _think_ what they like, or at least they give up the right to share their thoughts privately with others.
There's definitely a balance that needs to be maintained here. Privacy and freedom of speech are almost opposites of each other...
The right of Freedom of Speech demands that we publicly air our grivances and are protected when we do so. We have to exercise this right from time to time just to make sure that it isn't forgotten.
The right to Privacy means that we are allowed to keep certain parts of our lives private and that the law protects this.
We have mostly gone towards Freedom of Speech over Privacy. Consider a court case: an examining lawyer is allowed to ask you ANYTHING and unless it is very unrelated to the case at hand, you have to answer truthfully or face a purgery charge. No privacy there...
So what I am trying to say is: Worrying about the government monitoring your thoughts is probably not such a big problem unless they are used to imprison you. I'd worry more about requirements to keep my thoughts private....
>> “The first time that an attack takes place in which it turns out that we had a lead and we couldn’t follow up on it, the public’s going to demand answers,” he said.
That quote seems to be pretty far-fetched because if a law enforcement agency (most likely the FBI) really needed to follow up on a lead, they could always do it the hard way: get a warrent and hack into the suspect's computer and plant a bug. That includes breaking into his house and putting in a physical key logger. But that would actually require effort...
I think the whole debate about encryption and public monitoring is totally overblown. The government should get used to the fact that encryption isn't going away and that total surveillance is overkill and the American public should get used to the fact that law enforcement is going to be able to get warrants to break into their homes and computers to do monitoring.
I think that both sides on this debate have been approaching the issue of security vs freedom of speech+privacy rights in far to lazy a manner.
This reminds me of the time back in 2003 when I was working for a company developing an online casino. The company ran on a complete MS stack and I was violently terrified of having to code in VisualBasic on IIS.
So I was completely overjoyed and excited to learn that IIS also supported MS javascript as well. So I wrote all of the backend code in JS with all of it's prototyping goodness. Of course MS javascript had lots of problems with the core prototypes (like string) not being extendable but I worked around that. I followed Douglas Crockford postings with a religious fervor back then because he was the goto source for decent JS coding syntax. Most everything he wrote worked on both IE6.0 and mozilla.
Of course I left the company (I found a much better job) but after a couple of years, they wanted me back as a consultant to help port the backend over to C#. JS was too confusing for the new developers!!
Personally, I think what Branden Eich did with JS was brillant and very advanced.
There would be a new growth industry based on people paying to retrieve old issues of newspapers, songs, movies, etc. Currently there's a large barrier for small-time archivists because if they sell someone access to a newspaper article, they have to make sure the copyright is legit.
If we reduced copyright to a much shorter time, people would be able to take multimedia and remix it and reuse it in a broader manner
I agree 100%. I love her kits. especially the SpokePOV.
Ladyada, if you are listening, please please please release a kit for a full RGB SpokePOV. The monochome version is awesome so an RGB version would be 3x better!! heh
also, instead of having separate magnetic sensor for each spoke, it would be easier to have one sensor and wire the spokes together so they are guaranteed to be synchronized. I guess the design would have to change so the user has to program in the angle between the spokes.
1) I LOVE the google maps+navigation features. I don't feel like I'm getting lost in the city anymore.
2) Being able to browse the web on the go is amazing. Now I can find a really great restaurant close to me or settle a debate via google while out and about.
3) Android can take advantage of wi-fi whenever its available. My massive use of pandora doesn't cause me agonizing overage charges because of this...
Oh and before I forget, the SDcard on the android acts just like a memcard. You just copy media into it and the android media players just notice the new media and allow you to play it. The mp3 tags are parsed and scanned and you get all of the searching features you get with iTunes without all of the restrictions...
If you have verizon and hate their standard Moto razr or krazr, get a droid instead. I've had mine for months now and love it. I can upload/download whatever I want onto the SDcard (music, video, apps) and can download whatever I want from the app market. Mostly I use it for pandora and music playing. But in the future, I hope to use it for server monitoring/maintence. (Please someone port Juniper's VPN client to droid!!)
Sure, I play ~$100/month but I think its money well spent. I get unlimited downloads + limited uploads and more notifications then I can deal with. I get to make my own apps and give them to my friends without anyone needing to get a development license from google or jailbreaking...
Verizon was desperate to get people back from the iphone so they FINALLY opened up their devices. at least the droid. The only current forseeable problem is that moto doesnt send us the 2.1 update like they promised. If it doesn't happen by the end of feburary, I'll probably just jailbreak the phone and follow one of the guides for installing a custom 2.1 image for the droid.
btw, I would recommend the insurance because I don't trust the hardware to last more then a year. But the great thing is that if the device does die, all of my contact info is still backed up onto google. I'll have to scrap the info out of google but I doubt it'll be a huge problem...
It's a win-win for everyone (except ATT and apple)
Slashdot Mirror
Anyone else think that techdirt.com being down is weird?
In the new version, you don't see the driver because there is no driver!
Is that why it takes 2 weeks?
As far as I know, it takes 2 weeks to clean up the errors from the scan. 3d scanning is super glitchly right now and it takes a lot of work to manually clean them up. That's what I noticed when I went in to get 3d scanned. The raw scan had tons of polys in the wrong places
a couple thoughts...
3) maybe this is a woosh on my part, but the GP refers to TSA nut grabbing. This was just in the news yesterday cuz there was a bust at denver where a gay tsa officer was using coded signals to other officers so he would ahve the chance to grope people's nuts.
The TSA in Denver were only groping attactive people....
We should work with the Muslim community to help people who are at risk to become productive members of society.
This is the best post I've read in this entire thread so far.
For a smartphones, I'd rather expect so-called "time of flight" cameras to catch-up before LIDARs. Basically, you have an array of LEDs which illuminate the scene using sine or square wave intensity modulation. .
Unfortunately, emitted IR signals outside get too corrupted for ranges farther then 10m or so.
I'm not sure about indoors but I can't find any ToF system that can go farther then 10m.
Light Field cameras almost seem useful but they have their own limitations.
Lidar is the only reasonable way to obtain depth information over long distances. And it's accurate too.
ToF does work ok for short distances though, AFAIK
Those LIDaRs cost $20K/car.
Or more. They can be high tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars depending on the brand and model.
This is a big deal if they can get it right...
Forced their hand? Last time I checked, they are: 1) still operating the program, and 2) tenaciously defending it.
For shame!
As far as I know, they are still allowed to operate the program under the law. Hopefully, in June (or whenever the 215 provisions expire) they will no longer be legally allowed to operate. Then it'll probably cease to exist.
That being said, it seems weird that the top level administrators of the NSA have been bold face lying to congressional committees under oath and no-one in the Justice Department is interested in prosecuting them for perjury.... As far as I understand, that is a legitimate crime.
I hate to burst your bubble, but every example of component based programming that I've seen uses managers to access and control the individual components. You cannot use components otherwise. (At least, not in a memory restricted environment like a video game)
If you have ever worked on a large video games, then you know exactly what I am talking about.
They'll have to call it Micro now!
Irony is the reason why you should put it on github ;-)
This project aims to do exactly that. https://github.com/ikreymer/py...
It'll record your browsing experience and play it back for you later. It will even record links that you did not originally browse. (You have to configure the depth)
The developer is working on it constantly
SQL and NoSQL have completely different use cases.
Trying to shovel every one of your projects into SQL or NoSQL is a stupid idea....
You seem to forget that getting the warrant is only the first step in the legal process. Next the actual surveillance (aka hacking) needs to be done and then the evidence needs to be presented in court in public. All of that requires time and energy. This is a heck of a lot better then the warrantless mass surveillance done by the NSA and company
IMHO, This is why warrant-based legal keyloggers and hacking will most likely become the norm and legally accepted.
It gets rid of the need for mass survillance and trying to prevent mass encryption...
It will require the cops to get wise on how to hack though...
Now I'm starting to think that the whole NSA spying thing, and government spying in general, is a direct result of the lack of physical control of the populace. In principal, people in the free countries can think what they want, but only if the government knows what people are thinking at all times. I guess monitoring everyone's thoughts like as if we were all prisoners on parole is a direct consequence of physical freedom. If people are granted the freedom to _do_ what they like, they must give up the right to _think_ what they like, or at least they give up the right to share their thoughts privately with others.
There's definitely a balance that needs to be maintained here. Privacy and freedom of speech are almost opposites of each other...
The right of Freedom of Speech demands that we publicly air our grivances and are protected when we do so. We have to exercise this right from time to time just to make sure that it isn't forgotten.
The right to Privacy means that we are allowed to keep certain parts of our lives private and that the law protects this.
We have mostly gone towards Freedom of Speech over Privacy.
Consider a court case: an examining lawyer is allowed to ask you ANYTHING and unless it is very unrelated to the case at hand, you have to answer truthfully or face a purgery charge. No privacy there...
So what I am trying to say is: Worrying about the government monitoring your thoughts is probably not such a big problem unless they are used to imprison you.
I'd worry more about requirements to keep my thoughts private....
>> “The first time that an attack takes place in which it turns out that we had a lead and we couldn’t follow up on it, the public’s going to demand answers,” he said.
That quote seems to be pretty far-fetched because if a law enforcement agency (most likely the FBI) really needed to follow up on a lead,
they could always do it the hard way: get a warrent and hack into the suspect's computer and plant a bug. That includes breaking into his house and putting in a physical key logger. But that would actually require effort...
I think the whole debate about encryption and public monitoring is totally overblown.
The government should get used to the fact that encryption isn't going away and that total surveillance is overkill and
the American public should get used to the fact that law enforcement is going to be able to get warrants to break into their homes and computers to
do monitoring.
I think that both sides on this debate have been approaching the issue of security vs freedom of speech+privacy rights in far to lazy a manner.
Cheers
Ben
Hardkernel.com (or ameridroid.com) sell cases for it.
Its a awesome little piece of hardware.
And the xu3-lite is $79 + $25 for the eMMC module.
This reminds me of the time back in 2003 when I was working for a company developing an online casino.
The company ran on a complete MS stack and I was violently terrified of having to code in VisualBasic on IIS.
So I was completely overjoyed and excited to learn that IIS also supported MS javascript as well.
So I wrote all of the backend code in JS with all of it's prototyping goodness.
Of course MS javascript had lots of problems with the core prototypes (like string) not being extendable but I worked around that.
I followed Douglas Crockford postings with a religious fervor back then because he was the goto source for decent JS coding syntax.
Most everything he wrote worked on both IE6.0 and mozilla.
Of course I left the company (I found a much better job) but after a couple of years, they wanted me back as a consultant to help port the backend over to C#.
JS was too confusing for the new developers!!
Personally, I think what Branden Eich did with JS was brillant and very advanced.
Cheers
Ben
is it my imagination or has this been reviewed on slashdot before?
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There would be a new growth industry based on people paying to retrieve old issues of newspapers, songs, movies, etc.
Currently there's a large barrier for small-time archivists because if they sell someone access to a newspaper article, they have to make sure the copyright is legit.
If we reduced copyright to a much shorter time, people would be able to take multimedia and remix it and reuse it in a broader manner
I agree 100%. I love her kits. especially the SpokePOV.
Ladyada, if you are listening, please please please release a kit for a full RGB SpokePOV. The monochome version is awesome so an RGB version would be 3x better!! heh
also, instead of having separate magnetic sensor for each spoke, it would be easier to have one sensor and wire the spokes together so they are guaranteed to be synchronized.
I guess the design would have to change so the user has to program in the angle between the spokes.
1) I LOVE the google maps+navigation features. I don't feel like I'm getting lost in the city anymore.
2) Being able to browse the web on the go is amazing. Now I can find a really great restaurant close to me or settle a debate via google while out and about.
3) Android can take advantage of wi-fi whenever its available. My massive use of pandora doesn't cause me agonizing overage charges because of this...
Oh and before I forget, the SDcard on the android acts just like a memcard. You just copy media into it and the android media players just notice the new media and allow you to play it. The mp3 tags are parsed and scanned and you get all of the searching features you get with iTunes without all of the restrictions...
If you have verizon and hate their standard Moto razr or krazr, get a droid instead. I've had mine for months now and love it. I can upload/download whatever I want onto the SDcard (music, video, apps) and can download whatever I want from the app market. Mostly I use it for pandora and music playing. But in the future, I hope to use it for server monitoring/maintence. (Please someone port Juniper's VPN client to droid!!)
Sure, I play ~$100/month but I think its money well spent. I get unlimited downloads + limited uploads and more notifications then I can deal with. I get to make my own apps and give them to my friends without anyone needing to get a development license from google or jailbreaking...
Verizon was desperate to get people back from the iphone so they FINALLY opened up their devices. at least the droid. The only current forseeable problem is that moto doesnt send us the 2.1 update like they promised. If it doesn't happen by the end of feburary, I'll probably just jailbreak the phone and follow one of the guides for installing a custom 2.1 image for the droid.
btw, I would recommend the insurance because I don't trust the hardware to last more then a year. But the great thing is that if the device does die, all of my contact info is still backed up onto google.
I'll have to scrap the info out of google but I doubt it'll be a huge problem...
It's a win-win for everyone (except ATT and apple)