Not touch it any more? What if he's using the mouse?
Click the link and watch the video. It detects when you've physically left your seat and locks the OS (note: it locks, not logs you out like the summary claims). It has a little pointer that you adjust to point at wherever you're sitting, and when you leave that spot, it triggers the lock function. It also has a proximity card scanner and fingerprint scanner so the person doesn't have to type in a password each time they return to their seat.
Anyone taking bets that Phelps turns out to be gay?
Gay, not quite. Bisexual, almost certainly.
All the really vocal anti-gay fanatics turn out to be bisexual. That's why they're all so convinced that homosexuality is a choice. For them, it literally is, and they assume it's the same for everyone else.
I got into an argument with the manager of a Canadian Tire store about their policy of collecting name/address/phone number on all returns and exchanges. I wanted to know why they collect this information, but couldn't get a straight answer out of him. The back of their receipt claims that they collect this information "to combat fraud", which is just plain absurd. He claimed that it had to do with inventory tracking, which makes even less sense. He then changed his story to "we collect the information to speed up the return process". How exactly it's "quicker" to collect information before a transaction than just to do the transaction without collecting the information is something he couldn't adequately explain.
In the end, I left without completing the transaction (I was trying to exchange a $5 item for a $15 item— I came back later and simply returned it instead, using made up information). I found some information online that suggests that the real reason they collect this data is to prevent people from returning "too many" items. Apparently they will not allow an individual customer to do more than 6 returns or exchanges in a given year. Of course, they do not advertise this policy in any way.
For fuck sake, it's an option. You don't have to use it, and there's no way in hell that Google would ever make two-factor authentication mandatory for webmail. They'd lose users in droves. I have a smartphone, but my GMail just isn't important enough for me to need the inconvenience of two-factor authentication, so I'd abandon them in a second. However, if I actually used GMail for something critical and therefore needed the extra security, then this is a kick-ass option.
Of course it's nowhere close to the real thing, but for people who have no time, patience or talent to play an instrument (that's the majority of us, right?) it's just a brilliant game that gives one the feeling of playing a real instrument in a band.
The thing is, the game is just plain fun, no matter who you are. I've been playing real guitar for close to 30 years, and I've played in real bands on real stages and in real studios, and yet I love playing Guitar Hero and Rock Band. They're just really, really fun games.
Actually no. It's a mutated urban legend based on the truth that they did refuse to speak to CNET's reporters for a year after CNET published an article containing a number of personal facts about Eric that they 'discovered' using Google.
Actually, while the official response was to refuse to speak to CNET reporters for a year, they ended up dropping that ban after only a few months.
Like I said, it is a handy feature (and I do use it, myself), but simply adding alias functionality would be trivial to implement, and would add much value.
I wouldn't at all be surprised if spammers start stripping the "+..." from harvested email addresses. Actually, I'd be quite surprised if none of them have done this already.
Wait... do you mean my email address, which has a dot in it, is technically dot free?
It seems the answer is "yes". I did not know that, but I just tested it out. I have a "firstname.lastname@gmail.com" account, so I sent an email to "firstnamelastname@gmail.com", and it arrived as expected.
I learn something new every time I visit Slashdot.
Sweet merciful crap. That looks like Brainfuck to me.
I like the comment: "Implementing validation with regular expressions somewhat pushes the limits of what it is sensible to do with regular expressions, although Perl copes well".
That's not an alias, as the link you provided specifically says "Gmail doesn't offer traditional aliases". It is a handy feature, but it's not an alias. For one thing, you can't "throw it away", although you can filter it out. Additionally, although it's useful for automated systems, if you give the email address out to a real person, that person then knows your real email address as well.
Aliases are entirely different, and would be a welcome enhancement to Gmail.
Scientists didn't "change the name". Global Warming and Climate Change are two different things. One causes the other. Both are happening, and have been talked about consistently in the scientific literature for decades.
The fact that deniers can't figure this out says nothing about science, and everything about deniers.
Says who? We don't know if the top fell or not, so we don't know if he was dreaming or not. Realistically, when you piece it all together, it's more likely not a dream, but there is just the suggestion that maybe, just maybe, it is. But that's not even the point. The point is that Cobb didn't stick around to find out. It was reality to him. His children finally turned around. He was home. It doesn't matter if "home" is real or not. Either way, it's "home" to him.
I'm not saying the phantom data isn't bad, I think every kind of phantom is bad, but who on earth gets a smart-phone and signs up for the 1GB a month plan? Do they even have those?
Ok, based on responses to this I guess I'll make a different point: Apparently I'm the only one who uses tethering while traveling.
Tethering would make quite a difference, I imagine. As someone who hasn't traveled since I got my smartphone, I have no experience with it.
Mainly, I use my phone with wi-fi whenever possible, and consequently my 100MB data add-on is more than enough for me.
So I'd say, at the end of the day, large generalized statements like "open source more expensive" is clearly an invalid statement.
And, despite the article summary here on Slashdot, it's a statement that was not actually made by the authors in question. In fact, they basically said what you said. From TFA:
The survey also indicates that the two software worlds are much more “comingled” than their respective champions would have it. More than a quarter of companies happily mix and match both sorts, in particular in poorer countries. Messrs Lerner and Schankerman view the environment of software developers and users as a complex ecosystem akin to a rainforest. It would be wrong, they say, to see the two types of software as substitutes for another or as interchangeable.
Microsoft may have paid for this, but what they got is actually a pretty balanced report.
Now they just need to realise that people don't really buy singles any more...
With music on physical media, you're correct. With downloaded music, however, people tend to buy songs, not albums. Obviously that's not true for everyone— I prefer albums, myself. But it's true for the majority.
Touch is too limited. I'm not reaching across my desk to tap on my monitor all day long, nor am I going to sacrifice my neck to stare down at a device that sits in my lap all day. Ergonomics demands that my hands and my eyes be in different places.
Touch is perfect for small handheld devices (smartphones, audio devices) and quick-use machines (ATMs). For long term use, I need to rest my hands on my desk and look straight ahead at my monitor. This means either a keyboard and mouse or some evolution of that concept.
...if you RTFA this one was clearly fired by Ballmer outright. Quite fascinating read that memo.
Agreed. Here are the really interesting portions of the memo:
Bob Muglia and I have been talking about the overall business and what is needed to accelerate our growth. In this context, I have decided that now is the time to put new leadership in place for STB.
Translation: I sat down with Bob to discuss the direction STB should be going in, and Bob didn't agree with my vision, so I replaced him.
In conjunction with this leadership change, Bob has decided to leave Microsoft this summer.
Translation: Bob told me where to shove my vision, and will probably go off to start his own company that kicks our cloudy asses, because let's face it, I'm no visionary leader.
I wish there was a way in the browser to disable only signed applets.
Not in the browser, because that's not the browser's job, but it's in the JRE. There's a setting labeled "Allow user to grant permissions to signed content", which, if turned off, will prevent signed applets from ever being run, while still allowing unsigned applets.
It would be nice for Oracle to make the default settings more tightly secured, and let users "unsecure" as they see fit.
There is a big "Security Warning" dialog box. What should Java do more?
It could tell you that allowing it to run would give it access to all the files on your computer. I had no idea that was the case, but then I disabled Java in my web browsers long ago.
Why would you not assume that an application being run will have full access to all the files on your computer? That's generally the way it works with applications. At least unsigned Java applets have the security of running in a sandbox with limited access. It's only signed Java applets that get the same privileges of a regular executable.
People who click "OK" on random dialogs that ask them to confirm installation of something they didn't ask for are targets for malware, and this is news... because it's using Java? Am I missing something?
Intelligence is overrated when it comes to the president.
A good president needs much more than just intelligence, but a good president does need at least intelligence. You do not want a stupid, or even averagely intelligent, president
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What does "physically leave the keyboard" mean?
Not touch it any more? What if he's using the mouse?
Click the link and watch the video. It detects when you've physically left your seat and locks the OS (note: it locks, not logs you out like the summary claims). It has a little pointer that you adjust to point at wherever you're sitting, and when you leave that spot, it triggers the lock function. It also has a proximity card scanner and fingerprint scanner so the person doesn't have to type in a password each time they return to their seat.
Anyone taking bets that Phelps turns out to be gay?
Gay, not quite. Bisexual, almost certainly.
All the really vocal anti-gay fanatics turn out to be bisexual. That's why they're all so convinced that homosexuality is a choice. For them, it literally is, and they assume it's the same for everyone else.
I got into an argument with the manager of a Canadian Tire store about their policy of collecting name/address/phone number on all returns and exchanges. I wanted to know why they collect this information, but couldn't get a straight answer out of him. The back of their receipt claims that they collect this information "to combat fraud", which is just plain absurd. He claimed that it had to do with inventory tracking, which makes even less sense. He then changed his story to "we collect the information to speed up the return process". How exactly it's "quicker" to collect information before a transaction than just to do the transaction without collecting the information is something he couldn't adequately explain.
In the end, I left without completing the transaction (I was trying to exchange a $5 item for a $15 item— I came back later and simply returned it instead, using made up information). I found some information online that suggests that the real reason they collect this data is to prevent people from returning "too many" items. Apparently they will not allow an individual customer to do more than 6 returns or exchanges in a given year. Of course, they do not advertise this policy in any way.
For fuck sake, it's an option. You don't have to use it, and there's no way in hell that Google would ever make two-factor authentication mandatory for webmail. They'd lose users in droves. I have a smartphone, but my GMail just isn't important enough for me to need the inconvenience of two-factor authentication, so I'd abandon them in a second. However, if I actually used GMail for something critical and therefore needed the extra security, then this is a kick-ass option.
Of course it's nowhere close to the real thing, but for people who have no time, patience or talent to play an instrument (that's the majority of us, right?) it's just a brilliant game that gives one the feeling of playing a real instrument in a band.
The thing is, the game is just plain fun, no matter who you are. I've been playing real guitar for close to 30 years, and I've played in real bands on real stages and in real studios, and yet I love playing Guitar Hero and Rock Band. They're just really, really fun games.
Actually no. It's a mutated urban legend based on the truth that they did refuse to speak to CNET's reporters for a year after CNET published an article containing a number of personal facts about Eric that they 'discovered' using Google.
Actually, while the official response was to refuse to speak to CNET reporters for a year, they ended up dropping that ban after only a few months.
Like I said, it is a handy feature (and I do use it, myself), but simply adding alias functionality would be trivial to implement, and would add much value.
I wouldn't at all be surprised if spammers start stripping the "+..." from harvested email addresses. Actually, I'd be quite surprised if none of them have done this already.
All my Hotmail accounts are "throw-away". In an average week, I generate 5 or 10 Hotmail accounts for single use.
Why would you use Hotmail for that? 10 Minute Mail is much easier than signing up for a Hotmail account.
Wait... do you mean my email address, which has a dot in it, is technically dot free?
It seems the answer is "yes". I did not know that, but I just tested it out. I have a "firstname.lastname@gmail.com" account, so I sent an email to "firstnamelastname@gmail.com", and it arrived as expected.
I learn something new every time I visit Slashdot.
Sweet merciful crap. That looks like Brainfuck to me.
I like the comment: "Implementing validation with regular expressions somewhat pushes the limits of what it is sensible to do with regular expressions, although Perl copes well".
That's not an alias, as the link you provided specifically says "Gmail doesn't offer traditional aliases". It is a handy feature, but it's not an alias. For one thing, you can't "throw it away", although you can filter it out. Additionally, although it's useful for automated systems, if you give the email address out to a real person, that person then knows your real email address as well.
Aliases are entirely different, and would be a welcome enhancement to Gmail.
Scientists didn't "change the name". Global Warming and Climate Change are two different things. One causes the other. Both are happening, and have been talked about consistently in the scientific literature for decades.
The fact that deniers can't figure this out says nothing about science, and everything about deniers.
It's all a dream
Says who? We don't know if the top fell or not, so we don't know if he was dreaming or not. Realistically, when you piece it all together, it's more likely not a dream, but there is just the suggestion that maybe, just maybe, it is. But that's not even the point. The point is that Cobb didn't stick around to find out. It was reality to him. His children finally turned around. He was home. It doesn't matter if "home" is real or not. Either way, it's "home" to him.
Whatever happened to waiting until the story is over to tell the tale?
When exactly is it "over"? This is a story that will live much longer than Julian Assange. The movie, however, is about him.
History used to be written by the winners...
Who said anything about writing history? It's just a movie.
Movies can be about many things. This one is about the life of Assange up to the creation of WikiLeaks. You can bet there will be others later on.
I'm not saying the phantom data isn't bad, I think every kind of phantom is bad, but who on earth gets a smart-phone and signs up for the 1GB a month plan? Do they even have those?
Ok, based on responses to this I guess I'll make a different point: Apparently I'm the only one who uses tethering while traveling.
Tethering would make quite a difference, I imagine. As someone who hasn't traveled since I got my smartphone, I have no experience with it.
Mainly, I use my phone with wi-fi whenever possible, and consequently my 100MB data add-on is more than enough for me.
So I'd say, at the end of the day, large generalized statements like "open source more expensive" is clearly an invalid statement.
And, despite the article summary here on Slashdot, it's a statement that was not actually made by the authors in question. In fact, they basically said what you said. From TFA:
The survey also indicates that the two software worlds are much more “comingled” than their respective champions would have it. More than a quarter of companies happily mix and match both sorts, in particular in poorer countries. Messrs Lerner and Schankerman view the environment of software developers and users as a complex ecosystem akin to a rainforest. It would be wrong, they say, to see the two types of software as substitutes for another or as interchangeable.
Microsoft may have paid for this, but what they got is actually a pretty balanced report.
Now they just need to realise that people don't really buy singles any more...
With music on physical media, you're correct. With downloaded music, however, people tend to buy songs, not albums. Obviously that's not true for everyone— I prefer albums, myself. But it's true for the majority.
Touch is too limited. I'm not reaching across my desk to tap on my monitor all day long, nor am I going to sacrifice my neck to stare down at a device that sits in my lap all day. Ergonomics demands that my hands and my eyes be in different places.
Touch is perfect for small handheld devices (smartphones, audio devices) and quick-use machines (ATMs). For long term use, I need to rest my hands on my desk and look straight ahead at my monitor. This means either a keyboard and mouse or some evolution of that concept.
...if you RTFA this one was clearly fired by Ballmer outright. Quite fascinating read that memo.
Agreed. Here are the really interesting portions of the memo:
Bob Muglia and I have been talking about the overall business and what is needed to accelerate our growth. In this context, I have decided that now is the time to put new leadership in place for STB.
Translation: I sat down with Bob to discuss the direction STB should be going in, and Bob didn't agree with my vision, so I replaced him.
In conjunction with this leadership change, Bob has decided to leave Microsoft this summer.
Translation: Bob told me where to shove my vision, and will probably go off to start his own company that kicks our cloudy asses, because let's face it, I'm no visionary leader.
I wish there was a way in the browser to disable only signed applets.
Not in the browser, because that's not the browser's job, but it's in the JRE. There's a setting labeled "Allow user to grant permissions to signed content", which, if turned off, will prevent signed applets from ever being run, while still allowing unsigned applets.
It would be nice for Oracle to make the default settings more tightly secured, and let users "unsecure" as they see fit.
There is a big "Security Warning" dialog box. What should Java do more?
It could tell you that allowing it to run would give it access to all the files on your computer. I had no idea that was the case, but then I disabled Java in my web browsers long ago.
Why would you not assume that an application being run will have full access to all the files on your computer? That's generally the way it works with applications. At least unsigned Java applets have the security of running in a sandbox with limited access. It's only signed Java applets that get the same privileges of a regular executable.
People who click "OK" on random dialogs that ask them to confirm installation of something they didn't ask for are targets for malware, and this is news... because it's using Java? Am I missing something?
Build the runways on giant wheeled platforms on rails that can be reoriented to the magnetic field so that you never need alter the runways numbers.
And while you're at it, make one of the runways function like a treadmill, and end that debate once and for all. ;)
One previous example is Reagan-National airport in Washington, D.C., where runways 1/19 and 4/22 were originally 18/36 and 3/21.
I think you mean 1/19 used to be 36/18. If runway 1 became 18 and 19 became 36 that would be one hell of a magnatic drift. :-)
They're generally referred to by "lower number/higher number", so 18/36 did indeed become 1/19.
Intelligence is overrated when it comes to the president.
A good president needs much more than just intelligence, but a good president does need at least intelligence. You do not want a stupid, or even averagely intelligent, president