You want to talk about FUD? Do slashdotters even think about how this will be implemented? Yes, there may be some reduction in privacy, on par with having a unique ID for people who don't block/destroy the RFID, but this whole "identify theft of everyone who walks by" wouldn't work. It's not like the RFID will be transmitting all your personals details, merely a unique identifier. If someone has access to the DMV database, they could look up your info.
But wait, if someone has access to the DMV DB, then they can already look up your info, including that same unique ID. Besides identifying unique individuals (useful for advertisements, repeat customer checking, etc), how will this cause identity theft?
The title implies that this is a new discovery, not so, just that it's never been found in asians before. How long has this been known/studied in other ethnic groups?
Is this gene tied to anything else besides resistance to AIDS? I mean, what it does is all well and good, but does it also cause cancer in 30 years?
Is this something that could be used as a vaccine? You hear about genetic manipulation through manufactured retroviruses, am I confusing sci-fi with real science, or could this be used as a "genetic vaccine" someday?
TFA mentions people who are Exposed Seronegative, or something like that, which seems to mean that they've been repeatedly exposed to AIDS and never contracted it. Does this gene confer complete immunity, or just a resistance? Not much info here, could find much on google either, very interested!
The author seems to think this is a neat idea, just a really poor implementation. For the cost, I'd rather not have to carry around a cell, PDA, this thing in my pockets.
Now a pressure-sensitive bluetooth pen that could store data on a PDA or (gasp!) a cell phone, that's something I'd buy! Imagine just pulling out your pen, jotting some imaginary notes on the wall, chair, arm, etc (assuming ink portion is retractible) and clicking a button to store on your cell as an image. That would be slick.
Anybody know how this works? I mean, without one of the new GPS-enabled cell phones, how do they determine your location? Maybe the tower ID is hidden somewhere in the header information when it's converted to email?
I've been looking for a way to determine the approximate location a photo-message (MMS) was taken, didn't think there was a way to do this.
If they are basing this on which tower a person is going through, how do they handle different service providers? Did someone actually map all the NYC towers for all different providers?
Looking at these pictures, they all look like they were taken with a 2+ megapixel camera. I've seen pics from a dozen camera phones, none of them were this good. What's the real source of these pictures?
Does this mean that a graphics/animation shop can run this for free on all their development machines, then just have a single server dedicated to the final rendering?
I wonder if this is why the watermark is in some of the work windows, it make it too annoying to do this?
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It's very dependant on the French business climate
No, it's dependent on not being able to fire people who are useless. If you ever work for a unionized public agency in the US, you will see this. Completely incompetent people with no drive whatsoever. Most of them are determined to put in the absolute minimum. Can't fire them, so they get promoted in the hopes that the new hire won't be so bad. Ever wonder why state universities are so top-heavy?
Ha! That's the funniest mis-use of electronics terms I've seen in quite a while.
Yeah I know this is OT/FB but what the hell.
How about a better explanation, for those of use that haven't studied EE? What do the terms mean, and why is it funny when they're put together?
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Basically, you pinch their earlobe. This forces the blood out of the lobe, and then you let go. If colour returns to the lobe, then the heart is beating and blood has been pumped back in. If it does not then blood is no longer moving around the body.
Often called distal capillary response, it's more a measure of your blood pressure than a beating heart. Granted you won't have one long before you loose the other, but it's possible for people to have very low blood pressure and not have an immediate response, causing you to think they have no heartbeat. Also, small children sometimes have weird responses, especially with nail beds, no idea why.
Incidentally, the AHA has recently switched from checking for a pulse to checking for "signs of circulation" (coughing, breathing, movements) in all class levels except their highest (designed for healthcare providers) as laypeople were screwing it up a huge percentage of the time.
suggests that open source software has the capability of being sabotaged by foreign developers and should not be used for U.S. military or security purposes
This is just a variation of the same old anti-OSS argument, being tied in to the anti-terrorism paranoia by some schmuck looking for his 5 minutes of fame.
I was really hoping this would be an AIM client for my cell phone. All the providers in my area charge my $.05 for each IM sent/received, similar to SMS. This is even though I'm paying the monthly data charge for up to 1MB of data (WAP). Damned crooks. A small downloadable chat client would be fantastic!
I've been running a catch-all for several years, I get an increasing number of dictionary attacks, other than that, works wonderful.
Started forwarding to a gmail account last month, opened up all the previously blocked addresses to test their spam filter. I average about 2 spam messages getting through per week, and don't have to worry about deactivating compromised addresses. Gotta love google...
The article based this on a BSA survey of installed software, and got the numbers from the assumption that if P2P and other distribution methods weren't available, people would have bought all the software they had installed.
This is wrong.
I personally have installed a great deal of pirated software. Most often it's to test something out completely, when the foolish 15-day trial doesn't give me enough time.
While some people undoubtably pirate software instead of buying, cases like mine actually promote sales (in the case of quality software, at least). $49bn my ass.....
In a push to lower costs and free up workers for more critical tasks, hospital officials are turning more and more to robots like TUG to ply their hallways.
I wonder what the unions will have to say about this? More and more they're dictating the overall operating terms of large organizations. Anything which reduces their impact must be bad.....
If we improced average gas milage by 8 miles per gallon, we wouldn't need to import oil from the middle east at all.
How on earth do they figure this? If the MPG goes up, then the cost per mile goes down, which makes it possible that people will drive even further, possibly causing our import requirements to remain the same.
So the person can take their IP address with them. Good for them. Hopefully when they go to a new network, they'll tell the admins that they want all the routing tables changed just for them, and get laughed out of business....
Get a small used windows box and a cheap NAT router. Configure the windows box as the DMZ host, so they can install all the software they want, keep it up to date, and will authorize your connection (IP/MAC/whatever).
Then connect the rest of your machines, masq'd behind the router, free from their spyware.
I wonder if they even considered adding this provision in a user agreement you have to sign to get access?
Shouldn't be difficult to set up a local network, DHCP giving out non-routable addresses with gateway which points to your machine. Use iptables-based prerouting (or whatever your favorite firewall flavor is) to reroute all internet requests to your own server.
You could run a second apache vhost on a different port, then configure the 404 error page to be the same as the index page. Set this to a general explanation of what this ssid is and what it can be used for, as well as a link to the real website.
I suggest some kind of real-time java chat, in addition to the usual message boards. Would be cool to see who is in the area, introduce yourself, a way to break the ice before meeting.
You could do all this with a single low-end box on the cheap.
If you wanted to offer net access at the same time, configure the system as a proxy server (squid?) and have instructions for the common browsers on the intro page mentioned above. While users have to reconfigure slightly to use your site, they'll still have access and can check POP mail, etc. Otherwise they'll just favor any other access points in the area over yours.
Get one of those net appliances with small solid state storage, and the ability to lock down the configuration with a password, then bold the whole thing to the wall.
Since you won't have access to it for the summer, this is really the only way to guarantee people can't break it. Also, lessen the chance some jerk will give you an imprompty 'downgrade'.
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You want to talk about FUD? Do slashdotters even think about how this will be implemented? Yes, there may be some reduction in privacy, on par with having a unique ID for people who don't block/destroy the RFID, but this whole "identify theft of everyone who walks by" wouldn't work. It's not like the RFID will be transmitting all your personals details, merely a unique identifier. If someone has access to the DMV database, they could look up your info.
But wait, if someone has access to the DMV DB, then they can already look up your info, including that same unique ID. Besides identifying unique individuals (useful for advertisements, repeat customer checking, etc), how will this cause identity theft?
The title implies that this is a new discovery, not so, just that it's never been found in asians before. How long has this been known/studied in other ethnic groups?
Is this gene tied to anything else besides resistance to AIDS? I mean, what it does is all well and good, but does it also cause cancer in 30 years?
Is this something that could be used as a vaccine? You hear about genetic manipulation through manufactured retroviruses, am I confusing sci-fi with real science, or could this be used as a "genetic vaccine" someday?
TFA mentions people who are Exposed Seronegative, or something like that, which seems to mean that they've been repeatedly exposed to AIDS and never contracted it. Does this gene confer complete immunity, or just a resistance? Not much info here, could find much on google either, very interested!
The author seems to think this is a neat idea, just a really poor implementation. For the cost, I'd rather not have to carry around a cell, PDA, this thing in my pockets.
Now a pressure-sensitive bluetooth pen that could store data on a PDA or (gasp!) a cell phone, that's something I'd buy! Imagine just pulling out your pen, jotting some imaginary notes on the wall, chair, arm, etc (assuming ink portion is retractible) and clicking a button to store on your cell as an image. That would be slick.
Anybody know how this works? I mean, without one of the new GPS-enabled cell phones, how do they determine your location? Maybe the tower ID is hidden somewhere in the header information when it's converted to email?
I've been looking for a way to determine the approximate location a photo-message (MMS) was taken, didn't think there was a way to do this.
If they are basing this on which tower a person is going through, how do they handle different service providers? Did someone actually map all the NYC towers for all different providers?
Looking at these pictures, they all look like they were taken with a 2+ megapixel camera. I've seen pics from a dozen camera phones, none of them were this good. What's the real source of these pictures?
Does this mean that a graphics/animation shop can run this for free on all their development machines, then just have a single server dedicated to the final rendering?
I wonder if this is why the watermark is in some of the work windows, it make it too annoying to do this?
It's very dependant on the French business climate
No, it's dependent on not being able to fire people who are useless. If you ever work for a unionized public agency in the US, you will see this. Completely incompetent people with no drive whatsoever. Most of them are determined to put in the absolute minimum. Can't fire them, so they get promoted in the hopes that the new hire won't be so bad. Ever wonder why state universities are so top-heavy?
Not a problem, I just installed Gator on all my work computers. Now I know my 64 character password is completely safe!
Ha! That's the funniest mis-use of electronics terms I've seen in quite a while. Yeah I know this is OT/FB but what the hell.
How about a better explanation, for those of use that haven't studied EE? What do the terms mean, and why is it funny when they're put together?
Basically, you pinch their earlobe. This forces the blood out of the lobe, and then you let go. If colour returns to the lobe, then the heart is beating and blood has been pumped back in. If it does not then blood is no longer moving around the body.
Often called distal capillary response, it's more a measure of your blood pressure than a beating heart. Granted you won't have one long before you loose the other, but it's possible for people to have very low blood pressure and not have an immediate response, causing you to think they have no heartbeat. Also, small children sometimes have weird responses, especially with nail beds, no idea why.
Incidentally, the AHA has recently switched from checking for a pulse to checking for "signs of circulation" (coughing, breathing, movements) in all class levels except their highest (designed for healthcare providers) as laypeople were screwing it up a huge percentage of the time.
suggests that open source software has the capability of being sabotaged by foreign developers and should not be used for U.S. military or security purposes
This is just a variation of the same old anti-OSS argument, being tied in to the anti-terrorism paranoia by some schmuck looking for his 5 minutes of fame.
Nothing to see here, move along....
I was really hoping this would be an AIM client for my cell phone. All the providers in my area charge my $.05 for each IM sent/received, similar to SMS. This is even though I'm paying the monthly data charge for up to 1MB of data (WAP). Damned crooks. A small downloadable chat client would be fantastic!
I've been running a catch-all for several years, I get an increasing number of dictionary attacks, other than that, works wonderful.
Started forwarding to a gmail account last month, opened up all the previously blocked addresses to test their spam filter. I average about 2 spam messages getting through per week, and don't have to worry about deactivating compromised addresses. Gotta love google...
rm -rf /home
That'll teach those pesky users....
Let's see... 4000 stores, multiplied by an average of $8 per cup of coffee, comes to what?
The article based this on a BSA survey of installed software, and got the numbers from the assumption that if P2P and other distribution methods weren't available, people would have bought all the software they had installed.
This is wrong.
I personally have installed a great deal of pirated software. Most often it's to test something out completely, when the foolish 15-day trial doesn't give me enough time.
While some people undoubtably pirate software instead of buying, cases like mine actually promote sales (in the case of quality software, at least). $49bn my ass.....
In a push to lower costs and free up workers for more critical tasks, hospital officials are turning more and more to robots like TUG to ply their hallways.
I wonder what the unions will have to say about this? More and more they're dictating the overall operating terms of large organizations. Anything which reduces their impact must be bad.....
Isn't this similar to the terahertz imaging previously discussed? Also seen here and here?
If we improced average gas milage by 8 miles per gallon, we wouldn't need to import oil from the middle east at all.
How on earth do they figure this? If the MPG goes up, then the cost per mile goes down, which makes it possible that people will drive even further, possibly causing our import requirements to remain the same.
So the person can take their IP address with them. Good for them. Hopefully when they go to a new network, they'll tell the admins that they want all the routing tables changed just for them, and get laughed out of business....
Why, the phrase "Blue Screen Of Death" will take on a whole new meaning of course
Will it will become the red screen of death?
Get a small used windows box and a cheap NAT router. Configure the windows box as the DMZ host, so they can install all the software they want, keep it up to date, and will authorize your connection (IP/MAC/whatever).
Then connect the rest of your machines, masq'd behind the router, free from their spyware.
I wonder if they even considered adding this provision in a user agreement you have to sign to get access?
Shouldn't be difficult to set up a local network, DHCP giving out non-routable addresses with gateway which points to your machine. Use iptables-based prerouting (or whatever your favorite firewall flavor is) to reroute all internet requests to your own server. You could run a second apache vhost on a different port, then configure the 404 error page to be the same as the index page. Set this to a general explanation of what this ssid is and what it can be used for, as well as a link to the real website. I suggest some kind of real-time java chat, in addition to the usual message boards. Would be cool to see who is in the area, introduce yourself, a way to break the ice before meeting. You could do all this with a single low-end box on the cheap. If you wanted to offer net access at the same time, configure the system as a proxy server (squid?) and have instructions for the common browsers on the intro page mentioned above. While users have to reconfigure slightly to use your site, they'll still have access and can check POP mail, etc. Otherwise they'll just favor any other access points in the area over yours.
Actually, based on my experiences with PhDs in the IT fields, it usually stands for Piled Higher and Deeper.
Get one of those net appliances with small solid state storage, and the ability to lock down the configuration with a password, then bold the whole thing to the wall.
Since you won't have access to it for the summer, this is really the only way to guarantee people can't break it. Also, lessen the chance some jerk will give you an imprompty 'downgrade'.