IIRC the weird copy and paste in *nix has to do with the selection being stored as CHAR *.. which leads to interesting issues when you are copying something which may or may not be standard ASCII..
Unix hatersanyone?:-)
To think I actually researched RFIDs in 2000.. anyway..
You can get devices that will destroy/nullify RFIDs. When this does happen (I have already posted a note to ThinkGeek asking them to stock them), I will be buying a couple and I will spend the rest of my life reducing small electronic RFIDs to useless pieces of paper and metal.
End of story. Simply carry an RFID killer with you. Turn it on and swipe anything that takes your fancy.
muhahahahah.
Can anyone say... "Otherland". This has great potential. Note: POTENTIAL. Quake started somewhere small too you know (doom anyone?). These things have to evolve to work. After all, no MUD was built in a day.
It's seriously not worth it. Friends of mine had similar movies in the past *shudder*.
It really does ruin the 'movie' experience. Anyway, who'd waste 150MB on ANY movie that badly crunched.. let alone a lightsaber swinging romp this is going to be!
Arno Penzias -- a Nobel prize-winning scientist, one-time head of Bell Labs and an investor in Alien Technology -- has a favorite microcosmic scenario:
You lose your eyeglasses. They've fallen under the family room couch.
The tag on the eyeglasses connects with a reader in the family room -- readers would be all around a house. The reader is also getting signals from everything else in the room.
Tags work a little like radar. A reader sends out a signal looking for tags. The signal excites the tag -- the tag itself has no power --and causes it to return a signal containing its information. This request and return of a signal happens more than 100 times a second for each tag.
The reader pipes its information across a wireless network and dumps it into the home computer. The computer looks at the data and deduces that the signal from the glasses takes the same amount of time to hit the reader as the signal from the couch.
You sit at the computer and type in a search box: "Where are my eyeglasses?" The computer spits back: "Under the couch."
I'm sorry, but WRONG!!!
Try this one: Geeky Thief walks into your house with a handheld device, swishes it around a few times and walks out with the smallest and most easiest carried objects that just told the intruder where they are hidden. Wonderful.
Thousands watch porn show after control room slip up.
Television viewers in Namibia settling down for the latest instalment of a mini-series got more than they bargained for when control room technicians pressed the wrong button.
Instead of broadcasting the scheduled program, the state-run Namibian Broadcasting Corporation relayed scenes from a pornographic film to thousands of homes.
The two technicians who were allegedly watching the pornographic film on videotape have now been dismissed.
And today, Microsoft have announced that they will uphold the new laws that state that users cannot block cookies being placed on their computer because [quote]..the users accepted the agreement when they travelled to the web page that serves the cookie. The user has no say in this matter as they have conciensously agreed before entering the site. We would like to thank our friends at Microsoft for collaberating with us on this issue...[/quote]
Actually, there is a valid reason for this (believe it or not). There are laws pertaining to exactly how many minutes of ads channels can show per hour. They tend to get fined severely if they cross these set time limits by even 10 seconds. However, the law also makes a distinction between viewing times: such that they basically can show more ads after 9:30 at night.
Ever notice that you get more ads after 9:30? Right. Now, as the why your channel surfing produces ads at the same time: When you have a 1/2hr show and you need to show the maximum amount of ads in that time, you need to carefully split the ads with the program.. or the users will give up on the show altogether. The only reason you go back to the show is because you know the ads will stop in exactly 2 minutes and 30 seconds. You know there are three ad breaks in a 1/2 show, so you put up with it.
On this point, this is a little bit like torture techniques: You learn that the human body can only take some much punishment. A torturer must walk an extremely fine line between convincing the victim that they will recover and actualling doing so much damage that the victim gives up and just dies.
This is exactly what is happening here. The networks have measured exactly how long ads can be before the victim (you) switches off mentally. Be assured that if they could show more ads more frequently then they would.
However, like most victims we're pretty spineless. Too much pain and we just turn off.
Since when have we made contracts with the broadcasters for watching their content?
More to the point: Since when do people actually watch ads? Ads are designed to be forced down our throats.. and most people go out of their way not to watch them (channel surfing, pop up blockers). If they fail for whatever reason - tough shit.
It could cost the RIAA a lot more. Imagine if this extended to a 'day of silence' involving not buying music CDs for just one day - people have been put out of business like this before.
Yes, the RIAA is trying to do what the government does all the time: collect some more taxes and hope we don't notice. It's a pity they are picking on a crowd with very little money (unlike the Govnmt who pick on salary earners) - basically it does look like they are forcing us (the public) to use 'accepted' channels to get music from. Can anyone see pirate Internet radio stations on the horizen?
Ok, I've taken this the wrong way. I thought they were using the chips for _simulation_ - hence the need for extreme high end performance. Thanks for the correction.
For those who don't know, Micro$haft has taken legal steps, recently, that mean that no one else can use the M$ Office file types. Basically, making it illegal to read/write M$ stuff without their express permission.
To put it another way: they hate the GPL, they hate Opensource and they hate the way people have taken off their Office Suite and are now doing something about it. Check their press releases for this one, cause I don't have the URL on me.
Quick! There has been a MURDER in the Seattle area, most specifically near this store. We believe the criminal may have used your system to buy groceries. We hereby demand your fingerprint database in the name of the law to search out this criminal.
A month later..
Store owner at police dept: No sir, we didn't find the criminal. Yes sir, we have deleted the prints we borrowed from your store.
Recently there has been an increase in mobile phones stolen. OVer 10% of these thefts have been from children - including the children targetted by this device.
So, is this device just another expensive toy waiting to be stolen?
No.. mostly because M$ is an outsider trying to break in while Nintendo is THE platform (no Mario puns intended) from which consoles sprung. Oh, the X-box will have an impact, after all some people are buying them.. but at the end of the day (oh, as such, at the end of the E3):
The biggest games console nation is: Japan.
The best place to try and take over the world of consoles: Japan.
Who just turned down M$? Nintendo.
Who gets bigger and more powerful because of their toehold? Nintendo.
Oh.. and a last point: M$ must realise that as soon as their name is on something many people will go 'urg! Microsoft! no!'
.. and I stopped buying said magazines because of their cost vs their content (I couldn't justify it).
Yes, I agree that they are 'staying alive'.. but more importantly: Perhaps they are collecting this cash to remain objective in their game reviews (AKA the recent magazine article about how game reviewers spend most of their time at one 'conference' or another (APC or PC User)).
The mazagine article made a good points about bribery, the influence reviews have on consumers and how much pressure game developers have on them (hence that game developers will do anything to get a good review) and Gamespot seems to be addressing that here.
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IIRC the weird copy and paste in *nix has to do with the selection being stored as CHAR * .. which leads to interesting issues when you are copying something which may or may not be standard ASCII ..
Unix hatersanyone? :-)
These are falling behind as broadband takes hold. It is a pity it is not taking hold fast enough.
To think I actually researched RFIDs in 2000.. anyway.. You can get devices that will destroy/nullify RFIDs. When this does happen (I have already posted a note to ThinkGeek asking them to stock them), I will be buying a couple and I will spend the rest of my life reducing small electronic RFIDs to useless pieces of paper and metal. End of story. Simply carry an RFID killer with you. Turn it on and swipe anything that takes your fancy. muhahahahah.
Try squeezing cheese instead. You can't get something from nothing.
Can anyone say... "Otherland". This has great potential. Note: POTENTIAL. Quake started somewhere small too you know (doom anyone?). These things have to evolve to work. After all, no MUD was built in a day.
Excuse me gentlefolk, but could someone explain to me the link between ZA and "South Africa".
Logic: "South Africa =.SA".. But I suppose that's taken. By what RIGHT to they claim ZA??
Please inform me if you have this answer. Thank you. (PS: This is an actual question, not a troll. Thanks).
My company uses mainframes, we also have websphere, linux, java, NT (etc)... so I'm VERY interested in any developements in this realm.
Thanks for asking.
It really does ruin the 'movie' experience. Anyway, who'd waste 150MB on ANY movie that badly crunched.. let alone a lightsaber swinging romp this is going to be!
I'm sorry, but WRONG!!!
Try this one: Geeky Thief walks into your house with a handheld device, swishes it around a few times and walks out with the smallest and most easiest carried objects that just told the intruder where they are hidden. Wonderful.
Thousands watch porn show after control room slip up. Television viewers in Namibia settling down for the latest instalment of a mini-series got more than they bargained for when control room technicians pressed the wrong button. Instead of broadcasting the scheduled program, the state-run Namibian Broadcasting Corporation relayed scenes from a pornographic film to thousands of homes. The two technicians who were allegedly watching the pornographic film on videotape have now been dismissed.
And today, Microsoft have announced that they will uphold the new laws that state that users cannot block cookies being placed on their computer because [quote]..the users accepted the agreement when they travelled to the web page that serves the cookie. The user has no say in this matter as they have conciensously agreed before entering the site. We would like to thank our friends at Microsoft for collaberating with us on this issue...[/quote]
Microsoft Expert Witness Stumbles - Trips over his own tongue? Yes, I agree :-)
Ever notice that you get more ads after 9:30? Right. Now, as the why your channel surfing produces ads at the same time: When you have a 1/2hr show and you need to show the maximum amount of ads in that time, you need to carefully split the ads with the program.. or the users will give up on the show altogether. The only reason you go back to the show is because you know the ads will stop in exactly 2 minutes and 30 seconds. You know there are three ad breaks in a 1/2 show, so you put up with it.
On this point, this is a little bit like torture techniques: You learn that the human body can only take some much punishment. A torturer must walk an extremely fine line between convincing the victim that they will recover and actualling doing so much damage that the victim gives up and just dies.
This is exactly what is happening here. The networks have measured exactly how long ads can be before the victim (you) switches off mentally. Be assured that if they could show more ads more frequently then they would.
However, like most victims we're pretty spineless. Too much pain and we just turn off.
More to the point: Since when do people actually watch ads? Ads are designed to be forced down our throats.. and most people go out of their way not to watch them (channel surfing, pop up blockers). If they fail for whatever reason - tough shit.
Yes, the RIAA is trying to do what the government does all the time: collect some more taxes and hope we don't notice. It's a pity they are picking on a crowd with very little money (unlike the Govnmt who pick on salary earners) - basically it does look like they are forcing us (the public) to use 'accepted' channels to get music from. Can anyone see pirate Internet radio stations on the horizen?
Australian Air
Ok, I've taken this the wrong way. I thought they were using the chips for _simulation_ - hence the need for extreme high end performance. Thanks for the correction.
To put it another way: they hate the GPL, they hate Opensource and they hate the way people have taken off their Office Suite and are now doing something about it. Check their press releases for this one, cause I don't have the URL on me.
Quick! There has been a MURDER in the Seattle area, most specifically near this store. We believe the criminal may have used your system to buy groceries. We hereby demand your fingerprint database in the name of the law to search out this criminal.
A month later..
Store owner at police dept: No sir, we didn't find the criminal. Yes sir, we have deleted the prints we borrowed from your store.
Recently there has been an increase in mobile phones stolen. OVer 10% of these thefts have been from children - including the children targetted by this device.
So, is this device just another expensive toy waiting to be stolen?
The biggest games console nation is: Japan.
The best place to try and take over the world of consoles: Japan.
Who just turned down M$? Nintendo.
Who gets bigger and more powerful because of their toehold? Nintendo.
Oh.. and a last point: M$ must realise that as soon as their name is on something many people will go 'urg! Microsoft! no!'
Game over M$, you are the weakest link, Goodbye!
Yes, I agree that they are 'staying alive' .. but more importantly: Perhaps they are collecting this cash to remain objective in their game reviews (AKA the recent magazine article about how game reviewers spend most of their time at one 'conference' or another (APC or PC User)).
The mazagine article made a good points about bribery, the influence reviews have on consumers and how much pressure game developers have on them (hence that game developers will do anything to get a good review) and Gamespot seems to be addressing that here.
Perhaps the recent news stories on the location of the Internet Root #1 server wasn't such a good idea.
If you'd bothered to follow the link, you'd see it pointed to the polls page and said:
Poll
Best Desktop Environment?
KDE 3 (5910)
Which aint offtopic.
damn people who can't read.
Bad slashdotter! Someone spank him!