Given a controlled environment, this factor could probably be taken into account. The moulten solder would reflect the beam like a mirror, but I think an appropriate backdrop could take care of the stray beam.
Couldn't make for a practical soldering iron replacement, at least not for amateure soldering. Seems like it could be useful for industrial manufacturing though (if it isn't already being practiced).
The thing most people fail to realize is it's his wife's PC. How she uses it and what she does with it is up to her. I don't see why her husband should have taken an interest in her computer - at least not until she asked him to help. Why should a sysadmin have a different relationship with his wife than that of a doctor, accountant, or teacher?
Ah, but spyware tends to do more placing rather than removing.
In an imaginary universe, Microsoft manufactures cars. Their car alarm will actually unlock the doors if certain frequencies are transmitted (many additional frequencies are found every week!). And in this universe, there are many, many kids who want to stick A.B.C. gum (the kind you find below chairs) on the inside of YOUR car just for the hell of it.
So it would be like: Car manufacturers (Microsoft) opening a detail shop specializing in gum removal. While potentially lucrative (they haven't yet announced if they would charge), their shoddy alarms are what granted access to the kids with gum in the first place.
Thats why many people would be upset if Microsoft decided to charge for spyware removal.
Some CS concepts are difficult to find real world examples for.
"Breaking of this law would be punishable by up to one year in prison or a $5,000 fine."
So some college student working at GameStop or wherever has had an exhausting day, and sells Doom 3 to a 17 year old without bothering to check for ID. I can guess why the US has such a high prison population.
While I don't see anything wrong with having retailers ID people to see how old they are before buying a video game, such a punishment is far past just - more of a detriment to society than video games at the least.
Operator: "Hello, this is 911, how may I help you?" Citizen: "HELP! I've been bloody burgled by two tall guys with fags and they are making off!" Operator: "Is this some kind of a sick joke? Call when you have an emergency. "
I was not able to successfully reproduce this with Firefox 1.0 Preview Release (About information: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1).
I looked at the Javascript console and saw a lot of errors - among those I saw Access Denied errors. It looks like the Javascript is attempting to create something. I installed Firefox as root for any user in the system to use, and my user account does not have permission to modify any of Firefox's program files (That's the beauty of *nix systems).
Is Firefox installed by your user account in your home directory or are you running it as root?
I don't really see how sending a signal to your computer is any different than sending a signal to your hand, as far as how long it will take for the action to be processed. If you have a long reaction time before pressing a key, I would think you would have a similar reaction time before telling the computer to perform an action.
With FPS, a good thing to do is to master your reaction time. For example, if you want to shoot someone, shoot while moving. Know when your scope is going to pass over the enemy and signal your hand to click the mouse at the right time. I try to click a little before the scope is over the enemy and I usually end up clicking at the right time.
I thought of this before your comment but there is one snag.
Actors in commercials and I think even the TV shows want to be paid for each and every person who sees their beautiful (or not) face. Notice how many radio stations don't archive commercials with their content? With a torrent tracker, TV networks would know EXACTLY how many people are watching the shows. And the people on TV who demand so many $$$ per viewing will want to get paid too.
Though is everyone who downloads the DivXed version of Enterprise complete with commercials going to watch the commercials? Are the actors who are trying to sell auto insurance going to want to be paid for every download?
If the tv networks find a way to adjust their business model, this could very well become the next big thing. Hopefully they don't miss the boat like the RIAA did.
Sadly, a whole lot of computer users don't even know how to install a program. So whenever the computer asks something, yes is chosen because it typically means the computer wants to do something and the user thinks the computer wants to do something for a good reason. e.g. Would you like to save changes to stuff.doc?
So when the computer brings up an IE dialog box that says, "Choose yes to block pop ups", these users say yes.
Should these users know better? I think so. Do they ever learn? I think eventually. In the meanwhile, the IT guy or the local computer shop has to deal with it. It's a sad fact, but spyware is probably the number one money maker for comptuer shops.
Why should the government _encourage_ getting a post-high school education?
Why should the government _encourage_ getting a job?
The government does not need to encourage people to do these things. It is nice that the government facilitates the above activities, but it does not need to do much beyond that as far as these three are concerned. The government was not intended to be your mother.
If someone doesn't really care about voting, they probably wouldn't have made a thoughtful vote.
If someone doesn't get a post-high school education, then either that individual is content without it, or realizes he/she could really use one. In that case, the government may help with financial aid and such.
Getting a job - basically the same as the post-high school education.
I am glad the government makes an effort to facilitate voting, access to higher education, and job services. However, making those activites the hip thing to do is not their business.
I suppose it's like AT&T. Hardly anyone calls them American Telephone and Telegraph (or something very similar if i messed up). But then again, American Telephone and Telegraph is somewhat of a mouthfull to say as opposed to other company names with one or two syllables ("Microsoft", "Apple", "Mandrake", "Novell", "SCO").
I had suspected BT stood for British Telecom (last article), but I could not find the words "British Telecom" on the article (the first time this was posted, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3791319.stm) . I could not even find out what BT stood for on the company's page (www.bt.com).
(And for the sake of simplicity, let's just assume a Windows XP machine... maybe with the My Computer icon turned on because thats what he asked the user to do..)
Although start>run>cmd>ipconfig/all is probably the easiest way to go you could technically get the MAC address starting his way. However for such a clueless user, the steps to take are way too many.
For example, on an XP machine: Start
Right-click My Computer
Properties
Hardware Tab
Device Manager
Expand Network Adapters
Right-click your network adapter
Properties
Advanced Tab
Select Network Address from the list
My wireless card has a hardware address in the value field when you click on Network Address when looking at it's property sheet. My ethernet card doesn't, however I am not hooked through ethernet at this moment. Your milage may vary. Seems much easier to do an ipconfig/all.
I am somewhat reminded of a post regarding the appraisal of the Asian software market, and some of the ways the BSA calculates losses. From what I remember, it went something like this:
If Autocad Super Deluxe Enterprise Edition costs $10,000, and 100 Chinese children install it on their home PC, it obviously cost the industry One Million Dollars!
Same difference. If the RIAA stopped being a bunch of whiners and offered a P2P service for $10/mo, they would make SO much money. $120/year is MUCH MUCH more than I spend on CDs in a year. Unfortunately, some organizations are too set in their ways such that they wouldn't know opportunity if it threw a suitcase of money at them.
1.) Announce a wholesale price hike, causing retailers to stock up on inventory, and purchase less the following year 2.) Attribute "fewer sales" to P2P 3.) Sue the butts off of "pirates" 4.) Appeal to the public as being truly hurt by these individuals, while extorting money from defenseless individuals who couldn't afford music in the first place 5.) ??? 6.) Profit!!!
Note: By "pirates", I am referring to individuals who share music they MAY indeed own yet are "breaking the law" by doing so.
I don't say piracy is right or wrong. For those who can afford licensed media yet pirate, shame on them! For those who are concerned with the cost of living - I can't blame them. The RIAA isn't any better than the "pirates" they sue, as long as they employ dubious tactics.
Adware infects the computers of those who do not know much about computers and/or care. You can opt-out of adware, and you can uninstall this company's crapware without too many problems (using ad-aware). That's the difference between spam and advertising software. I would never financially support a profitable spammer for that reason - it is virtually impossible to stop the e-mails once your on a mailing list (short of changing your address).
Yeah my post may give me a karma hit, but such is life. I've been down the road of having crapware altering my browser, putting links in my favorites, munging my TCP/IP stack, etc. And it would be a wonderful world if programmers working for little-guy companies could distribute software over the Internet without bundling their software with other "goodies". Such a society would NOT be capitalistic, unfortunately. While shunning such a company with dubious (but legal) tactics may be satisfying, a person's got to eat somehow.
Ah, why did I get into this discussion anyhow? I couldn't invest in them if I wanted (gotta eat), so I suppose the rich shall get richer.
This crapware is likely glued into millions of computers, delivering ads after ads. If a company wants their ad to be seen (and clicked on by the computer illiterate), choosing GAIN (claria now?) is a smart decision.
I don't have much to invest, but I would probably invest in this company if I did. Like I care about what they do - I use Linux as my primary OS anyway.
Then again, the second they start developing crapware for Linux is the second I will not consider investing in them;).
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Given a controlled environment, this factor could probably be taken into account. The moulten solder would reflect the beam like a mirror, but I think an appropriate backdrop could take care of the stray beam.
Couldn't make for a practical soldering iron replacement, at least not for amateure soldering. Seems like it could be useful for industrial manufacturing though (if it isn't already being practiced).
Exactly.
The thing most people fail to realize is it's his wife's PC. How she uses it and what she does with it is up to her. I don't see why her husband should have taken an interest in her computer - at least not until she asked him to help. Why should a sysadmin have a different relationship with his wife than that of a doctor, accountant, or teacher?
Ah, but spyware tends to do more placing rather than removing.
In an imaginary universe, Microsoft manufactures cars. Their car alarm will actually unlock the doors if certain frequencies are transmitted (many additional frequencies are found every week!). And in this universe, there are many, many kids who want to stick A.B.C. gum (the kind you find below chairs) on the inside of YOUR car just for the hell of it.
So it would be like:
Car manufacturers (Microsoft) opening a detail shop specializing in gum removal. While potentially lucrative (they haven't yet announced if they would charge), their shoddy alarms are what granted access to the kids with gum in the first place.
Thats why many people would be upset if Microsoft decided to charge for spyware removal.
Some CS concepts are difficult to find real world examples for.
How about this?
"Breaking of this law would be punishable by up to one year in prison or a $5,000 fine."
So some college student working at GameStop or wherever has had an exhausting day, and sells Doom 3 to a 17 year old without bothering to check for ID. I can guess why the US has such a high prison population.
While I don't see anything wrong with having retailers ID people to see how old they are before buying a video game, such a punishment is far past just - more of a detriment to society than video games at the least.
Somewhere in America:
Operator: "Hello, this is 911, how may I help you?"
Citizen: "HELP! I've been bloody burgled by two tall guys with fags and they are making off!"
Operator: "Is this some kind of a sick joke? Call when you have an emergency. "
I was not able to successfully reproduce this with Firefox 1.0 Preview Release (About information: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1).
I looked at the Javascript console and saw a lot of errors - among those I saw Access Denied errors. It looks like the Javascript is attempting to create something. I installed Firefox as root for any user in the system to use, and my user account does not have permission to modify any of Firefox's program files (That's the beauty of *nix systems).
Is Firefox installed by your user account in your home directory or are you running it as root?
I don't really see how sending a signal to your computer is any different than sending a signal to your hand, as far as how long it will take for the action to be processed. If you have a long reaction time before pressing a key, I would think you would have a similar reaction time before telling the computer to perform an action.
With FPS, a good thing to do is to master your reaction time. For example, if you want to shoot someone, shoot while moving. Know when your scope is going to pass over the enemy and signal your hand to click the mouse at the right time. I try to click a little before the scope is over the enemy and I usually end up clicking at the right time.
Doesn't sound like too bad of a future.
I for one welcome our French... hey wait a second!!
Something that isn't on ebay
I thought of this before your comment but there is one snag.
Actors in commercials and I think even the TV shows want to be paid for each and every person who sees their beautiful (or not) face. Notice how many radio stations don't archive commercials with their content? With a torrent tracker, TV networks would know EXACTLY how many people are watching the shows. And the people on TV who demand so many $$$ per viewing will want to get paid too.
Though is everyone who downloads the DivXed version of Enterprise complete with commercials going to watch the commercials? Are the actors who are trying to sell auto insurance going to want to be paid for every download?
If the tv networks find a way to adjust their business model, this could very well become the next big thing. Hopefully they don't miss the boat like the RIAA did.
Sadly, a whole lot of computer users don't even know how to install a program. So whenever the computer asks something, yes is chosen because it typically means the computer wants to do something and the user thinks the computer wants to do something for a good reason. e.g. Would you like to save changes to stuff.doc?
So when the computer brings up an IE dialog box that says, "Choose yes to block pop ups", these users say yes.
Should these users know better? I think so. Do they ever learn? I think eventually. In the meanwhile, the IT guy or the local computer shop has to deal with it. It's a sad fact, but spyware is probably the number one money maker for comptuer shops.
Why should the government _encourage_ voting?
Why should the government _encourage_ getting a post-high school education?
Why should the government _encourage_ getting a job?
The government does not need to encourage people to do these things. It is nice that the government facilitates the above activities, but it does not need to do much beyond that as far as these three are concerned. The government was not intended to be your mother.
If someone doesn't really care about voting, they probably wouldn't have made a thoughtful vote.
If someone doesn't get a post-high school education, then either that individual is content without it, or realizes he/she could really use one. In that case, the government may help with financial aid and such.
Getting a job - basically the same as the post-high school education.
I am glad the government makes an effort to facilitate voting, access to higher education, and job services. However, making those activites the hip thing to do is not their business.
Holy toledo that's my Slashdot password!
I suppose it's like AT&T. Hardly anyone calls them American Telephone and Telegraph (or something very similar if i messed up). But then again, American Telephone and Telegraph is somewhat of a mouthfull to say as opposed to other company names with one or two syllables ("Microsoft", "Apple", "Mandrake", "Novell", "SCO").
I had suspected BT stood for British Telecom (last article), but I could not find the words "British Telecom" on the article (the first time this was posted, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3791319.stm) . I could not even find out what BT stood for on the company's page (www.bt.com).
Its probably just me tho =).
For the sake of answering your question...
/all is probably the easiest way to go you could technically get the MAC address starting his way. However for such a clueless user, the steps to take are way too many.
/all.
(And for the sake of simplicity, let's just assume a Windows XP machine... maybe with the My Computer icon turned on because thats what he asked the user to do..)
Although start>run>cmd>ipconfig
For example, on an XP machine:
Start
Right-click My Computer
Properties
Hardware Tab
Device Manager
Expand Network Adapters
Right-click your network adapter
Properties
Advanced Tab
Select Network Address from the list
My wireless card has a hardware address in the value field when you click on Network Address when looking at it's property sheet. My ethernet card doesn't, however I am not hooked through ethernet at this moment. Your milage may vary. Seems much easier to do an ipconfig
I am somewhat reminded of a post regarding the appraisal of the Asian software market, and some of the ways the BSA calculates losses. From what I remember, it went something like this:
If Autocad Super Deluxe Enterprise Edition costs $10,000, and 100 Chinese children install it on their home PC, it obviously cost the industry One Million Dollars!
Same difference. If the RIAA stopped being a bunch of whiners and offered a P2P service for $10/mo, they would make SO much money. $120/year is MUCH MUCH more than I spend on CDs in a year. Unfortunately, some organizations are too set in their ways such that they wouldn't know opportunity if it threw a suitcase of money at them.
1.) Announce a wholesale price hike, causing retailers to stock up on inventory, and purchase less the following year
2.) Attribute "fewer sales" to P2P
3.) Sue the butts off of "pirates"
4.) Appeal to the public as being truly hurt by these individuals, while extorting money from defenseless individuals who couldn't afford music in the first place
5.) ???
6.) Profit!!!
Note: By "pirates", I am referring to individuals who share music they MAY indeed own yet are "breaking the law" by doing so.
I don't say piracy is right or wrong. For those who can afford licensed media yet pirate, shame on them! For those who are concerned with the cost of living - I can't blame them. The RIAA isn't any better than the "pirates" they sue, as long as they employ dubious tactics.
Deadly diseases != adware
Adware infects the computers of those who do not know much about computers and/or care. You can opt-out of adware, and you can uninstall this company's crapware without too many problems (using ad-aware). That's the difference between spam and advertising software. I would never financially support a profitable spammer for that reason - it is virtually impossible to stop the e-mails once your on a mailing list (short of changing your address).
Yeah my post may give me a karma hit, but such is life. I've been down the road of having crapware altering my browser, putting links in my favorites, munging my TCP/IP stack, etc. And it would be a wonderful world if programmers working for little-guy companies could distribute software over the Internet without bundling their software with other "goodies". Such a society would NOT be capitalistic, unfortunately. While shunning such a company with dubious (but legal) tactics may be satisfying, a person's got to eat somehow.
Ah, why did I get into this discussion anyhow? I couldn't invest in them if I wanted (gotta eat), so I suppose the rich shall get richer.
This crapware is likely glued into millions of computers, delivering ads after ads. If a company wants their ad to be seen (and clicked on by the computer illiterate), choosing GAIN (claria now?) is a smart decision.
;).
I don't have much to invest, but I would probably invest in this company if I did. Like I care about what they do - I use Linux as my primary OS anyway.
Then again, the second they start developing crapware for Linux is the second I will not consider investing in them
... should link to /.
Would make for the perfect April Fool Joke =). Would be hilarious to see slashdot.. well.. slashdotted =).
You mean theres a living, breathing watcher of anime who is female? My prayers are answered! Praise Allah!
Right after the chapter telling us geeks to brush our teeth, shower at least once a month, and not drool while talking to them.
Mozilla 1.6 renered that site like crap.
Strangely, Konqueror 3.2.0 rendered the site perfectly. And I thought they supposedly used the same rendering engine.
Ah well
Why must individuals hate on the borg?
1.) We always have the latest and greatest technology
2.) Our work is never outsourced
3.) We have the right to say "All your base are belong to us"
4.) Gay marriage never crosses our mind.
5.) We don't practice nor plan to practice any sort of cloning or stem cell research. We can easily obtain more drones through assimilation.
6.) Our space program is not daunted by a few deaths on a mission. Every drone is expendible.
7.) Social Security is irrelevant. Any drone which can no longer perform it's function is promptly deactivated.
8.) Martha Stewart wouldn't be getting convicted of insider trading were she a drone.
9.) We never have recessions.
10.) Billy G is the collective's rap artist, not business manager, you insensitive clod!