a widescreen display has no place on a business laptop
A widescreen display often matches up with a full-size keyboard on a laptop. Even with the touchpad, the length of the laptop body is going to be longer than it is deep. For an LCD that matches those dimensions, that translates into widescreen. Going back to some of the older laptops, they had non-wide displays, but the laptop bodies also had a fairly large amount of empty space either between the keyboard and LCD (sometimes partially filled with "function" buttons etc) or below the keyboard. End result is a laptop that is bulkier and less convenience to transport.
As for the usefulness of widescreen on business laptops. It certainly doesn't hurt to have some extra horizontal realty when one is arranging a crapton of open windows or status monitors.
There is often a bigger disconnect between contractors and internal staff due to a different reporting structure etc. When you've got a revolving door of contractors it's harder to give them the same amount of attention that you can to permanent staff.
I remember a few laptops having cameras with a feature like this. The camera had little clip which could slide a cover across the camera lense, similar to the closed lense on a digital camera.
the speaker said using radio transmission to leak information was much too sophisticated to be a viable attack for anything but the government and military
Using most generally-available consumer equipment, it probably was. We've come a long way in terms of consumer tech though, especially in terms of miniaturization.
I think he's indicating that he prefers to live in a state where many laws still benefit average citizen/consumers. Of course, it's also a place where patent trolls like to go to have cases decided...
So all the bad-guys have to do is put their jammer on top of a hospital or orphanage or whatever. They they get to put out some nice publicity about how the US is killing orphans and sick people.
Hiding behind civilians is a fairly common thing among certain terrorist groups.
Yes, it can be used to restrict digital libraries, but really on the HTML-side it's a way of (pretending) that a media stream between two groups is secure and un-copyable. Netflix has DRM. They don't guarantee that any particular show will still around, but their library is good enough that you don't want for content in general, and is worth the $8/month or so that it costs to obtain access.
Will ads for gay support groups out you? There are plenty of other things that set this stuff off. Various pro-sports forums (wrestling in particular) tend to complain when they start getting gay dating ads, which is rather amusing since they're all contextual based on the content of the posts in th eforum...
a) Android will notify you if there are updates to apps via the apps store processes *ALREADY* running in the background. There's no need for apps to do this individually b) This can also easily be done when the app is started by the user, just check for updates on startup, don't start up on boot.
Uh... if you got a Vita instead of the game that you ordered, wouldn't it mean you probably already had the Vita (with some allowance for those buying the game for others).
Beyond that, I suppose it depends on where the name was on it. Sound to me like the package was ADDRESSED to the grandparent, but that the invoice INSIDE the package/box of one item had somebody else's name.
IANAL either, but in that case it seems that the GGP had no way of knowing it was somebody else's prior to opening, and since he was the listed recipient no law was broken there. Further, he contacted the shipper and tried to rectify the situation, and was basically given permission to keep it after 30 days.
I don't see the problem here. If John Smith gets a package for "John Smith", opens it and finds an invoice to "Bob Jones" then makes an honest effort to return it and is told to keep it (if he's not contacted in 30 days)... where the legal obligation there?
I ordered a movie from ebay (Iron Sky, B movie, known somewhat well among geeks but not among the unwashed masses). I got an entirely different movie (a foreign film, no less). I informed the vendor of this and he noted that I'd got somebody else's DVD. He offered to pay for the return and ship me a new DVD, but in the meantime my wife noticed the DVD and (it had one of her favorite actors) indicated she wanted to watch it.
So... asked the vendor instead if I could just pay him for the cost of the (wrong) DVD I'd received. He agreed, and gave it to me at a discount.
Vendor fixed things up with his other customer, he still got paid, and I got a discount. Everyone wins, and nobody needed to cheat anyone else.
To block specific versions of data-gathering, because they have alternate ways to do it already, but assume that their competition doesn't have such alternate methods available (or are too small to implement them).
Indeed. If an employer is going to block you from an interview based on some random and fairly innocuous posting online, he/she is probably quite likely to nail you to the wall for something similarly petty in the workplace. The one difference being that oft-times the people doing the hiring are not necessarily the ones you'll be working with or directly for.
I can't think of too much online that would paint me in a terribly negative light. The worse being when I've called some people on being jerks (notably a LUG where members were filling my inbox with personal attacks and off-topic BS), and probably comments of a similar nature on slashdot.
Some of the greatest things about Doom were the mods and multi-player capabilities. I remember tons of work just getting the damn null-modem, modem (and later network) play to work. Fiddling with connection strings, jumpers for IRQ's to get the @$)!(@! modem or ethernet card to work, and then later messing around with IPX/SPX drivers etc
Once that was all done, the mods. Custom maps, music (Doom was quite fun played to "hall of the mountain king" midi, and especially to "dance of the sugarplum fairy"), and weapons mods made the old seem new. The BFG behavior was basically to spawn small sub-blasts on enemies in an area around the main blast. One bit of fun we had was modding those sub-blasts into a "main blast", which would then spawn their own blasts etc. One shot in a crowded room would propagate through everything and bring slower machines to a crawl (afterwards, all the baddies were slag, though).
Though spin-offs such as Heretic etc were fun, nothing was quite as enjoyable until Duke3d came around with the ability to look/point/move (including jumping/ducking) in a less constrained fashion, and to build maps with 3d stacked floors and destructible walls/windows/etc.
I seem to remember a story awhile back where an EULA contained a line like "The first person to call 1-888-555-5555 will get a prize of $10,000"
Apparently it took a few months, but somebody actually did call the number and get the prize. This was after thousands of people clicked "accept" to the EULA (basically providing that almost nobody really reads the damn things).
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Uh, it runs on Windows and Android. They can be locked down but frankly there's still a lot of hackery one can do on those platforms.
Or (c) they require a special method to re-enable that wasn't doable in the time-frame available to the intruders.
One of the responders makes a good point:
Surely you don't want to expose the locations of your hidden cameras ?
Of course, one could just move the cameras afterwards. But releasing pics does give the intruder an idea of what was installed where for next time.
a widescreen display has no place on a business laptop
A widescreen display often matches up with a full-size keyboard on a laptop. Even with the touchpad, the length of the laptop body is going to be longer than it is deep. For an LCD that matches those dimensions, that translates into widescreen. Going back to some of the older laptops, they had non-wide displays, but the laptop bodies also had a fairly large amount of empty space either between the keyboard and LCD (sometimes partially filled with "function" buttons etc) or below the keyboard. End result is a laptop that is bulkier and less convenience to transport.
As for the usefulness of widescreen on business laptops. It certainly doesn't hurt to have some extra horizontal realty when one is arranging a crapton of open windows or status monitors.
There is often a bigger disconnect between contractors and internal staff due to a different reporting structure etc.
When you've got a revolving door of contractors it's harder to give them the same amount of attention that you can to permanent staff.
I remember a few laptops having cameras with a feature like this. The camera had little clip which could slide a cover across the camera lense, similar to the closed lense on a digital camera.
the speaker said using radio transmission to leak information was much too sophisticated to be a viable attack for anything but the government and military
Using most generally-available consumer equipment, it probably was. We've come a long way in terms of consumer tech though, especially in terms of miniaturization.
Maybe something like: "I had to 'review the evidence' in this case and the quality was crap, so I'm double pissed now."
I think he's indicating that he prefers to live in a state where many laws still benefit average citizen/consumers.
Of course, it's also a place where patent trolls like to go to have cases decided...
That's my point. It's not the DRM itself that's bad, it's that DRM in general is terribly abused to create situations like with Amazon.
So all the bad-guys have to do is put their jammer on top of a hospital or orphanage or whatever. They they get to put out some nice publicity about how the US is killing orphans and sick people.
Hiding behind civilians is a fairly common thing among certain terrorist groups.
from customers that paid for it by a mistake
That's one of the better typos I've seen lately. Certainly I would consider paying for some easily-disabled rights-restricted POS a mistake...
No, but the word/action of a company employee can still be grounds for legal actions against said company.
If an employee at McDonalds tells a customer "We don't serve [visible minority] here", who do you think is going to be hit with the expensive lawsuit?
DRM in HTML != one-sided "licensing" agreements.
Yes, it can be used to restrict digital libraries, but really on the HTML-side it's a way of (pretending) that a media stream between two groups is secure and un-copyable. Netflix has DRM. They don't guarantee that any particular show will still around, but their library is good enough that you don't want for content in general, and is worth the $8/month or so that it costs to obtain access.
Will ads for gay support groups out you? There are plenty of other things that set this stuff off.
Various pro-sports forums (wrestling in particular) tend to complain when they start getting gay dating ads, which is rather amusing since they're all contextual based on the content of the posts in th eforum...
Set "Don't load images" back as default again, as it is now and in every email client.
Was that turned off? It's always been that way on my gmail accounts, except for sender addresses I've whitelisted.
Uhhhh, well let's see:
a) Android will notify you if there are updates to apps via the apps store processes *ALREADY* running in the background. There's no need for apps to do this individually
b) This can also easily be done when the app is started by the user, just check for updates on startup, don't start up on boot.
so far only NVIDIA is officially supported
This seems odd to me, as I thought that the actual Steam/Valve hardware would be using AMD APU's?
Uh... if you got a Vita instead of the game that you ordered, wouldn't it mean you probably already had the Vita (with some allowance for those buying the game for others).
Beyond that, I suppose it depends on where the name was on it. Sound to me like the package was ADDRESSED to the grandparent, but that the invoice INSIDE the package/box of one item had somebody else's name.
IANAL either, but in that case it seems that the GGP had no way of knowing it was somebody else's prior to opening, and since he was the listed recipient no law was broken there. Further, he contacted the shipper and tried to rectify the situation, and was basically given permission to keep it after 30 days.
I don't see the problem here.
If John Smith gets a package for "John Smith", opens it and finds an invoice to "Bob Jones" then makes an honest effort to return it and is told to keep it (if he's not contacted in 30 days)... where the legal obligation there?
I ordered a movie from ebay (Iron Sky, B movie, known somewhat well among geeks but not among the unwashed masses).
I got an entirely different movie (a foreign film, no less). I informed the vendor of this and he noted that I'd got somebody else's DVD. He offered to pay for the return and ship me a new DVD, but in the meantime my wife noticed the DVD and (it had one of her favorite actors) indicated she wanted to watch it.
So... asked the vendor instead if I could just pay him for the cost of the (wrong) DVD I'd received. He agreed, and gave it to me at a discount.
Vendor fixed things up with his other customer, he still got paid, and I got a discount. Everyone wins, and nobody needed to cheat anyone else.
To block specific versions of data-gathering, because they have alternate ways to do it already, but assume that their competition doesn't have such alternate methods available (or are too small to implement them).
Indeed. If an employer is going to block you from an interview based on some random and fairly innocuous posting online, he/she is probably quite likely to nail you to the wall for something similarly petty in the workplace. The one difference being that oft-times the people doing the hiring are not necessarily the ones you'll be working with or directly for.
I can't think of too much online that would paint me in a terribly negative light. The worse being when I've called some people on being jerks (notably a LUG where members were filling my inbox with personal attacks and off-topic BS), and probably comments of a similar nature on slashdot.
Some of the greatest things about Doom were the mods and multi-player capabilities. I remember tons of work just getting the damn null-modem, modem (and later network) play to work. Fiddling with connection strings, jumpers for IRQ's to get the @$)!(@! modem or ethernet card to work, and then later messing around with IPX/SPX drivers etc
Once that was all done, the mods. Custom maps, music (Doom was quite fun played to "hall of the mountain king" midi, and especially to "dance of the sugarplum fairy"), and weapons mods made the old seem new. The BFG behavior was basically to spawn small sub-blasts on enemies in an area around the main blast. One bit of fun we had was modding those sub-blasts into a "main blast", which would then spawn their own blasts etc. One shot in a crowded room would propagate through everything and bring slower machines to a crawl (afterwards, all the baddies were slag, though).
Though spin-offs such as Heretic etc were fun, nothing was quite as enjoyable until Duke3d came around with the ability to look/point/move (including jumping/ducking) in a less constrained fashion, and to build maps with 3d stacked floors and destructible walls/windows/etc.
I seem to remember a story awhile back where an EULA contained a line like
"The first person to call 1-888-555-5555 will get a prize of $10,000"
Apparently it took a few months, but somebody actually did call the number and get the prize. This was after thousands of people clicked "accept" to the EULA (basically providing that almost nobody really reads the damn things).