Yeah but then they have to test what's left to find out if it really was a bomb. And then you sue them for planting the device that resulted in your property being "controlled exploded"
Truth be told I was just trying to make a joke about the constant argument, though I do feel there's a reason so many schools offer a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology degree, as well as Bachelor Science. The field just doesn't fit neatly anywhere...
Perhaps they accidentally their claim and meant to say that it's the first stellar discovery by distributed computing? I'm fairly confident SETI@home hasn't discovered anything conclusive yet....
"Laptops and disk drives being left in direct sunlight or in the back of cars is another common cause of failure"
Pretty sure that's one of those things all the paper work that comes with electronics tells you not to do. At least I think so, I haven't really bothered to read through most of that stuff in the last few years...
You're right and I guess the point my scattered brain was trying to make (and did a poor job of it) was that the people who insist on calling themselves "hardware hackers" who are really "hardware tinkers" are causing a lot of confusion here. See the Apple charger hack article from yesterday.
I have to agree. While I concede the point that someone can make malicious hardware, it seems like it would be -a lot- harder to infect someone's system with it than it would be to infect them with malicious code.
Based on the headline, I would have thought this was an article about the people who call themselves hardware hackers who are trying to make hardware BETTER. Garage engineers, that sort. Unfortunately, these days, the word 'Hacker' carries a very negative connotation and it seems like, from this article, that some people are trying to perpetuate it.
I agree. I happen to... mostly... Like my provider. Even though they don't always have the uber popular phones like the i-phone. And they completely seem to miss the point about 'rugged' phones (Nothing since the Moto W450? Really?). But I like the customer service I've gotten, I like my plan, I like my coverage... I just don't like the fact that the phone manufactures are trying to force me to pay full price for the phones I want (instead of changing to their exclusive service vendor, if you can call what AT&T and Verizon do 'service') and then go through the process of jailbreaking them to use them on the network that I like. Makes me feel like a second class citizen...
I've seen a lot of the off brand chargers have been reported to brick your pod though. I know I looked for an alternative to the $40 dock for my g2 shuffle for a long time. Found a lot, but never any where someone had anything good to say about them. This explains a lot of t hat.
Thank you some sense from someone. The big news here is that they recorded the event and have evidence supporting the two events being linked. A C3 storm isn't going to do much more than make for some even nicer aurora than normal, though those of us at more reasonable latitudes are probably still not going to see anything.
Now, see, there's a major difference there all the same. I CANNOT eat in a resturant where someone is smoking. if I try, the management usually ends up calling an ambulance. that's not a nusiance thing, that's a serious endangerment to other people's health.
oh come on, get realistic. Some of the webhosts out there don't care about such shtic. All they see is that the website has 'overdrawn' it's allotment of traffic...
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Well, for photocopying. I was waiting to see if someone had mentioned it before I opened my mouth.
Yeah but then they have to test what's left to find out if it really was a bomb. And then you sue them for planting the device that resulted in your property being "controlled exploded"
That should be , "In Soviet Russia, Joke makes fun of you!"
Now I wish I hadn't spent all my mod points....
Also obligatory,and I'm surprised it's not here yet... http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2150663.The_Makeshift_Rocket
I never understood the first time around how TTS was different from setting it to render in oversize font or in a different typeface...
Truth be told I was just trying to make a joke about the constant argument, though I do feel there's a reason so many schools offer a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology degree, as well as Bachelor Science. The field just doesn't fit neatly anywhere...
Too true. Hardly 'scientific' though, unless you consider psychology a science..... >.>
The excerpt in the summary reads "This is the first scientific discovery by a distributed computing project" however.
Perhaps they accidentally their claim and meant to say that it's the first stellar discovery by distributed computing? I'm fairly confident SETI@home hasn't discovered anything conclusive yet....
"Laptops and disk drives being left in direct sunlight or in the back of cars is another common cause of failure" Pretty sure that's one of those things all the paper work that comes with electronics tells you not to do. At least I think so, I haven't really bothered to read through most of that stuff in the last few years...
that's true. They didn't do much to push technology, just wandered around and stole things, if memory serves....
Nothing but a follow up story about the relatively insignificant portion of a story that really should have been about the hardware recording it and not the event itself? http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=10/08/02/2028228
Looks like they really did accidentally the headline. They (somewhat) fixed it with the addition of the word 'Malicious' now...
You're right and I guess the point my scattered brain was trying to make (and did a poor job of it) was that the people who insist on calling themselves "hardware hackers" who are really "hardware tinkers" are causing a lot of confusion here. See the Apple charger hack article from yesterday.
I have to agree. While I concede the point that someone can make malicious hardware, it seems like it would be -a lot- harder to infect someone's system with it than it would be to infect them with malicious code. Based on the headline, I would have thought this was an article about the people who call themselves hardware hackers who are trying to make hardware BETTER. Garage engineers, that sort. Unfortunately, these days, the word 'Hacker' carries a very negative connotation and it seems like, from this article, that some people are trying to perpetuate it.
I agree. I happen to... mostly... Like my provider. Even though they don't always have the uber popular phones like the i-phone. And they completely seem to miss the point about 'rugged' phones (Nothing since the Moto W450? Really?). But I like the customer service I've gotten, I like my plan, I like my coverage... I just don't like the fact that the phone manufactures are trying to force me to pay full price for the phones I want (instead of changing to their exclusive service vendor, if you can call what AT&T and Verizon do 'service') and then go through the process of jailbreaking them to use them on the network that I like. Makes me feel like a second class citizen...
I've seen a lot of the off brand chargers have been reported to brick your pod though. I know I looked for an alternative to the $40 dock for my g2 shuffle for a long time. Found a lot, but never any where someone had anything good to say about them. This explains a lot of t hat.
Thank you some sense from someone. The big news here is that they recorded the event and have evidence supporting the two events being linked. A C3 storm isn't going to do much more than make for some even nicer aurora than normal, though those of us at more reasonable latitudes are probably still not going to see anything.
Now, see, there's a major difference there all the same. I CANNOT eat in a resturant where someone is smoking. if I try, the management usually ends up calling an ambulance. that's not a nusiance thing, that's a serious endangerment to other people's health.
oh come on, get realistic. Some of the webhosts out there don't care about such shtic. All they see is that the website has 'overdrawn' it's allotment of traffic...
once. It's pretty nice, but at first made my wrist hurt a little.