Electronic condoms with speech syntesiser:
"Red Alert! Hull breach!"
"Bad news Jim, She's pregnant"
"Condom has detected user below legal age. Authorities are notified."
"Warning! Husband approaching!"
"Erection at 35%. Press OK to order Viagra."
"Virus scanner running..."
1)Announce possible big price increase.
2)People quickly buy more music before the increase.
3)profit!
4)Occasionaly remind people of possible price increase.
5)goto 2
What has Jesus got to do with chocolat eggs? Easter's the day we celebrate the chocolate egg and the Easter Bunny. And Bunnies are great! (ref.: Playboy, all editions, any page with pictures)
I doubt it will save to IT world. More like lock it in for a few rich corporation like MS.
A book is protected by copyright laws. But words or letters aren't. Same for software, it makes sense to protect a program, but to protect a button or any other idea, that's ridiculous.
A library to compress an image (like JPEG) deserves protection, but the concept of image compression doesn't.
Yes, but by the time you're starting to notice the effects, it'll be practicly impossible to prove who was responsible. And even if you would be "lucky" enough to get those that are responsible to pay up, it won't be much in comparison to what you've lost. (How much is 10year of your life worth to you?)
What we need is a better system to punish those who act so irresponcible. What's a 1 million dollar fine if you make the tenfold by doing it?
If you want high-tech for the next decade or so, think bio, nano, and robotics, not software.
How about the software that makes to robots do their robot-ing? Once the robot goes the way of the computer and the dishwasher, I think we can expect another Closed Source vs Open Source clash.
And with robot I mean a real SF-like robot, like a butler-robot or anything of that complexity, not one those lawnmower robots, these can get away with "simple" software. The robo-butler would need a real OS to handle all it's tasks. (Just think about how many differend (simultaneous) steps you need to take to e.g. fill a glass).
Can I buy one of them for an affordable price without having to re-solve all the problems mentioned in the article?
That way you'll miss out on quite a large part of the fun. Building such a thing is more than half the fun of it. I like to build small mobile robots and usualy it takes several weeks to make it "do" something, but the cool-it-work-moment usually only last an hour or so (depending on the complexity of the "do"). Most of the fun is the actual building and designing the thing.
Building the better mousetrap is simply more fun than catching the mice.
That depends: How long has it been since you last used a strong desinfectant to clean the scanner? If you don't do this before every scan, you might end up digitizing a virus. God knows what would happen if someone would accidently scan the AIDS-virus.
If some country were to create this for either defense or offense I think they would test it first
Let's check my list... ah, it's now Greenlands turn to be randomly blamed.
But I'm sure everybody here already suspected Greenlands involvement in this.
I think someone should inform the writter of the article of the fact that those mental institution are populated with big muscular men with sharp pointy needles and not with sexy hot nurses.
I just patented the dollar. So you own me half of your money. And tomorrow, you'll own me half your money again.
But don't worry, you'll never be out of money. You'll just get infinitly close to broke.
Yes, but you should know that the rule on posting birthdays on/. is that you have to buy every one of us a (few) beer(s), and in exchange we will sing "happy birthday to you".
I guess I was 14 or 15 when I got my first modem. A shiny 2400bps modem I got cheaply. With it I could try out those mysterieus BBS's.
I believe it was when I got 16 that Compuserve started with mailing those CD's with a free day of internet access. I got a few (dozen) of those and so managed to get several weeks of free internet access @ 14k400bps.
Later I got a free month of internet access through Planet internet and after that month I got my first real account @ 56Kbps.
And about 2 years ago I switched to cable.
Sheesh. It's been nearly a decade since I started getting too involved with computers.
I guess I missed out on quite a lot of things in real life. Lost my first serieus gf because of this. Didn't learned those essential social skills. And it's damn hard to catch up on these things.
But OTOH without the internet I wouldn't have know there are that many ways to be kinky.
Well, at least trolls would be send to bed by their mothers when they do their thing.
Just imagine what a "First Post" thread would look:
- Fris Psot! (by Johny the Troll)
- Johny, I told you a million time not to annoy the nice people on Slashdot. Now go do you're homework!. (by Johny's Mother)
- oh mom, I'll do it after dinner.
- Now listen here young man, you'll do as you're told or do I have to send your father an e-mail?
I once succeeded in shorting a 12V 7.5Ah lead accu through a PCB. In short: this PCB had a track about 1.5cm width. This track, among several others, was completely gone. The battery only touched the board for a fraction of a second, but totaly vaporized a copper track 1.5cm width over a length of nearly 3cm.
Never underestimate the power in a lead accu.
I doubt it. Memory effect happens when a battery isn't completely discharged before recharging (except for lead accu's, differend story there) and results in losing capacity. But in many cases this is reversable. This isn't a issue anymore in modern batteries.
The limit on charging cycles is a result of the ageing of the battery.
Does anyone know how the chemistry of those effects work?
It's very entertaining to tape some copper wires in someones (someone you don't like, and who, preferably, doesn't have a gun, baseball bat or any sharp or heavy objects) bag before they leave on their flight.
It's a great practical joke, even the judge agreed on that before sending me off to jail.
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Electronic condoms with speech syntesiser:
"Red Alert! Hull breach!"
"Bad news Jim, She's pregnant"
"Condom has detected user below legal age. Authorities are notified."
"Warning! Husband approaching!"
"Erection at 35%. Press OK to order Viagra."
"Virus scanner running..."
Perhaps their bussiness plan is this:
1)Announce possible big price increase.
2)People quickly buy more music before the increase.
3)profit!
4)Occasionaly remind people of possible price increase.
5)goto 2
What has Jesus got to do with chocolat eggs? Easter's the day we celebrate the chocolate egg and the Easter Bunny. And Bunnies are great! (ref.: Playboy, all editions, any page with pictures)
But this mission has nothing to do with WMD or oil. It's SCOs mission to check if mercury doesn't run linux without paying.
I doubt it will save to IT world. More like lock it in for a few rich corporation like MS.
A book is protected by copyright laws. But words or letters aren't. Same for software, it makes sense to protect a program, but to protect a button or any other idea, that's ridiculous.
A library to compress an image (like JPEG) deserves protection, but the concept of image compression doesn't.
Here's a hint
Yes, but by the time you're starting to notice the effects, it'll be practicly impossible to prove who was responsible. And even if you would be "lucky" enough to get those that are responsible to pay up, it won't be much in comparison to what you've lost. (How much is 10year of your life worth to you?)
What we need is a better system to punish those who act so irresponcible. What's a 1 million dollar fine if you make the tenfold by doing it?
How would this end the human race? Cows eat grass. People eat cows. So stop worrying and light the BBQ!
And with robot I mean a real SF-like robot, like a butler-robot or anything of that complexity, not one those lawnmower robots, these can get away with "simple" software. The robo-butler would need a real OS to handle all it's tasks. (Just think about how many differend (simultaneous) steps you need to take to e.g. fill a glass).
The story of software is all but finished.
Building the better mousetrap is simply more fun than catching the mice.
That depends: How long has it been since you last used a strong desinfectant to clean the scanner? If you don't do this before every scan, you might end up digitizing a virus. God knows what would happen if someone would accidently scan the AIDS-virus.
Prevent virii, sterilize you scanners before use.
Not to mention not a single "I can't do that, Dave" HAL reference. Perhaps our trolls have a day off.
But I'm sure everybody here already suspected Greenlands involvement in this.
I think someone should inform the writter of the article of the fact that those mental institution are populated with big muscular men with sharp pointy needles and not with sexy hot nurses.
I just patented the dollar. So you own me half of your money. And tomorrow, you'll own me half your money again.
But don't worry, you'll never be out of money. You'll just get infinitly close to broke.
Yes, but you should know that the rule on posting birthdays on /. is that you have to buy every one of us a (few) beer(s), and in exchange we will sing "happy birthday to you".
I guess I was 14 or 15 when I got my first modem. A shiny 2400bps modem I got cheaply. With it I could try out those mysterieus BBS's.
I believe it was when I got 16 that Compuserve started with mailing those CD's with a free day of internet access. I got a few (dozen) of those and so managed to get several weeks of free internet access @ 14k400bps.
Later I got a free month of internet access through Planet internet and after that month I got my first real account @ 56Kbps.
And about 2 years ago I switched to cable.
Sheesh. It's been nearly a decade since I started getting too involved with computers.
I guess I missed out on quite a lot of things in real life. Lost my first serieus gf because of this. Didn't learned those essential social skills. And it's damn hard to catch up on these things.
But OTOH without the internet I wouldn't have know there are that many ways to be kinky.
Well, at least trolls would be send to bed by their mothers when they do their thing.
Just imagine what a "First Post" thread would look:
- Fris Psot! (by Johny the Troll)
- Johny, I told you a million time not to annoy the nice people on Slashdot. Now go do you're homework!. (by Johny's Mother)
- oh mom, I'll do it after dinner.
- Now listen here young man, you'll do as you're told or do I have to send your father an e-mail?
What's this "sex" thing you mention? Never mind I'll look it up with Google.
233,000,000 results, hmm, I think this is going to take a while.
I once succeeded in shorting a 12V 7.5Ah lead accu through a PCB. In short: this PCB had a track about 1.5cm width. This track, among several others, was completely gone. The battery only touched the board for a fraction of a second, but totaly vaporized a copper track 1.5cm width over a length of nearly 3cm.
Never underestimate the power in a lead accu.
Like a goldcap? Those are only usefull for very small currents, like keeping a real time clock chip going when the power's off.
I doubt it. Memory effect happens when a battery isn't completely discharged before recharging (except for lead accu's, differend story there) and results in losing capacity. But in many cases this is reversable. This isn't a issue anymore in modern batteries.
The limit on charging cycles is a result of the ageing of the battery.
Does anyone know how the chemistry of those effects work?
It's very entertaining to tape some copper wires in someones (someone you don't like, and who, preferably, doesn't have a gun, baseball bat or any sharp or heavy objects) bag before they leave on their flight.
It's a great practical joke, even the judge agreed on that before sending me off to jail.