The black box speed can be compared against the accident damage. Based on where the cars land at the end, the math can be done to get back to the original speeds. The black box would just be a checksum at that point.
Really, this thing is better at ruling out theories that didn't happen than proving ones that did. This guy was caught dead to rights already, the black box just supported a case that was already made.
The airbag pre-exists the car version of the black box, so a black box isn't technically a requirement for there to be an airbag.
However, for more advanced airbag systems, the data is useful so that the airbag can make an inteligent decision, such as whether to deploy at high speed, low speed, or not at all. The explosive force of an airbag can break bones if applied where it is not needed... so having the final five seconds of data is useful there. Why it needs to be kept beyond the five seconds after inpact cannot be explained by this function, however.
From the BBC piece... Mr Joun was arrested after another audience member complained about a red light on a camcorder at the Pacific Theatre at the Grove. Just how much hacking is needed to take the red light out of a consumer camcorder? He would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for that LED.
From the/. write-up... Motion Picture Ass. Head Jack Valenti Was "Association" or even "Assoc." was too much to type there?
The lesson is clear: stay out of movie theaters and you won't get arrested. Uhm, how about "Don't take video cameras into movie theaters and you won't get arrested?" They're not arresting random patrons, just the ones who are caught making illegal copies.
From the linked Register piece... You've been out at the beach all day and you met a friend in a bar who says she is going to take in a film. You join her and caught up in the conversation and don't notice some of the new signs up at the cinema. Suddenly someone wants to search your back pack and the next thing you know you're in prison for a one year stretch for taking the camcorder which you forgot was in your pack, into a cinema. The $2,500 fine isn't funny either. That's not the California law. The law requires that the camcorder operator demonstrate an intent to copy the movie. I don't quite see how you can accidently aim a camcorder at the movie screen and turn it on. Somebody "caught in the act" is clearly demonstrating intent, while somebody who has the camcorder off an in their backpack is clearly not.
The law has been written with future technologies in mind and can equally apply to any type of recorder, including a mobile phone. So in California at least it is soon going to be illegal to take your phone into the cinema. Again, only if you're intent on copying the film. Don't aim your phone at the screen and hit record and you'll be fine. Besides, does anybody have a camera phone with two to three hours of memory?
Re:OT: What I want from a 3D GUI project
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Apple's present use of 3D and 2D scaling seems to indicate they have the code written to do some cool 3D stuff, but they have to use it sparingly because all graphics rendering is alaways resource-intensive.
Truth be told, we do have a lot of 3D killer-apps.. first person shooters, and 3D medical images. The thing is, you end up there with applications who like to be modal in controling the screen in part because they don't really want you running another high-graphics app at the same time. An FPS-in-a-window seems to be too much to ask sometimes...
... as soon as it is as "easy" and "intuitive" to use as Windows.
Not just use, but also administer. Point-and-click network software deployment is a must at even a relatively small company. Roaming user profiles controled by logons is also something that Windows does well but Linux doesn't do out of the box.
When it comes down to it, Linux has great low-level admin tools, but there doesn't seem to be much out in the "business network management" class.
One of the key problems that "desktop Linux" seems to be facing is that it's hard to make money as a distro maker. Unless you build your distro to be tied to your mothership for patches, what other models are there?
- Pay-per-seat? No way, the GPL lets you get undercut by "Free" if you do that. - Pay-for-support? Double edged sword. Means your user interface has to suck, otherwise they'll keep using it without the needing to pay for the contract. - Selling-add-ons? That's a risky play, not likely to cash-in.
And without the money... just where is the business-friendly distro going to come from? GPL projects have a bad habit of going programmer-friendly instead of user-friendly when left unpaid...
I think the major flaws in this project all stem from the fact that it was a poor choice of development platforms. CSGL is a "finished" project that has known bugs... which means this project is dealt a setback.
One "cheat" I notice this project is using is that once you bring a window close enough to the "camera point", it snaps back into becoming a normal Windows-drawn window. That is to say, they're avoiding all issues with draw-based things that their picture-taker doesn't get simply by ignoring them at deeper depths, and letting Windows draw it normally when the window gets back to "actual size".
Re:OT: What I want from a 3D GUI project
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Any 3D GUI is going to have to account for 2D programs running around its environment, just like Windows had to account for DOS programs and Linux GUIs always let you have command line windows.
Somebody's got to get a 3D desktop environment stable before anybody bothers developing on top of that platform.
Yep, that's the right size for the zip file. The actual executable uncompressed will be 100k.
You'll also need the 372k csgl.dll file moved into your "system directory". (CSGL itself is a SourceForge project for a C# langauge graphics library.)
This program also requires.NET Frameworks... grab those at Windows Update if you need them.
In short, this is definitely not a "ready for primetime" program. It's got the core functional parts, but it clearly doesn't have the code to handle specific situations that lead to bugs. It's a nice proof of concept and that's about it.
This program is in desperate need of documentation, it's not exactly clear how you're supposed to do much of anything. I was able to get it to run, but I couldn't find any way to exit the program short of logging out of Windows.
Programs that expect to rewrite the rules of user interface should at least share a copy of the new rulebook.
I'm a subscriber, and the videos were already non-responsive before this story even went from red to green...
My first reason to download the .NET Frameworks
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If, like me, this is the first program that makes you want to download the Microsoft.NET frameworks, use Windows Update rather than the link on the site. Go to windowsupdate.microsoft.com if you're running IE.
The Windows Update system is distributed, and it'll be much faster than using download.microsoft.com. And while you're there, grab this week's security patches...
Not to mention, the account logon gets tied to Amazon.com's system... so they can use your search history of websearches via A9 to influence your Amazon homepages and e-mails...
This really doesn't seem to be much of a breakthrough aside from the fact that they are running your serarch past Google, Amazon.com and Alexa at once and presenting a unified interface.
This is like an infomerical from Amazon trying to pretend to be programming. I'll take my Google straight, and go to Amazon.com when I want to go shopping, thank you very much.
This isn't actually Tyco's invention, it's 3M's. Tyco's involvement is because they make fire supression systems, and are going to offer this as a replacement for Halon and such.
I'd say this is Tyco doing business as usual despite the trial, which is exactly what they should be doing.
Even if "total immersion" cooling were possible with water... it still wouldn't be that good an idea. The idea behind water cooling is that the water that is over heat-producing components is quickly pushed away and will spend most of its time in the radiator where it is cooled.
They're marketing all right... but Slashdot isn't their audience. They know true geeks won't touch their product with a 10 foot pole, but they're chasing after the people who wouldn't touch Linux with a 10 foot otherwise.
It's the work of a few hours to write a perl/python/php script that works with a few dozen proxies to flood the shit out of a blog or web board.
A single web board, sure... but the USENET spam was one against every forum in existance at the time. You can't do that in one script, there are too many differences between the various implementations.
Sometimes standards are a strength, sometimes it's a weakness...
I think the seperation depends on your definition of Spam. I think that was the first attempt to use ARPAnet for commerical gain (something that the reasearchers had to scratch their heads over) while the perl stunt was the first mass-posting of any kind.
This was a knockout blow to Usenet as the mainstream way of Internet peer-publication, as you might notice that Slashdot here is a web-based interface and so are the other mainstream "web-boards" that are commonly in use.
Web boards today aren't bulletproof against spam, but they've at least raised the bar high enough that the cost of writing a program to defeat the security would wipe out any profits from a spam exercise.
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The black box speed can be compared against the accident damage. Based on where the cars land at the end, the math can be done to get back to the original speeds. The black box would just be a checksum at that point.
Really, this thing is better at ruling out theories that didn't happen than proving ones that did. This guy was caught dead to rights already, the black box just supported a case that was already made.
The airbag pre-exists the car version of the black box, so a black box isn't technically a requirement for there to be an airbag.
However, for more advanced airbag systems, the data is useful so that the airbag can make an inteligent decision, such as whether to deploy at high speed, low speed, or not at all. The explosive force of an airbag can break bones if applied where it is not needed... so having the final five seconds of data is useful there. Why it needs to be kept beyond the five seconds after inpact cannot be explained by this function, however.
From the BBC piece...
Mr Joun was arrested after another audience member complained about a red light on a camcorder at the Pacific Theatre at the Grove.
Just how much hacking is needed to take the red light out of a consumer camcorder? He would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for that LED.
From the /. write-up...
Motion Picture Ass. Head Jack Valenti
Was "Association" or even "Assoc." was too much to type there?
The lesson is clear: stay out of movie theaters and you won't get arrested.
Uhm, how about "Don't take video cameras into movie theaters and you won't get arrested?" They're not arresting random patrons, just the ones who are caught making illegal copies.
From the linked Register piece...
You've been out at the beach all day and you met a friend in a bar who says she is going to take in a film. You join her and caught up in the conversation and don't notice some of the new signs up at the cinema. Suddenly someone wants to search your back pack and the next thing you know you're in prison for a one year stretch for taking the camcorder which you forgot was in your pack, into a cinema. The $2,500 fine isn't funny either.
That's not the California law. The law requires that the camcorder operator demonstrate an intent to copy the movie. I don't quite see how you can accidently aim a camcorder at the movie screen and turn it on. Somebody "caught in the act" is clearly demonstrating intent, while somebody who has the camcorder off an in their backpack is clearly not.
The law has been written with future technologies in mind and can equally apply to any type of recorder, including a mobile phone. So in California at least it is soon going to be illegal to take your phone into the cinema.
Again, only if you're intent on copying the film. Don't aim your phone at the screen and hit record and you'll be fine. Besides, does anybody have a camera phone with two to three hours of memory?
Apple's present use of 3D and 2D scaling seems to indicate they have the code written to do some cool 3D stuff, but they have to use it sparingly because all graphics rendering is alaways resource-intensive.
Truth be told, we do have a lot of 3D killer-apps.. first person shooters, and 3D medical images. The thing is, you end up there with applications who like to be modal in controling the screen in part because they don't really want you running another high-graphics app at the same time. An FPS-in-a-window seems to be too much to ask sometimes...
... as soon as it is as "easy" and "intuitive" to use as Windows.
Not just use, but also administer. Point-and-click network software deployment is a must at even a relatively small company. Roaming user profiles controled by logons is also something that Windows does well but Linux doesn't do out of the box.
When it comes down to it, Linux has great low-level admin tools, but there doesn't seem to be much out in the "business network management" class.
One of the key problems that "desktop Linux" seems to be facing is that it's hard to make money as a distro maker. Unless you build your distro to be tied to your mothership for patches, what other models are there?
- Pay-per-seat? No way, the GPL lets you get undercut by "Free" if you do that.
- Pay-for-support? Double edged sword. Means your user interface has to suck, otherwise they'll keep using it without the needing to pay for the contract.
- Selling-add-ons? That's a risky play, not likely to cash-in.
And without the money... just where is the business-friendly distro going to come from? GPL projects have a bad habit of going programmer-friendly instead of user-friendly when left unpaid...
I think the major flaws in this project all stem from the fact that it was a poor choice of development platforms. CSGL is a "finished" project that has known bugs... which means this project is dealt a setback.
One "cheat" I notice this project is using is that once you bring a window close enough to the "camera point", it snaps back into becoming a normal Windows-drawn window. That is to say, they're avoiding all issues with draw-based things that their picture-taker doesn't get simply by ignoring them at deeper depths, and letting Windows draw it normally when the window gets back to "actual size".
Any 3D GUI is going to have to account for 2D programs running around its environment, just like Windows had to account for DOS programs and Linux GUIs always let you have command line windows.
Somebody's got to get a 3D desktop environment stable before anybody bothers developing on top of that platform.
Yep, that's the right size for the zip file. The actual executable uncompressed will be 100k.
.NET Frameworks... grab those at Windows Update if you need them.
You'll also need the 372k csgl.dll file moved into your "system directory". (CSGL itself is a SourceForge project for a C# langauge graphics library.)
This program also requires
In short, this is definitely not a "ready for primetime" program. It's got the core functional parts, but it clearly doesn't have the code to handle specific situations that lead to bugs. It's a nice proof of concept and that's about it.
This program is in desperate need of documentation, it's not exactly clear how you're supposed to do much of anything. I was able to get it to run, but I couldn't find any way to exit the program short of logging out of Windows.
Programs that expect to rewrite the rules of user interface should at least share a copy of the new rulebook.
I'm a subscriber, and the videos were already non-responsive before this story even went from red to green...
If, like me, this is the first program that makes you want to download the Microsoft .NET frameworks, use Windows Update rather than the link on the site. Go to windowsupdate.microsoft.com if you're running IE.
The Windows Update system is distributed, and it'll be much faster than using download.microsoft.com. And while you're there, grab this week's security patches...
Nah, that's simply what Google returns if you search for "warez" with SafeSearch on.
Not to mention, the account logon gets tied to Amazon.com's system... so they can use your search history of websearches via A9 to influence your Amazon homepages and e-mails...
Here are the top links for "web browser": Mozilla, Firefox, Opera, Opera again, Safari, Lynx, Galeon, Netscape, Anybrowser.org, and evolt.org.
Not a single link to IE on the first page of results for "web browser"? Fishy.
A9's just passing through Google's results on web searches. IE has fallen out of the first page on Google even...
Amazon's "Inside the Book" search engine is a very interesting thing.
If you only need to see a paragraph to know what you need to know, you have no reason left to pay for the rest of the book.
However, most of the returns are from fiction books, so maybe you're better off just sticking with Google and saving this as a fallback only.
This really doesn't seem to be much of a breakthrough aside from the fact that they are running your serarch past Google, Amazon.com and Alexa at once and presenting a unified interface.
This is like an infomerical from Amazon trying to pretend to be programming. I'll take my Google straight, and go to Amazon.com when I want to go shopping, thank you very much.
This isn't actually Tyco's invention, it's 3M's. Tyco's involvement is because they make fire supression systems, and are going to offer this as a replacement for Halon and such.
I'd say this is Tyco doing business as usual despite the trial, which is exactly what they should be doing.
Numbers straight from the PDF are...
Specific Heat, Liquid 1.103 kJ/kgC (0.2634 BTU/lbF)
Specific Heat, Vapor @ 1 atm 0.891 kJ/kgC (0.2127 BTU/lbF)
Compute away...
Even if "total immersion" cooling were possible with water... it still wouldn't be that good an idea. The idea behind water cooling is that the water that is over heat-producing components is quickly pushed away and will spend most of its time in the radiator where it is cooled.
This idea just doesn't make much sense...
They're marketing all right... but Slashdot isn't their audience. They know true geeks won't touch their product with a 10 foot pole, but they're chasing after the people who wouldn't touch Linux with a 10 foot otherwise.
It's the work of a few hours to write a perl/python/php script that works with a few dozen proxies to flood the shit out of a blog or web board.
A single web board, sure... but the USENET spam was one against every forum in existance at the time. You can't do that in one script, there are too many differences between the various implementations.
Sometimes standards are a strength, sometimes it's a weakness...
I think the seperation depends on your definition of Spam. I think that was the first attempt to use ARPAnet for commerical gain (something that the reasearchers had to scratch their heads over) while the perl stunt was the first mass-posting of any kind.
This was a knockout blow to Usenet as the mainstream way of Internet peer-publication, as you might notice that Slashdot here is a web-based interface and so are the other mainstream "web-boards" that are commonly in use.
Web boards today aren't bulletproof against spam, but they've at least raised the bar high enough that the cost of writing a program to defeat the security would wipe out any profits from a spam exercise.