The House of Reps may very well pass this bill since it's currently Republican controlled, but it stands very little chance of making it through the Senate or getting signed by the President. Internet-aware politicians like use the 'net wisely like the way Obama ran up large numbers of small donations just by asking for them on Twitter.
AT&T buying T-Mobile is a bad thing for consumers. The original cell phone plan was that there would be two providers, the local Ma Bell and a start-up. AT&T as SBC bought up the East Coast start-ups, Verizon bought the West Coast ones, and T-Mobile and Sprint came to the party as national big-city carriers on at the time open space adjustments.
AT&T of the 1980s was busted up as a monopoly. If AT&T is allowed to have T-Mobile, what's stopping Verizon and Sprint from joining up? Less competitors always leads to higher prices. Anybody remember what cellphones cost in the early 1990s?
The point is that the TV coverage is focused on the ball, while there is a lot outside of the 16:9 frame that affects where the ball is going. There are many "official" cameras pointed at static locations that could show all 22 players and all in bounds territory at once, but those aren't available to the fans at large.
ESPN's daytime SportsCenter block has a system they call ESPN Axis which is based on a 3D composite taken by multiple cameras that the TV crew that does the game doesn't have time to compute, these things show up on Monday and Tuesday based on when the computers finish the rendering.
John Madden said once that the TV people wanted their coverage to look more like his video game, and the video game people wanted the game to look more like TV coverage. This led to the use of the wire-suspended camera for most kicking plays.
And your source for that rant is what? Apple ignoring the open downloads available from open sources will drive many people to Linux. They're not stupid enough to attempt the lockin nightmare you're imagining.
I've been saying this for a while... Mac gets access to open source products shortly after Linux gets them and much before the project is ported to Windows.With the ability to run Windows by Boot Camp, VMWare Fusion or Paralells Desktop a Mac user gets access to all the Windows-only stuff and you can't forget the number of applications dedicated to Mac use. In total, it all just works.
Yep, I fund PayPal with my eBay sales of used tech I don't want or need anymore only because it's required by eBay, the owners of PayPal. If eBay wasn't the hugest marketplace for one-off sales I'd take my business elsewhere. Amazon, could you launch such a thing?
Gold, really? eGold was a site that did paypal for gold, and failed miserably. Gold-to-cash is a constantly changing ratio, and can lead to gold holders to be quite poorer when the stock market is soaring... cash is better than gold most of the time.
It's a fact of life that faster chips consume more power, and Apple may have taken a bite the battery can't chew. Faster didn't equate to better in this revision I think.
Yep. Whoever solves this puzzle might want to retain copyright on their work rather than sell it for only $50,000 and then go to work for whomever DoD is planning to use this against.
This joke seems to need explaination so here it goes...
Norton Ghost is a discontinued drive replication program that was loved by sys admins to copy exact drive states so any hacked machine could be simply restored to a state where it was known to be good. Other tools have taken over since then, and that's why the program went away.
Yeah, I remember a day when I was in college that my computer hourglassed for a long time whenever I tried to open a program. I rebult the software side of the computer adding in programs one at a time and it was Norton Antivirus getting caught in an infinite loop that maxed the processor every time a program was launched and staying that way until a timeout terminated the check. Norton put out a new virus definition the next day to fix the bug and it only affected people who looked for out-of-pattern updates each day like I did.
Nobody's perfect, and bugs like this can happen to any programmer working on any project.
This story begs for a rewite... could we at least have a hyperlink for science habit? Anybody check his user number? Timothy claims he has unknown sources... or hiding his own job-disqualifying problems?
That's why I declared that there's been no problem on DOMESTIC flights... the two failed attempts both happened on international flights that were diverted to Boston.
This is a classic government mistake, trying to eliminate a threat in one area causes needless problems in another area. Ever since 9/11 the airport security people have gotten a blank check. TSA seems willing to buy any new scanner invented, safety tests will be done later if ever. It's been a long time since we've heard of an airplane disruption on a domestic flight... do we really need to up the specs on this technology?
A single 3G/4G modem is not a very good test of throughput speeds because numerous other factors such as phone usage, subscribers in the area, and the not level painting of signals all contribute to the results. As long as there's a connection and a basic returning of a web page most customers will be happy. I wonder if the exact count of bits would be good enough to generate random numbers?
We've got a serious security hole in the Internet that whenever an e-mail needs to be sent, you've got to disclose a destination address to several "why should we trust you?" parties.When you've got a lot to send, you either have to bore yourself setting up a system to get around "You're acting like a spammer" blocks that are different at every ISP or hire this third party that already did that research. When this third party gets hit, everybody's list falls at once.
If only privacy policy violations came with cash payouts... that cash would come from the once-profitable third party, and suddenly the cost of doing it the cheap yet wrong way would show up.
This isn't really a problem with "the cloud" as much as a "single point of failure" situation. With the magic of delivering thousands of e-mails without being marked as spam being held by a tight few, the major companies have no hope of employing a full-time E-mail Manager, they hire a third party to send the e-mail, and this really popular third party got hit with an intrusion attack. Oops.
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The House of Reps may very well pass this bill since it's currently Republican controlled, but it stands very little chance of making it through the Senate or getting signed by the President. Internet-aware politicians like use the 'net wisely like the way Obama ran up large numbers of small donations just by asking for them on Twitter.
AT&T buying T-Mobile is a bad thing for consumers. The original cell phone plan was that there would be two providers, the local Ma Bell and a start-up. AT&T as SBC bought up the East Coast start-ups, Verizon bought the West Coast ones, and T-Mobile and Sprint came to the party as national big-city carriers on at the time open space adjustments.
AT&T of the 1980s was busted up as a monopoly. If AT&T is allowed to have T-Mobile, what's stopping Verizon and Sprint from joining up? Less competitors always leads to higher prices. Anybody remember what cellphones cost in the early 1990s?
The point is that the TV coverage is focused on the ball, while there is a lot outside of the 16:9 frame that affects where the ball is going. There are many "official" cameras pointed at static locations that could show all 22 players and all in bounds territory at once, but those aren't available to the fans at large.
ESPN's daytime SportsCenter block has a system they call ESPN Axis which is based on a 3D composite taken by multiple cameras that the TV crew that does the game doesn't have time to compute, these things show up on Monday and Tuesday based on when the computers finish the rendering.
John Madden said once that the TV people wanted their coverage to look more like his video game, and the video game people wanted the game to look more like TV coverage. This led to the use of the wire-suspended camera for most kicking plays.
This seems more like a grab for money from book sales than anything technical. Has there really been security leaks coming from online readers?
And your source for that rant is what? Apple ignoring the open downloads available from open sources will drive many people to Linux. They're not stupid enough to attempt the lockin nightmare you're imagining.
I've been saying this for a while... Mac gets access to open source products shortly after Linux gets them and much before the project is ported to Windows.With the ability to run Windows by Boot Camp, VMWare Fusion or Paralells Desktop a Mac user gets access to all the Windows-only stuff and you can't forget the number of applications dedicated to Mac use. In total, it all just works.
Yep, I fund PayPal with my eBay sales of used tech I don't want or need anymore only because it's required by eBay, the owners of PayPal. If eBay wasn't the hugest marketplace for one-off sales I'd take my business elsewhere. Amazon, could you launch such a thing?
Gold, really? eGold was a site that did paypal for gold, and failed miserably. Gold-to-cash is a constantly changing ratio, and can lead to gold holders to be quite poorer when the stock market is soaring... cash is better than gold most of the time.
Yep, I have a cheap dock-connector battery that I bought for my 3GS that I'm hoping will still work for my 4S.
It's a fact of life that faster chips consume more power, and Apple may have taken a bite the battery can't chew. Faster didn't equate to better in this revision I think.
That's pure heatsink pr0n, those heatsinks don't stay inside cases.
Yep. Whoever solves this puzzle might want to retain copyright on their work rather than sell it for only $50,000 and then go to work for whomever DoD is planning to use this against.
Good point. If this is in idle, did it really happen or is this in Slashdot's fake news zone?
This joke seems to need explaination so here it goes...
Norton Ghost is a discontinued drive replication program that was loved by sys admins to copy exact drive states so any hacked machine could be simply restored to a state where it was known to be good. Other tools have taken over since then, and that's why the program went away.
Yeah, I remember a day when I was in college that my computer hourglassed for a long time whenever I tried to open a program. I rebult the software side of the computer adding in programs one at a time and it was Norton Antivirus getting caught in an infinite loop that maxed the processor every time a program was launched and staying that way until a timeout terminated the check. Norton put out a new virus definition the next day to fix the bug and it only affected people who looked for out-of-pattern updates each day like I did.
Nobody's perfect, and bugs like this can happen to any programmer working on any project.
Good use of the AC account... because bragging about it in a published web forum is job-disqualifying.
This story begs for a rewite... could we at least have a hyperlink for science habit? Anybody check his user number? Timothy claims he has unknown sources... or hiding his own job-disqualifying problems?
That's why I declared that there's been no problem on DOMESTIC flights... the two failed attempts both happened on international flights that were diverted to Boston.
Did I mistakenly load an idle story? Sorry, haven't been here in while.
This is a classic government mistake, trying to eliminate a threat in one area causes needless problems in another area. Ever since 9/11 the airport security people have gotten a blank check. TSA seems willing to buy any new scanner invented, safety tests will be done later if ever. It's been a long time since we've heard of an airplane disruption on a domestic flight... do we really need to up the specs on this technology?
A single 3G/4G modem is not a very good test of throughput speeds because numerous other factors such as phone usage, subscribers in the area, and the not level painting of signals all contribute to the results. As long as there's a connection and a basic returning of a web page most customers will be happy. I wonder if the exact count of bits would be good enough to generate random numbers?
We've got a serious security hole in the Internet that whenever an e-mail needs to be sent, you've got to disclose a destination address to several "why should we trust you?" parties.When you've got a lot to send, you either have to bore yourself setting up a system to get around "You're acting like a spammer" blocks that are different at every ISP or hire this third party that already did that research. When this third party gets hit, everybody's list falls at once.
If only privacy policy violations came with cash payouts... that cash would come from the once-profitable third party, and suddenly the cost of doing it the cheap yet wrong way would show up.
This isn't really a problem with "the cloud" as much as a "single point of failure" situation. With the magic of delivering thousands of e-mails without being marked as spam being held by a tight few, the major companies have no hope of employing a full-time E-mail Manager, they hire a third party to send the e-mail, and this really popular third party got hit with an intrusion attack. Oops.