This comes just weeks after early indications that HD-DVD will only allow playback of full 1080 resolution video signals through HDMI connectors, leaving consumers with older HDTVs (pre-HDMI) out of luck."
what if strip club workers were replaced by these robots?
I've already seen the answer to this one, and I like it! There's a writer with the pseudonym DB_Story who has posted three "Strip Club Tales", and promises a new one soon in his (her? their?) blog on Stories OnLine (free reg, no ads).
If this is the future, sign me up. Asimov never wrote about robots like this!
The GPS-based sun-tracking mechanism uses very little energy.
Isn't a GPS overkill for this? How about an array of three photocells aimed slightly differently on the X and Y axis to tell the dish to move towards the greater amount of light?
Btw, it's not (just) the UV I'd want to filter. While indoor all-over tanning in complete privacy might be nice, I'd be more interested in filtering out heat in the summer, and allowing it in during the Winter.
You can also help us through a more hands-on approach. If you own, operate, or have legitimate access to color laser printers or color photocopiers, please print the eight test sheets provided below on each of the machines to which you have access and send them to EFF.
Do this, and the EFF will have a larger, more diverse database of printer identifications than any manufacturer. And just where's their Privacy Policy on this?
probably totally destroyed by simply making a low-res photocopy of the document in question.
And there is where they catch you, since photocoiers do this as well. In fact, modern copiers also have "currenty detectors" to prevent money copying, some won't print particular shades like the green of US currency, and many use the same print engines as the printers, so expect this "secret chip" inside them as well.
What I'm wondering is, what is the chance the chip is an EPROM that is burned with the model and serial number. Then consider:
1: Remove chip.
2: Program in new number.
3: Re-insert chip that printer won't run without.
4: PROFIT!
You might be able to see the small, scattered yellow dots printed there that could be used to trace the document back to you...put the "serial number of each machine coded in little yellow dots" in every printout. The millimeter-sized dots appear about every inch on a page, nestled within the printed words and margins.
And here I was thinking all along that it was just a crappy printer that messed up every inch or so.
Maybe I could add a few more of mine in Photoshop just to make things more interesting.
Better that than suggesting that Xerox (and Canon and HP) should be shot for caving into foreign governments who use this to suppress free speech, all the while not telling us that they're doing it.
If not everything, at least it explains why the Bush National Guard documents were retyped in Microsoft Word with default settings.
Without a doubt those Selectric[tm] typewriters circa 1969 all had type balls with tiny imperfections to let them be identified if ever used to leak documents potentially affecting a presidential election. Whereas Microsoft would never stoop to putting personally identifiable information into Word document files, or print to printers that weren't at least as evil as they are.
phenomenal growth of China's industrial base has been widely...
...Fueled by their intellectual property theft from western countries. Without those countries for new ideas, China growth will quickly stall. As such, they are really not in any position to take the lead, but instead just remain a close second until such time as they can get leading foreign scientists to relocate to China. Just saying you have graduated more engineers doesn't automatically give you more inventions.
I was thinking about the sales prospects when I realized that nobody in their right mind would spend $600.00 on a 3-year old G4 when they could have a mini which is almost twice as fast for the same cost.
There you go again, assuming that Apple purchasers are in their right mind. Just put it up on eBay and see what you're offered.
I looked down at the dashboard, where his 60 GB iPod Photo sat in its iPod charger/radio transmitter. "This one's to hold more of my music," he said, changing the tracks from country to blues.
Can you even afford to fill a 60GB drive with music -- whether ripping your own @ $17/CD, or from iTunes @.99/track?
Does 60GB of compressed music worth listening to even exist in the entire history of the recorded music of the world?
Will Sony give you payola to load JLo's "Get Right" on your iPod? Is it enough to make you listen to it too?
In the rest of your life will you be able to listen to all 60GB of music even once all the way through?
from the iBook update was the long-rumored move to a widescreen model which unconfirmed reports had suggested might arrive with the revision.
Missing even more is a G5 processor. Yeah I know Power Book is their expensive -- excuse me, high performance -- line, but iBook is what's coming out now, not Power Books.
Would anyone have been willing to pay more for a lowest speed, low power G5 iBook, or is keeping iBook prices as low as possible paramount instead?
"They're restricting our members' free speech," said Mimi Williams, who said she was offended both as a customer and as an elected representative of TWU Local 207.
This overblown rhetoric is garbage, as usual. No one's Freedom of Speech is being infringed. The web-site is up there. Freedom of Listening is what's at question here, and that's a very different question indeed.
I worked with audio tape for years, and tape older than 10 years had to be literally baked (heated & cooled again) before playing. If you didn't bake an old tape the filings from the tape would slough off onto the reading heads...you might (if you were lucky) get one play out of an unbaked tape, but the audio on the tape would definitely be destroyed.
So that's why audio cassettes left in hot cars all summer long remain playable for years -- even when their plastic cassettes are warped almost beyond the point of insertion into the players.
Will you please RTFA. It clearly says 7 and 9 track tapes.
But given the obvious age of your vehicle, I'm sure it can be lined up for a stand-in role in The Dukes of Hazzard 2 -- The Search for our Alienated Fans.
this will give Google a monstrous research edge, as they will be able to determine trend data, as well as searches that have no results, meaning items that have not yet been researched or published
Nice idea, but the very first site I tried told me on my first attempt that I was blocked. Too many requests from my IP address. Sort of a if requests > 0 then block_user.
Fine, maybe my cable ISP is using a proxy, but it leads me to wonder of these sites which have lived in quiet scholorly isolation until now are up to being Googled.
Slashdot Mirror
Screwed again. Why am I surprised?
That's almost as easy as holding down the Shift key. What won't they think of next?
Let's eliminate commercial, and find out.
I've already seen the answer to this one, and I like it! There's a writer with the pseudonym DB_Story who has posted three "Strip Club Tales", and promises a new one soon in his (her? their?) blog on Stories OnLine (free reg, no ads).
If this is the future, sign me up. Asimov never wrote about robots like this!
Isn't a GPS overkill for this? How about an array of three photocells aimed slightly differently on the X and Y axis to tell the dish to move towards the greater amount of light?
Btw, it's not (just) the UV I'd want to filter. While indoor all-over tanning in complete privacy might be nice, I'd be more interested in filtering out heat in the summer, and allowing it in during the Winter.
Do this, and the EFF will have a larger, more diverse database of printer identifications than any manufacturer. And just where's their Privacy Policy on this?
And there is where they catch you, since photocoiers do this as well. In fact, modern copiers also have "currenty detectors" to prevent money copying, some won't print particular shades like the green of US currency, and many use the same print engines as the printers, so expect this "secret chip" inside them as well.
What I'm wondering is, what is the chance the chip is an EPROM that is burned with the model and serial number. Then consider:
1: Remove chip.
2: Program in new number.
3: Re-insert chip that printer won't run without.
4: PROFIT!
And here I was thinking all along that it was just a crappy printer that messed up every inch or so.
Maybe I could add a few more of mine in Photoshop just to make things more interesting.
Better that than suggesting that Xerox (and Canon and HP) should be shot for caving into foreign governments who use this to suppress free speech, all the while not telling us that they're doing it.
Without a doubt those Selectric[tm] typewriters circa 1969 all had type balls with tiny imperfections to let them be identified if ever used to leak documents potentially affecting a presidential election. Whereas Microsoft would never stoop to putting personally identifiable information into Word document files, or print to printers that weren't at least as evil as they are.
Finding Evil Printers should be easy. Just test for the Evil Bit.
Every kid who has lost access to the family computer, or encountered parential controls on it, will want this now.
And the parents will never suspect how this goes right around them.
So how long do I have to wait for VvT?
And here's your sign[tm].
If Voltron was War of the Worlds, it would would still be in the red, and might never show an actual profit -- at least by movie studio standards.
I've been reading about IBM's new dual processor and low power PPC chips out nearly a month now. Where have you been?
There you go again, assuming that Apple purchasers are in their right mind. Just put it up on eBay and see what you're offered.
Can you even afford to fill a 60GB drive with music -- whether ripping your own @ $17/CD, or from iTunes @ .99/track?
Does 60GB of compressed music worth listening to even exist in the entire history of the recorded music of the world?
Will Sony give you payola to load JLo's "Get Right" on your iPod? Is it enough to make you listen to it too?
In the rest of your life will you be able to listen to all 60GB of music even once all the way through?
Enquiring minds blah blah blah...
Missing even more is a G5 processor. Yeah I know Power Book is their expensive -- excuse me, high performance -- line, but iBook is what's coming out now, not Power Books.
Would anyone have been willing to pay more for a lowest speed, low power G5 iBook, or is keeping iBook prices as low as possible paramount instead?
And they know this how? Sounds like adware/spyware on my PC -- again.
This overblown rhetoric is garbage, as usual. No one's Freedom of Speech is being infringed. The web-site is up there. Freedom of Listening is what's at question here, and that's a very different question indeed.
So that's why audio cassettes left in hot cars all summer long remain playable for years -- even when their plastic cassettes are warped almost beyond the point of insertion into the players.
This deserves a Wikipedia entry for sure!
Will you please RTFA. It clearly says 7 and 9 track tapes.
But given the obvious age of your vehicle, I'm sure it can be lined up for a stand-in role in The Dukes of Hazzard 2 -- The Search for our Alienated Fans.
1.Deviate spacecrafts from their precisely-planned flightpaths.
2.Blockbuster movie staring famous Scientologist.
3.Profit!
There goes my secret FTL drive.
Fine, maybe my cable ISP is using a proxy, but it leads me to wonder of these sites which have lived in quiet scholorly isolation until now are up to being Googled.