Did they have to wait until they had a whole fleet of them built before they could launch the service? How long does it take to build one of these things anyway?
1: PS3 was released to retail on November 11, 2006. That's over 4 years of security when you had both the lock and the key.
2: As is pointed out, if they want to pay the price for it Sony can invalidate and replace the keys revealed. Expensive and a PITB, but certainly possible if it matters enough.
Paul Allen has gone from being moderately useful to technology (a single unified Windows platform) to becoming an absolute pariah to the average user. If he just went away now quietly 99% of the world wouldn't miss him for a moment.
I just bought a 4-pack of BR30 form factor 65W light equivalent, 15W power consumption CFL bulbs to replace 75W halogen floods. Yeah they take a minute or so to ramp to full light output and they're not dim-able (no dimmer on this circuit). Their total price was $4.80, which included an energy company instant rebate. The light is nice and soft, the 4 of them take less power than just 1 of the previous bulbs, these lights are typically left on for a minimum of 15 minutes up to a couple of hours at a time, I air condition more than I heat in this climate, and the 4 bulbs total cost what a single halogen replacement would have set me back. Given the expected longer CFL lifetime as well, this was just an impossible deal to beat. I'd love an equivalent LED replacement someday, but seriously at this price how long before LEDs can compete with this?
At the same time they were selling a 4-pack of those bare 60W equivalent twisty CFL bulbs for $0.99 after energy company rebate. That's cheaper than 60W incandescent bulbs! This was at Costco last weekend.
Why just the Internet? What about if the FCC had been able to regulate the content of your telephone calls from the days of Alexander Graham Bell? Why not just let them regulate everything, since some people believe that more government and its intrusion and associated spending the the solution to Everything wrong in the world?
Don't forget the Black Box recording in modern cars that rat you out to police, insurance companies, and the car companies themselves on items that are none of their business such as how fast you drive, and how long before the collision it was that you braked. You certainly didn't knowingly agree to this in buying your last car, yet it's common for your opponents to be able to get this data after an accident, insurance claim, even a vehicle warranty issue. THIS SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED WITHOUT YOUR EXPLICIT CONSENT.
Ethanol has multiple problems. Three of the biggest are:
1: It's simply not economic. If it was there wouldn't be the need for subsidies or mandates to include it in fuel.
2: It's really stupid to burn food, which is what is happening here. Especially with other, lower cost, fuel alternatives remain available now and for at least the next couple of decades -- after which it's impossible to predict with any certainty what we'll be facing anyway. If you can make it efficiently out of non-food biomass this argument is mitigated somewhat, but we're not doing that yet.
3: It isn't that environmentally clean or carbon neutral when the entire process is considered.
Any summary of the year in Robots should include fiction and fact stories about robots. I mean, there's at least one book and several articles on how you may end up marrying a robot, and I find this type of speculation as fascinating as the actual robots themselves. Isaac Asimov may not be writing any new stories of late, but a lot of other authors and stories are trying to fill the gap. I'm just hoping to live long enough to see the Science Fiction become the Science Fact.
In April 2009 pretty much all of their GLBT titles disappeared. After a loud outcry Amazon restored them, claiming that it was all the result of some unspecificed, but very specific, glitch.
Later that year purchased titles were deleted from Kindles because of a copyright cock-up.
A few months ago suggestive bookcovers suddenly disappeared from the most commonly used All Departments search. While the books remained available and could be found with specific drill-down searching techniques, most people would never know to try that.
Now the removal of fictional adult topies. And just like the other censorship episodes, Amazon remains completely mum about what they are doing, why they are doing it, or what can be done to work with whatever undisclosed guidlines they are now operating under.
It's all enough to make one cheer Google Books arrival on the scene as an equal sized competitor.
Hey, don't diss the 80s. Those effects were state of the art for their time and deserve better than being said that with 10000X more computer power that we can do better now.
But can they perform sex? You won't have financially viable android production until they can properly perform that most profitable of human activities. And once you invent a better sex-bot then you'll have all the money you need to develop the technology to serve in other areas as well.
There is no other word for it. If they want to own "Facebook" and no one else is using it already, fine I can live with that. But to claim "face" (and no doubt "book") goes beyond what should have ever been allowed.
If the lawyers admitted that they knew that their client was lying and continued the case after that point how can you not have a finding that they aided and abetted in the fraud?
They further found it was not an abuse of process to sue to 'stop the publication of negative information and opinion.'
Congratulations for living in one of the stupidest states possible. Of course, this is also the state that elected Al Franken to the US Senate.
I hope that you have a higher appeal that you are able to pursue. Suppression of speech by SLAPP suits should be outlawed at the federal level and severely punished when attempted.
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Stop the presses!
Man bites dog!
The Chinese steal technology!
Is anyone really surprised?
Did they have to wait until they had a whole fleet of them built before they could launch the service? How long does it take to build one of these things anyway?
I wouldn't say Epic Fail:
1: PS3 was released to retail on November 11, 2006. That's over 4 years of security when you had both the lock and the key.
2: As is pointed out, if they want to pay the price for it Sony can invalidate and replace the keys revealed. Expensive and a PITB, but certainly possible if it matters enough.
How long does German copyright last? Shouldn't the good old songs that you learn in kindergarten have a good choice of public domain songs by now?
Yes, you get recursion, until a stack overflow occurs.
Can it lead me to a major lottery win? If not, how useful is it to me?
Paul Allen has gone from being moderately useful to technology (a single unified Windows platform) to becoming an absolute pariah to the average user. If he just went away now quietly 99% of the world wouldn't miss him for a moment.
I just bought a 4-pack of BR30 form factor 65W light equivalent, 15W power consumption CFL bulbs to replace 75W halogen floods. Yeah they take a minute or so to ramp to full light output and they're not dim-able (no dimmer on this circuit). Their total price was $4.80, which included an energy company instant rebate. The light is nice and soft, the 4 of them take less power than just 1 of the previous bulbs, these lights are typically left on for a minimum of 15 minutes up to a couple of hours at a time, I air condition more than I heat in this climate, and the 4 bulbs total cost what a single halogen replacement would have set me back. Given the expected longer CFL lifetime as well, this was just an impossible deal to beat. I'd love an equivalent LED replacement someday, but seriously at this price how long before LEDs can compete with this?
At the same time they were selling a 4-pack of those bare 60W equivalent twisty CFL bulbs for $0.99 after energy company rebate. That's cheaper than 60W incandescent bulbs! This was at Costco last weekend.
Why just the Internet? What about if the FCC had been able to regulate the content of your telephone calls from the days of Alexander Graham Bell? Why not just let them regulate everything, since some people believe that more government and its intrusion and associated spending the the solution to Everything wrong in the world?
Don't forget the Black Box recording in modern cars that rat you out to police, insurance companies, and the car companies themselves on items that are none of their business such as how fast you drive, and how long before the collision it was that you braked. You certainly didn't knowingly agree to this in buying your last car, yet it's common for your opponents to be able to get this data after an accident, insurance claim, even a vehicle warranty issue. THIS SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED WITHOUT YOUR EXPLICIT CONSENT.
Ethanol has multiple problems. Three of the biggest are:
1: It's simply not economic. If it was there wouldn't be the need for subsidies or mandates to include it in fuel.
2: It's really stupid to burn food, which is what is happening here. Especially with other, lower cost, fuel alternatives remain available now and for at least the next couple of decades -- after which it's impossible to predict with any certainty what we'll be facing anyway. If you can make it efficiently out of non-food biomass this argument is mitigated somewhat, but we're not doing that yet.
3: It isn't that environmentally clean or carbon neutral when the entire process is considered.
One is really left to question, just who DOES elect this Canadian government?
So what does this have to say about the accuracy of the International Prototype Kilogram and its various copies?
Any summary of the year in Robots should include fiction and fact stories about robots. I mean, there's at least one book and several articles on how you may end up marrying a robot, and I find this type of speculation as fascinating as the actual robots themselves. Isaac Asimov may not be writing any new stories of late, but a lot of other authors and stories are trying to fill the gap. I'm just hoping to live long enough to see the Science Fiction become the Science Fact.
So you've been laughing at people for the last 26 years? Haven't you gotten sore by now from so much mirth?
This is hardly Amazon's first sin.
In April 2009 pretty much all of their GLBT titles disappeared. After a loud outcry Amazon restored them, claiming that it was all the result of some unspecificed, but very specific, glitch.
Later that year purchased titles were deleted from Kindles because of a copyright cock-up.
A few months ago suggestive bookcovers suddenly disappeared from the most commonly used All Departments search. While the books remained available and could be found with specific drill-down searching techniques, most people would never know to try that.
Now the removal of fictional adult topies. And just like the other censorship episodes, Amazon remains completely mum about what they are doing, why they are doing it, or what can be done to work with whatever undisclosed guidlines they are now operating under.
It's all enough to make one cheer Google Books arrival on the scene as an equal sized competitor.
This alone is enough to keep Dilbert complaining until Scott Adams finally decides to retire.
Hey, don't diss the 80s. Those effects were state of the art for their time and deserve better than being said that with 10000X more computer power that we can do better now.
But can they perform sex? You won't have financially viable android production until they can properly perform that most profitable of human activities. And once you invent a better sex-bot then you'll have all the money you need to develop the technology to serve in other areas as well.
Just another reason to block all ads possible - as if we needed one.
If I talk face-to-face with someone else, do they now own that too?
There is no other word for it. If they want to own "Facebook" and no one else is using it already, fine I can live with that. But to claim "face" (and no doubt "book") goes beyond what should have ever been allowed.
If the lawyers admitted that they knew that their client was lying and continued the case after that point how can you not have a finding that they aided and abetted in the fraud?
Congratulations for living in one of the stupidest states possible. Of course, this is also the state that elected Al Franken to the US Senate.
I hope that you have a higher appeal that you are able to pursue. Suppression of speech by SLAPP suits should be outlawed at the federal level and severely punished when attempted.
Yeah, but...can it display Kindle books?