I believe using RFID in mines would be beneficial. For every 10 metres of tunnel dug a scanner is placed. Every miner has a tag about their person which triggers the scanner by moving past it.
If an incident occurs, the miners exact location in the *old* tunnel network is ascertained. Sure, the rock might have moved since, but its a much better starting point than nothing.
Sulfur Dioxide is a gas common to volcanic eruptions. This gas, when dissolved in water, produces sulfuric acid, one of the worst known acids and one a person would definitely not want to come in contact with. Other gases dissolved in magma, hydrogen sulfide, hydrogen fluoride, hydrogen chloride and carbon dioxide, also contribute to the acidity of surrounding bodies of water.
A pH of 0-2 (where 7 is neutral, and any number lower than that is acidic) is not impossible and the water can be quite corrosive to metal. If you think that the juice from a lemon is acidic, imagine water thousands of times more acidic than that! One definitely would not want to swim in water that is very close to an active stratovolcano.
In a period of perhaps several hours, a thin metal wire could corrode away.
Notice what happens to Grandma in the movie and also to the metal boat the actors try to escape in. Would you say that the events stay in line with the facts?
Ahhhh no, according to Mr Tzez the question is: The question you should all be asking - the only question that is important Is: I came across this new component on my computer "Viewpoint Manager" is it threatening?
The answer is NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! 100% safe! Non of the anti-virus/anti-spyware companies recognize Viewpoint components as threats. They don't recognize them period. It is actually on their safe lists. I could sit here and list 50 components that access the internet on your computer and you would have no idea that they were even there or what they were.
Like I said Leo is not here to answer your questions he is here to rhetorically make you want this off your computer (by posting under multiple alias). He wants the sheep to click on his sponsored listings. He is insulting peoples intelligence. That's right LEO you are a phony!
I will take you serious when you get rid of the sponsored listings. False Advetising! Posted by: Michael_Tzez at April 20, 2005 01:24 PM
I do know what an accelerometer is, and whilst I agree they can be used as a motion controller to look around with, they lack the ability to track location relative to some known reference point (except itself which will suffer from drift, these things aren't *that* good).
So in the demo I was watching of the towers on the tabletop, the motion controller would work nicely moving the pieces around on the screen, but the pieces would not be locked and would not appear on the table top because without the reference points (from the beermat) it would look stupid.
The new logitech cameras have similar technology to insert custom objects over the camera feed by tracking your face in a similar manner, so no matter where you move your head the object stays locked onto it.
The processing power isn't really that much nowadays.
I would imagine the camera would be better since you can have your reference points MUCH better by basing your location on the beermat placed on a surface.
How far away is the table top from your 2 axis accelerometer?
fta: The spammer also launched a conventional bandwidth-consumption DDoS attack against bluesecurity.com. It was around this time that the company opened its new blog, which meant TypePad got whacked.
This blue security article has been running for a few days now and the site hasn't been responding any time I've tried recently.
Isn't it just another DDOS blame fest when in reality its just the news spreading around the world and all the collective users of all the collective news sites are clicking the links to try to read the story?
A total slashdotting/digging/farking and general newsing all at once.
It was the same when word spread about google going down. "OMG have you heard, google is dead?" *CLICK* "Yer, its not working here either" *CLICK* *CLICK* *CLICK* *CLICK* "Hey, its loaded here." *CLICK* "Oh crap, its broken again now.."
We are all guilty of assisting this DDOS attack. shame on us.
It will ease up once something else comes and takes our attention away from it.
I read the article, and it appears more like the BA.com website is the one at fault here for not verifying his frequent flier code and details.
They went online and ordered a ticket in his name, presumably using someone elses credit card (who can obviously be traced), then after confirming the ticket entered his frequent flier code. This is where it went wrong, and it would be the same if John Smith (a real person) managed to get hold of another John Smith's frequent flier code.
This isn't ID theft in so much as lax security and checking on the BA website.
Sometimes we all get underwhelmed by technology, whether it be 640kb of memory, or things closer to home:
Apple releases iPod Posted by CmdrTaco on 18:20 23rd October, 2001 from the well-thats-not-very-exciting dept. The BrownFury writes "At an invitation only event Apple has released their new MP3 player called the iPod. iPod is the size of a deck of cards. 2.4" wide by 4" tall by.78" thick 6.5 ounces. 5 GB HDD, 10 hr battery life, charged via FireWire. Works as a firewire drive as well. Works in conjunctions with iTunes 2. Here are Live updates". No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
Now, I wonder if taco has changed his views since?
If you think I'm joking, just look at the stock quotes on the page.
As for MS being dead in the water, I think they certainly have the sharks swimming around them, but I wouldn't call them dead just yet. Remember, its not over until the fat penguin sings.
You are saying its an advantage to have to fork the entire firefox project, reproduce the source tree, make the change, compile it, then STILL have to watch for firefox to be updated since now my new project will be updating from my repository not theirs (I've forked it remember...), then check nothings broken when remerging the tree, fix any changes, recompile and update.
All that because I don't like to be disturbed whilst I work?
The old update mechanism they used to use (the blue update throbber) worked PERFECTLY for me, I knew where it was and when I saw it I handled it, just like the petrol light in my car.
All this crap has made up my mind anyway, I'm disabling the updates:)
What are you on about, the world DOES revolve around me!
Now, about that stupid ass update message, every other program manages to check for updates when starting up and doesn't bug me halfway through working so why can't firefox?
I want to keep uptodate, but I'm very tempted to disable it totally and not bother checking.
(apart from antivirus, but then again thats a background process anyway)
I was happily reading a webpage when this popped up. I want it to only check for updates during a new tab or window, NOT when I'm just sitting there browsing or typing or watching something.
The message even says "you can delay the update until you next restart firefox". Why can't I bloody well set that as a default?
I gather its a missing pair of brackets otherwise it would not be compilable. Isn't it something to do with reference and value? ie passing a value without brackets indicates the parameter by reference and passing inside an expression passes the result in? (that might be VB type code only though)
It could even be something in the pointer math, the difference between (1+a*10) and (1+a)*10 leaving the program to run over uninitialised memory?
No, I actually think the audit process they initiated is a really good thing for any company to do, and should even be manditory for all Government departments.
The company (Coverity) which did the audit are the ones who should be thanked not the DHS. This flaw would have been discovered by this company anyway, its their business to find faults. The bonus that they actually found a bug is nice, however lets not get happy happy joy joy yet, its a local exploit not a wide open remote hole.
The DHS should be busy protecting the Americans and not trying to grab the headlines.
In related news, the Department of Homeland security has notifed 3497 people where their missing TV remote control is to be found, where your wife was until 3am last Thursday and have completed a record number of soduku puzzles in newspapers around the country.
Government officials were unwilling to cite their sources for this information instead choosing to simply say "we are watching you".
Thank you, I couldn't get anywhere near the site even in the mysterious future.
I also don't understand running the hashing algorythm then truncating it though, it makes no sense whatsoever and instantly leads to false positives rather than a clean(ish) practically unique hash.
2 seperate md5 hashes simply truncated give a partial hash which could match lots of other source patterns, and certainly not practical for other uses.
They would have been better looking for a hashing algorythm which fits the bitsize they wanted.
Slashdot Mirror
I believe using RFID in mines would be beneficial.
For every 10 metres of tunnel dug a scanner is placed.
Every miner has a tag about their person which triggers the scanner by moving past it.
If an incident occurs, the miners exact location in the *old* tunnel network is ascertained.
Sure, the rock might have moved since, but its a much better starting point than nothing.
When you aren't logged in you cannot change the format, but as a logged in user you can select the display format for the date display :)
Your remembering a section from the movie Dante's Peak!
Dantes_Peak_Movie_Volcano_Facts
FACT 4: LAKES AROUND A STRATOVOLCANO CAN BE MORE ACIDIC
Sulfur Dioxide is a gas common to volcanic eruptions. This gas, when dissolved in water, produces sulfuric acid, one of the worst known acids and one a person would definitely not want to come in contact with.
Other gases dissolved in magma, hydrogen sulfide, hydrogen fluoride, hydrogen chloride and carbon dioxide, also contribute to the acidity of surrounding bodies of water.
A pH of 0-2 (where 7 is neutral, and any number lower than that is acidic) is not impossible and the water can be quite corrosive to metal. If you think that the juice from a lemon is acidic, imagine water thousands of times more acidic than that! One definitely would not want to swim in water that is very close to an active stratovolcano.
In a period of perhaps several hours, a thin metal wire could corrode away.
Notice what happens to Grandma in the movie and also to the metal boat the actors try to escape in. Would you say that the events stay in line with the facts?
Ahhhh no, according to Mr Tzez the question is:
The question you should all be asking - the only question that is important Is:
I came across this new component on my computer "Viewpoint Manager" is it threatening?
The answer is NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! 100% safe! Non of the anti-virus/anti-spyware companies recognize Viewpoint components as threats. They don't recognize them period. It is actually on their safe lists. I could sit here and list 50 components that access the internet on your computer and you would have no idea that they were even there or what they were.
Like I said Leo is not here to answer your questions he is here to rhetorically make you want this off your computer (by posting under multiple alias). He wants the sheep to click on his sponsored listings. He is insulting peoples intelligence. That's right LEO you are a phony!
I will take you serious when you get rid of the sponsored listings. False Advetising!
Posted by: Michael_Tzez at April 20, 2005 01:24 PM
I don't trust the ramdblings of a madman.
Well, with cars turning to alternative fuels, the big petrolium companies need to sell to someone.
Here, have a coffee to help your throat.
I do know what an accelerometer is, and whilst I agree they can be used as a motion controller to look around with, they lack the ability to track location relative to some known reference point (except itself which will suffer from drift, these things aren't *that* good).
So in the demo I was watching of the towers on the tabletop, the motion controller would work nicely moving the pieces around on the screen, but the pieces would not be locked and would not appear on the table top because without the reference points (from the beermat) it would look stupid.
The new logitech cameras have similar technology to insert custom objects over the camera feed by tracking your face in a similar manner, so no matter where you move your head the object stays locked onto it.
The processing power isn't really that much nowadays.
I would imagine the camera would be better since you can have your reference points MUCH better by basing your location on the beermat placed on a surface.
How far away is the table top from your 2 axis accelerometer?
fta:
The spammer also launched a conventional bandwidth-consumption DDoS attack against bluesecurity.com. It was around this time that the company opened its new blog, which meant TypePad got whacked.
This blue security article has been running for a few days now and the site hasn't been responding any time I've tried recently.
Isn't it just another DDOS blame fest when in reality its just the news spreading around the world and all the collective users of all the collective news sites are clicking the links to try to read the story?
A total slashdotting/digging/farking and general newsing all at once.
It was the same when word spread about google going down.
"OMG have you heard, google is dead?"
*CLICK* "Yer, its not working here either" *CLICK* *CLICK* *CLICK*
*CLICK* "Hey, its loaded here." *CLICK* "Oh crap, its broken again now.."
We are all guilty of assisting this DDOS attack. shame on us.
It will ease up once something else comes and takes our attention away from it.
I think the fact its on laserdisk will maintain the price.
Its like holding onto old wax recordings, the disks themselves are a piece of history - its a bonus that theres movies on them.
I read the article, and it appears more like the BA.com website is the one at fault here for not verifying his frequent flier code and details.
They went online and ordered a ticket in his name, presumably using someone elses credit card (who can obviously be traced), then after confirming the ticket entered his frequent flier code.
This is where it went wrong, and it would be the same if John Smith (a real person) managed to get hold of another John Smith's frequent flier code.
This isn't ID theft in so much as lax security and checking on the BA website.
Sometimes we all get underwhelmed by technology, whether it be 640kb of memory, or things closer to home:
.78" thick 6.5 ounces. 5 GB HDD, 10 hr battery life, charged via FireWire. Works as a firewire drive as well. Works in conjunctions with iTunes 2. Here are Live updates". No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
Apple releases iPod
Posted by CmdrTaco on 18:20 23rd October, 2001
from the well-thats-not-very-exciting dept.
The BrownFury writes "At an invitation only event Apple has released their new MP3 player called the iPod. iPod is the size of a deck of cards. 2.4" wide by 4" tall by
Now, I wonder if taco has changed his views since?
The problem is that javascript is actually useful on some pages.
:)
p ?id=722
Not all of web 2.0s fluffyness is bad.
Thankfully, using firefox theres an extension to selectively enable Javascript per site
https://addons.mozilla.org/extensions/moreinfo.ph
What are you on about, I think its Brillant!
Non,
I notice you added me to your foes list. ooooer and all that.
but to clarify your wild ass claims, I am in no way related to the site I linked.
I just thought it was funny when I saw it.
(actually, don't tell anyone but I think I found it via digg)
My god, the marketwatch site is well ahead of the game.
They have incorporated Web 2.1 Server side blink!
If you think I'm joking, just look at the stock quotes on the page.
As for MS being dead in the water, I think they certainly have the sharks swimming around them, but I wouldn't call them dead just yet.
Remember, its not over until the fat penguin sings.
Thank you.
I had tried looking, but my bugzilla foo wasn't working.
You are saying its an advantage to have to fork the entire firefox project, reproduce the source tree, make the change, compile it, then STILL have to watch for firefox to be updated since now my new project will be updating from my repository not theirs (I've forked it remember...), then check nothings broken when remerging the tree, fix any changes, recompile and update.
:)
All that because I don't like to be disturbed whilst I work?
The old update mechanism they used to use (the blue update throbber) worked PERFECTLY for me, I knew where it was and when I saw it I handled it, just like the petrol light in my car.
All this crap has made up my mind anyway, I'm disabling the updates
What are you on about, the world DOES revolve around me!
Now, about that stupid ass update message, every other program manages to check for updates when starting up and doesn't bug me halfway through working so why can't firefox?
I want to keep uptodate, but I'm very tempted to disable it totally and not bother checking.
(apart from antivirus, but then again thats a background process anyway)
I was happily reading a webpage when this popped up.
I want it to only check for updates during a new tab or window, NOT when I'm just sitting there browsing or typing or watching something.
The message even says "you can delay the update until you next restart firefox".
Why can't I bloody well set that as a default?
I gather its a missing pair of brackets otherwise it would not be compilable.
Isn't it something to do with reference and value?
ie passing a value without brackets indicates the parameter by reference and passing inside an expression passes the result in? (that might be VB type code only though)
It could even be something in the pointer math, the difference between (1+a*10) and (1+a)*10 leaving the program to run over uninitialised memory?
No, I actually think the audit process they initiated is a really good thing for any company to do, and should even be manditory for all Government departments.
The company (Coverity) which did the audit are the ones who should be thanked not the DHS. This flaw would have been discovered by this company anyway, its their business to find faults.
The bonus that they actually found a bug is nice, however lets not get happy happy joy joy yet, its a local exploit not a wide open remote hole.
The DHS should be busy protecting the Americans and not trying to grab the headlines.
In related news, the Department of Homeland security has notifed 3497 people where their missing TV remote control is to be found, where your wife was until 3am last Thursday and have completed a record number of soduku puzzles in newspapers around the country.
Government officials were unwilling to cite their sources for this information instead choosing to simply say "we are watching you".
I'll wait until netcraft confirms it TYVM.
Thank you, I couldn't get anywhere near the site even in the mysterious future.
I also don't understand running the hashing algorythm then truncating it though, it makes no sense whatsoever and instantly leads to false positives rather than a clean(ish) practically unique hash.
2 seperate md5 hashes simply truncated give a partial hash which could match lots of other source patterns, and certainly not practical for other uses.
They would have been better looking for a hashing algorythm which fits the bitsize they wanted.