Don't knock it until it's been shown to not work. There's probably some UI that'll make it work some day.
The first thing that comes to mind is a modified laser range finder (that can move the laser in two dimensions instead of one) and convert it into an overhead map of obstacles, reflectors, etc. Then, convert it to a tactile graphic on the fly. Assuming the resolution of touch can be overcome (it's fairly bad), with enough training, a blind driver might be able to constantly feel a map of their surroundings and control the car accordingly.
Or, a pair of cameras could produce a 3D tactile graphic (either by raising the bumps at various heights, or showing two graphics and train the brain to merge them as a 3D image) or audio.
You're confusing ASCAP/BMI with the RIAA. The RIAA represents rights holders of audio recordings, while ASCAP/BMI represents rights holders of songs themselves.
Intel already had an ARM processor for smartphones -- the XScale PXA family. They decided to sell it off to Marvell a few years ago as part of their cost-cutting strategy. We'll see if that was a wise thing to do.
It's usually possible to distinguish an encrypted sequence from a random one, but with a good cipher, that requires more work than just brute-forcing the key. You can also do things like turning a block cipher into a system of equations, but again, with a good cipher, solving that system of equations is harder than brute-forcing the key.
I've seen lots of RAM errors as the speed of memory has increased, especially with the AMD64 Hammer chips. What it usually boils down to is someone not manufacturing their components such that they truly meet their spec.
If you slow down your memory and the errors go away, it's not cosmic rays. AFAIK, cosmic rays will flip bits regardless of how fast the RAM is being run at.
AT&T only started charging for incoming texts when they were acquired by Cingular. I still have an ancient ATTWS plan ($29.99 for 300 anytime, unlimited N&W) and all of my incoming text messages are free.
Oh, but there is: IM services. I've had AIM on my phone for YEARS now, and it uses the unlimited data plan, rarely gets disconnected from the server, etc. It's the primary method of communication I use on my phone.
Unfortunately, the carriers have kept phones crippled enough that this isn't always a viable alternative. For example, AIM on the iPhone won't alert you to new messages unless you have the AIM application open -- a total pain in the ass.
Google started as a research project at Stanford called Backrub. Apparently, when new computers were delivered to various labs, Larry and Sergey would offer to set them up -- as long as they could temporarily use them first. The steady stream of machine deliveries allowed them to run Google without any dedicated machines of their own. So, they really benefited from being at Stanford.
I believe it only became a "garage startup" when it was spun out as a business.
By the time dial-up Internet was available, the PSTN was being switched digitally. You couldn't connect to the Internet without going through a DAC. DACs continue to be a vital component in many Internet access techonologies, such as cable modems, DSL modems, and wifi NICs. In fact, given the difficulty of getting purely digital signals to go long distances, I'm not sure the Internet (at reasonable speeds) would have existed without DACs.
So, I'm pretty sure DACs are essential to e-commerce.
Just because a company has applied for a patent doesn't mean that they intend to commercialize it. More than likely, some engineers just had an idea about how to ensure that only Nike+ shoes were used with the Nike+iPod sensor, and Apple's lawyers decided to preemptively patent it in case anyone else came up with it.
They have no control over the shit quality of apps loaded by OEMs.
They have some control. They could require manufacturers to provide actual Windows install discs, not just "system restore" discs that contain the crapware as well. They could also do away with tying OEM CD keys to OEM discs, so that you could use any Windows disc to wipe the system and do a clean install.
As they've discovered at least a few times, UPSes can be instantly killed with an Emergency Power Off switch (aka "The Big Red Button"). Their particular problem was that the RAID controller did all of the write caching, and was backed up by a seperate battery. Since the RAID controller did the write caching, it made little sense for the disks to do write caching as well, and once the drives told the RAID controller the data was committed, the controller no longer kept the data in its RAM. Unfortunately, the drives lied about committing the data, and they were down for half a day trying to repair the corruption.
Are you sure your disks are in write-through mode? Have you checked? Brad Fitzpatrick (of LiveJournal, memcache, OpenID, etc. fame) discovered that many disks lie about being in write-through mode, and wrote a utility to check it.
This isn't even close to the same attack. Newer DNS server have randomized query IDs, so spoofing DNS packets isn't nearly as trivial as it used to be. This attack appears to combine the birthday paradox attack strategy (sending lots of queries and replies so the probability of a spoofed QID matching is much higher) with adding resource records for the actual name you want to poison (under the same domain).
PINs are encrypted and sent across the network. These crooks managed to intercept the PINs at one of the servers that processed them.
If PINs were checked locally, then every ATM would need to be able to determine the correct PIN for every card inserted into it, which means that one of them could be turned into a PIN-producing machine.
Here at the University of Washington, our department chair has spent considerable effort curating our new building's art collection, and the results are spectacular! Instead of going for a CS theme, he chose to feature artists that have some sort of connection with the UW, which has lead to an impressive collection of artwork.
TV and radio are actually held to a higher standard for most of the day: they can't broadcast "indecent" material from 6 AM to 10 PM. In practice, most broadcasters choose not to broadcast "indecent" material at all, possibly for fear of a public outcry or advertisers backing out. Obscenity was defined by the Supreme Court in Miller v. California, and is a very tough threshold to meet. Lots of laws prohibit obscene speech, and I'm fairly certain there's a law that prohibits obscene speech from being transmitted on a licensed channel. The FCC is merely upholding the law.
The boarding pass check is to see if you should be directed to secondary screening. Yes, it's dumb that they put the secondary screening indicator (the "SSSS" of doom) on your boarding pass, but that's how it works.
Carrying a tag is 100% opt-in. Only the researchers are carrying the tags right now, but once other people are recruited to do so, participants will be given a very clear informed consent form to sign stating all of the potential privacy issues. The projects has been heavily scrutinized by the UW Human Subjects Institutional Review Board. The tags are completely passive, but you can easily take them off, cover them in foil, or physically destroy them.
Even if they did have an on/off switch, I suspect most people would forget to turn it off. I know that the researchers (including myself) sometimes forget we're carrying around tags. That's one of the reasons why people can go in and delete tag read events after the fact, and events generated by those tag reads will be deleted as well.
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Don't knock it until it's been shown to not work. There's probably some UI that'll make it work some day.
The first thing that comes to mind is a modified laser range finder (that can move the laser in two dimensions instead of one) and convert it into an overhead map of obstacles, reflectors, etc. Then, convert it to a tactile graphic on the fly. Assuming the resolution of touch can be overcome (it's fairly bad), with enough training, a blind driver might be able to constantly feel a map of their surroundings and control the car accordingly.
Or, a pair of cameras could produce a 3D tactile graphic (either by raising the bumps at various heights, or showing two graphics and train the brain to merge them as a 3D image) or audio.
Finally, solid evidence that the government controls the weather.
You're confusing ASCAP/BMI with the RIAA. The RIAA represents rights holders of audio recordings, while ASCAP/BMI represents rights holders of songs themselves.
They're both scum, though.
Intel already had an ARM processor for smartphones -- the XScale PXA family. They decided to sell it off to Marvell a few years ago as part of their cost-cutting strategy. We'll see if that was a wise thing to do.
It's usually possible to distinguish an encrypted sequence from a random one, but with a good cipher, that requires more work than just brute-forcing the key. You can also do things like turning a block cipher into a system of equations, but again, with a good cipher, solving that system of equations is harder than brute-forcing the key.
I've seen lots of RAM errors as the speed of memory has increased, especially with the AMD64 Hammer chips. What it usually boils down to is someone not manufacturing their components such that they truly meet their spec.
If you slow down your memory and the errors go away, it's not cosmic rays. AFAIK, cosmic rays will flip bits regardless of how fast the RAM is being run at.
... and I can download those to my ADP1. I downloaded Pac-Man when it was free, and sure enough, the .apk is in /data/app-private.
AT&T only started charging for incoming texts when they were acquired by Cingular. I still have an ancient ATTWS plan ($29.99 for 300 anytime, unlimited N&W) and all of my incoming text messages are free.
Oh, but there is: IM services. I've had AIM on my phone for YEARS now, and it uses the unlimited data plan, rarely gets disconnected from the server, etc. It's the primary method of communication I use on my phone.
Unfortunately, the carriers have kept phones crippled enough that this isn't always a viable alternative. For example, AIM on the iPhone won't alert you to new messages unless you have the AIM application open -- a total pain in the ass.
Google started as a research project at Stanford called Backrub. Apparently, when new computers were delivered to various labs, Larry and Sergey would offer to set them up -- as long as they could temporarily use them first. The steady stream of machine deliveries allowed them to run Google without any dedicated machines of their own. So, they really benefited from being at Stanford.
I believe it only became a "garage startup" when it was spun out as a business.
By the time dial-up Internet was available, the PSTN was being switched digitally. You couldn't connect to the Internet without going through a DAC. DACs continue to be a vital component in many Internet access techonologies, such as cable modems, DSL modems, and wifi NICs. In fact, given the difficulty of getting purely digital signals to go long distances, I'm not sure the Internet (at reasonable speeds) would have existed without DACs.
So, I'm pretty sure DACs are essential to e-commerce.
... and then they'd serve you via publication, which seems a lot more error-prone but still commonly used and accepted.
How many of those 4000 IP addresses are valid and allocated?
Just because a company has applied for a patent doesn't mean that they intend to commercialize it. More than likely, some engineers just had an idea about how to ensure that only Nike+ shoes were used with the Nike+iPod sensor, and Apple's lawyers decided to preemptively patent it in case anyone else came up with it.
Even parts of Canada are within that region...
They have some control. They could require manufacturers to provide actual Windows install discs, not just "system restore" discs that contain the crapware as well. They could also do away with tying OEM CD keys to OEM discs, so that you could use any Windows disc to wipe the system and do a clean install.
As they've discovered at least a few times, UPSes can be instantly killed with an Emergency Power Off switch (aka "The Big Red Button"). Their particular problem was that the RAID controller did all of the write caching, and was backed up by a seperate battery. Since the RAID controller did the write caching, it made little sense for the disks to do write caching as well, and once the drives told the RAID controller the data was committed, the controller no longer kept the data in its RAM. Unfortunately, the drives lied about committing the data, and they were down for half a day trying to repair the corruption.
Are you sure your disks are in write-through mode? Have you checked? Brad Fitzpatrick (of LiveJournal, memcache, OpenID, etc. fame) discovered that many disks lie about being in write-through mode, and wrote a utility to check it.
This isn't even close to the same attack. Newer DNS server have randomized query IDs, so spoofing DNS packets isn't nearly as trivial as it used to be. This attack appears to combine the birthday paradox attack strategy (sending lots of queries and replies so the probability of a spoofed QID matching is much higher) with adding resource records for the actual name you want to poison (under the same domain).
PINs are encrypted and sent across the network. These crooks managed to intercept the PINs at one of the servers that processed them.
If PINs were checked locally, then every ATM would need to be able to determine the correct PIN for every card inserted into it, which means that one of them could be turned into a PIN-producing machine.
Hey, you've got the sundial, a bunch of equations chiseled into the walls, a Foulcault Pendulum, etc. We had Sieg Hall until 2003.
Here at the University of Washington, our department chair has spent considerable effort curating our new building's art collection, and the results are spectacular! Instead of going for a CS theme, he chose to feature artists that have some sort of connection with the UW, which has lead to an impressive collection of artwork.
TV and radio are actually held to a higher standard for most of the day: they can't broadcast "indecent" material from 6 AM to 10 PM. In practice, most broadcasters choose not to broadcast "indecent" material at all, possibly for fear of a public outcry or advertisers backing out. Obscenity was defined by the Supreme Court in Miller v. California, and is a very tough threshold to meet. Lots of laws prohibit obscene speech, and I'm fairly certain there's a law that prohibits obscene speech from being transmitted on a licensed channel. The FCC is merely upholding the law.
The boarding pass check is to see if you should be directed to secondary screening. Yes, it's dumb that they put the secondary screening indicator (the "SSSS" of doom) on your boarding pass, but that's how it works.
Carrying a tag is 100% opt-in. Only the researchers are carrying the tags right now, but once other people are recruited to do so, participants will be given a very clear informed consent form to sign stating all of the potential privacy issues. The projects has been heavily scrutinized by the UW Human Subjects Institutional Review Board. The tags are completely passive, but you can easily take them off, cover them in foil, or physically destroy them.
Even if they did have an on/off switch, I suspect most people would forget to turn it off. I know that the researchers (including myself) sometimes forget we're carrying around tags. That's one of the reasons why people can go in and delete tag read events after the fact, and events generated by those tag reads will be deleted as well.