Their idea is to have the camera respect electronic boundaries and stop recording if within range of a specific radio signal?
Their idea of warning those being recorded is to put a red light on it?
Seriously - it would take all of two seconds to break the antenna and smash the light... now give it to a hacker and you'll get a more elegant solution almost as quickly.
However, if the recording is made with good enough equipment, only the kind of people who fork out for that equipment will care about the almost unnoticable quality loss.
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As someone with eyes rated in the -2.25 diopter range, I'm kind of anxious for the day when you take a pill and grow new & improved eyes... when that day comes, I want the damn retina to plug in at the back.
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I love the standard creationist line that eyes couldn't have evolved - they must have been planned.
I once read an excellent rebuttal of that which described how to get from a photosensitive cell to a full eye while each stage had a noticable survival benefit... and then followed up by mentioning that it's happened on multiple seperate occasions in evolutionary history.
It seems to me that companies like SCO and Infinium are abusing the American legal system. They are playing silly buggers with the law in order to extract wealth from the economy without actually providing a service or product of value in return.
In the not-so-long run, this is damaging to innovation and fair competition which will in turn damage the economy.
It's probably time for Americans who are aware of the issue to start lobbying for new legislation to target this kind of behaviour - removing the financial rewards and administering punishment to the responsible individuals.
But hey, that's just me... I'm not even an American.
Actually, I still see computers having separate memory spaces. However, I think you'll see storage defined as 'portable' or 'integrated' instead of 'volatile' and 'non-volatile'.
Yeah, except that Microsoft has a history of releasing patches that are worse than the problem they're fixing.
Therefore, a responsible admin has a testbed system where the patches go first until they've been used in a replica of the production environment, THEN they're farmed out to the LAN.
Of course, this means you either run around and manually patch each machine, or fork out big bucks for third party patch management software (which you can't really trust anyway - I've seen some claim to apply a patch which never appears on the 'patched system').
Yes, I'm acting as part of a deliberate conspiracy to cover up UFOs, Bigfoot, life on Mars, and the 1000mpg car that runs on water. It has NOTHING to do with the fact that these stupid claims have been explained again and again and morons like you ignore the obvious explanations (with plenty of backup evidence) in favour of your repeatedly disproved delusions.
Thank you for filling in the left side of the bell curve.
Users are generally like people who leave their car unlocked and then complain that their radio is missing when they get back.
Yes, they're stupid, but in the end the thief is the guilty one.
Virus writers are a great justification for the total elimination of privacy on the Internet. Imagine if you could use ISP logs to trace a virus right back to the first transmission, and then to the source. You could find the prick, drag him to the city limits, and dangle his corpse from a tree as a warning.
Sadly, while I wouldn't mind executing the jerks who assault our information infrastructure, I do value my semi-privacy.
I'd argue that a democracy without freedom of speech is not a true democracy.
If you can't speak freely, you can't expect to exchange information regarding the government - which means you're not able to freely cast an informed VOTE... in which case you have a sham democracy. QED.
I don't know how I managed to type that mangled mess - but I appologize to anybody who got a headache trying to read it. I forgot paragraph tags, missed verbs, and incorrectly used a conjunction or two.
The parent post was brought to you by overconsumption of caffine and not ignorance or stupidity, I swear.
"No"
Of course, if Bill really gets going on this, he could just support built into MS mail clients and Exchange Server and enabled by default... and push it out as part of a Service Pack. That would cause a lot of problems.
A few checks with military radar and the course can be traced back to point of origin.
As long as the rock was observed (by people who survive the impact) for several seconds before impact, the origin would be well known.
If it was suspected that there was anything like a loaded military mass driver on the Moon pointed at Earth, you can bet it there would be radar watching it 24/7.
I used to think the same thing, but then I realized - you'd need a hell of a rail gun to launch a rock at the Earth, and get it to target quickly enough that a superpower wouldn't have time to nuke your ass off the planet. You might think, "Yes, but the Moon rocks wouldn't be nuclear" to which I'd respond - "When you're about to get wiped out anyway, do you care if your enemy's remains glow in the dark?"
It's much easier to maintain your ICBM array locally than to build, maintain, and operate something less effective on the Moon. The Cold War idea of MAD means we don't need a base on the Moon for military purposes.
The number one thing that most often turns on that damn light;
A loose gas cap. If that light comes on, this is the first thing you check, because paying $100 for a mechanic to do it sucks a LOT. Luckily, I used to work in a garage so I learned this from OTHER people's experience.
Of course, after those are a whole host of things that don't even give particularly clear indicators to the tech with the manufacturer's diagnostic equipment.
Because there is usually a small percentage of the population with effectively total control of the populace that has no interest in letting the rest of the world help?
Imagine trying to provide healthcare, education, and the right to walk in sunlight to women of Taliban Afghanistan...
Without RTFA, I think I can explain why 6 inputs can create more than 720 combinations...
You're counting the possible pathways. You've forgotten to count the positionings! Two keys with the same routing pattern with only one input off by a fraction of a millimeter would not open the same lock.
The idea is to average the noise over a large number of samplings, and subtract that from the average of a large number of samplings of whatever you are measuring.
You don't subtract a single noise measurement from a single final measurement, which would double your error margin (you could have a perfect cancellation, or perfect addition).
Actually, this has already been done... though with optics. You take large numbers of measurements of 'nothing' and note the random static produced by the sensor. You can then subtract the average noise from the average of a large number of measurements of something and get an accuracy level theoretically beyond the ability of your instrument.
Any two objects can orbit. Distance, speed, and outside gravitional effect must be taken into consideration, and one assumes the comet outmasses the probe (otherwise the comet would likely be described as orbiting the probe!), but there is no reason the probe couldn't enter into an orbit of the comet.
Actually, I think that's a terribly wrong-headed attitude. While we might *have* to encourage users to think, we *should* be encouraging developers to produce better code.
We should be striving to create systems that just do what the users needs them to do without requiring the user to jump through hoops or take a course entitled "Best Practices in Computer Security". I don't need to be a mechanic to drive a car, I don't need to be an astronomer or astrophysicist to look through a telescope, and I shouldn't have to be a network security expert just to surf the web and send & receive email.
It is very definitely Microsoft at fault here and not the 'less than expert computer users'. After all, if they made the product to suit those users instead of just to sell well to them, the rest of the world would have far fewer issues.
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Their idea is to have the camera respect electronic boundaries and stop recording if within range of a specific radio signal?
Their idea of warning those being recorded is to put a red light on it?
Seriously - it would take all of two seconds to break the antenna and smash the light... now give it to a hacker and you'll get a more elegant solution almost as quickly.
Well, no, there is a loss of quality.
However, if the recording is made with good enough equipment, only the kind of people who fork out for that equipment will care about the almost unnoticable quality loss.
As someone with eyes rated in the -2.25 diopter range, I'm kind of anxious for the day when you take a pill and grow new & improved eyes... when that day comes, I want the damn retina to plug in at the back.
I love the standard creationist line that eyes couldn't have evolved - they must have been planned.
I once read an excellent rebuttal of that which described how to get from a photosensitive cell to a full eye while each stage had a noticable survival benefit... and then followed up by mentioning that it's happened on multiple seperate occasions in evolutionary history.
Heh.
It seems to me that companies like SCO and Infinium are abusing the American legal system. They are playing silly buggers with the law in order to extract wealth from the economy without actually providing a service or product of value in return.
In the not-so-long run, this is damaging to innovation and fair competition which will in turn damage the economy.
It's probably time for Americans who are aware of the issue to start lobbying for new legislation to target this kind of behaviour - removing the financial rewards and administering punishment to the responsible individuals.
But hey, that's just me... I'm not even an American.
Actually, I still see computers having separate memory spaces. However, I think you'll see storage defined as 'portable' or 'integrated' instead of 'volatile' and 'non-volatile'.
Yeah, except that Microsoft has a history of releasing patches that are worse than the problem they're fixing.
Therefore, a responsible admin has a testbed system where the patches go first until they've been used in a replica of the production environment, THEN they're farmed out to the LAN.
Of course, this means you either run around and manually patch each machine, or fork out big bucks for third party patch management software (which you can't really trust anyway - I've seen some claim to apply a patch which never appears on the 'patched system').
You certainly can't leave it to the users...
You're a moron.
Yes, I'm acting as part of a deliberate conspiracy to cover up UFOs, Bigfoot, life on Mars, and the 1000mpg car that runs on water. It has NOTHING to do with the fact that these stupid claims have been explained again and again and morons like you ignore the obvious explanations (with plenty of backup evidence) in favour of your repeatedly disproved delusions.
Thank you for filling in the left side of the bell curve.
Users are generally like people who leave their car unlocked and then complain that their radio is missing when they get back.
Yes, they're stupid, but in the end the thief is the guilty one.
Virus writers are a great justification for the total elimination of privacy on the Internet. Imagine if you could use ISP logs to trace a virus right back to the first transmission, and then to the source. You could find the prick, drag him to the city limits, and dangle his corpse from a tree as a warning.
Sadly, while I wouldn't mind executing the jerks who assault our information infrastructure, I do value my semi-privacy.
I'd argue that a democracy without freedom of speech is not a true democracy.
If you can't speak freely, you can't expect to exchange information regarding the government - which means you're not able to freely cast an informed VOTE... in which case you have a sham democracy. QED.
Here we have government mandated channels that nobody wants. In order to carry the costs, they are bundled with other channels.
I'm sure the same is true in many other places.
I wonder how expensive it would be to put a nice, fine coating of carbon on 20% or so of the lunar surface?
I imagine a notice on the far side reading:
"Visitors must register at the UN Port of Entry in New York immediately upon arrival."
And Osama gets the last laugh after all...
At my local science center, there is a snaking tunnel lined with sound-absorbing material.
You get about 6 feet in and it feels like a horrible pressure in your ears.
It's a very disconcerting sensation.
I don't know how I managed to type that mangled mess - but I appologize to anybody who got a headache trying to read it. I forgot paragraph tags, missed verbs, and incorrectly used a conjunction or two.
The parent post was brought to you by overconsumption of caffine and not ignorance or stupidity, I swear.
"No" Of course, if Bill really gets going on this, he could just support built into MS mail clients and Exchange Server and enabled by default... and push it out as part of a Service Pack. That would cause a lot of problems.
A few checks with military radar and the course can be traced back to point of origin.
As long as the rock was observed (by people who survive the impact) for several seconds before impact, the origin would be well known.
If it was suspected that there was anything like a loaded military mass driver on the Moon pointed at Earth, you can bet it there would be radar watching it 24/7.
I used to think the same thing, but then I realized - you'd need a hell of a rail gun to launch a rock at the Earth, and get it to target quickly enough that a superpower wouldn't have time to nuke your ass off the planet. You might think, "Yes, but the Moon rocks wouldn't be nuclear" to which I'd respond - "When you're about to get wiped out anyway, do you care if your enemy's remains glow in the dark?"
It's much easier to maintain your ICBM array locally than to build, maintain, and operate something less effective on the Moon. The Cold War idea of MAD means we don't need a base on the Moon for military purposes.
The number one thing that most often turns on that damn light;
A loose gas cap. If that light comes on, this is the first thing you check, because paying $100 for a mechanic to do it sucks a LOT. Luckily, I used to work in a garage so I learned this from OTHER people's experience.
Of course, after those are a whole host of things that don't even give particularly clear indicators to the tech with the manufacturer's diagnostic equipment.
Because there is usually a small percentage of the population with effectively total control of the populace that has no interest in letting the rest of the world help?
Imagine trying to provide healthcare, education, and the right to walk in sunlight to women of Taliban Afghanistan...
Without RTFA, I think I can explain why 6 inputs can create more than 720 combinations...
You're counting the possible pathways. You've forgotten to count the positionings! Two keys with the same routing pattern with only one input off by a fraction of a millimeter would not open the same lock.
The idea is to average the noise over a large number of samplings, and subtract that from the average of a large number of samplings of whatever you are measuring.
You don't subtract a single noise measurement from a single final measurement, which would double your error margin (you could have a perfect cancellation, or perfect addition).
Actually, this has already been done... though with optics. You take large numbers of measurements of 'nothing' and note the random static produced by the sensor. You can then subtract the average noise from the average of a large number of measurements of something and get an accuracy level theoretically beyond the ability of your instrument.
Any two objects can orbit. Distance, speed, and outside gravitional effect must be taken into consideration, and one assumes the comet outmasses the probe (otherwise the comet would likely be described as orbiting the probe!), but there is no reason the probe couldn't enter into an orbit of the comet.
Actually, I think that's a terribly wrong-headed attitude. While we might *have* to encourage users to think, we *should* be encouraging developers to produce better code.
We should be striving to create systems that just do what the users needs them to do without requiring the user to jump through hoops or take a course entitled "Best Practices in Computer Security". I don't need to be a mechanic to drive a car, I don't need to be an astronomer or astrophysicist to look through a telescope, and I shouldn't have to be a network security expert just to surf the web and send & receive email.
It is very definitely Microsoft at fault here and not the 'less than expert computer users'. After all, if they made the product to suit those users instead of just to sell well to them, the rest of the world would have far fewer issues.