I have to see a starship firing off missiles with this kind of action. Replace fungal-goo with plasma, spore with warhead, and you'd have an awesomely unique design concept for space weaponry.
Seems like you'd be better off making a flat keyboard, a la ST:TNG. OLED is flexible, so you could actually produce a single sheet, with indentations behind it that give a "flex". So, you get around the 100+ tiny OLEDS problem by now using a single OLED, and you also get something out of your flat input device that no one has been able to accomplish: tactile feedback.
Plus, you can operate OLED in "lit" mode or plain LCD mode, giving you functionality in a wide range of ambient light situations.
Or, the ISP's can do as the smart ones have done and deploy Tipping Point begin to mitigate these attacks the moment they are detetcted on the border routers. It's smart, fast, and really good at shutting down the traffic generated by these botnets by giving the admin the ability to apply vendor-supplied templates, or to create your own. However, you'd need additional deployments inside the network to avoid fratricide, but you can't beat the intelligence behind this aproach.
And I'll agree with you, the motives here are suspect indeed. M.J. Simpson's "thoughts" on DNA (see page 6 of the article) are nothing more than a plug for yet another posthumous publication of DNA's work, while actually bagging on the upcoming movie itself. Somewhat confused in intent, but message certainly doesn't sound much like an affectionate anecdote.
Hey, M.J., thanks for taking what was supposed to me a fond remembrance of DNA and turning it into a soapbox; I'm sure the family is warmed by your sentiments.
I'm trying to figure out why the guy on this website's banner is pointing (what looks like) a Gamecube controller at me. Is he going to ruin our P2P experience from a Nintendo? How 1337.
There are many who present counterarguments against the split infinitive rule, the most common of which is the "don't try to apply Latin rules of grammar to English." Most people don't really mind splitting them anymore, and one could assume that, in the future, everyone would care about it even less so.
"At least it isn't like California - if you don't give them a fingerprint, you don't get a drivers license.
And Texas... They are supposedly kept on file for indentification purposes during license issuing and renewal, and are not to ever be used during the investigation of any criminal act, but who can tell me, with a straight face, that detectives haven't utilized this database of thumbprints in the past. I know I've only seen fictionalized versions of this in movies, but you know Mel Gibson and Danny Glover always had a favor to call in from the resident computer geek in the department, and got their hands on information that was restricted to them (or maybe it was Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, or Eddie "Banana in the Tailpipe" Murphy... can't remember). I don't see any reason not to expect behavior of this sort in real life, do you?
Sorry for the tangent, but seriously, if we continue to find instances of misconduct in our bureaucracy, how can we accept the fact that these supposedly innocuous databases are, in all likelihood, being used against us, and against their legal intent?
I'd like to add that Slashdot's "blurb" failed to point out that "The World" is actually a co-production of the BBC, PRI (Public Radio International), and WGBH in Boston. I know that the broadcast in my area is carried on NPR, but actually distributed by PRI. If you're looking for decent international news, sans wacky right-wing skew, you'll dig "The World."
Maybe I'm a little drunk, or mighty drunk (ok, yes, I'm drunk), but can someone enlighten me regarding the url referenced above? I wanted to check out the site used to pull those maps, but after first viewing the poster's link http://mapper.ofdoom.com/index.pike?base=10/S/5000 00/4258399/?129,76, I attempted to simply navigate to http://mapper.ofdoom.com/, which simply brought me back to the same page. Cookied I'm thinking, but whatever. Then my drunk ass just browses http://ofdoom.com where a listing of subdomains exists, but I don't see "mapper". So then I'm like, "Ok, the poster tossed the images on a webserver instance at "mapper.whatever," but then I see the tools on the page to highlight landmarks, etc. so I'm like, "Wow, let's go smoke, finish this beer, and go the 'eff to bed."
So, yeah, I need a twelve-step, but I'm really quite curious as to what's going on at mapper.ofdoom.com. What's tha dilly yo?
And I suppose I'm not supposed to even slightly glance down at the keyboard at any time either? I got enough of this fascism in grade-school, further propagation via/. won't be necessary. Somehow, believe it or not, some of us have managed swimmingly.
I think typing-nazi's belong in the same group with instructors at finishing schools and clerks at the DMV, which would also be the first group, coincidentally, against the wall...
Speaking of dog's, too bad the poster of this article can't spell "chihuahua". Fortunately, the author of the article spelled it correctly, inferring bad trasposition on the part of the "quoter".
Chuhauhau = Chi-ha-ha?
If that sort of bundling of services is any sort of violation, I would hope the courts wouldn't see it as a violation of that 1996 Telecommunications Act. If it was, then it looks like the antitrust lawsuit would be out the window, according to this recent decision: http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/040113/135652_1.html
Anyone know if it could be construed as such? Damn it Jim! I'm a network engineer, not a lawyer!!
It's really a false sense of security on the government's part, since you can just get yourself one of these and dump the thing, take it apart and study it, then reflash it with Akmed's or Abdul's image/biometric information, and send him through customs as John Smith after doctoring the "paper" portions of the passport in the traditional methods. This is just one more easily circumvented "security measure". Those that have the time and resources will make a fortune selling "false biometric documentation" on the black market.
Passport fraud has been around forever, and will stay around as long as there are people to take apart the mechanisms that everyone assumes will be fool-proof.
Actually, I admitted nothing, and can't, since I've never ordered any illegal devices from anyone online. A read through my post makes that completely obvious. I do, however, know how the process works. How? I can read, and have been doing so for years in regard to this subject. As such, I can discuss the topic with some semblance of knowledgeability (unlike yourself).
As to your silly statement regarding the police, there aren't any police raids involved with these DTV lawsuits. DTV sends a letter to the supposed pirate, and files suit in the event that the person doesn't settle out of court. The only time that the police have been involved is when a raid was conducted on a large fulfillment house and its related parties. There are not police raids on end-users based on "reasonable suspicsion [sic]" or any other suspicion. It's all DTV and a letter-writing campaign.
But then, you wouldn't care about that, would you? All you care about is making reactionary, blatantly accusatory, and careless posts against persons that you don't even know. You do a quick whois and pose as some sort of bastion of wisdom and perspicacity who's going to draw the "criminal" out into the open? Here's news for you:
You are a tool sir, and nothing less.
And furthermore, be assured that any information that you retrieved during what I am sure was an exhausting 2-second brain dead fact-finding mission cannot and will not have any sort of effect on myself personally. Some of us are quite able to protect our identities online, as opposed to yourself Michael.
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Judi Durand. She was the voice of the Cardassian computer on DS9/Terok Nor. I want to know exactly where she was at the time of Majel's death!
I have to see a starship firing off missiles with this kind of action. Replace fungal-goo with plasma, spore with warhead, and you'd have an awesomely unique design concept for space weaponry.
The article references fuses designed for use in nose cones... Is this story's headline misrepresenting the true nature of the mistake?
Seems like you'd be better off making a flat keyboard, a la ST:TNG. OLED is flexible, so you could actually produce a single sheet, with indentations behind it that give a "flex". So, you get around the 100+ tiny OLEDS problem by now using a single OLED, and you also get something out of your flat input device that no one has been able to accomplish: tactile feedback.
Plus, you can operate OLED in "lit" mode or plain LCD mode, giving you functionality in a wide range of ambient light situations.
Let's go into production, damn it!
Yes... This story's comments are a trainwreck. Half are regarding AOL, the other half are regarding IE vs. Firefox memory leaks. Something's b0rk3d.
Actually, I want to know who "they" is, actually. I didn't see a single MS source cited... Rumor mill at it again?
Or, the ISP's can do as the smart ones have done and deploy Tipping Point begin to mitigate these attacks the moment they are detetcted on the border routers. It's smart, fast, and really good at shutting down the traffic generated by these botnets by giving the admin the ability to apply vendor-supplied templates, or to create your own. However, you'd need additional deployments inside the network to avoid fratricide, but you can't beat the intelligence behind this aproach.
And I'll agree with you, the motives here are suspect indeed. M.J. Simpson's "thoughts" on DNA (see page 6 of the article) are nothing more than a plug for yet another posthumous publication of DNA's work, while actually bagging on the upcoming movie itself. Somewhat confused in intent, but message certainly doesn't sound much like an affectionate anecdote.
Hey, M.J., thanks for taking what was supposed to me a fond remembrance of DNA and turning it into a soapbox; I'm sure the family is warmed by your sentiments.
Whitest. Post. Ever.
I'm trying to figure out why the guy on this website's banner is pointing (what looks like) a Gamecube controller at me. Is he going to ruin our P2P experience from a Nintendo? How 1337.
Split Infinitives
There are many who present counterarguments against the split infinitive rule, the most common of which is the "don't try to apply Latin rules of grammar to English." Most people don't really mind splitting them anymore, and one could assume that, in the future, everyone would care about it even less so.
Someone please help this man...
Latency on sat connections can be upwards of 900ms... I don't think VoIP is going to like that very much at all.
"At least it isn't like California - if you don't give them a fingerprint, you don't get a drivers license.
And Texas... They are supposedly kept on file for indentification purposes during license issuing and renewal, and are not to ever be used during the investigation of any criminal act, but who can tell me, with a straight face, that detectives haven't utilized this database of thumbprints in the past. I know I've only seen fictionalized versions of this in movies, but you know Mel Gibson and Danny Glover always had a favor to call in from the resident computer geek in the department, and got their hands on information that was restricted to them (or maybe it was Will Smith and Martin Lawrence, or Eddie "Banana in the Tailpipe" Murphy... can't remember). I don't see any reason not to expect behavior of this sort in real life, do you?
Sorry for the tangent, but seriously, if we continue to find instances of misconduct in our bureaucracy, how can we accept the fact that these supposedly innocuous databases are, in all likelihood, being used against us, and against their legal intent?
I'd like to add that Slashdot's "blurb" failed to point out that "The World" is actually a co-production of the BBC, PRI (Public Radio International), and WGBH in Boston. I know that the broadcast in my area is carried on NPR, but actually distributed by PRI. If you're looking for decent international news, sans wacky right-wing skew, you'll dig "The World."
Maybe I'm a little drunk, or mighty drunk (ok, yes, I'm drunk), but can someone enlighten me regarding the url referenced above? I wanted to check out the site used to pull those maps, but after first viewing the poster's link http://mapper.ofdoom.com/index.pike?base=10/S/5000 00/4258399/?129,76, I attempted to simply navigate to http://mapper.ofdoom.com/, which simply brought me back to the same page. Cookied I'm thinking, but whatever. Then my drunk ass just browses http://ofdoom.com where a listing of subdomains exists, but I don't see "mapper". So then I'm like, "Ok, the poster tossed the images on a webserver instance at "mapper.whatever," but then I see the tools on the page to highlight landmarks, etc. so I'm like, "Wow, let's go smoke, finish this beer, and go the 'eff to bed."
So, yeah, I need a twelve-step, but I'm really quite curious as to what's going on at mapper.ofdoom.com. What's tha dilly yo?
By the way... Which one's Pink? Sorry, couldn't resist.
And I suppose I'm not supposed to even slightly glance down at the keyboard at any time either? I got enough of this fascism in grade-school, further propagation via /. won't be necessary. Somehow, believe it or not, some of us have managed swimmingly.
I think typing-nazi's belong in the same group with instructors at finishing schools and clerks at the DMV, which would also be the first group, coincidentally, against the wall...
Speaking of dog's, too bad the poster of this article can't spell "chihuahua". Fortunately, the author of the article spelled it correctly, inferring bad trasposition on the part of the "quoter". Chuhauhau = Chi-ha-ha?
Speaking of geeks, this device gives me the biggest geek-boner. If my company doesn't get something like this soon I'm going to be so upset...
If that sort of bundling of services is any sort of violation, I would hope the courts wouldn't see it as a violation of that 1996 Telecommunications Act. If it was, then it looks like the antitrust lawsuit would be out the window, according to this recent decision: http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/040113/135652_1.html Anyone know if it could be construed as such? Damn it Jim! I'm a network engineer, not a lawyer!!
The "blog" link from the article is redirecting back to /. /Me thinks Nat didn't care for the bandwidth spike...
And the **AA's will probably set you up with one for a discounted rate, since you won't be "robbing" them.
It's really a false sense of security on the government's part, since you can just get yourself one of these and dump the thing, take it apart and study it, then reflash it with Akmed's or Abdul's image/biometric information, and send him through customs as John Smith after doctoring the "paper" portions of the passport in the traditional methods. This is just one more easily circumvented "security measure". Those that have the time and resources will make a fortune selling "false biometric documentation" on the black market.
Passport fraud has been around forever, and will stay around as long as there are people to take apart the mechanisms that everyone assumes will be fool-proof.
Actually, I admitted nothing, and can't, since I've never ordered any illegal devices from anyone online. A read through my post makes that completely obvious. I do, however, know how the process works. How? I can read, and have been doing so for years in regard to this subject. As such, I can discuss the topic with some semblance of knowledgeability (unlike yourself).
As to your silly statement regarding the police, there aren't any police raids involved with these DTV lawsuits. DTV sends a letter to the supposed pirate, and files suit in the event that the person doesn't settle out of court. The only time that the police have been involved is when a raid was conducted on a large fulfillment house and its related parties. There are not police raids on end-users based on "reasonable suspicsion [sic]" or any other suspicion. It's all DTV and a letter-writing campaign.
But then, you wouldn't care about that, would you? All you care about is making reactionary, blatantly accusatory, and careless posts against persons that you don't even know. You do a quick whois and pose as some sort of bastion of wisdom and perspicacity who's going to draw the "criminal" out into the open? Here's news for you:
You are a tool sir, and nothing less.
And furthermore, be assured that any information that you retrieved during what I am sure was an exhausting 2-second brain dead fact-finding mission cannot and will not have any sort of effect on myself personally. Some of us are quite able to protect our identities online, as opposed to yourself Michael.