I know this is a kdawson story and all, but what is there really to discuss here? Okay, so a part in space broken down and will be repaired. Seems like a pretty routine thing to me. I can understand if this were some unorthodox procedure or novel technology that had never been tried before, but that doesn't appear to be the case here.
Assuming the seal was designed by the FBI itself, it's ineligible for copyright as a work of the federal government.
Huh? I was under the impression that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was part of the federal government.
The subject is never contained within a prepositional phrase, so you can rule out "by the FBI" as containing the subject. This leaves "the seal" as the only valid thing that "it's" refers to. Here's how you should parse that sentence:
Assuming the seal was designed (by the FBI itself), it's ineligible for copyright (as a work) (of the federal government).
The parenthetical elements are optional and serve only to clarify the other parts.
There is the girl in the red bra, though she's not really that hot.
True, but the one in the black bra is nice, and the naked lesbian couple performing acrobatic sex on their porch is impressive.
Ah, irony. Well, if you care to look she's in that cluster of apartment buildings just to the left of the default view. Zoom in and she's halfway up the twin towers on the right of the cluster.
The two rovers may be the greatest achievement of mankind to date. Lasting this long is beyond heroic. They may be robots but they have both shown a stubborn determination that is impressive for man or machine.
"On June 28, 2010, Voyager 2 completed 12,000 days of continuous operations since its launch on August 20, 1977. For nearly 33 years, the venerable spacecraft has been returning unprecedented data about the giant outer planets, the properties of the solar wind between and beyond the planets and the interaction of the solar wind with interstellar winds in the heliosheath. Having traveled more than 21 billion kilometers on its winding path through the planets toward interstellar space, the spacecraft is now nearly 14 billion kilometers from the sun. Traveling at the speed of light, a signal from the ground takes about 12.8 hours to reach the spacecraft."
It could be worse... the GIMP developers could have built it, in which case it would be a mostly working implementation of half the features of some existing software. However, nobody would realize this since only the developers would be able to comprehend the UI.
I bet it can remove the blur from the titlebar for screenshots of a Windows 7 app. Now we can all see what those developers are viewing behind that window!
Update: just swapped out the 60GB HD with a 500GB Hitachi HD and zero problems. Swap, boot, format, done. System info is showing 413GB/465GB free. System software: Version 3.41. I don't know if the slim versions only experience this problem, but it worked flawlessly on an original 60GB model. Now off to restore my backup.
The internet is supposed to be able to repair itself. You know, route around damage and stuff?
The internet will continue to work fine. This only impacts DNSSEC and the ability to rebuild based on the private key distributed on those smartcards. If all 7 get assassinated and their smart cards hacked to bits with no backups, we can still revert to plain old DNS.
I'm really hoping it's a bug because I just got a 500GB drive to replace in my PS3. As my data is getting backed up (1 hour to go) I thought I'd check out what's new on Slashdot. Shit! I'm giving this a try and will update on what happens. My PS3 is the original 60GB model with the very latest firmware.
Not only you. The whole human species would be extinct by then. We have global warming, pollution, fuel shortage, wars, corruption. These are enough to finish us by 2100. What happens in 2182 is irrelevant.
Dammit, and 2182 was finally going to be the year of Linux on the desktop!
So these apps were removed for being scams, or because they were doing questionable things...but Apple shouldn't have caught on to this during the approval process? That's...that's awesome. Nicely done.::eye roll::
The apps were perfectly fine and didn't scam anything. From the Independent article a few posts up:
"... it is estimated that hundreds of Apple customers have become victims. It is thought that some may have been hit by a "phishing" scam, in which an apparently legitimate email convinces the recipient to part with sensitive information."
This is no different than if some phisher sends you an email purportedly from your bank, and you click on it and give them your banking account number and password. The phisher then goes on a spending spree and buys Android phones with your money. Now, you'd be hard-pressed to argue that Android phones are a scam... it's a means of generating revenue for the phisher if it's bought from their store or if they can sell the phones.
Similarly, if users fall for a phishing scam through email and they click on a link in the email, go to some rogue iTunes-like website, give their iTunes account info, and the phisher uses that harvested account info to buy and positively rate the phisher's apps... that doesn't mean the apps being bought are a scam -- it's simply a means of generating revenue for the phisher.
However, please don't let the facts interrupt a good eye roll. I'm sure it's cathartic for you to vent your anti-Apple sentiments on a routine basis.
The PDF (great pictures in it too) had a bit more info on why those eyes are good:
With these issues in mind, and with the objective of producing textured surfaces that could be useful, for example as reflection-reduction coatings for oblique insolation of solar cells [19–22], we decided to devise a technique for high-fidelity and mass replication of an array of blowfly corneas.
The rest of the paper appears to be all about the process, not about the eyes.
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I know this is a kdawson story and all, but what is there really to discuss here? Okay, so a part in space broken down and will be repaired. Seems like a pretty routine thing to me. I can understand if this were some unorthodox procedure or novel technology that had never been tried before, but that doesn't appear to be the case here.
Back on topic: um... good luck guys!
Dancin' by the Nile, the ladies loved his style.
Rockin' for a mile, he ate a crocodile.
Born in Arizona, moved to Babylonia, King Tut.
Wow, and he wasn't even old enough to use Burma Shave.
Can someone please explain watt the hell they're talking about?
I don't think you'd have the capacity to understand.
Assuming the seal was designed by the FBI itself, it's ineligible for copyright as a work of the federal government.
Huh? I was under the impression that the Federal Bureau of Investigation was part of the federal government.
The subject is never contained within a prepositional phrase, so you can rule out "by the FBI" as containing the subject. This leaves "the seal" as the only valid thing that "it's" refers to. Here's how you should parse that sentence:
Assuming the seal was designed (by the FBI itself), it's ineligible for copyright (as a work) (of the federal government).
The parenthetical elements are optional and serve only to clarify the other parts.
And naturally kdawson will be updating this story to correct the misinformation, right? Hello? Is this thing on? [crickets]
And how often do you have an object moving beneath a Windows 7 titlebar?
Perhaps you should have started your own thread.
Actually I think PharmVille would be more appropriate to ensure they're taking their meds.
There is the girl in the red bra, though she's not really that hot.
True, but the one in the black bra is nice, and the naked lesbian couple performing acrobatic sex on their porch is impressive.
Ah, irony. Well, if you care to look she's in that cluster of apartment buildings just to the left of the default view. Zoom in and she's halfway up the twin towers on the right of the cluster.
The two rovers may be the greatest achievement of mankind to date. Lasting this long is beyond heroic. They may be robots but they have both shown a stubborn determination that is impressive for man or machine.
Speaking of which: http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/
"On June 28, 2010, Voyager 2 completed 12,000 days of continuous operations since its launch on August 20, 1977. For nearly 33 years, the venerable spacecraft has been returning unprecedented data about the giant outer planets, the properties of the solar wind between and beyond the planets and the interaction of the solar wind with interstellar winds in the heliosheath. Having traveled more than 21 billion kilometers on its winding path through the planets toward interstellar space, the spacecraft is now nearly 14 billion kilometers from the sun. Traveling at the speed of light, a signal from the ground takes about 12.8 hours to reach the spacecraft."
I can tell, just by the thumbnail, that this isn't true. It is actually quite a dull photograph.
There is the girl in the red bra, though she's not really that hot.
Probably only half-working coming from microsoft
It could be worse... the GIMP developers could have built it, in which case it would be a mostly working implementation of half the features of some existing software. However, nobody would realize this since only the developers would be able to comprehend the UI.
I bet it can remove the blur from the titlebar for screenshots of a Windows 7 app. Now we can all see what those developers are viewing behind that window!
IE8 is the patch to IE6.
Update: just swapped out the 60GB HD with a 500GB Hitachi HD and zero problems. Swap, boot, format, done. System info is showing 413GB/465GB free. System software: Version 3.41. I don't know if the slim versions only experience this problem, but it worked flawlessly on an original 60GB model. Now off to restore my backup.
The internet is supposed to be able to repair itself. You know, route around damage and stuff?
The internet will continue to work fine. This only impacts DNSSEC and the ability to rebuild based on the private key distributed on those smartcards. If all 7 get assassinated and their smart cards hacked to bits with no backups, we can still revert to plain old DNS.
I'm really hoping it's a bug because I just got a 500GB drive to replace in my PS3. As my data is getting backed up (1 hour to go) I thought I'd check out what's new on Slashdot. Shit! I'm giving this a try and will update on what happens. My PS3 is the original 60GB model with the very latest firmware.
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny ...' " - Isaac Asimov.
Thus, the quickest way to advance science is to take a bunch of straight-faced, literal scientists to see a comedian.
2182 - 2010 = 172 years
In the year 258, Pope Sixtus II is martyred. Turn this into a repeating decimal .258258258258
Now divide 172 by the repeating decimal = 666
How convenient that Pope Sixtus II is related to this future event by the number 666.
Not only you. The whole human species would be extinct by then. We have global warming, pollution, fuel shortage, wars, corruption. These are enough to finish us by 2100. What happens in 2182 is irrelevant.
Dammit, and 2182 was finally going to be the year of Linux on the desktop!
Exploiting bugs in two different ATM machines
'ATM machines'? Really?
Here is an ATM machine:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/ps1893/prod_view_selector.html
One could ask whether these ATMs use ATM for their communications.
Well... Bank of America may be a bit angry if you have one of their ATMs in your living room
Or they may be ecstatic if it withdraws funds from your Bank of America account, but you have to fill the machine with your own cash.
No one is doubting Global Warming.
The question is: does the industrial revolution just correlate well with it, Or can you prove causation?
Personally, I'm just glad I didn't have to suffer through the global cooling period:
http://www.climatewatch.noaa.gov/2009/articles/climate-change-global-temperature
So these apps were removed for being scams, or because they were doing questionable things...but Apple shouldn't have caught on to this during the approval process? That's...that's awesome. Nicely done. ::eye roll::
The apps were perfectly fine and didn't scam anything. From the Independent article a few posts up:
"... it is estimated that hundreds of Apple customers have become victims. It is thought that some may have been hit by a "phishing" scam, in which an apparently legitimate email convinces the recipient to part with sensitive information."
This is no different than if some phisher sends you an email purportedly from your bank, and you click on it and give them your banking account number and password. The phisher then goes on a spending spree and buys Android phones with your money. Now, you'd be hard-pressed to argue that Android phones are a scam... it's a means of generating revenue for the phisher if it's bought from their store or if they can sell the phones.
Similarly, if users fall for a phishing scam through email and they click on a link in the email, go to some rogue iTunes-like website, give their iTunes account info, and the phisher uses that harvested account info to buy and positively rate the phisher's apps... that doesn't mean the apps being bought are a scam -- it's simply a means of generating revenue for the phisher.
However, please don't let the facts interrupt a good eye roll. I'm sure it's cathartic for you to vent your anti-Apple sentiments on a routine basis.
The PDF (great pictures in it too) had a bit more info on why those eyes are good:
With these issues in mind, and with the objective of producing textured surfaces that could be useful, for example as reflection-reduction coatings for oblique insolation of solar cells [19–22], we decided to devise a technique for high-fidelity and mass replication of an array of blowfly corneas.
The rest of the paper appears to be all about the process, not about the eyes.
Just because one person at AT&T said they won't do anything about it, there is absolutely no guarantee that someone else doesn't have different plans.
The way I read it was: "Oh no, we won't interfere with the talk at all. But just wait until you see what we do after the talk!"