Probably not easily accessible (at least no more accessible than the memory), but even if it's not accessible, it should surely be replaceable. I'm starting to think that, when these get hacked, I might have to pick one up.
Hell, pick up several - I think this one could catch on more than the disposable digital stills. Attach one to your RC airplane and play CIA with it... even better if you can hook up a wireless feed! Or use a ziplock bag to make you're own underwater camera. I know there's a lot of things I would risk doing with this that I'd never use our expensive "real" camcorder for.
I believe they mean it has a memory unit, capable of storing about 20 minutes of video, hardwired into the internal workings of the machine, not readily accessible from the exterior. This would be similar to other disposable still cameras, anyways. You can delete some video and re-shoot it, but can't hold more than 20 minutes at a time. In the lab, they have their own means of accessing the data, which they then burn to a DVD for you.
I can't help but think that, since I imagine they will re-use everything, including the memory unit, that people will find out not only how to get the data form the chip itself, but also will be able to read what was recorded on there by previous disposable camcorder owners. No chance of that going wrong at all...
Just shows how confusing it is... the two standard for video card slots/video bus are AGP and PCI-E. SLI is the Nvidia proprietary method to make two SLI capable video cards on PCI-E bus to act as one video device. ATI has now introduced their own version, which they are calling Crossfire. I think that these proprietary techs are limited to PCI-E cards, but I don't know if that's just because they are only made for those cards, or if there's something inherent in the tech to cause it. Still, it's not often you see a moboard with two AGP slots...
...or maybe the should create a site evil.google.com, and have it resolve to either a blank page, or in spite, MSN search. Throw in good.google.com that resolves to Google's main page, and you're set.
From the article, it says that Linux sales accounted for 10%, implying heavily (though not outright stated) that Linux sales were not counted among Unix sales, and rightfully so. One could say, however, that sales of Unix-like servers were at 45% of the total market, 10% ahead of MS. But only if you really wanted to.
Still, this leaves us with 20% unaccounted for. What percentage of these were sold w/o an OS, and how many of these will end up with Linux (OK, fine, or BSD) on them? What other Operating Systems are filling in the gaps?
I was gonna make the same joke, but decided that even though there were no posts visible at the time, this being/., another 50 users were going to beat me to it anyways...
So, I'll just stick with the useful stuff.
Although it doesn't look like it's gonna be a lot of help, here's the Coral Cache link.
Of course, OO.o is prohibitively expensive to just take for a test drive...
Seriously though, I don't begrudge anyone sticking with MS Office for the additional functionality - I use OpenOffice.org regularly, and I acknowledge that, though it's a good office suite, it's not quite on par with MS Office yet for all te bells and whistles. But if you want to give it a try, it is a free download, and I haven't run into any problems with MS Office and OO.o running on the same system.
You can also just wait around a bit - as I understand it, the 2.0 release is looming near, and it is supposed to provide even more functionality and MS compatibility, and just might suit your needs.
Re:this is worse than Start Wars countless sequels
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Not necessarily "settled", but rather have declared a truce of sort. For similar success stories, see also:
* Isreal and Palestine
* US and Iraq
You may have meant that to be sarcastic (at least that's what a specific portion of my brain tells me), but given recent history, you might be at least 2/3rds right...
Installed this toolbar, then visited Slashdot, ad received:
"The page you are trying to visit is using Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). This is a technique commonly used in phishing attacks."
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"If this is a mistake, please report it using the "Report Incorrect Blocked URL" in the Netcraft Menu."
Of course, now it's starting to look like the reporting site is becoming/.ed, so of course that fails...
I never understood why each console has to have only one "official" controller anyways. I mean, wouldn't it be great if they made 3 or 4 different styles of controller, and everyone in your household could choose the one they felt most comfortable with? I'm not talking about 3rd party controllers - a lot of the time, you take a risk on the quality of those things.
But just imagine, if Sony made the "boomerang" controller and a classic Dual Shock style bluetooth controller. Not only would it make the fans happy, it certainly wouldn't cost Sony anything extra - in fact, it would likely make them even more money.
this is one of the few things that will motivate them to get off their butts to express their displeasure.
Man, this is one of those double edged sentences, where I don't know if I want to believe this is true or false. I like to think there are other, less selfish and sedentary things to motivate us to do so...
What bothers me, lately whenever I've been talking with someone outside of the tech/slashdot crowd and bring up the matter of the (then) impending broadcast flag, almost everyone was oblivious to what it was, and it often took way to much time to explain how it might effect them. Though we've been ranting about it for some time now, it's managed to slip under the mainstream's radar rather effectively. I'm afraid it would be all to easy for any such legislation to receive equally indifferent coverage, especially if it was tacked on as part of another bill.
That means there are no (that I know of) large corporate campaign fund donators sponsoring this, and though this is highly publicized, still went through as the committe voted along party lines.
I'm not saying that this will definitely become a law now, just that it's possible, and we shouldn't let it sneak up on us.
Regarding keystroke loggers on public terminals - if you can gain access to do so, you could reboot the machine with Knoppix or another live CD to circumvent software loggers above the BIOS level, though it won't help against hardware loggers (a brief visual search can rule out most of those, as long as you can trace the cord to the back of the machine). From there, a secure encrypted connection to a "free world" site should cover you, electronically.
However, even this will leave you open to IP tracing (should a stream of encrypted traffic raise any flags), as well as wandering busybodies/spies/anyone willing to report your ass for a reward. Just a thought.
Do you really think something as blatant as this has any chance of even making it into committee?
It's almost, but not quite, as blatant as the current Nominee for UN Delegate's contempt for the UN, and we all see how quickly that was struck down...
Never underestimate the power of:
(a) Money
(b) Ignorance
(c) Stupid people in large groups
(d) All of the above.
Luckily for us, there is a ceiling on the rate of *ahem* "ammo production".
Now, when they invent a robotic politician^Wasshole to go along with it, then we're in trouble.
(Obligatory Robotic Al Gore reference has been intentionally left from this post, with the exception of it's appearance in this discla... ah, dammit!)
I thought they did this already...
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They did this once before, I thought. Some performance artist did a quasi-rap for them once, but the lyrics ("Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers...") were just to repetitive, even for the dance clubs, and it just never caught on...
Why use a shape like this which, I presume, requires the use of failure-prone ceramic tiles for reentry protection instead of a tried-and-proven heat sheild when you're planning to use parachutes to land the thing anyhow?
According to the linked Wiki article: "Its airplane-shaped design makes it far easier to navigate during high-speed returns to Earth than the capsule-shaped vehicles of the past, according to Lockheed Martin."
Whether this makes sense or not, I don't know, but there's the answer to one of your questions.
I can't help but wonder how the extortionist might have reacted to an error reply:
MAILSERVER: Error, mailbox does not exist
Not saying it would necessarily work, and as it was probably sent to a published address, would at best delay the threat while lowering the extortionist's expectation of your ability to defend your network.
Out of curiosity, just took a quick look at some of the religious badges they offer. These are similar to merit badges, with different versions available for different religions, and I believe created in cooperation with whatever official institutions exist for that religion. In addition to the numerous Christian badges for the various different sects, I see there are also Buddhist, Hindu, Islamic, Jewish and Zoroastrian badges (as listed here, for anyone's edification).
Slashdot Mirror
Hell, pick up several - I think this one could catch on more than the disposable digital stills. Attach one to your RC airplane and play CIA with it... even better if you can hook up a wireless feed! Or use a ziplock bag to make you're own underwater camera. I know there's a lot of things I would risk doing with this that I'd never use our expensive "real" camcorder for.
I can't help but think that, since I imagine they will re-use everything, including the memory unit, that people will find out not only how to get the data form the chip itself, but also will be able to read what was recorded on there by previous disposable camcorder owners. No chance of that going wrong at all...
Just shows how confusing it is... the two standard for video card slots/video bus are AGP and PCI-E. SLI is the Nvidia proprietary method to make two SLI capable video cards on PCI-E bus to act as one video device. ATI has now introduced their own version, which they are calling Crossfire. I think that these proprietary techs are limited to PCI-E cards, but I don't know if that's just because they are only made for those cards, or if there's something inherent in the tech to cause it. Still, it's not often you see a moboard with two AGP slots...
...or maybe the should create a site evil.google.com, and have it resolve to either a blank page, or in spite, MSN search. Throw in good.google.com that resolves to Google's main page, and you're set.
Still, this leaves us with 20% unaccounted for. What percentage of these were sold w/o an OS, and how many of these will end up with Linux (OK, fine, or BSD) on them? What other Operating Systems are filling in the gaps?
So, I'll just stick with the useful stuff.
Although it doesn't look like it's gonna be a lot of help, here's the Coral Cache link.
Supposedly, the Mirrordot version will appear here at some point in the future, though it goes nowhere at time of posting.
Seriously though, I don't begrudge anyone sticking with MS Office for the additional functionality - I use OpenOffice.org regularly, and I acknowledge that, though it's a good office suite, it's not quite on par with MS Office yet for all te bells and whistles. But if you want to give it a try, it is a free download, and I haven't run into any problems with MS Office and OO.o running on the same system.
You can also just wait around a bit - as I understand it, the 2.0 release is looming near, and it is supposed to provide even more functionality and MS compatibility, and just might suit your needs.
* Isreal and Palestine
* US and Iraq
Truce != Peace
You may have meant that to be sarcastic (at least that's what a specific portion of my brain tells me), but given recent history, you might be at least 2/3rds right...
"The page you are trying to visit is using Cross-Site Scripting (XSS). This is a technique commonly used in phishing attacks."
...
"If this is a mistake, please report it using the "Report Incorrect Blocked URL" in the Netcraft Menu."
Of course, now it's starting to look like the reporting site is becoming /.ed, so of course that fails...
Now there's the subtitle to an "E! True Hollywood Story" I never want to see.
But just imagine, if Sony made the "boomerang" controller and a classic Dual Shock style bluetooth controller. Not only would it make the fans happy, it certainly wouldn't cost Sony anything extra - in fact, it would likely make them even more money.
Man, this is one of those double edged sentences, where I don't know if I want to believe this is true or false. I like to think there are other, less selfish and sedentary things to motivate us to do so...
What bothers me, lately whenever I've been talking with someone outside of the tech/slashdot crowd and bring up the matter of the (then) impending broadcast flag, almost everyone was oblivious to what it was, and it often took way to much time to explain how it might effect them. Though we've been ranting about it for some time now, it's managed to slip under the mainstream's radar rather effectively. I'm afraid it would be all to easy for any such legislation to receive equally indifferent coverage, especially if it was tacked on as part of another bill.
That means there are no (that I know of) large corporate campaign fund donators sponsoring this, and though this is highly publicized, still went through as the committe voted along party lines.
I'm not saying that this will definitely become a law now, just that it's possible, and we shouldn't let it sneak up on us.
However, even this will leave you open to IP tracing (should a stream of encrypted traffic raise any flags), as well as wandering busybodies/spies/anyone willing to report your ass for a reward. Just a thought.
It's almost, but not quite, as blatant as the current Nominee for UN Delegate's contempt for the UN, and we all see how quickly that was struck down...
Never underestimate the power of:
(a) Money
(b) Ignorance
(c) Stupid people in large groups
(d) All of the above.
Some of us are insensitive clods you... er... yeah
(That should help hold you over)
And the answer is, if there really is a God, never.
Now, when they invent a robotic politician^Wasshole to go along with it, then we're in trouble.
(Obligatory Robotic Al Gore reference has been intentionally left from this post, with the exception of it's appearance in this discla... ah, dammit!)
They did this once before, I thought. Some performance artist did a quasi-rap for them once, but the lyrics ("Developers, developers, developers, developers, developers...") were just to repetitive, even for the dance clubs, and it just never caught on...
According to the linked Wiki article: "Its airplane-shaped design makes it far easier to navigate during high-speed returns to Earth than the capsule-shaped vehicles of the past, according to Lockheed Martin."
Whether this makes sense or not, I don't know, but there's the answer to one of your questions.
Because, sometimes that Windows box crashes one time to many...
MAILSERVER: Error, mailbox does not exist
Not saying it would necessarily work, and as it was probably sent to a published address, would at best delay the threat while lowering the extortionist's expectation of your ability to defend your network.
Just thought I'd share, for the hell of it.
You know, it used to annoy me that these two shared the same initials. Turns out it was just being a bit prophetic...