Solutions are still far from perfect. The quality of data goggles and displays drew general criticism. "The data goggles aren't suitable for using for a whole day," said Lukasser of EADS. Bernd Lühr of Airbus Germany agreed. "The hardware problems in the goggles and trackers still need to be solved".
I tried one of the AR displays a few months back. The main reason why I thought that particular model was unsuitable for prolonged use, was that the text and other information appeared at a different depth from the object I was observing. The AR information was displayed at a fixed "infinite" depth.This made it impossible to focus on both the text and object at the same time, requiring me to adjust my eye focus everytime I wanted to read something. This constant refocussing caused a good amount of discomfort.
Adjusting the depth of the text to make sure it is exactly superimposed on the object that is being viewed is quite challenging, especially when the viewer moves his line of sight frequently.
An alternate design that some people find easier to adjust to uses a display mounted on a single eye (with the RW showing up in a dimmed background). I haven't tried these, but supposedly they are easier to get used to.
Can't believe Washington Post posted such a badly written article:
Title: Noise From Phone Can Chase Mosquitoes
(away?)
it will offer cell phone users a new noise service that it says will repel mosquitoes.
Noise service?
The service, which begins Monday, has one drawback: it consumes as much battery power as normal cell phone rings.
What exactly is this sentence supposed to mean? Does the ringer always play in the background? If so it should consume more power than occasional phone rings. If it indeed consume only as much power as phone rings, why is it a drawback?
Coming up on the next episode, a startling revelation: SCO reveals she filed divorce for alimony. What will BigBlue do? What will the mother-in-law think? Join us next time for another melodramatic episode of SCO and the BigBlue.
Having just browsed through the 34 page long PDF article for now, I found the conclusion very insightful: " Desktop Linux is no longer a technical challenge - it's a marketing challenge"
Moreso, when the competitor is a monopolistic giant of a corporation, entrenched in a significant portion of the desktop market for about 10 years now.
Let's just hope that desktop Linux doesn't suffer the same fate as Betamax in the disastrous Betamax/VHS battle. That's atleast one instance that I can recall, in which a superior product failed before a better marketed product.
These look like smart RFID devices, except that they are IRID devices.
Yesterday's article on RFIDs talked about how RFID tags would be used to keep track of inventory, etc. People were concerned that they would hurt privacy, as locations of RFID tags could be traced. What the article never talked about yesterday was the infrastructure that would be needed to actually keep track of the individual tags.
The IRID guys have taken this a step further, by moving out of the Walmart-warehouse like location, and developing servers to track the tags, and beam information to and from the cellphones. With all the emphasis on locating the devices, the same sort of privacy issues that apply to RFIDs would apply here too.
But the positive point is, that users would actually be able to opt-in for these devices, if they find them desirable, rather than the RFID idea which was more opt-out (subtle reference earlier spam article:).
There is some risk of users receiving a small electric shock "if you have connected your PC (laptop) to external power, you have disabled your phone line, (while) simultaneously being connected to a grounded peripheral, and you are touching a metal part of the PC, and your phone rings"!
There is a high risk of users receiving a small electric shock if you have connected your PC (laptop) to external power, you have disabled your phone line, (while) simultaneously being connected to a grounded peripheral, and you are touching a metal part of the PC, while sharing files and your phone rings"
In a floor statement last month, he suggested the creation of "an 'opt-in' system, whereby bulk commercial e-mail may only be sent to individuals and businesses who have invited or consented to it."
Burr, champion of the RID Spam Act, dismissed the idea Wednesday as thwarting legitimate transactions. "We'd like to get the discount hotel offers," Burr said.
I have nothing against getting discount hotel offers too, as long as they are sent by travel companies which I have signed up with. Companies like Hotwire, Travelocity, and even Airline companies like Delta provide an option to select receiving special travel deals, etc. I don't mind getting routine weekly updates about their webfares, etc...because I created an online account with them. So as such, as business agreement does exist between me and the company. Such mails, according to me, don't even fall into the unsolicited category.
What I do not want is unsolicited mails from companies or faked email ids when I never signed up for any of their services. An optin option would prove to be most effective in countering unsolicited mails, since the optout option defeats the very purpose by requiring to initiate spam before it can be prevented. Doesn't make much sense to me, but ofcourse the companies would love optout.
The Moscow Times is reporting that Russian security officers (The FSB, formerly the KGB) ordered all mobile phone providers to switch off their encryption systems for 24 hours, so the police could eavesdrop on all calls.
So, how do they handle such a large call volume? Just brute forcing through all phone calls made from cellphones listening for suspicious activity is quite impractical. And if they were following some leads, and knew the suspicious phone numbers to tap calls from, why disable decryption on all phones from all phone service providers?
A possible reason is to prevent the suspects from realizing that their phone is being tapped. But that's about the only explanation I can think of.
Okay, I've been thinking about this for the last few weeks.
Do all radio stations have to pay royalties, or only commercial radio stations? I think it's the latter, since our college runs its own non-commercial radio station and they don't have to pay any royalties that I know of.
A majority of the online radio stations are non-commercial, as in, they don't run radio stations for money. Most are run by shoutcast and other hobbyists anyway. So, why should these radio stations have to pay royalties, if their real-world (pardon the expression) counterparts do nt have to?
Eric Wright, Unix systems architect, TLS, Annapolis, Md.: "Both Unix and Linux are based on the C language. The C language only has so many methods of doing things. Some code is bound to look the same. The fact that a line here or a line there looks the same only tells me that both the programmers may of had the same teacher in college. Who knows?!
Not to troll, but if he's referring to typical for(i=0;;i++) loops and the like, I'm pretty certain SCO's not dumb enough to claim such one-liner code fragments are theirs.
You can claim that there are only a limited number of ways to do things only for small parts of code, but SCO was claiming it for large functions, etc...for which his argument falls through.
Imagine, for instance, walking down the sidewalk and having a high-tech billboard flash an ad for ketchup at you because it recognized the package of hotdogs in your bag.
Imagine, for instance, walking down the sidewalk and having a high-tech sexy girl humanoid flash her breasts at you because it recognized the hotdog in your pants.
Now That's the kind of future I'd like to see. Go RFID!
That's all we needed now....PDA's that hum. Just build in a fan and heat sink, and we'll have people saying: "Hey, is that a Yopy 3700 in your pocket or are you really really really really happy to see me".
The basic reason why Wifi, inspite of promotion by widespread chains like Starbucks hasn't caught on is that people (or most of them anyway) look at traveling or spending time at coffee shops as a way of getting away from work.
If I could go to a coffee shop and work on my master's thesis, I would, but for that, I would need a laptop, which I don't have enough money to buy. The people most lured by online-coffee shops, I think are students. Most working people would rather stay at home after a hard day's work, or would prefer to stay away from a computer, while enjoying a quiet evening, at say...a coffee shop.
Ofcourse, I'm not against perpetual connectivity, which Wifi promises to offer, but you can't expect a majority of people to actually sit at a coffee shop just to finish their work (this leaves out some students).
We should (or will learn to) treat Wifi as an ever available commodity (like pay phones are) but not one which we expect people to use 24/7. That is simply asking for too much. Wifi will catch on when it's time comes.
Pitfall 3: Development. Using C and C++ to program your robot might cause problems with arrays and pointers. Solution: Use Ada to help you apply software-engineering principles and better track the progress in each life cycle stage, from concept to deployment.
May your signals all trap
May your references be bounded All memory aligned
Floats to ints rounded
Remember...
Non-zero is true
++ adds one \ Arrays start with zero and,
NULL is for none
For octal, use zero
0x means hex = will set
== means test
use -> for a pointer
a dot if its not ? : is confusing
use them a lot
a.out is your program
there's no U in foobar and, char (*(*x())[])() is
a function returning a pointer
to an array of pointers to
functions returning char
November 2002, Comal County, Texas - A Texas-sized lack of curiosity about discrepancies: The uncanny coincidence of three winning Republican candidates in a row tallying up exactly 18,181 votes each was called weird, but apparently no one thought it was weird enough to audit. Conversion to alphabet: 18181 18181 18181 ahaha ahaha ahaha.
Meanwhile, each of the 3 winning candidates of the 2002 Texas elections was quoted as saying: 81 81 81 81 85 85 85 85 815 815 815
The office says on its Web site that its role is "to grant patents," but surely its role should be to distinguish between innovations that are worth patenting and those that are not.
I hereby patent the idea of granting patents and distinguising between innovations that are worth patenting and those that are not.
This is the limit. First file-sharing, downloadable music and now this.
So people don't even have a right to play computer games if they want to? If they are shutting down servers, that means people can't even play from home. Isn't this a direct breach of their right to play games?
If they are really that worried about children getting addicted, why not restrict the cybercafes to adults? They do this routinely with adult bars/nightclubs and even R rated movies? Why should this be any different?
If people are afraid their children will get addicted to alcohol/tobacco or watch pr0n movies, they introduce some type of adult check, they don't just ban all these supposedly harmful and addictive things. Why should this be any different? Who is the government to tell me I should take 2 hour breaks and not play at night.
From their What it can do page: You'll find TrafficGauge indispensable if you've ever wondered...
Will I hit traffic on this route? Should I go a different way?
Do I need to leave now, or can I spare a few minutes?
Can I make it to the meeting, day care, or movie on time?
With TrafficGauge, you'll know the answers instantly--at a glance!
So, like, you ask it these questions and it'll come back with: "You will definetly hit traffic on this and any alternate route that you may choose. You could either leave now, or a couple of minutes later...doesn't really matter, you won't be able to make it to the meeting, day care or movie on time anyway. And remember, roadrage is bad mmmkay. Happy driving
"To experience the Auto-ID Center's security holes firsthand, simply visit the web site at http://www.autoidcenter.org and type "confidential" in the site search box. The Center encourages such site exploration.
Well I went a-exploring:
Search for "1.Earn Trust 2. Collect Info 3.??? 4. Profit"
1 to 5 of 100 results for: "1.Earn Trust 2. Collect Info 3.??? 4. Profit"
Search for "We think we absolutely rock"
1 to 5 of 92 results for: "We think we absolutely rock"
Search for "You can't trust us with your personal data"
1 to 5 of 100 results for: "You can't trust us with your personal data"
The state also complained that its investigation of Microsoft has been hampered by the Justice Department and some other states enforcing agreements that preclude any of the states from cooperating with Massachusetts."The exclusion of Massachusetts has been effective and complete," the state said.
And needless to say, the Massachusetts Attorney General's website is running Microsoft-IIS/6.0
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Connection: Keep-Alive
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 13:20:00 GMT
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The konsent dekree approved by U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in November inkludes provisions aimed at giving komputer makers more freedom to feature non-Mikrosoft software on the machines they sell.
Microsoft promised to change it's brandname to Mikrosoft provided Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled in their favor.
Software for military and security purposes should be treated as all other military equipment. If the US or any other country for that matter considers it a potential risk to outsource development of weapons and related technology to other countries, software used for such purposes should not be treated any differently.
Countries which develop their own military equipment usually do so in a secret/classified manner, and if they choose to import the necessary technology, they do so under an assumption that the country developing the technology would not try to sell them defective/backfiring technology.
The same assumption of trust applies (or should apply) to military software too.
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I tried one of the AR displays a few months back. The main reason why I thought that particular model was unsuitable for prolonged use, was that the text and other information appeared at a different depth from the object I was observing. The AR information was displayed at a fixed "infinite" depth.This made it impossible to focus on both the text and object at the same time, requiring me to adjust my eye focus everytime I wanted to read something. This constant refocussing caused a good amount of discomfort.
Adjusting the depth of the text to make sure it is exactly superimposed on the object that is being viewed is quite challenging, especially when the viewer moves his line of sight frequently.
An alternate design that some people find easier to adjust to uses a display mounted on a single eye (with the RW showing up in a dimmed background). I haven't tried these, but supposedly they are easier to get used to.
Title: Noise From Phone Can Chase Mosquitoes
(away?)
it will offer cell phone users a new noise service that it says will repel mosquitoes.
Noise service?
The service, which begins Monday, has one drawback: it consumes as much battery power as normal cell phone rings.
What exactly is this sentence supposed to mean? Does the ringer always play in the background? If so it should consume more power than occasional phone rings. If it indeed consume only as much power as phone rings, why is it a drawback?
News at 5 next.
Moreso, when the competitor is a monopolistic giant of a corporation, entrenched in a significant portion of the desktop market for about 10 years now.
Let's just hope that desktop Linux doesn't suffer the same fate as Betamax in the disastrous Betamax/VHS battle. That's atleast one instance that I can recall, in which a superior product failed before a better marketed product.
Yesterday's article on RFIDs talked about how RFID tags would be used to keep track of inventory, etc. People were concerned that they would hurt privacy, as locations of RFID tags could be traced. What the article never talked about yesterday was the infrastructure that would be needed to actually keep track of the individual tags.
The IRID guys have taken this a step further, by moving out of the Walmart-warehouse like location, and developing servers to track the tags, and beam information to and from the cellphones. With all the emphasis on locating the devices, the same sort of privacy issues that apply to RFIDs would apply here too.
But the positive point is, that users would actually be able to opt-in for these devices, if they find them desirable, rather than the RFID idea which was more opt-out (subtle reference earlier spam article :).
Wouldn't Senator Hatch just love this:
There is a high risk of users receiving a small electric shock if you have connected your PC (laptop) to external power, you have disabled your phone line, (while) simultaneously being connected to a grounded peripheral, and you are touching a metal part of the PC, while sharing files and your phone rings"
Burr, champion of the RID Spam Act, dismissed the idea Wednesday as thwarting legitimate transactions. "We'd like to get the discount hotel offers," Burr said.
I have nothing against getting discount hotel offers too, as long as they are sent by travel companies which I have signed up with. Companies like Hotwire, Travelocity, and even Airline companies like Delta provide an option to select receiving special travel deals, etc. I don't mind getting routine weekly updates about their webfares, etc...because I created an online account with them. So as such, as business agreement does exist between me and the company. Such mails, according to me, don't even fall into the unsolicited category.
What I do not want is unsolicited mails from companies or faked email ids when I never signed up for any of their services. An optin option would prove to be most effective in countering unsolicited mails, since the optout option defeats the very purpose by requiring to initiate spam before it can be prevented. Doesn't make much sense to me, but ofcourse the companies would love optout.
So, how do they handle such a large call volume? Just brute forcing through all phone calls made from cellphones listening for suspicious activity is quite impractical. And if they were following some leads, and knew the suspicious phone numbers to tap calls from, why disable decryption on all phones from all phone service providers?
A possible reason is to prevent the suspects from realizing that their phone is being tapped. But that's about the only explanation I can think of.
Do all radio stations have to pay royalties, or only commercial radio stations? I think it's the latter, since our college runs its own non-commercial radio station and they don't have to pay any royalties that I know of.
A majority of the online radio stations are non-commercial, as in, they don't run radio stations for money. Most are run by shoutcast and other hobbyists anyway. So, why should these radio stations have to pay royalties, if their real-world (pardon the expression) counterparts do nt have to?
Not to troll, but if he's referring to typical for(i=0; ;i++) loops and the like, I'm pretty certain SCO's not dumb enough to claim such one-liner code fragments are theirs.
You can claim that there are only a limited number of ways to do things only for small parts of code, but SCO was claiming it for large functions, etc...for which his argument falls through.
Imagine, for instance, walking down the sidewalk and having a high-tech sexy girl humanoid flash her breasts at you because it recognized the hotdog in your pants.
Now That's the kind of future I'd like to see. Go RFID!
That's all we needed now....PDA's that hum. Just build in a fan and heat sink, and we'll have people saying: "Hey, is that a Yopy 3700 in your pocket or are you really really really really happy to see me".
If I could go to a coffee shop and work on my master's thesis, I would, but for that, I would need a laptop, which I don't have enough money to buy. The people most lured by online-coffee shops, I think are students. Most working people would rather stay at home after a hard day's work, or would prefer to stay away from a computer, while enjoying a quiet evening, at say...a coffee shop.
Ofcourse, I'm not against perpetual connectivity, which Wifi promises to offer, but you can't expect a majority of people to actually sit at a coffee shop just to finish their work (this leaves out some students).
We should (or will learn to) treat Wifi as an ever available commodity (like pay phones are) but not one which we expect people to use 24/7. That is simply asking for too much. Wifi will catch on when it's time comes.
May your signals all trap
May your references be bounded
All memory aligned
Floats to ints rounded
Remember
Non-zero is true
++ adds one \
Arrays start with zero and,
NULL is for none
For octal, use zero
0x means hex
= will set
== means test
use -> for a pointer
a dot if its not
? : is confusing
use them a lot
a.out is your program
there's no U in foobar
and, char (*(*x())[])() is
a function returning a pointer
to an array of pointers to
functions returning char
http://www.netfunny.com/rhf/jokes/90q2/ode.html
November 2002, Comal County, Texas - A Texas-sized lack of curiosity about discrepancies: The uncanny coincidence of three winning Republican candidates in a row tallying up exactly 18,181 votes each was called weird, but apparently no one thought it was weird enough to audit. Conversion to alphabet: 18181 18181 18181 ahaha ahaha ahaha.
Meanwhile, each of the 3 winning candidates of the 2002 Texas elections was quoted as saying: 81 81 81 81 85 85 85 85 815 815 815
I hereby patent the idea of granting patents and distinguising between innovations that are worth patenting and those that are not.
So people don't even have a right to play computer games if they want to? If they are shutting down servers, that means people can't even play from home. Isn't this a direct breach of their right to play games?
If they are really that worried about children getting addicted, why not restrict the cybercafes to adults? They do this routinely with adult bars/nightclubs and even R rated movies? Why should this be any different?
If people are afraid their children will get addicted to alcohol/tobacco or watch pr0n movies, they introduce some type of adult check, they don't just ban all these supposedly harmful and addictive things. Why should this be any different? Who is the government to tell me I should take 2 hour breaks and not play at night.
You'll find TrafficGauge indispensable if you've ever wondered...
Will I hit traffic on this route? Should I go a different way?
Do I need to leave now, or can I spare a few minutes?
Can I make it to the meeting, day care, or movie on time?
With TrafficGauge, you'll know the answers instantly--at a glance!
So, like, you ask it these questions and it'll come back with:
"You will definetly hit traffic on this and any alternate route that you may choose. You could either leave now, or a couple of minutes later...doesn't really matter, you won't be able to make it to the meeting, day care or movie on time anyway.
And remember, roadrage is bad mmmkay. Happy driving
1 to 5 of 100 results for: "RFID tags are gay"
Search for "We think RFID tags suck, but that's confidential"
1 to 5 of 100 results for: "We think RFID tags suck, but that's confidential"
Search for "Bill Gates is God"
1 to 5 of 90 results for: "Bill Gates is God"
Search for "We love crack"
1 to 4 of 4 results for: "We love crack"
Search for "They killed Kenny. You bastards"
1 to 5 of 14 results for: "They killed Kenny. You bastards"
Well I went a-exploring:
Search for "1.Earn Trust 2. Collect Info 3.??? 4. Profit"
1 to 5 of 100 results for: "1.Earn Trust 2. Collect Info 3.??? 4. Profit"
Search for "We think we absolutely rock"
1 to 5 of 92 results for: "We think we absolutely rock"
Search for "You can't trust us with your personal data"
1 to 5 of 100 results for: "You can't trust us with your personal data"
And needless to say, the Massachusetts Attorney General's website is running Microsoft-IIS/6.0
200 OK
Cache-Control: private
Connection: Keep-Alive
Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 13:20:00 GMT
Server: Microsoft-IIS/5.0
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Microsoft promised to change it's brandname to Mikrosoft provided Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled in their favor.
Solving an Old Problem Elegantly: Using the XP-TMC to Deal with the Slashdot Effect.
Apparently the guys at Upgradeware could use one of these
Countries which develop their own military equipment usually do so in a secret/classified manner, and if they choose to import the necessary technology, they do so under an assumption that the country developing the technology would not try to sell them defective/backfiring technology.
The same assumption of trust applies (or should apply) to military software too.