Syfy HD isn't much better. In high-action scenes, particularly those that include fiery explosions in the foreground, the image gets extremely blocky. Upscaled SD may be preferable.
SciFi.com also has the episodes of Stargate Universe online after they air. That's where I watched the premiere, since my DVR was apparently recording two other things when it aired.
The first encore airing too?
I ended up recording the Sunday morning airing. My Switched Digital Video box from Time Warner Cable decided it couldn't get the signal for the second airing Friday night and the TiVo Series3 wouldn't tell it to retry despite having a USB connection to the box and is otherwise hip to the situation for live TV by asking the user to hit Select to retry.
BTW, has any Ancient/Alteran/Lantian/Ancestor/Ascended ever come out and said that they were the gate builders?
With me it's a moot point, as on the rare occasions I download a song it doesn't go into a shared folder, so it's not going to be re-shared, but if I use a torrent I really don't have this protection.
It depends on the torrent client whether it supports "leech mode".
Maybe they could scan your neural synapses and re-create your brain in software then upload to a virtual world in which you have to mine gold in it and pay the gold farmers until you can earn a physical body with a decent cyberbrain.
Carter: "Cortically scanned and stored." Which means there's a version of your personality, as of the day you were scanned, on tape at the temple. And the day you die, when your mortal remains go into recycling, that cortically scanned file is opened and displayed... am I right?
Carter: Your relatives can come and have conversations with you... eeyuh. Bryce: Now that's where we start to run into some problems, Edison. You need billions of bits [sic] of memory, the kind we have here at Network 23, in order to duplicate just one personality. Carter: So... talking to your dead relative is like talking to... Teddy Ruxpin. Bryce: Yes.
Carter: The Vu-Age Church will transfer that cortical scan onto a new and perfect body, thus making you... rise from the dead. What about that? Bryce: Well, I never use the word "impossible", Edison. Carter: Yeah, I've noticed that.
Bryce: It might be possible to transfer a very complex cortical scan... something on the order of Max Headroom?... Max: [background] Max! Bryce:...to a body... Carter: Don't... even... think it. Bryce:...but, uh, given the little crummy, little scans that the Vu-Age Church makes, you'd end up with an idiot version of yourself that doesn't even possess all your memories. Carter: People are paying their life savings for it. Bryce: Well, some people'll give their life savings to anyone on TV who asks for it... won't they? Carter: [laughs] Yeah.
Thing is, this has been done before, long before CSS made end-user restyling of sites possible. And prominent web site owners complained that it allowed for out-of-band defacement of their sites and would require them to use it just to police the site. Rate of adoption was low and it died.
I imagine that if this is following its namesake as a Wiki you wouldn't be permitted to police the comments others put between your site and your readers.
Yeah, if you had a set that required polarization filter glasses and you tried to use any other LCD (computer, cell phone) at the same time, you'd only be able to see the image out of one eye. Pretty big drawback.
That's worst case when one filter is perfectly perpendicular to the polarization of the other display. It could be just at a lower intensity in both eyes (filter axes at - vs / in one eye, | vs \ in the other).
Fair question. He doesn't seem obvious in the cast list.
It is a hard one. You can't even see the character's name badge or his rank insignia, even in HD. It's going to fall to facial recognition. (I think a fair number of people with spoken lines went uncredited in the movie.)
I've managed to correct quite a few quotes on IMDb working from the HD version of the movie and reading name badges and rank insignia, but I've held off on doing that one until I identify the actor and character. (One person on the net thought the next line was "No," not "I know," and thought it was a goof when X was put in the center square.)
(I don't know how to pm on/.;D)
/. doesn't provide pm service. It's left up to users whether to divulge their e-mail addresses. (My procmail filters at one point were so busy filtering incoming spam that my ISP disabled them for using 80% of the CPU.)
I love many dystopian stories (they're entertaining and often enlightening), but the idea that dystopia is historically inevitable is foolish.... Dystopia is not only NOT inevitable, it's probably not even likely.
What makes you think we're not living in a dystopia now?
Me, I'm looking for a great post-apocalyptic utopia... uh, story.
Without drama and conflict there's no story. Would you pay to see a story about a guy who went about his day in the future and didn't have any problems or anything interesting happen to him?
Depends. Do we get to see things happening to other people?
Think about the possibilities. You have an average guy perfectly suited to his environment and you follow him around and you touch on all these other people who aren't. Chaos in his path and in his wake and he manages to just live his life. He's the star, but the story is about the people around him.
I ask you then, why it is that every library I've been to in the last 10 years can tell me the last 20 books I've checked out.
Because no one else reads the books that you read.
Unfortunately, that kind of reading habit is exactly the kind for a person that needs the protection, and keeping the records for only the last two people to check out a book doesn't help people like you. It's only effective for people who run with the herd.
If the records are hashed, then if books only know the hashes of people who read them, you can't (easily) find readers of a book, but you can find what books were read by a person of interest. If instead the database tracks what you read by book hashes, someone can't (easily) get a list of what books you read, but someone could find out you are a reader of a particular book.
And to be sure there are other library patrons present before using the terminal.
But yes, the solution is to launder your identity, be it accessing Google Books from a library, a business with free WiFi, or at some random open access point. You could even leave the laptop under the car's seat to automatically download to avoid appearing on surveillance with a computer.
But if Quantum Mechanics itself was, say, a computer simulation......then the computer on which the simulation is running must exist in a universe.
Not necessarily. The computer on which the simulation is running may be the universe. A very simple one perhaps, but capable of running itself as well as any number of simulations.
How would they catch you engaged in "signal theft" unless you do something really stupid?
How do they catch Britons not paying their TV license? Drive-by eavesdropping vehicles listening for sounds in your home from television channels you're not supposed to be receiving.
Slashdot Mirror
Why not use a "Keno" to close the hatch?!
FYI, the captions spelled it "Kino", which jives with the explained derivation.
Syfy HD isn't much better. In high-action scenes, particularly those that include fiery explosions in the foreground, the image gets extremely blocky. Upscaled SD may be preferable.
SciFi.com also has the episodes of Stargate Universe online after they air. That's where I watched the premiere, since my DVR was apparently recording two other things when it aired.
The first encore airing too?
I ended up recording the Sunday morning airing. My Switched Digital Video box from Time Warner Cable decided it couldn't get the signal for the second airing Friday night and the TiVo Series3 wouldn't tell it to retry despite having a USB connection to the box and is otherwise hip to the situation for live TV by asking the user to hit Select to retry.
BTW, has any Ancient/Alteran/Lantian/Ancestor/Ascended ever come out and said that they were the gate builders?
With me it's a moot point, as on the rare occasions I download a song it doesn't go into a shared folder, so it's not going to be re-shared, but if I use a torrent I really don't have this protection.
It depends on the torrent client whether it supports "leech mode".
How is this different than having to give up a DNA sample when you are a suspect of a murder?
My DNA is based on the quadruple-striated octo-helix you filty rotten stinking sameling!
It's fascinating what fifty bucks will get you at the county recorder's office.
Maybe they could scan your neural synapses and re-create your brain in software then upload to a virtual world in which you have to mine gold in it and pay the gold farmers until you can earn a physical body with a decent cyberbrain.
Carter: "Cortically scanned and stored." Which means there's a version of your personality, as of the day you were scanned, on tape at the temple. And the day you die, when your mortal remains go into recycling, that cortically scanned file is opened and displayed... am I right?
Carter: Your relatives can come and have conversations with you... eeyuh.
Bryce: Now that's where we start to run into some problems, Edison. You need billions of bits [sic] of memory, the kind we have here at Network 23, in order to duplicate just one personality.
Carter: So... talking to your dead relative is like talking to... Teddy Ruxpin.
Bryce: Yes.
Carter: The Vu-Age Church will transfer that cortical scan onto a new and perfect body, thus making you... rise from the dead. What about that?
Bryce: Well, I never use the word "impossible", Edison.
Carter: Yeah, I've noticed that.
Bryce: It might be possible to transfer a very complex cortical scan... something on the order of Max Headroom?... ...to a body... ...but, uh, given the little crummy, little scans that the Vu-Age Church makes, you'd end up with an idiot version of yourself that doesn't even possess all your memories.
Max: [background] Max!
Bryce:
Carter: Don't... even... think it.
Bryce:
Carter: People are paying their life savings for it.
Bryce: Well, some people'll give their life savings to anyone on TV who asks for it... won't they?
Carter: [laughs] Yeah.
Humphrey Marks: Yes... it's wonderful, isn't it?
Multiple screens
Reminds me of the psycho killer in "There's Something About Mary"
It reminds me of the Crystal Palace War Room screens in WarGames. I'd be tempted to have a brute force codebreaker running in the center low screen.
"Woah now, hold it! You can't be browsin' the web in here; people might get distracted!"
Thing is, this has been done before, long before CSS made end-user restyling of sites possible. And prominent web site owners complained that it allowed for out-of-band defacement of their sites and would require them to use it just to police the site. Rate of adoption was low and it died.
I imagine that if this is following its namesake as a Wiki you wouldn't be permitted to police the comments others put between your site and your readers.
Yeah, if you had a set that required polarization filter glasses and you tried to use any other LCD (computer, cell phone) at the same time, you'd only be able to see the image out of one eye. Pretty big drawback.
That's worst case when one filter is perfectly perpendicular to the polarization of the other display. It could be just at a lower intensity in both eyes (filter axes at - vs / in one eye, | vs \ in the other).
If you have artificial gravity, who needs propulsion? Generate gravity in front of you and free-fall to your destination.
Why would I want to install a hack to make a tech website work properly?
You are clearly not tech-savvy enough for this tech website. Move along.
Those people had ideas, big ideas. They looked at nuclear bombs and thought "Hey, we could get rid of those mountains blocking our view".
I know of a guy who thought the same way, except for him the obstructed view was of Venus. I think his name was Marvin.
Fair question. He doesn't seem obvious in the cast list.
It is a hard one. You can't even see the character's name badge or his rank insignia, even in HD. It's going to fall to facial recognition. (I think a fair number of people with spoken lines went uncredited in the movie.)
I've managed to correct quite a few quotes on IMDb working from the HD version of the movie and reading name badges and rank insignia, but I've held off on doing that one until I identify the actor and character. (One person on the net thought the next line was "No," not "I know," and thought it was a goof when X was put in the center square.)
(I don't know how to pm on /. ;D)
/. doesn't provide pm service. It's left up to users whether to divulge their e-mail addresses. (My procmail filters at one point were so busy filtering incoming spam that my ISP disabled them for using 80% of the CPU.)
and what may be the world's largest rat -- the size of a 'well-fed cat,' and showing no fear of man.
Bigger than a capybara?
I wonder how The Tick will respond to this revelation.
I want to be Pain Free too!!!
You want to be a Bond villain?
"[T]here's no point living if you can't feel alive".
I love many dystopian stories (they're entertaining and often enlightening), but the idea that dystopia is historically inevitable is foolish.... Dystopia is not only NOT inevitable, it's probably not even likely.
What makes you think we're not living in a dystopia now?
Me, I'm looking for a great post-apocalyptic utopia... uh, story.
Without drama and conflict there's no story. Would you pay to see a story about a guy who went about his day in the future and didn't have any problems or anything interesting happen to him?
Depends. Do we get to see things happening to other people?
Think about the possibilities. You have an average guy perfectly suited to his environment and you follow him around and you touch on all these other people who aren't. Chaos in his path and in his wake and he manages to just live his life. He's the star, but the story is about the people around him.
British Company Takes Lead To Stop Asteroids
Thank God! That was such a stupid idea to base a movie on that game.
I ask you then, why it is that every library I've been to in the last 10 years can tell me the last 20 books I've checked out.
Because no one else reads the books that you read.
Unfortunately, that kind of reading habit is exactly the kind for a person that needs the protection, and keeping the records for only the last two people to check out a book doesn't help people like you. It's only effective for people who run with the herd.
If the records are hashed, then if books only know the hashes of people who read them, you can't (easily) find readers of a book, but you can find what books were read by a person of interest. If instead the database tracks what you read by book hashes, someone can't (easily) get a list of what books you read, but someone could find out you are a reader of a particular book.
And to be sure there are other library patrons present before using the terminal.
But yes, the solution is to launder your identity, be it accessing Google Books from a library, a business with free WiFi, or at some random open access point. You could even leave the laptop under the car's seat to automatically download to avoid appearing on surveillance with a computer.
Or just use Tor.
Marcia Hofmann, a lawyer with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a ditigal civil rights advocacy group
Yeah, and PETA is about protecting "aminals". How does a mistake like that get out on an Associated Press story?
But if Quantum Mechanics itself was, say, a computer simulation... ...then the computer on which the simulation is running must exist in a universe.
Not necessarily. The computer on which the simulation is running may be the universe. A very simple one perhaps, but capable of running itself as well as any number of simulations.
How would they catch you engaged in "signal theft" unless you do something really stupid?
How do they catch Britons not paying their TV license? Drive-by eavesdropping vehicles listening for sounds in your home from television channels you're not supposed to be receiving.
You can reduce risk by changing keys regularly, although it's not really necessary for your average wireless user.
I rotate my keys periodically. It helps keep people from figuring out my passwords based on what keys have the most wear.
And not only does it keep touch-typists from using my computer, but I can also type in rot-13 jurarire V jnag.