"Nearly 5GHz". The whole point here that everyone seems to be missing is that they made something go more than 1000 times as fast as the original 4.77 MHz IBM PC.
Now if they could give it 640MB of memory and a 110MB floppy drive...
That's horseshit. When someone makes a better OS than MS, I'll start believing these stories.... while windows will run on pretty much any hardware.
Set the koolade down and step back. Microsoft Windows works on a much wider range of hardware than OSX, but it's still quite limited. I will concede that only Microsoft Windows excels at making use of a proprietary piece of crap like a Win-modem or a Win-printer.
Linux may have some technical merit, but is a mess where people without advanced computer skills are left in the dark.
My experience is that the average XP user is more baffled by Windows 7 than by Ubuntu. And don't even think of suggesting that Ubuntu can't be set up by someone knowledgeable.
Sure windows had bugs, but many of those aren't MS's fault, but rather vendors that write crap drivers.
Microsoft provides an ever-changing foundation of thick muck. And like you, they are quick to blame others for any problems.
Courts deal with all laws - in addition to previously decided case law - not just the Constitution.
The courts seem to be primarily concerned with not contradicting anything else ever decided at their level. So if one party gets away with something, then that's cool for any opportunist for all time. Right? Beuller? Anyone?
I know it's 1 April and everything but did anyone notice anything strange in the spelling of `Large Hardon Collider`?
Yes. [excessive snickering, sorry]. I noticed references to "top" and "beauty" quarks. To be consistent, I think it would be top and bottom, or truth and beauty. After that I noticed the more obvious Hardon reference.
Argonne National Laboratory has an open house every several years. In the High Energy Physics (HEP) building, I spotted an empty cart with "HEP" stenciled on it. Yes, I have a picture of it. It wasn't a cool cat, or even a hep cat. It was a HEP cart. Close enough for jazz as far as I'm concerned.
Now... I think that USA might still win us when it comes to price. In my previous apartment, 100/10 would have cost 55 euros (=75 dollars) a month. That might not be easily comparable if those bandwith's are less common in usa but even the 10/2 cost 45 euros (=61 dollars) a month. I think that you would get one cheaper than that in USA?
???
I'm unemployed. I recently moved from dial-up (.05/.03) for $22 a month (not including phone) to low DSL (.7/.3) for $20 a month (phone irrelevant, taxes and fees extra).
So I see AT&T/Verison, Comcast/Turner, and Clear battling in single digits (mostly 6/1 and less) for a massively underemployed populace. And I'm totally losing the point of the article.
But, yeah, I'm beating you in price. Whoop-de-friggin'-do.
Apparently what it is storing is a statistical summary of the biometric information (if that's not redundant). It doesn't store the fingerprints themselves anymore than an operating system will store your password. With the password, whatever you type in has to have a hash which matches the hash associated with your account. With the scanner, the summary generated each time you plop your hand on the scanner has to match (to a significant degree) the summary on file.
But, yes, if someone finds your fingerprints somewhere else, and they have access to this data, they can be reasonably certain it is you.
Dear Mr. Barnsmithers,
Thank you for inquiring about our project. That's product you stupid fucking piece of shit. Jesus Christ almighty, don't you understand anything?...
It was Brian Kernighan who pointed out that:
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
I think most people who are detailed oriented are considered eccentric.
Introverts tend to be detail oriented. So the correlation between detail oriented and eccentric might be through introversion. Then again, we're seeing correlation here, and still no real insight on causation.
We're talking about Secure Socket Layer, not Solid State Logic.
No, I think we're talking about the Low Byte of the Stack Segment Register, SS.
SSH is obviously the High Byte of the Stack Segment Register.
I mean... duh! Like, who doesn't know that?
If IPv6 isn't rolled out nearly globally soon, I think you'll see a lot more carriers handing out NAT'd addresses for new customers unless those customers are willing to pay extra for a world-visible address. Within a year after that they'll jack up the prices on existing customers who don't "downgrade" to the cheaper NAT'd plan. This will buy more time, but, again, at the cost of decreased connectivity.
IPv6 addresses aren't scarce, except where monopoly games are being played. Someone will offer them cheap, and the trumped up scarcity of IPv4 addresses will fail.
If Verizon wants to be a dick about it, their bluff will be called and they'll get hurt by their competition. Yes, I said competition. At some point they will get a (whup!) boot to the head. The CCCP didn't last forever, and neither will Verizon.
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What? No "... found in north woods cabin"?
"Nearly 5GHz". The whole point here that everyone seems to be missing is that they made something go more than 1000 times as fast as the original 4.77 MHz IBM PC.
Now if they could give it 640MB of memory and a 110MB floppy drive...
Why would anyone want to genetically decode LiLo? Isn't everyone using Grub by now?
I was hoping maybe they'd decode Stitch. Now that'd be some interesting genetics.
That's horseshit. When someone makes a better OS than MS, I'll start believing these stories. ... while windows will run on pretty much any hardware.
Set the koolade down and step back. Microsoft Windows works on a much wider range of hardware than OSX, but it's still quite limited. I will concede that only Microsoft Windows excels at making use of a proprietary piece of crap like a Win-modem or a Win-printer.
Linux may have some technical merit, but is a mess where people without advanced computer skills are left in the dark.
My experience is that the average XP user is more baffled by Windows 7 than by Ubuntu. And don't even think of suggesting that Ubuntu can't be set up by someone knowledgeable.
Sure windows had bugs, but many of those aren't MS's fault, but rather vendors that write crap drivers.
Microsoft provides an ever-changing foundation of thick muck. And like you, they are quick to blame others for any problems.
Money, money, mo money...
Banana, fanna, fo funny...
Courts deal with all laws - in addition to previously decided case law - not just the Constitution.
The courts seem to be primarily concerned with not contradicting anything else ever decided at their level. So if one party gets away with something, then that's cool for any opportunist for all time. Right? Beuller? Anyone?
I know it's 1 April and everything but did anyone notice anything strange in the spelling of `Large Hardon Collider`?
Yes. [excessive snickering, sorry]. I noticed references to "top" and "beauty" quarks. To be consistent, I think it would be top and bottom, or truth and beauty. After that I noticed the more obvious Hardon reference.
That would also make him one cool cat.
Argonne National Laboratory has an open house every several years. In the High Energy Physics (HEP) building, I spotted an empty cart with "HEP" stenciled on it. Yes, I have a picture of it. It wasn't a cool cat, or even a hep cat. It was a HEP cart. Close enough for jazz as far as I'm concerned.
Think of the effect if you then tied a piece of buttered toast to the back of the cat and tossed it.
...superconducting, frozen buttered toast, of course.
Hey! HEY! I'm reporting you to both the American and Royal Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Toast!
Lisa! In this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics!
To quote (more or less) one of my lab mates "if I dunked my cat in liquid helium, it would probably begin to superconduct."
"Probably"? So the cat might superconduct, and it might not. Sort of a Shrödinger's superconductor? Is that what you're getting at?
First they get coverage because they send 2 agents after a person who did not pay 4 cents.
I think someone at the IRS is under the impression that they're so badass they don't need security.
Now... I think that USA might still win us when it comes to price. In my previous apartment, 100/10 would have cost 55 euros (=75 dollars) a month. That might not be easily comparable if those bandwith's are less common in usa but even the 10/2 cost 45 euros (=61 dollars) a month. I think that you would get one cheaper than that in USA?
???
I'm unemployed. I recently moved from dial-up (.05/.03) for $22 a month (not including phone) to low DSL (.7/.3) for $20 a month (phone irrelevant, taxes and fees extra).
So I see AT&T/Verison, Comcast/Turner, and Clear battling in single digits (mostly 6/1 and less) for a massively underemployed populace. And I'm totally losing the point of the article.
But, yeah, I'm beating you in price. Whoop-de-friggin'-do.
Apparently what it is storing is a statistical summary of the biometric information (if that's not redundant). It doesn't store the fingerprints themselves anymore than an operating system will store your password. With the password, whatever you type in has to have a hash which matches the hash associated with your account. With the scanner, the summary generated each time you plop your hand on the scanner has to match (to a significant degree) the summary on file.
But, yes, if someone finds your fingerprints somewhere else, and they have access to this data, they can be reasonably certain it is you.
How about dictation...
Dear Mr. Barnsmithers, ...
Thank you for inquiring about our project. That's product you stupid fucking piece of shit. Jesus Christ almighty, don't you understand anything?
It was Brian Kernighan who pointed out that:
"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
ok, help us out... whats so funny?
My reaction was to start chanting "Bulbous buffont, macadamia, gazebo".
From the Bulbous Buffant sketch by the Vestibules. Played occasionally on Dr. Demento.
Galoshes. Mukluks. Blubber. Beluga. Plethora. Bamboozle. Igloo. Spatula. Shindig. Hullaballo. Foible. BUS!
Why make billions, when you can make... millions?
Yes! Exactly! Today the universe, tomorrow the world!
They still have many engineering challenges to complete before the LHC can start looking for the Higgs Boson.
Well, that's a big relief! Wait... Boson? Oh. Never mind.
Can I now have fricking sharks with frickin' laser beams on their heads?
Those old things? No, I want the frickin' kangaroos who, when you buzz them, regroup behind a sand dune and fire frickin' surface-to-air beachballs.
I think most people who are detailed oriented are considered eccentric.
Introverts tend to be detail oriented. So the correlation between detail oriented and eccentric might be through introversion. Then again, we're seeing correlation here, and still no real insight on causation.
We're talking about Secure Socket Layer, not Solid State Logic.
No, I think we're talking about the Low Byte of the Stack Segment Register, SS.
SSH is obviously the High Byte of the Stack Segment Register.
I mean... duh! Like, who doesn't know that?
Um... um... teach them to spell! Robotic Spelling Bees! Woohoo!
If IPv6 isn't rolled out nearly globally soon, I think you'll see a lot more carriers handing out NAT'd addresses for new customers unless those customers are willing to pay extra for a world-visible address. Within a year after that they'll jack up the prices on existing customers who don't "downgrade" to the cheaper NAT'd plan. This will buy more time, but, again, at the cost of decreased connectivity.
IPv6 addresses aren't scarce, except where monopoly games are being played. Someone will offer them cheap, and the trumped up scarcity of IPv4 addresses will fail.
If Verizon wants to be a dick about it, their bluff will be called and they'll get hurt by their competition. Yes, I said competition. At some point they will get a (whup!) boot to the head. The CCCP didn't last forever, and neither will Verizon.
Chances are this will be used for warfare.
1. You can weaponize anything.
2. But you'd probably be missing the point.
I just crapped my pants, but I'm not sure if it was from laughter or fear.
The headline says "...Rejects FCC's Cable Subscriber Cap".
It's "Subscriber Cap", not "Subscriber Crap".
(Yeesh!)