However, it is plausible that at some point in the near future, most people will be using "netbooks" or tablets for their day-to-day computing needs.
Most people who currently own netbooks and tablets do not use them for their "day-to-day computing needs", so what makes you think they are replacing current laptop/desktop machines?
Exactly.
The demise of the desktop is a long way off. It will probably never arrive. Anyone who has ever used a tablet pc knows that doing any amount of real work on one is tedious at best, and impossible for the most part. Anything beyond email is a major hassle. Even with docking bays, mice, and keyboards, its a pain. Corporate is not that interested in putting all its assets into the purse of the airhead intern to walk out the door.
Desktop's will change. But they are not going away, and the touch screen scaled up simply will not fly. People are not going want to fat-finger huge monitors with their whole arm when a simple mouse click will do.
No amount of encryption will change this. No amount of apps will change this. An text message isn't secure because it has to be typed. So the emission is the keystrokes themselves and that will be intercepted. And in the case of the display, the light, radiation and flow of electricity will be detected and the information reconstructed based on that.
Someone has been watching too many spy movies.
Look, this isn't about deep cover missions inside Iran or China. (Where merely having a cell phone of unusual manufacture puts you under suspicious).
Its about use in casual every day situations in urban areas where cell phones are common, and you can speak and listen to a conversation without attracting a great deal of suspicion. A street in New York, A bar in Paris, a market in Algeria. 200 people in the same cell triangle on the phone at the same time.
Almost all they need is voice/data encryption and device wipe. Data encryption is already available on consumer devices, as is remote wipe. But voice has to be encrypted end to end, because it almost always ends up going across commercial circuits somewhere in its travel.
In short, the NSA is looking for protection from people like, well, the NSA. They are not worried about someone out of a movie script sitting in a white van parked 6 blocks away listening to their keystrokes, because in real life, that does not work, and it certainly doesn't work in a crowd.
Playback is fine in my experience, the video player that comes on the Galaxy S 2 is fine for watching things and supports any format I've thrown at it
And the same is true of other Tablets and phones. I have 4 different players on my Tablet, and they all work well. Plus there is this mind boggling collection of video players in the Market.
The mistake is focusing on the "native" player in a system that was designed from the ground up to have features added by the vendors and the end users via the market. It betrays a mind set that prefers the walled garden, and to have that mind set suddenly reporting on an open source project is just wrong on so many levels.
Because releasing damaging information about current religious denominations is dangerous not only to the releasers but also to the psyche of their followers. Many preconceptions and interpretations about the original biblical text will have to be changed.
Same problem with proof of aliens and disproving gods. If you can prove we weren't the "chosen ones" or you can ultimately prove what actually created the universe and create life from nothing in a scientific way, a LOT of religious people will be disappointed.
Oh, come on, people are way past that. The ones who aren't can't read well enough that even translations would get them excited. It took 400 years for Copernicus's revelation to sink in, but sunk in it has.
Neither the Church nor the state is going to become unhinged if/when the content of the scrolls became known. Anything important would have leaked out. But, contrary to those who delight in attributing monumental secrets to ancient knowledge, there was nothing of earth shattering significance that wasn't already preserved elsewhere.
This was largely a technical issue (the web is new) with a bit of turf strutting thrown in. Over six hundred scrolls and thousands of fragments have been discovered in the 11 caves of the Qumran area, above and beyond the 11 original scrolls. Its a huge job with fragile documents in a language dialect not widely studied. Still, If you had the credentials to weigh in on this field of study you could always wrangle an invitation.
Its not necessary to don the tin foil hat just yet.
Every democracy has government department head who are politicians or professional administrators, and very few are professionals in the field. This is by design.
There is no swoosh here, except over the heads of people naive enough to think administrators work their way up from the ranks.
She wouldn't have been the first to assume there was a tunnel. Many posters here on slashdott had to be reminded that there was no tunnel in the prior post on this subject. Apparently the idea that you can send tiny particles thru the earth itself is a difficult concept to get across.
"Sorry, but you sound kind of funny, go take this class and we'll try again"
What's wrong with that? There is a serious problem understanding some accents, to the point where it impairs understanding and become a block to learning.
I personally have a very difficult time understanding the sing song English speech of people from India. And I'm not alone. If I were trying to learn anything, such as taking a class, I would be at a huge disadvantage.
If every kid in the class is giving each other the "Whaddie Say" head twist you aren't getting your money's worth. The kids are getting cheated, as well as the tax payer.
A slight accent that does not impair understanding isn't what these monitors were looking for. The ability to communicate is paramount for a teacher. They were there to make sure the kids weren't being taught improper english, and that they were able to understand the lesson.
You can hold it in one hand and still easily advance through pages without having to set your coffee down, for instance.
That's what I noticed in about the new B&N Simple Reader. Its light enough to hold one handed and a simple thumb-tap with the same hand will turn the pages. (It has buttons on the side, but I was using it for 10 minutes before I noticed them.)
Buttons are a point of failure. They are just not necessary any more.
The phone company was simply following the example of the longest running keyboard manufacturers in existence at that time. The top row 123 keyboard dates from way prior to 1946.
Well, I did a bunch of searching in the Google Patent Search tool, but couldn't find a patent for it. I'm sure there is one, but there are so many others I just did not notice it. Hopefully someone can dig up a patent for this, as it might give a reason for why they arranged it that way.
Don't believe it was patented, and if so, certainly not by AT&T.
Even if true, that proves nothing in regard to the claim that the button arrangement was designed to slow users down. People who dial phones all day can get lightening fast. You never had to wait for the buttons, they buffered it, even in the earliest pushbutton phones.
Mod down as nonsense. Pushbuttons didn't arrive until they had digital switching which was fully capable of buffering even into the old crossbar switches.
So they asked the weather bureau what the distance was?
Then they sent the neutrinos thru the earth (not in a tunnel, not in open air, but thru rock, and soil, and mountain ranges).
Drew Baden, chairman of the physics department at the University of Maryland, said it is far more likely that the CERN findings are the result of measurement errors or some kind of fluke. Tracking neutrinos is very difficult, he said.
Drew Baden, chairman of the physics department at the University of Maryland, said it is far more likely that the CERN findings are the result of measurement errors or some kind of fluke. Tracking neutrinos is very difficult, he said.
Forget the actual medical applications. The applications for pseudo medicine are just as good. There are already a ton of people sleeping on magnetic mats. They would eat this up. Maybe even literally.
Well, it says constant magnetic field. That's pretty hard to generate, since lots of things cause magnetic fields to fluctuate (including body movement of a metal object).
TLDR version of TFA:
The hypothetical device would work as a magnetic cloak by creating a space that is protected from an external magnetic field while at the same time causing no telltale distortion of the field. Alternatively, it could also be used to conceal a magnetic object and prevent its magnetic field from extending out into space—
So, yeah, if made portable enough it would be a security problem. But don't hold your breath.
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However, it is plausible that at some point in the near future, most people will be using "netbooks" or tablets for their day-to-day computing needs.
Most people who currently own netbooks and tablets do not use them for their "day-to-day computing needs", so what makes you think they are replacing current laptop/desktop machines?
Exactly.
The demise of the desktop is a long way off. It will probably never arrive.
Anyone who has ever used a tablet pc knows that doing any amount of real work on one is tedious at best, and impossible for the most part. Anything beyond email is a major hassle. Even with docking bays, mice, and keyboards, its a pain.
Corporate is not that interested in putting all its assets into the purse of the airhead intern to walk out the door.
Desktop's will change. But they are not going away, and the touch screen scaled up simply will not fly. People are not going want to fat-finger huge monitors with their whole arm when a simple mouse click will do.
No amount of encryption will change this. No amount of apps will change this. An text message isn't secure because it has to be typed. So the emission is the keystrokes themselves and that will be intercepted. And in the case of the display, the light, radiation and flow of electricity will be detected and the information reconstructed based on that.
Someone has been watching too many spy movies.
Look, this isn't about deep cover missions inside Iran or China.
(Where merely having a cell phone of unusual manufacture puts you under suspicious).
Its about use in casual every day situations in urban areas where cell phones are common, and you can speak and listen to a conversation without attracting a great deal of suspicion. A street in New York, A bar in Paris, a market in Algeria. 200 people in the same cell triangle on the phone at the same time.
Almost all they need is voice/data encryption and device wipe. Data encryption is already available on consumer devices, as is remote wipe. But voice has to be encrypted end to end, because it almost always ends up going across commercial circuits somewhere in its travel.
In short, the NSA is looking for protection from people like, well, the NSA. They are not worried about someone out of a movie script sitting in a white van parked 6 blocks away listening to their keystrokes, because in real life, that does not work, and it certainly doesn't work in a crowd.
Playback is fine in my experience, the video player that comes on the Galaxy S 2 is fine for watching things and supports any format I've thrown at it
And the same is true of other Tablets and phones. I have 4 different players on my Tablet, and they all work well.
Plus there is this mind boggling collection of video players in the Market.
The mistake is focusing on the "native" player in a system that was designed from the ground up to have features added by the vendors and the end users via the market. It betrays a mind set that prefers the walled garden, and to have that mind set suddenly reporting on an open source project is
just wrong on so many levels.
Because releasing damaging information about current religious denominations is dangerous not only to the releasers but also to the psyche of their followers. Many preconceptions and interpretations about the original biblical text will have to be changed.
Same problem with proof of aliens and disproving gods. If you can prove we weren't the "chosen ones" or you can ultimately prove what actually created the universe and create life from nothing in a scientific way, a LOT of religious people will be disappointed.
Oh, come on, people are way past that.
The ones who aren't can't read well enough that even translations would get them excited.
It took 400 years for Copernicus's revelation to sink in, but sunk in it has.
Neither the Church nor the state is going to become unhinged if/when the content of the scrolls became known.
Anything important would have leaked out. But, contrary to those who delight in attributing monumental
secrets to ancient knowledge, there was nothing of earth shattering significance that wasn't already preserved
elsewhere.
This was largely a technical issue (the web is new) with a bit of turf strutting thrown in.
Over six hundred scrolls and thousands of fragments have been discovered in the 11 caves of the Qumran area, above
and beyond the 11 original scrolls. Its a huge job with fragile documents in a language dialect not widely studied.
Still, If you had the credentials to weigh in on this field of study you could always wrangle an invitation.
Its not necessary to don the tin foil hat just yet.
Every democracy has government department head who are politicians or professional administrators, and very few are professionals in the field. This is by design.
There is no swoosh here, except over the heads of people naive enough to think administrators work their way up from the ranks.
Translation : a politician.
If you think that's news, welcome to planet Earth.
She wouldn't have been the first to assume there was a tunnel.
Many posters here on slashdott had to be reminded that there was no tunnel in the prior post on this subject.
Apparently the idea that you can send tiny particles thru the earth itself is a difficult concept to get across.
"Sorry, but you sound kind of funny, go take this class and we'll try again"
What's wrong with that? There is a serious problem understanding some accents, to the point where it impairs understanding and become a block to learning.
I personally have a very difficult time understanding the sing song English speech of people from India. And I'm not alone.
If I were trying to learn anything, such as taking a class, I would be at a huge disadvantage.
If every kid in the class is giving each other the "Whaddie Say" head twist you aren't getting your money's worth.
The kids are getting cheated, as well as the tax payer.
A slight accent that does not impair understanding isn't what these monitors were looking for.
The ability to communicate is paramount for a teacher. They were there to make sure the kids weren't
being taught improper english, and that they were able to understand the lesson.
Lemmy AXE you dis?
Where would YOU draw the line?
You can hold it in one hand and still easily advance through pages without having to set your coffee down, for instance.
That's what I noticed in about the new B&N Simple Reader. Its light enough to hold one handed and a simple thumb-tap with the same hand will turn the pages. (It has buttons on the side, but I was using it for 10 minutes before I noticed them.)
Buttons are a point of failure. They are just not necessary any more.
Better to make the car (or large portions of it) from wood.
Morgan has been using wood frames forever.
http://www.morgan-motor.co.uk/carpages/44/44.html
It is easy.
You just stay home, and the trees will take care of planting themselves.
Print this out and tape it to your wall. It will sequester the carbon, and remind you that earth will take care of itself.
Al Gore has an old newspaper he keeps on his desk that was perfectly preserved in a landfill.
This doesn't surprise me. Most of what crosses Al Gore's desk is garbage.
The phone company was simply following the example of the longest running keyboard manufacturers in existence at that time. The top row 123 keyboard dates from way prior to 1946.
Well, I did a bunch of searching in the Google Patent Search tool, but couldn't find a patent for it. I'm sure there is one, but there are so many others I just did not notice it. Hopefully someone can dig up a patent for this, as it might give a reason for why they arranged it that way.
Don't believe it was patented, and if so, certainly not by AT&T.
That keyboard arrangement appeared in 1946, way before push button phones,
on the 026 keypunch from IBM. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/026.html
So if anything, AT&T was paying IBM royalties.
Even if true, that proves nothing in regard to the claim that the button arrangement was designed to slow users down.
People who dial phones all day can get lightening fast.
You never had to wait for the buttons, they buffered it, even in the earliest pushbutton phones.
LOL, The last person I heard complaining about this issue was a 029 keypunch operator.
Mod down as nonsense.
Pushbuttons didn't arrive until they had digital switching which was fully capable of buffering even into the old crossbar switches.
So they asked the weather bureau what the distance was?
Then they sent the neutrinos thru the earth (not in a tunnel, not in open air, but thru rock, and soil, and mountain ranges).
Drew Baden, chairman of the physics department at the University of Maryland, said it is far more likely that the CERN findings are the result of measurement errors or some kind of fluke. Tracking neutrinos is very difficult, he said.
http://online.wsj.com/article/AP58b5aed0a77c45ddb163d90951b36b35.html
Yeah? Then explain all those other random crackpots in the scientific world casting doubt:
Read this: http://online.wsj.com/article/AP58b5aed0a77c45ddb163d90951b36b35.html
Drew Baden, chairman of the physics department at the University of Maryland, said it is far more likely that the CERN findings are the result of measurement errors or some kind of fluke. Tracking neutrinos is very difficult, he said.
Through the mountains?
There is no line of sight.
Read the article.
Forget the actual medical applications. The applications for pseudo medicine are just as good. There are already a ton of people sleeping on magnetic mats. They would eat this up. Maybe even literally.
My kingdom for a mod point!!!
Well, it says constant magnetic field. That's pretty hard to generate, since lots of things cause magnetic fields to fluctuate (including body movement of a metal object).
TLDR version of TFA:
The hypothetical device would work as a magnetic cloak by creating a space that is protected from an external magnetic field while at the same time causing no telltale distortion of the field. Alternatively, it could also be used to conceal a magnetic object and prevent its magnetic field from extending out into space—
So, yeah, if made portable enough it would be a security problem. But don't hold your breath.
The difference is, that "technically legal" is defined.
"Not wrong" is simply a matter of opinion.
Everybody has an opinion, and I see no reason to adopt your opinion in place of my own.
That decision is above your pay grade.
Ah, the old appeal to the infallibility of science argument. How very quaint.