I too have a big problem with unions Luddites holding back progress just to keep another dues payer in a pointless job filling the union coffers with additional bribe money.
Radiation fear mongers are the same ones that want to shut down your wifi. The meter is on the outside of the house, any radiation they produce is no more than your neighbors wifi, which is on 24/7.
Privacy concerns are probably the only real basis for objection because anything broadcasting a signal can probably be intercepted, or demanded from the power company, with or without a subpoena, where as a cop sneaking on to your property daily to read your meter is too costly and would require a warrant.
Other than police trying to sniff out those running a grow-op in their basement, its not too clear to me why anyone would want this information.
The pair, according to police, had knowledge of a software glitch in one of the high-bet slot machines. In order to expose the glitch, a special "double-up" feature had to be internally activated. The men persuaded casino technicians to alter "soft" options on the machines, such as volume and screen brightness controls. One Meadows employee, who was not criminally charged or accused of wrongdoing, agreed to enable the double-up feature on the machine with the glitch.
He didn't win by just pushing buttons.
He convinced an employee to open the machine and turn on a feature he knew was faulty. That feature was off by default.
He had prior knowledge, and used social engineering to have someone else enable this feature for him.
As usual, the SlashDot summary glosses over this and spins a tale of an innocent bystander getting blindsided for "doing nothing wrong".
He wanted to be scientific in his investigations of ghosts.
All the randomly wired together equipment in the world won't help him prove a negative.
Evidence of Absence is only possible when the subject and the location and the time window are well defined (zero marbles in the glass jar at this instant).
But since he can't pin down the definition of a ghost (let alone measure it), there is no point in worrying about the location (plane of existence?), or time frame. Nothing he could produce would satisfy his septics.
So he arrives here asking what he can measure to be "scientific about it", to which we can only ask:
Be scientific about WHAT?
Any random forked stick should do until he answers the above.
The same is probably true for Near Field Communications being developed d for financial transactions, such as in the Nexus S smart phone. (In fact that is just about the only reason the Nexus S exists, in all other respects it is a pretty standard Samsung phone).
Keyless entry and NFC simply do not have the security layer in place for the tasks that are being asked of them.
But when everything moves into your phone, keys, credit cards, and passwords, better security layers will have to be developed. Right now, its way too soon to be pushing this stuff into the market place.
In the mean time, a physical key simply is not that much of a problem to deal with, and there is zero increase in user convenience in wireless key fobs. You still have to have it with you.
There are rednecks and fireworks everywhere in the USA on new years eve. Yet the massive bird death was strictly local.
The noise excuse is simply silly. It is not possible to create enough noise with a few big fireworks (or full sticks of dynamite) to kill bird over a 4 square mile area.
Can't be done, and if it could every city an town in the US would be littered with birds.
The most rational explanation is a large flock of birds, from somewhere possibly quite distant, were sucked aloft by a small un-noticed rural tornado or violent updraft and simply froze to death, and thawed upon landing.
It has a lot to do with a compass working long after your smartphone gave up because it ran out of battery, couldn't see any satellites, couldn't find any towers, and was disrupted by other instruments/radios in the aircraft.
You presume your tiny little experience with your silly little iphone applies in the far north, in third world countries, in the middle of god forsaken Nevada, and the South Pacific.
Its all about functionality, and knowing the runway alignment when all you have is a Non Directional Beacon and a runway alignment.
All manuals are rewritten, as are the NOTAMs, and all runways are renumbered routinely. Its been happening for well over 60 years, and its not news.
Your getting a smartphone seems to be the only new element here.
From here on, it is on its way to becoming another My Space for the meat market crowd. It will always be around I suppose, sort of like AOL.
Whatever is next is will be far more mobile device oriented, far more secure, and sign-on will be handled by credentials management in the device itself.
No need for a single sign for anything on the web any more. The concept is flawed, risky, and un-needed.
They are patenting booting over an internet connection.
And If you ask me, this has nothing at all to do with corporate, and has everything to do with Apple wanting Joe Sixpack's ipad/iwhatever to merely be an extension of Apple Inc, with nothing for Joe to fiddle with other than the one big on/off button.
You were dead on about the tightly controlled bit. You just forgot who the patent was issued to.
and after decades of with this capability, what percentage of capable systems actually do this?... very few.
Right, because it was a dumb idea when it was originally developed and hasn't improved with the passage of time.
Bootable USB and MicroSD have rendered it obsolete and only the Control Freaks at Apple would want you to boot over the air from the cloud that they control.
Well there are other artists that release some very long tracks work on a variable price model. Digging in Amazon for artists I know release long long songs, I came up with several off the top of my (somewhat dated) head that deal with this via mix and match approach with variable pricing on long works, and some still restricted to album only sales. I used Amazon because they let you sort by song length.
For instance, Mike Oldfield charges 99 cents on Amazon for anything up to 10 minutes then seems to switch to 3 or 4 bucks for 20 minute songs, or Album only.
Tangerine Dream, another band doing long songs release some tracks of 27 minutes for 99 cents, others for 3 bucks, and others Album only, and almost everything under 10 minutes for 99.
So it seems that some music resellers manage to deal with variable pricing on long songs, and still retain the option of Album Only for those that they really feel must be released this way.
Well, Pink should have realized long ago (like everyone else) that selling a single will attract more to buying the album than just selling the album alone.
And if that doesn't happen for a certain percentage of the audience, so what? They are not harmed by someone who does not happen to see the beauty of the whole album.
The days when gnome was lighter and faster than kde are long past. You should try the latest version of KDE and experience what it's like to have a whole computer back.
If you follow the link in TFA to the graphic you see that the sensors are placed in the parking lane at the side of the street and have a sensor every 9 inches (overkill).
So something is way off with the story or the graphic, because 3000 sensors spaced 9 inches apart cover less than half a linear mile.
Honestly, I'm not sure what you're even talking about. I haven't experieenced anything like what you're describing (and can't even really follow what you're talking about)... are you talking about just blind-typing really fast into the start menu search bar and pressing enter without even looking?
Essentially, yes, thats what he's talking about.
Lots of machines have that Windows Menu key now days. Whack that, (or click the start icon) Cursor is already in the search box.
At that point, if you know the name of the application, a fast typist, or a keyboard oriented user can launch just about anything faster than a mouse user drilling thru the start-bar.
ah but it is 7 million ipads in what 8 months? that is 10 million a year p
But that is almost exactly the same record as the Galaxy Tab. (The rate per month, not the total, obviously).
And yet the Galaxy tab has all those seemingly disadvantageous traits that you itemized.
The Galaxy is far more portable than the iPad, (that's the upside of a smaller screen), and the fact that no WiFi only version is out yet suggests that Samsung is aiming for go-everywhere portability.
The fact that they have a version for almost every carrier also helps.
But the WiFi only version being delayed is simply marketing realities. It will be released, perhaps tomorrow at CES. Apple took the same approach, holding back the wifi only version. The tab has only been out two months, so the wifi version can't possibly be 6 months behind, not net any way.
Apple didn't invent the segment, but they certainly stole a march on everyone else. But it had nothing to do with any supposed superiority in IOS.
Its just that Apple were the firstest with the mostest. (Again). They had 6 months of zero competition.
A perfect storm of tablets is arriving on the market this quarter.
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I too have a big problem with unions Luddites holding back progress just to keep another dues payer in a pointless job filling the union coffers with additional bribe money.
Radiation fear mongers are the same ones that want to shut down your wifi. The meter is on the outside of the house, any radiation they produce is no more than your neighbors wifi, which is on 24/7.
Privacy concerns are probably the only real basis for objection because anything broadcasting a signal can probably be intercepted, or demanded from the power company, with or without a subpoena, where as a cop sneaking on to your property daily to read your meter is too costly and would require a warrant.
Other than police trying to sniff out those running a grow-op in their basement, its not too clear to me why anyone would want this information.
Its. A. TV. Show.
Read the story:
The pair, according to police, had knowledge of a software glitch in one of the high-bet slot machines. In order to expose the glitch, a special "double-up" feature had to be internally activated. The men persuaded casino technicians to alter "soft" options on the machines, such as volume and screen brightness controls. One Meadows employee, who was not criminally charged or accused of wrongdoing, agreed to enable the double-up feature on the machine with the glitch.
He didn't win by just pushing buttons.
He convinced an employee to open the machine and turn on a feature he knew was faulty. That feature was off by default.
He had prior knowledge, and used social engineering to have someone else enable this feature for him.
As usual, the SlashDot summary glosses over this and spins a tale of an innocent bystander getting blindsided for "doing nothing wrong".
He wanted to be scientific in his investigations of ghosts.
All the randomly wired together equipment in the world won't help him prove a negative.
Evidence of Absence is only possible when the subject and the location and the time window are well defined (zero marbles in the glass jar at this instant).
But since he can't pin down the definition of a ghost (let alone measure it), there is no point in worrying about the location (plane of existence?), or time frame. Nothing he could produce would satisfy his septics.
So he arrives here asking what he can measure to be "scientific about it", to which we can only ask:
Be scientific about WHAT?
Any random forked stick should do until he answers the above.
Exactly.
The same is probably true for Near Field Communications being developed d for financial transactions, such as in the Nexus S smart phone. (In fact that is just about the only reason the Nexus S exists, in all other respects it is a pretty standard Samsung phone).
Keyless entry and NFC simply do not have the security layer in place for the tasks that are being asked of them.
But when everything moves into your phone, keys, credit cards, and passwords, better security layers will have to be developed. Right now, its way too soon to be pushing this stuff into the market place.
In the mean time, a physical key simply is not that much of a problem to deal with, and there is zero increase in user convenience in wireless key fobs. You still have to have it with you.
Sorry. But that is nonsense.
There are rednecks and fireworks everywhere in the USA on new years eve. Yet the massive bird death was strictly local.
The noise excuse is simply silly. It is not possible to create enough noise with a few big fireworks (or full sticks of dynamite) to kill bird over a 4 square mile area.
Can't be done, and if it could every city an town in the US would be littered with birds.
The most rational explanation is a large flock of birds, from somewhere possibly quite distant, were sucked aloft by a small un-noticed rural tornado or violent updraft and simply froze to death, and thawed upon landing.
Occam's razor applies to acts of nature.
Its nothing at all to do with inertia.
It has a lot to do with a compass working long after your smartphone gave up because it ran out of battery, couldn't see any satellites, couldn't find any towers, and was disrupted by other instruments/radios in the aircraft.
You presume your tiny little experience with your silly little iphone applies in the far north, in third world countries, in the middle of god forsaken Nevada, and the South Pacific.
Its all about functionality, and knowing the runway alignment when all you have is a Non Directional Beacon and a runway alignment.
All manuals are rewritten, as are the NOTAMs, and all runways are renumbered routinely. Its been happening for well over 60 years, and its not news.
Your getting a smartphone seems to be the only new element here.
We've already seen Peak Facebook.
From here on, it is on its way to becoming another My Space for the meat market crowd. It will always be around I suppose, sort of like AOL.
Whatever is next is will be far more mobile device oriented, far more secure, and sign-on will be handled by credentials management in the device itself.
No need for a single sign for anything on the web any more. The concept is flawed, risky, and un-needed.
They aren't patenting booting from a lan.
They are patenting booting over an internet connection.
And If you ask me, this has nothing at all to do with corporate, and has everything to do with Apple wanting Joe Sixpack's ipad/iwhatever to merely be an extension of Apple Inc, with nothing for Joe to fiddle with other than the one big on/off button.
You were dead on about the tightly controlled bit. You just forgot who the patent was issued to.
and after decades of with this capability, what percentage of capable systems actually do this? ... very few.
Right, because it was a dumb idea when it was originally developed and hasn't improved with the passage of time.
Bootable USB and MicroSD have rendered it obsolete and only the Control Freaks at Apple would want you to boot over the air from the cloud that they control.
May not matter if you click it or not, depending on how much pre-fetching your browser does.
Kernel compiles were my benchmark. Yes, they seem faster now, but not relative to the increase in processing speed claimed by the newer machines.
But I suspect almost all of the improvements in that arena came from faster IO, faster disks, bigger memory for file buffers, etc.
What makes you think they care?
Ah, maybe the fact that the relented and changed their mind?
Just sayin.....
Well there are other artists that release some very long tracks work on a variable price model. Digging in Amazon for artists I know release long long songs, I came up with several off the top of my (somewhat dated) head that deal with this via mix and match approach with variable pricing on long works, and some still restricted to album only sales. I used Amazon because they let you sort by song length.
For instance, Mike Oldfield charges 99 cents on Amazon for anything up to 10 minutes then seems to switch to 3 or 4 bucks for 20 minute songs, or Album only.
Ferry Corsten releases many 10 minute songs for 99 cents.
Tangerine Dream, another band doing long songs release some tracks of 27 minutes for 99 cents, others for 3 bucks, and others Album only, and almost everything under 10 minutes for 99.
So it seems that some music resellers manage to deal with variable pricing on long songs, and still retain the option of Album Only for those that they really feel must be released this way.
It doesn't have to be all or nothing.
Well, Pink should have realized long ago (like everyone else) that selling a single will attract more to buying the album than just selling the album alone.
And if that doesn't happen for a certain percentage of the audience, so what? They are not harmed by someone who does not happen to see the beauty of the whole album.
Not necessary. Follow the Link to Bad Astronomy blog, where they sought and got permission. Its not that hard to be polite to authors.
I managed to get the page loaded before.
http://www.rinnestam.se/thierry_eclipse_iss.jpg
And then you proceeded to violate his copyright.
Nice work.
Well said.
I'm often modded troll when I claim that every advancement in computer processing power has been absorbed by look and feel of the OS interface.
Recalculating the spreadsheet (or just about any other real work) seemingly takes just as long (short?) as ever.
I know its not provably true, but it sure seems that way.
The days when gnome was lighter and faster than kde are long past. You should try the latest version of KDE and experience what it's like to have a whole computer back.
Time to sell.
It's been a good ride.
If you follow the link in TFA to the graphic you see that the sensors are placed in the parking lane at the side of the street and have a sensor every 9 inches (overkill).
So something is way off with the story or the graphic, because 3000 sensors spaced 9 inches apart cover less than half a linear mile.
Really? 3000 apps?
You know, not every porn shot is considered an App.
Honestly, I'm not sure what you're even talking about. I haven't experieenced anything like what you're describing (and can't even really follow what you're talking about)... are you talking about just blind-typing really fast into the start menu search bar and pressing enter without even looking?
Essentially, yes, thats what he's talking about.
Lots of machines have that Windows Menu key now days.
Whack that, (or click the start icon)
Cursor is already in the search box.
At that point, if you know the name of the application, a fast typist, or a keyboard oriented user can launch just about anything faster than a mouse user drilling thru the start-bar.
Don't be so stingy. Type that extra character "u" and you get one hit. calcu. enter. done.
ah but it is 7 million ipads in what 8 months? that is 10 million a year p
But that is almost exactly the same record as the Galaxy Tab. (The rate per month, not the total, obviously).
And yet the Galaxy tab has all those seemingly disadvantageous traits that you itemized.
The Galaxy is far more portable than the iPad, (that's the upside of a smaller screen), and the fact that no WiFi only version is out yet suggests that Samsung is aiming for go-everywhere portability.
The fact that they have a version for almost every carrier also helps.
But the WiFi only version being delayed is simply marketing realities. It will be released, perhaps tomorrow at CES. Apple took the same approach, holding back the wifi only version. The tab has only been out two months, so the wifi version can't possibly be 6 months behind, not net any way.
Apple didn't invent the segment, but they certainly stole a march on everyone else. But it had nothing to do with any supposed superiority in IOS.
Its just that Apple were the firstest with the mostest. (Again). They had 6 months of zero competition.
A perfect storm of tablets is arriving on the market this quarter.