Just in case you forgot, almost every professor out there keeps a copy of their grades ON PAPER. If they suspect anything has been changed on Black Board, er the online system, they'll reference their paper copy. Hence forth, you're screwed.
Ok, we all understand that he had wings on, get over it.
I'd like to see somone (Angelina Jolie) do something like this (Tomb Raider 2) off of a tall building or something. No seriously! I think it could work... Forget the wings, try flaps of fabric between your extremities. Yeah...
I'm not nearly as worried about robots taking US jobs as much as robots taking jobs in other techie countries like Japan and China. The Asian market sees all the cool stuff a couple months ahead of us anyways so why wouldn't they see this first? In the mean time, jobs will be lost in that market, possibly flooding our job market with highly skilled foreign workers. This will make things even tougher on us when the time comes for companies to start replacing people with robots and they have to choose which people to keep around.
At least for the first couple months after it starts in Asia, prices will be slashed:-)
Many of you are riled up because it'll be used to track kids, whether they like it or not. IT'S NOT LIKE WE'RE PUTTING THESE THINGS IN A SUPPOSITORY COATED WITH SUPER GLUE AND ASKING OUR KIDS TO PICK UP THE SOAP! It's a removable device, not a subdermal implant. This would be great for backpacks, lunch boxes, etc. I used to leave my backpack in the library all the time then freak out. This has great aplications for college and high school campuses. Just like every other technology out there, it's got good and bad uses. You can argue which side outweighs the other until the cows come home but it won't do any good. If you like the idea: BUY IT. If you don't, spend your money on an aluminum foil leotard. And just like any other tracking device, you'll be able to find a "bug finder." If you think your ex-wife put one on your car, scan your car or take it to the local "Paranoia-Is-Us" and have them do it. Same thing for your underwear drawer or your red swingline stapler.
For every technology invented, there will be counter-measures created and distributed.
Excellent point! I've revised my theory a bit: I think that the initial steps will take far longer, but once the computer starts to come up with matches, the rest will follow much faster. Now the REAL question is how often does someone cross-shred one piece of papre then throw it in a bag and dump it? More often than not, you'll have dozens if not hundreds of sheets of paper in the same container (multimple containers if the individual is cunning). How useful do you think this software could be when trying to put together 100 sheets of these papers (millions and millions of potential squares)?
My combinatorics is a little rusty, but here's my take on duplex/complexity. Case 1:If you have a one-sided, cross-cut document, you scan arrange the pieces, ink down, scann them, and plug them into your software. For the sake of easy math, we'll say the cross-cut process cuts the paper into 10,000 individual squares. So the computer compares 40,000 edges against each other (not taking into account completely blank squares - I'm not going to delve into it that far). Now, the math and logic involved in image comparison is somewhat complex (as opposed to integer comparison, etc). This will take some time for the computer to come up with several viable options to present to the user. Case 2:There's a two-sided, cross-cut document. The computer still has 10,000 pieces of paper to look at, but there are two sides to them. There is no way for the user OR the computer to tell which side of the square belongs to side A or B so it has to initially treat them as the same. Now the computer must look at 80,000 edges and compare them all against each other. This increases the computational complexity significantly. Especially when you take into account that once it starts to find chunks that "fit", it has to start dividing up the results into two pages. Added logic adds more overhead to the operations and the run-time increases nearly exponentially. It also has to figure out which square from Side A correlates with the same square from side B and which orientation. Duplex printing/cross-shredding, while putting more data in one place, makes it (theoretically) SIGNIFICANTLY more difficult to decipher using computer math and logic.
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I heard that if you're:
Using the integrated Wi-Fi while having the blue-tooth disabled and touching the casing of the unit and standing on carpet and someone IMs you it gives you a mild electric shock...
Mmmmm... rocket-fuel-flavored marshmellows. Heh. I'm not sure if I'd be much in the mood for a Smores cookout if my ears were bleeding and my house had a shuttle-shaped hole in the roof.
Now if it was that bastard down the street....
Well, your house probably bursts into flames as well as the neighboring ones. Your lawn would certainly need some attention after such a fiasco. Oh yeah, everyone in the neighborhood would be dead, deaf, or comatose too... ----------
Best Buy carries them, but it seems like they may be selling quickly. They should be back in the computer department with all of the cheesy laptop accessories (ie. USB fans, lights, etc.). My local store had several but I've heard complaints that other stores sell out quickly.
I bought mine yesterday at the local Best Buy and they had at least a dozen. There's probably not a huge demand for this in Indiana though... The thing doesn't work all that well. You press the button, then for two minutes it scans. I was 10 feet away from my WAP and it didn't show a signal. 8 feet: full signal, 12 feet: full signal - all within line-of-sight. It's a fun toy for $30, but It'd not a very practical/reliable tool. Although it is fun to walk around downtown holding this little credit-card looking thing and acting like you're searching for radioactive emmisions... People get nervous when you point it at them and yell "Ah ha! It's YOU!" especially when it's right in front of a Borders book store and it's lit up like a Christmas tree.
I personally think we still have carriers is because of some ego problem in the higher ranks of our military trying to make up for something... I can't think of a better way to make up for it than with a $5,000,000,000 boat. Can you? I mean seriously...
The carrier is a brand new, high-tech, machine. It's over 4 acres on the top deck, all-fibre networking, 6,000 member crew, and it's a mobile, self-sustaining city on water. I call that pretty technically impressive. News for nerds...
The vast majority of people return their computers to get serviced (at least to my best buy tech bench) without having a single thought about the safety/sanctity of their data. I've actually had a manager call the police because some guy brought in a desktop for a replacement CD-RW and we found kiddy pr0n on his desktop. You forget how ignorant people can be sometimes.
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Just in case you forgot, almost every professor out there keeps a copy of their grades ON PAPER. If they suspect anything has been changed on Black Board, er the online system, they'll reference their paper copy. Hence forth, you're screwed.
Ok, we all understand that he had wings on, get over it.
I'd like to see somone (Angelina Jolie) do something like this (Tomb Raider 2) off of a tall building or something. No seriously! I think it could work... Forget the wings, try flaps of fabric between your extremities. Yeah...
Intelligence for one...
I'm not nearly as worried about robots taking US jobs as much as robots taking jobs in other techie countries like Japan and China. The Asian market sees all the cool stuff a couple months ahead of us anyways so why wouldn't they see this first? In the mean time, jobs will be lost in that market, possibly flooding our job market with highly skilled foreign workers. This will make things even tougher on us when the time comes for companies to start replacing people with robots and they have to choose which people to keep around.
:-)
At least for the first couple months after it starts in Asia, prices will be slashed
Many of you are riled up because it'll be used to track kids, whether they like it or not. IT'S NOT LIKE WE'RE PUTTING THESE THINGS IN A SUPPOSITORY COATED WITH SUPER GLUE AND ASKING OUR KIDS TO PICK UP THE SOAP! It's a removable device, not a subdermal implant.
This would be great for backpacks, lunch boxes, etc. I used to leave my backpack in the library all the time then freak out. This has great aplications for college and high school campuses.
Just like every other technology out there, it's got good and bad uses. You can argue which side outweighs the other until the cows come home but it won't do any good. If you like the idea: BUY IT. If you don't, spend your money on an aluminum foil leotard.
And just like any other tracking device, you'll be able to find a "bug finder." If you think your ex-wife put one on your car, scan your car or take it to the local "Paranoia-Is-Us" and have them do it. Same thing for your underwear drawer or your red swingline stapler.
For every technology invented, there will be counter-measures created and distributed.
Excellent point! I've revised my theory a bit:
I think that the initial steps will take far longer, but once the computer starts to come up with matches, the rest will follow much faster.
Now the REAL question is how often does someone cross-shred one piece of papre then throw it in a bag and dump it? More often than not, you'll have dozens if not hundreds of sheets of paper in the same container (multimple containers if the individual is cunning). How useful do you think this software could be when trying to put together 100 sheets of these papers (millions and millions of potential squares)?
My combinatorics is a little rusty, but here's my take on duplex/complexity.
Case 1:If you have a one-sided, cross-cut document, you scan arrange the pieces, ink down, scann them, and plug them into your software. For the sake of easy math, we'll say the cross-cut process cuts the paper into 10,000 individual squares.
So the computer compares 40,000 edges against each other (not taking into account completely blank squares - I'm not going to delve into it that far). Now, the math and logic involved in image comparison is somewhat complex (as opposed to integer comparison, etc). This will take some time for the computer to come up with several viable options to present to the user.
Case 2:There's a two-sided, cross-cut document. The computer still has 10,000 pieces of paper to look at, but there are two sides to them. There is no way for the user OR the computer to tell which side of the square belongs to side A or B so it has to initially treat them as the same. Now the computer must look at 80,000 edges and compare them all against each other. This increases the computational complexity significantly. Especially when you take into account that once it starts to find chunks that "fit", it has to start dividing up the results into two pages. Added logic adds more overhead to the operations and the run-time increases nearly exponentially.
It also has to figure out which square from Side A correlates with the same square from side B and which orientation.
Duplex printing/cross-shredding, while putting more data in one place, makes it (theoretically) SIGNIFICANTLY more difficult to decipher using computer math and logic.
Never put all your shreds in one waste-basket.
I heard that if you're:
Using the integrated Wi-Fi while having the blue-tooth disabled
and touching the casing of the unit
and standing on carpet
and someone IMs you
it gives you a mild electric shock...
So it's like chemical cauterization with the added benefits of brightening up those teeth and bringing out your natural highlights... only not.
Mmmmm... rocket-fuel-flavored marshmellows. Heh. I'm not sure if I'd be much in the mood for a Smores cookout if my ears were bleeding and my house had a shuttle-shaped hole in the roof. Now if it was that bastard down the street....
Well, your house probably bursts into flames as well as the neighboring ones. Your lawn would certainly need some attention after such a fiasco. Oh yeah, everyone in the neighborhood would be dead, deaf, or comatose too...
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I own one purchased from a retail location of Best Buy.
Best Buy carries them, but it seems like they may be selling quickly. They should be back in the computer department with all of the cheesy laptop accessories (ie. USB fans, lights, etc.). My local store had several but I've heard complaints that other stores sell out quickly.
I bought mine yesterday at the local Best Buy and they had at least a dozen. There's probably not a huge demand for this in Indiana though...
The thing doesn't work all that well. You press the button, then for two minutes it scans. I was 10 feet away from my WAP and it didn't show a signal. 8 feet: full signal, 12 feet: full signal - all within line-of-sight. It's a fun toy for $30, but It'd not a very practical/reliable tool.
Although it is fun to walk around downtown holding this little credit-card looking thing and acting like you're searching for radioactive emmisions... People get nervous when you point it at them and yell "Ah ha! It's YOU!" especially when it's right in front of a Borders book store and it's lit up like a Christmas tree.
Is this bandwidth limited or is it a free-for-all?
it DID read that....
Can we say... boot camp?
Just kidding, I deeply respect our military,
Could you post where you read/heard that? If it's documented, that's damn funny.
I personally think we still have carriers is because of some ego problem in the higher ranks of our military trying to make up for something... I can't think of a better way to make up for it than with a $5,000,000,000 boat. Can you? I mean seriously...
The carrier is a brand new, high-tech, machine. It's over 4 acres on the top deck, all-fibre networking, 6,000 member crew, and it's a mobile, self-sustaining city on water. I call that pretty technically impressive. News for nerds...
The vast majority of people return their computers to get serviced (at least to my best buy tech bench) without having a single thought about the safety/sanctity of their data. I've actually had a manager call the police because some guy brought in a desktop for a replacement CD-RW and we found kiddy pr0n on his desktop. You forget how ignorant people can be sometimes.