There is Gamers 4 Croydon that was a political party that was sitting in a few seats in the South Australian election.
They were created to lobby for R18+ rating for video games. They did not get a lot of votes but raising the issue has finally introduced the rating in Australia.
Why not scale down the LHC and build something that is capable of accelerating something relatively small say 10-100kg fast enough to make it to orbit instead of accelerating atoms to nearly the speed of light.
The problem with conventional rockets is you need to carry the fuel to get in to orbit as well as the fuel to go where you need to. The bigger the ship the more fuel you need to carry to overcome the weight of the fuel.
If you can split the carrying of fuel for your journey from getting your rocket in to orbit you would not need to waste as much fuel lifting itself.
You could set up an automated system that would fire a 10kg payload of fuel every 10 minutes and get what you need over time far cheaper than one big launch.
The user is able to edit the keys database on x86 based and not arm based uefi implementations. You can put the microsoft keys on a black list if you want and it will not boot.
Electronic voting usually has one of the following two flaws: 1. People know how you vote, bad know how you vote and can use this to find where you live and could kill you or cause problems. 2. No one knows how you vote, this removes traceability and can lie about the results.
These are not likely to be problems in the USA unless it is something controversial like evolution, gay rights etc. where you will just loose your job. But having such a system in place means the rest of the world will copy and implement it badly where they do round people up to remove opposition.
If all you want to do is play around with a vm running android just download the official android sdk. This contains vm's to run android and is released ahead of the source code and any devices hitting the market.
I like when sysadmins roamed the earth. Basically a computer virus infects the internet. The sysadmins go to the data centers to fix it. There are terrorist attacks and a real virus is released that kills just about everyone except the sysadmins as data centers filter the air.
They have created an app to install and update android apps. It is just a wrapper around downloading and installing a third party apk but it does make it easier to see when an app needs an update and install new apps.
Though it might be slightly too expensive something like the usb business card below would be cool. This device acts as a usb keyboard and will type text when activated (by pressing caps lock 3 times)
I believe HDMI is designed to not work and reset if there are any errors in sending the signal. It is designed by paranoid media companies and is suppose to be able to detect if someone is trying to listen in on the signals. In practice people have found the keys for hdmi and have developed hardware to decrypt and rip the signal so this has not worked out.
When i have wiggled a hdmi cable it has stops broadcasting video for a few seconds so i would expect a bad cable to not work and be easily spotted so just buy a few $3 cables in case they fail.
This is not new so i wonder why it is news, soft modems have been around for a while. arduino + soft modem + stepper motors.
I was strangely about to start playing around with this when i refreshed slashdot. I have gotten a soft modem from http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10331 so can i have $92,684?
This appears to be running the open source chromium os and not the proprietary google chrome os. Chromium os is what you get if you go and download the source code and compile but i would expect that you need to have some sort of partnership with google in order to get some parts of chrome. It should not make much of a difference as chromium is the upstream but there could be bits that are not included.
You probably want to do both because it would be a bad buisness decision to have all your eggs in one basket.
Both have potential legal/economic threats: H264 is an open standard and if you pay your money you won't be sued by the patent pool. The side effect is you are at the wims of mpegla who may increase the fees to use thair format in the future.
WebM is an open formaat with a licence on patents owned by google. There are no licence fees on using the format but perhaps a risk on getting sued by mepgla.
It's a feature of some amd motherboards bios to unlock extra cores if they exist.
It seems to be a feature to allow you to use the extra cores if they exist but amd is probably only certifying that the cores you pay for work. if you use the bios setting the extra cores may or may not work so you could be lucky or unlucky.
It also allows amd to make 6 core cpu in bulk with a low yield rate and sell it as a 4 core cpu if one of the cores does not work.
MPEG-LA has promised not to collect from the end user directly. they still can collect from people who shoot video, who make video editing software, who host video, who make software that plays video. So you as the consumer of content may not be charged directly but there are a lot of links in the chain that they will get the money from.
One interesting thing about html5 video is you can have fall backs, ie the video in ogg, the video in mp4 and the video in another codec in the same tag. So if you want to do it right you re-encode in all formats and everyone gets to use the codec they want.
The disadvantage is you need more disk space, but really how expensive is that?
Or all this has been possible for quite some. Evolution has been able to load pst files 6 months ago, as well as mapi support with the openchange plugin.
All this really means to us users is they are probably not going to sue us over it.
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There is Gamers 4 Croydon that was a political party that was sitting in a few seats in the South Australian election.
They were created to lobby for R18+ rating for video games. They did not get a lot of votes but raising the issue has finally introduced the rating in Australia.
Why not scale down the LHC and build something that is capable of accelerating something relatively small say 10-100kg fast enough to make it to orbit instead of accelerating atoms to nearly the speed of light.
The problem with conventional rockets is you need to carry the fuel to get in to orbit as well as the fuel to go where you need to. The bigger the ship the more fuel you need to carry to overcome the weight of the fuel.
If you can split the carrying of fuel for your journey from getting your rocket in to orbit you would not need to waste as much fuel lifting itself.
You could set up an automated system that would fire a 10kg payload of fuel every 10 minutes and get what you need over time far cheaper than one big launch.
Old technology does not die off quickly.
Piano rolls died only 4 years ago http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/01/05/0224202/player-piano-roll-production-ceases
New technologies do replace old technologies but not overnight.
The user is able to edit the keys database on x86 based and not arm based uefi implementations.
You can put the microsoft keys on a black list if you want and it will not boot.
Electronic voting usually has one of the following two flaws:
1. People know how you vote, bad know how you vote and can use this to find where you live and could kill you or cause problems.
2. No one knows how you vote, this removes traceability and can lie about the results.
These are not likely to be problems in the USA unless it is something controversial like evolution, gay rights etc. where you will just loose your job.
But having such a system in place means the rest of the world will copy and implement it badly where they do round people up to remove opposition.
One of the steps of building the kit is removing the IR filter from the webcam.
If all you want to do is play around with a vm running android just download the official android sdk.
This contains vm's to run android and is released ahead of the source code and any devices hitting the market.
I like when sysadmins roamed the earth.
Basically a computer virus infects the internet.
The sysadmins go to the data centers to fix it.
There are terrorist attacks and a real virus is released that kills just about everyone except the sysadmins as data centers filter the air.
You can read the contents on the link below.
There is a comic book adaptation as well as a radio play as the story is cc licensed.
http://craphound.com/overclocked/Cory_Doctorow_-_Overclocked_-_When_Sysadmins_Ruled_the_Earth.html
There are shields for video output http://www.wayneandlayne.com/projects/video-game-shield/
Why not make your own watch with the Sparkfun Big TIme Watch kit.
http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10870
It is an arduino compatible kit that you can program yourself.
They have created an app to install and update android apps.
It is just a wrapper around downloading and installing a third party apk but it does make it easier to see when an app needs an update and install new apps.
Though it might be slightly too expensive something like the usb business card below would be cool.
This device acts as a usb keyboard and will type text when activated (by pressing caps lock 3 times)
http://www.instructables.com/id/USB-PCB-Business-Card/
I believe HDMI is designed to not work and reset if there are any errors in sending the signal.
It is designed by paranoid media companies and is suppose to be able to detect if someone is trying to listen in on the signals.
In practice people have found the keys for hdmi and have developed hardware to decrypt and rip the signal so this has not worked out.
When i have wiggled a hdmi cable it has stops broadcasting video for a few seconds so i would expect a bad cable to not work and be easily spotted so just buy a few $3 cables in case they fail.
This is not new so i wonder why it is news, soft modems have been around for a while.
arduino + soft modem + stepper motors.
I was strangely about to start playing around with this when i refreshed slashdot.
I have gotten a soft modem from http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10331 so can i have $92,684?
This appears to be running the open source chromium os and not the proprietary google chrome os.
Chromium os is what you get if you go and download the source code and compile but i would expect that you need to have some sort of partnership with google in order to get some parts of chrome.
It should not make much of a difference as chromium is the upstream but there could be bits that are not included.
You probably want to do both because it would be a bad buisness decision to have all your eggs in one basket.
Both have potential legal/economic threats:
H264 is an open standard and if you pay your money you won't be sued by the patent pool.
The side effect is you are at the wims of mpegla who may increase the fees to use thair format in the future.
WebM is an open formaat with a licence on patents owned by google.
There are no licence fees on using the format but perhaps a risk on getting sued by mepgla.
Actually the developers do set the price for sales acording to the article http://games.slashdot.org/story/10/12/23/0651237/Examining-Indie-Game-Pricing
They suggested it is a trade off, get 25x the sales at 75% of the price so it might be better overall.
It's a feature of some amd motherboards bios to unlock extra cores if they exist.
It seems to be a feature to allow you to use the extra cores if they exist but amd is probably only certifying that the cores you pay for work.
if you use the bios setting the extra cores may or may not work so you could be lucky or unlucky.
It also allows amd to make 6 core cpu in bulk with a low yield rate and sell it as a 4 core cpu if one of the cores does not work.
MPEG-LA has promised not to collect from the end user directly.
they still can collect from people who shoot video, who make video editing software, who host video, who make software that plays video.
So you as the consumer of content may not be charged directly but there are a lot of links in the chain that they will get the money from.
There are quite a few projects to create this:
http://www.elgg.org/ though it is not distributed (they are working on it)
http://onesocialweb.org/ is xmpp based, i have set up my own instance.
http://groups.fsf.org/wiki/Group:GNU_Social has just started and is a gnu project.
There are some standards to help this kind of thing but most are not complete.
you may want to look into foaf for storing a social graph for example.
Please chat with other people if you find this interesting.
IRC chat: #social on freenode
One interesting thing about html5 video is you can have fall backs, ie the video in ogg, the video in mp4 and the video in another codec in the same tag.
So if you want to do it right you re-encode in all formats and everyone gets to use the codec they want.
The disadvantage is you need more disk space, but really how expensive is that?
For a good list of linux related podcasts see http://thelinuxlink.net/
http://www.opencyclemap.org/ is a combination of open street map and that height data set.
Or all this has been possible for quite some.
Evolution has been able to load pst files 6 months ago, as well as mapi support with the openchange plugin.
All this really means to us users is they are probably not going to sue us over it.
It's from a bundaberg rum commercial. see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULEQpUY_crc