The red-eye emission is typically a rapidly pulsed emission of much, much lower intensity flashes than the actual flash emission. Setting the trigger level would be pretty easy to do.
I'd be more concerned about the pre-flash used for metering. You normally can barely see it but there are actually two pulses in nearly every camera flash: A pre-flash fires to figure out the reflectivity of the scene so the camera can know how long to fire the main flash. With a bit of bad luck it would be possible that the pre-flash could trigger the cooler flash and leave it without enough stored power for the main flash coming 1/20th of a second later. Of course most likely the effect of the cooler messing with the pre-flash metering would be enough to throw off the exposure of the photograph badly enough to render it useless.
A pretty good marketing stunt, but I'm sure other uses can be found for this in areas where photos are not desired for privacy reasons.
One that I can think of right away would be at abortion clinics. Many protestors will try to take photographs of the people entering the clinics and then post them online to try and shame them. I'd love to see this sort of tech spoil their day.
It can work pretty well when a small company does it to open up a new production line or to meet expanding demand for an increased distribution area. I cannot think of a big mature company which has done it and managed to not implode at least partially.
However now is the time to do it, assuming the IPO rumors are true. Expanding that much when you are publicly owned can raise serious questions from shareholders about whether or not you are maximizing their return, because as you noted it often doesn't work out so well.
There is the possibility that the judge would not issue the warrant.
However the fact that the cops knew that he was meeting up with the Wired editor makes me think that they have some other form of reconnaissance on him. Most likely they have his phone tapped too, which would require a warrant. There is nothing in the article that confirms that there is no warrant issued for the GPS device (how would you confirm a negative like that?). There very well could be one, just under seal.
Panasonic, Sony, LG, Vizio, and LG all support it natively, and for all other TVs Roku supports it. The main notable devices missing from the list are the XBox, PS3, and Wii.
Old film isn't exactly the most stable stuff out there either. Nearly every film before 1951 was recorded on nitrocellulose film which is very susceptible to breaking down (also to burning as well). We've lost many of the films from the silent era to the film simply eating itself.
Every generation of media has a special challenge which is eventually overcome. Digital is no different.
I have this router and it runs like a champ. It has very high speeds on the wireless (90mbit sustained on 5GHz) and wired sides, and the simultaneous dual-band ability is awesome. The WAN side has gigabit as well, but my ISP isn't fast enough for me to test and see if it actually can handle 100-200mbit speeds when routing the traffic. The only downside I can see is that the USB mass storage NAS host is very slow: maybe 8MB/sec maximum onto a FAT32 disk.
With increasing densities I doubt you have to go so far as to look at program disturb. Even just the distribution of bad cells which are present in all flash chips from the factory happens in a random enough manner to be able to ID each chip. There is no realistic way to be able to duplicate the bad cell pattern either. The only way you could ever hope to do it would be to get a flash chip with no defects (or only a few overlapping ones) and mark extra cells as defective. Feasible for a couple kilobit chip but not possible for gigibit densities.
A better ID system would be DRAM really. Write blanket 0s to a block of the memory and halt the refresh operation, then read it a second or two later and see how many have flipped to 1 and in what pattern (the 0 to 1 flip takes much longer than the 1 to 0 flip so it would be more reproducible).
Jumping to the 5GHz spectrum would really be ideal because the problem almost certainly is 2.4GHz band congestion. Unfortunately most of your devices probably won't support the 5GHz band. The ipod touches and the wifi enabled cell phones certainly won't (unless all the cell phones are the Galaxy S2). 802.11n never should have been in the 2.4GHz band and should have been 5GHz only. I'm sure there is some idiot nearby you running a 2.4GHz AP in 802.11n mode, a setting which pretty much takes up the entire spectrum space.
Good luck, you are gonna need it. A small directional antenna may help. Also try moving the AP around because it could just as easily be the AP not being able to hear the clients as it could be the clients not hearing the AP.
This is unlike most automatics which operate using various clutch packs and torque converters, and incur not-insignificant power losses when transmitting drive power through those parts.
This save me a whole bunch of money; now I have a good reason to cancel my plan.
Don't raise my cost by 50%+, not give me even a token thing more (and actually have a constantly shrinking streaming selection), and tell me this is a wonderful thing that is serving my best interests. People get angry when you lie to their face about something they can clearly se eis untrue. They assume you assume they are idiots.
The physical device disclosed is a fax machine, office phone, or cell phone that basically has an integrated survey system, then talks about aggregating that data to improve on future devices. Unfortunately the claims are so broad they seemingly encompass any sort of method of using user feedback collected via an electronic device in a product development cycle.
The patent was issued in May 20th 2007, which because of the multi-month delay in issuing allowed patents means it was allowed by the Patent Office BEFORE KSR v Teleflex (April 30th 2007) completely changed the standards of obviousness which the lower courts had forced the Patent Office to use. I would be shocked if these claims survive re-examination in a form anything like they are now.
"Merely bypassing a technological protection that restricts a user from viewing or using a work is insufficient to trigger the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provision. The DMCA prohibits only forms of access that would violate or impinge on the protections that the Copyright Act otherwise affords copyright owners."
If you stripped the book's DRM then SOLD IT, you will get nailed. Bypassing DRM to use the work is (currently) legal.
No it is only unethical if you don't delete the book from your kindle when your check out period expires.
Illegal is a gray area because it is being done solely for compatibility reasons.
The reverse is possible too. I buy amazon ebooks, strip the DRM, convert them to ePub, and load them only my Nook. I use the nook heavily for library reading as well. If this lending program had been in place a couple months ago I would have kept the kindle I won (instead a sold it and bought the Nook).
They do not have any obligation to make 3rd party DRM work, but that isn't what the lawsuit is about. The issue is they apparently actively moved to break compatibility with Real's files, when they had the dominant music player on the market (~70%). If true, it is sketchy and a legal gray area, hence the lawsuit.
If the things which broke compatibility were bug fixes done without any thought to Real's service then Apple is in the clear. However if so much as a single email turns up which says "awesome, this fixes Bug #23912 and also keeps Real's tracks from working!" then the lawyers and both sides will go nuts and we won't know for years what the Real result will be.
They HAVE to be publicized to be legal in the US. This is because part of the legal logic used to find checkpoints OK is they serve as a deterrent, which can't happen if they are kept secret.
And yes, it is a good idea to avoid the checkpoints like the plague. The vast majority of citations and arrests they make have absolutely nothing to do with DUI. At any particular moment there are likely dozens of violations on your car which you can be written up for. Even when I drove my brand new car off the lot it had equipment issues I could be ticketed for (the dealership put those plastic things around the license plates).
Will the subscription come without ads, or perhaps at least without any ads you would not see in the newspaper? Doubtful of course, but I'm not going to pay that kind of subscription fee and still be blinked at.
For the cost of a dozen books you can buy and load a kindle or other e-reader with enough books to keep someone busy reading for years. You could include 2000 free out of copyright books from Project Gutenberg for example. Then you have a device with an entire library on it, which is capable of teaching people to read (via text to speech), and can last weeks on a charge.
The real possibilities arise if you have a specially designed e-reader (think one laptop style). It could be made virtually indestructible, stripped of wireless to make it cheap (or specially equipped to communicate over the target country's cell network), and enhanced to have long battery life and large storage capacity along with easy charging (hell put a solar panel on the cover of it and you will likely never have to deal with charging). Include books designed to teach reading and it becomes a substitute for when a good teacher is not available. Much of education is just consuming information, which is what an e-reader does marvelously.
You want a Nokia 2128i. It is basically the same phone with the same flashlight function but is a CDMA phone. I had it for years as the free phone which came from Verizon. You should be able to find it for cheap.
I wonder if Apple would allow sellers to have both options but differing prices for each one. Perhaps the app could show the options of buying an ebook from Amazon direct for $9.99, or buying in-app via iTunes payment for $14.50.
It could be handy for someone who got an iTunes Gift Card, for example.
At least banks are subject to regulations which limit how badly they can screw the customer. Paypal can and does simply confiscate all of the money in an account with no higher authority for the user to appeal to.
Apple going into the payment processing market would be OK if they had to abide by the same rules as Mastercard, Visa, and the like have to. I'm sure their lawyers will structure it so they do not have to; if there is one thing Apple hates it is not being in complete and total control of their systems.
Even with the best wear leveling techniques SSDs will not be able to provide the sort of write cycles that a magnetic drive can withstand. This may not be an issue in most consumer use, but the possibility is there that somebody will hear of a friend of a friend's uncle who had his entire life's work (read: porn collection) wiped out. Something doesn't actually have to be a risk for someone to freak out about it and avoid the technology.
On the other end of the spectrum of usage scenarios: If the disk is not accessed and rewritten occasionally the issue of disappearing data comes up. In a NAND cell the data may be stored by as few as 100 electrons which are trapped in the floating gate of the transistor. Over the years imperfections in the insulation layers or quantum tunneling through the insulation layers (some of which are merely a few atoms thick) results in the electrons escaping and the cell eventually becoming unreadable. The target minimum data retention time for NAND flash is 10 years, but just due to the absurd number of individual transistors in a SSD some data will be lost before that time period. Suboptimal storage temperatures combined with smaller cell sizes and multi-level-cell NAND flash designs tend to make this effect worse.
SSDs may find a home in specialized situations where the pros outweigh the cons, like laptops, but I doubt they will ever displace magnetic hard drives in most applications.
This is especially true considering just how notoriously corrupt a lot of the Indian government is. It has been featured on NPR and other news outlets as being a large impediment to business.
Then you will have someone in a position where they have access to all of your company's secure communications? For the price of a bribe anyone could find out proprietary information that could sink your company or they could gain access to listen in on calls and glean account information for identity theft or just to solicit customers.
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No, more like removable fuel cartridges which I'm sure will be totally sealed and chipped so you will only be able to buy them from Apple.
I think Apple got upset that they weren't getting Apple markups every time someone installed extra electrons into their macbook via the charger.
The red-eye emission is typically a rapidly pulsed emission of much, much lower intensity flashes than the actual flash emission. Setting the trigger level would be pretty easy to do.
I'd be more concerned about the pre-flash used for metering. You normally can barely see it but there are actually two pulses in nearly every camera flash: A pre-flash fires to figure out the reflectivity of the scene so the camera can know how long to fire the main flash. With a bit of bad luck it would be possible that the pre-flash could trigger the cooler flash and leave it without enough stored power for the main flash coming 1/20th of a second later. Of course most likely the effect of the cooler messing with the pre-flash metering would be enough to throw off the exposure of the photograph badly enough to render it useless.
A pretty good marketing stunt, but I'm sure other uses can be found for this in areas where photos are not desired for privacy reasons.
One that I can think of right away would be at abortion clinics. Many protestors will try to take photographs of the people entering the clinics and then post them online to try and shame them. I'd love to see this sort of tech spoil their day.
It can work pretty well when a small company does it to open up a new production line or to meet expanding demand for an increased distribution area. I cannot think of a big mature company which has done it and managed to not implode at least partially.
However now is the time to do it, assuming the IPO rumors are true. Expanding that much when you are publicly owned can raise serious questions from shareholders about whether or not you are maximizing their return, because as you noted it often doesn't work out so well.
Don't forget the Bittorrent Phone: arrives piece by piece, each taped onto one of five thousand postcards.
There is the possibility that the judge would not issue the warrant.
However the fact that the cops knew that he was meeting up with the Wired editor makes me think that they have some other form of reconnaissance on him. Most likely they have his phone tapped too, which would require a warrant. There is nothing in the article that confirms that there is no warrant issued for the GPS device (how would you confirm a negative like that?). There very well could be one, just under seal.
It works great on my Panasonic TV.
Panasonic, Sony, LG, Vizio, and LG all support it natively, and for all other TVs Roku supports it. The main notable devices missing from the list are the XBox, PS3, and Wii.
Old film isn't exactly the most stable stuff out there either. Nearly every film before 1951 was recorded on nitrocellulose film which is very susceptible to breaking down (also to burning as well). We've lost many of the films from the silent era to the film simply eating itself.
Every generation of media has a special challenge which is eventually overcome. Digital is no different.
I have this router and it runs like a champ. It has very high speeds on the wireless (90mbit sustained on 5GHz) and wired sides, and the simultaneous dual-band ability is awesome. The WAN side has gigabit as well, but my ISP isn't fast enough for me to test and see if it actually can handle 100-200mbit speeds when routing the traffic. The only downside I can see is that the USB mass storage NAS host is very slow: maybe 8MB/sec maximum onto a FAT32 disk.
With increasing densities I doubt you have to go so far as to look at program disturb. Even just the distribution of bad cells which are present in all flash chips from the factory happens in a random enough manner to be able to ID each chip. There is no realistic way to be able to duplicate the bad cell pattern either. The only way you could ever hope to do it would be to get a flash chip with no defects (or only a few overlapping ones) and mark extra cells as defective. Feasible for a couple kilobit chip but not possible for gigibit densities.
A better ID system would be DRAM really. Write blanket 0s to a block of the memory and halt the refresh operation, then read it a second or two later and see how many have flipped to 1 and in what pattern (the 0 to 1 flip takes much longer than the 1 to 0 flip so it would be more reproducible).
Jumping to the 5GHz spectrum would really be ideal because the problem almost certainly is 2.4GHz band congestion. Unfortunately most of your devices probably won't support the 5GHz band. The ipod touches and the wifi enabled cell phones certainly won't (unless all the cell phones are the Galaxy S2). 802.11n never should have been in the 2.4GHz band and should have been 5GHz only. I'm sure there is some idiot nearby you running a 2.4GHz AP in 802.11n mode, a setting which pretty much takes up the entire spectrum space.
Good luck, you are gonna need it. A small directional antenna may help. Also try moving the AP around because it could just as easily be the AP not being able to hear the clients as it could be the clients not hearing the AP.
The A6 in the VW TDI is pretty much a M6 which has been modified so that the clutch and shifter are controlled by computer. Check it out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-Shift_Gearbox
This is unlike most automatics which operate using various clutch packs and torque converters, and incur not-insignificant power losses when transmitting drive power through those parts.
This save me a whole bunch of money; now I have a good reason to cancel my plan.
Don't raise my cost by 50%+, not give me even a token thing more (and actually have a constantly shrinking streaming selection), and tell me this is a wonderful thing that is serving my best interests. People get angry when you lie to their face about something they can clearly se eis untrue. They assume you assume they are idiots.
The physical device disclosed is a fax machine, office phone, or cell phone that basically has an integrated survey system, then talks about aggregating that data to improve on future devices. Unfortunately the claims are so broad they seemingly encompass any sort of method of using user feedback collected via an electronic device in a product development cycle.
The patent was issued in May 20th 2007, which because of the multi-month delay in issuing allowed patents means it was allowed by the Patent Office BEFORE KSR v Teleflex (April 30th 2007) completely changed the standards of obviousness which the lower courts had forced the Patent Office to use. I would be shocked if these claims survive re-examination in a form anything like they are now.
Bullshit:
MGE UPS Systems v. GE Consumer Industrial
"Merely bypassing a technological protection that restricts a user from viewing or using a work is insufficient to trigger the DMCA’s anti-circumvention provision. The DMCA prohibits only forms of access that would violate or impinge on the protections that the Copyright Act otherwise affords copyright owners."
If you stripped the book's DRM then SOLD IT, you will get nailed. Bypassing DRM to use the work is (currently) legal.
No it is only unethical if you don't delete the book from your kindle when your check out period expires.
Illegal is a gray area because it is being done solely for compatibility reasons.
The reverse is possible too. I buy amazon ebooks, strip the DRM, convert them to ePub, and load them only my Nook. I use the nook heavily for library reading as well. If this lending program had been in place a couple months ago I would have kept the kindle I won (instead a sold it and bought the Nook).
They do not have any obligation to make 3rd party DRM work, but that isn't what the lawsuit is about. The issue is they apparently actively moved to break compatibility with Real's files, when they had the dominant music player on the market (~70%). If true, it is sketchy and a legal gray area, hence the lawsuit.
If the things which broke compatibility were bug fixes done without any thought to Real's service then Apple is in the clear. However if so much as a single email turns up which says "awesome, this fixes Bug #23912 and also keeps Real's tracks from working!" then the lawyers and both sides will go nuts and we won't know for years what the Real result will be.
They HAVE to be publicized to be legal in the US. This is because part of the legal logic used to find checkpoints OK is they serve as a deterrent, which can't happen if they are kept secret.
And yes, it is a good idea to avoid the checkpoints like the plague. The vast majority of citations and arrests they make have absolutely nothing to do with DUI. At any particular moment there are likely dozens of violations on your car which you can be written up for. Even when I drove my brand new car off the lot it had equipment issues I could be ticketed for (the dealership put those plastic things around the license plates).
Will the subscription come without ads, or perhaps at least without any ads you would not see in the newspaper? Doubtful of course, but I'm not going to pay that kind of subscription fee and still be blinked at.
For the cost of a dozen books you can buy and load a kindle or other e-reader with enough books to keep someone busy reading for years. You could include 2000 free out of copyright books from Project Gutenberg for example. Then you have a device with an entire library on it, which is capable of teaching people to read (via text to speech), and can last weeks on a charge.
The real possibilities arise if you have a specially designed e-reader (think one laptop style). It could be made virtually indestructible, stripped of wireless to make it cheap (or specially equipped to communicate over the target country's cell network), and enhanced to have long battery life and large storage capacity along with easy charging (hell put a solar panel on the cover of it and you will likely never have to deal with charging). Include books designed to teach reading and it becomes a substitute for when a good teacher is not available. Much of education is just consuming information, which is what an e-reader does marvelously.
You want a Nokia 2128i. It is basically the same phone with the same flashlight function but is a CDMA phone. I had it for years as the free phone which came from Verizon. You should be able to find it for cheap.
I wonder if Apple would allow sellers to have both options but differing prices for each one. Perhaps the app could show the options of buying an ebook from Amazon direct for $9.99, or buying in-app via iTunes payment for $14.50.
It could be handy for someone who got an iTunes Gift Card, for example.
At least banks are subject to regulations which limit how badly they can screw the customer. Paypal can and does simply confiscate all of the money in an account with no higher authority for the user to appeal to.
Apple going into the payment processing market would be OK if they had to abide by the same rules as Mastercard, Visa, and the like have to. I'm sure their lawyers will structure it so they do not have to; if there is one thing Apple hates it is not being in complete and total control of their systems.
Even with the best wear leveling techniques SSDs will not be able to provide the sort of write cycles that a magnetic drive can withstand. This may not be an issue in most consumer use, but the possibility is there that somebody will hear of a friend of a friend's uncle who had his entire life's work (read: porn collection) wiped out. Something doesn't actually have to be a risk for someone to freak out about it and avoid the technology.
On the other end of the spectrum of usage scenarios: If the disk is not accessed and rewritten occasionally the issue of disappearing data comes up. In a NAND cell the data may be stored by as few as 100 electrons which are trapped in the floating gate of the transistor. Over the years imperfections in the insulation layers or quantum tunneling through the insulation layers (some of which are merely a few atoms thick) results in the electrons escaping and the cell eventually becoming unreadable. The target minimum data retention time for NAND flash is 10 years, but just due to the absurd number of individual transistors in a SSD some data will be lost before that time period. Suboptimal storage temperatures combined with smaller cell sizes and multi-level-cell NAND flash designs tend to make this effect worse.
SSDs may find a home in specialized situations where the pros outweigh the cons, like laptops, but I doubt they will ever displace magnetic hard drives in most applications.
This is especially true considering just how notoriously corrupt a lot of the Indian government is. It has been featured on NPR and other news outlets as being a large impediment to business.
Then you will have someone in a position where they have access to all of your company's secure communications? For the price of a bribe anyone could find out proprietary information that could sink your company or they could gain access to listen in on calls and glean account information for identity theft or just to solicit customers.