Unless some major development in dental materials just sneaked by my department, crowns and bridges are still cast at temperatures well above 1000C. So, yes, you will have a "deactivated" RFID chip in your crown/bridge/cast partial. But since it is completely embedded in metal, nobody would notice anyway, I assume (got no idea about effective shielding of RFID equipment, I have to admit).
In dentures (made from acrylic resin) it would work. But the EU directive (as can be read in the FA) does NOT require RFID-tagging as the wording of the/. article might suggest to some. The required records are generated along with the invoice by modern laboratory software, so why any lab would invest in RFID technology is beyond me.
My grandmother didn't even know what the word fsck meant.
Well, *nix just wasn't that popular in her youth, so why would she have to know ho to fsck?
P.S., I really find it very amusing that good old American fear of thoughtcrime makes people say fsck and pr0n even in this very thread.
I can understand that somebody insists that there's got to be a nicer word than (OK, I'll fall in with the flock, as to not cause anybody indigestion) fsck, but pr0n?? I mean, come on, that is just something people do look at or don't. It's still called porn. Saying PORN doesn't make you burn in hell, only enjoying porn does, but only if your personal religion says so. Same as running amok. Some people do it, most people don't. Calling it what it is does NOT taint your reputation or make you more likely to do it.
Considering Blaster only affects 2000/XP/2003 machines, that means that the roughly 50 computers running those took 8 hours to clean? Something seems wrong here.
Come on man, 480 minutes spent on 50 machines is 9.6 minutes per machine.
Taking into account that this includes walking around and hunting down stray room inhabitants, booting machines that are off and explaining what's going on to the ignorant, this actually seems quite fast to me.
A co-worker recently tried to help me by doing some wire-wiggling and probing before I arrived at her sick machine. Unfortunately she discovered a little switch at the backside of the machine, near the power supply. Had it not been dark under the desk, she might have seen that the current position was labelled "230". As it was, she switched it to "110".
Crouching under the desk she had her face close to the machine, so she got a very good impression of the "BANG" and the flash through the PSU fan grille. She was shaken AND stirred when I entered the room minutes later.
I got her a new "childproof" PSU without voltage-adjuster. (Although I'm sure she'll never do THAT again:>)
Well, you'd be blocking me, since my browser claims to be "Notepad 2.1". (Which doesn't wash too well with some sites...) But what I'd *really* like to see is an easy way to tell Webmasters "Your site is not standards-compliant".
(Even Slashdot editors don't care about this and delete warnings about crappy sites from posts)
Though not quite as brute-force as this chicken grinder, a German recycling conglomerat had a Tornado-in-a-House (22 meters high) at the EXPO 2000 in Hannover. Pictures are here or here.
I may as well piss off a few Europeans while I'm at it and specificly include Hitler's autobiography Mein Kampf.
Which is on sale in many places across Europe. And it is in libraries in Germany, which (along with Austria) has the toughest legislation regarding NS-related stuff. How do you expect students of history and related fields to do their work without it?
qaz submits a story about a remote-controlled graveyard. Supposedly this site is another computer-controlled setup, but it's not responding at the moment.
Puting a autorun cd into a drive that installs and puts itself into the startup folder would be very easy and very hard to stop
It's hard to stop someone putting that disc in, but it's very easy to disable autorun for data discs. (Music can still start automatically, if you want that) It can probably be done by the admin via a policy file, so no user needs to be trusted. No problem there.
There is something like this for whole sites / domains, not based on web-design, though. RFC-Ignorant.org gathers information about sites that don't have an "abuse" address or return mail sent to "postmaster". Someone should start IE-Biased.org
They don't really have a choice but to cover their butts comsidering the current trigger happy climate for intellectual property violations. And you'll find that any other standardisation group (ANSI for example) is doing pretty much the same thing with their own standards right now.
The difference being of course that ANSI is the AMERICAN NATIONAL Standards Institute, while the IEEE blabbers about being a "technical professional association of more than 377,000 individual members in 150 countries."
As a body that tries to appear International without explicitly saying so, shouldn't they also adhere to the Icelandic Indecency Act of 1536 or the Samoan Code Against Sodomy as well as the Kansas Internet Cleanup Code?
A completely random sample of five disks lying on my desk showed that four had the logo on the disc and the inside of the Jewel Case and one (Soundtrack from Jackie Brown) *only* on the Jewel Case (inside).
So there might be no way to tell if the CD has the logo before tearing the shrink-wrap. So what?
If I'm *forced* to open the shrink-wrap to discover if the disc is in fact a CDDA, then I can't be blamed. If the disc claims to be a CDDA (by carrying the Philips-Sony logo ) but is NOT (because of some protection scheme) this is fraudulent misuse of the logo. Even if the outside cover says "might not play on computers et al.". Because the use of the logo on the inside is a promise that the disc complies to the Red Book standard.
So I can at least demand my money back, open wrapper or not, and most countries would probably grant you compensation for your time to return the disc that is not a CD despite its claim to the contrary.
According to this recent comment (by me), the answer is no. The logo is owned by Sony and Philips (inventors/promotors of CD audio). According to a recent article in German c't magazine, Philips is looking into the violation of the Red Book / IEC 908 standard.
Umm, although these observations are of course correct, I think that they are (at least partially) true for commercial (closed source) software as well.
1. Number One complaint in forums is about bad or overpriced support.
2. If it breaks, well, tuff titty, EULA says "not guaranteed to work for any specific purpose"
3. If the company decides to drop the program, there's nothing you can do about it. (With OS you could at least hypothetically continue yourself or bug other people to do it, with closed source you're screwed)
I know that there are lots of companies that DO support their customers and yes, I *have* recieved fixes for issues (sometimes within days) from closed source companies, but certainly nobody expects this to be the norm. (Unless you're a corporate heavyweight, perhaps)
This Sony page tells us that any CD carrying the "compact disc digital audio" logo is compliant to the IEC 908 standard and/or the Philips-Sony Compact Disc Digital Audio System Description (the RED Book).
Any way to get the labels in for wrongfully using that logo (if they do) ?
Why is it that everybody goes crazy when MP3 or similar triggerwords are mentioned?
Presentation of MP3 hardware or software is not banned from CeBIT according to these articles from c't and (German) PC-World. A link to the trade-show itself is utterly useless, since they only give out details to "accredited journalists".
What really happened is (according to above articles) that they don't want the consumer oriented presentation that Creative was going to give, since the consumer part of CeBIT has been relegated to CeBIT Home, another show altogether. They don't want the unwashed masses at the "real" CeBIT to give the suits and geeks some space to breathe.
So it is not the WHAT they banned, it's the HOW.
The problem in this specific case is that the forum that is now used is located on CompuServe and most of the people are non-(computer)-techies. So it has to be as simple as possible. (CIS is doing its best to change into AOL2, so many of the people in professional forums are getting fed up with the way the customers are treated)
But I reckon that setting up a news client should be possible (for most...). The drawback is that it needs its own server but one beautiful plus is taht it's platform independent, whereas an offline reader for a web forum would have to ported.
Thanks!
What a clever man that God person must be. Dictates the Bible exactly in such a way that the version that was translated into English (we may have to change our perception of who the chosen people are...) and edited by King James, comes out with the ultimate truths. (If you just look at the *right* bits, that is)
Slashdot Mirror
Wellllll,
methinks every library, school and family with kids should get one. At last there's a chance to get a clean connection to the Internet.
No more smut! Yay!
Unless some major development in dental materials just sneaked by my department, crowns and bridges are still cast at temperatures well above 1000C.
/. article might suggest to some.
So, yes, you will have a "deactivated" RFID chip in your crown/bridge/cast partial.
But since it is completely embedded in metal, nobody would notice anyway, I assume (got no idea about effective shielding of RFID equipment, I have to admit).
In dentures (made from acrylic resin) it would work. But the EU directive (as can be read in the FA) does NOT require RFID-tagging as the wording of the
The required records are generated along with the invoice by modern laboratory software, so why any lab would invest in RFID technology is beyond me.
But electronics in teeth sounds cool, anyway.
Huh? "Dollar or the truth?"
You ask that question in a country where you can get President because "The counting of the votes that are of questionable legality does, in my view, threaten irreparable harm to the petitioner (Bush), and to the country by casting a cloud upon what he claims to be the legitimacy of this election."
Maybe you should pay atteniton to what is going on on important levels.
Well, *nix just wasn't that popular in her youth, so why would she have to know ho to fsck?
P.S., I really find it very amusing that good old American fear of thoughtcrime makes people say fsck and pr0n even in this very thread.
I can understand that somebody insists that there's got to be a nicer word than (OK, I'll fall in with the flock, as to not cause anybody indigestion) fsck, but pr0n?? I mean, come on, that is just something people do look at or don't. It's still called porn. Saying PORN doesn't make you burn in hell, only enjoying porn does, but only if your personal religion says so.
Same as running amok. Some people do it, most people don't. Calling it what it is does NOT taint your reputation or make you more likely to do it.
SEVEN people??
OK, you got me. Sounds somewhat excessive.
Come on man, 480 minutes spent on 50 machines is 9.6 minutes per machine.
Taking into account that this includes walking around and hunting down stray room inhabitants, booting machines that are off and explaining what's going on to the ignorant, this actually seems quite fast to me.
A co-worker recently tried to help me by doing some wire-wiggling and probing before I arrived at her sick machine. Unfortunately she discovered a little switch at the backside of the machine, near the power supply.
:>)
Had it not been dark under the desk, she might have seen that the current position was labelled "230". As it was, she switched it to "110".
Crouching under the desk she had her face close to the machine, so she got a very good impression of the "BANG" and the flash through the PSU fan grille.
She was shaken AND stirred when I entered the room minutes later.
I got her a new "childproof" PSU without voltage-adjuster. (Although I'm sure she'll never do THAT again
Well, you'd be blocking me, since my browser claims to be "Notepad 2.1". (Which doesn't wash too well with some sites...)
But what I'd *really* like to see is an easy way to tell Webmasters "Your site is not standards-compliant".
(Even Slashdot editors don't care about this and delete warnings about crappy sites from posts)
Though not quite as brute-force as this chicken grinder, a German recycling conglomerat had a Tornado-in-a-House (22 meters high) at the EXPO 2000 in Hannover. Pictures are here or here.
Which is on sale in many places across Europe. And it is in libraries in Germany, which (along with Austria) has the toughest legislation regarding NS-related stuff. How do you expect students of history and related fields to do their work without it?
qaz submits a story about a remote-controlled graveyard. Supposedly this site is another computer-controlled setup, but it's not responding at the moment.
You mean -gasp- it's dead?
Puting a autorun cd into a drive that installs and puts itself into the startup folder would be very easy and very hard to stop
It's hard to stop someone putting that disc in, but it's very easy to disable autorun for data discs. (Music can still start automatically, if you want that) It can probably be done by the admin via a policy file, so no user needs to be trusted. No problem there.
There is something like this for whole sites / domains, not based on web-design, though. RFC-Ignorant.org gathers information about sites that don't have an "abuse" address or return mail sent to "postmaster".
Someone should start IE-Biased.org
The difference being of course that ANSI is the AMERICAN NATIONAL Standards Institute, while the IEEE blabbers about being a "technical professional association of more than 377,000 individual members in 150 countries."
As a body that tries to appear International without explicitly saying so, shouldn't they also adhere to the Icelandic Indecency Act of 1536 or the Samoan Code Against Sodomy as well as the Kansas Internet Cleanup Code?
A completely random sample of five disks lying on my desk showed that four had the logo on the disc and the inside of the Jewel Case and one (Soundtrack from Jackie Brown) *only* on the Jewel Case (inside).
So there might be no way to tell if the CD has the logo before tearing the shrink-wrap. So what?
If I'm *forced* to open the shrink-wrap to discover if the disc is in fact a CDDA, then I can't be blamed. If the disc claims to be a CDDA (by carrying the Philips-Sony logo ) but is NOT (because of some protection scheme) this is fraudulent misuse of the logo. Even if the outside cover says "might not play on computers et al.". Because the use of the logo on the inside is a promise that the disc complies to the Red Book standard.
So I can at least demand my money back, open wrapper or not, and most countries would probably grant you compensation for your time to return the disc that is not a CD despite its claim to the contrary.
According to this recent comment (by me), the answer is no. The logo is owned by Sony and Philips (inventors/promotors of CD audio). According to a recent article in German c't magazine, Philips is looking into the violation of the Red Book / IEC 908 standard.
Umm, although these observations are of course correct, I think that they are (at least partially) true for commercial (closed source) software as well.
1. Number One complaint in forums is about bad or overpriced support.
2. If it breaks, well, tuff titty, EULA says "not guaranteed to work for any specific purpose"
3. If the company decides to drop the program, there's nothing you can do about it. (With OS you could at least hypothetically continue yourself or bug other people to do it, with closed source you're screwed)
I know that there are lots of companies that DO support their customers and yes, I *have* recieved fixes for issues (sometimes within days) from closed source companies, but certainly nobody expects this to be the norm. (Unless you're a corporate heavyweight, perhaps)
This Sony page tells us that any CD carrying the "compact disc digital audio" logo is compliant to the IEC 908 standard and/or the Philips-Sony Compact Disc Digital Audio System Description (the RED Book). Any way to get the labels in for wrongfully using that logo (if they do) ?
Why is it that everybody goes crazy when MP3 or similar triggerwords are mentioned?
Presentation of MP3 hardware or software is not banned from CeBIT according to these articles from c't and (German) PC-World. A link to the trade-show itself is utterly useless, since they only give out details to "accredited journalists".
What really happened is (according to above articles) that they don't want the consumer oriented presentation that Creative was going to give, since the consumer part of CeBIT has been relegated to CeBIT Home, another show altogether. They don't want the unwashed masses at the "real" CeBIT to give the suits and geeks some space to breathe.
So it is not the WHAT they banned, it's the HOW.
The problem in this specific case is that the forum that is now used is located on CompuServe and most of the people are non-(computer)-techies. So it has to be as simple as possible. (CIS is doing its best to change into AOL2, so many of the people in professional forums are getting fed up with the way the customers are treated)
But I reckon that setting up a news client should be possible (for most...). The drawback is that it needs its own server but one beautiful plus is taht it's platform independent, whereas an offline reader for a web forum would have to ported.
Thanks!
What a clever man that God person must be. Dictates the Bible exactly in such a way that the version that was translated into English (we may have to change our perception of who the chosen people are...) and edited by King James, comes out with the ultimate truths. (If you just look at the *right* bits, that is)
Amazing.