Vint said it would be "suicide" for a registry to do it, because there'd be the 6-month notice period to raise prices and the ability for registrants to renew for up to 10 years at "old prices", that supposedly "protects" registrants. Personally, as a business, my time horizon is a lot longer than 10 years
I'll bet there is a market for human meat though. If human meat was grown in this fashion, I would assume there are enough people who are curious enough to try it (without any ethical issues of dead people being involved). mmmmm manburger.
If you think video games are engrossing now, just wait: PlayStation maker Sony Corp. has been granted a patent for beaming sensory information directly into the brain.
The technique could one day be used to create video games in which you can smell, taste, and touch, or to help people who are blind or deaf.
The U.S. patent, granted to Sony researcher Thomas Dawson, describes a technique for aiming ultrasonic pulses at specific areas of the brain to induce "sensory experiences" such as smells, sounds and images.
"The pulsed ultrasonic signal alters the neural timing in the cortex," the patent states. "No invasive surgery is needed to assist a person, such as a blind person, to view live and/or recorded images or hear sounds."
According to New Scientist magazine, the first to report on the patent, Sony's technique could be an improvement over an existing non-surgical method known as transcranial magnetic stimulation. This activates nerves using rapidly changing magnetic fields, but cannot be focused on small groups of brain cells.
Niels Birbaumer, a neuroscientist at the University of Tuebingen in Germany, told New Scientist he had looked at the Sony patent and "found it plausible." Birbaumer himself has developed a device that enables disabled people to communicate by reading their brain waves.
A Sony Electronics spokeswoman told the magazine that no experiments had been conducted, and that the patent "was based on an inspiration that this may someday be the direction that technology will take us."
Viruses have already been used in the UK to get a positive judgement in computer misuse cases. One person got off child porn charges as he had a few viruses on his machine, and as such he was deemed not to be in control of the machine and therefore not responsible.
Just want to mention GCJ, the java native compiler, part of the GNU tools. It still has quite a way to go, but for some standalone applications it is getting quite nifty. I am not sure what niche it fills yet but linking a native binary built from java source code feels strange.
- Make him consume everything he was selling/trying to sell
- Forced community service fixing virus-laden windows boxes
- Public flogging
- Format every disk/hard drive/CD he owns
- Break his fingers
And that's just off the top of my head. How easy is that?
Although they do not provide much benefit, it can sometimes be worth it, especially if you have a wireless network behind your firewall. One rogue worm-ridden computer on your wireless network and bad things can happen to all your machines. Having a software firewall will be consume resources and might annoy you from time to time, but will reduce the chance of infection from common worms. You should never presume your internal network is secure unless you can completely verify every last bit that comes in to it.
Welly wanging has been going downhill ever since the steroids scandal of the late 70s, not to mention the polyurethene scandal of the mid 80s. Sure, I'll grant you the 90s were ok, but we will never see an event like the 1962 all-stars challenge again.
Though in fairness, their ATMs have had just as many problems, but luckily ATMs dont completely undermine democracy. worm infectionsmedia player hack. Great idea to use windows XP (embedded) on an ATM...
From an outsider looking in, and knowing nothing about these elections, will this potentially affect sen. Ted Stevens in any way? Is there any chance that his hold will be weakened by this, or is he too popular up there for it to be an issue? (or is he completely unaffected by this election and it is the next one that involves him?)
To be honest, a lot of what is described is available in Japan already. 17-button toilets are not too uncommon in decent hotels there, and I have seen the future and want one of their seats in my house. Such glorious electronic features include:
- Bidet with adjustable pressure, temperature, etc
- Noise maker which plays background noise so people cannot hear you making bodily noise (not so important but if you have shy relatives over and have a small house it can be beneficial)
- Automatic seat heater (although this sounds pointless if you live somewhere with harsh winters and bad heating, the cold toilet seat in the morning is pretty horrible... this is the greatest invention since sliced bread I think:), although it does feel like the toilet has just been used by a really fat person at first so takes some getting used to)
- Builtin extractor fan to remove bad smells instantly
In addition to all this, some outlandish/development level toilets are now performing analysis of your output to determine medical problems (sugar levels, etc).
Being a fan of Catan (dead-tree version), I hope they make something very similar. The PC versions that I have played so far are not as fun as the real thing but I think that is down to 2 things:
1. Tactile response... being able to move the theif and push him right into that 6 wheat producing hex
2. Communication... getting those trades announced with the right tone in your voice.
Thankfully I think the xbox 360 version will take care of #2. Though now I cant help but imagine trash-talking catan players which would be a bit odd. Still, adds to the temptation to get an xbox 360.
Imagine having to buy lots of apple products for yourself when on a shop-assistant's wages. That would drive a lot of people to copyright infringment... they could have bought what... 4 different ipod upgrades in the last 2 years? Must be expensive to have apple marketing in your face all day, every day, especially if you believe their hype too.
Hopefully the black smoke thing will go away as the fuel is changed in the US (if it is ever changed). Certainly here in the UK diesel seems to have little difference to gas beyond diesel's greater fuel efficiency and slightly higher price, ever since they mandated a change in refining. I have to say it still gives off slightly worse fumes* than regular gas, but the difference is much less significant in comparison to just 10 years ago.
I dont know... lawmakers have their series of tubes. In their minds neutral tubes might get contaminated with porn or other bad data, so surely dedicated, premium tubes would be much better. Common sense does not seem to apply to about 10% of lawmakers, yay democracy ^_^
just in case this term has not made it across the pond yet, grooming in that context means preparing someone for an adult relationship - eg; convincing them that they want to try something which they otherwise would not have.
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I'll give another vote for the mysql docs. I dont think I have ever had an issue with mysql that was not solved somewhere in their massive documentation archive. (ok ok until I started playing with C-JDBC;))
Can't have a guitar hero thread without the required link to http://www.guitarherobrokemyknee.com/. Thankfully fark photoshopped the guy today to mock him further.
I look forward to guitar hero 2 as I am starting to get bored with the backtracks on guitar hero even with my fantastic muted strings and mis-timed plucking on top of them.
Which is why I have 60 second rsyncs with a server in my parents house as well as the server in my own house. The server room is locked when I am away so someone would have to sever the (underground) communications lines coming into my house before breaking in, then they would need to break down the door/lock to the server room, then destroy/take the 9 hard drives in the correct machine. If I was more paranoid than I am I could rig it up to use my neighbour's wireless Internet connection as a backup connection for the rsync. Servers are UPSed but the cameras are not, so cutting the (underground) power would get the same results (unless I stuck batteries on the cameras too). Should be enough to catch a common criminal in the act and give me enough time through the alerts system to call the police or my neighbours.
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I'll bet there is a market for human meat though. If human meat was grown in this fashion, I would assume there are enough people who are curious enough to try it (without any ethical issues of dead people being involved). mmmmm manburger.
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If you think video games are engrossing now, just wait: PlayStation maker Sony Corp. has been granted a patent for beaming sensory information directly into the brain.
The technique could one day be used to create video games in which you can smell, taste, and touch, or to help people who are blind or deaf.
The U.S. patent, granted to Sony researcher Thomas Dawson, describes a technique for aiming ultrasonic pulses at specific areas of the brain to induce "sensory experiences" such as smells, sounds and images.
"The pulsed ultrasonic signal alters the neural timing in the cortex," the patent states. "No invasive surgery is needed to assist a person, such as a blind person, to view live and/or recorded images or hear sounds."
According to New Scientist magazine, the first to report on the patent, Sony's technique could be an improvement over an existing non-surgical method known as transcranial magnetic stimulation. This activates nerves using rapidly changing magnetic fields, but cannot be focused on small groups of brain cells.
Niels Birbaumer, a neuroscientist at the University of Tuebingen in Germany, told New Scientist he had looked at the Sony patent and "found it plausible." Birbaumer himself has developed a device that enables disabled people to communicate by reading their brain waves.
A Sony Electronics spokeswoman told the magazine that no experiments had been conducted, and that the patent "was based on an inspiration that this may someday be the direction that technology will take us."
Viruses have already been used in the UK to get a positive judgement in computer misuse cases. One person got off child porn charges as he had a few viruses on his machine, and as such he was deemed not to be in control of the machine and therefore not responsible.
Dont forget you can do the same with bike locks and a pen. It seems people find more obvious ways to break things every day.
Chess is not violent enough... now Battle Chess, that's violent :)
Just want to mention GCJ, the java native compiler, part of the GNU tools. It still has quite a way to go, but for some standalone applications it is getting quite nifty. I am not sure what niche it fills yet but linking a native binary built from java source code feels strange.
- Make him consume everything he was selling/trying to sell
- Forced community service fixing virus-laden windows boxes
- Public flogging
- Format every disk/hard drive/CD he owns
- Break his fingers
And that's just off the top of my head. How easy is that?
Also see, "it's hot-pluggable you say?" "yes but..." (disk makes an unholy grinding noise as it is unplugged)
not to mention all the planet posters that need updating... I am buying stock in black paint companies right now!!
Although they do not provide much benefit, it can sometimes be worth it, especially if you have a wireless network behind your firewall. One rogue worm-ridden computer on your wireless network and bad things can happen to all your machines. Having a software firewall will be consume resources and might annoy you from time to time, but will reduce the chance of infection from common worms. You should never presume your internal network is secure unless you can completely verify every last bit that comes in to it.
Welly wanging has been going downhill ever since the steroids scandal of the late 70s, not to mention the polyurethene scandal of the mid 80s. Sure, I'll grant you the 90s were ok, but we will never see an event like the 1962 all-stars challenge again.
Though in fairness, their ATMs have had just as many problems, but luckily ATMs dont completely undermine democracy. worm infections media player hack. Great idea to use windows XP (embedded) on an ATM...
From an outsider looking in, and knowing nothing about these elections, will this potentially affect sen. Ted Stevens in any way? Is there any chance that his hold will be weakened by this, or is he too popular up there for it to be an issue? (or is he completely unaffected by this election and it is the next one that involves him?)
To be honest, a lot of what is described is available in Japan already. 17-button toilets are not too uncommon in decent hotels there, and I have seen the future and want one of their seats in my house. Such glorious electronic features include: :), although it does feel like the toilet has just been used by a really fat person at first so takes some getting used to)
- Bidet with adjustable pressure, temperature, etc
- Noise maker which plays background noise so people cannot hear you making bodily noise (not so important but if you have shy relatives over and have a small house it can be beneficial)
- Automatic seat heater (although this sounds pointless if you live somewhere with harsh winters and bad heating, the cold toilet seat in the morning is pretty horrible... this is the greatest invention since sliced bread I think
- Builtin extractor fan to remove bad smells instantly
In addition to all this, some outlandish/development level toilets are now performing analysis of your output to determine medical problems (sugar levels, etc).
Being a fan of Catan (dead-tree version), I hope they make something very similar. The PC versions that I have played so far are not as fun as the real thing but I think that is down to 2 things: ... being able to move the theif and push him right into that 6 wheat producing hex ... getting those trades announced with the right tone in your voice.
1. Tactile response
2. Communication
Thankfully I think the xbox 360 version will take care of #2. Though now I cant help but imagine trash-talking catan players which would be a bit odd. Still, adds to the temptation to get an xbox 360.
Imagine having to buy lots of apple products for yourself when on a shop-assistant's wages. That would drive a lot of people to copyright infringment... they could have bought what... 4 different ipod upgrades in the last 2 years? Must be expensive to have apple marketing in your face all day, every day, especially if you believe their hype too.
Hopefully the black smoke thing will go away as the fuel is changed in the US (if it is ever changed). Certainly here in the UK diesel seems to have little difference to gas beyond diesel's greater fuel efficiency and slightly higher price, ever since they mandated a change in refining. I have to say it still gives off slightly worse fumes* than regular gas, but the difference is much less significant in comparison to just 10 years ago.
*in terms of odour and appearance
I dont know... lawmakers have their series of tubes. In their minds neutral tubes might get contaminated with porn or other bad data, so surely dedicated, premium tubes would be much better. Common sense does not seem to apply to about 10% of lawmakers, yay democracy ^_^
just in case this term has not made it across the pond yet, grooming in that context means preparing someone for an adult relationship - eg; convincing them that they want to try something which they otherwise would not have.
I'll give another vote for the mysql docs. I dont think I have ever had an issue with mysql that was not solved somewhere in their massive documentation archive. (ok ok until I started playing with C-JDBC ;))
I better get some Karma :P
Fark photoshop thread from Fark today.
Can't have a guitar hero thread without the required link to http://www.guitarherobrokemyknee.com/. Thankfully fark photoshopped the guy today to mock him further.
I look forward to guitar hero 2 as I am starting to get bored with the backtracks on guitar hero even with my fantastic muted strings and mis-timed plucking on top of them.
no, AFAIK it is owned by great ormond street children's hospital in London.
Which is why I have 60 second rsyncs with a server in my parents house as well as the server in my own house. The server room is locked when I am away so someone would have to sever the (underground) communications lines coming into my house before breaking in, then they would need to break down the door/lock to the server room, then destroy/take the 9 hard drives in the correct machine. If I was more paranoid than I am I could rig it up to use my neighbour's wireless Internet connection as a backup connection for the rsync. Servers are UPSed but the cameras are not, so cutting the (underground) power would get the same results (unless I stuck batteries on the cameras too). Should be enough to catch a common criminal in the act and give me enough time through the alerts system to call the police or my neighbours.