acronymfinder.com (no direct link because I don't hate their servers) says it's also an acronym for "Small/Medium Business". And "San Miguel Brewery Corp.", "Secret Men's Business" and "Separate Mechanized Brigade".
So it's either small business, beer, secret stuff or the military, possibly all of them.
I think it was meant in a way of "if I want to know hoe program XYZ does what it does I can just take a look at the sourcecode". Which obviously doesn't work with parts of OS X.
I learned of the recall through this story and lo and behold, my iBook's battery is affected. I don't know whether Apple is going to drop me a mail or not (I didn't register the iBook), but it's better to hear such news redundantly then possibly not at all.
Fedora Core 4 does. It deletes the old kernel and moves all programs not needed for rebooting from/usr/bin to a secret location. It also uses the GIMP to photoshop your face into the Tubgirl picture and upload the result to the Internet. It then proceeds to mail the URL to everyone in your address book (all major MTAs supported). Once the update has started you have thirty seconds to get into runlevel 6; if you don't it's your fifteen minutes of Internet fame.
He dissented from the opinion of someone powerful enough to force him out of business. That's the political equivalent of walking up to some gorilla of a thug and telling him that his momma dress 'im funny.
In an ideal world he would be able to do so while he doesn't break some law, but unfortunately we're living in a world where you can do pretty much everything you feel like as long as you have enough money. And the record industry certainly has.
He has abused the notion of academic freedom by picking a fight with people bigger than him, which is a certain way of getting punished, hippie ideals like freedom of speech be damned.
Note that contactless smartcards usually have a range of a few centimeters at most, which is even shorter when the card is in a wallet, shielded by a layer of coins.
You could probably still initiate a transaction by pressing your reader against someone's butt if you are lucky, but that would barely go unnoticed.
Note that existing contactless technology is sufficient for this credit card, with a maximum range of up to 10cm. Such technology is supposedly already in use in Europe. (Europeans care to share your experiences?)
In my university (U of Bremen) we use these in our cafeteria (?, I'm talking about that place where 10.000 people simultaneously try to get cheap food every day). You either pay by cash or use a "MensaCard", which you just precharge and put on top of the reader to pay.
Also, we have dongles that work in a similar way to restrict access to the CS depatment's computer lab. They might be RFID based, but given the short range in which they work (~1 cm max) they might be induction based as well.
Because they can't steal the card wirelessly. All they can do is attempt a transaction by placing a reader close to your behind. (Or wherever you keep your cards.)
True. Note that we're talking of a range of a few centimeters at most. While the card is inside the wallet it's still possible to access it, but you have to put the wallet on the reader - or press your homebrew reader against someone's butt. Also, if there's too much stuff between the card and the reader (e.g. coins) it won't work.
What about a small monitor about as wide as the top of the mini? That would drain less power and might still give a decent resolution - once you have managed to get it to display the stuff from the mini's video out. Add a small keyboard and maybe a trackball and you have a very portable desktop.
I'm fascinated by the idea of the Mac mini being a smaller iBook.;)
So, when will they deploy the first feeder networks? And when will MCs appear on eBay?
And do I have to refer to my TV, stereo and computer monitor as "mediatrons" now?
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Can Jikes be used as a complete JDK/JRE? I'm using an iBook for most of my development stuff (because I can use it to code during boring lectures) and I don't quite feel like paying Apple 120 bucks for the Java 1.5 SDK. Could I replace the Apple JDK with Jikes and expect it to compile/run most 1.5 stuff?
I don't really care about performance as I rarely need to run any Java apps besides the exercise stuff I write.
A species that no western scientist has ever seen, and the locals are trying as hard as they can to make them extinct. It seems to be a common theme in history. Is this the future of mankind on earth?
Yes, we will all be trapped or snared, slaughtered and taken to market.
Another interesting fact about WW2 is that the looting of the German industry (pretty much all machines were taken) is partially responsible for the Wirtschaftswunder: As we had no machines to produce anything we had to replace them, which we did - with the most moderm machines on the market, which boosted productivity. Had we not lost all the old machines, economy would still have boomed, but not as much as it actually did.
All in all, it seems that the people who profited from the massive looting are not the looters themselves, at least as far as physical things are concerned. The intellectual property (what an ugly word) theft, however... Hmm, didn't Microsoft just start this contest where people make movies about "Thought Thieves"? This sounds like the perfect topic for an entry.;)
Note that aspirin mainly is not a trademark because Germany lost WWI. There was no way fo the Bayer company to protect their trademark against the Allies.
I shudder to think how progress would get held back if each individual jealously guarded their thoughts from each other. This campaign sends entirely the wrong message.
Dear <appropriate representative>,
Microsoft's "Thought Thieves" campaign has convinced me that Microsoft has officially gone nuts and is a danger to progress and the society as a whole. I implore you to consider proposing governmental action against Microsoft while they still haven't indoctrinated our youth with their twisted opinions. The past has shown what propaganda is capable of and I fear for the future of the United States/the European Union/our country if Microsoft continues to mess with our children's heads.
Sincerely,
<name>
This was the first thing that came to my mind when I read about Microsoft's latest scheme.
Hmm, with a different wording it might be possible to drive German politicians into a frenzy over this. After all, we're still scared of the 1930's repeating; with subtle Nazi comparisons it might be possible to use German politicians to generate some bad publicity for our least favourite 300 pound gorilla.
Any German Slashdotters who want to mess with our beloved "representatives"' heads?
On German ringtone TV (formerly known as music television) there's an English show called "Brainiac", essentially Jackass with physics; it should be around on UK and/or US TV, too. They once did a little experiment with a tub of water and small samples of Potassium, Rubidium and Caesium - they put the chemical into a water-soluble capsule and dropped it into the tub. Then they ducked behind a wall.
Potassium made a nice little splash, Rubidium produced a decent explosion and Caesium blew chunks out of the tub with a pretty big bang.
Quite a nice demonstration of "don't mix alkali metals and water".
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acronymfinder.com (no direct link because I don't hate their servers) says it's also an acronym for "Small/Medium Business". And "San Miguel Brewery Corp.", "Secret Men's Business" and "Separate Mechanized Brigade".
So it's either small business, beer, secret stuff or the military, possibly all of them.
Well, people might want to look at the code just because they're interested in knowing how it works... I'd say it's more curiosity then paranoia.
I am already old, you insensitive... meh, whatever.
Maybe Apple just never shipped the affected batteries with the 14" series?
I think it was meant in a way of "if I want to know hoe program XYZ does what it does I can just take a look at the sourcecode". Which obviously doesn't work with parts of OS X.
Still a damn fine operating system.
I learned of the recall through this story and lo and behold, my iBook's battery is affected. I don't know whether Apple is going to drop me a mail or not (I didn't register the iBook), but it's better to hear such news redundantly then possibly not at all.
Fedora Core 4 does. It deletes the old kernel and moves all programs not needed for rebooting from /usr/bin to a secret location. It also uses the GIMP to photoshop your face into the Tubgirl picture and upload the result to the Internet. It then proceeds to mail the URL to everyone in your address book (all major MTAs supported). Once the update has started you have thirty seconds to get into runlevel 6; if you don't it's your fifteen minutes of Internet fame.
He dissented from the opinion of someone powerful enough to force him out of business. That's the political equivalent of walking up to some gorilla of a thug and telling him that his momma dress 'im funny.
In an ideal world he would be able to do so while he doesn't break some law, but unfortunately we're living in a world where you can do pretty much everything you feel like as long as you have enough money. And the record industry certainly has.
He has abused the notion of academic freedom by picking a fight with people bigger than him, which is a certain way of getting punished, hippie ideals like freedom of speech be damned.
Note that contactless smartcards usually have a range of a few centimeters at most, which is even shorter when the card is in a wallet, shielded by a layer of coins.
You could probably still initiate a transaction by pressing your reader against someone's butt if you are lucky, but that would barely go unnoticed.
Note that existing contactless technology is sufficient for this credit card, with a maximum range of up to 10cm. Such technology is supposedly already in use in Europe. (Europeans care to share your experiences?)
In my university (U of Bremen) we use these in our cafeteria (?, I'm talking about that place where 10.000 people simultaneously try to get cheap food every day). You either pay by cash or use a "MensaCard", which you just precharge and put on top of the reader to pay.
Also, we have dongles that work in a similar way to restrict access to the CS depatment's computer lab. They might be RFID based, but given the short range in which they work (~1 cm max) they might be induction based as well.
Because they can't steal the card wirelessly. All they can do is attempt a transaction by placing a reader close to your behind. (Or wherever you keep your cards.)
True. Note that we're talking of a range of a few centimeters at most. While the card is inside the wallet it's still possible to access it, but you have to put the wallet on the reader - or press your homebrew reader against someone's butt. Also, if there's too much stuff between the card and the reader (e.g. coins) it won't work.
Is it legal to post only in questions?
No?
Duh! You apparently use an air-cooled gerbil in a case without airflow. Of course it overheats!
Better coat the gerbil with clear varnish and fill the case with water; water-cooling usually improves both the temperature and noise values.
What about a small monitor about as wide as the top of the mini? That would drain less power and might still give a decent resolution - once you have managed to get it to display the stuff from the mini's video out. Add a small keyboard and maybe a trackball and you have a very portable desktop.
;)
I'm fascinated by the idea of the Mac mini being a smaller iBook.
Phh. Sooner or later you make an insightful comment and your karma goes from 0 to Excellent faster than you can say "In soviet Russia karma gets you".
I've seen documentaries about the development of an airplane turbine. They threw frozen turkies at the thing. It sliced them into pieces, no problems.
So, when will they deploy the first feeder networks? And when will MCs appear on eBay?
And do I have to refer to my TV, stereo and computer monitor as "mediatrons" now?
Can Jikes be used as a complete JDK/JRE? I'm using an iBook for most of my development stuff (because I can use it to code during boring lectures) and I don't quite feel like paying Apple 120 bucks for the Java 1.5 SDK. Could I replace the Apple JDK with Jikes and expect it to compile/run most 1.5 stuff?
I don't really care about performance as I rarely need to run any Java apps besides the exercise stuff I write.
Didn't scientists find hints that before the Siberians came there were people who closely resembled native Australians?
A species that no western scientist has ever seen, and the locals are trying as hard as they can to make them extinct. It seems to be a common theme in history. Is this the future of mankind on earth?
Yes, we will all be trapped or snared, slaughtered and taken to market.
It is in some countries (like Canada), but I think that the trademark belongs to Sterling Drug, Inc, who bought the rights from the US government.
Another interesting fact about WW2 is that the looting of the German industry (pretty much all machines were taken) is partially responsible for the Wirtschaftswunder: As we had no machines to produce anything we had to replace them, which we did - with the most moderm machines on the market, which boosted productivity. Had we not lost all the old machines, economy would still have boomed, but not as much as it actually did.
;)
All in all, it seems that the people who profited from the massive looting are not the looters themselves, at least as far as physical things are concerned. The intellectual property (what an ugly word) theft, however... Hmm, didn't Microsoft just start this contest where people make movies about "Thought Thieves"? This sounds like the perfect topic for an entry.
Note that aspirin mainly is not a trademark because Germany lost WWI. There was no way fo the Bayer company to protect their trademark against the Allies.
Dear <appropriate representative>,
Microsoft's "Thought Thieves" campaign has convinced me that Microsoft has officially gone nuts and is a danger to progress and the society as a whole. I implore you to consider proposing governmental action against Microsoft while they still haven't indoctrinated our youth with their twisted opinions. The past has shown what propaganda is capable of and I fear for the future of the United States/the European Union/our country if Microsoft continues to mess with our children's heads.
Sincerely,
<name>
This was the first thing that came to my mind when I read about Microsoft's latest scheme.
Hmm, with a different wording it might be possible to drive German politicians into a frenzy over this. After all, we're still scared of the 1930's repeating; with subtle Nazi comparisons it might be possible to use German politicians to generate some bad publicity for our least favourite 300 pound gorilla.
Any German Slashdotters who want to mess with our beloved "representatives"' heads?
On German ringtone TV (formerly known as music television) there's an English show called "Brainiac", essentially Jackass with physics; it should be around on UK and/or US TV, too. They once did a little experiment with a tub of water and small samples of Potassium, Rubidium and Caesium - they put the chemical into a water-soluble capsule and dropped it into the tub. Then they ducked behind a wall.
Potassium made a nice little splash, Rubidium produced a decent explosion and Caesium blew chunks out of the tub with a pretty big bang.
Quite a nice demonstration of "don't mix alkali metals and water".