I'm not familiar with the device, but the engineer in me want's to believe that no one would design a system with such an obvious weakness. I believe that it's more likely that the stolen iPod contains data which is tailored specifically to him and/or the prosthetic and it wasn't backed up properly.
I'd imagine these devices would use the cellular network to transmit the coordinates back which could give the police a general idea of your vehicle location even if the GPS information was not available. I think jamming the transmission signal would be more effective.
The leading scientist in faked DNA evidence was joyful at the conviction of wife's killer. The prosecutor presented a mountain of DNA evidence and jurors only took 60 seconds to deliberate before delivering the guilty verdict. When the scientist was asked what his future plans were, he said that he was going to buy a lot of cool stuff with the payout from his wife's large insurance policy and marry his young and attractive lab assistant.
1. Detroit has a lot of good engineers, that don't get enough credit. 2. Detroit has a big manufacturing base geared for automotive production and it is definitely a cheaper place to operate. Even if the technology is developed in Silicon Valley, I doubt they would actually produce cars there. 3. Detroit has already gotten its ass kicked by foreign competition. They are going to fight for every piece of market share.
If you don't try to fight a lawsuit you are going to lose even if you are right. I believe they thought fighting the case would acknowledge that an Illinois court had jurisdiction over them. I'm not sure why the court believed they had jurisdiction over the case.
Patient: Doc I'm still in terrible pain, is there anything else you can do for my cancer? Doctor (whispers): Nurse. What do we have to euthanize this patient and put him out of his misery? Nurse (whispers): We got some radioactive scorpion venom, that should be quick. Doctor: 100 CCs of radioactive scorpion venom, stat! -NURSE INJECTS VENOM- Patient: I feel better. Doctor & Nurse in unison: Holy Sh*t!
What if telecommuting becomes common place and kids who have learned through virtual schools have an advantage over kids who learned in a more traditional manner? I've worked on a few jobs via telecommuting and I have found that there are some people who just can't handle that type environment. Some people miss the social interaction of the office, get too distracted at home, or need too much hand holding to effectively work outside of the office.
You can take the one listening to the 6th song on your slow jams playlist, I'll take a women on her 6th beer. Once again the education system fails us.
What is the competition doing? At least try to match them, if you cannot do better. And by better I mean easier to navigate and more informative, not necessarily flashier. Give your customers some recent product information, prices and an online store if possible, spend more time on that and less time on executive profiles and company history crap. I may be in the minority but I generally look on the web first for almost everything. Sometimes companies have lost out on sales from me because I couldn't find any product information on their website or they didn't have an online store, but their competitors did. I'm sure a lot of those companies with the BS websites didn't think their customers were internet users and missed some sales.
This is not new, my city has been slowing down light for years, particularly red lights they can't seem to apply the same technology to yellow or green lights though.
I have been doing Java programming for several years now and ported many C/C++ applications to Java, mostly server side apps and I'd say roughly 85% of the time the Java apps outperformed the originals, sometimes by an order of magnitude. Now these were more redesigns than straight ports and the performance gains were not because Java was any better from a performance standpoint, but because design is more of a factor in speed than the language used, especially for larger applications. Usually when I find big performance hurdles that are hard for me to overcome, I find I would have same issues in most languages, so finding a better design is usually the solution. If you are writing small - medium apps or mostly GUI apps then I might have reservations about Java, but for larger apps Java is a good choice.
I believe the patent is BS and the lawsuit as well but, if I recall correctly Apple has sued several companies for copying the "look and feel" of Apple products, and those cases IMHO had about just as much merit.
From what I know about Paris Hilton she is a good selection. She needs some security since her address book was hacked recently and she is uh... very open.
Most of the information about credit cards is contained within various ISOs. IANAL but, I don't think legal actions could be taken against software which implements a public specification. Although this project is nice, there isn't much you can't figure out about CCs by reading the specs. Personally I've found the most interesting information is contained on cards which are not well defined like student ID cards, video rental cards, etc.
ISO 7810 Physical Characteristics of Credit Card Size Document ISO 7811-1 Embossing ISO 7811-2 Magnetic Stripe - Low Coercivity ISO 7811-3 Location of Embossed Characters ISO 7811-4 Location of Tracks 1 and 2 ISO 7811-5 Location of Track 3 ISO 7811-6 Magnetic Stripe - High Coercivity ISO 7813 Financial Transaction Cards ISO 4909 Track 3 Data Format
I agree about opening up the code after some period of time... I believe one of the "costs" of a patent should be that you are required to open source patented code once your patent has expired. Also vendors should be required to open source code after they end support for it, say after 18 months w/o support for a product they would be required to open source it, minus any code they licensed from other vendors or any code which is still under patent.
I've owned 3 VCRs over about a 15 year span and only one died after years of faithful service. I've owned 5 DVD players within about a 5 year span and have had 3 deaths, my first a Panasonic worked fine on older DVDs but either refused to play newer DVDs or the pauses were so long movies were unviewable, so it was retired. Bought a portable DVD player which refused to power up after 3 months of mild use, its replacement refuses to respond to buttons after more than about 2.5 hours of continuous use. A Phillips DVD player that I purchased about 2 years ago just died a week ago, the spindle motor appears to have quit. I've had several friends that have had similar quality issues. So I'm not entirely sure the DVD trend isn't in part due to the fact that the quality of DVD players seems so bad.
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I'm not familiar with the device, but the engineer in me want's to believe that no one would design a system with such an obvious weakness. I believe that it's more likely that the stolen iPod contains data which is tailored specifically to him and/or the prosthetic and it wasn't backed up properly.
Well it is supposed to be coming to Olathe, although they skipped quite a few of the 'burbs to make that leap.
I believe you may be mistaken about the mileage of the 1960s Chrysler turbines...
"However, the firm never divulged mileage figures, which were apparently embarrassing."
I'd imagine these devices would use the cellular network to transmit the coordinates back which could give the police a general idea of your vehicle location even if the GPS information was not available. I think jamming the transmission signal would be more effective.
The leading scientist in faked DNA evidence was joyful at the conviction of wife's killer. The prosecutor presented a mountain of DNA evidence and jurors only took 60 seconds to deliberate before delivering the guilty verdict. When the scientist was asked what his future plans were, he said that he was going to buy a lot of cool stuff with the payout from his wife's large insurance policy and marry his young and attractive lab assistant.
Make it a hackintosh and have it autographed by Woz...
is so much more ostentatious... http://www.goldstriker.co.uk/phoneslides/iphonefull.html
1. Detroit has a lot of good engineers, that don't get enough credit.
2. Detroit has a big manufacturing base geared for automotive production and it is definitely a cheaper place to operate. Even if the technology is developed in Silicon Valley, I doubt they would actually produce cars there.
3. Detroit has already gotten its ass kicked by foreign competition. They are going to fight for every piece of market share.
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If you don't try to fight a lawsuit you are going to lose even if you are right.
I believe they thought fighting the case would acknowledge that an Illinois court had jurisdiction over them.
I'm not sure why the court believed they had jurisdiction over the case.
Patient: Doc I'm still in terrible pain, is there anything else you can do for my cancer?
Doctor (whispers): Nurse. What do we have to euthanize this patient and put him out of his misery?
Nurse (whispers): We got some radioactive scorpion venom, that should be quick.
Doctor: 100 CCs of radioactive scorpion venom, stat!
-NURSE INJECTS VENOM-
Patient: I feel better.
Doctor & Nurse in unison: Holy Sh*t!
What if telecommuting becomes common place and kids who have learned through virtual schools have an advantage over kids who learned in a more traditional manner? I've worked on a few jobs via telecommuting and I have found that there are some people who just can't handle that type environment. Some people miss the social interaction of the office, get too distracted at home, or need too much hand holding to effectively work outside of the office.
You can take the one listening to the 6th song on your slow jams playlist, I'll take a women on her 6th beer.
Once again the education system fails us.
"party mode" also involves 2 guys with bras on their heads and a barbie doll.
What is the competition doing? At least try to match them, if you cannot do better. And by better I mean easier to navigate and more informative, not necessarily flashier. Give your customers some recent product information, prices and an online store if possible, spend more time on that and less time on executive profiles and company history crap. I may be in the minority but I generally look on the web first for almost everything. Sometimes companies have lost out on sales from me because I couldn't find any product information on their website or they didn't have an online store, but their competitors did. I'm sure a lot of those companies with the BS websites didn't think their customers were internet users and missed some sales.
http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2005/dec/07/mirecki_m um_details_beating/?city_local
that early birds did not catch the worm?
This is not new, my city has been slowing down light for years, particularly red lights they can't seem to apply the same technology to yellow or green lights though.
I have been doing Java programming for several years now and ported many C/C++ applications to Java, mostly server side apps and I'd say roughly 85% of the time the Java apps outperformed the originals, sometimes by an order of magnitude. Now these were more redesigns than straight ports and the performance gains were not because Java was any better from a performance standpoint, but because design is more of a factor in speed than the language used, especially for larger applications. Usually when I find big performance hurdles that are hard for me to overcome, I find I would have same issues in most languages, so finding a better design is usually the solution. If you are writing small - medium apps or mostly GUI apps then I might have reservations about Java, but for larger apps Java is a good choice.
I believe the patent is BS and the lawsuit as well but, if I recall correctly Apple has sued several companies for copying the "look and feel" of Apple products, and those cases IMHO had about just as much merit.
From what I know about Paris Hilton she is a good selection. She needs some security since her address book was hacked recently and she is uh... very open.
Most of the information about credit cards is contained within various ISOs. IANAL but, I don't think legal actions could be taken against software which implements a public specification. Although this project is nice, there isn't much you can't figure out about CCs by reading the specs. Personally I've found the most interesting information is contained on cards which are not well defined like student ID cards, video rental cards, etc.
ISO 7810 Physical Characteristics of Credit Card Size Document
ISO 7811-1 Embossing
ISO 7811-2 Magnetic Stripe - Low Coercivity
ISO 7811-3 Location of Embossed Characters
ISO 7811-4 Location of Tracks 1 and 2
ISO 7811-5 Location of Track 3
ISO 7811-6 Magnetic Stripe - High Coercivity
ISO 7813 Financial Transaction Cards
ISO 4909 Track 3 Data Format
... to be late for work, because the 'flat tire' excuse is so passe.
I agree about opening up the code after some period of time... I believe one of the "costs" of a patent should be that you are required to open source patented code once your patent has expired. Also vendors should be required to open source code after they end support for it, say after 18 months w/o support for a product they would be required to open source it, minus any code they licensed from other vendors or any code which is still under patent.
I've owned 3 VCRs over about a 15 year span and only one died after years of faithful service. I've owned 5 DVD players within about a 5 year span and have had 3 deaths, my first a Panasonic worked fine on older DVDs but either refused to play newer DVDs or the pauses were so long movies were unviewable, so it was retired. Bought a portable DVD player which refused to power up after 3 months of mild use, its replacement refuses to respond to buttons after more than about 2.5 hours of continuous use. A Phillips DVD player that I purchased about 2 years ago just died a week ago, the spindle motor appears to have quit. I've had several friends that have had similar quality issues. So I'm not entirely sure the DVD trend isn't in part due to the fact that the quality of DVD players seems so bad.