After further research. It appears that Oracle/Sun latest version of Java addressed these issues for the Windows and Linux platforms. This looks like a case of people not updating their Java JRE.
I wonder what the situation is like on phones using JAVA...
It's a great utility, but it is odd that it only offers to block web bugs (a.k.a. clear GIFs, web beacons etc) on untrusted sites. I'd think people would like the option to block those all the time.
I've experienced foods tasting better when camping than the same foods did elsewhere. I thought that part of it might have been heightened senses from the fresh air, exercise, and early to bed early to rise life, but certainly camping was also time away from quite a few intentional and incidental sounds. Any effect from tv or radio programming might be intensified by the extensive audio processing often used. The audio tends to be a continuous wall of sound.
It's really quite simple. Skip the glasses and get our new contact lenses. Depending on the design, they might need alignment pegs, but drilling the holes for that won't take long at all. That approach has the added advantage of working as you view billboards when driving, and for ads running on LCD treated windows everywhere. (Like many PCs, many new cars include adware driven windows, perhaps your eyes haven't yet been updated to see it.
To help with interoperability, IR-visible bar code has been added to your forehead. That will supplement the interface with the RFID/GPS cookie-cache chip that was in your last flu shot. Display hardware senses all viewers and can output a signal compatible with both shutter and polarization based stream separators, but shutter users do get a slight decrease in brightness due to the lower duty-cycle. As an added convenience, your cable box can now automatically charge you for each person in the room.
Thanks to the millimeter microwaves from our low-altitude satellites we'll know when you got up to go to the fridge, so don't worry about missing any ads. They've been buffered and will be inserted later (some through program time-compression, others as low duty cycle bursts during programming for best subliminal retention.
Our products really are tuned to you. Don't worry about the cost. They'll soon be free (actually you'll have to pay not to use them!)
So sit back and enjoy our latest spring-break show with the overly drunk kids puking in 3D. Thanks to our new.15 micron selenium-methane chip technology, even the scent is included. It's so real, you'll feel like joining in! The pegs on your contact lenses double as oxytocin injector ports to insure that your mood is in compliance with entertainment ministry specifications.
Don't worry about violent 3D games or movies causing you to act out in unacceptable ways. When you reach a certain rage threshold, you're automatically enlisted in the armed forces. Thanks for doing your part.
We've managed to plug the organic hole. You will be injected with substances to insure that you have no unauthorized copies of flagged material in your brain later, but you'll remember how great it was and want to see it again and again!
...this is for corporate enforcement, nothing more.
I share the same wishful thinking but...
Considering that many copiers also function as printers, it seems very possible that the keyword technology will end up in a networked printer. If that happens, a hack or backdoor feature to report access of documents with certain markings or keywords to a remote location certainly seems possible. Slowly send data by carefully crafted time server accesses or something and who would know? Couldn't info be passed along under the guise of periodic or startup firmware update checks? If one doesn't see the source of fax/print drivers, couldn't they also be crafted to pass along information?
To have OCR, one of these copiers is obviously a scanner integrated with a printer and some brains. Compared to what would already be included, it probably wouldn't take much more code to add spooky features. (Don't some printers/drivers already add subtle changes to imbed info in output that can indicate where it came from?)
Even consumer copiers not marketed as having the banned-keywords features could end up being sold with the same potential capabilities. It's not an unheard of concept. For example some DSL modems originally designed with firewalls shipped with modified firmware for certain ISPs that took away access to and visible signs of the firewalls in their web setup pages.
An old The Outer Limits episode attempted to overcome the decision making limitations of hardware in space by using a human brain as a controller in The Brain of Colonel Barham.
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Until (relatively recently) you *couldn't* run Windows on a Mac
No, that just isn't true. It just didn't run natively. Connectix Virtual PC for the Mac came out in 1997 (It was a Mac product before MS bought it), Soft PC was around in 1996. And later there was the FOSS Bochs x86 PC emulator. Those products had to emulate an Intel CPU, so there was a significant performance hit. I recall MS-DOS running in emulation on a Mac even before the switch the PPC processors.
Perhaps someone can provide some citations to info on what frequencies they're using? A.M. and shortwave radio technology is not high tech. It wouldn't take much knowledge of electronics to make receivers or frequency converters from parts out of old VCRs or whatever. Clever hacks are possible too. If they're using the low cost Chinese CFL replacements for incandescent lamps, maybe some could be modified to work at a switching frequency that would allow them to act as an conversion oscillator to shift a desired signal to a vacant supported frequency.
Beyond radio inspections, their government might be able to tell what frequency a standard radio is tuned to by detecting radiation from the oscillator. The oscillator normally is offset by a standard amount from the frequency of the selected signal. (typically + 455 kHz for AM, + 10.7 MHz for FM)
To illustrate the principle, one can tune a typical FM radio to a quiet spot on the top half of the band, and hear the oscillator (silence instead of static) when a second nearby radio is tuned 10.7 MHz lower in frequency. I once read of a college station that went around tracking down listeners and surprised a few knocking on doors and giving them a prize. That's a pretty good gag, but hard to do in areas where the band is very congested. When one is tuned to the upper half of the band, the oscillator may fall on VHF aircraft frequencies. That is why many had those bans on using radios when flying.
Well if they get the life up to a couple of hours, they can try selling dongles made with them. Combine the worst of old and new tech. Make it so you drive to the video store to buy a dongle to watch a streaming video.
If these things are really mechanical, they probably vibrate some. Why not send vibrations through the water and gas mains to carry data? Or the sewer... yikes... crap speeds?
Time to watch the movie Brazil again... something about all those ducts and tubes and the information ministry.
Didn't apple put one of those out a few years ago? You tilted it on it's axis to get a landscape or portrait view?
I believe it was 1988 or so when Radius introduced a display for the Mac called the Pivot. Changing resolutions/modes on the fly, and the ability to run multiple monitors that could be combined to view more work area where one could drag things across screens or span across them, was one of the areas where the Mac OS excelled, which made it something really great for displaying run-on sentences too.
Actually the fingers could have multiple uses. They could be used as electrodes for picking up brainwaves, or if you're handled in the right places, for indirect Body Mass Index determination. And maybe more...
0) Administer knockout gas while doing hair
1) Run an low level signal, say 1 kHz, through you
2) Sense the ratio and the phase of the voltage and resulting current
3) The phase angle (arctangent of reactance over resistance) correlates to a B.M.I. value
4) automatic liposuction mode enabled if B.M.I. threshold met
I don't understand why I should be wary of this technology in and of itself.
Envision if you will, in the corner of your room, a small dark cablebox... a cablebox that can look into your eyes and those of your friends, and reach into your wallet for each...
This doesn't seem to be a case of forced censorship at all. The publisher agrees that the names that slipped through in the first batch shouldn't be in circulation because it puts lives in danger. No scandal or opinion is being suppressed here.
It's a fairly safe bet that the costs the publisher gets reimbursed for won't be the full retail book price. It's normal for clearance to be required when someone involved with classified missions releases information. The government is covering the cost of a screw up in that review process as it should. Yes, the mistake has resulted in some wasted money, but they did the right thing.
Hopefully it's not like the two social classes in Planet of the Apes.
Those who step forward to serve in the military certainly deserve plenty of respect. If those without geek skills at home have a harder time finding work, there's probably a higher percentage of them that enlist. Hopefully there is enough overlap of people with both a high level of the needed skills and a deep familiarity with what they're working on.
I once followed a link to a military site to obtain.PDFs of old test equipment manuals that the government had reportedly made available to the public. The link was broken. I was shocked to see how the site used Flash and had an interface that reminded me of a game console. I figured some contractor must have impressed an official that had no security background but made decisions. It struck me as very foolish to use technology that increased the attack surface of both the site and its visitors.
(3) Cassette recordings can exceed CD quality using "high bias" Chrome and Metal tapes.
By what measure? Certainly the later formulations were a significant improvement, but I've never heard of the dynamic range getting anywhere near 100 db. (signal referenced to noise level while signal is present, not perceptual noise reduction figures through companding or noise gating).
Specifications can be a bit misleading too. It's not entirely reasonable to define a signal to noise ratio by comparing the noise level to the maximum operating level at something like 400 Hz or 1 KHz. It's good for making repeatable tests, but misleading if the maximum unsaturated recording level is much lower at the highest audio frequencies. Also, besides the noise present with no signal, there's modulation noise. That's basically from the small signal amplitude variations at a rapid rate (like amplitude modulation by hiss). Additionally subtle scraping effects that cause tiny speed variations too rapid to be considered wow or flutter effectively apply F.M. or P.M. noise to the signal. Neither of those are revealed by traditional noise tests, but they certainly very audible and show up on a spectrum analyzer.
Bing Crosby deserves recognition for his place in history as the investor that stepped in with a $50,000 investment in Ampex Corporation for development of the reel to reel tape recorder. Ampex was a small company with six employees prior to that. During WWII Germany developed wire recorders with improved quality as a result of a high frequency (above audio range) signal added to the record current. That overcame non-linear magnetic behavior greatly reducing distortion. Ampex used the same A.C. bias current technique with magnetic tape, and Bing Crosby was a major influence in the quick adoption by broadcasters.
The timing of the natural gas line related explosion in northern California had me wondering if excessive pressure could have triggered it. Very disturbing stuff...
To avoid interoperability issues between planets and provide protection against unexpected centuries, highly innovative operating systems offer chronometric algorithms based on user-derived hair plus root extraction data. Perhaps you forgot to enable this feature.
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Perhaps this means our machines will get selective memory, just like us
ERROR: This Couldn't Possibly Matter
Alert: Christmas is coming, loading "It's A Wonderful Life", analyzing, transferring funds to a poor banker
After further research. It appears that Oracle/Sun latest version of Java addressed these issues for the Windows and Linux platforms. This looks like a case of people not updating their Java JRE.
I wonder what the situation is like on phones using JAVA...
It's a great utility, but it is odd that it only offers to block web bugs (a.k.a. clear GIFs, web beacons etc) on untrusted sites. I'd think people would like the option to block those all the time.
I don't know if I trust those test results. The site they used and others differ greatly on a laptop.
(second one uses Flash)
http://m.ba.net/util/ping/nettools.html
http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
http://www.broadbandreports.com/speedtest
I've experienced foods tasting better when camping than the same foods did elsewhere. I thought that part of it might have been heightened senses from the fresh air, exercise, and early to bed early to rise life, but certainly camping was also time away from quite a few intentional and incidental sounds.
Any effect from tv or radio programming might be intensified by the extensive audio processing often used. The audio tends to be a continuous wall of sound.
Even without software patents, there'd still be copyright. That seems to work well enough for the E.U.
Those patent trolls have been working too hard. They're due for a vacation in Mexico.
We're ready for you to be an early adopter!
It's really quite simple. Skip the glasses and get our new contact lenses. Depending on the design, they might need alignment pegs, but drilling the holes for that won't take long at all. That approach has the added advantage of working as you view billboards when driving, and for ads running on LCD treated windows everywhere.
(Like many PCs, many new cars include adware driven windows, perhaps your eyes haven't yet been updated to see it.
To help with interoperability, IR-visible bar code has been added to your forehead. That will supplement the interface with the RFID/GPS cookie-cache chip that was in your last flu shot. Display hardware senses all viewers and can output a signal compatible with both shutter and polarization based stream separators, but shutter users do get a slight decrease in brightness due to the lower duty-cycle. As an added convenience, your cable box can now automatically charge you for each person in the room.
Thanks to the millimeter microwaves from our low-altitude satellites we'll know when you got up to go to the fridge, so don't worry about missing any ads. They've been buffered and will be inserted later (some through program time-compression, others as low duty cycle bursts during programming for best subliminal retention.
Our products really are tuned to you. Don't worry about the cost. They'll soon be free (actually you'll have to pay not to use them!)
So sit back and enjoy our latest spring-break show with the overly drunk kids puking in 3D. Thanks to our new .15 micron selenium-methane chip technology, even the scent is included.
It's so real, you'll feel like joining in! The pegs on your contact lenses double as oxytocin injector ports to insure that your mood is in compliance with entertainment ministry specifications.
Don't worry about violent 3D games or movies causing you to act out in unacceptable ways. When you reach a certain rage threshold, you're automatically enlisted in the armed forces. Thanks for doing your part.
We've managed to plug the organic hole. You will be injected with substances to insure that you have no unauthorized copies of flagged material in your brain later, but you'll remember how great it was and want to see it again and again!
...this is for corporate enforcement, nothing more.
I share the same wishful thinking but...
Considering that many copiers also function as printers, it seems very possible that the keyword technology will end up in a networked printer. If that happens, a hack or backdoor feature to report access of documents with certain markings or keywords to a remote location certainly seems possible. Slowly send data by carefully crafted time server accesses or something and who would know? Couldn't info be passed along under the guise of periodic or startup firmware update checks? If one doesn't see the source of fax/print drivers, couldn't they also be crafted to pass along information?
To have OCR, one of these copiers is obviously a scanner integrated with a printer and some brains. Compared to what would already be included, it probably wouldn't take much more code to add spooky features. (Don't some printers/drivers already add subtle changes to imbed info in output that can indicate where it came from?)
Even consumer copiers not marketed as having the banned-keywords features could end up being sold with the same potential capabilities. It's not an unheard of concept. For example some DSL modems originally designed with firewalls shipped with modified firmware for certain ISPs that took away access to and visible signs of the firewalls in their web setup pages.
An old The Outer Limits episode attempted to overcome the decision making limitations of hardware in space by using a human brain as a controller in The Brain of Colonel Barham.
Until (relatively recently) you *couldn't* run Windows on a Mac
No, that just isn't true. It just didn't run natively. Connectix Virtual PC for the Mac came out in 1997 (It was a Mac product before MS bought it), Soft PC was around in 1996. And later there was the FOSS Bochs x86 PC emulator. Those products had to emulate an Intel CPU, so there was a significant performance hit. I recall MS-DOS running in emulation on a Mac even before the switch the PPC processors.
just because something didn't get an answer, doesn't mean it was "ignored"..
Does recent tech provide a way to count farts?
In other news, Windows Phone 7 today...
Perhaps someone can provide some citations to info on what frequencies they're using?
A.M. and shortwave radio technology is not high tech. It wouldn't take much knowledge of electronics to make receivers or frequency converters from parts out of old VCRs or whatever.
Clever hacks are possible too. If they're using the low cost Chinese CFL replacements for incandescent lamps, maybe some could be modified to work at a switching frequency that would allow them to act as an conversion oscillator to shift a desired signal to a vacant supported frequency.
Beyond radio inspections, their government might be able to tell what frequency a standard radio is tuned to by detecting radiation from the oscillator. The oscillator normally is offset by a standard amount from the frequency of the selected signal. (typically + 455 kHz for AM, + 10.7 MHz for FM)
To illustrate the principle, one can tune a typical FM radio to a quiet spot on the top half of the band, and hear the oscillator (silence instead of static) when a second nearby radio is tuned 10.7 MHz lower in frequency. I once read of a college station that went around tracking down listeners and surprised a few knocking on doors and giving them a prize. That's a pretty good gag, but hard to do in areas where the band is very congested. When one is tuned to the upper half of the band, the oscillator may fall on VHF aircraft frequencies. That is why many had those bans on using radios when flying.
Well if they get the life up to a couple of hours, they can try selling dongles made with them. Combine the worst of old and new tech. Make it so you drive to the video store to buy a dongle to watch a streaming video.
If these things are really mechanical, they probably vibrate some. Why not send vibrations through the water and gas mains to carry data? Or the sewer... yikes... crap speeds?
Time to watch the movie Brazil again... something about all those ducts and tubes and the information ministry.
Didn't apple put one of those out a few years ago? You tilted it on it's axis to get a landscape or portrait view?
I believe it was 1988 or so when Radius introduced a display for the Mac called the Pivot. Changing resolutions/modes on the fly, and the ability to run multiple monitors that could be combined to view more work area where one could drag things across screens or span across them, was one of the areas where the Mac OS excelled, which made it something really great for displaying run-on sentences too.
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There's a social app for the iPhone, iPad, iPod touch and Blackberry called Grindr.
It uses GPS or WiFI location data to show potential (male/male) dates nearby.
The size of the payload is not included??
>Microsoft, meanwhile, is languishing in the shadows like Cinderella on the night of the ball.
>>Is this trying to imply that they're going to arrive later as the belle of the ball? Pfft.
Hmmm, seems a bit odd for Cinderella to be dressed in black, and with that funny hat. Oh... wait...
I think I here a voice....
"help me, I'm melting.... mellllting..."
Actually the fingers could have multiple uses. They could be used as electrodes for picking up brainwaves, or if you're handled in the right places, for indirect Body Mass Index determination. And maybe more...
0) Administer knockout gas while doing hair
1) Run an low level signal, say 1 kHz, through you
2) Sense the ratio and the phase of the voltage and resulting current
3) The phase angle (arctangent of reactance over resistance) correlates to a B.M.I. value
4) automatic liposuction mode enabled if B.M.I. threshold met
5) sell lard.... Profit!
6) seek another human... rinse lather repeat...
I don't understand why I should be wary of this technology in and of itself.
Envision if you will, in the corner of your room, a small dark cablebox... a cablebox that can look into your eyes and those of your friends, and reach into your wallet for each...
This doesn't seem to be a case of forced censorship at all. The publisher agrees that the names that slipped through in the first batch shouldn't be in circulation because it puts lives in danger. No scandal or opinion is being suppressed here.
It's a fairly safe bet that the costs the publisher gets reimbursed for won't be the full retail book price. It's normal for clearance to be required when someone involved with classified missions releases information. The government is covering the cost of a screw up in that review process as it should. Yes, the mistake has resulted in some wasted money, but they did the right thing.
Hopefully it's not like the two social classes in Planet of the Apes.
Those who step forward to serve in the military certainly deserve plenty of respect. If those without geek skills at home have a harder time finding work, there's probably a higher percentage of them that enlist.
Hopefully there is enough overlap of people with both a high level of the needed skills and a deep familiarity with what they're working on.
I once followed a link to a military site to obtain .PDFs of old test equipment manuals that the government had reportedly made available to the public. The link was broken. I was shocked to see how the site used Flash and had an interface that reminded me of a game console. I figured some contractor must have impressed an official that had no security background but made decisions. It struck me as very foolish to use technology that increased the attack surface of both the site and its visitors.
(3) Cassette recordings can exceed CD quality using "high bias" Chrome and Metal tapes.
By what measure? Certainly the later formulations were a significant improvement, but I've never heard of the dynamic range getting anywhere near 100 db. (signal referenced to noise level while signal is present, not perceptual noise reduction figures through companding or noise gating).
Specifications can be a bit misleading too. It's not entirely reasonable to define a signal to noise ratio by comparing the noise level to the maximum operating level at something like 400 Hz or 1 KHz.
It's good for making repeatable tests, but misleading if the maximum unsaturated recording level is much lower at the highest audio frequencies. Also, besides the noise present with no signal, there's modulation noise. That's basically from the small signal amplitude variations at a rapid rate (like amplitude modulation by hiss). Additionally subtle scraping effects that cause tiny speed variations too rapid to be considered wow or flutter effectively apply F.M. or P.M. noise to the signal. Neither of those are revealed by traditional noise tests, but they certainly very audible and show up on a spectrum analyzer.
Bing Crosby deserves recognition for his place in history as the investor that stepped in with a $50,000 investment in Ampex Corporation for development of the reel to reel tape recorder. Ampex was a small company with six employees prior to that. During WWII Germany developed wire recorders with improved quality as a result of a high frequency (above audio range) signal added to the record current. That overcame non-linear magnetic behavior greatly reducing distortion.
Ampex used the same A.C. bias current technique with magnetic tape, and Bing Crosby was a major influence in the quick adoption by broadcasters.
The timing of the natural gas line related explosion in northern California had me wondering if excessive pressure could have triggered it. Very disturbing stuff...
>Windows XP is a 12 year old product?
To avoid interoperability issues between planets and provide protection against unexpected centuries, highly innovative operating systems offer chronometric algorithms based on user-derived hair plus root extraction data. Perhaps you forgot to enable this feature.