I'm a scientist. I write papers that are published in academic journals and I review such papers for journals. Journals use editorial managers to, well, manage, the entire process and you'd be surprised how often those send out automated e-mails that, helpfully, contain my login and password IN PLAINTEXT, just in case I might have forgotten (even if I did not request the password).
In general terms, if you use a website that is able to remind you of your password if you forgot, consider that password known to the world and all other accounts that use the same or a similar password at high risk of being compromised.
I was secretly hoping it'd turn out they did the same thing to the scewered Bush head that Firefly did to carbonite Han Solo's (one in every episode). I'm still looking, but the boobies keep getting in the way of the bodies...
Philips has a television with a moth-eye coating (just that though; not a combination with other coatings as in Sony's approach) available. Just read the review this morning. Seems a bit fragile though - I wonder if this will also apply to Sony's new film (I guess it won't since that'd be rubbish on a smartphone, but TFA does not actually address it):
Amazingly, it works - but thereâ(TM)s a caveat. The filter requires extreme care, so much so that Philips supplies a proprietary cleaning solution to remove any thumbprint smudges. This fragility makes the screen a questionable purchase for those with young families.
No kidding. Even the colour choices for "Library tools"; "Picture tools"; "Drive tools" in the first screenshot look like they've just resurrected the pastel colour palette.
But that would be a terrible main interface. I don't want to talk at my computer for hours per day. And I'm pretty sure that people who, for instance, work in large open plan offices or even in a cubicle farm wouldn't want the 200 colleagues in the same room all constantly yapping away at their computers either. As I'm typing this, others are in the same room watching TV and they wouldn't appreciate me dictating this either.
Typing may not be natural but at least it's (nearly) silent. Which is what an interaction with a computer should be.
Eh? That makes about as much sense as saying the view from my office is the opposite of a banana.
Belief is the acceptance of something as true (sometimes even though there is no evidence for it). In general, I'd say that a lot of thinking underlies a belief since it has to make sense to those holding it. Of course, to some people, anything that some guy in a big hat (or some ancient book) says seems to make sense without further evaluation, but those are the exception rather than the rule.
The opposite of thinking is what the guys who modded you insightful were doing.
The correct formulation of "every possible pattern" is that given an infinite sequence of letters (or digits) from an alphabet A, where every letter is chosen uniformly, the probability that a given pattern of finite length will appear somewhere is 1.
Notice how that summary is about a product yet it is almost exclusively filled with negatives? Ladies and gentlemen, we give you the.... anti-slashvertisement.
I wonder what happens if the next story is a slashvertisment and the two touch?
Is there any trouble caused by the rest of the user's hand resting on the touch screen?
The app lets you define where your hand rests and ignores touch input from there. It looks like a hand rest that you draw up from the bottom of the screen. So, no no trouble.
See the demo video at 2:20.
I suppose at this point I should also add the standard disclaimer that I'm not affiliated in any way whatsoever with any of this. I just think it's a cool app. Especially when combined with a stylus (the video just shows them writing with fingers).
If you really want a tablet for professionals and business people, make one with a responsive enough stylus with no parallax error.
Hi, I used to be a complete skeptic when it came to tablets (not just iPads). Then, recently, I saw someone with an iPad + stylus + Notes plus in a meeting, just happily jotting down his hand-written notes on the iPad. And just watching the ease with which he could do that might just have sold me a tablet.
To elaborate a little: I dislike typing for note-taking, so I stick to the pen-and-paper approach but this means my notes are scattered across a number of notebooks (depending on which were lying around when I grabbed one for wherever the next meeting was). Being able to take hand-written notes that all end up on the same device, nicely browsable and printable - yeah, that can win me over.
I agree, I can't find any actual reference to that either. What I did find is the following:
Celui-ci note que les militants ont été repérés lorsqu'ils ont franchi le premier grillage, équipé de caméras de sécurités. Les gendarmes du peloton spécial de protection de la gendarmerie (PSPG), affecté à la surveillance du site, auraient alors identifié les intrus comme d'inoffensifs militants et décidé de les interpeller sans usage excessif de la force, ni précipitation.
So basically, they were identified as soon as they were over first, security camera equipped fence. The security personnel in charge then figured out that they were harmless militants and decided to arrest them without haste or excessive force. Which sounds like a reasonable reaction to me, but nothing says that the activits called ahead..
I have no idea where you get the idea from that these distros have a hang-up about GUI and OS not being decoupled - you clearly don't know what you're talking about.
Ubuntu/Lubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu only differ in the choice of GUI. And if you don't care for Unity, Gnome 3 is trivially installed. (Which, I presume, is how Mint (an Ubuntu derivative) is doing it in the first place). If you favour an esoteric GUI, that is easily installed too; this is still a debian derivative!
So you really seem to be complaining that these distros ship have a preferred a default choice. Which, frankly, is just a bizarre thing to complain about.
I'm not sure where you picked up that concept, but it's not correct, unless I'm not understanding what you meant to say.
I think he may at least in part be referring to things like language processing. People used to point at Broca's area, draw some arrows to Wernicke's area and there ya go, here's yer language bits. Only now we know that's not really true and that language processing seems to involve, for instance, sensorimotor areas of the brain too.
So while you're certainly correct when it comes to sensorimotor areas but he has a point when we're talking about higher-level cognition.
I read it as "unplayable" game the first time. Might as well be true
To be fair, it only says that the game cannot be reset. I suppose it is still possible that it can be played as many times as one wants, just that once you start, there's no going back till you finish.
So what it means for the second-hand market is probably that it would suck if you buy a partially played game since there's no way for you to start from scratch until you completed it. But it's not unplayable as such.
Also, I imagine the simple fix would be intentionally switching off the console while saving, corrupting the save file and giving the game no choice but starting afresh.
for any zombie invasion of the English countryside
Just nitpicking - the movie was set (and shot) in London. Getting to the Winchester may not be the smartest move if you're in the countryside:)
Of course I suppose it is up to debate whether it's smarter to be in a big city or in the country side during a zombie invasion - I'd go with remote countryside locations in the hope that Zombies just pass you by en route to the next major food source/city.
and you sure as hell didn't download anything better than a 64k MP3
I remember my first 128 kb/s mp3, complete with all the skips and bleeps from having been encoded on an underpowered machine. I remember how long it took to download. These days, it takes half as long to download a 4GB movie than it took to get those 4 puny MB back then. I still find that amazing.
Except, as you might notice, TFA is from September 2010, so it's not a retroactive reporting of the one simulation of many that happened to get it right.
This is the FIRST Nintendo system to be fully region locked.
What? Dude, Nintendo friggin' invented region locking for video games. Even the NES was region locked. You couldn't even play German games on your British NES.
The headline reads as if KDE was interviewed on the topic of the Windows Release Manager Patrick Spendrin. I might have been a bit negligent in following KDE since 4.0 came out, but how could I miss its ascension to sentience?? Also, it has opinions about human developers now? That can't be good... did the KDE team learn nothing from Terminator?
In Sweden, the license plate is enough to find out the name and address of the owner. It's a little bit more difficult now, but a few years ago (10-15 maybe?), a bunch of guys basically made a living out of sitting at the ferry terminals, writing down the license plates of the cars that left for Germany or Danmark, called up the authorities to find out the address of a person who was now obviously not at home and then drove there to empty the place.
The purpose of the TSA is to make the public feel like they are protected.
The purpose of the TSA is to make it impractical for "bad" people to attack an airplane. How much they suck at their job is of course a separate topic.
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I'm a scientist. I write papers that are published in academic journals and I review such papers for journals. Journals use editorial managers to, well, manage, the entire process and you'd be surprised how often those send out automated e-mails that, helpfully, contain my login and password IN PLAINTEXT, just in case I might have forgotten (even if I did not request the password).
In general terms, if you use a website that is able to remind you of your password if you forgot, consider that password known to the world and all other accounts that use the same or a similar password at high risk of being compromised.
Oh and I have an Obligatory XKCD too.
I was secretly hoping it'd turn out they did the same thing to the scewered Bush head that Firefly did to carbonite Han Solo's (one in every episode). I'm still looking, but the boobies keep getting in the way of the bodies...
Philips has a television with a moth-eye coating (just that though; not a combination with other coatings as in Sony's approach) available. Just read the review this morning. Seems a bit fragile though - I wonder if this will also apply to Sony's new film (I guess it won't since that'd be rubbish on a smartphone, but TFA does not actually address it):
No kidding. Even the colour choices for "Library tools"; "Picture tools"; "Drive tools" in the first screenshot look like they've just resurrected the pastel colour palette.
You'd be surprised
But that would be a terrible main interface. I don't want to talk at my computer for hours per day. And I'm pretty sure that people who, for instance, work in large open plan offices or even in a cubicle farm wouldn't want the 200 colleagues in the same room all constantly yapping away at their computers either. As I'm typing this, others are in the same room watching TV and they wouldn't appreciate me dictating this either.
Typing may not be natural but at least it's (nearly) silent. Which is what an interaction with a computer should be.
Eh? That makes about as much sense as saying the view from my office is the opposite of a banana.
Belief is the acceptance of something as true (sometimes even though there is no evidence for it). In general, I'd say that a lot of thinking underlies a belief since it has to make sense to those holding it. Of course, to some people, anything that some guy in a big hat (or some ancient book) says seems to make sense without further evaluation, but those are the exception rather than the rule.
The opposite of thinking is what the guys who modded you insightful were doing.
Probably worth adding that the distribution of digits in pi appears not to be significantly different from the uniform distribution.
Notice how that summary is about a product yet it is almost exclusively filled with negatives? Ladies and gentlemen, we give you the.... anti-slashvertisement.
I wonder what happens if the next story is a slashvertisment and the two touch?
The app lets you define where your hand rests and ignores touch input from there. It looks like a hand rest that you draw up from the bottom of the screen. So, no no trouble. See the demo video at 2:20. I suppose at this point I should also add the standard disclaimer that I'm not affiliated in any way whatsoever with any of this. I just think it's a cool app. Especially when combined with a stylus (the video just shows them writing with fingers).
Hi, I used to be a complete skeptic when it came to tablets (not just iPads). Then, recently, I saw someone with an iPad + stylus + Notes plus in a meeting, just happily jotting down his hand-written notes on the iPad. And just watching the ease with which he could do that might just have sold me a tablet.
To elaborate a little: I dislike typing for note-taking, so I stick to the pen-and-paper approach but this means my notes are scattered across a number of notebooks (depending on which were lying around when I grabbed one for wherever the next meeting was). Being able to take hand-written notes that all end up on the same device, nicely browsable and printable - yeah, that can win me over.
So who died and made Google legislator, judge and executor on crimes against appropriate webpage content?
I agree, I can't find any actual reference to that either. What I did find is the following:
So basically, they were identified as soon as they were over first, security camera equipped fence. The security personnel in charge then figured out that they were harmless militants and decided to arrest them without haste or excessive force. Which sounds like a reasonable reaction to me, but nothing says that the activits called ahead..
root@skynet:~$tail
(WW) Human may have identified true purpose of PrisonBot trial (http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2543364&cid=38162180)
root@skynet:~$terminator --dispatch --to-address `locate "Anonymous Coward" | grep 38162180`
(No points for pointing out abuse of locate or silly use of tail on this one)
I have no idea where you get the idea from that these distros have a hang-up about GUI and OS not being decoupled - you clearly don't know what you're talking about.
Ubuntu/Lubuntu/Kubuntu/Xubuntu only differ in the choice of GUI. And if you don't care for Unity, Gnome 3 is trivially installed. (Which, I presume, is how Mint (an Ubuntu derivative) is doing it in the first place). If you favour an esoteric GUI, that is easily installed too; this is still a debian derivative!
So you really seem to be complaining that these distros ship have a preferred a default choice. Which, frankly, is just a bizarre thing to complain about.
I think he may at least in part be referring to things like language processing. People used to point at Broca's area, draw some arrows to Wernicke's area and there ya go, here's yer language bits. Only now we know that's not really true and that language processing seems to involve, for instance, sensorimotor areas of the brain too.
So while you're certainly correct when it comes to sensorimotor areas but he has a point when we're talking about higher-level cognition.
To be fair, it only says that the game cannot be reset. I suppose it is still possible that it can be played as many times as one wants, just that once you start, there's no going back till you finish. So what it means for the second-hand market is probably that it would suck if you buy a partially played game since there's no way for you to start from scratch until you completed it. But it's not unplayable as such. Also, I imagine the simple fix would be intentionally switching off the console while saving, corrupting the save file and giving the game no choice but starting afresh.
The same works in Windows and OSX (and probably other OSes). It's an old thing called mouse keys.
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Mouse_keys
Just nitpicking - the movie was set (and shot) in London. Getting to the Winchester may not be the smartest move if you're in the countryside :)
Of course I suppose it is up to debate whether it's smarter to be in a big city or in the country side during a zombie invasion - I'd go with remote countryside locations in the hope that Zombies just pass you by en route to the next major food source/city.
I remember my first 128 kb/s mp3, complete with all the skips and bleeps from having been encoded on an underpowered machine. I remember how long it took to download. These days, it takes half as long to download a 4GB movie than it took to get those 4 puny MB back then. I still find that amazing.
Except, as you might notice, TFA is from September 2010, so it's not a retroactive reporting of the one simulation of many that happened to get it right.
What? Dude, Nintendo friggin' invented region locking for video games. Even the NES was region locked. You couldn't even play German games on your British NES.
The headline reads as if KDE was interviewed on the topic of the Windows Release Manager Patrick Spendrin. I might have been a bit negligent in following KDE since 4.0 came out, but how could I miss its ascension to sentience?? Also, it has opinions about human developers now? That can't be good... did the KDE team learn nothing from Terminator?
In Sweden, the license plate is enough to find out the name and address of the owner. It's a little bit more difficult now, but a few years ago (10-15 maybe?), a bunch of guys basically made a living out of sitting at the ferry terminals, writing down the license plates of the cars that left for Germany or Danmark, called up the authorities to find out the address of a person who was now obviously not at home and then drove there to empty the place.
The purpose of the TSA is to make it impractical for "bad" people to attack an airplane. How much they suck at their job is of course a separate topic.