I don't think so, since using brain power to control cursor required a machine to interpret the brain signal and act accordingly. In another word, double lag.
There was no incentive in going back. One, they're not given enough funding to develop the moon. And two, the reaching of the moon at that time only have one purpose, to show the Soviets that we are better then them during the cold war
The only reason most people put up with Windows is as of now, they're the dominant operating system. Apple isn't a dominant desktop operating system, and we here are trying hard not to have another Microsoft. One's already bad enough, and this story came out just around the time I was considering getting an Apple laptop, kinda make me want to reconsider it.
Yep... Counter questioning to an idiot named Howard. "Windows? What project planning? Do you mean the hotbed for hacking? What quality control? Do you know how many holes Windows have? What code standards? Do you even know what the f*** the codes are? What accountability? Do Microsfot admit their idiocracy and their greed makes for a buggy windows? What version control? I got so many security updates from Microsoft that I don't know what version I'm on. And What support? I asked for support, they say 'talk to your computer manufacturer'. And you're paying them how much for it?"
Right on. The trouble with out government today is that it's run by rich, snobby kids who's only muscle they got are used for talking and golfing, who's good at basic arithmetics and how to screw around with it. And for those that claim religious, they all worship the great green paper god called "Money" (I admit, that some elected official ARE idealitic, but they're the one getting screwed by their fellow "friends").
The government should be run by the geeks, nerds, scientists, engineers and the intellects of the society. Not by a bunch of Harvard graduates (no offense for those Harvard slashdotter, but if you become like what I described, not my fault) in Law or Political science making laws for something they don't have an inkling about.
Or they might design the Broadcast flag recognition device to be easily removable. So easy that they could make a hole that says "To Permanently disable restriction, stick screwdriver in this hole".
If that happens, I'm moving out of the country. Europe seems nice for now. For those who want some place close to home, move to Canada. For those who knows asiatic language (I speak Chinese), move to Taiwan. From what I expereinced, they have almost no law simular to the DMCA in anyway (rampant piracy is one of the problem).
The reason we use IE is that we're used to it (if I were to learn about Mozilla earlier, I would be using it. I'm currently trying to get use to Mozilla). Another reason? It's free.
Another solution, buy stuff oversea. From what I heard, you can buy a Korean/Taiwan/Indonesian made DVD-player that bypass regional restriction code on DVD (able to play European, North America, and forgot the third regions' DVD) on the same machine! Same thing can be done with Digital Broadcast. I was in Taiwan, they even sell "free" digital/satellite signal decoder so they can get cable for free. It's illegal, but it's so rampant that the government can't do anything. Which is kinda of bad.
Gauss gun and EMP bomb are two completely different things. Gauss gun use magnetism to accelerate a projectile to high speed. EMP bomb use electro-magnetic radiation to destroy vulnerable electronics.
I resent that. Nazi kill innocent people, even their own coutrymen and civilians. WE at least tried our hardest NOT to kill INNOCENT PEOPLE! And the point of E-Bomb is so that people wouldn't die.
Skin color is not relavent. The microwave beam merely heats up the water at skin surface to near boiling points, creating a painful, burning sensation.
Underwater Sonar used by submarines (ultra low frequency one) can already harm marine life.
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Microwave with enough power AND sustained period of time is lethal. But what I meant by powerful, I meant compare to the energy needed to blow up a CPU, which doesn't take a lot.
Actually it's much more. In combat situation, this kinda of bomb could wipe out anything that remotely have a piece of electronic in them. Example tanks and high explosive ammunition that uses electronics to detonate them (I wonder if RPG is electronic detonated). Talk about having to fight someone who's going to resort to pre-WW2 weapons.
Radar, when fired in a strong pulse, can do that. But I think you're thinking about Black-out bombs. They use carbon filaments to short powerlines to the ground. Instant linghtning bolt anyone?
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Nice, now we got weapons that can destroy everything electronic (tank control system, missile guidance, radio, powerlines, etc.) without killing people (other than those with pace-maker). This shall revolutionize warfare, disintegrating it into one side with big guns fighting the other side who just got knocked into the stone age (maybe iron age if they're lucky).
High power radiation dampener/jamming device... for your information, a dampener and a jammer are two completely different things. A dampener blocks energy, jammer emits energy that confuses the source.
One problem with any electronic certificate is that with time, they can be hacked, modified, and stuff. A simple paper print out would be nice. And it doesn't have to be big! Just a simple list of names (shouldn't be that many) and an electronic identifier/barcode so that the votes can be verified easily should be good enough. And if they don't want to hire officials to collect the votes, ask the machine to do it automatically. Display the paper audit behind a plastic panel, verify and confirm that its right, and then it store it in a box inside, safe and sound (and anyone that tried to get to it will make a racket).
Sure it doesn't guarantee a fault-proof or secure voting system, anyone can install wrong or malicious software on machines, even a closed system one. The point here is that we eliminated or reduced the possibility of having holes in the software intended to be in the machine. Hey, it's better to have hundreds and thousands of people to look at it, then to have a handful of stressed out employee with vested interest in the company to examine the code.
In another note, voting receipts is nice, no question about that.
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I don't think so, since using brain power to control cursor required a machine to interpret the brain signal and act accordingly. In another word, double lag.
There are large quantity of mineral and oxygen chemically stored in the crust of the moon. In another word, one nice place to do mining operation.
There was no incentive in going back. One, they're not given enough funding to develop the moon. And two, the reaching of the moon at that time only have one purpose, to show the Soviets that we are better then them during the cold war
FYI: Employee at Apple doesn't really like Steve Job. He might be a good visionary, but he's somewhat obsessive about it, which has its up and downs.
The only reason most people put up with Windows is as of now, they're the dominant operating system. Apple isn't a dominant desktop operating system, and we here are trying hard not to have another Microsoft. One's already bad enough, and this story came out just around the time I was considering getting an Apple laptop, kinda make me want to reconsider it.
But for Linux, it would take much more effort to hack/worm/trojan it then windows, for which one could be just a script kiddy.
One common way to leak virus. Go to a public library, start a new hotmail account, stick the viruse disk in there. Have fun.
Yep...
Counter questioning to an idiot named Howard.
"Windows? What project planning? Do you mean the hotbed for hacking? What quality control? Do you know how many holes Windows have? What code standards? Do you even know what the f*** the codes are? What accountability? Do Microsfot admit their idiocracy and their greed makes for a buggy windows? What version control? I got so many security updates from Microsoft that I don't know what version I'm on. And What support? I asked for support, they say 'talk to your computer manufacturer'. And you're paying them how much for it?"
Right on. The trouble with out government today is that it's run by rich, snobby kids who's only muscle they got are used for talking and golfing, who's good at basic arithmetics and how to screw around with it. And for those that claim religious, they all worship the great green paper god called "Money" (I admit, that some elected official ARE idealitic, but they're the one getting screwed by their fellow "friends").
The government should be run by the geeks, nerds, scientists, engineers and the intellects of the society. Not by a bunch of Harvard graduates (no offense for those Harvard slashdotter, but if you become like what I described, not my fault) in Law or Political science making laws for something they don't have an inkling about.
Or they might design the Broadcast flag recognition device to be easily removable. So easy that they could make a hole that says "To Permanently disable restriction, stick screwdriver in this hole".
If that happens, I'm moving out of the country. Europe seems nice for now. For those who want some place close to home, move to Canada. For those who knows asiatic language (I speak Chinese), move to Taiwan. From what I expereinced, they have almost no law simular to the DMCA in anyway (rampant piracy is one of the problem).
The reason we use IE is that we're used to it (if I were to learn about Mozilla earlier, I would be using it. I'm currently trying to get use to Mozilla). Another reason? It's free.
Another solution, buy stuff oversea. From what I heard, you can buy a Korean/Taiwan/Indonesian made DVD-player that bypass regional restriction code on DVD (able to play European, North America, and forgot the third regions' DVD) on the same machine! Same thing can be done with Digital Broadcast. I was in Taiwan, they even sell "free" digital/satellite signal decoder so they can get cable for free. It's illegal, but it's so rampant that the government can't do anything. Which is kinda of bad.
Gauss gun and EMP bomb are two completely different things. Gauss gun use magnetism to accelerate a projectile to high speed. EMP bomb use electro-magnetic radiation to destroy vulnerable electronics.
I resent that. Nazi kill innocent people, even their own coutrymen and civilians. WE at least tried our hardest NOT to kill INNOCENT PEOPLE! And the point of E-Bomb is so that people wouldn't die.
Skin color is not relavent. The microwave beam merely heats up the water at skin surface to near boiling points, creating a painful, burning sensation.
Underwater Sonar used by submarines (ultra low frequency one) can already harm marine life.
Microwave with enough power AND sustained period of time is lethal. But what I meant by powerful, I meant compare to the energy needed to blow up a CPU, which doesn't take a lot.
Actually it's much more. In combat situation, this kinda of bomb could wipe out anything that remotely have a piece of electronic in them. Example tanks and high explosive ammunition that uses electronics to detonate them (I wonder if RPG is electronic detonated). Talk about having to fight someone who's going to resort to pre-WW2 weapons.
A similar article was published in September 2001 in Popular Mechanics magazine.
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http://popularmechanics.com/science/military/2001
Radar, when fired in a strong pulse, can do that. But I think you're thinking about Black-out bombs. They use carbon filaments to short powerlines to the ground. Instant linghtning bolt anyone?
Nice, now we got weapons that can destroy everything electronic (tank control system, missile guidance, radio, powerlines, etc.) without killing people (other than those with pace-maker). This shall revolutionize warfare, disintegrating it into one side with big guns fighting the other side who just got knocked into the stone age (maybe iron age if they're lucky).
High power radiation dampener/jamming device... for your information, a dampener and a jammer are two completely different things. A dampener blocks energy, jammer emits energy that confuses the source.
One problem with any electronic certificate is that with time, they can be hacked, modified, and stuff. A simple paper print out would be nice. And it doesn't have to be big! Just a simple list of names (shouldn't be that many) and an electronic identifier/barcode so that the votes can be verified easily should be good enough. And if they don't want to hire officials to collect the votes, ask the machine to do it automatically. Display the paper audit behind a plastic panel, verify and confirm that its right, and then it store it in a box inside, safe and sound (and anyone that tried to get to it will make a racket).
Sure it doesn't guarantee a fault-proof or secure voting system, anyone can install wrong or malicious software on machines, even a closed system one. The point here is that we eliminated or reduced the possibility of having holes in the software intended to be in the machine. Hey, it's better to have hundreds and thousands of people to look at it, then to have a handful of stressed out employee with vested interest in the company to examine the code.
In another note, voting receipts is nice, no question about that.