As I was doing my Christmas shopping at the time, I had my own iPod with me. I was asked about it by two moderately interested individuals, who were complete unaware of the presence of the product in the store.
Perhaps that's the way that Apple want it? Word of mouth works wonders. I couldn't work out why my mom kept asking me about getting an iPod until I found out they got a mention on Oprah.
Well, more exactly, be advised that if you are giving a Dell for Xmas, not only will it probably come preloaded with spyware
Where does either article say this? In fact, one of them says "Dell itself includes an antispyware product on all Dell PCs that ship with a built-in DVD player.
Using non-open-source software for voting machines is just plain irresponsible. Hard to believe a continent entirely peopled by convicts [theregister.co.uk] is so far ahead of our blind and backward political culture.
Firstly, referring to Australia as a "continent entirely people by convicts" only shows your ignorance about the history of both Australia and America. Secondly, the electronic voting only took place in the ACT, not Australia, where voting is done via pencil and paper, not electronically for the following reasons:
There is no appropriate software technology for use in full preferential voting system.
Many voters, especially the elderly and those with poor literacy and numeracy skills may have difficulty with using the internet.
There is a risk of fraud and errors occurring in software without the safeguard of paper ballots to recount.
Start up costs would be significant
The AEC would need to continue to provide traditional voting facilities for those with no internet access
The previous Slashdot article was about Diebold not continuing to use DMCA take-down notices. There was no word at that point on whether Diebold would actually sue people who'd put up copies of its memos.
No, the first page of the first linked article says "We also advise the Court that Diebold, having issued notifications in good faith compliance with the DMCA, has decided not to take the additional step of suing for copyright infringement of the materials at issue".
Yes, they need help from the tech who thinks people are treating her differently because she's a woman, not because she's a winner of a Microsoft award:
I worked helpdesk for 8 months before encountering anyone treating me differently because I'm a woman - though I did seem to get less irate customers than most of the lads, I put that down to my being That Damn Good. *smirk* I've actually won an MS award for giving tech support, so I'm allowed to be insufferably smug.
You forgot about claiming a Microsoft tactic that's been floating around the past few weeks as "interesting":
One suggestion which I thought was partictularly interesting involved a bounty system whereby a price would be put on 'hacker's heads', incentivating other hackers to go after them and bring them forward.
Not to mention the crackers/hackers thing which has already been mentioned:)
Just be aware that an intentional radiator can cause problems with sensitive instruments when you are in the near field.
Good point. I don't think it'd be a problem, since the transmitting frequency would be much higher than the frequencies of interest. Currently they have to deal with radiation from mains power, for which they currently use a notch filter, although this is not a huge problem as most of the signals are well below 50 Hz.
Is this idea all that original? It seems to me like this is the kind of thing imagined for wireless communication from the start. We already have wireless communication. We already have programs to monitor things and send data. Is it that inventive just to combine the two?
Not really, the hard part is to make these devices really, really small which is useful for a lot of applications (especially in bio sciences). That's where the innovation comes in.
This could be really useful for monitoring kids at the sleep lab where I do some work. It's hard enough just getting a myriad (EEG, EOG, ECG, O2, CO2, etc.) of sensors stuck on a kid, the fact that you then end up with huge mass of wires causes all sorts of problems, making it hard for the kid to get to sleep, plus there's the tendancy to pull on the leads, totally destroying the signal (often several times a night).
You've seen the pictures of the crashes. Travelling along at 100mph in a plastic Tupperware box with little to no brakes, no seatbelts, no airbags, no way out... It's insane.
Thinking about it from that angle, yes it is insane and disgusting.
Sorry, but I don't see anything in any of the links that suggests to me they are going to get any sort of decent bandwidth - 4-6 GSM lines ? You're kidding, right ?
That's only in the tunnels. Elsewhere satellite is used in conjunction with GSM and digital TV connections, if you'd bothered to follow the "HOW IT WORKS" link.
Correct my if I'm wrong, but weren't three of those caused by track problems, and isn't the train company independent of the track company? And the other crash was caused by a car on the tracks. So no, it's not disgusting for the train company to be looking at WiFi.
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As I was doing my Christmas shopping at the time, I had my own iPod with me. I was asked about it by two moderately interested individuals, who were complete unaware of the presence of the product in the store.
Perhaps that's the way that Apple want it? Word of mouth works wonders. I couldn't work out why my mom kept asking me about getting an iPod until I found out they got a mention on Oprah.
I'll grant you that, if you'll grant me your ignorance of oblique Princess Bride references.
;)
Princess Bride?? Oh, right
for those of us who don't use that artificial metric crap.
Have you considered a job working for NASA or the JPL?
Well, more exactly, be advised that if you are giving a Dell for Xmas, not only will it probably come preloaded with spyware
Where does either article say this? In fact, one of them says "Dell itself includes an antispyware product on all Dell PCs that ship with a built-in DVD player.
So anyone wanna build 802.11 into this ??
Using non-open-source software for voting machines is just plain irresponsible. Hard to believe a continent entirely peopled by convicts [theregister.co.uk] is so far ahead of our blind and backward political culture.
Firstly, referring to Australia as a "continent entirely people by convicts" only shows your ignorance about the history of both Australia and America. Secondly, the electronic voting only took place in the ACT, not Australia, where voting is done via pencil and paper, not electronically for the following reasons:
There is no appropriate software technology for use in full preferential voting system.
Many voters, especially the elderly and those with poor literacy and numeracy skills may have difficulty with using the internet.
There is a risk of fraud and errors occurring in software without the safeguard of paper ballots to recount.
Start up costs would be significant
The AEC would need to continue to provide traditional voting facilities for those with no internet access
The previous Slashdot article was about Diebold not continuing to use DMCA take-down notices. There was no word at that point on whether Diebold would actually sue people who'd put up copies of its memos.
No, the first page of the first linked article says "We also advise the Court that Diebold, having issued notifications in good faith compliance with the DMCA, has decided not to take the additional step of suing for copyright infringement of the materials at issue".
Now it's been on the Faux News / Fox Opinion channel. It must be true! As if reading about it on /. wasn't enough.
Is that some kind of euphemism?
Like beating the Bishop?
Is the Pope a Catholic?
Yes, they need help from the tech who thinks people are treating her differently because she's a woman, not because she's a winner of a Microsoft award:
I worked helpdesk for 8 months before encountering anyone treating me differently because I'm a woman - though I did seem to get less irate customers than most of the lads, I put that down to my being That Damn Good. *smirk* I've actually won an MS award for giving tech support, so I'm allowed to be insufferably smug.
You forgot about claiming a Microsoft tactic that's been floating around the past few weeks as "interesting":
:)
One suggestion which I thought was partictularly interesting involved a bounty system whereby a price would be put on 'hacker's heads', incentivating other hackers to go after them and bring them forward.
Not to mention the crackers/hackers thing which has already been mentioned
But this is slashd... oh, you meant metaphorically.
Just be aware that an intentional radiator can cause problems with sensitive instruments when you are in the near field.
Good point. I don't think it'd be a problem, since the transmitting frequency would be much higher than the frequencies of interest. Currently they have to deal with radiation from mains power, for which they currently use a notch filter, although this is not a huge problem as most of the signals are well below 50 Hz.
Is this idea all that original? It seems to me like this is the kind of thing imagined for wireless communication from the start. We already have wireless communication. We already have programs to monitor things and send data. Is it that inventive just to combine the two?
Not really, the hard part is to make these devices really, really small which is useful for a lot of applications (especially in bio sciences). That's where the innovation comes in.
This could be really useful for monitoring kids at the sleep lab where I do some work. It's hard enough just getting a myriad (EEG, EOG, ECG, O2, CO2, etc.) of sensors stuck on a kid, the fact that you then end up with huge mass of wires causes all sorts of problems, making it hard for the kid to get to sleep, plus there's the tendancy to pull on the leads, totally destroying the signal (often several times a night).
You've seen the pictures of the crashes. Travelling along at 100mph in a plastic Tupperware box with little to no brakes, no seatbelts, no airbags, no way out... It's insane.
Thinking about it from that angle, yes it is insane and disgusting.
Sorry, but I don't see anything in any of the links that suggests to me they are going to get any sort of decent bandwidth - 4-6 GSM lines ? You're kidding, right ?
That's only in the tunnels. Elsewhere satellite is used in conjunction with GSM and digital TV connections, if you'd bothered to follow the "HOW IT WORKS" link.
Correct my if I'm wrong, but weren't three of those caused by track problems, and isn't the train company independent of the track company? And the other crash was caused by a car on the tracks. So no, it's not disgusting for the train company to be looking at WiFi.
I'd be interested to know how the expect to get DSL-level bandwith from GSM technology, especially when more than one person will be using the line.
RTFA!?
Thanks to iTunes/other streaming tech. you can now listen to other passenger's music collections instead.
if they could only make them run on time that would be even better...
Speak of the devil.
Ah, now it starts to make sense. I'd seen a similar thing in an exam I was marking by a student with a very french sounding name.
Imaginary vehicles don't have a stopping distance...
...in R, try using C
Canadians will breed and multiple
and teach English to the Americans.
Just ask Dubbya.