"Pedestrian Protection System (PPS) Radar sensors and computer-controlled braking will keep drivers safer than ever, but what about pedestrians? In case your adaptive cruise control fails to spot someone darting into the road, TRW Automotive is introducing the PPS system: if you smack a pedestrian, the hood is automatically raised to cushion his landing on the engine block. The system is already being tested, part of a drive to meet new European and Japanese regulations on pedestrian safety which are being phased in, starting with 2006 models."
Not to mention FTTH (via Verizon), Perpendicular Storage (via Hitachi Global Storage Technologies), Mobile WiMAX (Rogers and Bell in Canada have this).
.... To do the new Star Trek animated series. It would likely be better than anything that the guys that are currently responsible for the series could come up with.
"A set of useful technology libraries services to help developers get started with writing robot applications, and tutorials which illustrate the basics of how to get started in a variety of programming languages."
Does that include functions like:
- Chair throwing - Google bashing - Threats of death to Eric Schmidt
... Get your own domain and host your own e-mail. I use SquirrelMail (http://www.squirrelmail.org/) with SpamAssassin (http://www.squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=16 7) running on a PIII with Red Hat on it. The net result? Minimal SPAM and reliable e-mail that *I* control.
.... appears to be taking a page out of the M$ playbook and tying the device tightly to the OS to drive OS X sales. One would hope that he is also smart enough to have the phone be usable to users of Windows & *INX without hopping though hoops to do it.
.... That means that the RIAA can sue him for millions. After all, they go after retired people and single mothers on fixed incomes for thousands of dollars. Right?
.... Given that every 12 year old wannbe 1337 h4x0r has been using "off the shelf" tools to break into places like these fore years, not to mention the armies of botnets, wouldn't these companies have already taken steps to protect themselves against this sort of thing?
.... But *WHY* is this stuff freely available? Shouldn't it be a controlled substance of some sort? It almost seems that there are drugs and booze that have tighter restrictions.
..... Would it not make the U.S.A. no better than the terrorists? After all, isn't the Bush administration's logic the fact that we have free speech and the like?
These cameras were likely sold at retail (read: Best Buy, Fry's, Circuit City, etc.). Therefore Sony has no clue who would have them (either that or they can't be bothered to hunt them down). Therefore it's up to the humans who (were dumb enough to) buy them to get Sony to fix them.
"Sony will repair for free only cameras that show signs of the problems, Kitsukawa said. He refused to say how many cameras might be affected."
If I had one of these cameras, I want a NEW camera. Period. End of sentence. How do I know that the defect is gone if it is fixed? With their track record of late, I don't. Presumably they have fixed the defect in their manufacturing environment, so why not send a new one out (maybe with a free memory stick or something) to get some POSITIVE mindshare?
I guess that would make too much sense or something.
.... I have to admit that when it comes to crime, they done a few good things for the universe. The best thing I can think of is besides the topics covered in this article CETS which is a Microsoft designed product to fight child pron/exploitation.
Slashdot Mirror
.... The domain that they grabbed got hijacked by some kid named David.
.... We need to come up with an acceptance speech?
For example:
l ights/performance.htm
"Pedestrian Protection System (PPS)
Radar sensors and computer-controlled braking will keep drivers safer than ever, but what about pedestrians? In case your adaptive cruise control fails to spot someone darting into the road, TRW Automotive is introducing the PPS system: if you smack a pedestrian, the hood is automatically raised to cushion his landing on the engine block. The system is already being tested, part of a drive to meet new European and Japanese regulations on pedestrian safety which are being phased in, starting with 2006 models."
Jaguar's new XK coupe has this: http://www.jaguarusa.com/us/en/xk/highlights/high
Not to mention FTTH (via Verizon), Perpendicular Storage (via Hitachi Global Storage Technologies), Mobile WiMAX (Rogers and Bell in Canada have this).
.... To do the new Star Trek animated series. It would likely be better than anything that the guys that are currently responsible for the series could come up with.
..... at
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this http://msdn.microsoft.com/robotics/getstarted/v1_
You'll see that it includes the following:
"A set of useful technology libraries services to help developers get started with writing robot applications, and tutorials which illustrate the basics of how to get started in a variety of programming languages."
Does that include functions like:
- Chair throwing
- Google bashing
- Threats of death to Eric Schmidt
Just wondering....
..... there's a very shapely and sexy female character in tight clothes that makes a nerd like me drool, then I'll watch.
...... Should start talking about these chips being in iPods in 5-4-3-2.....
... Get your own domain and host your own e-mail. I use SquirrelMail (http://www.squirrelmail.org/) with SpamAssassin (http://www.squirrelmail.org/plugin_view.php?id=16 7) running on a PIII with Red Hat on it. The net result? Minimal SPAM and reliable e-mail that *I* control.
Problem solved IMHO.
IT'S A TRAP!
.... appears to be taking a page out of the M$ playbook and tying the device tightly to the OS to drive OS X sales. One would hope that he is also smart enough to have the phone be usable to users of Windows & *INX without hopping though hoops to do it.
Download it using the links below:
http://www.openoffice.org/
http://www.thinkfree.com/
.... That means that the RIAA can sue him for millions. After all, they go after retired people and single mothers on fixed incomes for thousands of dollars. Right?
You mean like the TuxPhone?_ Page
i t-capture-the-imagination-of-the-open-source-commu nity-072392.php
http://www.opencellphone.org/index.php?title=Main
Or the FIC Linux phone that SlashGear talked about last month?
http://www.slashgear.com/fic-linux-cellphone-can-
.... What makes us think that DHS wasn't already doing this (and they told nobody about it)?
.... Given that every 12 year old wannbe 1337 h4x0r has been using "off the shelf" tools to break into places like these fore years, not to mention the armies of botnets, wouldn't these companies have already taken steps to protect themselves against this sort of thing?
I'm just asking...
..... Lawsuit threat
.... But *WHY* is this stuff freely available? Shouldn't it be a controlled substance of some sort? It almost seems that there are drugs and booze that have tighter restrictions.
.... the French don't surrender, then this will be good.
..... Would it not make the U.S.A. no better than the terrorists? After all, isn't the Bush administration's logic the fact that we have free speech and the like?
......found this curious comment:
"Mr Putin himself has said Mr Litvinenko's death was a tragedy, but he saw no "definitive proof" it was a "violent death"."
Clearly the term "violent death" has a different definition in Russian than it does in English.
These cameras were likely sold at retail (read: Best Buy, Fry's, Circuit City, etc.). Therefore Sony has no clue who would have them (either that or they can't be bothered to hunt them down). Therefore it's up to the humans who (were dumb enough to) buy them to get Sony to fix them.
"This article is no different than "Some guy said that Sony sucked". (Which lots of slashdotters seem to say often)."
But do they swallow?
.... Affected by this recall, here's the list:
- eight-defective-cyber-shot-models/ which had SLIGHTLY more info than the original article.
DSC-F88
DSC-M1
DSC-T1
DSC-T11
DSC-T3
DSC-T33
DSC-U40
DSC-U50
I got this from http://www.engadget.com/2006/11/24/sony-to-recall
..... CUSTOMER RELATIONS.
FTA:
"Sony will repair for free only cameras that show signs of the problems, Kitsukawa said. He refused to say how many cameras might be affected."
If I had one of these cameras, I want a NEW camera. Period. End of sentence. How do I know that the defect is gone if it is fixed? With their track record of late, I don't. Presumably they have fixed the defect in their manufacturing environment, so why not send a new one out (maybe with a free memory stick or something) to get some POSITIVE mindshare?
I guess that would make too much sense or something.
.... I have to admit that when it comes to crime, they done a few good things for the universe. The best thing I can think of is besides the topics covered in this article CETS which is a Microsoft designed product to fight child pron/exploitation.
http://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/news/2005/n_0510_e.htm
Before we go bashing M$, maybe we should at least give an "attaboy" as they occasionally do good.