Planes can transmit "in real time" much more information than what they record by using the same satellites used for those fancy global radio phones
What nonsense, sat phones are limited to a couple of hundred kbps while modern data recorders can record megabits per second. I doubt the sat phone system as a whole could handle the thousands of planes flying at any one time constantly streaming data at anywhere near full speed either.
What would be practical, and something I've seen in articles about the Air France crash, is streaming a few basic flight parameters so that if the data recorders can't be recovered there is at least some data that can be used.
The UK is going backwards, they have started teaching Imperial units again in schools, and use of imperial measurements is now allowed again in shops that weigh produce
Really? I have neither heard of this happening or been able to find anything about this online. Got a source??
Samsung are being sued by Apple over design patents rather than utility patents.Basically the Samsung devices look too much like Apple devices.
Design patents are very narrow scope and deal with just the look of the device as opposed to invention patents and software patents that cover how a device works.
Captcha image is encoded using the user's password. To brute force you'd either need to check the captcha images for each password combination or brute force the whole string (password+captcha) which is twice as long so will take an order of magnitude longer.
There are plenty of other key stretching techniques so not sure why this is any better tho.
You can get a 3D effect by darkening one eye using the Pulfrich effect. Back in 1993 the BBC had a special 3D week where using 3D glasses with one clear eye and one darkened eye. Shows shot in a specific way would look 3D with the glasses but appear normal to users without the glasses.
Heres a hint, don't let the user be admins. Then they can't brake out of their account.....
Except in cases of privilege escalation exploits, and there's plenty of snooping that can be done by a program running under a user's context. I'm pretty sure most large corporate networks have all their non-techy users locked down, but that doesn't mean people can't still hack in through a non-admin account.
If anything it doesn't matter in your home because if you're parking it up in the garage you can just leave it charging overnight.
Where this would be handy is fast charging stations, where like petrol stations you can pull in and "fill up" in a few minutes. They can have specialised supplies installed capable of the high current needed.
Given that, curly brackets are clearly superfluous
If you denote blocks then you can indent automatically, but if you rely on white space like Python you can't rescue indentation or paste code into a block without having to edit the indentation (can any editors do this automatically yet?). If you press shift-tab one to many times in Python and don't notice you've destroyed all your blocks.
Now Ruby, that has block markers anyway ("end"). It's good practise to leave a line after the end of a block which } fills rather nicely, but to me "end" doesn't look as good unless you put an extra blank line after it.
If someStatement
DoSomething()
OrOther(someValue) CarryOn() AsYouWere()
-
If (someStatement) {
DoSomething()
OrOther(someValue) } CarryOn() AsYouWere()
-
If someStatement
DoSomething()
OrOther(someValue) end CarryOn() AsYouWere()
The code has to be a certain length in order to be unique, it has to be complex enough to take a while to crack, but write down one digit wrong (or slighly unreadable) and the code is invalid.
Do you actually have a source for any of that?
Code length - it doesn't have to be a GUID, they could easily recycle codes after a year or so once used. The public cycle hire here in London makes do with daily 5 digit codes made up of just 1, 2 or 3.
Complexity - has to take a while to crack? What's to crack, some super secret code?? You may as well just create a random text string and store that in a database along with the payment information.
Invalid codes - or maybe they could just come up with a fault tolerant code.
All in all I think this is a great idea and I hope they introduce it to England some time (you can already buy postage online but you've got to print out a barcode to tape to your package)
Man considered with himself, for in a way, Man, mentally, was one. He consisted of a trillion, trillion, trillion ageless bodies, each in its place, each resting quiet and incorruptible, each cared for by perfect automatons, equally incorruptible, while the minds of all the bodies freely melted one into the other, indistinguishable.
Em, did you listen to the video? "The moment the helium turns superfluid it leaks through". It's mostly leaking through the pours bottom, not climbing the sides. The very next segment of the video shows superfluid helium doing that, and it's dripping at a considerably slower rate than the previous demonstration.
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Planes can transmit "in real time" much more information than what they record by using the same satellites used for those fancy global radio phones
What nonsense, sat phones are limited to a couple of hundred kbps while modern data recorders can record megabits per second. I doubt the sat phone system as a whole could handle the thousands of planes flying at any one time constantly streaming data at anywhere near full speed either.
What would be practical, and something I've seen in articles about the Air France crash, is streaming a few basic flight parameters so that if the data recorders can't be recovered there is at least some data that can be used.
The UK is going backwards, they have started teaching Imperial units again in schools, and use of imperial measurements is now allowed again in shops that weigh produce
Really? I have neither heard of this happening or been able to find anything about this online. Got a source??
Samsung are being sued by Apple over design patents rather than utility patents.Basically the Samsung devices look too much like Apple devices.
Design patents are very narrow scope and deal with just the look of the device as opposed to invention patents and software patents that cover how a device works.
It could well count as entrapment tho depending on the details of the case.
Captcha image is encoded using the user's password. To brute force you'd either need to check the captcha images for each password combination or brute force the whole string (password+captcha) which is twice as long so will take an order of magnitude longer.
There are plenty of other key stretching techniques so not sure why this is any better tho.
You can get a 3D effect by darkening one eye using the Pulfrich effect. Back in 1993 the BBC had a special 3D week where using 3D glasses with one clear eye and one darkened eye. Shows shot in a specific way would look 3D with the glasses but appear normal to users without the glasses.
They even did a 3D Dr Who Special.
By its very nature all javascript source code is visible. It's probably been minified but you can still trace through and see exactly what it's doing.
Heres a hint, don't let the user be admins. Then they can't brake out of their account.....
Except in cases of privilege escalation exploits, and there's plenty of snooping that can be done by a program running under a user's context. I'm pretty sure most large corporate networks have all their non-techy users locked down, but that doesn't mean people can't still hack in through a non-admin account.
I met someone who worked at Myspace, they said they laying almost all their employees off this summer.
That's weird, because the "TextMate sucks" article linked to seems to conclude that NetBeans is the replacement, not emacs.
I second that, tho because of the way I hold a mouse I prefer the original (and still the best) Intellimouse, may they never discontinue it.
And send reconnaissance information back to the good guys
That's a rather large assumption about the motives of whoever is using these robots.
hell, LHM could just hack a Kinect into it.
You do know that Kinect blasts out a bright pattern of IR light to do it's depth mapping right?
If anything it doesn't matter in your home because if you're parking it up in the garage you can just leave it charging overnight.
Where this would be handy is fast charging stations, where like petrol stations you can pull in and "fill up" in a few minutes. They can have specialised supplies installed capable of the high current needed.
Given that, curly brackets are clearly superfluous
If you denote blocks then you can indent automatically, but if you rely on white space like Python you can't rescue indentation or paste code into a block without having to edit the indentation (can any editors do this automatically yet?). If you press shift-tab one to many times in Python and don't notice you've destroyed all your blocks.
Now Ruby, that has block markers anyway ("end"). It's good practise to leave a line after the end of a block which } fills rather nicely, but to me "end" doesn't look as good unless you put an extra blank line after it.
If someStatement
DoSomething()
OrOther(someValue)
CarryOn()
AsYouWere()
-
If (someStatement) {
DoSomething()
OrOther(someValue)
}
CarryOn()
AsYouWere()
-
If someStatement
DoSomething()
OrOther(someValue)
end
CarryOn()
AsYouWere()
Some nice coding shortcuts but I still think curly brackets are the best way to denote blocks, anyone got arguments against using them?
"Drizzle - A database for the cloud"
"Lightweight database for Web applications and Cloud infrastructure"
I see what they did there.
The code has to be a certain length in order to be unique, it has to be complex enough to take a while to crack, but write down one digit wrong (or slighly unreadable) and the code is invalid.
Do you actually have a source for any of that?
Code length - it doesn't have to be a GUID, they could easily recycle codes after a year or so once used. The public cycle hire here in London makes do with daily 5 digit codes made up of just 1, 2 or 3.
Complexity - has to take a while to crack? What's to crack, some super secret code?? You may as well just create a random text string and store that in a database along with the payment information.
Invalid codes - or maybe they could just come up with a fault tolerant code.
All in all I think this is a great idea and I hope they introduce it to England some time (you can already buy postage online but you've got to print out a barcode to tape to your package)
Having video output from an arduino would be useful for all sorts of projects, not just games.
But, would it be a cave spaceman or a space caveman??
Can Bing haz overtook Yahoo!?
From "The last question"
Man considered with himself, for in a way, Man, mentally, was one. He consisted of a trillion, trillion, trillion ageless bodies, each in its place, each resting quiet and incorruptible, each cared for by perfect automatons, equally incorruptible, while the minds of all the bodies freely melted one into the other, indistinguishable.
To be fair you can use Move happily on a PC and I don't remember Sony making a fuss about it http://code.google.com/p/moveonpc/
Em, did you listen to the video? "The moment the helium turns superfluid it leaks through". It's mostly leaking through the pours bottom, not climbing the sides. The very next segment of the video shows superfluid helium doing that, and it's dripping at a considerably slower rate than the previous demonstration.
Superfluid helium can leak through containers that normal liquid helium can't.