I have mod points, but there's no Funny (-1), and that's the only thing appropriate here. I suggest this post be modded Funny by 3 people, then Overrated by 5 people.
I have an uncle who lives near Buffalo, and his business takes him into Canada at least two or three times a week. Now that a passport is required for that, this should be a nice asset and time saver for him. Actually, I should probably shoot him an email...
I could also see this being a nice convienence for people going on Carribean cruises that leave from Miami, or Baja cruises leaving from LA. Especially once other states start picking this up.
That defeats the whole point of remote storage though. What if your house burns down/floods/gets robbed?
It's the Paranoid's Folly: keep all your eggs in one basket, or store them where you can't always seem them?
"Because" you don't seem to know how big the Earth actually is, I'll just explain why this is nowhere NEAR that happening. These subs are going to about 6,000 meters. The radius of the earth is about 6,000,000 meters.
I wasn't entirely serious. Encryption is obviously needed to prevent any sniffers from grabbing and spoofing a MAC, but I would honestly like for somebody to spoof a MAC and get onto my network.
That would mean there's at least one other person in my apartment complex that knows what they're doing, and possibly a new friend. And as long as they're not from the **AA, I've got nothing to hide, and pleanty to share.
I have to wonder how many of these "unsecured" networks are setup with MAC address filtering. My home network looks unsecured at first glance, but try getting it to hand out an IP address without being on the whitelist.
This seems too easy, probably would have been done already.
Not necessarially. You know all of those "Why didn't I think of that?" moments? You just may be ahead of the curve on this one.
Infrared light should work pretty well. Point an IR remote at a camcorder sometime and press a button. I wouldn't be surprised if you could make the entire movie screen appear as a bright light to the camcorder, just by shining a nice, bright IR light at it during the movie.
Unfortunately, this "copyright protection" scheme is as easily broken as any other: Buy a cheap IR filter lense for your camera.
OK, went ahead and RTFA. And it still doesn't seem that bad. Yeah, that dangling sphere with the fingerprint taker is pretty damn scary. But the law isn't going to require that. All it's going to do is require that online universities do a better job of authenticating students taking tests that will give them degrees.
It's either have a proctor watch you, or be required to travel to a branch of the university (at student expense) and take the test locally. If it were up to me, I'd rather have somebody watching me on a webcam during a final exam than pay hundreds of dollars for a trip to the school.
After the test, I unplug the camera, and put it away in it's box. I really don't see what the issue is here.
That's the trouble with real earth-shaking truth, it sounds almost indistinguishable from lunacy. You gotta wonder if there is a percentage of our locked-away crazies who are telling us the truth and we're just too thick to see it.
Please listen to this man! I'm not crazy! The robots are going to take over and kill us all! Skynet! SKYNET!!!
I'm not sure if there's a name for it, but I'm sure others of you have experienced the following optical illusion:
There have been times where I was driving on the interstate just before dawn, on my way home from working all night, and very tired. A mild curve was coming up ahead of me, with simple reflectors on poles to make the curve easier to see. Unfortunately, my depth perception apparently wasn't working (due to fatigue), and I saw the reflectors as a straight line.
This caused me to slam on my brakes (at 75mph) hard enough that I had to fight from the car spinning out of control. If there'd been anybody close to me, I definately would have caused an accident.
Assuming this tech works as advertized, it would have prevented this near-accident (and the misaligning of my wheels that it caused). Should also be useful in heavy fog/blizzard conditions.
From the FAQ, they expect products based on this technology to start hitting shelves within three years. It seems that at present, their new cells start to break down pretty quickly (within a matter of months), so they need to get longevity hammered out before these things become commercially viable.
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I have mod points, but there's no Funny (-1), and that's the only thing appropriate here.
I suggest this post be modded Funny by 3 people, then Overrated by 5 people.
I selected "Plain Old Text"! I swear!
Oh well, guess I should have had one more cup of coffee.
1) Write down kid's name 2) Buy stock in whoever picks him up 3) Profit! Hang on, I've got too many filled out steps...
I have an uncle who lives near Buffalo, and his business takes him into Canada at least two or three times a week. Now that a passport is required for that, this should be a nice asset and time saver for him. Actually, I should probably shoot him an email...
I could also see this being a nice convienence for people going on Carribean cruises that leave from Miami, or Baja cruises leaving from LA. Especially once other states start picking this up.
Syntax error: Possibly infinate loop.
Titanium Dioxide can also be found in McDonalds (and others) honey mustard. Just putting that out there...
That defeats the whole point of remote storage though. What if your house burns down/floods/gets robbed? It's the Paranoid's Folly: keep all your eggs in one basket, or store them where you can't always seem them?
"Because" you don't seem to know how big the Earth actually is, I'll just explain why this is nowhere NEAR that happening. These subs are going to about 6,000 meters. The radius of the earth is about 6,000,000 meters.
I wasn't entirely serious. Encryption is obviously needed to prevent any sniffers from grabbing and spoofing a MAC, but I would honestly like for somebody to spoof a MAC and get onto my network. That would mean there's at least one other person in my apartment complex that knows what they're doing, and possibly a new friend. And as long as they're not from the **AA, I've got nothing to hide, and pleanty to share.
I have to wonder how many of these "unsecured" networks are setup with MAC address filtering. My home network looks unsecured at first glance, but try getting it to hand out an IP address without being on the whitelist.
You should be careful going to this "Slashdot" site. There's some seedy stuff around that place. Trust me, I went there once myself.
Not necessarially. You know all of those "Why didn't I think of that?" moments? You just may be ahead of the curve on this one.
Infrared light should work pretty well. Point an IR remote at a camcorder sometime and press a button. I wouldn't be surprised if you could make the entire movie screen appear as a bright light to the camcorder, just by shining a nice, bright IR light at it during the movie.
Unfortunately, this "copyright protection" scheme is as easily broken as any other: Buy a cheap IR filter lense for your camera.
Vegas is anything but sterile...
Wow, those Aliens have a pretty crappy economy.
OK, went ahead and RTFA. And it still doesn't seem that bad. Yeah, that dangling sphere with the fingerprint taker is pretty damn scary. But the law isn't going to require that. All it's going to do is require that online universities do a better job of authenticating students taking tests that will give them degrees.
It's either have a proctor watch you, or be required to travel to a branch of the university (at student expense) and take the test locally. If it were up to me, I'd rather have somebody watching me on a webcam during a final exam than pay hundreds of dollars for a trip to the school.
After the test, I unplug the camera, and put it away in it's box. I really don't see what the issue is here.
This article is setting off my FUDDAR. Summary written to make the new law sound worse than it likely will be, and ommiting the reasons behind it.
Obviously they were too busy covering up the aliens to worry about Watergate. Duh.
Please listen to this man! I'm not crazy! The robots are going to take over and kill us all! Skynet! SKYNET!!!
There have been times where I was driving on the interstate just before dawn, on my way home from working all night, and very tired. A mild curve was coming up ahead of me, with simple reflectors on poles to make the curve easier to see. Unfortunately, my depth perception apparently wasn't working (due to fatigue), and I saw the reflectors as a straight line.
This caused me to slam on my brakes (at 75mph) hard enough that I had to fight from the car spinning out of control. If there'd been anybody close to me, I definately would have caused an accident.
Assuming this tech works as advertized, it would have prevented this near-accident (and the misaligning of my wheels that it caused). Should also be useful in heavy fog/blizzard conditions.
I'm sorry, but your $.02 is now worth only $.015
I don't know about that. The US seems to have a much better track record (not to mention successful firsts) when it comes to Mars than Russia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration_of_Mars#Timeline_of_Mars_exploration
Cheeky cheesheads captaining charring chariots competing for CEO's contentment. There you go.
This solution contains rubber bands, but is detrimentally lacking in duct tape.
So who's your insurance company? These sound like people I might want to do business with.
From the FAQ, they expect products based on this technology to start hitting shelves within three years. It seems that at present, their new cells start to break down pretty quickly (within a matter of months), so they need to get longevity hammered out before these things become commercially viable.