It's insane to suggest that it is some inherent property of laptops that makes an otherwise perfect student waste time in class.
For many tasks, laptops are an ideal way to take notes for anybody, and they can be vital for people with bad handwriting or dyslexia. Banning laptops would be catastrophic for the above, and would serve only to make time-wasters go back to passing notes or something.
Instead of making us all look like Apple-style "ha, we can do $APP" fanboys, you should explain why. Deranged partition scheme aside, Maemo is pretty much a typical GNU/Linux distro, complete with glibc and xorg. It also comes with modified versions of GTK+ and Qt, to make interfaces work nicely on a touchscreen.
Any Linux application can be ported trivially unless it doesn't compile on ARM for some reason, and will work fine unless it is extremely CPU-intensive or works badly on a small screen.
That's easy: local gaming has mostly gone to the Wii, and you and I don't really play with the Wii. This flowchart is surprisingly true as well as being funny.
Forgot to say: to me, the incident has an eerie similarity to the transcripts of intercepted Russian communications during the KAL007 shootdown. The same situation occurs: the pilot fails to report all the information he has (thought unlike the Apache crew, he doesn't appear to mislead intentionally), and is ordered to fire based on his own flawed information, leaving the same ambiguity as to who's fault the casualties are.
If you watched the full one you know that at several points they asked for clearance to fire, and spent some time trying to figure the situation out.
If you watched the full video, you'd know that they got clearance because they claimed they'd seen an RPG (it was a camera, but they could've just been stupid at that point), and then claim it has been fired (which they cannot possibly believe).
It is conceivable that they mistook the event at 2:43 in the YouTube video, when the (large) camera was pointed directly at them, as an RPG being aimed at them, but if anyone was looking down the camera that the recording came from, they knew it wasn't fired. Again, immediately after this happens, they report on the radio that an RPG was fired, not just aimed. From the transcript: "02:23 Yeah, we had a guy shoot". (Time difference is due to 25 seconds of text at the start of the YouTube video).
Yep, T-Mobile UK's Content Filter has an awful lot of false positives. They also fail to tell you that you can call customer services; the block page claims instead that you have to verify your age, either by putting in a CC number (I only have a debit card) or by going to a TMob shop with ID and announcing that you are a pervert in front of everybody.
I ended up ringing customer services when I found that the Windows Live Messenger sign-up page was blocked (my employer had asked me to get an account). I had assumed they only agreed to fix it over the phone because I was taking a "it's broken and I need it for work, now" line.
if classified, it would be CIA. FBI has nether mandate, nether authority to declare anything 'classified'.
Citation needed. In addition to being a law-enforcement agency, the FBI is the USA's domestic intelligence agency (actually a slightly weird state of affairs, if you're used to countries that like to keep military and civilian stuff separate). That means that, in theory, it does the same sort of stuff the CIA does, if said stuff happens within the USA - the American equivalent of MI5 and MI6, respectively (in practise, the CIA has been caught operating inside America quite a few times). For example, the FBI were responsible for investigating the recently broken Russian spy ring, and for arresting various spies throughout WWII and the Cold War.
I am sorry; I was indicating that China is likely to come to North Korea's aid if NK decides to start a war with SK.
Even before the leaked cables, it was pretty obvious that, unless the Chinese government is completely insane, they don't want to let NK declare World War III on their behalf. Lately, the cables have made this rather more explicit.
Submarines don't surface to launch ballistic missiles. They come near to the surface, communicate using an antenna on a small buoy, then launch from just below the surface. See this this pic from Wikipedia.
Are there anecdotes from one or two players (or even fifty) who this happened to?
Seriously? Read the two comments directly above your own.
What makes you think those players AREN'T pirates? I ask because I'm a console game developer and we've seen piracy rates in the 90 to 95% range, measured through various measures
Clearly, every single person who plays your game is a pirate. Fuck with all of 'em all by making your games not work properly!
GTA IV had a copy-protection prank too: the pirated game plays fine until you get in to a car, which then accelerates uncontrolably while handling as if the character has been drinking.
Pretty funny, but it did bite a lot of legit, paying customers, contributing to the general verdict that the game was much too buggy at release.
Note that it is US officials that are saying he's pissing off Russia. It's looking a little bit as if they might be preparing to play by those Russian rules and hope someone else gets the blame.
I presume the main purpose of this is analyzing the communication between a USB device and its proprietary Windows driver. Wouldn't it be easier to modify virtualization software to do this? Qemu can already connect a real USB device to a virtual machine (see its "-usbdevice host:" option).
Being removable storage, microSD has more uses than just extending your disk space.
Yesterday, I put a microSD card from somebody else's camera in my N900, so we could put a slideshow of the photos on a TV.
The N900's slot is not under the battery, and maemo unmounts the card's filesystem when you remove the phone's back cover, making it possible to just put in a card, use it, and remove it with no reboot, which seems to me to be a perfectly reasonable way to use removable media.
Terrorists on planes tend to dress very normally to avoid suspicion.
When you complain about people in strange clothing not being subjected to extra humiliating checks, you're just voicing some kind of gut instinct to punish entire cultures you seem to consider your enemy. Just like, say, Bin Laden.
Well done! It's actually there because people are more likely to know that cat won't write to the file than that strings won't, and I think it makes people more likely to try it.
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But shorting D+ and D- has a fixed meaning: a device can draw up 1.8A.
It's insane to suggest that it is some inherent property of laptops that makes an otherwise perfect student waste time in class.
For many tasks, laptops are an ideal way to take notes for anybody, and they can be vital for people with bad handwriting or dyslexia. Banning laptops would be catastrophic for the above, and would serve only to make time-wasters go back to passing notes or something.
Instead of making us all look like Apple-style "ha, we can do $APP" fanboys, you should explain why. Deranged partition scheme aside, Maemo is pretty much a typical GNU/Linux distro, complete with glibc and xorg. It also comes with modified versions of GTK+ and Qt, to make interfaces work nicely on a touchscreen. Any Linux application can be ported trivially unless it doesn't compile on ARM for some reason, and will work fine unless it is extremely CPU-intensive or works badly on a small screen.
In this case, however, the previous version's source is available as a starting point. Remember XFree86?
That's easy: local gaming has mostly gone to the Wii, and you and I don't really play with the Wii.
This flowchart is surprisingly true as well as being funny.
(Deep breath)
When we have colonised the entire observable Universe (at a (hugely over)estimated one habitable planet per star), our descendants* will be able to own about three-quarters of a million cellphones each.**
If you mean we should skip a step while we're at it, we are: we're going straight from 32-bit to 128-bit, rather than 64-bit.
* In before "this is Slashdot".
** 715,925 cellphones should be enough for anyone!
Forgot to say: to me, the incident has an eerie similarity to the transcripts of intercepted Russian communications during the KAL007 shootdown. The same situation occurs: the pilot fails to report all the information he has (thought unlike the Apache crew, he doesn't appear to mislead intentionally), and is ordered to fire based on his own flawed information, leaving the same ambiguity as to who's fault the casualties are.
If you watched the full video, you'd know that they got clearance because they claimed they'd seen an RPG (it was a camera, but they could've just been stupid at that point), and then claim it has been fired (which they cannot possibly believe).
It is conceivable that they mistook the event at 2:43 in the YouTube video, when the (large) camera was pointed directly at them, as an RPG being aimed at them, but if anyone was looking down the camera that the recording came from, they knew it wasn't fired. Again, immediately after this happens, they report on the radio that an RPG was fired, not just aimed. From the transcript: "02:23 Yeah, we had a guy shoot". (Time difference is due to 25 seconds of text at the start of the YouTube video).
Heh.
Yep, T-Mobile UK's Content Filter has an awful lot of false positives. They also fail to tell you that you can call customer services; the block page claims instead that you have to verify your age, either by putting in a CC number (I only have a debit card) or by going to a TMob shop with ID and announcing that you are a pervert in front of everybody.
I ended up ringing customer services when I found that the Windows Live Messenger sign-up page was blocked (my employer had asked me to get an account). I had assumed they only agreed to fix it over the phone because I was taking a "it's broken and I need it for work, now" line.
Citation needed. In addition to being a law-enforcement agency, the FBI is the USA's domestic intelligence agency (actually a slightly weird state of affairs, if you're used to countries that like to keep military and civilian stuff separate). That means that, in theory, it does the same sort of stuff the CIA does, if said stuff happens within the USA - the American equivalent of MI5 and MI6, respectively (in practise, the CIA has been caught operating inside America quite a few times). For example, the FBI were responsible for investigating the recently broken Russian spy ring, and for arresting various spies throughout WWII and the Cold War.
http://www.fbi.gov/stats-services/law-enforcement/clearance/ might help too.
Even before the leaked cables, it was pretty obvious that, unless the Chinese government is completely insane, they don't want to let NK declare World War III on their behalf. Lately, the cables have made this rather more explicit.
Submarines don't surface to launch ballistic missiles. They come near to the surface, communicate using an antenna on a small buoy, then launch from just below the surface. See this this pic from Wikipedia.
Let's tag this story "troll" and move on quickly.
Seriously? Read the two comments directly above your own.
Clearly, every single person who plays your game is a pirate. Fuck with all of 'em all by making your games not work properly!
GTA IV had a copy-protection prank too: the pirated game plays fine until you get in to a car, which then accelerates uncontrolably while handling as if the character has been drinking.
Pretty funny, but it did bite a lot of legit, paying customers, contributing to the general verdict that the game was much too buggy at release.
Mod parent funny. I think that bit really sets the tone for the rest of the summary.
Maybe they found a way to make a retail PS3 think it's a debug unit?
Note that it is US officials that are saying he's pissing off Russia. It's looking a little bit as if they might be preparing to play by those Russian rules and hope someone else gets the blame.
Why does this need to be implemented in hardware?
I presume the main purpose of this is analyzing the communication between a USB device and its proprietary Windows driver. Wouldn't it be easier to modify virtualization software to do this? Qemu can already connect a real USB device to a virtual machine (see its "-usbdevice host:" option).
Isn't it awesome when a new version of your OS performs *better* than the last one on the same hardware?
Being removable storage, microSD has more uses than just extending your disk space.
Yesterday, I put a microSD card from somebody else's camera in my N900, so we could put a slideshow of the photos on a TV.
The N900's slot is not under the battery, and maemo unmounts the card's filesystem when you remove the phone's back cover, making it possible to just put in a card, use it, and remove it with no reboot, which seems to me to be a perfectly reasonable way to use removable media.
How many people in burkas have blown up planes?
Terrorists on planes tend to dress very normally to avoid suspicion.
When you complain about people in strange clothing not being subjected to extra humiliating checks, you're just voicing some kind of gut instinct to punish entire cultures you seem to consider your enemy. Just like, say, Bin Laden.
Specifically, this one is much cooler.
Well done! It's actually there because people are more likely to know that cat won't write to the file than that strings won't, and I think it makes people more likely to try it.