The guy didn't exactly steal the legos (or LEGO bricks, for the anal-retentative). He pulled the ol' UPC-swap trick on the store. What do you want to bet the retail market will use cases like this to try to push for RFID tagging of products? "If we only had RFID tags in all of the products we sell this never would have happened, and we would have saved our shareholders tons of money."
If you look on the bricks themself you will see LEGO printed on each dot. And the box says LEGO.
Hey, the Mountain Dew on my desk in front of me says "Mountain Dew" right on the can. I guess I can't talk about drinking two Mountain Dews, can I?
The website refers to the product as LEGO.
That's because the website uses the word more as an adjective than as a noun. It's always "LEGO building sets" or "LEGO bricks". But the word "LEGO" has become sort of a generic term to refer to the style of building blocks (probably to mixed feeling from the LEGO people). Just as I can refer to a box of bandaids, when they're really Band-Aid brand bandages, I can also refer to legos instead of LEGO brand building blocks.
The article even explains the etymology of the word.
And the word "ninja" comes from Japanese, which lacks plurals (sort of). The correct way to talk about multiple of the assassins would be "lots of ninja attacked me". Doesn't stop me from saying "ninjas", though.
Am I the only one who originally read the title as "Particle Accelerators Move to Open Source" and was preparing a "Beowolf cluster of strangelets" reply before realizing the truth?
Although that's a rough approximation, it certainly puts the magnitude of effort cracking these numbers involves
Also bear in mind that increasing the size of the number by a single binary digit doubles the search space needed to find a solution. RSA-640 has, obviously, 640 binary digits. However, most common RSA keys have at least 1024 bits, and some have upwards of 4000 bits. Do the math and you can see that there's a loooong way to go before anything that is currently being used will be cracked in any reasonable time.
I'll believe this method works if I can join a Halo 3 game as a level 1 player and not have my ass kicked.
It's not possible to guarantee that. Even if the ranking system puts you in a game with other newbie players, it has no idea what any of the players' skill levels are prior to them playing their first match. However, after getting your ass kicked a couple of times, the ranking system should be able to more reliably group you with players of an approximately equal skill level.
But it is necessary that your very first game is more likely to have some major asskicking, and you may be on the giving end or the receiving end depending on your prior, unrecorded experience.
It's not that they won't track it, it's that they likely can't. The DoT is being provided aggregate data by the cell phone company. If the cell company decides to give them specific enough data, then the DoT could probably use it to track individuals. However, it's highly unlikely that the cell companies would hand over that much data, and just as unlikely that the DoT would want to have to handle such a large amount of specific data when a smaller batch of aggregate data would do just as well.
Simply put - the trees are not on a farm, they're first-growth temperate rainforest trees.
They may not be on a traditional farm-type piece of land, but they usually are replanted after harvesting, and the same location is re-harvested whenever possible. So the grandparent was right when he stated that pulpwood is a farm crop.
And I don't see what clearcutting has to do with it. As long as it's not a eyesore (and you state that it's usually done in remote areas) then it generally makes sense to harvest all of the crop of trees. The only exception I can think of is that, in some circumstances, erosion might be worsened by clearcutting. However, as you said, many companies are now practicing selective logging, probably for that exact reason.
Every time humanity does something that was once impossible, someone has to comment that we're "playing god". But genetic engineering makes us no more or less guilty of that than, say, animal husbandry. Same concept, different mechanism.
Take antibiotics, for example. They were supposed to be able to cure so many things... but the viruses and bacteria learn to get around them.
Antibiotics don't work on viruses in the first place. Never did. And bacteria don't "learn" to get around them so much as our misuse of antibiotics kills the susceptible bacteria and leaves the resistant ones to multiply, so that the next time the antibiotic is less effective. Not that the resistant bacteria are some sort of "super bugs" or anything. They just happen to be resistant to one specific method that was used to kill them. Evolution at its finest.
Why don't you go out this monday night and grab a bunch of kids trick or treat bags... its all stealing, either way you look at it!
Sigh. Not this again. No, it's not stealing. At worst, it's copyright infringement, although the [MP|RI]AA seems to be doing a decent job of convincing everyone otherwise.
A better analogy would be if you had access to a replicating machine, and little kids allowed you to use it to make copies of their candy. Still, even that analogy breaks down when you consider that movies, unlike candy, are not consumable.
Perhaps a better analogy would be going into a library and photocopying one of the books so that you could take it home and read it at your leisure. If you saw someone walking out of the library with such a copy, would you point and shout "Thief! Thief!", in the same manner which you might if you saw a shoplifter shove a dozen DVDs down their pants and try to leave the store? No? Then it's not stealing.
Why not just throw the damned thing away? I don't own a cell phone and never will. If you can't get me at home / work then it means I don't want to be gotten!
I don't want to be gotten most of the time, either. But having a cell phone is incredibly useful for when I want to get somebody else, and I'm not at home or at work. After all, you can't always find a pay phone these days. And if you really don't want anyone to bother you when you're not near a landline, then just turn your phone off until you need it (or put it on silent mode).
Am I the only person on the planet who doesn't use instant messaging? I find that it allows my online life to intrude into my real life just enough to be annoying. If you have something important to say to me, call me on my cell phone. If it's not that urgernt, or you don't know me well enough to have my cell phone number, email me.
If you don't know me well enough to have my phone number, and you still think that what you have to say is so important that you have to get in touch with me right now, then you're probably mistaken.
It doesn't just take out the buttons; it flashes the firmware with junk, preventing the PSP from even booting.
What if someone accidentally downloads this virus, then isn't able to use their PSP anymore because they can't wipe the memory clean? Who is responsible then?
The user is, of course. The trojan is disguised as a firmware downgrader, and there's no way in hell that Sony is going to reimburse a person who was trying to "hack" their PSP. I'm pretty sure that there's something in the PSP boilerplate that covers that, but I'm too lazy to look.
Do they have to physically open the device and set a jumper to clear the memory?
There is no jumper. The memory has to be rewritten by an EEPROM programmer, which I doubt that any normal user is going to have access to. Sony won't send you a new PSP, and I don't doubt that, if anyone out there were able to reflash the PSP's firmware, Sony would be suing them under the DMCA or something.
In other words, this trojan turns your PSP into a $250 paperweight/brick, hence the name.
If you don't like it, plug in a gamecube controller.
Excpet I'm sure that there are going to be some games that you have to use the 3D controller to play. Not that that's a bad thing, though, as they'll be designed to take advantage of the controller.
The main question here is 3rd party support. Of course, Nintendo makes awesome 1st party games. They always have. But how many 3rd parties will commit themselves to a console where the primary method of controlling the game just doesn't translate to other consoles? They'll either have to
A) make the game primarily for the Revolution, but with a control scheme that can easily be ported (i.e. doesn't take full advantage of the revolution controller) B) Make the game primarily for other consoles, and hack together a Rev-controller interface (i.e. doesn't take full advantage of the revolution controller) or C) Make the game a Revolution exclusive, severely limiting their potential audience, and thus potential sales.
The only way out is for this style of controller to become so wildly popular that other consoles create their own versions of the same control style (possible), or license the tech from Nintendo (not likely).
So while I'll be getting a Revolution next year, I don't really suspect that there will be too many games that take full advantage of its revolutionary controller.
If they're installing homebrew software, they probably weren't interested in the "real" games to begin with.
Which is bad news for Sony. They're selling the PSP at a loss and hoping to recoup the money by selling (and licensing) games. If people start buying the PSP with no intention of playing actual PSP games on it, Sony's going to lose money.
As I understand it, most of the fuel that you expend in a standard launch is there to make sure that the rest of the fuel can make it high enough to finally push the payload into orbit.
With a space elevator, you're no longer required to accelerate several dozens of tons (>90% of which is just fuel) up to 7 miles/second just to get a 500lb satellite in orbit. The cost savings would be huge.
Now granted, you'll still have to haul some fuel up the elevator, but it's like the difference between climbing the stairs to reach the top of the Empire State Building vs. jumping to the top from street level in one bound.
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The guy didn't exactly steal the legos (or LEGO bricks, for the anal-retentative). He pulled the ol' UPC-swap trick on the store. What do you want to bet the retail market will use cases like this to try to push for RFID tagging of products? "If we only had RFID tags in all of the products we sell this never would have happened, and we would have saved our shareholders tons of money."
I guess that hypnotic suggestion to never use linebreaks hasn't worn off yet.
Am I the only one who originally read the title as "Particle Accelerators Move to Open Source" and was preparing a "Beowolf cluster of strangelets" reply before realizing the truth?
They're not censoring Usenet, they're just no longer providing their own news server.
should be enough for anyone."
But it is necessary that your very first game is more likely to have some major asskicking, and you may be on the giving end or the receiving end depending on your prior, unrecorded experience.
You don't need you to actually be talking on the phone, it just needs to be turned on.
It's not that they won't track it, it's that they likely can't. The DoT is being provided aggregate data by the cell phone company. If the cell company decides to give them specific enough data, then the DoT could probably use it to track individuals. However, it's highly unlikely that the cell companies would hand over that much data, and just as unlikely that the DoT would want to have to handle such a large amount of specific data when a smaller batch of aggregate data would do just as well.
And I don't see what clearcutting has to do with it. As long as it's not a eyesore (and you state that it's usually done in remote areas) then it generally makes sense to harvest all of the crop of trees. The only exception I can think of is that, in some circumstances, erosion might be worsened by clearcutting. However, as you said, many companies are now practicing selective logging, probably for that exact reason.
A better analogy would be if you had access to a replicating machine, and little kids allowed you to use it to make copies of their candy. Still, even that analogy breaks down when you consider that movies, unlike candy, are not consumable.
Perhaps a better analogy would be going into a library and photocopying one of the books so that you could take it home and read it at your leisure. If you saw someone walking out of the library with such a copy, would you point and shout "Thief! Thief!", in the same manner which you might if you saw a shoplifter shove a dozen DVDs down their pants and try to leave the store? No? Then it's not stealing.
So it runs Java?
Am I the only person on the planet who doesn't use instant messaging? I find that it allows my online life to intrude into my real life just enough to be annoying. If you have something important to say to me, call me on my cell phone. If it's not that urgernt, or you don't know me well enough to have my cell phone number, email me.
If you don't know me well enough to have my phone number, and you still think that what you have to say is so important that you have to get in touch with me right now, then you're probably mistaken.
In other words, this trojan turns your PSP into a $250 paperweight/brick, hence the name.
I think you mean:
PyErr_SetString(PyExc_OverflowError, "Gator overflow in digestion buffer");
http://web.archive.org/web/20001110012400/http://
In other words, take any deadline that Paul Moller gives you with a big ol' honkin' chunk of NaCl.
The main question here is 3rd party support. Of course, Nintendo makes awesome 1st party games. They always have. But how many 3rd parties will commit themselves to a console where the primary method of controlling the game just doesn't translate to other consoles? They'll either have to
A) make the game primarily for the Revolution, but with a control scheme that can easily be ported (i.e. doesn't take full advantage of the revolution controller)
B) Make the game primarily for other consoles, and hack together a Rev-controller interface (i.e. doesn't take full advantage of the revolution controller) or
C) Make the game a Revolution exclusive, severely limiting their potential audience, and thus potential sales.
The only way out is for this style of controller to become so wildly popular that other consoles create their own versions of the same control style (possible), or license the tech from Nintendo (not likely).
So while I'll be getting a Revolution next year, I don't really suspect that there will be too many games that take full advantage of its revolutionary controller.
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Why is this article here, again?
As I understand it, most of the fuel that you expend in a standard launch is there to make sure that the rest of the fuel can make it high enough to finally push the payload into orbit.
With a space elevator, you're no longer required to accelerate several dozens of tons (>90% of which is just fuel) up to 7 miles/second just to get a 500lb satellite in orbit. The cost savings would be huge.
Now granted, you'll still have to haul some fuel up the elevator, but it's like the difference between climbing the stairs to reach the top of the Empire State Building vs. jumping to the top from street level in one bound.
Hold on, didn't you invent one of those last year?