You know, really, I think the government reactions to terrorism have and will hurt this country more than the destruction of two sky scrapers and the loss of thousands of lives.
Which is exactly whatt they wanted! The goal of terrorists is not to destroy buildings (though they do that to achieve their goal) but to spread terror: to make people/govt afraid and life painful and unpleasant. Apparently they succeeded at that.
Of course, all a hacker needs to do is keep an older model x86 or PPC system around. Obsolete computers are a dime a dozen, and you can keep them running for decades.
My first idea too. Problem is that the hosts will probably check for this ID and deny access (or give error 404 especially for you) if you can't supply one.
GNOME is more bloated than I'd like, and occasionally wonky if you are the type that wants to hole up in a dark closet, under a blanket and "play with yourself"...
My grandfather had a saying he taught me(and pardon me for some downhomey common sense), but it was popular among he and his friends, and they were very well adjusted people:
Believe half of what you hear, and nothing that you see.
Then again, at that age he was only half deaf, but completely blind...
However it is a bit frustrating to see all these post lately 'build $$$ device at peanut cost' which then usually involve having all kinds of stuff in advance, e.g. "cannibalising a few of the lens- and body covers that most of us have laying around."
As everyone knows a compass does not point to the north pole. A bit lesser known is that it also does NOT point to the magnetic north pole. It simply aligns with the magnetic field lines at the point where you put it. This should be no surprise because it can easily be deflected using a magnet (which locally changes the field lines). Even when no magnet is nearby the tangent to the field lines need not necessarily point to the magnetic north (e.g. when the soil contains a lot of iron ore) although it is general more or less in that direction.
From a strictly Darwinian standpoint, this would explain why birds don't live very long. A bird that lives longer will experience more of the shift during its lifetime. During a shift, more of them will become lost and confused
It is really doubtful that the reversal of the magnetic field is in the critical path of the aging of birds. Birds are in general small animals. Small animals tend not to live long, probably because their hearts tend to beat faster and therefore are worn out sooner (but that's just my assumption).
Better question would be: "how many HDTV channels do you have access to?". Most likely the answer is in between 0 and 3 (in Europe). I know a TV salesman that didn't get rid of the only HDTV he ever installed in his shop. Now he uses it himself. It is a great TV, but it has to see its first HDTV signal yet.
bleurk. Must be nice to be treated like a parolee by your parents... really inculcates that sense of responsibility. Ah well, you get the kids you deserve--and then we all deal with the consequences.
They do not switch instantaneously from conductive to non-conductive. So one stops conducting while the other is starting to conduct, and for a brief instant while the inputs are changing state both transistors are conducting a little.
Even if they don't EVER conduct (even a little) at the same time there will be dissipation because the capacitance is charged and discharged all the time. Each of these cycles implies that some positive charge moves between the power supply and ground with the capacitor as an intermediate step. This is why the dissipation is proportional to the clock frequency.
It is not necessarily a dumb idea but isn't it likely that they will give away more info to the competition than they will receive from the community? Whoever can come up with good ideas probably works in the industry, either with Sun (no need to share) or the competition (d'OH).
Not agreed.
If you are a slacker, group pressure will only make you camouflage the slacking, not work harder. IMHO working hard is an attitude, it has nothing to do with others, only with yourself. At least that is my experience.
Indeed, this is a story of at least one year old. Actually Slashdot is sort of a quiz site. For beginners with poor memory there are dupes of only a few days old, sometimes same day. For more advanced competitors there are dupes of years old for you to detect.
The incidence of liver disease among non-hepatitis infected people is incredibly small. If you take all comers it is 12th among cause of death (lower than suicde) according to the NIH (pdf of causes of death).
Small sidenote (bit OT): here in Belgium suicide is the nr 1 cause of death among people in between 25 and 45 or so. Very sad. Nordic countries are said to be even worse.
Your suggestions have been addressed a long time ago.
One of the problems associated with the first generation of hearing aids (besides unstability) was that the 'cocktail-party effect'. If you are at a gathering of many people (such as a cocktail party), people with normal hearing are able to focus on a nearby conversation and block out the others. Initially hearing aids could not do this but more recent models have an increased sensitivity in the direction right in front of you.
To achieve this multiple microphones are used. Even wireless communication between the left-ear hearing aid and the right-ear hearing aid is now being investigated. Also denoising, dereverberation (removal of room effects to make sound more clear) are investigated. I work in signal processing myself and this is a very active area of research.
One step further are cochlear implants. For people with total hearing loss but intact nerves in the inner ear it is possible to attach electronic contacts (obviously through an operation as these contacts are inside their skull!). Apparently sensitivity to signals of different frequency resides at different areas in the ear, therefore the incoming sound is decomposed into a number of frequency bands, the output is which is sent to the appropriate area. This technology can really make (some) deaf people hear and have conversations. However, the dynamic range is very limited iirc, 8 dBs or so.
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?
Of course you can. It's a free country. You could even say 'cat' to a dog. But a difference between Mountain Dew and Lego is that the latter explicitely request not to refer to their product as 'legos'.
From Wikipedia: Please always refer to our bricks as 'LEGO Bricks or Toys' and not 'LEGOS.' By doing so, you will be helping to protect and preserve a brand of which we are very proud and that stands for quality the world over.
Am I the only one who thinks this is a lame hack to be on a tech forum's front page? Admittedly, I don't follow console news and had never seen an XBox before, so initially I thought the guy cranked up the voltage of the (internal) power supply of this machine. Would have been nice.
Soon it became clear that he apparently just took it out and hung it to strings. Rather lame.
Ultimately I discovered that the power supply is external. While it was a good idea to suspend it in the air this is not the kind of hack I am impressed with as front page news. Seriously.
Not quite. The way I understood it is as follows: there are two sources of smell:
- coming from the drain
- coming froms the 'walls' of the toilet
The drain problem can be handled by washing the pee down with water or by this oil layer thing (what the article is about). The 'wall' problem can only be handled by rinsing the wall and this doesn not happen, neither with the Navy, nor with the toilet from the article. Of course it happens in a conventional toilet.
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Which is exactly whatt they wanted! The goal of terrorists is not to destroy buildings (though they do that to achieve their goal) but to spread terror: to make people/govt afraid and life painful and unpleasant. Apparently they succeeded at that.
My first idea too. Problem is that the hosts will probably check for this ID and deny access (or give error 404 especially for you) if you can't supply one.
that and pressing its one button...
Sounds wanky rather than wonky...
Undoubtedly. Question remains what difference.
Then again, at that age he was only half deaf, but completely blind...
However it is a bit frustrating to see all these post lately 'build $$$ device at peanut cost' which then usually involve having all kinds of stuff in advance, e.g. "cannibalising a few of the lens- and body covers that most of us have laying around."
It is worse to argue with people that have real friends. At least imaginary friends won't help beating you up...
As everyone knows a compass does not point to the north pole. A bit lesser known is that it also does NOT point to the magnetic north pole. It simply aligns with the magnetic field lines at the point where you put it. This should be no surprise because it can easily be deflected using a magnet (which locally changes the field lines). Even when no magnet is nearby the tangent to the field lines need not necessarily point to the magnetic north (e.g. when the soil contains a lot of iron ore) although it is general more or less in that direction.
It is really doubtful that the reversal of the magnetic field is in the critical path of the aging of birds. Birds are in general small animals. Small animals tend not to live long, probably because their hearts tend to beat faster and therefore are worn out sooner (but that's just my assumption).
Better question would be: "how many HDTV channels do you have access to?". Most likely the answer is in between 0 and 3 (in Europe). I know a TV salesman that didn't get rid of the only HDTV he ever installed in his shop. Now he uses it himself. It is a great TV, but it has to see its first HDTV signal yet.
WTF dude? This way ANY date can be ANY arbitrary birthday of whatever organization.
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The Nazis?
The Commies
The fascists
The KKK
Hey, you are the one who came up with the idea.
Even if they don't EVER conduct (even a little) at the same time there will be dissipation because the capacitance is charged and discharged all the time. Each of these cycles implies that some positive charge moves between the power supply and ground with the capacitor as an intermediate step. This is why the dissipation is proportional to the clock frequency.
It is not necessarily a dumb idea but isn't it likely that they will give away more info to the competition than they will receive from the community? Whoever can come up with good ideas probably works in the industry, either with Sun (no need to share) or the competition (d'OH).
Not agreed.
If you are a slacker, group pressure will only make you camouflage the slacking, not work harder. IMHO working hard is an attitude, it has nothing to do with others, only with yourself. At least that is my experience.
Indeed, this is a story of at least one year old. Actually Slashdot is sort of a quiz site. For beginners with poor memory there are dupes of only a few days old, sometimes same day. For more advanced competitors there are dupes of years old for you to detect.
Small sidenote (bit OT): here in Belgium suicide is the nr 1 cause of death among people in between 25 and 45 or so. Very sad. Nordic countries are said to be even worse.
Build a hadron supercollider or so. Most of al no time machine those are sooo next year!
Obviousle some people will also pay more...
'nuff said.
Your suggestions have been addressed a long time ago.
One of the problems associated with the first generation of hearing aids (besides unstability) was that the 'cocktail-party effect'. If you are at a gathering of many people (such as a cocktail party), people with normal hearing are able to focus on a nearby conversation and block out the others. Initially hearing aids could not do this but more recent models have an increased sensitivity in the direction right in front of you.
To achieve this multiple microphones are used. Even wireless communication between the left-ear hearing aid and the right-ear hearing aid is now being investigated. Also denoising, dereverberation (removal of room effects to make sound more clear) are investigated. I work in signal processing myself and this is a very active area of research.
One step further are cochlear implants. For people with total hearing loss but intact nerves in the inner ear it is possible to attach electronic contacts (obviously through an operation as these contacts are inside their skull!). Apparently sensitivity to signals of different frequency resides at different areas in the ear, therefore the incoming sound is decomposed into a number of frequency bands, the output is which is sent to the appropriate area. This technology can really make (some) deaf people hear and have conversations. However, the dynamic range is very limited iirc, 8 dBs or so.
Google for 'cochlear implant'...
Of course you can. It's a free country. You could even say 'cat' to a dog. But a difference between Mountain Dew and Lego is that the latter explicitely request not to refer to their product as 'legos'.
From Wikipedia:
Please always refer to our bricks as 'LEGO Bricks or Toys' and not 'LEGOS.' By doing so, you will be helping to protect and preserve a brand of which we are very proud and that stands for quality the world over.
Am I the only one who thinks this is a lame hack to be on a tech forum's front page? Admittedly, I don't follow console news and had never seen an XBox before, so initially I thought the guy cranked up the voltage of the (internal) power supply of this machine. Would have been nice.
Soon it became clear that he apparently just took it out and hung it to strings. Rather lame.
Ultimately I discovered that the power supply is external. While it was a good idea to suspend it in the air this is not the kind of hack I am impressed with as front page news. Seriously.
Not quite. The way I understood it is as follows: there are two sources of smell: - coming from the drain - coming froms the 'walls' of the toilet The drain problem can be handled by washing the pee down with water or by this oil layer thing (what the article is about). The 'wall' problem can only be handled by rinsing the wall and this doesn not happen, neither with the Navy, nor with the toilet from the article. Of course it happens in a conventional toilet.