Actually, it was a perfect assassination. Did you see how the guy perished? All his hair fell out. He sat in a hospital bed for a tremendous amount of time. He suffered. He bled internally.
Why was it a perfect assassination? Because it involved radiation which inherently causes anyone to shiver, and it caused a slow, painful, agonizing death, which sends about as big of a message as publicly drawing and quartering the guy.
From the article: 'The investigators did not have to notify No 10 if they were "hacking" into its system
Just in case everyone is wondering what "No. 10" refers to - No. 10 is 10 Downing Street, the British Equiv to the White House... http://www.number10.gov.uk/
No. 10 is not 3 higher than 007, or any single person, or secret agent, or anything else.
For the same reason that ATI has been so successful in the graphics market, AMD will dominate the CPU market. I think it is apparent to everyone that neither AMD Athalons nor Intel Core Duos run on video cards -- and because video processing requires different architectures to optimize performance for different applications (like video, sound, math etc.) - AMD will be a clear winner in the overall processor space because of this direction.
This is great news for AMD, and clearly shows innovation vs. the status quo.
please keep all media out of direct sunlight, in a nice cool dry dark place, in acid-free plastic containers; this will triple the lifetime of any media
Well, it's good to know that 95% of slashdotters are already following this practice by inherently storing their media close to themselves, next to their computers.
I've been looking at porn all night.. it is saturday you now!.... jeeze.. I better start scanning my machine now (or stop looking at porn).... (or reload my machine).
I've seen quite a few posts related to this being a dupe.. however, this is really the first I've seen of this type of keyboard in actual existance, other than on a CSI miami episode.
The episode features a secretary that used one of these keyboards to write a blog about the company without anyone knowing it. When I saw the episode, I was amazed at the writer's inguenuity in thinking up such a good gadget... I thought it was TV Drama. Little did I know that the gadget actually exists.
I guess the question is... how well does it really work? Has anyone actually used one?
Watching the CSI Miami episode made me say "wow! cool" - but I also walked away saying... "Yea Right"...
If the number of deaths by war were plotted over the course of human history you would see a a line that increased every year and each year the increase grew steeper. Around 1945, by coincidence I'm sure, the number of deaths by war has dropped to about a million per year and it has stayed there ever since.
Let me get this straight, you draw an analogy of the course of human history to 1945 compared to 1945 to now, and proclaim that the world is safer because the number of deaths due to wars have leveled off?
Are you crazy?
I'm glad you aren't running the nuclear program with your terrible use of "statistics" to make a point.
That fact is, as we progress for the next 300 years, more and more countries with less and less regard for their lives and ours [b]will[/b] obtain nuclear weapons technology, and just as the machine gun revolutionized combat, nuclear weapons will become a common staple of choice for all nations who arm themselves. Just because they are behind the technology curve today doesn't mean they won't catch up soon... and comparing that timeframe to the beginning of human civilization, the relative nature in terms of time is frightening.
Remember the machine gun analogy above? Show me any nation that isn't armed with one today.
That is what I thought.
So, you are wrong, parent was right...If there were no nuclear weapons, the world would be a safer place.
What IBM should really do is formally offer SCO a settlement of One US Dollar. It would be One US Dollar more than SCO could ever hope to win with their baseless and time consuming lawsuit.
They could do it by scheduling a news conference, and taking that One US Dollar and placing it into a pretty frame, and the SCO attorneys would drool all over it and believe that they actually won something.
Jeeze.. just stick a fork in them - they are done.
I think the Wiki concept is perfect for a niche application, such as documenting a software process, or a software project, or some other specific topic that has a focus. I use a number of corporate Wikis and hobby related wikis for these exact types of topics. However.. in Wikipedia's case, it is a whole different ballgame.
The problem with Wikipedia is that the folks that *now* are most inclined to contribute to Wikipedia are the ones that stand to benefit from their contribution, either by pushing an agenda, or disparaging another source. Granted, there are a number of contributors that are active with good intentions, but I suspect as Wikipeda continues down the path of letting *anyone* contribute immediately, that subsequent contributions will be more skewed towards revert wars and subtle edits to existing content vs. new content and contribtions.
The reality is, all the editing of existing content will become more of a platform to introduce opinnions and agendas vs usable content. Not to say that there aren't contributors that will continue to give good content, but what might have been 5% of agenda pushing 2 years ago is going to be 40% now with the critical mass of information.
Wikipedia is making a good move and the social dynamics will be interesting (i.e. Managing and Staffing this new model)
The big question is, will it actually be possible to see the crash occur?
First, we probably should find out whether or not it is going to be possible to *actually* see the crash from earth with any type of telescope. In addition, it might be nice to know what area of the world will have "visibility" into the crash, because if it crashes into the moon at 12:00 Noon here in the Central US, non of us are going to see it.
Next, I hope they tackle ads that dramatically increase the audio volume.
Like banning a Caps lock... these too should be banned.
"Sunday, SUNday... SUNDAY.... ALL FORDS ON SALE... SUNDAY ONLY... BUY BUY..."
There really is nothing worse than watching a documentary and having this happen, especially on a decent home theater system. Why these types of ads still exist, and are deemed successful, eludes my brain.
Maybe it is just like SPAM, it is working for someone.
Sigh.
Oh yea, these and the advertisement-faked-as-news-story ads are, well, terrible.
I am a graduate student of Mechanical Engineering at a reputed University in the United States.
Congratulations!
I have had a lot of fun working towards my PhD.
I don't have a college degree.
I have published papers and done exciting research.
Outstanding!
I should be finishing up in the next few months or so, but I would like to continue doing the same kind of work that I am doing now.
Recommend you stay in school then.
One option would be to take up a post-doctoral research appointment and find myself a faculty position.
That would somewhat be staying in school.
I am somehow not attracted to this option because of the tenure and grant pressure.
Welcome back to school.
My ideal job would be in something like the Bell Labs of yester-years. Do you know of labs that have that kind of environment?
Probably Goole. No, maybe the General Services Administration. No, Maybe Google.
National labs are supposed to have such an atmosphere, but my stint in one of them makes me think otherwise. Google does seem to have such an environment but I am not a CS person.
Good lord, how did this make it here? Mechanical Engineering? Google even shows up on your radar, and you aren't a CS guy? Compuserve died long ago...
Does Slashdot know of labs where basic research in applied engineering is still done in the US, without the pressure of money and immediate results?"
The readers might..however no pressure of money and immediate results might drive you to a state agency.
For those that are struggling to understand how the author of this article is accomplishing his approach, here is some further information.
The author obviously has a Linux server in his house, that is running DHCPD
To selectively send some clients to some locations, and others to the normal internet, he assigns an IP address on a different network to clients that don't have MAC Addresses that he knows about.
Forwarding on to sites of his choice is done by using IPTables, which is a utility that allows you to configure the packet filtering components of the Linux TCP/IP Stack. In this instance, the Linux box is just functioning as a firewall, and he is selectively sending requests from certain IP addresses to different hosts of his chosing.
Finally, the Up-side-down and blurry-image conversions is accomplished by sending page requests from those before-mentioned IP addresses to a proxy server, which in this case is Squid - and then allowing the proxy server to run a script which calls an ImageMagick command called mogrify which allows you to resize an image, blur, crop, despeckle, dither, draw on, flip, join, re-sample, and much more.
I don't see any benefit to being able to watch 1080i or 720p HD programming on a THREE and a HALF INCH screen.
I purchased one of the Video Ipods when they first came out, took the time to rip 10 or so of my favorite DVDs onto the device (finding the necessary software to do this and get it all working properly took days, not to mention the time to encode MPEG to H.264). After about two weeks I came to the realization that an Ipod for watching videos is pretty much useless for my taste.
How on earth is someone going to derive a benefit of HD programming on such as small device? When display devices are that tiny, there is no need for the additional resolution. Furthermore, you are giving up a tremendous amount of storage space for a really negligable benefit.
Interesting, but why would someone want or need to do this? I fail to see any problem or application that this could possibly solve or address.
Wait. I could be in swimming pool, and the lifeguards could use this tool to "write" in the water to get out, or that someone is drowning, or that there is a sale on cold beers at the concession stand. That's it... advertising... there is an applicaton! Maybe I answered my own question.
In any case, for those that RTFA, it would be quite a scary pool to be swimming in, with all those magnents around the edge of the pool.
BTW, this is the 2nd time I've recently seen the word "coax" used in an article. Frightning.
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There is even Penis Spam on google maps:
& ll=54.506361,-1.35223&z=19
.. and of course the classic Penis-on-the-frozen-lake:
l =en&ll=41.049308,-73.600947&z=18
The Yarm School in the UK (Kids Drawing a Penis on the Roof)
http://googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=&c=&t=k&hl=en
http://googlesightseeing.com/maps?p=1211&c=&t=k&h
Actually, it was a perfect assassination. Did you see how the guy perished? All his hair fell out. He sat in a hospital bed for a tremendous amount of time. He suffered. He bled internally.
Why was it a perfect assassination? Because it involved radiation which inherently causes anyone to shiver, and it caused a slow, painful, agonizing death, which sends about as big of a message as publicly drawing and quartering the guy.
From the article: 'The investigators did not have to notify No 10 if they were "hacking" into its system
Just in case everyone is wondering what "No. 10" refers to - No. 10 is 10 Downing Street, the British Equiv to the White House... http://www.number10.gov.uk/
No. 10 is not 3 higher than 007, or any single person, or secret agent, or anything else.
Who's going to get their movies put on HD-DVD insead of Blu-Ray if it's only going to be pirated?
Who is going to download a Blu-Ray movie instead of HD-DVD if it can't be pirated?
"I put the sun behind a neighbor's house to block the glare and the comet popped right into view. You can even see the tail."
He moved the sun. Impressive.
Reply by blantonl: Didn't steal just borrowed. Enjoy the goods and please come again!
Ahh.. Hard disks - With all the above posts, I thought you said hard dicks for a second there.
For the same reason that ATI has been so successful in the graphics market, AMD will dominate the CPU market. I think it is apparent to everyone that neither AMD Athalons nor Intel Core Duos run on video cards -- and because video processing requires different architectures to optimize performance for different applications (like video, sound, math etc.) - AMD will be a clear winner in the overall processor space because of this direction.
This is great news for AMD, and clearly shows innovation vs. the status quo.
please keep all media out of direct sunlight, in a nice cool dry dark place, in acid-free plastic containers; this will triple the lifetime of any media
Well, it's good to know that 95% of slashdotters are already following this practice by inherently storing their media close to themselves, next to their computers.
Could someone post a link to this Linux?
I've been looking at porn all night.. it is saturday you now!.... jeeze.. I better start scanning my machine now (or stop looking at porn) .... (or reload my machine).
Whomever tagged this story as "balls" should get a +5
>> 1020 petabytes
My porn collection will now be complete.
I've seen quite a few posts related to this being a dupe.. however, this is really the first I've seen of this type of keyboard in actual existance, other than on a CSI miami episode.
The episode features a secretary that used one of these keyboards to write a blog about the company without anyone knowing it. When I saw the episode, I was amazed at the writer's inguenuity in thinking up such a good gadget... I thought it was TV Drama. Little did I know that the gadget actually exists.
I guess the question is... how well does it really work? Has anyone actually used one?
Watching the CSI Miami episode made me say "wow! cool" - but I also walked away saying... "Yea Right"...
Who's brain was it? George W's?
If the number of deaths by war were plotted over the course of human history you would see a a line that increased every year and each year the increase grew steeper. Around 1945, by coincidence I'm sure, the number of deaths by war has dropped to about a million per year and it has stayed there ever since.
Let me get this straight, you draw an analogy of the course of human history to 1945 compared to 1945 to now, and proclaim that the world is safer because the number of deaths due to wars have leveled off?
Are you crazy?
I'm glad you aren't running the nuclear program with your terrible use of "statistics" to make a point.
That fact is, as we progress for the next 300 years, more and more countries with less and less regard for their lives and ours [b]will[/b] obtain nuclear weapons technology, and just as the machine gun revolutionized combat, nuclear weapons will become a common staple of choice for all nations who arm themselves. Just because they are behind the technology curve today doesn't mean they won't catch up soon... and comparing that timeframe to the beginning of human civilization, the relative nature in terms of time is frightening.
Remember the machine gun analogy above? Show me any nation that isn't armed with one today.
That is what I thought.
So, you are wrong, parent was right...If there were no nuclear weapons, the world would be a safer place.
What IBM should really do is formally offer SCO a settlement of One US Dollar. It would be One US Dollar more than SCO could ever hope to win with their baseless and time consuming lawsuit.
They could do it by scheduling a news conference, and taking that One US Dollar and placing it into a pretty frame, and the SCO attorneys would drool all over it and believe that they actually won something.
Jeeze.. just stick a fork in them - they are done.
.. but how will they staff it?
I think the Wiki concept is perfect for a niche application, such as documenting a software process, or a software project, or some other specific topic that has a focus. I use a number of corporate Wikis and hobby related wikis for these exact types of topics. However.. in Wikipedia's case, it is a whole different ballgame.
The problem with Wikipedia is that the folks that *now* are most inclined to contribute to Wikipedia are the ones that stand to benefit from their contribution, either by pushing an agenda, or disparaging another source. Granted, there are a number of contributors that are active with good intentions, but I suspect as Wikipeda continues down the path of letting *anyone* contribute immediately, that subsequent contributions will be more skewed towards revert wars and subtle edits to existing content vs. new content and contribtions.
The reality is, all the editing of existing content will become more of a platform to introduce opinnions and agendas vs usable content. Not to say that there aren't contributors that will continue to give good content, but what might have been 5% of agenda pushing 2 years ago is going to be 40% now with the critical mass of information.
Wikipedia is making a good move and the social dynamics will be interesting (i.e. Managing and Staffing this new model)
The big question is, will it actually be possible to see the crash occur?
First, we probably should find out whether or not it is going to be possible to *actually* see the crash from earth with any type of telescope. In addition, it might be nice to know what area of the world will have "visibility" into the crash, because if it crashes into the moon at 12:00 Noon here in the Central US, non of us are going to see it.
(and yes, I work for Sun...)
Probably not much longer...
Sun layoffs hit high-end server group
Next, I hope they tackle ads that dramatically increase the audio volume.
Like banning a Caps lock... these too should be banned.
"Sunday, SUNday... SUNDAY.... ALL FORDS ON SALE... SUNDAY ONLY... BUY BUY..."
There really is nothing worse than watching a documentary and having this happen, especially on a decent home theater system. Why these types of ads still exist, and are deemed successful, eludes my brain.
Maybe it is just like SPAM, it is working for someone.
Sigh.
Oh yea, these and the advertisement-faked-as-news-story ads are, well, terrible.
Congratulations!
I don't have a college degree.
Outstanding!
Recommend you stay in school then.
That would somewhat be staying in school.
Welcome back to school.
Probably Goole. No, maybe the General Services Administration. No, Maybe Google.
Good lord, how did this make it here? Mechanical Engineering? Google even shows up on your radar, and you aren't a CS guy? Compuserve died long ago...
The readers might..however no pressure of money and immediate results might drive you to a state agency.
For those that are struggling to understand how the author of this article is accomplishing his approach, here is some further information.
The author obviously has a Linux server in his house, that is running DHCPD
To selectively send some clients to some locations, and others to the normal internet, he assigns an IP address on a different network to clients that don't have MAC Addresses that he knows about.
Forwarding on to sites of his choice is done by using IPTables, which is a utility that allows you to configure the packet filtering components of the Linux TCP/IP Stack. In this instance, the Linux box is just functioning as a firewall, and he is selectively sending requests from certain IP addresses to different hosts of his chosing.
Finally, the Up-side-down and blurry-image conversions is accomplished by sending page requests from those before-mentioned IP addresses to a proxy server, which in this case is Squid - and then allowing the proxy server to run a script which calls an ImageMagick command called mogrify which allows you to resize an image, blur, crop, despeckle, dither, draw on, flip, join, re-sample, and much more.
And that folks, is the rest of the story.
I don't see any benefit to being able to watch 1080i or 720p HD programming on a THREE and a HALF INCH screen.
I purchased one of the Video Ipods when they first came out, took the time to rip 10 or so of my favorite DVDs onto the device (finding the necessary software to do this and get it all working properly took days, not to mention the time to encode MPEG to H.264). After about two weeks I came to the realization that an Ipod for watching videos is pretty much useless for my taste.
How on earth is someone going to derive a benefit of HD programming on such as small device? When display devices are that tiny, there is no need for the additional resolution. Furthermore, you are giving up a tremendous amount of storage space for a really negligable benefit.
Interesting, but why would someone want or need to do this? I fail to see any problem or application that this could possibly solve or address.
Wait. I could be in swimming pool, and the lifeguards could use this tool to "write" in the water to get out, or that someone is drowning, or that there is a sale on cold beers at the concession stand. That's it... advertising... there is an applicaton! Maybe I answered my own question.
In any case, for those that RTFA, it would be quite a scary pool to be swimming in, with all those magnents around the edge of the pool.
BTW, this is the 2nd time I've recently seen the word "coax" used in an article. Frightning.