It's branded as an eMotion device (model DF-EM7), but it looks identical to the ADS product.
My question - because here at/., I'm not all that relatively geeky - is how would this spread? It accepts photos direct from the computer via a USB 2.0 cable or via memory card. Assuming I'm not stupid enough to plug the thing directly into my computer, am I safe? Will the trojan infect the memory card for subsequent infection of my hard drive (of my Windows machines, not my Mac, right?)?
Also, is there a way for me to use my Mac to explore the contents of the frame to look for the malware? What would it look like if I can? Is there any way to detect whether or not I have an infected frame?
Does it predate the dinosaurs? Parts of it do. During the Cretaceous, however, it was part of the seabed and coastal plain (depending on the water level, which varied throughout the era): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Staircase
This wasn't desert back then, though. The Cretaceous coastal plain was scrubland with scattered forest. Flowering plants and grasses were replacing older conifers and other more primitive fauna. Hadrosaurs are known to have eaten pine branches from stomach remains. They didn't live in a desert, although some dinosaurs did, like some found in Asia.
It was active volcanically as the Rockies were pushing up. In fact, the Grand Staircase itself has evidence of volcanic activity. But eruptions are rare, and are overdone in media.
It had "only" 300 teeth in its mouth. The rest of them were replacement teeth in its jaw, waiting to replace worn out teeth in the mouth, sort of like sharks - in the loosest sense. Hadrosaur teeth melded together to create a single huge chewing surface. Imagine if your molars were pushed together without spaces between them.
Now, this giant tooth masses would unroll from the jaws sort of like a massive roll of ultra-thick paper towels. Teeth would wear out at the chewing face and be continually replaced by teeth in the "roll" behind them.
And, when you use genus-species binomial nomenclature, the genus is capitalized but the species is not: it's spelled Gryposaurus monumentensis, which TFA got right.
When writing the binomial nomenclature of a species, you capitalize the genus but not the species. Therefore, the correct way to right this would be "Homo erectus" and "H. habilis".
Next, both species walked very much erect. The primary difference between them is the skull and brain.
The BBC got it right. there's no reason the submitter, or Slashdot, should not have gotten it right, too.
As to the science, the wisest words in TFA come from Professor Spoor (snicker):
"It's always possible that Homo habilis lived, let's say, 2.5 million years ago and then in another part of Africa, away from the Turkana basin, an isolated population evolved into Homo erectus."
After a sufficient amount of time to allow both species to develop different adaptations and lifestyles, Homo erectus could have then found its way to the Turkana basin.
Of course, that assumes the new skull really is H. erectus, which is dubious. Maybe it was an H. erectus ancestor, small like H. habilis but with an H. erectus-like brain.
Why yes, I do have a degree in physical anthropology. Thank you for asking.
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I'm enough of a compulsive pedant to point out that eating this protein will do nothing. Stomach enzymes rip apart most proteins.
The nice thing about this is the top skill player can help keep the lesser skilled players alive with advice and tactics, while the lot of them join an even more skilled players mission and play in a larger group.
I play two massively multiplayer online games, but neither are role-playing games (RPGs). You can find me in World War Two Online or WarBirds.
Most people would call these simulations instead of games, but it ticks me off when discussions of massively multiplayer online gaming completely ignore us wargamers.
There's more out there than ogres and clerics, folks. Come learn where the term "tank" really comes from. You'll crap your pants as you wait for that Panzer IV to bypass your Crusader tank so that you can take him out with a flank shot instead of bouncing shot of his front armour.
I am not a lawyer, but I am an informed Canadian journalist who has closely followed the issue of copyright and sharing in the US and Canada over the last ten years as part of my beat.
The situation you describe above is perfectly legal under the Canadian system.
That may not be relevant, but it is an interesting counterpoint perspective.
Ignoring the pros and cons of conservation and the potential animal-human interactions, lions may not be suited to the cold North American winters that dominate on the plains.
Elephants may be able to handle it through sheer size, but lions have no adaptations for cold. Nor do cheetahs.
Zoos and free-animal parks provide shelter that wild animals wouldn't have.
Let me know if anyone has tried it on OS 10.3. Ars Tech implies it will only work fully on 10.4 with the drivers on the CD, but all the multi-button mice I've used have worked fully out of the box in 10.3. I wonder if this one would as well....
As RSS has risen in prominence, the only thing I have been able to think of is how hard the folks behind the defunct "push" company PointCast must be kicking themselves.
At some point, Apple is going to add explicit support for podcasts to iTunes. Podcasts are really only long, often dull sound files, the 21st century equivalent of talk radio on cassette. Still, it's a fad, and since iTunes lets you look you for streaming broadcasts, why not podcasts, too? At least, so think the anonymous folks behind BadFruit, an outfit that just released the BadApple iTunes plug-in, ironically for the Windows version of iTunes only. The plug-in adds another link, called Podcasts, to the main iTunes window. Click on the link and you get a list of podcast categories. Drill down to download specific podcasts in iTunes and use them as you would any other iTunes sound file. BadApple claims to be pre-emptive insurance against any potential limitations Apple may place on the podcasts it may offer in future versions of iTunes. CNET speculates that MP3.com founder Michael Robertson, who now has a new site called MP3Tunes.com, is the anonymous author of BadFruit.
BadFruit: http://www.badfruit.com/ CNET: http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5754227.html MP3Tunes.com: http://www.mp3tunes.com/
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It's branded as an eMotion device (model DF-EM7), but it looks identical to the ADS product.
My question - because here at /., I'm not all that relatively geeky - is how would this spread? It accepts photos direct from the computer via a USB 2.0 cable or via memory card. Assuming I'm not stupid enough to plug the thing directly into my computer, am I safe? Will the trojan infect the memory card for subsequent infection of my hard drive (of my Windows machines, not my Mac, right?)?
Also, is there a way for me to use my Mac to explore the contents of the frame to look for the malware? What would it look like if I can? Is there any way to detect whether or not I have an infected frame?
I was going to point this out, but I'm somewhat heartened that somebody equally pedantic beat me to it.
Developers! Developers! Developers! Developers!
The Wii is a lie.
This wasn't desert back then, though. The Cretaceous coastal plain was scrubland with scattered forest. Flowering plants and grasses were replacing older conifers and other more primitive fauna. Hadrosaurs are known to have eaten pine branches from stomach remains. They didn't live in a desert, although some dinosaurs did, like some found in Asia.
Here's a map: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/66/EscalanteMap90MYA.jpg
It was active volcanically as the Rockies were pushing up. In fact, the Grand Staircase itself has evidence of volcanic activity. But eruptions are rare, and are overdone in media.
Now, this giant tooth masses would unroll from the jaws sort of like a massive roll of ultra-thick paper towels. Teeth would wear out at the chewing face and be continually replaced by teeth in the "roll" behind them.
And, when you use genus-species binomial nomenclature, the genus is capitalized but the species is not: it's spelled Gryposaurus monumentensis, which TFA got right.
Next, both species walked very much erect. The primary difference between them is the skull and brain.
The BBC got it right. there's no reason the submitter, or Slashdot, should not have gotten it right, too.
As to the science, the wisest words in TFA come from Professor Spoor (snicker):
Of course, that assumes the new skull really is H. erectus, which is dubious. Maybe it was an H. erectus ancestor, small like H. habilis but with an H. erectus-like brain.
Why yes, I do have a degree in physical anthropology. Thank you for asking.
I'm enough of a compulsive pedant to point out that eating this protein will do nothing. Stomach enzymes rip apart most proteins.
Oh, I wish I hadn't used up my mod points last night. That comment deserves +17 for funny and for recursive.
You get 100 million hits a day ( http://www.onlinereporter.com/article.php?article_ id=7234 ) and the ad revenue starts to add up.
The nice thing about this is the top skill player can help keep the lesser skilled players alive with advice and tactics, while the lot of them join an even more skilled players mission and play in a larger group.
Once you're a President or Vice President, you keep the title. People who refer to you in voice or print need not use "former" to precede the title.
Go for WarBirds. Easy to start, hard to master. It's pay to play online against other humans, but free to download and play against AI.
Most people would call these simulations instead of games, but it ticks me off when discussions of massively multiplayer online gaming completely ignore us wargamers.
There's more out there than ogres and clerics, folks. Come learn where the term "tank" really comes from. You'll crap your pants as you wait for that Panzer IV to bypass your Crusader tank so that you can take him out with a flank shot instead of bouncing shot of his front armour.
It didn't work on Fox.
God is obviously trying to cover up all those embarrassing hominid fossils he missed obliterating in the last flood.
The situation you describe above is perfectly legal under the Canadian system.
That may not be relevant, but it is an interesting counterpoint perspective.
I'm the editor, not the publisher, so I can't release financial details, but I can say that if you don't do it for love, you shouldn't do it at all.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/08/17/wild.am erica.ap/index.html
The AP story ends with this memorable quote:
Donlan concedes that lions would be a tough sell to Americans.
"Lions eat people," he said. "There has to be a pretty serious attitude shift on how you view predators."
Elephants may be able to handle it through sheer size, but lions have no adaptations for cold. Nor do cheetahs.
Zoos and free-animal parks provide shelter that wild animals wouldn't have.
Let me know if anyone has tried it on OS 10.3. Ars Tech implies it will only work fully on 10.4 with the drivers on the CD, but all the multi-button mice I've used have worked fully out of the box in 10.3. I wonder if this one would as well....
As RSS has risen in prominence, the only thing I have been able to think of is how hard the folks behind the defunct "push" company PointCast must be kicking themselves.
No. Neanderthal man gots its name because the first specimen was found in the Neanderthal (Neander Valley) in Germany.
BadApple Plug-in for iTunes Podcasts
At some point, Apple is going to add explicit support for podcasts to iTunes. Podcasts are really only long, often dull sound files, the 21st century equivalent of talk radio on cassette. Still, it's a fad, and since iTunes lets you look you for streaming broadcasts, why not podcasts, too? At least, so think the anonymous folks behind BadFruit, an outfit that just released the BadApple iTunes plug-in, ironically for the Windows version of iTunes only. The plug-in adds another link, called Podcasts, to the main iTunes window. Click on the link and you get a list of podcast categories. Drill down to download specific podcasts in iTunes and use them as you would any other iTunes sound file. BadApple claims to be pre-emptive insurance against any potential limitations Apple may place on the podcasts it may offer in future versions of iTunes. CNET speculates that MP3.com founder Michael Robertson, who now has a new site called MP3Tunes.com, is the anonymous author of BadFruit.
BadFruit: http://www.badfruit.com/
CNET: http://news.com.com/2100-1027_3-5754227.html
MP3Tunes.com: http://www.mp3tunes.com/
This kinda reminds me of George Carlin's riff on the differences between baseball and football.