Quake mode looks cool...but can it detect when you've entered the console / chat mode; and if so, revert the keys back to normal letters for touch-typers who want to see what they're writing?
Lots of variables like this can come into play...it looks like a cool keyboard, but unless there's a good software package that comes with it and allows you to customize the hell out of your mappings, it's not going to be that great.
You could monitor which applications the keystrokes are being recorded in.
Someone with 120,000 keystrokes in Trillian and only 10,000 in Emacs will look a lot more guilty than one with the opposite, regardless of what those keystrokes were.
The article doesn't mention, though, if the members of the spam group were aware of the fact that they were receiving the study's spam -- or if the members of the no-spam group were aware they weren't receiving the study's spam.
Furthermore, could the spam group differentiate between the genuine spam and the study's opt-in spam?
It's kind of like a blind test. Sure, you probably signed a waiver saying you're willing to receive extra "spam". But you don't know if you're receiving the extra spam or not, and if you are, you're not aware of which emails are the extra spam.
Nothing, I suppose, if all the data remains in the said country. Go up North, eh, set up a server, and download the music to the proxy HDD to your heart's consent.
Try to transmit the data to the US, or bring the HDD from Canada into the US, though, and things would probably get illegal quickly.
...would be one that allows me to buy a single season of a one-hour drama on 1 to 2 discs for no more that an average price of $10/disc. Maybe $15 if it's only a single disc. I don't want to spend $51 for Stargate SG-1, $75 for CSI, or $106 for Star Trek Voyager.
You do realize that you're paying for the intellectual content of the show, and not the media on which it resides?
Blank DVD's are dirt cheap. Same with audio CD's. The high cost is because of the material that's on it. It's not like few DVDs cost the studios $40, and the remaining $10 is the data on the disc; quite the opposite.
Using the same apparatus, which contains a cloud of ultra-cold sodium atoms, they have even managed to freeze light altogether. Professor Hau says this could have applications in memory storage for a future generation of optical computers.
I'll assume the store medium will need to be kept at this "ultra-cold" temperature for data to be safely stored. What if the cooling system fails (e.g. power failure, compressor failure, etc.). Or what if you don't have the resources to maintain this ultra-cold environment?
I think I'll stick to cheaper and more reliable store mediums like optical disks or solid state memory.
Wired seemed to stress the opinion of other scientists in the same field, that this research was 'premature' and disaster could bring public outrage and set back (American) research a good ten years.
The thing is, Matt Nagle was a willing volunteer; he's an adult who can comprehend the risks involved in this procedure, and if he's injured, one can't say that it's unexpected. If this niche industry is destroyed when somebody is hurt and this whole chance for mobility gets tossed back like U.S. stem cell research has been, I hope they can find other places to continue this technology -- and that the U.S. government doesn't hold them back.
Matt and the other four volunteers are pioneers, so to say; they want to help further this research and get back some, if not all, of the mobility they had.
A sunbeam is roughly concentrated using a set of mirrors at varying angles.
Their "death ray" probably took a few minutes, at least, to get the results that they posted. If you're using this on a person, that's enough time for them to break out the SPF 30, rending the "death ray" useless.
That means it doesn't work inside any building, including your own apartment. Sorry, doesn't work for me.
So if you're outside, the signal can supposedly zap it's way through buildings en route; but if you're inside a building, the signal just mystically dies off.
Also, with this, forget about calling the home phone and trusting that because your kid answers it that they are actually at home. "Sure mom. No, I'm no three towns over at the park with my friends. I'm doing homework in my room."
It's built to be a long-distance phone; if you don't want your kids exploiting that feature, then don't buy it.
Incidentially, when I was back with my parents on their acreage, I could still use the 900MHz cordless from my friend's house, two doors down; albeit, there was considerable static. With a 2.4GHz phone, though, there was no problem.
This sounds to me like it'll be short-lived. More than ten people in your neighborhood get one and it's all over.
Exactly. If this becomes popular in a metropolitan area, I doubt it'll be secure, let alone functional.
I live two blocks away from my city's downtown core, in a highrise building. I'm not investing my money in this until I get more information about how they tackled these problems.
...when I could post a rant about Microsoft's evil monopoly, or a comment on the latest mouse technology, or even uncover a kick-ass algorithm, and it would be completely off-topic.
That being said, sports and l33tness aren't exclusive groups. However, hockey is more my taste:P
If this ever developed into something serious, the lighting divisions of GE and Sylvania would be up a creek.
I totally agree. Wait...is that the sun setting? Crap!
...the US changes over to SIN numbers.
Canada's had 'em for years:P
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So what you're saying is that this is going to hurt and annoy the Joe Average tv-watcher while just being another pylon to run around for the guys who rip the TV shows for P2P distribution.
And the P2P downloaders won't even feel a ripple.
Yay!
With everyone speaking of the "horror of LokiTorrent handing over site logs", I'm asking myself what constitutes piracy?
Downloading the copyrighted content, of course; but downloading a.torrent file from LokiTorrent? Can they actually prove from LokiTorrent's site logs that I downloaded any content?
Perhaps I was just a curious little boy wondering what the inside of a.torrent file looked like...
I'm lucky enough that most of my friends are decently tech-savvy to know how to run an anti-virus scan. Even if they want me to, say, install some RAM or a video card, since they're not on my back for every piece of spyware they get, I usually do it for free; for a few beers, at most.
Extended family or family friends, I usually just stay for dinner. If I need to take the PC home, I'll take $10 for gas money (you don't know how long a simple spyware and anti-virus scan can take on a PII 300MHz). If they absolutely need to pay me, then I'll ask for something in the $50 range.
Friends of friends, aquantiences, and such, I'll lay down the $50 rule. If it's a longer job that requires more effort -- over two hours -- then I'll go $20 per hour.
(Note: Canadian prices)
If RP only affects peripheral vision, then I would think so; it just provides a broad picture of your environment. You'd notice the loss of detail/resolution more with center of field vision.
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How can they stop me if I'm using a valid XP ISO with a randomly generated (but valid) key from any number of available keygens?
Check if your copy of XP has been activated?
Of course, this all falls through the floor if you happen to be using Windows XP Corporate Edition...
Quake mode looks cool...but can it detect when you've entered the console / chat mode; and if so, revert the keys back to normal letters for touch-typers who want to see what they're writing?
Lots of variables like this can come into play...it looks like a cool keyboard, but unless there's a good software package that comes with it and allows you to customize the hell out of your mappings, it's not going to be that great.
You could monitor which applications the keystrokes are being recorded in.
Someone with 120,000 keystrokes in Trillian and only 10,000 in Emacs will look a lot more guilty than one with the opposite, regardless of what those keystrokes were.
The article doesn't mention, though, if the members of the spam group were aware of the fact that they were receiving the study's spam -- or if the members of the no-spam group were aware they weren't receiving the study's spam.
Furthermore, could the spam group differentiate between the genuine spam and the study's opt-in spam?
It's kind of like a blind test. Sure, you probably signed a waiver saying you're willing to receive extra "spam". But you don't know if you're receiving the extra spam or not, and if you are, you're not aware of which emails are the extra spam.
Nothing, I suppose, if all the data remains in the said country. Go up North, eh, set up a server, and download the music to the proxy HDD to your heart's consent.
Try to transmit the data to the US, or bring the HDD from Canada into the US, though, and things would probably get illegal quickly.
You do realize that you're paying for the intellectual content of the show, and not the media on which it resides?
Blank DVD's are dirt cheap. Same with audio CD's. The high cost is because of the material that's on it. It's not like few DVDs cost the studios $40, and the remaining $10 is the data on the disc; quite the opposite.
Using the same apparatus, which contains a cloud of ultra-cold sodium atoms, they have even managed to freeze light altogether. Professor Hau says this could have applications in memory storage for a future generation of optical computers.
I'll assume the store medium will need to be kept at this "ultra-cold" temperature for data to be safely stored. What if the cooling system fails (e.g. power failure, compressor failure, etc.). Or what if you don't have the resources to maintain this ultra-cold environment?
I think I'll stick to cheaper and more reliable store mediums like optical disks or solid state memory.
I find it interesting that Mozilla asked me if it should trust ftp.mozilla.org when I installed the extension.
Protecting themseleves if they lose that domain, I guess.
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Wired seemed to stress the opinion of other scientists in the same field, that this research was 'premature' and disaster could bring public outrage and set back (American) research a good ten years.
The thing is, Matt Nagle was a willing volunteer; he's an adult who can comprehend the risks involved in this procedure, and if he's injured, one can't say that it's unexpected. If this niche industry is destroyed when somebody is hurt and this whole chance for mobility gets tossed back like U.S. stem cell research has been, I hope they can find other places to continue this technology -- and that the U.S. government doesn't hold them back.
Matt and the other four volunteers are pioneers, so to say; they want to help further this research and get back some, if not all, of the mobility they had.
Hats off to 'em.
A sunbeam is roughly concentrated using a set of mirrors at varying angles.
Their "death ray" probably took a few minutes, at least, to get the results that they posted. If you're using this on a person, that's enough time for them to break out the SPF 30, rending the "death ray" useless.
This myth was busted on Discovery Channel's Mythbusters in episode 16:
http://dsc.discovery.com/fansites/mythbusters/ep isode/episode_03.html
Aside from making a giant palette of mirrors (and unsucessfully attempting to ignite a small boat), they tried to no avail to be sprayed by a skunk.
That show is classic.
That means it doesn't work inside any building, including your own apartment. Sorry, doesn't work for me.
So if you're outside, the signal can supposedly zap it's way through buildings en route; but if you're inside a building, the signal just mystically dies off.
Sounds right, ne pas?
Also, with this, forget about calling the home phone and trusting that because your kid answers it that they are actually at home. "Sure mom. No, I'm no three towns over at the park with my friends. I'm doing homework in my room."
It's built to be a long-distance phone; if you don't want your kids exploiting that feature, then don't buy it.
Incidentially, when I was back with my parents on their acreage, I could still use the 900MHz cordless from my friend's house, two doors down; albeit, there was considerable static. With a 2.4GHz phone, though, there was no problem.
This sounds to me like it'll be short-lived. More than ten people in your neighborhood get one and it's all over.
Exactly. If this becomes popular in a metropolitan area, I doubt it'll be secure, let alone functional.
I live two blocks away from my city's downtown core, in a highrise building. I'm not investing my money in this until I get more information about how they tackled these problems.
...when I could post a rant about Microsoft's evil monopoly, or a comment on the latest mouse technology, or even uncover a kick-ass algorithm, and it would be completely off-topic.
That being said, sports and l33tness aren't exclusive groups. However, hockey is more my taste :P
Feverishly working? How hard is it to steal a Logitech mouse, paint it white, and charge $200?
Since it's a hybrid solar / electrical lighting system, I'd just presume the low-power fluorescent lights would come on.
If this ever developed into something serious, the lighting divisions of GE and Sylvania would be up a creek. I totally agree. Wait...is that the sun setting? Crap!
A return to magnetic media? What next...vacuum tubes?
...the US changes over to SIN numbers. Canada's had 'em for years :P
So what you're saying is that this is going to hurt and annoy the Joe Average tv-watcher while just being another pylon to run around for the guys who rip the TV shows for P2P distribution. And the P2P downloaders won't even feel a ripple. Yay!
When will MuffTorrent come back online?
With everyone speaking of the "horror of LokiTorrent handing over site logs", I'm asking myself what constitutes piracy? Downloading the copyrighted content, of course; but downloading a .torrent file from LokiTorrent? Can they actually prove from LokiTorrent's site logs that I downloaded any content?
Perhaps I was just a curious little boy wondering what the inside of a .torrent file looked like...
I'm lucky enough that most of my friends are decently tech-savvy to know how to run an anti-virus scan. Even if they want me to, say, install some RAM or a video card, since they're not on my back for every piece of spyware they get, I usually do it for free; for a few beers, at most. Extended family or family friends, I usually just stay for dinner. If I need to take the PC home, I'll take $10 for gas money (you don't know how long a simple spyware and anti-virus scan can take on a PII 300MHz). If they absolutely need to pay me, then I'll ask for something in the $50 range. Friends of friends, aquantiences, and such, I'll lay down the $50 rule. If it's a longer job that requires more effort -- over two hours -- then I'll go $20 per hour. (Note: Canadian prices)
If RP only affects peripheral vision, then I would think so; it just provides a broad picture of your environment. You'd notice the loss of detail/resolution more with center of field vision.