By the time 'real lighting' (whatever that is) becomes possible the current fake lighting will also be able to do far more than it does today. Bang-for-buck, the current techniques will always win because the cost of simulating 'real' is exponential.
There's always been evidence of this, many people do it quite openly. That it's worse than we thought? Not really surprising. It's probably much worse still.
True, but the people who don't look at the evidence or think about the data are in the majority. They get all their information from these guys. They vote, too.
That's why this is bad - a bunch of rich guys are using the ignorant masses as a way to trade the future of the planet for their nth new mansion in some tax haven or other.
The idea is to make the thief think that breaking in would be a bad idea. If he doesn't make that decision then no amount of fancy sensors will make any difference, he'll just walk in, grab some stuff then walk out admiring all your expensive flashing lights and sirens. He knows the cops won't turn up for half an hour (if at all).
You'll still have a broken window, broken doors, etc. to clean up next morning.
No, that's far too simple. He's after a high-tech solution.
I still want to know how sending an email will prevent the burglars. Is he going to put up a sign: "Warning! This shop protected by email!" ?
I'm not sure I'd hire him as a security consultant. I might do something crazy like ask a local cop what to do. Somebody who knows the area and knows what sort of people break into shops. That's just me though...YMMV.
"Far enough" being the scrapping of all trivial patents.
The ONLY problem with the patent office is that they accept the most trivial, obvious patents imaginable. Despite that fact that patents are supposed to only be granted for things that are novel and ingenious.
I applaud Microsoft for this. Using Office as a stick to try to force people into buying a tablet they don't want is a much better strategy than selling Office to people who actually want to buy it.
I just think this Tesla company is getting all a lot of hype for a car that the overwhelming majority of people won't be able to afford.
Most of the equipment you take for granted in your car (air conditioning, airbags, ABS, traction control, etc.) started life in cars the overwhelming majority of people couldn't afford.
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They block individial versions which are known to be vulnerable.
At this point in history, can't we assume that's "all of them" and start whitelisting?
Total Fark?
Buying the absolute-top-of-range card(or CPU) almost never makes any sense
Why does it have to make sense if you've got the money?
By the time 'real lighting' (whatever that is) becomes possible the current fake lighting will also be able to do far more than it does today. Bang-for-buck, the current techniques will always win because the cost of simulating 'real' is exponential.
From RTFA it does not look like it is going to be up to just one organization to determine if it is an illegal website.
Yet.
The thing about slippery slopes is ... they're slippery.
Or wikileaks...
The effect is 45% according to this study.
Somebody would have noticed...
The idea of doing small things is to get people to think.
When they're all used to doing small things, then we can move onto bigger ones.
Not routinely washing a reusable bag is a plausible source for disease
Just an observation: Doesn't food usually have its own packaging/wrappers to protect it from the filthy bags?
The rest of Europe too. Bags are mostly banned there but the population isn't dropping like flies.
This study is flawed, methinks.
If you usually choose the speaker who has the best hair then you're an ignorant mass. Science never entered the room.
I guess you might be stating my opinion; but my thought is why? What is the 3d web going to give me that 2d doesn't?
I've been around 3D for decades and I still don't know what people are imagining when they say "3D web!!"
(and AFAICT the people want it most are all stoners...)
Disclaimer: I have no doubts that climate change is happening and CO2 plays some role in that change.
The greenhouse effect actually works? How is that possible??? Surely it's just a matter of opinion.
There's always been evidence of this, many people do it quite openly. That it's worse than we thought? Not really surprising. It's probably much worse still.
It's good to have some documented proof though.
True, but the people who don't look at the evidence or think about the data are in the majority. They get all their information from these guys. They vote, too.
That's why this is bad - a bunch of rich guys are using the ignorant masses as a way to trade the future of the planet for their nth new mansion in some tax haven or other.
Yeah, a good bar system should take longer to get through than anyone would be willing to commit.
And also be so ugly that customers might decide to go to the mall instead.
In Spain we already pay a tax on all computer media (SD cards, hard disks, etc) which is supposed to go to the copyright cartels.
Isn't this enough? Are they going to refund all that if we switch to a different set of laws?
Yep.
The idea is to make the thief think that breaking in would be a bad idea. If he doesn't make that decision then no amount of fancy sensors will make any difference, he'll just walk in, grab some stuff then walk out admiring all your expensive flashing lights and sirens. He knows the cops won't turn up for half an hour (if at all).
You'll still have a broken window, broken doors, etc. to clean up next morning.
No, that's far too simple. He's after a high-tech solution.
I still want to know how sending an email will prevent the burglars. Is he going to put up a sign: "Warning! This shop protected by email!" ?
I'm not sure I'd hire him as a security consultant. I might do something crazy like ask a local cop what to do. Somebody who knows the area and knows what sort of people break into shops. That's just me though...YMMV.
More profitable than making a tablet that people would want to buy even if Office was available on iPads?
"Far enough" being the scrapping of all trivial patents.
The ONLY problem with the patent office is that they accept the most trivial, obvious patents imaginable. Despite that fact that patents are supposed to only be granted for things that are novel and ingenious.
Worse...most of them are so trivial that a couple of lines of code would cover it.
Sorry, this proposal is a complete failure.
Examples:
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220040230959%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20040230959&RS=DN/20040230959
http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PG01&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=%2220050023524%22.PGNR.&OS=DN/20050023524&RS=DN/20050023524
I applaud Microsoft for this. Using Office as a stick to try to force people into buying a tablet they don't want is a much better strategy than selling Office to people who actually want to buy it.
I just think this Tesla company is getting all a lot of hype for a car that the overwhelming majority of people won't be able to afford.
Most of the equipment you take for granted in your car (air conditioning, airbags, ABS, traction control, etc.) started life in cars the overwhelming majority of people couldn't afford.
Now a lot of it is mandatory even in cheap cars.
You can always rent a gas-burner for special occasions.