Are they really going to strip-search everybody to find the SD cards hidden in their socks/underwear? Would they even find one in that little pocket on your jeans.
Definitely true. The government lied blatantly to the people about who was behind the bombings and their image dived sharply as a result. It was a week before the elections so they ended up losing because of this.
Every cell phone switches the sensor on randomly, maybe once a month for three or four hours. It doesn't switch on at all if your battery charge is less than some set amount. If you notice something 'suspicious' you have the option of switching it on manually.
'Phones communicate directly with other phones around them. If a "switched on" phone detects something, it alerts other phones and they switch on their sensors. If several other phones also sense something, all the alarms go off and the feds are notified.
This solves the privacy aspect and puts the battery drain at an acceptable level.
Of course it won't solve any real problems (a terrorist can just drive a private car to the target and detonate before the sensors have had time to work, but the whole thing is just move-plot security anyway...
It would work if cellphones communicated directly with other cellphones in the area (not via any central) and if enough of them were sensing bombs they could all ring their alarms together....but this is homeland security so a sensible proposal which cuts them out of the deal won't be considered.
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Are they really going to strip-search everybody to find the SD cards hidden in their socks/underwear? Would they even find one in that little pocket on your jeans.
Digital media is *small* these days.
The PP will probably never win an election, it's just there to show them how many votes they lose when they support the RIAA.
(OTOH I'd bet the PP could get quite a few votes in today's America...)
Being able to pick/choose CPU is more about power management than anything else.
Need a ten hour battery life for an iPad? Choose an ARM.
Need a CPU for a desktop machine? Choose an Intel.
etc.
Making a compiler/platform that allows Apple developers to do their jobs is _necessary_, not some kind of "genius".
You're all assuming 80 column punched cards with one character per column.
That's one way of "formatting" them, sure, but hardly the highest density possible.
{whoosh}
"This is an insult to my intelligence as a consumer."
QFT. *Nobody* who buys hard disks separately is going to fall for this.
Um, can't you buy real DVDs for a similar sort of price?
}"An empty 500 GB Seagate hard drive usually sells for $140."
Sure it does...in the year 2007.
What price style?
We've gone full circle from matte to glossy to "glossy with anti glare"? Great!
(anti-glare comes at a premium I assume...)
This being Slashdot, you should know that storage manufacturers always exaggerate the data capacity of their products.
The _unformatted_ capacity of 5.6 million punch cards is 998,320,126,812 bytes.
It might save them on power infrastructure as well as electrons...
(By switching to SSDs they might be able to add a couple more servers without changing any cables and/or upgrading the UPS and backup generators).
Ummmm, SSDs map disk sectors to physical flash cells dynamically as part of wear levelling.
Defragging will probably make it much worse.
Makes sense - heavier cars wear the road out faster (no, really..)
OTOH telecoms networks don't wear out because of heavier electron flow caused by BitTorrent so your analogy just collapsed.
...and another one! Did the story have too many words for you?
Fail!
Yep (and Rupert Murdoch is free to join them...)
I guess it depends how you define "many"...
H.264 has very heavy processing requirements - it barely works on netbooks and most handheld devices can't manage it.
As a "web standard" it isn't going to work.
Definitely true. The government lied blatantly to the people about who was behind the bombings and their image dived sharply as a result. It was a week before the elections so they ended up losing because of this.
When I was watching Avatar I kept taking the glasses off and marveling at how bright/wonderful the colors were without those stupid glasses on.
Yes ... but we won't be dependent on Adobe to do the optimization for us.
If they can be bothered.
Which they don't seem to be.
Ok, here's how it could work:
Every cell phone switches the sensor on randomly, maybe once a month for three or four hours. It doesn't switch on at all if your battery charge is less than some set amount. If you notice something 'suspicious' you have the option of switching it on manually.
'Phones communicate directly with other phones around them. If a "switched on" phone detects something, it alerts other phones and they switch on their sensors. If several other phones also sense something, all the alarms go off and the feds are notified.
This solves the privacy aspect and puts the battery drain at an acceptable level.
Of course it won't solve any real problems (a terrorist can just drive a private car to the target and detonate before the sensors have had time to work, but the whole thing is just move-plot security anyway...
It would work if cellphones communicated directly with other cellphones in the area (not via any central) and if enough of them were sensing bombs they could all ring their alarms together. ...but this is homeland security so a sensible proposal which cuts them out of the deal won't be considered.
like most "stupid" government proposals, I'd say it was more like some neophyte politician on an ego trip trying to grab headline inches.
"Anonymous...unless there's a court order signed by a judge", right?
Judging by recent behavior the feds don't worry too much about court orders and other legal niceties, not when they've got the Patriot Act.
Didn't he notice the password was gone when he came home?