If Florida mis-reports their votes again, will Iowa and other states with this rule follow them?
One big benefit of the current electoral collage is local accountability. Your electoral rep should be someone from your area, your elections officals are from your county... I cannot imagine a worse scenario then having my votes invalidated by undead voters thousands of miles away, fraud in other states, incompetance by people I never had a choice about...
Many DX 10 features could have been back-ported to XP... but DX10 is a new architecture itself, supporting things like desktop composition (which is more than transparent windows) and task-switching for GPU's.
Anything that a single app could do with DX10 can be done with DX9, plus hardware specific tweaks, the big change is effective multi-tasking, GDI is obsolete, newer apps (anything using WPF) use modern hardware accelleration. As an example, a.net WPF 3.5sp1 application can layer pixel shaders onto buttons, listboxes, etc. (it's hard to think of good reasons to do that, aside from eye-candy, but it's there) You can do all that on XP, but not as efficently.
A lot of development into touch/multitouch interfaces has been funded by the US military.
Sand/toxins can get into a keyboard or mouse and be very very difficult to clean out, but a MS Surface type display/input can just be wiped with a damp cloth, sterilized, etc. if you use a low enough power CPU/GPU you could seal the processing components away from hazards as well.
I doubt the security systems will be public facing, as that would be a security risk... so this probably isn't funded as a promotion by MS, the security folks may actually like it.
I've read (quite some time ago) that a fuller fridge is more efficent... basically, when you open the door the cold air 'falls' out, while solid objects retain their coldness within the fridge.
Well, they are still tracking down Nazi war criminals, 60 years after the war ended... I think they've demonstrated a use for tracking immigrants for 50+ years...
You just need to change your identity AFTER getting in.
Based upon the cheats available in Everquest, it did not use such filtering.
ShowEQ would sniff EQ's network stream and display a map with every movable object (mob) in the zone, along with all their stats, models for visible equipment etc. Other cheats would allow players to instantly teleport around a zone.
(They even had a bug for months where players could randomly get assigned other players stats upon entering a zone, because they didn't zero out empty slots when a previous player left a zone.
Anti-cheat was manually enforced by human GM's, which was utterly unscalable (plus, the GM's were usually idiots, compared to what an automated system could do, after waiting 4-8 hours for help).)
I would like to say that Prior art shouldn't matter, that it's obvious to anyone 'skilled in the art' that you don't trust a client running on the user machine in a network application if you want any security... but, based on all the security flaws out there, it apperently isn't so obvious.
But it's also like a patent for locking your doors when you leave the house. you can't patent security, but a particular type of lock could be.
Does the patent describe the exact 'method and apparatus' used to do the filtering? When I first found out about EQ's lax filtering I thought of a simple distance filter (DX^2 + DY^2 R^2, for a circular radius) but squaring seemed less scalable than simple comparison, such as (MAX(ABS(DX),ABS(DY) R), for a square area, or ((ABS(DX) + ABS(DY)) R) for a diamond shaped one (aka Manhattan distance) (the diamond one would be an add and compare, vs. two compares for the rectangle, possibly affecting CPU branch prediction, which when looping through hundreds of players and thousands of objects might add up). As for viewing angle, a 3rd person camera was allowed (female elf rears...) plus, with mouse-look, a player can make a 180 degreee turn in a single frame, so direction based filtering wouldn't be very useful.
Later on EQ did start filtering some data, last I recall a client would get a full snapshot upon entering the zone, but from then on would only get changes for objects near them, and only when they changed direction of travel (that is, the client would appear to be told that 'Bob the orc' was moving west at 5 MPH, until the server said otherwise... unfortunetly, the client-side (players) couldn't walk through 'solid' objects, like trees, building walls, 1000 foot cliffs, etc. while on the server, MOBs didn't collide with world geometry, or each other (meaning what appears to be 1 orc, could actually be 20 of them stacked in the same space, using the exact same animations... and while they appear (or rather don't appear, because the client can't 'see' them) on the other side of a wall, they are in fact gang-raping your cute lil elf rear on the server side, which you'll discover when you start zoning on death, which took up to 5 minutes (because if it takes more than whatever time limit, you'll time-out from the server, and have to start the login process again, and by being disconnected you lose your party slot, which you can only rejoin once you are back in the zone with the rest of the party, and you have to remember if the Cleric in the group was 'Drizztt', 'Drezt', 'Drrizt', 'Drizt', or 'Drizzzttte' to send him a tell to rez you.)
(I was thinking about logging into EQ again over this last month... but now that I've really thought about it, no eff'n way.)
1) Steal underpants 2a) Make a new browser. 2b) Release a plug-in for other browsers that causes huge security hole. 2c) Claim your browser is more secure. 3) Profit!
How long before we see a patent on "a system of placing letters and numbers in sequential order in order to convey something meaningful"?
Sadly, there's no prior art for this on the internet...
Yes. There is./. is a great example.
No, that's a terrible example, '/' and '.' are not letters or numbers.
Surveying the wreckage of the credit crisis, Alan Greenspan says he made one very big mistake.
The free-market cheerleader and former maestro of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board conceded yesterday that he wrongly thought banks had an inherent interest in shielding their institutions and their shareholders from risk.
That assumption turned out to have been dead wrong as financial institutions brought the banking system to the brink of failure in recent months after loading up on exotic mortgages and risky derivative products such as credit default swaps.
"I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organizations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms," Mr. Greenspan bluntly told a U.S. congressional committee exploring the role of regulators in the financial crisis.
"Something which looked to be a very solid edifice and, indeed, a critical pillar to market competition and free markets did break down.
"And I think that... shocked me. I still do not fully understand why it happened."
The staunch belief that banks could manage their own tolerance for risk underpinned Mr. Greenspan's aversion to heavy-handed banking regulation during his record 18-year tenure at the helm of the Fed.
Mr. Greenspan was an early devotee of author Ayn Rand, whose 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged inspired a generation of libertarian thinkers who believe in the right of individuals to live entirely for their own interest.
Slashdot Mirror
Which means that market segment will double in size in 15 years as well.
Florida.
If Florida mis-reports their votes again, will Iowa and other states with this rule follow them?
One big benefit of the current electoral collage is local accountability. Your electoral rep should be someone from your area, your elections officals are from your county... I cannot imagine a worse scenario then having my votes invalidated by undead voters thousands of miles away, fraud in other states, incompetance by people I never had a choice about...
I see this being more useful for the kid to keep his parents from seeing what he's doing...
Who knows how many accidents have occured while trying to turn off a monitor, mute audio, and zip up a fly simultainously, as Mom walks in.
Blood EVERYWHERE.
Is writing a bad check still a felony in California?, and does that only apply if it's a physical check, actually signed?
Slashdot article with virtually all the comments defending Microsoft... Satan must be wearing a heavy coat, and using an umbrella to deflect pig crap.
Many DX 10 features could have been back-ported to XP... but DX10 is a new architecture itself, supporting things like desktop composition (which is more than transparent windows) and task-switching for GPU's.
Anything that a single app could do with DX10 can be done with DX9, plus hardware specific tweaks, the big change is effective multi-tasking, GDI is obsolete, newer apps (anything using WPF) use modern hardware accelleration. As an example, a .net WPF 3.5sp1 application can layer pixel shaders onto buttons, listboxes, etc. (it's hard to think of good reasons to do that, aside from eye-candy, but it's there) You can do all that on XP, but not as efficently.
I see your audio file, and raise a YouTube clip.
Missile Guidance and Bomb Philosophy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjGRySVyTDk
I think Cable has different standards than Broadcast, I suppose it could be a violation of the 'Must Carry' rules.
I call a base 4 digit a Quatloo.
Great for storing extended bools, such as {false, true, maybe, File Not Found}
A lot of development into touch/multitouch interfaces has been funded by the US military.
Sand/toxins can get into a keyboard or mouse and be very very difficult to clean out, but a MS Surface type display/input can just be wiped with a damp cloth, sterilized, etc. if you use a low enough power CPU/GPU you could seal the processing components away from hazards as well.
I doubt the security systems will be public facing, as that would be a security risk... so this probably isn't funded as a promotion by MS, the security folks may actually like it.
I've read (quite some time ago) that a fuller fridge is more efficent... basically, when you open the door the cold air 'falls' out, while solid objects retain their coldness within the fridge.
Well, they are still tracking down Nazi war criminals, 60 years after the war ended... I think they've demonstrated a use for tracking immigrants for 50+ years...
You just need to change your identity AFTER getting in.
Based upon the cheats available in Everquest, it did not use such filtering.
ShowEQ would sniff EQ's network stream and display a map with every movable object (mob) in the zone, along with all their stats, models for visible equipment etc. Other cheats would allow players to instantly teleport around a zone.
(They even had a bug for months where players could randomly get assigned other players stats upon entering a zone, because they didn't zero out empty slots when a previous player left a zone.
Anti-cheat was manually enforced by human GM's, which was utterly unscalable (plus, the GM's were usually idiots, compared to what an automated system could do, after waiting 4-8 hours for help).)
I would like to say that Prior art shouldn't matter, that it's obvious to anyone 'skilled in the art' that you don't trust a client running on the user machine in a network application if you want any security... but, based on all the security flaws out there, it apperently isn't so obvious.
But it's also like a patent for locking your doors when you leave the house. you can't patent security, but a particular type of lock could be.
Does the patent describe the exact 'method and apparatus' used to do the filtering? When I first found out about EQ's lax filtering I thought of a simple distance filter (DX^2 + DY^2 R^2, for a circular radius) but squaring seemed less scalable than simple comparison, such as (MAX(ABS(DX),ABS(DY) R), for a square area, or ((ABS(DX) + ABS(DY)) R) for a diamond shaped one (aka Manhattan distance) (the diamond one would be an add and compare, vs. two compares for the rectangle, possibly affecting CPU branch prediction, which when looping through hundreds of players and thousands of objects might add up). As for viewing angle, a 3rd person camera was allowed (female elf rears...) plus, with mouse-look, a player can make a 180 degreee turn in a single frame, so direction based filtering wouldn't be very useful.
Later on EQ did start filtering some data, last I recall a client would get a full snapshot upon entering the zone, but from then on would only get changes for objects near them, and only when they changed direction of travel (that is, the client would appear to be told that 'Bob the orc' was moving west at 5 MPH, until the server said otherwise... unfortunetly, the client-side (players) couldn't walk through 'solid' objects, like trees, building walls, 1000 foot cliffs, etc. while on the server, MOBs didn't collide with world geometry, or each other (meaning what appears to be 1 orc, could actually be 20 of them stacked in the same space, using the exact same animations... and while they appear (or rather don't appear, because the client can't 'see' them) on the other side of a wall, they are in fact gang-raping your cute lil elf rear on the server side, which you'll discover when you start zoning on death, which took up to 5 minutes (because if it takes more than whatever time limit, you'll time-out from the server, and have to start the login process again, and by being disconnected you lose your party slot, which you can only rejoin once you are back in the zone with the rest of the party, and you have to remember if the Cleric in the group was 'Drizztt', 'Drezt', 'Drrizt', 'Drizt', or 'Drizzzttte' to send him a tell to rez you.)
(I was thinking about logging into EQ again over this last month... but now that I've really thought about it, no eff'n way.)
A fully automatic water sentry turret for the dining room table, out of lego mindstorms NXT
If a cat gets shooed off a table whenever a human is around, they only learn to stay off the tab;e when a human is around.
SLI, $500 cards, etc. must be best for game developers, to develop now on what next year will be commodity hardware.
To detect duplicate plates, all they need to do is track every plate all the time, speeding or not.
The database wouldn't be used for anything else.
well, except terrorist suspects. (or anyone near a major government building)
and pedophile suspects. (or anyone passing near a school)
and drug dealers. (or anyone who's ever been to a pharmacy)
and those suspicious weirdos, who seem to be deliberatly avoiding the government, schools, and pharmacies (Scientologists?)
As well as the genetically 'superior' murderer.
1) Steal underpants
2a) Make a new browser.
2b) Release a plug-in for other browsers that causes huge security hole.
2c) Claim your browser is more secure.
3) Profit!
I've replaced my notepad with a script that creates an empty file named 'notes (date) (time)' and opens it in notepad.
As a descendant of the Vandals, I must ask you not use that racist term.
The Vandals did much more than sack Rome, we also... well, invaded and pillaged a lot of places.
Don't make us take hostages, hack them to pieces and throw the pieces overboard.
Send in the Marines! Once Dell HQ is surrounded I'm sure they'll find your laptop.
Hint: It's in the building next to all the unfound WMDs.
How long before we see a patent on "a system of placing letters and numbers in sequential order in order to convey something meaningful"? Sadly, there's no prior art for this on the internet...
Yes. There is. /. is a great example.
No, that's a terrible example, '/' and '.' are not letters or numbers.
Surveying the wreckage of the credit crisis, Alan Greenspan says he made one very big mistake.
The free-market cheerleader and former maestro of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board conceded yesterday that he wrongly thought banks had an inherent interest in shielding their institutions and their shareholders from risk.
That assumption turned out to have been dead wrong as financial institutions brought the banking system to the brink of failure in recent months after loading up on exotic mortgages and risky derivative products such as credit default swaps.
"I made a mistake in presuming that the self-interests of organizations, specifically banks and others, were such that they were best capable of protecting their own shareholders and their equity in the firms," Mr. Greenspan bluntly told a U.S. congressional committee exploring the role of regulators in the financial crisis.
"Something which looked to be a very solid edifice and, indeed, a critical pillar to market competition and free markets did break down.
"And I think that ... shocked me. I still do not fully understand why it happened."
The staunch belief that banks could manage their own tolerance for risk underpinned Mr. Greenspan's aversion to heavy-handed banking regulation during his record 18-year tenure at the helm of the Fed.
Mr. Greenspan was an early devotee of author Ayn Rand, whose 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged inspired a generation of libertarian thinkers who believe in the right of individuals to live entirely for their own interest.
I thought Bitlocker supports managment via Windows domains/Active Directory?, perhaps you were thinging of Truecrypt?
You guys (Parent and Grandparent posters) are a couple of boobs.