I scan everything in and store it that way. Costs are a lot lower - and I would imagine that paying an organisation to scan existing paper work might seem costly, but a whole load less that long-term storage.
Surely the payload of a printer and materials will be greater than the prefabricated materials alone? Isn't this more costly? And why build, why not find somewhere where there is a cave and use the moon as a natural defense?
As far as I know - this guy highlighted a security flaw that exposed private data to the world. This meant he knew that that data was private and should not be maliciously exploited. He then wrote an application that accessed that data maliciously. The first bit is laudable. The second bit is as stupid as it gets given that he'd just told the company this sensitive data was exposed.
If the pressure sensitive stylus works well then I will want one of these. I am truly fed up with all the paper wasted just so I can make temporary notes on a piece of paper. It will be interesting to see what integration with MS 360 offers, or whatever it is called.
I always found an unusual odor puts off most people, including airport security. I was once pulled over at Charles de Gaul, on my way home, opened the case and was quickly told to be on my way. I had been traveling for some time and hadn't had any opportunity to launder stuff for a while.
Well - kids are the main drawback to touchscreen for me - my iPad is sticky... I would sincerely hate to invest $$$s in a decent screen that needs a decent clean every time I need to use it.
we have a human analogy as a starting point. If I wanted to keep something, human or otherwise, free of infection I would stick it in an hermetically sealed container. Personally, I think (and I am most certainly not a security expert) the problem we have is that users are, by and large, allowed too much freedom by default. They can wander, like horny 16 year olds, the boudoirs and dark alleys of the internet without any form of protection what so ever. The iPhone is a nice example of a locked down system where there are very few, if any, threats. Why can't we have the default machine something like the iPhone with options to free things up a bit for those who know what they are doing? My guess is that a lot of users are increasingly in the "I just want it to work" category and wouldn't even notice significant loss of privileges. Unless it affected their access to pet tap zoo, or whatever it is called.
At least that has been my feelings for a while, until I thought about what they might have done a hundred years ago or so. Back then, I guess they would have jumped on ships, sailed over and fought to the bitter end. The one with the most people standing would then claim the others territory and resources. So why not encourage a bit of reenactment? Get all the patent lawyers in boats, equip them with suitable weapons, canons and so on, and get them to fight it out?
Completely agree about Space 1999 - and embarrassingly I did not realise GA was behind it. What was nice was a certain air of realism, sci-fi that didn't rely on tricks and alien tech to move the story forward. Good writing with the dues ex machina.
Apologies for the ignorance - So I understand that the further an object is the longer it takes for light to reach us. So what we observe is effectively light that has been traveling for a long time and we are looking back in time. But surely the Universe is expanding and is we go back in time then at some point we were in fairly close proximity to this galaxy. Light back then would have taken only a few moments to reach us. Moving forward from this point, for us to be able to see the past now surely we must have moved away from this galaxy at a relative speed that is considerable. What I don't get is how fast we need to be hurtling away from this galaxy for us to see the relative past now. As surely any speed below the speed of light would only slow time, rather than reverse it as implied here. Can anyone explain?
I don't mind this - I think a lot of people who buy computers are not particularly, shall we say, well versed in protecting themselves. If this could also be bundled with some firm general advice it might help. One of my kids, visiting their grandparents, managed to conjure up some pretty sordid images of bestiality in no time by just googling one of her hobbies, horse riding. It was a bit of a shock for all concerned. No harm done, as far as I can tell (I wasn't there). I am however fairly sure her grandparents would have preferred that this had not happened and were able to take steps to prevent it from happening. At the moment, a lot of people are exposed to the internet in it's raw form and this isn't necessarily something that is healthy - giving people the choice of restricting their browsing freedom might be welcomed.
I think you hit on an important point there - Dr Who has always been a family show, one that tries to appeal to viewers from about the age of 5 years upwards. I like having a show that I can watch with my kids and that I also enjoy. It is about the only show we can watch together. What has been done well is that mix of things that each of us like woven into a cohesive story that we can discuss. We can pick over story lines here in/. as much as we like, but at the end of the day Dr Who's broad appeal makes it rather special.
Personally, I'm pretty tired of both Google and Apple. Google for trying to track everything I do on the internet and, in some cases, everywhere I go. And Apple, mostly because of the maps issue. I've switched to Bing as my search engine of choice and I will not upgrade iOS on my iPhone and iPad until the maps facility is improved or, ironically, Google maps is back in there. I am liking Win7 however and generally finding MS to have improved as a company, something I find hard to say. But I'm pretty tired of the lot of them tbh and this is effecting my choices. I'll probably switch to Samsung for phones, I'll continue to use Ubuntu where I can.
I'm going to get burned for this - but I'd say arrogance in students is mostly a coping strategy of particularly bright students (not just CS) that emerges with a lack of confidence or belief that they will fail. I've worked with some quite brilliant students and struggled to channel that arrogance you speak of in a positive direction. There is nothing worse in a group to have someone who is arrogant and, at the end of the day, while the brightest do well one has to think of team dynamics. So I encourage social engagement to try and break down barriers and help people see that others can make a contribution.
Social Networks are just the tip of the iceberg - there are vast databases out there used by corporations to better understand their customers. Supermarkets and banks for example will know just about everything there is to know. If someone is stupid enough to post so much personal information on a social site that can then be used to comprise their identity, then that is a problem but one shared by the user... but if an organization fails to secure financial data, gets hacked and that information is used to exploit users, that is potentially more serious. Or if Facebook, Google or whoever are selling user information with users consent to anyone who will pay, no one seems interested. Yet the latter doesn't seem to be discussed to the same degree. It is not just about telling people to obfuscate, to "make stuff up" we need some good privacy laws that protect individuals and their data.
Will we look back on these images in the same way we look back on early switchboard exchanges? I got to check out a 2Gb drive from the 1970s the other day - kind of made me think...
I would imagine that with time and tweaking it will shrink. If it does, I would quite like this... I am wondering whether I could play a virtual keyboard with it.
Thank you for giving me a reason to surf on the job, just to check if that rat bastard Anonymous Coward has brought insult to my name, once more.
When I first started lurking on/. I genuinely believed that Anonymous Coward was a remarkably prolific poster. It was not until I plucked up the courage some years later and posted something that I realized...
I wish I was back in my acne filled, zx spectrum dominated, puberty... so much to look forward to in those days. And congratulations and thank you to/. for filling up a bit of my life that probably would not have found the same level satisfaction in the real world. Oh, and mobile/. is long overdue.
If rarity in part determines price then I am surprised this isn't selling for more. I have heard, and I am not sure how true this is, that someone with a rock that fell from the sky broke it up and sold it by the gram - and made a lot more money. One thought though, how can people be sure this is a moon rock? All I am getting is that it was a part of a meteor.
Just because they might be at the cutting edge of scientific progress does not mean common household goods, that were once thought of as perhaps as innovative as superconductivity, cannot be useful. Maybe I am stretching things in this case, perhaps they should have used duct tape. Anyhow, there must be other examples of this kind of thing?
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I scan everything in and store it that way. Costs are a lot lower - and I would imagine that paying an organisation to scan existing paper work might seem costly, but a whole load less that long-term storage.
Surely the payload of a printer and materials will be greater than the prefabricated materials alone? Isn't this more costly? And why build, why not find somewhere where there is a cave and use the moon as a natural defense?
As far as I know - this guy highlighted a security flaw that exposed private data to the world. This meant he knew that that data was private and should not be maliciously exploited. He then wrote an application that accessed that data maliciously. The first bit is laudable. The second bit is as stupid as it gets given that he'd just told the company this sensitive data was exposed.
If the pressure sensitive stylus works well then I will want one of these. I am truly fed up with all the paper wasted just so I can make temporary notes on a piece of paper. It will be interesting to see what integration with MS 360 offers, or whatever it is called.
I always found an unusual odor puts off most people, including airport security. I was once pulled over at Charles de Gaul, on my way home, opened the case and was quickly told to be on my way. I had been traveling for some time and hadn't had any opportunity to launder stuff for a while.
Well - kids are the main drawback to touchscreen for me - my iPad is sticky... I would sincerely hate to invest $$$s in a decent screen that needs a decent clean every time I need to use it.
we have a human analogy as a starting point. If I wanted to keep something, human or otherwise, free of infection I would stick it in an hermetically sealed container. Personally, I think (and I am most certainly not a security expert) the problem we have is that users are, by and large, allowed too much freedom by default. They can wander, like horny 16 year olds, the boudoirs and dark alleys of the internet without any form of protection what so ever. The iPhone is a nice example of a locked down system where there are very few, if any, threats. Why can't we have the default machine something like the iPhone with options to free things up a bit for those who know what they are doing? My guess is that a lot of users are increasingly in the "I just want it to work" category and wouldn't even notice significant loss of privileges. Unless it affected their access to pet tap zoo, or whatever it is called.
At least that has been my feelings for a while, until I thought about what they might have done a hundred years ago or so. Back then, I guess they would have jumped on ships, sailed over and fought to the bitter end. The one with the most people standing would then claim the others territory and resources. So why not encourage a bit of reenactment? Get all the patent lawyers in boats, equip them with suitable weapons, canons and so on, and get them to fight it out?
Completely agree about Space 1999 - and embarrassingly I did not realise GA was behind it. What was nice was a certain air of realism, sci-fi that didn't rely on tricks and alien tech to move the story forward. Good writing with the dues ex machina.
Apologies for the ignorance - So I understand that the further an object is the longer it takes for light to reach us. So what we observe is effectively light that has been traveling for a long time and we are looking back in time. But surely the Universe is expanding and is we go back in time then at some point we were in fairly close proximity to this galaxy. Light back then would have taken only a few moments to reach us. Moving forward from this point, for us to be able to see the past now surely we must have moved away from this galaxy at a relative speed that is considerable. What I don't get is how fast we need to be hurtling away from this galaxy for us to see the relative past now. As surely any speed below the speed of light would only slow time, rather than reverse it as implied here. Can anyone explain?
He did it on purpose. Google by default has "safe search" and you have to uncheck it to get porn results. Unless grandpa did it
The elderly gentleman concerned might be the root cause of the problem, indeed.
I don't mind this - I think a lot of people who buy computers are not particularly, shall we say, well versed in protecting themselves. If this could also be bundled with some firm general advice it might help. One of my kids, visiting their grandparents, managed to conjure up some pretty sordid images of bestiality in no time by just googling one of her hobbies, horse riding. It was a bit of a shock for all concerned. No harm done, as far as I can tell (I wasn't there). I am however fairly sure her grandparents would have preferred that this had not happened and were able to take steps to prevent it from happening. At the moment, a lot of people are exposed to the internet in it's raw form and this isn't necessarily something that is healthy - giving people the choice of restricting their browsing freedom might be welcomed.
I think you hit on an important point there - Dr Who has always been a family show, one that tries to appeal to viewers from about the age of 5 years upwards. I like having a show that I can watch with my kids and that I also enjoy. It is about the only show we can watch together. What has been done well is that mix of things that each of us like woven into a cohesive story that we can discuss. We can pick over story lines here in /. as much as we like, but at the end of the day Dr Who's broad appeal makes it rather special.
Personally, I'm pretty tired of both Google and Apple. Google for trying to track everything I do on the internet and, in some cases, everywhere I go. And Apple, mostly because of the maps issue. I've switched to Bing as my search engine of choice and I will not upgrade iOS on my iPhone and iPad until the maps facility is improved or, ironically, Google maps is back in there. I am liking Win7 however and generally finding MS to have improved as a company, something I find hard to say. But I'm pretty tired of the lot of them tbh and this is effecting my choices. I'll probably switch to Samsung for phones, I'll continue to use Ubuntu where I can.
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How will drivers see glow in the dark images when there is snow on the roads?
I'm going to get burned for this - but I'd say arrogance in students is mostly a coping strategy of particularly bright students (not just CS) that emerges with a lack of confidence or belief that they will fail. I've worked with some quite brilliant students and struggled to channel that arrogance you speak of in a positive direction. There is nothing worse in a group to have someone who is arrogant and, at the end of the day, while the brightest do well one has to think of team dynamics. So I encourage social engagement to try and break down barriers and help people see that others can make a contribution.
Social Networks are just the tip of the iceberg - there are vast databases out there used by corporations to better understand their customers. Supermarkets and banks for example will know just about everything there is to know. If someone is stupid enough to post so much personal information on a social site that can then be used to comprise their identity, then that is a problem but one shared by the user... but if an organization fails to secure financial data, gets hacked and that information is used to exploit users, that is potentially more serious. Or if Facebook, Google or whoever are selling user information with users consent to anyone who will pay, no one seems interested. Yet the latter doesn't seem to be discussed to the same degree. It is not just about telling people to obfuscate, to "make stuff up" we need some good privacy laws that protect individuals and their data.
I kind of read some sub-text there - that the two tablets are not similar because one is obviously from Samsung.
Will we look back on these images in the same way we look back on early switchboard exchanges? I got to check out a 2Gb drive from the 1970s the other day - kind of made me think...
I would imagine that with time and tweaking it will shrink. If it does, I would quite like this... I am wondering whether I could play a virtual keyboard with it.
Thank you for giving me a reason to surf on the job, just to check if that rat bastard Anonymous Coward has brought insult to my name, once more.
When I first started lurking on /. I genuinely believed that Anonymous Coward was a remarkably prolific poster. It was not until I plucked up the courage some years later and posted something that I realized...
I wish I was back in my acne filled, zx spectrum dominated, puberty... so much to look forward to in those days. And congratulations and thank you to /. for filling up a bit of my life that probably would not have found the same level satisfaction in the real world. Oh, and mobile /. is long overdue.
If rarity in part determines price then I am surprised this isn't selling for more. I have heard, and I am not sure how true this is, that someone with a rock that fell from the sky broke it up and sold it by the gram - and made a lot more money. One thought though, how can people be sure this is a moon rock? All I am getting is that it was a part of a meteor.
Just because they might be at the cutting edge of scientific progress does not mean common household goods, that were once thought of as perhaps as innovative as superconductivity, cannot be useful. Maybe I am stretching things in this case, perhaps they should have used duct tape. Anyhow, there must be other examples of this kind of thing?