I don't think we need the added complexity or the flood of daily metrics. Instead of fitting all of these appliances with their own power-monitoring and networking features, just buy one Kill-A-Watt, measure each appliance once in their typical usage pattern(s), and make some decisions. If you think they will deteriorate over time, measure them again in six months. Of course Intel wants to sell more chips, but I don't really want to turn my house into the NORAD Crystal Palace with all of the metrics-gathering.
SecurID is pretty much the exact opposite of a random number.
Er, a reasonable working definition of "random" is "you can't predict it." The card changes its displayed number every N seconds. The card's pseudo-random number generator has an algorithm and a seed value which are generally unknown to the user, and unknown to the merchant. It was produced in sync with the server, and continues to compute the numbers in parallel with the server. Even if the thief knows the algorithm, they would require significant time (an understatement) to acquire enough samples to accurately predict the next number that the server is expecting. So, for all practical purposes, yes, it's random.
Uh... So the thing obviously doesn't have an actual gyroscope, so I'm assuming he means rotational accelerometers... which is better then regular accelerometers how? They measure different things. Am I or the summary getting some lingo wrong?
The Wii "wiimote" Controller has three MEMS linear accelerometers. The Wii "Motion Plus" adapters plug into the wiimote, and add three MEMS angular accelerometers, which are also very commonly referred as gyroscopic sensors. If the phone has the gyro sensors, it can sense relative tilt motions, but can't sense its own position relative to gravity when held still or sitting on a dock. The linear accelerometers work best at slow gestures, like those found in marble games or augmented reality windows. If it has all six sensors, which I expect it does, then there are a lot of quick and slow motion gestures you can do very accurately.
... Even though you broke my heart,
And killed me.
And tore me to pieces.
And threw every piece into a fire.
As they burned it hurt because
I was so happy for you!
Maybe I'm biased, given my name, but wouldn't Halley's own sleuthing of the comet itself be a prime candidate for "the field of forensic astronomy" getting a start? It's not like he named this thing that appeared once-- he discovered that several historical sightings of similar objects were actually the same object on a periodic return.
Error correction techniques can be employed that allowed a damaged disk to be be playable.
And since it's a Blu-Ray device, always remember that "DRM techniques can be employed that allow a valid purchased commodity disk to become unplayable."
I haven't updated yet, but I can see now that hiding the http:// is a pain in the ass for communicating URLs onto other channels. Cut and paste a properly formatted URL into a chat window, email, or instant message, and most clients will correctly discover, highlight and support the hyperlink. Now people will have to edit the mangled URL when copying from their browser to get the same functionality. Perhaps the new Chrome will "auto-insert" the protocol prefix when copying the URL to the operating system's clipboard, but I kind of doubt this.
No we don't even need to go that far back... Here is a simpler idea... Chinese, Japanese anyone?
The beginnings of Chinese characters are at least 8000 years ago, and they modernized over the millennia, so that is going that far back. Why do you think this project has the name "iConji" (pronounced the same as "i-kanji", the Japanese word that literally means "Chinese characters")?
"Vern, a feller gave me this. What does 'subpoena' mean?"
"Well, shoot, Jimbob, all them fancy words is about the Latin. See here, 'Sub' means underneath, and 'poena' is what you call yer, well, yer tacklebox. So what this means is, they got you by the balls."
Unless the term piracy now also includes patent infringement those codecs aren't pirated. They are simply illegal to distribute in the United States because the US allows software patents, and the software is covered by such US patents. The codecs in questions are perfectly legal in any country where software is not patentable.
Okay, I guess the proper term for this kind of transfer of goods is smuggling, then.
I agree that the vehicle itself led them on a somewhat simple trail to find the guy.
However, what I found somewhat creepy was that they found CCTV of the same guy buying the fireworks in Pennsylvania, well over a month before the incident. Apparently, buying plain old 50mg firecrackers in PA requires a signature, an ID, and the video retention policy isn't just a week or less like most CCTV. Can they find video of your visit two months ago? Six months? How long before every Wal*Mart and ATM have a solid year of 30fps video for every camera?
if you regularly visit official Microsoft sites or even have a Hotmail account... the big *nix distros should get together and support OpenID universally across all their sites for a similar effect.
You make it sound like all that anyone ever wants out of their newsgroups is about the operating systems. Do you know just how many hobbies and topics there are on a real newsgroup server? Do you realize how many separate stand-alone "you-host-em" bulletin board services are out there? There's at least two competing boards for pretty much any major hobby or special interest. There's probably five or six just for radio-controlled-aircraft discussions, then another couple for motorscooters, several for do-it-yourself-electronics, and more for anime, audiophiles, cooking, you name it.
The world of discussion has gotten so fragmented, and everybody's got to authenticate on each service independently. Unless phpBB and the other popular forum software kits start supporting a third-party authentication (hah!), the problem is just going to get worse. Far worse.
It's just an aspect of storytelling. Most stories are about conflict and resolution between the characters, not the intellectual masturbation of what layer in the network stack is responsible for ack/response. Details like that don't matter. Struggling against time, intrigue, and moving the plot along: that's what matters.
In the movie House of Flying Daggers, there's a swordfight scene where the two rivals finally clash in an epic struggle as the seasons change from summer to fall to winter all around them. Obviously nobody can fight for nine months. Obviously the sword choreography was on a completely different time scale to the environment they were in. Details like this matter if you're a weak-minded literalist. As pretty as the visuals were, it simply communicated a story like a line in a novel. It was a powerful visual metaphor.
Next time the guys in CSI can scan a DNA sequence in a matter of minutes (or perhaps hours, as the camera briefly observes an analog clockface), don't nitpick the usual technical constraints of a process that usually takes days or weeks or months. Just insert "no technical challenge will stop this team." Even for geeks who enjoy the technical aspects, some details are like watching paint dry.
If they do this, then no one will work for them and they will change names and thrive. See Blackwater (nee Xe), Anderson Consulting (nee Accenture), AirTran Airways (nee ValueJet), Philip Morris (nee Altria), and perhaps as a zombie counterpoint, Caldera International (nee SCO Group).
With the release of any iPhone / iPad app, the announcement really needs to end with the phrase, "for now." That is, the app has somehow been accepted by the current byzantine App Store approval process, but a future byzantine App Store decision may pull the app and confuse developers and customers alike. It's happened often enough that this should be a clear footnote on all App Store stories.
To be fair, that's not an uncommon misunderstanding.
First, Philip K. Dick never wrote a piece called "Blade Runner." A few of the major themes from his short story "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" were grabbed and incorporated into a completely different plot to make the movie "Blade Runner," but for the most part, "Blade Runner" isn't Phil Dick, and "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" was not made into a movie.
Morality or Empathy? Where are all the Voigt-Kampff references?
You're in a desert walking along in the sand when all of the sudden you look down, and you see a tortoise, it's crawling toward you. You reach down, you flip the tortoise over on its back. The tortoise lays on its back, its belly baking in the hot sun, beating its legs trying to turn itself over, but it can't, not without your help. But you're not helping. Why is that?
Ever since my daughter was able to speak, I've been playing games and doing things that help to "feel" math, not just know math facts. How many bumps on a lego brick? Can you estimate a pile of pennies? She's dabbled with pi, exponents and binary. It's great to hear a third grader explaining "non-negative integers" to a visiting playmate, but sad to hear the playmate struggle with something like that simple concept. (No wonder most cultures invented "zero" so recently.) Now we're having fun with prime numbers, and getting into factorization. She's dinking around with Python a little bit, but it's mostly the typing skills that hold her back. Numeracy is a lot more than facts, and at this age you have to play to learn.
Apparently some moderators have no idea what a democracy is. other then 'democracy is good and open source is good therefore anything you talks about how either one could be different is a troll'
"But... but... it has electrolytes!" "Yeah, do you even know what electrolytes are exactly?" "It's what plants crave!"
Given the current debates about the US-operated and controlled facility at Guantanimo, Cuba, what is your definition of "on US soil"? Is the territory of Puerto Rico "our land"? Is a diplomatic embassy compound in Israel "our land"? Is the space inside a humvee or diplomatic-flagged limousine "our land"? Are we able to ignore our law when we're not on "our land"? I'd say that our written law is the boundaries of what the government can do, not some coordinates on a map. I also say that the law should be written for public consumption (e.g., Army Field Operations Handbook), not hidden behind some classified status. There are documents that must be classified, but the basic rules by which our government defines what is legal and what is not legal, that should be public.
I suggest you contact the restoration experts in major museums for (1) advice about preservation, and (2) how they go about their own digitizing projects. I read a fascinating article about the digitization of many medieval parchments, but I don't recall the particular museum involved now.
While shoving a mouse around and typing does not seem like significant exercise, I think there's a bigger energy expenditure in interactive thought. Zoning out at the television does not engage many areas of the brain, but chatting with friends or deciding where to browse next takes a bit more power. Brain activity burns calories. I've personally noticed that my head warms up more when I'm thinking, especially if the work or play is cerebral or there's a time pressure involved. It would be very cool to see a study on just how different these tasks are, with brain activity monitored objectively.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't think we need the added complexity or the flood of daily metrics. Instead of fitting all of these appliances with their own power-monitoring and networking features, just buy one Kill-A-Watt, measure each appliance once in their typical usage pattern(s), and make some decisions. If you think they will deteriorate over time, measure them again in six months. Of course Intel wants to sell more chips, but I don't really want to turn my house into the NORAD Crystal Palace with all of the metrics-gathering.
Er, a reasonable working definition of "random" is "you can't predict it." The card changes its displayed number every N seconds. The card's pseudo-random number generator has an algorithm and a seed value which are generally unknown to the user, and unknown to the merchant. It was produced in sync with the server, and continues to compute the numbers in parallel with the server. Even if the thief knows the algorithm, they would require significant time (an understatement) to acquire enough samples to accurately predict the next number that the server is expecting. So, for all practical purposes, yes, it's random.
The Wii "wiimote" Controller has three MEMS linear accelerometers. The Wii "Motion Plus" adapters plug into the wiimote, and add three MEMS angular accelerometers, which are also very commonly referred as gyroscopic sensors. If the phone has the gyro sensors, it can sense relative tilt motions, but can't sense its own position relative to gravity when held still or sitting on a dock. The linear accelerometers work best at slow gestures, like those found in marble games or augmented reality windows. If it has all six sensors, which I expect it does, then there are a lot of quick and slow motion gestures you can do very accurately.
... Even though you broke my heart, And killed me. And tore me to pieces. And threw every piece into a fire. As they burned it hurt because I was so happy for you!
Maybe I'm biased, given my name, but wouldn't Halley's own sleuthing of the comet itself be a prime candidate for "the field of forensic astronomy" getting a start? It's not like he named this thing that appeared once-- he discovered that several historical sightings of similar objects were actually the same object on a periodic return.
And since it's a Blu-Ray device, always remember that "DRM techniques can be employed that allow a valid purchased commodity disk to become unplayable."
I haven't updated yet, but I can see now that hiding the http:// is a pain in the ass for communicating URLs onto other channels. Cut and paste a properly formatted URL into a chat window, email, or instant message, and most clients will correctly discover, highlight and support the hyperlink. Now people will have to edit the mangled URL when copying from their browser to get the same functionality. Perhaps the new Chrome will "auto-insert" the protocol prefix when copying the URL to the operating system's clipboard, but I kind of doubt this.
The beginnings of Chinese characters are at least 8000 years ago, and they modernized over the millennia, so that is going that far back. Why do you think this project has the name "iConji" (pronounced the same as "i-kanji", the Japanese word that literally means "Chinese characters")?
"Vern, a feller gave me this. What does 'subpoena' mean?"
"Well, shoot, Jimbob, all them fancy words is about the Latin. See here, 'Sub' means underneath, and 'poena' is what you call yer, well, yer tacklebox. So what this means is, they got you by the balls."
Okay, I guess the proper term for this kind of transfer of goods is smuggling, then.
I agree that the vehicle itself led them on a somewhat simple trail to find the guy.
However, what I found somewhat creepy was that they found CCTV of the same guy buying the fireworks in Pennsylvania, well over a month before the incident. Apparently, buying plain old 50mg firecrackers in PA requires a signature, an ID, and the video retention policy isn't just a week or less like most CCTV. Can they find video of your visit two months ago? Six months? How long before every Wal*Mart and ATM have a solid year of 30fps video for every camera?
You make it sound like all that anyone ever wants out of their newsgroups is about the operating systems. Do you know just how many hobbies and topics there are on a real newsgroup server? Do you realize how many separate stand-alone "you-host-em" bulletin board services are out there? There's at least two competing boards for pretty much any major hobby or special interest. There's probably five or six just for radio-controlled-aircraft discussions, then another couple for motorscooters, several for do-it-yourself-electronics, and more for anime, audiophiles, cooking, you name it.
The world of discussion has gotten so fragmented, and everybody's got to authenticate on each service independently. Unless phpBB and the other popular forum software kits start supporting a third-party authentication (hah!), the problem is just going to get worse. Far worse.
(zoomy experimental mouse/OpenGL file browser shows on Iris Crimson minicomputer...)
Lex: This is Unix! I know this!
It's just an aspect of storytelling. Most stories are about conflict and resolution between the characters, not the intellectual masturbation of what layer in the network stack is responsible for ack/response. Details like that don't matter. Struggling against time, intrigue, and moving the plot along: that's what matters.
In the movie House of Flying Daggers, there's a swordfight scene where the two rivals finally clash in an epic struggle as the seasons change from summer to fall to winter all around them. Obviously nobody can fight for nine months. Obviously the sword choreography was on a completely different time scale to the environment they were in. Details like this matter if you're a weak-minded literalist. As pretty as the visuals were, it simply communicated a story like a line in a novel. It was a powerful visual metaphor.
Next time the guys in CSI can scan a DNA sequence in a matter of minutes (or perhaps hours, as the camera briefly observes an analog clockface), don't nitpick the usual technical constraints of a process that usually takes days or weeks or months. Just insert "no technical challenge will stop this team." Even for geeks who enjoy the technical aspects, some details are like watching paint dry.
A good summary of the whole story of the meme before the YouTube action.
Cool, thanks for the correction. I thought it was direction-neutral. Looked up the etymology.
If they do this, then no one will work for them and they will change names and thrive. See Blackwater (nee Xe), Anderson Consulting (nee Accenture), AirTran Airways (nee ValueJet), Philip Morris (nee Altria), and perhaps as a zombie counterpoint, Caldera International (nee SCO Group).
With the release of any iPhone / iPad app, the announcement really needs to end with the phrase, "for now." That is, the app has somehow been accepted by the current byzantine App Store approval process, but a future byzantine App Store decision may pull the app and confuse developers and customers alike. It's happened often enough that this should be a clear footnote on all App Store stories.
To be fair, that's not an uncommon misunderstanding.
Voigt-Kampff questions from Blade Runner
Ever since my daughter was able to speak, I've been playing games and doing things that help to "feel" math, not just know math facts. How many bumps on a lego brick? Can you estimate a pile of pennies? She's dabbled with pi, exponents and binary. It's great to hear a third grader explaining "non-negative integers" to a visiting playmate, but sad to hear the playmate struggle with something like that simple concept. (No wonder most cultures invented "zero" so recently.) Now we're having fun with prime numbers, and getting into factorization. She's dinking around with Python a little bit, but it's mostly the typing skills that hold her back. Numeracy is a lot more than facts, and at this age you have to play to learn.
"But... but... it has electrolytes!" "Yeah, do you even know what electrolytes are exactly?" "It's what plants crave!"
Given the current debates about the US-operated and controlled facility at Guantanimo, Cuba, what is your definition of "on US soil"? Is the territory of Puerto Rico "our land"? Is a diplomatic embassy compound in Israel "our land"? Is the space inside a humvee or diplomatic-flagged limousine "our land"? Are we able to ignore our law when we're not on "our land"? I'd say that our written law is the boundaries of what the government can do, not some coordinates on a map. I also say that the law should be written for public consumption (e.g., Army Field Operations Handbook), not hidden behind some classified status. There are documents that must be classified, but the basic rules by which our government defines what is legal and what is not legal, that should be public.
I suggest you contact the restoration experts in major museums for (1) advice about preservation, and (2) how they go about their own digitizing projects. I read a fascinating article about the digitization of many medieval parchments, but I don't recall the particular museum involved now.
While shoving a mouse around and typing does not seem like significant exercise, I think there's a bigger energy expenditure in interactive thought. Zoning out at the television does not engage many areas of the brain, but chatting with friends or deciding where to browse next takes a bit more power. Brain activity burns calories. I've personally noticed that my head warms up more when I'm thinking, especially if the work or play is cerebral or there's a time pressure involved. It would be very cool to see a study on just how different these tasks are, with brain activity monitored objectively.