I think the number one barrier to new, high-speed rail services is the lack of available land on our island. I'm not sure I want to give up some beautiful countryside just so I can get to Scotland quickly.
The video report implied that the user at the remote end can drive the robot around to "take a closer look at projects". The only problem I see with this is how does the office manager in Islamabad become familiar with the office layout in Minneapolis? Does he have a map?
And totally OT, but... four news anchors? Isn't that a bit excessive? Are two of them only there to crack weak jokes? It looks like an edition of University Challenge.
You can but try, write to your local council and they are obliged to at least respond in 17 days or so. Whether you can find out specifics might be something for the Information Commissioner.
My problem with the notion is that the milestones are all chosen by humans, it's like the anthropic principle has to be applied. Who's to say where the real singularity lies. We might not be able to imagine it yet.
I totally agree that physical media is on the way out, but who exactly would want an HD movie if they didn't have a HD TV? We're still a few years away from eliminating the discs. Plus, I see the studios looking at the state of the music industry, and thinking that the last thing they want to is remove the notion of 'value' that physical media brings. Consumers will lead the change, but we've a bit to go yet.
Indeed, in this case he was both pissed (drunk) and pissed off (not very happy). What better to do than don a shower curtain and run around a garden attacking strangers, and shouting "I'm Darth Vader!"
You could always put together a demonstration, in which you illustrate how easily an unskilled user can issue the wrong query and bring the server to its knees.
With read-only access? I think the developer is being unreasonable here, there's nothing wrong with requesting access to their own database. It happens with many other business systems I can think of. You can set effective permissions so there is no technical reason not to do so - the only thing I could think of is protecting the intellectual property within the database. But if you don't allow access, I'm afraid you may find that competitors will.
They're trying to bring all the copyrightable music stuff into line, I've heard of people being contacted by Youtube over their hosted music video clips (editions of a Famous British TV Music Show in fact) and telling them that they can carry on hosting the files if they agree to give up certain rights and allow ad revenue from the vid's page to go to the record company (Sony/BMG in this case, I think). At least they're not taking them down, I imagine that they know they will never stop it. These programmes are actually interesting for the programme itself as well as the music vids it contains.
Yeah, these days the BBC ads are just as annoying as commercial operators. YES I know about HD and how wonderful it is. YES I know that people talk on the radio and I can listen on-line. YES I paid my TV licence, stop trying to scare me. Today there are almost as many adverts on the BBC as there are anywhere else.
Could this be yet another 3D technique, which was achieved by wearing glasses with one dark lens & one clear lens (no polarisation here). No special processing was needed on the video (thus watchable for those without glasses), but it only worked on footage with lots of fast motion and objects moving across the screen quickly. The BBC used it on a special Doctor Who episode made for charity in the 1990s (almost certainly on Youtube), and a Seal video was made with the technique in mind (lots of CGI spaceships and rocks flying about the screen). TBH the technique wasn't much cop. As I recall it worked because the brain processes darker images slightly more slowly than bright images, so combining them tricked the brain into interpreting a 3D image.
"This program will modify system files and read any files on the system, and open network connections both on the local zone and the Internet", does the average user allow that to run?
Does the average user even know what that means? We face much bigger problems than insecure OSes, as outlined by the GP.
But if you consider the poster's experience, the librarian appears to think that "most men are pedophiles and rapists", a crucial difference which makes her behaviour unacceptable.
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I think the number one barrier to new, high-speed rail services is the lack of available land on our island. I'm not sure I want to give up some beautiful countryside just so I can get to Scotland quickly.
The video report implied that the user at the remote end can drive the robot around to "take a closer look at projects". The only problem I see with this is how does the office manager in Islamabad become familiar with the office layout in Minneapolis? Does he have a map?
And totally OT, but... four news anchors? Isn't that a bit excessive? Are two of them only there to crack weak jokes? It looks like an edition of University Challenge.
You can but try, write to your local council and they are obliged to at least respond in 17 days or so. Whether you can find out specifics might be something for the Information Commissioner.
My problem with the notion is that the milestones are all chosen by humans, it's like the anthropic principle has to be applied. Who's to say where the real singularity lies. We might not be able to imagine it yet.
I totally agree that physical media is on the way out, but who exactly would want an HD movie if they didn't have a HD TV? We're still a few years away from eliminating the discs. Plus, I see the studios looking at the state of the music industry, and thinking that the last thing they want to is remove the notion of 'value' that physical media brings. Consumers will lead the change, but we've a bit to go yet.
I call it Klax with licensed music.
Indeed, in this case he was both pissed (drunk) and pissed off (not very happy). What better to do than don a shower curtain and run around a garden attacking strangers, and shouting "I'm Darth Vader!"
Given this is the Internet, it's hard to imagine anyone getting caught for it.
When a comment like this is modded 'insightful', I get confused. How can we be sure that the modders were rating it on the basis of its irony?
They're trying to bring all the copyrightable music stuff into line, I've heard of people being contacted by Youtube over their hosted music video clips (editions of a Famous British TV Music Show in fact) and telling them that they can carry on hosting the files if they agree to give up certain rights and allow ad revenue from the vid's page to go to the record company (Sony/BMG in this case, I think). At least they're not taking them down, I imagine that they know they will never stop it. These programmes are actually interesting for the programme itself as well as the music vids it contains.
Yeah, these days the BBC ads are just as annoying as commercial operators. YES I know about HD and how wonderful it is. YES I know that people talk on the radio and I can listen on-line. YES I paid my TV licence, stop trying to scare me. Today there are almost as many adverts on the BBC as there are anywhere else.
SSHDFilter may help in this regard. Everyone should be taking steps to limit brute-force ssh attacks even without this current issue.
This post more than anything else I've seen anywhere should make one sit up and take notice of the China issue. +1
These radio signals are floating round a public space, exactly what is wrong with this? If you don't like it, read your phone's manual.
Perhaps the OS could prevent 'full' access to the network whilst critical patches are outstanding.
Could this be yet another 3D technique, which was achieved by wearing glasses with one dark lens & one clear lens (no polarisation here). No special processing was needed on the video (thus watchable for those without glasses), but it only worked on footage with lots of fast motion and objects moving across the screen quickly. The BBC used it on a special Doctor Who episode made for charity in the 1990s (almost certainly on Youtube), and a Seal video was made with the technique in mind (lots of CGI spaceships and rocks flying about the screen). TBH the technique wasn't much cop. As I recall it worked because the brain processes darker images slightly more slowly than bright images, so combining them tricked the brain into interpreting a 3D image.
But if you consider the poster's experience, the librarian appears to think that "most men are pedophiles and rapists", a crucial difference which makes her behaviour unacceptable.
Wow, so now "being an asshat" is a certifible condition and it has a name.
The Break key also had a screw which you could tighten to prevent pressing... a low-tech solution which I've never seen anywhere else.
Sounds exciting. Perhaps the best brains in the business are now having an impact at YouTube? The interface is a lot better these days too.
Have you read the summary? If you used the G-Archiver program then your details will have been leaked. If you just use Gmail then there is no concern.