People are saying it's untraceable because you can generate new public keys whenever you want. In this way, you can use a different key for each person/vendor you interact with, or you can use a new key for each transaction if so desired. Whether going to these extremes makes it completely untraceable or not, I cannot say, but it does make it a heck of a lot harder if you do go to such extremes.
Neither is it silicon. The point of the article is we have a potential silicon replacement for use in specialized cases. This kind of thing paves the way for interactive packaging or other embedded uses that silicon is just too big for.
Great, now you want the [bury] button for elections. I guess well see candidates named Topt Enreasonstovoteforme come out of the woodwork for that one.
One demo device they showed me (No disclosure of details because I am under NDA) would slide to attract just as if it were a standard magnet and then it would break away just upon being pushed past the lock point. Think of this one. Ponder it for a while. You mean I could have a motor pole that attracted in just like normal and then actually got repelled away as soon as it passed without any added energy? (no coils or electricity????) Thought you might like to think a long time on this one. This is much more of a discovery set than you might think. No CMR isn't publically proposing to use it for this. Just study on this for a while.
So they created a magnetic spring that will pull as well as push. I can see how that would be an improvement over metal springs that will break over time, but I can see a whole slew of other problems arising from the need to properly shield the darn things to keep particulates from sticking and creating friction.
Or, to save time, you could just try querying the Twitter API for any tweets with the #earthquake tag, check the location of said tweets, and plug those into Google maps. Or, for an even faster (but more constrained) result, you could just check the USGS Did You Feel It? map. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/us/2010xwa7/us/index.html
http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=9840543&postcount=11
All the pages loaded from a local source (as seen in the image linked), so this is a render demo only.
I will admit that the render speeds are lightning fast and I've come to prefer Chrome over FF for my casual browsing. However, If I'm doing research of any kind, I know I'm going to have some 50+ tabs and until Chrome has a tree style tab plugin, FF has the job.
I personally find this interesting as it essentially states that Apple doesn't trust the end user. Now read my logic before you mod me troll.
A company rarely researches something without a reason, so Apple has obviously seen enough loss from warranty replacement to try to find some way to shift the blame from themselves to the consumer for a product's failure. They have also apparently justified this by seeing a large percentage of these replacements being approved by inaccurate failure descriptions from users. If this is true, the new sensors would be a (somewhat) legitimate countermeasure.
Or Apple could just be looking for a way to shift the blame to the users by just stating, "You broke it, we have sensors that prove it," regardless of what really happened.
Either way, it amounts to declaring war on the end users on the warranty front.
I just have to put a big Thank You out to Linus. This uproar over MS putting out this code is ridiculous. MS sells programs to make money. True in the past they have not been the friendliest of companies, but point me to a major OS vendor that has. The fact that MS even wrote this code so that virtualized Linux machines will work better under its HyperV is fantastic! Not only are they recognizing Linux as a useful OS, but they are participating in the community appropriately. They wrote code for the OS that used GPL'd code, so they released their code. As Linus points out, this is how the GPL is supposed to work! You need something added? Write it and release what you wrote. What else do you expect from MS? "Oh, I see Gnometris is using 10 year old sprites, I'm going to be nice and upgrade it to vector based graphics"?
MS deserves hate for some things, but when they play by the rules is hardly one of them.
That's the sexiest thing to come from the Linux community in forever.
Now I'm imagining Jason Howell reading this story in his hot breath voice.
Oh.. I'm a big believer... in Technology... over Politics... ...in the chatroom
Nevermind on that, I just googled it and found images of jupiter taken by the Hubble. Now to hunt down that science teacher that said the blasted thing couldn't see anything within our solar system.
Give me a fabric that mimics the skin of a cuttlefish and I'll be impressed!
Heck, combine this with a cuttlefish fabric and boom, dynamic camouflage. All it has to see is what it's up against and change the colors of the fabric on the other side.
Can we get a White Flag? One that just allows us to surrender?
How about a bloody pirate flag? One that shoots cannons at the other flags. I would like at least one device not try to screw me over.
(Full Disclosure, I own a Kindle 2.)
You know, I've found a kill switch to be particularly useful. I've installed one on all of my machines. It's even a third party switch that chooses which programs are good and bad for me. It's called AVG.
Seriously though. What kind of desktop improvements can we see with this? Move windows forward and back, angle so they appear in a semi-circle in front of you? I'm getting tired of this rectangle on a 2D plane that we're forced to work with all day.
They state that you need some pretty robust hardware for this as it is essentially rendering two frames at once. Did they leave SLI doing the same thing (each card rendering a portion of a frame) or are they splitting each frame onto each card?
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People are saying it's untraceable because you can generate new public keys whenever you want. In this way, you can use a different key for each person/vendor you interact with, or you can use a new key for each transaction if so desired. Whether going to these extremes makes it completely untraceable or not, I cannot say, but it does make it a heck of a lot harder if you do go to such extremes.
Neither is it silicon. The point of the article is we have a potential silicon replacement for use in specialized cases. This kind of thing paves the way for interactive packaging or other embedded uses that silicon is just too big for.
Great, now you want the [bury] button for elections. I guess well see candidates named Topt Enreasonstovoteforme come out of the woodwork for that one.
One demo device they showed me (No disclosure of details because I am under NDA) would slide to attract just as if it were a standard magnet and then it would break away just upon being pushed past the lock point. Think of this one. Ponder it for a while. You mean I could have a motor pole that attracted in just like normal and then actually got repelled away as soon as it passed without any added energy? (no coils or electricity????) Thought you might like to think a long time on this one. This is much more of a discovery set than you might think. No CMR isn't publically proposing to use it for this. Just study on this for a while.
So they created a magnetic spring that will pull as well as push. I can see how that would be an improvement over metal springs that will break over time, but I can see a whole slew of other problems arising from the need to properly shield the darn things to keep particulates from sticking and creating friction.
Wow, I forgot about this one. Sadly, it mirrors exactly what I did. It wasn't very strong though.
Or, to save time, you could just try querying the Twitter API for any tweets with the #earthquake tag, check the location of said tweets, and plug those into Google maps. Or, for an even faster (but more constrained) result, you could just check the USGS Did You Feel It? map. http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/dyfi/events/us/2010xwa7/us/index.html
It exists! https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gighmmpiobklfepjocnamgkkbiglidom Now we wait for no-script.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=9840543&postcount=11 All the pages loaded from a local source (as seen in the image linked), so this is a render demo only. I will admit that the render speeds are lightning fast and I've come to prefer Chrome over FF for my casual browsing. However, If I'm doing research of any kind, I know I'm going to have some 50+ tabs and until Chrome has a tree style tab plugin, FF has the job.
Long term it'll save lost of money.
Yeah, that's what happens to all my coinage too.
I personally find this interesting as it essentially states that Apple doesn't trust the end user. Now read my logic before you mod me troll.
A company rarely researches something without a reason, so Apple has obviously seen enough loss from warranty replacement to try to find some way to shift the blame from themselves to the consumer for a product's failure. They have also apparently justified this by seeing a large percentage of these replacements being approved by inaccurate failure descriptions from users. If this is true, the new sensors would be a (somewhat) legitimate countermeasure.
Or Apple could just be looking for a way to shift the blame to the users by just stating, "You broke it, we have sensors that prove it," regardless of what really happened.
Either way, it amounts to declaring war on the end users on the warranty front.
The first rule of seeking relationship advice on Slashdot:
1. Do not seek relationship advice on Slashdot.
That's right. Seek it from the man pages. For example, man ifconfig is all about teaching yourself how to communicate.
Emacs, you insensitive clod.
You mispelled ed.
Fixed that for you.
Emacs is a good OS, but if there's one thing it needs, it's a good word processor.
Agreed. I was expecting something like "Mice got wet and little hairballs popped off and became baby mice."
I just have to put a big Thank You out to Linus. This uproar over MS putting out this code is ridiculous. MS sells programs to make money. True in the past they have not been the friendliest of companies, but point me to a major OS vendor that has. The fact that MS even wrote this code so that virtualized Linux machines will work better under its HyperV is fantastic! Not only are they recognizing Linux as a useful OS, but they are participating in the community appropriately. They wrote code for the OS that used GPL'd code, so they released their code. As Linus points out, this is how the GPL is supposed to work! You need something added? Write it and release what you wrote. What else do you expect from MS? "Oh, I see Gnometris is using 10 year old sprites, I'm going to be nice and upgrade it to vector based graphics"?
MS deserves hate for some things, but when they play by the rules is hardly one of them.
That's the sexiest thing to come from the Linux community in forever.
Now I'm imagining Jason Howell reading this story in his hot breath voice.
...in the chatroom
Oh.. I'm a big believer... in Technology... over Politics...
Nevermind on that, I just googled it and found images of jupiter taken by the Hubble. Now to hunt down that science teacher that said the blasted thing couldn't see anything within our solar system.
All we have to do is put an astronaut in a chair near Ballmer and then tell him Google just hired Gates!
I hope they can get the Hubble scope on it fast, without bureaucratic or technical hurdles.
Isn't Jupiter too close for the Hubble? It's a deep space telescope and Jupiter hardly counts.
Give me a fabric that mimics the skin of a cuttlefish and I'll be impressed!
Heck, combine this with a cuttlefish fabric and boom, dynamic camouflage. All it has to see is what it's up against and change the colors of the fabric on the other side.
Can we get a White Flag? One that just allows us to surrender? How about a bloody pirate flag? One that shoots cannons at the other flags. I would like at least one device not try to screw me over. (Full Disclosure, I own a Kindle 2.)
You know, I've found a kill switch to be particularly useful. I've installed one on all of my machines. It's even a third party switch that chooses which programs are good and bad for me. It's called AVG.
Can we get this combined with the Wiimote head tracking hack as well? It's just a small addition of an IR camera and IR lights.
Win+Tab will be even more fantastic!
Seriously though. What kind of desktop improvements can we see with this? Move windows forward and back, angle so they appear in a semi-circle in front of you? I'm getting tired of this rectangle on a 2D plane that we're forced to work with all day.
They state that you need some pretty robust hardware for this as it is essentially rendering two frames at once. Did they leave SLI doing the same thing (each card rendering a portion of a frame) or are they splitting each frame onto each card?