You're not thinking rationally. Were Anonymous to DOS eBay, they would make a one-day severe dent in eBay's profitability. eBay would have a tarnished reputation (worse than it already is tarnished) and Anonymous, having nothing better to do, would just use every proxy available to keep up the DOS for as long as they please with little fear of being found, while everyone cheers them on. Anonymous may consist of mainly pedos and trolls, but there are the few that know their business and can bring most any online company to their knees with a botnet or two, and there are plenty of spin doctors amongst the Anonymous. When they say they are Legion, they're not fucking joking. Ten million requests at once will bring almost ANY server without load management to it's knees, and last I tried a DOS on eBay for fucking with my mother's account, it only took a mere 5,000 simulataneous requests every ten seconds to DOS them. Imagine ten million browser tabs with auto-reload set using proxy connections. Yea, huge DOS.
How I wish the Greek gods existed, so they'd blast China and any corporation involved with the Olympics to hell. The Olypmics used to be a free public event for the 'known world' at that time to compete for fame, honor, and glory. Now it's compete for sponsorship dollars, advertising dollars, and getting your picture on a Wheaties box.
I certainly won't be paying any attention to the Olympics, now. I'll be paying more attention to my cats in competition to see which one can get the little red dot that flies around every so often.
What are you smoking? S3 is still around. Matrox as well. Then there's Intel, ATi, nVidia, then there's 3DLabs. I think Trident might be around, but only in a pure 2D platform. Cirrus Logic is also still in business, though whether or not they still manufacture GPUs is unknown to myself.
According to most repair centers (and I've worked in one and had this lecture,) the biggest cause of damaged parts or infant-death failures is improper ESD either in initial construction/fabrication or subsequent repair/refurbishing. Hence having to send a laptop or desktop back three or four times over.
Best Buy has a very bad practice of their employees stealing data, and them trying to cover face. They've been busted using freeware for personal use only software to diagnose and repair their issues. They also have a horrible time losing laptops. I know, I happened to receive one, a laptop I never owned, and I never owned one back then. It was supposed to go to Cali, it arrived in TN.
Best Buy needs to have it's ass handed to them in order to get this crap to stop and force them to take more stringent security measures. I watch the Geek Squad work on machines, totally disobeying EVERY SINGLE ESD PROCEDURE and not even wearing ESD straps. I won't work at a Besy Buy purely for professional and ethical reasons due to what I have personally witnessed and experienced.
Detonate an EMP bomb. Welcome to the stone age, troops, you just lost all of your nav/GPS/FoF systems, and if your vehicles are not hard-shielded, you're screwed.
If an EMP bomb tested out in the Pacific could affect both Hawaii and Japan coasts, one EMP could effectively cover China. We already have the weaponry to win an electronic war.
"You set up the camera to capture an image of your eye through the viewfinder. Once captured, this biological reference is embedded as metadata into every photo you take."
Reading over the technical paper, the camera only needs it once, for up to 5 users. The image of the user(s) iris is then stored in non-volatile RAM. If a person steals and uses the camera, your iris (or whomever it was set for previously) will still be the imprint unless they goe back into the Iris capture mode and does the whole setup process over again. Then again, that's a standard for almost EVERY digital camera out there. Once a mode is set, it remains set until a user changes things. All incarnations of my Kodak and Canon digital camera keep resolution choice, last exposure setting, ISO, etc. until you specifically change it in the menu.
So in reality, five different people could get royally fucked.
So much for you morons RTFUCKINGA. Here, let me repost the important part of TFA so you don't have to waste your bandwidth trying to read the page, since you're apparently too lazy to do so anyways:
Canon's Iris Registration Patent
A recent Canon patent application (Pub. No.: US 2008/0025574 A1) reveals the next step in digital watermarking - Iris Registration.
The short and sweet of it?
1. Turn the Mode dial to "REG"
2. Choose between "REG 1 through "REG 5 (for up to 5 registered users)
3. Put eye to viewfinder
4. Look at display of center distance measurement point
5. Press the shutter button
6. Iris image captured
7. Go shoot
Additional embedded info can be added later. All metadata will be added to images after you're finished shooting in a collective manner and not for each image. The purpose of the collective tagging, if you will, is to refrain from hampering the camera's speed (frames per second) while shooting.
I don't think I need to embarrass either of you any further.
I worked as an HP laptop repair tech - ALL INSTALLS (whether or not it's a factory restore) are low res, minus Vista which starts natively at 800x600, which is medium res.
What's you're seeing is the 'intelligent' logic in the LCD control circuitry effectively scaling up the image, nothing more.
"The torpedo-shaped glider moves through the ocean by changing its buoyancy to dive and surface, unlike motorized, propeller-driven undersea vehicles"
Last I checked submarines had air tanks for buoyancy control, and newer subs are not motorized, but nuclear-powered. Something change in the past few hours while I was sleeping?
Every time you step into a courtroom, look at the flags. Do any have a gold border around them? California's flag do have a gold border around them - you might as well not count yourself in the USA or even on US soil. I tried that argument out in my Mississippi felony defense, oops, technically I'm not inside a US court. WHAM! Conspiracy charge, undroppable, can't fight against it.
"And then I want to see Sony get slammed for selling "CDs" that won't play in some CD players because the Sony CDs have DRM that's not part of the "CD" spec."
Do you see any of these logos on the front or back paper inserts, on the OUTSIDE of the case (not inside, as in after opening the case,) SPECIFICALLY the one that says Compact Disc Digital Audio?
If you don't see the CDDA, then it's safe to assume that the CD does not follow the CDDA format, and therefore has DRM. CDDA does not have provisions for DRM, and any disc carrying DRM, or is 'enhanced' (extra data track after audio tracks included) may not display that logo on the case. The actual part that holds the disc in the case will just have the plain Compact Disc logo most often.
If you have any discs that display the CDDA logo and they have DRM or any 'enhancements' for our computer, the maker of that disc is in violation of the rules that Phillips set forth in specifying the format. You should immediately notify them of the breach of contract between the music company that made the discs and Phillips. And you should probably go ahead and lawyer up, because once you stir up the snake nest they're gonna come crawling and biting at your ankles.
...the reliable low-cost high-production facilities already exist, as the process deviates very little from the CMOS manufacturing process. It's the same material that is used in rewritable optical media, and on top of that, it's basically just glass. Where you once needed stable unchanging silicon for memory/data storage, now we're just using different states of glass. Most of your concerns are addressed in this technology, and this is why I'm watching it very closely. Go read up a bit here. (PDF WARNING)
Oh, it also does have the theoretical capability to replace SRAM and DRAM. But in order for it to do that, it would need to be a little faster and we would have to be able to fully exploit all four states that it can be in for data. Also, read/write cycles would need a few more orders of growth to be used as a processor cache or extended RAM replacement, but as it is they're great for hard disk usage.
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You're not thinking rationally. Were Anonymous to DOS eBay, they would make a one-day severe dent in eBay's profitability. eBay would have a tarnished reputation (worse than it already is tarnished) and Anonymous, having nothing better to do, would just use every proxy available to keep up the DOS for as long as they please with little fear of being found, while everyone cheers them on. Anonymous may consist of mainly pedos and trolls, but there are the few that know their business and can bring most any online company to their knees with a botnet or two, and there are plenty of spin doctors amongst the Anonymous. When they say they are Legion, they're not fucking joking. Ten million requests at once will bring almost ANY server without load management to it's knees, and last I tried a DOS on eBay for fucking with my mother's account, it only took a mere 5,000 simulataneous requests every ten seconds to DOS them. Imagine ten million browser tabs with auto-reload set using proxy connections. Yea, huge DOS.
How I wish the Greek gods existed, so they'd blast China and any corporation involved with the Olympics to hell. The Olypmics used to be a free public event for the 'known world' at that time to compete for fame, honor, and glory. Now it's compete for sponsorship dollars, advertising dollars, and getting your picture on a Wheaties box.
I certainly won't be paying any attention to the Olympics, now. I'll be paying more attention to my cats in competition to see which one can get the little red dot that flies around every so often.
Not to mention there's many sound card chipset manufacturers, Creative, Realtek, C-Media, Intel, Yamaha, just to name off a few.
Umm, only AGP is essentially one-way. PCI and PCI-E are bidirectional.
What are you smoking? S3 is still around. Matrox as well. Then there's Intel, ATi, nVidia, then there's 3DLabs. I think Trident might be around, but only in a pure 2D platform. Cirrus Logic is also still in business, though whether or not they still manufacture GPUs is unknown to myself.
According to most repair centers (and I've worked in one and had this lecture,) the biggest cause of damaged parts or infant-death failures is improper ESD either in initial construction/fabrication or subsequent repair/refurbishing. Hence having to send a laptop or desktop back three or four times over.
I have this urge to go "Oh, snap! You just told 'em to get off your lawn!" but I'm just going to laugh at the ease with which that was put down.
She SPECIFICALLY copied that amount, recognizing how much media attention it got the judge.
Best Buy has a very bad practice of their employees stealing data, and them trying to cover face. They've been busted using freeware for personal use only software to diagnose and repair their issues. They also have a horrible time losing laptops. I know, I happened to receive one, a laptop I never owned, and I never owned one back then. It was supposed to go to Cali, it arrived in TN.
Best Buy needs to have it's ass handed to them in order to get this crap to stop and force them to take more stringent security measures. I watch the Geek Squad work on machines, totally disobeying EVERY SINGLE ESD PROCEDURE and not even wearing ESD straps. I won't work at a Besy Buy purely for professional and ethical reasons due to what I have personally witnessed and experienced.
Detonate an EMP bomb. Welcome to the stone age, troops, you just lost all of your nav/GPS/FoF systems, and if your vehicles are not hard-shielded, you're screwed.
If an EMP bomb tested out in the Pacific could affect both Hawaii and Japan coasts, one EMP could effectively cover China. We already have the weaponry to win an electronic war.
"You set up the camera to capture an image of your eye through the viewfinder. Once captured, this biological reference is embedded as metadata into every photo you take."
Reading over the technical paper, the camera only needs it once, for up to 5 users. The image of the user(s) iris is then stored in non-volatile RAM. If a person steals and uses the camera, your iris (or whomever it was set for previously) will still be the imprint unless they goe back into the Iris capture mode and does the whole setup process over again. Then again, that's a standard for almost EVERY digital camera out there. Once a mode is set, it remains set until a user changes things. All incarnations of my Kodak and Canon digital camera keep resolution choice, last exposure setting, ISO, etc. until you specifically change it in the menu.
So in reality, five different people could get royally fucked.
So much for you morons RTFUCKINGA. Here, let me repost the important part of TFA so you don't have to waste your bandwidth trying to read the page, since you're apparently too lazy to do so anyways:
Canon's Iris Registration Patent
A recent Canon patent application (Pub. No.: US 2008/0025574 A1) reveals the next step in digital watermarking - Iris Registration.
The short and sweet of it?
1. Turn the Mode dial to "REG"
2. Choose between "REG 1 through "REG 5 (for up to 5 registered users)
3. Put eye to viewfinder
4. Look at display of center distance measurement point
5. Press the shutter button
6. Iris image captured
7. Go shoot
Additional embedded info can be added later. All metadata will be added to images after you're finished shooting in a collective manner and not for each image. The purpose of the collective tagging, if you will, is to refrain from hampering the camera's speed (frames per second) while shooting.
I don't think I need to embarrass either of you any further.
I worked as an HP laptop repair tech - ALL INSTALLS (whether or not it's a factory restore) are low res, minus Vista which starts natively at 800x600, which is medium res.
What's you're seeing is the 'intelligent' logic in the LCD control circuitry effectively scaling up the image, nothing more.
"The torpedo-shaped glider moves through the ocean by changing its buoyancy to dive and surface, unlike motorized, propeller-driven undersea vehicles"
Last I checked submarines had air tanks for buoyancy control, and newer subs are not motorized, but nuclear-powered. Something change in the past few hours while I was sleeping?
You might want to read this.
Mississippi pulled this shit on me, I'd expect any other state to do the same damned thing.
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/flag.htm
I don't need to say much else, do I?
I'll just point here and leave you to remain a coward.
Every time you step into a courtroom, look at the flags. Do any have a gold border around them? California's flag do have a gold border around them - you might as well not count yourself in the USA or even on US soil. I tried that argument out in my Mississippi felony defense, oops, technically I'm not inside a US court. WHAM! Conspiracy charge, undroppable, can't fight against it.
Ensuring good lawsuitarity since VHS vs BetaMax.
"And then I want to see Sony get slammed for selling "CDs" that won't play in some CD players because the Sony CDs have DRM that's not part of the "CD" spec."
Do you see any of these logos on the front or back paper inserts, on the OUTSIDE of the case (not inside, as in after opening the case,) SPECIFICALLY the one that says Compact Disc Digital Audio?
If you don't see the CDDA, then it's safe to assume that the CD does not follow the CDDA format, and therefore has DRM. CDDA does not have provisions for DRM, and any disc carrying DRM, or is 'enhanced' (extra data track after audio tracks included) may not display that logo on the case. The actual part that holds the disc in the case will just have the plain Compact Disc logo most often.
If you have any discs that display the CDDA logo and they have DRM or any 'enhancements' for our computer, the maker of that disc is in violation of the rules that Phillips set forth in specifying the format. You should immediately notify them of the breach of contract between the music company that made the discs and Phillips. And you should probably go ahead and lawyer up, because once you stir up the snake nest they're gonna come crawling and biting at your ankles.
This isn't taking place in a US court, AFAIK, so Double Jeopardy would not apply.
Most online transactions (at least when done with a debit card) show up almost immediately on my online statements here in the USA.
http://www.zizzle.com/
I have the PotC:DMC Pinball game. Much fun indeed.
When adding ANY code, there is risk of security vulnerabilities and potential exploits. Sadly, most people seem to not know this.
...the reliable low-cost high-production facilities already exist, as the process deviates very little from the CMOS manufacturing process. It's the same material that is used in rewritable optical media, and on top of that, it's basically just glass. Where you once needed stable unchanging silicon for memory/data storage, now we're just using different states of glass. Most of your concerns are addressed in this technology, and this is why I'm watching it very closely. Go read up a bit here. (PDF WARNING)
Oh, it also does have the theoretical capability to replace SRAM and DRAM. But in order for it to do that, it would need to be a little faster and we would have to be able to fully exploit all four states that it can be in for data. Also, read/write cycles would need a few more orders of growth to be used as a processor cache or extended RAM replacement, but as it is they're great for hard disk usage.
Gmail has been out of beta as far as I can tell. The only 'beta' stuff about Gmail are the new features being implemented.