If your are carrying your unlocked phone, and you get mugged and hand over your phone, then the mugger now doesn't have to enter a passcode until he/she puts it down.
My thought exactly!
The only way to avoid entering your password too often but force it when an unauthorized person want to access your cellphone is if the cellphone can "efficiently" recognize you. The closest tech I've heard about this is Microsoft new Windows Hello system : http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
The media are fuckwits, they don't deserve to be taken seriously.
It's a little ironical to post this in a news website that utterly depend on the media. There's fuck up and awesome people in every profession, doesn't doesn't mean the whole lot is. Just avoid media that are know for sensationalism and misinformation or at last, find the least worst of the lot.
Yesterday it was Nintendo going mobile. But I find today's news to be even more exiting.
VR are *hot* this year. Still, this doesn't seem to translate into the game industry. It kinda fell like game controller for the PC ; a lot of game support it, but since it's not mandatory only a little portion of all the gamers will actually own one.
This news is very interesting. Basically Nintendo is using the VR tsunami hype to unveil the comeback of it's black sheep but very well known Virtual Boy as a star player and, honestly, I think they have a huge chance to succeed. The Wii success showed us how Nintendo can make a hype translate into sales for a new console and I'm sure the Virtual Boy 2 is going to be the most discussed VR among gamers for a few months.
Funded by the NSA? After all we don't want them compiling their own OSs with home grown backdoors instead of American ones
Oh come out, how exactly are we going to be "locked in" and forced to pay? Worst case you just format and re-install whatever genuine/non-genuine version of windows you had in the first place.
One thing to be aware of: Cities: Skylines mod support includes a full C# compiler and does not run in a sandbox. It has the potential to install malware on your machine.
Good to know.
Still, I may be naive but I think a strong mod community fix this problem. Basically, a modding community consist of people with a good knowledge on this sort of stuff. In the lot, there's always a bunch of people who are maniac about protection and, *usually*, malware are found and tagged quite fast. Kinda the same logic that we find in some deeper portion of the internet *cough*ThePirateBay*cough*.
Here's another awesome feature in Cities: Skylines that EA will never allow : Community Mods. Well ok, EA allow mods but mostly superficial things.
Cities: Skylines come with Steam Workshop and the game can be heavily modded and it's popular enough so you can be sure that if the traffic issue isn't patched, it'll surely be modded quite soon.
One "little" thing that bugs me about modding is the lack of a centralized workplace for all the game available. Sure Steam Workshop is a good start but I'm still using Nexus's website to mod my Skyrim.
I think we're all over-thinking the range anxiety problem. I mean, even the fuel car have the same problem and the solution is a simple (and inefficient) fuel gauge and light up sometime when you got 100km left and sometime when you have 20km left.
What if the problem came from trying to be too precise on calculating the exact remaining range of the car? What if instead of telling the driver that he got ~100km left you make a fuel-like gauge with the arrow pointing at E and let the driver make his how judgement on the remaining range? Or course there's also the scarcity of recharge station but this problem will solve itself in a few years (depending where you live)
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That would be really cool if April had 31 days.
Isn't that only true in a Romulan leap year?
Omg yes you're completly right. Silly mistake and it mean it would be January 3, 2041 (3/1/41) instead. Oh well..
Maybe for the English, but what about the world?
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Thank you jones. I know it's a little silly but after a good 10 years of browsing/. without any implication it's a little intimidating to start posting comment and submitting story.
Sadly, it seem that news is false after all but at least there's an interesting discussion here.
Yeah I did that once, and got the same result. Don't trumpet when your own submission makes it. You can only make that sort of offtopic post if you have a humorous "fist p0st. "
I'm not sure "betanews" is the most credible source out there, but there's indeed a update on TF's news that suggest the news might actually be false after all.
I'll not post any link here (it's quite easy to Google it anyway), but I suggest going back to utorrent 2.2.1. It's the last stable build without any malware/ads/crap. There's already many torrent site that doesn't allow utorrent version higher than 2.2.1.
This is a horrible, horrible idea. It will reek havoc with the existing natural tidal currents and completely change the ecosystems and natural patterns present in this tidal lagoons. Many of these species are already under heavy pressure from human activities and this could be the nail in the coffin, so to speak. Do these idiots even think before they plan these things? It's like they put ecological destruction primary in their considerations and then power production secondary. Hopefully these can be easily taken out with a boat and a proper load of high explosives.
I don't see how this project is more harmful to local wildlife than let's said a huge international seaport. Moreover, I'm quite sure it's actually helping wildlife in a global basis if we take into account most of the power production of the UK come from fossils fuel.
For the first time ever,/. reported one of the uninteresting daily gossip from of girlfriend. SHAME ON YOU/. !!!!
Yeah, GF, sure. You could at least try to sound plausible.
Yeah I do have a girlfriend and she's into stuff like Vampire Diaries, Pretty Little Liars, Gossip Girl, Keeping Up with the Kardashians and the likes.
But I convinced to start LoZ and she finished OoT and MM, just started WW, which is nice.
And yeah she showed me that dress picture in the morning asked me what colour it was.
Well at first, Hyperloop is aimed as a competitor to "regional airlines" and high-speed train. But if the Hyperloop is as cheap than what Elon Musk is thinking (about 1000% cheaper than HST), we can seriously consider coast-to-coast as a possibility.
Actually, it's the Return on investment (ROI) that matter in business. Or in other word, how many time it'll take to make enough profit to cover the cost of the initial investment. And in this case, the US$9.95 billion California High-Speed Rail is a huge example on how much money you can make on transportation.
If we take Elon Musk word, the ROI of the Hyperloop beat the crap out of any High-Speed Train project. But there's another term really important here, something we call Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL). Basically, this level told how much maturity a technology have reach. While HST is really high, Hyperloop on the other hand have a MRL really low. Meaning that nothing is proven about the real ROI of the Hyperloop and a huge R&D cost is needed to raise the MRL.
What I love about this is that they raised a sort of huge "kickstarter" to cover the cost of the R&D and raise the MRL to give us a real idea on the ROI of the Hyperloop. Only then we'll have an idea if Hyperloop will revolutionize the transport industry or not.
Betelgeuse would become so bright that it'll outshine the full moon at night....for a few month.
Not according to TFA:
Based on the distance to Betelgeuse, we can work out that the apparent magnitude of the peak of the explosion would be -10
...where a full moon is about -13, and:
The brightness of Betelgeuse’s supernova is about the same as the quarter moon.
Apparently it'll be pretty bright for a few days then fade out slowly over several weeks, not months.
Oups, yeah you're right. I should have verified my source. I'm still quite sure about what I remember but maybe the calculation of the brightness of Betelgeuse changed over the years.
If Betelgeuse was going to supernova tomorrow, there'd still be nothing to be concerned about -- just something to be excited about.
In fact, it'll be an amazing event. Betelgeuse would become so bright that it'll outshine the full moon at night....for a few month. It'll even be clearly visible during the day.
I got quite excited a few years ago when news on the net talked about Betelgeuse been about to explode. Sadly we're quite sure now that it won't happen for a few millennium.
I'm I missing something or TFA is suggesting that the earth got hit by something big enough to make an explosion with fire and heat and power big enough that some debris reach escape velocity to escape earth. And that somehow some fossils survived the trip on these debris?
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If your are carrying your unlocked phone, and you get mugged and hand over your phone, then the mugger now doesn't have to enter a passcode until he/she puts it down.
My thought exactly!
The only way to avoid entering your password too often but force it when an unauthorized person want to access your cellphone is if the cellphone can "efficiently" recognize you. The closest tech I've heard about this is Microsoft new Windows Hello system : http://tech.slashdot.org/story...
The media are fuckwits, they don't deserve to be taken seriously.
It's a little ironical to post this in a news website that utterly depend on the media. There's fuck up and awesome people in every profession, doesn't doesn't mean the whole lot is. Just avoid media that are know for sensationalism and misinformation or at last, find the least worst of the lot.
Nope. They arn't using the VR tsunami. Finder.com.au is using the VR tsunami and Slashdot's stupidity to get click.
Damn! That'll teach me to RTFA -_-
Yesterday it was Nintendo going mobile. But I find today's news to be even more exiting.
VR are *hot* this year. Still, this doesn't seem to translate into the game industry. It kinda fell like game controller for the PC ; a lot of game support it, but since it's not mandatory only a little portion of all the gamers will actually own one.
This news is very interesting. Basically Nintendo is using the VR tsunami hype to unveil the comeback of it's black sheep but very well known Virtual Boy as a star player and, honestly, I think they have a huge chance to succeed. The Wii success showed us how Nintendo can make a hype translate into sales for a new console and I'm sure the Virtual Boy 2 is going to be the most discussed VR among gamers for a few months.
Funded by the NSA? After all we don't want them compiling their own OSs with home grown backdoors instead of American ones
Oh come out, how exactly are we going to be "locked in" and forced to pay? Worst case you just format and re-install whatever genuine/non-genuine version of windows you had in the first place.
One thing to be aware of: Cities: Skylines mod support includes a full C# compiler and does not run in a sandbox. It has the potential to install malware on your machine.
Good to know.
Still, I may be naive but I think a strong mod community fix this problem. Basically, a modding community consist of people with a good knowledge on this sort of stuff. In the lot, there's always a bunch of people who are maniac about protection and, *usually*, malware are found and tagged quite fast. Kinda the same logic that we find in some deeper portion of the internet *cough*ThePirateBay*cough*.
Here's another awesome feature in Cities: Skylines that EA will never allow : Community Mods. Well ok, EA allow mods but mostly superficial things.
Cities: Skylines come with Steam Workshop and the game can be heavily modded and it's popular enough so you can be sure that if the traffic issue isn't patched, it'll surely be modded quite soon.
One "little" thing that bugs me about modding is the lack of a centralized workplace for all the game available. Sure Steam Workshop is a good start but I'm still using Nexus's website to mod my Skyrim.
I think we're all over-thinking the range anxiety problem. I mean, even the fuel car have the same problem and the solution is a simple (and inefficient) fuel gauge and light up sometime when you got 100km left and sometime when you have 20km left.
What if the problem came from trying to be too precise on calculating the exact remaining range of the car? What if instead of telling the driver that he got ~100km left you make a fuel-like gauge with the arrow pointing at E and let the driver make his how judgement on the remaining range? Or course there's also the scarcity of recharge station but this problem will solve itself in a few years (depending where you live)
That would be really cool if April had 31 days.
Isn't that only true in a Romulan leap year?
Omg yes you're completly right. Silly mistake and it mean it would be January 3, 2041 (3/1/41) instead. Oh well..
For this reason, I found it a little dumb to consider this the "Pi day" : https://thebehaviorallab.files...
For me (french), you could say that Pi day is April 31, 2015 (31/4/15).
Thank you jones. I know it's a little silly but after a good 10 years of browsing /. without any implication it's a little intimidating to start posting comment and submitting story.
Sadly, it seem that news is false after all but at least there's an interesting discussion here.
Yeah I did that once, and got the same result. Don't trumpet when your own submission makes it. You can only make that sort of offtopic post if you have a humorous "fist p0st. "
Hahaha yeah I can see that. Still worth it! :P
"Reports that uTorrent silently installs Bitcoin crapware are... crap" http://betanews.com/2015/03/06... Tim S.
I'm not sure "betanews" is the most credible source out there, but there's indeed a update on TF's news that suggest the news might actually be false after all.
I'll not post any link here (it's quite easy to Google it anyway), but I suggest going back to utorrent 2.2.1. It's the last stable build without any malware/ads/crap. There's already many torrent site that doesn't allow utorrent version higher than 2.2.1.
My first /. news, I'm so proud :')
This is a horrible, horrible idea. It will reek havoc with the existing natural tidal currents and completely change the ecosystems and natural patterns present in this tidal lagoons. Many of these species are already under heavy pressure from human activities and this could be the nail in the coffin, so to speak. Do these idiots even think before they plan these things? It's like they put ecological destruction primary in their considerations and then power production secondary. Hopefully these can be easily taken out with a boat and a proper load of high explosives.
I don't see how this project is more harmful to local wildlife than let's said a huge international seaport. Moreover, I'm quite sure it's actually helping wildlife in a global basis if we take into account most of the power production of the UK come from fossils fuel.
Sadly, this isn't a tech that many country can use since you need huge tide. (see this map : http://www6.cityu.edu.hk/see_m...)
For the first time ever, /. reported one of the uninteresting daily gossip from of girlfriend. SHAME ON YOU /. !!!!
Yeah, GF, sure. You could at least try to sound plausible.
Yeah I do have a girlfriend and she's into stuff like Vampire Diaries, Pretty Little Liars, Gossip Girl, Keeping Up with the Kardashians and the likes.
But I convinced to start LoZ and she finished OoT and MM, just started WW, which is nice.
And yeah she showed me that dress picture in the morning asked me what colour it was.
Time to start raising my clone body for the head transplant when I'm old.
Exactly this, how about transplanting a old head into a young adult's body?
Well at first, Hyperloop is aimed as a competitor to "regional airlines" and high-speed train. But if the Hyperloop is as cheap than what Elon Musk is thinking (about 1000% cheaper than HST), we can seriously consider coast-to-coast as a possibility.
I made a mistake about the cost of California High-Speed Rail, it's actually $68.4 billion for a the things as of 2011 estimate. Sorry about this.
Actually, it's the Return on investment (ROI) that matter in business. Or in other word, how many time it'll take to make enough profit to cover the cost of the initial investment. And in this case, the US$9.95 billion California High-Speed Rail is a huge example on how much money you can make on transportation.
If we take Elon Musk word, the ROI of the Hyperloop beat the crap out of any High-Speed Train project. But there's another term really important here, something we call Manufacturing Readiness Level (MRL). Basically, this level told how much maturity a technology have reach. While HST is really high, Hyperloop on the other hand have a MRL really low. Meaning that nothing is proven about the real ROI of the Hyperloop and a huge R&D cost is needed to raise the MRL.
What I love about this is that they raised a sort of huge "kickstarter" to cover the cost of the R&D and raise the MRL to give us a real idea on the ROI of the Hyperloop. Only then we'll have an idea if Hyperloop will revolutionize the transport industry or not.
For the first time ever, /. reported one of the uninteresting daily gossip from of girlfriend. SHAME ON YOU /. !!!!
Betelgeuse would become so bright that it'll outshine the full moon at night....for a few month.
Not according to TFA:
...where a full moon is about -13, and:
Apparently it'll be pretty bright for a few days then fade out slowly over several weeks, not months.
Oups, yeah you're right. I should have verified my source. I'm still quite sure about what I remember but maybe the calculation of the brightness of Betelgeuse changed over the years.
If Betelgeuse was going to supernova tomorrow, there'd still be nothing to be concerned about -- just something to be excited about.
In fact, it'll be an amazing event. Betelgeuse would become so bright that it'll outshine the full moon at night....for a few month. It'll even be clearly visible during the day.
I got quite excited a few years ago when news on the net talked about Betelgeuse been about to explode. Sadly we're quite sure now that it won't happen for a few millennium.
I'm I missing something or TFA is suggesting that the earth got hit by something big enough to make an explosion with fire and heat and power big enough that some debris reach escape velocity to escape earth. And that somehow some fossils survived the trip on these debris?