Private by default, as in "If you haven't changed any privacy settings then your updates aren't accessible to the public." Unlike twitter in which generally anyone can see your updates.
Why do people keep suggesting entanglement as a future communication technology? It doesn't transmit any information. (And if you say "But what if it does and we don't know yet?" then you're not talking about entanglement, you're talking about some random undiscovered physics and using the wrong word for it.)
No it wouldn't; it doesn't sound like the tablet has any sort of embedded computer system or complicated electronics in it. The LCD naturally changes state under pressure and the only electronics are a battery and circuit to erase it. Adding a computer and sensors to read the input would make it a very different and much more expensive product.
They were thick because in a CRT the limitations of the focusing and bending magnets prevent you from pointing the electron beam in an arbitrary direction. With a laser and a mirror this isn't as true.
Add up those few bucks a month for a year. Also maybe take into account the benefit to society (and thus to you) from improved grid efficiency and fewer blackouts
Now take the value of stuff you'd lose in a robbery. Multiply that by the probability that someone will steal your electricity usage data and use it to rob your house in the same year.
I'd be pretty surprised if the expected cost of this extremely unlikely hypothetical robbery makes smart meters not worthwhile.
Analog TV signals don't have a horizontal pixel resolution; the signal varies continuously along the scanline.
I guess a reason 320 pixels was a common horizontal resolution for computers is that it's a multiple of 80, meaning 80-column text can be displayed with an integer number of pixels per character width. Also the fact that it's a multiple of various powers of two makes it convenient to represent a scanline as an integer number of bytes/words.
The reason for 240 vertical pixels is that with 320 horizontal pixels it produces square pixels on a 4:3 monitor.
A photon has no rest mass. The energy of a photon has mass, though. (e.g if you convert some matter to photons inside a closed box, the box+contents doesn't get any lighter)
> "We've been rather surprised that we haven't been able to find even a single publicly available record of the commissioning of any large website at all."
Perhaps that's because very few new websites (if any) are "large" on the day they're launched.
The increase in computing power caused by more users joining because it's so simple will be offset by the massive decrease associated with using Javascript rather than native code.
Abandoning outer space wouldn't work, because we use it for things other than communications. (Navigation, earth observation, space observation, and research).
A massive solid shield around spacecraft would probably be too heavy. But how about a magnetic shield? By manipulating magnetic fields in a particular way and making the spacecraft a particular shape, it might be possible to deflect incoming metallic debris.
I would imagine most PC makers would not want this capability as it would not take long for someone to write a program to use the camera to photograph purely in the infrared.
I don't understand why you think PC makers would have a problem with that.
Not all physical dongles can be duplicated easily. You could have a physical dongle which reads messages and signs them with a built-in private key. Then, anyone who has the public key can confirm the identity of the dongle (by asking it to sign something), but they can't duplicate it easily.
Of course, they could dismantle the dongle, carefully break/dissolve its microcontroller's package while leaving the chip intact, then connect microscopic probes to parts of the chip and read the private key from its internal flash memory. But there are very few attackers with that capability.
I'd patent a penis accelerometer so you can use your penis as a joystick. Also a computer in a computer so you can compute while you compute (yo dawg). But that's probably been done already.
It's not a technological problem, it's a social problem. Sure, the lack of authentication in SMTP makes things easier for spammers. But even without that, spammers could use legitimate email addresses. As long as people are able to send bulk email and other people are gullible enough to respond, there will be spam.
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Private by default, as in "If you haven't changed any privacy settings then your updates aren't accessible to the public." Unlike twitter in which generally anyone can see your updates.
Why do people keep suggesting entanglement as a future communication technology? It doesn't transmit any information. (And if you say "But what if it does and we don't know yet?" then you're not talking about entanglement, you're talking about some random undiscovered physics and using the wrong word for it.)
Try reading more than the first sentence of the comment you're replying to.
No it wouldn't; it doesn't sound like the tablet has any sort of embedded computer system or complicated electronics in it. The LCD naturally changes state under pressure and the only electronics are a battery and circuit to erase it. Adding a computer and sensors to read the input would make it a very different and much more expensive product.
They were thick because in a CRT the limitations of the focusing and bending magnets prevent you from pointing the electron beam in an arbitrary direction. With a laser and a mirror this isn't as true.
How do I make sure I'm legally in the clear without hiring an expensive lawyer
Aren't "legally in the clear" and "hiring an expensive lawyer" the same thing now?
Maybe Slashdot should have editors, so crap like this doesn't end up on the front page.
Add up those few bucks a month for a year. Also maybe take into account the benefit to society (and thus to you) from improved grid efficiency and fewer blackouts
Now take the value of stuff you'd lose in a robbery. Multiply that by the probability that someone will steal your electricity usage data and use it to rob your house in the same year.
I'd be pretty surprised if the expected cost of this extremely unlikely hypothetical robbery makes smart meters not worthwhile.
If you RTFA you'll read that they're making a second measurement to check if it's changing, and are thus not as closed-minded as you seem to imply.
Wow, you have no fucking idea. You didn't even get through the first sentence of the summary.
Reducing the supply of ideas will not prevent or reduce violence overall.
Flashblock doesn't load the flash content until you click it.
I guess a reason 320 pixels was a common horizontal resolution for computers is that it's a multiple of 80, meaning 80-column text can be displayed with an integer number of pixels per character width. Also the fact that it's a multiple of various powers of two makes it convenient to represent a scanline as an integer number of bytes/words.
The reason for 240 vertical pixels is that with 320 horizontal pixels it produces square pixels on a 4:3 monitor.
A photon has no rest mass. The energy of a photon has mass, though. (e.g if you convert some matter to photons inside a closed box, the box+contents doesn't get any lighter)
> "We've been rather surprised that we haven't been able to find even a single publicly available record of the commissioning of any large website at all." Perhaps that's because very few new websites (if any) are "large" on the day they're launched.
Unlike the TV situation, there's no central authority which can stop people from using IPv4.
The increase in computing power caused by more users joining because it's so simple will be offset by the massive decrease associated with using Javascript rather than native code.
I think you're wrong about media outlets. It seemed to me that practically nobody other than the politicians supported it.
A massive solid shield around spacecraft would probably be too heavy. But how about a magnetic shield? By manipulating magnetic fields in a particular way and making the spacecraft a particular shape, it might be possible to deflect incoming metallic debris.
I don't understand why you think PC makers would have a problem with that.
Of course, they could dismantle the dongle, carefully break/dissolve its microcontroller's package while leaving the chip intact, then connect microscopic probes to parts of the chip and read the private key from its internal flash memory. But there are very few attackers with that capability.
I'd patent a penis accelerometer so you can use your penis as a joystick. Also a computer in a computer so you can compute while you compute (yo dawg). But that's probably been done already.
It sounds more like a network configuration accident or glitch than an attack. Besides, netsplits aren't incredibly unusual.
It's not a technological problem, it's a social problem. Sure, the lack of authentication in SMTP makes things easier for spammers. But even without that, spammers could use legitimate email addresses. As long as people are able to send bulk email and other people are gullible enough to respond, there will be spam.
It is possible to do that (and other things) using MTRRs or PATs.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Page_Attribute_Table