The resolution from a single GSM tower seems to be within a mile or two. You can use it to trigger actions on your phone when you get in a certain area. If phones were capable of tracking signal strengths of other towers (I assume they do in order to be able to handoff) you could do this much more accurately. Mapping that into coordinates is fairly tough however, which would make Intel's database very useful. It would probably be far easier to pay the cell carriers for their tower location/code databases though.
Linus is an engineer/tech. He dislikes theory work because it often gives nothing in practice.
I hate to nitpick, but being an engineer I'm offended to be characterized like that.
Every engineer I know (those with an engineering degree) likes specs. When specs do not exist, an engineer does the math necessary to create them. If raw data is not available to create those specs, the engineer will do studies or have studies done to create them. While it is definitely possible to apply these principles to software and networking, none of the self-titled engineers I've met (typically network admins and perl coders) do any of this.
Are you planning on sharing some private pics? Even if it does support wireless encryption, the only file transfer protocol supported is FTP, which is also very insecure.
One of the biggest problems is that banks, auction sites, and other online entities don't really seem to care. They'll do things to make it look like they care such as send out an email every now and then warning you to check the URL and set up email addresses for reporting complaints. The few times I've actually tried to report a phishing site to these large corporations, I haven't get a response for days or weeks. At that point the damage is done.
Most of the phishing sites even use graphics linked from their targets. If ebay's image servers refused requests to hosts which were not affiliated with ebay, then the phishing sites would be forced to host them on their own servers which would take up much more bandwidth and be more likely to get noticed. The least they could do is watch their referrer logs and look for anything which resembled a script.
As proof I give you this phishing site, which uses ebay's images and has been up for several days:
http://211.60.138.10:680/rock/eBayIsap/ (do NOT enter your info here)
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Police sometimes arrest the wrong people who haven't committed any crime.
Yes, but they need either a warrant or a very good reason such as witnessing you committing the crime, finding you covered in blood near a murder scene, etc.. That's the way it used to be with wiretaps. Thanks to the inappropriately named patriot act, they can do it to anyone at any time, without notification.
The ethylene glycol coolant included with this is very toxic. It tastes sweet and is highly toxic to small children and pets. It is toxic in both liquid and vapor forms. I would either avoid this product or safely dispose the included coolant and replace it instead with propylene glycol which is only toxic in very large quantities. It also does not taste sweet, so your animals/children are far less likely to ingest it in the case of a leak.
I'm no electrical engineer, but I would assume that 100kHz would allow for higher voltage distribution allowing for thinner wires. You could likely power your equipment easily with switching power supplies, which due to the frequency could use very small capacitors. From the extra efficiency of using a switched mode supply instead of simple voltage regulators, you would lose less energy to heat and bulky heavy heatsinks would not be required. I'm not sure if this would apply to a 100kHz supply, but circuit breakers also tend to function better on AC as there is less distance required to break the arc. High efficiency PWM fluorescent light dimmers tend to operate in the kHz range, but this may just be to reduce flickering.
Why would it be rolled into every product? That doesn't make any sense. Even if purchase price was related to production costs, they're still going to make you get a valid RMA before shipping it back.
So my advice is avoid Antec if you live in the UK - you effectively pay about half the cost of the power supply if you need warranty repairs/replacement.
This is the case with almost every product $100 and under in the US. They want you to pay for postage both ways, which tends to be about $30 total. Even with this expenditure, they still may decide not to fix your product. I don't bother filling out warranty information any more, it's usually not worth the time required.
It pales in comparison to the thousands of dollars per person which is spent every year to subsidize automobile usage. We should eliminate all of these subsidies and let the free market dictate which transit methods are used.
Yeah, I voted for him too and am finally removing my BUSH/CHENEY '04 bumper sticker. He's dramatically increased the size of government since he took office in '00 with the Dept of Homeland Security, War on Terror, etc. The US Dollar has also plummeted since he took office. Next time I'm going to "throw away my vote" and vote for the Libertarian candidate.
What exactly did you expect from Bush in his second term? His administration had already long proven to be big government, anti free speach, fiscally irresponsible, and very willing to take on foreign wars. The actions of his second term have been very consistent with his first, why get upset now? If you were just voting for not-Kerry, then why have a bumper sticker on your car?
I've rarely ever had any of those problems. What distro are you using? Firefox and Mozilla have been extremely easy to install in any distro I've used. You want plugins for them? Even flash has packages. For Java, there are plenty of packaged clones as well as utilities to roll your own packages. The primary problem with Java is Sun's licensing. I've never touched eclipse as it's written in Java and hardware doesn't exist that will run it at a reasonable speed. I also have no idea about Oracle, but the fact that it requires a GUI and you don't have one installed sounds like something to blame on Oracle.
Personally I've found that installing most software in Debian is far easier than in Windows. More importantly, it's actually possible to uninstall software. Uninstallation seems to break on about half of the applications I've used for windows, requiring about half an hour of registry hacking, a reinstall and then finally an uninstall.
That's only useful if those emails pick up before anyone else's stock predictions. In order to make money in the stock market, you not only have to predict the future, but you have to do it better than your competitors. If your forecast comes after everyone else's, then the price will have inflated or deflated by the time you can buy or sell, meaning you cannot profit.
In order to allow a cell phone to have any focus on such close objects such as a piece of paper, they'll need to implement autofocus in the camera or provide a macro lens accessory like Nokia has. If they simply altered the optics so they could clearly show close objects, it would ruin the camera's capability to take pictures. Another option would be to use a very high resolution/high speed camera, allow the target to be placed further away within the phone's focal range.
Much more than $200,000 goes into the power plants those carriers and submarines. I would guess that they're engineered a lot better than this plant will be.
Having written software to do exactly this, I can tell you it's not quite that easy. The real steps:
Load up the application
Wait about 20 seconds if the app is written in Java (hopefully not)
Attach your corrective optics to your cell phone to allow it to focus on a close object (such as a cc49 macro lens from Nokia)
Position object so you can get a well lit yet shadow free picture (easy if you have a flash, takes 4-5 seconds if not)
If your phone is continuously scanning, then hold it there until it can get a good image
If not, snap a pic
If it uploads the image, wait for your picture to be uploaded (probably 20-30s, it has to be high res or else the barcode line widths will be obscured)
If it does not upload your image, wait about 30 seconds if you're using a java app
Connect to GPRS if it hasn't done so yet (about 10 seconds)
Send the query, get a response (another 10 seconds)
Wait for your phone to display the returned information (pretty slow if there is much content at all)
Remove your corrective optics and place them bag into their carrying case
put your phone away
For the time being, this tech is useless for camera phones. The phones don't have the optics to handle close up pictures nor the resolution to read a barcode from far away. Most don't have an easy method to light the barcode evenly (some have a flash). They don't have the processing power to handle even natively written apps in a decent amount of time. The only easy way to support a lot of phones is to use Java, but Java is too slow on a cell phone for any half decent image processing. GPRS connections take too long and have limited bandwidth. Most phones can't display the resulting pages very well either, they don't have the cpu power.
It's going to be at least a few more years until this technology is feasible.
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"it's made from lower quality materials and will only last a couple hours"
This sounds very similar to Psiloc's miniGPS, except with the addition of additional sources and a location database.
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http://www.psiloc.com/index.html?action=ShowArtic
The resolution from a single GSM tower seems to be within a mile or two. You can use it to trigger actions on your phone when you get in a certain area. If phones were capable of tracking signal strengths of other towers (I assume they do in order to be able to handoff) you could do this much more accurately. Mapping that into coordinates is fairly tough however, which would make Intel's database very useful. It would probably be far easier to pay the cell carriers for their tower location/code databases though.
Linus is an engineer/tech. He dislikes theory work because it often gives nothing in practice.
I hate to nitpick, but being an engineer I'm offended to be characterized like that.
Every engineer I know (those with an engineering degree) likes specs. When specs do not exist, an engineer does the math necessary to create them. If raw data is not available to create those specs, the engineer will do studies or have studies done to create them. While it is definitely possible to apply these principles to software and networking, none of the self-titled engineers I've met (typically network admins and perl coders) do any of this.
otherwise, they will fade into history like the many java office suites promoted during the dot-com boom
Are you planning on sharing some private pics? Even if it does support wireless encryption, the only file transfer protocol supported is FTP, which is also very insecure.
One of the biggest problems is that banks, auction sites, and other online entities don't really seem to care. They'll do things to make it look like they care such as send out an email every now and then warning you to check the URL and set up email addresses for reporting complaints. The few times I've actually tried to report a phishing site to these large corporations, I haven't get a response for days or weeks. At that point the damage is done. Most of the phishing sites even use graphics linked from their targets. If ebay's image servers refused requests to hosts which were not affiliated with ebay, then the phishing sites would be forced to host them on their own servers which would take up much more bandwidth and be more likely to get noticed. The least they could do is watch their referrer logs and look for anything which resembled a script. As proof I give you this phishing site, which uses ebay's images and has been up for several days: http://211.60.138.10:680/rock/eBayIsap/ (do NOT enter your info here)
Police sometimes arrest the wrong people who haven't committed any crime.
Yes, but they need either a warrant or a very good reason such as witnessing you committing the crime, finding you covered in blood near a murder scene, etc.. That's the way it used to be with wiretaps. Thanks to the inappropriately named patriot act, they can do it to anyone at any time, without notification.
The ethylene glycol coolant included with this is very toxic. It tastes sweet and is highly toxic to small children and pets. It is toxic in both liquid and vapor forms. I would either avoid this product or safely dispose the included coolant and replace it instead with propylene glycol which is only toxic in very large quantities. It also does not taste sweet, so your animals/children are far less likely to ingest it in the case of a leak.
Most bottled water is just filtered city tap water. They'd be shutting off their supply if the public water system was shut down.
I'm no electrical engineer, but I would assume that 100kHz would allow for higher voltage distribution allowing for thinner wires. You could likely power your equipment easily with switching power supplies, which due to the frequency could use very small capacitors. From the extra efficiency of using a switched mode supply instead of simple voltage regulators, you would lose less energy to heat and bulky heavy heatsinks would not be required. I'm not sure if this would apply to a 100kHz supply, but circuit breakers also tend to function better on AC as there is less distance required to break the arc. High efficiency PWM fluorescent light dimmers tend to operate in the kHz range, but this may just be to reduce flickering.
Why would it be rolled into every product? That doesn't make any sense. Even if purchase price was related to production costs, they're still going to make you get a valid RMA before shipping it back.
So my advice is avoid Antec if you live in the UK - you effectively pay about half the cost of the power supply if you need warranty repairs/replacement.
This is the case with almost every product $100 and under in the US. They want you to pay for postage both ways, which tends to be about $30 total. Even with this expenditure, they still may decide not to fix your product. I don't bother filling out warranty information any more, it's usually not worth the time required.
It pales in comparison to the thousands of dollars per person which is spent every year to subsidize automobile usage. We should eliminate all of these subsidies and let the free market dictate which transit methods are used.
Yeah, I voted for him too and am finally removing my BUSH/CHENEY '04 bumper sticker. He's dramatically increased the size of government since he took office in '00 with the Dept of Homeland Security, War on Terror, etc. The US Dollar has also plummeted since he took office. Next time I'm going to "throw away my vote" and vote for the Libertarian candidate.
What exactly did you expect from Bush in his second term? His administration had already long proven to be big government, anti free speach, fiscally irresponsible, and very willing to take on foreign wars. The actions of his second term have been very consistent with his first, why get upset now? If you were just voting for not-Kerry, then why have a bumper sticker on your car?
It's quite simple really. "generally bug-free" is possible while "bug-free" is not.
I've rarely ever had any of those problems. What distro are you using? Firefox and Mozilla have been extremely easy to install in any distro I've used. You want plugins for them? Even flash has packages. For Java, there are plenty of packaged clones as well as utilities to roll your own packages. The primary problem with Java is Sun's licensing. I've never touched eclipse as it's written in Java and hardware doesn't exist that will run it at a reasonable speed. I also have no idea about Oracle, but the fact that it requires a GUI and you don't have one installed sounds like something to blame on Oracle.
Personally I've found that installing most software in Debian is far easier than in Windows. More importantly, it's actually possible to uninstall software. Uninstallation seems to break on about half of the applications I've used for windows, requiring about half an hour of registry hacking, a reinstall and then finally an uninstall.
That's only useful if those emails pick up before anyone else's stock predictions. In order to make money in the stock market, you not only have to predict the future, but you have to do it better than your competitors. If your forecast comes after everyone else's, then the price will have inflated or deflated by the time you can buy or sell, meaning you cannot profit.
In order to allow a cell phone to have any focus on such close objects such as a piece of paper, they'll need to implement autofocus in the camera or provide a macro lens accessory like Nokia has. If they simply altered the optics so they could clearly show close objects, it would ruin the camera's capability to take pictures. Another option would be to use a very high resolution/high speed camera, allow the target to be placed further away within the phone's focal range.
Nobody will buy a spam detection system which flags all of the mail from their kids as spam.
I'm sure it won't be too long until most spyware is rewritten to "take advantage" of multiple processor cores.
They've turned the hangar into an indoor resort: http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,2763,1 377997,00.html
Either you're Robert Tracinski or you didn't write that post yourself.
Much more than $200,000 goes into the power plants those carriers and submarines. I would guess that they're engineered a lot better than this plant will be.
For the time being, this tech is useless for camera phones. The phones don't have the optics to handle close up pictures nor the resolution to read a barcode from far away. Most don't have an easy method to light the barcode evenly (some have a flash). They don't have the processing power to handle even natively written apps in a decent amount of time. The only easy way to support a lot of phones is to use Java, but Java is too slow on a cell phone for any half decent image processing. GPRS connections take too long and have limited bandwidth. Most phones can't display the resulting pages very well either, they don't have the cpu power.
It's going to be at least a few more years until this technology is feasible.
For quite some time you couldn't use a table type which supported both referential integrity AND transactions at the same time in MySQL.