I'm guessing you didn't actually click the link you are referring to. It doesn't take you to a take down notice, it takes you to a "uh, the notice you are looking for is not here." notice.
And I'm guessing you didn't actually read the summary above (not even TFA), where it says:
(The takedown notice is not yet up at Chilling Effects, but Google's page has a link that will take you there when it is.)
WAY back when (When the Matrix was new out, and I'd just gotten my new Nokia 7110 with WAP), Orange had a service that would find local businesses/amenities based on triangulation of cell towers (As phones at the time didn't have GPS). You'd go into the WAP portal and choose "Where's the nearest", it'd ask you for the kind of service you were looking for (Restaraunt, phone, ATM etc), and would tell you where they were (Street name/number, it couldn't tell which direction you were as it was a one-time lookup). The system's accuracy was around 10 meters, and (when I left the UK) they were starting to offer turn-by-turn directions (Using SMS and triangulation), and child location monitoring using their cellphones.
That's very odd. A polygraph cuff is just helping to take your blood pressure, and it doesn't hurt. If you set it to the point of pain it wouldn't do any good.
I know (anecdotal evidence here) that some Blood Pressure machines can (And do) increase the pressure they use if they can't get a systolic reading. So, for instance, first inflate to 120mmHg and decrease to 90mmHg to try and get a reading, and if that fails increase pressure to 140-150mmHg and decrease to 120mmHg to try and read that (high) systolic. I believe (Glancing at the instructions as a nurse took a reading) that the machine will try once more, inflating to an even higher level (190mmHg+?), then show an error code and deflate totally. However, inflating a BP cuff to 150mmHg can be quite painful, especially if clothing is bunched underneath the cuff, and higher than that excruciating. So, either it was an erroring machine, a pinched tube (Which wouldn't release the pressure), or a (pretty major) misread.
Again, this is all supposition and anecdotal, but possible, if it wasn't a deliberate measure on behalf of the polygraphers
Incidentally, To convert between mmHg and PSI, divide the mmHg by 51.7, and remember that mmHg is pressure ABOVE ambient (usually 15 PSI / 1 Atmosphere / 760mmHg)
Let's see, we've got nanowire that's "Thinner than a human hair", and generates 200 picowatts of electricity. So, if we use these things tethered at one end and free to sway loose at the other, we have a mat of electric-generating "fur". Fuzzy satellites? Implant into the human scalp (To cover those bald spots) and you could power your cybernetic implants. Self-powering Electro-Luminescent wire (Charges when off)?
Weave these things into a cloth, and we could have spaceships with a power-generating solar sail. Or sailboats that generate the power for their electronics (And/or onboard electric motors) with their sails. Or electric cars with power-generating soft-tops. Heck, weave a cloth of these things and embed it in epoxy resin and you've got power-generating carbon-fiber-like body panels. Just paint the inside and use a clear laquer on the outside.
Clothing that powers your wearable PC? In fact, what's to stop this being used as a low-current power conductor to start off with?
Okay, how about pulling an "Artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince" on 'em. That is, after all, why he changed his name - To get out of his contract with Warner Bros.
You don't install apps into RAM:. The contents of RAM: are lost on reboot. But when checking for available space, the system functions calculate the potential space in the RAM drive.
Then what about the RAM Drive that the Amiga had. It was forever 100% full as it always expanded to fit the data on it, leaving the rest of the RAM for the system. It made installing very simple:
lha x archive.lha RAM:Installer/ Installer RAM:Installer/Install del RAM:Installer
Why VLC? Why not use (The V4L compatible) mplayer to do this for you? It can render in black/white (-vo aa) or colour (-vo caca)
Hell, set it as the system shell for an account (for example) and you've got yourself your very own ascii-wm
Up the thread someone said something about allowing Walmart to run healthcare, but Walmart is one of the businesses that doesn't offer employees insurance.
ORLY?
My wife (A Wal-Mart Canada Employee) has private health insurance through Wal-Mart (Provided by Manulife Healthcare). It covers pretty much everything, including 75% of Dental and 50% of Optical, along with covering everything (And I do mean everything) else totally. Admittedly, that is the "Gold" scheme, and costs an extra $20/month for the extra premium, but the rest is co-payed by Wal-Mart.
Part of the reason Wal-Mart has such a bad rap is that 60% of their wage is paid in non-paycheque amounts. Deferred Profit Sharing, Stock Ownership, Medical coverage, Employee Discounts, all these things are included in even the lowest tier pay scheme.
I'm not a Wal-Mart shill, I have not been paid for this posting, and TBH I would rather see my wife earning more in her hand each paycheque, but it does have to be said that the medical coverage and benefits she receives are second-to-none.
RFC 1584 "Multicast Extensions to OSPF". John Moy. March 1994.
RFC 1585 "MOSPF: Analysis and Experience". John Moy. March 1994.
RFC 1812 "Requirements for IP version 4 Routers". Fred Baker, Editor. June 1995
RFC 2117 "Protocol Independent Multicast-Sparse Mode (PIM-SM): Protocol Specification". D. Estrin, D. Farinacci, A. Helmy, D. Thaler; S. Deering, M. Handley, V. Jacobson, C. Liu, P. Sharma, and L. Wei. July 1997.
RFC 2189 "Core Based Trees (CBT version 2) Multicast Routing". A. Ballardie. September 1997.
RFC 2201 "Core Based Trees (CBT) Multicast Routing Architecture". A. Ballardie. September 1997.
UPNP is Universal Plug and Play, a complex protocol based on HTTP created by Microsoft as a way for local apps to get around NAT issues on home routers. It allows holes through the firewall, largely to support networked games.
Bzzzt! Sorry, you're missing (a lot) of what UPNP does.
UPnP is used not only for NAT Port Mapping, it's also used for Service Discovery, Device Capabilities, Event Notification, Remote Media Serving (UPnP Media Server) and much more. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Plug_and_Pl ay
I used one of these for years (The Trackman Marble FX), and it was very easy to use.
What most pictures of it don't show is that there's a small "Window" just above the left-click (Thumb) button that you can use to touch the ball, as well as the large surface.
For large movements, a flick of the fingers is all it takes to spin the ball, which has the inertia to keep on spinning almost as long as you want.
For small movements, it's all about the fingertips. Place your hand on your thigh with your fingers over your kneecap, and you'll see how you can move your fingers left and right, as well as forward and back, without having to move your hand at all. Yes, they're only "Small" movements, but that's all you need with the accuracy of this device, and if you need much bigger movements, you "Spin" the ball.
That's all there is to it.
The only downsides to it is that it runs on 3 ballpoint-pen-nib sized bearings, and after a few months(!) use they can get a little clogged with dirt. Fortunately, all it takes to clean them is to lift the ball out (Using that thumb window to push it out, it's only held by gravity) and run your fingers over the three bearings, which clears them (And transfers the dirt to your finger, which can then be washed off)
The bcm43xx "drivers" aren't complete drivers, and require you to obtain proprietary drivers which fwcutter cuts out a piece of, and calls when running. You mean like IVTV does, then (Which has made it into the kernel doing just this?)
fwcutter is based on reverse engineering, else it wouldn't know which parts to cut Says whom? Perhaps (highly unlikely but possible) they ran a (Pseudo-Code):
For i = 1 To Length(File) Return = Firmware_Load(SubString(File,i,Length(File))) If Return Then Exit For End If Next FirmwareStart = i For i = FirmwareStart To (Length(File) - FirmwareStart Return = Firmware_Load(SubString(File,FirmwareStart,i) If Return Then Exit For End If Next FirmwareEnd = i
To make it "in time for an 8 AM meeting" (6 AM MST), that train would have to cover the distance in 7 hours. That's 254MPH, not including any stops, which is substantially faster than even the TGV (which tops out at 200MPH in commercial service).
The TGV does indeed top out at 200MPH in service, but that is an authority-imposed rule. The TGV has a top speed of 357MPH, which would be more than enough. And considering the "Wide Open Space" nature of the US, it'd be fairly easy to run the lines "As the crow flies", with very few (If any) speed-sapping turns.
I'm not opposed to fast train service where it makes sense. But let's not pretend that it's a replacement for air travel.
If you're travelling overland, why shouldn't it be? And if it's wheeled carriages that are making you wary, how about a MagLev system?
Considering about 50% of US power comes from burning coal, I don't see how this is all that great...
Considering that it's easier to build/retrofit "Carbon Capture and Processing" to large exhausts (Like, say, power plants) than it is to add to small exhausts (Like, for example, cars), even coal-fired powerplants are more efficient than petrol-based ones.
And given that generating electricity from coal is around 30-50% efficient (More with gassification) and electric motors are 80-95% efficient (Compared to 25% or less for petrol-based engines), it means a net win for electric vehicles.
Add to that technologies like PML's "Pancake" motors (see here for details, and here for a practical solution, a true "Hybrid" that weighs 20kg more (in total, batteries, motors and all) than it's ICE counterpart) and the Electric Car (or the Electric hybrid (Why has no-one come up with an Electric/BioDiesel hybrid yet? Aren't Diesel generators the best for efficiency, as they run constantly at their (narrow) highest efficiency band?) in the "Need more range" area) has a great future.
And let's not talk about Hydrogen. It's more expensive (both monetarily and environmentally) to produce, more expensive to transport, takes more space to store, has considerably less energy density, and is not likely to improve any faster than other systems already around (EV, PHEV, BioDiesel etc), which makes Hydrogen more of a damp squib than the "Next Big Thing", no matter how the car companies (GM, Toyota) and the oil companies (Shell, BP, Exxon/Texaco/Esso) would like us to think so.
You know, I used to administer web servers from the pub, using VNC on a Palm m100 and a Nokia 7110 linked by IR. Sure, it wasn't the fastest interface (14.4k on Orange, using dual "Data Call" links, 2x9600 Baud "ISDN"), but it did the job.
And I'm fairly sure I was shuffling Gnutella (v1.0 - Or whatever the original leaked release was) jobs on my work machine with it too.
Oh, and IIRC we had monitoring servers set up that exposed a WAP interface so we could override/trigger/clear error conditions after we'd sorted them out, to prevent issue escalation (And the waking of the more senior managers)
While we didn't have missile launching included, I'm pretty sure there was a plugin available.:)
Actually, Rudolf Diesel originally intended his engine to use a variety of fuels including coal dust and peanut oil. As it is, you can run most modern Diesels to run on Straight/Waste Vegetable Oil. The only issue with using SVO is that it gels at even higher temperatures than (Bio-)Diesel, making cold weather performance more of an issue and making tank heating a necessity in colder climes (Like Canada and Alaska, for example).
There's no fighting (That's what the red line down the center aisle is there for - It's exactly the length of an arm and sword away from the opposition, and if any member crosses that line it's BIG trouble), but with all the shouting and arm-waving and general rumblings of discontent (And/or agreement) it's almost as though one's about to happen at any time...
Quite stimulating, in many ways, and none of this silly "I'm here to congratulate the makers of Marshmallow Peeps on making another batch this year" or such nonsense...
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And I'm guessing you didn't actually read the summary above (not even TFA), where it says:
(The takedown notice is not yet up at Chilling Effects, but Google's page has a link that will take you there when it is.)
WAY back when (When the Matrix was new out, and I'd just gotten my new Nokia 7110 with WAP), Orange had a service that would find local businesses/amenities based on triangulation of cell towers (As phones at the time didn't have GPS). You'd go into the WAP portal and choose "Where's the nearest", it'd ask you for the kind of service you were looking for (Restaraunt, phone, ATM etc), and would tell you where they were (Street name/number, it couldn't tell which direction you were as it was a one-time lookup). The system's accuracy was around 10 meters, and (when I left the UK) they were starting to offer turn-by-turn directions (Using SMS and triangulation), and child location monitoring using their cellphones.
Depending on just how accurate a representation this makes, it could be used (On the outside-most lane) to announce exits as you come up to them.
And have the rumble strip along the very outside (Where the shoulder is) to be "WAKE UP YOU MORON!"
I know (anecdotal evidence here) that some Blood Pressure machines can (And do) increase the pressure they use if they can't get a systolic reading. So, for instance, first inflate to 120mmHg and decrease to 90mmHg to try and get a reading, and if that fails increase pressure to 140-150mmHg and decrease to 120mmHg to try and read that (high) systolic. I believe (Glancing at the instructions as a nurse took a reading) that the machine will try once more, inflating to an even higher level (190mmHg+?), then show an error code and deflate totally. However, inflating a BP cuff to 150mmHg can be quite painful, especially if clothing is bunched underneath the cuff, and higher than that excruciating. So, either it was an erroring machine, a pinched tube (Which wouldn't release the pressure), or a (pretty major) misread.
Again, this is all supposition and anecdotal, but possible, if it wasn't a deliberate measure on behalf of the polygraphers
Incidentally, To convert between mmHg and PSI, divide the mmHg by 51.7, and remember that mmHg is pressure ABOVE ambient (usually 15 PSI / 1 Atmosphere / 760mmHg)
Let's see, we've got nanowire that's "Thinner than a human hair", and generates 200 picowatts of electricity. So, if we use these things tethered at one end and free to sway loose at the other, we have a mat of electric-generating "fur". Fuzzy satellites? Implant into the human scalp (To cover those bald spots) and you could power your cybernetic implants. Self-powering Electro-Luminescent wire (Charges when off)?
Weave these things into a cloth, and we could have spaceships with a power-generating solar sail. Or sailboats that generate the power for their electronics (And/or onboard electric motors) with their sails. Or electric cars with power-generating soft-tops. Heck, weave a cloth of these things and embed it in epoxy resin and you've got power-generating carbon-fiber-like body panels. Just paint the inside and use a clear laquer on the outside.
Clothing that powers your wearable PC? In fact, what's to stop this being used as a low-current power conductor to start off with?
The possibilities are (almost) endless...
What is allofmp3.com?
Okay, how about pulling an "Artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince" on 'em. That is, after all, why he changed his name - To get out of his contract with Warner Bros.
Actually, IIRC (IAAC, but not a legal one yet), the "Media Tax" is only on (blank) CD-R(W?)s, not DVD([\+-]+)R(W?)s.
C3P0: He made a fair move. Screaming about it won't help you.
Han: Let him have it. It's not wise to upset a Wookiee.
C3P0: But sir, nobody worries about upsetting a droid.
Han: That's 'cause droids don't pull people's arms out of their sockets when they lose. Wookiees are known to do that.
C3P0: I see your point, sir. I suggest a new strategy, Artoo. Let the Wookiee win.
You don't install apps into RAM:. The contents of RAM: are lost on reboot. But when checking for available space, the system functions calculate the potential space in the RAM drive.
Why VLC? Why not use (The V4L compatible) mplayer to do this for you? It can render in black/white (-vo aa) or colour (-vo caca) Hell, set it as the system shell for an account (for example) and you've got yourself your very own ascii-wm
Up the thread someone said something about allowing Walmart to run healthcare, but Walmart is one of the businesses that doesn't offer employees insurance.
ORLY?
My wife (A Wal-Mart Canada Employee) has private health insurance through Wal-Mart (Provided by Manulife Healthcare). It covers pretty much everything, including 75% of Dental and 50% of Optical, along with covering everything (And I do mean everything) else totally. Admittedly, that is the "Gold" scheme, and costs an extra $20/month for the extra premium, but the rest is co-payed by Wal-Mart.
Part of the reason Wal-Mart has such a bad rap is that 60% of their wage is paid in non-paycheque amounts. Deferred Profit Sharing, Stock Ownership, Medical coverage, Employee Discounts, all these things are included in even the lowest tier pay scheme.
I'm not a Wal-Mart shill, I have not been paid for this posting, and TBH I would rather see my wife earning more in her hand each paycheque, but it does have to be said that the medical coverage and benefits she receives are second-to-none.
Yay for poorly translated Chinese subtitles! The Backstroke of the west!
Now, where's my cookie?
See:
Totally unrelated, but I can get you another 4 Ws in your sig:
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
Changes to:
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washed Warren Wiggins who was washing Waldo Woo with warm water.
Bzzzt! Sorry, you're missing (a lot) of what UPNP does.
UPnP is used not only for NAT Port Mapping, it's also used for Service Discovery, Device Capabilities, Event Notification, Remote Media Serving (UPnP Media Server) and much more. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Plug_and_Pl ay
I used one of these for years (The Trackman Marble FX), and it was very easy to use.
What most pictures of it don't show is that there's a small "Window" just above the left-click (Thumb) button that you can use to touch the ball, as well as the large surface.
For large movements, a flick of the fingers is all it takes to spin the ball, which has the inertia to keep on spinning almost as long as you want.
For small movements, it's all about the fingertips. Place your hand on your thigh with your fingers over your kneecap, and you'll see how you can move your fingers left and right, as well as forward and back, without having to move your hand at all. Yes, they're only "Small" movements, but that's all you need with the accuracy of this device, and if you need much bigger movements, you "Spin" the ball.
That's all there is to it.
The only downsides to it is that it runs on 3 ballpoint-pen-nib sized bearings, and after a few months(!) use they can get a little clogged with dirt. Fortunately, all it takes to clean them is to lift the ball out (Using that thumb window to push it out, it's only held by gravity) and run your fingers over the three bearings, which clears them (And transfers the dirt to your finger, which can then be washed off)
Erm... MythTV runs on OSX: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/Myth_on_Mac_O S_X
The TGV does indeed top out at 200MPH in service, but that is an authority-imposed rule. The TGV has a top speed of 357MPH, which would be more than enough. And considering the "Wide Open Space" nature of the US, it'd be fairly easy to run the lines "As the crow flies", with very few (If any) speed-sapping turns.
I'm not opposed to fast train service where it makes sense. But let's not pretend that it's a replacement for air travel.If you're travelling overland, why shouldn't it be? And if it's wheeled carriages that are making you wary, how about a MagLev system?
Considering that it's easier to build/retrofit "Carbon Capture and Processing" to large exhausts (Like, say, power plants) than it is to add to small exhausts (Like, for example, cars), even coal-fired powerplants are more efficient than petrol-based ones.
And given that generating electricity from coal is around 30-50% efficient (More with gassification) and electric motors are 80-95% efficient (Compared to 25% or less for petrol-based engines), it means a net win for electric vehicles.
Add to that technologies like PML's "Pancake" motors (see here for details, and here for a practical solution, a true "Hybrid" that weighs 20kg more (in total, batteries, motors and all) than it's ICE counterpart) and the Electric Car (or the Electric hybrid (Why has no-one come up with an Electric/BioDiesel hybrid yet? Aren't Diesel generators the best for efficiency, as they run constantly at their (narrow) highest efficiency band?) in the "Need more range" area) has a great future.
And let's not talk about Hydrogen. It's more expensive (both monetarily and environmentally) to produce, more expensive to transport, takes more space to store, has considerably less energy density, and is not likely to improve any faster than other systems already around (EV, PHEV, BioDiesel etc), which makes Hydrogen more of a damp squib than the "Next Big Thing", no matter how the car companies (GM, Toyota) and the oil companies (Shell, BP, Exxon/Texaco/Esso) would like us to think so.
You know, I used to administer web servers from the pub, using VNC on a Palm m100 and a Nokia 7110 linked by IR. Sure, it wasn't the fastest interface (14.4k on Orange, using dual "Data Call" links, 2x9600 Baud "ISDN"), but it did the job.
:)
And I'm fairly sure I was shuffling Gnutella (v1.0 - Or whatever the original leaked release was) jobs on my work machine with it too.
Oh, and IIRC we had monitoring servers set up that exposed a WAP interface so we could override/trigger/clear error conditions after we'd sorted them out, to prevent issue escalation (And the waking of the more senior managers)
While we didn't have missile launching included, I'm pretty sure there was a plugin available.
Actually, Rudolf Diesel originally intended his engine to use a variety of fuels including coal dust and peanut oil. As it is, you can run most modern Diesels to run on Straight/Waste Vegetable Oil. The only issue with using SVO is that it gels at even higher temperatures than (Bio-)Diesel, making cold weather performance more of an issue and making tank heating a necessity in colder climes (Like Canada and Alaska, for example).
There's no fighting (That's what the red line down the center aisle is there for - It's exactly the length of an arm and sword away from the opposition, and if any member crosses that line it's BIG trouble), but with all the shouting and arm-waving and general rumblings of discontent (And/or agreement) it's almost as though one's about to happen at any time...
Quite stimulating, in many ways, and none of this silly "I'm here to congratulate the makers of Marshmallow Peeps on making another batch this year" or such nonsense...