You could use the hardware to build a cloud service and sell it to gullible businesses that don't know any better than to store their corporate data on such a service. Just to be on the safe side, you could back it up to your new cloud storage, along with your own data. Hmmm...
This type of failure to employ basic SI prefixes really gets my goat! The metre is an SI unit so multiples should use the correct SI prefix. 1000 kilometres is a megametre and 1000 megametres (or 1 000 000 kilometres) is a gigametre. So the above stated distance of 655,000,000 kilometers from Earth should have been specified as 655 gigametres (or 655 Gm).
I know nothing of these "software upgrades" of which they speak.
"One of the fastest..." you say but in fact, I'll bet that it makes phone calls at exactly the same speed as every other phone on the market and no faster than every cell phone ever made
The professional music business existed long before the recording industry made recordings of "popular" music widely available. Once such recording became available, it became fashionable to have heard the recorded artistes despite the fact that you could hear the same music, without the loss of quality inherent in the recording and probably performed by better singers and musicians at your local music hall or tavern. Once people started to direct their disposable income towards the recording companies instead of the local performers, the professional music business was brought to its knees. The recent availability of "amateur" performances is merely serving to restore the balance by showing that the artistes being foisted upon the public by the recording companies are very ordinary performers with no special talent and not deserving of an elevated share of the money pot. Moreover, although the poor quality of the early recordings is consigned to history, it is increasingly common to hear the strange tonal warbling that is introduced when a digital sound recording system is used to correct the poor vocal quality of the singer(s). So let us hope that the trend towards listening to amateur and live performances will continue until the blight that is the recording industry has been eradicated forever.
An (electronic) accelerometer can be constricted by attaching a resistive material to a vaguely flexible substrate such that the electrical resistance varies when the substrate is deformed (much the same as a strain gauge actually). In this case, the paper is merely the substrate and it is difficult to accept the claim that the accelerometer is made of paper.It seems rather akin to claiming to have made a paper-based computer - by sticking a laptop to a sheet of paper.
More importantly, precisely which medical tests require an accelerometer? Not being the sort of malingerer who spends a lot of time undergoing medical testing, I may have missed them but I'm pretty sure that no doctor has ever attempted to measure my acceleration. I know that older people often claim that time seems to pass more quickly. Perhaps time passing more quickly actually manifests as a measurable reduction in their acceleration and acceleration tests are a geriatric specialisation that I can look forward to as I get older. Perhaps the more senior SlashDot followers would care to comment on the efficacy of acceleration testing?
It is pretty impressive that Taiwan has police officers who even know what a spectrum analyser is!
However, it is surprising that the candidates didn't know that they could disguise their transmissions by matching their carrier modulation to the warp signature - surely everyone knows that.
If the clean room was to be locked for a period of one hour but the vial only broken upon the decay of a single atom of an element with a radio-active half-life of one hour then the subject could be viewed as both spotty and not spotty for the duration of that hour - sweet!
Has anyone else noticed French words such as sans gradually creeping into English in place of perfectly good words such as without? I believe that this is not coincidental but rather the work of a dedicated group of French extremists who, by gradually increasing the proportion of French words in circulation, hope to replace the English language entirely within just a few decades. Par recognizer this behaviour, we can arret it before it gets out of main. Mai, si nous do not faites attention then pendant just a few ans, we could find qui French is the nouvel Anglais. Dit "non" maintenant a English avec Francais!
Diese Anmerkung ist auch auf Deutsch vorhanden.
Well it's lunch time and all the blinkenlights are working...
..... Corp announces its latest TV screen technology. The screens, driven by photon emitting mouse brains have higher contrast and a greater viewing angle than existing OLED or OLEP screens. Furthermore, the new screens are environmentally friendly being powered only by cheese and 100% biodegradable. Dead mice are replaced easily and cheaply. The new NeuroVision screens are expected to hit the market as soon as problems with the Cat Repulsion Technology (CRT) have been ironed out.
I live in a rural area in the UK (a short distance north of Belfast, if you must know) where I cannot get ADSL - having tried, I now know that my telephone line is more than 10Km long! So I have been using a 3G/HSDPA modem on Three (Hutchison). I plug the modem into my (Draytek) router and regularly work from home with two laptops running VPNs into different companies and my wife often connects her laptop by WiFi also. The "Mobile Broadband" handles it with no problem and is a lot cheaper than the alternative satellite service that BT tried to sell to me.
I went on a Pirate Program at work. They sent me to the Caribbean where I learned to drink rum, bury doubloons, walk the plank and carry a parrot on my shoulder. Best training I ever did - what a week! Every merchant banker needs to do this.
When a hacked link or poisoned DNS cache redirects your browser to a hacker's server for processing of your credit card details, you will be none the wiser because the hacker has purchased a certificate from . On the other hand, I will be warned by my browser because I have deleted all of the commercial root certificates. If I am satisfied with the credentials presented then I need only click once on "accept this certificate permanently" and will never see the message again. The point is that the only acceptable "trust authority" is me and once I am satisfied by the authenticity of the site then my browser may continue to communicate with it. I have no interest in whether or not the site has given money to a CA and certainly don't view this as a reason to "trust" it. Consider, for example, the links to "ads.doubleclick.net" that you are probably viewing while reading this. On encrypted pages those images come from a server that has a commercial certificate. I don't see those advertisements but you are irritated by on-line dating services and people who just want to be your friend whilst having your bandwidth reduced and download limit consumed by them.
The choice is yours, of course but I say "delete those root certificates now" - you know it makes sense.
Users of MS-Windows (whatever that is) should note that they need to retain a Microsoft certificate if they want to allow Microsoft Update to continue to automatically erase all of their device drivers and quarantine the one piece of really useful software that they run.
Having left the academic world for the commercial sector, the parties are the thing that I miss the most. The bean counters don't seem to have any concept of livening-up the office party by say, making lightening by shooting lasers at clouds. They think that we should be happy with traditional party games like photocopying our genitals. Where's the fun in that?
Of course, that was just a prototype. Wait till you see the "real thing" at the Who's come-back tour of the US (we don't need lasers to make thunderstorms in the UK).
"Even if the rivets had been perfect it would still have sunk"
Not so! You forget that it struck a sub-standard iceberg. The iceberg was of poor quality containing a higher than normal proportion of trapped air. This caused it to be weaker and less dense than would be permitted by modern regulations.
Clearly, by Kelvin's 3rd law of stupidynamics, stupidity can neither be created nor destroyed. This leaves the serious problem of how to dispose of the stupidity that would accumulate in the stupidity filter. Given the enormous amount of stupidity that circulates on the web, the filter would become full quite quickly and it would be far too dangerous to simply discard it. I suspect that storing stupidity in volume would present many environmental issues that would not be resolved easily. The problem of disposal of the accumulated stupidity could render this project impracticable for the foreseeable future.
(Before anyone asks the predictably stupid question: Kelvin's 2nd law of stupidynamics doesn't exist and the 1st law is largely discredited although still supported by a small religious sect inhabiting the northern regions of Tibet.)
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You could just put the "very secure version of Linux" on all of the computers - problem solved or is it...
You could use the hardware to build a cloud service and sell it to gullible businesses that don't know any better than to store their corporate data on such a service. Just to be on the safe side, you could back it up to your new cloud storage, along with your own data. Hmmm...
This type of failure to employ basic SI prefixes really gets my goat! The metre is an SI unit so multiples should use the correct SI prefix. 1000 kilometres is a megametre and 1000 megametres (or 1 000 000 kilometres) is a gigametre. So the above stated distance of 655,000,000 kilometers from Earth should have been specified as 655 gigametres (or 655 Gm).
I know nothing of these "software upgrades" of which they speak.
"One of the fastest..." you say but in fact, I'll bet that it makes phone calls at exactly the same speed as every other phone on the market and no faster than every cell phone ever made
The professional music business existed long before the recording industry made recordings of "popular" music widely available. Once such recording became available, it became fashionable to have heard the recorded artistes despite the fact that you could hear the same music, without the loss of quality inherent in the recording and probably performed by better singers and musicians at your local music hall or tavern. Once people started to direct their disposable income towards the recording companies instead of the local performers, the professional music business was brought to its knees. The recent availability of "amateur" performances is merely serving to restore the balance by showing that the artistes being foisted upon the public by the recording companies are very ordinary performers with no special talent and not deserving of an elevated share of the money pot. Moreover, although the poor quality of the early recordings is consigned to history, it is increasingly common to hear the strange tonal warbling that is introduced when a digital sound recording system is used to correct the poor vocal quality of the singer(s). So let us hope that the trend towards listening to amateur and live performances will continue until the blight that is the recording industry has been eradicated forever.
"lack of physical security won't be an issue" - room thermostats on the other hand...
More importantly, precisely which medical tests require an accelerometer? Not being the sort of malingerer who spends a lot of time undergoing medical testing, I may have missed them but I'm pretty sure that no doctor has ever attempted to measure my acceleration. I know that older people often claim that time seems to pass more quickly. Perhaps time passing more quickly actually manifests as a measurable reduction in their acceleration and acceleration tests are a geriatric specialisation that I can look forward to as I get older. Perhaps the more senior SlashDot followers would care to comment on the efficacy of acceleration testing?
It is pretty impressive that Taiwan has police officers who even know what a spectrum analyser is!
However, it is surprising that the candidates didn't know that they could disguise their transmissions by matching their carrier modulation to the warp signature - surely everyone knows that.
Don't you hate to see the children fighting?
If the clean room was to be locked for a period of one hour but the vial only broken upon the decay of a single atom of an element with a radio-active half-life of one hour then the subject could be viewed as both spotty and not spotty for the duration of that hour - sweet!
Has anyone else noticed French words such as sans gradually creeping into English in place of perfectly good words such as without? I believe that this is not coincidental but rather the work of a dedicated group of French extremists who, by gradually increasing the proportion of French words in circulation, hope to replace the English language entirely within just a few decades. Par recognizer this behaviour, we can arret it before it gets out of main. Mai, si nous do not faites attention then pendant just a few ans, we could find qui French is the nouvel Anglais. Dit "non" maintenant a English avec Francais!
Diese Anmerkung ist auch auf Deutsch vorhanden.
Well it's lunch time and all the blinkenlights are working...
..... Corp announces its latest TV screen technology. The screens, driven by photon emitting mouse brains have higher contrast and a greater viewing angle than existing OLED or OLEP screens. Furthermore, the new screens are environmentally friendly being powered only by cheese and 100% biodegradable. Dead mice are replaced easily and cheaply. The new NeuroVision screens are expected to hit the market as soon as problems with the Cat Repulsion Technology (CRT) have been ironed out.
Let's hope that they don't stop dilithium shipments!
I live in a rural area in the UK (a short distance north of Belfast, if you must know) where I cannot get ADSL - having tried, I now know that my telephone line is more than 10Km long! So I have been using a 3G/HSDPA modem on Three (Hutchison). I plug the modem into my (Draytek) router and regularly work from home with two laptops running VPNs into different companies and my wife often connects her laptop by WiFi also. The "Mobile Broadband" handles it with no problem and is a lot cheaper than the alternative satellite service that BT tried to sell to me.
I went on a Pirate Program at work. They sent me to the Caribbean where I learned to drink rum, bury doubloons, walk the plank and carry a parrot on my shoulder. Best training I ever did - what a week! Every merchant banker needs to do this.
"I thought it would be interesting to show some pictures (and a movie) of Linux booting..."
I think that you are a very sick person.
When a hacked link or poisoned DNS cache redirects your browser to a hacker's server for processing of your credit card details, you will be none the wiser because the hacker has purchased a certificate from . On the other hand, I will be warned by my browser because I have deleted all of the commercial root certificates. If I am satisfied with the credentials presented then I need only click once on "accept this certificate permanently" and will never see the message again. The point is that the only acceptable "trust authority" is me and once I am satisfied by the authenticity of the site then my browser may continue to communicate with it. I have no interest in whether or not the site has given money to a CA and certainly don't view this as a reason to "trust" it. Consider, for example, the links to "ads.doubleclick.net" that you are probably viewing while reading this. On encrypted pages those images come from a server that has a commercial certificate. I don't see those advertisements but you are irritated by on-line dating services and people who just want to be your friend whilst having your bandwidth reduced and download limit consumed by them.
The choice is yours, of course but I say "delete those root certificates now" - you know it makes sense.
Users of MS-Windows (whatever that is) should note that they need to retain a Microsoft certificate if they want to allow Microsoft Update to continue to automatically erase all of their device drivers and quarantine the one piece of really useful software that they run.
Having left the academic world for the commercial sector, the parties are the thing that I miss the most. The bean counters don't seem to have any concept of livening-up the office party by say, making lightening by shooting lasers at clouds. They think that we should be happy with traditional party games like photocopying our genitals. Where's the fun in that?
Of course, that was just a prototype. Wait till you see the "real thing" at the Who's come-back tour of the US (we don't need lasers to make thunderstorms in the UK).
Not so! You forget that it struck a sub-standard iceberg. The iceberg was of poor quality containing a higher than normal proportion of trapped air. This caused it to be weaker and less dense than would be permitted by modern regulations.
Have you tried Grenoble, France?
The 3-D model is then encased in Amber, for protection and buried for the pleasure of future palaeontologists. Ohh wait...
Clearly, by Kelvin's 3rd law of stupidynamics, stupidity can neither be created nor destroyed. This leaves the serious problem of how to dispose of the stupidity that would accumulate in the stupidity filter. Given the enormous amount of stupidity that circulates on the web, the filter would become full quite quickly and it would be far too dangerous to simply discard it. I suspect that storing stupidity in volume would present many environmental issues that would not be resolved easily. The problem of disposal of the accumulated stupidity could render this project impracticable for the foreseeable future.
(Before anyone asks the predictably stupid question: Kelvin's 2nd law of stupidynamics doesn't exist and the 1st law is largely discredited although still supported by a small religious sect inhabiting the northern regions of Tibet.)
Terminating him seems a bit harsh - couldn't they just have sacked him?
I have enough trouble just finding somebody who wants to see my sensitive or secure areas. I don't see how they will ever sell any of these.
So how do they explain the existence of celery then?