In all seriousness though, how many people will actually use VOIP to discuss illegal activity. If they know they're being monitored wouldn't they be more likely to use some more secure form of communication? Although, this brings up the question what do people sue to discuss illegal activity NOW if they know that they phones are probably monitored?
This seems just like those filters on online forums that replace bad words that users post with "****". As of yet, it doesn't seem that Microsoft is actually going to be able to use this to censor negative comments about Microsoft over the radio/podcasts/etc.
I mean, they have the capability to censor text but you don't see them replacing all of the "windows sucks" comments on slashdot with "*****".
Yeah, bistbuy was slashdotted, I can't access it either.
And of course people are holding Google accountable. I'm sure that these are the same people that complain that Google is violating copyright restrictions by linking to them in web searches.
Furthermore, I don't see how Google is profiting from this. Google's ads are based off of the content contained on the page they're displayed on.
Now, if a user is looking for bestbuy.com and misspells it as bistbuy.com, they are probably looking for electronic equipment. So, unless the site bistbuy.com is an electronics store the ads won't contain anything related to electronics. Thus, the ads won't hold any relevance to the user and therefore they won't click on them.
That article should read "20 times the terrestrial gravity OF EARTH". The terrestrial gravity of the moon is much different than the terrestrial gravity of Mars or that of Earth.
Also, I've seen something on the discovery channel (or it might have been "Bill Nye the science guy" now that I think about it) that said that astronauts exercise every day to avoid their muscles atrophying due to the lack of use due to the lower gravity in space. The show even had some video clips of astronauts using what was basically a spin cycle but with straps to keep you on the seat.
I've seen two comments with links to videos that didn't win, and they both beat the crap out of 3 of the winners.
- Weeee! is just stupid. - Give me the soap is playing off of the typical "children are stupid" idea. I hate anyone that tries to use that idea in their commercial. - daredevil just didn't have anything to do with FireFox in the first place, it could have been advertising anything if it didn't have the FireFox logo at the end. I think any two or three people in their high school film class simply screwing around with the camera could have made a better video than these.
Fox fever and this is hot were pretty well done though, congratulations to them.
Actually, I find most development tools incredibly easy to use. I'm, a sophomore in high school and programming really isn't very hard if you actually try to learn it.
Society has decided to start dumbing down children with tools such as "kids programming language". Anything that claims to make Atari-quality games easy to make in short periods of time isn't teaching children anything useful. (I did say that programming was easy to learn, but not such that you should be able to make Atari-quality games after less than a month)
Kids programming language was invented due to the stereotype that "programming is hard and kids won't understand it". On the contrary, when the kids actually try to learn real programming languages, such as C, they'll be swamped because they're used to having the machine do all of the real work for them.
The belief that "math/science is too hard for kids and they won't understand it unless we dumb it down" has progressed way to far into our nation's schools. But that's another argument altogether.
Also, as has been previously stated by someone else, no one in their right mind would teach programming in a high school. The C++ course that I am taking is at a local community collage. The only computer courses offered at my school are ones that teach you how to turn on a computer, log in, and use MS word/excel/paint/IE.
- The companies that sell these devices leave out the part about them forcing you to watch commercials. - A huge amount of people buy them. - Less than a month later, customers get pissed off at the company and return the devices to wherever they bought them.
After loosing tons of money over this, the companies finally realise that they have to listen to consumers.
Of course, this would only happen in a perfect world. Something is bound to come up that will prevent people from receiving refunds or something of that matter.
Why would you leave your laptop where people can steal it? It seems to me that people would take their laptops and sit down with them on, oh I don't know... their laps? And if a thief is willing to physically wrestle the laptop from its rightful owner, then there are more serious problems than what time of day it's happening.
Really? I heard from a friend of a friend of a cousin of someone who used to know the roommate of someone who now works for geek squad that these rumors weren't true. Do you really think they could be lying?
NASA is a huge team of engineers. When you get more than 0 engineers working together in a project, everything can always be improved, made better, changed, and redesigned.
Most of the time you have to ignore the engineers and just build the blasted thing or nothing will get done. But in this instance, it's a long time before there's going to be another launch to Mars; so why not make it better in the meantime?
How secure is this? It seems to me that anyone who really knows what they're doing will be able to intercept all sorts of traffic. And given the number of people that use insecure wireless to send private info like credit card numbers and such, this could cause serious problems.
Of course the suit isn't necessary, the entire point of the operation is to demonstrate the suit's capabilities.
And no you don't actually need the mountain to show what the suit can do, but it looks a lot better than just lifting a bunch of weights in a laboratory.
Also, can we please stop with all of the HAL jokes. I think they got old about 5 minutes after this story was posted.
This won't help with either of your problems. If it's too uncomftorble for you, then turn it down. If someone else's IPOD is too loud, you can't do anything about it. You can't limit someone else's IPOD.
What makes it so hard for someone to simply turn down the volume themselves? Or is it that we now have to assume that all teenagers don't know how to work the volume control by themselves.
Other MP3 players are still capable of playing music at any volume with no way to restrict it, what about them?
If people are going to complain about the potential for loud volume then they might as well complain about pencils being too sharp, fans spinning too fast, the sky being too blue, etc.
"ISPs will also be compelled to impose 'reasonable' limits on subscribers' sending email" Of course, if you want to exceed the "reasonable limit" of 2 messages per day, you must pay $30/month.
Also, a lot of ISP's spam filters suck. I have earthlink service and I get no less than 14 spam emails per day. that makes me quite reluctant to try their other "services" such as "scam blocker".
"Nelson Gonzalez said that his company will continue on with its own brand, design, sales and marketing, and support, though, so Alienware isn't going anywhere just yet. Gonzalez also said that Alienware PCs would not carry a Dell logo"
Then what the heck is dell in charge of? Profit taking? "he would report directly to Jim Schneider, Dell's chief financial officer."
Slashdot Mirror
So this is what that Microsoft patent is really for.2 38213
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/05/04/2
In all seriousness though, how many people will actually use VOIP to discuss illegal activity. If they know they're being monitored wouldn't they be more likely to use some more secure form of communication? Although, this brings up the question what do people sue to discuss illegal activity NOW if they know that they phones are probably monitored?
This seems just like those filters on online forums that replace bad words that users post with "****". As of yet, it doesn't seem that Microsoft is actually going to be able to use this to censor negative comments about Microsoft over the radio/podcasts/etc.
I mean, they have the capability to censor text but you don't see them replacing all of the "windows sucks" comments on slashdot with "*****".
Yeah, bistbuy was slashdotted, I can't access it either.
And of course people are holding Google accountable. I'm sure that these are the same people that complain that Google is violating copyright restrictions by linking to them in web searches.
Furthermore, I don't see how Google is profiting from this. Google's ads are based off of the content contained on the page they're displayed on.
Now, if a user is looking for bestbuy.com and misspells it as bistbuy.com, they are probably looking for electronic equipment.
So, unless the site bistbuy.com is an electronics store the ads won't contain anything related to electronics. Thus, the ads won't hold any relevance to the user and therefore they won't click on them.
That article should read "20 times the terrestrial gravity OF EARTH". The terrestrial gravity of the moon is much different than the terrestrial gravity of Mars or that of Earth.
Also, I've seen something on the discovery channel (or it might have been "Bill Nye the science guy" now that I think about it) that said that astronauts exercise every day to avoid their muscles atrophying due to the lack of use due to the lower gravity in space. The show even had some video clips of astronauts using what was basically a spin cycle but with straps to keep you on the seat.
I've seen two comments with links to videos that didn't win, and they both beat the crap out of 3 of the winners.
- Weeee! is just stupid.
- Give me the soap is playing off of the typical "children are stupid" idea. I hate anyone that tries to use that idea in their commercial.
- daredevil just didn't have anything to do with FireFox in the first place, it could have been advertising anything if it didn't have the FireFox logo at the end.
I think any two or three people in their high school film class simply screwing around with the camera could have made a better video than these.
Fox fever and this is hot were pretty well done though, congratulations to them.
Actually, I find most development tools incredibly easy to use. I'm, a sophomore in high school and programming really isn't very hard if you actually try to learn it.
Society has decided to start dumbing down children with tools such as "kids programming language". Anything that claims to make Atari-quality games easy to make in short periods of time isn't teaching children anything useful. (I did say that programming was easy to learn, but not such that you should be able to make Atari-quality games after less than a month)
Kids programming language was invented due to the stereotype that "programming is hard and kids won't understand it". On the contrary, when the kids actually try to learn real programming languages, such as C, they'll be swamped because they're used to having the machine do all of the real work for them.
The belief that "math/science is too hard for kids and they won't understand it unless we dumb it down" has progressed way to far into our nation's schools. But that's another argument altogether.
Also, as has been previously stated by someone else, no one in their right mind would teach programming in a high school. The C++ course that I am taking is at a local community collage. The only computer courses offered at my school are ones that teach you how to turn on a computer, log in, and use MS word/excel/paint/IE.
Given the quality of the posts on many myspace pages, unreadable text might be a very good thing.
This is what I see happening:
- The companies that sell these devices leave out the part about them forcing you to watch commercials.
- A huge amount of people buy them.
- Less than a month later, customers get pissed off at the company and return the devices to wherever they bought them.
After loosing tons of money over this, the companies finally realise that they have to listen to consumers.
Of course, this would only happen in a perfect world. Something is bound to come up that will prevent people from receiving refunds or something of that matter.
Why would you leave your laptop where people can steal it?
It seems to me that people would take their laptops and sit down with them on, oh I don't know... their laps?
And if a thief is willing to physically wrestle the laptop from its rightful owner, then there are more serious problems than what time of day it's happening.
Really? I heard from a friend of a friend of a cousin of someone who used to know the roommate of someone who now works for geek squad that these rumors weren't true. Do you really think they could be lying?
NASA is a huge team of engineers. When you get more than 0 engineers working together in a project, everything can always be improved, made better, changed, and redesigned.
Most of the time you have to ignore the engineers and just build the blasted thing or nothing will get done. But in this instance, it's a long time before there's going to be another launch to Mars; so why not make it better in the meantime?
This isn't a joke but a serious question. What is it's equivalent speed when compared to a traditional "clocked" proscessor?
How secure is this? It seems to me that anyone who really knows what they're doing will be able to intercept all sorts of traffic. And given the number of people that use insecure wireless to send private info like credit card numbers and such, this could cause serious problems.
Of course the suit isn't necessary, the entire point of the operation is to demonstrate the suit's capabilities.
And no you don't actually need the mountain to show what the suit can do, but it looks a lot better than just lifting a bunch of weights in a laboratory.
Also, can we please stop with all of the HAL jokes. I think they got old about 5 minutes after this story was posted.
If you put it in your pocket then turn on the lock, that's what it's there for.
This won't help with either of your problems.
If it's too uncomftorble for you, then turn it down.
If someone else's IPOD is too loud, you can't do anything about it. You can't limit someone else's IPOD.
What makes it so hard for someone to simply turn down the volume themselves?
Or is it that we now have to assume that all teenagers don't know how to work the volume control by themselves.
Other MP3 players are still capable of playing music at any volume with no way to restrict it, what about them?
If people are going to complain about the potential for loud volume then they might as well complain about pencils being too sharp, fans spinning too fast, the sky being too blue, etc.
"ISPs will also be compelled to impose 'reasonable' limits on subscribers' sending email"
Of course, if you want to exceed the "reasonable limit" of 2 messages per day, you must pay $30/month.
Also, a lot of ISP's spam filters suck. I have earthlink service and I get no less than 14 spam emails per day. that makes me quite reluctant to try their other "services" such as "scam blocker".
I thought Starcraft ghost was simply going to be released to run on windows PCs.
I don't see why the latest consoles are a big deal.
I thought this was brought up before (granted in the U.S. not Germany).
If you steal a piece of gum, you physically take the gum from the store, now the store can't sell it, use it, move it around, look at it, etc.
But if you download music, that is, make a copy of it. Then the original owner can still sell it, use it, look(listen) at it, etc.
But at least it's one less piece of crap we all have to put up with.
Doesn't vonage make sure to state that their service is not meant for emergency or 911 calls?
I mean come on, if they tell you "you might not be able to get this to work" then why would you expect it to?
"a technology platform that is security-enhanced, highly scalable and easy to manage."
That sounds exactly like the junk that Microsoft spews in their ads. This is advertising money at work.
"Nelson Gonzalez said that his company will continue on with its own brand, design, sales and marketing, and support, though, so Alienware isn't going anywhere just yet. Gonzalez also said that Alienware PCs would not carry a Dell logo"
Then what the heck is dell in charge of? Profit taking?
"he would report directly to Jim Schneider, Dell's chief financial officer."
Oh.
I'd probably agree with that.
But I don't think this is actually a T.V. show. I read the entire article and the only mention of a reality T.V. show was in the headline.