Their engineers determined that the failure was repeatable by dropping machines using the batteries from a certain height and at a certain angle.
While it is almost unimagineable for engineers to lab-test this kind of failure, I'm equally surprised by that fact that they received five complaints on this (assumed same) problem.
If you intentionally make your assets unprotected, and when stolen, you don't report to the police and just get on with the life, would it be illegal?
I wonder what would happen if some broke into a house, instead of taking away CDs, he just copied them and left, would the house owner be liable for copyright infringement?
As long as these cameras are installed in and made known to the public, I'm actually fine with them. It would be like an extra pair of eyes or ears for the police.
For instance, if a camera is smart enough to pick up a car accident and notifies appropriate parties (towing, cops etc) timely and accordingly, wouldn't it be bettter?
Maybe if a mobile phone is able to simulate a realistic gunshot noise, and its owner is keen to play that in the public, police should be alerted anyway.
I have heard statements like "If only Mac has this and that software, I would switch in a second" or "If only Linux has more games, I would leave Windows forever".
So now that Windows doesn't have support for this and that software, it has given users a chance to revisit those statements above and make a decision.
This may sound weird, but is it possible to update BIOS via a HDD?
I have this old 'slim' laptop without its external CD/Floppy combo drive, and it simply doesn't boot from USB at all.
I also have a small unused 2.5" HDD, so I'm wondering if it is possible to 'burn' the BIOS image to it (via USB enclosure from another PC), then connect this small HDD and let my laptop boot from it?
Would you rather be able to 'buy back' a hard-to-find stolen part from eBay, or have to either source this part from a supplier (more expensively) or abandon the device altogether?
It will be very difficult to TXT every mobile phone user and ask them to not utter the word 'harlo' over the phone without playing the game, in order to ensure the HALO trademark is not misused by being used generically.
I see, so the effective age to have sex in UK is 18 then, because if you can't watch people doing it, how do you get to find out how to do it yourselves?
Those poor 16's 17's probably thought holding hands is having sex.
Well, in certain countries, you're allowed to have (consent) sex at the tender age of 16, but you're not allowed to smoke/drink until you are 18, and not allowed to gamble until 21.
I guess it makes sense too, first you have sex, got (someone) pregnant, then you drink and smoke to numb your pain in making such a stupid mistake, and finally at 21, you resort to gambling to satisfy the needs for cigaratte, alcohol and your kid's school fees.
Or maybe strong-passworded MySpace users feel they're more technically superior thus easily fallen to good phising technique, while their weak-passworded counterparts feel more needs to be careful.
Or maybe nothing really happened, it's just a fake analysis.
If one really wants to climb the corporate ladder, one should really be in the office, this is not only for the additional exposure and attention, but also for the opportunities to gossip and receive extra insider information.
To advance to a point that you know a cure is available, but the source is long gone, or
To remain ignorant of this cure.
I used to ask people this question:
You've been religiously buying the same Lotto number for 20 years, now God offers you two options:
a. That Lotto number turns out to be the biggest winner in the history, except you forgot to buy it that particular week. At least you know your magic number is a winner, or
b. That Lotto number is never a winner, and you'll never know that until your death.
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You mean like what Tom Cruise did 5 years ago?
Except some people got into depression after being constantly sworn at, TKed and ambushed at spawn point.
Their engineers determined that the failure was repeatable by dropping machines using the batteries from a certain height and at a certain angle.
While it is almost unimagineable for engineers to lab-test this kind of failure, I'm equally surprised by that fact that they received five complaints on this (assumed same) problem.
If you intentionally make your assets unprotected, and when stolen, you don't report to the police and just get on with the life, would it be illegal?
I wonder what would happen if some broke into a house, instead of taking away CDs, he just copied them and left, would the house owner be liable for copyright infringement?
As long as these cameras are installed in and made known to the public, I'm actually fine with them. It would be like an extra pair of eyes or ears for the police.
For instance, if a camera is smart enough to pick up a car accident and notifies appropriate parties (towing, cops etc) timely and accordingly, wouldn't it be bettter?
Maybe if a mobile phone is able to simulate a realistic gunshot noise, and its owner is keen to play that in the public, police should be alerted anyway.
Exactly.
I have heard statements like "If only Mac has this and that software, I would switch in a second" or "If only Linux has more games, I would leave Windows forever".
So now that Windows doesn't have support for this and that software, it has given users a chance to revisit those statements above and make a decision.
This is under the presumption that the holder/applicant is who he claims he is.
I guess it'll just get added to the to-do list of phishers and ID thieves.
And the fact that (real) sensitive data has to be included to prevent 'leading/sharing' just begs for hacking.
How about an out-of-EU mail forwarding service that receives and forwards emails between senders and recipients.
So for example if Mr. EU wants to send an email to "us@hotmail.com", he would email to "us__hotmail_com@mailservice.com".
Maybe not. Muslim isn't supposed to be in contact with dogs, but I have seen Muslim dog handler for law enforcement and Search&Rescue purposes.
Maybe to test if the re-entry works.
Will someone come up with a surefire way of neutralizing chips that may be on your body or in your clothing?
Now who's the idiot laughing at basement-bound nerd like me?
You know, there was this one time, one of my geek friends told us he made out with 20 girls in one semester, we all knew what he meant.
This may sound weird, but is it possible to update BIOS via a HDD?
I have this old 'slim' laptop without its external CD/Floppy combo drive, and it simply doesn't boot from USB at all.
I also have a small unused 2.5" HDD, so I'm wondering if it is possible to 'burn' the BIOS image to it (via USB enclosure from another PC), then connect this small HDD and let my laptop boot from it?
The article sounds like a victory, but theft doesn't stop because stolen goods stop showing up on eBay.
By publicly announcing such arrest, we might have just lost a venue to trace these crooks.
Please enlighten me what good it is to post serial numbers? Are buyers checking something based on the SN?
Couldn't crooks just change the last digit, so the stolen item should still appear to be similar if it's for technical reasons.
Would you rather be able to 'buy back' a hard-to-find stolen part from eBay, or have to either source this part from a supplier (more expensively) or abandon the device altogether?
It will be very difficult to TXT every mobile phone user and ask them to not utter the word 'harlo' over the phone without playing the game, in order to ensure the HALO trademark is not misused by being used generically.
I see, so the effective age to have sex in UK is 18 then, because if you can't watch people doing it, how do you get to find out how to do it yourselves?
Those poor 16's 17's probably thought holding hands is having sex.
Well, in certain countries, you're allowed to have (consent) sex at the tender age of 16, but you're not allowed to smoke/drink until you are 18, and not allowed to gamble until 21.
I guess it makes sense too, first you have sex, got (someone) pregnant, then you drink and smoke to numb your pain in making such a stupid mistake, and finally at 21, you resort to gambling to satisfy the needs for cigaratte, alcohol and your kid's school fees.
Or maybe strong-passworded MySpace users feel they're more technically superior thus easily fallen to good phising technique, while their weak-passworded counterparts feel more needs to be careful.
Or maybe nothing really happened, it's just a fake analysis.
I think that's the idea.
If one really wants to climb the corporate ladder, one should really be in the office, this is not only for the additional exposure and attention, but also for the opportunities to gossip and receive extra insider information.
A way to watch porn 'in public' without being hassled by 'the man'.
Yes but I'm sure you (or the public) will be hassled by 'the other brother' if you're watching porn in the public.
My apology in advance if I'm replying to a female.
I used to ask people this question:
You've been religiously buying the same Lotto number for 20 years, now God offers you two options:
a. That Lotto number turns out to be the biggest winner in the history, except you forgot to buy it that particular week. At least you know your magic number is a winner, or
b. That Lotto number is never a winner, and you'll never know that until your death.
All that matters is if they have the equipment to read the data hundreds of years from now
That's why I made sure my lead container has a DVD-ROM in it.