Well, if CNN revised their article after learning that the AG office's press release was incorrect, they should have posted the revised story as a new story and put a link to the revised story in place of the first one with a note saying that it's been revised. News stories should not be treated like it were the news company's Wiki.
It's somewhat bad policy not to leave some trail of the revision history. Why do journalists feel they can be so sloppy about their work? Do the editors not take their jobs seriously anymore?
She didn't plead guilty, the charges were dropped. From TFA:
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- A state judge in California Wednesday dropped the charges against ex-Hewlett-Packard chair Patricia Dunn, who was accused of wire fraud in the company's boardroom spying scandal.
Earlier today the California Attorney General's office issued an incorrect press release stating that defendants would enter guilty pleas to the wire fraud charges.
Or even better add a GPS... and if your moving fast than 20 km/h... then disable the device.
Presumably, this could be done with a revision to the firmware of most phones already being sold. The problem is that it would be wildy unpopular...particularly if you're a passenger in a car, bus, or train.
how about those tachometers on the dash.. what do you need to know about RPM's.. its just distracting you!
Why not get rid of the speedometer as well? People seem to flagrantly disobey speed limits, too.
Seriously, there are some places that a tachometer still has a purpose...such as in manual transmission cars. Yes, one could interpolate RPM's from the speedometer, but without a tach, it's a little harder to learn where the best shift points are, and when the engine is being over-revved.
Yes, the tach is not a gauge that one should be glazing into constantly. But the same is true for a speedometer as well. Do you know why analog gauges are still so popular in cars? Its because they are much easier to read in your peripheral vision, and you can symbolically interpret them without having to do subconcious numeric recognition and calculation. I know that if my tach needle is past more than the 2 o'clock position, I'm in getting close to the red line. If my speedometer needle is at the 12 o'clock position, then I'm going about 60 miles per hour. In both cases, I don't have to refocus my vision to read numbers, I get the general idea from the orientation of the orange needles.
I'd think you'd be quite disappointed with lack of ambience in your fireplace, however. Pure hydrogen burns with a nearly invisible flame. But heck, if all you care about is the heat, then who cares what it looks like when it burns.
This article reads like the typical press release aimed to stir up grant money and venture capitalists. Too bad that UNB doesn't have a stock ticker symbol.
Somebody feel free to submit the details about this when they're released.
Hardly. The big tobacco companies have been sued for billions of dollars at a time. Some asbestos class action lawsuits have crossed that threshold, too.
This is very much like the cell carriers dropping support for users of older phone technologies because those users don't purchase extra services.
Perhaps. But I'd like to think that the real reason for cell phone companies dropping support for older phones is that those old phones require 3 or more channel spaces to make a phone call compared to the new ones. When TDMA came along, it could fit three phone connections in the same space as one AMPS (analog) phone connection. CDMA and GSM technologies, coupled with compression schemes, can do even better.
I don't think that it would be out of reason to see a commercial/scientific version of something like this to eventually come along. It could improve the quality and reduce the cost of underwater surveying or other bathymetry. Such users would be less concerned about having a stealth technology that the Military would so strongly desire.
In a similar vein, I was thinking that the next iteration of such development would calculate and assign strength, agility, stamina, etc. values for your scanned profile. Either it would encourage a movement towards improving physical fitness, or give birth to a black market for scans of people who are already physically fit.
The tower interconnects are likely to be microwave relay-based. Not only would it be less expensive, but you wouldn't have all that copper wire vulnerable for someone to come along and steal.
No doubt they will...but what will their response time be? I hope it's better than what we generally see around here at sites that are far more accessible.
But an electric fence for a horse/cow is a whole different animal (pardon the pun). Basically, you charge up a coil, much like a coil on the ignition system in a car and pulse it into the fence wire at roughly 1 second intervals. The "off" time allows the fencer to last that long on a battery, and the interval is usually sufficient to get the offending animal to stop leaning on the fence. It keeps animals in, but doesn't really offer any security, nor will it melt away someone's attempt to ground fault/short the fence.
I'm in agreement with you that razor wire would have a bigger impact, and in semi-literate countries, signs (in the appropriate language) that read "DANGER, 500,000 volts" are more effective than one might believe, regardless if its electrified or not.
If I can cut expenses (overhead) from my costs of operation, I could easily charge the same amount and make more profit. At least it's that way in the U.S.
Maybe the part that I'm missing from your counterintuitive argument is that the amount CellTelco would be allowed to charge if it were regulated by that government, presuming they were subsidized/under contract by the government to setup service. If that is what you meant, then I see your point. Example being: If my company's network costs $1.5MM to operate and the gov't for which is subsidizing the cost sets my profit at limit at 10%, then I make $0.15MM. If I make my network less costly to operate, i.e. $1MM, now my profit becomes regulated to $0.10MM
So they're installing electric fences around these sites to prevent theft and looting of equipment/metals? Cute.
Now all someone has to do to compromise that is to booger up the solar panel (Water balloon slingshot with mudpies), or throw a rope into the windmill (or drop it in with a kite) and wait several days.
And apparently you've never used a large clone brush with the source pointer overruning the modified result.
Here's a simple test. Set your clone brush to 100 pixels or so in size. Click the source point for cloning. Start cloning a 100 or so pixels away and drag the brush roughly inline with source point and clone brush centers. What happens? The pattern repeats itself at perfect intervals. Do this with a large, rectangular-shaped, hard-edge brush and you will get exactly the results in the doctored image.
You are correct that this is not an instance of a non-aligned clone process (i.e. clicking multiple points on the screen with the same clone source) in which it would introduce irregularities in the spacing. But the resulting image is quite evident of a clone brush "recloning" what it just did as it passed over the area it previously covered with the cloned area.
The excuse that this is an overzealous use of the dust/scratch removal is silly. If this guy were so concerned about the slight imperfection of dust on the orginial image, don't you think he'd notice that image had changed drastically after the application of this tool?
I guess they should have considered mailing them inside a sealed aluminum foil pouch inside the envelope. Not that something like that would stop all of the other vulnerabilities, however.
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Well, if CNN revised their article after learning that the AG office's press release was incorrect, they should have posted the revised story as a new story and put a link to the revised story in place of the first one with a note saying that it's been revised. News stories should not be treated like it were the news company's Wiki.
It's somewhat bad policy not to leave some trail of the revision history. Why do journalists feel they can be so sloppy about their work? Do the editors not take their jobs seriously anymore?
She didn't plead guilty, the charges were dropped. From TFA:
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- A state judge in California Wednesday dropped the charges against ex-Hewlett-Packard chair Patricia Dunn, who was accused of wire fraud in the company's boardroom spying scandal. Earlier today the California Attorney General's office issued an incorrect press release stating that defendants would enter guilty pleas to the wire fraud charges.
Silly question: Did your connection slow because of other traffic on the AP, or was your bit error rate becoming too excessive?
So which CAT-n cable company do you hold stock in? Or are you just hedging Copper Futures?
(teasing)
"Eternity is a very long time, especially towards the end."
...and infinity is a really large number, especially when you get close to it.
Presumably, this could be done with a revision to the firmware of most phones already being sold. The problem is that it would be wildy unpopular...particularly if you're a passenger in a car, bus, or train.
Why not get rid of the speedometer as well? People seem to flagrantly disobey speed limits, too.
Seriously, there are some places that a tachometer still has a purpose...such as in manual transmission cars. Yes, one could interpolate RPM's from the speedometer, but without a tach, it's a little harder to learn where the best shift points are, and when the engine is being over-revved.
Yes, the tach is not a gauge that one should be glazing into constantly. But the same is true for a speedometer as well. Do you know why analog gauges are still so popular in cars? Its because they are much easier to read in your peripheral vision, and you can symbolically interpret them without having to do subconcious numeric recognition and calculation. I know that if my tach needle is past more than the 2 o'clock position, I'm in getting close to the red line. If my speedometer needle is at the 12 o'clock position, then I'm going about 60 miles per hour. In both cases, I don't have to refocus my vision to read numbers, I get the general idea from the orientation of the orange needles.
I'd think you'd be quite disappointed with lack of ambience in your fireplace, however. Pure hydrogen burns with a nearly invisible flame. But heck, if all you care about is the heat, then who cares what it looks like when it burns.
This article reads like the typical press release aimed to stir up grant money and venture capitalists. Too bad that UNB doesn't have a stock ticker symbol.
Somebody feel free to submit the details about this when they're released.
Hardly. The big tobacco companies have been sued for billions of dollars at a time. Some asbestos class action lawsuits have crossed that threshold, too.
Perhaps. But I'd like to think that the real reason for cell phone companies dropping support for older phones is that those old phones require 3 or more channel spaces to make a phone call compared to the new ones. When TDMA came along, it could fit three phone connections in the same space as one AMPS (analog) phone connection. CDMA and GSM technologies, coupled with compression schemes, can do even better.
It's a bandwidth issue with them, too.
I don't think that it would be out of reason to see a commercial/scientific version of something like this to eventually come along. It could improve the quality and reduce the cost of underwater surveying or other bathymetry. Such users would be less concerned about having a stealth technology that the Military would so strongly desire.
Darn...I think you just ruined this guy's patent.
You've watched the movie Tron one too many times, haven't you?
In a similar vein, I was thinking that the next iteration of such development would calculate and assign strength, agility, stamina, etc. values for your scanned profile. Either it would encourage a movement towards improving physical fitness, or give birth to a black market for scans of people who are already physically fit.
Something tells me that there would be more of a market for technology that makes people in real life look more like their avatar, instead.
In other words, a new braking system for the landing gear????
groundbreaking (Link to Merriam-Webster)
The tower interconnects are likely to be microwave relay-based. Not only would it be less expensive, but you wouldn't have all that copper wire vulnerable for someone to come along and steal.
Yes, they make them:
Here's an exampleNo doubt they will...but what will their response time be? I hope it's better than what we generally see around here at sites that are far more accessible.
But an electric fence for a horse/cow is a whole different animal (pardon the pun). Basically, you charge up a coil, much like a coil on the ignition system in a car and pulse it into the fence wire at roughly 1 second intervals. The "off" time allows the fencer to last that long on a battery, and the interval is usually sufficient to get the offending animal to stop leaning on the fence. It keeps animals in, but doesn't really offer any security, nor will it melt away someone's attempt to ground fault/short the fence.
I'm in agreement with you that razor wire would have a bigger impact, and in semi-literate countries, signs (in the appropriate language) that read "DANGER, 500,000 volts" are more effective than one might believe, regardless if its electrified or not.
Huh?
If I can cut expenses (overhead) from my costs of operation, I could easily charge the same amount and make more profit. At least it's that way in the U.S.
Maybe the part that I'm missing from your counterintuitive argument is that the amount CellTelco would be allowed to charge if it were regulated by that government, presuming they were subsidized/under contract by the government to setup service. If that is what you meant, then I see your point. Example being: If my company's network costs $1.5MM to operate and the gov't for which is subsidizing the cost sets my profit at limit at 10%, then I make $0.15MM. If I make my network less costly to operate, i.e. $1MM, now my profit becomes regulated to $0.10MM
So they're installing electric fences around these sites to prevent theft and looting of equipment/metals? Cute.
Now all someone has to do to compromise that is to booger up the solar panel (Water balloon slingshot with mudpies), or throw a rope into the windmill (or drop it in with a kite) and wait several days.
And apparently you've never used a large clone brush with the source pointer overruning the modified result.
Here's a simple test. Set your clone brush to 100 pixels or so in size. Click the source point for cloning. Start cloning a 100 or so pixels away and drag the brush roughly inline with source point and clone brush centers. What happens? The pattern repeats itself at perfect intervals. Do this with a large, rectangular-shaped, hard-edge brush and you will get exactly the results in the doctored image.
You are correct that this is not an instance of a non-aligned clone process (i.e. clicking multiple points on the screen with the same clone source) in which it would introduce irregularities in the spacing. But the resulting image is quite evident of a clone brush "recloning" what it just did as it passed over the area it previously covered with the cloned area.
The excuse that this is an overzealous use of the dust/scratch removal is silly. If this guy were so concerned about the slight imperfection of dust on the orginial image, don't you think he'd notice that image had changed drastically after the application of this tool?
I guess they should have considered mailing them inside a sealed aluminum foil pouch inside the envelope. Not that something like that would stop all of the other vulnerabilities, however.