Don't you know a blog on which you can see new racist posts every day and that might suffer if anyone could force a blog to be closed because he dislikes what he saw on it. hint: I'm posting on it right now.
You don't need high tech for false positives. One of my former boss has the same name as a criminal WHO IS STILL IN PRISON and it is a real PITA every time he has to take the plane.
I pitty you, poor brainwashed american, if it is really your better definition of nude beauty.
JJ nipple even was at most a funny attempt of a declining star to draw some attention on a meaningless PR stunt instead of her artistic work (and I would say it was a success, because I know what she did, but cannot remember anything the sang). The overreaction tells is by itself more intersting, and therefore, I indeed like your idea of promoting beauty instead of violence, but your choice would be as if we chosed Ozzy Osbourne to tell kids that music is a sane activity.
Or maybe better: a small number of person doing the script and the takes, but lots of persons painting sets, creating models, doing some CGI.
The script part is only a small fraction of the job, you should keep it consistent (and make sure that it is something the actors and director are actually wanting to shot), then look for volunteers to create what you need from sketches or detailed description. That way, you can use your talent+idea+leadership+hard work and the talent+pride of the geeks to make a good film for cheap (but not cheap looking).
Probably the greatest (or at least the tallest) French leader of the last century, Charles De Gaulle, said that the french people are sheeps, and he was right. As long as they can quietly play on their horse races and watch crappy TV, most french people are wanting civil order at all cost, and some will even do whatever is needed to make sure that the France stays white, catholic, right-winged and pork-eating while complaining that Algeria is no longer a french colony. And of course, everyone is complaining about the government either for doing things or not (or not enought, or not how they want).
The result is simple: the country is almost ready to accept a dictator as long as the police will continue to focus on non-whites, half of the new laws are written in reaction to the last headlines and can be resumed in "this kind of crime will be more punished when done in xxx situation". For the next year presidential election, the left side is into a kind of popularity (or even beauty) contest where we don't hear many ideas and on the right side, a key member of the goverment (who was in charge of economy and police during the last 5 years) saying that the goverment has done things wrong (somehow, he is right, he dismantelled the "proximity police" in favor of more riot control units because they were doing too much prevention and not enough repression (those b.ards even talked to the population and organized football competitions during the holidays to keep an eye on the kids). As a predictable consequence, both the crime and police violence numbers rose) and he will of course do better, but without explaining too much how, except from the parts he stole from the xenophobic candidates (did I mentioned his father is an immigrant).
We used to say that were always doing the same mistakes the americans did 20 years ago, but I would say we are already ready for our GWB, except our one will probably be far more mean than stupid.
It all depends of the level of control that the government realy apply on the media. In France, we have both public media (mostly F2, F3, Radio France) and private ones that are mostly controled by big construction or military industrials and the public media have a far better reputation (the former ones usualy do a decent job because they are protected by their status and cannot be easily sacked by the power, the later ones tend to act as mercenaries always wanting to be nice with the government so that their boss can get more contracts).
I agree, that is the reason I used the word "relatively". However, since the PIN is only a way to use the card once you had physical access to it, it is far from being the easiest way to steal from someone else's account.
I mostly agree with your point of view, but I would like to react on magnetic strip: -Yes, it is better than the good old carbon, but it is still easy to copy in a couple of sec with 50bucks of equipment. The PIN-protected chip is the only relatively safe part of the card. -As long as you can still buy stuff on the net or by phone with only the card number and validity date, the thief only needs a good visual memory or a camera to steal that from you when you are removing your card from your tinfoil wallet to pay for your grocery.
Claking a plane is somehow easier than cloaking an item in a suitcase. -A F117 (or other similar plane) absorb as most as possible of the radiation and reflect the remaining energy mostly in other direction than the one it came from. For a F117, radar energy coming from the side will go upward thanks to the shape of the plane. -The tool described in that article tries to behave as if it was transparent to a particluar wavelength coming from a particluar direction.
As you can can understand, avoiding nasty reflection and simulating near perfect transmission are two completely different issue. The first one is well understood and has evident military application, the other one is still just a lab toy.
If only it was only unused stuff, it wouldn't be that bad. I recently visited the website of a car manufacturer which was full of (I don't want to know which one) cool things to replace the HTML and no kidding (I used my watch), I had between 80 and 200s between the moment I pushed a button and the expected effect (and yes, I was under up-to-date XP/IE6 with a perfectly working 11Mb/s line and it was not at a moment they should be expecting much trafic). The site was of course really nice looking, but it could have been done with just a little JS and Flash.
It gives me the impression that some web developpers just want to steal some money selling useless trendy stuff to their clients and then extort the fix (rollback).
I know I may be wrong, but if it makes the headline, it must be a great acomplishment performed by top engineers who have spent weeks to study and configure the two phones until they finaly managed to connect them. If it is true, and even if it is free, it would be a big step backward from classic GSM/GPRS/UMTS. If it is false, why make a story about two guys calling each other?
We've heard of DVD with a protection RFID tag and it was a bad idea, but a possibly working one. This one is both bad and stupid, I bet Sony will use it.
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Well, maybe this movie is not a good example.
If a trusted friend had downloaded this movie and told me how crappy it really was, maybe I wouldn't have listened official critics and paid for it.
I tried to use /. to cure work-related depression. The problems are still here, but now I also feel lazy.
I just read my own post and saw how stupid it was. DRM is a critical update.
I don't think they will put Aero or other big dev they put on Vista in a free upgrade, so what would be left for a SP except the new DRM?
Don't you know a blog on which you can see new racist posts every day and that might suffer if anyone could force a blog to be closed because he dislikes what he saw on it.
hint: I'm posting on it right now.
You don't need high tech for false positives.
One of my former boss has the same name as a criminal WHO IS STILL IN PRISON and it is a real PITA every time he has to take the plane.
If AMD can buy ATI for $4.2B, can't they simply add a few bucks to buy SGI too?
I pitty you, poor brainwashed american, if it is really your better definition of nude beauty.
JJ nipple even was at most a funny attempt of a declining star to draw some attention on a meaningless PR stunt instead of her artistic work (and I would say it was a success, because I know what she did, but cannot remember anything the sang). The overreaction tells is by itself more intersting, and therefore, I indeed like your idea of promoting beauty instead of violence, but your choice would be as if we chosed Ozzy Osbourne to tell kids that music is a sane activity.
Or maybe better: a small number of person doing the script and the takes, but lots of persons painting sets, creating models, doing some CGI.
The script part is only a small fraction of the job, you should keep it consistent (and make sure that it is something the actors and director are actually wanting to shot), then look for volunteers to create what you need from sketches or detailed description. That way, you can use your talent+idea+leadership+hard work and the talent+pride of the geeks to make a good film for cheap (but not cheap looking).
Probably the greatest (or at least the tallest) French leader of the last century, Charles De Gaulle, said that the french people are sheeps, and he was right.
As long as they can quietly play on their horse races and watch crappy TV, most french people are wanting civil order at all cost, and some will even do whatever is needed to make sure that the France stays white, catholic, right-winged and pork-eating while complaining that Algeria is no longer a french colony. And of course, everyone is complaining about the government either for doing things or not (or not enought, or not how they want).
The result is simple: the country is almost ready to accept a dictator as long as the police will continue to focus on non-whites, half of the new laws are written in reaction to the last headlines and can be resumed in "this kind of crime will be more punished when done in xxx situation".
For the next year presidential election, the left side is into a kind of popularity (or even beauty) contest where we don't hear many ideas and on the right side, a key member of the goverment (who was in charge of economy and police during the last 5 years) saying that the goverment has done things wrong (somehow, he is right, he dismantelled the "proximity police" in favor of more riot control units because they were doing too much prevention and not enough repression (those b.ards even talked to the population and organized football competitions during the holidays to keep an eye on the kids). As a predictable consequence, both the crime and police violence numbers rose) and he will of course do better, but without explaining too much how, except from the parts he stole from the xenophobic candidates (did I mentioned his father is an immigrant).
We used to say that were always doing the same mistakes the americans did 20 years ago, but I would say we are already ready for our GWB, except our one will probably be far more mean than stupid.
That's exactly the point.
It all depends of the level of control that the government realy apply on the media.
In France, we have both public media (mostly F2, F3, Radio France) and private ones that are mostly controled by big construction or military industrials and the public media have a far better reputation (the former ones usualy do a decent job because they are protected by their status and cannot be easily sacked by the power, the later ones tend to act as mercenaries always wanting to be nice with the government so that their boss can get more contracts).
I think I get your point, but by your logic, it's always not that bad until it' too late.
The Dude: Well, I still jerk off manually.
In 1976, I spent most of my lucid time observing my surroundings, then, in 77, I learned to walk to see something else.
Is this about non-working equipement or harsh environment capable of destroying organic molecules before they can be detected?
Don't worry, you're far more likely to die in a failure of your home/office elevator than in a space elevator.
I agree, that is the reason I used the word "relatively". However, since the PIN is only a way to use the card once you had physical access to it, it is far from being the easiest way to steal from someone else's account.
I mostly agree with your point of view, but I would like to react on magnetic strip:
-Yes, it is better than the good old carbon, but it is still easy to copy in a couple of sec with 50bucks of equipment. The PIN-protected chip is the only relatively safe part of the card.
-As long as you can still buy stuff on the net or by phone with only the card number and validity date, the thief only needs a good visual memory or a camera to steal that from you when you are removing your card from your tinfoil wallet to pay for your grocery.
...then you have nothing to hide, right? So why are you bothering hiding your credit card from the other law abiding citizens, are you a terrorist?
Claking a plane is somehow easier than cloaking an item in a suitcase.
-A F117 (or other similar plane) absorb as most as possible of the radiation and reflect the remaining energy mostly in other direction than the one it came from. For a F117, radar energy coming from the side will go upward thanks to the shape of the plane.
-The tool described in that article tries to behave as if it was transparent to a particluar wavelength coming from a particluar direction.
As you can can understand, avoiding nasty reflection and simulating near perfect transmission are two completely different issue. The first one is well understood and has evident military application, the other one is still just a lab toy.
If only it was only unused stuff, it wouldn't be that bad.
I recently visited the website of a car manufacturer which was full of (I don't want to know which one) cool things to replace the HTML and no kidding (I used my watch), I had between 80 and 200s between the moment I pushed a button and the expected effect (and yes, I was under up-to-date XP/IE6 with a perfectly working 11Mb/s line and it was not at a moment they should be expecting much trafic). The site was of course really nice looking, but it could have been done with just a little JS and Flash.
It gives me the impression that some web developpers just want to steal some money selling useless trendy stuff to their clients and then extort the fix (rollback).
I know I may be wrong, but if it makes the headline, it must be a great acomplishment performed by top engineers who have spent weeks to study and configure the two phones until they finaly managed to connect them.
If it is true, and even if it is free, it would be a big step backward from classic GSM/GPRS/UMTS.
If it is false, why make a story about two guys calling each other?
It is not just math. Technology and even society advance thank to the unhappy/unsatisfied persons, no matter what they are good at.
We've heard of DVD with a protection RFID tag and it was a bad idea, but a possibly working one. This one is both bad and stupid, I bet Sony will use it.