I suspect it doesn't use time delays, but just the difference in the audio spectra between tapping in the corner close to the mic, tapping in the middle, and tapping in the opposite corner. Different frequencies will resonate and/or be attenuated depending on where you tap. Have you ever played a guitar and noticed how the sound (timbre) changes depending on whether you pluck the string over the neck, over the sound hole, or close to the bridge? Same idea here, I imagine, just using a cell phone as the resonator instead of a guitar.
Some Slashdot stories clearly belong in Idle and are not there. This is clearly the opposite case. It's not about entertainment or something funny and it's definitely technology related.
Anyway, I'd like to know what my brother-in-law has to say about this. He's an anesthesiologist who has a home on the west coast [of the US] but works at a hospital in the midwest, so I'm sure he has an opinion about it!
is not so simple. Remember the McCain-Feingold act? Why did the Supreme Court have a problem with it? Wasn't it just about commerce (i.e. campaign finance)?
It requires post-processing. You combine images shot at bracketed (above and below the "optimum") exposures, in order to get the details in both the brightest and darkest parts of the image which are sometimes lost in high contrast situations. You end up compressing (to use an audio analogy) the brightness range into a smaller range so it can be reproduced on a monitor or paper. The post-processing of a LOT of frames requires a lot of processing power and time.
I don't give a damn about the environment so I tried your little "experiment" and now the batteries are completely dead in my Chevy Volt! Thanks a lot, jerk!
Didn't say it was a new technique or tactic, just a new piece of malware. Would you prefer they don't say it was new in the headline (makes it rather awkward: "Malware imitates warning pages"), don't report it at all, or what?
But also a bit less informative. If they do it right, I know that the change from 3.5 to 3.6 is much less significant than the change from 3.6 to 4.0. I have no idea what happens between Tiger, Snow Leopard, Polecat and Throat-Warbler Mangrove.
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The iPod Touch doesn't have a camera either, right?
Can you get a smartphone with a data plan and no voice plan?
Well, Castro has subsequently said that's not what I meant."
He's probably just senile. Or insane. Or a liar. Or some combination thereof.
You said other things, too. How do you know you weren't just modded down because of your spelling errors? You think no mods are capable of that?
I suspect it doesn't use time delays, but just the difference in the audio spectra between tapping in the corner close to the mic, tapping in the middle, and tapping in the opposite corner. Different frequencies will resonate and/or be attenuated depending on where you tap. Have you ever played a guitar and noticed how the sound (timbre) changes depending on whether you pluck the string over the neck, over the sound hole, or close to the bridge? Same idea here, I imagine, just using a cell phone as the resonator instead of a guitar.
ENIAC. (Emulated , of course.)
This whole thing reminds me of the time lapse video done of the Virginia Tech shootings [wikipedia edits].
Thanks for that link. I ended up watching time lapse videos of girls faces over 200 or 300 days and guys growing hair, beards, and unibrows!
Some Slashdot stories clearly belong in Idle and are not there. This is clearly the opposite case. It's not about entertainment or something funny and it's definitely technology related. Anyway, I'd like to know what my brother-in-law has to say about this. He's an anesthesiologist who has a home on the west coast [of the US] but works at a hospital in the midwest, so I'm sure he has an opinion about it!
Not disagreeing with your point in this post, but
Its about commerce, not expression.
is not so simple.
Remember the McCain-Feingold act? Why did the Supreme Court have a problem with it? Wasn't it just about commerce (i.e. campaign finance)?
It requires post-processing. You combine images shot at bracketed (above and below the "optimum") exposures, in order to get the details in both the brightest and darkest parts of the image which are sometimes lost in high contrast situations. You end up compressing (to use an audio analogy) the brightness range into a smaller range so it can be reproduced on a monitor or paper.
The post-processing of a LOT of frames requires a lot of processing power and time.
But if you park on a parkway, you're asking for trouble.
Reminds me of Benny Hill:
1: Have you got any naked pictures of yer wife?
2: No!
1: Would you like some?
he did say,
In the original account set up on your Mac ...
I think that can be translated as, "While logged in as Administrator..."
Clippy the Liar:
It looks like you're trying to a write a doctor's note to get out of work/school. May I help you?
Well, it's gotta be a pretty small data set. I mean, how many different kinds of Swedish Police shoes can there be?
1.2e needs to have "error bars" (e.g. 1.2+/-0.1e) in order for it to be a confidence interval, so it's hard for me to judge your argument.
one gets:
'Relax', said the nightman
We are programmed to deceive.
You can check out any time you like,
but you can never leave!
So you never have to go anywhere but campus, coffee shops, libraries and home? Are you a character on "Friends" by chance?
Anyway, for the rest of us, real phones are handy.
"...his captors were [not] aware of the CONTENT OF THE tweets he made."
They thought he was helping THEM. He was helping himself.
Mothers-in-law.
Just sayin'.
nichiyobi-no gozen? not.
douyobi-no gogo desu.
I don't give a damn about the environment so I tried your little "experiment" and now the batteries are completely dead in my Chevy Volt! Thanks a lot, jerk!
The love-child of Louise Leakey and Douglas Hofstadter?
Or maybe of Mary Leakey and Robert Hofstadter?
Me too, if was an MRI, and it came with expert diagnosis by a board-certified radiologist.
Didn't say it was a new technique or tactic, just a new piece of malware.
Would you prefer they don't say it was new in the headline (makes it rather awkward: "Malware imitates warning pages"), don't report it at all, or what?
But also a bit less informative.
If they do it right, I know that the change from 3.5 to 3.6 is much less significant than the change from 3.6 to 4.0.
I have no idea what happens between Tiger, Snow Leopard, Polecat and Throat-Warbler Mangrove.