Given the capabilities of these phones, and the complaints on/. about rogue apps tracking people; who keeps an eye on these roms? What prevents a rom from, lets say, enabling GPS and logging data and transmitting it to some server, or turning on the microphone and acting like a bug? I know the Android source is available, but these roms are not the stock code. Not all of these roms have sources available. So, does anyone check the available code or the roms to look for things like this?
Hmm, I like this idea. How about a patent for "Storing a complex clusters of knowledge packets such that the Operating System needs only to store the location of a single head/root packet, and each packet needs only to knowledge of one or more other packets."
There, trees lists and graphs all in a few stupid lines of legal nonsense. Maybe get specific, and patent that damned k-D tree so no one else gets tortured trying to understand how to delete crap from one.
Long term survival isn't necessary, but have you ever had your abdomen cut open? It hurts, and there is very little room internally unless some other pieces are removed. If some person decided to just implant something under the surface of the skin, it would be an obvious bulge. If it is planted behind the abdominal wall, the incision will be large enough that walking the next day will be difficult, and survival past just a few days would require a skilled surgeon to insure that the bowel and kidneys did not kill the bomber. Any small incision, like for appendectomies or other laparoscopic surgeries, would not provide access to place enough explosives.
Hell, if the surgeon just nicks the intestine, living for long enough to wake up from anesthetic and walk to an airport would be difficult. And hemorrhagic pain from the decompression of the airplane? Security would stop the guy for babbling and being incoherent; the amount of morphine required to walk without pain after a surgery like that would keep a person out of their mind for few days.
I was going through a daily withdrawal cycle. With Effexor, it took years to get to that point; other drugs took just days or weeks. However, there are tons of other reasons why a higher dose was not part of my five sentence post. For Effexor that was because, after the daily withdraw pain started, I realized that there was a multiple year gap in my memory that started when I started taking it. Taking notes about this new pain every day made me realize it wasn't new. For other medications, higher doses were not available for lots of reasons. Some caused me more side effects in higher doses, others I couldn't take too much because of other health issues.
No, everyone wouldn't want to switch medications just because they got a low blood plasma level of the drug at the same time every day. But it's a sign of a major dosing issue that someone should be paying attention to. Withdrawal levels for most of these types of drugs increase as you take increased doses, just like any addictive substance. If it happens, and the dose is increased, and after time it happens again, then it will probably happen a third and fourth time as well.
There's a reason that stuff gets called side-effexor. That electric shock thing is something I have felt too; I got it as withdraw pain from various SSRIs. I thought it was a pretty recognized side effect of most SSRIs. Getting the pain was, in my case, plenty of reason to switch medications since it meant I was some how going through withdrawal daily. Extended release pills can help, if you can take them.
No, that's pretty much what critiquing art is about. Did the artist achieve what they set out to do, is the product interesting, do they get their message across. "Do I like listening to it" is only part of the discussion.
However, whether you weigh the artist's intent in your opinion of their art is your choice.
If the cable company wants to operate without oversight, then they can buy back the copper that the government paid them to install, and pay me and other land owners for the right to run their service across my property line. Until such time that they do so, and as long as they continue taking advantage of government assistance, they can and should answer to government regulation.
Except, they aren't requiring you to sign up with the hope of billing you when you forget. As far as I know, which is just SOE games and not the PSN+, they haven't even changed the license to say "by taking this free stuff you agree not to sue." They will make their money, but it won't be as cynically as you expect.
Using that same logic, we just say that aside from a few nutbag flight-school drop-outs, all the terrorists have been christian. Or that aside from a few religious nutbags, all of the terrorists have been athiests.
I would like to take that complaint you linked to seriously, but wow. They don't demonstrate a memory leak, or confuse a memory leak with having lots of stuff in memory; I don't know which is worse. "Oh noes, the game uses 1.5 gigs of RAM" immediately following "Why don't you make the game better by using more cores" seems like the stupidest thing I have seen. Running at 60 to 80% usage doesn't cause damage to your CPU unless you have a crappy heatsink. And if your graphics card is overheating and you are talking about watercooling your system as the solution, you probably screwed up the thermal paste when you bolted a 'new super heatsink' on it and started overclocking.
Not to say that the FF MMO doesn't have issues. Just that the post should have been titled "Hey Developers, listen to my nonsensical whine-fest." I simply do not understand people who want to play the newest, shiniest game, and then go on to complain that it uses too much resources.
The cost difference is the dark room equipment. Camera bodies cost about the same, a little cheaper if you consider them the same as 35mm film and never plan to enlarge a shot much above 8x10. Optics, lighting, all of that equipment is pretty much the same price as it's always been, now you just have built in wireless flash controls instead of lugging around some wires.
Now, a dark room, you are going to have film developing and print developing. For film, you might go cheap with a couple of canisters and spools, bottles, and funnels. Under $100. Or, if you shoot a lot, get a developing machine for over $1000. For black and white prints, you need an enlarger with a relatively white bulb, paper, and 3 or 4 plastic trays; the enlarger is a couple hundred new, trays are cheap. Color, I haven't done prints, but I understand the enlargers are bit more complicated with color filters, and the chemical process differs. All of them use different chemicals, which run from a few dollars a gallon to much more for archival quality. B&W needs just a single red safe-light, color needs different tinted lights depending on the use. Add a paper cutter, always useful. All said, if you have a room already available, you can budget a few hundred and get running for black & white shots; about double the cost to do color alone. Recurring costs are paper and chemicals, and film obviously. 50 sheets of 20x24 inch paper run around $100, if you buy 8x10 it's around $40 for 100 sheets.
Digital, your costs are a good printer, a good computer, and software. Canon makes a dye-sub printer for 3x5 for under $100, costs go way up for bigger prints. 8x10 paper is around $30 for 100 sheets. Computer, most $500 and up computers will work. The real cost is usually Photoshop/Lightroom/Alienskin, running multiple thousands of dollars.
On the budget end, though, most of us have a computer and printer that will spit out okay pictures. If not, a cheap photo printer and paper will run you $100. Cameras now come with some software, so your cheap-ass digital darkroom still doesn't go up in price. A bit of FOSS like Gimp, Hugin, Picasa, and the barrier of entry is quite low compared to a dedicated darkroom. For top of the dark room, I doubt the budget has changed at all. $2000 dollars for an enlarger or for software, both serve to get the negative to a print ready state. $1000 for a high end printer, or $500 in paper and $500 in chemicals will get you the print, after the last step. Dedicated dark room, or a dedicated office; maybe the darkroom costs a little more since you have to duplicate some things between B&W and color, and better ventilation.
Maybe in your area. When Groupon finally accepted a zipcode within 50 miles of me, the first few days were filled with rather interesting things. Winery tours, ski lift tickets. Now, every time I look it is skin peels, and laser hair or fat removal from some office that either just opened or no one trusts.
Groupon is a great idea, but if they keep expanding to new areas without considering if the area can support those costs, they lose customer confidence. And that is all they have to actually sell.
The rental car company owns the car and is, by law, responsible for the car and the insurance on it. If the car is in an accident, the victim sues the rental company, who sues (or their insurance company sues) the client who caused the accident. Possibly the victim sues the client as well. This is completely separate from ISPs, who operate under common-carrier laws. The ISP I use doesn't even own the copper running to my residence. When sued, the rental company will reply with "we were not operating the car at that time, it was Mr and Mrs Soandso." An ISP, however, is exempt from that initial suit. Ask a lawyer or legal historian why they got common carrier protection, that's beyond my realm of knowledge.
Secondly, a rental car company has an agreement that the renter will not allow any one else to drive the rental car except those who signed the agreement. Unless the client breaks the agreement, they are the only people who would be using that vehicle at the time of the accident that brings on the lawsuit. Normal ISP agreements do not have such a clause, and anyone in the house can be supposed to have been using the device at the time. Presuming that the ISP does not forbid the use of wireless routers in the client's house, there might be many people in radio range that could have been using the given IP address.
I guess it boils down to "Prove it was the person of record using the device that committed the crime." For a car rental, it was the undersigned; or they took responsibly for someone else and hoped their insurance would cover it. Or they could report the rental car stolen. With an IP address, it might have been the undersigned, or anyone else in their house. Or on their block. Or visiting them.
I am broke and poor as well. But I know where to get a Linux cd, and what to do with it to make a yard sale computer usableagain. Someone who has never had a computer and now needs one, they are the targets of these rent-to-own places. They count on you not knowing what you are buying. Out in the real world, lots of people aren't geeks or nerds. Retail shops are going to turn their noses up at selling their cheapest computer, and maybe try to up-sell folks. The rent-to-own please will be friendly because they know their margin is so high.
Yup, a friend of mine had played Everquest a while ago, and woke to find that email waiting. Who ever sent it knew what addresses were used for SOE games, and targeted them directly.
Looks like innovyx might have taken it down already, thankfully.
You are paying for EPSN 3. When it launched, EPSN negotiated fees with various ISPs. Some areas do not pay those fees, and people using those ISPs do not have access. Just because it is not itemized on your bill, however, does not mean you are not paying for it.
Funny enough, they are still paying for the content being developed. People pay for cable, advertisers pay for spots on shows. All of these people are apparently paying enough to keep things profitable for the time being.
Admit you are infringing on copyright. Own up to it. Couch the argument as "I wouldn't have paid for it anyhow, so they aren't out anything." But hiding behind this kind of falsehood is despicable.
Somewhere, in a cable closet, you can hear the voice of Senior IT speaking to the new recruits. "Gentlemen, this is an rj-45 to mains converter cable. Commonly known as the Etherkiller. This is how we deal with un-authorized devices on the network."
I have played with Maya (animation lab on campus), Rhino (demo ages ago), and Blender, and have modeled with just code in POV-Ray. I probably used the other big name software, back when demos were easier to get. At the time, Blender was the worst of the lot. I didn't doubt that if I put some time into learning it, all the keyboard shortcuts would become obvious. However, I didn't have the time nor desire to do that. I needed a capable 3-D modeler that didn't hide simple functions like differencing objects, or adding objects to the current scene.
Now, looking at the new Blender release, I would almost feel comfortable teaching others to use it, and I have barely spent a day learning the new UI. The commands are where a newcomer can see them, the advanced commands have quick shortcuts if you don't like scrolling menus. I haven't yet figured out all of the mesh editing commands, or the UV painting, but the animation and rendering has been a breeze to learn.
The zirconium that encases the fuel pellets can, if I understand correctly, oxidize once it reaches a high temperature and release heat in the process. Sounds like combustion to me. Guess it weeds down to defining the fuel as just the fissionable material in the pellets, or as the entire pellet.
That said, it isn't my field either so I am just summarizing what I read here and elsewhere.. It could be that there are other materials in the reactor that could also ignite at a high enough temperature.
Oh, I wasn't trying to make an exhaustive list of the types of people who like seeing their scans. I was just trying to annoy the AC. Pointless, sure, but it keeps me amused.
It's idiots like you that are dragging the medical profession the same direction as lawyers.
GP said s/he had a CT, and his/her father had a radioactive contrast scan. Now, sure, contrast for a CT scan isn't normally radioactive. But it is in a PET scan, though specialists may call it a tracer. Same for SPECT, V/Q, and scintigraphs. And a few of those would be useful for checking out a stent.
Yes, there are dangerous patients who think they know more than doctors do. There are also patients who spot things that doctors ignore because the doctors are used to seeing something else. A patient can be involved in their own medical care without being pushy and a 'know-it-all'.
But, since you are a know-it-all type who presumed all sorts of things about the GP, you probably didn't even realize that. You thought that doctors never make typos, and no medical records transcriptionist would ever misspell 'stint' and 'stent', or confuse 'below knee' with 'bologna'.
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Given the capabilities of these phones, and the complaints on /. about rogue apps tracking people; who keeps an eye on these roms? What prevents a rom from, lets say, enabling GPS and logging data and transmitting it to some server, or turning on the microphone and acting like a bug? I know the Android source is available, but these roms are not the stock code. Not all of these roms have sources available. So, does anyone check the available code or the roms to look for things like this?
Hmm, I like this idea. How about a patent for "Storing a complex clusters of knowledge packets such that the Operating System needs only to store the location of a single head/root packet, and each packet needs only to knowledge of one or more other packets."
There, trees lists and graphs all in a few stupid lines of legal nonsense. Maybe get specific, and patent that damned k-D tree so no one else gets tortured trying to understand how to delete crap from one.
Long term survival isn't necessary, but have you ever had your abdomen cut open? It hurts, and there is very little room internally unless some other pieces are removed. If some person decided to just implant something under the surface of the skin, it would be an obvious bulge. If it is planted behind the abdominal wall, the incision will be large enough that walking the next day will be difficult, and survival past just a few days would require a skilled surgeon to insure that the bowel and kidneys did not kill the bomber. Any small incision, like for appendectomies or other laparoscopic surgeries, would not provide access to place enough explosives.
Hell, if the surgeon just nicks the intestine, living for long enough to wake up from anesthetic and walk to an airport would be difficult. And hemorrhagic pain from the decompression of the airplane? Security would stop the guy for babbling and being incoherent; the amount of morphine required to walk without pain after a surgery like that would keep a person out of their mind for few days.
I was going through a daily withdrawal cycle. With Effexor, it took years to get to that point; other drugs took just days or weeks. However, there are tons of other reasons why a higher dose was not part of my five sentence post. For Effexor that was because, after the daily withdraw pain started, I realized that there was a multiple year gap in my memory that started when I started taking it. Taking notes about this new pain every day made me realize it wasn't new. For other medications, higher doses were not available for lots of reasons. Some caused me more side effects in higher doses, others I couldn't take too much because of other health issues.
No, everyone wouldn't want to switch medications just because they got a low blood plasma level of the drug at the same time every day. But it's a sign of a major dosing issue that someone should be paying attention to. Withdrawal levels for most of these types of drugs increase as you take increased doses, just like any addictive substance. If it happens, and the dose is increased, and after time it happens again, then it will probably happen a third and fourth time as well.
There's a reason that stuff gets called side-effexor. That electric shock thing is something I have felt too; I got it as withdraw pain from various SSRIs. I thought it was a pretty recognized side effect of most SSRIs. Getting the pain was, in my case, plenty of reason to switch medications since it meant I was some how going through withdrawal daily. Extended release pills can help, if you can take them.
You mean like they didn't sue the Nelson farm. Or Schmeiser. Or that they have that they should be allowed to sell seeds that haven't passed environmental safety studies, between now and when the studies are finished. Because to prohibit them from selling seeds before safety/ecological studies pass is unconstitutional.
Nope, they won't sue anyone. Just ignore the hulking gorilla with the patents, they really are friendly.
No, that's pretty much what critiquing art is about. Did the artist achieve what they set out to do, is the product interesting, do they get their message across. "Do I like listening to it" is only part of the discussion.
However, whether you weigh the artist's intent in your opinion of their art is your choice.
If the cable company wants to operate without oversight, then they can buy back the copper that the government paid them to install, and pay me and other land owners for the right to run their service across my property line. Until such time that they do so, and as long as they continue taking advantage of government assistance, they can and should answer to government regulation.
Except, they aren't requiring you to sign up with the hope of billing you when you forget. As far as I know, which is just SOE games and not the PSN+, they haven't even changed the license to say "by taking this free stuff you agree not to sue." They will make their money, but it won't be as cynically as you expect.
Using that same logic, we just say that aside from a few nutbag flight-school drop-outs, all the terrorists have been christian. Or that aside from a few religious nutbags, all of the terrorists have been athiests.
I would like to take that complaint you linked to seriously, but wow. They don't demonstrate a memory leak, or confuse a memory leak with having lots of stuff in memory; I don't know which is worse. "Oh noes, the game uses 1.5 gigs of RAM" immediately following "Why don't you make the game better by using more cores" seems like the stupidest thing I have seen. Running at 60 to 80% usage doesn't cause damage to your CPU unless you have a crappy heatsink. And if your graphics card is overheating and you are talking about watercooling your system as the solution, you probably screwed up the thermal paste when you bolted a 'new super heatsink' on it and started overclocking.
Not to say that the FF MMO doesn't have issues. Just that the post should have been titled "Hey Developers, listen to my nonsensical whine-fest." I simply do not understand people who want to play the newest, shiniest game, and then go on to complain that it uses too much resources.
The cost difference is the dark room equipment. Camera bodies cost about the same, a little cheaper if you consider them the same as 35mm film and never plan to enlarge a shot much above 8x10. Optics, lighting, all of that equipment is pretty much the same price as it's always been, now you just have built in wireless flash controls instead of lugging around some wires.
Now, a dark room, you are going to have film developing and print developing. For film, you might go cheap with a couple of canisters and spools, bottles, and funnels. Under $100. Or, if you shoot a lot, get a developing machine for over $1000. For black and white prints, you need an enlarger with a relatively white bulb, paper, and 3 or 4 plastic trays; the enlarger is a couple hundred new, trays are cheap. Color, I haven't done prints, but I understand the enlargers are bit more complicated with color filters, and the chemical process differs. All of them use different chemicals, which run from a few dollars a gallon to much more for archival quality. B&W needs just a single red safe-light, color needs different tinted lights depending on the use. Add a paper cutter, always useful. All said, if you have a room already available, you can budget a few hundred and get running for black & white shots; about double the cost to do color alone. Recurring costs are paper and chemicals, and film obviously. 50 sheets of 20x24 inch paper run around $100, if you buy 8x10 it's around $40 for 100 sheets.
Digital, your costs are a good printer, a good computer, and software. Canon makes a dye-sub printer for 3x5 for under $100, costs go way up for bigger prints. 8x10 paper is around $30 for 100 sheets. Computer, most $500 and up computers will work. The real cost is usually Photoshop/Lightroom/Alienskin, running multiple thousands of dollars.
On the budget end, though, most of us have a computer and printer that will spit out okay pictures. If not, a cheap photo printer and paper will run you $100. Cameras now come with some software, so your cheap-ass digital darkroom still doesn't go up in price. A bit of FOSS like Gimp, Hugin, Picasa, and the barrier of entry is quite low compared to a dedicated darkroom. For top of the dark room, I doubt the budget has changed at all. $2000 dollars for an enlarger or for software, both serve to get the negative to a print ready state. $1000 for a high end printer, or $500 in paper and $500 in chemicals will get you the print, after the last step. Dedicated dark room, or a dedicated office; maybe the darkroom costs a little more since you have to duplicate some things between B&W and color, and better ventilation.
Maybe in your area. When Groupon finally accepted a zipcode within 50 miles of me, the first few days were filled with rather interesting things. Winery tours, ski lift tickets. Now, every time I look it is skin peels, and laser hair or fat removal from some office that either just opened or no one trusts.
Groupon is a great idea, but if they keep expanding to new areas without considering if the area can support those costs, they lose customer confidence. And that is all they have to actually sell.
The rental car company owns the car and is, by law, responsible for the car and the insurance on it. If the car is in an accident, the victim sues the rental company, who sues (or their insurance company sues) the client who caused the accident. Possibly the victim sues the client as well. This is completely separate from ISPs, who operate under common-carrier laws. The ISP I use doesn't even own the copper running to my residence. When sued, the rental company will reply with "we were not operating the car at that time, it was Mr and Mrs Soandso." An ISP, however, is exempt from that initial suit. Ask a lawyer or legal historian why they got common carrier protection, that's beyond my realm of knowledge.
Secondly, a rental car company has an agreement that the renter will not allow any one else to drive the rental car except those who signed the agreement. Unless the client breaks the agreement, they are the only people who would be using that vehicle at the time of the accident that brings on the lawsuit. Normal ISP agreements do not have such a clause, and anyone in the house can be supposed to have been using the device at the time. Presuming that the ISP does not forbid the use of wireless routers in the client's house, there might be many people in radio range that could have been using the given IP address.
I guess it boils down to "Prove it was the person of record using the device that committed the crime." For a car rental, it was the undersigned; or they took responsibly for someone else and hoped their insurance would cover it. Or they could report the rental car stolen. With an IP address, it might have been the undersigned, or anyone else in their house. Or on their block. Or visiting them.
I am broke and poor as well. But I know where to get a Linux cd, and what to do with it to make a yard sale computer usableagain. Someone who has never had a computer and now needs one, they are the targets of these rent-to-own places. They count on you not knowing what you are buying. Out in the real world, lots of people aren't geeks or nerds. Retail shops are going to turn their noses up at selling their cheapest computer, and maybe try to up-sell folks. The rent-to-own please will be friendly because they know their margin is so high.
Yup, a friend of mine had played Everquest a while ago, and woke to find that email waiting. Who ever sent it knew what addresses were used for SOE games, and targeted them directly.
Looks like innovyx might have taken it down already, thankfully.
You are paying for EPSN 3. When it launched, EPSN negotiated fees with various ISPs. Some areas do not pay those fees, and people using those ISPs do not have access. Just because it is not itemized on your bill, however, does not mean you are not paying for it.
Funny enough, they are still paying for the content being developed. People pay for cable, advertisers pay for spots on shows. All of these people are apparently paying enough to keep things profitable for the time being.
Admit you are infringing on copyright. Own up to it. Couch the argument as "I wouldn't have paid for it anyhow, so they aren't out anything." But hiding behind this kind of falsehood is despicable.
sodium alginate and calcium chloride
transglutaminase
agar agar
lecithin
Those are the current high tech kitchen secrets. The 100 year old secret is "don't overcook anything".
Somewhere, in a cable closet, you can hear the voice of Senior IT speaking to the new recruits. "Gentlemen, this is an rj-45 to mains converter cable. Commonly known as the Etherkiller. This is how we deal with un-authorized devices on the network."
What about a jump to the left?
Or a step to the right?
I have played with Maya (animation lab on campus), Rhino (demo ages ago), and Blender, and have modeled with just code in POV-Ray. I probably used the other big name software, back when demos were easier to get. At the time, Blender was the worst of the lot. I didn't doubt that if I put some time into learning it, all the keyboard shortcuts would become obvious. However, I didn't have the time nor desire to do that. I needed a capable 3-D modeler that didn't hide simple functions like differencing objects, or adding objects to the current scene.
Now, looking at the new Blender release, I would almost feel comfortable teaching others to use it, and I have barely spent a day learning the new UI. The commands are where a newcomer can see them, the advanced commands have quick shortcuts if you don't like scrolling menus. I haven't yet figured out all of the mesh editing commands, or the UV painting, but the animation and rendering has been a breeze to learn.
The zirconium that encases the fuel pellets can, if I understand correctly, oxidize once it reaches a high temperature and release heat in the process. Sounds like combustion to me. Guess it weeds down to defining the fuel as just the fissionable material in the pellets, or as the entire pellet.
That said, it isn't my field either so I am just summarizing what I read here and elsewhere.. It could be that there are other materials in the reactor that could also ignite at a high enough temperature.
Oh, I wasn't trying to make an exhaustive list of the types of people who like seeing their scans. I was just trying to annoy the AC. Pointless, sure, but it keeps me amused.
It's idiots like you that are dragging the medical profession the same direction as lawyers.
GP said s/he had a CT, and his/her father had a radioactive contrast scan. Now, sure, contrast for a CT scan isn't normally radioactive. But it is in a PET scan, though specialists may call it a tracer. Same for SPECT, V/Q, and scintigraphs. And a few of those would be useful for checking out a stent.
Yes, there are dangerous patients who think they know more than doctors do. There are also patients who spot things that doctors ignore because the doctors are used to seeing something else. A patient can be involved in their own medical care without being pushy and a 'know-it-all'.
But, since you are a know-it-all type who presumed all sorts of things about the GP, you probably didn't even realize that. You thought that doctors never make typos, and no medical records transcriptionist would ever misspell 'stint' and 'stent', or confuse 'below knee' with 'bologna'.