Not to mention that the British police already runs some very powerful online crime investigation units. Who staffs these? I'd guess someone with some knowledge of Information Security. The same people who could probably perform some of the actions they investigate on a daily basis
Whoever modded the GP up as interesting and insightful was obviously smoking as much crack as the GP was. Mod down please, for the love of common sense and decency!
Washed out, grainy, bad contrast? That's how my eyes work when I'm trashed - my camera phone takes perfectly appropriate photos. Everything on my digital Leica job looks far too sharp.
1: Barcodes can't be read at distance, without me knowing about it. If somebody, for example, tried to read a barcode in my passport, I'd know. I wouldn't know if somebody had tried to read a RFID tag in my passport.
2: I'm sure that if the article related to barcoding cattle and soldiers, you'd have received similar comments. To be honest, I don't want RFID or barcodes printed on me for the world to see.
It's all just a show: most of the security efforts I've seen in place do comparatively little to make anyone safer, they're just designed to make us *feel* safer. They're not security, they're a security blanket.
Controversial, perhaps, but I'd argue that these measures aren't designed to make us feel safer, but more afraid.
We little people are so at risk, what would we do without the government to save us?
How cost-effective this is on your JetBlue flight from Topeka to Boise is another question, of course.
What about on the test plane? A FedEx cargo shifter. When was the last time a terrorist organisation ever targeted FedEx? If the plane doesn't get shot down, are they going to call the trial a success?
I'm sorry, but I disagree. Look at the article title, it mentions HP with no prior definition. Let's take your argument to its logical conclusion and ask who, or what, is HP?
Of course, we wouldn't ask that question because everyone knows what HP is already. Why's that? Because this is a tech orientated site, of course. It's the same reason why we can talk of DDR RAM without spelling all 6 words out.
Acronyms are a way in which like minded people can quickly and efficiently communicate; countless businesses, academic institutions and social groups freely use acronyms as part of an established and understood vocabulary. I was not trying to flame the Original Poster (OP) in my post above; I was simply highlighting that should s/he not understand the established/. conventions, there are places where there conventions can be learnt.
Instead of bringing to our attention deficiencies in the article summary, I believe that the OP only highlighted their own shortcomings. You are more than welcome to disagree with me. I mean no offence by this post.
In this particular case, the Wiki page you linked to is a list of 29 possible meanings, 13 just in the tech section, where the appropriate meaning is 7th of the 13. I'd personally say that a wiki seart on VT would just add more confusion.
But only 1 (one) of the possible meanings included the word "Intel". As the article headline includes the same word, I thought it would be a big hint.
Have a look at a reply I just posted above - my intention here was not to say a big RTFM, it was to highlight the possible educational benefits of Wikipedia.
I wasn't trying to define VT - I was aiming to illustrate a method of learning that the OP had yet to utilise. Next time there's an acronym that s/he doesn't recognise, they'll at least have a quick and convenient way of working it out.
You've got a point about 720p - I haven't tried the top stuff. I need to read about the subject more, but I have seen HD-DVD players taken apart before, inside (this model at least) was nothing but a Pentium4 and a Redhat based operating system booting off a flash chip.
Hmmm... I really don't think that thumb drives are the best possible examples of price per GB. In fact, it'd probably be much cheaper to buy the original HD-DVD.
Really? My 1.6 Pentium M with half a gig of RAM plays HD content just fine. And check out the specs of Apple's iTV - it's really all quite low! I'm surprised that your PC won't play it.
True, but how are you going to get content (ie Serenity) on to these blank discs? Downloading of course.
Who cares what blank HD-DVDs may cost in the future? We're talking about distributing HD content and, despite large file sizes, the point is that it is cheaper to distribute over BitTorrent and store on a hard drive than it is to distribute and store on a HD-DVD.
Not really - Hard drive space is still cheaper per GB than HD-DVD is. If you want to store big movies, it's cheaper to do so by downloading them than it is to buy them on disk.
In other words, if you can't afford to keep 100 HD-DVD movies on your computer, you really can't afford to keep then on HD-DVD.
No more emailing or uploading large files. Shared content is pushed to you automatically without you taking any action and everything shared is always available on everyone's computers, even when there isn't an Internet connection.
I don't care who I've invited to do what, I really don't want my friends to be able to put stuff on my PC as they feel fit. Anyone that has ever shared a printer in a University house will know the feeling - it doesn't take long until a hundred pages of "you're gay" wake you up in the middle of the night.
You're right to talk RAM - it had a 512 stick in it. Still, I was disappointed; I own a 1.6 Pentium M laptop that has ran both Windows XP and various flavours of Linux on it, it two has 512 megs of RAM. The things I found so easy to do on my laptop; listen to music, browse the web, look at photos, watch movies, run various office apps, do the occasional bit of tinkering; were all too slow to be bothering with on the Mac mini.
A lovely looking system, but too slow for me.
And please, I'm not trying to start a flamewar - I plan to buy an Intel based Mac very soon to run OSX. The important thing to remember is that when Jobs said that a phone was running OSX, previous experience with other Apple products told me it wasn't.
I saw OSX running on a G4 Mac Mini - it was so slow it was almost unusable. That's why I had trouble believing Jobs when he said OSX was running on a phone.
Who cares anyway? It can't run any third party apps - like most phones it probably runs some java apps on top of who knows what. They've made it look pretty though.
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Not to mention that the British police already runs some very powerful online crime investigation units. Who staffs these? I'd guess someone with some knowledge of Information Security. The same people who could probably perform some of the actions they investigate on a daily basis
Whoever modded the GP up as interesting and insightful was obviously smoking as much crack as the GP was. Mod down please, for the love of common sense and decency!
Washed out, grainy, bad contrast? That's how my eyes work when I'm trashed - my camera phone takes perfectly appropriate photos. Everything on my digital Leica job looks far too sharp.
A couple of brief reasons:
1: Barcodes can't be read at distance, without me knowing about it. If somebody, for example, tried to read a barcode in my passport, I'd know. I wouldn't know if somebody had tried to read a RFID tag in my passport.
2: I'm sure that if the article related to barcoding cattle and soldiers, you'd have received similar comments. To be honest, I don't want RFID or barcodes printed on me for the world to see.
It's a sad thing to see - RFID is essentially a stock tracking system, add it to people and you too are stock to be tracked.
Controversial, perhaps, but I'd argue that these measures aren't designed to make us feel safer, but more afraid.
We little people are so at risk, what would we do without the government to save us?
Sorry to reply to myself - I should have read more before. DHL is close enough to FedEx, I suppose, although this was in Baghdad, not Middle America:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DHL_shootdown_inci
What about on the test plane? A FedEx cargo shifter. When was the last time a terrorist organisation ever targeted FedEx? If the plane doesn't get shot down, are they going to call the trial a success?
Because by selling both the cause and the remedy, you get to profit twice! Happy days.
When the last time this system would have saved an aircraft?
If I killed you, would I get charged only if you complained? A silly example, perhaps, but you get the point. GPL violations suck.
It probably won't, but now you have some choice at least. Isn't that what Linux is all about?
I'm sorry, but I disagree. Look at the article title, it mentions HP with no prior definition. Let's take your argument to its logical conclusion and ask who, or what, is HP?
/. conventions, there are places where there conventions can be learnt.
Of course, we wouldn't ask that question because everyone knows what HP is already. Why's that? Because this is a tech orientated site, of course. It's the same reason why we can talk of DDR RAM without spelling all 6 words out.
Acronyms are a way in which like minded people can quickly and efficiently communicate; countless businesses, academic institutions and social groups freely use acronyms as part of an established and understood vocabulary. I was not trying to flame the Original Poster (OP) in my post above; I was simply highlighting that should s/he not understand the established
Instead of bringing to our attention deficiencies in the article summary, I believe that the OP only highlighted their own shortcomings. You are more than welcome to disagree with me. I mean no offence by this post.
But only 1 (one) of the possible meanings included the word "Intel". As the article headline includes the same word, I thought it would be a big hint.
Have a look at a reply I just posted above - my intention here was not to say a big RTFM, it was to highlight the possible educational benefits of Wikipedia.
I wasn't trying to define VT - I was aiming to illustrate a method of learning that the OP had yet to utilise. Next time there's an acronym that s/he doesn't recognise, they'll at least have a quick and convenient way of working it out.
Wikipedia is pretty bad, but with a bit of common sense, you can work out things you didn't know before:
VT!
Perhaps because nobody knew what this kid looked like until after he was found and after he appeared all over the mass-media.
Nice idea skippy, but your dumbass idea is a little late.
You've got a point about 720p - I haven't tried the top stuff. I need to read about the subject more, but I have seen HD-DVD players taken apart before, inside (this model at least) was nothing but a Pentium4 and a Redhat based operating system booting off a flash chip.
Hmmm... I really don't think that thumb drives are the best possible examples of price per GB. In fact, it'd probably be much cheaper to buy the original HD-DVD.
Really? My 1.6 Pentium M with half a gig of RAM plays HD content just fine. And check out the specs of Apple's iTV - it's really all quite low! I'm surprised that your PC won't play it.
True, but how are you going to get content (ie Serenity) on to these blank discs? Downloading of course.
Who cares what blank HD-DVDs may cost in the future? We're talking about distributing HD content and, despite large file sizes, the point is that it is cheaper to distribute over BitTorrent and store on a hard drive than it is to distribute and store on a HD-DVD.
Not really - Hard drive space is still cheaper per GB than HD-DVD is. If you want to store big movies, it's cheaper to do so by downloading them than it is to buy them on disk.
In other words, if you can't afford to keep 100 HD-DVD movies on your computer, you really can't afford to keep then on HD-DVD.
I don't care who I've invited to do what, I really don't want my friends to be able to put stuff on my PC as they feel fit. Anyone that has ever shared a printer in a University house will know the feeling - it doesn't take long until a hundred pages of "you're gay" wake you up in the middle of the night.
You Slashdotters are all the same; the only way to win against you guys is by not playing!
You're right to talk RAM - it had a 512 stick in it. Still, I was disappointed; I own a 1.6 Pentium M laptop that has ran both Windows XP and various flavours of Linux on it, it two has 512 megs of RAM. The things I found so easy to do on my laptop; listen to music, browse the web, look at photos, watch movies, run various office apps, do the occasional bit of tinkering; were all too slow to be bothering with on the Mac mini.
A lovely looking system, but too slow for me.
And please, I'm not trying to start a flamewar - I plan to buy an Intel based Mac very soon to run OSX. The important thing to remember is that when Jobs said that a phone was running OSX, previous experience with other Apple products told me it wasn't.
Good post.
I saw OSX running on a G4 Mac Mini - it was so slow it was almost unusable. That's why I had trouble believing Jobs when he said OSX was running on a phone.
Who cares anyway? It can't run any third party apps - like most phones it probably runs some java apps on top of who knows what. They've made it look pretty though.