Our existance precludes "leaving them alone" in the sense that they'd like being alone. Western culture itself is offensive to fundamental Muslims. Clearly, the pool of suicide bombers is larger while there is a war, but poor people with little hope of escape from their lives will always exist, and will always be easy prey for someone wishing to manipulate them with buttery promises of eternal paradise.
"The good news is that a bomb on the inside on a Muslim (swallowed or rectally inserted) is unlikely to do much damage to those on the outside: the fast-flying metal/glass fragments is what kills, not the shockwave per se."
Keeping in mind that in the scenario we're talking about, the terrist is on a plane. The shockwave should be enough to tear a hole in the hull. At least, it should be if explosives act like they do on the A-Team, which is where I've learned everything I know about explosives.
I don't see why you'd have to surgically implant them. Just do what the heroin smugglers used to do and wrap the bombs in condoms and swallow 'em. I figured you'd put em on a timer, but as the other guy points out, maybe there's other ways to detonate them.
I don't see how that's an explanation of why the US cell market is so screwy. I'm talking about vendor lock-in, multiple standards (GSM, CDMA, iDen, lord knows what else), etcetera.
"Well, too bad, because your phone doesn't have enough memory to store it along with the 150 other songs you wanted to hear that day."
The Nokia N91 has a 4gb flash drive. It's not in the US yet, but none of the really good phones are. I only see the trend of large-capacity phones growing, either through internal flash drives or whatever SD card format is tinyest this week.
I really wish I could get a phone that just did phone calls
People always say this, and it always baffles me. You can, and they're super-cheap. The nokia 6010 is a good example. The only bells and whistles are ringtones.
meh. sales of the video ipod seem to be doing ok. I don't think a small screen is as much of a disability as you do. Except for games, and people have been predicting the death of PC gaming for a while now, and I'm starting to agree with them. The only insoluble problem I see is the web - browsing on a handheld sucks.
It's just a matter of time before 320x320 screens are common. The writing on the wall is pretty clear to me - the telephone/computer convergence will be a treolike device, and it'll be here soon.
It won't replace computers for us, the slashdot readership, but it will for the bulk of the population.
Probably because the US cell phone market is so byzantine compared to the rest of the world.
Every time I go to Asia, I am reminded of just how fast the rest of the world is moving away from computers and towards phones. When you have your email, games, videos and music on your phone, justifying a computer purchase becomes harder and harder.
Most? Of course not. But my hypothetical rogue engineer can simply cram them in and no one would be the wiser, especially if it's a fancypants 'media' keyboard. I'm sure the required stuff would be pretty easy to hide.
I don't believe that's the what the article is talking about.
The article is talking about a keyboard that incorporates a keylogger. This keyloggers output is encoded somehow in specifically timed artificial delays between the actual physical keydown and kbd driver reporting a keydown. This delay is then apparent in every connection in which individual keystrokes are sent as soon as they're generated. I don't know how common these connections are, however. How they extract useful data from that I don't know, but error-correcting algorithms are pretty fancy and I don't pretend to understand most of them. I'll just choose to trust them when they said the tests proved reasonably reliable until someone disproves it.
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"Two of the big design goals that made the web successful where other such tools had failed are [...] an emphasis on user control over presentation of content."
I'd dispute that user control over presentation of content has made a meaningful contribution the success of the web. It's pretty clear that very, very few people ever touch the defaults that their browser ships with.
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Exactly. I think everyone here can agree that SVG would be awesome if all the bugs were fixed and it got really widely accepted with native players everywhere and if it finally got the 1.2 spec worked out.
In short, yeah, SVG would be awesome if it was awesome.
On reflection, I don't see how it'd be so out of the question for some engineer somewhere to add in a delay in the firmware unbeknownst to the employer. All he'd have to do then is install some free shell and/or IRC machines somewhere, maybe some altered game servers, something like that, and wait for someone with his compromised keyboards to walk in.
Seems pretty straightforward, if you buy the initial premise that someone would do this. I don't see it working for a company. A person is smart and could pull this off. A group of people is stupid and would fuck it up somehow.
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Our existance precludes "leaving them alone" in the sense that they'd like being alone. Western culture itself is offensive to fundamental Muslims. Clearly, the pool of suicide bombers is larger while there is a war, but poor people with little hope of escape from their lives will always exist, and will always be easy prey for someone wishing to manipulate them with buttery promises of eternal paradise.
"The good news is that a bomb on the inside on a Muslim (swallowed or rectally inserted) is unlikely to do much damage to those on the outside: the fast-flying metal/glass fragments is what kills, not the shockwave per se."
Keeping in mind that in the scenario we're talking about, the terrist is on a plane. The shockwave should be enough to tear a hole in the hull. At least, it should be if explosives act like they do on the A-Team, which is where I've learned everything I know about explosives.
we just have to get explosives added to the non-halal list.
I don't see why you'd have to surgically implant them. Just do what the heroin smugglers used to do and wrap the bombs in condoms and swallow 'em. I figured you'd put em on a timer, but as the other guy points out, maybe there's other ways to detonate them.
Still, you gotta figure that in a position like that, a potential bomber would have to be really sure that the flight would leave on time.
the proper term is "griddle computing" and it encompasses both pancakes -and- waffles, along with syntactic salt like bacon and eggs.
I don't see how that's an explanation of why the US cell market is so screwy. I'm talking about vendor lock-in, multiple standards (GSM, CDMA, iDen, lord knows what else), etcetera.
"Well, too bad, because your phone doesn't have enough memory to store it along with the 150 other songs you wanted to hear that day."
The Nokia N91 has a 4gb flash drive. It's not in the US yet, but none of the really good phones are. I only see the trend of large-capacity phones growing, either through internal flash drives or whatever SD card format is tinyest this week.
People always say this, and it always baffles me. You can, and they're super-cheap. The nokia 6010 is a good example. The only bells and whistles are ringtones.
I can type at about half-speed on my treo. It's adequate and it bears remembering that "adequacy suffices."
meh. sales of the video ipod seem to be doing ok. I don't think a small screen is as much of a disability as you do. Except for games, and people have been predicting the death of PC gaming for a while now, and I'm starting to agree with them. The only insoluble problem I see is the web - browsing on a handheld sucks.
It's just a matter of time before 320x320 screens are common. The writing on the wall is pretty clear to me - the telephone/computer convergence will be a treolike device, and it'll be here soon.
It won't replace computers for us, the slashdot readership, but it will for the bulk of the population.
Probably because the US cell phone market is so byzantine compared to the rest of the world.
Every time I go to Asia, I am reminded of just how fast the rest of the world is moving away from computers and towards phones. When you have your email, games, videos and music on your phone, justifying a computer purchase becomes harder and harder.
i mean for the tag.
Dammit.
I just sent another RFE for the tag.
I swear I hit the 'preview' button and not 'submit.' I blame the soviet mind-control lasers. Here is my post as it should have been:
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my favorites are the ones that put the filter poison into bogus html tags that aren't rendered by Outlook. So I'd get something like
<oodles> <mycotoxin> <greengrocer> <chubby> <kazoo>
Buy my shit
<snappy> <bundle> <chaff> <glum>
the <greengrocer> tag was my favorite. I sent an RFE to the W3C people, but I haven't heard back yet
my favorites are the ones that put the filter poison into bogus html tags that aren't rendered by Outlook. So I'd get something like
:mad:
Buy my shit
the tag was my favorite. I sent an RFE to the W3C people, but I haven't heard back yet
that's probably because they're spamming Ajax-enabled sites in the blogosphere about linkrolling the mashups.
I've been seeing this stuff for like a year now. Thunderbird somehow manages to be soldier through it with few problems.
Most? Of course not. But my hypothetical rogue engineer can simply cram them in and no one would be the wiser, especially if it's a fancypants 'media' keyboard. I'm sure the required stuff would be pretty easy to hide.
I don't believe that's the what the article is talking about.
The article is talking about a keyboard that incorporates a keylogger. This keyloggers output is encoded somehow in specifically timed artificial delays between the actual physical keydown and kbd driver reporting a keydown. This delay is then apparent in every connection in which individual keystrokes are sent as soon as they're generated. I don't know how common these connections are, however. How they extract useful data from that I don't know, but error-correcting algorithms are pretty fancy and I don't pretend to understand most of them. I'll just choose to trust them when they said the tests proved reasonably reliable until someone disproves it.
"Two of the big design goals that made the web successful where other such tools had failed are [...] an emphasis on user control over presentation of content."
I'd dispute that user control over presentation of content has made a meaningful contribution the success of the web. It's pretty clear that very, very few people ever touch the defaults that their browser ships with.
Exactly. I think everyone here can agree that SVG would be awesome if all the bugs were fixed and it got really widely accepted with native players everywhere and if it finally got the 1.2 spec worked out.
In short, yeah, SVG would be awesome if it was awesome.
meh, maybe sorta.
On reflection, I don't see how it'd be so out of the question for some engineer somewhere to add in a delay in the firmware unbeknownst to the employer. All he'd have to do then is install some free shell and/or IRC machines somewhere, maybe some altered game servers, something like that, and wait for someone with his compromised keyboards to walk in.
Seems pretty straightforward, if you buy the initial premise that someone would do this. I don't see it working for a company. A person is smart and could pull this off. A group of people is stupid and would fuck it up somehow.
but not until then, because PowerPlay is the Technology of the Future!