I remember an episode of Farscape where Crichton had to escape a space station and did so by jumping out of the station and flying a great distance to land on another station. The show depicted him doing it with no burns from nearby stars or the absolute zero cold of space or showing him explode after he took in a big breath before making the jump. It was cool but very unrealistic....
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If I want a new ringtone I just bluetooth the mp3/4 across. I can't believe that *all* those phones aren't available in the US. Ringtones are a big money maker for the cell companies and for the recording industry. My wife and I upgraded our phones with verizon and were shocked at how much it cost to download one simple ringtone (it was like 2 or 3 dollars!). I'd imagine with all the P2P sharing/piracy of music, the RIAA or someone else related to the recording industry has probably shut down the possibility of freely sharing music between your PC and your phone in the US....
If you read the article you'll see the security feature is software based. The question is would this work if you don't have your iPod set to sync with just one computer. What if it's set so you can manually manage your songs, movies et cetera...?
The kind of dumb part of this is that when the thief cannot use the iPod, it's not like he/she is going to be thoughtful and kind enough to give it back to you. They'll probably wipe the hard drive, throw it away or trade it in at an Apple store for the 10% discount on a new iPod....
Really? Please explain that to the administrators who
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I recall the days following the Virginia Tech shooting. Dozens if not hundreds of WP users were contributing to the massacre's WP page and updating the names of the victims. The article on Kevin Granata was marked for deletion by a WP admin before all the information was released. The reasonable thing would have been to add a tag that the page reflected a current event. I was one of many who posted on the discussion page to stop Granata's page from being deleted. Talk about being insensitive!
I'm sure there are other abuses in the system that are easily buried in archives on WP talk pages...it would be nice to improve the system instead of comparing the pros, cons and only doing something when the cons outweigh the pros....
It would seem that if an officer pulled you over and you were recording him with a camcorder right in front of them, it wouldn't quite fit under the definition of wiretapping. Wiretapping implies that you secretly or covertly listen in on or record a conversation. A public servant like a police officer shouldn't be able to claim that when they obviously see the camera and they shouldn't expect any kind of privacy since they're out in public. I think that since the law that was supposedly broken in the case is older, there's a good chance to get the case thrown out or have the law struck down on appeal.
Ultimately there should be more cameras mounted in the vehicles that can record stops like this so that citizens and police are held accountable
I can accept a few days of overtime pending product launch, but if a company expected me to me available like that I would tell them to go f*** themselves. Considering how many projects Google employees work on (including the 20% time projects), I would imagine that every day involves work on a pending product launch. Google is still a relatively new company (founded in '98), so the college kid mentality is probably more of a start up mentality. There working hard to ensure there company succeeds. Microsoft is older with more well established products, so they don't have to work quite as hard to stay in the black.
I understand the idea behind taking any trace of yourself out of the music downloaded from iTunes so you can then go on to put it on the latest, greatest P2P site. My question is won't the RIAA notice these high quality (256 kbit/s) files that are the exact same thing as what's available on iTunes and still subpoena the user distributing the music? It may not have your name, but if they can get your ISP to turn over your name from your IP address, you're still busted illegally distributing copyrighted music and they might tag something on for removing the user data in the file. It just doesn't seem like a major advance to me....
I recall a 60 minutes piece that was done covering the National Reconnaissance Office. I recall someone saying that if you had at one point in the past discussed anything related to the NRO, you could have been arrested (by whom or why, I don't know). The NRO was only recently declassified in 1992. I don't think it's possible to have secret agencys today, but it is very easy to set up companies that front for intelligence agencies.
I saw that too while watching the video.... Apple employees probably have pimped out iPhones or better access and tools to upgrade their iPhones. The only thing holding me back from buying an iPhone is the fact that they only come with either a 4 or 8 Gb HD. My wife bought me a 60Gb iPod last year and there is no way I'm paying the price of a 60 or 80 Gb iPod to get the capacity of a 4 or 8 Gb Nano!
More competition is good for everyone in this case. IE seems to get major updates every 2-5 years...companies like Apple and Mozilla help users by putting pressure on MS with there competitive products. Maybe MS will step up and work a little harder and faster with IE 8....
The icing on the cake is that the product we're talking about is free. It also seems like they're expecting a lot from a product that's still in beta.
will people post the pictures all over in a rebellion, a la AACS? or will all the image providers cave a la google.cn, where an image search for tiananmen massacre returns pictures of puppies and gerbils...?
I was curious after checking my/. RSS feed what pictures were being censored and found very few on Flickr that directly related to the massacre back in 1989. Most of the pictures were turist pictures of buildings around Tiananmen or of vigils held in honor of those who died. I only found a handful of pictures but none were "racy" like Jain Hua Li suggested.
It seems like the greater tragedy in this is that people who were not there in the midst of the massacre will never be able to fully appreciate the loss or have much of photographic history of what and to whom it happened.
The real question is why try to copy the iPhone. If I remember the keynote on the iPhone, Steve Jobs put some weight on the fact that Apple had put in for patents on numerous features of the iPhone, and given Apple's previous track record with industrial design (does the phrase "look and feel" sound familiar), it's more likely Apple will or will try to squash this before it can get to market....
You mean the good ol' Nuremberg defense ( "Befehl ist Befehl" or "only following orders").... Very few who used that defense survived the trials and those that did claimed that if they didn't follow orders they would have been killed.... I doubt that's what the case here is.... Typically if you want to blow the whistle, you have to do so before committing the questionable/illegal act to maintain any kind of credibility. I say delay installing the software and look for another job. Turning them in may be a major headache depending on how your company handles human resource related issues and how your superiors handle subordinates going above them in the chain of command to point out their improper act(s)/behavior/orders....
I don't think the blame lies directly on Ebay...they were a part of the process of acquiring the parts needed for the massacre. I guess the hope is that somewhere in the process of buying weapons or weapon accessories someone could have seen what was coming and done something to prevent the slaughter of innocent people (background check or something like that). I think that's the frustration outside of the killings themselves: the loopholes in VA law that allowed for the weapons to be purchased and the ease of the online purchases....
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While your point is true, just because it's in the NDA does not mean it will hold up in court, being taken to court costs a lot of money! Google has shown no fear or even budged when it comes to a billion dollar lawsuit from Viacom, what's going to stop them from serving a employee or former employee with a hefty lawsuit. They might not win any money at all in a civil court, but the employee/ex-employee has had to shell out a bunch of cash to defend themselves from a lawsuit with no merit. You can have a positive outlook knowing that their NDA doesn't hold water, but you better hope the judge will force them to pay your legal fees when all is said and done...if not, you're going to end up paying somebody....
I'm sick of Apple being the go to scape goat.... They're the test case for Tab-like-interface-patent-infringement and they have groups like Greenpeace using Apple's popularity as a spring board for their political goals/agenda. It would be nice if Greenpeace did their homework and also look realistically on the progress Apple has made. Apple holds a very small share of the computer market, but Greenpeace makes a huge issue like they hold the vast majority. It would have been better if they had addressed the entire group of companies that produce computers and/or computer equipment and bring attention to the problem as a whole instead of singling out the company with the minority share and bullying them.
Couldn't Obama or his people send in the lawyers and ask the guy to take down the site or remove references on the guys site to being the official page? It seems like more of an issue with MySpace (and their parent company) than with If it's not a private account, they could just look at the guys friend list and try to recruit from his list....
If the guy didn't like having the account taken from him, he shouldn't have posed it as the official site. And if his claims that it wasn't about money aren't true, then where are the specific amounts of money coming from? This happens all the time with celebrities when someone cyber-squats on a domain name and then tries to sell it back to the celeb for big money....
And plus, my biggest concern with a baby wouldn't be the noise, but the fluids. Babies are veritable fountains of goo that you wouldn't want aerosolled into the breathing air.
The bigger issue is actually giving birth.... There are issues of cleanliness involved with the woman's water breaking (if it's natural birth), blood and other fluids and what do you do with the leftovers from afterbirth? If the mother can't give birth naturally, than there are a slew of issues with having a C-section in zero-G.
Maybe birth control, drug induced erectile disfunction or just send married couples into space (or all of the above). If they've been married long enough, the issues and ethics of sex shouldn't be a problem....:)
Have you tried using Internet Archive? You probably could find it using the "Way Back Machine"...that is if they haven't been asked to remove their archived content....
Seriously though, these camera developments are getting scarier by the hour. People, it just isn't worth it. No amount of security is worth that kind of BS. When they don't infringe on your basic rights, cameras can be very helpful. I saw one of those incredible police chase(!) type shows while channel surfing late at night, and surveillance cameras can be used to catch terrorists. They showed some IRA guy blowing up some store front in the UK and running off. The surveillance camera was the only evidence that caught the guy....
I think it's ultimately lazy if you can't get a warrant and record conversations in some other way. You also don't know if the technology will fumble when people use homonyms, colloquialisms or secretive/cryptic language....
Or don't accentuate every word when you talk...they'll see your lips moving incoherently and won't be able to distinguish what you're saying. There is also the low tech option and just go inside to talk where they're aren't any cameras....
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I remember an episode of Farscape where Crichton had to escape a space station and did so by jumping out of the station and flying a great distance to land on another station. The show depicted him doing it with no burns from nearby stars or the absolute zero cold of space or showing him explode after he took in a big breath before making the jump. It was cool but very unrealistic....
If you read the article you'll see the security feature is software based . The question is would this work if you don't have your iPod set to sync with just one computer. What if it's set so you can manually manage your songs, movies et cetera...?
The kind of dumb part of this is that when the thief cannot use the iPod, it's not like he/she is going to be thoughtful and kind enough to give it back to you. They'll probably wipe the hard drive, throw it away or trade it in at an Apple store for the 10% discount on a new iPod....
I think technically-oriented and freedom-inclined Linux users would know that iTunes offers DRM free music at 256 kb/s and has done so since May 2007.
constantly mark articles for deletion as ``Not Notable''.
I recall the days following the Virginia Tech shooting. Dozens if not hundreds of WP users were contributing to the massacre's WP page and updating the names of the victims. The article on Kevin Granata was marked for deletion by a WP admin before all the information was released. The reasonable thing would have been to add a tag that the page reflected a current event. I was one of many who posted on the discussion page to stop Granata's page from being deleted. Talk about being insensitive!
I'm sure there are other abuses in the system that are easily buried in archives on WP talk pages...it would be nice to improve the system instead of comparing the pros, cons and only doing something when the cons outweigh the pros....
It would seem that if an officer pulled you over and you were recording him with a camcorder right in front of them, it wouldn't quite fit under the definition of wiretapping. Wiretapping implies that you secretly or covertly listen in on or record a conversation. A public servant like a police officer shouldn't be able to claim that when they obviously see the camera and they shouldn't expect any kind of privacy since they're out in public. I think that since the law that was supposedly broken in the case is older, there's a good chance to get the case thrown out or have the law struck down on appeal.
Ultimately there should be more cameras mounted in the vehicles that can record stops like this so that citizens and police are held accountable
Considering how many projects Google employees work on (including the 20% time projects), I would imagine that every day involves work on a pending product launch. Google is still a relatively new company (founded in '98), so the college kid mentality is probably more of a start up mentality. There working hard to ensure there company succeeds. Microsoft is older with more well established products, so they don't have to work quite as hard to stay in the black.
What about WINE? Not that you would want to, but there's always the possiblity....
I understand the idea behind taking any trace of yourself out of the music downloaded from iTunes so you can then go on to put it on the latest, greatest P2P site. My question is won't the RIAA notice these high quality (256 kbit/s) files that are the exact same thing as what's available on iTunes and still subpoena the user distributing the music? It may not have your name, but if they can get your ISP to turn over your name from your IP address, you're still busted illegally distributing copyrighted music and they might tag something on for removing the user data in the file. It just doesn't seem like a major advance to me....
I recall a 60 minutes piece that was done covering the National Reconnaissance Office. I recall someone saying that if you had at one point in the past discussed anything related to the NRO, you could have been arrested (by whom or why, I don't know). The NRO was only recently declassified in 1992. I don't think it's possible to have secret agencys today, but it is very easy to set up companies that front for intelligence agencies.
I saw that too while watching the video.... Apple employees probably have pimped out iPhones or better access and tools to upgrade their iPhones. The only thing holding me back from buying an iPhone is the fact that they only come with either a 4 or 8 Gb HD. My wife bought me a 60Gb iPod last year and there is no way I'm paying the price of a 60 or 80 Gb iPod to get the capacity of a 4 or 8 Gb Nano!
More competition is good for everyone in this case. IE seems to get major updates every 2-5 years...companies like Apple and Mozilla help users by putting pressure on MS with there competitive products. Maybe MS will step up and work a little harder and faster with IE 8....
The icing on the cake is that the product we're talking about is free. It also seems like they're expecting a lot from a product that's still in beta.
I was curious after checking my
It seems like the greater tragedy in this is that people who were not there in the midst of the massacre will never be able to fully appreciate the loss or have much of photographic history of what and to whom it happened.
The real question is why try to copy the iPhone. If I remember the keynote on the iPhone, Steve Jobs put some weight on the fact that Apple had put in for patents on numerous features of the iPhone, and given Apple's previous track record with industrial design (does the phrase "look and feel" sound familiar), it's more likely Apple will or will try to squash this before it can get to market....
You mean the good ol' Nuremberg defense ( "Befehl ist Befehl" or "only following orders").... Very few who used that defense survived the trials and those that did claimed that if they didn't follow orders they would have been killed.... I doubt that's what the case here is.... Typically if you want to blow the whistle, you have to do so before committing the questionable/illegal act to maintain any kind of credibility. I say delay installing the software and look for another job. Turning them in may be a major headache depending on how your company handles human resource related issues and how your superiors handle subordinates going above them in the chain of command to point out their improper act(s)/behavior/orders....
I don't think the blame lies directly on Ebay...they were a part of the process of acquiring the parts needed for the massacre. I guess the hope is that somewhere in the process of buying weapons or weapon accessories someone could have seen what was coming and done something to prevent the slaughter of innocent people (background check or something like that). I think that's the frustration outside of the killings themselves: the loopholes in VA law that allowed for the weapons to be purchased and the ease of the online purchases....
While your point is true, just because it's in the NDA does not mean it will hold up in court, being taken to court costs a lot of money! Google has shown no fear or even budged when it comes to a billion dollar lawsuit from Viacom, what's going to stop them from serving a employee or former employee with a hefty lawsuit. They might not win any money at all in a civil court, but the employee/ex-employee has had to shell out a bunch of cash to defend themselves from a lawsuit with no merit. You can have a positive outlook knowing that their NDA doesn't hold water, but you better hope the judge will force them to pay your legal fees when all is said and done...if not, you're going to end up paying somebody....
It seems to early to tell how cool this will be...it'll be nice to see how the quantum-dot-based photovoltaics technology performs in the real world
I find it ironic that just about every solution we find to preserve limited resources and create environmentally friendly technology contains at least one toxic compound in it (cadmium selenide in this case)....
I'm sick of Apple being the go to scape goat.... They're the test case for Tab-like-interface-patent-infringement and they have groups like Greenpeace using Apple's popularity as a spring board for their political goals/agenda. It would be nice if Greenpeace did their homework and also look realistically on the progress Apple has made. Apple holds a very small share of the computer market, but Greenpeace makes a huge issue like they hold the vast majority. It would have been better if they had addressed the entire group of companies that produce computers and/or computer equipment and bring attention to the problem as a whole instead of singling out the company with the minority share and bullying them.
Couldn't Obama or his people send in the lawyers and ask the guy to take down the site or remove references on the guys site to being the official page? It seems like more of an issue with MySpace (and their parent company) than with If it's not a private account, they could just look at the guys friend list and try to recruit from his list....
If the guy didn't like having the account taken from him, he shouldn't have posed it as the official site. And if his claims that it wasn't about money aren't true, then where are the specific amounts of money coming from? This happens all the time with celebrities when someone cyber-squats on a domain name and then tries to sell it back to the celeb for big money....
The bigger issue is actually giving birth.... There are issues of cleanliness involved with the woman's water breaking (if it's natural birth), blood and other fluids and what do you do with the leftovers from afterbirth? If the mother can't give birth naturally, than there are a slew of issues with having a C-section in zero-G.
Maybe birth control, drug induced erectile disfunction or just send married couples into space (or all of the above). If they've been married long enough, the issues and ethics of sex shouldn't be a problem....
Have you tried using Internet Archive? You probably could find it using the "Way Back Machine"...that is if they haven't been asked to remove their archived content....
The site is named after Google employee Orkut Büyükkökten/.
According to Wikipedia, Orkut is an old Turkish word that means "city of happiness, pleasure, joy, luck.
When they don't infringe on your basic rights, cameras can be very helpful. I saw one of those incredible police chase(!) type shows while channel surfing late at night, and surveillance cameras can be used to catch terrorists. They showed some IRA guy blowing up some store front in the UK and running off. The surveillance camera was the only evidence that caught the guy....
I think it's ultimately lazy if you can't get a warrant and record conversations in some other way. You also don't know if the technology will fumble when people use homonyms, colloquialisms or secretive/cryptic language....
Or don't accentuate every word when you talk...they'll see your lips moving incoherently and won't be able to distinguish what you're saying. There is also the low tech option and just go inside to talk where they're aren't any cameras....