The "patent" fig 9 discusses how to get the NCSA Mosaic 2.4 browser to display his object. He did NOT invent the Internet. He did NOT even invent NCSA Mosaic. He claims to have invented a way to view *his* 3D imaging object within a standard (at the time) browser. While there are some applicatons for viewing 3D within a browser, but I don't think they all need X-Windows protocols and the specific framework laid out in this patent to work within that particular viewing paradigm. Lets not panic just yet.
But if they had that much power they would have to be shooting at WWII Japanese aircraft carriers or German panzer tanks, and that war is already over. Why waste the time?
Besides, a link off of the article says "a one-ton vehicle moving at 100 mph equals a megajoule of energy", and therefor 33 Megajoules is clearly over the 88 mph threashold the car needs, and them some. Using electricity the gun you can at least save you on gas. Its just the sudden starts and stops that we need to learn to deal with.
Back in 1980 my counselor at University of Maryland informed me that I would be unable to graduate on time because I was not unable to get into my last course. That was because for 5 semesters I was unable to get a prerequisite course called "Intro to Computer Science". All the engineering and computer science majors had over booked the available computer lab time and the closest I had gotten was 73'rd in line. Yes, you got it, if 73 people dropped out of that class, in the first two weeks, then I could take the class. Problem is if the course is that bad I'm not sure I wanted to be in that class!
Oh well. At that point I realized that I had already been screwed by this thing called a computer and I didn't even know what the heck it was yet. Not to be beaten and then kicked when down, I forced the University to 'creatively' come up with another way for me to graduate (a semester late, but graduated none the less), and then went out and I bought this Sinclair kit and built my own computer in my dorm room.
I had to buy all the solder, wire, and stuff, to be able to build and assemble it, and then I went down the dorm hallway knocking on doors until I found someone that actually had taken that computer science class and dragged him down to my room and had them explain what they did. With a three line program printing out my name in a loop I allowed him to go back to his party, and it was history from there. The local electronics swap shop had numerous visits as I bought a second hand teletype keyboard, power supplies, and odds and ends, and rewired them all to interface with this little computer. It morphed over time to have more memory than it was ever designed to have and lots of relays and controls for all sorts of things. The creation kept growing in both size and complexity. Every peripheral that was ever designed for the Sinclair, and later the Timex version of it, was in there somewhere, and then many many creations of my own.
After graduating I began taking courses in microprocessors and digital electronics and was part of the manufacturing engine that built the next generation of computers. Eventually I became a Computer Scientist, now with fond memories if those simple days, when it was fairly easy to see how something worked and to find ways to improve upon it. Its nice to see that others have fond memories as well. The Sinclair was one of a kind.
Don't forget the part about reminding us that the White House is not the Justice Department, and that they are therefore the wrong branch of the Government to be concerned with prosecutions of any political figures. Only the Justice Department has the authority to perform an investigation, and forgetting of course that little fact about any Justice Department officials being appointed to office. Like they have no "real" influence in the JD.;)
Two very excellent questions. To the second question I would say that any Government can only control what is owned by its own corporations, and also only control that which is also controllable by current technology. Yes, there are legal agreements with foreign countries, but then controlling this technology may just be harder than you think.
Ok, to the first question I would say that there is no top level domains in a truly distributed system, at least that would be the goal. Every site that wants to be listed in the distributed PKI would need to cross sign keys with several other organizations with whom they would verify and attest to their partners authenticity. Only a few organizations would have to be signed by entities with a normal DNSSEC certificate to anchor the chain of trust. When a client receives a certificate for a site for the first time it would take some additional time to do the initial verification, by walking the p2p chain of trusts until it leads to a certificate that the user has trusted and cached, or finds a regular DNSSEC record that matches their p2p records. Because of the extra overhead getting started is the biggest problem, but once you have a trusted certificate it only helps you authenticate the next one faster. Think of it this way, with the 'Six degrees of Keven Bacon' scenario if you are into one type of hobby, business, or media (e.g. Gaming software) then the rest of that similar kind of media (e.g. Computer software) is not very far away by the rules of graph theory. There will likely be a quick path between the two, and you only need spend that additional time researching that chain the first time around if you cache your own certificates. Idealistically you would cache your favorite sites and toss the ones you don't use (LRU algorithm).
If any Justice department or Government tries to force one entity to revoke their own signing certificate it only would affect the targeted site if all its cross signings were simultaniously revoked. A revocation actually doesn't have to affect the site that is being targeted since the targeted sites certificate was physically modified when it was signed and thus its signature is indelible. The chain of trust might tell you the certificate was revoked, but you could choose to ignore that if you wish providing you still trust their server. As long as there is a path through the certificate chain of trust to someone you know and trust, then you will always know you are talking to the site you wanted to.
This cross signing method does leave the system open to the general PKI social engineering tricks, such as someone posing as an individual from some company they don't belong to, therefore that authentication step needs to be factored into the signing agreements somehow. The client should be made aware of any changes to certificates so that the user can choose what they want to do. The web site can always find new organizations to cross sign with if the need should arise, so when that happens the client should see that the chain of trust be checked again.
By using the same peer to peer technology that has been attacked by the big Media companies we could invent a distributed DNSSEC tool set (e.g. client proxy, dynamic servers ) so that there is no centralized root domains to be quashed or lobotomized by any Government, domestic or foreign. A web site with its own signing key could create and send out a broadcast packet containing its hosts IP information, complete with a signed token which can be verified by any server or peer, and would include a time stamp and to live indicator in the packet to aid in self revocation. Any local peers which intercept the initial announcement packet could pass that information on to seed the any p2p DNS community at large, via a large and dynamic but voluntary set of DNSSEC seed trackers. Any DNSSEC information which is not cryptographically verifiable would not be accepted or forwarded at the seeder/tracker level, as only verifiable addresses would be added to the p2p distributed database, and newer packets always supersede older packets.
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When an Internet client connects to the Internet it puts out a request to locate any local seeder/trackers, and then requests from them any addresses that the client requires. The dynamic seeder/trackers split up the domain information to organize the domain data efficiently, as to ensure the proper data replication in case of network partitioning or link failures. The client request is returned if found in its cache, otherwise it is forwarded based on the current domain mapping between servers. Before trusting the returned DNS record the client would first need to verify that DNS record via the sites published PKI public key.
Without a single centralized point of control there would be no way to 'take a domain down' once the information is published to the cloud. The weakest link would be at the ISP's Internet connection, but then the initial DNS injection point need not be at the same location, as any client even on a dialup connection could inject the initial announcement packets if it contains the properly signed data.
Yes, I realize there have been some p2p efforts in the past, but its now time to take this seriously.
Thought we killed this rumour last year. I guess not, here it is again.
There are a number of places where the original content is available, but I don't have the time at the moment to dig it all out again. Look at the story from last year if anyone has the desire.
There are many kinds of intelligence and any 'brain teaser' plays upon elements which may have no bearing on the job being sought. If any questions are asked during an interview, or brain teasers given, then those should have a direct relationship to the subject matter required for the position. Anything other than that is going to give a biased result and is probably closer to drawing straws than to real science. Having a greater amount of one kind of intelligence or creativity may give an edge to the person being interviewed but it is not a direct bearing on competency for most job positions. If you are hiring based on creativity you should test one way, and mathematical skills for another. No singular test is perfect, but it should best be tailored towards the qualities required to fill that specific role. Test for what is important, as someone with a 250 IQ may not stay in that secretarial position for very long, even though they got all the answers correct on the test.
"Thought we did that in a lot of legislative bodies already...
Pssst, i realize that was a pun, but don't make *that* kind of comparison in public! or things will start to get very strange around here.
If the public realizes that the Orangutans can catch onto technology much faster than the current legislature, then the Orangutans will be brought in to run the country much more efficiently, and for just bananas. (I tapped into their skype network, and I have personal knowledge that the Orangutans are already plotting against SOPA, and are intending to vote it down quickly to put the bill out of its misery once and for all.)
Once the Orangutans get their seat of power they will likely bring in the Gorillas for security enforcement details, and the next thing you know we have a live Planet Of The Apes situation going on! There will be pandemonium, screaming, people running crazy in the streets, you know, pretty much just the the usual. Nobody will even notice the shift of power until the legislature itself realizes the pay checks have stopped coming in, and they are then forced to give up their Learjets and resign from the DC area golf clubs. All this chaos just because some left wing zookeeper thought iPads were soooo cool.
First off, don't expect compensation for past work, that's not going to happen. However, If you turn over the software you can do so with the understanding that you will be required to maintain it as a part of your position, and since your current pay grade does not reflect that position the company should look into that "promotion" after the software has been shaken out and tested in a live environment. The better it works out the more valuable you will be to the company. Then you can fully justify your new/future position and the company should not feel that you are unworthy of that pay grade.Everybody wins, but you just need to be patient. Your hard work will pay off as long as you did a decent job on the software. Next review time you have some leverage to work for that promotion and something better to put on your resume if you are still unhappy.
5 people? Unfortunately there are a LOT of people who have to run iTunes for their iPod/iPad/iPhone in order to get updates. Those updates usually try to install Safari along with the rest of the patches. Whether the user ever actually uses Safari is another question all together. I know I have not, but I often get tired of trying to unclick the selection boxes to not have it install every time there are updates. Most people will likely just give up and let Safari install even though it takes more download time. So, I bet its at least 6 people.
Easy. More muscle mass equals less flexibility, slower movement, and inability to climb through small holes. With that your probability of being eaten climbs dramatically. Mice that are eaten do not reproduce very well, so the non-augmented mice father the next generation, absent of this modification.
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Its just like 'white' mice. How many white mice do you see in the wild? Only escapees I'd bet. I once had an albino chipmunk in my back yard, and he lasted about a week before a hawk caught up with him. He didn't even get old enough to have his own family.:-(
The disk itself can act like a wing to lift the vehicle at higher speeds. A stalled/slowed rotor creates drag with very little lift, so it requires a separate wing to stay aloft. In this case the disk is that wing. That being said, the disk creates drag against the 'lift' vortex currents as it is taking off. Since it isn't going to hover for long that is probably a design trade off. In that case Its not going to do close ground support very well.
3) small high current battery with 12v dc charger to power the above two circuits
4) Some wire mesh, or thin wire to thread through the knapsack and straps. Note: A good connection to the metal zipper is essential.
While this home brew device, like your theft deterrent bag idea, will not prevent a thief from smashing through your car window to open the door, it will be quite entertaining to the people passing by, and present an event that they might actually take note of and thus produce viable witnesses. Add a motion activated video camera to your car dash if you want to watch for yourself. I bet the video would go viral on Youtube and you will quickly identify the culprit.
Ok then, what is the stock market doing tomorrow? You see, I want to buy out this specific Russian botnet and install an Onion Router on each of 234 Million hosts to help save the World from censorship, but you already knew that didn't you? Hmmm. Since you know all this why wouldn't you have called me to help out? Perhaps your censorship is so advanced in the future that they can follow you back in time to keep you from contacting me? Wait, hold on, someone is knocking on the door...
How can it be that they "make money from its locked-in Itanium customers" and also "take business away from" anybody? This is a contradiction. The conclusion does not follow from the facts. If you have locked in users you are not stealing new business away from anyone. By paying higher prices for a processor that nobody else wants, the cost to the current users just goes up accordingly. They can only be preventing someone else from taking away the current business that is already "locked-in" but not yet willing to pay the price to move to another technology. Oracles' problem seems to be that there is some "business" going on out there that does not belong to them, and they don't like it that way.
I should patent a device that points out Obnoxious Corporate Behaviour and give free samples of the product to both the ITC and Congress. Hopefully then Congress will change how patents are issued and allowed to be used, and the ITC can, without politics, know to investigate any offenders. Things might improve?
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Either that or Congress will just change things so that I, as a non-corporate citizen, can no longer patent stupid things and waste my money doing so. They will probably sell the bill as something to help me save money (patent fees go away), then those funds (equivalent tax on savings accounts) to be directly invested in said obnoxious Corporations (forced retirement stock plans) , and give that bill a really lame and deceptive acronym for a name.
I use a Kindle 2 daily. I don't want the newer models because of the tactual keyboard on the Kindle 2 is quite helpful for my purposes, and I would imagine for your Dad as well. My Kindle 2 reads to me while I am driving to work, and I simply plug it into the car's audio via a cassette or other adaptor. I also placed two small triangular pieces of tape on the lower part of the keyboard so I can feel where I need to press (two keys simultaneously) on the bubble style keyboard to start and stop the audio without looking. No distracted drivers here!
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You can use the Calibre application (free from http://calibre-ebook.com/) to load any external documents or ebooks onto the Kindle. You don't have to buy DRM'ed books if you don't want to, as there are lots of non-DRM sources of information out there that are easily converted. My main reason for getting the kindle was because I had exhausted all the technical audiobooks ($$) worth buying and with Calibre I can load almost anything onto the kindle including scientific reports, technical journals, which you can not get in ANY audio book format at any price. What it would not do well for him is poetry (its temporally challenged), mathematics (can't read the symbols), and programming languages (they are not dictionary words) since the text to speech, although its the best I have ever heard, isn't quite perfect.
As others have suggested above that you could simply increase the font size to the maximum until that becomes impractical, and then use the text to speech feature when his eyes get tired, or until he can no longer has good enough vision. It would be the best plan to get him started and familiar with the device before he looses all his vision so that he knows how to navigate the menus. I wish him the best of luck. My Dad is having similar problems but vision is not his main concern at the moment.
For a parallel to this situation one should look no further than the forestry service. They often set small brush fires so that the flammable plant wastes don't build up on the forest floor to the point of causing a catastrophic forest fire. Its a controlled burn. Its the forest fire that never happened that nobody thinks about, so many people don't even know its going on.
If you just had just a periodic rumble under foot, on a planned and pre-announced schedule, then earthquakes would not be so big of a deal, and tsunamis would be non-existent. Even volcanoes could be put to sleep if we had enough data to plan the proper fault stress relief. The real technological problem is knowing where those stresses are building up and finding ways to alleviate those stresses before nature decides to do it for us. If we could detect and visualize the build up of these stresses we could then build models and find ways to make these problems go away via micro-fracturing a bed of rubble between the fault lines to prevent massive tectonic plates from binding and preventing the future catastrophic release of that pent up energy.
We should not blame these engineers for "causing" earthquakes, because the one that resulted was a whole lot smaller than the one that would have happened otherwise. In fact we should be thanking them.
What's Skype? Isn't that kind of like Google Voice?
I was just getting to look into Skype before M$ bought them, then I quickly thought twice once I heard of the deal. I knew that M$ would change the API to "improve" the product, and then do whatever they could to kick out other OS's from the list of supported hosts. Each, one by one, has come to pass. No surprises there, business as usual in Redmond.
I work at a physics lab, and I can assure you that the cold fusion effect is very real, but nobody can explain yet why it works,...sometimes. It is difficult to reproduce and with varying degrees of energy production. The biggest problem is that nobody will touch the technology with a ten foot pole as far as funding just because the original researchers did such a poor job of their documentation, and others were completely unable to produce anything. Trying to find out why it works, sometimes, is tantamount to committing career suicide. You will loose your funding, even on your other research projects, and most likely your job as well. You are better off researching this technology in your basement if you want a good respectable career. .
That being said, this one is obviously a scam. Why do I say so? Dig back through the previous stories and you will see a picture of a shipping container full of little black plastic buckets in racks, which is supposed to be a 1MW reactor. Excuse me? You but 1MW of thermal energy in a confined space like that and it will heat up so much that all the liquid would evaporate and the steam would kill anyone attempting to maintain it. The reaction produces heat energy, and plastic buckets aren't going to last very long. These CF reactions have been known to scorch the tables that the apparatus were sitting on. A plastic container is just plain stupid and this photo only demonstrates a man with a limited intelligence at work. Also, where is the generator? The reaction does not create electricity, it produces thermal heat. You need a generator my friend, and preferably a brain containing half a conscience would not hurt either..
The US mint often creates "collectable" coins that are sold for much more than face value. The collectors seem to be willing to spend money on coins that are double struck to give it a very glossy shine, not to mention coins with unusual face artwork. It seems some people have more money than good cents.
And they should use a "default deny security enforcement policy" (e.g. Bit9 software). If the application's signature is not on the permitted list it should be prevented from running. Period.
This however does not fix some underlying problems with remote distributions. Datasets have become too large to be easily handled on standard CD/DvD's, so many organizations have resorted to using hard drives to pass information. I still see potential problems. When mounting an 'untrusted' drive many things happen, not including the normal autorun which any sane/certified IT administrator would already have deactivated. First, the drive controllers are enumerated and checked for a locally installed driver for any devices found by using their device ID, and if not found it may attempt to load a driver from the device itself (fatal). Just change the ID of the drive and plant your driver on a small r/o FAT32 partition. Next, the OS will parse a potentially corrupted file system which may cause buffer overflows (fatal). Corrupt the file allocation table structures so that your code of choice gets loaded into memory. Then the OS enumerate the files on the drive and attempts to render any associated icons (fatal) for Explorer, which may have been intentionally corrupted by the sender. There could be more. Any one of these can be used to install malware if you know what you are doing, and a default deny policy isn't going to help much. Remember, any errors that occur during the privileged code used to 'mount a device' is running with system level privileges and can pretty much do anything such as opening processes and injecting threads, thus bypassing any traps on CreateProcess/fork/exec/system executives that might check for access permissions.
I have to disagree on this one. When compared to Dell, HP keeps takes a licking and keeps on ticking. I have had only one HP die on me before I was ready to retire it, and it was 10 years old when it finally went.
In stark contrast, I have a graveyard of Dell's in my office at home, literally. Every Dell I have ever owned in the past ten years has died at least once. I have one 64 bit Dell laptop (Dec 2008) that has died three times due to the GPU issue for which there is a Class Action Suit that allows me to keep getting it repaired, until May 2012. It will keep going back until then. I had just received it back from Dell, newly repaired, set it up and configured it for my wife, and it failed again the second time she turned it on. That's Dell quality for you.
My only complaint about an HP was when they put a third party application/driver on a Win2k machine for the keyboard hot keys, that kept pinging a web address that didn't exist, and my firewall software was seeing constant ICMP destination not found messages from the last router in that domain. Stupid, but the machine didn't die an early death. All I had to do was delete the executable and everything was good.
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The "patent" fig 9 discusses how to get the NCSA Mosaic 2.4 browser to display his object. He did NOT invent the Internet. He did NOT even invent NCSA Mosaic. He claims to have invented a way to view *his* 3D imaging object within a standard (at the time) browser. While there are some applicatons for viewing 3D within a browser, but I don't think they all need X-Windows protocols and the specific framework laid out in this patent to work within that particular viewing paradigm. Lets not panic just yet.
Besides, a link off of the article says "a one-ton vehicle moving at 100 mph equals a megajoule of energy", and therefor 33 Megajoules is clearly over the 88 mph threashold the car needs, and them some. Using electricity the gun you can at least save you on gas. Its just the sudden starts and stops that we need to learn to deal with.
Oh well. At that point I realized that I had already been screwed by this thing called a computer and I didn't even know what the heck it was yet. Not to be beaten and then kicked when down, I forced the University to 'creatively' come up with another way for me to graduate (a semester late, but graduated none the less), and then went out and I bought this Sinclair kit and built my own computer in my dorm room.
I had to buy all the solder, wire, and stuff, to be able to build and assemble it, and then I went down the dorm hallway knocking on doors until I found someone that actually had taken that computer science class and dragged him down to my room and had them explain what they did. With a three line program printing out my name in a loop I allowed him to go back to his party, and it was history from there. The local electronics swap shop had numerous visits as I bought a second hand teletype keyboard, power supplies, and odds and ends, and rewired them all to interface with this little computer. It morphed over time to have more memory than it was ever designed to have and lots of relays and controls for all sorts of things. The creation kept growing in both size and complexity. Every peripheral that was ever designed for the Sinclair, and later the Timex version of it, was in there somewhere, and then many many creations of my own.
After graduating I began taking courses in microprocessors and digital electronics and was part of the manufacturing engine that built the next generation of computers. Eventually I became a Computer Scientist, now with fond memories if those simple days, when it was fairly easy to see how something worked and to find ways to improve upon it. Its nice to see that others have fond memories as well. The Sinclair was one of a kind.
"We understand your concerns but ..."
Don't forget the part about reminding us that the White House is not the Justice Department, and that they are therefore the wrong branch of the Government to be concerned with prosecutions of any political figures. Only the Justice Department has the authority to perform an investigation, and forgetting of course that little fact about any Justice Department officials being appointed to office. Like they have no "real" influence in the JD. ;)
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1) Buy one good part
2) Buy one PCR machine
3) Buy a bazillion counterfeit parts
4) apply PCR'ed DNA to counterfeit parts
5) Profit!
Ok, to the first question I would say that there is no top level domains in a truly distributed system, at least that would be the goal. Every site that wants to be listed in the distributed PKI would need to cross sign keys with several other organizations with whom they would verify and attest to their partners authenticity. Only a few organizations would have to be signed by entities with a normal DNSSEC certificate to anchor the chain of trust. When a client receives a certificate for a site for the first time it would take some additional time to do the initial verification, by walking the p2p chain of trusts until it leads to a certificate that the user has trusted and cached, or finds a regular DNSSEC record that matches their p2p records. Because of the extra overhead getting started is the biggest problem, but once you have a trusted certificate it only helps you authenticate the next one faster. Think of it this way, with the 'Six degrees of Keven Bacon' scenario if you are into one type of hobby, business, or media (e.g. Gaming software) then the rest of that similar kind of media (e.g. Computer software) is not very far away by the rules of graph theory. There will likely be a quick path between the two, and you only need spend that additional time researching that chain the first time around if you cache your own certificates. Idealistically you would cache your favorite sites and toss the ones you don't use (LRU algorithm).
If any Justice department or Government tries to force one entity to revoke their own signing certificate it only would affect the targeted site if all its cross signings were simultaniously revoked. A revocation actually doesn't have to affect the site that is being targeted since the targeted sites certificate was physically modified when it was signed and thus its signature is indelible. The chain of trust might tell you the certificate was revoked, but you could choose to ignore that if you wish providing you still trust their server. As long as there is a path through the certificate chain of trust to someone you know and trust, then you will always know you are talking to the site you wanted to.
This cross signing method does leave the system open to the general PKI social engineering tricks, such as someone posing as an individual from some company they don't belong to, therefore that authentication step needs to be factored into the signing agreements somehow. The client should be made aware of any changes to certificates so that the user can choose what they want to do. The web site can always find new organizations to cross sign with if the need should arise, so when that happens the client should see that the chain of trust be checked again.
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When an Internet client connects to the Internet it puts out a request to locate any local seeder/trackers, and then requests from them any addresses that the client requires. The dynamic seeder/trackers split up the domain information to organize the domain data efficiently, as to ensure the proper data replication in case of network partitioning or link failures. The client request is returned if found in its cache, otherwise it is forwarded based on the current domain mapping between servers. Before trusting the returned DNS record the client would first need to verify that DNS record via the sites published PKI public key.
Without a single centralized point of control there would be no way to 'take a domain down' once the information is published to the cloud. The weakest link would be at the ISP's Internet connection, but then the initial DNS injection point need not be at the same location, as any client even on a dialup connection could inject the initial announcement packets if it contains the properly signed data.
Yes, I realize there have been some p2p efforts in the past, but its now time to take this seriously.
There are a number of places where the original content is available, but I don't have the time at the moment to dig it all out again. Look at the story from last year if anyone has the desire.
There are many kinds of intelligence and any 'brain teaser' plays upon elements which may have no bearing on the job being sought. If any questions are asked during an interview, or brain teasers given, then those should have a direct relationship to the subject matter required for the position. Anything other than that is going to give a biased result and is probably closer to drawing straws than to real science. Having a greater amount of one kind of intelligence or creativity may give an edge to the person being interviewed but it is not a direct bearing on competency for most job positions. If you are hiring based on creativity you should test one way, and mathematical skills for another. No singular test is perfect, but it should best be tailored towards the qualities required to fill that specific role. Test for what is important, as someone with a 250 IQ may not stay in that secretarial position for very long, even though they got all the answers correct on the test.
"Thought we did that in a lot of legislative bodies already...
Pssst, i realize that was a pun, but don't make *that* kind of comparison in public! or things will start to get very strange around here.
If the public realizes that the Orangutans can catch onto technology much faster than the current legislature, then the Orangutans will be brought in to run the country much more efficiently, and for just bananas. (I tapped into their skype network, and I have personal knowledge that the Orangutans are already plotting against SOPA, and are intending to vote it down quickly to put the bill out of its misery once and for all.)
Once the Orangutans get their seat of power they will likely bring in the Gorillas for security enforcement details, and the next thing you know we have a live Planet Of The Apes situation going on! There will be pandemonium, screaming, people running crazy in the streets, you know, pretty much just the the usual. Nobody will even notice the shift of power until the legislature itself realizes the pay checks have stopped coming in, and they are then forced to give up their Learjets and resign from the DC area golf clubs. All this chaos just because some left wing zookeeper thought iPads were soooo cool.
First off, don't expect compensation for past work, that's not going to happen. However, If you turn over the software you can do so with the understanding that you will be required to maintain it as a part of your position, and since your current pay grade does not reflect that position the company should look into that "promotion" after the software has been shaken out and tested in a live environment. The better it works out the more valuable you will be to the company. Then you can fully justify your new/future position and the company should not feel that you are unworthy of that pay grade.Everybody wins, but you just need to be patient. Your hard work will pay off as long as you did a decent job on the software. Next review time you have some leverage to work for that promotion and something better to put on your resume if you are still unhappy.
5 people? Unfortunately there are a LOT of people who have to run iTunes for their iPod/iPad/iPhone in order to get updates. Those updates usually try to install Safari along with the rest of the patches. Whether the user ever actually uses Safari is another question all together. I know I have not, but I often get tired of trying to unclick the selection boxes to not have it install every time there are updates. Most people will likely just give up and let Safari install even though it takes more download time. So, I bet its at least 6 people.
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Its just like 'white' mice. How many white mice do you see in the wild? Only escapees I'd bet. I once had an albino chipmunk in my back yard, and he lasted about a week before a hawk caught up with him. He didn't even get old enough to have his own family.
The disk itself can act like a wing to lift the vehicle at higher speeds. A stalled/slowed rotor creates drag with very little lift, so it requires a separate wing to stay aloft. In this case the disk is that wing. That being said, the disk creates drag against the 'lift' vortex currents as it is taking off. Since it isn't going to hover for long that is probably a design trade off. In that case Its not going to do close ground support very well.
Ingredients:
1) shock ball
https://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/games/91b8/
2) sound activated switch, or remote control key fob
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3) small high current battery with 12v dc charger to power the above two circuits
4) Some wire mesh, or thin wire to thread through the knapsack and straps. Note: A good connection to the metal zipper is essential.
While this home brew device, like your theft deterrent bag idea, will not prevent a thief from smashing through your car window to open the door, it will be quite entertaining to the people passing by, and present an event that they might actually take note of and thus produce viable witnesses. Add a motion activated video camera to your car dash if you want to watch for yourself. I bet the video would go viral on Youtube and you will quickly identify the culprit.
Ok then, what is the stock market doing tomorrow? You see, I want to buy out this specific Russian botnet and install an Onion Router on each of 234 Million hosts to help save the World from censorship, but you already knew that didn't you? Hmmm. Since you know all this why wouldn't you have called me to help out? Perhaps your censorship is so advanced in the future that they can follow you back in time to keep you from contacting me? Wait, hold on, someone is knocking on the door...
How can it be that they "make money from its locked-in Itanium customers" and also "take business away from" anybody? This is a contradiction. The conclusion does not follow from the facts. If you have locked in users you are not stealing new business away from anyone. By paying higher prices for a processor that nobody else wants, the cost to the current users just goes up accordingly. They can only be preventing someone else from taking away the current business that is already "locked-in" but not yet willing to pay the price to move to another technology. Oracles' problem seems to be that there is some "business" going on out there that does not belong to them, and they don't like it that way.
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Either that or Congress will just change things so that I, as a non-corporate citizen, can no longer patent stupid things and waste my money doing so. They will probably sell the bill as something to help me save money (patent fees go away), then those funds (equivalent tax on savings accounts) to be directly invested in said obnoxious Corporations (forced retirement stock plans) , and give that bill a really lame and deceptive acronym for a name.
The smart money would be on #2.
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You can use the Calibre application (free from http://calibre-ebook.com/) to load any external documents or ebooks onto the Kindle. You don't have to buy DRM'ed books if you don't want to, as there are lots of non-DRM sources of information out there that are easily converted. My main reason for getting the kindle was because I had exhausted all the technical audiobooks ($$) worth buying and with Calibre I can load almost anything onto the kindle including scientific reports, technical journals, which you can not get in ANY audio book format at any price. What it would not do well for him is poetry (its temporally challenged), mathematics (can't read the symbols), and programming languages (they are not dictionary words) since the text to speech, although its the best I have ever heard, isn't quite perfect.
As others have suggested above that you could simply increase the font size to the maximum until that becomes impractical, and then use the text to speech feature when his eyes get tired, or until he can no longer has good enough vision. It would be the best plan to get him started and familiar with the device before he looses all his vision so that he knows how to navigate the menus. I wish him the best of luck. My Dad is having similar problems but vision is not his main concern at the moment.
If you just had just a periodic rumble under foot, on a planned and pre-announced schedule, then earthquakes would not be so big of a deal, and tsunamis would be non-existent. Even volcanoes could be put to sleep if we had enough data to plan the proper fault stress relief. The real technological problem is knowing where those stresses are building up and finding ways to alleviate those stresses before nature decides to do it for us. If we could detect and visualize the build up of these stresses we could then build models and find ways to make these problems go away via micro-fracturing a bed of rubble between the fault lines to prevent massive tectonic plates from binding and preventing the future catastrophic release of that pent up energy.
We should not blame these engineers for "causing" earthquakes, because the one that resulted was a whole lot smaller than the one that would have happened otherwise. In fact we should be thanking them.
I was just getting to look into Skype before M$ bought them, then I quickly thought twice once I heard of the deal. I knew that M$ would change the API to "improve" the product, and then do whatever they could to kick out other OS's from the list of supported hosts. Each, one by one, has come to pass. No surprises there, business as usual in Redmond.
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That being said, this one is obviously a scam. Why do I say so? Dig back through the previous stories and you will see a picture of a shipping container full of little black plastic buckets in racks, which is supposed to be a 1MW reactor. Excuse me? You but 1MW of thermal energy in a confined space like that and it will heat up so much that all the liquid would evaporate and the steam would kill anyone attempting to maintain it. The reaction produces heat energy, and plastic buckets aren't going to last very long. These CF reactions have been known to scorch the tables that the apparatus were sitting on. A plastic container is just plain stupid and this photo only demonstrates a man with a limited intelligence at work. Also, where is the generator? The reaction does not create electricity, it produces thermal heat. You need a generator my friend, and preferably a brain containing half a conscience would not hurt either..
The US mint often creates "collectable" coins that are sold for much more than face value. The collectors seem to be willing to spend money on coins that are double struck to give it a very glossy shine, not to mention coins with unusual face artwork. It seems some people have more money than good cents.
This however does not fix some underlying problems with remote distributions. Datasets have become too large to be easily handled on standard CD/DvD's, so many organizations have resorted to using hard drives to pass information. I still see potential problems. When mounting an 'untrusted' drive many things happen, not including the normal autorun which any sane/certified IT administrator would already have deactivated. First, the drive controllers are enumerated and checked for a locally installed driver for any devices found by using their device ID, and if not found it may attempt to load a driver from the device itself (fatal). Just change the ID of the drive and plant your driver on a small r/o FAT32 partition. Next, the OS will parse a potentially corrupted file system which may cause buffer overflows (fatal). Corrupt the file allocation table structures so that your code of choice gets loaded into memory. Then the OS enumerate the files on the drive and attempts to render any associated icons (fatal) for Explorer, which may have been intentionally corrupted by the sender. There could be more. Any one of these can be used to install malware if you know what you are doing, and a default deny policy isn't going to help much. Remember, any errors that occur during the privileged code used to 'mount a device' is running with system level privileges and can pretty much do anything such as opening processes and injecting threads, thus bypassing any traps on CreateProcess/fork/exec/system executives that might check for access permissions.
In stark contrast, I have a graveyard of Dell's in my office at home, literally. Every Dell I have ever owned in the past ten years has died at least once. I have one 64 bit Dell laptop (Dec 2008) that has died three times due to the GPU issue for which there is a Class Action Suit that allows me to keep getting it repaired, until May 2012. It will keep going back until then. I had just received it back from Dell, newly repaired, set it up and configured it for my wife, and it failed again the second time she turned it on. That's Dell quality for you.
My only complaint about an HP was when they put a third party application/driver on a Win2k machine for the keyboard hot keys, that kept pinging a web address that didn't exist, and my firewall software was seeing constant ICMP destination not found messages from the last router in that domain. Stupid, but the machine didn't die an early death. All I had to do was delete the executable and everything was good.