I to love how people have no problem with police videotaping you
To be fair to Greece's Data Protection Authority, they do have a problem with police videoing people and have stopped the government using street cameras to fight crime as well.
Is it really fair to blame the language? I think the reason perl is the centre of so many big balls of mud is that it is easy to do prototypes in it. If people choose to take those prototypes and turn them into big balls of mud, then that is their own fault. If you start with a clean sheet of paper, do a good design and then decide to implement it in perl you won't end up with a big ball of mud.
Or, note to readers: never act on anything you read on Slashdot, the defence 'I was temporarily under the influence of Slashdot' has not yet been tested in court.
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Things have moved on. but the creativity is still there. You can still get buckets full of plain bricks, but you can also download lego digital designer - free CAD for lego! How cool is that? And you can order all the individual bits you need from the store. And it works in linux via WINE.
I'm confused. This type of toilet is quite popular all sorts of places, so I guess they must be cheaper than providing toilets in some other way. But as Seattle aren't going to be replacing them with anything else... that is going to be cheaper. So, what's the story? That Seattle can't afford public toilets?
Yes, I have Ubuntu 8.04 and no flash crashes. There are still a couple of problems though: most of the video on the BBC site won't play (I click play and it just goes into the waiting dial thing forever) and some things that should be clickable inside the flash player don't work.
TFA mentions that they are also tracking the bees by glueing RFID tags to their backs. I wonder if any politicians reading this might start thinking of a more direct way to use this work to catch criminals...
the differences are sufficient that it should be possible to devise a forensic test to tell which country in Europe an individual probably comes from, said Manfred Kayser
As an English / Greek / Irish / Burmese person I say: bring it on!
Or do you blame the authors of stolen content for leaving the security of their material in somebody else's hands
Yeah, that one, because although content authors are probably not
experts on digital security, they can all roll their own protection
and rely on security thought who-the-hell-would-have-thought-of-implementing-
something-as-dumb-as-that (for the first few weeks anyway).
The problem is that although robot cars could be proven 10 times safer than the average driver, nearly all drivers think they drive much more safely than the average driver.
The reason for this is that, with a dSLR, you're taking pictures by looking through the viewfinder directly, without using the power-hungry LCD display.
This is changing, most of the latest models now have a 'live view' mode where you can compose the picture on the LCD. Also, try a big image stabalized telephoto lens... the camera batteries don't last long.
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1.066 GigaEuros - a number Intel can understand?
To be fair to Greece's Data Protection Authority, they do have a problem with police videoing people and have stopped the government using street cameras to fight crime as well.
I would be more worried by the Godfather 3.
Or they could just relocate the courts to inside airports!
Slashdot should buy at least one - and add a Cowboy Neal option to all the screens.
Perl encourages big ball of mud development
Is it really fair to blame the language? I think the reason perl is the centre of so many big balls of mud is that it is easy to do prototypes in it. If people choose to take those prototypes and turn them into big balls of mud, then that is their own fault. If you start with a clean sheet of paper, do a good design and then decide to implement it in perl you won't end up with a big ball of mud.
And am I right in thinking that on that video they only animated the face? The rest is real video?
Or, note to readers: never act on anything you read on Slashdot, the defence 'I was temporarily under the influence of Slashdot' has not yet been tested in court.
Things have moved on. but the creativity is still there. You can still get buckets full of plain bricks, but you can also download lego digital designer - free CAD for lego! How cool is that? And you can order all the individual bits you need from the store. And it works in linux via WINE.
I'm confused. This type of toilet is quite popular all sorts of places, so I guess they must be cheaper than providing toilets in some other way. But as Seattle aren't going to be replacing them with anything else... that is going to be cheaper. So, what's the story? That Seattle can't afford public toilets?
It would be more useful the other way round: if I told it they were tomatoes at it could figure out exactly what type they were.
Yes, the design is so good it works even if the 'constants' are way off. Convinces me, now I just need to work out which religion to sign up for!
Yes, I have Ubuntu 8.04 and no flash crashes. There are still a couple of problems though: most of the video on the BBC site won't play (I click play and it just goes into the waiting dial thing forever) and some things that should be clickable inside the flash player don't work.
Heh, no offence taken :)
No, it needs an iTower. Well i-er anyway.
TFA mentions that they are also tracking the bees by glueing RFID tags to their backs. I wonder if any politicians reading this might start thinking of a more direct way to use this work to catch criminals...
the differences are sufficient that it should be possible to devise a forensic test to tell which country in Europe an individual probably comes from, said Manfred Kayser
As an English / Greek / Irish / Burmese person I say: bring it on!
By that argument this calculator shouldn't even exist - why don't people just do their business calculations on their laptops or smartphones?
Or do you blame the authors of stolen content for leaving the security of their material in somebody else's hands
Yeah, that one, because although content authors are probably not experts on digital security, they can all roll their own protection and rely on security thought who-the-hell-would-have-thought-of-implementing- something-as-dumb-as-that (for the first few weeks anyway).
Breed like rabbits
That's not really a viable suggestion for slashdot. Breed like robots maybe.
Is that "dream" as in "wonderous achievement" or "dream" as in "vapourware"?
Not so strange: the software will control the power and the frequency.
ones which are 10 times safer
The problem is that although robot cars could be proven 10 times safer than the average driver, nearly all drivers think they drive much more safely than the average driver.
But I would have thought the visa hassles would put most companies off doing something as short as a 3 month internship.
The reason for this is that, with a dSLR, you're taking pictures by looking through the viewfinder directly, without using the power-hungry LCD display.
This is changing, most of the latest models now have a 'live view' mode where you can compose the picture on the LCD. Also, try a big image stabalized telephoto lens... the camera batteries don't last long.