Take a look at Microsoft Photosynth. I don't know if it would be able to handle long, multiple streets, but if you take enough overlapping photos, it might work well for you.
When I was way young, up to third grade, I was bullied some. I think my parents and the school worked together some to try and reduce it.
There's one thing my parents told me and I took to heart: I should not start a fight, but if a fight is ever started against me and I can't walk away or feel the need to fight it out, I should not hesitate to use violent force. But, they said, I should only use just enough force to defend myself and incapacitate the other person, stopping any violence coming towards me.
Why is this a warning? "Warning! Nothing has changed!" As TFA says, this is the way Windows has worked for years across versions. Security people have always lamented this, and over the years many have suggested turning it off. This really isn't a new warning or news.
Well, TFA is surprised that Microsoft has kept a setting unchanged from one Windows version to another. But, I would think that if Microsoft were to have a change of heart and change the default setting, they would first do it for current versions of Windows in a service pack or maybe just an update. And if they were to introduce a new policy or dialog notice to reduce the threat of this default setting, they still would have done it in an update or service pack first, before doing it in a new version of Windows.
This is off topic from the story at the top, but on topic for the quote at the bottom of this page. I just wanted to note that Robert Frost is my first cousin, five times removed (blood relation). Yay.
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve. -- Robert Frost
I tried it on my own machine. On Web Filtering Basic, it allows www.google.com, and on Strict, it does not. It logs my access to Google if Activity Reporting is on. It looks like Strict uses a white list, so blocking Google can be reasonably expected by a user.
A related article is from Forbes: America's Most Livable Cities. They rate the Portland, Maine metropolitan statistical area as the most livable city based on income growth, cost of living, crime, leisure, and unemployment.
Is your special purpose email address @ a popular domain name? I noticed that when I opened my Gmail account, I was getting unsolicited spam within a few hours, and I had not shared the email address with anyone at all.
My main email address is at a university's domain. I've used it for years and give it out on any half reputable site, but I get absolutely no spam on it. I know that my university uses blacklists and some heuristics to delete spam before they get to any inbox, but I've heard it only gets about a third of incoming spam.
So, does Gmail post any new email addresses in a sort of anonymous phone book, or was my user name easy to guess (I had used the same set of letters and numbers on very many sites before I got the Gmail account)? I don't know, but in my case, the popular domain seemed to bring spam.
This doesn't address the fact that it's main stream companies that you do business with that are spamming you. Have you used the user name of your special purpose anywhere else, or attached the email address with your personal identity in any way ever?
I would have absolutely loved that feature. I hated it when I would open up My Computer (or what ever the various drives display window was called at the time), and it would freeze for a few seconds while my floppy drive would spin up. I think this feature could have been included as an option. Basically, by default use the spin up method, but if an exploratory individual went into the floppy drive properties, there was a training button sitting there waiting for them.
Or maybe something interesting. Like, vibrate the screen when your finger is on a pressable button. Or, have audio feedback in a similar manner or maybe when your finger is hovering over the screen. Not voice with words, but tones.
Looking at the back view picture, it looks like the holes could be interpreted as code. Each column is a nibble, with the low end bits being on top. A hole is a 1, and no hole is a 0.
So, on the right side, starting with the fist hole and going right, you get 2014A14B6BDF, and it just repeats with F's. This happens to be 12 nibbles, the size of a MAC Address. I looked this up for the associated vendor, but there is none.
Anyways, it'd be cool and rather geeky to have the MAC Address of the notebook's ethernet card (rather than wireless card, which may be a security concern) encoded in the holes on the back. It wouldn't be like a fading effect any more, but it'd be oh-so geeky.
In the blog post, Riyad Kalla says it was going at "0.48 mbps" (should be Mbps BTW), which is 480 kbps, not 48 kbps. Still slow for high quality streaming video, but much faster than dialup.
So, Slashdot just recently had the Could Fuller Take Trek Back To TV? and What Has Fox Got Against Its Own Sci-Fi Shows? articles, then this one, which I can imagine influenced Mr Z to notice the dilithium crystal Star Trek connection. So he linked to the related Wikipedia transparent aluminum article, and I followed that link. In that article's In Fiction section, it is mentioned that the Enterprise D's windows are made of transparent aluminum, as noted in an episode that involved subspace anomalies and hull breaches.
This reminded me of a TNG episode I saw when I was a small child watching TV with my dad. All I could remember from the episode was a lady looking frozen and half way through the floor, and I was scared silly that I would fall through the floor right there in the living room. Just last week I had actually thought of that episode and tried searching for it, unsuccessfully. That one part and E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial are the few childhood memories I have of TV scaring me. I wanted to see what the episode looked like to me now.
So I followed the Wikipedia link to the TNG episode, and the description of the episode matched what I remembered. So I quickly found a torrent for the episode (I would never ever actually buy the DVD online just to watch one episode once to satisfy my curiosity. If it was streamed online by the copyright holder with ads I would probably go that route), downloaded it, and watched the episode. I finally saw that childhood fear with grown up eyes.
And that's why I love the internet. I was reading a news site, read a comment that referenced some interesting sounding technology, and stumbled upon a childhood fear that I had tried searching for only a week before. Then I reexperienced the fear initiator as I am now to see how I would perceive it. Now I am writing about my experience and attaching it to the original comment that started it. And I did all this within a short and entertaining time span. I love the internet. I think this shows that, at least in some way, we are living in an age of awesomeness.
Not necessarily. In psychology, interference theory proposes that people forget information because of competition from other material. One kind of interference is retroactive interference, which occurs when previously learned information interferes with the retention of new information.
On my Windows/Linux dual boot machine, I initially had two hard drives, and I named them Primary and Secondary. Then I got a few more, and now I've got them going through Tertiary, Quaternary, Quinary, and Senary.
It is a little known fact that talking about time inside an event horizon is the sole universal exception to any and all free speech laws, world wide. If you so much as mention anything about time inside an event horizon, the time cops will soon be at your door an-laerg;'/
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Take a look at Microsoft Photosynth. I don't know if it would be able to handle long, multiple streets, but if you take enough overlapping photos, it might work well for you.
When I was way young, up to third grade, I was bullied some. I think my parents and the school worked together some to try and reduce it.
There's one thing my parents told me and I took to heart: I should not start a fight, but if a fight is ever started against me and I can't walk away or feel the need to fight it out, I should not hesitate to use violent force. But, they said, I should only use just enough force to defend myself and incapacitate the other person, stopping any violence coming towards me.
Maine has had a similar program for the past 7 years. They use iBooks: Maine Learning Technology Initiative
Why is this a warning? "Warning! Nothing has changed!" As TFA says, this is the way Windows has worked for years across versions. Security people have always lamented this, and over the years many have suggested turning it off. This really isn't a new warning or news.
Well, TFA is surprised that Microsoft has kept a setting unchanged from one Windows version to another. But, I would think that if Microsoft were to have a change of heart and change the default setting, they would first do it for current versions of Windows in a service pack or maybe just an update. And if they were to introduce a new policy or dialog notice to reduce the threat of this default setting, they still would have done it in an update or service pack first, before doing it in a new version of Windows.
Yeah, and I bet the dogs were bitches, too.
This is off topic from the story at the top, but on topic for the quote at the bottom of this page. I just wanted to note that Robert Frost is my first cousin, five times removed (blood relation). Yay.
By working faithfully eight hours a day, you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve. -- Robert Frost
-Building tall buildings underground, instead of above.
Or, we could do like Neon Genesis Evangelion and have the buildings sink underground whenever a low plane comes by.
I tried it on my own machine. On Web Filtering Basic, it allows www.google.com, and on Strict, it does not. It logs my access to Google if Activity Reporting is on. It looks like Strict uses a white list, so blocking Google can be reasonably expected by a user.
A related article is from Forbes: America's Most Livable Cities. They rate the Portland, Maine metropolitan statistical area as the most livable city based on income growth, cost of living, crime, leisure, and unemployment.
Is your special purpose email address @ a popular domain name? I noticed that when I opened my Gmail account, I was getting unsolicited spam within a few hours, and I had not shared the email address with anyone at all.
My main email address is at a university's domain. I've used it for years and give it out on any half reputable site, but I get absolutely no spam on it. I know that my university uses blacklists and some heuristics to delete spam before they get to any inbox, but I've heard it only gets about a third of incoming spam.
So, does Gmail post any new email addresses in a sort of anonymous phone book, or was my user name easy to guess (I had used the same set of letters and numbers on very many sites before I got the Gmail account)? I don't know, but in my case, the popular domain seemed to bring spam.
This doesn't address the fact that it's main stream companies that you do business with that are spamming you. Have you used the user name of your special purpose anywhere else, or attached the email address with your personal identity in any way ever?
It might be interesting to note that Windows XP Professional mainstream support will be retired in the US in one week.
I imagine that, in the end, your solution will involve Jabber and XMPP in some way.
I would have absolutely loved that feature. I hated it when I would open up My Computer (or what ever the various drives display window was called at the time), and it would freeze for a few seconds while my floppy drive would spin up. I think this feature could have been included as an option. Basically, by default use the spin up method, but if an exploratory individual went into the floppy drive properties, there was a training button sitting there waiting for them.
Or maybe something interesting. Like, vibrate the screen when your finger is on a pressable button. Or, have audio feedback in a similar manner or maybe when your finger is hovering over the screen. Not voice with words, but tones.
Wow, especially considering extended support retired in July 2006.
Looking at the back view picture, it looks like the holes could be interpreted as code. Each column is a nibble, with the low end bits being on top. A hole is a 1, and no hole is a 0.
So, on the right side, starting with the fist hole and going right, you get 2014A14B6BDF, and it just repeats with F's. This happens to be 12 nibbles, the size of a MAC Address. I looked this up for the associated vendor, but there is none.
Anyways, it'd be cool and rather geeky to have the MAC Address of the notebook's ethernet card (rather than wireless card, which may be a security concern) encoded in the holes on the back. It wouldn't be like a fading effect any more, but it'd be oh-so geeky.
In the blog post, Riyad Kalla says it was going at "0.48 mbps" (should be Mbps BTW), which is 480 kbps, not 48 kbps. Still slow for high quality streaming video, but much faster than dialup.
Wow, boy do I love the internet.
So, Slashdot just recently had the Could Fuller Take Trek Back To TV? and What Has Fox Got Against Its Own Sci-Fi Shows? articles, then this one, which I can imagine influenced Mr Z to notice the dilithium crystal Star Trek connection. So he linked to the related Wikipedia transparent aluminum article, and I followed that link. In that article's In Fiction section, it is mentioned that the Enterprise D's windows are made of transparent aluminum, as noted in an episode that involved subspace anomalies and hull breaches.
This reminded me of a TNG episode I saw when I was a small child watching TV with my dad. All I could remember from the episode was a lady looking frozen and half way through the floor, and I was scared silly that I would fall through the floor right there in the living room. Just last week I had actually thought of that episode and tried searching for it, unsuccessfully. That one part and E.T.: The Extra Terrestrial are the few childhood memories I have of TV scaring me. I wanted to see what the episode looked like to me now.
So I followed the Wikipedia link to the TNG episode, and the description of the episode matched what I remembered. So I quickly found a torrent for the episode (I would never ever actually buy the DVD online just to watch one episode once to satisfy my curiosity. If it was streamed online by the copyright holder with ads I would probably go that route), downloaded it, and watched the episode. I finally saw that childhood fear with grown up eyes.
And that's why I love the internet. I was reading a news site, read a comment that referenced some interesting sounding technology, and stumbled upon a childhood fear that I had tried searching for only a week before. Then I reexperienced the fear initiator as I am now to see how I would perceive it. Now I am writing about my experience and attaching it to the original comment that started it. And I did all this within a short and entertaining time span. I love the internet. I think this shows that, at least in some way, we are living in an age of awesomeness.
Not necessarily. In psychology, interference theory proposes that people forget information because of competition from other material. One kind of interference is retroactive interference, which occurs when previously learned information interferes with the retention of new information.
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Shouldn't the Joel Tenenbaum link go to something like Associated Press Wants RIAA Case Webcast, and some other text in the summary point to Pirate Bay Operators Stand Trial On Monday?
On my Windows/Linux dual boot machine, I initially had two hard drives, and I named them Primary and Secondary. Then I got a few more, and now I've got them going through Tertiary, Quaternary, Quinary, and Senary.
It is a little known fact that talking about time inside an event horizon is the sole universal exception to any and all free speech laws, world wide. If you so much as mention anything about time inside an event horizon, the time cops will soon be at your door an-laerg;'/
I thought we weren't allowed to talk about time inside the event horizon; just on it's surface.