Re: Nope they have to
The "Don't be Evil" company is going into the replacement of the human race. Why don't they just make nuclear weapons and sell them N. Korea?
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What does encryption matter if both govs and crims can get access new passwords more securely than you can write them down?
Secured input services should be built down in the OS kernels (and even chip-maker microcode) of all major vendors so deeply that unless the user sets an option, it would be impossible for keyloggers to work at all, even commercial ones installed by the users themselves.
One major hack just in the news appears to have depended on keylogging. Change your password with all the best salting and length in the world and the hackers have it.
...to match their increasingly crappy search engine. You have to put quotes everywhere, even quotes won't work, garbage returned that doesn't have ANY of your terms, cache that no longer shows coloured terms (Bing, bless their incompetent souls still has ONE thing right, however trivial), horrible youTube changes...
Did I mention the search engine is crappy? Well, what do you expect from glorified internet PR flaks? Search? wtf is that?
As ice is removed from Greenland, the viscous asthenosphere beneath rebounds upward, with compensatory replacement from peripheral oceanic upper mantle, lowering the seafloor. Crustal rebound of up to ~ 1.0 cm/year has been measured in post-glaciation areas of north-eastern Canada.
Connect the dots, Professor Gore.
With my Google news page science/technology already glutted with climate-change porn and more and more thermocalyptic drivel, it's depressing to see highly qualified scientists and researchers making such patently poor use of adjectives for something so fundamental as a COMPUTED imaging of the early galaxy.
'direct', my arze.
'First DIRECT image of a neutrino!'
'First DIRECT image of a T. Rex!'
I find an unexplained absurdity in some older Google 'Books': stuff that's been out of print for 200 years that is only allowed snippet views, and sometimes nothing at all, just the fact that it's there.
It is my suspicion that every time one of these books is quoted by a modern author and a citation given, Google stores the quote as though it were the modern author's writing and refuses any further data from the thus cross-indexed original as well.
With all the constant 'security' and other updates Adobe pesters me for free Reader, it's not shock to me. Since Reader is the only point for their existence for the vast majority of people (I use Gimp for example), why don't they just abandon all their other junk, and do ONE job right?
I knew it would be hacked eventually, but only practical by commercial/government clients against high-value targets.
I can't believe it happened this soon and this easily.
Will wait out the next few days for official confirmation. If so, they have bricked a major Apple next-big-thing system almost as soon as it's released, which has never happened in history.
With 50-100 experts, one or several of them may be near-native English speakers with a lot of social and net-savvy jargon providing a false front appearance.
Even the small, informal lulzSec had Jake Davis doing a lot of the 'talking' (although there was no intention of linguistic misdirection), and lacing the content with Briticisms, but the core leader was American Sabu.
As soon as Samsung's eye-tracking arrived, I widely posted a basic algorithm that goes even further than that:
forced tracking of ads:
If eye(x,y)<>adCenter(x,y), then eye(x,y)=adCenter(x,y)
So, they will charge a premium for advertisers who want to insure users ARE looking at their ads.
Maybe the Luddites had a point...
I appreciate all that, but I assumed Power was simply filling in a humble role where it could no longer have the market-forces to evolve into leading edge computing functions. Apple dropped the chip because they simply felt it had run out of gas, and that was years ago. I was disappointed of course.
Plastic and human wrongs, oh my, Mr. Cook.
How will you explain this to the coffee and cheesecake at Starbucks, yoga-mat tree-hugger higher income crowd?
Lenovo, et al. don't infer they are saving the poor, eliminating blood-diamonds, and stopping the nefarious big-oil plot of global warming. Apple does all those things, and more.
But...plastic? Your base will be terribly upset.
Bingo.
Apple's sleek, sculpted, cool social progressive form-factor sits only too well with the coffee and cheesecake at Starbucks, yoga-mat tree-hugger higher income crowd.
Lenovo, et al. don't infer they are saving the poor, eliminating blood-diamonds, and stopping the nefarious big-oil plot of global warming.
It's software and hardware reviewers fault that misperception continues.
When's the last time they did an in-depth look at the landfill of complaints over the past 20 years about Apple stuff on Apple's own tech-help and 3rd party help websites?
Because an issue is restricted to <1% of users, it doesn't reach any threshold of action or discussion. But there are literally thousands of such issues that never do get resolved. I know this, having used Apple computers almost exclusively for almost 25 years.
It's a bit hard to enlighten when an article uses a suspect pollster:
"Is it worth it to point out yougov's political affiliations - for instance to the Murdoch press, and its directors who are conservative supporters? Wikidea 15:08, 9 April 2010 (UTC)" --Talk Page, YouGov, Wikipedia.
The main page transparently promotes youGov's supposed 'accuracy' by selecting those predictions that are...accurate. Of course, it works for psychics, why not pollsters?
"Is it worth it to point out yougov's political affiliations - for instance to the Murdoch press, and its directors who are conservative supporters? Wikidea 15:08, 9 April 2010 (UTC)" --Talk Page, Wikipedia.
The main page transparently promotes youGov's supposed 'accuracy' by selecting only those predictions that are...accurate. Of course, it works for psychics, why not pollsters?
A magazine isn't a search engine. In fact magazines are pages of ads interspersed with content to glue the ads together. A search returns related-content ads that are often unique to that search. If you read the same magazines the ads appear over and over again, with only minor variations. They are easily visually filtered; nobody has to read the fine print.
Again on this Register page there are two items of ad-drivel that have nothing to do with this story or the comment section. I filter them out automatically.
I think the eventual solution will have to be mass-drivers built and stationed on the moon (using mostly moon materials). Craft will accelerated to ~20 miles/sec over 30-40 mile track and sent ballistically, with mid-course corrections by nuclear propellants, to the planets. This will reduce time and allow for more robust shielding. G-forces for humans would be mitigated by almost complete immersion in neutral buoyancy tanks.
Energy for launch would be nuclear or solar.
I'm wondering how Harlan Ellison became the authority on more than cooking up specious lawsuits against rival s-f writers and movie producers. Having got that off my chest, you just have to google images "zip gun", and see the amazing range of options for making crude but workable (smooth-bore, short range) hand'guns'.
My favorite is the paper mache gun, although one of its claims (burns itself up on firing, self-destroying the evidence) should be taken with a grain of salt. You'd probably want to wrap any thin-walled tube round with several layers of fiberglass tape, just to be on the safe side. Or better, not make a zip-gun at all.
MS is just showcasing their technology; they don't want to upstage other makers. Hence the high prices. I don't know whether the silly hybrid design is deliberately part of that showcasing, but it hasn't helped the product if it's rather just a silly hybrid design.
I'm suspecting the laws in various countries make exceptions for commercial interests dealing with defense, security, and law-enforcement parties. There's the notorious secrecy law surrounding RIM/Blackberry and law enforcement a while back; but the details are no longer in my memory.
I imagine here is a security-exception escape clause, especially the last sentence:
__________
4. Inability to Comply Due to Statute or Regulation
If it is impossible for You to comply with any of the terms of this License with respect to some or all of the Covered Software due to statute, judicial order, or regulation then You must: (a) comply with the terms of this License to the maximum extent possible; and (b) describe the limitations and the code they affect. Such description must be placed in a text file included with all distributions of the Covered Software under this License. Except to the extent prohibited by statute or regulation, such description must be sufficiently detailed for a recipient of ordinary skill to be able to understand it.
__________
I believe it's copper. Possibly the imaging probe doesn't register conductor well, only molecules that don't conduct, or perhaps there's some tuning parameter that emphasizes Oxygen. However, as I mention above, the carbon atom is evident as a smaller item near the O, and it's not an imaging by-product. These are the CO molecules being imaged, not 'atoms'. Guinness should revise their record to 'molecule', because eventually someone is going to do this again with actual single atoms.
These don't look like 'atoms', but the molecules which they actually are. There are two parts, if you look very carefully—which change orientation for various...pixtons? axels?—in the movie.
Methinks there's some IBM marketing bending here. Should be called A Boy (could be a girl, for that matter) and his Molecule.
It is *because* climatology studies a complex phenomenon that dire predictions of a 2-3 degree rise by 2100 should not become the daily fodder of the media and AGW apologist websites.
It is because a 2-3 degree rise by 2100 would simply put us in a temperature regime similar to the ecologically diverse mid-pliocene that we should not be bemoaning the heart-wrenching, drama-queen, loss of whales, polar bears and poor helpless sharks. But at least they can take heart in the purported high-latitude plague of malaria-bearing mosquitoes, fleas, locusts, frogs, camera-clicking tourists and the like.
It is because the world is not going to dissolve in a horrible bubbling effervescent acid-bath of CO2-ed ocean, and it is because the balance of carbo-philic plants, marine and terrestrial will simply take over where carbo-phobic species are compromised, and because carbophilic genes could be transplanted into many useful plants, and because the paleohistorical ecological diversity of the Earth does not show any more marked aversion to CO2—in fact the oceanic fauna suffered a 4-fold *increase* during the high-CO2 (and oddly coldish) late Ordovician—than it does to warmth that professor emeritus Al Gore, et al. should go jump in a cool lake.
It is because, although it's hard to 'falsify' hypotheses entailed by a complex system, the predicted steady thermal rise is risking a breach of the low end of the 95% confidence level envelope we should be alarmed that AGW computer-crystal-ball-prognosticators are developing an increasing stranglehold on the minds of world leaders who have the next decades' multi-terabuck economic decisions to make.
In short, carbocalyptic prophets should get off our leaders' backs.