The real problem is that it is surprisingly hard to embrace a new system of measurement when you've spent your entire life thinking in different terms.
Yes. Thats why the Canadians haven't been able to do it either. Or the Irish. Not Australia and New Zealand either. Or India.
Oh wait, they *have* all done it. So how come they can, but for the US it's just too hard?
You should only load remote images on demand.
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Yeah , I know must be new here..
You're not new here, I can tell by the fact that you didn't read the article. Or the summary
This feature actually works like you want it to: It *does* load on demand. And that's the problem here. If it always loaded it this exploit wouldn't work. Its based on only being loaded on demand.
I knew light was quantized, but I had seriously never heard of Phonons, or that sound can be quantized as well.
Well, apparently it can: Phonon
As long as there is one free quality source for news, most people won't sign up.
Or, to turn that statement around, the quality of the reporting would have to be a class or two above the free source for me to be willing to pay for it. Which may be why it worked for the Wall Street Journal.
But then again, quality reporting is what News Corp is all about.
Dupe from Friday: http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/01/1234221
I can't remember the name of it, but I read about an island somewhere off the coast of Africa. It's a giant chunk of rock that's split in such a way that its eventual collapse into the ocean is near certain.
Well, there's one scientist who thinks its near certain, and a BBC documentary that focused on his points of view and made them sound like fact. Doesn't mean it couldn't happen, but it's not the certainty that the documentary made it sound.
If I recall correctly, other scientist are far from convinced that his assumptions are right. I believe some theories predict slow land slides instead, which wouldn't cause tsunamis.
Agree totally about the 555 but what? No 741 (Op Amp) or 7400 (or any other TTL?) ? Those were the staples of most electronic projects as kits or in magazines etc.
I know reading the FA is frowned upon on slashdot, but if you did, you could find the 741 as number 6.
From TFA:
When Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British scientist, wrote the code that transformed a private computer network into the world wide web in 1989, the internet appeared to be a limitless resource.
Really? The internet was limitless in 1989 and now its slowing down? Which internet were they using?
That's pretty much a complete rewrite of history if I've ever seen one. The internet was really slow in those days. My whole university of 40,000 students had a 64kbit connection to the internet as late as 1993 or so. Anybody remember the www being called the world-wide-wait? I think the first couple of years I was more limited by the backbones the by the last mile. And that was on dialup!
Then at some point in the late 90s, probably during the dot com boom, they finally got the backbones to where they could keep up. And by and large, I think they do that pretty well even with the much increased traffic today. Did these guys just make up some facts to support their fearmongering theory? Like 'home computers' slowing down when kids start playing games?
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