The country maps cost extra, often quite a lot extra, and become outdated fairly quickly.. If you aren't planning on spending a lot of time in a specific country then the cost of roaming data might actually be less than buying the maps..
'nuff said.
Deep packet inspection, anything that doesn't contain a GET/POST or whatever just gets quietly dropped..
Couldn't we have an ESSID and BSSID swap day when we all trade our router configuration details with someone else elsewhere on the planet. Then anyone trying to use their services near my house would be told they were in alaska.
Unfortunately I'm pretty sure its based on MAC address not ESSID/BSSID, but then you can just use a decent AP that lets you annually assign a MAC address instead. You can probably use it to make yourself the foursquare mayor of your (least?) favourite cafe by using the mac address of their hotspot on your home AP.
How does your friend using from your house give them that information as opposed to the van outside? Albeit it might be slightly more accurate with lat/long than outside but its unlikely to help with the floor (ie altitude)
But will there be cake?
I thought the in-crowd were those people with a prime UID of which i'm unfortunately not one.
Sounds good in theory but how many bad guys would be sitting up all night entering a code every 15 minutes so they don't lose their data?
well.. at least FF7 wouldn't so hard to get anymore.
If replicators did work like that in the real world, economies would collapse overnight. The second some jackass published the replication patterns for nuclear weapons we'd all go up in an inferno. That of course is after everyone replicated ten tons of gold for themselves and discovered it's now plentiful and worthless. No, no replicators please. I'm not ready for the end of the world.
I got the impression that ST stlye replicators only worked on the atomic/molecular level, ie they don't create new elements, just rearrange them into useful patterns. Therefore the above wouldn't work due to a lack of an ability to create weapons grade plutonium/uranium or gold for that matter. Creating plenty of conventional explosives, toxic substances or even some evil nanites probably wouldn't be too hard however...
I'm curious at the usage of the phrase "let's hope". A correctly placed nuclear device in the that seals off the oil as well as causing a collapsing void that traps any fission products generated sounds a lot better than pouring yet more megagallons of oil into the ocean.
(your milage may vary in practice a fair bit from theory of course)
I'm sure you could make a diff patch to convert the data into the game.
Of course then you can argue whether its the data or the patch that is breaking copyright...
Then why aren't most people playing FPSs with a keyboard?
Considering that one of the things it seems the article's computer *can't* do is handle a slashdotting without crashing and going up in flames, I would hardly consider linking to them being a reward.
I love that someone used that "going up in flames after being Slashdotted" cliche on an article about things computers don't actually do.
You might not have had happen but I have. A proxy server whose RAID controller quite literally caught fire, fortunately it didn't burn for long or hot, just enough to char the inside a little - the server room suppression system didn't get set off...
All I remember from the first film was that one of the octets in an IP address was in the 300s. Boy did that ruin an otherwise spot-on movie.
Yep - a blog elsewhere says "75.748.86.91" and "23.75.345.200" were used.
IPV4.5?
Thats would have been purposely done to prevent people deciding to attack a real IP belonging to someone out there after seeing it in the film, something along the lines of the 555-xxxx phone numbers they usually use. Of course they could have just used a 10.../192.168.../172.16.. address instead.
The problem is that theora potentially infringes on patents that are tied to mpeg. So theora is a clean, patent free solution.
Can I be the first to say "huh?". I think the logic is back to front there...
I thought this article was about supermarkets, where it might be a good idea anyway too..
To program is to be.
