Comment Re:If only they can make robots that small ... (Score 1) 35
Given the sculptures were made using lithography I can't see why the same technique couldn't be applied to MEMS.
Given the sculptures were made using lithography I can't see why the same technique couldn't be applied to MEMS.
Too heavy though, the weight budgets for space are brutal.
SD cards can't impersonate a keyboard, so anything like the USB firmware hack you linked to is impossible. There could be malicious files pre-installed on the drive, but then that's happened to big name suppliers plenty of times too.
As far as I know Android has no facility to run code directly from an SD card anyway, and if you're using an antivirus package worth its salt on your PC it would block any autorun attempt.
Wouldn't something like this (microscopically etched / electroformed solid nickel) be even better? You could include instructions for creating a microscope to read it in large print on the other side...
Why else would they need to bring it back
To install a different sensor package? To put it into a different orbit? I can think of many reasons, after all the whole point of the X-37 is that it can land and be re-used for different mission profiles.
it's Microsoft that might have the most logical solution for typing on small size displays running Google's Android Wear platform. Microsoft's research division has built an analog keyboard prototype for Android Wear that eliminates the need to tap at tiny letters, and instead has you write them out.
Why would you want to type at all? There's reasonably good voice recognition now, that's got to be better than trying to finger-paint letters on a tiny watch screen?
Simple things like a complex form, which would be trivial with a grid (and are trivial with tables) are an epic pain with CSS layouts.
Sure in the pre-IE8 days it was a pain, but now it's trivial to do
Then we found out about the 450C sulfuric acid clouds, the molten tin lakes and the almost solid atmosphere...
It's pretty nice at 50km up though...
But then, the first iPhone wasn't 3G either...
There's already a word for them, "Roadable Aircraft"
I wish they'd stop calling roadable aircraft "flying cars".
Flying car: Something that allows you to take off from your home and fly directly to your destination.
Roadable aircraft: An aircraft that you can drive to and from local airports.
It's good for people who already fly light aircraft (no more worrying about transport once you fly to your destination), useless for the rest of us.
I think the licence to operate an aircraft might be just a teensy bit harder to get than the licence to operate a car...
Nix their entire search query?
perhaps that is in the evidence somewhere and just didn't make the summary.
Yes, having read TFA there are some statements that ex-employees made:
The opinion also took note of the testimony of ex-Grooveshark employees who testified on behalf of the record companies. They explained how their bosses ordered them to acquire "the most popular and current songs" and upload them into the Grooveshark system.
As well as this:
"Escape openly acknowledged that their business plan was to exploit popular label content in order to grow their service and then 'beg forgiveness' from the plaintiffs and seek licenses," wrote Griesa.
So that coupled with the email seems to make it beyond reasonably doubt that the email was referring to downloading copyrighted music rather than looking for public domain music.
perhaps that is in the evidence somewhere and just didn't make the summary.
Yes, there are some statements that ex-employees made:
The opinion also took note of the testimony of ex-Grooveshark employees who testified on behalf of the record companies. They explained how their bosses ordered them to acquire "the most popular and current songs" and upload them into the Grooveshark system.
As well as this:
"Escape openly acknowledged that their business plan was to exploit popular label content in order to grow their service and then 'beg forgiveness' from the plaintiffs and seek licenses," wrote Griesa.
So that coupled with the email seems to make it beyond reasonably doubt that the email was referring to downloading copyrighted music rather than looking for public domain music.
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