Posted at 4:05 PM

Get back to work.

Unfortunately the video player had no indication that it was not loading at all (likely slashdoted), instead just sits static on the first frame. However, it took me about 30 seconds of staring at the static image wondering if my since of perception was so bad I -didn't see anything moving at all-

Turns out it is pretty bad, just not in the way I thought; I recommend going straight to the youtube versions linked on the article.

It's a pretty neat effect, sort of one of those things that become pretty obvious once you see it.

Opinion is cheaper then news.

The invisible hand smacks across the head once again.

I've had my T-Mobile G1 since Android 1.0 and I've always had SSH on it. I use "ConnectBot" and it works well enough, and it allows port forwarding. VNC can be a little more tricky, but I haven't looked in over a year.

The G1 has a great keyboard, and is certainly fast enough to handle SSH if that is all you need and want to get something used on the cheep. Of course, it's a pretty damn slow phone compared to what is on the market today.

1) Dreadlock surfer-dude badass strained credibility -- and ability to suppress gagging

Yeah, I think only thing he would be worse would be him in the role of a sword wielding, musclebound conquer.

Coyote won't normally attack house pets unless sick or on the verge of starving, which is exactly when they would also be close enough to human populations to be 'sighted'. It seems perfectly reasonable that such attacks would be very rare from a small, managed number of them.

These aren't so much 'sound proof' as they are just small speakers in parabolic dishes to provide tightly focused sound. A number of companies make them:
http://www.soundtube.com/cgi-bin/main.cgi?Speakers=start&series=6&speaker=23
http://www.browninnovations.com/sound_domes.html

That first one I had set up at our office to evaluate and of course, we couldn''t resit calling them cones of silence either, but I just thought I'd post the links just in case people here might be interested in what the article was actually talking about if they hadn't seen them already in various retail stores.

Well, while I think probably never "Commonly" because of the energy intensity of it (and thus the cost) I do think that they could be something that we will start see because I think in another few decades to half century, autonomous flying vehicles will be sophisticated enough that we could see them around because the owners won't be the ones piloting them.

Yeah, no kidding. 1600x1200 displays weren't cheap when they were common, and were only to be found on the high end monitors and latter the very high end laptops of the time. It took me all of ten seconds to got to dell.com and find a laptop that was 1920x1200. I don't know why people keep acting like you are losing something going from 1600x1200 to 1920x1200.

There are two points here that make me think that it's never going to happen.

1) Scarcity drives up value. If it starts to become hard to get IPv4 addresses, then this is just the excuse that an ISP would want to start -charging- for public addresses. Want a real IP address? Oh, that will require a business account and an extra $100 a month please.

2) It's in their interest to make your internet the least useful possible. That private IP address making it imposable to do anything other the email and web browsing? Great! Just more bandwidth they can oversell.

3) Because of 1&2 companies that have become little more then hallow husks (AIM?) or bought out by holdings firms that no longer have any use for those swaths of IPv4 addresses that they have been assigned suddenly have a new 'profit center'. Selling off chunks to other companies for a profit.

IPv6 is never going to happen.

It's very cool stuff and amazing work. Though, until I install twenty IR cameras around my room and send the information back to the controlling computer, I think I am safe for now.

It already mentions that the plane runs on fuel cells, so I would imagine there is some sort of electrolysis going on so that it store it's energy as oxygen and hydrogen already.

Of course, it wouldn't be anything near the kind of efficiency.

It also allows digital capture of content protected media possible with with low cost hardware. Maybe this will also slow the elimination of transport mediums (like analog) that don't allow DRM since it now could be sort of moot.

Also, for instance, if your cable company decides to lock down all it's analog outputs and drag it's feet on cablecards, you could still use your DVR of choice.

Peak oil means exactly that, when we are at the -peak- of how much oil we can produce planet wide. It has nothing to do with when the last drop of oil has been pulled out of the ground. "When petroleum based products become more scarce" is exactly what peak oil is.