A mysterious person known only as the 'Doctor' has been chosen to clear all craft as contamination free prior to landing using some form of sonic sterilization 'screwdriver.'
In all seriousness though, decontamination of landers/spacecraft is a concept that's well known, and has been since it was first proposed by Carl Sagan. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_protection
This ruling affects the ability of corporations/lawyers using subpoenas to identify individuals for civil suits when the only evidence is an IP address that they are equating to a John Doe. Cops requesting a subpoena for ISP details so that they have probable cause to get a search warrant which in turn *may* lead to hard evidence that will allow prosecution is a completely different manner and shouldn't (in theory) be affected by this precedent.
Disclaimer: IANAL
That was my thought the first time I downloaded an app from the android marketplace to. It lists all of the permissions an application is requesting, but your only option is allow-all or don't install. I should be able to install a given app but tell it, no I don't want it to use the internet (if it's ad-supported, the app can then choose not to work), or deny the ability for an app to get anything but the coarsest location data (a weather applet doesn't need to know that I'm at the intersection of Fake St. and 5th when its database is based on city/town).
In many cases you can find alternatives, but they often don't work as well. Some applications provide preferences to toggle what data they actually look at, but others either don't, or would be safer if one could verify that it can't.
Rooting Android devices (Nook or otherwise) will never become truly mainstream. The more it's mentioned in the news though, the more this will become mainstream in the iPhone-unlocking sense of the word. The average user knows that it's possible and has a friend, or a friend-of-a-friend that can root it for them, but has neither the inclination or knowledge to root it themselves. The ultimate effect is the same though.
The trademark feature of the E-ink version of the Nook is that it ALSO has a small LCD display. Your not going to be able to play videos on the big screen, but there's no reason you can't watch them on the tiny one. Now, whether or not there's a point to that may be another question, but the option is there.
People are definitely rooting both versions of the Nook, E-Ink and Color.
Inaccurately worded, but true none-the-less.
The solar wind isn't used in place of traditional thrusters, but as a complement to them, allowing the spacecraft to save precious fuel.
Google yields a good explanation of this from an old article at http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/MESSENGER_Sails_On_Sun_Fire_For_Second_Flyby_Of_Mercury_999.html discussing the cancellation of several TCMs due to the successful usage of solar sailing.
Exactly my first though. The second thought would be is Google taking the basic steps necessary to ensure that their sites are compatible with standard screen-reader browsers for the blind.
I attended a lecture a while back on how to make applications and websites accessible to the blind. The text to speech requirements are on the client side, but they do require adherence to certain standards to work. That includes simple things such as naming all divider (div) tags, providing alt text for all images. There was some mention about certain JS/AJAX techniques being incompatible if not done correctly, though I don't recall the details.
The question then, which TFA does not address, is does Google take these necessary steps? Or is the problem that the current crop of screen readers are unable to process elements created using the JS methods Google employs?
I also wonder whether they actually brought the issue up with Google privately to address these concerns, or if they just jumped straight into the press release.
That's been my thought for a while. But in reality, I suspect we won't see an "Earth Space Agency" until we encounter some sort of global space-based event (alien first contact or a large asteroid on a confirmed collision path). I'd hope for the former not because it's more probable, but because if we wait for the latter it might be to late.
And here I thought Verizon was supposed to have better pricing.
I've been using Google Voice for SMS and transcribed voicemail on my ATT phone for almost as long as it's been available. Works even better now that I've moved to an Android phone. No sense paying $20 a month for SMS when your already paying $30 for unlimited data
There are tons of IM applications around for all platforms now that work on the data plans, there's no need for another one. Then again, one can't understimate the power of the facebook fanatics either.
Certain phones do have IM applications available that are carrier-specific and work via SMS messaging. These are the exception though, not the rule and mostly only exist now on the 'feature' phones.
One of these days the cell phone providers will gain some sensibility and price things in a logical fashion
Theoretically PowerDVD can be integrated with the windows Media Center and used with an MCE remote. I've yet to try it though, mostly because I don't have a working IR receiver for Win7, and the PC is nicely connected via HDMI to the TV, and DVI to my normal desktop monitors.
Except it's already been done, and relatively recently: telcom companies were given retroactive immunity for participation in the Bush warantless wiretapping program.
Make no mistake: despite what politicians of both sides of the aisle say, no Republican, and far too few Democrats, really know or agree with what's actually in the Constitution.
Technically that's not a law, so much as a pardon or promise not to prosecute. The government can't retroactively create a law, but they are always free to retroactively rescind one or grant immunity.
It would have been more interesting (and perhaps more constitutionally correct) though if Bush, before leaving office, wrote a Presidential Pardon to any corporation participating in the program. After all, corporations are considered to be people now...
Disclaimer: IANAL
Indeed.
No secure site should even have the ability to read your plaintext password from the database, let alone email it to you on a regular basis. The only (potentially) secure password database is the one that's encrypted with a one-way hash.
"But not everyone is enamored of the device which could be available to automakers in eight to 10 years."
So in other words, the technology to forbid drunk driving will arrive at the same time that it becomes irrelevant, at least if Google has its way with autonomous vehicles.
I suppose this technology could play a role in disabling any 'manual override' on autonomous cars though, such that the worst that could happen would be the drunk telling the car to take him to some unseemly place...
What the hell are you talking about? Number please? Please. The operator asks you for a business, person, location, and then GIVES you a number. That's not as trivial a task to automate as you think.
Wow I hate douches like you that lie and twist reality to make points.
Whoosh?
I believe the OP was referring to the jobs that were eliminated back when phone companies went from human operators connecting calls on a switchboard (where you had to give them the number) to electronic switchboards that enabled actually dialing a number (though they still required human operators for many years after that to connect long distance calls).
If you think about it, for both telephone switchboards 50 years ago, and toll booths today, we are:
- eliminating menial jobs with human interaction (oh no, lost jobs!)
- adding efficiency to the system (no more waiting in line/hold to get through/connected)
- reducing privacy through an expanded paper trail (in neither case was there no paper trail before, just more of one now)
If you've never used an Office application before and only need to access basic functions, then yes the Ribbon is a nice, simple interface.
However, if your looking for a rarely used feature and don't have the icon layouts memorized, it can be quite frustrating to use. Yes, the icon may be placed in a very logical place on one of the ribbon tabs, but that doesn't do me any good if it's a bizarre icon that I can't spot on first glance. Using a traditional menu, you can tap the first letter in the command your looking for to jump to it - for the Ribbon you have to randomly mouse-over every icon to see the tooltip before finding what you want. Further, at least with the old toolbar you could move icons around to locations that seem more natural to you, but the Ribbon offers no such customization (hiding a few icons doesn't count)
Note: I switched to a Mac at work last year (when IT is proud of an 8-minute boot time, switching becomes necessary to preserve sanity and while I prefer Linux, Mac has slightly better support for Enterprise applications), so I can't think of any specific examples offhand.
Unfortunately, I hear that an Office 2011 Mac upgrade is near at hand which brings the Ribbon interface to the Mac
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
