Slashback: Dilemma, Privacy, Chess

Slashback tonight with updates on Deep Fritz, the interaction of Microsoft service packs and privacy laws, and the view from the shuttle tank-cam, and a depressing update on the Nissan squatting case. Read on for the details.

Front-row seats. zer0vector writes "The previously mentioned camera that was attached to the external fuel tank on Atlantis gave some great shots of launch this afternoon on NASA TV. During the feed, it looked like the ejection of the solid rocket boosters damaged or obscured the camera, leading to a fuzzy image during the fuel tank separation stage."

SkyNet has not yet achieved consciousness. DrEnter writes "According to this Yahoo article, Vladimir Kramnik has defeated 'Deep Fritz' (apparently the world's most powerful chess computer) to take the lead, 2.5-0.5 (the first game was a draw). You can find out more details at the contest site."

Damned if you do, but also if you don't. cybaea writes "A recent article in InfoWorld argues that the latest Windows 2000 and Windows XP Service Packs may be illegal for health care providers under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. To make matters worse, not installing the Service Packs may also be illegal. Damned if you do, damned if you don't ..."

Dad, please switch to a real operating system. It's still spreading. deego writes " An e-mail-borne computer virus that lets crackers control infected Windoze machines remotely continues to spread and constitutes the most severe attack this year. The worm, known as W32.Bugbear, or I-Worm.Tanatos, infects computers that use Microsoft's Windows operating systems. It was first spotted a week ago and has spread to dozens of countries. Article here."

Please sit down first. calib0r writes "CNN.com is running an article on the most recent events dealing with the nissan.com lawsuit. Salon.com ran an article about this a few months ago. More information can also be found here."

Comments

Chess

[MutantEnemy]

It's laughable to say that Deep Fritz is the strongest computer programme - Deep Blue (that defeated Kasparov) evaluated 200 million positions per second compared to Deep Fritz's 3-4 million. Deep Blue was running on an IBM-made supercomputer. Fritz isn't.

Re:Chess

[cbv]

Yea, that's why Fritz won the Computer Chess World Championship in 1995 against Deep Blue. SCNR.

Re:Chess

[_LFTL_]

It's laughable to say that Deep Fritz is the strongest computer programme

Hrmm... I guess you should be laughing at Kramnik then. From the article:

"Deep Fritz is simply a stronger program than Deep Blue" - Vladimir Kramnik

Re:Chess

[laxian]

Sorry, Could Not Resist

ALWAYS check Everything2 first! :)

A couple corrections to the article...

[Jouster]

Just a few quick things to throw in:

1. Bugbear actually uses one of forty different subject lines. It also sometimes throws in some random data, just for fun.
2. Bugbear is a descendant of Badtrans, a nasty but not particularly widespread virus from earlier this year. The keystroke logger seems to have been borrowed bit-for-bit (at least in the copy I isolated and analysed).

Jouster

From the CNN Nissan Article

[ksw2]

"We've always seen this case as protecting the Nissan brand and not about money," he said. "What we are saying is the word Nissan by itself is our registered trademark and we're the only ones with the right to use the name Nissan by itself."

Interesting. I wonder if they'll be requiring Uzi Nissan to change his last name as well... after all, Nissan owns it...

Also, it bear mentioning that Uzi has spent well in excess of one million dollars defending his own last name from these assholes who didn't even use the name "Nissan" in the States until well after Uzi had registerred the domain and used it for his own business.

The corporate swines have also been using dirty tricks like filing suit across the county from where Uzi lives, in an attempt to sap his finances so he can't defend himself. (These are things Uzi himself talked about at H2K2, if you're curious about my sources)

Re:Nissan vs. Nissan

[sulli]

In Japanese, it means "Made in Japan." Other Japanese companies (e.g. Nissan Stainless) also use the name.

Now it's not the same word as that used on other products to mean "Made in Japan" (that word is kokusan, "made in our nation") but it is definitely somewhat generic.

Entire Shuttle video here

[ChrisCampbell47]

Quicktime from space.com (6.7 MB)

Just the tank camera, no cutaways, all the way from launch to SRB seperation.

Play it fast (hold the frame advance button down) for another cool view of the whole launch in about 15 seconds.

Nasa Footage

[Drath]

This is probably posted already buy you can view this video on Space.com Here.

It's pretty sweet.

Re:What would a judge say?

[PurpleBob]

I've only taken Japanese for five weeks, but that's enough to know that your analysis of "Datsun" is BS. You may not have made it up, but someone obviously did.

"Datsun" is three characters in hiragana: da tsu n. "Dat" is not a well-formed Japanese word. "sun" is not pronounced like English "sun", and does not mean "son". Amazingly enough, you seem to be correct that "son" means something like "to lose money" (WWWJDIC has it as "loss; disadvantage"), but if the name were "Datson" it would break up as "da tso n", and there's no such syllable as "tso".