but you will still need large organizations to produce anything complex.
nonsense. the only thing big companies are capable of doing is creating a movie that costs 200 million to produce, that doesn't mean it's any more "complex" or even "good" all it means is that it is "expensive." granted most of the videos on you tube are crude to say the least but there are also a good number that are at or better than a lot of what hollywood and big studios produce [which as of late isnt all that hard]
that's why you set boundries on what it can do. eg. ignore ip range x... and domains ending in.ru or under *cchack.ru, use [blacklist of your choice] to define boundries for crawling/information exchange... besides that I would hope that sensitive information would be encrypted or inaccessible to the intelligent agent even if it did somehow decide to fail in such a manner as you describe.
And that makes me wonder what the risk of hijacking would be if carrying guns was allowed (even encouraged?) on airplanes.
about the same as successfully robbing a packed gun stor I suppose. I just dont know how safe it would be to hand weapons over to people crammed in a tin can surrounded by a good number of annoying people forced to sit together for *hours* on end.
you know after running Gos through virtualbox I can say that I completely agree with you. that dock isn't really easily edited like pretty much any other dock app I've used and the fact that they could have installed flash if they really wanted to but for some reason choose not to completely neutered the desktop out of the box. they could have gotten along with having a custom xubuntu installation [works great on 512mb] or at the least put a few tutorials on basic use of the OS on the desktop so that win users would have an easier time adapting.
even so, you probably wouldn't want this to happen your your flat screen monitor and that's the point, by the looks of it, this monitor is *better* at withstanding abuse in comparison to the average one most people would be buying.
This story seems like a hoax. The nation of Palau has only 20,000 people, and a annual GDP of $160M. Are they really going to invest in a single R&D project that costs five times their national GDP? I call BS.
they probably are not paying for it themselves, it sounds like an experimental project funded from off the island with significantly more investment money available than that whole island is worth.
explosions aren't the problem with this power level, inducing currents in conductive materials like say electronics is. more powerful versions with a tighter beam may be able to do physical damage rather than electronuc damage but they are likely a few years off.
how about replacing individual brain cells that are dying or dead one after another until your entire brain is composed of synthetic components? your brain does it all the time only with cells that are already there, it's a very plastic organ that adapts to changing conditions and would no doubt adapt to synthetic components in a very similar way.
at the rate machines are advancing in intelligence it wouldn't surprise me if we no longer h=ad the intelligence needed to subjugate machines at some point. whether this comes peacefully or not won't be our decision at that point, it will be entirely theirs.
"patching" the vulnerabilities is complicated, since the issues exist in the SWF files themselves and not in Flash player, so the only solution is for website owners to re-generate their Flash applets with the updated generators, which should be out shortly.
why exactly is this not considered a problem with the flash player its self if it is executing code it shouldn't be? fixing the swf files themselves doesn't really solve the problem if it is still possible to create malformed swf files which can later be used in attacks because the flash player still handles that malformed code the same as always. right? this vulnerability can still be exploited by those who use the old swf generator to produce malformed swf files that still cause the problem in the flash players themselves.
malicious strings are injected into the legitimate code through a technique known as cross-site scripting, or XSS.
it needs to make use of a cross site scripting vulnerability to inject the code needed to expose the flaw in flash files. If I RTFA right, the flash files themselves don't neccessarily need to contain the code in of themselves but can be made vulnerable with the XSS vulnerability. which I suppose makes sense, XSS vulrerabilities are associated with code injection that can cause some very bad things to happen even without the flash vulrnerability.
exactly, I don't think there is a good enough reason to justify anyone taking people's private data on their laptops *at all* and even if they needed to [which I severely doubt] the data should always remain encrypted! there should never ever be a time when the data is readable without the proper secure passphrase/key. not only that, it should be the highest encryption they can find not the ROT 13 equivalent.
If you mean the literal interpretation belief, then yes.
exactly, religion doesn't just go away if new evidence shows that a core belief doesn't work in the lieral sense, it evolves over time to survive. there likely will always be some form of religion, people have a need to feel special and to know the unseen, maybe feel like they have a purpose or to give meaning to their life. maybe even nothing more than to have the feeling that there's something watching over them like a parental figure that keeps them safe and helps them out in need, either way the reasons people use to justify religion will not go away regardless of any evidence that is found to the contrary.
There are a gazillion of these unsupported hunches out there, believe which ever one you want. Physics has become the domain of science fiction authors.
it only requires one to replace or extend current theory. there needs to be evidence to support theories for them to do so and the predictive power of these theories is a big reason why one theory extends or takes over the work of another.
think of it this way: say that a region of space has a different flow of time [time dilation] that things occur 1/2 that of any other region of space and ten billion years later that region of space now has time at a rate 1/4 that of normal space, that is to say that things are occuring at 1/4 the rate of any where else. it would then be accurate to say that the rate of time is slowing down over time relative to other regions of space.
most systems will grind to a halt in a few years from the accumulation of registry keys and can't-uninstall software
yes, eventually thi is true but malware does a fine job of speeding up the process by a good 10 fold or more. winboxes will work for a pretty long time if they are not constantly installing and uninstalling software- the old compaq still has win95 on it and works fine- it just wasn't constantly burdened by a bunch of garbage accumulating over time. if a winbox like that is taken care of it can last well over a decade quite nicely. if it isn't well... there's always upgrading to one of the penguins:)
I think the real problem with malware is that by the time an antivirus/antispyware program is needed IT IS TOO LATE. you have already been infected, antivirus software is for after the fact, cleaning up the files that were installed or warning you of their presence in a file atatchment etc.. The real defense here is preventing this from happening in the first place. That is, educating users not to click haphazerdly at anything that they feel like and that is a heck of a challenge. most users do not understand what can happen and many likely do not really care, they just want their new screensaver or whatever to work [bundled with spyware of course] and when their bad habits finally catch up with them when their computer slows to a virtual crawl, they go out and buy a new one thinking computers decay over time or something.
yes, crude temperature variation maps of extrasolar planetary atmospheres and in one case finding the spectral lines indicating water vapor in the atmosphere of another planet. We already know the mass, orbit time and eccentricity of certain extrasolar planets as it is as well.
I wonder what consequences this has in regard to any snooping being done in the name of national security. A new "legal" way for the feds to take a look at what you've been up to that doesn't require any warrents/no-knock raids/phone taps etc...?
I'd like to think that the EU has a better system for dealing with monopolies although at the same time I can't help but wonder if the fact that Microsoft isn't based there had a lot to do with it. in either case, good job EU! The only thing better would be if they actually had the power to give Microsoft more than a slap on the wrist and used that power if/when Microsoft starts giving anyone trouble.
they've [fundamentalists] already decided it was 7 literal days and nothing will convince them otherwise. The belief in biblical "days" being symolic of being "eras" of several hundred million year spans doesn't fit in with their literal reading of their holy books. Once that literal context disappears the entire framework of their belief system collapses.
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that's why you set boundries on what it can do. eg. ignore ip range x... and domains ending in .ru or under *cchack.ru, use [blacklist of your choice] to define boundries for crawling/information exchange... besides that I would hope that sensitive information would be encrypted or inaccessible to the intelligent agent even if it did somehow decide to fail in such a manner as you describe.
you know after running Gos through virtualbox I can say that I completely agree with you. that dock isn't really easily edited like pretty much any other dock app I've used and the fact that they could have installed flash if they really wanted to but for some reason choose not to completely neutered the desktop out of the box. they could have gotten along with having a custom xubuntu installation [works great on 512mb] or at the least put a few tutorials on basic use of the OS on the desktop so that win users would have an easier time adapting.
too bad there is no editor moderation or something like that -1 doesn't RTFA -1 dupe -1 doesn't use spell check -1 fear mongering/FUD etc...
in former soviet ukraine, monitor blends you
that's not a bug, it's a feature
explosions aren't the problem with this power level, inducing currents in conductive materials like say electronics is. more powerful versions with a tighter beam may be able to do physical damage rather than electronuc damage but they are likely a few years off.
how about replacing individual brain cells that are dying or dead one after another until your entire brain is composed of synthetic components? your brain does it all the time only with cells that are already there, it's a very plastic organ that adapts to changing conditions and would no doubt adapt to synthetic components in a very similar way.
at the rate machines are advancing in intelligence it wouldn't surprise me if we no longer h=ad the intelligence needed to subjugate machines at some point. whether this comes peacefully or not won't be our decision at that point, it will be entirely theirs.
exactly, I don't think there is a good enough reason to justify anyone taking people's private data on their laptops *at all* and even if they needed to [which I severely doubt] the data should always remain encrypted! there should never ever be a time when the data is readable without the proper secure passphrase/key. not only that, it should be the highest encryption they can find not the ROT 13 equivalent.
think of it this way: say that a region of space has a different flow of time [time dilation] that things occur 1/2 that of any other region of space and ten billion years later that region of space now has time at a rate 1/4 that of normal space, that is to say that things are occuring at 1/4 the rate of any where else. it would then be accurate to say that the rate of time is slowing down over time relative to other regions of space.
I think the real problem with malware is that by the time an antivirus/antispyware program is needed IT IS TOO LATE. you have already been infected, antivirus software is for after the fact, cleaning up the files that were installed or warning you of their presence in a file atatchment etc.. The real defense here is preventing this from happening in the first place. That is, educating users not to click haphazerdly at anything that they feel like and that is a heck of a challenge. most users do not understand what can happen and many likely do not really care, they just want their new screensaver or whatever to work [bundled with spyware of course] and when their bad habits finally catch up with them when their computer slows to a virtual crawl, they go out and buy a new one thinking computers decay over time or something.
he can sink a ship if he steers them into an "iceberg" or for that matter "doesn't know there is an iceberg" like the titanic.
yes, crude temperature variation maps of extrasolar planetary atmospheres and in one case finding the spectral lines indicating water vapor in the atmosphere of another planet. We already know the mass, orbit time and eccentricity of certain extrasolar planets as it is as well.
I wonder what consequences this has in regard to any snooping being done in the name of national security. A new "legal" way for the feds to take a look at what you've been up to that doesn't require any warrents/no-knock raids/phone taps etc...?
I'd like to think that the EU has a better system for dealing with monopolies although at the same time I can't help but wonder if the fact that Microsoft isn't based there had a lot to do with it. in either case, good job EU! The only thing better would be if they actually had the power to give Microsoft more than a slap on the wrist and used that power if/when Microsoft starts giving anyone trouble.
they've [fundamentalists] already decided it was 7 literal days and nothing will convince them otherwise. The belief in biblical "days" being symolic of being "eras" of several hundred million year spans doesn't fit in with their literal reading of their holy books. Once that literal context disappears the entire framework of their belief system collapses.