I dunno. It doesn't have to be a very expensive solution. It will suffice with a mobile unit, a GPS unit and a SIM card. If you're wondering where your pet (or cow) is, simply use the supplied software. The software then sends an SMS message to the mobile unit, the GPS boots up and gets a lock, and then your software receives a reply containing the coordinates. This is relatively low-tech, and not very expensive. I guess the unit might cost about 100 bucks with a decent battery that will last a few days (for pet uses). A look up of your pet's location will cost a whopping price of 2 SMS-messages.
I think the guy has a point (altough he's being a bit nationalistic about it): Transparancy is key in order to learn from mistakes. You can say many different things about the US of A, but the US of A is good at open hearings.
Nobody buys Intel integrated chips because of how they do on 3D mark. Nobody thinks they are any serious kind of performance. Hell, most people are amazed to find out that these days they are good enough that you can, in fact, play some games on them (though not near as well as dedicated hardware). So I can't imagine they are gaining lots of sales out of this. Remember these are chips on the board itself. You either got a board with one or didn't. You don't pick one up later because you liked the numbers.
That's incorrect, I'm afraid. That's because the vast majority of the buyers are not clued-in. Consequently, they are lead to believe that the system is ready for gaming when it may not be. This is the core of the issue. 3DMark is supposed to inform consumers about performance, without having to read up on the relative merits of the 15 different chipset families out there. When someone cheats on 3DMark, they are making life more difficult for consumers seeking to make informed decisions with a minimal amount of effort.
1. Think App Store. Applications must be signed and verified. This is painful, but will be done eventually for there is no realistic amount of user education that can prevent a sizeable portion from installing malware. This is fact is empirically verified every day in most IT departments. 2. Secure design. Making stuff both usable and secure is necessary. 3. Secure implementation. Better libraries, please!
Sorry buddy, think again about security. The room is chock full of pink elephants!
The optics can be as good as they wanna be, if the aperture/pixels-per-mm2 combination is diffraction limited then adding more megapixels just means the lacking information will spread over larger files.
Indeed. There's a market for making stuff for creative people, but don't expect to make a blockbuster when you're targeting the creative crowd. The crowd is not huge.
Agreed. Not everyone wants a huge camera. Not even a over-the-shoulder-sized superzoom or micro four thirds one.
However, interestingly, the point-and-shoots waste a lot of resources and space by exceeding the diffraction limit on common apertures. Plus their "noise-reduction" algorithms is really all about selective downsampling while maintaining file size when you operate within non-limited apertures.
You buy a 12mpx point-and-shoot, but the files themselves are closer to 6-8 mpx in terms of resolution.
I thought albedo modification was the way forward? It doesn't have to be expensive either:
1. Make sure new/repaired roads get a more reflective/whiter surface. 2. Make sure all new buildings get a reflective/whiter roofing. 3. Retrofit roofs with either paint or new roofing.
That would transform urban areas from heat-traps to energy-bouncers. And cut airconditioning usage too!
Well - what if the defense demonstrated to the judge how the cloning is performed? The Gov't would have a hard time coming up with an expert witness that could talk their way out of the judge having two identical cards in their hands...
If we see some actual photographs and not just some photoshop reconstructions, we have a better shot at recognizing the person in real life and asking for their autograph or just striking up a conversation.
There currently is no such thing as a free lunch when it comes to neuropsychiatric drugs - they're really more like hand grenades then rifle bullets. They hit the target, but often cause collateral damage. Whether and how much and what you should take is often a long term, complicated dance between the patient, the physician and occasionally the courts.
We've lost parts of the secret of living happily with our flaws. Instead of accepting reasonable imperfections in ourselves and others, we strive towards whatever bullshit ideals we have and most of us fail to reach them. We are vastly overmedicated to compensate for our lack of wisdom and knowledge of living.
Then again, some people genuinely need these drugs - either temporarily or on a permanent basis. But I cannot believe so many of us have brains that need chemical help to function adequately.
OK, then. Definitions seem to be different in different domains. In my domain, the sum of false positive rate (measured in percent) + true positive rate measured in percent = 100%. The sum of false negatives and true negatives is also 100%.
If there is a 0.6% to 1% false positive ratio, that means that out of 1000 "flagged" people 6-10 of these will be of innocent people. Those other 990-994 other guys will be "bad guys" - or true positives from a technical point-of-view. So, whatever the detection rate, a false positive ratio of 1% - as grave as that is to those innocents who are "flagged" - will not make the solution completely unworkable.
Notice who you don't need a waiting rom big enough to hold 27 000 people when you apply knowledge and mathematics correctly?
Well - you are here assuming that the majority of the network traffic will be fetching and pushing blocks to the storage system. That may be partially true. However, with terabyte interfaces we should also be able to move entire virtual machines between servers in less time than we currently need. Applications will also be able to run inside a large cloud where calculations are distributed across machines and collected afterwards. The better the network throughput and network latency, the smaller tasks can be distributed and still run faster than in serial on one processor.
I mean - cloud computing can be kinda like supercomputing: Lots of processors with high-speed interconnects.
Captcha's etc won't work perfectly. Ever. There are always bot(net)s that are able to defeat them. If you use software to make the lettering difficult to read, you can still write software to read it. Like the algorithms, we detect the order in the chaos..
So let's just face it:
The internets needs a unified authentication system if we are to kill spam. If there was a unified authentication system, you would't need to store your passwords around the internet, and your mails would be tracable to you.
So, let those who need anonymity create their own solutions for interacting anonymously.
You can drill with a handdrill and a powerdrill. If you're cheap, you get the handdrill. The rest of us get a powerdrill and spend less time on drilling.:)
.. I guess the devoutly religious are trained to suspend their disbelief and instead believe in miracles. The people who lost the most money in a recent pyramid/MLM scheme in Norway were more religious than the general population. That's what happens when you train people to be irrational..
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I dunno. It doesn't have to be a very expensive solution. It will suffice with a mobile unit, a GPS unit and a SIM card. If you're wondering where your pet (or cow) is, simply use the supplied software. The software then sends an SMS message to the mobile unit, the GPS boots up and gets a lock, and then your software receives a reply containing the coordinates. This is relatively low-tech, and not very expensive. I guess the unit might cost about 100 bucks with a decent battery that will last a few days (for pet uses). A look up of your pet's location will cost a whopping price of 2 SMS-messages.
I think the guy has a point (altough he's being a bit nationalistic about it): Transparancy is key in order to learn from mistakes. You can say many different things about the US of A, but the US of A is good at open hearings.
That's incorrect, I'm afraid. That's because the vast majority of the buyers are not clued-in. Consequently, they are lead to believe that the system is ready for gaming when it may not be. This is the core of the issue. 3DMark is supposed to inform consumers about performance, without having to read up on the relative merits of the 15 different chipset families out there. When someone cheats on 3DMark, they are making life more difficult for consumers seeking to make informed decisions with a minimal amount of effort.
This is one steaming pile of bull faesces.
Here's what works:
1. Think App Store. Applications must be signed and verified. This is painful, but will be done eventually for there is no realistic amount of user education that can prevent a sizeable portion from installing malware. This is fact is empirically verified every day in most IT departments.
2. Secure design. Making stuff both usable and secure is necessary.
3. Secure implementation. Better libraries, please!
Sorry buddy, think again about security. The room is chock full of pink elephants!
The optics can be as good as they wanna be, if the aperture/pixels-per-mm2 combination is diffraction limited then adding more megapixels just means the lacking information will spread over larger files.
Indeed. There's a market for making stuff for creative people, but don't expect to make a blockbuster when you're targeting the creative crowd. The crowd is not huge.
BTW - they made a Deux Ex sequel.
Agreed. Not everyone wants a huge camera. Not even a over-the-shoulder-sized superzoom or micro four thirds one.
However, interestingly, the point-and-shoots waste a lot of resources and space by exceeding the diffraction limit on common apertures. Plus their "noise-reduction" algorithms is really all about selective downsampling while maintaining file size when you operate within non-limited apertures.
You buy a 12mpx point-and-shoot, but the files themselves are closer to 6-8 mpx in terms of resolution.
I thought albedo modification was the way forward? It doesn't have to be expensive either:
1. Make sure new/repaired roads get a more reflective/whiter surface.
2. Make sure all new buildings get a reflective/whiter roofing.
3. Retrofit roofs with either paint or new roofing.
That would transform urban areas from heat-traps to energy-bouncers. And cut airconditioning usage too!
So, co-ed sports now?
Well - what if the defense demonstrated to the judge how the cloning is performed? The Gov't would have a hard time coming up with an expert witness that could talk their way out of the judge having two identical cards in their hands...
That demo is so quick it was done before rendering on FF 3.5.2 on Centos 5.3, with 64bit flash.
Hoooray for Flash.
A hundred thousand years of human technology, and we're stilling making clubs. That says something about the human race.
If we see some actual photographs and not just some photoshop reconstructions, we have a better shot at recognizing the person in real life and asking for their autograph or just striking up a conversation.
We've lost parts of the secret of living happily with our flaws. Instead of accepting reasonable imperfections in ourselves and others, we strive towards whatever bullshit ideals we have and most of us fail to reach them. We are vastly overmedicated to compensate for our lack of wisdom and knowledge of living.
Then again, some people genuinely need these drugs - either temporarily or on a permanent basis. But I cannot believe so many of us have brains that need chemical help to function adequately.
The longer it takes us to find a clean, abundant, relatively inexpensive power source, the more expensive combating climate change becomes.
Come on, how hard can it be? The sequel to The Force Unleashed would rock my universe if I could actually strangle my foes.
OK, then. Definitions seem to be different in different domains. In my domain, the sum of false positive rate (measured in percent) + true positive rate measured in percent = 100%. The sum of false negatives and true negatives is also 100%.
If there is a 0.6% to 1% false positive ratio, that means that out of 1000 "flagged" people 6-10 of these will be of innocent people. Those other 990-994 other guys will be "bad guys" - or true positives from a technical point-of-view. So, whatever the detection rate, a false positive ratio of 1% - as grave as that is to those innocents who are "flagged" - will not make the solution completely unworkable.
Notice who you don't need a waiting rom big enough to hold 27 000 people when you apply knowledge and mathematics correctly?
If they sell the rights, storyline and artwork in one big packages, someone competent can implement the actual game in a year or so.
There are plenty of steps that should be prioritized over soy-based ink:
Once these steps are done (the company will profit from most of them), feel free to consider soy-based toner cartridges.
Well - you are here assuming that the majority of the network traffic will be fetching and pushing blocks to the storage system. That may be partially true. However, with terabyte interfaces we should also be able to move entire virtual machines between servers in less time than we currently need. Applications will also be able to run inside a large cloud where calculations are distributed across machines and collected afterwards. The better the network throughput and network latency, the smaller tasks can be distributed and still run faster than in serial on one processor.
I mean - cloud computing can be kinda like supercomputing: Lots of processors with high-speed interconnects.
Captcha's etc won't work perfectly. Ever. There are always bot(net)s that are able to defeat them. If you use software to make the lettering difficult to read, you can still write software to read it. Like the algorithms, we detect the order in the chaos..
So let's just face it:
The internets needs a unified authentication system if we are to kill spam. If there was a unified authentication system, you would't need to store your passwords around the internet, and your mails would be tracable to you.
So, let those who need anonymity create their own solutions for interacting anonymously.
Cloud computing.
You can drill with a handdrill and a powerdrill. If you're cheap, you get the handdrill. The rest of us get a powerdrill and spend less time on drilling. :)
.. I guess the devoutly religious are trained to suspend their disbelief and instead believe in miracles. The people who lost the most money in a recent pyramid/MLM scheme in Norway were more religious than the general population. That's what happens when you train people to be irrational..