Realistically with 1 billion people plus extremely commonly repeated, simplistic first and last names in their language, China is going to have sooooo many first and last name repeats that they still won't be able to pin this down to one unique person based on just a name in most cases. Not even close actually. Just because of how things are there compared to here, it could easily be possibly that for any given person in China, it's 100,000 times (or more) more likely that there's at least one other person named exactly that in the country compared to the probability of that happening in the US. Definitely kinda funny if you think about it.
Why are they working on a technology that we already have the means to beat? This is what people call a one sided, correlation based conclusion system. Like for example take a read-only look at my Google searches and make a correlation to info about me. Chances are, you're wrong but you'll think you're right. You're gonna be wrong because it's not a 100% guaranteed matchup. It's merely a likelihood via the most probable cause of the search that someone can come up with. Like if I searched for "New York Monkey Ownership" then I must want to own a monkey and I live in New York. It seems like an obvious correlation based on what seems the most likely but is my brain directly hooked into Google? Not yet lol. So at best, they're guessing. Maybe my friend wants to own a monkey or I saw someone on TV and wanted to know if it was even legal for them to own one in New York.
So back to the brain, oh look, my memory center just lit up. That means the memory I'm describing is true because the making crap up part of my brain isn't lit up. WRONG! I memorized and am recalling a movie I watched a dozen times where that exact thing happened but it didn't happen in real life, thus faking legitimate activity in that area of my brain. Or they think I robbed a bank and tell me they found solid evidence linking me to it and my threat centers of the brain aren't reacting at all. I guess I'm innocent, right? Not if I brainwashed myself to think that I have an important mission in jail so getting caught is what I wanted all along so it's good that they're catching me. If you or someone else tells you something enough times, you'll believe it.
Pretending that reading someone's brain activity based on activity by location is going to tell you exactly what they're thinking is idiotic. It's circumstantial evidence at best and still just a one way, correlation based system. Worry area lighting up = he's worried is NOT solid proof that he's thinking about what someone is saying and is actually worried. Maybe he just purposely remembered at that time that he forgot to pay his cable bill and is worried and doesn't care about what you said. The people using this technology still have NO IDEA what the person is really thinking and a little training makes it soooooo fakeable. This is even worse than the utter nonsense that a polygraph machine is because people will respect it more. It sounds fancier and harder to beat but that is in fact not remotely the case.
They need to find whoever made that stupid decision and hit them with it. Then maybe they'll think it's effective. I mean seriously, when I first heard about this, I thought it's the PERFECT WEAPON! It still is. Someone has seriously got their head up their ass on this one.
The one thing you can't patch in a game is all the assholes online. All the filters and reporting systems won't keep them out. You've got anything from creeps to arrogant jackasses to mentally unstable folks playing every game. So why not eliminate that, make a killer Morrowind style game, and then keep making better sequels. People are still playing Starcraft Original and the servers have to still be up without any money coming in. People dump subscription games faster than they can implement the subscription even so it's either run servers for free for a long time, piss everyone off by closing the servers after like 3 years, or lose all your customers by making them effectively pay like $100 yearly for the game, most of which is going to the server rental company anyway.
With offline only games, you play it, win it, replay it, win it again, sell it and buy the new version and there's very little upkeep expense for the company making the game. It's like planned obsolescence that people actually prefer!
Who cares about the money? At least one person is going to resign or get fired. I think the tax payers would pay like $0.07 each to at the same time fire whoever is behind this idiocy.
When is anyone anywhere going to learn about the Streissand Effect? This would only even be slightly more idiotic or ironic if in they video, they're pulling over Barbara Streissand herself. Now millions of people and probably CNN if it's a slow news day will pick up this story and know what a bunch of assholes these morons are and there will be resignations and law suits and blah blah blah just because of a few arrogant jackasses trying to use scare tactics. Well, at least the good news is they're all going to get what they deserve.
Btw, since they're probably not above suing over comments about this story also, SUBPEONA THIS! *flips off the screen*
Lol, just try and take me to court to make me prove you're all jackasses as stated (and make it a jury trial.)
I used to be a content moderator for ehow.com, a demand media subsidiary. Luckily all I had to do was sort out the bad user articles that weren't up to their quality standard. I came across some oddly disturbing stuff but at least it was only text. I definitely now have it embedded in my mind though that 99% of people can't write an article properly to save their own life and most Americans are degenerate mutant freaks who need to go back to school to learn basic grammar and spelling skills but other than that, I came out of it perfectly sane lol.
It wasn't just a "US Software Firm" it was the infamous Solid Oak, the makers of Cyber Sitter. I just had someone's comp have Cyber Sitter version 10 (the version they ripped off to make Green Dam) blow itself up and removing manually it is an unbelievable pain in the ass. The LSP's regenerate themselves if all pieces of the software aren't deleted at the exact same time. So needless to say, it probably would have worked well which is why they stole it. The funny thing is, it's a pretty poorly rated program compared to others. They should have ripped off Net Nanny, the current highest rated internet filter. I think Cyber Sitter might be the hardest to remove though. The good news in all of this is maybe Cyber Sitter will get a sizeable chunk of that 2.2 billion and finally be able to afford some damn technical support! In fact, it's so awful and the product ratings are so far in the toilet, China stealing their code for Green Dam may actually save their entire company because they're not doing so well lately. Just thought that little back story on who's behind this might be interesting.
I had to work on someone's Vista 64 bit machine and I hated it. Not only were half the programs running in 32 bit mode but almost none of my virus removal tools worked so I couldn't completely disinfect it. Three different antivirus programs wouldn't install properly on it either. Almost no software I had ran on it and for some reason, Java 32 bit was installed and 64 bit wouldn't install. If I wanted a computer that no software ran on, I'd buy a mac.
okay, so walk around an entire city while detecting and recording all sound, digital transmissions in all forms, and all analog signals too. Yeah it's "public" because it's floating through the air but you're still just walking around, spying on random people and that's frowned upon legally in most countries. So any fraction of that like just recording open wifi data is also illegal. That's the logic behind it at least, it's still stupid.
They should have randomized the recordings. It doesn't really make any sense. I mean if your employees hear it maybe 3 times, they can recognize it in seconds and hang up and it won't waste nearly enough time. Someone could get a line of volunteers and record like a hundred random "hold on just a minute...I can talk in a second..." type intros followed by random noises and mostly silence. Now that would waste time!
Also, if they're the phone company, why didn't they just identify the real, actual source of the calls or even just pretend to be interested enough to get the company name and then sue the pants off them and put the upper management in jail?
I'm sure our wonderful technology has a margin of error that includes that small of an amount. Even if the equipment and math are perfect, I figured they used something oh-so-predictable and constant like gravity to measure it It turns out they didn't when you read the article but be sure to read this little part:
"and since the 1960s physicists have made hundreds of measurements of the proton's size with staggering accuracy. The most recent estimates..."
Oops, they made a typo. They should have said estimates twice but they accidentally called it a measurement in the first sentence. That's right, SURPRISE, they're estimating.
This is yet again an example of how exciting stupidity is published and real science is ignored. Which would you publish or report on in the news? There's a discrepency so the measuring must be a little off OR there's a discrepency so all we know about physics is wrong and everything is turned upside down and the sky is falling! It's just like how people who say dark matter must be regular matter that isn't emitting or reflecting detectable radiation get ignored and people who say dark matter is a mysterious, interdimensional, quantum, magic substance get an hour long special on TV because that sounds more interesting.
I doubt it because their calculation results in 66.6 FPS so 60 I guess and there's no way in hell they're sending 1280x1024 at that framerate. What is it, like 320x240 resolution? They need to do a real study about this probably terribly inept service that includes all stats compared to a locally run game.
So it doesn't "weight zero" as they're implying, it doesn't modify gravity in any way, and if it's super light and not lead it probably doesn't protect completely against X-ray radiation. I mean what thin, light substance can stop X-rays? Nothing! It only stops for dense matter. So unless they sewed two spring jackets together and packed em with pixie dust and ground up unicorn horns, I don't think this is a legitimate product.
I'm going to say probably not but simply because it's a blimp so they probably launched it when the spill happened and it's just getting there now lol. They wouldn't have the food and other supplies necessary to carry a reporter. I'm glad to see they're dedicated to using the latest and greatest in modern technology to help clean up the oil spill though.
They sort of buried the lead. It's not "the latest technology," it's an iPhone. Programming a government anything for an Apple product is extremely unfair and insulting to people smart enough to use something better from another company.
um, that's not really fair use. It sounds like they posted the entire website verbatim. Ignore the circumstances and just think, if you owned a website and someone else grabbed the entire thing and put it on their website, you'd be pissed and that would be illegal. So just because some politician is getting burned by it and it's pretty much the right to do to disclose the truth doesn't mean it's not illegal.
As a side note, they said Harry's impersonating her? REALLY? If he was dressed in Sharron Angle drag anywhere ever, I'd have heard about it on CNN lol.
Wow, what a mysterious cliffhanger at the end of the summary...just kidding, it's obvious. They never had to worry about security because nobody used their products! With a market share like that, why would any malware writer or hacker bother? But now that Apple somehow convinced so many people to buy their so-so phone, they should have known what comes with that; attempted security breaches!
Actually, it's not the least bit surprising for a company that doesn't know the first thing about security to put out an insecure product and whole related system. This is definitely not going to be the first story like this about Apple if they keep putting out products that get enough market share to get attention from bad people. As a company, they have no idea how to handle it. Think of it this way. Microsoft has had decades to stop all forms of security threats that are constantly targetted at them and still hasn't gotten it quite right. Apple is starting from nothing because they've never had to worry about security on any significant scale. So unless they suddenly pull about 15 years of developed security measures and then some out of their asses and put it into the next iPhone, they're going down in flames.
This is sort of funny and entertaining really, and not just because it totally makes the outlook for Linux look better. Either Apple's products are a laughably small market share or it's a huge market share and because of that, turns into a disaster because they don't know what they're doing. So I'd like to see Mac computers get like a 30 or 40% market share so bad people start targetting them. Their OS would make XP look like Fort Knox by comparison.
This may appear to make no sense but I get it. Let me walk you through it. They do something horribly insecure and stupid. Then they issue this: "Through our systems and analytics, we focus on the greatest and most active threats in an effort to avoid negatively impacting customer experience." Then they realize that the biggest security threat at the moment is themselves. That blows their minds and with blown minds, they're unable to immediately solve the problem. That's how the sequence of events led up to where we are now with them still doing nothing about it.
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You're right! In fact, why don't they just crack a window? It is indeed very cold in space lol.
Realistically with 1 billion people plus extremely commonly repeated, simplistic first and last names in their language, China is going to have sooooo many first and last name repeats that they still won't be able to pin this down to one unique person based on just a name in most cases. Not even close actually. Just because of how things are there compared to here, it could easily be possibly that for any given person in China, it's 100,000 times (or more) more likely that there's at least one other person named exactly that in the country compared to the probability of that happening in the US. Definitely kinda funny if you think about it.
Why are they working on a technology that we already have the means to beat? This is what people call a one sided, correlation based conclusion system. Like for example take a read-only look at my Google searches and make a correlation to info about me. Chances are, you're wrong but you'll think you're right. You're gonna be wrong because it's not a 100% guaranteed matchup. It's merely a likelihood via the most probable cause of the search that someone can come up with. Like if I searched for "New York Monkey Ownership" then I must want to own a monkey and I live in New York. It seems like an obvious correlation based on what seems the most likely but is my brain directly hooked into Google? Not yet lol. So at best, they're guessing. Maybe my friend wants to own a monkey or I saw someone on TV and wanted to know if it was even legal for them to own one in New York.
So back to the brain, oh look, my memory center just lit up. That means the memory I'm describing is true because the making crap up part of my brain isn't lit up. WRONG! I memorized and am recalling a movie I watched a dozen times where that exact thing happened but it didn't happen in real life, thus faking legitimate activity in that area of my brain. Or they think I robbed a bank and tell me they found solid evidence linking me to it and my threat centers of the brain aren't reacting at all. I guess I'm innocent, right? Not if I brainwashed myself to think that I have an important mission in jail so getting caught is what I wanted all along so it's good that they're catching me. If you or someone else tells you something enough times, you'll believe it.
Pretending that reading someone's brain activity based on activity by location is going to tell you exactly what they're thinking is idiotic. It's circumstantial evidence at best and still just a one way, correlation based system. Worry area lighting up = he's worried is NOT solid proof that he's thinking about what someone is saying and is actually worried. Maybe he just purposely remembered at that time that he forgot to pay his cable bill and is worried and doesn't care about what you said. The people using this technology still have NO IDEA what the person is really thinking and a little training makes it soooooo fakeable. This is even worse than the utter nonsense that a polygraph machine is because people will respect it more. It sounds fancier and harder to beat but that is in fact not remotely the case.
They need to find whoever made that stupid decision and hit them with it. Then maybe they'll think it's effective. I mean seriously, when I first heard about this, I thought it's the PERFECT WEAPON! It still is. Someone has seriously got their head up their ass on this one.
The one thing you can't patch in a game is all the assholes online. All the filters and reporting systems won't keep them out. You've got anything from creeps to arrogant jackasses to mentally unstable folks playing every game. So why not eliminate that, make a killer Morrowind style game, and then keep making better sequels. People are still playing Starcraft Original and the servers have to still be up without any money coming in. People dump subscription games faster than they can implement the subscription even so it's either run servers for free for a long time, piss everyone off by closing the servers after like 3 years, or lose all your customers by making them effectively pay like $100 yearly for the game, most of which is going to the server rental company anyway.
With offline only games, you play it, win it, replay it, win it again, sell it and buy the new version and there's very little upkeep expense for the company making the game. It's like planned obsolescence that people actually prefer!
Who cares about the money? At least one person is going to resign or get fired. I think the tax payers would pay like $0.07 each to at the same time fire whoever is behind this idiocy.
When is anyone anywhere going to learn about the Streissand Effect? This would only even be slightly more idiotic or ironic if in they video, they're pulling over Barbara Streissand herself. Now millions of people and probably CNN if it's a slow news day will pick up this story and know what a bunch of assholes these morons are and there will be resignations and law suits and blah blah blah just because of a few arrogant jackasses trying to use scare tactics. Well, at least the good news is they're all going to get what they deserve.
Btw, since they're probably not above suing over comments about this story also, SUBPEONA THIS! *flips off the screen*
Lol, just try and take me to court to make me prove you're all jackasses as stated (and make it a jury trial.)
For $100,000 they can watch me walk on my hands lol. At that price, can they afford not to?
I used to be a content moderator for ehow.com, a demand media subsidiary. Luckily all I had to do was sort out the bad user articles that weren't up to their quality standard. I came across some oddly disturbing stuff but at least it was only text. I definitely now have it embedded in my mind though that 99% of people can't write an article properly to save their own life and most Americans are degenerate mutant freaks who need to go back to school to learn basic grammar and spelling skills but other than that, I came out of it perfectly sane lol.
and the shrimp are going to need some antidepressants after that whole catastrophe!
It wasn't just a "US Software Firm" it was the infamous Solid Oak, the makers of Cyber Sitter. I just had someone's comp have Cyber Sitter version 10 (the version they ripped off to make Green Dam) blow itself up and removing manually it is an unbelievable pain in the ass. The LSP's regenerate themselves if all pieces of the software aren't deleted at the exact same time. So needless to say, it probably would have worked well which is why they stole it. The funny thing is, it's a pretty poorly rated program compared to others. They should have ripped off Net Nanny, the current highest rated internet filter. I think Cyber Sitter might be the hardest to remove though. The good news in all of this is maybe Cyber Sitter will get a sizeable chunk of that 2.2 billion and finally be able to afford some damn technical support! In fact, it's so awful and the product ratings are so far in the toilet, China stealing their code for Green Dam may actually save their entire company because they're not doing so well lately. Just thought that little back story on who's behind this might be interesting.
Because players of DDO have told Turbine THEY HATE THAT! Seriously, we all hate stupid puzzles in quests in that game.
I had to work on someone's Vista 64 bit machine and I hated it. Not only were half the programs running in 32 bit mode but almost none of my virus removal tools worked so I couldn't completely disinfect it. Three different antivirus programs wouldn't install properly on it either. Almost no software I had ran on it and for some reason, Java 32 bit was installed and 64 bit wouldn't install. If I wanted a computer that no software ran on, I'd buy a mac.
okay, so walk around an entire city while detecting and recording all sound, digital transmissions in all forms, and all analog signals too. Yeah it's "public" because it's floating through the air but you're still just walking around, spying on random people and that's frowned upon legally in most countries. So any fraction of that like just recording open wifi data is also illegal. That's the logic behind it at least, it's still stupid.
They should have randomized the recordings. It doesn't really make any sense. I mean if your employees hear it maybe 3 times, they can recognize it in seconds and hang up and it won't waste nearly enough time. Someone could get a line of volunteers and record like a hundred random "hold on just a minute...I can talk in a second..." type intros followed by random noises and mostly silence. Now that would waste time!
Also, if they're the phone company, why didn't they just identify the real, actual source of the calls or even just pretend to be interested enough to get the company name and then sue the pants off them and put the upper management in jail?
I'm sure our wonderful technology has a margin of error that includes that small of an amount. Even if the equipment and math are perfect, I figured they used something oh-so-predictable and constant like gravity to measure it It turns out they didn't when you read the article but be sure to read this little part:
"and since the 1960s physicists have made hundreds of measurements of the proton's size with staggering accuracy. The most recent estimates..."
Oops, they made a typo. They should have said estimates twice but they accidentally called it a measurement in the first sentence. That's right, SURPRISE, they're estimating.
This is yet again an example of how exciting stupidity is published and real science is ignored. Which would you publish or report on in the news? There's a discrepency so the measuring must be a little off OR there's a discrepency so all we know about physics is wrong and everything is turned upside down and the sky is falling! It's just like how people who say dark matter must be regular matter that isn't emitting or reflecting detectable radiation get ignored and people who say dark matter is a mysterious, interdimensional, quantum, magic substance get an hour long special on TV because that sounds more interesting.
I doubt it because their calculation results in 66.6 FPS so 60 I guess and there's no way in hell they're sending 1280x1024 at that framerate. What is it, like 320x240 resolution? They need to do a real study about this probably terribly inept service that includes all stats compared to a locally run game.
or a trip to another planet to try an experimental stargate dialing system lol
So it doesn't "weight zero" as they're implying, it doesn't modify gravity in any way, and if it's super light and not lead it probably doesn't protect completely against X-ray radiation. I mean what thin, light substance can stop X-rays? Nothing! It only stops for dense matter. So unless they sewed two spring jackets together and packed em with pixie dust and ground up unicorn horns, I don't think this is a legitimate product.
I'm going to say probably not but simply because it's a blimp so they probably launched it when the spill happened and it's just getting there now lol. They wouldn't have the food and other supplies necessary to carry a reporter. I'm glad to see they're dedicated to using the latest and greatest in modern technology to help clean up the oil spill though.
They sort of buried the lead. It's not "the latest technology," it's an iPhone. Programming a government anything for an Apple product is extremely unfair and insulting to people smart enough to use something better from another company.
um, that's not really fair use. It sounds like they posted the entire website verbatim. Ignore the circumstances and just think, if you owned a website and someone else grabbed the entire thing and put it on their website, you'd be pissed and that would be illegal. So just because some politician is getting burned by it and it's pretty much the right to do to disclose the truth doesn't mean it's not illegal.
As a side note, they said Harry's impersonating her? REALLY? If he was dressed in Sharron Angle drag anywhere ever, I'd have heard about it on CNN lol.
Wow, what a mysterious cliffhanger at the end of the summary...just kidding, it's obvious. They never had to worry about security because nobody used their products! With a market share like that, why would any malware writer or hacker bother? But now that Apple somehow convinced so many people to buy their so-so phone, they should have known what comes with that; attempted security breaches!
Actually, it's not the least bit surprising for a company that doesn't know the first thing about security to put out an insecure product and whole related system. This is definitely not going to be the first story like this about Apple if they keep putting out products that get enough market share to get attention from bad people. As a company, they have no idea how to handle it. Think of it this way. Microsoft has had decades to stop all forms of security threats that are constantly targetted at them and still hasn't gotten it quite right. Apple is starting from nothing because they've never had to worry about security on any significant scale. So unless they suddenly pull about 15 years of developed security measures and then some out of their asses and put it into the next iPhone, they're going down in flames. This is sort of funny and entertaining really, and not just because it totally makes the outlook for Linux look better. Either Apple's products are a laughably small market share or it's a huge market share and because of that, turns into a disaster because they don't know what they're doing. So I'd like to see Mac computers get like a 30 or 40% market share so bad people start targetting them. Their OS would make XP look like Fort Knox by comparison.
You're wasting your time. They obviously blocked slashdot lol
This may appear to make no sense but I get it. Let me walk you through it. They do something horribly insecure and stupid. Then they issue this: "Through our systems and analytics, we focus on the greatest and most active threats in an effort to avoid negatively impacting customer experience." Then they realize that the biggest security threat at the moment is themselves. That blows their minds and with blown minds, they're unable to immediately solve the problem. That's how the sequence of events led up to where we are now with them still doing nothing about it.