I'm not sure where the representatives of We The People have gone. Anyone seen any around D.C. lately?
Last time I checked you, me and everyone else are "We The People". I suspect "We The People" are busy posting on slashdot, commuting to and from our jobs, raising families and we're just SO BUSY that we don't have time to get engaged in the affairs of our own country in any real, meaningful way. We seem to have incredible amounts of time to incessantly complain online and to our friends and families but when it comes to really getting engaged and taking collective ownership of our own country, we pass the buck and make excuses for why that's not our problem. What we have today is the result of that collective mindset. The politicians and large corporations all expect us to keep that status quo. When you don't take ownership of your own individual affairs and expect someone else to do that for you, this is what happens. As the old saying goes, if you want something done right, you do it yourself.
Free market ideology only works when the playing field is level... not when monopolies exist
It's a fact that free-ish markets have produced the best results in economic history (even reducing poverty) despite the shortcomings like the one you mentioned where clever big picture thinkers game the system in ways that weren't intended, economic game theory style. That is not a rational justification to abolish the free market system we have and institute a completely different system. I don't think any free market economist in their right mind ever suggested the inmates ought to run the asylum aka the players define the rules of the game entirely. A game whereby players constantly redefine the rules to suit their own personal preferences is by definition not a game. It's madness. Games are defined by their rules and framework. That is why (and even Milton Friedman conceded this) some regulation is required to ensure that markets remain as free and flowing as possible but only the minimum. For example, we have laws against fraud and that is a good thing. However, over-regulating free market economies can seriously harm economic growth and have a ripple effect. It's about balance. It's not about system A can beat up system B. It's not a black and white issue.
That's not the same web devs making those same mistakes. Developers with some experience do not write code that fails against easy sql-injection. But companies prefer to hire younger inexperienced devs for the reasons that have been discussed here on/. many times.
Yes, companies tend to search the bargain bin for unicorns even though it's completely irrational. Either they go with young inexperienced recent college grads or they go with H1B's. The headline ought to read "Why do companies keep making the same mistakes hiring recent college grads and H1B Visa's resulting in poor software quality instead of hiring talented, experienced developers who can write quality code?"
The answer to this question is simple: Companies have champagne taste and a beer budget.
So somewhere along the way people figured out again that quality of software is more important than the speed in which new features are pushed out the door.
The company I work for seems to be in its death throes with a person leaving the company every week. They have just now started to get a clue that low software quality has a relationship to losing your customer base and escalated support issues and consequently your reputation as a software vendor. The thing that I see neglected the most in software companies is subject matter domain knowledge. If you don't know what your software needs to do, you can't communicate that to the people that build it and that means that what you build will not be what the intended customer base wants. Ultimately, that means FAIL. It's a garbage in/garbage out problem. It's not even a technical problem for the most part except scalability.
Ultimately, the real root cause of this problem is hiring on the cheap instead of paying for real talent. I wonder when companies will start getting a clue that you can't find unicorns in the bargain bin.
Problem with using AI in these scenarios is that it's really good at finding correlations in what you tell it to look at. So maybe it finds correlations between interconnected stock prices, or maybe futures and trading volumes, or the consumer price index and stock prices of certain retail stocks, things like that.
Remember the episode of Star Trek Voyager where Seven of Nine identifies all these correlations and thinks there is a conspiracy theory going on board the ship? Yea...
It would seem that the newer OLED panels suffer more from burn-in than LED. I'm glad this was brought up. I'll be refraining from upgrading to OLED until this sort of thing is made better or a newer technology supersedes it. More details here for those who are interested. The burn-in is not permanent but can occur when a static image is present in as little as 45 minutes. The ghosting is not permanent like older CRT and Plasma screens but it's annoying to have to run through steps to clear it up periodically.
Oft-repeated superlative phrases like "fastest network", "number one in service", "widest selection", etc. can generally be taken as slowest, worst, and limited respectively.
You can't do that at least in the United States. It's considered fraud if the claim is being purposefully misrepresented. That used to be the case in the past though. Today you hear things like "Rated fastest network according to XYZ" and "Number one in service according to JD Power and Associates". Many of these are easy to verify. For example, if Comcast claimed to be number one in service according to JD Power and Associates, it's easy to check and they would have a lawsuit on their desk in a microsecond if they misrepresented that. It still doesn't hurt to "trust but verify" though.
In order to mine cryptocurrency effectively it has to use CPU/GPU power. Watch your temps on both CPU and GPU. Plenty of tools available to actively monitor. If your CPU/GPU is running while you think it should be idle figure out what process is doing it. If you don't know how to do this, you shouldn't own a computer.
and you're just now thinking about email distribution to mobile as a possible marketing channel, just go out of business right now and do yourself a favor. I can't believe there are people in business that are THAT stupid and are still in business. We've had grids CSS at least going all the way back to YUI so that's for almost 10 years now. All the big players have been doing email marketing for years: Best Buy, Group On, Amazon and the list goes on and on. It's pretty much a standard part of any e-Commerce offering now and has been for quite some time. I just don't get it and I'm not the youngest person on the block either.
How expensive are these? If not in an upscale neighborhood I would expect a significant outcry if the public elementary schools demanded that significant extra expense.
They have a rental program and they make arrangements for folks that are lower income like school lunch programs. It's hardly an upscale neighborhood. I would call it a middle class neighborhood. That's the problem with the educational system. It's only as good as the tax dollars can pay for. Therefore, if you live in a rural area or inner city, you're screwed. I came from a lower class, rural family and I had to work my way out of it. It wasn't easy but I did it.
Our 10-year-old daughter played her first real video game this month. Their only exposure to computers at school is to support classical learning (Accelerated Reader tests, etc) - not for the sake of inserting technology unnecessarily. My life experience tells me that being immersed in technology from a young age is less important for success in a technical field - what's more important is a really good education (reading/writing/math/science/logic/history/ethics/etc). Person with that foundation will be able to graft on technology (or whatever else they want) relatively quickly and successfully.
Then your 10 year old daughter will be behind the curve. My daughter is doing both and tests way above the national average in all disciplines including accelerated readers. I lost count of how many books she's finished. You're an idiot to presume that you can't do it all. That's just an excuse to be mediocre and not get in the game. To each their own. If you want to be a luddite go right ahead. The rest of us will out-compete you for resources.
"tit" (slang) dates from the 1920s, though "titty" comes from the 1700s. But the use of the word "tit" to mean "anything small" comes from the 1500s or earlier. So tits were just small birds, and tits didn't become boobs until recently-ish.
The word you're looking for is "teat". Its origins date back to the 12th century
First, this is now news. Second, could you possibly find a worse source of information on the subject? For example, how about this article from 2013: https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com...?
Anyone that has a child knows not only that young children regularly use smartphones and tablet but also that school systems are regularly using tablets as educational tools. In fact, the school system my daughter is in requires it and has done so since the 2nd grade. This is not a new thing. This has been going on for several years. My daughter has been playing video games since she was 2 and started using a tablet around 4. By the time my daughter was 3, she was pretty good at Mario Kart for the WII.
Some other things you might be surprised to know exist: 1) After school clubs for writing video games, 2) After school clubs for building robots, 3) Teachers using mobile apps to teach kids basic programming skills like hopscotch. Young kids soak this stuff up like a sponge and they're going to be running circles around many of the adults that are around now when they become adults.
This should come as a surprise to no one, especially slashdot. The good paying jobs of the future are largely going to be in the STEM fields. School systems have modified their curriculum accordingly.
While I've got no idea whether this site is a reliable source for such information, it does seem like a step backward.
Nuclear weapons are always a bad idea. The public relations cost of using them alone could devastate our country.
And I'm sure now that you're presented a thoughtful and eloquent argument that Kim Jong Un will read this, have a change of heart and disarm North Korea because your words rang true to his heart. In the words of Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks, "Why can't we all just... get along?"
WAKE UP! North Korea has been festering for a long time and it's not only the United States that is concerned about Kim Jong Un's nuclear armaments and hostile disposition. South Korea and Japan are also very concerned.
The core issue is Kim Jong Un's lack of wanting to have a productive conversation at the negotiating table. What do you do such a character that could wipe out South Korea and kill millions of people?
So, now that you understand the problem better, what you like to propose the world do with this issue?
How you train this algorithm is by weighting each headline choice according to how much advertising revenue you think it will generate and then pick the highest one.
The idea behind our attacks is rather trivial in hindsight, and can
be summarized as follows. When a client joins a network, it executes
the 4-way handshake to negotiate a fresh session key. It will install
this key after receiving message 3 of the handshake. Once the key
is installed, it will be used to encrypt normal data frames using a
data-confidentiality protocol.
to the article summary:
The bug, known as "KRACK" for Key Reinstallation Attack, exposes a fundamental flaw in WPA2, a common protocol used in securing most modern wireless networks. Mathy Vanhoef, a computer security academic, who found the flaw, said the weakness lies in the protocol's four-way handshake, which securely allows new devices with a pre-shared password to join the network. That weakness can, at its worst, allow an attacker to decrypt network traffic from a WPA2-enabled device, hijack connections, and inject content into the traffic stream. In other words: hackers can eavesdrop on your network traffic. The bug represents a complete breakdown of the WPA2 protocol, for both personal and enterprise devices -- putting every supported device at risk. "If your device supports Wi-Fi, it is most likely affected," said Vanhoef, on his website. News of the vulnerability was later confirmed on Monday by US Homeland Security's cyber-emergency unit US-CERT, which about two months ago had confidentially warned vendors and experts of the bug, ZDNet has learned.
Notice in the summary it says absolutely NOTHING about "When a client joins a network, it executes
the 4-way handshake to negotiate a fresh session key." Translation: you have to join a BAD NETWORK in order for this exploit to work. Don't join questionable WIFI networks or have your devices automatically join open networks and you won't have a single problem. This is not the scenario where the FBI Surveillance Van can snoop your WIFI connection by doing a drive by.
Except he wasn't arguing that you should run an AV that doesn't require kernel mode drivers. He said you shouldn't be running AV at all. You asked him to provide a solution for something he never suggested.
He made the claim "It potentially makes your PC less secure, because AV needs kernel level drivers." I prompted him for a basis for this claim and none was provided. Now if we want to discuss a different claim: like Antivirus software is more bad than it is good. We have to provide a basis for the claim usually in the form of evidence and/or subject matter expertise. When a person makes a claim like "It potentially makes your PC less secure, because AV needs kernel level drivers" yet doesn't appear to have the expertise or education to actually substantiate the claim or even explain the claim, the person's claim becomes suspect based on the evidence provided.
I would ask OP to be more clear about what their claim is and what the actual evidence is for the claim. If one can't do that then they should not have made the claim. I am highly educated on the subject matter and I see no reason to provide the technical information to someone who appears to have made a baseless claim and in a pseudo-intellectualist manner because it's likely that person won't be able to understand it anyway.
Finally in summation: If a person doesn't know what they're talking about, they should not be giving advice to others on serious topics like this. Do you really want grandma ending up with ransomware on her computer? Neither do I.
I've already said that an OS which requires an AV in order to guard apps/data is not the OS you should be running in the first place.
Also, I am indeed a raving idiot because I don't have an AV installed and for my 25+ years of computer usage I've never been infected or lost my credentials (aside from companies leaking them, e.g. Adobe). That couldn't be attributed to sheer luck, right? Windows is inherently insecure and an AV gives you a false sense of security as indicated by literally tens of millions of examples when people have got infected while having a fully updated AV installed and running.
I asked you a direct question: How does one offer an antivirus solution that does not involve a kernel mode driver? And you failed to respond. Thanks for playing!
It potentially makes your PC less secure, because AV needs kernel level drivers.
Explain based on your thorough knowledge of Antivirus software, Virus design and user mode and kernel mode software development experience, how it is possible to do this without a kernel mode driver? I await your thoughtful response. If you don't have one, STFU because you're an idiot
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I'm not sure where the representatives of We The People have gone. Anyone seen any around D.C. lately?
Last time I checked you, me and everyone else are "We The People". I suspect "We The People" are busy posting on slashdot, commuting to and from our jobs, raising families and we're just SO BUSY that we don't have time to get engaged in the affairs of our own country in any real, meaningful way. We seem to have incredible amounts of time to incessantly complain online and to our friends and families but when it comes to really getting engaged and taking collective ownership of our own country, we pass the buck and make excuses for why that's not our problem. What we have today is the result of that collective mindset. The politicians and large corporations all expect us to keep that status quo. When you don't take ownership of your own individual affairs and expect someone else to do that for you, this is what happens. As the old saying goes, if you want something done right, you do it yourself.
Free market ideology only works when the playing field is level... not when monopolies exist
It's a fact that free-ish markets have produced the best results in economic history (even reducing poverty) despite the shortcomings like the one you mentioned where clever big picture thinkers game the system in ways that weren't intended, economic game theory style. That is not a rational justification to abolish the free market system we have and institute a completely different system. I don't think any free market economist in their right mind ever suggested the inmates ought to run the asylum aka the players define the rules of the game entirely. A game whereby players constantly redefine the rules to suit their own personal preferences is by definition not a game. It's madness. Games are defined by their rules and framework. That is why (and even Milton Friedman conceded this) some regulation is required to ensure that markets remain as free and flowing as possible but only the minimum. For example, we have laws against fraud and that is a good thing. However, over-regulating free market economies can seriously harm economic growth and have a ripple effect. It's about balance. It's not about system A can beat up system B. It's not a black and white issue.
That's not the same web devs making those same mistakes. Developers with some experience do not write code that fails against easy sql-injection. But companies prefer to hire younger inexperienced devs for the reasons that have been discussed here on /. many times.
Yes, companies tend to search the bargain bin for unicorns even though it's completely irrational. Either they go with young inexperienced recent college grads or they go with H1B's. The headline ought to read "Why do companies keep making the same mistakes hiring recent college grads and H1B Visa's resulting in poor software quality instead of hiring talented, experienced developers who can write quality code?"
The answer to this question is simple: Companies have champagne taste and a beer budget.
Nothing new there...
So somewhere along the way people figured out again that quality of software is more important than the speed in which new features are pushed out the door.
The company I work for seems to be in its death throes with a person leaving the company every week. They have just now started to get a clue that low software quality has a relationship to losing your customer base and escalated support issues and consequently your reputation as a software vendor. The thing that I see neglected the most in software companies is subject matter domain knowledge. If you don't know what your software needs to do, you can't communicate that to the people that build it and that means that what you build will not be what the intended customer base wants. Ultimately, that means FAIL. It's a garbage in/garbage out problem. It's not even a technical problem for the most part except scalability.
Ultimately, the real root cause of this problem is hiring on the cheap instead of paying for real talent. I wonder when companies will start getting a clue that you can't find unicorns in the bargain bin.
Problem with using AI in these scenarios is that it's really good at finding correlations in what you tell it to look at. So maybe it finds correlations between interconnected stock prices, or maybe futures and trading volumes, or the consumer price index and stock prices of certain retail stocks, things like that.
Remember the episode of Star Trek Voyager where Seven of Nine identifies all these correlations and thinks there is a conspiracy theory going on board the ship? Yea...
It would seem that the newer OLED panels suffer more from burn-in than LED. I'm glad this was brought up. I'll be refraining from upgrading to OLED until this sort of thing is made better or a newer technology supersedes it. More details here for those who are interested. The burn-in is not permanent but can occur when a static image is present in as little as 45 minutes. The ghosting is not permanent like older CRT and Plasma screens but it's annoying to have to run through steps to clear it up periodically.
Oft-repeated superlative phrases like "fastest network", "number one in service", "widest selection", etc. can generally be taken as slowest, worst, and limited respectively.
You can't do that at least in the United States. It's considered fraud if the claim is being purposefully misrepresented. That used to be the case in the past though. Today you hear things like "Rated fastest network according to XYZ" and "Number one in service according to JD Power and Associates". Many of these are easy to verify. For example, if Comcast claimed to be number one in service according to JD Power and Associates, it's easy to check and they would have a lawsuit on their desk in a microsecond if they misrepresented that. It still doesn't hurt to "trust but verify" though.
I thought mining from websites would only happen if you went to a page that uses it.
There are multiple attack vectors.
In order to mine cryptocurrency effectively it has to use CPU/GPU power. Watch your temps on both CPU and GPU. Plenty of tools available to actively monitor. If your CPU/GPU is running while you think it should be idle figure out what process is doing it. If you don't know how to do this, you shouldn't own a computer.
and you're just now thinking about email distribution to mobile as a possible marketing channel, just go out of business right now and do yourself a favor. I can't believe there are people in business that are THAT stupid and are still in business. We've had grids CSS at least going all the way back to YUI so that's for almost 10 years now. All the big players have been doing email marketing for years: Best Buy, Group On, Amazon and the list goes on and on. It's pretty much a standard part of any e-Commerce offering now and has been for quite some time. I just don't get it and I'm not the youngest person on the block either.
How expensive are these? If not in an upscale neighborhood I would expect a significant outcry if the public elementary schools demanded that significant extra expense.
They have a rental program and they make arrangements for folks that are lower income like school lunch programs. It's hardly an upscale neighborhood. I would call it a middle class neighborhood. That's the problem with the educational system. It's only as good as the tax dollars can pay for. Therefore, if you live in a rural area or inner city, you're screwed. I came from a lower class, rural family and I had to work my way out of it. It wasn't easy but I did it.
Our 10-year-old daughter played her first real video game this month. Their only exposure to computers at school is to support classical learning (Accelerated Reader tests, etc) - not for the sake of inserting technology unnecessarily. My life experience tells me that being immersed in technology from a young age is less important for success in a technical field - what's more important is a really good education (reading/writing/math/science/logic/history/ethics/etc). Person with that foundation will be able to graft on technology (or whatever else they want) relatively quickly and successfully.
Then your 10 year old daughter will be behind the curve. My daughter is doing both and tests way above the national average in all disciplines including accelerated readers. I lost count of how many books she's finished. You're an idiot to presume that you can't do it all. That's just an excuse to be mediocre and not get in the game. To each their own. If you want to be a luddite go right ahead. The rest of us will out-compete you for resources.
"tit" (slang) dates from the 1920s, though "titty" comes from the 1700s. But the use of the word "tit" to mean "anything small" comes from the 1500s or earlier. So tits were just small birds, and tits didn't become boobs until recently-ish.
The word you're looking for is "teat". Its origins date back to the 12th century
Big deal, I had a tablet when I was 8 years old (57 years ago) too. It had 64 pages of lined paper and I put it to good use. Now get off my lawn!
I would have been impressed if you had said graph paper. Oh well.
First, this is now news. Second, could you possibly find a worse source of information on the subject? For example, how about this article from 2013: https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com...?
Anyone that has a child knows not only that young children regularly use smartphones and tablet but also that school systems are regularly using tablets as educational tools. In fact, the school system my daughter is in requires it and has done so since the 2nd grade. This is not a new thing. This has been going on for several years. My daughter has been playing video games since she was 2 and started using a tablet around 4. By the time my daughter was 3, she was pretty good at Mario Kart for the WII.
Some other things you might be surprised to know exist: 1) After school clubs for writing video games, 2) After school clubs for building robots, 3) Teachers using mobile apps to teach kids basic programming skills like hopscotch. Young kids soak this stuff up like a sponge and they're going to be running circles around many of the adults that are around now when they become adults.
This should come as a surprise to no one, especially slashdot. The good paying jobs of the future are largely going to be in the STEM fields. School systems have modified their curriculum accordingly.
While I've got no idea whether this site is a reliable source for such information, it does seem like a step backward.
Nuclear weapons are always a bad idea. The public relations cost of using them alone could devastate our country.
And I'm sure now that you're presented a thoughtful and eloquent argument that Kim Jong Un will read this, have a change of heart and disarm North Korea because your words rang true to his heart. In the words of Jack Nicholson from Mars Attacks, "Why can't we all just... get along?"
WAKE UP! North Korea has been festering for a long time and it's not only the United States that is concerned about Kim Jong Un's nuclear armaments and hostile disposition. South Korea and Japan are also very concerned.
The core issue is Kim Jong Un's lack of wanting to have a productive conversation at the negotiating table. What do you do such a character that could wipe out South Korea and kill millions of people?
So, now that you understand the problem better, what you like to propose the world do with this issue?
what does finding the "ultimate" headline really mean?
It's like everything else, it's the one that generates the most advertising revenue.
How you train this algorithm is by weighting each headline choice according to how much advertising revenue you think it will generate and then pick the highest one.
https://ask.slashdot.org/story...
https://it.slashdot.org/story/...
Let's re-hash the same old crap and get advertising revenue, yay.
If the Dreamers just get the same rights as citizens, then the tech industry will be no better or worse off than anyone else. This isn't like H1-Bs.
They are here illegally because their parents came here illegally. It's fine if they want to come here, they need come here LEGALLY.
Translation: We want labor savings and couldn't care less about your dreams
The idea behind our attacks is rather trivial in hindsight, and can be summarized as follows. When a client joins a network, it executes the 4-way handshake to negotiate a fresh session key. It will install this key after receiving message 3 of the handshake. Once the key is installed, it will be used to encrypt normal data frames using a data-confidentiality protocol.
to the article summary:
The bug, known as "KRACK" for Key Reinstallation Attack, exposes a fundamental flaw in WPA2, a common protocol used in securing most modern wireless networks. Mathy Vanhoef, a computer security academic, who found the flaw, said the weakness lies in the protocol's four-way handshake, which securely allows new devices with a pre-shared password to join the network. That weakness can, at its worst, allow an attacker to decrypt network traffic from a WPA2-enabled device, hijack connections, and inject content into the traffic stream. In other words: hackers can eavesdrop on your network traffic. The bug represents a complete breakdown of the WPA2 protocol, for both personal and enterprise devices -- putting every supported device at risk. "If your device supports Wi-Fi, it is most likely affected," said Vanhoef, on his website. News of the vulnerability was later confirmed on Monday by US Homeland Security's cyber-emergency unit US-CERT, which about two months ago had confidentially warned vendors and experts of the bug, ZDNet has learned.
Notice in the summary it says absolutely NOTHING about "When a client joins a network, it executes the 4-way handshake to negotiate a fresh session key." Translation: you have to join a BAD NETWORK in order for this exploit to work. Don't join questionable WIFI networks or have your devices automatically join open networks and you won't have a single problem. This is not the scenario where the FBI Surveillance Van can snoop your WIFI connection by doing a drive by.
Except he wasn't arguing that you should run an AV that doesn't require kernel mode drivers. He said you shouldn't be running AV at all. You asked him to provide a solution for something he never suggested.
He made the claim "It potentially makes your PC less secure, because AV needs kernel level drivers." I prompted him for a basis for this claim and none was provided. Now if we want to discuss a different claim: like Antivirus software is more bad than it is good. We have to provide a basis for the claim usually in the form of evidence and/or subject matter expertise. When a person makes a claim like "It potentially makes your PC less secure, because AV needs kernel level drivers" yet doesn't appear to have the expertise or education to actually substantiate the claim or even explain the claim, the person's claim becomes suspect based on the evidence provided.
I would ask OP to be more clear about what their claim is and what the actual evidence is for the claim. If one can't do that then they should not have made the claim. I am highly educated on the subject matter and I see no reason to provide the technical information to someone who appears to have made a baseless claim and in a pseudo-intellectualist manner because it's likely that person won't be able to understand it anyway.
Finally in summation: If a person doesn't know what they're talking about, they should not be giving advice to others on serious topics like this. Do you really want grandma ending up with ransomware on her computer? Neither do I.
I've already said that an OS which requires an AV in order to guard apps/data is not the OS you should be running in the first place.
Also, I am indeed a raving idiot because I don't have an AV installed and for my 25+ years of computer usage I've never been infected or lost my credentials (aside from companies leaking them, e.g. Adobe). That couldn't be attributed to sheer luck, right? Windows is inherently insecure and an AV gives you a false sense of security as indicated by literally tens of millions of examples when people have got infected while having a fully updated AV installed and running.
I asked you a direct question: How does one offer an antivirus solution that does not involve a kernel mode driver? And you failed to respond. Thanks for playing!
It potentially makes your PC less secure, because AV needs kernel level drivers.
Explain based on your thorough knowledge of Antivirus software, Virus design and user mode and kernel mode software development experience, how it is possible to do this without a kernel mode driver? I await your thoughtful response. If you don't have one, STFU because you're an idiot