I saw this posted in the morning when it only had a few comments. Most of them saying how bad the site is now compared to its glory days. And although I haven't logged in a quite some time to post, I must say I still ready daily and find the discourse fascinating. Sure, there's a lot of chaff to go through, but as others put it, that's true of any website.
/. has been through the hands of quite a few now, but the most important part remains: its users. I really enjoy finding that one post that goes into such extraneous detail that presents new to me information and concepts. Something I wouldn't have come across otherwise. And of course, you can usually find excellent lengthy posts - something that is sorely missed in typical social media websites.
So thank you, posters, editors, and owners. Here's to another 20 years!
I guess I'm the only one who uses two fingers or hands to enter 4 digit PIN?
I have a credit union, so for me easy access to ATMs means going to the nearest 7eleven.
You may understand the unease I had at first, but really when compared to a Chase ATM, it was about the same.
So for my personal security, I always check for card skimmers by gripping and shaking the scanner. Then, I use one hand with two fingers, or two hands to enter the PIN for one of two reasons: speed; reducing the amount of time at an ATM, or for blocking visual access to the keys I press. I always look around for any "security cameras" around the ATM.
I try to only visit the same ATM, so I can see what changes in the hardware.
Then when I'm done, I randomly press keys to protect myself against heat signature attacks.
Finally, I wait until the terminal is ready to accept a new transaction. #1 I always ask for no receipt. And because of the inconsistent manner ATMs function, I can't trust that nothing will come out, so I wait.
#2 some ATMs actually wait for input to close out a session "Would you like to perform another transaction?"
So I don't trust ATMs very much, except that they'll give you the correct amount of money.
On an aside, I'm using firefox on android, and it seems to lag terribly. And when I swipe the top stories, the entire page swipes to nothing. smh
What a coincidence or premonition of my buddy, McGrew, who wrote a book about this exact subject! He says it was inspired by Slashdot itself so what perfect timing. I'm hooked on reading it and recommend* it... Check out here to purchase or read online as he is releasing a chapter a week on-line for free.
So what is the "normal" way "one should act" if someone shows up close to you and just starts recording? While I find it funny on this side of the screen, obviously some don't appreciate it while in front of the lens.
I get his argument that we're recorded everywhere, but it occurred to me, do the public recordings have audio that goes along with it.
I work in Downtown Los Angeles. So on one occasion I noticed something mounted to a short tripod. After walking up to it and visually examining the device, I could tell it was an array of microphones - I couldn't see anything that was recording video to my knowledge. But the question I had, is our right to speak in public protected from being recorded? I *think* this guys arguments that he is in public are valid, thus he is able to take pictures or moving video of them, but what about sound? Sure, one would think if you're in a public place, but does that violate any laws?
The one guy at the Starbucks who was on a cellphone - he was in a public place, outside even! Yet he demanded privacy for a conversation on a cellphone. Are we all just that confused in assuming that we have any privacy at all?
So this is like, Redhat selling a service contract to support its installation on servers? "So you need help to get into the system? No problem, just send me the code it shows on the screen."
Have them root their devices. It's not necessarily an easy thing to do, and in some cases requires CLI. It will show them a high level view of the different thing a person needs to even be able to root a device (vulnerability, code, communicating with the device etc). Talk about the ethics involved in rooting the device (yours vs theirs mentality). Flash a custom "ROM."
Success can be measured by those who successfully flash a ROM without bricking the device. This will give valuable real world experience that can at the least, teach them the perils of bricking a device. Better yet, could help them save big bucks by not bricking one of their own devices. Might even get some of them interested in computer security, vulnerability discovery/patching, and some may even start a business to root devices for customers!
But don't underestimate the ability to assemble and understand a PC down to its memory and CPU. Maybe you can have different teams cooperate to be part of a work place environment. PC building, network building, and "support" getting devices imaged and/or up and running on said network.
MPAA doesn't have a problem stealing food from grandma's mouth right? With all of the incorrect accusations of them stealing movies when all they had was an IP address and sent out a form letter. Maybe I should have posted it as "Corporations are people."
Yah... like the sole comment on that page said... 'there's a reason they're always empty, even handicapped people don't want to park there, they just want to get treated the same as everyone else!'/sarcasm
They can only "walk like humans" if they can't walk in a straight line! They just tested out that 'myth' on mythbuster of humans not walking straight unless they can see where they're going. It was really interesting to see, even the swimming portion. If you haven't seen it, check it out:
WALK A STRAIGHT LINE Premiere: Oct. 12, 2011
Is it impossible for humans (without a point of reference) to walk in a straight line, such as when they're blindfolded? Will binary explosives, well, explode in the case of a fender bender? The MythBusters are on the case.
Although there is always more work to do, that doesn't mean there's always people who want to do it. Interestingly enough, I think part of the reason for advancement in technology (on farms) was not only for greater profit, but also to replace the hard to find work. Sure, "anyone" could work the farm, but that doesn't mean they were any good at it OR they wanted to do it. Having read books about migrant workers, they were very poorly treated and extremely underpaid - both because they were "undocumented workers."
Now adays you can't get "documented" workers to break their backs on farms, so technology plays a great role in that sense. Unfortunately the same people who don't want to break their backs, I would argue, probably don't want to take the time learn anything demanding because in the end, the people who are willing to break their backs, we could say are willing to do anything for work including learning things for better opportunities in life.
When you fill out on-line lines of credit applications robots decide on a variety of factors if you qualify or not! They can decide to approve or deny them, OR send them for human (I assume human) revision to approve or deny. So lets get rid of these robots! Except the ones that drive you, that would be pretty sweeet!
hah funny! I think my significant other actually has this ability and she can always seem to see in almost complete darkness with ease, not only pulling clothes out of drawers but telling me which one she's grabbing! Its a little game we play:P
My buddy who went to MIT in the late 90's told me his frat brother was working on a similar project, which is a table that projects an image into real space. Although I was really excited, I was even more bummed out when he said it was a gov't project (mil) and that it would be many years before it ever made it out to commercial space. So if this is "3 years away" from commercial use, we could have this within 10 years lol... it'll still be cool, right?
I've said it time and time again, what appears in the anime series will happen some day, which is what the author touches on. We'll have partially to fully enhanced humans, and then a whole slew of fully robotic devices including gynoids. I assume it'll be mostly for the better, but just as the series touches on that the same helpful things could be used in nefarious ways.
If you haven't check out GITS before, do so now it's grrrrrrrrreat!
I and many others i'm sure, disagree... lesser earthquakes feel like a flat tire, that's why many might THINK "you don't feel anything less than a 7.5." It also depends on the type of quake.
Oh, its somewhat funny. I'm in So Cal and I went to my first meeting/trip to a sheriff's station... All I remember is the person in charge getting into it with my mom because we showed up a few minutes late and were asked to leave. So my mom was like WTF and argued. So I was "allowed" to finish that outing, but wasn't allowed to return lol. I don't really have anything against the organizations, I've met a lot of people have been in them and they're all cool, not like the ones who gave me the boot:P
I got kicked out of the cub scouts on my first visit/meeting! So since then on, I look down upon your fine organization! (Except eagle scouts, they're pretty bad ass)
Actually, in certain industrial operations they reverse the "hover board" to make it lift heavy materials effortlessly. They magnetize portions of the ground to lift pallet-like areas. It's really interesting. Before I knew about that, I first thought about it in school when using a magnetic vice for a grinder: if you can clamp a piece of metal to a powered magnetic surface, why not reverse the polarity and lift it instead? Pretty sweet! Now we just need a skate park using that!
Slashdot Mirror
I saw this posted in the morning when it only had a few comments. Most of them saying how bad the site is now compared to its glory days. And although I haven't logged in a quite some time to post, I must say I still ready daily and find the discourse fascinating. Sure, there's a lot of chaff to go through, but as others put it, that's true of any website.
/. has been through the hands of quite a few now, but the most important part remains: its users. I really enjoy finding that one post that goes into such extraneous detail that presents new to me information and concepts. Something I wouldn't have come across otherwise. And of course, you can usually find excellent lengthy posts - something that is sorely missed in typical social media websites.
So thank you, posters, editors, and owners. Here's to another 20 years!
In Soviet Russia, Slashdot celebrates you!
I guess I'm the only one who uses two fingers or hands to enter 4 digit PIN?
I have a credit union, so for me easy access to ATMs means going to the nearest 7eleven.
You may understand the unease I had at first, but really when compared to a Chase ATM, it was about the same.
So for my personal security, I always check for card skimmers by gripping and shaking the scanner. Then, I use one hand with two fingers, or two hands to enter the PIN for one of two reasons: speed; reducing the amount of time at an ATM, or for blocking visual access to the keys I press. I always look around for any "security cameras" around the ATM.
I try to only visit the same ATM, so I can see what changes in the hardware.
Then when I'm done, I randomly press keys to protect myself against heat signature attacks.
Finally, I wait until the terminal is ready to accept a new transaction. #1 I always ask for no receipt. And because of the inconsistent manner ATMs function, I can't trust that nothing will come out, so I wait.
#2 some ATMs actually wait for input to close out a session "Would you like to perform another transaction?"
So I don't trust ATMs very much, except that they'll give you the correct amount of money.
On an aside, I'm using firefox on android, and it seems to lag terribly. And when I swipe the top stories, the entire page swipes to nothing. smh
What a coincidence or premonition of my buddy, McGrew, who wrote a book about this exact subject! He says it was inspired by Slashdot itself so what perfect timing. I'm hooked on reading it and recommend* it... Check out here to purchase or read online as he is releasing a chapter a week on-line for free.
http://www.mcgrewbooks.com/
On Sale Now
Hardcover $24.95
6x9 168 pages
ISBN 978-0-9910531-0-0
*I am not being paid or compensated in any way to promote his book and have no direct ties to it other than having "friended" McGrew on /.
So what is the "normal" way "one should act" if someone shows up close to you and just starts recording? While I find it funny on this side of the screen, obviously some don't appreciate it while in front of the lens.
I get his argument that we're recorded everywhere, but it occurred to me, do the public recordings have audio that goes along with it.
I work in Downtown Los Angeles. So on one occasion I noticed something mounted to a short tripod. After walking up to it and visually examining the device, I could tell it was an array of microphones - I couldn't see anything that was recording video to my knowledge. But the question I had, is our right to speak in public protected from being recorded? I *think* this guys arguments that he is in public are valid, thus he is able to take pictures or moving video of them, but what about sound? Sure, one would think if you're in a public place, but does that violate any laws?
The one guy at the Starbucks who was on a cellphone - he was in a public place, outside even! Yet he demanded privacy for a conversation on a cellphone. Are we all just that confused in assuming that we have any privacy at all?
So this is like, Redhat selling a service contract to support its installation on servers? "So you need help to get into the system? No problem, just send me the code it shows on the screen."
An Idiot Abroad is one of my all time favorite shows. Amazing what he went through.
Have them root their devices. It's not necessarily an easy thing to do, and in some cases requires CLI. It will show them a high level view of the different thing a person needs to even be able to root a device (vulnerability, code, communicating with the device etc). Talk about the ethics involved in rooting the device (yours vs theirs mentality). Flash a custom "ROM."
Success can be measured by those who successfully flash a ROM without bricking the device. This will give valuable real world experience that can at the least, teach them the perils of bricking a device. Better yet, could help them save big bucks by not bricking one of their own devices. Might even get some of them interested in computer security, vulnerability discovery/patching, and some may even start a business to root devices for customers!
But don't underestimate the ability to assemble and understand a PC down to its memory and CPU. Maybe you can have different teams cooperate to be part of a work place environment. PC building, network building, and "support" getting devices imaged and/or up and running on said network.
MPAA doesn't have a problem stealing food from grandma's mouth right? With all of the incorrect accusations of them stealing movies when all they had was an IP address and sent out a form letter. Maybe I should have posted it as "Corporations are people."
Corporations are people, my friend!
Yah... like the sole comment on that page said... 'there's a reason they're always empty, even handicapped people don't want to park there, they just want to get treated the same as everyone else!' /sarcasm
They can only "walk like humans" if they can't walk in a straight line! They just tested out that 'myth' on mythbuster of humans not walking straight unless they can see where they're going. It was really interesting to see, even the swimming portion. If you haven't seen it, check it out:
WALK A STRAIGHT LINE
Premiere: Oct. 12, 2011
Is it impossible for humans (without a point of reference) to walk in a straight line, such as when they're blindfolded? Will binary explosives, well, explode in the case of a fender bender? The MythBusters are on the case.
dsc.discovery.com/videos/mythbusters-walk-a-straight-line/
Although there is always more work to do, that doesn't mean there's always people who want to do it. Interestingly enough, I think part of the reason for advancement in technology (on farms) was not only for greater profit, but also to replace the hard to find work. Sure, "anyone" could work the farm, but that doesn't mean they were any good at it OR they wanted to do it. Having read books about migrant workers, they were very poorly treated and extremely underpaid - both because they were "undocumented workers."
Now adays you can't get "documented" workers to break their backs on farms, so technology plays a great role in that sense. Unfortunately the same people who don't want to break their backs, I would argue, probably don't want to take the time learn anything demanding because in the end, the people who are willing to break their backs, we could say are willing to do anything for work including learning things for better opportunities in life.
The point was not that they can guess what clothes they are, but rather she can tell me what color/patterns they have in darkness!
When you fill out on-line lines of credit applications robots decide on a variety of factors if you qualify or not! They can decide to approve or deny them, OR send them for human (I assume human) revision to approve or deny. So lets get rid of these robots! Except the ones that drive you, that would be pretty sweeet!
hah funny! I think my significant other actually has this ability and she can always seem to see in almost complete darkness with ease, not only pulling clothes out of drawers but telling me which one she's grabbing! Its a little game we play :P
the real question is if she's hot or not! (.com)
My buddy who went to MIT in the late 90's told me his frat brother was working on a similar project, which is a table that projects an image into real space. Although I was really excited, I was even more bummed out when he said it was a gov't project (mil) and that it would be many years before it ever made it out to commercial space. So if this is "3 years away" from commercial use, we could have this within 10 years lol... it'll still be cool, right?
I've said it time and time again, what appears in the anime series will happen some day, which is what the author touches on. We'll have partially to fully enhanced humans, and then a whole slew of fully robotic devices including gynoids. I assume it'll be mostly for the better, but just as the series touches on that the same helpful things could be used in nefarious ways.
If you haven't check out GITS before, do so now it's grrrrrrrrreat!
I can finally make those pieces I've always needed to finish my lego builds!
Hey pal, he's not your buddy!
I and many others i'm sure, disagree... lesser earthquakes feel like a flat tire, that's why many might THINK "you don't feel anything less than a 7.5." It also depends on the type of quake.
Oh, its somewhat funny. I'm in So Cal and I went to my first meeting/trip to a sheriff's station... All I remember is the person in charge getting into it with my mom because we showed up a few minutes late and were asked to leave. So my mom was like WTF and argued. So I was "allowed" to finish that outing, but wasn't allowed to return lol. I don't really have anything against the organizations, I've met a lot of people have been in them and they're all cool, not like the ones who gave me the boot :P
what about the london projection? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2D5pfYfIs8
I got kicked out of the cub scouts on my first visit/meeting! So since then on, I look down upon your fine organization! (Except eagle scouts, they're pretty bad ass)
Actually, in certain industrial operations they reverse the "hover board" to make it lift heavy materials effortlessly. They magnetize portions of the ground to lift pallet-like areas. It's really interesting. Before I knew about that, I first thought about it in school when using a magnetic vice for a grinder: if you can clamp a piece of metal to a powered magnetic surface, why not reverse the polarity and lift it instead? Pretty sweet! Now we just need a skate park using that!