IRL's approach seems to be: have gamers to do something they don't want (tagging photos), in order to get something they want (games). Which seems reeeally close to what ReCAPTCHA is doing (read unscannable words, so you can sign up for accounts). (Although tagging disaster areas will need more training than reading mungled text.)
And then there's FoldIt, which challenges players with folding proteins into a minimum energy state. This is key to understanding how proteins work, and important for understanding diseases and creating new medicine. In FoldIt, though, the work (folding proteins) is the game, and training comes as a set of tutorial levels. People can play solo for high score, or try to improve on the solution of others.
Just open up a website with a decent client (like FoldIt did) and I think you'd find tons of people would happily volunteer time to help out with a natural disaster. The problem at the moment is there's no medium to do that - the idea that we somehow need to trick or force people into it is skipping the all important "how much time would people volunteer given the chance?" step. FoldIt is a triumph in that regard, but the main thing is it's pretty straight-forward - they didn't think they needed to trick people into it.
Kill virtual humans, of course. Or zombies or aliens if that's your preference.
The real idiocy here is the presumption that vast numbers of gamers would willingly spend ANY of their time doing anything that benefits anyone other than themselves.
Says someone posting in the comments section of a website.
When I was travelling around Europe, for getting through airports I sewed my own leg-webbing for my phone and it's accessories out of black canvas. It wound up being very low profile since I wear black cargo pants normally, but was much easier to take off quickly in airports (and kept everything spread out for X-ray scanners) and allowed me to keep my phone much higher and closer to my belt (which was great for making sure I had my phone on me and keeping it easy to keep an eye on).
Carrying a tablet the same way could probably be done pretty discreetly - a 7" tablet would easily fit along the space of one's thigh without standing out at all. But I seriously doubt you'll find anything to buy - break out the sewing the machine and see what you come up with is my recommendation.
No it's because the results of an unlikely occurrence are still far more catastrophic then the gain any single individual can obtain by not holding insurance.
The main thing for-profit insurance does is increase costs for consumers. It was pretty quickly recognized early on that the best possible insurance scheme for a country is single-payer, where everyone is part of the same risk pool since that's the greatest possible dilution of risk (it also means the government is strongly incentivised to keep its citizens healthy - companies dumping toxic waste into the local environment is no longer "not my problem").
You know I'd rather just send a robot. Because we've never actually done that before.
The enterprise of landing a rover on Europa - which is a literal one-way journey - is still something NASA isn't entirely sure about how to do effectively. And in that case we don't need to land food, oxygen and other life-support gear. And once you get there, we'd like to do something useful - but there's kilometers of ice we need to get through first.
I'm all for high-stakes missions to Mars, but that's extending our reach in a way which is achievable and would advance our technology and enthusiasm. When we can't do Mars even if we wanted to just yet, Europa is just lunacy.
Its water. The Mars inspiration fly-by idea was to recycle effluent back into a tank to be used as the shield, which is a good one because it means your water rations (which would need to be extracted from it) are basically always serving as part of your radiation shield.
But if you consider that you can have a very low cost orbit continuously between the Earth and Mars, then you only need to get all that shielding up to speed once, and just dock on/dock off from the tug-ship.
The more pertinent issue is that Tor exit nodes are under no obligations to allow certain types of traffic to exit. So it's perfectly possible to block known malware data. Though not much you could do about Tor running as the malware, but in that regard scanning for unintended Tor processes would be a pretty good red flag.
The trailer for Lone Ranger completely put it off it because it was just wildly tonally inconsistent, in a setting which put me on edge that it was about to become super-racist quite quickly.
I'm pretty sure ripping off scenes from Evangelion was a selling point of Pacific Rim. And let's face it: Evangelion is completely unknown to most western audiences.
Its not even using it as a weapon. It's just what happens if a consortium of nations decide they want to do it. That's going to affect someone, and not necessarily positively. What do you do if China decides they want to engage in solar reflection, but we realize that it'll disrupt the farming and irrigation of a whole bunch of equatorial nations - or the consequences of it to a nation which expensively adapts to the new climate only to have that investment undermined.
These aren't hypothetical questions - we've already had the fishing village which was engaging in iron seeding to improve their catch, and China spends a lot of money on weather and climate control type stuff.
I've always wondered why we couldn't use this approach to fix certain types of open-source drivers. We know the APIs, and we have the hardware - set it up and get machines to iterate over it until we get the desired properties for hardware which doesn't need a human their to verify its functioning correctly. I'm thinking for something like network drivers this could work - though you could imagine a system which did it for graphics cards too.
Most national intelligence agencies care about climate change, because changes in local rainfall, drought and flood patterns is going to lead to unrest and the movement of peoples and what comes with that. Geoengineering falls under this umbrella easily: being able to predict who's going to get screwed by it is a pretty good way to predict who's going to be coming after the US for it, and where the new hotspots/issues will arise.
A huge part of any intelligence agency's mission is to discern the underlying factors which motivate the behavior of countries: someone beating the drums for war usually has an ulterior motive to the stated one, both locally and abroad.
BTSync desperately needs better conflict resolution though. It's completely unacceptable for it to just be silently overwriting things.
The other thing I'd really like to see is some way to assign sensible behavior to groups of files - i.e. "take most recent member, sync all these files in favor of this host". There's a lot of little edge cases no one deals with, and BTSync is pretty far behind in this regard.
The FPGA is intended to make this a good hacking tool, rather then a replacement for basic common components.
The idea here seems to be most definitely to make the kind of laptop we always wish we had from the movies - got some wires, want to see what's going on? A few twisted splices and you're looking at signal traces directly.
Which again, is because its an explicit violation of social norms. One person doing anything different is always creepy because it's asking all sorts of questions: why are they doing it? why would they be doing it? how dangerous do I think this person is?
If you're filmed by a 1000 cameras a day, you're not going to care because it's the norm. In fact, if they were just a facet of daily life (people have Glass for example) then no one is going to care. And yet, one guy coming up out of the blue, with no social reason to be there, just staring at you, will always be creepy.
Yes I'm sure encrypting all your messages in such a way as they can now be proven mathematically to come from the same set of encryption keys (which is what OpenPGP does) will guarantee your anonymity.
People who read history always assume history will repeat itself exactly the same way as they've read about. Its why anyone who studies WW2 will go on forever about how hyperinflation is clearly just around the corner and why Americans seem so ridiculously obsessed with fighting the next civil war.
Linacs are better because they can use singular particles (like electrons) as well, which means for 33% of the power, you can still achieve per-particle collision energies on the same sort of scale as the LHC (i.e. smash 2 electrons, rather then 2 balls of 3 quarks each).
Yeah I did. And it was based on "gee this looks a bit like this".
Shall we discuss the angle of the corners? Shape of the screen? Curvature of the back shell? Which part of the geometric shape was patented and "too close" to Apple's?
So you run Windows (since you mention gaming) but apparently never apply any patches whatsoever for security. I'm sure this is an excellent idea for government PCs too!
And you clearly never owned a smartphone pre-iPhone.
Hint: the rounded corner button-at-the-bottom design predates the iPhone by a lot. I have an iPaQ and an HTC Win CE phone both of which predate the iPhone by years which had that design.
We might see heuristic blocking of javascript come to the fore. Bitcoin miners at the end of the day have to upload to BTC hash servers, and produce BTC hashes.
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IRL's approach seems to be: have gamers to do something they don't want (tagging photos), in order to get something they want (games). Which seems reeeally close to what ReCAPTCHA is doing (read unscannable words, so you can sign up for accounts). (Although tagging disaster areas will need more training than reading mungled text.)
And then there's FoldIt, which challenges players with folding proteins into a minimum energy state. This is key to understanding how proteins work, and important for understanding diseases and creating new medicine. In FoldIt, though, the work (folding proteins) is the game, and training comes as a set of tutorial levels. People can play solo for high score, or try to improve on the solution of others.
Just open up a website with a decent client (like FoldIt did) and I think you'd find tons of people would happily volunteer time to help out with a natural disaster. The problem at the moment is there's no medium to do that - the idea that we somehow need to trick or force people into it is skipping the all important "how much time would people volunteer given the chance?" step. FoldIt is a triumph in that regard, but the main thing is it's pretty straight-forward - they didn't think they needed to trick people into it.
Kill virtual humans, of course. Or zombies or aliens if that's your preference.
The real idiocy here is the presumption that vast numbers of gamers would willingly spend ANY of their time doing anything that benefits anyone other than themselves.
Says someone posting in the comments section of a website.
When I was travelling around Europe, for getting through airports I sewed my own leg-webbing for my phone and it's accessories out of black canvas. It wound up being very low profile since I wear black cargo pants normally, but was much easier to take off quickly in airports (and kept everything spread out for X-ray scanners) and allowed me to keep my phone much higher and closer to my belt (which was great for making sure I had my phone on me and keeping it easy to keep an eye on).
Carrying a tablet the same way could probably be done pretty discreetly - a 7" tablet would easily fit along the space of one's thigh without standing out at all. But I seriously doubt you'll find anything to buy - break out the sewing the machine and see what you come up with is my recommendation.
No it's because the results of an unlikely occurrence are still far more catastrophic then the gain any single individual can obtain by not holding insurance.
The main thing for-profit insurance does is increase costs for consumers. It was pretty quickly recognized early on that the best possible insurance scheme for a country is single-payer, where everyone is part of the same risk pool since that's the greatest possible dilution of risk (it also means the government is strongly incentivised to keep its citizens healthy - companies dumping toxic waste into the local environment is no longer "not my problem").
You know I'd rather just send a robot. Because we've never actually done that before.
The enterprise of landing a rover on Europa - which is a literal one-way journey - is still something NASA isn't entirely sure about how to do effectively. And in that case we don't need to land food, oxygen and other life-support gear. And once you get there, we'd like to do something useful - but there's kilometers of ice we need to get through first.
I'm all for high-stakes missions to Mars, but that's extending our reach in a way which is achievable and would advance our technology and enthusiasm. When we can't do Mars even if we wanted to just yet, Europa is just lunacy.
Also you're not carrying thousands of kilos of possibly quite toxic rocket fuel.
Its water. The Mars inspiration fly-by idea was to recycle effluent back into a tank to be used as the shield, which is a good one because it means your water rations (which would need to be extracted from it) are basically always serving as part of your radiation shield.
But if you consider that you can have a very low cost orbit continuously between the Earth and Mars, then you only need to get all that shielding up to speed once, and just dock on/dock off from the tug-ship.
Tor isn't closed source.
The more pertinent issue is that Tor exit nodes are under no obligations to allow certain types of traffic to exit. So it's perfectly possible to block known malware data. Though not much you could do about Tor running as the malware, but in that regard scanning for unintended Tor processes would be a pretty good red flag.
The trailer for Lone Ranger completely put it off it because it was just wildly tonally inconsistent, in a setting which put me on edge that it was about to become super-racist quite quickly.
I'm pretty sure ripping off scenes from Evangelion was a selling point of Pacific Rim. And let's face it: Evangelion is completely unknown to most western audiences.
Its not even using it as a weapon. It's just what happens if a consortium of nations decide they want to do it. That's going to affect someone, and not necessarily positively. What do you do if China decides they want to engage in solar reflection, but we realize that it'll disrupt the farming and irrigation of a whole bunch of equatorial nations - or the consequences of it to a nation which expensively adapts to the new climate only to have that investment undermined.
These aren't hypothetical questions - we've already had the fishing village which was engaging in iron seeding to improve their catch, and China spends a lot of money on weather and climate control type stuff.
I've always wondered why we couldn't use this approach to fix certain types of open-source drivers. We know the APIs, and we have the hardware - set it up and get machines to iterate over it until we get the desired properties for hardware which doesn't need a human their to verify its functioning correctly. I'm thinking for something like network drivers this could work - though you could imagine a system which did it for graphics cards too.
Most national intelligence agencies care about climate change, because changes in local rainfall, drought and flood patterns is going to lead to unrest and the movement of peoples and what comes with that. Geoengineering falls under this umbrella easily: being able to predict who's going to get screwed by it is a pretty good way to predict who's going to be coming after the US for it, and where the new hotspots/issues will arise.
A huge part of any intelligence agency's mission is to discern the underlying factors which motivate the behavior of countries: someone beating the drums for war usually has an ulterior motive to the stated one, both locally and abroad.
BTSync desperately needs better conflict resolution though. It's completely unacceptable for it to just be silently overwriting things.
The other thing I'd really like to see is some way to assign sensible behavior to groups of files - i.e. "take most recent member, sync all these files in favor of this host". There's a lot of little edge cases no one deals with, and BTSync is pretty far behind in this regard.
The FPGA is intended to make this a good hacking tool, rather then a replacement for basic common components.
The idea here seems to be most definitely to make the kind of laptop we always wish we had from the movies - got some wires, want to see what's going on? A few twisted splices and you're looking at signal traces directly.
Which again, is because its an explicit violation of social norms. One person doing anything different is always creepy because it's asking all sorts of questions: why are they doing it? why would they be doing it? how dangerous do I think this person is?
If you're filmed by a 1000 cameras a day, you're not going to care because it's the norm. In fact, if they were just a facet of daily life (people have Glass for example) then no one is going to care. And yet, one guy coming up out of the blue, with no social reason to be there, just staring at you, will always be creepy.
What is the point of automatically removing child porn so it's not searchable. That's not the problem with child porn.
The problem with child porn is real children are being really abused to make it.
Making it "not searchable" doesn't stop that. Arresting the people who are making it does.
Yes I'm sure encrypting all your messages in such a way as they can now be proven mathematically to come from the same set of encryption keys (which is what OpenPGP does) will guarantee your anonymity.
People who read history always assume history will repeat itself exactly the same way as they've read about. Its why anyone who studies WW2 will go on forever about how hyperinflation is clearly just around the corner and why Americans seem so ridiculously obsessed with fighting the next civil war.
Linacs are better because they can use singular particles (like electrons) as well, which means for 33% of the power, you can still achieve per-particle collision energies on the same sort of scale as the LHC (i.e. smash 2 electrons, rather then 2 balls of 3 quarks each).
Yeah I did. And it was based on "gee this looks a bit like this".
Shall we discuss the angle of the corners? Shape of the screen? Curvature of the back shell? Which part of the geometric shape was patented and "too close" to Apple's?
So you run Windows (since you mention gaming) but apparently never apply any patches whatsoever for security. I'm sure this is an excellent idea for government PCs too!
Still sounds like too many active systems involved though.
Totally passive reactors seem like the only safe way to do it.
And you clearly never owned a smartphone pre-iPhone.
Hint: the rounded corner button-at-the-bottom design predates the iPhone by a lot. I have an iPaQ and an HTC Win CE phone both of which predate the iPhone by years which had that design.
We might see heuristic blocking of javascript come to the fore. Bitcoin miners at the end of the day have to upload to BTC hash servers, and produce BTC hashes.