Only on the old version. The new version does some sort of fingerprinting. It's bad enough that the Apple guys can't run VMware fusion without it triggering and thinking they're running windows.
I don't know how many of you have had to deal with the Cisco Security Agent, but it's a nightmare. It's a service that runs on windows boxes that requires AV software has been updated to the latest version, and that the user logs in. The product docs explicitly say it allows remote code execution by the network administrator, and it sucks at it's main purpose. That's because the only AV software that the university seems to recognize is McAfee.
Thankfully CSA is a broken piece of crap, so half the time I could get an open port for my VPN, and it allows *nix boxes on with just a login page. I just hope you don't want to run an Android or BlackBerry, given that the admin decided it's not worth the time to configure the server to allow it. Oh, and don't forget the monitoring and logging of all net traffic.
Taken together, it's no surprise that most students end up paying for cable internet for there dorms. When Comcast has a University beet on speed, reliability, privacy, and customer service, you know you have a problem.
/End Rant
I really hope MIT doesn't do the same thing as the University of Alabama in Huntsville does. While I doubt that they would, primarily because they (probably) have a competent networking staff, I fear for all MIT faculty and students as they go down this ramp.
I've seen so many B movie plots because people don't understand this simple principle. FTL is exactly like light moving faster than sound. It doesn't matter what reference frame you're in, or the speed of time in your reference frame.
My first thought is that TVs are cheap, so this shouldn't cost much.
My second thought is that my school spent tens of thousands of dollars on a fancy video conference equipped meeting room. Sure it had all the bells and whistles, like a second camera in the ceiling that can be moved and zoomed to look at individual documents from above, but still that's tens of thousands of dollars.
On the other hand, it's a drop in the bucket compared to what they normally spend. I just hope they don't drop all this money trying it then it just ends up gathering dust in the corner because it wasn't good enough, or none of the staffers know how to use it.
You can watch quite a bit of congress on CSPAN. It's mind numbingly boring most days, but you can watch it. (Mainly because all of the interesting stuff is done via back room deals.) I just hope that I can watch the teleconferenced stuff as easily, if not easier.
I'd also love for most of it to be recorded. I know it wont (thanks Nixon), but it would be awesome.
It's possible it doesn't mean what you think it means.
Instead of 3d as you see in theaters it might be the 3d you see in pictures. When you look at it from a different angle your view changes. Like how a window works.
I'm really excited about this technology for just that reason. I think the idea of a TV that looks just like a window would be amazing. Imagine video conferencing. Instead of having a single view of a person you could look at them from multiple angles, just as if they where in the same room.
While the reference implementation currently only supports client side decorations, that's probably more to do with the fact that it's at something closer to Alpha release state than anything else.
Supply and demand. It's the same reason why we will never run out of oil.
As oil and other hydrocarbon sources become more rare, the price goes up. As the price goes up, more exotic extraction methods go from too expensive to financially viable. You'll even see an occasional dip in prices as someone discovers a way to preform the extraction cheaper. In the long run, hydrocarbon prices will continue to increase though.
There will never be a day* when everyone stops using gasoline all at once. Instead it will become more expensive, while alternatives become more accessible. People didn't all switch to the car from horses overnight. I mean, it's not like there was a gas station in every town, and you could feed your horse anywhere./*Insert rant about anti-nuclear people preventing new safer plants from being built here.*/
My problem is that many games look warped when playing on multiple monitors.
I really wanted to get my money's worth when Skyrim came out, but it won't let you set the vertical and horizontal field of view separately. What you end up with is the center monitor looks fine, while the side monitors are stretched and warped.
Another problem* is I prefer to have my monitors set at a slight angle, that way I can turn my head slightly and be looking straight at them. I want peripheral vision not one big monitor with an aspect ratio of 48:9.
* The first problem persists, even if the monitors are set at no angle.
Reminder, energy independence and renewables are different than anti-pollution.
I'll go out and drive my electric car charged from solar panels because it gives me more (energy) freedom. Furthermore, while some forms of pollution are global, others are not. Even with all the green tech available, factories still produce byproducts. NIMBY and EPA requirements mean some goods will always* be manufactured in 3rd world** countries.
The EPA, as worthless as they are/seem to be, is responsible for New York no looking like Mexico City or Beijing. Do you really think most people drive cars with ridiculously expensive emissions control technology because they want to?
* The bulk of them will, for the foreseeable future. ** any country where there is little to no industry regulation.
If part of your business is in china, and the government demands the ability to intercept its communications.
Like the summary said, this was likely an official monitor looking to make some quick cash on the side. These are the people who legally have access to your most sensitive corporate secrets because the government says so.
Thanks for the advice, too bad I'm going to ignore it.
I'm going to go out and buy a mac, and then I'm going to find the software with this bug, then I'm going to follow the directions that straight up say not to do so.
On a more serious note, It's always nice to see someone find the problem, and offer a workaround.
I've never heard of data detectors before. It's an interesting idea but also scary. I'm a big fan of sandboxing, so I seriously hope that this is just some function in a library and the OS isn't pawing over every text box.
If you look at what the man was accused of, you'll see that he's asked to prove a negative.
He was accused of downloading one file twice, and another file. What's interesting is that he admits to downloading the first file once, but he used bittorrent with default settings. So apparently, restarting your client now counts as a second download. What's also interesting is that he flat out denies downloading the Second file.
So, a man comes to this thing and flat out apologizes for downloading a file. This apparently means he's lying about everything else, and bam give us money or we'll violate your rights.
It's a Defcon 20 talk on how Huawei security practices basically don't exist, and all the bugs are things we saw in the 90s.
If researchers who didn't even have the source code could find holes large enough to drive a truck through, don't you think someone half competent could find them if they had the source code? Combine that with Huawei not having anything security related on their website. If you find a bug, there is no one to tell it to. As a customer there are only version numbers. They don't even tell you what's been patched between firmware versions.
They even say it in the talk. There are no backdoors because they don't need them. Plausible deniability.
You can do amazing things with clockwork. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine Just like you can do the same thing with relays, and vacuum tubes. A computer is a computer no matter the form. The difference is every iteration results in something smaller, possibly cheaper, and much more powerful.
The thing is we have always assumed that the brain follows certain patterns. There are entire fields out there devoted to the study of those patterns. What AIs attempt to do is mimic the results of these patterns. Lets face it. Users don't care how Siri or any AI works. They only care about results.
The thing is, it still feels artificial to talk to something like Siri. The better the AI is, the less artificial it feels, and the more useful it becomes. It's the difference between a clear enunciation of "What's the weather like?" followed by a robotic forecast, and "Hey, I'm thinking of having a barbeque." with a response of "It's probably going to rain, you might want to postpone that." The first is a person adapting to the machine, the second is the machine adapting to the person.
In the US all public non-toll roads are maintained by the government. The fun part is figuring out at what level of government.
Most/all of the maintenance is done by the local governments and individual states. Not only do individual states tax gasoline sales, they also receive money from the federal government. This is how the US government forces the individual states to do things which would otherwise be unconstitutional.
For example, the US constitution gives individual states the right to set a minimum drinking age. However, if the states wish to receive federal highway funds they must set the minimum above 21. Basically, the federal government implements taxes that should be on the state level, then extorts/bribes the states to pass laws that the federal government constitutionally can not pass.
I have a suggestion. But first a little background to make sure we're on the same page. Routers typically have a DHCP server built into them. This not only tells your Computers and smart TV what IP address to have, they tell it what DNS servers to use.
DNS review. Whenever your computer browses to a domain name like "example.com" it sends a request to the DNS server. If the DNS server doesn't know the answer then it asks another one. Eventually one of them know's the ip address for "example.com" and then the original DNS server returns that to the PC.
Here's the good part. What you can do on most routers is tell them to use a custom DNS server, if you can't then you can always run your own DHCP server as well. Basic proxying DNS servers are a dime a dozen. Just tell them to use OpenDNS as the next resolver, and you should have an override file somewhere. (might be the system's hosts file)
Now you have a hosts file for your entire LAN.
I can't help you with what domain is used by your TV, but you can certainly log that with your own DNS server.
Couple of reasons. First, native means less things are likely to go wrong with Steam itself. (hopefully) Second, if Steam is managing the wine stuff, then you have some guarantee of quality.
I love Wine, but it isn't perfect. If the packagers on Steam's end are working with it, they're much more likely to make sure either the game or Wine are fixed if a bug is found. I don't have the time or the in depth knowledge to fix a Wine bug, but these people would. They'd be paid to do it.
I shudder at the thought of x86 used on cell phones. First, what's the point. x86 is only useful for running legacy proprietary software. Mostly for windows. Those old apps have minimum screen sizes, and almost none of them are touch compatible.
Second, there's battery life, or lack thereof. x86 is what happens when you add 30 years of bloat to an old variable length cisc instruction set. The idea of saving memory and being faster by having the processor do more is a good one. Unfortunately, that means the processor is an order of magnitude more complex, with all the manufacturing and power draw disadvantages that come from that.
If there is anything we should take away from x86 it is that a small fast instruction set with separate modules outside of the cpu is far better than a monolithic instruction set that does everything.
The sole exception to the above are larger tablets that can be used as laptops. While x86 is still horrid, you need it for windows compatibility.
Probably. On the other hand developers could tweak their 10 year old Symbian apps to work on it.
Blackberry was like android in that it used a smartphone centric java implementation. It would have been nice if they'd made it just a compile away for android apps, but QT development is pretty straight forward. The fact it's a superset of c++ means many people can already code for it easily enough.
Windtraps could also work using condensation techniques like refrigeration, or a regenerative moisture absorber. Of course, those techniques require power.
If you work with this material you might be able to create something more like Stillsuits.
The material wicks sweat into tubes with one way valves. Normal walking motion compresses the tubes causing the system to act as a pump. Add a filtration system, and you're in business.
We're not there yet, but these people are making science fiction into science fact.
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Only on the old version. The new version does some sort of fingerprinting. It's bad enough that the Apple guys can't run VMware fusion without it triggering and thinking they're running windows.
Reminds me of my time in college.
/Begin Rant
I don't know how many of you have had to deal with the Cisco Security Agent, but it's a nightmare.
It's a service that runs on windows boxes that requires AV software has been updated to the latest version, and that the user logs in.
The product docs explicitly say it allows remote code execution by the network administrator, and it sucks at it's main purpose. That's because the only AV software that the university seems to recognize is McAfee.
Thankfully CSA is a broken piece of crap, so half the time I could get an open port for my VPN, and it allows *nix boxes on with just a login page. I just hope you don't want to run an Android or BlackBerry, given that the admin decided it's not worth the time to configure the server to allow it. Oh, and don't forget the monitoring and logging of all net traffic.
Taken together, it's no surprise that most students end up paying for cable internet for there dorms. When Comcast has a University beet on speed, reliability, privacy, and customer service, you know you have a problem.
/End Rant
I really hope MIT doesn't do the same thing as the University of Alabama in Huntsville does. While I doubt that they would, primarily because they (probably) have a competent networking staff, I fear for all MIT faculty and students as they go down this ramp.
Very nice reply. I wish I had mod points for you.
I've seen so many B movie plots because people don't understand this simple principle. FTL is exactly like light moving faster than sound. It doesn't matter what reference frame you're in, or the speed of time in your reference frame.
My first thought is that TVs are cheap, so this shouldn't cost much.
My second thought is that my school spent tens of thousands of dollars on a fancy video conference equipped meeting room. Sure it had all the bells and whistles, like a second camera in the ceiling that can be moved and zoomed to look at individual documents from above, but still that's tens of thousands of dollars.
On the other hand, it's a drop in the bucket compared to what they normally spend. I just hope they don't drop all this money trying it then it just ends up gathering dust in the corner because it wasn't good enough, or none of the staffers know how to use it.
As long as it's properly transparent.
You can watch quite a bit of congress on CSPAN. It's mind numbingly boring most days, but you can watch it. (Mainly because all of the interesting stuff is done via back room deals.) I just hope that I can watch the teleconferenced stuff as easily, if not easier.
I'd also love for most of it to be recorded. I know it wont (thanks Nixon), but it would be awesome.
It's possible it doesn't mean what you think it means.
Instead of 3d as you see in theaters it might be the 3d you see in pictures. When you look at it from a different angle your view changes. Like how a window works.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/16/tensor-display-3d-tv_n_1665976.html
I'm really excited about this technology for just that reason. I think the idea of a TV that looks just like a window would be amazing. Imagine video conferencing. Instead of having a single view of a person you could look at them from multiple angles, just as if they where in the same room.
Umm, no.
While the reference implementation currently only supports client side decorations, that's probably more to do with the fact that it's at something closer to Alpha release state than anything else.
The Wayland specification allows either client side or server side decorations.
See this post for more details: http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2013/02/more-rational-approach-to-window-decorations/
Yeah, they "make love" whether the other party wants to or not.
Supply and demand. It's the same reason why we will never run out of oil.
As oil and other hydrocarbon sources become more rare, the price goes up. As the price goes up, more exotic extraction methods go from too expensive to financially viable. You'll even see an occasional dip in prices as someone discovers a way to preform the extraction cheaper. In the long run, hydrocarbon prices will continue to increase though.
There will never be a day* when everyone stops using gasoline all at once. Instead it will become more expensive, while alternatives become more accessible. People didn't all switch to the car from horses overnight. I mean, it's not like there was a gas station in every town, and you could feed your horse anywhere. /*Insert rant about anti-nuclear people preventing new safer plants from being built here.*/
*I know, never say never and all that.
Must.... Resist.... Urge... To... Respond.... To.... Troll.....
Really? I thought the story was "Ubuntu team declares interoperability and standards are for losers."
My problem is that many games look warped when playing on multiple monitors.
I really wanted to get my money's worth when Skyrim came out, but it won't let you set the vertical and horizontal field of view separately.
What you end up with is the center monitor looks fine, while the side monitors are stretched and warped.
Another problem* is I prefer to have my monitors set at a slight angle, that way I can turn my head slightly and be looking straight at them. I want peripheral vision not one big monitor with an aspect ratio of 48:9.
* The first problem persists, even if the monitors are set at no angle.
Reminder, energy independence and renewables are different than anti-pollution.
I'll go out and drive my electric car charged from solar panels because it gives me more (energy) freedom. Furthermore, while some forms of pollution are global, others are not. Even with all the green tech available, factories still produce byproducts. NIMBY and EPA requirements mean some goods will always* be manufactured in 3rd world** countries.
The EPA, as worthless as they are/seem to be, is responsible for New York no looking like Mexico City or Beijing. Do you really think most people drive cars with ridiculously expensive emissions control technology because they want to?
* The bulk of them will, for the foreseeable future.
** any country where there is little to no industry regulation.
Yes,
If part of your business is in china, and the government demands the ability to intercept its communications.
Like the summary said, this was likely an official monitor looking to make some quick cash on the side. These are the people who legally have access to your most sensitive corporate secrets because the government says so.
Nice, it's an error large enough to prevent it from being auto reported, yet went quite a while before people noticed it.
Thanks for the advice, too bad I'm going to ignore it.
I'm going to go out and buy a mac, and then I'm going to find the software with this bug, then I'm going to follow the directions that straight up say not to do so.
On a more serious note, It's always nice to see someone find the problem, and offer a workaround.
I've never heard of data detectors before. It's an interesting idea but also scary. I'm a big fan of sandboxing, so I seriously hope that this is just some function in a library and the OS isn't pawing over every text box.
Ahh, but that's already happened.
If you look at what the man was accused of, you'll see that he's asked to prove a negative.
He was accused of downloading one file twice, and another file. What's interesting is that he admits to downloading the first file once, but he used bittorrent with default settings. So apparently, restarting your client now counts as a second download. What's also interesting is that he flat out denies downloading the Second file.
So, a man comes to this thing and flat out apologizes for downloading a file. This apparently means he's lying about everything else, and bam give us money or we'll violate your rights.
Am I the only one who's watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugdpbPW_k3g ?
It's a Defcon 20 talk on how Huawei security practices basically don't exist, and all the bugs are things we saw in the 90s.
If researchers who didn't even have the source code could find holes large enough to drive a truck through, don't you think someone half competent could find them if they had the source code? Combine that with Huawei not having anything security related on their website. If you find a bug, there is no one to tell it to. As a customer there are only version numbers. They don't even tell you what's been patched between firmware versions.
They even say it in the talk. There are no backdoors because they don't need them. Plausible deniability.
You can do amazing things with clockwork. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Difference_engine
Just like you can do the same thing with relays, and vacuum tubes. A computer is a computer no matter the form. The difference is every iteration results in something smaller, possibly cheaper, and much more powerful.
The thing is we have always assumed that the brain follows certain patterns. There are entire fields out there devoted to the study of those patterns. What AIs attempt to do is mimic the results of these patterns. Lets face it. Users don't care how Siri or any AI works. They only care about results.
The thing is, it still feels artificial to talk to something like Siri. The better the AI is, the less artificial it feels, and the more useful it becomes. It's the difference between a clear enunciation of "What's the weather like?" followed by a robotic forecast, and "Hey, I'm thinking of having a barbeque." with a response of "It's probably going to rain, you might want to postpone that." The first is a person adapting to the machine, the second is the machine adapting to the person.
Alright, that's enough of my rambling for now.
In the US all public non-toll roads are maintained by the government. The fun part is figuring out at what level of government.
Most/all of the maintenance is done by the local governments and individual states. Not only do individual states tax gasoline sales, they also receive money from the federal government. This is how the US government forces the individual states to do things which would otherwise be unconstitutional.
For example, the US constitution gives individual states the right to set a minimum drinking age. However, if the states wish to receive federal highway funds they must set the minimum above 21. Basically, the federal government implements taxes that should be on the state level, then extorts/bribes the states to pass laws that the federal government constitutionally can not pass.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Minimum_Drinking_Age_Act
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_taxes_in_the_United_States
I have a suggestion. But first a little background to make sure we're on the same page.
Routers typically have a DHCP server built into them. This not only tells your Computers and smart TV what IP address to have, they tell it what DNS servers to use.
DNS review. Whenever your computer browses to a domain name like "example.com" it sends a request to the DNS server. If the DNS server doesn't know the answer then it asks another one. Eventually one of them know's the ip address for "example.com" and then the original DNS server returns that to the PC.
Here's the good part.
What you can do on most routers is tell them to use a custom DNS server, if you can't then you can always run your own DHCP server as well. Basic proxying DNS servers are a dime a dozen. Just tell them to use OpenDNS as the next resolver, and you should have an override file somewhere. (might be the system's hosts file)
Now you have a hosts file for your entire LAN.
I can't help you with what domain is used by your TV, but you can certainly log that with your own DNS server.
Couple of reasons.
First, native means less things are likely to go wrong with Steam itself. (hopefully)
Second, if Steam is managing the wine stuff, then you have some guarantee of quality.
I love Wine, but it isn't perfect. If the packagers on Steam's end are working with it, they're much more likely to make sure either the game or Wine are fixed if a bug is found. I don't have the time or the in depth knowledge to fix a Wine bug, but these people would. They'd be paid to do it.
I shudder at the thought of x86 used on cell phones.
First, what's the point. x86 is only useful for running legacy proprietary software. Mostly for windows.
Those old apps have minimum screen sizes, and almost none of them are touch compatible.
Second, there's battery life, or lack thereof. x86 is what happens when you add 30 years of bloat to an old variable length cisc instruction set.
The idea of saving memory and being faster by having the processor do more is a good one. Unfortunately, that means the processor is an order of magnitude more complex, with all the manufacturing and power draw disadvantages that come from that.
If there is anything we should take away from x86 it is that a small fast instruction set with separate modules outside of the cpu is far better than a monolithic instruction set that does everything.
The sole exception to the above are larger tablets that can be used as laptops. While x86 is still horrid, you need it for windows compatibility.
Probably. On the other hand developers could tweak their 10 year old Symbian apps to work on it.
Blackberry was like android in that it used a smartphone centric java implementation. It would have been nice if they'd made it just a compile away for android apps, but QT development is pretty straight forward. The fact it's a superset of c++ means many people can already code for it easily enough.
Windtraps could also work using condensation techniques like refrigeration, or a regenerative moisture absorber. Of course, those techniques require power.
If you work with this material you might be able to create something more like Stillsuits.
The material wicks sweat into tubes with one way valves. Normal walking motion compresses the tubes causing the system to act as a pump. Add a filtration system, and you're in business.
We're not there yet, but these people are making science fiction into science fact.