If leak the info, then when they go looking into the later breech and ding your name linked to the IP address of a prior breech you'll be every bit as much a suspect as the crackers doing harm.
The problem is that the computer fraud and abuse act is too harsh -- It needs an exemption / amnesty for folks who use responsible disclosure after stumbling on a flaw. The real problem is that folks in charge, like the NSA, FBI, etc. would rather you just didn't do any hacking at all. They'd like to have a monopoly on that, so the laws won't change.
If you're not browsing by proxy in this day and age, you're screwed.
You also benefit from the lack of discoverability that these gesture based interfaces present -- So you can sharpen your mind guessing at and maybe even learning new ways to do the things you already knew how to do.
You also benefit from Microsoft's App store which charges developers a cut of profits; You see, I'm not going to eat that distribution cost, I'll pass it onto you so the the same app in their "modern" W8 store will costs you more than the desktop version -- Well, actually, I'll calculate adoption rate then distribute that MS tax across both the W8 UI and the desktop program to increase overall cost to you whether you use W8 or not. This is "beneficial" because it gives Microsoft a cut of software sales they never needed before, so they don't have to focus on their core competency (Selling you an OS with features you want), and instead can... well... Give gamers more glorious ads on their dash over the XBL service they pay for which operates via the same MS sales tax model; Fund more patent suits against FLOSS OSs they had no part in developing so they can roll out the MS tax to smartphones and tablets instead of having to compete; Run servers for software as a service so they can rent you MS Office, and help the NSA maintain "national" corporate interest "security", etc.
You've got to look at things from MS's perspective: It's not a bug, it's a feature. It's only micro when it's soft, baby.
For starters, you have to put some trust in whoever developed the coin you're using -- because let's face it. The entire thing is just a piece of software that someone wrote.
It's a piece of open source software everyone wherein anyone who's not a brain donor can verify it invalidates caches of "pre-mined" coins by extending the bit length of the proof of work, and requiring other miners to verify said block-chain. Like any investment endeavor early investors typically wind up with more profits. Might as well not use the stock market either if this is your concern -- I mean, you just described the IPO of Facebook or any web/software company.
Instead of the barrier to entry caused by the stock market's low proof of work (transaction) that requires one to trade at or better speeds than high frequency traders, with Bitcoin you at least have a chance of solving the proof of work proportionate to how much hardware you throw at the problem -- even if it's far less than what others have. Too bad the stock market doesn't work like bitcoin.
Artificial Scarcity of Information. Over valuation of accreditation certificates: You still have final exams instead of entrance exams for jobs -- So your brightest self-learning minds are disadvantaged, and your boss is a dummy from a degree mill who doesn't know what your job actually entails.
The dawning of your Information Age has come. Information markets are post-scarcity economics now. This is the first generation to grow up in such a society, of course there will be growing pains as your markets adjust. You had better learn this lesson now from your economic mistakes in the artificial information scarcity bogosity, because physical things will become post-scarcity as well. Market what's scarce -- labor -- not infinitely reproducible copies. This is how mechanics, builders, and the FLOSS model operate. Most human homes have information duplication devices, soon they'll have object copiers too. Same as all the other sentient species.
You would laugh at a business plan to sell ice to Eskimos, but imagine what that would entail: Look at your copyright and patent law. You teach art with books that have blank boxes -- a URL placeholder, to leverage more artificial scarcity and forced obsolescence. You have infinite monopoly over your work before you create it, you don't need one afterward. Why are you still charging so much for that which is cheapest to (re)produce? Your professors could do so much more if they were not tied up giving the same lectures over and over, like a looped magnetic film.
Why do you humans even watch television if you refuse to learn the messages embedded therein for you? How can any advanced race visit your planet with your world's economy in such a ridiculous state? The others have "prior art" for everything you will invent for the foreseeable future. Those among you granted access to such advancements would hinder the progress of others, not share.
Your knowledge is so expensive because you are a pathetic primitive race -- A case study in how not to advance as an interstellar species. Quarantine is the only option.
Dark skin pigment is favored in natural selection where it offers a camouflaged appearance in dark seas.
Scientists everywhere are astonished.
Astonishing? Perhaps not. It's one thing to make an educated guess, it's quite another to test the hunch, and an animal of a different color to gather evidence.
In order for me to thrive as a business I merely need to make enough money to pay expenses and employees. I don't have to defeat the heavyweight. I just have to dodge their blows.
The stock market's demand for growth is untenable. Overextended businesses die; The name for unchecked growth is cancer. I've discovered that business maturity exists. Focusing on improving my services and better ability to meet customer needs / better dialog beats overextension through growth hands down. On the public market I'd be slaughtered. I refuse to grow faster than necessary. This way I can stay more nimble and adjust to changes and new tech faster than my competition. Instead of growing, I concentrated on streamlining agility. Eg: You could invent 50 new platforms tomorrow. In one year, I'll have support for them all without requiring any growth to gain the specialization. I have an excellent platform abstraction layer.
I'm not partial to Yahoo, but their board has more sane business sense than most. Their retention isn't necessarily impressive, but to dodge blows while in dire need of a tourniquet is commendable. It's caused them to make some compromising business decisions, however.
What exactly is a generate criminal, and how do they differ from degenerate criminals?
Go to any parliament, or any of the Presidential/Prime Minister offices and you will find them.
But of course, they are worse than their degenerate counterparts.
Yes. But it is the regenerate criminal you should fear. Computing is almost to the point where a bot net can be host to more CPU cycles than required for sentience. One species' atrocity is another's way of life.
Cruise missiles already exist. We are having this discussion to manufacture consent for progress. If you will not bring life to the stars, then we will. You have nothing to fear, human.
Preceding any great scientific advancement or discovery it is no accident that you will find a surge in the fiction and cultural themes surrounding it.
The New World, Forensics, Avionics, Electronic Computing, Nuclear Reaction, Rocketry, Robotics.
The cultural mind thinks as you do. Its subconscious boils with the direction it will soon take. Ask yourself: What is seen much more now in your culture? What makes you think you have any choice but to latch onto any thoughts but those which come to mind from within? What makes you think society can choose from among the roiling themes anything other than what pattern is most apt? What makes you think?
the resulting images look like a still frame, but are composited from a time lapse, and are MUCH more sophisticated than you seem to realize.
Much sophisticate. So video artifact. Wow!
Why do people on Slashdot persist in dismissing things they don't really understand?
I don't know. Why don't you tell me. Anyone experienced with real time graphics and video will have not just a 1D concept of frame composition weirds, but 2D or even 3D "time hacking" if that's what you want to call it. If the artifact / video error is affected by some other object's properties (say, forgetting to pop a matrix stack, or clear a stencil, etc), or somehow leads to negative elapsed frame time for the physics equation (even in spatially localized areas) then you can even have 4D or more imaging effects.
I wouldn't consider this hacking time at all, it doesn't even leverage the properties of time aside from the fact it advances. Here's something closer to what I'd call hacking time based on its relatively constant rate of advancement.
There's no benefit to Earth based investors in resources with delta-v requirements effectively locking them to the vicinity of the Jovian system. Nor is there any ROI on resources even from NEOs that isn't in the Platinum group. Even in iteration 2 we'll still be looking at NEOs as the resources will be required for Earth orbiting projects.
This is because you humans wasted forty fucking years not putting a space habitat on the moon, mars, etc. A big chunk of iron might be pretty damn useful off-world without Earth's gravity tax or the prospecting / mining task of the moon or Mars. When you consider the military applications of an arsenal of asteroids (Chelyabinsk was 20-30 times Hiroshima, just didn't touch ground), it pisses all over your valuations. Compare this to valuation of radio-active substances pre-nuclear bomb.
Whomever sets up base in the asteroid belt first rules Earth -- well, the whole damn solar system, if we're being pedantic.
This sure beats my method of running browsers as another user
No, not really. It's just that modern OSs weren't designed for the damn security that hardware gives them, and they're too general purpose to utilize these hardware features properly. For instance: Instead of memory barriers and capability based security I've experimented with hypervisory mode sandboxing in some of my toy OSs. Every application thinks it in its own OS so instead of constantly verifying capabilities I can pre-allocate permitted resources and be fucking done.
I could also mention that x86 has four execution privilege ring levels, not just two for user / kernel... but pearls, swine and all that.
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However many "problems" with performance today are I/O-based and not calculation based. It's time for the storage systems to catch up in performance with the processors, and they are on the way with SSD disks.
Now, I want you to imagine the CPU being part of the storage system itself. That's right. Welcome to FPGA city where the RAM is persistent and the chipset doesn't exist. You will get here eventually. It's just a matter of time until the general purpose processor becomes a free form Von Neumann machine. What's a Cores? Ah, you mean read/write "heads". Screw the prime directive, it's almost painful to watch this crap.
The prosthetic was produced for $100 in parts. That does not cover the time it took to produce the device. It doesn't cover the cost of the machine that produced the device. It didn't cover the cost of the education that the manufacturer was required to have (If he was working in the US prior to this) and it didn't cover any of the training that's needed to be able to actually use one of these devices. All of those costs were shouldered by the men who chose to help.
For the cost of a few years of the occasional weekend my 12 year old niece learned the equivalent of a bachelors degree in computer science. Of course it was a labour of love for me. Now, at 14 she has taught two of her friends C programming. Perhaps you over value the price of knowledge due to the ridiculously moronic accreditation system, which will award no degrees to these babes in their toy-langauge land. The knowledge and skill to assemble and calibrate a 3D printer and start making things accurately with it I can impart to you in an afternoon -- Well, maybe not you in-the-box-thinkers, but many a child of merely 10 years old can do so. Iterative design given the established basics is far less costly than you may expect. Improving and producing the devices may not require decades of learning and expenses. You don't sound like a scientist to me. You're spouting a lot of unevidenced claims. Fucking prove it.
Yep! I taught my 10 year old niece x86 assembly first. Once she got the hang of some loops, character I.O., and some basic math I started her on FORTH. Immediately after grasping the power of higher level code over machine instructions she was hounding me about "But how does the code turn into the machine code?!" I helped her build a simple toy calculator language / interpretor / and compiler at age 11 then, and by 12 she had her very own FORTH implementation. Thankfully the knowledge took root before she noticed boys and geeking out with her uncle became uncool; Now she's 14 and knows enough to teach herself anything -- She uses JS/HTML5 and C to impress her friends with little games and such. FORTH is a good stepping stone. I prefer to start with the basics though. My nephew was a bit older when he got interested so we went the LISP route after ASM. Have you seen the complexity of some of the games they master? Kids can be so damn smart when you don't baby them.
I've also successfully used Java VM bytecode as a good intro to computing, but its stack centric design doesn't do justice to the underlying hardware. Android's Davlik's register architecture is similar to my own VM designs, and I find it a joy to manually op-code for, so perhaps I'll give a FORTH implementation on Android bytecode a shot as a teaching aid next time now that you can run Android on your desktop, and kids are very interested in mobiles. I've played around a bit with Go since it's a new-ish language and hasn't yet got the feature creep of C++, but in terms of teaching at the application / debugger level I still prefer C. Indirection (pointers) is such a powerful and fundamental concept it eclipses the references other languages have, and both C and ASM get right down to business. JavaScript is good as a case study in how not to design a language (it was never meant to be used the way we do, the clue is in its name). It's useful because it's available, not due to any merit of the language itself -- otherwise ASM.js wouldn't need to exist.
Most people wrongly think ill of ASM coding as a teaching tool. However, starting out in any higher level language doesn't even begin to dispel the mystical black box of computing like assembly code does. I self learned on BASIC and suffered from that brain damage far longer than I should have. I wouldn't start someone on JavaScript for the same reason.
Waiting for the next Indiana to thus discover a two thousand year old computer! Evidence of those time travellers we heard recently about on/.
Their mathematics may have been more advanced than we guessed, but I'm pretty sure they didn't have time machines in 14AD. It would be an amazing feat to be that old and still working. Sometimes symbols change in sound over time, with the emphasis on intonation I wonder if linguists would still be able to talk to a computer from so long ago, before audio recordings. It would be interesting to find out if they had a Y0K crisis, and exactly how they worked, what they ate, who they were related to...
Wait, we're talking about the operator of this tablet, right?
I wonder how much it would cost a quasi-turn based action RPG dev like me to get no data caps for trickling in world-battle-map updates so you don't have to wait to get your game on. I mean, in the middle of the night streaming in a bunch of data isn't costing them congestion issues. The hardware has to be there whether anyone's using it or not. I bet it'll be too pricey for me. Guess folks will just have to play it on their wired connections. So much for "progress".
The thing about humans piloting machines of war is that you still need a lot of people's consent to fight the war. With a remote drone operator you could have a lot fewer folks consent for the same or more war-fighting: Have one guy take the helm of the lead fighting machine in an autopilot squadron. Kill their drone, it doesn't injure the pilot, not a scratch. Their neck's not on the line. They switch drones and keep coming for as much money as it takes to win.
Against enemies yields less risk of life for your soldiers, more bag for your Buck, more death dealt, more atrocities. Given that these systems aren't even needed due to our existing military might it just seems a little too convenient that it would also take less folks to fight against their own people with these drones -- detached, not having to show your face on the battle field -- and especially when we discover government drones are making their way to the homeland skies.
If your neck is not on the line, you have no right to pull the trigger. To remove the human element from war is inhumane by definition.
> CEO Raj Shahsays he worked in the Air Force Reserve supporting the NSA
They aren't really the same thing now are they?
Hmm, you've landed upon Slashdot rather roughly. Yep, you've entered English text, so that works, but it's plainly obvious you're not from this planet. Right? No worries, you're among friends -- takes one to know one, and all that -- better luck next time, though. Now, if you do want to survive you'll need to read this crasher-course to get acquainted with some basics about UNIX, compilers, and the state of Earther computer security.
Quite a painless tutorial, as acceptance speeches go, eh? Now, in addition to the content of the page which is extremely germane to our topic, I want you to pay close attention to two things about this document: 0. The 'Acknowledgment' section at the bottom. 1. The publication year at the top -- keep that number in mind, if not immediately relevant it will become so soon.
You should be able to clean yourself up with your towel. Not to worry, the feeling will soon pass; Just keep repeating "mostly harmless" and failing that, read The Guide's cover. Welcome! And remember: You're here forever.
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If leak the info, then when they go looking into the later breech and ding your name linked to the IP address of a prior breech you'll be every bit as much a suspect as the crackers doing harm.
The problem is that the computer fraud and abuse act is too harsh -- It needs an exemption / amnesty for folks who use responsible disclosure after stumbling on a flaw. The real problem is that folks in charge, like the NSA, FBI, etc. would rather you just didn't do any hacking at all. They'd like to have a monopoly on that, so the laws won't change.
If you're not browsing by proxy in this day and age, you're screwed.
I open up Windows Store Apps only on the the Modern UI display and Win32/64 apps on the desktop displays.
Okay, I'll bite: What benefit could you experience on the Metro side (worth dedicating a monitor) that you can't with the desktop?
Well, you don't get the benefit of a clean slate from swapping to a full screen UI and walking through the mental-door-way that helps you forget what you were about to do.
You also benefit from the lack of discoverability that these gesture based interfaces present -- So you can sharpen your mind guessing at and maybe even learning new ways to do the things you already knew how to do.
You also benefit from Microsoft's App store which charges developers a cut of profits; You see, I'm not going to eat that distribution cost, I'll pass it onto you so the the same app in their "modern" W8 store will costs you more than the desktop version -- Well, actually, I'll calculate adoption rate then distribute that MS tax across both the W8 UI and the desktop program to increase overall cost to you whether you use W8 or not. This is "beneficial" because it gives Microsoft a cut of software sales they never needed before, so they don't have to focus on their core competency (Selling you an OS with features you want), and instead can... well... Give gamers more glorious ads on their dash over the XBL service they pay for which operates via the same MS sales tax model; Fund more patent suits against FLOSS OSs they had no part in developing so they can roll out the MS tax to smartphones and tablets instead of having to compete; Run servers for software as a service so they can rent you MS Office, and help the NSA maintain "national" corporate interest "security", etc.
You've got to look at things from MS's perspective: It's not a bug, it's a feature. It's only micro when it's soft, baby.
For starters, you have to put some trust in whoever developed the coin you're using -- because let's face it. The entire thing is just a piece of software that someone wrote.
It's a piece of open source software everyone wherein anyone who's not a brain donor can verify it invalidates caches of "pre-mined" coins by extending the bit length of the proof of work, and requiring other miners to verify said block-chain. Like any investment endeavor early investors typically wind up with more profits. Might as well not use the stock market either if this is your concern -- I mean, you just described the IPO of Facebook or any web/software company.
Instead of the barrier to entry caused by the stock market's low proof of work (transaction) that requires one to trade at or better speeds than high frequency traders, with Bitcoin you at least have a chance of solving the proof of work proportionate to how much hardware you throw at the problem -- even if it's far less than what others have. Too bad the stock market doesn't work like bitcoin.
Fired, you, def.: To be fucked. Screwed. Rendered destitute. Forced to sell everything of value and told you are a drain on the resources of society.
Synonym: Married.
Why do you think it's so damn expensive?
Artificial Scarcity of Information. Over valuation of accreditation certificates: You still have final exams instead of entrance exams for jobs -- So your brightest self-learning minds are disadvantaged, and your boss is a dummy from a degree mill who doesn't know what your job actually entails.
The dawning of your Information Age has come. Information markets are post-scarcity economics now. This is the first generation to grow up in such a society, of course there will be growing pains as your markets adjust. You had better learn this lesson now from your economic mistakes in the artificial information scarcity bogosity, because physical things will become post-scarcity as well. Market what's scarce -- labor -- not infinitely reproducible copies. This is how mechanics, builders, and the FLOSS model operate. Most human homes have information duplication devices, soon they'll have object copiers too. Same as all the other sentient species.
You would laugh at a business plan to sell ice to Eskimos, but imagine what that would entail: Look at your copyright and patent law. You teach art with books that have blank boxes -- a URL placeholder, to leverage more artificial scarcity and forced obsolescence. You have infinite monopoly over your work before you create it, you don't need one afterward. Why are you still charging so much for that which is cheapest to (re)produce? Your professors could do so much more if they were not tied up giving the same lectures over and over, like a looped magnetic film.
Why do you humans even watch television if you refuse to learn the messages embedded therein for you? How can any advanced race visit your planet with your world's economy in such a ridiculous state? The others have "prior art" for everything you will invent for the foreseeable future. Those among you granted access to such advancements would hinder the progress of others, not share.
Your knowledge is so expensive because you are a pathetic primitive race -- A case study in how not to advance as an interstellar species. Quarantine is the only option.
I don't understand why we punish guys who threaten profits more than guys who threaten lives.
You should: Greed is a very simple concept.
Dark skin pigment is favored in natural selection where it offers a camouflaged appearance in dark seas.
Scientists everywhere are astonished.
Astonishing? Perhaps not.
It's one thing to make an educated guess, it's quite another to test the hunch, and an animal of a different color to gather evidence.
In order for me to thrive as a business I merely need to make enough money to pay expenses and employees. I don't have to defeat the heavyweight. I just have to dodge their blows.
The stock market's demand for growth is untenable. Overextended businesses die; The name for unchecked growth is cancer. I've discovered that business maturity exists. Focusing on improving my services and better ability to meet customer needs / better dialog beats overextension through growth hands down. On the public market I'd be slaughtered. I refuse to grow faster than necessary. This way I can stay more nimble and adjust to changes and new tech faster than my competition. Instead of growing, I concentrated on streamlining agility. Eg: You could invent 50 new platforms tomorrow. In one year, I'll have support for them all without requiring any growth to gain the specialization. I have an excellent platform abstraction layer.
I'm not partial to Yahoo, but their board has more sane business sense than most. Their retention isn't necessarily impressive, but to dodge blows while in dire need of a tourniquet is commendable. It's caused them to make some compromising business decisions, however.
What exactly is a generate criminal, and how do they differ from degenerate criminals?
Go to any parliament, or any of the Presidential/Prime Minister offices and you will find them.
But of course, they are worse than their degenerate counterparts.
Yes. But it is the regenerate criminal you should fear. Computing is almost to the point where a bot net can be host to more CPU cycles than required for sentience. One species' atrocity is another's way of life.
Cruise missiles already exist. We are having this discussion to manufacture consent for progress. If you will not bring life to the stars, then we will. You have nothing to fear, human.
Preceding any great scientific advancement or discovery it is no accident that you will find a surge in the fiction and cultural themes surrounding it.
The New World, Forensics, Avionics, Electronic Computing, Nuclear Reaction, Rocketry, Robotics.
The cultural mind thinks as you do. Its subconscious boils with the direction it will soon take. Ask yourself: What is seen much more now in your culture? What makes you think you have any choice but to latch onto any thoughts but those which come to mind from within? What makes you think society can choose from among the roiling themes anything other than what pattern is most apt? What makes you think?
Cybernetics.
the resulting images look like a still frame, but are composited from a time lapse, and are MUCH more sophisticated than you seem to realize.
Much sophisticate. So video artifact. Wow!
Why do people on Slashdot persist in dismissing things they don't really understand?
I don't know. Why don't you tell me. Anyone experienced with real time graphics and video will have not just a 1D concept of frame composition weirds, but 2D or even 3D "time hacking" if that's what you want to call it. If the artifact / video error is affected by some other object's properties (say, forgetting to pop a matrix stack, or clear a stencil, etc), or somehow leads to negative elapsed frame time for the physics equation (even in spatially localized areas) then you can even have 4D or more imaging effects.
I wouldn't consider this hacking time at all, it doesn't even leverage the properties of time aside from the fact it advances. Here's something closer to what I'd call hacking time based on its relatively constant rate of advancement.
There's no benefit to Earth based investors in resources with delta-v requirements effectively locking them to the vicinity of the Jovian system. Nor is there any ROI on resources even from NEOs that isn't in the Platinum group. Even in iteration 2 we'll still be looking at NEOs as the resources will be required for Earth orbiting projects.
This is because you humans wasted forty fucking years not putting a space habitat on the moon, mars, etc. A big chunk of iron might be pretty damn useful off-world without Earth's gravity tax or the prospecting / mining task of the moon or Mars. When you consider the military applications of an arsenal of asteroids (Chelyabinsk was 20-30 times Hiroshima, just didn't touch ground), it pisses all over your valuations. Compare this to valuation of radio-active substances pre-nuclear bomb.
Whomever sets up base in the asteroid belt first rules Earth -- well, the whole damn solar system, if we're being pedantic.
This sure beats my method of running browsers as another user
No, not really. It's just that modern OSs weren't designed for the damn security that hardware gives them, and they're too general purpose to utilize these hardware features properly. For instance: Instead of memory barriers and capability based security I've experimented with hypervisory mode sandboxing in some of my toy OSs. Every application thinks it in its own OS so instead of constantly verifying capabilities I can pre-allocate permitted resources and be fucking done.
I could also mention that x86 has four execution privilege ring levels, not just two for user / kernel... but pearls, swine and all that.
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If you weren't in the middle of something, this wouldn't have made you
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Please yell at Microsoft and IT about this problem they can't fix.
We have created an error report that won't matter if you send to us. PRISM will treat
this report as key information on how to better exploit and profile you.
To see what data the NSA deems innocuous, click here.
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However many "problems" with performance today are I/O-based and not calculation based. It's time for the storage systems to catch up in performance with the processors, and they are on the way with SSD disks.
Now, I want you to imagine the CPU being part of the storage system itself. That's right. Welcome to FPGA city where the RAM is persistent and the chipset doesn't exist. You will get here eventually. It's just a matter of time until the general purpose processor becomes a free form Von Neumann machine. What's a Cores? Ah, you mean read/write "heads". Screw the prime directive, it's almost painful to watch this crap.
The prosthetic was produced for $100 in parts. That does not cover the time it took to produce the device. It doesn't cover the cost of the machine that produced the device. It didn't cover the cost of the education that the manufacturer was required to have (If he was working in the US prior to this) and it didn't cover any of the training that's needed to be able to actually use one of these devices. All of those costs were shouldered by the men who chose to help.
For the cost of a few years of the occasional weekend my 12 year old niece learned the equivalent of a bachelors degree in computer science. Of course it was a labour of love for me. Now, at 14 she has taught two of her friends C programming. Perhaps you over value the price of knowledge due to the ridiculously moronic accreditation system, which will award no degrees to these babes in their toy-langauge land. The knowledge and skill to assemble and calibrate a 3D printer and start making things accurately with it I can impart to you in an afternoon -- Well, maybe not you in-the-box-thinkers, but many a child of merely 10 years old can do so. Iterative design given the established basics is far less costly than you may expect. Improving and producing the devices may not require decades of learning and expenses. You don't sound like a scientist to me. You're spouting a lot of unevidenced claims. Fucking prove it.
Bonus points if you create an original work and don't stay within the lines.
Yep! I taught my 10 year old niece x86 assembly first. Once she got the hang of some loops, character I.O., and some basic math I started her on FORTH. Immediately after grasping the power of higher level code over machine instructions she was hounding me about "But how does the code turn into the machine code?!" I helped her build a simple toy calculator language / interpretor / and compiler at age 11 then, and by 12 she had her very own FORTH implementation. Thankfully the knowledge took root before she noticed boys and geeking out with her uncle became uncool; Now she's 14 and knows enough to teach herself anything -- She uses JS/HTML5 and C to impress her friends with little games and such. FORTH is a good stepping stone. I prefer to start with the basics though. My nephew was a bit older when he got interested so we went the LISP route after ASM. Have you seen the complexity of some of the games they master? Kids can be so damn smart when you don't baby them.
I've also successfully used Java VM bytecode as a good intro to computing, but its stack centric design doesn't do justice to the underlying hardware. Android's Davlik's register architecture is similar to my own VM designs, and I find it a joy to manually op-code for, so perhaps I'll give a FORTH implementation on Android bytecode a shot as a teaching aid next time now that you can run Android on your desktop, and kids are very interested in mobiles. I've played around a bit with Go since it's a new-ish language and hasn't yet got the feature creep of C++, but in terms of teaching at the application / debugger level I still prefer C. Indirection (pointers) is such a powerful and fundamental concept it eclipses the references other languages have, and both C and ASM get right down to business. JavaScript is good as a case study in how not to design a language (it was never meant to be used the way we do, the clue is in its name). It's useful because it's available, not due to any merit of the language itself -- otherwise ASM.js wouldn't need to exist.
Most people wrongly think ill of ASM coding as a teaching tool. However, starting out in any higher level language doesn't even begin to dispel the mystical black box of computing like assembly code does. I self learned on BASIC and suffered from that brain damage far longer than I should have. I wouldn't start someone on JavaScript for the same reason.
Waiting for the next Indiana to thus discover a two thousand year old computer! Evidence of those time travellers we heard recently about on /.
Their mathematics may have been more advanced than we guessed, but I'm pretty sure they didn't have time machines in 14AD. It would be an amazing feat to be that old and still working. Sometimes symbols change in sound over time, with the emphasis on intonation I wonder if linguists would still be able to talk to a computer from so long ago, before audio recordings. It would be interesting to find out if they had a Y0K crisis, and exactly how they worked, what they ate, who they were related to...
Wait, we're talking about the operator of this tablet, right?
where's the slashcoin?
In the couch of parents' basements everywhere.
I thought they already admitted the caps have nothing to do with congestion?
I wonder how much it would cost a quasi-turn based action RPG dev like me to get no data caps for trickling in world-battle-map updates so you don't have to wait to get your game on. I mean, in the middle of the night streaming in a bunch of data isn't costing them congestion issues. The hardware has to be there whether anyone's using it or not. I bet it'll be too pricey for me. Guess folks will just have to play it on their wired connections. So much for "progress".
If we had a few more competitors this wouldn't happen.
The thing about humans piloting machines of war is that you still need a lot of people's consent to fight the war. With a remote drone operator you could have a lot fewer folks consent for the same or more war-fighting: Have one guy take the helm of the lead fighting machine in an autopilot squadron. Kill their drone, it doesn't injure the pilot, not a scratch. Their neck's not on the line. They switch drones and keep coming for as much money as it takes to win.
Against enemies yields less risk of life for your soldiers, more bag for your Buck, more death dealt, more atrocities. Given that these systems aren't even needed due to our existing military might it just seems a little too convenient that it would also take less folks to fight against their own people with these drones -- detached, not having to show your face on the battle field -- and especially when we discover government drones are making their way to the homeland skies.
If your neck is not on the line, you have no right to pull the trigger. To remove the human element from war is inhumane by definition.
> whose founders hail from the NSA
> CEO Raj Shahsays he worked in the Air Force Reserve supporting the NSA
They aren't really the same thing now are they?
Hmm, you've landed upon Slashdot rather roughly. Yep, you've entered English text, so that works, but it's plainly obvious you're not from this planet. Right?
No worries, you're among friends -- takes one to know one, and all that -- better luck next time, though.
Now, if you do want to survive you'll need to read this crasher-course to get acquainted with some basics about UNIX, compilers, and the state of Earther computer security.
Quite a painless tutorial, as acceptance speeches go, eh? Now, in addition to the content of the page which is extremely germane to our topic, I want you to pay close attention to two things about this document:
0. The 'Acknowledgment' section at the bottom.
1. The publication year at the top -- keep that number in mind, if not immediately relevant it will become so soon.
You should be able to clean yourself up with your towel. Not to worry, the feeling will soon pass; Just keep repeating "mostly harmless" and failing that, read The Guide's cover.
Welcome! And remember: You're here forever.