Your fridge, Your right, open it by hand. But let read a QR code when you put milk and eggs in or something that is perishable then have it remind you if something if at the expiration date or if you are low so you can stop and grab more or even create a shopping list for you. You should be able to pull a screen up on your phone or web panel and monitor it or perhaps it sends you a reminder at the end of the work day or something.
Ugh. This just seems like it adds delay overhead to every single action I take with my refrigerator. How would it know how many eggs I have? Would I have to tell it each time? How would it know how many cups of milk I have? Would I have to tell it each time? If I'm in the middle of making a recipe, every second counts, and I won't be waiting around for the IoT to get things straight. If I get up at 4am for a drink/snack/whatever, I don't want to deal with technology BS either. Since I wouldn't be able to rely on it picking up everything, I'm not sure I would ever trust what it tells me. I can't see how my "smart fridge" would ever not be out of sync.
It's only silly until you realize exactly how corrupt "gaming journalism" actually is.
It's still amusing given how pointless and little-read "gaming journalism" really is. The GGers, the anti-GGers, and the gaming journalists all think that anything other than a small percentage of people who play games actually listens to any of their nonsense.
Ooooh, thank you. I was fearing that we wouldn't see some sort of off-topic nonsense about the overrated Gamergate that only gets press now in very small circles. Thank you for living the dreams and keeping bullshit going.
Don't be so fucking naive. An ill-tempered criminal is the most dangerous enemy you can possibly make. Once they know where you and your loved ones live, you are as fucked as a quarterback who pisses off a referee.
What nonsense. A criminal who attacks your house can be shot, either by you, or police who show up, and you won't even be in legal hot water afterwards.
Try that with a cop who comes to arrest you for attacking a judge. Your life will be over. Over, full-stop.
An SSN is only valuable in that it's a number used to identify you for financial reports. If another number was used, it would be the one to be valuable, and be just as vulnerable.
Floodgates of public money? Who is going to authorize that payment? Congress has to do it, do you think the "government is too big already" congress is going to do this?
im not talking about scientists here, im talking about normal people and reporters.
I'm pretty used to seeing reporters speak authoritatively and incorrectly about all sorts of different topics. They're not going to be any less wrong when speaking about climate change.
I wish I was there. I'm getting sick of all the rain.
No, no you don't really want that. We need the rain; we're looking at the collapse of agriculture in the western states in the next few years. Not to mention the continuation of horrendous wildfires and mudslides.
I don't like the "granted" word here. The book was created by the author and it belongs to him. Copyright only ensures that the work and its benefits are not stolen from the author without legal consequences.
No one is taking the book from him. The author isn't being denied his book. What is being taken is the right for others to write the same words.
Umm, I am sorry, but what? The right is the prohibitionist party, they like to tell you what you can and cannot do, not the left
Both parties like to interfere, but in different, yet occasionally overlapping subjects. For instance the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which attempted to legislate pornography off the Internet, was written by Democratic Senator Exon, passed by the Senate, opposed strongly by Speaker of the House Newt Gingritch who asked "how do you maintain the right of free speech for adults while also protecting children in a medium which is available to both?" Senator Exon characterized the online opposition as "a bunch of first-amendment belly-achers" who were more concerned with protecting pornographers than cooperating with his office. It was added to the 1995 telecommunications package, passed the House and Senate, and signed into law by President Bill Clinton.
On the other hand, it was also initially opposed by Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, and after amendments were made to the bill, no one noticed when Republican Representative Thomas Bliley snuck in a rider stating that federal anti-obscenity laws also covered interactive computer services. Added the day of the vote, the House was not given the opportunity to analyze the ramifications before voting. The bill overwhelming passed both houses of Congress.
Both sides like to legislate in morality, but Democrats have traditionally been just as strong as Republicans when it comes to regulation of pornography.
If it works, it's tradeoff of security for speed seems to be worthwhile. That being said, I doubt it works. Time will tell.
Given a number of people here have already mentioned how this could be cracked, I'm not sure that you'll get much, if any security. After all, if you're looking for vulnerabilities, all you need is for those few hackers to care to have a VM that can analyze the cache. Meanwhile, the programs will be running slower for everyone. And Moore's Law is pretty much dead, so you can't just assume that faster and faster processors will make the slowdowns disappear.
_maybe_ these people have had the thought, "y'know, humanity has survived up until this point, by fighting off disease and as a result each individual develops its own strong and healthy immune system, and the weaker ones don't survive. _maybe_ i am doing my child - and humanity - a favour by not following the herd".
Are you saying that these people come to the conclusion "if my child is weak enough to die from a disease, then that's good, because it makes humanity as a whole stronger." Because from a scientific perspective, that's wrong. And I doubt that's what the thinking behind the anti-vax folks comes to either.
A local Italian court rules? We're supposed to take that seriously?
Tell me if any of these facts about the Italian case throw up red flags: *) The court listed the thoroughly discredited 1998 study from Andrew Wakefield as proof that there is a connection. Everyone around here knows how much bullshit went into that. *) The physician hired by the plaintiffs testified that there was a connection between Autism and MMR. That physician also sells an "autism cure," making money with snake oil. *) Andrew Wakefield tried to open a business on the back of the vaccine scare he instigated selling tests for "autistic enterocolitis" from a company that would specialize in "litigation-based health testing."
So all the anti-vaxxers love to say that pharmaceutical companies have conflicts of interest, that it's in their interest for people to get sick so they can charge them for a cure. Why can't those conflict of interest charges ever apply to Wakefield (the only scientist who ever reported that there was a link between vaccines and autism) and the Italian doctor who also sought to profit from this?
They're not anti-science. They work at tech firms and live in silicon valley for God's sake.
You can be at tech firms and still be anti-science. For one, there's a big difference between what a programmer at a tech firm and a scientist at a pharmaceutical research firm does. Aims, procedures, etc. Often you can't even get tech folks to agree on how similar computer scientists and programmers and engineers are. For another, you can believe in the tech of your firm, while being suspicious of the general nature of bankers in the banking industry, or executives in the pharmaceutical industry.
I'm enjoying using C again on devices with similar performance to those I was using 30 years ago (now: ATMega328P running with 1MHz CPU, ie 1 MIPS; then Z80A with 4MHz clock making for ~1MIPS) but with lots better development tools this time, and several GHz of laptop to run them on.
I imagine being able to completely virtualize an embedded system in software on your laptop has to make the debug cycle much faster these days.
Never substitute a conspiracy theory when you don't need one.
Sure, I suppose the NSA could have used magical spying technology to know everything about Dread Pirate Roberts, but whether they did or not, they didn't need to. He had left enough clues about DPR's identity scattered around in public to put him on a small list of suspects.
IMHO the cause for most of 1-9 is because it is mostly LEARNED behavior. It is learned that we accept and tolerate it, which is itself an indictment of the "system" that does accept it and tolerate it at least to the degree that these people are not weeded out.
"Tribalism" and us-vs-them seems to be inherent in humanity, a constant regardless of public schools, private schools, or no schools.
to get the answer to 26 x 33, rather than just knowing the answer from memorization.
Who memorizes the answer to 26 x 33, and how is that better? Most kids when I grew up were taught that to multiply 26 x 33, you start with 3x6 (which you DO memorize, or at least can work it out with addition) to get an 8. Then you carry the one, and add that to 2x3. 78. Ok! Then on the next line you fill in a 0 for the first digit, 3x6 again, so you put an 8 in the next column, carry the 1, add that to 3x2, so another 7. Now you add 78 + 780 = 858. That's how the vast majority of us learned how to do multiplication for numbers larger than 10.
How is that any LESS hacky than applying the FOIL rule for binomials ( 20 + 6 ) x ( 30 + 3 ) or using other algebraic factoring methods?
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Your fridge, Your right, open it by hand. But let read a QR code when you put milk and eggs in or something that is perishable then have it remind you if something if at the expiration date or if you are low so you can stop and grab more or even create a shopping list for you. You should be able to pull a screen up on your phone or web panel and monitor it or perhaps it sends you a reminder at the end of the work day or something.
Ugh. This just seems like it adds delay overhead to every single action I take with my refrigerator. How would it know how many eggs I have? Would I have to tell it each time? How would it know how many cups of milk I have? Would I have to tell it each time? If I'm in the middle of making a recipe, every second counts, and I won't be waiting around for the IoT to get things straight. If I get up at 4am for a drink/snack/whatever, I don't want to deal with technology BS either. Since I wouldn't be able to rely on it picking up everything, I'm not sure I would ever trust what it tells me. I can't see how my "smart fridge" would ever not be out of sync.
It's only silly until you realize exactly how corrupt "gaming journalism" actually is.
It's still amusing given how pointless and little-read "gaming journalism" really is. The GGers, the anti-GGers, and the gaming journalists all think that anything other than a small percentage of people who play games actually listens to any of their nonsense.
Ooooh, thank you. I was fearing that we wouldn't see some sort of off-topic nonsense about the overrated Gamergate that only gets press now in very small circles. Thank you for living the dreams and keeping bullshit going.
Don't be so fucking naive. An ill-tempered criminal is the most dangerous enemy you can possibly make. Once they know where you and your loved ones live, you are as fucked as a quarterback who pisses off a referee.
What nonsense. A criminal who attacks your house can be shot, either by you, or police who show up, and you won't even be in legal hot water afterwards.
Try that with a cop who comes to arrest you for attacking a judge. Your life will be over. Over, full-stop.
An SSN is only valuable in that it's a number used to identify you for financial reports. If another number was used, it would be the one to be valuable, and be just as vulnerable.
Now now, of course
But actually there was one ... way back in 1776
After Lincoln was elected as the POTUS, all changed
The Alien and Sedition Acts may disagree with you.
Floodgates of public money? Who is going to authorize that payment? Congress has to do it, do you think the "government is too big already" congress is going to do this?
im not talking about scientists here, im talking about normal people and reporters.
I'm pretty used to seeing reporters speak authoritatively and incorrectly about all sorts of different topics. They're not going to be any less wrong when speaking about climate change.
I wish I was there. I'm getting sick of all the rain.
No, no you don't really want that. We need the rain; we're looking at the collapse of agriculture in the western states in the next few years. Not to mention the continuation of horrendous wildfires and mudslides.
I don't like the "granted" word here. The book was created by the author and it belongs to him. Copyright only ensures that the work and its benefits are not stolen from the author without legal consequences.
No one is taking the book from him. The author isn't being denied his book. What is being taken is the right for others to write the same words.
Umm, I am sorry, but what? The right is the prohibitionist party, they like to tell you what you can and cannot do, not the left
Both parties like to interfere, but in different, yet occasionally overlapping subjects. For instance the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which attempted to legislate pornography off the Internet, was written by Democratic Senator Exon, passed by the Senate, opposed strongly by Speaker of the House Newt Gingritch who asked "how do you maintain the right of free speech for adults while also protecting children in a medium which is available to both?" Senator Exon characterized the online opposition as "a bunch of first-amendment belly-achers" who were more concerned with protecting pornographers than cooperating with his office. It was added to the 1995 telecommunications package, passed the House and Senate, and signed into law by President Bill Clinton.
On the other hand, it was also initially opposed by Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy, and after amendments were made to the bill, no one noticed when Republican Representative Thomas Bliley snuck in a rider stating that federal anti-obscenity laws also covered interactive computer services. Added the day of the vote, the House was not given the opportunity to analyze the ramifications before voting. The bill overwhelming passed both houses of Congress.
Both sides like to legislate in morality, but Democrats have traditionally been just as strong as Republicans when it comes to regulation of pornography.
If it works, it's tradeoff of security for speed seems to be worthwhile. That being said, I doubt it works. Time will tell.
Given a number of people here have already mentioned how this could be cracked, I'm not sure that you'll get much, if any security. After all, if you're looking for vulnerabilities, all you need is for those few hackers to care to have a VM that can analyze the cache. Meanwhile, the programs will be running slower for everyone. And Moore's Law is pretty much dead, so you can't just assume that faster and faster processors will make the slowdowns disappear.
_maybe_ these people have had the thought, "y'know, humanity has survived up until this point, by fighting off disease and as a result each individual develops its own strong and healthy immune system, and the weaker ones don't survive. _maybe_ i am doing my child - and humanity - a favour by not following the herd".
Are you saying that these people come to the conclusion "if my child is weak enough to die from a disease, then that's good, because it makes humanity as a whole stronger." Because from a scientific perspective, that's wrong. And I doubt that's what the thinking behind the anti-vax folks comes to either.
A local Italian court rules? We're supposed to take that seriously?
Tell me if any of these facts about the Italian case throw up red flags:
*) The court listed the thoroughly discredited 1998 study from Andrew Wakefield as proof that there is a connection. Everyone around here knows how much bullshit went into that.
*) The physician hired by the plaintiffs testified that there was a connection between Autism and MMR. That physician also sells an "autism cure," making money with snake oil.
*) Andrew Wakefield tried to open a business on the back of the vaccine scare he instigated selling tests for "autistic enterocolitis" from a company that would specialize in "litigation-based health testing."
So all the anti-vaxxers love to say that pharmaceutical companies have conflicts of interest, that it's in their interest for people to get sick so they can charge them for a cure. Why can't those conflict of interest charges ever apply to Wakefield (the only scientist who ever reported that there was a link between vaccines and autism) and the Italian doctor who also sought to profit from this?
They're not anti-science. They work at tech firms and live in silicon valley for God's sake.
You can be at tech firms and still be anti-science. For one, there's a big difference between what a programmer at a tech firm and a scientist at a pharmaceutical research firm does. Aims, procedures, etc. Often you can't even get tech folks to agree on how similar computer scientists and programmers and engineers are. For another, you can believe in the tech of your firm, while being suspicious of the general nature of bankers in the banking industry, or executives in the pharmaceutical industry.
I'm enjoying using C again on devices with similar performance to those I was using 30 years ago (now: ATMega328P running with 1MHz CPU, ie 1 MIPS; then Z80A with 4MHz clock making for ~1MIPS) but with lots better development tools this time, and several GHz of laptop to run them on.
I imagine being able to completely virtualize an embedded system in software on your laptop has to make the debug cycle much faster these days.
Just wanted to thank you for that link. As a casual programmer, I'd never visited that site before, and it is quickly blowing my mind.
FACT: Alcohol is a poison to the human body. One can fatally overdose from consumption, and it has killed millions in human history.
You know, you can make the same claim about water. You can easily overdose, it's killed millions, etcetc.
Your body is a balancing act. The ingestion of any substance beyond your body's ability to process it will cause long-term harm, etcetcetc.
Is this the second coming of Kaiser Soze?
Never substitute a conspiracy theory when you don't need one.
Sure, I suppose the NSA could have used magical spying technology to know everything about Dread Pirate Roberts, but whether they did or not, they didn't need to. He had left enough clues about DPR's identity scattered around in public to put him on a small list of suspects.
The question is, what is the cause of 1-9.
IMHO the cause for most of 1-9 is because it is mostly LEARNED behavior. It is learned that we accept and tolerate it, which is itself an indictment of the "system" that does accept it and tolerate it at least to the degree that these people are not weeded out.
"Tribalism" and us-vs-them seems to be inherent in humanity, a constant regardless of public schools, private schools, or no schools.
to get the answer to 26 x 33, rather than just knowing the answer from memorization.
Who memorizes the answer to 26 x 33, and how is that better? Most kids when I grew up were taught that to multiply 26 x 33, you start with 3x6 (which you DO memorize, or at least can work it out with addition) to get an 8. Then you carry the one, and add that to 2x3. 78. Ok! Then on the next line you fill in a 0 for the first digit, 3x6 again, so you put an 8 in the next column, carry the 1, add that to 3x2, so another 7. Now you add 78 + 780 = 858. That's how the vast majority of us learned how to do multiplication for numbers larger than 10.
How is that any LESS hacky than applying the FOIL rule for binomials ( 20 + 6 ) x ( 30 + 3 ) or using other algebraic factoring methods?
No, the robot that's going to blow it the hell up is supposed to read it first.
How do you get the robot onto the side/underside of a freeway overpass? Hold it up?
Your contribution, as little as it is, is unnecessary, AC.
This sort of comment is why I still come to Slashdot.
Might be the best, most informative one I've seen all week.