I realize this isn't ad space, but I thought this analog synthesizer kit was interesting. http://littlebits.cc/kits/synt... Of course, couldn't I accomplish the same purchasing my own parts for a kit? Oh, and unleash your inner rock star.
That's pretty clever. I'd get one for my kid... but then again... no thanks...
I don't care what stereo you put in the car. The fact of the matter is, cars last 10 to 20 years. Stereo/entertainment technology lasts less than 5. There was likely a 5yr development cycle for the car so the stereos going to be out of date before it even hits the lot. For example, my 2009 ford escape has the "MS Sync!" system and it had your typical black and white LCD numerical display similar to a 1980s calculator.
So, at some point, I'm going to want to ditch your crappy stereo and install something modern. At that point I'll pull the plug on your stereo and what will happen to my car? In fords (and most modern cars) it kills the entire dash!!! I pulled the stereo out of that 2009 escape and the entire dash died. I doubt it was even drivable. I had to order a computer, to plug into the ford plug to do what the old stereo had been doing on the bus system, just to install a standard Dinn stereo. It cost me $200 just for the stupid translation computer!
I do not want this nonsense. Fault in the radio in my car should not disable the friggen car. That's just stupid. Unfortunately, I keep seeing cars headed down this path, and there's absolutely no reason for it. There's an industry wide DINN standard they could follow. Even with Double and Quadruple DINN specs for huge touch screens, etc... industry standard plugs so you could swap stereos in and out. There's absolutely nothing stopping them from making car electronics as simple to replace as batteries in your TV remote. But they WANT the radio to be out of date so idiots will come into to buy a new car just to get a new radio. GAHHHH!!!
This seems like a harsh knee-jerk reaction, ostensibly to protect the public image of MIT. Taking down this content, stripping someone of a title -- removing a man's body of legitimate work that benefits the greater masses is a ridiculously absurd measure. What does MIT think they will gain from this, other than saving face.
And he allegedly harassed someone online -- that's all I've heard. Maybe he had a nip before bed and was just a little frustrated, we have no context -- who cares? Lots of people say a lot of things online that are far worse.
Give us all, and this professor, a friggen break MIT.
We don't know what he said to her... I reserve judgement. It could go either way. MIT could be over reacting... but he may have had a long history of it, and this case was particularly offensive. Or it could have been normal flirting, but with the wrong person and MIT went off the deep end. There's no real way to be sure.
Spain and certain other countries are wallowing relics of another age, unable to adapt to the new reality. The loss is theirs. How do they expect to keep their populations from discovering the power of VPNs, Tor, and the other facilities which can effortlessly sidestep their moronic restrictions?
You're missing the point. Google isn't going to stop showing "news" in spain. They are going to stop showing "Spanish Newspapers" in spain. Spanish citizens wont stop reading the news, they'll just get it from sources outside of the country. The media industries victory is going to turn to ashes in their mouth pretty quickly.
"We haven’t received an official note from the Delhi High Court. However, our legal team is currently evaluating the situation based on the information we have. India is a very important market for Xiaomi and we will respond promptly as needed and in full compliance with India laws. Moreover, we are open to working with Ericsson to resolve this matter amicably."
Translation: Now that we have infringed all of your patents we are willing to come to an agreement with you but only because you have finally got us by the short and curlies after a long court battle and not because we feel bound by international treaties signed by the Peoples Republic of China since those are only binding for people infringing on our patents.
More like the court issued a ruling that's not even remotely legal:
Therefore, it appears that this order of the Delhi High Court’s injunction order is not in conformance either with international practice or domestic case law.
Ericson filed suit, incorrectly, with the highest court. In india, it appears this is not legal, they need to file with a lower court and it get escalated. Xiaomi did not reply to this suit, because they rightly judged it to be out of its jurisdiction. Several other companies were included in the suit, and the replied. The court issued the injunction ex parte, because Xiaomi didn't appear. But the court was wrong to hear the case in the first place so, even its injunction is no legit.
And that's before we even get into the merits of the case, which haven't even been considered yet. So your suggestion that they infringed at all is completely baseless. All we have proof of is that Ericson filed suit in a court with no jurisdiction and Xiamoi ignored it.
He has a 4yr old playing these games? His 4yr old plays mine craft?!?! His 4yr old can handle WASD input?
I keep hearing about kids loving minecraft, but every time I ask if they have actually played the game I find out they are simply watching Youtube videos of funny British guys narrating their games. It seems the narrators are the real stars and the games incidental. I've got a 7yr old and he, nor anyone in his class can actually play the game.
So in order for a website to remain free for the users use, they will need to post more advertisements to make up for it.
If you don't like advertising on you favorite site. Then you better find them a business model where they can keep running (as it isn't free for them) and feed their family's. Otherwise just suck it up as the cost of having free access to their data.
I call BULL and SHIT.
I've run several website over the years. Some were rather popular (though none were huge) and he costs of hosting them was a joke. In my job I help maintain a site that gets hundreds of thousands of hits a day. Again, the cost for hosting is trivial, though, since it's an important site financially, changes to it are done through committee and such, and that costs a bit. It depends on if it's a site that "can't" go down. If it's a hobby site, or just for fun and your users understand your on a budget and can't afford fancy testing for site changes... you're fine.
The fact of the matter is, if you use a hosting service, you can put up a relatively popular site for less than you pay for Cable TV per month. This isn't 1999.
For normal websites, I can see the benefit of requesting data blocks identified by hashes. But doesn't bittorrent require that all data you download is shared between peers? How can any secure, private connections be handled, like banking or shopping?
Do you think the hops between you and your bank are private?
I'm not saying that this doesn't present some security concerns, I've no idea how it works. I'm just questioning the premise you seem to have that the connection between you and... anywhere... is in any way private.
You had me until you said "Office Building" Forcing residential homeowners to make these retrofits is one thing... it's wrong. The homeowner should be able to make the choice of if they want to risk it. The city could instead, inform future buyers with ratings... "Safe to magnitude 3" or whatever. Then require inspections prior to sale, so the new owners would know. Telling some familly that might be barely making their mortgage payments as is, that they have to sink $10k into their house within 5yrs is just elitist and going to drive lower income families out of the city.
But public spaces like an office building? The city has jurisdiction there. The public has some expectation of safety when they walk into a public space. When I go to that new mall downtown, I can't be expected to know that it's actually a retrofitted 1920's flophouse held together with bubblegum. A 5yr plan is still ridiculously short however. It's clear this guys getting some sort of kickback from the construction industry.
It might have had something to do with the fact that he's old, destitute, and it's really cold in Chicago this time of year... Nobel prizes don't keep you warm.
AI will do what it is programming to do and follow the rules we lay out for it to follow.
And if we program it to think for itself and make its own rules? Then what will it do?
You use the term "We" as if we're all in some sort of club. Is the world community suddenly one big happy family? Are "We" going to decide that it's a bad idea for the NSA to design an AI to kill "Terrorists" and everything will be hunky dory? They'd never do that without global consensuses right?
Only in America can you continue a lawsuit without a plantiff.
No, it specifically states they need a plaintiff to continue. Apple just found a laughable way to get the current plaintiffs dismissed... I'm guessing it'll take them about half an hour to find a new one.
On one hand, it's overkill for little electronics projects where something like an Arduino would be much better suited.
That's a pretty subjective statement. It's very dependent on your project. Yea, it's bad as a media player, but that's about as far removed from the purpose of the device as you could possibly get. I think if you complained to the designers about that, they'd laugh in your face. "I bought your weather balloon testbed and as soon as I let the kids use it as a bounce house it popped!"
What benefit does the attacker get by signing the malware with a company's certificate?
Last time a popup came up for a security cert and you clicked "Accept" did you notice that checkbox "Always trust this source" or something like that?
That's why. If anyone can now claim their Sony, there are a lot of people that will not even get a warning and their computer/browser/whatever will just implicitly trust the cert.
This is great! I literally got my first ever HAM license on Saturday. I've been kicking myself for years for not doing it and finally got around to it. For those interested, I got a brand new 2 Meter radio for my car for $150, so it's not as expensive as it used to be. They've removed the morris code requirement, so that makes it immensely simpler to pass the test. There are apps for the phone that make it easy to learn. It took me about 2 days to study it enough to pass the test. I literally started Thursday, and passed Saturday.
Queue all the posts of "Why are you surprised! of course they were doing this!"
No, you should be surprised. Suspecting and Knowing are 2 different things. Get mad, do something. Don't use your arrogance as an excuse for apathy.
I think the most enlightening part of the report was this:
The torture of prisoners at times was so extreme that some C.I.A. personnel tried to put a halt to the techniques, but were told by senior agency officials to continue the interrogation sessions.
The Senate report quotes a series of August 2002 cables from a C.I.A. facility in Thailand, where the agency’s first prisoner was held. Within days of the Justice Department’s approval to begin waterboarding the prisoner, Abu Zubaydah, the sessions became so extreme that some C.I.A. officers were “to the point of tears and choking up,” and several said they would elect to be transferred out of the facility if the brutal interrogations continued.
That gave me some hope for the world. At least some stood up and said "No" and likely ended their careers over it. I doubt we'll ever know who those people were, but if any of you read this, my hats off to you. You're the real Hero's of this war.
On install, ask if this is a mobile device... if it is, install your screwy new UI. But no-one will click that option because there's already a fantastic Linux distro for mobile called Android. If they don't chose mobile (and no-one will) then install a "normal" desktop.
Lolwut? If you installed on a desktop, and it never detected a touchscreen, what's the difference?
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I realize this isn't ad space, but I thought this analog synthesizer kit was interesting. http://littlebits.cc/kits/synt...
Of course, couldn't I accomplish the same purchasing my own parts for a kit? Oh, and unleash your inner rock star.
That's pretty clever. I'd get one for my kid... but then again... no thanks...
No, and No.
I don't care what stereo you put in the car. The fact of the matter is, cars last 10 to 20 years. Stereo/entertainment technology lasts less than 5. There was likely a 5yr development cycle for the car so the stereos going to be out of date before it even hits the lot. For example, my 2009 ford escape has the "MS Sync!" system and it had your typical black and white LCD numerical display similar to a 1980s calculator.
So, at some point, I'm going to want to ditch your crappy stereo and install something modern. At that point I'll pull the plug on your stereo and what will happen to my car? In fords (and most modern cars) it kills the entire dash!!! I pulled the stereo out of that 2009 escape and the entire dash died. I doubt it was even drivable. I had to order a computer, to plug into the ford plug to do what the old stereo had been doing on the bus system, just to install a standard Dinn stereo. It cost me $200 just for the stupid translation computer!
I do not want this nonsense. Fault in the radio in my car should not disable the friggen car. That's just stupid. Unfortunately, I keep seeing cars headed down this path, and there's absolutely no reason for it. There's an industry wide DINN standard they could follow. Even with Double and Quadruple DINN specs for huge touch screens, etc... industry standard plugs so you could swap stereos in and out. There's absolutely nothing stopping them from making car electronics as simple to replace as batteries in your TV remote. But they WANT the radio to be out of date so idiots will come into to buy a new car just to get a new radio. GAHHHH!!!
You're seriously a moron if you think Keurig has coffee worth pirating.
I hate Sony. I don't buy their products. I have a person vendetta against that company for reasons I'll not detail here because they're not relevant.
That said... I'm ok with this. Seems fair to me. Hack away Sony.
This seems like a harsh knee-jerk reaction, ostensibly to protect the public image of MIT. Taking down this content, stripping someone of a title -- removing a man's body of legitimate work that benefits the greater masses is a ridiculously absurd measure. What does MIT think they will gain from this, other than saving face.
And he allegedly harassed someone online -- that's all I've heard. Maybe he had a nip before bed and was just a little frustrated, we have no context -- who cares? Lots of people say a lot of things online that are far worse.
Give us all, and this professor, a friggen break MIT.
We don't know what he said to her...
I reserve judgement. It could go either way. MIT could be over reacting... but he may have had a long history of it, and this case was particularly offensive. Or it could have been normal flirting, but with the wrong person and MIT went off the deep end. There's no real way to be sure.
After all, the transistor was invented by William Shockley, a proponent of Eugenics.
Yes. That's why guitarists use tube amps.
Speak for yourself. I use transistors myself. Amp simulation has come a long way.
Spain and certain other countries are wallowing relics of another age, unable to adapt to the new reality. The loss is theirs. How do they expect to keep their populations from discovering the power of VPNs, Tor, and the other facilities which can effortlessly sidestep their moronic restrictions?
You're missing the point.
Google isn't going to stop showing "news" in spain. They are going to stop showing "Spanish Newspapers" in spain. Spanish citizens wont stop reading the news, they'll just get it from sources outside of the country. The media industries victory is going to turn to ashes in their mouth pretty quickly.
"We haven’t received an official note from the Delhi High Court. However, our legal team is currently evaluating the situation based on the information we have. India is a very important market for Xiaomi and we will respond promptly as needed and in full compliance with India laws. Moreover, we are open to working with Ericsson to resolve this matter amicably."
Translation: Now that we have infringed all of your patents we are willing to come to an agreement with you but only because you have finally got us by the short and curlies after a long court battle and not because we feel bound by international treaties signed by the Peoples Republic of China since those are only binding for people infringing on our patents.
More like the court issued a ruling that's not even remotely legal:
Therefore, it appears that this order of the Delhi High Court’s injunction order is not in conformance either with international practice or domestic case law.
http://spicyip.com/2014/12/bre...
Ericson filed suit, incorrectly, with the highest court. In india, it appears this is not legal, they need to file with a lower court and it get escalated. Xiaomi did not reply to this suit, because they rightly judged it to be out of its jurisdiction. Several other companies were included in the suit, and the replied. The court issued the injunction ex parte, because Xiaomi didn't appear. But the court was wrong to hear the case in the first place so, even its injunction is no legit.
And that's before we even get into the merits of the case, which haven't even been considered yet. So your suggestion that they infringed at all is completely baseless. All we have proof of is that Ericson filed suit in a court with no jurisdiction and Xiamoi ignored it.
I'll answer my own question... in typical fassion the summary is completely wrong:
My son Eliot was born in 2004
...maths...
He's 10 or 11
He has a 4yr old playing these games?
His 4yr old plays mine craft?!?!
His 4yr old can handle WASD input?
I keep hearing about kids loving minecraft, but every time I ask if they have actually played the game I find out they are simply watching Youtube videos of funny British guys narrating their games. It seems the narrators are the real stars and the games incidental. I've got a 7yr old and he, nor anyone in his class can actually play the game.
So in order for a website to remain free for the users use, they will need to post more advertisements to make up for it.
If you don't like advertising on you favorite site. Then you better find them a business model where they can keep running (as it isn't free for them) and feed their family's.
Otherwise just suck it up as the cost of having free access to their data.
I call BULL and SHIT.
I've run several website over the years. Some were rather popular (though none were huge) and he costs of hosting them was a joke.
In my job I help maintain a site that gets hundreds of thousands of hits a day. Again, the cost for hosting is trivial, though, since it's an important site financially, changes to it are done through committee and such, and that costs a bit. It depends on if it's a site that "can't" go down. If it's a hobby site, or just for fun and your users understand your on a budget and can't afford fancy testing for site changes... you're fine.
The fact of the matter is, if you use a hosting service, you can put up a relatively popular site for less than you pay for Cable TV per month. This isn't 1999.
For normal websites, I can see the benefit of requesting data blocks identified by hashes. But doesn't bittorrent require that all data you download is shared between peers? How can any secure, private connections be handled, like banking or shopping?
Do you think the hops between you and your bank are private?
I'm not saying that this doesn't present some security concerns, I've no idea how it works. I'm just questioning the premise you seem to have that the connection between you and... anywhere... is in any way private.
You had me until you said "Office Building"
Forcing residential homeowners to make these retrofits is one thing... it's wrong. The homeowner should be able to make the choice of if they want to risk it. The city could instead, inform future buyers with ratings... "Safe to magnitude 3" or whatever. Then require inspections prior to sale, so the new owners would know. Telling some familly that might be barely making their mortgage payments as is, that they have to sink $10k into their house within 5yrs is just elitist and going to drive lower income families out of the city.
But public spaces like an office building? The city has jurisdiction there. The public has some expectation of safety when they walk into a public space. When I go to that new mall downtown, I can't be expected to know that it's actually a retrofitted 1920's flophouse held together with bubblegum. A 5yr plan is still ridiculously short however. It's clear this guys getting some sort of kickback from the construction industry.
It might have had something to do with the fact that he's old, destitute, and it's really cold in Chicago this time of year... Nobel prizes don't keep you warm.
AI will do what it is programming to do and follow the rules we lay out for it to follow.
And if we program it to think for itself and make its own rules? Then what will it do?
You use the term "We" as if we're all in some sort of club. Is the world community suddenly one big happy family? Are "We" going to decide that it's a bad idea for the NSA to design an AI to kill "Terrorists" and everything will be hunky dory? They'd never do that without global consensuses right?
So the para-glider salesman says "You have nothing to worry about! It's totally safe!"
Sounds legit.
"Plaintiffs didn't suffer damages" is a laughable reason?
Did you even read the summary? Much less the story?
One was dismissed just because she didn't purchase them directly? Come on...
Let me guess... you're posting from a Mac and have a picture of Steve Jobs hanging over your headboard?
You got one of the cheaper ones. They went as high as $600 for the production models.
Only in America can you continue a lawsuit without a plantiff.
No, it specifically states they need a plaintiff to continue. Apple just found a laughable way to get the current plaintiffs dismissed... I'm guessing it'll take them about half an hour to find a new one.
On one hand, it's overkill for little electronics projects where something like an Arduino would be much better suited.
That's a pretty subjective statement. It's very dependent on your project. Yea, it's bad as a media player, but that's about as far removed from the purpose of the device as you could possibly get. I think if you complained to the designers about that, they'd laugh in your face. "I bought your weather balloon testbed and as soon as I let the kids use it as a bounce house it popped!"
What benefit does the attacker get by signing the malware with a company's certificate?
Last time a popup came up for a security cert and you clicked "Accept" did you notice that checkbox "Always trust this source" or something like that?
That's why. If anyone can now claim their Sony, there are a lot of people that will not even get a warning and their computer/browser/whatever will just implicitly trust the cert.
This is great!
I literally got my first ever HAM license on Saturday. I've been kicking myself for years for not doing it and finally got around to it.
For those interested, I got a brand new 2 Meter radio for my car for $150, so it's not as expensive as it used to be.
They've removed the morris code requirement, so that makes it immensely simpler to pass the test.
There are apps for the phone that make it easy to learn. It took me about 2 days to study it enough to pass the test.
I literally started Thursday, and passed Saturday.
Queue all the posts of "Why are you surprised! of course they were doing this!"
No, you should be surprised. Suspecting and Knowing are 2 different things. Get mad, do something. Don't use your arrogance as an excuse for apathy.
I think the most enlightening part of the report was this:
The torture of prisoners at times was so extreme that some C.I.A. personnel tried to put a halt to the techniques, but were told by senior agency officials to continue the interrogation sessions.
The Senate report quotes a series of August 2002 cables from a C.I.A. facility in Thailand, where the agency’s first prisoner was held. Within days of the Justice Department’s approval to begin waterboarding the prisoner, Abu Zubaydah, the sessions became so extreme that some C.I.A. officers were “to the point of tears and choking up,” and several said they would elect to be transferred out of the facility if the brutal interrogations continued.
That gave me some hope for the world. At least some stood up and said "No" and likely ended their careers over it. I doubt we'll ever know who those people were, but if any of you read this, my hats off to you. You're the real Hero's of this war.
The postal company's COO predicts consumer demand for 3D printing will grow 95 percent by 2017.
So 95% of 0 is...
On install, ask if this is a mobile device... if it is, install your screwy new UI. But no-one will click that option because there's already a fantastic Linux distro for mobile called Android.
If they don't chose mobile (and no-one will) then install a "normal" desktop.
Lolwut? If you installed on a desktop, and it never detected a touchscreen, what's the difference?
My desktop has a touchscreen.
welcome to 2014