720p is absolutely HD, regardless of what's happened to your mind.
The specifically promised 1080p, not HD. and it's not even 720p either. It's some weird half scale that they're up-scaling to fit the screen.
The game's packaging also features a "1080p HD video output" logo on the back of the box. But, as Digital Foundry pointed out in a March analysis, Killzone's multiplayer mode actually outputs natively in 960x1080 resolution, half of the 1920x1080 standard for "1080p." To output full 1080p graphics, this source image is fixed with a "temporal upscale" that fills in gaps with a horizontal interlace made up of pixels from the previous frame. The result is graphical performance that the lawsuit (and many reviews) call "blurry to the point of distraction."
What's more likely is they went to one of the many "hacker" websites where they sell this sort of stuff and baught a large chunk of nearly worthless data from old geocities websites and such.
Per their own data: They reviewed 7700 cases. The court reversed 5077 of those cases. So the court reverses 66% of cases it sees. Which makes sense, that's what the court does. So I can get damn close to their results with my model which is: "The court will reverse 100% of the time"
I don't see their model in there, and I don't really care to look that hard. But they said they used the same data previous models did. Most of that data are things like: Which court heard the origional case? Was the decision liberal or conservative? etc...
It seems to be more of a case of, the court is overturning politically motivated decisions made by lower courts. i.e. a Liberal leaning decision out of California is likely to be overturned... or a conservative leaning decision out of texas. But the reverse, a conservative leaning ruling out of California is not. So if a court rules against it's nature it's more likely to stand when heard by SCOTUS, which makes intuitive sense.
I've been in the IT infrastructure business for years, and have always relied on physical destruction (shredding) of hard drives when disposing of old systems.
I can see where that may not be cost effective with leased systems, but I would take your experience as a warning to clean up after yourself and secure-wipe hard drives when your lease is up and not count on the datacenter to do it for you.
IANAL, but I also wonder who owns the data on a leased hard drive when the lease is up? If you improve an apartment or build a building on leased land, those improvements typically become the property of the owner when the lease is up. I wonder if that has been addressed with data in the absence of relevant contractual language?
He's talking about a datacenter. He doesn't have physical access.
Encrypt the drive. If, for some reason, the contract goes south or they go out of business, the data's garbage even if they sell the drive at auction. Our company policy is everything is encrypted outside our network. This includes portable devices like laptops, phones, and I even saw new USB sticks yesterday that will wipe themselves after a few invalid attempts.
So the next lot of phishing will come from: róót@gmail.com / Àdministrator@gmail.com or BìllGàtes@gmail.com etc?
Great.
I've heard this argument before. Spoofing a return/sending mail address is incredibly simple. In fact, I do it every day as part of my legitimate non-hacker job. I could send you an email from Bill.Gates@microsoft.com if I wanted to. (though your mail server might have some security issues with that) Do you thing that when you email Support@somecompany.com there are a team of people that all log into that same mailbox? Or when they reply to you, they're really using that mailbox?
So there's no reason to use róót@gmail.com because you can just use root@gmail.com without an issue.
Your security should not have anything to do with an email account.
I think all of this misses the point. Will humanity ever create an intelligence that's greater than the sum of its parts? I think we will, and maybe already have. But we keep thinking of it in the wrong way. Do human cells have the ability to create artificial cells? Do they have any concept of what a multi-celled organism is? Of course not. They can't even think. What we are is completely outside what reality is for them.
Likewise I think whatever artifical being humanity will create, will be something we don't even have the faculty to understand. Take a look at a corporation for example. It's made up of people that work in processes with goals and rules. Yet a corporation works in almost completely autonomy from those people. A corporations fundimenal drive is profit, and to that end it will do whatever it takes to achieve that goal, including eliminating some of the humans that make up the corporation!
This is a rudimentary example, but apply the same line of thought to larger entities... like the internet, the media... even politics. They're collective entities made up of humans, but they act independently of humans. I think the first AI will be an abstract entity like that. It won't be able to communicate with us because our reality isn't something it lives in.
Ok, that's my hippy science for the day. I have to go cleanse the tofu out of my system with some ribs now.
Not if trick the end user into installing a key logger. I don't know if you work on PC's at all... I do. MOST people's computers are so heavily infected with malware that I don't even fix anything anymore. You bring your computer to me, I delete partitions, write 1's to every sector, then reinstall your OS. I've even started seeing boot sector viruses.
If there are 280,000 people on the watch list that are there despite having no recognized ties to any terrorist groups.. why are they on the list at all?
Political disidints.
And no, I'm not kidding. The government has a long history of describing activism as terrorist activity. Martin Luther King for example.
The entire point of a university degree is to give you a guided tour of your ignorance. It's not to teach you everything about the subject, it's to tell you everything that you may want to learn within a subject so that you can then pick the bits to study in more detail yourself. If you let students pick the modules that they want, then you may as well just say 'here's a library, go and learn some stuff' and you'll get more or less the same results.
But then you actually arrive at college, and as part of your degree in comsci, you're required to take an accounting class. During that 12 week class you spend about a week learning a couple of formulas that you realize will be very helpful when coding accounting software, but just as you're getting into it they switch topics and start teaching you about business management and then spend 4 weeks on "How to use Excel"...
Wouldn't it be great if you could change the focus of that class to the fundamental math functions you'll be using frequently in your future career and avoid the bits of the class that will have nothing to do with your profession?...and that's the point...
You mean to say, you hired dedicated patriots, with a fundamental desire to server the public, put them through intensive training, made them take a solemn oath to uphold the constitution, then employed them and asked them to violate those very principles, and that oath... and you mean to tell me a few of them may have turned against you?
The lunacy of our federal government never ceases to astound me.
My heart goes out to his relatives. People get so caught up in their public persona, they often forget that they could lead a fantastic life in obscurity after a major failure like this. I live in obscurity every day! It's great!
Last week I had a cousin make an attempt with a bunch of pills. Rather than hospitalize him, the police took him to jail for possession where he promptly finished the job with a belt. I didn't know him really well so I'm not all torn up but some in my family are. This is an entirely different thing that just having a relative die. It's a different emotion. What did we miss? What could we have done? Is it my fault because I didn't hang out with the guy enough and help him get on a better path?
Logically, I know it's all nonsense. The guy made his own choice, but I certainly feel for his immediate family. They're obviously taking it hard.
The unspoken assumption behind your comment (and much else on the page) is that it's important for 'open source' to be accepted by big business.
Why?
Because I'm employed by Big buisness and Big buisness would benifit greatly by open source software. Things are different today than they were in the 80s and 90s. Those big contracts with IBM, Sun, Oracle etc... meant something. Now they don't... not even with those same large companies (especially Oracle) what they promise and what they deliver are rarely the same. Alternative companies come and go with the wind. In open source, if someone drops the ball on an app you can pick it up yourself and continue on. Or hire someone to do it for you. I've lost track of the number of large software migrations I've done over the past 10yrs that all started with some vendor closing up shop, ending a product or switching direction.
Figure that one out, and commercial software will be dead tomorrow.
Why must it die? Has the "world been saved" then?
I didn't say it needed to. I was stating what would factually happen. Like: "If it's 80 degrees out tomorrow, your snowman will melt" Does the snowman need to melt? No... but it's going to happen.
Perhaps I'm not understanding... but as my PayPal and eBay accounts have different passwords and i have two factor authentication setup using a DigiPass 5 rotating cypher key, I am unable to replicate what is being reported. No mater what, I am prompted for my DigiPass token key and password.
I'm not sure I understand the hole either... but it doesn't matter. I can't remember a time period when Paypals 2 factor authentication hasn't been broken. Authentication isn't that hard but paypal manages to have so many loopholes in their authentication process that we hear about a new one every few weeks. Given that, I just assume the service has quite a few, as of yet, undiscovered holes. I don't store money there, and I have it linked to its own special account in my bank so I know exactly whats coming in and out. Even if someone did hack it, there would be no funds for them to withdraw unless they just happened to catch me between moving the money in and making a purchase.
I'm a big proponent of open source, but I still have yet to have anything but small victories. I've gotten a few small tools and such approved. But getting executives to "bet" on large, enterprise applications that could sink the company if they go south? Not going to happen yet. As far as they're concerned the softwares maintained by a team of teenagers in their parents basements. They can get binding contracts that state the goals and future of commercial software. We've a lot of evidence that those contracts are rarely abided by, but at least you can sue someone and have a scapegoat when that happens. But with open source, they fear everyone could just up and quit tomorrow leaving them hanging.
I don't have a solution to that perception problem, but it's the single biggest problem I have in selling Open Source to executives. Figure that one out, and commercial software will be dead tomorrow.
Whatever one can say about the competence of HP's board, nobody could seriously claim they'd buy a company if they knew that was going on.
I could. It's common for frauds of this nature to involve an disgruntled ex-employing of one company starting a business, then getting a conspirator for that old employer to help him sell is fraud to them. HP should look long and hard at who was pushing this deal inside the company. I wonder if the conspirator(s) knew the deal was shady but didn't realize it was a full-on fraud until it was too late.
It's about time for one for Tech / IT as a union will put a stop to a lot of this BS and the 1HB abuse.
Have you ever worked for a union? The difference will be, all this same stuff will happen, and you'll pay union dues. Union Bosses are still bosses, and in it for profit just like everyone else.
That says why Australia, but a more important question is why at all?
This isn't a search and rescue mission. There's no one to rescue. How long and how much money should be dedicated to finding why 239 people drowned, and how much is there really to be gained from knowing this information in full?
Because if an Australian airline went down in Chinese waters they'd expect China to expend the same amount of effort. In the modern world we don't just let people vanish if we can help it.
It's deadly if you catch it, but catching it is extremely difficult. It's spread primarily by ingesting the droppings of fruit bats as they forge in human food stocks. We don't have large fruit bat populations here Nor do we store our food where bats can get at it. Even in Africa where conditions are perfect people are rarely catching this disease. Those treating the infected can catch it as well, but only by ingesting their fluids. Changing bed pans, etc...
Ebola is scary like a shark attack is scary. It's horrifying if it happens to you but it's very unlikely to happen. You don't want to douse yourself in chum and jump in the ocean, but freaking out and never going in the water again is just as irrational.
"But... the radio can always talk to the brakes" because both are on the same network.
Bullshit.
They might be on the same network, but that doesn't mean they can talk to each other.
Modern cars are required by law to operate on a CANN Buss which is very similar to old buss networks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B... All devices send and receive on the same wire. So every device can talk to every other device on the network, all the time. This works as long as all devices on the network are trusted devices... but then you add bluetooth and wifi? Now you have a network of implicitly trusted devices with a giant hole in it.
If the radio integrates media controls into the steering wheel and has song titles next to your speedometer, you're screwed. That bluetooth device has full access to the entire network. Now if it treats the bluetooth device like an audio input, and the only wires going into the "bluetooth PCB" are 12vdc, ground, and left and right outputs, then you're probobly ok. But there's no way most consumers are going to know which it is.
I personally dismantled the radio integration into my Fords CANN bus as soon as I got it. It was a nightmare. Parts of the dash didn't even work with the factory radio removed! I had to buy an after market CPU to plug into the buss to replicate some of the radios functions just so I could use a standard dinn mount head unit. All of this and the radio I got, that's not on the Buss, has more features. Why the hell is the head unit for my stereo controlling major functionality in my car?!!?!
What's worse, in the newest cars as of next year... devices will be registered by mac address to the cars computer. As a result you'll need to log in with a $6k+ software package you can only buy from Ford, GM, etc... and register the mac addresses of new devices you install. You will not be able to remove or replace anything on your own at home anymore. In fact, I bet the dealer will be the only place you can get repairs done within 20yrs.
These devices cry out to be made by casino and found in ever gas station for $5. The Kindle with the keyboard pretty much perfected the device. It'd be nice if they got color figured out but I don't think anyone wants any more out of these devices. ok ok, put a solar cell on the back or something so you never have to charge it.
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720p is absolutely HD, regardless of what's happened to your mind.
The specifically promised 1080p, not HD.
and it's not even 720p either. It's some weird half scale that they're up-scaling to fit the screen.
The game's packaging also features a "1080p HD video output" logo on the back of the box.
But, as Digital Foundry pointed out in a March analysis, Killzone's multiplayer mode actually outputs natively in 960x1080 resolution, half of the 1920x1080 standard for "1080p." To output full 1080p graphics, this source image is fixed with a "temporal upscale" that fills in gaps with a horizontal interlace made up of pixels from the previous frame. The result is graphical performance that the lawsuit (and many reviews) call "blurry to the point of distraction."
It's ironic that I'm hearing about this story on Slashdot, a site that has so far refused any sort of security. Good luck on your page ranks Slashdot.
What's more likely is they went to one of the many "hacker" websites where they sell this sort of stuff and baught a large chunk of nearly worthless data from old geocities websites and such.
Per their own data:
They reviewed 7700 cases.
The court reversed 5077 of those cases.
So the court reverses 66% of cases it sees. Which makes sense, that's what the court does.
So I can get damn close to their results with my model which is: "The court will reverse 100% of the time"
I don't see their model in there, and I don't really care to look that hard. But they said they used the same data previous models did. Most of that data are things like:
Which court heard the origional case?
Was the decision liberal or conservative?
etc...
It seems to be more of a case of, the court is overturning politically motivated decisions made by lower courts. i.e. a Liberal leaning decision out of California is likely to be overturned... or a conservative leaning decision out of texas. But the reverse, a conservative leaning ruling out of California is not. So if a court rules against it's nature it's more likely to stand when heard by SCOTUS, which makes intuitive sense.
I've been in the IT infrastructure business for years, and have always relied on physical destruction (shredding) of hard drives when disposing of old systems.
I can see where that may not be cost effective with leased systems, but I would take your experience as a warning to clean up after yourself and secure-wipe hard drives when your lease is up and not count on the datacenter to do it for you.
IANAL, but I also wonder who owns the data on a leased hard drive when the lease is up? If you improve an apartment or build a building on leased land, those improvements typically become the property of the owner when the lease is up. I wonder if that has been addressed with data in the absence of relevant contractual language?
He's talking about a datacenter. He doesn't have physical access.
Encrypt the drive. If, for some reason, the contract goes south or they go out of business, the data's garbage even if they sell the drive at auction. Our company policy is everything is encrypted outside our network. This includes portable devices like laptops, phones, and I even saw new USB sticks yesterday that will wipe themselves after a few invalid attempts.
So the next lot of phishing will come from: róót@gmail.com / Àdministrator@gmail.com or BìllGàtes@gmail.com etc?
Great.
I've heard this argument before.
Spoofing a return/sending mail address is incredibly simple. In fact, I do it every day as part of my legitimate non-hacker job. I could send you an email from Bill.Gates@microsoft.com if I wanted to. (though your mail server might have some security issues with that) Do you thing that when you email Support@somecompany.com there are a team of people that all log into that same mailbox? Or when they reply to you, they're really using that mailbox?
So there's no reason to use róót@gmail.com because you can just use root@gmail.com without an issue.
Your security should not have anything to do with an email account.
I think all of this misses the point. Will humanity ever create an intelligence that's greater than the sum of its parts? I think we will, and maybe already have. But we keep thinking of it in the wrong way. Do human cells have the ability to create artificial cells? Do they have any concept of what a multi-celled organism is? Of course not. They can't even think. What we are is completely outside what reality is for them.
Likewise I think whatever artifical being humanity will create, will be something we don't even have the faculty to understand. Take a look at a corporation for example. It's made up of people that work in processes with goals and rules. Yet a corporation works in almost completely autonomy from those people. A corporations fundimenal drive is profit, and to that end it will do whatever it takes to achieve that goal, including eliminating some of the humans that make up the corporation!
This is a rudimentary example, but apply the same line of thought to larger entities... like the internet, the media... even politics. They're collective entities made up of humans, but they act independently of humans. I think the first AI will be an abstract entity like that. It won't be able to communicate with us because our reality isn't something it lives in.
Ok, that's my hippy science for the day. I have to go cleanse the tofu out of my system with some ribs now.
Not if trick the end user into installing a key logger.
I don't know if you work on PC's at all... I do. MOST people's computers are so heavily infected with malware that I don't even fix anything anymore. You bring your computer to me, I delete partitions, write 1's to every sector, then reinstall your OS. I've even started seeing boot sector viruses.
If there are 280,000 people on the watch list that are there despite having no recognized ties to any terrorist groups.. why are they on the list at all?
Political disidints.
And no, I'm not kidding. The government has a long history of describing activism as terrorist activity. Martin Luther King for example.
The entire point of a university degree is to give you a guided tour of your ignorance. It's not to teach you everything about the subject, it's to tell you everything that you may want to learn within a subject so that you can then pick the bits to study in more detail yourself. If you let students pick the modules that they want, then you may as well just say 'here's a library, go and learn some stuff' and you'll get more or less the same results.
But then you actually arrive at college, and as part of your degree in comsci, you're required to take an accounting class. During that 12 week class you spend about a week learning a couple of formulas that you realize will be very helpful when coding accounting software, but just as you're getting into it they switch topics and start teaching you about business management and then spend 4 weeks on "How to use Excel"...
Wouldn't it be great if you could change the focus of that class to the fundamental math functions you'll be using frequently in your future career and avoid the bits of the class that will have nothing to do with your profession? ...and that's the point...
You mean to say, you hired dedicated patriots, with a fundamental desire to server the public, put them through intensive training, made them take a solemn oath to uphold the constitution, then employed them and asked them to violate those very principles, and that oath... and you mean to tell me a few of them may have turned against you?
The lunacy of our federal government never ceases to astound me.
My heart goes out to his relatives. People get so caught up in their public persona, they often forget that they could lead a fantastic life in obscurity after a major failure like this. I live in obscurity every day! It's great!
Last week I had a cousin make an attempt with a bunch of pills. Rather than hospitalize him, the police took him to jail for possession where he promptly finished the job with a belt. I didn't know him really well so I'm not all torn up but some in my family are. This is an entirely different thing that just having a relative die. It's a different emotion. What did we miss? What could we have done? Is it my fault because I didn't hang out with the guy enough and help him get on a better path?
Logically, I know it's all nonsense. The guy made his own choice, but I certainly feel for his immediate family. They're obviously taking it hard.
The unspoken assumption behind your comment (and much else on the page) is that it's important for 'open source' to be accepted by big business.
Why?
Because I'm employed by Big buisness and Big buisness would benifit greatly by open source software. Things are different today than they were in the 80s and 90s. Those big contracts with IBM, Sun, Oracle etc... meant something. Now they don't... not even with those same large companies (especially Oracle) what they promise and what they deliver are rarely the same. Alternative companies come and go with the wind. In open source, if someone drops the ball on an app you can pick it up yourself and continue on. Or hire someone to do it for you. I've lost track of the number of large software migrations I've done over the past 10yrs that all started with some vendor closing up shop, ending a product or switching direction.
Figure that one out, and commercial software will be dead tomorrow.
Why must it die? Has the "world been saved" then?
I didn't say it needed to. I was stating what would factually happen. Like: "If it's 80 degrees out tomorrow, your snowman will melt" Does the snowman need to melt? No... but it's going to happen.
Was his name Buckaroo Banzai?
Perhaps I'm not understanding... but as my PayPal and eBay accounts have different passwords and i have two factor authentication setup using a DigiPass 5 rotating cypher key, I am unable to replicate what is being reported. No mater what, I am prompted for my DigiPass token key and password.
I'm not sure I understand the hole either... but it doesn't matter. I can't remember a time period when Paypals 2 factor authentication hasn't been broken. Authentication isn't that hard but paypal manages to have so many loopholes in their authentication process that we hear about a new one every few weeks. Given that, I just assume the service has quite a few, as of yet, undiscovered holes. I don't store money there, and I have it linked to its own special account in my bank so I know exactly whats coming in and out. Even if someone did hack it, there would be no funds for them to withdraw unless they just happened to catch me between moving the money in and making a purchase.
I'm a big proponent of open source, but I still have yet to have anything but small victories. I've gotten a few small tools and such approved. But getting executives to "bet" on large, enterprise applications that could sink the company if they go south? Not going to happen yet. As far as they're concerned the softwares maintained by a team of teenagers in their parents basements. They can get binding contracts that state the goals and future of commercial software. We've a lot of evidence that those contracts are rarely abided by, but at least you can sue someone and have a scapegoat when that happens. But with open source, they fear everyone could just up and quit tomorrow leaving them hanging.
I don't have a solution to that perception problem, but it's the single biggest problem I have in selling Open Source to executives. Figure that one out, and commercial software will be dead tomorrow.
Whatever one can say about the competence of HP's board, nobody could seriously claim they'd buy a company if they knew that was going on.
I could. It's common for frauds of this nature to involve an disgruntled ex-employing of one company starting a business, then getting a conspirator for that old employer to help him sell is fraud to them. HP should look long and hard at who was pushing this deal inside the company. I wonder if the conspirator(s) knew the deal was shady but didn't realize it was a full-on fraud until it was too late.
It's about time for one for Tech / IT as a union will put a stop to a lot of this BS and the 1HB abuse.
Have you ever worked for a union?
The difference will be, all this same stuff will happen, and you'll pay union dues.
Union Bosses are still bosses, and in it for profit just like everyone else.
That says why Australia, but a more important question is why at all?
This isn't a search and rescue mission. There's no one to rescue. How long and how much money should be dedicated to finding why 239 people drowned, and how much is there really to be gained from knowing this information in full?
Because if an Australian airline went down in Chinese waters they'd expect China to expend the same amount of effort. In the modern world we don't just let people vanish if we can help it.
You're falling for CNN hype.
Ebola isn't even on the CDC watch list:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pm...
It's deadly if you catch it, but catching it is extremely difficult. It's spread primarily by ingesting the droppings of fruit bats as they forge in human food stocks.
We don't have large fruit bat populations here
Nor do we store our food where bats can get at it.
Even in Africa where conditions are perfect people are rarely catching this disease.
Those treating the infected can catch it as well, but only by ingesting their fluids. Changing bed pans, etc...
Ebola is scary like a shark attack is scary. It's horrifying if it happens to you but it's very unlikely to happen. You don't want to douse yourself in chum and jump in the ocean, but freaking out and never going in the water again is just as irrational.
you type faster than me ;-)
I just said the same thing. lol
Also, CAN Buss is not new. It's been in Semis for a very long time.
Bullshit.
They might be on the same network, but that doesn't mean they can talk to each other.
Modern cars are required by law to operate on a CANN Buss which is very similar to old buss networks: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...
All devices send and receive on the same wire. So every device can talk to every other device on the network, all the time.
This works as long as all devices on the network are trusted devices... but then you add bluetooth and wifi? Now you have a network of implicitly trusted devices with a giant hole in it.
If the radio integrates media controls into the steering wheel and has song titles next to your speedometer, you're screwed. That bluetooth device has full access to the entire network. Now if it treats the bluetooth device like an audio input, and the only wires going into the "bluetooth PCB" are 12vdc, ground, and left and right outputs, then you're probobly ok. But there's no way most consumers are going to know which it is.
I personally dismantled the radio integration into my Fords CANN bus as soon as I got it. It was a nightmare. Parts of the dash didn't even work with the factory radio removed! I had to buy an after market CPU to plug into the buss to replicate some of the radios functions just so I could use a standard dinn mount head unit. All of this and the radio I got, that's not on the Buss, has more features. Why the hell is the head unit for my stereo controlling major functionality in my car?!!?!
What's worse, in the newest cars as of next year... devices will be registered by mac address to the cars computer. As a result you'll need to log in with a $6k+ software package you can only buy from Ford, GM, etc... and register the mac addresses of new devices you install. You will not be able to remove or replace anything on your own at home anymore. In fact, I bet the dealer will be the only place you can get repairs done within 20yrs.
These devices cry out to be made by casino and found in ever gas station for $5.
The Kindle with the keyboard pretty much perfected the device. It'd be nice if they got color figured out but I don't think anyone wants any more out of these devices. ok ok, put a solar cell on the back or something so you never have to charge it.
There's a lot of hype on this Ebola topic in the media.
Lets have some scale:
The population of Africa: 1 billion
http://worldpopulationreview.c...
Number of people to die of Ebola in the past year: 887
http://www.usatoday.com/story/...
The number of deaths in Liberia alone during the last flu outbreak: 5,561
http://www.worldlifeexpectancy...