Is that the term "cyberwar" is pretty stupid. In fact, it isn't just stupid, it is so misleading(intentionally or otherwise) that letting it slip into your lexicon makes you dumber.
"war" carries with it a strong series of historical associations, lessons learned, rules of thumb, rules, likelihoods, etc.
Electronic attacks are a costly problem and, if some idiot connects the wrong control systems to the internet, or a laptop to the wrong control systems, potentially a dangerous one; but trying to map them into the historical concepts of "war" just doesn't work very well.
Ahh, I see. And by your determination, the bit of electronics I have in my pocket that I make "telephone calls" with is thus, not a telephone because it doesn't have the strong historical associations with MaBell's horkin large plastic behemoth that has been hanging from my mom's kitchen wall for the past 40 years.
No. So, who was actually hurt? Were there any casualties?
No one was hurt. Most Persian civilians went about their business. The Government had one of their projects set back. BFD.
Comparing that to war just dilutes what war really means just as much as the "War on Drugs", "War on Terrorism", and every other hyperbolic statement made by media, government and anyone else who has an agenda - like computer security people selling their services and wares.
Are you requiring casualties and injuries in order to make the determination of war??
In fact, I think a clearer representation of what fuels the undertakings of war was your one line: "The Government had one of their projects set back."
As a geek, I never understood the desire of my fellow geeks to fight over what's canon (or the time-line for that matter). I don't really care if something is canonical or not.
lol, I think that might be under the definition of geek.. no?
This is a great work that goes into some scientific detail and how Astrology fails many key tests.
Kudos to the author.
It even brings up something that most people don't even consider when the subject of 'planets ruling' comes up, Exoplanets!
"And it gets worse for astrology. Astronomers have now found about 150 planets orbiting other stars. These are very distant, certainly, but hey! Distance is no issue. So therefore these planets must affect us too. Now, these are only the planets we've discovered so far. Given how many we've found, and what kind of stars they tend to orbit, it's reasonable to assume that there are billions (billions!) of such planets in our galaxy alone. They're everywhere! Why don't astrologers include them in their horoscopes?"
Here's another way to think of it. Astronomers (the real scientists) can determine that the planets are out there due to their real effects on their parent stars. If these planets affect us, as they must according to the astrologers' own set of rules, then why don't astrologers predict them? Why didn't any single astrologer 50 years ago say "There must be planets around other stars, because we can see it in our data!"? They didn't because they can't. Their "data" are meaningless. Again, by the rules used by astrologers, all those planets would simply overpower our own solar system planets
Astrology is a superstitious hobby of zero scientific merit
I agree with all of that except the "zero." Astrology makes people interested in astronomy, which is of enormous scientific merit.
Honestly... citation please?
As a former astronomer that took his personal time to head up monthly
star parties at our observatory in Moorpark, I can fully attest that the
only thing Astrology does for the 'common person' is fuck up the last
bit of astronomical sanity they could possibly have.
And the saddest thing to see from TFA is how people "don't believe it", lol
like they have the option to disbelieve a fact. Whooo. Wow.
Yes, folks, when you pull your head out of the sand... there's fresh air
to breathe.
-AI
*edit, yeah, I know people have the option to disbelieve a fact.
'Practically unlimited' may be the right terminology, just to keep everybody honest.
If only. I think I'd have more respect for a company if they just said those two words. Keep the asterisk, keep the fine print. Just tell the truth.
I could even see a great ad campaign based on it. Showing "extreme usage" examples (that the majority of the ad viewers/subscribers would see as extreme) that wouldn't be capped. Someone streaming music 24/7 while they sleep, eat, work. Or someone watching video after video for days on a cross country bus trip, etc.
The same way I know that you exist: by making reasonable inferences from the available data. In your case the only evidence I have of your existence is one Slashdot post. For the Big Bang there are multiple, independent data sources so currently I'd say that I'd be more inclined to believe in the existence of the Big Bang than you!
I think it should be connected to tha intarweb
and allow the world to tweet to it. The tweets
then displayed on the surface.
Censor filter at their discretion. lol.
-AI
In Arizona, all tickets are reviewed by the police or local municipality of which the ticket was issued.
ie, if the car doesn't match the ticket, no ticket gets sent. If the driver is one sex and the vehicle is registered to the opposite sex, a notice is sent, not a ticket. I can drive my wife's vehicle and speed all I want, she gets a notice that says, "Do you know this person".
I can't see any instance where this would work except same vehicle, same sex driving.
Lol, I'm soooo old, I never felt comfortable going from 32col to 80col ala TRaSh-80 =)
That is jest with a lil truth.
Plus I'm one of those that just cannot parse a long line of text, so I write like I read. Must be the ADHD+OCD.
And lastly, I spent a decade at a newspaper as Production Manager. I'm sure having to knock out copy in columns when coming up on the dropdead has stuck in the ole grey matter.
I like Combat Arms alot... much more than my wife thinks I should, at least to the point that when I'm on my computer, "You're playing that damn game again". Usually... I am.
But... the 'hacker' problem is TERRIBLE.
[Please no diatribes or otherwise about how using a cheat is not hacking, I'm just using the word that gets shouted in-game all the time]
The thing is, Nexon could care less about the hackers. And that's fine... as long as you do something about equalizing the playfield.
I mean, it's so bad that I've seen THIS NICK ON THE DAILY TOP 5: YESIHACK
I'll be fair on one point, although not verified first hand (that means hearsay), I heard that Nexon sent Ghoster of game-enhancements.com a cease and desist. But that doesn't take care of the free hacks out there. And probably at best will increase the downloading of non-pay hacks.
I don't think it's going to be possible to get rid of the hackers... so, integrate them.
Give the cheats away for free, let everyone have them if they want... then segregate the cheaters from those that want to play a legit game.
How to segregate? It's not my failing business model, I don't have to come up with solutions for them. Be happy I don't have a car analogy.
Oh wait, as I was typing this I did come up with a way to segregate. Let the cheats be part of the server you play on. Thus if you play on Delta server, it has chams and aimbot. Alpha, legit, etc.
However... if Nexon DOES want to do something about the cheaters... such as figuring out who is, that's easy. And if anyone at Nexon wants a SIMPLE solution... email me, alienintelligence at gmail dot com. I'm not free... but I am cheap. =)
Plastic beads, like you make a necklace out of?
on
A Quasi-Quasicrystal
·
· Score: 2, Informative
Well, for those that didn't RTFA, I did for you... and no... they didn't go to a piece goods shop and buy a sack of necklace beads.
FTA: To simplify matters, the team set out to create a quasicrystal from micron-sized plastic beads called colloidal particles.
For those unfamiliar with colloidals, it is from the Greek work kolla, meaning glue as the first colloids were just that. Particulate size is such that surface area is greater than volume thus the particulates tend not to settle from gravity.
They're pretty useful in everyday life. Some common items would be some aerosol sprays, shotcrete for your pool out back and the yummy emulsion, mayonnaise!
These in TFA however are just micron sized beads of plastic.
So, like the subject says, I RTFA... was like wtf, went to IBM now I'm meh...
The ComputerWorld article does a poor job to relate the key idea behind the software and the goal that IBM is trying to attain.
So, as I RTA, I thought... so what... Gordon Bell's project is way ahead of this concept. Just opening a word doc on a WinMobile phone and then taking a picture, is roughly the grasp of the CW article.
So, knowing that IBM couldn't be involved in such a pittance of an idea, I RTMFA from IBM themselves.
IBM is behind the curve, behind the game and just behind with anything about life storage. Sad but true MS and its minions are way ahead. And given my adoption habits, a MS v IBM showdown in this arena will have me turning over more of my devalued dollar to the empire in Redmond.
To be clear, the wiki article actually says this about the R35:
Aftermarket tuning
*Despite early concerns about the difficulty of modification of the Nissan GT-R, a number of modifications have been released. The previously reported "untuneable" ECU has since been hacked by several tuning houses.
*Aftermarket ECUs have been developed to bypass the speed limiter, in addition to stand-alone speed-limiter defeaters.
*However, Nissan confirmed that the GPS check will not be implemented in American models
I think this part of the computing timeline is going to be
one that is well remembered. I know I find it fascinating.
This is a classic moment when tech takes the branch that
was unexpected. GPGPU computing will soon
reach ubiquity
but for right now it's the fledgling that is being
grown in
the wild.
Of course I'm not earmarking this one particular project
as the start point but this year has gotten 'GPU this' and
'GPGPU that' start up events all over it. Some even said
in 2007, that it would be a buzzword in 08.
And of course there's nothing like new tech to bring out
a naysayer.
Folding@home released their second generation
GPU client
in April 08. While retiring the GPU1 core in
June of this year.
I know I enjoy throwing spare GPU cycles to a distributed
cause and whenever I catch sight of the icon for the GPU
client it brings the back the nostalgia of distributed clients
of the past. [Near the bottom].
Oh yes, I realize places like the
infamous Sandia will be using
the GPU to rev up atom splitting.
But maybe if they keep their
bombs IN the GPU it'll lessen the
chances of seeing rampant
proliferation
again.
My dad has a pretty awesome burn mark on his shoulder where he completed the circuit on his ham rig's antenna.
Fortunately for me, otherwise this comment wouldn't be writing itself, the hand he touched the antenna with and the shoulder that the EM erupted out of, were the same arm.
That much load across a heart is a stopper.
Yeah, it was a stupid move on his part... that's why when he was teaching me about electricity when I was young, I got the story... and to understand the scar.
And what a doozy... nothing says... WAIT, STOP, CANCER RISK!
----------------
A 2008 University of Utah analysis looked at nine studies -- including some Herberman cites -- with thousands of brain tumor patients and concludes "we found no overall increased risk of brain tumors among cellular phone users. The potential elevated risk of brain tumors after long-term cellular phone use awaits confirmation by future studies."
Studies last year in France and Norway concluded the same thing.
"If there is a risk from these products -- and at this point we do not know that there is -- it is probably very small," the Food and Drug Administration says on an agency Web site.
Still, Herberman cites a "growing body of literature linking long-term cell phone use to possible adverse health effects including cancer."
"Although the evidence is still controversial, I am convinced that there are sufficient data to warrant issuing an advisory to share some precautionary advice on cell phone use," he wrote in his memo.
A driving force behind the memo was Devra Lee Davis, the director of the university's center for environmental oncology.
"The question is do you want to play Russian roulette with your brain," she said in an interview from her cell phone while using the hands-free speaker phone as recommended. "I don't know that cell phones are dangerous. But I don't know that they are safe."
----------------
Here's the quote I love:
"I don't know that cell phones are dangerous. But I don't know that they are safe."
Slashdot Mirror
Is that the term "cyberwar" is pretty stupid. In fact, it isn't just stupid, it is so misleading(intentionally or otherwise) that letting it slip into your lexicon makes you dumber.
"war" carries with it a strong series of historical associations, lessons learned, rules of thumb, rules, likelihoods, etc.
Electronic attacks are a costly problem and, if some idiot connects the wrong control systems to the internet, or a laptop to the wrong control systems, potentially a dangerous one; but trying to map them into the historical concepts of "war" just doesn't work very well.
Ahh, I see. And by your determination, the bit of electronics I have in my pocket that
I make "telephone calls" with is thus, not a telephone because it doesn't have the
strong historical associations with MaBell's horkin large plastic behemoth that has
been hanging from my mom's kitchen wall for the past 40 years.
Got it!
-AI
No.
So, who was actually hurt? Were there any casualties?
No one was hurt. Most Persian civilians went about their business. The Government had one of their projects set back. BFD.
Comparing that to war just dilutes what war really means just as much as the "War on Drugs", "War on Terrorism", and every other hyperbolic statement made by media, government and anyone else who has an agenda - like computer security people selling their services and wares.
Are you requiring casualties and injuries in order to make the determination of war??
In fact, I think a clearer representation of what fuels the undertakings of war was
your one line:
"The Government had one of their projects set back."
Uh-huh... I think THAT is the purpose of war.
-AI
Citation please... er wait... visual citation please.
-AI
As a geek, I never understood the desire of my fellow geeks to fight over what's canon (or the time-line for that matter). I don't really care if something is canonical or not.
lol, I think that might be under the definition of geek.. no?
Turn in your geek pin sir.
-AI
This is a great work that goes into some scientific detail
about how Astrology fails many key tests.
Lol, forgotten URL to said article, wow... n00b. =)
http://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/astrology.html
-AI
This is a great work that goes into some scientific detail
and how Astrology fails many key tests.
Kudos to the author.
It even brings up something that most people don't even
consider when the subject of 'planets ruling' comes up,
Exoplanets!
"And it gets worse for astrology. Astronomers have now found about 150 planets orbiting other stars. These are very distant, certainly, but hey! Distance is no issue. So therefore these planets must affect us too. Now, these are only the planets we've discovered so far. Given how many we've found, and what kind of stars they tend to orbit, it's reasonable to assume that there are billions (billions!) of such planets in our galaxy alone. They're everywhere! Why don't astrologers include them in their horoscopes?"
Here's another way to think of it. Astronomers (the real scientists) can determine that the planets are out there due to their real effects on their parent stars. If these planets affect us, as they must according to the astrologers' own set of rules, then why don't astrologers predict them? Why didn't any single astrologer 50 years ago say "There must be planets around other stars, because we can see it in our data!"? They didn't because they can't. Their "data" are meaningless. Again, by the rules used by astrologers, all those planets would simply overpower our own solar system planets
-AI
Astrology is a superstitious hobby of zero scientific merit
I agree with all of that except the "zero." Astrology makes people interested in astronomy, which is of enormous scientific merit.
Honestly... citation please?
As a former astronomer that took his personal time to head up monthly
star parties at our observatory in Moorpark, I can fully attest that the
only thing Astrology does for the 'common person' is fuck up the last
bit of astronomical sanity they could possibly have.
And the saddest thing to see from TFA is how people "don't believe it", lol
like they have the option to disbelieve a fact. Whooo. Wow.
Yes, folks, when you pull your head out of the sand... there's fresh air
to breathe.
-AI
*edit, yeah, I know people have the option to disbelieve a fact.
'Practically unlimited' may be the right terminology, just to keep everybody honest.
If only. I think I'd have more respect for a company if they just said those two words. Keep the asterisk, keep the fine print. Just tell the truth.
I could even see a great ad campaign based on it. Showing "extreme usage" examples (that the majority of the ad viewers/subscribers would see as extreme) that wouldn't be capped. Someone streaming music 24/7 while they sleep, eat, work. Or someone watching video after video for days on a cross country bus trip, etc.
Yeah, I know... hold my breath, etc.
-AI
How do you know?!
The same way I know that you exist: by making reasonable inferences from the available data. In your case the only evidence I have of your existence is one Slashdot post. For the Big Bang there are multiple, independent data sources so currently I'd say that I'd be more inclined to believe in the existence of the Big Bang than you!
lol, someone has to say it... oooh, snap!
I think it should be connected to tha intarweb and allow the world to tweet to it. The tweets then displayed on the surface. Censor filter at their discretion. lol. -AI
In Arizona, all tickets are reviewed by
the police or local municipality of which
the ticket was issued.
ie, if the car doesn't match the ticket,
no ticket gets sent. If the driver is
one sex and the vehicle is registered
to the opposite sex, a notice is sent,
not a ticket. I can drive my wife's
vehicle and speed all I want, she gets
a notice that says, "Do you know this
person".
I can't see any instance where this would
work except same vehicle, same sex driving.
So... Fail.
-AI
I agree that's a good concept but
how do you avoid groups of people
griefing certain individuals over
and over?
Griefing isn't much better than
hacking?
-AI
Lol, I'm soooo old, I never felt
comfortable going from 32col to
80col ala TRaSh-80
=)
That is jest with a lil truth.
Plus I'm one of those that
just cannot parse a long line
of text, so I write like I read.
Must be the ADHD+OCD.
And lastly, I spent a decade
at a newspaper as Production
Manager. I'm sure having to
knock out copy in columns when
coming up on the dropdead has
stuck in the ole grey matter.
[ http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/finetypography/ht/line_length.htm ]
And I'm certain you don't care
THAT much =)
-AI
I like Combat Arms alot... much more than my
wife thinks I should, at least to the point
that when I'm on my computer, "You're playing
that damn game again". Usually... I am.
But... the 'hacker' problem is TERRIBLE.
[Please no diatribes or otherwise about how
using a cheat is not hacking, I'm just using
the word that gets shouted in-game all the time]
The thing is, Nexon could care less about the
hackers. And that's fine... as long as you do
something about equalizing the playfield.
I mean, it's so bad that I've seen THIS NICK
ON THE DAILY TOP 5: YESIHACK
I'll be fair on one point, although not verified
first hand (that means hearsay), I heard that
Nexon sent Ghoster of game-enhancements.com
a cease and desist. But that doesn't take care of
the free hacks out there. And probably at best
will increase the downloading of non-pay hacks.
I don't think it's going to be possible to get
rid of the hackers... so, integrate them.
Give the cheats away for free, let everyone
have them if they want... then segregate the
cheaters from those that want to play a legit
game.
How to segregate? It's not my failing business
model, I don't have to come up with solutions
for them. Be happy I don't have a car analogy.
Oh wait, as I was typing this I did come up with
a way to segregate. Let the cheats be part of the
server you play on. Thus if you play on Delta
server, it has chams and aimbot. Alpha, legit,
etc.
However... if Nexon DOES want to do something
about the cheaters... such as figuring out who
is, that's easy. And if anyone at Nexon wants
a SIMPLE solution... email me, alienintelligence
at gmail dot com. I'm not free... but I am cheap.
=)
-AI
aka -WarHawK-
aka DRAGUN0V
Really? No one modded that funny?
You must consider this classic
SNL skit pedantic then...
Colonel Angus Comes Home
[ http://www.hulu.com/watch/4109/saturday-night-live-colonel-angus-comes-home ]
"... and if I overstay my welcome, just tap me on the head"
Oblig. Dick in a Box
[ http://www.hulu.com/watch/1596/saturday-night-live-dick-in-a-box-uncensored#s-p1-st-i1 ]
-AI
Underwater basket weaving, via robot.
-AI
Shout out to my 11th grade german teacher,
Frau Weide, she said, I've got a real
future in underwater basket weaving!
I was wondering that myself... first
thing I thought when I saw the graphics
was, 'hey... wasn't that my old AfterDark95
screensaver?'
[ http://afterdarksaver.blogspot.com/2007/11/penrose.html ]
That and good ole satori...
[ http://telcontar.net/DesktopPics/satori.php ]
-AI
Well, for those that didn't RTFA, I did for
you... and no... they didn't go to a piece
goods shop and buy a sack of necklace beads.
FTA:
To simplify matters, the team set out to create a quasicrystal from micron-sized plastic beads called colloidal particles.
For those unfamiliar with colloidals, it is
from the Greek work kolla, meaning glue as the
first colloids were just that. Particulate size
is such that surface area is greater than volume
thus the particulates tend not to settle from
gravity.
They're pretty useful in everyday life. Some
common items would be some aerosol sprays,
shotcrete for your pool out back and the yummy
emulsion, mayonnaise!
These in TFA however are just micron sized beads
of plastic.
-AI
So, like the subject says,
I RTFA... was like wtf, went to IBM now I'm meh...
The ComputerWorld article does a poor job to
relate the key idea behind the software and the
goal that IBM is trying to attain.
So, as I RTA, I thought... so what... Gordon Bell's
project is way ahead of this concept. Just opening
a word doc on a WinMobile phone and then taking a
picture, is roughly the grasp of the CW article.
So, knowing that IBM couldn't be involved in such
a pittance of an idea, I RTMFA from IBM themselves.
Press release from the 29th,
[ http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/24750.wss ]
'TURN DOWN YOUR SPEAKERS! Very rude audio beginning to the vid.'
So, after the video, I'm kinda, meh.
IBM is behind the curve, behind the game and just
behind with anything about life storage. Sad but true
MS and its minions are way ahead. And given my adoption
habits, a MS v IBM showdown in this arena will have me
turning over more of my devalued dollar to the empire
in Redmond.
-AI
_Plugged-in, just enough_
To be clear, the wiki article actually says
this about the R35:
Aftermarket tuning
*Despite early concerns about the difficulty of modification of the Nissan GT-R, a number of modifications have been released. The previously reported "untuneable" ECU has since been hacked by several tuning houses.
*Aftermarket ECUs have been developed to bypass the speed limiter, in addition to stand-alone speed-limiter defeaters.
*However, Nissan confirmed that the GPS check will not be implemented in American models
-AI
I think this part of the computing timeline is going to be
one that is well remembered. I know I find it fascinating.
This is a classic moment when tech takes the branch that
was unexpected. GPGPU computing will soon
reach ubiquity but for right now it's the fledgling that is being
grown in the wild.
Of course I'm not earmarking this one particular project
as the start point but this year has gotten 'GPU this' and
'GPGPU that' start up events all over it. Some even said
in 2007, that it would be a buzzword in 08.
And of course there's nothing like new tech to bring out
a naysayer.
Folding@home released their second generation
GPU client in April 08. While retiring the GPU1 core in
June of this year.
I know I enjoy throwing spare GPU cycles to a distributed
cause and whenever I catch sight of the icon for the GPU
client it brings the back the nostalgia of distributed clients
of the past. [Near the bottom].
I think I was with United Devices the longest.
And the Grid.
Now we are getting a chance to see GPU supercomputing
installations from IBM and this one from MIT.
Soon those will be littering the Top 500 list.
I also look forward most to the peaceful endeavors the new
processing power will be used for... weather analysis,
drug creation, and disease studies.
Oh yes, I realize places like the infamous Sandia will be using
the GPU to rev up atom splitting. But maybe if they keep their
bombs IN the GPU it'll lessen the chances of seeing rampant
proliferation again.
Ok, well enough of my musings over a GPU.
-AI
EM is real dangerous on HAM radios.
To the flesh.
My dad has a pretty awesome burn mark
on his shoulder where he completed the
circuit on his ham rig's antenna.
Fortunately for me, otherwise this comment
wouldn't be writing itself, the hand he
touched the antenna with and the shoulder
that the EM erupted out of, were the same
arm.
That much load across a heart is a stopper.
Yeah, it was a stupid move on his part...
that's why when he was teaching me about
electricity when I was young, I got the
story... and to understand the scar.
-AI
Ahh, here's the brilliant utterer of those
simple words:
"I don't know that cell phones are dangerous. But I don't know that they are safe." - Devra Lee Davis
Director of Environmental Oncology
[ http://www.upci.upmc.edu/research/ccps/ceo/leader.html ]
I guess that's a healthy attitude for the 'driving force behind the memo',
the "renowned" director of Environmental Oncology.
I don't know they are safe... let's test them. Ask for a grant!
-AI
And what a doozy... nothing says... WAIT, STOP, CANCER RISK!
----------------
A 2008 University of Utah analysis looked at nine studies -- including some Herberman cites -- with thousands of brain tumor patients and concludes "we found no overall increased risk of brain tumors among cellular phone users. The potential elevated risk of brain tumors after long-term cellular phone use awaits confirmation by future studies."
Studies last year in France and Norway concluded the same thing.
"If there is a risk from these products -- and at this point we do not know that there is -- it is probably very small," the Food and Drug Administration says on an agency Web site.
Still, Herberman cites a "growing body of literature linking long-term cell phone use to possible adverse health effects including cancer."
"Although the evidence is still controversial, I am convinced that there are sufficient data to warrant issuing an advisory to share some precautionary advice on cell phone use," he wrote in his memo.
A driving force behind the memo was Devra Lee Davis, the director of the university's center for environmental oncology.
"The question is do you want to play Russian roulette with your brain," she said in an interview from her cell phone while using the hands-free speaker phone as recommended. "I don't know that cell phones are dangerous. But I don't know that they are safe."
----------------
Here's the quote I love:
"I don't know that cell phones are dangerous. But I don't know that they are safe."
Whooo, brill!
-AI
Ew, if you could lose a blackberry in that
Chinese Honeypot, I wouldn't stick around.
-AI