Well, the immediate plan is probably to send in some sort of rover to investigate, which should be exciting. I hope they can find a cute backronym for SPELUNK.
https://newatlas.com/laptop-ac......but I think the point here, if you RTFA, is that a fiber constitutes about one sensor every meter, so you get a whole lot of resolution for some pretty damn inexpensive spare glass, and this will allow scientific study of wave propagation at a greater level of detail than ever before possible.
How is it acceptable to refer to President Trump as the "orange moron" yet it was totally unacceptable to refer to President Obama's skin color as though it mattered, or had anything to do with anything?
Because Obama didn't get that way by using a tanning bed in a hysterical fit of vanity. Or just due to hundreds of years of historical oppression. Take your pick.
I suppose a natural source could produce a noise like this
No, if a noise like this were observed by SETI, they'd suspect a reflected Earth signal, or go running to the newspapers.
Not much in nature generates regularly spaced frequency peaks, which is why we use them in communication... they are easy to pick apart from the background noise.
The fingered waveform is suggestive of OFDM which would make the objective most likely communication, not physiological harm. But, hardly a pattern normally seen in nature. Perhaps some sort of intentionally-non-RF data exfiltration technology that worked without anyone noticing until someone tried to run a different modulation scheme over it.
even by people who consider lying to be improper in essentially every other context.
I'm sorry, I am having a really hard time.. having observed this country first-hand for all of my adult life... believing there is any significant number of Americans who value honesty so highly. Plenty who give it lip service, plenty who scream invectives about something that was dishonest only when it suits them, but I've found even the more "law-abiding and decent" people have no qualms, for example, about returning the latest gadget which they dropped on the floor days after purchasing it as a DOA. Most people would think you stupid for not doing so. I'm sure we are not the only country with this level of culturally ingrained mendacity... I'm sure a lot of other cultures have their own P.T. Barnum ethos... but we should own up to being a nation of con-artists because we pretty much are.
So it's not just a "gun culture" thing... Americans just lie... all the time.
Hubris does play a role... exploit and sniffing software can sometimes be way more vulnerable than the software it targets because the authors are coming at it from the mentality of "haha these guys write horrible code I can exploit" but rely almost entirely on the idea that their tool is too obscure to have been itself exploited for their own security.
Yeah, it's a really frustrating topic to have a constructive conversation about... most techies qualified to discuss solutions can't keep their eyes open through the NPR, most people who have read the NPR are telcom PHBs, and most people in general have strong opinions without qualifying for either category.
Well, he could have *actually* gone and shot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue. Wait... scary thought... how do we know he didn't and wasn't just gloating about getting away with it? Maybe we should cross index several decades of NYC police reports with his whereabouts.
Lectures are only part of the curriculum, and even they are more interactive these days. We've seen no real decline in interest in enrollment where I work, and have not had to reduce our admissions standards in quite some time.
Telemarketing: they got this one right by predicting it would still be around in lesser form;
I won't give them this one, because they didn't predict that lesser form would be of the criminal variety, and yet still manage to generate the same or greater volume of calls. They thought do-not-call would kill the industry, not just make it go underground.
Their main failure was they didn't consider the demographics of the targetted consumer base: more senescent people, and more people with complex finances leaving them with frantic levels of concern and thus emotionally vulnerable.
So, for a person who pretty much boycotts both services and so honesty does not know, are these services barring the viewing of the content posted by these accounts?
Personally I think once something like this is found out, the services should keep most of the content up, mark the content as fraudulent with big red overlay images, put litte red warnings on the avatar of every comment ever posted by them on a page, and undelete any posts they still have that the account posted and then deleted. It's in the public interest to be able to examine the activity of these accounts in detail, and make up their own minds.
Nope, just retaliation. The altright decided to call everyone who doesn't adhere to their xenophobia "cuckolds" while meanwhile acting as cuckolds for Russian interests themselves. So I looked up "cuckold" in Russian and now use it as a fitting term for our new domestic population of foreign-led dissidents.
My cretinous old fire-hazard office radiant space heater is 800W. These appear to be 500W. I almost never run mine on full power.
These don't appear to be high radiance units as they are partly convective, but I have seen similar mostly-touch-safe (not that you'd want to) wall units in use in homes... my friend has one over his couch and it works pretty well... the rest of the house doesn't have to be heated quite so much if you throw heat where you are sitting.
If it weren't for the side-benefit of the CPU power, you're always better off not wasting electricity on heat, but space heating can be cost effective if you cannot afford to invest in a better solution.
Reliability: they get a physically distributed compute network that is diverse across geography, utility, and ISP, with next to no telcom hotel costs. Possibly also some renewable/cogen energy credits of whatever form they take in the host country.
(As to the comment below, given what they are using them for, the bandwidth requirements are likely rather small... they transfer chunks of input data and then munch on them for a good long while.)
I wonder what they have for local storage. ISTR from my BOINC days that most applications wanted a hefty storage area so their job servers didn't have to be arsed to talk to the nodes more than once a day or so. Also best to do due diligence and ask them to verify no wifi adaptors in there... they probably aren't pricks surrepticiously trying to build an access network, but these days companies really need to be forced to promise that in writing/website just in case.
Most critical thing I learned from my BOINC days though: find out how much noise these things make. If they are purely radiant, kudos to this company.
Yes, a massive logarithm comprehension fail on the part of TFA.
If you are going to equate moore's law with progress, fine, let's stipulate that... but moore's law is that progress doubles every 2 years so a fair comparison is how many years is it taking the number of scientists needed to maintain it to double. 18x over 40 years puts us significantly below 2 years.
I have no problem rendering unicode on my terminals. Unicode doesn't have to do with text/binary.
While it isn't the hugest challenge in security, unicode at the string level is not easy to get right. You have to do the right thing at the ends of strings when hanging combining codepoints are present. And just recently, suddenly a standard change allows certain combiners to appear before their target base character rather than after. Tons of combiners can be piled up on a character. There are plenty of icky corners where bad code could crash the stack on a poor implementation. There are 4 times as many whitespace characters, text that has different column directions, weird newline and hyphenation rules... just tons of detail-oriented work.
As an example, check out the Perl6 testsuitesectionsthatdeal with unicode... not even including a bunch scattered around in other areas of the test suite.
(Really, email itself needs to just die... there just aren't any viable replacements... it's all corporate walled gardens or fractious gaggles of underfueled attempts at distributed social networking. Turtles all the way down.)
Why bother with the question then, instead of just "what is your backup passphrase"? The answer is because by and large people take the easy way out on that and elect to have a hint to jog their memory. With so many companies all using the same questions, this ends up becoming a viable attack vector.
Those that allow custom questions are doing a better job: if you can give yourself a different hint, not only does that help you use a more diverse range of answers, it also tells you whether the person challenging you already has access to data from a specific source, assuming you only use each question once.
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Eh, so name it SPELUNC instead and call it a day.
Well, the immediate plan is probably to send in some sort of rover to investigate, which should be exciting. I hope they can find a cute backronym for SPELUNK.
Like this?
https://newatlas.com/laptop-ac... ...but I think the point here, if you RTFA, is that a fiber constitutes about one sensor every meter, so you get a whole lot of resolution for some pretty damn inexpensive spare glass, and this will allow scientific study of wave propagation at a greater level of detail than ever before possible.
How is it acceptable to refer to President Trump as the "orange moron" yet it was totally unacceptable to refer to President Obama's skin color as though it mattered, or had anything to do with anything?
Because Obama didn't get that way by using a tanning bed in a hysterical fit of vanity. Or just due to hundreds of years of historical oppression. Take your pick.
I suppose a natural source could produce a noise like this
No, if a noise like this were observed by SETI, they'd suspect a reflected Earth signal, or go running to the newspapers.
Not much in nature generates regularly spaced frequency peaks, which is why we use them in communication... they are easy to pick apart from the background noise.
The fingered waveform is suggestive of OFDM which would make the objective most likely communication, not physiological harm. But, hardly a pattern normally seen in nature. Perhaps some sort of intentionally-non-RF data exfiltration technology that worked without anyone noticing until someone tried to run a different modulation scheme over it.
Oh also, mandatory advice on what to do if you here this sound.
even by people who consider lying to be improper in essentially every other context.
I'm sorry, I am having a really hard time.. having observed this country first-hand for all of my adult life... believing there is any significant number of Americans who value honesty so highly. Plenty who give it lip service, plenty who scream invectives about something that was dishonest only when it suits them, but I've found even the more "law-abiding and decent" people have no qualms, for example, about returning the latest gadget which they dropped on the floor days after purchasing it as a DOA. Most people would think you stupid for not doing so. I'm sure we are not the only country with this level of culturally ingrained mendacity... I'm sure a lot of other cultures have their own P.T. Barnum ethos... but we should own up to being a nation of con-artists because we pretty much are.
So it's not just a "gun culture" thing... Americans just lie... all the time.
Hubris does play a role... exploit and sniffing software can sometimes be way more vulnerable than the software it targets because the authors are coming at it from the mentality of "haha these guys write horrible code I can exploit" but rely almost entirely on the idea that their tool is too obscure to have been itself exploited for their own security.
Yeah, it's a really frustrating topic to have a constructive conversation about... most techies qualified to discuss solutions can't keep their eyes open through the NPR, most people who have read the NPR are telcom PHBs, and most people in general have strong opinions without qualifying for either category.
Well, he could have *actually* gone and shot someone in the middle of 5th Avenue. Wait... scary thought... how do we know he didn't and wasn't just gloating about getting away with it? Maybe we should cross index several decades of NYC police reports with his whereabouts.
Not in my state, and we are glad to take the offloaded business we get from not being Missouri.
Lectures are only part of the curriculum, and even they are more interactive these days. We've seen no real decline in interest in enrollment where I work, and have not had to reduce our admissions standards in quite some time.
Telemarketing: they got this one right by predicting it would still be around in lesser form;
I won't give them this one, because they didn't predict that lesser form would be of the criminal variety, and yet still manage to generate the same or greater volume of calls. They thought do-not-call would kill the industry, not just make it go underground.
Their main failure was they didn't consider the demographics of the targetted consumer base: more senescent people, and more people with complex finances leaving them with frantic levels of concern and thus emotionally vulnerable.
So, for a person who pretty much boycotts both services and so honesty does not know, are these services barring the viewing of the content posted by these accounts?
Personally I think once something like this is found out, the services should keep most of the content up, mark the content as fraudulent with big red overlay images, put litte red warnings on the avatar of every comment ever posted by them on a page, and undelete any posts they still have that the account posted and then deleted. It's in the public interest to be able to examine the activity of these accounts in detail, and make up their own minds.
Nope, just retaliation. The altright decided to call everyone who doesn't adhere to their xenophobia "cuckolds" while meanwhile acting as cuckolds for Russian interests themselves. So I looked up "cuckold" in Russian and now use it as a fitting term for our new domestic population of foreign-led dissidents.
I think they are overspending on this thread. There's like 5 putin rogonosets to every one actual slashdotter who even bothered to open the thread.
1 year. The ruling was in 2010 and Republicans took the congress in 2011.
Gotta start somewhere.
My cretinous old fire-hazard office radiant space heater is 800W. These appear to be 500W. I almost never run mine on full power.
These don't appear to be high radiance units as they are partly convective, but I have seen similar mostly-touch-safe (not that you'd want to) wall units in use in homes... my friend has one over his couch and it works pretty well... the rest of the house doesn't have to be heated quite so much if you throw heat where you are sitting.
If it weren't for the side-benefit of the CPU power, you're always better off not wasting electricity on heat, but space heating can be cost effective if you cannot afford to invest in a better solution.
By the way, called it.
(I guess I might be to blame for the WiFi. Oh well. Nothing terms of service, SLAs, and a firewall policy can't fix.)
Reliability: they get a physically distributed compute network that is diverse across geography, utility, and ISP, with next to no telcom hotel costs. Possibly also some renewable/cogen energy credits of whatever form they take in the host country.
(As to the comment below, given what they are using them for, the bandwidth requirements are likely rather small... they transfer chunks of input data and then munch on them for a good long while.)
I wonder what they have for local storage. ISTR from my BOINC days that most applications wanted a hefty storage area so their job servers didn't have to be arsed to talk to the nodes more than once a day or so. Also best to do due diligence and ask them to verify no wifi adaptors in there... they probably aren't pricks surrepticiously trying to build an access network, but these days companies really need to be forced to promise that in writing/website just in case.
Most critical thing I learned from my BOINC days though: find out how much noise these things make. If they are purely radiant, kudos to this company.
Don't forget the game consoles, often in use well past their EoS date.
Yes, a massive logarithm comprehension fail on the part of TFA.
If you are going to equate moore's law with progress, fine, let's stipulate that... but moore's law is that progress doubles every 2 years so a fair comparison is how many years is it taking the number of scientists needed to maintain it to double. 18x over 40 years puts us significantly below 2 years.
I have no problem rendering unicode on my terminals. Unicode doesn't have to do with text/binary.
While it isn't the hugest challenge in security, unicode at the string level is not easy to get right. You have to do the right thing at the ends of strings when hanging combining codepoints are present. And just recently, suddenly a standard change allows certain combiners to appear before their target base character rather than after. Tons of combiners can be piled up on a character. There are plenty of icky corners where bad code could crash the stack on a poor implementation. There are 4 times as many whitespace characters, text that has different column directions, weird newline and hyphenation rules... just tons of detail-oriented work.
As an example, check out the Perl6 test suite sections that deal with unicode... not even including a bunch scattered around in other areas of the test suite.
(Really, email itself needs to just die... there just aren't any viable replacements... it's all corporate walled gardens or fractious gaggles of underfueled attempts at distributed social networking. Turtles all the way down.)
Why bother with the question then, instead of just "what is your backup passphrase"? The answer is because by and large people take the easy way out on that and elect to have a hint to jog their memory. With so many companies all using the same questions, this ends up becoming a viable attack vector.
Those that allow custom questions are doing a better job: if you can give yourself a different hint, not only does that help you use a more diverse range of answers, it also tells you whether the person challenging you already has access to data from a specific source, assuming you only use each question once.