The RAD750 is quite limited in power; but has the advantage of being comparatively close to 'just going down to newegg and buying a motherboard' by the standards of projects that go into space and shop at mil/aero contractors... The price is still up in the "If you have to ask, don't ask" range; but doing a very-low-volume DIY would likely be worse still...
If the firmware guys brick this thing, they'll probably be found in either the decompression test chamber with their eyeballs boiling off, or floating in the old hydrazine tank out back.
It would be a bit more invasive; but actuating muscles with external electrical signals isn't exactly science fiction, and I suspect that you could get a surprisingly convincing feeling of resistance if you combined a bit of externally-induced muscle tension with a strong sensation of pressure on the skin surfaces supposedly in contact with the item.
It wouldn't be quite right, since, in absence of an actual weight, you'd need to stimulate the opposing muscle group as well to keep the user's hands from just flying upward wildly, which would lead to a somewhat odd distribution of muscular effort and soreness compared to the real thing; but I suspect that the addition of realistic skin-pressure cues and/or visual overlays could probably fake the user out fairly convincingly for lighter objects.
If you examine the datastream from a wiimote, it is actually pretty well pre-crunched by the controller.
There are a few pairing-related oddities(bluetooth can be a bit eccentric on its good days, and Nintendo didn't excatly feel a strong pressure to be helpful to random 3rd party bluetooth devices); but you get all the accelerometer data, and the IR dot following, handled for you in hardware and sent, along with button states, as relatively trivial output data. There are a few other oddities with the onboard speaker and similar bits; but it isn't a computationally expensive peripheral to deal with.
" (In Jacobson’s scheme, file names can include encrypted sections that bar users without the proper keys from retrieving them, meaning that security and rights management are built into the address system from the start.)"
It sounds like he made them worse; but otherwise pretty similar to magnet links or the mechanisms something like Freenet uses.
Perhaps more broadly, isn't a substantial subset of the virtues of this scheme already implemented(albeit by an assortment of nasty hacks, not by anything terribly elegant) through caches on the client side and various CDN schemes on the server side? URLs haven't corresponded to locations, rather than to either user expressions of a given wish, or auto-generated requests for specific content, in the majority of cases for a while now(and, on the client side, caching doesn't extend to the entire system, for security reasons if nothing else; but it already covers a lot of common web-resource request scenarios).
Now, in a perfect world, "we have a pile of nasty hacks for that" is an argument for a more elegant solution; but, in practice, it seems to be closer to equivalent to "we already have stuff that mostly works and will be cheaper next year", which can be hard on the adoption of new techniques...
So long as liability follows responsibility... Taking calculated risks, like offering unsecured or partially/illiquidly secured loans, or going with lousy-but-convenient UX choices, is one of the things that banks do because they turn out to be profitable if you do them right. As long as they accept the downsides of that, like the occasional default or account breach, that isn't a problem and might well be a virtue.
If, however, they manage to insulate themselves from those consequences, whether by wholesale regulatory capture or routine customer service brush-offs of the suckers whose cards were skimmed and cleaned out, the rot begins.
One "like" from a "friend" is worth a hundred thousand likes from random strangers (even if they're real people). And one detailed comment about a product from an actual trusted friend is worth more than a hundred thousand likes from friends.
That must be why they pay me so well for killing peoples' friends and replacing them with eerily lifelike spamdroids... I always wondered.
If you aren't the one holding the gun, then you have no political power.
Pithy; but mostly false. In basically any polity as large/complex or larger than 'barbarian warband' actually holding the gun is a rather entry level task, typically handled by the actual leader's lackies. At the 'barbarian warband' level the strongman might occasionally have to do it himself; but even there it will be his charisma and burly friends and/or non-traitorous-family who keep somebody from just stabbing him in the eye while he sleeps...
If anything, "political" institutions are really an exercise in nothing so much as the mitigation of direct gun handling, through a combination of institutional compliance(ie. they don't say force of law for nothing; but the overwhelming majority of compliance requires zero cops to achieve) and relatively small(and, if one is both competent and lucky, tame) violence specialists to deal with any exceptions to the former.
We can only hope that both of you are correct, and that the 'social' space remains a howling wasteland trodden by only marketers, wolverines, spammers, and zynga employees...
Please, please, we prefer the term "heuristically assisted accountholders" and would like to assure all Facebook shareholders who aren't currently insider trading that they are based on the highest quality statistical inferences from our actual userbase for the greatest plausibility to the clickfraud bots that drive our advertising arm.
I can't comment on the relative fun of those two specific games; but '3d' has certain advantages beyond graphical glitz that come in handy.
Unless the game ships a fairly massive number of sprites or goes full vector graphics(also unlikely to meet 'pixel perfect' standards), the resolution-independence of 2d engines leaves... something to be desired. You can get away with modest movements up or down, in the original aspect ratio; but things get ugly and illegible pretty fast if you go outside that. Even in games where the gameplay is fundamentally 2d(Civ 4, say, is played on pretty much the same gameboard as Civ1-3, with the rules and the pieces tweaked a bit each time), the ability to splash it across reasonably arbitrary resolutions(once the initial legwork is done) comes in pretty handy in today's world of cheap pixels and eccentric aspect ratios.
In broad technical terms there is no difference between a modern cloud service and an ftp server from the 1980s - if someone gets your password you're scr3wed.
One might suggest that 25 years of minimal progress on security, in the face of a considerable expansion of the internet's hostile population, is a major failing... Especially since, unlike most ftp servers of the 80's, 'cloud' services are heavily marketed toward nontechnical users.
Taking advantage of the (statistically) predictable decay rate of data stored in the RFID's SRAM is a cute trick for rough timekeeping, I have to admit.
It makes me wonder, though, and some perfunctory googling isn't giving me the immediate gratification that I demand, is there anything reasonably practical that could modify the decay rate for SRAM, ideally in a way that would be practical for an attack? Does a strong magnetic field affect contemporary transistors in any useful way? Would a hit of radiation before each attack attempt sufficiently scramble the RAM contents before it also scrambled the nonvolatile memory storing the secret being attacked?
The Cloud! I wonder what terms of service will govern the treatment, security, and disclosure of the exciting new personal information this delightful system will allow me to automatically send over the intertubes to Nuance, presumably from any application using their API?
Being data mined is so exciting, I just can't wait!
I'm guessing that, at very least, the pianist would get a more... pleasant... description of his likely-equally-active freakish horror fingers.
"The first thing you notice about the professional video game players are their fingers -- spindly creatures that seem to flail about at their own will, banging at the computer keyboard with such frequency and ferocity that to visit their live-in training centers in South Korea is to be treated to a maddening drum roll of clicks and clacks."
Seriously guys? Are you going to mention their horrid, bulbous, glassy eyes, or their vile inhuman mandibles next?
No, you've got it all wrong! NASA buried the hippie's involvement to protect him...
Do you know how awkward it would have been to return to his commune if the others learned that he'd been bailing out the military-industrial complex, man?
This sounds like a threat to the Integrity and Security of the DRM systems that protect our precious software... Probably some kind of hacker 'circumvention device'.
Oh, you say it has a banal name and is released by a major vendor? Carry on then.
"I don't fucking want innovation," the ex-employee recalls Pincus saying. "You're not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers."
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The RAD750 is quite limited in power; but has the advantage of being comparatively close to 'just going down to newegg and buying a motherboard' by the standards of projects that go into space and shop at mil/aero contractors... The price is still up in the "If you have to ask, don't ask" range; but doing a very-low-volume DIY would likely be worse still...
And hell hath no fury like epic nerd-rage...
If the firmware guys brick this thing, they'll probably be found in either the decompression test chamber with their eyeballs boiling off, or floating in the old hydrazine tank out back.
It would be a bit more invasive; but actuating muscles with external electrical signals isn't exactly science fiction, and I suspect that you could get a surprisingly convincing feeling of resistance if you combined a bit of externally-induced muscle tension with a strong sensation of pressure on the skin surfaces supposedly in contact with the item.
It wouldn't be quite right, since, in absence of an actual weight, you'd need to stimulate the opposing muscle group as well to keep the user's hands from just flying upward wildly, which would lead to a somewhat odd distribution of muscular effort and soreness compared to the real thing; but I suspect that the addition of realistic skin-pressure cues and/or visual overlays could probably fake the user out fairly convincingly for lighter objects.
If you examine the datastream from a wiimote, it is actually pretty well pre-crunched by the controller.
There are a few pairing-related oddities(bluetooth can be a bit eccentric on its good days, and Nintendo didn't excatly feel a strong pressure to be helpful to random 3rd party bluetooth devices); but you get all the accelerometer data, and the IR dot following, handled for you in hardware and sent, along with button states, as relatively trivial output data. There are a few other oddities with the onboard speaker and similar bits; but it isn't a computationally expensive peripheral to deal with.
I'm impressed. I wouldn't have guessed that insurance outfits had anybody familiar with the concept of 'shame' available to coin such a nickname...
" (In Jacobson’s scheme, file names can include encrypted sections that bar users without the proper keys from retrieving them, meaning that security and rights management are built into the address system from the start.)"
It sounds like he made them worse; but otherwise pretty similar to magnet links or the mechanisms something like Freenet uses.
Perhaps more broadly, isn't a substantial subset of the virtues of this scheme already implemented(albeit by an assortment of nasty hacks, not by anything terribly elegant) through caches on the client side and various CDN schemes on the server side? URLs haven't corresponded to locations, rather than to either user expressions of a given wish, or auto-generated requests for specific content, in the majority of cases for a while now(and, on the client side, caching doesn't extend to the entire system, for security reasons if nothing else; but it already covers a lot of common web-resource request scenarios).
Now, in a perfect world, "we have a pile of nasty hacks for that" is an argument for a more elegant solution; but, in practice, it seems to be closer to equivalent to "we already have stuff that mostly works and will be cheaper next year", which can be hard on the adoption of new techniques...
Luckily, you'll presumably be moving your money out of a bank in some other country, so the risks should even out somewhat...
So long as liability follows responsibility... Taking calculated risks, like offering unsecured or partially/illiquidly secured loans, or going with lousy-but-convenient UX choices, is one of the things that banks do because they turn out to be profitable if you do them right. As long as they accept the downsides of that, like the occasional default or account breach, that isn't a problem and might well be a virtue.
If, however, they manage to insulate themselves from those consequences, whether by wholesale regulatory capture or routine customer service brush-offs of the suckers whose cards were skimmed and cleaned out, the rot begins.
One "like" from a "friend" is worth a hundred thousand likes from random strangers (even if they're real people). And one detailed comment about a product from an actual trusted friend is worth more than a hundred thousand likes from friends.
That must be why they pay me so well for killing peoples' friends and replacing them with eerily lifelike spamdroids... I always wondered.
If you aren't the one holding the gun, then you have no political power.
Pithy; but mostly false. In basically any polity as large/complex or larger than 'barbarian warband' actually holding the gun is a rather entry level task, typically handled by the actual leader's lackies. At the 'barbarian warband' level the strongman might occasionally have to do it himself; but even there it will be his charisma and burly friends and/or non-traitorous-family who keep somebody from just stabbing him in the eye while he sleeps...
If anything, "political" institutions are really an exercise in nothing so much as the mitigation of direct gun handling, through a combination of institutional compliance(ie. they don't say force of law for nothing; but the overwhelming majority of compliance requires zero cops to achieve) and relatively small(and, if one is both competent and lucky, tame) violence specialists to deal with any exceptions to the former.
We can only hope that both of you are correct, and that the 'social' space remains a howling wasteland trodden by only marketers, wolverines, spammers, and zynga employees...
Please, please, we prefer the term "heuristically assisted accountholders" and would like to assure all Facebook shareholders who aren't currently insider trading that they are based on the highest quality statistical inferences from our actual userbase for the greatest plausibility to the clickfraud bots that drive our advertising arm.
Well, for 20-ish dollars you can set yourself up with a burner prepaid phone and a very meagre SMS allotment...
Aside from that, though, I suspect that Team Google wants your convenient personal identifier for totally altruistic security reasons...
Apparently, the 'single sign-on' of the future will be practically any trivially available biographical information...
I can't comment on the relative fun of those two specific games; but '3d' has certain advantages beyond graphical glitz that come in handy.
Unless the game ships a fairly massive number of sprites or goes full vector graphics(also unlikely to meet 'pixel perfect' standards), the resolution-independence of 2d engines leaves... something to be desired. You can get away with modest movements up or down, in the original aspect ratio; but things get ugly and illegible pretty fast if you go outside that. Even in games where the gameplay is fundamentally 2d(Civ 4, say, is played on pretty much the same gameboard as Civ1-3, with the rules and the pieces tweaked a bit each time), the ability to splash it across reasonably arbitrary resolutions(once the initial legwork is done) comes in pretty handy in today's world of cheap pixels and eccentric aspect ratios.
In broad technical terms there is no difference between a modern cloud service and an ftp server from the 1980s - if someone gets your password you're scr3wed.
One might suggest that 25 years of minimal progress on security, in the face of a considerable expansion of the internet's hostile population, is a major failing... Especially since, unlike most ftp servers of the 80's, 'cloud' services are heavily marketed toward nontechnical users.
Taking advantage of the (statistically) predictable decay rate of data stored in the RFID's SRAM is a cute trick for rough timekeeping, I have to admit.
It makes me wonder, though, and some perfunctory googling isn't giving me the immediate gratification that I demand, is there anything reasonably practical that could modify the decay rate for SRAM, ideally in a way that would be practical for an attack? Does a strong magnetic field affect contemporary transistors in any useful way? Would a hit of radiation before each attack attempt sufficiently scramble the RAM contents before it also scrambled the nonvolatile memory storing the secret being attacked?
The Cloud! I wonder what terms of service will govern the treatment, security, and disclosure of the exciting new personal information this delightful system will allow me to automatically send over the intertubes to Nuance, presumably from any application using their API?
Being data mined is so exciting, I just can't wait!
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/north_south_korea
I'm guessing that, at very least, the pianist would get a more... pleasant... description of his likely-equally-active freakish horror fingers.
"The first thing you notice about the professional video game players are their fingers -- spindly creatures that seem to flail about at their own will, banging at the computer keyboard with such frequency and ferocity that to visit their live-in training centers in South Korea is to be treated to a maddening drum roll of clicks and clacks."
Seriously guys? Are you going to mention their horrid, bulbous, glassy eyes, or their vile inhuman mandibles next?
No, you've got it all wrong! NASA buried the hippie's involvement to protect him...
Do you know how awkward it would have been to return to his commune if the others learned that he'd been bailing out the military-industrial complex, man?
This sounds like a threat to the Integrity and Security of the DRM systems that protect our precious software... Probably some kind of hacker 'circumvention device'.
Oh, you say it has a banal name and is released by a major vendor? Carry on then.
Industrial robots without suitable safety interlocks are also pretty hard on careless or inattentive users, and much more productive!
No safe and legal automated tool can test the user-education component...
"I don't fucking want innovation," the ex-employee recalls Pincus saying. "You're not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers."