I think it is more a gamble on the motivations of the builder. The odds of someone making a malicious or broken Emergency Guide Robot are very very small. (Almost as small as the odds of a serious building fire, but that's another argument). Instead there is an expectation that if such a thing exists, it must have been carefully tested before seeing use. Just like when you drink something you bought in the store, there is a high expectation that it is safe even though you didn't run a chemical analysis on it yourself.
Striving for perfection will be the ruin of this sort of initiative. In the real world, there is tolerance for failure. Just look at the pre-internet system, there was plenty of fraud and identity theft. But we still managed to keep going, failures and all. Sure, the information age changed that dynamic quite a bit. But it's important to note that perfection isn't necessary or even possible. It just has to be tolerable. If we try to make a 100% foolproof system we will be arguing the details until the sun explodes.
Why does he have to define it? It's a question of German law, not Facebook's opinion. By all means review the relevant German laws and legal precedents if you are really that curious.
Well, you can only imagine that you have imagined, but you can't know if you have accurately imagined. Unless you already know, in which case it is remembering, not imagining.
Apparently no one does mind the monitoring. To wit, note the preponderance of smart phones you mention, which are all just as busy spying as Windows 10.
This is what we get for needing to have fancy clocks, slide shows, weather updates, and all other kinds of garbage cluttering up our PC experience. To me this is kind of like the sound scheme, just another thing to turn off. Who the heck even wants to hear beep-boop every time they click on anything? And who the heck even wants tips, photos, or anything else on the lock screen? The same sort of idiot who walks on my lawn I assume.
I think the idea is that one would always load bullets with a practical range limit on them, to prevent missed shots going way beyond that radius and hitting someone/thing that was unintended.
The biggest technical hurdle to human spaceflight is enabling them to survive the experience. Robots are far more likely, I think, for the next few centuries at least. Of course, some new disruptive technology could change that picture.
I don't think Director Comey was lying at all. he is an honorable man who only has the public interest at heart. Only malcontents and other assorted ne'er do wells would even think otherwise.
I can't read TFA due to work blockage. The summary makes it sounds as if he discovered a vulnerability, analyzed a bunch of sites for it, then published a list of the vulnerable sites along with details of the vulnerability.
I just can't accept the premise underlying this proposal, and so many others, that it is appropriate to punish innocent people (by taking away their choices, or their property, or anything else) because of what someone else *might* do.
Ransomware isn't particularly sophisticated,and would work just as well on Linux if anyone wanted to code it up. Take everyone off Windows and I am sure someone would. I'm curious why you think America used to be concerned about Security. Remember SQL Slammer, Love Letter, and friends? The underlying architecture of the systems (e.g. disallow script access to Outlook address book) only changed when the security cost became too high, not before.
"decent security precautions" are hard, given that Angler pushes come from thousands upon thousands of different sites. All it takes is one host a little behind on patching and BAM. Maintaining backup regimes is expensive, it's much cheaper to take your chances and pay the very affordable ransom instead.
Phishing is the most common, but there are also thousands of sites pushing ransomware through the Angler exploit kit, and similar. I've seen it from restaurant sites and online forums especially. The managers are very clever, they don't push the EK more than a few times from any one site to avoid getting blacklisted. My employer has a crew of folks patching workstations (Flash vulnerabilities are a favorite) and monitoring traffic, and it has still gotten through a couple times and we've had to pull the plug on some locations until it was stopped. It is easy to see how a school or hospital could fall victim, and also why they would rather pay the ransom than go through and expensive and time consuming restore.
I think he is asking for a citation on the claim that "Elsewhere in the world, people generally accepted the US government blew up their own buildings."
I don't think this is unique to Samsung. Don't all such 'talk to me' services have a similar provision, since they can't necessarily process all voice recognition on the device itself? If you happen to say something personal while the device is sending the data 'home' for processing, well there you go.
parent needs mods up. This summary is almost entirely a fabrication. The only thing the article says is that FF isn't included since it hasn't made any major security related changes in the last year. i.e. it is not significantly different from the version targeted at the last pwn2own
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Surely they must have known the robot was part of the study. Who the heck has emergency guide robots?
I think it is more a gamble on the motivations of the builder. The odds of someone making a malicious or broken Emergency Guide Robot are very very small. (Almost as small as the odds of a serious building fire, but that's another argument). Instead there is an expectation that if such a thing exists, it must have been carefully tested before seeing use. Just like when you drink something you bought in the store, there is a high expectation that it is safe even though you didn't run a chemical analysis on it yourself.
Sounds like Bill O'Reilly
Sad aspect of human nature. The protectionist measures suggested by Trump will harm everyone including the ones supposedly being helped.
Striving for perfection will be the ruin of this sort of initiative. In the real world, there is tolerance for failure. Just look at the pre-internet system, there was plenty of fraud and identity theft. But we still managed to keep going, failures and all. Sure, the information age changed that dynamic quite a bit. But it's important to note that perfection isn't necessary or even possible. It just has to be tolerable. If we try to make a 100% foolproof system we will be arguing the details until the sun explodes.
Why does he have to define it? It's a question of German law, not Facebook's opinion. By all means review the relevant German laws and legal precedents if you are really that curious.
Well, you can only imagine that you have imagined, but you can't know if you have accurately imagined. Unless you already know, in which case it is remembering, not imagining.
What the heck is "mainstream" supposed to mean here? Trump is the leader in almost all the polls and votes taken so far.
Apparently no one does mind the monitoring. To wit, note the preponderance of smart phones you mention, which are all just as busy spying as Windows 10.
This is what we get for needing to have fancy clocks, slide shows, weather updates, and all other kinds of garbage cluttering up our PC experience. To me this is kind of like the sound scheme, just another thing to turn off. Who the heck even wants to hear beep-boop every time they click on anything? And who the heck even wants tips, photos, or anything else on the lock screen? The same sort of idiot who walks on my lawn I assume.
How long until the proposal is floated that civilians can only have bullets that self destruct beyond say, 20 feet?
I think the idea is that one would always load bullets with a practical range limit on them, to prevent missed shots going way beyond that radius and hitting someone/thing that was unintended.
The biggest technical hurdle to human spaceflight is enabling them to survive the experience. Robots are far more likely, I think, for the next few centuries at least. Of course, some new disruptive technology could change that picture.
I don't think Director Comey was lying at all. he is an honorable man who only has the public interest at heart. Only malcontents and other assorted ne'er do wells would even think otherwise.
I can't read TFA due to work blockage. The summary makes it sounds as if he discovered a vulnerability, analyzed a bunch of sites for it, then published a list of the vulnerable sites along with details of the vulnerability.
I just can't accept the premise underlying this proposal, and so many others, that it is appropriate to punish innocent people (by taking away their choices, or their property, or anything else) because of what someone else *might* do.
Maybe parent is assuming the USA is the entire world, as some Americans are wont to do.
Ransomware isn't particularly sophisticated,and would work just as well on Linux if anyone wanted to code it up. Take everyone off Windows and I am sure someone would. I'm curious why you think America used to be concerned about Security. Remember SQL Slammer, Love Letter, and friends? The underlying architecture of the systems (e.g. disallow script access to Outlook address book) only changed when the security cost became too high, not before.
"decent security precautions" are hard, given that Angler pushes come from thousands upon thousands of different sites. All it takes is one host a little behind on patching and BAM. Maintaining backup regimes is expensive, it's much cheaper to take your chances and pay the very affordable ransom instead.
Phishing is the most common, but there are also thousands of sites pushing ransomware through the Angler exploit kit, and similar. I've seen it from restaurant sites and online forums especially. The managers are very clever, they don't push the EK more than a few times from any one site to avoid getting blacklisted. My employer has a crew of folks patching workstations (Flash vulnerabilities are a favorite) and monitoring traffic, and it has still gotten through a couple times and we've had to pull the plug on some locations until it was stopped. It is easy to see how a school or hospital could fall victim, and also why they would rather pay the ransom than go through and expensive and time consuming restore.
I think he is asking for a citation on the claim that "Elsewhere in the world, people generally accepted the US government blew up their own buildings."
I don't think this is unique to Samsung. Don't all such 'talk to me' services have a similar provision, since they can't necessarily process all voice recognition on the device itself? If you happen to say something personal while the device is sending the data 'home' for processing, well there you go.
"bioethicist" sounds fancy but strikes me as a load of codswallop. Much like 'philosopher' anyone can claim to be one, and be right.
This controversy is silly. Both teams had all the rest of the game time to score one more point, and failed.
parent needs mods up. This summary is almost entirely a fabrication. The only thing the article says is that FF isn't included since it hasn't made any major security related changes in the last year. i.e. it is not significantly different from the version targeted at the last pwn2own