Why do you want Google to know your homes' floorplan and where all the furniture is?
Oh, this information could be useful for somebody . . . along with the location of any of your valuables, and the times when you are usually not home.
Then a concerned, unknown, total stranger can stop by when you aren't home, and check up on your valuables to make sure that they are all still there.
As for me . . . it's very practical that my Scooba knows the location of the wolf pits in my home, but it would remove the thrill of the element of "Surprise!" for others, when they discover them accidentally.
Between Java and their Enterprise platforms, if Oracle spent as much time listening and responding to their customers as they spent threatening them, they might be in a far better position today.
Maybe Oracle needs one of those "Codes of Conduct", that seem to be the rage these days . . . ?
Listening to customers is for startups . . . not for established market leaders. Their market dominance leads them to believe that their customers must listen to them.
That being said, we should listen to their explanation, however take it with a grain of salt knowing that their self interest is towards getting paid by such a company.
In a similar move, the Pope* has assembled a council of experts to advise on the sex scandal coverups in The Roman Catholic Church . . . consisting of convicted pedophiles.
An appropriate slashdot question is 'will it work in barn?'
The answer is right there in the question:
The bad news is that it is located in an old horse barn with many metal walls.
So just use the Pringles Chip Can Antenna method technology . . . turn the whole barn into one giant Pringles Chip Can Antenna using the metal walls as the antenna elements.
No need to worry about the location of the antenna, because you are inside it.
As a plus, you can also use the barn to SETI for alien barn WiFi.
"Well, now, uh, Lancelot, Galahad and I, uh, wait until nightfall, and then leap out of the rat, taking Wall Street, uh, by surprise. Not only by surprise, but totally alarmed!"
"*Who* leaps out?"
"Oh... um, look, if we built this large Bitcoin Badger...."
It's actually not that hard to identify the person by voice and walk, as well as typical patterns (time of day, route, breath), so the lack of a camera still permits everyone in the world to know exactly who was where and what they were doing.
. . . but does it really lack a camera . . . ?
I guess we'll have to wait for a device teardown to be sure.
Pro Hint: It's in the expensive looking Ethernet connector.
Since I eat almost entirely fresh food, I want to look at the produce, fish, meat myself. I like to talk to the grocer and the butcher and the hot girl with tattoos at the checkout counter.
Oh, come on . . . tell the truth . ..
Since I eat almost entirely fresh food, I want to look at the produce, fish, meat myself. I like to talk to the grocer and the butcher and eat the hot girl with tattoos at the checkout counter.
So on the Uber Groceries App, please check the "no tattoos" box under driver preferences. For your own . . . and the driver's . . . safety.
Back to the subject of who touches your food . . . food workers are subject to public heath standards inspections.
But, of course, Uber is a software company, and its drivers aren't food workers, so they will not need to meet any standards.
... then location information. And if location information, then a wealth of information about everything from various preferences to religious practices to social life.
If you have time to practice religion or have a social life . . . you obviously aren't working enough. Your management will be notified that you need to be assigned more work.
Speaking of practicing religion . . . do these devices track your sex life, as well . . . ?
"Your medical data tracking shows that . . . during our company wide "mandatory all hands" two hour conference call . . . you were having one off the wrist."
"This is important for our company to know, because you will go blind from all those calls that we schedule."
If it were real, you don't tell people, because if you tell people they can work on solutions to stop it. If it is real- you keep it secret so you have a strategic advantage over the opposition.
Moscow isn't the real target . . . it's Brussels.
The Brexit negotiations have gotten tangled up in a snag, and the UK needs additional leverage.
Theresa May is looking a bit weak and vulnerable right now, so this will make her look stronger in the eyes of the UK people.
Putin is just laughing this off . . . if the UK turns off just one Lava Lamp in Moscow . . . the UK will be awash in Novichok and Polonium.
Actually, I think your comment is Insightful. Snapchat needs to "Banksy" their new UI . . . run it through the shredder . . . and go back to the old one. Kinda sorta like what Coke did with "New Coke" back to "Classic Coke".
Sometimes new code needs to be "MacGyver'ed" to fit in with existing code.
Sometimes new code just plain needs to be "Banksy'ed".
. . . and someone paid a lot of money for the Banksy work . . . only for it to be put through the shredder.
This sounds like a lot of software projects I have seen . . . spend a lot of money on them . . . only for them to be put through the shredder when they are finished.
Looks more like an oversight to me, or lack of quality control.
In this case, they mistakenly left it in "Manufacturing Mode" . . . instead of the normal production "Enabled" mode.
However, it is also possible to completely disable the Intel Management Engine . . . in other words, "Disabled" mode. This is the mode that government agencies run in. They don't want to leave their own backdoor open.
This is the mode I would like to be able to set myself . . . or let the manufacturer do it for me . . . but they won't . . . take a guess why not . . . ?
Slashdot Mirror
I drink Mt Dew
. . . you don't drink coffee . . . yet . . . :
Mountain Dew Users May Go On To Use Harder Beverages:
https://www.theonion.com/mount...
Why do you want Google to know your homes' floorplan and where all the furniture is?
Oh, this information could be useful for somebody . . . along with the location of any of your valuables, and the times when you are usually not home.
Then a concerned, unknown, total stranger can stop by when you aren't home, and check up on your valuables to make sure that they are all still there.
As for me . . . it's very practical that my Scooba knows the location of the wolf pits in my home, but it would remove the thrill of the element of "Surprise!" for others, when they discover them accidentally.
I suggest they call it the General Motors EV-2.
No, that might lead to confusion with the Lego EV3.
You can flash the EV3 with Linux and program it with Python . . . I wonder if General Motors will allow this also on their bike . . . ?
And I'm here to make your name Mudd
. . . and Facebook says:
"I am Negan!"
People at IBM wear ties. To work.
Well, and tie-dye:
https://www.google.com/search?...
They don't even know neckbeards exist. They can't see them, even if their gaze accidentally passes over them.
"Can't see the neck, through the beard."
Facebook is ultimately a failed social experiment.
These days . . . I'm starting to think that our whole global society is a failed social experiment.
In that sense . . . Facebook correctly represents us . . . whether we like what we see, or not.
Between Java and their Enterprise platforms, if Oracle spent as much time listening and responding to their customers as they spent threatening them, they might be in a far better position today.
Maybe Oracle needs one of those "Codes of Conduct", that seem to be the rage these days . . . ?
Listening to customers is for startups . . . not for established market leaders. Their market dominance leads them to believe that their customers must listen to them.
Researchers Secretly Deployed A Bot That Submitted Bug-Fixing Pull Requests
AI Bots Secretly Deployed A Researcher That Submitted This Research Paper
What does that translate to in either m/s, f/s or NFL fields per second.
. . . and instead of football pitches, I'd like to see it baseball pitches . . .
That being said, we should listen to their explanation, however take it with a grain of salt knowing that their self interest is towards getting paid by such a company.
In a similar move, the Pope* has assembled a council of experts to advise on the sex scandal coverups in The Roman Catholic Church . . . consisting of convicted pedophiles.
* Not you, Ratzo, the other guy.
An appropriate slashdot question is 'will it work in barn?'
The answer is right there in the question:
The bad news is that it is located in an old horse barn with many metal walls.
So just use the Pringles Chip Can Antenna method technology . . . turn the whole barn into one giant Pringles Chip Can Antenna using the metal walls as the antenna elements.
No need to worry about the location of the antenna, because you are inside it.
As a plus, you can also use the barn to SETI for alien barn WiFi.
"What happens now?"
"Well, now, uh, Lancelot, Galahad and I, uh, wait until nightfall, and then leap out of the rat, taking Wall Street, uh, by surprise. Not only by surprise, but totally alarmed!"
"*Who* leaps out?"
"Oh... um, look, if we built this large Bitcoin Badger...."
Germany gets 25% of their energy from coal.
Germany is even cutting down forests to build new coal mines.
Why . . . ?
Germany continues to remain heavily reliant on coal, partly to offset Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision in 2011 to phase out nuclear power by 2022.
https://www.dw.com/en/no-chanc...
It's actually not that hard to identify the person by voice and walk, as well as typical patterns (time of day, route, breath), so the lack of a camera still permits everyone in the world to know exactly who was where and what they were doing.
. . . but does it really lack a camera . . . ?
I guess we'll have to wait for a device teardown to be sure.
Pro Hint: It's in the expensive looking Ethernet connector.
Since I eat almost entirely fresh food, I want to look at the produce, fish, meat myself. I like to talk to the grocer and the butcher and the hot girl with tattoos at the checkout counter.
Oh, come on . . . tell the truth . . .
Since I eat almost entirely fresh food, I want to look at the produce, fish, meat myself. I like to talk to the grocer and the butcher and eat the hot girl with tattoos at the checkout counter.
So on the Uber Groceries App, please check the "no tattoos" box under driver preferences. For your own . . . and the driver's . . . safety.
Back to the subject of who touches your food . . . food workers are subject to public heath standards inspections.
But, of course, Uber is a software company, and its drivers aren't food workers, so they will not need to meet any standards.
... then location information. And if location information, then a wealth of information about everything from various preferences to religious practices to social life.
If you have time to practice religion or have a social life . . . you obviously aren't working enough. Your management will be notified that you need to be assigned more work.
Speaking of practicing religion . . . do these devices track your sex life, as well . . . ?
"Your medical data tracking shows that . . . during our company wide "mandatory all hands" two hour conference call . . . you were having one off the wrist."
"This is important for our company to know, because you will go blind from all those calls that we schedule."
If it were real, you don't tell people, because if you tell people they can work on solutions to stop it. If it is real- you keep it secret so you have a strategic advantage over the opposition.
Moscow isn't the real target . . . it's Brussels.
The Brexit negotiations have gotten tangled up in a snag, and the UK needs additional leverage.
Theresa May is looking a bit weak and vulnerable right now, so this will make her look stronger in the eyes of the UK people.
Putin is just laughing this off . . . if the UK turns off just one Lava Lamp in Moscow . . . the UK will be awash in Novichok and Polonium.
Perhaps Banksy could help with that.
Actually, I think your comment is Insightful. Snapchat needs to "Banksy" their new UI . . . run it through the shredder . . . and go back to the old one. Kinda sorta like what Coke did with "New Coke" back to "Classic Coke".
Sometimes new code needs to be "MacGyver'ed" to fit in with existing code.
Sometimes new code just plain needs to be "Banksy'ed".
. . . and someone paid a lot of money for the Banksy work . . . only for it to be put through the shredder.
This sounds like a lot of software projects I have seen . . . spend a lot of money on them . . . only for them to be put through the shredder when they are finished.
Banksy deserves an honorary Geek Card.
Slack is building a new analytics tool to offer businesses greater insights into how their teams collaborate
Slack is building a new analytics tool to offer businesses greater insights into how their competitors operate
That t-shirt is incentive not to submit pull requests!
Didn't you read Microsoft's new Github Terms & Conditions . . . ?
Your use of Github allows Microsoft to dictate what you wear.
What happens to a world when one of the most significant employers of unskilled human labor (the food industry) goes all automated?
Unskilled human labor will be used to produce Soyent Green.
Looks more like an oversight to me, or lack of quality control.
In this case, they mistakenly left it in "Manufacturing Mode" . . . instead of the normal production "Enabled" mode.
However, it is also possible to completely disable the Intel Management Engine . . . in other words, "Disabled" mode. This is the mode that government agencies run in. They don't want to leave their own backdoor open.
This is the mode I would like to be able to set myself . . . or let the manufacturer do it for me . . . but they won't . . . take a guess why not . . . ?
Are you claiming that Intel didn't provide Apple with documentation on how to configure the ME?
No, I am claiming that Apple probably knows how to disable it . . . but won't.
Not defending Intel's notorious management engine by any means, but let's point the finger at the guilty party in this case.
Well, gee, wouldn't it be kinda nice if the guilty party would ship the Intel Management Engine in the "disabled" mode . . . ?
I'm guessing that it can be disabled later . . . but the folks who know how to do that sure ain't telling . . .
Now I am not a quantum physicist, so how am I to determine which of these is correct and which is coke-fueled magical thinking?
This is quantum question, so both cats are correct and coke-fueled at the same time when one of them opens up the box where you are inside.
That said, the pursuit of wacky theories often leads to the discovery of unintentional, very interesting other things.
So let's let them have a go with Quantum Inertia in their lab . . . as long as the Earth doesn't slip a disc in the process.