Patents and innovations involving "cross-pollination" of previously unrelated industries, is actually quite common, So much so that some companies have reserchers looking for correlations between different fields, just to find such stuff.
If a text is not shown, that contains the words searched for and can be seen by another means in the same database, then the search is most certainly bugged!
But internet searches have been broken since they changed them to show the maximum number of results... 8-P
Cosmic rays causing ram errors, is a thing. Scientists estimate it will happen to PCs, at ground level, about once a year. Surprisingly, which year does not matter much because as the tech gets smaller, the capacity gets larger, so the die size stays about the same.
Once a year might not sound like much, but that is not "at the end of the year", it can happen right away. Chance is strange that way. 8-)
Indeed. Standing in front of the class is a problem for people, as they want people to like them; they need to learn the comedien's trick (Thank You, Dethklok): hate the audience.
Hate is not the answer. But, it's ok to imagine the audiance being naked... 8-)
This sounds like the use of a dialect of jargon, in a public setting. That is Not a Good Thing.
It seems very different from the jargon we use in tech, but the same problems can occur. Using "made up" languages in public cause confusion. (And are even used intentionally to cause confusion.)
Failure to translate jargon to standard, will certainly cause things that you don't want. Remember this article, the next time you communicate with people that are not in your work group! 8-)
OK, this must be the old man thread, so here I am.
When I was growing up, our family's shared computer was an abacus. When I got ready for college, my dad splurged on an upgraded abacus with a serial port so I could hook up a 300 baud modem.
When I was in school, some of the eastern students were actually using a type of abacus. Well, I was using a sliderule, but I still thought it was strange. One day we had a race to see which could work a math problem faster... the abacus won!
The concept of learning algorithms was developed in the 60's and Deep Learning was coined in the late 80's. Either had hardly any practical application at the time they where introduced. Fast forward and companies are now poring billions into this kind of technology. Point being nobody cared about most things, before they suddenly became the next big thing.
Making a machine learning network does not require any of these new things. The ones first used in the 1960's were much slower, but just as good at learning. https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Also, Neural networks (that are not really AI at all) only need to be used for the learning. Once done they can be reduced to only the active logic and constructed as code or hard circuits. But they are useful for detecting logic that no one had recognized before that.
P.S., We need to build automated asteroid tugs, anyway, so that we can keep stuff from hitting earth. So if we have a bunch of them, send a few hundred out there...
The atmosphere of earth is not much compared to the mass of the planet. Same for what mars would need. And now they are saying there might be minor planets out there, not just a scattering of "comets"...
Allowing updates, that have not been carefully checked, breaks the equipment. The equipment can not be allowed to break, or people may die.
Do not connect the equipment to any cable that goes outside. In some installations that even includes power. In many of the installations in question, they have always been that way, anyway.
If you have to get on the internet, use your cellphone, not the equipment. Connecting critical stuff to the entire world is crazy...
Manufacturers are screaming about updates, because they can make money from them. Most of the (Windows) updates have nothing to do with security, though. Also, the new CPU faults mean that you are not secure even with updates, until you can get a new (fixed) CPU chip.
Buying new equipment is not a choice, because it is not available for any price. Or sometimes it is so different, that it can not be used within a reasonable time.
If you are just talking about your home router, that's different. Trash it and get a new one that you can configure properly.
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Patents and innovations involving "cross-pollination" of previously unrelated industries, is actually quite common, So much so that some companies have reserchers looking for correlations between different fields, just to find such stuff.
If a text is not shown, that contains the words searched for and can be seen by another means in the same database, then the search is most certainly bugged!
But internet searches have been broken since they changed them to show the maximum number of results... 8-P
It was "EggShell" security, a hard perimiter with no protection once it cracks. Any breach and -everything- is lost.
I am not sure that it counts as any security at all, these days...
This is more than just Logitech, and much older than IOT:
"Give me all of your money, and I will take care of you forever!"
Which is an add for "selling yourself into slavery"... 8-{
Magnetic media is not so prone to this. But this makes me wonder if the SSD drives, we are all using now, are having this problem??
Maybe SSDs have better data check and correction functions, but maybe we should keep a hard drive in our computers to reload the SSD, if necessary.
Cosmic rays causing ram errors, is a thing. Scientists estimate it will happen to PCs, at ground level, about once a year. Surprisingly, which year does not matter much because as the tech gets smaller, the capacity gets larger, so the die size stays about the same.
Once a year might not sound like much, but that is not "at the end of the year", it can happen right away. Chance is strange that way. 8-)
MS should probably -not- have commented it out...
FTP doesn't seem to be reported for getting compromised. Is that because it is mostly non-existent now? ...
Or maybe because people that don't know how to secure stuff, also don't know about FTP...
can the MPAA and RIAA's shut down the vote if say the hot new movies where to be hosted there?
I can't tell if that is serious or joking. Maybe it is -both-? ;-)
When Microsoft made Windows it's self into a prank app, that took all the fun out of it... 8-P
My guess is Amazon inserted the skimming code.
Intersting theory...
I would mot be much surprised to find that true.
Indeed. Standing in front of the class is a problem for people, as they want people to like them; they need to learn the comedien's trick (Thank You, Dethklok): hate the audience.
Hate is not the answer. But, it's ok to imagine the audiance being naked... 8-)
This sounds like the use of a dialect of jargon, in a public setting. That is Not a Good Thing.
It seems very different from the jargon we use in tech, but the same problems can occur. Using "made up" languages in public cause confusion. (And are even used intentionally to cause confusion.)
Failure to translate jargon to standard, will certainly cause things that you don't want. Remember this article, the next time you communicate with people that are not in your work group! 8-)
They were building Eniac when I was a kid. I asked Dad if we could get one and he told me to go play in the dirt.
Ha! ... I guess you would have needed a much bigger house! 8-)
OK, this must be the old man thread, so here I am.
When I was growing up, our family's shared computer was an abacus. When I got ready for college, my dad splurged on an upgraded abacus with a serial port so I could hook up a 300 baud modem.
When I was in school, some of the eastern students were actually using a type of abacus. Well, I was using a sliderule, but I still thought it was strange.
One day we had a race to see which could work a math problem faster... the abacus won!
You had it good!
We used to dream of carrying mammoths across the plains to get word to our friends and families!
We had to climb the highest mountain tops to shout our message to the next. ...
C'mon, you skipped right over the quill pen. (That means using a bird feather with the end trimmed for ink.)
8-)
Sorry, I come from the time of the shared family phone. Hardwired to the wall, without even a connector. Sometimes shared with neibors as well... 8-)
When I got a computer, no one else saw any reason to use it. Years later, yes, but not then.
I have a cancer paper for you: stop eating sacks of sugar. Cured.
Don't worry, it's a "self limiting phenomina"... 8-}
... that's some serious buzzword bingo there.
That's what happens when the salesmen get to write the press release... 8-P
The concept of learning algorithms was developed in the 60's and Deep Learning was coined in the late 80's. Either had hardly any practical application at the time they where introduced. Fast forward and companies are now poring billions into this kind of technology. Point being nobody cared about most things, before they suddenly became the next big thing.
Making a machine learning network does not require any of these new things. The ones first used in the 1960's were much slower, but just as good at learning.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Also, Neural networks (that are not really AI at all) only need to be used for the learning. Once done they can be reduced to only the active logic and constructed as code or hard circuits. But they are useful for detecting logic that no one had recognized before that.
P.S., We need to build automated asteroid tugs, anyway, so that we can keep stuff from hitting earth. So if we have a bunch of them, send a few hundred out there...
The atmosphere of earth is not much compared to the mass of the planet. Same for what mars would need. And now they are saying there might be minor planets out there, not just a scattering of "comets"...
There are lots of cometary objects, with lighter materials like that, out past the known planets. Only a few come past here, but maybe that is enough.
No, we could never do that, just like you could never have a phone that you could carry out on the beach that would reach the whole world!
On the other hand, maybe we don't want to waste the stuff we will need for the orbital habitats. And maybe later for a Dyson sphere...
... I mean all the money spent on y2k bug were wasted because hardly any problems have been seen. ...
That was precisely what all the money was spent for, so we would not see so many of the (approaching) problems ! 8-)
Allowing updates, that have not been carefully checked, breaks the equipment. The equipment can not be allowed to break, or people may die.
Do not connect the equipment to any cable that goes outside. In some installations that even includes power. In many of the installations in question, they have always been that way, anyway.
If you have to get on the internet, use your cellphone, not the equipment. Connecting critical stuff to the entire world is crazy...
Manufacturers are screaming about updates, because they can make money from them. Most of the (Windows) updates have nothing to do with security, though. Also, the new CPU faults mean that you are not secure even with updates, until you can get a new (fixed) CPU chip.
Buying new equipment is not a choice, because it is not available for any price. Or sometimes it is so different, that it can not be used within a reasonable time.
If you are just talking about your home router, that's different. Trash it and get a new one that you can configure properly.
You can get away with risks sometimes. But if you push your luck too often, your "luck" will get used up!
And there is no law that says it won't go bad the very first time, or the second, no matter how long the odds.
Murphy's Law rules the world... 8-}