My company trusts me just fine, but like a huge number of other companies its bound by laws and regulations to back that trust up with something more substantial. As to why our proxy isn't setup to deal with this particular service, well I've never heard or coral cache personally, and I've been "involved" in Internet culture for decades. trying to keep track of every "old and useful service" on the Internet is a daunting task. Also I'm apparently not the only one with this problem.
Quite the contrary, the movie industry is one of the least risk adverse out there. I'd argue that only people like angel investors take more risks than movie studios. I don't remember the exact statistics, but some freakishly large percentage of movies don't make any money, or outright lose money. One way of mitigating that risk is to make at least some movies with built in fan-bases like franchises or "based on literature/comic books" stuff. Even those don't *always* make money, but they tend to be less risky than completely new stuff.
I think it's apt to argue that the average *person* is dumb. I've met dumb people from all countries and walks of life. Even more broadly, nearly everyone is dumb (and I include myself in that number, you too, no insult intended) about some things. I don't think it's at all arrogant to call myself fairly smart and well educated. I'm echoing an opinion expressed to me by others whose own opinion I respect. On the other hand I know quite well that my skill in many practical areas of life are rudimentary at best.
My mother in law is a quite a brilliant engineer and a fair visual artist, but her ability to understand literature (whether books or performances) beyond "see spot run" in abysmal. She asked me at the end of "le Mis" why Javert killed himself. She read the "Left Behind" books, not becasue she's a religious nut case, but becasue the story really engrossed her. She actually missed the entire subtext of "This is a right wing Christian fantasy fulfillment novel" until I pointed it out to her. My own mother is nearly the opposite, having no trouble with film or literature, but unable to understand more than basic math without a 20 minute explanation. Everyone is dumb about something. Most people are at least moderately smart about somethings.
Yeah I realized after I posted that the iPad thing was a year old, but once again inability to edit Slashdot posts left me with slightly incorrect information in a post. I'd be perfectly OK, with editing clearing positive moderation for the ability to make changes to reflect new information.
It was idiotic to use a caching or anonymising proxy in a submission link to a site like Slashdot. Like it or not a lot of us are on corporate or government networks with our own proxies that see stuff like this a attempt to bypass filtering. However, having said that, the problem is legit. Here's the link to Princeton's actual web site:
I'm completely confused by this. All three of these vendors have their own authority for patching their platforms of choice. When they find a problem with their software, they release patches which you can immediately download and install. In fact with Ubuntu and to a lesser extent Windows, you can independently download and install your own patches if the vendor is moving to slow for you.
The difference between any of the vendors you list above and Google/Android is that while most of those systems are installed on third party hardware (like Android), the hardware is open. If you wanted to rip out the internals of your Ubuntu install and replace them with your own stuff, you could. If you want to upgrade your Ubuntu version, you download the new one and install it. Same with Windows (though ripping out the internals is probably a lot more risky with a black box OS, nothing would stop you from trying.) With Oracle, you're stuck with doing little more than patching or upgrading probably, but you can do that much. With Android in most of its real world incarnations you have to hack around hardware locks to even touch the OS internals.
Looking for a non-anonymised link to the Android story (Seriously why would you put an anonymising proxy into your submission link for a public website?) I found this which indicates iPad had the issue around a year ago too (Princeton apparently figured that one out too, those guys are on the ball). I assume Apple much have fixed pretty quick.
GP was being theatrical for sure, but like a lot of people you're forgetting "hospital." The original poster works for a hospital, and his rogue device is a potential way into the hospital's network. Which means, among other things, it's a potential attack vector on HIPPA protected data (even if there's none on the actual server); and, theoretically at least, medical equipment that could be keeping people alive. Granted it's far more likely that I'll kill someone trying to wing an appendectomy after watching House then that someone will use this server as a gateway to hack medical equipment, but it's not inconceivable either. Really the far greater threat is the data, and that is real threat enough considering that hospital administrators and IT people have gone to jail over HIPPA data releases.
The guys that do have admin access to those machines are still qualified techs who work on the auspices of the IT department. They may not be standard run of the mill SAs, but they aren't just some random doctor or nurse who happens to know how to use the thing either. Also, the devices were put in with the knowledge and consent of hospital IT, who, even if they don't have direct access to the machines, were involved in provisioning the systems and network resources, and in making decisions about what those devices would be allowed to talk to. Finally, those devices as a rule don't have a port open to the outside world, running unknown software which may or may not be vulnerable to attack. Your argument is straw man. You're comparing the installation of major medical equipment, which no doubt involved intense effort and coordination on the part of IT and the related medical department and which obviously requires special skills to administer, with the installation of a rogue server that the rogue installer now wants to have an outward facing port.
Only way poster has a leg to stand on is if this thing somehow touches patient info. Then I can see an argument for keeping IT out.
On the contrary, that would be a particularly good argument for IT wanting in. My brother does systems admin for a hospital (yes, my mother raised two computer geeks, she's still not sure how), the regulatory and legal hurdles jump up several notches for systems that contain patient data. The fact that IT is willing to allow this with as little fuss as they are (a non-privileged login is hardly a major requirement) says to me that this system is totally isolated from patient data.
Realistically poster doesn't have any leg to stand on. IT is well within its rights to request a login to a system that will be sitting on their corporate network. As has been previously mentioned, if anything these guys are being really nice. Corporate policy in many places would have this guy in a good amount of trouble for even doing what he's done.
Yes, well, that's nice and all, but the UN world hunger commission believes that something like 75% of North Koreans are under nourished, and expects an acute food shortage this spring with a measurable percentage of the population starving to death. Maybe cell phones aren't where they should be concentrating.
Rome was the last of the major superpowers to ever totally collapse, and it was a part of a different world. The rampaging Huns *literally* tore the Roman Empire apart and refused to allow it to recover. It's fall was certainly internal, but its failure to recover was at least largely external. Since then major superpowers don't fall, they just sort of stumble and become less major, but still very important players. Look at the major powers from the last 500 years: Spain, Portugal, Britain, France, Germany, Japan... None of them are horrible places to live (Well, Japan has its downsides at the moment...). Some are in better shape than others, but all of them are still first world counties with fairly significant economies and reasonable power on the world stage. That's the likely fate of the US in the next 50-100 years. We will continue to be a first order power on the world stage, we just won't be *the* power on the world stage.
I'd argue that the time zone change will screw you up more than an extra couple hours in the plane no matter how you slice it. Not to mention that the actual transatlantic trip is often only the largest chunk of your travel odyssey. Unless you're fortunate enough to live in NYC or Atlanta, chances are you've already lost sleep/energy in the 3-5 hours required to get you to JFK or Atlanta International before you even hopped on the transatlantic portion. Even if we got to the point of regular and reasonably priced supersonic transatlantic flights, Europe wouldn't be a weekend trip unless you lived in the cities the flights originated from; and even then the (minimum) 5 hour time change would make it a painful weekend trip.
I also think we hit a point of diminishing returns. You can get from one end of the US to the other in about four hours. You can get from the US to Europe in around six. Granted really long haul flights across the whole Eurasian continent or going transpacific still take 12-24, but a lot of that is stops for fuel and such. Faster planes won't eliminate that. How often does it *really* matter if you get from New York to Paris in three hours instead of six? When it went from weeks to hours... that was a big deal. When it went from an all day affair to six or eight hours... that was nice. When it goes from six hours to three hours you have to ask if it's worth the extra expense.
Combined with your point about data capabilities expanding to limit (though nowhere near eliminate) the need for for physical travel, I think a lot of people feel that physical travel is just fast enough now. There are a limited number of application for very high speed passenger or cargo air craft (disaster response teams come to mind), but for the vast majority of people the thought that they can get on a plane anywhere in the world and in (at most) 24 hours be literally anywhere else in the world, is good enough.
Of course there are smart people scattered all over the South. There are smart people scattered everywhere, but there are very few concentrations of smart people in the South. Places like NYC, Boston, Chicago, San Fransisco that just have huge numbers of really smart people attracted to some industry or just attracted to the concentration itself. Atlanta, Houston, Huntsville, Knoxville... I'm already stretching. It's also worth noting that of the four places I mentioned, and the two you mentioned, four of them are in or really close to TN. All except Houston are concentrated within a few hours of each other. You could drive from Atlanta to Nashville and hit every one of them without going to far out of your way in six or seven hours. Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas have no centers of note at all (New Orleans, Lafayette and Lake Charles in Louisiana are extremely minor engineering centers, but they're more or less in Houston's orbit.. Vicksburg has ERDC, but it's not big enough to attract a large group of engineers). Alabama lacks any south of Birmingham (basically the lower 3/4s of the state.)
It's not that southerners are universally stupid (though it sometimes feels that way living down here), but as an Engineer/Technologist there are a pretty limited number of places that you can settle down and just have a career without wondering when you're going to have move to get your next job. There's definitely a nice tech corridor here in the Tennessee Valley, but it's the exception not the rule.
To be fair, Huntsville has arguably the single largest concentration of engineering and technology talent between Atlanta and Houston (Alternately it could be argued that nearby Knoxville does, with ORNL right there). I should know, I live here. Among other things, the US rocketry program was born here (Werner Von Braun immigrated here, and is considered more or less the father of the modern city), NASA and MDA both have huge presences here, and we have the headquarters for much of the Army's weapons R&D. There's not many places like this in the South.
Liquids handle heat exchange better. It's the reason your car is water (technically anti-freeze, but you get the point) cooled instead of air cooled. I've never worked with anything this fancy, but we had water cooled racks in the data center of one place I worked. The way it worked was you had a water cooled "radiator" mounted as the back door of the rack. Servers sucked in cool data center air, heated it up normally, shot it out their back ends and forced it through the radiators. There were also fans on the radiators to increase the flow of air through them. When air came out the back, it wasn't appreciably warmer than when it went in. The water was cycled through an external cooling unit. The whole kit and caboodle reduced our power bill by about 20%, with no noticeable difference in system heat. It was going to take some years to pay for itself, but it definitely saved on our monthly bills. The big downside from my point of view was than I lost my "warm aisle" where I could stand to defrost:-)
Assuming you don't mind the short term expense for long term saving, I'd totally recommend the water cooled racks. They worked, saved money, saved energy, and had minimal impact on the server components or maintenance complexity. I'm not sure that coating everything in baby oil is a good solution. I'd be curious to see what the relative benefit is vs. a less invasive technique like the water cooling we used.
If you read the article you'll discover this very point is covered. It's for people who have all of their limbs, but can't speak for one reason or another. There have been work around systems proposed in the past where you connect the neural sensor to movement centers, then retrain the brain so that certain movements can be interrupted as speech; but this is far more direct and requires far less retraining. The cursor moving thing is really more proof of concept. The idea is to give voices to mutes.
If you read the article (Shocking I know), you would know that this is aimed at people who, becasue of either brain injury, or injury to to the vocal system, can't speak. The long term goal is to allow the user to "speak" with a computer voice using the same brain impulses as they would to speak normally. The ability to move to a mouse around is just a stepping stone.
I've been having to double right-click to use auto-correct and bring up the "link context menu". I think they broke slashcode again. Try double clicking.
I wish I could export the CLI from the GUI even for repetitive tasks:
I know AppleScript and I *think* MS Office VB have the ability to "record" macros and scripts out of GUI activities. Granted AppleScript sucks and Office VB is a like the annoying younger brother of a moderately bad language, but still, it's possible.
Seems like a nifty Open Source project to write something that will do this in Perl or Python actually. The trick (it seems to me) would be getting the "recorder" to understand what actions you're doing in the GUI across a variety of desktop and software environments. It works for Apple and MS because the scripting language is already part of the environment in question. Iit might be better to have someone like Red Hat, Gnome or KDE build the "recorder" hooks into their management software (Or all three). Then you just write a sort of master compiler that will grab scripted events from compatible software and ignore actions in non-compatible software.
Which is also nice because the size is much more reasonable serving than the 16-24 oz bottle common here. Definitely a nice treat every so often. The Mexican restaurant by my old house used to sell these (it was an actual Mexican restaurant, not Tex-Mex) and the local organic grocery here occasionally brings them up (because they won't sell HFC drinks).
Where do you get $6 cookies? Better be a damned good cookie for that (unlikely if it's gluten free, most of that stuff is awful). You're still missing my point though. I don't mind, per se, the idea that I might have to pay a small sin tax on my cookie. The problem is still in a legally useful way to define "junk food". "Common Sense" doesn't work when it comes to the law and taxation. There's just too many edge cases. Quoting myself from another post to save typing:
Do we say snack cakes are junk food? What if I make a whole grain organic snack cake that's (relatively) low in calories, high in fiber and got lovely raisins and nuts for some extra nutrition? What about energy bars? Arguably, consumed as intended, they're not really junk food, they're a calorie dense supplement for people who do a lot of exercise. In practice many people eat them as candy bars that they feel slightly less guilty about. What about Starbucks Lattes? In theory it's just coffee, but add in the cream and sweetened syrup and they can rival any muffin you buy with them for calories. What about "healthy" snack foods like rice cakes and such? How much honey and/or chocolate turns a rice cake from a healthy snack to "junk food"?
There's a "common sense" argument for calling any of my examples junk, or not junk. Without some kind of elaborate "calorie and nutrient density per ounce" formula, there's no valid way to determine if a muffin (Lovely whole grain fiber muffin with raisins? Or chocolate-chocolate chip muffin? What a about an oatmeal-chocolate muffin: lots of fiber, but kinda high in sugar too?) is junk food or not.
As soon as you start analyzing the exact nutritional qualities of what makes "junk" companies, especially big ones with lots of resources, will start producing snacks with carefully formulated serving sizes ensuring that none of their foods are "junk". How hard would it be for Hostess to cut Twinkies in half, call one Twinkie a "serving", sell them with four in a package, and toss some cheap as hell vitamin supplements into the recipe. Presto, not junk food anymore.
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My company trusts me just fine, but like a huge number of other companies its bound by laws and regulations to back that trust up with something more substantial. As to why our proxy isn't setup to deal with this particular service, well I've never heard or coral cache personally, and I've been "involved" in Internet culture for decades. trying to keep track of every "old and useful service" on the Internet is a daunting task. Also I'm apparently not the only one with this problem.
Quite the contrary, the movie industry is one of the least risk adverse out there. I'd argue that only people like angel investors take more risks than movie studios. I don't remember the exact statistics, but some freakishly large percentage of movies don't make any money, or outright lose money. One way of mitigating that risk is to make at least some movies with built in fan-bases like franchises or "based on literature/comic books" stuff. Even those don't *always* make money, but they tend to be less risky than completely new stuff.
I think it's apt to argue that the average *person* is dumb. I've met dumb people from all countries and walks of life. Even more broadly, nearly everyone is dumb (and I include myself in that number, you too, no insult intended) about some things. I don't think it's at all arrogant to call myself fairly smart and well educated. I'm echoing an opinion expressed to me by others whose own opinion I respect. On the other hand I know quite well that my skill in many practical areas of life are rudimentary at best.
My mother in law is a quite a brilliant engineer and a fair visual artist, but her ability to understand literature (whether books or performances) beyond "see spot run" in abysmal. She asked me at the end of "le Mis" why Javert killed himself. She read the "Left Behind" books, not becasue she's a religious nut case, but becasue the story really engrossed her. She actually missed the entire subtext of "This is a right wing Christian fantasy fulfillment novel" until I pointed it out to her. My own mother is nearly the opposite, having no trouble with film or literature, but unable to understand more than basic math without a 20 minute explanation. Everyone is dumb about something. Most people are at least moderately smart about somethings.
Yeah I realized after I posted that the iPad thing was a year old, but once again inability to edit Slashdot posts left me with slightly incorrect information in a post. I'd be perfectly OK, with editing clearing positive moderation for the ability to make changes to reflect new information.
It was idiotic to use a caching or anonymising proxy in a submission link to a site like Slashdot. Like it or not a lot of us are on corporate or government networks with our own proxies that see stuff like this a attempt to bypass filtering. However, having said that, the problem is legit. Here's the link to Princeton's actual web site:
http://www.net.princeton.edu/android/android-stops-renewing-lease-keeps-using-IP-address-11236.html
I found it when iPrism wouldn't let me read the damned article.
I'm completely confused by this. All three of these vendors have their own authority for patching their platforms of choice. When they find a problem with their software, they release patches which you can immediately download and install. In fact with Ubuntu and to a lesser extent Windows, you can independently download and install your own patches if the vendor is moving to slow for you.
The difference between any of the vendors you list above and Google/Android is that while most of those systems are installed on third party hardware (like Android), the hardware is open. If you wanted to rip out the internals of your Ubuntu install and replace them with your own stuff, you could. If you want to upgrade your Ubuntu version, you download the new one and install it. Same with Windows (though ripping out the internals is probably a lot more risky with a black box OS, nothing would stop you from trying.) With Oracle, you're stuck with doing little more than patching or upgrading probably, but you can do that much. With Android in most of its real world incarnations you have to hack around hardware locks to even touch the OS internals.
Looking for a non-anonymised link to the Android story (Seriously why would you put an anonymising proxy into your submission link for a public website?) I found this which indicates iPad had the issue around a year ago too (Princeton apparently figured that one out too, those guys are on the ball). I assume Apple much have fixed pretty quick.
iPrism (my company's nanny of choice), blocks the site as an annonymiser. And what the hell kinda URL *is* net.princeton.edu.nyud.net anyway?
Here's the link to Princeton's web site: http://www.net.princeton.edu/android/android-stops-renewing-lease-keeps-using-IP-address-11236.html
And it appears the iPad has a similar problem: http://www.lockergnome.com/blade/2010/04/16/princeton-explains-network-issues-for-ipad-users-and-has-banned-the-devices/
Odd that they're both doing something so similar. Wonder if they use the same base DHCP code.
GP was being theatrical for sure, but like a lot of people you're forgetting "hospital." The original poster works for a hospital, and his rogue device is a potential way into the hospital's network. Which means, among other things, it's a potential attack vector on HIPPA protected data (even if there's none on the actual server); and, theoretically at least, medical equipment that could be keeping people alive. Granted it's far more likely that I'll kill someone trying to wing an appendectomy after watching House then that someone will use this server as a gateway to hack medical equipment, but it's not inconceivable either. Really the far greater threat is the data, and that is real threat enough considering that hospital administrators and IT people have gone to jail over HIPPA data releases.
The guys that do have admin access to those machines are still qualified techs who work on the auspices of the IT department. They may not be standard run of the mill SAs, but they aren't just some random doctor or nurse who happens to know how to use the thing either. Also, the devices were put in with the knowledge and consent of hospital IT, who, even if they don't have direct access to the machines, were involved in provisioning the systems and network resources, and in making decisions about what those devices would be allowed to talk to. Finally, those devices as a rule don't have a port open to the outside world, running unknown software which may or may not be vulnerable to attack. Your argument is straw man. You're comparing the installation of major medical equipment, which no doubt involved intense effort and coordination on the part of IT and the related medical department and which obviously requires special skills to administer, with the installation of a rogue server that the rogue installer now wants to have an outward facing port.
Only way poster has a leg to stand on is if this thing somehow touches patient info. Then I can see an argument for keeping IT out.
On the contrary, that would be a particularly good argument for IT wanting in. My brother does systems admin for a hospital (yes, my mother raised two computer geeks, she's still not sure how), the regulatory and legal hurdles jump up several notches for systems that contain patient data. The fact that IT is willing to allow this with as little fuss as they are (a non-privileged login is hardly a major requirement) says to me that this system is totally isolated from patient data.
Realistically poster doesn't have any leg to stand on. IT is well within its rights to request a login to a system that will be sitting on their corporate network. As has been previously mentioned, if anything these guys are being really nice. Corporate policy in many places would have this guy in a good amount of trouble for even doing what he's done.
Yes, well, that's nice and all, but the UN world hunger commission believes that something like 75% of North Koreans are under nourished, and expects an acute food shortage this spring with a measurable percentage of the population starving to death. Maybe cell phones aren't where they should be concentrating.
Rome was the last of the major superpowers to ever totally collapse, and it was a part of a different world. The rampaging Huns *literally* tore the Roman Empire apart and refused to allow it to recover. It's fall was certainly internal, but its failure to recover was at least largely external. Since then major superpowers don't fall, they just sort of stumble and become less major, but still very important players. Look at the major powers from the last 500 years: Spain, Portugal, Britain, France, Germany, Japan... None of them are horrible places to live (Well, Japan has its downsides at the moment...). Some are in better shape than others, but all of them are still first world counties with fairly significant economies and reasonable power on the world stage. That's the likely fate of the US in the next 50-100 years. We will continue to be a first order power on the world stage, we just won't be *the* power on the world stage.
I'd argue that the time zone change will screw you up more than an extra couple hours in the plane no matter how you slice it. Not to mention that the actual transatlantic trip is often only the largest chunk of your travel odyssey. Unless you're fortunate enough to live in NYC or Atlanta, chances are you've already lost sleep/energy in the 3-5 hours required to get you to JFK or Atlanta International before you even hopped on the transatlantic portion. Even if we got to the point of regular and reasonably priced supersonic transatlantic flights, Europe wouldn't be a weekend trip unless you lived in the cities the flights originated from; and even then the (minimum) 5 hour time change would make it a painful weekend trip.
I also think we hit a point of diminishing returns. You can get from one end of the US to the other in about four hours. You can get from the US to Europe in around six. Granted really long haul flights across the whole Eurasian continent or going transpacific still take 12-24, but a lot of that is stops for fuel and such. Faster planes won't eliminate that. How often does it *really* matter if you get from New York to Paris in three hours instead of six? When it went from weeks to hours... that was a big deal. When it went from an all day affair to six or eight hours... that was nice. When it goes from six hours to three hours you have to ask if it's worth the extra expense.
Combined with your point about data capabilities expanding to limit (though nowhere near eliminate) the need for for physical travel, I think a lot of people feel that physical travel is just fast enough now. There are a limited number of application for very high speed passenger or cargo air craft (disaster response teams come to mind), but for the vast majority of people the thought that they can get on a plane anywhere in the world and in (at most) 24 hours be literally anywhere else in the world, is good enough.
Of course there are smart people scattered all over the South. There are smart people scattered everywhere, but there are very few concentrations of smart people in the South. Places like NYC, Boston, Chicago, San Fransisco that just have huge numbers of really smart people attracted to some industry or just attracted to the concentration itself. Atlanta, Houston, Huntsville, Knoxville... I'm already stretching. It's also worth noting that of the four places I mentioned, and the two you mentioned, four of them are in or really close to TN. All except Houston are concentrated within a few hours of each other. You could drive from Atlanta to Nashville and hit every one of them without going to far out of your way in six or seven hours. Louisiana, Mississippi, and Arkansas have no centers of note at all (New Orleans, Lafayette and Lake Charles in Louisiana are extremely minor engineering centers, but they're more or less in Houston's orbit.. Vicksburg has ERDC, but it's not big enough to attract a large group of engineers). Alabama lacks any south of Birmingham (basically the lower 3/4s of the state.)
It's not that southerners are universally stupid (though it sometimes feels that way living down here), but as an Engineer/Technologist there are a pretty limited number of places that you can settle down and just have a career without wondering when you're going to have move to get your next job. There's definitely a nice tech corridor here in the Tennessee Valley, but it's the exception not the rule.
To be fair, Huntsville has arguably the single largest concentration of engineering and technology talent between Atlanta and Houston (Alternately it could be argued that nearby Knoxville does, with ORNL right there). I should know, I live here. Among other things, the US rocketry program was born here (Werner Von Braun immigrated here, and is considered more or less the father of the modern city), NASA and MDA both have huge presences here, and we have the headquarters for much of the Army's weapons R&D. There's not many places like this in the South.
Liquids handle heat exchange better. It's the reason your car is water (technically anti-freeze, but you get the point) cooled instead of air cooled. I've never worked with anything this fancy, but we had water cooled racks in the data center of one place I worked. The way it worked was you had a water cooled "radiator" mounted as the back door of the rack. Servers sucked in cool data center air, heated it up normally, shot it out their back ends and forced it through the radiators. There were also fans on the radiators to increase the flow of air through them. When air came out the back, it wasn't appreciably warmer than when it went in. The water was cycled through an external cooling unit. The whole kit and caboodle reduced our power bill by about 20%, with no noticeable difference in system heat. It was going to take some years to pay for itself, but it definitely saved on our monthly bills. The big downside from my point of view was than I lost my "warm aisle" where I could stand to defrost :-)
Assuming you don't mind the short term expense for long term saving, I'd totally recommend the water cooled racks. They worked, saved money, saved energy, and had minimal impact on the server components or maintenance complexity. I'm not sure that coating everything in baby oil is a good solution. I'd be curious to see what the relative benefit is vs. a less invasive technique like the water cooling we used.
If you read the article you'll discover this very point is covered. It's for people who have all of their limbs, but can't speak for one reason or another. There have been work around systems proposed in the past where you connect the neural sensor to movement centers, then retrain the brain so that certain movements can be interrupted as speech; but this is far more direct and requires far less retraining. The cursor moving thing is really more proof of concept. The idea is to give voices to mutes.
If you read the article (Shocking I know), you would know that this is aimed at people who, becasue of either brain injury, or injury to to the vocal system, can't speak. The long term goal is to allow the user to "speak" with a computer voice using the same brain impulses as they would to speak normally. The ability to move to a mouse around is just a stepping stone.
I've been having to double right-click to use auto-correct and bring up the "link context menu". I think they broke slashcode again. Try double clicking.
Good to know. I'll check it out.
I wish I could export the CLI from the GUI even for repetitive tasks:
I know AppleScript and I *think* MS Office VB have the ability to "record" macros and scripts out of GUI activities. Granted AppleScript sucks and Office VB is a like the annoying younger brother of a moderately bad language, but still, it's possible.
Seems like a nifty Open Source project to write something that will do this in Perl or Python actually. The trick (it seems to me) would be getting the "recorder" to understand what actions you're doing in the GUI across a variety of desktop and software environments. It works for Apple and MS because the scripting language is already part of the environment in question. Iit might be better to have someone like Red Hat, Gnome or KDE build the "recorder" hooks into their management software (Or all three). Then you just write a sort of master compiler that will grab scripted events from compatible software and ignore actions in non-compatible software.
Which is also nice because the size is much more reasonable serving than the 16-24 oz bottle common here. Definitely a nice treat every so often. The Mexican restaurant by my old house used to sell these (it was an actual Mexican restaurant, not Tex-Mex) and the local organic grocery here occasionally brings them up (because they won't sell HFC drinks).
Where do you get $6 cookies? Better be a damned good cookie for that (unlikely if it's gluten free, most of that stuff is awful). You're still missing my point though. I don't mind, per se, the idea that I might have to pay a small sin tax on my cookie. The problem is still in a legally useful way to define "junk food". "Common Sense" doesn't work when it comes to the law and taxation. There's just too many edge cases. Quoting myself from another post to save typing:
Do we say snack cakes are junk food? What if I make a whole grain organic snack cake that's (relatively) low in calories, high in fiber and got lovely raisins and nuts for some extra nutrition? What about energy bars? Arguably, consumed as intended, they're not really junk food, they're a calorie dense supplement for people who do a lot of exercise. In practice many people eat them as candy bars that they feel slightly less guilty about. What about Starbucks Lattes? In theory it's just coffee, but add in the cream and sweetened syrup and they can rival any muffin you buy with them for calories. What about "healthy" snack foods like rice cakes and such? How much honey and/or chocolate turns a rice cake from a healthy snack to "junk food"?
There's a "common sense" argument for calling any of my examples junk, or not junk. Without some kind of elaborate "calorie and nutrient density per ounce" formula, there's no valid way to determine if a muffin (Lovely whole grain fiber muffin with raisins? Or chocolate-chocolate chip muffin? What a about an oatmeal-chocolate muffin: lots of fiber, but kinda high in sugar too?) is junk food or not.
As soon as you start analyzing the exact nutritional qualities of what makes "junk" companies, especially big ones with lots of resources, will start producing snacks with carefully formulated serving sizes ensuring that none of their foods are "junk". How hard would it be for Hostess to cut Twinkies in half, call one Twinkie a "serving", sell them with four in a package, and toss some cheap as hell vitamin supplements into the recipe. Presto, not junk food anymore.