When did bricklayer become something you are and something you do? Or arson, for that matter? There's a crime defined in the penal code in the country where I live called approximately "general devastation", if you happen to cause earthquakes, landslides, train accidents or large explosions. Why aren't the ones penalized under it refered to as "devastators?" That's a big linguistic miss in my opinion.
Most of so called "hackers" are incompetent, barely script kiddies. I consider myself quite incompetent, and I find it unbelievable that they can get a job anywhere. They're the security worlds mirror of the people who can't pass the FizzBuzz test. But then there's people who actually have half a brain. Thing is, for these people, shutting the fuck up on a semi-permanent basis might be a good idea. I'm sure you can imagine a few reasons why.
That's a flamebait, but unfortunately it's usually true, at least from my limited experience (as a security person you aren't likely to encounter a lot of colleauges unless you work in the business). However, all "real" "security researchers" I've encountered have been programmers as well - and certainly level enough to consult the technical documentation/research backgrounds of whatever they're trying to break. You also have to remember that a lot of stuff is already known since a decade or more, but since new security researchers generally aren't schooled formally... It's a fragmented mess, or at least it looks like a mess from outside the industry, even with the security conference loop.
I think it's utterly fascinating how blind we are about computer security unless we take matters into our own hands and look. It's like being in a series of twisty little passages, all alike. And some people are groping the walls instead of each other.
Actually, my family's cat have learned short commands. It's just that it's not "tricks", just stuff like "no", "come", "food", etc... She's also learned to open doors, as long as she can reach the handle. She's been trying to have a go at the kitchen sink tap, but that handle is a bit too hard to lift for her. It just has to "be relevant to her interests", which seems reasonable if you remove a lot of the social context that goes into dog training.
We believe it to be something like the "cyberzombies" from Shadowrun - the spirit thinks that the body is dead, so it simply flees. In some cases it stays attached, but just a bit. We have had tragic cases with vulnerable immigrant children unused to the low energy levels here...
Yah, I live in Kiruna (you can see the site from the hill across my house if you have a good set of binoculars). The Ice Hotel gets rebuilt from ice blocks hauled up from the frozen Torne river every year. I believe it's some sort of collaborative art/architechtural project as far as the actual design and building goes, but I'm not really sure. It's privately owned, in any case.
The thing is, in the real world, you can expect to have the protection of the law even for objects that are out in the open. This does not translate very well to the net, where "the only laws are assembler and RFCs.", but in theory the same things should apply, right? There's also the power discrepancy. Many people here might fail to realize that they're actually wielding a fair bit of power over something that seems *utterly* arbitary and incomprehensible to normal people. "But why should we take the fall for ignorants?" Because this is Sweden, not the US - individual freedom isn't valued as much here. At least not as much as justice and social harmony. Intruding on someone else is a big no-no. Also, what keeps you relatively safe both from poverty and crime as well as tripping over beggars in the streets and having to actually get personally involved in things is the system. There is thus a common concern over the system working as correctly as possible to insure the best of all possible worlds, and government is generally seen as desireable. This is weighed out somewhat I believe by the fact that Swedish culture (and for that matter all the scanidavian cultures) is extremely simplistic bordering on the barbaric - the natural impulses of most men acting against it is difficult. The nail that sticks up isn't really hammered down. Not really - it gets a reasonable paycheck, some reasonable psych treatment, buys some reasonable german beer from the reasonable systembolaget, walks home through the reasonable grey streets to his reasonable apartment, has reasonable boredom sex, watches some films involving torture, yelling and misery to check if he can still feel, and then falls into merciful deathlike dreamless sleep. Little does he know that in a more lively society he had been mugged on his way home - but in this land of heaven, just as he was about to lunge out, the mugger felt a bleak wave move up through his body culminating as tears pouring down his eyes. He thinks back to his early days in his warm home, watching the epic childrens show "vilse i pannkakan". Have I turned into Storpotäten, he thinks? A bright luminous light surrounds him, and as his eyes turn skyward whom else does he see but Death himself, bidding him to come beyond the stars to the forested lands of Nangijala, where there is still the time of campfires and fairy tales. Even as his withered body slumps to the ground, his spirit runs in the sunlight across the grass fields grazed by cows, across a hill topped by birchen trees, and out of our sight.
That's a horrifying generalization. You do realize Sweden used to do forced sterilization of retards and undesireables here up to the late 1950s? It was only formally abolished in 1975, and there had been cases before that where people who where only "a bit slow" (what would now be called ADHD) was incarcerated and told they would be let go if they agreed to sterilization. All to create a pure society, free from weakness.
Yes, the underlying constructs are very different. But again, doesn't the concept of abstraction between high and low layers of processing still apply to any system that is made up of any form of discrete operations?
Couldn't it just be that we do not really have direct access to the raw computational capacity of the brain? There are savants and people who have trained themselves tremendously who can do arithmetric like this, using memory tricks and such. Wouldn't that be more like a hack to "reach down" to utilize the low-level capacity of the brain? The brain is nothing like a man-made computer, but doesn't the "layers of abstraction" still apply? The brain can calculate 357 by 289, but it does not naturally "understand" what 357 or 289 is, or for that matter what the high-level instruction from "me" to "multiply" is.
I think you run into issues when you start thinking about unrelated problems from a human-brain perspective. The universe doesn't behave like the model inside your head, as much as you might like it to.
What if you had a connection between the computer and the brain in some fashion such that the brain-computer-space and the physical-brain-space continue to interoperate seamlessly during the procedure? Then the "standing wave" of conciousness would stay the same, only the underlying material would change.
Waving your mouse around to simulate having a natural FOV doesn't train you to actually use your natural pheripheal vision, and it does sound logical that it might in fact cause it to decay.
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When did bricklayer become something you are and something you do? Or arson, for that matter? There's a crime defined in the penal code in the country where I live called approximately "general devastation", if you happen to cause earthquakes, landslides, train accidents or large explosions. Why aren't the ones penalized under it refered to as "devastators?" That's a big linguistic miss in my opinion.
Most of so called "hackers" are incompetent, barely script kiddies. I consider myself quite incompetent, and I find it unbelievable that they can get a job anywhere. They're the security worlds mirror of the people who can't pass the FizzBuzz test. But then there's people who actually have half a brain. Thing is, for these people, shutting the fuck up on a semi-permanent basis might be a good idea. I'm sure you can imagine a few reasons why.
"Talk is cheap; hide it in my car braking system firmware and have it play 'Korobeiniki' as I plunge to my untimely doom."
Our nameless comrades in the clown car industry presents it better than I ever could: http://encyclopediadramatica.com/Security_Faggots
That's a flamebait, but unfortunately it's usually true, at least from my limited experience (as a security person you aren't likely to encounter a lot of colleauges unless you work in the business). However, all "real" "security researchers" I've encountered have been programmers as well - and certainly level enough to consult the technical documentation/research backgrounds of whatever they're trying to break. You also have to remember that a lot of stuff is already known since a decade or more, but since new security researchers generally aren't schooled formally...
It's a fragmented mess, or at least it looks like a mess from outside the industry, even with the security conference loop.
I think it's utterly fascinating how blind we are about computer security unless we take matters into our own hands and look. It's like being in a series of twisty little passages, all alike. And some people are groping the walls instead of each other.
Then why hasn't someone gotten to it and embedded a firmware rootkit like this before? "Talk is cheap; show me the code" ...
They can't possibly audit all the cards.
Actually, my family's cat have learned short commands. It's just that it's not "tricks", just stuff like "no", "come", "food", etc...
She's also learned to open doors, as long as she can reach the handle. She's been trying to have a go at the kitchen sink tap, but that handle is a bit too hard to lift for her. It just has to "be relevant to her interests", which seems reasonable if you remove a lot of the social context that goes into dog training.
We believe it to be something like the "cyberzombies" from Shadowrun - the spirit thinks that the body is dead, so it simply flees. In some cases it stays attached, but just a bit. We have had tragic cases with vulnerable immigrant children unused to the low energy levels here...
I believe so.
Yah, I live in Kiruna (you can see the site from the hill across my house if you have a good set of binoculars). The Ice Hotel gets rebuilt from ice blocks hauled up from the frozen Torne river every year. I believe it's some sort of collaborative art/architechtural project as far as the actual design and building goes, but I'm not really sure. It's privately owned, in any case.
I have ADD, I know. However, the person in question was in fact percieved as "slow". As in "stupid".
The thing is, in the real world, you can expect to have the protection of the law even for objects that are out in the open. This does not translate very well to the net, where "the only laws are assembler and RFCs.", but in theory the same things should apply, right? There's also the power discrepancy. Many people here might fail to realize that they're actually wielding a fair bit of power over something that seems *utterly* arbitary and incomprehensible to normal people. "But why should we take the fall for ignorants?" Because this is Sweden, not the US - individual freedom isn't valued as much here. At least not as much as justice and social harmony. Intruding on someone else is a big no-no. Also, what keeps you relatively safe both from poverty and crime as well as tripping over beggars in the streets and having to actually get personally involved in things is the system. There is thus a common concern over the system working as correctly as possible to insure the best of all possible worlds, and government is generally seen as desireable. This is weighed out somewhat I believe by the fact that Swedish culture (and for that matter all the scanidavian cultures) is extremely simplistic bordering on the barbaric - the natural impulses of most men acting against it is difficult. The nail that sticks up isn't really hammered down. Not really - it gets a reasonable paycheck, some reasonable psych treatment, buys some reasonable german beer from the reasonable systembolaget, walks home through the reasonable grey streets to his reasonable apartment, has reasonable boredom sex, watches some films involving torture, yelling and misery to check if he can still feel, and then falls into merciful deathlike dreamless sleep. Little does he know that in a more lively society he had been mugged on his way home - but in this land of heaven, just as he was about to lunge out, the mugger felt a bleak wave move up through his body culminating as tears pouring down his eyes. He thinks back to his early days in his warm home, watching the epic childrens show "vilse i pannkakan". Have I turned into Storpotäten, he thinks? A bright luminous light surrounds him, and as his eyes turn skyward whom else does he see but Death himself, bidding him to come beyond the stars to the forested lands of Nangijala, where there is still the time of campfires and fairy tales. Even as his withered body slumps to the ground, his spirit runs in the sunlight across the grass fields grazed by cows, across a hill topped by birchen trees, and out of our sight.
And now you are melancholy.
That's a horrifying generalization. You do realize Sweden used to do forced sterilization of retards and undesireables here up to the late 1950s? It was only formally abolished in 1975, and there had been cases before that where people who where only "a bit slow" (what would now be called ADHD) was incarcerated and told they would be let go if they agreed to sterilization. All to create a pure society, free from weakness.
Making up their own minds assumes that they have access to alternative views.
Surely, if the militias where killing themselves only. But they establish religious tyrannies, and prevent proper civilization from taking hold.
Actually, that's mostly the only way things have ever ended up even remotely good.
Yes, the underlying constructs are very different. But again, doesn't the concept of abstraction between high and low layers of processing still apply to any system that is made up of any form of discrete operations?
Why not both?
As I understand it, "living calculators" have learned to use their long-term memory to store values quickly.
Couldn't it just be that we do not really have direct access to the raw computational capacity of the brain? There are savants and people who have trained themselves tremendously who can do arithmetric like this, using memory tricks and such. Wouldn't that be more like a hack to "reach down" to utilize the low-level capacity of the brain? The brain is nothing like a man-made computer, but doesn't the "layers of abstraction" still apply? The brain can calculate 357 by 289, but it does not naturally "understand" what 357 or 289 is, or for that matter what the high-level instruction from "me" to "multiply" is.
I think you run into issues when you start thinking about unrelated problems from a human-brain perspective. The universe doesn't behave like the model inside your head, as much as you might like it to.
What if you had a connection between the computer and the brain in some fashion such that the brain-computer-space and the physical-brain-space continue to interoperate seamlessly during the procedure? Then the "standing wave" of conciousness would stay the same, only the underlying material would change.
Waving your mouse around to simulate having a natural FOV doesn't train you to actually use your natural pheripheal vision, and it does sound logical that it might in fact cause it to decay.