I know. I really want to believe the comments to the effect that "she deserved it as she crossed in the wrong place" are made by astro turfing bots, but I suspect even the bots would display better aparent empathy and logic.
It's disturbing how many comments in the media have tried blaming the pedestrian for crossing at the wrong spot. There seems to a be a bit of an astroturfing campaign â" Reddit is full of such comments.
In much of the world (where auto makers have not managed to buy a change the law) this is not illegal and in fact standard practice, such as in the UK for example. Any self driving technology must clearly be able to deal with this, not least for handling unpredictable young children in residential areas.
Yep it's like someone is testing a bot designed to drown out reason, much like the comments on news sites seem to be these days. People are pushing BSD and no one has even mentioned netcraft. Not like the old days at all.
Actually the BBC failed miserably to debunk the lies. In its typically misplaced idea of "neutrality" it would typically avoid making a factual statement and instead have interviewees on to make opposing points. The effect of this was to dignify the lie and place it in the centre ground.
They've done this consistently for years, especially since coming under significant pressure from the Blair government around the Iraq war time (regarding the dodgy dossier, David Kelly etc). And now the threat of the Conservatives scrapping or reducing the licence fee appears to make them particularly timid about calling out political lies, for example never questioning the premise of austerity and the blame placed on the previous labour government.
With the advent of 24 hour news the factual content is even more diluted and it's 90% speculation and sensational interviews with nutters.
Channel 4 News in the UK does a much better job of fact checking and challenging, as does BBC Newsnight, but sadly they mostly only attract the educated and more liberal demographic that is less likely to be misled in the first place.
I don't disagree that XFA would be useful, but why should it be the overriding goal of the poppler project? The XFA specification is over 1500 pages and thus would eat a huge amount of people's own spare time to implement.
It's obviously important to you, though, so what are you going to do about it? Maybe find a willing implementer and organize a bounty/crowd source funding for them to work on it if you can't code it yourself?
Pretty sure these devices won't be running a full blown ntpd; it's most likely busybox-ntp on the Hue according to the open source licenses listed. Similarly unless you make a real mess of your home router setup, incoming WAN packets will never reach the IOT device's NTP daemon, so I don't see an enormous threat from it.
Historically Netgear was the worst NTP offender and is still spamming the University of Wisconsinâ"Madison with a hardcoded server address in old routers.
There are a lot of crap IOT devices out there, but being made in China is not the main issue. Frankly they're probably more trustworthy than devices coming from a country like the UK where new legislation will seek to force companies to add backdoors and will force them to keep it secret. (And the US is pretty close behind the UK in wishing to weaken security.)
Any IOT device that has access from a smartphone does something like this. If you look at the traffic from a Philips Hue hub you'll see SSDP broadcasts, NTP synchronisation and phoning home with details of it's local IP address and checking for updated firmware.
This article seems to be yet more anti-Chinese nonsense. There was a very similar one recently by an American "journalist" that didn't understand that NTP is a distributed protocol either and implied these devices were somehow infiltrating US homes and forming a secret network. It possibly inspired this article, though unfortunately I can't find the original just now to link to.
The answer is to put IOT devices in a DMZ/restricted guest network which more and more routers are supporting out of the box.
Every time some program forces Safari to load on Mac OS X (which is often big OS updates displaying a "tour" of new features) it pops up this requester on quitting that tries to get me to agree to make Safari the default web browser.
Of course there's no "No thank you, and never ask me again" button and it's very easy to accidentally hit "OK" expecting it to be confirming you want to quit.
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-Can you mount Kerberos NFS directories without suffering a kernel panic after a random amount of time?
I bought a VW Golf which had a factory fitted iPod dock in the arm rest. The salesperson couldn't understand why I wasn't impressed. It's been buggy and utterly useless - not being physically compatible with some models, not charging with others and the sound quality was appalling. Now Apple have changed the dock connector and there is definitely not enough room for any sort of adapter.
I fitted a 3rd party aux-in/SD card/USB adapter myself and I'm free to use whatever device I choose and it sounds massively better with same factory speakers/head unit. Why couldn't they have done that to begin with?
These are excellent,widely available and very cheap devices. Mine was £33.
I have it running OpenWrt and as well as managing the network it gets reasonable speeds as a backup with a 6TB lvm volume. "Reasonable" disk write speed in this context is in comparison to other devices like slugs etc. I get just over 10MB/s sustained write via vsftp (proved to be quite a bit faster than samba, nfs and sftp).
Given the number of Googlers involved with producing this article, I'm more surprised by them not using TeX quotation marks correctly than the result of the competition. (Not to mention using crappy tables with way too many ruled lines which do nothing to aid understanding of the organisation of the tables.)
Experience frequently shows that people that overlook such details writing an article will often by nature be weak C++ team programmers. More than with most other languages, good C++ coding demands someone who is intrinsically observant, obsessively perfectionist and aware of often obscure side effects and implications of everything they write. This is obviously important on the most basic level so that they don't make mistakes, but even more important that they understand how other people could misinterpret complex code and algorithms and potential consequences.
It is this last level of empathy that is the sign of great C++ programmers vs. the good or clever. "Clever" solitary programmers (such as some of those drawn to perl) are in fact the worst to have in C++ team programming scenarios where their desire to demonstrate their own ability often ends up with some over-templated prematurely optimised nightmare which is then left as a trap for someone seeking to modify it later on.
WHS + MEDIA CENTER + XBOX 360 + added ambience of the fans screaming away while watching a movie = Fail
I was full intending to use my (admittedly older generation) XBOX 360 for video playback but the hassle of needing to have a media server transcode video into something the 360 is happy with (and the resulting loss of seeking) and the noise from the fans soon killed that idea.
For recording UK DVB TV I have a Topfield 5800 - superb bit of kit with two tuners and a USB port allowing you to copy off the raw DVB MPEG2 video files.
I now use a Popcorn Hour for playback, and while the UI isn't the prettiest ever, its played every video format I've ever tried flawlessly with no interlacing artefacts and no skipping.
The only problem I've ever had with audible "errors" on CD are when the publishers have introduced them as part of some sort of brain dead DRM attempt!
Whilst it may seem strange to American readers used to their simplified version of the language, the use of "whilst" is very common on the English side of the pond!
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I know. I really want to believe the comments to the effect that "she deserved it as she crossed in the wrong place" are made by astro turfing bots, but I suspect even the bots would display better aparent empathy and logic.
If only Asimov was still alive.
It's disturbing how many comments in the media have tried blaming the pedestrian for crossing at the wrong spot. There seems to a be a bit of an astroturfing campaign â" Reddit is full of such comments.
In much of the world (where auto makers have not managed to buy a change the law) this is not illegal and in fact standard practice, such as in the UK for example. Any self driving technology must clearly be able to deal with this, not least for handling unpredictable young children in residential areas.
Yep it's like someone is testing a bot designed to drown out reason, much like the comments on news sites seem to be these days. People are pushing BSD and no one has even mentioned netcraft. Not like the old days at all.
Actually the BBC failed miserably to debunk the lies. In its typically misplaced idea of "neutrality" it would typically avoid making a factual statement and instead have interviewees on to make opposing points. The effect of this was to dignify the lie and place it in the centre ground.
They've done this consistently for years, especially since coming under significant pressure from the Blair government around the Iraq war time (regarding the dodgy dossier, David Kelly etc). And now the threat of the Conservatives scrapping or reducing the licence fee appears to make them particularly timid about calling out political lies, for example never questioning the premise of austerity and the blame placed on the previous labour government.
With the advent of 24 hour news the factual content is even more diluted and it's 90% speculation and sensational interviews with nutters.
Channel 4 News in the UK does a much better job of fact checking and challenging, as does BBC Newsnight, but sadly they mostly only attract the educated and more liberal demographic that is less likely to be misled in the first place.
Especially FCP X
I thought that was meant to be making its way upstream ages ago?
Sadly still no stable support for 4.7 from the zfs on Linux packaging for Debian :(
I don't disagree that XFA would be useful, but why should it be the overriding goal of the poppler project? The XFA specification is over 1500 pages and thus would eat a huge amount of people's own spare time to implement.
It's obviously important to you, though, so what are you going to do about it? Maybe find a willing implementer and organize a bounty/crowd source funding for them to work on it if you can't code it yourself?
In the meantime use XPDF which does support XFA.
I think Clippy demonstrated the potential outcome more than adequately.
Pretty sure these devices won't be running a full blown ntpd; it's most likely busybox-ntp on the Hue according to the open source licenses listed. Similarly unless you make a real mess of your home router setup, incoming WAN packets will never reach the IOT device's NTP daemon, so I don't see an enormous threat from it.
Historically Netgear was the worst NTP offender and is still spamming the University of Wisconsinâ"Madison with a hardcoded server address in old routers.
There are a lot of crap IOT devices out there, but being made in China is not the main issue. Frankly they're probably more trustworthy than devices coming from a country like the UK where new legislation will seek to force companies to add backdoors and will force them to keep it secret. (And the US is pretty close behind the UK in wishing to weaken security.)
Any IOT device that has access from a smartphone does something like this. If you look at the traffic from a Philips Hue hub you'll see SSDP broadcasts, NTP synchronisation and phoning home with details of it's local IP address and checking for updated firmware.
This article seems to be yet more anti-Chinese nonsense. There was a very similar one recently by an American "journalist" that didn't understand that NTP is a distributed protocol either and implied these devices were somehow infiltrating US homes and forming a secret network. It possibly inspired this article, though unfortunately I can't find the original just now to link to.
The answer is to put IOT devices in a DMZ/restricted guest network which more and more routers are supporting out of the box.
Every time some program forces Safari to load on Mac OS X (which is often big OS updates displaying a "tour" of new features) it pops up this requester on quitting that tries to get me to agree to make Safari the default web browser.
Of course there's no "No thank you, and never ask me again" button and it's very easy to accidentally hit "OK" expecting it to be confirming you want to quit.
-Can you mount Kerberos NFS directories without suffering a kernel panic after a random amount of time?
I bought a VW Golf which had a factory fitted iPod dock in the arm rest. The salesperson couldn't understand why I wasn't impressed. It's been buggy and utterly useless - not being physically compatible with some models, not charging with others and the sound quality was appalling. Now Apple have changed the dock connector and there is definitely not enough room for any sort of adapter.
I fitted a 3rd party aux-in/SD card/USB adapter myself and I'm free to use whatever device I choose and it sounds massively better with same factory speakers/head unit. Why couldn't they have done that to begin with?
These are excellent,widely available and very cheap devices. Mine was £33.
I have it running OpenWrt and as well as managing the network it gets reasonable speeds as a backup with a 6TB lvm volume. "Reasonable" disk write speed in this context is in comparison to other devices like slugs etc. I get just over 10MB/s sustained write via vsftp (proved to be quite a bit faster than samba, nfs and sftp).
Given the number of Googlers involved with producing this article, I'm more surprised by them not using TeX quotation marks correctly than the result of the competition. (Not to mention using crappy tables with way too many ruled lines which do nothing to aid understanding of the organisation of the tables.)
Experience frequently shows that people that overlook such details writing an article will often by nature be weak C++ team programmers. More than with most other languages, good C++ coding demands someone who is intrinsically observant, obsessively perfectionist and aware of often obscure side effects and implications of everything they write. This is obviously important on the most basic level so that they don't make mistakes, but even more important that they understand how other people could misinterpret complex code and algorithms and potential consequences.
It is this last level of empathy that is the sign of great C++ programmers vs. the good or clever. "Clever" solitary programmers (such as some of those drawn to perl) are in fact the worst to have in C++ team programming scenarios where their desire to demonstrate their own ability often ends up with some over-templated prematurely optimised nightmare which is then left as a trap for someone seeking to modify it later on.
WHS + MEDIA CENTER + XBOX 360 + added ambience of the fans screaming away while watching a movie = Fail
I was full intending to use my (admittedly older generation) XBOX 360 for video playback but the hassle of needing to have a media server transcode video into something the 360 is happy with (and the resulting loss of seeking) and the noise from the fans soon killed that idea.
For recording UK DVB TV I have a Topfield 5800 - superb bit of kit with two tuners and a USB port allowing you to copy off the raw DVB MPEG2 video files.
I now use a Popcorn Hour for playback, and while the UI isn't the prettiest ever, its played every video format I've ever tried flawlessly with no interlacing artefacts and no skipping.
The only problem I've ever had with audible "errors" on CD are when the publishers have introduced them as part of some sort of brain dead DRM attempt!
I thought the real risk was he might be sent some information that hadn't passed through the military reality distortion field.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/feb/11/binyam-mohamed-release-torture-letter
Governments will just have to get back door access to Vista machines the same way as everyone else: by buying it off a Russion script kiddie.
[...] my realistic wife said [...]
Cool, so those dolls talk now as well?
Whilst it may seem strange to American readers used to their simplified version of the language, the use of "whilst" is very common on the English side of the pond!
To turn of the advertisement, simply go to Edit->Preferences...
Then under "Application Startup", untick "Show messages and automatically update"
Finally, Google IS a US-based country.
Wow, it sure has grown quickly.