Yes, they do have smartphones. In India old smartphones are common. Remember that iPaq you got rid of to get your BlackBerry? You can't imagine anyone wanting to use such an old turd of a WinMo phone... but these things get recycled and resold in the third world. Public places there are like museums of old ringtones.
In modern Computer Science, AI refers to the class of software problems which come naturally to humans but not to computers. Adding large sets of numbers is not AI. Image recognition is AI. Image recognition is needed to diagnose illness via a webcam. "Expert systems" are also AI.
It is assumed (when asking for money from the government) that there is some terrible gap in education--that America is doomed because somebody's program isn't funded enough. But evidence of this is never given.
Are our universities bad? Obviously not, as foreigners do everything they can to get into them. Are our primary schools bad? Doesn't look like it; foreign students make cheating a science just to keep up at the university level.
If our science students can't find jobs, the problem is a GLUT of science education. Perhaps we should focus more on trade schools than churning out more unemployed bio and physics majors.
If it's that important, get a TV that does DTV natively, and get her a DVR. Also, adjust the antenna or get a better antenna. And finally, recommend that she read books! And if she needs large print or can't get to a library easily, get her a Kindle and show her how to set the font size.
There are plenty of solutions to her entertainment wants. Try them.
The elected government does what its citizens want it to do. If they perceive "abolition" of slavery as harmful to the bottom line of the majority, then it is absolutely right and proper for the government to step in and restrict or otherwise regulate that.
What you said is stupid on many levels. I hope I've made that clear.
I hate to break it to you, Mr. Coward, but we would need a deluge of breakthroughs before it is even remotely interesting from an engineering standpoint.
Unions are a terrible, inefficient method of promoting safety regulations. Government should mandate safety standards. This makes EVERYONE take necessary steps to protect workers.
These unions should be political lobbies. They should not be striking and sending jobs away.
Listen, kids: stock certificates are voting rights in how to run companies. That's it. They are private property. If the owners want to sell them and buy them back in half a microsecond, that's fully within their rights. You don't own those certificates so you don't get a say in the matter. The government only interferes to enforce laws designed to prevent fraud, not to force anyone's opinion of what a stock market "should be" on anyone else.
Furthermore, frequent trading is beneficial. It allows everyone, including the little guys, to buy and sell more easily. If you want to sell from your 401k, you need a buyer for what you sell. If there are a bunch of traders or computers betting against each other all day, you will have a very easy time finding someone looking to buy. Without that? You may have to sell at a much lower price to try and coax someone else into buying.
And to the guy who said "free [unregulated] markets" are the best thing for everything: you're an idiot. Free markets are terrible at some things. Government, for example, doesn't work well when controlled entirely by a market system. Regulation (rule of law) is essential for even the freest of free markets to prosper. Give up your cherished dogma and try to get a more sophisticated view of the world. OK?
The standard (called "responsible disclosure") is to give the vendors a chance to work a fix into their regular release schedules (be that monthly, quarterly or whatever). This includes making sure they have time for patch development and testing before the release.
Zotac makes mini-ITX boards with decent NVIDIA cards onboard, and with the ability to use quad-core CPUs and DDR3 memory. It's pretty cool to have a system which takes up almost no space and uses almost no power, but is capable of playing games passably!
Too bad Zotac support sucks--I needed to flash my BIOS (with a DOS disk of all things! WTF? In 2010??) before the damn board would boot, and the drivers available from Zotac are broken and out-of-date. But once I finally got it working it was wonderful.
The next time someone asks me for hardware recommendations, I will tell them to go with mini-ITX unless they are a hardcore gamer who needs SLI.
Wait a second... you think $35 is expensive? I spent that much on my bar tab last night, and I pissed every penny of it away the next morning. What part of the world are you in where spending $35 for better gear is a daunting expense?
The system I'm on now has 12GiB of memory, and that memory is really useful, especially when using VMs. XP would be worthless on such a system. And XP is glitchy crap to start with. Ever use its wifi client? Total junk.
Funny. I work at a company that routes those trucks. I actually know what I'm talking about. It would be impossible to do what we do by hand; the volume is just way too high relative to the staff levels. But thanks for sharing your ignorance.
You falsely indicate that I claimed they were equivalent in severity. You are wrong.
You are also wrong about what damage would result from a cyberwar. Communications and telecommunications infrastructure would stop working for days. Food would rot on trucks undelivered. It would be much worse than "someone deletes some files."
There was not "large scale" nuclear exchange in WWII. There never has been. That was small-scale one-sided, as the Estonian cyberwarfare was small-scale, one-sided.
In the same sense that nuclear war is real, cyberwar is real. We've seen both only in limited fashion. We know the technology exists and works. We've just never seen two well-armed adversaries thoroughly go at it.
There's a lot of fiction about full-scale nuclear war. That doesn't mean nuclear war itself is fiction.
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Yes, they do have smartphones. In India old smartphones are common. Remember that iPaq you got rid of to get your BlackBerry? You can't imagine anyone wanting to use such an old turd of a WinMo phone... but these things get recycled and resold in the third world. Public places there are like museums of old ringtones.
In modern Computer Science, AI refers to the class of software problems which come naturally to humans but not to computers. Adding large sets of numbers is not AI. Image recognition is AI. Image recognition is needed to diagnose illness via a webcam. "Expert systems" are also AI.
"IQ of 100" doesn't enter into it.
Having children does not "pay off" but we do it anyway. Why should spreading to the starts be any different?
It is assumed (when asking for money from the government) that there is some terrible gap in education--that America is doomed because somebody's program isn't funded enough. But evidence of this is never given.
Are our universities bad? Obviously not, as foreigners do everything they can to get into them. Are our primary schools bad? Doesn't look like it; foreign students make cheating a science just to keep up at the university level.
If our science students can't find jobs, the problem is a GLUT of science education. Perhaps we should focus more on trade schools than churning out more unemployed bio and physics majors.
If it's that important, get a TV that does DTV natively, and get her a DVR. Also, adjust the antenna or get a better antenna. And finally, recommend that she read books! And if she needs large print or can't get to a library easily, get her a Kindle and show her how to set the font size.
There are plenty of solutions to her entertainment wants. Try them.
What you said is stupid on many levels. I hope I've made that clear.
I hate to break it to you, Mr. Coward, but we would need a deluge of breakthroughs before it is even remotely interesting from an engineering standpoint.
Unions are a terrible, inefficient method of promoting safety regulations. Government should mandate safety standards. This makes EVERYONE take necessary steps to protect workers.
These unions should be political lobbies. They should not be striking and sending jobs away.
This thread is so full of stupid.
Listen, kids: stock certificates are voting rights in how to run companies. That's it. They are private property. If the owners want to sell them and buy them back in half a microsecond, that's fully within their rights. You don't own those certificates so you don't get a say in the matter. The government only interferes to enforce laws designed to prevent fraud, not to force anyone's opinion of what a stock market "should be" on anyone else.
Furthermore, frequent trading is beneficial. It allows everyone, including the little guys, to buy and sell more easily. If you want to sell from your 401k, you need a buyer for what you sell. If there are a bunch of traders or computers betting against each other all day, you will have a very easy time finding someone looking to buy. Without that? You may have to sell at a much lower price to try and coax someone else into buying.
And to the guy who said "free [unregulated] markets" are the best thing for everything: you're an idiot. Free markets are terrible at some things. Government, for example, doesn't work well when controlled entirely by a market system. Regulation (rule of law) is essential for even the freest of free markets to prosper. Give up your cherished dogma and try to get a more sophisticated view of the world. OK?
Practical homomorphic encryption is a fantasy, or at the very least it is so far off that it won't impact any of us any time soon.
If you want to cloudsource sensitive information processing, you will need a highly-secured vendor (most aren't even close). Sorry!
From a security standpoint, PHP developers are the worst of the web app world. By far.
You are a security analyst who is afraid of the command line? Really??
No, they should give Microsoft a chance to work a patch into its regular release schedule, which is monthly.
The standard (called "responsible disclosure") is to give the vendors a chance to work a fix into their regular release schedules (be that monthly, quarterly or whatever). This includes making sure they have time for patch development and testing before the release.
That is incorrect. "Zero-day" means the patch has been out for zero days, as in the patch has not been released yet.
Zotac makes mini-ITX boards with decent NVIDIA cards onboard, and with the ability to use quad-core CPUs and DDR3 memory. It's pretty cool to have a system which takes up almost no space and uses almost no power, but is capable of playing games passably!
Too bad Zotac support sucks--I needed to flash my BIOS (with a DOS disk of all things! WTF? In 2010??) before the damn board would boot, and the drivers available from Zotac are broken and out-of-date. But once I finally got it working it was wonderful.
The next time someone asks me for hardware recommendations, I will tell them to go with mini-ITX unless they are a hardcore gamer who needs SLI.
Wait a second... you think $35 is expensive? I spent that much on my bar tab last night, and I pissed every penny of it away the next morning. What part of the world are you in where spending $35 for better gear is a daunting expense?
The system I'm on now has 12GiB of memory, and that memory is really useful, especially when using VMs. XP would be worthless on such a system. And XP is glitchy crap to start with. Ever use its wifi client? Total junk.
If something were really, really bad for you, the evidence would be overwhelming. If this is in fact bad, it's bad only to a barely-detectable degree.
Funny. I work at a company that routes those trucks. I actually know what I'm talking about. It would be impossible to do what we do by hand; the volume is just way too high relative to the staff levels. But thanks for sharing your ignorance.
War.
War never changes.
Yesterday's slave-labor is today's consumer market. The tide rises world-round, though the waters are choppy.
You falsely indicate that I claimed they were equivalent in severity. You are wrong.
You are also wrong about what damage would result from a cyberwar. Communications and telecommunications infrastructure would stop working for days. Food would rot on trucks undelivered. It would be much worse than "someone deletes some files."
There was not "large scale" nuclear exchange in WWII. There never has been. That was small-scale one-sided, as the Estonian cyberwarfare was small-scale, one-sided.
In the same sense that nuclear war is real, cyberwar is real. We've seen both only in limited fashion. We know the technology exists and works. We've just never seen two well-armed adversaries thoroughly go at it.
There's a lot of fiction about full-scale nuclear war. That doesn't mean nuclear war itself is fiction.
Why not just triangulate the transmitter, then walk to the source, and say "hey there, what's all this then?"