Actually I hate that my Facebook, Gmail, Yahoo, Twitter and Youtube data are stored on American servers. Now this data is freely available to scumbags like the FBI which can check it whenever they want and without a warrant. Server location in the financial industry (a.k.a domiciliation) is a very big decision before setting up funds and getting investors. Why shouldn't we do the same for our online data?
I hate the way major websites have perverted third-party cookies, because now if u block them, this will result in loss of website navigability... and Flash players not working properly in some cases. I believe those big websites deliberately created such 3rd-parties (ytimg.com, yimg.com?) to turn tracking into stalking.
Not all graduates specialise in Network and Computer security (let alone those who already work in an IT company and whose mind have melted into complacency & delegation). Comp/Net security is a daunting field, especially when the lecturer thinks "you will only be the sh*t after you can replicate his complicated crypto maths skill." I took an online certificate course from Stanford, it was complete b.s. and doubt very much that I'm an "Advanced Computer Security" person/professional. Oh well, good thing i can lie.
Software patents are the kind of thing that make me sick in the stomach... what's the point of even going to university if the end result is discovering that your idea has already been patented ages ago.
I read Paulos' "Innumeracy" book and never quite understood how those security people come up with cost figures for cyber attacks... especially when it's in the billions range e.g. Skynews reports "Last year, cyber attacks cost Britain £27bn. The global hub for targeted attacks is China. An estimated 1.6 billion attacks are launched from the country each month."
One might start by scanning every pixel from location (0,0) and try to match "a" shape or maybe to speedup, subdivide the picture and for each child run a search? Just kidding, there are primitive methods (Computer Vision 101) to discover a "rough" initial starting point. On another note, the Darpa A.I car which drove itself through the desert was not given any such human input. There's a great PBS/Nova video on it.
Yeah, can't jump straight into it, you have to follow some structured tutorial (e.g. Lynda.com). But it's free, imports most popular formats and replicates most functionalities you'd find in a $600-3000 commercial package. I even made a donation.
Giving an initial starting point and/or tracing the object amounts to pure cheating. This is going backwards in time in terms of evolution of A.I. The object to track (a scale/rot/trans-invariant shapes database) and its intial starting point on the picture is a big problem in Computer Vision. This software ain't a breakthrough if the computer can't track a known object by itself.
Finasteride or its more common trade names Propecia and Proscar, are commonly used by transsexuals as anti-androgen, to block the effects or reduce levels of testosterone in the male body. It does reduce male pattern baldness and/or alleviates problems of inflated prostate but you're ejaculate will start looking like that liquid which forms on top of yogurt. It will also cause growth of some but not prominent breast tissue. To get better results, trans need to take oestrogen pills e.g. Estrofem.:)
Heard something on BBC News this morning. From the Guardian "radioactive iodine have been detected at its air monitoring stations (in Oxfordshire and Glasgow) over the last nine days..."
Surely there will be a cap? Or some decreasing rate as the amount increases. This sounds more fair... but left in the hand of greedy banks, I doubt they implement that. Will the govt step in? No. They are too busy securing a consultancy job at one of those places.
Not so long ago I read that a judge granted Sony the right to look into server logs to see who accessed GeoHot's Twitter and Youtube accounts (Gmail, Facebook?). At that point, we were told that the IP addresses were needed to help decide where the lawsuit would happen.
Is the Paypal thing a way to tell us that Sony found nothing useful from the previous invasions of privacy?
I was gonna buy a new laptop and a DSLR, well Sony you ain't getting my business any time soon.
I emailed them and got a useless cust.care reply that they will look into it. But nothing's been done, so "Abc1234" is the same as "abc1234" or "ABC1234." I use a 9-character password, not sure if these idiots use a system which only reads 6 chars!?
The memory market place was too much drama (teehee) in the end. At least now we can hope for some economies of scale, which will hopefully be passed on to consumers.
This could lead to a replay of Microsoft's dirty old past: getting monopoly status, forcing others to bow down to it, heavy-handed goons... Shouldn't the government look into it just like it would in cases of price fixing or lack of players in a market (due to some fat monopolist glutton controlling it)?
My wikileaks tweets are either suppressed or delayed long enough that I lose hope of ever finding them. If you use a twitter app then there's a chance your tweet will be searchable.
Interestingly enough, "Assange Arrested" trended for a quite a bit today! So we know where Twitter's interest lies.
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Actually I hate that my Facebook, Gmail, Yahoo, Twitter and Youtube data are stored on American servers. Now this data is freely available to scumbags like the FBI which can check it whenever they want and without a warrant. Server location in the financial industry (a.k.a domiciliation) is a very big decision before setting up funds and getting investors. Why shouldn't we do the same for our online data?
I hate the way major websites have perverted third-party cookies, because now if u block them, this will result in loss of website navigability... and Flash players not working properly in some cases. I believe those big websites deliberately created such 3rd-parties (ytimg.com, yimg.com?) to turn tracking into stalking.
"We are legion!" (_!_)
Not all graduates specialise in Network and Computer security (let alone those who already work in an IT company and whose mind have melted into complacency & delegation). Comp/Net security is a daunting field, especially when the lecturer thinks "you will only be the sh*t after you can replicate his complicated crypto maths skill." I took an online certificate course from Stanford, it was complete b.s. and doubt very much that I'm an "Advanced Computer Security" person/professional. Oh well, good thing i can lie.
Just a routine prostate exam sir :)
Software patents are the kind of thing that make me sick in the stomach... what's the point of even going to university if the end result is discovering that your idea has already been patented ages ago.
I read Paulos' "Innumeracy" book and never quite understood how those security people come up with cost figures for cyber attacks... especially when it's in the billions range e.g. Skynews reports "Last year, cyber attacks cost Britain £27bn. The global hub for targeted attacks is China. An estimated 1.6 billion attacks are launched from the country each month."
I'm not an Economist. Can someone in that field think 5-10 steps ahead and tell me whether this is a good or bad thing?
One might start by scanning every pixel from location (0,0) and try to match "a" shape or maybe to speedup, subdivide the picture and for each child run a search? Just kidding, there are primitive methods (Computer Vision 101) to discover a "rough" initial starting point. On another note, the Darpa A.I car which drove itself through the desert was not given any such human input. There's a great PBS/Nova video on it.
Yeah, can't jump straight into it, you have to follow some structured tutorial (e.g. Lynda.com). But it's free, imports most popular formats and replicates most functionalities you'd find in a $600-3000 commercial package. I even made a donation.
Giving an initial starting point and/or tracing the object amounts to pure cheating. This is going backwards in time in terms of evolution of A.I. The object to track (a scale/rot/trans-invariant shapes database) and its intial starting point on the picture is a big problem in Computer Vision. This software ain't a breakthrough if the computer can't track a known object by itself.
Finasteride or its more common trade names Propecia and Proscar, are commonly used by transsexuals as anti-androgen, to block the effects or reduce levels of testosterone in the male body. It does reduce male pattern baldness and/or alleviates problems of inflated prostate but you're ejaculate will start looking like that liquid which forms on top of yogurt. It will also cause growth of some but not prominent breast tissue. To get better results, trans need to take oestrogen pills e.g. Estrofem. :)
I got 12 spam in my Inbox this morning and another 5 in the afternoon. Given past levels, that's a spike in my case.
Heard something on BBC News this morning. From the Guardian "radioactive iodine have been detected at its air monitoring stations (in Oxfordshire and Glasgow) over the last nine days ..."
Surely such powers cannot be trusted in the hands of muggles, esp. war mongering ones who will turn anything and everything into military research.
Surely there will be a cap? Or some decreasing rate as the amount increases. This sounds more fair... but left in the hand of greedy banks, I doubt they implement that. Will the govt step in? No. They are too busy securing a consultancy job at one of those places.
Not so long ago I read that a judge granted Sony the right to look into server logs to see who accessed GeoHot's Twitter and Youtube accounts (Gmail, Facebook?). At that point, we were told that the IP addresses were needed to help decide where the lawsuit would happen. Is the Paypal thing a way to tell us that Sony found nothing useful from the previous invasions of privacy? I was gonna buy a new laptop and a DSLR, well Sony you ain't getting my business any time soon.
I guess this calls for Slashdot to create a new icon for Apple: devil's tail and pitchfork!
I emailed them and got a useless cust.care reply that they will look into it. But nothing's been done, so "Abc1234" is the same as "abc1234" or "ABC1234." I use a 9-character password, not sure if these idiots use a system which only reads 6 chars!?
The memory market place was too much drama (teehee) in the end. At least now we can hope for some economies of scale, which will hopefully be passed on to consumers.
The latest epic fail was "copy & paste." After hibernation, the browser literally stopped providing Copy/Cut-paste functionality, and page printing too. If you don't believe me: http://input.mozilla.com/en-US/search/?product=firefox&q=copy+paste
This could lead to a replay of Microsoft's dirty old past: getting monopoly status, forcing others to bow down to it, heavy-handed goons... Shouldn't the government look into it just like it would in cases of price fixing or lack of players in a market (due to some fat monopolist glutton controlling it)?
this whole 'debacle' has turned out to be really educational for wannabe DDoS script kitties, meow!
Some of us would rather act than sit on our bum!
My wikileaks tweets are either suppressed or delayed long enough that I lose hope of ever finding them. If you use a twitter app then there's a chance your tweet will be searchable. Interestingly enough, "Assange Arrested" trended for a quite a bit today! So we know where Twitter's interest lies.