Bah! Get your coffee and an old school French press to brew the tastiest coffee. Put your hacking efforts into the roasting, selection and cultivation of your beans and leave the time and resource wasting, lame Windows controlled coffee makers to the junk heap of history.
Jeez... if only Americans would have done the same thing in response to this guys efforts in his administration to do the same thing.
Seriously, where has the outrage been in the US? Did not George Orwell warn us? The number of Constitutional rights we've lost under the current administration is truly stunning and if we do not stand up and resist, this sort of thing will continue to spread throughout the world as it has in the UK, Japan, the US and many other European countries.
My first reaction is that the geohashing folks overreacted. I might be a little concerned and take photos of license plates if a bunch of people suddenly showed up on my property somewhere out in the boonies.
As to the firearms, were they scared at the mere presence of firearms or did the ranchers actually point them at anyone? If they simply saw the guns in the truck, what possibly could have scared them? Ooooh, guns.... scary.
Wow, sounds like a sure fire way to keep people from flying. Already flying is becoming too much of a hassle for many people flying for both business and pleasure and the competition will be trains, automobiles and the Internet. Generally speaking flying outside the US has been more pleasant until recently, but I may try and fly even less from here on out both foreign and domestic.
This is going to become more critical not just in terms of servers and informational or command based attacks, but also in terms of actual combat systems as we start to integrate more robots and remote networked combat platforms. For instance, my last visit to Creech AFB was very informative, but also illustrated a number of potential weaknesses in the system that controls remotely operated unmanned aerial vehicles actively engaging in combat.
Exercises such as these are critically important to war-game any networked system, particularly when that system is using commercial off the shelf solutions and commodity hardware that is accessible and easy to explore outside the realm of cyber warfare. i.e. war-gaming your attacks before going live...
I have the nice Bose headsets and while, yes... they do cancel out engine noise nicely, they are so well engineered that you can very easily hear voices and conversations sitting next to you or on the overhead PA. Believe me, I have elite frequent flyer status and fly enough to know that this policy is going to cause problems.
I once had the displeasure of sitting on a plane on the tarmac for two hours while our flight was delayed and the pilot allowed everyone to use their cell phones. It was torture as most folks were not talking on their cell phones to arrange transportation or take care of business, but they were talking (loudly) about everything and nothing and forcing those around them to have to listen! Even worse, people began trying to speak over one another and the volume gradually increased until there was an amazing din of people calling their friends to say "Hey! Hey! Betcha can't guess where I'm calling you from! An airplane! Ha ha ha ha, yeah and on my own cell phone even!". It was a horrible forced invasion of personal space and having to listen to someone blabber on and on "Like I know she does not like me because, like, she totally gave me a bitchy look yesterday and I was so like, peeved you know? because like, I think she is just so.... like not on top of it...... blah, blah, blah, blah, blah."
I am waiting for the smashed phones and fist fights to start happening in response to this.
How has D&D (and tabletop roleplaying) touched/improved your life?
It's almost cliched now but as a Dungeon Master in my early teen years, Gary Gygax's work helped to refine creativity, learning, communication, strategy and logic in a way that few other tools or experiences (including school) were able to accomplish. The rule sets were were a revolution to me at the time that helped inspire an understanding of how to engineer environments, social interactions and most of all communicate in conventional and unconventional fashions. All of these tools have certainly helped in my personal and academic lives.
I will forever be grateful to Gary Gygax and the team at TSR.
I know Mormons were among the first religious to adopt Einstein's Relativity because it proved what Joseph Smith was saying about chaotic matter being the foundation of element, and that intelligence was co-eternal with matter, and that matter can neither be created nor destroyed but only organized and re-organized.
Einstein's Theory of Relativity said nothing of the sort.
I also know Mormons at BYU were among the first to use Linux-based supercomputers to collide neutron stars in order to discover new high-energy particles.
Ummmm, yeah. So? There are actually lots of good computer scientists down at BYU..... Just not as good as the ones we have up here at the U of U.:-)
I also know there are lots of Mormon Joneses.
There are also lots of Joneses that are Protestant, Catholic, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Shintoists, Confucianists, Islamist, atheist, or agnostic. Again, your point is?
Just make sure those robotic eyes and visual cortex neural interfaces are a success. I may need them one day in my late middle-age in case I've inherited retinitis pigmentosa from my grandfather.
Well, we are working on the neural connectivity in the retina itself. Retinal/cortical connectivity is being explored by other groups in our team, but yeah... that (rescuing blindness) is the mission we are all working on.
Just make sure those robotic eyes and visual cortex neural interfaces are a success. I may need them one day in my late middle-age in case I've inherited retinitis pigmentosa from my grandfather.
Thank you, Mormons, for superior technology.
??????? What are you talking about? Are you assuming that everyone who lives in Utah is Mormon?........ That would be a pretty big stretch.
Last time I was in Japan, (scroll down for the robot) progress in the Toyota Partner Robot development was truly impressive. They have amazingly smooth, articulated motions, can walk with close to natural gaits and can climb stairs. Robots, whether fully autonomous or semi-autonomous are here to stay in rolls from support like the ones being developed in Japan or for defense/warfare applications like I saw on my recent visit to Creech AFB. I gotta say though, that this robot has got to be one of my favorites and this robot has got to be one of the creepiest.
You were so quick with the ad hominem that you seem to missed what he really implied was that search warrants take to long to get.
That does not mean that we need to circumvent to process. The whole point of a warrant is to ensure that there is justification to violate Constitutionally protected rights. You are absolutely correct that we have been lax at the whole process and I am aware of how difficult things have been as a good friend of mine tells me (FBI special agent).
Part of the principal problem with the FBI has been that they have not been able to implement a proper FBI network despite hundreds of millions/billions of dollars spent and agents are left without the electronic resources they need. That however, does not mean that we need to segregate the Internet with a new Internet that is easier to snoop on. Besides, I would frankly not trust the FBI to implement this Internet as past performance is the best indicator of future performance.
"Former FBI Agent Patrick J. Dempsey warns that the Internet has become a sanctuary for cyber criminals
Any time you have a new community or resource to exploit, there will be criminals. However, calling it a sanctuary is hardly apt. I can think of more than a few places that are a sanctuary for criminals, yet you won't see the government razing those neighborhoods and starting anew, would you? Besides, who gets called a criminal?
and the only way to rectify this is to create a second, more secure Internet.
Ummmm, no. What he means is that they want to form a new network that can routinely be filtered, scanned and probed with no means of anonymity (already going away) or flexibility.
Dempsey explains that, in order to successfully fight cyber crime, law enforcement officials need to move much faster than average investigators and cooperate with international law enforcement officials.
How about figuring out how to deploy a network within your own agency first, that agency employees can actually use?
First off, they are likely dramatically under representing synaptic connectivity through both conventional synapses and gap junctions. On top of that they are essentially modeling currently understood pathways and are under-predicting the recurrent feedback loops that are apparently the most common type of synapse in neural systems. Finally, definitions of neuronal "classes" are apparently underpredicted as neurons are more than simply connectivity circuits. There is pharmacology and other very subtle physiology at play as well.
Althought quite good already (in terms of biological realism),
While this project is verrry cool, they are not even remotely close to biological realism. Sorry...
their simulation model is still incomplete with a few more years work to get the neurons working like in real life.
That is just it. We are finding that real biological systems from complete neural reconstructions are far more complex with many more participating "classes" of neurons with much more in the way of nested and recurrent collateral connectivity than is predicted by any existing model of neural connectivity.
I'll be meeting with Kurzweil in April.... Speaking as a neuroscientist who is doing complex neural reconstructions, I think he's off his timeline by at least two decades. Note that we (scientists) have yet to really reconstruct an actual neural system outside of an invertebrate and are finding that the model diagrams grossly under-predict the actual complexity present.
You don't know how right you are... I just finished visiting a certain location, taking photos and writing for an article on UAV operations. The experience was truly amazing with operations that would have been absolutely impossible just a few years ago being done on a daily basis.
It is actually getting harder to identify satellites due to the efforts that certain governments are taking, including building in additional propulsion and stealth features built into the latest launches to alter and conceal orbits from those that might be predicted from launch. This is to prevent not only the ability to track orbits and know when a particular platform may be overhead, but it also prevents many of the current technologies like adaptive optics from being able to identify features of orbiting satellites as shown here .
Physics essentially defines how big an object is that can be resolved from space which is (until recently) about 10cm optimal given the best altitude, angle of the sun and angle of captured image with perfect atmospheric conditions. Currently most satellite in orbit are using standard optics. However, using a newer technology called adaptive optics, images can be obtained that allow for much higher resolution. Some examples of ground based adaptive optics imaging of satellites can be seen here , but space based adaptive optics work is an area of very active interest in a variety of fields from science to intelligence.
If you use the adapter, it is 100BT, not gigabit which is really fine for most purposes as it will be roughly twice as fast as the best wireless connection that I've been able to find while on the road.
Actually, I'd argue that Apple hit the nail right on the head. I ordered one as soon as they were available simply because the 15in Powerbook is too unwieldy for extensive travel, especially internationally where every ounce counts and space is at an all time premium. Flying in and out of the UK for instance, you are limited to one carry-on and when you are already carrying gear (camera gear in my case), a 2.5 lb savings along with the smallest form factor you can manage and still have a full size keyboard can be tremendous (I've tried the smaller keyboards and if you do lots of writing, they are impossible).
The battery issue is relatively minor as many airline seats on flights longer than 5 hours have power outlets and you can do wired internet with the MacBook Air through the USB port.
For all of your cynics posting in reply, all I have to say is that these documents (the Constitution, its amendments and the Declaration of Independence) have shaped who we are as a country. The last time I visited them was an intensely powerful experience, and I suggest if you are ever in the area, do stop by and reflect on the history of these documents and what is, what was and what is to become.
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Bah! Get your coffee and an old school French press to brew the tastiest coffee. Put your hacking efforts into the roasting, selection and cultivation of your beans and leave the time and resource wasting, lame Windows controlled coffee makers to the junk heap of history.
Jeez... if only Americans would have done the same thing in response to this guys efforts in his administration to do the same thing.
Seriously, where has the outrage been in the US? Did not George Orwell warn us? The number of Constitutional rights we've lost under the current administration is truly stunning and if we do not stand up and resist, this sort of thing will continue to spread throughout the world as it has in the UK, Japan, the US and many other European countries.
My first reaction is that the geohashing folks overreacted. I might be a little concerned and take photos of license plates if a bunch of people suddenly showed up on my property somewhere out in the boonies.
As to the firearms, were they scared at the mere presence of firearms or did the ranchers actually point them at anyone? If they simply saw the guns in the truck, what possibly could have scared them? Ooooh, guns.... scary.
Wow, sounds like a sure fire way to keep people from flying. Already flying is becoming too much of a hassle for many people flying for both business and pleasure and the competition will be trains, automobiles and the Internet. Generally speaking flying outside the US has been more pleasant until recently, but I may try and fly even less from here on out both foreign and domestic.
This is going to become more critical not just in terms of servers and informational or command based attacks, but also in terms of actual combat systems as we start to integrate more robots and remote networked combat platforms. For instance, my last visit to Creech AFB was very informative, but also illustrated a number of potential weaknesses in the system that controls remotely operated unmanned aerial vehicles actively engaging in combat.
Exercises such as these are critically important to war-game any networked system, particularly when that system is using commercial off the shelf solutions and commodity hardware that is accessible and easy to explore outside the realm of cyber warfare. i.e. war-gaming your attacks before going live...
I have the nice Bose headsets and while, yes... they do cancel out engine noise nicely, they are so well engineered that you can very easily hear voices and conversations sitting next to you or on the overhead PA. Believe me, I have elite frequent flyer status and fly enough to know that this policy is going to cause problems.
I once had the displeasure of sitting on a plane on the tarmac for two hours while our flight was delayed and the pilot allowed everyone to use their cell phones. It was torture as most folks were not talking on their cell phones to arrange transportation or take care of business, but they were talking (loudly) about everything and nothing and forcing those around them to have to listen! Even worse, people began trying to speak over one another and the volume gradually increased until there was an amazing din of people calling their friends to say "Hey! Hey! Betcha can't guess where I'm calling you from! An airplane! Ha ha ha ha, yeah and on my own cell phone even!". It was a horrible forced invasion of personal space and having to listen to someone blabber on and on "Like I know she does not like me because, like, she totally gave me a bitchy look yesterday and I was so like, peeved you know? because like, I think she is just so.... like not on top of it...... blah, blah, blah, blah, blah."
I am waiting for the smashed phones and fist fights to start happening in response to this.
How has D&D (and tabletop roleplaying) touched/improved your life?
It's almost cliched now but as a Dungeon Master in my early teen years, Gary Gygax's work helped to refine creativity, learning, communication, strategy and logic in a way that few other tools or experiences (including school) were able to accomplish. The rule sets were were a revolution to me at the time that helped inspire an understanding of how to engineer environments, social interactions and most of all communicate in conventional and unconventional fashions. All of these tools have certainly helped in my personal and academic lives.
I will forever be grateful to Gary Gygax and the team at TSR.
Everybody who lives in Utah is eventually Mormon
:-)
That would also be a false statement.
I know Mormons were among the first religious to adopt Einstein's Relativity because it proved what Joseph Smith was saying about chaotic matter being the foundation of element, and that intelligence was co-eternal with matter, and that matter can neither be created nor destroyed but only organized and re-organized.
Einstein's Theory of Relativity said nothing of the sort.
I also know Mormons at BYU were among the first to use Linux-based supercomputers to collide neutron stars in order to discover new high-energy particles.
Ummmm, yeah. So? There are actually lots of good computer scientists down at BYU..... Just not as good as the ones we have up here at the U of U.
I also know there are lots of Mormon Joneses.
There are also lots of Joneses that are Protestant, Catholic, Buddhist, Hindu, Jewish, Shintoists, Confucianists, Islamist, atheist, or agnostic. Again, your point is?
Just make sure those robotic eyes and visual cortex neural interfaces are a success. I may need them one day in my late middle-age in case I've inherited retinitis pigmentosa from my grandfather.
Well, we are working on the neural connectivity in the retina itself. Retinal/cortical connectivity is being explored by other groups in our team, but yeah... that (rescuing blindness) is the mission we are all working on.
Just make sure those robotic eyes and visual cortex neural interfaces are a success. I may need them one day in my late middle-age in case I've inherited retinitis pigmentosa from my grandfather.
........ That would be a pretty big stretch.
:-)
Thank you, Mormons, for superior technology.
??????? What are you talking about? Are you assuming that everyone who lives in Utah is Mormon?
Ever your willing servant,
Wanna donate your eyes?
Last time I was in Japan, (scroll down for the robot) progress in the Toyota Partner Robot development was truly impressive. They have amazingly smooth, articulated motions, can walk with close to natural gaits and can climb stairs. Robots, whether fully autonomous or semi-autonomous are here to stay in rolls from support like the ones being developed in Japan or for defense/warfare applications like I saw on my recent visit to Creech AFB. I gotta say though, that this robot has got to be one of my favorites and this robot has got to be one of the creepiest.
You were so quick with the ad hominem that you seem to missed what he really implied was that search warrants take to long to get.
That does not mean that we need to circumvent to process. The whole point of a warrant is to ensure that there is justification to violate Constitutionally protected rights. You are absolutely correct that we have been lax at the whole process and I am aware of how difficult things have been as a good friend of mine tells me (FBI special agent).
Part of the principal problem with the FBI has been that they have not been able to implement a proper FBI network despite hundreds of millions/billions of dollars spent and agents are left without the electronic resources they need. That however, does not mean that we need to segregate the Internet with a new Internet that is easier to snoop on. Besides, I would frankly not trust the FBI to implement this Internet as past performance is the best indicator of future performance.
"Former FBI Agent Patrick J. Dempsey warns that the Internet has become a sanctuary for cyber criminals
Any time you have a new community or resource to exploit, there will be criminals. However, calling it a sanctuary is hardly apt. I can think of more than a few places that are a sanctuary for criminals, yet you won't see the government razing those neighborhoods and starting anew, would you? Besides, who gets called a criminal?
and the only way to rectify this is to create a second, more secure Internet.
Ummmm, no. What he means is that they want to form a new network that can routinely be filtered, scanned and probed with no means of anonymity (already going away) or flexibility.
Dempsey explains that, in order to successfully fight cyber crime, law enforcement officials need to move much faster than average investigators and cooperate with international law enforcement officials.
How about figuring out how to deploy a network within your own agency first, that agency employees can actually use?
Beyond unworkable, there are other issues at play including 4th Amendment rights. This is covered in Pete Ashdown's blog (Pete is an ISP owner)
Bruce is a fellow satellite spotter also with some degree of background and in the subject matter and has good coverage here.
First off, they are likely dramatically under representing synaptic connectivity through both conventional synapses and gap junctions. On top of that they are essentially modeling currently understood pathways and are under-predicting the recurrent feedback loops that are apparently the most common type of synapse in neural systems. Finally, definitions of neuronal "classes" are apparently underpredicted as neurons are more than simply connectivity circuits. There is pharmacology and other very subtle physiology at play as well.
Althought quite good already (in terms of biological realism),
While this project is verrry cool, they are not even remotely close to biological realism. Sorry...
their simulation model is still incomplete with a few more years work to get the neurons working like in real life.
That is just it. We are finding that real biological systems from complete neural reconstructions are far more complex with many more participating "classes" of neurons with much more in the way of nested and recurrent collateral connectivity than is predicted by any existing model of neural connectivity.
I'll be meeting with Kurzweil in April.... Speaking as a neuroscientist who is doing complex neural reconstructions, I think he's off his timeline by at least two decades. Note that we (scientists) have yet to really reconstruct an actual neural system outside of an invertebrate and are finding that the model diagrams grossly under-predict the actual complexity present.
You don't know how right you are... I just finished visiting a certain location, taking photos and writing for an article on UAV operations. The experience was truly amazing with operations that would have been absolutely impossible just a few years ago being done on a daily basis.
It is actually getting harder to identify satellites due to the efforts that certain governments are taking, including building in additional propulsion and stealth features built into the latest launches to alter and conceal orbits from those that might be predicted from launch. This is to prevent not only the ability to track orbits and know when a particular platform may be overhead, but it also prevents many of the current technologies like adaptive optics from being able to identify features of orbiting satellites as shown here .
Physics essentially defines how big an object is that can be resolved from space which is (until recently) about 10cm optimal given the best altitude, angle of the sun and angle of captured image with perfect atmospheric conditions. Currently most satellite in orbit are using standard optics. However, using a newer technology called adaptive optics, images can be obtained that allow for much higher resolution. Some examples of ground based adaptive optics imaging of satellites can be seen here , but space based adaptive optics work is an area of very active interest in a variety of fields from science to intelligence.
If you use the adapter, it is 100BT, not gigabit which is really fine for most purposes as it will be roughly twice as fast as the best wireless connection that I've been able to find while on the road.
Actually, I'd argue that Apple hit the nail right on the head. I ordered one as soon as they were available simply because the 15in Powerbook is too unwieldy for extensive travel, especially internationally where every ounce counts and space is at an all time premium. Flying in and out of the UK for instance, you are limited to one carry-on and when you are already carrying gear (camera gear in my case), a 2.5 lb savings along with the smallest form factor you can manage and still have a full size keyboard can be tremendous (I've tried the smaller keyboards and if you do lots of writing, they are impossible).
The battery issue is relatively minor as many airline seats on flights longer than 5 hours have power outlets and you can do wired internet with the MacBook Air through the USB port.
For all of your cynics posting in reply, all I have to say is that these documents (the Constitution, its amendments and the Declaration of Independence) have shaped who we are as a country. The last time I visited them was an intensely powerful experience, and I suggest if you are ever in the area, do stop by and reflect on the history of these documents and what is, what was and what is to become.