Why do people always believe that their home is always somehow a target for burglars?
Well, once you've got a troop of seeing-eye robot sentries constantly patrolling the house, I think you have made your house a pretty good target. Adding lasers and tripwires, doubly. So I think those things are justified... if you've installed them.
Kinect for Xbox 360 has not been hacked - in any way - as the software and hardware that are part of Kinect for Xbox 360 have not been modified. What has happened is someone has created drivers that allow other devices to interface with the Kinect for Xbox 360. The creation of these drivers, and the use of Kinect for Xbox 360 with other devices, is unsupported. We strongly encourage customers to use Kinect for Xbox 360 with their Xbox 360 to get the best experience possible.
Hey, Microsoft, this is all this "hack" will likely ever be: figuring out the protocol and encryption so that the device can be used with any computer. Hardware modification would make it much less usable to people, so it's unlikely.
But this is very interesting, as the above statement from Microsoft could probably used as a defense when Microsoft inevitably sues people once an open-source driver is released. "But your honor, Microsoft itself stated that this is not a hack, in any way!"
I get the feeling that Microsoft's real target is not those writing a driver, but investors and developers for whom an open-source driver is a threat. Apparently this device is being sold near cost, or even lower, in order to help establish it in homes so that game developers will use it. If its protocol were unlocked, then Microsoft might have to raise its price, which would lower sales and thus reduce the number that go into homes.
Let's also hope that the users of this test are able to read the instructions well enough to see that it's not the phone that they urinate on, as the article headline and summary state.
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It's also good to learn English and get accustomed its apostrophe and possession features.
Apparently ink and toner will still be allowed on flights out-bound from the United States. The distinction between domestic flights and out-bound international flights makes no sense to me. If someone can target a domestic flight by assembling the toner-bomb in the US, why couldn't the same person target an international flight out-bound from the US?
They're actually bits, not strings. I will spare myself the task of explaining further.
Good, because it wouldn't be necessary. On the other hand, in an informal sense, a string is "A linear sequence of characters, words, or other data" (from Google dictionary). In this case, it's a linear sequence of bits. The bits aren't characters (unless your machine's characters are a single bit wide), but I think string was appropriate. I could have called them a one-dimensional vector, or a linear sequence of bits, but I guess I didn't think of you when writing the post.
I've also found that holding a floor button will close the doors. So say I'm going to the 4th floor. If I see nobody else outside, I step in and press and hold the 4 button, and the doors close immediately.
I think anyone who has the overwhelming dedication to create a 1500+ page tome about every nook and cranny of the Linux API can be spared the task of explaining how to write text files. But that's just me.
Man pages are written in [ng]roff format, so no, they're not just text files.
It's even worse than that. They're all just strings of zeroes and ones, even Linux programs. I think the author can be spared the task of explaining how to write a string of zeroes and ones, don't you think?
First off, you have no justification for being rude. Second, I wasn't claiming that DNA was code or data. The idea was to work on a simpler problem that's superficially similar, and see whether one is able to think about that without trouble. If one has trouble with that, one is sure to have trouble with the biological one. It's like testing something; you first start with things that you are sure of the proper response. If that fails, you can be fairly sure it will fail for more complex things. One's ability to think about a subject can be tested in a similar way. It won't catch all problems, but it can at least catch some.
What is the cause of the behavior of a program, its code or input? Obviously both in virtually all cases. The code sets what inputs it can respond to, and the inputs determine which response occurs. Flexible programs have long-term state, allowing inputs to have an effect on response far into the future. Why is there even a debate as to whether it's the code or input that entirely decides behavior? The particular behavior depends on the program, of course. A program which merely echoes its input back, without any state, is less-flexible than one that receives a script, then interprets it.
Usually the people running these things have no ability to think adversarially, so they consider something that is several levels removed from the Internet to not be Internet connected, even though it is.
Indeed, everything is connected to the Internet. It's always just an Ethernet cable away. Send the right commands over a phone line, and that cable will be connected for you.
[...] Nice to see a company take a principled stand, backed by a CEO who's not afraid to put his money where his company's mouth is, right? Well, maybe not. Just three days after the measure went down in flames, [...]
I'm really tired of blog postings being accepted as summaries of news, complete with sarcastic comments embedded. This is just one example. If I want to read blogs, I know where to find them. I come here to read summaries of news items, and discussion about them. If someone submitting a story wants to share his opinion (everyone's got one), he can do so in the discussion. If he thinks his opinion is so noteworthy that it deserves special attention, he can start a blog and mix his opinion with everything. There's value in having a neutral summary of the news event.
Just letting you know that I had to stop reading your post once you used the word "sheeple". Don't know why you stooped to a low like that, but oh well.
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'11? That could mean 0.11, if the ' contracts the 0. Or it could mean 111. Which is it?
What about the FSF version? Would that be GNU/free? That's 8 characters.
Well, once you've got a troop of seeing-eye robot sentries constantly patrolling the house, I think you have made your house a pretty good target. Adding lasers and tripwires, doubly. So I think those things are justified... if you've installed them.
There, fixed that for you.
"Developers... developers... developers... developers... developers... developers... developers... developers... developers... developers... developers..." wouldn't fit within a tweet.
Hey, Microsoft, this is all this "hack" will likely ever be: figuring out the protocol and encryption so that the device can be used with any computer. Hardware modification would make it much less usable to people, so it's unlikely.
But this is very interesting, as the above statement from Microsoft could probably used as a defense when Microsoft inevitably sues people once an open-source driver is released. "But your honor, Microsoft itself stated that this is not a hack, in any way!"
I get the feeling that Microsoft's real target is not those writing a driver, but investors and developers for whom an open-source driver is a threat. Apparently this device is being sold near cost, or even lower, in order to help establish it in homes so that game developers will use it. If its protocol were unlocked, then Microsoft might have to raise its price, which would lower sales and thus reduce the number that go into homes.
Let's also hope that the users of this test are able to read the instructions well enough to see that it's not the phone that they urinate on, as the article headline and summary state.
Nevermind that; the examples comes up blank if one doesn't have JavaScript enabled. HTML FAIL.
It's also good to learn English and get accustomed its apostrophe and possession features.
I wonder whether Telestra will have the same attitude towards file sharers who are allegedly infringing on copyrights.
In other words, the laptop doesn't even need to be powered for the damaging effects?
I think you mean, show me on the memory map where the program inappropriately accessed memory.
Good point; I'm sure they'll see the error of their ways if you explain that at the airport.
Good, because it wouldn't be necessary. On the other hand, in an informal sense, a string is "A linear sequence of characters, words, or other data" (from Google dictionary). In this case, it's a linear sequence of bits. The bits aren't characters (unless your machine's characters are a single bit wide), but I think string was appropriate. I could have called them a one-dimensional vector, or a linear sequence of bits, but I guess I didn't think of you when writing the post.
I've also found that holding a floor button will close the doors. So say I'm going to the 4th floor. If I see nobody else outside, I step in and press and hold the 4 button, and the doors close immediately.
It's even worse than that. They're all just strings of zeroes and ones, even Linux programs. I think the author can be spared the task of explaining how to write a string of zeroes and ones, don't you think?
tl; dr. Anyone got a summary of the summary?
First off, you have no justification for being rude. Second, I wasn't claiming that DNA was code or data. The idea was to work on a simpler problem that's superficially similar, and see whether one is able to think about that without trouble. If one has trouble with that, one is sure to have trouble with the biological one. It's like testing something; you first start with things that you are sure of the proper response. If that fails, you can be fairly sure it will fail for more complex things. One's ability to think about a subject can be tested in a similar way. It won't catch all problems, but it can at least catch some.
What is the cause of the behavior of a program, its code or input? Obviously both in virtually all cases. The code sets what inputs it can respond to, and the inputs determine which response occurs. Flexible programs have long-term state, allowing inputs to have an effect on response far into the future. Why is there even a debate as to whether it's the code or input that entirely decides behavior? The particular behavior depends on the program, of course. A program which merely echoes its input back, without any state, is less-flexible than one that receives a script, then interprets it.
Indeed, everything is connected to the Internet. It's always just an Ethernet cable away. Send the right commands over a phone line, and that cable will be connected for you.
I'm really tired of blog postings being accepted as summaries of news, complete with sarcastic comments embedded. This is just one example. If I want to read blogs, I know where to find them. I come here to read summaries of news items, and discussion about them. If someone submitting a story wants to share his opinion (everyone's got one), he can do so in the discussion. If he thinks his opinion is so noteworthy that it deserves special attention, he can start a blog and mix his opinion with everything. There's value in having a neutral summary of the news event.
I found a picture of the computer the simulation was run on.
Here are some improved article headlines:
Not Transparent Steel, But Conductive Plastic
Not Non-Conductive Plastic, But Conductive Plastic
Not Green Eggs And Ham, But Conductive Plastic
Then multiply by the fraction of which would have actually bought the song were it not for the shared file.
Just letting you know that I had to stop reading your post once you used the word "sheeple". Don't know why you stooped to a low like that, but oh well.