Sure, constant velocity in a non-gravitational vacuum is a basic given in astrophysics - but that's NOT a "perpetual motion machine". There's no energy transfer there. Now when that flying star hits another object and maintains its speed and direction gimme a call! (and note the star itself will likely die out and implode before that happens!)
I have no argument that the model is "correct" but that's like saying I made a mathematical proof that I'll go bankrupt if I keep spending $500 a month but only earn $400 and it's an inevitable conclusion that I'm doomed and then patting myself on the back for how clever I am. (Hint: not much if I'm spending more than I earn!)
I don't even need a mathematical proof to say that extending life is difficult as there's plenty of evidence with man-made objects which are 100% controllable machines and can be rebuilt-repaired indefinitely but eventually it always becomes a lost cause.
No system is a perpetual motion machine nor can it ever be a perpetual motion machine by the very laws of physics!
But that won't stop us from trying!
I agree with other posters here that I don't think it was ever truly alive. I used it on my systems but then I'm the tech of the family (and the extended family) and knew how the stuff all worked and that included friends and family that were big into music too. I think I'm the only one that actually used the XBox 360 toslink adapter!
But, still, even with the convenience of one cable connections via HDMI (if they ever get all the kinks worked out) - there was something nostalgic geeky cool about connecting your components with light cables!
From my understanding the software "worked as advertised" and pulled back Word DOC and other files for additional investigation. Allegedly those files ended up in the Russian governments hands via that pull back.
So what's an analysis of the source code going to show? That Kapersky sends back Word DOC files? Well... DERP.
The CEO of Kapersky has already defended his software's actions that pulled back code that looked like it was malicious and that they make no apologies for being aggressive in tracking cyber-crime.
More importantly will this release of the source code include their data tables for the signatures and key phrases they detect?
As a current owner of an iPhone 6, I have absolutely NO intention of ever upgrading to an iPhone X. I like the touchId but, more importantly, I like an actual physical BUTTON on the 6. I don't even like the recessed divot for the 7 or the 8 as there's no substitute for it when wearing gloves (and no, haptic feedback is NOT a substitute).
I don't even understand how Tim thinks that Face ID is unique to the iPhone when Microsoft already offers it for their Surface Pros and, surely, Google can buy the tech if need be.
This is nothing more than Tech CEO masturbation to keep the churn rate going. Cook is out of ideas and out of his depth. Apple is stagnating and no longer innovating while ignoring core infrastructure and support. For example I had to help out a friend do an upgrade from their iPhone 5 to iPhone 7 after iOS 11 came out. Guess what, iTunes backup will NOT let you update because the iOS' are different - but if you go through the iCloud update you can. Why? Because that's why. Why are the backup scenarios different between the iCloud and iTunes?
But hey, Tim's brought us animoji, so uh, there's that.
That he was arguing over their shoddy security practices and management didn't care.
First off they didn't revoke his access keys immediately after firing him/letting him resign - for INSUBORDINATION of all things
Then it took them 3 weeks to figure out anything had been done, almost a day to figure out they just had to reboot the switches and then they had to call in specialists to figure out how to check the switch logs.
And boy howdy he sure showed them!/s
That explains how the docs got to Kapersky's labs and Russia.
It does not explain how it got OUT of Kapersky's labs and into the hands of Russian hackers.
So essentially - any antivirus program will essentially spy on you and upload any personal documents it claims looks "suspicious".
It's like having the TSA installed on your computer.
So we had a third party audit team come in to insure we were in compliance with appropriate security regulations.
My app is essentially a scripting service internally to make it easier to connect various functions together. We don't generate data, we only take data from inputs or pull from encrypted databases (if it's sensitive data) and we only store working data for as long as the script runs. We're a web service so we use SSL for all communications and any temp storage is stored in an encrypted state too except for things related to script processing (running state, launcher process, etc) which should never have sensitive data in it to begin with.
So we explain this to the audit crew which is obviously used to one way systems (data being generated or data being stored - not a dynamic system that generates actions on the fly) and the first thing they ask is - "How are you guaranteeing that sensitive data is being encrypted?"
"We're encrypting it all...?"
"But how do you know when you're getting information like credit card numbers?"
"We don't. Data is handed to us and we process it and return the results."
"But how do you know it's secure?"
"Because we encrypt it on the input and output pipes and store it encrypted on any external systems which are also on SSL pipes. Internally we don't decrypt until the data is needed and no process data is logged aside from metadata of the state."
Yeah - the article paints Nestle as evil but gives the city leaders a total pass for charging only a $200 extraction fee.
Either the city leaders are completely incompetent and should be kicked out or they took kickbacks in someway and should be kicked out and imprisoned.
My only thought is that the city leaders decided it'd be worth the cost in terms of jobs and increased tax dollars to the city (which this article pooh-poohs as not worthwhile to research). I know a nearby town has a nestle plant and it's been a boon for the survival of the town.
I think because, as nerds, we've all actually... DONE IT.
I have. i transferred several old VHS tapes of various shows and such that aren't produced anymore as well as some old recordings I made way back when on my parent's VCR. I had the actual original airing of the first Borg contact on ST:TNG. Ironically, i decided to digitzie it not because it was ST:TNG (I can get blu-rays for that) or the first airing but because of the commercials!
Before that I digitized my old Laserdisc copies of Space Ace and Dragon's Lair.
I had a buncha old CD's from NextGen that I tossed though but those were all windows based and probably wouldn't have worked anymore.
I also scanned all my grandfather's slides using an actual film/slide scanner. (Something I thought would be a few months' of weekends that stretched into 4 years)
After being outrageously outraged I lied down and took a stresstab and I think I see the usability standpoint. They're probably getting tons of customer support calls from naive users whining that they can't airdrop from their iPhone to their iPad because they turned off wifi on their iPhone. (I do that all the time as I leave my macbook connected to an ethernet connection and turn off the wifi and then can't figure out why my macbook doesn't show up on airdrop but the 15 people's iPhone in the office cubes around me do!)
That said, they've broken the first law of UI design - DON'T CHANGE THE BEHAVIOR OF A BUTTON ONCE YOU'VE ESTABLISHED ITS USE. If anything it should be a tri-state button now - full on - apple services only - off. That would've clarified the intent to the user of the change AND alerted the user to its valid state.
Is it any wonder that many considered Steve Jobs an asshole when he would go off? He was probably going off on UI designers doing stuff like this.
"DUDE - I PAY YOU A QUARTER OF A MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR AND YOU'RE PUSHING THIS S$*@ ON ME?! WTF?!"
I didn't check but I'm guessing it does otherwise it makes them in violation of regulations probably worldwide.
But that sort of defeats the purpose because you're turning off ALL radios including the cellphone - so no texts or calls when, presumably, you're turning off the wifi/bluetooth for power saving/security reasons.
AI companies also implement modern development practices, like frequent deployments.
Wha... so I'm not a REAL AI company unless I do continuous deployment like an agile strategy?
Doesn't that belie the fact that a TRUE AI should only be deployed ONCE and then becomes self maintainable?
Fess up - You guys don't have "AI" either - you have nothing more than the old Animal program on steroids and you're constantly updating the backend database that the "AI" program drives through to find a match http://www.animalgame.com/play...
We compared Chrome to one of the most reviled web browsers in the world for poor security and discovered it came out on top!
You won't believe what happened next - click here!
Yeah - it's great playing Pokemon Go while waiting in line and then tapping the reader with the game going and the card appears, I press the button and continue playing.
The reactions are priceless
"Is that a Snorlax?!" (Why yes... yes it is)
"Those things never work and... oh wow... it worked... wait you can play pokemon while doing that?!"
My wildest experience using ApplePay though was in a cab in Miami where the cab driver started freaking out that I was hacking his credit card scanner with my iPhone!
You've got the double press the power (now the "selector"?) button to enable ApplePay now and they've probably disabled the auto-detection. If anything your scenario is more likely now with TouchID.
My main issue with it is that it's not as seamless as using ApplePay with TouchID. Pull the phone out of my pocket, move the iPhone to the reader, wait for the iPhone to detect the reader and the card to appear and press the home button to confirm
Now i've got to pull the phone out of my pocket, hold the phone to my face, double click the button and move the phone to the reader and then wait for the iPhone to detect the reader and hope that it detects my reader and not the one next to it as I move it over.
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Sure, constant velocity in a non-gravitational vacuum is a basic given in astrophysics - but that's NOT a "perpetual motion machine". There's no energy transfer there. Now when that flying star hits another object and maintains its speed and direction gimme a call! (and note the star itself will likely die out and implode before that happens!)
I have no argument that the model is "correct" but that's like saying I made a mathematical proof that I'll go bankrupt if I keep spending $500 a month but only earn $400 and it's an inevitable conclusion that I'm doomed and then patting myself on the back for how clever I am. (Hint: not much if I'm spending more than I earn!)
I don't even need a mathematical proof to say that extending life is difficult as there's plenty of evidence with man-made objects which are 100% controllable machines and can be rebuilt-repaired indefinitely but eventually it always becomes a lost cause.
No system is a perpetual motion machine nor can it ever be a perpetual motion machine by the very laws of physics!
But that won't stop us from trying!
I agree with other posters here that I don't think it was ever truly alive. I used it on my systems but then I'm the tech of the family (and the extended family) and knew how the stuff all worked and that included friends and family that were big into music too. I think I'm the only one that actually used the XBox 360 toslink adapter!
But, still, even with the convenience of one cable connections via HDMI (if they ever get all the kinks worked out) - there was something nostalgic geeky cool about connecting your components with light cables!
"I'm not dead yet! I feel like dancing!"
"Can't you come back later?!"
From my understanding the software "worked as advertised" and pulled back Word DOC and other files for additional investigation. Allegedly those files ended up in the Russian governments hands via that pull back.
So what's an analysis of the source code going to show? That Kapersky sends back Word DOC files? Well... DERP.
The CEO of Kapersky has already defended his software's actions that pulled back code that looked like it was malicious and that they make no apologies for being aggressive in tracking cyber-crime.
More importantly will this release of the source code include their data tables for the signatures and key phrases they detect?
What a clever way to scan every piece of software you download to your PC and data collect what you're downloading.
I'm sure they wouldn't use it to search for pirated software or movies...
As a current owner of an iPhone 6, I have absolutely NO intention of ever upgrading to an iPhone X. I like the touchId but, more importantly, I like an actual physical BUTTON on the 6. I don't even like the recessed divot for the 7 or the 8 as there's no substitute for it when wearing gloves (and no, haptic feedback is NOT a substitute).
I don't even understand how Tim thinks that Face ID is unique to the iPhone when Microsoft already offers it for their Surface Pros and, surely, Google can buy the tech if need be.
This is nothing more than Tech CEO masturbation to keep the churn rate going. Cook is out of ideas and out of his depth. Apple is stagnating and no longer innovating while ignoring core infrastructure and support. For example I had to help out a friend do an upgrade from their iPhone 5 to iPhone 7 after iOS 11 came out. Guess what, iTunes backup will NOT let you update because the iOS' are different - but if you go through the iCloud update you can. Why? Because that's why. Why are the backup scenarios different between the iCloud and iTunes?
But hey, Tim's brought us animoji, so uh, there's that.
That he was arguing over their shoddy security practices and management didn't care. /s
First off they didn't revoke his access keys immediately after firing him/letting him resign - for INSUBORDINATION of all things
Then it took them 3 weeks to figure out anything had been done, almost a day to figure out they just had to reboot the switches and then they had to call in specialists to figure out how to check the switch logs.
And boy howdy he sure showed them!
That explains how the docs got to Kapersky's labs and Russia.
It does not explain how it got OUT of Kapersky's labs and into the hands of Russian hackers.
So essentially - any antivirus program will essentially spy on you and upload any personal documents it claims looks "suspicious".
It's like having the TSA installed on your computer.
Although doesn't this:
Note we make no apologies for being aggressive in the battle against cyberthreats.
Sound like a tacit admission?
So we had a third party audit team come in to insure we were in compliance with appropriate security regulations.
My app is essentially a scripting service internally to make it easier to connect various functions together. We don't generate data, we only take data from inputs or pull from encrypted databases (if it's sensitive data) and we only store working data for as long as the script runs. We're a web service so we use SSL for all communications and any temp storage is stored in an encrypted state too except for things related to script processing (running state, launcher process, etc) which should never have sensitive data in it to begin with.
So we explain this to the audit crew which is obviously used to one way systems (data being generated or data being stored - not a dynamic system that generates actions on the fly) and the first thing they ask is - "How are you guaranteeing that sensitive data is being encrypted?"
"We're encrypting it all...?"
"But how do you know when you're getting information like credit card numbers?"
"We don't. Data is handed to us and we process it and return the results."
"But how do you know it's secure?"
"Because we encrypt it on the input and output pipes and store it encrypted on any external systems which are also on SSL pipes. Internally we don't decrypt until the data is needed and no process data is logged aside from metadata of the state."
"But how can you guarantee it's secure?"
Fluffernutter springs(r)(tm) "ahhhhh"
Yeah - the article paints Nestle as evil but gives the city leaders a total pass for charging only a $200 extraction fee.
Either the city leaders are completely incompetent and should be kicked out or they took kickbacks in someway and should be kicked out and imprisoned.
My only thought is that the city leaders decided it'd be worth the cost in terms of jobs and increased tax dollars to the city (which this article pooh-poohs as not worthwhile to research). I know a nearby town has a nestle plant and it's been a boon for the survival of the town.
Oh yeah - you know who made me mp3s from mix tapes?!
YOUR MOM!
I think because, as nerds, we've all actually... DONE IT.
I have. i transferred several old VHS tapes of various shows and such that aren't produced anymore as well as some old recordings I made way back when on my parent's VCR. I had the actual original airing of the first Borg contact on ST:TNG. Ironically, i decided to digitzie it not because it was ST:TNG (I can get blu-rays for that) or the first airing but because of the commercials!
Before that I digitized my old Laserdisc copies of Space Ace and Dragon's Lair.
I had a buncha old CD's from NextGen that I tossed though but those were all windows based and probably wouldn't have worked anymore.
I also scanned all my grandfather's slides using an actual film/slide scanner. (Something I thought would be a few months' of weekends that stretched into 4 years)
You can't get more nerdy than that!
MUH RUMMM!!
(Heh... why is the rum gone?... oh...)
The cat3 hurricane ENGULFED THE ENTIRE ISLAND.
Real news would've been all the power staying on!
After being outrageously outraged I lied down and took a stresstab and I think I see the usability standpoint. They're probably getting tons of customer support calls from naive users whining that they can't airdrop from their iPhone to their iPad because they turned off wifi on their iPhone. (I do that all the time as I leave my macbook connected to an ethernet connection and turn off the wifi and then can't figure out why my macbook doesn't show up on airdrop but the 15 people's iPhone in the office cubes around me do!)
That said, they've broken the first law of UI design - DON'T CHANGE THE BEHAVIOR OF A BUTTON ONCE YOU'VE ESTABLISHED ITS USE. If anything it should be a tri-state button now - full on - apple services only - off. That would've clarified the intent to the user of the change AND alerted the user to its valid state.
Is it any wonder that many considered Steve Jobs an asshole when he would go off? He was probably going off on UI designers doing stuff like this. "DUDE - I PAY YOU A QUARTER OF A MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR AND YOU'RE PUSHING THIS S$*@ ON ME?! WTF?!"
I didn't check but I'm guessing it does otherwise it makes them in violation of regulations probably worldwide.
But that sort of defeats the purpose because you're turning off ALL radios including the cellphone - so no texts or calls when, presumably, you're turning off the wifi/bluetooth for power saving/security reasons.
AI companies also implement modern development practices, like frequent deployments.
Wha... so I'm not a REAL AI company unless I do continuous deployment like an agile strategy?
Doesn't that belie the fact that a TRUE AI should only be deployed ONCE and then becomes self maintainable?
Fess up - You guys don't have "AI" either - you have nothing more than the old Animal program on steroids and you're constantly updating the backend database that the "AI" program drives through to find a match
http://www.animalgame.com/play...
We compared Chrome to one of the most reviled web browsers in the world for poor security and discovered it came out on top! You won't believe what happened next - click here!
Yeah - it's great playing Pokemon Go while waiting in line and then tapping the reader with the game going and the card appears, I press the button and continue playing.
The reactions are priceless
"Is that a Snorlax?!" (Why yes... yes it is)
"Those things never work and... oh wow... it worked... wait you can play pokemon while doing that?!"
My wildest experience using ApplePay though was in a cab in Miami where the cab driver started freaking out that I was hacking his credit card scanner with my iPhone!
You've got the double press the power (now the "selector"?) button to enable ApplePay now and they've probably disabled the auto-detection. If anything your scenario is more likely now with TouchID. My main issue with it is that it's not as seamless as using ApplePay with TouchID. Pull the phone out of my pocket, move the iPhone to the reader, wait for the iPhone to detect the reader and the card to appear and press the home button to confirm Now i've got to pull the phone out of my pocket, hold the phone to my face, double click the button and move the phone to the reader and then wait for the iPhone to detect the reader and hope that it detects my reader and not the one next to it as I move it over.
Well it only works if your eyes are open so they can't mace you then try to scan you...