The guy at this site maintains a crazy list of advertisers and malicious site DNS records... then points them all to 0.0.0.0 using host file format. It has served me well for years now.
Outside of the just the concern about robotic systems replacing formerly human jobs is the expanded conversation about growth in income inequality. You know the board of directors aren't going to AI themselves out of their jobs. At least not before everyone else is. Which means all that same corporate profit is funneling to fewer and fewer people.
If there is going to be a serious discussion about how to try to keep free, modern cultures in a healthy state in relation to income inequality, then automation needs to be a part of that discussion.
This is a nightmare scenario really for VW and anyone else involved in owning/fixing these cars. It's most likely going to cost thousands per car to add the system necessary to clean the NOx gasses out of the exhaust that larger trucks use. And there is a good chance additional modifications will be needed that will likely give a significant hit to fuel mileage. These manufacturers are staring down the barrel of thousands of dollars per car fixes plus class action lawsuits up the wazoo from customers who's cars are suddenly getting double digit worse mileage.
This article made me take a step back and ponder my own kid's current education, as well as how mine went throughout my growing up years. I think they hit the nail on the head about something I had never thought too much about. Personally, I think I'm going to make a point of bringing just how many questions are still out there about various topics I talk about with my kids. It seems so obvious how important that is - and yet information over my entire life has always been presented in a confident and certain manner, in which what we don't know is left out of the discussion.
I have a hard time thinking of anything more obvious than the fact that "smart " are technology security disasters waiting to happen. With the current architecture of the internet and networking from the top down there is nothing truly safe. Especially consumer grade at home tech built with technology plebeians in mind.
Call me old fashioned but I see enough at work and stories online every day to commit to keeping my home, appliances, vehicles, and anything else possible off the internet.
My bit of advice is to tell her that when it comes to love and long term partners:
When considering marrying someone (or some other form of potentially life long commitment), take a serious moment to consider the possibility of past loves unexpectedly entering your life in the future. Can you answer that if that past love showed up and begged you to return to them, would you consider it seriously? If the answer is yes, don't get married. The current prospect is not a life long match for yourself.
I lived on a farm growing up, and everyone I knew did 100% of their farm equipment repairs themselves. I can just picture how pissed these guys are when they can't fix something themselves lol.
I wonder if there is a huge price increase on used 1980's-1990's tractors.
Watching any type of movie, with the exception of real life footage or stylized full CGI moves (not trying to look life like) - such as nature shots, or real world scenes, or Toy Story type movies, look cheap and hokie on ultra high definition formats. Anything computer generated, or a prop, or costume, or makeup is easily noticeable. Anything fake, you can see is fake.
Personally I think the 1080p high definition is about the pinnacle of combining a good crisp look with still being able to suspend one's visual cues and pretend they are watching something real.
This was my initial reaction in reading this - Who, with any interest or knowledge at all in the topic, doesn't know the state Yucca Mountain resides in?!
I'm a huge LED fanboy. I've been buying only LEDs for the last 3-4 years. The early ones especially have not held up. I believe I only have 1 still functioning out of the 4 I bought in my first full room conversion.
The newer ones - GE model 100w equivalent I typically get from Sam's Club - have been a lot better. I've only had 1 fail so far out of the 10 I have put into service.
In any case, it's not a far fetched claim that a significant percentage of these lights last no where close to as long as they claim they will. A battle hardened customer service call should be able to replace those that fail early.
Seems to work the fine for me. As has been said, the host file modification from the winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm site blocks 99% of ads as far as I can tell. Privacy badger is a nice little extension that checks for browser tracking.
I like putting my idle processors to work using IBM's World Community Grid. Basically get them cranking on solutions to various scientific projects submitted to the IBM for calculation on member processors.
If you are even the slightest bit concerned with the security of data on your network, isolate wireless completely from your secure data. In my very unscientific estimate it seems 90%+ of the usefulness of wireless is for just basic internet access for executive types anyhow who don't need to be checking production data.
The hard part is getting some basic tech (of any kind) experience under your belt. You have that.
Go get up to date Microsoft certifications, understand the product to a significant degree, and you will be able to find a decent sysadmin job somewhere. Maybe not something above 50k - yet - but you will find something good. Then, once you get more hands on experience with business support scenarios for a few years, you can move on from there to the higher paying world (and higher stress typically lol).
I don't even remember the last time I heard of a large scale data compromise from passwords being either brute forced or guessed.
By a massive amount - bordering on 100% - compromises are from backdoors, social engineering, and zero day vulnerabilities that lengthy, encrypted, impossible to remember passwords don't help.
If you think that the 100 commenters here are even close to representing the typical reader of this site - then you are more like the self centered power gamers of a certain MMO than you realize. A boisterous minority are about all that us who enjoy posting comments are, compared to everyone who visits. Go look at the number of visits per article numbers. Going by the numbers of the "most visited" articles I'd guess that less than 1% of people visiting this article posted here.
All the hate seems overly picky. I went to check it out after reading all the hate in this tread... wtf it's just fine. Yeah, it's redesigned. But from a quick browse around story read, comment read session I hardly saw anything worth deleting my shortcut to Slashdot for. I think you are all caught up in a yet another bout of senseless internet nerd rage.
Do you know what this reminds me of? When a popular MMO game releases a patch and all the power gamers freak the hell out. But to the other 95% of players they can hardly tell a difference between pre and post changes and certainly not any that they don't get used to and play just fine with within 15 minutes.
It's fairly easy to get to 'mostly secure' with off the shelf appliances and training/education. But each percentage more secure a network becomes beyond that point becomes exponentially more expensive in both IT implementation costs and user productivity lost. Unfortunately this cost is too much for a very large percentage of companies when it comes to their overall profitability from both the implementation and productivity end.
Personally I think the corporate world needs to shift away from maintaining any sort of data that should be considered 'highly sensitive' in the first place. Instead of such data being desired, it should be shunned. And only in the most required of circumstances allowed by leadership. As it stands now leadership is grasping for this highly sensitive data like random citizens grasping for cash falling from an overturned armored truck on a bridge - and they don't want to put the money and resource into keeping it safe.
It fixed most of what was wrong with Windows 8. Plus the 'getting used to it' factor is about over.
The problem for Microsoft isn't Windows 8 so much at this point - it is that a huge percentage of their user base are doing more and more from their smart phones or tables - and Windows isn't a solid player in that area. And... frankly at this point it's going to be extremely difficult for them to make much headway into the market. That boat has sailed and the big time mobile players have already filled their ship with Microsoft's PC customers.
Is there anyone in the USA that doesn't have their fingerprints already stored in some FBI controlled database? It's nearly universal as far as I can tell to have children's finger prints taken officially at school "to protect against kidnapping" type mentality. It has been happening at least since the early 80s when I was that age and was prodded into sticking my small child fingers into the ink and rolled onto an official paper - with a spot for each finger.
Slashdot Mirror
The guy at this site maintains a crazy list of advertisers and malicious site DNS records... then points them all to 0.0.0.0 using host file format. It has served me well for years now.
http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/ho...
Outside of the just the concern about robotic systems replacing formerly human jobs is the expanded conversation about growth in income inequality. You know the board of directors aren't going to AI themselves out of their jobs. At least not before everyone else is. Which means all that same corporate profit is funneling to fewer and fewer people.
If there is going to be a serious discussion about how to try to keep free, modern cultures in a healthy state in relation to income inequality, then automation needs to be a part of that discussion.
Considering time is directly linked to movement through space it's not surprising our brains use the same area to measure and remember both.
This is a nightmare scenario really for VW and anyone else involved in owning/fixing these cars. It's most likely going to cost thousands per car to add the system necessary to clean the NOx gasses out of the exhaust that larger trucks use. And there is a good chance additional modifications will be needed that will likely give a significant hit to fuel mileage. These manufacturers are staring down the barrel of thousands of dollars per car fixes plus class action lawsuits up the wazoo from customers who's cars are suddenly getting double digit worse mileage.
http://www.wired.com/2015/09/v...
http://www.popularmechanics.co...
This article made me take a step back and ponder my own kid's current education, as well as how mine went throughout my growing up years. I think they hit the nail on the head about something I had never thought too much about. Personally, I think I'm going to make a point of bringing just how many questions are still out there about various topics I talk about with my kids. It seems so obvious how important that is - and yet information over my entire life has always been presented in a confident and certain manner, in which what we don't know is left out of the discussion.
I have a hard time thinking of anything more obvious than the fact that "smart " are technology security disasters waiting to happen. With the current architecture of the internet and networking from the top down there is nothing truly safe. Especially consumer grade at home tech built with technology plebeians in mind.
Call me old fashioned but I see enough at work and stories online every day to commit to keeping my home, appliances, vehicles, and anything else possible off the internet.
My bit of advice is to tell her that when it comes to love and long term partners: When considering marrying someone (or some other form of potentially life long commitment), take a serious moment to consider the possibility of past loves unexpectedly entering your life in the future. Can you answer that if that past love showed up and begged you to return to them, would you consider it seriously? If the answer is yes, don't get married. The current prospect is not a life long match for yourself.
I lived on a farm growing up, and everyone I knew did 100% of their farm equipment repairs themselves. I can just picture how pissed these guys are when they can't fix something themselves lol. I wonder if there is a huge price increase on used 1980's-1990's tractors.
Watching any type of movie, with the exception of real life footage or stylized full CGI moves (not trying to look life like) - such as nature shots, or real world scenes, or Toy Story type movies, look cheap and hokie on ultra high definition formats. Anything computer generated, or a prop, or costume, or makeup is easily noticeable. Anything fake, you can see is fake. Personally I think the 1080p high definition is about the pinnacle of combining a good crisp look with still being able to suspend one's visual cues and pretend they are watching something real.
Just wondering...
This was my initial reaction in reading this - Who, with any interest or knowledge at all in the topic, doesn't know the state Yucca Mountain resides in?!
I'm a huge LED fanboy. I've been buying only LEDs for the last 3-4 years. The early ones especially have not held up. I believe I only have 1 still functioning out of the 4 I bought in my first full room conversion. The newer ones - GE model 100w equivalent I typically get from Sam's Club - have been a lot better. I've only had 1 fail so far out of the 10 I have put into service. In any case, it's not a far fetched claim that a significant percentage of these lights last no where close to as long as they claim they will. A battle hardened customer service call should be able to replace those that fail early.
Seems to work the fine for me. As has been said, the host file modification from the winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm site blocks 99% of ads as far as I can tell. Privacy badger is a nice little extension that checks for browser tracking.
I like putting my idle processors to work using IBM's World Community Grid. Basically get them cranking on solutions to various scientific projects submitted to the IBM for calculation on member processors.
If you are even the slightest bit concerned with the security of data on your network, isolate wireless completely from your secure data. In my very unscientific estimate it seems 90%+ of the usefulness of wireless is for just basic internet access for executive types anyhow who don't need to be checking production data.
The hard part is getting some basic tech (of any kind) experience under your belt. You have that.
Go get up to date Microsoft certifications, understand the product to a significant degree, and you will be able to find a decent sysadmin job somewhere. Maybe not something above 50k - yet - but you will find something good. Then, once you get more hands on experience with business support scenarios for a few years, you can move on from there to the higher paying world (and higher stress typically lol).
I don't even remember the last time I heard of a large scale data compromise from passwords being either brute forced or guessed. By a massive amount - bordering on 100% - compromises are from backdoors, social engineering, and zero day vulnerabilities that lengthy, encrypted, impossible to remember passwords don't help.
You are speaking my language bro
If you think that the 100 commenters here are even close to representing the typical reader of this site - then you are more like the self centered power gamers of a certain MMO than you realize. A boisterous minority are about all that us who enjoy posting comments are, compared to everyone who visits. Go look at the number of visits per article numbers. Going by the numbers of the "most visited" articles I'd guess that less than 1% of people visiting this article posted here.
You are absolutely correct. In what world does warning people to stop breaking the law or they are going to face legal consequences a criminal act!?
All the hate seems overly picky. I went to check it out after reading all the hate in this tread... wtf it's just fine. Yeah, it's redesigned. But from a quick browse around story read, comment read session I hardly saw anything worth deleting my shortcut to Slashdot for. I think you are all caught up in a yet another bout of senseless internet nerd rage.
Do you know what this reminds me of? When a popular MMO game releases a patch and all the power gamers freak the hell out. But to the other 95% of players they can hardly tell a difference between pre and post changes and certainly not any that they don't get used to and play just fine with within 15 minutes.
It's fairly easy to get to 'mostly secure' with off the shelf appliances and training/education. But each percentage more secure a network becomes beyond that point becomes exponentially more expensive in both IT implementation costs and user productivity lost. Unfortunately this cost is too much for a very large percentage of companies when it comes to their overall profitability from both the implementation and productivity end.
Personally I think the corporate world needs to shift away from maintaining any sort of data that should be considered 'highly sensitive' in the first place. Instead of such data being desired, it should be shunned. And only in the most required of circumstances allowed by leadership. As it stands now leadership is grasping for this highly sensitive data like random citizens grasping for cash falling from an overturned armored truck on a bridge - and they don't want to put the money and resource into keeping it safe.
And it actually is pretty slick. I can already tell that I'll be keeping that app around long term within my "News" group of apps.
It fixed most of what was wrong with Windows 8. Plus the 'getting used to it' factor is about over. The problem for Microsoft isn't Windows 8 so much at this point - it is that a huge percentage of their user base are doing more and more from their smart phones or tables - and Windows isn't a solid player in that area. And... frankly at this point it's going to be extremely difficult for them to make much headway into the market. That boat has sailed and the big time mobile players have already filled their ship with Microsoft's PC customers.
Is there anyone in the USA that doesn't have their fingerprints already stored in some FBI controlled database? It's nearly universal as far as I can tell to have children's finger prints taken officially at school "to protect against kidnapping" type mentality. It has been happening at least since the early 80s when I was that age and was prodded into sticking my small child fingers into the ink and rolled onto an official paper - with a spot for each finger.