You know you have screwed things up when you have to look at China and India, two countries that have long been considered backwards when it comes to using renewable sources of energy, for a brighter tomorrow.
Given that the combined population of China and India is over 35% of the world's population it makes perfect sense to look to them for long term solutions. Making changes in those countries will have the greatest impact overall.
This hacking provides the perfect argument against built-in backdoors that would enable the government to spy on people (but only when they wanted). All it takes is one leak and *boom* you have out of control hacking by everyone but the government.
I sit in front of computer for my day job, so I don't need the extra functionality there. I do have an iPad for watching media at home, but for everything else all it takes is a little organization. After all I survived for a great many years without a cell phone - including multiple trips around the world.
My original Motorola RAZR is still going strong and I pretty well drop it onto a hard surface every other week. The back snaps off, the battery falls out. But the screens have never been cracked or damaged. And last week I got it so wet that it wouldn't turn on, so into the bowl of rice it went and the next day it was as good as new!
This is a good idea. People who use "social media" should not be allowed in the country.
Except that would be troubling for the rest of the world if they had to absorb an influx of american refugees kicked out of the USA for social media usage.
Of course Trump would be fine. He would just have a staffer deny that he ever used social media (right after Trump's tweeting about how bad this Obama policy was)
leave it to California to add retarded regulation to anything. Their district 9 judges need to fist themselves for their unconstitutional over rules. Sorry your state is filled with a fuckton of whackjobs, it shouldn't have a say in one thing. Welfare state, you're beneath me and your so called population.
So you think the Ninth Circuit consists covers just California? There's 8 other states and 2 other territories that disagree with you. The full Ninth Circuit consists of
Ninth Circuit Districts 1. Alaska 2. Arizona 3. Central District of California 4. Eastern District of California 5. Northern District of California 6. Southern District of California 7. Guam 8. Hawaii 9. Idaho 10. Montana 11. Nevada 12. Northern Mariana Islands 13. Oregon 14. Eastern District of Washington 15. Western District of Washington
So when you talk about whack jobs you need to be a bit more specific. Because whack jobs from California are a totally different breed to the whack jobs from Montana.
Imagine you're at a shopping mall, some nut comes in and starts throwing knives at passersby, taking out one shopper every five to ten seconds. There's a grandpa there packing a 9mm under his coat.
False equivalence. In order to be comparable your "grandpa" would have be driving around town, spotting people with knives that grandpa considers dangerous, and then executing them. See Duterte for a great example of how this goes.
A bad solution is still a bad solution. And vigilanteism is still vigilanteism. And DDOS attacks using infected devices are nothing new, it is just that IoT have opened up a new attack vector. Look at how many Windows based computers have been involved in DDOS in the past.
What we have here is:
1. Unknown person breaks into a computer they do not own. 2. Unknown person does stuff to this computer (unknown to the owner) under the pretense of "fixing it". 3. Ironically (according to TFS) the unknown person may also be using this computer to further propagate the fix.
How would you feel if this was your IoT device that was attacked?
(And no, I am not defending IoT manufacturers for their poor practices)
I don't think so. Stars still have legal rights over their likeness. I think you'd have a lot of trouble getting away with saying something like "Starring...... a voice like Carrie Fisher's, etc...".
Star power isn't going anywhere. There's really no logical reason that famous film stars are also billed prominently for animation, and yet that's what we have.
Spoiler alert. I don't think that Carrie is going to be complaining about it much*.
Just before the name of the perp is going to be released, there is going to be a hurried meeting with HR in order to reclassify him/her as a contractor and then deny all knowledge of them ever being an employee.
Now I understand that stateside having clothes hang outside is a sure sign of poverty. While I'm certainly not rich, there is no such stigma here.
In the county where I am in the US there are by-laws that prohibit hanging washing outside*, and from what I understand this is not uncommon.
In addition there are by-laws that prohibit using furniture and items that were intended for inside use, from being used outside your house. I assume this was to stop people putting old couches on their front porch. But a few years ago a local was prosecuted for using an old bath tub as a planter in their backyard. The kicker was that you couldn't see the bath tub from the street.
Home of the free. Yeah, right.
* And at this time of the year you wouldn't want to hang your clothe outside. There is so much pollen flying around that your clothes would be unrecognizable.
For at least 5% of cars on the road they already seem to be driving themselves.
Those self driving car engineers need to step up their game because the weaving side to side and driving well below the speed limit in the passing lane on the freeway is a dead give away that their algorithms can be improved.
"If the consumer can not repair the purchased item, then the vendor must provide free parts and labour for the advertised lifetime of the item, provided within a reasonable response time for the industry and item in question".
Yes judge, my client suffer from a rare form of dyslexia in which he can never remember which way to turn a bolt or a screw, in order to either loosen or tighten, on any sort of farm equipment. Due to this debilitating condition he is unable to repair any of the equipment he owns. As such we respectfully petition the court to force Tractors 'R' Us to comply with the law and provide for free all repairs and maintenance to equipment that my client has purchased from them, and that said repairs and maintenance needs to be done in a timely manner in order ensure that the farm does not irreparably suffer financially.
In addition we have noted that the most timely way to determine if said repairs and maintenance are needed is for the person doing the repairs and maintenance to be intimately involved with the operation of the equipment. Thus we request that Tractors 'R' Us supply personnel to drive my clients equipment during the upcoming harvest in order that they can recognize and and repair problems as soon as they arise during a critical phase of farm operations.
No university can teach someone how to be a passionate nerd.
On the other hand a good degree will introduce you to concepts and rigor that you would otherwise not encounter if you were self taught.
Just yesterday I was mapping out a solution to a small software task that involves sampling analog data. My EE degree of 30 years ago (oh shit that long!) kicked in and I knew that I would have to implement a low pass filter at some point in the data stream and knew why I had to do it. At which point I looked up some digital filtering code and knew the sorts of filters I wanted to implement and what their characteristics were. And I haven't seriously touched this stuff since I graduated.
Given my career path, digital filtering is something that would never have crossed my horizon if I had of been self taught. Yet here I am with a complete understanding of what I need to do.
On the third hand I am now wishing I did that elective on compiler construction as I have a task that really needs me to build a compiler for a specific language so that I can mine the analysis phase for some code metrics. I know that I will get there eventually.. but it is going to take a lot of preliminary reading just to get to the productive point.
I never really knew that I wanted un-replaceable RAM and Harddrive/Flash until I went to upgrade my Macbook Pro. Now I know that is these features that really make me happy, and screw that idea of me having a choice.
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You know you have screwed things up when you have to look at China and India, two countries that have long been considered backwards when it comes to using renewable sources of energy, for a brighter tomorrow.
Given that the combined population of China and India is over 35% of the world's population it makes perfect sense to look to them for long term solutions. Making changes in those countries will have the greatest impact overall.
Sometimes the trailer is better than the movie.
I'm not sure if "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword" proves or disproves your theory.
The trailer was pretty confusing and then you get King Arthur: Legend of the Sword is bad in ways I didn’t realize movies could be bad
This hacking provides the perfect argument against built-in backdoors that would enable the government to spy on people (but only when they wanted). All it takes is one leak and *boom* you have out of control hacking by everyone but the government.
It is almost like different people have different use cases!
Yes .. and my use case is to be able to drop my phone and still have it work!
What network are you on? Most networks have killed off all the legacy shit that the RAZR supports, making it pretty fucking useless.
I'm on T-Mobile
Still, I like having all the extra functionality.
I sit in front of computer for my day job, so I don't need the extra functionality there. I do have an iPad for watching media at home, but for everything else all it takes is a little organization. After all I survived for a great many years without a cell phone - including multiple trips around the world.
My original Motorola RAZR is still going strong and I pretty well drop it onto a hard surface every other week. The back snaps off, the battery falls out. But the screens have never been cracked or damaged. And last week I got it so wet that it wouldn't turn on, so into the bowl of rice it went and the next day it was as good as new!
...and infinitely fast computer would be self aware and wouldn't need instructions.
Yeah but you have to watch out for the pain in all the diodes down its left side
This is a good idea. People who use "social media" should not be allowed in the country.
Except that would be troubling for the rest of the world if they had to absorb an influx of american refugees kicked out of the USA for social media usage.
Of course Trump would be fine. He would just have a staffer deny that he ever used social media (right after Trump's tweeting about how bad this Obama policy was)
What is next? They can use "light waves" to detect a cross placed in a room? Its like magic and stuff!
If you think light waves are magic, wait until you see what they can do with magnets! #4 will shock you!
leave it to California to add retarded regulation to anything. Their district 9 judges need to fist themselves for their unconstitutional over rules. Sorry your state is filled with a fuckton of whackjobs, it shouldn't have a say in one thing. Welfare state, you're beneath me and your so called population.
So you think the Ninth Circuit consists covers just California? There's 8 other states and 2 other territories that disagree with you. The full Ninth Circuit consists of
Ninth Circuit Districts
1. Alaska
2. Arizona
3. Central District of California
4. Eastern District of California
5. Northern District of California
6. Southern District of California
7. Guam
8. Hawaii
9. Idaho
10. Montana
11. Nevada
12. Northern Mariana Islands
13. Oregon
14. Eastern District of Washington
15. Western District of Washington
https://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/j...
So when you talk about whack jobs you need to be a bit more specific. Because whack jobs from California are a totally different breed to the whack jobs from Montana.
Will Alexa bleep out "Belgium"??
You get a cryptocurrency! And You get a cryptocurrency!
Everyone gets a cryptocurrency!
Imagine you're at a shopping mall, some nut comes in and starts throwing knives at passersby, taking out one shopper every five to ten seconds. There's a grandpa there packing a 9mm under his coat.
False equivalence. In order to be comparable your "grandpa" would have be driving around town, spotting people with knives that grandpa considers dangerous, and then executing them. See Duterte for a great example of how this goes.
so vigilante is least bad solution here.
A bad solution is still a bad solution. And vigilanteism is still vigilanteism. And DDOS attacks using infected devices are nothing new, it is just that IoT have opened up a new attack vector. Look at how many Windows based computers have been involved in DDOS in the past.
What we have here is:
1. Unknown person breaks into a computer they do not own.
2. Unknown person does stuff to this computer (unknown to the owner) under the pretense of "fixing it".
3. Ironically (according to TFS) the unknown person may also be using this computer to further propagate the fix.
How would you feel if this was your IoT device that was attacked?
(And no, I am not defending IoT manufacturers for their poor practices)
The hero the Internet of Things both deserves _and_ needs.
Yeah .. there's nothing like a vigilante of whom you approve.
I don't think so. Stars still have legal rights over their likeness. I think you'd have a lot of trouble getting away with saying something like "Starring... ... a voice like Carrie Fisher's, etc...".
Star power isn't going anywhere. There's really no logical reason that famous film stars are also billed prominently for animation, and yet that's what we have.
Spoiler alert. I don't think that Carrie is going to be complaining about it much*.
* Too soon?
Just before the name of the perp is going to be released, there is going to be a hurried meeting with HR in order to reclassify him/her as a contractor and then deny all knowledge of them ever being an employee.
Then I'll hang it all out to dry.
Now I understand that stateside having clothes hang outside is a sure sign of poverty. While I'm certainly not rich, there is no such stigma here.
In the county where I am in the US there are by-laws that prohibit hanging washing outside*, and from what I understand this is not uncommon.
In addition there are by-laws that prohibit using furniture and items that were intended for inside use, from being used outside your house. I assume this was to stop people putting old couches on their front porch. But a few years ago a local was prosecuted for using an old bath tub as a planter in their backyard. The kicker was that you couldn't see the bath tub from the street.
Home of the free. Yeah, right.
* And at this time of the year you wouldn't want to hang your clothe outside. There is so much pollen flying around that your clothes would be unrecognizable.
Please come to this thread and explain the need for Robopsychology!
For at least 5% of cars on the road they already seem to be driving themselves.
Those self driving car engineers need to step up their game because the weaving side to side and driving well below the speed limit in the passing lane on the freeway is a dead give away that their algorithms can be improved.
"If the consumer can not repair the purchased item, then the vendor must provide free parts and labour for the advertised lifetime of the item, provided within a reasonable response time for the industry and item in question".
Yes judge, my client suffer from a rare form of dyslexia in which he can never remember which way to turn a bolt or a screw, in order to either loosen or tighten, on any sort of farm equipment. Due to this debilitating condition he is unable to repair any of the equipment he owns. As such we respectfully petition the court to force Tractors 'R' Us to comply with the law and provide for free all repairs and maintenance to equipment that my client has purchased from them, and that said repairs and maintenance needs to be done in a timely manner in order ensure that the farm does not irreparably suffer financially.
In addition we have noted that the most timely way to determine if said repairs and maintenance are needed is for the person doing the repairs and maintenance to be intimately involved with the operation of the equipment. Thus we request that Tractors 'R' Us supply personnel to drive my clients equipment during the upcoming harvest in order that they can recognize and and repair problems as soon as they arise during a critical phase of farm operations.
Being able to understand the computer top to bottom, that's what I miss about that era.
Having printed manuals that explained the whole stack.
No university can teach someone how to be a passionate nerd.
On the other hand a good degree will introduce you to concepts and rigor that you would otherwise not encounter if you were self taught.
Just yesterday I was mapping out a solution to a small software task that involves sampling analog data. My EE degree of 30 years ago (oh shit that long!) kicked in and I knew that I would have to implement a low pass filter at some point in the data stream and knew why I had to do it. At which point I looked up some digital filtering code and knew the sorts of filters I wanted to implement and what their characteristics were. And I haven't seriously touched this stuff since I graduated.
Given my career path, digital filtering is something that would never have crossed my horizon if I had of been self taught. Yet here I am with a complete understanding of what I need to do.
On the third hand I am now wishing I did that elective on compiler construction as I have a task that really needs me to build a compiler for a specific language so that I can mine the analysis phase for some code metrics. I know that I will get there eventually .. but it is going to take a lot of preliminary reading just to get to the productive point.
I never really knew that I wanted un-replaceable RAM and Harddrive/Flash until I went to upgrade my Macbook Pro.
Now I know that is these features that really make me happy, and screw that idea of me having a choice.