I'm so used to doing 2 things at once that when I do one, like listen to someone or do math, I get distracted by what can only be called attention surplus disorder. That's my theory.
The name captures the idea that an almost human-looking robot will seem overly "strange" to a human being, will produce a feeling of uncanniness, and will thus fail to evoke the empathic response required for productive human-robot interaction
"Required" seems a little strong. If I'm going to talk about my day over coffee with the robot, sure. But I neither drink coffee nor talk about my day, lol. If I want the robot to go reboot server #42, I don't care how he feels or I feel about him (so very similar to the humans I work with actually). I don't care if he's super realistic but not quite right in just such a way to make it a little creepy or unsettling. Again, that description applies to most of the other human IT workers as well and doesn't produce revulsion either lol.
Once you kick everything to the cloud, a monkey could run the infrastructure. There is no such thing as a client-side cloud operational specialist. You don't configure when to upgrade, alter, or even reboot the servers that you don't own or have any control over. A secretary could run it. Basically if you're going to be a company's "cloud operator" then you better have a 2nd degree in marketing or sales or learn janitorial services really fast.
Well screw it then, I'll go back to playing Starcraft II instead of curing cancer. Zerg kind of is a cancer anyway.
Oh wait, I already said the same thing when Obama won it.
Speaking of that, last I heard, there are so many idiots with shared libraries by default on p2p networks that the user can instantly, in realtime, and persistently be traced back to an IP. In fact, typical US connections' IPs are so non-dymanic that they could double check that the IP address is still associated with 1 modem at 1 residence 10 seconds before they break the door down and arrest them. Assuming freaky pervs are as tech skilled as average people, I bet not a whole lot of them specialize in locking down a peer to peer client, lol.
Here's the kicker. Any FBI higher up has stated on multiple occassions that there just aren't enough agents to keep up with the volume of just the "easy to catch" pedos on peer to peer. Why would you go after encrypted, super high tech, utlra hard to track targets when you're short on manpower catching the 2 week turnaround type arrests?
I know individuals are seen as less valuable than shutting down an entire website and its operator but it still goes back to simplicity of arrests vs resources available.
Conclusion: the FBI and US gov just doesn't like TOR:-P
I know I'm wondering and I think it'd be beneficial for everyone if someone could perhaps explain how a website can be hosted completely within the Tor network. It just sounds impossible but obviously they're doing it. Does it bypass DNS and go straight to an IP? How would people find it in the first place if it's not in a Google search because it's not on the open and indexed internet? How does anyone's web browser navigate to a page on a server without knowing the end point? You can't just send a request down the Tor network that says "I want to get to a page called this, go find it." That seems to violate every rule of how the internet works on a basic level. It seems like someone attempting to host a website like this would have to expose themselves at some sort of level that would make them as easy to catch as any other website. Anyone know how this is possible?
Every single survey, poll, etc that was on the news at the time had between 96 and 98% of american black voters voting for him. That means they ignored all policy, all politics, all financial plans, all qualifications, all personal history, all things in general he said he'd do, and just for him based on the color of his skin.
I'm going to take a wild guess that those kind of numbers beat the 3-5% range of racist people stated in this article. I guess those voters didn't realize this isn't a Miss America pageant where if a minority wins, it's all special and great and fantastic and a leap forward. The person who wins a presidency election has to actually do something once they win and it actually affects people (and the entire world and all of human history from that point forward).
But but but but but the people in the Windows 8 beta just loooooved the Metro interface. Oh wait, no, the other thing...they all hated it and nobody had anything positive to say about it in any review anywhere ever.
Because MS is buying into the industry hype about tablets being the future and desktops being dead. You know, just like with netbooks a couple years ago. What happened with those, by the way? Oh yeah, I remember! People realized they suck and no optical drive is crap and the speeds were pathetic and now there's 10 at the local pawn shop worth 1/3 retail.
Since a tablet is a netbook with no keyboard, I think it's a waste of time trying to stomp on Android and iOS market share with Windows 8 when tablets will be dead in 1-2 years just like netbooks.
Well, at least now they can have metro design flaw complaints coming in from the Win8 Beta and the tablet side too.
Speaking of that, and this is really bugging me, I had read they weren't salted. So...why hasn't anyone reversed every single hash up to 22 or 23 characters including symbols using a rainbow table and machine with 32GB of RAM? It's trivially easy to do. Why are they all wasting their time brute forcing it with dictionaries and crap? Is there something I'm missing that makes their particular hash list rainbow-proof?
My company just shopped for new smartphones. We ended up with Android based because of limited phone selection (CDMA, yay). The windows phones looked so unbelievably non-business friendly, it took about 10 minutes to rule them out. But, I will say that the article is horribly wrong. Blackberry Enterprise Server is THE software from hell. It's one giant memory leak that runs slow, doesn't work half the time, has the worst interface imaginable, and would have to be completely rewritten from the ground up. So that's not a benefit whatsoever. Nokia just generally all-around sucks and has no place in businesses either. I wouldn't buy either of them. In fact, if I'm not mistaken, I saw an article on slashdot that suggestedac Microsoft stop making phones and MP3 players.
This article is ridiculous. This is the same BS that everyone said about netbooks before everyone realized they suck. There's no difference between tablets and netbooks. A 1 year lifespan battery, extreme fragility, a pathetically inadequate processor for Windows or a pathetically limited OS (android), no optical drive, low lifetime and extremely limited flash memory. But wait, there's more! It's a netbook...without a keyboard. Without being able to type rapidly, any device slows to a crawl. It takes me under 1 second to type in any custom URL. On a touchscreen device, we're talking closer to 10 seconds. That's just unacceptable. Tablets are going to fail just as horribly as netbooks. I could see people getting one as a 2nd device instead of a 2nd PC for portability and space but never, ever replacing them. Microsoft is wrong, all the manufacturers are wrong, and they're all going to lose their asses just like what happened with netbooks.
Actually, they didn't miss just that, they missed the entire story. Honestly, who wrote this? The article SHOULD have said that because they're unsalted, you can get ALL the passwords up to 22 characters turned back into their original text extremely quickly without brute forcing anything. There's no comparison or anything necessary. If they were salted, THEN you'd have to compare them and brute force them. Otherwise you run them all through a rainbow table database on a system with a buttload of RAM and tada, you can reverse them at a very high rate of speed.
So, I already changed my linkedin password.
They sort of buried the lead a bit phrasing it that way. The last I heard, there are zero 4G towers in the entirety of Australia. Yeah, none. So now the law suit makes a lot of sense. A normal person would have removed "4G" from advertising if the entire country didn't have it. When it rolled out on phones and tablets in the US, only large cities had it and even that was controversial and had some small, local law suits. But zero towers in the country? That's just stupid. I see why Apple got fined.
we're also nearing the tipping point of virtually limitless, self-sustaining fusion energy. Long story short, the world's energy grid would basically run on magic and we'd have electric transportation that operates at the cost it takes to maintain the system only, as any matter would suffice to create energy. Then there would be a market for bulk mass so there goes our trash problems. And poverty would be ended with unlimited free energy alone. So yeah, I think we're nearing that tipping point too.
I think, and it really is this sad, that they're referring to the "they're human, they have ears, they have arms" genes. Oh and the like 99% of useless, do-nothing genes or whatever. how pointless is that? "Well, it looks like you're going to have a.....human baby" lol.
This is just like all other science. The most sensation, impressive sound stats that's backed by "real sounding" science wins. Impossibly heavy lizard vs reasonably, logically sized lizards. Let's go with the freaking lizo-tank. Mathematical error or magical substance we can't see or measure = entire 1 hour specials on dark matter. One of millions of things we have flying around up there vs careless aliens visiting...well that's alien UFOs of course. I think that might even have its own channel actually. This really needs to stop.
That has got to be the most disappointing and under-delivering title vs summary in Slashdot history! If a spaceship collides with a bridge in New York, it better be going 200MPH or title it "shuttle scrapes bridge"
Standing in the same place for hours is much more detrimental to health than sitting. Neither are good, but standing is worse. As a programmer, I don't know how slow or unfocused the author is but for me, there is no mental "clock cycles" available for walking subroutines while I'm coding. I'd hit right into a doorframe while trying to artificially processes through the end result of a nested loop. So stop standing and walking around, focus on your work, and buy a better chair (and adjust your monitor height and angle arm position and distance from the keyboard).
By the way, getting up and stretching every 30 minutes has been proven in many studies to be exceptionally helpful.
The security surrounding Windows Update is rather pathetic, certificate or no certificate. It's cost me many, many extra hours and headaches, while they're "hardening up" windows update, they should also make a vastly improved repair utility for it. I hate spending all that time removing a virus from a customer computer just to find out at the end that Windows Update is irreparably broken and SFC, their own fixit tool, 3rd party mass re-registration tools, and registry utilities all cannot fix it so I have to reinstall. Considering that an OS install is classified as "totaled" if Windows Update no longer works, maybe they should protect it better AND make a flawless, end-to-end reinstaller that resets it to absolute default settings and fully repairs it.
The Wii was all family friendly and then late horrific rated M games like House of the Head Overkill where every third word was a swear word. That shocked everyone but it was to attract hardcore gamers. Who are they trying to attract with video chat? People banned from chat roulette? I'm sure the creators of that were thinking "oh boy, people will connect and learn about other cultures and there might be a weirdo or two but otherwise it'll basically be 99% Starbucks customers. WRONG! Freaks and pervs aren't outside in public being social, they're inside on their PC and Wii so I'm sure the video chat will be shut down. The only question is, before or after the class action law suit by parents?
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I beg to differ! I am a direct descendent of the first ever human(s) lol.
I'm so used to doing 2 things at once that when I do one, like listen to someone or do math, I get distracted by what can only be called attention surplus disorder. That's my theory.
"Required" seems a little strong. If I'm going to talk about my day over coffee with the robot, sure. But I neither drink coffee nor talk about my day, lol. If I want the robot to go reboot server #42, I don't care how he feels or I feel about him (so very similar to the humans I work with actually). I don't care if he's super realistic but not quite right in just such a way to make it a little creepy or unsettling. Again, that description applies to most of the other human IT workers as well and doesn't produce revulsion either lol.
Once you kick everything to the cloud, a monkey could run the infrastructure. There is no such thing as a client-side cloud operational specialist. You don't configure when to upgrade, alter, or even reboot the servers that you don't own or have any control over. A secretary could run it. Basically if you're going to be a company's "cloud operator" then you better have a 2nd degree in marketing or sales or learn janitorial services really fast.
Well screw it then, I'll go back to playing Starcraft II instead of curing cancer. Zerg kind of is a cancer anyway.
Oh wait, I already said the same thing when Obama won it.
Speaking of that, last I heard, there are so many idiots with shared libraries by default on p2p networks that the user can instantly, in realtime, and persistently be traced back to an IP. In fact, typical US connections' IPs are so non-dymanic that they could double check that the IP address is still associated with 1 modem at 1 residence 10 seconds before they break the door down and arrest them. Assuming freaky pervs are as tech skilled as average people, I bet not a whole lot of them specialize in locking down a peer to peer client, lol.
:-P
Here's the kicker. Any FBI higher up has stated on multiple occassions that there just aren't enough agents to keep up with the volume of just the "easy to catch" pedos on peer to peer. Why would you go after encrypted, super high tech, utlra hard to track targets when you're short on manpower catching the 2 week turnaround type arrests?
I know individuals are seen as less valuable than shutting down an entire website and its operator but it still goes back to simplicity of arrests vs resources available.
Conclusion: the FBI and US gov just doesn't like TOR
I know I'm wondering and I think it'd be beneficial for everyone if someone could perhaps explain how a website can be hosted completely within the Tor network. It just sounds impossible but obviously they're doing it. Does it bypass DNS and go straight to an IP? How would people find it in the first place if it's not in a Google search because it's not on the open and indexed internet? How does anyone's web browser navigate to a page on a server without knowing the end point? You can't just send a request down the Tor network that says "I want to get to a page called this, go find it." That seems to violate every rule of how the internet works on a basic level. It seems like someone attempting to host a website like this would have to expose themselves at some sort of level that would make them as easy to catch as any other website. Anyone know how this is possible?
Every single survey, poll, etc that was on the news at the time had between 96 and 98% of american black voters voting for him. That means they ignored all policy, all politics, all financial plans, all qualifications, all personal history, all things in general he said he'd do, and just for him based on the color of his skin.
I'm going to take a wild guess that those kind of numbers beat the 3-5% range of racist people stated in this article. I guess those voters didn't realize this isn't a Miss America pageant where if a minority wins, it's all special and great and fantastic and a leap forward. The person who wins a presidency election has to actually do something once they win and it actually affects people (and the entire world and all of human history from that point forward).
But but but but but the people in the Windows 8 beta just loooooved the Metro interface. Oh wait, no, the other thing...they all hated it and nobody had anything positive to say about it in any review anywhere ever.
Because MS is buying into the industry hype about tablets being the future and desktops being dead. You know, just like with netbooks a couple years ago. What happened with those, by the way? Oh yeah, I remember! People realized they suck and no optical drive is crap and the speeds were pathetic and now there's 10 at the local pawn shop worth 1/3 retail.
Since a tablet is a netbook with no keyboard, I think it's a waste of time trying to stomp on Android and iOS market share with Windows 8 when tablets will be dead in 1-2 years just like netbooks.
Well, at least now they can have metro design flaw complaints coming in from the Win8 Beta and the tablet side too.
Speaking of that, and this is really bugging me, I had read they weren't salted. So...why hasn't anyone reversed every single hash up to 22 or 23 characters including symbols using a rainbow table and machine with 32GB of RAM? It's trivially easy to do. Why are they all wasting their time brute forcing it with dictionaries and crap? Is there something I'm missing that makes their particular hash list rainbow-proof?
My company just shopped for new smartphones. We ended up with Android based because of limited phone selection (CDMA, yay). The windows phones looked so unbelievably non-business friendly, it took about 10 minutes to rule them out. But, I will say that the article is horribly wrong. Blackberry Enterprise Server is THE software from hell. It's one giant memory leak that runs slow, doesn't work half the time, has the worst interface imaginable, and would have to be completely rewritten from the ground up. So that's not a benefit whatsoever. Nokia just generally all-around sucks and has no place in businesses either. I wouldn't buy either of them. In fact, if I'm not mistaken, I saw an article on slashdot that suggestedac Microsoft stop making phones and MP3 players.
This article is ridiculous. This is the same BS that everyone said about netbooks before everyone realized they suck. There's no difference between tablets and netbooks. A 1 year lifespan battery, extreme fragility, a pathetically inadequate processor for Windows or a pathetically limited OS (android), no optical drive, low lifetime and extremely limited flash memory. But wait, there's more! It's a netbook...without a keyboard. Without being able to type rapidly, any device slows to a crawl. It takes me under 1 second to type in any custom URL. On a touchscreen device, we're talking closer to 10 seconds. That's just unacceptable. Tablets are going to fail just as horribly as netbooks. I could see people getting one as a 2nd device instead of a 2nd PC for portability and space but never, ever replacing them. Microsoft is wrong, all the manufacturers are wrong, and they're all going to lose their asses just like what happened with netbooks.
Actually, they didn't miss just that, they missed the entire story. Honestly, who wrote this? The article SHOULD have said that because they're unsalted, you can get ALL the passwords up to 22 characters turned back into their original text extremely quickly without brute forcing anything. There's no comparison or anything necessary. If they were salted, THEN you'd have to compare them and brute force them. Otherwise you run them all through a rainbow table database on a system with a buttload of RAM and tada, you can reverse them at a very high rate of speed.
So, I already changed my linkedin password.
They sort of buried the lead a bit phrasing it that way. The last I heard, there are zero 4G towers in the entirety of Australia. Yeah, none. So now the law suit makes a lot of sense. A normal person would have removed "4G" from advertising if the entire country didn't have it. When it rolled out on phones and tablets in the US, only large cities had it and even that was controversial and had some small, local law suits. But zero towers in the country? That's just stupid. I see why Apple got fined.
we're also nearing the tipping point of virtually limitless, self-sustaining fusion energy. Long story short, the world's energy grid would basically run on magic and we'd have electric transportation that operates at the cost it takes to maintain the system only, as any matter would suffice to create energy. Then there would be a market for bulk mass so there goes our trash problems. And poverty would be ended with unlimited free energy alone. So yeah, I think we're nearing that tipping point too.
I think, and it really is this sad, that they're referring to the "they're human, they have ears, they have arms" genes. Oh and the like 99% of useless, do-nothing genes or whatever. how pointless is that? "Well, it looks like you're going to have a.....human baby" lol.
Apparently even Microsoft can't affording Microsoft licensing on its servers, lol.
This is just like all other science. The most sensation, impressive sound stats that's backed by "real sounding" science wins. Impossibly heavy lizard vs reasonably, logically sized lizards. Let's go with the freaking lizo-tank. Mathematical error or magical substance we can't see or measure = entire 1 hour specials on dark matter. One of millions of things we have flying around up there vs careless aliens visiting...well that's alien UFOs of course. I think that might even have its own channel actually. This really needs to stop.
Why is Jersey Shore still on the air? That, or as I'm sure a little dude would suggest, why do 'splosion 'splode?
That has got to be the most disappointing and under-delivering title vs summary in Slashdot history! If a spaceship collides with a bridge in New York, it better be going 200MPH or title it "shuttle scrapes bridge"
Standing in the same place for hours is much more detrimental to health than sitting. Neither are good, but standing is worse. As a programmer, I don't know how slow or unfocused the author is but for me, there is no mental "clock cycles" available for walking subroutines while I'm coding. I'd hit right into a doorframe while trying to artificially processes through the end result of a nested loop. So stop standing and walking around, focus on your work, and buy a better chair (and adjust your monitor height and angle arm position and distance from the keyboard).
By the way, getting up and stretching every 30 minutes has been proven in many studies to be exceptionally helpful.
The security surrounding Windows Update is rather pathetic, certificate or no certificate. It's cost me many, many extra hours and headaches, while they're "hardening up" windows update, they should also make a vastly improved repair utility for it. I hate spending all that time removing a virus from a customer computer just to find out at the end that Windows Update is irreparably broken and SFC, their own fixit tool, 3rd party mass re-registration tools, and registry utilities all cannot fix it so I have to reinstall. Considering that an OS install is classified as "totaled" if Windows Update no longer works, maybe they should protect it better AND make a flawless, end-to-end reinstaller that resets it to absolute default settings and fully repairs it.
Yeah, like 5 people isn't a "cloud," I'd just call it a bunch of drips. Oooooh, burn.
The Wii was all family friendly and then late horrific rated M games like House of the Head Overkill where every third word was a swear word. That shocked everyone but it was to attract hardcore gamers. Who are they trying to attract with video chat? People banned from chat roulette? I'm sure the creators of that were thinking "oh boy, people will connect and learn about other cultures and there might be a weirdo or two but otherwise it'll basically be 99% Starbucks customers. WRONG! Freaks and pervs aren't outside in public being social, they're inside on their PC and Wii so I'm sure the video chat will be shut down. The only question is, before or after the class action law suit by parents?