I totally agree with this. An SSD is standard equipment now for the operating system. For a desktop system I would actually recommend two drives, one for the OS and another for swap and disk caching. The second could be 16gb but it would take the write thrashing instead of the larger primary SSD and save your primary, more expensive and larger capacity SSD's from wearing out. I would actually love a SSD that was specialized for OS swap and disk caching.
P.S. How come there isn't a new micro package for SSD's? I can't see a reason for them to be this big at current capacity.
Just keep them separate and let the operating system use the SSD for cache. At least in this senerio the software for the caching logic can be changed/upgraded. I don't see any advantage to putting it into the firmware of a hard drive. Sure manufacturers can tune it but so can everyone with a software driver solution. Just no reason to combine them.
One is the power requirements. How bright do the LED's need to be being so close to the eye. Next there would need to be very fast electronic processing in the contact lenses, and it would have to be very fast. It would need to be able to process a radio signal and display the results in real time and there would need to be enough radio spectrum and data throughput for at least three people or four people within a cubic meter. So obviously the first displays will be monochromatic and a very simple self generated text/vector displays rather than video. That would be sufficient for a HUD setup. The lenses will probably be expensive so more than likely they would be implanted within the eye like artificial corneas and will likely take up the entire surface of the eye and require removal of the eyeball from the socket for implantation.
They will need a refresh rate at least ten times faster than the eye and be able to detect orientation and focus and be able to compensate. Only what is in the center of vision would need to be in focus.
Then there is the question of heat generation. Even a small amount of heat my degrade the health of an eye. The more processing the contact lens does the more heat it generates. While I do think that someday electronics may be low power enough to run on the equivalent power of static electricity shock for an hour we are nowhere near there yet and probably won't be for a hundred years.
I see implants that tap into the optic nerves as far more likely and realistic. They could run on glucose and oxygen in the blood and could generate a little heat while being tolerant of our bodies latent heat. If the device doesn't generate a signal the the optic nerve would operate normally but with an active signal and under normal circumstances it would be switched to an artificial processed signal. Imagine televisions being no more than a green screen but having an overlay of a video signal generated electronically inside your head. I can also imagine artificially perfect eyes mechanically similar to our natural ones but far superior being offered as replacements once the optic nerve can be tapped. The bionic eye could be feasible to where you could recognize someone a football field away and or focus on things very close up. A greater sensitivity to light to see in the dark as well as frequency shifting effects so you can see infrared and ultraviolet light.
Everything you could pretty much want. But only 16GB. Only one SD slot. Wish they had a way to upgrade the on-board flash to larger capacities. We seriously need a smaller footprint for SSD's. Would be perfect with 128gb.
You can put whatever OS you want on it and the manufacturer encourages it, it just happens to come with android which is Linux under the covers.
They really should have designed it with replaceable batteries. That way we could sent a second one later with a spare nuclear battery for it. Maybe even design the thing with 4 battery compartments since you can continue to get some juice from the old batteries.
Not possible. First thing that happens is the data is copied. Even the 12 year old working for the cops (trying to explain computers to them) knows that much. The encryption mechanism has to be built not into the controller but into the actual drive itself and when it gets to the CIA the high schools seniors they have working for them know not to trust the interface board on the bottom of hard disks and replace them. Indeed they more than likely have people on call from the major hard disk manufacturers.
What the CIA does to combat hard drive encryption is to install a simple pass through devices much like key loggers. At the more sophisticated level they can replace the surface mount chips on a motherboard in 15 minutes. They do this if there is an external dongle that might hold the key which is usually part of it. For actual key-loggers they don't need to install anything, just place a device nearby that can capture the EMF signals generated by a keyboard. With flash drives now you can imagine they could capture keystrokes for a hundred years!
Hard encryption includes the dongle and the password. The best encryption involves interactivity with symbols on a screen and selected by mouse and keyboard in a system of one time passwords all done from a custom replaceable software GUI plugin.
It's often easier to crack the backups then the original equipment.
Just think about it. Within 50 years all disease will be conquered. We still probably won't fully comprehend the necessary symbiotic relationship between germs, our gut flora and our bodies but we will understand profoundly better. But the big thing will be able to supplement our immune system but in a direct directed way that no germ can compensate for. We will be able to identify viruses and bacteria within hours and create artificial antibodies, aka germs that fight germs. All within hours. Cancer? A thing of the past.
But we will still get colds and the flu because we will let it happen. Since our bodies were designed to get sick and fight battles which develop the immune system naturally. But at the point of it becoming life threatening a visit to the doctor would cure it. Antibiotics will work again because we will systematically eliminate all the human caused drug resistant strains.
A hundred years from now a man will be able to be virtually immortal. Everyone will have to be artificially sterilized. To have children you would need to give up your immortality. For a hundred years after that society will be fractured into different experiments where people try to balance life with relative levels of healthcare and dying and the ability to have children. Most people will probably choose to die after 300 years. Automated manufacturing has reached the point where we really won't need very many people involved. People will have more free time and I think creativity will become the biggest commodity. And as people get older they will become more and more bored. Some people will choose to die, others will simple have their minds wiped either permanently or temporarily. Others will choose to live with the risk of a random death and or doing dangerous things. I don't think there will be only one solution.
And while it may happen that someone or some group decides to reduce the population I think the biggest problem with immortality is boredom as I have already put forward. And the solution to boredom is lots of creative minds in combination with minds to entertain.
I can imagine combining it with transparent LCD tech where an LCD puts out light in one direction but is transparent when the light shines back. Also such an overlay wouldn't require any resolution.
It's made of tiny monochromatic mirrors that reflect or black out specific colors. It's relies on the number of mirrors per pixel sub-color to determine color intensity. While I suspect they are grouping the sub-colors per pixel right next to each other if they didn't... if every sub-pixel on this display was more or less a group of RGB each... (not likely since humans are more sensitive to certain colors) then the display would be capable or variable resolution. More resolution the closer you get to the pure RGB colors or black and white. So text on the screen can potentially be at a higher resolution while colors pictures appear at lower resolutions. This is such an advantage I suspect the research is focused on interleaved color manufacturing. While the colors on the screen won't be perfect RGB they will be a balanced matrix of colors. Addressing is the only technical challenge which would mean three different color address buses for three different screen colors. One color, I think blue being a reduced resolution for a smaller palette. That's a lot info to be transmitted but fortunately the display is it's own memory.
So to sum it up pictures at normal resolution, black/white text at 1000 times the resolution and nominal color text at 100 times the resolution.
A cultured meat is just one specific type of cell. A great steak is many types of muscle cells and fax mixed together and has a resulting texture and flavor depending on the method of cooking. We are decades away from self growing bags of sirloin or chuck roast.
What is more exciting is the work that has been done making organs. Scientists discovered that organs have a clear gelatin like scaffolding that we don't know how to grow yet but we can take an organ that already exists from an animal or human and wash it clean of cells. They can then graft stem cells on the organ which conform to the scaffolding. We can already grow hearts and the hearts will beat and pump blood once activated. Very exciting stuff.
P.S. I can't wait until everyone abandons the ICANN domain system...
It's like open source, no reason someone else can't take the ball and run with it if they can gather the clout. Just take a major browser offering an alternative...
Without net neutrality your ISP could even redirect web sites without you knowing which is a major reason for the push of dnssec I suppose.
You could even remaster the domain system so that ICANN falls under the icann domain.... select a domain tree as default but provide absolute domain paths like google.com.icann.
A domain isn't a trademark, it's an alias. I wish ICANN would just implement a ".tm" domain for trademarks or collaborate with the international trademark system and have a range of trademark domains. Or maybe extend DNS to have a trademark certification record. It seems to me DNS is supplanting the trademark system.
Makes me wonder if it might be possible to exploit weak spots in the earth crust to create islands artificially. Second I wonder how safe it would be.
But suppose instead of destabilizing the crust you instead you just drilled down to the magma and pumped it out? If you could build a piping system that could pump magma under cold ocean without clogging up the pipe that is... Forget about super conductors... what about super insulators at high temperatures?
Maybe in a couple hundred years... Should be possible to create the equivalent land mass of Hawaii in a few different places in the worlds or to at least double or triple their the land masses of existing islands within a ten year controlled period.
And for places like Yellowstone maybe even create a few mountains nearby to relieve the pressure.
It's nearly impossible to block internet traffic unless you prohibit encryption and even then there is stenography(where you hide data in other data).
Block a domain name? Well there are alternative name servers.. very easy to setup. You can even mix and match them.
And while any website may prefer a local domain for a country there is nothing preventing anyone from setting up service for people that speak a language... not all German speakers are in Germany and nor are all English websites from the UK. Facebook makes money in ad revenue and clicks. If they pull away from Germany then there will be brokers that will figure out the complexities and arrange ad space for German advertizes that want to reach the German speakers that are more than capable of getting on Facebook. If anything it will probably make the site more popular.
It all comes down to a question of convenience. You can be sure Facebook isn't the only one doing facial recognition for online pictures. Basically what this commission wants to prohibit is pictures on Facebook period because it's the pictures that are the issue and causing privacy concerns.
It should be taxed at the place of sale which is where the business is located. If I buy cheese from France I should pay french taxes.
Otherwise your going to get businesses like Amazon start an official proxy purchasing service for residents similar to the import/export business where you legally empower someone as your business proxy to do business in another location on your behalf as if you were the one doing business in that location.You can't prevent someone from traveling to another state or country and making purchases. Point of sale.
It would just be better if congress designated a national sales tax. If it crosses state lines then the feds collect. The fed can keep it or give it out to the states as it sees fit. More than likely keep it once they get a taste of it. Bad part of this is states with significantly higher sales tax will lose a bunch of revenue if the national sales tax is lower since everyone as much as possible is going to do business across states lines just for the tax break.
The simplest solution is if states abandoned sales taxes and just adjusted income taxes.
I want a bracer with curved OLED screen. Kind of like a smart phone but permanently landscape oriented. Just make it tough enough to take a few bumps and push against it such as when you might be lifting something but still light enough and with enough ventilation so you don't get sweaty wrist. With a touch screen it's the ultimate geeks toy. Always within reach, no more pulling out your smart device. And for you uber geek you they can wear the left and right handed models on both arms. You can have a vertical mode with your wright facing you and your hand pointed up (dialing a phone number) and an angled orientation for holding your wrist in front of you. If the screen were 360 all the way around your wrist then even better. I can even image a bizarre way of taping behind back side of your wrist for tap typing in a way similar to a stenographers keyboard.
Is that they tipped off guilty and there was no real punishment. But delving into their minds I bet it puts the fear of god in the child porn traders that there may be from now on online hackers that don't necessarily follow laws (just like they don't) that are targeting them. It's a warning shot across the bow of a ship... change direction or be destroyed.
The porn traders will hunker down and become more secure but security is an illusion, it just takes one tiny crack... (nice pun) and you are compromised.
But I'm against targeting those that get their jollies from masturbating to wrong things or peeping at disgusting and wrong things. (It's a lot like people wanting to watch a donkey show, when in reality it's just a poor desperate woman being used that will really will do nearly anything to make money.)
It's people that pay to watch and hence promote the exploitation that are immoral along with those that produce the reprehensible content. File trading sites can serve law enforcement as a honeypot if they track people. You have the curious, then you have the collectors, then you have actual pedophiles. Monitoring the file trading sites allows you to investigate people further and put them on a watch list.
What really needs to happens is the laws change so that based on deep logs lasting for years law enforcement (a special state unit, nor ordinary cops) can get a warrant to quietly place spy cameras and in general bug a suspected pedophiles residence and life for a short period of time (a few months) to see if they are actually abusing children. In this day and age it's ridiculous that you would need to put a child on a court stand. Just record the actual crime. If the guy is just sick and likes watching.. finding out later that he was investigated and being watched while he masturbated will really scare him. So long as the guy is isn't publicly reveled or permanently put under surveillance then no harm no foul. If confronted properly it may be possible to motivate him to get the right physiological help to insure he never commits a crime.
If you design the interface of the phone and publish specs then they won't have to worry about software patents. Just ship the phones as a platform with basic functional software and let users put the "real" ported software on the phone, be it open source or a free binary blob.
Divorce the hardware from the software.
It shouldn't be necessary but it's the ecosystem that these corporations and their lawyers have done to the patent system.
A new program has unknown reliability, But a production program gains refinement and confidence with age. While it can still fail it becomes less likely. Just look at all the Fortran code still running.
Seriously. And it's more than enough reason to get it legal on the streets.
Just have a way to lock out the manual override until you can pass the built in breathalyzer. It can transmit encrypted times and duration of computer control to local police vehicles in addition to the fact that you locked yourself out so they won't bother pulling you over.
Of course you will probably have to pre train it to park. Or have a parking assist mode that you can engage even while intoxicated that won't let you get into an accident. And of course a button to pull over just in case you need to throw up.
No more drunk driving or risking the fine and you have your car to get to work in the morning. And no $50 one way taxi ride or having trouble getting a taxi at last call. Besides most people would probably prefer to nap on their way home anyway.
Seriously. Trace the IP, go there and recover the laptop. If they don't want to arrest the guy at least the guy recovers his property.
This is why I don't like security services that don't report to you but rather the police. The police can't be bothered. It's a lot better to just have the GPS coordinates yourself. Then you can call the police from outside the guys door. The police will be there within 5 minutes to prevent you from killing the guy.
Sending and receiving signals. The whole subject has been thought about for more than 50 years. Seems more like an undergraduate learning exercise to me rather than any new discoveries. The summary article dwells on synchronous verses asynchronous. All very obvious to me, nothing new.
They essentially want to create sandboxes or jails like on my favorite OS Freebsd.
It can only work if android had been created with this in mind. The problem is that hackers will probably figure out how to get into the other sandbox if the sandbox mechanism isn't well designed. Encryption isn't enough since the decode key resides on the device. Further what about one sandbox sniffing the others network traffic? That's why the OS has to be designed with it in mind.
But the idea of a separate desktop controlled by a companies IT department is a winner. It means they can control and manage software versions and updates and install their own apps and lock out everything else. No misconfiguration on the users part. Mandatory security settings designed to work for the business. Just a solid bare bones business experience and segregated data. I like it very much.
I don't understand everyone eases responses. The summary said why. The actual article didn't. The summary should have said scientists for the first time have an equation to describe the behavior.
When are we going to have a rating system for submitters accuracy and as users of/. be able to filter based on quality and accuracy?
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I totally agree with this. An SSD is standard equipment now for the operating system. For a desktop system I would actually recommend two drives, one for the OS and another for swap and disk caching. The second could be 16gb but it would take the write thrashing instead of the larger primary SSD and save your primary, more expensive and larger capacity SSD's from wearing out. I would actually love a SSD that was specialized for OS swap and disk caching.
P.S. How come there isn't a new micro package for SSD's? I can't see a reason for them to be this big at current capacity.
Just keep them separate and let the operating system use the SSD for cache. At least in this senerio the software for the caching logic can be changed/upgraded. I don't see any advantage to putting it into the firmware of a hard drive. Sure manufacturers can tune it but so can everyone with a software driver solution. Just no reason to combine them.
But there are technical hurdles.
One is the power requirements. How bright do the LED's need to be being so close to the eye. Next there would need to be very fast electronic processing in the contact lenses, and it would have to be very fast. It would need to be able to process a radio signal and display the results in real time and there would need to be enough radio spectrum and data throughput for at least three people or four people within a cubic meter. So obviously the first displays will be monochromatic and a very simple self generated text/vector displays rather than video. That would be sufficient for a HUD setup. The lenses will probably be expensive so more than likely they would be implanted within the eye like artificial corneas and will likely take up the entire surface of the eye and require removal of the eyeball from the socket for implantation.
They will need a refresh rate at least ten times faster than the eye and be able to detect orientation and focus and be able to compensate. Only what is in the center of vision would need to be in focus.
Then there is the question of heat generation. Even a small amount of heat my degrade the health of an eye. The more processing the contact lens does the more heat it generates. While I do think that someday electronics may be low power enough to run on the equivalent power of static electricity shock for an hour we are nowhere near there yet and probably won't be for a hundred years.
I see implants that tap into the optic nerves as far more likely and realistic. They could run on glucose and oxygen in the blood and could generate a little heat while being tolerant of our bodies latent heat. If the device doesn't generate a signal the the optic nerve would operate normally but with an active signal and under normal circumstances it would be switched to an artificial processed signal. Imagine televisions being no more than a green screen but having an overlay of a video signal generated electronically inside your head. I can also imagine artificially perfect eyes mechanically similar to our natural ones but far superior being offered as replacements once the optic nerve can be tapped. The bionic eye could be feasible to where you could recognize someone a football field away and or focus on things very close up. A greater sensitivity to light to see in the dark as well as frequency shifting effects so you can see infrared and ultraviolet light.
Everything you could pretty much want. But only 16GB. Only one SD slot. Wish they had a way to upgrade the on-board flash to larger capacities. We seriously need a smaller footprint for SSD's. Would be perfect with 128gb.
You can put whatever OS you want on it and the manufacturer encourages it, it just happens to come with android which is Linux under the covers.
They really should have designed it with replaceable batteries. That way we could sent a second one later with a spare nuclear battery for it. Maybe even design the thing with 4 battery compartments since you can continue to get some juice from the old batteries.
If you are innocent then why do you need a lawyer?
Not possible. First thing that happens is the data is copied. Even the 12 year old working for the cops (trying to explain computers to them) knows that much. The encryption mechanism has to be built not into the controller but into the actual drive itself and when it gets to the CIA the high schools seniors they have working for them know not to trust the interface board on the bottom of hard disks and replace them. Indeed they more than likely have people on call from the major hard disk manufacturers.
What the CIA does to combat hard drive encryption is to install a simple pass through devices much like key loggers. At the more sophisticated level they can replace the surface mount chips on a motherboard in 15 minutes. They do this if there is an external dongle that might hold the key which is usually part of it. For actual key-loggers they don't need to install anything, just place a device nearby that can capture the EMF signals generated by a keyboard. With flash drives now you can imagine they could capture keystrokes for a hundred years!
Hard encryption includes the dongle and the password. The best encryption involves interactivity with symbols on a screen and selected by mouse and keyboard in a system of one time passwords all done from a custom replaceable software GUI plugin.
It's often easier to crack the backups then the original equipment.
Just think about it. Within 50 years all disease will be conquered. We still probably won't fully comprehend the necessary symbiotic relationship between germs, our gut flora and our bodies but we will understand profoundly better. But the big thing will be able to supplement our immune system but in a direct directed way that no germ can compensate for. We will be able to identify viruses and bacteria within hours and create artificial antibodies, aka germs that fight germs. All within hours. Cancer? A thing of the past.
But we will still get colds and the flu because we will let it happen. Since our bodies were designed to get sick and fight battles which develop the immune system naturally. But at the point of it becoming life threatening a visit to the doctor would cure it. Antibiotics will work again because we will systematically eliminate all the human caused drug resistant strains.
A hundred years from now a man will be able to be virtually immortal. Everyone will have to be artificially sterilized. To have children you would need to give up your immortality. For a hundred years after that society will be fractured into different experiments where people try to balance life with relative levels of healthcare and dying and the ability to have children. Most people will probably choose to die after 300 years. Automated manufacturing has reached the point where we really won't need very many people involved. People will have more free time and I think creativity will become the biggest commodity. And as people get older they will become more and more bored. Some people will choose to die, others will simple have their minds wiped either permanently or temporarily. Others will choose to live with the risk of a random death and or doing dangerous things. I don't think there will be only one solution.
And while it may happen that someone or some group decides to reduce the population I think the biggest problem with immortality is boredom as I have already put forward. And the solution to boredom is lots of creative minds in combination with minds to entertain.
I can imagine combining it with transparent LCD tech where an LCD puts out light in one direction but is transparent when the light shines back. Also such an overlay wouldn't require any resolution.
It's made of tiny monochromatic mirrors that reflect or black out specific colors. It's relies on the number of mirrors per pixel sub-color to determine color intensity. While I suspect they are grouping the sub-colors per pixel right next to each other if they didn't... if every sub-pixel on this display was more or less a group of RGB each... (not likely since humans are more sensitive to certain colors) then the display would be capable or variable resolution. More resolution the closer you get to the pure RGB colors or black and white. So text on the screen can potentially be at a higher resolution while colors pictures appear at lower resolutions. This is such an advantage I suspect the research is focused on interleaved color manufacturing. While the colors on the screen won't be perfect RGB they will be a balanced matrix of colors. Addressing is the only technical challenge which would mean three different color address buses for three different screen colors. One color, I think blue being a reduced resolution for a smaller palette. That's a lot info to be transmitted but fortunately the display is it's own memory.
So to sum it up pictures at normal resolution, black/white text at 1000 times the resolution and nominal color text at 100 times the resolution.
I want one....
A cultured meat is just one specific type of cell. A great steak is many types of muscle cells and fax mixed together and has a resulting texture and flavor depending on the method of cooking. We are decades away from self growing bags of sirloin or chuck roast.
What is more exciting is the work that has been done making organs. Scientists discovered that organs have a clear gelatin like scaffolding that we don't know how to grow yet but we can take an organ that already exists from an animal or human and wash it clean of cells. They can then graft stem cells on the organ which conform to the scaffolding. We can already grow hearts and the hearts will beat and pump blood once activated. Very exciting stuff.
P.S. I can't wait until everyone abandons the ICANN domain system...
It's like open source, no reason someone else can't take the ball and run with it if they can gather the clout. Just take a major browser offering an alternative...
Without net neutrality your ISP could even redirect web sites without you knowing which is a major reason for the push of dnssec I suppose.
You could even remaster the domain system so that ICANN falls under the icann domain.... select a domain tree as default but provide absolute domain paths like google.com.icann.
A domain isn't a trademark, it's an alias. I wish ICANN would just implement a ".tm" domain for trademarks or collaborate with the international trademark system and have a range of trademark domains. Or maybe extend DNS to have a trademark certification record. It seems to me DNS is supplanting the trademark system.
seriously I can't imagine typing sex.xxx or girls.xxx, just doesn't look right
now if it was girls.sex....
Makes me wonder if it might be possible to exploit weak spots in the earth crust to create islands artificially. Second I wonder how safe it would be.
But suppose instead of destabilizing the crust you instead you just drilled down to the magma and pumped it out? If you could build a piping system that
could pump magma under cold ocean without clogging up the pipe that is... Forget about super conductors... what about super insulators at high temperatures?
Maybe in a couple hundred years... Should be possible to create the equivalent land mass of Hawaii in a few different places in the worlds or to at least double or triple their the land masses of existing islands within a ten year controlled period.
And for places like Yellowstone maybe even create a few mountains nearby to relieve the pressure.
It's nearly impossible to block internet traffic unless you prohibit encryption and even then there is stenography(where you hide data in other data).
Block a domain name? Well there are alternative name servers.. very easy to setup. You can even mix and match them.
And while any website may prefer a local domain for a country there is nothing preventing anyone from setting up service for people that speak a language... not all German speakers are in Germany and nor are all English websites from the UK. Facebook makes money in ad revenue and clicks. If they pull away from Germany then there will be brokers that will figure out the complexities and arrange ad space for German advertizes that want to reach the German speakers that are more than capable of getting on Facebook. If anything it will probably make the site more popular.
It all comes down to a question of convenience. You can be sure Facebook isn't the only one doing facial recognition for online pictures. Basically what this commission wants to prohibit is pictures on Facebook period because it's the pictures that are the issue and causing privacy concerns.
It should be taxed at the place of sale which is where the business is located. If I buy cheese from France I should pay french taxes.
Otherwise your going to get businesses like Amazon start an official proxy purchasing service for residents similar to the import/export business where you legally empower someone as your business proxy to do business in another location on your behalf as if you were the one doing business in that location.You can't prevent someone from traveling to another state or country and making purchases. Point of sale.
It would just be better if congress designated a national sales tax. If it crosses state lines then the feds collect. The fed can keep it or give it out to the states as it sees fit. More than likely keep it once they get a taste of it. Bad part of this is states with significantly higher sales tax will lose a bunch of revenue if the national sales tax is lower since everyone as much as possible is going to do business across states lines just for the tax break.
The simplest solution is if states abandoned sales taxes and just adjusted income taxes.
I want a bracer with curved OLED screen. Kind of like a smart phone but permanently landscape oriented. Just make it tough enough to take a few bumps and push against it such as when you might be lifting something but still light enough and with enough ventilation so you don't get sweaty wrist. With a touch screen it's the ultimate geeks toy. Always within reach, no more pulling out your smart device. And for you uber geek you they can wear the left and right handed models on both arms. You can have a vertical mode with your wright facing you and your hand pointed up (dialing a phone number) and an angled orientation for holding your wrist in front of you. If the screen were 360 all the way around your wrist then even better. I can even image a bizarre way of taping behind back side of your wrist for tap typing in a way similar to a stenographers keyboard.
Is that they tipped off guilty and there was no real punishment. But delving into their minds I bet it puts the fear of god in the child porn traders that there may be from now on online hackers that don't necessarily follow laws (just like they don't) that are targeting them. It's a warning shot across the bow of a ship... change direction or be destroyed.
The porn traders will hunker down and become more secure but security is an illusion, it just takes one tiny crack... (nice pun) and you are compromised.
But I'm against targeting those that get their jollies from masturbating to wrong things or peeping at disgusting and wrong things. (It's a lot like people wanting to watch a donkey show, when in reality it's just a poor desperate woman being used that will really will do nearly anything to make money.)
It's people that pay to watch and hence promote the exploitation that are immoral along with those that produce the reprehensible content. File trading sites can serve law enforcement as a honeypot if they track people. You have the curious, then you have the collectors, then you have actual pedophiles. Monitoring the file trading sites allows you to investigate people further and put them on a watch list.
What really needs to happens is the laws change so that based on deep logs lasting for years law enforcement (a special state unit, nor ordinary cops) can get a warrant to quietly place spy cameras and in general bug a suspected pedophiles residence and life for a short period of time (a few months) to see if they are actually abusing children. In this day and age it's ridiculous that you would need to put a child on a court stand. Just record the actual crime. If the guy is just sick and likes watching.. finding out later that he was investigated and being watched while he masturbated will really scare him. So long as the guy is isn't publicly reveled or permanently put under surveillance then no harm no foul. If confronted properly it may be possible to motivate him to get the right physiological help to insure he never commits a crime.
If you design the interface of the phone and publish specs then they won't have to worry about software patents. Just ship the phones as a platform with basic functional software and let users put the "real" ported software on the phone, be it open source or a free binary blob.
Divorce the hardware from the software.
It shouldn't be necessary but it's the ecosystem that these corporations and their lawyers have done to the patent system.
A new program has unknown reliability, But a production program gains refinement and confidence with age. While it can still fail it becomes less likely. Just look at all the Fortran code still running.
Seriously. And it's more than enough reason to get it legal on the streets.
Just have a way to lock out the manual override until you can pass the built in breathalyzer. It can transmit encrypted times and duration of computer control to local police vehicles in addition to the fact that you locked yourself out so they won't bother pulling you over.
Of course you will probably have to pre train it to park. Or have a parking assist mode that you can engage even while intoxicated that won't let you get into an accident. And of course a button to pull over just in case you need to throw up.
No more drunk driving or risking the fine and you have your car to get to work in the morning. And no $50 one way taxi ride or having trouble getting a taxi at last call. Besides most people would probably prefer to nap on their way home anyway.
Seriously. Trace the IP, go there and recover the laptop. If they don't want to arrest the guy at least the guy recovers his property.
This is why I don't like security services that don't report to you but rather the police. The police can't be bothered. It's a lot better to just have the GPS coordinates yourself. Then you can call the police from outside the guys door. The police will be there within 5 minutes to prevent you from killing the guy.
Sending and receiving signals. The whole subject has been thought about for more than 50 years. Seems more like an undergraduate learning exercise to me rather than any new discoveries. The summary article dwells on synchronous verses asynchronous. All very obvious to me, nothing new.
They essentially want to create sandboxes or jails like on my favorite OS Freebsd.
It can only work if android had been created with this in mind. The problem is that hackers will probably figure out how to get into the other sandbox if the sandbox mechanism isn't well designed. Encryption isn't enough since the decode key resides on the device. Further what about one sandbox sniffing the others network traffic? That's why the OS has to be designed with it in mind.
But the idea of a separate desktop controlled by a companies IT department is a winner. It means they can control and manage software versions and updates and install their own apps and lock out everything else. No misconfiguration on the users part. Mandatory security settings designed to work for the business. Just a solid bare bones business experience and segregated data. I like it very much.
I don't understand everyone eases responses. The summary said why. The actual article didn't. The summary should have said scientists for the first time have an equation to describe the behavior.
When are we going to have a rating system for submitters accuracy and as users of /. be able to filter based on quality and accuracy?