It has gills now? I mean I knew they were considering a kitchen sink to go along with its laser, but gills? There isn't that much water on Mars, is there?
Methodology, interpretation, cause. Having scientific results that aren't open for debate would be astonishing, unless it's as simple as "dropping something out the window on Earth causes it to fall." Hell, I can already spot several things wrong with that statement (what about lighter than air objects?)
All scientific results have uncertainties, in measurements and in conclusions. Causation is always extremely tricky, and requires you to interpret the results in light of a certain scientific (and philosophical: you need principles too) framework, which is generally also open to debate. And of course an error in methodology could invalidate the entire thing, but you can only know if such an error exists if you know what you are showing and what the cause is (to some degree). In short, you can't not have debate.
This would assume that Facebook is the most efficient separation path. I.e. there are paths of friends who aren't facebook friends (I have quite a few of those actually), who don't use Facebook, etc. So you cannot use this statistic for any person or people who are not on Facebook, nor can you draw any accurate conclusions about their degrees of separation.
It doesn't get better if they do it inhouse. When was the last time you heard "oh, I'm so glad the TSA are government employees and not private security firms!" Never, that's when.
Different situations call for different things. In theory, application development like this should be outsourced. Are you seriously proposing OSHA should hire a team of programmers to produce a single one-off app? Who wouldn't have anything further to do afterwards? Of course not. The problem is that the market of government contractors isn't free. The job goes to whoever makes the best contributions or who employs people in a certain congressional district. There is no simple fix for this problem, unfortunately. Well, besides firing every single last congressman and senator, which is a good idea but practically impossible.
Also, no conservative will be in favor of installing more controls: that shows a clear misunderstanding of a fundamental right-wing tenant, which is and has been for a long time smaller government (a large part of the point of independent contractors). A few people who claim to be conservative are in favor of larger government, but they are by far the exception.
Oh yes, that challenge totally answered the question once and for all! What drive recovery or intelligence agency could resist the reward of... wait for it,
$40.00 USD and the title "King (or Queen) of Data Recovery".
$40.00 US DOLLARS!!! And they can keep a 60$ HDD!!! For performing a time-intensive, expensive procedure! Yeah, that totally shows everyone...
Oh and most challengers also wouldn't be able to disassemble the drive. And would have to publicly disclose the method used (heh, yeah, I can totally see the NSA jumping at the opportunity to prove some random Internet blogger wrong while disclosing all their methods). I'm sorry, but that challenge is so obviously a joke, it's actually sad, because people think it answers... well, anything. (source, BTW. Original source has absolutely zero info AFAICT.)
Not irreversible, sorry. That technique allows you to reconstruct most of the data, because of the digital nature of hard drives. In short, HDDs recognize only two states, up or down. Zeroing puts all of them in a "down" (or up I don't really know which HDD use), but the magnetic domains won't all be aligned down, they will just be pointing somewhere down-ish (below the horizontal plane is sufficient). A detailed examination of the domains through custom drive firmware will allow you to reconstruct which domains were originally one, as those domains will be less down-wards than the rest.
Actually I'm pretty sure zeroing is completely or nearly completely reversible. Random data would be slightly better (maybe), but still wouldn't work for the same reason. Google "magnetic remanence" next time you want to make an actually informed post. You need multiple passes using random data to approach irreversibility, and even that isn't good enough for government work.
When I go back there now, it is totally fucking unambiguous to me that on a global scale the temperature is rising. Look up from your feet at some previously snow-capped mountains -- it's not that damn hard.
I would, but a) I don't live near any mountains, and b) it's way to cold to go outside right now.
The saddest part about the whole climate debate is that neither side behaves rationally anymore. The debate has become so politically polarized that I feel it is difficult to trust nearly any evidence presented by either side, although the recent Koch-funded study looked like good science. Add in the fact that climate is so vastly complex it is impossible, without intensely studying it, for even the generally scientifically inclined to make judgments given the facts, and you have an issue that it becomes nearly pointless to even talk about anymore. Every time it comes up on Slashdot it inevitably comes down to a flamewar. And that flame comes from both sides.
One could argue, and I think pretty well, that that mentality was instrumental in bringing down the USSR and is rapidly converting China towards capitalism. The mere act of buying the rope to hang someone from them implies, in a certain way, that that person is superior to you (at least at rope building) and maybe we shouldn't kill them after all. Or at least become better at rope building. This metaphor is stretching thin, but the point is dealing with hostile countries can often bring about reform.
What I meant was cars that, for instance, match speed with cars in front when switched to cruise control and automatically brake if the car slows (and this technology already exists and works in real, commercially available cars). The human is still technically in full control, but the car can do much of the micro-management. This could be scaled up so the car stops at red lights and stop signs, will stay between lanes on cruise control, and before you know it you have a nearly self-driving car for 90% of situations. Humans still take over for more complex operations and always are in nominal control, but don't need a to do a lot of input.
Automated driving lanes are a good idea, but technically rather challenging, since you either repurpose existing lanes (annoying other drivers) or build new lanes (expensive).
This would apply if and only if the car was designated for fully autonomous use. Probably, such certification is some distance off. Might not even happen until all cars (or close to all) are self-driven. This will, IMO, be a very cool day. Imagine no stop signs or lights: cars automatically avoid each other and interlace without stopping. It's a ways off, but still. More likely, we will see a slow trend towards computer-assisted human driving. Actually, we already are well on that trend. But they aren't likely to be called "self-driving", at least not commercially, for quite some time yet.
That is true, although currently all robotic technology requires significant human input to continue operation. A rogue UAV could do a lot of damage, true, but it only carries a couple of missiles. A rogue RTG powered tank (which this rover basically is, just without armor) with a laser powerful enough to vaporize rock, designed to operate millions of miles away from humans in harsh terrain? Nearly unlimited destruction. Except for the obvious problems with using an RTG in combat, the military would love a tank like that. Software wise yes the difference is huge: but hardware wise, this rover could be weaponized pretty easily.
I don't seriously think rogue AIs are very likely within, well, a very long time at least, so I would agree with you: the real problem would be a malicious human uploading murder-software. Even if we manage to create truly autonomous AIs I think the likelihood of them killing us is pretty small. But it does make for some very good, if a little worn out (I admit it) jokes.
RSA-512 is weak, can be factored in a few weeks (according to a comment, a couple days), and should never be used. All certificates should have CRL entries. Also, the Fox-IT International Blog writer needs English grammar courses.
That would almost certainly be illegal in and of itself if the laws are sane. Not that they will be sane, but that will probably still be illegal all the same.
What else would you expect from the director of a "Transliteracy" department?
The interviewer in TFA asks what "Transliteracy" (yes browser I know that isn't a word) means, and the director's response was basically "critical thinking... but for computers!" We do not need another meaningless buzzword. Really, "critical thinking" sums up exactly what that word means, and it does so concisely, clearly, and in a way anyone who is literate can understand. Unlike "transliteracy." Although inventing a new word is a really good way to create a job for yourself...
It can go to MARS! Well, assuming all the measurements are in metric (although if they aren't, it'll still go to Mars, just a little faster than expected.)
Ok, now that's out of the way
Curiosity's ChemCam instrument can vaporize rocks from up to 30 feet (9 meters) away with a laser. Three spectrographs will analyze the composition of the vaporized bits.
Anyone else find it disturbing that we are putting lasers on robots now? And putting them in space? It's like we're asking for Skynet to develop. Let's hope we just don't see the headline "Curiosity killed the human" next.
(what - you were going to just let them "offer" you a convenient place to work out of that they have the keys to? Are you retarded????)
From TFA:
The 10 people or startups accepted into the Kinect Accelerator program will spend three months in Seattle working out of the Kinect Accelerator office,where they will receive technical training and support and be mentored by entrepreneurs, investors and Microsoft executives.
So, does reading TFA mean I'm retarded? Yeah, I kinda did think they were going to offer a convenient place to work out of, since working with Microsoft people is kind of the point. What, did you think MS wants them to move there just for shits and giggles?
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SUV-sized rover packed to the gills
It has gills now? I mean I knew they were considering a kitchen sink to go along with its laser, but gills? There isn't that much water on Mars, is there?
Methodology, interpretation, cause. Having scientific results that aren't open for debate would be astonishing, unless it's as simple as "dropping something out the window on Earth causes it to fall." Hell, I can already spot several things wrong with that statement (what about lighter than air objects?)
All scientific results have uncertainties, in measurements and in conclusions. Causation is always extremely tricky, and requires you to interpret the results in light of a certain scientific (and philosophical: you need principles too) framework, which is generally also open to debate. And of course an error in methodology could invalidate the entire thing, but you can only know if such an error exists if you know what you are showing and what the cause is (to some degree). In short, you can't not have debate.
Ok, please go back to 4chan now.
The service itself isn't what is valuable. The name and user-base is.
This would assume that Facebook is the most efficient separation path. I.e. there are paths of friends who aren't facebook friends (I have quite a few of those actually), who don't use Facebook, etc. So you cannot use this statistic for any person or people who are not on Facebook, nor can you draw any accurate conclusions about their degrees of separation.
Compared to the amounts we've spent on the recent wars.
Show me an iPhone app that can replace a soldier, and maybe we'll get those costs down.
Angry Birds?
It doesn't get better if they do it inhouse. When was the last time you heard "oh, I'm so glad the TSA are government employees and not private security firms!" Never, that's when.
Different situations call for different things. In theory, application development like this should be outsourced. Are you seriously proposing OSHA should hire a team of programmers to produce a single one-off app? Who wouldn't have anything further to do afterwards? Of course not. The problem is that the market of government contractors isn't free. The job goes to whoever makes the best contributions or who employs people in a certain congressional district. There is no simple fix for this problem, unfortunately. Well, besides firing every single last congressman and senator, which is a good idea but practically impossible.
Also, no conservative will be in favor of installing more controls: that shows a clear misunderstanding of a fundamental right-wing tenant, which is and has been for a long time smaller government (a large part of the point of independent contractors). A few people who claim to be conservative are in favor of larger government, but they are by far the exception.
$40.00 USD and the title "King (or Queen) of Data Recovery".
$40.00 US DOLLARS!!! And they can keep a 60$ HDD!!! For performing a time-intensive, expensive procedure! Yeah, that totally shows everyone...
Oh and most challengers also wouldn't be able to disassemble the drive. And would have to publicly disclose the method used (heh, yeah, I can totally see the NSA jumping at the opportunity to prove some random Internet blogger wrong while disclosing all their methods). I'm sorry, but that challenge is so obviously a joke, it's actually sad, because people think it answers... well, anything. (source, BTW. Original source has absolutely zero info AFAICT.)
Not irreversible, sorry. That technique allows you to reconstruct most of the data, because of the digital nature of hard drives. In short, HDDs recognize only two states, up or down. Zeroing puts all of them in a "down" (or up I don't really know which HDD use), but the magnetic domains won't all be aligned down, they will just be pointing somewhere down-ish (below the horizontal plane is sufficient). A detailed examination of the domains through custom drive firmware will allow you to reconstruct which domains were originally one, as those domains will be less down-wards than the rest.
Actually I'm pretty sure zeroing is completely or nearly completely reversible. Random data would be slightly better (maybe), but still wouldn't work for the same reason. Google "magnetic remanence" next time you want to make an actually informed post. You need multiple passes using random data to approach irreversibility, and even that isn't good enough for government work.
Yeah but try using that skill on 10,000 posts. You'll see why you want automated software after your brain melts around post 1000 or so.
$40 billion? Pocket change.
It's to spot any vulnerabilities MS tries to sneak into the code.
When I go back there now, it is totally fucking unambiguous to me that on a global scale the temperature is rising. Look up from your feet at some previously snow-capped mountains -- it's not that damn hard.
I would, but a) I don't live near any mountains, and b) it's way to cold to go outside right now.
The saddest part about the whole climate debate is that neither side behaves rationally anymore. The debate has become so politically polarized that I feel it is difficult to trust nearly any evidence presented by either side, although the recent Koch-funded study looked like good science. Add in the fact that climate is so vastly complex it is impossible, without intensely studying it, for even the generally scientifically inclined to make judgments given the facts, and you have an issue that it becomes nearly pointless to even talk about anymore. Every time it comes up on Slashdot it inevitably comes down to a flamewar. And that flame comes from both sides.
And you aren't helping.
Well, obviously it's because Obama is a Muslim! It all makes sense now.
/joke (since slashdot seems to need it)
One could argue, and I think pretty well, that that mentality was instrumental in bringing down the USSR and is rapidly converting China towards capitalism. The mere act of buying the rope to hang someone from them implies, in a certain way, that that person is superior to you (at least at rope building) and maybe we shouldn't kill them after all. Or at least become better at rope building. This metaphor is stretching thin, but the point is dealing with hostile countries can often bring about reform.
What I meant was cars that, for instance, match speed with cars in front when switched to cruise control and automatically brake if the car slows (and this technology already exists and works in real, commercially available cars). The human is still technically in full control, but the car can do much of the micro-management. This could be scaled up so the car stops at red lights and stop signs, will stay between lanes on cruise control, and before you know it you have a nearly self-driving car for 90% of situations. Humans still take over for more complex operations and always are in nominal control, but don't need a to do a lot of input.
Automated driving lanes are a good idea, but technically rather challenging, since you either repurpose existing lanes (annoying other drivers) or build new lanes (expensive).
This would apply if and only if the car was designated for fully autonomous use. Probably, such certification is some distance off. Might not even happen until all cars (or close to all) are self-driven. This will, IMO, be a very cool day. Imagine no stop signs or lights: cars automatically avoid each other and interlace without stopping. It's a ways off, but still. More likely, we will see a slow trend towards computer-assisted human driving. Actually, we already are well on that trend. But they aren't likely to be called "self-driving", at least not commercially, for quite some time yet.
That is true, although currently all robotic technology requires significant human input to continue operation. A rogue UAV could do a lot of damage, true, but it only carries a couple of missiles. A rogue RTG powered tank (which this rover basically is, just without armor) with a laser powerful enough to vaporize rock, designed to operate millions of miles away from humans in harsh terrain? Nearly unlimited destruction. Except for the obvious problems with using an RTG in combat, the military would love a tank like that. Software wise yes the difference is huge: but hardware wise, this rover could be weaponized pretty easily.
I don't seriously think rogue AIs are very likely within, well, a very long time at least, so I would agree with you: the real problem would be a malicious human uploading murder-software. Even if we manage to create truly autonomous AIs I think the likelihood of them killing us is pretty small. But it does make for some very good, if a little worn out (I admit it) jokes.
RSA-512 is weak, can be factored in a few weeks (according to a comment, a couple days), and should never be used. All certificates should have CRL entries. Also, the Fox-IT International Blog writer needs English grammar courses.
That would almost certainly be illegal in and of itself if the laws are sane. Not that they will be sane, but that will probably still be illegal all the same.
What else would you expect from the director of a "Transliteracy" department?
The interviewer in TFA asks what "Transliteracy" (yes browser I know that isn't a word) means, and the director's response was basically "critical thinking... but for computers!" We do not need another meaningless buzzword. Really, "critical thinking" sums up exactly what that word means, and it does so concisely, clearly, and in a way anyone who is literate can understand. Unlike "transliteracy." Although inventing a new word is a really good way to create a job for yourself...
Please please don't. Otherwise they might ask us to start taking out the battery next.
It can go to MARS! Well, assuming all the measurements are in metric (although if they aren't, it'll still go to Mars, just a little faster than expected.)
Ok, now that's out of the way
Curiosity's ChemCam instrument can vaporize rocks from up to 30 feet (9 meters) away with a laser. Three spectrographs will analyze the composition of the vaporized bits.
Anyone else find it disturbing that we are putting lasers on robots now? And putting them in space? It's like we're asking for Skynet to develop. Let's hope we just don't see the headline "Curiosity killed the human" next.
(what - you were going to just let them "offer" you a convenient place to work out of that they have the keys to? Are you retarded????)
From TFA:
The 10 people or startups accepted into the Kinect Accelerator program will spend three months in Seattle working out of the Kinect Accelerator office,where they will receive technical training and support and be mentored by entrepreneurs, investors and Microsoft executives.
So, does reading TFA mean I'm retarded? Yeah, I kinda did think they were going to offer a convenient place to work out of, since working with Microsoft people is kind of the point. What, did you think MS wants them to move there just for shits and giggles?