Researchers have known for a long time that acoustic signals from keyboards can be intercepted and used to spy on users, but those attacks rely on grabbing the electronic emanation from the keyboard.
I don't get it. What are these electronic emanations which can be acoustically picked up?
Sticks and stones being wielded by people in order to assault and injure? That act is illegal. Not the sticks and stones themselves, but the act of wielding them in such a way.
The United States President Barack Obama said Tuesday the country will send Americans to Mars
First I'm hearing of this country called Tuesday. They must be pretty advanced! The people of Monday, on the other hand, are presumably in a constant state of depression and tiredness.
he former lead singer of Blink 182, Tom DeLonge, has publicly admitted to his obsession with UFOs -- but that still doesn't explain why he was sending two cryptic messages about alien spacecrafts to Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta
Whadyamean, it doesn't explain it? It explains it perfectly. He's obsessed with UFOs.
The Open Source Election Technology Foundation is trying to move U.S. voting machines from "proprietary, vendor-owned systems to ones that are owned 'by the people of the United States.'"
If they want Open Source, wouldn't it be "owned" by the people of the whole world?
there is no way speech is faster if you know how to type.
Nah, that's just not true. Most professional typists don't exceed 100wpm, while the average person talks at 130-150wpm.
If typing was so much faster than speaking, they wouldn't do live subtitles by having someone repeat the words into a mic for speech recognition. Which is what they do, with occasionally hilarious results.
The results showed that the TalkType error rate was 20.4% lower than an English texter hunting and tapping for letters.
How many of those errors could have been reliably corrected by some form of autocorrect, or was such already included in the tests?
If I try and type "thw quick rbown fox jump sover the lazy dog" as fast I can... well, that's the result. Autocorrect could have fixed most of those problems.
Only if you take the words "break out" so literally.
What you are implying is basically identical to the idea that Donkey Kong could step into the real world if the folks at Nintendo wrote a buffer overflow.
No, I'm saying that Donkey Kong, if he was sufficiently complex to have developed consciousness, imagination, and scientific tools, could find a way to induce a buffer overflow which might then allow him to rewrite his environment, send messages he shouldn't be able to send, observe data he shouldn't be able to oberve, copy himself through a network he shouldn't have access to, etc, etc.
No-one's actually suggesting we should expect do be able to physically walk "upstairs" (unless we can commandeer a network-connected body-printing mind-implanting machine; and maybe we can, who knows?)
"There might be a bug" is not evidence, it's blind faith.
I didn't say it was evidence. I was simply offering a refutation of the assertion that it would be impossible to escape the confines of a simulation (by any means).
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Researchers have known for a long time that acoustic signals from keyboards can be intercepted and used to spy on users, but those attacks rely on grabbing the electronic emanation from the keyboard.
I don't get it. What are these electronic emanations which can be acoustically picked up?
He is not "making information available for free."
How is he not doing so?
No, we say Martian.
So maybe we should say Venutian.
Sticks and stones: no need to make those illegal.
Sticks and stones being wielded by people in order to assault and injure? That act is illegal. Not the sticks and stones themselves, but the act of wielding them in such a way.
Funny how everyone who doesn't worship the liberal establishment automatically turns into "literally Hitler"
Does this have anything to do with the story? I don't see any mention of Hitler.
And hey, Hitler was the guy who killed Hitler. So he wasn't all bad.
"It was a fluid, dangerous situation and I didn't have time to be fumbling with a camera when my life was potentially at risk!"
Yup, that pretty much sums up going to the toilet as far as I'm concerned.
First time I've seen the acronym "DNC" and the word "intelligence" in the same sentence. Boom!
I'd have thought a guy like him would have two or three PAYG SIM cards for contigencies.
Why would the Uber driver have been out driving, if it wasn't to carry around the second guy?
To clarify, because the summary makes a mess of it, the twenty times more galaxies they are talking about are within the observable universe.
The stuff about galaxies we can never see because they're outside the OU was just a bit of colour at the end of the article.
It's not gibberish. It was devised as a tool for promoting discussion. It's not and never was meant to used in earnest.
Pokemon Go could add 2.83 million years to the life expectancy of an assumed 25 million U.S. users
So about a month. Which they would only [have] wasted playing Pokemon Go.
'StrongPity' Malware Infects Users Through Legitimate WinRAR and TrueCrypt Installers
in order to fool the potential victim into thinking that the program was a legitimate WinRAR installer website.
It certainly fooled whoever submitted the story.
Now, will someone at Slashdot bother to fix it?
The United States President Barack Obama said Tuesday the country will send Americans to Mars
First I'm hearing of this country called Tuesday. They must be pretty advanced! The people of Monday, on the other hand, are presumably in a constant state of depression and tiredness.
he former lead singer of Blink 182, Tom DeLonge, has publicly admitted to his obsession with UFOs -- but that still doesn't explain why he was sending two cryptic messages about alien spacecrafts to Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman John Podesta
Whadyamean, it doesn't explain it? It explains it perfectly. He's obsessed with UFOs.
already working on making Google's upcoming Assistant AI voice service feel more loose and vibrant
That sounds like they're making a completely different kind of "assistant."
The Open Source Election Technology Foundation is trying to move U.S. voting machines from "proprietary, vendor-owned systems to ones that are owned 'by the people of the United States.'"
If they want Open Source, wouldn't it be "owned" by the people of the whole world?
On a full English language keboard
Heh.
there is no way speech is faster if you know how to type.
Nah, that's just not true. Most professional typists don't exceed 100wpm, while the average person talks at 130-150wpm.
If typing was so much faster than speaking, they wouldn't do live subtitles by having someone repeat the words into a mic for speech recognition. Which is what they do, with occasionally hilarious results.
The results showed that the TalkType error rate was 20.4% lower than an English texter hunting and tapping for letters.
How many of those errors could have been reliably corrected by some form of autocorrect, or was such already included in the tests?
If I try and type "thw quick rbown fox jump sover the lazy dog" as fast I can... well, that's the result. Autocorrect could have fixed most of those problems.
And to pile insult upon injury, they nicked his bike.
No-one's forcing you to.
That's a replacement for the old Paint. It doesn't do what the new Paint can do.
You wont be able to read text
Err... just make the text bigger. Problem solved.
or tell the difference at that fine resolution and screen size
That depends how close you sit to it.
Don't know why you're asking me; I was just offering some reasons why breaking out need not be logically impossible.
Only if you take the words "break out" so literally.
What you are implying is basically identical to the idea that Donkey Kong could step into the real world if the folks at Nintendo wrote a buffer overflow.
No, I'm saying that Donkey Kong, if he was sufficiently complex to have developed consciousness, imagination, and scientific tools, could find a way to induce a buffer overflow which might then allow him to rewrite his environment, send messages he shouldn't be able to send, observe data he shouldn't be able to oberve, copy himself through a network he shouldn't have access to, etc, etc.
No-one's actually suggesting we should expect do be able to physically walk "upstairs" (unless we can commandeer a network-connected body-printing mind-implanting machine; and maybe we can, who knows?)
"There might be a bug" is not evidence, it's blind faith.
I didn't say it was evidence. I was simply offering a refutation of the assertion that it would be impossible to escape the confines of a simulation (by any means).