And what makes you think that you, as an individual, are that relevant to call bullshit on the article?
Swiss citizen here as well. I pay as much as I can with cash.
Reasons: (1) I value my privacy (2) I prefer not to "donate" a few percent of the transaction value to MasterCard, VISA & co (and spare me the "handling cash also costs money". Yes it does. But that cost/value is generated locally, not remotely and by a huge financial player)
At the university I attend (US, top tier research, public school), [...] I was wondering why the heck watches were banned from the testing centers. I couldn't think of a way to cheat with regular watches.
- many people have insurance is because an accident could happen to them. - many people choose to live a healthy lifestyle because not doing so could increase their risk for heart diseases/diabetes/cancer/...
So as long as it affects you personally, you consider potential undesirable outcomes and take counter measures. When it comes to the planet, however, who cares...
True, but what about the all the travelers who have no checked luggage because they don't want to wait for an hour to get it back at the destination (if at all) ?
I often visit the US for 2-3 days to attend conferences with no other luggage than a small carry-on backpack. Depending on the location, the flight takes between 8 and 12 hours - I am definitely not interested in watching 5 movies back-to-back.
Why don't they offer to run this against the thousands of hours of course videos that Berkley just pulled due to ADA? Google gets massive training material, Berkley gets free transcripts, and the material stays online. Everyone wins...
Good idea, but unfortunately it won't work in this case. Many of UCBerkeley's lecture videos only show the slides and you hear the lecturer talk. See, for example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?....
It's an interesting idea and nicely carried out, but in the real world I doubt this is of much concern. For the attack to be successful, all of the following must hold 1. memory susceptible to rowhammer attack (in itself not trivial - only few and given memory locations can be flipped) 2. VM manager merges physically identical pages of unrelated VMs (i.e., the identical memory pages of different VMs point to the same physical page) 3. attacker VM must know the contents of the page in the victim VM 4. attacker must register a page with the to-be-attacked contents before the victim VM does so that it can somewhat control its physical location and use rowhammer on it
Especially #3 is not easy. In the paper, the authors assume they know all SSH authorized keys of the victim page which seems a bit far-fetched. Pages holding OS contents are easier to guess; I think an attack on those is more probable.
Also, the fix is trivial. Don't buy cheap RAM that can be attacked with rowhammer for your data centers.
Among the performances was a topless dancer wearing giant wings who soared over orange-suited dancers as they crawled on the ground below.
At another point, humans dressed like bales of hay were seen swaying on a flatbed before running around on the floor. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Don't forget, this is Europe where people are not scared stiff by topless women and worry that their children become sexual predators because seeing a pair of nipples.
Soon, we will never have to leave Google's "intranet" for anything. IMDB, Wipedia, travel, shopping, weather, calculators, dictionnaries, news, now TV program listings...pages providing a particular service get indexed one by one, context integrated, and then obliterated by Google. The new form of embrace, extend and extinguish, apparently.
This is not a new, but a very worrying approach Google is taking here. Monopolies have never been good for the consumers.
Don't get all hyped up. Your government has been taking photo ID and fingerprints of all (legal) foreign visitors since ~2002. And as of April 1 this year you can only enter the US with a biometric passport which means my data will be stored in electronic form in one of the many databases the US operate and be susceptible to getting hacked. The only entity that has my fingerprints is a foreign and rouge government - yours. I have been able to get around a biometric passport until now, so not even my government has any biometric identifiers on me - which is how it should be in an ideal world.
1. Google says it is not true. 2. Adding things like current speed and wheel angle can really help with dead reckoning when GPS is having a problem getting a lock like going through a tunnel. 3. Knowing how much fuel you have left and your current mpg can help it find the cheapest gas along your route.
True, but to implement 2 or 3 only the navigation app needs that data. You don't need to send it all the way to Google (and TFA says so).
I use xfce on Gentoo and have observed similar (not all) of the grandparent's problems: fullscreen is broken for some apps, the theme icons are not correct whenever a second monitor is connected when the X server starts, and so on. And yes, it used to work before.
If lawmakers of both houses were considered non-essential we wouldn't have a shut down right now. It's all fun and games as long as you can play with someone else's income.
At our (national) university (not in the US, but similar living cost), a tenured professor shortly before retirement has a salary of about $80'000. Assistant professors get ~$40K. (To be fair: profs at private universities get about twice as much). I don't know about other departments, but at least in engineering, both tenured and assistant profs put in a lot of hours.
If you're working in the systems area (low-level stuff such as OSes, compilers, etc), it's hard to write even two papers per year and grad student, because we actually implement our ideas, debug them, and may not be able to publish if the results are worse than expected. And most projects are too big for one student, so a whole team is working on it.
In computer science, we compete with everyone who has has interet access and a computer. The guys at, for example, Tsinghua University in Beijing work extremely hard and are at least as talented as your average grad student in the US or Europe. If we publish something new, a framework, a new scheduling algorithm, etc., for that first paper we do have some slack. Once it's out, anyone is free to improve the ideas there and publish a follow-up paper. From that moment on, even though we have a good head start, it's either publish fast or work on something entirely new. Unfortunately, not everybody has a new cool idea every day.
Note that providing copyrighted material is illegal, only possession (and downloading) is legal.
Of course, the USo*AA didn't like this and have put Switzerland on the 2012 International Piracy Watch List (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/congressional-report-adds-italy-switzerland-to-piracy-watchlist/). Switzerland took the spot of Canada after they changed their laws to the liking of our *AA overlords.
I might also add that the technology helped quite a bit in dumbing us down in the sense that it enables us to know what's going on anywhere on the planet almost immediatly. Most (online) newspapers scramble to get those stories out as fast as possible which then leads to the situation where all news outlets present the exact same story by Reuters. I remember when newspapers still did their own stories. Now I even get live feeds from, say, the Apple-Samsung trial: "13:30 the judge entered the courtroom." aso.
And as you mentioned above, it's the dumbass stories that generate a lot of clicks. Some vampire celebrity cheats on her boyfriend with her director, gets kicked out, is depressed, will they get together,....and even though I was born on a different continent and currently live in yet another continent - newspapers here and back home are full of this useless information.
Same goes for TV. Everything TV has to offer these days is braindamaged 'who's got talent', 'whatever factor' and 'survivor camp' "reality shows" and a million variants of CSI.
I research/teach at a university. We have trouble getting motivated students these days, very few kids are interested in science - they might have to sit down and actually use their brains. And it will get worse - a survey among middle school kids on what they would like to do later found that they want to become a celebrity, a lawyer, or a plastical surgon.
one of my favorites, too. small correction for those who actually try it out: it should be controlmaster auto, not auth.
~/.ssh/config
host *
controlmaster auto
controlpath ~/.ssh/ssh-%r@%h:%p
controlpersist yes
This creates a master socket on my client. When I first connect, I need to use my passphrase. But when I exit, the SSH tunnel stays up. Futher connections via SSH and sftp and scp use this connection, multiplexed. So no more asking from my passphrase. When I'm finished for the day, I close down the connection with
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And what makes you think that you, as an individual, are that relevant to call bullshit on the article?
Swiss citizen here as well. I pay as much as I can with cash.
Reasons:
(1) I value my privacy
(2) I prefer not to "donate" a few percent of the transaction value to MasterCard, VISA & co (and spare me the "handling cash also costs money". Yes it does. But that cost/value is generated locally, not remotely and by a huge financial player)
At the university I attend (US, top tier research, public school), [...] I was wondering why the heck watches were banned from the testing centers. I couldn't think of a way to cheat with regular watches.
Heh, how did you end up at a top-tier university?
From the summary:
Rest assured that this will be changed with a forced update of the ELUA ("Accept or your Roomba will stop working").
It's because of checked luggage.
No plane is allowed to take off with luggage that belongs to a passenger who is not on the plane.
In most cases, waiting for the passenger takes less time that searching for and unloading the bags of the missing passenger.
Why does a perpendicular penetration create a bigger hole than a (much longer) almost parallel traversal?
Taxi fares in Asia in general, maybe with the exception of Japan, are already rather cheap and there is plenty of them on the roads.
I doubt that Uber will be able to generate anything else than additional losses.
Correct. Consider, however,
- many people have insurance is because an accident could happen to them.
- many people choose to live a healthy lifestyle because not doing so could increase their risk for heart diseases/diabetes/cancer/...
So as long as it affects you personally, you consider potential undesirable outcomes and take counter measures.
When it comes to the planet, however, who cares...
Kids these days...
Andrew S. Tanenbaum is the original creator of MINIX, not just "a professor" at Vrije Universiteit.
True, but what about the all the travelers who have no checked luggage because they don't want to wait for an hour to get it back at the destination (if at all) ?
I often visit the US for 2-3 days to attend conferences with no other luggage than a small carry-on backpack. Depending on the location, the flight takes between 8 and 12 hours - I am definitely not interested in watching 5 movies back-to-back.
Why don't they offer to run this against the thousands of hours of course videos that Berkley just pulled due to ADA? Google gets massive training material, Berkley gets free transcripts, and the material stays online. Everyone wins...
Good idea, but unfortunately it won't work in this case. Many of UCBerkeley's lecture videos only show the slides and you hear the lecturer talk. See, for example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?....
It's an interesting idea and nicely carried out, but in the real world I doubt this is of much concern. For the attack to be successful, all of the following must hold
1. memory susceptible to rowhammer attack (in itself not trivial - only few and given memory locations can be flipped)
2. VM manager merges physically identical pages of unrelated VMs (i.e., the identical memory pages of different VMs point to the same physical page)
3. attacker VM must know the contents of the page in the victim VM
4. attacker must register a page with the to-be-attacked contents before the victim VM does so that it can somewhat control its physical location and use rowhammer on it
Especially #3 is not easy. In the paper, the authors assume they know all SSH authorized keys of the victim page which seems a bit far-fetched. Pages holding OS contents are easier to guess; I think an attack on those is more probable.
Also, the fix is trivial. Don't buy cheap RAM that can be attacked with rowhammer for your data centers.
Among the performances was a topless dancer wearing giant wings who soared over orange-suited dancers as they crawled on the ground below.
At another point, humans dressed like bales of hay were seen swaying on a flatbed before running around on the floor.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...
Don't forget, this is Europe where people are not scared stiff by topless women and worry that their children become sexual predators because seeing a pair of nipples.
Soon, we will never have to leave Google's "intranet" for anything. IMDB, Wipedia, travel, shopping, weather, calculators, dictionnaries, news, now TV program listings...pages providing a particular service get indexed one by one, context integrated, and then obliterated by Google. The new form of embrace, extend and extinguish, apparently.
This is not a new, but a very worrying approach Google is taking here. Monopolies have never been good for the consumers.
Don't get all hyped up. Your government has been taking photo ID and fingerprints of all (legal) foreign visitors since ~2002. And as of April 1 this year you can only enter the US with a biometric passport which means my data will be stored in electronic form in one of the many databases the US operate and be susceptible to getting hacked.
The only entity that has my fingerprints is a foreign and rouge government - yours. I have been able to get around a biometric passport until now, so not even my government has any biometric identifiers on me - which is how it should be in an ideal world.
Took me a moment to realize that there are 10 kinds of people in this world: those who know how to type powers of two, and those who don't.
1. Google says it is not true.
2. Adding things like current speed and wheel angle can really help with dead reckoning when GPS is having a problem getting a lock like going through a tunnel.
3. Knowing how much fuel you have left and your current mpg can help it find the cheapest gas along your route.
True, but to implement 2 or 3 only the navigation app needs that data. You don't need to send it all the way to Google (and TFA says so).
I'm excited at the endless possibilities of this! I bet soon your Android phone will tip off the police if you exceed the speed limit.
The warranty covers 10 years or 150TBW whichever comes first. This should be fine for private use (150TB written over 10 yrs = 40GBW/day) but YMMV.
http://www.samsung.com/global/...
I use xfce on Gentoo and have observed similar (not all) of the grandparent's problems: fullscreen is broken for some apps, the theme icons are not correct whenever a second monitor is connected when the X server starts, and so on. And yes, it used to work before.
Granted, xfce on Xubuntu is much worse.
If lawmakers of both houses were considered non-essential we wouldn't have a shut down right now.
It's all fun and games as long as you can play with someone else's income.
At our (national) university (not in the US, but similar living cost), a tenured professor shortly before
retirement has a salary of about $80'000. Assistant professors get ~$40K. (To be fair: profs at private
universities get about twice as much). I don't know about other departments, but at least in engineering,
both tenured and assistant profs put in a lot of hours.
If you're working in the systems area (low-level stuff such as OSes, compilers, etc), it's hard to write
even two papers per year and grad student, because we actually implement our ideas, debug them,
and may not be able to publish if the results are worse than expected. And most projects are too big
for one student, so a whole team is working on it.
In computer science, we compete with everyone who has has interet access and a computer. The guys
at, for example, Tsinghua University in Beijing work extremely hard and are at least as talented as your average
grad student in the US or Europe. If we publish something new, a framework, a new scheduling algorithm,
etc., for that first paper we do have some slack. Once it's out, anyone is free to improve the ideas there
and publish a follow-up paper. From that moment on, even though we have a good head start, it's either
publish fast or work on something entirely new. Unfortunately, not everybody has a new cool idea every day.
Note that providing copyrighted material is illegal, only possession (and downloading) is legal.
Of course, the USo*AA didn't like this and have put Switzerland on the 2012 International Piracy Watch List (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/09/congressional-report-adds-italy-switzerland-to-piracy-watchlist/). Switzerland took the spot of Canada after they changed their laws to the liking of our *AA overlords.
I totally agree - and it's not just the US.
I might also add that the technology helped quite a bit in dumbing us down in the sense that it enables us to know what's going on anywhere on the planet almost immediatly. Most (online) newspapers scramble to get those stories out as fast as possible which then leads to the situation where all news outlets present the exact same story by Reuters. I remember when newspapers still did their own stories. Now I even get live feeds from, say, the Apple-Samsung trial: "13:30 the judge entered the courtroom." aso.
And as you mentioned above, it's the dumbass stories that generate a lot of clicks. Some vampire celebrity cheats on her boyfriend with her director, gets kicked out, is depressed, will they get together, ....and even though I was born on a different continent and currently live in yet another continent - newspapers here and back home are full of this useless information.
Same goes for TV. Everything TV has to offer these days is braindamaged 'who's got talent', 'whatever factor' and 'survivor camp' "reality shows" and a million variants of CSI.
I research/teach at a university. We have trouble getting motivated students these days, very few kids are interested in science - they might have to sit down and actually use their brains. And it will get worse - a survey among middle school kids on what they would like to do later found that they want to become a celebrity, a lawyer, or a plastical surgon.
one of my favorites, too. small correction for those who actually try it out: it should be controlmaster auto, not auth.
~/.ssh/config
host *
controlmaster auto
controlpath ~/.ssh/ssh-%r@%h:%p
controlpersist yes
This creates a master socket on my client. When I first connect, I need to use my passphrase. But when I exit, the SSH tunnel stays up. Futher connections via SSH and sftp and scp use this connection, multiplexed. So no more asking from my passphrase. When I'm finished for the day, I close down the connection with
ssh -O exit host
replacing "host"
see http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/06/AR2008110600027.html