If 'Anarchist' attacks against scientists are on the rise, wouldn't this be further validation of Raymond Kurzweil's predictions? I seem to recall a newspaper article recently citing a lack of anti-technology violence as one piece of evidence questioning Kurzweil's accuracy.
If the graphene filter works, you could use it to filter seawater on a small scale in much the same manner as those filtered water jugs for people who don't like their tapwater. It might not sound like a big thing, but many a person trapped on a raft at sea has wished for his own pocket desalinization plant.
The big question is: can you make those matrices small enough so that only O2 molecules fit through the gaps? Because that would be even sweeter.
In my opinion, different types people prefer different routes for server management. If you're in IT -- a lot of it depends on how you got where you are today, and your personal temprament.
I've found that people with more classical training in information technology (i.e. programming), tend to prefer CLI for server management, not to mention people who were in the industry back in the days of 8" floppy disks and accoustic couplers. That's not to say that there aren't industry professionals that don't prefer a GUI, and programmers who like managing their servers the old-school way, etc, but that's how it seems to skew.
The one exception being that there a few things you can't do in the GUI that you can only do in the CLI. Personally, I find that irritating. Also, unless your server is very badly in need of a refresh or underpowered for its job, the 'too much overhead on the GUI' excuse really doesn't hold much water.
Finally, I would like to say that I personally am for neither the CLI or the modern GUI; I want that waving around virtual reality stuff that Tom Cruise had in 'Minority Report'. Oh, and as an added caveat, apologies in advance if I duplicated the same response as someone else. I've been reading the comments while trying to troubleshoot an HP printer that suddenly decided to switch all the print menus to German, so I might have missed a comment or two.
People need to understand that just because is high-tech doesn't mean that there's an easy or brute-force countermeasure. People were actually hacking into drone feeds not too long ago, so I'm not really surprised. And it could be the shiniest drone ever, but it only takes one exploitable security flaw ( because someone was lazy or incompetent or rushed to deliver on schedule) to compromise it.
Hopefully Obamacare will help me to have that Pink Floyd song surgically removed from my head, thanks for that.:)
I agree with you that many Americans weren't very informed about the actual content of the law, though.
That is the inevitable result of any operation this large: you catch the most careless, least intelligent, or unlucky criminals. However, people breaking the law don't operate in a vacuum; if the Age of Facebook has taught us anything, it's that everyone is connected to people on a much larger scale than we would have believed. Investigators will have terabytes of information to review, and this will in turn lead to arrests of associates, or at the very minimum put previously undetected criminals on the radar. The disruption to the identity theft/fraud industry could be significant. Even the news itself of the operation could have that effect.
I am afraid to express an opinion about a cable provider ever since -- when the topic came up for discussion among friends -- I boldly informed them that I like Cox.
As another aside: may I also convey my deepest regret that using the greater than and lesser than sign together would be read by the editor as blank HTML. The correct title was supposed to have been "A Hearing Aid Does Not Equal A Bluetooth Earpiece".
Well, I like to learn lessons like I manage my servers: with massive flaming failures that I neve repeat.:)
Modern hearing aids have extensive capabilities to boost specific frequency ranges, because everyone's hearing loss is different (and usually not uniform). This requires syncing up with computers (with specialized software), and sessions with the audiologist or technician.
As an aside: some of them also have 3.5mm jacks. I busted a buddy of mine once listening to his iPod that way during a really long and boring meeting, but only because I saw him try to switch playlists under the table. I don't know about the Bluetooth.
If you are a defense contractor doing IT and you're clicking on random.exe files in your email, you may want to consider another line of work. I mean, to be honest, your users shouldn't even be able to run them, or send them over the company e-mail network.
That's why we have administrator-level access and ultra-restrictive GPOs in the first place, right? In the hopes that the few people who can actually do damage to computers and servers aren't monkeys banging away in the hopes of producing Shakespeare?
As a final note, I would like to point out that ending my post with a question mark makes it seem more poingant and totally deserving a five. Except I spoiled it. Crap.
I worked as a news producer in medium and large DMAs (Designated Market Areas -- usually, a single city and its suburbs) for ten years, and was the field producer for a health segment with a local physician.
Every week, we'd get news stories based on "studies": coffee is good for you, bananas are good for you, aspirin is good for, etc.
The coffee study was invariably done by retailers or growers of coffee, the same for bananas, aspirin, etc. The problem about medicine and pharmacology (or science in general, for that matter) is that you almost never get a zero-one phenomenon, and correlation does not necessarily equal causation. These ambiguities present a very large 'gray area' for the people doing these studies, unfortunately.
Add to that the fact the groups comissioning the research are going to censor out anything negative about their products, and you get an extremely unreliable information product. Trust me when I say that the husk of what remains of modern traditional journalism has neither the time, the resources, nor the inclination.
The only solution I see to this problem is for users to keep the same jaded cynicism that they should probably have for any media product, or to advocate better government regulation to separate real research from junk science.
Okay, so, I want to start off with an apology if I sounded like I was jumping down people's throats. When I loaded the page with the story, the bastards at the WashPo had changed the story, but hadn't stuck the Correction banner in yet. So, erm... yeah. The casual use of the word hacking by 22-year-old journalists who think Swordfish is real drives me crazy.
You do NOT want to transmit emotions through a wireless link in a combat device. The results would likely look similar on an encephalogram to the neuropsychological mechanism that triggers panic attacks. The civilian version would be pretty awesome for sweet lovemaking, though.:)
I think a "telepathic" link would be better served forming a virtual "hive mind" that reacted in concert (kind of like clustering a server for availability only with human brains). I wouldn't use actual live soldiers on the field, though: I'd use anthropomorphic drones.
"State Department officials recently carried out a counter-propaganda campaign on Web sites being used by al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen, challenging the group’s anti-American rhetoric with information about civilians killed in terrorist strikes, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday"
They posted responses on website forums for Tribal sites in Afghanistan.
So, unless you believe that countering nonsense is hacking, then no, they didn't hack anything. If you do, though, that means that *this* post is hacking, which I'm pretty sure creates a paradox that destroys the cosmos as we know it.
The only thing interesting (to me) about this development is if the processors give the same output for a given input. If they do, then it's basically using the same principles as overclocking.
What would be a much more interesting development would be to see a modular processor that streamlined itself to save power on frequently used processes and then distributed the remaining power to "harder" work.
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If 'Anarchist' attacks against scientists are on the rise, wouldn't this be further validation of Raymond Kurzweil's predictions? I seem to recall a newspaper article recently citing a lack of anti-technology violence as one piece of evidence questioning Kurzweil's accuracy.
If the graphene filter works, you could use it to filter seawater on a small scale in much the same manner as those filtered water jugs for people who don't like their tapwater. It might not sound like a big thing, but many a person trapped on a raft at sea has wished for his own pocket desalinization plant.
The big question is: can you make those matrices small enough so that only O2 molecules fit through the gaps? Because that would be even sweeter.
I've found that people with more classical training in information technology (i.e. programming), tend to prefer CLI for server management, not to mention people who were in the industry back in the days of 8" floppy disks and accoustic couplers. That's not to say that there aren't industry professionals that don't prefer a GUI, and programmers who like managing their servers the old-school way, etc, but that's how it seems to skew.
The one exception being that there a few things you can't do in the GUI that you can only do in the CLI. Personally, I find that irritating. Also, unless your server is very badly in need of a refresh or underpowered for its job, the 'too much overhead on the GUI' excuse really doesn't hold much water.
Finally, I would like to say that I personally am for neither the CLI or the modern GUI; I want that waving around virtual reality stuff that Tom Cruise had in 'Minority Report'. Oh, and as an added caveat, apologies in advance if I duplicated the same response as someone else. I've been reading the comments while trying to troubleshoot an HP printer that suddenly decided to switch all the print menus to German, so I might have missed a comment or two.
People need to understand that just because is high-tech doesn't mean that there's an easy or brute-force countermeasure. People were actually hacking into drone feeds not too long ago, so I'm not really surprised. And it could be the shiniest drone ever, but it only takes one exploitable security flaw ( because someone was lazy or incompetent or rushed to deliver on schedule) to compromise it.
Hopefully Obamacare will help me to have that Pink Floyd song surgically removed from my head, thanks for that. :)
I agree with you that many Americans weren't very informed about the actual content of the law, though.
That is the inevitable result of any operation this large: you catch the most careless, least intelligent, or unlucky criminals. However, people breaking the law don't operate in a vacuum; if the Age of Facebook has taught us anything, it's that everyone is connected to people on a much larger scale than we would have believed. Investigators will have terabytes of information to review, and this will in turn lead to arrests of associates, or at the very minimum put previously undetected criminals on the radar. The disruption to the identity theft/fraud industry could be significant. Even the news itself of the operation could have that effect.
They still refuse to let it go, the bastards.
Well, I like to learn lessons like I manage my servers: with massive flaming failures that I neve repeat. :)
As an aside: some of them also have 3.5mm jacks. I busted a buddy of mine once listening to his iPod that way during a really long and boring meeting, but only because I saw him try to switch playlists under the table. I don't know about the Bluetooth.
That's why we have administrator-level access and ultra-restrictive GPOs in the first place, right? In the hopes that the few people who can actually do damage to computers and servers aren't monkeys banging away in the hopes of producing Shakespeare?
As a final note, I would like to point out that ending my post with a question mark makes it seem more poingant and totally deserving a five. Except I spoiled it. Crap.
Every week, we'd get news stories based on "studies": coffee is good for you, bananas are good for you, aspirin is good for, etc.
The coffee study was invariably done by retailers or growers of coffee, the same for bananas, aspirin, etc. The problem about medicine and pharmacology (or science in general, for that matter) is that you almost never get a zero-one phenomenon, and correlation does not necessarily equal causation. These ambiguities present a very large 'gray area' for the people doing these studies, unfortunately.
Add to that the fact the groups comissioning the research are going to censor out anything negative about their products, and you get an extremely unreliable information product. Trust me when I say that the husk of what remains of modern traditional journalism has neither the time, the resources, nor the inclination.
The only solution I see to this problem is for users to keep the same jaded cynicism that they should probably have for any media product, or to advocate better government regulation to separate real research from junk science.
Change languages?
Okay, so, I want to start off with an apology if I sounded like I was jumping down people's throats. When I loaded the page with the story, the bastards at the WashPo had changed the story, but hadn't stuck the Correction banner in yet. So, erm... yeah. The casual use of the word hacking by 22-year-old journalists who think Swordfish is real drives me crazy.
You do NOT want to transmit emotions through a wireless link in a combat device. The results would likely look similar on an encephalogram to the neuropsychological mechanism that triggers panic attacks. The civilian version would be pretty awesome for sweet lovemaking, though. :)
I think a "telepathic" link would be better served forming a virtual "hive mind" that reacted in concert (kind of like clustering a server for availability only with human brains). I wouldn't use actual live soldiers on the field, though: I'd use anthropomorphic drones.
"State Department officials recently carried out a counter-propaganda campaign on Web sites being used by al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen, challenging the group’s anti-American rhetoric with information about civilians killed in terrorist strikes, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Wednesday" They posted responses on website forums for Tribal sites in Afghanistan. So, unless you believe that countering nonsense is hacking, then no, they didn't hack anything. If you do, though, that means that *this* post is hacking, which I'm pretty sure creates a paradox that destroys the cosmos as we know it.
The only thing interesting (to me) about this development is if the processors give the same output for a given input. If they do, then it's basically using the same principles as overclocking. What would be a much more interesting development would be to see a modular processor that streamlined itself to save power on frequently used processes and then distributed the remaining power to "harder" work.