You know what this was? This was kid who grew up in a country where being gay is illegal, who found himself living with a gay roommate, was really threatened/offended/bigoted, and decided to "out" the kid to get rid of him. Just spend a few minutes with Google - India's views on homosexuality are amongst the most hostile on the planet.
This is wrong in several ways. First, New Jersey is not a country. Second, being gay is not technically illegal in NJ, believe it or not. Seriously, did you not read the first 10 words of the article? i.e.:
Dharun Ravi grew up in Plainsboro, New Jersey, in a large, modern house with wide expanses of wood flooring and a swimming pool out back.
I think you and the GP are missing an important, falsifiable statement from the story: "The air force did say that, because they had figured out what brought the RQ-170 down, they were continuing to fly RQ-170s on reconnaissance missions."
Exactly. I'd love to see the US call Iran on their bluff and have them demonstrate their ninja hacking skills on a test drone.
Drone crash-lands in Iran due to software bug. Iran hauls drone away in pick-up truck, gives it a paint job, and makes it the centerpiece of a propaganda campaign.
Never attribute to advanced spycraft that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.
Hi, I'm Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. I deny the holocaust ever happened, think Israel should be wiped off the map, and wish death to America. That said, you should really, really trust me when I say that our 31337 haxors downed that drone unscathed via a heretofore unprecedented GPS spoofing attack, guided to a safe landing in Iran by our top-secret, ultra-accurate, stealth-ignoring radar. We can do this at will, of course... we just choose not to most of the time. And if you're wondering why we chose to brag to the world about it instead of the tactically superior option of keeping it mum and pretending the drone downed to a technical malfunction, well, it's because our super-secret military skynet command-and-decision AI was hacked by the Israelis. Damn Israelis.
Exactly which option is more psychopathic? Giving 100,000 Chinese a job, a place to stay, and something to eat; or firing those 100,000 Chinese in favor of paying 10,000 Americans to do the job, at 20x's the pay, just because they were lucky enough to have popped out of a vagina located within certain latitude/longitude bounds at the right time?
I'm no climate-change denier, nor am I a human-induced climate-change denier, but this is a little too sensationalist for my liking. Saying that the earth is getting hotter and implying that this itself implies that humans are to blame just gives deniers room to say, "A-ha! Well, if that's your evidence for human-induced climate change, you're wrong!" It may be tempting to trot out these soundbites, but I think it's an unwise rhetorical strategy in the long run.
Actually, Philly would probably be the killer app (ha) for this app, since it's not really neighborhoods so much as specific blocks and street corners where you're likely to get jacked. It would be even better if the app would ring in your pocket and say, "Hi--it looks like you're headed towards the projects. Are you sure you want to continue?"
Agreed. I think the shift has occurred because of increasing corporate interest in open source. BSD is seen as more corporate-friendly than GPL, when in fact it should be the other way around--BSD allows your competitors to reap the fruit of your labor without giving you anything in return. Start-ups, however, are lured by the idea of being able to close-source everything once their product becomes a smash hit, while established companies face genuine legal issues preventing them from linking GPL'ed code with closed-source code from vendors.
So, start-ups really need to ditch the bait-and-switch fantasy that's driving them towards the BSD. Back in the real world, most such start-ups will fail long before they ever create a popular enough product to pull this trick, and it will partially be due to the fact that they brilliantly gave away all their work to their closed-source competitors for absolutely nothing in return.
Bingo to all of the points above. Also, I just want to point out how unlikely it is that the Iranians are both clever enough to do this and stupid enough to let us know that they can.
Moffet Field is a 10 minute drive to Google HQ; SJC is a whopping 7 minutes more. More importantly, however, I guess they get to skip the airport security lines, etc. Flying from Moffet is all about convenience and (conspicuously) living it large. What they did to get access to Moffet is a bit of a mystery, but it probably involved deals such as this.
Why hire a model, photographer, etc., every time you change product lines, when you can just mass-produce images on a computer? I'd guess that the motivation here is more cost cutting than aesthetics. Still sounds like a terrible idea, but I'm sure we'll be seeing more of this in the near future.
Still seems like specious logic, since the extra sale generated by the theft is (arguably) cancelled by the sale lost to the person who bought the stolen phone instead. True, the who bought the stolen phone might have bought a used phone instead, but that decreases the number of used phones for sale, which is also good for the carriers. So I doubt the carriers are conspiring to not brick stolen phones. Also, Australian carriers are presumably just as greedy as American carriers, which puts another hole in the argument.
If you look at 4439'17.17" N 9334'24.30" E in Google Earth, at the historical image from 6/16/2009, you can see the things in action! Hard to tell whether they're autonomous, but they do seem to be laying down a grid of square tracks, with each square's side lengths almost exactly equal to 200 m. On the same date, at 4446'55.21" N 9333'57.41" E you can see work vehicles on the tracks running NE-SW. In contrast to the NW-SE tracks, these seem to be composed of something actually laid on the ground. This stuff looks like it actually could be metallic, judging from the many evident specular reflections off the material. Here we see the same 200x200 m squares, though the NW-SE lines composing this grid are themselves composed of repeated, faint groups of 24 dots arranged in 4x6 grids. In this picture, the stuff actually looks a lot like aluminum foil. Also, the thing is pointed right at the Mongolian border, which is about 7 miles away at closest approach. Maybe the NE-SW grid was a dry run for laying the NW-SE grid?
It seems to me easier to stack 3000 sheets of lab meat than it is to first fold 3000 sheets of lab meat 12 times, then glue together the resulting 3000 hamburger-thick columns of meat into a patty of normal thickness and diameter... or alternatively, to grow a 100 sq. foot sheet and carefully fold it over 12 times to create a single hamburger.
Other research shows that there is a correlation between a person's name and his or her likelihood of receiving a call back for a job interview. Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan found in field experiment in Boston and Chicago that people with "white-sounding" names are 50% more likely to receive a call back than people with "black-sounding" names, despite equal résumé quality between the two racial groups.[31]
and
Black and Latino college graduates are less likely than white graduates to end up in a management position even when other factors such as age, experience, and academic records are similar. [33][34][35]
Subject says it all. Even among CS grads, I'd bet that only small minority have ever heard of Tor. What's worse is that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing--I'd hate to go to Nuevo Laredo Online and spam it with links to Tor, only to have someone download it and get beheaded because they used it incorrectly. So, there needs to be a push to educate the bloggers about the basics, benefits, and pitfalls of anonymizing tools. This means that we nerds actually have the power to help Mexicans defeat the cartels. How cool is that?
Learn an ML (OCaml, F#, etc.) or Haskell (GHC) variant. Python is nice, but it's just another passable imperative language at the end of the day. Learning a modern functional language will really challenge you and probably change the way to think about programming. To whet your appetite, first look up the wikipedia articles on type inference, currying, pattern matching, parametric polymorphism, lazy evaluation, and my personal favorite, pointless programming.
I've heard Scala is also gaining popularity, but it's really just baby ML running on the JVM. Oh, and bonus: OCaml and GHC compile to native code. I can usually get performance nearly at C++ levels in OCaml with prudent optimization.
Oh, this is rich. I think they mean, their head of MARKETING stepped down as a blatant MARKETING PLOY to sell more iPhones after his wildly successful STEALTH MARKETING campaign involving fake engineers accidentally-on-purpose forgetting their MARKETING iPhones in MARKETING bars. Well done, sir, well done.
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You know what this was? This was kid who grew up in a country where being gay is illegal, who found himself living with a gay roommate, was really threatened/offended/bigoted, and decided to "out" the kid to get rid of him. Just spend a few minutes with Google - India's views on homosexuality are amongst the most hostile on the planet.
This is wrong in several ways. First, New Jersey is not a country. Second, being gay is not technically illegal in NJ, believe it or not. Seriously, did you not read the first 10 words of the article? i.e.:
Dharun Ravi grew up in Plainsboro, New Jersey, in a large, modern house with wide expanses of wood flooring and a swimming pool out back.
I think you and the GP are missing an important, falsifiable statement from the story: "The air force did say that, because they had figured out what brought the RQ-170 down, they were continuing to fly RQ-170s on reconnaissance missions."
Exactly. I'd love to see the US call Iran on their bluff and have them demonstrate their ninja hacking skills on a test drone.
The real scenario:
Drone crash-lands in Iran due to software bug.
Iran hauls drone away in pick-up truck, gives it a paint job, and makes it the centerpiece of a propaganda campaign.
Never attribute to advanced spycraft that which can adequately be explained by incompetence.
Hi, I'm Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. I deny the holocaust ever happened, think Israel should be wiped off the map, and wish death to America. That said, you should really, really trust me when I say that our 31337 haxors downed that drone unscathed via a heretofore unprecedented GPS spoofing attack, guided to a safe landing in Iran by our top-secret, ultra-accurate, stealth-ignoring radar. We can do this at will, of course... we just choose not to most of the time. And if you're wondering why we chose to brag to the world about it instead of the tactically superior option of keeping it mum and pretending the drone downed to a technical malfunction, well, it's because our super-secret military skynet command-and-decision AI was hacked by the Israelis. Damn Israelis.
Exactly which option is more psychopathic? Giving 100,000 Chinese a job, a place to stay, and something to eat; or firing those 100,000 Chinese in favor of paying 10,000 Americans to do the job, at 20x's the pay, just because they were lucky enough to have popped out of a vagina located within certain latitude/longitude bounds at the right time?
HaDOOOOOOken
FTFY.
I'm no climate-change denier, nor am I a human-induced climate-change denier, but this is a little too sensationalist for my liking. Saying that the earth is getting hotter and implying that this itself implies that humans are to blame just gives deniers room to say, "A-ha! Well, if that's your evidence for human-induced climate change, you're wrong!" It may be tempting to trot out these soundbites, but I think it's an unwise rhetorical strategy in the long run.
LMGTFY: darwin kernel compile
Actually, Philly would probably be the killer app (ha) for this app, since it's not really neighborhoods so much as specific blocks and street corners where you're likely to get jacked. It would be even better if the app would ring in your pocket and say, "Hi--it looks like you're headed towards the projects. Are you sure you want to continue?"
Not a study, but an interesting data point: http://hostjury.com/blog/view/195/the-great-zero-challenge-remains-unaccepted.
Agreed. I think the shift has occurred because of increasing corporate interest in open source. BSD is seen as more corporate-friendly than GPL, when in fact it should be the other way around--BSD allows your competitors to reap the fruit of your labor without giving you anything in return. Start-ups, however, are lured by the idea of being able to close-source everything once their product becomes a smash hit, while established companies face genuine legal issues preventing them from linking GPL'ed code with closed-source code from vendors.
So, start-ups really need to ditch the bait-and-switch fantasy that's driving them towards the BSD. Back in the real world, most such start-ups will fail long before they ever create a popular enough product to pull this trick, and it will partially be due to the fact that they brilliantly gave away all their work to their closed-source competitors for absolutely nothing in return.
Bingo to all of the points above. Also, I just want to point out how unlikely it is that the Iranians are both clever enough to do this and stupid enough to let us know that they can.
Moffet Field is a 10 minute drive to Google HQ; SJC is a whopping 7 minutes more. More importantly, however, I guess they get to skip the airport security lines, etc. Flying from Moffet is all about convenience and (conspicuously) living it large. What they did to get access to Moffet is a bit of a mystery, but it probably involved deals such as this.
Actually, there is a product like this for retailers which basically involves a robot modeling clothes. An interesting idea that I hope catches on.
Why hire a model, photographer, etc., every time you change product lines, when you can just mass-produce images on a computer? I'd guess that the motivation here is more cost cutting than aesthetics. Still sounds like a terrible idea, but I'm sure we'll be seeing more of this in the near future.
Still seems like specious logic, since the extra sale generated by the theft is (arguably) cancelled by the sale lost to the person who bought the stolen phone instead. True, the who bought the stolen phone might have bought a used phone instead, but that decreases the number of used phones for sale, which is also good for the carriers. So I doubt the carriers are conspiring to not brick stolen phones. Also, Australian carriers are presumably just as greedy as American carriers, which puts another hole in the argument.
While you were out whining about the bankers, this happened. Thanks.
Dammit, is nobody else interested in the giant antenna array?
If you look at 4439'17.17" N 9334'24.30" E in Google Earth, at the historical image from 6/16/2009, you can see the things in action! Hard to tell whether they're autonomous, but they do seem to be laying down a grid of square tracks, with each square's side lengths almost exactly equal to 200 m. On the same date, at 4446'55.21" N 9333'57.41" E you can see work vehicles on the tracks running NE-SW. In contrast to the NW-SE tracks, these seem to be composed of something actually laid on the ground. This stuff looks like it actually could be metallic, judging from the many evident specular reflections off the material. Here we see the same 200x200 m squares, though the NW-SE lines composing this grid are themselves composed of repeated, faint groups of 24 dots arranged in 4x6 grids. In this picture, the stuff actually looks a lot like aluminum foil. Also, the thing is pointed right at the Mongolian border, which is about 7 miles away at closest approach. Maybe the NE-SW grid was a dry run for laying the NW-SE grid?
It seems to me easier to stack 3000 sheets of lab meat than it is to first fold 3000 sheets of lab meat 12 times, then glue together the resulting 3000 hamburger-thick columns of meat into a patty of normal thickness and diameter... or alternatively, to grow a 100 sq. foot sheet and carefully fold it over 12 times to create a single hamburger.
From the wikipedia article on white privilege:
and
(emphasis mine).
Also, for all you Spanish-speaking geeks reading this, help now by translating Tor documentation.
Subject says it all. Even among CS grads, I'd bet that only small minority have ever heard of Tor. What's worse is that a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing--I'd hate to go to Nuevo Laredo Online and spam it with links to Tor, only to have someone download it and get beheaded because they used it incorrectly. So, there needs to be a push to educate the bloggers about the basics, benefits, and pitfalls of anonymizing tools. This means that we nerds actually have the power to help Mexicans defeat the cartels. How cool is that?
Learn an ML (OCaml, F#, etc.) or Haskell (GHC) variant. Python is nice, but it's just another passable imperative language at the end of the day. Learning a modern functional language will really challenge you and probably change the way to think about programming. To whet your appetite, first look up the wikipedia articles on type inference, currying, pattern matching, parametric polymorphism, lazy evaluation, and my personal favorite, pointless programming.
I've heard Scala is also gaining popularity, but it's really just baby ML running on the JVM. Oh, and bonus: OCaml and GHC compile to native code. I can usually get performance nearly at C++ levels in OCaml with prudent optimization.
Oh, this is rich. I think they mean, their head of MARKETING stepped down as a blatant MARKETING PLOY to sell more iPhones after his wildly successful STEALTH MARKETING campaign involving fake engineers accidentally-on-purpose forgetting their MARKETING iPhones in MARKETING bars. Well done, sir, well done.