if you're really concerned about privacy, don't use a cellphone. If you're somewhat concerned about privacy, use a dumb phone. Then if you want to play Angry Birds, get a tablet where none of your personal information is embedded.
This is like locking the door after the cow has bolted the barn. If there's something nasty about you that got out into the internets, the better solution would be to have Google downgrade the search results. Or maybe just mark it the way Google flags malware or hide it behind some sort of "Safe Search"-like filter.
The way I see it, Google's compliance gives it less of a right to object to a government, such as China, pushing for Google to censor its results in the name of something supposedly more important, social stability because those nasty dissidents are harming the reputation of the Party bosses, who we all know are models of virtue until purged and officially denounced.
The problem is the inefficient distribution of homes, work and entertainment places, a concept best conveyed by the term "suburbia". Sure, it's nice and probably healthier to live far from the smoke stacks and whatnot of urban existence, but if we want to make the least environmental impact we'd all be living in 1000-storey super skyscrapers or manmade mountains, venturing beyond the city limits only for the occasional sightseeing tour or safari.
"From day one I've said that WIkipedia is a fools' encyc. With the ability for any jerk to edit, it is inevitable that this happens. The worst articles involve persons, beliefs and governments."
It's precisely because any jerk can edit it that Wikipedia works. Wikipedia works for the same reason that DNA works, through an evolutionary system of error correction. You might point to a "freak" of nature as proof that DNA is nothing but fools' code, while simply shrugging at all the normal looking creatures around.
Wikipedia articles invariably get corrected over time, unless they're too trivial or unimportant for anybody but the editor that "created" the article. For evey hater, there's a fanboy editor that will correct or wrong the wrong to make it right.
"This isn't something serious, just nationalism and/or cronyism. A real domestic processor project? It wouldn't be "dozens of millions of dollars" it would be tens of billions. Intel spent $10 billion on R&D... in 2013 alone. TSMC, who's just a fab not a designer, spent $1.4 billion in 2013."
I won't dispute your figures, but I do find them on the high side.
First, the budget for such a project doesn't need to be spent in one-go. The project can be developed in stages with the money spent being increased as each milestone is reached.
Second, the CPU's don't need to be bleeding-edge. The article already stated that an existing design will be (re)used, so the budget for research is going to be drastically reduced. Consequently, Russia can simply import the parts for a fab that's one or even two generation behind the latest process, again resulting in signifcant cost savings.
"That has been one of the reasons US dollars have maintained any value at all. With so much of the US production and even many services going overseas, we simply aren't producing anything here. At least not the way we once did and still can."
Military and agricultural exports, nothwithstanding the controversy surrounding GMOs, are still strong.
Don't ascribe to malice what can be attributed to incompetence. Or maybe a variant thereof. Who knows, maybe people have become so used to social media, that secrecy becomes an afterthought. Maybe the person in charge thought email is just the pre-Facebook version of posting a status update?
Suggestion for three-letter agency recruiters: screen for applicants who aren't Facebook/Twitter/Instagram addicts.
" But then again, we still have lots of companies trying to send (outsource) tech to China... China who has a long history of taking the tech and spinning it off on their own. Hoy myopic can they be?"
I don't mind China (or Russia) taking the tech. I don't mind when they don't give back. A minor example: the many Android variants running on cheap tablets that can't be upgraded because the source code for their non-standard hardware isn't available. (Technically you can upgrade such tablets but you'd lose a lot of the functions that make it useful, like wifi/bluetooth, maybe even the touch screen, so that you basially wind up with a keyboardless mini PC.)
"Not to take away from what this kid did (certainly more than what I did in 7th grade), but it is far from original. I'm not too sure why it is newsworthy."
I'd say it's just as newsworthy as the latest Silicon valley "innovation". Cellphones with rounded corners, anyone?
"but it's "value" is completely generated by the human mind"
All value is all in the mind. A juicy BigMac can be way more valuable than gold or diamonds to a starving man. Now if there's anything that's naturally valuable it's the biological necessities like oxygen (free for almost everybody except those with severe breathing problems), water, food, and possibly sex to person (man?) of breeding age. Everything else is an acquired taste.
+1 on this one. Mozilla should not commit the same mistake as the OLPC project in restricting sales to selected Third World regions. It should sell the phone wherever there are buyers, if not at your local telco or Walmart, then online. More sales in the West means more phones falling into the hands of geeky bums with the potential and time to tinker/mod the phone into something just a wee bit cooler than the default factory-shipped OS. Will the phone have more juice than the Raspberry Pi? Maybe it could sell to the maker crowd.
I'm just curious, why have such publishers chosen to OCR the already printed book rather convert the electronic document used in the editing/layout of the book (I'm assuming the publisher is using equipment more sophisticated than a typewriter and letter press). Any modern book should have gone through some electronic process even those whose original manuscripts are written in longhand. Conversion from those electronic formats should be a bit more flawless than brute-force OCR.
Independent of any real world value? Sounds like Bitcoin. Or maybe Bitcoin is merely a symptom of a larger problem that includes creating "value" out of so-called intellectual property like patents for obvious things and the latest media sensation. Which isn't bad as soon as we figure out how to eat bits and bytes.
The phrase isn't a direct statement from the company PR but from an indirect quote ("said that"):
"UPS, which Cisco has used since 1997 to ship hardware to customers around the world, said on Thursday that it did not voluntarily allow government officials to inspect its packages unless it is required to do so by law."
So it's better to have the child driven by a sleepy, irritated or texting parent or, worse, barely legal, sibling? Why not just think of an autonomous car as a trackless train that can take passengers to designated places without worrying about the precise turn by turn navigation? This way, the child would have as much control over the car as a train driver. Put a "brake" or "force stop" button that will park the car in the nearest safe location.
Also, the car AI should already have a built-in restriction against dangerous actions or any actions that violate laws or existing vehiclular regulations. So no driving on the sidewalk, unless absolutely necessary to avoid injury, nor whould the AI "obey" any instructions to "Car, run down that pesky police officer".
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Ctrl-S in an xterm suspends terminal input, and the characters you type aren't echoed back or acted on by the shell. Ctrl-Q resumes terminal input. So if you type Ctrl-S followed by "ls Directory", nothing happens and nothing appears in the terminal. But if you then type Ctrl-Q, the "buffered" command executes.
This rather nifty featured unfortunately was broken by the Gnome developers. Ctrl-S does nothing inside the Gnome terminal emulator. This still works in a traditional Linux/Unix terminal, as well as xterm.
From the course description: "Linux powers 94% of the worldâ(TM)s supercomputers, most of the servers powering the Internet, the majority of financial trades worldwide and a billion Android devices. In short, Linux is everywhere. It appears in many different architectures, from mainframes to server to desktop to mobile and on a staggeringly wide variety of hardware.
"This course explores the various tools and techniques commonly used by Linux programmers, system administrators and end users to achieve their day-to-day work in a Linux environment. It is designed for experienced computer users who have limited or no previous exposure to Linux, whether they are working in an individual or Enterprise environment."
So with Linux powering Android, supercomputers and Fedora/Ubuntu/name-your-favorite-desktop, just what is this course supposed to teach? System administration? How to add users in Android? How to "root" Ubuntu? The stuff that's common across the various incarnations of Linux is probably going to be so low-level as to be of interest only kernel developers. That or it's going to be so high level you can get more information just reading Wikipedia.
What you're talking about is basically natural crossbreeding, not the type of genetic engineering that involves modifying the DNA itself of an organism. By "natural" I include such mechanical techniques as artificial insemination, extracting the sperm and eggs from mature adults and mixing them up. With natural crossbreeding you get the whole shebang, you let nature decide which genes become active and dominant. In theory, with DNA level genetic engineering you can specify which traits you want to get. I'm not saying this is a good thing, only that you can potentially get more control by "editing" (the word used in the article) the genes that simpy mixing the semen and egg of two different species.
If by "feasible" you mean doable, then all you need is enough real estate. I can even think of a Rube Goldberg power generation scheme that uses wind/solar energy to slowly fill up a dam that can be used forhydroelectric power.
There's a photo in the link posted by another poster (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/russians-capture-cigarette-smuggling-drone/) that shows the drone to be flying low enough to ram into a low-rise building and small enough to fit on the back of a small truck and it's quite cheap: "The FSB spokesman said that it was estimated that the body of the drone cost about 300 rubles -- about $10 dollars."
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if you're really concerned about privacy, don't use a cellphone. If you're somewhat concerned about privacy, use a dumb phone. Then if you want to play Angry Birds, get a tablet where none of your personal information is embedded.
"Stallman has announced that it should be called gnubitcoin."
While ESR countered it should be called gunbitcoin.
This is like locking the door after the cow has bolted the barn. If there's something nasty about you that got out into the internets, the better solution would be to have Google downgrade the search results. Or maybe just mark it the way Google flags malware or hide it behind some sort of "Safe Search"-like filter.
The way I see it, Google's compliance gives it less of a right to object to a government, such as China, pushing for Google to censor its results in the name of something supposedly more important, social stability because those nasty dissidents are harming the reputation of the Party bosses, who we all know are models of virtue until purged and officially denounced.
is a bald-headed guy to demo the coolness of their products. (Hint: the company begins with teh letter "A".)
The problem is the inefficient distribution of homes, work and entertainment places, a concept best conveyed by the term "suburbia". Sure, it's nice and probably healthier to live far from the smoke stacks and whatnot of urban existence, but if we want to make the least environmental impact we'd all be living in 1000-storey super skyscrapers or manmade mountains, venturing beyond the city limits only for the occasional sightseeing tour or safari.
"From day one I've said that WIkipedia is a fools' encyc. With the ability for any jerk to edit, it is inevitable that this happens. The worst articles involve persons, beliefs and governments."
It's precisely because any jerk can edit it that Wikipedia works. Wikipedia works for the same reason that DNA works, through an evolutionary system of error correction. You might point to a "freak" of nature as proof that DNA is nothing but fools' code, while simply shrugging at all the normal looking creatures around.
Wikipedia articles invariably get corrected over time, unless they're too trivial or unimportant for anybody but the editor that "created" the article. For evey hater, there's a fanboy editor that will correct or wrong the wrong to make it right.
"This isn't something serious, just nationalism and/or cronyism. A real domestic processor project? It wouldn't be "dozens of millions of dollars" it would be tens of billions. Intel spent $10 billion on R&D... in 2013 alone. TSMC, who's just a fab not a designer, spent $1.4 billion in 2013."
I won't dispute your figures, but I do find them on the high side.
First, the budget for such a project doesn't need to be spent in one-go. The project can be developed in stages with the money spent being increased as each milestone is reached.
Second, the CPU's don't need to be bleeding-edge. The article already stated that an existing design will be (re)used, so the budget for research is going to be drastically reduced. Consequently, Russia can simply import the parts for a fab that's one or even two generation behind the latest process, again resulting in signifcant cost savings.
"That has been one of the reasons US dollars have maintained any value at all. With so much of the US production and even many services going overseas, we simply aren't producing anything here. At least not the way we once did and still can."
Military and agricultural exports, nothwithstanding the controversy surrounding GMOs, are still strong.
Don't ascribe to malice what can be attributed to incompetence. Or maybe a variant thereof. Who knows, maybe people have become so used to social media, that secrecy becomes an afterthought. Maybe the person in charge thought email is just the pre-Facebook version of posting a status update?
Suggestion for three-letter agency recruiters: screen for applicants who aren't Facebook/Twitter/Instagram addicts.
" But then again, we still have lots of companies trying to send (outsource) tech to China... China who has a long history of taking the tech and spinning it off on their own. Hoy myopic can they be?"
I don't mind China (or Russia) taking the tech. I don't mind when they don't give back. A minor example: the many Android variants running on cheap tablets that can't be upgraded because the source code for their non-standard hardware isn't available. (Technically you can upgrade such tablets but you'd lose a lot of the functions that make it useful, like wifi/bluetooth, maybe even the touch screen, so that you basially wind up with a keyboardless mini PC.)
I think you're missing the context. He's showing it off in a Maker's Faire. So it's not as if you're going to see something wildly original.
"Not to take away from what this kid did (certainly more than what I did in 7th grade), but it is far from original. I'm not too sure why it is newsworthy." I'd say it's just as newsworthy as the latest Silicon valley "innovation". Cellphones with rounded corners, anyone?
"but it's "value" is completely generated by the human mind"
All value is all in the mind. A juicy BigMac can be way more valuable than gold or diamonds to a starving man. Now if there's anything that's naturally valuable it's the biological necessities like oxygen (free for almost everybody except those with severe breathing problems), water, food, and possibly sex to person (man?) of breeding age. Everything else is an acquired taste.
+1 on this one. Mozilla should not commit the same mistake as the OLPC project in restricting sales to selected Third World regions. It should sell the phone wherever there are buyers, if not at your local telco or Walmart, then online. More sales in the West means more phones falling into the hands of geeky bums with the potential and time to tinker/mod the phone into something just a wee bit cooler than the default factory-shipped OS. Will the phone have more juice than the Raspberry Pi? Maybe it could sell to the maker crowd.
I'm just curious, why have such publishers chosen to OCR the already printed book rather convert the electronic document used in the editing/layout of the book (I'm assuming the publisher is using equipment more sophisticated than a typewriter and letter press). Any modern book should have gone through some electronic process even those whose original manuscripts are written in longhand. Conversion from those electronic formats should be a bit more flawless than brute-force OCR.
Independent of any real world value? Sounds like Bitcoin. Or maybe Bitcoin is merely a symptom of a larger problem that includes creating "value" out of so-called intellectual property like patents for obvious things and the latest media sensation. Which isn't bad as soon as we figure out how to eat bits and bytes.
"Not voluntarily unless required by law"
The phrase isn't a direct statement from the company PR but from an indirect quote ("said that"):
"UPS, which Cisco has used since 1997 to ship hardware to customers around the world, said on Thursday that it did not voluntarily allow government officials to inspect its packages unless it is required to do so by law."
Sloppy writing not doublespeak
So it's better to have the child driven by a sleepy, irritated or texting parent or, worse, barely legal, sibling? Why not just think of an autonomous car as a trackless train that can take passengers to designated places without worrying about the precise turn by turn navigation? This way, the child would have as much control over the car as a train driver. Put a "brake" or "force stop" button that will park the car in the nearest safe location.
Also, the car AI should already have a built-in restriction against dangerous actions or any actions that violate laws or existing vehiclular regulations. So no driving on the sidewalk, unless absolutely necessary to avoid injury, nor whould the AI "obey" any instructions to "Car, run down that pesky police officer".
Ctrl-S in an xterm suspends terminal input, and the characters you type aren't echoed back or acted on by the shell. Ctrl-Q resumes terminal input. So if you type Ctrl-S followed by "ls Directory", nothing happens and nothing appears in the terminal. But if you then type Ctrl-Q, the "buffered" command executes.
This rather nifty featured unfortunately was broken by the Gnome developers. Ctrl-S does nothing inside the Gnome terminal emulator. This still works in a traditional Linux/Unix terminal, as well as xterm.
From the course description: "Linux powers 94% of the worldâ(TM)s supercomputers, most of the servers powering the Internet, the majority of financial trades worldwide and a billion Android devices. In short, Linux is everywhere. It appears in many different architectures, from mainframes to server to desktop to mobile and on a staggeringly wide variety of hardware.
"This course explores the various tools and techniques commonly used by Linux programmers, system administrators and end users to achieve their day-to-day work in a Linux environment. It is designed for experienced computer users who have limited or no previous exposure to Linux, whether they are working in an individual or Enterprise environment."
So with Linux powering Android, supercomputers and Fedora/Ubuntu/name-your-favorite-desktop, just what is this course supposed to teach? System administration? How to add users in Android? How to "root" Ubuntu? The stuff that's common across the various incarnations of Linux is probably going to be so low-level as to be of interest only kernel developers. That or it's going to be so high level you can get more information just reading Wikipedia.
What you're talking about is basically natural crossbreeding, not the type of genetic engineering that involves modifying the DNA itself of an organism. By "natural" I include such mechanical techniques as artificial insemination, extracting the sperm and eggs from mature adults and mixing them up. With natural crossbreeding you get the whole shebang, you let nature decide which genes become active and dominant. In theory, with DNA level genetic engineering you can specify which traits you want to get. I'm not saying this is a good thing, only that you can potentially get more control by "editing" (the word used in the article) the genes that simpy mixing the semen and egg of two different species.
"I'm dreading the day I find a video of some baka reading a book, magazine, or newspaper." I think it's called the evening news.
If by "feasible" you mean doable, then all you need is enough real estate. I can even think of a Rube Goldberg power generation scheme that uses wind/solar energy to slowly fill up a dam that can be used forhydroelectric power.
There's a photo in the link posted by another poster (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/05/russians-capture-cigarette-smuggling-drone/) that shows the drone to be flying low enough to ram into a low-rise building and small enough to fit on the back of a small truck and it's quite cheap: "The FSB spokesman said that it was estimated that the body of the drone cost about 300 rubles -- about $10 dollars."
With Bitcoin or better, DogeCoin, you won't feel the 4x rise. Now if only there were a cable company willing to accept my computer-generated cash...