The mention of channels on the moon reminded me of this old thing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik... Yeah channels and canals are different. Hah.
There were also bat-men on the moon, in those days. Funny that if you showed someone from the 1800's a Batman comic they'd think he's an alien. https://www.smithsonianmag.com...
It's hot. I go to the mall to walk a bit without dying of heat stroke. Usually don't buy anything there, look for cool stuff, price it online and leave. Last time I saw an obviously aged and worn wooden Millennium Falcon kit for $30. Naaaah, that's too much. Ordered it for $8 on my phone. Looks like I just went to the mall and didn't buy the thing.
I was checking out the new Captian Marvel storyline. The character was interesting, it had a lot of that young person not fitting in X-men sort of vibe. The strange thing was how she kept turning into this white blonde pre-existing character. Which actually brings up a whole other set of issues. Eh I liked it. Maybe they eventually make her into her own character without calling her Captian Marvel. Of course in the movies it'll be Calptain Marvel classic. They only really changed Nick Fury there and left the rest alone, wonder why. People have no problem with new characters just don't retcon everything.
It's an interpreted language silly. His criticism of memory and CPU use was even more valid 30 years ago and everyone knew it. Just like JavaScript is making the web a pain like many knew it would since the day it showed up. It's a known trade off of the language.
I automated a job away before, it was repetitious and boring much like the ones mentioned in the summary. The worker was rushing me along because they hated the task and wanted to use their time for other things. Soon after completed they had a dry spell and had to let the worker go, they also had to let me go since they were so lean. However a few years later they're running stronger again, perhaps the savings allowed them to stay in business. Nobody was upset or directly harmed by this one, it was simply a job that needed to be done by scripts not humans.
On my current job it's much the same situation but I'm the one the automation is replacing. That's fine with me, there's still plenty of higher level and interesting work to be done as the machine learning takes over the boring parts. Will it take over everything? No it's too stupid and needs people to check it's work every now and then to recalibrate it's confidence levels.
Third reason: Javascript injection. Let's say you're at the local coffee shop with an unencrypted WiFi connection and you browse some static page from the 90s. Somebody drops in a little bit of Javascript as the page is in transmission. Next thing you know your browser has made a connection to a nasty site that fingerprints it, sends over the latest vulnerabilities for it (since anyone arguing against HTTPS everywhere doesn't exactly keep up on security news), exploits the browser, escapes the sandbox and installs whatever they want on the system. It's all automated and happens instantly.
If we're going to honest about this, any sort of hidden collectible is the same thing.
Baseball cards, keychains hidden behind opaque plastic so you have to buy 2x the total to "collect them all". Those machines at the grocery store that show you cool things you might get but you always get the crappy temporary tattoo instead. Raffles... prizes you may win....
Anything where you can't just BUY the thing you want and have to brute force it with money.
So if we're gonna be picking on loot boxes can we please do away with packs of trading cards too? I'd rather just buy the whole set and be done with it.
Turing had automated the testing of over 15 billion possible passwords each day
Whoah, thats actually incredibly fast for the 1940s. I need to learn about his architecture a bit. Hadn't realized how ahead of his time it was as well.
Interesting right after the news of the recent no-distribute scanner bust I see Dave Aitel asking around on his mailing list for any alternative sites. That's right, there's also "good guys" using these scanners to write up offensive security tools. This just brings back the old argument that it's not the tool which is good or evil but how it's used. (Arguments against offensive security apps notwithstanding)
There's lots of cheap 3D printers that'll happily burn your house down. People on the forums know what parts are dangerous and how to fix them so they're LESS LIKELY to go up in flames but... recently it was noticed that actually most don't have basic firmware protection against runaway heating. Let's say your heating element falls off and gets drug around. Most printers won't detect this and will crank the heat up full blast since it can't read the temperature anymore. FWOOSH.
Yet you can buy these kits with no warnings or instructions how to make them safe. Yeah, amazon too. How many houses have to burn down before they do some basic safety checks in the products they sell?
There was that whole Ashley Madison thing... around 10 million accounts. A dozen or so people are known to have committed suicide following it... people got blackmailed for Bitcoin, but it was hardly the end of Western Civilization.
In my experience it's useless when logged in on multiple devices. Calls and messages show up in random locations and I don't get notifications. That's pretty broken for my needs. So my team has moved to slack but S4B for screen sharing demos and video calls only.
I think a UBI system could be really great but if me and my spouse had an extra $1,000 apiece each month know what I'd do? Buy another property and rent it out. Then once that's stabilized... do it again.
If x% of homeowners use this to become landlords, and current lessors know everyone has an extra $1,000 what will this do to rental prices?
I'm really excited about starting 2nd shift work soon. 12-10. Can't wait. And they'll pay me 10% extra for it. Consider career change if you can't get the hours your body needs.
I think the underlying point of the stories were that there's no iron-clad set of rules that COULD govern the behavior of robots without unexpected consequences. Even such obviously benign and logical rules such as those had serious limitations. Besides the impossibility of programming such rules... The 3 rules don't and CAN'T exist.
Met her in person at a regular religious function. Her first time there. We had no direct contact or information shared except many people in common there. Though I've suspected glide lies about "So and so added you as a friend" to initiate connections, this is the closest to proof I've experienced.
Last year I met someone for the first time and didn't get her contact info. About 10 minutes later I get a glide connection request from her. Hmmmm... ok. She must've asked one of my friends there, so I accept. Later in person I ask just curious how she got my number, she insists I got hers and made the request without asking her. What?? We go back and forth a little on this til we sort of tentatively agree the app must've spied on us when we met. She had her doubts for a while but no longer thinks I'm a creep.
When I was a kid one day at the public pool I was using goggles to look for change. One time I found a $20 bill! This day would end up being just as exciting. There was a strange fuzzy object floating near the bottom in the 4 foot deep area. It took me 2 breaths to get a good look at it and figure out what the strange brown object was.
Suddenly I bolted up and started swimming away. "What is it?" asked a curious onlooker. "It's shit". As I swam for the edge as quick as I could those words became a chorus filling the air as the pool turned to chaos. Lifting myself out I turned to see hundreds desperately thrashing and and yelling as if a tiny brown shark were approaching with a stinky gaping maw. Yet as desperately as they swam little did I know there would soon be an even speedier exodus this day.
As the crowd squeezed itself against the fences, each member unconsciously trying to get as far from the water as possible, the lifeguards assured them and moved to vanquish the Lilliputian monster. A ring of shivering spectators watched in silence a lifeguard streaching a long netted pole towards the unholy floating aberration.
UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN!! With trepidation the pole rises up clearly showing all its soft hateful bounty. And I swear this actually happened. Right then came a sudden gust of wind which flipped the net with such a snap it's horrid package of filth launched over 20 feet up into an arc that had to be appreciated both for its ability to seemingly slow down time while simultaneously heading straight for a group of 30 or more people frozen in terror. One by one they broke free from shock as their mental calculus confirmed they were in the splash zone.
When my eyes darted back to the spongey projectile it completed its journey with an unceremonious and lonely plop.
Hopefully this episode ends as anti-climatically as an interesting day at a public pool in the late 80's.
And yes... most of us went right back in the water.
I'm trying not to dislike this video, but do a search for mid or late 80s Amiga demo scene to see some real art. This is bad screensaver quality. Hackers are artists as much as those who put squares on canvas.
Slashdot Mirror
The mention of channels on the moon reminded me of this old thing. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
Yeah channels and canals are different. Hah.
There were also bat-men on the moon, in those days. Funny that if you showed someone from the 1800's a Batman comic they'd think he's an alien.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com...
*Looks at label on the brain jar*
"Abby Normal... what a nice name for a fruit fly. I'll use this brain."
Intern! Stop reading slashdot and get back to work!
Now,
Your boss
It's hot. I go to the mall to walk a bit without dying of heat stroke. Usually don't buy anything there, look for cool stuff, price it online and leave. Last time I saw an obviously aged and worn wooden Millennium Falcon kit for $30. Naaaah, that's too much. Ordered it for $8 on my phone. Looks like I just went to the mall and didn't buy the thing.
I was checking out the new Captian Marvel storyline. The character was interesting, it had a lot of that young person not fitting in X-men sort of vibe. The strange thing was how she kept turning into this white blonde pre-existing character. Which actually brings up a whole other set of issues. Eh I liked it. Maybe they eventually make her into her own character without calling her Captian Marvel. Of course in the movies it'll be Calptain Marvel classic. They only really changed Nick Fury there and left the rest alone, wonder why. People have no problem with new characters just don't retcon everything.
It's an interpreted language silly. His criticism of memory and CPU use was even more valid 30 years ago and everyone knew it. Just like JavaScript is making the web a pain like many knew it would since the day it showed up. It's a known trade off of the language.
I automated a job away before, it was repetitious and boring much like the ones mentioned in the summary. The worker was rushing me along because they hated the task and wanted to use their time for other things. Soon after completed they had a dry spell and had to let the worker go, they also had to let me go since they were so lean. However a few years later they're running stronger again, perhaps the savings allowed them to stay in business. Nobody was upset or directly harmed by this one, it was simply a job that needed to be done by scripts not humans.
On my current job it's much the same situation but I'm the one the automation is replacing. That's fine with me, there's still plenty of higher level and interesting work to be done as the machine learning takes over the boring parts. Will it take over everything? No it's too stupid and needs people to check it's work every now and then to recalibrate it's confidence levels.
Third reason: Javascript injection. Let's say you're at the local coffee shop with an unencrypted WiFi connection and you browse some static page from the 90s. Somebody drops in a little bit of Javascript as the page is in transmission. Next thing you know your browser has made a connection to a nasty site that fingerprints it, sends over the latest vulnerabilities for it (since anyone arguing against HTTPS everywhere doesn't exactly keep up on security news), exploits the browser, escapes the sandbox and installs whatever they want on the system. It's all automated and happens instantly.
AKA Drive-by Downloads. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Sounds interesting but try to flip a coin and get the same side 10 times in a row. Whoops. You're dead.
It's not like Vegas where you can put it all on black, double your money and walk away.
If we're going to honest about this, any sort of hidden collectible is the same thing.
Baseball cards, keychains hidden behind opaque plastic so you have to buy 2x the total to "collect them all". Those machines at the grocery store that show you cool things you might get but you always get the crappy temporary tattoo instead. Raffles... prizes you may win....
Anything where you can't just BUY the thing you want and have to brute force it with money.
So if we're gonna be picking on loot boxes can we please do away with packs of trading cards too? I'd rather just buy the whole set and be done with it.
Whoah, thats actually incredibly fast for the 1940s. I need to learn about his architecture a bit. Hadn't realized how ahead of his time it was as well.
Interesting right after the news of the recent no-distribute scanner bust I see Dave Aitel asking around on his mailing list for any alternative sites. That's right, there's also "good guys" using these scanners to write up offensive security tools. This just brings back the old argument that it's not the tool which is good or evil but how it's used. (Arguments against offensive security apps notwithstanding)
There's lots of cheap 3D printers that'll happily burn your house down. People on the forums know what parts are dangerous and how to fix them so they're LESS LIKELY to go up in flames but... recently it was noticed that actually most don't have basic firmware protection against runaway heating. Let's say your heating element falls off and gets drug around. Most printers won't detect this and will crank the heat up full blast since it can't read the temperature anymore. FWOOSH.
Yet you can buy these kits with no warnings or instructions how to make them safe. Yeah, amazon too. How many houses have to burn down before they do some basic safety checks in the products they sell?
Now it's even less than that.
There was that whole Ashley Madison thing... around 10 million accounts. A dozen or so people are known to have committed suicide following it... people got blackmailed for Bitcoin, but it was hardly the end of Western Civilization.
In my experience it's useless when logged in on multiple devices. Calls and messages show up in random locations and I don't get notifications. That's pretty broken for my needs. So my team has moved to slack but S4B for screen sharing demos and video calls only.
When my buddy insisted DKIM would eliminate SPAM and I just wasn't smart enough to understand why. I'd email him but his inbox is full again so...
Hey Shawn! You're STILL WRONG!
I think a UBI system could be really great but if me and my spouse had an extra $1,000 apiece each month know what I'd do? Buy another property and rent it out. Then once that's stabilized... do it again.
If x% of homeowners use this to become landlords, and current lessors know everyone has an extra $1,000 what will this do to rental prices?
I'm really excited about starting 2nd shift work soon. 12-10. Can't wait. And they'll pay me 10% extra for it. Consider career change if you can't get the hours your body needs.
I think the underlying point of the stories were that there's no iron-clad set of rules that COULD govern the behavior of robots without unexpected consequences. Even such obviously benign and logical rules such as those had serious limitations. Besides the impossibility of programming such rules... The 3 rules don't and CAN'T exist.
That said, yeah killer robots suck.
Met her in person at a regular religious function. Her first time there. We had no direct contact or information shared except many people in common there. Though I've suspected glide lies about "So and so added you as a friend" to initiate connections, this is the closest to proof I've experienced.
Last year I met someone for the first time and didn't get her contact info. About 10 minutes later I get a glide connection request from her. Hmmmm... ok. She must've asked one of my friends there, so I accept. Later in person I ask just curious how she got my number, she insists I got hers and made the request without asking her. What?? We go back and forth a little on this til we sort of tentatively agree the app must've spied on us when we met. She had her doubts for a while but no longer thinks I'm a creep.
Yet another amateur alchemist trying to create the homunculus. There's booby traps in them old books.
When I was a kid one day at the public pool I was using goggles to look for change. One time I found a $20 bill! This day would end up being just as exciting. There was a strange fuzzy object floating near the bottom in the 4 foot deep area. It took me 2 breaths to get a good look at it and figure out what the strange brown object was.
Suddenly I bolted up and started swimming away. "What is it?" asked a curious onlooker. "It's shit". As I swam for the edge as quick as I could those words became a chorus filling the air as the pool turned to chaos. Lifting myself out I turned to see hundreds desperately thrashing and and yelling as if a tiny brown shark were approaching with a stinky gaping maw. Yet as desperately as they swam little did I know there would soon be an even speedier exodus this day.
As the crowd squeezed itself against the fences, each member unconsciously trying to get as far from the water as possible, the lifeguards assured them and moved to vanquish the Lilliputian monster. A ring of shivering spectators watched in silence a lifeguard streaching a long netted pole towards the unholy floating aberration.
UNCLEAN! UNCLEAN!! With trepidation the pole rises up clearly showing all its soft hateful bounty. And I swear this actually happened. Right then came a sudden gust of wind which flipped the net with such a snap it's horrid package of filth launched over 20 feet up into an arc that had to be appreciated both for its ability to seemingly slow down time while simultaneously heading straight for a group of 30 or more people frozen in terror. One by one they broke free from shock as their mental calculus confirmed they were in the splash zone.
When my eyes darted back to the spongey projectile it completed its journey with an unceremonious and lonely plop.
Hopefully this episode ends as anti-climatically as an interesting day at a public pool in the late 80's.
And yes... most of us went right back in the water.
Seems to be referring to this.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...
I'm trying not to dislike this video, but do a search for mid or late 80s Amiga demo scene to see some real art. This is bad screensaver quality. Hackers are artists as much as those who put squares on canvas.