Myself, I'm waiting for an update to the visual cortex-stimulating Dream Machines of the 1960s."
That's a DIY project that's been around for years now, the open-source Brian Machine by Mitch Altman. There's also lots of iOS and Android apps that simulate the same behavior with flashing colors on the LCDs while you lay your phone over your eyes.
I think the bit about his daughter really needs a bit more context. This happened when Apple was really starting to take off and all the sudden he found himself a millionaire. Next thing you know people start crawling out of the woodwork looking for $$ and here's his ex-gf claiming she has his baby. A lot of guys would be suspicious about that and DNA based paternity tests weren't even invented yet. So what do you do? Wait a year or so for the kid to pop out then see if it looks like you.
Even today with much more accurate testing you still have young guys whose first reaction is "It isn't mine!". At that age and level of maturity it's common for young guys to freak out and go into immediate denial.
Yes hindsight is 20/20 and all that... it's just not the kind of decision you can judge someone's entire life by.
Do you know if the iWeb/MobileMe visitor counter thing will work? Is that something supported by the server and my counts will reset or is it just a text file counter I can copy over to a new host?
Because Google is not interested in human filtering tasks, they want everything automated by computer. Since there's no way to automatically filter content without AI you're stuck.
Besides that, who decides which content is acceptable and what isn't? It just isn't going to happen. Now Yahoo or some other "portal" type would be happy to do that.
I'd love it if everyone contributed to OpenStreetMap instead of Google Map Maker, but the one who makes the easiest to use interface and has all the marketing $$ often snags the willing participants. Especially something as time critical as this, first mover advantage is pretty important.
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If those WERE hacked then it would mean citi has no way of verifying any of it's customers online and would be completely vulnerable.
The problem is nobody wants a new nuclear facility in their "backyard". I think the trick is to just build a few out in the mountains or deserts where old military based used to be, close enough to supply major cities but not obviously there. Make them all state of the art, don't talk about it, don't ask about it. Then when the energy crunch comes and everyone is stuck with rolling brownouts... "We have a solution!"
Tada!
After all the govt is allowed to keep matters of national security private, it's less of a stretch than feeling people up at the airport.
What about ThinThread and other domestic surveillance programs? We know they're catching all US traffic at the ISP level. So if you're hacking computers in the US they can trace you back to the plug at the wall, from there they know you're either the person paying for the connection or someone leeching off his Wifi. A little detective work and they know if you live on the same block or if you're a roving wifi hacker who lives somewhere in downtown Portland.
Now how many non-US governments are doing the same thing and sharing this data with them? They already know who you are and what you're downloading, they simply don't have a reason to bust you right now.
So yeah, I bet they do have a pretty good estimate of the number of currently active hackers at least in the US. There's a profile on each one, and they know about zero-day attacks before anyone else does. It's just on the down-low since it's illegal. Do something big enough and they'll find a way to use it against you.
Yes it says "gaping hole" but it's a safe link and describes technical details of the hack.
I hadn't heard of it yet, so for those who are confused as I was...
Someone frames a congressman by posting a tweet under his name to the woman mentioned in the summary. The tweet included a picture of someone's wiener (not shown in the above blog post). The woman became infamous as the implied scenario was that the congressman was secretly sexting her but accidentally made it a public tweet.
It actually turns out that the guy who "discovered" the pic and spread the news was most likely the same person who uploaded it and planned the whole thing.
Now the woman in the subject has been harassed as a result of being connected to this incident, she tried deleting her twitter account to make it go away but she's permanently tainted from it.
From the blog post above, using the yfrog twitter service can expose you to anonymous 3rd party tweets using your name.
I mentioned DNA because I've talked to people who believed that during development the fetus literally does a fast-forward playback of evolution and actually IS changing from one species to another. As if a premature baby would come out all furry and have a strong craving for bananas.
Ummm... nobody actually. I'm always amazed to find that people are still taught that and believe it. Haven't they ever heard of DNA? Perhaps his joke went "wooosh". I sure hope he was joking.
Understanding a language is much easier than expressing things in it. Perhaps those coders spend more time thinking about code than actually coding.
There's also the tendency for language students to cluster together and avoid contact with actual native users of the language. Perhaps programmers in that stage of comprehension without expression also tend to avoid truly skilled users of the language and their code.
I've found that with language students the ones who do not progress to fluency are the ones who refuse to use the language around natives at all. It's a sort of perfectionism where they refuse to make mistakes and learn from them. They're so worried about embarrassing themselves that they never get enough practice to improve to the next level. I then find that the beginning students who struggled and seemed less promising continue to learn by experience and greatly surpass them.
Perhaps it's the curse of growing up somewhat smart, everything is easy through public school and the habit of struggling and overcoming challenges is never really learned. Then the rest of their life is doomed to pseudo-intellectualism and low effort work way below their true potential.
I'm in a place with no good aerial photography and have considered doing it myself and adding the streets to openstreetmap. What's a good known system to get started with this?
Slashdot Mirror
They only used "Geek Squad" because everybody already knew what it meant. Therefore, it's not theirs.
Oh good, that'll be next on my list of things to try and drive myself insane with.
1) Hinton's cubes
2) breadboarding an 8-bit computer
Please let me know if you think of any other surefire ways to go nuts. Okay, now off to watch Brainstorm again.
Must've really pissed them off when the term PC got stolen from them and applied to all NON-Apple computers.
Maybe that's part of why they're a bit jealous with the "App Store" branding stuff.
That's a DIY project that's been around for years now, the open-source Brian Machine by Mitch Altman. There's also lots of iOS and Android apps that simulate the same behavior with flashing colors on the LCDs while you lay your phone over your eyes.
I think the bit about his daughter really needs a bit more context. This happened when Apple was really starting to take off and all the sudden he found himself a millionaire. Next thing you know people start crawling out of the woodwork looking for $$ and here's his ex-gf claiming she has his baby. A lot of guys would be suspicious about that and DNA based paternity tests weren't even invented yet. So what do you do? Wait a year or so for the kid to pop out then see if it looks like you.
Even today with much more accurate testing you still have young guys whose first reaction is "It isn't mine!". At that age and level of maturity it's common for young guys to freak out and go into immediate denial.
Yes hindsight is 20/20 and all that... it's just not the kind of decision you can judge someone's entire life by.
Do you know if the iWeb/MobileMe visitor counter thing will work? Is that something supported by the server and my counts will reset or is it just a text file counter I can copy over to a new host?
Since you use iWeb and know about web standards.
Because Google is not interested in human filtering tasks, they want everything automated by computer. Since there's no way to automatically filter content without AI you're stuck.
Besides that, who decides which content is acceptable and what isn't? It just isn't going to happen. Now Yahoo or some other "portal" type would be happy to do that.
I'd love it if everyone contributed to OpenStreetMap instead of Google Map Maker, but the one who makes the easiest to use interface and has all the marketing $$ often snags the willing participants. Especially something as time critical as this, first mover advantage is pretty important.
Anybody from Tennessee wanna click that?
Asmor gets the finders fee, I get the fixer fee.
Just kidding. :-)
But I'm deaf so... He just reads it? That's all? Is it funny?
Because (quoting citicards.com)
If those WERE hacked then it would mean citi has no way of verifying any of it's customers online and would be completely vulnerable.
That just can't be allowed to happen so... no.
The problem is nobody wants a new nuclear facility in their "backyard". I think the trick is to just build a few out in the mountains or deserts where old military based used to be, close enough to supply major cities but not obviously there. Make them all state of the art, don't talk about it, don't ask about it. Then when the energy crunch comes and everyone is stuck with rolling brownouts... "We have a solution!"
Tada!
After all the govt is allowed to keep matters of national security private, it's less of a stretch than feeling people up at the airport.
Ding! Ding! We have a winner!
Sorry no mod points to give you. Hopefully it remains that way on the shipping version. No reason it shouldn't.
What about ThinThread and other domestic surveillance programs? We know they're catching all US traffic at the ISP level. So if you're hacking computers in the US they can trace you back to the plug at the wall, from there they know you're either the person paying for the connection or someone leeching off his Wifi. A little detective work and they know if you live on the same block or if you're a roving wifi hacker who lives somewhere in downtown Portland.
Now how many non-US governments are doing the same thing and sharing this data with them? They already know who you are and what you're downloading, they simply don't have a reason to bust you right now.
So yeah, I bet they do have a pretty good estimate of the number of currently active hackers at least in the US. There's a profile on each one, and they know about zero-day attacks before anyone else does. It's just on the down-low since it's illegal. Do something big enough and they'll find a way to use it against you.
and BitTorrent.
"You've all seen the footage of Galloping Gertie, the infamous Tacoma Narrows bridge."
Oh I thought the story was about my ex-gf.
Duck Tales episode 1:
"Those aren't bonbons, Burger.
They're boom-booms." -- Big Time
Long live Project Mneumonic!
Yes it says "gaping hole" but it's a safe link and describes technical details of the hack.
I hadn't heard of it yet, so for those who are confused as I was...
Someone frames a congressman by posting a tweet under his name to the woman mentioned in the summary. The tweet included a picture of someone's wiener (not shown in the above blog post). The woman became infamous as the implied scenario was that the congressman was secretly sexting her but accidentally made it a public tweet.
It actually turns out that the guy who "discovered" the pic and spread the news was most likely the same person who uploaded it and planned the whole thing.
Now the woman in the subject has been harassed as a result of being connected to this incident, she tried deleting her twitter account to make it go away but she's permanently tainted from it.
From the blog post above, using the yfrog twitter service can expose you to anonymous 3rd party tweets using your name.
I mentioned DNA because I've talked to people who believed that during development the fetus literally does a fast-forward playback of evolution and actually IS changing from one species to another. As if a premature baby would come out all furry and have a strong craving for bananas.
Ummm... nobody actually. I'm always amazed to find that people are still taught that and believe it. Haven't they ever heard of DNA? Perhaps his joke went "wooosh". I sure hope he was joking.
Recapitulation Theory
Understanding a language is much easier than expressing things in it. Perhaps those coders spend more time thinking about code than actually coding.
There's also the tendency for language students to cluster together and avoid contact with actual native users of the language. Perhaps programmers in that stage of comprehension without expression also tend to avoid truly skilled users of the language and their code.
I've found that with language students the ones who do not progress to fluency are the ones who refuse to use the language around natives at all. It's a sort of perfectionism where they refuse to make mistakes and learn from them. They're so worried about embarrassing themselves that they never get enough practice to improve to the next level. I then find that the beginning students who struggled and seemed less promising continue to learn by experience and greatly surpass them.
Perhaps it's the curse of growing up somewhat smart, everything is easy through public school and the habit of struggling and overcoming challenges is never really learned. Then the rest of their life is doomed to pseudo-intellectualism and low effort work way below their true potential.
Apple has requested examples of already released Samsung products. Samsung is asking for not yet released Apple products.
It's clear who is trying to run with whose designs.
This is not the exact same thing, but it's a great example of how encryption alone is not enough and it must be done right.
Block cipher modes of operation
Scroll down til you see the penguins.
I'm in a place with no good aerial photography and have considered doing it myself and adding the streets to openstreetmap. What's a good known system to get started with this?