Fun fact: Literally is a contronym, which can mean both the normal usage, and the opposite. So literally can literally be used to mean "virtually."
If people are going to be grammar Nazis, the least reasonable thing you can do is actually know what you're talking about.
You're a perfect example of a SJW. You wrap everything up in emotion and oppression to make yourself look like a martyr. ("I've got karma to burn.") And then when people stop taking you seriously because of your outbursts, you complain people are just indoctrinated slaves of the system. ("I'll take a sweepstake on whether I get troll or flamebait.")
It took all of 30 seconds to find that Slade Villena of RogueStar Games leaked sensitive financial records from Polytron and IFG as retaliation for some form of SJW infighting.
So they point he's getting at, while not perfectly written, is not some intentional deception. Don't attribute to malice what can be attributed to ignorance. The point he's getting at is that the SJW-side of Gamergate is using fascist tactics against their enemies. And everyone is afraid to stop them for fear of being their next victim. It's domestic terrorism, and it's gotten so vehement that they're starting to do what all terrorists do... fight each other over who is a bigger martyr. And now they're beginning to use their own despicable tactics of doxxing, shame, getting people fired from their jobs, and emotional outbursts against each other.
The SJW movement will be remembered as a terrorist wing that delayed the feminism movement. And everyone is keeping their heads in the sand lest they be the next victim of a career-killing bomb.
> If you suspect it's a bomb, are you supposed to get close enough to read the note on it?
No, the robot that's going to blow it the hell up is supposed to read it first.
Imagine a hypothetical, but entirely possible scenario of a cute little puppy inside one of those suspicious packages? Imagine the PR shitstorm that would follow.
So clearly, blowing it up and asking questions after doesn't ALWAYS work, and so begins the hundred year search for "the line."
Conflating science with corporate and government politics.
99/100 scientists are extremely careful in what they say. If you're taking medical advice from a newspaper (a JOURNALIST) instead of a doctor, it calls into question your intelligence, not that of the scientific community.
The reason is, most Slashdotters want to have their cake and eat it too. Corporations are evil, and so is big government. So it's win-win for complainers.
After having a chronic disability and spending three years bedridden going to doctors every week or two, I am qualified in my opinion that the current system is a complete piece of shit with doctors misdiagnosing me, prescribing me medicine without telling me the side-effects (read: I almost died once), I was super close to getting those tainted spinal injections that hit the news, the entire industry thinking judging me and saying I was an "addict" when all I wanted was to get better and finish my degree, and more.
And if the current system is a complete piece of shit, then ANYTHING that suggests change is worth it, no matter how pragmatically flawed. Because it got us TALKING ABOUT IT. And even if the system gets temporarily worse, it will then be seen as "changeable" and it'll be more apt to get better over the long run. The biggest thing Obama's healthcare bill did was got people to start being vocal about how shitty and how much the current system really needs changing. The idea that merely talking about it made you a "socialist" eventually got drowned out by real concerns.
By the same degree, wouldn't that imply a C64 (MOS 6510), and Tandy Model 100 (Intel 80C85) server would be just as secure?
You really want to screw a hacker over, use an operating system with an "archaic" memory management system. Aww, you overran the buffer? That's cute, too bad it hit the end of the 16-bit data segment.
More over, it doesn't even need to be something complex as a per register, memory block level. It can be as simple as saying "this is a game" and "most games don't need root file access" therefor "this thing that calls itself a game, is trying to use root file access, stop it."
Categories.
Most graphics tools are the same in what they touch. Most games are. Most [insert anything].
It wouldn't be hard to implement, or specify. Hell, many applications are ALREADY categorized. You press "apps" button or the "games" button on Google Play/whatever. Once you have a set of categories, building a list by hand, or through building a probability distribution of a large sample set of "games" and what they access.
Any access outside of the categories normal way can be handled many different ways. You can have the user approve of it on a per access level, on a per access type level, have the user decide if he wants to promote the "game" to a "game special access" which gives it more, but not root, access. And so on.
I'm no expert on virus propagation, but I would postulate that it would cut down on many viruses as well. Even if you somehow infected a program, you couldn't get more access than it already has.
If that were a common problem, then it wouldn't be impossible to take measures to prevent it.
You want data you can't access if you're compromised? Don't give yourself access to it. Restrict it by time (like a time delay vault at Walgreens), or even by giving the data to someone else ala Snowden where it didn't matter if he got caught--the data was in good hands.
Safe House (1998) the movie, was an interesting example staring Sir Patrick Stewart himself. He had to enter a password every day to keep from a remote mail server leaking tons of information. Bugging a single modem line aside (it's a movie, after all.) The interesting part was that the password wasn't text. It was graphical, and required some mental agility to compute. So when he brain starts failing, as would yours under duress, he wouldn't be able to enter the password even if he wanted.
Why not just separate the HDD from the laptop?
Putting together equipment is certainly more invasive than merely turning it on. They're also assuming they go together.
>They then plug these figures into the model and iterate to find the set of parameters that best fit the data, a process known as Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulation. In total they run the simulations over up to 500,000 iterations.
The author makes Monte Carlo seem like a solver. It's not. You don't use Markov Chain Monte Carlo to model data. You use it to optimize finding solutions by reducing the number of samples required, which allows more complex models with less expensive hardware. You still need the rest of the picture to solve for the data.
That's like saying catalysts cause chemical reactions. No, they don't cause them, they help them go faster.
Netflix is already testing streaming 4K test videos. 4K cameras are already widely used in the industry, and 6K cameras are being produced this year. You can also run any modern 3-D video game at 4K.
It's chicken and the egg. Someone has to take the first step, and the video industry and TV industry have already volunteered.
So,
1 - Content is already being produced
2 - Televisions are being produced
3 - Content delivery companies are testing deployments.
What more could you possibly ask for? There is more support for 4K than there is for the Oculus Rift, and everyone is acting like the Oculus Rift is the second coming of Jesus.
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Why does them being female matter?
While I agree that's what's going on. I do not, for a second, believe that was Fox News' intention--to somehow save lives.
Fun fact: Literally is a contronym, which can mean both the normal usage, and the opposite. So literally can literally be used to mean "virtually." If people are going to be grammar Nazis, the least reasonable thing you can do is actually know what you're talking about.
You're a perfect example of a SJW. You wrap everything up in emotion and oppression to make yourself look like a martyr. ("I've got karma to burn.") And then when people stop taking you seriously because of your outbursts, you complain people are just indoctrinated slaves of the system. ("I'll take a sweepstake on whether I get troll or flamebait.")
It took all of 30 seconds to find that Slade Villena of RogueStar Games leaked sensitive financial records from Polytron and IFG as retaliation for some form of SJW infighting.
So they point he's getting at, while not perfectly written, is not some intentional deception. Don't attribute to malice what can be attributed to ignorance. The point he's getting at is that the SJW-side of Gamergate is using fascist tactics against their enemies. And everyone is afraid to stop them for fear of being their next victim. It's domestic terrorism, and it's gotten so vehement that they're starting to do what all terrorists do... fight each other over who is a bigger martyr. And now they're beginning to use their own despicable tactics of doxxing, shame, getting people fired from their jobs, and emotional outbursts against each other.
The SJW movement will be remembered as a terrorist wing that delayed the feminism movement. And everyone is keeping their heads in the sand lest they be the next victim of a career-killing bomb.
You realize the SJW side of Gamergate has an equal, if not worse, record of doxxing people, right?
So where's their equal, if not worse, condemnation?
> If you suspect it's a bomb, are you supposed to get close enough to read the note on it?
No, the robot that's going to blow it the hell up is supposed to read it first.
Imagine a hypothetical, but entirely possible scenario of a cute little puppy inside one of those suspicious packages? Imagine the PR shitstorm that would follow.
So clearly, blowing it up and asking questions after doesn't ALWAYS work, and so begins the hundred year search for "the line."
Conflating science with corporate and government politics.
99/100 scientists are extremely careful in what they say. If you're taking medical advice from a newspaper (a JOURNALIST) instead of a doctor, it calls into question your intelligence, not that of the scientific community.
"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled... was convincing the world he didn't exist."
>A standard SAT proof [wikipedia.org] deduces new clauses from the original problem by applying the resolution rule [wikipedia.org] repeatedly.
Can we put those in a for loop?
How about they talk with their jail buddies from Wallstreet? Oh wait, there aren't any.
God did it. --Richard Stallman
But Microsoft made it! We're supposed to be angry!
The reason is, most Slashdotters want to have their cake and eat it too. Corporations are evil, and so is big government. So it's win-win for complainers.
After having a chronic disability and spending three years bedridden going to doctors every week or two, I am qualified in my opinion that the current system is a complete piece of shit with doctors misdiagnosing me, prescribing me medicine without telling me the side-effects (read: I almost died once), I was super close to getting those tainted spinal injections that hit the news, the entire industry thinking judging me and saying I was an "addict" when all I wanted was to get better and finish my degree, and more.
And if the current system is a complete piece of shit, then ANYTHING that suggests change is worth it, no matter how pragmatically flawed. Because it got us TALKING ABOUT IT. And even if the system gets temporarily worse, it will then be seen as "changeable" and it'll be more apt to get better over the long run. The biggest thing Obama's healthcare bill did was got people to start being vocal about how shitty and how much the current system really needs changing. The idea that merely talking about it made you a "socialist" eventually got drowned out by real concerns.
By the same degree, wouldn't that imply a C64 (MOS 6510), and Tandy Model 100 (Intel 80C85) server would be just as secure?
You really want to screw a hacker over, use an operating system with an "archaic" memory management system. Aww, you overran the buffer? That's cute, too bad it hit the end of the 16-bit data segment.
More over, it doesn't even need to be something complex as a per register, memory block level. It can be as simple as saying "this is a game" and "most games don't need root file access" therefor "this thing that calls itself a game, is trying to use root file access, stop it."
Categories.
Most graphics tools are the same in what they touch. Most games are. Most [insert anything].
It wouldn't be hard to implement, or specify. Hell, many applications are ALREADY categorized. You press "apps" button or the "games" button on Google Play/whatever. Once you have a set of categories, building a list by hand, or through building a probability distribution of a large sample set of "games" and what they access.
Any access outside of the categories normal way can be handled many different ways. You can have the user approve of it on a per access level, on a per access type level, have the user decide if he wants to promote the "game" to a "game special access" which gives it more, but not root, access. And so on.
I'm no expert on virus propagation, but I would postulate that it would cut down on many viruses as well. Even if you somehow infected a program, you couldn't get more access than it already has.
If that were a common problem, then it wouldn't be impossible to take measures to prevent it.
You want data you can't access if you're compromised? Don't give yourself access to it. Restrict it by time (like a time delay vault at Walgreens), or even by giving the data to someone else ala Snowden where it didn't matter if he got caught--the data was in good hands.
Safe House (1998) the movie, was an interesting example staring Sir Patrick Stewart himself. He had to enter a password every day to keep from a remote mail server leaking tons of information. Bugging a single modem line aside (it's a movie, after all.) The interesting part was that the password wasn't text. It was graphical, and required some mental agility to compute. So when he brain starts failing, as would yours under duress, he wouldn't be able to enter the password even if he wanted.
Why not just separate the HDD from the laptop? Putting together equipment is certainly more invasive than merely turning it on. They're also assuming they go together.
All that money... just so you can play the same videogames at twice the resolution as everyone else...
>They then plug these figures into the model and iterate to find the set of parameters that best fit the data, a process known as Markov Chain Monte Carlo simulation. In total they run the simulations over up to 500,000 iterations.
The author makes Monte Carlo seem like a solver. It's not. You don't use Markov Chain Monte Carlo to model data. You use it to optimize finding solutions by reducing the number of samples required, which allows more complex models with less expensive hardware. You still need the rest of the picture to solve for the data.
That's like saying catalysts cause chemical reactions. No, they don't cause them, they help them go faster.
>How in the world can anyone make out individual pixels at 1080p on a reasonable screen size without getting right up to the screen?
And how is that different from 1080p cellphones and tablets?
Netflix is already testing streaming 4K test videos. 4K cameras are already widely used in the industry, and 6K cameras are being produced this year. You can also run any modern 3-D video game at 4K.
It's chicken and the egg. Someone has to take the first step, and the video industry and TV industry have already volunteered.
So,
1 - Content is already being produced
2 - Televisions are being produced
3 - Content delivery companies are testing deployments.
What more could you possibly ask for? There is more support for 4K than there is for the Oculus Rift, and everyone is acting like the Oculus Rift is the second coming of Jesus.
No one uses Skype? Just like no one uses televisions. Yeah, I hate it. But it's the only thing everyone has.
I was going to write a cheerful praise of Apple on their forums... but I just upgraded and it was greyed out.
They're behind because the latest generation of desktop CPU's failed to perform any better than the previous.
Perhaps, but there's a huge difference between changing a band gap and creating one.