Really all he did was overpower the microwave input the broadcaster was using to the transmitter - which are relatively low power, but even then - it's not like building or buying that kind of equipment is easy and certainly would have left a paper trail (it sounds like the FBI investigated it as well). These days of course all those aux broadcast channels are encrypted.
Maybe he was an ex employee who carted off backup or discarded spares or something?
Another one of a google car hitting a bus in motion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... - again not a common accident if you simply checked your mirrors before changing lanes (busses are not hard to see) - not to mention at least where I live - it was a moving violation too - you can't turn left from a right turn only lane at an intersection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... - another uber crash - probably the other drivers fault, but again failing to yield was an edge case - most people would have slowed to a stop rather than crash. Programmers hate edge cases.
I had a discussion with a software engineer from google after he gave a presentation on how they are fixing the software so it doesn't cut off and run over cyclists on right turns - I work at a university so its the kind of thing I see around here. I told him what worries me is this stuff is being developed by the same software vendors who refuse to fix decades old bugs - except bugs in driverless cars could get someone killed.
I have no doubt they will be safer than normal drivers, but who do you blame when (not if) they make some critical error.
"I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing."
That's irrational because it's unreasonable to expect children to be able to consent to a sexual act.
Having seen him speak in person he's irrational. His basic philosophy is that if you don't control the source for the software and the hardware then you've given away your freedoms. He got upset at the ACS guy running the cameras recording the event because they used closed source MP4 codecs.
On that example alone - there's no single chip provider that makes hardware based codecs in open source chips - and this was long before the open source cinematic camera (which I would argue btw relies heavily on closed source chips as well).
No - he's still a nutjob. Many of the best surveillance tools are in fact open source.
In fact one of the first times I've ever run into a keylogger running on a server was hacked version of bash running on Solaris (but it could have been any OS running bash) back in the early 90s.
Up until 5 years ago we used to use imap/smtp onsite on a cluster of Linux machines. The one thing we were missing was integrated calendaring support. We have about 800,000+ accounts.
We migrated to Google Apps for Enterprise - but it has integrated calendaring, tele-conference software, notekeeping docs for meetings, etc etc - its the kind of stuff you get with exchange/outlook.com.
With our Linux environment - there was stuff we could tack on to do that, but honestly it felt like a massive kludge - and most of the free web front ends are really antiquated (Horde as an example - it works, but it feels like you're stuck in the 90s).
Anyhow as you point out - Linux should be easy. I remember Linus himself said the OS should be transparent - the user shouldn't even know its there. We have linux desktops too, but I've found that the customer use cases that cause support calls aren't the same things that do on Mac/Windows. For example: I add a 3rd monitor and now the desktop doesn't appear,
The Washington Free Beacon (a conservative website) funded by Republican donor Paul Singer, hired the American research firm Fusion GPS to write it - only after Trump became the nominee did the DNC finish paying for it.
Is it fake? As far as I've read the only thing that hasn't turned up is the pee tape at this point.
I've yet to have anyone tell me what anyone is actually doing with that computational power - even friends who are really into crypto currency.
Ok you're using it to solve a blockchain - for what? Even the reddit bitcoin forum calls it "magical internet money".
Also as the chain gets more and more complex - those of us who can't actually solve the blockchain for lack of computational power are now forced to not have any money? I mean I can draw a lot of parallels to our normal economy sure (like the paradise papers have documented), but it's hard to me to wrap my head around an economy that uses energy to solve a math problem for seemingly nothing worth any actual monetary value.
After reading through their FAQ's - I had to use google to find any docs on how to install it. But on a standard google phone - to install it and use it I have to turn off APK signing - which (using irony here) sounds way more secure. Some the features it has as well require root...
I'm sure if its integrated with the phone's rom its probably fine.
I have to wonder what the point is though - its more secure because they only allow open source applications on it? Assuming you know how to audit source code for security vulnerabilities I guess its a good thing.
True - I mean ECS (which came out with the A3000) did have DblNTSC and of course a built in de-interlacer, but I recall feeling "thats cool, I mean I use NTSC all the time anyhow for video, but the chips do nothing new".
I think it has more to do with bad timing than luck though. I have an Amiga 4000 still (I used to use it back in the day to edit tape using Amilink and the VT-4000) it still works:) (at 25 years I've reworked the motherboard to replace various components etc), but even I thought (as a die hard) that the A4000 was a bit late to the scene - it was the first Amiga released to the public in 92 to support 8 bit color - most of the high color modes are almost useless hacks (they look very pretty, but outside of animation you can't do much else real time with them). Still the A4000 was the best tool for the job for at least another 2-5 years - with a lot of addons (like the Flyer).
From what I understand the AA chipset was slated to be released on the Amiga 3000+ as early as 89/90 - if they could have delivered 8 bit color then, and with the Amiga 4000 delivered the AAA chipset in 92 it would have been a major game changer for people who were into graphics workstations.
And bad management forcing stupid priorities (like CDTV, the Amiga 600 - on and on an on) on their research and development teams and engineering teams it really screwed up their timing and they were constantly releasing products that would have been revolutionary if they came along a year or two earlier.
You should read the book "All the President's Men" - it goes into some detail on what the Washington Post considers a source. It has to be confirmed by at least 3 people who were actually witness to the thing they are trying to source.
Is this perfect? Of course not, but it speaks volumes on why some neckbeard on 4chan should never be a source - ever - for identifying who the shooter was.
But yes - Google is just a news aggregator - ranking news sources who would source 4chan should have never happened really.
The reason we run Oracle is not because we like it - its because its a vendor requirement for our ERP (and the switch from a pick system to Oracle happened in the 90s for this particular product).
And of course - we are looking to switch vendors, but for systems that have been in place since the 70s it's a rather complicated project.
But yeah - Oracle is BY FAR the single biggest software licensing expense we have.
The problem for republicans when it came to the ACA was that really was the republican plan already. It was written/drafted by the heritage foundation (a right wing think tank) and enacted by then governor Mitt Romney in Massachusetts.
With single payer looming as a better option day by day the ACA probably really is the best option if you want to have things mostly privately insured.
I've actually seen a few of our line of business applications (Hyland Onbase as one example) migrate to Microsoft SQL simply because of arcane licensing from Oracle. I know this is heresy here, but MS-SQL actually performs better than Oracle and is cheaper, but of course some vendors require you run Oracle:(.
On Oracle licensing - it's one of the few cluster of servers we have that has to be on physical machines because it was deemed cheaper.
Not to mention the big issue - these solutions are being driven by the same software vendors tell me on the phone with their other products that the bug I've reported has been deferred yet again to an unforeseen version (which is a polite way of telling me never to be fixed).
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Really all he did was overpower the microwave input the broadcaster was using to the transmitter - which are relatively low power, but even then - it's not like building or buying that kind of equipment is easy and certainly would have left a paper trail (it sounds like the FBI investigated it as well). These days of course all those aux broadcast channels are encrypted.
Maybe he was an ex employee who carted off backup or discarded spares or something?
No I didn't until I was older - I'll bet if you asked your kids if sugar was in milk they either say no or I don't know.
What is the big deal?
With blackjack and hookers - in fact forget the blackjack.
Have you ever looked at ingredients for stuff? Sugar is in EVERYTHING. Even stuff you wouldn't expect - like milk, or most peanut butter.
Its not like they have the best track record:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... - it was the kind of driving error humans rarely make (at least not this human).
Another one of a google car hitting a bus in motion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?... - again not a common accident if you simply checked your mirrors before changing lanes (busses are not hard to see) - not to mention at least where I live - it was a moving violation too - you can't turn left from a right turn only lane at an intersection.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... - another uber crash - probably the other drivers fault, but again failing to yield was an edge case - most people would have slowed to a stop rather than crash. Programmers hate edge cases.
I had a discussion with a software engineer from google after he gave a presentation on how they are fixing the software so it doesn't cut off and run over cyclists on right turns - I work at a university so its the kind of thing I see around here. I told him what worries me is this stuff is being developed by the same software vendors who refuse to fix decades old bugs - except bugs in driverless cars could get someone killed.
I have no doubt they will be safer than normal drivers, but who do you blame when (not if) they make some critical error.
https://www.stallman.org/archi...
"I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren't voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing."
That's irrational because it's unreasonable to expect children to be able to consent to a sexual act.
Having seen him speak in person he's irrational. His basic philosophy is that if you don't control the source for the software and the hardware then you've given away your freedoms. He got upset at the ACS guy running the cameras recording the event because they used closed source MP4 codecs.
On that example alone - there's no single chip provider that makes hardware based codecs in open source chips - and this was long before the open source cinematic camera (which I would argue btw relies heavily on closed source chips as well).
No - he's still a nutjob. Many of the best surveillance tools are in fact open source.
In fact one of the first times I've ever run into a keylogger running on a server was hacked version of bash running on Solaris (but it could have been any OS running bash) back in the early 90s.
Well what about calendaring support? That was the big issue with the old email system.
And honestly no onsite email system is as fast as Google Apps - unless your willing to spend a ton of money for on prem hardware.
Up until 5 years ago we used to use imap/smtp onsite on a cluster of Linux machines. The one thing we were missing was integrated calendaring support. We have about 800,000+ accounts.
We migrated to Google Apps for Enterprise - but it has integrated calendaring, tele-conference software, notekeeping docs for meetings, etc etc - its the kind of stuff you get with exchange/outlook.com.
With our Linux environment - there was stuff we could tack on to do that, but honestly it felt like a massive kludge - and most of the free web front ends are really antiquated (Horde as an example - it works, but it feels like you're stuck in the 90s).
Anyhow as you point out - Linux should be easy. I remember Linus himself said the OS should be transparent - the user shouldn't even know its there. We have linux desktops too, but I've found that the customer use cases that cause support calls aren't the same things that do on Mac/Windows. For example: I add a 3rd monitor and now the desktop doesn't appear,
The Washington Free Beacon (a conservative website) funded by Republican donor Paul Singer, hired the American research firm Fusion GPS to write it - only after Trump became the nominee did the DNC finish paying for it.
Is it fake? As far as I've read the only thing that hasn't turned up is the pee tape at this point.
I've yet to have anyone tell me what anyone is actually doing with that computational power - even friends who are really into crypto currency.
Ok you're using it to solve a blockchain - for what? Even the reddit bitcoin forum calls it "magical internet money".
Also as the chain gets more and more complex - those of us who can't actually solve the blockchain for lack of computational power are now forced to not have any money? I mean I can draw a lot of parallels to our normal economy sure (like the paradise papers have documented), but it's hard to me to wrap my head around an economy that uses energy to solve a math problem for seemingly nothing worth any actual monetary value.
After reading through their FAQ's - I had to use google to find any docs on how to install it. But on a standard google phone - to install it and use it I have to turn off APK signing - which (using irony here) sounds way more secure. Some the features it has as well require root...
I'm sure if its integrated with the phone's rom its probably fine.
I have to wonder what the point is though - its more secure because they only allow open source applications on it? Assuming you know how to audit source code for security vulnerabilities I guess its a good thing.
True - I mean ECS (which came out with the A3000) did have DblNTSC and of course a built in de-interlacer, but I recall feeling "thats cool, I mean I use NTSC all the time anyhow for video, but the chips do nothing new".
I think it has more to do with bad timing than luck though. I have an Amiga 4000 still (I used to use it back in the day to edit tape using Amilink and the VT-4000) it still works :) (at 25 years I've reworked the motherboard to replace various components etc), but even I thought (as a die hard) that the A4000 was a bit late to the scene - it was the first Amiga released to the public in 92 to support 8 bit color - most of the high color modes are almost useless hacks (they look very pretty, but outside of animation you can't do much else real time with them). Still the A4000 was the best tool for the job for at least another 2-5 years - with a lot of addons (like the Flyer).
From what I understand the AA chipset was slated to be released on the Amiga 3000+ as early as 89/90 - if they could have delivered 8 bit color then, and with the Amiga 4000 delivered the AAA chipset in 92 it would have been a major game changer for people who were into graphics workstations.
And bad management forcing stupid priorities (like CDTV, the Amiga 600 - on and on an on) on their research and development teams and engineering teams it really screwed up their timing and they were constantly releasing products that would have been revolutionary if they came along a year or two earlier.
Those Hollywood liberals and their drug use:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04...
According /pol Trump plays 4d chess - why didn't he predict all these people moving to Florida and voting?
It's actually illegal for a foreign entity to buy election ads in America - at least on TV and in print.
You should read the book "All the President's Men" - it goes into some detail on what the Washington Post considers a source. It has to be confirmed by at least 3 people who were actually witness to the thing they are trying to source.
Is this perfect? Of course not, but it speaks volumes on why some neckbeard on 4chan should never be a source - ever - for identifying who the shooter was.
But yes - Google is just a news aggregator - ranking news sources who would source 4chan should have never happened really.
Hur hur - blame the demycrats.
I'd like to let the equifax board know - that I'd be more than willing to fuckup their company for 1/100th the amount this guy is making.
I live in a condo with a HOA - I just put a period log dipole into the attic ;).
The reason we run Oracle is not because we like it - its because its a vendor requirement for our ERP (and the switch from a pick system to Oracle happened in the 90s for this particular product).
And of course - we are looking to switch vendors, but for systems that have been in place since the 70s it's a rather complicated project.
But yeah - Oracle is BY FAR the single biggest software licensing expense we have.
The problem for republicans when it came to the ACA was that really was the republican plan already. It was written/drafted by the heritage foundation (a right wing think tank) and enacted by then governor Mitt Romney in Massachusetts.
With single payer looming as a better option day by day the ACA probably really is the best option if you want to have things mostly privately insured.
I've actually seen a few of our line of business applications (Hyland Onbase as one example) migrate to Microsoft SQL simply because of arcane licensing from Oracle. I know this is heresy here, but MS-SQL actually performs better than Oracle and is cheaper, but of course some vendors require you run Oracle :(.
On Oracle licensing - it's one of the few cluster of servers we have that has to be on physical machines because it was deemed cheaper.
Not to mention the big issue - these solutions are being driven by the same software vendors tell me on the phone with their other products that the bug I've reported has been deferred yet again to an unforeseen version (which is a polite way of telling me never to be fixed).