Exactly. The only way I'd accept that kind of thing is full hardware redundancy - a fallback computer system I can manually switch over to if the update borks or gets hung up.
It's better than banning lasers altogether, which seems to be the only viable alternative.
Note, I'm one of those crazy bastards that has a 1W blue laser that can light things on fire, pop balloons, cut dark-colored foam, etc. But I am paranoid about the safety aspect and I don't let anyone borrow it or use it without all potentially affected persons wearing eye protection. I have no sympathy for those idiots who think it's fun to use irresponsibly and I even chewed out a few security guards at a grocery store for shining their cheap low-end green lasers all over the store front where people driving could get hit by them and get in an accident. If you don't know that pointing highly focused light beams at people operating vehicles is dangerous, you need to go away for awhile because you're obviously unsuited to the complexities of first-world modern life. It's amost the same level of stupid as dropping rocks off of freeway overpasses.
Well, we can see how even the erudite and well-spoken can fall to four-letter epithets and ad-hominems.
This genesis is not so different from how Slashdot originally began, if I've read things correctly in my time here.
My thought: sustainability is going to be the key to any fork venture. It is well that we come to consensus, because without it the core of what makes Slashdot what it is disappears, and with it the horde that makes Slashdot a verb. You submitters, and commenters that stay at +5, you are that core. You particularly, girlintraining, I looked for your voice of reason in the madness. We agree the Beta sucks, but that is not enough. We need decisive action. We don't need to go the Patriot Act screaming-hysteria route, over-extend ourselves, and hoist ourselves by our own petards for all the world to point and laugh. We need a firm vision, and leadership to see it through administratively.
Dice has written off the entire community. We could have done much of their work for them, pointing out the bugs and what needs improving. You know it, I know it, they know it. They don't care. We weren't juicy enough economic morsels for them to feed off of, and they've decided to try reinventing themselves as the ultimate mediocrity: flashy clickbaiters. So this is where my concern comes in, because the status quo wasn't sustainable.
How are we going to do it where they have failed? What can we learn from the development and hosting of Linux and other FOSS, a similar and seemingly heavily-related community? One kickstarter is not going to do it. Donations are a tough business method. Ads aren't going to work with this crowd. Bandwidth is an ongoing cost, even if this doesn't have to be a for-profit venture. Do we charge for moderator status? Do we solicit patronage somehow? Find one of the rare MBAs worth his salary and get him to buy Slashmedia up with his company's resources? Goodwill and enthusiasm are fine, but they only have value if someone's actually buying, as Dice has discovered to their chagrin.
Altslashdot.org is currently... slashdotted. I might suggest we bring that info back here for just a little bit longer.
I just did one that had that AND "ACPI\SNYA008" as well: "SONY Wireless State Driver." Because of course, when I think A008, I think of the physical switch to turn off the wireless antenna. It's only natural.
Not to mention the tiny, thin screws that had a tendency to break off at the head and/or strip if you so much as look at them wrong- and which, of course, required a (smaller) different screwdriver head to take out, assuming you were successful. And the special ACPI devices which are unintuitive to get drivers for when you've got to do a reload. Whoever designed those all-in-ones with no access to the internals needs a severe talking too.
So is it then illegal if you're flashing to warn people about a speed trap that happens to be using unmarked/low profile interceptors, because you can see a few of them with their lights on with people pulled over?
Personally, I think the line should be that speed traps should be illegal if there is not a higher-than average accident/fatality rate in a particular location. I'd rather they focused on tailgaters and other people obstructing traffic flow e.g. by driving exactly the same speed in the fast lane as the car in the slow lane so that nobody can pass.
Dead on. I think of it as the "common sense" bias, where a category of "things that people know" include the local religious beliefs which give it an "unfair" advantage vs. all the other world religions, and thus the burden is squarely on the incumbent religion to prove itself from first principles to ensure this has not happened "to me" (this is the biggest argument I have designed for discussing religion with fundies; unfortunately the only time I got to do this, it was a guy who had converted to Islam after being atheist most of his life, so I didn't get to use this particular argument).
The thought to engage with is: how do you tend to those poor bastards that were unlucky to be "born into" the wrong religion? Well, naturally you've got to insist everybody carefully examine the evidence on both sides - and this is where it wraps back to an imperative on the fundie in question. You then put two conveniently-selected ideologies on trial with each other, and for bonus points, the null hypothesis (atheism).
You may never get them to properly examine their own beliefs in context or critically examine their own evidence, but this is the closest you're going to get, and a good opportunity to plant the seeds of truth they wouldn't ordinarily come across in their self-selected comfort zone.
They'd just hire an extra intern (who isn't "critical/important enough" to have a tracking badge) to run around with their tag, doing productive-looking things, while their secretary is "alone" in that office "organizing paperwork"...
That would be awesome, but I don't think the tech is nearly ready for that. We have yet to produce a proper human clone - and until we at least get that process right, it's never gonna happen. I also wonder at how much the mitochondrial DNA matters as well - something a basic DNA sequence wouldn't tell you. The important thing, I think, is to catch the DNA at its original state, before it drifts as these things tend to do with age. Adult stem cells are never going to get around that issue, but they may be the next-best thing for awhile.
You clearly allow transferable organs, but where's the line? No nervous system tissue? What about quadriplegics injured in an accident, would that be so wrong?
What if that organ is the brain, and you can't guarantee perfect or even "reasonably good" memory transfer? Are they still the same person, and would you still want that if they end up acting very differently afterwards? Would you be dooming a new person to suffer the memories of the other person who used to have their body?
It's not as theoretical as it might sound. I have a friend who suffered tumor-induced amnesia. Her memory has recovered better than having to ask that question in her case, but after the onset of dementia you might run into that very thing. Another friend of mine is losing a grandmother to organ failure and dementia, and it's hard to say when she stopped being herself but it's mostly agreed that she is not, in fact, the woman her family used to know. At what point do you let go? In the grandmother's case, it seems unethical that humane euthanasia is illegal in her jurisdiction. Would I rebuild her brain if I could? I don't know.
Sounds to me this is more of an approach rather than a specific implementation. TFA talks about specific data types, such as credit card numbers and passwords. Reading between the lines, it seems like something that would be set up with input from a knowledgeable system administrator or hard-coded for a specific purpose; password manager is specifically mentioned.
So you write this program such that the data type information is not part of the encrypted data but explicitly provided as (for instance) a map that corresponds to valid password characters. After the algorithm is run on the encrypted data, you simply write the computed output to an integer value, and convert to ASCII using the aforementioned map (or, as you've mentioned, compression scheme). Similar methods are used to scale certain random number generating functions to any particular number range. This way, any binary dataset can be converted to text, but whether it's the real data or not is impossible to guess because it's by definition valid ASCII text. You're then free (as the user) to XOR the raw binary with whatever key your algorithm produces based on the master password typed by the user in order to produce the stored value.
Since I am not an expert in this field, the fact that it seems pretty trivial to me probably means either it's not new, and therefore not newsworthy, or there's some detail here that makes it special in some arcane way or niche application.
And they really have no excuse to plead ignorance in my opinion. A comment on a related Slashdot article linked an article indicating Mikko Hypponen, "chief research officer" of F-Secure is friends with these guys. You'd think these issues have come up once or twice in conversation.
Nevertheless the smithies used to manufacture and maintain the mining equipment (not to mention all other other goods produced with the mined ore) burn lots of carbon, probably coal. That's as big an oversight as the fact that so much diesel is burned in the production of ethanol that it's still worse than just putting gasoline in your commuter car.
What about stem cells, taken as an embryo, but that can be used later on the then-grown adult? I daresay it's the best of both worlds. Doesn't apply to us participating in the thread right now obviously, but why shouldn't it be possible in a decade?
That is unless, of course, the adult stem cells are equally as useful as the embryonic ones, but even so I'd worry about radiation-induced genetic copy-errors as I get old. So, keep the "original" genes pure in some ultra-hardened bio-vault. Hell, keep the line alive and grow me a new body every 30-40 years or so; sounds like a future I'd want to survive to see. But we need to test it to find out if the adult-stem cells really are just as good for a multitude of purposes (and for those of us that didn't get the biopsy in pre-birth checkup), and for that we need at least a control group of embryonic cells to test with.
Wow. As much as I liked the TED talks the guy gave that put him firmly in the anti-NSA camp, I wonder what his scruples say about this potential conflict of interest (considering how much info Angry Birds sends back to the mothership...). If you weren't already at +5 I would mod you up.
I've found the correct response is, "You've got it all wrong. It's not the dress that makes you look good, it's you that makes the dress look amazing."
So if your XP installation is corrupted I can not fix it:-(
What, can't be bothered to do a Repair Install? Sure, it's not a silver bullet and it takes longer than SFC, but it works great most of the time, and at least in XP you could do it without having to fully boot to the installed OS. I've found SFC to be fairly useless in 7 as well.
Of course, if I ever have to press F6 to load a driver from a floppy disk again, it will be too soon.
Probably because there's no power source to drive the device over a standard ethernet connection. A powered data cable that can capture keystrokes vs. a network cable that captures whole packets and must contain some kind of SOC that would need some kind of wireless power or a tiny lithium battery and frequent swapping isn't nearly the same level of feasibility or usefulness.
Also consider the horrendous difficulty of getting through automated HR scanner processes. You have to win Buzzword Bingo, and then you have to be matched to a position the company is actively looking to fill.
That's a nerve-wracking experience in the best of times; however, if you've got somebody inside the company actively tracking your application status and staying on the HR people not to let it fall through the cracks, that's a big benefit to your sanity and your chances of successfully landing a new employer.
I can't believe nobody else has mentioned this. This is probably half the NSA's fault, for making proper security in any context very difficult (the other half of course is the SCADA manufacturer's fault for not building good security in from the factory). NSA wants juicy secrets from a few international groups, and thereby exposes our entire infrastructure to international malice. It's as simple as the tipping point where the engineer/manager says "Well all the security products available suck anyway, might as well save my budget and the hassle of another network middleman."
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Exactly. The only way I'd accept that kind of thing is full hardware redundancy - a fallback computer system I can manually switch over to if the update borks or gets hung up.
It's better than banning lasers altogether, which seems to be the only viable alternative.
Note, I'm one of those crazy bastards that has a 1W blue laser that can light things on fire, pop balloons, cut dark-colored foam, etc. But I am paranoid about the safety aspect and I don't let anyone borrow it or use it without all potentially affected persons wearing eye protection. I have no sympathy for those idiots who think it's fun to use irresponsibly and I even chewed out a few security guards at a grocery store for shining their cheap low-end green lasers all over the store front where people driving could get hit by them and get in an accident. If you don't know that pointing highly focused light beams at people operating vehicles is dangerous, you need to go away for awhile because you're obviously unsuited to the complexities of first-world modern life. It's amost the same level of stupid as dropping rocks off of freeway overpasses.
Well, we can see how even the erudite and well-spoken can fall to four-letter epithets and ad-hominems.
This genesis is not so different from how Slashdot originally began, if I've read things correctly in my time here.
My thought: sustainability is going to be the key to any fork venture. It is well that we come to consensus, because without it the core of what makes Slashdot what it is disappears, and with it the horde that makes Slashdot a verb. You submitters, and commenters that stay at +5, you are that core. You particularly, girlintraining, I looked for your voice of reason in the madness. We agree the Beta sucks, but that is not enough. We need decisive action. We don't need to go the Patriot Act screaming-hysteria route, over-extend ourselves, and hoist ourselves by our own petards for all the world to point and laugh. We need a firm vision, and leadership to see it through administratively.
Dice has written off the entire community. We could have done much of their work for them, pointing out the bugs and what needs improving. You know it, I know it, they know it. They don't care. We weren't juicy enough economic morsels for them to feed off of, and they've decided to try reinventing themselves as the ultimate mediocrity: flashy clickbaiters. So this is where my concern comes in, because the status quo wasn't sustainable.
How are we going to do it where they have failed? What can we learn from the development and hosting of Linux and other FOSS, a similar and seemingly heavily-related community? One kickstarter is not going to do it. Donations are a tough business method. Ads aren't going to work with this crowd. Bandwidth is an ongoing cost, even if this doesn't have to be a for-profit venture. Do we charge for moderator status? Do we solicit patronage somehow? Find one of the rare MBAs worth his salary and get him to buy Slashmedia up with his company's resources? Goodwill and enthusiasm are fine, but they only have value if someone's actually buying, as Dice has discovered to their chagrin.
Altslashdot.org is currently... slashdotted. I might suggest we bring that info back here for just a little bit longer.
I just did one that had that AND "ACPI\SNYA008" as well: "SONY Wireless State Driver." Because of course, when I think A008, I think of the physical switch to turn off the wireless antenna. It's only natural.
Not to mention the tiny, thin screws that had a tendency to break off at the head and/or strip if you so much as look at them wrong- and which, of course, required a (smaller) different screwdriver head to take out, assuming you were successful. And the special ACPI devices which are unintuitive to get drivers for when you've got to do a reload. Whoever designed those all-in-ones with no access to the internals needs a severe talking too.
So is it then illegal if you're flashing to warn people about a speed trap that happens to be using unmarked/low profile interceptors, because you can see a few of them with their lights on with people pulled over?
Personally, I think the line should be that speed traps should be illegal if there is not a higher-than average accident/fatality rate in a particular location. I'd rather they focused on tailgaters and other people obstructing traffic flow e.g. by driving exactly the same speed in the fast lane as the car in the slow lane so that nobody can pass.
Dead on. I think of it as the "common sense" bias, where a category of "things that people know" include the local religious beliefs which give it an "unfair" advantage vs. all the other world religions, and thus the burden is squarely on the incumbent religion to prove itself from first principles to ensure this has not happened "to me" (this is the biggest argument I have designed for discussing religion with fundies; unfortunately the only time I got to do this, it was a guy who had converted to Islam after being atheist most of his life, so I didn't get to use this particular argument).
The thought to engage with is: how do you tend to those poor bastards that were unlucky to be "born into" the wrong religion? Well, naturally you've got to insist everybody carefully examine the evidence on both sides - and this is where it wraps back to an imperative on the fundie in question. You then put two conveniently-selected ideologies on trial with each other, and for bonus points, the null hypothesis (atheism).
You may never get them to properly examine their own beliefs in context or critically examine their own evidence, but this is the closest you're going to get, and a good opportunity to plant the seeds of truth they wouldn't ordinarily come across in their self-selected comfort zone.
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They'd just hire an extra intern (who isn't "critical/important enough" to have a tracking badge) to run around with their tag, doing productive-looking things, while their secretary is "alone" in that office "organizing paperwork"...
No, it is so they can steer by echolocation!
That would be awesome, but I don't think the tech is nearly ready for that. We have yet to produce a proper human clone - and until we at least get that process right, it's never gonna happen. I also wonder at how much the mitochondrial DNA matters as well - something a basic DNA sequence wouldn't tell you. The important thing, I think, is to catch the DNA at its original state, before it drifts as these things tend to do with age. Adult stem cells are never going to get around that issue, but they may be the next-best thing for awhile.
You clearly allow transferable organs, but where's the line? No nervous system tissue? What about quadriplegics injured in an accident, would that be so wrong?
What if that organ is the brain, and you can't guarantee perfect or even "reasonably good" memory transfer? Are they still the same person, and would you still want that if they end up acting very differently afterwards? Would you be dooming a new person to suffer the memories of the other person who used to have their body?
It's not as theoretical as it might sound. I have a friend who suffered tumor-induced amnesia. Her memory has recovered better than having to ask that question in her case, but after the onset of dementia you might run into that very thing. Another friend of mine is losing a grandmother to organ failure and dementia, and it's hard to say when she stopped being herself but it's mostly agreed that she is not, in fact, the woman her family used to know. At what point do you let go? In the grandmother's case, it seems unethical that humane euthanasia is illegal in her jurisdiction. Would I rebuild her brain if I could? I don't know.
Sounds to me this is more of an approach rather than a specific implementation. TFA talks about specific data types, such as credit card numbers and passwords. Reading between the lines, it seems like something that would be set up with input from a knowledgeable system administrator or hard-coded for a specific purpose; password manager is specifically mentioned.
So you write this program such that the data type information is not part of the encrypted data but explicitly provided as (for instance) a map that corresponds to valid password characters. After the algorithm is run on the encrypted data, you simply write the computed output to an integer value, and convert to ASCII using the aforementioned map (or, as you've mentioned, compression scheme). Similar methods are used to scale certain random number generating functions to any particular number range. This way, any binary dataset can be converted to text, but whether it's the real data or not is impossible to guess because it's by definition valid ASCII text. You're then free (as the user) to XOR the raw binary with whatever key your algorithm produces based on the master password typed by the user in order to produce the stored value.
Since I am not an expert in this field, the fact that it seems pretty trivial to me probably means either it's not new, and therefore not newsworthy, or there's some detail here that makes it special in some arcane way or niche application.
And they really have no excuse to plead ignorance in my opinion. A comment on a related Slashdot article linked an article indicating Mikko Hypponen, "chief research officer" of F-Secure is friends with these guys. You'd think these issues have come up once or twice in conversation.
--Agatha Heterodyne
I don't know if she was the first source for this, but it's a fun series to follow, for those who don't know :-)
Nevertheless the smithies used to manufacture and maintain the mining equipment (not to mention all other other goods produced with the mined ore) burn lots of carbon, probably coal. That's as big an oversight as the fact that so much diesel is burned in the production of ethanol that it's still worse than just putting gasoline in your commuter car.
Your statement therefore is: myopic
What about stem cells, taken as an embryo, but that can be used later on the then-grown adult? I daresay it's the best of both worlds. Doesn't apply to us participating in the thread right now obviously, but why shouldn't it be possible in a decade?
That is unless, of course, the adult stem cells are equally as useful as the embryonic ones, but even so I'd worry about radiation-induced genetic copy-errors as I get old. So, keep the "original" genes pure in some ultra-hardened bio-vault. Hell, keep the line alive and grow me a new body every 30-40 years or so; sounds like a future I'd want to survive to see. But we need to test it to find out if the adult-stem cells really are just as good for a multitude of purposes (and for those of us that didn't get the biopsy in pre-birth checkup), and for that we need at least a control group of embryonic cells to test with.
Wow. As much as I liked the TED talks the guy gave that put him firmly in the anti-NSA camp, I wonder what his scruples say about this potential conflict of interest (considering how much info Angry Birds sends back to the mothership...). If you weren't already at +5 I would mod you up.
Money's a bad consideration. Death Row inmates cost more than regular life-sentence inmates to house.
I've found the correct response is, "You've got it all wrong. It's not the dress that makes you look good, it's you that makes the dress look amazing."
So if your XP installation is corrupted I can not fix it :-(
What, can't be bothered to do a Repair Install? Sure, it's not a silver bullet and it takes longer than SFC, but it works great most of the time, and at least in XP you could do it without having to fully boot to the installed OS. I've found SFC to be fairly useless in 7 as well.
Of course, if I ever have to press F6 to load a driver from a floppy disk again, it will be too soon.
Probably because there's no power source to drive the device over a standard ethernet connection. A powered data cable that can capture keystrokes vs. a network cable that captures whole packets and must contain some kind of SOC that would need some kind of wireless power or a tiny lithium battery and frequent swapping isn't nearly the same level of feasibility or usefulness.
Also consider the horrendous difficulty of getting through automated HR scanner processes. You have to win Buzzword Bingo, and then you have to be matched to a position the company is actively looking to fill.
That's a nerve-wracking experience in the best of times; however, if you've got somebody inside the company actively tracking your application status and staying on the HR people not to let it fall through the cracks, that's a big benefit to your sanity and your chances of successfully landing a new employer.
Wii controller being what it is, I thought there was more call for military grade televisions.
I'll get my coat.
I can't believe nobody else has mentioned this. This is probably half the NSA's fault, for making proper security in any context very difficult (the other half of course is the SCADA manufacturer's fault for not building good security in from the factory). NSA wants juicy secrets from a few international groups, and thereby exposes our entire infrastructure to international malice. It's as simple as the tipping point where the engineer/manager says "Well all the security products available suck anyway, might as well save my budget and the hassle of another network middleman."