I said "distinctive." Tools with 500 menu items aren't that. Video is a pretty simple thing. Firefox is not.
Postscript is bloat incarnate, PDF is bloatier because it includes it, and the fact that you can only edit PDF with Acrobat doesn't make Acrobat a good thing, just the best thing to do something you should be able to do with something else.
Flash may make things possible, but it also makes them horrible.
Neither Photoshop nor The GIMP impress me. At all.
Living in a remote area would be security. The remoteness is the barrier to entry.
Security through obscurity is more like leaving your door unlocked, but living in a building where all the other doors are locked. Or having a locked door but leaving the window unlocked and using the fire escape. Or leaving the key under the mat. It's not security, it just keeps people from believing they're looking at something unsecured.
And the reason it's a major fail is that it is defeated by random actions that are far simpler than the randomness needed to defeat the security you're not implementing. Kids trying every doorknob, for instance, or the guy who vacuums the hall knowing all of the doormats that have keys under them.
As for keys and obscurity; if you have 10,000 doors to lock, and use a key system that only allows for 1,000 keys, you're counting on obscurity to keep people from trying their keys in other locks. But if you use a system that allows for 1,000,000 keys, that's actual security. Because none of the locks has to take a key used in another, and someone making a random key will have to make at least a hundred to get even a 50-50 chance of findng one that unlocks just one of the 10,000 doors, and potentially he could make 990,000 and still not find one.
As for codes, any code that gets used for more than one message reduces the security of the code. So anything other than One-Time Pad is slightly relying on security through obscurity, but you're talking about having 2048-bit security instead of infinite-bit security and thinking that's insufficient? It's not really security through obscurity until you start using rot-13 instead, and hope nobody notices.
It assumes the laws regarding this are fuzzy and emotional and rife with illogic.
They are not.
Everyone who touched this stuff and didn't hand it back to the proper authorities is guilty of something.
The character of the information is of minimal import in determining the guilt of someone who treats classified information improperly. There are proper methods for declassifying improperly classified information. And there are rules for what is properly classified. Those rules include not classifying information merely to avoid embarassment or prosecution. What this means is that anyone leaking information rather than making a formal complaint about the fact that it's improperly classified is making an improper judgment out of pure laziness. That's a flaw in their character, not a flaw in the system.
We don't know what kind of deal they cut by having Scooter Libby take the fall. But clearly it wasn't enough, because Republicans still walk the Earth.
In ancient religions like Hindi and Taoism, they believe that there is a source of energy to all life, accessed spiritually by the body and by breathing.
They got the breathing part right, but you have to wonder how they missed the role food plays in it.
Or maybe they couldn't care less about reality and were trying to find out who's gullible and who isn't.
The thing about PS and Gimp is that such programs need thousands of features because their appeal is that they let you do what you want to do. OSS isn't all that great about getting feature sets or tool organization right because that takes careful coordination across all the developers who would include different sets of features, or a dumb organizing principle.
The thing about video is you just need one thing done, and you need it done extremely well to deliver and display it. (Editing video is another tool entirely.) Commercial developers will get it close and then monetize it and only improve as they feel necessary. OSS is going to wring all the performance possible out of it through continuous improvement, and unlike the commercial toolmakers they won't deliberately leave out features to satisfy bizarre control-freak goals.
The open-source world has not blown everyone out of the water with their video work thus far,'
I've never been impressed by a single thing I've seen come out of Adobe.
PDF? Bloated, fragile, and buggy.
Acrobat? Bloated, underfeatured, and clunky.
PhotoShop? Bloated, cumbersome, and twitchy.
Flash? Bloated, fuzzy, and restrictive.
Something as distinctive and ripe for improvement as video delivery is the ideal place for open-source development. Bugs and misfeatures won't survive, while improvements will be implemented continuously. And if the people in charge of the code base won't keep up with user needs, someone will fork it and move on.
match and exceed the performance of the human brain.
Oh, we did that decades ago. The chip in my watch can do things faster and with far greater accuracy; and enough such things in parallel, say, like, a few thousand on a graphics chip, then a few thousand such graphics chips in a crate in the NSA's basement, can do almost anything practical in real-time, and get the answer right every time.
What we haven't done is approximate the foibles and serendipity of the human brain. Or the biochemical need to act regardless of a lack of information.
Well, no. As soon as you say "genome", you're implying that you're going to start with a genome and end up with a brain. Which Myers points out means you're going to be constructing, folding, and environmentally affecting proteins. So you will be mimicking the brain at the protein level.
And the "working memory" of this brain is part of its calculating unit. You don't have a memory blob in your head. Memories are all over the place, along with logic. One logical bit may take hundreds of neurons to store it, while those same hundreds store thousands of other bits. It's all in how you elicit a response from them that makes their output devolve to one or the other bits. And they don't know those bits until they're given a reason to learn them. Which also involves biochemistry as much as logic or electricity.
I doubt that in 10 years we'll be simulating a single, genuine neuron with near-perfect accuracy (i.e., if we give the real one and ours the same inputs we get the same outputs, including the times that they come up with the same wrong output) in a million lines of code.
If we aren't simulating the brain's quirks predictably, we aren't simulating the brain.
More likely would be actually reverse engineering the brain by looking at brains, and simulating neurons in software, or even hardware.
Neural network research does that now. The problem is, that model is inadequate. There are features of the brain that operate in pure chemistry, and functions that operate globally. We can get close to small parts of the brain's function with simple neural modelling, and we can approximate its gross structure in smaller structures, but actually simulating a brain that is an exact model of a live one is probably not going to be possible until we can simulate the entire electrochemical system.
may have been linked to changes in the way a hot soup of charged particles called plasma circulated in the Sun
Um, yeah, and the recent heat wave in the western part of the U.S. may have been linked to changes in the way a hot soup of particles called atoms circulated in the atmosphere...
Seriously./. needs to stop voting dreck into the stream and start doing real story selection and summary editing. Because the value added per editorial second is dropping like a rock.
Not Next Generation or the other add-ons. The original. You'll cream your jeans at what you find on just the first disc. And it just gets smoother and more soulful from there.
Your hypocrisy is noted and dismissed as ludicrous flaming.
My criticism of their use of the word "think" is appropriate. I bet you think that evolving an instinct is "learning" and colony collapse is "forgetting".
By people who had proprietary knowledge enabling them to use the hardware properly, and hardware to do it on.
The software is not that special, and the system isn't either.
It's constructing the electronics that are capable of doing all the things needed to get the job done that slows you down.
Big companies have $billions to invest in making complex micro-gadgets that they can sell for a $thousand each other big companies who can find millions of little people to rent them for a $hundred a month to send sexts and tweets. You expect things to get done in that business model.
People with the word "free" in their corporate charter, not so much.
Besides, there were other things we wanted to get done.
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I said "distinctive." Tools with 500 menu items aren't that. Video is a pretty simple thing. Firefox is not.
Postscript is bloat incarnate, PDF is bloatier because it includes it, and the fact that you can only edit PDF with Acrobat doesn't make Acrobat a good thing, just the best thing to do something you should be able to do with something else.
Flash may make things possible, but it also makes them horrible.
Neither Photoshop nor The GIMP impress me. At all.
thanks. you reminded me that postscript itself is separate from pdf. but both are adobe creations.
so take what i said about pdf, and apply it to postscript, too.
Living in a remote area would be security. The remoteness is the barrier to entry.
Security through obscurity is more like leaving your door unlocked, but living in a building where all the other doors are locked. Or having a locked door but leaving the window unlocked and using the fire escape. Or leaving the key under the mat. It's not security, it just keeps people from believing they're looking at something unsecured.
And the reason it's a major fail is that it is defeated by random actions that are far simpler than the randomness needed to defeat the security you're not implementing. Kids trying every doorknob, for instance, or the guy who vacuums the hall knowing all of the doormats that have keys under them.
As for keys and obscurity; if you have 10,000 doors to lock, and use a key system that only allows for 1,000 keys, you're counting on obscurity to keep people from trying their keys in other locks. But if you use a system that allows for 1,000,000 keys, that's actual security. Because none of the locks has to take a key used in another, and someone making a random key will have to make at least a hundred to get even a 50-50 chance of findng one that unlocks just one of the 10,000 doors, and potentially he could make 990,000 and still not find one.
As for codes, any code that gets used for more than one message reduces the security of the code. So anything other than One-Time Pad is slightly relying on security through obscurity, but you're talking about having 2048-bit security instead of infinite-bit security and thinking that's insufficient? It's not really security through obscurity until you start using rot-13 instead, and hope nobody notices.
No, it isn't.
It assumes the laws regarding this are fuzzy and emotional and rife with illogic.
They are not.
Everyone who touched this stuff and didn't hand it back to the proper authorities is guilty of something.
The character of the information is of minimal import in determining the guilt of someone who treats classified information improperly. There are proper methods for declassifying improperly classified information. And there are rules for what is properly classified. Those rules include not classifying information merely to avoid embarassment or prosecution. What this means is that anyone leaking information rather than making a formal complaint about the fact that it's improperly classified is making an improper judgment out of pure laziness. That's a flaw in their character, not a flaw in the system.
It was treason.
We don't know what kind of deal they cut by having Scooter Libby take the fall. But clearly it wasn't enough, because Republicans still walk the Earth.
I feel so bad for you for lacking a sense of moral equivalence.
The U.S. is prepared to take out Assange and Wikileaks by force. Putting this material on Swedish government property would make Sweden their enemy.
In ancient religions like Hindi and Taoism, they believe that there is a source of energy to all life, accessed spiritually by the body and by breathing.
They got the breathing part right, but you have to wonder how they missed the role food plays in it.
Or maybe they couldn't care less about reality and were trying to find out who's gullible and who isn't.
The thing about PS and Gimp is that such programs need thousands of features because their appeal is that they let you do what you want to do. OSS isn't all that great about getting feature sets or tool organization right because that takes careful coordination across all the developers who would include different sets of features, or a dumb organizing principle.
The thing about video is you just need one thing done, and you need it done extremely well to deliver and display it. (Editing video is another tool entirely.) Commercial developers will get it close and then monetize it and only improve as they feel necessary. OSS is going to wring all the performance possible out of it through continuous improvement, and unlike the commercial toolmakers they won't deliberately leave out features to satisfy bizarre control-freak goals.
The open-source world has not blown everyone out of the water with their video work thus far,'
I've never been impressed by a single thing I've seen come out of Adobe.
PDF? Bloated, fragile, and buggy.
Acrobat? Bloated, underfeatured, and clunky.
PhotoShop? Bloated, cumbersome, and twitchy.
Flash? Bloated, fuzzy, and restrictive.
Something as distinctive and ripe for improvement as video delivery is the ideal place for open-source development. Bugs and misfeatures won't survive, while improvements will be implemented continuously. And if the people in charge of the code base won't keep up with user needs, someone will fork it and move on.
Ray Kurzweil meet Douglas Lenat. Douglas; Ray.
[SpockVoice]Captain, the bogon flux is rising to lethal levels.[/SpockVoice]
How many bogons in a kurzweil?
match and exceed the performance of the human brain.
Oh, we did that decades ago. The chip in my watch can do things faster and with far greater accuracy; and enough such things in parallel, say, like, a few thousand on a graphics chip, then a few thousand such graphics chips in a crate in the NSA's basement, can do almost anything practical in real-time, and get the answer right every time.
What we haven't done is approximate the foibles and serendipity of the human brain. Or the biochemical need to act regardless of a lack of information.
Well, no. As soon as you say "genome", you're implying that you're going to start with a genome and end up with a brain. Which Myers points out means you're going to be constructing, folding, and environmentally affecting proteins. So you will be mimicking the brain at the protein level.
And the "working memory" of this brain is part of its calculating unit. You don't have a memory blob in your head. Memories are all over the place, along with logic. One logical bit may take hundreds of neurons to store it, while those same hundreds store thousands of other bits. It's all in how you elicit a response from them that makes their output devolve to one or the other bits. And they don't know those bits until they're given a reason to learn them. Which also involves biochemistry as much as logic or electricity.
I doubt that in 10 years we'll be simulating a single, genuine neuron with near-perfect accuracy (i.e., if we give the real one and ours the same inputs we get the same outputs, including the times that they come up with the same wrong output) in a million lines of code.
If we aren't simulating the brain's quirks predictably, we aren't simulating the brain.
More likely would be actually reverse engineering the brain by looking at brains, and simulating neurons in software, or even hardware.
Neural network research does that now. The problem is, that model is inadequate. There are features of the brain that operate in pure chemistry, and functions that operate globally. We can get close to small parts of the brain's function with simple neural modelling, and we can approximate its gross structure in smaller structures, but actually simulating a brain that is an exact model of a live one is probably not going to be possible until we can simulate the entire electrochemical system.
And we'd use it to design something fast, efficient, and better at solving problems it's not good at solving.
So, 10 years to simulate the brain, then another 10 before it spits out the plans for ENIAC.
Lo.
may have been linked to changes in the way a hot soup of charged particles called plasma circulated in the Sun
Um, yeah, and the recent heat wave in the western part of the U.S. may have been linked to changes in the way a hot soup of particles called atoms circulated in the atmosphere...
Seriously. /. needs to stop voting dreck into the stream and start doing real story selection and summary editing. Because the value added per editorial second is dropping like a rock.
I'll wait for the torrent.
I was born in 1984, so I wasn't even alive when the first trilogy started.
None of us were:
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away...
Or unplug it.
The slow part is figuring out that that's the problem. The first time it happens to you.
Which is why it's good to have oldbies around, to whom lots of weird shit has happened.
Get Netflix.
Get Star Trek on Blu-Ray.
Bliss out.
Not Next Generation or the other add-ons. The original. You'll cream your jeans at what you find on just the first disc. And it just gets smoother and more soulful from there.
Fuck you.
Some of the weasely bits were in quotes. I'll wait for the movie.
Your hypocrisy is noted and dismissed as ludicrous flaming.
My criticism of their use of the word "think" is appropriate. I bet you think that evolving an instinct is "learning" and colony collapse is "forgetting".
Actually, it's been done dozens of times before.
By people who had proprietary knowledge enabling them to use the hardware properly, and hardware to do it on.
The software is not that special, and the system isn't either.
It's constructing the electronics that are capable of doing all the things needed to get the job done that slows you down.
Big companies have $billions to invest in making complex micro-gadgets that they can sell for a $thousand each other big companies who can find millions of little people to rent them for a $hundred a month to send sexts and tweets. You expect things to get done in that business model.
People with the word "free" in their corporate charter, not so much.
Besides, there were other things we wanted to get done.