Is perfect for it. You have already most of the needed hardware already included, and you can install in it any needed software to play with the photo or the process of taking it.
But the words "Microsoft Research" sound a bit ominous in the article. Probably the research have a big fat patent that say somewhere "and is forbidden to try this in open source operating systems".
Someone should inform them about the meaning of targetted attack. Malware detectors find widely known malware, but could have little clue about things made specially against you.
So if you start to (touch)typing something it don't understand (foreing names or languages, i.e.) he relocates itself and "corrects" what you typed ? What could possibly go wrong?
Also, the blindness part... in normal keyboards you should see the monitor, you get some input both from the physical keys and of course, from what is being displayed in the monitor, and that helps writing without watching the keyboard. But in a tablet (as shown in the article) you only have the monitor, you see the keyboard because is basically right there, taking a big portion of the screen, and you still don't have tactile feedback. You still get most of the cons of an on-screen keyboard and get almost nothing over it. A bluetooth or plain wireless keyboard would be better.
I bet the odds of hitting the small black hole originated in one of the LHC sucessors will be far lower than 1 in 500. And if we avoid that disaster, a far worse one awaits us the 50 years previous of that event: remakes, sequels, prequels, reboots and so on of the Armaggeddon movie. Probably won't be any (sane) human alive after that.
The report says that there is a problem, in fact, say that is undeniable (ok, what is undeniable is that there is global warming, maybe already is a big problem, or will evolve into one soon enough)
Not sure if we can do anything about it, but if we can, probably will be pretty expensive, in the order of the amount of money that was used to bail out those banks. And if we can't do anything about it, another expensive approach would be to minimize as possible the negative effects of it
IF we can affect global climate, and things are warming up, adding more fuel to the problem will only make things worse... no matter if we started it or not.
About the 0.5 deg in 50 years, the rate matters too. If is accelerating and in the next 10-20 years grows other 0.5, and in the next 5-10 years 1 deg more, we will be running into big troubles soon enough to see it by ourselves.
In open code, if a good guy checks the code and finds it, the authors gets the message, the community is warned till an official patch is usually fast released and the problem fixed. If a bad guy does, at least have the same chances than the good guy, the developers, or big companies that plan on deploy it and check it.
In close code, if a good guy... well, forgets it, licences dont enable you to do almost anything, in fact, reverse engineering or even trying to find bugs could gets you prison, and if you avoid that, hell will fall upon you if you try to disclose it. Even if the authors notice it, they could take months or years trying to keep that secret till appears some extended enough exploit, and then they will consider on fixing it. And if a bad guy using whatever illegal method as he don't care find some vulnerability, will exploit it, and with a bit of bad luck, in a targetted way on you.
At least have the (pro? con?) that not just the winners that write and rewrite history now. Put something in charge of writting what matter in what it happened (i.e. for old enough content, before deleting) and you will fall into the same again. The problem is not forgetting, is burying what is "true" with what is not.
Won't be a paradox...Another AC will post it,with the very same words, while the 1st one will die in a very improbable, Final Destination style accident. Thats what the universe have prepared for you if you do first posts as AC in Slashdot.
Knowing (not predicting, not hinting, but knowing) our future is, from the future perspective, altering the past. That means that physic proved that we won't be able ever to know for sure our future?
Well, is not so bad, at least we won't go extinct because of blue butterflies.
Remember the origin of the name of the company that makes Chrome. They should just jump to Chrome Googol, and skip versioning by numbers as it will be automatically forced to be the last one if its ever connect to internet.
And if Microsoft strikes back with Explorer Infinity, with that they will only recognize that they are lost.
That way won't be a problem if they get blackmailed. In fact, after firing them, explain why you did that, so they can't be blackmailed for something that is already public domain. And put them in jail, probably in the same place where some convicts had childs that were.. let say molested.
If they think that normal citizens that could had watched some of that material, even if was just following the wrong links, or collects anime and related artwork deserve punishment, they must give the example in a big way with their own rotten apples. If not, then they are admitting that is not a big offense, so must stop screwing people privacy.
Even if Microsoft offer to pay just $3.64 per bug report in IE they will go bankrupt in a week....Ok, maybe 2 weeks, just because the source is not available.
Combining an easy to remember word/phrase/name, with an easy to remember and "run" by hand algorithm gives you pretty safe and easy to rebuild passwords. A simple example is the classical "pick a phrase and take out the initials". You can make it a bit more complex oreven expand it to add some input from where you are applying that password to make them unique to web sites, servers, or mail accounts.
Have other advantages...you don't have to remember the actual password, even could have no clue on how it looks, just run the algorithm and write down letter by letter. And if well is totally bad luck to write somewhere your real password, having close the phrase that generates it (but keeping secret the algorithm) is not that bad (and could be seen as casual, is not the same finding a paper saying "Inception was a great movie!" than finding "Iwagm!" somewhere)
The problem is that for some won't be enough. And sometimes just developing the technology for making that possible could have side consequences that could pay all the effort.
A bit, imho, far more relevant ones, are described in Top Features. Support for Btrfs, and the visual interface of Meego for netbooks, sound to me a bit more interesting, apart of the usual incremental improvement over previous versions.
Hanlon's law say that don't attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity. An "... unless you are talking about software patents" addendum is very much needed.
unless they are speaking of phisical harm, the problerm is more about their culture, now and there, what they think children must know or not. Is about them, not children or content in internet
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Is perfect for it. You have already most of the needed hardware already included, and you can install in it any needed software to play with the photo or the process of taking it. But the words "Microsoft Research" sound a bit ominous in the article. Probably the research have a big fat patent that say somewhere "and is forbidden to try this in open source operating systems".
The corporations downloading it are the ones that don't have already that information.
Someone should inform them about the meaning of targetted attack. Malware detectors find widely known malware, but could have little clue about things made specially against you.
Scratch or AppInventor for Android could be good starting steps. From there, will be easier to go then to more "textual" programming languages.
So if you start to (touch)typing something it don't understand (foreing names or languages, i.e.) he relocates itself and "corrects" what you typed ? What could possibly go wrong?
Also, the blindness part... in normal keyboards you should see the monitor, you get some input both from the physical keys and of course, from what is being displayed in the monitor, and that helps writing without watching the keyboard. But in a tablet (as shown in the article) you only have the monitor, you see the keyboard because is basically right there, taking a big portion of the screen, and you still don't have tactile feedback. You still get most of the cons of an on-screen keyboard and get almost nothing over it. A bluetooth or plain wireless keyboard would be better.
I bet the odds of hitting the small black hole originated in one of the LHC sucessors will be far lower than 1 in 500. And if we avoid that disaster, a far worse one awaits us the 50 years previous of that event: remakes, sequels, prequels, reboots and so on of the Armaggeddon movie. Probably won't be any (sane) human alive after that.
The report says that there is a problem, in fact, say that is undeniable (ok, what is undeniable is that there is global warming, maybe already is a big problem, or will evolve into one soon enough)
Not sure if we can do anything about it, but if we can, probably will be pretty expensive, in the order of the amount of money that was used to bail out those banks. And if we can't do anything about it, another expensive approach would be to minimize as possible the negative effects of it
IF we can affect global climate, and things are warming up, adding more fuel to the problem will only make things worse... no matter if we started it or not.
About the 0.5 deg in 50 years, the rate matters too. If is accelerating and in the next 10-20 years grows other 0.5, and in the next 5-10 years 1 deg more, we will be running into big troubles soon enough to see it by ourselves.
If we keep dumping money in banks instead of fixing this kind of problems won't be God's work... will be Darwin's one.
In open code, if a good guy checks the code and finds it, the authors gets the message, the community is warned till an official patch is usually fast released and the problem fixed. If a bad guy does, at least have the same chances than the good guy, the developers, or big companies that plan on deploy it and check it.
In close code, if a good guy... well, forgets it, licences dont enable you to do almost anything, in fact, reverse engineering or even trying to find bugs could gets you prison, and if you avoid that, hell will fall upon you if you try to disclose it. Even if the authors notice it, they could take months or years trying to keep that secret till appears some extended enough exploit, and then they will consider on fixing it. And if a bad guy using whatever illegal method as he don't care find some vulnerability, will exploit it, and with a bit of bad luck, in a targetted way on you.
Definately, not you.
At least have the (pro? con?) that not just the winners that write and rewrite history now. Put something in charge of writting what matter in what it happened (i.e. for old enough content, before deleting) and you will fall into the same again. The problem is not forgetting, is burying what is "true" with what is not.
Won't be a paradox...Another AC will post it,with the very same words, while the 1st one will die in a very improbable, Final Destination style accident. Thats what the universe have prepared for you if you do first posts as AC in Slashdot.
Knowing (not predicting, not hinting, but knowing) our future is, from the future perspective, altering the past. That means that physic proved that we won't be able ever to know for sure our future?
Well, is not so bad, at least we won't go extinct because of blue butterflies.
NASA has finally proved that planet Earth is (still, at least) habitable! We knew that all that investment will bring us new knowledge some day.
Remember the origin of the name of the company that makes Chrome. They should just jump to Chrome Googol, and skip versioning by numbers as it will be automatically forced to be the last one if its ever connect to internet.
And if Microsoft strikes back with Explorer Infinity, with that they will only recognize that they are lost.
That way won't be a problem if they get blackmailed. In fact, after firing them, explain why you did that, so they can't be blackmailed for something that is already public domain. And put them in jail, probably in the same place where some convicts had childs that were.. let say molested.
If they think that normal citizens that could had watched some of that material, even if was just following the wrong links, or collects anime and related artwork deserve punishment, they must give the example in a big way with their own rotten apples. If not, then they are admitting that is not a big offense, so must stop screwing people privacy.
Even if Microsoft offer to pay just $3.64 per bug report in IE they will go bankrupt in a week....Ok, maybe 2 weeks, just because the source is not available.
- Some of the trivial passwords are unique (i.e. the username, the mail address) so won't be popular and allowed.
- The "popularity" test ensures you to know that someone else have the password you tried to use, even if looks complex.
Combining an easy to remember word/phrase/name, with an easy to remember and "run" by hand algorithm gives you pretty safe and easy to rebuild passwords. A simple example is the classical "pick a phrase and take out the initials". You can make it a bit more complex oreven expand it to add some input from where you are applying that password to make them unique to web sites, servers, or mail accounts. Have other advantages...you don't have to remember the actual password, even could have no clue on how it looks, just run the algorithm and write down letter by letter. And if well is totally bad luck to write somewhere your real password, having close the phrase that generates it (but keeping secret the algorithm) is not that bad (and could be seen as casual, is not the same finding a paper saying "Inception was a great movie!" than finding "Iwagm!" somewhere)
The problem is that for some won't be enough. And sometimes just developing the technology for making that possible could have side consequences that could pay all the effort.
Won't be a better solution to use instead Google Chrome Frame? (IF you still have to run IE, at least)
A bit, imho, far more relevant ones, are described in Top Features. Support for Btrfs, and the visual interface of Meego for netbooks, sound to me a bit more interesting, apart of the usual incremental improvement over previous versions.
Hanlon's law say that don't attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity. An "... unless you are talking about software patents" addendum is very much needed.
unless they are speaking of phisical harm, the problerm is more about their culture, now and there, what they think children must know or not. Is about them, not children or content in internet