also, from your perspective as a "community provider", I would never do this lest the user download some CP. no thanks I don't want any connection to that. How do you show a judge that while this went over your network it was accessed by someone else? Presumably you could show logs, but are you saving all those detailed logs? And just cuz you have logs doesn't mean anyone would believe you.
people will connect to any open public access point and do all sorts of unencrypted business on it. Just name it "free wifi" or something then watch all the flies come to your honeypot. you give people too much credit.
Probably thechemic's perception that Google finds more relevant resources on how to get old DOS games working on modern PCs than Bing or Yandex/DDG does.
OIC. I thought he was asking Google Inc. to provide him a technical solution to his problem, like building in a Chrome extension or something.
My wife (then gf) used her moto razr for 6-7 years, replaced the battery once or twice. We finally dipped our toes in the smartphone waters with a pair of iPhones 5.
to boot, you don't actually have to say "hey siri". you can just tell it what to do. I really like siri. it's great for some things, and if you just use it for those things then it's great. I use it all the time to set a timer. hold down home button, "set a timer for 20 minutes from now". Or "set an alarm for 7:30 tomorrow morning". it's much faster to do this than to unlock your phone, open the timer app, etc.
it's also good when I'm walking and want to shoot a quick text message "text Frank I'm running 10 minutes late." This would likely work well in a car if you didn't have to hold the home button.
re local vs. upload to server. I think siri uploads the message for processing anyway, even if it's just a local function like set the alarm. From ZD Net:
The sounds of your speech were immediately encoded into a compact digital form that preserves its information. The signal from your connected phone was relayed wirelessly through a nearby cell tower and through a series of land lines back to your Internet Service Provider where it then communicated with a server in the cloud, loaded with a series of models honed to comprehend language.
Simultaneously, your speech was evaluated locally, on your device. A recognizer installed on your phone communicates with that server in the cloud to gauge whether the command can be best handled locally -- such as if you had asked it to play a song on your phone -- or if it must connect to the network for further assistance. (If the local recognizer deems its model sufficient to process your speech, it tells the server in the cloud that it is no longer needed: "Thanks very much, we're OK here.")
The server compares your speech against a statistical model to estimate, based on the sounds you spoke and the order in which you spoke them, what letters might constitute it. (At the same time, the local recognizer compares your speech to an abridged version of that statistical model.) For both, the highest-probability estimates get the go-ahead.
Based on these opinions, your speech -- now understood as a series of vowels and consonants -- is then run through a language model, which estimates the words that your speech is comprised of. Given a sufficient level of confidence, the computer then creates a candidate list of interpretations for what the sequence of words in your speech might mean.
If there is enough confidence in this result, and there is -- the computer determines that your intent is to send an SMS, Erica Olssen is your addressee (and therefore her contact information should be pulled from your phone's contact list) and the rest is your actual note to her -- your text message magically appears on screen, no hands necessary. If your speech is too ambiguous at any point during the process, the computers will defer to you, the user: did you mean Erica Olssen, or Erica Schmidt?
over the years I took it for granted that the newest version of an operating system would require more resources than the last version, so my computer would be slower. Then I switched to osx, and my computer would get faster with each upgrade, since the upgrades were actual structural improvements and not just frosting. so my 5yo notebook would be faster than when it was new.
ok. on the one hand, a phone platform with proven vulnerabilities in software and hardware that allows users to get owned every which way. On the other hand, a phone platform that has proven to be rock solid and secure against malware. However, the better platform could be owned by a cabal of nefarious actors. so they're basically equivalent, despite one is proven swiss cheese and the other is a made up story.
put it another way, has any evidence been uncovered of a backdoor of this type? Or is the absence of evidence just more confirmation of secret backdoors?
Mobile malware => android malware. The mobile hacking tools profiled earlier this week and assumed to be in play here only work on android and jailbreaked ios. All ios malware in existence relies on users to break their own security first, using tools that come from shadowy overseas orgs. Whaaa? I was haxored? No shit Sherlock. Consider this before choosing your next ankle tracker.
Solution: use natural language to tell the computer what you want to do. "Copy myfile.txt to mydirectory." "Change my password from old to new." "Change the file permissions on myfile.txt so anyone can read or write to it."
first you have to say "OK Google" (or "hey SIRI" if you're a hiptard)
I am currently using terminator + fish, which I can highly recommend. It makes me way more productive, has very interesting completion features and uses a really large number of colors to make things more easily distinguishable.
you say that your terminal interface makes you more productive, and yet here you are commenting on slashdot. which one is it?
Fuck empathy. If you want to be an island, you have to buy your way out. Otherwise, I'm going to take reasonable measures to save your life, because I'm not a monster. And if you're going to put me on the hook for your well being, you better not waste my money.
there will be more car crashes due to mothers yelling at their kids in the back seat, cell phone use and inattentive drivers (not stoned) than pot users, but I do expect lots of SPIN trying to convince us of how evil the devil weed is.
just don't believe it. its all lies.
studies have shown that mothers with children in the car are the safest drivers, because they drive conservatively and are very aware of surroundings. try again.
also, when people die preventable deaths we all pay a lot of money. think of the costs of liver transplants. you think that wino is paying out of pocket for it? no, it's either coming from his insurance or a public program, and in either case the cost is spread over the rest of us. multiply by a million. also, note that the summary says that alcohol is the leading cause of death for people in the prime of their lives. you know what I call them? breadwinners. and when the breadwinner dies who do you think pays for the families? for some of them, you and I. Another word for breadwinners - people who drive the economy. i don't know the math for how much money it causes us because the economy takes a hit because you're siphoning off productive people like this.
so yeah, we all have a vested interest in combatting preventable disease. this has nothing to do with any moral or ethical or busybodyness judgments. no man is an economic island, and we are all interconnected. I fail to see why somebody else should steal money out of my pocket.
there's another real option here. the apple framework with iOS and homekit. Yes, it will be a nanny-state sand box where you can only use hardware and software that are approved. but you won't be tracked for advertising. Apple has the best privacy policy of any big company. they legitimately don't care what you do, as long as you buy their expensive shizz.
I was simply trying to explain why you have less CO2 emissions when you burn gas instead of coal.
that's all well and good, except your explanation sucks. Approximately speaking, regardless of the hydrocarbon, assuming good combustion if you have n moles of carbon in the fuel you'll end up with n moles of CO2. the only question is how much energy per mole of carbon, which is equivalent to how much chemical energy is in each carbon bond. Natural gas just has more energy per atom of carbon than coal, because it has more and stronger bonds per atom of carbon.
a side issue is that natural gas powerplants are more efficient than coal powerplants, especially when they have waste heat capture i.e. CHP. But this doesn't explain the full 2x of GHG benefits.
What does 22GW look like? If all of the collectors and ancillary equipment were in the same place, how many acres would the facility be?
An actual answer:
if you converted all of Central Park in Manhattan to solar it would generate about a GW at Peak. So Germany's 22GW record is roughly equivalent to 22 central parks. Or, approxmiately the size of Manhattan. Or, about 29 sq mi, and you can search google for "what is the size of X" to find your favorite metric.
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i don't use chrome. it's like saying the orwellian telescreen is handy because its reflective surface doubles as a mirror.
also, from your perspective as a "community provider", I would never do this lest the user download some CP. no thanks I don't want any connection to that. How do you show a judge that while this went over your network it was accessed by someone else? Presumably you could show logs, but are you saving all those detailed logs? And just cuz you have logs doesn't mean anyone would believe you.
people will connect to any open public access point and do all sorts of unencrypted business on it. Just name it "free wifi" or something then watch all the flies come to your honeypot. you give people too much credit.
-1 offtopic. It's not productive to sidetrack this discussion with a long thread on ham radio related issues.
Probably thechemic's perception that Google finds more relevant resources on how to get old DOS games working on modern PCs than Bing or Yandex/DDG does.
OIC. I thought he was asking Google Inc. to provide him a technical solution to his problem, like building in a Chrome extension or something.
What does google have to do with this?
oh. so what's the problem then? let's all go to the nut house.
Quote in summary says that in the us it requires informed consent... What if they just tested on foreigners? Problem solved, yes?
My wife (then gf) used her moto razr for 6-7 years, replaced the battery once or twice. We finally dipped our toes in the smartphone waters with a pair of iPhones 5.
it's also good when I'm walking and want to shoot a quick text message "text Frank I'm running 10 minutes late." This would likely work well in a car if you didn't have to hold the home button.
re local vs. upload to server. I think siri uploads the message for processing anyway, even if it's just a local function like set the alarm. From ZD Net:
The sounds of your speech were immediately encoded into a compact digital form that preserves its information. The signal from your connected phone was relayed wirelessly through a nearby cell tower and through a series of land lines back to your Internet Service Provider where it then communicated with a server in the cloud, loaded with a series of models honed to comprehend language.
Simultaneously, your speech was evaluated locally, on your device. A recognizer installed on your phone communicates with that server in the cloud to gauge whether the command can be best handled locally -- such as if you had asked it to play a song on your phone -- or if it must connect to the network for further assistance. (If the local recognizer deems its model sufficient to process your speech, it tells the server in the cloud that it is no longer needed: "Thanks very much, we're OK here.")
The server compares your speech against a statistical model to estimate, based on the sounds you spoke and the order in which you spoke them, what letters might constitute it. (At the same time, the local recognizer compares your speech to an abridged version of that statistical model.) For both, the highest-probability estimates get the go-ahead.
Based on these opinions, your speech -- now understood as a series of vowels and consonants -- is then run through a language model, which estimates the words that your speech is comprised of. Given a sufficient level of confidence, the computer then creates a candidate list of interpretations for what the sequence of words in your speech might mean.
If there is enough confidence in this result, and there is -- the computer determines that your intent is to send an SMS, Erica Olssen is your addressee (and therefore her contact information should be pulled from your phone's contact list) and the rest is your actual note to her -- your text message magically appears on screen, no hands necessary. If your speech is too ambiguous at any point during the process, the computers will defer to you, the user: did you mean Erica Olssen, or Erica Schmidt?
over the years I took it for granted that the newest version of an operating system would require more resources than the last version, so my computer would be slower. Then I switched to osx, and my computer would get faster with each upgrade, since the upgrades were actual structural improvements and not just frosting. so my 5yo notebook would be faster than when it was new.
ok. on the one hand, a phone platform with proven vulnerabilities in software and hardware that allows users to get owned every which way. On the other hand, a phone platform that has proven to be rock solid and secure against malware. However, the better platform could be owned by a cabal of nefarious actors. so they're basically equivalent, despite one is proven swiss cheese and the other is a made up story.
put it another way, has any evidence been uncovered of a backdoor of this type? Or is the absence of evidence just more confirmation of secret backdoors?
Mobile malware => android malware. The mobile hacking tools profiled earlier this week and assumed to be in play here only work on android and jailbreaked ios. All ios malware in existence relies on users to break their own security first, using tools that come from shadowy overseas orgs. Whaaa? I was haxored? No shit Sherlock. Consider this before choosing your next ankle tracker.
why would you need to challenge them if you won't even know they are served?
Solution: use natural language to tell the computer what you want to do. "Copy myfile.txt to mydirectory." "Change my password from old to new." "Change the file permissions on myfile.txt so anyone can read or write to it."
first you have to say "OK Google" (or "hey SIRI" if you're a hiptard)
I am currently using terminator + fish, which I can highly recommend. It makes me way more productive, has very interesting completion features and uses a really large number of colors to make things more easily distinguishable.
you say that your terminal interface makes you more productive, and yet here you are commenting on slashdot. which one is it?
Also, a little gratitude would be nice for me being your benefactor.
Fuck empathy. If you want to be an island, you have to buy your way out. Otherwise, I'm going to take reasonable measures to save your life, because I'm not a monster. And if you're going to put me on the hook for your well being, you better not waste my money.
there will be more car crashes due to mothers yelling at their kids in the back seat, cell phone use and inattentive drivers (not stoned) than pot users, but I do expect lots of SPIN trying to convince us of how evil the devil weed is.
just don't believe it. its all lies.
studies have shown that mothers with children in the car are the safest drivers, because they drive conservatively and are very aware of surroundings. try again.
also, when people die preventable deaths we all pay a lot of money. think of the costs of liver transplants. you think that wino is paying out of pocket for it? no, it's either coming from his insurance or a public program, and in either case the cost is spread over the rest of us. multiply by a million. also, note that the summary says that alcohol is the leading cause of death for people in the prime of their lives. you know what I call them? breadwinners. and when the breadwinner dies who do you think pays for the families? for some of them, you and I. Another word for breadwinners - people who drive the economy. i don't know the math for how much money it causes us because the economy takes a hit because you're siphoning off productive people like this.
so yeah, we all have a vested interest in combatting preventable disease. this has nothing to do with any moral or ethical or busybodyness judgments. no man is an economic island, and we are all interconnected. I fail to see why somebody else should steal money out of my pocket.
+1 well put.
But you also get h2 from coal.
there's another real option here. the apple framework with iOS and homekit. Yes, it will be a nanny-state sand box where you can only use hardware and software that are approved. but you won't be tracked for advertising. Apple has the best privacy policy of any big company. they legitimately don't care what you do, as long as you buy their expensive shizz.
Even natural gas isn't 100% CH4.
I was simply trying to explain why you have less CO2 emissions when you burn gas instead of coal.
that's all well and good, except your explanation sucks. Approximately speaking, regardless of the hydrocarbon, assuming good combustion if you have n moles of carbon in the fuel you'll end up with n moles of CO2. the only question is how much energy per mole of carbon, which is equivalent to how much chemical energy is in each carbon bond. Natural gas just has more energy per atom of carbon than coal, because it has more and stronger bonds per atom of carbon.
a side issue is that natural gas powerplants are more efficient than coal powerplants, especially when they have waste heat capture i.e. CHP. But this doesn't explain the full 2x of GHG benefits.
What does 22GW look like? If all of the collectors and ancillary equipment were in the same place, how many acres would the facility be?
An actual answer:
if you converted all of Central Park in Manhattan to solar it would generate about a GW at Peak. So Germany's 22GW record is roughly equivalent to 22 central parks. Or, approxmiately the size of Manhattan. Or, about 29 sq mi, and you can search google for "what is the size of X" to find your favorite metric.
source, an earlier poster linked to this NREL paper saying that an average solar footprint was 8/MW peak.