Remote controls for TV devices make sense: Most times if you turn lights off/on you either enter a room or leave it, and for that you already have to get up. But when watching TV you most likely sit or lie, and want to change the channel. The only time where you want to turn on the lights and don't stand already is twice a day: once in the morning and once in the evening. But that I think I can live with.
Since this "smart" home stuff began to emerge, I've always wondered what the great thing about it was. I personally do not mind having to leave the chair to turn on the lights, or having to carry physical keys with me to unlock the door. Nor do I mind having a "dumb" fridge where I have to think of the stuff to buy myself.
As a proper slashdotter, I spend a big chunk of my time in front of a screen, so I'm no way non-digital. Still I don't see any benefits in a "smart" home.
while also raising tax rates for rich people by taking out loopholes, funny you forgot that part
Rich people are even more mobile than companies, if a country plans to raise taxes they simply move off. Take greece for example, all the rich people immediately left the money when they found out the state was in desperate need for money.
A one-time deemed repatriation of corporate cash held overseas at a significantly discounted 10% tax rate. Since we are making America’s corporate tax rate globally competitive, it is only fair that corporations help make that move fiscally responsible. U.S.-owned corporations have as much as $2.5 trillion in cash sitting overseas. Some companies have been leaving cash overseas as a tax maneuver.
So instead of 30% the companies only have to pay 10%. That's a legalized evasion of 20%.
And consider that you are reading the promises here, not the actually passed bill, which will have to go through the hands of the republican senators and congress members regardless whether trump is president or not.
Hillary is far more in bed with corporate interests than Trump could ever dream of.
Trump doesn't really recognize climate change as a problem, and he even wants to re-negotiate the paris climate deal, probably allowing the USA to produce more CO2. I do not like Hillary, she is terribly anti-democratic, but I do like that she at least does recognize the problem (maybe she even would support measures to fight climate change).
Revolutions almost always have started by people starving. As long as you keep them well fed (and in the USA the population is damn well fed), they stay content.
Maybe, maybe not because they haven't paid any taxes at all.
The companies keeping the money offshore is a sign for the rule to be so watertight they can't find a legal way to avoid paying the taxes. It is also a sign in their trust in their lobbyists in succeeding to convince the politicians to allow them to pay no taxes for repatriation.
On earth yes but as an AI I would want to expand, and getting humans into space is just a major problem. You can't simply turn everything off and wait for better conditions, like you can with machines. And the environment on other planets like mars is perfectly fine for machines, but for humans it means big issues.
they are relatively easy to spawn
A machine gets built in a few months. In this time, a human hasn't even left its mother's womb. And then it has to be raised. With machines you upload the firmware and that's it.
feed
It might be that foods of the future are working better, but the foods we right now consume and produce put less than one percent of the energy the sun gives them into the actual plant. That's the reason why biofuels are just not working. An AI should better build solar plants.
keep healthy
Maybe, if humans are mass-cloned it might work to kill some humans at different age stages to serve as limb and organ repositories for the rest. But until the AI has more advanced medicine than we do now, keeping the humans healthy isn't really easy.
If APIs are copyrightable, this will be a huge problem for projects like Wine (which implements Microsoft APIs), and GNU/Linux (which implements Bell labs APIs).
Different sources, and the teslacrypt makers don't really have to care: The malware world has become a real economy with specialisation, and everyone provides different services. One can do really good email phising attacks, the other one has hacked a service and sells off the databases. Some sell access to hacked computers, and others write and sell ransomware.
So the vector which gets the malware onto the computers is as different as the customers of the ransomware: it may come to you via an email attachment that is a microsoft word macro, or it may use some adobe flash zero day on some infected website. Doesn't have to be a zero day, if your computer isn't up to date, it might be an old CVE as well! And yeah it may ship with pirated games too.
The Google representative said "XMPP was designed over a decade ago to provide a way for chat networks to interoperate, known as federation. Google Talk was the only major network to support federation, and after seven years, it’s evident that the rest of the industry is not moving to embrace this open system. If, at some point in the future, the industry shows interest, then we would then be open to discussions about developing an interface that's designed for modern needs."
And whatsapp even uses a protocol based on XMPP. Doesn't mean that its client software or servers are compatible with XMPP. They even have sent DMCA claims against projects that have reverse engineered the whatsapp protocol. They actively hate any third party clients.
Yeah it was an awesome deal for Nokia and a really shitty one for Microsoft. But microsoft doesn't really care, they have craploads of money, as long as some of their super expensive purchases work out for them they stay relevant in some way.
No, its completely passive when searching for acces points. Instead it works the other way round, with the access points sending a beacon frame, usually ten times per second.
They can simply do open WLANs which the phones log in to or detect you when you don't pay with cash. And one thing almost nobody hides when they go to a shop: their face. Camera face tracking technology is almost free these days, the shops can monitor you almost as good as online shops can.
You need to prove to Let's encrypt that you own the domain. For that you have to add a special file to a special place inside the http accessible part of the website. This special file can only be added by root. Other than that there are multiple ACME clients available if you dont like one you can use others as well.
But that one was of course russian semi-professionalism. The Americans will do it the right way and track you via RFID body implants. They are harder to remove and shield off.
You know its just about the basic things. For example I've heard that there are driver regressions with features from certain devices stopping to work. How hard is it to wire up some computer to a test rig that pulls each day from mainline, builds it, and then tests the resulting kernel on various devices, testing that all features of the devices still work. Then it would make it easy to find the bug as you only have to sift through a day's commits.
No, unit testing is no silver bullet, but a type system isn't either, or the hope that "nothing will go wrong".
In fact such a system wouldn't be new, the coreboot project already has it as well.
Security bugs seldomly come alone. Sloppy coders add more than just one line to the project. And even if the code was coming from a third party, the patch review should have catched it. If it didn't catch then it means the reviewers may have let through other bugs as well.
At this place, this is the assumed default. I've been modded +5 informative already when all what I did was RTFA and answer some question somebody had.
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Remote controls for TV devices make sense: Most times if you turn lights off/on you either enter a room or leave it, and for that you already have to get up. But when watching TV you most likely sit or lie, and want to change the channel. The only time where you want to turn on the lights and don't stand already is twice a day: once in the morning and once in the evening. But that I think I can live with.
Since this "smart" home stuff began to emerge, I've always wondered what the great thing about it was. I personally do not mind having to leave the chair to turn on the lights, or having to carry physical keys with me to unlock the door. Nor do I mind having a "dumb" fridge where I have to think of the stuff to buy myself.
As a proper slashdotter, I spend a big chunk of my time in front of a screen, so I'm no way non-digital. Still I don't see any benefits in a "smart" home.
while also raising tax rates for rich people by taking out loopholes, funny you forgot that part
Rich people are even more mobile than companies, if a country plans to raise taxes they simply move off. Take greece for example, all the rich people immediately left the money when they found out the state was in desperate need for money.
Trump only wants to lower corporate taxes
From his official website https://www.donaldjtrump.com/p... he wants:
A one-time deemed repatriation of corporate cash held overseas at a significantly discounted 10% tax rate. Since we are making America’s corporate tax rate globally competitive, it is only fair that corporations help make that move fiscally responsible. U.S.-owned corporations have as much as $2.5 trillion in cash sitting overseas. Some companies have been leaving cash overseas as a tax maneuver.
So instead of 30% the companies only have to pay 10%. That's a legalized evasion of 20%.
And consider that you are reading the promises here, not the actually passed bill, which will have to go through the hands of the republican senators and congress members regardless whether trump is president or not.
Hillary is far more in bed with corporate interests than Trump could ever dream of.
Trump doesn't really recognize climate change as a problem, and he even wants to re-negotiate the paris climate deal, probably allowing the USA to produce more CO2. I do not like Hillary, she is terribly anti-democratic, but I do like that she at least does recognize the problem (maybe she even would support measures to fight climate change).
Revolutions almost always have started by people starving. As long as you keep them well fed (and in the USA the population is damn well fed), they stay content.
Maybe, maybe not because they haven't paid any taxes at all.
The companies keeping the money offshore is a sign for the rule to be so watertight they can't find a legal way to avoid paying the taxes. It is also a sign in their trust in their lobbyists in succeeding to convince the politicians to allow them to pay no taxes for repatriation.
Trump wants to legalize companies to bring in that money into the USA without having to pay taxes. Basically a big present he'll give them.
can it detect whether somebody is black or white, in order to find out whether to shoot them at sight?
There's plenty of humans around
On earth yes but as an AI I would want to expand, and getting humans into space is just a major problem. You can't simply turn everything off and wait for better conditions, like you can with machines. And the environment on other planets like mars is perfectly fine for machines, but for humans it means big issues.
they are relatively easy to spawn
A machine gets built in a few months. In this time, a human hasn't even left its mother's womb. And then it has to be raised. With machines you upload the firmware and that's it.
feed
It might be that foods of the future are working better, but the foods we right now consume and produce put less than one percent of the energy the sun gives them into the actual plant. That's the reason why biofuels are just not working. An AI should better build solar plants.
keep healthy
Maybe, if humans are mass-cloned it might work to kill some humans at different age stages to serve as limb and organ repositories for the rest. But until the AI has more advanced medicine than we do now, keeping the humans healthy isn't really easy.
* Only supported OS is Windows
* Always connected to the internet, constanly spying on you
* Now this
If APIs are copyrightable, this will be a huge problem for projects like Wine (which implements Microsoft APIs), and GNU/Linux (which implements Bell labs APIs).
Different sources, and the teslacrypt makers don't really have to care: The malware world has become a real economy with specialisation, and everyone provides different services. One can do really good email phising attacks, the other one has hacked a service and sells off the databases. Some sell access to hacked computers, and others write and sell ransomware.
So the vector which gets the malware onto the computers is as different as the customers of the ransomware: it may come to you via an email attachment that is a microsoft word macro, or it may use some adobe flash zero day on some infected website. Doesn't have to be a zero day, if your computer isn't up to date, it might be an old CVE as well! And yeah it may ship with pirated games too.
http://www.zdnet.com/article/g...
The Google representative said "XMPP was designed over a decade ago to provide a way for chat networks to interoperate, known as federation. Google Talk was the only major network to support federation, and after seven years, it’s evident that the rest of the industry is not moving to embrace this open system. If, at some point in the future, the industry shows interest, then we would then be open to discussions about developing an interface that's designed for modern needs."
That doesn't sound like "let's be evil".
And whatsapp even uses a protocol based on XMPP. Doesn't mean that its client software or servers are compatible with XMPP. They even have sent DMCA claims against projects that have reverse engineered the whatsapp protocol. They actively hate any third party clients.
Yeah it was an awesome deal for Nokia and a really shitty one for Microsoft. But microsoft doesn't really care, they have craploads of money, as long as some of their super expensive purchases work out for them they stay relevant in some way.
Yes that Foxconn, the one with the suicide nets around the factory.
And they don't just build phones, they have their own brand as well and sell monitors and mainboards under it.
When I clicked the headline of this story I said please please please let it be lasers. I'm so greatful for the first post to be about that.
No, its completely passive when searching for acces points. Instead it works the other way round, with the access points sending a beacon frame, usually ten times per second.
They can simply do open WLANs which the phones log in to or detect you when you don't pay with cash. And one thing almost nobody hides when they go to a shop: their face. Camera face tracking technology is almost free these days, the shops can monitor you almost as good as online shops can.
You need to prove to Let's encrypt that you own the domain. For that you have to add a special file to a special place inside the http accessible part of the website. This special file can only be added by root. Other than that there are multiple ACME clients available if you dont like one you can use others as well.
https://community.letsencrypt....
Already happened, no need for RFID tags: http://motherboard.vice.com/bl...
But that one was of course russian semi-professionalism. The Americans will do it the right way and track you via RFID body implants. They are harder to remove and shield off.
and you can still afford it if your company has no human employees.
You know its just about the basic things. For example I've heard that there are driver regressions with features from certain devices stopping to work. How hard is it to wire up some computer to a test rig that pulls each day from mainline, builds it, and then tests the resulting kernel on various devices, testing that all features of the devices still work. Then it would make it easy to find the bug as you only have to sift through a day's commits.
No, unit testing is no silver bullet, but a type system isn't either, or the hope that "nothing will go wrong".
In fact such a system wouldn't be new, the coreboot project already has it as well.
Security bugs seldomly come alone. Sloppy coders add more than just one line to the project. And even if the code was coming from a third party, the patch review should have catched it. If it didn't catch then it means the reviewers may have let through other bugs as well.
Expect to hear more about 7z security flaws.
I didn't read TFA
At this place, this is the assumed default. I've been modded +5 informative already when all what I did was RTFA and answer some question somebody had.
I see.