It seems like a bit of a stretch to call it that. There are the basic features I would consider a "General Purpose" computer to have (and, to be fair, the Raspberry Pi has many of them): - Wall (or POE) Power Supply - SSD/HHD (the SD Card of the Raspberry Pi could probably be considered that) - USB Ports for Keyboard/Mouse (Raspberry Pi has that) - Video Output (Raspberry Pi has that) - Network Connection (Raspberry Pi has that) - Ready to use OS (I guess Raspberry Pi could be considered to have that with Raspbian)
More philosophically, I would consider a General Purpose computer to be one that you take out of the box, plug in and turn on - the Raspberry Pi really doesn't fit that use case which makes it hard for me to consider it a "General Purpose" computer.
I would consider it to be a very successful "Custom Purpose" computer, however.
Maybe there's an opportunity for an app which crowd sources the transcription of videos without closed captioning? Maybe get the students at Gallaudet University to pitch in (sorry, I couldn't resist).
I presume that Level 5 is possible on clear roads, no precipitation and minimal biologic (humans and animals) interference. Say interstates and major thoroughfares. Level 4 would be city streets with a good opportunity for unexpected events where the driver has to take over following the event (ie an accident in front of the vehicle which necessitates high level decision (ie find alternate route, wait for road to clear, pull out shotgun to keep looters/zombies away). Level 3 would be the above with active precipitation (snow and rain) which requires the driver to keep an eye on things.
I'm guessing they'll find a gifted hacker who's name is "Wot" (hopefully I don't have to point out that's an anagram of "two") and played by Alex Winter.
There really isn't a lot of creativity in Hollywood.
I'm guessing that if you have a VHS Tape or DVD of a movie which is being "rebooted" or "reimagined" then you could be a target of big film-maker lawyers because you have a competing work which could hurt the value of the new product.
Hopefully I'm not giving any studio suits any ideas - I'd hate to go to the clink because I owned a copy of the Matrix part 3.
As I understand it, the president has broad powers to declassify information. President Trump can talk about basically anything (via Twitter or whatever) including if he, or somebody in his building, is having their communications monitored by police or intelligence legally.
The byproduct of this is that he could be inadvertently publicizing any classified operations leaving them open to questioning by the legislative branch or government or the media. So, nobody is trying to tell you that even if President Obama illegally (or otherwise) wiretapped President Trump, President Trump is not allowed to tell anyone.
While I believe that this is "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters", I'm wondering if there needs to be a new category for news items like this: "Announcements" or "FYI: Version Support Information"
No surprise that Vista has only 0.78% of the market (https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0), although it is something of a surprise that XP has 8.5% (same source), but Microsoft ended support almost three years ago. I'm of the feeling that any software ending support for these platforms is reasonable and should really be presented as FYI.
I know I'm opening myself up for a lot of responses as to why it is unreasonable for a browser to end support because systems using these browsers are being used for , it is impossible to update them and they need to access the latest information on the web for their users. But, time marches on and as user bases shrink, regardless of how worthwhile the final users are, developers need to let go of support projects.
I've been impressed with the pioneering work done by Cyberfox and Pale Moon in terms of helping to get Firefox (and probably other browsers) moving forwards by showing that what people are asking for are valuable for the user community at large.
I'm sure the workload for supporting a modern browser (even if it based on a code base like WebKit and/or Firefox) must be incredible and thanx must go out to Toady and the team.
Hopefully additional non-corporate browsers will continue to proliferate to help show the big guys where things should be going.
One of the first things I thought of when I read this is how would they rate a Windows 10 PC, Mac or a Chromebook? What about a smartphone or tablet? Even many PCs with Linux already installed would be suspect with different packages that come with the system.
It's great that they'll rate connected appliances, cars and streaming boxes but that's leaving out the classes of devices which are the biggest risk to consumers data - the systems they handle almost literally 24 hours a day.
Ironically, CR doing this is a great way of making the great unwashed more aware and concerned about their cyber-security.
Where is the point where the crime is so egregious that the FBI is willing to publish the exploit? I presume their keeping the exploit secret because once it's known, it will be fixed and they will no longer be able to monitor the "deep, dark, black, web"?
What if there was a terrorist attack and the FBI knew about it and sat on it because they thought the expected value of the property and lives lost was less than the value of the exploit and the intelligence received from it?
Would the FBI (and the US government) be liable for damages because they could have prevented the crime?
The Terminator's an infiltration unit: part man, part machine. Underneath, it's a hyperalloy combat chassis, microprocessor-controlled. Fully armored; very tough. But outside, it's living human tissue: flesh, skin, hair, blood - grown for the cyborgs.
When I RTFA and saw the reference to hematite, I wondered if this is similar to possible evidence of life found on Mars: http://mars.nasa.gov/mer/scien...
Any biologists out there care to explain if this is similar or different?
If this is similar, does this provide a clue as to how life starts to evolve on a planet?
In http://www.cbc.ca/news/technol... the CBC article notes that the distance from Earth the spacecraft will go one way is 300k to 400k miles, not as TFA implies that's the total trip distance.
For a class of person that feels that they are more in tune with technology than the rest of humanity, they seem woefully ignorant of "Artificial Intelligence".
Until we learn how to replicate such states as fear, pride, hunger, righteous anger, etc.as well as memories of events (not just facts) along with their relevance to the situation at hand so that next steps or new knowledge (ie learning) is developed internally within the system jokes will be figuratively that - a joke.
When I RTFA, it seems like there are 100s of millions of DCMA requests going out each year - 35 million in the "latter half of September 2016"?
Even if "detection" (I don't know how good their detection process is if 99%+ of the claims are not found by Google) filing costs came out to a dollar per then I would think the cost to the industry would be $250+ million.
Looking at Warner Music revenues (the first company I could think of: https://www.statista.com/stati...), I would think that the cost of filing all these claims amounts to around 5% or so of total revenue.
Two things came to mind thinking about this: 1. The music company accountants should be going apeshit over the cost of this program and the damage to the company's bottom line. 2. There's a whole bunch of money to be made creating an application for generating DCMA demands that reduces the number of DCMA requests (and the total cost of the requests) by 10x or more.
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It seems like a bit of a stretch to call it that. There are the basic features I would consider a "General Purpose" computer to have (and, to be fair, the Raspberry Pi has many of them):
- Wall (or POE) Power Supply
- SSD/HHD (the SD Card of the Raspberry Pi could probably be considered that)
- USB Ports for Keyboard/Mouse (Raspberry Pi has that)
- Video Output (Raspberry Pi has that)
- Network Connection (Raspberry Pi has that)
- Ready to use OS (I guess Raspberry Pi could be considered to have that with Raspbian)
More philosophically, I would consider a General Purpose computer to be one that you take out of the box, plug in and turn on - the Raspberry Pi really doesn't fit that use case which makes it hard for me to consider it a "General Purpose" computer.
I would consider it to be a very successful "Custom Purpose" computer, however.
Great job by Mr. Waters.
I'm sure the printers donated by Adobe are secondary to the satisfaction of figuring out the message.
Thank you in a more original way (to get past the /. grammar police robots).
Thank you.
http://reason.com/blog/2017/03...
Maybe there's an opportunity for an app which crowd sources the transcription of videos without closed captioning? Maybe get the students at Gallaudet University to pitch in (sorry, I couldn't resist).
TFA is rather skimpy on details.
I presume that Level 5 is possible on clear roads, no precipitation and minimal biologic (humans and animals) interference. Say interstates and major thoroughfares.
Level 4 would be city streets with a good opportunity for unexpected events where the driver has to take over following the event (ie an accident in front of the vehicle which necessitates high level decision (ie find alternate route, wait for road to clear, pull out shotgun to keep looters/zombies away).
Level 3 would be the above with active precipitation (snow and rain) which requires the driver to keep an eye on things.
Anybody have a clearer definition?
I'm guessing they'll find a gifted hacker who's name is "Wot" (hopefully I don't have to point out that's an anagram of "two") and played by Alex Winter.
There really isn't a lot of creativity in Hollywood.
I'm guessing that if you have a VHS Tape or DVD of a movie which is being "rebooted" or "reimagined" then you could be a target of big film-maker lawyers because you have a competing work which could hurt the value of the new product.
Hopefully I'm not giving any studio suits any ideas - I'd hate to go to the clink because I owned a copy of the Matrix part 3.
As I understand it, the president has broad powers to declassify information. President Trump can talk about basically anything (via Twitter or whatever) including if he, or somebody in his building, is having their communications monitored by police or intelligence legally.
The byproduct of this is that he could be inadvertently publicizing any classified operations leaving them open to questioning by the legislative branch or government or the media. So, nobody is trying to tell you that even if President Obama illegally (or otherwise) wiretapped President Trump, President Trump is not allowed to tell anyone.
The exact opposite is true.
While I believe that this is "News for Nerds, Stuff that Matters", I'm wondering if there needs to be a new category for news items like this: "Announcements" or "FYI: Version Support Information"
No surprise that Vista has only 0.78% of the market (https://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0), although it is something of a surprise that XP has 8.5% (same source), but Microsoft ended support almost three years ago. I'm of the feeling that any software ending support for these platforms is reasonable and should really be presented as FYI.
I know I'm opening myself up for a lot of responses as to why it is unreasonable for a browser to end support because systems using these browsers are being used for , it is impossible to update them and they need to access the latest information on the web for their users. But, time marches on and as user bases shrink, regardless of how worthwhile the final users are, developers need to let go of support projects.
Imagine a Beowulf Cluster of these processors!
I've been impressed with the pioneering work done by Cyberfox and Pale Moon in terms of helping to get Firefox (and probably other browsers) moving forwards by showing that what people are asking for are valuable for the user community at large.
I'm sure the workload for supporting a modern browser (even if it based on a code base like WebKit and/or Firefox) must be incredible and thanx must go out to Toady and the team.
Hopefully additional non-corporate browsers will continue to proliferate to help show the big guys where things should be going.
One of the first things I thought of when I read this is how would they rate a Windows 10 PC, Mac or a Chromebook? What about a smartphone or tablet? Even many PCs with Linux already installed would be suspect with different packages that come with the system.
It's great that they'll rate connected appliances, cars and streaming boxes but that's leaving out the classes of devices which are the biggest risk to consumers data - the systems they handle almost literally 24 hours a day.
Ironically, CR doing this is a great way of making the great unwashed more aware and concerned about their cyber-security.
Where is the point where the crime is so egregious that the FBI is willing to publish the exploit? I presume their keeping the exploit secret because once it's known, it will be fixed and they will no longer be able to monitor the "deep, dark, black, web"?
What if there was a terrorist attack and the FBI knew about it and sat on it because they thought the expected value of the property and lives lost was less than the value of the exploit and the intelligence received from it?
Would the FBI (and the US government) be liable for damages because they could have prevented the crime?
What's so special about this laptop?
If I go to Alibaba and search for "inexpensive linux laptop", I get 19k hits with products like:
- https://www.alibaba.com/produc...
- https://www.alibaba.com/produc...
- https://www.alibaba.com/produc...
The big thing seems to be an angle rather than technology (hardware or software).
Hey, if you don't fill the mine with our garbage, we'll have to resort to "Plan B": https://vimeo.com/23444452
The Terminator's an infiltration unit: part man, part machine. Underneath, it's a hyperalloy combat chassis, microprocessor-controlled. Fully armored; very tough. But outside, it's living human tissue: flesh, skin, hair, blood - grown for the cyborgs.
When I RTFA and saw the reference to hematite, I wondered if this is similar to possible evidence of life found on Mars: http://mars.nasa.gov/mer/scien...
Any biologists out there care to explain if this is similar or different?
If this is similar, does this provide a clue as to how life starts to evolve on a planet?
In http://www.cbc.ca/news/technol... the CBC article notes that the distance from Earth the spacecraft will go one way is 300k to 400k miles, not as TFA implies that's the total trip distance.
It's the same primary difficulty that was faced back when I was in university studying AI more than 30 years ago.
Philosophically, it's a fascinating problem and, I think, what separates us from the machines.
For a class of person that feels that they are more in tune with technology than the rest of humanity, they seem woefully ignorant of "Artificial Intelligence".
Until we learn how to replicate such states as fear, pride, hunger, righteous anger, etc.as well as memories of events (not just facts) along with their relevance to the situation at hand so that next steps or new knowledge (ie learning) is developed internally within the system jokes will be figuratively that - a joke.
under this rule.
The problem is there are are a total of 39,010 Incorporated Cities in the USA (source: https://www.statista.com/stati...).
So, for 99.79% of all US cities, net neutrality isn't a thing.
;^)
Nice to know I've had an impact.
When I RTFA, it seems like there are 100s of millions of DCMA requests going out each year - 35 million in the "latter half of September 2016"?
Even if "detection" (I don't know how good their detection process is if 99%+ of the claims are not found by Google) filing costs came out to a dollar per then I would think the cost to the industry would be $250+ million.
Looking at Warner Music revenues (the first company I could think of: https://www.statista.com/stati...), I would think that the cost of filing all these claims amounts to around 5% or so of total revenue.
Two things came to mind thinking about this:
1. The music company accountants should be going apeshit over the cost of this program and the damage to the company's bottom line.
2. There's a whole bunch of money to be made creating an application for generating DCMA demands that reduces the number of DCMA requests (and the total cost of the requests) by 10x or more.
When were the standards set higher?