IIRC Apple looks specifically for eye movement, and probably looks at IR (aka heat) along with, or instead of, just visible light. I bet the 3D model could work using a hair dryer to heat up the outer surfaces in a lifelike manner, along with some moveable glass eyes. Not especially practical (right now), but with enough demand, a literal framework with internal heating and moving eyes could be created pretty easily, and a head model could be 3D printed around that.
From listening to my friends with young children and seeing it in action, it's purely the "entertainment value," not the toys themselves. Children genuinely respond more to watching the video than actually opening or playing with the same toy themselves, and rarely express any interest in the specific toy outside of the viewing experience. They just want to watch the videos.
Speeding on a highway is not inherently unsafe, while running a streetlight or stop sign is. Additionally, speeding actually increases the traffic capacity of a road, and speeders contribute more money in the form of fines, both of which are of benefit to the general public. You're welcome.
I saw one of these in Rome last month. Perfect for getting around the narrow streets and alleys there, I assumed it was just a local adaptation. I would be interested to know how long they've been in use in Italy, or elsewhere.
These problems have been known about for decades and yet they still occur even with projects where there are no time deadlines like many open source projects.
There are a few points this article ignores.
1) The attack surface of C/C++ applications is huge, because pretty much every OS and major application is written in these languages. These are High Value Targets, so of course more vulnerabilities will be discovered in these pieces of software. Blaming C/C++ for that is like blaming water for drowning, and saying we'd be safer if we replaced all water with Gatorade, since nobody's ever drown in Gatorade. 2) Java vulnerabilities are a dime a dozen, and some of the most popular Java frameworks (like Spring) have had major issues as well. 3) All languages suffer from inherent vulnerabilities, especially input validation issues, including deserializing untrusted data directly to objects. It doesn't matter if it's C, Java, Python, or Brainfuck.
Additionally, the article seems to suffer from selection bias. The author writes: "From my own security research into the widely used open source image processing libraries ImageMagick and GraphicsMagic, in the last year I've found more than 400 memory unsafety vulnerabilities." That's great, and I applaud the work, but I can't help but wonder how many Python or Java libraries he examined in that time frame, or how many other types of vulnerabilities he was even looking for, or would recognize if he was looking at them.
TLDR: It's possible the article is correct, but far more evidence is required.
Everyone here seems to assume Chinese companies will play by our rules. They are already experts at dodging tariffs on oil, honey, steel, and cars â" what makes anyone think PC cases are going to finally stump them? All they do is ship them somewhere else first and voila â" those PC cases were made somewhere not subject to tarrifs. If the lie is discovered and the company is banned, then a new company pops up to take its place, buys all the inventory from the first company, and the charade continues.
There are lots of reasons to expect that, namely that we use computers precisely *because* they are faster (and more accurate) than humans at processing information.
Fuck, man, how did you know about the wombats??? Are you working for them? They're INSIDE THE HOUSE now. I can hear them in the walls. Nobody believes me!!
Eh.. we've progressed a lot in 100 years. We have much better hygiene and sanitation practices than we did then, even without vaccines, which have also helped. My understanding is that a large portion of deaths to flu are in fact malnutrition and dehydration, which can be countered with IV fluids these days. Also better communication, though perhaps that's countered by the increase of misinformation to some extent.
While I'm sure epidemics and pandemics will continue to occur, the effects seem unlikely to be nearly as dire. At least in developed nations.
This. When the WWW was born, the only entrenched interests were networks like AOL and Compuserv, none of which had the political or economic clout to stifle competition. The web, at that point, was pretty useless anyway, and likely not viewed as competition, per se. These days, Facebook and Google are some of the largest companies in the world, and they exist precisely by monetizing the very user data that TBL proposes to lock down. So.. good luck?
Locking down a platform to respond only to authorized access is pretty easy. Microsoft is, ironically, a perfect example. Using cryptographic signing, its mass-update feature has never been compromised. The same robust authentication mechanisms are almost certainly in place for military hardware, making it statistically improbable that anyone can "hijack" the controls without physically taking them over. And if the enemy can take over your command center, then all bets are off anyway.
No need for exaggeration. He'd definitely be charged with a crime for unauthorized access and face jail time if he were in the US, and that's bad enough.
My wife and I eat at home most of the time. We're each competent cooks, but not great. Even so, we find the experience of eating at home to be as good or better than most restaurants, especially where we live now. After all, the food we like is always on the menu at home, the ingredients are never poor quality, and we know the food has been handled and prepared safely. Eating out and ordering in, at this point, is mostly a fallback plan if something comes up. Even then -- with takeout in particular -- we frequently end up disappointed with our food. Yes, there are "life hacks" to give us better odds of getting fresher or better-prepared food, but these are often just as much of a hassle for everyone involved as just cooking it ourselves, minus whatever sense of accomplishment and mutual appreciation we get from preparing our own food.
Honestly, I find most things in life to be like that.
Yeah, I have social anxiety, but I actually found that public speaking is far easier (only after doing it) because you already know what you're going to say, and you have more control over the interaction. Additionally, it's an opportunity for people to get to see a side of you that you that they wouldn't necessarily see in daily interactions.
Drugs in general, and opiods in particular, are not the problem. Drug abuse is a symptom of deeper issues like isolation, depression, and hopelessness. It's literally self-medicating. This is not an epidemic among healthy, well-adjusted adults with stable incomes and functional social support networks. There is some of that, to be sure, but not an epidemic. It's impoverished areas of the country among people who have given up and feel left behind that are hardest hit. And again, drug abuse is a symptom of that.
The overwhelming majority of people don't become addicted to their prescription painkillers. All available evidence supports this. Of course corporations are greedy, and they need regulation, but opiods are the best treatment currently available for pain management, and if you've ever needed them, you know they are the difference between agony and relief. Limiting their availability or doctors' ability and discretion in prescribing only harms people who genuinely need them. Addicts will find a way regardless. Should we have support systems in place for those who do? Absolutely. But demonizing the supply side misses the point entirely.
For some reason, most people understand that brewers and distillers -- despite their much heavier advertising and glamorizing of alcohol than, say, opioid manufacturers of fentanyl -- don't create alcoholics, and that prohibition just made the problem worse, but everyone wants to believe that it's completely different this time. Because opiods. Yes, it's a compelling and easy-to-believe story that "big pharma" is responsible, but it doesn't really make sense at the end of the day. If manufacturers and prescribers were responsible, we might expect to see people with the most access to healthcare and the most dollars to spend have the most problems as a percentage of the respective demographics, but the reverse is true.
Nobody wants to talk about the socioeconomic drivers of addiction, because it means a) admitting a problem with the social structure in our country, b) it's hard to generate the same emotion and outrage about underprivileged segments of society as a story about a big bad enemy does and c) it's a much more difficult problem to solve.
I came across this in looking for supporting data, and it seems to be a good description of the real problem: https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/a...
That'a with storage in an insulated container, with the ground acting as an insulator. With an iceberg being not just exposed to relatively warm seas, but actively dragged through them, I would expect very high losses. Try running an ice cube under cold water and see how well it holds up.
If they could somehow insulate the iceberg, it might be feasible, but I'm struggling to think of a material that could be manufactured and/or deployed on that scale and constrict as melting occurs.
I was just in Beirut last month â" this article is spot on. Worse is outside of Beirut, where the official electricity is only on for about 3 hours per day, and gray market providers serve the other 21 hours, at a much higher price. One girl told me her family spends $400 USD/mo just for a few lights and occasional A/C in one room, and while there are some very wealthy families in Lebanon, there are far more people barely scraping by.
The three biggest problems are: 1) The constitutional mandate for equal representation from each major religion, and the lack of cooperation therein to create new infrastructure projects.
2) Entrenched corrupt interests in government. Dynastic families control the three most powerful positions, and they have entrenched interests in preserving the status quo, profiting off the failures of government by providing for-profit services in the private sector.
3) Iran and Saudi both use Lebanon as a proxy, exercising and influencing soft and hard power in the region. They each pour money into the country, funding fundamentalist teaching and intolerance, and ratcheting up the tension. There *is* a sense of both comraderie and war weariness amongst most Lebanese, which has probably prevented another civil war, but until Lebanon stands on her own, she will continue to be vulnerable to this undue influence from neighbors in the region. Which is a shame, because culturally, historically, and geographically, itâ(TM)s one of the most remarkable and beautiful countries Iâ(TM)ve ever visited.
That's hilarious. The scale of electronic collection operations increased dramatically under Obama. Or do you think the Utah Data Center was built for shits and giggles?
But regardless, this is not/should not be a partisan issue, and one of the most compelling reasons to limit offensive operations and strengthen vulnerability disclosure rules is that we all use the same shit. If the NSA or other TLA is actively exploiting vulnerabilities in common platforms such as OSes, routers, or cellular infrastructure, then they are, by definition, leaving America's identical technology vulnerable to the exact same attacks by our adversaries. By leaving ourselves vulnerable, we are trading access to our own secrets -- from classified government information, to corporate trade secrets, to political party internals -- for access to information that we should reasonably be able to collect through other means. It's shooting ourselves in the foot and hoping the ricochet hits our enemies.
Probably none. At least not as part of any effort to reduce emissions. The population of Egypt has grown by 30% (!) in the past 15 years despite negative net immigration, and increasing capacity is the primary focus.
Egypt also has a ton of wind turbines along the coast of the Red Sea, which I was surprised to learn. These are positive steps.
That said, Egypt is also in the process of opening not one, but three gas power plants totaling 14.4GW of new capacity, dwarfing their solar initiative.
I have friends who sell and install private solar in Egypt, but with grid power directly owned and subsidized by the state, it's hard to compete. Which is a shame, because Egypt's air pollution and AQI is right up there with India and China, and has only gotten worse over the past decade. Unfortunately the government seems about as keen to actually address air pollution as it does to support human rights, which is to say, not very much at all.
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IIRC Apple looks specifically for eye movement, and probably looks at IR (aka heat) along with, or instead of, just visible light. I bet the 3D model could work using a hair dryer to heat up the outer surfaces in a lifelike manner, along with some moveable glass eyes. Not especially practical (right now), but with enough demand, a literal framework with internal heating and moving eyes could be created pretty easily, and a head model could be 3D printed around that.
Still prefer my fingerprint sensor.
Seems like municipal water systems should be performing RO before sending water out to begin with.
From listening to my friends with young children and seeing it in action, it's purely the "entertainment value," not the toys themselves. Children genuinely respond more to watching the video than actually opening or playing with the same toy themselves, and rarely express any interest in the specific toy outside of the viewing experience. They just want to watch the videos.
Looks like itâ(TM)s time for Google to reset their âoeN days without a workplace fatalityâ board.
Speeding on a highway is not inherently unsafe, while running a streetlight or stop sign is. Additionally, speeding actually increases the traffic capacity of a road, and speeders contribute more money in the form of fines, both of which are of benefit to the general public. You're welcome.
I saw one of these in Rome last month. Perfect for getting around the narrow streets and alleys there, I assumed it was just a local adaptation. I would be interested to know how long they've been in use in Italy, or elsewhere.
There are a few points this article ignores.
1) The attack surface of C/C++ applications is huge, because pretty much every OS and major application is written in these languages. These are High Value Targets, so of course more vulnerabilities will be discovered in these pieces of software. Blaming C/C++ for that is like blaming water for drowning, and saying we'd be safer if we replaced all water with Gatorade, since nobody's ever drown in Gatorade.
2) Java vulnerabilities are a dime a dozen, and some of the most popular Java frameworks (like Spring) have had major issues as well.
3) All languages suffer from inherent vulnerabilities, especially input validation issues, including deserializing untrusted data directly to objects. It doesn't matter if it's C, Java, Python, or Brainfuck.
Additionally, the article seems to suffer from selection bias. The author writes: "From my own security research into the widely used open source image processing libraries ImageMagick and GraphicsMagic, in the last year I've found more than 400 memory unsafety vulnerabilities." That's great, and I applaud the work, but I can't help but wonder how many Python or Java libraries he examined in that time frame, or how many other types of vulnerabilities he was even looking for, or would recognize if he was looking at them.
TLDR: It's possible the article is correct, but far more evidence is required.
Everyone here seems to assume Chinese companies will play by our rules. They are already experts at dodging tariffs on oil, honey, steel, and cars â" what makes anyone think PC cases are going to finally stump them? All they do is ship them somewhere else first and voila â" those PC cases were made somewhere not subject to tarrifs. If the lie is discovered and the company is banned, then a new company pops up to take its place, buys all the inventory from the first company, and the charade continues.
Tarrifs are a joke.
They would, but as this article shows, the cyclists are too fast for the police to catch!
There are lots of reasons to expect that, namely that we use computers precisely *because* they are faster (and more accurate) than humans at processing information.
Fuck, man, how did you know about the wombats??? Are you working for them? They're INSIDE THE HOUSE now. I can hear them in the walls. Nobody believes me!!
Eh.. we've progressed a lot in 100 years. We have much better hygiene and sanitation practices than we did then, even without vaccines, which have also helped. My understanding is that a large portion of deaths to flu are in fact malnutrition and dehydration, which can be countered with IV fluids these days. Also better communication, though perhaps that's countered by the increase of misinformation to some extent.
While I'm sure epidemics and pandemics will continue to occur, the effects seem unlikely to be nearly as dire. At least in developed nations.
This. When the WWW was born, the only entrenched interests were networks like AOL and Compuserv, none of which had the political or economic clout to stifle competition. The web, at that point, was pretty useless anyway, and likely not viewed as competition, per se. These days, Facebook and Google are some of the largest companies in the world, and they exist precisely by monetizing the very user data that TBL proposes to lock down. So.. good luck?
Locking down a platform to respond only to authorized access is pretty easy. Microsoft is, ironically, a perfect example. Using cryptographic signing, its mass-update feature has never been compromised. The same robust authentication mechanisms are almost certainly in place for military hardware, making it statistically improbable that anyone can "hijack" the controls without physically taking them over. And if the enemy can take over your command center, then all bets are off anyway.
No need for exaggeration. He'd definitely be charged with a crime for unauthorized access and face jail time if he were in the US, and that's bad enough.
My wife and I eat at home most of the time. We're each competent cooks, but not great. Even so, we find the experience of eating at home to be as good or better than most restaurants, especially where we live now. After all, the food we like is always on the menu at home, the ingredients are never poor quality, and we know the food has been handled and prepared safely. Eating out and ordering in, at this point, is mostly a fallback plan if something comes up. Even then -- with takeout in particular -- we frequently end up disappointed with our food. Yes, there are "life hacks" to give us better odds of getting fresher or better-prepared food, but these are often just as much of a hassle for everyone involved as just cooking it ourselves, minus whatever sense of accomplishment and mutual appreciation we get from preparing our own food.
Honestly, I find most things in life to be like that.
Yeah, I have social anxiety, but I actually found that public speaking is far easier (only after doing it) because you already know what you're going to say, and you have more control over the interaction. Additionally, it's an opportunity for people to get to see a side of you that you that they wouldn't necessarily see in daily interactions.
Drugs in general, and opiods in particular, are not the problem. Drug abuse is a symptom of deeper issues like isolation, depression, and hopelessness. It's literally self-medicating. This is not an epidemic among healthy, well-adjusted adults with stable incomes and functional social support networks. There is some of that, to be sure, but not an epidemic. It's impoverished areas of the country among people who have given up and feel left behind that are hardest hit. And again, drug abuse is a symptom of that.
The overwhelming majority of people don't become addicted to their prescription painkillers. All available evidence supports this. Of course corporations are greedy, and they need regulation, but opiods are the best treatment currently available for pain management, and if you've ever needed them, you know they are the difference between agony and relief. Limiting their availability or doctors' ability and discretion in prescribing only harms people who genuinely need them. Addicts will find a way regardless. Should we have support systems in place for those who do? Absolutely. But demonizing the supply side misses the point entirely.
For some reason, most people understand that brewers and distillers -- despite their much heavier advertising and glamorizing of alcohol than, say, opioid manufacturers of fentanyl -- don't create alcoholics, and that prohibition just made the problem worse, but everyone wants to believe that it's completely different this time. Because opiods. Yes, it's a compelling and easy-to-believe story that "big pharma" is responsible, but it doesn't really make sense at the end of the day. If manufacturers and prescribers were responsible, we might expect to see people with the most access to healthcare and the most dollars to spend have the most problems as a percentage of the respective demographics, but the reverse is true.
Nobody wants to talk about the socioeconomic drivers of addiction, because it means a) admitting a problem with the social structure in our country, b) it's hard to generate the same emotion and outrage about underprivileged segments of society as a story about a big bad enemy does and c) it's a much more difficult problem to solve.
I came across this in looking for supporting data, and it seems to be a good description of the real problem: https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/a...
See also:
https://jamanetwork.com/journa...
https://www.drugabuse.gov/abou...
That'a with storage in an insulated container, with the ground acting as an insulator. With an iceberg being not just exposed to relatively warm seas, but actively dragged through them, I would expect very high losses. Try running an ice cube under cold water and see how well it holds up.
If they could somehow insulate the iceberg, it might be feasible, but I'm struggling to think of a material that could be manufactured and/or deployed on that scale and constrict as melting occurs.
I was just in Beirut last month â" this article is spot on. Worse is outside of Beirut, where the official electricity is only on for about 3 hours per day, and gray market providers serve the other 21 hours, at a much higher price. One girl told me her family spends $400 USD/mo just for a few lights and occasional A/C in one room, and while there are some very wealthy families in Lebanon, there are far more people barely scraping by.
The three biggest problems are: 1) The constitutional mandate for equal representation from each major religion, and the lack of cooperation therein to create new infrastructure projects.
2) Entrenched corrupt interests in government. Dynastic families control the three most powerful positions, and they have entrenched interests in preserving the status quo, profiting off the failures of government by providing for-profit services in the private sector.
3) Iran and Saudi both use Lebanon as a proxy, exercising and influencing soft and hard power in the region. They each pour money into the country, funding fundamentalist teaching and intolerance, and ratcheting up the tension. There *is* a sense of both comraderie and war weariness amongst most Lebanese, which has probably prevented another civil war, but until Lebanon stands on her own, she will continue to be vulnerable to this undue influence from neighbors in the region. Which is a shame, because culturally, historically, and geographically, itâ(TM)s one of the most remarkable and beautiful countries Iâ(TM)ve ever visited.
Egypt: Come for the antiquities, stay because you got black bagged at the airport for insulting Egypt.
That's hilarious. The scale of electronic collection operations increased dramatically under Obama. Or do you think the Utah Data Center was built for shits and giggles?
But regardless, this is not/should not be a partisan issue, and one of the most compelling reasons to limit offensive operations and strengthen vulnerability disclosure rules is that we all use the same shit. If the NSA or other TLA is actively exploiting vulnerabilities in common platforms such as OSes, routers, or cellular infrastructure, then they are, by definition, leaving America's identical technology vulnerable to the exact same attacks by our adversaries. By leaving ourselves vulnerable, we are trading access to our own secrets -- from classified government information, to corporate trade secrets, to political party internals -- for access to information that we should reasonably be able to collect through other means. It's shooting ourselves in the foot and hoping the ricochet hits our enemies.
Probably none. At least not as part of any effort to reduce emissions. The population of Egypt has grown by 30% (!) in the past 15 years despite negative net immigration, and increasing capacity is the primary focus.
Also, a proposal for a new 6GW coal fired plant was just won by a Chinese company this year. https://www.reuters.com/articl...
Egypt also has a ton of wind turbines along the coast of the Red Sea, which I was surprised to learn. These are positive steps.
That said, Egypt is also in the process of opening not one, but three gas power plants totaling 14.4GW of new capacity, dwarfing their solar initiative.
I have friends who sell and install private solar in Egypt, but with grid power directly owned and subsidized by the state, it's hard to compete. Which is a shame, because Egypt's air pollution and AQI is right up there with India and China, and has only gotten worse over the past decade. Unfortunately the government seems about as keen to actually address air pollution as it does to support human rights, which is to say, not very much at all.
Yes, so low risk. For values of low that include near certainty, I guess.