The networking components of Windows 10 are security flaws; auto-update, remote administration enabled by default, Samba, web-browsers auto-connecting to Facebook, Google, Amazon Web Services, Yahoo etc...
How come coding errors always reduce security by accident, rather than increase security. Configuration scripts will allow password-free logins by mistake.
It's been happening for ages. Russians would get artists to "airbrush" people out of photographs. People fake UFO videos using basic computer animation software. Anyone can use GIMP and composite pictures together using "intelligent scissors", edge blurring and the airbrush.
It seems to be a trend. I installed Chrome on a Linux partition and almost immediately, Yahoo tried to install their plugin into that browser.
Not forgetting Canonical's spyware which sent your local search queries for command options to their servers. It's anonymized they claim - well it isn't if your ISP decides to do a man-in-the-middle attack and deep packet inspection with your data.
And if the Internet connection gives them a means of earning money, then they can feed themselves. With an internet connection and a computer, I could do transcription work, receive requests to grow and deliver food, make textiles/handcrafts, remote education by video, learn technology. If not me, then at least my children.
Many forums ask users not to "cut and paste" more than a few lines from a story and to provide a link to the original site. Otherwise that runs into copyright issues if users just summarize the whole article. That's the problem. If the original news site doesn't get clicks they don't get advertisers.
Two decades ago, one of my employers had a USENET feed from our local university via a 64K ISDN line and the X.25 cloud. The time delay in receiving notifications about talks by guest speakers, meant that it was about a week after the talk that we actually received the notification. They in turn got their feed through JANET. The whole system depended entirely on every university IT department being careful enough not to max out their Internet server disk space, otherwise the feed went down. That was the original "wet piece of string".
That job role is best described as systems architect. I heard about companies who fired these "pieces of dead wood". They had to be rehired as consultants within months. Fortunately for them, they could now charge what rate they wanted.
They needed the computational power in order to do packet routing with 100Mbit networks. At the time, that required custom ASIC's rather than CPU's. Once the power is there to inspect MAC addresses, IP addresses, ports and packet sizes, other data like protocol versions becomes trivial to analyze.
At the time (back in the 1980's), office LAN's were still based on the yellow and blue Ethernet cables along with vampire taps. The flash ROM's on the network boards (about the size of GPU's back then), would fail once in a while. Either one board would start transmitting non-stop or not even respond. Other times, two cards would end up with the same MAC address. This was really flaky stuff. There weren't any firewalls across the networks, so when one PC blew up, the whole building went down. That would lead to a tsunami of phone calls of people asking whether the helpdesk knew the network was down.
A dilbert (D) is the international unit of measure for bureaucracy. One dilbert is equal to 1 person hour of office work. In plain English, 1 dilbert of bureaucracy is the time required to occupy a person with pointless tasks that serve no purpose for 1 hour
As the dilbert is an international unit of measurement, standard prefixes can be applied; 1 kilodilbert is 1000 hours of office work, 1 megadilbert is 1 million hours of office work. 1 millidilbert is 3.6 seconds of office work.
The ISP's were considered to be "common carriers" like telephone companies. Telecom companies could charge different prices for residential/business telephone lines. They could charge for value added features like caller ID, voicemail, three-way dialing, as well as international, national, local and emergency calls, but they could not bill you according to what you were talking about or who you were talking to for a particular distance.
ISP's can charge you for particular data rates (although with ADSL/DSL that varies according to how far you are from the telephone exchange. With fibre-optic cable networks, the signals travel at a fixed bit rate, but you get a maximum data transfer rate based on your pricing option).
The fear is that they'll start trying to charge you value-added features such as bundles of websites (video, social, messaging, photographs) or even levels of video compression.
I saw that myself. One previously nationalized company started to take advantage of IT to implement the "paperless office" in the 1980's. The first thing they started to do was to reduce the management hierarchy. It was 1:3 ratio of manager/subordinates. All the managers really did was get the completed tasks from the supervising engineer, put those in a spreadsheet, print them out and hand them out to the senior manager, who then signed them off and handed them up to the director. Once the new IT system (equivalent to Jira now) was installed, all that paperwork and jobs disappeared.
I've seen life at the "hell-desk". Employees calling up wanting to get someone to replace the paper in the laser-printer. Universities have to put up signs stating "please do not refill the laser printer toner cartridges with coffee". Having the technicians do marathon runs across alternating floors of the building to make everyone see that "something was been done".
That's the best solution. One apartment complex where I stayed had this system. There were a communal set of lock boxes. If postal service had to deliver a parcel, they put in the lock box and the key in your locked mailbox. Then when you used the communal lockbox, the key could be inserted but only removed by the mailperson.
Unfortunately, in the UK, this won't work. One home owner installed his own close-to-lock box. Couriers from various companies then started using it without his permission as a "safe place" for other people to collect their parcel deliveries. He had to remove the lock box due to the hassle of strangers coming round and hammering on his door wanting their items back.
Leave-with-a-neighbor doesn't work either. I had my items delivered to an elderly lady who then guessed who the items were for and gave them to another neighbor who then went on holiday for two weeks.
He probably means the design of chips rather than the actual fabrication. Anything vision related is more DSP than CPU or GPU. In the past, chips like the TMS320x0 series or i860's were used, but nothing beats a custom ASIC with all the unused instructions stripped out and new custom instructions added.
There used to be wiring diagrams of the different regions of the brain for the flow of visual data. Two main paths are what things are seen, and where they are located/moving. The brain does more of a "best match" at recognizing each object and calculating the outlines of each object in order to determine occlusion and orientation. Internally, this is recreated as more of a collage of scaled objects plus a background. That way we can see an object and know all the possible interactions that can be done; turning keys in locks, pressing buttons, touchscreens.
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I bought devices with replaceable batteries - problem is, none of the shops sell the replaceable batteries, not even second hand stores or Ebay.
We need to help them find an alternative way to use those organizational skills legally.
Just look at all these stories:
https://www.portsmouth.co.uk/n...
https://news.vice.com/en_ca/ar...
https://dondivamag.com/ndicted...
If these people could run a legal courier or import/export business, they would be wealthy.
The networking components of Windows 10 are security flaws; auto-update, remote administration enabled by default, Samba, web-browsers auto-connecting to Facebook, Google, Amazon Web Services, Yahoo etc...
How come coding errors always reduce security by accident, rather than increase security. Configuration scripts will allow password-free logins by mistake.
It's been happening for ages. Russians would get artists to "airbrush" people out of photographs. People fake UFO videos using basic computer animation software. Anyone can use GIMP and composite pictures together using "intelligent scissors", edge blurring and the airbrush.
Somehow it makes me think of the porn industry moving from Los Angeles to Las Vegas.
Then having a hot shower would be even more dangerous. Drinking hot cups of coffee and tea is known to raise the risk of esophageal cancer.
It seems to be a trend. I installed Chrome on a Linux partition and almost immediately, Yahoo tried to install their plugin into that browser.
Not forgetting Canonical's spyware which sent your local search queries for command options to their servers. It's anonymized they claim - well it isn't if your ISP decides to do a man-in-the-middle attack and deep packet inspection with your data.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/201...
And if the Internet connection gives them a means of earning money, then they can feed themselves. With an internet connection and a computer, I could do transcription work, receive requests to grow and deliver food, make textiles/handcrafts, remote education by video, learn technology. If not me, then at least my children.
Many forums ask users not to "cut and paste" more than a few lines from a story and to provide a link to the original site. Otherwise that runs into copyright issues if users just summarize the whole article. That's the problem. If the original news site doesn't get clicks they don't get advertisers.
They may not want it for their family, but stitch up and fix the torn side, through over a blanket, and it's good enough for dogs.
Never underestimate the bandwidth of a motorcyclist with a backpack stuffed full of backup tapes.
Two decades ago, one of my employers had a USENET feed from our local university via a 64K ISDN line and the X.25 cloud. The time delay in receiving notifications about talks by guest speakers, meant that it was about a week after the talk that we actually received the notification. They in turn got their feed through JANET. The whole system depended entirely on every university IT department being careful enough not to max out their Internet server disk space, otherwise the feed went down. That was the original "wet piece of string".
That job role is best described as systems architect. I heard about companies who fired these "pieces of dead wood". They had to be rehired as consultants within months. Fortunately for them, they could now charge what rate they wanted.
They needed the computational power in order to do packet routing with 100Mbit networks. At the time, that required custom ASIC's rather than CPU's. Once the power is there to inspect MAC addresses, IP addresses, ports and packet sizes, other data like protocol versions becomes trivial to analyze.
So ideally, you want a Javascript to C++ compiler and you'll have the best of both worlds.
At the time (back in the 1980's), office LAN's were still based on the yellow and blue Ethernet cables along with vampire taps. The flash ROM's on the network boards (about the size of GPU's back then), would fail once in a while. Either one board would start transmitting non-stop or not even respond. Other times, two cards would end up with the same MAC address. This was really flaky stuff. There weren't any firewalls across the networks, so when one PC blew up, the whole building went down. That would lead to a tsunami of phone calls of people asking whether the helpdesk knew the network was down.
A dilbert (D) is the international unit of measure for bureaucracy. One dilbert is equal to 1 person hour of office work. In plain English, 1 dilbert of bureaucracy is the time required to occupy a person with pointless tasks that serve no purpose for 1 hour
As the dilbert is an international unit of measurement, standard prefixes can be applied; 1 kilodilbert is 1000 hours of office work, 1 megadilbert is 1 million hours of office work. 1 millidilbert is 3.6 seconds of office work.
The ISP's were considered to be "common carriers" like telephone companies. Telecom companies could charge different prices for residential/business telephone lines. They could charge for value added features like caller ID, voicemail, three-way dialing, as well as international, national, local and emergency calls, but they could not bill you according to what you were talking about or who you were talking to for a particular distance.
ISP's can charge you for particular data rates (although with ADSL/DSL that varies according to how far you are from the telephone exchange. With fibre-optic cable networks, the signals travel at a fixed bit rate, but you get a maximum data transfer rate based on your pricing option).
The fear is that they'll start trying to charge you value-added features such as bundles of websites (video, social, messaging, photographs) or even levels of video compression.
I saw that myself. One previously nationalized company started to take advantage of IT to implement the "paperless office" in the 1980's. The first thing they started to do was to reduce the management hierarchy. It was 1:3 ratio of manager/subordinates. All the managers really did was get the completed tasks from the supervising engineer, put those in a spreadsheet, print them out and hand them out to the senior manager, who then signed them off and handed them up to the director. Once the new IT system (equivalent to Jira now) was installed, all that paperwork and jobs disappeared.
I've seen life at the "hell-desk". Employees calling up wanting to get someone to replace the paper in the laser-printer. Universities have to put up signs stating "please do not refill the laser printer toner cartridges with coffee". Having the technicians do marathon runs across alternating floors of the building to make everyone see that "something was been done".
That's the best solution. One apartment complex where I stayed had this system. There were a communal set of lock boxes. If postal service had to deliver a parcel, they put in the lock box and the key in your locked mailbox. Then when you used the communal lockbox, the key could be inserted but only removed by the mailperson.
Unfortunately, in the UK, this won't work. One home owner installed his own close-to-lock box. Couriers from various companies then started using it without his permission as a "safe place" for other people to collect their parcel deliveries. He had to remove the lock box due to the hassle of strangers coming round and hammering on his door wanting their items back.
Leave-with-a-neighbor doesn't work either. I had my items delivered to an elderly lady who then guessed who the items were for and gave them to another neighbor who then went on holiday for two weeks.
He probably means the design of chips rather than the actual fabrication. Anything vision related is more DSP than CPU or GPU. In the past, chips like the TMS320x0 series or i860's were used, but nothing beats a custom ASIC with all the unused instructions stripped out and new custom instructions added.
There used to be wiring diagrams of the different regions of the brain for the flow of visual data. Two main paths are what things are seen, and where they are located/moving. The brain does more of a "best match" at recognizing each object and calculating the outlines of each object in order to determine occlusion and orientation. Internally, this is recreated as more of a collage of scaled objects plus a background. That way we can see an object and know all the possible interactions that can be done; turning keys in locks, pressing buttons, touchscreens.