Supposedly we all may have this pretty cool feature built into our processors, that if we can figure out how to get access to it and control it, we can then do lots of cool shit with our computers without even having to turn them on fully.
We should set up some kind of public 'bounty' or such, to incentivize and reward the first people to get us a reliable open source toolkit, for taking control of this feature on our processors and putting it to use - and further bounties, for discoveries of externally accessible exploits within this feature (and a super-sized bounty for discovery of deliberate malicious exploits/backdoors built in).
There's not just a security-based incentive for giving huge financial rewards here, there's the incentive based on this being an actual really cool feature.
Well, why don't trains obsolete airplanes, for moving freight, then?
Moving stuff along the ground requires infrastructure on the ground - this is incredibly expensive, and is a political nightmare in many cases, to the point that it takes decades to get anything built - moving stuff through the air avoids this entire issue.
It's less efficient, sure - but it's the future. The cost of the energy expended, is still going to be less than the cost of trying to utilize infrastructure on the ground, which simply can't handle the capacity.
It's going to be a huge component of future economic expansion - and future expansion of human energy usage.
The technology behind ground-based infrastructure is going to need to undergo gigantic advances, in order to try and obsolete the above. It's definitely possible - and will happen in the future - but the technology and infrastructure (and political/economic nightmare of getting this stuff done) is lagging behind so much, that there's ample room to allow for expansion of automated air-based freight.
I got so caught up in the hyperbolic over-exaggerated excitement (best hyperbole ever, guys), that I forgot to take the time to jizz myself over the PCB photo's.
I've been watching Firefox hog 4/5th of my PC's resources, with chronic pauses ("the browser has stopped responding") so bad that I can't switch tabs and even animated gifs freeze. Other programs run like nothing's going on. It gets worse and worse as the day goes on. Every add-on disabled.
This is just Firefox under normal usage - nothing wrong here.
Even if that site is stuffed with woo, that's a fascinating idea - and even though it is almost certainly wrong (and any potential evidence for it likely not hard to discover) - the actual concept of and physical execution of it, is pretty cool.
The Year of Linux on the Desktop, will be when VM software is advanced enough to allow seamless use of ALL of the computers hardware (yes, I'm including full graphics card capabilities here...) - even to the most idiotic and non-technical end-user - for a Windows install in a VM, and with no performance loss whatsoever.
That's when you'll see 'The Year of Linux on the Desktop' - when it can seamlessly co-exist with Windows, with ZERO drawbacks, and ZERO hitches/catches.
Going back months, I've made several attempts to get Firefox devs to put together some stats they gathered through telemetry, to tell me how many Firefox users out of the total, are running plugins that will become unusable once FF 57 is released.
They will fob you off with every manageresque excuse possible, to avoid giving out this one single stat - in a way which displays clear contempt for the request, and for the general userbase of Firefox.
The public need to directly engage through official Firefox communication channels, and make themselves heard, in large numbers - and demand (extremely loudly) proper public engagement and transparency - and for an actual primary voice/influence, on the future direction of Firefox (not just a secondary/tertiary "we'll consider what you say (but ignore you completely)" voice).
Not that I'd advocate this but...now would probably be the absolute perfect time for people to find someone who can perform 'identity theft' on themselves, and max out their credit cards and other avenues of seeking loans, using the data released from this breach - and then stuff the banks with the cost of this.
Generally when people get together with someone after meeting online, they'll close off their online dating accounts - since people won't want their partner to still be using an online dating site, while with them - something Facebook should consider if they're going to try and go down this route...
Read the post again. It doesn't state that Bitcoin may have a backdoor - it states that the NSA-provided crypto algorithm which underpins Bitcoin, may have a backdoor.
The NSA designed the crypto algorithm at the heart of Bitcoin - SHA-2 - if it has a backdoor, then potentially the NSA can mine Bitcoin far more easily than the average Bitcoin miner.
We already know the NSA backdoored previous encryption algorithms - it would be incredibly useful for them to have a backdoor in the worlds largest cryptocurrency as well - providing an excellent covert source of funding for them (probably among many other things).
It would be deeply ironic if the cryptocurrency that many people laud for allowing an escape from the evils of fiat currency, ended up have a state-created backdoor at its very heart.
It's perfectly possible that the partially-NSA-contributed crypto algorithm which underpins Bitcoin, may indeed have a backdoor - which would allow the NSA to much more easily mine Bitcoin - so yes, put your tin foil hats on everybody.
Anyone who knows their economic history even a little bit - and who isn't just a rabid gold-bug - knows that the gold standard was a complete disaster, totally unsuited to national economies...
When people proclaim that something is 'the new gold standard', as if what they are praising is something laudable, they are nearly always unaware of the irony of their statement - which is pretty fitting, as for a long time entire nations (most of the world, even...) were unaware of just how damaging their glorified 'standard' was.
Praising something as a 'new gold standard' might have a dictionary meaning of something being of a high standard - but the meaning in terms of economic history, as something being disastrously misplaced as a high standard - is a far more fitting meaning for the term.
There are existing reactors in the hundred-kilowatt range and potential for development of megawatt range reactors, which are feasible for space - spent about 3 hours today just reading up on VASIMR and MPD engines, which - when combined with modern designs for nuclear reactors - will open up speedy access to the entire solar system, and far beyond.
Check this list of reactors - old, new and potential - and the energy outputs we've already achieved:
http://www.world-nuclear.org/i...
The future of space exploration, is through nuclear reactors and advanced ion engines. This could have been done decades ago - the technology is more than ripe enough, to actually go ahead and do this - now.
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One for people who aren't handy with tech (i.e. 'just works' through lifetime, no maintenance software or otherwise), durable to being dropped hard, which isn't too noticeably inferior to latest iPhone's? (I guess mainly memory wise, for the apps...)
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Supposedly we all may have this pretty cool feature built into our processors, that if we can figure out how to get access to it and control it, we can then do lots of cool shit with our computers without even having to turn them on fully. We should set up some kind of public 'bounty' or such, to incentivize and reward the first people to get us a reliable open source toolkit, for taking control of this feature on our processors and putting it to use - and further bounties, for discoveries of externally accessible exploits within this feature (and a super-sized bounty for discovery of deliberate malicious exploits/backdoors built in). There's not just a security-based incentive for giving huge financial rewards here, there's the incentive based on this being an actual really cool feature.
Well, why don't trains obsolete airplanes, for moving freight, then? Moving stuff along the ground requires infrastructure on the ground - this is incredibly expensive, and is a political nightmare in many cases, to the point that it takes decades to get anything built - moving stuff through the air avoids this entire issue. It's less efficient, sure - but it's the future. The cost of the energy expended, is still going to be less than the cost of trying to utilize infrastructure on the ground, which simply can't handle the capacity. It's going to be a huge component of future economic expansion - and future expansion of human energy usage. The technology behind ground-based infrastructure is going to need to undergo gigantic advances, in order to try and obsolete the above. It's definitely possible - and will happen in the future - but the technology and infrastructure (and political/economic nightmare of getting this stuff done) is lagging behind so much, that there's ample room to allow for expansion of automated air-based freight.
I got so caught up in the hyperbolic over-exaggerated excitement (best hyperbole ever, guys), that I forgot to take the time to jizz myself over the PCB photo's.
That bartender knew the time traveller was coming before he walked in - that bartender's a time traveller! Bloody hypocrite!
That has to be the most awesome professional title I've yet heard. I want to be that.
I've been watching Firefox hog 4/5th of my PC's resources, with chronic pauses ("the browser has stopped responding") so bad that I can't switch tabs and even animated gifs freeze. Other programs run like nothing's going on. It gets worse and worse as the day goes on. Every add-on disabled.
This is just Firefox under normal usage - nothing wrong here.
Accidentally modded this. Replying to remove moderation.
At least you know you can blame the Russians/reds/commies for that, too!
Even if that site is stuffed with woo, that's a fascinating idea - and even though it is almost certainly wrong (and any potential evidence for it likely not hard to discover) - the actual concept of and physical execution of it, is pretty cool.
Imagine how ape-shit US citizens would be, if California was engaging in an Independence vote right now?
The Year of Linux on the Desktop, will be when VM software is advanced enough to allow seamless use of ALL of the computers hardware (yes, I'm including full graphics card capabilities here...) - even to the most idiotic and non-technical end-user - for a Windows install in a VM, and with no performance loss whatsoever. That's when you'll see 'The Year of Linux on the Desktop' - when it can seamlessly co-exist with Windows, with ZERO drawbacks, and ZERO hitches/catches.
That joke flew over him at light-speed I think.
I mean, if you have to be travelling at relativistic speeds, what is the point in that?
Going back months, I've made several attempts to get Firefox devs to put together some stats they gathered through telemetry, to tell me how many Firefox users out of the total, are running plugins that will become unusable once FF 57 is released. They will fob you off with every manageresque excuse possible, to avoid giving out this one single stat - in a way which displays clear contempt for the request, and for the general userbase of Firefox. The public need to directly engage through official Firefox communication channels, and make themselves heard, in large numbers - and demand (extremely loudly) proper public engagement and transparency - and for an actual primary voice/influence, on the future direction of Firefox (not just a secondary/tertiary "we'll consider what you say (but ignore you completely)" voice).
Not that I'd advocate this but...now would probably be the absolute perfect time for people to find someone who can perform 'identity theft' on themselves, and max out their credit cards and other avenues of seeking loans, using the data released from this breach - and then stuff the banks with the cost of this.
Generally when people get together with someone after meeting online, they'll close off their online dating accounts - since people won't want their partner to still be using an online dating site, while with them - something Facebook should consider if they're going to try and go down this route...
Read the post again. It doesn't state that Bitcoin may have a backdoor - it states that the NSA-provided crypto algorithm which underpins Bitcoin, may have a backdoor.
The NSA designed the crypto algorithm at the heart of Bitcoin - SHA-2 - if it has a backdoor, then potentially the NSA can mine Bitcoin far more easily than the average Bitcoin miner. We already know the NSA backdoored previous encryption algorithms - it would be incredibly useful for them to have a backdoor in the worlds largest cryptocurrency as well - providing an excellent covert source of funding for them (probably among many other things). It would be deeply ironic if the cryptocurrency that many people laud for allowing an escape from the evils of fiat currency, ended up have a state-created backdoor at its very heart.
It's perfectly possible that the partially-NSA-contributed crypto algorithm which underpins Bitcoin, may indeed have a backdoor - which would allow the NSA to much more easily mine Bitcoin - so yes, put your tin foil hats on everybody.
Anyone who knows their economic history even a little bit - and who isn't just a rabid gold-bug - knows that the gold standard was a complete disaster, totally unsuited to national economies... When people proclaim that something is 'the new gold standard', as if what they are praising is something laudable, they are nearly always unaware of the irony of their statement - which is pretty fitting, as for a long time entire nations (most of the world, even...) were unaware of just how damaging their glorified 'standard' was. Praising something as a 'new gold standard' might have a dictionary meaning of something being of a high standard - but the meaning in terms of economic history, as something being disastrously misplaced as a high standard - is a far more fitting meaning for the term.
There are existing reactors in the hundred-kilowatt range and potential for development of megawatt range reactors, which are feasible for space - spent about 3 hours today just reading up on VASIMR and MPD engines, which - when combined with modern designs for nuclear reactors - will open up speedy access to the entire solar system, and far beyond. Check this list of reactors - old, new and potential - and the energy outputs we've already achieved: http://www.world-nuclear.org/i... The future of space exploration, is through nuclear reactors and advanced ion engines. This could have been done decades ago - the technology is more than ripe enough, to actually go ahead and do this - now.
Ya that's just what I thought - off to stick my balls in a fusor!
Strip out the core and use it to clear your toilet/drains.
Reply from Slashdot editor: "Why thank you for pointing out this error, Mr. superwiz from IP address 81.45.171.2; email wiz@super.edu; address 31 Bellend Avenue, WY; with 3 dogs and a weasel (he also has a stupid stubby looking nose by the way...hah!)"
One for people who aren't handy with tech (i.e. 'just works' through lifetime, no maintenance software or otherwise), durable to being dropped hard, which isn't too noticeably inferior to latest iPhone's? (I guess mainly memory wise, for the apps...)