After all, if you can't remember being tortured, and there's no permanent physical damage, where's the harm?
Also, with this or roofie-type drugs, I wouldn't be surprised if some people were willing to pay to be tortured, as long as they couldn't remember it.
Lastly, quit referencing Eternal Sunshine. Yeah, it was okay. The original PKD story, We Can Remember it For You Wholesale, was pretty good too. Of course, they never gave credit, just like Idiocracy never credited Kornbluth's Marching Morons, despite being a verbatim copy. Pretty sure Harlan Ellison had a similar story, but I... can't remember right now.
I would drive straight down to the dealership-- no, make that *into* the dealership...
OTOH, it fits with the target market quite well. The whole point of the Lexus experience, based on their advertising and on the way they're driven, is to insulate you from the road. You don't have to pay attention at all! You can't hear the road, you don't need to be skilled enough to park, just carry on with your make-up and your phone calls. Are they even available with turn signals?
You could easily joe-job specific or random people with this. You could make a million torrent users look like child molesters.
They're claiming they'll man-in-the-middle p2p users to disable encryption. Major problems there.
They're using a hash for the images/movies. Alter the image tags, or change a pixel, you've beat it. The more they ignore diffs, the more false positives they'll get.
There's my five seconds of thought on the efficacy/ethics of this. If you manage to solve all those problems, come back and I'll give it another five seconds. See you in ten years.
But hey, once it's in place they can use it for the *AA! Which is really what this is about, more free handouts to obsolete business models.
A quality HPC vendor will give you the opportunity to benchmark your application before you buy a system or cluster. Most will have standard codes installed, but you should also be able to arrange for a login to build and run your own code on their test clusters. This is the only way to guarantee you're getting the best bang per buck, because the bottleneck in your particular applications may be memory, IO, interconnect, CPU, chipset, libraries, OS... An HPC cluster can be a big purchase, and it performance and reliability can make or break careers. Don't trust generalized benchmarks unless you know that they accurately reflect your workload on the hardware you'll be purchasing.
Obviously people-- spammers, governments, trolls, corporations, and other fuckwads-- will game the system. I think the best you can do is assign trust ratings to various sources. Sources will need to have secure IDs, something that costs something to generate-- even if it's only CPU time. Think CACert.
Your trust settings work something like: for this subject, I consider snopes.com, factcheck.org, my friend Bill, the congressional budget office, this scientific organization-- to these degrees. Which can be negative. I'm willing to let that trust be transitive to this degree-- someone Bill trusts, I am 30% biased towards. It's gonna be tough to have authority and anonymity at the same time, but I believe it is doable, and worth trying.
This would all tie in very, very well with semantic markup technologies like OWL-- preferably implemented in a p2p fashion. i.e., let visitors to a site describe what the content is about (and which parts of it are connected), and among those tags are the trust votes of the visitors.
It's... a somewhat large project. Google is in a perfect position to begin parts of it, and to benefit hugely from it.
The "feint" is a feint; it draws your attention from the next sentence: However, the first several chapters do a significant job of over viewing basic concepts of Bash navigation and combing simple commands.
Over viewing? Is that viewing too much? Combing simple commands? I could go on, but I can't go on.
Could somebody with an iphone give this a shot? Try running LinuxVNC, which provides VNC access to a console session (Ubuntu/Debian has a package for this). VNC from iPhone to linux box... how does it work? Are control sequences (such as those for screen), usable? Look okay? Semi usable keyboard? Does the VNC client have SSH tunnelling?
Probably 80% of what I'd really want tethering for is SSH access. I'd much rather use a real keyboard and big screen for that, but if Apple insists on forcing us to use far more bandwidth to do things the silly way...
That said, I'd pretty much decided to buy two iPhones today (one for me, one for gf). But this bitch move on Apple's part (AT&T is known to be pure evil, so you can't blame them, because they have no choice) leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Guess I'll hold out for Android after all.
Others have mentioned sudo, and indeed it can be very useful, but it's not as secure as many think. For example, if you give some access to vim or other editors, or less/more, they can escape to a root shell. So you have to be very careful with what you allow. I think of sudo more as an tool for accountability and audit trail for non-malicious users. It can keep honest people from making mistakes, and sometimes help you figure out what happened when mistakes were made.
Sudo in combination with a script that would modify your network config might work in your case. You'd also want to allow shutdown and reboot.
I expect that soon they'll declare that US territory extends infinitely into space in an America-shaped cone originating at the center of the Earth. That's essentially how the Arctic circle is being divvied up. Egghead minutia such as the rotation of the Earth will not deter the people writing the laws.
Okay, if I'd read that at first, I'd have completely agreed-- with the caveat that you probably need to add 30% to any telco bill.
And, to be honest, I could tell you probably knew better. I just see so many first approximations taken literally, these days, that I'm very leery of them. For example... something I've heard from from many sources, which could be confused for what you said... I've been told many times that we need conserve nothing, because today's garbage is tomorrow's energy. That's right, to hell with thermodynamics. It's true-- in a naive, first-glance sense, just like what you said. But I think it's destructive overall.
So you're saying that if you can afford $n, you can afford (1.1 * $n), no matter what n is; this means that you can afford infinity dollars.
The other possibility is that, you know, some people have budgets; a dollar added to one item is a dollar they have to take from somewhere else, and therefore it is possible for something to be more expensive than it's worth.
Sorry to come off all persnickety. It's just that if I could get my gf to pay a little more attention to numbers like this, I swear I'd have infinity dollars by now...
Perhaps, Comcast, you have heard from my friend, Mr. McBribe?
These days, any time the US govt. feints in the direction of possibly enforcing a law against a large corporation (energy, oil, telecom, software, any polluter)... it can safely be considered an RFB. Request for Bribe.
If Comcast's unethical behaviour is altered for the better as a result of this, or they are at least seriously penalized, I will eat these words, and a friggin' Comcast van to boot.
Yes. And nothing on the Treo (312 MHz, 32M RAM) is nearly as fast as anything on an Amiga (7.14 MHz, ~1M). If you dial a freaking phone number too quickly, it freaks out and reboots. The single most fundamental app possible on a phone is more than Palm can handle. Usually, any two things happening within a second-- like the phone ringing when you were pressing a button, or you answer too quickly-- reboot. Screw Palm. It's at least five years since it was obvious their only hope was to get onboard with Linux. Too late, bye bye.
Almost every Republican supports this crap, and enough Dems do that their majority is useless. For example, in the House, the R's voted for this bill 188-1. The Dems 100-128. Yet you will notice almost all the comments from people against this bill blame the Dems (because, hey, they have the majority!). And the people who support the bill hate the Dems anyway. So they lose across the board politically... it helps their enemies and it's the wrong thing to do... so why are they doing it? Bribes from telcos? Blackmail from warrantless wiretaps (hey, why do you think so many GOP Congressmen are closeted homosexuals?).
Anyway, there is a non-partisan way to hit back at these bedwetters. A contribution here http://www.actblue.com/page/fisa will support campaigns against anybody who voted to approve this bill.
...Oh, you want something that actually exists? Well, I shall follow the responses with great interest.
Seriously, I'd have caved in and bought an iPhone by now were it not for my need for SSH with a decent keyboard. Oh, and that I want a less restricted development environment. Some of the Android phones should fit the bill, if you can hold out a few months.
I wonder... supposedly China is behind many cyber attacks on the US. It seems that many of these chips could have backdoors to be triggered by botnets. It's not like that code is audited...
PHLASH.EXE is the name of Phoenix's BIOS upgrade tool.
I am not making this up: less than a week ago, I woke up thinking: what to firmware, BIOS, TPM, and IPMI have in common? They'd all be great vectors for bricking a machine.
You're right, but look at Russia? Look at the US. Look at the UK. It appears that a majority of people would rather be slaves-- no privacy, no decisions, as long as they are told they're at less risk, they're still eating, and they have their entertainment.
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After all, if you can't remember being tortured, and there's no permanent physical damage, where's the harm?
Also, with this or roofie-type drugs, I wouldn't be surprised if some people were willing to pay to be tortured, as long as they couldn't remember it.
Lastly, quit referencing Eternal Sunshine. Yeah, it was okay. The original PKD story, We Can Remember it For You Wholesale, was pretty good too. Of course, they never gave credit, just like Idiocracy never credited Kornbluth's Marching Morons, despite being a verbatim copy. Pretty sure Harlan Ellison had a similar story, but I... can't remember right now.
Oh look, the coffee just hit.
OTOH, it fits with the target market quite well. The whole point of the Lexus experience, based on their advertising and on the way they're driven, is to insulate you from the road. You don't have to pay attention at all! You can't hear the road, you don't need to be skilled enough to park, just carry on with your make-up and your phone calls. Are they even available with turn signals?
They're claiming they'll man-in-the-middle p2p users to disable encryption. Major problems there.
They're using a hash for the images/movies. Alter the image tags, or change a pixel, you've beat it. The more they ignore diffs, the more false positives they'll get.
There's my five seconds of thought on the efficacy/ethics of this. If you manage to solve all those problems, come back and I'll give it another five seconds. See you in ten years.
But hey, once it's in place they can use it for the *AA! Which is really what this is about, more free handouts to obsolete business models.
They're even running out of RFC 1918 addresses.
A quality HPC vendor will give you the opportunity to benchmark your application before you buy a system or cluster. Most will have standard codes installed, but you should also be able to arrange for a login to build and run your own code on their test clusters. This is the only way to guarantee you're getting the best bang per buck, because the bottleneck in your particular applications may be memory, IO, interconnect, CPU, chipset, libraries, OS... An HPC cluster can be a big purchase, and it performance and reliability can make or break careers. Don't trust generalized benchmarks unless you know that they accurately reflect your workload on the hardware you'll be purchasing.
That's the combination to my luggage!
Obviously people-- spammers, governments, trolls, corporations, and other fuckwads-- will game the system. I think the best you can do is assign trust ratings to various sources. Sources will need to have secure IDs, something that costs something to generate-- even if it's only CPU time. Think CACert.
Your trust settings work something like: for this subject, I consider snopes.com, factcheck.org, my friend Bill, the congressional budget office, this scientific organization-- to these degrees. Which can be negative. I'm willing to let that trust be transitive to this degree-- someone Bill trusts, I am 30% biased towards. It's gonna be tough to have authority and anonymity at the same time, but I believe it is doable, and worth trying.
This would all tie in very, very well with semantic markup technologies like OWL-- preferably implemented in a p2p fashion. i.e., let visitors to a site describe what the content is about (and which parts of it are connected), and among those tags are the trust votes of the visitors.
It's... a somewhat large project. Google is in a perfect position to begin parts of it, and to benefit hugely from it.
* GPS (It knows where you are)
* No way to remove battery (You can't turn it off)
* No multitasking/process monitoring without jailbreaking (You can't see what it's doing)
* No video capabilities (You can't record the police-- which is one of the few dangers to the state, these days.)
Interesting that a device so compelling in so many ways is crippled in such specific ways.
Oh, and of course... it's AT&T.
The "feint" is a feint; it draws your attention from the next sentence: However, the first several chapters do a significant job of over viewing basic concepts of Bash navigation and combing simple commands.
Over viewing? Is that viewing too much? Combing simple commands? I could go on, but I can't go on.
Probably 80% of what I'd really want tethering for is SSH access. I'd much rather use a real keyboard and big screen for that, but if Apple insists on forcing us to use far more bandwidth to do things the silly way...
That said, I'd pretty much decided to buy two iPhones today (one for me, one for gf). But this bitch move on Apple's part (AT&T is known to be pure evil, so you can't blame them, because they have no choice) leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Guess I'll hold out for Android after all.
Sudo in combination with a script that would modify your network config might work in your case. You'd also want to allow shutdown and reboot.
I expect that soon they'll declare that US territory extends infinitely into space in an America-shaped cone originating at the center of the Earth. That's essentially how the Arctic circle is being divvied up. Egghead minutia such as the rotation of the Earth will not deter the people writing the laws.
Okay, if I'd read that at first, I'd have completely agreed-- with the caveat that you probably need to add 30% to any telco bill.
And, to be honest, I could tell you probably knew better. I just see so many first approximations taken literally, these days, that I'm very leery of them. For example... something I've heard from from many sources, which could be confused for what you said... I've been told many times that we need conserve nothing, because today's garbage is tomorrow's energy. That's right, to hell with thermodynamics. It's true-- in a naive, first-glance sense, just like what you said. But I think it's destructive overall.
Anyway. Best regards...
So you're saying that if you can afford $n, you can afford (1.1 * $n), no matter what n is; this means that you can afford infinity dollars.
The other possibility is that, you know, some people have budgets; a dollar added to one item is a dollar they have to take from somewhere else, and therefore it is possible for something to be more expensive than it's worth.
Sorry to come off all persnickety. It's just that if I could get my gf to pay a little more attention to numbers like this, I swear I'd have infinity dollars by now...
(in Piraha)
These days, any time the US govt. feints in the direction of possibly enforcing a law against a large corporation (energy, oil, telecom, software, any polluter)... it can safely be considered an RFB. Request for Bribe.
If Comcast's unethical behaviour is altered for the better as a result of this, or they are at least seriously penalized, I will eat these words, and a friggin' Comcast van to boot.
I'm just glad this thing isn't called gnitter.
Yes. And nothing on the Treo (312 MHz, 32M RAM) is nearly as fast as anything on an Amiga (7.14 MHz, ~1M). If you dial a freaking phone number too quickly, it freaks out and reboots. The single most fundamental app possible on a phone is more than Palm can handle. Usually, any two things happening within a second-- like the phone ringing when you were pressing a button, or you answer too quickly-- reboot. Screw Palm. It's at least five years since it was obvious their only hope was to get onboard with Linux. Too late, bye bye.
Anyway, there is a non-partisan way to hit back at these bedwetters. A contribution here http://www.actblue.com/page/fisa will support campaigns against anybody who voted to approve this bill.
It may no be science, but it's definitely geeky.
Seriously, I'd have caved in and bought an iPhone by now were it not for my need for SSH with a decent keyboard. Oh, and that I want a less restricted development environment. Some of the Android phones should fit the bill, if you can hold out a few months.
It also has QoS features, and a nice AJAX interface.
I wonder... supposedly China is behind many cyber attacks on the US. It seems that many of these chips could have backdoors to be triggered by botnets. It's not like that code is audited...
I am not making this up: less than a week ago, I woke up thinking: what to firmware, BIOS, TPM, and IPMI have in common? They'd all be great vectors for bricking a machine.
You're right, but look at Russia? Look at the US. Look at the UK. It appears that a majority of people would rather be slaves-- no privacy, no decisions, as long as they are told they're at less risk, they're still eating, and they have their entertainment.