the few of these sorts of systems I've dabbled (cautiously) with usually gave you a fixed AP every day, on a use-it-or-lose-it basis. And that again gets you back to the "punishes you for not playing". Not meaning play as much as you can all the time, but requiring you to make sure to play daily. I stopped one of these cold-turkey when I realized it was more of an obligation to play than an enjoyable experience. ("oh ya, that's right, I forgot to play this morning, I better get in there and play this evening before bed, or I will lose those bonuses for my continuous streaks of playing, and it'll take a week of never missing a day to get my streak bonuses going again")
I remember wasting months of my time there until one day I realized "this is a giant waste of my time!", wished them good luck, and left.
I don't do MMORPGs for exactly this reason. Part of it is it's a waste of time, the other part of it is I don't have the necessary self-discipline to "limit myself" in a game venue that essentially punishes you for not playing.
Programming a solution to a solved problem is overkill.
In this case I believe it's very appropriate. They have a static arrangement, (vendor wants in, someone turns access on, manually) and when they're done, someone's supposed to shut it off. This process has demonstrated a history of being unreliable. So the solution comes down to one of three things. (1) replace or retrain whoever is in charge of the process in the hopes of improving reliability, (2) automate the process that is not being done reliably, or (3) redesign the process so it's more reliable by default.
(1) is often either futile or short-term. Any number of things can go wrong here, immediately, soon, or long down the road. People get replaced, are out sick for a few days, forget, make mistakes, whatever. (3) is usually unnecessarily expensive, or at least difficult and time-consuming.
It's been my experience that (2) is almost always the best solution. I'm a big fan of automation, and "pick the right tool for the job". (where "tool" refers to either evolved monkeys or computer programming) Computers are almost always more reliable than people, never rely on a person to do a job that a computer can do more reliably. Given the OP's description of the problem, a few minutes of bash or crontab to automate the disabling of the remote access is almost certainly the best answer. I do this sort of thing where I work all the time. I get tired of fixing the same problems over and over that people just can't seem to do reliably. I automate it, and the problem disappears, forever. The initial investment of time always pays for itself. Sometimes in a few days, sometimes in a few weeks. Sometimes once or twice over, sometimes a thousandfold.
Sidenote: whenever something around here breaks, I ask myself a lot of questions. Is there a fair chance it will happen again? Could full automation or manually-initiated scripting have prevented it? Should the system have provided better logging before or during the event? Could the system have predicted the failure ahead of time and given us early warning? Could the system have identified and alerted us of the problem after it occurred, before we (or the client...) discovered it ourselves? Could the system have initiated automated damage control when the failure occurred? This is all a part of automation.
the owners, boards, and upper management are mostly a bunch of old, stuffy, cigar-chomping, technology and change-fearing, pointy-haired bosses, just itching to "pull a blackberry" with their company.
Does this surprise anyone? Good luck clearing them out. They're kings in their kingdom.
The most common way to "reorganize" them we see today is when upper management drives the company into the ground like a telephone pole. Problem tends to be though that these companies have a large stash of money in the bank, and are able to flop after flop after flop before they finally run the coffers dry. They've gotten very good over the years at "controlling their shareholders", ie shoveling the BS with a silver tongue and sincere promises, that the shareholders don't revolt until they're already seeing the headlight in the tunnen. But by then, the company has lost so much momentum and market share that they're often in an unrecoverable nose-dive.
Sorta sad to watch, but I think "change is good". When the system has become unfixable, the best thing to happen is for it to break completely and be re-invented from the ground up, based on modern considerations. (nuke 'n pave) "corporate revolutions" I suppose you could call it. Old companies that won't adapt fade away, while new companies come up and take their place. Reminds me of a forrest. Quit trying to save the old trees, let them die and make room for the new saplings to take their place down the road.
First off, the cameras are always hooded, to reduce sun glare and reduce the amount of rainwater that gets on them. Rain contains a surprising amount of dirt the drops pick up as they fall through the atmosphere, and you get the same effect on a camera lens as you do on your house windows.
Now hit that with a paintball and the effect is quite a lot worse. A single shot to any part of the lens or hood area is likely to completely coat the entire lens with a thick enough layer of (water-soluable) paint to make 100% of the photos taken with the camera unusable. (can't get a plate)
The rain hood will protect against rain washing the paint away. Although after a few days, the paint will have dried up enough that it will require a little scrubbing action to remove it - ordinary rain won't do the job at that point.
This method has many advantages and few disadvantages compared to other options. Firstly, it's unlikely to cause physical damage to the camera, which will be useful if you get caught. If you and four other citizens start balling the cameras, and you get caught, you will likely be judged responsible for 100% of the cameras. If you're taking them out with.22's instead of paintballs, that could easily be billed at a grand or more per camera. If it's just paint, they'll probably get you for $70'ish each to send out a guy with cotton balls and a long pole. (or a cherry picker)
Ammo is a lot cheaper. Shots can be a lot quieter. Easier to visually identify already "serviced" cameras. And odds are you'd be charged with vandalism rather than destruction of public property, since nothing permanent was done.
"So we wanted to take content from Google and strip off the revenue-generating part of it and pass it off to our customers, but Google wouldn't roll over on our demands. So we're just going to take it anyway. Oh what's this? It looks like Google is going to sue us for violating the TOS that they refused to change just for us. Well, maybe now they'll be willing to roll over and play by our rules!"
Idiots. Don't you know you can't be a bully and get away with it unless you're bigger than the other guy? I hope Google gives them the bloody nose they so desperately deserve.
I disagree that Outlook.com is all that great. If you want your email to be truly secure, you need to encrypt it at the client
THIS. Once it gets off your LAN, there are SO many ways for you to get tapped into. Not counting the illegal ways, look at all the options the govt has and is well known to use, often ignoring or pencil-whipping judicial oversight. They can subpoena your ISP, whoever is doing your email encryption, whoever is providing them with their SSL keys, or their ISP.
If you are serious about protecting your privacy, make darn sure your data is secured before it leaves your property. At least then, if they want to snoop, you're a lot more likely to at least know it's happening. And that will keep out most of your threats, short of spear-phishing, stray bait flash drives left in your parking lot, and internal threats. (malicious employees)
In the short term, get everyone an email certificate, and USE them to sign and encrypt outgoing email. (any decent email client will support signing and encryption) That data could still be subpoenaed from the group you get them from though. You can roll your own if you want to also, but you won't be easily able to revoke if need be.
But so far the response from Amazon has simply been: it was never supposed to work, and we've fixed it.
In the absence of a clear response from Amazon,
That looks pretty clear to me. You just don't like the answer so you're refusing to listen to / accept it as an answer.
This wasn't supposed to work. You found a loophole and were using it in a way they neither intended you to nor wanted you to. They closed the loophole. You need to deal with it from that angle, not "they broke it and it's their responsibility to fix it", because they didn't, and it's not.
The bill also raises wages for H-1B workers to make them more competitive, although the amount wasn't specified.
So they can encourage foreign outsourcing? Doesn't anyone see this as having a negative impact on domestic unemployment? (as well as a trade deficit effect as they ship their US$ off to India)
Please stop doing that in article summaries. When you start getting up into large numbers like that you can't just expect everyone to "read what you meant to say."
The term "robot" has been around for quite awhile, and due to its broad use, it doesn't have a very clear definition.
About all the agreement you're going to get on it is that a robot is a mechanical device capable of performing automated actions. It generally doesn't have to emulate physical (walking) or cognitive (AI) biological features. My dish washer is technically a robot. It's not very glamorous, but there you have it.
Robots exist in all degrees of "autonomy". It can be a difficult line to draw. If you start with a remote controlled plane, it meets the most basic automation definition of "robot" as soon as it can auto pilot.
I'd tend to call a machine a more "modern" robot when it is able to do more than directly react to stimulus. (which is all that an airplane autopilot does) A "decision maker by necessity". The Mars Curiosity robot for example. It's impractical to operate it purely by remote control. It has to evaluate its circumstances, assess priorities and capabilities, select a high level goal, ("analyze that rock over there") and then execute a series of actions (customized at that time based on current circumstances) to accomplish the goal.
But I suppose I'm thinking more of "automaton" than of robot?
You have a standoff where neither side wants to fight, nor wants to back down so they just flex and hurl words at each other.
That's not the impression I get from all that's been happening up there in NK lately. They aren't behaving by anyone's definition of "rational". You can't negotiate or reason with someone that's living in their own self-centered world like they are. They simply don't care what the rest of the world does or thinks about them. And that makes them incredibly dangerous, regardless of what their military capabilities are. They could send a company of chickens with slow-fuse grenades across the border and start/re-ignore a war. They don't need nukes.
For all practical purpose, they are 100% unpredictable. You have no way of telling what they're going to do next. Not by looking at what they've already done, not by looking at how the world is responding to them. None of it matters.
So you can't say that any one action by any outside party is going to "be responsible for" or "will lead to." Anonymous is just another side-attraction in this entire spectacle. They won't likely accomplish anything that could be described as a "goal", but at the same time this won't change what NK does in the next 10 minutes let alone the next 10 months.
The software uses artificial intelligence to grade student essays and short written answers, freeing professors for other tasks."
There are probably at least several good jabs to make at this so I'll try to just address the best one.
First thing that comes to my mind is 'free them up to do what?" Education is adding more and more distance between the student and the teacher without throwing this into the mix. In a perfect world, teachers would be there to teach and that's it. But it's become more a problem of time management, lecture halls full of hundreds of students per teacher, and throw in the odd paper publish and grand write here and there. I think what we need to be doing is not looking for ways to further skew the student-to-teacher ratio, but to dial it back down a bit instead. Get me back to the good 'ol days where your prof knew your name.
Well, maybe two. "Artificial Intelligence beats Real Stupidity."
Something doesn't smell right here. Some moron is misinterpreting law again.
The odds are much better than this is actually how the law is being written, and they are "expecting the court to correctly interpret it" because, you know, that' the job of the courts... to interpret the intended meaning of the law. (facepalm)
Writing the law correctly and unambiguously would just be too much of a bother for the congresscritters.
the source code, contract letters, schematics and notes for the creation of the Apple II Disk Operating System (DOS)
I did a good deal of assembly back in 'th day, and I ran Merlin Pro. I had decompiled FaskDiskOne (an optimized version of Dos 3.3) It featured optimized sector reading and interleaving. Nibbles were decoded on the fly, instead of after the sector was read, greatly improving read speed. After getting that fully loaded into merlin I could tweak it any way I liked. Though all I really ever ended up doing was implementing EA's copy protection in my main programming disk. Still, it was nice being able to directly modify your DOS.
You want to search my house? Go to a judge and convince them, get a search warrant. Then c'mon in. Facebook password in a divorce case? Sure. Again, judicial oversight.
But my employer? NO. No, you can't search my house if you have an internal investigation going on me, and NO, you can't ransack my facebook either. If you want into either of those, take it to court like everybody else has to, prove to a judge that you need it.
I don't see a difference here. And neither should the law.
It sounds like Microsoft didn't so much as give up, as go around Apple.
I'm sure someone will rapidly correct me if I'm wrong here, but I don't believe they can go around Apple. Software has to be signed to install, and only Apple has the key. That's why you have to jailbreak to run unsigned apps.
The only way "around" that is to either (A) have updates that are "content" (new maps, skins, etc) that are data that does not need to be signed, or you have to run interpreted code and your main app downloads the update code and runs that (or compiles it or something). But Apple has that base covered too, no interpreted languages. That's what's made emulators rare on the iDevices, they're against the rules. (for the wrong reason, the no-emulation reason is to prevent out of appstore apps, not to prevent game emulators, so they're just collateral damage)
But this isn't a purchased app, it's a subscription. So either Apple gave MS a waiver on the no-emulation rule, or gave them a waiver on the no-subscriptions.
Could be just MS throwing lots of money in Apple's face and getting an exception made, or maybe some new policy in the works at Apple. Would be interesting to have more details on it though.
When I was younger I used to climb up trees and try to catch them. Wow, they've got quite a voice. Sounds like you have a fire alarm bell from school going off in your hands when you manage to grab one off a tree!
Anyway, I remember when I watched Red Planet, how much the bugs (cephlopods or whatever they called them) looked like cicadas. VERY similar looking.
And they're interesting to watch fly, sort of like Wyle E Coyote with an Acme Jet Pack. I don't think they even bother navigating as they fly through the air far too fast for their own good, running into walls, cars, houses, PEOPLE, whatever. If they can grab it after smacking it, they call it a "landing".
Neighbor went to Japan for a vacation. They apparently grow them extra large size there, and when they're in full chorus in the parks you can't even hear the person sitting next to you on the bench trying to talk with you.
AAANd one final thought. Another neighbor next door told me one time he got bit by one. I've seen then, they have a mosquito-like straw on their head, and they can tap into trees to drink sap during their 7-10 days alive as an adult, so I suppose it's possible they might confuse you for a tree... has anyone else heard of getting bit by one?
has had the Raspberry Pi available for several months now.
It seems that the article only refers to sales from Allied, not any of the other dozen places you could get one in the US from.
It's like hearing pretzels are sold out and unavailable in the US, only to read closer and see that just one store sold out of their initial inventory.
Not entirely. What I most expect to happen is that at some point NK is going to pull a stunt similar to the six day war, where they invade SK and get a VERY short distance before being stopped, at which point they pull a "look over their shoulder, call for 'big brother' to come help", at which point they see big brother turning and walking away, not wanting to go to war over NK's being more insane than usual today.
Then it will get ugly. I doubt nuclear, but ugly. Because at that point they will basically have given the world the excuse they need to go beat the snot out of the local pricktator, at least to a point. They'll have a better excuse than usual, plus no big brother to worry about, for the moment. At some point China will walk back into the room and say "ok, that's enough. c'mon little man, time to go home", grab by the collar and drag him away, either kicking and screaming, or balling his head off. Just like it works in real life.
If NK decides to pull a true crazy iven and nuke SK or the UN forces pushing him back, I think China will totally abandon NK. Then we may be looking at an Iraq of sorts. Though I don't think China would tolerate a new democracy next door, they would certainly get heavily involved in replacing the government with something more communist. But really, anything is better than what they have now. And with sanctions lifted, the NK people would have a chance to climb out of the 3rd world and get back into the game with the rest of the planet, regardless of the form of government that arose.
Right now the people of NK are so brainwashed that I doubt they want to be a part of the rest of the world, which is really sad. It'd take a few generations to make good progress on fixing that. It'd be nice to see it move faster if they could get into communications with the rest of the world via internet and free travel. Make them understand that everyone on the planet isn't foaming at the mouth to invade them and rape/kill everyone in the country. Until that's fixed, it's going to be hard to get any stable, sane government running over there.
they've gotta be getting to the point where even China isn't going to take their crap for much longer. They WERE trying to destabilize the region. NOW they're trying to destabilize the entire world.
I see NK like some punk little child that goes around trying to start trouble everywhere he can, that always runs back and stands next to his big brother whenever anyone gets fed up with his harassment. This makes him bold beyond common sense, kicking and spitting on the others around him that would otherwise break his face. And Big Brother has got to be getting sick of it by now.
And just like in the neighborhood, china's the hulk of a big brother that is the only reason any number of others in the neighborhood don't tackle the punk and give him the pounding he so badly needs and deserves.
So really the big brother is the only one that can effectively fix the problem, by finally picking him up by the hair, shaking vigorously, and screaming "ENOUGH!"
I just hope that china is even a fifth as annoyed with him as the rest of the world is. Seriously, even China-style communism would do that country a world of good. I'd just love to see Jinping make a trip over to Pyongyang and sit the little dictator/delusional-god in a small chair and discuss making some minor adjustments to how NK is run.
(contrary to some suggestions in earlier comments, this is not the sort of problem you can ignore till it goes away... the more you ignore little punks like this, the bolder they get. ignore them, and it will never end, it will only continue to escalate)
By your logic everyone should know every setting of every server program out there if you just want to run something.
If you've got a fat enough pipe to do damage from someone abusing your system, and are running an externally-facing service like DNS, that is KNOWN to be an attack vector, then YES, I can, and WILL expect you to know what you're doing, so you're not a danger to others, or ME. You've gone to the trouble of taking off the training wheels, and with power comes responsibility.
As it is now, the internet is like the interstate with their 80 yr olds flinging giant Winnebagos down the road without requiring them to hold a CDL, and they're just as much of a problem. People wielding dangerous tools need to be knowledgeable and responsible with them, and held accountable and partially liable when they aren't. Ignorance is not a defense.
If the police are searching the car, then everything they remove will go into an evidence bag for later examination, including the camera and the SD card. Before examination, the SD card will certainly be duplicated so that any changes that accessing the card while studying it can be accounted for, and an exact duplicate can be provided to the defense if necessary.
I wont' say always, but more often than not this isn't how it works. Law enforcement and forensics purchase special adapters that are read-only by design. They do this for hard drives and for flash drives. This way, they can examine the evidence without giving up any doubt in court that they somehow tampered with the evidence. I have seen these read-only LEA-grade adapters for sale on numerous occasions.
The only time they duplicate it is if they think it's going to take awhile to examine and they want to (or have to) return your property to you promptly. (like at the border, they may image your laptop hdd) Again, the device making the copy is physically only able to read the device. Some organizations have rules limiting the amount of time copies can be kept, but that's usually one of those things that have no teeth if they keep it as long as they want.
It's easy to find news stories of police having "lost" a flash card they removed from a camera when arresting someone. Formatting is a bit less common, because then it goes from plausible accident to provably intentional or careless. (only a stupid cop would try that, and then it won't end well for them, undoing a quick format is trivial) It's much less risky for them to lose it than to erase it.
when your cpu isn't able to help out, the fastest way to catch landing in garbage is to place a few nops (to get realigned) and then jmp to the Big Bomb before each block of code. then if something branches wildly or otherwise escapes its block or into a buffer somewhere, it'll eventually plow into the next of those traps and stop itself.
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the few of these sorts of systems I've dabbled (cautiously) with usually gave you a fixed AP every day, on a use-it-or-lose-it basis. And that again gets you back to the "punishes you for not playing". Not meaning play as much as you can all the time, but requiring you to make sure to play daily. I stopped one of these cold-turkey when I realized it was more of an obligation to play than an enjoyable experience. ("oh ya, that's right, I forgot to play this morning, I better get in there and play this evening before bed, or I will lose those bonuses for my continuous streaks of playing, and it'll take a week of never missing a day to get my streak bonuses going again")
I remember wasting months of my time there until one day I realized "this is a giant waste of my time!", wished them good luck, and left.
I don't do MMORPGs for exactly this reason. Part of it is it's a waste of time, the other part of it is I don't have the necessary self-discipline to "limit myself" in a game venue that essentially punishes you for not playing.
Programming a solution to a solved problem is overkill.
In this case I believe it's very appropriate. They have a static arrangement, (vendor wants in, someone turns access on, manually) and when they're done, someone's supposed to shut it off. This process has demonstrated a history of being unreliable. So the solution comes down to one of three things. (1) replace or retrain whoever is in charge of the process in the hopes of improving reliability, (2) automate the process that is not being done reliably, or (3) redesign the process so it's more reliable by default.
(1) is often either futile or short-term. Any number of things can go wrong here, immediately, soon, or long down the road. People get replaced, are out sick for a few days, forget, make mistakes, whatever. (3) is usually unnecessarily expensive, or at least difficult and time-consuming.
It's been my experience that (2) is almost always the best solution. I'm a big fan of automation, and "pick the right tool for the job". (where "tool" refers to either evolved monkeys or computer programming) Computers are almost always more reliable than people, never rely on a person to do a job that a computer can do more reliably. Given the OP's description of the problem, a few minutes of bash or crontab to automate the disabling of the remote access is almost certainly the best answer. I do this sort of thing where I work all the time. I get tired of fixing the same problems over and over that people just can't seem to do reliably. I automate it, and the problem disappears, forever. The initial investment of time always pays for itself. Sometimes in a few days, sometimes in a few weeks. Sometimes once or twice over, sometimes a thousandfold.
Sidenote: whenever something around here breaks, I ask myself a lot of questions. Is there a fair chance it will happen again? Could full automation or manually-initiated scripting have prevented it? Should the system have provided better logging before or during the event? Could the system have predicted the failure ahead of time and given us early warning? Could the system have identified and alerted us of the problem after it occurred, before we (or the client...) discovered it ourselves? Could the system have initiated automated damage control when the failure occurred? This is all a part of automation.
the owners, boards, and upper management are mostly a bunch of old, stuffy, cigar-chomping, technology and change-fearing, pointy-haired bosses, just itching to "pull a blackberry" with their company.
Does this surprise anyone? Good luck clearing them out. They're kings in their kingdom.
The most common way to "reorganize" them we see today is when upper management drives the company into the ground like a telephone pole. Problem tends to be though that these companies have a large stash of money in the bank, and are able to flop after flop after flop before they finally run the coffers dry. They've gotten very good over the years at "controlling their shareholders", ie shoveling the BS with a silver tongue and sincere promises, that the shareholders don't revolt until they're already seeing the headlight in the tunnen. But by then, the company has lost so much momentum and market share that they're often in an unrecoverable nose-dive.
Sorta sad to watch, but I think "change is good". When the system has become unfixable, the best thing to happen is for it to break completely and be re-invented from the ground up, based on modern considerations. (nuke 'n pave) "corporate revolutions" I suppose you could call it. Old companies that won't adapt fade away, while new companies come up and take their place. Reminds me of a forrest. Quit trying to save the old trees, let them die and make room for the new saplings to take their place down the road.
First off, the cameras are always hooded, to reduce sun glare and reduce the amount of rainwater that gets on them. Rain contains a surprising amount of dirt the drops pick up as they fall through the atmosphere, and you get the same effect on a camera lens as you do on your house windows.
Now hit that with a paintball and the effect is quite a lot worse. A single shot to any part of the lens or hood area is likely to completely coat the entire lens with a thick enough layer of (water-soluable) paint to make 100% of the photos taken with the camera unusable. (can't get a plate)
The rain hood will protect against rain washing the paint away. Although after a few days, the paint will have dried up enough that it will require a little scrubbing action to remove it - ordinary rain won't do the job at that point.
This method has many advantages and few disadvantages compared to other options. Firstly, it's unlikely to cause physical damage to the camera, which will be useful if you get caught. If you and four other citizens start balling the cameras, and you get caught, you will likely be judged responsible for 100% of the cameras. If you're taking them out with .22's instead of paintballs, that could easily be billed at a grand or more per camera. If it's just paint, they'll probably get you for $70'ish each to send out a guy with cotton balls and a long pole. (or a cherry picker)
Ammo is a lot cheaper. Shots can be a lot quieter. Easier to visually identify already "serviced" cameras. And odds are you'd be charged with vandalism rather than destruction of public property, since nothing permanent was done.
"So we wanted to take content from Google and strip off the revenue-generating part of it and pass it off to our customers, but Google wouldn't roll over on our demands. So we're just going to take it anyway. Oh what's this? It looks like Google is going to sue us for violating the TOS that they refused to change just for us. Well, maybe now they'll be willing to roll over and play by our rules!"
Idiots. Don't you know you can't be a bully and get away with it unless you're bigger than the other guy? I hope Google gives them the bloody nose they so desperately deserve.
THIS. Once it gets off your LAN, there are SO many ways for you to get tapped into. Not counting the illegal ways, look at all the options the govt has and is well known to use, often ignoring or pencil-whipping judicial oversight. They can subpoena your ISP, whoever is doing your email encryption, whoever is providing them with their SSL keys, or their ISP.
If you are serious about protecting your privacy, make darn sure your data is secured before it leaves your property. At least then, if they want to snoop, you're a lot more likely to at least know it's happening. And that will keep out most of your threats, short of spear-phishing, stray bait flash drives left in your parking lot, and internal threats. (malicious employees)
In the short term, get everyone an email certificate, and USE them to sign and encrypt outgoing email. (any decent email client will support signing and encryption) That data could still be subpoenaed from the group you get them from though. You can roll your own if you want to also, but you won't be easily able to revoke if need be.
That looks pretty clear to me. You just don't like the answer so you're refusing to listen to / accept it as an answer.
This wasn't supposed to work. You found a loophole and were using it in a way they neither intended you to nor wanted you to. They closed the loophole. You need to deal with it from that angle, not "they broke it and it's their responsibility to fix it", because they didn't, and it's not.
So they can encourage foreign outsourcing? Doesn't anyone see this as having a negative impact on domestic unemployment? (as well as a trade deficit effect as they ship their US$ off to India)
Why is this necessary???
Mbps != MBps
Please stop doing that in article summaries. When you start getting up into large numbers like that you can't just expect everyone to "read what you meant to say."
The term "robot" has been around for quite awhile, and due to its broad use, it doesn't have a very clear definition.
About all the agreement you're going to get on it is that a robot is a mechanical device capable of performing automated actions. It generally doesn't have to emulate physical (walking) or cognitive (AI) biological features. My dish washer is technically a robot. It's not very glamorous, but there you have it.
Robots exist in all degrees of "autonomy". It can be a difficult line to draw. If you start with a remote controlled plane, it meets the most basic automation definition of "robot" as soon as it can auto pilot.
I'd tend to call a machine a more "modern" robot when it is able to do more than directly react to stimulus. (which is all that an airplane autopilot does) A "decision maker by necessity". The Mars Curiosity robot for example. It's impractical to operate it purely by remote control. It has to evaluate its circumstances, assess priorities and capabilities, select a high level goal, ("analyze that rock over there") and then execute a series of actions (customized at that time based on current circumstances) to accomplish the goal.
But I suppose I'm thinking more of "automaton" than of robot?
That's not the impression I get from all that's been happening up there in NK lately. They aren't behaving by anyone's definition of "rational". You can't negotiate or reason with someone that's living in their own self-centered world like they are. They simply don't care what the rest of the world does or thinks about them. And that makes them incredibly dangerous, regardless of what their military capabilities are. They could send a company of chickens with slow-fuse grenades across the border and start/re-ignore a war. They don't need nukes.
For all practical purpose, they are 100% unpredictable. You have no way of telling what they're going to do next. Not by looking at what they've already done, not by looking at how the world is responding to them. None of it matters.
So you can't say that any one action by any outside party is going to "be responsible for" or "will lead to." Anonymous is just another side-attraction in this entire spectacle. They won't likely accomplish anything that could be described as a "goal", but at the same time this won't change what NK does in the next 10 minutes let alone the next 10 months.
There are probably at least several good jabs to make at this so I'll try to just address the best one.
First thing that comes to my mind is 'free them up to do what?" Education is adding more and more distance between the student and the teacher without throwing this into the mix. In a perfect world, teachers would be there to teach and that's it. But it's become more a problem of time management, lecture halls full of hundreds of students per teacher, and throw in the odd paper publish and grand write here and there. I think what we need to be doing is not looking for ways to further skew the student-to-teacher ratio, but to dial it back down a bit instead. Get me back to the good 'ol days where your prof knew your name.
Well, maybe two. "Artificial Intelligence beats Real Stupidity."
The odds are much better than this is actually how the law is being written, and they are "expecting the court to correctly interpret it" because, you know, that' the job of the courts... to interpret the intended meaning of the law. (facepalm)
Writing the law correctly and unambiguously would just be too much of a bother for the congresscritters.
the source code, contract letters, schematics and notes for the creation of the Apple II Disk Operating System (DOS)
I did a good deal of assembly back in 'th day, and I ran Merlin Pro. I had decompiled FaskDiskOne (an optimized version of Dos 3.3) It featured optimized sector reading and interleaving. Nibbles were decoded on the fly, instead of after the sector was read, greatly improving read speed. After getting that fully loaded into merlin I could tweak it any way I liked. Though all I really ever ended up doing was implementing EA's copy protection in my main programming disk. Still, it was nice being able to directly modify your DOS.
You want to search my house? Go to a judge and convince them, get a search warrant. Then c'mon in. Facebook password in a divorce case? Sure. Again, judicial oversight.
But my employer? NO. No, you can't search my house if you have an internal investigation going on me, and NO, you can't ransack my facebook either. If you want into either of those, take it to court like everybody else has to, prove to a judge that you need it.
I don't see a difference here. And neither should the law.
I'm sure someone will rapidly correct me if I'm wrong here, but I don't believe they can go around Apple. Software has to be signed to install, and only Apple has the key. That's why you have to jailbreak to run unsigned apps.
The only way "around" that is to either (A) have updates that are "content" (new maps, skins, etc) that are data that does not need to be signed, or you have to run interpreted code and your main app downloads the update code and runs that (or compiles it or something). But Apple has that base covered too, no interpreted languages. That's what's made emulators rare on the iDevices, they're against the rules. (for the wrong reason, the no-emulation reason is to prevent out of appstore apps, not to prevent game emulators, so they're just collateral damage)
But this isn't a purchased app, it's a subscription. So either Apple gave MS a waiver on the no-emulation rule, or gave them a waiver on the no-subscriptions.
Could be just MS throwing lots of money in Apple's face and getting an exception made, or maybe some new policy in the works at Apple. Would be interesting to have more details on it though.
When I was younger I used to climb up trees and try to catch them. Wow, they've got quite a voice. Sounds like you have a fire alarm bell from school going off in your hands when you manage to grab one off a tree!
Anyway, I remember when I watched Red Planet, how much the bugs (cephlopods or whatever they called them) looked like cicadas. VERY similar looking.
And they're interesting to watch fly, sort of like Wyle E Coyote with an Acme Jet Pack. I don't think they even bother navigating as they fly through the air far too fast for their own good, running into walls, cars, houses, PEOPLE, whatever. If they can grab it after smacking it, they call it a "landing".
Neighbor went to Japan for a vacation. They apparently grow them extra large size there, and when they're in full chorus in the parks you can't even hear the person sitting next to you on the bench trying to talk with you.
AAANd one final thought. Another neighbor next door told me one time he got bit by one. I've seen then, they have a mosquito-like straw on their head, and they can tap into trees to drink sap during their 7-10 days alive as an adult, so I suppose it's possible they might confuse you for a tree... has anyone else heard of getting bit by one?
has had the Raspberry Pi available for several months now.
It seems that the article only refers to sales from Allied, not any of the other dozen places you could get one in the US from.
It's like hearing pretzels are sold out and unavailable in the US, only to read closer and see that just one store sold out of their initial inventory.
Not entirely. What I most expect to happen is that at some point NK is going to pull a stunt similar to the six day war, where they invade SK and get a VERY short distance before being stopped, at which point they pull a "look over their shoulder, call for 'big brother' to come help", at which point they see big brother turning and walking away, not wanting to go to war over NK's being more insane than usual today.
Then it will get ugly. I doubt nuclear, but ugly. Because at that point they will basically have given the world the excuse they need to go beat the snot out of the local pricktator, at least to a point. They'll have a better excuse than usual, plus no big brother to worry about, for the moment. At some point China will walk back into the room and say "ok, that's enough. c'mon little man, time to go home", grab by the collar and drag him away, either kicking and screaming, or balling his head off. Just like it works in real life.
If NK decides to pull a true crazy iven and nuke SK or the UN forces pushing him back, I think China will totally abandon NK. Then we may be looking at an Iraq of sorts. Though I don't think China would tolerate a new democracy next door, they would certainly get heavily involved in replacing the government with something more communist. But really, anything is better than what they have now. And with sanctions lifted, the NK people would have a chance to climb out of the 3rd world and get back into the game with the rest of the planet, regardless of the form of government that arose.
Right now the people of NK are so brainwashed that I doubt they want to be a part of the rest of the world, which is really sad. It'd take a few generations to make good progress on fixing that. It'd be nice to see it move faster if they could get into communications with the rest of the world via internet and free travel. Make them understand that everyone on the planet isn't foaming at the mouth to invade them and rape/kill everyone in the country. Until that's fixed, it's going to be hard to get any stable, sane government running over there.
they've gotta be getting to the point where even China isn't going to take their crap for much longer. They WERE trying to destabilize the region. NOW they're trying to destabilize the entire world.
I see NK like some punk little child that goes around trying to start trouble everywhere he can, that always runs back and stands next to his big brother whenever anyone gets fed up with his harassment. This makes him bold beyond common sense, kicking and spitting on the others around him that would otherwise break his face. And Big Brother has got to be getting sick of it by now.
And just like in the neighborhood, china's the hulk of a big brother that is the only reason any number of others in the neighborhood don't tackle the punk and give him the pounding he so badly needs and deserves.
So really the big brother is the only one that can effectively fix the problem, by finally picking him up by the hair, shaking vigorously, and screaming "ENOUGH!"
I just hope that china is even a fifth as annoyed with him as the rest of the world is. Seriously, even China-style communism would do that country a world of good. I'd just love to see Jinping make a trip over to Pyongyang and sit the little dictator/delusional-god in a small chair and discuss making some minor adjustments to how NK is run.
(contrary to some suggestions in earlier comments, this is not the sort of problem you can ignore till it goes away... the more you ignore little punks like this, the bolder they get. ignore them, and it will never end, it will only continue to escalate)
If you've got a fat enough pipe to do damage from someone abusing your system, and are running an externally-facing service like DNS, that is KNOWN to be an attack vector, then YES, I can, and WILL expect you to know what you're doing, so you're not a danger to others, or ME. You've gone to the trouble of taking off the training wheels, and with power comes responsibility.
As it is now, the internet is like the interstate with their 80 yr olds flinging giant Winnebagos down the road without requiring them to hold a CDL, and they're just as much of a problem. People wielding dangerous tools need to be knowledgeable and responsible with them, and held accountable and partially liable when they aren't. Ignorance is not a defense.
than the users that get their computers infected with botnets and spew spam. These people are supposed to know what they're doing.
Take away their Geek Card, and then suspend their internet license ;)
I wont' say always, but more often than not this isn't how it works. Law enforcement and forensics purchase special adapters that are read-only by design. They do this for hard drives and for flash drives. This way, they can examine the evidence without giving up any doubt in court that they somehow tampered with the evidence. I have seen these read-only LEA-grade adapters for sale on numerous occasions.
The only time they duplicate it is if they think it's going to take awhile to examine and they want to (or have to) return your property to you promptly. (like at the border, they may image your laptop hdd) Again, the device making the copy is physically only able to read the device. Some organizations have rules limiting the amount of time copies can be kept, but that's usually one of those things that have no teeth if they keep it as long as they want.
It's easy to find news stories of police having "lost" a flash card they removed from a camera when arresting someone. Formatting is a bit less common, because then it goes from plausible accident to provably intentional or careless. (only a stupid cop would try that, and then it won't end well for them, undoing a quick format is trivial) It's much less risky for them to lose it than to erase it.
when your cpu isn't able to help out, the fastest way to catch landing in garbage is to place a few nops (to get realigned) and then jmp to the Big Bomb before each block of code. then if something branches wildly or otherwise escapes its block or into a buffer somewhere, it'll eventually plow into the next of those traps and stop itself.