Basically, their cloaking device consists of two or more mirrors, strategically placed so that when you sit in the driver 's seat, and ONLY the driver's seat, you can see what is behind the pillar.
What exactly is patent worthy in this idea, that wasn't discovered 100's of years ago.
Well, there are lots of computers in the car, and the mirrors are part of the car, so...
In the 60s, we connected our TVs to the large antenna outside the house on the roof. In the 70s, TVs started coming with telescoping rabbit ears. (Both the low-end random TVs and the high-end Sony sets had the built-in rabbit ears.)
I'm not sure who had the separately purchased rabbit ears, which usually were mounted on a little box with a dial control (which maybe varied something electronic in the box and/or physically rotated the antenna). I think it was for when you were in a bad reception area and the normal antenna didn't work (and you were not connecting to the outside antenna).
Obviously AI can replace radiologists. If new tools allow a person to handle twice or even ten times the case load, you've effectively replaced people with A.I. Radiology can turn into a call center job as well, where a small team of people handle departments at multiple hospitals and medical centers. Imagine a world where a staff of 3-4 handles every case for 100 locations. Easily means 1000s of cases per day, but with A.I. it is conceivable.
Idiots think A.I. replacing a job means the original job no longer exists. That is a naÃve postion to take.
It is already a call-center job. You still have a tech who wheels you into the machine, administers contrast dyes or whatever, and pushes the buttons. But the scan (e.g. X-Ray) is read by some radiologist sitting in a lab or call-center or their home. They are being fed many, many images over the Internet to their laptop. They are given a certain amount of time to read the image and return a diagnosis. They are overworked and treated like a machine already, generally feeling that the allotted time is too small, the workload is too high, and somewhat terrified that they will make a mistake under these conditions.
When this system is replaced by AI, only the difficult scans that the machine wasn't sure about will be sent to the doctors. Whether they will still be overworked and about to accidentally kill you is an open question.
They're not more dangeerous; they're generally flown by people who intend to live through the experience and consequently don't do stupid dangerous shit. This is veery different than overgrown toddlers with their expensive toys and no skin in the game.
^^^mod up, someone
I get mod points all the time, but never on the days I really want them.
So we shouldn't trust a Russian company because they may or may not have ties to the Russian government to do "bad things"
But we have plenty of evidence the NSA has actually done real bad things and forced US companies to help and enable them to do it. So clearly we can't use any American software either.
Where should we get our software from now?
If you are a government / military, you should write it yourself. Or only use specific versions that you have audited and trust.
Nobody should have to trust any closed source software. Trusting Microsoft is a huge mistake
The government doesn't trust Microsoft ; they have access to the source and audit it. Well, they sort-of trust them. And they sort-of audit it. Sometimes.
You are aware that SE Linux is originally a product of the US military (DARPA) I assume?
Of course, they're not auditing any software perfectly. I don't know how much the different parts of the government look at any of these systems. Probably not as thorough and ongoing as one would wish.
>> The same argument then applied to every country who buys anything FROM the USA.
> I'm talking about sales to the Federal Government. Private entities can buy from whoever they like within the law.
If you suspect a foreign entity (from Russia in the present case), what should a buyer in another country think about foreign products from the USA?
They should think it may contain backdoors/vulnerabilities and possibly even be deliberately compromised by the United States government. And I can assure you that they DO already think this. Why the United States government -- particularly the military -- is basing the security of its IT infrastructure on a product from a Russian company with close ties to the KGB is just incomprehensible.
At least now they are going to audit the software. Unfortunately, they will miss things. (They would also miss things if it were USA-produced software, so the question there is whether the things they miss would become known to the cyber-enemies as quickly.)
I doubt they will maintain configuration control: random new un-audited unverified versions of the software will be routinely installed on the government computers; perhaps slightly less so on the military networks. Even though the military tries to lock things down, people still connect unauthorized things. Most of the government doesn't even pretend to lock anything down and cybersecurity is a bad joke.
What is needed is a clean-room secure build by the government for the government. It should be secret source, because StO is in fact a valid part of the security profile in this context. (And anyone else, private or foreigners, ought to be able to use it, too. If they feel like trusting the USA intelligence agencies more than Kaspersky.)
We don't want a huge monolithic application as init since that brings a huge attack surface to the most important process in the OS
Perhaps we need to get rid of Linux kernel as well.
Yes we ought to. Legacy inertia, and efficiency, are the reasons that getting rid of monolithic kernels has not been popularized. Both of those problems can be overcome with time and resources. As compartmentalization and virtualization become even more important in the future, that's how things are going to shake out.
Syria, Libya, Ukraine, and Tunisia. In all these countries weapons were massively restricted by existing authoritarian police states, and in all cases the populace were able to rise up, capture arms
Because the populace already had enough guns to pull it off, and parts of the government defected and gave the populace guns. The populace did not magically "rise up" and successfully fight the heavily armed forces with bare hands.
The point is that they are deliberately limiting the power available to you. You're not allowed to use Macsyma, access Wolfram databases, etc. You're supposed to know how to solve the problem using a particular tool set that happens to be implemented by the authorized device. That's what the test is.
So now they can watch you actually push the buttons on the calculator in real time.
I am sure this will be mined for scientific research about how students solve particular wordings of problems in a testing environment. It will also be used for R&D purposes by the SaaS company, and ultimately for marketing purposes.
The information will not be adequately protected. And most importantly, the human subjects have not really given informed consent. Which makes me wonder what other information is already being collected.
Bob took 4:39 to solve problem number 117, and here was his approach. Bob is therefore highly qualified for problem categories 114-A and 96-Y, but performs poorly along the 191 axis of all problems with time limit G. If the problem involves "donuts" his performance goes up by 0.3 %.
You always knew this would be on your Permanent Record, don't say you weren't warned.
NATIONAL DISTRICT ATTORNEYS ASSOCIATION Date: April 10, 2017
National District Attorneys Association Applauds Expiration of National Commission on Forensic Science
ARLINGTON, Virginia – The National District Attorneys Association (NDAA) supports the announcement this morning by United States Attorney General Jeff Sessions that he will not renew the charter for the National Commission on Forensic Science, allowing the Commission to officially expire. NDAA also appreciates the creation of a Subcommittee on Forensics as part of the Attorney General’s Task Force on Crime Reduction and Public Safety.
The Commission lacked adequate representation from the state and local practitioner community, was dominated by the defense community, and failed to produce work products of significance for the forensic science community. Very few of the recommendations from the Commission were adopted and signed by the previous Attorney General during its existence. Those that were signed, such as universal accreditation, had already begun to develop organically within the forensic science community as accepted best practices, thus replicating ongoing work and wasting taxpayer dollars.
Now more than ever, an Office of Forensic Science (OFS) under the Department of Justice (DOJ), and in consultation with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), should be created. DOJ has a vested interest in maintaining the overall integrity of the criminal justice system while NIST has a role in the innovation of forensic science.
“An Office of Forensic Science will ensure forensic science progresses in the courtroom to not only aid in the prosecution of the guilty, but exonerate the innocent,” said NDAA President Michael Ramos.
We can no longer afford to sit back and wait for the advancement and support of forensic science. An OFS needs to happen now to guarantee its effective future in the criminal justice system. NDAA agrees with the Attorney General that the majority of forensic science in the field is conducted by state and local crime labs, and then used by state and local prosecutors in the courtroom. That reality must be a central focus as we advance forensic science in the field.
The National District Attorneys Association (NDAA), www.ndaa.org, is the oldest and largest prosecutor organization in the country, representing 2,500 elected and appointed District Attorneys across the United States, as well as 40,000 Assistant District Attorneys.
Contact: Nelson Bunn, Director of Policy and Governmental Affairs, National District Attorneys Association nbunn@ndaajustice.org.
this happens when you have a baby-boomer tech employee who refuses to retire. you let him ride out his last days as a senior or manager while backfilling him with what you hope are more competent and open minds.
So, in your world, young people with no experience in deploying networking will use their "more competent and open minds" to do a job that older workers cannot, even though the older worker has been aware of IPv6 for nearly as long as the younger people have been alive. Because, you know, they are older.
Fuck You, you ageist piece of shit. I hope someone sues your company into fucking oblivion.
Slashdot Mirror
Basically, their cloaking device consists of two or more mirrors, strategically placed so that when you sit in the driver 's seat, and ONLY the driver's seat, you can see what is behind the pillar.
What exactly is patent worthy in this idea, that wasn't discovered 100's of years ago.
Well, there are lots of computers in the car, and the mirrors are part of the car, so ...
I don't think you're supposed to see it...
In the 60s, we connected our TVs to the large antenna outside the house on the roof. In the 70s, TVs started coming with telescoping rabbit ears. (Both the low-end random TVs and the high-end Sony sets had the built-in rabbit ears.)
I'm not sure who had the separately purchased rabbit ears, which usually were mounted on a little box with a dial control (which maybe varied something electronic in the box and/or physically rotated the antenna). I think it was for when you were in a bad reception area and the normal antenna didn't work (and you were not connecting to the outside antenna).
Why would someone donate their brain if they didn't think they had damage?
Why not? Why do you need to keep your brain if you're dead?
Some people also don't need it when they are alive, apparently...
"I knew it was wrong, I shouldn't have done it...
I should have never reconnected his Internet."
It was written in Perl. Perhaps some Perl regex has become self-aware.
The adolescence of Perl 6.
Or is that time flies like a banana?
N.B. Do not attempt to decode previous joke unless you are familiar with the history of natural language processing.
It is hard to wreck a nice beach!
(And you don't need semantic prediction for that!)
CONTRACT NO. NAS5-2154, a contract which apparently NASA has no paperwork for.
Gospel
Obviously AI can replace radiologists. If new tools allow a person to handle twice or even ten times the case load, you've effectively replaced people with A.I.
Radiology can turn into a call center job as well, where a small team of people handle departments at multiple hospitals and medical centers. Imagine a world where a staff of 3-4 handles every case for 100 locations. Easily means 1000s of cases per day, but with A.I. it is conceivable.
Idiots think A.I. replacing a job means the original job no longer exists. That is a naÃve postion to take.
It is already a call-center job. You still have a tech who wheels you into the machine,
administers contrast dyes or whatever, and pushes the buttons. But the scan (e.g. X-Ray)
is read by some radiologist sitting in a lab or call-center or their home. They are being
fed many, many images over the Internet to their laptop. They are given a certain amount
of time to read the image and return a diagnosis. They are overworked and treated like
a machine already, generally feeling that the allotted time is too small, the workload is
too high, and somewhat terrified that they will make a mistake under these conditions.
When this system is replaced by AI, only the difficult scans that the machine wasn't sure
about will be sent to the doctors. Whether they will still be overworked and about to
accidentally kill you is an open question.
They're not more dangeerous; they're generally flown by people who intend to live through the experience and consequently don't do stupid dangerous shit. This is veery different than overgrown toddlers with their expensive toys and no skin in the game.
^^^mod up, someone
I get mod points all the time, but never on the days I really want them.
So we shouldn't trust a Russian company because they may or may not have ties to the Russian government to do "bad things"
But we have plenty of evidence the NSA has actually done real bad things and forced US companies to help and enable them to do it.
So clearly we can't use any American software either.
Where should we get our software from now?
If you are a government / military, you should write it yourself.
Or only use specific versions that you have audited and trust.
Nobody should have to trust any closed source software. Trusting Microsoft is a huge mistake
The government doesn't trust Microsoft ; they have access to the source and audit it.
Well, they sort-of trust them. And they sort-of audit it. Sometimes.
You are aware that SE Linux is originally a product of the US military (DARPA) I assume?
Of course, they're not auditing any software perfectly. I don't know how much the different
parts of the government look at any of these systems. Probably not as thorough and ongoing as one would wish.
>> The same argument then applied to every country who buys anything FROM the USA.
> I'm talking about sales to the Federal Government. Private entities can buy from whoever they like within the law.
If you suspect a foreign entity (from Russia in the present case), what should a buyer in another country think about foreign products from the USA?
They should think it may contain backdoors/vulnerabilities and possibly even be deliberately compromised by the United States government. And I can assure you that they DO already think this. Why the United States government -- particularly the military -- is basing the security of its IT infrastructure on a product from a Russian company with close ties to the KGB is just incomprehensible.
At least now they are going to audit the software. Unfortunately, they will miss things.
(They would also miss things if it were USA-produced software, so the question there is whether
the things they miss would become known to the cyber-enemies as quickly.)
I doubt they will maintain configuration control: random new un-audited unverified versions of the software
will be routinely installed on the government computers; perhaps slightly less so on the military networks.
Even though the military tries to lock things down, people still connect unauthorized things.
Most of the government doesn't even pretend to lock anything down and cybersecurity is a bad joke.
What is needed is a clean-room secure build by the government for the government.
It should be secret source, because StO is in fact a valid part of the security profile in this context.
(And anyone else, private or foreigners, ought to be able to use it, too.
If they feel like trusting the USA intelligence agencies more than Kaspersky.)
We don't want a huge monolithic application as init since that brings a huge attack surface to the most important process in the OS
Perhaps we need to get rid of Linux kernel as well.
Yes we ought to.
Legacy inertia, and efficiency, are the reasons that getting rid of monolithic kernels has not been popularized.
Both of those problems can be overcome with time and resources.
As compartmentalization and virtualization become even more important in the future, that's how things are going to shake out.
Syria, Libya, Ukraine, and Tunisia. In all these countries weapons were massively restricted by existing authoritarian police states, and in all cases the populace were able to rise up, capture arms
Because the populace already had enough guns to pull it off, and parts of the government defected and gave the populace guns. The populace did not magically "rise up" and successfully fight the heavily armed forces with bare hands.
"Bridge!"
I assume these will be voice controlled, after all.
I'm skeptical as hell as to it's ability to predict or avert pandemics.
http://www.healthmap.org/about
SpiderOak
Marissa Mayer did not invent Gmail.
Everyone knows that was Shiva Ayyadurai.
Don't worry about this guy, he got a job at Verelox the next day!
The point is that they are deliberately limiting the power available to you.
You're not allowed to use Macsyma, access Wolfram databases, etc.
You're supposed to know how to solve the problem using a particular
tool set that happens to be implemented by the authorized device.
That's what the test is.
So now they can watch you actually push the buttons on the calculator in real time.
I am sure this will be mined for scientific research about how students
solve particular wordings of problems in a testing environment.
It will also be used for R&D purposes by the SaaS company,
and ultimately for marketing purposes.
The information will not be adequately protected.
And most importantly, the human subjects have not really given informed consent.
Which makes me wonder what other information is already being collected.
Bob took 4:39 to solve problem number 117, and here was his approach.
Bob is therefore highly qualified for problem categories 114-A and 96-Y,
but performs poorly along the 191 axis of all problems with time limit G.
If the problem involves "donuts" his performance goes up by 0.3 %.
You always knew this would be on your Permanent Record,
don't say you weren't warned.
NATIONAL DISTRICT ATTORNEYS ASSOCIATION
Date: April 10, 2017
National District Attorneys Association Applauds Expiration of National Commission on Forensic Science
ARLINGTON, Virginia – The National District Attorneys Association (NDAA)
supports the announcement this morning by United States Attorney General
Jeff Sessions that he will not renew the charter for the National
Commission on Forensic Science, allowing the Commission to officially
expire. NDAA also appreciates the creation of a Subcommittee on
Forensics as part of the Attorney General’s Task Force on Crime
Reduction and Public Safety.
The Commission lacked adequate representation from the state and local
practitioner community, was dominated by the defense community,
and failed to produce work products of significance for the forensic
science community. Very few of the recommendations from the Commission
were adopted and signed by the previous Attorney General during its
existence. Those that were signed, such as universal accreditation, had
already begun to develop organically within the forensic science
community as accepted best practices, thus replicating ongoing work and
wasting taxpayer dollars.
Now more than ever, an Office of Forensic Science (OFS) under the
Department of Justice (DOJ), and in consultation with the National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), should be created. DOJ
has a vested interest in maintaining the overall integrity of the
criminal justice system while NIST has a role in the innovation of
forensic science.
“An Office of Forensic Science will ensure forensic science progresses
in the courtroom to not only aid in the prosecution of the guilty, but
exonerate the innocent,” said NDAA President Michael Ramos.
We can no longer afford to sit back and wait for the advancement and
support of forensic science. An OFS needs to happen now to guarantee
its effective future in the criminal justice system. NDAA agrees with
the Attorney General that the majority of forensic science in the field
is conducted by state and local crime labs, and then used by state and
local prosecutors in the courtroom. That reality must be a central focus
as we advance forensic science in the field.
The National District Attorneys Association (NDAA), www.ndaa.org, is the
oldest and largest prosecutor organization in the country, representing
2,500 elected and appointed District Attorneys across the United States,
as well as 40,000 Assistant District Attorneys.
Contact: Nelson Bunn, Director of Policy and Governmental Affairs, National District Attorneys
Association nbunn@ndaajustice.org.
this happens when you have a baby-boomer tech employee who refuses to retire. you let him ride out his last days as a senior or manager while backfilling him with what you hope are more competent and open minds.
So, in your world, young people with no experience in deploying networking will use
their "more competent and open minds" to do a job that older workers cannot,
even though the older worker has been aware of IPv6 for nearly as long as the
younger people have been alive. Because, you know, they are older.
Fuck You, you ageist piece of shit.
I hope someone sues your company into fucking oblivion.
Not "The Game", but rather the WW III soldiers depicted in TNG.
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/...
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pini...
http://startrek-originals.com/...
Oh, and the Verizon executives of course.