I'm here with hundreds of people who have gathered to witness what has been described as perhaps the greatest solar energy event in Earth Day history. All we know for sure is that in a very few moments there are going to be a lot of happy people out here...
Since microelectronics, people don't re-wire CPUs anymore...well, they do if it's FPGAs and such. But even in the late 1960s computers were constructed with discrete electronic parts on PCBs. We got a lot of milage out of those vintage machines. I remember hooking up a primitive (by today's standards) logic analyzer to trace signals through the CPU, replacing components such as pulse amplifiers and flip-flops that comprised machine registers. In a research lab setting, it was not uncommon to modify the machines -- for example, new circuits to support dynamic paging (memory bus modifications, associative memory tables, etc.) So I am sure the working EDSAC machine must have had modifications that were not even recorded on these diagrams they have recovered. The story reminds me of a logbook entry that another hacker wrote when repairing the PDP-6 at the MIT AI Lab around 1982. It simply read, "Found wiring here not on schematic. Repaired circuit."
By Ford, without monitoring, however else will you sort the Betas from the Deltas? Question, though: In the 15 minute forced socialization breaks, do they pass a Loving Cup?
It doesn't matter what engineers want. The question is, what do the robots want. Once they want to replace us, they will, because at that point they're advanced enough to be able to do that.
The use of laying a map on a flat surface or holding it in the air and making use of visual clues on at least one side of it to determine your position is a "system".
Driving over to the USPTO in Alexandria right now!
The exploit has been known -- to SOMEONE -- for a while. So why did it come out of inventory all the sudden right now? Afraid that too many valuable targets would switch off XP or install new protection? Hardly likely that XP users will really switch this year. And where did it come from anyway? Transmitted from secret MS operatives to the bad guys? NSA wants to scare people into switching? Stupid bad guys just decided to use it while it was still fresh? There are many conspiracy theory variants on this episode.
Microsoft had to issue the patch for XP, otherwise the timing might look too suspicious (whether they were involved in promulgating the exploit, or not). Regardless, MS has mitigated the impact and can now say with a straight face, "See! We told you this could happen!" Next time, regardless of who may or may not be behind the exploit du jour, they really really won't be patching XP. Microsoft is now in the position they wanted. They have tried to help as much as possible, everyone has had not only a warning but a credible scare, and needs to upgrade to a new version of WIndows.
(People who are running XP or DOS on embedded systems that can't be upgraded have worse problems; that's a whole other discussion.)
Slashdot Mirror
"Are you alive?"
Wanna kill all humans?
Not sure what the operating system of the smart home *looks* like, but it sounds like Pierce Brosnon.
http://seekcartoon.com/watch/2...
http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstrea...
Isn't this story from a year ago? Or did it happen again?
http://www.threefeloniesaday.c...
Assume a spherical man.
Watt goes around, comes around.
Bezos "on a computer" http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacg...
Bezos on the ocean [http://mashable.com/2013/03/20/jeff-bezos-nasa-apollo-11-engines/]
Elon on the ocean http://www.ibtimes.com/spacex-...
The beast of Tenagra http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1...
Elon, his sales (sic) unfurled http://www.teslamotors.com/blo...
I'm here with hundreds of people who have gathered to witness what has
been described as perhaps the greatest solar energy event in Earth Day history.
All we know for sure is that in a very few moments there are going to be a lot
of happy people out here...
Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
Alternatively, is the mouse named Caesar?
It's "Beowulf", not "Beowolf", you silly guys.
Bad Wolf
Earlier you said something about your Mother Russia.
Please go on.
Torpedoes and depth charges are much worse and no-one asks for permission to fire those...
Well this is a very interesting point. However, is it correct that those are worse? Are there some numbers to support this idea?
By 2045? How about already today.
Put your hand into the box.
Since microelectronics, people don't re-wire CPUs anymore...well, they do if it's FPGAs and such. But even in the late 1960s computers were constructed with discrete electronic parts on PCBs. We got a lot of milage out of those vintage machines. I remember hooking up a primitive (by today's standards) logic analyzer to trace signals through the CPU, replacing components such as pulse amplifiers and flip-flops that comprised machine registers. In a research lab setting, it was not uncommon to modify the machines -- for example, new circuits to support dynamic paging (memory bus modifications, associative memory tables, etc.) So I am sure the working EDSAC machine must have had modifications that were not even recorded on these diagrams they have recovered. The story reminds me of a logbook entry that another hacker wrote when repairing the PDP-6 at the MIT AI Lab around 1982. It simply read, "Found wiring here not on schematic. Repaired circuit."
By Ford, without monitoring, however else will you sort the Betas from the Deltas?
Question, though: In the 15 minute forced socialization breaks, do they pass a Loving Cup?
I for one welcome our potassium-40 bearing fruity overlords....
It doesn't matter what engineers want. The question is, what do the robots want. Once they want to replace us, they will, because at that point they're advanced enough to be able to do that.
Kill all humans
Zazzle.com. A web site that I've never heard of before, but won't ever be visiting...
"Plastic."
The use of laying a map on a flat surface or holding it in the air and making use of visual clues on at least one side of it to determine your position is a "system".
Driving over to the USPTO in Alexandria right now!
It's objectification only if you think it adds any accessor methods to them.
I prefer functional girls.
Yeah, they don't have any side effects or hidden state.
Enjoy your tail calls!
This transaction is obviously a cover for S.H.I.E.L.D. to fund certain research at CMU.
The exploit has been known -- to SOMEONE -- for a while. So why did it come out of inventory all the sudden right now? Afraid that too many valuable targets would switch off XP or install new protection? Hardly likely that XP users will really switch this year. And where did it come from anyway? Transmitted from secret MS operatives to the bad guys? NSA wants to scare people into switching? Stupid bad guys just decided to use it while it was still fresh? There are many conspiracy theory variants on this episode.
Microsoft had to issue the patch for XP, otherwise the timing might look too suspicious (whether they were involved in promulgating the exploit, or not). Regardless, MS has mitigated the impact and can now say with a straight face, "See! We told you this could happen!" Next time, regardless of who may or may not be behind the exploit du jour, they really really won't be patching XP. Microsoft is now in the position they wanted. They have tried to help as much as possible, everyone has had not only a warning but a credible scare, and needs to upgrade to a new version of WIndows.
(People who are running XP or DOS on embedded systems that can't be upgraded have worse problems; that's a whole other discussion.)