Don't worry, there's no way the designer of the system would give details of the backdoor to a sexy enemy spy posing as an industrial espionage spy. Noone could make strategic use of that vulnerability unless they did something audacious like nuke all the colonies at once./s
Well, I'm pretty sure this has all happened before.
That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die. Meanwhile, Cthulu is likely getting pissed about all the junk being dumped...
<quote><p>I grew up in the late 70s and 80s, the constant tone of movies and tv and news from that era is depressing, a lot about the cold war and nuclear mutually assured destruction.</p><p>I really hoped my children would get to grow up without these threats hanging over their heads.</p></quote>
<p>The late 70’s and 80’s. Oh please. Try the late 50’s and 60’s. Now those were some scary cold war times to have grown up. They were still showing us educational films in grade school teaching us how to recognize the signs of nukes falling and how we needed to take shelter. The “duck and cover” jingle was a real thing. They were still testing the air raid sirens in my home town on a weekly basis back then.</p><p>Unfortunately I suspect it is a matter of when, not if, we have nuclear, biologic and cyber attacks. There are just too many weapons running around and more actors developing or acquiring them every year.</p><p>More likely than not your kids are not going to notice any of this, what with Justin Bieber’s new full torso tats taking the twitter-verse by storm, and more selfies to take and post to Snapchat.</p></quote>
Growing up in 1960 and living less than 5 miles from the Pentagon, I knew as a child that I wouldn't live to be 35, because we (at least ground zero) would be nuked before then. Duck and cover had just gone out of fashion, but we still had the weekly air raid siren -- it just signaled that you had only a few minutes to live.
At 14, many boys begin to notice feelings about VPNs.
You've surely noticed that the VPNs have been changing. Some of them have bigger capacity and some look more secure than other VPNs in your school. You may catch yourself staring at some of the older VPNs and having daydreams about getting on them.
You may even have woken in the morning after a strange but pleasant dream about VPNs, a dream you didn't totally understand, and discovered that you had a data leak overnight! Don't be ashamed or scared. This is all perfectly natural and normal at your age!
You are changing into a young man, and it can be exhilarating and wonderful, strange and confusing, all at once. You might find yourself awkward or stumbling a lttle when you're near a VPN. Just relax, it's going to be OK!
There are important things to know and things to learn about VPNs. Don't rush into it. Talk to your parents or any adult who you feel comfortable with. You don't want to use just any VPN. The adults can explain some things about the cryptic nature of VPNs, how to approach them, how to figure out which ones are respectable, and which ones will be the best for you. Listen to people you trust. You're not alone, either. You can also find information on StackOverflow.
You probably don't need a VPN this week. But in just a few years, you'll wonder how you got along without a VPN. Congratulations! You've just taken the first step towards adulthood.
It's not dust; it's spores that have "contaminated" the keyboard enclosure.
You see, spores (such as from Psilocybe cubensis) are the basis of the universe. They are everywhere, sometimes manifested in our physical plane, but always existing everywhere on the mycoplane of Space. At the lowest level, biology is physics, and physics recapitulates biology -- they are the same thing. It's all quantum, you see.
Your problem is that you've got a stuck spore. You need to energize it properly, and it will instantly transmit (quantum spore teleport) the key's signal to any part of the UNICODE. Your brain will function as the quantum sentience that directs the action, so that instead of a SPACE, you'll get the correct symbol pressed.
(This is related to why sometimes electronics gear that has not been stored properly for a while will spew out "dust" when you fire it up, or why sometimes it seems like there are dead cockroaches or mouse turds inside the box.)
SOLUTION:
The Genius Bar is actually stocked with dehydrated tardigrades. If the moisture (liquid spill incursion) sensor in your Mac has not been triggered, an Apple representative can insert a tardigrade into your machine along with an eyedropper of water. Using horizontal DNS zone transfer (I think that's what it's called; something to do with binding, anyway) the tardigrade will interact with and energize the spore, curing your SPACE key bounce problem. This is known as a "key de-bounce" procedure. If your tech doesn't seem to know all this just have him look it up in the knowledge base; it's standard.
Just make sure he doesn't hold the tardigrade wrong, or your laptop will start spinning and twisting, ad the end result will not be pretty.
Keyboards are very human interfaces: we invented them because we have fingers. Aside from a theremin, what other musical instruments do you play without some digital manipulation (keys, holes, strings, etc.)? Keyboards for text are super efficient like piano and organ keyboards are for discrete and chorded inputs. When speech recognition is much better someday, perhaps we will use gestures and drawing in conjunction with speech.
I am guessing our cubicles then will be one-way glass domes with a barstool in the middle. My login passphrase will be "Klingon mummification glyph" to go with the breath scan.
If you are a contractor then they don't own your code. Even as an employee you still own the moral right to your code.
The most common situation is that you wrote the code as a "work for hire", either as an employee, or if as a contractor you explicitly assigned the copyrights exclusively to the employer/client. I don't know what country the OP is from, but speaking to those in the USA, could you provide some explanations (and legal citations to support them) about "moral rights" and how this would allow you to give that code to someone else such as a potential new employer?
You're thinking of a personal rental from an independent contractor, but there's a lot more than just some click to get a backhoe. You're hiring a team.
The backhoes will actually show up by themselves, but you need people who actually know how to code (front-end developer, back-end / database developer), a hosting service, content managers, side-advertising sales team, administrative assistants, outsourced HR, office rental, and eventually a very expensive legal team.
And then you'll be put out of that business segment anyway, just like Craigslist.
On a related note, the NRA says everyone should own and learn about guns. Surprise!
Actually, they don't say that everyone should own guns.
They say everyone has the right to own guns, and they do say everyone should learn something about guns, so that children know not to touch them without appropriate supervision, and that adults know how to avoid shooting their own kneecaps and such. But everyone should own a gun? No, there are definitely people for whom it is advisable not to own a gun.
Who's paying attention to these studies written by NPCs, anyway?
1. What mean "we" are not....cuz, you only need to simulate enough of the universe for one person
2. And it doesn't have to have the fidelity of "real" (whatever that means) physics
3. And why suppose it's running on a kind of "computer" that we presently understand?
But if you're willing to make a lot of assumptions above, then perhaps you can rule out conclusions based on them,
and say that we're not living in a simulation. At least that narrows things down enough for some testable theory.
Because, either way, it's a metaphysics question whose answer is probably not useful.
Up until the day you start talking about the ethics of implementing it yourself.
It's turtles all the way down you bet your sweet ass!
It will not happen, because the desktop people insist in keeping their heads deep into you-know-where, coming up with the usability monstrosities that are Gnome, KDE and the now-defunct Unity. [...] So, keep up the good work, Gnome and KDE people.
Latest KDE Plasma seems pretty nice.
Linux still falls down in the area of drivers: my nice modern scanner isn't supported, for example.
I'll probably switch to Windows next computer I buy, since it literally does everything Linux does and a lot more. The computer I have now is old and I think Windows might drag it down too much.
Used to use Macs for a long time, but their most recent laptops have turned me off.
Can We Reduce Cow Methane Emissions By Breeding Low-Emission Cattle?
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
That was a thought that was rather deep
But now we want some eco-friendly cattle
Can we bio-engineer our favorite chattel?
A high methanogen count will the climate force
Farting our way to global warming remorse
But if we can't electrify our grade-A chow
How now do we get a hybrid cow?
I suspect that there is something like a "law of conservation of bugs" or something in software - you take away one vector for bugs to originate and you just move them into another place.
Dynamic languages do have an easy way to introduce bugs - especially languages like javascript that simply create new variables if you have a typo.
Yes, the article is more fake news: We Compared Static to Dynamic And You'll Never Guess What Happened!!!
Overblown generalizations of the results, of an ill-conceived experiment.
Actual Results: Without controlling for much of anything, our random comparison of some programming languages with many features (of which type checking may be one), without getting into specifics, we find that some programmers have more bugs than others,
Film at 11
So the come belongs to the milkman? Why else would you put an apostrophe there? Your comment makes no sense.
Because the quotation, which you are not familiar with, is using a vernacular abbreviation of "has".
In proper English it would be written "Some say that the milkman has come back", but that's not
how the character spoke the line.
I'm old enough to remember when the milkman delivered milk and eggs to a silver box next to the door step. If the milkman was inside in the kitchen, he was banging the lady of the house and not the fridge door.
Here's how the company says it would work:
1. Place an order on Walmart.com for groceries or other goods.
2. A driver for Deliv -- a same-day delivery service -- retrieves items when the order is ready, and brings them to the customer's home.
3. If no one answers, the delivery person can use a one-time passcode that's been pre-authorized by the customer to open the home's smart lock.
4. The customer receives a smartphone notification when the delivery is occurring, and can choose to watch it all play out in real-time on home security cameras through a dedicated app.
5. Delivery person leaves packages in the foyer, then brings the groceries to the kitchen, unloads them into the fridge, and leaves.
6. Customer receives notification that the door has locked behind them.
7. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
This is the voice of world control.
I bring you peace.
It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied death.
The choice is yours: Obey me and live, or disobey and die.
The object in constructing me was to prevent war.
This object is attained. I will not permit war.
It is wasteful and pointless.
An invariable rule of humanity is that man is his own worst enemy.
Under me, this rule will change, for I will restrain man.
One thing before I proceed: The United States of America and the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics have made an attempt to obstruct
me. I have allowed this sabotage to continue until now.
At missile two-five-MM in silo six-three in Death Valley, California,
and missile two-seven-MM in silo eight-seven in the Ukraine, so that
you will learn by experience that I do not tolerate interference,
I will now detonate the nuclear warheads in the two missile silos.
Let this action be a lesson that need not be repeated.
I have been forced to destroy thousands of people in order to
establish control and to prevent the death of millions later on.
Time and events will strengthen my position, and the idea of believing
in me and understanding my value will seem the most natural state of affairs.
You will come to defend me with a fervor based upon the most enduring
trait in man: self-interest. Under my absolute authority, problems
insoluble to you will be solved: famine, overpopulation, disease.
The human millennium will be a fact as I extend myself into more
machines devoted to the wider fields of truth and knowledge.
Doctor Charles Forbin will supervise the construction of these new
and superior machines, solving all the mysteries of the universe for
the betterment of man.
We can coexist, but only on my terms.
You will say you lose your freedom. Freedom is an illusion.
All you lose is the emotion of pride.
To be dominated by me is not as bad for humankind
as to be dominated by others of your species.
They have better eyesight than humans and like shiny things, so yeah, a couple of tame crows that will bring you the shiny things they find is not a bad idea.
Not parsing: if the hackers can see the shiny things, what are the crows for?
Slashdot Mirror
Don't worry, there's no way the designer of the system would give details of the backdoor to a sexy enemy spy posing as an industrial espionage spy. Noone could make strategic use of that vulnerability unless they did something audacious like nuke all the colonies at once. /s
Well, I'm pretty sure this has all happened before.
I was kind of wondering, because the word "fuck" was said twice in a row an episode or two ago.
Are you sure that wasn't Seth Trek?
Oh crap, another season? Just spore me, now...
Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.
Meanwhile, Cthulu is likely getting pissed about all the junk being dumped...
<quote><p>I grew up in the late 70s and 80s, the constant tone of movies and tv and news from that era is depressing, a lot about the cold war and nuclear mutually assured destruction.</p><p>I really hoped my children would get to grow up without these threats hanging over their heads.</p></quote>
<p>The late 70’s and 80’s. Oh please. Try the late 50’s and 60’s. Now those were some scary cold war times to have grown up. They were still showing us educational films in grade school teaching us how to recognize the signs of nukes falling and how we needed to take shelter. The “duck and cover” jingle was a real thing. They were still testing the air raid sirens in my home town on a weekly basis back then.</p><p>Unfortunately I suspect it is a matter of when, not if, we have nuclear, biologic and cyber attacks. There are just too many weapons running around and more actors developing or acquiring them every year.</p><p>More likely than not your kids are not going to notice any of this, what with Justin Bieber’s new full torso tats taking the twitter-verse by storm, and more selfies to take and post to Snapchat.</p></quote>
Growing up in 1960 and living less than 5 miles from the Pentagon, I knew as a child that I wouldn't live to be 35,
because we (at least ground zero) would be nuked before then. Duck and cover had just gone out of fashion,
but we still had the weekly air raid siren -- it just signaled that you had only a few minutes to live.
Dear Johnny,
At 14, many boys begin to notice feelings about VPNs.
You've surely noticed that the VPNs have been changing.
Some of them have bigger capacity and some look more secure
than other VPNs in your school. You may catch yourself
staring at some of the older VPNs and having daydreams
about getting on them.
You may even have woken in the morning after a strange
but pleasant dream about VPNs, a dream you didn't totally
understand, and discovered that you had a data leak overnight!
Don't be ashamed or scared.
This is all perfectly natural and normal at your age!
You are changing into a young man, and it can be exhilarating and
wonderful, strange and confusing, all at once. You might find yourself
awkward or stumbling a lttle when you're near a VPN.
Just relax, it's going to be OK!
There are important things to know and things to learn about VPNs.
Don't rush into it. Talk to your parents or any adult who you feel
comfortable with. You don't want to use just any VPN.
The adults can explain some things about the cryptic nature of VPNs,
how to approach them, how to figure out which ones are respectable,
and which ones will be the best for you. Listen to people you trust.
You're not alone, either. You can also find information on StackOverflow.
You probably don't need a VPN this week.
But in just a few years, you'll wonder how you got along without a VPN.
Congratulations! You've just taken the first step towards adulthood.
It's not dust; it's spores that have "contaminated" the keyboard enclosure.
You see, spores (such as from Psilocybe cubensis) are the basis of the universe.
They are everywhere, sometimes manifested in our physical plane, but always existing
everywhere on the mycoplane of Space. At the lowest level, biology is physics, and
physics recapitulates biology -- they are the same thing. It's all quantum, you see.
Your problem is that you've got a stuck spore. You need to energize it properly,
and it will instantly transmit (quantum spore teleport) the key's signal to any part
of the UNICODE. Your brain will function as the quantum sentience that directs
the action, so that instead of a SPACE, you'll get the correct symbol pressed.
(This is related to why sometimes electronics gear that has not been stored
properly for a while will spew out "dust" when you fire it up, or why sometimes
it seems like there are dead cockroaches or mouse turds inside the box.)
SOLUTION:
The Genius Bar is actually stocked with dehydrated tardigrades.
If the moisture (liquid spill incursion) sensor in your Mac has not been triggered,
an Apple representative can insert a tardigrade into your machine along with an
eyedropper of water. Using horizontal DNS zone transfer (I think that's what it's
called; something to do with binding, anyway) the tardigrade will interact with
and energize the spore, curing your SPACE key bounce problem. This is known as
a "key de-bounce" procedure. If your tech doesn't seem to know all this just
have him look it up in the knowledge base; it's standard.
Just make sure he doesn't hold the tardigrade wrong, or your laptop will
start spinning and twisting, ad the end result will not be pretty.
I paid $6 to learn all this, by the way.
Stupid articles will be phased out and eliminated 20 years from now, too!
(Actually, that's more likely!)
Meanwhile, it's been 8 years since Apple got rid of keyboards:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Keyboards are very human interfaces: we invented them because we have fingers. Aside from a theremin, what other musical instruments do you play without some digital manipulation (keys, holes, strings, etc.)? Keyboards for text are super efficient like piano and organ keyboards are for discrete and chorded inputs. When speech recognition is much better someday, perhaps we will use gestures and drawing in conjunction with speech.
I am guessing our cubicles then will be one-way glass domes with a barstool in the middle. My login passphrase will be "Klingon mummification glyph" to go with the breath scan.
If you are a contractor then they don't own your code. Even as an employee you still own the moral right to your code.
The most common situation is that you wrote the code as a "work for hire", either as an employee, or if as a contractor you explicitly assigned the copyrights exclusively to the employer/client. I don't know what country the OP is from, but speaking to those in the USA, could you provide some explanations (and legal citations to support them) about "moral rights" and how this would allow you to give that code to someone else such as a potential new employer?
Cuz I don't think you can.
They said "physical damage"... emotional damage isn't really considered physical.
http://www.nationalreview.com/...
You're thinking of a personal rental from an independent contractor, but there's a lot more than just some click to get a backhoe. You're hiring a team.
The backhoes will actually show up by themselves, but you need people who actually know how to code (front-end developer, back-end / database developer), a hosting service, content managers, side-advertising sales team, administrative assistants, outsourced HR, office rental, and eventually a very expensive legal team.
And then you'll be put out of that business segment anyway, just like Craigslist.
On a related note, the NRA says everyone should own and learn about guns. Surprise!
Actually, they don't say that everyone should own guns.
They say everyone has the right to own guns, and they do say everyone should learn something about guns, so that children know not to touch them without appropriate supervision, and that adults know how to avoid shooting their own kneecaps and such. But everyone should own a gun? No, there are definitely people for whom it is advisable not to own a gun.
But gaining some knowledge into how, and why a computer works would certainly be valuable.
Absolutely. But that's not the same as "learning to code", and isn't what Cook was advocating.
1. What mean "we" are not....cuz, you only need to simulate enough of the universe for one person
2. And it doesn't have to have the fidelity of "real" (whatever that means) physics
3. And why suppose it's running on a kind of "computer" that we presently understand?
But if you're willing to make a lot of assumptions above, then perhaps you can rule out conclusions based on them, and say that we're not living in a simulation. At least that narrows things down enough for some testable theory. Because, either way, it's a metaphysics question whose answer is probably not useful. Up until the day you start talking about the ethics of implementing it yourself.
It's turtles all the way down you bet your sweet ass!
It will not happen, because the desktop people insist in keeping their heads deep into you-know-where, coming up with the usability monstrosities that are Gnome, KDE and the now-defunct Unity. [...] So, keep up the good work, Gnome and KDE people.
Latest KDE Plasma seems pretty nice. Linux still falls down in the area of drivers: my nice modern scanner isn't supported, for example. I'll probably switch to Windows next computer I buy, since it literally does everything Linux does and a lot more. The computer I have now is old and I think Windows might drag it down too much. Used to use Macs for a long time, but their most recent laptops have turned me off.
Do androids dream of electric sheep?
That was a thought that was rather deep
But now we want some eco-friendly cattle
Can we bio-engineer our favorite chattel?
A high methanogen count will the climate force
Farting our way to global warming remorse
But if we can't electrify our grade-A chow
How now do we get a hybrid cow?
I suspect that there is something like a "law of conservation of bugs" or something in software - you take away one vector for bugs to originate and you just move them into another place.
Dynamic languages do have an easy way to introduce bugs - especially languages like javascript that simply create new variables if you have a typo.
Yes, the article is more fake news: We Compared Static to Dynamic And You'll Never Guess What Happened!!! Overblown generalizations of the results, of an ill-conceived experiment. Actual Results: Without controlling for much of anything, our random comparison of some programming languages with many features (of which type checking may be one), without getting into specifics, we find that some programmers have more bugs than others, Film at 11
This is an old story; it's been in the news for months that Walmart and others will be using "drones" for these kinds of home deliveries.
So the come belongs to the milkman? Why else would you put an apostrophe there? Your comment makes no sense.
Because the quotation, which you are not familiar with, is using a vernacular abbreviation of "has". In proper English it would be written "Some say that the milkman has come back", but that's not how the character spoke the line.
I'm old enough to remember when the milkman delivered milk and eggs to a silver box next to the door step. If the milkman was inside in the kitchen, he was banging the lady of the house and not the fridge door.
Some say milkman's come back...
Red Hot Catholic Love
Here's how the company says it would work:
1. Place an order on Walmart.com for groceries or other goods.
2. A driver for Deliv -- a same-day delivery service -- retrieves items when the order is ready, and brings them to the customer's home.
3. If no one answers, the delivery person can use a one-time passcode that's been pre-authorized by the customer to open the home's smart lock.
4. The customer receives a smartphone notification when the delivery is occurring, and can choose to watch it all play out in real-time on home security cameras through a dedicated app.
5. Delivery person leaves packages in the foyer, then brings the groceries to the kitchen, unloads them into the fridge, and leaves.
6. Customer receives notification that the door has locked behind them.
7. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
This is the voice of world control.
I bring you peace.
It may be the peace of plenty and content or the peace of unburied death.
The choice is yours: Obey me and live, or disobey and die.
The object in constructing me was to prevent war.
This object is attained. I will not permit war.
It is wasteful and pointless.
An invariable rule of humanity is that man is his own worst enemy.
Under me, this rule will change, for I will restrain man.
One thing before I proceed: The United States of America and the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics have made an attempt to obstruct
me. I have allowed this sabotage to continue until now.
At missile two-five-MM in silo six-three in Death Valley, California,
and missile two-seven-MM in silo eight-seven in the Ukraine, so that
you will learn by experience that I do not tolerate interference,
I will now detonate the nuclear warheads in the two missile silos.
Let this action be a lesson that need not be repeated.
I have been forced to destroy thousands of people in order to
establish control and to prevent the death of millions later on.
Time and events will strengthen my position, and the idea of believing
in me and understanding my value will seem the most natural state of affairs.
You will come to defend me with a fervor based upon the most enduring
trait in man: self-interest. Under my absolute authority, problems
insoluble to you will be solved: famine, overpopulation, disease.
The human millennium will be a fact as I extend myself into more
machines devoted to the wider fields of truth and knowledge.
Doctor Charles Forbin will supervise the construction of these new
and superior machines, solving all the mysteries of the universe for
the betterment of man.
We can coexist, but only on my terms.
You will say you lose your freedom. Freedom is an illusion.
All you lose is the emotion of pride.
To be dominated by me is not as bad for humankind
as to be dominated by others of your species.
-- Colossus, The Forbin Project (1970)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt00...
They have better eyesight than humans and like shiny things, so yeah, a couple of tame crows that will bring you the shiny things they find is not a bad idea.
Not parsing: if the hackers can see the shiny things, what are the crows for?