>> Workhorse Group Inc....their octocopter drone delivery system, developed by the University of Cincinnati College of Engineering and Applied Science.
Can someone explain this part? On the surface it just looks like "public education creates, private company profits."
>> The release dates for these patches is not yet set in stone, but some are due today (20 April), some tomorrow (21 April) and the remainder on 24 April.
>> Microsoft has evolved so much under Satya Nadella
That's a funny way of saying "your SQL Server and other Server pricing went through the roof"
The whole Microsoft "open source" strategy seems to be based on getting as many software applications and developers ("it's free!") to depend on the Microsoft crown jewels of AD, SQL Server and Windows Server (2012) as they can, and then squeeze cash (e.g., core pricing vs. CPU pricing) from IT departments as they try to build out a stable backend to support all these apps. That's Balmer's "developers developers developers" plan anyway...and I don't see Satya doing anything different yet.
This is a dup story, so here's my dup comment: See DefCon 22's avionics preso from 2014 to see what you can and can't do from a hacker's perspective. https://www.defcon.org/images/... (Since the summary doesn't even often a link or name...this MIGHT even be exactly what the submitter is talking about.)
This topic might have warranted a video, considering it's a demo. It would sure beat all the "some dude talks about something for flipping forever" videos Slashdice keeps trying to dump on us instead.
Hmmm...this sounds like an intentional leak by HBO to me.
1) Story is out the day the season debuts 2 ) "Equivalent to standard-definition TV, not HD" 3) "Episode four ends on a heck of a cliffhanger" 4) HBO confirms leak but can't find the leaker
Anyway, meh. I'll still download the HD version of episode 1 tomorrow from some pirate site like 50% of the rest of GoT viewership - "standard TV" doesn't do it for me anymore.
>>...constructing a language capable of replacing English has fascinated me for a long time. I'd like to start a project with some of my own ideas and anyone who's interested.......and then there are people with SERIOUS free time. My free advice: get a Linguistics degree and/or a girlfriend/boyfriend: itch scratched.
When I turned on CBS last night to watch the NCAA basketball I was amazed by the number of shows they pitched during the game that I've heard of - CSI:Cyber included. You really think it's hitting a young impressionable audience?
>> An editor for Network World....his account highlights the disruption and wastefulness these crimes inflict.
Or encourages other people to aim their hoaxes at other cities with high per-capita media, such as New York, LA, DC...in the hopes they get national attention too.
>> Commission Vice-President for the Digital Single Market Andrus Ansip said that "deep in my heart... I hate geoblocking,"
What is this crap? "Search your feelings?" How about checking to see what the law says?
>> Günther Oettinger, worrying about protecting the European film industry
Protecting the what? Bah ha ha ha, er, yes, I'm certain there is a "European file industry." (Cough.)
>> "We must not throw the baby out with the bathwater."
Sorry, but you already did when you created the EU. And if the baby is digital access rights by country, everyone but film industry business types are quite ready to chuck that baby in the wood chipper.
The real booth babes aren't on the floor at RSA. Go to the vendors' afterparties, or check out around in one of the creepy "party busses" prowling the city during RSA and you'll see where vendors have diverted their "women for hire" budgets.
>> Are we ever going to make strong passwords? Ever?
I doubt it. The momentum is swinging the other way with mobile devices; people want passwords they can type quickly on touch-screens with their stubby thumbs without switching keyboards.
Seriously - the only people I know who are still on Facebook daily are soccer moms busy shuttling kids seven different ways. That's a pretty powerful demographic in terms of household purchasing power, but to say that it's key to media domination...misses the fact that there's Twitter and whole webs of social media that people over 25 don't even see. (I "borrow" my kids tablets and phones once in a while just to see how far they and their classmates are off mainstream social media grid.)
I read the article. Even at the low wages mentioned, the woe-be-gotten STEM grad student is still making 2-3x than a barista...in their preferred field. By my scoring, STEM's still winning.
Here in the US, colleges still send thick glossy booklets full of pretty pictures of campus locations students will hardly ever see in rare weather conditions with attractive and diverse people they'll never meet. Then we wonder why we have millions of non-STEM graduates serving coffee and whining about "student debt relief" for their useless degree(s). To me, all the "extra" college grads we have in the country are a much bigger deal than "just" 15K people getting a little wiser on how the world really works.
>> If desktops and laptops had such a vast array of apps created by modern-day slave labor, I doubt people would use the inferior, small screen phones or tablets.
Duh, they do. Look at the millions of apps available for Windows machines (including Flash-based games)...and that's a big reason why Microsoft has prospered over the years.
OK, if they want to guess how far we are from disaster caused by nuclear weapons, that's fine. But why co-mingle "climate change" - is this just a "we need funding" thing?
Anyone who's been here more than two weeks already knows that most of "Nerval's Lobster" submissions come in the form of "compare similar terms X and Y often found on resumes"
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>> Workhorse Group Inc....their octocopter drone delivery system, developed by the University of Cincinnati College of Engineering and Applied Science.
Can someone explain this part? On the surface it just looks like "public education creates, private company profits."
>> The release dates for these patches is not yet set in stone, but some are due today (20 April), some tomorrow (21 April) and the remainder on 24 April.
Da qwality goes in befo da name goes on, right?
>> But you'll still need some windows machines around if you plan to run those AD and SQL Server technologies.
Plus their server connection licensing is being changed so they can capture revenue from non-Microsoft platform connections.
>> Microsoft has evolved so much under Satya Nadella
That's a funny way of saying "your SQL Server and other Server pricing went through the roof"
The whole Microsoft "open source" strategy seems to be based on getting as many software applications and developers ("it's free!") to depend on the Microsoft crown jewels of AD, SQL Server and Windows Server (2012) as they can, and then squeeze cash (e.g., core pricing vs. CPU pricing) from IT departments as they try to build out a stable backend to support all these apps. That's Balmer's "developers developers developers" plan anyway...and I don't see Satya doing anything different yet.
This is a dup story, so here's my dup comment:
See DefCon 22's avionics preso from 2014 to see what you can and can't do from a hacker's perspective.
https://www.defcon.org/images/...
(Since the summary doesn't even often a link or name...this MIGHT even be exactly what the submitter is talking about.)
This topic might have warranted a video, considering it's a demo. It would sure beat all the "some dude talks about something for flipping forever" videos Slashdice keeps trying to dump on us instead.
Also see DefCon 22's avionics preso from 2014:
https://www.defcon.org/images/...
Hmmm...this sounds like an intentional leak by HBO to me.
1) Story is out the day the season debuts
2 ) "Equivalent to standard-definition TV, not HD"
3) "Episode four ends on a heck of a cliffhanger"
4) HBO confirms leak but can't find the leaker
Anyway, meh. I'll still download the HD version of episode 1 tomorrow from some pirate site like 50% of the rest of GoT viewership - "standard TV" doesn't do it for me anymore.
LOGO turtles - here we come!
There are people with free time...
>> ...constructing a language capable of replacing English has fascinated me for a long time. I'd like to start a project with some of my own ideas and anyone who's interested... ....and then there are people with SERIOUS free time. My free advice: get a Linguistics degree and/or a girlfriend/boyfriend: itch scratched.
I guess they'll have to do it the old-fashioned way, then: sleep with someone who knows the secrets.
Who's going to see it if it's on network TV?
When I turned on CBS last night to watch the NCAA basketball I was amazed by the number of shows they pitched during the game that I've heard of - CSI:Cyber included. You really think it's hitting a young impressionable audience?
>> An editor for Network World....his account highlights the disruption and wastefulness these crimes inflict.
Or encourages other people to aim their hoaxes at other cities with high per-capita media, such as New York, LA, DC...in the hopes they get national attention too.
>> Commission Vice-President for the Digital Single Market Andrus Ansip said that "deep in my heart ... I hate geoblocking,"
What is this crap? "Search your feelings?" How about checking to see what the law says?
>> Günther Oettinger, worrying about protecting the European film industry
Protecting the what? Bah ha ha ha, er, yes, I'm certain there is a "European file industry." (Cough.)
>> "We must not throw the baby out with the bathwater."
Sorry, but you already did when you created the EU. And if the baby is digital access rights by country, everyone but film industry business types are quite ready to chuck that baby in the wood chipper.
No, wait. That came out wrong.
The real booth babes aren't on the floor at RSA. Go to the vendors' afterparties, or check out around in one of the creepy "party busses" prowling the city during RSA and you'll see where vendors have diverted their "women for hire" budgets.
>> Are we ever going to make strong passwords? Ever?
I doubt it. The momentum is swinging the other way with mobile devices; people want passwords they can type quickly on touch-screens with their stubby thumbs without switching keyboards.
>> the Superintendent (said) the hackers did not access any personal information about students, families or teachers
He knows this because the hackers told him?
Seriously - the only people I know who are still on Facebook daily are soccer moms busy shuttling kids seven different ways. That's a pretty powerful demographic in terms of household purchasing power, but to say that it's key to media domination...misses the fact that there's Twitter and whole webs of social media that people over 25 don't even see. (I "borrow" my kids tablets and phones once in a while just to see how far they and their classmates are off mainstream social media grid.)
>> Scientists, philosophers, funders and policy-makers...should develop a proposal for an international charter for AIs
Er...no. How about just letting engineers figure these things out like we always have?
>> STEM is a dangerous gamble to be in these days
I read the article. Even at the low wages mentioned, the woe-be-gotten STEM grad student is still making 2-3x than a barista...in their preferred field. By my scoring, STEM's still winning.
Here in the US, colleges still send thick glossy booklets full of pretty pictures of campus locations students will hardly ever see in rare weather conditions with attractive and diverse people they'll never meet. Then we wonder why we have millions of non-STEM graduates serving coffee and whining about "student debt relief" for their useless degree(s). To me, all the "extra" college grads we have in the country are a much bigger deal than "just" 15K people getting a little wiser on how the world really works.
>> If desktops and laptops had such a vast array of apps created by modern-day slave labor, I doubt people would use the inferior, small screen phones or tablets.
Duh, they do. Look at the millions of apps available for Windows machines (including Flash-based games)...and that's a big reason why Microsoft has prospered over the years.
OK, if they want to guess how far we are from disaster caused by nuclear weapons, that's fine. But why co-mingle "climate change" - is this just a "we need funding" thing?
It's already on the bottom of every web page.
>> Slashdot is a Dice Holdings, Inc. service.
Anyone who's been here more than two weeks already knows that most of "Nerval's Lobster" submissions come in the form of "compare similar terms X and Y often found on resumes"