The link for the equipment is failing for me. Did see the front page. No way that this can really be done for under $60 though. Sure, if you already have all of the parts and don't factor them into the cost you can do it for under $60, but that is true for many many things, but a pretty pointless statement.
Self wiping drives, what could possibly go wrong? But it should also be noted that Western Digital has been making self wiping drives for years, although they are not as selective or precise about when they wipe your data.
Percentages don't indicate actual truth. A survey of U.S. four year olds might indicate that similar numbers believe in Santa Claus. A lot of adults believe in a god. Long ago most believed the earth was flat. I guess if you believe in the wisdom of a herd mentality then you can go to China or India and enjoy the wisdom of the masses, but as you apparently haven't, then maybe you don't really believe that either. But maybe you can't even see the hyproacy of saying that 100% of rational people must believe exactly as you do on this subject, implying that anyone who has any other information isn't rational and should be ignored. Which helps further make my point, the crackpot disbelievers will dismiss anything. Before Curso came forward, the common argument was "If all this were true then it couldn't be kept secret, someone would leak it". When someone did no only leak it but put his good name behind it, I didn't see the crackpot disbelievers say "Oh, maybe I should re-evaluate things based on new information", I just saw more "If this is true why don't we...." type of denying, which apparently can be applied to anything and any amount of information, recursively.
"However, assuming it's real for now, WHY HAS THIS NOT LEAD TO A FLURRY OF OTHER EVIDENCE FROM ELSEWHERE?"
Already has already happened, many times. For example, respected and not discredited Retired Colonel Philip J. Corso exposed his part in this. But there is a group of crackpot disbelievers who just can't accept the truth, and just keep repeating the same nonsense like "if this were true someone would have leaked it" no matter how many times people do try to leak and expose it.
Amusing, but in the end may be very self destructive. Given that it redirects the user to buy the real app, I think most of us have a strong belief who released this. Aside from the risk of lawsuits for such deceptive software, I would expect few android users to ever trust any software from this company ever again. Heck, I'm not even an Android user, but I'm going to learn the name of the company to be sure to never install any software from them, just in case they also code for a platform that I use. If they think that releasing trojans is acceptable behavior then I don't want their software on my systems.
Google's driverless car could save more than 1 million deaths per year
What curious wording. Most safety inventions would strive to "save more tan a million lives, but this one wants to save more than a million deaths. I guess now you can just use any words in a sentence and expect people to figure out what you intended.
So from the/. blurb there is this prior art: Google home page for Valentine's, which would be deja-vu-all-over-again for the 394 lovers who used the UIUC PLATO system on Feb. 14th, 1975
I can't get upset about this. I feel it is bad enough that Americans with Cuban heritage have the right to visit Cuba while my government says that I am forbidden to do so. But this guy isn't Cuban (he's Jewish), yet somehow he get to go to Cuba on a tourist visa. He broke their laws (which really suck but he clearly knew their laws).
Too bad the data is bogus. It claims that AT&T is offering 10-25meg down aDSL in my area. The most they7 are offering is 6, and that runs at less than 4.5 meg. I'm pretty sure that the cable company (Time Warner) doesn't deliver the stated 10-25 either, have not found a user around here that gets more than 8, usually less. And I can't find any links to allow one to report bad data. What a waste of tax dollars.
Sure, free access for all,.... someday,..... which will never really happen. But the first step is to make sure that Mrs. Awagawabutuwa, the widow of the late banker Mr. Awagawabutuwa, in Nigeria has free Internet access, so that she can help get the money in her late husband's bank to the right people before the corrupt government gets it. What could possibly go wrong?
So it sounds like this is saying that publishers can have two buttons. But if one of those is marked "Buy Here at an inflated price and Apple gets 30%" and the other is marked "Buy at a discount on our website", I just don't see Apple approving that. And even if that exact wording isn't used, customers will quickly come to understand what the two buttons mean. So the next logical step is that Apple will banish the second button.
I had looked at various "media" devices such as the Roku, but all came up way short. I was shocked to find that, apparently because of their business model, the Roku will not play the free Hulu content, even if you buy a Hulu Plus subscription (and there is a lot on regular Hulu that is unavailable on Hulu Plus). Google TV was about the only consumer oriented appliance that I found that gave me everything that a browser would have access to. But at the $300 price of the Logitech version it is way too much for too little. For that kind of money I might as well build a PC that I can dedicate to the living room. I could not only browse everything on the web, but I could also install and play web oriented games on the big screen, and run other applications that Web TV can't such as Skype, TeamSpeak, Google Earth and so on. And I've also found myself wanting a DVR that isn't dependent on my having a cable or satellite provider, and it looks like to get that done right I'll have to base it on a PC anyway. So it was obvious that Web TV as it is currently offered is too little for too high of a price. A cute toy, but only for those who have too much money and not enough imagination to see what they can do with a real computer instead.
One big downside is that somehow turning a case from the typical vertical design into a horizontal case that would better fit in a media center seems to be very expensive. In my shopping I've found horizontal form factor cases for as much as $200, and that is without a power supply. Obviously I can get much nicer vertical cases a lot cheaper. I'm still hoping to find a case maker that is making a decent case at a reasonable price (responses welcome).
There was another article today about a "honeypot new release" too see how foolishly the news media would react to a story linking cell towers to fertility. Now there is a idiotic story about CPU that can be shut down by a G3 cell network even though it isn't connected to the Internet. Why would supposedly technical people believe that a CPU could be made to self destruct even though it has no cell phone, let alone believe that Intel would do it. How do you think that magic signal is going to get inside a cpu? Grow up kids, it's a bogus story.
And I shouldn't even have to mention that Intel has shown no inclination to do this. They could indeed work with a few major players to disable stolen computers when they are connected to the Internet. But they don't. They could very easily maintain a list of stolen CPU serial numbers, both individual's stolen machines as well as bulk batches of processor chips stolen before manufacturer, but they don't. They could maintain a list that indicated the intended marked speed of chips by serial number to prevent remarking fraud, but they don't. Yet you are ready to believe that they can somehow receive a G3 cellular signal inside a cpu without a phone attached, and that they would do this? Not only can't they do this, they wouldn't do it if they could. They have no intention to hand over all of their business to AMD the day a hacker figures out how to kill all, which is certainly what would happen.
Sounds like they are reacting to negative feedback. You generally don't fire everyone working on something if you really expect to sell it to another company.
My concern would be that Yahoo just announced their intention to sell the personal information on all of these users to some outside party. Am I the only one that thinks this could go bad?
Clicking on the document's properties revealed Tapanaris as its named author
Well that settles it then, because these computer people would never figure out that you could put the name of someone that you don't like in a document like this and cause them problems too while you are doing your original mischief.
What does this have to do with Germanic-speaking people who took their name from the ancestral cultural region of Angeln? Are they saying all Germanic-speaking people who took their name from the ancestral cultural region of Angeln are behind this, or just some of them?
This is just absurd. Who cares about privacy and also trusts Microsoft and uses IE? IE is blocked in all of my firewalls from ever accessing the Internet (and every once in a while that does catch and prevent something that is trying to "phone home"). Thanks for being so concerned about my security Microsoft, but I will just keep and block the current version that you forced into my operating system, for security I'll use other browsers. When someone insists on IE , I "just say no". My bank insisted that I use IE for on-line banking. My new bank didn't.
Just like the commercials say - "The Windows 7 Phone. A phone to save us from our phones". They even show how people want to use the other phones, with the clear message that we will not want to use a Windows 7 phone nearly as much. They seem to have actually accomplished their goal, and created a phone that people will be far less obsessed with using than cooler toys like iPhones, Androids and Blackberries.
You seem more interested in hiding behind the AC label and calling names than in making any counter argument of substance, although I realize that would be very difficult to do. It is such a shame that you allow someone simply expressing their own opinion (arrived at by watching "teachers" from an IT support position) to upset you so much that you would resort to acting as you did, or want to use mod points to silence a viewpoint that you apparently don't completely agree with.
Languages are called Teaching Languages when no one will really want to use then in the real world. C is extremely straightforward and easy to teach, but it is never called a teaching language because it is actually useful. Teaching languages are created for the use and the benefit of the instructors, not the students or the industry at large. I'm glad that this article alerted me to a language that I should avoid.
One big problem with this logic is that it is based on IP addresses analyzed from captured spam. The problem with that is some major ISPs (including AT&T) are blocking access to out-of-network e-mail servers, and doing other things to make it difficult for even their legitimate customers to send legitimate e-mail. So this method of knowing where the botnets are would completely miss major botnets if they are unable to get spam out efficiently.
You may say "Why does that matter as long as the spam is stopped?", but it matters a lot. The machines are still infected and could be used for other things, from denial of service attacks to hosting and spreading kiddy porn to just watching for private data to go by (like banking information and credit card numbers) and report them directly back to the control system. Making major judgments about botnets based only on IP addresses seen in spam is short sighted and foolish. And it also assumes that all botnets are honest enough to not forge IP addresses. Any smart botnet could easily forge the IP address the spam is coming from, to make it that much harder to find. If a clever bot just changed the fourth or even third and fourth part of the IP address and replaced it with a random number, the botnet would look much larger than it really is and make it much harder to track back to the infected machine, but would not be easy to detect by comparing the supposed source IP and the SMTP server from outside the network.
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The link for the equipment is failing for me. Did see the front page. No way that this can really be done for under $60 though. Sure, if you already have all of the parts and don't factor them into the cost you can do it for under $60, but that is true for many many things, but a pretty pointless statement.
Self wiping drives, what could possibly go wrong? But it should also be noted that Western Digital has been making self wiping drives for years, although they are not as selective or precise about when they wipe your data.
Percentages don't indicate actual truth. A survey of U.S. four year olds might indicate that similar numbers believe in Santa Claus. A lot of adults believe in a god. Long ago most believed the earth was flat. I guess if you believe in the wisdom of a herd mentality then you can go to China or India and enjoy the wisdom of the masses, but as you apparently haven't, then maybe you don't really believe that either. But maybe you can't even see the hyproacy of saying that 100% of rational people must believe exactly as you do on this subject, implying that anyone who has any other information isn't rational and should be ignored. Which helps further make my point, the crackpot disbelievers will dismiss anything. Before Curso came forward, the common argument was "If all this were true then it couldn't be kept secret, someone would leak it". When someone did no only leak it but put his good name behind it, I didn't see the crackpot disbelievers say "Oh, maybe I should re-evaluate things based on new information", I just saw more "If this is true why don't we ...." type of denying, which apparently can be applied to anything and any amount of information, recursively.
" However, assuming it's real for now, WHY HAS THIS NOT LEAD TO A FLURRY OF OTHER EVIDENCE FROM ELSEWHERE? "
Already has already happened, many times. For example, respected and not discredited Retired Colonel Philip J. Corso exposed his part in this. But there is a group of crackpot disbelievers who just can't accept the truth, and just keep repeating the same nonsense like "if this were true someone would have leaked it" no matter how many times people do try to leak and expose it.
Amusing, but in the end may be very self destructive. Given that it redirects the user to buy the real app, I think most of us have a strong belief who released this. Aside from the risk of lawsuits for such deceptive software, I would expect few android users to ever trust any software from this company ever again. Heck, I'm not even an Android user, but I'm going to learn the name of the company to be sure to never install any software from them, just in case they also code for a platform that I use. If they think that releasing trojans is acceptable behavior then I don't want their software on my systems.
Google's driverless car could save more than 1 million deaths per year
What curious wording. Most safety inventions would strive to "save more tan a million lives, but this one wants to save more than a million deaths. I guess now you can just use any words in a sentence and expect people to figure out what you intended.
So from the /. blurb there is this prior art: Google home page for Valentine's, which would be deja-vu-all-over-again for the 394 lovers who used the UIUC PLATO system on Feb. 14th, 1975
Google home page for Valentine's, which would be deja-vu-all-over-again for the 394 lovers who used the UIUC PLATO system on Feb. 14th, 1975
I can't get upset about this. I feel it is bad enough that Americans with Cuban heritage have the right to visit Cuba while my government says that I am forbidden to do so. But this guy isn't Cuban (he's Jewish), yet somehow he get to go to Cuba on a tourist visa. He broke their laws (which really suck but he clearly knew their laws).
Too bad the data is bogus. It claims that AT&T is offering 10-25meg down aDSL in my area. The most they7 are offering is 6, and that runs at less than 4.5 meg. I'm pretty sure that the cable company (Time Warner) doesn't deliver the stated 10-25 either, have not found a user around here that gets more than 8, usually less. And I can't find any links to allow one to report bad data. What a waste of tax dollars.
Sure, free access for all, .... someday, ..... which will never really happen. But the first step is to make sure that Mrs. Awagawabutuwa, the widow of the late banker Mr. Awagawabutuwa, in Nigeria has free Internet access, so that she can help get the money in her late husband's bank to the right people before the corrupt government gets it. What could possibly go wrong?
So it sounds like this is saying that publishers can have two buttons. But if one of those is marked "Buy Here at an inflated price and Apple gets 30%" and the other is marked "Buy at a discount on our website", I just don't see Apple approving that. And even if that exact wording isn't used, customers will quickly come to understand what the two buttons mean. So the next logical step is that Apple will banish the second button.
After a 16-hour self-assembly
Now I'm impressed, I had no idea that it could self assemble, I expected that the guy who bought it would have to put it together.
I had looked at various "media" devices such as the Roku, but all came up way short. I was shocked to find that, apparently because of their business model, the Roku will not play the free Hulu content, even if you buy a Hulu Plus subscription (and there is a lot on regular Hulu that is unavailable on Hulu Plus). Google TV was about the only consumer oriented appliance that I found that gave me everything that a browser would have access to. But at the $300 price of the Logitech version it is way too much for too little. For that kind of money I might as well build a PC that I can dedicate to the living room. I could not only browse everything on the web, but I could also install and play web oriented games on the big screen, and run other applications that Web TV can't such as Skype, TeamSpeak, Google Earth and so on. And I've also found myself wanting a DVR that isn't dependent on my having a cable or satellite provider, and it looks like to get that done right I'll have to base it on a PC anyway. So it was obvious that Web TV as it is currently offered is too little for too high of a price. A cute toy, but only for those who have too much money and not enough imagination to see what they can do with a real computer instead.
One big downside is that somehow turning a case from the typical vertical design into a horizontal case that would better fit in a media center seems to be very expensive. In my shopping I've found horizontal form factor cases for as much as $200, and that is without a power supply. Obviously I can get much nicer vertical cases a lot cheaper. I'm still hoping to find a case maker that is making a decent case at a reasonable price (responses welcome).
There was another article today about a "honeypot new release" too see how foolishly the news media would react to a story linking cell towers to fertility. Now there is a idiotic story about CPU that can be shut down by a G3 cell network even though it isn't connected to the Internet. Why would supposedly technical people believe that a CPU could be made to self destruct even though it has no cell phone, let alone believe that Intel would do it. How do you think that magic signal is going to get inside a cpu? Grow up kids, it's a bogus story.
And I shouldn't even have to mention that Intel has shown no inclination to do this. They could indeed work with a few major players to disable stolen computers when they are connected to the Internet. But they don't. They could very easily maintain a list of stolen CPU serial numbers, both individual's stolen machines as well as bulk batches of processor chips stolen before manufacturer, but they don't. They could maintain a list that indicated the intended marked speed of chips by serial number to prevent remarking fraud, but they don't. Yet you are ready to believe that they can somehow receive a G3 cellular signal inside a cpu without a phone attached, and that they would do this? Not only can't they do this, they wouldn't do it if they could. They have no intention to hand over all of their business to AMD the day a hacker figures out how to kill all, which is certainly what would happen.
Sounds like they are reacting to negative feedback. You generally don't fire everyone working on something if you really expect to sell it to another company.
My concern would be that Yahoo just announced their intention to sell the personal information on all of these users to some outside party. Am I the only one that thinks this could go bad?
According to Daring Fireball's John Gruber the whole team was let go just yesterday.
Merry Xmas from Yahoo.
Clicking on the document's properties revealed Tapanaris as its named author
Well that settles it then, because these computer people would never figure out that you could put the name of someone that you don't like in a document like this and cause them problems too while you are doing your original mischief.
What does this have to do with Germanic-speaking people who took their name from the ancestral cultural region of Angeln? Are they saying all Germanic-speaking people who took their name from the ancestral cultural region of Angeln are behind this, or just some of them?
This is just absurd. Who cares about privacy and also trusts Microsoft and uses IE? IE is blocked in all of my firewalls from ever accessing the Internet (and every once in a while that does catch and prevent something that is trying to "phone home"). Thanks for being so concerned about my security Microsoft, but I will just keep and block the current version that you forced into my operating system, for security I'll use other browsers. When someone insists on IE , I "just say no". My bank insisted that I use IE for on-line banking. My new bank didn't.
That's hard to believe. If a life form based on arsenic did evolve it would have big bulging eyes and its skin would be gray.
Just like the commercials say - "The Windows 7 Phone. A phone to save us from our phones". They even show how people want to use the other phones, with the clear message that we will not want to use a Windows 7 phone nearly as much. They seem to have actually accomplished their goal, and created a phone that people will be far less obsessed with using than cooler toys like iPhones, Androids and Blackberries.
You seem more interested in hiding behind the AC label and calling names than in making any counter argument of substance, although I realize that would be very difficult to do. It is such a shame that you allow someone simply expressing their own opinion (arrived at by watching "teachers" from an IT support position) to upset you so much that you would resort to acting as you did, or want to use mod points to silence a viewpoint that you apparently don't completely agree with.
Languages are called Teaching Languages when no one will really want to use then in the real world. C is extremely straightforward and easy to teach, but it is never called a teaching language because it is actually useful. Teaching languages are created for the use and the benefit of the instructors, not the students or the industry at large. I'm glad that this article alerted me to a language that I should avoid.
One big problem with this logic is that it is based on IP addresses analyzed from captured spam. The problem with that is some major ISPs (including AT&T) are blocking access to out-of-network e-mail servers, and doing other things to make it difficult for even their legitimate customers to send legitimate e-mail. So this method of knowing where the botnets are would completely miss major botnets if they are unable to get spam out efficiently.
You may say "Why does that matter as long as the spam is stopped?", but it matters a lot. The machines are still infected and could be used for other things, from denial of service attacks to hosting and spreading kiddy porn to just watching for private data to go by (like banking information and credit card numbers) and report them directly back to the control system. Making major judgments about botnets based only on IP addresses seen in spam is short sighted and foolish. And it also assumes that all botnets are honest enough to not forge IP addresses. Any smart botnet could easily forge the IP address the spam is coming from, to make it that much harder to find. If a clever bot just changed the fourth or even third and fourth part of the IP address and replaced it with a random number, the botnet would look much larger than it really is and make it much harder to track back to the infected machine, but would not be easy to detect by comparing the supposed source IP and the SMTP server from outside the network.