Yup, we all know that people will tend to be predictable when they think they are being random. Ask a group of people to think of a random number and you'll see a skew towards 7. But it is easy to be far more random than that. Play rock paper scissors using a dice and you'll get 50%.
All you need to do is carry a coin etc around and flip it every now and then to randomise behavior. Good spies did this. So did good submarine commanders etc.
Heads we attack this week, tails we don't. Heads we turn at the next corner, tails we don't. Heads we turn left, tails we turn right etc etc. Heads we fly United, tails Continental.
FBI can try make a patern of that but all they'll do is burn CPU cycles
Sir, that quarter you have in your pocket is a ramdom number generating device. Spread 'em.
Supposedly one of the better spies (I forget which) always carried a coin in his pocket that he'd flip every few minutes to make random decisions (get to a street corner: turn or go straight? Flip).
The computer model throws a double six as you walk past the screening point. You get selected for The Glove Of Fun.
Computer models are only as good as their data: Garbage In, Gospel Out. That's a problem with climate modelling. The climatologists keep tweaking the models until they get what they expect and are then smug because the models "prove" their predictions.
If terrorist activity is truely random, then this thing does not stand a chance. However, terrorists, like most people, likely follow some sort of pattern and if the signature "tell tale signs" can really be detected then perhaps attacks etc can be predicted.
Hire your brother (Kevin McBride) as a lawer and pay him a pile of legal fees (thereby getting the money out of the sinking ship and back onto dry land, but out of reach of the investors).
MS already sat on AUtopatcher because they said that they lost control of the distribution and a malicious patch could slip in. With the worm thing it is a bazzillion times worse. So many more potential points of infection.
The original docs asy that they have a plan to shoot it down and may execute the plan (ie. we know how to do it and we might do it). That is very different from saying that they do actually plan to shoot it down or that they actually will shoot it down.
Please editors, USA Today make fuccups like that. Please get things right.
1) For a trusted babysitter (as if a real geek has babies or goes out), you issue a temporary RFID key that only lasts for the night/whatever. 2. Xacto knife.3. You're a geek, so you don't really go out anyway. 4.Inflatable dolls don't mind or want to be hitched. See 3.
Coal is a fossil fuel. I often dig up bits of coal with plants etc embedded in them.
Oil, well there are tow camps: the fossil fuel camp (typically popular in the west) and the abiotic oil camp that says that oil is just a mineral reaction (typically popular in the east).
And in those parts of the world with a nice dole system it becomes get pregnant at 16 and go on the dole... just like mom did 17 years ago and granny did 34 years ago.
This is just the reverse side of the coin of well educated and successful people tend to have well educated successful kids.
Of course there are exceptions, but the stats hold.
What about the wider subject of ethics? Pretty handy for MS to focus only on the area that is of interest to them while acting like complete bastards in other areas (offence to bastards unintended).
People see images in complete darkness. Amputees can still feel their non-existent limbs. Go SCUBA diving and your eyes fool you into believing you can see red light when it was filtered out at lower depths. Basically it's just your brain fiddling with the volume knob when it gets no signal from the sensors.
Why should your nose (or really your brain) not "smell" something when there is really nothing?
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It was messing a pretty blue dress and wasting a fine cigar.
I stored them there.... I swear it.... now they're gone!
All you need to do is carry a coin etc around and flip it every now and then to randomise behavior. Good spies did this. So did good submarine commanders etc.
Heads we attack this week, tails we don't. Heads we turn at the next corner, tails we don't. Heads we turn left, tails we turn right etc etc. Heads we fly United, tails Continental.
FBI can try make a patern of that but all they'll do is burn CPU cycles
Using computers sounds far more scientific than reading tea leaves.
Supposedly one of the better spies (I forget which) always carried a coin in his pocket that he'd flip every few minutes to make random decisions (get to a street corner: turn or go straight? Flip).
Computer models are only as good as their data: Garbage In, Gospel Out. That's a problem with climate modelling. The climatologists keep tweaking the models until they get what they expect and are then smug because the models "prove" their predictions.
If terrorist activity is truely random, then this thing does not stand a chance. However, terrorists, like most people, likely follow some sort of pattern and if the signature "tell tale signs" can really be detected then perhaps attacks etc can be predicted.
... or cry.
Folks, we have no shortage of C, that's why there's a disposal problem.
Hint to moderators: parent was hoping for funnies, not insightfuls.
Crash and burn!
Hire your brother (Kevin McBride) as a lawer and pay him a pile of legal fees (thereby getting the money out of the sinking ship and back onto dry land, but out of reach of the investors).
MS already sat on AUtopatcher because they said that they lost control of the distribution and a malicious patch could slip in. With the worm thing it is a bazzillion times worse. So many more potential points of infection.
The original docs asy that they have a plan to shoot it down and may execute the plan (ie. we know how to do it and we might do it). That is very different from saying that they do actually plan to shoot it down or that they actually will shoot it down.
Please editors, USA Today make fuccups like that. Please get things right.
A profit motive is generally a good way to start the ball rolling. It paid for the initial setup of infrastructure too.
1) For a trusted babysitter (as if a real geek has babies or goes out), you issue a temporary RFID key that only lasts for the night/whatever.
2. Xacto knife.3. You're a geek, so you don't really go out anyway.
4.Inflatable dolls don't mind or want to be hitched.
See 3.
Got an implant.... now that shows you're into it.... or at least it's into you!
A real geek would have this lock on the door to his basement.
Oil, well there are tow camps: the fossil fuel camp (typically popular in the west) and the abiotic oil camp that says that oil is just a mineral reaction (typically popular in the east).
This is just the reverse side of the coin of well educated and successful people tend to have well educated successful kids.
Of course there are exceptions, but the stats hold.
then why not just sic the cops on them?
What about the wider subject of ethics? Pretty handy for MS to focus only on the area that is of interest to them while acting like complete bastards in other areas (offence to bastards unintended).
I have not RTFA and I certainly won't take advantage of MS's education opportunity, but I suspect Silverlight will be part of this mess.
Blogging is a creative art.
Remove the toner from the printer and you only get white hats.
Why should your nose (or really your brain) not "smell" something when there is really nothing?
LEDs might have heavy metals in them but this is well encapsulated and amortized over a far longer lifetime (100k hours vs 10k hours).