I look foreward to a time when countries that whose only natural resourse is large amounts of scourching hot desert and they are considered energy rich.
Um, that's the situation right now -- Saudi Arabia, scorching hot desert, energy rich, no other resources. (Or did I miss your irony?).
I'll start worrying when the cost to analyze all that data in real-time approaches zero.
I follow your meaning -- widespread, systematic, AI-driven abuse of these systems will require plenty of spending.
But there's another kind of abuse that get easier and easier: the personal grudge, taking advantage of any petty weakness. These cameras will catch all kinds of embarrassing moments -- ATM sex, actionable statements by parties to litigation, outright crime. Guys like us will be doing our jobs, pawing through work-related files, and we'll come across this amazing blackmail material.
There's the test -- you find this amazing blackmail material... what do you do? Turn in evidence of crimes? Make money?
Or maybe it's not blackmail, but revenge -- you find amazing images which humiliate your enemy, that asshole in the cube next door. What red-blooded geek could resist the opportunity?
The personal grudge as a catalyst to exploitation of technology -- it's cheap, it's easy, and it's going to get commoner and commoner.
All of that Big Brother jazz... that's probably gonna happen too, but at least it moves at the pace of government....
As the cost of cameras and digital storage approaches zero, is it inevitable that every machine you interact with will take your photograph and store it?
Yes, it is inevitable. Dammit.
Thank God the cost of anal probes and specimen storage is not approaching zero.
The problem with bookmarks is that they are tied down to one computer! I have to maintain two different lists at work and at home. Not to mention when I'm over at a friend's house and I'm trying to remember the url for one of them.
Agreed -- bookmarks must be machine-independent, internet-based.
I rolled my own solution, pretty easy:
* While browsing, click Favelet to pop up window with form, auto fill-in of URL/Title of browsed page.
* Form submits to database (PHP/ASP/JSP/CGI).
* Tweak database for cross-reference by topic, etc.
* PHP/ASP/JSP/CGI pages to get URL/Title back out of database.
By using the powerful processor and the ability to POKE and PEEK values in the registers directly, highly efficient code could be generated which would allow us to wrestle away from the stranglehold that Gateway and Alienware have on the blade server market.
"I submit that my client, Caligula, committed these atrocities as stress relief. He didn't really want to do all these things the prosecution alleges. His body was just looking to alleviate all the stress he's been under in running the Roman empire. He's a victim of stress, nothing more. A good man with too much pressure on him."
Result:
Caligula goes free. He orders the lawyer to commit suicide. The lawyer draws a hot bath, drinks a cup of wine, opens his veins. Caligula feels much better afterward: "Why, that must have added a year to my life!"
It's just like my father, who mourns the loss of cars with engines so simple and transparent in function that normal people could repair them. For cars, that time has past, and software is going that way, too.
Years ago -- okay, millenia ago -- any primate with an ounce of neocortex could re-engineer a lion femur into a very serviceable melee weapon.
To this day, any primate with an ounce of neocortex can make his own club. But just try to make a tactical nuclear weapon! For that, you need an entire army of primates -- and they'd better have more than an ounce of neocortex.
In "Moonraker" (the book -- not sure about the movie), James Bond sprinkles cracked black pepper into his vodka. He explains that he picked up the habit while stationed in Russia. Cheap vodka contains nasty fusel oils, which lead to wicked hangovers. The pepper binds to the fusel oils, then falls to the bottom of the glass, resulting in a better grade of vodka.
I don't know if it's true or not, but Ian Fleming presents it in a confident offhand manner, so I'm guessing that there's something to it.
Oh how ironic, a Slashdotter is going to bless us with his vast wisdom and expierence with women. I'm sure you impress the ladies with your knowledge of GCC flags, or perhaps wow them with the latest news on the anime front.
Indeed. What's more, women know how babies are made. You won't find that little secret on Slashdot!
Hear the rhyme of the ancient mariner,
See his eye as he downloads one of three
Mesmerises one of the Kazaa guests
Stay here and listen to the nightmares of MP3!
Atlantis? Because the account Plato had heard was likely several orders of magnitude wrong in terms of island size. It was (incorrectly) so large that he had to place it in the Atlantic ocean to make any sense of it, because it would have filled the Mediterranean.
[Parent}
They may be right, they may be wrong -- but the survey team believes they have found Plato's Atlantis:
"The hill, as a whole, basically looks like a walled, hillside territory and this hillside territory matches Plato's description of the Acropolis hill with perfect precision," he said.
"Even the dimensions are exactly perfect, so if all these things are coincidental, I mean, we have the world's greatest coincidence going on."
Plato's Atlantis, not just any Atlantis
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Atlantis Found. Again.
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Hey, here's an idea: The idea of an almost mythical lost civilization is common thread throughout all old human societies - much like, say, really big Floods. Perhaps there could be more then one story that fits? But, no, that wouldn't be a simplistic enough answer to be sound-bitten into oblivion. -Hemos, from the original post
Hemos tries to make a good point, but reduces himself to ineffectual sarcasm -- evidently because he didn't RTFA.
Yes, many cities were flooded and sunk in ancient times. Yes, these events have become mythologized as a generic Atlantis.
But the article makes very clear: the discovers believe that *this* Atlantis is the Atlantis of Plato, because the dimesions and layout of the sunken city closely correspond to Plato's descriptions.
Not clear what they are monitoring?
What am I missing? Couldn't somebody just install the program and sniff the information out of the packets?
What's confusing is that the original post:
Engadget report says that "Lexmark say they're just tracking printer and cartridge usage, but the registration information and packets being sent say otherwise."
Wrong: the Engadget report doesn't say that the packets being sent say otherwise -- there's no reference to packet sniffing:
The newsgroup posting claims that the program, found on the X5250 installation software, embeds itself in the registry and monitors the use of the printer through DLL files in the c:\program_files\lexmark500 folder.
The program sends the information, which includes print and scanning data, to the URL www.lxkcc1.com. According to the internet Whois database, this domain name belongs to Lexmark International in Kentucky.
As you suggest, packet sniffing is the next thing to do.
Bill Gates and Paul Allen did a good turn with BASIC back on the Altair, but they were copying the innovation of John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz in doing so. DOS was a rip of CP/M. Windows was an attempt to block VisiCorp's VISION and Digital Research's GEM... [etc.]
Brazil is one of the world's largest arms exporters to the Third World. Its first three space rockets, the Sonda I, II, and III, were all developed into surface-to-surface missiles that Iraq, Libya, and Saudi Arabia purchased right off the production line.
In 1971 a joint civilian-military committee, the Brazilian Commission for Space Activities (Comissão Brasileira de Atividades Espaciais--Cobae), was established and placed under the CSN (National Security Council). Cobae was chaired by the head of the Armed Forces General Staff (Estado-Maior das Forças Armadas--EMFA) and was in charge of the Complete Brazilian Space Mission (Missão Espacial Completa Brasileira--MECB). The MECB, created in 1981, was an ambitious US$1 billion program with the aim of attaining self-sufficiency in space technology.
The potential military applications of Brazil's MECB center around the Sonda IV and its VLS, which could be used for a ballistic missile. Sonda IV has a range of 600 kilometers and can carry a 500-kilogram payload, and is therefore subject to MTCR restrictions. The transformation of the Sonda IV into an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) would require several more successful launches and a major technological leap, especially in payload shielding and guidance.
The government of Brazil has stated that it supports the peaceful applications of space technology and denies any intention of developing a ballistic missile.
Not too heavily influenced, but enough that people understand that when you work in a team, even as the leader, your success and the team's success are one-in-the-same.
Like in DePalma's The Untouchables... Al Capone gives his boys a little lecture, swinging a baseball bat as he speaks:
Business is like a baseball team... pitcher, batter, everybody's got a job to do for the team... yadda yadda... but when somebody fucks up... WHACK!
That's when Capone (Robert DeNiro) takes the baseball bat and smashes open the skull of the guy who fucked up.
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So what if the houses get pre installed with solar cells? How much would that drop costs?
Good questions. Answers, anyone?
-kgj
I look foreward to a time when countries that whose only natural resourse is large amounts of scourching hot desert and they are considered energy rich.
Um, that's the situation right now -- Saudi Arabia, scorching hot desert, energy rich, no other resources. (Or did I miss your irony?).
-kgj
You mean, like this ?
Interesting link, very relevant -- thanks!
-kgj
WARNING! DO NOT USE WHILE BATHING OR WHILE HAVING SEX. ... Don't laugh. You heard it here first.
True, I did hear it here first.
But I couldn't help myself -- I laughed.
-kgj
What's to stop someone from playing the CD, only with a cable connecting the out to the in, and pressing record/play...?
True.
We used to do this, back in the seventies, with eight-track tapes. Those were the days, man.
How could we have guessed that our simple eight-track hack would lead to the hacking of today's expensive DRM?
(How, indeed: if I recall correctly -- a questionable venture -- we were listening to a lot of Foghat, in those days.)
-kgj
I'll start worrying when the cost to analyze all that data in real-time approaches zero.
... what do you do? Turn in evidence of crimes? Make money?
... that's probably gonna happen too, but at least it moves at the pace of government ....
I follow your meaning -- widespread, systematic, AI-driven abuse of these systems will require plenty of spending.
But there's another kind of abuse that get easier and easier: the personal grudge, taking advantage of any petty weakness. These cameras will catch all kinds of embarrassing moments -- ATM sex, actionable statements by parties to litigation, outright crime. Guys like us will be doing our jobs, pawing through work-related files, and we'll come across this amazing blackmail material.
There's the test -- you find this amazing blackmail material
Or maybe it's not blackmail, but revenge -- you find amazing images which humiliate your enemy, that asshole in the cube next door. What red-blooded geek could resist the opportunity?
The personal grudge as a catalyst to exploitation of technology -- it's cheap, it's easy, and it's going to get commoner and commoner.
All of that Big Brother jazz
-kgj
ROTLOL ... I shouldn't have been drinking coffee when I read that!!
Sweet -- direct hit!
-kgj
As the cost of cameras and digital storage approaches zero, is it inevitable that every machine you interact with will take your photograph and store it?
Yes, it is inevitable. Dammit.
Thank God the cost of anal probes and specimen storage is not approaching zero.
- kgj
The problem with bookmarks is that they are tied down to one computer! I have to maintain two different lists at work and at home. Not to mention when I'm over at a friend's house and I'm trying to remember the url for one of them.
Agreed -- bookmarks must be machine-independent, internet-based.
I rolled my own solution, pretty easy:
* While browsing, click Favelet to pop up window with form, auto fill-in of URL/Title of browsed page.
* Form submits to database (PHP/ASP/JSP/CGI).
* Tweak database for cross-reference by topic, etc.
* PHP/ASP/JSP/CGI pages to get URL/Title back out of database.
Works like a charm, nicely searchable.
-kgj
By using the powerful processor and the ability to POKE and PEEK values in the registers directly, highly efficient code could be generated which would allow us to wrestle away from the stranglehold that Gateway and Alienware have on the blade server market.
Made me laugh!
-kgj
What's funny is that we may have even infected Mars with our own bacteria when we sent several probes there.
Not so funny.
Alien microbes are less dangerous (to us) than our own terran microbes.
Truly alien microbes may or may not thrive in our bodies.
Earth microbes, on the other hand, already know how to live in our bodies. A mutant earh microbe can readily mutute into virulent new forms.
This was the gist of The Andromeda Strain.
-kgj
"I submit that my client, Caligula, committed these atrocities as stress relief. He didn't really want to do all these things the prosecution alleges. His body was just looking to alleviate all the stress he's been under in running the Roman empire. He's a victim of stress, nothing more. A good man with too much pressure on him."
Result:
Caligula goes free. He orders the lawyer to commit suicide. The lawyer draws a hot bath, drinks a cup of wine, opens his veins. Caligula feels much better afterward: "Why, that must have added a year to my life!"
-kgj
It's just like my father, who mourns the loss of cars with engines so simple and transparent in function that normal people could repair them. For cars, that time has past, and software is going that way, too.
Years ago -- okay, millenia ago -- any primate with an ounce of neocortex could re-engineer a lion femur into a very serviceable melee weapon.
To this day, any primate with an ounce of neocortex can make his own club. But just try to make a tactical nuclear weapon! For that, you need an entire army of primates -- and they'd better have more than an ounce of neocortex.
-kgj
In "Moonraker" (the book -- not sure about the movie), James Bond sprinkles cracked black pepper into his vodka. He explains that he picked up the habit while stationed in Russia. Cheap vodka contains nasty fusel oils, which lead to wicked hangovers. The pepper binds to the fusel oils, then falls to the bottom of the glass, resulting in a better grade of vodka.
I don't know if it's true or not, but Ian Fleming presents it in a confident offhand manner, so I'm guessing that there's something to it.
-kgj
Try:
Thinking With a Pencil by Henning Nelms.
Lots of quick-draw technques to help non-artist engineers visualize ideas. A cult classic, to those who know it. Accessible, informative, fun.
Helped me a lot. (I'm a geek type, semi artist.)
-kgj
Oh how ironic, a Slashdotter is going to bless us with his vast wisdom and expierence with women. I'm sure you impress the ladies with your knowledge of GCC flags, or perhaps wow them with the latest news on the anime front.
Indeed. What's more, women know how babies are made. You won't find that little secret on Slashdot!
-kgj
Hear the rhyme of the ancient mariner, See his eye as he downloads one of three Mesmerises one of the Kazaa guests Stay here and listen to the nightmares of MP3!
Made me laugh!
-kgj
Atlantis? Because the account Plato had heard was likely several orders of magnitude wrong in terms of island size. It was (incorrectly) so large that he had to place it in the Atlantic ocean to make any sense of it, because it would have filled the Mediterranean.
[Parent}
They may be right, they may be wrong -- but the survey team believes they have found Plato's Atlantis:
"The hill, as a whole, basically looks like a walled, hillside territory and this hillside territory matches Plato's description of the Acropolis hill with perfect precision," he said.
"Even the dimensions are exactly perfect, so if all these things are coincidental, I mean, we have the world's greatest coincidence going on."
Link
Hey, here's an idea: The idea of an almost mythical lost civilization is common thread throughout all old human societies - much like, say, really big Floods. Perhaps there could be more then one story that fits? But, no, that wouldn't be a simplistic enough answer to be sound-bitten into oblivion.
-Hemos, from the original post
Hemos tries to make a good point, but reduces himself to ineffectual sarcasm -- evidently because he didn't RTFA.
Yes, many cities were flooded and sunk in ancient times. Yes, these events have become mythologized as a generic Atlantis.
But the article makes very clear: the discovers believe that *this* Atlantis is the Atlantis of Plato, because the dimesions and layout of the sunken city closely correspond to Plato's descriptions.
-kgj
Not clear what they are monitoring?
What's confusing is that the original post: Wrong: the Engadget report doesn't say that the packets being sent say otherwise -- there's no reference to packet sniffing: As you suggest, packet sniffing is the next thing to do.What am I missing? Couldn't somebody just install the program and sniff the information out of the packets?
-kgj
Bill Gates and Paul Allen did a good turn with BASIC back on the Altair, but they were copying the innovation of John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz in doing so. DOS was a rip of CP/M. Windows was an attempt to block VisiCorp's VISION and Digital Research's GEM ... [etc.]
Well said!
-kgj
Brazil is one of the world's largest arms exporters to the Third World. Its first three space rockets, the Sonda I, II, and III, were all developed into surface-to-surface missiles that Iraq, Libya, and Saudi Arabia purchased right off the production line.
Link
In 1971 a joint civilian-military committee, the Brazilian Commission for Space Activities (Comissão Brasileira de Atividades Espaciais--Cobae), was established and placed under the CSN (National Security Council). Cobae was chaired by the head of the Armed Forces General Staff (Estado-Maior das Forças Armadas--EMFA) and was in charge of the Complete Brazilian Space Mission (Missão Espacial Completa Brasileira--MECB). The MECB, created in 1981, was an ambitious US$1 billion program with the aim of attaining self-sufficiency in space technology.
The potential military applications of Brazil's MECB center around the Sonda IV and its VLS, which could be used for a ballistic missile. Sonda IV has a range of 600 kilometers and can carry a 500-kilogram payload, and is therefore subject to MTCR restrictions. The transformation of the Sonda IV into an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) would require several more successful launches and a major technological leap, especially in payload shielding and guidance.
The government of Brazil has stated that it supports the peaceful applications of space technology and denies any intention of developing a ballistic missile.
Link
Google "brazil icbm"
-kgj
It gets worse. Some of that pornography has embedded steganographic messages
Like in DePalma's The Untouchables
Like when a Yakuza thug fucks up, but worse.
-kgj