Indeed there is a strong argument to be made that physics is (part of) God, that whatever existed at the time of the big bang and will continue to exist is God.
I don't have time to go into detail at the moment, but new discoveries in quantum physics align amazingly well with Biblical explanations of the creation of the universe, wording in the ancient explanations that didn't really make sense until we understood quantum physics.
Language issues make it difficult to express in English since "is" has many meanings, Spanish and other languages are more precise, but basically whenever "God" was asked "what are you?" or "who are you?" the answer was "I am what has always been". (Soy que es in Spanish) To the extent that physics is timeless, physics *is* God and God is physics, according to God's word.
There is this branch of Hinduism, part of Advaita Vedanta (non-dualist philosophy; there is no dualism, no "us and God") which says that the universe comes from Gods efforts to know more about itself.
God wanted to understand itself. So it shattered itself into countless shards, forming this universe, everything in this universe and every possible universe. Each of these shards goes on to experience everything that can possibly be experienced, gathering up all knowledge and information. Eventually, in some infinitely distant future, these shards combine together again into God. In that moment, God 'remembers' every experience of every one of its fragments and comes to understand its own nature. In this philosophy your personal self-experience and self-consciousness is, in fact, God in the far distant future remembering your life, recollecting what it was to be you.
And so, you (the self that dwells within, the one who observes your life and your experiences) really are God.
Not sure if it is quite there yet for home entertainment, but check out Universal-Devices.com and their Polygot. You end up needing an ISY994 and a Raspberry Pi, along with a IR Blaster... but it can be a much more flexible solution.
A nice thing about the Harmony Hub is that it uses IR blasters, Bluetooth and Wifi to control devices depending on what the device expects. My Wii-U is on bluetooth, Nvidia shield tv on Bluetooth, TV on IR, soundbar on IR, Roku on Wifi etc. The system is very very flexible. So far, Logitechs support on the harmony hub has been pretty good. Time will tell...
It's like a smudge on the screen, except users would probably figure out that not all web sites started having smudges in a fixed position.
During your first week of working in this industry, you will quickly learn one thing: never, ever depend on users to figure out anything.
You can only count on users to find the most ingenious ways to break things. You can't count on them to figure out new things. In fact most of them really hate learning. They will go to such extraordinary lengths to avoid learning, that actually learning would have been far less effort.
If you've ever worked in an office setting, you will have seen tons of users who have used the same systems for years. Yet they know nothing more about how things work than when they started. They managed to avoid even accidentally picking up bits of new info along the way. Now that takes real work. If a later version changes the location of a menu item or icon, the company has to invest in "retraining".
That's what "users" are like.
This is why DevOps 'release early, release often' creates the sense in the customer that the product is constantly breaking.
That's probably the fault of the OEM - I worked with Lenovo on this, and if they didn't configure the internal hardware and firmware load exactly the way it should be, it would be missing features, etc. Off-the-shelf models rarely would have the full vPro feature set we were looking for, so we needed to do custom builds. Then it worked great.
Hah! Funny you should say that; this was with Lenovo kit.
I am not sure why you are modded -1. This is exactly why I am actively buying vPro-enabled computers at work despite all these "dooms-day" articles about backdoor access to your computer through the chipset. I do not have the time to run between different office locations to fix people's issues when I can easily deal with it remotely. The OOB is a plus over any other remote-help software that requires Windows to be running before I can connect to it.
However, I would prefer to visit the manufacturer's website to download and install the additional ME firmware in order to activate the feature, rather than having this pre-embedded on every chipset. Those that ended up in home products do not need this.
I worked on a project to evaluate vPro and ME for laptops to be used in a very geographically dispersed and isolated environment where they would have Internet access but getting tech support to them would be a nightmare. It was very hard to get these technologies configured properly and two otherwise identical laptops, same make and model and, apparently same EVERYTHING, would behave differently with vPro/ME. I found it quirky and unreliable, sadly. Its a great technology for that kind of environment.
You make it sound like that's significantly different from rockets. At present anything that's going into space is a significant risk. The main difference between the US shuttles and the Soviet ones is that by the time they had that first flight, the country was practically bankrupt. By that time, they had already had the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident and much of what infrastructure they had was having serious problems due to the lack of resources for design and maintenance.
Fully automating things is OK for certain things, it's been feasible to send probes to other planets for decades because we didn't need to send a probe. But, we could never get the science done in orbit that we've gotten if we took such a conservative approach to the problem.
It's unfortunate, that there have been deaths in the space program, but I'm not sure how it could realistically be avoided given what we knew at the time. And the number of people killed has been relatively small when compared with the various other expeditions that have gone wrong.
Well, the first flight of all the US rockets didn't have crews... so why did the space shuttle have to go up first time with a crew if its not significantly different from rockets?
True enough. The spaceplane concept hasn't had the greatest track record so far. Whether that was because of implementation issues or it's an intrinsic feature of spaceplanes remains to be seen. But I'd note that NASA, who has the most experience with that approach, has abandoned it.
The Soviets had the best approach to it; remote control and automated systems. The Buran never flew with a crew on board; its test flight was entirely automated. They considered it too risky for cosmonauts. The Space Shuttles test flight had a crew on board with no hope of survival in event of a mishap; it never flew without a crew, could never have flown without a crew.
IMO Roku makes the best hardware box specifically because they have no significant streaming service, so it's in their best interest to ensure it works well (or at least acceptably) with all the streaming services that matter.
Nvidia shield tv is way better than Roku.
Plus, if you live outside of the USA, NVidias support is literally infinitely better than Roku (because Roku doesn't provide any support outside the USA and NVidias support for consumers is enterprise-grade).
The FBI can't beat confessions out of thousands and thousands of suspects, making it harder to get convictions from criminals hiding critical evidence in their encrypted (non-cleartext) brains.
But it can't leave a mark or its not 'due process'.
Probably the biggest problem with this idea is that most people won't have anything to hide and the FBI would find nothing of value for that effort, and those who were even slightly serious about hiding stuff would immediately toss the device that had been out of their control in the trash, and the FBI would again get nothing and would lose a device.
I think dumpster diving is part of their job description.
The "article" was written by someone that doesn't understand technology.
There's no fucking way it was dust. Dust isn't conductive enough to trigger keyboard traces, the plastic sheets are (mostly) sealed, and there's a delay on long key presses before a repeat starts.
Anyone who would suggest "dust" given his symptoms is a moron.
They are Apple Store Geniuses so that's an oxymoron right there.
Think about how many religious people believe "We don't know what happened before the big bang." is a weakness in the theory, or indeed a weakness lurking behind all cosmological science.
As a religious person, I've never understood this. Science says "there was a point in time when nothing existed, and then everything existed." Isn't that what Genesis says? I would think that "Science can't explain what happened before that" isn't a weakness to either science or religion.
I still think it sounds like someone could just hold the phone up in front of you, unexpectedly, perhaps with a shield over the phone so you don't even know your phone is checking your id so you don't close your eyes etc, and unlock itself for your captors.
They could torture and/or imprison you until you provided the unlock code.
You can think up ways to defeat all of the available unlock systems. In a situation such as you're describing, I think your captors could get you to unlock your phone no matter what sort of credential is used to do it.
I don't know how Face ID's security compares with PIN or fingerprint, but it seems likely that it is no worse than them.
Torturing and imprisoning you costs money. Holding up your phone in front of your face, perhaps with the phone hidden inside a container so that only its lens is able to catch your face, is practically free.
With fingerprints, they'd have to try each finger in turn until they got the right one. After a few failures, IIRC, it reverts to PIN to unlock. So thats much more risky.
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Indeed there is a strong argument to be made that physics is (part of) God, that whatever existed at the time of the big bang and will continue to exist is God.
I don't have time to go into detail at the moment, but new discoveries in quantum physics align amazingly well with Biblical explanations of the creation of the universe, wording in the ancient explanations that didn't really make sense until we understood quantum physics.
Language issues make it difficult to express in English since "is" has many meanings, Spanish and other languages are more precise, but basically whenever "God" was asked "what are you?" or "who are you?" the answer was "I am what has always been". (Soy que es in Spanish) To the extent that physics is timeless, physics *is* God and God is physics, according to God's word.
There is this branch of Hinduism, part of Advaita Vedanta (non-dualist philosophy; there is no dualism, no "us and God") which says that the universe comes from Gods efforts to know more about itself.
God wanted to understand itself. So it shattered itself into countless shards, forming this universe, everything in this universe and every possible universe.
Each of these shards goes on to experience everything that can possibly be experienced, gathering up all knowledge and information.
Eventually, in some infinitely distant future, these shards combine together again into God.
In that moment, God 'remembers' every experience of every one of its fragments and comes to understand its own nature.
In this philosophy your personal self-experience and self-consciousness is, in fact, God in the far distant future remembering your life, recollecting what it was to be you.
And so, you (the self that dwells within, the one who observes your life and your experiences) really are God.
Not sure if it is quite there yet for home entertainment, but check out Universal-Devices.com and their Polygot. You end up needing an ISY994 and a Raspberry Pi, along with a IR Blaster... but it can be a much more flexible solution.
A nice thing about the Harmony Hub is that it uses IR blasters, Bluetooth and Wifi to control devices depending on what the device expects. My Wii-U is on bluetooth, Nvidia shield tv on Bluetooth, TV on IR, soundbar on IR, Roku on Wifi etc. The system is very very flexible. So far, Logitechs support on the harmony hub has been pretty good. Time will tell...
It's like a smudge on the screen, except users would probably figure out that not all web sites started having smudges in a fixed position.
During your first week of working in this industry, you will quickly learn one thing: never, ever depend on users to figure out anything.
You can only count on users to find the most ingenious ways to break things. You can't count on them to figure out new things. In fact most of them really hate learning. They will go to such extraordinary lengths to avoid learning, that actually learning would have been far less effort.
If you've ever worked in an office setting, you will have seen tons of users who have used the same systems for years. Yet they know nothing more about how things work than when they started. They managed to avoid even accidentally picking up bits of new info along the way. Now that takes real work. If a later version changes the location of a menu item or icon, the company has to invest in "retraining".
That's what "users" are like.
This is why DevOps 'release early, release often' creates the sense in the customer that the product is constantly breaking.
It doesn't sound like they broke the web; surely other browsers carried on working just fine? They broke their own product.
That's probably the fault of the OEM - I worked with Lenovo on this, and if they didn't configure the internal hardware and firmware load exactly the way it should be, it would be missing features, etc. Off-the-shelf models rarely would have the full vPro feature set we were looking for, so we needed to do custom builds. Then it worked great.
Hah! Funny you should say that; this was with Lenovo kit.
I am not sure why you are modded -1. This is exactly why I am actively buying vPro-enabled computers at work despite all these "dooms-day" articles about backdoor access to your computer through the chipset. I do not have the time to run between different office locations to fix people's issues when I can easily deal with it remotely. The OOB is a plus over any other remote-help software that requires Windows to be running before I can connect to it.
However, I would prefer to visit the manufacturer's website to download and install the additional ME firmware in order to activate the feature, rather than having this pre-embedded on every chipset. Those that ended up in home products do not need this.
I worked on a project to evaluate vPro and ME for laptops to be used in a very geographically dispersed and isolated environment where they would have Internet access but getting tech support to them would be a nightmare. It was very hard to get these technologies configured properly and two otherwise identical laptops, same make and model and, apparently same EVERYTHING, would behave differently with vPro/ME. I found it quirky and unreliable, sadly. Its a great technology for that kind of environment.
You make it sound like that's significantly different from rockets. At present anything that's going into space is a significant risk. The main difference between the US shuttles and the Soviet ones is that by the time they had that first flight, the country was practically bankrupt. By that time, they had already had the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident and much of what infrastructure they had was having serious problems due to the lack of resources for design and maintenance.
Fully automating things is OK for certain things, it's been feasible to send probes to other planets for decades because we didn't need to send a probe. But, we could never get the science done in orbit that we've gotten if we took such a conservative approach to the problem.
It's unfortunate, that there have been deaths in the space program, but I'm not sure how it could realistically be avoided given what we knew at the time. And the number of people killed has been relatively small when compared with the various other expeditions that have gone wrong.
Well, the first flight of all the US rockets didn't have crews... so why did the space shuttle have to go up first time with a crew if its not significantly different from rockets?
True enough. The spaceplane concept hasn't had the greatest track record so far. Whether that was because of implementation issues or it's an intrinsic feature of spaceplanes remains to be seen. But I'd note that NASA, who has the most experience with that approach, has abandoned it.
The Soviets had the best approach to it; remote control and automated systems. The Buran never flew with a crew on board; its test flight was entirely automated. They considered it too risky for cosmonauts. The Space Shuttles test flight had a crew on board with no hope of survival in event of a mishap; it never flew without a crew, could never have flown without a crew.
I predict that their also launching capabilities will be unsurpassed.
Well, it'll be interesting to see if their 'reusable spaceplane' design is a deathtrap like the US space shuttle was.
The Brits certainly have the motive to create division in Europe at the moment.
Surely you're not suggesting Her Majesty's government would do anything underhand?
Her Majesty's government is, of course, beyond reproach. Theresa May's government, on the other hand...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It's nice how the ministers give Her Majesty some plausible deniability...
Ha. Ha. Ha.
So the Russians are behind Brexit now?
Are they behind the open borders movement too - as an effort to destabilize western Europe and the United States?
The Russians are behind the Scots wanting independence?
And Catalonia?
I'd have assumed it was the USA behind Brexit. The Brits are probably behind Catalonia and the Irish behind Scots independence.
I wonder if what is happening in Spain was pushed along by Russia?
Just as likely that it was the USA or the Brits. The Brits certainly have the motive to create division in Europe at the moment.
And the USA, seriously, does anyone honestly think that they'd never interfere with the democratic process in another country?
IMO Roku makes the best hardware box specifically because they have no significant streaming service, so it's in their best interest to ensure it works well (or at least acceptably) with all the streaming services that matter.
Nvidia shield tv is way better than Roku.
Plus, if you live outside of the USA, NVidias support is literally infinitely better than Roku (because Roku doesn't provide any support outside the USA and NVidias support for consumers is enterprise-grade).
Come on... Where was Japan. I figured they already given robots citizen ship.... 2nd Generation immigrants, No. Robots, yes.
In the USA they almost voted for a robot for president. It narrowly lost and they got a moron instead.
("Well I didn't vote for you!")
In the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, the king was elected...
But only because it's a Sunni robot
So its solar powered?
The FBI can't beat confessions out of thousands and thousands of suspects, making it harder to get convictions from criminals hiding critical evidence in their encrypted (non-cleartext) brains.
But it can't leave a mark or its not 'due process'.
Probably the biggest problem with this idea is that most people won't have anything to hide and the FBI would find nothing of value for that effort, and those who were even slightly serious about hiding stuff would immediately toss the device that had been out of their control in the trash, and the FBI would again get nothing and would lose a device.
I think dumpster diving is part of their job description.
Text input is the one universal constant we have for communicating between user and computer.
And requires only the same basic hardware that is required for general purpose user input...
I've never heard of a pipe wrench referred to as "due process" before.
Quite correct. For it to count as "due process" it has to not leave a mark. Something like waterboarding for example.
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The "article" was written by someone that doesn't understand technology.
There's no fucking way it was dust. Dust isn't conductive enough to trigger keyboard traces, the plastic sheets are (mostly) sealed, and there's a delay on long key presses before a repeat starts.
Anyone who would suggest "dust" given his symptoms is a moron.
They are Apple Store Geniuses so that's an oxymoron right there.
Think about how many religious people believe "We don't know what happened before the big bang." is a weakness in the theory, or indeed a weakness lurking behind all cosmological science.
As a religious person, I've never understood this. Science says "there was a point in time when nothing existed, and then everything existed." Isn't that what Genesis says? I would think that "Science can't explain what happened before that" isn't a weakness to either science or religion.
Genesis also says it was 'the Gods', plural.
Oh no, it's just that the dust filters are $65 extra.
And come in the form of a dongle.
I still think it sounds like someone could just hold the phone up in front of you, unexpectedly, perhaps with a shield over the phone so you don't even know your phone is checking your id so you don't close your eyes etc, and unlock itself for your captors.
They could torture and/or imprison you until you provided the unlock code.
You can think up ways to defeat all of the available unlock systems. In a situation such as you're describing, I think your captors could get you to unlock your phone no matter what sort of credential is used to do it.
I don't know how Face ID's security compares with PIN or fingerprint, but it seems likely that it is no worse than them.
Torturing and imprisoning you costs money. Holding up your phone in front of your face, perhaps with the phone hidden inside a container so that only its lens is able to catch your face, is practically free.
With fingerprints, they'd have to try each finger in turn until they got the right one. After a few failures, IIRC, it reverts to PIN to unlock. So thats much more risky.