I could have chargers every where I go, but I don't actually think about my phone more that 2-3 times a week
I use it even less often and when I do use it it would be very inconvenient if I could not make the call
(normally 'I will be late' 'meet at the clock tower in an hour' 'help the car has broken down'
'While your out buy a bottle of (medicinal) Gin'). So I want something I can ignore most of the time and
will be there and ready when I need it.
If I had a smart phone I'd be less connected, because I'd forget to charge it every day and it would run flat when I actually needed it. My dumb phone needs charging every couple of weeks, so there is plenty of opportunity to notice its feeling a bit hungry and feed the poor thing.
My last phone was 3G. battery life was great when in the city... but when coverage is poor (where I live) it spent all its time looking for a signal and ran flat in 2-3 days
Strip searching every member of the population is likely to have the whole population up in arms
(not to mention soaking up time the police could use beating up dissidents)
Probably the best bet would be jamming the wifi spectrum though that may not block modem traffic, satellite or TCPIP over ham radio
Simple Send up an 'easily hacked' constellation of satellites.
Dictator: Shut down your satellite access
US: Oh were really sorry those wascally hackers keep breaking our pass codes! Were trying really hard to lock them out
(changes password to fred ) there that should do it.
And if you're the religious type, you pray pretty damn hard you'll never need it.
I'm not so sure about that... pray (perhaps not damn hard) that you will need it... it makes it much easier to justify the time and expense needed to do a proper job
Seriously, who cares about the not insignificant portion of the population with a number of visual problems? Not me. They release the movie in 3D and 2D. Go watch the 2D if your body isn't capable to watching 3D.
Our local fleapits will often only show the 3D version or show one 2D at 12pm and four 3D at realistic times of day
I think it's the fault of HR departments. They refuse to believe you might be intelligent without a degree. Which is why I'm trying to get the degree that goes with my job. Hopefully this debt I'm building is useful.
I don't think HR are looking for intelligence there looking for commitment. Having a degree says up to two things about a person, a) I'm a genius who did not need to go to classes and/or b) I was determined/reliable enough to turn up to classes and do the work required of me for three years.
HR want type b, people who will show up on time, do the work asked of them and don't cause trouble.
In many ways high intelligence is not an asset (to HR). Highly intelligent people ask questions, cause trouble and want to change things.
I am not saying that what happened in the article you posted wasn't a great injustice. However, the article is very misleading. The article FALSELY claims that there was a "...researcher punished for finding bugs." The guy was sued because he published source code which he had while working for the company.
I understand that he only published a fragment of source pertinent to the security flaws. While they,i>may be punishing him for that, I rather suspect that was the charge because suing him for revealing security flaws would be much harder to make stick.... and if he won that would set precedent.
He is technically-correct:
Open source lets dishonest people search for flaws to exploit. BUT he overlooks that closed-source companies like Microsoft are slow to fix problems (often going years before fixing known bugs), so they are oftentimes Less safe than open source, due to inertia.
Open Source also lets honest people search for flaws to exploit. and when they find them does not punish them for the effrontery of disclosing them.
You speak of a patent system as it should be used....
The sad fact is that vagueness is a highly desirable,
if your a patent troll. The idea is to avoid court altogether
and frighten the mark into settlement.
Walker Digital's big mistake will be to try this on a company with
more than enough Scary Lawyers to defend its interests.
Crystal clear intentions it takes skill to write that vaguely and still skirt the law.... once there done with the game company's they will come after you.
Indeed now the top 80 hits on "devious, undetectable methods of murder" are all references to this post.... All you have done it made it harder for would be devious, undetectable murderers to find means to be devious and undetectable. (Although it must be said, doing a google search is neither devious or undetectable:-)
Nikon's D7000 does 1080p30 at 26.56Mbps which is 9.56GB/hour, if you can fill a 2TB flash card with video doing anything productive you must be shooting an entire nature documentary on one card without offloading the video (bad idea!).
Hmm I could imagine a '5400p30' video camera which you set up pointing at a habitat and leave it running for a day. Come evening you pull the card and scan it to see if you have caught the mating dance of the Marsh Wombat (or anything else interesting) and if you have, you can do x5 zoom in and crop out a nicely framed 1080p video of the action.
A wild life photographer could be in 2-3 different places at once.
Assuming the sweeper could be made to work with a reasonable degree of accuracy
(false positives are going to be a bit more disruptive that a crafty feel behind the X-rays).
The stopping distance of a train is over a mile. Which means that a sweeper would need to be over a mile away from the train. All a bomber would need to do is put a ~10-50 second delay on the fuse. This would make the bombers job a bit more difficult but the railways job much much more difficult.
Anyway if I was a terrorist I'd rather want my bomb on a remote control.... That way I can target the passenger train or freight train loaded with petroleum, rather than that rather dull one carrying mixed aggregates.
Without interacting with the dispatcher, you can't be sure that you've provided the necessary info. Talking is faster than typing, even for a T9 wizard. Is there any reason why you should text a 911 responder instead of just calling them?
There is also no guarantee that the message will get through in time
(I've had SMS that has taken hours to come through). Definite last ditch communication method!
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone.
Bjarne Stroustrup
I think it's a big problem with US shows, over UK ones.
US shows usually have 12-24 episodes to a series, and tend to produce them until viewing figures demand cancellation. UK series are often 6 episodes long, and tend not to be plugged to death.
At that sort of low intensity, a show can stay fresh for a great many years without running out of steam.
Thats British Brevity (Warning tv tropes link!) for you and there is a lot to be said for it:-)
Had Flashforward had 12 episodes to get to the money shot the would have had to really think about the how may subplots needed to tell the story.
I've long felt that math teaching would be much more successful if there was more context
ie what could I use matricies/for/
I recall the many happy hours I spent optimising ship/mecha/whatever design and that started me toying
with the idea for a game (computer or board) that could put maths into some sort of context (for boys at least:-)
The main element of the MathFleet Battles would be and intentionally complex the ship design system set up in
such a way as to allow many optimal ship designs and many many more non optimal ones. The rules would imply (but not state)
questions like:-
The optimal battleship shape is a sphere, but the Meson Cannon is a long spinal mount weapon which increaces power with length
what is the optimal shape for the ship.
The probability drive has a 2/3 chance of hoping the ship in a random direction forward and a 1/3 chance Drives come in a number of models
with different jump lengths, jump frequency's and power consumption. Which is the best one for your particular ship.
How many mine dispensers do you need to have a reasonable chance of hitting a following ship if each mine has a 1% chance of hitting.
The object of the game would for groups to design be best ship they can and the try and blow up the opposition.
A group that had worked out that if they could would out that if they had X mine dispensers would give them a 65% hit chance and still leave
enough room to pack a dozen extra medium lasers, which, between the systems would give a 95% hit chance
I could be wrong, but I feel that progress needs to happen on all fronts. Research, industry, infrastructure, quality of life, etc.
Ideed $270 million could be used to give everyone in the country 24 cents or provide an incentive for the best and brightest to stay in the country and for bonus points inject money into the Indian high tech industrys.
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its a lifestyle thing
I could have chargers every where I go, but I don't actually think about my phone more that 2-3 times a week I use it even less often and when I do use it it would be very inconvenient if I could not make the call (normally 'I will be late' 'meet at the clock tower in an hour' 'help the car has broken down' 'While your out buy a bottle of (medicinal) Gin'). So I want something I can ignore most of the time and will be there and ready when I need it.
If I had a smart phone I'd be less connected, because I'd forget to charge it every day and it would run flat when I actually needed it. My dumb phone needs charging every couple of weeks, so there is plenty of opportunity to notice its feeling a bit hungry and feed the poor thing. My last phone was 3G. battery life was great when in the city... but when coverage is poor (where I live) it spent all its time looking for a signal and ran flat in 2-3 days
A physical disconnect is pretty easy to do
Strip searching every member of the population is likely to have the whole population up in arms (not to mention soaking up time the police could use beating up dissidents)
Probably the best bet would be jamming the wifi spectrum though that may not block modem traffic, satellite or TCPIP over ham radio
Dictator: Shut down your satellite access
US: Oh were really sorry those wascally hackers keep breaking our pass codes! Were trying really hard to lock them out (changes password to fred ) there that should do it.
One could construe their satellite hacking problems in Brazil to be laying ground work for this position.
And if you're the religious type, you pray pretty damn hard you'll never need it.
I'm not so sure about that... pray (perhaps not damn hard) that you will need it... it makes it much easier to justify the time and expense needed to do a proper job
Seriously, who cares about the not insignificant portion of the population with a number of visual problems? Not me. They release the movie in 3D and 2D. Go watch the 2D if your body isn't capable to watching 3D.
Our local fleapits will often only show the 3D version or show one 2D at 12pm and four 3D at realistic times of day
I think it's the fault of HR departments. They refuse to believe you might be intelligent without a degree. Which is why I'm trying to get the degree that goes with my job. Hopefully this debt I'm building is useful.
I don't think HR are looking for intelligence there looking for commitment. Having a degree says up to two things about a person, a) I'm a genius who did not need to go to classes and/or b) I was determined/reliable enough to turn up to classes and do the work required of me for three years.
HR want type b, people who will show up on time, do the work asked of them and don't cause trouble.
In many ways high intelligence is not an asset (to HR). Highly intelligent people ask questions, cause trouble and want to change things.
I am not saying that what happened in the article you posted wasn't a great injustice. However, the article is very misleading. The article FALSELY claims that there was a "...researcher punished for finding bugs." The guy was sued because he published source code which he had while working for the company.
I understand that he only published a fragment of source pertinent to the security flaws. While they ,i>may be punishing him for that, I rather suspect that was the charge because suing him for revealing security flaws would be much harder to make stick.... and if he won that would set precedent.
>>>Open Source does not punish them for the effrontery of disclosing them.
Punish them? What you say?
Like this
He is technically-correct: Open source lets dishonest people search for flaws to exploit. BUT he overlooks that closed-source companies like Microsoft are slow to fix problems (often going years before fixing known bugs), so they are oftentimes Less safe than open source, due to inertia.
Open Source also lets honest people search for flaws to exploit. and when they find them does not punish them for the effrontery of disclosing them.
Did they give you the source? Allow you to modify the code running on the TV itself?
(I'm not a freetard, hell I'm running Windows, but "Uses Linux" is not open source, unless it's open.)
I guess its available I'll have a look tonight.
I concluded open source was mainstream when I saw our new (Panasonic) TV runs on Linux.
You speak of a patent system as it should be used....
The sad fact is that vagueness is a highly desirable, if your a patent troll. The idea is to avoid court altogether and frighten the mark into settlement.
Walker Digital's big mistake will be to try this on a company with more than enough Scary Lawyers to defend its interests.
Crystal clear intentions it takes skill to write that vaguely and still skirt the law.... once there done with the game company's they will come after you.
Indeed now the top 80 hits on "devious, undetectable methods of murder" are all references to this post.... All you have done it made it harder for would be devious, undetectable murderers to find means to be devious and undetectable. (Although it must be said, doing a google search is neither devious or undetectable :-)
Nikon's D7000 does 1080p30 at 26.56Mbps which is 9.56GB/hour, if you can fill a 2TB flash card with video doing anything productive you must be shooting an entire nature documentary on one card without offloading the video (bad idea!).
Hmm I could imagine a '5400p30' video camera which you set up pointing at a habitat and leave it running for a day. Come evening you pull the card and scan it to see if you have caught the mating dance of the Marsh Wombat (or anything else interesting) and if you have, you can do x5 zoom in and crop out a nicely framed 1080p video of the action.
A wild life photographer could be in 2-3 different places at once.
Creations claiming that this paper is talking about the Fountains of the Deep and science has proved the Flood in
3
2
1...
Assuming the sweeper could be made to work with a reasonable degree of accuracy (false positives are going to be a bit more disruptive that a crafty feel behind the X-rays).
The stopping distance of a train is over a mile. Which means that a sweeper would need to be over a mile away from the train. All a bomber would need to do is put a ~10-50 second delay on the fuse. This would make the bombers job a bit more difficult but the railways job much much more difficult.
Anyway if I was a terrorist I'd rather want my bomb on a remote control.... That way I can target the passenger train or freight train loaded with petroleum, rather than that rather dull one carrying mixed aggregates.
Does that mean it contains free beer??
Without interacting with the dispatcher, you can't be sure that you've provided the necessary info. Talking is faster than typing, even for a T9 wizard. Is there any reason why you should text a 911 responder instead of just calling them?
There is also no guarantee that the message will get through in time (I've had SMS that has taken hours to come through). Definite last ditch communication method!
I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup
I think it's a big problem with US shows, over UK ones.
US shows usually have 12-24 episodes to a series, and tend to produce them until viewing figures demand cancellation. UK series are often 6 episodes long, and tend not to be plugged to death.
At that sort of low intensity, a show can stay fresh for a great many years without running out of steam.
Thats British Brevity (Warning tv tropes link!) for you and there is a lot to be said for it :-)
Had Flashforward had 12 episodes to get to the money shot the would have had to really think about the how may subplots needed to tell the story.
two people could watch different programs at the same time
I've long felt that math teaching would be much more successful if there was more context ie what could I use matricies /for/
I recall the many happy hours I spent optimising ship/mecha/whatever design and that started me toying with the idea for a game (computer or board) that could put maths into some sort of context (for boys at least :-)
The main element of the MathFleet Battles would be and intentionally complex the ship design system set up in such a way as to allow many optimal ship designs and many many more non optimal ones. The rules would imply (but not state) questions like:-
The optimal battleship shape is a sphere, but the Meson Cannon is a long spinal mount weapon which increaces power with length what is the optimal shape for the ship.
The probability drive has a 2/3 chance of hoping the ship in a random direction forward and a 1/3 chance Drives come in a number of models with different jump lengths, jump frequency's and power consumption. Which is the best one for your particular ship.
How many mine dispensers do you need to have a reasonable chance of hitting a following ship if each mine has a 1% chance of hitting.
The object of the game would for groups to design be best ship they can and the try and blow up the opposition.
A group that had worked out that if they could would out that if they had X mine dispensers would give them a 65% hit chance and still leave enough room to pack a dozen extra medium lasers, which, between the systems would give a 95% hit chance
I could be wrong, but I feel that progress needs to happen on all fronts. Research, industry, infrastructure, quality of life, etc.
Ideed $270 million could be used to give everyone in the country 24 cents or provide an incentive for the best and brightest to stay in the country and for bonus points inject money into the Indian high tech industrys.