I'd set up some cams to see what the visitors point at (getting the password or a narrow alphabetical space to bruteforce), and try to sniff their smartphone (fake open AP) so i get what the user could be. That will teach those suckers to look up their pass in public
To me it doesn't change anything. This is about possible details of implementation of the universe, very useful scientifically, not so much philosophically.
You have a black box with I/O. You experience the output and can tweak the input. This piece of news says one can find a model that explains how the output behaves. You can ask yourself "is the black box containing the circuitry that implements my model"? But you have to stop there, as you still don't have access to the box. It could be the circuitry you imagined, it could be something completely different.
> So, Microsoft finally does something no geek could object to...
A PR exercise, you mean?
Did I get it wrong or the NSA or some other agency can force a business to reveal its costumers' data AND keep silent about it? If so, every privacy and encryption statement should include this fact. It doesn't? Then it's a PR exercise.
Do you NOT object to PR exercise about something as delicate as online security? I do.
If you think human behavior is not intangibly arcane, you haven't frequented enough women. Given that this is slashdot, there is no need for further elaboration.
Scientists can zap synapses to make this intangibly arcane stuff more or less variated, so what?
The personal computer is not a form factor, it is a philosophy. No dependence on centralized service, computing done by the user, for the user. Unless done properly, cloud and toys (smartphones, tablets) are a regression into the mainframe era. Give your toys enough control and you'll see.
Also, safety is dependent on the situation. A heavy car is safer when somebody crunches into you, but what about having to brake and/or change direction quickly to avoid something or somebody? Electronics forgive many mistakes but what about an assisted steering failure that suddenly gives the driver a heavy wheel, and by the time that you think "what the fu..." you're already off the road? Or what about the car getting outside the parameters that electronics can handle? From a reactive and predictable thing to a two ton, jelly wheeled, impossible to correct monster in less than 1 sec.
So, labeling the car as difficult to drive is a good thing, staying wary of all the other cars which are reportedly easier to drive is even better.
Corporations are persons and don't vote. Maybe chimps will be able to lobby, though.
What if I train a primate-turned-legal-person to shoot somebody? right now i'd be the assassin and the primate a weapon, I guess if the primate is a person it will collect responsibility and the judge will have to prove I am the instigator?
Well, technically it is wooshy on the slim chance that you consider Dutch a culture. I needed to listen to an awful lot of techno EPs and to forget about a lot of paintings, to be able to do that myself.
A race when an opponent has reached the finish line in friggin 1969?
Well, apparently a man on the moon is the second technological feat that is impossible today but achievable in the 70. The first one is packaging things in a way that can be opened easily. I could easily open a pack of c90 tapes one handed as a 10 years old, I couldn't do the same with CDRs at 25 using both hands, i can't unpack an SD card without some tool now. I guess lasers will be needed in 10 years.
I wonder if it makes any difference. A government's hijacked bitcoin is out of your control, but so is bitcoin right now since IIRC new bitcoins will be much harder to mint and papers like eprint.iacr.org/2012/584.pdfâZ suggest big players have been disguising themselves as a bunch of little bitcoin traders. Either way I have less control of the system than my percentage of participation in it. The ideal currency would let me have the same amount of control. Of course the ideal currency does not exist, since featuring intrinsic value, stable value, and being easy to trade are incompatible goals... in emergencies I vote for penicillin, ammo, and canned food:)
I am not sure Android wants to make data flow in a seamless way with linux. That would transform the phone into a useful PC companion, but would reduce reliance on apps to do the same. Android wants to get on the desktop instead of GNU/Linux.
IIRC, the LG l5 mtp doesn't work with libmtp unless maybe the newest versions, and the samsung galaxy wifi 5" media player, which thank $deity works as usb storage, works with clementine but needs some manual transfer of playlists. Things ought to be much smoother among linux systems.
step one, locate trashcan step two, throw celly into trashcan step three, get fined for not properly disposing of electronic stuff that contains all sorts of evil substances, other than the OS I mean. step four, get the jolla.
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I'll take the hello world, thx.
So, women==people, but also soylent_green==people.
Therefore women==soylent_green.
I'd set up some cams to see what the visitors point at (getting the password or a narrow alphabetical space to bruteforce), and try to sniff their smartphone (fake open AP) so i get what the user could be. That will teach those suckers to look up their pass in public
To me it doesn't change anything. This is about possible details of implementation of the universe, very useful scientifically, not so much philosophically.
You have a black box with I/O. You experience the output and can tweak the input. This piece of news says one can find a model that explains how the output behaves.
You can ask yourself "is the black box containing the circuitry that implements my model"? But you have to stop there, as you still don't have access to the box. It could be the circuitry you imagined, it could be something completely different.
This is the trolling style I prefer. Well done, sire.
> So, Microsoft finally does something no geek could object to...
A PR exercise, you mean?
Did I get it wrong or the NSA or some other agency can force a business to reveal its costumers' data AND keep silent about it?
If so, every privacy and encryption statement should include this fact. It doesn't? Then it's a PR exercise.
Do you NOT object to PR exercise about something as delicate as online security? I do.
If you think human behavior is not intangibly arcane, you haven't frequented enough women. Given that this is slashdot, there is no need for further elaboration.
Scientists can zap synapses to make this intangibly arcane stuff more or less variated, so what?
The personal computer is not a form factor, it is a philosophy.
No dependence on centralized service, computing done by the user, for the user.
Unless done properly, cloud and toys (smartphones, tablets) are a regression into the mainframe era. Give your toys enough control and you'll see.
Also, safety is dependent on the situation. A heavy car is safer when somebody crunches into you, but what about having to brake and/or change direction quickly to avoid something or somebody?
Electronics forgive many mistakes but what about an assisted steering failure that suddenly gives the driver a heavy wheel, and by the time that you think "what the fu..." you're already off the road?
Or what about the car getting outside the parameters that electronics can handle? From a reactive and predictable thing to a two ton, jelly wheeled, impossible to correct monster in less than 1 sec.
So, labeling the car as difficult to drive is a good thing, staying wary of all the other cars which are reportedly easier to drive is even better.
As I like to put it:
plants steal each other the light of the sun;
herbivores eat plants;
carnivores eat herbivores:
we set the record straight.
Corporations are persons and don't vote. Maybe chimps will be able to lobby, though.
What if I train a primate-turned-legal-person to shoot somebody? right now i'd be the assassin and the primate a weapon, I guess if the primate is a person it will collect responsibility and the judge will have to prove I am the instigator?
I duped the comment below, you can bring out the champagne.
This explains why babies see the windows splash screen and begin crying.
BTW, turns out Lamarck got it right.
Well, technically it is wooshy on the slim chance that you consider Dutch a culture.
I needed to listen to an awful lot of techno EPs and to forget about a lot of paintings, to be able to do that myself.
A race when an opponent has reached the finish line in friggin 1969?
Well, apparently a man on the moon is the second technological feat that is impossible today but achievable in the 70.
The first one is packaging things in a way that can be opened easily. I could easily open a pack of c90 tapes one handed as a 10 years old, I couldn't do the same with CDRs at 25 using both hands, i can't unpack an SD card without some tool now. I guess lasers will be needed in 10 years.
We had an opportunity for a "no chance in hell" to actually happen, and we wasted it on a frigging space iceball?
> Anyway my point is just because you start somewhere doesn't mean that's where you stay.
Said the programmer, about a situation which won't repeat itself unless we magically uninvent PCs and start all over again.
The computer average user, instead, cried: WHERE ARE MY ICONS? THEY USED TO BE HERE at every slight change of any desktop.
If the OS taught at school did not matter, school would have no special programs with MS or any other, it's this simple.
Jo dawg, I herd you liked dupes.
spurious char ruined the link
I wonder if it makes any difference. A government's hijacked bitcoin is out of your control, but so is bitcoin right now since IIRC new bitcoins will be much harder to mint and papers like eprint.iacr.org/2012/584.pdfâZ suggest big players have been disguising themselves as a bunch of little bitcoin traders. Either way I have less control of the system than my percentage of participation in it. The ideal currency would let me have the same amount of control. Of course the ideal currency does not exist, since featuring intrinsic value, stable value, and being easy to trade are incompatible goals... in emergencies I vote for penicillin, ammo, and canned food :)
I am not sure Android wants to make data flow in a seamless way with linux. That would transform the phone into a useful PC companion, but would reduce reliance on apps to do the same. Android wants to get on the desktop instead of GNU/Linux.
IIRC, the LG l5 mtp doesn't work with libmtp unless maybe the newest versions, and the samsung galaxy wifi 5" media player, which thank $deity works as usb storage, works with clementine but needs some manual transfer of playlists. Things ought to be much smoother among linux systems.
step one, locate trashcan
step two, throw celly into trashcan
step three, get fined for not properly disposing of electronic stuff that contains all sorts of evil substances, other than the OS I mean.
step four, get the jolla.
As a political choice, or long term strategic move, you might want to support the neo 900.
You passed a good opportunity to imagine a beowulf cluster of them, too bad.
Indeed, when fitness and consequent survival is determined by something else than time, it's not evolution, it is at most evolution aided design.
Anyway I have been succesfully marked as flamebait, you all should have done your civil and informative posts somewhere else.