I have a hard time seeing a compromised TV being as much of a security risk as a compromised PC. Would a TV have your personal information on it? Probably not.
Definitly yes.
Facebook updates, Email alerts and incomming IM messages superimposed over the tc picture probably would be the favourite apps. And they all need your login credentials.
It has to be mounted inside the building (which probably pisses off the fire department to no end)
I know thats different in other places, but I never saw a power meter OUTSIDE a house over here and no firefighter is pissed of about that fact.
Power cables run directly from the main branch below the street into the basements along with water, phone and cable tv.
This never has been an issue with the firefighters I know of. They are more concerned with the rising numbers of photovoltaic cells and are suggesting easily accessible breakers for them.
I'm afraid I can't comment on that. Over here, the doctor was canceled after two episodes. (I don't know what kind of ratings that !%#*&-Network expected when jumoing into the midle of a programme that's running for 40+ years without any kind of introduction)
I may have interpreted to much into the summary, but i was expecting the context of this "model" to be to find out about the relations between other, seemingly unrelated (sub)systems.
And isn't the point of modelling to look at a small part of the whole, to abstract the bits you're interested in?
No. The point of a model is to create a simplified version of something that is to compilcated to understand.
Modelling and concentrating on only a small part is a valid approach to that, but using simplifications (even the ones known as inaccurrate) is another one. (i.e. Atoms as pool balls, earth as an exact sphere, even internet as tubes.) You only need to know which simplifications you made, so you know on which scale your results out of that model are valid.
Many Slashdotters have admitted, in various articles over the years, that Mr. Scot (the chief engineer of the "Enterprise") motivated them to become engineers. He out-engineered all the adversaries (of the Federation) by making the "Enterprise" nearly invincible.
Sorry, but SF-Movies did nothing to encourage kids into pursuing a scientific career.
How many movies/series do you know where scientists are the ACTUAL HEROES? You mentioned the notable exception: Star Trek. The only show where engineers are the guys who save the day in the end. (Even if it's with technobabble and reversing the polarity of something, they're the guys who save the asses of those phaser-wieldind or buthlet-swinging jarheads)
The usual image of scientists is more along the lines of "Q" and "R" in the James Bond series.
CSI may be the exception nowadays, even if their science is plain wrong instead of made up.
I'm free to distribute and sell Ford Mustang Accessories as much as I want to, and Ford can't do sh.. against it, while I can't distribute and sell an XBoX game.
My problem with him on a personal level is he doesn't let the evidence speak for itself...he seems to find it imperitive to make sure that you know that he's the one saying it.
That's quite important, because what he says is a hyperbole you need to take with a ton of salt.
Even then he is still right, but at another level.
The thing is what can and can't be done with a computer is the kind of thing non-computer people have trouble understanding. So their "great ideas" may well be "impossible pipe dreams." I have a friend who is all the time bothering another friend with ideas for development that are impossible, things that would require an AI to do. He doesn't know computers very well so he doesn't know what can and can't be done.
Slashdot Mirror
Dsching.. Dsching.. Dschingis Khan!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdcHjkYO6ro&feature=related
Sorry, yes. I stand corrected.
x264? I thought the royality-free alternative was named WebM?
That's what I ask myself too...
Why pick up a sudoku in the first place?
I prefer the weekly crossword puzzle in "Die Zeit". That is still fun even if you use google/wikipedia to solve it.
I have a hard time seeing a compromised TV being as much of a security risk as a compromised PC. Would a TV have your personal information on it? Probably not.
Definitly yes.
Facebook updates, Email alerts and incomming IM messages superimposed over the tc picture probably would be the favourite apps. And they all need your login credentials.
...that our brain is really great at recognizing objects despite changes in "brightness, color, size, or shape"?
No, Bob Ross is not on BBC.
It has to be mounted inside the building (which probably pisses off the fire department to no end)
I know thats different in other places, but I never saw a power meter OUTSIDE a house over here and no firefighter is pissed of about that fact.
Power cables run directly from the main branch below the street into the basements along with water, phone and cable tv.
This never has been an issue with the firefighters I know of. They are more concerned with the rising numbers of photovoltaic cells and are suggesting easily accessible breakers for them.
That isn't a side of their rise to power at all. It's much older.
I'm afraid I can't comment on that. Over here, the doctor was canceled after two episodes. (I don't know what kind of ratings that !%#*&-Network expected when jumoing into the midle of a programme that's running for 40+ years without any kind of introduction)
I may have interpreted to much into the summary, but i was expecting the context of this "model" to be to find out about the relations between other, seemingly unrelated (sub)systems.
And isn't the point of modelling to look at a small part of the whole, to abstract the bits you're interested in?
No. The point of a model is to create a simplified version of something that is to compilcated to understand.
Modelling and concentrating on only a small part is a valid approach to that, but using simplifications (even the ones known as inaccurrate) is another one. (i.e. Atoms as pool balls, earth as an exact sphere, even internet as tubes.) You only need to know which simplifications you made, so you know on which scale your results out of that model are valid.
It's just another model at another scale.
Sometimes you need alrge scale models, and sometimes you need small scale models.
This would be nothing more than a very large scale model, just not in a spatial sense, as the sub-models in use there are already on a globale scale.
Yes, it's computationally expensive, but if you have the hardware to throw at it - just do it.
Nothing. It's part of the "if you want to know something, build an experiment to find it out!"-approach that's the core of science too.
Many Slashdotters have admitted, in various articles over the years, that Mr. Scot (the chief engineer of the "Enterprise") motivated them to become engineers. He out-engineered all the adversaries (of the Federation) by making the "Enterprise" nearly invincible.
And probably everyone else IN the Federation....
Sorry, but SF-Movies did nothing to encourage kids into pursuing a scientific career.
How many movies/series do you know where scientists are the ACTUAL HEROES? You mentioned the notable exception: Star Trek. The only show where engineers are the guys who save the day in the end. (Even if it's with technobabble and reversing the polarity of something, they're the guys who save the asses of those phaser-wieldind or buthlet-swinging jarheads)
The usual image of scientists is more along the lines of "Q" and "R" in the James Bond series.
CSI may be the exception nowadays, even if their science is plain wrong instead of made up.
But after several years of coding you probably got enough typing practice to have some decent typing speed anyway.
Well.. is there even a single indie console game out that is sold boxed and/or runs on an unmodded console?
DRM
The box simply won't run your disc.
But thats's exactly the difference!
I'm free to distribute and sell Ford Mustang Accessories as much as I want to, and Ford can't do sh.. against it, while I can't distribute and sell an XBoX game.
The Data localy stored on some noobs virus ridden harddisk is not exactly what I'd call "safe".
My problem with him on a personal level is he doesn't let the evidence speak for itself...he seems to find it imperitive to make sure that you know that he's the one saying it.
That's quite important, because what he says is a hyperbole you need to take with a ton of salt.
Even then he is still right, but at another level.
And what else do you think I need my howitzer for??
And how to make people buy them!
The thing is what can and can't be done with a computer is the kind of thing non-computer people have trouble understanding. So their "great ideas" may well be "impossible pipe dreams." I have a friend who is all the time bothering another friend with ideas for development that are impossible, things that would require an AI to do. He doesn't know computers very well so he doesn't know what can and can't be done.
Something along the lines of that?
http://blog.beetlebum.de/2010/03/03/forgotten-attachment-detector/
(Sorry,it's a german cartoon. Here's the rough translation)
"You're a CS major. why can't a mail client tell be before sending a mail if I forgot to attach an attachment"
[explanation]
"And then Gmail came along with the 'forgotten attachment detector'"
"Did you try searching for the keyword "attachment?"