There's a point to be made there. If you want the machines to appear more human, perhaps you should ask the machines whether what they're communicating with is a human or not. That's surely a learning experience for the machine that it could incorporate into itself to appear more human.
I'm a boatman. Gee I'm sore. I came home without an oar. Dance boatman dance Dance boatman dance
Dance all night 'til the broad daylight Go home with the gals in the mornin' Hey, ho, boatman row Sailing down the river on the O-hi-o Hey, ho, boatman row Sailing down the river on the O-hi-o
Well, my shipping line doesn't maim endangered species, but the engines do burn babies to run, does that qualify?
At a local Saturn dealership, I asked if they had any vehicles that ran on electricity? (No.) Natural gas? (No.) Hydrogen? (No.) The tears of small children? (No, but we are working on that.)
In an alert issued on Monday, US-CERT said Microsoft's instructions on turning off Autorun are "not fully effective" and "could be considered a vulnerability."
[several paragraphs later]
Instead, users should make a different modification to the Windows registry, US-CERT said. In the alert, it gave the new value as well as instructions on how to copy it to Windows Notepad and import it into the registry.
Hey, Computerworld editors (and to whomever else it may concern): when you finally tell the reader that the alert contains information the user wants to know, it might be a good idea to link to that source again so the reader doesn't have to search back in the article to find the previously supplied link. Further, I'd suggest using a link to the named anchor when available where the solution is provided to make it even easier.
Still, the best target for a hackable box would be one from a company that produces a more powerful box, especially if there's very little if anything to distinguish them from the outside other than open holes in the backplate. To reduce cost of production, they might just have parts and not the ports, or the parts may be installable by a technically skilled end-user.
A case in point was a TV with a remote that had no digit buttons. The traces were on the board inside, it would send the signals if a button would make the connection, and the TV would respond, but the remote just didn't provide the buttons and the holes were covered over. I also discovered an old 2-13 monaural VCR that would respond to the digit buttons of a more modern VCR's remote (button 1 was channel 2, 2 was channel 3, etc., and 0 was channel 11, but nothing would get 12 or 13).
Many early cable boxes would have had Firewire out if they'd just installed the ports, a couple standard chips to the board, and applied a patch to the firmware, and if it wasn't a felony to open and modify them people would have.
Not quite "dead and buried" - turns out that some broadcasters are using it anyway and some tuners are obeying it anyway. In fact, our buddy Microsoft is lead[ing] the charge.
Not just Microsoft. The last time I tried to record a college football game from KLKN-DT, it was flagged "Copy Once". I could get neither VLC nor MPEG Streamclip on my Macintosh to play the resulting recording. I could however play recordings from the same game broadcast on KETV-DT that were marked "Copy Freely". Recording application was AVC Video Cap (which requires recompilation with patches to do delayed timed recording as of 2009, left as an exercise for the reader).
All those nights when you got no lights the check was in the mail And your little angel hung the cat up by its tail And your third fiancée didn't show Sometimes you wanna go...
As for the DMCA, half the the law is specifically about "access control" which has nothing to do with copyright. Throughout time, no artist has ever had the right to demand that people gaze upon their [work] and see only the glory of his genius. Well, they could, but they had absolutely no recourse until the DMCA came along and decided that copyright holders should have the right to decide how their customers see their work.
I can think of at least one: stage performers--particularly magicians and illusionists--may sue for trespass anyone who attempts to view the act from behind the stage without permission. Perhaps even for attempting to "steal" trade secrets. Though they could charge you with attempted assault on the performers depending on the perceived nature of the infraction.
The electronic access controls could be akin to the staging a venue for a performance, especially one with security guards.
I'm only being a Devil's Advocate. I don't necessarily agree with this analogy.
I have a feeling this will take the same course. It'll be used at first for medicine, yea. But eventually it'll find its way into classrooms, to the disdain of the teachers. After another era it will become accepted for use, and finally required. It's not hard to imagine a course that along side of the necessary books lists the prescription for the drugs you'll be required to take.
Don't get me wrong though, it's not a bad thing. It's simply society changing. I for one welcome it (and I'm not just playing on the/. gag).
Everything you think, do, and say Is in the pill you took today.
I agree. Soldiers and military contractors playing with (and joking about) new tech is perfectly reasonable.
"Our studies indicate that this type of weapon is totally useless in warfare." "Well, it's not intended for use in your kind of warfare, Roy. It's the perfect peacetime weapon. That's why its secret." "So it's both immoral and unethical." "Yes." [Laughter all around]
maybe not the US military but I'm sure many of the poorer militaries around the world could use something like this. not to mention hunters everywhere, the majority of whom aren't wealthy.
But I thought Apple was more protective of its branding to an extent of not allowing its computers to be depicted in movies as killing people for example. This application is available from the iTunes store for $11.99; I would have thought Apple would refuse to carry it and they'd have to use hacked devices to run it.
But you have no right whatsoever to look through the contents of my phone.
They may have looked at the contents in order to identify the owner of the phone so that it could be returned to the proper owner.
I would also guess those teachers showed each other the photos for awhile before acting on them. This from first-hand knowledge of teachers in what was to become my high school watching students have sex in a car after school in the parking lot.
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Will this include a commemorative model Macintosh like the 20th Anniversary did? (I own two, one dead by lightning strike.)
There's a point to be made there. If you want the machines to appear more human, perhaps you should ask the machines whether what they're communicating with is a human or not. That's surely a learning experience for the machine that it could incorporate into itself to appear more human.
I'm a boatman. Gee I'm sore.
I came home without an oar.
Dance boatman dance
Dance boatman dance
Dance all night 'til the broad daylight
Go home with the gals in the mornin'
Hey, ho, boatman row
Sailing down the river on the O-hi-o
Hey, ho, boatman row
Sailing down the river on the O-hi-o
The demo boat was 2 centimeters long and was navigating a small dish of water.
How big will it need to be to support the weight of a human? And will it then be to the scale of a surfboard?
Could I get the technology embedded in the soles of a pair of sandals?
Well, my shipping line doesn't maim endangered species, but the engines do burn babies to run, does that qualify?
At a local Saturn dealership, I asked if they had any vehicles that ran on electricity? (No.) Natural gas? (No.) Hydrogen? (No.) The tears of small children? (No, but we are working on that.)
In an alert issued on Monday, US-CERT said Microsoft's instructions on turning off Autorun are "not fully effective" and "could be considered a vulnerability."
[several paragraphs later]
Instead, users should make a different modification to the Windows registry, US-CERT said. In the alert, it gave the new value as well as instructions on how to copy it to Windows Notepad and import it into the registry.
Hey, Computerworld editors (and to whomever else it may concern): when you finally tell the reader that the alert contains information the user wants to know, it might be a good idea to link to that source again so the reader doesn't have to search back in the article to find the previously supplied link. Further, I'd suggest using a link to the named anchor when available where the solution is provided to make it even easier.
Still, the best target for a hackable box would be one from a company that produces a more powerful box, especially if there's very little if anything to distinguish them from the outside other than open holes in the backplate. To reduce cost of production, they might just have parts and not the ports, or the parts may be installable by a technically skilled end-user.
A case in point was a TV with a remote that had no digit buttons. The traces were on the board inside, it would send the signals if a button would make the connection, and the TV would respond, but the remote just didn't provide the buttons and the holes were covered over. I also discovered an old 2-13 monaural VCR that would respond to the digit buttons of a more modern VCR's remote (button 1 was channel 2, 2 was channel 3, etc., and 0 was channel 11, but nothing would get 12 or 13).
Many early cable boxes would have had Firewire out if they'd just installed the ports, a couple standard chips to the board, and applied a patch to the firmware, and if it wasn't a felony to open and modify them people would have.
Not quite "dead and buried" - turns out that some broadcasters are using it anyway and some tuners are obeying it anyway. In fact, our buddy Microsoft is lead[ing] the charge.
Not just Microsoft. The last time I tried to record a college football game from KLKN-DT, it was flagged "Copy Once". I could get neither VLC nor MPEG Streamclip on my Macintosh to play the resulting recording. I could however play recordings from the same game broadcast on KETV-DT that were marked "Copy Freely". Recording application was AVC Video Cap (which requires recompilation with patches to do delayed timed recording as of 2009, left as an exercise for the reader).
All those nights when you got no lights the check was in the mail
And your little angel hung the cat up by its tail
And your third fiancée didn't show
Sometimes you wanna go...
If only there were some kind of punishment for the Congress & President when a law they passed is declared unconstitutional.
The punishment is stated, open-ended, at the very end of the oath: "...so help me God."
Yeah, not much comfort there for the living.
As for the DMCA, half the the law is specifically about "access control" which has nothing to do with copyright. Throughout time, no artist has ever had the right to demand that people gaze upon their [work] and see only the glory of his genius. Well, they could, but they had absolutely no recourse until the DMCA came along and decided that copyright holders should have the right to decide how their customers see their work.
I can think of at least one: stage performers--particularly magicians and illusionists--may sue for trespass anyone who attempts to view the act from behind the stage without permission. Perhaps even for attempting to "steal" trade secrets. Though they could charge you with attempted assault on the performers depending on the perceived nature of the infraction.
The electronic access controls could be akin to the staging a venue for a performance, especially one with security guards.
I'm only being a Devil's Advocate. I don't necessarily agree with this analogy.
At least they have some "time served" banked against any future offenses. Though one should never plan to make a withdrawal from that bank.
Have you seen the state of the world today? It's a shambles! The economy is collapsing
I noticed. Making your way in the world today takes everything you got.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Shadows still progress across the face of a broken sundial.
Not saying Microsoft doesn't kill people, albeit not on purpose
Microsoft doesn't not kill people on purpose?
"For the lazy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frag_(military)"
You post a URL for lazy people and you don't hyperlink it? Know your audience, dude.
I for one welcome our intelligent pill overlords
At least they'll be better than our intelligent deuterium ore-valords.
I have a feeling this will take the same course. It'll be used at first for medicine, yea. But eventually it'll find its way into classrooms, to the disdain of the teachers. After another era it will become accepted for use, and finally required. It's not hard to imagine a course that along side of the necessary books lists the prescription for the drugs you'll be required to take.
Don't get me wrong though, it's not a bad thing. It's simply society changing. I for one welcome it (and I'm not just playing on the /. gag).
Everything you think, do, and say
Is in the pill you took today.
In the year 4545....
Yeah, as reference humor, IMO this situation calls more for a rephrasing of the line thus:
and waiting for someone to claim "edible pill" was redundant and posting it as a reply to that. But you've pulled the trigger on that joke.
Instead now I'll have to find an opportunity to compare "Intelligent Pills" to to "Intelligent Deuterium Ore". Oh, I just did. Well, crap.
You've got the Touch! You've got the power!
I agree.
Soldiers and military contractors playing with (and joking about) new tech is perfectly reasonable.
"Our studies indicate that this type of weapon is totally useless in warfare."
"Well, it's not intended for use in your kind of warfare, Roy. It's the perfect peacetime weapon. That's why its secret."
"So it's both immoral and unethical."
"Yes."
[Laughter all around]
maybe not the US military but I'm sure many of the poorer militaries around the world could use something like this. not to mention hunters everywhere, the majority of whom aren't wealthy.
And maybe some non-governmental enemy combatants?
But I thought Apple was more protective of its branding to an extent of not allowing its computers to be depicted in movies as killing people for example. This application is available from the iTunes store for $11.99; I would have thought Apple would refuse to carry it and they'd have to use hacked devices to run it.
But you have no right whatsoever to look through the contents of my phone.
They may have looked at the contents in order to identify the owner of the phone so that it could be returned to the proper owner.
I would also guess those teachers showed each other the photos for awhile before acting on them. This from first-hand knowledge of teachers in what was to become my high school watching students have sex in a car after school in the parking lot.
We have top men working on it now.