I like these things, hell, I bought one. I've often been accused of being a Microsoft shill on these pages, but even I think this is too dull a story for the front page.
Yeah, I got one too, my day job requires windows, and Surface Pro (OG, not 2) will run all the desktop software I need, and run it well. I wonder why the firmware update wouldn't work on the Original Surface Pro?
They all do this shit, and you merely put them in the spotlight. The ones not yet caught have, of course, feigned indignation at the US, for doing what they all do. (Hmm, which ones have protested the loudest here?)
Make no mistake, though, if the US has done worse than any of its peers, it has done so only through having more opportunity, not more will or effort.
So tired of people excusing our government's behavior just because others do it. Others include Pol Pot, Idi Amin, 'Papa Doc' Duvalier, and Joseph Stalin. (No point in invoking Godwin here).
We keep telling ourselves we are better than that. We keep passing whistle blower protection laws. We pretend we have a constitution and that government is Of the People, By the People, For the People.
Then invariably when government gets caught doing something its not supposed to, some useful idiot comes along and says don't worry about it, every other country does that.
But a Nobel Peace Prize nomination would probably embarrass the next president into pardoning him. (or if something other than a democrat is elected), a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
With everyone in the NSA suddenly swearing on stacks of bibles that they never told Obama didly-squat you can almost see how this is being set up to plays out.
Still, you have to wonder if he doesn't wake up dead some day of a.22 caliber aneurysm.
But you know that proofreading and fixing mistakes are but a small part of what editors do. Much of this can be accomplished by software, not only spell checking and punctuation but also voice, tenses, etc.
Macro structure, interweaving of subplots, deletion of entire sections, general slashing and burning, and razing of villages is the part of editing that causes most authors the greatest anguish, but often yields the best results.
Agreed, McGinn has been an unmitigated disaster, almost as useless as ex Mayor Nickels (who's only footnote in history will be the crime ridden homeless camps named after him.)
There are many communities thinking of using the dark fiber laid at tax payers expense, and left dormant for over a decade. All the promises made when this stuff was installed have never come to fruition.
But if we have learned anything about the tragedy of the commons over the years, it is that any commodity or utility opened to all will become unusable in short order without some regulation and fees.
Opening public wifi all over the city would be a bad idea. A fountain of porn and a haven for hackers.
The best possible use of this fiber will be to open neighborhoods for competition, because like much of the US, most neighborhoods only have a single viable provider because that is how neighborhoods were wired. By using the city broadband to link neighborhoods, you remove the lock in. (Although most neighborhood wire plants are still owned by the provider that wired the neighborhood, and those will be hard to pry loose.).
Not much from what I can see. The buzzword laden title suggests a whole lot more than the (limited) information in the article or the summary, and it all boils down to:
they find that in an impossibly complex system like a cell, only a few combinations of those variables end up predicting how a system will behave.
Which translates into Wheat from Chaff:
After evaluating every variable you can find, only a few of those will be found to be important.
Well DUH! The statisticians figured this out a hundred years ago. Just about every statistical test invented is designed to figure out precisely which variables matter.
Now if the good professor could just predict which variables will be important in advance, we could skip all this messy data collection and analysis and simply leap to conclusions.
The gravity over long distances that you claim we have tested is not what is being referred to here.
The GP refers to gravity of an entire Galaxy, and between the stars and systems that make up the Galaxy.
I assure you, we have performed no testing of this, and theories about it are extrapolation of our knowledge of our solar system, and it is speculative at best.
is because a real publishing house with editors would reject them as poorly written tripe.
But on the good side, the Vampire authors have mostly given up that Genera and moved on.
There are some good self published ebooks. Its pretty hard to find them because of a wheat/chaff problem. You can find well known authors going directly to ebook these days, and you can find top notch editors taking in more direct to ebook editing jobs (or so my writer friend tells me).
Never the less, his friends and colleagues didn't get infected from his jump drive, which leads me to believe they are considerably more clever then he is, and are probably wary about letting him near their computers.
It took him 3 years to figure it out while machine after machine was getting infected in his lab.
I think many of the commentators both here and on Ars Technica are making a basic mistake. No one claims that the machine is infected through its microphones.
Not many here are making that mistake. Several have already posted how silly it was for him to be plugging in thumb drives.
If he wasn't aware that it spread through USB for 3 years, the odds of him bringing an infected jump drive to a friend or colleague's computer where it would then spread even more are so high that I can't believe no one has asked these questions.
No doubt his friend or colleagues all have more smarts then to plug in some random jump drive. I seriously don't even trust these things myself any more. I hate it when someone sends me something on a flash drive.
if this is so communicable, why in all the time he's had it under observation has it never spread anywhere else? Also, why has he not shown it to a colleague. This is the sort of thing that goes over huge at conferences.
Because, he speculates, the the initial infection of a machine must be done via USB stick, and being the professional security researcher that he is, he nonchalantly plugs his USB sticks willy-nilly back and forth between his known infected machines and his brand new machines.
A month or two ago, after buying a new computer, he noticed that it was almost immediately infected as soon as he plugged one of his USB drives into it.
This guy apparently has no concept of a clean room for virus research.
I don't discount the ability to use sound for communication between infected machines, but clearly you have to be infected FIRST for that to work. (Not to mention having a mic plugged in and turned on).
I agree, the guy must live in the ghetto, using recycled year 2000 equipment. For his crapstation maybe he wouldn't get any benefit from a faster GPU.
Monitors are getting bigger all the time, and the real estate is welcome when editing mountains of text, (as is a monitor that can swivel to portrait). 1920x1080 is not sufficient for a large monitor. I don't have any that are that limited. People aren't limited to one monitor either.
Anyone wishing to have a meaningful discussion about the NSA also needs to factor in all the other countries who do the exact same thing. It's not a "two wrongs make a right" argument it is just putting the whole issue into context.
I really don't care if Russia or New Zealand spy on every single citizen in their respective countries. I do care if my government is reading my email.
That other countries do it is no excuse, and I see no reason to consider that fact, even for "context".
Our government should be spending its resources preventing foreign governments from accessing our mail, tapping our calls, and tracking our communications, and generally hardening our internet. Instead they are doing exactly the opposite.
Slashdot Mirror
I like these things, hell, I bought one. I've often been accused of being a Microsoft shill on these pages, but even I think this is too dull a story for the front page.
Yeah, I got one too, my day job requires windows, and Surface Pro (OG, not 2) will run all the desktop software I need, and run it well.
I wonder why the firmware update wouldn't work on the Original Surface Pro?
Your ignorance does not prove a trend.
If he's ever harmed, the world will rise up! That would be the dumbest move in history!
Doubt the world would do a damn thing about it.
At least a third of the people posting here still think anything Obama says is gospel.
Third world countries use skype.
Everybody else has an IPhone or Android that will let you voice chat or video chat anywhere in the world for nothing.
Skype is a household word as is Kleenex, and people want to get rid of both as soon as they have used it.
Skype is backdoored and nobody but love struck teenagers use it any more.
They all do this shit, and you merely put them in the spotlight. The ones not yet caught have, of course, feigned indignation at the US, for doing what they all do. (Hmm, which ones have protested the loudest here?)
Make no mistake, though, if the US has done worse than any of its peers, it has done so only through having more opportunity, not more will or effort.
So tired of people excusing our government's behavior just because others do it.
Others include Pol Pot, Idi Amin, 'Papa Doc' Duvalier, and Joseph Stalin. (No point in invoking Godwin here).
We keep telling ourselves we are better than that. We keep passing whistle blower protection laws.
We pretend we have a constitution and that government is Of the People, By the People, For the People.
Then invariably when government gets caught doing something its not supposed to, some useful idiot comes along and says don't worry about it, every other country does that.
But a Nobel Peace Prize nomination would probably embarrass the next president into pardoning him.
(or if something other than a democrat is elected), a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
With everyone in the NSA suddenly swearing on stacks of bibles that they never told Obama didly-squat
you can almost see how this is being set up to plays out.
Still, you have to wonder if he doesn't wake up dead some day of a .22 caliber aneurysm.
But you know that proofreading and fixing mistakes are but a small part of what editors do. Much of this can be accomplished by software, not only spell checking and punctuation but also voice, tenses, etc.
Macro structure, interweaving of subplots, deletion of entire sections, general slashing and burning, and razing of villages is the part of editing that causes most authors the greatest anguish, but often yields the best results.
Agreed, McGinn has been an unmitigated disaster, almost as useless as ex Mayor Nickels (who's only footnote in history will be the crime ridden homeless camps named after him.)
There are many communities thinking of using the dark fiber laid at tax payers expense, and left dormant for over a decade. All the promises made when this stuff was installed have never come to fruition.
But if we have learned anything about the tragedy of the commons over the years, it is that any commodity or utility opened to all will become unusable in short order without some regulation and fees.
Opening public wifi all over the city would be a bad idea. A fountain of porn and a haven for hackers.
The best possible use of this fiber will be to open neighborhoods for competition, because like much of the US, most neighborhoods only have a single viable provider because that is how neighborhoods were wired. By using the city broadband to link neighborhoods, you remove the lock in.
(Although most neighborhood wire plants are still owned by the provider that wired the neighborhood, and those will be hard to pry loose.).
More like a group of physicists suddenly discovering ANOVA
Not much from what I can see.
The buzzword laden title suggests a whole lot more than the (limited) information in the article or the summary, and it all boils down to:
they find that in an impossibly complex system like a cell, only a few combinations of those variables end up predicting how a system will behave.
Which translates into Wheat from Chaff:
After evaluating every variable you can find, only a few of those will be found to be important.
Well DUH!
The statisticians figured this out a hundred years ago. Just about every statistical test invented is designed to figure out precisely which variables matter.
Now if the good professor could just predict which variables will be important in advance, we could skip all this messy data collection and analysis and simply leap to conclusions.
Come to think of it the last two blades I installed only had piezo electric beepers with no sound chip at all.
Nope.
Can't be done. Output channels on sound chips can't be read.
You watch too many spy movies.
The gravity over long distances that you claim we have tested is not what is being referred to here.
The GP refers to gravity of an entire Galaxy, and between the stars and systems that make up the Galaxy.
I assure you, we have performed no testing of this, and theories about it are extrapolation of our knowledge of our solar system, and it is speculative at best.
is because a real publishing house with editors would reject them as poorly written tripe.
But on the good side, the Vampire authors have mostly given up that Genera and moved on.
There are some good self published ebooks. Its pretty hard to find them because of a wheat/chaff problem.
You can find well known authors going directly to ebook these days, and you can find top notch editors
taking in more direct to ebook editing jobs (or so my writer friend tells me).
But its a wasteland out there...
Never the less, his friends and colleagues didn't get infected from his jump drive, which leads me to believe they are considerably more clever then he is, and are probably wary about letting him near their computers.
It took him 3 years to figure it out while machine after machine was getting infected in his lab.
Nah, just buy it in the Google Play Store.
They could have written an Android and Apple app by now.
He has already succeeded at that, and if ObamaCare gets off the ground it will be like 10x over all prior presidents combined.
It's a Biblical reference -- and at this rate it would take divine intervention.
This is government, nobody gets crucified, they all get promoted.
Nine women cannot make a baby in one month.
But I bet even one woman could spell cavalry, and know the difference.
Slashdot editors wanted. No Experience needed. We wouldn't know what to do with experience if we tripped over it.
I think many of the commentators both here and on Ars Technica are making a basic mistake. No one claims that the machine is infected through its microphones.
Not many here are making that mistake. Several have already posted how silly it was for him to be plugging in thumb drives.
Server rooms seldom have mics, most don't even have speakers.
If he wasn't aware that it spread through USB for 3 years, the odds of him bringing an infected jump drive to a friend or colleague's computer where it would then spread even more are so high that I can't believe no one has asked these questions.
No doubt his friend or colleagues all have more smarts then to plug in some random jump drive.
I seriously don't even trust these things myself any more. I hate it when someone sends me something on a flash drive.
if this is so communicable, why in all the time he's had it under observation has it never spread anywhere else? Also, why has he not shown it to a colleague. This is the sort of thing that goes over huge at conferences.
Because, he speculates, the the initial infection of a machine must be done via USB stick, and being the professional security researcher that he is, he nonchalantly plugs his USB sticks willy-nilly back and forth between his known infected machines and his brand new machines.
A month or two ago, after buying a new computer, he noticed that it was almost immediately infected as soon as he plugged one of his USB drives into it.
This guy apparently has no concept of a clean room for virus research.
I don't discount the ability to use sound for communication between infected machines, but clearly you have to be infected FIRST for that to work.
(Not to mention having a mic plugged in and turned on).
I agree, the guy must live in the ghetto, using recycled year 2000 equipment.
For his crapstation maybe he wouldn't get any benefit from a faster GPU.
Monitors are getting bigger all the time, and the real estate is welcome when editing mountains of text, (as is a monitor that can swivel to portrait). 1920x1080 is not sufficient for a large monitor. I don't have any that are that limited. People aren't limited to one monitor either.
Anyone wishing to have a meaningful discussion about the NSA also needs to factor in all the other countries who do the exact same thing. It's not a "two wrongs make a right" argument it is just putting the whole issue into context.
I really don't care if Russia or New Zealand spy on every single citizen in their respective countries.
I do care if my government is reading my email.
That other countries do it is no excuse, and I see no reason to consider that fact, even for "context".
Our government should be spending its resources preventing foreign governments from accessing our
mail, tapping our calls, and tracking our communications, and generally hardening our internet.
Instead they are doing exactly the opposite.