I actually initially thought it was some sort of loud, powered single-person aquatic vehicle for use in the canals used as a means of trying to scare off birds for some reason. I fully expected to start reading an abstract detailing how these vehicles using a new technology were having an unintended consequence of increasing bird defecation dramatically in tourist-heavy areas or something. After getting a few sentences in, I decided I would have preferred reading that article instead of the real one, so I stopped and checked here to see if I was the only one who immediately leaped to the wrong impression.
You write it, and I'm sure most of the people on here would prefer your story to the actual one
So we're going to keep doing this for a million situations? That's a million fatalities
And yet, fatalities happen on meatware driven vehicles, and we haven't stopped allowing people to drive. Since every system that involves effectively controlling a 2 ton exoskeleton has to make general assumptions ("is this a good idea" or "does the convenience outweigh the pitfalls"), then there will come a "good enough risk/reward balance" that will say either "good to go" or "not ready for primetime". That level might be set at 10 situations. Or 100. Or "never". But setting it at 1 million will never work, given that that would eliminate every single human driver from now until the end of time
Lidar is easily fooled by textured backgrounds. Uber could have avoided this becoming public simply by driving in the day. This tells me not only that it was a weakness that didn't get caught, it was a weakness they didn't even know about.
Now we're into hubris (sadly). Gaming a system means avoiding the times when your playbook doesn't work (to make the times when it does work seem to be down to your playbook). Hubris is when you think you have all options covered, even when you don't
Or, as I once saw about aviation: A superior pilot uses his superior judgement to avoid situations that would require the use of his superior skill
In this case, Uber management didn't use good judgement
Clearly, not all autonomous vehicles are the same.
It's very like camera - a cheap one and an expensive one will both offer "autofocus" and "zoom lens"
The cheap one will have 3 or 4 focus settings, while the expensive one will be continuous. The cheap one will have 2 or 3 zoom settings, while the expensive one will, again, be continuous.
So, Uber's cars look to be at the "what is the minimum that can make a car steer itself" end of the scale, and the Google ones are "have we missed anything off the long list of things that will help a car steer itself" end
It would be politically expedient for the US if it were Russia behind the meddling. It may or may not be politically expedient for Russia to have Trump as president. Hillary was a known quantity to Russia. They've dealt with her before as Secretary of State. Knowing how someone operates is diplomatically valuable.
Trump *seemed* to be more friendly to Russia, but he was also incredibly flaky, even as a candidate. The reasoning behind a coordinated push to back Trump over Hilary seems tenuous at best.
If your goal is to weaken your opponent without any risk to yourself, do you: a) Do nothing. Sit back, and wait until one person wins, and then decide what to do b) Try to influence opinion to ensure the (mostly) competent politician gets the vote c) Try to influence opinion to ensure the politically naive candidate gets the vote
While diplomatically option b) makes sense for future summit conferences, option c) has the potential to cause more disruption to your opponent, putting them on the back foot for those same future summit conferences.
Using botnets to do DDoS attacks is so passé. It may be satisfying for the perpetrators (Ha ha! Site [my enemy] is down!), but no different from the 1980s "my virus will delete all your files"
With most IoT devices having more processing power than they actually need, I wonder how many have been hijacked to become cryptocurrency mining operations, which will quietly run away, building up, with no-one really keeping an eye on them
As well as a "relaxed attitude to piracy" they also had a relaxed attitude to "Full version vs Upgrade", which helped small businesses who wanted to stay legal, but keep the costs down.
When the full version of Office 4.2 cost around £350, the upgrade version cost £99. The upgrade would be valid not only from an earlier version of MS Office, but also from any version of WordPerfect, WordStar, Lotus 1-2-3 , SuperCalc and a few other packages.
The installer looked for any files associated with any of the competitors' products, and then would install the full Office suite if it found any such files, but would stop with a "this is an upgrade version only" message if it didn't find the files. However, creating a file (even of zero length) with a name like WP.EXE, SC5.COM or similar, and the installer would be quite happy.
The Saturn V could also put around 31,000kg into high orbit (high enough to go for lunar orbit) (combined launch mass of Lunar Module and Command Module), at a velocity of 11 km/s. Kinetic Energy of 1kg at escape velocity is around 6E7 joules (though my back of an envelope calculations could be out).
Enough to be scary for those on the ground, but there, as you point out, easier ways to achieve the same aim.
Though kinetic weapons conveniently don't violate any existing treaties (Outer Space, Non-proliferation, SALT, START etc)
Since a large number of "hand-wringing concerned citizens" are convinced that all hackers are in it for the money, then it's good to have research that confirms to non-techies what techies have always known at a gut level.
it's a short auto-bug-finder away from allowing a self-sustaining botnet that adapts to security upgrades, and could become permanently out of control if the C&C is taken down/abandoned.
I think you've just described a real world version of Skynet
The Terminator: Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug. Sarah Connor: Skynet fights back.
I must say that was my exact reaction to reading it, whoever wrote that really needs to get some perspective
“Have some sense of proportion!” she would say, sometimes as often as thirty-eight times in a single day. And so he built the Total Perspective Vortex — just to show her.
To Trin Tragula’s horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion." Douglas Adams - The Restaurant at the end of the Universe
Slashdot Mirror
Time was when the small print was "the value of your investment can go down as well as up"
Looks as though these folk never read that part, and now want to blame someone else
As a European, and with GDPR in force, can I demand that Equifax delete all the data they hold on me?
Can you ask? Yes.
Will they do anything about it? Magic Eight Ball says "Don't count on it"
I actually initially thought it was some sort of loud, powered single-person aquatic vehicle for use in the canals used as a means of trying to scare off birds for some reason. I fully expected to start reading an abstract detailing how these vehicles using a new technology were having an unintended consequence of increasing bird defecation dramatically in tourist-heavy areas or something. After getting a few sentences in, I decided I would have preferred reading that article instead of the real one, so I stopped and checked here to see if I was the only one who immediately leaped to the wrong impression.
You write it, and I'm sure most of the people on here would prefer your story to the actual one
So we're going to keep doing this for a million situations? That's a million fatalities
And yet, fatalities happen on meatware driven vehicles, and we haven't stopped allowing people to drive. Since every system that involves effectively controlling a 2 ton exoskeleton has to make general assumptions ("is this a good idea" or "does the convenience outweigh the pitfalls"), then there will come a "good enough risk/reward balance" that will say either "good to go" or "not ready for primetime". That level might be set at 10 situations. Or 100. Or "never". But setting it at 1 million will never work, given that that would eliminate every single human driver from now until the end of time
Lidar is easily fooled by textured backgrounds. Uber could have avoided this becoming public simply by driving in the day. This tells me not only that it was a weakness that didn't get caught, it was a weakness they didn't even know about.
Now we're into hubris (sadly). Gaming a system means avoiding the times when your playbook doesn't work (to make the times when it does work seem to be down to your playbook). Hubris is when you think you have all options covered, even when you don't
Or, as I once saw about aviation: A superior pilot uses his superior judgement to avoid situations that would require the use of his superior skill
In this case, Uber management didn't use good judgement
Clearly, not all autonomous vehicles are the same.
It's very like camera - a cheap one and an expensive one will both offer "autofocus" and "zoom lens"
The cheap one will have 3 or 4 focus settings, while the expensive one will be continuous. The cheap one will have 2 or 3 zoom settings, while the expensive one will, again, be continuous.
So, Uber's cars look to be at the "what is the minimum that can make a car steer itself" end of the scale, and the Google ones are "have we missed anything off the long list of things that will help a car steer itself" end
Why would anyone target The NRA? Seems really suspicious.
Maybe because they oppose net neutrality?
https://www.reuters.com/articl...
It would be politically expedient for the US if it were Russia behind the meddling. It may or may not be politically expedient for Russia to have Trump as president. Hillary was a known quantity to Russia. They've dealt with her before as Secretary of State. Knowing how someone operates is diplomatically valuable.
Trump *seemed* to be more friendly to Russia, but he was also incredibly flaky, even as a candidate. The reasoning behind a coordinated push to back Trump over Hilary seems tenuous at best.
If your goal is to weaken your opponent without any risk to yourself, do you:
a) Do nothing. Sit back, and wait until one person wins, and then decide what to do
b) Try to influence opinion to ensure the (mostly) competent politician gets the vote
c) Try to influence opinion to ensure the politically naive candidate gets the vote
While diplomatically option b) makes sense for future summit conferences, option c) has the potential to cause more disruption to your opponent, putting them on the back foot for those same future summit conferences.
From what I've read, GPUs are for wimps, and real cryptocurrency miners use ASICs
https://shop.bitmain.com/antmi...
(Of course, that could just be hype, though the look at a real Crypto Farm suggests that whole buildings of ASICs are used, rather than a few GPUs)
"NRCC officials who learned of the breach "are really pissed,"
And then they drowned their sorrows and got really pissed all over again.
iTunes 7 (which was about the newest version that would work with my netbook) worked fine, as it was the only way to play my FairPlay DRM'd stuff.
as another poster said, everything else was native alternatives (LibreOffice, GIMP) or native browser
The summary states "a false accept rate below 0.09% in a brute force attack with 14.3 million authentication attempts."
So, in that 14.3 million attempts, they still got in 12,870 times.
So, there is now a GPL operating system that will run DOS applications. That's pretty interesting.
If there were still sufficient "must have" DOS applications that could benefit from a little source code tweaking ("because I can!")
Using botnets to do DDoS attacks is so passé. It may be satisfying for the perpetrators (Ha ha! Site [my enemy] is down!), but no different from the 1980s "my virus will delete all your files"
With most IoT devices having more processing power than they actually need, I wonder how many have been hijacked to become cryptocurrency mining operations, which will quietly run away, building up, with no-one really keeping an eye on them
As well as a "relaxed attitude to piracy" they also had a relaxed attitude to "Full version vs Upgrade", which helped small businesses who wanted to stay legal, but keep the costs down.
When the full version of Office 4.2 cost around £350, the upgrade version cost £99. The upgrade would be valid not only from an earlier version of MS Office, but also from any version of WordPerfect, WordStar, Lotus 1-2-3 , SuperCalc and a few other packages.
The installer looked for any files associated with any of the competitors' products, and then would install the full Office suite if it found any such files, but would stop with a "this is an upgrade version only" message if it didn't find the files. However, creating a file (even of zero length) with a name like WP.EXE, SC5.COM or similar, and the installer would be quite happy.
IF only I had mod points today... :-)
Not long after that, I remember someone naively thinking that the Slashdot effect would still work on the BBC.
And then someone else posted usage logs: Slashdot effect added ~100k additional hits to a total that was running at ~2M normal users at that time.
(the exact numbers may be out, but it was one of the first times that a site was demonstrated to be large enough to soak up /. without even blinking)
Sometimes, typos really brighten up your day.
Now you've mentioned it, I want some "larma" :-)
(But I suppose I'll have to settle for karma, like everyone else)
Sometimes, a (wrong) apostrophe is the quickest way to stop autocorrect from turning it into "Ais".
(Which means that humans are having to evolve language quirks to defeat computers, in an ironic twist to TFA)
A correct response to that is "Kardash.... WHO?"
A more geeky correct response would be "Weren't the Kardashians in Star Trek?"
The Saturn V could also put around 31,000kg into high orbit (high enough to go for lunar orbit) (combined launch mass of Lunar Module and Command Module), at a velocity of 11 km/s. Kinetic Energy of 1kg at escape velocity is around 6E7 joules (though my back of an envelope calculations could be out).
Enough to be scary for those on the ground, but there, as you point out, easier ways to achieve the same aim.
Though kinetic weapons conveniently don't violate any existing treaties (Outer Space, Non-proliferation, SALT, START etc)
Since a large number of "hand-wringing concerned citizens" are convinced that all hackers are in it for the money, then it's good to have research that confirms to non-techies what techies have always known at a gut level.
13 per cent CPU. For a blinking cursor. That's... impressive.
But not in a good way
it's a short auto-bug-finder away from allowing a self-sustaining botnet that adapts to security upgrades, and could become permanently out of control if the C&C is taken down/abandoned.
I think you've just described a real world version of Skynet
The Terminator: Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th. In a panic, they try to pull the plug.
Sarah Connor: Skynet fights back.
I must say that was my exact reaction to reading it, whoever wrote that really needs to get some perspective
“Have some sense of proportion!” she would say, sometimes as often as thirty-eight times in a single day.
And so he built the Total Perspective Vortex — just to show her.
To Trin Tragula’s horror, the shock completely annihilated her brain; but to his satisfaction he realized that he had proved conclusively that if life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion."
Douglas Adams - The Restaurant at the end of the Universe
That's up there with "the dog ate my homework".
Or did someone misprogram AIs so they thought "Bytes" were "bites"...