Researchers have already done this sort of thing with monkeys and quadriplegics. Contrary to what you might think, when something is wired up to our brain, controlling it actually comes quite naturally. In fact, once we get past the moral dilemma of being assimilated, our integration with the Borg should go quite smoothly.
I've heard a lot of outcry, particularly on slashdot, that he voted for telecom immunity. But as the grandparent noted, that bill was a FISA ammendment, and Obama has since voted twice, on 2/12 and 7/09, to revoke telecom immunity. I don't completely agree with his stance on this, but he did say that he supported the ammendment because it put the power back in the hands of legislation, as opposed to the president's.
Also, as others are noting, Obama's plans tend towards ensuring accountability in the government through the use of technologies which make their actions visible. Specifically, he wants to create publicly accessable databases and websites to display this information. I don't have the same kind of confidence in McCain's ability or desire to do something concrete about this.
Personally, I just think Obama is smart enough to pick the battles that he can win. From what I've read, seen and heard, it's pretty clear to me what his goals are, and I have to say this is the first time I've ever found myself trusting, liking, or agreeing with a politician to any significant degree. I think Obama will do a fine job as president.
Very presumptuous of you, you assume I'm a boy, you assume I don't leave the house, you assume the people I talk to haven't heard of the EFF, you assume the people I talk to either do not know what open source is or the knowledge is prerequisite to knowing the EFF exists and what they do, and worst of all, you assumed I don't already have a tan!
There's an "insensitive clod" lurking somewhere in there!
One of Microsoft's strengths is their good documentation. They may not have it all, but they have most of what you need, and it's well worded and organized. Compare that to say, Ruby on Rails documentation, which is poorly organized, rarely contains versioning information, and the framework itself breaks compatibility with nearly every release.
These factors combine to make learning Rails a masochistic experience. I think I may need to take up another vice soon. Maybe cigarettes... that seems the proper thing for engineers. Ah, the price I pay for keeping my soul...
I can't believe she gets so little spam at yahoo. My yahoo account is overrun with spam, even years after I've stopped using it. She's definitely paying someone off...
This isn't a troll, it's a good point. They don't just have data from the coils, they have pictures of you driving the car. With your grinning face in the drivers seat it's probably pretty easy to tell your Civic apart from the others.
My grandpa's voting Obama. I was surprised to hear it, but he loves his policies and wants to see him in office. Go figure. Maybe he cares about health care or something.
Obama spent 12 years teaching constitutional law. Read the wikipedia article, halfway through the second paragraph. Making sensationalist statements doesn't do anything but blow your own credibility.
We'd... um... like to be like that company... that sells that O/S... that every one like... likes.
So we're going to send out these expensive sales people... to hype our product... but not stand behind it like the other guys do... because that would... be like work, man.
Ah, I see. It's like the Cheech and Chong approach to product support. Groovy.
It doesn't matter whether you're American or not. Freedom of speech is an ideological high ground, and accepted by most people to be a good thing(tm). This isn't about terrorists not having rights, it's about people not having the right to terrorize. Your freedoms stop at the point where they start to encroach on someone else's liberty.
I believe in protecting freedom of speech, but I also agree with youtube's decision to remove terrorist training videos and instructions on making bombs. No one benefits from this information being on youtube. If you want to learn these things then you should learn them from a human being, who will hopefully reject students of bad intention, and impart some morality along with the knowledge to do harm.
There's no accountability in a system such as youtube, and we need to be held accountable for distributing and using this kind of information.
I wouldn't say games, per se. But I definitely see google having interest in creating an online simulated world, ala Second Life, or more ambitiously, Snow Crash. If they are the ones to make something like that a reality, they could see immense business growth and climb far above any 'competition'.
'If Red Hat, one of the epitomes of a successful FOSS-based business, can ignore FOSS when to do so is corporately convenient, then what chance do we have that other companies - especially publicly-traded ones - will act any better?'
If a Linux journalist asks fallacious questions, then what hope do we have for the rest of the media?
You can't boil those issues down to a "Yes" and "No". There's much more involved than that.
They both say yes to drilling, but to what degree? For how long, and how does that fit into their overall economic plan?
They both say yes to telecom immunity, but where's the motivation coming from? You can't draw conclusions from a single vote on a single bill. Bills often have many related and non-related clauses attached to them. It may be that one wording was unsatisfactory, while the next version gains more support and passes.
These candidates clearly have different stances on the war on terror and the army. I'm not even going to speak to this.
Regarding fiat money, do you honestly think both candidates are equally unlikely to make a change in this area? And does it really matter? It seems to me there are more important criteria for selecting a candidate.
Any argument for the candidates representing the same thing falls apart if you actually research their past actions and their promises for the future. I think the greater problem is not that people are too lazy to vote, it's that people are too lazy to learn. I'm not talking about the people who drove across the country to protest, obviously those are the exception, not the rule. What excites me about this election is that more people are getting interested. More people are taking matters into their own hands, and that's great to see.
What I want to see this election, regardless of who wins, is that we know who we're voting for. That we get what we want, and not what the man in charge tells us we want. And regardless of who wins, the increased participation and awareness in the political process will help us to get what we want.
Yeah, I agree. His wording was a bit pretentious, but I expect both companies will be in the game for a long time yet.
Regardless though, our hardware is finally going parallel. From a programmer's point of view, I'm just very happy to see things like CUDA emerging, which will make parallel programming a whole lot more feasible. I think we're going to see some really impressive things developed as a result of this.
Second Life is a poor implementation of an awesome idea. The problem is that there's no purpose to it yet... it's ahead of its time. They've built a platform with no content, and they're relying on their users to fill the gap.
I don't care much for the game itself, but I do care about the concept of virtual worlds. I believe it's necessary for human culture to always have new frontiers - wild west zones where men with ambition can make their own fate.
Humanity has two possible frontiers left - space, and virtual worlds. Space exploration is going to take a while to heat up, but virtual communities are already alive and well. So the interesting thing will be to see what those communities do with this technology. Can virtual reality become our new frontier?
This is a subject for a dissertation though, not a/. post, so I'll leave you with that snippet. Yes, it matters, but it's going to take a while for this stew to cook. Be patient, and keep an eye out for opportunities.
I don't see why they don't just place a clause in the contract specifying a maximum bandwidth that customers will be billed for if they exceed. There's no reason to throttle... just charge for the extra services provided. I don't see how that's complicated at all.
Of course, it's possible the cable companies are specifically intending to hurt p2p... In that case, hand me a torch, and let's get on with the lynching!
First, we already have such lists. Just search google for [anything].exe and the first results will tell you what that exe is associated with and whether it's harmful. So it's just a matter of someone putting that in an open format that's programmatically readable.
Second, it's really not even necessary to know about every process that's running on your computer. You start from a baseline, i.e. a freshly installed operating system, or some other known 'good' state, approve everything that's running, then individually approve future programs that need to run. This doesn't have to be complicated for the user, and it doesn't have to be annoying. You only have to ask once whether to put a program on the white list...
Problems with white listing: How do you know an executable that you downloaded doesn't contain malicious code? Often the user doesn't have adequate information to determine whether an application is harmful, and in this case only a programmatical scan of the file to search for known signatures is going to help. Even assuming only 'friendly' executables are running on your system, this really just changes the domain of the problem from getting your malicious program to run independently, to modifying an existing program to run your malicious code. Some of that can be stopped by storing a hash code of the binary and comparing against that before executing... but there are certain applications (such as flash) that we *want* to run dynamic content. There's always going to be somewhat of a security risk there.
While white listing doesn't completely solve the security problem, I think it does make it far more manageable. I use the no-script plugin to firefox... why not use the same security model for the desktop?
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Researchers have already done this sort of thing with monkeys and quadriplegics. Contrary to what you might think, when something is wired up to our brain, controlling it actually comes quite naturally. In fact, once we get past the moral dilemma of being assimilated, our integration with the Borg should go quite smoothly.
Obama taught constitutional law for 12 years, and is a staunch supporter of civil liberties. Beyond that, he just seems like a pretty reasonable, thoughtful person.
I've heard a lot of outcry, particularly on slashdot, that he voted for telecom immunity. But as the grandparent noted, that bill was a FISA ammendment, and Obama has since voted twice, on 2/12 and 7/09, to revoke telecom immunity. I don't completely agree with his stance on this, but he did say that he supported the ammendment because it put the power back in the hands of legislation, as opposed to the president's.
Also, as others are noting, Obama's plans tend towards ensuring accountability in the government through the use of technologies which make their actions visible. Specifically, he wants to create publicly accessable databases and websites to display this information. I don't have the same kind of confidence in McCain's ability or desire to do something concrete about this.
Personally, I just think Obama is smart enough to pick the battles that he can win. From what I've read, seen and heard, it's pretty clear to me what his goals are, and I have to say this is the first time I've ever found myself trusting, liking, or agreeing with a politician to any significant degree. I think Obama will do a fine job as president.
Very presumptuous of you, you assume I'm a boy, you assume I don't leave the house, you assume the people I talk to haven't heard of the EFF, you assume the people I talk to either do not know what open source is or the knowledge is prerequisite to knowing the EFF exists and what they do, and worst of all, you assumed I don't already have a tan!
There's an "insensitive clod" lurking somewhere in there!
One of Microsoft's strengths is their good documentation. They may not have it all, but they have most of what you need, and it's well worded and organized. Compare that to say, Ruby on Rails documentation, which is poorly organized, rarely contains versioning information, and the framework itself breaks compatibility with nearly every release.
These factors combine to make learning Rails a masochistic experience. I think I may need to take up another vice soon. Maybe cigarettes... that seems the proper thing for engineers. Ah, the price I pay for keeping my soul...
Stupid mods. This is redundant!
I can't believe she gets so little spam at yahoo. My yahoo account is overrun with spam, even years after I've stopped using it. She's definitely paying someone off...
I would imagine that your "very magnetic powder" would just cake on the grinding machine or the fuselage of the car.
This isn't a troll, it's a good point. They don't just have data from the coils, they have pictures of you driving the car. With your grinning face in the drivers seat it's probably pretty easy to tell your Civic apart from the others.
My grandpa's voting Obama. I was surprised to hear it, but he loves his policies and wants to see him in office. Go figure. Maybe he cares about health care or something.
Obama spent 12 years teaching constitutional law. Read the wikipedia article, halfway through the second paragraph. Making sensationalist statements doesn't do anything but blow your own credibility.
It's worth something, to someone, but you probably don't want to work for them anyway.
We'd... um... like to be like that company... that sells that O/S... that every one like... likes.
So we're going to send out these expensive sales people... to hype our product... but not stand behind it like the other guys do... because that would... be like work, man.
Ah, I see. It's like the Cheech and Chong approach to product support. Groovy.
It doesn't matter whether you're American or not. Freedom of speech is an ideological high ground, and accepted by most people to be a good thing(tm). This isn't about terrorists not having rights, it's about people not having the right to terrorize. Your freedoms stop at the point where they start to encroach on someone else's liberty.
I believe in protecting freedom of speech, but I also agree with youtube's decision to remove terrorist training videos and instructions on making bombs. No one benefits from this information being on youtube. If you want to learn these things then you should learn them from a human being, who will hopefully reject students of bad intention, and impart some morality along with the knowledge to do harm.
There's no accountability in a system such as youtube, and we need to be held accountable for distributing and using this kind of information.
I wouldn't say games, per se. But I definitely see google having interest in creating an online simulated world, ala Second Life, or more ambitiously, Snow Crash. If they are the ones to make something like that a reality, they could see immense business growth and climb far above any 'competition'.
If a Linux journalist asks fallacious questions, then what hope do we have for the rest of the media?
"...of his pity of man, God has died."
And if Nietzsche were still alive, he'd be laughing his ass off at all the people misquoting him, and thereby proving his point. Again. And again.
It's like retards running into walls.
You can't boil those issues down to a "Yes" and "No". There's much more involved than that.
They both say yes to drilling, but to what degree? For how long, and how does that fit into their overall economic plan?
They both say yes to telecom immunity, but where's the motivation coming from? You can't draw conclusions from a single vote on a single bill. Bills often have many related and non-related clauses attached to them. It may be that one wording was unsatisfactory, while the next version gains more support and passes.
These candidates clearly have different stances on the war on terror and the army. I'm not even going to speak to this.
Regarding fiat money, do you honestly think both candidates are equally unlikely to make a change in this area? And does it really matter? It seems to me there are more important criteria for selecting a candidate.
Any argument for the candidates representing the same thing falls apart if you actually research their past actions and their promises for the future. I think the greater problem is not that people are too lazy to vote, it's that people are too lazy to learn. I'm not talking about the people who drove across the country to protest, obviously those are the exception, not the rule. What excites me about this election is that more people are getting interested. More people are taking matters into their own hands, and that's great to see.
What I want to see this election, regardless of who wins, is that we know who we're voting for. That we get what we want, and not what the man in charge tells us we want. And regardless of who wins, the increased participation and awareness in the political process will help us to get what we want.
Yeah, I agree. His wording was a bit pretentious, but I expect both companies will be in the game for a long time yet.
Regardless though, our hardware is finally going parallel. From a programmer's point of view, I'm just very happy to see things like CUDA emerging, which will make parallel programming a whole lot more feasible. I think we're going to see some really impressive things developed as a result of this.
If you're 30 years behind them in their market, and they're 2 years behind you in yours, maybe it's not wise to be "dismissive of the threat" ?
Second Life is a poor implementation of an awesome idea. The problem is that there's no purpose to it yet... it's ahead of its time. They've built a platform with no content, and they're relying on their users to fill the gap.
I don't care much for the game itself, but I do care about the concept of virtual worlds. I believe it's necessary for human culture to always have new frontiers - wild west zones where men with ambition can make their own fate.
Humanity has two possible frontiers left - space, and virtual worlds. Space exploration is going to take a while to heat up, but virtual communities are already alive and well. So the interesting thing will be to see what those communities do with this technology. Can virtual reality become our new frontier?
This is a subject for a dissertation though, not a /. post, so I'll leave you with that snippet. Yes, it matters, but it's going to take a while for this stew to cook. Be patient, and keep an eye out for opportunities.
How about we judge people based on merit, not sex or race? Let's do science, not treehouse politics.
Why write malware, they could sell that!
I don't see why they don't just place a clause in the contract specifying a maximum bandwidth that customers will be billed for if they exceed. There's no reason to throttle... just charge for the extra services provided. I don't see how that's complicated at all.
Of course, it's possible the cable companies are specifically intending to hurt p2p... In that case, hand me a torch, and let's get on with the lynching!
First, we already have such lists. Just search google for [anything].exe and the first results will tell you what that exe is associated with and whether it's harmful. So it's just a matter of someone putting that in an open format that's programmatically readable.
Second, it's really not even necessary to know about every process that's running on your computer. You start from a baseline, i.e. a freshly installed operating system, or some other known 'good' state, approve everything that's running, then individually approve future programs that need to run. This doesn't have to be complicated for the user, and it doesn't have to be annoying. You only have to ask once whether to put a program on the white list...
Problems with white listing: How do you know an executable that you downloaded doesn't contain malicious code? Often the user doesn't have adequate information to determine whether an application is harmful, and in this case only a programmatical scan of the file to search for known signatures is going to help. Even assuming only 'friendly' executables are running on your system, this really just changes the domain of the problem from getting your malicious program to run independently, to modifying an existing program to run your malicious code. Some of that can be stopped by storing a hash code of the binary and comparing against that before executing... but there are certain applications (such as flash) that we *want* to run dynamic content. There's always going to be somewhat of a security risk there.
While white listing doesn't completely solve the security problem, I think it does make it far more manageable. I use the no-script plugin to firefox... why not use the same security model for the desktop?