They either need to be designed to not fail (triple redundant, etc) or designed so that when they fail that they are not a hazard to
innocent bystanders.
Or when they fail, they could access a map of insurgents living close by.
Drone engine failure, crashing in 2 minutes, list of possible crash sites:
playground: -100
unoccupied garage of elderly lady: 0
vegetable garden: -10
guy who posted anti-NSA stuff on slashdot: +20
I wonder if choice of toppings correlates to voting history.
And if so, could it be circular? I.e. interesting people in more non-traditional toppings could influence their views on non-traditional topics...?
In what way was it "wrong?" The C&D likely came from a legal firm hired to police their trademarks, without any prior knowledge of IKEA.
Exactly.
Wrong.
Large corporation that still thinks that the press office does press releases, the ad agency makes your brand popular, and you let lawyers run after everyone else. Guess what? No.
With the evil govu'ment cracking down on Uber, I now won't even have to try my newest idea:
If you have a screw driver and a wire cutter in your car you can register online and if you are near someone who needs an electrician you can fix it for them. I was gonna call it Park'n'Spark but I'm sure the gavu'ment would find some weasel regulatory claim to kill it.
I will happily use a spreadsheet to compute the grades of my students, to estimate my retirement savings, to compute how much tax I paid last year but I will not use Microsoft Excel to run a bank or to compute the trajectory of the space shuttle.
What he is saying is: It is fine to use spreadsheets as spreadsheets.
But there are people who can't use statistical analysis tools who use spreadsheets instead.
People who can't program who use spreadsheets filled with little code snippets to do what a program should do.
And in general people who make a mess with spreadsheets getting results that are hard to audit.
In short, business majors should take statistics classes and learn mathlab, or opt out of it by signing a form promising never to publish any paper that deals with statistical analysis of market factors.
Oh I'm sure they think it's just as senseless, but if they don't restrict it, then Hollywood won't let them use their IP as cheaply as otherwise
No. Hulu is Hollywood. Fox, NBC, Disney (a.k.a.NewsCorp, Comcast, ABC, MSNBC,..)
They are a resale platform for slightly used content:
1. Let people re-watch recent shows. (Probably to create additional ad-revenue, stop downloads, and competition.)
2. Create an on-line show/movie portal to stop independent offers (Netflix, and Blockbuster in the past).
3. Find new income sources. (Older episodes only on Hulu plus. Media centers, android, or anything convenient only on Hulu plus.)
Not their fault? These are the people responsible for DVD regions. Think Murdoch wants to lose markets? To maximize profits, it is essentially to restrict the usage of media (and information in general) to localized markets. You don't want a movie to hit the regional market before the population is hyped for it and your merchandise is ready. And in order to control the pundit circuit and the news "outlets", you don't want a significant percentage of the population access outside sources.
The government wants to be the only group with drones and they like to use them for spying and killing rather than saving lives.
That might actually work. Instead of calling it a "Search and Rescue Drone" call it an unmanned aerial surveillance vehicle that could be used by small units to safely scan unaccessible terrain. Then tell your local senator that you are a small start-up military contractor who needs help cutting some federal red tape to do real life testing of your beta model by using it in cooperation with local law enforcement.
(Be sure to pronounce "vehicle" as Vee-Hee-Kal and the word "federal" always with some disgust in your voice.)
Yes. Unfortunately there are two messages implied in Bloomberg's statement:
1. When there is a major structural change in the industry, some people will get stranded. And retraining/reeducation will not solve all the problems. As a society we should 'have some compassion to do it gently.' Simply suggesting that everyone learns to code is idiotic and could only come from someone like the Zuck.
2. Coal miners are manual labor class beta minus. You can't teach them intellectual things.
Had he simply said "You can't teach every coal miner to code", he could have avoided stepping in #2
(I on the other hand enjoy dealing with intelligent people who do manual labor jobs. It is nice to have a HVAC contractor, who understands physics. If you watch something like ThisOldHouse, you can see what a difference a brain makes in a so called "manual labor" job. )
No, no, this has been the code part of the stable release of OpenSSL for 2 years. The bug has only been known by non-blackhats for up to a few weeks.
Yes, the heartbeat exploit popped up just recently.
But the bug which forces users to keep data in freed buffers has been known for at least 4 years. Tedunangst calls it "exploit mitigation countermeasures"...
What if the intention isn't on cracking it but just on spreading FUD?
People are pissed off right now. That Snowden thing just isn't going away and people are looking into encrypted email options. Even people who never thought of using pgp (or regarded it as something for paranoid conspiracy theory nuts) would use it now, if it just came as an easy clickable option.
If you're some government agency, that doesn't look desirable. To make things worse, it's a web of trust, one of these pesky decentralized models. Unlike with a central certification authority, trusting one signature doesn't translate into trusting others. But on the other hand, there is no single CA that can be compromised. If you are a government agency in the business of undermining privacy, you would have to attack it one user at a time. Quite frustrating.
What to do about it? Create some headlines like:
Fake PGP Keys For Crypto Developers Found
Hmm- looks that isn't safe either. Not worth the effort trying it out I guess.
...he's not much of a "science" guy,...
... captain obvious...
... He's no scientist....
... Bill Nye the Attention Whore...
... Mr. Bill Nye is NOT and has NOTHING to do with science...
This out of 31 posts so far.
This on a guy who makes science fun for kids.
Beta might not be Slashdot's biggest problem, but going the way of kuro5hin is.
Slashdot Mirror
They either need to be designed to not fail (triple redundant, etc) or designed so that when they fail that they are not a hazard to innocent bystanders.
Or when they fail, they could access a map of insurgents living close by.
Drone engine failure, crashing in 2 minutes, list of possible crash sites:
playground: -100
unoccupied garage of elderly lady: 0
vegetable garden: -10
guy who posted anti-NSA stuff on slashdot: +20
The king of the world? Jesus Christ?
Just FYI: Ave Maria
I wonder if choice of toppings correlates to voting history.
And if so, could it be circular? I.e. interesting people in more non-traditional toppings could influence their views on non-traditional topics...?
http://xkcd.com/1299/
In what way was it "wrong?" The C&D likely came from a legal firm hired to police their trademarks, without any prior knowledge of IKEA.
Exactly.
Wrong.
Large corporation that still thinks that the press office does press releases, the ad agency makes your brand popular, and you let lawyers run after everyone else. Guess what? No.
With the evil govu'ment cracking down on Uber, I now won't even have to try my newest idea:
If you have a screw driver and a wire cutter in your car you can register online and if you are near someone who needs an electrician you can fix it for them.
I was gonna call it Park'n'Spark but I'm sure the gavu'ment would find some weasel regulatory claim to kill it.
"I don't know how to use spread sheets properly."
No. He doesn't:
I will happily use a spreadsheet to compute the grades of my students, to estimate my retirement savings, to compute how much tax I paid last year but I will not use Microsoft Excel to run a bank or to compute the trajectory of the space shuttle.
What he is saying is: It is fine to use spreadsheets as spreadsheets.
But there are people who can't use statistical analysis tools who use spreadsheets instead.
People who can't program who use spreadsheets filled with little code snippets to do what a program should do.
And in general people who make a mess with spreadsheets getting results that are hard to audit.
In short, business majors should take statistics classes and learn mathlab, or opt out of it by signing a form promising never to publish any paper that deals with statistical analysis of market factors.
For the first pot head to show up in a home-spun woolly mammoth sweater.
Shouldn't his name be Gnu-Linus?
Just saying.
I'll take that ratio any day over my time in the Navy, where the ratio on a ship was about 50:1 male to female.
... And that 1 wasn't really female, just happened to be named Jessie.
I just googled "Can Google Influence Elections?" -
Four of the top five hits are certain that it can (the other one is slashdot).
That's alarming. I didn't know that before I googled it.
Oh I'm sure they think it's just as senseless, but if they don't restrict it, then Hollywood won't let them use their IP as cheaply as otherwise
No. Hulu is Hollywood. Fox, NBC, Disney (a.k.a.NewsCorp, Comcast, ABC, MSNBC,..)
They are a resale platform for slightly used content:
1. Let people re-watch recent shows. (Probably to create additional ad-revenue, stop downloads, and competition.)
2. Create an on-line show/movie portal to stop independent offers (Netflix, and Blockbuster in the past).
3. Find new income sources. (Older episodes only on Hulu plus. Media centers, android, or anything convenient only on Hulu plus.)
Not their fault? These are the people responsible for DVD regions. Think Murdoch wants to lose markets? To maximize profits, it is essentially to restrict the usage of media (and information in general) to localized markets. You don't want a movie to hit the regional market before the population is hyped for it and your merchandise is ready. And in order to control the pundit circuit and the news "outlets", you don't want a significant percentage of the population access outside sources.
The government wants to be the only group with drones and they like to use them for spying and killing rather than saving lives.
That might actually work.
Instead of calling it a "Search and Rescue Drone" call it an unmanned aerial surveillance vehicle that could be used by small units to safely scan unaccessible terrain. Then tell your local senator that you are a small start-up military contractor who needs help cutting some federal red tape to do real life testing of your beta model by using it in cooperation with local law enforcement.
(Be sure to pronounce "vehicle" as Vee-Hee-Kal and the word "federal" always with some disgust in your voice.)
... the coal miner's daughter?
Yes. Unfortunately there are two messages implied in Bloomberg's statement:
1. When there is a major structural change in the industry, some people will get stranded. And retraining/reeducation will not solve all the problems. As a society we should 'have some compassion to do it gently.' Simply suggesting that everyone learns to code is idiotic and could only come from someone like the Zuck.
2. Coal miners are manual labor class beta minus. You can't teach them intellectual things.
Had he simply said "You can't teach every coal miner to code", he could have avoided stepping in #2
(I on the other hand enjoy dealing with intelligent people who do manual labor jobs. It is nice to have a HVAC contractor, who understands physics. If you watch something like ThisOldHouse, you can see what a difference a brain makes in a so called "manual labor" job. )
You really need to have a beard to get it. Do you have a beard? You don't sound like you have a proper beard.
Ehhh, of course you need a beard. But the article also says, to be successful you should remove spaghetti once in a while:
Habit 7: Make time for yourself
[... ]Taking care of yourself is an important part of doing a good job."
Anyone who has ever had these little bastards in their house ...
.. like in Virginia Beach?
It will attract fighter jets.
"known for 2 years"
No, no, this has been the code part of the stable release of OpenSSL for 2 years. The bug has only been known by non-blackhats for up to a few weeks.
Yes, the heartbeat exploit popped up just recently. ...
But the bug which forces users to keep data in freed buffers has been known for at least 4 years. Tedunangst calls it "exploit mitigation countermeasures"
which attempts to education journalists in how to process
We should attempts to education the editors in how to process a story!
Do not tempt the editors in how to educate the story process!
Actually the systems inevitably self destruct. Psychopathic societies run by psychopaths must fail because that is their nature,...
Yes, but sometimes that takes 300-400 years.
What's with all the Jew talk today?
The topic brings out the conspiracy nuts.
Crypto.
Crypt
Freemasons
Jews
What if the intention isn't on cracking it but just on spreading FUD?
People are pissed off right now. That Snowden thing just isn't going away and people are looking into encrypted email options. Even people who never thought of using pgp (or regarded it as something for paranoid conspiracy theory nuts) would use it now, if it just came as an easy clickable option.
If you're some government agency, that doesn't look desirable. To make things worse, it's a web of trust, one of these pesky decentralized models. Unlike with a central certification authority, trusting one signature doesn't translate into trusting others. But on the other hand, there is no single CA that can be compromised. If you are a government agency in the business of undermining privacy, you would have to attack it one user at a time. Quite frustrating.
What to do about it?
Create some headlines like:
Fake PGP Keys For Crypto Developers Found
Hmm- looks that isn't safe either. Not worth the effort trying it out I guess.
... captain obvious
... He's no scientist.
... Bill Nye the Attention Whore
... Mr. Bill Nye is NOT and has NOTHING to do with science
This out of 31 posts so far.
This on a guy who makes science fun for kids.
Beta might not be Slashdot's biggest problem,
but going the way of kuro5hin is.
I read both stories, can't quite figure out why we needed a double header. There's nothing related between the two articles
Exactly.
This way very few comments will be "off topic"