Your employer could just run something like Boss Everywhere, which does keylogging and activity tracking. Other spyware could be doing screenshots while you secretly fire up PGP. With the price of storage being next to nothing, there's no real reason to expect that there isn't a big database full of everything you've done in case they need to fire your or whatever.
There are lots of good reasons to use encryption, but for this reason, especially at work, isn't one of them. You might have the world's greatest pass-phrase but if you're keeping your secret key on the drive and being keylogged you're easily compromised.
EB barely gives lip service to the stuff they cover which makes it almost worthless for me. 4 paragraphs on a topic isn't comprehensive in the content end of things. Anyone with a good search engine can get more and better written reports for free.
Obviously CN is a kid's channel based mostly on "classic" and kid cartoons on a perpetual loop. Great to plant a 4 year old in front of, but not exactly a killer formula for adults.
Sci-Fi on the other hand comes with every basic cable package and has still to figure out that anime, preferably uncut, would be great programming for their viewers. Imagine how much money could have been translated into bringing anime to the states instead of producing that horrendous Dune remake. Yes Sci-Fi, you put David Lynch in his place.
I'm sure they're too busy coming up with another great Outer Limits episode to bother with something as trivial as cartoons. "Okay, check it out: this alien comes down and infects this dude..." Or even better getting the rights to air the Knight Rider movie last night.
Yeah i know they used to play some anime during the day but I don't think it was very consistant and way too early in the day for me.
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If he was wearing slashdot hat you're article would have been aproved in a second.
Hemos wins the Liberterian Intellectual of the Year award. Keep up the good work, at this rate we'll be paying the police out of pocket to investigate crimes.
I hate to sound so much like an ass, but this Libertarian doublespeak needs to be called on. A techie who's pulled herself from a game of quake for a minute could learn a bit from the American labor movement and how there wouldn't be a tech industry if every five year old was expected to work in a factory instead of going to school.
And if anyone does notice, make up some bullshit about "artifical gravity" and "inertia dampeners" after the fact.
Hey you heard him! No bullshit in fiction. Not all sci-fi has to 'hard' sci-fi. I'm a big fan of PKD's work and it has little to do with the assumptions of scientific materialism. It isn't wacko, its art. The genre is large enough to fit artificial gravity both in the hard sense (2001) and in the soft sense (star trek).
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Lets put the keyboard down for a second. Good. Now re-read the article. Its not just for zero-g effects its uses as listed in this article are for private zero gee research, educational programs, and broadcasting TV or music. How many people even know the ISS exists? This can only turn out to be a mass appeal propaganda win.
I'd like to see a lunar base in my lifetime too, but without first making attempts at privitizing space I don't see how the current NASA mentality is going to go for it.
This came up a little while ago at metafilter.com and I couldn't ignore how the paltry sum of the X-prize drives nearly suicidal space launches like this. 10 million to a company that can *safely* deliver the precious and fragile cargo of two human beings to space and back is peanuts, its what they pay for the first 10 seconds of the 4th test flight.
So the X-Prize now drives people like Steve to build an unusually phallic looking rocket out of a cement mixer. If the lottery is for people who can't do math than the X-Prize is for people who can't do physics. To the company that does pull this trick off, the 10 mil will be more like the cheesy gold-plated trophies they passed out in high school.
If anything a machine that passes this can have a very narrow focus on fooling the judge by just focusing on conversational idioms. An intelligent machine (if that is possible) can produce the same output as a program written specifically to cater to human psychological expectations of a conversation.
If the web has taught you anything its that fooling people does not equal a "thinking" or an intelligent machine. The test is in desperate need of replacement. The fact that the test is taken seriously just goes to show how little we truly understand about intelligence and consciousness.
I wonder how many smartlinks will be MS pages with accompanying ads. Also, no one seems to be addressing the larger issue of how many links are too many. I'm sick of hitting every link in a slashdot story to get to the article. Guys, you don't have to link to Sun or MS or whoever's homepage everytime they're mentioned. How about less but more relevant links?
This just adds more noise to a webpage, wastes the time of the surfer and turns over content control from picking a link from a search engine to MS's idea of what is good for you (read: them).
I don't believe any MS OS gives HLT instructions to cool or "power down" the processor. I'm draining 70+ watts regardless if SETI is on or off. Unix is a whole other story.
If anything, the constant disk accesses will keep the HDs from shutting down and might affect auto stand-by or hibernation setups. I don't know of any business that knocks anything but laptops into a real hibernation state. As long as that space heater, err Monitor is shutting down after 10 or 15 mins of idle you're sitting pretty. The rest is pretty trivial.
You're stretching the definition of stealing more than I can tolerate. What has been taken exactly and where is it stored? Whats the *real* loss? Its one thing to go against policy its another to defent policy with accusations of criminal intent. "He knew he was stealing from the company, sir!" Might as well start charging employees who fire up the browser for bandwidth costs if you're serious about "stealing."
Why do we have this collective image of the freindly peace loving alien? I think because its the opposite of the sci-fi 'big bad monster' archetype, but I seriously doubt either are true. If you're curious about what aliens would do with your DNA imagine if the US just got its greedy little hands on some alien DNA. It wouldn't be pretty. I doubt politics, national interests and security, economics, and warfare are just human creations.
That's what it really comes down to, we can go on all day about whether the distro cancer models and methodology have much in common with reality. The same is true with the Pascal wager that is Seti. Out of all the the distro projects out there I think GIMPS and RC5 are the only ones with results. Maybe its best to be on the 'winning team' i.e. something that produces results.
I think you're just pushing the moral button. What if someone wrote a client to continue the THC tumor shrinking research but you are staunchly anti-drugs? If Sally Struthers makes a really pathetic ploy with starving children and all for her distro project (could happen) would you be morally obligated to go with the immediate improving of health of children or wait out for the cancer lottery ticket?
I don't think people really give a shit either way, they'll download a client and play with it until they get sick of it. Things will change when the multipurpose 'screensaver' is written and lets you pick which project you feel like going with that day or week. Hmm, today I feel like helping the PRC crack some NSA codes, etc.
Is there such a beast? User generated content is the cheap way to go, but the big ticket item is bandwidth. Imagine downloading a mirroring webserver on your broadband PC and volunteering for your favorite websites. Suck.com or whatever would send you a % of the traffic to serve up.
There's a lot of bandwidth out there, the same with wasted cycles but SETI@Home and GIMPS made great use out of idling PCs. You wouldnt even need a couple million contributors like SETI, just a couple hundred could handle a substantial load.
Reality Check? This guy? A magnet on a ring is all he's selling, aside from the rhetoric.
If slashdot if going to start pulling reality checks and recovering their "logical edge" as you say, I suggest they at least get some smart and informed interviews with people like Robert Anton Wilson or Dr. Dean Radin not a Grade-A wacko like poor Alex here.
Also, it seems like the new method of cheating in those fully immersive massively-multiplayer environments will be simple -- don't put the electrodes on.
There's definately a group neurosis when it come to on-line gaming and cheating. I can't see how using this controller would make sense outside of a console. "Yeah dude, the controlled dropped out of my hands" can be just as verifiable as "Yeah I'm 18, hot, and ready for you stud!" Not all things are meant for the on-line experience.
Then find places that don't have editorial control, like www.metafilter.com. When is slashdot going to "open" their rejected links so we can see that great stuff we're missing?
Answer: Never. Profits before ideologies you know. The reject list could help create a few dozen web-log type sites that would ruin the little monopoly slashdot has on geeks.
If its code-heavy get screen captures and make big ass jpegs. Put them on a public server someplace. Not exactly the real thing, but for most people it'll do just fine.
Compared to Buckminster Fuller this guy is practically the Exxon Valdez. This article is just so deep into 50's thoughtless almost reckless consumerism that its really kind of scary. Ideas like pouring plastic down the sink and everyone owning a helicopter don't make much sense if you think about it for a minute or two.
His intro is kinda a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts. The only obstacles to accurate prophecy are the vested interests, which may retard progress for economic reasons, tradition, conservatism, labor-union policies and legislation. Nice.
Ironically, the lack of economic and social change is what makes his predictions true today as much as extrapolating on the science. The past 20 or so years have been a non-stop spending spree that makes the 50's look like kid's play.
Fuller's one piece bathrooms, lightweight portable homes, world power grids, and Geodesic homes are probably things that can only come in an age where we're forced (or really want) to conserve resources.
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Your employer could just run something like Boss Everywhere, which does keylogging and activity tracking. Other spyware could be doing screenshots while you secretly fire up PGP. With the price of storage being next to nothing, there's no real reason to expect that there isn't a big database full of everything you've done in case they need to fire your or whatever.
There are lots of good reasons to use encryption, but for this reason, especially at work, isn't one of them. You might have the world's greatest pass-phrase but if you're keeping your secret key on the drive and being keylogged you're easily compromised.
EB barely gives lip service to the stuff they cover which makes it almost worthless for me. 4 paragraphs on a topic isn't comprehensive in the content end of things. Anyone with a good search engine can get more and better written reports for free.
What does this have to do with anime? The CSICOP style evangelism here helps lower the signal to noise ratio. Thanks for contributing.
Obviously CN is a kid's channel based mostly on "classic" and kid cartoons on a perpetual loop. Great to plant a 4 year old in front of, but not exactly a killer formula for adults.
Sci-Fi on the other hand comes with every basic cable package and has still to figure out that anime, preferably uncut, would be great programming for their viewers. Imagine how much money could have been translated into bringing anime to the states instead of producing that horrendous Dune remake. Yes Sci-Fi, you put David Lynch in his place.
I'm sure they're too busy coming up with another great Outer Limits episode to bother with something as trivial as cartoons. "Okay, check it out: this alien comes down and infects this dude..." Or even better getting the rights to air the Knight Rider movie last night.
Yeah i know they used to play some anime during the day but I don't think it was very consistant and way too early in the day for me.
If he was wearing slashdot hat you're article would have been aproved in a second.
Hemos wins the Liberterian Intellectual of the Year award. Keep up the good work, at this rate we'll be paying the police out of pocket to investigate crimes.
I hate to sound so much like an ass, but this Libertarian doublespeak needs to be called on. A techie who's pulled herself from a game of quake for a minute could learn a bit from the American labor movement and how there wouldn't be a tech industry if every five year old was expected to work in a factory instead of going to school.
www.solarhost.com already powers more than a few websites using just the free radiation from that big thing in the sky.
And if anyone does notice, make up some bullshit about "artifical gravity" and "inertia dampeners" after the fact.
Hey you heard him! No bullshit in fiction. Not all sci-fi has to 'hard' sci-fi. I'm a big fan of PKD's work and it has little to do with the assumptions of scientific materialism. It isn't wacko, its art. The genre is large enough to fit artificial gravity both in the hard sense (2001) and in the soft sense (star trek).
Lets put the keyboard down for a second. Good. Now re-read the article. Its not just for zero-g effects its uses as listed in this article are for private zero gee research, educational programs, and broadcasting TV or music. How many people even know the ISS exists? This can only turn out to be a mass appeal propaganda win.
I'd like to see a lunar base in my lifetime too, but without first making attempts at privitizing space I don't see how the current NASA mentality is going to go for it.
This came up a little while ago at metafilter.com and I couldn't ignore how the paltry sum of the X-prize drives nearly suicidal space launches like this. 10 million to a company that can *safely* deliver the precious and fragile cargo of two human beings to space and back is peanuts, its what they pay for the first 10 seconds of the 4th test flight.
So the X-Prize now drives people like Steve to build an unusually phallic looking rocket out of a cement mixer. If the lottery is for people who can't do math than the X-Prize is for people who can't do physics. To the company that does pull this trick off, the 10 mil will be more like the cheesy gold-plated trophies they passed out in high school.
If anything a machine that passes this can have a very narrow focus on fooling the judge by just focusing on conversational idioms. An intelligent machine (if that is possible) can produce the same output as a program written specifically to cater to human psychological expectations of a conversation.
If the web has taught you anything its that fooling people does not equal a "thinking" or an intelligent machine. The test is in desperate need of replacement. The fact that the test is taken seriously just goes to show how little we truly understand about intelligence and consciousness.
I wonder how many smartlinks will be MS pages with accompanying ads. Also, no one seems to be addressing the larger issue of how many links are too many. I'm sick of hitting every link in a slashdot story to get to the article. Guys, you don't have to link to Sun or MS or whoever's homepage everytime they're mentioned. How about less but more relevant links?
This just adds more noise to a webpage, wastes the time of the surfer and turns over content control from picking a link from a search engine to MS's idea of what is good for you (read: them).
I don't believe any MS OS gives HLT instructions to cool or "power down" the processor. I'm draining 70+ watts regardless if SETI is on or off. Unix is a whole other story.
If anything, the constant disk accesses will keep the HDs from shutting down and might affect auto stand-by or hibernation setups. I don't know of any business that knocks anything but laptops into a real hibernation state. As long as that space heater, err Monitor is shutting down after 10 or 15 mins of idle you're sitting pretty. The rest is pretty trivial.
You're stretching the definition of stealing more than I can tolerate. What has been taken exactly and where is it stored? Whats the *real* loss? Its one thing to go against policy its another to defent policy with accusations of criminal intent. "He knew he was stealing from the company, sir!" Might as well start charging employees who fire up the browser for bandwidth costs if you're serious about "stealing."
Why do we have this collective image of the freindly peace loving alien? I think because its the opposite of the sci-fi 'big bad monster' archetype, but I seriously doubt either are true. If you're curious about what aliens would do with your DNA imagine if the US just got its greedy little hands on some alien DNA. It wouldn't be pretty. I doubt politics, national interests and security, economics, and warfare are just human creations.
Useless?
GIMPS has found the largest prime number, its mathematicaly significant and supposedly has applications in the encryption field.
That's what it really comes down to, we can go on all day about whether the distro cancer models and methodology have much in common with reality. The same is true with the Pascal wager that is Seti. Out of all the the distro projects out there I think GIMPS and RC5 are the only ones with results. Maybe its best to be on the 'winning team' i.e. something that produces results.
I think you're just pushing the moral button. What if someone wrote a client to continue the THC tumor shrinking research but you are staunchly anti-drugs? If Sally Struthers makes a really pathetic ploy with starving children and all for her distro project (could happen) would you be morally obligated to go with the immediate improving of health of children or wait out for the cancer lottery ticket?
I don't think people really give a shit either way, they'll download a client and play with it until they get sick of it. Things will change when the multipurpose 'screensaver' is written and lets you pick which project you feel like going with that day or week. Hmm, today I feel like helping the PRC crack some NSA codes, etc.
Is there such a beast? User generated content is the cheap way to go, but the big ticket item is bandwidth. Imagine downloading a mirroring webserver on your broadband PC and volunteering for your favorite websites. Suck.com or whatever would send you a % of the traffic to serve up.
There's a lot of bandwidth out there, the same with wasted cycles but SETI@Home and GIMPS made great use out of idling PCs. You wouldnt even need a couple million contributors like SETI, just a couple hundred could handle a substantial load.
Why is there a picture of Al "Grandpa" Lewis doing in that article? All Minsky needs now is a cape.
Reality Check? This guy? A magnet on a ring is all he's selling, aside from the rhetoric.
If slashdot if going to start pulling reality checks and recovering their "logical edge" as you say, I suggest they at least get some smart and informed interviews with people like Robert Anton Wilson or Dr. Dean Radin not a Grade-A wacko like poor Alex here.
Also, it seems like the new method of cheating in those fully immersive massively-multiplayer environments will be simple -- don't put the electrodes on.
There's definately a group neurosis when it come to on-line gaming and cheating. I can't see how using this controller would make sense outside of a console. "Yeah dude, the controlled dropped out of my hands" can be just as verifiable as "Yeah I'm 18, hot, and ready for you stud!" Not all things are meant for the on-line experience.
Then find places that don't have editorial control, like www.metafilter.com. When is slashdot going to "open" their rejected links so we can see that great stuff we're missing?
Answer: Never. Profits before ideologies you know. The reject list could help create a few dozen web-log type sites that would ruin the little monopoly slashdot has on geeks.
If its code-heavy get screen captures and make big ass jpegs. Put them on a public server someplace. Not exactly the real thing, but for most people it'll do just fine.
I'm gonna get really into it, spend 1/2 hour reading and then realize its another Spielberg AI web-mystery thing. Save me from insane marketers.
Post #37 is an anti-creationist post that isn't even a reply? Talk about some high level CSICOP paranoia.
Compared to Buckminster Fuller this guy is practically the Exxon Valdez. This article is just so deep into 50's thoughtless almost reckless consumerism that its really kind of scary. Ideas like pouring plastic down the sink and everyone owning a helicopter don't make much sense if you think about it for a minute or two.
His intro is kinda a self-fulfilling prophecy of sorts. The only obstacles to accurate prophecy are the vested interests, which may retard progress for economic reasons, tradition, conservatism, labor-union policies and legislation. Nice.
Ironically, the lack of economic and social change is what makes his predictions true today as much as extrapolating on the science. The past 20 or so years have been a non-stop spending spree that makes the 50's look like kid's play.
Fuller's one piece bathrooms, lightweight portable homes, world power grids, and Geodesic homes are probably things that can only come in an age where we're forced (or really want) to conserve resources.