... I am trapped here in the past, sitting with my laptop in the dinosaur-infested jungle of the Cretaceous Period. As I have nothing better to do right now, I decided on using my ether-chronos-network card to connect back to the future and read some historic literature, like erm Slashdot.
Now, if only someone had that blue chronoterm component for me, so I could finally get out of this place, that would be... aaaarghhhhh a Rajasaurus narmadensissssssss
Starting with Quantum computing,... secure communications and the ability to decode encrypted conversations by terrorists and others, then continuing furtherup with When quantum computing becomes a reality, the government may be able to use it to eavesdrop on terrorists and quickly break sophisticated secret codes.
What a brave new world we have, when every new technology we discover is immediately primed towards a most 'noble cause' as allowing the government to invade on (amongst a minority of others) innocent people's privacy. Get your thoughts of that subject and start thinking about some of the following uses instead:
- cancer treatment research
- exploration of physics laws
- assistance in discovering stronger materials
- intelligent systems
- Japanese schoolchildren mistakingly land up in prison due to prisonbus falsely identifying RFID-tags as type "prisoner"
- Prisoners are issued schooluniforms and released by mistake
- Cattle shows up in schoolclass - a mystery unfolds
Not meant to be funny really - this is a bleak prospect for mankind. But I guess there are already a few PHB's wondering whether equipping their employees with RFID would ease their hour-registration problems... If I don't do it... somebody else will...
...our DNA is equipped with raid-1 capabilities ?
Maybe it requires some added Reed-Solomon codes, everyone knows raid-1 doesn't protect against data-corruption...
..but do laptops not require power (even more so with WIFI), and does this power not come from the battery forever ? Is it therefore not true that the driver must connect it's laptop to the car to recharge ? And doesn't that car only last a certain term on it's own battery ? Therefore, shouldn't the car be running at every WIFI-stop the driver makes ? And isn't it true that the car keeps using fuel that way ?
So what does Texas want ?
Thousands of cars stranded alongside the road because they made too many WIFI-stops ?
...it's bad news.
Standards are ok, but a company should always be willing to see potential in anyone, not just those with the (right) papers.
If hope set out is not proven with the chosen candidate, one can always discharge the person on a fair basis.
..never mind the technology, my techno-analfabetic friends will certainly look up to me when I go tell them about the newest gadget I got:
"A variable spreading factor orthogonal frequency code division multiplexing downstream device."
"Wow... does that come with an optical mouse ?"
I wonder if this decision, when implemented, will have consequences for other countries.
Even now, my wireless nic allows me to select the place I am in (Europe, Japan, United States), and bases it's channel allowance on that fact.
If this is implemented, I could be "allowed" (by the software) to select a TV channel which is actually occupied in my country and thus pirate that channel with my Wifi-static...
Sure, different software could be delivered for different countries. Heck, even different firmwares. But we all know that that doesn't stop anyone from updating their card to another country-version.
...I mean, getting caught - no problem: this person did a thing that only a serious de-'script kiddy'-programming (preferably by some hackers) can fix now.
What I do find very bad however, was that the person who caught him should have gone to Microsoft first instead of the proper authorities. Where will this go ?
This could have been put forward more correctly: just hours after a new three-man crew moved in, from which two will replace the current two-man crew for a six month stay.
(ergo, don't forget Andre Kuipers:)
Or summer, or spring, or fall ? Seasons tend to change the environment quite a bit. You need a lot of processing, or 4 different photographs of each season to at least reduce the difference in those. Ofcourse, if it is raining on the day you take your picture you are left with a lot of noise, etc. etc.
I saw the field of high-level image recognition up close a few years ago. While the particular paper that the person who did the research wrote was about stereographic recognition of (simple) 3D objects, it shows a great deal about the processing power required to correct an occluded part of a scene, or to work under darker or lighter circumstances (p117-). I expect that in a 2D recognition the same problems rear their ugly head and make things a whole lot harder.
...if you put it on the administrative side, where you actually decide which packets get in etc., I think you are misunderstanding the term USER-friendliness, and instead get "admin laziness". When you put it into the (features of) applications that users everyday use (office stuff), it can help a great deal without affecting security.
It is where the two things (admin/user) meet that the mushy stuff starts to hit the fan, so to speak. Implementing scripting capability with wide-ranging (or: poorly designed...) powers into a wordprocessor ? The admin can use it as a tool, the user can use it as a tool and, as such, the scriptkiddy can use it as a 'tool'. Just don't link two things that won't require this linking...
Making an application 'easily accessible' doesn't make it a bigger risk, as long as the application is clearly isolated from the system (including programming specifics like buffer overflows) and it doesn't result in adding 'hidden features' to said application.
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If one doesn't question and provokes their liberties, what liberty is there to have ?
... I am trapped here in the past, sitting with my laptop in the dinosaur-infested jungle of the Cretaceous Period. As I have nothing better to do right now, I decided on using my ether-chronos-network card to connect back to the future and read some historic literature, like erm Slashdot.
Now, if only someone had that blue chronoterm component for me, so I could finally get out of this place, that would be... aaaarghhhhh a Rajasaurus narmadensissssssss
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Starting with ... secure communications and the ability to decode encrypted conversations by terrorists and others,
Quantum computing,
then continuing furtherup with
When quantum computing becomes a reality, the government may be able to use it to eavesdrop on terrorists and quickly break sophisticated secret codes.
What a brave new world we have, when every new technology we discover is immediately primed towards a most 'noble cause' as allowing the government to invade on (amongst a minority of others) innocent people's privacy.
Get your thoughts of that subject and start thinking about some of the following uses instead:
- cancer treatment research
- exploration of physics laws
- assistance in discovering stronger materials
- intelligent systems
And I bet there is much more good use out there.
..so we can study its brain...
..then discover there's really nothing special inside...
..then throw it aside and sigh.
...'we' have invented "personalized menus" ! :)
- Japanese schoolchildren mistakingly land up in prison due to prisonbus falsely identifying RFID-tags as type "prisoner"
- Prisoners are issued schooluniforms and released by mistake
- Cattle shows up in schoolclass - a mystery unfolds
Not meant to be funny really - this is a bleak prospect for mankind.
But I guess there are already a few PHB's wondering whether equipping their employees with RFID would ease their hour-registration problems...
If I don't do it... somebody else will...
why am I always taken so seriously :)
here (left-bottom).
Sure, smoking is much more dangerous than a 15 megaton nuke...
...our DNA is equipped with raid-1 capabilities ?
Maybe it requires some added Reed-Solomon codes, everyone knows raid-1 doesn't protect against data-corruption...
is missing, in which Microsoft starts to buff up Linux (unknowingly?) by proclaiming:
:=)
- "Windows and Linux can coexist on the same computer. For additional information, refer to your Linux documentation."
- "Also, Linux recognizes more than forty different partition types, such as:"
Maybe there is even more Linux-advertising in this article ?
...bearing the name "commodoor", they existed when Commodore was still a big name (and still do).
..but do laptops not require power (even more so with WIFI), and does this power not come from the battery forever ?
Is it therefore not true that the driver must connect it's laptop to the car to recharge ?
And doesn't that car only last a certain term on it's own battery ?
Therefore, shouldn't the car be running at every WIFI-stop the driver makes ?
And isn't it true that the car keeps using fuel that way ?
So what does Texas want ?
Thousands of cars stranded alongside the road because they made too many WIFI-stops ?
...in that we should expect these guys with the pointy ears come down now and greet us ?
...it's bad news.
Standards are ok, but a company should always be willing to see potential in anyone, not just those with the (right) papers.
If hope set out is not proven with the chosen candidate, one can always discharge the person on a fair basis.
..never mind the technology, my techno-analfabetic friends will certainly look up to me when I go tell them about the newest gadget I got:
:)
"A variable spreading factor orthogonal frequency code division multiplexing downstream device."
"Wow... does that come with an optical mouse ?"
Can't wait to gloat
I wonder if this decision, when implemented, will have consequences for other countries.
Even now, my wireless nic allows me to select the place I am in (Europe, Japan, United States), and bases it's channel allowance on that fact.
If this is implemented, I could be "allowed" (by the software) to select a TV channel which is actually occupied in my country and thus pirate that channel with my Wifi-static...
Sure, different software could be delivered for different countries. Heck, even different firmwares. But we all know that that doesn't stop anyone from updating their card to another country-version.
...for the term "low power" that I certainly never encountered before... :
"Low power-- 6kWatts per rack, and 60kWatts for the whole system"
...I mean, getting caught - no problem: this person did a thing that only a serious de-'script kiddy'-programming (preferably by some hackers) can fix now.
What I do find very bad however, was that the person who caught him should have gone to Microsoft first instead of the proper authorities. Where will this go ?
..or doesn't it just look like the MegaMaid body, floating through space ?
...not 'right away'. And as I commented on an earlier news article on Hubble's dismissal, it is like throwing a good pair of shoes away before you have a new pair.
In short: a bad idea.
I hope many ideas like this will inspire people to save the Hubble after all.
...that Windows actually has built-in protection against patent infringement ??
but needs to be recalibrated, as Andre Kuipers (ESA) stated on an interview this morning with Dutch television (Dutch language).
This could have been put forward more correctly: :)
just hours after a new three-man crew moved in, from which two will replace the current two-man crew for a six month stay.
(ergo, don't forget Andre Kuipers
Or summer, or spring, or fall ? Seasons tend to change the environment quite a bit. You need a lot of processing, or 4 different photographs of each season to at least reduce the difference in those.
Ofcourse, if it is raining on the day you take your picture you are left with a lot of noise, etc. etc.
I saw the field of high-level image recognition up close a few years ago. While the particular paper that the person who did the research wrote was about stereographic recognition of (simple) 3D objects, it shows a great deal about the processing power required to correct an occluded part of a scene, or to work under darker or lighter circumstances (p117-). I expect that in a 2D recognition the same problems rear their ugly head and make things a whole lot harder.
...if you put it on the administrative side, where you actually decide which packets get in etc., I think you are misunderstanding the term USER-friendliness, and instead get "admin laziness".
When you put it into the (features of) applications that users everyday use (office stuff), it can help a great deal without affecting security.
It is where the two things (admin/user) meet that the mushy stuff starts to hit the fan, so to speak. Implementing scripting capability with wide-ranging (or: poorly designed...) powers into a wordprocessor ? The admin can use it as a tool, the user can use it as a tool and, as such, the scriptkiddy can use it as a 'tool'. Just don't link two things that won't require this linking...
Making an application 'easily accessible' doesn't make it a bigger risk, as long as the application is clearly isolated from the system (including programming specifics like buffer overflows) and it doesn't result in adding 'hidden features' to said application.