Maybe he thinks that freedom from being manipulated into making bad health choices is more important than freedom to manipulate someone into making bad health choices for profit?
Maybe because it seems that this personal helicopter performs most of the functions of a drone, except poorly and at great cost. How exactly do they plan to use this for firefighting?
Real jetpack wearing firefighters would use a modified firehose-propelled backpack to lift themselves into the air.:-p
I believe the tricorder's main attributes were: 1) it can scan, analyze, or detect anything 2) it doesn't exist
I wonder which of these attributes they implemented?
"We've been working on this for a little over two years," Khuri-Yakub said. "We're still at an early stage but we're confident that in five to ten to fifteen years, this will become practical and widely available."
To me, this seems like an important development. Keep in mind that there's huge biases in scientific publishing in favor of interesting studies (translation, in favor of studies with "surprising", aka unlikely, results; also against repeating and confirming experiments). Furthermore, once a journalist gets ahold of it, every piece of research is likely to produce a cure for cancer, fusion reactors, or revolutionize some aspect of computing. This based on the part where the scientist said, "hint, hint, need funding".
Now, if you're an expert in the field you'll have no trouble understanding what's what. But the rest of us could do with a translator sometimes.
What a dumbass. If he had actually succeeded with his programming, it would have meant that any victim could give or sell the encryption key to his other victims.
Too bad he didn't also have a random ID, or accidentally give out the contact info of a "legitimate" ransomware maker, so that he could piss off the other ransomware makers even more by his "killing" of data hostages.
Much as I like to dump on the NSA, in this case they're doing things exactly right. If I were in their position, I'd use the zero day exploits against my targets, ensure we have a defense against it, maybe prepare a patch or workaround for publication, keep watch for others using that exploit. At some point I'd disclose the exploit to the developers, starting with the most obvious ones or the those which are already being exploited by others.
Much as it would be nice for all exploits to be disclosed immediately, doing so unilaterally would leave our cyberespionage people weaponless (but other countries wouldn't be).
The only problem I see in this situation is that apparently the target is "everyone".
So, how long until some large well-funded organized group of nasty people get their hands on several of these and sets them to killing innocent civilians?
The wording of the law where people are claiming it would be illegal to modify your own PC, specifically words "dolosamente", which roughly could be translated to "with malicious intent". So yes, the purpose of said law is to criminalize any modifications or alterations to an information system with malicious intent,
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This has no place on Slashdot. At all. Period.
Maybe he wants one of us to tell him to just get a PC with Linux and play Tux Racer?
Maybe he thinks that freedom from being manipulated into making bad health choices is more important than freedom to manipulate someone into making bad health choices for profit?
Just tell them to "bug off".
The article suggests people are much more willing to complain about meaningless issues now that they have a public audience.
The article complains that people are much more willing to complain about meaningless issues now that they have a public audience.
Terrorists have attacked again. Drop your freedoms and bend over.
Maybe because it seems that this personal helicopter performs most of the functions of a drone, except poorly and at great cost. How exactly do they plan to use this for firefighting?
Real jetpack wearing firefighters would use a modified firehose-propelled backpack to lift themselves into the air. :-p
What about all the ppl. that shelled out US $599.00 for the beats appliance?
Beats me.
Time to print up some nice CTRL-ALT-Del barcodes for the local evil-mart.
These people are like modern day vampires, they want to suck you dry.
There would have to be a lot more prize money involved before this would be comparable to the 1960s space race, maybe a trillion or so would do it.
If you want a real space race, wait until we figure out robotic asteroid mining and space-based manufacturing.
I believe the tricorder's main attributes were:
1) it can scan, analyze, or detect anything
2) it doesn't exist
I wonder which of these attributes they implemented?
"We've been working on this for a little over two years," Khuri-Yakub said. "We're still at an early stage but we're confident that in five to ten to fifteen years, this will become practical and widely available."
If it gets too bad, the workers there can always harness the conflict all their coworkers have with management, to strike some kind of better deal.
To me, this seems like an important development. Keep in mind that there's huge biases in scientific publishing in favor of interesting studies (translation, in favor of studies with "surprising", aka unlikely, results; also against repeating and confirming experiments). Furthermore, once a journalist gets ahold of it, every piece of research is likely to produce a cure for cancer, fusion reactors, or revolutionize some aspect of computing. This based on the part where the scientist said, "hint, hint, need funding".
Now, if you're an expert in the field you'll have no trouble understanding what's what. But the rest of us could do with a translator sometimes.
What a dumbass. If he had actually succeeded with his programming, it would have meant that any victim could give or sell the encryption key to his other victims.
Too bad he didn't also have a random ID, or accidentally give out the contact info of a "legitimate" ransomware maker, so that he could piss off the other ransomware makers even more by his "killing" of data hostages.
Said foreign politician promptly reminded that, as a politician, they're not expected to be honest but rather to say nice things.
Much as I like to dump on the NSA, in this case they're doing things exactly right. If I were in their position, I'd use the zero day exploits against my targets, ensure we have a defense against it, maybe prepare a patch or workaround for publication, keep watch for others using that exploit. At some point I'd disclose the exploit to the developers, starting with the most obvious ones or the those which are already being exploited by others.
Much as it would be nice for all exploits to be disclosed immediately, doing so unilaterally would leave our cyberespionage people weaponless (but other countries wouldn't be).
The only problem I see in this situation is that apparently the target is "everyone".
If only we had some agency that specialized in security.
No, autonomous automobiles.
The mystery of the powerful and mysterious race of Precursors has finally been resolved.
So, how long until some large well-funded organized group of nasty people get their hands on several of these and sets them to killing innocent civilians?
Now that we've done every nuclear weapons test we can imagine to get all the data we might need, it's time to ban this horrible practice.
What's the bounty for finding remote exploits in military drones?
The wording of the law where people are claiming it would be illegal to modify your own PC, specifically words "dolosamente", which roughly could be translated to "with malicious intent". So yes, the purpose of said law is to criminalize any modifications or alterations to an information system with malicious intent,
So, you can't "upgrade" someone to Windows 10?
Screw debt collectors.
Does that work?
Is too much choice stressing me out? Yes, or no? Or perhaps maybe, or a little, or a lot? Arghhh, I can't decide!!!