"First you get your bachelor's degree and think you know something. Then you get your master's degree and realize you know nothing. Then you get your doctorate and realize no one else knows anything either, but you realize that's okay, and we all muddle on together." -Source unknown
This is the most insightful comment in this whole thread. You dead centered the problem. I came to the realization a while ago that when we advance to the point that any moron has the capability to wield world-destroying powers (and probably long before that) that some moron will destroy the world.
Most definitely. The smartphone is an amazing device. But everyone can have and use one. The nerds of yesteryear who had the forethought, desire, and ability to properly use an Amiga are the kids these days jail-breaking their phone and pushing it to the theoretical limits of its capabilities. The ones who buy the phone and just use it and can't troubleshoot it are like the kids who were down at the arcades plugging quarters into machines just to play them. They could use the tech but not truly understand it.
Further, much of this tech is only possible *because* of leapfrogs in technology. It takes some pretty sophisticated hardware and software to design and build a device like a smartphone. It is quite honestly one of the many results of our becoming technology gods!
No, but you should at least have some idea what you're talking about before you belly up to the table. This could be anything from "took a law class" to "studied material independently" to "read Groklaw for 8 years" but you should have *some* modicum of knowledge about legal quirks before you lambaste a judge's ruling.
because right now, at this moment, we are plowing through space we haven't plowed through in 237 million years.
More accurately, we're plowing through space we've never plowed through before, in the context of the universe. The Milky Way is *also* moving through space at about 2.1 million km/hr or 600 km/s. I suppose it all depends on your reference frame.
Huh? Allow me to clarify. The waste rock is left on the moon. Further, the mass of the moon is ~7.36 × 10^22 kilograms, you could grind up 100 million tons per second and still it would take over 25,000 years to process the whole thing. Stuff in the universe is big man, like really hugely enormous.
Depending on the precision that you require, you could bolt those either 2 doubles at a time, 4 floats at a time, or 8 fixed-point 16-bit integers at a time into SSE registers and operate on them in parallel. There's some bizarrely cool byte-order rearranging assembly instructions that you could use to help you get the list of B values flipped around, couple that with a couple of cache hints and I think you could compute that reasonably quickly.
C# is the cool teenage hipster that talks a lot but doesn't actually do anything on his own. He just gets his buddies (.Net) to do everything for him, and if they won't do it, he'll tell you it doesn't need to be done.
Java is the overachieving straight A's wants-to-do-everything crazy girl that can't settle on what she wants to do because she's busy doing it all but not being particularly good at any one thing.
I would suggest that that kind of sharing of your connection may very well be in breach of your contract with your ISP. They usually allow for practically any number of your own devices in your own house, but they start cracking the whip if your whole neighborhood is sharing one connection.
What they need to do is charge it based on the class itself. English 101? $50 per credit-hour. Engineering 101? $150 per credit-hour. And so on. If they're actually doing this based on declared major then they're going to find a crapton of liberal arts majors taking advanced engineering courses an switching majors the last semester of senior year.
It's important to draw a distinction between a CS degree and a CIS degree. CS teaches you theory and programming skills, CIS is much more business oriented.
The funny thing is though, the troubleshooting and problem solving skills you pick up with a CS degree are directly applicable to 90% of sysadmin work. Further, programmers as sysadmins tend to work out pretty well as you wind up with disturbingly elaborate scripting solutions to automate otherwise unthinkable tasks.
I'd sooner have a sysadmin that survived a rigorous CS program with a solid math background than someone trained to run the flavor of the week system who counts on experience to keep them afloat. One of these types is paddling on a surfboard trying to keep up, the other is cruising by in an ocean liner.
The problem is that the term 'unsolvable' has a strict meaning in the realm of computer science. The reporter was not cognizant enough of the field he was reporting on to notice that important distinction. Therefore, the term is incorrect, as we are talking about a report on theoretical computer science.
The 2030's see an energy revolution. Propulsion systems make generational leapfrogs annually as the applications become more and more apparent. In the late 30's and early 40's construction on the moon begins in earnest. Permanent bases are set up. Engineers and construction workers begin one of the most massive undertakings in mankind's existence. Regular flights for the rich and powerful become commonplace by the mid-40's. By the 50's, private spaceplanes are making regular trips back and forth as the rich make it the newest big vacation destination. Costs continue to tumble.
By the late 2060's purchasing a ticket to the moon is as common as purchasing a cross country airplane flight was in the late 1960's. Resorts and tourism drive nearly half of the lunar economy (the bulk had always been mining operations until then). As the 70's give way to the 80's all space exploration uses the moon as a launching point.
The future is a strange and wonderful place, with many worlds to explore. I look forward to it with great expectations.
People who find themselves in that industry have to set aside their conscience to do the job and put food on the table. They rationalize it as a game or a competition or just business.
Oh, I don't know. The kind of people that would be attracted to that kind of business were probably skewing sociopathic anyways. I think there's a lot more use for true sociopaths in society than we like to believe. Somebody has to pull the trigger and a sociopath will be more than happy to and wonder why you didn't want to at the same time. The trick is channeling that into useful areas instead of purely destructive ones.
Except it doesn't work with resizing. They seem to be assuming that you're editing the picture as-is and saving it again in a JPEG format. I guess it would help make you suspicious of a PNG or some other uncommon format, but they are specifically targeting the JPEG quantizer. It's cool and everything, but that compression mechanism is highly specific to JPEG's. A wavelet compressor or an RLE compressor would completely ignore/miss it.
Our algorithm works by adding a high-frequency pattern to the image with an amplitude carefully selected to cause maximum quantization error on recompression at a chosen target JPEG quality factor.
So...if I compress it as a TIF, a JPEG-2000, PNG, GIF, or BMP or else run a blur filter, resize, upsample, downsample, any image effects, or cropping 1 pixel off the top row/column (thereby ruining JPEG block alignment) then I can still edit images to my heart's content? Okay...so this is good for catching stupid people?
The great thing about 'Anonymous' is that they're basically completely decentralized. There is no head to cut off, and at best you expend resources to get a handful of individuals.
Now the great thing about this approach is that the effort expended to capture these folks is directly proportional to how skilled they are. Thusly, the people with more skill who are doing more damage are masking themselves more effectively.
Catching a couple of hundred script kiddies in their mother's basement isn't going to dent the problem. And catching the people actually writing those scripts and causing real damage is going to be no mean feat.
I found this chart to be enlightening. It's from 2003, but the trend should still hold (and the arguments haven't changed since then anyway). Almost 4 times as many people die in car accidents than are murdered by guns (11,920 by gun, 43,340 by car accident) and suicides by gun are about 50% higher than murder by gun (16,907 suicides). So, statistically, you're more likely to die by your own hand by a gun than to be murdered by one. That's...surprisingly comforting.
Heck, accidental poisoning (19,457) is more likely to get you than murder. The point is, I think we over-react to the problem. Gun violence is splashy, but on the decline. The current laws are fine, we don't be legislation by emotion.
If they're stupid enough to leave an unsecured camera with a public IP address out there for the world to access, then they're probably too stupid to have effective tracking software to figure out who you are and where you're doing it from.
That he'll probably now be able to get a research grant to study this more closely after 14 years of trying to get people interested in what is, to him (and many of us on Slashdot), a fascinating phenomenon.
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"First you get your bachelor's degree and think you know something.
Then you get your master's degree and realize you know nothing.
Then you get your doctorate and realize no one else knows anything either, but you realize that's okay, and we all muddle on together."
-Source unknown
This is the most insightful comment in this whole thread. You dead centered the problem. I came to the realization a while ago that when we advance to the point that any moron has the capability to wield world-destroying powers (and probably long before that) that some moron will destroy the world.
Most definitely. The smartphone is an amazing device. But everyone can have and use one. The nerds of yesteryear who had the forethought, desire, and ability to properly use an Amiga are the kids these days jail-breaking their phone and pushing it to the theoretical limits of its capabilities. The ones who buy the phone and just use it and can't troubleshoot it are like the kids who were down at the arcades plugging quarters into machines just to play them. They could use the tech but not truly understand it.
Further, much of this tech is only possible *because* of leapfrogs in technology. It takes some pretty sophisticated hardware and software to design and build a device like a smartphone. It is quite honestly one of the many results of our becoming technology gods!
No, but you should at least have some idea what you're talking about before you belly up to the table. This could be anything from "took a law class" to "studied material independently" to "read Groklaw for 8 years" but you should have *some* modicum of knowledge about legal quirks before you lambaste a judge's ruling.
because right now, at this moment, we are plowing through space we haven't plowed through in 237 million years.
More accurately, we're plowing through space we've never plowed through before, in the context of the universe. The Milky Way is *also* moving through space at about 2.1 million km/hr or 600 km/s. I suppose it all depends on your reference frame.
Huh? Allow me to clarify. The waste rock is left on the moon. Further, the mass of the moon is ~7.36 × 10^22 kilograms, you could grind up 100 million tons per second and still it would take over 25,000 years to process the whole thing. Stuff in the universe is big man, like really hugely enormous.
Well...*puts on SSE hat*
Depending on the precision that you require, you could bolt those either 2 doubles at a time, 4 floats at a time, or 8 fixed-point 16-bit integers at a time into SSE registers and operate on them in parallel. There's some bizarrely cool byte-order rearranging assembly instructions that you could use to help you get the list of B values flipped around, couple that with a couple of cache hints and I think you could compute that reasonably quickly.
C# is the cool teenage hipster that talks a lot but doesn't actually do anything on his own. He just gets his buddies (.Net) to do everything for him, and if they won't do it, he'll tell you it doesn't need to be done.
Java is the overachieving straight A's wants-to-do-everything crazy girl that can't settle on what she wants to do because she's busy doing it all but not being particularly good at any one thing.
I would suggest that that kind of sharing of your connection may very well be in breach of your contract with your ISP. They usually allow for practically any number of your own devices in your own house, but they start cracking the whip if your whole neighborhood is sharing one connection.
What they need to do is charge it based on the class itself. English 101? $50 per credit-hour. Engineering 101? $150 per credit-hour. And so on. If they're actually doing this based on declared major then they're going to find a crapton of liberal arts majors taking advanced engineering courses an switching majors the last semester of senior year.
Well, using the continuous compound interest formula:
$23,000,000 = $100*e^(x*10)
230,000 = e^(10x)
ln(230,000) = 10x
ln(230,000) / 10 = x
1.2346 = x
x = 123.5% continuous inflation.
It's important to draw a distinction between a CS degree and a CIS degree. CS teaches you theory and programming skills, CIS is much more business oriented.
The funny thing is though, the troubleshooting and problem solving skills you pick up with a CS degree are directly applicable to 90% of sysadmin work. Further, programmers as sysadmins tend to work out pretty well as you wind up with disturbingly elaborate scripting solutions to automate otherwise unthinkable tasks.
I'd sooner have a sysadmin that survived a rigorous CS program with a solid math background than someone trained to run the flavor of the week system who counts on experience to keep them afloat. One of these types is paddling on a surfboard trying to keep up, the other is cruising by in an ocean liner.
The problem is that the term 'unsolvable' has a strict meaning in the realm of computer science. The reporter was not cognizant enough of the field he was reporting on to notice that important distinction. Therefore, the term is incorrect, as we are talking about a report on theoretical computer science.
The 2030's see an energy revolution. Propulsion systems make generational leapfrogs annually as the applications become more and more apparent. In the late 30's and early 40's construction on the moon begins in earnest. Permanent bases are set up. Engineers and construction workers begin one of the most massive undertakings in mankind's existence. Regular flights for the rich and powerful become commonplace by the mid-40's. By the 50's, private spaceplanes are making regular trips back and forth as the rich make it the newest big vacation destination. Costs continue to tumble.
By the late 2060's purchasing a ticket to the moon is as common as purchasing a cross country airplane flight was in the late 1960's. Resorts and tourism drive nearly half of the lunar economy (the bulk had always been mining operations until then). As the 70's give way to the 80's all space exploration uses the moon as a launching point.
The future is a strange and wonderful place, with many worlds to explore. I look forward to it with great expectations.
Hand over your geek card.
The laser in Real Genius was supposed to output 5 MEGAwatts, not kilowatts. But what's a couple orders of magnitude amongst friends?
People who find themselves in that industry have to set aside their conscience to do the job and put food on the table. They rationalize it as a game or a competition or just business.
Oh, I don't know. The kind of people that would be attracted to that kind of business were probably skewing sociopathic anyways. I think there's a lot more use for true sociopaths in society than we like to believe. Somebody has to pull the trigger and a sociopath will be more than happy to and wonder why you didn't want to at the same time. The trick is channeling that into useful areas instead of purely destructive ones.
Except it doesn't work with resizing. They seem to be assuming that you're editing the picture as-is and saving it again in a JPEG format. I guess it would help make you suspicious of a PNG or some other uncommon format, but they are specifically targeting the JPEG quantizer. It's cool and everything, but that compression mechanism is highly specific to JPEG's. A wavelet compressor or an RLE compressor would completely ignore/miss it.
Our algorithm works by adding a high-frequency pattern to the image with an amplitude carefully selected to cause maximum quantization error on recompression at a chosen target JPEG quality factor.
So...if I compress it as a TIF, a JPEG-2000, PNG, GIF, or BMP or else run a blur filter, resize, upsample, downsample, any image effects, or cropping 1 pixel off the top row/column (thereby ruining JPEG block alignment) then I can still edit images to my heart's content? Okay...so this is good for catching stupid people?
The great thing about 'Anonymous' is that they're basically completely decentralized. There is no head to cut off, and at best you expend resources to get a handful of individuals.
Now the great thing about this approach is that the effort expended to capture these folks is directly proportional to how skilled they are. Thusly, the people with more skill who are doing more damage are masking themselves more effectively.
Catching a couple of hundred script kiddies in their mother's basement isn't going to dent the problem. And catching the people actually writing those scripts and causing real damage is going to be no mean feat.
I found this chart to be enlightening. It's from 2003, but the trend should still hold (and the arguments haven't changed since then anyway). Almost 4 times as many people die in car accidents than are murdered by guns (11,920 by gun, 43,340 by car accident) and suicides by gun are about 50% higher than murder by gun (16,907 suicides). So, statistically, you're more likely to die by your own hand by a gun than to be murdered by one. That's...surprisingly comforting.
Heck, accidental poisoning (19,457) is more likely to get you than murder. The point is, I think we over-react to the problem. Gun violence is splashy, but on the decline. The current laws are fine, we don't be legislation by emotion.
If they're stupid enough to leave an unsecured camera with a public IP address out there for the world to access, then they're probably too stupid to have effective tracking software to figure out who you are and where you're doing it from.
The great thing is that *we* are the cure for the neanderthal infestation, since we killed them all once before =)
Who was the .829787 of an employee?
I suppose next you'll say it was the one-armed man...
That he'll probably now be able to get a research grant to study this more closely after 14 years of trying to get people interested in what is, to him (and many of us on Slashdot), a fascinating phenomenon.
I like to launch mine on a ballistic trajectory to the heart of the sun. If they're smart enough to retrieve it, I deserve what I get.
I'm waiting to upgrade to the "Stargate directly into a black hole" option until the price on that comes down a little bit.