You just pointed out what is awful about science reporting. The summary is written to make you think the muscles are strong, when you seem to be pointing out that the muscles are weak.
can lift up to 1,000 times their own weight.
That *sounds* strong! But without something to compare it to that number is meaningless. It also sounds like it's the wrong unit of measure anyway.
I think that's why they setup the honeypot: to find out how those tools were leaked. The story that a contractor traveled overseas with secret hacking tools on an laptop with no encrypted hard drive strains believability to the point where the "conspiracy theory logic" seems more reasonable. *shrugs*
The contractor's computer was a honeypot. NSA hacking tools are being released on the dark web and they want to find out how they are being leaked. One theory was that Kaspersky was the culprit. So the NSA intentionally had a contractor put some NSA tools on a laptop that has Kaspersky, and had him put some other malware on there so that Kaspersky antivirus would detect it and wake up, then they watched to see if anyone scanned the NSA hacking tools and downloaded them.
What is happening now is the ensuing PR war. The public won't really learn the truth for years, if ever.
This isn't a Firefox 57 feature, but for all FireFox users I recommend Options - Tracking Protection - Change Block List - Disconnect.me strict protection. The strict protection is arguably bettern than an ad blocker, since it leaves unintrusive ads that support a site but blocks the garbage ones. I don't mind if a site is financed with ads, because server time isn't free.
On Slashdot, the ads at the top that tried to stick themselves over the article, that intermittently tried to inject malware and redirect you to other pages, and that showed me whatever I last looked at on Amazon -- those are gone. Instead, I just see the "Slashdot Top Deals" on the right side and bottom. Those aren't so bad, and if they pay the bills then great.
Until I selected this option, I was browsing in private windows 75% of the time. Now I can go back to normal browsing, which is a slight convenience. If enough people do this, maybe the ad companies will start to figure out that injecting malware is less profitable than an unobtrusive ad.
...as if all that wiring, maintenance, and power regulation is free.
Much of this problem could be solved by billing correctly. Here in Maryland, you see the charge for your power separate from the charge for the power company maintenance. Transparency in billing is important. This is like when phone companies were adding hidden surcharges in but not disclosing them, or when they were charging a monthly fee for the leasing of your cell phone, even after the lease was paid off.
LG makes Sears Kenmore appliances. So you may as well just buy LG.
I can't speak for 2017, but as recent as 3 years ago, Kenmore used multiple companies, even within a single product line. The high-end washer might be an LG but the mid-range model, that looks almost the same, might be a Frigidaire. The repair techs know for sure, and sometimes they will tell you when they come to service the item. Often times the Kenmore product came with a better warranty or a few different features from the equivalent product made by LG/Frigidaire/whatever.
A few months ago, Slashdot had ads that were intermittently doing this. Web site operators need to ditch ad companies that do this stuff.
How about a Chome plug-in that detects sites that do this, and begins an automatic DDOS against the site? Everyone installing the plug-in would become a participant.
The engineer in me makes up 90% of my interest in this story. How did they make the gene change? How does the body not reject it? Can they apply this therapy to the rest of his body? Could something like this one day cure my son's Neurofibromatosis? This is cutting edge science - science fiction become real. As a science geek, that's cool.
But not all of science is about man's relationship with nature and technology. Much of it is about what drives us. The child's situation would not have been so dire had it not been for human stupidity. A thoughtful, moral person should not ignore that backdrop. We must ask: Why was a consortium of international scientists willing to go so far for one patient? How did the patient's situation get this bad? It would be nice to believe that we would go through such effort for anyone, but the reality is that we cannot. So sometimes, we pull together out of a shared sense of guilt. It was our species that made this happen. While that part of the story is not scientific in nature, it sticks with us and sometimes makes us think.
I have heard many times that war is a great driver of technology. This situation adds evidence to that belief.
BINGO. 10 years ago, online was often junk while retail was quality items. Now, retail sells the same garbage items that the online stores do. There's no differentiation any longer. You can see this when you go to sears.com or walmart.com and half the products are "online only." They are all trying to be Amazon.com. The retailers that survive will be the ones that stop trying to compete in the "race to the bottom."
Sears is the my favorite example. People used to buy Sears appliances, even though they were overpriced, because Sears curated the models with the best reliability and offered longer warranties and local service. Now, Sears products are just rebranded versions of the mid-range to low-end items, they don't have better warranties, and service is now farmed out to 3rd-parties. If the item is 50lbs then you often have to mail it out for service. I am totally okay with paying 200% to get something that lasts twice as long. But so far, I don't know who offers me that any longer.
Apple is one company that isn't competing in the race to the bottom, and is doing well with that approach.
Yes, that is what I meant. Thank you for correcting that, rather than calling me an idiot which is what usually happens on Slashdot. P.S. Those aren't unmatched parens: they are closed in a post further down on the page. Just keep reading. I would close them myself right here, but then that will produce an error on that other person's post.
Your post claims that $700 discrete GPUs are much better than Intel integrated GPUs, especially in high-end scenarios. That's obvious, and nobody said otherwise.
That sounds silly to people who have never worked from home, but it is such a good idea. I worked from home for a few years, and while it sounds great to roll out of bed in your PJs, log in, and be at work, there is a real-world downside. Work never ends. Work stress comes home. I go from work, to coming home and playing a video game -- but IM is still online. Other people in other time zones are still IMing me. I felt *guilty* having fun on my home computer, almost like I should be working. It was so easy for the boss to ask a quick favor while I'm at home, or tempting to read work email to make Monday morning easier. But then that amount of work becomes an expectation. So you have to work harder and harder to keep up. It is a bad situation.
I would pay real money for a version of the Kindle app or navigation app that read to me in the voice of a 1978 cyclon. That would frieking rock! (for about 5 minutes after which point it would be annoying.)
I find that AMP breaks pages and I'd rather turn it off if I could find a way. I can't bookmark the pages, the links are wrong, and sometimes they don't render properly. If I can hack the URL and find the *real* page it usually works better. Google is using AMP as an excuse to take over pages from other sites so they can track people better. At this point, just turn on private browsing mode before using any Google page.
Best Buy and Sears do this too. Newegg, Best Buy, and Sears do have an option to filter out 3rd-party products. I shop at NewEgg intermittently, and whenever I get a chance to provide feedback I make sure to mention how I never buy from their 3rd-party sellers. I request that others do this as well if they feel strongly enough to warrant posting here.
would resolve most cases of police brutality almost instantly.
Unfortunately it is usually resolved in favor of the police. When evidence goes missing, it is treated as missing, no matter how questionable the circumstances. Take this case for example, when a Baltimore police officer allegedly raped a woman, the condom vanished from the evidence locker, and the prosecutors moved to continue the case without the DNA evidence. This stuff is scary!
Verizon will still know your location, but they will not be able to share it with the advertiser.
It would help because, the way this works is that Verizon injects cookies into the HTTP request. Then the advertiser sees the cookies and goes "Oh, let me make a web service call to Verizon to get the location for the user with this cookie." They can also fall back to using their IP address. If you use a VPN, Verizon won't be able to MITM your browsing session, and your IP address will be the VPN's IP address. The advertiser won't even know that you are a mobile user and won't have any information to use to look you up.
looks like he was smart enough to get rid of the records of his access
Smaaary....Riiight... because that would totally not have been obvious. Guy with anger management issues is fired, returns his laptop 2 days later, wiped, logs are wiped, and all the passwords are changed so nobody can get in. We shouldn't need log files to see what happened.
The physical-world equivalent here is the bank fires the one person with access to the vault, and the next day the vault is empty. The former employee shows up to return a giant empty bag with dollar signs all over it. The surveillance cameras weren't working for the duration of the robbery. You don't really need the video of the robbery to see what happened.
For people who use FaceBook: Why use the app? It's a web site. I even remember reading articles years ago about how they went through all kinds of effort to make their web site super mobile friendly. By installing the app, you give them access to your photos, contacts, location, etc. What possibly reason would there be to do that?
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You just pointed out what is awful about science reporting. The summary is written to make you think the muscles are strong, when you seem to be pointing out that the muscles are weak.
can lift up to 1,000 times their own weight.
That *sounds* strong! But without something to compare it to that number is meaningless. It also sounds like it's the wrong unit of measure anyway.
Can you list some of them?
I think that's why they setup the honeypot: to find out how those tools were leaked. The story that a contractor traveled overseas with secret hacking tools on an laptop with no encrypted hard drive strains believability to the point where the "conspiracy theory logic" seems more reasonable. *shrugs*
Who is going to sign up for an Internet plan in which Google and Facebook don't work well?
The day Apple makes a search engine and a social network.
The contractor's computer was a honeypot. NSA hacking tools are being released on the dark web and they want to find out how they are being leaked. One theory was that Kaspersky was the culprit. So the NSA intentionally had a contractor put some NSA tools on a laptop that has Kaspersky, and had him put some other malware on there so that Kaspersky antivirus would detect it and wake up, then they watched to see if anyone scanned the NSA hacking tools and downloaded them.
What is happening now is the ensuing PR war. The public won't really learn the truth for years, if ever.
This isn't a Firefox 57 feature, but for all FireFox users I recommend Options - Tracking Protection - Change Block List - Disconnect.me strict protection. The strict protection is arguably bettern than an ad blocker, since it leaves unintrusive ads that support a site but blocks the garbage ones. I don't mind if a site is financed with ads, because server time isn't free.
On Slashdot, the ads at the top that tried to stick themselves over the article, that intermittently tried to inject malware and redirect you to other pages, and that showed me whatever I last looked at on Amazon -- those are gone. Instead, I just see the "Slashdot Top Deals" on the right side and bottom. Those aren't so bad, and if they pay the bills then great.
Until I selected this option, I was browsing in private windows 75% of the time. Now I can go back to normal browsing, which is a slight convenience. If enough people do this, maybe the ad companies will start to figure out that injecting malware is less profitable than an unobtrusive ad.
...as if all that wiring, maintenance, and power regulation is free.
Much of this problem could be solved by billing correctly. Here in Maryland, you see the charge for your power separate from the charge for the power company maintenance. Transparency in billing is important. This is like when phone companies were adding hidden surcharges in but not disclosing them, or when they were charging a monthly fee for the leasing of your cell phone, even after the lease was paid off.
LG makes Sears Kenmore appliances. So you may as well just buy LG.
I can't speak for 2017, but as recent as 3 years ago, Kenmore used multiple companies, even within a single product line. The high-end washer might be an LG but the mid-range model, that looks almost the same, might be a Frigidaire. The repair techs know for sure, and sometimes they will tell you when they come to service the item. Often times the Kenmore product came with a better warranty or a few different features from the equivalent product made by LG/Frigidaire/whatever.
A few months ago, Slashdot had ads that were intermittently doing this. Web site operators need to ditch ad companies that do this stuff.
How about a Chome plug-in that detects sites that do this, and begins an automatic DDOS against the site? Everyone installing the plug-in would become a participant.
FYI: Syria is a war zone. That is kinda relevant.
The engineer in me makes up 90% of my interest in this story. How did they make the gene change? How does the body not reject it? Can they apply this therapy to the rest of his body? Could something like this one day cure my son's Neurofibromatosis? This is cutting edge science - science fiction become real. As a science geek, that's cool.
But not all of science is about man's relationship with nature and technology. Much of it is about what drives us. The child's situation would not have been so dire had it not been for human stupidity. A thoughtful, moral person should not ignore that backdrop. We must ask: Why was a consortium of international scientists willing to go so far for one patient? How did the patient's situation get this bad? It would be nice to believe that we would go through such effort for anyone, but the reality is that we cannot. So sometimes, we pull together out of a shared sense of guilt. It was our species that made this happen. While that part of the story is not scientific in nature, it sticks with us and sometimes makes us think.
I have heard many times that war is a great driver of technology. This situation adds evidence to that belief.
BINGO. 10 years ago, online was often junk while retail was quality items. Now, retail sells the same garbage items that the online stores do. There's no differentiation any longer. You can see this when you go to sears.com or walmart.com and half the products are "online only." They are all trying to be Amazon.com. The retailers that survive will be the ones that stop trying to compete in the "race to the bottom."
Sears is the my favorite example. People used to buy Sears appliances, even though they were overpriced, because Sears curated the models with the best reliability and offered longer warranties and local service. Now, Sears products are just rebranded versions of the mid-range to low-end items, they don't have better warranties, and service is now farmed out to 3rd-parties. If the item is 50lbs then you often have to mail it out for service. I am totally okay with paying 200% to get something that lasts twice as long. But so far, I don't know who offers me that any longer.
Apple is one company that isn't competing in the race to the bottom, and is doing well with that approach.
Yes, that is what I meant. Thank you for correcting that, rather than calling me an idiot which is what usually happens on Slashdot.
P.S. Those aren't unmatched parens: they are closed in a post further down on the page. Just keep reading. I would close them myself right here, but then that will produce an error on that other person's post.
I'm not buying it.
Not buying what?
Your post claims that $700 discrete GPUs are much better than Intel integrated GPUs, especially in high-end scenarios. That's obvious, and nobody said otherwise.
In B) they want price per watt. Intel has done much better than AMD on price per watt. AMD hasn't had a server chip in 6 years.
That sounds silly to people who have never worked from home, but it is such a good idea. I worked from home for a few years, and while it sounds great to roll out of bed in your PJs, log in, and be at work, there is a real-world downside. Work never ends. Work stress comes home. I go from work, to coming home and playing a video game -- but IM is still online. Other people in other time zones are still IMing me. I felt *guilty* having fun on my home computer, almost like I should be working. It was so easy for the boss to ask a quick favor while I'm at home, or tempting to read work email to make Monday morning easier. But then that amount of work becomes an expectation. So you have to work harder and harder to keep up. It is a bad situation.
I would pay real money for a version of the Kindle app or navigation app that read to me in the voice of a 1978 cyclon. That would frieking rock! (for about 5 minutes after which point it would be annoying.)
BY YOUR COMMAND!
I find that AMP breaks pages and I'd rather turn it off if I could find a way. I can't bookmark the pages, the links are wrong, and sometimes they don't render properly. If I can hack the URL and find the *real* page it usually works better. Google is using AMP as an excuse to take over pages from other sites so they can track people better. At this point, just turn on private browsing mode before using any Google page.
How do we know that distant galaxies are composed of matter rather than anti-matter?
Best Buy and Sears do this too. Newegg, Best Buy, and Sears do have an option to filter out 3rd-party products. I shop at NewEgg intermittently, and whenever I get a chance to provide feedback I make sure to mention how I never buy from their 3rd-party sellers. I request that others do this as well if they feel strongly enough to warrant posting here.
would resolve most cases of police brutality almost instantly.
Unfortunately it is usually resolved in favor of the police. When evidence goes missing, it is treated as missing, no matter how questionable the circumstances. Take this case for example, when a Baltimore police officer allegedly raped a woman, the condom vanished from the evidence locker, and the prosecutors moved to continue the case without the DNA evidence. This stuff is scary!
Verizon will still know your location, but they will not be able to share it with the advertiser.
It would help because, the way this works is that Verizon injects cookies into the HTTP request. Then the advertiser sees the cookies and goes "Oh, let me make a web service call to Verizon to get the location for the user with this cookie." They can also fall back to using their IP address. If you use a VPN, Verizon won't be able to MITM your browsing session, and your IP address will be the VPN's IP address. The advertiser won't even know that you are a mobile user and won't have any information to use to look you up.
And now we know how they closed the loop: The Israelis hacked Kaspersky. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/russian-hackers-reportedly-used-kaspersky-av-to-search-for-nsa-secrets/
Ha! It is looking more like my first theory was right. And now we know how the NSA knew that Kaspersky had the files in question. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/10/russian-hackers-reportedly-used-kaspersky-av-to-search-for-nsa-secrets/
looks like he was smart enough to get rid of the records of his access
Smaaary....Riiight... because that would totally not have been obvious. Guy with anger management issues is fired, returns his laptop 2 days later, wiped, logs are wiped, and all the passwords are changed so nobody can get in. We shouldn't need log files to see what happened.
The physical-world equivalent here is the bank fires the one person with access to the vault, and the next day the vault is empty. The former employee shows up to return a giant empty bag with dollar signs all over it. The surveillance cameras weren't working for the duration of the robbery. You don't really need the video of the robbery to see what happened.
For people who use FaceBook: Why use the app? It's a web site. I even remember reading articles years ago about how they went through all kinds of effort to make their web site super mobile friendly. By installing the app, you give them access to your photos, contacts, location, etc. What possibly reason would there be to do that?