Preformatting the device would erase any malware which might have been on it. A secure OS would prevent the installation of any malware infected files which it might load. Obviously the secure OS doesn't help you if it is not running.
I recall from the article that the disk was definitely second hand because it had a whole lot of movies on it (free!) but the guy who reported it to the media made a big song and dance about how the files "appeared corrupt" and "could have infected his system". None of which impresses me much. He could use a secure OS. Other retailers sell stuff which has been returned by customers. DSE should have formatted the disk, and they are at fault for that reason.
IIRC the reason he went to the media was that he is promoting an album or something and this was a golden opportunity to get his face and T shirt on TV.
Some roads near my house have deliberate pinch points which rely on drivers playing chicken with each other. Its called traffic calming. Several bike riders have died in collisions with cars where the car driver absolutely refused to give way to a bike and as a result caused a crash. The game of chicken depends of certain assumed characteristics of the drivers of both vehicles. Heavy trucks will burn through and expect a small car to give way for example. Now, my wife's car has automatic headlights and this means the headlights are always on. You see the safest approach with headlights is to always have them on and the logic can only be built to take the safe approach. But what happens if human drivers learn that automatic cars will always give way at pinch points (because it is the safest way to behave) and start to assume they will never have to give way in this situation?
Its a three laws of robotics type of question but I think the point is that traffic as we know it is an inherently human invention, and software won't really be able to work with it.
the idea that a bunch of automatically piloted vehicles is somehow a better solution to city transport than mass-transit, it boggles my mind.
The MRT in Kuala Lumpur uses driver-less trains so I am unsure how to reconsile it with your statement. Is it mass transit or a bunch of automatically piloted vehicles? If you made the trains smaller and allowed them to automatically switch to "stations" closer to the destination of the occupants would that invalidate the system? I think it would improve the system.
It has an atmosphere dense enough not to require pressure suits. With a source of oxidizers, the atmosphere could be used as fuel. It has a fluid cycle similar to Earth. Landings can be done entirely by parachute.
Well The Age are claiming that a whistle blower from the ALP logged them in to the database, so they didn't use stolen credentials and can't be be said to have stolen the information. I think they were pretty silly to access the database from their office systems. If they had viewed the database from the home of their informant would a case exist at all?
Um why? Do you mean that the postal service is critical to civilization? Why? If there are better ways to move information around then we should use them.
I joined google+ after a co-worker sent me a friend request. Apparently g+ does this when you give it your contact list, not when you actually tell it to. So I created an account and discovered a UI nightmare. Popups open on top of buttons that I have to press. Information is hidden (for example: I create a hangout but it doesn't display a list of people invited to the hangout and which of those people are actually online). Data updates are laggy. Searching is horrible, especially for google. For example I created the account by following a link sent from a friends account, but it doesn't create a link back to that friend. When I search for that friend by name it only shows 20 matches with no way to widen the search to find the right person.
g+ is loaded with spam. It puts a friend suggestion from Barack Obama on the main page even though I told it I am an Australian, so my opinion of him isn't going to earn him any votes. The Dali Lama always appears in a list of suggested friends. WTF? What am I going to do with the Dali Lama as a friend?
The video conferencing thing is neat but it is terribly heavy. It is one of the few applications which make my wife's macbook run very slow. I plan to use g+ just of the conferencing. Nothing else.
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He did say in Egypt. Maybe they really are the place to buy consumer electronics in that part of the world.
Preformatting the device would erase any malware which might have been on it. A secure OS would prevent the installation of any malware infected files which it might load. Obviously the secure OS doesn't help you if it is not running.
he could have just plugged the drive and tried to boot from it.
He didn't. He was pissed because he tried to play a movie file and it didn't work.
I recall from the article that the disk was definitely second hand because it had a whole lot of movies on it (free!) but the guy who reported it to the media made a big song and dance about how the files "appeared corrupt" and "could have infected his system". None of which impresses me much. He could use a secure OS. Other retailers sell stuff which has been returned by customers. DSE should have formatted the disk, and they are at fault for that reason.
IIRC the reason he went to the media was that he is promoting an album or something and this was a golden opportunity to get his face and T shirt on TV.
Not sure I want all my browsing to go through their servers.
Isn't http compressed anyway? I suppose you mean that some content is scaled.
The browser on my phone crashes on pages that size, including most articles on slashdot, so the data it uses is somewhat self limiting.
Yes, the professional thing would be to buy it on his behalf and then hand it over to him. Are they professionals?
If you haven't already read it.
Yeah, what about the cables which run between continents under the sea? Aren't they structures?
That was a terrible album.
Some roads near my house have deliberate pinch points which rely on drivers playing chicken with each other. Its called traffic calming. Several bike riders have died in collisions with cars where the car driver absolutely refused to give way to a bike and as a result caused a crash. The game of chicken depends of certain assumed characteristics of the drivers of both vehicles. Heavy trucks will burn through and expect a small car to give way for example.
Now, my wife's car has automatic headlights and this means the headlights are always on. You see the safest approach with headlights is to always have them on and the logic can only be built to take the safe approach. But what happens if human drivers learn that automatic cars will always give way at pinch points (because it is the safest way to behave) and start to assume they will never have to give way in this situation?
Its a three laws of robotics type of question but I think the point is that traffic as we know it is an inherently human invention, and software won't really be able to work with it.
the idea that a bunch of automatically piloted vehicles is somehow a better solution to city transport than mass-transit, it boggles my mind.
The MRT in Kuala Lumpur uses driver-less trains so I am unsure how to reconsile it with your statement. Is it mass transit or a bunch of automatically piloted vehicles? If you made the trains smaller and allowed them to automatically switch to "stations" closer to the destination of the occupants would that invalidate the system? I think it would improve the system.
Un is going to have to prove himself to the people.
And the northern suburbs of Seoul are well within reach of artillery. Lets hope Kim Jong Un isn't that stupid.
Fortunately any occupants of that comet have long since used the partly working teleport to get the hell out of our solar system.
Sound like the ideal place to start your interstellar ramjet engine.
How about we just outlaw all bribery of officials?
You want to outlaw the world's second oldest profession? Good luck with that!
It has an atmosphere dense enough not to require pressure suits. With a source of oxidizers, the atmosphere could be used as fuel. It has a fluid cycle similar to Earth. Landings can be done entirely by parachute.
Well The Age are claiming that a whistle blower from the ALP logged them in to the database, so they didn't use stolen credentials and can't be be said to have stolen the information. I think they were pretty silly to access the database from their office systems. If they had viewed the database from the home of their informant would a case exist at all?
For someone 30 or under, however, it's dumb: how many people under the age of 40 have a paper address book?
The digital metaphor of the future will look like the original monochrome palm pilot.
The tech industry is Malaysia.
Didn't HP recently say they planned on using it in printers?
No, that was last week.
...where they came from
Um why? Do you mean that the postal service is critical to civilization? Why? If there are better ways to move information around then we should use them.
I joined google+ after a co-worker sent me a friend request. Apparently g+ does this when you give it your contact list, not when you actually tell it to. So I created an account and discovered a UI nightmare. Popups open on top of buttons that I have to press. Information is hidden (for example: I create a hangout but it doesn't display a list of people invited to the hangout and which of those people are actually online). Data updates are laggy. Searching is horrible, especially for google. For example I created the account by following a link sent from a friends account, but it doesn't create a link back to that friend. When I search for that friend by name it only shows 20 matches with no way to widen the search to find the right person.
g+ is loaded with spam. It puts a friend suggestion from Barack Obama on the main page even though I told it I am an Australian, so my opinion of him isn't going to earn him any votes. The Dali Lama always appears in a list of suggested friends. WTF? What am I going to do with the Dali Lama as a friend?
The video conferencing thing is neat but it is terribly heavy. It is one of the few applications which make my wife's macbook run very slow. I plan to use g+ just of the conferencing. Nothing else.