It always sounds great, until you get to the reality where eye-blink signals are 1000x more powerful and much easier to use for control than any "thought based" signals.
Build your best brain controlled interface, put it on, then realize that you're doing input with your eyelid and forehead muscles more than your thoughts.
Been done, open source software and hardware plans available, also available ready to play for $399?
The significance here isn't a high CMRR amplifier, it's a complete brain-computer interface component that's ready to be used as a standard HID like your keyboard or mouse. Well, I don't see the USB port, but some boffin needs to put one on there and re-release the upgraded device. And, that's the point, it's a significant chunk of tech already worked out in a standard, readily available format that a community can form around and extend and improve - like Raspberry Pi or Arduino (that happens to be at the core of this), sure the tech has been available forever, but not in a "community oriented" "developer friendly" package.
M. Mann is an asshole, he works at it and succeeds. Doesn't change the truth behind the messages he delivers, even if he overhypes the delivery, he is presenting "uncomfortable truths" as undeniable - or at least that's his goal.
Bill Nye is a better scientist than Palin is a national politician - her schtick may have played in the frozen north, but on the national scene she's a much weaker comic tea. Nye at least has a clear message and broad appeal to his delivery.
So, would you be O.K. with the FBI convincing Microsoft to install an ECHELON front end on every Windows 10 PC? I mean, it would only copy your entire hard drive to their servers if it found certain keywords they were looking for...
The Darwinian natural means of acquiring immunity to Zika is for those babies born with microcephaly to not have children - on a 100 to 200 year time scale, that can happen.
If they are only claiming a little over 5% loss to piracy, they likely aren't accounting for the greater than 5% increase from the engagement that piracy creates.
People who "never watch movies" are simply out of the picture, but when these same people watch 20 movies through piracy and then pay to watch 2 or 3 through legitimate channels, that's a net win for the industry.
You know those coverage maps that show strong, moderate, etc. For T-Mobile, we were in the "you're 5 miles from the interstate and 10 miles from downtown SOL" zone.
So, we used to be hillbillies, and Verizon was the only carrier that worked worth a damn anywhere near our house.
Now that we've moved into the big city, we can get equal coverage from T-Mobile for a much lower price. Sure, when we go back out to the sticks T-Mobile still doesn't work out there as well as Verizon, but there's more than a few reasons why we left that life and we certainly don't go back and visit often.
Calling "Super duper top secret" information "classified" is a way of protecting it, just like filling the "classified" channel with a bunch of unimportant fluff.
I generally agree, but also believe that at some point "hate speech" should be actively suppressed. I don't think Trump has really risen to this level, but he's on his way and these people are responding to that.
And it it is perfectly reasonable for six detectives to act on a warrant and conduct a search at 6:15am. That isn't harassment at all.
For the most part, no. Conducting a raid when your target is not expecting it is the way it's done. This issue here is that the raid itself was pure harassment for running a Tor node, not because the very well educated detectives actually thought they would find porn.
In business for profit, increasing prices by 25% with a move that might only cause 5% of subscribers to even _think_ about cancelling... yeah, this was inevitable. That, and blowing all the money on creating their own content. Who was it that said "to make a small fortune in Movies, start with a large one."
Can anybody see "I'll wear them down" as a joke and not a profession of a strategy?
His stated position "Works for me, so I'm happy" is clear enough - maybe another 25 years of open development will create something competitive with the commercial desktop software market, maybe it won't - I don't think that Linus personally cares.
Me, personally, I think that for Linux to conquer the desktop would require an infusion of cash - developers who can grow up, leave their mothers' basements and feed a family while developing the desktop software - perhaps 30 guys dedicated for 5 years earnestly working for the single goal of taking what's best from Unity/KDE/Gnome and synthesizing a competitive desktop for the market place - maybe $15M in total over 5 years for the development and another $5M or so to do the most minimal of promotional work. Now, show me any entity that thinks they want to spend $20M and 5 years to create a great OSS desktop.... what's in it for them? Who wants the PR headache of coordinating this kind of project with the rest of the open source community? Noone that I know of.
But, you can't monetize P2P, so they're trying to shoehorn a central server into the IoT - even if they aren't extracting money from it today, it gives them an access point from which to do so in the future. If you just sell things that talk to each other without needing to phone home, well, where's the future income in that business model?
I studied cryptography in college in the 1980s - and all the same old methods still work, maybe the keys need to be a little longer today, but symmetric, asymmetric, time locks, etc, all still apply.
So, are we going to stop teaching encryption methods in school? How about burning the textbooks, making it illegal to post on the internet, flagging people who talk about it or search for it? Every semester institutions of higher learning are training our youth in the dangerous art of secure communication, when will it stop?
So, no, I don't have one of the things that got bricked. What I do have is a "WeMo relay" control, and also an ecobee thermostat. They both work from their "front panel" without any network connectivity, but to get that sexy "from your phone" interface, you've got to bounce through their cloud server.
I bought the ecobee for the zigbee thermostats in multiple rooms (my main thermostat is in the absolutely least representative temperature spot of my home) - and without cloud, I just have to use the touchscreen, and I get 90% of what I care about that way, but it is cool being able to "phone home" and set vacation mode after you've already left - and their remote apps do have more functionality than the touch screen, so it would be nice to be able to use them even when the cloud is down, but not a major dealbreaker.
On the WeMo lamp switch, there are a million alternatives out there, from X-10 on up, and I've had a few of the alternatives - and, mostly, they have all sucked more than the WeMo. The WeMo interfaces to IFTTT which does nifty things like "on at sunset" programs - nothing X-10 didn't do without the cloud 15 years ago, but still cool. It is just a plug-in module, cost like $45 or so, and if it pisses me off too much, I just buy another plug in module and replace it.
They both piss me off when their cloud goes down and I want to do something on the local network that I could, but no, their $&#@ is broken, so just wait. So far, this has been rare and I'm overall happy with the purchase, but at those times - there's certainly no reason why I shouldn't be able to access these devices from the local network with no cloud inbetween.
I guess what their design decision has meant is: they've got my money (and not a lot of it in the WeMo case), but they haven't gotten my development time that I would have invested if I had local net access, and they also haven't gotten a lot of follow-on purchase from me, either. If those WeMo were local net accessible, and I could run the "business logic" on a local server, I'd probably have a dozen of 'em by now doing all kinds of stuff, but as they have designed and sold it, I just have the one - wishing it were better, bitching about it on the internet.
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The solid models are available for you to 3D print, that's about as open as hardware gets.
It always sounds great, until you get to the reality where eye-blink signals are 1000x more powerful and much easier to use for control than any "thought based" signals.
Build your best brain controlled interface, put it on, then realize that you're doing input with your eyelid and forehead muscles more than your thoughts.
Been done, open source software and hardware plans available, also available ready to play for $399?
The significance here isn't a high CMRR amplifier, it's a complete brain-computer interface component that's ready to be used as a standard HID like your keyboard or mouse. Well, I don't see the USB port, but some boffin needs to put one on there and re-release the upgraded device. And, that's the point, it's a significant chunk of tech already worked out in a standard, readily available format that a community can form around and extend and improve - like Raspberry Pi or Arduino (that happens to be at the core of this), sure the tech has been available forever, but not in a "community oriented" "developer friendly" package.
M. Mann is an asshole, he works at it and succeeds. Doesn't change the truth behind the messages he delivers, even if he overhypes the delivery, he is presenting "uncomfortable truths" as undeniable - or at least that's his goal.
Bill Nye is a better scientist than Palin is a national politician - her schtick may have played in the frozen north, but on the national scene she's a much weaker comic tea. Nye at least has a clear message and broad appeal to his delivery.
I would think that their distance from the sun and/or each other might be more important than whether they are in that patch of sky again.
Police break numerous laws in the act of law enforcement every day, right up to and including murder.
Computer hacking, while illegal, could be seen as a reasonable form of intelligence gathering, in some cases.
So, would you be O.K. with the FBI convincing Microsoft to install an ECHELON front end on every Windows 10 PC? I mean, it would only copy your entire hard drive to their servers if it found certain keywords they were looking for...
The Darwinian natural means of acquiring immunity to Zika is for those babies born with microcephaly to not have children - on a 100 to 200 year time scale, that can happen.
If they are only claiming a little over 5% loss to piracy, they likely aren't accounting for the greater than 5% increase from the engagement that piracy creates.
People who "never watch movies" are simply out of the picture, but when these same people watch 20 movies through piracy and then pay to watch 2 or 3 through legitimate channels, that's a net win for the industry.
You know those coverage maps that show strong, moderate, etc. For T-Mobile, we were in the "you're 5 miles from the interstate and 10 miles from downtown SOL" zone.
So, we used to be hillbillies, and Verizon was the only carrier that worked worth a damn anywhere near our house.
Now that we've moved into the big city, we can get equal coverage from T-Mobile for a much lower price. Sure, when we go back out to the sticks T-Mobile still doesn't work out there as well as Verizon, but there's more than a few reasons why we left that life and we certainly don't go back and visit often.
Calling "Super duper top secret" information "classified" is a way of protecting it, just like filling the "classified" channel with a bunch of unimportant fluff.
I generally agree, but also believe that at some point "hate speech" should be actively suppressed. I don't think Trump has really risen to this level, but he's on his way and these people are responding to that.
And it it is perfectly reasonable for six detectives to act on a warrant and conduct a search at 6:15am. That isn't harassment at all.
For the most part, no. Conducting a raid when your target is not expecting it is the way it's done. This issue here is that the raid itself was pure harassment for running a Tor node, not because the very well educated detectives actually thought they would find porn.
Why don't you prove it?
Lucius Malfoy
You and all six of your friends who watch Hulu can do that...
No, seriously, they will lose some subscribers by doing this, but nowhere near 20%
In business for profit, increasing prices by 25% with a move that might only cause 5% of subscribers to even _think_ about cancelling... yeah, this was inevitable. That, and blowing all the money on creating their own content. Who was it that said "to make a small fortune in Movies, start with a large one."
Can anybody see "I'll wear them down" as a joke and not a profession of a strategy?
His stated position "Works for me, so I'm happy" is clear enough - maybe another 25 years of open development will create something competitive with the commercial desktop software market, maybe it won't - I don't think that Linus personally cares.
Me, personally, I think that for Linux to conquer the desktop would require an infusion of cash - developers who can grow up, leave their mothers' basements and feed a family while developing the desktop software - perhaps 30 guys dedicated for 5 years earnestly working for the single goal of taking what's best from Unity/KDE/Gnome and synthesizing a competitive desktop for the market place - maybe $15M in total over 5 years for the development and another $5M or so to do the most minimal of promotional work. Now, show me any entity that thinks they want to spend $20M and 5 years to create a great OSS desktop.... what's in it for them? Who wants the PR headache of coordinating this kind of project with the rest of the open source community? Noone that I know of.
But, you can't monetize P2P, so they're trying to shoehorn a central server into the IoT - even if they aren't extracting money from it today, it gives them an access point from which to do so in the future. If you just sell things that talk to each other without needing to phone home, well, where's the future income in that business model?
/sarcasm
Doesn't need to be banned, just regulated - like the right to bear arms - so, no full auto weapons and no symmetric keys > 56 bits...
It (encryption tech) is already a controlled export - why not just turn those same standards around on the citizens?
http://www.bis.doc.gov/index.p...
http://www.bis.doc.gov/index.p...
Let the US shoot itself in the foot. The rest of the world will encrypt.
Already been there, thought common sense was starting to break through, apparently not.
I studied cryptography in college in the 1980s - and all the same old methods still work, maybe the keys need to be a little longer today, but symmetric, asymmetric, time locks, etc, all still apply.
So, are we going to stop teaching encryption methods in school? How about burning the textbooks, making it illegal to post on the internet, flagging people who talk about it or search for it? Every semester institutions of higher learning are training our youth in the dangerous art of secure communication, when will it stop?
So, no, I don't have one of the things that got bricked. What I do have is a "WeMo relay" control, and also an ecobee thermostat. They both work from their "front panel" without any network connectivity, but to get that sexy "from your phone" interface, you've got to bounce through their cloud server.
I bought the ecobee for the zigbee thermostats in multiple rooms (my main thermostat is in the absolutely least representative temperature spot of my home) - and without cloud, I just have to use the touchscreen, and I get 90% of what I care about that way, but it is cool being able to "phone home" and set vacation mode after you've already left - and their remote apps do have more functionality than the touch screen, so it would be nice to be able to use them even when the cloud is down, but not a major dealbreaker.
On the WeMo lamp switch, there are a million alternatives out there, from X-10 on up, and I've had a few of the alternatives - and, mostly, they have all sucked more than the WeMo. The WeMo interfaces to IFTTT which does nifty things like "on at sunset" programs - nothing X-10 didn't do without the cloud 15 years ago, but still cool. It is just a plug-in module, cost like $45 or so, and if it pisses me off too much, I just buy another plug in module and replace it.
They both piss me off when their cloud goes down and I want to do something on the local network that I could, but no, their $&#@ is broken, so just wait. So far, this has been rare and I'm overall happy with the purchase, but at those times - there's certainly no reason why I shouldn't be able to access these devices from the local network with no cloud inbetween.
I guess what their design decision has meant is: they've got my money (and not a lot of it in the WeMo case), but they haven't gotten my development time that I would have invested if I had local net access, and they also haven't gotten a lot of follow-on purchase from me, either. If those WeMo were local net accessible, and I could run the "business logic" on a local server, I'd probably have a dozen of 'em by now doing all kinds of stuff, but as they have designed and sold it, I just have the one - wishing it were better, bitching about it on the internet.