The Corporate Fascists want a stable and predictable economy in which the rules are well understood and consistent. They also of course want anything they can get for free and also want a pony. Most of the Corporate Fascist Interests perfectly overlap with most of the population.
Obviously we need to be diligent in ensuring that they don't get everything they want for free but it's completely wrong to say that they prefer the buffoon to the crook. The "crook" is accused of storing a few documents that shouldn't have been stored in email. That doesn't really affect the stability of world markets or the predictability of society. In fact like 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999% of the world, the Crook's emails don't affect them in the slightest. On the other hand a trade war with China would affect everybody including the Corporate Fascists' interests negatively.
If my choice is supporting corporate fascists or supporting anarchists I'll pick the corporate fascists any day. Corporate fascists interest far more often overlap with most of the population's self-interest. Rarely to anarchists' interests overlap with anyone else's since by definition they're only looking out for themselves.
The Corporate Fascists are like an ox. If you don't mind them they'll trample the crops and eat your food reserves. If you watch them and regulate them you can use them to plow your fields.
I really really really wish my credit card company addressed this problem specifically with unique number generation.
I'm tired of having to update my Netflix every time my card number gets hacked. Let me send out a new number and track it on the website for my card. Then when one number gets compromised through a hack or physically or cloned I just burn that number.
In this case let my physical card number have a rotating auth code/or use an authenticator app and then my subscriptions can all be on unique numbers.
Only every 4 hours ? Lol. What's the point of reading that kind of crap.
There were several news stories posted within an hour of the train crash this morning. 4 hours is plenty to write out the who-what-when-where. Not enough time to write a Rolling Stone expose but plenty of time to cover "news".
"A train crashed today into a crowded station. "It was awful," said Bob. At this time it's not believed to be a terrorist attack but investigators have only just begun piecing through the evidence. About 100 people were injured and as of writing there are no reports of fatalities although there were numerous seriously injured."
There, that's a reasonably insightful breaking news summary that took about 3 minutes to write. Give someone 80x as long and a couple hours to ask questions at a press conference and you've got a thorough reporting of the day's big news event.
Except that people have different interests. If you have 30 categories of news then 1440 / 30 = a news story every half hour if you are only interested in say "Sports" or "Business". If you're interested in Linux and Programming I bet that only represents probably a story every couple hours at best.
Saying a story every 10 minutes is too much is like saying Netflix has too much content because nobody could ever watch 100,000 hours of television. It's true, but it ignores the fact that there isn't a perfect venn diagram of interest.
The WaPost has 740 staff writers. So that's only a story every 4 hours/writer. If they gave each writer 5 minutes to write a story I would worry about quality but 4 hours is plenty to make some calls and interview people.
The good old "you too" fallacy - why no one ever holds politicians accountable for their misdeeds and illegal activitites today.
If your politician does something and you say "That's perfectly moral and legal, I have no problem with that." and then someone else's preferred politician does the exact same thing you and you scream "EXECUTE THEM FOR TREASON THEN HANG THEM!" then it shows that either you're more than happy to play fast and loose with morality when it favors you which means your moral condemnation now is hypocritical and selective, or it shows that nothing bad actually took place in either instance and it's just a trumped up charge.
It's more like this. "My client's checking account was over drafted and they are being accused of bank theft. Millions of people overdraft their accounts every day and they aren't accused of bank theft. Why just yesterday the prosecutor themselves incurred an overdraft, paid a fine and carried on with their lives. Why is my client being charged with bank robbery for the same so-called crime? Why are you really prosecuting my client?"
If users benefit from SSDs they'll benefit from 10Gbe. There is a real appeal to storing the application once on a large storage array and launching the application remotely over the network. It's a happy middle ground between a thin client and a fat workstation.
They all run on the exact same kernel and have the same WinRT runtime. The only difference is ARM vs x86 compiler. They're as similar as Ubuntu for ARM and ubuntu for x86.
Xbox is a bit of a unique case in that it run's AAA titles in a stripped down VM and apps in another VM. But the Apps VM is effectively Windows 10 Desktop but with a different explorer.exe
Windows 10 Mobile isn't running something like WinRT Mobile, like Windows Mobile 6 ran.NET Mobile it's a full WinRT.NET implementation with the full API surface as the Desktop version. The only real difference between Mobile and Desktop is it lacks Win32 and has a different explorer.exe as well. In fact in a few beta builds the mouse cursor would inadvertantly pop up. And if you turn up the DPI sufficiently apps will think they're running on desktop and switch over to the Desktop UI.
I don't see how this would protect a bitcoin wallet since it would self destruct taking all of your money with it. I guess if you had redundant systems spread all over the place it would be ok but it's hard to maintain an offsite system and keep it powered and running perfectly.
We've been deploying autonomous attack vehicles for 70+ years. The V2 was autonomous. ICBMs are autonomous. Cruise missiles are autonomous. Barage balloons are autonomous. Even gps/laser guided bombs are autonomous. Radar/IR guided surface to air and AA missiles are autonomous
If you need a vehicle to fly to a place, dump a ton of munitions and fly back we can handle that pretty easily. Even Air to Air combat is now handled by AI. http://magazine.uc.edu/editors... There are no sensors that a human pilot will have that aren't already provided by the aircraft or could be adequately processed entirely locally without any opportunity for jamming.
It will also be nearly impossible to completely jam communication. And laser based communication would be impossible to jam beyond the horizon from the ground if the aircraft was at altitude. Just setup a relay network of autonomous drones communicating by laser. It's not like you're risking a pilot. And if something manages to take a shot at a relay, you have a new target.
Yeah, the problem with this research is that you need a small dataset. Characters are pretty easy with just 26. With a small sunset of faces it should be easy to identify blurred faces but start adding variables and this attack vector gets absurd: Pixel blur radius, filter type, 6 billion people as options, lighting etc. If you are deciding "which of these hundred people" is this, I guess it's useful but I cant see this being useful to deanonymize a random person on Facebook.
Extreme high speed cameras can usually only operate for brief periods due to buffers and heat and regular CCTV is probably too slow to get useful data. If it was shot by a bullet the act of penetrating the tank probably produces enough sparks to cause an instant explosion.
You don't need extreme highspeed cameras though. I have a camera that you could put together a sufficient package for under $20k that shoots 300fps at 1080p for a full hour. 300fps would give you 3ms.
I'm sure that Spacex right now would LOVE to have 3ms video precision from 3 angles. In fact I know SpaceX owns these cameras. They were probably all rigged up though on the drone ship and nobody started them for just a static fire.
Upgrades haven't really made sense in the PC space either for a long time. It's a nice idea to upgrade one single part but generally when you upgrade CPU you need DDR+1 RAM, your SSD is absurdly small and slow by modern standards and your GPU can be replaced for $100.
I wouldn't want to upgrade my camera on my phone if it didn't come also with a faster processor so that the higher resolution sensor doesn't go 2x as slow.
Considering System On a Chip effectively dropped the price of every component to nearly $0 it's silly to only upgrade one tiny component at a time without considering the full performance bottlenecks of the system as a whole.
Sticking it to their customers? You mean people running out of date software that they don't sell anymore? You stopped being a customer the moment you bought Windows 7. You became a past Customer and a potential future customer.
By refusing to upgrade to Windows 10 you're effectively saying you don't want to be a customer. You're like someone demanding a restaurant bring you bread and water but refusing to be seated and stating that you don't want to eat in the establishment. What incentive do they have to help you not give them money? Why should they devote dev resources to someone who is boycotting their company?
Improvements in understanding this may become viable for flying car type energy/thrust requirements.
Except that we already have engines which are *more* efficient: photonic drives. But nobody is suggesting a photonic drive could ever achieve enough thrust to lift itself off the ground. You're talking about a technology which has so little thrust that we can barely *measure* its effect and saying that with refinement it will be capable of 100:1 lift ratios?! Sure but the distance between the current state of the art and what you're suggesting is so vast (literally +10,000,000,000x more efficient) that the speculation is absurd. For all we know we'll discover an anti-gravity drive tomorrow.
Maybe this drive works through some process we're unaware of. But if it does work the likelihood it'll be a path to flying car level is effectively equal to the infinite variety of unconceived technologies that could potentially be imagined or discovered since it's effectively starting as close to 0 as our technology is capable of measuring.
It would be like discovering a new form of solar panels with 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000001% efficiency and exclaiming "With further refinement it might beat our top panels which have 50%!" More likely, with further refinement you'll improve it to.0000000000000000000000000005%.
I have over 10TB on Backblaze for $5/mo. Works great and recovery is easy.
I would add though that if you want more control and more flexibility I've started using Backblaze's B2 API and SyncBack, Cloud Berry or whatever software backup solution you prefer. That costs about $5/month per TB but has the advantage of control over hash checks and retention.
It's hard to believe because if you read TFA the editor proved that they didn't read the article. The source for "we use Wikipedia" also said they just use it for metadata on locations and the actual location API didn't get the location wrong just the search engine subject result.
If it was a Republican that got caught doing it, you'd probably go nuts about it.
You mean like when Bush's Whitehouse deleted 22 million emails? Nobody actually gives a shot about Hillary's emails. But the GOP knows that people are so tech illiterate that they can frame it as "Hillary funneled all of our state secrets to Benghazi Terrorists to help them kill our diplomat!"
The difference is that it costs them nothing to leave it unfixed. If however you couldn't give Google $80 a month to come pick you up they would fix it really quick. Amazon and FedEx and others keep a database attached to addresses which allow for manual corrections and they implement them instantly because it costs them money to go to the wrong place or fail to find your address.
Uber's mapping is horrifically aweful, but they rely on a GPS waypoint to set your pickup location so they don't care either.
a 70 mph windstorm will bring down so many Douglas Fir trees that it can take two weeks to restore power to some areas. During any of these our land line will continue to work as long as the phone line itself isn't broken,
What makes you think the lines are separate? I've had my power go out from downed douglas fir trees numerous times. Never had my cell phone go out in the PNW once. If I was designing a system to provide emergency communication in a disaster area I wouldn't rely on physical wires to every destination.
I'd rather have a consistent 5Mb/s speed that's truly unlimited and not throttled.
Really? What if the throttle is at 0.5MB/s * 60s * 60m * 24hr * 30 days = 1.2TB?
I would rather for most applications have high burst potential to decide where and when I want my data than to arbitrarily spread the transfer out over days or hours.
All else being equal faster is better. And I would very much be interested in uncapping for bursts by the MB like Amazon AWS.
All this speed doesn't mean anything with data caps.
Limited speed *is* a data cap. It's just a datacap that forces you to somewhat arbitrarily spread out your usage. If you want to download a BluRay quality film that is 50GB then you have to wait 50,000MB / 10mbps = 14 hours of downloading before it finishes. Or you have volume capped gigabit of 100GB/day and you only have to wait 8 minutes before it's finished downloading.
You can't say "doesn't mean anything" as long as the data caps are reasonable. Sure there is something to be said for a 10mbps connection which gives you 2.5TB of transfer per month. But there's also something to be said for a 1000mbps connection where you can only transfer 200GB. It's safe to say that there is no way to argue that a 2.5TB capped gigabit connection is worse than a 10mbps (2.5TB/month at max speed) connection of equal price.
Throttling speed is worse than throttling bandwidth. Let's say you have 1TB of data you need transferred.
Your ISP might throttle your speed to 10mbps for $30/month. 1MB/s * 60s/min * 60min/hr * 24hr/day * 30days/month = 2.5TB/Month cap but you have to wait a month to transfer that 2.5TB.
If you have 2.5TB to transfer it's far better from a user standpoint to have a 1000mbps connection where the transfer is completed in 8 hours overnight.
Both are effectively 2.5TB caps, one objectively though is superior since it does the exact same job in a fraction of the time.
They are not conning you. DSL is the con for 1/5th the speed at 200% the price. Nobody should be on DSL these days if there is a decent cable connection available. It's the worst value in internet.
The problem is that there is "Rape Culture" which is the academic and thoroughly intellectualized concept. And then there is just a handy term that gets used as a bludgeon. The same is true of "Cultural Appropriation". It's a narrow and specific concept but then a bunch of people who took a class once read it and like all things that someone once took a class on without actually thoroughly learning, they start applying it willy nilly until the concept is thoroughly generalized to just mean "bad people doing bad things". It's the Sociological equivalent of the word "disrupt". "Look at this 'Disruptive' hammer I made! It has a rubber grip!"
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The Corporate Fascists want a stable and predictable economy in which the rules are well understood and consistent. They also of course want anything they can get for free and also want a pony. Most of the Corporate Fascist Interests perfectly overlap with most of the population.
Obviously we need to be diligent in ensuring that they don't get everything they want for free but it's completely wrong to say that they prefer the buffoon to the crook. The "crook" is accused of storing a few documents that shouldn't have been stored in email. That doesn't really affect the stability of world markets or the predictability of society. In fact like 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999% of the world, the Crook's emails don't affect them in the slightest. On the other hand a trade war with China would affect everybody including the Corporate Fascists' interests negatively.
If my choice is supporting corporate fascists or supporting anarchists I'll pick the corporate fascists any day. Corporate fascists interest far more often overlap with most of the population's self-interest. Rarely to anarchists' interests overlap with anyone else's since by definition they're only looking out for themselves.
The Corporate Fascists are like an ox. If you don't mind them they'll trample the crops and eat your food reserves. If you watch them and regulate them you can use them to plow your fields.
I really really really wish my credit card company addressed this problem specifically with unique number generation.
I'm tired of having to update my Netflix every time my card number gets hacked. Let me send out a new number and track it on the website for my card. Then when one number gets compromised through a hack or physically or cloned I just burn that number.
In this case let my physical card number have a rotating auth code/or use an authenticator app and then my subscriptions can all be on unique numbers.
Only every 4 hours ? Lol. What's the point of reading that kind of crap.
There were several news stories posted within an hour of the train crash this morning. 4 hours is plenty to write out the who-what-when-where. Not enough time to write a Rolling Stone expose but plenty of time to cover "news".
"A train crashed today into a crowded station. "It was awful," said Bob. At this time it's not believed to be a terrorist attack but investigators have only just begun piecing through the evidence. About 100 people were injured and as of writing there are no reports of fatalities although there were numerous seriously injured."
There, that's a reasonably insightful breaking news summary that took about 3 minutes to write. Give someone 80x as long and a couple hours to ask questions at a press conference and you've got a thorough reporting of the day's big news event.
Except that people have different interests. If you have 30 categories of news then 1440 / 30 = a news story every half hour if you are only interested in say "Sports" or "Business". If you're interested in Linux and Programming I bet that only represents probably a story every couple hours at best.
Saying a story every 10 minutes is too much is like saying Netflix has too much content because nobody could ever watch 100,000 hours of television. It's true, but it ignores the fact that there isn't a perfect venn diagram of interest.
The WaPost has 740 staff writers. So that's only a story every 4 hours/writer. If they gave each writer 5 minutes to write a story I would worry about quality but 4 hours is plenty to make some calls and interview people.
The good old "you too" fallacy - why no one ever holds politicians accountable for their misdeeds and illegal activitites today.
If your politician does something and you say "That's perfectly moral and legal, I have no problem with that." and then someone else's preferred politician does the exact same thing you and you scream "EXECUTE THEM FOR TREASON THEN HANG THEM!" then it shows that either you're more than happy to play fast and loose with morality when it favors you which means your moral condemnation now is hypocritical and selective, or it shows that nothing bad actually took place in either instance and it's just a trumped up charge.
It's more like this. "My client's checking account was over drafted and they are being accused of bank theft. Millions of people overdraft their accounts every day and they aren't accused of bank theft. Why just yesterday the prosecutor themselves incurred an overdraft, paid a fine and carried on with their lives. Why is my client being charged with bank robbery for the same so-called crime? Why are you really prosecuting my client?"
If users benefit from SSDs they'll benefit from 10Gbe. There is a real appeal to storing the application once on a large storage array and launching the application remotely over the network. It's a happy middle ground between a thin client and a fat workstation.
They all run on the exact same kernel and have the same WinRT runtime. The only difference is ARM vs x86 compiler. They're as similar as Ubuntu for ARM and ubuntu for x86.
Xbox is a bit of a unique case in that it run's AAA titles in a stripped down VM and apps in another VM. But the Apps VM is effectively Windows 10 Desktop but with a different explorer.exe
Windows 10 Mobile isn't running something like WinRT Mobile, like Windows Mobile 6 ran .NET Mobile it's a full WinRT.NET implementation with the full API surface as the Desktop version. The only real difference between Mobile and Desktop is it lacks Win32 and has a different explorer.exe as well. In fact in a few beta builds the mouse cursor would inadvertantly pop up. And if you turn up the DPI sufficiently apps will think they're running on desktop and switch over to the Desktop UI.
I don't see how this would protect a bitcoin wallet since it would self destruct taking all of your money with it. I guess if you had redundant systems spread all over the place it would be ok but it's hard to maintain an offsite system and keep it powered and running perfectly.
We've been deploying autonomous attack vehicles for 70+ years. The V2 was autonomous. ICBMs are autonomous. Cruise missiles are autonomous. Barage balloons are autonomous. Even gps/laser guided bombs are autonomous. Radar/IR guided surface to air and AA missiles are autonomous
If you need a vehicle to fly to a place, dump a ton of munitions and fly back we can handle that pretty easily. Even Air to Air combat is now handled by AI. http://magazine.uc.edu/editors... There are no sensors that a human pilot will have that aren't already provided by the aircraft or could be adequately processed entirely locally without any opportunity for jamming.
It will also be nearly impossible to completely jam communication. And laser based communication would be impossible to jam beyond the horizon from the ground if the aircraft was at altitude. Just setup a relay network of autonomous drones communicating by laser. It's not like you're risking a pilot. And if something manages to take a shot at a relay, you have a new target.
Yeah, the problem with this research is that you need a small dataset. Characters are pretty easy with just 26. With a small sunset of faces it should be easy to identify blurred faces but start adding variables and this attack vector gets absurd: Pixel blur radius, filter type, 6 billion people as options, lighting etc. If you are deciding "which of these hundred people" is this, I guess it's useful but I cant see this being useful to deanonymize a random person on Facebook.
Extreme high speed cameras can usually only operate for brief periods due to buffers and heat and regular CCTV is probably too slow to get useful data. If it was shot by a bullet the act of penetrating the tank probably produces enough sparks to cause an instant explosion.
You don't need extreme highspeed cameras though. I have a camera that you could put together a sufficient package for under $20k that shoots 300fps at 1080p for a full hour. 300fps would give you 3ms.
I'm sure that Spacex right now would LOVE to have 3ms video precision from 3 angles. In fact I know SpaceX owns these cameras. They were probably all rigged up though on the drone ship and nobody started them for just a static fire.
Upgrades haven't really made sense in the PC space either for a long time. It's a nice idea to upgrade one single part but generally when you upgrade CPU you need DDR+1 RAM, your SSD is absurdly small and slow by modern standards and your GPU can be replaced for $100.
I wouldn't want to upgrade my camera on my phone if it didn't come also with a faster processor so that the higher resolution sensor doesn't go 2x as slow.
Considering System On a Chip effectively dropped the price of every component to nearly $0 it's silly to only upgrade one tiny component at a time without considering the full performance bottlenecks of the system as a whole.
Sticking it to their customers? You mean people running out of date software that they don't sell anymore? You stopped being a customer the moment you bought Windows 7. You became a past Customer and a potential future customer.
By refusing to upgrade to Windows 10 you're effectively saying you don't want to be a customer. You're like someone demanding a restaurant bring you bread and water but refusing to be seated and stating that you don't want to eat in the establishment. What incentive do they have to help you not give them money? Why should they devote dev resources to someone who is boycotting their company?
Improvements in understanding this may become viable for flying car type energy/thrust requirements.
Except that we already have engines which are *more* efficient: photonic drives. But nobody is suggesting a photonic drive could ever achieve enough thrust to lift itself off the ground. You're talking about a technology which has so little thrust that we can barely *measure* its effect and saying that with refinement it will be capable of 100:1 lift ratios?! Sure but the distance between the current state of the art and what you're suggesting is so vast (literally +10,000,000,000x more efficient) that the speculation is absurd. For all we know we'll discover an anti-gravity drive tomorrow.
Maybe this drive works through some process we're unaware of. But if it does work the likelihood it'll be a path to flying car level is effectively equal to the infinite variety of unconceived technologies that could potentially be imagined or discovered since it's effectively starting as close to 0 as our technology is capable of measuring.
It would be like discovering a new form of solar panels with 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000001% efficiency and exclaiming "With further refinement it might beat our top panels which have 50%!" More likely, with further refinement you'll improve it to .0000000000000000000000000005%.
I have over 10TB on Backblaze for $5/mo. Works great and recovery is easy.
I would add though that if you want more control and more flexibility I've started using Backblaze's B2 API and SyncBack, Cloud Berry or whatever software backup solution you prefer. That costs about $5/month per TB but has the advantage of control over hash checks and retention.
It's hard to believe because if you read TFA the editor proved that they didn't read the article. The source for "we use Wikipedia" also said they just use it for metadata on locations and the actual location API didn't get the location wrong just the search engine subject result.
If it was a Republican that got caught doing it, you'd probably go nuts about it.
You mean like when Bush's Whitehouse deleted 22 million emails? Nobody actually gives a shot about Hillary's emails. But the GOP knows that people are so tech illiterate that they can frame it as "Hillary funneled all of our state secrets to Benghazi Terrorists to help them kill our diplomat!"
The difference is that it costs them nothing to leave it unfixed. If however you couldn't give Google $80 a month to come pick you up they would fix it really quick. Amazon and FedEx and others keep a database attached to addresses which allow for manual corrections and they implement them instantly because it costs them money to go to the wrong place or fail to find your address.
Uber's mapping is horrifically aweful, but they rely on a GPS waypoint to set your pickup location so they don't care either.
Where can you get 5TB of transfer for $9.30? I just did a cloud to cloud backup using a virtual server and it was about $50/TB.
a 70 mph windstorm will bring down so many Douglas Fir trees that it can take two weeks to restore power to some areas. During any of these our land line will continue to work as long as the phone line itself isn't broken,
What makes you think the lines are separate? I've had my power go out from downed douglas fir trees numerous times. Never had my cell phone go out in the PNW once. If I was designing a system to provide emergency communication in a disaster area I wouldn't rely on physical wires to every destination.
I'd rather have a consistent 5Mb/s speed that's truly unlimited and not throttled.
Really? What if the throttle is at 0.5MB/s * 60s * 60m * 24hr * 30 days = 1.2TB?
I would rather for most applications have high burst potential to decide where and when I want my data than to arbitrarily spread the transfer out over days or hours.
All else being equal faster is better. And I would very much be interested in uncapping for bursts by the MB like Amazon AWS.
All this speed doesn't mean anything with data caps.
Limited speed *is* a data cap. It's just a datacap that forces you to somewhat arbitrarily spread out your usage. If you want to download a BluRay quality film that is 50GB then you have to wait 50,000MB / 10mbps = 14 hours of downloading before it finishes. Or you have volume capped gigabit of 100GB/day and you only have to wait 8 minutes before it's finished downloading.
You can't say "doesn't mean anything" as long as the data caps are reasonable. Sure there is something to be said for a 10mbps connection which gives you 2.5TB of transfer per month. But there's also something to be said for a 1000mbps connection where you can only transfer 200GB. It's safe to say that there is no way to argue that a 2.5TB capped gigabit connection is worse than a 10mbps (2.5TB/month at max speed) connection of equal price.
Throttling speed is worse than throttling bandwidth. Let's say you have 1TB of data you need transferred.
Your ISP might throttle your speed to 10mbps for $30/month.
1MB/s * 60s/min * 60min/hr * 24hr/day * 30days/month = 2.5TB/Month cap but you have to wait a month to transfer that 2.5TB.
If you have 2.5TB to transfer it's far better from a user standpoint to have a 1000mbps connection where the transfer is completed in 8 hours overnight.
Both are effectively 2.5TB caps, one objectively though is superior since it does the exact same job in a fraction of the time.
They are not conning you. DSL is the con for 1/5th the speed at 200% the price. Nobody should be on DSL these days if there is a decent cable connection available. It's the worst value in internet.
The problem is that there is "Rape Culture" which is the academic and thoroughly intellectualized concept. And then there is just a handy term that gets used as a bludgeon. The same is true of "Cultural Appropriation". It's a narrow and specific concept but then a bunch of people who took a class once read it and like all things that someone once took a class on without actually thoroughly learning, they start applying it willy nilly until the concept is thoroughly generalized to just mean "bad people doing bad things". It's the Sociological equivalent of the word "disrupt". "Look at this 'Disruptive' hammer I made! It has a rubber grip!"