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  1. Re: Too bad Cisco uses this for a virtual IP in so on Cloudflare Launches 1.1.1.1 Consumer DNS Service With a Focus On Privacy (betanews.com) · · Score: 1, Informative

    I think you're confusing it with 10.x.x.x. Although I've seen others type 1 or 100 due to typos, no self respecting network admin would do that though.

  2. France gets what it voted for on President of France Emmanuel Macron Talks About Nation's New AI Strategy (wired.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Macron effectively said he is going to oppose the EU privacy framework in order to sell the data to the highest bidder under the guise of improving "AI", a system that thus far doesn't really exist, we've got some good classifiers but nothing remotely resembling intelligence.

  3. Re:Not really on Ask Slashdot: Are 'Full Stack' Developers a Thing? · · Score: 1

    I find that about 1% of IT people can do their jobs properly. Most "IT people" these days know enough to assemble a computer or set up a website and think they can get a sysadmin or programming job. Very few of them actually advance or want to learn anything beyond their basic skill sets.

  4. Re:Ditch Windows already. on Atlanta Still Struggles To Recover From Ransomware Attack (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    From the previous article: "working diligently with support from Microsoft to resolve the issue". So I'm assuming a Windows-based attack vector. Hey let's connect everything to Active Directory and let everything authenticate everywhere. Authorization, yeah, we authenticate everyone through Active Directory.

  5. Re:From TFA on Atlanta Still Struggles To Recover From Ransomware Attack (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    WannaCry on Linux, nice try troll.

  6. Not really on Ask Slashdot: Are 'Full Stack' Developers a Thing? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    There are good developers and there are bad developers. Once you know and understand the programming paradigm, you should be able to work on anything from Linux kernels to JavaScript apps in browsers.

    Now, you may not be as experienced in one or the other, so there will be a learning curve. If the company wants a "full stack developer" what they mean is that they want someone that, without a learning curve, knows the innards of all the technologies they have picked. If they want someone like that, they would probably try to retain and promote people that have worked there the longest, so a full stack developer should be virtually always an internal hire and practically at the level of team management.

    But bad managers at companies that don't understand technologies or how 'stacks' work, want a college grad that can quickly be thrown into multiple gaps they have and thus hire externally for "full stack developers" not even knowing what their own stack is and how a hire would have to fill it.

  7. There is an up-front fee of ~$1-10M and 1-2% on the sales of the chip.

    This may not seem like a lot but if you're entering a new field like AI or self-driving chips, you're spending millions of dollars per year to continuously redesign chipsets that may not even work. And with ARM specifically, they already have the reference designs, unless you plunk down enough money (like Apple), they're not going to re-design an architecture for you, you get the same chip everybody else gets.

    If I can have a small team of engineers design on an open chipset, I could reuse open reference designs for perhaps $250k to $1M in wages, don't have to share my revenue and have much more control over the design path they're taking.

  8. NSA isn't the only one to blame, Microsoft knew about the exploits that were going to be released when the NSA lost their data and chose to only patch some of the malware that the NSA had held onto, only after ShadowBrokers released WannaCry in the wild did they release the emergency fixes. They released a patch for XP about 2 months after WannaCry went public.

    Microsoft deliberately held back patches and fixes for Windows for god knows how long because it benefited the NSA.

  9. There are 2-in-1 laptops (that flip into a tablet) but generally for various reasons they use the same chip. Just dual-boot or VM whatever you need. You can run Android or Linux on your x86 and boot Windows in a VM when you truly need it. Apply encryption to the hard drive with a strong password or even have your VM in a hidden partition/sectors of your system or if you have serious trouble with customs of various countries, have your data only available on a separate hosted server.

    A system with 2 separate chips does exist somewhat, it's called a MacBook Pro, you can use the secondary system to fetch e-mails and the like when your laptop is closed.

    If you want actually a secondary tablet on top of your laptop, simply glue one onto the back of the screen. There are plenty of laptops and tablets that are thin and light enough.

  10. Another generation? The Amazon and Google pucks, doorbells, thermostats and smoke detectors all have cameras besides the actual security and baby cameras that stream directly to the cloud.

  11. Not a glitch, just a bad assumption on Software Glitch Robs Formula 1 World Champ of Season's First Win (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The thing is that whether or not it would be in software, his team told the driver that Vettel would be longer in the pitstops than they expected.

    His team should've been looking out for the actual pitstop time, so they could correctly pace the safety car, even if the software was giving him an estimate of 12-16s which is the average, if the team does exceptionally well or they decide last minute not to change 4 tires and fill up completely (which some pit stops have been done in 2-3s range) he's going to be overtaken.

    In the end, it was a great pitstop and his team miscalculated, whether or not the computer miscalculated, there is an entire team of people that can see and communicate in advance that 'you better catch up now'.

  12. It's not just simplifying the scene, it's also simplifying the ray tracer model. Instead of tracing every pixel, it takes a group of pixels and renders them all the same and then applies some filters after the fact to make it look better. So instead of tracing the source of 1920x1080 pixels it's tracing perhaps a few hundred 32x32 or 64x64 sections and then applying a denoiser.

  13. Re:How does that even work? on Students Are Using Their Loan Money To Buy Cryptocurrency, Study Says (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    That seems like a recipe for disaster. You can get a "school" to sign you up, cancel your classes and you can pocket a multi-thousand dollar unsecured loan? Especially with government funds, you should have to account for every dime spent and pay back unauthorized spending.

  14. Re:College costs have spiraled out of control on Students Are Using Their Loan Money To Buy Cryptocurrency, Study Says (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2

    What I meant is that my education was paid for by grants and other government money, but I never spent any of the money in those accounts for food. Back when I was working as a student, I earned maybe $5/h, that wasn't enough for a lavish lifestyle but it was and would still be enough today for what I needed - even today, you can find housing for $100-200/month (that's 4-5 days of work) and food at $5-10/day, if you don't work in the food industry.

  15. Re:How does that even work? on Students Are Using Their Loan Money To Buy Cryptocurrency, Study Says (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 1

    Nope, I'm a millenial per definition. I just never had to deal with living off debt, I only spent what I had.

  16. How does that even work? on Students Are Using Their Loan Money To Buy Cryptocurrency, Study Says (fastcompany.com) · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm used to working with grants and government loans. Typically, you at the end don't actually see the money, you get to distribute money from the fund provided and have to give a pretty good accounting.

    Stuff like meals and lodging are scrutinized and only permitted to a certain extent, so how do students get this 'free money' to "live off" in school so they can spend it on frivolous stuff? Back in my day, we used to have this thing called "a job" and you worked at it vacations, weekends and nights to get food. It's a 30 year loan at like 4-5%, that's almost as good a a mortgage.

  17. Re:Wrong on How Technology Caught the Austin Serial Bomber (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Your opinion doesn't matter when there are textbooks and dictionaries.

  18. Basic science software on Ask Slashdot: Can FOSS Help In the Fight Against Climate Change? · · Score: 1

    This thing is as far as I know neither commercially nor open source available. Maybe you can find some simulations programming languages but I would assume you will be writing the software.

    Given you're most likely looking at writing a paper rather than developing a company, your software will have to be open source so it can be properly peer reviewed.

  19. Re:why is the graphics subsystem churning for deca on A New Era For Linux's Low-level Graphics (collabora.com) · · Score: 1

    X works and is great as a windowing system. Leaving the dressup to the client is good and with modern IPC is fast enough. Combine X with a good typesetting system (eg. LaTeX or Postscript) a la NeXT and what eventually evolved into Mac OS X and it is perfect - you can make pixel-perfect documents from screen to print or make any screen copy-pastable without the program requiring you to implement a custom menu or data export routine.

    In modern days, I would say a rendering engine (XML/HTML) may be better from a developer perspective (since you're already developing a web browser) but on the other hand, all the ML's are unnecessarily chatty.

  20. Re:There were plenty of red flags on How Technology Caught the Austin Serial Bomber (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, they aren't mutually exclusive, there are probably some Al Qaeda psychopaths doing their serial murdering, however there appears to be no political motive for the Austin bomber, hence he is not a terrorist.

    Terrorist: a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.
    Serial killer: a person who commits a series of murders, often with no apparent motive and typically following a characteristic, predictable behavior pattern.

    To conflate the two for political motives (as you originally did) is a highly dangerous enterprise.

  21. Mashing together sciences doesn't work like that on Ask Slashdot: Is Beaming Down In Star Trek a Death Sentence? · · Score: 1

    The primary problem right now is that we don't know a whole lot about the brain or quantum physics. However there is nothing 'magical' about humans or the brain, there is no such thing as a disconnected soul, the problem is the measurement (which is what the Heisenberg Principle is about) and the fact that the Universe obeys the No Cloning Theorem.

    So a Star Trek-style cloning where you measure the state of every particle in your body, convert into energy and back into mass is impossible (as far as we believe our mathematics are correct right now)

    However, that doesn't mean replicating a human/brain isn't possible, we can 3D print biological matter already. We should be able to copy the state of the brain and cells down to their individual electrical states, especially if we can bring the original to a complete 'stop' (near 0K). Memories are simply a set of neurons that are wired to fire together, you can "cut the power" to most of the brain, muscles (eg. heart), cells and restart them, if you can restore a 'state' by exciting specific neurons and cells (which we can already do to an extent) on a 3D printed biological mass, you can technically "transport" any animal.

    So if you can replicate someone's brain wiring and restart a brain, even in another body, you will have according to most psychologists replicated the person. From that instant however, if both sides continue to exist, these persons will start to diverge and become different persons.

  22. Re:There were plenty of red flags on How Technology Caught the Austin Serial Bomber (foxnews.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    It's PopeRatzo, he has outright said that "the right" does not deserve their civil rights ever since the election. As we can see from the recent gun debates, the left would like the government to have most people be put on lists and all sorts of trades, goods and ideologies "managed" by the government.

  23. Re:There were plenty of red flags on How Technology Caught the Austin Serial Bomber (foxnews.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    He wasn't a radicalized terrorist, he was a serial killer. There is a difference. He had no ideological causes, no politicla target, whether or not he was white, home schooled, Christian or anti-LGBT, it had nothing to do with it.

    What he did was because he was intelligent, psychopathic and his skills were most likely undervalued by his family and/or community. He probably had recently gone through some psychological trauma (girlfriend breaking up, fight with his dad, fired from his job) culminating into the thoughts that he was going to "show the world" with the hubris that he could get away with the cat-and-mouse game with agents he perceives to be less intelligent. He started low-end with someone disposable like a transient or a prostitute and worked his way up, probably to the perceived "target" but primarily to show that he can get away with it.

    Especially towards the end, they virtually all end up in a killing spree where they either commit suicide or get caught (and then commit suicide). Some choose guns, some choose hands, some knives, there are a number of currently active serial killers, they are not terrorists, they aren't profiled as terrorists, they typically work alone instead of in a cell although rarely a team of 2 will happen.

  24. Re:lemme ask this on FCC's New 5G Rules Favor Fast Setup Over Federal Reviews (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    5G will bring the speeds promised by 3G to your phone.

  25. I'm sure someone said that about the weavers and the computers too (back when it was a profession).

    The thing is, innovation brings prosperity and jobs. Companies, thanks to innovation in bulk transportation and subsidized shipping and manufacturing in China have not needed to innovate.

    Why invest in the development and R&D for a robot in the US to make sound products when you can have your labor and environmental waste near zero cost in China and outcompete smaller business.