In other words, after creating a mathematical model of the right 500 people, and after planting 15 or 20 agents inside that 500 person network and monitoring their network traffic for a while, they were able to trace a rumor back to the originator.
This is exactly the trap that AI programmers fell into in the 1970s. Hindsight is always 20:20.
I always wonder about these pictures, and I hate to sound like an idiot, but why don't they ever seem to take color photos on these things?
Simple: Because they're designed for doing science, not taking holiday snapshots. Black/white cameras can have filters put in front of them, this way they can analyze different parts of the spectrum. They can even take color pictures by combining three exposures made with RGB filters.
I think the architects are hoping that only 1% of users will enable it, and those 1% aren't really valuable to advertisers anyway (it might even be more valuable to know who they are than to track them).
If it's on by default then yeah, it'll die. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Maybe, but are you really going to try and sue a Bermudan company for tracking you (or wherever they'll put the servers if this ever becomes legally enforceable...)
Only one thing is certain about DNT: It won't stop anybody from tracking you.
What we really need is a browser which detects tracking and randomizes results. Make it pointless to even try tracking you.
Yeah, I don't know what people are smoking these days, but you've got to be seriously delusional if you think that Do Not Track is going to be respected in any way.
They could pass a law.
That would mean the major advertisers would have to respect it, although all advertisers are sleazy by nature so they'll try to get around it by becoming even more sleazy than they already are.
OpenGL's biggest mistake was in actively trying to keep OpenGL ES off the desktop. They had a chance to dump a load of legacy API and make a clean start but they caused fragmentation instead (OpenGL on desktop, OpenGL ES everywhere else).
The first 26 system calls of MS-DOS 1.0 are identical to the first 26 system calls of CP/M."
So? Windows NT has a POSIX interface in it somewhere. It's done to try and tempt people to port their POSIX code to windows.
Making CP/M code easy to port to MS-DOS would have been a good idea and those functions would have been needed anyway so arranging them in the same order is no real extra effort.
CP/M is a very simple beast. It's laughable to think that anybody would go to the effort of disassembling it to find out how it worked then rewriting it function-for-function in 8086 assembly code. changing the file system as you go.
It would be much less work to just read the CP/M docs then write your own little OS using the ideas gleaned. I doubt he even did that. There was no magic in CP/M even way back then and MS-DOS isn't all that similar to it.
I mean that's cool and all, but I think the more significant piece is that the landing was accurate to within 2km with a journey covering nine months and somewhere roughly around 200m km.
To be fair; they've made a few course corrections along the way.
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So is wanting to skip around in a video.
I assume you'd copy it to local disk before hitting 'play'...
In other words, after creating a mathematical model of the right 500 people, and after planting 15 or 20 agents inside that 500 person network and monitoring their network traffic for a while, they were able to trace a rumor back to the originator.
This is exactly the trap that AI programmers fell into in the 1970s. Hindsight is always 20:20.
I always wonder about these pictures, and I hate to sound like an idiot, but why don't they ever seem to take color photos on these things?
Simple: Because they're designed for doing science, not taking holiday snapshots. Black/white cameras can have filters put in front of them, this way they can analyze different parts of the spectrum. They can even take color pictures by combining three exposures made with RGB filters.
their job has very little to do with terrorists or safety, and everything to do with making Americans feel safe.
If they're supposed to make people feel safe then why do they keep stealing their laptops/phones/cameras/etc.
Simple: They check nobody's standing outside the door with a box cutter before they open it.
On slashdot...?
"Ask slashdot" is never about reading the question or formulating a relevant answer.
...and too much Gamma radiation might make you turn green and muscular.
I think the architects are hoping that only 1% of users will enable it, and those 1% aren't really valuable to advertisers anyway (it might even be more valuable to know who they are than to track them).
If it's on by default then yeah, it'll die. Good riddance to bad rubbish.
Maybe, but are you really going to try and sue a Bermudan company for tracking you (or wherever they'll put the servers if this ever becomes legally enforceable...)
Only one thing is certain about DNT: It won't stop anybody from tracking you.
What we really need is a browser which detects tracking and randomizes results. Make it pointless to even try tracking you.
Yeah, I don't know what people are smoking these days, but you've got to be seriously delusional if you think that Do Not Track is going to be respected in any way.
They could pass a law.
That would mean the major advertisers would have to respect it, although all advertisers are sleazy by nature so they'll try to get around it by becoming even more sleazy than they already are.
This will effectively KILL the do-not-track project.
Why?
Do those CAD programs use OpenGL ES?
OpenGL's biggest mistake was in actively trying to keep OpenGL ES off the desktop. They had a chance to dump a load of legacy API and make a clean start but they caused fragmentation instead (OpenGL on desktop, OpenGL ES everywhere else).
...or a hot/cold day.
There are good arguments for and against manmade global warming, and personally I think there is no such thing as MMGW.
Remind us again what the 'good' arguments against it are...?
Go back to your Amiga.
The first 26 system calls of MS-DOS 1.0 are identical to the first 26 system calls of CP/M."
So? Windows NT has a POSIX interface in it somewhere. It's done to try and tempt people to port their POSIX code to windows.
Making CP/M code easy to port to MS-DOS would have been a good idea and those functions would have been needed anyway so arranging them in the same order is no real extra effort.
This.
CP/M is a very simple beast. It's laughable to think that anybody would go to the effort of disassembling it to find out how it worked then rewriting it function-for-function in 8086 assembly code. changing the file system as you go.
It would be much less work to just read the CP/M docs then write your own little OS using the ideas gleaned. I doubt he even did that. There was no magic in CP/M even way back then and MS-DOS isn't all that similar to it.
You, apparently, haven't been living in America for the past ten years.
Ya got me there...
Obama certainly doesn't seem to care about space exploration and doesn't seem to care about science in general
But ... he was on Mythbusters!
Carl Sagan's "Pale Blue Dot" was never more relevant.
I mean that's cool and all, but I think the more significant piece is that the landing was accurate to within 2km with a journey covering nine months and somewhere roughly around 200m km.
To be fair; they've made a few course corrections along the way.
I noticed that the White House called this "a great day for America", "a great day for this nation", etc. Repeat ad nauseam.
Would it really have killed them to say "a great day for humanity"? I don't think Americans would have minded.
Imagine if Neil Armstrong had said "that's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for America".
What's with all the metric units? How many furlongs was it?
Have they not heard of an invention called "plastic bags"?
I hear they do wonders against condensation.
That's PROOF that you have braindamage.
As evidenced by all the Python fanbois who didn't even get as far as "...XBOX Arcade, Steam, mobile etc." before posting.