Neither troll nor living under a rock. Or a troll living under a rock for that matter. Just not American, so I only hear patent cases being referred to as American, rather than Texan.
It might find your code, if it used the same search algorithm. You wouldn't only search for the code that searches. You'd search for a program that: 1. Searches for code sections. 2. Records their locations. 3. Executes it's code by jumping between those sections.
Surely this code has to have some kind of 'signature' (a standard structure) which is easy to find with a scan, right?
With normal malware your antivirus would search for code that performs, say, XORing. With Frankenstein Code malware, wouldn't your antivirus software simply search for the code that *searches* for XORing code?
I've worked with 8-bit and 32-bit micros in the past (Atmel, STM), but whenever I've tried to get into using Linux on my desktop, I just haven't been motivated enough to learn even the most simplest of terminal operations. But the BB and Ångström are drawing me in! I'm loving the LCD7 Cape!
What are the best forums and discussion sites for Beagle Bone related development?
No, it would mean that *potentially* you could save knowledge and pass it on, thus making life less pointless. Otherwise you repeat mistakes, etc.
It'd be like being born and never knowing your parents, never having them to give you a leg-up in life. Never reading a history book.
I was kidding. I have read the ending. To be honest, I found the last part interesting, but hardly 'uplifting'. What's the point of living through an endless cycle of 'universe lifetimes' if you can't carry over information from the previous one.
I've read some of the other stories mentioned here (1983, A Brave New World, etc), but they were no where near as depressing for me because they never seemed real to me. They will never eventuate, or the concepts will never be as bad as what the stories describe.
However, The Last Question talks about a concept which is unavoidable, and is something that I had never considered.
... it explains how you can't go running from star to star when each one dies, because they will eventually all die.
I think it was the story where they keep asking computers for the meaning of life, and each time it tells them there is not enough information for the calculation... until the very end of the story.
I remember being really depressed about how eventually all energy will be 'used up' and the universe will die.
To be a 'Darwinian statistic', wouldn't you have to somehow contribute to your own death in a stupid way. Is the author acknowledging that he is stupid enough that he would die if other people weren't constantly looking out for him?
I'm fairly sure that by the time anyone can SSL directly into your brain, they'll also have some sort of high-res MRI scanner to simply read your brain's contents.
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I asked a friend who works there. :(
They used it for Folding@Home.
Such a waste.
Exactly what I was wondering.
Neither troll nor living under a rock. Or a troll living under a rock for that matter. Just not American, so I only hear patent cases being referred to as American, rather than Texan.
Looks like it is Texas. Is that common?
Before we can see that we'll probably have to wait until a country with a carrier attacks a country who has 'carrier-killer' missiles.
... and make back the money on all that expensive FOSS software. Oh... wait....
So does this mean I'll need to stop experimenting on robots?
It might find your code, if it used the same search algorithm.
You wouldn't only search for the code that searches. You'd search for a program that:
1. Searches for code sections.
2. Records their locations.
3. Executes it's code by jumping between those sections.
Surely this code has to have some kind of 'signature' (a standard structure) which is easy to find with a scan, right?
With normal malware your antivirus would search for code that performs, say, XORing.
With Frankenstein Code malware, wouldn't your antivirus software simply search for the code that *searches* for XORing code?
But where are the GPIO pins on the Nexus?
That's one reason I chose the BB over the Pi.
This is exactly what I've done.
I've worked with 8-bit and 32-bit micros in the past (Atmel, STM), but whenever I've tried to get into using Linux on my desktop, I just haven't been motivated enough to learn even the most simplest of terminal operations. But the BB and Ångström are drawing me in!
I'm loving the LCD7 Cape!
What are the best forums and discussion sites for Beagle Bone related development?
... hick families.
I guess we'd should all get iPhones then. Personally the only thing stopping me is that it's an iPhone.
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When is SMS just going to vanish already?
Even an empty threat deserves a response you won't soon forget.
No, it would mean that *potentially* you could save knowledge and pass it on, thus making life less pointless. Otherwise you repeat mistakes, etc. It'd be like being born and never knowing your parents, never having them to give you a leg-up in life. Never reading a history book.
I was kidding. I have read the ending. To be honest, I found the last part interesting, but hardly 'uplifting'. What's the point of living through an endless cycle of 'universe lifetimes' if you can't carry over information from the previous one. I've read some of the other stories mentioned here (1983, A Brave New World, etc), but they were no where near as depressing for me because they never seemed real to me. They will never eventuate, or the concepts will never be as bad as what the stories describe. However, The Last Question talks about a concept which is unavoidable, and is something that I had never considered.
I'm not too sure; I stopped reading just before the end due to depression.
... it explains how you can't go running from star to star when each one dies, because they will eventually all die. I think it was the story where they keep asking computers for the meaning of life, and each time it tells them there is not enough information for the calculation... until the very end of the story. I remember being really depressed about how eventually all energy will be 'used up' and the universe will die.
I wonder if it's anything like the Foreign Correspondent episode that aired last week in Australia: http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2012/s3557618.htm
To be a 'Darwinian statistic', wouldn't you have to somehow contribute to your own death in a stupid way. Is the author acknowledging that he is stupid enough that he would die if other people weren't constantly looking out for him?
Then we can render more than 64 JPEGs at once.
I'm fairly sure that by the time anyone can SSL directly into your brain, they'll also have some sort of high-res MRI scanner to simply read your brain's contents.
It's a bit harsh to call them that!