I've got a Windows 10 gaming rig upstairs with an HTC vive plugged into it. VR sells itself in about 5 minutes, until you take a look at the price tag. With the Vive, there's almost no vomiting. The sit down flight simulator might make you queasy, but that's about it. I mean, once we learned that a coffee table at kneecap level really should be a bit farther back out of the play area. Those are just teething problems, though. Once you have a wireless headset and gymnasium worth of space to play in, it's going to be awesome.
You can actually get a respectable number of games with Steam on Linux now, too. Many more than back in the Loki games days (Anyone remember them?) I still miss Tribes 2, though.
The thermals are terrible. FTFY. I had a brief fling with Mac Pro desktops from 2005 - 2009ish. First one happily cooked its "good" video card twice before I ended up downgrading it to the "bad" one. Admittedly I stupidly tried to push 3D with it. If I'd stuck to 2D applications, it would have been OK, if a bit slow for the time. Both Mac Pro desktops I bought are still in service more than a decade later, though, both running as Linux servers. They installed multiprocessor xeons in those things, and they're still actually pretty fantastic for general purpose computing (Despite Apple's attempts to intentionally cripple the hardware.)
They could probably do an AI that would correctly classify most of them. Those videos are targeting toddlers whose parents are letting an iPad do the babysitting, and currently use very specific keywords. Whip out tensor flow and train it on the video content, combine it with keyword matching and I think you could hit 99% accuracy. If those videos have to start varying their keywords, it'll be a lot harder for their target audience to find them.
My GF refused to install one until I stealthily put Ublock Origin on the living room gaming/vr rig I set up. After a couple of weeks of browsing on that, she was actually angry about how shitty the internet is without an ad blocker.
Yeah, I worked at a company where you just stuck your card into whatever computer you sat down at and it would find your session out on the network and bring it to that computer. You still used a password to unlock the session, though. Without the card, your password was useless. Without your password, the card was useless. They also didn't have the fucktarded password requirements that most companies do, so you could use a passphrase, which can be significantly easier to remember and more secure than the usual corporate password.
The best use of this tech would probably not be to steal Subarus but rather to offer low-cost backup fobs. Last time I checked, a replacement fob at the dealer will set you back a couple hundred bucks. I bet you could find a price-point in there where you could sell replacements at a reasonable price and still make bank. You could also offer additional features, like being able to open multiple cars for a two (or more) car family.
A lot of the developers I'm asked to review have github repos now, with open source contributions or their own personal projects. We still talk to them a bit to verify that they actually can do the kind of work that we see in the repos. We also understand that not everyone has a github repo or code they can actually show us, and the interview really doesn't change that much if they don't. We're still going to ask some technical questions as well as try to evaluate whether we think they'll fit in well with the team. Where it might make a difference would be if you have less than about 5 years of experience. If you lack a degree and have no work experience, some interesting open source projects could still get you an interview.
Sure, sure, because Nixon wasn't looking for any excuse he could find to crack down on the blacks and the hippies. And there was no shortage of twatwaffle cronies who were happy to make up whatever bad science the administration wanted to make that happen. And the pharmaceutical companies had absolutely no reason not to do everything in their power to suppress the natural drugs that worked so much better than the shit they were peddling. And not satisfied just to have the USA stick its head up its ass about the subject for the last 50 years, they went out of their way to export their hairbrained policies to the rest of the world. I hope history judges them harshly for the damage they've done, to generations of African Americans and the public well-being as a whole.
I'm thinking not in my lifetime. For an AI to do what you want, you need to be able to form a coherent thought and you'd need remarkably well-defined requirements. Far better requirements, in fact, than I've ever gotten at any particular job. I suspect that the first requirements-to-code languages will look a lot like COBOL and will require programmers to translate the insane ramblings of upper management types into reasonably well structured language that the computer can work with. Which... is pretty much what I do now.
Not even in a "secure" environment with an air-gap to the internet in a position that required a security clearance.
Some years earlier, though, I had a job doing B2 security auditing at Data General. For those of you who don't remember Data General, they had their own line of high end workstations and their own variant of UNIX. Their thing was making secure versions of UNIX and they wanted a B2 cert for it. So I got to read a good chunk of the original AT&T C standard library, which they'd licensed. We'd look for functions that could have unexpected side effects, write tests to prove side effects were or were not occurring for each function and wrote a little report for each function in the library. Those reports were eventually bundled up and set off to the NSA.
The Ping of Death exploit for windows came out around that time, and it turns out that receiving the ping of death would NOT crash Data General's UNIX, but that originating one would. After we got done with the C library, we started looking at utilities. I got telnetd and found that a buffer that could receive environment variables from the remote side had a hard-coded size and could be exploited for a remote root buffer overflow attack. Couple years later the same exploit was discovered in the Linux telnetd. I'd thought about checking but by then telnetd wasn't enabled by default, and I thought the Linux telnetd source probably was developed somewhere other than AT&T and may not have even had the same bug in it. Oh well, you win some you lose some.
Once you have a few years of experience, they stop asking anymore. I dropped out of school in the '80s to take a programming job. I always thought I'd eventually get sick of the industry and go back to school. I guess after three decades it's silly to keep saying that. I'm frequently asked to weigh in on hiring decisions and personally put more stock in an active github account and a gung-ho attitude than I do some piece of paper. You can still get into the industry without a degree, as long as you can get your resume past HR.
I'm pretty sure if you popped up a dialog that said something to the effect of "Can we have administrator access so we can install a botnet on your computer and steal your identity?" a surprising number of people would reflexively click OK. That'd be an interesting study to do, come to think of it.
Where's the fun in that? I mean, it's the perfect opportunity to create an over-priced federal agency to do that, or justify the budget of an existing one. And set up government servers at social media sites to collect information about all the users and what they're posting. Think there's not a precedent for that? Ever hear of those secret NSA comms closets with all the major telcos? Google it. Anywhoo, so you set up your new federal office, are now listening to all traffic on all the social media networks (Except Google+, because seriously, who uses that?) and you can leverage that 2002 law forbidding foreign nationals from influencing elections. Which is not unconstitutional because the constitution only applies to USA citizens (That's already been well established in Gitmo cases.) Ohh yeah... Christmas is coming early to the Government this year! Thanks, Russians!
You see, back in the day we didn't really have the internet yet, so all human knowledge was printed on paper and bound into "books." If you wanted a local cache of knowledge or reading entertainment, you would go to a "book store," which I know is a rather antiquated idea. There you would "buy" these "books", and they had no way to prevent you from doing whatever you wanted with them! It all seems terribly quaint now! Anyway if the "book store" were particularly "hip," as the kids said at the time, they might have on hand several choice publications, including Magical Blend, Heavy Metal Magazine, 2600 and Mondo 2000. Mondo 2000 was rather glitzy, but Magical Blend was grittier. There, you might find Timothy Leary speculating about the cleanliness of W Bush's asshole, or Robert Anton Wilson going on about... the federal reserve... or whatever it was he was usually going on about. I was always rather vague on the subject.
It was a more innocent time, back when W seemed like a pretty bad president, and we didn't have to worry about getting measles or whooping cough. Back then you didn't have people hooking up with pokemon in the streets, and if you wanted to call someone you actually had to go find a telephone. But that's why people call them the good ol' days. What's that? Mondo 2000 is coming back? Why, I shall have to fire up the old gyrocopter and find my way to the nearest book store, then, I suppose. I believe there's one in the antique store.
We could have done that years, turns out no one wants it. Everyone would rather text. It's getting to the point where they're dictating a text to siri and having her read it back to them. When you start seeing people do that, it's pretty clear they'll go out of their way to not actually have to talk to some one.
None should, that's not to say they don't. I worked for a company a while back that was dipping its toes into the google web toolkit, which allows you to write your web page's UI in Java and then converts it to Javascript. They ended up doing all their authentication on the client side, so you could just make a web request to the backend and create arbitrary users in any organization in the billing system. That included administrative users. When I reported it, the team writing the code said something to the effect of "You're just making calls to the backend! No one would ever do that!" That attitude is surprisingly prevalent in the industry.
I'm inclined to suspect incompetence over malevolence, though. You know how it is, web site goes down under the load and some dumbass middle manager prone to hysteria freaks out about a "cyberattack." God knows he can barely even operate the office coffee maker without third degree burns. Wait, we're still talking about the FCC, right?
Sure it was an error. They implemented ads in their keyboard and they had a switch to turn it on. So exactly what was the error? Switching it on at that point in time? Not realizing that their users would give two shits? Being out-innovated at every turn by Samsung? You think anyone involved in the decision process of "Hey let's put ads in the keyboard!" got fired? I guess their error was that they decided to be a bunch of underhanded twats and then lying about it when they got called out. Fortunately I won't be making the error of ever buying their hardware in the future, so I suppose it's an error in my favor.
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You can actually get a respectable number of games with Steam on Linux now, too. Many more than back in the Loki games days (Anyone remember them?) I still miss Tribes 2, though.
The thermals are terrible. FTFY. I had a brief fling with Mac Pro desktops from 2005 - 2009ish. First one happily cooked its "good" video card twice before I ended up downgrading it to the "bad" one. Admittedly I stupidly tried to push 3D with it. If I'd stuck to 2D applications, it would have been OK, if a bit slow for the time. Both Mac Pro desktops I bought are still in service more than a decade later, though, both running as Linux servers. They installed multiprocessor xeons in those things, and they're still actually pretty fantastic for general purpose computing (Despite Apple's attempts to intentionally cripple the hardware.)
They could probably do an AI that would correctly classify most of them. Those videos are targeting toddlers whose parents are letting an iPad do the babysitting, and currently use very specific keywords. Whip out tensor flow and train it on the video content, combine it with keyword matching and I think you could hit 99% accuracy. If those videos have to start varying their keywords, it'll be a lot harder for their target audience to find them.
Of course China bans Facebook. Do you know how much propaganda is on that thing? You'd have to be an idiot to let all that shit into your country!
My GF refused to install one until I stealthily put Ublock Origin on the living room gaming/vr rig I set up. After a couple of weeks of browsing on that, she was actually angry about how shitty the internet is without an ad blocker.
Yeah, I worked at a company where you just stuck your card into whatever computer you sat down at and it would find your session out on the network and bring it to that computer. You still used a password to unlock the session, though. Without the card, your password was useless. Without your password, the card was useless. They also didn't have the fucktarded password requirements that most companies do, so you could use a passphrase, which can be significantly easier to remember and more secure than the usual corporate password.
That's impossible! The only way they could do that... oh... my... God! Twitter's going to KILL ALL HUMANS!
Unlike traditional automakers, Tesla does not have a union. Yet.
No harmful health effects at all. None. I mean, you will eventually get cancer but LOOK AT THE FUNNY MONKEY!
The best use of this tech would probably not be to steal Subarus but rather to offer low-cost backup fobs. Last time I checked, a replacement fob at the dealer will set you back a couple hundred bucks. I bet you could find a price-point in there where you could sell replacements at a reasonable price and still make bank. You could also offer additional features, like being able to open multiple cars for a two (or more) car family.
A lot of the developers I'm asked to review have github repos now, with open source contributions or their own personal projects. We still talk to them a bit to verify that they actually can do the kind of work that we see in the repos. We also understand that not everyone has a github repo or code they can actually show us, and the interview really doesn't change that much if they don't. We're still going to ask some technical questions as well as try to evaluate whether we think they'll fit in well with the team. Where it might make a difference would be if you have less than about 5 years of experience. If you lack a degree and have no work experience, some interesting open source projects could still get you an interview.
And a well-preserved shotgun shell will let you defend your cans of beans, assuming you have a shotgun to shoot it out of.
Sure, sure, because Nixon wasn't looking for any excuse he could find to crack down on the blacks and the hippies. And there was no shortage of twatwaffle cronies who were happy to make up whatever bad science the administration wanted to make that happen. And the pharmaceutical companies had absolutely no reason not to do everything in their power to suppress the natural drugs that worked so much better than the shit they were peddling. And not satisfied just to have the USA stick its head up its ass about the subject for the last 50 years, they went out of their way to export their hairbrained policies to the rest of the world. I hope history judges them harshly for the damage they've done, to generations of African Americans and the public well-being as a whole.
I'm thinking not in my lifetime. For an AI to do what you want, you need to be able to form a coherent thought and you'd need remarkably well-defined requirements. Far better requirements, in fact, than I've ever gotten at any particular job. I suspect that the first requirements-to-code languages will look a lot like COBOL and will require programmers to translate the insane ramblings of upper management types into reasonably well structured language that the computer can work with. Which... is pretty much what I do now.
Some years earlier, though, I had a job doing B2 security auditing at Data General. For those of you who don't remember Data General, they had their own line of high end workstations and their own variant of UNIX. Their thing was making secure versions of UNIX and they wanted a B2 cert for it. So I got to read a good chunk of the original AT&T C standard library, which they'd licensed. We'd look for functions that could have unexpected side effects, write tests to prove side effects were or were not occurring for each function and wrote a little report for each function in the library. Those reports were eventually bundled up and set off to the NSA.
The Ping of Death exploit for windows came out around that time, and it turns out that receiving the ping of death would NOT crash Data General's UNIX, but that originating one would. After we got done with the C library, we started looking at utilities. I got telnetd and found that a buffer that could receive environment variables from the remote side had a hard-coded size and could be exploited for a remote root buffer overflow attack. Couple years later the same exploit was discovered in the Linux telnetd. I'd thought about checking but by then telnetd wasn't enabled by default, and I thought the Linux telnetd source probably was developed somewhere other than AT&T and may not have even had the same bug in it. Oh well, you win some you lose some.
Sure would suck for him if anyone stole his identity information.
Once you have a few years of experience, they stop asking anymore. I dropped out of school in the '80s to take a programming job. I always thought I'd eventually get sick of the industry and go back to school. I guess after three decades it's silly to keep saying that. I'm frequently asked to weigh in on hiring decisions and personally put more stock in an active github account and a gung-ho attitude than I do some piece of paper. You can still get into the industry without a degree, as long as you can get your resume past HR.
I'm pretty sure if you popped up a dialog that said something to the effect of "Can we have administrator access so we can install a botnet on your computer and steal your identity?" a surprising number of people would reflexively click OK. That'd be an interesting study to do, come to think of it.
Where's the fun in that? I mean, it's the perfect opportunity to create an over-priced federal agency to do that, or justify the budget of an existing one. And set up government servers at social media sites to collect information about all the users and what they're posting. Think there's not a precedent for that? Ever hear of those secret NSA comms closets with all the major telcos? Google it. Anywhoo, so you set up your new federal office, are now listening to all traffic on all the social media networks (Except Google+, because seriously, who uses that?) and you can leverage that 2002 law forbidding foreign nationals from influencing elections. Which is not unconstitutional because the constitution only applies to USA citizens (That's already been well established in Gitmo cases.) Ohh yeah... Christmas is coming early to the Government this year! Thanks, Russians!
t'hell with that man, what about the poor fucker who finds out he's gay when the AI tells him? That poor guy's mind is going to snap!
It was a more innocent time, back when W seemed like a pretty bad president, and we didn't have to worry about getting measles or whooping cough. Back then you didn't have people hooking up with pokemon in the streets, and if you wanted to call someone you actually had to go find a telephone. But that's why people call them the good ol' days. What's that? Mondo 2000 is coming back? Why, I shall have to fire up the old gyrocopter and find my way to the nearest book store, then, I suppose. I believe there's one in the antique store.
We could have done that years, turns out no one wants it. Everyone would rather text. It's getting to the point where they're dictating a text to siri and having her read it back to them. When you start seeing people do that, it's pretty clear they'll go out of their way to not actually have to talk to some one.
None should, that's not to say they don't. I worked for a company a while back that was dipping its toes into the google web toolkit, which allows you to write your web page's UI in Java and then converts it to Javascript. They ended up doing all their authentication on the client side, so you could just make a web request to the backend and create arbitrary users in any organization in the billing system. That included administrative users. When I reported it, the team writing the code said something to the effect of "You're just making calls to the backend! No one would ever do that!" That attitude is surprisingly prevalent in the industry.
I'm inclined to suspect incompetence over malevolence, though. You know how it is, web site goes down under the load and some dumbass middle manager prone to hysteria freaks out about a "cyberattack." God knows he can barely even operate the office coffee maker without third degree burns. Wait, we're still talking about the FCC, right?
Sure it was an error. They implemented ads in their keyboard and they had a switch to turn it on. So exactly what was the error? Switching it on at that point in time? Not realizing that their users would give two shits? Being out-innovated at every turn by Samsung? You think anyone involved in the decision process of "Hey let's put ads in the keyboard!" got fired? I guess their error was that they decided to be a bunch of underhanded twats and then lying about it when they got called out. Fortunately I won't be making the error of ever buying their hardware in the future, so I suppose it's an error in my favor.