Isn't that what they use on the sun!? I don't want that sort of thing in my backyard! what if the reaction gets out of control and it annihilates the entire solar system!? What are we going to do with all of the nucular waste?
Folks, can we pretty please think of another name for this stuff? 50 years worth of misinformation is, I fear, holding us back. People here the word "nuclear" and immediately start shitting their pants with fear.
I vote we call it "Hydrogen Energy". After all, hydrogen is 2/3 of the ingredients in water!
Can we stop with this completely illogical fear-mongering? Hacked robots? Are you people insane?
When you say "robot", people think of the sort of mindless, strangely powerful, totally mystical automotons found in sci fi movies and television shows. People think cylons and centurions, not a couple of servos and some sensors.
Are hacked robots dangerous? No. Or at least they are no more dangerous in the "hacked" form than their unhacked form. My advice is to not build robots with energy-weapons for arms.
If the "robot" that builds your car gets "hacked" (and by this I mean the PC that has some hydraulics connected to it gets somehow "hacked"), unplug it.
You can deal with this a number of easy ways depending on how you have deployed squid + dansguardian.
In the first scenario, assume that you have blocked outbound traffic on port 80 from you LAN. In this case, the proxy is likely configured via a Group Policy Object (GPO) from within windows active directory. If you look at the connection settings in your web browser of choice, you will see the proxy has been "manually" configured.
In this situation (if the boss just needs porn access), simply add a line to your iptables or pf.conf allowing the boss's machine to reach out on port 80.
The other scenario is "transparent" proxying...that is: using iptables (or pf) to port-forward outbound traffic to the proxying/filtering machine. This is transparent to the user and does not require a GPO to configure.
If this is your setup, the solution is very similar. Add a line to your pf.conf forwarding your boss's traffic to the "real" gateway, not the squid machine.
It's viral marketing. They know that nobody is going to have one of these idiotic "launch parties".
They've intentionally made the worst ad they could (while still making it somehow realistic enough for people to buy it) in order to get people to talk about windows 7.
I did not know when the launch-date for this was. This ad has been posted on all of the major tech-news blogs. Now I do. Mission accomplished.
That being said, I would so use this. Can I get a comfortable computer chair version too, so I can get a beer easily (and one of those japanese beer serving machines please)
This is the stupidest thing I have ever seen. Does this thing come with a manual on "Beer Caching Protocol" (BCP)? Because it looks EXTREMELY high latency.
The "machine learning engine" is a "datacenter" (warehouse) full of cheap African laborers who are all watching the cameras.
(this is a joke, it just isn't funny, and it is meant to illustrate a point. See the next line): God/nature/FSM/evolution/al gore/$deity has done a pretty damn good job at building our brains, why are we trying to reinvent that wheel in a computer?
Pity the poor admins - having to actually [shudder] do what their boss wants rather than having the boss catering to their whims and biases.
Part of being the admin is having a more integral understanding of what your boss wants than she does. If you ARE just doing exactly as the boss thinks she wants, then your job is likely either obsolete, or your are a reset-button-specialist, not an admin.
This is happening because your "admin" is an inexperienced idiot. He is refusing the upgrade because he is afraid that it is going to make him look foolish when he doesn't "know" the new system.
This doesn't solve your problem, but at least now you know what is going on.
This is not the same as what the article is addressing. What TFA is talking about is when admins know more about the topic at hand than their bosses, but their bosses power-trip their way into failure.
on the outside of the border to set up a can-amplified wlan router (of course still strongly encrypted), so I can do the same on the inside
There was some guy on IRC talking about this right after the election.
I'm sorry, but this just isn't even remotely feasible. With 2.4ghz equipment, you're not going to get very far unless you have an absurdly (mult-watt) link on both ends as well as some very nice antennas. Microwave works...but the problem is that you would need people "on the inside" who already had the microwave equipment. They do not. Pointing a pringles can at your neighbor's wifi, dropping into rfmon and sniffing for WEP keys is one thing; carrying on a two way communication with consumer-level hardware on one and, and hacked together toys on the other, over miles and miles of land when the local government wants to stop you...that is something entirely different.
The other way that you could do it, with cheaper, more off-the-shelf hardware, would be to go 900mhz. The problem there is that nobody in Iran HAS the required 900mhz gear.
If you could get the CIA to air drop a bunch of comms kits onto Tehran, then wireless comms becomes a possibility, until then...no.
Perhaps cognitive bias since I have been reading a lot about it lately, but I firmly believe neuroscience will be the next great technological frontier.
I expect near-direct neural interfaces within my lifetime (no, I'm not joking), I expect fully-robotic limb replacement with sensory feedback within my lifetime, I expect the ability to do full reality-replacement (a la the matrix) within my lifetime.
Am I optimistic? Maybe, but these things, I believe, are nearly within the our grasp even with current technology. If you didn't see it, there was a demonstration did some years ago where some neuroscientists connected a motor control and a wall-sensor to a rat brain and the brain "learned" how to control it.
This was, likely, the stone age of what we're going to see, but it is still *extremely* exciting to see that kind of research, and this kind of research happening.
My prediction is that you're going to see what can only be described as "biological computers" very, very soon (I hope). While this has lots of scary ethical implications, I think it is the natural progression of the field. Brains are really, really friggin' cool devices. They are not likely something that we are going to be able to replicate with our current approach to computing. Things like the blue-brain project are really cool, but the applications of it are slim to none. A blue-brain type of computer is certainly not something that I can put in my lawn-mower so that it knows not to mow over my landscaping rocks. A simple, lab-grown brain is.
Does this not make any sense? I was caving all day yesterday and got about zero sleep. I am also very dehydrated right now.
And what third world country do you live in to get "network busy" at any time except during a disaster?
I live in Phoenix and this happens every time you go to a sporting event or other large gathering of people. Granted, South Phoenix is pretty close to third world.
As I understand it, Google is trying to help you keep getting those royalty checks...
A lot of these books that they're scanning are out of print, and sitting in the basements of libraries gathering dust. Google has come in and saved them from the recycling bin. They aren't getting copyright on the book, they're getting distribution rights to the scan of the book.
I seriously do not understand who an Author could *not* like this? If anything, this is going to help your book get into the hands of more people.
Do you have some sort of romantic attachment to dead-trees or something?
A lot of "web two point oh" people seem to love these sorts of silly names. For some reason, Apple does too...
It's very frustrating as a non-mac-cultist to see things like "Snow Leopard", or "Grand Central Dispatch" and have no clue what it means. Version numbers guys, use them!
Did you RTFA? I'm sorry, but this doesn't even look like a real gun. If you see this thing, and think it is an actual weapon, much less an AK-47, then congrats, you're a retard. Your padded helmet should arrive in the mail shortly.
All this means is that the same techniques that HTPC users currently use for satellite will need to be used for cable as well.
You clip an IR transmitter to the front of your cable-box, and it changes the channels for you. The analog out on the cable box goes into the mythbox, and the mythbox goes out to the TV.
This is a pain in the ass, but not THAT much of a pain in the ass.
As an admin, the idea of paper mail frightens me...
"let me get this straight...you're going to take this piece of paper, write where you want it to go, then place it in a box and you think it's going to get there because there is some guy that will probably come around, take the paper from the box, then take it to another box where you're also pretty sure the person you wanted to read your paper will get it? Are you fucking joking? Do you get a return receipt? How do you know if there was a failure? WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!?"
The fact that paper mail is looked at as a reliable means of contacting somebody is frightening to me.
Doesn't twitter already support this? My girlfriend and I went to the grand canyon around a year ago...I remember her taking her iPhone out and showing me how there were also a bunch of other people there twittering. It came up with a map containing their userpic, and their tweet...
Was I hallucinating this? Is my girlfriend secretly a twitter developer!?
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Isn't that what they use on the sun!? I don't want that sort of thing in my backyard! what if the reaction gets out of control and it annihilates the entire solar system!? What are we going to do with all of the nucular waste?
Folks, can we pretty please think of another name for this stuff? 50 years worth of misinformation is, I fear, holding us back. People here the word "nuclear" and immediately start shitting their pants with fear.
I vote we call it "Hydrogen Energy". After all, hydrogen is 2/3 of the ingredients in water!
Except for FAA approval, there isn't much stopping our police state to use them.
We already do use them to patrol the border.
That doesn't mean it isn't impossible. Claiming that it is is misinformation.
Linux would not have crashed from a mere userspace program ;)
I have a forkbomb that disagrees with you.
As opposed to those real encyclopedias that were written by FSM himself.
This should be helpful
(It is a bunch of photos of the device.
Also, you can order it now.
Can we stop with this completely illogical fear-mongering? Hacked robots? Are you people insane?
When you say "robot", people think of the sort of mindless, strangely powerful, totally mystical automotons found in sci fi movies and television shows. People think cylons and centurions, not a couple of servos and some sensors.
Are hacked robots dangerous? No. Or at least they are no more dangerous in the "hacked" form than their unhacked form. My advice is to not build robots with energy-weapons for arms.
If the "robot" that builds your car gets "hacked" (and by this I mean the PC that has some hydraulics connected to it gets somehow "hacked"), unplug it.
Done.
Has the ubiquity of Apple really gotten this bad?
It is "itnews", or "ITnews", not "iTnews".
You can deal with this a number of easy ways depending on how you have deployed squid + dansguardian.
In the first scenario, assume that you have blocked outbound traffic on port 80 from you LAN. In this case, the proxy is likely configured via a Group Policy Object (GPO) from within windows active directory. If you look at the connection settings in your web browser of choice, you will see the proxy has been "manually" configured.
In this situation (if the boss just needs porn access), simply add a line to your iptables or pf.conf allowing the boss's machine to reach out on port 80.
The other scenario is "transparent" proxying...that is: using iptables (or pf) to port-forward outbound traffic to the proxying/filtering machine. This is transparent to the user and does not require a GPO to configure.
If this is your setup, the solution is very similar. Add a line to your pf.conf forwarding your boss's traffic to the "real" gateway, not the squid machine.
It's viral marketing. They know that nobody is going to have one of these idiotic "launch parties".
They've intentionally made the worst ad they could (while still making it somehow realistic enough for people to buy it) in order to get people to talk about windows 7.
I did not know when the launch-date for this was. This ad has been posted on all of the major tech-news blogs. Now I do. Mission accomplished.
That being said, I would so use this. Can I get a comfortable computer chair version too, so I can get a beer easily (and one of those japanese beer serving machines please)
This is the stupidest thing I have ever seen. Does this thing come with a manual on "Beer Caching Protocol" (BCP)? Because it looks EXTREMELY high latency.
The "machine learning engine" is a "datacenter" (warehouse) full of cheap African laborers who are all watching the cameras.
(this is a joke, it just isn't funny, and it is meant to illustrate a point. See the next line):
God/nature/FSM/evolution/al gore/$deity has done a pretty damn good job at building our brains, why are we trying to reinvent that wheel in a computer?
Am I the only one that reads things like this as:
"Check out this great new way to heat our oceans using our datacenters!".
You guys realize that the energy doesn't just disappear, right?
Pity the poor admins - having to actually [shudder] do what their boss wants rather than having the boss catering to their whims and biases.
Part of being the admin is having a more integral understanding of what your boss wants than she does.
If you ARE just doing exactly as the boss thinks she wants, then your job is likely either obsolete, or your are a reset-button-specialist, not an admin.
This is happening because your "admin" is an inexperienced idiot. He is refusing the upgrade because he is afraid that it is going to make him look foolish when he doesn't "know" the new system.
This doesn't solve your problem, but at least now you know what is going on.
This is not the same as what the article is addressing. What TFA is talking about is when admins know more about the topic at hand than their bosses, but their bosses power-trip their way into failure.
on the outside of the border to set up a can-amplified wlan router (of course still strongly encrypted), so I can do the same on the inside
There was some guy on IRC talking about this right after the election.
I'm sorry, but this just isn't even remotely feasible. With 2.4ghz equipment, you're not going to get very far unless you have an absurdly (mult-watt) link on both ends as well as some very nice antennas.
Microwave works...but the problem is that you would need people "on the inside" who already had the microwave equipment. They do not. Pointing a pringles can at your neighbor's wifi, dropping into rfmon and sniffing for WEP keys is one thing; carrying on a two way communication with consumer-level hardware on one and, and hacked together toys on the other, over miles and miles of land when the local government wants to stop you...that is something entirely different.
The other way that you could do it, with cheaper, more off-the-shelf hardware, would be to go 900mhz.
The problem there is that nobody in Iran HAS the required 900mhz gear.
If you could get the CIA to air drop a bunch of comms kits onto Tehran, then wireless comms becomes a possibility, until then...no.
Perhaps cognitive bias since I have been reading a lot about it lately, but I firmly believe neuroscience will be the next great technological frontier.
I expect near-direct neural interfaces within my lifetime (no, I'm not joking), I expect fully-robotic limb replacement with sensory feedback within my lifetime, I expect the ability to do full reality-replacement (a la the matrix) within my lifetime.
Am I optimistic? Maybe, but these things, I believe, are nearly within the our grasp even with current technology. If you didn't see it, there was a demonstration did some years ago where some neuroscientists connected a motor control and a wall-sensor to a rat brain and the brain "learned" how to control it.
This was, likely, the stone age of what we're going to see, but it is still *extremely* exciting to see that kind of research, and this kind of research happening.
My prediction is that you're going to see what can only be described as "biological computers" very, very soon (I hope). While this has lots of scary ethical implications, I think it is the natural progression of the field. Brains are really, really friggin' cool devices. They are not likely something that we are going to be able to replicate with our current approach to computing. Things like the blue-brain project are really cool, but the applications of it are slim to none. A blue-brain type of computer is certainly not something that I can put in my lawn-mower so that it knows not to mow over my landscaping rocks. A simple, lab-grown brain is.
Does this not make any sense? I was caving all day yesterday and got about zero sleep. I am also very dehydrated right now.
Please disregard this message.
That's awesome, man. Good on him for doing his job, and good on you for making sure that management knows it.
I think that, all too often, people who don't work in tech don't understand how much work there can be in tech.
And what third world country do you live in to get "network busy" at any time except during a disaster?
I live in Phoenix and this happens every time you go to a sporting event or other large gathering of people. Granted, South Phoenix is pretty close to third world.
As I understand it, Google is trying to help you keep getting those royalty checks...
A lot of these books that they're scanning are out of print, and sitting in the basements of libraries gathering dust. Google has come in and saved them from the recycling bin. They aren't getting copyright on the book, they're getting distribution rights to the scan of the book.
I seriously do not understand who an Author could *not* like this? If anything, this is going to help your book get into the hands of more people.
Do you have some sort of romantic attachment to dead-trees or something?
I came here to say exactly this.
A lot of "web two point oh" people seem to love these sorts of silly names. For some reason, Apple does too...
It's very frustrating as a non-mac-cultist to see things like "Snow Leopard", or "Grand Central Dispatch" and have no clue what it means. Version numbers guys, use them!
Did you RTFA?
I'm sorry, but this doesn't even look like a real gun.
If you see this thing, and think it is an actual weapon, much less an AK-47, then congrats, you're a retard.
Your padded helmet should arrive in the mail shortly.
All this means is that the same techniques that HTPC users currently use for satellite will need to be used for cable as well.
You clip an IR transmitter to the front of your cable-box, and it changes the channels for you. The analog out on the cable box goes into the mythbox, and the mythbox goes out to the TV.
This is a pain in the ass, but not THAT much of a pain in the ass.
Obviously you're kidding, but...
As an admin, the idea of paper mail frightens me...
"let me get this straight...you're going to take this piece of paper, write where you want it to go, then place it in a box and you think it's going to get there because there is some guy that will probably come around, take the paper from the box, then take it to another box where you're also pretty sure the person you wanted to read your paper will get it? Are you fucking joking? Do you get a return receipt? How do you know if there was a failure? WTF ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!?"
The fact that paper mail is looked at as a reliable means of contacting somebody is frightening to me.
Doesn't twitter already support this? My girlfriend and I went to the grand canyon around a year ago...I remember her taking her iPhone out and showing me how there were also a bunch of other people there twittering. It came up with a map containing their userpic, and their tweet...
Was I hallucinating this? Is my girlfriend secretly a twitter developer!?