the reason we have these human verification systems is obvious, as small group of people are ruining it for everyone. perhaps if we actually have strict enforcement of catching spammers then we wouldnt need all this annoying bullshit.
right now we are developing stronger armor when what we should be doing is stopping the shooter/spammer.
google's car may be a great driver in nominal driving conditions but as i've posted before, it cant deal with all situations. if your car cant deal with situations a person can, it's not a safer driver, it's a non-driver.
- bad weather (e.g. heavy snow) - construction areas - odd situations
of course if we added electronic assistance to the road itself (special markers/paint for lines) it could solve the first two but it's the unforeseen that is the biggest issue.
That doesn't make any sense. How is it lock-in when it's trivial to switch to another backup solution? How is switching away from Azure Backup more difficult than switching from a 3rd party back up service? TFA talks about how signing up for Azure Backup makes it easier to use other services. DUH. It's like having a Gmail account makes it easy to upload video to Youtube. Doesn't mean that you're getting locked into Gmail.
You can run Linux on Azure. Stop the lame FUD, it only makes you look stupid and uninformed.
you should read TFA yourself before slighting someone. it states that azure is being deeply integrated into microsoft products that dont run on azure itself (e.g. automatic backup). these are features that only work with Azure. now let's say your business becomes dependent on one of these features. you are now locked-in.
one big issue that autonomous cars cant deal with (yet) is weather. seriously, if there is snow on the road (and even if the cameras have clear vision) it has no idea where the road is. fog and rain would also be an issue because of the cameras. humans can compensate for this (most of the time) but there needs to be either pinpoint maps of the road or a large advancement in the software.
however, i look forward to when these are inexpensive and reliable.
1) Do not use Microsoft products 2) Rinse and repeat
Don't tell me it's unavoidable because that's bullshit. There is always a choice, you are just too comfortable and/or inflexible to use an alternative.
if you can make a system like this, you can make billions in the private sector. why would you give it to DARPA for a lousy two million?
if the DoD is going to spend 12 billion a year making a jet that we dont need, why not give two billion to the group that comes up with a solid working solution? i assure you, two billion dollars will get you a hell of a lot of attention from the best people out there, with teams of hundreds of experts. a global challenge would result in a much better chance of success.
A few questions that would be interesting to know the answers to:
- Is the power consumption deficiency the same across all hardware or does it close the gap on certain pieces of hardware? - Is the consumption deficiency gap the same on tablets vs laptops vs PCs? - How much can Windows 8 be tweaked to save battery life (IE: disabled unneeded services)? - Does it manage power of certain pieces of hardware better than others (SSD vs HDD, AMD vs Intel)? - Do drivers make a difference in power consumption? - How many hamsters have heart attacks every time Windows 8 is benchmarked?
- the latter - yes - very little - yes - YES - 5 hamsters.:'(
And if our ability to understand what's going on in the background is so poor, how can we ever trust [Windows] to do what we want it to? (I know the answer for a lot of folks out there is, "we can't".)
no, it's for everyone. windows running slow? you may have malware... running in the background. hell, you might have malware running in the background even if it's fine. you can check the task manager/process monitor all you want but not everything shows up there. nobody can trust windows background processes and if you do, you are either a fool or naive.
We here on/. warned them for years that being non-compliant would lead to problems when they finally give in and move to standards. Like all things they played that advantage as long as they could.
yep. that's pretty much capitalism.
... the day of reckoning has come for IE and MS.... Now most people are using other browsers regardless of what MS does.
this is the dark side of capitalism that big corps dont want to admit exists. though now most corps just sue the hell out of any threat. unfortunately for them, that doesn't work with open source software.
The problem is that it couldn't have come at a worse time for MS when it comes as Win 8 hasn't gotten the reception that they would have hoped.
nah, the problem is that they did nothing to prepare existing products to work with standards compliant browsers. furthermore, they didn't make a guide on how to change old IE only webpages to use standards compliant code. so basically, they made no effort to help others to transition from IE only code to standards complaint code or even transition themselves.
Ten Ways to Make NSA Spying Popular with Americans
posted by REIFMAN OCTOBER 20,2013 in FEATURED, HUMOR
With a more entrepreneurial focus, the NSA could easily counteract the current unpopularity of its surveillance programs and eliminate concerns over the cost of its multi-billion dollar programs.
Here are ten services the NSA could offer to make its spying more popular with Americans and offset the costs of its massive data collection:
1. Make flying easier. Since the NSA knows who the terrorists are, it can generate proceeds from “Not a Terrorist” badges which allow the wearer to bypass security screenings. For an additional fee, it will text you ahead of time if you’re booked in the middle seat between two lumberjacks.
2. Simplifying tax time. Since the NSA knows everything about our finances and credit card transactions, it will file your return with the IRS. Never be audited again.
3. Data recovery. Lose your phone? The NSA will restore your contact list. Hard drive fail? No worries, the NSA will rebuild it from the cloud.
4. Avoid annoying people. The NSA’s new mobile app will help you identify and avoid specific people. Is that chatty coworker in the restroom? Know before you go. Never run into your ex again.
5. Find your teenager. Kid out past curfew? AT&T and Verizon won’t help? Don’t guess. The NSA’s mobile app will pinpoint your teenager on a moment’s notice.
6. Private investigations. Is the guy you’re dating married? Is your spouse having an affair? There’s no need to hire a private investigator. The NSA will monitor the activities of those around you and email you if there’s anything you should know.
7. Improving relationships. Need to playback that conversation with your partner from 3 days ago where they’d agreed to cancel dinner reservations with your mom? No problem, the NSA audio cloud (built in to iOS and Android) will make it easy to retrieve.
8. Unlimited remote access to data. Out of dropbox space? Need a file from home or from your ex-boyfriend’s computer? No problem, the NSA’s cloud file store has it.
9. Access to medical records. Need to lookup an x-ray for your doctor? Want genetic testing reports on your date? The NSA mobile app has that too.
10. Truly secure email services. Using email encryption is hard, a surveillance-free email service would be super popular right now.
If you have more ideas for the NSA, with the hashtag #NSAapps.
before you think it, i'm no MS shill, i use Linux and only Linux. that said, the MSIE team is doing it right this time with IE11.
while many people here are slamming on the basis of standards compliance, there is something you should know: it's broken because they are striving standards compliance.
as we all know, there are plenty of MSIE exclusive ways of doing things in the DOM and render hacks that have had to be done so you end up with code that has "browser detection" to apply browser specific hacks. MSIE is making a clean break from all of that. so all those IE only apps like Outlook Web App will now fail because all the IE specific stuff has been removed. they went so far as to remove "MSIE" from their user agent string to prevent any old code from detecting it as Internet Explorer.
IE10 user agent string: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0) IE11 user agent string: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0; rv 11.0) like Gecko
so while it seems to have growing pains, as far as IE goes, IE11 is a step in the right direction.
some nice differences:
Deprecation of file:// based Proxy configuration scripts Deprecation of document modes Deprecated VBScript in IE11 mode pages navigator.plugins -- now a supported extensibility point <-- ironically chrome is removing this support ActiveX now behaves like a navigator plugin. Silverlight plugin is not installed by default (they got Netflix to support HTML5 via Encrypted Media Extensions aka DRM in the HTML5 spec)
US government attorneys argue that the Supreme Court does not have the jurisdiction to take the case, filed in July by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).
With 3D printing, regulation is being turned into DRM. With quantified self, medicine is going mobile. With Bitcoin, capital control becomes packet filtering. All of these examples, Srinivasan says, are ways in which technology is allowing people to exit current systems like physical product production and distribution; personal health; and finance in favor of spaces of their own creation. "The best part is this, the people who think this is weird, the people who sneer at the frontier, who hate technology, won't follow you there," he said. "We need to run the experiment, to show what a society run by Silicon Valley looks like without affecting anyone who wants to live under the Paper Belt," he added, using the term "paper belt" to refer to the environments currently governed by pre-existing systems like the US government.
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the reason we have these human verification systems is obvious, as small group of people are ruining it for everyone. perhaps if we actually have strict enforcement of catching spammers then we wouldnt need all this annoying bullshit.
right now we are developing stronger armor when what we should be doing is stopping the shooter/spammer.
google's car may be a great driver in nominal driving conditions but as i've posted before, it cant deal with all situations. if your car cant deal with situations a person can, it's not a safer driver, it's a non-driver.
- bad weather (e.g. heavy snow)
- construction areas
- odd situations
dont believe me? how about the lead engineer?
of course if we added electronic assistance to the road itself (special markers/paint for lines) it could solve the first two but it's the unforeseen that is the biggest issue.
if it wasn't [us], it would be someone else
isnt that the exact excuse that China used for selling arms to Darfur?
That doesn't make any sense. How is it lock-in when it's trivial to switch to another backup solution? How is switching away from Azure Backup more difficult than switching from a 3rd party back up service? TFA talks about how signing up for Azure Backup makes it easier to use other services. DUH. It's like having a Gmail account makes it easy to upload video to Youtube. Doesn't mean that you're getting locked into Gmail.
*facepalm*
RTFA already.
people bought goods that were of limited distribution and then resold them for more money.
isnt this just basic supply and demand?
You can run Linux on Azure.
Stop the lame FUD, it only makes you look stupid and uninformed.
you should read TFA yourself before slighting someone. it states that azure is being deeply integrated into microsoft products that dont run on azure itself (e.g. automatic backup). these are features that only work with Azure. now let's say your business becomes dependent on one of these features. you are now locked-in.
one big issue that autonomous cars cant deal with (yet) is weather. seriously, if there is snow on the road (and even if the cameras have clear vision) it has no idea where the road is. fog and rain would also be an issue because of the cameras. humans can compensate for this (most of the time) but there needs to be either pinpoint maps of the road or a large advancement in the software.
however, i look forward to when these are inexpensive and reliable.
you call this competing?!
here's a real competitor!
But then you would be locked to something else.
not if you use open standards.
1) Do not use Microsoft products
2) Rinse and repeat
Don't tell me it's unavoidable because that's bullshit. There is always a choice, you are just too comfortable and/or inflexible to use an alternative.
if you can make a system like this, you can make billions in the private sector. why would you give it to DARPA for a lousy two million?
if the DoD is going to spend 12 billion a year making a jet that we dont need, why not give two billion to the group that comes up with a solid working solution? i assure you, two billion dollars will get you a hell of a lot of attention from the best people out there, with teams of hundreds of experts. a global challenge would result in a much better chance of success.
progress toward making a vaccine is good and all but when will they finnish it. ;)
... then the US has a whole lot of secret admirers.
A few questions that would be interesting to know the answers to:
- Is the power consumption deficiency the same across all hardware or does it close the gap on certain pieces of hardware?
- Is the consumption deficiency gap the same on tablets vs laptops vs PCs?
- How much can Windows 8 be tweaked to save battery life (IE: disabled unneeded services)?
- Does it manage power of certain pieces of hardware better than others (SSD vs HDD, AMD vs Intel)?
- Do drivers make a difference in power consumption?
- How many hamsters have heart attacks every time Windows 8 is benchmarked?
- the latter :'(
- yes
- very little
- yes
- YES
- 5 hamsters.
And if our ability to understand what's going on in the background is so poor, how can we ever trust [Windows] to do what we want it to? (I know the answer for a lot of folks out there is, "we can't".)
no, it's for everyone. windows running slow? you may have malware... running in the background. hell, you might have malware running in the background even if it's fine. you can check the task manager/process monitor all you want but not everything shows up there. nobody can trust windows background processes and if you do, you are either a fool or naive.
We here on /. warned them for years that being non-compliant would lead to problems when they finally give in and move to standards. Like all things they played that advantage as long as they could.
yep. that's pretty much capitalism.
... the day of reckoning has come for IE and MS. ...
Now most people are using other browsers regardless of what MS does.
this is the dark side of capitalism that big corps dont want to admit exists. though now most corps just sue the hell out of any threat. unfortunately for them, that doesn't work with open source software.
The problem is that it couldn't have come at a worse time for MS when it comes as Win 8 hasn't gotten the reception that they would have hoped.
nah, the problem is that they did nothing to prepare existing products to work with standards compliant browsers. furthermore, they didn't make a guide on how to change old IE only webpages to use standards compliant code. so basically, they made no effort to help others to transition from IE only code to standards complaint code or even transition themselves.
it's just a blog post so...
Ten Ways to Make NSA Spying Popular with Americans
posted by REIFMAN OCTOBER 20,2013 in FEATURED, HUMOR
With a more entrepreneurial focus, the NSA could easily counteract the current unpopularity of its surveillance programs and eliminate concerns over the cost of its multi-billion dollar programs.
Here are ten services the NSA could offer to make its spying more popular with Americans and offset the costs of its massive data collection:
1. Make flying easier. Since the NSA knows who the terrorists are, it can generate proceeds from “Not a Terrorist” badges which allow the wearer to bypass security screenings. For an additional fee, it will text you ahead of time if you’re booked in the middle seat between two lumberjacks.
2. Simplifying tax time. Since the NSA knows everything about our finances and credit card transactions, it will file your return with the IRS. Never be audited again.
3. Data recovery. Lose your phone? The NSA will restore your contact list. Hard drive fail? No worries, the NSA will rebuild it from the cloud.
4. Avoid annoying people. The NSA’s new mobile app will help you identify and avoid specific people. Is that chatty coworker in the restroom? Know before you go. Never run into your ex again.
5. Find your teenager. Kid out past curfew? AT&T and Verizon won’t help? Don’t guess. The NSA’s mobile app will pinpoint your teenager on a moment’s notice.
6. Private investigations. Is the guy you’re dating married? Is your spouse having an affair? There’s no need to hire a private investigator. The NSA will monitor the activities of those around you and email you if there’s anything you should know.
7. Improving relationships. Need to playback that conversation with your partner from 3 days ago where they’d agreed to cancel dinner reservations with your mom? No problem, the NSA audio cloud (built in to iOS and Android) will make it easy to retrieve.
8. Unlimited remote access to data. Out of dropbox space? Need a file from home or from your ex-boyfriend’s computer? No problem, the NSA’s cloud file store has it.
9. Access to medical records. Need to lookup an x-ray for your doctor? Want genetic testing reports on your date? The NSA mobile app has that too.
10. Truly secure email services. Using email encryption is hard, a surveillance-free email service would be super popular right now.
If you have more ideas for the NSA, with the hashtag #NSAapps.
who is this Sky character and why is he blocking innocent sites?
oh, virgin... maybe he just needs to get laid.
before you think it, i'm no MS shill, i use Linux and only Linux. that said, the MSIE team is doing it right this time with IE11.
while many people here are slamming on the basis of standards compliance, there is something you should know: it's broken because they are striving standards compliance.
as we all know, there are plenty of MSIE exclusive ways of doing things in the DOM and render hacks that have had to be done so you end up with code that has "browser detection" to apply browser specific hacks. MSIE is making a clean break from all of that. so all those IE only apps like Outlook Web App will now fail because all the IE specific stuff has been removed. they went so far as to remove "MSIE" from their user agent string to prevent any old code from detecting it as Internet Explorer.
IE10 user agent string: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 10.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/6.0)
IE11 user agent string: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Trident/7.0; rv 11.0) like Gecko
so while it seems to have growing pains, as far as IE goes, IE11 is a step in the right direction.
some nice differences:
Deprecation of file:// based Proxy configuration scripts
Deprecation of document modes
Deprecated VBScript in IE11 mode pages
navigator.plugins -- now a supported extensibility point <-- ironically chrome is removing this support
ActiveX now behaves like a navigator plugin.
Silverlight plugin is not installed by default (they got Netflix to support HTML5 via Encrypted Media Extensions aka DRM in the HTML5 spec)
more info:
http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2013/07/02/internet-explorer-11-dont-call-me-ie/
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ieinternals/archive/2013/09/24/internet-explorer-11-changelist-change-log.asp
US government attorneys argue that the Supreme Court does not have the jurisdiction to take the case, filed in July by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC).
i would love to see their response when mexico demands extradition. yes, mexico can extradite people from the US.
i'm pretty sure espionage is a capital crime.
good luck with those opt-in surgeons.
robotic surgeons could do a better job then any human if they would only let us develop the technology!
and what exactly is stopping you?
good luck with those opt-in surgeons.
robotic surgeons could do a better job then any human if they would only let us develop the technology!
With 3D printing, regulation is being turned into DRM. With quantified self, medicine is going mobile. With Bitcoin, capital control becomes packet filtering. All of these examples, Srinivasan says, are ways in which technology is allowing people to exit current systems like physical product production and distribution; personal health; and finance in favor of spaces of their own creation.
"The best part is this, the people who think this is weird, the people who sneer at the frontier, who hate technology, won't follow you there," he said. "We need to run the experiment, to show what a society run by Silicon Valley looks like without affecting anyone who wants to live under the Paper Belt," he added, using the term "paper belt" to refer to the environments currently governed by pre-existing systems like the US government.
good luck with those opt-in surgeons.
just sayin
What weighs 5.5 tons and has less computing power than your watch?
your mom.