...That a grinning ghoul, puppeteering an ill-fitting suit made from the skin of BlackBerry, is suing Twitter.
you know just like Atari or THQ or so many more it hurts.
It's an Australian story
For reference the U.V. Index in Brisbane today was 14.
That's a pasty nerd to ball of blistering skin in about 5 minutes.
Or put another way, according to the World Cancer Research Fund
The United States has a skin cancer rate of 12.7 per 100,000 people.
Australia has a rate of 33.6 per 100,000 people.
It's a little different down there.
The featured article is from Australia.
Australian Sun advice does not conform to the rest of the world, much like most of Australia.
The average UV index for the entire country in the second month of summer (for them January, now) goes from an index of 11 to 14 and is literally off the charts for the North America index of 0 to 11. Nevada and New Mexico average a 10 at the peak of summer. Australian sun is a totally different beast from our pansy northern hemisphere equivalent.
Welcome to the information age, where even talk about the sun in the sky requires context.
Okay but this is working on the depreciated linar no threshold model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The happy fact is that DNA does repair itself and the time you spend in the sun at age 8 likely is not going to contribute to the transcription errors that will cause the cancer that kills you at age 97.
I don't know the layout of Australian malls and carparks but if it is anything like here in the states no it really isn't going to add up.
On closer inspection maybe it does add up (just for them) that being since Australia has no cloud cover and a gaping hole in the ozone layer leading to an average UV index across the country going from 11 to 14 where the North American index tops out at about an average of 10 in like the Nevada desert and the southern peaks of the Rocky Mountains. Australia is a hell hole with very pretty beaches and not really governed by the same set of rules (such as "you don't need to be afraid of spiders and snakes") as the rest of the world.
HA-HA. You realize, obviously Ha-Ha, that the thin skinned screeching far left are only half the problem and are making a joke by posting a satirical comment, an exaggeration of truthful negative traits to call issue to the lesser actual traits, as if you were a right wing manchild with an ego so fragile calling it glass would conjure up the angry spirits of glass makers from antiquity, Te-He.
Ha-Ha it is as if the satirical reader did not read the excerpt from the featured article where it evenly lays blame both on offenders and offendees, Ha-Hoo.
Ha-Ha see how the satire is augmented by his description of people not tolerating his racist & sexist bullshit as belonging to a much reviled historical group is a brazen defiance of both accuracy and good taste, He-He.
Ha-Ha oh it is to laugh it's as if everyone just FORGOT that hostile nations have actually been documented, with complete paper trails, attempting to galvanize extremists on both sides for literal years, forcing a Government deadlock EXACTLY like the one we are in AT THIS VERY FUCKING MINUET, oh Ha-Ha my sides hurt.
Whoooo...
That was a good one, it sure is a good thing that will help me sleep well tonight knowing that we are all adults here who function in a civilised society and not a bunch of figurative howling mandrills waving our colorfully engorged buttocks around in text form.
Te-FUCKING-He.
The person in need HAS low end voice, presumably they lost some pliancy in their vocal cords that allowed the high frequency, what he wants to be able to do is amplify what little high range they are able to produce with a device they already have.
Any sort of conductive microphone is only going to make the high frequency problem worse.
First, No Biometrics does not require a target attack. It is still just a string of data taken from the input of a device and generalised attacks are still possible both in the brute force "faked sensor data" and algorithm specific "generic adversarial attack".
Second, if your biometrics are subject to a targeted attack, that is the biometric becomes known beyond the level of detail the sensor uses, you are 100% locked out of using that biometric until the state of the art advances to use more data than your attacker has on you.
Third, As the Police have so vigorously asserted in court you have no expectation of privacy over your biometric data. Now I am no legal expert so I don't know the full length and breadth of the implications of that but I do know that the Police wanted that to mean that unlike a traditional password, that you can refuse to enter under your 5th Amendment right against self incrimination, you can be forced to unlock devices locked with biometrics under penalty of law.
Fourth, as the ability to automate these attacks progresses, and they will inevitably progress, the bar for "really not that special enough" goes lower and lower and lower.
here's a reading of the judges opinion on a request for injunction against DMCA takedown notices https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It is quite apparent that at no point did Stardock believe it had purchased Star Control 1&2 but what they may have thought was that by releasing the Star Control 2 source code as "The Ur-Quan Masters" under GPL that Paul Reiche and Robert Ford had given up any commercial interest and thus the entire game was free to redistribute as they saw fit when in reality the actual graphics, text and audio were all released under Creative Commons Noncommercial Sharealike and the copyrights and trademarks other than the "Star Control" name itself are still held quite tightly by Paul and Robert.
So that puts Nitrates on the same list ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...) as
Vapors from frying
Hot beverages
Earl Grey Tea (Bergapten)
Coffee (Acrylamide)
Red Meat (Which already includes bacon)
Charred Meat (2-Amino-3-methylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoline)
All cooked and smoked meat (N-Nitrosodimethylamine)
and last but not least
Shift work that disrupts the circadian rhythm
Yeah all we need now is wheat and beans and Everything in British and American breakfasts will be cancerous...
On a more serious note:
I would like to reach across all the demographics of Slashdot commenters and try to get a thread going here telling the Admins that we are more critical thinkers than most and really don't appreciate this kind of clickbait alarmist fad science being posted here.
Everyone here knows that applying the linear no threshold model to anything that causes genetic damage is bull shit
You want a statistic bigger than 6600 cases of bowel cancer here's a statistic for you
In the United States alone 10,000 people die a year due to stress and hysteria over Radiation and Nuclear Energy ( https://www.nap.edu/catalog/12... )
Now Imagine how many cases of stomach and bowel cancer are caused by undereducated over read people getting their stomach in knots and their panties in a twist over bullshit overstated cancer headlines.
Right, Left, Others let's all say as one "Shut the fuck up!"
They are called "Moral Rights"
Attribution or non-attribution are Moral Rights protected under the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works to which the United States is a Signatory.
Youtube may have been within their rights to edit and repost the video but in no way were they ever allowed, because importantly they never asked to be allowed, to disassociate it from it's creator.
I don't know, you look pretty dumb to me, parading around with your milled aluminum AR-15 lower receiver and bump stock shouting "FREEDOM!" while defense contractors fill contracts for equipment worth billions per piece.
The entire f-ing point of the well organised militia bit was to keep the public in line with the military, in some meaningful way, to prevent a takeover.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but the ship sailed A LO~ONG time ago on that one, I mean, unless you can 3D print up some tank busting shaped charges and a surface-to-air missile or twelve.
So what do you say, has your gun helped you prevent any onerous taxes on the middle and lower classes or prevented the handing of more privilege to a ruling oligarchy?
It hasn't?!
The people who got your vote because of their stances on gun control and "Big Government" were just as bad as the last batch?!
Well then sit down and shut up until you have something useful to contribute.
Do you know why all the other keys don't have the "COMPLETE USB PLUG" that Nitrokey are so proud of?
Because they are completely encapsulated in plastic, the boot process may be tamper evident but the key isn't (and conspicuously Purism and Nitrokey never make that claim) crack it open slap a rubber ducky in the shell glue it closed and you are screwed.
So is this more scientists arguing about the 2&3 polarizing filter Bell's theorem example?
You know the one where 2 linear filters at 90 block a photon 100% of the time but if you add a third filter in between the two at 45 they all block the photon ~47% of the time?
Like is this a Local Realism thing?
Or is this more of a "what constitutes an observer" question?
For all the searching through her Bio and CV and Personal posts couldn't find any evidence Audrey Watters is a parent.
Which doesn't surprise me considering she thinks preschool franchise chains are a new concept or aren't wide spread already.
That said if any of the upper class actually wanted to actually help make a difference they would just DO it and not make a publicity stunt about announcing the consideration of starting discussions about forming a committee to pick a team to asses the idea of starting a preschool.
I will not speak of Amazon's data policies but the ALA to a man, woman, or other will SLAM their fist down upon the drive wipe button if someone comes in thinking their warrant means something. This isn't just a threat, many did as soon as "The Patriot Act" was even being considered. http://www.ala.org/aboutala/go...
I can do basic math, 2033 is 15 years. Why does that matter? Anyone who has read "Scientific" news for any length of time knows when you need to pick a bullshit arbitrary time frame people pick 10 to 15 years, it's that wonderful convergence near enough to get immediate funding but far enough that it's actually impossible to prove it won't happen.
If you are smart enough to root your phone then I would hope you are smart enough to not hand the Police your unlocked phone because obviously they are going to need to plug the phone in to verify information and obviously you don't have an expectation of privacy at that point so
it doesn't matter if you've consented to a search of the phone and every account linked to it...
Why do you think NOBODY has gone on to implement this after considering it? Even politicians know that letting an algorithm go through the phone they use to look at gay bank porn and manage their offshore twink accounts is a bad idea.
So every foul in a PUG of basketball BOOM! Jail.
False start in a sprint? BOOM! Jail.
Offsides in Soccer? BOOM! Jail.
pass interference in football? Boom! Jail.
Think about real life sports, you break a rule in the game you get punished in the game, break too many you get kicked out, that's it beyond that anything that has ever happened is in the context of employment or racketeering.
Have you ever watched "Yugioh Abridged"? The main running gag is that the central plot element of this universe, the thing upon which empires and souls are wagered, is "a children's card game".
Try that in this situation, replace all nouns and pronouns referring to "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" with "a children's videogame"
[Tencent and a children's video game developer Bluehole have a lot riding on cleaning a children's video game up for China, which accounted for more than half of a children's video game's 27 million users, according to online tracker Steam Spy. It's also the biggest source of cheat software, undermining a children's video game that shattered gaming records in 2017 and surpassed best-sellers like a different children's video game. The proliferation of shenanigans threatens to drive away first-time users vital to a children's video game's longer-term growth.]
I gently disagree, while there are no doubt bad Actors out there in the end the Director is the one to blame for a bad performance by a good actor.
A good film is made by throwing away >90% of the recorded footage, that's like practically the heart and soul of procedural generation.
To come back to a point you made that I think undercuts your argument, Andy Serkis's Gollum was an entirely digital character, aside from voice. Andy Serkis and various animators input digital data to computers to make Gollum. Digital Data is digital data, it makes no difference what your input device is, a tablet, a keyboard, a mouse, or a mocap rig, in the end you COULD still make the same data from any of them.
It is currently EASIER to get convincing natural seeming movement from motion capture systems but in the end those put out digital data, there is no je ne sais quoi because for the entire performance you do, in fact, je précisément sais quoi.
No animators don't act but neither do movie actors, not in the way you think they do at least, they are both directed.
The uncanny valley effect is probably due mostly to the massive amount of digital editing in photos today. That would go both towards tainting the data set making more blemish free smooth faces and the normalisation of those computer doctored photos in our minds. If we were less used to looking at, essentially, computer generated faces and the neural net was trying to reproduce something that wasn't, essentially, a computer generated face then the difference would be more apparent
Yes and some people just want to not be contemplating suicide 24/7.
I've been on SSRI's for most of their commercial existence, I NEED them, I've seen the other side some nitwits had my father doped up so high that he nearly died of serotonin poisoning.
Yes, too much serotonin causes an "everything is fine" lethargy, I've been there, but if the starting dose causes that it means you have a normal brain chemistry and were sad because things sucked.
I know this is unpopular but the private prison system is actually kinda collapsing at the moment due to a lack of prisoners as "War On Drugs" era minimum sentence laws are repealed.
Sometimes, just sometimes, things start looking up for this country.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
On a side note I think I may have handled one of your calls, defiantly handled a few with missing $50 cards.
I was a contractor in modem support nothing I could do but forward to the Tier agents with mandated minimal communication (though that rule has since changed). Let me tell you those Tier agents are not the best and brightest out there but generally speaking anything beyond basic account operations required an esoteric form hidden somewhere in a maze of "Interactive Troubleshooting Guides", my guess is that after giving up they probably just chucked the card request in the comments and flagged the ticket for further review, rinse repeat until somebody who knows what's going on gets served your call and there you go.
Slashdot Mirror
...That a grinning ghoul, puppeteering an ill-fitting suit made from the skin of BlackBerry, is suing Twitter.
you know just like Atari or THQ or so many more it hurts.
It's an Australian story
For reference the U.V. Index in Brisbane today was 14.
That's a pasty nerd to ball of blistering skin in about 5 minutes.
Or put another way, according to the World Cancer Research Fund
The United States has a skin cancer rate of 12.7 per 100,000 people.
Australia has a rate of 33.6 per 100,000 people.
It's a little different down there.
The featured article is from Australia.
Australian Sun advice does not conform to the rest of the world, much like most of Australia.
The average UV index for the entire country in the second month of summer (for them January, now) goes from an index of 11 to 14 and is literally off the charts for the North America index of 0 to 11. Nevada and New Mexico average a 10 at the peak of summer. Australian sun is a totally different beast from our pansy northern hemisphere equivalent.
Welcome to the information age, where even talk about the sun in the sky requires context.
Okay but this is working on the depreciated linar no threshold model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The happy fact is that DNA does repair itself and the time you spend in the sun at age 8 likely is not going to contribute to the transcription errors that will cause the cancer that kills you at age 97.
I don't know the layout of Australian malls and carparks but if it is anything like here in the states no it really isn't going to add up. On closer inspection maybe it does add up (just for them) that being since Australia has no cloud cover and a gaping hole in the ozone layer leading to an average UV index across the country going from 11 to 14 where the North American index tops out at about an average of 10 in like the Nevada desert and the southern peaks of the Rocky Mountains. Australia is a hell hole with very pretty beaches and not really governed by the same set of rules (such as "you don't need to be afraid of spiders and snakes") as the rest of the world.
HA-HA. You realize, obviously Ha-Ha, that the thin skinned screeching far left are only half the problem and are making a joke by posting a satirical comment, an exaggeration of truthful negative traits to call issue to the lesser actual traits, as if you were a right wing manchild with an ego so fragile calling it glass would conjure up the angry spirits of glass makers from antiquity, Te-He.
Ha-Ha it is as if the satirical reader did not read the excerpt from the featured article where it evenly lays blame both on offenders and offendees, Ha-Hoo.
Ha-Ha see how the satire is augmented by his description of people not tolerating his racist & sexist bullshit as belonging to a much reviled historical group is a brazen defiance of both accuracy and good taste, He-He.
Ha-Ha oh it is to laugh it's as if everyone just FORGOT that hostile nations have actually been documented, with complete paper trails, attempting to galvanize extremists on both sides for literal years, forcing a Government deadlock EXACTLY like the one we are in AT THIS VERY FUCKING MINUET, oh Ha-Ha my sides hurt.
Whoooo...
That was a good one, it sure is a good thing that will help me sleep well tonight knowing that we are all adults here who function in a civilised society and not a bunch of figurative howling mandrills waving our colorfully engorged buttocks around in text form.
Te-FUCKING-He.
VLC for Android has a 10 band EQ and the ability to playback audio not from the built in mic or headset jack but from a USB audio source
The person in need HAS low end voice, presumably they lost some pliancy in their vocal cords that allowed the high frequency, what he wants to be able to do is amplify what little high range they are able to produce with a device they already have.
Any sort of conductive microphone is only going to make the high frequency problem worse.
First, No Biometrics does not require a target attack. It is still just a string of data taken from the input of a device and generalised attacks are still possible both in the brute force "faked sensor data" and algorithm specific "generic adversarial attack".
Second, if your biometrics are subject to a targeted attack, that is the biometric becomes known beyond the level of detail the sensor uses, you are 100% locked out of using that biometric until the state of the art advances to use more data than your attacker has on you.
Third, As the Police have so vigorously asserted in court you have no expectation of privacy over your biometric data. Now I am no legal expert so I don't know the full length and breadth of the implications of that but I do know that the Police wanted that to mean that unlike a traditional password, that you can refuse to enter under your 5th Amendment right against self incrimination, you can be forced to unlock devices locked with biometrics under penalty of law.
Fourth, as the ability to automate these attacks progresses, and they will inevitably progress, the bar for "really not that special enough" goes lower and lower and lower.
here's a reading of the judges opinion on a request for injunction against DMCA takedown notices https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
It is quite apparent that at no point did Stardock believe it had purchased Star Control 1&2 but what they may have thought was that by releasing the Star Control 2 source code as "The Ur-Quan Masters" under GPL that Paul Reiche and Robert Ford had given up any commercial interest and thus the entire game was free to redistribute as they saw fit when in reality the actual graphics, text and audio were all released under Creative Commons Noncommercial Sharealike and the copyrights and trademarks other than the "Star Control" name itself are still held quite tightly by Paul and Robert.
So that puts Nitrates on the same list ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...) as Vapors from frying
Hot beverages
Earl Grey Tea (Bergapten)
Coffee (Acrylamide)
Red Meat (Which already includes bacon)
Charred Meat (2-Amino-3-methylimidazo[4,5-f]quinoline)
All cooked and smoked meat (N-Nitrosodimethylamine)
and last but not least
Shift work that disrupts the circadian rhythm
Yeah all we need now is wheat and beans and Everything in British and American breakfasts will be cancerous...
On a more serious note:
I would like to reach across all the demographics of Slashdot commenters and try to get a thread going here telling the Admins that we are more critical thinkers than most and really don't appreciate this kind of clickbait alarmist fad science being posted here.
Everyone here knows that applying the linear no threshold model to anything that causes genetic damage is bull shit
You want a statistic bigger than 6600 cases of bowel cancer here's a statistic for you
In the United States alone 10,000 people die a year due to stress and hysteria over Radiation and Nuclear Energy ( https://www.nap.edu/catalog/12... )
Now Imagine how many cases of stomach and bowel cancer are caused by undereducated over read people getting their stomach in knots and their panties in a twist over bullshit overstated cancer headlines.
Right, Left, Others let's all say as one "Shut the fuck up!"
They are called "Moral Rights" Attribution or non-attribution are Moral Rights protected under the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works to which the United States is a Signatory.
Youtube may have been within their rights to edit and repost the video but in no way were they ever allowed, because importantly they never asked to be allowed, to disassociate it from it's creator.
I don't know, you look pretty dumb to me, parading around with your milled aluminum AR-15 lower receiver and bump stock shouting "FREEDOM!" while defense contractors fill contracts for equipment worth billions per piece.
The entire f-ing point of the well organised militia bit was to keep the public in line with the military, in some meaningful way, to prevent a takeover.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but the ship sailed A LO~ONG time ago on that one, I mean, unless you can 3D print up some tank busting shaped charges and a surface-to-air missile or twelve.
So what do you say, has your gun helped you prevent any onerous taxes on the middle and lower classes or prevented the handing of more privilege to a ruling oligarchy?
It hasn't?!
The people who got your vote because of their stances on gun control and "Big Government" were just as bad as the last batch?!
Well then sit down and shut up until you have something useful to contribute.
Do you know why all the other keys don't have the "COMPLETE USB PLUG" that Nitrokey are so proud of? Because they are completely encapsulated in plastic, the boot process may be tamper evident but the key isn't (and conspicuously Purism and Nitrokey never make that claim) crack it open slap a rubber ducky in the shell glue it closed and you are screwed.
So is this more scientists arguing about the 2&3 polarizing filter Bell's theorem example?
You know the one where 2 linear filters at 90 block a photon 100% of the time but if you add a third filter in between the two at 45 they all block the photon ~47% of the time?
Like is this a Local Realism thing?
Or is this more of a "what constitutes an observer" question?
For all the searching through her Bio and CV and Personal posts couldn't find any evidence Audrey Watters is a parent.
Which doesn't surprise me considering she thinks preschool franchise chains are a new concept or aren't wide spread already.
That said if any of the upper class actually wanted to actually help make a difference they would just DO it and not make a publicity stunt about announcing the consideration of starting discussions about forming a committee to pick a team to asses the idea of starting a preschool.
I will not speak of Amazon's data policies but the ALA to a man, woman, or other will SLAM their fist down upon the drive wipe button if someone comes in thinking their warrant means something. This isn't just a threat, many did as soon as "The Patriot Act" was even being considered.
http://www.ala.org/aboutala/go...
I can do basic math, 2033 is 15 years. Why does that matter? Anyone who has read "Scientific" news for any length of time knows when you need to pick a bullshit arbitrary time frame people pick 10 to 15 years, it's that wonderful convergence near enough to get immediate funding but far enough that it's actually impossible to prove it won't happen.
If you are smart enough to root your phone then I would hope you are smart enough to not hand the Police your unlocked phone because obviously they are going to need to plug the phone in to verify information and obviously you don't have an expectation of privacy at that point so it doesn't matter if you've consented to a search of the phone and every account linked to it...
Why do you think NOBODY has gone on to implement this after considering it? Even politicians know that letting an algorithm go through the phone they use to look at gay bank porn and manage their offshore twink accounts is a bad idea.
So every foul in a PUG of basketball BOOM! Jail.
False start in a sprint? BOOM! Jail.
Offsides in Soccer? BOOM! Jail.
pass interference in football? Boom! Jail.
Think about real life sports, you break a rule in the game you get punished in the game, break too many you get kicked out, that's it beyond that anything that has ever happened is in the context of employment or racketeering.
Have you ever watched "Yugioh Abridged"? The main running gag is that the central plot element of this universe, the thing upon which empires and souls are wagered, is "a children's card game".
Try that in this situation, replace all nouns and pronouns referring to "PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds" with "a children's videogame"
[Tencent and a children's video game developer Bluehole have a lot riding on cleaning a children's video game up for China, which accounted for more than half of a children's video game's 27 million users, according to online tracker Steam Spy. It's also the biggest source of cheat software, undermining a children's video game that shattered gaming records in 2017 and surpassed best-sellers like a different children's video game. The proliferation of shenanigans threatens to drive away first-time users vital to a children's video game's longer-term growth.]
The WHO are a bunch of dimwits who still think circumcision has benefits and named Robert Mugabe as a goodwill ambassador, I wrote them off years ago.
I gently disagree, while there are no doubt bad Actors out there in the end the Director is the one to blame for a bad performance by a good actor.
A good film is made by throwing away >90% of the recorded footage, that's like practically the heart and soul of procedural generation.
To come back to a point you made that I think undercuts your argument, Andy Serkis's Gollum was an entirely digital character, aside from voice.
Andy Serkis and various animators input digital data to computers to make Gollum.
Digital Data is digital data, it makes no difference what your input device is, a tablet, a keyboard, a mouse, or a mocap rig, in the end you COULD still make the same data from any of them.
It is currently EASIER to get convincing natural seeming movement from motion capture systems but in the end those put out digital data, there is no je ne sais quoi because for the entire performance you do, in fact, je précisément sais quoi.
No animators don't act but neither do movie actors, not in the way you think they do at least, they are both directed.
The uncanny valley effect is probably due mostly to the massive amount of digital editing in photos today.
That would go both towards tainting the data set making more blemish free smooth faces and the normalisation of those computer doctored photos in our minds.
If we were less used to looking at, essentially, computer generated faces and the neural net was trying to reproduce something that wasn't, essentially, a computer generated face then the difference would be more apparent
Yes and some people just want to not be contemplating suicide 24/7.
I've been on SSRI's for most of their commercial existence, I NEED them, I've seen the other side some nitwits had my father doped up so high that he nearly died of serotonin poisoning.
Yes, too much serotonin causes an "everything is fine" lethargy, I've been there, but if the starting dose causes that it means you have a normal brain chemistry and were sad because things sucked.
I know this is unpopular but the private prison system is actually kinda collapsing at the moment due to a lack of prisoners as "War On Drugs" era minimum sentence laws are repealed.
Sometimes, just sometimes, things start looking up for this country.
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
On a side note I think I may have handled one of your calls, defiantly handled a few with missing $50 cards.
I was a contractor in modem support nothing I could do but forward to the Tier agents with mandated minimal communication (though that rule has since changed). Let me tell you those Tier agents are not the best and brightest out there but generally speaking anything beyond basic account operations required an esoteric form hidden somewhere in a maze of "Interactive Troubleshooting Guides", my guess is that after giving up they probably just chucked the card request in the comments and flagged the ticket for further review, rinse repeat until somebody who knows what's going on gets served your call and there you go.