Cheers for the explanation! I've just got online after closing Zone Alarm down.
I think one problem is going to be the fact Zone Alarm can't check for updates when it has started, so it's going to be a bit difficult to auto roll a fix out?
I think this is another one of those "let's justify our research and get some more budget" press releases. As most people have pointed out this isn't going to work in the real world, but there will probably be a lot of offshoot technology and advancements which come from it. In fact it wouldn't surprise me if the CCTV idea was an afterthought.
The number of false positives this tech would produce is quite alarming. What if you are walking home talking to a mate about GTA - does that mean the feds are going to be kicking down your door because a camera picked up that you had killed 5 prostitutes and stolen a car?
I was just walking back to the office and I said to my mate "I'm going to kill Alex when I see him", referring to the fact Alex stitched me up at the pub last night. How would the voice recognition construe that?
It's funny you should mention that, the BBC - in particular Radio 1 - always harp on about not having adverts compared to commercial stations, yet they spend probably just as much time self-advertising and time-filling.
If the family don't think it was a suicide, surely the authorities would be brought in to investigate further, or have they already closed the case as a suicide?
As for accessing his online accounts, again probably only the police would be able (if at all) to access that information.
I was about to say a similar thing and noticed your comment. A lot of DJ's now use laptops/ipods meaning they can now use music sourced from anywhere and I guess the record companies are seeing potential revenue streams going down the drain, not to mention the fact that a couple of torrent downloads could provide a DJ with several days worth of digital music for free.
I agree here, though when humans are involved I think it can be difficult to get accurate data and the skill is in asking for information which has the least subjectiveness.
To give an example closer to the topic, I watched Beowulf last night. After watching the film I was left with a feeling that he wasn't the hero I assumed he was (never having known the real story except a vague knowledge he was some sort of kick-ass old English hero).
I spent a while doing some research and discovered that the film is basically nothing like the real story, except for the fact there's a demon, witch and dragon in it. Oh, and the name Beowulf. This really pissed me off as I have a real problem with Hollywood 'interpretations' of historical facts/legends because the general public will assume that they have watched the real thing.
Anyway, I then thought that review sites such as IMDB ought to have extra points given or deducted depending on accuracy to the original story (depending on whether it is based on a story or not), but additional information like that would be very dependant on a) The user knowing the original story or researching it, and b) If they could be bothered to go into so much detail. And even then a user may think they are judging accurately whereas in reality they are simply colouring the results, so it is a very difficult area to tackle.
A few posts have mentioned that companies must be forging headers for their return email address. While technically that may be true, has no-one considered that this is simply stupidity on the part of the admin at the company end and not some desire to offload unwanted mails and bandwidth on someone else?
Maybe they saw another company using the donotreply address and thought "hey, I'll use that too" and the usage propagated throughout the IT (idiot techie) world from a 'monkey see, monkey do' mentality.
If you read the article you would know that sensitive information, including flight plans for the president and military tactics were received. So with that information it may not be such a challenge.
Whatever you do, don't enlist someone who's drunk several cans of lager to help you carry it. My mate did just that and had a 32" Trinitron dropped on his foot moments later. If it wasn't for the concrete floor I think the telly would have continued toward the centre of the earth along with his foot.
I've got a Trinitron portable from sometime in the eighties when I got my Spectrum computer and it still works perfectly to this day. I used to change channels using a pool cue next to my bed as it was before the days of remotes. Eeee them were't days.
I think this is a natural progression for nations with an organised military. Once the basics are down machines can be churned out much quicker than we can train humans and you don't need to be as accurate and quick thinking as a human would be - sheer numbers and a shotgun approach would suffice and so who has the greatest manufacturing capacity would have the advantage.
Looking further into the future I'm sure wars will be fought totally on a technological basis e.g. hacking networks to shut down utilities and enemy soldiers to disable them etc. Maybe even further along wars will be won and lost without loss of human life - "Ok we surrender, we have no food, water or power and our Unisols are pointing their guns at us. You can have our continent."
I may have the wrong sci-fi series but I'm sure I remember a Star Trek episode where wars were fought by computer and afterward the required number of human casualties were euthanised to balance the books? Maybe at that point the geek shall inherit the earth and FPS skills will finally be recognised for what they are:-)
No, what would happen is that the country that could neutralise nuclear radiation or even prevent detonation of nuclear weapons would quite simply be more prepared to use their nuclear weapons knowing that retaliation would be ineffective.
My mate has got one at work, for, erm, 'lunchtime' C64 gaming sessions:-)
For my home computing days (Spectrum) I was always a keyboard man and I still tend to prefer playing with a keyboard if possible when playing emulated games. Console controllers I'm fine with, but I've never felt 100% comfortable using a joystick.
I think the biggest change since the 60's is that back then there seemed to be a well defined set of people and places (spies, diplomats, embassies etc) which would be monitored. Now, with the advent of technology and increased paranoia governments are moving to a situation where everyone is surveilled and intelligence is gathered through mass analysis of the data that is gathered.
I used to go play Crib on 'games' night down my local which was great - lots of old people in flat caps playing dominoes, card games and darts. We generally play pool or darts when out, but usually game variations like Killer so everyone can be involved so I don't think you could call that traditional!
We're lucky in that most pubs over here will have at least a dartboard and a pack of cards behind the bar and there's still plenty of traditional pubs with a full compliment of games if you look hard enough. I was in a pub in Edinburgh a while back which had its own skittle alley inside!
It's funny you should mention Pitch Penny - I've never played the proper pub game but we used to play 'tinks' at school where you throw coins as close to a wall as possible. Whoever gets closest keeps the coins - a great way to make some money for sweets.
Find a quiet local, take down some cards, dominoes and start playing once a week or something. You'll soon attract interest!
Here's the best one for all your local friends to join: The Pub. It's great, you get to talk to each other face to face! I joined this group when I was about 15, and I've enjoyed it ever since. Only real friends join my group and we can buy each other REAL drinks.
If you like you can write on the wall, but I don't think the publican will be too happy.
The title of the article says the mathematician was norminated for a grammy, yet the article itself says the recording was put forward, which sounds more plausible.
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Nah, you didn't sync Slashdot properly.
Cheers for the explanation! I've just got online after closing Zone Alarm down.
I think one problem is going to be the fact Zone Alarm can't check for updates when it has started, so it's going to be a bit difficult to auto roll a fix out?
I think this is another one of those "let's justify our research and get some more budget" press releases. As most people have pointed out this isn't going to work in the real world, but there will probably be a lot of offshoot technology and advancements which come from it. In fact it wouldn't surprise me if the CCTV idea was an afterthought.
The number of false positives this tech would produce is quite alarming. What if you are walking home talking to a mate about GTA - does that mean the feds are going to be kicking down your door because a camera picked up that you had killed 5 prostitutes and stolen a car?
I was just walking back to the office and I said to my mate "I'm going to kill Alex when I see him", referring to the fact Alex stitched me up at the pub last night. How would the voice recognition construe that?
It will also help to find the smattering of good bits in the Star Wars prequels:
Use the face, Luke.
oops i modded you by accident ,so posting to un-moderate.
How about the same crap repackaged on a low budget!
I reckon they should have gone for UT+1 - the same time zone as CERN in Geneva, where Tim Berners-Lee created the web.
It's funny you should mention that, the BBC - in particular Radio 1 - always harp on about not having adverts compared to commercial stations, yet they spend probably just as much time self-advertising and time-filling.
If the family don't think it was a suicide, surely the authorities would be brought in to investigate further, or have they already closed the case as a suicide?
As for accessing his online accounts, again probably only the police would be able (if at all) to access that information.
I was about to say a similar thing and noticed your comment. A lot of DJ's now use laptops/ipods meaning they can now use music sourced from anywhere and I guess the record companies are seeing potential revenue streams going down the drain, not to mention the fact that a couple of torrent downloads could provide a DJ with several days worth of digital music for free.
I agree here, though when humans are involved I think it can be difficult to get accurate data and the skill is in asking for information which has the least subjectiveness.
To give an example closer to the topic, I watched Beowulf last night. After watching the film I was left with a feeling that he wasn't the hero I assumed he was (never having known the real story except a vague knowledge he was some sort of kick-ass old English hero).
I spent a while doing some research and discovered that the film is basically nothing like the real story, except for the fact there's a demon, witch and dragon in it. Oh, and the name Beowulf. This really pissed me off as I have a real problem with Hollywood 'interpretations' of historical facts/legends because the general public will assume that they have watched the real thing.
Anyway, I then thought that review sites such as IMDB ought to have extra points given or deducted depending on accuracy to the original story (depending on whether it is based on a story or not), but additional information like that would be very dependant on a) The user knowing the original story or researching it, and b) If they could be bothered to go into so much detail. And even then a user may think they are judging accurately whereas in reality they are simply colouring the results, so it is a very difficult area to tackle.
A few posts have mentioned that companies must be forging headers for their return email address. While technically that may be true, has no-one considered that this is simply stupidity on the part of the admin at the company end and not some desire to offload unwanted mails and bandwidth on someone else?
Maybe they saw another company using the donotreply address and thought "hey, I'll use that too" and the usage propagated throughout the IT (idiot techie) world from a 'monkey see, monkey do' mentality.
If you read the article you would know that sensitive information, including flight plans for the president and military tactics were received. So with that information it may not be such a challenge.
It's on the mend thanks - he broke one of his metatarsals. I'm never buying Sony again ;-)
Whatever you do, don't enlist someone who's drunk several cans of lager to help you carry it. My mate did just that and had a 32" Trinitron dropped on his foot moments later. If it wasn't for the concrete floor I think the telly would have continued toward the centre of the earth along with his foot.
I've got a Trinitron portable from sometime in the eighties when I got my Spectrum computer and it still works perfectly to this day. I used to change channels using a pool cue next to my bed as it was before the days of remotes. Eeee them were't days.
I think this is a natural progression for nations with an organised military. Once the basics are down machines can be churned out much quicker than we can train humans and you don't need to be as accurate and quick thinking as a human would be - sheer numbers and a shotgun approach would suffice and so who has the greatest manufacturing capacity would have the advantage.
Looking further into the future I'm sure wars will be fought totally on a technological basis e.g. hacking networks to shut down utilities and enemy soldiers to disable them etc. Maybe even further along wars will be won and lost without loss of human life - "Ok we surrender, we have no food, water or power and our Unisols are pointing their guns at us. You can have our continent."
I may have the wrong sci-fi series but I'm sure I remember a Star Trek episode where wars were fought by computer and afterward the required number of human casualties were euthanised to balance the books? Maybe at that point the geek shall inherit the earth and FPS skills will finally be recognised for what they are :-)
aka Richard Reid the poo bomber
No, what would happen is that the country that could neutralise nuclear radiation or even prevent detonation of nuclear weapons would quite simply be more prepared to use their nuclear weapons knowing that retaliation would be ineffective.
They already are by the sounds of it :-)
My mate has got one at work, for, erm, 'lunchtime' C64 gaming sessions :-)
For my home computing days (Spectrum) I was always a keyboard man and I still tend to prefer playing with a keyboard if possible when playing emulated games. Console controllers I'm fine with, but I've never felt 100% comfortable using a joystick.
I think the biggest change since the 60's is that back then there seemed to be a well defined set of people and places (spies, diplomats, embassies etc) which would be monitored. Now, with the advent of technology and increased paranoia governments are moving to a situation where everyone is surveilled and intelligence is gathered through mass analysis of the data that is gathered.
I used to go play Crib on 'games' night down my local which was great - lots of old people in flat caps playing dominoes, card games and darts. We generally play pool or darts when out, but usually game variations like Killer so everyone can be involved so I don't think you could call that traditional!
We're lucky in that most pubs over here will have at least a dartboard and a pack of cards behind the bar and there's still plenty of traditional pubs with a full compliment of games if you look hard enough. I was in a pub in Edinburgh a while back which had its own skittle alley inside!
It's funny you should mention Pitch Penny - I've never played the proper pub game but we used to play 'tinks' at school where you throw coins as close to a wall as possible. Whoever gets closest keeps the coins - a great way to make some money for sweets.
Find a quiet local, take down some cards, dominoes and start playing once a week or something. You'll soon attract interest!
I was trying to make a joke, but did cover myself for a response like yours:
"Here's the best one for all your local friends to join".
Here's the best one for all your local friends to join: The Pub. It's great, you get to talk to each other face to face! I joined this group when I was about 15, and I've enjoyed it ever since. Only real friends join my group and we can buy each other REAL drinks.
If you like you can write on the wall, but I don't think the publican will be too happy.
The title of the article says the mathematician was norminated for a grammy, yet the article itself says the recording was put forward, which sounds more plausible.