I guess dealing with third world country's jail system has changed his mind quite quickly
"I have been back to America many times since I have been in Belize. I have no interest of going this month or next but... I can come and go freely to America any time I want."
Who leaves their business secrets in the open. Especially laptops, they get lost stolen, or as the article says people examining it. Really you can use a truecrypt container and hide it somewhere.
As far as i know, encryption doesn't prevent a keylogger or a trojan,planted on your computer, from stealing your data/passwords/whatever is on your screen, or even worse, gaining access to your company's computers through yours when you go back to the states..
Life timeline on earth (in millions of years ago):
Earth formation - 4,600;
First life (simple cells) - 3,600;
Dinosaurs ~ 300;
Humans ~ 2.5;
If we use that for comparison, and best case scenario of Vega having something very similar to earth, it is highly unlikely that it can host even the most basic of life forms..
All three antivirus checkers lose 3 points in just three months?
also, "Yes, Windows Defender is enabled automatically when no other antivirus is present, but its technology comes from the Microsoft products that failed the recent tests. Don't rely on it. Install a better antivirus right away." sounds like an ad by one of its competitors
The main reason I use MSE is that it does an adequate job and unlike every one of the competitors free or otherwise, installing it isn't worse than getting infected with Malware. Last time I used either AVG or Avast it was like infecting my PC on purpose. I'll pass up some protection against zero days(which is spotty at best anyway) in exchange for not installing crap.
agreed,
although my reason for using MSE is that it never finds anything and never bugs me with stupid popups telling me how it found a super deadly trojan , about once every few days, reminding me of its absolute importance.
Sounds like a really bad idea to try to control a 5000lb car with your mind that can barely stay focused on one thing for more than 5 seconds
It would be a lot easier to just input the destination and have your car take you there autonomously! But thats just waay too far fetched
=)
I have been working on optical gyroscopes for the last three years, they are nothing new, and they are already being widely used in satellites , missiles, drones and etc, the idea has been around for a long time, what this horrible article is referring to is newly funded research to enhance their sensitivity and accuracy. Currently, they have to use up to 8 (depending on accuracy needed) gyroscopes per missile/satellite to get enough resolution. Hopefully this research will yield cheaper and more accurate systems.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre_optic_gyroscope
thanks, that makes sense. I didn't realize error correction was so ridiculously inefficient. According to your description, you would get a speed up from just sending copies of each packet just in case one of them gets lost.. at a certain amount of redundancy you will get 0% of packets lost and even though you are sending perhaps 4 times as much data, it is still way faster than having to go back and figure out which packets got lost and request them again..
I've only read the abstract of the article and this is probably a stupid question but as i understand it, this algorithm is designed to efficiently recover lost packets in the transmission, so when the article claims that "MIT found that campus WiFi (2% packet loss) jumped from 1Mbps to 16Mbps" shouldn't the increase in speed be only 2% and not 16x?
no i understand what the intended use of watermarking is.. but if you really think about how mp3s spread you'll see that by the time they catch a stolen/leaked mp3 it will already have gone through like 50 computers that can't be identified since it was shared through torrent or some p2p program. So yeah, you trace it back to the person who actually paid money for it / leaked it , but just because its the same file doesnt mean that this person is the one who leaked it. Plus people getting advance releases before their official release is not what causing label companies to lose money, its just someone buying a cd thats already out and then sharing it with the rest of the world..
this method doesnt really guarantee finding all the watermarks in case of both of the copies having the same watermark in addition to different ones.
plus i think this watermarking technology wont be very popular since there is really no point in using it.. its not like having a copied watermarked mp3 is illegal and having the original mp3 is not.. the most important info is the artist who produced it and thats easy to tell just by listening to the track, all the other info like who released it and which vendor it went through is not hard to find out from the artist or the label..
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"I have been back to America many times since I have been in Belize. I have no interest of going this month or next but ... I can come and go freely to America any time I want."
cnn article from Dec 8th
For Cherenkov Radioation , doesn't the charged particle have to move through a dialectic medium, not above its surface?
And if a charge moves through the glass faster than light can, it creates a shockwave of light
Who leaves their business secrets in the open. Especially laptops, they get lost stolen, or as the article says people examining it. Really you can use a truecrypt container and hide it somewhere.
As far as i know, encryption doesn't prevent a keylogger or a trojan ,planted on your computer, from stealing your data/passwords/whatever is on your screen, or even worse, gaining access to your company's computers through yours when you go back to the states..
Is there a real problem with the "code word" naming
numbers are meaningless to an average consumer, but everyone can associate with sweets, especially in America
Life timeline on earth (in millions of years ago): Earth formation - 4,600; First life (simple cells) - 3,600; Dinosaurs ~ 300; Humans ~ 2.5; If we use that for comparison, and best case scenario of Vega having something very similar to earth, it is highly unlikely that it can host even the most basic of life forms..
hahaha i was being sarcastic
All three antivirus checkers lose 3 points in just three months? also, "Yes, Windows Defender is enabled automatically when no other antivirus is present, but its technology comes from the Microsoft products that failed the recent tests. Don't rely on it. Install a better antivirus right away." sounds like an ad by one of its competitors
The main reason I use MSE is that it does an adequate job and unlike every one of the competitors free or otherwise, installing it isn't worse than getting infected with Malware. Last time I used either AVG or Avast it was like infecting my PC on purpose. I'll pass up some protection against zero days(which is spotty at best anyway) in exchange for not installing crap.
agreed, although my reason for using MSE is that it never finds anything and never bugs me with stupid popups telling me how it found a super deadly trojan , about once every few days, reminding me of its absolute importance.
Sounds like a really bad idea to try to control a 5000lb car with your mind that can barely stay focused on one thing for more than 5 seconds It would be a lot easier to just input the destination and have your car take you there autonomously! But thats just waay too far fetched =)
Among other things, China is developing a pretty good sense of humor
I have been working on optical gyroscopes for the last three years, they are nothing new, and they are already being widely used in satellites , missiles, drones and etc, the idea has been around for a long time, what this horrible article is referring to is newly funded research to enhance their sensitivity and accuracy. Currently, they have to use up to 8 (depending on accuracy needed) gyroscopes per missile/satellite to get enough resolution. Hopefully this research will yield cheaper and more accurate systems. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibre_optic_gyroscope
Why not just use one of those self-driving cars?
Because this planet is still mainly inhabited by humans, not robots ;-)
thanks, that makes sense. I didn't realize error correction was so ridiculously inefficient. According to your description, you would get a speed up from just sending copies of each packet just in case one of them gets lost.. at a certain amount of redundancy you will get 0% of packets lost and even though you are sending perhaps 4 times as much data, it is still way faster than having to go back and figure out which packets got lost and request them again..
I've only read the abstract of the article and this is probably a stupid question but as i understand it, this algorithm is designed to efficiently recover lost packets in the transmission, so when the article claims that "MIT found that campus WiFi (2% packet loss) jumped from 1Mbps to 16Mbps" shouldn't the increase in speed be only 2% and not 16x?
is it ..... MERCURY?
no i understand what the intended use of watermarking is.. but if you really think about how mp3s spread you'll see that by the time they catch a stolen/leaked mp3 it will already have gone through like 50 computers that can't be identified since it was shared through torrent or some p2p program. So yeah, you trace it back to the person who actually paid money for it / leaked it , but just because its the same file doesnt mean that this person is the one who leaked it. Plus people getting advance releases before their official release is not what causing label companies to lose money, its just someone buying a cd thats already out and then sharing it with the rest of the world..
this method doesnt really guarantee finding all the watermarks in case of both of the copies having the same watermark in addition to different ones. plus i think this watermarking technology wont be very popular since there is really no point in using it.. its not like having a copied watermarked mp3 is illegal and having the original mp3 is not.. the most important info is the artist who produced it and thats easy to tell just by listening to the track, all the other info like who released it and which vendor it went through is not hard to find out from the artist or the label..
yes i am. i dont take pride in ignorance
Maybe most Mac users are just not computer literate enough to know how to get mp3 files they want from filesharing networks? just a thought...