Most systems have moved to automated patching. You can find Win98 boxes on the internet today, but that doesn't mean an attack you had 10 years ago will work today. It's a small subset, and continually getting smaller.
A popular/. theme was saying how much more secure Linux is to Windows. At one point, Windows was pretty horrible. As it is today, Windows has really gotten a lot of their holes fixed and you rarely see this claim anymore (despite the "defectivebydesign" tags on every Microsoft article).
There are still plenty of holes that exist now, and I know who is programming tools to exploit them for the appropriate TLA. And I'm certain that many tools already exist! But doing this high-profile project is just a PLOY for an ongoing project disguised as a short study.
Over time, systems change. That means after this two-year study and eleventy-million dollars later, it's worth very little a year down the road. In three years, we're virtually guaranteed to have nothing for the efforts, except a statement saying "Oh, we learned a lot, and now need continuing funding. Please give us more money."
Although many holes in software exist for a long time, they are generally patched within a couple months once discovered, usually sooner. And as soon as the military activates one of these holes, it'll be analyzed and patched. That will remove one of their finite resources.
100% control of all platforms and systems is beyond ludicrous. They might as well wish they could read minds, teleport, and find Carmen Sandiego. Or at least Osama.
Try solving some real problems that advance society. Building crap just because selfish rich people are wasteful enough to make you wealthy providing them with useless toys is nothing to be proud of. ... and what did you do today to solve real problems that advance society?
Did you do some aerospace engineering?
Composite design?
Impact resistant deformable bumpers that are aerodynamic?
I can imagine you grunting that same thing to the guy inventing the wheel, instead of sharpening a pointed stick like you think he should be doing.
People are not allowed to "claim offense" (if by this you mean some seek and successfully obtain some legal remedy) by me seeing their faces if I was physically there and they were visible from a public place. So if I'm viewing an image that was taken under same conditions, what's the difference? The difference is that you were there, not someone else. But a bigger issue is when you view something, the image is not only fleeting and unpreserved, but cannot be scrutinized, and is in motion.
If you snap a photo of someone in public and accidently through the a 1/3200 sec exposure catch a 1/100th sec "exposure" of wind blowing up crotch shot, this would be offensive and someone could quite legitimately "claim offense", and lots of it. The fact is that your eye couldn't recognize anything in 1/100th of a second, but your eye viewing a still image recorded during that window CAN.
Aye, and due to the hemi-spherical display, the pixels will be stretched significantly at the edges.
It'd still be good enough to give you plenty of peripheral vision, but you can't turn your head to focus on it... you have to rotate your game character so that you get good resolution from the center.
The pros are kind of cool - you can set your FOV in-game to 180 degrees (which normally gives a fish-eye look) and this projection will get rid of the fish-eye and put it back into normal viewing. This will give you cool peripheral vision and a bigger FOV.
The cons are that it looks like you have to play in the dark, resolution limited to the projector, stretched pixels on the edges (and much darker, unless changed in software).
It looks like an interesting niche for FPS games, but I'd be very surprised if it sold more than 2500 units in a year.
what about those of us who enjoy Guitar Hero, but have ZERO interest in learning how to play a real guitar? It's my strong opinion that playing GH, in your case, will give you a better appreciation and understanding of music and tempo.
I found the video interesting, and the entire concept great. I wasn't too thrilled by the performance, but the idea of the performance is awesome: GH controllers can be used as reasonable instruments (or at least a midi/synth controller of some sort), basically making a proof of concept.
Whether you liked the music or not doesn't matter... if you deny it can be used as an instrument, then you're merely yelling "git off my lawn" like generations of sightless non-musicians have done forever. Might as well yell at the Beatles for daring to use a sitar in their cacophony.
I was honestly surprised by the negative response from/., and have to defend the musicians on this proof of concept. It's nerdy, it's interesting, and/. viewers have gotten jaded from reading fark and digg and are looking for entertainment instead of interesting nerdy things. So, to all you farkers, GIT OFF MY LAWN.
In all seriousness, there has been all sorts of hyperbole which is about as reliable as those urban legend emails you get about the guy that got aids from a doorknob or mouse turds in his coke. Propaganda comes in all forms, whether it's "drugs support terrorism" or "piracy supports terrorism" or whatever. It's all BS.
Calling an organization "terrorist" is like calling someone a Nazi. In fact, Nazism is more offensive to me, but you see that word so watered down, that trying to reveal some reality of the crimes they committed is futile. Both words have lost their meanings, due to abuses by not only/. readers, but our government using the "terrorist" label as an excuse to commit its own crimes. No wonder it carries no more impact than, say, calling something "mauve".
You certainly need to tell someone they are being recorded if you are taping a phone conversation. Negative. It depends where you are.
It's illegal to do it in california, iirc, but quite legal in new mexico as long as you're one of the participants and not an eavesdropper.
In some areas, it's illegal to record sound but video is okay, and we've seen plenty of examples this past year on/. We've seen a guy get charged with federal wiretapping laws for recording a traffic stop and not being a card-carrying member of the press.
There are wonky laws out there, and anyone, even attorneys, who make blanket universal statements like that are probably wrong unless it's a federal crime. And even then, federal law is very different in the US than, say, the UK.
It's only available on the macbook pro, but that's what the OP would need anyway, because of the screen size.
I remember when my gf (no, really) called me from Apple to ask which screen to get and I insisted on the matte... she apparently had to hassle the "genius" there because she had already picked one out that included a glossy screen.
Beagles, incidentally, are notorious (bred, actually) for running off to hunt something down they find interesting, and then expecting you to catch up. Screw the text message to the phone.... Instead have the thing attached to a shock collar which sounds a tone, then starts zapping the farther from the house it is. You won't even need fences after a while.... and hope that the government doesn't reactivate selective availability!
XM & Sirius asked the justice department for approval over a year ago. Why on earth did it take them so long to approve this? The FCC had to make sure the offer was Sirius.
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1700+ email accounts isn't much, considering the volume of gmail. And then those accounts would have to be able to be linked to something, if one were to try to exploit it.
I'm really surprised it's sub-2000. Goes to show not many people use it.
Since the password of the email account was changed, it couldn't upload any further data either.
The star is 8000 lightyears from earth, not 400M LY. So assuming gamma rays travel at light speed, the star could've exploded a while back, and we'll be figuring it out pretty soon.
The reason why it's unlikely is that the state of the star, as we see it now (8000 years ago), doesn't appear to be ready to go Real Soon Now.
If the star was 400 million light years away, the gamma ray burst seems unlikely to do anything but make an orbiting sensor wake up and go "huh?"
We're talking about a 7yo here. I admit after posting, I thought "oh wait, kids love secrets", but this is fundamentally different. You can see it by the OP's comment, "My parents would probably be able to guess non-abstract passwords." The kids clearly are trying to avoid parental involvement, yet the parents are fully responsible for the children.
Because the parents carry that responsibility, this has nothing to do with privacy. The children's privacy is, unfortunately, a privilege and not a right until the parents are no longer fully accountable for everything having to do with safety and effects of the child's actions. Once they're a bit older (teens) and have better judgement (arguably:-), of course they should be allowed to be their own person. A sense of privacy and ownership is important for social development. However, making sure they aren't kidnapped, or the house robbed because a 7yo told a stranger when her parents are gone is also pretty important.
I believe in children having privacy for their own sake of sanity, but you have forgotten this is a 7yo we're talking about. They do not, and cannot, have all the same rights of privacy when the parents are still fully responsible for their actions and protection. Once they demonstrate they are using good judgement, you let them start making their own decisions.
All those flops in the past have been traditionally used by modelling codes for nuclear explosions and impacts (e.g. firing a tank shell at 3" steel). Simulations are done because of the treaty against above-ground nuclear explosions the US signed long ago. They generally gather experimental data by using high explosives and other physics experiments to use to determine constants. For instance, they might get data for shooting 3" armor, but then want to know if 4" armor will stop the shell... That's a great job for a simulation.
Exaflops computers would also be used for other codes Sandia is currently working on, having to do with Homeland Security, which is one of their bigger customers for this particular application.
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Most systems have moved to automated patching. You can find Win98 boxes on the internet today, but that doesn't mean an attack you had 10 years ago will work today. It's a small subset, and continually getting smaller.
/. theme was saying how much more secure Linux is to Windows. At one point, Windows was pretty horrible. As it is today, Windows has really gotten a lot of their holes fixed and you rarely see this claim anymore (despite the "defectivebydesign" tags on every Microsoft article).
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There are still plenty of holes that exist now, and I know who is programming tools to exploit them for the appropriate TLA. And I'm certain that many tools already exist! But doing this high-profile project is just a PLOY for an ongoing project disguised as a short study.
... is a taxpayer money sink.
Over time, systems change. That means after this two-year study and eleventy-million dollars later, it's worth very little a year down the road. In three years, we're virtually guaranteed to have nothing for the efforts, except a statement saying "Oh, we learned a lot, and now need continuing funding. Please give us more money."
Although many holes in software exist for a long time, they are generally patched within a couple months once discovered, usually sooner. And as soon as the military activates one of these holes, it'll be analyzed and patched. That will remove one of their finite resources.
100% control of all platforms and systems is beyond ludicrous. They might as well wish they could read minds, teleport, and find Carmen Sandiego. Or at least Osama.
You could park 4 to 6 of these in the same hangar space as one small airplane. You don't even need to be driving it much.
Flying commuters generally already have their vehicles set up at both ends. This could save them a bundle in hangar space, though.
Did you do some aerospace engineering?
Composite design?
Impact resistant deformable bumpers that are aerodynamic?
I can imagine you grunting that same thing to the guy inventing the wheel, instead of sharpening a pointed stick like you think he should be doing.
If you snap a photo of someone in public and accidently through the a 1/3200 sec exposure catch a 1/100th sec "exposure" of wind blowing up crotch shot, this would be offensive and someone could quite legitimately "claim offense", and lots of it. The fact is that your eye couldn't recognize anything in 1/100th of a second, but your eye viewing a still image recorded during that window CAN.
Aye, and due to the hemi-spherical display, the pixels will be stretched significantly at the edges.
... you have to rotate your game character so that you get good resolution from the center.
It'd still be good enough to give you plenty of peripheral vision, but you can't turn your head to focus on it
The pros are kind of cool - you can set your FOV in-game to 180 degrees (which normally gives a fish-eye look) and this projection will get rid of the fish-eye and put it back into normal viewing. This will give you cool peripheral vision and a bigger FOV.
The cons are that it looks like you have to play in the dark, resolution limited to the projector, stretched pixels on the edges (and much darker, unless changed in software).
It looks like an interesting niche for FPS games, but I'd be very surprised if it sold more than 2500 units in a year.
They increase his score almost, but not entirely, exactly unlike a +1.
I found the video interesting, and the entire concept great. I wasn't too thrilled by the performance, but the idea of the performance is awesome: GH controllers can be used as reasonable instruments (or at least a midi/synth controller of some sort), basically making a proof of concept.
Whether you liked the music or not doesn't matter... if you deny it can be used as an instrument, then you're merely yelling "git off my lawn" like generations of sightless non-musicians have done forever. Might as well yell at the Beatles for daring to use a sitar in their cacophony.
I was honestly surprised by the negative response from
I'm scared shitless to buy CDs because of them!
/. readers, but our government using the "terrorist" label as an excuse to commit its own crimes. No wonder it carries no more impact than, say, calling something "mauve".
In all seriousness, there has been all sorts of hyperbole which is about as reliable as those urban legend emails you get about the guy that got aids from a doorknob or mouse turds in his coke. Propaganda comes in all forms, whether it's "drugs support terrorism" or "piracy supports terrorism" or whatever. It's all BS.
Calling an organization "terrorist" is like calling someone a Nazi. In fact, Nazism is more offensive to me, but you see that word so watered down, that trying to reveal some reality of the crimes they committed is futile. Both words have lost their meanings, due to abuses by not only
It's illegal to do it in california, iirc, but quite legal in new mexico as long as you're one of the participants and not an eavesdropper.
In some areas, it's illegal to record sound but video is okay, and we've seen plenty of examples this past year on
There are wonky laws out there, and anyone, even attorneys, who make blanket universal statements like that are probably wrong unless it's a federal crime. And even then, federal law is very different in the US than, say, the UK.
... at the Usenix leet conference covered by slashdot.
Go look through the articles... some of them rock. The technical knowledge of these guys, how they dismantled storm, etc is amazing.
Are you saying ATT won't have Pogo Stick?
That is exactly what I came here to post. Here's a link to the specs.
It's only available on the macbook pro, but that's what the OP would need anyway, because of the screen size.
I remember when my gf (no, really) called me from Apple to ask which screen to get and I insisted on the matte... she apparently had to hassle the "genius" there because she had already picked one out that included a glossy screen.
Instead have the thing attached to a shock collar which sounds a tone, then starts zapping the farther from the house it is. You won't even need fences after a while.
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1700+ email accounts isn't much, considering the volume of gmail. And then those accounts would have to be able to be linked to something, if one were to try to exploit it.
I'm really surprised it's sub-2000. Goes to show not many people use it.
Since the password of the email account was changed, it couldn't upload any further data either.
Uhm, no.
The star is 8000 lightyears from earth, not 400M LY. So assuming gamma rays travel at light speed, the star could've exploded a while back, and we'll be figuring it out pretty soon.
The reason why it's unlikely is that the state of the star, as we see it now (8000 years ago), doesn't appear to be ready to go Real Soon Now.
If the star was 400 million light years away, the gamma ray burst seems unlikely to do anything but make an orbiting sensor wake up and go "huh?"
Right.
They're called Rockstars.
We're talking about a 7yo here. I admit after posting, I thought "oh wait, kids love secrets", but this is fundamentally different. You can see it by the OP's comment, "My parents would probably be able to guess non-abstract passwords." The kids clearly are trying to avoid parental involvement, yet the parents are fully responsible for the children.
:-), of course they should be allowed to be their own person. A sense of privacy and ownership is important for social development. However, making sure they aren't kidnapped, or the house robbed because a 7yo told a stranger when her parents are gone is also pretty important.
Because the parents carry that responsibility, this has nothing to do with privacy. The children's privacy is, unfortunately, a privilege and not a right until the parents are no longer fully accountable for everything having to do with safety and effects of the child's actions. Once they're a bit older (teens) and have better judgement (arguably
I believe in children having privacy for their own sake of sanity, but you have forgotten this is a 7yo we're talking about. They do not, and cannot, have all the same rights of privacy when the parents are still fully responsible for their actions and protection. Once they demonstrate they are using good judgement, you let them start making their own decisions.
All those flops in the past have been traditionally used by modelling codes for nuclear explosions and impacts (e.g. firing a tank shell at 3" steel). Simulations are done because of the treaty against above-ground nuclear explosions the US signed long ago. They generally gather experimental data by using high explosives and other physics experiments to use to determine constants. For instance, they might get data for shooting 3" armor, but then want to know if 4" armor will stop the shell... That's a great job for a simulation.
Exaflops computers would also be used for other codes Sandia is currently working on, having to do with Homeland Security, which is one of their bigger customers for this particular application.