Call me a geek if you like, but I really enjoy watching this video of a guy hand-making triode valves (AKA vacuum tubes), it's somehow very therapeutic. Yep, only vaguely on topic, but what the hell, we're talking about vacuum tubes.
In the same way that some successful musicians have tried crowd-funding albums and projects, it's more of a marketing gimmick than a way of funding it per se. You get a whole bunch of people interested in the thing, and mostly committed to buying it, you create buzz as people follow the status of the crowd-funding campaign, and if you're particularly successful with the campaign and blow past your funding target in no time, that creates yet more hype. And in this case it sounds like you need to install their app to take part in the crowdfunding, which may be part of their goal in itself.
The news isn't that facebook is monitoring people's reactions to serve ads, the news is that a police force is warning people to not use the reaction buttons. That is worth of some comment and discussion; whether you approve of behavioural advertising or not, no crime is being committed or prevented here. So why is a police force even getting involved? It seems downright strange to me. Are the Belgian police going to start warning people to avoid other sites and apps that use behavioural advertising? What legal pretext do they have for giving this warning?
Yea, it sounds like total bullshit. Why would the software in the planes be copying a bunch of files off of every phone that is plugged in to recharge, and then writing all those files blindly onto every subsequent phone that was plugged in? That would obviously be utterly insane, but I don't see any other way to read that paragraph, and I find it hard to believe.
Props to him for being a little unsafe, to be honest. I get really fed up of all these shows where they try to give the impression of risk for dramatic effect, while in actual fact they have eliminated pretty much all risk; on mainstream TV, this is pretty much always the case, because lawyers. When Mr Furze does something risky however, it's probably risky for real, and he has the burn scars to prove it. He could tone down the presentation style just a notch IMHO, it gets a bit much for me, but he does cool stuff.
I don't know why you got modded down for that, I guess a lot of slashdotters are iPhone zombies. Or maybe it was the unnecessary anti-USA comment at the end of an otherwise good point. I tend to agree, the people that tend to suffer most in distracted-pedestrian incidents are the people that caused the issue, so why not let natural selection take its course? Over time, we should be able to breed out the people that can't bring themselves to focus when stepping in to traffic, and the human race will be all the better for it. That's what evolution is supposed to do.
They probably did. They could probably have got away with it so long as the kept the amount of wins low enough, they would have guessed that, but having successfully set up the hack, the temptation to take just a little bit more probably got the better of them. Especially with a bunch of people involved, there's always going to be one or two that can't help being greedy idiots.
"Well, if you're the owner of a HoloLens, you soon could do."
You mean if you're the owner of a HoloLens... and a bunch of 3D cameras (looked like about eight in the video)... with hololens tracking systems attached... and whatever rig is required to do the processing on the outputs from those cameras...
So no, if you're the owner of just a HoloLens (even if you could actually buy one yet), you will not be doing this any time soon, not for any definition of "soon" that I recognise.
The signal-to-noise ratio may not be that great, but there's plenty of good content on there. Once you find channels that you like, and subscribe to them, all the noise just passes you by as if it didn't exist.
You implied that you read the wikipedia article; well, it explains the specific weather phenomenon that is to be used to reach above 90k feet.
"Standing waves normally do not extend above the tropopause at temperate latitudes. A strong west wind usually decreases above the tropopause, which has been shown to cap or prevent the upward propagation of standing mountain waves. However, at the outer boundary of the polar vortex, in winter, the stratospheric polar night jet exists. Its wind field can join with the wind field of the polar jet stream. The result is a wind which increases with altitude through the tropopause and upward to 100,000 feet or above. When this conjunction of winds occurs over a barrier mountain, standing mountain waves will propagate through that entire altitude range."
And once that altitude is reached, presumably if the standing mountain wave can get you up to that altitude, it can also keep you up there, if you can ride it. Again, from the wiki page;
"A sailplane can maneuver precisely at very high altitudes to traverse or remain relatively stationary in a desired portion of the wave structure, as the structure is determined in flight."
Would you like a shovel, so you can keep digging? Nobody is saying that there aren't plenty of computers that are on 24/7. The point that the OP made, which you seem determined to miss, was that those machines that are not on 24/7, would benefit from being so. It's a really simple point, and I can't really restate it using smaller words than that. We're all aware of the existence of smartphones, and servers; they just aren't relevant to the thread.
At least you're marginally more relevant talking about servers than you were with you smartphones comment. However the OP said "The average person and their drives would benefit more from just turning the computer off at night or when they leave home". I've highlighted the words that should give you a little clue that we're not talking about servers here.
Thanks for the new word, I had not come across "revanchist" before. For anyone else who has to look up a definition:
Revanchism (from French: revanche, "revenge") is the political manifestation of the will to reverse territorial losses incurred by a country, often following a war or social movement - wikipedia.
You don't need to use the solar cells directly, you charge up your batteries from your solar panels, or from cheap off-peak grid power, and you then need an inverter so you can run all your AC appliances from the batteries. The basic Tesla Powerwall model is 3.3kW, so that should give you a pretty strong hint of at least one application.
No. A vulnerability is a specific flaw that could be exploited. There's no specific flaw here, the article is merely saying that if flaws are found in WinRT PDF, the could be exploited through Edge. And by the way, it also goes on to explain why that would be particularly hard. Really no story here.
Yeah, one single awesome game could sell me on one of these VR platforms, but hundreds of mediocre games won't. Unfortunately nothing on that list immediately strikes me as being likely to be that one awesome game.
It's not just a tracking device; it appears that it was only used to track the targets in this instance, but that doesn't mean that that's all it can do. Have a look at this page on the Rheinmetall HEL systems; these are definitely weapons. A 10kW system isn't covered there, but there is a 5kW system;
In the 5kW laser category, the M113 Mobile HEL Effector Track V demonstrated its operational potential for disposing of unexploded ordnance and clearing battlefield obstacles. Without having to exit the vehicle’s protected fighting compartment, the crew detected mines and improvised explosive devices, irradiating them with the laser from a safe distance, which caused them to deflagrate in a matter of seconds. Afterwards the laser weapon successfully cleared a barbed wire obstacle at a distance of approximately 70 metres.
So there's no way you need a 10kW for tracking; anything far enough away that you need a 10kW laser to track it would be way out of range of your guns. 10kW should be good for taking out UAVs etc, the kind of targets TFA says it was tracking during this test.
And what's the difference between a laser and a laser effector?
I was wondering this myself. I can't immediately find a definition of the term, but it seems to be common parlance in defence circles. I would guess that it is used to differentiate laser weapons from lasers used for targeting etc, a laser effector being one that "has an effect" on the target, beyond simply illuminating it. But I could be wrong.
The ads play on big screens on the sides of the kiosk, as far as I can discern, you wouldn't even see them while making a call. They're just digital billboard space for passing pedestrians.
From TFA: He said that virtually no human profession is totally immune: “Are you going to bet against sex robots? I would not.”
TFA is saying robots could put 50% of the worlds population, potentially including sex workers, out of a job. The headline is a bit forced, but by modern slashdot standards, not that bad.
I don't think it's just "random timers from a video camera"; The officials then utilized the digital stopwatch embedded within the video overlay in the instant replay system [...] sounds pretty much like a timer that is there for the exact purpose they used it for, i.e. for fraction-of-a-second situations where eyeballing the game clock may not be accurate enough.
Even us Brits have trouble with this sometimes. Scotland is a country, just not an independent one, it's part of a larger entity, the United Kingdom; that bit is clear. But our government is called the "British Government" even though it governs the whole United Kingdom, not just the island of Great Britain. Likewise our army is the "British Army" even though it includes the Royal Irish Regiment, and Northern Ireland is not part of Great Britain. So "British" as an adjective seems to mean "of the United Kingdom", rather than "of Britain". It's probably correct in at least some senses to describe the airspace above Scotland as Scottish, British or UK.
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Call me a geek if you like, but I really enjoy watching this video of a guy hand-making triode valves (AKA vacuum tubes), it's somehow very therapeutic. Yep, only vaguely on topic, but what the hell, we're talking about vacuum tubes.
In the same way that some successful musicians have tried crowd-funding albums and projects, it's more of a marketing gimmick than a way of funding it per se. You get a whole bunch of people interested in the thing, and mostly committed to buying it, you create buzz as people follow the status of the crowd-funding campaign, and if you're particularly successful with the campaign and blow past your funding target in no time, that creates yet more hype. And in this case it sounds like you need to install their app to take part in the crowdfunding, which may be part of their goal in itself.
The news isn't that facebook is monitoring people's reactions to serve ads, the news is that a police force is warning people to not use the reaction buttons. That is worth of some comment and discussion; whether you approve of behavioural advertising or not, no crime is being committed or prevented here. So why is a police force even getting involved? It seems downright strange to me. Are the Belgian police going to start warning people to avoid other sites and apps that use behavioural advertising? What legal pretext do they have for giving this warning?
Yea, it sounds like total bullshit. Why would the software in the planes be copying a bunch of files off of every phone that is plugged in to recharge, and then writing all those files blindly onto every subsequent phone that was plugged in? That would obviously be utterly insane, but I don't see any other way to read that paragraph, and I find it hard to believe.
Props to him for being a little unsafe, to be honest. I get really fed up of all these shows where they try to give the impression of risk for dramatic effect, while in actual fact they have eliminated pretty much all risk; on mainstream TV, this is pretty much always the case, because lawyers. When Mr Furze does something risky however, it's probably risky for real, and he has the burn scars to prove it. He could tone down the presentation style just a notch IMHO, it gets a bit much for me, but he does cool stuff.
I don't know why you got modded down for that, I guess a lot of slashdotters are iPhone zombies. Or maybe it was the unnecessary anti-USA comment at the end of an otherwise good point. I tend to agree, the people that tend to suffer most in distracted-pedestrian incidents are the people that caused the issue, so why not let natural selection take its course? Over time, we should be able to breed out the people that can't bring themselves to focus when stepping in to traffic, and the human race will be all the better for it. That's what evolution is supposed to do.
They probably did. They could probably have got away with it so long as the kept the amount of wins low enough, they would have guessed that, but having successfully set up the hack, the temptation to take just a little bit more probably got the better of them. Especially with a bunch of people involved, there's always going to be one or two that can't help being greedy idiots.
"Well, if you're the owner of a HoloLens, you soon could do."
You mean if you're the owner of a HoloLens ... and a bunch of 3D cameras (looked like about eight in the video) ... with hololens tracking systems attached ... and whatever rig is required to do the processing on the outputs from those cameras ...
So no, if you're the owner of just a HoloLens (even if you could actually buy one yet), you will not be doing this any time soon, not for any definition of "soon" that I recognise.
The signal-to-noise ratio may not be that great, but there's plenty of good content on there. Once you find channels that you like, and subscribe to them, all the noise just passes you by as if it didn't exist.
You implied that you read the wikipedia article; well, it explains the specific weather phenomenon that is to be used to reach above 90k feet.
"Standing waves normally do not extend above the tropopause at temperate latitudes. A strong west wind usually decreases above the tropopause, which has been shown to cap or prevent the upward propagation of standing mountain waves. However, at the outer boundary of the polar vortex, in winter, the stratospheric polar night jet exists. Its wind field can join with the wind field of the polar jet stream. The result is a wind which increases with altitude through the tropopause and upward to 100,000 feet or above. When this conjunction of winds occurs over a barrier mountain, standing mountain waves will propagate through that entire altitude range."
And once that altitude is reached, presumably if the standing mountain wave can get you up to that altitude, it can also keep you up there, if you can ride it. Again, from the wiki page;
"A sailplane can maneuver precisely at very high altitudes to traverse or remain relatively stationary in a desired portion of the wave structure, as the structure is determined in flight."
Would you like a shovel, so you can keep digging? Nobody is saying that there aren't plenty of computers that are on 24/7. The point that the OP made, which you seem determined to miss, was that those machines that are not on 24/7, would benefit from being so. It's a really simple point, and I can't really restate it using smaller words than that. We're all aware of the existence of smartphones, and servers; they just aren't relevant to the thread.
At least you're marginally more relevant talking about servers than you were with you smartphones comment. However the OP said "The average person and their drives would benefit more from just turning the computer off at night or when they leave home". I've highlighted the words that should give you a little clue that we're not talking about servers here.
Yeah, and that has a huge effect on the hard drives in those smartphones ... oh, wait.
Thanks for the new word, I had not come across "revanchist" before. For anyone else who has to look up a definition:
Revanchism (from French: revanche, "revenge") is the political manifestation of the will to reverse territorial losses incurred by a country, often following a war or social movement - wikipedia.
You don't need to use the solar cells directly, you charge up your batteries from your solar panels, or from cheap off-peak grid power, and you then need an inverter so you can run all your AC appliances from the batteries. The basic Tesla Powerwall model is 3.3kW, so that should give you a pretty strong hint of at least one application.
It spies on you? So the Chinese can do the core features of Windows 10 in a $17 smartwatch? And you wonder why America is being left behind.
No. A vulnerability is a specific flaw that could be exploited. There's no specific flaw here, the article is merely saying that if flaws are found in WinRT PDF, the could be exploited through Edge. And by the way, it also goes on to explain why that would be particularly hard. Really no story here.
Nope, read TFA. They produce film for later Polaroid cameras, not the peel-apart film that Fuji is discontinuing.
Yeah, one single awesome game could sell me on one of these VR platforms, but hundreds of mediocre games won't. Unfortunately nothing on that list immediately strikes me as being likely to be that one awesome game.
It's not just a tracking device; it appears that it was only used to track the targets in this instance, but that doesn't mean that that's all it can do. Have a look at this page on the Rheinmetall HEL systems; these are definitely weapons. A 10kW system isn't covered there, but there is a 5kW system;
In the 5kW laser category, the M113 Mobile HEL Effector Track V demonstrated its operational potential for disposing of unexploded ordnance and clearing battlefield obstacles. Without having to exit the vehicle’s protected fighting compartment, the crew detected mines and improvised explosive devices, irradiating them with the laser from a safe distance, which caused them to deflagrate in a matter of seconds. Afterwards the laser weapon successfully cleared a barbed wire obstacle at a distance of approximately 70 metres.
So there's no way you need a 10kW for tracking; anything far enough away that you need a 10kW laser to track it would be way out of range of your guns. 10kW should be good for taking out UAVs etc, the kind of targets TFA says it was tracking during this test.
And what's the difference between a laser and a laser effector?
I was wondering this myself. I can't immediately find a definition of the term, but it seems to be common parlance in defence circles. I would guess that it is used to differentiate laser weapons from lasers used for targeting etc, a laser effector being one that "has an effect" on the target, beyond simply illuminating it. But I could be wrong.
The ads play on big screens on the sides of the kiosk, as far as I can discern, you wouldn't even see them while making a call. They're just digital billboard space for passing pedestrians.
From TFA: He said that virtually no human profession is totally immune: “Are you going to bet against sex robots? I would not.”
TFA is saying robots could put 50% of the worlds population, potentially including sex workers, out of a job. The headline is a bit forced, but by modern slashdot standards, not that bad.
I don't think it's just "random timers from a video camera"; The officials then utilized the digital stopwatch embedded within the video overlay in the instant replay system [...] sounds pretty much like a timer that is there for the exact purpose they used it for, i.e. for fraction-of-a-second situations where eyeballing the game clock may not be accurate enough.
Even us Brits have trouble with this sometimes. Scotland is a country, just not an independent one, it's part of a larger entity, the United Kingdom; that bit is clear. But our government is called the "British Government" even though it governs the whole United Kingdom, not just the island of Great Britain. Likewise our army is the "British Army" even though it includes the Royal Irish Regiment, and Northern Ireland is not part of Great Britain. So "British" as an adjective seems to mean "of the United Kingdom", rather than "of Britain". It's probably correct in at least some senses to describe the airspace above Scotland as Scottish, British or UK.