I (no sarcasm) love Steam, and didn't expect a large-scale intrusion like this, but after the fun and games around the PSN intrusions, I removed my CC details from my Steam account.
It was so easy to buy games with a couple of clicks, and I do miss that, but I must admit a little smugness now over my decision...
I just hope Paypal is on top of their security, because by design they're more heavily linked into people's finance.
The first link actually doesn't have any information at all. Just a nice picture of an iPhone.
I saw the same thing, checked what noscript was blocking and there were scripts from around 20 different domains. So it's either a pure advertisement troll, or an advertisement troll with a snippet of information buried somewhere in horrible web design. I'm not willing to dig around and find out.
I often read the internet using Lynx through a slow SSH connection, fits the e-ink display model well (it'd use the display better for walls of text), but many sites won't work, javascript won't work, frames won't work (other text browsers like Links apparently do a better job there). Even slashdot doesn't work well with Lynx any more (login doesn't work on my system so you can't use preferences to fix it), which sucks because it reminds you how difficult it is for physically disabled people to get around things we take for granted.
That may be the case, but it is what it is. You don't have nVidia commissioning games that only work on their hardware, or to use a car analogy, you don't have manufacturers coming up with their own weird basic control UIs, and that's generally a good thing for the end users.
What I can't get my head around is the concept of modifying the system by observing it (or just plain modifying the input to a predictive system). So if you correctly identify area X as a potential hotspot, and send police there, it's a success if you prevent crime. But then that spot becomes less of a hotspot so you may send the police to other areas. Do you then just lapse into a cycle of entering and leaving an area as crime increases and decreases?
I think the problem is that to have a slick, user-friendly UI that doesn't get in your way with latency caused by inadequate performance, you need enough performance that doing thick-client stuff is trivial, and there's no reason not to include it.
I think if you used the SSD to hold a fairly large cache of applications, you could practically work "in the cloud" a bit like distributed RCSes (eg. git) do, and re-sync everything when the laptop can connect. You can still have backgrounded automatic update of the cached apps, and you can manage the cache completely automatically (or allow more power to users to "pin" data and apps to the cache). I haven't used ChromeOS before, but if it's on its way to working like that (TFA suggests it isn't there yet), it would be workable for some use cases.
I'd also like to see some open-source web apps rise to fame, I'm sure most companies deploying these things would be happy to contract with Google, but for government work or running a small company that competes with Google, I'd prefer to recompile the OS to point at a privately-managed cloud (which would probably be as simple as a couple of clustered web servers and maybe a DR site)
This is why the comment by the CEO is being referred to as stupid, since saying something like this can only lead to more patent trolls and nothing positive for the company.
Unless the REAL strategy is to patent-troll-troll, whereby the most profitable strategy is to attract trolls, get sued by them, then win and counter-sue for damages:)
If there's areas on a computing device that you can't really improve, and you still want people to plod along the upgrade path, just bump the numbers - like in the ca. 2000 "Mhz wars".
Please allow me to rephrase: What happens when DCP LLC and the major publishers of non-free motion pictures sue the makers of HDFury and/or have ICE seize shipments at the border?
HDFury goes down, and a million chinese knockoffs rise up. If the *AAs are effective at controlling imports of those, then everyone gets to watch US media except those in the US. Maybe that's enough for them to say they've won, but by doing that they'd just be continuing down a financial spiral to oblivion.
The article says it's basically a module that absorbs light and converts it to heat, but if you had some kind of opto-electronic stuff in there, I guess it might end up being a useful receiver for fibre-optic communications?
Only five years ago man learned to write and use a cart with wheels. Christianity began less than two years ago. The printing press came this year, and then less than two months ago, during this whole 50-year span of human history, the steam engine provided a new source of power.
If you want extremely light, you don't want a prototyping board with big easy board-to-board pin headers. From the very link you posted, Arduino has the Pro and Pro Mini, which is powered from 3.3V (ie. button cells), and is as minimal a board as you can get without designing one yourself.
As for data storage, are you suggesting there's a microcontroller in the same class as the Arduino's Atmel chips that have much more memory? I think you'd be limited to off-MCU storage no matter what platform you're using.
Yeah, the point is, regardless of the complex issues on what media a society can and does accept into itself, Australia has a "restricted to 18+" category for everything except games, as if sane, mature adults don't play them. This is the reason some very good games had to be artistically neutered for the Australian market (to water it down to the MA15+ category), and why there is a pressure to shoehorn games (like DNF) that are fit for an 18+ categorisation into the MA15+ bin.
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I (no sarcasm) love Steam, and didn't expect a large-scale intrusion like this, but after the fun and games around the PSN intrusions, I removed my CC details from my Steam account.
It was so easy to buy games with a couple of clicks, and I do miss that, but I must admit a little smugness now over my decision...
I just hope Paypal is on top of their security, because by design they're more heavily linked into people's finance.
Under the R18+ guidelines:
Drug use related to incentives and rewards is not permitted.
I guess that means Pac Man will be banned in Australia :(
The first link actually doesn't have any information at all. Just a nice picture of an iPhone.
I saw the same thing, checked what noscript was blocking and there were scripts from around 20 different domains. So it's either a pure advertisement troll, or an advertisement troll with a snippet of information buried somewhere in horrible web design. I'm not willing to dig around and find out.
I often read the internet using Lynx through a slow SSH connection, fits the e-ink display model well (it'd use the display better for walls of text), but many sites won't work, javascript won't work, frames won't work (other text browsers like Links apparently do a better job there). Even slashdot doesn't work well with Lynx any more (login doesn't work on my system so you can't use preferences to fix it), which sucks because it reminds you how difficult it is for physically disabled people to get around things we take for granted.
Drop the "The." Just "SkyNet." It's cleaner.
That may be the case, but it is what it is. You don't have nVidia commissioning games that only work on their hardware, or to use a car analogy, you don't have manufacturers coming up with their own weird basic control UIs, and that's generally a good thing for the end users.
What I can't get my head around is the concept of modifying the system by observing it (or just plain modifying the input to a predictive system).
So if you correctly identify area X as a potential hotspot, and send police there, it's a success if you prevent crime. But then that spot becomes less of a hotspot so you may send the police to other areas. Do you then just lapse into a cycle of entering and leaving an area as crime increases and decreases?
...but you need to be connected to the internet for the usb port to work ;)
If they can get Mark Shuttleworth on board, they'll have Google+ replacing Thunderbird in Ubuntu by the next release...
I think the problem is that to have a slick, user-friendly UI that doesn't get in your way with latency caused by inadequate performance, you need enough performance that doing thick-client stuff is trivial, and there's no reason not to include it.
I think if you used the SSD to hold a fairly large cache of applications, you could practically work "in the cloud" a bit like distributed RCSes (eg. git) do, and re-sync everything when the laptop can connect. You can still have backgrounded automatic update of the cached apps, and you can manage the cache completely automatically (or allow more power to users to "pin" data and apps to the cache). I haven't used ChromeOS before, but if it's on its way to working like that (TFA suggests it isn't there yet), it would be workable for some use cases.
I'd also like to see some open-source web apps rise to fame, I'm sure most companies deploying these things would be happy to contract with Google, but for government work or running a small company that competes with Google, I'd prefer to recompile the OS to point at a privately-managed cloud (which would probably be as simple as a couple of clustered web servers and maybe a DR site)
Betting pool anyone? I call "atlantic cable".
I'll bet "there was no outage"
Thanks, I've grabbed it, will check it out later.
I would have bought a single-file downloadable ebook from the AOSA site if they offered it though...
The machine sounds pretty boring...
This is why the comment by the CEO is being referred to as stupid, since saying something like this can only lead to more patent trolls and nothing positive for the company.
Unless the REAL strategy is to patent-troll-troll, whereby the most profitable strategy is to attract trolls, get sued by them, then win and counter-sue for damages :)
no, they've replaced the court with a Microsoft product called JudgeWare 2012
If there's areas on a computing device that you can't really improve, and you still want people to plod along the upgrade path, just bump the numbers - like in the ca. 2000 "Mhz wars".
Or exchange it for cheap crap the way the Americans did.
Like iPads!
Nah, everyone knows Windows is just for games.
They should have gone with OS/2
Please allow me to rephrase: What happens when DCP LLC and the major publishers of non-free motion pictures sue the makers of HDFury and/or have ICE seize shipments at the border?
HDFury goes down, and a million chinese knockoffs rise up. If the *AAs are effective at controlling imports of those, then everyone gets to watch US media except those in the US. Maybe that's enough for them to say they've won, but by doing that they'd just be continuing down a financial spiral to oblivion.
The HDCP master key is now publicly-known, so you can generate a new one.
The article says it's basically a module that absorbs light and converts it to heat, but if you had some kind of opto-electronic stuff in there, I guess it might end up being a useful receiver for fibre-optic communications?
If they're so profitable, then where's my linux client, damnit!?
Only five years ago man learned to write and use a cart with wheels. Christianity began less than two years ago. The printing press came this year, and then less than two months ago, during this whole 50-year span of human history, the steam engine provided a new source of power.
Damn creationists...
If you want extremely light, you don't want a prototyping board with big easy board-to-board pin headers. From the very link you posted, Arduino has the Pro and Pro Mini, which is powered from 3.3V (ie. button cells), and is as minimal a board as you can get without designing one yourself. As for data storage, are you suggesting there's a microcontroller in the same class as the Arduino's Atmel chips that have much more memory? I think you'd be limited to off-MCU storage no matter what platform you're using.
Yeah, the point is, regardless of the complex issues on what media a society can and does accept into itself, Australia has a "restricted to 18+" category for everything except games, as if sane, mature adults don't play them. This is the reason some very good games had to be artistically neutered for the Australian market (to water it down to the MA15+ category), and why there is a pressure to shoehorn games (like DNF) that are fit for an 18+ categorisation into the MA15+ bin.