Slashdot Mirror


User: TaoPhoenix

TaoPhoenix's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
4,352
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 4,352

  1. Re:How is this different from a DDoS sim/pen test? on Europe Simulates Total Cyber War · · Score: 1

    Because a mock cyberwar across all of Europe is a "measure to test preparedness". However when Mitchell L. Frost, age 23, of Bellevue, Ohio admitted that between August 2006 and March 2007, he initiated denial of service (measures to test the preparedness) on web servers hosting the sites of political commentators Bill O'Reilly, Rudy Giuliani, and Ann Coulter, they were so pleased with his services that threw him in jail.

    In other words, "Global Cynernuclear War" is a test, while a coke can with baking soda and vinegar is a "terrorist threat" that will land you in jail.

  2. Re:That so called Researcher should be arrested on Researcher To Release Web-Based Android Attack · · Score: 1

    50% tangent, MS Security Essentials is flagging Firesheep on me, even though it's more of a security risk to *other* people. They're banking on the lowest X % being so scared to get away from the "Nice Safe Green" effect.

  3. Re:Apple = "Jailbreak", Android = "Risk"? on Researcher To Release Web-Based Android Attack · · Score: 1

    Yes, that especially was the one I was thinking of.

  4. Apple = "Jailbreak", Android = "Risk"? on Researcher To Release Web-Based Android Attack · · Score: 2

    Isn't this roughly similar to the effects obtained by the earlier exploits on iOS? However, there many users first feeling was some relief from the monolithic Apple gate system, but here on Android the spin feels more like traditional tech news.

  5. Re:"hard enough" on Cisco Social Software Lets You "Stalk" Customers · · Score: 1

    What we're on the cusp of is the transformation between "hard enough" and "easy for Average Joe".

    That's why FireSheep was so fun. It was a trick "everyone knew about" but wrote off as Too Hard. Seriously, it's "security through difficulty" and I'm as guilty of it as anyone.

    But now we have a "systematic" campaign where everyone in any kind of power trying to connect their two particular dots so that when all 50 of them link up we get a Big Brother system - that *you* can't use (for National Security Reasons).

    Overall I think it's the defining issue of the entire decade, and it won't stop until some event Too Big To Ignore traumatizes us into protecting privacy properly.

  6. Re:Oh Come On! This is a Book Review! on Land of Lisp · · Score: 1

    What do Smileys do to Lisp?

  7. Re:No we don't. on Is Google Polluting the Internet? · · Score: 1

    No, that was Freud.

  8. Re:entrenched on IE6 Addiction Inhibits Windows 7 Migrations · · Score: 1

    "What's the matter? You look nervous. End of Line." / Tron

  9. Re:Which problems have HFT created? on Prosecutors Request Closed Courtroom For Goldman HFT Programmer's Trial · · Score: 1
  10. Prime Directive! on 1928 Time Traveler Caught On Film? · · Score: 1

    If so he did an awesome job of protecting the continuity of the timeline by not leaving many traces!

  11. Re:Strategy! on FarmVille Now Worth More Than EA · · Score: 1

    We desperately need someone to do a +1 Godel and arrange their farm like a Go board.

    It would give entire new meaning to "Life or Death" questions for your farm!

  12. Re: "Small amount of people" on Chatbot Suzette Wins 20th Annual Loebner Prize, Fools One Judge · · Score: 1

    Random guess - it would take a team of 1000 about 7 years to do it.
    In one sense that's "small" because there are millions of programmers out there, and of that 1000 some of it is easy low level logistics etc.

    I say "primal fear" because we have thoroughly enjoyed committing ______ people for 7 years to invading Iraq, because that's far more sexy.

    But this is also why the University 5-man efforts have failed, which people have used as a hand-wringing excuse. However, Hardware IS relevant, so despite the fact that Terry Winograd had the right idea, 1968 hardware was too early.

  13. Atlas Shrugged on Free E-Books, With a Catch — Advertising · · Score: 1

    Presented by Rand McNally!

    ((Shrugs))

    Who needs Atlases when you have GPS?

  14. Re:Bee Spam! on Bees Beat Machines At 'Traveling Salesman' Problem · · Score: 1

    I want it!

    Hello Man.
    I am Bee #32653. Do you want better flowers for your mate?
    Click here!

  15. Re:Not just useless, but actually toxic. on LSE Breaks World Record In Trade Speed With Linux · · Score: 1

    Freddie and Fannie were sitting in a Feed
    T-R-A-D-I-N-G....

  16. Re:Chatbots... on Chatbot Suzette Wins 20th Annual Loebner Prize, Fools One Judge · · Score: 1

    "Life is nothing but a collection of limited domains".

    That's why we're always talking about techie guys who are NAL, and judges who can't rule on tech. I have a deep belief that say in 5 years we'll have the tech to do strong AI, but we're primally afraid of programming it.

  17. Re:Wake me up on Chatbot Suzette Wins 20th Annual Loebner Prize, Fools One Judge · · Score: 1

    Really now, no snarking, I'm gonna get on that because I think I know an algorithm for it. Other than I procrastinate too much, I'll let you know.

  18. Re:Chatbots... on Chatbot Suzette Wins 20th Annual Loebner Prize, Fools One Judge · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I have been thinking about this for years and I have a ton of half-baked theories. What sux is I am not a programmer, but let's say I manually perform some actions according to strict rules, that's like "an assistant".

    What you're getting at can't be "that hard" for *limited domains*. We are throwing up our hands at the moment because we expect the bots to be universal experts at stuff.

    In a limited domain, it should be very possible for the bot to come up with "something". Humans think in lists - so should the bot. If you asked "who is the best chess player" the bot can pass very well with something like "I like Magnus Carlsen". When the judge objects "but he hasn't won the championship yet" the bot would score a home run with "He'll be in the top 5 for the next 10 years. Maybe one day he will win the title".

    That approach works with tons of domains. If you ask "what is the hardest mountain to climb" it will score with an answer like "I dunno, it's either K2 because of the nasty glacier or Everest because of the fuked up weather that only gives you 4 days to start safely".

  19. Re:This fooled someone? on Chatbot Suzette Wins 20th Annual Loebner Prize, Fools One Judge · · Score: 1

    These bots seriously need Trick-Traps.

    Above, after the second "What do you think of Slashdot" it should switch over into meta-mode with "Moron! You already asked me that".

    And for the "Go world champion" question, you're right, if it "decided" it is an expert in Go, it needs an expert-base.

    These things need a copy of Wikipedia. Then if it gets handed "Go World champion" with a good algorithm it might come up with this:

    "I think Korean player Lee Chang-ho is supposed to be the best player." That is just a
    humanization" of the caption box from Wikipedia. The bot doesn't have to be perfectly right, just close enough to get the conversation going.

  20. Re:Bleet! on Gosling Reacts To Apple's Java Deprecation · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That's it!

    Make a service called Bleeter! "The Voice of the Sheep!" You can get modded if other Sheep like your Bleet!

    Maybe we can get Yasmine Bleeth to advertise for it.

  21. Re:Think bigger! on Hard-to-Read Fonts Improve Learning · · Score: 1

    IANAScientist, but this still feels like one of those "flawed studies" that someone meta-reported on lately. To me the distinction feels something like if it's a *clear* cool variant, it would help you focus, but if it's obfuscating, it increases Teal Deer effects as well as basic comprehension problems. I completely hated my calculus class with the chinese grad student. Awesome young guy, but his accent was unbelieveable. However, I overcame a lifetime of not being able to navigate within 2 years of listening to the Knight Rider edition of my GPS.

  22. Re:Think bigger! on Hard-to-Read Fonts Improve Learning · · Score: 1

    It's not correct.

    "MedlinePlus and the National Institutes of Health define dyslexia as "a reading disability resulting from the inability to process graphic symbols".[20]"

    s0 Y0u hAVE g0T t0 bE kIDdINg mE tHAT A sCRAmbLED foNT HElps YOu t0 lEARN.

  23. Re:Which part of this is "inadvertent"? on Facebook Ads Could 'Out' Gay Users · · Score: 1

    Way too much in common. You know there's midlevel bureaurats fapping to all the little ants under their control and surveillance.

  24. Re:FUD! on Beware the Garden of Steven · · Score: 1

    "All Apps not from the App Store are made by Terrorists!!"

    Flannery O'Connor, RIP - "All the FUD that rises must converge".

  25. Re:IP on Facebook Ads Could 'Out' Gay Users · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The MAFIAA is furiously trying to make "IP" mean "Intellectual Property" in the public mindshare. The ugly thing is when you smash both acronyms into the same sentence you get Halloween Horror.

    "I recorded that this IP is stealing my IP and demand he be sued into bankruptcy".