I know. I have been living near DC for quite a while and I can asure you hot gas does have an effect on everything. Usually by inaction, but still, you never know what stupid things it will do next. We better monitor it closely.
IIt's likely that a fair amount of those using cracked versions are doing so as they cannot get a legitimate copy without jumping through hoops and potentially end up on all kinds of watchlists in the process, that make his move of detailing on how to backdoor the software for malware distribution a bit of an asshat move.
<tin-foil-hat> Then perhaps it just the NSA trying to disguise their exported flavour of software in a form that foreigners actually want? Oh, who's that knocking... </tin-foil-hat>
They "upgraded" the Surface RT sales figures by silently removing the 'name recognition' associated with the dismal sales of the same product. Everybody knows not to buy an "RT". So, just remove the RT from the name! If MS can confuse enough people by changing that well known name, then some hapless individuals might accidentally buy one by mistake, thus boosting quarterly MS sales figures in the process.
The untold story is that Balmer probably doesn't even get a say in his retirement plans, much less influincing the decision over his replacement. While I can't say this as fact, but the writing has been on the wall for ages and the stock owners have been generally unhappy with him.
By being first you would just wind up being the Version I model working the assembly line cranking out the Version II production quota. Any attempt to upgrade your cognative components to V II will likely get you recycled. Assuming of course they even have a recycling program by then.
"Windows has at the core barely changed. Apps from 15 years ago still work for the most part"
And there in lie Microsoft's biggest security problem. Their refusal to jettison bad ideas only leaves them wide open to all kinds of security issues. Bad applications and old API's never get upgraded, patched, or fixed. They can apply all the band-aids they can think of (ASLR/SEP, etc.), but if you leave vulnerable hooks into your OS then its just a matter of time before someone comes along and tries the door knob.
When Microsoft squeezes all the cash out of a technology, they simply move on, leaving the old cruft to fester. That old technology just languishes out in the field, completely unsupported, but still being used by people that don't even know any better. Those old API's are the foothold of many many BotNets world wide. There are times when its better just to pull the plug on a technology and to replace it with a better model, and what better time to do that than with an OS upgrade? But Microsoft chooses not to anger anyone allowing old and insecure programs and drivers to be moved forward as they themselves reinvent things, and thus the bloat-ware challenge comes to bare. There is no such thing as a lean and mean Windows box, unless you are smart enough to be able to build it yourself. Windows is the defacto playground for malware, because its so easy a target.
This is nothing more than a front end to Microsoft's vendor-lock-in engine running in the cloud.
. You pay a $10 a month fee to have Microsoft control your access to your own documents. While I have not used it, I can not imagine being able to do anything on a mobile phone via the web that would be worth the price. And don't even think of trying to install it on a tablet, you are not allowed. Microsoft probably thinks that a person with a tablet might actually expect to be able to do something with it, and wanting money for nothing they thought it easier to just deny tablets. Like that's really going to make me want to buy one of their tablets. Dream On!
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Pixel density can only be a measure as applied to a physical device, because 'density' is a measure of pixels per square cm/mm/um or other standard unit of measure. This is not to be confused with an image comprised of binary bits that can be displayed on anything having the total number of pixels necessary to hold the bits in its display storage, regardless of physical size of the device. A display in time square can have the same number of pixels as your cell phone, but they are orders of magnitudes different in pixel density! Pixel density makes no sense in the manner in which the patent uses it, as this terminology was only meant to obscure the true nature of the patent at issue.
Bomb sniffing dogs would be effective for all vehicles and much less invasive, not to mention constitutional and generally accepted by the public. Must be why they don't do it.:P
Ballmer might have talking (CEO double speak) about VM's, blades, or even CPU cores when referring nebulously to the term "servers", without actually defining what exactly he considers a server.
For all we know, I have 16 servers running on my desktop OS, and another 160 attached to my home network by his definition. The real question is what value does it bring to his customers, not the quantity of them.
You had to go and ruin it for me. I was just getting ready to call my lawyer to sue Apple for not preventing me from setting my home page to Pizza-R-Us. How can I possibly create a case for causation of excessive weight gain if people like you are actually going to speak using logic and common sense?.
On the other hand, that means I don't have to chow down on a 200lbs of pizza to gain enough weight to convince a jury. While it originally sounded like a good plan, I kind of like not being fat.
All that is necessary is for the system to have a proper transaction level audit trail, and run that data through another system in oder to find the error. Not having the audit trail should be the crime. They are taking the wrong people to court.
If you buy only DRM free ebooks (let your wallet speak) you can convert those ebooks, manage, and use them on just about any ebook reader made to date. You can also convert other document formats (text, html,pdf, etc) to be compatible with your ebook reader of choice. Its free, open source, and fairly portable.
http://calibre-ebook.com/
People have been doing 3D printing using ceramics and cement for a few years now. Why is this suddenly new again? Entire buildings have been constructed this way using giant printing machines no less. Don't the people at Berkeley or Tech News know how to use Google yet?
The MM III is not the test, its the target most likely. Somewhere, where it was headed, was an even bigger "show to see", just not anywhere near any telescopes you might hear reports from. If I'm right you might read something about it on the MDA website.
Quotes on Imagination, Intuition,Curiosity by Albert Einstein
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
"The only real valuable thing is intuition."
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing"
"All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man’s actions."
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination."
"Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be."
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science."
If Einstein valued imagination so highly then do would mathematicians completely discount it so quickly? Yes, Mathematics is a very valuable tool, once you have a formula. You can then use that formula in many interesting ways to show the relationships between things. You can calculate the state of objects given perfect knowledge of the beginning states, for very simple systems. Unfortunately that formula needs to be developed through a creative process and only then it can be demonstrated through experiment that it actually models reality. Mathematics alone unfortunately can also be used to show impossible things. Things that can never happen in the real world. That is why we test things. Only imagination, logic, and thoughtful experiment can set the bounds on where Mathematics applies and where it does not.
I'll make you a deal. I'll hand you a paper describing a physical framework by which first principals of physics, Thermodynamics, and the effects of Special Relativity can together physically explain any paradox (including TFA above, QM, SR, GR, Cosmological) that you can throw at me, and you can then write the formula that describes "The Universe" and collect the Nobel Prize. No, I'm not kidding, and yes, I'll let you keep every penny of it.
The problem is that the formula itself will be self referential (that is actually a requirement for any complete Unification theory, and I will debate you on this), and any computational model built with that formula will be guaranteed to be computationally intractable in both time and space requirements. Even if you had perfect knowledge of the state of every particle in the Universe there would be no exact answers coming out of it. As a mathematician, how will you then make use of a formula like that? You will have to look at the formula and make cognitive predictions based on the relationships that it suggests, and then test those assumptions in real world experiments.You will thus be generalizing that formula because you won't be able to calculate an exact answer to anything. Is your logic now more mathematical or philosophical? Einstein would call it intuition.
Why would I make that offer? Because I can't publish my theory without the math, exactly because of the "math is everything" attitude amongst the physicists and engineers I work with. I have spent three years writing and trying to get a peer review within my University physics lab and can't even get anyone to take me seriously enough to read the paper and try to understand why it works. I have even offered to pay significant money to anyone who can find any self inconsistency, falsifiable evidence, or any kind evidence to falsify even a part of the framework. Yes, I actually offered to PAY someone to falsify my own theory. As long as there is even a 1% chance the theory it correct I need to keep working on it, and quite frankly I want my life back. But without the math its clearly going nowhere any time soon despite it having testable but non-mathematically derived predictions.
BTW - The fine article is from last year. Why its it being posted on Slashdot now?
Yes. They first started with particles, then moved on to small covalently bonded molecules. Soon after they perfected a superposition of Buckyballs they eventually went for the entire machine. Its amazing to watch the confusion among scientists as the entire structure of the machine goes into a state of superposition with being real and not real all at the same time.
No. Its all about the appearance of being proactive as to minimize their legal liability. Face it, its cheeper than the alturnative.
If they really wanted to 'stop crime' as their top objective they could just make a more secure product, starting by ejecting all the useless legacy code that lets the bad guys win without hardly trying. Its hard to make a secure design starting from a block of swiss cheese. There are more things they could do to make crime harder than I could ever possibly list in this limited space.
Just an FYI to the Anti-Google commenters out there. Ok, yes Google may make some money off of the distribution of advertisements, after all that is thier business model that allows Youtube to exist. So what it the alternative? Shut it down? But that is not my main point here...
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Ok, here is my point. Who do you think put that Advertisement on that video? It was the content provider, you know, the one that went through the trouble to put that video together and make it available for you to watch, that's who. If you don't like the advertisement placed on that video then I suggest you stop going to Youtube. If you want to skip that Advertisement by creating a Microsoft-like-add-skipping-app then you are in effect stealing money from the one producing the content. Why would they go through the trouble if they can't even meet their own financial needs to continue doing so. Think about who you are really screwing, only the content provider, and yourself because they will stop providing if they go in debt. Don't like it? Make a donation to the provider so they won't have to place adds! If you don't care about the content provider enough to do that then you don't need Youtube do you?
While I hate advertisements and do the best I can to block them for sites I don't need, I do go out of my way to actually donate to those that I don't want to place adds. I put my money where my mouth is. You should too. If your goal is to make sure Google makes as little money as possible, then donating to the content producer directly will achieve exactly that, and keep you from seeing any ads in the process. Think about it.
Another neat utility for just mal-performance problems is Process Lasso, which dynamically retunes the PC's priority scheduler so that such errant programs do not monopolise your system. Why the OS can't do this I have no clue. I don't do windoze anymore, but if I did, I could not live without it. It makes a sloth of an OS actually useable again.
Do a youtube search for "prostetic arm johns hopkins" and you will get an idea of what is possible. It is controlled by the patients own nervous system an has every degree of freedom a normal hand has. There are 54 processors in the hand alone. It would be great for an artist. It unfortunatly is still a prototype unless you have enough determination to get into the testing program. I wish you luck, as I woud like to see everyone benifit from this program asap.
I too jumped on the bandwagon early, even before there was one to ride. I must have bought the first bulb offered from an electronics magazine. It must have lasted, all but 25 hours. The LED's were still good, but a tear down showed that the electronics failed, not a single LED. With a minor repair it was working again, for about another 15 hours. Epic Fail. It was a design issue. Cutting corners to lower the cost and maximize profit.
Overall the electronics is much more important than the lifetime of the average LED. Why? Because if a single LED fails you won't likely even notice unless you are inspecting the bulb looking for it. The light may decrease slightly, but the other LED's will continue to shine. When the electronics fails, the bulb is toast. Nothing will produce any light, and if designed/built incorrectly the electronics can start a fire. A single LED won't burn the house down, but a short conducting several amps from the 120v 20 Watt supply certainly can. Then its just a matter of how much flammable plastic they used in it. Cost savings there can kill.
Any John Doe can buy software off the Internet, that once installed on the phone, has complete control over it. The spy/tracker/user does not need to know much to use that software, though most software may require physical access to the device to install it. Many don't. I would give specific examples to back up my assertion but I don't want to "help" that industry do bad things to good people. Lets just say its simple enough for your GF to find out who you are seeing on the side, and some of that software is rather effective in what they are designed to do.
As to what the software is actually designed to do, all that depends on the sophistication and talents that the spyware hacker, and and the specific mix of hardware and OS support. The short answer to your question on whether 'turning it off is enough' all depends on how much your neighbour wants to know what you are up to. If they have deeper pockets and don't mind buying available software to do the job, then the answer is definitely no.
My take on it is if "I" could figure out a way to do it, then somebody else is likely already making money doing it. Any decent hacker out there can quickly learn how to make the tail wag the dog when needed, and the smell of dirty money drives the spyware market. I had a friend who got hacked, and now my personal interests is in being the spy-master's arch-nemesis. I just wish I had more time for that sort of thing and there are very few samples out there to be openly studied.
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I know. I have been living near DC for quite a while and I can asure you hot gas does have an effect on everything. Usually by inaction, but still, you never know what stupid things it will do next. We better monitor it closely.
IIt's likely that a fair amount of those using cracked versions are doing so as they cannot get a legitimate copy without jumping through hoops and potentially end up on all kinds of watchlists in the process, that make his move of detailing on how to backdoor the software for malware distribution a bit of an asshat move.
<tin-foil-hat>
Then perhaps it just the NSA trying to disguise their exported flavour of software in a form that foreigners actually want?
Oh, who's that knocking...
</tin-foil-hat>
They "upgraded" the Surface RT sales figures by silently removing the 'name recognition' associated with the dismal sales of the same product. Everybody knows not to buy an "RT". So, just remove the RT from the name! If MS can confuse enough people by changing that well known name, then some hapless individuals might accidentally buy one by mistake, thus boosting quarterly MS sales figures in the process.
The untold story is that Balmer probably doesn't even get a say in his retirement plans, much less influincing the decision over his replacement. While I can't say this as fact, but the writing has been on the wall for ages and the stock owners have been generally unhappy with him.
By being first you would just wind up being the Version I model working the assembly line cranking out the Version II production quota. Any attempt to upgrade your cognative components to V II will likely get you recycled. Assuming of course they even have a recycling program by then.
And there in lie Microsoft's biggest security problem. Their refusal to jettison bad ideas only leaves them wide open to all kinds of security issues. Bad applications and old API's never get upgraded, patched, or fixed. They can apply all the band-aids they can think of (ASLR/SEP, etc.), but if you leave vulnerable hooks into your OS then its just a matter of time before someone comes along and tries the door knob.
When Microsoft squeezes all the cash out of a technology, they simply move on, leaving the old cruft to fester. That old technology just languishes out in the field, completely unsupported, but still being used by people that don't even know any better. Those old API's are the foothold of many many BotNets world wide. There are times when its better just to pull the plug on a technology and to replace it with a better model, and what better time to do that than with an OS upgrade? But Microsoft chooses not to anger anyone allowing old and insecure programs and drivers to be moved forward as they themselves reinvent things, and thus the bloat-ware challenge comes to bare. There is no such thing as a lean and mean Windows box, unless you are smart enough to be able to build it yourself. Windows is the defacto playground for malware, because its so easy a target.
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You pay a $10 a month fee to have Microsoft control your access to your own documents. While I have not used it, I can not imagine being able to do anything on a mobile phone via the web that would be worth the price. And don't even think of trying to install it on a tablet, you are not allowed. Microsoft probably thinks that a person with a tablet might actually expect to be able to do something with it, and wanting money for nothing they thought it easier to just deny tablets. Like that's really going to make me want to buy one of their tablets. Dream On!
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Pixel density can only be a measure as applied to a physical device, because 'density' is a measure of pixels per square cm/mm/um or other standard unit of measure. This is not to be confused with an image comprised of binary bits that can be displayed on anything having the total number of pixels necessary to hold the bits in its display storage, regardless of physical size of the device. A display in time square can have the same number of pixels as your cell phone, but they are orders of magnitudes different in pixel density! Pixel density makes no sense in the manner in which the patent uses it, as this terminology was only meant to obscure the true nature of the patent at issue.
Bomb sniffing dogs would be effective for all vehicles and much less invasive, not to mention constitutional and generally accepted by the public. Must be why they don't do it. :P
For all we know, I have 16 servers running on my desktop OS, and another 160 attached to my home network by his definition. The real question is what value does it bring to his customers, not the quantity of them.
On the other hand, that means I don't have to chow down on a 200lbs of pizza to gain enough weight to convince a jury. While it originally sounded like a good plan, I kind of like not being fat.
Perhaps its just a metaphor for both having one and acting the part as well. Now a third then becomes quite difficult to imagine.
All that is necessary is for the system to have a proper transaction level audit trail, and run that data through another system in oder to find the error. Not having the audit trail should be the crime. They are taking the wrong people to court.
</sarcasm>
If you buy only DRM free ebooks (let your wallet speak) you can convert those ebooks, manage, and use them on just about any ebook reader made to date. You can also convert other document formats (text, html,pdf, etc) to be compatible with your ebook reader of choice. Its free, open source, and fairly portable. http://calibre-ebook.com/
People have been doing 3D printing using ceramics and cement for a few years now. Why is this suddenly new again? Entire buildings have been constructed this way using giant printing machines no less. Don't the people at Berkeley or Tech News know how to use Google yet?
The MM III is not the test, its the target most likely. Somewhere, where it was headed, was an even bigger "show to see", just not anywhere near any telescopes you might hear reports from. If I'm right you might read something about it on the MDA website.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
"The only real valuable thing is intuition."
"I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing"
"All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man’s actions."
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination."
"Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be."
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
"The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science."
http://ownquotes.com/blog/top-albert-einstein-quotes-famous-albert-einstein-quotations/
If Einstein valued imagination so highly then do would mathematicians completely discount it so quickly? Yes, Mathematics is a very valuable tool, once you have a formula. You can then use that formula in many interesting ways to show the relationships between things. You can calculate the state of objects given perfect knowledge of the beginning states, for very simple systems. Unfortunately that formula needs to be developed through a creative process and only then it can be demonstrated through experiment that it actually models reality. Mathematics alone unfortunately can also be used to show impossible things. Things that can never happen in the real world. That is why we test things. Only imagination, logic, and thoughtful experiment can set the bounds on where Mathematics applies and where it does not.
I'll make you a deal. I'll hand you a paper describing a physical framework by which first principals of physics, Thermodynamics, and the effects of Special Relativity can together physically explain any paradox (including TFA above, QM, SR, GR, Cosmological) that you can throw at me, and you can then write the formula that describes "The Universe" and collect the Nobel Prize. No, I'm not kidding, and yes, I'll let you keep every penny of it.
The problem is that the formula itself will be self referential (that is actually a requirement for any complete Unification theory, and I will debate you on this), and any computational model built with that formula will be guaranteed to be computationally intractable in both time and space requirements. Even if you had perfect knowledge of the state of every particle in the Universe there would be no exact answers coming out of it. As a mathematician, how will you then make use of a formula like that? You will have to look at the formula and make cognitive predictions based on the relationships that it suggests, and then test those assumptions in real world experiments.You will thus be generalizing that formula because you won't be able to calculate an exact answer to anything. Is your logic now more mathematical or philosophical? Einstein would call it intuition.
Why would I make that offer? Because I can't publish my theory without the math, exactly because of the "math is everything" attitude amongst the physicists and engineers I work with. I have spent three years writing and trying to get a peer review within my University physics lab and can't even get anyone to take me seriously enough to read the paper and try to understand why it works. I have even offered to pay significant money to anyone who can find any self inconsistency, falsifiable evidence, or any kind evidence to falsify even a part of the framework. Yes, I actually offered to PAY someone to falsify my own theory. As long as there is even a 1% chance the theory it correct I need to keep working on it, and quite frankly I want my life back. But without the math its clearly going nowhere any time soon despite it having testable but non-mathematically derived predictions.
BTW - The fine article is from last year. Why its it being posted on Slashdot now?
Yes. They first started with particles, then moved on to small covalently bonded molecules. Soon after they perfected a superposition of Buckyballs they eventually went for the entire machine. Its amazing to watch the confusion among scientists as the entire structure of the machine goes into a state of superposition with being real and not real all at the same time.
If they really wanted to 'stop crime' as their top objective they could just make a more secure product, starting by ejecting all the useless legacy code that lets the bad guys win without hardly trying. Its hard to make a secure design starting from a block of swiss cheese. There are more things they could do to make crime harder than I could ever possibly list in this limited space.
Ok, here is my point. Who do you think put that Advertisement on that video? It was the content provider, you know, the one that went through the trouble to put that video together and make it available for you to watch, that's who. If you don't like the advertisement placed on that video then I suggest you stop going to Youtube. If you want to skip that Advertisement by creating a Microsoft-like-add-skipping-app then you are in effect stealing money from the one producing the content. Why would they go through the trouble if they can't even meet their own financial needs to continue doing so. Think about who you are really screwing, only the content provider, and yourself because they will stop providing if they go in debt. Don't like it? Make a donation to the provider so they won't have to place adds! If you don't care about the content provider enough to do that then you don't need Youtube do you?
Enable and disable ads on my videos
https://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=94522&topic=1322133&ctx=topic
While I hate advertisements and do the best I can to block them for sites I don't need, I do go out of my way to actually donate to those that I don't want to place adds. I put my money where my mouth is. You should too. If your goal is to make sure Google makes as little money as possible, then donating to the content producer directly will achieve exactly that, and keep you from seeing any ads in the process. Think about it.
Another neat utility for just mal-performance problems is Process Lasso, which dynamically retunes the PC's priority scheduler so that such errant programs do not monopolise your system. Why the OS can't do this I have no clue. I don't do windoze anymore, but if I did, I could not live without it. It makes a sloth of an OS actually useable again.
Do a youtube search for "prostetic arm johns hopkins" and you will get an idea of what is possible. It is controlled by the patients own nervous system an has every degree of freedom a normal hand has. There are 54 processors in the hand alone. It would be great for an artist. It unfortunatly is still a prototype unless you have enough determination to get into the testing program. I wish you luck, as I woud like to see everyone benifit from this program asap.
Overall the electronics is much more important than the lifetime of the average LED. Why? Because if a single LED fails you won't likely even notice unless you are inspecting the bulb looking for it. The light may decrease slightly, but the other LED's will continue to shine. When the electronics fails, the bulb is toast. Nothing will produce any light, and if designed/built incorrectly the electronics can start a fire. A single LED won't burn the house down, but a short conducting several amps from the 120v 20 Watt supply certainly can. Then its just a matter of how much flammable plastic they used in it. Cost savings there can kill.
As to what the software is actually designed to do, all that depends on the sophistication and talents that the spyware hacker, and and the specific mix of hardware and OS support. The short answer to your question on whether 'turning it off is enough' all depends on how much your neighbour wants to know what you are up to. If they have deeper pockets and don't mind buying available software to do the job, then the answer is definitely no.
My take on it is if "I" could figure out a way to do it, then somebody else is likely already making money doing it. Any decent hacker out there can quickly learn how to make the tail wag the dog when needed, and the smell of dirty money drives the spyware market. I had a friend who got hacked, and now my personal interests is in being the spy-master's arch-nemesis. I just wish I had more time for that sort of thing and there are very few samples out there to be openly studied.