"home theater PCs that in some cases cost as little as $8 "
Either a couple of 0 missing off that price or it's a no nmae phone with a really big magnifier.
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should they care?
And only 1 person wearing one?
So how's that work?
"OK, Charlie you're wearing the plodcam today, so keep the nightstick on your belt for a change. Rest of you. Stay out of his line of sight if you have to give one of the perps a tune up."
Do the customers know?
AFAIK this is setting up various "trip wire" devices throughout the network.
All actual apps will ignore them and never access them (not quite sure how) but an attacker mapping the network will touch everything. At which point someone's in the hen house and, depending the order and locations triggered it can identify a "track" which may locate the node it entered by.
A kind of System Intruder Detector, so to speak.
So just like STUXNET then?
"initiating downloads of documents using Server Message Block."
Another feature of the NSA toolkit that works beyond Windows XP?
Looks like recon to work out what H/W they should focus developing malware for (if they don't have any in stock). Unless of course they are planning actual physical entry.
It seems someone is using the US cyber warefare play book against them.
For some reason I keep hearing the voice of Alan Rickman in my head saying "You ask for a miracle. I give you the FBI."
I'm not sure why. :-(
dangerous.
Dynamic Data Exchange. IOW breaking a complex task into a series of simpler ones driving each other through links at the user level.
AFAIK very few people have dug into the protocol enough to actually use it properly, except people who write malware.
Another clever idea that should have changed the world (and sort of has).
But not in a good way.
Before decaying into a Proton and an Electron.
So very impressive experimental technique. But it's true.
Big Bang --> X amount of particles + X amount of anti-particles.
stability of particles = stability of anti-particles (unless they hit each other)
--> either universe never gets beyond huge energy shower or somewhere there are huge piles of antimatter (what happens if this is true is a plot devices for James Blish's novel "A Clash of Cymbals.")
Unless "something" has stripped most (all) of that naturally occurring anti-matter out of our universe (aliens from another using it as a power source? Julian Assange? Who knows).
True.
And ARJ is officially committed to having the AR1 ready at the same time.
Except the NASA evaluation team that Congress requested visit both of them said ARJ is 18-24 months behind Blue.
That suggests one of those statements is not going to happen.
Time is money for ULA and they need to get Vulcan started so they can start the process of retiring production on both Delta IV and Atlas V and eventually Delta IV Heavy.
Unfortunately that's the one option that everyone's trying to avoid.
I don't know if people in NI had to carry ID cards during the troubles, or if they still do.
But what about visitors from "The Mainland" IE the rest of the UK?
Those "Transitional arrangements" people are talking about could last a while.
Correct.
Aside from the 70's era ICL mainframe CHIEF system and it's almost unknown 4GL (how tough can that be?) the big joker in this pack will be the fabled border-without-checkpoints that will be the Republic/NI EU/UK border.
Apparently it will use "technology" to stop any unauthorized crossings without needing people to be stopped.
I have no idea how this can be made to work.
Unfortunately I don't think the UKG has either (certainly not by March 2018).
True.
But it's taken a long time to get to this stage.
The joker in the pack is what are the drivers for people wanting to go to (say) Mars?
The question that's been phrased is "If you're going to Mars for a 'better life', what is that 'better life'?"
And will most of the people for whom "Life on Mars" would be a better life be allowed to go?
And it's well past time this research was started.
Face it. The human race is not going to spread across the universe on an endless supply of MRE's*
Officially "Meal, Ready to Eat," unofficially "Meals Rejected by Ethiopians." Not exactly a promising sign of quality Cuisine.
Digital --> transistors hard driven to conduction or switch off. Definite 1 or 0. Up to GHz clocks
--> Fan in / fan out < 10:1
--> Stages driven by clocks and transfers controlled through latches
Brain --> Much more probabalistic. Multiple inputs trigger, or prevent output firing. mV, not volt, + switching levels
--> Fan in / fan out < 10 000:1
--> No central clocking. More like an event driven system.Maximum frequency 10-15Hz
Without a huge herd of drug addled gun toting trigger happy loons living down South..*
*The US definition of "mass shooting" is "more than 5 people involved." So far the US has had 326 mass shootings this year. I think the US will do something about this quite soon.
They will probably raise the number of people you have to shoot to qualify.
Errm.
Should that not read "reads file name and checks claimed file type against internal evidence" to start with?
Otherwise it seems a tad trusting.
Cautious thumbs up, provided a)It's available in source code b) No hidden functionality in library "black boxes" and c) 3rd party libraries sent with it can be swapped out with own (or freshly downloaded) copies of them (and compared with them).
Sorry to sound paranoid Canada, but y'know, signals intelligence agencies have a bit of a reputation.
Nothing personal. It's just people don't trust them. :-(
Actually TRON predates that.
OTOH "The Last Starfighter" was essentially done on a Cray 1, at a phenomenal (for the time) 1/24 of real time.
Which saved the film makers a ton of cash.
A magazine article of the time said basically all the systems for Tron were (more or less) bespoke (or heavily moded) number crunchers.
Funny you should say that....
There are really 2 use cases for GM.
1) Monster agribusiness (whatever Monsanto are calling themselves these days, but also people like Bayer and a fair few other chems companies who happen to be located in Germany) wanting to lock farmers into their seeds, but with their seeds "Special Sauce" (C Andrew Orlwski), usually higher yield (if you use their brand of insecticide/fungicide/herbicide/anythingelse-cide).
2) The kind done in what are basically the "National Laboratories" of various third world and Far East countries to hard wire infection resistance, insect resistance and improved nutrition into the crops themselves (while preserving their fertility).
One is aimed at improving the lot of the farmers in those countries, the other improving the dividend to the companies shareholders.
Same techniques, rather different goals, and rather different outcomes.
My point exactly.
But my suspicion is people will go with the phone with the pre installed data slurping, battery draining app because they simply cannnnn't live without it.
But then I'm just not one of those people who feels the need to post a status change from "sitting at my desk" to "taking a dump" while it reports my location location every second
How about
Long battery life
Good call quality
Reasonably dust and fluid resistant
Not to heavy.
Standard headphone jack.
Just a thought. No doub most people will prefer the umpteen megapixel camera and the permanent FB connection instead.
Easy.
They just invoked the "Four Horseman." * and y'know, public outrage did the rest.
Naturally with the implied (but not actually stated) "promise" that "We'll only do it to bad people."
But hey, in times of budget cuts how you gonna keep the doughnuts supply coming?
*Drug dealers, money launders, paedophiles and terrorists
A nice demonstration of the "Other way around" principle. Nice work.
As for
"but this kind of concurrency problem has been sidestepped altogether decades ago"
I might agree.
But how many people use "Erlang, Rust, Go, Scala." ?
And which ones will still have a developer pool you can actually recruit from in a decade?
Except the reports seem to be saying the handling turns to s**t around this range.
Which for what is a 4th (or 5th) Generation supersonic vehicle does not sound good.
Let me guess the RAF advice will be "don't get into situations where you fly at prolonged periods at transonic speeds "
Shock horror.
I'll leave aside how long it's taken the EU to accept this fact and note that IRL Euro plods have always had multiple ways to compromise crim comms (at different levels) provided they had actual evidence of a crime being committed.
Actual secure comms within a criminal group is very difficult if you're
a)Involved in large scale crime
b)The authorities are aware you are involved in large scale crime.
Once that happens using cheap PAYG phones won't cut it.
Don't expect any change from the data fetishists of the centre for most evil in government UK Home Office any time soon, who will continue not to give a f**k about privacy or (personal) security.
using a cyclic 20 second buffer "
Well that does sound reassuring.
Except that Googles implementation sometimes doesn't quite match their stated goals.
Remember the driverless cars and their ability to collect WiFi network IDs as well?
They didn't happen to mention how long the raw voice data is retained for, did they? Or how long it keeps recording before it cuts off, deciding you are no longer talking to it?
Although IIRC most core systems did not.
Personally I see this for archival purposes, hence like tape or backup disk, not real time updates or live DB storage.
That said if you wanted to make multiple copies of really large chunks of the entire human knowledge base you're going to need something very compact.
Hmm.
Definitely better, but not quite there yet. If only you had a vowel or two after the Y.
I'm convinced there is a term that will perfectly sum up the PHB who's f**ked up publicly and jumped ship into a cushy little number in some part of the public sector.
And by the sound of things the whole f**king internet can watch them as well. *
I wonder if they are playing the VTech game of T&C that tell you all data sent at owners risk to their privacy etc etc.
*So handy for the organized nonce planning their "cruising schedule" for them and their van.