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byNikker
16 @05:05PM
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Attached to: Linux Kernel 2.6.32 LTS Reaches End of Life In February 2016
That's garbage. The entire reason error codes even exist is to help the user manage the software, what rational do you have that keeping the reported error code secret is a good thing?
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byNikker
2016 @03:02PM
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Attached to: Netflix Executive Admits a VPN-Blocking Policy Might Be Impossible To Enforce
AFAIK being a Canadian subscriber, the US version of Netflix I would have the lions share of content. If so then they would be able to see what content was viewed by users who have registered information from other locations. They could use this to make offerings and tailor their service to other markets.
So really it's not a loss for either the content owners or Netflix, they get to see a preview of demand and negotiate accordingly to bring that to the location that favors them the most.
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December 30, 2015 @07:13PM
from the giant-death-robots-will-probably-fix-it-first dept.
An anonymous reader writes: In a new interview, Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig shared his view of the future of privacy in this age of data breaches. "The average cost per user of a data breach is now $240 — think of businesses looking at that cost and saying, 'What if I can find a way to not hold that data, but the value of that data?' When we do that, our concept of privacy will be different. Our concept so far is that we should give people control over copies of data. In the future, we will not worry about copies of data, but using data." Lessig sees new technological advancements as the key to shoring up our privacy, which has been eroding since the dawn of the internet. Being able to act on data without holding it is key: "If I ping a service, and it tells me someone is over 18, I don't need to hold that fact. The level of security I have to apply [is not] the same [that] would be required if I was holding all of this data on my servers. This will radically change the burden of security that people will have."
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byNikker
5 @06:26PM
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Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Buying a Car That's Safe From Hackers?
Ever heard of people walking through parking lots "feeling" the handles one at a time? It effects everyone. If someone was able to take these exploits and run it from their backpack they would just work faster and bring more people. Walk around until the lights blink, open and go, quick money really.
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byNikker
015 @12:39PM
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Attached to: Hackers Actively Targeting Gas Pumps
Why is it that "Putting it online" is a thing? Putting something important like this over the Internet is really just negligence. The kind of data these companies need would sit beautifully over a dial up connection over POTS(not VOIP of course). This would save a large amount of troubleshooting when it goes down and avoids the Internet all together.
So actually sending the data via telephone lines save labor, lowers costs and will cause zero problems (if of course postulating over the internet could confirm this Zero problem hypothesis).
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byNikker
@12:56AM
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Attached to: WikiLeaks' Latest: An Even More Massive Trove of Sony Documents
Sounds like you're talking about vector drawings like Inkscape and the svg format. PNG is mostly used in raster images which include a list of hex values. To minimise the complexity of the image (as mentioned above) the programming will first simplify the image, sometimes by simply averaging similar values over an area of the image then gets fed to a compression routine that substitutes those averaged values with symbols(I.e ten 'x's become "x10" or something similar). SVG and vector images have the same hex, describing line segments, curves and colours.
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byNikker
015 @04:33AM
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Attached to: US Navy Researchers Get Drones To Swarm On Target
Those aircraft only look to be 100Lbs max. A jet coming at a wall of these things would push those drones around like the toys they are. Maybe out of sheer luck you could bring a jet down. If each had some sort of explosive that would be triggered by the jets wake it would be more likely but clouding the sky and hoping for the best doesn't really seem that likely.
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byNikker
015 @03:44AM
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Attached to: US Navy Researchers Get Drones To Swarm On Target
You want a small drone that can fly about 50Mph to intercept a jet going 500Mph? Please fill us in on the details.
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byNikker
2015 @11:39PM
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Attached to: Alibaba Face Off With Chinese Regulator Over Fake Products
This is merely a waltz for the public. China knows what they are getting into with Alibaba, the ability to take what they have lying around and sidestep having to find someone else sell it for them. Right now China basically manufactures for the world but they sell at small margins so that resellers / contractors sell the goods at a markup to the rest of the world. Alibaba gives a chance to sell directly to the consumer. The Chinese government wants Alibaba to seem strong willed so "The West" builds confidence in buying their stuff. In reality most of what Alibaba sells is leftovers and over runs.
I personally don't think China would leave something this public to chance, most of Alibaba's backers are the who's who of Chinese nationals and Chinese mainland (which the govt controls) makes everything Alibaba sells. It's hard to picture Alibaba being as rogue as they put on.
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byNikker
15 @11:24PM
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Attached to: Surface RT Devices Won't Get Windows 10
It makes sense for Microsoft to bide their time until they can just run everything on an X86. Why when Intel is only a couple of years away from making a (barely) suitable tablet processor would they commit to 2 architectures. Microsoft knows the tablet/portable arena is the way forward and the PC is just the bread that sops up the gravy, if they wait it out a bit they will have 1 install base rather than ARM vs X86.
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byNikker
2015 @11:20PM
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Attached to: Researchers "Solve" Texas Hold'Em, Create Perfect Robotic Player
So does this mean playing a 7/2 split can win any hand? The pros were just doing it wrong?
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byNikker
2014 @03:22AM
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Attached to: The Open Bay Helps Launch 372 'Copies' of the Pirate Bay In a Week
How about if everyone seeds just one torrent to bootstrap? Possibly a list of all available magnet links and use DHT to sort it all out.
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byAnimats
2014 @03:10AM
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Attached to: Facebook Drops Bing Search Results
In a particularly lame move, somebody put Bing search into Thunderbird. When searching your emails, you can also get irrelevant web search results via Bing. What the use case is for that I have no idea.
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byAnimats
0, 2014 @04:15PM
(#48567503)
Attached to: LA Mayor Proposes Earthquake Retrofits On Thousands of Buildings
San Francisco already did this. Almost all the masonry buildings in SF have been reinforced since the 1989 quake, and now the rules are being tighened on wood buldings. If you've been in an older building in SF, you've probably seen huge diagonal steel braces. That's what it looks like.
All new big buildings meet very tough earthquake standards. The bridges and freeways have been beefed up in recent years. Overpass pillars are about three times as big as they used to be. Two elevated freeways were torn down after one in Oakland failed in the 1989 quake. The entire eastern span of the Bay Bridge was replaced with a new suspension bridge. The western span was strengthened, and there are now sliding joints, huge plates of stainless steel, between the roadway and the towers.
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byAnimats
0, 2014 @01:57PM
(#48566135)
Attached to: AI Expert: AI Won't Exterminate Us -- It Will Empower Us
What I'm worried about is when AIs start doing better at corporate management than humans. If AIs do better at running companies than humans, they have to be put in charge for companies to remain competitive. That's maximizing shareholder value, which is what capitalism is all about.
Once AIs get good enough to manage at all, they should be good at it. Computers can handle more detail than humans. They communicate better and faster than humans. Meetings will take seconds, not hours. AI-run businesses will react faster.
Then AI-run businesses will start deailng with other AI-run businesses. Human-run businesses will be too slow at replying to keep up. The pressure to put an AI in charge will increase.
We'll probably see this first in the finanical sector. Many funds are already run mostly by computers. There's even a fund which formally has a program on their board of directors.
The concept of the corporation having no social responsibiilty gives us enough trouble. Wait until the AIs are in charge.
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