Bluetooth? I'm sure it will have bluetooth
However, their philosophy is more "a wide range of devices for every need" than Apples "one device, take it or leave it." Samsung has a whole range of devices differing in small features and size
No, a company cannot be evil. Each and every one of the members of the company can, but the company cannot. A company doesn't exist without people
No, a person cannot be evil. Each and every one of the cells in the body can be evil, but the person cannot. A person doesn't exist without cells.
It doesn't matter that much if one is slightly faster in Javascript or rendering when Firefox will halt up for 5-10 seconds rendering a new tab. Maybe it's faster than Chrome, but if I have to wait for it, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter how much Firefox devs work on "UI sluggishness" if it's a single thing can lock up all input to the browser.
It is being done all the time. What is this fraudulent nonsense even doing here on
/. Was this not already debunked enough?
No, it's not debunked; that is, no one has shown it not to be what's claimed. However it has been shown that even if it is what it claims it's no better than an optimized classical simulated version. It's like someone claims they have a quantum chicken, and it may be quantum chicken, but it still can't cross the road faster than a fast non-quantum chicken.
Simply having the source code doesn't mean you have the ability to actually use the source code to make bug fixes should the need arise.
And yet, it still means that you can fix it, or even rewrite it in something else, if you want. Not having the source code means this is between much-more-difficult and impossible. The lesson here should be that everything we use should be open source, including compilers and libraries, not "well in theory I might have problems, so screw that whole open source thing
If it ever did come to a point where an overthrow of the government was brewing, I suspect that recruiting would not be via posts on Slashdot.
You say this,. but it was a post on Slashdot 10 years ago that led me to move to New Hampshire. Now I pay no income or sales tax, am not legally required to buckle myself up in the car, can own any knife I damn well please, don't need a "permit" for a gun, can marry another man if I wanted to, and soon will have access to medicinal marijuana.
Go down and click my sig. Real shit happens in the real world, and you bet your ass it sometimes happens as a result of a slashdot post.
Here's an example where the 5th amendment makes a positive difference.
Prosecutor: Your honor, we don't have any evidence, but we're pretty sure he killed that man because he's all shifty looking.
Judge: Tell us why you killed that man.
Defendant:
Judge: Let the record show the defendant has refused to answer the question. This court is holding him in contempt. I order him confined in prison until such time as he consents to answer the question. Bailiff, take him away.
Defendant: I didn't kill the man,
Judge: You're lying, that's perjury, go to jail.
Defendant: But there's no proof!
Judge: The confession you refuse to give would be proof; refuse to give it, you're in contempt, deny it and it's perjury. Jail!
They also didn't have OSHA and other worker protections back in the 1930's. A lot of men were injured or fell to their death constructing the Empire State Building on a practically slave wages.
Sure but the question here isn't "can we do it without safety regs" it's "can we even accomplish this given modern technology". However, the Empire State Building is about 434m (according to wikipedia). I would be very surprised if the requirements didn't go up with height, and at nearly double that, I'm sure things get considerably more difficult. Maybe if they have Gibsonian-style nanoassemblers... but that's a little beyond modern technology.
The comic (as previously posted) was amusing and also wrong; a user-level exploit might be able to get you those things, if credentials aren't encrypted. Browser exploit can probably scrape your pages or similar, which is of course bad. However, a system-level exploit can do all this and more:
Such exploits may be less bad for you, but would be considerably worse for any of the large services you rely on, potentially exposing the entire userbase.
This may be somewhat theoretical, but only because most people generally have enough sense to patch system-level exploits quickly. Most apparently not including Microsoft.
Why can't you imagine this? One of these costs $130, off-the-shelf. They have eleven total, all around the world, which is $1430, off-the-shelf. Add in some more for the sensor setup etc
Then, how long and how many people does it take to test them all regularly after they're installed? And how hard are they to install on an existing data center, vs dropping one of these on the floor, slapping some RFID stickers around, and walking away?
I imagine this is a trial run and IBM could probably come up with an even cheaper bulk solution if they need to. But it sure sounds like a lot less overall
Github did this recently too which was annoying, because it was useful. They're not entirely clear why
How will we be able in the future to distinguish between "fake" media and "real" media. As media is being used in legal battles, eventually there will have to be a requirement to determine an 'authentic' footage, which means we will need some form of protocol, file format and/or tools which can create media which can be proven as 100% original and unaltered in any way.
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While you could arguably hack apart a device and get at its key, doing so while leaving no trace brings us back into physical forensics, and almost certainly significantly harder to do. Add a few different measures like light-sensitive markers, exposed EPROM, etc. It's not about preventing hacking (or even difficult), it's about simply making alteration evident.
To thine own self be true. (If not that, at least make some money.)
