Comment Re:GeoLocation is not evidence (Score 1) 158
In all those cases, the owner of the subscription should be at least questioned as a witness.
Comment Re:GeoLocation is not evidence (Score 1) 158
It wasn't used as evidence, it was used in the hope of getting the judge to issue a subpoena to the ISP, providing real evidence.
Comment For certain values of learning (Score 2) 112
The task in the study that the subjects had to learn is one specifically tailored to make use of the brain area stimulated. Whether this can help in, for example, memorizing the contents of a book remains to be seen.
Comment Re:its coming... (Score 1) 112
When somebody can attach a headband on you against your will, you are already enslaved.
Comment Re:How long (Score 1) 134
But that won't print you a tape measure. This was likely done with a UV printer, which costs quite a lot more.
Comment Re:Or maybe.. (Score 1) 278
Yep, most of the time "help" means that the parents do the stuff instead of the kids.
Comment Re:Stupid (Score 1) 183
True, but that's why it's nice that we have a herd of pioneers willing to try it out and provide us with lots of data. This is an interesting topic, and if people a doing voluntarily to get better at COD, we can learn a lot about how our brain works.
Comment All phones are smartphones (Score 1) 70
Where can you buy a "cheap feature phone" that isn't a smartphone?
Is Analog the Fix For Cyber Terrorism? 245
chicksdaddy writes "The Security Ledger has picked up on an opinion piece by noted cyber terrorism and Stuxnet expert Ralph Langner (@langnergroup) who argues in a blog post that critical infrastructure owners should consider implementing what he calls 'analog hard stops' to cyber attacks. Langner cautions against the wholesale embrace of digital systems by stating the obvious: that 'every digital system has a vulnerability,' and that it's nearly impossible to rule out the possibility that potentially harmful vulnerabilities won't be discovered during the design and testing phase of a digital ICS product. ... For example, many nuclear power plants still rely on what is considered 'outdated' analog reactor protection systems. While that is a concern (maintaining those systems and finding engineers to operate them is increasingly difficult), the analog protection systems have one big advantage over their digital successors: they are immune against cyber attacks.
Rather than bowing to the inevitability of the digital revolution, the U.S. Government (and others) could offer support for (or at least openness to) analog components as a backstop to advanced cyber attacks could create the financial incentive for aging systems to be maintained and the engineering talent to run them to be nurtured, Langner suggests." Or maybe you could isolate control systems from the Internet.
Rather than bowing to the inevitability of the digital revolution, the U.S. Government (and others) could offer support for (or at least openness to) analog components as a backstop to advanced cyber attacks could create the financial incentive for aging systems to be maintained and the engineering talent to run them to be nurtured, Langner suggests." Or maybe you could isolate control systems from the Internet.
Comment Re:Crap (Score 4, Insightful) 85
Some of us are interested in the theory, not to mention that both the article and the paper contain actual images. It's not the fault of the authors that you didn't bother to read them through.
This is an impressive step forward in image processing - while reconstructing an image from diffuse light seemed plausible in theory, figuring out how to do it in practice is a hard problem. These guys deserve some respect.
Comment Re:Why focus on length of life (Score 1) 334
Because there are rich people who live a good life, but also want it to last forever.
Comment Less competition (Score 1) 153
Seems like neither Google nor Microsoft wants to compete with the other, so they partitioned the PC market with Google getting the mobile part and Microsoft the desktop. Business as usual.
Lies Programmers Tell Themselves 452
itwbennett writes "Everybody lies to themselves now and again in both their personal lives ('my bathroom scale probably needs to be recalibrated') and professional lives ('this code doesn't need commenting'). ITworld has compiled some of the common lies programmers tell themselves. Here are a few examples: 'This bug won't take long to fix.' 'No one could possibly fail to understand my simple user interface.' 'Code is self documenting.' 'My homebrew framework will be nimble, lightweight, debugged, and easy to use.' 'I know this is dirty code, I will rewrite it later.' 'It's just one line... it won't break anything.' '"It works on my machine.' 'I don't need version control.' 'It's written in ____, so it'll be easy to ____.' What would you add to this list?"
Comment Block the signal (Score 1) 137
Set up a few antennas that add some noise on the controlling frequencies, problem solved.
Comment Re:Riiiight (Score 1) 498
True, but there's a third ingredient Ukraine doesn't have: money.
