Comment Re:Can High Intelligence Be a Burden? (Score 1) 385
The stupid are fun to watch.
From a distance, and upwind
The stupid are fun to watch.
From a distance, and upwind
No, that's determination and creativity. Determination alone is not enough, which was the point of the GP comment.
By 2001 or 2002, they cost $5, shipped direct from Sprint.
By 2001, Handspring was making its last Visor, and Sprint was dumping the modules in a vain attempt to attract the last three or four Visor users to their network, and get something for their investment. The Visor never really took off. But if anyone is interested, I have the second or third OmniRemote module made for it, with a blue LED flashlight in. I got it straight from the maker. I think I also still have a cradle around here. Actually, I think I found my last working [translucent blue, basic] Visor as well. I'm in the midst of recycling all my useless electronics right now, so I've been finding stuff. I have a GRiDPad 2390 with power problems, too. I always meant to get the OS off of it so I could freshly load it onto my GRiDPad 1910, also available. It's got a full-size XT keyboard port hacked in... You might say I am familiar with the devices of the era — except the Newtons, which I admired but could not afford at the time, not the good examples anyway. The low-end ones were poop.
The majority of major, targeted hacks (rather than just sweeping the net for vulnerabilities) - aka, the kind of stuff that the US military cares about - involves sending emails or making phone calls and introducing yourself as Bob from IT, and sorry to bother you but there's a problem that we need to discuss with you, but first a couple questions...
They don't need script kiddies, they need social engineers. Question number one in the job interview should be "Is your native language Russian, Chinese, Farsi, Korean or Arabic?" And even as far as the more traditional "hacking" goes, rather than script kiddies they're going to need people who are going to custom analyze a given system and assess it's individual vulnerabilities, people with real in-depth understanding. One would presume that in most cases that the sort of targets that the US military wants to hack are going to keep themselves pretty well patched to common vulnerabilities.
AIs doing hacking? What are you talking about? This is the real world, not Ghost In The Shell.
The official explanation is that there is insufficient peering 'twixt Comcast (or $OTHER_ISP) and Google, and that's the congested link.
Of course, other Google services have no such problems at such times, which makes me suspect it's bullshit. But that's still the story.
Research requires you to be able to buy a copy and read it, so you may use the information held in it. That's the case with lots of works out there, such as all scientific research publications. They all fall under copyright, which doesn't seem to hinder research all too much.
That's the point, right? If you're not allowed to publish because copyright, then that will hinder the next person's research.
As the propaganda minister, yes he would of been in control of spreading hatred for Jews, but it is hard to condemn that during wartime when spreading hatred and dehumanizing your enemies is standard practice.
What? No, it isn't. It's very, very easy.
The last 70 years of Jewish politics have been dominated by Holocaust fallout.
Is that what we're calling Zionism now? At what point does the attempted genocide stop being 'fallout' and become its own thing?
So only the first New York law was held unconstitutional. Son of Sam laws in place now seem to be okay.
The original law enabled the state to seize the funds, the new law enables the victims of the crimes to sue for the funds with due process. That's really a completely different law.
Do you think they are going to pull up all their existing systems renumber every internal machine, make them all publicly accessible, give each a unique IP from the range allocated, etc.
Wow, it's almost like you're completely ignorant of how networking actually works, and yet still posted on slashdot anyway!
UDP works JUST FINE with NAT, if you haven't noticed.
Yes, as long as the firewall is stateful. Otherwise you need protocol support to receive responses.
People have this thing about NAT being evil but it's not.
No, certain protocols are evil, like SIP, and NAT exacerbates that evil. As such, it's not evil, just a massive PITA.
Just look at how well hiring external contractors worked for the NSA!
Look, the military only works if it's staffed by the brainwashed, because its primary goals are not beneficial to humanity.
The handspring VisorPhone does. It was an add-on card that cheaply added a phone to HandSpring-produced PalmOS PDAs. It was my first pdaphone.
The VisorPhone originally cost more than a cellphone. Thanks for proving my point.
I could sort of understand if one of those GamerGate "Men's Rights Activists" dudes were claiming that most government leaders and CEOs were women.
But that's not what happened here.
But why on Earth would a woman make such a bizarre claim?
That's not what happened here.
Have you been living under a rock?
Are you a rock?
So you are calling the above poster a liar? Nice.
Name and shame or you're a liar making shit up to make yourself seem more important. Put up or shut up is the name of the game, otherwise it's just FUD. Vague pronouncements might serve in government, but they don't suit here on Slashdot.
Yeah, that *shrug* is how we got where we are now with our government in general. No justice available from the justice system? *shrug*
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