Comment Re:Most degrees are not bogus (Score 1) 159
He's looking down the barrel of $2K/month loan payments for the first 10 years out of college
By the sound of it he'll be soon looking down the barrel, period.
Comment In other words... (Score 1) 29
Thanks, we're giving you the boot.
Submission + - Moscow Cops Sell Access to the City's CCTV System and Facial Recognition Data (meduza.io)
An anonymous reader writes: As of the beginning of 2019, there were more than 170,000 surveillance cameras installed in Moscow. They are posted in courtyards, lobbies, parks, schools, clinics, malls, construction sites, and, of course, government buildings. About 3,000 of those cameras are connected to a facial recognition system that is integrated with Russia’s police databases. The Moscow government plans to enable facial recognition in the rest of its video surveillance system in the foreseeable future.
Andrey Kaganskikh, a journalist for MBK Media, has found that access to Moscow’s surveillance cameras — and their new facial recognition technology — is being sold on the black market. For several thousand rubles, the officials typically send buyers a link to the live feed from a given camera and the footage that camera has captured for the previous five days. Those links are generated automatically by the YTKD; Kaganskikh reported that the vulnerability that allows them to be copied has existed since 2016 at least. Buyers willing to pay at least 30,000 rubles ($471) can also receive a login and password that gives them unlimited access to the YTKD system, including all of Moscow’s cameras.
Andrey Kaganskikh, a journalist for MBK Media, has found that access to Moscow’s surveillance cameras — and their new facial recognition technology — is being sold on the black market. For several thousand rubles, the officials typically send buyers a link to the live feed from a given camera and the footage that camera has captured for the previous five days. Those links are generated automatically by the YTKD; Kaganskikh reported that the vulnerability that allows them to be copied has existed since 2016 at least. Buyers willing to pay at least 30,000 rubles ($471) can also receive a login and password that gives them unlimited access to the YTKD system, including all of Moscow’s cameras.
Comment Re:I can predict the outcome of the AI analysis (Score 2) 39
Not quite. Rugby has not only a well-known record of injuries, but moreso deaths caused by head traumas. It's been all over the news (in Europe) this year, as the number of fatalities or paralysing injuries (neck traumas mostly) keep rising.
Comment Re:Only 3 years? That is ridiculous. (Score 1) 31
Plenty of political parties willing to pick up the bloke, "he's learned the lesson", "he's paid the price", etc. Also ten quid says in 3 years nobody remembers what he'd done, or just won't plain care because there have been another 100 turmoils and scandals meanwhile, so instead of looking desperately for a job, he's more likely to get offers to continue where he'd left off.
Comment Re:There's no way to win with one person in the ca (Score 1) 82
TFS says the car basically drives around the block a gazillion times for hours on end. Imagine driving not an average city street, but an average NASCAR track, at night, alone, round and round, and you'll see it becomes a test of human endurance. Even a comparably uber-boring (no pun intended) job like the airport shuttle bus driver (back and forth the half-mile between the plane and terminal, all day long) has more variety, let alone train drivers, etc. An accident was bound to happen sooner or later, tasks or no tasks.
Comment Re:Samsung predicts SSD prices collisions (Score 1) 161
Basically Samsung is saying there is no risk of having an SSD price explosion.
And if anyone knows about explosions, it's Samsung.
Comment Re:It's been done, though (Score 1) 219
Re-vote electronically as many times as you want (each e-vote overriding the previous one) or cast a paper ballot on the election day which overrides the electronic ballot.
Comment It's been done, though (Score 2) 219
No one's mentioned Estonia yet, so here we go: http://www.vvk.ee/voting-metho...: secret ballot over the Internet, separation of voter and vote, vote verification, and last but not least, open-sourced voting software. Researchers have pointed out a few hypothetical attack vectors available to state-level entities (last from 2014) which have been closed ever since, but the bigger problem is actually handling the PR during the elections, in the sense that a malicious person or persons can claim their votes were "hacked", drum up the media coverage, and even though they'll be proved wrong, the integrity of the ongoing elections would still be compromised.
Comment Re:stupid germans (Score 1) 419
the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, has a PhD in Physics. Can any other country boast a top political leader who has a STEM leader . . . ?
Ene Ergma, long-time president of the Estonian Parliament, is an astrophysicist with a double PhD in physics and math.
Submission + - Near death experience caused by electrical activity in dying brain (bbc.co.uk)
Dupple writes: A surge of electrical activity in the brain could be responsible for the vivid experiences described by near-death survivors, scientists report.
A study carried out on dying rats found high levels of brainwaves at the point of the animals' demise.
US researchers said that in humans this could give rise to a heightened state of consciousness.
The research is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The lead author of the study, Dr Jimo Borjigin, of the University of Michigan, said: "A lot of people thought that the brain after clinical death was inactive or hypoactive, with less activity than the waking state, and we show that is definitely not the case.
"If anything, it is much more active during the dying process than even the waking state."
A study carried out on dying rats found high levels of brainwaves at the point of the animals' demise.
US researchers said that in humans this could give rise to a heightened state of consciousness.
The research is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The lead author of the study, Dr Jimo Borjigin, of the University of Michigan, said: "A lot of people thought that the brain after clinical death was inactive or hypoactive, with less activity than the waking state, and we show that is definitely not the case.
"If anything, it is much more active during the dying process than even the waking state."
Prolonged Gaming Blamed For Rickets Rise 254
superapecommando writes "Too many hours spent playing videogames indoors is contributing to a rise in rickets, according to a new study by doctors. Professor Simon Pearce and Dr Tim Cheetham of Newcastle University have written a paper in the British Medical Journal which warns of the rickets uptake – a disease which sufferers get when deficient in Vitamin D. The study boils down to the fact that as more people play videogames indoors they don't get enough sunlight and this has meant the hospitals are now having to combat a disease that was last in the papers around the time Queen Victoria was on the throne." At least the kids are eating enough snacks with iodized salt that we don't have to worry about goiters.
Comment I did a little test (Score 1) 324
I did a little test and found out that my WinXP boots up in 24 seconds, whereas my Nokia E71 smartphone boots up in .... 30 seconds.
Last time I saw a cell phone boot up immediately after pressing the power button was probably in 2001.
Comment Re:All I have is an anecdote (Score 1) 430
It's a stopgap measure that can be repeated every year. It's also not similar to over-prescription of antibiotics (we're not going to run out of surface proteins to use as antigens because the virus needs those for binding to target cells) - that'd be antivirals, and influenza A does develop resistance to them fairly quickly. Even so a temporary relief certainly beats no relief at all.
Left 4 Dead 2 Approved In Australia After Edits 134
Last month we discussed news that Valve's upcoming shooter Left 4 Dead 2 had been denied classification in Australia, which meant the game could not be legally sold there. Now, after a series of edits which removed "considerable amounts of gore from gameplay," Australia's classification board has given the game an MA15+ rating. Their new report (PDF) says, "No wound detail is shown and the implicitly dead bodies and blood splatter disappear as they touch the ground. ... The board notes that the game no longer contains depictions of decapitation, dismemberment, wound detail or piles of dead bodies lying about the environment." The unmodified version of the game may still be approved, pending a review that concludes on October 22nd.
