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Comment Re:Lefties still don't get it (Score 1) 458

by GoatJuggler on Thursday April 19, 2018 @07:58PM (#56468467) Attached to: 'Increasingly, People in Silicon Valley Are Losing Touch With Reality'

Most people forget that what a person wants is very different from what they buy. A person buying a drill didn't want a drill, they need to make a hole. Even the hole was only necessary because the person actually just needed to mount a shelf. The Democrats kept saying "Look at our great drill and all the features it has. You have to get it because it is the best drill." Trump said "I'll hang your shelf."

I stared at this paragraph and reread it for a full 15 minutes whilst the construct around me collapsed and a new framework of thinking was supplanted. Thanks for this insight, friend.

Submission + - Linus: "2016 Will Be the Year of the ARM Laptop" (softpedia.com)

Submitted by jones_supa on Friday October 09, 2015 @12:02PM

jones_supa writes: Linus Torvalds took the stage at the latest LinuxCon 2015 that took place in Dublin, Ireland, and talked about a number of things, including security and the future for Linux on ARM hardware. There is nothing that will blow your mind, but there are a couple of interesting statements nonetheless. Chromebooks are slowly taking over the world and a large number of those Chromebooks are powered by ARM processors. "I'm happy to see that ARM is making progress. One of these days, I will actually have a machine with ARM. They said it would be this year, but maybe it'll be next year. 2016 will be the year of the ARM laptop," said Linus excitedly. He also explained that one of the problems now is actually finding people to maintain Linux. It's not a glorious job, and it usually entails answering emails seven days a week. Finding someone with the proper set of skills and the time to do this job is difficult.

Submission + - Disclosed Netgear Flaws Under Attack (threatpost.com)

Submitted by msm1267 on Thursday October 08, 2015 @03:11PM

msm1267 writes: A vulnerability in Netgear routers, already disclosed by two sets of researchers at different security companies, has been publicly exploited.

Netgear, meanwhile, has yet to release patched firmware, despite apparently having built one and confirmed with one of the companies that privately disclosed that it addressed the problem adequately.

The vulnerability is a remotely exploitable authentication bypass that affects Netgear router firmware N300_1.1.0.31_1.0.1.img, and N300-1.1.0.28_1.0.1.img. The flaw allows an attacker, without knowing the router password, to access the administration interface.

Comment Re:Music using weighted random Markov strings... (Score 2, Funny) 115

by GoatJuggler on Thursday May 20, 2004 @12:35AM (#9201606) Attached to: Cellular Automata and Music Using Java

Wow. I have no idea what you just said, but it reminded me of the Hit Song Science program which is the music industry software that predicts whether a tune is going to be a "hit" or a "miss"

Appropriately enough for this thread, this article has a quote from Polyphonic HMI's chief executive Mike McCready "There are a limited number of mathematical formulas for hit songs. We don't know why."

Once they open-source those mathematical formulas that they've derived, then we can start using all the music development software to get rich.

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