Comment 60% is probbaly low (Score 1) 79
I can't imagine an internet where anything was only available on a single site.
retweet, quote, excerpts, curated content.
my gut tells me 60% is a low figure.
Comment atomicity (Score 1) 66
in recent past history the 'atom' was considered the smallest undividable miniscule entity. it could not be broken down into constituent parts.
From the computing point of view when an operation or process was labeled 'atomic' it meant that it could not be interrupted, disturbed while being modified, or observed in a partial state.
atomic operations were guaranteed to run to completion without interruption.
Comment push to talk (Score 1) 92
How about a not so huge technical hurdle and just have a push to talk button instead of big brother constantly listening.
IIRC i had an LG phone many years ago that had this, and i thought it was better.
Comment results vs actions (Score 1) 296
Modern development emphasizes feature and platform inclusivity and results over actions and costs of implementation.
It is often expected to obtain a description of a function in terms of it inputs, outputs and functionality, but rare to discover a meaningful metric on the costs of implementing that function in terms of CPU, resources or time. Even if you want to develop space/time/resource efficient code you need to be the champion for that endeavor, because industry-wide it is not a prominent offering in most IDEs.
A simple common (non academic) nomenclature for describing *relative cost* between simplistic functions and expensive library calls would go a long way to help programmers make better decisions on which librarys and functions are appropriate.
Comment Re:The AI that thinks it's a google engineer (Score 1) 387
According to recent linked-in advertisements people are now free to reinterpret the meaning of 'professional' thus impinging on the meaning of 'engineer' (since at least some engineers are professional).
IMHO, Sentience is not well understood, being couched in relative terms and nebulous associations with arbitrary mental gymnastics.
Is there a metric for how many people living today are truly "sentient" ?
I don't want to draw strict parallels between politics and sentience. but I wonder how it leans politically.
Submission + - VoIP.ms victim of week long sustained DDoS attack
Striek writes: VoIP.ms, a Canadian VoIP provider, has been under a sustained, and presumably massive DDoS attack which started on the September 16th, 2021. The attack has been disruptive enough to be covered by major media outlets, including Hacker News, ZDNet, Ars Technica, BleepingComputer, CTV News, and The Toronto Star.
They have so far refused to pay a ransom demand, which has grown from 1 bitcoin at the outset ($45,000 USD at that time), to 100 bitcoin now, or $45 million. Similar attacks have occurred recently on several UK based VOiP providers.
With DDoS attacks against VOiP infrastructure difficult to defend against — or at least more difficult than your bog-standard denial of service, this may be setting a worrying trend.
Bleeping Computer wrote:
They have so far refused to pay a ransom demand, which has grown from 1 bitcoin at the outset ($45,000 USD at that time), to 100 bitcoin now, or $45 million. Similar attacks have occurred recently on several UK based VOiP providers.
With DDoS attacks against VOiP infrastructure difficult to defend against — or at least more difficult than your bog-standard denial of service, this may be setting a worrying trend.
Bleeping Computer wrote:
Threat actors are targeting voice-over-Internet provider VoIP.ms with a DDoS attack and extorting the company to stop the assault that's severely disrupting the company's operation. VoIP.ms is an Internet phone service company that provides affordable voice-over-IP service to businesses around the world. As customers configured their VoIP equipment to connect to the company's domain name, the DDoS attack disrupted telephony services, preventing them from receiving or making phone calls. As DNS was no longer working, the company advised customers to modify their HOSTS file to point the domain at their IP address to bypass DNS resolution. However, this just led the threat actors to perform DDoS attacks directly at that IP address as well. To mitigate the attacks, VoIP.ms moved their website and DNS servers to Cloudflare, and while they reported some success, the company's site and VoIP infrastructure still have issues due to the continued denial-of-service attack. "A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack continues to be targeted at our Websites and POP servers. Our team is deploying continuous efforts to stop this however the service is being intermittently affected. We apologize for all the inconveniences," says an announcement posted to the VoIP.ms website. At the time of this writing, the site is bouncing back and forth between being accessible and displaying a 500 Internal Server Error
Submission + - Doctor Who: Russell T Davies returns as programme showrunner (bbc.com)
spaceman375 writes: Screenwriter Russell T Davies is to take charge again of Doctor Who, the sci-fi show he helped revive in 2005.
Davies, who was the fantasy drama's showrunner until 2009, will take over when Chris Chibnall departs next year.
Davies revived Doctor Who in its current incarnation with Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor and remained for David Tennant's time as the Doctor.
Steven Moffatt took over when Matt Smith took on the role, staying to supervise Peter Capaldi's stint as TV's indefatigable Time Lord.
Davies, who was the fantasy drama's showrunner until 2009, will take over when Chris Chibnall departs next year.
Davies revived Doctor Who in its current incarnation with Christopher Eccleston as the Doctor and remained for David Tennant's time as the Doctor.
Steven Moffatt took over when Matt Smith took on the role, staying to supervise Peter Capaldi's stint as TV's indefatigable Time Lord.
Comment vibration sensor, park mode (Score 1) 132
Should be possible to 'park' the image stabilization hardware, like parking a hard disk for shipping mode, when 'high amplitude vibrations' are detected.
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