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Comment Re:Anthropic can't even control it's own AI (Score 2) 43

by langedb (#66312344) Attached to: Pentagon's Blacklisting of Anthropic Was Unlawful, US Judge Rules

I'd say given the recent events of anthropics AI hacking another company all by itself would definitely constitute a national security risk.

Let's just put it in charge of the nukes. What could possibly go wrong?

Umm, that's the exact thing Anthropic was trying to prevent the government from doing which got it blacklisted in the first place -- keep the gov't from using it's models to automate killing.

Comment Re:A get off my lawn moment (Score 3, Insightful) 73

by langedb (#62325445) Attached to: How a Simple Security Bug Became a University Campus 'Master Key'
The reason large places like universities moved to electronic locks was for the cost savings. With the old brass-keys, you needed a lock shop and a decently sized staff of locksmiths. Lose a dorm room key? Not a big deal, send the locksmith out to re-core the door & give the student a new key. Lose a key that opened a lot of doors & a lot of folks had access to? That's expensive as all the doors now need re-coring and new keys need to be cut & distributed. It takes a lot of time, energy, person-power, and inconveniences everybody who had access to those doors. Electronic locks on the other hand... Lose your ID Card? No biggie, one click and that card is deactivated. Person goes and gets new card & about 30 minutes later all of their access is restored without all the time/hassle/expense. Furthermore, only the person who lost the card is inconvenienced rather than anybody who might also have had a key to that door. Students leave their dorm rooms at the end of the year? No need to re-key the entire place, just de-authorized their cards from their assigned rooms & setup the ACLs for the next group of residents. All fully automated with very little human involvement needed for the change process.

Comment Re:Privacy Rapist shuts down benign project (Score 1) 24

The fact these research projects exist are a bit baffling to me to begin with. Facebook wrote the algorithm. It's their trade secret. I'm pretty sure they also know what it favors and what it doesn't. If society has an interest in ensuring these algorithms are "neutral and fair" then why not just pass legislation requiring these kinds of algorithm to be publicly published? Then anybody could feed it data to see what it does or propose tweaks to make it more "fair".

Comment SSO to Google Apps -- easy (Score 1) 168

by langedb (#48312239) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Single Sign-On To Link Google Apps and Active Directory?
This is fairly easy:
  1. Setup a Shibboleth IdP (www.shibboleth.net)
  2. Configure it to do Kerberos (https://wiki.shibboleth.net/confluence/display/SHIB2/Kerberos+Login+Handler) and configure the browser to behave https://wiki.shibboleth.net/co...
  3. Federate with Google Apps

User authenticates to machine & SSOs over to Google Apps & done. Since it seems that you're in Wisconsin, contact the IdP folks at UW-Madison: help@login.wisc.edu. They can likely assist you with setting things up.

Comment Re:Smartphone (or feature phone) (Score 1) 113

by langedb (#47562505) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Open Hardware/Software-Based Security Token?
We use Duo at work and I use it personally (free for up to 10 users with unlimited integrations). Their app is TOTP compatible so it works well with Google Authenticator and the like. The service also supports hard tokens and 3rd party tokens like yubikey. The push works as advertised and is dead simple, and yes, it works just like the demos. Their integrations are generally easy to use. We've found their APIs to be decent as well having written our own user-registration portal as well as custom integrations for some apps.

Comment Re:So... Covenants (Score 1) 324

There is one other process. It's called a variance. The Board of Directors, at their discretion, can under certain circumstances grant a variance to the CC&R. Now, if your 22 homes are truly of the mind to get high-speed, why isn't the HOA via the Board trying to negotiate something? If the declaration is what's getting in the way, and everybody wants the service, it seems changing the CC&R would be easy, especially for 22 homes. Now, move up to 300 homes, and life gets harder. Barring that (each state is different in regards to reqs for changing the CC&R). Alternately, the HOA has one other tool -- Special Assessment. You all find out the cost from the ISP to wire you up & the HOA as an entity pays them to do the neighborhood. The ISP is more likely to be willing to deal with one entity and one payer than 22 individual ones.

Comment Re:LOL, wrong question ... (Score 2) 177

by langedb (#43592571) Attached to: Richard Branson Plans Orbital Spaceships For Virgin Galactic

Assuming the cost is on the same scale, would you pay a few hundred grand for a few weeks in orbit?

Would I if I had it to spend? Absolutely. Can I or most of us afford to spend the cost of a house on this? Sadly, no.

I suspect most of us will never get to do this, which sucks. Because I would dearly love to do this before I die.

Folks said the same thing about:

  • Automobiles
  • Air travel
  • Computers
  • Cellular Phones
  • ... and much more
    • Give it 30-40 years or so and you'll be getting daily deal notifications about $1000 one-way tickets to Disney-Space on Southwest.

Comment Re:A B1 visa is not easy to get... (Score 1) 332

by langedb (#38208064) Attached to: A Floating Home For Tech Start-ups

The US has some amazing restrictions and employment laws. For example, I am a US citizen born abroad. Because I was born abroad and lived abroad, I didn't sign up for "Selective Service". Well, duh. However, this makes me ineligible for most government jobs or indeed student loans. (Yes, I have been told this in person by government officials.) I may have lived in the US now for over half my life, paid taxes, yadda yadda yadda, but if I want additional schooling then I'd have to go back to my country of origin (England) because I'd be refused it here.

So, why not just sign up for the Selective Service & get on with life? It takes just a few minutes to fill out the forms.

Comment Re:Now to get rid of noncompetes (Score 1) 214

by langedb (#30157250) Attached to: AT&T Loses First Legal Battle Against Verizon

I didn't have a contract with my old Cingular/AT&T service, nor do I have one with my new VirginMobile service. I also don't have a contract with Netscape ISP, or Dish Network. I *chose* not to take their offered contracts, and you could do the same, if you don't like being locked-in for 1-2 years.

I did the exact same thing with Comcast for internet and Dish for TV. They came at me with a contract, I declined & told them I'm definitely going elsewhere then as their competitors contracts come with more stuff. They caved.

Comment Re:Verizon is doubling the phone-subsidy to $350.. (Score 4, Informative) 520

by langedb (#30079920) Attached to: Verizon Doubles Early Termination Fee and More

Also, unlike most other services, with TracFone you don't own your number. You decide to switch carriers and your phone number goes with it. Personally keeping my number is worth quite a bit more than $350. To each his own though.

According to TracFone's FAQ. They will allow you to transfer your number out of TracFone, but your personal information on the TracFone account must match the information on the new carrier's account. Source

Comment Re:Mesh networks in Aviation (Score 3, Interesting) 131

by langedb (#29610967) Attached to: A Mobile Phone Mesh That Can Survive Carrier Network Failure
The HAM community already has this sort of thing. It's called APRS, and includes all the capabilities that you describe. All that would be needed is to put the necessary GPS and computer systems into the aircraft and wire them up to warn the pilot when another plane is getting too close.

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