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Comment Teaching (Score 1) 130

I bought a Google assistant a few months ago, just after it became available in my native language. The one thing that surprised me is that I can't teach it anything. It's supposed to learn, but I can't speed up the learning process by explaining it what I want. Why can't I use my voice to tell it what kind of routines I want? Why is it not possible to teach it synonyms?

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Submission + - Predictions of the Future...From The 1960s (singularityhub.com)

kkleiner writes: "Jetpacks, flying cars, death rays — the future isn’t quite what the past hoped it would be. Of course, when predictions do come true it can be really shocking. Check out some of the more entertaining and eye-opening videos that show classic predictions from the 1960s. The Jet Age couldn’t imagine the Age of Social Media clearly, but they got a few things right. And many more hilariously wrong."

Comment For those who can't listen to the interview (Score 5, Informative) 341

Here's a link to an article in English:

http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid14_gci1332898,00.html

From the article:

Many TCP servers use a technique known as a SYN cookie in order to prevent attackers using spoofed IP addresses from launching SYN flood denial-of-service attacks against them. The cookie is essentially a chosen TCP initial sequence number that is calculated using some specific hashed metadata that reflects the details of the specific TCP connection. Once the client returns a correct packet to the server, the server knows that the client isn't using a forged IP address.

Sockstress computes and stores so-called client-side SYN cookies and enables Lee and Louis to specify a destination port and IP address. The method allows them to complete the TCP handshake without having to store any values, which takes time and resources. "We can then say that we want to establish X number of TCP connections on that address and that we want to use this attack type, and it does it," Lee said.

Security

Kaspersky To Demo Attack Code For Intel Chips 303

snydeq writes "Kris Kaspersky will demonstrate how attackers can target flaws in Intel microprocessors to remotely attack a computer using JavaScript or TCP/IP packets, regardless of OS. The demo will be presented at the Hack In The Box Security Conference in Kuala Lumpur in October and will show how processor bugs can be exploited using certain instruction sequences and a knowledge of how Java compilers work, allowing an attacker to take control of the compiler. The demonstrated attack will be made against fully patched computers running a range of OSes, including Windows XP, Vista, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Linux, and BSD. An attack against a Mac is also a possibility."

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