motters

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541.
by motters 16y ago
Diaspora had the money and popular backing, but it also looks as if they made some fairly unfortunate design decisions which meant that they couldn't run on ARM based servers (the "freedom box" concept).
542.
Swarm Intelligence(star.tau.ac.il)
2 points by motters 16y ago|0 comments
543.
A gallery of viruses(30computers.com)
1 points by motters 16y ago|0 comments
544.
by motters 16y ago
Most of what I read of cyberpunk came true, with the exception of consumer level brain implants and rogue AIs. Probably the main achievement of the cyberpunk genre was a recognition that the future was not going to be like Star Trek, and th
545.
by motters 16y ago
These aren't "attacks", they're just the exercise of free speech on the internet. No matter what, some people are always going to say bad stuff about you and if you take an adult attitude towards these things then you just have to live wit
546.
by motters 16y ago
My understanding of mobile phone security is that it's somewhere between abysmal and non-existent.
547.
by motters 16y ago
And this is also its weakness because if its only virtue is that it's "the cool place to hang out in cyberspace" then this is very vulnerable to changes in fashion (see MySpace/Second Life/LiveJournal/GeoCities).
548.
by motters 16y ago
No. AI only makes deities plausible if you subscribe to a very narrow and particular Singularitarian school of thought on what AI is and where it's heading. The megaphone diplomacy of these people tends to detract from the credibility of
549.
by motters 16y ago
There is perhaps some chance that I could be wrong due to the substantial inertia which Facebook has now accumulated, but I expect that it's just another fad which seems to be peaking if my spider-senses are correct. Facebook is not a part
550.
by motters 16y ago
Is it just me that finds this creepy?
551.
Disassembling the Kinect(ifixit.com)
1 points by motters 16y ago|0 comments
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Eurisko, The Computer With A Mind Of Its Own(aliciapatterson.org)
27 points by motters 16y ago|8 comments
553.
by motters 16y ago
I seem to remember that not so long ago it was standard advice not to give out your address or phone number to people you don't know on the internet.
554.
by motters 16y ago
SCADA isn't exactly mainstream technology. It's used primarily in factories. Having worked in industrial automation areas for quite a while I'd estimate that the number of people doing security testing on Siemens PLCs is a very small comm
555.
by motters 16y ago
Pity they didn't use some standard FOSS license, rather than rolling their own. http://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.html#NASA
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Printing architecture(blueprintmagazine.co.uk)
2 points by motters 16y ago|0 comments
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by motters 16y ago
Based upon the Google trends I estimate that Facebook will peak either at the end of this year or some time in the next. http://www.google.com/trends?q=facebook Facebook isn't particularly good as an application, so anything which co
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Killing off ID card scheme leaves hardware casualties(techeye.net)
2 points by motters 16y ago|0 comments
559.
by motters 16y ago
The technology and storage capacity of organisations like the Stasi in the 1980s is utterly trivial compared to what's possible now. Technology also greatly reduces the costs of spying, such that mass surveillance and "automatic policing"
560.
by motters 16y ago
I havn't looked at this, but I guess if you allow co-workers to rate each other then all that's going to happen is that the office politics gets transferred onto the site, with a lot of people bitching about each other, which might not be s
561.
by motters 16y ago
The battle for privacy was lost during the last decade - as in "we lost the war". http://media.ccc.de/browse/congress/2005/22C3-920-en-we_lost... The best we can hope for in future is a transparent or sousveillance society where an inform
562.
by motters 16y ago
I think the idea here is to get rid of in-house sysadmins as much as possible and rely upon an outsourced IT support contract. "Staff taking advantage of the scheme must buy a three-year service contract."
563.
by motters 16y ago
I notice the gratuitous inclusion of a silly quote about tablets (BYOT). Using your own hardware is ok, provided that the company is prepared to accept any security issues which could arise from that.
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Photography of Vivian Maier(vivianmaier.blogspot.com)
1 points by motters 16y ago|0 comments
565.
by motters 16y ago
"Of this nature", perhaps.
566.
by motters 16y ago
http://www.zuupy.com/ilikeon/entry/717002/
567.
by motters 16y ago
In that case maybe this isn't the loophole that I thought it could be.
568.
by motters 16y ago
I remember getting into a big argument about top/bottom posting in 1996. I was in favour of having replies underneath the original text, and I still am, because it makes everything easier to read.
569.
by motters 16y ago
It's not a scenario that I'd considered as a possibility before, but it does seem quite plausible that a hijacker masquerading as police or an airport security guard could get onto an aircraft without going through even so much as a metal d
570.
by motters 16y ago
Right. There will be some situations where a tablet is the most convenient format (reading books I think will be the main application), but for most situations ergonomics dictates a certain kind of physical arrangement where you can see th

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