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I was going to say the BT Museum, but that closed to visitors in 1997(!).

The replacement is "Connected Earth": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connected_Earth

> Connected Earth is a UK network of organisations, primarily museums, that preserve the history of telecommunications in the UK. Heritage artefacts are physically dispersed to Connected Earth partners and other institutions as appropriate, and are brought together again online through virtual galleries, searchable catalogues and educational resources at its website.
Take Ethernet for example: we've had multiple distinct technologies that used the name, but we always call it ethernet (I suspect that we only avoided calling wi-fi "ethernet" is because wi-fi is shorter).

It is much the same for countries, who die and reform in approximately the same geographic location and keep the name to preserve the illusion of continuity. Portugal's history is far from free of such reformations, civil wars, etc...
> Bletchley Park is great for its own exhibition, plus it
> has the UK's national museum of computing

Came to say the same. It's recently had a bout of lottery funding too.

They still have a running Colossus replica too - well worth a visit.
It doesn't mean that either. It's just an SLA. Could have been a number pulled out of the air. Likely loss in real life would be granular at the object level.
In this case the IPs probably aren't spoofed, but there's always the chance that you're blaming IPs that didn't engage in the attack but somebody just put it randomly as source address in their packets.
Somewhere there is a Doctor Evil quote describing this exact scenario...
This seems like it'd be mostly used in private games, of which I'm sure there are a huge number. Many of those are probably also going to be pretty high stakes, and if someone loses a bunch they may not be inclined to go to authorities and claim cheating - if said authorities would do anything anyways. ("Awww, you lost your money in an off the books backroom private game? Perhaps next time you'd like to try one of our fine professionally run casinos.").

I suspect that most casinos are set up with surveillance designed to catch point source IR LED illumination these days.
Where am I getting what? My argument is that weak leadership causes the problems we see. You sound personally affronted because the I am pointing out a view of the industry that is not rosy glasses where we are all geniuses and Silicon Valley inspired culture solves all the hard problems with slam dunks. These problems are preventable and the tech industry is actually a wasteland of poor understanding and repeating organizational and managerial failure. These are ignored because everyone else is as almost as bad, and most people can't judge the good from the bad. This isn't cutting edge research, you carbon copy a competent company's design and they will probably explain it publicly if you ask nicely. There are forums like IETF and NANOG where you can exchange these practices, and professionals do that to build the profession.

Swap out BSD with anything you please, just don't single source when you've hit breakout success and revenue loss from failure is material. I'm not a zealot, I even think WinNT is a pretty nice kernel and could fit into this picture with the new Microsoft. The point is you aren't holding up whole digit numbers of worldwide GDP on one kernel with a very poor security track record. Every modern widely used kernel applies to this statement. This is insane, I hope you can take that away from this thread at least.

The cost of designing against common mode failure is inconsequential when properly budgeted against cost of actual failure. Any company in the Fortune 500, non-tech included, could afford to create a DDOS-proof DNS and web platform. Luckily they shouldn't have to if the service providers acted more like Verisign. And it scales down too, it would cost at most $100s of dollars a year for a single person company to multisource cloud providers, but likely it will be a wash since IAAS is most commonly usage billing.
Really.... slow.... news..... day.....
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Gießen, Germany has the Mathematikum (http://www.mathematikum.de/en.html). Its exhibits are probably aimed more at children, but I still enjoyed it.
Sorry, I was trying to offer constructive feedback in case the person I was responding to was actually not trolling.

His comment is valid, I suppose, but only with added context. Hence why I suggested: "For instance elaboration on why you like this idea, etc would at least give people something to discuss."
Wow, you somehow made this about you again.
Hackers?
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Aaargh!!
This seems to resemble more a problem of agency law. The recruiter was an agent of the government. Is the government liable for their agent's statements to potential soldiers?

>[Considering a swimming pool salesman...] Envision a situation in which a third party questioned the agent about the expected life of a chlorinator. Suppose the agent told the third party that the chlorinator's expected life was twenty years when it was actually only five years. Suppose further that the agent made this representation knowingly and with the intent to induce the thirty party to buy the equipment, and that the third party did buy this equipment in reasonable reliance on the agent's misrepresentation.

> Even assuming the manufacturer did not authorize the agent's misrepresentation, and in fact told him always to be truthful with potential customers, the manufacturer would be liable if the third party brought a common law fraud action against him. The court would determine liability under an authority analysis, applying the general rule that an innocent principle is liable for an agent's misrepresentations if the misrepresentations fall within the general class of statements that the principal apparently authorized the agent to make.

http://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=21...
It would also help if the incentives shifted. Right now, cities make money on business land use, but lose money on residential land use (on average). So either residents need to lower their expectations of services, or start paying more taxes.
Musk briefly commented on nuclear during the MCT announcement. He said it was ultimately dependent on environmentalists on Earth allowing it.

Other viable methods for power generation that are amenable to in-situ production include geothermal heat loops and solar concentrators.
Speaking from my own experience having lived abroad in multinational environments half my life, cliques tend to form whenever a shared culture/heritage is sizable enough to form a community (usually starting at around a dozen) in a foreign enviroment
The cheating device in this article also required a marked deck. So as long as the house isn't in on it, this cheating method wouldn't work in casinos.

The article did mention that some anonymous sources claim to be using these devices in Vegas casinos, so I wonder of there are some corrupt dealers in cahoots with the cheaters.
I wonder if cards are transparent enough in some wavelength, in which the markings on the face are still readable.
This is so unbelievable they could mess up somthing like this. I hope this becomes major news. These people shouldn't be paying for someone else mistakes. If the money is mentioned in the contract, I don't see how they could just take it because of their mistake.
That is a pretty flat take on what exactly is happening. If you've never had to view military service as a "good" path out of poverty then it might seem as simple as that but surely if you sat and thought for a few minutes, you might be able to conceive of a situation in which someone might sign up for reasons other than the one you've given.
Exactly. It's a fanboy gone manic.

I don't remember and can't see who wrote it while entering this comment, but wow, he really is amazed at himself. So tremendous! His vision is huge! It's unbelievable!

Well, that last part is right at least.

Aside from my snark, I'll eat crow if Apple makes a see-through phone.
So... don't use that default password?
Just pin it on some medical issue. Or just "Doctors' orders".
I'm sure we'll all be very proud of our shiny new fixed-rail tracks in 2046, when cars are self-driving, operated as a coordinated fleet, and available for hire in less than a minute in any street, driveway, or parking lot in the area.
> Meanwhile not much is required in the way of resources or skill to mount a botnet attack...

You mean they don't qualify?
Huge amount of useful information for anybody with a laptop - screens break anytime, anywhere, and of you are in maker-mode at 0300 you wont be getting it fixed for a day! VNC definitely a great tool to have on and running all the time in case this happens. The other tools very useful to know about.
As their "Recent News" goes back to 2014, I don't think we need to hold our breath.
Yup. I'd go all the way back to Nixon and Watergate, followed by the anti-institution rhetoric of Regan and his acolytes which served as a reaction. Mix in the junk bond scandal of the 80s and you had the groundwork laid for fundamental distrust in basic institutions like government and the banking system.
Good point, but it works with marked cards so you essentially have to have control over the deck anyways. It can't work in an official game by a player, the house has to be in on it.

My guess: this device is used to rip off players in backroom games. Marked cards are nothing new. The only novelty here is that the system is hard to detect if you don't know about it.
This thing could be completely stealthy though, I suspect that you only have to turn on the infrared LEDs if the environment not lit well. And even that can probably be solved by using a more expensive camera module...
Possibly true in 2002 - not today, not since indie developed games got popular.
I don't think I'm under NDA for this (hope not):

There are already contracts and systems for parties to get this from the utilities. Depending on the utility market, you can even get this information realtime (not HFT realtime). The systems are really quite sophisticated, and companies are already building all sorts of analytical platforms (from fancy excel spreadsheets to ML applications) around the data that they do have access to.

Do you have contacts in the markets? Do you plan to get this information using some sort of meter? What kind of experience do you have with this type of data? The data itself varies greatly in quality and that needs to be factored in to anything you do. This information is also highly proprietary.
How Valve Crowdsources the Policing of Cheaters in Counter-Strike: GO
I suspect that we're going to live to find out the answer.
You can go further than that.

And wider.
No, because blaming the author for unnamed transgressions is not a fundamental aspect of not liking a book.
Oh, I forgot to mention: The Deutsches Museum in Munich, the world's largest museum of science and technology:
http://www.deutsches-museum.de/index.php?id=1&L=1
It's awfully unfair that you split my subthread off and not the comment I replied to.
A nice presentation I found to introduce software engineers to category theory and its areas of application:

http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~sme/presentations/cat101.pdf

I don't know category theory so I can't vet it. My skimming of it did show it was interesting, though.
This is fantastically timed and very well explained. Our company is working deeply with Category Theory right now as we believe programming in the future will find itself focused primarily on the task of orchestrating AI to code.
The USA elections are right around the corner. Nuff said.
You could go back as far as you want, but the bulk of voters and those in power grew up in the environment of the late 60s through to the early 80s. Their ideologies were largely shaped by events during that time (which also includes Vietnam, the Iran Contra scandal, etc).
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I'm surprised all they found were PLC based solutions. I worked in lighting and building controls for years and most products used embedded systems and not PLCs.
Put an ad on a couple job boards and specify that the position is open to remote workers.
"Hm, we were reviewing decade old records and we make a mistake by overpaying you by tens of thousands. Give it back."

What employers are legally able to get away with this?
That is sickening
http://www.anonintelgroup.com/2016/10/21/twitter-down-its-no...
Work at different management levels
Your sense of mechanical sympathy is not aligned with the advances in hardware and internet infrastructure. It would be possible to handle a 1.2tbps DDOS in a single IX like LON, AMS, FRA, LGA, IAD, ORD, ATL, MIA, SJC, LAX, SIN, HKG, ICN, KIX let alone world wide. It would take a lot more active management and work across companies if someone is clogging regional interconnect to a spoke, but that would not cause worldwide outage.

1.2tbps is 120 of Verisign's 2013 server and code, maybe a million dollars CapEx. And 12 100g peering ports, $150k monthly at bulk transit pricing if you can't do any settlement free for some reason. Yes there are other costs, but it is easy to scale and well within the means of midsize business let alone unicorns.

The thing about DDOS -- it's a lot harder to get aggregate bandwidth, those eyeball networks will bottleneck a lot sooner than 1000 meter runs of fiber between peers at an IX. And there are some natural imbalanced ratios like CDNs that are sitting on dozens of tbps of unused ingress that can jump into offering services for other companies that don't want to figure it all out.
Well, if the movies are to be believed, while that may be true, you're liable to get your ass kicked.
If it works alongside the existing DNS, let's make it happen. These new DDoS attacks are causing a great deal of collateral damage.
I see the comment below saying they bought it secondhand but the company might also just see this as marketing and used the budget for that.
China’s plan to organize its society relies on ‘big data’ to rate everyone
That sounds like a scam. If the collecting agent can't find proper documentation, then there is no indebtedness. I would wait until they served you papers, then get any sane judge to throw out all charges. If they send it to collections then go at them with full might of consumer and labor protections.
>" The futuristic device, which Johnson says might actually not need to be implanted beneath the skull at all, is designed to facilitate communication between brain cells by hacking the “neural code” that enables our brain to store and recall key information. "

Estimated timescale: centuries. Not for want of trying, but we have no credible idea what "the" neural code is, even in subcortical areas that are relatively simple to study like the optic and auditory nerves. Once you're anywhere beyond the inferior colliculus, all bets are officially off. (and if you have any good ideas, drop me a line!)

Our best tools fail to explain anything particularly interesting about much, much simpler analogous systems: http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2016/05/26/055624.
So do I. Also in NYC, West Hollywood, and Santa Monica. And the subletter is also getting a deal, so they stay quiet.
This was a claim (according to the article) of specific group who goes by the name New World Hackers.

The word hackers has very wide meaning and this title can be considered to be insulting to multiple subgroups who like to think of them as hackers in a good sense.
I feel like they've probably thought of that.
Not sure why this is a reply to me, since it also forgets Cyber command, which I was pointing out.
Making cars drive themselves addresses only one aspect of personal automobile inefficiency: parking. Road congestion (and with it land use which is excessive, growing, intrusive and dangerous when interspersed with human activity) will continue to be a problem. Energy usage will continue to be hilariously inefficient.

The benefit you point out is right: cars are convenient. But their convenience has serious costs.

Given a choice of two hypothetical futures:

1. I can get in a vehicle within minutes from anywhere, provided I live in a dense urban area. A third of said area is consumed by automobile infrastructure. All of that infrastructure is dirty and dangerous. I pay tremendous amounts of money out of pocket to travel anywhere more than a mile, but I get to spend that time alone.

2. I can get on a mass transit system anywhere within a mile. Two thirds of the road infrastructure is reclaimed for public usage (pedestrians, cyclists, public life); all but a tiny sliver of the rest (mostly highways which are unsuitable for public life) is either intentionally converted into parks or allowed to be reclaimed naturally. Society treats mobility as a public good, and we all pay a pittance to travel more than a mile as a result. I have to sit next to someone man-spreading.

I know which one I'd choose.
The article said they would be targeting Russia.
It also says it can be used for multiple games though.
The device where the impression is served would do a little work, proving that the ad was indeed viewed and thus preventing fraud.
The first thing you learn when playing with genetic algorithms is that the mutation rate has a major influence on the outcome. Evolution doesn't work if the rate is too high or too low and within the working range it also shows a positive correlation between mutation rate and speed of evolution. It makes sense that the evolution of Tardigrades has slowed down tremendously by now.
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His returns were better in his early days before he was famous enough to benefit from this, so its hardly the reason he got so rich.
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So much passive aggressiveness at the start and end of the article that anyone sent this would roll their eyes and close it.

So who did the author write it for? Themself?
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That's not even true. Functions can map between lots of things, not necessarily numbers.
My impression? Kermit worked (if slowly) when other protocols wouldn't. Back in college, when I dialed into the University and attempted to download files, Kermit was the only one that would work across the insane university network (you dialed into a DEC terminal server, then you would issue a connect command to the actual computer you wanted. You could attempt to get an 8-bit clean path by sending a break character to get back to the terminal server, issue another command, then resume the connection, but for some reason, that almost never worked in my case).
Baxter is... special.
I usually never comment like this, but admire your passion for ingenuity and glad you shared it.
Suggested targeting:

"...attacks were merely a test, and claimed that the next target will be the Russian government for committing alleged cyberattacks against the U.S. earlier this year."
Road congestion (and with it land use which is excessive, growing, intrusive and dangerous when interspersed with human activity) will continue to be a problem.

This is your opinion, not a fact.

A third of said area is consumed by automobile infrastructure.

Yep. So why build fixed rail? The infrastructure that future mass transit systems will need is already there. Let's spend the money maintaining it, upgrading it, and generally taking better care of it.

All of that infrastructure is dirty

Do you think cars will still be burning gasoline and diesel fuel by the time ST3 is complete? If so, why do you think that?

and dangerous.

Hard to respond to that. What's dangerous, in your view? Do you think pedestrians will still be hit by cars and trucks by the time ST3 is complete? If so, why do you think that?
Buying might be arguably slightly cheaper than renting due to tax savings, the down payment of 20% on a $1Mm-$3MM place is a prohibitive barrier.
Love it! Reminds me of Dan Carlin's "Kings of Kings" series in his Hardcore History podcast. The world was fascinating back then. Even the names of people/places were epic: Ninevah, the Elamites, the Assyrians, Ahura Mazda, Marduk, etc! So epic!

http://www.dancarlin.com/hardcore-history-56-kings-of-kings/
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I think comparing an internet troll with a mugger or rapist is ridiculous.
Rare photo taken of Google co-founder Larry Page’s ‘flying car’
I don't get why it has to be at all about the role itself, the honour of the military, or anything else.

If I'm extended an offer of employment including a $10,000 signing bonus, sign, take the job, receive my bonus, complete the job as agreed, and the contract expires and I go on my way... The company doesn't get to come back to me years later and say "Oh, oops, I actually forgot to have my boss sign off on that bonus I gave you. You need to give it back."

If you broke agreements with your financers on where/how that money was to be spent, that's your problem. Our contract was still valid - you have broken your contract with your financer and you can deal with the penalties.
...except the whole problem is that they overpaid bonuses.
They're not worried about drones running off of GLONASS...
I'm a bit late to this thread but that is far better than the ones proposed. If you added a diamond-like shape on top of it then it would resemble a dinosaur footprint. Perfect!
I do live in NYC.

This talk of "transients" is preposterous and, frankly, dubious. What do you think "transients" are? Roving bands of criminals?

Your comment is the most pathetic example of "think of the children" I have ever seen. Do you have any examples of material harm being done to children by Airbnb guests?
I troll when I've dismissed them entirely.

For example, if someone is a die hard trump or hillary fan to the point that a reasonable conversation just isn't possible, I start trolling. It's just a declaration that you've completely lost any respect I have for you as a person.
Maybe some people don't limit their horizons to what you can learn from video games.
Not sure why you're downvoted for a good question... I hate drive-by downvoters.

Well, the best answer I can say is: we do it already. Every time we've drilled for fossil water (that's a thing actually), oil, gas, salt (yep, we drill for salt), typically you want to do it into a fault line, because natural resources tend to gather there after millions of years. The exact circumstances depend heavily on the geology of the area; which I can imagine, for this type of investment/project, they are studying it thoroughly.

Really there's hardly ever problems sucking stuff out, it's shoving stuff back in that occasionally causes problems. 'Saltwater' (That's the leftover stuff after you extract the resources from your oil/water emulsion) disposal wells in the Midwestern USA have been implicated it lubricating ancient faults and causing minor earthquakes. (Interesting side note, the Midwestern USA was a giant ocean and has massive layers of salt deposits really far into the earth).

The technology behind injection wells is actually quite fascinating... they have cement and steel casing around the production casing through an absurd about of rock until they're way past the point where the point where it has no hope of returning to the surface. However, we apparently can't make very good predictions about what they do to ancient faults, and the communication between producers is minimal because they don't want to spill their secrets. Nearly ever state has a commission that regulates the amount producers are allowed to both extract and inject, but occasionally we still have problems because the commissions lack the field flow analysis that are proprietary secrets for most producers.

And no, fracking does not cause earthquakes or causes surface damage, even when the highly regarded scientific research organization CNN tells you it does. Doing so would be counterproductive to the producer anyway: they'd lose the valuable fluids they were trying to extract.