From what I understand, its the actual magnetic field produced by the monitor that when pulsated at various frequencies causes these effects. I don't think its related to epilepsy, but I don't know if the reasons why it works are known.
There are definitely companies have the kind of wifi infrastructure you are talking about who offer rentals to the people who organize these kinds of events. Here is an example of one[0].
Wifi is often deployed at large events (PAX East for example) and it is more then feasible if the company is willing to pay the money for another company to do it.
However, their server infrastructure is another question entirely. In today's age, making scale-able network services with very little downtime is not something that requires a dedicated networking team and hundreds of millions of dollars. I can't imagine they have very many good excuses to why they continue to allow this to happen other than that they don't value investment into their infrastructure enough (despite being a company completely dependent on the internet)
The problems that they are experiencing are ones that have caused problems and had solutions created for them for years. The just seem to be unwilling to properly invest in the solutions to fix them, which are cheaper than ever (considering the complexity of the issues in the grand scheme of things).
The issue he is referring to is the grsecurity has a history of allowing breaking patches, allowing bad code, attempting to upstream patches in chunks without splitting them up to make the process easier, and then complaining that their patches are being ignored.
But we all let google and facebook take our data. However, what they criticize the NSA for is that they rarely follow the law and spy on people without them ever knowing
It wouldn't be a big deal if this was just software, but the fact that Intel allowed a PROCESSOR bug to be reported, tested, and fixed without telling anyone that the bug actually exists is honestly horrible. You can't just let CPU bugs under the run since it can throw the stability and reliability of the entire system into question. The people that reported it shouldn't have to dig through Intel microcode updates and test different fixes to see if the bug they found was fixed. Hardware manufacturers (especially processor manufacturers) need to be held to a higher standard when it comes to bug reporting and this kind of behavior really has no excuse.
Treating Alex Jones as a serious media outlet is honestly the worst offense here. This guy has stated on multiple occasions in great detail that he believes that the Newtown shooting was faked and everyone was hired actors, that there is some great deep state conspiracy and other fear mongering shit about how the various politicians are the devil and will destroy the world.
That is literally the exact thing that I thought too. Its interesting that a sentence like this can be so easily misinterpreted by multiple people in the same way.
Yes, and the reason the government rushed to it is because they wanted the absolute best technology (that was orders of magnitude better than anything else) and would pay for it to have a leg up over their enemies. If they were cheap right when they came out, everyone would have bought them.
If you are talking about transistors, when they were invented the only other alternatives were triodes (vacuum tubes) or mechanical relays. Both were orders of magnitude less reliable and slower in terms of switching speed. When transistors were invented it was a mad dash to get them cheap and small enough to replace everything else, because everyone could tell they were the future. It took 9 years between the first transistor and receiving the Nobel Prize for it.
As a news organization, I would hope they understand the implications of PR and how silence can be very damning. I can't see them falling for it especially considering how many times they have sen others do it and it not go very well for them.
pretty interesting, seems like one of the first examples of news organizations "advertising" on reddit. I wonder how it will go down and if any others will follow.
I find it really interesting that they snuck the patch in to a commit months ago. Are there any other examples of something like this happening where maintainers had to obscure changes to the software?
This is pretty cool. I always find it interesting when cool mathematics ideas are used to help computer science.
I remember a while back I tried implementing something like this in a hobby operating system I was making, with constants similar to the one in the post. I found them on some random paper that included constants for a bunch of different trig functions. I don't think it ended up working and I ended up using a table of values that it estimated between.
Considering how much they are probably spending in order to make this happen (considering the amount of work being done to it), I feel like it was started as a proposal to the head people that there was a group of people that normally wouldn't use windows, but could be convinced to use it by having this subsystem. Along with this, supporting open source makes Microsoft look good.
But, it wasn't anywhere close to enough of an importance for Microsoft to abandon their data collection system just to go "all the way" with the whole open source thing. It seems like their privacy model is more important to them than whatever an open source model could bring them.
If people don't know that a vulnerability exists (For example: the Intel Active Management Technology) it can be very easy for the company to just ignore it. (Especially if it is one that reflects badly on the company) However, if people know that a vulnerability exists, it puts the ball in the companies court to do something about it.
However, that is just my personal opinion about the reason for Travis' tweets (which happen every time a large vulnerability is discovered), and I have no security background. I trust that people like Travis, who have done a lot of work to improve security, to know how to minimize the damage from the vulnerabilities.
It seems like this is a tool that simplify the process of creating and managing services to help speed up the development process, while still leaving the typical services that AWS provides available.
Yes, but the reason people are happy is because Microsoft is helping its own interest by doing things that people want. Which is a lot better than not doing things people want and furthering their own interests, because its usually not what people want. And it is something that people have been wanting for a long time.
Because once you have shown it is possible once, it means it can be done again. Why destroy a piece of history when you can destroy number 2 trying to fly it a third time?
They most likely spent the time bringing it up to the latest rev because of the performance improvements and increased reliability of the newer version. They didn't really care about how much time it took to get the second one to fly, as long as they could get it done. This was a really big milestone for their future plans, so it didn't really have a monetary or time limit.
100 tons is 200,000 pounds, which is 4 times the maximum payload of the falcon 9, which is 50,300 (to low earth orbit). geostationary orbit is a little more than 10 times less at 18,300
For this rocket, the process for figuring out if they can use it and how was very complex. This rocket was originally flown for the CRS-8 mission on april 8th, 2016. So it took them just shy of a year to ensure that this rocket could be reflown, and that they felt comfortable putting a customers payload on it. They also fired it on the ground many times, and I would imagine checked it for every imaginable component failure.
How ever, for the future, only time will tell how confident they will be able to be in the re-usability of their rockets. Most likely they will retire this rocket, as with the one that was first landed, and put it on display somewhere. After they research it, of course.
It seems that they can make trash and as long as it convinces more people to subscribe to netflix it ends up meeting their bottom line. And I guess they have figured out that that is what works, as unlike a normal tv station per show ratings don't matter if it is more shows that brings people in.
Does anyone know of an extension based program, that doesn't rely on an application, that just uses a keepass file stored in the cloud? I really like the idea of KeeWeb, but I wish it could be part of an extension, with support for things like automatic detection and autofill.
Wow this is really big. There are tons of documents about the various tools they use, but it seems the majority of the actual source code is still being reviewed and the links just show a link to the file list. I hope they eventually release the source code, as a lot of these tools seem very interesting. I can imagine that many at the CIA are running around on fire, as this seems like a big problem for them.
They were never actually sold, the only news related to it was back in march 2016 where alphabet said they were looking to sell. Afaik nothing has come up about it since.
A few years ago they were testing one of the big ones they built for the military called the legged squad support system. They were testing it in the parking lot, and it ended up rolling over and totaling this guys car. Turned out it was the guys first day there.