walter_bishop
Re:Does Evolutionary Psychology Show That Normativity Is Mind–Dependen...
on Thursday December 15, 2016 @01:38AM (#13182883)
"Note that evolutionary psychology, which theorizes that human behavior is genetic and controlled by largely genetic forces, is highly controversial in of itself"
If 'human behaviour' hasn't evolved along with homo sapiens then what do you propose as the source, and if you invoke some non-corporeal entity then please get thee to a pulpit :)
Re:WikiLeaks Was Launched with Documents Intercepted from Tor
on Sunday December 11, 2016 @01:27PM (#13152326)
"The activist siphoned more than a million documents as they traveled across the internet through Tor"
What was the name of this activist and why should we believe anything in that article.
Re:Mr. Robot Killed the Hollywood Hacker
on Wednesday December 07, 2016 @04:13PM (#13126269)
Doesn't anyone feel insulted that the hacker is depicted as a drug addicted dysfunctional social outcast with an invisible friend.
Re:Information Assurance by NSA – Official GitHub Account
on Sunday December 04, 2016 @01:00PM (#13100909)
I wonder, is it wise running NSA scripts on my computer, but then again, most probably the NSA has already backdoored it.
Re:A Billion User Load Test on Healthcare.gov
on Sunday December 04, 2016 @11:59AM (#13100587)
What's it cost to run Healthcare.gov on AWS, how many people-hours were spent in designing, configuring and deploying the website as compared to a non-cloud solution?
Re:When Einstein Tilted at Windmills
on Friday December 02, 2016 @12:31PM (#13090554)
"Ernst Mach had a mystical experience", It's interesting to put that quote in context:
"I have always felt it as a stroke of good fortune that early in life, at about the age of fifteen, I lighted, in my fathers library, on a copy of Kant's Prolegomena to any Future Metaphysics. The book made at the time a powerful and inextinguishable impression on me, the like of which I never afterwards experienced in any of my philosophical reading. Some two or three years later the superfluity of the thing in itself abruptly dawned upon me. On a bright summer day in the open air, the world with my ego suddenly appeared to me as one coherent mass of sensations, only more strongly coherent in the ego. Although the actual working out of this thought did not occur until a later period, yet the moment was decisive for my whole view. I still had to straggle long and hard before I was able to retain the new conception in my special subject. With the valuable parts of physical theories we necessarily assume a good dose of false metaphysics, which it is very difficult to sift out from what should be preserved, especially when those theories have become very familiar to us. At times, too, the traditional, instinctive views would arise with great power and place impediments in my way. Only by alternate studies in physics and the physiology of the senses, and by historico-physical investigations (since about 1863) and after having endeavoured in vain to settle the conflict by a physico-psychological monadology (in my lectures on psychophysics...) have I attained to any considerable stability in my views." from 'the Analysis of Sensations'
Re:Syrian Girl with Viral Twitter Account Narrowly Survives Bombing
on Monday November 28, 2016 @08:56PM (#13060082)
"Exposed: White Helmets stage rescue videos"
Re:Open source has won. Microsoft surrendered
on Monday November 28, 2016 @08:21PM (#13059948)
"Microsoft & Linux & Patents & Tweets"
https://meshedinsights.com/2016/11/22/microsoft-linux-patent...
Re:Hackers Breached San Francisco’s Transit System and Demanded a Ransom
on Monday November 28, 2016 @07:19PM (#13059612)
"HDDCryptor not only targets resources in network shares such as drives, folders, files, printers, and serial ports via Server Message Block (SMB), but also locks the drive. Such a damaging routine makes this particular ransomware a very serious and credible threat not only to home users but also to enterprises."
http://blog.trendmicro.com/trendlabs-security-intelligence/b...
Re:Worm Spreading Malware via Facebook Using SVG, JavaScript and Googl...
on Monday November 21, 2016 @08:26PM (#13010884)
"Initially only Windows users are being attacked, but infected macOS and Linux computers can be attacked and abused in the future:"
illogical Captain :)
"In the past web browsers in have been very secure by default .. the likelyhood of exploits targeting JavaScript and browsers is bound to grow."
Google on ActiveX exploits ..
Re:Bruce Schneier: 'The Internet Era of Fun and Games Is Over'
on Saturday November 19, 2016 @07:52PM (#12996635)
The problem isn't the Internet, where the problem lies is with the devices connected at either end.
Re:The Strange Inevitability of Evolution
on Sunday October 30, 2016 @04:20PM (#12832010)
"You don’t have to be a benighted creationist, nor even a believer in divine providence, to argue that Darwin’s astonishing theory doesn’t fully explain why nature is so marvelously, endlessly inventive."
I used watch those Dawkins v the true believers videos and I suspect such opinions are promoted to discredit Darwinian Evolution acting on the genome. Regardless of the unknown nuances of DNA, Evolution is the environment acting on the species to further adapt it to the environment. Here's another quote from Philip Ball: "What often goes unremarked among the revisionism that current research is prompting is that DNA was supposed to be the missing part of the puzzle in evolutionary theory: the repository of Mendelian hereditary factors."
So if DNA doesn't act on the units of inheritance, there must be some kind of spooky spirit entities acting on matter,
http://www.sciencecartoonsplus.com/images/miracle_sharris.gi...
http://www.philipball.co.uk/images/stories/docs/pdf/genes%20...
Re:The Mac Platform Decline
on Sunday October 30, 2016 @04:01PM (#12831910)
Yahoo finance says they're doing well. If this is a sign of decline then most companies would be happy getting such results.
Re:Finnish startup has a solution to provide internet anywhere
on Sunday October 30, 2016 @03:50PM (#12831846)
Given the nature of shortwave propagation, I would suspect the delivered service will be less than promised. According to this document it utilizes a form of peer-to-peer cell networking over shortwave. I would suspect that with the increase of base stations there would be lots of contention for usable bandwidth. As someone once put it, you canna change the laws of physics.
"While connected to the existing infrastructure, the radio switches to base station mode for offering INDEPENDENT communication to other users in GLOBAL network as well"
http://hfindustry.com/meetings_presentations/presentation_ma...
btw: Whatever happened to that low earth orbit satellite system that was going to provide Internet anywhere on the planet.
Re:The Fatal Mistake That Doomed Samsung’s Galaxy Note
on Monday October 24, 2016 @07:29PM (#12783846)
I'm not knowledgeable enough to say, but there are problems with these kind of batteries overheating, especially on recharging. Pumping electricity through a material produces heat. If it has nowhere to go then you end up with a fire and toxic fumes. The solution on airplanes being to put the battery in a sealed metal box with a pipe to vent any toxic fumes to the outside of the hull.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_787_Dreamliner_battery_...
Re:The Fatal Mistake That Doomed Samsung’s Galaxy Note
on Sunday October 23, 2016 @08:49PM (#12776168)
'Dendrites and Pits: Untangling the Complex Behavior of Lithium Metal Anodes through Operando Video Microscopy'
Re:The Fatal Mistake That Doomed Samsung’s Galaxy Note
on Sunday October 23, 2016 @05:46PM (#12775598)
My understanding is that the problem is trying to speed up the charging cycle and the battery not being able to dump the excessive temperature. For normal use I assume the phone is able to cope.
Re:Can Mental Illness Be Prevented in the Womb?
on Sunday October 23, 2016 @04:51PM (#12775370)
"ADHD and Other Sins of Our Children"
Re:Can Mental Illness Be Prevented in the Womb?
on Sunday October 23, 2016 @01:03PM (#12774319)
They would first have to define what exactly they mean by 'mental illness' and children getting diagnosed with ADHD has more to do with the pharmaceutical industry selling more drugs than any valid evidence that ADHD actually exists.
Re:Security bug lifetime
on Wednesday October 19, 2016 @06:30PM (#12748273)
Do these bugs still work on non x86 hardware?
http://kernsec.org/wiki/index.php/Kernel_Self_Protection_Pro...
Re:Soviet scientists tried for decades to network their nation
on Monday October 17, 2016 @10:40AM (#12725392)
"The distributed network was originally designed to nudge the US ahead of the Soviets, allowing scientists’ and government leaders’ computers to communicate even in the event of a nuclear attack. "
https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-soviets-invented-the-internet...
No no no, the Arpanet was never designed to survive a nuclear war, the originators are even quoted as saying so.
footnotes 5: http://www.internetsociety.org/internet/what-internet/histor...
Re:The importance of upvoting
on Sunday October 16, 2016 @01:04PM (#12719602)
Down voting should be disabled as it's too open to abuse.
Re:A single byte write opened a root execution exploit
on Sunday October 16, 2016 @12:35PM (#12719422)
I wonder what was wrong in this post?
"Being exposed to djbdns I was never tempted at all to try c-ares. Not sure what I missed. It must have some other redeeming qualities besides this one. :) Learning to master nc and tcpclient before curl* had the same effect. I guess I am missing all the fun. *There are so many features, so much rarely used code, I'm not sure one could ever hope to fully understand all the implications." jingo 22 hours ago [dead] [-]
Re:Lights, camera, cloud: How film is spreading its wings
on Sunday October 16, 2016 @10:57AM (#12718858)
Is cloud computing another name for a render farm that's available for rent.
Re:The Massacre at Monkey Hill
on Sunday October 09, 2016 @10:44PM (#12674710)
https://priceonomics.com/the-massacre-at-monkey-hill/
"Taking a cue from German zookeepers, the London Zoological Society designed an outdoor enclosure called Monkey Hill in 1924"
I'm confused, why would someone call a primate enclosure 'Monkey Hill in 1924'? Unless they meant: In 1924 and taking a cue from German zookeepers, the London Zoological Society designed an outdoor enclosure called Monkey Hill. "Ape and monkey society is built on violence and sexual dominance" and young human society is based on football and cock-blocking.
Re:Why an unhackable mobile phone is a complete marketing myth
on Sunday October 09, 2016 @09:38PM (#12674532)
How about putting a hardware switch on the device such that you can't write to the non-volatile memory when the switch is in the off state. For day-to-day use the switch can be left in the off state. For software updates, set the switch to on, boot the device, update the OS, set the switch to off and reboot the device.
Re:How the CIA Watched Over the Destruction of Gary Webb (2014)
on Saturday October 08, 2016 @03:51PM (#12668425)
"the journalist was found dead in his apartment, having ended his eight-year downfall with two .38-caliber bullets to the head."
How did he manage to remain conscious enough to pull the trigger again a second time?
Re:Linux Kernel Use-After-Free Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @09:51PM (#12641087)
> Instead of fixing a particular use-after-free, how about making use-after-free impossible?
Yes ..
Does this vulnerability work only on a particular architecture?
Re:Yahoo scanned customer emails for US intelligence
on Tuesday October 04, 2016 @06:47PM (#12640239)
So the NSA didn't demand access to Qwest computers and then didn't prosecute Nacchio when he refused.
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-story-of-joseph-nacchio-a...