Posts by koswix 33 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Jun 2012
If it's the opposite of infiltrate, doesn't that imply that the "hacker" put the data there in the first place, though? It's not exfiltration if it's their data, it's just theft.
My god, that word really does grate for me. Sad that I'm getting downvoted for a linguistic preference, whatever is the world coming to? Here's some other words that unreasonably annoy me if anyone else wants to jump on the downvote button: pumpernickel, edamame, bunion and ointment.
Well yes, I can see the obvious link to 'infiltrate'. a quick check round the usual dictionary sites suggests it's a relative new comer (1960s or 1980s depending on source), although I note that my favoured big word list maker, Chambers, don't list it at all. Certainly sounds like something the Cold War would produce - create something ugly and with a good dollop of brute force applied, to solve a problem that never really existed in the first place.
Like I said, I don't know if it's 'correct' or 'valid' language, I just know that I don't much like it.
A better idea would be a roll out of Canon's 3d video reconstruction tech. They demoed it at the rugby world cup last year, and some of the footage is frankly astounding. (Google Canon 3D rugby for plenty of examples).
Any word when something actually interesting and useful like that will be added to the tournament?
""How many line breaks do you make in the 22, how many are converted into points? I think that's a really, really good stat which shows you which teams are really clinical, which teams are converting their chances" into points."
We've actually had these stats available for a very long time. They're even displayed, in pretty much real time, both on TV and around the grounds. On TV coverage they often use some fancy graphics, where as at the grounds themselves they normally use a fairly old bit of tech known as a 'score board'.
As for kick prediction - anyone who follows the game reasonably closely can likely perform better than their algorithm. There's only six teams in the 6N (clues in the name), so essentially that's just six players (not accounting for injuries etc) that you really have to get a feel for when it comes to place kicks. I'd say I call 9 out of 10 kicks correctly, and I'm certainly no stats junky and don't follow as closely as many people I know (watch all TV games I can, attend all Murrayfield games with my son).
Should be even easier, as a Scotland fan, to predict our kicks this season. With our golden-booted Number 9 having retired last month, and fifty-fifty Finn having been sent home from training camp for having one too many on Sunday night, our kicking chance is going to be somewhere around 7%.
Maybe AWS could devote their marvellous AI to working out how the fork our Chief Exec warranted a million quid pay check, or how our head coach didn't get the boot despite failing to get out of the group stages of the world cup? I guess some questions are just too hard for AI and are better suited to artificial stupidity.
Beer icon, as rugby cannot exist without it.
Predictable cycle time is only relevant for actual step generation. Most commercial systems I've seen (including our newish Hurco machines we use at work) have a hybrid system with a CPU based system generating the acceleration profiles and a real time motion controller generating the control signals as queued by the CPU.
The motion control is a lot smoother and more finessed then our old Hurcos, and a lot better than my home machine running a smoothie board. We get better cycle time and surface finish (less chatter) out of our new machines than the old ones, even though they are using the same tooling.
Traditionally, yes. Travelling salesmen type paths are slow on traditional hardware, so would be interesting to see if the cuda cores could speed things up.
But in terms of motion planning (for acceleration profiles) is often done in the controller hardware, and also requires the hardware to look ahead at the next moves and account for them. Traditional DIY controllers are limited by slow processors and limited ram (few hundred kB), which limits the number of moves held in memory while still allowing head room for the calculations.
With that performance and price, I see a potentially promising future as a CNC controller, with decent look ahead and route planning. Travelling salesman like path optimisation would be nice to implement in hardware, wonder how it would cope with that. Any word on numbers and capabilities of the GPIO pins?
November 2013 to February 2017 is 40 months, I think.
1.2m settlement, minus lawyers fees (400k) and 10k for the first guy, leaves 790k for paying out the rest. Call it 800k.
At 100 dollars a payout, that's 8,000 purchases from the store. In 40 months. 200 purchases from their app store a month.
I had no idea it was doing so well.
Apart from the Orwellian level of surveillance, and the lack of basic features*, and the general instability of certain drivers**, I quite like 10. In a "oh god is this really the final push I need to switch to Linux full time" kind of way.
*auto switching between headphones and speakers when I plug/unplug headphones. How on earth did they fuck that up?!
**I'm looking at you, WHQL certified nvidia driver!
>>So I phoned up and had a massive go at them. As you do.
No, as /you/ do. When I need someone in customer service/Tech support to sort something out I tend to find that not being a complete arse hole to them is far more effective.
And as someone who (sadly) works in customer service I can confirm that the people who "have a massive go" are the ones that get bumped down the to do list and receive the bare minimum of help.
That's how I ended up with Sky - BT wanted 120 quid to reconnect my phone line, Sky did it for 20.
My sky broadband has pretty much worked from day one, at close to the maximum speed (19.8 mbit last time I checked). But then I live in a city, and the exchange is about 3 streets away. YMMV.
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