Posts by Waseem Alkurdi 1240 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Apr 2018
I've been in the market for one, but the problem is that the (mostly) Core 2 Duo CPUs won't be able to cut it, in addition to being awfully heavy (but equally awfully bulletproof xD).
I'm considering a Toughbook ... Haswell ones are cheap, but the availability of parts is seriously in question, in addition to proprietary ports and locks and stuff ...
They say the younger generation is clever beyond our wildest dreams yet a simple test with a simple robot and they crumble.
Cleverness and submission to peer pressure aren't mutually exclusive.
You can be clever AND be weak in face of peer pressure.
It's more of a psychological health issue, and it's not only millenials or young people.
Children are and always have been frail.
We get away with assigning human attributes to lifeless, soul-less machines.
Could somebody just tell me how the fuck is an AI "inspired"?
Inspiration is an exclusively human experience.
Artificial intelligence mashing words together is not inspired.
And dunno, am I the only one who thinks that these poems are complete bullshit?
And this (from the article):
“In my opinion, a big improvement could be made by endowing the system with a feeling (or a model of it), so that a poem becomes an expression of feelings rather than of words. However, it is a debatable question whether an AI system could have feeling or sentiment.”
Before you can "add" feeling (or model it, in fact), you must define it, then "quantize" it.
Until you're able to do that, this suggestion retains its absurdity.
Thanks for shitting the party with the reference to IS and al-Qaeda. Like, seriously, why?
These guys only represent themselves. They "walk like a duck", but they don't "quack like a duck" (they claim Islam, but act in sheer contradiction with trivial Islamic rules with their crimes!)
Let me explain.
People are used to have a "public-facing" entity that vouches for a particular group and represents it. And they love stereotypes.
But this is not always the case. To put this into perspective, this is like saying that the opinions held by systemd's developers are necessarily representative of Linux as a whole.
Let me chime in with my perspective as a Muslim. I'm quoting Islamic primary sources to back my rebuttal here, and sorry for the long post.
I know that you don't believe in them, but this is a discussion about Islam, and Islamic primary sources are what conclusively determines the answer when any two Muslim factions disagree.
adopt a diversity and inclusion strategy
Islam embraces diversity. On the top of my head, there's this:
Prophet Muhammad said: "No white person superior to a black person, nor an Arab is superior to a non-Arab except by virtue of piety and personal integrity".
LGBT solidarity group
This doesn't happen for the same reason there isn't a pedophilia support group (one that permits/encourages offending) anywhere in the world.
But that's a separate and a long discussion.
an all-faiths ecumenical centre
Islam by default is ecumenical, and not just for sects of Islam, but for all religions under a (genuine) Islamic banner.
God has said in the Quran: "There's no coercion in religion", meaning that it's simply wrong to force somebody into Islam.
The Prophet has also said: "Whomever kills a pact-holder -a non-Muslim who lives under a Muslim banner, and is therefore protected- shall never smell the scent of heaven".
and a recruitment plan to rebalance its remarkably un-diverse leadership
Non-Muslims have always had administrative positions in Islamic government, whether it's Umayyad, Abbasid, or Ottoman variants.
I have sources but they're simply too long to quote here, but some are available here.
address the lack of management opportunities for women.
Women have for long assumed administrative positions as well.
There is the instance where a woman argued with the caliph Umar and proved him wrong, in public.
And there are cases in which women handled positions such as courts, ministries, etc.
If you want to learn about technology go and get involved in open source projects , join meetup groups get involved with your community , do not tell the police they don't get it and they will just mess you about.
Tell that to 13-year-old "h4kz0r" who thinks breaking into weakly secured systems using the oiled keyboard trick (or even worse, using a smartphone camera aimed at the keyboard) makes him "l33t h4kr".
They don't understand what open-source is about. All they understand is personal gain.
Depends what they define as "cybercrime", it could be a tweet threatening to blow up an airport.
Well, it's a little worse:
From the article:
Most of the youngsters have strayed into criminality after getting involved in the shadier aspects of gaming,
Read as: credit card theft, or possibly playing Fortnite? (/s)
some have committed hacks against their school's systems
Tells you something about the sysadmins of affected schools, doesn't it?
and others have engaged in lower-level forms of other online criminality
Yeah, that's the blow-up-the-airport tweet
or hacktivism.
Your occasional script kiddie's DoS after hearing the call of action from "Anonymous" du jour.
Let me answer that with an affirmative, though this isn't about breaking the end-to-end encryption layer.
What happens is that Gboard (or that Chinese malware keyboard app on the Play Store, hey, it's got colors!) intercepts keystrokes before they even get sent to the application, in this case WhatsApp. The keystrokes are only encrypted after you hit Send.
So yep, it's even possible for any enthusiast to use a keylogger disguised as a keyboard app.
Done the reading for you - the idea is that they get the public/private key pair from a WhatsApp Web session (when you link the phone and the Web browser, in particular), then they use the F12 panel to alter the requests being sent through the web client, decrypting the messages using the key pair in the process.
a small device that uses electrodes planted "through" the caudate nuclei, with nano-scale electric "shocks" introduced using a Raspberry Pi with a step-down transformer "thinking out loud, dunno if it even makes sense"?
Such a device could theoretically "induce" pessimism. Useful for the three-letter agencies?
I would like to see a tablet with the Snapdragon 845 chip (with decent cooling!!!).
They're already there (not sure about the cooling) - except that they run Windows.
Well, at least the Windows tablets might, one day, possibly, somehow get Linux, while Android tablets with (actual) Linux (with a mainline kernel and uses GNU coreutils instead of busybox) are as rare as ... dunno, rocking horse shit?
Samsung Bada
Thanks a lot sir!
This one (actually called Samsung Wave, it's the OS that's called Bada), along with the Nokia 6600 "The Bear/The Panda", Nokia 6630 "The Teardrop/The Devil", N70, N73, Nokia Communicator, and Nokia XpressMusic, were part of the multitude of dreams of my desperate childhood ...
The Register has yet to get its talons on a Surface Go, although initial reports seem promising (unless you are a gamer). However, with the thing scoring a 1 out of 10 for repairability, you'd best not drop it.
Isn't that the whole point of the Surface line?
To provide users with slabs that are supposed to last until the battery dies or the screen cracks, whichever comes first, then get thrown in the nearest closed drawer, and get the next shiny-shiny? No repair, no real life span (especially with the measly Pentium 4415Y that won't last anything (as opposed to my claim of 10 years of use (with SSD of course )for a typical business-grade laptop if the user only drops it occasionally and only does Average Joe stuff?
Shame.
but...holy cow, something that can barely browse the web at all?
Resource rationing. When you have a web browser, you actually have all these running at the same time on top of the Linux kernel and essential system services:
- network stack connected
- X graphical server up and running.
- A desktop environment (negligible if on a WM)
- A web browser hogging the poor thing.
But for such dedicated applications as ML and AI, one only uses the Linux kernel with barely any services except those needed for Python or whatever compiler, all on top of a text session. Much more resources available.
Even Noam Chomsky thinks Israel did more election hacking than Russia ever has.
I believe that this is true, but until I cite proof, I'm merely stating my opinion. Can you provide proof for such a claim which happens to tell a lot about the real face of American politics if true?
Of course, it's bollocks, but the social engineering was quite clever, using a stolen password to convince the recipient that the threats were real.
Imagine you used porn. And the same password on everything.
These two facts are enough to at least shake your and, at most, make you shit your pants.
Just try putting yourself in the victim's shoes.
The researchers found a list of 809 targeted organizations, two thirds of which were in Saudi Arabia, the Lebanon, Israel and Kuwait also targeted. Occam's Razor would suggest that maybe the Iranian hacking teams have a new subgroup that's going to work.
I could understand Iran targeting Saudi Arabia and Israel, but Lebanon and Kuwait? Why would they do that?
Particularly Kuwait. This state has been long considered "neutral" in the Gulf tensions and whatnot.
Provided that the display subsystem under ReactOS handles them, you could play them. Doesn't hurt to try on a VM, does it?
If the game needs is complex and needs obscure DirectX features, chances are that it won't work.
But you're better off looking at DOSBox (for the DOS-Win9x era) or a virtual machine running something like MicroXP (a 40-MB XP created especially for gaming and runs on as little as 32MB of RAM) (disclaimer: cut the VM off the Internet if you go this route).
Edit: There's also this: https://www.play-old-pc-games.com/compatibility-tools/dgvoodoo-tutorial/
This is, unfortunately, one of the times I really bitterly disagree with the whole article!
Unlike a typical El Reg feature, this seems to be one-sided for no good reason, nor it portrays the whole picture.
Let me list my objections:
1. From the article:
While time and Microsoft have marched on in the intervening years, ReactOS still bears more than a passing resemblance to Windows 9x or NT 4, making one of the project goals – "ReactOS looks and feels like Windows" – a tad inaccurate, unless you are still clinging resolutely to your installation CDs of yesteryear.
The project goal is still as is. ReactOS indeed feels like Windows (yeah, even modern Windows). The underlying design (for example, you have the basic WM, and the Explorer shell, a Start menu, …) and are all Windows. The core (I don't mean the kernel here, I mean the OS's core as a whole) is Windows. Perhaps call it "Windows Bare Essentials"?
And how is it any less Windows than, say, Windows Server 2003, upon which it is designed?
However, it certainly doesn't look like Windows 10. Yeah, because all that is cruft is added to the "base" Windows, and doesn't constitute Windows as a whole.
2. You failed to mention that ROS supports Windows XP themes since ReactOS 0.4.6, while mentioning this:
.If you absolutely must have that old Windows shell look
This is nothing that can't be rectified with a XP.msstyles theme + a custom 3D shell if you absolutely must have 3D eye-candy (for the Average Joes).
In the meanwhile (taking into consideration the incomplete-for-prime-time-as-always state of ROS), you have this:https://www.betaarchive.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15766, a shell written in C++ by an Italian dev who goes by the name Dax, and copies the XP look.
3. You tried it on Hyper-V. Had you tried it on VirtualBox (as the ROS team recommends: https://reactos.org/installing-reactos), you would have OOB networking support via the PCnet-III adapter.
4. From the article:
Familiar to users who have spent the last 15 years or so in cryogenic suspension.
You failed to explain this, and this is an unfairly exaggerated statement.
The Register had a crack at firing up ReactOS in a virtual machine and we were pleasantly surprised with what we found, after playing a short game of "hunt the driver" to get the thing talking to Hyper-V's network adapter.
I really wondered about what you have mentioned and about what the authors said in the quote above. Should you have tried VirtualBox (what's used by the ROS team for testing) instead of Hyper-V, the PCnet-III card works OOB. Why use Hyper-V?
@diodesign
Apple appears to be loading extra software that controls power usage at a higher level.
I'd suspect AppleIntelCPUPowerManagement.kext (or a related kext) was left unsigned. This way the kext won't load (no power management?) and the Apple press release would make sense.
To test this, one should get an affected MBP and compare all kexts to see which ones get loaded pre- and post-update, in addition to turning on "kext-dev-mode=1" in NVRAM and disabling SIP to see if the (supposedly unsigned according to Apple) kext loads (provided it was a kext issue, but probably is, again, if we were to make any sense of Apple's press release).
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