The General Technology Thread

[foszoe]

Ooooh I am soooo giddy....



Not because I care so much for personal use





but I do own some stock

Nvidia stream starts at noon. Should see the next generation of GPUs.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Take An Immersive Tour Through TNG's Enterprise-D In Stunning VR | TREKNEWS.NET

 

[ArcadiaGP]

IP Address is Not Enough to Identify Pirate, US Court of Appeals Rules

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Google adds new features to help U.S. veterans find jobs or highlight their businesses

 

[JettaKnight]

IP Address is Not Enough to Identify Pirate, US Court of Appeals Rules

Huh.

There's one thing I find sloppy in this article - calling the makers of the film "trolls". They own the copyright from the very beginning and have a valid reason to enforce the copyright.

A troll is someone that generates a bogus copyright or patent or buys a valid one with the sole intent of extortion.


Now as to the film in question - The Cobbler starring Adam Sandler... hasn't enough damage been done? I mean the film got 9% on Rotten Tomatoes.


EDIT: It seems I might be a bit wrong - if they're using litigation as a means to make money (i.e. setting up an LLC for copyright enforcement), then yeah, definitely trollish... maybe a halfling...

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Denuvo: "There is no uncrackable game. What we do is protect the initial sales"

Their angle is... Pirates will only wait so long before giving in and purchasing a game.

Denuvo, for those that don't know, is DRM technology. An effort to lock-down a piece of software by restricting use to only those that purchase it (which, in many cases, also affects those that purchase it.)

 

[wtburnette]

Denuvo: "There is no uncrackable game. What we do is protect the initial sales"

Their angle is... Pirates will only wait so long before giving in and purchasing a game.

Denuvo, for those that don't know, is DRM technology. An effort to lock-down a piece of software by restricting use to only those that purchase it (which, in many cases, also affects those that purchase it.)

I disagree with that premise.

 

[jkaetz]

I disagree with that premise.

It's a DRM company, they can't admit that DRM doesn't work and only inconveniences only the legitimate buyers.

 

[wtburnette]

It's a DRM company, they can't admit that DRM doesn't work and only inconveniences only the legitimate buyers.

Yep, I get it. Too bad so many game developers use that crap.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Interesting, a hole was found on the ISS.

They were depressurizing, found it, now considering how to repair it.


https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2018/08/30/international-space-station-status/

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Someone on reddit did a live update, here's the series of events in order.

Update: the leak would be in the orbital module of the Soyuz docked to MRM-1 (Rassvet).
Update 2: they found a 2mm hole near the hatch of the Soyuz.
Update 3: the hole is covered (possibly by tape, I'm not sure using Alexander Gerst's finger for now) and the pressure is now stable.
Update 4: Alexander said it looked like a drilled hole that might have been there for quite some time, I'm not sure about what I hear but the repair might be a little bit more complicated since covering it is not entirely stopping the leak. Some pieces of metal might have been twisted a bit.
Update 5: the hole has been covered by kapton tape, but there would still be a small leak.
Update 6 (edited for clarification): the depressurization rate has been divided by 6, which means that at this rate of depressurization they'll run out of air in 18 days (and of course it's not going to happen! It's just a way to picture it) which gives them a lot of time to find a solution.
Update 7: astronauts are currently searching for the external holes from the Cupola using zoom lenses and binoculars. The inner hole is going to be repared using a special kit (I'm unsure about what it is exactly, sorry)
Update 8: the current depressurization rate is of 0,1mmHg/min which is not a problem, it's going to be fixed very soon I believe. The crew is not in danger and this isn't a big emergency.
Update 9: official NASA blog post about the event
Update 10: Pictures of the hole have been sent to the ground and are being studied.
Update 11: The livestream is not giving any new information for now, so I'm stopping the live coverage for now. I'll try to keep you updated if something happens. If I got anything wrong during the updates I'm sorry but it's really hard to understand exactly what's being said on the livestream!
Update 12: Patches are currently being installed over the hole.

 

[Mr Evilwrench]

Don't they let those people have duct tape any more? What they need is a tap, a bolt, and a nice glob of threadlock.

 

[T.Lex]

Wasn't sure where else to put this, but wanted to spread the word on it. We truly live in an amazing time.

We Are Letting Brain-Damaged Patients Die on a False Assumption

After all, Routely had been completely unresponsive for the 12 years since his severe traumatic brain injury. He was thought to be in a vegetative state: complete unawareness of self or environment. But, as Owen watched Routley’s brain inside a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner, he saw a region of the motor cortex called the supplementary motor area—thought to play a role in movement—light up with activity. When he told Routely to relax, the activity ceased. And when he asked Routley to imagine walking around his house, he saw clear activity in the parahippocampal gyrus—a region of the brain that plays an important role in the encoding and recognition of spatial environment.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Elon on Joe Rogan talking heavy technology, AI, integration of AI with human cognition...

Just deep, fatalistic tech talk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycPr5-27vSI

 

[T.Lex]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-45470799

Speaking of technology integration, bio-printing autologous transplants.

Amazing.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Microsoft Will Continue Supporting Windows 7 Beyond 2020, But With New Monthly Charge

 

[jkaetz]

Microsoft Will Continue Supporting Windows 7 Beyond 2020, But With New Monthly Charge

How loud will the screaming be from home end users I wonder. I doubt most people will pay it and we'll have a whole new round of people who refuse to upgrade and leave their systems open to attack.

 

[jamil]

Elon on Joe Rogan talking heavy technology, AI, integration of AI with human cognition...

Just deep, fatalistic tech talk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycPr5-27vSI

At first I was like, that would be cool to have hardware augmentation available to people. That could possibly be the answer to the problem of competence disparities. As automation pushes the workforce’s required skillset ever higher, there will be fewer jobs which lower skilled workers would be qualified to do. As AI gets better, this group will eventually include the intire set of humans. There really isn’t a good solution for that. However if those workers could be “augmented”, they can keep up with AI. Great theory. Except...

You think it’s bad when your email gets hacked. Can you imagine hacking the hardware in someone’s head? Used to be said, the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world. In that kind of future, the one who writes the firmware will rule the world. Ain’t no way.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

The European Parliament just passed the Copyright Directive, article 13: 438 yeas, 226 nays, and 39 abstentions.

This is the "Meme ban" that was brought up before. Taking baby steps to become authoritarian China.

 

[actaeon277]

The European Parliament just passed the Copyright Directive, article 13: 438 yeas, 226 nays, and 39 abstentions.

This is the "Meme ban" that was brought up before. Taking baby steps to become authoritarian China.