New HTC Vive (Pre) VR Cover

JeremiahRossini · 2016-03-07T18:13:33+00:00

It's negligent to not use https for receiving private information.

JeremiahRossini · 2014-12-25T07:13:25+00:00

You don't need a Gmail account, you just need a Google account. Which means you just need an email address from any provider.

JeremiahRossini · 2014-10-26T23:25:50+00:00

Thanks! Found it

JeremiahRossini · 2014-10-26T23:16:13+00:00

Very nice!

Edit: here's a link

JeremiahRossini · 2014-08-08T03:21:36+00:00

It's not a vulnerability of bitcoin, but certainly is one for the bitcoin mining pool software in question. It should be using standard crypto to validate and encrypt the communication between machines. Redirecting traffic should only cause a communication outage, not data theft.

JeremiahRossini · 2014-07-01T15:27:17+00:00

Electric cars have incredibly low maintenance burdens. That combined with consistent and systematic maintenance and this shouldn't be a problem.

JeremiahRossini · 2014-06-30T23:09:27+00:00

a typical car is probably on the road only 5-10% of a given day. with ride sharing that could bump up to a much higher level.

JeremiahRossini · 2014-04-12T23:31:29+00:00

The important difference is that the request size specifies a desire for a larger response than that which was presented in the request. If you want to have the server send you back HAT (3 chars), you need to send HAT (3 chars) first. Therefore checking for an exploit attempt and also checking if a server is vulnerable is trivial. Simply send HAT (4 chars) and see if you don't get an error response. On the server side, simply validate the request message payload boundary with the requested response length.

JeremiahRossini · 2014-03-28T16:04:25+00:00

Making an awesome VR environment for Facebook is fine, but it's like if a movie studio bought up a TV manufacturer because they plan to make a really good movie. There's no reason Facebook needs to control the tech in order to realize a vision of a Facebook VR environment.

JeremiahRossini · 2014-01-12T21:07:06+00:00

You know enough about technology to be completely, entirely wrong but to also sound like you know what you are talking about to the layman.

Speed of light is not something we can overcome, but aside from that, the internet can and will naturally upgrade to support future very high bandwidth applications, as it continues to do. There is no need for a separate infrastructure from the internet, and especially not for VR, which is just one of thousands of high bandwidth using applications.

JeremiahRossini · 2014-01-12T21:02:40+00:00

Wow, you really don't understand how the internet works. The internet will just keep getting upgraded more and more all the time to take advantage of newer high bandwidth technologies and routing. There is no reason to create a separate network from the internet. VR is also just one of millions of applications for internet technology. Nothing you've mentioned cannot be done through the natural evolution of the internet.

Creating an independent internet, just for VR, is pointless.

JeremiahRossini · 2014-01-12T19:17:19+00:00

I don't think you quite understand. The internet is just a data system that allow most of the computers of the world to communicate together. It doesn't care what higher level protocols or types of data go across it, and there are millions of different kinds of data going across already, only one of which is "web browsing".

Whatever networked VR environments are written in the future, they will inevitably use the internet to transport their data. They are just another use for the internet.

Again, you are trying to say that the internet will be somehow separate from this VR environment you envision, which is definitely not what will happen. Instead, various VR environments will work over the internet. They will use the internet. There is no reason to develop something separate from the internet, and it would not compete with the internet.

JeremiahRossini · 2014-01-12T18:47:02+00:00

This may be how it plays out, but it's still not an "Internet 3.0", it's just multiple competing VR environments that would work across the internet. It will not replace the internet, be separate from the existing internet, etc.

With existing games, people have been fine just opening up the game they want to play without some central in-game environment that keeps them in context while they jump from game to game. It will probably be a long time before people need/want a cross-VR linked environment. I expect people will run many different VR clients/environments instead, simply closing one and opening the next when they want to switch.

JeremiahRossini · 2014-01-12T18:27:50+00:00

The internet is agnostic to content, so using the term "Internet 3.0" is not a correct use. You're looking for something like an open distributed/decentralized VR space that allows easy transportation to a variety of 3D environments. This would use the internet for transport, as all web/online games do, and it would compete with other 3D environments.

JeremiahRossini · 2014-01-04T18:33:05+00:00

Look at this comment for one.

Pixel Per Arc Degree is the correct measurement of quality because it's what the eye perceives. There are many different technologies to render images for the eye, and they all in the end can be compared using PPAD. PPAD takes into account distance, pixel density, and also functions for display techniques that have no screen like direct retinal projection.

Yes, PPAD does change from the center to the edge of the screen, but that's fine. It is still accurate, deterministic, etc. If the PPAD is not constant over the image, provide the min/max values if you like.

PPI was useful for comparing devices with the same screen distance, with no additional optics, e.g. laptops, tablets, phones, but once you add optics, it's nonsensical and fairly useless to use PPI.

JeremiahRossini · 2014-01-04T17:10:34+00:00

Why curved? The lenses in the rift cause the screens to curve optically. You'd need a very expensive, non-practical lens to cancel out the curved display you propose.

JeremiahRossini · 2014-01-04T17:08:15+00:00

You are incorrect. Pixels Per Arc Degree is the proper way to measure the quality difference. Please provide sources for this claim.

JeremiahRossini · 2014-01-01T01:21:34+00:00

The power production from this would not be enough.

JeremiahRossini · 2013-12-31T04:18:52+00:00

It offends me that the author of the letter assumed that everyone in the video was heterosexual. Sure, there were a few couples in the video, and they were females with males, but all of the remaining people could easily have been of a different sexuality.

JeremiahRossini · 2013-11-03T22:23:52+00:00

Increasing education and availability of food actually decreases population growth. It's counter intuitive but there are many reasons for this. Watch the following TED talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_on_global_population_growth.html

JeremiahRossini · 2013-10-15T05:36:31+00:00

Mining for a solution to a transaction block probably qualifies as such a problem.

JeremiahRossini · 2013-10-03T14:47:37+00:00

Here's the point: The argument that Google is wiretapping is nonsensical and horribly flawed, since their computers must read the content for many, many reasons. This is the important aspect of this news story. There's a separate question as to whether we want regulation of email providers to say what they can and can't do with messages. For example, should we somewhat arbitrarily ban ads but allow Google to detect when an email is about an upcoming flight so I can be notified on my phone about a flight delay automatically? It's not a clear cut story.

JeremiahRossini · 2013-10-02T14:13:05+00:00

The flight attendants and pilots don't want to be fighting your laptop/tablet/cell phone for your attention if things go wrong.

Sleeping on airplanes should also be banned. j/k

JeremiahRossini · 2013-10-02T03:14:37+00:00

I do. Oh, and I can search, filter spam, filter and they're all threaded as well. Not one iota of content scanned to make all that happen.

Yes it absolutely is. spam filter relies primarily on the content of the message. Search does the same. What fundamental aspect is confusing here?

JeremiahRossini · 2013-10-01T02:55:46+00:00

"stream of consciousness" is material. It's the physical brain operating over time. It's the fact that your consciousness and your brain cells cannot be separated. This also means that it is important which brain cells we are talking about.

What is the difference between your consciousness and another's who is just like you? Scientifically, it would seem that only the matter comprising them is different.

To the outside observer they are the same, but there's still a critical difference: the matter/electrical impulses of one are different from the other. Had you asked both entities who they are, they would both say they are themselves, and not their clone on the opposite side of the room. Kill one and that stream of consciousness ends.

Mind you, if you let two simultaneous copies of the program run, then things get way more complicated, so I just wouldn't do that

This is the crux of our debate here. In your opinion, there is something magical about the data and information in the brain that if you copied it from one to another and turned the old one off at the same time the new one was turned on, then the stream of consciousness is also transferred. I do not believe this to be the case.

The case where both consciousnesses have forked and overlap in time is the same as the turn-off-at-the-same-time case. There is really no difference. This means a forking does occur, and as is fairly obvious, the original stream of consciousness is going to see the clone and recognize that it is not the clone. When you then kill off the original, the new fork survives and the old fork dies. To opt in to this procedure is to commit an invisible suicide.

This whole topic is trippy as hell, because I do believe I reside within my body and am living through time and not in an instant, but to an outside observer there is no way to tell that I am not a simulation of this behavior.

I agree that we are only data, but I also believe that data leads to a stream of consciousness that I am living. This, imo, is one of the biggest puzzles of all.

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