Even though current publicly known experimental quantum computing is nowhere near powerful enough to attack real cryptosystems, many cryptographers are researching new algorithms, in case quantum computing becomes a threat in the future.
Did the submitter even read TFA? Everyone is happy with ssh and rsa because they work. People are working on encryption methods for when they don't. Nobody knows what's going to happen in the future but it's not here yet because there are no flying cars.
It's still a valid observation and worth noting. The author may or may not know that the shaking is due to the physics engine equalizing. His point is that it's interesting to users. Most people who play the game are not game developers. they have no experience with physics engines. They see random behavior and their brain churns it over and over again and again trying to correlate it with something. Consequently they are engaged in the game. Its technically a bug or a glitch, but it's a serendipitous one.
I think your faith in iOS developers is a little misplaced. I'd just like to provide an app of value to my customers, but Apple has no process in place to vet who gets to submit an app. They just let any entity that pays the $100 submit an app. That's hardly a barrier to the evil miscreants of the world.
I agree that the article was not entirely clear on how code signing is broken. this approach seems to be the ability to sideload new code. That's the code that hasn't been signed and that code hasn't gotten through the vetting process.
while i suspect you could always upload a regular app to steal contacts, you have hurdles beyond code signing and app approval to overcome. You need to make an app that's good enough that people will continue to use it. it would be pretty hard to get an app in circulation that was able to install a background process that stayed running and couldn't be shut off ever. The worst case scenario for this attack vector is just that. Instead of a lame stock ticker app that uploads two of your photos in the time it takes you the evaluate it as lame, it's a lame stock ticker app that took over your whole phone after running it for 10 seconds. Even though you deleted it, it managed to leave behind running code that is doing whatever it wants. That's pretty serious.
I have noticed tokay geckos can walk around on sand and peat substrates without anything clumping up on their feet. Sometimes I have seen them walk across pea gravel and drag a couple pieces along with them. It looks comical and it's quite apparent that the lizard didn't really want that stone on their toe. My hypothesis is the smaller particulate matter doesn't present enough surface area to accumulate the force required to move it. In order for the gecko to cling to something the ratio of surface area in contact with the pads to mass must exceed some threshold.
In the case of geckos it appears to conveniently exclude sand, water, and dust. Tape might have more problems, but we already use plenty of adhesives that require the surfaces be as clean as possible. This tape certainly sounds like an improvement to the gps mounting technology currently in my car.
If each drop emitter also has a laser emitter pointing down along the path of the drip, then you can individually illuminate each column of pixels. although, i think i like the term drixel for dripped pixel. Then you still have the problem of you can only illuminate one drixel in a column at a time, and your have a refresh rate that's tied to the acceleration of gravity. Also wind would screw this up, but as an art project it would likely be pretty cool.
Yes, but if I'm on the mars mission, i take solace in knowing all of the obstacles that are surmountable. Is sitting in this tin can for 500 days going to kill me? It didn't kill those other guys so that's 1 less thing to worry about. Now i can devote more attention to how to deal with the alien virus controlling Lt. Smith.
Is the distance from the asteroid to the earth going to be less than the distance from the earth to the moon? Is the distance from the asteroid to the moon going to be greater than the distance from the earth to the asteroid?
I'm a self confessed Apple fanboy. I've done my fair share of laughing at Microsoft for failing in the tablet market. But it sounds like they really could have had something with the courier. The article mentions that Allard envisioned the device as something that complimented the pc, not something that replaced it. That was key to the iPad's success. Don't try to be the workstation, just focus on doing a few things well.
This quote though really makes me think it could have been cool:
The key to Courier, Allard's team argued, was its focus on content creation. Courier was for the creative set, a gadget on which architects might begin to sketch building plans, or writers might begin to draft documents.
That is 180 degress from the iPad's model of being solely for consumption. I would love to see a device come to market based on that vision. Even the android tablets seem to be aping apple's hub of consumption model.
I guess that would depend on what you mean by "needed". It's never going to be needed in the sense that there is nothing about storing some phone numbers and reading some email that needs fast double precision floating point numbers or 5 gigs of ram. In that sense, it's not even REALLY needed on the general desktop yet.
I'm going to guess that some day, mobile devices will have 16 gigs of ram. Battery tech will have advanced enough to let such a device run for 8 hours. So yes 64 bit will be needed because we aren't going to stop at good enough. You will still just look up contacts, listen to music, and play angry birds, but you WILL do it in 64 bit. That day is probably going to get here sooner than we think.
The palm pilot was an elegant device. It had been dead and buried when the iPhone appeared. Palm had been producing phones for years. The palm phones, prior to the pre, were a giant mass of buttons and switches with a kludgy windows phone operating system.
Jobs will be revered no matter what happens to Apple. I don't think that anyone can deny apple hasn't been remarkably successful during the era of Jobs. If Apple continues to grow and succeed, Everyone will praise the vision of Jobs. If Apple falters, everyone will point out that Jobs was such a genius visionary and how could any company survive without him?
TFA implies that google is somehow causing my browser to send unencrypted data? I'm not an ssl expert, but i thought the expectation set by ssl is that communication between my browser and google would be encrypted. What google chooses to do with the data i sent them (my request headers, form inputs, etc) has nothing to do with ssl. As far as i know there is no SSL standard that says all data posted over ssl must only be transmitted via ssl from then on.
Google can take my referers and post them on the good year blimp at the superbowl. How is that significantly different from expected end to end behavior?
I say don't throw out the baby with the bath water.
A baby with enough Thimerosal sinks right to the bottom of the bathwater. It's pretty easy to pour the bathwater right off and find the baby still in there.
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My parents had 2 cars. I want 20, but i don't want 10x my parents' car budget. Why isn't the automotive industry listening to me?
They might have notebooks. I have a macbook and an asus g series for windows stuff (translation: gaming).
I don't travel much with the asus so it tends to sit plugged in and go in and out of hibernation. The macbook, I carry around a lot. When i do, i shut it down.
Just shutting the lid and letting it sleep still draws enough power that the battery is somewhat depleted later that day. I don't tune it to start up fast*, but a speedy boot is desirable and one of the reasons i have a macbook and not a very portable windows machine.
*ok, after lion, i did spend some time disabling that stupid feature that reopens applications that were open at shutdown. I don't know about everyone else, but i always looked at shutdown as a way to wave my hand and close everything.
Yes. Apple will work minimally to get a new feature in their device. Then they will test the water with it and see if it's worth expending more effort on beefing it up. The genius of apple has always been knowing the minimum they need to provide for success.
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Even though current publicly known experimental quantum computing is nowhere near powerful enough to attack real cryptosystems, many cryptographers are researching new algorithms, in case quantum computing becomes a threat in the future.
Did the submitter even read TFA? Everyone is happy with ssh and rsa because they work. People are working on encryption methods for when they don't. Nobody knows what's going to happen in the future but it's not here yet because there are no flying cars.
yeah. i've always felt ssh and rsa are pretty good against the current imaginary state of quantum computers.
It's still a valid observation and worth noting. The author may or may not know that the shaking is due to the physics engine equalizing. His point is that it's interesting to users. Most people who play the game are not game developers. they have no experience with physics engines. They see random behavior and their brain churns it over and over again and again trying to correlate it with something. Consequently they are engaged in the game. Its technically a bug or a glitch, but it's a serendipitous one.
The even numbered firefoxes are the best!
I think your faith in iOS developers is a little misplaced. I'd just like to provide an app of value to my customers, but Apple has no process in place to vet who gets to submit an app. They just let any entity that pays the $100 submit an app. That's hardly a barrier to the evil miscreants of the world.
I agree that the article was not entirely clear on how code signing is broken. this approach seems to be the ability to sideload new code. That's the code that hasn't been signed and that code hasn't gotten through the vetting process.
while i suspect you could always upload a regular app to steal contacts, you have hurdles beyond code signing and app approval to overcome. You need to make an app that's good enough that people will continue to use it. it would be pretty hard to get an app in circulation that was able to install a background process that stayed running and couldn't be shut off ever. The worst case scenario for this attack vector is just that. Instead of a lame stock ticker app that uploads two of your photos in the time it takes you the evaluate it as lame, it's a lame stock ticker app that took over your whole phone after running it for 10 seconds. Even though you deleted it, it managed to leave behind running code that is doing whatever it wants. That's pretty serious.
I have noticed tokay geckos can walk around on sand and peat substrates without anything clumping up on their feet. Sometimes I have seen them walk across pea gravel and drag a couple pieces along with them. It looks comical and it's quite apparent that the lizard didn't really want that stone on their toe. My hypothesis is the smaller particulate matter doesn't present enough surface area to accumulate the force required to move it. In order for the gecko to cling to something the ratio of surface area in contact with the pads to mass must exceed some threshold.
In the case of geckos it appears to conveniently exclude sand, water, and dust. Tape might have more problems, but we already use plenty of adhesives that require the surfaces be as clean as possible. This tape certainly sounds like an improvement to the gps mounting technology currently in my car.
If each drop emitter also has a laser emitter pointing down along the path of the drip, then you can individually illuminate each column of pixels. although, i think i like the term drixel for dripped pixel. Then you still have the problem of you can only illuminate one drixel in a column at a time, and your have a refresh rate that's tied to the acceleration of gravity. Also wind would screw this up, but as an art project it would likely be pretty cool.
Yes, but if I'm on the mars mission, i take solace in knowing all of the obstacles that are surmountable. Is sitting in this tin can for 500 days going to kill me? It didn't kill those other guys so that's 1 less thing to worry about. Now i can devote more attention to how to deal with the alien virus controlling Lt. Smith.
Is the distance from the asteroid to the earth going to be less than the distance from the earth to the moon? Is the distance from the asteroid to the moon going to be greater than the distance from the earth to the asteroid?
maybe his friend's car is outside with a mobile hotspot? or a pringle can antenna in a building across the street?
This is unheard of. The industry standard is to leave non functioning apps in the app store.
Please point me to the market where i am guaranteed to profit.
This quote though really makes me think it could have been cool:
The key to Courier, Allard's team argued, was its focus on content creation. Courier was for the creative set, a gadget on which architects might begin to sketch building plans, or writers might begin to draft documents.
That is 180 degress from the iPad's model of being solely for consumption. I would love to see a device come to market based on that vision. Even the android tablets seem to be aping apple's hub of consumption model.
I guess that would depend on what you mean by "needed". It's never going to be needed in the sense that there is nothing about storing some phone numbers and reading some email that needs fast double precision floating point numbers or 5 gigs of ram. In that sense, it's not even REALLY needed on the general desktop yet.
I'm going to guess that some day, mobile devices will have 16 gigs of ram. Battery tech will have advanced enough to let such a device run for 8 hours. So yes 64 bit will be needed because we aren't going to stop at good enough. You will still just look up contacts, listen to music, and play angry birds, but you WILL do it in 64 bit. That day is probably going to get here sooner than we think.
I just left a job doing objective-c and iOS stuff to work on a windows application that is all c++ and opengl.
The palm pilot was an elegant device. It had been dead and buried when the iPhone appeared. Palm had been producing phones for years. The palm phones, prior to the pre, were a giant mass of buttons and switches with a kludgy windows phone operating system.
Jobs will be revered no matter what happens to Apple. I don't think that anyone can deny apple hasn't been remarkably successful during the era of Jobs. If Apple continues to grow and succeed, Everyone will praise the vision of Jobs. If Apple falters, everyone will point out that Jobs was such a genius visionary and how could any company survive without him?
We all like and use cars as well, it doesn't mean we like cars running into our stuff and ourselves.
TFA implies that google is somehow causing my browser to send unencrypted data? I'm not an ssl expert, but i thought the expectation set by ssl is that communication between my browser and google would be encrypted. What google chooses to do with the data i sent them (my request headers, form inputs, etc) has nothing to do with ssl. As far as i know there is no SSL standard that says all data posted over ssl must only be transmitted via ssl from then on.
Google can take my referers and post them on the good year blimp at the superbowl. How is that significantly different from expected end to end behavior?
I say don't throw out the baby with the bath water.
A baby with enough Thimerosal sinks right to the bottom of the bathwater. It's pretty easy to pour the bathwater right off and find the baby still in there.
My parents had 2 cars. I want 20, but i don't want 10x my parents' car budget. Why isn't the automotive industry listening to me?
This isn't about features, it's about ROUNDED CORNERS!
They might have notebooks. I have a macbook and an asus g series for windows stuff (translation: gaming).
I don't travel much with the asus so it tends to sit plugged in and go in and out of hibernation. The macbook, I carry around a lot. When i do, i shut it down.
Just shutting the lid and letting it sleep still draws enough power that the battery is somewhat depleted later that day. I don't tune it to start up fast*, but a speedy boot is desirable and one of the reasons i have a macbook and not a very portable windows machine.
*ok, after lion, i did spend some time disabling that stupid feature that reopens applications that were open at shutdown. I don't know about everyone else, but i always looked at shutdown as a way to wave my hand and close everything.
some of my favorite podcasts as well.
Yes. Apple will work minimally to get a new feature in their device. Then they will test the water with it and see if it's worth expending more effort on beefing it up. The genius of apple has always been knowing the minimum they need to provide for success.