If you use encrypted communications point-to-point, your usage patterns are still broadly visible. Consider somebody posting illicit material to a website. If the government sees a posting go up at a particular time, and they see a usage pattern at that same time in the packet lengths & exchange orderings, they can figure out who's doing what. Of course, extend this to orders given to Verizon, Google, Facebook, etc, and there's a lot you can piece together even from private postings and access to the final server-side plaintext.
Of course, the worst thing is that it's hard to know how susceptible this is to false positives. That's the entire reason people are seeking to move away from things that the NSA spies on, even if they're completely squeaky clean stand up citizens. They are trolling the internet looking for any indicator of terrorism; why risk acting there where you could be falsely charged? If the feds whisk a person away, and all is held under "national security" stonewalls, it's impossible to know what's going on in terms of systemic misuse and outright abuse.
I'm not saying I'd do that, or that I advocate it. I'm just pointing out how easily defeated this system is. If somebody did this, they'd incriminate somebody who was completely innocent of spreading the ebook.
Seeing a marker in the wild tells you nothing of who actually copied it.
Motion sickness will require greater than 60fps. John Carmack (and others) have also toyed with the notion of having 60fps rendering, and far greater time resolution adjusting that single-frame render in accordance with head tracking.
Windows Phone was a dud. People are trying to avoid Windows 8 as much as possible (the Microsoft Tax being their only real sales). The XBone is trumped by the PS4 in every way.
I think we can say that Microsoft itself is having problems, not just the console division.
There have been small Raspberry Pi and even AppleTV clusters made. However, these types of small-as-possible modules aren't suited very well to hobbyist clusters:
1) These systems don't have fast interconnects. Networking is either wireless, which doesn't scale well; or through USB->Ethernet interfaces, which are slow.
2) This isn't a cheap $30 module. Gumstix are still in the $170-200 range. I'm not seeing any prices here for this one, but it's in the same hardware style.
3) You need a lot of custom hardware to mount these together, as the connectors are weird high-density custom jobs.
It looks like they cribbed that "washing machine" clause from the New Zealand software patent reforms that happened recently.
There's some major appliance company in NZ that was big on protecting the patentability of their computerized washing machine features, and got that exception put into place. It's really, really lame seeing that almost verbatim in other countries' laws now. And yes, as written it's horribly game-able.
It would seem you could reduce this cost to next to nothing by growing these critters yourself, as in the Lepsis. But that's silly. You still have to feed the critters.
They're insects. Do you think you have to go out and buy quality, expensive feed? I presume they'd feed on plant life and leftovers you've got lying around.
I think the "yuck" factor comes mostly from insects being associated with rot, disease, and dead bodies. We don't have that sort of historical association with sea bugs as human sanitary threats, seen by a lot less people getting squicked out by those compared to land bugs.
The air flow through the middle of the cylinder almost guarantees they won't make stackable peripherals. It's going to be a tangled, sprawling mess to expand.
I've heard mention of external drive enclosures already... style-matching 4-bay enclosures for around $1000 empty.:-P
Somalia is anarchic; have there been any African states that have espoused libertarianism?
From what I can gather, the core Libertarian view is that government should even-handedly enforce contracts, property law, and national defense. I don't imagine failed states and tribal warlord dictatorships meet those criteria, nor do the more successful countries in Africa.
No, the problem is that the video gaming hobby is becoming a sacrifice of digital freedom and ownership, and involves bedding in with powers that you wouldn't necessarily want to. There's nothing wrong with video gaming itself, but people are turning away from them (at least on certain platforms) due to other affected principles.
Yahtzee said it best. Paraphrased, originally referring to the upcoming console games, "It would not be providing access to something I want; it would be holding something I want hostage."
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ARM does not sell physical devices. They sell HDL that implements the API.
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If you use encrypted communications point-to-point, your usage patterns are still broadly visible. Consider somebody posting illicit material to a website. If the government sees a posting go up at a particular time, and they see a usage pattern at that same time in the packet lengths & exchange orderings, they can figure out who's doing what. Of course, extend this to orders given to Verizon, Google, Facebook, etc, and there's a lot you can piece together even from private postings and access to the final server-side plaintext.
Of course, the worst thing is that it's hard to know how susceptible this is to false positives. That's the entire reason people are seeking to move away from things that the NSA spies on, even if they're completely squeaky clean stand up citizens. They are trolling the internet looking for any indicator of terrorism; why risk acting there where you could be falsely charged? If the feds whisk a person away, and all is held under "national security" stonewalls, it's impossible to know what's going on in terms of systemic misuse and outright abuse.
OSX doesn't have that good of support, either, until it lets you set whatever zoom factor you want, not just a few factory presets.
It's good for people who don't have bad vision. Bring on the pixels!
I'm not saying I'd do that, or that I advocate it. I'm just pointing out how easily defeated this system is. If somebody did this, they'd incriminate somebody who was completely innocent of spreading the ebook.
Seeing a marker in the wild tells you nothing of who actually copied it.
Motion sickness will require greater than 60fps. John Carmack (and others) have also toyed with the notion of having 60fps rendering, and far greater time resolution adjusting that single-frame render in accordance with head tracking.
1. Get a copy from a legal user, without their knowledge.
Yes, this one really *runs* Linux!
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Windows Phone was a dud. People are trying to avoid Windows 8 as much as possible (the Microsoft Tax being their only real sales). The XBone is trumped by the PS4 in every way.
I think we can say that Microsoft itself is having problems, not just the console division.
Just call it Software Defined Cloud 2.0 and be done with it already.
There have been small Raspberry Pi and even AppleTV clusters made. However, these types of small-as-possible modules aren't suited very well to hobbyist clusters:
1) These systems don't have fast interconnects. Networking is either wireless, which doesn't scale well; or through USB->Ethernet interfaces, which are slow.
2) This isn't a cheap $30 module. Gumstix are still in the $170-200 range. I'm not seeing any prices here for this one, but it's in the same hardware style.
3) You need a lot of custom hardware to mount these together, as the connectors are weird high-density custom jobs.
Bell peppers are also fruits that are considered vegetables in the kitchen. I'm sure there's a few more as well.
It looks like they cribbed that "washing machine" clause from the New Zealand software patent reforms that happened recently.
There's some major appliance company in NZ that was big on protecting the patentability of their computerized washing machine features, and got that exception put into place. It's really, really lame seeing that almost verbatim in other countries' laws now. And yes, as written it's horribly game-able.
If security of the code is paramount, then wouldn't it make more sense that it be completely open, moreso than common utilities?
This has always been a mantra of cryptography; security by obscurity is not security.
Slide to unlock? That's a physical component that's existed for a long time.
Maybe skeuomorphics will come back into style because of this.
It would seem you could reduce this cost to next to nothing by growing these critters yourself, as in the Lepsis. But that's silly. You still have to feed the critters.
They're insects. Do you think you have to go out and buy quality, expensive feed? I presume they'd feed on plant life and leftovers you've got lying around.
Or feed them to your fish and chickens.
(It counts as vegan if the animals you eat are herbivores, right?)
Eat Healthy: Eat Vegetarians!
I think the "yuck" factor comes mostly from insects being associated with rot, disease, and dead bodies. We don't have that sort of historical association with sea bugs as human sanitary threats, seen by a lot less people getting squicked out by those compared to land bugs.
They're not making user friendly decisions. Their rate of user unfriendliness just happens to be less than Microsoft's right now.
Ram is upgradable
There are apparently only 4 RAM slots. That's not very upgradable for a supposedly "pro" machine. (Nor is having just 1 CPU socket "pro" either...)
The air flow through the middle of the cylinder almost guarantees they won't make stackable peripherals. It's going to be a tangled, sprawling mess to expand.
I've heard mention of external drive enclosures already... style-matching 4-bay enclosures for around $1000 empty. :-P
Somalia is anarchic; have there been any African states that have espoused libertarianism?
From what I can gather, the core Libertarian view is that government should even-handedly enforce contracts, property law, and national defense. I don't imagine failed states and tribal warlord dictatorships meet those criteria, nor do the more successful countries in Africa.
No, the problem is that the video gaming hobby is becoming a sacrifice of digital freedom and ownership, and involves bedding in with powers that you wouldn't necessarily want to. There's nothing wrong with video gaming itself, but people are turning away from them (at least on certain platforms) due to other affected principles.
Yahtzee said it best. Paraphrased, originally referring to the upcoming console games, "It would not be providing access to something I want; it would be holding something I want hostage."