Pretty sure there have been court cases about this. If someone rolls up with a wheelbarrow full of $3000 in loose change, you can tell them to piss off without voiding the debt.
Now, if the disk can transfer 1MB/s and the crypto engine can handle >1MB/s, the crypto engine can run transparently (unless for some godforsaken reason crypto block access is mutually blocking with attached storage access), thus introducing 0 *added* latency to the system.
What if the pipeline is very long but wide, and it can handle 1MB/s sustained, but it takes any amount of data 1MB at least 1 second to travel through the pipeline?
It will add 1 second of latency to the system, regardless of the fact that it is running at "wire speed".
While it COULD add nearly zero latency to the system, it is not enough to say "the bandwidths of the two pipelines are equivalent, therefore no latency is added".
Versions 2, 3, 4, 4.5 are all still in common usage.
2,3, 4, and 5 can coexist without breaking each other. If I were to install J8 on my machine-- regardless of how I configured it-- it would immediately break my ability to configure an entire class of printers (Fiery). It would also break my ability to access the web interface of a number of Cisco web interfacesm if that were something I did, as well as Dell iDRAC.
Heck, updating your minor Java revision on a server can break BES (if you happen to use that). The upshot is that I would wager that anyone still running a BES probably does not have the latest JRE, but a LONG shot.
You are still ranting about applets, whomever uses applets lives in pain....Applets have nothing to do with applications using Java, they are an off by default browser extension.
Which call a JRE, which has incompatibilities based on version. There was a code-signing change in J7, for example, which breaks a number of applications.
Its not the plugin thats incompatible, because the plugin isnt what runs the bytecode. The JRE is what runs the bytecode, and is where the incompatibilities lie.
If you use the same words to describe digital surveillance as other people use to describe the Khmer Rouge or Stalin, then you're a nutcase.
FTFY. I dont even think Stallman is nuts enough to make that comparison.
Its also hillarious that GP is saying that no closed-source hardware should be used. Remind me-- how many "open-source" processors, hard drives, SSDs, and SoCs do we have out there? Who do you trust to build your chips? You gonna label Intel's fabs "not to be trusted"? And if so-- which "FOSS Fab" do you plan to use?
The problem with asking geeks to implement policy is that a vast majority of them think they have very good ideas, which are totally disconnected from reality. Its called "Ivory tower thinking"
Java is supposed to be sandboxed and have controls on what access to your system is allowed. The problem is that there are continually new exploits breaing around those controls.
How about the fact that we now have 3-4 versions of Java running around because Applets written for J5u10 refuse to run on anything newer than J6u9, several applets refuse to run on anything newer than J6u45, and J7 introduced a number of breaking changes somewhere around update 40.
And for the record these security updates are for the runtime itself, not just the browser plugin. Some of them deal, for example, with certificate handling, sandbox escapes, and buffer overflows. The number of updates truly is staggering-- theres something like 70 in the J7 line, and Java 8 (which has been around for ~11 months) has received 30 updates. Thats 3 per month, if you're keeping track, just for the runtime.
I know this is slashdot, but do all of the comments have to be so hopelessly trite? Surely there are easier ways to get positive moderation than regurgitating soundbites about NSA and Linux.
Who even bothers with FDE if the key will be no stronger than what, six numeric characters?
I do, because I recognize that you dont have to hit "perfect security" to have "worthwhile security". A 7-10-digit pin is going to protect my data pretty well against casual theft, and against attackers who do not have the time or resources to image the flash. It also protects me against casual backdooring; until the code is cracked, no malicious code can be inserted (again without gaining physical access to the flash chips).
Yea, it wont protect me against top-echelon attackers, but then if that was my risk model there are a LOT of other vectors I would be worried about before the length of my PIN.
And paid huge amounts for it including the 2-year contract.
There are a lot of phones which are cheap, without subsidy:
* Moto G and Nexus 5
* Anything from Oppo
* Anything from One Plus
* Anything from Xiaomi
* Most of the Lumias
Many of those support Qi (I know for a fact that the Google ones and the Lumias do). I also know for a fact that T-Mobile doesnt require any sort of contract for phones, and that most carriers couldnt care less if you brought a new phone on-board.
Finally, for those who dont want to replace the phone, there are add-ons that will add the Qi coils to your phone via USB. http://www.amazon.com/Wireless...
what are we going to do with all these people that we don't need anymore. Sure, we can say that the economy will catch up, but that might take 50, 60 years.
The same thing we've been doing as this process has gone on for hundreds of years.
New generations train in other areas, make more money, and support the older generation. This isnt even unusual in China, whereas it would be in the US.
The really scary thing about all of these posts is that I can easily imagine the people making them putting a visionary like Mao Zedong in power.
Its really kind of scary what happens when you put highly intelligent asocial people in power; one longs for the company of "stupid, mewling peasants".
Worth looking into (and I intend to), but thats different than what OP suggests: that T-Mobile should somehow differentiate between normal ads and apps, and "actual data". This involves DPI.
But they nickel and dime you for everything else. Even with their top plan where everything was supposedly included, a friend sent me text messages from his T-Mobile service, and I never got them. It turned out that for the privilege of sending or receiving SMS to or from other countries, you have to pay T-Mobile $10 extra per month, despite it not costing them anything extra, and even when the people in the other end are also on T-Mobile. Pure money grabbing.
I am not aware of this being true. I recently travelled through 3 countries in the mid east and asia, and had web and texting for free. The only thing that would have cost money was voice. This required no special plan or notification to T-Mobile.
Fighting ignorance and BS on slashdot could easily be a full-time job; theres no shortage of people who will talk out of their rear about things they have no information on.
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Pretty sure there have been court cases about this. If someone rolls up with a wheelbarrow full of $3000 in loose change, you can tell them to piss off without voiding the debt.
but it takes any amount of data 1MB at least 1 second to travel through the pipeline?
should be "takes any amount of data less than or equal to 1MB at least 1 second..."
Now, if the disk can transfer 1MB/s and the crypto engine can handle >1MB/s, the crypto engine can run transparently (unless for some godforsaken reason crypto block access is mutually blocking with attached storage access), thus introducing 0 *added* latency to the system.
What if the pipeline is very long but wide, and it can handle 1MB/s sustained, but it takes any amount of data 1MB at least 1 second to travel through the pipeline?
It will add 1 second of latency to the system, regardless of the fact that it is running at "wire speed".
While it COULD add nearly zero latency to the system, it is not enough to say "the bandwidths of the two pipelines are equivalent, therefore no latency is added".
Versions 2, 3, 4, 4.5 are all still in common usage.
2,3, 4, and 5 can coexist without breaking each other. If I were to install J8 on my machine-- regardless of how I configured it-- it would immediately break my ability to configure an entire class of printers (Fiery). It would also break my ability to access the web interface of a number of Cisco web interfacesm if that were something I did, as well as Dell iDRAC.
Heck, updating your minor Java revision on a server can break BES (if you happen to use that). The upshot is that I would wager that anyone still running a BES probably does not have the latest JRE, but a LONG shot.
You are still ranting about applets, whomever uses applets lives in pain....Applets have nothing to do with applications using Java, they are an off by default browser extension.
Which call a JRE, which has incompatibilities based on version. There was a code-signing change in J7, for example, which breaks a number of applications.
Its not the plugin thats incompatible, because the plugin isnt what runs the bytecode. The JRE is what runs the bytecode, and is where the incompatibilities lie.
If you use the same words to describe digital surveillance as other people use to describe the Khmer Rouge or Stalin, then you're a nutcase.
FTFY. I dont even think Stallman is nuts enough to make that comparison.
Its also hillarious that GP is saying that no closed-source hardware should be used. Remind me-- how many "open-source" processors, hard drives, SSDs, and SoCs do we have out there? Who do you trust to build your chips? You gonna label Intel's fabs "not to be trusted"? And if so-- which "FOSS Fab" do you plan to use?
The problem with asking geeks to implement policy is that a vast majority of them think they have very good ideas, which are totally disconnected from reality. Its called "Ivory tower thinking"
Java is supposed to be sandboxed and have controls on what access to your system is allowed. The problem is that there are continually new exploits breaing around those controls.
How about the fact that we now have 3-4 versions of Java running around because Applets written for J5u10 refuse to run on anything newer than J6u9, several applets refuse to run on anything newer than J6u45, and J7 introduced a number of breaking changes somewhere around update 40.
And for the record these security updates are for the runtime itself, not just the browser plugin. Some of them deal, for example, with certificate handling, sandbox escapes, and buffer overflows. The number of updates truly is staggering-- theres something like 70 in the J7 line, and Java 8 (which has been around for ~11 months) has received 30 updates. Thats 3 per month, if you're keeping track, just for the runtime.
Yea, like the Xbox-->Xbox360-->Xbox One thats currently getting its lunch eaten by the Playstation! Right?
Guys?
I know this is slashdot, but do all of the comments have to be so hopelessly trite? Surely there are easier ways to get positive moderation than regurgitating soundbites about NSA and Linux.
A hardware crypto device can en-/decrypt faster than the disk transfers. Therefore, no latency at all.
Latency and bandwidth are distinct measurements. Im not sure your assumption is safe at all.
The N5 does have a swappable battery.
Who even bothers with FDE if the key will be no stronger than what, six numeric characters?
I do, because I recognize that you dont have to hit "perfect security" to have "worthwhile security". A 7-10-digit pin is going to protect my data pretty well against casual theft, and against attackers who do not have the time or resources to image the flash. It also protects me against casual backdooring; until the code is cracked, no malicious code can be inserted (again without gaining physical access to the flash chips).
Yea, it wont protect me against top-echelon attackers, but then if that was my risk model there are a LOT of other vectors I would be worried about before the length of my PIN.
And paid huge amounts for it including the 2-year contract.
There are a lot of phones which are cheap, without subsidy:
* Moto G and Nexus 5
* Anything from Oppo
* Anything from One Plus
* Anything from Xiaomi
* Most of the Lumias
Many of those support Qi (I know for a fact that the Google ones and the Lumias do). I also know for a fact that T-Mobile doesnt require any sort of contract for phones, and that most carriers couldnt care less if you brought a new phone on-board.
Finally, for those who dont want to replace the phone, there are add-ons that will add the Qi coils to your phone via USB.
http://www.amazon.com/Wireless...
what are we going to do with all these people that we don't need anymore. Sure, we can say that the economy will catch up, but that might take 50, 60 years.
The same thing we've been doing as this process has gone on for hundreds of years.
New generations train in other areas, make more money, and support the older generation. This isnt even unusual in China, whereas it would be in the US.
Thats not correct. Lifehacker used to have direct links to Microsoft's DigitalRiver-hosted ISOs for all retail versions of Windows 7.
What if the genius has the disdain for the "commoner" that so far 80% of this discussion thread has shown?
Oh, thats right, we get visionaries like Pol Pot and Mao Zedong.
The really scary thing about all of these posts is that I can easily imagine the people making them putting a visionary like Mao Zedong in power.
Its really kind of scary what happens when you put highly intelligent asocial people in power; one longs for the company of "stupid, mewling peasants".
Worth looking into (and I intend to), but thats different than what OP suggests: that T-Mobile should somehow differentiate between normal ads and apps, and "actual data". This involves DPI.
But they nickel and dime you for everything else. Even with their top plan where everything was supposedly included, a friend sent me text messages from his T-Mobile service, and I never got them. It turned out that for the privilege of sending or receiving SMS to or from other countries, you have to pay T-Mobile $10 extra per month, despite it not costing them anything extra, and even when the people in the other end are also on T-Mobile. Pure money grabbing.
I am not aware of this being true. I recently travelled through 3 countries in the mid east and asia, and had web and texting for free. The only thing that would have cost money was voice. This required no special plan or notification to T-Mobile.
It appears that the full NECA is NOT available, but the parts adopted into law for DC ARE. See my post here.
I probably shouldnt have been as harsh as I was, but Im not sure the name calling was warranted either.
From that site:
On March 28, 2014, the District of Columbia adopted 11 of the 2012 I-Codes and the NFPA’s 2011 NEC with changes, deletions, and/or additions set forth in the 2013 Construction Codes Supplement, 12 DCMR, Subtitles A through L.
Hyperlink and bolding added.
It appears that the full NECA is NOT available, but the parts adopted into law for particular areas ARE.
MD laws and statutes didnt come out, link here
http://mgaleg.maryland.gov/web...
http://www.lawlib.state.md.us/
Have you actually looked?
Building codes for DC metro area:
Virginia building code
DC building code
MD codes (incl building)
Law for DC metro area:
Virginia law
DC Code / law
MD Laws and statutes
Fighting ignorance and BS on slashdot could easily be a full-time job; theres no shortage of people who will talk out of their rear about things they have no information on.
Catchy phrases are no substitute for knowledge and thoughtfulness.
Neither are ad hominems and ridicule.