MKV has some amazingly useful and underutilized features. Everyone is (or should be) familiar with how it can do multiple audio/video/subtitle streams. It's chapter functionality is also really nice. The best and neatest thing is it's ability to pull in a separate file for a chapter. So instead of having 30 different TV show files each with the same opening and closing scene, you have those two scenes as separate files which are mixed in on the fly.
Per chip costs for embedded platforms are normally pretty cheap. As a hobyist, excluding labor, the most expensive part is board cost. Nevertheless, things like power regulators and transistors tend to add up to more than the processor. I would kill (not really NSA people) for a cheap SOC witch could drive 100mA per GPIO pin. It would certainly make working with LEDs easier.
If you look at most things like the Arduino the component cost is minuscule compared to labor and payback for R&D. Which still leaves decent room for profit. Just look at how cheap the Arduino clones are.
I've got one better. My old university required McAfee on all students computers before they could connect to the net.
In theory it was "any antivirus software," but their Cisco Connect piece of garbage that you had to install only reliably recognized McAfee, which they would generously install for free on users machines. Of course they'd install the enterprise version where the user doesn't really have any control over it.
Oh well, Cisco Connect's user manual straight up says it allows "remote administration" and the University's security cert wasn't valid, so it's not like all the student's machines weren't already compromised.
Long answer: While legally it's "no" the truth is that minors have significantly less rights than adults. It's even worse than that since in America you're no longer considered a minor when you turn 18 or 19 depending on the state, but you can't drink or own a pistol until you're 21.
There are several cases where US schools have punished students for doing things which aren't illegal while off school grounds. Student's have essentially no rights while they are on school grounds. They can be searched without any justification. They're punished if they have something that even like a weapon. Even worse, school is compulsory, so it's not like any of this is opt out.
I think there more referring to 3d printing replacement parts in house. So if the plane breaks the mechanic can just 3d print a replacement cover or bracket right then and there. That means they don't have to keep several of the things in storage just in case, and don't ever have to wait on a stupid $5 radio cover to get the $50 million dollar plane back in the air.
Except that some areas are only served by a single insurance company. It's sad but true. Many local monopolies still exist. The barriers to entry are just too high, or the expected return is just too low for anyone else to compete.
Did you see that compromised on board network adapter or the USB cable? Those things were amazing pieces of tech.
The network adapter really just looked like a big RJ45 jack with some hardware on the back. That's what the non compromised version looks like. It does all the layer 1 stuff right there so you don't need to worry about things like impedance matching. The NSA added an extra chip which is invisible from the outside that acts as a second layer 2/3 controller. A simple single component replacement and that machine is now owned forever. Worse, there is NO WAY that you would know it from on the machine.
Speaking as someone who has a Bachelor Degree in Computer Engineering, I'm impressed. Scared, but still impressed.
Does this mean that I am paying to Microsoft if I buy an UEFI motherboard? AFAIK they still extort money for their FAT file systems. Why did somebody choose FAT? If I am clever enough to dual boot than I am also clever enough to format a drive with the completely free ext2.
Because just about every OS and it's mother reads fat32. I run Linux, but all I ask from motherboard manufacturers are easy to follow open standards. Like it or not fat32 is the de facto inoperable file system. Are you really saying that you want bios coders to understand NTFS and HFS+? Because you can't have them reading ext2 without those as well. Plus all the OS's touch the EFS partition. If anything you should be grateful that one of those two didn't win.
Besides, I use btrfs not ext2. Expecting bios makers to support every *nix file system is crazy talk.
You don't realize how much easier UEFI makes things until you figure it out and start using it.
UEFI can do other fun stuff, but by default it runs "\EFI\Boot\bootx64.efi" on the first fat32 partition it sees. No more dealing with trying to backup custom bootloaders, or trying to figure out why grub install isn't letting you dual boot. Just rename a shell with a default script to bootx64.efi and you're good to go. Hell, those shells even include their own editor.
I wonder how many people realize that UEFI means that as long as a USB drive is fat32 they can just drag and drop the files without worrying about formatting the thing with a bootloader.
From what I gather the encryption scheme is vulnerable to MITM attacks, and doesn't do anything about metadata.
Every message is encrypted with a unique key so if they MITM a conversation they'll only get that conversation's data.
MITM isn't hard for agencies like the NSA, but it takes a hell of a lot more effort than passive taps. The idea isn't to prevent a targeted attack, the idea is for users to prevent large scale data collection.
That's a very nice premise. I wish everything were written like that.
Unfortunately, what would end up happening is a small "clarification" would be written in to the legal speak section that does what the lobbyists want. That's what happens today. 90% of the bill is good, but you get one or two lines that ruin it.
Another common trick politicians and lobbyists use is a "Definitions" section. It serves to explicitly define who and what the bill is talking about. While this is a good thing, they sometimes take the opportunity to include or exclude something from that definition. For example, it would be easy to not add any explanation to "Firearms Manufacturer." Then as soon as someone 3d prints a gun, bam they have to follow the same labeling, reporting, and licensing laws as Bereta and Glock.
Good idea, but it underestimates the craftiness of lobbyists and politicians.
Those are some very interesting observations. What's the smallest etch resist you've been able to work with?
Most of my recent projects have involved small surface mount components. It seems like most non-prepackaged radio modules all use QFN. So, trace size and accuracy are a big hindrance to at home board creation.
Huawei has so many bugs that I don't buy anything other than incompetence. I've linked to the conclusion of that video so you can see a nice list of how bad they are.
In ITER, if not mitigated in some way, the electron stream could become so intense it would explosively vaporize holes through the wall of the reactor, like some kind of science fictional beam weapon.
Then they've clearly missed an opportunity. Rather than trying to sell it to governments as a fusion reactor, they should have been selling it to the US military as 'some kind of science fictional beam weapon'.
Most pilots want this. Plus, the checklists are still paper.
Seriously, it's even in the summary. Pilots are currently carrying around 40lbs worth of charts. Not checklists, just old fashioned paper maps. That's one bag with just paper. Then you add a suitcase for two weeks, and a backpack on top of that. So, not only are pilots carting around a ridiculous amount of paper that doesn't get used, but they can't fly with just carry on.
Believe it or not, airlines book commercial tickets to get there pilots to the plane they're going to be flying. With a huge bag full of paper those pilots have to go through baggage claim every single time. Plus hauling 70lbs worth of gear isn't the healthiest thing for them to be doing. Then there's dragging it to the hotel and back. Not fun.
The big problem with testing is the pilots have to haul around the bag and the tablet. Plus some airlines don't provide a mount in the planes, so they have to carry around this big, bulky, heavy mount as well. Yeah, I know quite a few pilots. They just don't have space for that.
The Microsoft view is, "try to maintain backwards compatibility if we can." The Apple view seems to be, "maintain backwards compatibility when it's convenient."
The Microsoft view has traditionally been, "maintain backwards compatibility at almost all costs." The real reason old software doesn't run well on Vista and Win 7 is MS stopped supporting the hacks the software was using. That and actually enforcing security restrictions. Seriously, it seems like every piece of old software needs to be run as Admin.
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MKV has some amazingly useful and underutilized features. Everyone is (or should be) familiar with how it can do multiple audio/video/subtitle streams. It's chapter functionality is also really nice. The best and neatest thing is it's ability to pull in a separate file for a chapter. So instead of having 30 different TV show files each with the same opening and closing scene, you have those two scenes as separate files which are mixed in on the fly.
Data deduplication is a wonderful thing.
Per chip costs for embedded platforms are normally pretty cheap. As a hobyist, excluding labor, the most expensive part is board cost. Nevertheless, things like power regulators and transistors tend to add up to more than the processor. I would kill (not really NSA people) for a cheap SOC witch could drive 100mA per GPIO pin. It would certainly make working with LEDs easier.
If you look at most things like the Arduino the component cost is minuscule compared to labor and payback for R&D. Which still leaves decent room for profit. Just look at how cheap the Arduino clones are.
I've got one better. My old university required McAfee on all students computers before they could connect to the net.
In theory it was "any antivirus software," but their Cisco Connect piece of garbage that you had to install only reliably recognized McAfee, which they would generously install for free on users machines. Of course they'd install the enterprise version where the user doesn't really have any control over it.
Oh well, Cisco Connect's user manual straight up says it allows "remote administration" and the University's security cert wasn't valid, so it's not like all the student's machines weren't already compromised.
Short answer: Pretty much yes.
Long answer: While legally it's "no" the truth is that minors have significantly less rights than adults. It's even worse than that since in America you're no longer considered a minor when you turn 18 or 19 depending on the state, but you can't drink or own a pistol until you're 21.
There are several cases where US schools have punished students for doing things which aren't illegal while off school grounds. Student's have essentially no rights while they are on school grounds. They can be searched without any justification. They're punished if they have something that even like a weapon. Even worse, school is compulsory, so it's not like any of this is opt out.
I think there more referring to 3d printing replacement parts in house. So if the plane breaks the mechanic can just 3d print a replacement cover or bracket right then and there. That means they don't have to keep several of the things in storage just in case, and don't ever have to wait on a stupid $5 radio cover to get the $50 million dollar plane back in the air.
No, it doesn't begin, it's already Finnished.
Off to pun hell for you.
You will be punnished.
Except that some areas are only served by a single insurance company. It's sad but true. Many local monopolies still exist. The barriers to entry are just too high, or the expected return is just too low for anyone else to compete.
Did you see that compromised on board network adapter or the USB cable? Those things were amazing pieces of tech.
The network adapter really just looked like a big RJ45 jack with some hardware on the back. That's what the non compromised version looks like. It does all the layer 1 stuff right there so you don't need to worry about things like impedance matching. The NSA added an extra chip which is invisible from the outside that acts as a second layer 2/3 controller. A simple single component replacement and that machine is now owned forever. Worse, there is NO WAY that you would know it from on the machine.
Speaking as someone who has a Bachelor Degree in Computer Engineering, I'm impressed. Scared, but still impressed.
Don't get me started about all of the dihydrogen monoxide chemical additives in food these days. I mean, some places even sell it in bottles!
Yep, it's found in pesticides and cancer: http://www.dhmo.org/
so far only NVIDIA is officially supported
This seems odd to me, as I thought that the actual Steam/Valve hardware would be using AMD APU's?
Might be, but when you're doing early prototyping you go with what the developer knows, and in this case the dev used to work for NVIDIA.
I'm excited about the RT patches myself. I'm hoping one day that whole branch can get merged into the mainline kernel.
as long as a USB drive is fat32
Does this mean that I am paying to Microsoft if I buy an UEFI motherboard? AFAIK they still extort money for their FAT file systems. Why did somebody choose FAT? If I am clever enough to dual boot than I am also clever enough to format a drive with the completely free ext2.
Because just about every OS and it's mother reads fat32. I run Linux, but all I ask from motherboard manufacturers are easy to follow open standards. Like it or not fat32 is the de facto inoperable file system.
Are you really saying that you want bios coders to understand NTFS and HFS+? Because you can't have them reading ext2 without those as well. Plus all the OS's touch the EFS partition. If anything you should be grateful that one of those two didn't win.
Besides, I use btrfs not ext2. Expecting bios makers to support every *nix file system is crazy talk.
You don't realize how much easier UEFI makes things until you figure it out and start using it.
UEFI can do other fun stuff, but by default it runs "\EFI\Boot\bootx64.efi" on the first fat32 partition it sees.
No more dealing with trying to backup custom bootloaders, or trying to figure out why grub install isn't letting you dual boot. Just rename a shell with a default script to bootx64.efi and you're good to go. Hell, those shells even include their own editor.
I wonder how many people realize that UEFI means that as long as a USB drive is fat32 they can just drag and drop the files without worrying about formatting the thing with a bootloader.
From what I gather the encryption scheme is vulnerable to MITM attacks, and doesn't do anything about metadata.
Every message is encrypted with a unique key so if they MITM a conversation they'll only get that conversation's data.
MITM isn't hard for agencies like the NSA, but it takes a hell of a lot more effort than passive taps.
The idea isn't to prevent a targeted attack, the idea is for users to prevent large scale data collection.
I saw a Webcomic that tackled that issue head on: http://www.the-whiteboard.com/autotwb1281.html
A Zombie Apocalypse means "Fully Justifiable Carnage!"
From less than a week ago: http://slashdot.org/story/13/11/14/210258/atf-tests-show-3d-printed-guns-can-explode
That's a very nice premise. I wish everything were written like that.
Unfortunately, what would end up happening is a small "clarification" would be written in to the legal speak section that does what the lobbyists want. That's what happens today. 90% of the bill is good, but you get one or two lines that ruin it.
Another common trick politicians and lobbyists use is a "Definitions" section. It serves to explicitly define who and what the bill is talking about. While this is a good thing, they sometimes take the opportunity to include or exclude something from that definition. For example, it would be easy to not add any explanation to "Firearms Manufacturer." Then as soon as someone 3d prints a gun, bam they have to follow the same labeling, reporting, and licensing laws as Bereta and Glock.
Good idea, but it underestimates the craftiness of lobbyists and politicians.
Those are some very interesting observations.
What's the smallest etch resist you've been able to work with?
Most of my recent projects have involved small surface mount components. It seems like most non-prepackaged radio modules all use QFN. So, trace size and accuracy are a big hindrance to at home board creation.
Why not targeting high fructose corn syrup instead?
It is far more harmful and sugar is a better (albeit pricier) replacement.
The reason is right in the name. Corn is a major part of the US agriculture industry. Do you know how much lobbying power they have?
Not an issue. According to TFA, "[The] proposed measures that would all but eliminate artificial trans fats."
Emphasis added.
DEFCON 20: Hacking Redacted Routers
Huawei has so many bugs that I don't buy anything other than incompetence.
I've linked to the conclusion of that video so you can see a nice list of how bad they are.
Times change.
It used to be that Appendectomies were done for almost no reason at all.
In ITER, if not mitigated in some way, the electron stream could become so intense it would explosively vaporize holes through the wall of the reactor, like some kind of science fictional beam weapon.
Then they've clearly missed an opportunity. Rather than trying to sell it to governments as a fusion reactor, they should have been selling it to the US military as 'some kind of science fictional beam weapon'.
You win.
I wish I had mod points right now.
I heard from one of my pilot friends. The Asian airlines don't just do that with the flight attendants. They also do it with the pilots.
See also Asian Flight 214
Most pilots want this. Plus, the checklists are still paper.
Seriously, it's even in the summary. Pilots are currently carrying around 40lbs worth of charts. Not checklists, just old fashioned paper maps. That's one bag with just paper. Then you add a suitcase for two weeks, and a backpack on top of that. So, not only are pilots carting around a ridiculous amount of paper that doesn't get used, but they can't fly with just carry on.
Believe it or not, airlines book commercial tickets to get there pilots to the plane they're going to be flying. With a huge bag full of paper those pilots have to go through baggage claim every single time. Plus hauling 70lbs worth of gear isn't the healthiest thing for them to be doing. Then there's dragging it to the hotel and back. Not fun.
The big problem with testing is the pilots have to haul around the bag and the tablet. Plus some airlines don't provide a mount in the planes, so they have to carry around this big, bulky, heavy mount as well. Yeah, I know quite a few pilots. They just don't have space for that.
The Microsoft view is, "try to maintain backwards compatibility if we can." The Apple view seems to be, "maintain backwards compatibility when it's convenient."
The Microsoft view has traditionally been, "maintain backwards compatibility at almost all costs." The real reason old software doesn't run well on Vista and Win 7 is MS stopped supporting the hacks the software was using. That and actually enforcing security restrictions. Seriously, it seems like every piece of old software needs to be run as Admin.