When you say this affects native apps that use Android's TLS engine... well, how does that help the enterprise which has users using Android devices?
I don't see how your response helps sites that use an internal CA, which is a perfectly legitimate activity.
There are all kinds of places where it's completely unnecessary to pay extortion for a global certificate, yet it's mandatory to have encryption (and mutual validation) to protect sensitive traffic flying around on the corporate WAN. Enterprises also have the right to keep their internal CA's certificates off the open internet -- where does it make sense to provide Google with every hostname in your WAN? What right do they have to the information? They have none..
Preventing an enterprise from implementing sane, industry-accepted practices is asinine. Admins have every right to install and set trust for internal certificate authorities.
If anything, I fault Google (and other browser makers) for hiding certificate information - all a user gets without having to go into developer mode is a green padlock and "secure".
(*) for a set frequency range, and even then the tone will merely sound like it came from a few degrees further the side. Woo!
Don’t get me wrong - I hate audiophile charlatans as well. It’s a 21st century version of patent medicine & snake oil. Patent medicine is a good analogy, though — the placebo effect isn’t just for drugs.
Except with patent medicines, we did get a number of tasty soft drinks.
The “Loudness War” is the best reason to use Vinyl — Vinyl’s deficiencies made it impossible to abuse the signal past a certain point.
I also don't think it could be comprehensively measured in the mind either way.
Measuring phase delay is often simple as asking the participant to point at the source of the sound. Phase delay is a major component of how we locate an audio source in 3D with our two ears. (It's been a while, but I seem to recall hearing things "above" you is entirely caused by phase delay.)
The DSP in my car handles phase delays down to 8 microseconds (overkill) specifically to let the DSP "shift" the sound stage so the driver hears the sound image as "front and center." The idea is to compensate for the driver being closer to one set of speakers than the other, and it does work -- for the driver.
Various "spatialized" audio techniques that have been made over the years also depend on it (such as SRS, QSound, A3D, which are all variants of head-related transfer functions).
He's not even talking about the RIAA curve -- he's talking about the physics of the medium itself -- the needle and the groove.
The RIAA curve was developed in an attempt to mitigate the problem, and is largely effective -- it reduces groove damage from large amplitudes, but it doesn't eliminate it entirely. It just can't be done with real components and achievable production tolerances.
but how is vinyl not affected by the loudness wars.
It's ironic, actually: One of Vinyl's key weaknesses actually made it relatively immune to the loudness war.
Vinyl is not a linear medium like digital. Distortion becomes more severe as the amplitude increases. That should make sense: higher amplitude means the needle has to move farther and faster. The needle literally has more momentum. It may be small, but it is still significant enough to color the music.
The increased distortion isn't too big of a deal with a sharp transient, like a drum hit; however when the entire song is in the distortion range, sounds like garbage, and (most critically), it's apparent to the record company exec's old, half-deaf ears.
In contrast, digital's distortion remains inaudible, and our nearly-deaf exec only hears the "better sounding" loudness.
I stick with a “rolling upgrade” capable distributor - Debian or OpenSuSE tumbleweed.
No complaints from anybody. Google Chrome and Firefox (and by extension, Netflix, Hulu, YouTube and Facebook) are pretty much the same everywhere.
Even the gamer is happy as his games are on Steam (a bit of a lucky break, but it’s working for him).
And I get to relax because I don’t have to worry about a Windows 10 update deciding to remove critical drivers.
Honestly, desktop Linux achieved feature parity a while ago. If you’re not a gamer whose game is Windows only, switching to Linux is as hard as going from Windows 7 to 10.
Lazy reporters no doubt see reports from 2-3 years ago where JBoss was widely used to proxy into a network, but they’re not paying attention: once they were “in” they used the proxy to attack systems inside.
Several other vectors have been added since 2016; SamSam attempting to exploit holes in Remote Desktop/RDP sessions is pretty common now.
We've already had tremendous success in our efforts exterminate Bison. They were down to 300 in 1900, and have only recently recovered past 100k, which is still a far cry from their earlier population of 100M.
As it currently stands, the Bison's fate will likely follow that of the Auroch - extinction by domestication.
Nah, the time to switch to Linux was before Windows 10 started pushing upgrades which remove critical drivers.
In the past few weeks I've multiple fixed family & friend computers which were horked by Windows 10 Update deleting the SATA drivers, followed by input device drivers.
Who needs ransomware when Microsoft is bricking its user's computers?
It's the last thing I remember before I wound up here. At least I think it's the fish. It's hard to tell when you have a muppet moving a light between each of my eyes, shouting something incoherent. Something like... "stay with me!"
Sortof? There's some shared heritage, as GE was involved in designing both...
The CF6 came first, is much bigger, and puts out a lot more thrust. (20,000 lbf vs 68,000 lbf)
CFM is a conglomerate of the US's GE Avaition and France's Safran Aircraft Engines, and is a "team" effort, largely so the two could compete with Pratt & Whitney, which was dominant at the time.
GE initially considered only contributing technology from the CF6 into the CFM joint venture, but reconsidered and included technology from their more advanced F101 engine.
So 'related' -- there's some shared heritage, but they're very different engines.
Um... until you've divided by number of units produced, you've got nothing. There have been a lot of CFM56 engines made and used over the past 43 years, as it's the most successful jet engine of all time.
If we use this list as a reference, the CFM56 has more than double the number of units in service than its nearest competitor, and ~4x more than the #3 slot. It's so lopsided that the CFM56 has more engines than the next two models combined (and nearly the next three).
The most popular engine on the most popular aircraft models (A320 and 737 families).
We might as well point to the number of Toyota Corolla engine problems as evidence that it's unreliable, because nobody takes a few seconds to notice that there have been more Corollas made than any other car...
The engine throwing a fan blade isn't likely to be an issue where the airframe manufacturer is responsible at all.
I'm not going to claim to be totally familiar with the process, but Boeing and Airbus aircraft usually offer a selection of engines that can be used with their airframes, and the customer (ie. Airline) chooses which engines they want. It makes sense from an Airline's perspective -- that way they can reduce costs by having only GE engines & GE Certified Mechanics & tools, for example...
You realzie OEM’ing to Asus is the root cause of the whole “AMD Secure Processor” bug from a couple weeks back, right? (AMD OEM’d that “non-critical” part of the design to an Asus Subsidiary)
It means "We couldn't be bothered to get off our ass and work on this before now because we make all our money from iPhones these days"
That doesn't make any sense. Apple has one of the (or is it "the") biggest cash reserves of any public company in history. They can buy Dell with pocket change.
If they gave the money to the Federal Reserve and had them print up special $0.99 bills, they could power San Francisco for a year by burning them.
To me, the only thing that makes any sense is that it has something to do with taxes and a 2019 deadline of some sort. (That or they want to build a factory in a tax-favored location, and it won't be complete until 2019).
You realize that DisplayLink has only released drivers for Ubuntu LTS releases -- and nothing else. Their MacOS support is only marginally better than their Linux support.
DisplayLink is a 3rd party "Video Over USB" hack, and is entirely different from the VESA-standard "DisplayPort over USB-C"
Seriously, just kick the proprietary DisplayLink crap to the curb.
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When you say this affects native apps that use Android's TLS engine... well, how does that help the enterprise which has users using Android devices?
I don't see how your response helps sites that use an internal CA, which is a perfectly legitimate activity.
There are all kinds of places where it's completely unnecessary to pay extortion for a global certificate, yet it's mandatory to have encryption (and mutual validation) to protect sensitive traffic flying around on the corporate WAN. Enterprises also have the right to keep their internal CA's certificates off the open internet -- where does it make sense to provide Google with every hostname in your WAN? What right do they have to the information? They have none..
Preventing an enterprise from implementing sane, industry-accepted practices is asinine. Admins have every right to install and set trust for internal certificate authorities.
If anything, I fault Google (and other browser makers) for hiding certificate information - all a user gets without having to go into developer mode is a green padlock and "secure".
In fairness, not all of nuclear ships & subs have melted down.
But there have been a few...
I don't recall any surface ships being lost, but that doesn't mean much...
50 ns is definitely too small.
But a 22 microsecond phase delay can be detected*
(*) for a set frequency range, and even then the tone will merely sound like it came from a few degrees further the side. Woo!
Don’t get me wrong - I hate audiophile charlatans as well. It’s a 21st century version of patent medicine & snake oil. Patent medicine is a good analogy, though — the placebo effect isn’t just for drugs.
Except with patent medicines, we did get a number of tasty soft drinks.
The “Loudness War” is the best reason to use Vinyl — Vinyl’s deficiencies made it impossible to abuse the signal past a certain point.
I also don't think it could be comprehensively measured in the mind either way.
Measuring phase delay is often simple as asking the participant to point at the source of the sound. Phase delay is a major component of how we locate an audio source in 3D with our two ears. (It's been a while, but I seem to recall hearing things "above" you is entirely caused by phase delay.)
The DSP in my car handles phase delays down to 8 microseconds (overkill) specifically to let the DSP "shift" the sound stage so the driver hears the sound image as "front and center." The idea is to compensate for the driver being closer to one set of speakers than the other, and it does work -- for the driver.
Various "spatialized" audio techniques that have been made over the years also depend on it (such as SRS, QSound, A3D, which are all variants of head-related transfer functions).
He's not even talking about the RIAA curve -- he's talking about the physics of the medium itself -- the needle and the groove.
The RIAA curve was developed in an attempt to mitigate the problem, and is largely effective -- it reduces groove damage from large amplitudes, but it doesn't eliminate it entirely. It just can't be done with real components and achievable production tolerances.
but how is vinyl not affected by the loudness wars.
It's ironic, actually: One of Vinyl's key weaknesses actually made it relatively immune to the loudness war.
Vinyl is not a linear medium like digital. Distortion becomes more severe as the amplitude increases. That should make sense: higher amplitude means the needle has to move farther and faster. The needle literally has more momentum. It may be small, but it is still significant enough to color the music.
The increased distortion isn't too big of a deal with a sharp transient, like a drum hit; however when the entire song is in the distortion range, sounds like garbage, and (most critically), it's apparent to the record company exec's old, half-deaf ears.
In contrast, digital's distortion remains inaudible, and our nearly-deaf exec only hears the "better sounding" loudness.
I thought I was pretty clear that Windows is no longer on the systems. No Windows binaries of any kind.
So I’m not sure how any Windows program affects those systems. There’s certainly no Windows Update pushing anything to the machines anymore.
That said, there's living tissue and functioning tissue... I'm not sure this is the latter.
I stick with a “rolling upgrade” capable distributor - Debian or OpenSuSE tumbleweed.
No complaints from anybody. Google Chrome and Firefox (and by extension, Netflix, Hulu, YouTube and Facebook) are pretty much the same everywhere.
Even the gamer is happy as his games are on Steam (a bit of a lucky break, but it’s working for him).
And I get to relax because I don’t have to worry about a Windows 10 update deciding to remove critical drivers.
Honestly, desktop Linux achieved feature parity a while ago. If you’re not a gamer whose game is Windows only, switching to Linux is as hard as going from Windows 7 to 10.
Lazy reporters no doubt see reports from 2-3 years ago where JBoss was widely used to proxy into a network, but they’re not paying attention: once they were “in” they used the proxy to attack systems inside.
Several other vectors have been added since 2016; SamSam attempting to exploit holes in Remote Desktop/RDP sessions is pretty common now.
What do you mean? Microsoft is based in the US. They’re the one who refuses to stop making horribly insecure software.
They can’t even get Windows Update to work without rendering customer machines unusable.,,
We've already had tremendous success in our efforts exterminate Bison. They were down to 300 in 1900, and have only recently recovered past 100k, which is still a far cry from their earlier population of 100M.
As it currently stands, the Bison's fate will likely follow that of the Auroch - extinction by domestication.
Present trends suggest that in a few hundred years, humans may be the largest land mammals.
Some would argue we're already the tastiest.
Nah, the time to switch to Linux was before Windows 10 started pushing upgrades which remove critical drivers.
In the past few weeks I've multiple fixed family & friend computers which were horked by Windows 10 Update deleting the SATA drivers, followed by input device drivers.
Who needs ransomware when Microsoft is bricking its user's computers?
I also remember seeing that the majority of those that pay ransomware are unable to recover data anyway.
Paying the ransom does only two things:
1. Encourages more ransomware, as it "works" as a business model
2. Would cost Atlanta another 55,000 in addition to the $2.6+ M to fix the problem.
There's some kind of situation with the fish.
It's the last thing I remember before I wound up here. At least I think it's the fish. It's hard to tell when you have a muppet moving a light between each of my eyes, shouting something incoherent. Something like... "stay with me!"
Sortof? There's some shared heritage, as GE was involved in designing both...
The CF6 came first, is much bigger, and puts out a lot more thrust. (20,000 lbf vs 68,000 lbf)
CFM is a conglomerate of the US's GE Avaition and France's Safran Aircraft Engines, and is a "team" effort, largely so the two could compete with Pratt & Whitney, which was dominant at the time.
GE initially considered only contributing technology from the CF6 into the CFM joint venture, but reconsidered and included technology from their more advanced F101 engine.
So 'related' -- there's some shared heritage, but they're very different engines.
Um... until you've divided by number of units produced, you've got nothing. There have been a lot of CFM56 engines made and used over the past 43 years, as it's the most successful jet engine of all time.
If we use this list as a reference, the CFM56 has more than double the number of units in service than its nearest competitor, and ~4x more than the #3 slot. It's so lopsided that the CFM56 has more engines than the next two models combined (and nearly the next three).
+this.
The most popular engine on the most popular aircraft models (A320 and 737 families).
We might as well point to the number of Toyota Corolla engine problems as evidence that it's unreliable, because nobody takes a few seconds to notice that there have been more Corollas made than any other car...
The engine throwing a fan blade isn't likely to be an issue where the airframe manufacturer is responsible at all.
I'm not going to claim to be totally familiar with the process, but Boeing and Airbus aircraft usually offer a selection of engines that can be used with their airframes, and the customer (ie. Airline) chooses which engines they want. It makes sense from an Airline's perspective -- that way they can reduce costs by having only GE engines & GE Certified Mechanics & tools, for example...
How does one tell it's a number/network that Level 3 controls?
You realzie OEM’ing to Asus is the root cause of the whole “AMD Secure Processor” bug from a couple weeks back, right? (AMD OEM’d that “non-critical” part of the design to an Asus Subsidiary)
I’d think twice about partnering with Asus.
It means "We couldn't be bothered to get off our ass and work on this before now because we make all our money from iPhones these days"
That doesn't make any sense. Apple has one of the (or is it "the") biggest cash reserves of any public company in history. They can buy Dell with pocket change.
If they gave the money to the Federal Reserve and had them print up special $0.99 bills, they could power San Francisco for a year by burning them.
To me, the only thing that makes any sense is that it has something to do with taxes and a 2019 deadline of some sort. (That or they want to build a factory in a tax-favored location, and it won't be complete until 2019).
Seriously... "Fiscal Reasoning?!?" That's like saying Bill Gates needs to save for a few days to buy himself a Big Mac.
You realize that DisplayLink has only released drivers for Ubuntu LTS releases -- and nothing else. Their MacOS support is only marginally better than their Linux support.
DisplayLink is a 3rd party "Video Over USB" hack, and is entirely different from the VESA-standard "DisplayPort over USB-C"
Seriously, just kick the proprietary DisplayLink crap to the curb.