I agree. The Tetris ruling is ridiculous. For instance, showing the next piece, is considered above the line, (which other games like super puzzle fighter have, so it's not like that feature has to come from Tetris). likewise for: Changing the color of the active piece when dropped -- human eyes react to more light, you make the active one brighter. The shapes used? Tetrominos are part of geometry, arrange any four same sized squares orthogonally touching in every combination and you get the 7 Tetrominos in Tetris and other games.
Furthermore, Other games added bombs before Tetris 2, and the hold piece and next piece features were borrowed from "tetris clones" by Tetris! So, they shouldn't be considered "above the line" when it comes to copyright, or else Tetris is the infringer!
It does make a sound (physical vibration), but it does not make a noise (a sound that is loud or unpleasant) because no one was around to gauge the arbitrary terms of loudness or unpleasantness.
Yes, and brute forcing the stream cipher key can take a very long time.
2^19937 is a big number.
I do hope you're not just XORing the p.random stream with the data. At least initialize a 256 byte cipher table via key expansion, and transform the enciphered bytes with it as well. Additionally use cipher block chaining such that the next block depends on knowing all previous blocks, and you don't reveal the 8bit block cipher mappings.
PRNGs were not meant to be used for crypto, and unless you're using a robust crypto framework in addition to the randomness generator, then your "2^19337" is just an illusion -- Bruteforcing isn't the only way to reveal the cipher internals. The bit strength is not the period of the generator, it's the total bits of internal state. Making such a flawed assumption is a novice mistake. I wish you well on your journey to becoming a cryptographer, but for now you should really just use the established algorithms.
Due to the nature of psuedo random number generators, a known plain text attack can tell us everything we need to know about the next iteration of your cipher.
Why do they all insist on reinventing wheels? Why the hell don't they just use OpenGL? If there are shortcomings with it, put in some freaking extensions or work with the OpenGL guys.
"By driving prices down to this level so rapidly, both Amazon and Google have irrevocably harmed the tablet market by creating unrealistic price expectations."
That's like saying apps priced at 99 cents have irrevocably harmed the software and game markets. This isn't true at all. If anything, the trumped up prices reliant solely on artificial scarcity are what have been harming the markets. Where you see huge price gouges, I see them returning to a rational price after a ridiculous period of inflation.
A company may find this harmful if they've been relying on artificial scarcity, overpricing, or market dominance to carry them along. To such companies, I would say: You can't ignore Evolution. If you don't adapt to change then you become extinct.
It's a bit foolish to think the iPads will always retain high sales numbers at such price when cheaper options with better hardware exist. Look at Android vs iOS adoption. There are more Android devices, but iPhone still outsells each individual line... It's not all doom and gloom in the phone market, the tablet market is no different.
Making completely secure programs and services is possible, but it's far too expensive for today's short sighted folks.
Most say I'm a nutter for building my own OS from scratch, but I just can't find ANYONE who develops operating systems or applications with security as the highest priority. I try to exploit every line of code I write, and use a variety of unit tests involving input fuzzing, memchecks, etc to keep me honest. Sure development is slower (esp. refactoring), but I can sleep at night knowing the code I wrote does what I intended it to do, and nothing more.
Furthermore, security isn't #1 from a design perspective in any modern OS. For instance: Having the stack grow in the opposite direction that Arrays are indexed is utterly MORONIC, yet that's the way most everyone does everything... In my OS a buffer overrun doesn't crap all over the stack because the heap and stack grow in opposite directions, and arrays are indexed in the same direction of stack growth. Thereby significantly reducing or eliminating overruns as exploit vectors by design -- They access unallocated memory and/or cause a segmentation fault instead.
Programs are deployed as platform agnostic intermediate representations (.o /.OBJ), and linked into native machine executable binaries at install time. The same code I write and "compile" on x86 can be installed on ARM, x64, etc. I don't need a VM to provide cross platform support, and I can create a rigorous "debug" or "security audit" build from the "release" build. These are just a few examples...
That said, my OS is still a work in progress. It's taken me almost 8 years just to get the boot loader, file system, terminal and Ethernet / IP stack running, but I only work on it in my spare time -- You'd think someone like Microsoft or Google could pull something like this off in far less time; Protip: That's why C# and Android/Davlik exist, but these don't grant access to the bare metal and are developed with profit, adoption, and compatibility as highest priorities... I wouldn't give a damn about those goals until AFTER security has been addressed, and even then I won't care about adoption or profit -- Those are the worst possible goals when developing software.
TL;DR: You will have no security as long as profit and adoption drive progress.
It should use a 1.21 Jiggawatt fusion powered laser. Thus preventing me from hitting the bush or pedestrian by removing them from my path (and existence).
From a technology angle, contacts simple can't work for this application. You can't read text that's not directory in the center of your view.
Ah, but you don't look at things that aren't in the center of your view... You're thinking of traditional 2D displays, but that's not how this will work.
I've been working on a 3D GUI system.
Other game developers are toying with 3D UI as a decorative gimmick, but I'm focused on usability -- a GUI must be usable above all else. Once I removed the limitations of having everything conform to square regions of pixels I realised that a more natural and usable user interface could be created.
For instance, I track the mouse location and rotate & tilt the view to simultaneously move things towards the cursor as it moves towards thems, and reveal more interface surface in the direction the cursor is moving. This means I can pack more widgets into the UI, but leave them at the edge of periphery vision (or off the screen) unless needed. This assumes your attention is focused in the direction of the mouse cursor; In the future I will enable head and eye movement vector tracking (and use the tech for more than just games).
You incorrectly assume that the contact lens display won't NECESSARILY sense and react to changes of eye orientation in world space just to be able to keep overlays positioned correctly.
In short: You are wrong. The video itself addresses the issue.
If they care about paying the right price for the bugs, why not just buy the existing exploits from the black-hats? Hackers get paid what the bug is ACTUALLY worth (on the black market), you fix even more bugs, driving more folks to search for cracks, driving bug price down, everyone's happy?
I get that white hatters are beneficial, but I'd still be careful attaching my name to a "bug bounty". They can throw you in jail for white hat hacking at a whim -- It's still illegal by the retarding letter of the law.
Screw HTML5. It's, what 12 years too late? Web enabled Applications are the future!
You disagree? Really? Think about what you even need HTML5 for... Yep, Making apps. Exactly my point. Ah, but not really, because you need a shitty scripting language that's not very standardised to make everything work. Fuck THAT unsigned code mess and ridiculous document display language...
Applications do it faster, better, with less development time (In my experience), and with more consistent rendering.
Let's see: I push out a Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and iOS app with a single cross platform toolchain, OR, I try to support ALL of those [b]plus[/b] SEVERALl different browsers, each with SEVERAL different versions.... Yeah, it's death by over 9000 papercuts.
Protip: The web really isn't designed to do what you want, and there's a perfectly good OS API sitting RIGHT THERE.
Xbox Live is in the unique situation of being able to sell ads to the end-user, sell the ability to access end-users (via Marketplace) to publishers/developers, and take a cut of those purchases between publisher and end-user.
Yep, that's a unique situation, similar to the one Apple has with iOS, no?
The real problem with American Ninja Warrior (aside from there being no American Ninjas), is that there aren't enough Monkey Pirates fighting Cyber-Dinosaurs with Shark Lasers.
IIRC, he left around the time of the Digg 4 update (the one that killed Digg and caused it's users to flood tons of other sites).
I blame Leo Laporte of TWiT (this week in tech) - Dig 4 Was My Idea!
Sure Dig 4 was a flop, but consider this: What If his "idea" was to keep Dig from being a threat to his growing media empire?
So if it can offer the same type of entertainment options... (Netflix, HBOGo... etc), why not give it a try?
Because it can't offer these if it wants to be hackable... You know, like Linux, which still lacks a Netflix client over hackability concerns, even though XP + Netflix runs fine in my VM...
They don't need "developers who know to focus on the FUN factor" -- Bitch please... Everyone's got them already. That's damn near every indie game dev... And yet, few of us ever make enough money to quit our day jobs... YOU WANT THE FUN?! YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE FUN! Seriously...
Personally, I'd rather make games for the Raspberry Pi, but yeah, you can get a used smartphone with better hardware for about that price right now, and even hook it up to your TV. WHY AREN'T YOU DOING THIS?! Because, you really don't want to.
Atlantis disappeared beneath the sea you twit. There's your global warming right there.
Protip: When the sea level rises, shit otherwise above becomes "beneath" it.
Mess with the best die like the rest.
The code was in the place I put that thing that one time
Crash and Burn.
There, now you don't have to do those.
Here's food for though. I'm an assembly programmer, and I decompiled the program. IT'S FUCKING CRACKED. What would you like me to do? NO-OP the cipher?!
I'm not even a long time Apple user but once I tried the products they blow me like a 5 dollar hooker. Why 5 dollar hooker? Because she needs the money more than billion dollar hooker. Personal experience, cheap hookers are always better.
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I agree. The Tetris ruling is ridiculous. For instance, showing the next piece, is considered above the line, (which other games like super puzzle fighter have, so it's not like that feature has to come from Tetris). likewise for: Changing the color of the active piece when dropped -- human eyes react to more light, you make the active one brighter. The shapes used? Tetrominos are part of geometry, arrange any four same sized squares orthogonally touching in every combination and you get the 7 Tetrominos in Tetris and other games.
Furthermore, Other games added bombs before Tetris 2, and the hold piece and next piece features were borrowed from "tetris clones" by Tetris! So, they shouldn't be considered "above the line" when it comes to copyright, or else Tetris is the infringer!
It does make a sound (physical vibration), but it does not make a noise (a sound that is loud or unpleasant) because no one was around to gauge the arbitrary terms of loudness or unpleasantness.
Not that far from saying something like Sealand is the first nation to adopt bitcoin as a national currency.
Your info is severely out of date. Sealand was annexed by Sea Lab, which seceded in 2021 and became the sovereign nation Sea Labia.
Yes, and brute forcing the stream cipher key can take a very long time.
2^19937 is a big number.
I do hope you're not just XORing the p.random stream with the data. At least initialize a 256 byte cipher table via key expansion, and transform the enciphered bytes with it as well. Additionally use cipher block chaining such that the next block depends on knowing all previous blocks, and you don't reveal the 8bit block cipher mappings.
PRNGs were not meant to be used for crypto, and unless you're using a robust crypto framework in addition to the randomness generator, then your "2^19337" is just an illusion -- Bruteforcing isn't the only way to reveal the cipher internals. The bit strength is not the period of the generator, it's the total bits of internal state. Making such a flawed assumption is a novice mistake. I wish you well on your journey to becoming a cryptographer, but for now you should really just use the established algorithms.
Due to the nature of psuedo random number generators, a known plain text attack can tell us everything we need to know about the next iteration of your cipher.
Why do they all insist on reinventing wheels? Why the hell don't they just use OpenGL? If there are shortcomings with it, put in some freaking extensions or work with the OpenGL guys.
Vendor Lock In.
I'd also suspect that WinRT and Win8 Metro apps won't support OpenGL... (Can anyone confirm/deny?)
I'd also expect WinRT won't support graphics, mathematical functions or English. (Can anyone confirm/deny?)
Yes.
"By driving prices down to this level so rapidly, both Amazon and Google have irrevocably harmed the tablet market by creating unrealistic price expectations."
That's like saying apps priced at 99 cents have irrevocably harmed the software and game markets. This isn't true at all. If anything, the trumped up prices reliant solely on artificial scarcity are what have been harming the markets. Where you see huge price gouges, I see them returning to a rational price after a ridiculous period of inflation.
A company may find this harmful if they've been relying on artificial scarcity, overpricing, or market dominance to carry them along. To such companies, I would say: You can't ignore Evolution. If you don't adapt to change then you become extinct.
It's a bit foolish to think the iPads will always retain high sales numbers at such price when cheaper options with better hardware exist. Look at Android vs iOS adoption. There are more Android devices, but iPhone still outsells each individual line... It's not all doom and gloom in the phone market, the tablet market is no different.
Making completely secure programs and services is possible, but it's far too expensive for today's short sighted folks.
Most say I'm a nutter for building my own OS from scratch, but I just can't find ANYONE who develops operating systems or applications with security as the highest priority. I try to exploit every line of code I write, and use a variety of unit tests involving input fuzzing, memchecks, etc to keep me honest. Sure development is slower (esp. refactoring), but I can sleep at night knowing the code I wrote does what I intended it to do, and nothing more.
Furthermore, security isn't #1 from a design perspective in any modern OS. For instance: Having the stack grow in the opposite direction that Arrays are indexed is utterly MORONIC, yet that's the way most everyone does everything... In my OS a buffer overrun doesn't crap all over the stack because the heap and stack grow in opposite directions, and arrays are indexed in the same direction of stack growth. Thereby significantly reducing or eliminating overruns as exploit vectors by design -- They access unallocated memory and/or cause a segmentation fault instead.
Programs are deployed as platform agnostic intermediate representations (.o / .OBJ), and linked into native machine executable binaries at install time. The same code I write and "compile" on x86 can be installed on ARM, x64, etc. I don't need a VM to provide cross platform support, and I can create a rigorous "debug" or "security audit" build from the "release" build. These are just a few examples...
That said, my OS is still a work in progress. It's taken me almost 8 years just to get the boot loader, file system, terminal and Ethernet / IP stack running, but I only work on it in my spare time -- You'd think someone like Microsoft or Google could pull something like this off in far less time; Protip: That's why C# and Android/Davlik exist, but these don't grant access to the bare metal and are developed with profit, adoption, and compatibility as highest priorities... I wouldn't give a damn about those goals until AFTER security has been addressed, and even then I won't care about adoption or profit -- Those are the worst possible goals when developing software.
TL;DR: You will have no security as long as profit and adoption drive progress.
It should use a 1.21 Jiggawatt fusion powered laser. Thus preventing me from hitting the bush or pedestrian by removing them from my path (and existence).
Bwa ha ha HA!
From a technology angle, contacts simple can't work for this application. You can't read text that's not directory in the center of your view.
Ah, but you don't look at things that aren't in the center of your view... You're thinking of traditional 2D displays, but that's not how this will work.
I've been working on a 3D GUI system.
Other game developers are toying with 3D UI as a decorative gimmick, but I'm focused on usability -- a GUI must be usable above all else. Once I removed the limitations of having everything conform to square regions of pixels I realised that a more natural and usable user interface could be created.
For instance, I track the mouse location and rotate & tilt the view to simultaneously move things towards the cursor as it moves towards thems, and reveal more interface surface in the direction the cursor is moving. This means I can pack more widgets into the UI, but leave them at the edge of periphery vision (or off the screen) unless needed. This assumes your attention is focused in the direction of the mouse cursor; In the future I will enable head and eye movement vector tracking (and use the tech for more than just games).
You incorrectly assume that the contact lens display won't NECESSARILY sense and react to changes of eye orientation in world space just to be able to keep overlays positioned correctly.
In short: You are wrong. The video itself addresses the issue.
To quote my ex and close friend, "perception IS reality."
Woah! You dated Thomas Reid?!
I simply must have your Secret Diet... That, or your Time Machine!
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Thin Clients. Welcome to the Future (read: Past).
If they care about paying the right price for the bugs, why not just buy the existing exploits from the black-hats? Hackers get paid what the bug is ACTUALLY worth (on the black market), you fix even more bugs, driving more folks to search for cracks, driving bug price down, everyone's happy?
I get that white hatters are beneficial, but I'd still be careful attaching my name to a "bug bounty". They can throw you in jail for white hat hacking at a whim -- It's still illegal by the retarding letter of the law.
Screw HTML5. It's, what 12 years too late? Web enabled Applications are the future!
You disagree? Really? Think about what you even need HTML5 for... Yep, Making apps. Exactly my point. Ah, but not really, because you need a shitty scripting language that's not very standardised to make everything work. Fuck THAT unsigned code mess and ridiculous document display language...
Applications do it faster, better, with less development time (In my experience), and with more consistent rendering.
Let's see: I push out a Windows, Linux, Mac, Android and iOS app with a single cross platform toolchain, OR, I try to support ALL of those [b]plus[/b] SEVERALl different browsers, each with SEVERAL different versions.... Yeah, it's death by over 9000 papercuts.
Protip: The web really isn't designed to do what you want, and there's a perfectly good OS API sitting RIGHT THERE.
Xbox Live is in the unique situation of being able to sell ads to the end-user, sell the ability to access end-users (via Marketplace) to publishers/developers, and take a cut of those purchases between publisher and end-user.
Yep, that's a unique situation, similar to the one Apple has with iOS, no?
The real problem with American Ninja Warrior (aside from there being no American Ninjas), is that there aren't enough Monkey Pirates fighting Cyber-Dinosaurs with Shark Lasers.
IIRC, he left around the time of the Digg 4 update (the one that killed Digg and caused it's users to flood tons of other sites).
I blame Leo Laporte of TWiT (this week in tech) - Dig 4 Was My Idea!
Sure Dig 4 was a flop, but consider this: What If his "idea" was to keep Dig from being a threat to his growing media empire?
So if it can offer the same type of entertainment options... (Netflix, HBOGo... etc), why not give it a try?
Because it can't offer these if it wants to be hackable... You know, like Linux, which still lacks a Netflix client over hackability concerns, even though XP + Netflix runs fine in my VM...
They don't need "developers who know to focus on the FUN factor" -- Bitch please... Everyone's got them already. That's damn near every indie game dev... And yet, few of us ever make enough money to quit our day jobs... YOU WANT THE FUN?! YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE FUN! Seriously...
Personally, I'd rather make games for the Raspberry Pi, but yeah, you can get a used smartphone with better hardware for about that price right now, and even hook it up to your TV. WHY AREN'T YOU DOING THIS?! Because, you really don't want to.
P...S... Ellipses are cool...
Atlantis disappeared beneath the sea you twit. There's your global warming right there.
Protip: When the sea level rises, shit otherwise above becomes "beneath" it.
FUCK "Burdens of Proof"
Better safe than sorry -- I mean damn, what kind of fools are we?
Mess with the best die like the rest.
The code was in the place I put that thing that one time
Crash and Burn.
There, now you don't have to do those.
Here's food for though. I'm an assembly programmer, and I decompiled the program. IT'S FUCKING CRACKED. What would you like me to do? NO-OP the cipher?!
special solvents? I use fricking Goo gone.
any idiot can fix an iphone or ipad...
It's too bad Goon B Gone doesn't work, eh?
You know, stop the fuckers from gluing it in it the first place?
Apple defended the move by saying their products are environmentally superior in areas not measured by EPEAT."
They must mean those superior shiny rounded rectangular areas.
No, it means: "They should stick it up their ass".
I'm not even a long time Apple user but once I tried the products they blow me like a 5 dollar hooker. Why 5 dollar hooker? Because she needs the money more than billion dollar hooker. Personal experience, cheap hookers are always better.
Viruses.