You know, I now remember this about thunderbird. I was just frustrated with trying to rebuild and restore a profile and try to figure out why it kept hanging.
I know we had someone on 802.11s committee I believe, that was 15 years ago. I thought there was something before this but I'm not seeing info. There is also 802.15.4 mesh task group which started around 2003 (I think Zigbee fits on top of this?). We had been trying to do wifi meshing in 2004 before the plug was pulled, but there was no alliance. Meshing became much more common in low bandwidth fixed applications, such as smart meters and other sensors.
Volcanoes aren't good at this stuff. They're not sucking stuff in down deep where they can be incinerated with high efficiency. Lava is essentially rock. Well rock with lots of gas actually, but it's still rock. So it's dense. If you drop a bunch of trash into lava it will be on the surface of the lava, because most of it is less dense than the lava. Gollum, as it turns out, isn't going to sink into the lava.
As it burns, it creates a crust of partially burnt garbage on top of a crust of now cooler lava. Not much more efficient than a normal incinerator. After that, because of all the gas in the lava, and pressure from below, that partially burnt garbage is likely to be tossed about, spewed out, and toxic ash carried away and blown about by the toxic gas escaping from the volcano.
A lot of security flaws arise from someone wanting to improve the "user experience". We've known almost forever that convenience the enemy of security.
No, because this is wifi. Wifi is a NEW players in meshes, and there are already standards. Wifi with respects is radio and networking standards is mostly a catchup player in many arenas.
I have thunderbird but don't use it much. I am mostly on webmail for personal mail. Not great but workable.
I just restored files in Thunderbird for my mom's computer (third time hit by IT scam and she still won't believe that people offering to fix her computer for free are the bad guys). It's a pain in the ass because of how it does things. Proprietary file formats, databases, and such. I've got a lot of old email folders back in normal Unix text format, easy enough to copy around. But outside of Unix no one came up with a standardized mail format. So trying to fix things up, not having a nice way to copy over files was annoying, and trying to fix up weird bugs (it would hang for 10 minutes after startup, possibly due to corrupted database file). Then a day later I find that the address book was missing after all my fixes, and so I'm stuck searching the web for which file to restore so that I don't have to restore from an old backup to a new profile just to get the address book to copy to the real profile.
Sure, maybe all the mail programs act this way now. But it would be nice if things were easier to deal with - such as a built-in import/export feature for folders and address books and settings (oddly I saw an export option for some things but not a corresponding import). I'm not happy that all these programs seem designed to lock you in for life unless you're willing to start over from scratch.
There are more drawbacks though. Such as Microsoft knowing what you purchased, and they'll start giving you targeted advertisements, and they'll be tempted to disallow software from third party sources and unsigned software (for your own good they'll claim). Am I paranoid? Maybe, but Microsoft has not yet shown itself to be a trustworthy organization.
The current system has been in place for a few decades, since the courts decided that a suspension of some rights was justified at the border. INS then went further and declared that the effective border region was 100 miles wide, which did not seem to be at all what the courts envisioned. I'd rather the whole thing be rolled back and that anyone inside the borders is granted basic constitutiional rights. Over half of the population of the US lies within that region where the border patrol asserts their privilege to perform warrantless searches.
It's true, the security must be treated as a feature, and the customer must be told that security is a feature that they want (sometimes it seems this isn't true). However the fault often lies in sales and marketing, where a deadline for product delivery is set before product design and development even begins. Security often gets short-shrift at the end when a project is running late. That's why your security subject matter expert must always be a bastard willing to shout in meetings. The security team should not be trying to win a popularity contest. And if you don't have a security team, then you need to get one.
Also, don't let your company be run by a bunch of people who think they know it all but have no real world experience. They're the one's most likely to want to shift stuff fast and get their bonus/options and cash out before it comes crashing down.
We will use them a bit. No one's bringing them from outside, but it's one of the fastest ways to transfer large files around. Ie, trying to get a reasonable cross development environment setup on newer OSX systems is painful and takes many hours, but dragging off of a plugged in hard drive gets it doesn in a few minutes. Plus all the lab equipment that doesn't understand how to send to the cloud, and which can't be upgraded because real world companies use things called "budgets".
But hose systems are SLOW. I don't know of any network that beats the bandwidth of driving over a portable hard drive. Seriously, cloud services are attrocious, especially when your company has a puny outgoing pipe all trying to handle the data from 500 people going to the outsourced backoffice servers in rural India.
Yes, when it comes to clueless IT policies, you just need to be creative. Don't call them micro-SD cards, call them high tech blood glucose test strips.
There are new-ass spectrum analyzers that know how to upload to IBM's cloud? We use external hard drives for a lot of things, since the network is amazingly slow, no way is the "cloud" going to be as convenient as "here, copy 4GB off this drive into/local directory". But maybe IBM is all office desk workers now and they don't really do technical work anymore?
They're not faking the voice I think, instead it's a set of pre-recorded voices. If it was AI, then I'd want to see it change accent according the location and service, maybe even switch language. "Jimmy-Bob, there's a yankee on the phone!"
Doesn't matter if you are guilty or not, ask the police to show a warrant first. If you don't want to defend the rights of all citizens then you stand the chance of losing your own rights.
Dl you trust the economic reports? From what I can tell by looking around me, the economy sucks. The problem is that official statistics ignore people who are not actively looking for jobs, they also don't count under-employment (ie, used to make $100K/yr but now working minimum wage at Burger King). I see more homeless people around than I have ever seen before, many sleeping in their cars or campers, and encampments showing up beneat overpasses and in residential areas. People are nervous about keeping their jobs, and wages have remained stagnant. Every president always claims the economy is better than it actually is, and they have the misleading statistics to prove it.
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You know, I now remember this about thunderbird. I was just frustrated with trying to rebuild and restore a profile and try to figure out why it kept hanging.
I know we had someone on 802.11s committee I believe, that was 15 years ago. I thought there was something before this but I'm not seeing info. There is also 802.15.4 mesh task group which started around 2003 (I think Zigbee fits on top of this?). We had been trying to do wifi meshing in 2004 before the plug was pulled, but there was no alliance. Meshing became much more common in low bandwidth fixed applications, such as smart meters and other sensors.
Well, at least it was an *American* bag!
Volcanoes aren't good at this stuff. They're not sucking stuff in down deep where they can be incinerated with high efficiency. Lava is essentially rock. Well rock with lots of gas actually, but it's still rock. So it's dense. If you drop a bunch of trash into lava it will be on the surface of the lava, because most of it is less dense than the lava. Gollum, as it turns out, isn't going to sink into the lava.
As it burns, it creates a crust of partially burnt garbage on top of a crust of now cooler lava. Not much more efficient than a normal incinerator. After that, because of all the gas in the lava, and pressure from below, that partially burnt garbage is likely to be tossed about, spewed out, and toxic ash carried away and blown about by the toxic gas escaping from the volcano.
Yes, but some hipster is going to complain that having to be asked to decrypt every message is cumbersome and not as cool.
A lot of security flaws arise from someone wanting to improve the "user experience". We've known almost forever that convenience the enemy of security.
They could however, join the existing alliances and standards bodies that have already formed around meshing starting two decades ago.
No, because this is wifi. Wifi is a NEW players in meshes, and there are already standards. Wifi with respects is radio and networking standards is mostly a catchup player in many arenas.
I have thunderbird but don't use it much. I am mostly on webmail for personal mail. Not great but workable.
I just restored files in Thunderbird for my mom's computer (third time hit by IT scam and she still won't believe that people offering to fix her computer for free are the bad guys). It's a pain in the ass because of how it does things. Proprietary file formats, databases, and such. I've got a lot of old email folders back in normal Unix text format, easy enough to copy around. But outside of Unix no one came up with a standardized mail format. So trying to fix things up, not having a nice way to copy over files was annoying, and trying to fix up weird bugs (it would hang for 10 minutes after startup, possibly due to corrupted database file). Then a day later I find that the address book was missing after all my fixes, and so I'm stuck searching the web for which file to restore so that I don't have to restore from an old backup to a new profile just to get the address book to copy to the real profile.
Sure, maybe all the mail programs act this way now. But it would be nice if things were easier to deal with - such as a built-in import/export feature for folders and address books and settings (oddly I saw an export option for some things but not a corresponding import). I'm not happy that all these programs seem designed to lock you in for life unless you're willing to start over from scratch.
There are more drawbacks though. Such as Microsoft knowing what you purchased, and they'll start giving you targeted advertisements, and they'll be tempted to disallow software from third party sources and unsigned software (for your own good they'll claim). Am I paranoid? Maybe, but Microsoft has not yet shown itself to be a trustworthy organization.
The current system has been in place for a few decades, since the courts decided that a suspension of some rights was justified at the border. INS then went further and declared that the effective border region was 100 miles wide, which did not seem to be at all what the courts envisioned. I'd rather the whole thing be rolled back and that anyone inside the borders is granted basic constitutiional rights. Over half of the population of the US lies within that region where the border patrol asserts their privilege to perform warrantless searches.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these batteries...
What they should have done is remove it one word at a time so that no one notices.
It won't really help, the lobbyist army will show up and swing the vote their way. The law enforcement unions are very powerful.
It's true, the security must be treated as a feature, and the customer must be told that security is a feature that they want (sometimes it seems this isn't true). However the fault often lies in sales and marketing, where a deadline for product delivery is set before product design and development even begins. Security often gets short-shrift at the end when a project is running late. That's why your security subject matter expert must always be a bastard willing to shout in meetings. The security team should not be trying to win a popularity contest. And if you don't have a security team, then you need to get one.
Also, don't let your company be run by a bunch of people who think they know it all but have no real world experience. They're the one's most likely to want to shift stuff fast and get their bonus/options and cash out before it comes crashing down.
We will use them a bit. No one's bringing them from outside, but it's one of the fastest ways to transfer large files around. Ie, trying to get a reasonable cross development environment setup on newer OSX systems is painful and takes many hours, but dragging off of a plugged in hard drive gets it doesn in a few minutes. Plus all the lab equipment that doesn't understand how to send to the cloud, and which can't be upgraded because real world companies use things called "budgets".
But hose systems are SLOW. I don't know of any network that beats the bandwidth of driving over a portable hard drive. Seriously, cloud services are attrocious, especially when your company has a puny outgoing pipe all trying to handle the data from 500 people going to the outsourced backoffice servers in rural India.
Yes, when it comes to clueless IT policies, you just need to be creative. Don't call them micro-SD cards, call them high tech blood glucose test strips.
But there's often a USB CD/DVD reader floating around for when it's needed.
There are new-ass spectrum analyzers that know how to upload to IBM's cloud? We use external hard drives for a lot of things, since the network is amazingly slow, no way is the "cloud" going to be as convenient as "here, copy 4GB off this drive into /local directory". But maybe IBM is all office desk workers now and they don't really do technical work anymore?
Really give the AI a workout. As in "I have an opening 15 minutes after kickoff, is that frosty for you?"
They're not faking the voice I think, instead it's a set of pre-recorded voices. If it was AI, then I'd want to see it change accent according the location and service, maybe even switch language. "Jimmy-Bob, there's a yankee on the phone!"
Doesn't matter if you are guilty or not, ask the police to show a warrant first. If you don't want to defend the rights of all citizens then you stand the chance of losing your own rights.
Yes, but you need to have an affair with the president first.
Dl you trust the economic reports? From what I can tell by looking around me, the economy sucks. The problem is that official statistics ignore people who are not actively looking for jobs, they also don't count under-employment (ie, used to make $100K/yr but now working minimum wage at Burger King). I see more homeless people around than I have ever seen before, many sleeping in their cars or campers, and encampments showing up beneat overpasses and in residential areas. People are nervous about keeping their jobs, and wages have remained stagnant. Every president always claims the economy is better than it actually is, and they have the misleading statistics to prove it.