Something does not compute here. The SecureList blog post says that the port knocking works by getting a raw socket from pcap and looking at the ack. On any Linux system I've ever used, this DOES require root privileges. And yet, they also claims it does not need any special privileges?
I have the same lock up problem here with 10.10. It's actually worse - it usually happens when lid is closed, but randomly (with much, much lower priority) can happen at any time.
> Do the extra architectural registers in x86-64 really make that much difference in practice?
For tight computations, they do. Most people run memory and i/o bound loads, so the memory overhead (64-bit pointers instead of 32-bit pointers) tend to cancel that out, and you only see modest speed gains.
And the 2GB limit of addressable memory is much more than a working set limit; it's easy to hit a fragmentation limit if you "only" need 1.5GB with some workloads. And the ability to mmap() every file and let the OS handle caching etc for me is also something I miss when I need to do 32 bit work.
> I know many people here are outraged when a company actually enforces their patent and calls the company in question a patent troll but the truth is they are simply enforcing their rights as a patent holder, as is their right.
Of course it is their right. The outrage is that is actually IS their right. Yourself said "copyrights are out of control" -- but all copyright holders are doing is enforcing their (bought-and-paid-congress-for) rights. Where's the difference here?
> Non-practicing entities, however, aren't protecting their intellectual property. They aren't protecting their innovative edge over their competitors. They are leaches. That's it. That's all.
I've recently had this discussion with a successful investor who has had success in investing in companies developing technology with the intent to sell it later. They are NPE. Whoever buys something from them will be a PE. But if they as an NPE cannot protect the value of their research through patent, why would anyone buy it from them?
Saying NPEs have no right to sue means that you disagree with the concept of "company doing research in order to sell research results rather than sell product", because it becomes non viable. That might be fine, but most people don't think of that consequence when targeting NPEs. We need a different test to discriminate trolls from non-practicing but otherwise legitimate entities (universities, research shops).
e.g., ARM don't produce anything real. Only copyrighted and patented designs. They are an NPE.
> It's unfortunately due to licensing restrictions and international copyright laws rather than them "not wanting to" or being technically unable to do it.
Actually, it mostly IS them not wanting to.
The majority of the BBC programming is either owned by the BBC or commissioned for the BBC and gives the BBC worldwide distribution rights (e.g. on BBC America or BBC Middle East). Basically, if it ever becomes available on BBC America, they have the copyright assignment or equivalent, and they could start offering it for sale from day one.
It is "not wanting", in the sense that it might sour their distribution partners and some of their content sources. But if they wanted it, they could.
[That's not true for almost any broadcasting service, but it is true for the BBC]
I think it is more probably a premature application of some anti-bank-run version. There are financial earthquakes coming soon to Europe, one way or the other, and that always means bank runs and naked cheques.
I think it is more plausible that they just flipped the "do not trust other counterparty until really verified" switch too early.
> Quick, how many manufacturers have integrated Kinect into their products? I'm unaware of it being integrated into any hardware. Would a Kinect interface in a laptop be interesting?
Microsoft won't license out Kinect technology (which they did not even develop themselves, but rather got an exclusive license for from PrimeSense). Furthermore, at the same time they signed the deal, they bought the only other company to offer similar products (I think 3DVision, not sure about the name), and closed them. So they now own an exclusive license for one technology, and all the patents for a differently implemented technology.
There is no way for anyone to integrate that functionality. And if I were microsoft, I'd buy LeapMotion tomorrow to make sure that stays true for the future.
This is GPL working as designed. You see, the Linux (and thus Android) kernel is GPLed, meaning that if microsoft used it to build on, they would be required to release the source code for their version as well -- which would stop them from being able to "embrace and extend".
The 12k limit is more related to just having 32 bits than to cryptographic/non-cryptographic nature.
64k*64k ^=32 bit, so at 64k you are guaranteed that there is at least one two-bit error that is undetected. At 2048, you are also virtually guaranteed of a 3-bit errors that goes undetected -- that's true whether the hash is a plain CRC or a cryptographic one.
A CRC-128 would have been as good for this purpose as MD5 or SHA1.
Are you aware of a single Java compiler that supports vector operations at all? Either autovectorization or intrinsics without JNI would do, but I'm not aware of any.
> 20 years ago, lockdown was the norm. Finding a fucking *compiler* that didn't cost hundreds or thousands of dollars was completely impossible. But things changed. Why? Consumer choice.
Maybe on your planet.
Here on planet earth, 20 years ago: - Turbo Pascal was $50 since.. 1985 or so? (I think it was still called "Compass Pascal" then) - Basic was just disappearing from the DOS of the time (GWBasic), and reappearing as cut-down QuickBasic - GCC version 1 was available - Every computer before the IBM PC came with usable Basic (I still used my C64 in 92 -- though not its basic). The BBC-B additionally had a built in Assembler. The Apple ][ (circa '78) additionaly had a built in Machine Code monitor. - Mix C, a very able development environment, was $30
Lockdown was definitely NOT the norm. No system provider actively tried to thwart modifications back then for anything less than a Mainframe -- although that's around the time the trend started (Lexmark printer cartridges; SNES cartridges; etc.)
Many people disagree with Apple, but at least Apple are upfront about what they do, and why they do it. They'll bow to the MAFIAA occasionally if they think it would make a better media experience (or fit better with their plans for world domination), but they are coherent and mostly honest.
Microsoft's evil is expressed in a lot of underhanded tactics. That includes stuffing the ISO committees in favour of OOXML (which has damaged that organization's ability to work for a while now), threatening companies like ASUS who have a viable product (eee) that doesn't depend on Microsoft to make sure that they don't actually try to work it, and a whole lot other.
You know, there are a few other differences between Venezuela and the US besides corporate personhood; e.g., in Denmark, corporations are not persons -- yet, they enjoy just as much freedom of the press there as in the US if not more.
And, if the government wants to hurt a company, it can be virtue of being the largest consumer of almost anything; Ask Qwest CEO what happens when the government asks you to participate in an illegal wiretapping program, and you refuse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwest
People, the point in learning from example is not to look for an example that agrees with your prejudice -- it is to look for an example that CONTRASTS with your prejudice and see what you can actually learn from it. Always compare to European countries (Denmark, Sweden and Norway are good targets) when someone proposes a change, especially if you get the urge to compare to Central America or South America.
No, he's right; There is no absolute or relative "quality" measure to speak of such as you mentioned. While what you say is common knowledge, it has in fact been proven in several rigorous tests that professional wine tasters can usually tell the $2 bottle from the $20 bottle, but not the $20 from the $200 or the $2000 bottle; And in supposedly non-blind tests where they can see the label, they consistently rate the more expensive wine as better -- even when the labels have been swapped and it's on the bottle with the cheaper wine.
See e.g. Mlodinow on wine
A deadline scheduler (a-la ZFS) is wonderful when multitasking disk heavy apps. That does not happen too often on a laptop (or a desktop, for that matter), but I've had Windows (and on rare occasions, even Linux) work horribly under such load. ZFS' "worst case behaviour" is supposed to be significantly better than any other system in use today.
NTFS's ACL system is horrible. While it has a lot of descriptive power, it's a pain to manage, the result being that it is almost never used. The old Unix model, while simple, is easy to manage, and as a result is often set up reasonably. Novell's "Trustees" model works much better than either, but for some reason it wasn't adopted by others.
NTFS is slow and inefficient, fragments horribly, and lacks fundamental features such as proper symlinks (and only supports directory hardlinks). It has a reasonable journal implementation, and it supported large files before other systems did, but it's very outdated and does not compare favourably with any of the modern high performance file systems.
Which war were *you* watching?
This war was initiaited by the Hez, unless you believe crossing the border into a neighbouring country and kidnapping to be peaceful actions.
Your ignorance with respect to ties between the Hez and Iran is so unbelievable that you must already have an unremovable SEP field in place.
Have a look at Matlab's compiler -- it used to generate decent C++ code when I looked at it a few years back.
And there are alternatives to matlab, including freemat, a free matlab clone, and numpy, a numerical python extension. Neither will be plug-and-play but they are both close enough to potentially be worth the switch in the future.
Where I work, developers use CVS exclusively. It has its quirks, and we've considered alternatives, but the combination of CVS+TortoiseCVS+Jalindi Igloo (Visual Studio integration)+Jira is unbelievebly hard to beat (Subversion doesn't have a reasonable SCC connector, and nothing else has anything that comes close to TortoiseCVS -- even TortoiseSVN is clunky and awkward by comparison. Oh, and CVS mergepoints work perfectly, unlike the nonexistent merge tracking capabilities of Subversion).
When our "functional analysts alike" guys wanted version control, we naturally gave them the tried-and-tested CVS, and gave them instruction on its use. It was a horrible failure. The update-edit-change-commit cycle which is so trivial to developers just didn't work. The people are not dumb - just have a different mindset. We had also tried a Wiki (MoinMoin, works well for devs), but its inability to search or version Excel files make it irrelevant.
Eventually, much to my dismay, we settled on Sharepoint. And while it's clunky, horrible, keeps only the 7 latest versions of any file, has no branching and is often inconsistent with error messages, them users are able to work with it without requiring assistance.
Do not confuse a feature list with applicability of a tool to the situation at hand which, it appears, might depend more on the people involved than anything else.
Dude, you're most probably using the wrong database. Financial data or billing info (or otherwise telecomm industry?) I presume.
Consider kdb+ from Kx systems. Properly used, it can do ~1mil rows/second, with multiple live hot failovers. It's pricey (several hundreds of K$), especially compared to MySQL/PGsql, but might be worth your buck.
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Same IP is not good enough for a criminal conviction, no.
But it's most definitely enough for Facebook to offer "people you may know".
Something does not compute here. The SecureList blog post says that the port knocking works by getting a raw socket from pcap and looking at the ack. On any Linux system I've ever used, this DOES require root privileges. And yet, they also claims it does not need any special privileges?
si = source pointer
di = destination pointer
bp = base pointer (also known as the frame pointer)
I have the same lock up problem here with 10.10. It's actually worse - it usually happens when lid is closed, but randomly (with much, much lower priority) can happen at any time.
> Do the extra architectural registers in x86-64 really make that much difference in practice?
For tight computations, they do. Most people run memory and i/o bound loads, so the memory overhead (64-bit pointers instead of 32-bit pointers) tend to cancel that out, and you only see modest speed gains.
And the 2GB limit of addressable memory is much more than a working set limit; it's easy to hit a fragmentation limit if you "only" need 1.5GB with some workloads. And the ability to mmap() every file and let the OS handle caching etc for me is also something I miss when I need to do 32 bit work.
Can you say which model your new model is, and what it is used for?
I've had good results with a Synology setup.
MS ever had grace?
They've been having demos crash and bluescreen since forever.
> I know many people here are outraged when a company actually enforces their patent and calls the company in question a patent troll but the truth is they are simply enforcing their rights as a patent holder, as is their right.
Of course it is their right. The outrage is that is actually IS their right. Yourself said "copyrights are out of control" -- but all copyright holders are doing is enforcing their (bought-and-paid-congress-for) rights. Where's the difference here?
> Non-practicing entities, however, aren't protecting their intellectual property. They aren't protecting their innovative edge over their competitors. They are leaches. That's it. That's all.
I've recently had this discussion with a successful investor who has had success in investing in companies developing technology with the intent to sell it later. They are NPE. Whoever buys something from them will be a PE. But if they as an NPE cannot protect the value of their research through patent, why would anyone buy it from them?
Saying NPEs have no right to sue means that you disagree with the concept of "company doing research in order to sell research results rather than sell product", because it becomes non viable. That might be fine, but most people don't think of that consequence when targeting NPEs. We need a different test to discriminate trolls from non-practicing but otherwise legitimate entities (universities, research shops).
e.g., ARM don't produce anything real. Only copyrighted and patented designs. They are an NPE.
> It's unfortunately due to licensing restrictions and international copyright laws rather than them "not wanting to" or being technically unable to do it.
Actually, it mostly IS them not wanting to.
The majority of the BBC programming is either owned by the BBC or commissioned for the BBC and gives the BBC worldwide distribution rights (e.g. on BBC America or BBC Middle East). Basically, if it ever becomes available on BBC America, they have the copyright assignment or equivalent, and they could start offering it for sale from day one.
It is "not wanting", in the sense that it might sour their distribution partners and some of their content sources. But if they wanted it, they could.
[That's not true for almost any broadcasting service, but it is true for the BBC]
Don't take the description at face value.
I think it is more probably a premature application of some anti-bank-run version. There are financial earthquakes coming soon to Europe, one way or the other, and that always means bank runs and naked cheques.
I think it is more plausible that they just flipped the "do not trust other counterparty until really verified" switch too early.
> Quick, how many manufacturers have integrated Kinect into their products? I'm unaware of it being integrated into any hardware. Would a Kinect interface in a laptop be interesting?
Microsoft won't license out Kinect technology (which they did not even develop themselves, but rather got an exclusive license for from PrimeSense). Furthermore, at the same time they signed the deal, they bought the only other company to offer similar products (I think 3DVision, not sure about the name), and closed them. So they now own an exclusive license for one technology, and all the patents for a differently implemented technology.
There is no way for anyone to integrate that functionality. And if I were microsoft, I'd buy LeapMotion tomorrow to make sure that stays true for the future.
That's not what happened.
Jobs essentially threatened Gates in a patent war, and the fact that if Apple goes bust Microsoft will be in a bad antitrust position.
A view of MS as a benevolent ecosystem guardian is so ridiculous it is almost funny.
This is GPL working as designed. You see, the Linux (and thus Android) kernel is GPLed, meaning that if microsoft used it to build on, they would be required to release the source code for their version as well -- which would stop them from being able to "embrace and extend".
That's apples and oranges.
The 12k limit is more related to just having 32 bits than to cryptographic/non-cryptographic nature.
64k*64k ^=32 bit, so at 64k you are guaranteed that there is at least one two-bit error that is undetected. At 2048, you are also virtually guaranteed of a 3-bit errors that goes undetected -- that's true whether the hash is a plain CRC or a cryptographic one.
A CRC-128 would have been as good for this purpose as MD5 or SHA1.
Are you aware of a single Java compiler that supports vector operations at all? Either autovectorization or intrinsics without JNI would do, but I'm not aware of any.
> 20 years ago, lockdown was the norm. Finding a fucking *compiler* that didn't cost hundreds or thousands of dollars was completely impossible. But things changed. Why? Consumer choice.
Maybe on your planet.
Here on planet earth, 20 years ago: .. 1985 or so? (I think it was still called "Compass Pascal" then)
- Turbo Pascal was $50 since
- Basic was just disappearing from the DOS of the time (GWBasic), and reappearing as cut-down QuickBasic
- GCC version 1 was available
- Every computer before the IBM PC came with usable Basic (I still used my C64 in 92 -- though not its basic). The BBC-B additionally had a built in Assembler. The Apple ][ (circa '78) additionaly had a built in Machine Code monitor.
- Mix C, a very able development environment, was $30
Lockdown was definitely NOT the norm. No system provider actively tried to thwart modifications back then for anything less than a Mainframe -- although that's around the time the trend started (Lexmark printer cartridges; SNES cartridges; etc.)
Many people disagree with Apple, but at least Apple are upfront about what they do, and why they do it. They'll bow to the MAFIAA occasionally if they think it would make a better media experience (or fit better with their plans for world domination), but they are coherent and mostly honest.
Microsoft's evil is expressed in a lot of underhanded tactics. That includes stuffing the ISO committees in favour of OOXML (which has damaged that organization's ability to work for a while now), threatening companies like ASUS who have a viable product (eee) that doesn't depend on Microsoft to make sure that they don't actually try to work it, and a whole lot other.
You know, there are a few other differences between Venezuela and the US besides corporate personhood; e.g., in Denmark, corporations are not persons -- yet, they enjoy just as much freedom of the press there as in the US if not more.
And, if the government wants to hurt a company, it can be virtue of being the largest consumer of almost anything; Ask Qwest CEO what happens when the government asks you to participate in an illegal wiretapping program, and you refuse. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qwest
People, the point in learning from example is not to look for an example that agrees with your prejudice -- it is to look for an example that CONTRASTS with your prejudice and see what you can actually learn from it. Always compare to European countries (Denmark, Sweden and Norway are good targets) when someone proposes a change, especially if you get the urge to compare to Central America or South America.
No, he's right; There is no absolute or relative "quality" measure to speak of such as you mentioned. While what you say is common knowledge, it has in fact been proven in several rigorous tests that professional wine tasters can usually tell the $2 bottle from the $20 bottle, but not the $20 from the $200 or the $2000 bottle; And in supposedly non-blind tests where they can see the label, they consistently rate the more expensive wine as better -- even when the labels have been swapped and it's on the bottle with the cheaper wine.
See e.g. Mlodinow on wine
Can you compare kdb+ ( of which you're probably aware, but if not - http://kx.com/ ) to Vertica ?
A deadline scheduler (a-la ZFS) is wonderful when multitasking disk heavy apps. That does not happen too often on a laptop (or a desktop, for that matter), but I've had Windows (and on rare occasions, even Linux) work horribly under such load. ZFS' "worst case behaviour" is supposed to be significantly better than any other system in use today.
NTFS's ACL system is horrible. While it has a lot of descriptive power, it's a pain to manage, the result being that it is almost never used. The old Unix model, while simple, is easy to manage, and as a result is often set up reasonably. Novell's "Trustees" model works much better than either, but for some reason it wasn't adopted by others.
NTFS is slow and inefficient, fragments horribly, and lacks fundamental features such as proper symlinks (and only supports directory hardlinks). It has a reasonable journal implementation, and it supported large files before other systems did, but it's very outdated and does not compare favourably with any of the modern high performance file systems.
Which war were *you* watching? This war was initiaited by the Hez, unless you believe crossing the border into a neighbouring country and kidnapping to be peaceful actions. Your ignorance with respect to ties between the Hez and Iran is so unbelievable that you must already have an unremovable SEP field in place.
Have a look at Matlab's compiler -- it used to generate decent C++ code when I looked at it a few years back. And there are alternatives to matlab, including freemat, a free matlab clone, and numpy, a numerical python extension. Neither will be plug-and-play but they are both close enough to potentially be worth the switch in the future.
Where I work, developers use CVS exclusively. It has its quirks, and we've considered alternatives, but the combination of CVS+TortoiseCVS+Jalindi Igloo (Visual Studio integration)+Jira is unbelievebly hard to beat (Subversion doesn't have a reasonable SCC connector, and nothing else has anything that comes close to TortoiseCVS -- even TortoiseSVN is clunky and awkward by comparison. Oh, and CVS mergepoints work perfectly, unlike the nonexistent merge tracking capabilities of Subversion).
When our "functional analysts alike" guys wanted version control, we naturally gave them the tried-and-tested CVS, and gave them instruction on its use. It was a horrible failure. The update-edit-change-commit cycle which is so trivial to developers just didn't work. The people are not dumb - just have a different mindset. We had also tried a Wiki (MoinMoin, works well for devs), but its inability to search or version Excel files make it irrelevant.
Eventually, much to my dismay, we settled on Sharepoint. And while it's clunky, horrible, keeps only the 7 latest versions of any file, has no branching and is often inconsistent with error messages, them users are able to work with it without requiring assistance.
Do not confuse a feature list with applicability of a tool to the situation at hand which, it appears, might depend more on the people involved than anything else.
Dude, you're most probably using the wrong database. Financial data or billing info (or otherwise telecomm industry?) I presume.
Consider kdb+ from Kx systems. Properly used, it can do ~1mil rows/second, with multiple live hot failovers. It's pricey (several hundreds of K$), especially compared to MySQL/PGsql, but might be worth your buck.