I don't mind XML for stuff like Docbook... but for databases what's the point? XML is an editing format with some down and upsides, using it as a storage format for data never edited in XML is just retarded.
At best it just provides a useless intermediary format which doesn't affect usability... at worst you try to use XQuery to actually perform searches on large volumes of data.
How would it be a good bargain? The interconnect would be over-engineered for such a use. 1000 petascale machines will be cheaper than one exascale machine and can service those same users.
You need problems requiring time-sensitive solutions which can efficiently run on the complete system at least some percentage of the time otherwise there is no value there.
LLVM was offered for next gen GCC, it's author has nothing against GPL... in the end patches from people extending LLVM do very little compared to the $$$ Apple contributes to it's development (of course Apple does have something against the GPL).
They can just split up into two companies linked by stock ownership and privacy maintaining firewalls, one incorporated in the US and one in the EU. The US government can't (yet) force stock owners to force their foreign companies to implement spying mechanisms in their technology infrastructure AFAIK.
The companies still fear it because it will cost them money, but they will do it if necessary.
The NSA gets huge volumes of data from the EU free of charge... companies get a carte blanche to share data with the NSA by the EU. They are jeopardizing all of that by getting caught like this...
The EU parliament voted to suspend SWIFT, commission will ignore them of course... but it will come up for renewal in 2015 and they need parliament then. A law with absolutely huge penalties (a percentage points of annual company revenue) on sharing data with foreign intelligence has been passed (slightly toothless at the moment due to safe harbour agreements, but at this point I doubt those agreements will last long).
Valuable to whom? A feudal society with an abundance of labour will never create value for the poor, all the fruits of their labour gets taken away as rent. Black death's effect on the labour pool, various revolutions, socialism and homesteading laid the foundations for the the society we have today... but we are reverting to the old norm.
Capitalism as a force to improve the median standard of living can't survive without redistribution, there is no more land to homestead, the poor can't pull themselves up by the bootstraps to get out of the stranglehold of rent... if breaking rich people's windows is the only redistribution available, well it's better than nothing, better than taking their heads off as well.
The thing about broken windows is that it's a redistributive mechanism when the window owner has money and the window maker/setter don't.
In the absence of sufficient redistributive mechanisms from government to offset the natural tendency of capitalism towards wealth concentration through rent seeking a broken window can actually improve the median living standards.
If the consumer class disappears there will be pretty much no one for those ultra-lean companies to sell to (the rich only need a fraction of the population to serve their whims).
Neo-Luddites are like Neo-Malthusians... inevitably right in the end, wrong until they are.
Consumption keeping pace with productivity is what has kept the luddites in the wrong for so long. I think the west has hit peak consumption though, for various reasons (part of which is that the Malthusians are also getting close to being right).
To me it seems there is a lot of FUD thrown up by those interested in pushing timber construction.
Another oft heard argument is that to you need hugely strong doors and thick windows to keep everything intact... which seems disingenuous to me, just treat doors, windows, roof cladding and the interior of exterior rooms as sacrificial. Buying that stuff costs a hell of a lot less than building a new home.
If you don't limit it your device falls under the Wassenaar agreement so it can't be exported from most western countries... easier to just put in the limitation.
Lets say he had said "She left me with our son because she decided she was a lesbian and is unwilling to ensure she and her partner walk around clothed in the house and thus refuse me video chat for privacy reasons". Would it have changed anything?
I'd still have thought that if it were true they were cunts... I'd also have thought that if it were true he was showing remarkable constraint and political correctness in his speech.
Why didn't they think of that before asking for "224, 256, 384, and 512 bits" in the first place?
They included included Dual_EC_DRBG into a standard despite it being slow and obviously backdoored, they have no credibility to make changes to encryption algorithms any more. They have to rebuild their credibility at this point, any changes they make have to be explained, any coefficients they pick have to be shown to be free from NSA meddling, any reduction in hash length from the contest requirements... well, they just shouldn't even try to do that at this point.
They can try to rebuild their credibility or they can become irrelevant.
BTW, even if ECC can be secure, ECC as used in practice seems to suffer from the same problem as Dual_EC_DRBG, magic number coefficients chosen by the NSA...
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I don't mind XML for stuff like Docbook ... but for databases what's the point? XML is an editing format with some down and upsides, using it as a storage format for data never edited in XML is just retarded.
At best it just provides a useless intermediary format which doesn't affect usability ... at worst you try to use XQuery to actually perform searches on large volumes of data.
How would it be a good bargain? The interconnect would be over-engineered for such a use. 1000 petascale machines will be cheaper than one exascale machine and can service those same users.
You need problems requiring time-sensitive solutions which can efficiently run on the complete system at least some percentage of the time otherwise there is no value there.
LLVM was offered for next gen GCC, it's author has nothing against GPL ... in the end patches from people extending LLVM do very little compared to the $$$ Apple contributes to it's development (of course Apple does have something against the GPL).
That's the shipping date for a new purchase ... formlabs has been shipping out the kickstarter orders for a while now.
They can just split up into two companies linked by stock ownership and privacy maintaining firewalls, one incorporated in the US and one in the EU. The US government can't (yet) force stock owners to force their foreign companies to implement spying mechanisms in their technology infrastructure AFAIK.
The companies still fear it because it will cost them money, but they will do it if necessary.
The NSA gets huge volumes of data from the EU free of charge ... companies get a carte blanche to share data with the NSA by the EU. They are jeopardizing all of that by getting caught like this ...
Their job is not to get caught, especially when spying on allies ... they're not doing an effective job.
Have you been paying attention to the news?
The EU parliament voted to suspend SWIFT, commission will ignore them of course ... but it will come up for renewal in 2015 and they need parliament then. A law with absolutely huge penalties (a percentage points of annual company revenue) on sharing data with foreign intelligence has been passed (slightly toothless at the moment due to safe harbour agreements, but at this point I doubt those agreements will last long).
So remove the insiders (no market maker privileges) and remove the advantage of speed by running auctions in batches.
Valuable to whom? A feudal society with an abundance of labour will never create value for the poor, all the fruits of their labour gets taken away as rent. Black death's effect on the labour pool, various revolutions, socialism and homesteading laid the foundations for the the society we have today ... but we are reverting to the old norm.
Capitalism as a force to improve the median standard of living can't survive without redistribution, there is no more land to homestead, the poor can't pull themselves up by the bootstraps to get out of the stranglehold of rent ... if breaking rich people's windows is the only redistribution available, well it's better than nothing, better than taking their heads off as well.
How do you propose we do that?
The thing about broken windows is that it's a redistributive mechanism when the window owner has money and the window maker/setter don't.
In the absence of sufficient redistributive mechanisms from government to offset the natural tendency of capitalism towards wealth concentration through rent seeking a broken window can actually improve the median living standards.
If the consumer class disappears there will be pretty much no one for those ultra-lean companies to sell to (the rich only need a fraction of the population to serve their whims).
Neo-Luddites are like Neo-Malthusians ... inevitably right in the end, wrong until they are.
Consumption keeping pace with productivity is what has kept the luddites in the wrong for so long. I think the west has hit peak consumption though, for various reasons (part of which is that the Malthusians are also getting close to being right).
To me it seems there is a lot of FUD thrown up by those interested in pushing timber construction.
Another oft heard argument is that to you need hugely strong doors and thick windows to keep everything intact ... which seems disingenuous to me, just treat doors, windows, roof cladding and the interior of exterior rooms as sacrificial. Buying that stuff costs a hell of a lot less than building a new home.
It's not just wasteful, it's generally subsidized by the community (ie. traffic delays).
Or rather it can't be exported without jumping through expensive hoops.
If you don't limit it your device falls under the Wassenaar agreement so it can't be exported from most western countries ... easier to just put in the limitation.
Ever looked how many DIY GPS receivers are out there? On a six figure budget it wouldn't be much trouble getting something made.
4 year old kids generally don't read slashdot ...
Lets say he had said "She left me with our son because she decided she was a lesbian and is unwilling to ensure she and her partner walk around clothed in the house and thus refuse me video chat for privacy reasons". Would it have changed anything?
I'd still have thought that if it were true they were cunts ... I'd also have thought that if it were true he was showing remarkable constraint and political correctness in his speech.
Why didn't they think of that before asking for "224, 256, 384, and 512 bits" in the first place?
They included included Dual_EC_DRBG into a standard despite it being slow and obviously backdoored, they have no credibility to make changes to encryption algorithms any more. They have to rebuild their credibility at this point, any changes they make have to be explained, any coefficients they pick have to be shown to be free from NSA meddling, any reduction in hash length from the contest requirements ... well, they just shouldn't even try to do that at this point.
They can try to rebuild their credibility or they can become irrelevant.
BTW, even if ECC can be secure, ECC as used in practice seems to suffer from the same problem as Dual_EC_DRBG, magic number coefficients chosen by the NSA ...
http://www.hyperelliptic.org/tanja/vortraege/20130531.pdf
And it's already down again ... any way, I'm inclined to agree, lets stick to discrete logarithms and primes.
Of course for the majority of drivers the context is :
I didn't keep enough distance, time to hit the breaks and pray
Maybe the original authentec technology was just too bulky and form won over function?