> Okay, so we rename the proxy a "station" and now we can call it proxy-less? They should have named these stations "hidden proxy", because the difference between these "stations" and normal proxys is that users don't have to connect to a proxy IP address as the "Telex ISPs" redirect all the HTTPS connexions requests through these "Telex stations".
It becomes much more difficult for the censoring government to detect who is trying to escape the censorship..
>> Objects can be rendered on the terminal as well > Rendering them is different from the object itself.
There is a similar issue with the text passed in Unix pipes: think about space vs tab, characters which have several encoding, etc.
The mapping between the displayed text and what is passed in the 'pipe' is never 1 to 1, you learned to deal with it in Unix, I don't think that this is more difficult with the PowerShell.
> He wasn't preaching the "truth" in gospel. He was helping them from being scared of the unknown.
Ah! Children usually aren't too scared of the unknown, yet they are brain-washed by catechism and other religious classes before they're able to think critically..
Spreading questionables beliefs (which are usually sexist and homophobic) and for which people have killed (and will kill in the future), just in order to help them from being "scared of the unknown" is an incredibly poor justification..
He didn't claim that his backup system was perfect, just better than what many enterprise do, which is probably true.
> Best not get on her bad side for now, anyway....
Bah, if he is wise his backups are encrypted, so this shouldn't be a big issue (unless he has a bad break-up with his GF and loose data at the same time: Murphy's law in action).
> ARM is not replacing x86 on the desktop any time soon, thank goodness. Maybe joining it, but not replacing it.
That's a beginning: when someone use an iPad instead of a PC, he "replace" an x86 by an ARM. Currently iPads and the like are mostly PC 'companions' but it wouldn't surprise me that they could become PC replacements for many users..
I remember an interview from a manager saying that Flip's strong point was "ease of use", and then he proudly added that the new Flip would be HD. But.. it was still missing motion compensation! A feature which would improve the videos while keeping the "ease of use".
HD improves the videos too, sure, but it isn't easy to use: it has the side effect of making the vidoes more difficult to share and to more difficult to edit (need a more powerful PC), that's when I realised that they didn't capitalize on their strong point so they were very likely to fail..
> Counterpoint - you don't want kids, never did, she lied about being on the pill? She decides to proceed anyways and you're on the hook for 18+ years of child support.
Note that the pill is not 100% efficient either.. But if you want to be absolutely sure to not have children while having sex, technically it's easy: use both condoms and the pill.
Note though that the Iphone (which doesn't have a user replaceable battery) is still selling well, so apparently the 'reuse' factor isn't a big thing when buying a mobile phone.
> Every single year, OSX loses the Pwn2Own competition first.
Note though that this is only one datapoint: remember that Windows's exploits have a high monetary value, so those who have them would be less inclined to show them in a competition (even if the competition rewards them if they think they can have a better price elsewhere).
While I agree that reboot are not a full solution, I also think that you cannot currently do live FS & memory checking, things which are really nice to do periodically..
Counting Android as Linux is a bit weird: its programming API is very different from the classic Linux distribution..
I wonder what Google view are of the use of Qt on Android, I doubt that they're thrilled about it..
As for Nokia, they didn't even port Qt on Microsoft mobile phones! So I doubt that they like Qt much (probably blaming the tool for their own problems).
> Yet even most aboriginal societies have some form of bodily covering - even if it's just loincloths.
Yes, but how do they swim&bath? If naked, then this indicates that this is a protection, not a taboo..
Note though that most != all: I remember a TV show about an African tribes where the women were naked except for their ankles(which was taboo!), men did have some penis coverage though..
The problem exist even when you don't execute code of arbitrary provenance: there have been security bugs on image decoders.. The main issue here is that image decoders should not be able to do *anything else* than decode images (even if they have bugs), but we don't use proper architecture such as object capabilities currently(*).
* a step in the good direction was made by Google with Chrome and its sandbox, but currently this kind of good design is the exception not the norm:-(
>> At least we can know for certain the people trying to get creationism taught as science in our schools have equally wacky friends around the globe. > That isn't very reassuring.
Uh? This isn't news that people are not rational: religions are widespread..
There's no big difference between astrology and religions: both are totally irrational..
> You know who has the patents, and they will sue the living shit out of anyone who tries to bring forth a patent for it.
Sigh, you're mistaken:do you know what 'patent troll' are? They don't make products only registers patents, so a patent troll could certainly sue h.264 users for patents violation without risk of being sued in return for patent violation as they *don't* make products..
> It's a bit of a stretch, but science is part of news for nerds. The fact that there's a disturbingly large portion of the public who's gullible enough to buy into the most appallingly stupid idea in millennia is kind of on track.
Uh? This is NOT 'news': remember religions? It's a well-know fact that they are quite popular and they have no more merit than astrology. So yes, people are "gullible" (hard not to be when you are teached those things as a child), this is not news.
A 'license fee' no, but it has a higher 'aquisition cost' fee than for Esperanto.. So there is definitedly a higher cost for non-native English speaker!
Nobody said that the real world was just or logical though..
You're confusing several things: the Altivec is a 'small vector' extension for the PPC not a 'co-processor', modern x86 CPUs do have the equivalent: SSE(2,3,4,5) and AVX. Note that AVX can manipulates 256bit vectors whereas Altivec is currently limited to 128bit.
As for the generic vector coprocessor ISA vs 'specific' video ISA, 'standardisation' has also drawbacks: the x86 ISA is really ugly and has a cost in performance and power compared to something more modern such as the MIPS ISA.
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> Okay, so we rename the proxy a "station" and now we can call it proxy-less?
They should have named these stations "hidden proxy", because the difference between these "stations" and normal proxys is that users don't have to connect to a proxy IP address as the "Telex ISPs" redirect all the HTTPS connexions requests through these "Telex stations".
It becomes much more difficult for the censoring government to detect who is trying to escape the censorship..
> Safe, fast languages
What about Ada?
It's still available even if it isn't fashionable (a pity, now that there is GNAT).
> Capability machines
Not all hope is lost here, there 's capsicum for example.
>> Objects can be rendered on the terminal as well
> Rendering them is different from the object itself.
There is a similar issue with the text passed in Unix pipes: think about space vs tab, characters which have several encoding, etc.
The mapping between the displayed text and what is passed in the 'pipe' is never 1 to 1, you learned to deal with it in Unix, I don't think that this is more difficult with the PowerShell.
> The case against Google was much stronger hence they were found to infringe.
Very strange, in which part of the code is the infringing code?
I thought that it was in the routing table handling?
If that was the case I can't see how Yahoo could not have used this code..
> He wasn't preaching the "truth" in gospel. He was helping them from being scared of the unknown.
Ah! Children usually aren't too scared of the unknown, yet they are brain-washed by catechism and other religious classes before they're able to think critically..
Spreading questionables beliefs (which are usually sexist and homophobic) and for which people have killed (and will kill in the future), just in order to help them from being "scared of the unknown" is an incredibly poor justification..
He didn't claim that his backup system was perfect, just better than what many enterprise do, which is probably true.
> Best not get on her bad side for now, anyway....
Bah, if he is wise his backups are encrypted, so this shouldn't be a big issue (unless he has a bad break-up with his GF and loose data at the same time: Murphy's law in action).
> ARM is not replacing x86 on the desktop any time soon, thank goodness. Maybe joining it, but not replacing it.
That's a beginning: when someone use an iPad instead of a PC, he "replace" an x86 by an ARM.
Currently iPads and the like are mostly PC 'companions' but it wouldn't surprise me that they could become PC replacements for many users..
I remember an interview from a manager saying that Flip's strong point was "ease of use", and then he proudly added that the new Flip would be HD. .. it was still missing motion compensation! A feature which would improve the videos while keeping the "ease of use".
But
HD improves the videos too, sure, but it isn't easy to use: it has the side effect of making the vidoes more difficult to share and to more difficult to edit (need a more powerful PC), that's when I realised that they didn't capitalize on their strong point
so they were very likely to fail..
Note that something to add is that until very recently ARM were 32bit only, which is not very good for datacenters.
They added a kludge on the ARM ISA (not as eleguant as the MIPS64 ISA) so now it isn't an issue anymore..
At 60Hz, one screen refresh is every 16ms, so the rendering takes either 8 to 14 images with 5 images caused by the network RTT..
Interesting.
> Counterpoint - you don't want kids, never did, she lied about being on the pill? She decides to proceed anyways and you're on the hook for 18+ years of child support.
Note that the pill is not 100% efficient either..
But if you want to be absolutely sure to not have children while having sex, technically it's easy: use both condoms and the pill.
Note though that the Iphone (which doesn't have a user replaceable battery) is still selling well, so apparently the 'reuse' factor isn't a big thing when buying a mobile phone.
> Every single year, OSX loses the Pwn2Own competition first.
Note though that this is only one datapoint: remember that Windows's exploits have a high monetary value, so those who have them would be less inclined to show them in a competition (even if the competition rewards them if they think they can have a better price elsewhere).
No different from the libc API, glibc is not the only C library for Linux: there are non-GNU one.
While I agree that reboot are not a full solution, I also think that you cannot currently do live FS & memory checking, things which are really nice to do periodically..
Counting Android as Linux is a bit weird: its programming API is very different from the classic Linux distribution..
I wonder what Google view are of the use of Qt on Android, I doubt that they're thrilled about it..
As for Nokia, they didn't even port Qt on Microsoft mobile phones! So I doubt that they like Qt much (probably blaming the tool for their own problems).
> Yet even most aboriginal societies have some form of bodily covering - even if it's just loincloths.
Yes, but how do they swim&bath?
If naked, then this indicates that this is a protection, not a taboo..
Note though that most != all: I remember a TV show about an African tribes where the women were naked except for their ankles(which was taboo!), men did have some penis coverage though..
Except that as far as we know currently, quantum entanglement *cannot* be used to send data faster than light..
So FTL? Not at all!
The problem exist even when you don't execute code of arbitrary provenance: there have been security bugs on image decoders..
The main issue here is that image decoders should not be able to do *anything else* than decode images (even if they have bugs), but we don't use proper architecture such as object capabilities currently(*).
* a step in the good direction was made by Google with Chrome and its sandbox, but currently this kind of good design is the exception not the norm :-(
>> At least we can know for certain the people trying to get creationism taught as science in our schools have equally wacky friends around the globe.
> That isn't very reassuring.
Uh? This isn't news that people are not rational: religions are widespread..
There's no big difference between astrology and religions: both are totally irrational..
> You know who has the patents, and they will sue the living shit out of anyone who tries to bring forth a patent for it.
Sigh, you're mistaken:do you know what 'patent troll' are?
They don't make products only registers patents, so a patent troll could certainly sue h.264 users for patents violation without risk of being sued in return for patent violation as they *don't* make products..
> It's a bit of a stretch, but science is part of news for nerds. The fact that there's a disturbingly large portion of the public who's gullible enough to buy into the most appallingly stupid idea in millennia is kind of on track.
Uh? This is NOT 'news': remember religions?
It's a well-know fact that they are quite popular and they have no more merit than astrology.
So yes, people are "gullible" (hard not to be when you are teached those things as a child), this is not news.
> English doesn't have license fees
A 'license fee' no, but it has a higher 'aquisition cost' fee than for Esperanto..
So there is definitedly a higher cost for non-native English speaker!
Nobody said that the real world was just or logical though..
You're confusing several things: the Altivec is a 'small vector' extension for the PPC not a 'co-processor',
modern x86 CPUs do have the equivalent: SSE(2,3,4,5) and AVX.
Note that AVX can manipulates 256bit vectors whereas Altivec is currently limited to 128bit.
As for the generic vector coprocessor ISA vs 'specific' video ISA, 'standardisation' has also drawbacks: the x86 ISA is really ugly and
has a cost in performance and power compared to something more modern such as the MIPS ISA.
I think that the 6502 had no memory cache, so 'memory contention' would be .. interesting .. to say the least.