No, the worst part is when they perform the truncation on the web end and your 64 character password gets cut down before being processed, then at a later date they change the limit and your 64 character password gets cut down to a different length before being processed, thus preventing you from logging in. This can also happen if they decide to disallow certain characters and don't bother considering that user's may have them in their passwords already. It can also happen if they silently strip out certain characters but at a later date allow them.
SCE.com had this problem several times. In one instance, they fucked up on the truncation. Their limit was 16 characters but it was truly 15. My 16 character password stopped working. Kill off 1 character from the end, boom it works.
T-Mobile's site has had similar issues in the past.
I've even run into issues where the password reset tool accepts a length and character set that the login page doesn't, so even a freshly-set and accepted password won't work.
You can monitor it, but is it encrypted? Voice at the quality the Echo records can be compressed down a lot. The Echo has enough processing power to filter data (as in, throw out boring data / near silence) and compress the good stuff. It can send the payload out whenever it wants.
As far as I know, no one has done useful testing. You'd have to run an Echo for some large window of time (30 days?) in an environment with lots of talking without the hotword (Alexa or whatever) and compare to an environment without much talking. Then you'd need to compare the amount of data sent out and try to correlate it with the amount of data it should be sending out based on the use of "Alexa" and the control/baseline environment unit.
Further, you're assuming it only uses your network. It could use any cell band without you knowing it, and with no obvious antenna or other hardware. And what if the Echo only starts spying on you in excess when triggered by Amazon or some criteria (e.g., the Echo hears you say "Trump")? Your network monitoring only tells you how much data has gone out, ti doesn't tell you how much data could be sent out in the future or what the data contains.
In this day and age, do you really trust a corporation to respect your privacy? Do you really trust an always-on, internet-connected microphone to not be spying on you?
Oh, you actually want a real rule? Then how about any large body that directly orbits a sun? Now, define large: diameter, atmospheric pressure (Do we call it a planet if it doesn't have an atmosphere?) "weight", mass, temperature, internal composition, a definable surface or what-not AND remember to define exactly what a sun is and we're done.
All (non-accelerating) reference frames are equally valid. The sun orbits Earth just as much as Earth orbits the sun. Barycenters and whatnot.
And what do you call things that orbit barycenters, like all things do? This is what happens when eggheads aren't put to task building weapons for war and aren't bullied enough - they lose all discipline and just faff about willy-nilly.
As an egghead myself, FUCK YOU OTHER GUYS! Stop senselessly changing existing definitions and creating MORE ambiguity! You're ignoring basic principles of your field!
Who said anything about dogma, you ass clown? Words have definitions and wantonly changing them means every written use of the word now needs to be dtae checked to determine which version of the definition was intended. It's the same with the "kibibyte" horseshit. STOP CHANGING THINGS FOR NO REASON.
The definition of "planet" was, is, and always will be arbitrary. They've been obsessed with "correcting" an arbitrary definition for about a decade now, and they show no fucking signs of stopping. Have we have always been at war with Eurasia?
Of course it is. 5 GHz WiFi will be more fucked than 2.4 GHz is now. Here's what happened. The "W-iFi Alliance" got the ol' wink wink, nudge nudge from telecoms reminding them that as 5 GHz gets taken over, it'll just create demand for new WiFi spectrum, standards, licensing, and products.
Broadwell-E, actually. Socket 2011(-3) vs 1151. Switching to "Nth generation" and then putting shit into generations and model numbers they don't belong in is fucking retarded. Soon we'll have Skylake-E, Coffee Lake, and Cannon Lake.
The bulldozer-series "modules" were like conjoined twins. They were mostly separate cores, but shared one of certain pieces between them. How well this performed depended on your workload. 256-bit fp would perform as if it were a 4-core, integer would perform as if it were an 8-core. They are far more like 2 complete cores than SMT (Intel's Hyper-Threading, and now AMD's ThreadRipper) are.
And besides Ashes of the Singularity I can't think of any that use more that four. Heck, Far Cry 3 only needed four cores because the devs bound to core 3 by mistake. There was a fan patch that forced it to bind to core two and got it running on dual cores. Multi core programing is dammed hard. It hasn't been worth it except for a handful of apps like video encoders...
Beware the hype train - And this is a hype train of the strongest degree. We're approaching No Man's Sky levels of hype here.
Keep in mind this is a soft launch. No launch silicon in reviewers hands.No objective reviews. Only "benchmarks" that came from AMD, which will always paint their product in a good light.
Intel isn't "stagnating" - They're responding to market forces. You really have not needed a faster CPU since the launch of Sandy bridge. What the market wants is more features, lower power. That is what Intel has been focusing on and delivering pretty well.
Lastly, remember that single thread performance is still king in the desktop space. Lots of cores are great for servers and some applications - But for user facing applications (Including games) the most heavily weighted cpu performance bottleneck is the top speed of your core(s). - Multi-threaded programming is hard and there is no magical compiler switch or library that will suddenly make lots of slow cores = One fast core. (For most applications)
We all want AMD to give Intel some competition and to push prices down.. But don't hold your breath until reviewers have shipping parts in their hands.
Reviewers have parts. Parts are up for preorder. Parts are going to be available worldwide on the same date. All signs point to it not being a "soft launch" or a "paper launch". We've seen photos over the past few weeks of people receiving trays of parts. Ryzen looks like it'll be out in volume.
The AMD-provided benchmarks are objective. They're showing multithreaded performance in a highly-multithreaded workload. They also show one single-threaded benchmark. Yes, the R7 1800X will lose out in single threaded performance against clock-for-clock Kaby Lake and Skylake parts.
Gamers should look at the Kaby Lake 7700k and the Ryzen 1700X. People with highly-multithreaded workloads should look at the Skylake 6900k and 6850k, and the Ryzen 1800X and 1700X. People concerned mainly with single-threaded performance shouldn't be looking at any recent part from anybody. For most people, the newer fab processes are simply too tight to allow for clocks high enough to justify replacing shit like the Sandybridge CPUs that have been running at 4.5 GHz - 4.8 GHz for 6 years.
Intel hasn't been doing SHIT for the desktop CPU market for the past 3 years. Look at http://ark.intel.com/#@Process.... There are a total of 16 SKUs in the i7/extreme class in the last 3 years of the Core products across gens 5-7. 4th gen i7 alone had about triple the number of SKUs. Today Intel shits out a few desktop SKUs and abandons the platform. Kaby lake doesn't even have its full stack out and they're already telling people to wait for Cannon Lake because the value proposition of Kaby Lake or Skylake vs Ryzen is a joke.
We did not evolve to sit in front of computer screens all day. And in a typical cube farm, us peons are in the middle of the floor nowhere near a window.
Every hour, walk outside. Take a "smoke break".
Or get a monitor that doesn't suck ass and put out abnormally blue light.
How do they count "steps"? If they count left, right, left, right as 4 (as opposed to 2), then I can't imagine not hitting 10,000 in a day, and I sit on my ass for 14+ hours a day. I walk at a normal speed of about 2 steps (left, right) per second. That's less than an hour and a half of walking, total, throughout the day. I get about a third of that just walking to and from my car at various points in the day. If I go out to catch Pokemon, 10,000 ain't shit.
If you want people to come to your defense over some issue involving your full name and address, then yes, those people are going to need to know your full name and address.
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No, the worst part is when they perform the truncation on the web end and your 64 character password gets cut down before being processed, then at a later date they change the limit and your 64 character password gets cut down to a different length before being processed, thus preventing you from logging in. This can also happen if they decide to disallow certain characters and don't bother considering that user's may have them in their passwords already. It can also happen if they silently strip out certain characters but at a later date allow them.
SCE.com had this problem several times. In one instance, they fucked up on the truncation. Their limit was 16 characters but it was truly 15. My 16 character password stopped working. Kill off 1 character from the end, boom it works.
T-Mobile's site has had similar issues in the past.
I've even run into issues where the password reset tool accepts a length and character set that the login page doesn't, so even a freshly-set and accepted password won't work.
You can monitor it, but is it encrypted? Voice at the quality the Echo records can be compressed down a lot. The Echo has enough processing power to filter data (as in, throw out boring data / near silence) and compress the good stuff. It can send the payload out whenever it wants.
As far as I know, no one has done useful testing. You'd have to run an Echo for some large window of time (30 days?) in an environment with lots of talking without the hotword (Alexa or whatever) and compare to an environment without much talking. Then you'd need to compare the amount of data sent out and try to correlate it with the amount of data it should be sending out based on the use of "Alexa" and the control/baseline environment unit.
Further, you're assuming it only uses your network. It could use any cell band without you knowing it, and with no obvious antenna or other hardware.
And what if the Echo only starts spying on you in excess when triggered by Amazon or some criteria (e.g., the Echo hears you say "Trump")? Your network monitoring only tells you how much data has gone out, ti doesn't tell you how much data could be sent out in the future or what the data contains.
In this day and age, do you really trust a corporation to respect your privacy?
Do you really trust an always-on, internet-connected microphone to not be spying on you?
Amazon likely doesn't want to reveal what it's recording (everything) and how long it holds onto it (forever).
Oh, you actually want a real rule? Then how about any large body that directly orbits a sun? Now, define large: diameter, atmospheric pressure (Do we call it a planet if it doesn't have an atmosphere?) "weight", mass, temperature, internal composition, a definable surface or what-not AND remember to define exactly what a sun is and we're done.
All (non-accelerating) reference frames are equally valid. The sun orbits Earth just as much as Earth orbits the sun. Barycenters and whatnot.
If you were to categorize planets by race, what race would Pluto be? In my opinion Pluto would be a Negro.
That's offensive, AC.
Pluto is clearly a non-first-born asian. Small, cold, and distant.
And what do you call things that orbit barycenters, like all things do?
This is what happens when eggheads aren't put to task building weapons for war and aren't bullied enough - they lose all discipline and just faff about willy-nilly.
As an egghead myself, FUCK YOU OTHER GUYS! Stop senselessly changing existing definitions and creating MORE ambiguity! You're ignoring basic principles of your field!
Who said anything about dogma, you ass clown? Words have definitions and wantonly changing them means every written use of the word now needs to be dtae checked to determine which version of the definition was intended. It's the same with the "kibibyte" horseshit. STOP CHANGING THINGS FOR NO REASON.
The definition of "planet" was, is, and always will be arbitrary. They've been obsessed with "correcting" an arbitrary definition for about a decade now, and they show no fucking signs of stopping. Have we have always been at war with Eurasia?
Like I said. New spectrum allocation, new standards, new logos and licensing, and new products.
802.11fu probably.
Maybe stop changing arbitrary definitions. Pluto was always a planet. Fuck you, NASA and shitty celebrity "scientists" like Neil Tyson.
Of course it is. 5 GHz WiFi will be more fucked than 2.4 GHz is now.
Here's what happened. The "W-iFi Alliance" got the ol' wink wink, nudge nudge from telecoms reminding them that as 5 GHz gets taken over, it'll just create demand for new WiFi spectrum, standards, licensing, and products.
Broadwell-E, actually. Socket 2011(-3) vs 1151. Switching to "Nth generation" and then putting shit into generations and model numbers they don't belong in is fucking retarded. Soon we'll have Skylake-E, Coffee Lake, and Cannon Lake.
Remember kids: When discussing ARM, SoC means shit on a cracker.
The bulldozer-series "modules" were like conjoined twins. They were mostly separate cores, but shared one of certain pieces between them.
How well this performed depended on your workload. 256-bit fp would perform as if it were a 4-core, integer would perform as if it were an 8-core.
They are far more like 2 complete cores than SMT (Intel's Hyper-Threading, and now AMD's ThreadRipper) are.
And besides Ashes of the Singularity I can't think of any that use more that four. Heck, Far Cry 3 only needed four cores because the devs bound to core 3 by mistake. There was a fan patch that forced it to bind to core two and got it running on dual cores. Multi core programing is dammed hard. It hasn't been worth it except for a handful of apps like video encoders...
Did it run on the 3 core Phenoms?
Gaming is for losers. No one successful games. Period. Only children have the urge and time to game.
As an aging gamer I mostly agree with this troll.
these are things that are best done in the cloud
Fuck "the cloud".
Beware the hype train - And this is a hype train of the strongest degree. We're approaching No Man's Sky levels of hype here.
Keep in mind this is a soft launch. No launch silicon in reviewers hands.No objective reviews. Only "benchmarks" that came from AMD, which will always paint their product in a good light.
Intel isn't "stagnating" - They're responding to market forces. You really have not needed a faster CPU since the launch of Sandy bridge. What the market wants is more features, lower power. That is what Intel has been focusing on and delivering pretty well.
Lastly, remember that single thread performance is still king in the desktop space. Lots of cores are great for servers and some applications - But for user facing applications (Including games) the most heavily weighted cpu performance bottleneck is the top speed of your core(s). - Multi-threaded programming is hard and there is no magical compiler switch or library that will suddenly make lots of slow cores = One fast core. (For most applications)
We all want AMD to give Intel some competition and to push prices down.. But don't hold your breath until reviewers have shipping parts in their hands.
Reviewers have parts. Parts are up for preorder. Parts are going to be available worldwide on the same date. All signs point to it not being a "soft launch" or a "paper launch". We've seen photos over the past few weeks of people receiving trays of parts. Ryzen looks like it'll be out in volume.
The AMD-provided benchmarks are objective. They're showing multithreaded performance in a highly-multithreaded workload. They also show one single-threaded benchmark. Yes, the R7 1800X will lose out in single threaded performance against clock-for-clock Kaby Lake and Skylake parts.
Gamers should look at the Kaby Lake 7700k and the Ryzen 1700X.
People with highly-multithreaded workloads should look at the Skylake 6900k and 6850k, and the Ryzen 1800X and 1700X.
People concerned mainly with single-threaded performance shouldn't be looking at any recent part from anybody. For most people, the newer fab processes are simply too tight to allow for clocks high enough to justify replacing shit like the Sandybridge CPUs that have been running at 4.5 GHz - 4.8 GHz for 6 years.
Intel hasn't been doing SHIT for the desktop CPU market for the past 3 years. Look at http://ark.intel.com/#@Process.... There are a total of 16 SKUs in the i7/extreme class in the last 3 years of the Core products across gens 5-7. 4th gen i7 alone had about triple the number of SKUs. Today Intel shits out a few desktop SKUs and abandons the platform. Kaby lake doesn't even have its full stack out and they're already telling people to wait for Cannon Lake because the value proposition of Kaby Lake or Skylake vs Ryzen is a joke.
Few benefits. Or little benefit.
Half-Life 3, Portal 3, Left 4 Dead 3, and Team Fortress 3 will all be released as a time exclusive for SteamOS and the HTC Vive.
It's Barbara Hudson. There's no stopping the foolishness of Barbara Hudson.
We did not evolve to sit in front of computer screens all day. And in a typical cube farm, us peons are in the middle of the floor nowhere near a window.
Every hour, walk outside. Take a "smoke break".
Or get a monitor that doesn't suck ass and put out abnormally blue light.
How do they count "steps"? If they count left, right, left, right as 4 (as opposed to 2), then I can't imagine not hitting 10,000 in a day, and I sit on my ass for 14+ hours a day. I walk at a normal speed of about 2 steps (left, right) per second. That's less than an hour and a half of walking, total, throughout the day. I get about a third of that just walking to and from my car at various points in the day. If I go out to catch Pokemon, 10,000 ain't shit.
The best fitness app is Pokemon Go.
Harassment (alleged or actual) is not sexism. Those are different things.
Baskets are not skateboards.
If you want people to come to your defense over some issue involving your full name and address, then yes, those people are going to need to know your full name and address.