Just because you don't understand the actual use, doesn't mean it's not useful to transfer data at 20Gbps.
I understand the use. "Most all video cameras" don't fucking have Thunderbolt. "Most all video cameras" can't fucking sustain that bandwidth out.
For any professional gear, DisplayPort 1.2/1.2a/1.3 is the better choice. 17.28 Gbps of bandwidth as of the end of 2009, 25.92 Gbps as of now. Yes, it supports daisy chaining. So fuck right on off with telling me what I don't fucking understand.
A $30 cable, expensive Thunderbolt chipset, expensive peripherals, and you won't be getting actual 10 Gbps full duplex Ethernet through Thunderbolt, nor will it work a damn without an actual 10 Gbps Ethernet controller somewhere in the system. Keep on keepin' on, though.
Just because you don't understand what it's good for, doesn't mean it is important to others.
It's a bigger flop than firewire, which had a few niche uses. Thunderbolt is nothing more than external PCIe with a yet another "one protocol to rule them all" wrapper. We've had eternal PCIe for over a decade. We don't use it outside of pro workstations with external FirePro / Quadro shit.
They key selling point of Thunderbolt is "OMG it's so fast!". Yet the only practical uses for that speed for 99.99% of people are already served by other shit (DisplayPort, Ethernet, etc.). For regular use, USB 3.x will dominate the market, even if they're being completed retarded and still changing the connectors. For uses where you really do need speed, you connect to PCIe directly anyway.
As bad as USB 1-2 / 3 / 3.1 / otg / mini / micro / a / b / c is, Thunderbolt is worse because of the cost of the cables and controllers compounds with the fact that any port can be a thunderbolt port, so you'll need an adapter to go from that USB port that's actually a thunderbolt port on your Sony laptop to your thunderbolt cable to your thunderbolt device. Passing ethernet, video and USB over a single cable may look nice, but it's not worth the cost and it serves very little purpose. Daisy chaining can be done via DisplayPort, if you really want. HDMI can carry Ethernet for some reason, and DisplayPort can carry USB (data and the higher-power charging shit).
Nothing about Thunderbolt is novel or particularly useful. Being connected straight to PCIe the way Thunderbolt is is wildly insecure, to boot.
I've got 3 days to go, but the number of confirmed cases has already tripled, and the number of people exposed is now beyond accurate measuring. We're in full-on Kevin Bacon territory at this point. I had to wait less than a third of the alleged 21 day incubation period to be proven right. Keep trusting the CDC and the Obama administration, though.
Only 7 days later and the number of confirmed cases has tripled and the number of exposed has grown massively. I sure hope you come at me in 3 more days, though.
Man, you sure look like a dumbass now. It's confirmed that the first guy infected at least 2 of the nurses treating him. Those nurses went on to treat other patients. The number of confirmed infections has tripled in the 7 days since my post, and the number of people exposed is now completely out of control.
How would you implement a system to prevent it? Preferably without completely blocking all traffic from Liberia to the rest of the world, because there's a fair number of foreigners there who will want to come home someday, and (at the time of this particular incident) no cases outside of Africa have been seen yet.
Block all traffic from Liberia to the rest of the world. Allow exceptions only after a 21-day quarantine. You can't have your cake and eat it, too. If you want to maintain a quarantine you have to maintain a quarantine.
If you elevate the panels you reduce the intensity of the shadow but you increase the size by a proportional amount. Grazing? There will proportionately less to graze on in the areas with solar panels. Reflected light? Plants use it just as much as the solar panels do. raymorris is correct.
In case anyone else was curious like I was, the 50 acres used to provide afternoon power could , if used as farmland instead, feed 250 people a minimal diet, or 20 fat Americans who supersize their Big Macs.
Just an interesting factoid.
What a fucking dumbass. You can't supersize a big mac. You can only supersize the drink and fries. Beyond that, it's been about a decade since they got rid of supersizing.
the only way to reach these companies would be to either eschew legal methods of home entertainment (along with 100m other people), or shoot some executives.
And then there was the NIH grant to study why gay men are often thin and lesbians are often obese.
Why is this a problem? Research should always be done, however ridiculous your hypothesis may be. The freedom to do such insane research is what has made USA the leader of all sciences.
Useless research on my fucking dime should absolutely not be done, let alone to the exclusion of useful research.
My advice: Don't use Solr. Don't use PCRd PDFs. Don't support full-text searching, because no one fucking uses it. We get thousands of searches against title, keywords, dates, and other meta shit every day in our internal application. The only full-text searches performed are by me when I'm testing shit.
Lawyers use it. Magazines use it. Lots of people use it.
Lawyers use it because they have to - there is no alternative to search shit short of hiring monkeys to manually type up mountains of old documents. Often, those monkeys would have to be legally privileged to look at the documents, so it's not something you can shunt off to cheap labor / Mechanical Turk. OCR sucks. Solr sucks. Mixing the two is a big ol' suck fest.
Magazines use it because... they're stupid? There's no need to OCR a massive backlog of shit. For old shit that may not be digital, you can go ahead and hire a monkey to type it in. You're still left with Solr sucking, but on top of that much of a magazine's content is so heavily formatted/styled/image-based that a Solr index would not suit it well.
If you NEED a fulltext index. there are plenty of alternatives, some mentioned by others in the comments on this article. I can only speak to OCR sucking, Solr's indexer sucking, and Solr's search giving me way too many things for it to be useful.
1) The frequence of choosing a password is not within the end-user's control, and hence has no impact on whether or not the end-user chooses to include special characters vs several simple words.
The vast majority of passwords and resets are controlled by the user. Websites do not often force people to reset passwords. In a corporate environment people will be forced to change passwords more frequently, sure. But email, 20 social networking sites, shopping sites, and even banks will typically not force a reset unless they've been compromised.
2) Protecting against a brute force attack does not, in any way, break protection against "informed statistical" attacks.
XKCD's shitty advice is protecting against brute force attacks by using length (even though in many cases the effective length is still limited to something stupid like 16 characters). By following XKCD's shitty advice, you open yourself up to statistical attacks - your search space is just a combination of a few words. People generally only use a few thousand words, and when you want them to be random about it they'll likely pick common ones, fairly short ones, mostly nouns, etc.
3) End-users do not typically know how many other people have chosen that same password, but can protect themselves against accidentally choosing a common password by doing exactly what the XKCD comic recommends (picking four random words and juxtaposing them). Just don't use the specific password chosen in the comic.
Humans are terrible at being random. Any magician, con-artist, or statistician will tell you that. The most commonly-picked "random" cards are the ace of spades and the queen of hearts, for example. The 4 "random" words scenario will give you a search space many orders of magnitude smaller than a good, traditional password.
4) Disallowing common passwords is not within the end-user's control. It is a good practice, but does not in any way change the password-selection logic that end users should use as per the XKCD comic.
The only contradictory point mentioned is the "change password strength meters", which might mean "require special characters and numbers," which is exactly what the comic demonstrates to offer no value. The intent here seems to be the avoidance of common passwords, and that can be done without forcing special characters, which makes passwords hard to memorize.
Disallowing common passwords is within the user's control. Don't use a fucking password you've heard of before. If your password manager, or a site, tells you that the password is shitty, maybe don't use it. The XKCD comic is fucking wrong. Symbols, numbers, and capitalization, all increase the search space exponentially. Special characters do not make passwords harder to memorize. I find they make it easier. They provide a cadence in may of the passwords I use. Instead of just a slurry of letters, a password with digits or symbols is less likely to get twisted about in someone's mind. alhysuidopmnah will be subject to transposition on shit like the ui, mn. alhys5idop#nah doesn't have that problem, and is much easier to compartmentalize (alhys5 idop# nah). This may or may not be true for all users for fixed length (and it certainly depends on the specific password itself). Beyond that, for passwords of a given strength those with symbols and shit will be easier to memorize than those without, if only because they'll be much shorter.
Yes, if you have to support it, you have to support it. I would steer clear from Solr based on my experience with it, however. We only added it on because the shit we use integrates well with it. It was a "why not?" that works well enough to not be ripped out, but I wouldn't do it again unless I had to.
I had never heard of it either until I needed to create an internal search engine where I work. After a few days of research, I found that Apache Solr/Lucene is often used for intranet search engines and for e-commerce sites.
We use it to parse and index OCRd PDFs for full-text searching. My advice: Don't use Solr. Don't use PCRd PDFs. Don't support full-text searching, because no one fucking uses it. We get thousands of searches against title, keywords, dates, and other meta shit every day in our internal application. The only full-text searches performed are by me when I'm testing shit.
This. If they're bound by law to remove results upon request, then they should remove them (assuming the request itself is valid). They shouldn't be deciding which requests to approve or not beyond a technical / common sense capacity. John Doe obviously couldn't request all results for the generic use of his name to be removed, nor could he request that a specific page for someone else's name be removed. Anything else should be honored, in accordance with the law.
Her celebrity image (or personality) is a nice girl (she is one of those that really listens to her agents). No idea if she is really a nice girl or a slut in real life.
No it isn't. Her image is sex. She was only a "nice girl" when promoting the first Hunger Games movie to ensure the teens and tweens would see it. She's been in other movies, you know. She's done plenty of magazine photo shoots. Her image is as much "nice girl" as Brittney Spears - it's a manufactured angle designed to hook a demo which is then leveraged for mass appeal.
I think his point is that while the NSA has been able to sniff around the internet with impunity, to actually take your phone and examine it, they would need a warrant.
Step 1: You are pulled over while driving for . Step 2: Cop determines that you are acting suspicious and refusing to comply with his orders. Step 3: Cop tells you to step out of the car, puts you in handcuffs, empties your pockets, and searches your vehicle. Step 4: Cop takes your phone and plugs in AutoFascist 3.0 device while you watch, pressed up against the hood of your own car. Step 5: "Thank you, Officer."
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niche uses like most all video cameras.
Just because you don't understand the actual use, doesn't mean it's not useful to transfer data at 20Gbps.
I understand the use. "Most all video cameras" don't fucking have Thunderbolt. "Most all video cameras" can't fucking sustain that bandwidth out.
For any professional gear, DisplayPort 1.2/1.2a/1.3 is the better choice. 17.28 Gbps of bandwidth as of the end of 2009, 25.92 Gbps as of now. Yes, it supports daisy chaining.
So fuck right on off with telling me what I don't fucking understand.
A $30 cable, expensive Thunderbolt chipset, expensive peripherals, and you won't be getting actual 10 Gbps full duplex Ethernet through Thunderbolt, nor will it work a damn without an actual 10 Gbps Ethernet controller somewhere in the system.
Keep on keepin' on, though.
Just because you don't understand what it's good for, doesn't mean it is important to others.
It's a bigger flop than firewire, which had a few niche uses.
Thunderbolt is nothing more than external PCIe with a yet another "one protocol to rule them all" wrapper.
We've had eternal PCIe for over a decade. We don't use it outside of pro workstations with external FirePro / Quadro shit.
They key selling point of Thunderbolt is "OMG it's so fast!". Yet the only practical uses for that speed for 99.99% of people are already served by other shit (DisplayPort, Ethernet, etc.). For regular use, USB 3.x will dominate the market, even if they're being completed retarded and still changing the connectors. For uses where you really do need speed, you connect to PCIe directly anyway.
As bad as USB 1-2 / 3 / 3.1 / otg / mini / micro / a / b / c is, Thunderbolt is worse because of the cost of the cables and controllers compounds with the fact that any port can be a thunderbolt port, so you'll need an adapter to go from that USB port that's actually a thunderbolt port on your Sony laptop to your thunderbolt cable to your thunderbolt device.
Passing ethernet, video and USB over a single cable may look nice, but it's not worth the cost and it serves very little purpose. Daisy chaining can be done via DisplayPort, if you really want. HDMI can carry Ethernet for some reason, and DisplayPort can carry USB (data and the higher-power charging shit).
Nothing about Thunderbolt is novel or particularly useful. Being connected straight to PCIe the way Thunderbolt is is wildly insecure, to boot.
I've got 3 days to go, but the number of confirmed cases has already tripled, and the number of people exposed is now beyond accurate measuring. We're in full-on Kevin Bacon territory at this point. I had to wait less than a third of the alleged 21 day incubation period to be proven right.
Keep trusting the CDC and the Obama administration, though.
Only 7 days later and the number of confirmed cases has tripled and the number of exposed has grown massively. I sure hope you come at me in 3 more days, though.
Man, you sure look like a dumbass now. It's confirmed that the first guy infected at least 2 of the nurses treating him. Those nurses went on to treat other patients. The number of confirmed infections has tripled in the 7 days since my post, and the number of people exposed is now completely out of control.
How would you implement a system to prevent it? Preferably without completely blocking all traffic from Liberia to the rest of the world, because there's a fair number of foreigners there who will want to come home someday, and (at the time of this particular incident) no cases outside of Africa have been seen yet.
Block all traffic from Liberia to the rest of the world. Allow exceptions only after a 21-day quarantine.
You can't have your cake and eat it, too. If you want to maintain a quarantine you have to maintain a quarantine.
I have a million other things to deal with.
I'll just run my shit against https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltes... in a month and do what it tells me to.
guaranteed to pay back in a few years
Gonna need to see the math on that one.
Please show your work.
What a disgusting waste...
If you elevate the panels you reduce the intensity of the shadow but you increase the size by a proportional amount. Grazing? There will proportionately less to graze on in the areas with solar panels. Reflected light? Plants use it just as much as the solar panels do.
raymorris is correct.
In case anyone else was curious like I was, the 50 acres used to provide afternoon power could , if used as farmland instead, feed 250 people a minimal diet, or 20 fat Americans who supersize their Big Macs.
Just an interesting factoid.
What a fucking dumbass. You can't supersize a big mac. You can only supersize the drink and fries.
Beyond that, it's been about a decade since they got rid of supersizing.
This conversation is entirely about cracking down on drugs, gambling & prostitution.
3 things that people should be able to do freely.
They never were.
the only way to reach these companies would be to either eschew legal methods of home entertainment (along with 100m other people), or shoot some executives.
Or?
You' ll be modded down, but it really is this fucking simple.
And then there was the NIH grant to study why gay men are often thin and lesbians are often obese.
Why is this a problem? Research should always be done, however ridiculous your hypothesis may be. The freedom to do such insane research is what has made USA the leader of all sciences.
Useless research on my fucking dime should absolutely not be done, let alone to the exclusion of useful research.
My advice: Don't use Solr. Don't use PCRd PDFs. Don't support full-text searching, because no one fucking uses it. We get thousands of searches against title, keywords, dates, and other meta shit every day in our internal application. The only full-text searches performed are by me when I'm testing shit.
Lawyers use it. Magazines use it. Lots of people use it.
Lawyers use it because they have to - there is no alternative to search shit short of hiring monkeys to manually type up mountains of old documents. Often, those monkeys would have to be legally privileged to look at the documents, so it's not something you can shunt off to cheap labor / Mechanical Turk. OCR sucks. Solr sucks. Mixing the two is a big ol' suck fest.
Magazines use it because... they're stupid? There's no need to OCR a massive backlog of shit. For old shit that may not be digital, you can go ahead and hire a monkey to type it in. You're still left with Solr sucking, but on top of that much of a magazine's content is so heavily formatted/styled/image-based that a Solr index would not suit it well.
If you NEED a fulltext index. there are plenty of alternatives, some mentioned by others in the comments on this article. I can only speak to OCR sucking, Solr's indexer sucking, and Solr's search giving me way too many things for it to be useful.
1) The frequence of choosing a password is not within the end-user's control, and hence has no impact on whether or not the end-user chooses to include special characters vs several simple words.
The vast majority of passwords and resets are controlled by the user. Websites do not often force people to reset passwords. In a corporate environment people will be forced to change passwords more frequently, sure. But email, 20 social networking sites, shopping sites, and even banks will typically not force a reset unless they've been compromised.
2) Protecting against a brute force attack does not, in any way, break protection against "informed statistical" attacks.
XKCD's shitty advice is protecting against brute force attacks by using length (even though in many cases the effective length is still limited to something stupid like 16 characters). By following XKCD's shitty advice, you open yourself up to statistical attacks - your search space is just a combination of a few words. People generally only use a few thousand words, and when you want them to be random about it they'll likely pick common ones, fairly short ones, mostly nouns, etc.
3) End-users do not typically know how many other people have chosen that same password, but can protect themselves against accidentally choosing a common password by doing exactly what the XKCD comic recommends (picking four random words and juxtaposing them). Just don't use the specific password chosen in the comic.
Humans are terrible at being random. Any magician, con-artist, or statistician will tell you that. The most commonly-picked "random" cards are the ace of spades and the queen of hearts, for example. The 4 "random" words scenario will give you a search space many orders of magnitude smaller than a good, traditional password.
4) Disallowing common passwords is not within the end-user's control. It is a good practice, but does not in any way change the password-selection logic that end users should use as per the XKCD comic.
The only contradictory point mentioned is the "change password strength meters", which might mean "require special characters and numbers," which is exactly what the comic demonstrates to offer no value. The intent here seems to be the avoidance of common passwords, and that can be done without forcing special characters, which makes passwords hard to memorize.
Disallowing common passwords is within the user's control. Don't use a fucking password you've heard of before. If your password manager, or a site, tells you that the password is shitty, maybe don't use it.
The XKCD comic is fucking wrong. Symbols, numbers, and capitalization, all increase the search space exponentially. Special characters do not make passwords harder to memorize. I find they make it easier. They provide a cadence in may of the passwords I use. Instead of just a slurry of letters, a password with digits or symbols is less likely to get twisted about in someone's mind. alhysuidopmnah will be subject to transposition on shit like the ui, mn. alhys5idop#nah doesn't have that problem, and is much easier to compartmentalize (alhys5 idop# nah). This may or may not be true for all users for fixed length (and it certainly depends on the specific password itself). Beyond that, for passwords of a given strength those with symbols and shit will be easier to memorize than those without, if only because they'll be much shorter.
Yes, if you have to support it, you have to support it. I would steer clear from Solr based on my experience with it, however.
We only added it on because the shit we use integrates well with it. It was a "why not?" that works well enough to not be ripped out, but I wouldn't do it again unless I had to.
I had never heard of it either until I needed to create an internal search engine where I work. After a few days of research, I found that Apache Solr/Lucene is often used for intranet search engines and for e-commerce sites.
We use it to parse and index OCRd PDFs for full-text searching.
My advice: Don't use Solr. Don't use PCRd PDFs. Don't support full-text searching, because no one fucking uses it. We get thousands of searches against title, keywords, dates, and other meta shit every day in our internal application. The only full-text searches performed are by me when I'm testing shit.
This. If they're bound by law to remove results upon request, then they should remove them (assuming the request itself is valid).
They shouldn't be deciding which requests to approve or not beyond a technical / common sense capacity. John Doe obviously couldn't request all results for the generic use of his name to be removed, nor could he request that a specific page for someone else's name be removed.
Anything else should be honored, in accordance with the law.
I think the AC had a point. She didn't do any nude/topless scenes yet. In Hollywood, that is a "nice girl" image.
Now that her tits have been seen, she doesn't have that revered position on the pedestal anymore.
The leaked pictures will not affect her billing or box office results.
Her celebrity image (or personality) is a nice girl (she is one of those that really listens to her agents). No idea if she is really a nice girl or a slut in real life.
No it isn't. Her image is sex. She was only a "nice girl" when promoting the first Hunger Games movie to ensure the teens and tweens would see it.
She's been in other movies, you know. She's done plenty of magazine photo shoots. Her image is as much "nice girl" as Brittney Spears - it's a manufactured angle designed to hook a demo which is then leveraged for mass appeal.
I think his point is that while the NSA has been able to sniff around the internet with impunity, to actually take your phone and examine it, they would need a warrant.
Step 1: You are pulled over while driving for .
Step 2: Cop determines that you are acting suspicious and refusing to comply with his orders.
Step 3: Cop tells you to step out of the car, puts you in handcuffs, empties your pockets, and searches your vehicle.
Step 4: Cop takes your phone and plugs in AutoFascist 3.0 device while you watch, pressed up against the hood of your own car.
Step 5: "Thank you, Officer."