Yeah, let's all reinvent the wheel or roll own own crypto like iota.
Rolling your own crypto isn't bad. Presuming you can do it correctly.
Even if you only take it as far as running your own CA and signing and trusting your own certs, you'll be way more secure than the rest of the world depending on 3rd party CAs. If you want to get serious, you take a standard algorithm but change the default parameters, investigate what curve is used and why (hello NSA), etc. If you're worried you might fuck something up, then you take a standard algorithm and standard config, but add a second layer of something else on top so if you fuck up the outer layer the inner layer is still protected by established, standard shit.
Developing your own actual algorithm isn't gonna fly. Only a handful of humans on the planet can do that, and the truth is they don't really understand the math (if they did, they'd be able to prove it formally). The only formally-proved, secure, and reversible encryption methods are those in which the key length is as long as (or longer than) the plaintext. For example, XOR. f(x) = 0 is provably secure, but non-reversible (and completely useless).
So what are Amazon's plans to address support of both software and hardware? How will they fix security issues and other bugs? Will they provide the needed assurance this won't be abandoned in another couple years for the next new shiny thing? Or do they just plan to dump their stuff on the market and hope for the best and tell the end customer they need to support it?
So what are Cisco's plans to address support of both software and hardware? Shit out untested, buggy software with huge security holes on reliable, but extremely overpriced hardware? Etc.
Cisco isn't exactly highly regarded anymore. It's the entrenched standard people are afraid to move away from. The devil you know.
They're so locked into that mentality that 10 Gbps needs to cost $$$$ that instead of pushing forward they're pushing backward by shitting out multiple half-assed "solutions" for teaming two 1 Gbps links on consumer / small business gear, as well as teasing eventual support for 2.5 Gbps and 5 Gbps standards.
They blame cat 5e cabling, but you can run 10 Gbps over cat 5e in "short" runs (probably up to 40 meters).
Of the 5 apostrophes in your post, 3 are grammatically incorrect. Thus you would have less errors if you did not use apostrophes at all. Nice post, BTW.
I care. Notepad is just so lightweight and instant that it's still my go-to for simple text files, scripts, etc. on Windows. Another plus is that it's a lazy little slut so you can open up multiple copies of the same file as it's being written. It doesn't care about locks or anything. It'll just read what it can see and display it for you. This does have the drawback of potential confusion over which version is the latest one or which is the one that matches what's on disk. (The solution to that is to open it again in another window.)
I've filed formal comments and formal complaints to bot the FTC and FCC. The complaints (for specific incidents where I was harmed) have always gotten a response. Comments (for when I just want to report something, or had an issue I already resolved and don't need further restitution) don't always get a response.
2) How did he get a job that can support himself, a wife, and 3 children?
3) No one cares about your plea to emotion.
4) How have they been paying taxes? Sales tax, sure. But other taxes require valid identification (drivers license, social security number, etc.). I know CA now lets you get a drivers license without being a citizen, but not every state is CA.
Laws are laws. Congress makes laws. Courts merely interpret them. Decisions on individual cases are legally binding, but they are not law. When a case is tried, the verdict and sentence are not constrained by past decisions. Plenty of lazy judges phone it in and point to "case law" so they don't have to do any thinking and don't risk rocking the boat. That does not mean "case law" is law, binding to any other case, or relevant to the discussion.
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Your typical NTSC DVD movie comes from 720x480 progressive frames that interlaced at the end of the authoring process and can be recreated perfectly. Early DVD players only output an interlaced signal. Later DVD players supported progressive output, some with 24 FPS playback (built-in IVTC).
If it's animated, good fucking luck. You're often trying to create a 24 or 30 FPS progressive video from something that started as 12 or 15 FPS and was abused into 24 FPS before being telecined into 30 FPS (or vice versa). And there's often mixes of both directions on a scene-by-scene basis. Oh, and during scene cuts the field order can flip so you'll get a blended frame of misaligned fields from two scenes. To fix it you'll need double one field to create a half resolution frame then drop the other field (and the frame it would have produced). Or encode the whole thing at 48 / 60 FPS instead so you don't have to drop shit. And don't forget the problems that occur when the framerate itself changes.
If you name some major conflicts that were resolved without violence, I can point to a bunch of wars and illustrate how low your bar for what counts as a "major conflict" is. I can also probably point to a lot of violence in and around your conflict that you're ignoring.
Yes, it's a bit circular since I can effectively say that a conflict wasn't major if it didn't result in violence. But that doesn't make it incorrect. It just means you have to keep "major" in perspective as the relative term that it is. If there were only a handful of wars throughout history then I'd say it was a bad argument because it's using peaks to discount the bulk of significant data. But as a species we've had more than a handful of wars. It's what we do, unfortunately. It's what we've done since day 0 when we were wiping out other hominids.
You can search Slashdot for The Shadow Brokers. A year or so ago, they dumped a whole buttload of tools and exploit kits that our intelligence agencies use to hack shit. A lot of it was centered around making it look like the attacks had come from specific countries.
The federal government is the one who decides who can and cannot enter the country, and the Executive branch is tasked with securing the border and enforcing immigration laws.
States may not have to specifically aid the feds for certain things, but they cannot actively interfere with their operations. Doing so makes them active participants in crime. And yes, entering the country illegally is a crime. As is aiding and abetting such criminals.
It was popularized by the show Archer. It's a sad, defeated tone. Imagine a sad Charlie Brown trombone saying it. Or imagine the failure / loss sound from The Price Is Right.
Yes. Let everyone use as much bandwidth as they want until you're saturated. When people are contesting for bandwidth, then you start parceling it out.
I've got a gigabit connection at my workstation and can easily hit near that at speedtest.net.
If I had a business use case for it they'd give me a 10 gig connection. (We actually considered this a few years back when a neighboring office was rewiring with CAT 6, but the cost to rewire our office was too high. Today, I kind of regret not voting to do it because we're storing more stuff externally and the fatter pipe would help.)
Our network people consistently tell us they WANT the network to be used fully. Maybe it's because they were smart enough to put capacity, QoS, etc. in place.
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That's a pleasant fact to me. JS is garbage. The interactive web is garbage. So what if I have to submit a page and wait for another response?
I prefer that over executing your code on my box.
Yeah, let's all reinvent the wheel or roll own own crypto like iota.
Rolling your own crypto isn't bad. Presuming you can do it correctly.
Even if you only take it as far as running your own CA and signing and trusting your own certs, you'll be way more secure than the rest of the world depending on 3rd party CAs.
If you want to get serious, you take a standard algorithm but change the default parameters, investigate what curve is used and why (hello NSA), etc.
If you're worried you might fuck something up, then you take a standard algorithm and standard config, but add a second layer of something else on top so if you fuck up the outer layer the inner layer is still protected by established, standard shit.
Developing your own actual algorithm isn't gonna fly. Only a handful of humans on the planet can do that, and the truth is they don't really understand the math (if they did, they'd be able to prove it formally). The only formally-proved, secure, and reversible encryption methods are those in which the key length is as long as (or longer than) the plaintext. For example, XOR. f(x) = 0 is provably secure, but non-reversible (and completely useless).
So what are Amazon's plans to address support of both software and hardware? How will they fix security issues and other bugs? Will they provide the needed assurance this won't be abandoned in another couple years for the next new shiny thing? Or do they just plan to dump their stuff on the market and hope for the best and tell the end customer they need to support it?
So what are Cisco's plans to address support of both software and hardware? Shit out untested, buggy software with huge security holes on reliable, but extremely overpriced hardware? Etc.
Cisco isn't exactly highly regarded anymore. It's the entrenched standard people are afraid to move away from. The devil you know.
Because fuck you, that's why.
They're so locked into that mentality that 10 Gbps needs to cost $$$$ that instead of pushing forward they're pushing backward by shitting out multiple half-assed "solutions" for teaming two 1 Gbps links on consumer / small business gear, as well as teasing eventual support for 2.5 Gbps and 5 Gbps standards.
They blame cat 5e cabling, but you can run 10 Gbps over cat 5e in "short" runs (probably up to 40 meters).
She he's a gay many but wants to have sex with his daughter?
Of the 5 apostrophes in your post, 3 are grammatically incorrect. Thus you would have less errors if you did not use apostrophes at all. Nice post, BTW.
Fewer.
I care. Notepad is just so lightweight and instant that it's still my go-to for simple text files, scripts, etc. on Windows.
Another plus is that it's a lazy little slut so you can open up multiple copies of the same file as it's being written. It doesn't care about locks or anything. It'll just read what it can see and display it for you. This does have the drawback of potential confusion over which version is the latest one or which is the one that matches what's on disk. (The solution to that is to open it again in another window.)
Dunno what took so long, but I love both this and the line number / character count with word wrap enabled.
After adult content helped popularize new media formats like VHS, Blu-ray and streaming video
The PS3 is what made BluRay a success. Porn backed HD-DVD initially.
I've filed formal comments and formal complaints to bot the FTC and FCC.
The complaints (for specific incidents where I was harmed) have always gotten a response. Comments (for when I just want to report something, or had an issue I already resolved and don't need further restitution) don't always get a response.
The British are a disease and the only cure is gas chambers and ovens.
What about dental care, diction lessons, and... are taste bud transplants a thing?
2) How did he get a job that can support himself, a wife, and 3 children?
3) No one cares about your plea to emotion.
4) How have they been paying taxes? Sales tax, sure. But other taxes require valid identification (drivers license, social security number, etc.). I know CA now lets you get a drivers license without being a citizen, but not every state is CA.
There are even services where you can rent kids for the crossing.
Which is why they're now doing DNA testing. Surprise! Lots of mismatches are popping up.
case law
Laws are laws. Congress makes laws.
Courts merely interpret them. Decisions on individual cases are legally binding, but they are not law. When a case is tried, the verdict and sentence are not constrained by past decisions. Plenty of lazy judges phone it in and point to "case law" so they don't have to do any thinking and don't risk rocking the boat. That does not mean "case law" is law, binding to any other case, or relevant to the discussion.
The big pushback i could see is that people generally don't like talking to a bot.
If the AI identifies itself as a machine, a nontrivial number of people are going to immediately hang up on inbound calls they're receiving.
"I'm not giving my name to a machine."
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Your typical NTSC DVD movie comes from 720x480 progressive frames that interlaced at the end of the authoring process and can be recreated perfectly.
Early DVD players only output an interlaced signal. Later DVD players supported progressive output, some with 24 FPS playback (built-in IVTC).
If it's animated, good fucking luck. You're often trying to create a 24 or 30 FPS progressive video from something that started as 12 or 15 FPS and was abused into 24 FPS before being telecined into 30 FPS (or vice versa). And there's often mixes of both directions on a scene-by-scene basis. Oh, and during scene cuts the field order can flip so you'll get a blended frame of misaligned fields from two scenes. To fix it you'll need double one field to create a half resolution frame then drop the other field (and the frame it would have produced). Or encode the whole thing at 48 / 60 FPS instead so you don't have to drop shit. And don't forget the problems that occur when the framerate itself changes.
I'm in CA. I know how awful the state is.
If you name some major conflicts that were resolved without violence, I can point to a bunch of wars and illustrate how low your bar for what counts as a "major conflict" is. I can also probably point to a lot of violence in and around your conflict that you're ignoring.
Yes, it's a bit circular since I can effectively say that a conflict wasn't major if it didn't result in violence. But that doesn't make it incorrect. It just means you have to keep "major" in perspective as the relative term that it is. If there were only a handful of wars throughout history then I'd say it was a bad argument because it's using peaks to discount the bulk of significant data. But as a species we've had more than a handful of wars. It's what we do, unfortunately. It's what we've done since day 0 when we were wiping out other hominids.
You don't need scorched earth to be violent.
You can search Slashdot for The Shadow Brokers.
A year or so ago, they dumped a whole buttload of tools and exploit kits that our intelligence agencies use to hack shit. A lot of it was centered around making it look like the attacks had come from specific countries.
The federal government is the one who decides who can and cannot enter the country, and the Executive branch is tasked with securing the border and enforcing immigration laws.
States may not have to specifically aid the feds for certain things, but they cannot actively interfere with their operations. Doing so makes them active participants in crime. And yes, entering the country illegally is a crime. As is aiding and abetting such criminals.
It was popularized by the show Archer. It's a sad, defeated tone. Imagine a sad Charlie Brown trombone saying it. Or imagine the failure / loss sound from The Price Is Right.
Yes. Let everyone use as much bandwidth as they want until you're saturated.
When people are contesting for bandwidth, then you start parceling it out.
I've got a gigabit connection at my workstation and can easily hit near that at speedtest.net.
If I had a business use case for it they'd give me a 10 gig connection. (We actually considered this a few years back when a neighboring office was rewiring with CAT 6, but the cost to rewire our office was too high. Today, I kind of regret not voting to do it because we're storing more stuff externally and the fatter pipe would help.)
Our network people consistently tell us they WANT the network to be used fully. Maybe it's because they were smart enough to put capacity, QoS, etc. in place.