Buy the software if you want it. Don't buy the software if you don't want it.
No one but the most ardent of internet nerds gives a shit about open-source software licensing.
You can bitch and moan all day long, and in the end the most you'll get is a link to the source code of the open source shit they used. Big fucking whoop.
Or do you want your router to come with a printout of the source code for the shit it's running?
Still, it's comforting to know that satire — the only weapon politicians and talking heads fear — is still safely in the hands of the public where it belongs.
1: It's not augmented reality - it's a shitty flash site that scans a 2D barcode using your webcam and gives you some shitty ads and "content" deemed to shitty to go in the magazine proper.
2: Even if there WAS an aspect of augmented reality - augmented reality is shit. The ONLY area where augmented reality can ever be not shit is applying an overlay over a recorded image (or sound, I guess). Though this is only ever useful if it can be made completely dynamic.
Useful: A pair of glasses that tags the people in the board room with names and titles, since you can't be assed to remember their fucking names.
Useful: A car HUD that projects 2D tags on stuff as you drive by. That highway sign could have tags that always face you head on, with a larger font, etc. That gas station? Nobody buys premium - replace the whole price sign with the fucking cheapo price, so you can actually see it from far enough away to get off in time. Color code it based on prices further along your route, if one is planned. Again, the tag would always be facing you head on.
Useful: Headphones you lock onto your kids heads so you can swear all you want and have it get bleeped out. (Though I guess this would be more of a demented reality.)
Fun: Some games where characters dynamically react to real-world environs.
Shitty: Some games where characters simply appear with standard scripted animations as an overlay of a video of real-world environs (see that shitty PS3 card game).
Super shitty: Delivering fucking scripted ads based on real-world environs.
We're miles away from useful augmented reality, and we're going in the wrong direction. We're using it as a gate to shitty ad content, when it should be used to generate useful contextual content, or at least fun shit for games/porn.
I'm making statements as fact, yes. But it is not up to me to prove them.
It's up to you to KNOW these same facts in order to maintain any semblance of discourse on the subject. If you don't know them, learn. If you don't believe them, then challenge them with evidence.
Asking for references is the internet equivalent of a 5-year old saying "Oh yeah? Prove it!".
No I don't have a reference, go look one up yourself. To answer you: Not very big, and similar weight/strength properties as compared the rest of the structure.
Spewing babble from Wikipedia like that just proves how little you know.
You continue to be an idiot. Overall taxes have gone up. The value of the dollar continues to spiral mercilessly downward. The government ooze seeps further and further into our alleged rights.
There is no debating this. If you want numbers, get them yourself.
Non sequitur? What the fuck? Logically, what I said makes perfect fucking sense. Overall, taxes have gone up. It's provable, You do the math.
Pay increases? Son, we're all on paycuts and furloughs over here. Maybe when you grow up and get a job and pay taxes you'll understand, but it's clear you have the financial knowledge of a 14 year old.
Why the fuck would I waste my time proving something so obviously to an idiot who so obviously just wants to troll?
Uh, nano-scale conductors are much better than you think they are.
Solar panels wouldn't affect the weight of the ascender - you would strap them onto the structure itself at intervals.
5000th floor. Please wait while we recharge the ascender.
Of course nuclear power would solve it. But nuclear power is viewed as the devil. Can't use that. So let's beam radiation through the atmosphere instead!
And besides - I'm still of the firm belief that space elevators are a fucking joke and we'll never actually do it.
The issue of one server sending the credentials forward to another server (thus posing as the user) should never occur - two distinct services should have two distinct secrets.
Passing the data around in a "hash this" scenario lets you use the same secret for many services without revealing the secret to the server, sure.
But the point of an authentication system is to establish trust - if you don't trust the server you're using, you shouldn't be trusting them with your secret in the first place.
Feeding a server your hashed shit is safer than the server knowing your secret outright. But it's not as safe as having separate secrets for separate services.
Everything you hash and forward on is fodder for someone to use if they decide they want to figure out your key. There are mathematical attacks that use the public key and known-good hashes of many (and specific) strings. They bring the cracking time down from astronomical to feasible.
All forms of authentication rely on the two parties, and only the two parties, knowing a piece of information.
There is no getting around that. Public key encryption does not. Whatever wikipedia link you provide does not.
All encryption is the same. You both need to know the decryption key. Which is why SSL and TLS fail. Which is why everything ever will fail.
Man in the middle attacks will ALWAYS be viable. It ALWAYS boils down to a key sharing problem and an initial authentication problem. You can set up your online account in person in a locked vault and it would still have the same fucking issues.
Of course it's dumb to send a password in plaintext. Anyone could be listening. Of course it's dumb to do what SSL and TLS do - anyone could be listening. Of course it's dumb to tell someone a secret in a park - anyone could be listening.
The only thing anyone will ever achieve in regards to security is greater obfuscation and hassle for potential baddies AND for the two intended parties.
If we're going to be building a super crazy nano carbon magic tube elevator structure that can actually lift shit into space, then we sure as fuck can strap some copper wiring onto it to you know, deliver power.
Uh. Password-based security is the only one that works.
Here's how security works:
Hi I'm Slashdot Bob. Prove it.
Ah yes, the authentication piece - the secret that only you and I know. (inaudible whispering)
Ok, you're Slashdot Bob. What do you need? I need access to Jill.
Hmmm, nope. You don't have access. Fuck!
Hmmm, nope. You don't have access to that either.
All of our security EVER relies on maintaining a list of who has access to what, and ensuring people are who they claim to be. This can ONLY be done with secret information. A password is the closest we have to that. All physical dongles and devices can be stolen. All biometric data can be scanned and spoofed. They aren't yet able to read your mind. The fact that people forget their passwords, write them down, pass them out, or have shitty ones is their own fault.
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Buy the software if you want it.
Don't buy the software if you don't want it.
No one but the most ardent of internet nerds gives a shit about open-source software licensing.
You can bitch and moan all day long, and in the end the most you'll get is a link to the source code of the open source shit they used. Big fucking whoop.
Or do you want your router to come with a printout of the source code for the shit it's running?
Still, it's comforting to know that satire — the only weapon politicians and talking heads fear — is still safely in the hands of the public where it belongs.
Seems to me they fear guns, too.
There's nothing impressive.
1: It's not augmented reality - it's a shitty flash site that scans a 2D barcode using your webcam and gives you some shitty ads and "content" deemed to shitty to go in the magazine proper.
2: Even if there WAS an aspect of augmented reality - augmented reality is shit. The ONLY area where augmented reality can ever be not shit is applying an overlay over a recorded image (or sound, I guess). Though this is only ever useful if it can be made completely dynamic.
Useful: A pair of glasses that tags the people in the board room with names and titles, since you can't be assed to remember their fucking names.
Useful: A car HUD that projects 2D tags on stuff as you drive by. That highway sign could have tags that always face you head on, with a larger font, etc. That gas station? Nobody buys premium - replace the whole price sign with the fucking cheapo price, so you can actually see it from far enough away to get off in time. Color code it based on prices further along your route, if one is planned. Again, the tag would always be facing you head on.
Useful: Headphones you lock onto your kids heads so you can swear all you want and have it get bleeped out. (Though I guess this would be more of a demented reality.)
Fun: Some games where characters dynamically react to real-world environs.
Shitty: Some games where characters simply appear with standard scripted animations as an overlay of a video of real-world environs (see that shitty PS3 card game).
Super shitty: Delivering fucking scripted ads based on real-world environs.
We're miles away from useful augmented reality, and we're going in the wrong direction. We're using it as a gate to shitty ad content, when it should be used to generate useful contextual content, or at least fun shit for games/porn.
I'm making statements as fact, yes.
But it is not up to me to prove them.
It's up to you to KNOW these same facts in order to maintain any semblance of discourse on the subject.
If you don't know them, learn.
If you don't believe them, then challenge them with evidence.
Asking for references is the internet equivalent of a 5-year old saying "Oh yeah? Prove it!".
Maybe you should get an education, then a job, period, because you obviously don't know shit, and you have zero tax liability.
Lightning won't be a fucking issue.
No I don't have a reference, go look one up yourself.
To answer you: Not very big, and similar weight/strength properties as compared the rest of the structure.
Spewing babble from Wikipedia like that just proves how little you know.
You continue to be an idiot.
Overall taxes have gone up.
The value of the dollar continues to spiral mercilessly downward.
The government ooze seeps further and further into our alleged rights.
There is no debating this.
If you want numbers, get them yourself.
Non sequitur? What the fuck? Logically, what I said makes perfect fucking sense. Overall, taxes have gone up. It's provable, You do the math.
Pay increases? Son, we're all on paycuts and furloughs over here. Maybe when you grow up and get a job and pay taxes you'll understand, but it's clear you have the financial knowledge of a 14 year old.
Why the fuck would I waste my time proving something so obviously to an idiot who so obviously just wants to troll?
Idiot.
"Seems to me" was a nice way of saying "Hey moron, you're fucking wrong, the fact of the matter is...".
Be analytical?
You're the one who's ignoring every single tax on every fucking thing that isn't included on your annual return.
They fucking tax alcohol and cigarettes and aluminum and gas and electronics and now they want to tax fucking juice and soda and carbon.
If you think your tax rate is anything near what you fucking file for, you're a moron. EVERYTHING is taxed out the ass.
And if it's part of the structure, then there is no difference.
What's your point balloon boy?
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That's a 2D slice of your structure.
The center is conductive.
The outside is not.
It's all similar material, it's all load-bearing.
Airplanes fly and get hit by lightning all the time.
It's not an issue.
You make the conduit part of the structure.
They can make conductive and non conductive carbon nanotubes you know.
Uh, nano-scale conductors are much better than you think they are.
Solar panels wouldn't affect the weight of the ascender - you would strap them onto the structure itself at intervals.
5000th floor. Please wait while we recharge the ascender.
Of course nuclear power would solve it.
But nuclear power is viewed as the devil. Can't use that. So let's beam radiation through the atmosphere instead!
And besides - I'm still of the firm belief that space elevators are a fucking joke and we'll never actually do it.
Seems to me I pay more and more (as a %) of my money to various taxes every year.
Seems to me I lose more and more freedom to the government every year.
Tax cuts here and there don't mean shit when we're passing out the trillions like candy and funding pork projects like we're Kermit the fucking Frog.
You really are retarded if you think the government has gotten smaller and taxed people less over the course of, well, ever.
Uh, by "many" I mean "many different models of", not "dozens of".
You just need a single one.
Often a customized driver for the one already in your fucking laptop will do the job.
Make the conduit part of the structure.
Not the whole structure.
What problem with static electricity?
The issue of one server sending the credentials forward to another server (thus posing as the user) should never occur - two distinct services should have two distinct secrets.
Passing the data around in a "hash this" scenario lets you use the same secret for many services without revealing the secret to the server, sure.
But the point of an authentication system is to establish trust - if you don't trust the server you're using, you shouldn't be trusting them with your secret in the first place.
Feeding a server your hashed shit is safer than the server knowing your secret outright. But it's not as safe as having separate secrets for separate services.
Everything you hash and forward on is fodder for someone to use if they decide they want to figure out your key. There are mathematical attacks that use the public key and known-good hashes of many (and specific) strings. They bring the cracking time down from astronomical to feasible.
No, not the whole thing balloon boy, just the conduit.
Not if they make it out of them fancy nano tubes (they already do) and incorporate it into the structure itself (they already can).
Of course.
Well, not since the tax-cut/reduce-government fanatics came into power.
I would like to believe you are from the future - a future full of tax cuts and reduced government.
However, I know you are just an idiot.
Physical access is root access.
Physical access is infinitely more powerful than root access.
Root access is shit.
All forms of authentication rely on the two parties, and only the two parties, knowing a piece of information.
There is no getting around that. Public key encryption does not. Whatever wikipedia link you provide does not.
All encryption is the same. You both need to know the decryption key. Which is why SSL and TLS fail. Which is why everything ever will fail.
Man in the middle attacks will ALWAYS be viable.
It ALWAYS boils down to a key sharing problem and an initial authentication problem. You can set up your online account in person in a locked vault and it would still have the same fucking issues.
Of course it's dumb to send a password in plaintext. Anyone could be listening. Of course it's dumb to do what SSL and TLS do - anyone could be listening. Of course it's dumb to tell someone a secret in a park - anyone could be listening.
The only thing anyone will ever achieve in regards to security is greater obfuscation and hassle for potential baddies AND for the two intended parties.
Not dumb questions.
It's retarded that they want to beam power to it when they can literally run a wire up the structure itself.
If we're going to be building a super crazy nano carbon magic tube elevator structure that can actually lift shit into space, then we sure as fuck can strap some copper wiring onto it to you know, deliver power.
Uh. Password-based security is the only one that works.
Here's how security works:
Hi I'm Slashdot Bob.
Prove it.
Ah yes, the authentication piece - the secret that only you and I know. (inaudible whispering)
Ok, you're Slashdot Bob. What do you need?
I need access to Jill.
Hmmm, nope. You don't have access.
Fuck!
Hmmm, nope. You don't have access to that either.
All of our security EVER relies on maintaining a list of who has access to what, and ensuring people are who they claim to be. This can ONLY be done with secret information. A password is the closest we have to that. All physical dongles and devices can be stolen. All biometric data can be scanned and spoofed. They aren't yet able to read your mind. The fact that people forget their passwords, write them down, pass them out, or have shitty ones is their own fault.
I lold.
Sadly, less than 1% of slashdot have heard Duke of Earl.