Yeah, the suit would make more sense if the guy that caused the accident was using e.g. youtube on a samsung phone, and one of those vendors had at some point been litigated against by Apple to prevent them from implementing the feature.
1) its absolute simplicity and minimalism of syntax
Count me out. I don't feel like building mounds of advanced syntax out of primitives over and over, I'd rather have my complex syntax pre-baked and only re-implement syntax when I really meed a DSL.
2) its live coding/debugging environment (as well as the "image")
Implementation feature, not a language feature, though granted much easier to implement on some languages than others.
It does name a scientist (after scrolling underneath the ad).. seems they refer to this. The talk page is also informative as to the academic disposition of the research.. It apparently wasn't quite worth the premature hype it got in 2006, and no justification as to why it merits another news article now is provided by TFA.
This is silly. To imply that active left-democratic voters don't pretty much hate the DNC means you've never sat in a room with actual left-democrats. But after the primary it is a team sport, and even among left leaning democrats, most of us are adults, and realize that if we couldn't manage to pull the win out in the primary, we're not going to win a general on a third party ticket, even if we could agree on one.
To ask "how could you possibly support the Deomcratic Party after blah blah blah" is like asking "how could you possibly eat french fries after trans-fats when you are starving and the only two other things to eat are a pile of shit and a packet of calorie-free coffee creamer" It's a silly, silly question and the only reason to even ask it is to try to stoke more division on the democratic side of the isle.
Users don't want to signup for mailing lists or find a good download site.
Almost every single Linux distro comes preconfigured with a default repository which can be used to automatically locate patches, or download source code if you need to compile your own, if you can't wait for your distro to test and push a patch. Though usually, you choose your distro based on such criteria of how quickly they push essential patches balanced with how often they push patches that break stuff.
To start it would be helpful if functions were consistently verbs when that is a natural choice: in python you have "filter", which is a verb, but then you have "sorted" and "reversed", and then to add to the crazy you have sort(..., [reverse]) which, if you were heart set on using an adjective form, that parameter would be the place to actually use "reversed".
array.extend to me would imply more a memory management tweak allocating more slots. If you're appending elements "push" or "append" makes more sense, or maybe "concatenate" if you like to be mathy. So you do have "append" but only for single elements... and... you have "pop" s why in the heck would you not have "push"?
It's little stuff like this that kinda turns me off above and beyond the whitespace handling, which I find just intolerable.
Read a bit of the spec. In addition to generating keys in a most likely unauditable manner, it seems it also includes an "attestation certificate" which the server "should" verify as signed by a trusted CA. Whether this cert is device specific is a matter for concern, as well as the fact that while this mechanism does not prevent a server from honoring a DYI-implemented device, it could IRL end up preventing that.
Another matter of concern is the presence of a token-wide counter... which presumably is to allow servers to prevent cloned authenticators if they so choose. That has the potential to end up being used as correlation data.
I use python about once every two years when I have to patch something written in it. Same problem, especially because the function/method names make no sense whatsoever.
TFA seems to imply that U2F only sends a public-key-encrypted challenge -- just the ciphertext -- without leaking the key identity.
I've not read the standard yet though. Do U2F keys come with the keypair preinstalled ("just trust us, we didn't keep a copy, trust us"), or can you generate and load your own keys?
We have to call it what it is: "Russian Cyber Espionage". This is "Russian cyber espionage" and Trump won't even mention the word, and nor will Rex Tillerson. He won't use the term ‘Russian cyber espionage,’ Now, to solve a problem, you have to be able to state what the problem is or at least say the name. Trump won't say the name and Tillerson won't say the name. But the name is there. It's "Russian cyber espionage."
Especially since Quantum Computing only breaks current public key encryption, not even some current shared key algorithms, and keys are much easier to exchange than giant pads.
One should not trust NIST, but that doesn't stop NIST from providing a forum where trustworthy theoreticians can spar, and that's a helpful thing for them to do. It's not like they are entirely evil, just their decisions should not be trusted, but rather reviewed by the cryptomath community and either endorsed or criticized.
Basically any government entity is going to be torn between wanting to break crypto (for cointel) and wanting to use it (for their own security or for the fact that it is pretty damn essential to a continuing economy.) They'll do some good things, and they'll do some bad things, but at least they'll do something, rather than just sitting on their hands.
I simply don't have time to disguise myself as an employee, sneak into a recycling business, and verify that they are actually breaking stuff down, then personally follow trucks that leave the facility to see that they go to smelting facilities.
The media ran it's credibility into the ground supporting Hillary
The media had no credibility to run into the ground prior to the election, so you are wrong.
A giant chunk of people want to think they are one of the Lone Gunmen these days, so instead of taking the MSM as an input and balancing it against other sources, they go out and find the fringiest material they possibly can so they can live in a fantasy world where Al Gore eats puppies, and only they and their super-select twitter roll know the secret.
These people already despised the MSM so the election changed nothing for them.
Those who know how to filter the MSM for bias and use the valuable information they provide constructively live in the real world. Where the only things this election taught us about the media is that statewide polling and a lot of analytics firms suck ass at their job and TV news shows obviously don't have a budget to actually pay researchers to develop interesting issue coverage, so they'll dwell on whatever is funny and amusing instead.
1) Though they didn't exercise it, the electors do serve a potential purpose. Say if a winning candidate died... they could represent the voters rather than giving that power over to congress... since we can't just let a presidential transition with thumbs up their asses for a new election to be arranged. 2) If you want to blame someone, blame your state legislature for winner-take-all. They should really assign proportionally. Though the way to get there without "unilateral disarmament" is to sign the state onto NPVIC.
maybe automation to build walls and frame a new house.
That one is actually in the pipeline; there are several companies working on 3D printing buildings.
Also the pothole thing is well on the way.
Plumbing and mods to existing structures are probably going to be some of the last jobs to "go". I say "go" because certain jobs will always need a human to supervise the bot and/or tuck corners.
One thing that baffles me is why we don't have a wall-crawling wallpaper inkjet already. Especially with wallpaper coming "back in fashion" now that people finally figured out that tearing down the wallpaper and just painting everything the color of puke makes your house look like a public school.
Really it's a shame, with or without a UBI, that legislators have not managed to take these perverse incentives out of the system. Basically benefits should fade off rather than just disappear at some threshold... the overriding rule should be "if you work, you do better." So far in the U.S. we have Republicans who hate giving anyone money for anything that doesn't involve either kickbacks or indoctrination, and Democrats who are too afraid to open the book on this business without an airtight super majority (excluding potentially backstabbing blue dogs) which they never seem to get.
Well, now that the R's have the majority, probably the entire social safety net will get gutted, so at least when the pendulum swings back, D's will have some brownfield to build on.
I did say it was an extreme example... it could happen, but given the wages MTurk pays, it might be more profitable to force your slaves to sew shoes.
There are many more subtle ways the service could become counterproductive in some regions/cultures/economies, though.
As far as what is and is not "their job," well there are certain responsibilities everyone, including corporations, share, whether or not they want to admit it. While the free market can eliminate most bad models, some of the ways they get eliminated can be completely disastrous, and in those cases, it is to everyone's benefit if other mechanisms outside the free market short circuit that before the default solution of a collapsing economy, poverty, and civil unrest kicks in.
Which is why the word "exploitation" often has negative connotations. It won't shed these by trying to institute goodspeak, only by solving the underlying issues.
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Have you ever read a patent? They tend to try to be written to cover almost every practical implementation.
Yeah, the suit would make more sense if the guy that caused the accident was using e.g. youtube on a samsung phone, and one of those vendors had at some point been litigated against by Apple to prevent them from implementing the feature.
Do you even know what you are talking about?
Yes.
minimalism of syntax means it is easy to learn and so there's less room for someone to make a mistake
Minimalism of syntax is an ideological puritanism that misses the point that we have complex syntax for a goddamn reason.
1) its absolute simplicity and minimalism of syntax
Count me out. I don't feel like building mounds of advanced syntax out of primitives over and over, I'd rather have my complex syntax pre-baked and only re-implement syntax when I really meed a DSL.
2) its live coding/debugging environment (as well as the "image")
Implementation feature, not a language feature, though granted much easier to implement on some languages than others.
It does name a scientist (after scrolling underneath the ad).. seems they refer to this. The talk page is also informative as to the academic disposition of the research.. It apparently wasn't quite worth the premature hype it got in 2006, and no justification as to why it merits another news article now is provided by TFA.
Some people just don't get it. You can't insult someone and expect that they turn to your side.
Actually, comments like this are not aimed at the person they are replying to. They are aimed at other fence-straddling readers, and they do work.
This is silly. To imply that active left-democratic voters don't pretty much hate the DNC means you've never sat in a room with actual left-democrats. But after the primary it is a team sport, and even among left leaning democrats, most of us are adults, and realize that if we couldn't manage to pull the win out in the primary, we're not going to win a general on a third party ticket, even if we could agree on one.
To ask "how could you possibly support the Deomcratic Party after blah blah blah" is like asking "how could you possibly eat french fries after trans-fats when you are starving and the only two other things to eat are a pile of shit and a packet of calorie-free coffee creamer" It's a silly, silly question and the only reason to even ask it is to try to stoke more division on the democratic side of the isle.
Users don't want to signup for mailing lists or find a good download site.
Almost every single Linux distro comes preconfigured with a default repository which can be used to automatically locate patches, or download source code if you need to compile your own, if you can't wait for your distro to test and push a patch. Though usually, you choose your distro based on such criteria of how quickly they push essential patches balanced with how often they push patches that break stuff.
Well, it's pretty generally accepted that the P does not always mean PHP anymore -- perl or python were rolled into that acronym a decade or so ago.
To start it would be helpful if functions were consistently verbs when that is a natural choice: in python you have "filter", which is a verb, but then you have "sorted" and "reversed", and then to add to the crazy you have sort(..., [reverse]) which, if you were heart set on using an adjective form, that parameter would be the place to actually use "reversed".
array.extend to me would imply more a memory management tweak allocating more slots. If you're appending elements "push" or "append" makes more sense, or maybe "concatenate" if you like to be mathy. So you do have "append" but only for single elements... and... you have "pop" s why in the heck would you not have "push"?
It's little stuff like this that kinda turns me off above and beyond the whitespace handling, which I find just intolerable.
(PHP is way worse, though)
Read a bit of the spec. In addition to generating keys in a most likely unauditable manner, it seems it also includes an "attestation certificate" which the server "should" verify as signed by a trusted CA. Whether this cert is device specific is a matter for concern, as well as the fact that while this mechanism does not prevent a server from honoring a DYI-implemented device, it could IRL end up preventing that.
Another matter of concern is the presence of a token-wide counter... which presumably is to allow servers to prevent cloned authenticators if they so choose. That has the potential to end up being used as correlation data.
I use python about once every two years when I have to patch something written in it. Same problem, especially because the function/method names make no sense whatsoever.
TFA seems to imply that U2F only sends a public-key-encrypted challenge -- just the ciphertext -- without leaking the key identity.
I've not read the standard yet though. Do U2F keys come with the keypair preinstalled ("just trust us, we didn't keep a copy, trust us"), or can you generate and load your own keys?
Or cannot use google, where you can get to a cheaper and better solution in under 2 minutes.
We have to call it what it is: "Russian Cyber Espionage". This is "Russian cyber espionage" and Trump won't even mention the word, and nor will Rex Tillerson. He won't use the term ‘Russian cyber espionage,’ Now, to solve a problem, you have to be able to state what the problem is or at least say the name. Trump won't say the name and Tillerson won't say the name. But the name is there. It's "Russian cyber espionage."
Especially since Quantum Computing only breaks current public key encryption, not even some current shared key algorithms, and keys are much easier to exchange than giant pads.
One should not trust NIST, but that doesn't stop NIST from providing a forum where trustworthy theoreticians can spar, and that's a helpful thing for them to do. It's not like they are entirely evil, just their decisions should not be trusted, but rather reviewed by the cryptomath community and either endorsed or criticized.
Basically any government entity is going to be torn between wanting to break crypto (for cointel) and wanting to use it (for their own security or for the fact that it is pretty damn essential to a continuing economy.) They'll do some good things, and they'll do some bad things, but at least they'll do something, rather than just sitting on their hands.
That's more or less what we have now, until quantum computing is real. You don't need a quantum computer to use post-quantum cryptography.
What I haven't seen is how quantum simulators rate as a threat.
This is why my basement is still full of e-waste.
I simply don't have time to disguise myself as an employee, sneak into a recycling business, and verify that they are actually breaking stuff down, then personally follow trucks that leave the facility to see that they go to smelting facilities.
Which apparently, is the only way to be sure.
The media ran it's credibility into the ground supporting Hillary
The media had no credibility to run into the ground prior to the election, so you are wrong.
A giant chunk of people want to think they are one of the Lone Gunmen these days, so instead of taking the MSM as an input and balancing it against other sources, they go out and find the fringiest material they possibly can so they can live in a fantasy world where Al Gore eats puppies, and only they and their super-select twitter roll know the secret.
These people already despised the MSM so the election changed nothing for them.
Those who know how to filter the MSM for bias and use the valuable information they provide constructively live in the real world. Where the only things this election taught us about the media is that statewide polling and a lot of analytics firms suck ass at their job and TV news shows obviously don't have a budget to actually pay researchers to develop interesting issue coverage, so they'll dwell on whatever is funny and amusing instead.
Coal will never be economically competitive again, so it wouldn't really matter if we did make new coal plants illegal, which by the way we don't.
Two points:
1) Though they didn't exercise it, the electors do serve a potential purpose. Say if a winning candidate died... they could represent the voters rather than giving that power over to congress... since we can't just let a presidential transition with thumbs up their asses for a new election to be arranged.
2) If you want to blame someone, blame your state legislature for winner-take-all. They should really assign proportionally. Though the way to get there without "unilateral disarmament" is to sign the state onto NPVIC.
maybe automation to build walls and frame a new house.
That one is actually in the pipeline; there are several companies working on 3D printing buildings.
Also the pothole thing is well on the way.
Plumbing and mods to existing structures are probably going to be some of the last jobs to "go". I say "go" because certain jobs will always need a human to supervise the bot and/or tuck corners.
One thing that baffles me is why we don't have a wall-crawling wallpaper inkjet already. Especially with wallpaper coming "back in fashion" now that people finally figured out that tearing down the wallpaper and just painting everything the color of puke makes your house look like a public school.
Really it's a shame, with or without a UBI, that legislators have not managed to take these perverse incentives out of the system. Basically benefits should fade off rather than just disappear at some threshold... the overriding rule should be "if you work, you do better." So far in the U.S. we have Republicans who hate giving anyone money for anything that doesn't involve either kickbacks or indoctrination, and Democrats who are too afraid to open the book on this business without an airtight super majority (excluding potentially backstabbing blue dogs) which they never seem to get.
Well, now that the R's have the majority, probably the entire social safety net will get gutted, so at least when the pendulum swings back, D's will have some brownfield to build on.
I did say it was an extreme example... it could happen, but given the wages MTurk pays, it might be more profitable to force your slaves to sew shoes.
There are many more subtle ways the service could become counterproductive in some regions/cultures/economies, though.
As far as what is and is not "their job," well there are certain responsibilities everyone, including corporations, share, whether or not they want to admit it. While the free market can eliminate most bad models, some of the ways they get eliminated can be completely disastrous, and in those cases, it is to everyone's benefit if other mechanisms outside the free market short circuit that before the default solution of a collapsing economy, poverty, and civil unrest kicks in.
Which is why the word "exploitation" often has negative connotations. It won't shed these by trying to institute goodspeak, only by solving the underlying issues.