How curious. I still cannot find any mention of the certificate, or the CA in the system certificates management interface; but IE sure does seem happy with the certificate and the root...
I revise my earlier comment to the effect that "either I suck at finding them, or Microsoft sucks at showing them".
Do you really think that, during a 5 year negotiation process, which included a variety of topics including training, licensing, IP policy, and training and support for state IT capabilities, poor lil' Microsoft just had no earthly idea what likely use would be made?
Maybe state CAs are swapped in according to localization; or I suck at finding them; but I didn't manage to locate any such cert in an EN-US win7 machine. I don't, of course, have any access to whatever localization Tunisian systems would be using.
As best I can tell, HP's actions at this point can be most accurately modeled by assuming that somebody accidentally let an Eliza chatbot into an MBA program, and then handed it the reins...
It isn't fundamentally different(which is, in large part, why those horrible 'arbitrary-string TLD' people must die); but I suspect that.xxx is slightly worse than some, in that(unlike.net) it is largely useless to 'mainstream' trademark holders except on defence, and (unlike.edu) there aren't substantial restrictions on who can register for.xxxes, and, (unlike weirdo country-code TLDs).xxx is likely to be more recognizable than the obscure ones; but not useful for subsidiaries/marketing in the major-market ones. Just a pure shakedown.
Putting the Li-poly packs right under the driver's seat seems a bit perverse; but helicopters are already pretty dangerous by aircraft standards, and people seem to put up with them where required...
Trouble is, what semblence of decency the CAs possess is preserved largely because of the fact that there are so many, more or less completely interchangeable, competitors out there. As long as you don't want some gold-embossed-hologram-edition Verisign EV cert, you can always find some shoddy CA who is far more user-friendly than security would desire.
The registrars, by contrast, are no less sleazy; but the more you reduce their interchangeability, in the pursuit of security, the less incentive they have to even pretend to care about dealing pleasantly with customers.
There are definitely better and worse uses, and there have been a few nearly cargo-cult "computers process data, and data is just like knowledge, right? Clearly computers in the classroom will make the kiddies have more knowledge!" fads disguised in various ways. My point was just that, in my experience with deploying IT in the educational environment, I've never seen economic resistance or union grievances about even the suspiciously-similar-to-automating-some-people-away type of stuff. I've seen excessive enthusiasm for crap, I've seen resistance to change generally; but I've never seen "luddites" in the literal sense of the word.
It's the only thing I could find. Because they are niche and/or make the copy-cops unhappy, HDMI->S/PDIF boxes are pricier than most tablets and nontrivial to find. Out-of-box S/PDIF support seems nonexistent, and probably isn't going to get any better(since the receiver market is pretty heavily trifurcated into the won't-let-those-nasty-digital-things-near-my-precious-audio market[who obvious don't care], the 'eh, the headphone jack is basically a line-right?' group[who also don't care], and the 'My shiny new home-theatre-in-a-box has HDMI!' people[who also don't care]). There just isn't a strong push toward adding what is now considered to be a 'legacy' audio format.
The other option, if you have nerves of ice and some very fine soldering skills, might be having a rummage around inside: most of the tablets and smartphones that I've seen teardowns of have a separate analog and mixed signal IC, usually handling power management and audio, connected to the CPU by an i2s bus or some other short-distance digital audio interconnect(generally not S/PDIF, even electrically, alas). That would be a place to get your hands on a pristine copy of whatever is coming out the headphone jack; but tapping signal lines on a multilayer PCB, and then converting to S/PDIF is not for the faint of heart.
Something like that appears to demonstrate a successful host-mode hack, with USB audio class driver loaded; but it is pretty rough. I don't know whether that kicks over all the Android layer applications to use that audio out, or whether only the other bare-metal linux hackery can see it. Still probably easier to attack at the software level than get out the very fine logic probes...
Umm, have you ever actually interacted with teachers RE: technology?
I'm sure that there are exceptions who actually have the economic views you assert(and I've definitely met exceptions who simply know fuck-all about technology and really don't want to start now; but the latter group is, in the face of retirement and replacement by 20-somethings who've been using laptops for at least their entire undergrand, a self-solving problem); but my experience during the times I've worked in educational IT is that teachers are either very enthusiastic about technology, or simple technophobes without some sinister union plot motive.
There exists automated drilling and assessment software for, among other things, elementary mathematics instruction. The math department came to us asking for an implementation, and we can't keep up with the demand for in-classroom computers to support the stuff. The music department, for their part, has enthusiastically adopted a rather neat automated system that can analyze the deviations of a student playing an instrument from the desired waveforms for a piece. Art? We haven't been able to afford Wacoms for the lab; but they voluntarily branched out into digital raster-image editing...
There are some perverse elements of educational union politicking; but my work with the IT department never once ran into opposition on teacher-economic grounds.
If I remember correctly, the rationalization(most likely a retcon) was that Tatooine was originally a much more ambitious mining colony that, for some sort of convenient plot-related reasons, failed to pan out. The investors said "fuck it" and abandoned all the equipment not worth pulling back out of the gravity well, along with the assorted scum and yokels who were hanging around to either take advantage of the distant location or scratch out a feeble living. That was supposed to explain how they had sandcrawlers in the first place, those being rather above their tech level, and how a lifestyle based on nomadic scrounging and tinkering could possibly make sense...
If memory serves, the sandcrawlers were the mobile headquarters for the Jawas, a smelly little species known for their skill in picking over and/or stealing the detritus of more advanced civilizations, bodging it up just enough to get it moving off the sales lot under its own power, and then skipping town.
This seems like an eminently appropriate architectural allusion for the 'late-Lucas' period of Lucasfilms' work...
You can get HDMI-> DVI+S/PDIF boxes; but they are rather alarmingly expensive. I assume that the HDMI-> Anything_else market is rather stifled by HDCP.
Assuming that a dose of ugly doesn't necessarily break the deal, your best bet will probably be one of the android tablets with USB host support(and a degree of hack support). S/PDIF output in USB audio class devices is substantially cheaper than HDMI ->S/PDIF...
Does the veritable holocaust that occurred when the first green plants started their uncontrolled emissions of powerful oxidizing agents into the atmosphere, annihilating the previously anaerobic biosphere count?
Humans probably win on points because of the sheer creativity of their pollution, and the fact that they do it despite having brains large enough to predict that they will suffer for it; but they aren't exactly the first organism to synthesize something that didn't (yet) have anything evolved to break it down.
I think that it depends more on the specific type of gear, or standard. CD-ROM, a close descendant of the essentially 'streaming' CD audio setups, where going below required data rate would mean nasty audio skips, and a RAM buffer to make use of going above required data rate was too expensive to be assumed, still had a lot of those assumptions baked into it(enough so that, unlike HDDs, they used fussier and more expensive variable-speed rotation to keep the linear velocity of the read head above the medium surface constant...). As the format moved away from its roots, the lie-factor grew(the peak being imposed by physical constraints: anything above ~52x rotation isn't structurally safe for CDs; but when the outer edge is going at 52x, the inner edge is only doing ~20x. Thus, your CD performance could vary by more than a factor of two depending on the track being read)...
There are a few other PC interface where meeting the minimum really matters(DV over firewire, latency promises of pricey low-latency interconnects, etc.); but the industry, for the most part, seems to have embraced the rapid development of tech with ludicrously high maximum performance, at the price of, er, rather spotty, predictability in terms of absolute maximum worst case.
I'd be shocked to see that work. An enormous number of data links are named for, colloquially identified by, or associated with, their theoretical maximum speeds; but not hitting those often, if at all, is more or less standard. Unless Marvell or the motherboard vendor actually made specific performance claims that they failed to meet, rather than just claims of SATA revision 3.0 compatibility, their lie factor would be no greater than that of numerous other protocol silicon vendors(ethernet, wifi, etc.) who have gone legally unmolested over that fact...
Given Apple's recent litigation history, which seems to have kicked the spat off, they would appear to want to have their cake and eat it too. They went and attempted to have Samsung's products kicked out of Europe for being too damn rectangular, and are somehow surprised that people with patents on actual technology are fighting back?
It's really very unfair. Here we were, just defending our rightful monopoly over all things rectangular with screens on the front, and these uppity bastards with their "patents" on "foundational RF technologies" that they supposedly "invented" are getting all touchy about it. WTF?
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How curious. I still cannot find any mention of the certificate, or the CA in the system certificates management interface; but IE sure does seem happy with the certificate and the root...
I revise my earlier comment to the effect that "either I suck at finding them, or Microsoft sucks at showing them".
Do you really think that, during a 5 year negotiation process, which included a variety of topics including training, licensing, IP policy, and training and support for state IT capabilities, poor lil' Microsoft just had no earthly idea what likely use would be made?
Maybe state CAs are swapped in according to localization; or I suck at finding them; but I didn't manage to locate any such cert in an EN-US win7 machine. I don't, of course, have any access to whatever localization Tunisian systems would be using.
As best I can tell, HP's actions at this point can be most accurately modeled by assuming that somebody accidentally let an Eliza chatbot into an MBA program, and then handed it the reins...
It isn't fundamentally different(which is, in large part, why those horrible 'arbitrary-string TLD' people must die); but I suspect that .xxx is slightly worse than some, in that(unlike .net) it is largely useless to 'mainstream' trademark holders except on defence, and (unlike .edu) there aren't substantial restrictions on who can register for .xxxes, and, (unlike weirdo country-code TLDs) .xxx is likely to be more recognizable than the obscure ones; but not useful for subsidiaries/marketing in the major-market ones. Just a pure shakedown.
Does Gerber have any idea what big appetites adult-baby fetishists must have? Ka-ching!
Putting the Li-poly packs right under the driver's seat seems a bit perverse; but helicopters are already pretty dangerous by aircraft standards, and people seem to put up with them where required...
Umm... because they are all clandestine entities that Iran has togetherness problems with?
Trouble is, what semblence of decency the CAs possess is preserved largely because of the fact that there are so many, more or less completely interchangeable, competitors out there. As long as you don't want some gold-embossed-hologram-edition Verisign EV cert, you can always find some shoddy CA who is far more user-friendly than security would desire.
The registrars, by contrast, are no less sleazy; but the more you reduce their interchangeability, in the pursuit of security, the less incentive they have to even pretend to care about dealing pleasantly with customers.
"*.*.com". I could really use a wildcard cert that wild...
We might have to make an exception to that policy for the teeny little islands that have cool national TLDs...
.cx, .fm, and .tv were wiped out by the rising seas?
Can you imagine the outcry if
There are definitely better and worse uses, and there have been a few nearly cargo-cult "computers process data, and data is just like knowledge, right? Clearly computers in the classroom will make the kiddies have more knowledge!" fads disguised in various ways. My point was just that, in my experience with deploying IT in the educational environment, I've never seen economic resistance or union grievances about even the suspiciously-similar-to-automating-some-people-away type of stuff. I've seen excessive enthusiasm for crap, I've seen resistance to change generally; but I've never seen "luddites" in the literal sense of the word.
It's the only thing I could find. Because they are niche and/or make the copy-cops unhappy, HDMI->S/PDIF boxes are pricier than most tablets and nontrivial to find. Out-of-box S/PDIF support seems nonexistent, and probably isn't going to get any better(since the receiver market is pretty heavily trifurcated into the won't-let-those-nasty-digital-things-near-my-precious-audio market[who obvious don't care], the 'eh, the headphone jack is basically a line-right?' group[who also don't care], and the 'My shiny new home-theatre-in-a-box has HDMI!' people[who also don't care]). There just isn't a strong push toward adding what is now considered to be a 'legacy' audio format.
The other option, if you have nerves of ice and some very fine soldering skills, might be having a rummage around inside: most of the tablets and smartphones that I've seen teardowns of have a separate analog and mixed signal IC, usually handling power management and audio, connected to the CPU by an i2s bus or some other short-distance digital audio interconnect(generally not S/PDIF, even electrically, alas). That would be a place to get your hands on a pristine copy of whatever is coming out the headphone jack; but tapping signal lines on a multilayer PCB, and then converting to S/PDIF is not for the faint of heart.
Something like that appears to demonstrate a successful host-mode hack, with USB audio class driver loaded; but it is pretty rough. I don't know whether that kicks over all the Android layer applications to use that audio out, or whether only the other bare-metal linux hackery can see it. Still probably easier to attack at the software level than get out the very fine logic probes...
Umm, have you ever actually interacted with teachers RE: technology?
I'm sure that there are exceptions who actually have the economic views you assert(and I've definitely met exceptions who simply know fuck-all about technology and really don't want to start now; but the latter group is, in the face of retirement and replacement by 20-somethings who've been using laptops for at least their entire undergrand, a self-solving problem); but my experience during the times I've worked in educational IT is that teachers are either very enthusiastic about technology, or simple technophobes without some sinister union plot motive.
There exists automated drilling and assessment software for, among other things, elementary mathematics instruction. The math department came to us asking for an implementation, and we can't keep up with the demand for in-classroom computers to support the stuff. The music department, for their part, has enthusiastically adopted a rather neat automated system that can analyze the deviations of a student playing an instrument from the desired waveforms for a piece. Art? We haven't been able to afford Wacoms for the lab; but they voluntarily branched out into digital raster-image editing...
There are some perverse elements of educational union politicking; but my work with the IT department never once ran into opposition on teacher-economic grounds.
If I remember correctly, the rationalization(most likely a retcon) was that Tatooine was originally a much more ambitious mining colony that, for some sort of convenient plot-related reasons, failed to pan out. The investors said "fuck it" and abandoned all the equipment not worth pulling back out of the gravity well, along with the assorted scum and yokels who were hanging around to either take advantage of the distant location or scratch out a feeble living. That was supposed to explain how they had sandcrawlers in the first place, those being rather above their tech level, and how a lifestyle based on nomadic scrounging and tinkering could possibly make sense...
If memory serves, the sandcrawlers were the mobile headquarters for the Jawas, a smelly little species known for their skill in picking over and/or stealing the detritus of more advanced civilizations, bodging it up just enough to get it moving off the sales lot under its own power, and then skipping town.
This seems like an eminently appropriate architectural allusion for the 'late-Lucas' period of Lucasfilms' work...
You can get HDMI-> DVI+S/PDIF boxes; but they are rather alarmingly expensive. I assume that the HDMI-> Anything_else market is rather stifled by HDCP.
Assuming that a dose of ugly doesn't necessarily break the deal, your best bet will probably be one of the android tablets with USB host support(and a degree of hack support). S/PDIF output in USB audio class devices is substantially cheaper than HDMI ->S/PDIF...
By "getting physically assaulted", I believe you mean "resisting arrest", citizen.
Does the veritable holocaust that occurred when the first green plants started their uncontrolled emissions of powerful oxidizing agents into the atmosphere, annihilating the previously anaerobic biosphere count?
Humans probably win on points because of the sheer creativity of their pollution, and the fact that they do it despite having brains large enough to predict that they will suffer for it; but they aren't exactly the first organism to synthesize something that didn't (yet) have anything evolved to break it down.
I think that it depends more on the specific type of gear, or standard. CD-ROM, a close descendant of the essentially 'streaming' CD audio setups, where going below required data rate would mean nasty audio skips, and a RAM buffer to make use of going above required data rate was too expensive to be assumed, still had a lot of those assumptions baked into it(enough so that, unlike HDDs, they used fussier and more expensive variable-speed rotation to keep the linear velocity of the read head above the medium surface constant...). As the format moved away from its roots, the lie-factor grew(the peak being imposed by physical constraints: anything above ~52x rotation isn't structurally safe for CDs; but when the outer edge is going at 52x, the inner edge is only doing ~20x. Thus, your CD performance could vary by more than a factor of two depending on the track being read)... There are a few other PC interface where meeting the minimum really matters(DV over firewire, latency promises of pricey low-latency interconnects, etc.); but the industry, for the most part, seems to have embraced the rapid development of tech with ludicrously high maximum performance, at the price of, er, rather spotty, predictability in terms of absolute maximum worst case.
Only when the expected behavior involves going to some other value...
Virtually everything JMicron has ever released should probably be mentioned here as well. Those guys really know how to crank up the quality...
I'd be shocked to see that work. An enormous number of data links are named for, colloquially identified by, or associated with, their theoretical maximum speeds; but not hitting those often, if at all, is more or less standard. Unless Marvell or the motherboard vendor actually made specific performance claims that they failed to meet, rather than just claims of SATA revision 3.0 compatibility, their lie factor would be no greater than that of numerous other protocol silicon vendors(ethernet, wifi, etc.) who have gone legally unmolested over that fact...
Given Apple's recent litigation history, which seems to have kicked the spat off, they would appear to want to have their cake and eat it too. They went and attempted to have Samsung's products kicked out of Europe for being too damn rectangular, and are somehow surprised that people with patents on actual technology are fighting back?
It's really very unfair. Here we were, just defending our rightful monopoly over all things rectangular with screens on the front, and these uppity bastards with their "patents" on "foundational RF technologies" that they supposedly "invented" are getting all touchy about it. WTF?