PNG, as you said, is lossless. It works well for text and screenshots, which are completely ruined by jpeg artifacts. PNG, however, is rather inefficient when used for photographs.
To be fair, anyone using Windows XP either (a) doesn't actually need h.264 playback, or (b) doesn't care about security anyway, in which case they can keep using an old version of flash.
I agree that it is inevitable that the majority will abuse democratic power to solidify its position. However, that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to fight the phenomenon. "Gerrymanders gonna gerrymander." is not an appropriate response.
Because that makes the system unstable. Imagine, for simplicity's sake, some issue with roughly the same number of people on both sides. Now, let's say side A manages to get a law passed that is disproportionately violated by and/or prosecuted against supporters of side B. Say, due to demographics, or due to an intrinsic component of side B's position on the issue. Let's say this law creates a criminal felony.
This is of course just one of myriad means by which an entity or group with political power can fortify itself.
If we could suddenly create bread and corn without farmers, farmers would stop producing bread and corn and we would produce our own. If content creators stop creating content because it ceases to be profitable, or to at least provide a return on investment, there would be nothing for us to "copy".
This is called "running off the end of the analogy". Do you really think people would stop making music, painting, telling stories, if they didn't get paid through current industial channels? Look at the vast corpus of fanfiction on the internet.
Look at all the companies with billions of dollars invested in integrated circuit manufacturing, which would be entirely useless without IC designs to fab on them. Would they just stop selling chips because another company could invest another several billion dollars in their own fab and start making the same IC? Of course not.
Attacks that go though the main authentication system are trivially defeated by requiring a 1 second wait between login attempts. The problem is offline attacks on password databases, in combination with the common (but foolhardy) practice of password reuse.
Yes. If you have users that know to randomly generate their passwords, it is best to restrict the character set for memorability and unambiguity (single-case and numerals, no puctuation), and use long passwords.
Unfortunately, when left to their own devices, users tend to pick passwords like 'beatfabrik' and 'paddlepop'. These tend to get stronger when you add !@$^&*()_+":.
If the German citizens had the power to safely stop paying taxes to the Nazis at any time with little personal consequence, I would indeed consider attacks on German citizens to be an ethical strategy against the Nazis.
With LGPL, I explicitly have to allow my customers to reverse-engineer my code, which would be a problem with a commercial product using licensed code (some licensed code requires one to take steps to prevent reverse-engineering).
Attempting to prevent reverse engineering is a blatant "fuck you" to your customers. On their behalf, fuck you too.
Really? My Firefox session is currently using 1552 MiB of memory. Take a look at this, from about:memory:
42,494,656 B (02.71%) -- compartment(https://encrypted.google.com/)
Over 42 MB. For Google's javascript. Most of this should be paged to disk, as my current tab is not on a Google page. I think the javascript performance war has taken the memory/CPU tradeoff too far in one direction. There really ought to be an option to disable JIT. I would gladly do so if it would save 500 MiB of memory.
Let's say you have a machine with 2 GiB of memory. What can you do with those other 500 MiB? Your OS, one instance of Libreoffice/MS Word, and maybe an email reader. But good luck playing a game without closing Firefox, or running a Java pig like Jdownloader.
My experience has been that I need about 3 GiB of memory free for use as disk cache to be able to launch KDE software with reasonably low latency. Put that together with the requirement for enough RAM for Firefox and other programs, and you're looking at 8 GiB (or 6, if you're on that Intel platform with 3 memory channels).
A new MB is not likely to cost close to $500.
It will if you're on a laptop. Even if you're on a desktop, you'll still need a new CPU. And it's still best to build a whole new machine, 'cause then you can repurpose the old one or pass it on to someone else, rather than letting the old CPU and motherboard go to waste.
Anything going across the public internet is in cleartext unless you take steps to encrypt it yourself. It is foolhardy to assume otherwise, or to increase the cost of modems by speccing enough CPU grunt to encrypt all traffic.
The FAQ makes it sound like file transfers are 0 or 1 hops, and you can only see the files shared by people up to 1 hop away. It seems more like a collaboration tool than a darknet.
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I have a 3G here that I am prepping for sale that STILL has full battery life after 3.5 years.
No, you don't. Ye cannae change the laws of physics.
Yeah... no. 1366x768 would only become wetware-limited in a smartphone form factor.
2560x1440 IPS panel, $360. They are glossy, however, and they allow up to 5 dead pixels.
A monitor? I really hope it's not 1920x1080.
PNG, as you said, is lossless. It works well for text and screenshots, which are completely ruined by jpeg artifacts. PNG, however, is rather inefficient when used for photographs.
Whatever your 'ISP' is providing, it certainly ain't Internet Service.
To be fair, anyone using Windows XP either (a) doesn't actually need h.264 playback, or (b) doesn't care about security anyway, in which case they can keep using an old version of flash.
Because all airborne drones must use the same command and control systems, right?
I find it difficult to comprehend how a person could believe something so fundamentally stupid.
only some 5.3 million disenfranchised felons
So enough to have defeated George W. Bush.
I agree that it is inevitable that the majority will abuse democratic power to solidify its position. However, that doesn't mean we shouldn't try to fight the phenomenon. "Gerrymanders gonna gerrymander." is not an appropriate response.
1. Jim Crow. Disproportionate prison populations persist even now.
2. Marijuana.
Because that makes the system unstable. Imagine, for simplicity's sake, some issue with roughly the same number of people on both sides. Now, let's say side A manages to get a law passed that is disproportionately violated by and/or prosecuted against supporters of side B. Say, due to demographics, or due to an intrinsic component of side B's position on the issue. Let's say this law creates a criminal felony.
This is of course just one of myriad means by which an entity or group with political power can fortify itself.
On the contrary, he's certainly a Europeon. In America, they would have shot the paparazzi.
If we could suddenly create bread and corn without farmers, farmers would stop producing bread and corn and we would produce our own. If content creators stop creating content because it ceases to be profitable, or to at least provide a return on investment, there would be nothing for us to "copy".
This is called "running off the end of the analogy". Do you really think people would stop making music, painting, telling stories, if they didn't get paid through current industial channels? Look at the vast corpus of fanfiction on the internet.
Look at all the companies with billions of dollars invested in integrated circuit manufacturing, which would be entirely useless without IC designs to fab on them. Would they just stop selling chips because another company could invest another several billion dollars in their own fab and start making the same IC? Of course not.
So, have you stopped beating your wife yet?
However, the right of ownership is a intrinsic right recognized by most thinkers who brought us the Enlightenment.
The right to restrict the communication of third parties is not.
I've done the same, though I trip them up by using lettherightonein.
Attacks that go though the main authentication system are trivially defeated by requiring a 1 second wait between login attempts. The problem is offline attacks on password databases, in combination with the common (but foolhardy) practice of password reuse.
Yes. If you have users that know to randomly generate their passwords, it is best to restrict the character set for memorability and unambiguity (single-case and numerals, no puctuation), and use long passwords.
Unfortunately, when left to their own devices, users tend to pick passwords like 'beatfabrik' and 'paddlepop'. These tend to get stronger when you add !@$^&*()_+":.
If the German citizens had the power to safely stop paying taxes to the Nazis at any time with little personal consequence, I would indeed consider attacks on German citizens to be an ethical strategy against the Nazis.
With LGPL, I explicitly have to allow my customers to reverse-engineer my code, which would be a problem with a commercial product using licensed code (some licensed code requires one to take steps to prevent reverse-engineering).
Attempting to prevent reverse engineering is a blatant "fuck you" to your customers. On their behalf, fuck you too.
That is such a complete load I can only laugh.
Really? My Firefox session is currently using 1552 MiB of memory. Take a look at this, from about:memory:
42,494,656 B (02.71%) -- compartment(https://encrypted.google.com/)
Over 42 MB. For Google's javascript. Most of this should be paged to disk, as my current tab is not on a Google page. I think the javascript performance war has taken the memory/CPU tradeoff too far in one direction. There really ought to be an option to disable JIT. I would gladly do so if it would save 500 MiB of memory.
Let's say you have a machine with 2 GiB of memory. What can you do with those other 500 MiB? Your OS, one instance of Libreoffice/MS Word, and maybe an email reader. But good luck playing a game without closing Firefox, or running a Java pig like Jdownloader.
My experience has been that I need about 3 GiB of memory free for use as disk cache to be able to launch KDE software with reasonably low latency. Put that together with the requirement for enough RAM for Firefox and other programs, and you're looking at 8 GiB (or 6, if you're on that Intel platform with 3 memory channels).
A new MB is not likely to cost close to $500.
It will if you're on a laptop. Even if you're on a desktop, you'll still need a new CPU. And it's still best to build a whole new machine, 'cause then you can repurpose the old one or pass it on to someone else, rather than letting the old CPU and motherboard go to waste.
x2x. Use your phone/tablet as a remote mouse/keyboard for your workstation.
I hope you have a disk changing robot. If not, why are you not using HDDs?
Anything going across the public internet is in cleartext unless you take steps to encrypt it yourself. It is foolhardy to assume otherwise, or to increase the cost of modems by speccing enough CPU grunt to encrypt all traffic.
The FAQ makes it sound like file transfers are 0 or 1 hops, and you can only see the files shared by people up to 1 hop away. It seems more like a collaboration tool than a darknet.