It makes man in the middle attacks trivially possible and thus rendering the encryption useless. The problem with channel encryption is that you need the share some form of keying material and if you don't authenticate you can't trust the keying material. The only cases where encryption without authentication sort of works is when the keying material is previously shared and you can reasonably assume that it was not compromised. But in the case of the web, this is basically impossible.
I think this makes total sense. If we see hydrogen fuel cells it may rather be airplanes before ground vehicles. The biggest problem with hydrogen in cars is not only the lack of a distribution network, but also the leakage. Leave the car parked for a month and it is empty. This would not happen with a plane, fill it up and "burn" it more or less immediately. The airport is already a place where specialized fuels are delivered and stored, hydrogen may not be so much an added hassle.
AFAIK, this hasn't happened yet, but Disney loves their liars..er, sorry, lawyers.
This is more or less what happened with Megaupload.
You forgot the politicians they payed off for the laws they use to get Megaupload in addition to the executive branches of at least 3 government. It is still quite unclear what procedures where really legal or appropriate.
Mind control, huh? Can you point me towards anything that resembles mind control, just a tiny bit? I don't want something where they stimulated a region of the brain and the subject felt pain or pleasure. You know mind control as in the subject does something specific without noticing / without control. Even the mind reading is far far from any piratical application.
The tires you leave on from around October to March are definitely not studded tires. Having studded tries sound like a really bad idea until you are close or below the freezing point. The studs provide little to none traction on a road with no snow or ice. The reason why you have winter / summer tires is because the rubber has different optimal operating temperatures. In summer with winter tires they are to sticky and you waste fuel, in winter with summer tires they are to rigid and you have only little traction.
The places where you have a snow cover for multiple months on end it may make sense to have studded tires, since you won't need to put on snow chains. But then you are normally forced (and it is sensible) to a rather low speed when you have studded tires by law.
This is basically the same reason why Munich does not have a maglev train (Transrapid) from the city to the airport. It is not because it is not technically feasible, the Shanghai installation proves that, but because it is not economically sensible. In the case of the Transrapid the train is almost a permanent magnet and the track is "intelligent" and pushes the train along the line. This means that the track needs lots of copper and a good number of circuits to control the magnetic field. The train costs around the same as a normal train, but the track is orders of a magnitude more expensive.
This is basically the same with these "smart roads". Just the installation will be horrendously expensive with little gain in some special case scenarios. I can imagine them installed in some very special cases where you would want some form of dynamic routing. But then it would make more sense to install large OLED / LCD strips with only little circuitry.
I think the Norwegian idea of coating the roads with photoluminescent materials is altogether a better idea.
How is my reproduction of incohesive rambling of managers relevant to the TFS. I get away with allot of Free Software libraries (Apache/MIT/BSD licensed) integrated in commercial products. But each time I have new manager it takes a while to get them up to speed with the realities of licensing free software. All libraries used in out software needs to cleared with legal, so in the end it does not matter what the manager thinks.
Wait, so they do work, and you have to pay them? What a scam!
Except for the really edge cases most SAP installations cover the exact same grounds. What are the chances that, for example the accounting, which is strictly governed by laws, is radically different from one shop to the next? In few cases a shrink wrapped solution would have done the job too.
And provided it works, what's wrong with that?
Except that you are billed around half a million for the "integration" efforts.
What SAP sets itself apart from shrink wrapped solutions, is integrating with existing legacy or non administrative systems. For example the sales order triggering an entry in the production system. But in the case of SAP that definitely will not be cheap and you are effectively contracting software development work out to SAP. This is all fine and well when you are a shop that has totally no background in software development. But then you can also contract it out to a different and cheaper developer.
I assume you wouldn't have to train users when implementing other system, either made in-house or bought?
Yes you need to provide some guidance. But wasting a day of a room full of IT professionals on how to fill out a spread sheet like form, so they can log their hours. This includes on how to install the application, log into the SAP, typing in values and hitting submit. With the added excourse why basics of account and why logging hours is useful. You know something that one page e-mail would have done with a "I mananger comand you to log your hurs" and here is the step by step explanation. The entire thing at the tune of 10 thousand bucks to train something like 200 people. Not to mention the fact that hours where logged beforehand.
and remodel your business processes around the paradigms those tools are designed
Except that deploying SAP also meant that most processes where changed around anyway, so yea whatever.
I have seen 3 SAP deployments, two first hand and one second hand. There is some benefit in using SAP as a one stop solution, but it will definitely not come cheap.
But in your scenario, isn't "provided for free" the cheaper alternative? Netflix did not require Comcast to lay miles of cable, they did not need to they already used Cogent for these facilities. As I am reading it Neflix would have brought "the bits" to Comcast's "doorstep", using Level 3, which Netflix already payed. The result would that the large amount of bandwidth that normally would flow out to Cogent would now flow out to Netflix directly. This would require a neglectable amount of extra hardware and significantly less paid bandwidth to Cogent. I think you are one of the few that sees a problem here.
It depends. In my experience they have heard of freeware, which often comes with a "non commercial" clause and the legal department said that is evil. Free software is freeware right? The better educated managers know about the GPL and that makes all our software free software, but we wanted to sell that software. All free software is GPL right?
And in what way do you think you are doing a better job with ISS + C# and MSSQL? The Apache + PHP5 + PostgreeSQL stack is in par with the MS stack and the primary fault lies with the developer of the application. That same developer would have botched the ASP site equally well.
I would fire someone buying SAP period. Interestingly their products are mediocre at best, but the real scam is everything surrounding the product. You don't buy SAP, you get a tailor made software. To find out what you need a a team of consultants will monkey around your business for a month or two, at your expense. Then a few developers will write 5 lines of custom business logic binding exciting modules together and swap a few logos and acronyms. On top of that you need to train all users in the most basic tasks, partly because the entire thing is totally convoluted and they assume that even tech savvy users do not know how to use a computer.
For the cost of deploying SAP, easily a couple millions upfront plus expensive maintenance contracts, you can straight up employ a small team of developers and build your custom apps on top of some common framework. Or better look around a little for existing tools.
Learning it? In almost all cases an admin that uses Linux basically already knows Windows on the contrary a Windows admin, in most cases knows nothing about Linux. The reason being that almost all Linux users have used and administered Windows before. Also in most organisations it is either a pure Microsoft shop or a mix of everything. Mostly Linux in the servers and Windows and Mac in the desktops. So the admins will need to know about administering all the systems.
Then why did I buy a Windows 8 license? Why can I get a PC without an OS for less money than with an OS? Just because the OS is not explicitly labeled in your boxed PC does not mean you do not buy the OS.
Basically the Windows / Unixlikes divide has little to do with actual technology. If you have lots of servers, the license costs add up and chances are you are running custom apps. If you develop your own apps, the target OS matters little. But if you intend to buy applications, windows is the go to OS. The license costs for the OS pale in comparison to the cost of developing the application for a different OS.
Github went down? Did not notice that. I checked the status and yes, they had a few hiccups in the last months. But in each case the issue was resolved in under an hour and in most cases it was only a minor glitch. I don't know what is less "enterprise ready" that this type of reliability.
Also in the case of git, when the central public repository is down, that does not mean you can't work. Compare that to Exchange or Team Foundation Server, the entire company grinds to a halt when these systems go down and I have seen my fair share of downtime.
Funny you would say this. I think I would have more trust if they would have used real artists being really astonished by the product, rather a few hipsters doing bad acting under a terrible effect that looks like an instagram filter. Also someone actually using the pen in wider shot may also have helped... The entire video smells of excessive fake marketing hype and that basically means a crap product.
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It makes man in the middle attacks trivially possible and thus rendering the encryption useless. The problem with channel encryption is that you need the share some form of keying material and if you don't authenticate you can't trust the keying material. The only cases where encryption without authentication sort of works is when the keying material is previously shared and you can reasonably assume that it was not compromised. But in the case of the web, this is basically impossible.
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I think this makes total sense. If we see hydrogen fuel cells it may rather be airplanes before ground vehicles. The biggest problem with hydrogen in cars is not only the lack of a distribution network, but also the leakage. Leave the car parked for a month and it is empty. This would not happen with a plane, fill it up and "burn" it more or less immediately. The airport is already a place where specialized fuels are delivered and stored, hydrogen may not be so much an added hassle.
No no... You see their cloud service runs in the cloud. It is out there...
AFAIK, this hasn't happened yet, but Disney loves their liars..er, sorry, lawyers.
This is more or less what happened with Megaupload.
You forgot the politicians they payed off for the laws they use to get Megaupload in addition to the executive branches of at least 3 government. It is still quite unclear what procedures where really legal or appropriate.
And in the case of a University, the labor is mostly free. Free as in grad and postgrad students working there.
Mind control, huh? Can you point me towards anything that resembles mind control, just a tiny bit? I don't want something where they stimulated a region of the brain and the subject felt pain or pleasure. You know mind control as in the subject does something specific without noticing / without control. Even the mind reading is far far from any piratical application.
All year tires work too...
snow tiers != studded tires
The tires you leave on from around October to March are definitely not studded tires. Having studded tries sound like a really bad idea until you are close or below the freezing point. The studs provide little to none traction on a road with no snow or ice. The reason why you have winter / summer tires is because the rubber has different optimal operating temperatures. In summer with winter tires they are to sticky and you waste fuel, in winter with summer tires they are to rigid and you have only little traction.
The places where you have a snow cover for multiple months on end it may make sense to have studded tires, since you won't need to put on snow chains. But then you are normally forced (and it is sensible) to a rather low speed when you have studded tires by law.
This is basically the same reason why Munich does not have a maglev train (Transrapid) from the city to the airport. It is not because it is not technically feasible, the Shanghai installation proves that, but because it is not economically sensible. In the case of the Transrapid the train is almost a permanent magnet and the track is "intelligent" and pushes the train along the line. This means that the track needs lots of copper and a good number of circuits to control the magnetic field. The train costs around the same as a normal train, but the track is orders of a magnitude more expensive.
This is basically the same with these "smart roads". Just the installation will be horrendously expensive with little gain in some special case scenarios. I can imagine them installed in some very special cases where you would want some form of dynamic routing. But then it would make more sense to install large OLED / LCD strips with only little circuitry.
I think the Norwegian idea of coating the roads with photoluminescent materials is altogether a better idea.
How is my reproduction of incohesive rambling of managers relevant to the TFS. I get away with allot of Free Software libraries (Apache/MIT/BSD licensed) integrated in commercial products. But each time I have new manager it takes a while to get them up to speed with the realities of licensing free software. All libraries used in out software needs to cleared with legal, so in the end it does not matter what the manager thinks.
Wait, so they do work, and you have to pay them? What a scam!
Except for the really edge cases most SAP installations cover the exact same grounds. What are the chances that, for example the accounting, which is strictly governed by laws, is radically different from one shop to the next? In few cases a shrink wrapped solution would have done the job too.
And provided it works, what's wrong with that?
Except that you are billed around half a million for the "integration" efforts.
What SAP sets itself apart from shrink wrapped solutions, is integrating with existing legacy or non administrative systems. For example the sales order triggering an entry in the production system. But in the case of SAP that definitely will not be cheap and you are effectively contracting software development work out to SAP. This is all fine and well when you are a shop that has totally no background in software development. But then you can also contract it out to a different and cheaper developer.
I assume you wouldn't have to train users when implementing other system, either made in-house or bought?
Yes you need to provide some guidance. But wasting a day of a room full of IT professionals on how to fill out a spread sheet like form, so they can log their hours. This includes on how to install the application, log into the SAP, typing in values and hitting submit. With the added excourse why basics of account and why logging hours is useful. You know something that one page e-mail would have done with a "I mananger comand you to log your hurs" and here is the step by step explanation. The entire thing at the tune of 10 thousand bucks to train something like 200 people. Not to mention the fact that hours where logged beforehand.
and remodel your business processes around the paradigms those tools are designed
Except that deploying SAP also meant that most processes where changed around anyway, so yea whatever.
I have seen 3 SAP deployments, two first hand and one second hand. There is some benefit in using SAP as a one stop solution, but it will definitely not come cheap.
But in your scenario, isn't "provided for free" the cheaper alternative? Netflix did not require Comcast to lay miles of cable, they did not need to they already used Cogent for these facilities. As I am reading it Neflix would have brought "the bits" to Comcast's "doorstep", using Level 3, which Netflix already payed. The result would that the large amount of bandwidth that normally would flow out to Cogent would now flow out to Netflix directly. This would require a neglectable amount of extra hardware and significantly less paid bandwidth to Cogent. I think you are one of the few that sees a problem here.
It depends. In my experience they have heard of freeware, which often comes with a "non commercial" clause and the legal department said that is evil. Free software is freeware right? The better educated managers know about the GPL and that makes all our software free software, but we wanted to sell that software. All free software is GPL right?
And in what way do you think you are doing a better job with ISS + C# and MSSQL? The Apache + PHP5 + PostgreeSQL stack is in par with the MS stack and the primary fault lies with the developer of the application. That same developer would have botched the ASP site equally well.
"But everybody else is using IBM/SAP/MS? They are successful!"
I would fire someone buying SAP period. Interestingly their products are mediocre at best, but the real scam is everything surrounding the product. You don't buy SAP, you get a tailor made software. To find out what you need a a team of consultants will monkey around your business for a month or two, at your expense. Then a few developers will write 5 lines of custom business logic binding exciting modules together and swap a few logos and acronyms. On top of that you need to train all users in the most basic tasks, partly because the entire thing is totally convoluted and they assume that even tech savvy users do not know how to use a computer.
For the cost of deploying SAP, easily a couple millions upfront plus expensive maintenance contracts, you can straight up employ a small team of developers and build your custom apps on top of some common framework. Or better look around a little for existing tools.
Learning it? In almost all cases an admin that uses Linux basically already knows Windows on the contrary a Windows admin, in most cases knows nothing about Linux. The reason being that almost all Linux users have used and administered Windows before. Also in most organisations it is either a pure Microsoft shop or a mix of everything. Mostly Linux in the servers and Windows and Mac in the desktops. So the admins will need to know about administering all the systems.
Then why did I buy a Windows 8 license? Why can I get a PC without an OS for less money than with an OS? Just because the OS is not explicitly labeled in your boxed PC does not mean you do not buy the OS.
Yes, like commercial software is such a bastion of good quality software with no vulnerabilities at all.
Apps, apps apps.
Basically the Windows / Unixlikes divide has little to do with actual technology. If you have lots of servers, the license costs add up and chances are you are running custom apps. If you develop your own apps, the target OS matters little. But if you intend to buy applications, windows is the go to OS. The license costs for the OS pale in comparison to the cost of developing the application for a different OS.
Github went down? Did not notice that. I checked the status and yes, they had a few hiccups in the last months. But in each case the issue was resolved in under an hour and in most cases it was only a minor glitch. I don't know what is less "enterprise ready" that this type of reliability.
Also in the case of git, when the central public repository is down, that does not mean you can't work. Compare that to Exchange or Team Foundation Server, the entire company grinds to a halt when these systems go down and I have seen my fair share of downtime.
What you mean one of the few economies in Europe that is actually halfway working?
... it depends ...
Funny you would say this. I think I would have more trust if they would have used real artists being really astonished by the product, rather a few hipsters doing bad acting under a terrible effect that looks like an instagram filter. Also someone actually using the pen in wider shot may also have helped... The entire video smells of excessive fake marketing hype and that basically means a crap product.