An entire nation of a billion people that actually manufacture essentially all electronics where this might conceivably be used, and they use Linux? The government of China can't come up with something of their own?
I'm pretty sure that one of the reasons that Linux exists is so that everyone who wants to develop an operating system doesn't need to start from scratch. Whether the government of China is going to contribute anything back to Linux is another question. Even so, Linux does not belong to any government or nation. It was started by a Finnish guy who now lives in America and has contributors all over the world. If there's ever been a single piece of software that more or less belongs to everyone, it's Linux.
So it's ok that we're fighting a bullshit war, because the soldiers are voluntary and are all there because they want to be there and also because they don't want to be brought up on federal charges for desertion or refusing an order. Is that what you're saying?
What about my brother-in-law, for example. He is a highly trained and highly skilled Marine who is very good at rendering explody things harmless. The government has spent a lot of money making sure that he knows how to do his job, and can do it well. If you give him a bomb, he can remove the trigger. He's served several deployments and has a family. He would rather not go back to Afghanistan. He's inquired with several other agencies, including local police forces. The local police forces tell him that he gets to start at the bottom of the ladder, raking in around $25k per year patrolling a beat, and after 2 years of that he would be eligible to move into the SWAT team as an EOD tech. But he can't afford to spend 2 years making $25k and not using his skills, only to be told later whether he even has a job. He has a family to take care of, after all. So even though the Marines have spent years and hundreds of thousands of dollars training him, there's nowhere he can even transition to in order to continue his life outside of the military on the same level. Re-enlistment is his only option if he wants to support his family. He doesn't want to fight a BS war, and he doesn't want to enter the bottom ranks of another agency, so what exactly are his choices?
for Iraquistan, the troop tour of duty is only two years, so there's always troops coming home and it makes people happy.
You know what makes people less happy, though? When the troops get sent out for another deployment fighting a war that shouldn't be happening in the first place.
Yeah, seriously. It could use a little editing too. The submitter apparently wrote that it is 25% faster than Javascript, when the article says that Dart 1.1 produces 25% faster Javascript than Dart 1.0.
Wait, you're the submitter. Why did you write that it's 25% faster than Javascript?
They can afford, using their spare change, to staff a 24x7 abuse desk with very senior people.
You think that the solution to this problem is a 24-hour abuse desk? Isn't that, by nature, a reactive solution instead of a proactive solution? This comes with the turf. When Amazon allows their customers to quickly and easily set up new virtual servers and things like that, this is going to happen. Unless they are actively scanning all files and data that go through their network to block things (and even that is not a full solution), we are going to continue to see the "cloud" malware sites. These are sites that pop up and maybe they only exist for a day or two, or a few hours, before they get shut down, but in that time they've done what they were supposed to do and once they go down another one pops up. A place that people can call to report malware is not going to solve that problem.
He's definitely confused about something, with statements like this:
Law enforcement agencies in the United States have recently taken action to address this issue, however it appears the solution was temporary as replacement browsers quickly appeared to ensure the continuance of the illegal trade.
He seems to think the US agencies seized some sort of browser or something. Assuming he's just confused about terminology, he's apparently seeking some sort of international ban on certain kinds of websites that are accessible via Tor, or a ban on Tor itself. Good luck with that.
Doesn't everyone who can proram do this? Just like gun fans identify and count shots for each weapon they see?
For me it's an annoyance, it breaks the fourth wall. I think that a lot of filmmakers are lazy and don't bother with expert consulting, or just use whatever they have available even if it's BS. The movie Behind Enemy Lines was on TV the other day, and I was watching some of the ending of it. At the end of the movie a Navy Rear Admiral, commanding an aircraft carrier, leaves the carrier to pilot a Marine Huey helicopter armed with rocket pods, one of three heading out to rescue the pilot. Why is the admiral leaving his ship? Why is he flying a Marine Huey? Were there no Navy MH-60s equipped with Hellfires that were working that day?
Seeing that lazy stuff just breaks me out of the suspension of disbelief, the same way that seeing a bad actor makes me realize that I'm watching an actor and that this isn't real. Seeing obviously bad code is the same kind of thing for me.
Think of all the problems it could solve though. For example, oblivious drivers shoulder to shoulder going the same speed and not letting anyone else pass. If the cars were autonomous then they could simply tell each other to move over. I would love to have that ability now. Lane speed could also be regulated. If you wanted your car to drive slower then it would stay in the farther right lanes. If your car was being passed on the right, then it would keep moving over until no one is passing it on the right. It would be great if humans did that today, which is the cause for most of the slowdown that I see on the highways.
That's what I'm wondering. You pay vBulletin, they give you the source code of their application to run on your server. You've got the code, so why does it matter that they paid for it?
Honestly, there's so much good comparable open source software out there I'm flabbergasted that Suse uses closed source for it.
Just because they pay for a license doesn't mean they don't get the source code. The PHP code is right there if they want to go through it, vBulletin simply asks that people pay to use the software.
The system requirements only list various versions of PHP and MySQL. They don't say anything about requiring something to execute encrypted PHP source code, and they don't require any particular OS so it doesn't sound like they ship binaries.
With FBI withdrawing from "Law Enforcement", who is in charge of interstate criminal activities, racketeering, and so on ??
You don't understand. The FBI is not "withdrawing" from anything. Everything that they used to be in charge of, well, that stuff is now a national security matter and not just a legal matter.
Get ready for the third world to become the only livable world for human beings...
What does being aligned with NATO or the communist bloc have to do with climate? And I think that Finland and Sweden are probably going to be pretty cold also, despite being third world countries. I would expect the temperature to drop in Ireland also.
The US "only" contributes 22% of the UN budget? Not only is that more than double what the next country contributes (and more than 3x what the top European country contributes), but 22% is also the maximum allowed for a contribution for the period of 2013-2015 (the minimum is 0.001%). The US is at the max, we can't contribute any more, sorry. Maybe all of Europe can step up and help out a little more to lower our $618 million bill. Here is the document that lists the actual contributions from each country, and the rules for contributions are here.
The variable power load would very based on the instructions but we are not really interested in the instructions we are interested in the data. Doing an instruction on any data should cause the same power draw so how do they extract the data?
There's an 8MB PDF linked from the summary that has your name all over it. Instead of asking questions like that and waiting for the answer and ignoring all of the work that they did in producing the paper, just read the paper and get the answers.
So it can only work with some keys?
It is a chosen-ciphertext attack, not a chosen-key attack.
The summary really does not answer the questions.
Yeah, no shit. The summary is not supposed to answer all of the question. You know what is supposed to answer the questions? The paper.
The idea that the sound can extract the data violates the Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem.
Don't tell me, tell them. Review their paper, find the flaws in it, and tell them. That's what peer review is about.
Tesla is not getting tax breaks for the Model S. They are getting tax breaks for manufacturing equipment. The Model S is not the only thing they build and sell with that equipment. Tesla batteries are used in the Smart car, the Mercedes B-class will use a Tesla powertrain, and they supply most of the guts for new Toyota RAV-4 EVs. It's a smart investment by California - they give Tesla a break on the equipment, and then get additional income from the increase in products that Tesla sells (both their own vehicles, as well as parts sold to other companies). It's not like they give Tesla the tax break and then never see anything from that money again.
I would argue that the amount of food you get from the large scale crops is also much larger than the amount of food you get from the cattle, once all is said and done. I've spent a fair amount of time in Texas, it's fair to say that not all land is suitable for growing crops or raising cattle. But I think that, given a piece of land that is suitable for either, you get more food out of the land with crops than with cattle, and with less investment.
It's apparent that most people using this argument to promote vegitarinaism know nothing about farming. Vegetable crops require a lot of what farmers call "inputs". These are things like water, highly fertile land, fertilizer, labor intensive cultivation, and labor intensive harvesting. These things make growing vegetable crops expensive. The biggest problem is land. The amount of land that is suitable for growing such crops without very high inputs is relatively small.
I have to admit, I have never before heard the argument that growing vegetables is a bad idea because it's expensive. You would think that with 10,000 years of agriculture under our belts that we would know a couple things about issues like crop rotation, cultivation, and harvesting. Apparently we aren't very good at agriculture though, I was not aware of that. I just sort of assumed that since there are farmers in every single country, and since there has been agriculture going on for the last 10,000 years, and since there are a ton of unskilled workers looking for jobs, and since we can produce fertilizer to replenish land that is not rotated, that maybe we would be able to grow some crops by now. Maybe that's something that science can get on and figure out.
Please don't persist with that argument, that is a disingenuous argument. Here's a farm in America that has been operating for over 370 years, somehow they have managed to not destroy the land. It's almost as if farmers understand how plants interact with their land, and how they are best able to use the land. As for the shortage of land, I live in a desert. Most of our land is sandy dirt. The soil in my backyard garden is pretty awful, it requires help to support most crops. But that doesn't stop people from farming here. Look at this satellite image. You see all of those green areas to the west and south of the city? Guess what those are. This is nothing new, either. Before any white people settled this area, the Hohokam tribe was here. Guess what is one of things that the Hohokam people are known for. I'll give you a hint: Phoenix has canals going all through it that are not exactly modern.
We cannot sustainably and affordably feed the world without animal protein.
That is simply not true. Replacing huge animal farms with vegetable farms is a real possibility. If you want to talk about wrecking the land, stop by a stockyard with 10,000 head of cattle and see how that land is doing.
The fact still stands - right now, today, we are currently producing enough grain to feed the entire world. We don't even have to change anything! It's happening now! The only reason we aren't feeding the entire world with that grain and those crops is because we are feeding them to livestock, which take a lot of grain and produce a small amount of meat for a small amount of people. Americans use 220 pounds of grain per year to eat, and 1500 pounds per year to feed livestock. It does not take a doctorate degree to realize that those 1500 pounds of grain can go to people instead of livestock, and can be used to feed more people than the livestock can.
You want to talk about "inputs"? Let's talk about what is required to grow a cow from a baby to an adult 1,000 pound steer. Cows will consume between 1% and 4% of their body weight daily in food. For a 1,000 pound cow, that's 10 to 40 pounds of food per day, enough for several people. A cow will drink between 40 and 80 liters of water per day depending on temperatures. That's enough water for around 20 people in a day. They also have to be monitored for disease, because you wouldn't want something like Mad Cow spreading through a huge herd in a matter of hours or days and killing all of the cows that you have poured so much foo
A plant-based diet does not require a lower standard of living, and the diet of the average Indian is not the ideal diet. Try a vegetarian restaurant in your area, there is plenty of good food that is prepared well. It doesn't even require no meat at all, just a shift from meat as the main course of the meal to using meat as a flavoring or garnish. Traditional Japanese food is a good example. It's not about merely "subsisting", it is about raising the quality of your life by increasing the quality of your diet. A meat-based diet is simply not healthy. There is plenty of information about that here, and if you haven't seen it then you should watch this.
The Indians would like a better diet, too!
Everyone would like a better diet. But a meat-based diet is not "better". Even if the majority of Indians were wealthy, their religion would still stop them from eating meat and they would still be healthy. Indians living in the United States do not go after meat when they eat, they stick to something resembling their diet back home but with the ingredients we have available here.
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An entire nation of a billion people that actually manufacture essentially all electronics where this might conceivably be used, and they use Linux? The government of China can't come up with something of their own?
I'm pretty sure that one of the reasons that Linux exists is so that everyone who wants to develop an operating system doesn't need to start from scratch. Whether the government of China is going to contribute anything back to Linux is another question. Even so, Linux does not belong to any government or nation. It was started by a Finnish guy who now lives in America and has contributors all over the world. If there's ever been a single piece of software that more or less belongs to everyone, it's Linux.
So it's ok that we're fighting a bullshit war, because the soldiers are voluntary and are all there because they want to be there and also because they don't want to be brought up on federal charges for desertion or refusing an order. Is that what you're saying?
What about my brother-in-law, for example. He is a highly trained and highly skilled Marine who is very good at rendering explody things harmless. The government has spent a lot of money making sure that he knows how to do his job, and can do it well. If you give him a bomb, he can remove the trigger. He's served several deployments and has a family. He would rather not go back to Afghanistan. He's inquired with several other agencies, including local police forces. The local police forces tell him that he gets to start at the bottom of the ladder, raking in around $25k per year patrolling a beat, and after 2 years of that he would be eligible to move into the SWAT team as an EOD tech. But he can't afford to spend 2 years making $25k and not using his skills, only to be told later whether he even has a job. He has a family to take care of, after all. So even though the Marines have spent years and hundreds of thousands of dollars training him, there's nowhere he can even transition to in order to continue his life outside of the military on the same level. Re-enlistment is his only option if he wants to support his family. He doesn't want to fight a BS war, and he doesn't want to enter the bottom ranks of another agency, so what exactly are his choices?
for Iraquistan, the troop tour of duty is only two years, so there's always troops coming home and it makes people happy.
You know what makes people less happy, though? When the troops get sent out for another deployment fighting a war that shouldn't be happening in the first place.
Yeah, seriously. It could use a little editing too. The submitter apparently wrote that it is 25% faster than Javascript, when the article says that Dart 1.1 produces 25% faster Javascript than Dart 1.0.
Wait, you're the submitter. Why did you write that it's 25% faster than Javascript?
They can afford, using their spare change, to staff a 24x7 abuse desk with very senior people.
You think that the solution to this problem is a 24-hour abuse desk? Isn't that, by nature, a reactive solution instead of a proactive solution? This comes with the turf. When Amazon allows their customers to quickly and easily set up new virtual servers and things like that, this is going to happen. Unless they are actively scanning all files and data that go through their network to block things (and even that is not a full solution), we are going to continue to see the "cloud" malware sites. These are sites that pop up and maybe they only exist for a day or two, or a few hours, before they get shut down, but in that time they've done what they were supposed to do and once they go down another one pops up. A place that people can call to report malware is not going to solve that problem.
He's definitely confused about something, with statements like this:
Law enforcement agencies in the United States have recently taken action to address this issue, however it appears the solution was temporary as replacement browsers quickly appeared to ensure the continuance of the illegal trade.
He seems to think the US agencies seized some sort of browser or something. Assuming he's just confused about terminology, he's apparently seeking some sort of international ban on certain kinds of websites that are accessible via Tor, or a ban on Tor itself. Good luck with that.
Doesn't everyone who can proram do this? Just like gun fans identify and count shots for each weapon they see?
For me it's an annoyance, it breaks the fourth wall. I think that a lot of filmmakers are lazy and don't bother with expert consulting, or just use whatever they have available even if it's BS. The movie Behind Enemy Lines was on TV the other day, and I was watching some of the ending of it. At the end of the movie a Navy Rear Admiral, commanding an aircraft carrier, leaves the carrier to pilot a Marine Huey helicopter armed with rocket pods, one of three heading out to rescue the pilot. Why is the admiral leaving his ship? Why is he flying a Marine Huey? Were there no Navy MH-60s equipped with Hellfires that were working that day?
Seeing that lazy stuff just breaks me out of the suspension of disbelief, the same way that seeing a bad actor makes me realize that I'm watching an actor and that this isn't real. Seeing obviously bad code is the same kind of thing for me.
I didn't do very well in history class, but I'm pretty sure you're referring to The Battle Of The Bulge.
Orbital space is very very very large. Vast. Immense. It is damn near impossible for it to be cluttered. Don't buy into the FUD.
Yes, like the oceans. Infinite in size! We could never pollute that much!
Why would there be a need for passing?
Because all vehicles will not become automated overnight.
Think of all the problems it could solve though. For example, oblivious drivers shoulder to shoulder going the same speed and not letting anyone else pass. If the cars were autonomous then they could simply tell each other to move over. I would love to have that ability now. Lane speed could also be regulated. If you wanted your car to drive slower then it would stay in the farther right lanes. If your car was being passed on the right, then it would keep moving over until no one is passing it on the right. It would be great if humans did that today, which is the cause for most of the slowdown that I see on the highways.
That's what I'm wondering. You pay vBulletin, they give you the source code of their application to run on your server. You've got the code, so why does it matter that they paid for it?
Honestly, there's so much good comparable open source software out there I'm flabbergasted that Suse uses closed source for it.
Just because they pay for a license doesn't mean they don't get the source code. The PHP code is right there if they want to go through it, vBulletin simply asks that people pay to use the software.
Why would they demand that everything they use costs nothing? Who cares if they pay for the source code for vBulletin to run on their server?
The system requirements only list various versions of PHP and MySQL. They don't say anything about requiring something to execute encrypted PHP source code, and they don't require any particular OS so it doesn't sound like they ship binaries.
With FBI withdrawing from "Law Enforcement", who is in charge of interstate criminal activities, racketeering, and so on ??
You don't understand. The FBI is not "withdrawing" from anything. Everything that they used to be in charge of, well, that stuff is now a national security matter and not just a legal matter.
Get ready for the third world to become the only livable world for human beings...
What does being aligned with NATO or the communist bloc have to do with climate? And I think that Finland and Sweden are probably going to be pretty cold also, despite being third world countries. I would expect the temperature to drop in Ireland also.
Or did you mean tropical instead of third world?
My old RWD BMW 325i with a skinny set of Blizzaks goes, turns, and stops like an unstoppable force on ice and snow
Is stopping like an unstoppable force a good thing or a bad thing?
US only contributes 22%.
The US "only" contributes 22% of the UN budget? Not only is that more than double what the next country contributes (and more than 3x what the top European country contributes), but 22% is also the maximum allowed for a contribution for the period of 2013-2015 (the minimum is 0.001%). The US is at the max, we can't contribute any more, sorry. Maybe all of Europe can step up and help out a little more to lower our $618 million bill. Here is the document that lists the actual contributions from each country, and the rules for contributions are here.
The variable power load would very based on the instructions but we are not really interested in the instructions we are interested in the data. Doing an instruction on any data should cause the same power draw so how do they extract the data?
There's an 8MB PDF linked from the summary that has your name all over it. Instead of asking questions like that and waiting for the answer and ignoring all of the work that they did in producing the paper, just read the paper and get the answers.
So it can only work with some keys?
It is a chosen-ciphertext attack, not a chosen-key attack.
The summary really does not answer the questions.
Yeah, no shit. The summary is not supposed to answer all of the question. You know what is supposed to answer the questions? The paper.
The idea that the sound can extract the data violates the Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem.
Don't tell me, tell them. Review their paper, find the flaws in it, and tell them. That's what peer review is about.
What sounds does a cpu make?
They describe that in the paper's summary.
Or better yet how does a CPU make sound?
They describe that in the first line of the paper's summary, and also in question 2 of the Q&A.
The clock speeds are in the GHZ range so it is so far outside of the sound range of any microphone it just is not funny.
They address that at the end of the first paragraph of the paper's summary, and also in question 8.
Throw in that all cpus today have more than one core you will have a more than one code stream executing at one time.
They address that in question 12.
Throw in the sound of the fans running to make picking up the sound just seem very unlikely.
Also in question 12.
Until it is duplicated I would really doubt it.
OK, thanks for the valuable feedback.
Tesla is not getting tax breaks for the Model S. They are getting tax breaks for manufacturing equipment. The Model S is not the only thing they build and sell with that equipment. Tesla batteries are used in the Smart car, the Mercedes B-class will use a Tesla powertrain, and they supply most of the guts for new Toyota RAV-4 EVs. It's a smart investment by California - they give Tesla a break on the equipment, and then get additional income from the increase in products that Tesla sells (both their own vehicles, as well as parts sold to other companies). It's not like they give Tesla the tax break and then never see anything from that money again.
I would argue that the amount of food you get from the large scale crops is also much larger than the amount of food you get from the cattle, once all is said and done. I've spent a fair amount of time in Texas, it's fair to say that not all land is suitable for growing crops or raising cattle. But I think that, given a piece of land that is suitable for either, you get more food out of the land with crops than with cattle, and with less investment.
It's apparent that most people using this argument to promote vegitarinaism know nothing about farming. Vegetable crops require a lot of what farmers call "inputs". These are things like water, highly fertile land, fertilizer, labor intensive cultivation, and labor intensive harvesting. These things make growing vegetable crops expensive. The biggest problem is land. The amount of land that is suitable for growing such crops without very high inputs is relatively small.
I have to admit, I have never before heard the argument that growing vegetables is a bad idea because it's expensive. You would think that with 10,000 years of agriculture under our belts that we would know a couple things about issues like crop rotation, cultivation, and harvesting. Apparently we aren't very good at agriculture though, I was not aware of that. I just sort of assumed that since there are farmers in every single country, and since there has been agriculture going on for the last 10,000 years, and since there are a ton of unskilled workers looking for jobs, and since we can produce fertilizer to replenish land that is not rotated, that maybe we would be able to grow some crops by now. Maybe that's something that science can get on and figure out.
Please don't persist with that argument, that is a disingenuous argument. Here's a farm in America that has been operating for over 370 years, somehow they have managed to not destroy the land. It's almost as if farmers understand how plants interact with their land, and how they are best able to use the land. As for the shortage of land, I live in a desert. Most of our land is sandy dirt. The soil in my backyard garden is pretty awful, it requires help to support most crops. But that doesn't stop people from farming here. Look at this satellite image. You see all of those green areas to the west and south of the city? Guess what those are. This is nothing new, either. Before any white people settled this area, the Hohokam tribe was here. Guess what is one of things that the Hohokam people are known for. I'll give you a hint: Phoenix has canals going all through it that are not exactly modern.
We cannot sustainably and affordably feed the world without animal protein .
That is simply not true. Replacing huge animal farms with vegetable farms is a real possibility. If you want to talk about wrecking the land, stop by a stockyard with 10,000 head of cattle and see how that land is doing.
The fact still stands - right now, today, we are currently producing enough grain to feed the entire world. We don't even have to change anything! It's happening now! The only reason we aren't feeding the entire world with that grain and those crops is because we are feeding them to livestock, which take a lot of grain and produce a small amount of meat for a small amount of people. Americans use 220 pounds of grain per year to eat, and 1500 pounds per year to feed livestock. It does not take a doctorate degree to realize that those 1500 pounds of grain can go to people instead of livestock, and can be used to feed more people than the livestock can.
You want to talk about "inputs"? Let's talk about what is required to grow a cow from a baby to an adult 1,000 pound steer. Cows will consume between 1% and 4% of their body weight daily in food. For a 1,000 pound cow, that's 10 to 40 pounds of food per day, enough for several people. A cow will drink between 40 and 80 liters of water per day depending on temperatures. That's enough water for around 20 people in a day. They also have to be monitored for disease, because you wouldn't want something like Mad Cow spreading through a huge herd in a matter of hours or days and killing all of the cows that you have poured so much foo
A plant-based diet does not require a lower standard of living, and the diet of the average Indian is not the ideal diet. Try a vegetarian restaurant in your area, there is plenty of good food that is prepared well. It doesn't even require no meat at all, just a shift from meat as the main course of the meal to using meat as a flavoring or garnish. Traditional Japanese food is a good example. It's not about merely "subsisting", it is about raising the quality of your life by increasing the quality of your diet. A meat-based diet is simply not healthy. There is plenty of information about that here, and if you haven't seen it then you should watch this.
The Indians would like a better diet, too!
Everyone would like a better diet. But a meat-based diet is not "better". Even if the majority of Indians were wealthy, their religion would still stop them from eating meat and they would still be healthy. Indians living in the United States do not go after meat when they eat, they stick to something resembling their diet back home but with the ingredients we have available here.