Bouncee is a VPN service designed to protect the privacy of international travelers. It encrypts all your network traffic and routes it through a server in the United States.
It's also really, really cheap. This sounds like what he's looking for.
The performance hit is too much. On my netbook, encrypting my SSD brings everything to a crawl. Even on a faster computer, full disk encryption means killing IO performance because everything needs to be routed through the CPU, rather than being able to block-copy data from disk to memory (DMA).
On top of that, to have even 128-bit disk encryption, you need a minimum password strength of 20 random characters. Nobody does this. Nobody. If you picked your password without the use of a random number generator, it could be attacked in better-than-brute-force time.
Now... if somebody could put a bluetooth chip under my skin, and link it directly with my hard drive (so that encryption doesn't tax my CPU), that would make it safe and fast... but... wait... off to the patent office...
A written down password provides a worthless level of protection from from almost every attempt to get into a system.
Wrong. 99% of attacks will come from out on the internet somewhere. Having your password written down does not make these any more dangerous. Having a good password written down is far more secure than having a memorable password that you never change.
While I recognize the U.S. is totally fucked, economically
The Federal government is kinda fucked fiscally (though not irrecoverably so), but the U.S. itself is pretty well-off economically. Our unemployment rate is "only" 9% and we have one of the highest median household incomes in the world. Parts of Asia may have lower unemployment at present, but you really need to have everyone working when you make $2000/year on a full-time income.
Users can do that, in theory. But Amazon won't go out of their way to make it easy on you. Putting things on your Kindle without Amazon's help involves a USB cable and copying files to the right place on the Kindle's filesystem using Windows Explorer. Letting Amazon do this for you is just far more convenient--hence Amazon's ability to charge a substantial fee for the service.
Really? Who pays when I use it to access Wikipedia? Not that it matters... the Kindle web browser crashes if you use it to access anything more than short text files.
Eventually I'm sure competition with Nook will drive publishing costs down to insignificant levels. BN should be jumping at the opportunity to sign up The Economist and other rags amazon pushes out with their prices.
Anyone upset that the English language overloads terminology needs to find himself a new language. Whining about this is as silly as whining about water being wet.
Sounds like the poster is using slashdot to blog about what he is seeing at the RSA conference. There aren't good links because the data was originally presented in meatspace.
Hacker in its original sense is "one who hacks," esp. with a knife or axe. The definition you are talking about is little-used. The definition Bruce is talking about is by far the most common definition used in the infosec world. Since he is an infosec expert writing for an infosec blog it's fairly obvious which of the multiple definitions he intended. It's so obvious, in fact, that anyone who complains about the terminology here is just being intentionally thick. Kinda funny, really.
I'm really surprised "hybrid" drives which automatically cache the small or frequently-accessed files on an SSD portion, and stick the big stuff on a mechanical disk, are not already all over the market. Those who know already use both SSDs and mechanical disks in their systems... why can't Samsung or Maxtor or whoever give us that in a single package?
At every company I've worked at, using that word would mean immediate termination. At every school I've attended, that's one of the highest disciplinary offenses. Perhaps you went to school in 'challenged' areas of the south, and have only worked for small-time operations owned and managed by unsophisticated individuals?
But then I've only worked and lived in the north, and I tend not to associate with scumbags socially. Your acquaintances don't happen to be part of the KKK, do they?
The politicians who represent Southern white trash tend to be prominent Southern white trash. If you live in a white trash area you might hear politicians who say that. It would be unthinkable to hear that in most (all) of the civilized world, especially in school. Saying that within earshot of a teacher would get you worse punishment than actual physical violence it a lot of modern schools.
He meant "language recognition," not "speech recognition." And language recognition is probably even more impressive, though I'm sure this system doesn't grok language at the level we do--it just does so enough to build a good query for its similarly-impressive database.
It does not involve any artificial intelligence or machine intelligence at all.
Wrong. It is absolutely "artificial intelligence." It isn't science fiction AI, it's real AI. Here in the real world, the term AI merely refers to the sorts of problems which human brains can do with ease but synthetic computers can't do. Playing Jeopardy fits firmly within this definition.
It'll be even more impressive in 10 years when the same type of power is in my phone.
Your phone will not have terabytes of RAM in ten years. I promise.
Yes. Get yourself a high-quality set of wireless headphones. Go for the closed-cup design, as that will even drown out your wife's nagging and complaining about your excessive computer use.
Civ 5 is fun. The interface is good. The graphics are good. The music is good (maybe not Grammy-quality). The gameplay is interesting. The multiplayer is a disaster, but then there has never been good multi in Civ.
I have noticed that I don't replay the game as much as I did previous Civs, but I assume that's because I have grown up, not because of the game. I can't find significant flaws in the game, although there were plenty in previous versions!
I think it's my own maturity that's disappointing, not Civ V.
The book was memorable because it was prohibited. As a teenager, having a copy was one of the greatest taboos a middle-class suburban kid might violate. What better symbol of rebellion? It was common for the same reason kids in online games today scream "nigger" even though there is no indication that there are black people playing, and the kids themselves probably aren't particularly racist--it's a just violation of society's most severe taboos.
I did not realize buffer overflows were a problem for apps written in Java. Java has built-in "generic" dynamic data structures which should be suitable for 99% of the software any of us write. Why would we ever be manually managing memory in Java? Doing so should be "considered harmful" to a far greater degree than goto statements.
You've got the wrong Roman reference, actually. Communications access is economic infrastructure, like roads and aqueducts. Economic infrastructure pays for itself and increases the wealth of the nation.
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Bouncee is a VPN service designed to protect the privacy of international travelers. It encrypts all your network traffic and routes it through a server in the United States.
It's also really, really cheap. This sounds like what he's looking for.
The performance hit is too much. On my netbook, encrypting my SSD brings everything to a crawl. Even on a faster computer, full disk encryption means killing IO performance because everything needs to be routed through the CPU, rather than being able to block-copy data from disk to memory (DMA).
On top of that, to have even 128-bit disk encryption, you need a minimum password strength of 20 random characters. Nobody does this. Nobody. If you picked your password without the use of a random number generator, it could be attacked in better-than-brute-force time.
Now... if somebody could put a bluetooth chip under my skin, and link it directly with my hard drive (so that encryption doesn't tax my CPU), that would make it safe and fast... but ... wait... off to the patent office...
Wrong. 99% of attacks will come from out on the internet somewhere. Having your password written down does not make these any more dangerous. Having a good password written down is far more secure than having a memorable password that you never change.
The Federal government is kinda fucked fiscally (though not irrecoverably so), but the U.S. itself is pretty well-off economically. Our unemployment rate is "only" 9% and we have one of the highest median household incomes in the world. Parts of Asia may have lower unemployment at present, but you really need to have everyone working when you make $2000/year on a full-time income.
Users can do that, in theory. But Amazon won't go out of their way to make it easy on you. Putting things on your Kindle without Amazon's help involves a USB cable and copying files to the right place on the Kindle's filesystem using Windows Explorer. Letting Amazon do this for you is just far more convenient--hence Amazon's ability to charge a substantial fee for the service.
Really? Who pays when I use it to access Wikipedia? Not that it matters... the Kindle web browser crashes if you use it to access anything more than short text files.
Eventually I'm sure competition with Nook will drive publishing costs down to insignificant levels. BN should be jumping at the opportunity to sign up The Economist and other rags amazon pushes out with their prices.
Bluetooth keyboard/mouse + wireless HDMI = your phone is the only computer you need.
Anyone upset that the English language overloads terminology needs to find himself a new language. Whining about this is as silly as whining about water being wet.
Sounds like the poster is using slashdot to blog about what he is seeing at the RSA conference. There aren't good links because the data was originally presented in meatspace.
Hacker in its original sense is "one who hacks," esp. with a knife or axe. The definition you are talking about is little-used. The definition Bruce is talking about is by far the most common definition used in the infosec world. Since he is an infosec expert writing for an infosec blog it's fairly obvious which of the multiple definitions he intended. It's so obvious, in fact, that anyone who complains about the terminology here is just being intentionally thick. Kinda funny, really.
A good cache management controller would put OS and applications on the SSD and media/work files on the mech portion. Automatically.
I'm really surprised "hybrid" drives which automatically cache the small or frequently-accessed files on an SSD portion, and stick the big stuff on a mechanical disk, are not already all over the market. Those who know already use both SSDs and mechanical disks in their systems... why can't Samsung or Maxtor or whoever give us that in a single package?
Reality has a well-documented liberal bias.
At every company I've worked at, using that word would mean immediate termination. At every school I've attended, that's one of the highest disciplinary offenses. Perhaps you went to school in 'challenged' areas of the south, and have only worked for small-time operations owned and managed by unsophisticated individuals?
But then I've only worked and lived in the north, and I tend not to associate with scumbags socially. Your acquaintances don't happen to be part of the KKK, do they?
You keep poor company.
The politicians who represent Southern white trash tend to be prominent Southern white trash. If you live in a white trash area you might hear politicians who say that. It would be unthinkable to hear that in most (all) of the civilized world, especially in school. Saying that within earshot of a teacher would get you worse punishment than actual physical violence it a lot of modern schools.
What nonsense is this? It's not totalitarian if they volunteer. And there would be no problem finding volunteers for space colonization.
He meant "language recognition," not "speech recognition." And language recognition is probably even more impressive, though I'm sure this system doesn't grok language at the level we do--it just does so enough to build a good query for its similarly-impressive database.
Wrong. It is absolutely "artificial intelligence." It isn't science fiction AI, it's real AI. Here in the real world, the term AI merely refers to the sorts of problems which human brains can do with ease but synthetic computers can't do. Playing Jeopardy fits firmly within this definition.
Your phone will not have terabytes of RAM in ten years. I promise.
Yes. Get yourself a high-quality set of wireless headphones. Go for the closed-cup design, as that will even drown out your wife's nagging and complaining about your excessive computer use.
http://www.sennheiserusa.com/wireless-headphone-stereo-surround-sound-headphones-502874
Civ 5 is fun. The interface is good. The graphics are good. The music is good (maybe not Grammy-quality). The gameplay is interesting. The multiplayer is a disaster, but then there has never been good multi in Civ.
I have noticed that I don't replay the game as much as I did previous Civs, but I assume that's because I have grown up, not because of the game. I can't find significant flaws in the game, although there were plenty in previous versions!
I think it's my own maturity that's disappointing, not Civ V.
The book was memorable because it was prohibited. As a teenager, having a copy was one of the greatest taboos a middle-class suburban kid might violate. What better symbol of rebellion? It was common for the same reason kids in online games today scream "nigger" even though there is no indication that there are black people playing, and the kids themselves probably aren't particularly racist--it's a just violation of society's most severe taboos.
As a percentage of their incomes? Yes, yes they do.
I did not realize buffer overflows were a problem for apps written in Java. Java has built-in "generic" dynamic data structures which should be suitable for 99% of the software any of us write. Why would we ever be manually managing memory in Java? Doing so should be "considered harmful" to a far greater degree than goto statements.
You've got the wrong Roman reference, actually. Communications access is economic infrastructure, like roads and aqueducts. Economic infrastructure pays for itself and increases the wealth of the nation.