So are you all implying that ARM spent billions to develop a new architecture that's useless, if not harmful, with respect to the old one? I've some concerns with this thesis. Talking about better known Intel, in that case running 32-bit or 64-bit sw on the same machine DOES make some difference. And Intel solved the 4 GB limit on 32-bit cpus already.
They say they are investigating if it's worth porting raspbian to 64 bits. I'd say: YES! What's the point in having a 64-bit CPU if you cannot exploit it fully?
I think the mapping is more evident at the lower end ot the user's spectrum, like people not keeping their systems up-to-date, not telling a ".pdf" from a ".pdf.exe", installing that "download manager" from that cool streaming site, etc, etc
Yes we know the distinction, but the kind of problems highlighted here, and regarding millions people, are because of desktops, this "small" niche that 90% of users actually operate.
While it would be better to have everything rebuilt on a better OS, I don't think it's the main culprit. If linux was the predominant OS in the last 30 years, criminals would be attacking it now.
And no mattter how secure an OS can be, I bet this is people's fault: someone opened a malicious attachment, or downloaded some malware while looking for movies or music in some too-good-to-be-true streaming sites.
Society is losing control on computers... I think we need severe education and policies, beside patches and safe configurations.
Seriously, can you give me advice if this is a safe approach? To remember the passwords for the many web accounts, and to not reuse the same password everywhere, I use a password made from a fixed difficult sequence of characters (the same for all sites), then add a couple of letters depending on the site's name. If sites, as it should be, store only the digest/checksum of the password, even in case of stolen database one should not be able to reverse it and find the original password with the "algorithm" to apply it to other sites. I'm not a crypto expert, do you think this can be reasonably safe?
Math is fascinating because it can prove that a thing is possible or impossible, even if it has no idea what that thing is like. Take for example the proof that you cannot find an algebraic formula to solve equations of degree 5 or higher.
Their Google Play page says it has between 1 billion and 5 billion installations (do they publish to other planets too???), so even if this number was 10 times the real installation base, and a small part of them paid 0.99$, I would say it's very financially viable!
Probes and rovers have found no visible signs of organic substances. Anyway, I say: let's contaminate it! If we are afraid of altering even a little bit of another planet we'll never go anywhere. Let's start a massive terraforming program and make Mars habitable to a minimum, I think it's the only hope to find possible signs of past life or other important discoveries, much more than leaving it as it is.
Even among the life forms on Earth, many of which are very closely related to us, absolutely NONE of them have developed or discovered radio except humans
I recently bought a core 2 duo PC on eBay for 70 euro. CPU si top of its family, and has 4 GB ram. Very powerful. Basically it was the top a few years ago.
Really. But married men cannot go out easily and look for real women in the traditional way. They must accept what can be achieved on their computer in the secret of their room. And they are robbed. And they cannot even openly complain of being robbed. Those sites are real genius, they found the perfect target.
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But I think it was to the users to opt for putting malware into their installers, not Sourceforge inserting it behind one's back, isn't it?
So are you all implying that ARM spent billions to develop a new architecture that's useless, if not harmful, with respect to the old one? I've some concerns with this thesis. Talking about better known Intel, in that case running 32-bit or 64-bit sw on the same machine DOES make some difference. And Intel solved the 4 GB limit on 32-bit cpus already.
I think a 64-bit cpu has more horse power than just extending memory address.
They say they are investigating if it's worth porting raspbian to 64 bits. I'd say: YES! What's the point in having a 64-bit CPU if you cannot exploit it fully?
I think the mapping is more evident at the lower end ot the user's spectrum, like people not keeping their systems up-to-date, not telling a ".pdf" from a ".pdf.exe", installing that "download manager" from that cool streaming site, etc, etc
Haven't you watched Mr. Robot? Next one will be a prison.
Ironically, people keeping backups are the most safety-aware people, so the ones less likely to need them for cases like this.
Yes we know the distinction, but the kind of problems highlighted here, and regarding millions people, are because of desktops, this "small" niche that 90% of users actually operate.
I also don't believe that bitcoins are so completely untrackable, especially if you have NSA and the rest at your side.
While it would be better to have everything rebuilt on a better OS, I don't think it's the main culprit. If linux was the predominant OS in the last 30 years, criminals would be attacking it now.
And no mattter how secure an OS can be, I bet this is people's fault: someone opened a malicious attachment, or downloaded some malware while looking for movies or music in some too-good-to-be-true streaming sites.
Society is losing control on computers... I think we need severe education and policies, beside patches and safe configurations.
I'm not sure I understand item 3, is it enough to defeat the one-way nature of a checksum?
Seriously, can you give me advice if this is a safe approach? To remember the passwords for the many web accounts, and to not reuse the same password everywhere, I use a password made from a fixed difficult sequence of characters (the same for all sites), then add a couple of letters depending on the site's name. If sites, as it should be, store only the digest/checksum of the password, even in case of stolen database one should not be able to reverse it and find the original password with the "algorithm" to apply it to other sites. I'm not a crypto expert, do you think this can be reasonably safe?
Math is fascinating because it can prove that a thing is possible or impossible, even if it has no idea what that thing is like. Take for example the proof that you cannot find an algebraic formula to solve equations of degree 5 or higher.
Their Google Play page says it has between 1 billion and 5 billion installations (do they publish to other planets too???), so even if this number was 10 times the real installation base, and a small part of them paid 0.99$, I would say it's very financially viable!
Their fault was forgetting to hack the trip computer too.
Cars do pollute, despite governments pretending they don't!
Yeah, from the article, he implemented 13 virtual tamagotchis. Really personal value for infinity.
Probes and rovers have found no visible signs of organic substances. Anyway, I say: let's contaminate it! If we are afraid of altering even a little bit of another planet we'll never go anywhere. Let's start a massive terraforming program and make Mars habitable to a minimum, I think it's the only hope to find possible signs of past life or other important discoveries, much more than leaving it as it is.
I'm kinda out of the business in my 40s. Just as a curiosity, do you think gaming is stronger on consoles, mobile devices or still PC (Steam)?
Even among the life forms on Earth, many of which are very closely related to us, absolutely NONE of them have developed or discovered radio except humans
Are you serious? Or kidding? Or stupid?
... all the other people over there could use such a language, even for "legitimate" reasons, and get away with it.
Yes, you need at least a power supply
Today you can use the same power supply of your phone.
I recently bought a core 2 duo PC on eBay for 70 euro. CPU si top of its family, and has 4 GB ram. Very powerful. Basically it was the top a few years ago.
So, stop complaining and get to work on becoming a millionaire :-)
Unfortunately the continuous strain of finding a woman has always distracted me from the work needed to become a millionaire :-)
Really. But married men cannot go out easily and look for real women in the traditional way. They must accept what can be achieved on their computer in the secret of their room. And they are robbed. And they cannot even openly complain of being robbed. Those sites are real genius, they found the perfect target.