Personally I'd more concerned by Android bugbear - fragmentation of platforms.
What is the upgrade path? Annual incremental spec upgrades? - with incremental upgrades, you'll get massive fragmentation for gaming and within a couple of year the choice of targeting the lowest common denominator (which is already pretty low for this hardware) - without incremental upgrades, you disappoint the embedded systems/HTPC/hacker crowd
I doubt this can be "everything to everyone" and will prove to be a bigger long term issue than openness (or the economic of software development for a fairly low volume platform).
Why clone people (even if it was possible) when it would take 20-25 years for them become (potentially) champion athletes
It's much easier to illegally train (ie drug) unknown athletes for a few years, untested by drug authorities, before making a enormous debut into competition.
History says this works quite well... Off the top of my head: - germans in the 70s - US track in the 80s - cyclists in the 90s - chinese swimmers in the 00s
and dare i suggest the current dominance of Jamaican sprinters who have 5 of the fatest 7 male sprinters
And presumably new bicycles designs for the velodrome/road, new pistol/bow for the target events, new javelins designs, new discuss, new pole for the pole vault... etc... etc... etc
Normally I'd hit this up with a "troll" moderation...
But you may actually have a point there somewhere... a quick re-write of some of these summary wouldn't go astray - or perhaps just skipping some of the stories all together.
It seems this relates to regulation of US based provision of services based on the internet and wider ranging issues of US government of monitoring or censoring access to US residents.
To me, a non-US based reader, the dude *seems* like a scaremongering wacko...
Australian pricing is NOT discounted so its $579 for 16GB version... compared to $429 for 16GB new wi-fi iPad.. would explain why I have never seen one in store or in use by anyone
Under $200 is probably a good buy, nearly $600 isn't
Internet or not, AmeriCash is 100% US -based under US regulations with US customers... Would be a strange target for a non-US based hacker to make a 'moral' statement - although there is no evidence of being non-US based and little evidence of a moral statement being made.
But I'd suspect this is US-based hacking and the FBI will come knocking...
One would suspect the FBI might soon be levying it own 'idiot tax' on Rex Mundi...
unless of course said hacker is not US-based but that would raise EVEN MORE questions about the ethics if hackers are getting involved in commercial arrangements in FOREIGN countries
So... it told me why they send crazy emails but didn't say why they purported to be from Nigeria.
After a read of the attached article, these are perceived to be crazy email because of the low likelihood of anyone in Nigeria having substantial wealth.
Makes sense being 177th in per capita GDP, although 31st in national GDP.
But I don't see why that rule them out from saying they were from Congo or Liberia or Somalia or Niger or Malawi or Uganda or Kenya or Cameroon or... well, you get my point !
Not every country will play nice: Some of them will do whatever it takes to beat their enemies, even if that means killing themselves in the process. Unfortunately, all the countries currently working on making nuclear weapons fall into that category, including Iran.
Just dripping in irony as the "American Empire" continues to disappear
They solved the 676 bit equivalent in 33 days back in 2009 and this is broadly 2^8 more complex... so would expect roughly 33,000 days
But they then claim several improvements that represent improvements of "dozens of times", "several times" & "several times" faster respectively... if these compound it could easily be a 100-fold improvement in speed and then more processing speed/cores as well.
Data searching technology using two-dimensional space Our cryptanalysis has to search the seed of the solution from the huge data base. The previous world-top record used the “line sieve” for this data search, but we extended it to the two-dimensional space called “lattice sieve”, and then its speed was accelerated dozens of times by using our own modification.
Computing the solution of equations of massive numerical data We applied the “Lanczos method” for computing the solution of huge systems of equations obtained from massive numerical data. We improved the computational speed several times by optimizing the program for our computational environments.
Parallel programming for maximal usage of our computational power Our programming code achieved the maximal potential of our computational resources by using the SIMD operation equipped in the recent general-purpose computers. This optimization made our cryptanalysis several time faster.
The argument put forward is not really that using these methods are "making things worse" - although that is opening gambit.
The real guts of the argument is that cyberattacks "will lead to the militarization of cyberspace, and the transformation of the Internet into something much less free and open".. for that argument, I have some sympathy
Ultimately, this boils down to don't do your dirty work in the air, on the ground and at sea but not in my playground...
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Personally I'd more concerned by Android bugbear - fragmentation of platforms.
What is the upgrade path? Annual incremental spec upgrades?
- with incremental upgrades, you'll get massive fragmentation for gaming and within a couple of year the choice of targeting the lowest common denominator (which is already pretty low for this hardware)
- without incremental upgrades, you disappoint the embedded systems/HTPC/hacker crowd
I doubt this can be "everything to everyone" and will prove to be a bigger long term issue than openness (or the economic of software development for a fairly low volume platform).
Nope ... methodology is in fact the correct word here, meaning a system or set of methods
"open source development methodology" refers to a framework or system not individual steps or methods so is absolutely fine to use
your definition is by far the minority usage of the word
Where is the market?
Anyone that has a decent enough TV to want to use it for Android apps is also likely to already have:
- a games console
- a PC/laptop
- a smartphone
$99 price point will never cover any real marketing cost so this is a niche geek product at best
And with the lack of depth of $0.99 games there is not a hope of "turing the industry on its head"
Destined for failure in my books!
tails, eh?
good point ... that probably explains why circuses never got more advanced than bears on bicycles
Why clone people (even if it was possible) when it would take 20-25 years for them become (potentially) champion athletes
It's much easier to illegally train (ie drug) unknown athletes for a few years, untested by drug authorities, before making a enormous debut into competition.
History says this works quite well ... Off the top of my head:
- germans in the 70s
- US track in the 80s
- cyclists in the 90s
- chinese swimmers in the 00s
and dare i suggest the current dominance of Jamaican sprinters who have 5 of the fatest 7 male sprinters
New athletics track suit ...
And presumably new bicycles designs for the velodrome/road, new pistol/bow for the target events, new javelins designs, new discuss, new pole for the pole vault ... etc ... etc ... etc
Oh .. and new designer drugs !!!!
Normally I'd hit this up with a "troll" moderation ...
But you may actually have a point there somewhere ... a quick re-write of some of these summary wouldn't go astray - or perhaps just skipping some of the stories all together.
Or more likely just tried to dry it in the microwave ...
It seems this relates to regulation of US based provision of services based on the internet and wider ranging issues of US government of monitoring or censoring access to US residents.
To me, a non-US based reader, the dude *seems* like a scaremongering wacko ...
OK - think I see the problem ....
Australian pricing is NOT discounted so its $579 for 16GB version ... compared to $429 for 16GB new wi-fi iPad .. would explain why I have never seen one in store or in use by anyone
Under $200 is probably a good buy, nearly $600 isn't
Stick a drum beat over that and we have a Eurovision 2013 winner !
What's a Playbook?
Drop it by 90% and I might bother looking up what it is and why it would conquer the iPad ...
Internet or not, AmeriCash is 100% US -based under US regulations with US customers ... Would be a strange target for a non-US based hacker to make a 'moral' statement - although there is no evidence of being non-US based and little evidence of a moral statement being made.
But I'd suspect this is US-based hacking and the FBI will come knocking ...
One would suspect the FBI might soon be levying it own 'idiot tax' on Rex Mundi ...
unless of course said hacker is not US-based but that would raise EVEN MORE questions about the ethics if hackers are getting involved in commercial arrangements in FOREIGN countries
So they use Nigerian scams because they are well known ... and Nigerian scams are well known because they use them
Anyone, see the problem there?
A self reinforcing cycle ... but why Nigeria ... perhaps because they are from Nigeria
They question is why don't hide they fact the are from Nigeria despite Nigerian scams being well known - this is what the story really relates to
So ... it told me why they send crazy emails but didn't say why they purported to be from Nigeria.
After a read of the attached article, these are perceived to be crazy email because of the low likelihood of anyone in Nigeria having substantial wealth.
Makes sense being 177th in per capita GDP, although 31st in national GDP.
But I don't see why that rule them out from saying they were from Congo or Liberia or Somalia or Niger or Malawi or Uganda or Kenya or Cameroon or ... well, you get my point !
Not every country will play nice: Some of them will do whatever it takes to beat their enemies, even if that means killing themselves in the process. Unfortunately, all the countries currently working on making nuclear weapons fall into that category, including Iran.
Just dripping in irony as the "American Empire" continues to disappear
Damn it ... 33000 days would be 2^10 ... i meant 8000 days ... time to get some sleep I thinks !
I thought the same bu now I don't think so.
They solved the 676 bit equivalent in 33 days back in 2009 and this is broadly 2^8 more complex ... so would expect roughly 33,000 days
But they then claim several improvements that represent improvements of "dozens of times", "several times" & "several times" faster respectively ... if these compound it could easily be a 100-fold improvement in speed and then more processing speed/cores as well.
Data searching technology using two-dimensional space
Our cryptanalysis has to search the seed of the solution from the huge data base. The previous world-top record used the “line sieve” for this data search, but we extended it to the two-dimensional space called “lattice sieve”, and then its speed was accelerated dozens of times by using our own modification.
Computing the solution of equations of massive numerical data
We applied the “Lanczos method” for computing the solution of huge systems of equations obtained from massive numerical data. We improved the computational speed several times by optimizing the program for our computational environments.
Parallel programming for maximal usage of our computational power
Our programming code achieved the maximal potential of our computational resources by using the SIMD operation equipped in the recent general-purpose computers. This optimization made our cryptanalysis several time faster.
The article summary had it correct with "was proposed as a next-generation standard"
IEEE and potentially NIST (amongst others) were proposing it and/or looking at what applications it might be suitable for.
Ooops - i meant "actually do your dirty work in the air, on the ground and at sea but not in my playground" not "dont do that" .. quite different ;-)
The argument put forward is not really that using these methods are "making things worse" - although that is opening gambit.
The real guts of the argument is that cyberattacks "will lead to the militarization of cyberspace, and the transformation of the Internet into something much less free and open" .. for that argument, I have some sympathy
Ultimately, this boils down to don't do your dirty work in the air, on the ground and at sea but not in my playground ...
NICT has an arguably better press release of the same partnership - it goes in just a little detail (which is better than almost none from Fujistsu)
http://www.nict.go.jp/en/press/2012/06/18en-1.html
For starters:
- IEEE P1363.3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_P1363#Identity-based_public_key_cryptography_based_on_pairings_.28P1363.3.29
- NIST http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/IBE/index.html
Actually more like Tetris
Different pre-formed shapes appear on site and the trick is to slot them in place
Hopefully the bottom floors don't disappear as they are completed.