Moving to 64 bit means your entire ecosystem needs to move to 64 bit. Is every plug in, including every corporate internal plugin migrated to 32 bit? Even IE still has both builds, for this reason.
Recent? Emacs always felt to me of a huge cluster of code rather than the small tool thing. Just a huge jumble of code.
To be honest, I'm not sure what that means in the argument. Emacs is almost as old as UNIX, older than Linux. Does that mean you shouldn't run it on a UNIX system? I don't, but to each their own. But to pretend that systemd is the beginning of a run down a hill to ruin is kind of odd. There have been big monolithic code blobs dropped on Linux for years. X, the various GUI desktop managers spring to mind.
In the few times where I want to go to a movie at the theaters for the huge screen and better sound, paying $25 for 2 people to sit and watch, I get bombarded by: local restaurant ads, TV ads (if i wanted to watch TV, I wouldn't be in the theater), movie ads, Coke ads, etc. At least the trailers for movies are somewhat entertaining.
It will always be "yeah, i get money by directly charging for content, but I can get more by directly charging for content AND showing ads".
Greed? Dunno, it's capitalism. It's kind of baked in the system. If you were selling a bike, and you were selling it for 50, and someone offered you 100 for it, would you back off and say "no, it's 50". Would you leave money on the table? Or would you rationalize it as an extra 50 that you could do something cool with. If you had kids, would you give that 50 back. If you had a company that you had to pay salaries for your 15 developers, would you turn ad money down? These aren't so easy decisions.
Well, one is easy. Fuck Comcast. They truly are greedy. And they don't pay employees well, so you can't even tell yourself, "yeah, I'm being gouged by a corporation, but at least their employees are eating well". No, they aren't.
I was reading this, and the first thing that popped in my head wasn't the Ebola outbreak, but the Syphilis Experiments here in the US. That and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, in which her cells were taken from her and experimented with, without consent or notice, much less compensation. If you've read the book, her kids are still wary of hospitals because of the lies and stonewalling from them. Other than the last line (actually the first phrase only of the last line) of the first paragraph would not work in the US.
Sounds like a bunch of bullshit to justify expenditures on cool new technology which will be quickly mothballed after its found to be useless or ruled by the courts to not be justification for extra scrutiny.
The scary thing is, that's my best case scenario. Worst case? It's used for witch hunts. We have warrantless spying now, do you think they'll put this down once it's pushed back by a court? Maybe it won't be used in court, but just enough to justify "extra scrutiny" of someone, put them on a watchlist they can't get off of.
Jokes aside, it's kind of interesting to see how much our views of Radiation have changed.
1985? no, but 1965? The first thing that popped to mind were old Uranium toy kits.
I remember a podcast where they used to use a fluoroscope (live X-Ray basically) to size your shoes - see bone structure in real time. A family friend has bad feet because they used a huge dose of radiation to kill his athlete's foot.
For those that jibe at the Steve Jobs design aesthetic, so we have a non-Apple company shouting "look at us, we have a metal slab that's a RoundRect too!" Not sure if this makes it more or less silly.
Hmm, a MetalBody RoundRect with 4.7" screen - released right before the iPhone 6 release party.... What are the odds?
(RoundRect was what the Rounded-corner Rectangle was called in old Apple developer docs, either when drawing a button, or using that shape directly in QuickDraw).
Please watch the great 30 For 30 episode Jordan Rides the Bus. Even I, as a Chicagoan that grew up in the Jordan era, was surprised at how good Jordan got at baseball. It seems at the end he had quite a few game winning hits. It seemed there was no guarantee he'd be called up to the majors in 95, but any question of that was nixed with the baseball strike that year. I don't think a lot of people knew how much he improved. Even his main man Spike Lee made jokes about Jordan - with a commercial about his struggles with "the wicked double-A curveball..."
Hell, watch most 30 For 30. The 16th Man is as good as most movies out now.
Blackwater has a bad rep, but their logos don't look too bad. Since I've had a lot of plumbing issues recently, I think of Blackwater in the plumbing sense - sewage.
We desperately need a language for OS work that is protected more than C is. C was written before millions/billions of network miscreants could attack your machine for days straight with no negative consequences. People still use PHP (shudder) because even though the language sucks, it fills a niche of 1 as a web page/web app language.
Java originally was Oak, a language for embedded set top boxes. It's much much bigger, much different now. Im sure in 1998 people said "we have all the third party libs that we need", then a new target developed, and people made new libraries for mobile devices.
If the encryption is good (and China doesn't have the pull to get access as the NSA does) then maybe Apple products DO pose a security threat.... to the government.
As an aside, one of my digs at Steve Gibson is related to this.
Steve has an odd fascination, in 2014, with doing stuff in assembler. Though it's cool to say "hey I can make my own computer by squeezing sand into computer chips", we have a much more complex world now.
Steve "lets worry about security" and Steve "lets write code that may be attacked in assembler, the mode with the fewest checks and constraints against bugs and bad coding" are very much in conflict, almost violently so.
I'm not saying it's 100% Xiaomi, but I'm sure it's somewhat related. Not even "hey we need to have Xiaomi #1" as much as "we need to have local tech #1".
Jokes aside, i don't think Mel would get much work now. We're so far from doing that low level (for most things) that he'd spin his wheels for 2 days on a loop while real work needed to get done
I still use nedit, thought it hasn't had any decent upgrade in years. Nonmodal (modal is why I don't like vi/vim), simple, easy to hack regex based syntax highlighting (though that can be tripped up sometimes - I'm looking at you Perl), simple enough to get out of your way (I'm looking at you emacs), and fast with no lag (I'm looking at you jEdit).
My understanding of this.. read only only mitigates part of this.
The simple part:
So, you plug something in. It gets an enumerate request. It replies back "Howdy, i'm a USB mass storage device (a.k.a hard drive)".. Ok cool, i mount you read only. But then the stick says "Oh BTW, im also a keyboard". This is where you get hosed. Read only, disabled autoplay, doesn't help you as much as you want.
The "keyboard" can then send keystrokes to your machine. There are probably some things you can do with this without raising suspicion.
The next level:
So you plug something in. Your device is evil, and it knows some bugs in some Host Controller firmware.
The OS tries to enumerate the device. The evil device knows how to send packets that then pwn the host controller. It rejigs the firmware. This is now screwed. This is under the OS, under any device driver even. You are now pwned. Your host controller now can be used to lie about files coming from disk, or lie about keyboard, or siphon things off.
All this before it even figures out that this is supposed to be a mass storage device, much less read only.
I sorta second the "marketing purposes" asking for ZIP.
You can usually refuse this, and besides that, about 50% of the time they ask you for zip after the transaction has gone through anyway. They can read Track 1 of your card, which includes your name. Name + zip is a decent proxy for unique ID, and Axciom probably has your name anyway.
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:) sorry, no mod points today.....
Moving to 64 bit means your entire ecosystem needs to move to 64 bit. Is every plug in, including every corporate internal plugin migrated to 32 bit? Even IE still has both builds, for this reason.
I remember some Chromium build that had Netflix support, a.k.a streaming DRM support. Did this make the cut?
Recent? Emacs always felt to me of a huge cluster of code rather than the small tool thing. Just a huge jumble of code.
To be honest, I'm not sure what that means in the argument. Emacs is almost as old as UNIX, older than Linux. Does that mean you shouldn't run it on a UNIX system? I don't, but to each their own. But to pretend that systemd is the beginning of a run down a hill to ruin is kind of odd. There have been big monolithic code blobs dropped on Linux for years. X, the various GUI desktop managers spring to mind.
Or movies.
In the few times where I want to go to a movie at the theaters for the huge screen and better sound, paying $25 for 2 people to sit and watch, I get bombarded by: local restaurant ads, TV ads (if i wanted to watch TV, I wouldn't be in the theater), movie ads, Coke ads, etc. At least the trailers for movies are somewhat entertaining.
It will always be "yeah, i get money by directly charging for content, but I can get more by directly charging for content AND showing ads".
Greed? Dunno, it's capitalism. It's kind of baked in the system. If you were selling a bike, and you were selling it for 50, and someone offered you 100 for it, would you back off and say "no, it's 50". Would you leave money on the table? Or would you rationalize it as an extra 50 that you could do something cool with. If you had kids, would you give that 50 back. If you had a company that you had to pay salaries for your 15 developers, would you turn ad money down? These aren't so easy decisions.
Well, one is easy. Fuck Comcast. They truly are greedy. And they don't pay employees well, so you can't even tell yourself, "yeah, I'm being gouged by a corporation, but at least their employees are eating well". No, they aren't.
I was reading this, and the first thing that popped in my head wasn't the Ebola outbreak, but the Syphilis Experiments here in the US. That and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, in which her cells were taken from her and experimented with, without consent or notice, much less compensation. If you've read the book, her kids are still wary of hospitals because of the lies and stonewalling from them. Other than the last line (actually the first phrase only of the last line) of the first paragraph would not work in the US.
The scary thing is, that's my best case scenario. Worst case? It's used for witch hunts. We have warrantless spying now, do you think they'll put this down once it's pushed back by a court? Maybe it won't be used in court, but just enough to justify "extra scrutiny" of someone, put them on a watchlist they can't get off of.
Jokes aside, it's kind of interesting to see how much our views of Radiation have changed.
1985? no, but 1965? The first thing that popped to mind were old Uranium toy kits.
I remember a podcast where they used to use a fluoroscope (live X-Ray basically) to size your shoes - see bone structure in real time. A family friend has bad feet because they used a huge dose of radiation to kill his athlete's foot.
For those that jibe at the Steve Jobs design aesthetic, so we have a non-Apple company shouting "look at us, we have a metal slab that's a RoundRect too!" Not sure if this makes it more or less silly.
Hmm, a MetalBody RoundRect with 4.7" screen - released right before the iPhone 6 release party.... What are the odds?
(RoundRect was what the Rounded-corner Rectangle was called in old Apple developer docs, either when drawing a button, or using that shape directly in QuickDraw).
Or GM X-Body? You'd be in a much worse spot...
After Jimmy gets to edit, he'll be welcomed as a hero, with roses tossed at his feet [Citation Needed]
Please watch the great 30 For 30 episode Jordan Rides the Bus . Even I, as a Chicagoan that grew up in the Jordan era, was surprised at how good Jordan got at baseball. It seems at the end he had quite a few game winning hits. It seemed there was no guarantee he'd be called up to the majors in 95, but any question of that was nixed with the baseball strike that year. I don't think a lot of people knew how much he improved. Even his main man Spike Lee made jokes about Jordan - with a commercial about his struggles with "the wicked double-A curveball..."
Hell, watch most 30 For 30. The 16th Man is as good as most movies out now.
Never heard of this, thanks much! Though obviously by posting earlier I have no opportunity to mod you up :(
Blackwater has a bad rep, but their logos don't look too bad. Since I've had a lot of plumbing issues recently, I think of Blackwater in the plumbing sense - sewage.
I'm just gonna leave this here
We desperately need a language for OS work that is protected more than C is. C was written before millions/billions of network miscreants could attack your machine for days straight with no negative consequences. People still use PHP (shudder) because even though the language sucks, it fills a niche of 1 as a web page/web app language.
Java originally was Oak, a language for embedded set top boxes. It's much much bigger, much different now. Im sure in 1998 people said "we have all the third party libs that we need", then a new target developed, and people made new libraries for mobile devices.
Does iMessage run afoul of this?
If the encryption is good (and China doesn't have the pull to get access as the NSA does) then maybe Apple products DO pose a security threat .... to the government.
As an aside, one of my digs at Steve Gibson is related to this.
Steve has an odd fascination, in 2014, with doing stuff in assembler. Though it's cool to say "hey I can make my own computer by squeezing sand into computer chips", we have a much more complex world now.
Steve "lets worry about security" and Steve "lets write code that may be attacked in assembler, the mode with the fewest checks and constraints against bugs and bad coding" are very much in conflict, almost violently so.
Xiaomi top seller in China
I'm not saying it's 100% Xiaomi, but I'm sure it's somewhat related. Not even "hey we need to have Xiaomi #1" as much as "we need to have local tech #1".
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Jokes aside, i don't think Mel would get much work now. We're so far from doing that low level (for most things) that he'd spin his wheels for 2 days on a loop while real work needed to get done
I still use nedit, thought it hasn't had any decent upgrade in years. Nonmodal (modal is why I don't like vi/vim), simple, easy to hack regex based syntax highlighting (though that can be tripped up sometimes - I'm looking at you Perl), simple enough to get out of your way (I'm looking at you emacs), and fast with no lag (I'm looking at you jEdit).
The title and the first couple lines with all the acronyms and Im pretty sure we just saw the output of a Turing test...
My understanding of this.. read only only mitigates part of this.
The simple part:
So, you plug something in. It gets an enumerate request. It replies back "Howdy, i'm a USB mass storage device (a.k.a hard drive)".. Ok cool, i mount you read only. But then the stick says "Oh BTW, im also a keyboard". This is where you get hosed. Read only, disabled autoplay, doesn't help you as much as you want.
The "keyboard" can then send keystrokes to your machine. There are probably some things you can do with this without raising suspicion.
The next level:
So you plug something in. Your device is evil, and it knows some bugs in some Host Controller firmware.
The OS tries to enumerate the device. The evil device knows how to send packets that then pwn the host controller. It rejigs the firmware. This is now screwed. This is under the OS, under any device driver even. You are now pwned. Your host controller now can be used to lie about files coming from disk, or lie about keyboard, or siphon things off.
All this before it even figures out that this is supposed to be a mass storage device, much less read only.
This is wickedly clever.
I sorta second the "marketing purposes" asking for ZIP.
You can usually refuse this, and besides that, about 50% of the time they ask you for zip after the transaction has gone through anyway. They can read Track 1 of your card, which includes your name. Name + zip is a decent proxy for unique ID, and Axciom probably has your name anyway.
Why so? Not doubting you, just wondering your reasoning...