On the Windows desktop, Intel is about to be wiped out by the new class of AMD fusion (CPU and GPU) parts that will power the new consoles. AMD is light-years ahead of Intel with integrated graphics, GPU driver support on Windows, and high speed memory buses with uniform memory addressing for fused CPU+GPU devices.
Yet despite their allegedly superior technology, last year was an unmitigated disaster, a steady decline from Q1 to Q4 losing over 30% in revenue and where in Q4 2011 they had a gross margin of 46%, in Q4 2012 it was down to 15%. They're cutting in R&D, in 2011 they spent 1453 million, in 2012 1354 million and if they spend the whole of 2013 at Q4 2012 levels then 1252 million. Yes, hopefully the PS4/Xbox 720 will give AMD a much needed cash infusion but their technology is not at all selling so maybe they should stop bleeding market share first before "wiping out" anything. Also, AMD just recently posted a new graphics roadmap for 2013, I'll give you the summary: No new desktop graphics cards until Q4 at the earliest.
Inside Intel, senior management have convinced themselves (falsely) that they can compete with ARM in low power mobile devices. This is despite the fact that 'Ivybridge' (their first FinFET device) was a disaster as an ultra low power architecture, and their coming design, Haswell, needs a die size 5-10 times its ARM equivalent. The Intel tax alone ensures that Intel could never win in this market. Worse again is the fact that Intel needs massive margins per CPU to simply keep the company going.
While Intel may have a tough time battling ARM on the low power front, AMD is totally lost. All their x86 CPUs burn more power than an equivalent Intel and they're dividing their resources between ARM and x86, try pitting a 18W Brazos 2.0 against a 17W i7 ULV. They're totally not in the same price class, but they are in the same wattage range. Intel will milk the market of high end desktop/workstation/server chips that AMD has pretty much abandoned and use that as its war chest against ARM, if they'll win is another matter but they got billions and billions to spend on that, right now based on market cap Intel could buy AMD for about 2% of their stock. Not that Intel would want to since they'd become a true monopolist in x86 space, but in the all-out battle with ARM they might end up a casualty caught in the crossfire.
If WebKit implements a standard badly, no amount of complaining by Microsoft and Mozilla will cause the WebKit folks to change their browser rendering to be compliant.
Assuming there's malice involved and the WebKit developers have an interest in breaking the web, which nobody seems to argue. They just add experimental features that aren't standardized yet, lazy developers use the experimental tags and don't bother to make it work on anything else. I don't see how they can do it any other way, unless they hold off on all development until the W3C gets around to making a final standard, which doesn't exactly happen quick. If there was a real unwillingness to make WebKit standards-compliant you could fork and try building momentum for that, but I don't see that we have a xfree86 vs xorg situation here, just lazy developers but that's hardly a problem WebKit could fix.
Scrabble was already done before, but a guy decided to write Wordfeud anyway... I heard he stopped counting when the income passed 100k NOK = 18k USD per day and it was all done by one man. Snapchat? Huge success, despite seemingly just being the camera + MMS + a countdown timer rolled into one. Most things have been done before but just do it better or combine them in some new way, there's still a good market for it.
Legally that might be correct, and is fine if you plan to go independent full time. But if you would like to stay employed, get raises, promotions and no "we'll make you hate your job so much you quit yourself" work while doing side gigs then checking it out might be a good idea anyway. Terrible IP agreements and heavy-handed enforcement tend to go hand in hand.
How many people download or use Open Office because it is free?
I bet that even if it was $5, the numbers would be much lower. How many people will download it several times after re-installing or on different computers just because they can't be arsed to find the installer? Or just to try it out for ten minutes before going back to MS Office? Take for example the TPB AFK movie that was featured here on slashdot, I got it because it's free and legal. I haven't watched it yet, haven't even decided if I will but what the hell, I grabbed it anyway because I didn't need to make any cost/benefit decision, I could just put it on download now and decide if I want it later. The whole question of "Why should I spend money on that?" becomes "Why not, it's free..."
A program for a manned mission to Mars is at least a magnitude of order more difficult than the Apollo program. A starting guess would be 10x of the cost of the Apollo program in adjusted dollars for inflation. One figure I found was $135-billion in 2005 Dollars (cost of the Apollo program). Now if it is 10x harder to do mars, are we talking about 1.3 Trillion?
Why exactly is a mission to Mars "at least an order of magnitude more difficult" and at 1969 prices to boot? Let's take a look at what it would cost to return to the moon, no we no longer have a Saturn V but since then we've perfected rendezvous operations in space both ship to ship and ship to station enabling us to put the ISS in orbit that is 4 times what Saturn V could lift to LEO. With about 2.3 launches with a SpaceX Falcon Heavy we can put the same weight in orbit for roughly $230 million. You know how much of those $135 billion the Saturn V was? About 47 of them. So already there you have a $46.77 billion savings. Russia has been making fairly serious moon program plans, they estimated the cost of putting humans on the moon starting now to about $15 billion USD.
Elon Musk of SpaceX has been pulling out some rather ambitious plans for a Mars colony for $36 billion, even if we include a certain level of exaggeration and optimism I feel quite confident that with another Apollo program in cost we'd already be on Mars and then some. It's certainly not "another order of magnitude" away. But the thing is, there's no interest in another Apollo program or even half of one, it's trouble enough finding a billion or two for rovers, probes and telescopes. And it's rather hard for anyone private to see the ROI in funding it themselves, and not for a lack of trying. SpaceX is doing great building rockets but there's a commercial market for that, Mars crew capsules/landers/habitats/launchers not so much.
Most of my university classes were a fairly big lecture hall, one professor and even if he used a fair amount of time on questions from the class, divided by the number of students it was next to nothing. It is the exam and other coursework that sets your grade, not your lecture attendance. Some of the professors just need to stroke their ego and to prove the "value" of their lectures, so they make it pretty much impossible to get a good grade without notes from actually attending the class, no matter how much you read the textbook. I don't mean they should go out of their way to help either but I had at least one situation where I felt it was more like blackmail than a service.
I for one don't care one bit about where and why it started and who is to blame and how has the oldest claim, only why it never ends. It's like the people that still lay claim to land they lost in the war of 1533, it's ancient history by now, other people have lived there for 500 years so get over it. It's amazing how much time and effort people will dedicate to not adding the letter "i" to easily distinguish the two and bring this to a close. The names are just terrible though, I'd write 1 GB (10^9) and 1 GiB (2^30) but I'd still call both gigabytes or gigs. Add binary, decimal, base 2, base 10, whatever if you need precision in speech, but for everyday talk "16 gigs of RAM" and "20 gigs of HDD space" is close enough.
Actually, one theory is that instead of years they were referring to lunar months for the ages, which makes 900 equal to about 75 years.
Which would badly explain others like Abraham and Isaac, that were supposedly 175 and 180 years. That'd make them 14-15 year old boys instead.
But what I was taught in theology was the numbers, like many numbers in the Bible, were symbolic, intended to symbolize the deteriorating moral state of Man.
The reason for the decline perhaps, but the book is very literal about their ages. Besides, if you think mankind tumbled into the world from a magic garden believing in 900 year olds seems like the lesser issue.
In any case average life span is now going up which should then be an indication our moral state has been improving lately:D
I'd say that police and military will step in to stop what they consider crazies with guns hurting those other people with the same ethnicity, beliefs etc. as well, even if there isn't a us and them they will invent one to cope with shooting at them. That both the north and south were Americans hardly stopped the Civil War, nor would it stop people shooing each other now. Both democracy and the law has to become extremely corrupted before the people who believe they are defending democracy, law and order switch sides because during any revolution no matter how just there will be looting, mayhem and general lawlessness and they'll see it as their task to end it. Many of the world's worst hellholes have been plagued with civil war for years, even decades. No matter what many will deny the situation is so bad such a last resort is really required.
The question becomes whether the members of the US armed forces are actually willing to turn their weapons on their neighbors, coworkers or friends? It's one thing to be deployed to a different country in a distant land against a population that differs from you in ethnicity, beliefs, etc. The brainwashing needed there is fairly low level, of the patriotic sort. To view large groups of people from your own country, your own neighborhood, your own church as a mortal enemy that needs to die takes things to a whole different level.
Encryption/decryption is easy, it's the key management and "web of trust" that isn't. The thing is, they made this way, way too complicated, theoretically correct and person-oriented. Who knows best if I'm the owner of account foo@domain.com? The domain, because I authenticate against them to collect my mail. I should be able to generate a PGP key and tell domain.com this is my public key. *Optionally* they should also be able to store my private key and let me rely on the safety of my password. On the sender's side, people should be able to just type in my email address foo@domain.com and try hitting a lock icon. That'll query the DNS record of domain.com for a key server (you'll probably want this separate from the MX servers, let's call this a KX server), it'll contact the KX server, ask for if foo@domain.com has a public key set and if it does return it. On the client side it should display a lock and a key fingerprint.
Now you can start poking holes in all this. What if the DNS records are hijacked? DNS-SEC. What if the key server is compromised or they get a court order to fake your public key? You can have cached fingerprints warning you of change and run WoT on top if you wish. Or just call or contact via snail mail or IM or forum PMs or whatever you must, if it's that critical. Or companies could opt for the traditional CA method, all employee keys are signed by a company key signed by a CA that the sender may trust to verify that it's genuine. What if your email account it compromised? Well you could have a special lockdown password for your PGP key, so the server will refuse to replace it even if they got general access. Maybe it fails, but then you know this is just normal email not secure email and can choose to send or not.
Of course the first time would be the biggest risk, but just try to verify it using out of band methods. You could print the fingerprint on your business card, include it on signup forms, anywhere you give people your email address you could optionally include it. It wouldn't be perfect but hell the world isn't perfect, either the sender's or recipient's machine could be trojaned and the bad guys read whatever they want, no matter if the transport is secure. It certainly wouldn't be possible to compromise on a mass scale, lots of people will test and verify that yes, if I query my own account from somewhere else I get my own key fingerprint back. Of course the downside is if you lose your key (and didn't opt for the server to keep it for you) or forget your password you're screwed, but that's what secure means. Companies will probably keep a copy of all employee keys anyway for many reasons.
It's a $20,000 ceiling for commercial infringement and $5,000 for personal. Does this mean that the entertainment industry is going to claim all infringement in Canada is commercial?
It means that until they've conclusively decided it's not commercial - which they won't until they're at trial looking at what they can actually prove so they're technically not lying - they're going to say up to $20k because it's a much bigger, scarier number. Besides, it could theoretically limit their options later and lawyers never give an inch without good reason. Just like in the US they sue for $150k/work, not because they'll actually get that but because that's the upper statutory limit.
Doesn't matter how disenfranchised people feel, as long as they can't get organized or coordinated without the government knowing and hitting them hard while the masses remain ignorant or grossly misinformed about any discontent. Because there's no way "cut the supply lines to cities" won't quickly be spun as a terrorist attack, SWAT teams or the military will swoop in and the population will cheer. Look at the authoritarian regimes, they generally aren't in an arms race with their citizens. What they want to control is communication and information, plant malcontents in their networks so that any attempt at revolution will die in its infancy. As long as they can keep each individual feeling powerless against the system, the system wins.
Seriously, when Microsoft is paid for the key and they own the key into our computers, we've lost. Simple solution: Avoid ARM-based machines as long as Microsoft requires that no way exists to disable Secure Boot.
Uhh this isn't about ARM, Microsoft doesn't allow any third party OS on their ARM machines period. This is if you want any x86 machine shipping with Windows 8 and the "Designed for Windows 8" label to boot any other OS without finding the obscure and non-standard way to disable Secure Boot in UEFI (the new BIOS). At least in this incarnation you can always disable it yourself (again, only on x86), but I smell a Darth Vader quote coming as in "I'm altering the deal. Pray that I do not alter it further." But there's really no way to boycott Secure Boot without boycotting all machines with Win8 preinstalled, which has a snowball's chance in hell of working. What you'd really want is Linux preinstalled laptops, but they're still very few and far between. Desktops are less of an issue because you can always build from parts, or have one built for you.
It's not "taste and decorum" it's just what you and society is used to. Dress up a woman from some other time when showing ankle was daring in a tank top and miniskirt and she'll think it's outrageous to show that much skin yet you probably see girls dressed that way all summer long. Now find a woman from some jungle tribe that always have their boobs on display and she'll think you're the weird one because you have issues with too much skin. If you got dropped in a nudist colony I'm sure you'd gawk for a while then you'd just get used it and stop caring or even thinking about it. What you'd miss is the tease of hinting but not showing all and the undressing as flirting and foreplay, if you start out naked there's not really many places to go from there.
As someone who really has no idea about the trials and appeals the film doesn't seem to present both sides of the case in equal light. Maybe it's not meant to, I don't know.
Well, there wasn't really many doubts about the facts of the case. The other side's position was basically that by facilitating file sharing through torrents and trackers and making ad revenue in the process they were part of the illegal activity and guilty. To compare it to US standards in the Betamax case the court found in a 5-4 decision that you are not liable for copyright infringement by third parties as long as your product or service has substantial non-infringing uses, but in MGM vs Grokster they found in a 9-0 verdict that if you promote its use to infringe copyright, as shown by clear expression or other affirmative steps taken to foster infringement then you are liable. Just by calling yourself The Pirate Bay you've pretty much put yourself in the "Grokster" category instead of "Betamax". Of course Swedish law applies in Sweden, but it's a little like selling guns as murder weapons - it doesn't fly well in any country.
What I still don't quite understand is why they got convicted, but TPB continues to operate - they've even switched to a.se domain. I can't see any principal difference between then and today even though they've switched to external trackers and magnet links. It's like the Swedish government saw the public opinion during the TPB case and just decided to leave it be and not stick their hand into that hornet's nest again. It's still in the top 100 of Alexa's top 500 web site ranking with over 1% of global internet users visiting it daily. Of course the entertainment industry trying to ban access from other countries but that'll be mostly pointless as long as the main site stays up and the longer it does the harder I think it'll be to take down, politically. Because I sure don't think the cops will without approval from the very top.
What a load of bullshit and slashdot is of course gobbling it up, it's 100 miles from any land and sea border. The airports themselves are constitution free zones as well, but there's no 100 mile bubble around them. 10/10 troll good sir.
HDMI video? Computers have been able to put out HD resolution since the 90s, maybe you're thinking about H264 video or some other video codec? They only work because the Pi has hardware decoding capability, you don't need a fancy CPU if it isn't going to be doing the work...
"handles keyboards badly": Does it drop keystrokes? If it doesn't do that, there's absolutely no rational basis for this complaint. Maybe baby wants his arrow keys, or non-ASCII character set? Screw that. This is a console. Use vi commands like a grownup. And you don't need your umlauts and accents. The commands are all composed of ASCII characters. If you're reduced to using the console, internationalization is the least of your problems.
At least some keyboard layouts rearrange the ASCII letters as well, Germany, Austria, Switzerland Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Hungary, France, Belgium and Lithuania at least - usually just a few letters. What is more important is that all sorts of things like parentheses, slashes, quotation marks, question marks, asterisk, equals sign, colon, semicolon, piping etc. all change places for a lot more countries like us here in Norway, because we've made room on the far right for ÆØÅ so the other punctuation must be pushed around. Being able to set a keyboard mapping is the minimum I'd expect even from an emergency recovery console in 2013.
Except if you call liberitarians anarchists, then they want the rule of law and its society's job to ensure there is one - at least I don't hear much of private vigilante services as an option. Most people are the same, they want to cut all government services they don't themselves need. They have their health and their health insurance, everyone else tough luck. Of course there's lifestyle-related health issues too but a lot of it is a lottery, first you figure out if you're a winner or a loser then you decide winners shouldn't have to pay for losers. It's a system that works out quite well for the winners, the losers not so much but such was your luck and according to libertarians society shouldn't try to "fix" this.
For games, you can give away source code and sell the packaged product. Providing source does not require giving the binaries for free; that's the standard free speech vs. free beer distinction. If it's equally easy to pay for something or not pay for something, people will choose not to pay for it. Duh.
Except there are whole companies formed around taking all that source and wrapping it up into nice binary packages for you, we call them distributions, most of them are free and 99 times out of 100 people will prefer getting it from the default repositories. And if the companies haven't done it, you can be sure some resourceful individuals have and will put up their own PPA for free. And there's very little you can do about that if you're going to follow the GPL's rules about full corresponding source code and the build scripts. Of all the value-adds you can try to sell with your source code, compiling it to binaries is measured in fractions of a cent.
Previously, the licensing options for Qt forced developers to either use GPL for their code, or to buy a commercial license from Trolltech if they wanted their code proprietary. It wasn't a bad deal for free software, but not a good proposition for luring developers to the platform.
Charging developers seems to work rather well for Apple, despite their $99/year iOS Developer Program fee. Unless you have a cult following like the late Jobs developers follow the users so if you could polish up the OSS desktop enough that users would come the developers would follow. That is to say they follow the money and users that don't insist on running pure OSS or are tech wizards in their own right who'd rather fix it themselves than give Ubuntu business. I'd love to see the alternate timeline where KDE 3.5 got the Ubuntu development money instead of GNOME fighting Vista because for a time they seem to have real momentum but their product just fell short.
If you could find new primes that easily then internet banking wouldn't be secure (well...as secure as it currently is, which is "enough for the insurance companies").
No, it relies on factoring being much more difficult than multiplication. That is, if I have two large primes p and q I can trivially calculate p*q = n, but you can not easily find p and q from n. Being able to generate primes quickly doesn't give you anything.
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On the Windows desktop, Intel is about to be wiped out by the new class of AMD fusion (CPU and GPU) parts that will power the new consoles. AMD is light-years ahead of Intel with integrated graphics, GPU driver support on Windows, and high speed memory buses with uniform memory addressing for fused CPU+GPU devices.
Yet despite their allegedly superior technology, last year was an unmitigated disaster, a steady decline from Q1 to Q4 losing over 30% in revenue and where in Q4 2011 they had a gross margin of 46%, in Q4 2012 it was down to 15%. They're cutting in R&D, in 2011 they spent 1453 million, in 2012 1354 million and if they spend the whole of 2013 at Q4 2012 levels then 1252 million. Yes, hopefully the PS4/Xbox 720 will give AMD a much needed cash infusion but their technology is not at all selling so maybe they should stop bleeding market share first before "wiping out" anything. Also, AMD just recently posted a new graphics roadmap for 2013, I'll give you the summary: No new desktop graphics cards until Q4 at the earliest.
Inside Intel, senior management have convinced themselves (falsely) that they can compete with ARM in low power mobile devices. This is despite the fact that 'Ivybridge' (their first FinFET device) was a disaster as an ultra low power architecture, and their coming design, Haswell, needs a die size 5-10 times its ARM equivalent. The Intel tax alone ensures that Intel could never win in this market. Worse again is the fact that Intel needs massive margins per CPU to simply keep the company going.
While Intel may have a tough time battling ARM on the low power front, AMD is totally lost. All their x86 CPUs burn more power than an equivalent Intel and they're dividing their resources between ARM and x86, try pitting a 18W Brazos 2.0 against a 17W i7 ULV. They're totally not in the same price class, but they are in the same wattage range. Intel will milk the market of high end desktop/workstation/server chips that AMD has pretty much abandoned and use that as its war chest against ARM, if they'll win is another matter but they got billions and billions to spend on that, right now based on market cap Intel could buy AMD for about 2% of their stock. Not that Intel would want to since they'd become a true monopolist in x86 space, but in the all-out battle with ARM they might end up a casualty caught in the crossfire.
If WebKit implements a standard badly, no amount of complaining by Microsoft and Mozilla will cause the WebKit folks to change their browser rendering to be compliant.
Assuming there's malice involved and the WebKit developers have an interest in breaking the web, which nobody seems to argue. They just add experimental features that aren't standardized yet, lazy developers use the experimental tags and don't bother to make it work on anything else. I don't see how they can do it any other way, unless they hold off on all development until the W3C gets around to making a final standard, which doesn't exactly happen quick. If there was a real unwillingness to make WebKit standards-compliant you could fork and try building momentum for that, but I don't see that we have a xfree86 vs xorg situation here, just lazy developers but that's hardly a problem WebKit could fix.
Scrabble was already done before, but a guy decided to write Wordfeud anyway... I heard he stopped counting when the income passed 100k NOK = 18k USD per day and it was all done by one man. Snapchat? Huge success, despite seemingly just being the camera + MMS + a countdown timer rolled into one. Most things have been done before but just do it better or combine them in some new way, there's still a good market for it.
Legally that might be correct, and is fine if you plan to go independent full time. But if you would like to stay employed, get raises, promotions and no "we'll make you hate your job so much you quit yourself" work while doing side gigs then checking it out might be a good idea anyway. Terrible IP agreements and heavy-handed enforcement tend to go hand in hand.
How many people download or use Open Office because it is free?
I bet that even if it was $5, the numbers would be much lower. How many people will download it several times after re-installing or on different computers just because they can't be arsed to find the installer? Or just to try it out for ten minutes before going back to MS Office? Take for example the TPB AFK movie that was featured here on slashdot, I got it because it's free and legal. I haven't watched it yet, haven't even decided if I will but what the hell, I grabbed it anyway because I didn't need to make any cost/benefit decision, I could just put it on download now and decide if I want it later. The whole question of "Why should I spend money on that?" becomes "Why not, it's free..."
A program for a manned mission to Mars is at least a magnitude of order more difficult than the Apollo program. A starting guess would be 10x of the cost of the Apollo program in adjusted dollars for inflation. One figure I found was $135-billion in 2005 Dollars (cost of the Apollo program). Now if it is 10x harder to do mars, are we talking about 1.3 Trillion?
Why exactly is a mission to Mars "at least an order of magnitude more difficult" and at 1969 prices to boot? Let's take a look at what it would cost to return to the moon, no we no longer have a Saturn V but since then we've perfected rendezvous operations in space both ship to ship and ship to station enabling us to put the ISS in orbit that is 4 times what Saturn V could lift to LEO. With about 2.3 launches with a SpaceX Falcon Heavy we can put the same weight in orbit for roughly $230 million. You know how much of those $135 billion the Saturn V was? About 47 of them. So already there you have a $46.77 billion savings. Russia has been making fairly serious moon program plans, they estimated the cost of putting humans on the moon starting now to about $15 billion USD.
Elon Musk of SpaceX has been pulling out some rather ambitious plans for a Mars colony for $36 billion, even if we include a certain level of exaggeration and optimism I feel quite confident that with another Apollo program in cost we'd already be on Mars and then some. It's certainly not "another order of magnitude" away. But the thing is, there's no interest in another Apollo program or even half of one, it's trouble enough finding a billion or two for rovers, probes and telescopes. And it's rather hard for anyone private to see the ROI in funding it themselves, and not for a lack of trying. SpaceX is doing great building rockets but there's a commercial market for that, Mars crew capsules/landers/habitats/launchers not so much.
Most of my university classes were a fairly big lecture hall, one professor and even if he used a fair amount of time on questions from the class, divided by the number of students it was next to nothing. It is the exam and other coursework that sets your grade, not your lecture attendance. Some of the professors just need to stroke their ego and to prove the "value" of their lectures, so they make it pretty much impossible to get a good grade without notes from actually attending the class, no matter how much you read the textbook. I don't mean they should go out of their way to help either but I had at least one situation where I felt it was more like blackmail than a service.
I for one don't care one bit about where and why it started and who is to blame and how has the oldest claim, only why it never ends. It's like the people that still lay claim to land they lost in the war of 1533, it's ancient history by now, other people have lived there for 500 years so get over it. It's amazing how much time and effort people will dedicate to not adding the letter "i" to easily distinguish the two and bring this to a close. The names are just terrible though, I'd write 1 GB (10^9) and 1 GiB (2^30) but I'd still call both gigabytes or gigs. Add binary, decimal, base 2, base 10, whatever if you need precision in speech, but for everyday talk "16 gigs of RAM" and "20 gigs of HDD space" is close enough.
Actually, one theory is that instead of years they were referring to lunar months for the ages, which makes 900 equal to about 75 years.
Which would badly explain others like Abraham and Isaac, that were supposedly 175 and 180 years. That'd make them 14-15 year old boys instead.
But what I was taught in theology was the numbers, like many numbers in the Bible, were symbolic, intended to symbolize the deteriorating moral state of Man.
The reason for the decline perhaps, but the book is very literal about their ages. Besides, if you think mankind tumbled into the world from a magic garden believing in 900 year olds seems like the lesser issue.
In any case average life span is now going up which should then be an indication our moral state has been improving lately :D
I'd say that police and military will step in to stop what they consider crazies with guns hurting those other people with the same ethnicity, beliefs etc. as well, even if there isn't a us and them they will invent one to cope with shooting at them. That both the north and south were Americans hardly stopped the Civil War, nor would it stop people shooing each other now. Both democracy and the law has to become extremely corrupted before the people who believe they are defending democracy, law and order switch sides because during any revolution no matter how just there will be looting, mayhem and general lawlessness and they'll see it as their task to end it. Many of the world's worst hellholes have been plagued with civil war for years, even decades. No matter what many will deny the situation is so bad such a last resort is really required.
The question becomes whether the members of the US armed forces are actually willing to turn their weapons on their neighbors, coworkers or friends? It's one thing to be deployed to a different country in a distant land against a population that differs from you in ethnicity, beliefs, etc. The brainwashing needed there is fairly low level, of the patriotic sort. To view large groups of people from your own country, your own neighborhood, your own church as a mortal enemy that needs to die takes things to a whole different level.
Encryption/decryption is easy, it's the key management and "web of trust" that isn't. The thing is, they made this way, way too complicated, theoretically correct and person-oriented. Who knows best if I'm the owner of account foo@domain.com? The domain, because I authenticate against them to collect my mail. I should be able to generate a PGP key and tell domain.com this is my public key. *Optionally* they should also be able to store my private key and let me rely on the safety of my password. On the sender's side, people should be able to just type in my email address foo@domain.com and try hitting a lock icon. That'll query the DNS record of domain.com for a key server (you'll probably want this separate from the MX servers, let's call this a KX server), it'll contact the KX server, ask for if foo@domain.com has a public key set and if it does return it. On the client side it should display a lock and a key fingerprint.
Now you can start poking holes in all this. What if the DNS records are hijacked? DNS-SEC. What if the key server is compromised or they get a court order to fake your public key? You can have cached fingerprints warning you of change and run WoT on top if you wish. Or just call or contact via snail mail or IM or forum PMs or whatever you must, if it's that critical. Or companies could opt for the traditional CA method, all employee keys are signed by a company key signed by a CA that the sender may trust to verify that it's genuine. What if your email account it compromised? Well you could have a special lockdown password for your PGP key, so the server will refuse to replace it even if they got general access. Maybe it fails, but then you know this is just normal email not secure email and can choose to send or not.
Of course the first time would be the biggest risk, but just try to verify it using out of band methods. You could print the fingerprint on your business card, include it on signup forms, anywhere you give people your email address you could optionally include it. It wouldn't be perfect but hell the world isn't perfect, either the sender's or recipient's machine could be trojaned and the bad guys read whatever they want, no matter if the transport is secure. It certainly wouldn't be possible to compromise on a mass scale, lots of people will test and verify that yes, if I query my own account from somewhere else I get my own key fingerprint back. Of course the downside is if you lose your key (and didn't opt for the server to keep it for you) or forget your password you're screwed, but that's what secure means. Companies will probably keep a copy of all employee keys anyway for many reasons.
It's a $20,000 ceiling for commercial infringement and $5,000 for personal. Does this mean that the entertainment industry is going to claim all infringement in Canada is commercial?
It means that until they've conclusively decided it's not commercial - which they won't until they're at trial looking at what they can actually prove so they're technically not lying - they're going to say up to $20k because it's a much bigger, scarier number. Besides, it could theoretically limit their options later and lawyers never give an inch without good reason. Just like in the US they sue for $150k/work, not because they'll actually get that but because that's the upper statutory limit.
Doesn't matter how disenfranchised people feel, as long as they can't get organized or coordinated without the government knowing and hitting them hard while the masses remain ignorant or grossly misinformed about any discontent. Because there's no way "cut the supply lines to cities" won't quickly be spun as a terrorist attack, SWAT teams or the military will swoop in and the population will cheer. Look at the authoritarian regimes, they generally aren't in an arms race with their citizens. What they want to control is communication and information, plant malcontents in their networks so that any attempt at revolution will die in its infancy. As long as they can keep each individual feeling powerless against the system, the system wins.
Seriously, when Microsoft is paid for the key and they own the key into our computers, we've lost. Simple solution: Avoid ARM-based machines as long as Microsoft requires that no way exists to disable Secure Boot.
Uhh this isn't about ARM, Microsoft doesn't allow any third party OS on their ARM machines period. This is if you want any x86 machine shipping with Windows 8 and the "Designed for Windows 8" label to boot any other OS without finding the obscure and non-standard way to disable Secure Boot in UEFI (the new BIOS). At least in this incarnation you can always disable it yourself (again, only on x86), but I smell a Darth Vader quote coming as in "I'm altering the deal. Pray that I do not alter it further." But there's really no way to boycott Secure Boot without boycotting all machines with Win8 preinstalled, which has a snowball's chance in hell of working. What you'd really want is Linux preinstalled laptops, but they're still very few and far between. Desktops are less of an issue because you can always build from parts, or have one built for you.
It's not "taste and decorum" it's just what you and society is used to. Dress up a woman from some other time when showing ankle was daring in a tank top and miniskirt and she'll think it's outrageous to show that much skin yet you probably see girls dressed that way all summer long. Now find a woman from some jungle tribe that always have their boobs on display and she'll think you're the weird one because you have issues with too much skin. If you got dropped in a nudist colony I'm sure you'd gawk for a while then you'd just get used it and stop caring or even thinking about it. What you'd miss is the tease of hinting but not showing all and the undressing as flirting and foreplay, if you start out naked there's not really many places to go from there.
As someone who really has no idea about the trials and appeals the film doesn't seem to present both sides of the case in equal light. Maybe it's not meant to, I don't know.
Well, there wasn't really many doubts about the facts of the case. The other side's position was basically that by facilitating file sharing through torrents and trackers and making ad revenue in the process they were part of the illegal activity and guilty. To compare it to US standards in the Betamax case the court found in a 5-4 decision that you are not liable for copyright infringement by third parties as long as your product or service has substantial non-infringing uses, but in MGM vs Grokster they found in a 9-0 verdict that if you promote its use to infringe copyright, as shown by clear expression or other affirmative steps taken to foster infringement then you are liable. Just by calling yourself The Pirate Bay you've pretty much put yourself in the "Grokster" category instead of "Betamax". Of course Swedish law applies in Sweden, but it's a little like selling guns as murder weapons - it doesn't fly well in any country.
What I still don't quite understand is why they got convicted, but TPB continues to operate - they've even switched to a .se domain. I can't see any principal difference between then and today even though they've switched to external trackers and magnet links. It's like the Swedish government saw the public opinion during the TPB case and just decided to leave it be and not stick their hand into that hornet's nest again. It's still in the top 100 of Alexa's top 500 web site ranking with over 1% of global internet users visiting it daily. Of course the entertainment industry trying to ban access from other countries but that'll be mostly pointless as long as the main site stays up and the longer it does the harder I think it'll be to take down, politically. Because I sure don't think the cops will without approval from the very top.
What a load of bullshit and slashdot is of course gobbling it up, it's 100 miles from any land and sea border. The airports themselves are constitution free zones as well, but there's no 100 mile bubble around them. 10/10 troll good sir.
HDMI video? Computers have been able to put out HD resolution since the 90s, maybe you're thinking about H264 video or some other video codec? They only work because the Pi has hardware decoding capability, you don't need a fancy CPU if it isn't going to be doing the work...
"handles keyboards badly": Does it drop keystrokes? If it doesn't do that, there's absolutely no rational basis for this complaint. Maybe baby wants his arrow keys, or non-ASCII character set? Screw that. This is a console. Use vi commands like a grownup. And you don't need your umlauts and accents. The commands are all composed of ASCII characters. If you're reduced to using the console, internationalization is the least of your problems.
At least some keyboard layouts rearrange the ASCII letters as well, Germany, Austria, Switzerland Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Hungary, France, Belgium and Lithuania at least - usually just a few letters. What is more important is that all sorts of things like parentheses, slashes, quotation marks, question marks, asterisk, equals sign, colon, semicolon, piping etc. all change places for a lot more countries like us here in Norway, because we've made room on the far right for ÆØÅ so the other punctuation must be pushed around. Being able to set a keyboard mapping is the minimum I'd expect even from an emergency recovery console in 2013.
Except if you call liberitarians anarchists, then they want the rule of law and its society's job to ensure there is one - at least I don't hear much of private vigilante services as an option. Most people are the same, they want to cut all government services they don't themselves need. They have their health and their health insurance, everyone else tough luck. Of course there's lifestyle-related health issues too but a lot of it is a lottery, first you figure out if you're a winner or a loser then you decide winners shouldn't have to pay for losers. It's a system that works out quite well for the winners, the losers not so much but such was your luck and according to libertarians society shouldn't try to "fix" this.
For games, you can give away source code and sell the packaged product. Providing source does not require giving the binaries for free; that's the standard free speech vs. free beer distinction. If it's equally easy to pay for something or not pay for something, people will choose not to pay for it. Duh.
Except there are whole companies formed around taking all that source and wrapping it up into nice binary packages for you, we call them distributions, most of them are free and 99 times out of 100 people will prefer getting it from the default repositories. And if the companies haven't done it, you can be sure some resourceful individuals have and will put up their own PPA for free. And there's very little you can do about that if you're going to follow the GPL's rules about full corresponding source code and the build scripts. Of all the value-adds you can try to sell with your source code, compiling it to binaries is measured in fractions of a cent.
Previously, the licensing options for Qt forced developers to either use GPL for their code, or to buy a commercial license from Trolltech if they wanted their code proprietary. It wasn't a bad deal for free software, but not a good proposition for luring developers to the platform.
Charging developers seems to work rather well for Apple, despite their $99/year iOS Developer Program fee. Unless you have a cult following like the late Jobs developers follow the users so if you could polish up the OSS desktop enough that users would come the developers would follow. That is to say they follow the money and users that don't insist on running pure OSS or are tech wizards in their own right who'd rather fix it themselves than give Ubuntu business. I'd love to see the alternate timeline where KDE 3.5 got the Ubuntu development money instead of GNOME fighting Vista because for a time they seem to have real momentum but their product just fell short.
If you could find new primes that easily then internet banking wouldn't be secure (well...as secure as it currently is, which is "enough for the insurance companies").
No, it relies on factoring being much more difficult than multiplication. That is, if I have two large primes p and q I can trivially calculate p*q = n, but you can not easily find p and q from n. Being able to generate primes quickly doesn't give you anything.
Considering any number 2^n-1 is prime
Why don't you try that with n=4...