You mean a 5' 7" 12-year-old who had a toy gun tucked into his belt while sitting on a swing, and which never left his belt in the 4 seconds it took the cops to fire on him after arriving on the scene nor the four minutes they allowed him to bleed out before the first officer attempted any sort of first aid? Who was shot by a rookie police officer whose weapons training was rated "dismal", was said to be unable to follow "basic functions as instructed", and showed a "dangerous loss of composure" in his previous assignment before being fired?
I've read that you also need to change the time zone to something that would bring it to the next earlier day after setting it to the earliest possible date (presumably causing it to subtract a few hours and underflow the value.) Dunno. I'm not dumb enough to try it.
But in practice the applications don't update this base OS, so the copy of openssl that is loaded into memory when the app launches will be vulnerable since there is no practical way to automatically keep them updated. The app vendor would have to basically rebuild the image every time a single package would have to be updated.
First of all, there's often little reason to even include OpenSSL in your container. You can attach to it through Docker. And only expose ports your app uses. The attack vector is reduced. Secondly, practices around containers are definitely evolving, so what is "in practice" now isn't necessarily the way it will always be.
This is true-- there is no home 3D printer that can print a reasonable LEGO brick.
However, LEGO makes a lot of other ancillary pieces that you CAN print. Replacement heads for mini-figs, clip-on attachments to things, little flowers, buckets, etc. In addition, the LEGO Technic straight brackets (the long ones with the holes and plusses) are not too hard to print, and you can create your own configuration of those holes. (I have a customizable one up on ThingiVerse here: http://www.thingiverse.com/thi...).
So a 3D printer is not going to keep you from buying LEGO, but it might make playing and building with LEGO more fun.
The senate bill says what it says. You have the complete text. Show me where it says what you claim.
What I see is a trap for evolutionists. If you can't challenge a theory then it isn't science, it's doctrine. The author is trying to trick you into treating science exactly as he would treat religion.
Part of the problem here is that there is no competing scientific theory. We don't consider alternatives to gravity, the atom, germ theory, electromagnetism, or the rest of the well-established scientific foundations in grade school, either. Despite the fact that there are nuances to them that may hint at exciting new science, the core systems are supported by so much evidence, that it is appropriate to just state the prevailing theory, the supporting evidence, and the implications. Teaching a "controversy" is itself a lie, because there is no controversy on evolution within science. This is just science vs. not-science, and that's for philosophy class, not Biology. As soon as you mandate that teaching a lie is protected and immune from discipline, you're not teaching science anymore.
Apple's does. It can do all this and more, and there are tons of interactive educational materials done this way But it doesn't fit his open source or kindle requirements. So while it's not true that no format can do it, it's not an answer to his question.
there is no law of any kind that requires me to do business with any specific store of business, either
Specific business? No. Specific kind of business? Yes. Zoning laws require you to buy food rather than growing it. Indecency laws require you to buy clothing. Sit/lie laws require you to buy or rent housing rather than sleeping on public property. And shared responsibility laws require you to buy health insurance or face drastic tax hikes.
If the grocery store I habituate decided tomorrow to start taking plastic only, I'd find somewhere else to shop on principle alone.
So what happens once all grocery stores within walking distance go cashless?
Not to mention registering cars, getting licenses, and other state and local government activities which often no longer accept cash.
This back and forth is ignoring a critical point: that not all bugs are created equal, and not all systems fail in the same ways or have the same risk profile and scale. What if your REST service returns 500 for a user because of something you just released? Ok, that's bad if you just rolled it out to all your servers and it happens to all users. But what if the client always does 3 re-tries (as REST clients should do), and you only rolled it out to 5% of your servers? Now most clients are unlikely to see anything wrong at all, and it's obvious you should immediately pull back the release. In fact, the pull-back should be automatic as soon as it's observed that the failure profile is worse.
And regarding risk and scale, what if you have a banking application that is only used thousands of times a day, and compare that to a social network used thousands of times a minute? The risk of getting something wrong and tripping regulator ire is great in one case, while the risk of seeing some entries missing on your wall ranges from a little annoyance to unnoticeable. And the likelihood you'll actually see the problem quickly is huge on the social network, while it may not be so on the less-used app. The social network is obviously a good candidate for devops-style continuous-release systems, while the banking app would need more evaluation to see where the line is drawn.
You'll have to define "fail". I have iPad 2's from four years ago which still have many hours of battery life and have seen relatively heavy use. Perhaps not the 10 it had originally, but then neither does a Microsoft tablet. I think Apple considers a battery eligible for replacement if its capacity falls below 80% during warrantee or Apple Care period. Otherwise you have to pay $99 to have it swapped out.
This is one I'm interested in, actually. The reference Swift compiler implementation uses LLVM as an intermediate layer then uses LLVM's final compiler and linker to generate machine code. The group making the LLVM back-end for AVR (the chip used by the Arduino-compatible ecosystem) is actually in the process of merging their work into mainline LLVM right now. Things could get interesting in the embedded space soon. But I don't know enough about Swift linking to know if small programs would carry a prohibitive library payload or whether it will be practical.
The answer to most of your questions, though, is "maybe" or "not yet", and "but there's probably someone on the Internet working on it".
I second Pittsburgh. I moved away to be closer to family but miss it. You can buy a house outright for the down payment in many other tech locations, and there's a good diverse tech scene including CMU startups, biotech, and small labs connected to big companies. Museums, arts, short drive to the country, etc. It's not a "night life" town, but if your pace is a little slower it's a very comfortable place to live.
I agree, but would point out that using a fingerprint to unlock a strong key on a phone, then using that to authenticate to a remote server is quite strong.
It gets even better than this with iOS 9. iOS 9 paired with any iPhone in the last couple years can generate a public/private key pair where the private key is stored in the Secure Enclave. (For those not aware, this is an area of the chip with write-only access and its own coprocessor. The only thing you get out of it is verification. It's physically impossible to read the data via software.) The secure enclave has existed since TouchId was introduced two years ago, but with the new public/private key system you can validate a challenge-response query from a server with TouchId. Basically, the server sends a packet, the phone unlocks the keychain with TouchId, signs it, and the server then verifies the signature with a previously-onboarded public key.
Yes, it is theoretically possible to lift a fingerprint from a glass and manufacture a fake finger to unlock a phone. But then you need the physical phone, and need to keep it from getting remote wiped. That's usually a state actor situation, so I guess it depends on who you're trying to protect yourself from.
I live about 50 miles by road south of NYC. Closer as the crow flies. Nothing like this happened for Sandy (or Irene the year before). If anything, the event brought people closer together. Functioning power and cell phones were rare for a couple weeks, and gas got scarce fast (mostly due to lack of power for pumps). But we had a notable lack of marauders, and the neighbors showed a very strong preference for canned food over eating each other. People shared and generally acted like a right-wingers nightmare, coming together as a community to get through it together.
The AppleTV can use third-party Bluetooth 4/LE controllers (See this link). I'm sure plenty of folks will come out with all kinds of controllers for it. The bundled one seems okay for a lot of casual gaming, buy buying more controllers isn't going to break the bank on a $150 console with $1-5 games.
AppleTV also has an interesting storage system to deal with the 32GB problem. The "core download" for any game has to be less than 200MB, with amounts above that loaded in 64-512MB chunks that are available on-demand over a network. The AppleTV will dynamically manage the on-demand area. So your old, less-used games will shrink if you never play them, then re-download when you use them again. (See this link for more.)
There are an order of magnitude more games available for iOS than all gaming consoles ever invented put together. Thing is, the games tend to be a different "sort" of game than your typical console gamer wants. Is that a bad thing? The Wii sold far better than expected due to its "casual" nature, but eventually ran into a problem of underpowered-ness. Now we have a device with the graphical chops, brand recognition, relatively open App Store compared to other consoles, and a huge existing base of code easily ported. I think they have a shot, but don't see it as an either/or thing.
Do you like the existence of Google? Should the Internet be purely pay-to-play like in the old AOL or GEnie days? For that instance, should Slashdot exist?
Yes, by the end of your advert I might "want" your product that I'd never heard of, but as the OP says, "fuck you". You are taking money out of my pocket that I did not plan to allow its removal. In some circles, that's theft.
You know what ACTUAL theft is? Consuming someone's product (ie. visiting an ad-supported web site) and then refusing to pay (ie. allow the ads to be shown). If you want a moral and ethical ad-blocker, implement a plug-in that refuses to let you visit any site whose ads you don't want displayed, or which allows you to pay micro-payments per visit.
Recently, I noticed that when I picked up a prescription for a (for me new) medication that's mostly used for one purpose, I suddenly got dozens of spam e-mails wanting to "help" me with a particular diagnosis I don't have. And that's the few that went through the double layer spam filter. It was way too pervasive to be a coincidence.
I've been taking moderately special purpose meds off and on for years (the sorts of things you take when you have a bone marrow transplant).
I have NEVER gotten any spam emails as a result (unless you count that "you really need to refill your prescription since you're about to run out of pills, you dolt!" sort that I get as a reminder from the drugstore)....
I don't know if it's the cause here, but if you Google for something, obviously Google's entire value model is to sell that info to advertisers. Likewise if you send or receive gmail about something. Then there's also looking it up on WebMD or another site to find the side effects. I would be a lot more suspicious of online activity "leaking" to spammers than a pharmacy selling it.
This was my reaction to that comment, too. Swift is a strongly typed language, it just infers the type at compile time so the programmer doesn't have to manually enter it when declaring the variable. Considering it also differentiates between variables which can contain "nil" and ones that can't in its type system, I'd say it's one of the most strongly typed languages in common use, so I don't understand the statement.
The one platform thing is a bummer, but it's changing pretty fast right now so I don't blame Apple for not wanting to lock any decisions in with third parties yet. I hope they add it to their pile of open source projects before too long, though. Considering the reference implementation is LLVM-based, it shouldn't be hard for it to become very portable very fast.
(Besides, who doesn't like a language which has the entire unicode character set available for variable names, including the symbols? Can make for some colorful code.)
This is how my kids started with Minecraft plugins, a plugin called ScriptCraft: https://github.com/walterhiggi... It lets you write mods in JavaScript, either with separate.js files in a directory or directly on the command line in-game. JavaScript was very approachable and forgiving, and gave them immediate visual feedback on their code. Now my 10-year-old has written a Java mod while my younger one is interested in trying. I swear the desire to mod Minecraft is doing more for STEM than any Pearson curriculum...
Actually, even beginner Java programmers know to use a StringBuilder for these cases, which allows for constant-time appending. It's a little harder to do "right" in C and accidentally get O(n^2) time by reallocating memory each time, but still not hard. The language here isn't making the difference it's their algorithm.
The problem comes from "reasonable royalty". The price list should be set by the vendor and once set they shouldn't be able to change it depending on who wants to pay for it.
You can't ask one million or 1$ per unit from company XYZ and then turn around and ask a company that is your competitor ten times the price "just because".
I would add that no standards essential patent should ever be allowed to require a percentage of the final product price as a licensing fee. Your contribution to, say, a networking technology is not necessarily more valuable because someone else added a more expensive case, screen, or battery. It can hardly be "non-discriminatory" when the price is different for each product.
Also... from TFAbstract, they chose the date because all of the nuclear explosions have left a clear marker of radioisotopes which can be easily located when tracing the geological record.
And importantly, this will be true globally. This seems to be what most posters here seem to be ignoring... A hundred thousand years from now you'll probably be able to dig into the ground and identify this epoch anywhere on Earth where the rocks are old enough by the distinct atomic decay signature, among other things.
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You mean a 5' 7" 12-year-old who had a toy gun tucked into his belt while sitting on a swing, and which never left his belt in the 4 seconds it took the cops to fire on him after arriving on the scene nor the four minutes they allowed him to bleed out before the first officer attempted any sort of first aid? Who was shot by a rookie police officer whose weapons training was rated "dismal", was said to be unable to follow "basic functions as instructed", and showed a "dangerous loss of composure" in his previous assignment before being fired?
Let's at least get the facts straight.
I've read that you also need to change the time zone to something that would bring it to the next earlier day after setting it to the earliest possible date (presumably causing it to subtract a few hours and underflow the value.) Dunno. I'm not dumb enough to try it.
But in practice the applications don't update this base OS, so the copy of openssl that is loaded into memory when the app launches will be vulnerable since there is no practical way to automatically keep them updated. The app vendor would have to basically rebuild the image every time a single package would have to be updated.
First of all, there's often little reason to even include OpenSSL in your container. You can attach to it through Docker. And only expose ports your app uses. The attack vector is reduced. Secondly, practices around containers are definitely evolving, so what is "in practice" now isn't necessarily the way it will always be.
This is true-- there is no home 3D printer that can print a reasonable LEGO brick.
However, LEGO makes a lot of other ancillary pieces that you CAN print. Replacement heads for mini-figs, clip-on attachments to things, little flowers, buckets, etc. In addition, the LEGO Technic straight brackets (the long ones with the holes and plusses) are not too hard to print, and you can create your own configuration of those holes. (I have a customizable one up on ThingiVerse here: http://www.thingiverse.com/thi...).
So a 3D printer is not going to keep you from buying LEGO, but it might make playing and building with LEGO more fun.
The senate bill says what it says. You have the complete text. Show me where it says what you claim.
What I see is a trap for evolutionists. If you can't challenge a theory then it isn't science, it's doctrine. The author is trying to trick you into treating science exactly as he would treat religion.
Part of the problem here is that there is no competing scientific theory. We don't consider alternatives to gravity, the atom, germ theory, electromagnetism, or the rest of the well-established scientific foundations in grade school, either. Despite the fact that there are nuances to them that may hint at exciting new science, the core systems are supported by so much evidence, that it is appropriate to just state the prevailing theory, the supporting evidence, and the implications. Teaching a "controversy" is itself a lie, because there is no controversy on evolution within science. This is just science vs. not-science, and that's for philosophy class, not Biology. As soon as you mandate that teaching a lie is protected and immune from discipline, you're not teaching science anymore.
Apple's does. It can do all this and more, and there are tons of interactive educational materials done this way But it doesn't fit his open source or kindle requirements. So while it's not true that no format can do it, it's not an answer to his question.
there is no law of any kind that requires me to do business with any specific store of business, either
Specific business? No. Specific kind of business? Yes. Zoning laws require you to buy food rather than growing it. Indecency laws require you to buy clothing. Sit/lie laws require you to buy or rent housing rather than sleeping on public property. And shared responsibility laws require you to buy health insurance or face drastic tax hikes.
If the grocery store I habituate decided tomorrow to start taking plastic only, I'd find somewhere else to shop on principle alone.
So what happens once all grocery stores within walking distance go cashless?
Not to mention registering cars, getting licenses, and other state and local government activities which often no longer accept cash.
This back and forth is ignoring a critical point: that not all bugs are created equal, and not all systems fail in the same ways or have the same risk profile and scale. What if your REST service returns 500 for a user because of something you just released? Ok, that's bad if you just rolled it out to all your servers and it happens to all users. But what if the client always does 3 re-tries (as REST clients should do), and you only rolled it out to 5% of your servers? Now most clients are unlikely to see anything wrong at all, and it's obvious you should immediately pull back the release. In fact, the pull-back should be automatic as soon as it's observed that the failure profile is worse.
And regarding risk and scale, what if you have a banking application that is only used thousands of times a day, and compare that to a social network used thousands of times a minute? The risk of getting something wrong and tripping regulator ire is great in one case, while the risk of seeing some entries missing on your wall ranges from a little annoyance to unnoticeable. And the likelihood you'll actually see the problem quickly is huge on the social network, while it may not be so on the less-used app. The social network is obviously a good candidate for devops-style continuous-release systems, while the banking app would need more evaluation to see where the line is drawn.
You'll have to define "fail". I have iPad 2's from four years ago which still have many hours of battery life and have seen relatively heavy use. Perhaps not the 10 it had originally, but then neither does a Microsoft tablet. I think Apple considers a battery eligible for replacement if its capacity falls below 80% during warrantee or Apple Care period. Otherwise you have to pay $99 to have it swapped out.
Can you do tiny embedded projects with it ?
This is one I'm interested in, actually. The reference Swift compiler implementation uses LLVM as an intermediate layer then uses LLVM's final compiler and linker to generate machine code. The group making the LLVM back-end for AVR (the chip used by the Arduino-compatible ecosystem) is actually in the process of merging their work into mainline LLVM right now. Things could get interesting in the embedded space soon. But I don't know enough about Swift linking to know if small programs would carry a prohibitive library payload or whether it will be practical.
The answer to most of your questions, though, is "maybe" or "not yet", and "but there's probably someone on the Internet working on it".
I second Pittsburgh. I moved away to be closer to family but miss it. You can buy a house outright for the down payment in many other tech locations, and there's a good diverse tech scene including CMU startups, biotech, and small labs connected to big companies. Museums, arts, short drive to the country, etc. It's not a "night life" town, but if your pace is a little slower it's a very comfortable place to live.
I agree, but would point out that using a fingerprint to unlock a strong key on a phone, then using that to authenticate to a remote server is quite strong.
It gets even better than this with iOS 9. iOS 9 paired with any iPhone in the last couple years can generate a public/private key pair where the private key is stored in the Secure Enclave. (For those not aware, this is an area of the chip with write-only access and its own coprocessor. The only thing you get out of it is verification. It's physically impossible to read the data via software.) The secure enclave has existed since TouchId was introduced two years ago, but with the new public/private key system you can validate a challenge-response query from a server with TouchId. Basically, the server sends a packet, the phone unlocks the keychain with TouchId, signs it, and the server then verifies the signature with a previously-onboarded public key.
Yes, it is theoretically possible to lift a fingerprint from a glass and manufacture a fake finger to unlock a phone. But then you need the physical phone, and need to keep it from getting remote wiped. That's usually a state actor situation, so I guess it depends on who you're trying to protect yourself from.
I live about 50 miles by road south of NYC. Closer as the crow flies. Nothing like this happened for Sandy (or Irene the year before). If anything, the event brought people closer together. Functioning power and cell phones were rare for a couple weeks, and gas got scarce fast (mostly due to lack of power for pumps). But we had a notable lack of marauders, and the neighbors showed a very strong preference for canned food over eating each other. People shared and generally acted like a right-wingers nightmare, coming together as a community to get through it together.
"Yes, but that involves waiting 9 months for the first baby."
Not if you hire 9 consultants who are already in a state to contribute early...
The AppleTV can use third-party Bluetooth 4/LE controllers (See this link). I'm sure plenty of folks will come out with all kinds of controllers for it. The bundled one seems okay for a lot of casual gaming, buy buying more controllers isn't going to break the bank on a $150 console with $1-5 games.
AppleTV also has an interesting storage system to deal with the 32GB problem. The "core download" for any game has to be less than 200MB, with amounts above that loaded in 64-512MB chunks that are available on-demand over a network. The AppleTV will dynamically manage the on-demand area. So your old, less-used games will shrink if you never play them, then re-download when you use them again. (See this link for more.)
Nobody buys an apple for gaming
There are an order of magnitude more games available for iOS than all gaming consoles ever invented put together. Thing is, the games tend to be a different "sort" of game than your typical console gamer wants. Is that a bad thing? The Wii sold far better than expected due to its "casual" nature, but eventually ran into a problem of underpowered-ness. Now we have a device with the graphical chops, brand recognition, relatively open App Store compared to other consoles, and a huge existing base of code easily ported. I think they have a shot, but don't see it as an either/or thing.
All iphone and android apps are using OpenGL.
Perhaps Android, but an increasing number of iPhone apps are using Metal (often indirectly by using a supporting engine modified for it).
I'm of the opinion that advertising is immoral.
Do you like the existence of Google? Should the Internet be purely pay-to-play like in the old AOL or GEnie days? For that instance, should Slashdot exist?
Yes, by the end of your advert I might "want" your product that I'd never heard of, but as the OP says, "fuck you". You are taking money out of my pocket that I did not plan to allow its removal. In some circles, that's theft.
You know what ACTUAL theft is? Consuming someone's product (ie. visiting an ad-supported web site) and then refusing to pay (ie. allow the ads to be shown). If you want a moral and ethical ad-blocker, implement a plug-in that refuses to let you visit any site whose ads you don't want displayed, or which allows you to pay micro-payments per visit.
I've been taking moderately special purpose meds off and on for years (the sorts of things you take when you have a bone marrow transplant).
I have NEVER gotten any spam emails as a result (unless you count that "you really need to refill your prescription since you're about to run out of pills, you dolt!" sort that I get as a reminder from the drugstore)....
I don't know if it's the cause here, but if you Google for something, obviously Google's entire value model is to sell that info to advertisers. Likewise if you send or receive gmail about something. Then there's also looking it up on WebMD or another site to find the side effects. I would be a lot more suspicious of online activity "leaking" to spammers than a pharmacy selling it.
This was my reaction to that comment, too. Swift is a strongly typed language, it just infers the type at compile time so the programmer doesn't have to manually enter it when declaring the variable. Considering it also differentiates between variables which can contain "nil" and ones that can't in its type system, I'd say it's one of the most strongly typed languages in common use, so I don't understand the statement.
The one platform thing is a bummer, but it's changing pretty fast right now so I don't blame Apple for not wanting to lock any decisions in with third parties yet. I hope they add it to their pile of open source projects before too long, though. Considering the reference implementation is LLVM-based, it shouldn't be hard for it to become very portable very fast.
(Besides, who doesn't like a language which has the entire unicode character set available for variable names, including the symbols? Can make for some colorful code.)
This is how my kids started with Minecraft plugins, a plugin called ScriptCraft: https://github.com/walterhiggi... .js files in a directory or directly on the command line in-game. JavaScript was very approachable and forgiving, and gave them immediate visual feedback on their code. Now my 10-year-old has written a Java mod while my younger one is interested in trying. I swear the desire to mod Minecraft is doing more for STEM than any Pearson curriculum...
It lets you write mods in JavaScript, either with separate
Actually, even beginner Java programmers know to use a StringBuilder for these cases, which allows for constant-time appending. It's a little harder to do "right" in C and accidentally get O(n^2) time by reallocating memory each time, but still not hard. The language here isn't making the difference it's their algorithm.
New phone feature idea: a settable password which, when entered, instantly wipes the phone. (Throws away the encryption keys and shuts down.)
The problem comes from "reasonable royalty". The price list should be set by the vendor and once set they shouldn't be able to change it depending on who wants to pay for it.
You can't ask one million or 1$ per unit from company XYZ and then turn around and ask a company that is your competitor ten times the price "just because".
I would add that no standards essential patent should ever be allowed to require a percentage of the final product price as a licensing fee. Your contribution to, say, a networking technology is not necessarily more valuable because someone else added a more expensive case, screen, or battery. It can hardly be "non-discriminatory" when the price is different for each product.
Also... from TFAbstract, they chose the date because all of the nuclear explosions have left a clear marker of radioisotopes which can be easily located when tracing the geological record.
And importantly, this will be true globally. This seems to be what most posters here seem to be ignoring... A hundred thousand years from now you'll probably be able to dig into the ground and identify this epoch anywhere on Earth where the rocks are old enough by the distinct atomic decay signature, among other things.