If the expiration dates are 2-3 years from the date of manufacture, presumably pharmacies could do a little better inventory management and not have to throw any out. 2 years warning is plenty. Just keep 1 year's supply on hand. If demand drops, don't buy any more until you need to.
Forcing the companies to provide the means to unencrypt all the data passing through it's services provides very little benefit
It provides no benefit, because the bad people will not use the backdoor'd encryption, they will use something else (if they buy a copy of Applied Cryptography second hand then they can just type in the cost listings for some secure algorithms and use their own version). On the other hand, the existence of a backdoor intrinsically makes a system insecure, so everyone else suffers from making it easier for criminals to gain access to their messages.
Yes. This. There has already been a few rounds of criminals adapting to the new security landscape. As soon as something is shown insecure, the criminals move on. The stupid ones might post their successes on Facebook, but the smartest ones obviously haven't been caught yet because they are cautious and they can read a book and write software.
My job involves designing and implementing crypto systems. If I was motivated to engage in a criminal pursuit needing comms (I'm not, the day job pays fine) I don't think it would be a challenge to put together a secure system that meets the needs of the task. I don't see why it would be a problem for an effective criminal enterprise to pay for development of their own non-backdoored comms system.
This happened in Madrid without the Mexican or Thai. We found an Italian restaurant with the flags and pasta pictures. Inside we were offered only Spanish food. They were especially proud of their paella.
Nice restaurant. Fraudulent advertising though.
There are two groups of people laughing at your comment. There's your fellow Americans, who actually believe it went down like that. And then there's everyone else. They're imagining a dumb fucking Yank walking into a restaurant in another country and trying to tell the staff that their food is of the wrong ethnicity. You do realise that every single one of them ejaculated in your paella don't you?
While the rest of the world laughs at your dim witted claim that I'm American. Since the paella was being cooked in the middle of the room, that would have been quite the spectacle.
Nixon instituted our current drug schedule which has probably killed more people by now than booze. He also championed our current dietary fiasco that is turning everyone obese while lining the pockets of wheat, corn, and sugar farmers. Yes, very much underrated as a source of evil, waste, and human misery.
It's a lot easier and probably more correct to peg the core of the nutrition disaster on McGovern. He probably brought about more premature deaths around the world than anyone. Check out what Mary Enig had to say on that (a scientist in the room of during the McGovern committee).
Who's in charge? The user? The kernel? Ring-0? The answer to this is different depending on the topic. The topic here is init and who gets to say what the rlimits are and how. There are lots of other topics - random numbers, filesystems, network attach-detatch, routing etc. For all these things and many more there has been a turf war along the lines of "We will fix this in the kernel!", "Oh no you won't, we will fix this with our daemon", "Oh no you won't, my userland administration tool will fix this".
This is generally fine, but for each there will be a slashdot thread with many jerks represented.
Try this: you open a restaurant named "Great Italian Food", and all the windows are plastered with Italian cuisine pictures and slogans. You then charge for admission to the restaurant. Once inside, people are given a menu, which has Italian-sounding names, but when the dishes are served, it turns out they're actually Mexican and Thai dishes. Almost nothing on your menu is actually Italian food.
This happened in Madrid without the Mexican or Thai. We found an Italian restaurant with the flags and pasta pictures. Inside we were offered only Spanish food. They were especially proud of their paella.
I think Amazon already has a logistics arm. The last mile will be handled by the local postal service unless the customer paid for better shipping.
To my house, Amazon shipments have been delivered by an Amazon employee in their own car for the past few months, sometimes the same day. For short distance delivery within a dense population when you have a lot of stuff to deliver, it's clearly cheaper to employ someone to deliver it than it is to use a postal service.
I sometimes wonder if our "universe" is actually a closed system.
No. The second law of thermodynamics applies to closed systems. If the system isn't closed, the entropy could go up or down. I don't know how you could consider the entire universe to not be closed. If it was open to more state, then that state by definition is part of the universe.
That doesn't make sense. The universe is cooling down, hence the entropy of the universe is going down, not up. The moment just after the Big Bang had the highest entropy, and it has been decreasing since
Nope. Entropy in physics is the number of microstates the universe can be in. With all the energy concentrated in one place, there are fewer possible states. With the energy spread around, there are many more possible states.
Meaningless. Spacetime expanded from it. Time is from it. The only source or cause of the big bang is that which is beyond space and time. By definition.
Nope. There are plenty of models that take us from a low entropy to high entropy universe and back again within the same set of rules.
My USA driving test was at around 2000. It involved driving around the block. The examiner said "Yep, you're good", signed the paper and I was done. My USA motorbike test was about 2 years ago. It involved riding slowly around a series of cones in a school yard while the examiner looked on.
My UK driving test was 24 years ago. It was 30-45 minute of driving around, emergency stops, reversing around corners, 3-point turns and being observed all the time for good observation and signal use.
My UK motorbike was maybe 18 years ago. I rode in front of an examiner who was on his own bike and we shared a radio headset link through which he gave commands. We rode around town, did emergency stops, slow riding, fast riding, filtering (riding between lines of cars at the lights) and a bunch of other stuff.
I've passed the driving and motorbike test in the UK and USA. The USA test is a joke compared to the UK test. The USA motorbike test didn't even take place on the open road. It was just a trip around a school yard. The USA driving test was a drive around the block.
> Every instruction is 32 bits long, clogging one's instruction bandwidth.
ARM Cortex-M processors use 16-bit instructions (Thumb and Thumb-2). They've had a while to optimise the instruction set for embedded and SoC.
Yes. Thumb. A major mode switch to use a smaller instruction. I've integrated a few ARMs into chips (first the ARM7TMDI) and they were pretty much a nightmare to bring into line with normal OS practices. 15 years later, everyone seems to think this cranky instruction set and system model is normal, because it's what they grew up with. Yet the funky interrupt model, the funky mode switching, the lack of standard device discovery (that Linus Torvalds complained about) and bandwidth hungry instructions do not stand together as an example of a great CPU architecture, just a successful one.
The 68000 series didn't keep up, by it was an order of magnitude easier to work with. Especially the microcontroller variants. That stuff matters when you are building products. Atmel do some nice CPUs for the low end that are a pleasure to use.
ARM got their position lodged in our phones by being willing to sell their CPU core at a time in the early 90s when few others would. Back then we were crying out for a PC-on-a-chip, so we could develop a phone radio on a PC card run the software on the PC, then just port directly to the same machine on an ASIC with a PC+phone logic. But the answer was no. GSM back then was heavy lifting. No amount of money would get you access to that core on your ASIC. Meanwhile, ARM was there in Cambridge, ready and willing to take your cheque. If ARC had been a bit quicker, they would have been the incumbent. The ARC CPU certainly was much better (faster, easier, smaller) than the ARM at the time. They sold soft macros too, compared to ARM's hard macros with nightmarish memory bus timing.
They both count. My troubles installing Linux on an old VIA board stalled first at CMOV. Finding a version of linux that was old enough to work on the CPU and new enough to boot from USB was a challenge.
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If the expiration dates are 2-3 years from the date of manufacture, presumably pharmacies could do a little better inventory management and not have to throw any out. 2 years warning is plenty. Just keep 1 year's supply on hand. If demand drops, don't buy any more until you need to.
>Are aged 18 or over?
Yes!
>OK. You may enter, figuratively.
Forcing the companies to provide the means to unencrypt all the data passing through it's services provides very little benefit
It provides no benefit, because the bad people will not use the backdoor'd encryption, they will use something else (if they buy a copy of Applied Cryptography second hand then they can just type in the cost listings for some secure algorithms and use their own version). On the other hand, the existence of a backdoor intrinsically makes a system insecure, so everyone else suffers from making it easier for criminals to gain access to their messages.
Yes. This. There has already been a few rounds of criminals adapting to the new security landscape. As soon as something is shown insecure, the criminals move on. The stupid ones might post their successes on Facebook, but the smartest ones obviously haven't been caught yet because they are cautious and they can read a book and write software.
My job involves designing and implementing crypto systems. If I was motivated to engage in a criminal pursuit needing comms (I'm not, the day job pays fine) I don't think it would be a challenge to put together a secure system that meets the needs of the task. I don't see why it would be a problem for an effective criminal enterprise to pay for development of their own non-backdoored comms system.
This happened in Madrid without the Mexican or Thai. We found an Italian restaurant with the flags and pasta pictures. Inside we were offered only Spanish food. They were especially proud of their paella.
Nice restaurant. Fraudulent advertising though.
There are two groups of people laughing at your comment. There's your fellow Americans, who actually believe it went down like that. And then there's everyone else. They're imagining a dumb fucking Yank walking into a restaurant in another country and trying to tell the staff that their food is of the wrong ethnicity. You do realise that every single one of them ejaculated in your paella don't you?
While the rest of the world laughs at your dim witted claim that I'm American. Since the paella was being cooked in the middle of the room, that would have been quite the spectacle.
Nixon instituted our current drug schedule which has probably killed more people by now than booze. He also championed our current dietary fiasco that is turning everyone obese while lining the pockets of wheat, corn, and sugar farmers. Yes, very much underrated as a source of evil, waste, and human misery.
It's a lot easier and probably more correct to peg the core of the nutrition disaster on McGovern. He probably brought about more premature deaths around the world than anyone. Check out what Mary Enig had to say on that (a scientist in the room of during the McGovern committee).
Make no mistake, this is a turf war.
Who's in charge? The user? The kernel? Ring-0?
The answer to this is different depending on the topic. The topic here is init and who gets to say what the rlimits are and how. There are lots of other topics - random numbers, filesystems, network attach-detatch, routing etc. For all these things and many more there has been a turf war along the lines of "We will fix this in the kernel!", "Oh no you won't, we will fix this with our daemon", "Oh no you won't, my userland administration tool will fix this".
This is generally fine, but for each there will be a slashdot thread with many jerks represented.
Try this: you open a restaurant named "Great Italian Food", and all the windows are plastered with Italian cuisine pictures and slogans. You then charge for admission to the restaurant. Once inside, people are given a menu, which has Italian-sounding names, but when the dishes are served, it turns out they're actually Mexican and Thai dishes. Almost nothing on your menu is actually Italian food.
This happened in Madrid without the Mexican or Thai. We found an Italian restaurant with the flags and pasta pictures. Inside we were offered only Spanish food. They were especially proud of their paella.
Nice restaurant. Fraudulent advertising though.
>And this is in Chevy Chase, Maryland.
Why did they name a neighborhood after a second rate comedian.
I think Amazon already has a logistics arm. The last mile will be handled by the local postal service unless the customer paid for better shipping.
To my house, Amazon shipments have been delivered by an Amazon employee in their own car for the past few months, sometimes the same day. For short distance delivery within a dense population when you have a lot of stuff to deliver, it's clearly cheaper to employ someone to deliver it than it is to use a postal service.
To build a new, unsinkable, super cruise liner ship. At least four chimneys will be required.
Entropy only applies to closed systems, correct?
I sometimes wonder if our "universe" is actually a closed system.
No. The second law of thermodynamics applies to closed systems. If the system isn't closed, the entropy could go up or down. I don't know how you could consider the entire universe to not be closed. If it was open to more state, then that state by definition is part of the universe.
That doesn't make sense. The universe is cooling down, hence the entropy of the universe is going down, not up. The moment just after the Big Bang had the highest entropy, and it has been decreasing since
Nope. Entropy in physics is the number of microstates the universe can be in. With all the energy concentrated in one place, there are fewer possible states. With the energy spread around, there are many more possible states.
Meaningless. Spacetime expanded from it. Time is from it. The only source or cause of the big bang is that which is beyond space and time.
By definition.
Nope. There are plenty of models that take us from a low entropy to high entropy universe and back again within the same set of rules.
How is doing things secretly under NDA "in the public interest"?
It's the first question he would be asked. "Will do discuss this under NDA". So he's getting that out of the way before they start.
>If you travel thru LHR I can understand that - it's a nightmare.
If you fly to LHR, fly first class and they give you a little pass that lets you go through a private security line with far less hassle.
I've never heard of someone planning to have drinks with someone Thursday on a Monday. Who makes casual plans like that?
Bars don't require people to brings friends. You just sit at them and order drinks. After a few drinks you start talking to other people at the bar.
>When Guido shows up saying, "It'd be a real shame if something happened to that brand o' yours."
Wouldn't Guido be making threats about your use of braces for defining scope?
My USA driving test was at around 2000. It involved driving around the block. The examiner said "Yep, you're good", signed the paper and I was done.
My USA motorbike test was about 2 years ago. It involved riding slowly around a series of cones in a school yard while the examiner looked on.
My UK driving test was 24 years ago. It was 30-45 minute of driving around, emergency stops, reversing around corners, 3-point turns and being observed all the time for good observation and signal use.
My UK motorbike was maybe 18 years ago. I rode in front of an examiner who was on his own bike and we shared a radio headset link through which he gave commands. We rode around town, did emergency stops, slow riding, fast riding, filtering (riding between lines of cars at the lights) and a bunch of other stuff.
>Oh please, more fanciful crap.
I've passed the driving and motorbike test in the UK and USA. The USA test is a joke compared to the UK test. The USA motorbike test didn't even take place on the open road. It was just a trip around a school yard. The USA driving test was a drive around the block.
I'd love to know what your definition of 'great Canadian' is.
My definition is the one who invented the escargot poutine I had in Ottowa.
> Every instruction is 32 bits long, clogging one's instruction bandwidth.
ARM Cortex-M processors use 16-bit instructions (Thumb and Thumb-2). They've had a while to optimise the instruction set for embedded and SoC.
Yes. Thumb. A major mode switch to use a smaller instruction. I've integrated a few ARMs into chips (first the ARM7TMDI) and they were pretty much a nightmare to bring into line with normal OS practices. 15 years later, everyone seems to think this cranky instruction set and system model is normal, because it's what they grew up with. Yet the funky interrupt model, the funky mode switching, the lack of standard device discovery (that Linus Torvalds complained about) and bandwidth hungry instructions do not stand together as an example of a great CPU architecture, just a successful one.
The 68000 series didn't keep up, by it was an order of magnitude easier to work with. Especially the microcontroller variants. That stuff matters when you are building products. Atmel do some nice CPUs for the low end that are a pleasure to use.
ARM got their position lodged in our phones by being willing to sell their CPU core at a time in the early 90s when few others would. Back then we were crying out for a PC-on-a-chip, so we could develop a phone radio on a PC card run the software on the PC, then just port directly to the same machine on an ASIC with a PC+phone logic. But the answer was no. GSM back then was heavy lifting. No amount of money would get you access to that core on your ASIC. Meanwhile, ARM was there in Cambridge, ready and willing to take your cheque. If ARC had been a bit quicker, they would have been the incumbent. The ARC CPU certainly was much better (faster, easier, smaller) than the ARM at the time. They sold soft macros too, compared to ARM's hard macros with nightmarish memory bus timing.
They both count. My troubles installing Linux on an old VIA board stalled first at CMOV.
Finding a version of linux that was old enough to work on the CPU and new enough to boot from USB was a challenge.
You can't legislate in Hanoi. There is only graft.
So everyone has extra limbs?
donotreply@eastlink.ca
The email he needs is noreply@his_own_domain_name.whatever_TLD_he_chooses.
Using your provider's domain name is going to mess you up sooner or later, most typically when you move house.
I thought that the 80386 was no longer supported by Linux?
CMOV? Where art thou CMOV?