Bit off-topic, but good is an ATSC tuner? I mean, practically speaking, don't most cable companies encrypt ALL the channels, just because they can? I know Comcast does. In the US, I mean. *sigh*
Umm.. It can tune to the signal received by a TV antenna.
Wowzers, you talked to 5,600 people, out of 320,000,000+ in this country.
You link to EIA info that shows a +4% increase in one-two TV owners.
5000+ is a perfectly fine sample size providing it's a properly randomized sample. Of course it's never a properly randomized sample when it comes to household surveys.
Isn't that what he's saying? Monitors don't have ota TV tuners. More people are using monitors in place of TV's. OTA TV therefore, is on the decline. The article missed the forest. Streaming, as we all know, is become our future.
Indeed. I suspect the tuner-TV combo is close to its final generation. We have a TV, but it's probably our last. All watching is done on computers. We have a HD-Homerun that tunes and dumps the video onto ethernet, which is enormously more useful. The youngsters seem to watch everything on phones. Presumably the children of the youngsters will be watching TV on their 5th generation iWatches.
It'll only take 2 generations to die off and the TV will seem like a quaint throwback and OTA TV transmission will be switched off and the spectrum sold to the highest bidder.
I recently encountered a site which had a maximum password length of 20 characters. My password now contains a message to whoever thought this was a good idea. I'm pretty sure somebody will read that message soon enough.
On a work laptop, I can write to my 'c:\Users\\Documents' folder, but if I try to access it via the various shortcuts on the left of the file manager, I am denied access. No UAC, even though I have the password for that. The permissions on the thing vary based on the path you access it by? That's messed up.
I realize this is Slashdot and we have to hate Microsoft and Windows, but what you described doesn't happen on a normal system. It's like the users on this site become complete Luddites when dealing with a Windows machine.
It's a work system. It has whatever IT did to it, which is a spattering of the usual anti-virus stuff. It happens. Should I think better of Windows because it doesn't happen to some other people?
I run with admin rights on my Windows 10 machine because it's the default and it's a pain in the neck to run without. "Sorry you don't have permissions to set the clock".
Have you also turned off UAC prompts? Because when I set the time it prompts me for the admin password and it works fine. I don't ever see the message that I don't have permissions to set the clock; I just see the icon on the button to set the time which shows that it will perform an elevation (prompt for password) to run it.
That was an exaggeration for emphasis. I could be more specific.. On a work laptop, I can write to my 'c:\Users\\Documents' folder, but if I try to access it via the various shortcuts on the left of the file manager, I am denied access. No UAC, even though I have the password for that. The permissions on the thing vary based on the path you access it by? That's messed up.
Why does windows ask for the admin password to get rid of an icon?
Because those icons are stored in the shared desktop folder (default: C:\Users\Public\Desktop). Any file or icon here will be visible on the desktop of every user. If you shared a computer with other users, then you might not want the other people to be able to edit the icons that appear on your desktop because they could alter them to run malicious software instead. If you ran a program where you needed to login with a password, then they could write their own mock version of the software that logs the passwords and change the desktop icon to run it instead.
If you don't share the computer with other people, then you could grant write permission on the shared desktop folder to all users. Then you could delete and update automatically created icons to your heart's content.
I run with admin rights on my Windows 10 machine because it's the default and it's a pain in the neck to run without. "Sorry you don't have permissions to set the clock".
My own opinion here is that Linus is right. It's close to midnight, so I don't feel like backing that up with anything
What LT says about adding type and length is correct. The collision attack on SHA-1 won't work as a result. Transition to a better hash is appropriate.
Type 1 diabetic here. If your extra pancreas works alright, I'd be happy cut it out of..er, take it off your hands.
I assume the claims are regarding type 2. Kind of the opposite disease to type 1. No alpha cells, vs no beta cells. But I'll keep a spare pancreas on ice in case I need one in the future.
Well it hung around for a long time in the singular state (metallic hydrogen and solid diamond in a regular crystal). That was the low entropy state log2(1/num_states) = 0. That was also the metastable state. It was sitting on the metaphorical knife edge ready to fall off at any point. It did and now its in the new higher entropy and more stable state of "Splattered all over the lab and floating as a gas". log2(1/billions_of_states) = a much bigger number.
However it seems it was pushed by a laser light. In metastability in circuits we normally deal with thermal noise doing the pushing, but the noise is part of the system. So deciding what is in the system and what is not determines whether or not it's metastable.
There are certain scientific and data processing applications
Amazing, that's exactly what I need them for! More the merrier. If you see me on Facebook, it's because I'm waiting on my PC to do something. I use "the cloud" for jobs that are worth the effort of setting up there. But most of the time I'm waiting on my local PC, and double the number of cores would approximately halve that wait.
Ditto. I'm regularly maxing out local i7s on long simulations and computations. I look at all that GPU area on the die and think it would be nice if they added a few more cores instead. I think there are more of us out there than people think. Not everything is serving crappy XML over crappy REST protocols.
That being said, this happens more and more. Someone is responsible for renewing certificates, but as we renew them for longer and longer periods, that means we simply start to forget about them.
An alternative viewpoint is that this is one of the ludicrously bad failings of PKI. Requiring someone to remember to do an infrequent and short task at a point 1 or 2 years in the future, or the whole system collapses when they forget or leave or get booted. We could fix (I.E. delete and replace) PKI and this specific failure would not happen, so the overworked IT staff can go back to deploying Windows NT patches.
But, from a common sense 30,000 foot perspective, if there is even the slightest effect among the majority of these apps of embarrassing you into getting off your ass a little more often, isn't that likely to be a net health positive?
Damn it! 10,000 steps a day was hard enough! Now you're saying 30,000 feet is the common sense amount? That's an extra 2000-3000 steps per day!
If you start at 30,000 feet, terminal velocity will be reached quite quickly and the word terminal can be interpreted in at least two ways.
Wait, you don't like numpads? We can have a holy war! I can't deal with anything without a friggin numpad. Feels totally derp to try to enter more than a few numbers without one. I didn't realize there were people who actually don't like the numpad for some heretical reason. EEEEEIIIIIINFIDELLL!!!
Because the keyboard it not centered on the screen, or more importantly, it's not centered under my hands. On a desktop I can move the keyboard to the right to compensate. Since I don't use the num pad, I don't need it and I save a bunch of desk space with a nice HHKB pro 2.
Also a computer num pad is upside down relative to phones.
Yes. That's why I searched and searched and searched for the edit button, but Slashdot inadvertently forgot to implement it, every day, since my low 6 digit UID was minted.
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Bit off-topic, but good is an ATSC tuner? I mean, practically speaking, don't most cable companies encrypt ALL the channels, just because they can? I know Comcast does. In the US, I mean. *sigh*
Umm.. It can tune to the signal received by a TV antenna.
Wowzers, you talked to 5,600 people, out of 320,000,000+ in this country.
You link to EIA info that shows a +4% increase in one-two TV owners.
5000+ is a perfectly fine sample size providing it's a properly randomized sample. Of course it's never a properly randomized sample when it comes to household surveys.
I wonder how many other cord-cutters are the same.
Plenty. I didn't have a TV until I was married. TV is poor entertainment compared to a fast PC and a Steam account.
Isn't that what he's saying? Monitors don't have ota TV tuners. More people are using monitors in place of TV's. OTA TV therefore, is on the decline. The article missed the forest. Streaming, as we all know, is become our future.
Indeed. I suspect the tuner-TV combo is close to its final generation. We have a TV, but it's probably our last. All watching is done on computers. We have a HD-Homerun that tunes and dumps the video onto ethernet, which is enormously more useful. The youngsters seem to watch everything on phones. Presumably the children of the youngsters will be watching TV on their 5th generation iWatches.
It'll only take 2 generations to die off and the TV will seem like a quaint throwback and OTA TV transmission will be switched off and the spectrum sold to the highest bidder.
I recently encountered a site which had a maximum password length of 20 characters.
My password now contains a message to whoever thought this was a good idea.
I'm pretty sure somebody will read that message soon enough.
I know a bank that does this : http://northwest-bank.com/
Bizarre.
It's hard to administer a computer network when you're sitting on a horse.
On a work laptop, I can write to my 'c:\Users\\Documents' folder, but if I try to access it via the various shortcuts on the left of the file manager, I am denied access. No UAC, even though I have the password for that. The permissions on the thing vary based on the path you access it by? That's messed up.
I realize this is Slashdot and we have to hate Microsoft and Windows, but what you described doesn't happen on a normal system. It's like the users on this site become complete Luddites when dealing with a Windows machine.
It's a work system. It has whatever IT did to it, which is a spattering of the usual anti-virus stuff. It happens. Should I think better of Windows because it doesn't happen to some other people?
I run with admin rights on my Windows 10 machine because it's the default and it's a pain in the neck to run without. "Sorry you don't have permissions to set the clock".
Have you also turned off UAC prompts? Because when I set the time it prompts me for the admin password and it works fine. I don't ever see the message that I don't have permissions to set the clock; I just see the icon on the button to set the time which shows that it will perform an elevation (prompt for password) to run it.
That was an exaggeration for emphasis. I could be more specific.. On a work laptop, I can write to my 'c:\Users\\Documents' folder, but if I try to access it via the various shortcuts on the left of the file manager, I am denied access. No UAC, even though I have the password for that. The permissions on the thing vary based on the path you access it by? That's messed up.
Why does windows ask for the admin password to get rid of an icon?
Because those icons are stored in the shared desktop folder (default: C:\Users\Public\Desktop). Any file or icon here will be visible on the desktop of every user. If you shared a computer with other users, then you might not want the other people to be able to edit the icons that appear on your desktop because they could alter them to run malicious software instead. If you ran a program where you needed to login with a password, then they could write their own mock version of the software that logs the passwords and change the desktop icon to run it instead.
If you don't share the computer with other people, then you could grant write permission on the shared desktop folder to all users. Then you could delete and update automatically created icons to your heart's content.
Or you could run with admin rights.
Who runs with full admin rights?
Define 'full'.
I run with admin rights on my Windows 10 machine because it's the default and it's a pain in the neck to run without. "Sorry you don't have permissions to set the clock".
My own opinion here is that Linus is right. It's close to midnight, so I don't feel like backing that up with anything
What LT says about adding type and length is correct. The collision attack on SHA-1 won't work as a result. Transition to a better hash is appropriate.
Type 1 diabetic here. If your extra pancreas works alright, I'd be happy cut it out of..er, take it off your hands.
I assume the claims are regarding type 2. Kind of the opposite disease to type 1. No alpha cells, vs no beta cells.
But I'll keep a spare pancreas on ice in case I need one in the future.
But the CA model certainly does.
Well it hung around for a long time in the singular state (metallic hydrogen and solid diamond in a regular crystal). That was the low entropy state log2(1/num_states) = 0. That was also the metastable state. It was sitting on the metaphorical knife edge ready to fall off at any point. It did and now its in the new higher entropy and more stable state of "Splattered all over the lab and floating as a gas". log2(1/billions_of_states) = a much bigger number.
However it seems it was pushed by a laser light. In metastability in circuits we normally deal with thermal noise doing the pushing, but the noise is part of the system. So deciding what is in the system and what is not determines whether or not it's metastable.
Does that mean it wasn't meta-stable then?
No. It indeed is metastable.
It resolved to a higher entropy state. This is normal.
Writing a spec that takes something computers do well and humans to badly and handing it over to the humans.
The spec has done no such thing.
Show me where in any X.509/PKI/Application auth related spec it solves the automated continuity problem.
Nope it's a bad failing of PKI. Writing a spec that takes something computers do well and humans to badly and handing it over to the humans.
Not everybody has an IT department. Do you think they should not benefit from communication security because they don't fit the PKI model well.
Then you will know you job is safe for a while.
We Lisp people knew we would eventually exploit higher order functions. Problem is that C++ and Java people convinced the world that macros are bad.
Unreadable code is bad.
There are certain scientific and data processing applications
Amazing, that's exactly what I need them for! More the merrier. If you see me on Facebook, it's because I'm waiting on my PC to do something. I use "the cloud" for jobs that are worth the effort of setting up there. But most of the time I'm waiting on my local PC, and double the number of cores would approximately halve that wait.
Ditto. I'm regularly maxing out local i7s on long simulations and computations. I look at all that GPU area on the die and think it would be nice if they added a few more cores instead. I think there are more of us out there than people think. Not everything is serving crappy XML over crappy REST protocols.
That being said, this happens more and more. Someone is responsible for renewing certificates, but as we renew them for longer and longer periods, that means we simply start to forget about them.
An alternative viewpoint is that this is one of the ludicrously bad failings of PKI. Requiring someone to remember to do an infrequent and short task at a point 1 or 2 years in the future, or the whole system collapses when they forget or leave or get booted. We could fix (I.E. delete and replace) PKI and this specific failure would not happen, so the overworked IT staff can go back to deploying Windows NT patches.
But, from a common sense 30,000 foot perspective, if there is even the slightest effect among the majority of these apps of embarrassing you into getting off your ass a little more often, isn't that likely to be a net health positive?
Damn it! 10,000 steps a day was hard enough! Now you're saying 30,000 feet is the common sense amount? That's an extra 2000-3000 steps per day!
If you start at 30,000 feet, terminal velocity will be reached quite quickly and the word terminal can be interpreted in at least two ways.
Wait, you don't like numpads? We can have a holy war! I can't deal with anything without a friggin numpad. Feels totally derp to try to enter more than a few numbers without one. I didn't realize there were people who actually don't like the numpad for some heretical reason. EEEEEIIIIIINFIDELLL!!!
Because the keyboard it not centered on the screen, or more importantly, it's not centered under my hands.
On a desktop I can move the keyboard to the right to compensate. Since I don't use the num pad, I don't need it and I save a bunch of desk space with a nice HHKB pro 2.
Also a computer num pad is upside down relative to phones.
Yes. That's why I searched and searched and searched for the edit button, but Slashdot inadvertently forgot to implement it, every day, since my low 6 digit UID was minted.
Oh well - afgam28 pointed out the Oryz has a num pad. So throw it in the bin. It's useless with a crap keyboard shoved over to the right.