How small is small? Last project I worked on I programmed a STM32F103 (72 MHz Cortex M-3 with 64 kB of RAM and 512 kB of Flash) in C++, and it was way more pleasant than C.
Smallness is relative.
If you can use a C compiler for your platform, it's not as small as things that are too small to support C.
JWICS was allegedly one of the networks accessed by Chelsea Manning, who in 2010 leaked massive amounts of classified material, including the video used in Wikileaks' Collateral murder and US diplomatic cables.[3]
So very secure.
Yes it's a lot more complex than that. Email presents a particularly gnarly set of security issues. Especially when communicating outside the walled garden you make for yourself which relevant to this.
It's entirely possible the server was run by a blithering idiot. It's entirely possible the server was run by a person with a clear security vision and the ability to execute it. There's some evidence the government emails systems were not. Relative to each other (Hillary's email server vs say the diplomatic wire service) I know I don't know which is better.
Being able to admit one doesn't know something seems strangely absent in this thread, yet most people don't know the details of the server configuration.
>Walk in and tell your boss that you will be using your own personal server for all company business. Then reassure him that it's ok because your server is more secure than the company's, or at least no worse. That makes it ok, right?
Given my job, my boss would wonder why I bothering him with these details.
It's not possible to be increasingly useless. They could be increasingly less useful, but useless already means that they are no longer useful in any way.
Unfortunately for us readers, they became useless years ago.
It was already useless. What has happened is that it has become more robustly useless. There are multiple ways in which is it useless and any one of those ways is sufficient. Making it partially useful required fixing all the problems that make it useless. By adding more problems that ensure it is useless, its uselessness is rendered more robust against attempt to fix or justify it.
The context of the exponential thing was the cost of brake rotors, which pretty do much follow an exponential distribution. I saw one end of that when I worked on an F1 team.
You seem very intent on trying to convince me to maintain my own car. It's not going to happen.
> The problem is that sensitive info which was supposed to be handled securely was not.
This was universal. The government has shown itself incapable of securely hosting email several times. I haven't seen any credible evidence that the email server everyone is calling insecure is any less or more secure than any other email server of the time.
In this instance it had a bunch of screen buttons for esc, meta, ctrl-d, |, ~, arrow keys etc. I haven't seen it again. If I charged my old android phone I could find the name.
I don't dispute that these things might exist in iOS. I failed to find them once, but it's not a day to day thing for me. I have a laptop most of the time.
Changing the oil and filter on a car isn't a hobby nor is it fixing. It's routine maintenance.
It's routine maintenance that I pay a mechanic to do. I don't plan to own a funky wrench. I don't plan to own a car lift (since access to the filter on my last two cars was from below). I don't plan to collect dirty oil and then transport it to some dirty oil disposal center.
Looking at the Classic, I can see clearly why it failed. It's like something from a decade ago. Sure, it's good to have a keyboard, but not at the expense of the screen! They got it right with the Priv and its sliding keyboard, that one is something I'd consider if I were thinking of buying a smartphone now.
My experience of the priv keyboard was that the keys didn't work right. I remember the BB keys being convex and it was easy for your fingers to glom onto the center of the key. The priv keys felt convex and didn't give the right feedback.
With a full unix compatible qwerty physical keyboard and android and selling it to nerds, devs, and sysadmins who need a remote computing device with a proper physical keyboard (even if we have to use function keys to get the full range of keys on their text message oriented keyboard?
It is called the BlackBerry Priv running BlackBerry Android. It has a slider physical keyboard although the ESCape key is missing which is annoying. Fortunately there are text editors (vi/vim) and secure shell clients available as apps for BlackBerry Android so it is still possible and enjoyable to use the BlackBerry Priv for *nix related tasks. I use it daily.
We (me & my wife) missed the old BB keyboards. We tried the priv keyboard in the store. It was not the same. It was not as good. We didn't buy it.
I had a terminal program on android that did these things. I forget the name. I've since become beappled and I don't have a terminal program on iOS that comes close.
You're ignoring the 'equivalent time and facilities' bit. In my case that would be a lab and knowing how to use it. I can't think of useful things that people would pay for that would take less than an hour, but for the things people do want, it's going to cost more than $1000/hour.
I'd prefer to spend the $700 and not have to deal with it.
I'd rather find a guy who charges a rate that isn't an order of magnitude above the average.
I have no clue what the average of an exponential distribution is, because there isn't one. Basic statistics. For my car, changing out the rotors might easily cost $700.
Careful feeling superior in your rule of thumb. The used market for a similar vehicle of my current driving vehicle said that saving anything more than $1000 meant looking at a vehicle with 60k-75k miles on it. Nothing like saving $3000 to be a few oil changes from stranded somewhere looking at a $3000 repair.
That's odd. I got a nice car with 50K on the clock for 50% of the new price, which sounds about right.
Many decent family cars out there are NOT, in any way, 34K new. A new Mazda 3 is a sensible car and starts under 20K. A Camry is 25K. You could buy a 350Z for less than 34K!
>I'm my area (Greater Vancouver)... In the last two weeks basically one in every third house in about 5 block radius around me has gone up for sale.
This is because people finally internalized that they won't get a new bridge until the current one falls down and kills people, due to the people they voted into power. The only way to avoid crossing a draw bridge on an Interstate that seems to lift every rush hour is to live on the other side of it.
Man a lot of people don't even know how to change an oil filter. If anything goes wrong once it's out of warranty they're at the mercy of a mechanic. It's like people having to take their computer to best buy because it wont boot, most end up just buying a new one when all they needed was a new hard drive.
I know how to do that. I take the car to the mechanic near where I work, walk to work, walk back at the end of the day and pick it up complete with fresh oil and oil filter.
>If you don't have any mechanical ability you should buy a new car. It's terribly expensive compared to used but if you have to pay a mechanic unless you personally know a good one you're going to pay out the ass for repairs.
Only if the car is borked. I've yet to purchase a truly borked used car and I've had a few in my life. The odds are with the used car buyer, regardless of their mechanical skills or proximity to a trustworthy mechanic. Labor is expensive but my labor is a lot more expensive than theirs.
I can't imagine getting only 5-7 years out of a car, let alone a new car. What are these guys doing to their vehicles?
They're buying new ones because they want the new shiny models with the iShiny features.
It's worth considering that there are older cars that are awesome and remain awesome regardless of their age. You can do the sums on total cost of ownership and convince yourself you're better off with a new car, but the fact remains that most people can't drop $35k on a car and many who could (myself included) simply will not.
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How far does one have to go to get a funny mod around here?
How small is small? Last project I worked on I programmed a STM32F103 (72 MHz Cortex M-3 with 64 kB of RAM and 512 kB of Flash) in C++, and it was way more pleasant than C.
Smallness is relative.
If you can use a C compiler for your platform, it's not as small as things that are too small to support C.
From the wiki article you linked...
JWICS was allegedly one of the networks accessed by Chelsea Manning, who in 2010 leaked massive amounts of classified material, including the video used in Wikileaks' Collateral murder and US diplomatic cables.[3]
So very secure.
Yes it's a lot more complex than that. Email presents a particularly gnarly set of security issues. Especially when communicating outside the walled garden you make for yourself which relevant to this.
It's entirely possible the server was run by a blithering idiot. It's entirely possible the server was run by a person with a clear security vision and the ability to execute it. There's some evidence the government emails systems were not. Relative to each other (Hillary's email server vs say the diplomatic wire service) I know I don't know which is better.
Being able to admit one doesn't know something seems strangely absent in this thread, yet most people don't know the details of the server configuration.
>Walk in and tell your boss that you will be using your own personal server for all company business. Then reassure him that it's ok because your server is more secure than the company's, or at least no worse. That makes it ok, right?
Given my job, my boss would wonder why I bothering him with these details.
It's not possible to be increasingly useless. They could be increasingly less useful, but useless already means that they are no longer useful in any way.
Unfortunately for us readers, they became useless years ago.
It was already useless. What has happened is that it has become more robustly useless. There are multiple ways in which is it useless and any one of those ways is sufficient. Making it partially useful required fixing all the problems that make it useless. By adding more problems that ensure it is useless, its uselessness is rendered more robust against attempt to fix or justify it.
Until robots get a vote, they will always be abused like this.
The context of the exponential thing was the cost of brake rotors, which pretty do much follow an exponential distribution. I saw one end of that when I worked on an F1 team.
You seem very intent on trying to convince me to maintain my own car. It's not going to happen.
Right. Whatever is convenient for the crypto-fantasists.
I thought crypto-fantasists are the ones who think the P curves are sound.
> The problem is that sensitive info which was supposed to be handled securely was not.
This was universal. The government has shown itself incapable of securely hosting email several times. I haven't seen any credible evidence that the email server everyone is calling insecure is any less or more secure than any other email server of the time.
Exchange worked with the Blackberry email service. This is why it was demanded.
In this instance it had a bunch of screen buttons for esc, meta, ctrl-d, |, ~, arrow keys etc.
I haven't seen it again. If I charged my old android phone I could find the name.
I don't dispute that these things might exist in iOS. I failed to find them once, but it's not a day to day thing for me. I have a laptop most of the time.
>I have hobbies. Fixing cars isn't one of them.
Changing the oil and filter on a car isn't a hobby nor is it fixing. It's routine maintenance.
It's routine maintenance that I pay a mechanic to do. I don't plan to own a funky wrench. I don't plan to own a car lift (since access to the filter on my last two cars was from below). I don't plan to collect dirty oil and then transport it to some dirty oil disposal center.
Looking at the Classic, I can see clearly why it failed. It's like something from a decade ago. Sure, it's good to have a keyboard, but not at the expense of the screen! They got it right with the Priv and its sliding keyboard, that one is something I'd consider if I were thinking of buying a smartphone now.
My experience of the priv keyboard was that the keys didn't work right. I remember the BB keys being convex and it was easy for your fingers to glom onto the center of the key. The priv keys felt convex and didn't give the right feedback.
With a full unix compatible qwerty physical keyboard and android and selling it to nerds, devs, and sysadmins who need a remote computing device with a proper physical keyboard (even if we have to use function keys to get the full range of keys on their text message oriented keyboard?
It is called the BlackBerry Priv running BlackBerry Android. It has a slider physical keyboard although the ESCape key is missing which is annoying. Fortunately there are text editors (vi/vim) and secure shell clients available as apps for BlackBerry Android so it is still possible and enjoyable to use the BlackBerry Priv for *nix related tasks. I use it daily.
We (me & my wife) missed the old BB keyboards. We tried the priv keyboard in the store. It was not the same. It was not as good. We didn't buy it.
I had a terminal program on android that did these things. I forget the name.
I've since become beappled and I don't have a terminal program on iOS that comes close.
with my android bar-phone
What's a bar phone? I use my usual phone at the bar. I hadn't considered getting a separate one just for the bar.
I would charge a heck of a lot more than $700
For a task that takes less than an hour?
You're ignoring the 'equivalent time and facilities' bit. In my case that would be a lab and knowing how to use it. I can't think of useful things that people would pay for that would take less than an hour, but for the things people do want, it's going to cost more than $1000/hour.
I'd prefer to spend the $700 and not have to deal with it.
I'd rather find a guy who charges a rate that isn't an order of magnitude above the average.
I have no clue what the average of an exponential distribution is, because there isn't one. Basic statistics. For my car, changing out the rotors might easily cost $700.
Careful feeling superior in your rule of thumb. The used market for a similar vehicle of my current driving vehicle said that saving anything more than $1000 meant looking at a vehicle with 60k-75k miles on it. Nothing like saving $3000 to be a few oil changes from stranded somewhere looking at a $3000 repair.
That's odd. I got a nice car with 50K on the clock for 50% of the new price, which sounds about right.
Many decent family cars out there are NOT, in any way, 34K new. A new Mazda 3 is a sensible car and starts under 20K. A Camry is 25K. You could buy a 350Z for less than 34K!
Get the Z. Mazda 3? 350Z? It's not a hard choice.
>I'm my area (Greater Vancouver)... In the last two weeks basically one in every third house in about 5 block radius around me has gone up for sale.
This is because people finally internalized that they won't get a new bridge until the current one falls down and kills people, due to the people they voted into power. The only way to avoid crossing a draw bridge on an Interstate that seems to lift every rush hour is to live on the other side of it.
EEPROMs? What one of those grandpa?
Maybe you can get a UV erase box on ebay.
In the summer, my convertible has great visibility. No thick corners at all.
Not so much in winter though.
Man a lot of people don't even know how to change an oil filter. If anything goes wrong once it's out of warranty they're at the mercy of a mechanic. It's like people having to take their computer to best buy because it wont boot, most end up just buying a new one when all they needed was a new hard drive.
I know how to do that. I take the car to the mechanic near where I work, walk to work, walk back at the end of the day and pick it up complete with fresh oil and oil filter.
I have hobbies. Fixing cars isn't one of them.
>If you don't have any mechanical ability you should buy a new car. It's terribly expensive compared to used but if you have to pay a mechanic unless you personally know a good one you're going to pay out the ass for repairs.
Only if the car is borked. I've yet to purchase a truly borked used car and I've had a few in my life. The odds are with the used car buyer, regardless of their mechanical skills or proximity to a trustworthy mechanic. Labor is expensive but my labor is a lot more expensive than theirs.
I can't imagine getting only 5-7 years out of a car, let alone a new car. What are these guys doing to their vehicles?
They're buying new ones because they want the new shiny models with the iShiny features.
It's worth considering that there are older cars that are awesome and remain awesome regardless of their age. You can do the sums on total cost of ownership and convince yourself you're better off with a new car, but the fact remains that most people can't drop $35k on a car and many who could (myself included) simply will not.