They could counter the proxy by using SSL to transmit the image, and having the app include a key to authenticate the other end. Crackers couldn't break it, because any time they do a new version can be deployed in minutes. It'd still be pointless though, because breaking it through less sophisticated means would be trivial: Run in a virtual machine and screengrab that, or just hold a camera up to the display. The latter would degrade the image a bit, but quality will still be quite sufficient to show the boss that picture of your co-worker passed out in a pile of their own vomit at the office Christmas party.
Verified by VISA? I've seen that one. Whenever I have to buy something online, I need to enter an extra code in addition to the card number, expirary date and CCV. It seems quite pointless to me, because I have to enter them all at once - which means I store them all in the same place, and anyone who has compromised my system can key-log the whole lot at once. The only time it'll add any security is in stopping someone who stole the card from using it to buy things online, and if that was their goal it would be easier to just take the CCV number off the card. Plus, using VBV is optional for the merchant, so it just ensures the frauster would shop with some company that doesn't require it.
An ideal RNG uses a quantum entropy source. Usually thermal noise, sometimes radioactive decay. It has to be done in hardware. Some modern processers include a thermal noise RNG on-die, but for a high-volume application like banking that wouldn't be enough entropy, so they'd have to use an RNG periheral. You can get them as USB sticks or PCI(/e) cards.
The one-wire bus is actually three wires. Ground, power+data, and a seperate power wire. The latter is technically optional, but if you want to get a signal to reliably go more than a few meters you're going to need it. I use one-wire temperature sensors to monitor the temperature throughout my house, a relic of an old computerised heating project that never saw completion.
Goonswarm Alliance is a superpower in eve. It's long been a mystery how such a collection of mismatched personalities manages to stay so perfectly organised. Now we know: They had a professionally trained diplomat.
The Christian holy texts are a mess. Two testaments, contradictory rules, and a hundred get-out clauses thought up over the last two millenia. A lot of it is fuzzy statements of intent, easy to interpret as a reader wishes. The Koran is much shorter, and more like a book of rules: It says, in very clear language, how the religion works and what rules believers have to follow. When the Koran says something, it's much harder to justify ignoring it.
When was the last time the Jews had the *numbers* to pull off a decent angry mob? In terms of global population, they've been negligable since... well, forever, I think. They never controlled an empire - even at it's height ancient Israel was only a regional power, and the modern state is dependant upon external support for defence.
*were* doing. Islam today seems to be in many respects much like medieval Christianity - holy wars, oppressive governments, execution of heretics, and so on. Christianity changed. Sure, there are a number of crazies and extremists left - but when was the last time you saw an angry mob of Christians storming a British embassy and murdering diplomats because Dawkins insulted them? When it comes to modern religiously-inspired angry mobs, Islam leads with ease.
There's a little more to it than that, because you need to make sure the sync stays if the video decoder has to skip a frame or a lost packet occurs when streaming. Syncing is something the container format handles. Except for AVI, which sucks at it.
The night before the election, a mob of supporters for party X head into a district sympathetic to party Y and start cutting the phone and power cables.
Clean water is hard - rain is clean, but not dependable. Dirty water though is easy to find, so what you really need is a purification system. Not at all difficult to make - a simple slow-running solar still is one of the standard items survivalists prepare in advance, and they can be assembled from scrap with ease if you know how.
Try honey. It's probably the longest-lasting foodstuff you'll find naturally. Unfiltered honey, properly stored, has a shelf life measured in millenia. Bees have been co-evolving with bacteria and fungi for millions of years in a battle to make a microbe-proof honey. The bees won.
'What can you do' and 'what will people do?' are very different matters. There are plenty of things that can be done, but most aren't politically viable because they would require large numbers of people to make sacrifices they are unwilling to make - like paying more for goods, or using the bus in preference to their own car.
As I understand it - which is not very well - the former. It's not targetting javascript specifically, but rather is part of the security model in general. Something like a stricter version of DEP: The apps have code sections and data sections, the code sections are all tagged read-only, and the OS will refuse to execute anything not in a code section.
I'm surprised it isn't supporters of one party trying to syphon donations from candidates of the other. Neither of the big two would be dumb enough to try that in any official capacity (Lawyers would have a field day) but both have plenty of fanatical supporters who'd do anything to give their team a boost.
Voter surpression. There's a thousand ways to do it. The easiest is to target geographically. You find a place where you will find lots of supporters of the opposing party (If you're trying to stop republican voters, a church. If you're trying to stop democratic voters, a college campus) and spread your misinformation there. Election organisers also pull tricks like that all the time, like deliberatly under-allocating polling locations to districts they know would tend to vote for the enemy so some of the voters give up upon seeing the queue running around an entire city block. That's one of the reasons GW's first election saw such debate - the election in Florida was organised by his brother, and there were accusations that he had been using tricks like under-allocating booths to democrat-leaning areas.
And they'd perform like they were running on a Pentium I. The App Store rules forbid any application that compiles it's own executable code at runtime, as a security precaution. For most applications that wouldn't matter - it's a rather esoteric ability, used rarely. But for browsers it is essential for running JIT compilation of scripts. Without the JIT compilation, web-apps would be painfully slow to use. IE gets to use the technology, but MS is denying the same ability to any others browsers running on WinRT, or using the app store on Windows 8 x86.
The thinness thing annoys me too. It wasn't always like this - I think it started with the iPhone, and from there spread through all their other product lines. It's now reached the point where their top-of-the-line laptop has lost not only every possible route of upgrade but also the possibility of recycling, battery replacement and even the ethernet port in the name of shaving just a few millimeters more off the thickness.
While a lot of hobbyists will be using the Pi, the real target is education. It's cheap enough that when some kid steps on it, throws it against the wall in anger or pulls components off just for fun (I work in a school, all that happens) it can just be replaced. Your a10 board may be only twice the price, but that's a big difference in a sector where the most common cause of equipment failure is vandalism.
They do, I admit, make hardware of excellent build quality. But the strength of the company is, as you say, in their branding. They don't sell hardware, they sell a lifestyle and an image.
I'm a dabbling hobbyist. I'm allowed to do that, because my code isn't Serious Business. The most popular program I've written is a utility that analyses and displays the headers from Windows Media files. It's a handy thing, if you're trying to figure out why one of those files isn't playing at it should, but hardly world-changing. As proof of my non-trolling, I submit this extract from a program I wrote to research de-duplication for hard drive image backups:
//16777619 is a number needed for this to work. I don't understand the math fully, but I know being prime matters.
unsigned int hval=2166136261;//Also somehow special mathematically.
My comments tend to be more along the lines of 'Don't quite know how I wrote this, but it seems to function.' I'm just a hobbyist, but I suspect that more than a few mega-corp software engineering projects are the same. At least I don't use 0xB00B135
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They could counter the proxy by using SSL to transmit the image, and having the app include a key to authenticate the other end. Crackers couldn't break it, because any time they do a new version can be deployed in minutes. It'd still be pointless though, because breaking it through less sophisticated means would be trivial: Run in a virtual machine and screengrab that, or just hold a camera up to the display. The latter would degrade the image a bit, but quality will still be quite sufficient to show the boss that picture of your co-worker passed out in a pile of their own vomit at the office Christmas party.
Verified by VISA? I've seen that one. Whenever I have to buy something online, I need to enter an extra code in addition to the card number, expirary date and CCV. It seems quite pointless to me, because I have to enter them all at once - which means I store them all in the same place, and anyone who has compromised my system can key-log the whole lot at once. The only time it'll add any security is in stopping someone who stole the card from using it to buy things online, and if that was their goal it would be easier to just take the CCV number off the card. Plus, using VBV is optional for the merchant, so it just ensures the frauster would shop with some company that doesn't require it.
An ideal RNG uses a quantum entropy source. Usually thermal noise, sometimes radioactive decay. It has to be done in hardware. Some modern processers include a thermal noise RNG on-die, but for a high-volume application like banking that wouldn't be enough entropy, so they'd have to use an RNG periheral. You can get them as USB sticks or PCI(/e) cards.
The one-wire bus is actually three wires. Ground, power+data, and a seperate power wire. The latter is technically optional, but if you want to get a signal to reliably go more than a few meters you're going to need it. I use one-wire temperature sensors to monitor the temperature throughout my house, a relic of an old computerised heating project that never saw completion.
Goonswarm Alliance is a superpower in eve. It's long been a mystery how such a collection of mismatched personalities manages to stay so perfectly organised. Now we know: They had a professionally trained diplomat.
The Christian holy texts are a mess. Two testaments, contradictory rules, and a hundred get-out clauses thought up over the last two millenia. A lot of it is fuzzy statements of intent, easy to interpret as a reader wishes. The Koran is much shorter, and more like a book of rules: It says, in very clear language, how the religion works and what rules believers have to follow. When the Koran says something, it's much harder to justify ignoring it.
When was the last time the Jews had the *numbers* to pull off a decent angry mob? In terms of global population, they've been negligable since... well, forever, I think. They never controlled an empire - even at it's height ancient Israel was only a regional power, and the modern state is dependant upon external support for defence.
*were* doing. Islam today seems to be in many respects much like medieval Christianity - holy wars, oppressive governments, execution of heretics, and so on. Christianity changed. Sure, there are a number of crazies and extremists left - but when was the last time you saw an angry mob of Christians storming a British embassy and murdering diplomats because Dawkins insulted them? When it comes to modern religiously-inspired angry mobs, Islam leads with ease.
There's a little more to it than that, because you need to make sure the sync stays if the video decoder has to skip a frame or a lost packet occurs when streaming. Syncing is something the container format handles. Except for AVI, which sucks at it.
They do give schools a discount, but it's not huge. They market to schools, of course, but Microsoft does the same.
The night before the election, a mob of supporters for party X head into a district sympathetic to party Y and start cutting the phone and power cables.
Clean water is hard - rain is clean, but not dependable. Dirty water though is easy to find, so what you really need is a purification system. Not at all difficult to make - a simple slow-running solar still is one of the standard items survivalists prepare in advance, and they can be assembled from scrap with ease if you know how.
Try honey. It's probably the longest-lasting foodstuff you'll find naturally. Unfiltered honey, properly stored, has a shelf life measured in millenia. Bees have been co-evolving with bacteria and fungi for millions of years in a battle to make a microbe-proof honey. The bees won.
'What can you do' and 'what will people do?' are very different matters. There are plenty of things that can be done, but most aren't politically viable because they would require large numbers of people to make sacrifices they are unwilling to make - like paying more for goods, or using the bus in preference to their own car.
No, I think the food in round cans and rectagular packages is $DOG food.
As I understand it - which is not very well - the former. It's not targetting javascript specifically, but rather is part of the security model in general. Something like a stricter version of DEP: The apps have code sections and data sections, the code sections are all tagged read-only, and the OS will refuse to execute anything not in a code section.
I'm surprised it isn't supporters of one party trying to syphon donations from candidates of the other. Neither of the big two would be dumb enough to try that in any official capacity (Lawyers would have a field day) but both have plenty of fanatical supporters who'd do anything to give their team a boost.
Voter surpression. There's a thousand ways to do it. The easiest is to target geographically. You find a place where you will find lots of supporters of the opposing party (If you're trying to stop republican voters, a church. If you're trying to stop democratic voters, a college campus) and spread your misinformation there. Election organisers also pull tricks like that all the time, like deliberatly under-allocating polling locations to districts they know would tend to vote for the enemy so some of the voters give up upon seeing the queue running around an entire city block. That's one of the reasons GW's first election saw such debate - the election in Florida was organised by his brother, and there were accusations that he had been using tricks like under-allocating booths to democrat-leaning areas.
And they'd perform like they were running on a Pentium I. The App Store rules forbid any application that compiles it's own executable code at runtime, as a security precaution. For most applications that wouldn't matter - it's a rather esoteric ability, used rarely. But for browsers it is essential for running JIT compilation of scripts. Without the JIT compilation, web-apps would be painfully slow to use. IE gets to use the technology, but MS is denying the same ability to any others browsers running on WinRT, or using the app store on Windows 8 x86.
The thinness thing annoys me too. It wasn't always like this - I think it started with the iPhone, and from there spread through all their other product lines. It's now reached the point where their top-of-the-line laptop has lost not only every possible route of upgrade but also the possibility of recycling, battery replacement and even the ethernet port in the name of shaving just a few millimeters more off the thickness.
While a lot of hobbyists will be using the Pi, the real target is education. It's cheap enough that when some kid steps on it, throws it against the wall in anger or pulls components off just for fun (I work in a school, all that happens) it can just be replaced. Your a10 board may be only twice the price, but that's a big difference in a sector where the most common cause of equipment failure is vandalism.
They do, I admit, make hardware of excellent build quality. But the strength of the company is, as you say, in their branding. They don't sell hardware, they sell a lifestyle and an image.
I'm a dabbling hobbyist. I'm allowed to do that, because my code isn't Serious Business. The most popular program I've written is a utility that analyses and displays the headers from Windows Media files. It's a handy thing, if you're trying to figure out why one of those files isn't playing at it should, but hardly world-changing. As proof of my non-trolling, I submit this extract from a program I wrote to research de-duplication for hard drive image backups:
//16777619 is a number needed for this to work. I don't understand the math fully, but I know being prime matters. //Also somehow special mathematically.
unsigned int hval=2166136261;
If I saw that, I'd conclude that the convert-to-string bit was put in first, and the make-it-lowercase a later addition to the code.
My comments tend to be more along the lines of 'Don't quite know how I wrote this, but it seems to function.' I'm just a hobbyist, but I suspect that more than a few mega-corp software engineering projects are the same. At least I don't use 0xB00B135