Some ARM variants do have hardware RNG, although I think it's a manufacturer extension rather than a part of the ABI. I was actually thinking of going that route with an Atmel ARM that has USB 2.0 high speed and a hardware RNG, which they claim "passes" NIST tests and Diehard.
The built in RNG is a little slow though so I'd be using the same techniques I am on XMEGA to generate more entrophy, which is basically to use two ADCs to measure thermal noise in the on-board temperature sensor and discard all but the lowest order bit, and when I get 8 such bits I throw them into the hardware CRC32 generator and grab a single byte from its output.
I need to do more tests, such as using more than 8 bits of the CRC32 output. If I was building a custom USB dongle I'd include a reverse biased transistor source too. I want to investigate 5V options to avoid needing a 12V boost converter, or maybe I can use a simple voltage doubler to get 10V since that's only a diode and capacitor.
In Europe, ideas like disregard for human rights, xenophobia, promoting individualism, building up the military etc are policies of the right.
The right also tends to be more religious, and wants to force its ideas of morality on to people. For example, by opposing abortion and rejecting anything but a narrow, religiously defined concept of marriage. The right seeks to limit some freedoms too, just different ones to the left.
And speaking of freedom, Europe has a different concept of what freedom is to the US. In the US it's very much focused on freedom from interference by the government, so even if you are rotting in the gutter you are still freer than a European who is given shelter and medical care by the government. In Europe, freedom isn't just freedom from limitations, it's freedom to live some kind of bearable, not-terrible life, even if that does create a small burden on you when your life isn't so bad.
Nazis, aka National -Socialists-, are NOT far right. They are of the Left. Perhaps right of communism
That's one of the greatest cons ever. They adopted socialist policies to gain popularity - typical demagogue stuff, promise to bring all the jobs back, blame all the problems on some identifiable group (the Jews) etc. Once they got into power they forgot all that stuff and enacted far right policies, which was their intention all along, and forgot about the socialist stuff.
The barrier to entry for the dark web, low as it may be, is probably enough to deter a lot of people from bothering to regularly visit the site and become radicalized.
So those guys displaying swastikas, giving Nazi salutes, chanting "blood and soil", one wearing a t-shirt that said "Nazi" on it... Those guys weren't Nazis?
It wasn't a small group or one or two people, it was large numbers of them and the others there did nothing to stop it, didn't ask them to leave and didn't leave themselves when the chanting started.
It was organised by nationalists, including the ex-Grand Wizard of the KKK. But those are two sides of the same coin.
No need to be pedantic about the exact terminology. You had Nazis marching in your streets, not even bothering to cover their faces any more.
This seems to be more of a store than a subscription streaming service. Samsung figure that if you can buy movies directly from the TV UI (which they will advertise at you and your children with no opt out) they can get some extra revenue.
Rakuten is kinda like Amazon, but coming from the East. While Amazon struggles to gain footings in east Asian countries, Rakuten struggles to succeed in the west. I think part of their problem as their confusing site where you could see all this great stuff but actually buying it was damn near impossible.
You would expect any civilisation capable of building them to be somewhat beyond economics. As for practical... Perhaps not, but you would think that they would make some effort to attract the attention of other species. We are already sending signals into space deliberately, and an advanced civilisation would have other options like modulating the output of stellar objects or creating unnatural reflections.
Maybe it's just not worth it for other civilizations to even bother
Once advanced enough to build interstellar ships they probably would, if not for the sake of exploration and adventure then to ensure the survival of their species. It's likely that evolution works similarly everywhere, and is required for intelligence, so they should have a survival instinct.
It'd be nice if we'd start sending probes to nearby star systems so that in a few thousand years, we'd know if any of them harbored life of some sort.
We can detect life in nearby star systems by looking for emissions. Not just radio, but more basic stuff like CO2. We do that remotely with telescopes and spectrometers. I think you are probably right, it's just that there is no-one near enough for us to notice yet. Eventually our instruments will get better.
Real AI will require a lot of resources. Computing resources keep getting cheaper, but so do demands for low power operation. Additionally, computing resources tend to be generalized, so running an AI on them would be less efficient than say a human brain, which is dedicated to the task.
That's not to say that we will never reach a point where a Happy Meal toy could achieve consciousness, but by that point we will probably have developed techniques to stop it happening. Aside from anything else, if we don't allow animal cruelty we will probably feel the same way about trapping a conscious AI in the body of a 2117 Minions reboot toy.
It's biological essentialism. The author seems to think that biological causes, testosterone in this case, are the only correlation for wanting to dominate socially. Maybe they have never heard of Thatcher.
It also kind of implies that men are driven to dominate by testosterone, although it doesn't outright say that. That certainly would be quite sexist.
It's not hard to see exactly how this feature came about. On social media screenshots are everywhere. Screenshots of other posts, of videos, of web pages. Often the text is illegible because it's been through 97 JPEG compression cycles. So the focus group and telemetry says that people like screenshots.
Of course, people are dumb, so unless you put an icon there, make it glow, add a giant arrow pointing to it, and when they upgrade force-open a page with a screenshot of the fantastic new screenshot button, they won't know it is there. It's gotta be "discoverable", which in human-speak translates to "rammed up your arse sideways until you google how to disable it".
Maybe they should take a leaf from Google's book here. Google rarely makes any major changes to the UI or adds any new features to it. Most of the development is behind the scenes, making the internals faster and deprecating crap like Flash.
something that loads pages quickly, uses minimal system resources, is HTML5 compatible
Fast, cheap, good. Pick any two.
If you want pages to load quickly, you need to trade off memory for cache, off-screen tile rendering, Javascript JIT compilation etc.
If you want to use minimal system resources, you need to trade off speed having to re-load and re-decode stuff when you switch tabs or scroll down the screen or when HTML5/Javascript runs. And of course, add-on performance.
If you want HTML5 compatible, you need to support a very complex layout engine and rendering system, with animation and video support, so trade off against minimal system resource usage and page loading speed.
It's 2017. We really should have got past this idea that we need lots of free RAM all the time. Unused RAM is wasted RAM. I'd much rather it gets used for cache than sits idle, and of course if there is memory pressure in the system it will be the first thing to get purged.
I need to port some code to libusb so I can pipe the data into Dieharder anyway. I tried creating a 2GB file and it still rewound it hundreds of times, and it actually failed tests that the smaller 100MB files passed. Something needs further investigation here.
The NIST code seems to cope with 100MB okay, takes several minutes to run. Ent seems to have some issues with files that size but ultimately does produce some useful output. I'm tempted to do some work on Ent to support larger files and some more tests.
I also want to put error detection on the device itself. At the moment the limitation is USB speed (it's only a full speed device, 12Mb/sec theoretical max but in practice maybe half that) and there is some free CPU time available to do some tests on the data. I'm also thinking of porting to ARM... There are some really cheap ARM dev boards, and it would be great if users could just buy one off-the-shelf and get a reliable TRNG with minimal effort and cost.
Based on Chrome (and thus Chromium/Vivaldi) compatibility:
uBlock Origin - Yes Greasemonkey - Yes
Flash Control - Chrome blocks Flash by default anyway Stop Youtube AutoPlay Next - Use Greasemonkey Self Destructing Cookies - Chrome has this functionality and equivalent add-ons
These I don't know about: Classic Theme Restorer Tab Mix Plus Session Manager Status-4-Evar
Even under the best of circumstances a firmware update will brick some percentage of devices. Some will have bad flash memory, some will have failed hardware (oscillators, RAM, peripherals, voltage regulators, capacitors etc.) such that the failure only becomes apparent when the update is applied.
Thus you mus accept that every time you push out firmware remotely, you will get some customers who need urgent support to replace their safety and business critical hardware.
Software vendors are so bad at this that companies have to employ IT staff to help recover from bad updates. All that is really new here is that people don't think of locks as IT that needs IT support, spares on hand and has a terrible failure rate.
It doesn't say if they fixed things like the UI, that was awful. And from what I understand it still doesn't have the proper multiplayer that people expected.
He said, quote "less able to deal with stress". That string appears in the memo, and it means exactly what it says. There is no interpretation or context.
I'm starting to think that a lot of people defending him have not read the memo.
Feminists in the US sued the government to try to force the draft to apply to women as well as men.
That's exactly the kind of thing that the people she interviewed lie about and don't get challenged in. And the result is that people like you believe them.
Feminists have spent decades taking men's issues seriously and talking about them. This idea that no one cares or talks about it is a lie, a false narrative.
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The torches are sold by a company called TIKI, which has them made in Wisconsin. They have denounced the Nazis on Twitter already.
Some ARM variants do have hardware RNG, although I think it's a manufacturer extension rather than a part of the ABI. I was actually thinking of going that route with an Atmel ARM that has USB 2.0 high speed and a hardware RNG, which they claim "passes" NIST tests and Diehard.
The built in RNG is a little slow though so I'd be using the same techniques I am on XMEGA to generate more entrophy, which is basically to use two ADCs to measure thermal noise in the on-board temperature sensor and discard all but the lowest order bit, and when I get 8 such bits I throw them into the hardware CRC32 generator and grab a single byte from its output.
I need to do more tests, such as using more than 8 bits of the CRC32 output. If I was building a custom USB dongle I'd include a reverse biased transistor source too. I want to investigate 5V options to avoid needing a 12V boost converter, or maybe I can use a simple voltage doubler to get 10V since that's only a diode and capacitor.
My apologies, I misunderstood. I'm with you on this one.
Interesting how it's changed over the years.
1945 Nazis are bad
2015 Nazis are bad
2017 But the 1st Amendment...
In Europe, ideas like disregard for human rights, xenophobia, promoting individualism, building up the military etc are policies of the right.
The right also tends to be more religious, and wants to force its ideas of morality on to people. For example, by opposing abortion and rejecting anything but a narrow, religiously defined concept of marriage. The right seeks to limit some freedoms too, just different ones to the left.
And speaking of freedom, Europe has a different concept of what freedom is to the US. In the US it's very much focused on freedom from interference by the government, so even if you are rotting in the gutter you are still freer than a European who is given shelter and medical care by the government. In Europe, freedom isn't just freedom from limitations, it's freedom to live some kind of bearable, not-terrible life, even if that does create a small burden on you when your life isn't so bad.
Nazis, aka National -Socialists-, are NOT far right.
They are of the Left. Perhaps right of communism
That's one of the greatest cons ever. They adopted socialist policies to gain popularity - typical demagogue stuff, promise to bring all the jobs back, blame all the problems on some identifiable group (the Jews) etc. Once they got into power they forgot all that stuff and enacted far right policies, which was their intention all along, and forgot about the socialist stuff.
I'm sure it will, just as soon as they start committing acts of terror and murdering people.
The barrier to entry for the dark web, low as it may be, is probably enough to deter a lot of people from bothering to regularly visit the site and become radicalized.
I guess they remember what IBM did the last time around.
So those guys displaying swastikas, giving Nazi salutes, chanting "blood and soil", one wearing a t-shirt that said "Nazi" on it... Those guys weren't Nazis?
It wasn't a small group or one or two people, it was large numbers of them and the others there did nothing to stop it, didn't ask them to leave and didn't leave themselves when the chanting started.
It was organised by nationalists, including the ex-Grand Wizard of the KKK. But those are two sides of the same coin.
No need to be pedantic about the exact terminology. You had Nazis marching in your streets, not even bothering to cover their faces any more.
I bet if you don't plug it in you just get adverts and nagging to connect it instead.
This seems to be more of a store than a subscription streaming service. Samsung figure that if you can buy movies directly from the TV UI (which they will advertise at you and your children with no opt out) they can get some extra revenue.
Rakuten is kinda like Amazon, but coming from the East. While Amazon struggles to gain footings in east Asian countries, Rakuten struggles to succeed in the west. I think part of their problem as their confusing site where you could see all this great stuff but actually buying it was damn near impossible.
they aren't practical or economical
You would expect any civilisation capable of building them to be somewhat beyond economics. As for practical... Perhaps not, but you would think that they would make some effort to attract the attention of other species. We are already sending signals into space deliberately, and an advanced civilisation would have other options like modulating the output of stellar objects or creating unnatural reflections.
Maybe it's just not worth it for other civilizations to even bother
Once advanced enough to build interstellar ships they probably would, if not for the sake of exploration and adventure then to ensure the survival of their species. It's likely that evolution works similarly everywhere, and is required for intelligence, so they should have a survival instinct.
It'd be nice if we'd start sending probes to nearby star systems so that in a few thousand years, we'd know if any of them harbored life of some sort.
We can detect life in nearby star systems by looking for emissions. Not just radio, but more basic stuff like CO2. We do that remotely with telescopes and spectrometers. I think you are probably right, it's just that there is no-one near enough for us to notice yet. Eventually our instruments will get better.
Real AI will require a lot of resources. Computing resources keep getting cheaper, but so do demands for low power operation. Additionally, computing resources tend to be generalized, so running an AI on them would be less efficient than say a human brain, which is dedicated to the task.
That's not to say that we will never reach a point where a Happy Meal toy could achieve consciousness, but by that point we will probably have developed techniques to stop it happening. Aside from anything else, if we don't allow animal cruelty we will probably feel the same way about trapping a conscious AI in the body of a 2117 Minions reboot toy.
It's biological essentialism. The author seems to think that biological causes, testosterone in this case, are the only correlation for wanting to dominate socially. Maybe they have never heard of Thatcher.
It also kind of implies that men are driven to dominate by testosterone, although it doesn't outright say that. That certainly would be quite sexist.
It's not hard to see exactly how this feature came about. On social media screenshots are everywhere. Screenshots of other posts, of videos, of web pages. Often the text is illegible because it's been through 97 JPEG compression cycles. So the focus group and telemetry says that people like screenshots.
Of course, people are dumb, so unless you put an icon there, make it glow, add a giant arrow pointing to it, and when they upgrade force-open a page with a screenshot of the fantastic new screenshot button, they won't know it is there. It's gotta be "discoverable", which in human-speak translates to "rammed up your arse sideways until you google how to disable it".
Maybe they should take a leaf from Google's book here. Google rarely makes any major changes to the UI or adds any new features to it. Most of the development is behind the scenes, making the internals faster and deprecating crap like Flash.
something that loads pages quickly, uses minimal system resources, is HTML5 compatible
Fast, cheap, good. Pick any two.
If you want pages to load quickly, you need to trade off memory for cache, off-screen tile rendering, Javascript JIT compilation etc.
If you want to use minimal system resources, you need to trade off speed having to re-load and re-decode stuff when you switch tabs or scroll down the screen or when HTML5/Javascript runs. And of course, add-on performance.
If you want HTML5 compatible, you need to support a very complex layout engine and rendering system, with animation and video support, so trade off against minimal system resource usage and page loading speed.
It's 2017. We really should have got past this idea that we need lots of free RAM all the time. Unused RAM is wasted RAM. I'd much rather it gets used for cache than sits idle, and of course if there is memory pressure in the system it will be the first thing to get purged.
I need to port some code to libusb so I can pipe the data into Dieharder anyway. I tried creating a 2GB file and it still rewound it hundreds of times, and it actually failed tests that the smaller 100MB files passed. Something needs further investigation here.
The NIST code seems to cope with 100MB okay, takes several minutes to run. Ent seems to have some issues with files that size but ultimately does produce some useful output. I'm tempted to do some work on Ent to support larger files and some more tests.
I also want to put error detection on the device itself. At the moment the limitation is USB speed (it's only a full speed device, 12Mb/sec theoretical max but in practice maybe half that) and there is some free CPU time available to do some tests on the data. I'm also thinking of porting to ARM... There are some really cheap ARM dev boards, and it would be great if users could just buy one off-the-shelf and get a reliable TRNG with minimal effort and cost.
Based on Chrome (and thus Chromium/Vivaldi) compatibility:
uBlock Origin - Yes
Greasemonkey - Yes
Flash Control - Chrome blocks Flash by default anyway
Stop Youtube AutoPlay Next - Use Greasemonkey
Self Destructing Cookies - Chrome has this functionality and equivalent add-ons
These I don't know about:
Classic Theme Restorer
Tab Mix Plus
Session Manager
Status-4-Evar
Even under the best of circumstances a firmware update will brick some percentage of devices. Some will have bad flash memory, some will have failed hardware (oscillators, RAM, peripherals, voltage regulators, capacitors etc.) such that the failure only becomes apparent when the update is applied.
Thus you mus accept that every time you push out firmware remotely, you will get some customers who need urgent support to replace their safety and business critical hardware.
Software vendors are so bad at this that companies have to employ IT staff to help recover from bad updates. All that is really new here is that people don't think of locks as IT that needs IT support, spares on hand and has a terrible failure rate.
Their mistake was trying to build an impossible product: an internet connected, secure lock that people can rely on.
It doesn't say if they fixed things like the UI, that was awful. And from what I understand it still doesn't have the proper multiplayer that people expected.
I'll give it a try, and post any issues on Github. Thanks.
So how can there be a shortage of both workers and jobs?
There is a shortage of workers to pay taxes. There is a shortage of jobs to employ workers to pay taxes.
It's from society/the government's point of view, not the corporations.
He said, quote "less able to deal with stress". That string appears in the memo, and it means exactly what it says. There is no interpretation or context.
I'm starting to think that a lot of people defending him have not read the memo.
Feminists in the US sued the government to try to force the draft to apply to women as well as men.
That's exactly the kind of thing that the people she interviewed lie about and don't get challenged in. And the result is that people like you believe them.
Feminists have spent decades taking men's issues seriously and talking about them. This idea that no one cares or talks about it is a lie, a false narrative.