I've always assumed that Facebook reads all messages to improve its ad targeting. If so, isn't that fundamentally incompatible with the concept of encrypted messages? Or do they just mean 'encrypted to and from Facebook.'
Congress can end this shutdown without the president's support or approval. They can pass a budget bill, and send it to the president. If he vetoes it, they can vote to override the veto.
I don't understand why more people aren't holding Congress to task on this. They literally don't need the president's buy-in at all to get a budget passed.
Facebook and Google are the worst offenders. We should be asking the EFF, and taking some cues from GPDR. Asking Facebook to write privacy legislation is like asking Wells Fargo to write banking laws.
That's logically true, yeah - but browser UIs make it increasingly tough to accept self-signed certs. Tough enough that my grandma wouldn't be able to figure it out. Which effectively makes a revoked cert into a death sentence for a website.
I'm all for encrypting web traffic, but this push for HTTPS-everything is kind of terrifying. It puts us in this dystopian future where we rely on CAs to decide whether or not we can visit a website.
If a couple of CAs decide (or are told) to revoke my cert, there's literally nothing I can do about it. And all of a sudden my website is inaccessible to 90% of browsers, and there's nothing I can do about it.
I would happily support some kind of peer-to-peer encryption scheme (HTTPS with no CA, maybe). But centralizing everything through CA gatekeepers is just asking for a government to butt in.
If a pitbull owner looses his dog on somebody and the dog kills them, the pitbull owner is liable yes. But the dog is also almost certainly euthanized.
There are other jokes/easter-eggs in Glibc's documentation. I get a kick out of them every time I run across one.
Should we also go through and strip all of those out? What if I decide that EIEIO is insulting to farmers? Who decides what's a trigger-warning and what isn't?
Should we remove HTTP error 418?
The UNIX/Linux hacker subculture of the 80s and 90s produced a ton of interesting technology, and arguably shaped the internet into what it is today.
I don't want my operating system to be a sterile, soulless entity. I like the in-jokes, the fact that 'fortune' exists, and the recursive acronyms. People have poured their vitality into making tools that are free for the world - the least we can do is let them express a sense of humor if they choose.
UNIX cultureLinux/UNIX is born from a really unique, amazing kind of culture, which
I don't use RSS for things like Slashdot as much as I used to, but I still read all of my webcomics through there. For me, RSS is ideal for websites that post one or two updates a day. For websites with more frequent updates, I usually just visit the front page.
To be clear, we don't have a computer that can survive on Venus, or anything near that. What the research team made is a ring-buffer, which is a collection of maybe 20-30 transistors arranged in a big circle (with one inverter).
That's a very far cry from even an Intel 8080, which is approximately 4500 transistors. And that's without any RAM, Flash, or anything else. This is an impressive milestone to be sure, but it's nowhere near an Arduino (let alone a full computer).
The board uses a Freedom E310 RISC-V microcontroller. The PCB size and connector layout is the same as an Arduino, and also there is some software-compatibility with Arduino's programming environment. But it's definitely not ARM based.
What makes this so interesting is that the instruction-set (RISC-V) is free for anybody to implement, and has growing academic support.
The E310's RTL source-code is also open-source and freely available, which means you could implement your own version on an FPGA or approach a chip-fab if you wanted to build a lot of them.
That means that the lister will get the money even if it doesn't hit its funding goals. Shouldn't that be incompatible with the video's statement that they need to hit a certain minimum order quanity?
I would love to own a 13" eink reader, but this has scam written all over it.
It's worth pointing out that Kickstarter would never have allowed this campaign. IndieGoGo is so much scammier that it's ridiculous. I don't think I'd ever 'invest' in a crowdfunding campaign from either site, but if I did it would be Kickstarter because of the following policy differences:
- With IndieGoGo, you get to keep the money even if you don't reach your funding goal. - With Kickstarter, you can only show actual prototype hardware in your videos/campaign site - no mockups or 3D rendering allowed.
It's pretty easy to see how these differences mean that IndieGoGo is the go-to site for products like:
It always struck me as kind of crazy that anybody talks about building colonies on Mars, the moon, Venus, or anywhere off-world. I like sci-fi as much as the next guy, but the fact of the matter is that we already have a planet with suitable gravity, and breathable air.
We're not even close to using up all of the available space on this planet. Why would we build on Mars when we have Antarctica? Why build on Venus when we have giant empty deserts in Nevada?
On Earth, a cracked window doesn't mean that everybody will suffocate or be pulled apart by a vacuum. Plus, it comes with plenty of raw materials and suitable gravity.
No matter how bad Earth gets pollution-wise, I just can't see off-world colonies as realistic until we use up the land we already have.
USA uses about 1500 m3/capita/year, which is similar to New Zealand (1200 m3/capita/year) and Canada (1400 m3/capita/year). Compare with California alone, we're at 178 gallons/capita/day which is 245 m3/capita/year. That's lower than most countries.
I'm (reasonably) sure that number the 178 gallons/person/day figure is the "urban" per-capita, not the per-capita of the entire state.
The state's per-capita water use is more like 1390 gallons/person/day.
So you disagree with the patent system, but yet you have some software patents and you want to try to wield them to extract extra money from a potential employer.
It doesn't actually sound like you disagree with the patent system at all.
If you want to do the ethically right thing, don't buy yourself in any deeper. Don't bring them up to your employer, and don't try to charge them extra money when you write code for them that uses the math concepts that you've hoarded for yourself.
VxWorks is a great product. It's also waaaayyy outside of the price range of a hobbyist developer. Getting up and running with the VxWorks suite of tools can easily cost 20k (USD), and the recurring license fees are pretty significant as well. I would also bet that auditing the VxWorks source code (or trying to get custom patches in) would cost significantly more.
As an embedded-systems guy, I'd _love_ to have a Unix-like where I could schedule events that were guaranteed-by-design to fire within some deadline of when they were scheduled. Then I could host my once-per-kHz hardware service routines on the same processor that was also running my device's web-server.
Minix's microkernel architecture seems like an ideal fit for that kind of use case. If there are any Minix devs reading this thread, how easy would it be for me to make a system like that using Minix?
Assuming an average child-bearing age of 20, 1000 years back would span 50 generations. 50 generations of parentage is well over 1 billion people. How could anybody in the modern world's lineage possibly be traced back to one (or even 4) location?
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I've always assumed that Facebook reads all messages to improve its ad targeting. If so, isn't that fundamentally incompatible with the concept of encrypted messages? Or do they just mean 'encrypted to and from Facebook.'
Congress can end this shutdown without the president's support or approval. They can pass a budget bill, and send it to the president. If he vetoes it, they can vote to override the veto.
I don't understand why more people aren't holding Congress to task on this. They literally don't need the president's buy-in at all to get a budget passed.
Facebook and Google are the worst offenders. We should be asking the EFF, and taking some cues from GPDR. Asking Facebook to write privacy legislation is like asking Wells Fargo to write banking laws.
Oh, wait - murca
That's logically true, yeah - but browser UIs make it increasingly tough to accept self-signed certs. Tough enough that my grandma wouldn't be able to figure it out. Which effectively makes a revoked cert into a death sentence for a website.
I'm all for encrypting web traffic, but this push for HTTPS-everything is kind of terrifying. It puts us in this dystopian future where we rely on CAs to decide whether or not we can visit a website.
If a couple of CAs decide (or are told) to revoke my cert, there's literally nothing I can do about it. And all of a sudden my website is inaccessible to 90% of browsers, and there's nothing I can do about it.
I would happily support some kind of peer-to-peer encryption scheme (HTTPS with no CA, maybe). But centralizing everything through CA gatekeepers is just asking for a government to butt in.
If a pitbull owner looses his dog on somebody and the dog kills them, the pitbull owner is liable yes. But the dog is also almost certainly euthanized.
There are other jokes/easter-eggs in Glibc's documentation. I get a kick out of them every time I run across one.
Should we also go through and strip all of those out? What if I decide that EIEIO is insulting to farmers? Who decides what's a trigger-warning and what isn't?
Should we remove HTTP error 418?
The UNIX/Linux hacker subculture of the 80s and 90s produced a ton of interesting technology, and arguably shaped the internet into what it is today.
I don't want my operating system to be a sterile, soulless entity. I like the in-jokes, the fact that 'fortune' exists, and the recursive acronyms. People have poured their vitality into making tools that are free for the world - the least we can do is let them express a sense of humor if they choose.
UNIX cultureLinux/UNIX is born from a really unique, amazing kind of culture, which
DHMO is benign compared to the dangers of hydrogen hydroxide or hydroxic acid. Those are truly the silent killers of our era.
I use http://www.inoreader.com/ for my RSS feeds, and I love it!
I don't use RSS for things like Slashdot as much as I used to, but I still read all of my webcomics through there. For me, RSS is ideal for websites that post one or two updates a day. For websites with more frequent updates, I usually just visit the front page.
To be clear, we don't have a computer that can survive on Venus, or anything near that. What the research team made is a ring-buffer, which is a collection of maybe 20-30 transistors arranged in a big circle (with one inverter).
That's a very far cry from even an Intel 8080, which is approximately 4500 transistors. And that's without any RAM, Flash, or anything else. This is an impressive milestone to be sure, but it's nowhere near an Arduino (let alone a full computer).
They did!
The board uses a Freedom E310 RISC-V microcontroller. The PCB size and connector layout is the same as an Arduino, and also there is some software-compatibility with Arduino's programming environment. But it's definitely not ARM based.
What makes this so interesting is that the instruction-set (RISC-V) is free for anybody to implement, and has growing academic support.
The E310's RTL source-code is also open-source and freely available, which means you could implement your own version on an FPGA or approach a chip-fab if you wanted to build a lot of them.
I can't necessarily comment on other diseases in the list, but it's absurd to claim that a person's blood-pressure is detectable by breath.
The smart money says this is fake.
That means that the lister will get the money even if it doesn't hit its funding goals. Shouldn't that be incompatible with the video's statement that they need to hit a certain minimum order quanity?
I would love to own a 13" eink reader, but this has scam written all over it.
Maybe we'll get lucky and Window's palm will start glowing red.
It's worth pointing out that Kickstarter would never have allowed this campaign. IndieGoGo is so much scammier that it's ridiculous. I don't think I'd ever 'invest' in a crowdfunding campaign from either site, but if I did it would be Kickstarter because of the following policy differences:
- With IndieGoGo, you get to keep the money even if you don't reach your funding goal.
- With Kickstarter, you can only show actual prototype hardware in your videos/campaign site - no mockups or 3D rendering allowed.
It's pretty easy to see how these differences mean that IndieGoGo is the go-to site for products like:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/robot-dragonfly-micro-aerial-vehicle#/
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/batteriser-extend-battery-life-by-up-to-8x#/
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/anonabox-access-deep-web-tor-privacy-router#/
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/kreyos-the-only-smartwatch-with-voice-gesture-control#/
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/solar-roadways#/
just to name a few.
It always struck me as kind of crazy that anybody talks about building colonies on Mars, the moon, Venus, or anywhere off-world. I like sci-fi as much as the next guy, but the fact of the matter is that we already have a planet with suitable gravity, and breathable air.
We're not even close to using up all of the available space on this planet. Why would we build on Mars when we have Antarctica? Why build on Venus when we have giant empty deserts in Nevada?
On Earth, a cracked window doesn't mean that everybody will suffocate or be pulled apart by a vacuum. Plus, it comes with plenty of raw materials and suitable gravity.
No matter how bad Earth gets pollution-wise, I just can't see off-world colonies as realistic until we use up the land we already have.
leak in your bio-dome doesn't
Another way to put it:
D and R are both F'ing us in the A
Citations? Here're mine:
USA uses about 1500 m3/capita/year, which is similar to New Zealand (1200 m3/capita/year) and Canada (1400 m3/capita/year). Compare with California alone, we're at 178 gallons/capita/day which is 245 m3/capita/year. That's lower than most countries.
I'm (reasonably) sure that number the 178 gallons/person/day figure is the "urban" per-capita, not the per-capita of the entire state.
The state's per-capita water use is more like 1390 gallons/person/day.
Look, I feel your MATLAB pain too, but isn't it stretching to blame that on Node?
Seriously, consider a non-programming hobby while there. There's a pretty good chance that anything expensive you bring will be stolen.
So you disagree with the patent system, but yet you have some software patents and you want to try to wield them to extract extra money from a potential employer.
It doesn't actually sound like you disagree with the patent system at all.
If you want to do the ethically right thing, don't buy yourself in any deeper. Don't bring them up to your employer, and don't try to charge them extra money when you write code for them that uses the math concepts that you've hoarded for yourself.
VxWorks?
VxWorks is a great product. It's also waaaayyy outside of the price range of a hobbyist developer. Getting up and running with the VxWorks suite of tools can easily cost 20k (USD), and the recurring license fees are pretty significant as well. I would also bet that auditing the VxWorks source code (or trying to get custom patches in) would cost significantly more.
As an embedded-systems guy, I'd _love_ to have a Unix-like where I could schedule events that were guaranteed-by-design to fire within some deadline of when they were scheduled. Then I could host my once-per-kHz hardware service routines on the same processor that was also running my device's web-server.
Minix's microkernel architecture seems like an ideal fit for that kind of use case. If there are any Minix devs reading this thread, how easy would it be for me to make a system like that using Minix?
Assuming an average child-bearing age of 20, 1000 years back would span 50 generations. 50 generations of parentage is well over 1 billion people. How could anybody in the modern world's lineage possibly be traced back to one (or even 4) location?
That's an awful lot of money to pay for a company which has no finished products and has never shipped anything.