Even more appropriate might be the hot water recirculating loops you can create with a small pump. The hot water is off, but the pump continuously circulates water through the system so that as soon as you turn the water on, the water out of the tap is hot. It's a convenience for which you pay an energy penalty, and the flip side is almost zero startup time.
So what you're saying is that it's roughly an order of magnitude more efficient and secure that the way the IRS processes and stores our financial data.
Are they really scouring the world for terrorist activity, or are they too busy spying on their own citizens?
From Fox: "Three of the seven Islamist suicide bombers have already been identified as French citizens, as was at least one of seven other people arrested in neighboring Belgium in connection to the deadly attacks."
So four of fourteen were, in your words, their own citizens. I can pretty much guarantee that the intelligence agencies don't really care that much about the nationality of who they spy on; they spy on everyone to try and get intelligence. But, of course, you would like them just to spy only on the "bad guys". But if they knew who the bad guys were to begin with, the wouldn't really need to do any spying now, would they?
You skipped the step between 1 and 2 which is to tell you that not only won't they be creating what they're about to work in, but you'd be a fool to even want it.
"Microsoft has, year after year and in new and amazing ways, failed to put the end user experience first."
Look around at the computers people use. 95% run Windows. Its not about user experience, it's that for 95% of the work people do, Microsoft provides the tools to get it done. Their UX sucks from a warm-fuzzy, on the go lifestyle perspective (I just got a surface and they've got quite a way to go to smooth out the software edges), but they can be exceptionally efficient work machines.
FWIW, when I stop into most coffee shops I see phones (typically of all types, but primarily flagship models from the majors: Apple, Samsung, with the occasional LG or Moto) and I see MacBooks. Very, very few people are using ANY kind of tablet.
I believe self-driving cars in all states are still required to have manual controls in order to be licensed. It's not how Google would like the cars to be operated, but it's currently the law.
A SSN contains 30 bits of information, plus a SSN.TIN bit which is 31 bits, or 4 bytes (with a bit to spare). They way you count it we'd need 11 bytes, minimum. It's easy to forget that, when many/most of these systems were set up, storage cost many orders of magnitude more than they do today. When you're paying on the order of a dollar per kB of information and you're storing data on 200 million people, it gets expensive.
Today, it's no big deal - we've got data capacity to spare. But there are a lot of legacy systems out there that would cost a Trillion dollars or more to rewrite all the code.
The IRS may not care, but if/when they go to pull Social Security benefits in a couple of decades, one of the two of them is going to be royally fucked.
I think you have it somewhat backwards. Apple is a software company. Start to finish. They sell chunks of silicon and and aluminum, but that's not what their business is - it's Operating Systems and User Experience. They sell an easy-to use iOS and a full fledged OSX. They re-sell all the software and content that goes on them (to the extent they can) as well so that they can curate the OS/UX system. They sell hardware to run their OSes, too. In fact, in order to make sure that their OS experience is as controlled as possible, they are the ONLY place you can buy hardware to run their software.
It's a nifty trick, and they've gotten stupid rich in the process - but don't let anyone fool you that they're a hardware company. They sell software. It just happens that they only sell it to you on their preferred devices.
Which is entirely true, but limited to those people with high-media demands or those who need to minimize encoding time.
I run an engineering consulting firm and personally work on over 200 archtiectural projects in a typical year. I was using an i7-920 tower with 24GB of RAM and a three-monitor setup up until a week ago. I'm currently running all the same software on an i5-6300U surface pro 4 with 8GB of RAM. t's currently every bit as responsive as the old (quad core) i7. OF course, I'm limited to just my main 30" monitor plus the screen at the moment (due to the DP connections), but will be switching to a pair of 42" 4k monitors in the next week or so. I'll be able to pull up two full-sized (Ansi D 22x34) prints side by side, plus the surface's own display for mail/calendar/task/notifications simultaneously. As for memory...I never actually exceeded 12GB used on the old machine, and the SP4 idles at about 4GB less than the desktop.
I suspect that 99% of users would be perfectly well served with a dual core/HT machine at 2.5-3GHz. For those that don't, there are 5-8 pound "laptops" running HQ quad core processors or desktop machines.
They're all usernames. A username is a way to uniquely identify you. Whether it's a token, a password, or a biometric it's all just a way to identify you. The only reason we have usernames is so that we can look up the record for the identifier and compare the two.
Think of it this way: If systems required that all passwords be unique, there would be no need for a username. If you have a token which is impossible to counterfeit, you need only a token for your identification. If you could provide a truely unique physical trait, you could identify someone based only on that trait without a need for any other identifier.
We keep talking about passwords as if they were some magical key. They're not. They're no different, on a theoretical basis, than a unique physical token or a unique biometric - it's simply a means for you to verify WHO YOU ARE. There are no passwords, only versions of usernames.
Yes, fingerprints can be copied. As can usernames. Tokens can be stolen. Passwords can be beaten out of you (and I use beaten in a general sense, not necessarily a physical one). Using two of those will prove to be rather difficult to circumvent on a properly created challenge system without the enduser's knowledge. Getting to someone's data by using their login and password (or biometric equivalent) is rarely the easy way; it's often simpler to break the backend or intercept the data in transit.
Oh, they're nominally unique. The article merely argues that they are useless against someone who has the time, means, and knowledge to steal one of your devices which uses fingerprint authentication AND create a usable copy of your fingerprint from some other method.
It's entirely possible to do so. It's quite difficult to do so without the targets knowledge.
Everyone who bought a MS Surface Pro / Book at launch, especially those who switched from Macs, are collectively losing their shit all over the internet. Now that other Skylake U chips are showing up in other mfrs laptops, it's quickly becoming obvious that it's an Intel problem rather than a MS one.
Remember when unlimited data on a phone plan was no big deal, but minutes and SMS were severely limited, and you paid by the minute/SMS - both incomeing and outgoing? That was way back when everyone used voice calling and texting was done over SMS instead of iMessage and Hangouts. Now there's no pressure on the voice/SMS so the carriers are giving you unlimited of that, but data is being used more and more so everything is becoming metered.
Not everyone plays games. The graphics matter because it means running every day applications with reasonable responsiveness on laptops which don't have space for a spare card. A 2 pound laptop running both an internal screen and an external desktop at 7680x2160 with a 60Hz refresh and it still gets 6 hours of useful battery life? Fucking fabulous, let me tell you. FPS in games doesn't even make the top ten in 90% of laptop users want lists.
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Even more appropriate might be the hot water recirculating loops you can create with a small pump. The hot water is off, but the pump continuously circulates water through the system so that as soon as you turn the water on, the water out of the tap is hot. It's a convenience for which you pay an energy penalty, and the flip side is almost zero startup time.
As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly!
So what you're saying is that it's roughly an order of magnitude more efficient and secure that the way the IRS processes and stores our financial data.
When you need to be the first one down that alligator gullet, you know there are going to be people who look for any advantage.
Are they really scouring the world for terrorist activity, or are they too busy spying on their own citizens?
From Fox:
"Three of the seven Islamist suicide bombers have already been identified as French citizens, as was at least one of seven other people arrested in neighboring Belgium in connection to the deadly attacks."
So four of fourteen were, in your words, their own citizens. I can pretty much guarantee that the intelligence agencies don't really care that much about the nationality of who they spy on; they spy on everyone to try and get intelligence. But, of course, you would like them just to spy only on the "bad guys". But if they knew who the bad guys were to begin with, the wouldn't really need to do any spying now, would they?
Actually, it was a Microsoft Surface, but the FAA just calls it an iPad because that's the only brand of tablet they know. /s
Or, you know, a simple translational sensor on the landing gear before rollback. AKA the weight of each support point.
Leaving is easy, it surviving that's the challenge.
You skipped the step between 1 and 2 which is to tell you that not only won't they be creating what they're about to work in, but you'd be a fool to even want it.
"Microsoft has, year after year and in new and amazing ways, failed to put the end user experience first."
Look around at the computers people use. 95% run Windows. Its not about user experience, it's that for 95% of the work people do, Microsoft provides the tools to get it done. Their UX sucks from a warm-fuzzy, on the go lifestyle perspective (I just got a surface and they've got quite a way to go to smooth out the software edges), but they can be exceptionally efficient work machines.
FWIW, when I stop into most coffee shops I see phones (typically of all types, but primarily flagship models from the majors: Apple, Samsung, with the occasional LG or Moto) and I see MacBooks. Very, very few people are using ANY kind of tablet.
stop them with a sexy Halloween police uniform?
That sounds more like feature than a bug to me.
Once they're electric they'll be silent. ;-)
I believe self-driving cars in all states are still required to have manual controls in order to be licensed. It's not how Google would like the cars to be operated, but it's currently the law.
A SSN contains 30 bits of information, plus a SSN.TIN bit which is 31 bits, or 4 bytes (with a bit to spare). They way you count it we'd need 11 bytes, minimum. It's easy to forget that, when many/most of these systems were set up, storage cost many orders of magnitude more than they do today. When you're paying on the order of a dollar per kB of information and you're storing data on 200 million people, it gets expensive.
Today, it's no big deal - we've got data capacity to spare. But there are a lot of legacy systems out there that would cost a Trillion dollars or more to rewrite all the code.
The IRS may not care, but if/when they go to pull Social Security benefits in a couple of decades, one of the two of them is going to be royally fucked.
That's the one you're supposed to use to get free ACA healthcare.
You'll use it like I tell you to use it, and when I decide I want to change how you use it you'll fucking change how you use it.
Copyright, bitch. Death plus seventy years - all the way to your great-grandchildren.
I think you have it somewhat backwards. Apple is a software company. Start to finish. They sell chunks of silicon and and aluminum, but that's not what their business is - it's Operating Systems and User Experience. They sell an easy-to use iOS and a full fledged OSX. They re-sell all the software and content that goes on them (to the extent they can) as well so that they can curate the OS/UX system. They sell hardware to run their OSes, too. In fact, in order to make sure that their OS experience is as controlled as possible, they are the ONLY place you can buy hardware to run their software.
It's a nifty trick, and they've gotten stupid rich in the process - but don't let anyone fool you that they're a hardware company. They sell software. It just happens that they only sell it to you on their preferred devices.
Which is entirely true, but limited to those people with high-media demands or those who need to minimize encoding time.
I run an engineering consulting firm and personally work on over 200 archtiectural projects in a typical year. I was using an i7-920 tower with 24GB of RAM and a three-monitor setup up until a week ago. I'm currently running all the same software on an i5-6300U surface pro 4 with 8GB of RAM. t's currently every bit as responsive as the old (quad core) i7. OF course, I'm limited to just my main 30" monitor plus the screen at the moment (due to the DP connections), but will be switching to a pair of 42" 4k monitors in the next week or so. I'll be able to pull up two full-sized (Ansi D 22x34) prints side by side, plus the surface's own display for mail/calendar/task/notifications simultaneously. As for memory...I never actually exceeded 12GB used on the old machine, and the SP4 idles at about 4GB less than the desktop.
I suspect that 99% of users would be perfectly well served with a dual core/HT machine at 2.5-3GHz. For those that don't, there are 5-8 pound "laptops" running HQ quad core processors or desktop machines.
They're all usernames. A username is a way to uniquely identify you. Whether it's a token, a password, or a biometric it's all just a way to identify you. The only reason we have usernames is so that we can look up the record for the identifier and compare the two.
Think of it this way: If systems required that all passwords be unique, there would be no need for a username. If you have a token which is impossible to counterfeit, you need only a token for your identification. If you could provide a truely unique physical trait, you could identify someone based only on that trait without a need for any other identifier.
We keep talking about passwords as if they were some magical key. They're not. They're no different, on a theoretical basis, than a unique physical token or a unique biometric - it's simply a means for you to verify WHO YOU ARE. There are no passwords, only versions of usernames.
Yes, fingerprints can be copied. As can usernames. Tokens can be stolen. Passwords can be beaten out of you (and I use beaten in a general sense, not necessarily a physical one). Using two of those will prove to be rather difficult to circumvent on a properly created challenge system without the enduser's knowledge. Getting to someone's data by using their login and password (or biometric equivalent) is rarely the easy way; it's often simpler to break the backend or intercept the data in transit.
Oh, they're nominally unique. The article merely argues that they are useless against someone who has the time, means, and knowledge to steal one of your devices which uses fingerprint authentication AND create a usable copy of your fingerprint from some other method.
It's entirely possible to do so. It's quite difficult to do so without the targets knowledge.
Everyone who bought a MS Surface Pro / Book at launch, especially those who switched from Macs, are collectively losing their shit all over the internet. Now that other Skylake U chips are showing up in other mfrs laptops, it's quickly becoming obvious that it's an Intel problem rather than a MS one.
Remember when unlimited data on a phone plan was no big deal, but minutes and SMS were severely limited, and you paid by the minute/SMS - both incomeing and outgoing? That was way back when everyone used voice calling and texting was done over SMS instead of iMessage and Hangouts. Now there's no pressure on the voice/SMS so the carriers are giving you unlimited of that, but data is being used more and more so everything is becoming metered.
Not everyone plays games. The graphics matter because it means running every day applications with reasonable responsiveness on laptops which don't have space for a spare card. A 2 pound laptop running both an internal screen and an external desktop at 7680x2160 with a 60Hz refresh and it still gets 6 hours of useful battery life? Fucking fabulous, let me tell you. FPS in games doesn't even make the top ten in 90% of laptop users want lists.