I hope this world's largest laser the army is getting will involve a monster truck with a giant penis-shaped laser on top, driven by Beef Supreme. Then we can Monday Night rehabilitate Russia! Murica, Fuck Yeah!
Uhh, did you actually read as far as the second paragraph of the article you're commenting on?
"most of these lagging companies have conflicts of interest due to their classified work for U.S. government agencies... such associations limit industry staff with U.S. security clearances from fixing security holes based on leaked information from the CIA."
The information that Wikileaks has made available is still classified, even if it's public. If you work for an organisation that handles government contracts, and some of your employees have security clearances, then you can't receive classified information to help you fix an 0day, even if the classified information is now public. It was the same with the Snowden stuff, if someone had wanted to DoS everyone in the US with a security clearance all they'd have had to do is get one of the TS docs published with security markings intact on the front page of the NYT, LA Times, and so on.
The reason why Wikileaks has to be so careful is so they don't get the companies receiving the information into trouble. In many cases, when the rules you have to play by are obviously insane, the only winning move will be not to play.
The fact that we can't build a truly accurate clock is actually a safety mechanism built into the universe. As Professor T.Pratchett demonstrated in his groundbreaking analysis "The Thief of Time", the one thing we don't need is a perfectly accurate clock.
The fact that you can transparently MITM a TLS connection, as the interception proxies do, shows how broken the entire HTTPS ecosystem is. If any random proxy can MITM you without the TLS layer raising alarms, then so can the NSA, CIA, FSB, MSS, and anyone else who cares to exploit HTTPS' broken ecosystem. The only difference will be that the various TLAs will hopefully do it in a less broken manner than the commercial vendors do, so you can't tell you're being intercepted while your browser happily displays its padlock icon to tell you everything seems legit.
Suspicious activity involving cellphone monitoring? Tell you what, start with the FBI, NSA, CIA, DHS, and local cops. On the remote chance that it isn't one of them, get back to me.
Personally I think the Oxford comma is a good idea. However, if that's what the coding style says, then that's the coding style one uses for Maine law.
If you are wondering why smaller file sizes are important, it is quite simple -- the web. If websites can embed smaller images, users can experience faster load times while using less data.
the summary should read:
If you are wondering why smaller file sizes are important, it is quite simple -- the web. If websites can embed smaller images, they can use the saved space to load five different Javascript frameworks at 5MB apiece.
this demands investigation to see who dropped the ball and why (incompetence? proft?).
Some countries at least seem to be getting it right. Here's coverage of this from New Zealand in which the meter vendors point out that they use mostly current transformers and shunt resistors, a tiny fraction use Hall effect sensors, and none use Rogowski coils.
DST is an evil Democrat conspiracy. Half the country, in particular California, are already suffering from drought, and then they add another hour of sunshine to further parch it. I'm looking forward to Trump repealing the unnecessary extra sunlight at the first opportunity.
Not that I have any Vista machines any more, but why drop Vista support?
It's a dry run for their dropping XUL later this year. In their ongoing pursuit of zero percent market share they want to trial a smaller drop now before they go for the big one when they kill all their plugins.
They're not backdoors, they're front doors. The typical Chinese product is mostly a collection of security holes tied together with buffer overflows and XSS, there's so much there it's not like you need any actual skill to exploit them. OK, there are backdoors as well, or more accurately phone-homes, but it's hard to spot them in the mass of front doors, side windows, and roof hatches.
That seems to answer my question of "should I upgrade?". Actually I have a more general question, apart from 2017 allowing me to leverage the synergy of the cloud in more cromulent ways than before, is there any reason to move from 2015? Specifically, have they improved the compiler diagnostics or PREfast analysis in any significant way (2013 and 2015 were identical in that regard)? That's what I really want a compiler for, the rest is just window-dressing.
This also seems highly political. The old ITAR controls, whose current form is what ZTE were prosecuted under, are so overbroad and vague that virtually any piece of technology is a controlled item. Some years ago we ran a Dell equipment catalogue up against them and found that roughly 50% of everything in there was covered by one or more export controls. Almost everyone taking a laptop out of the country was an illegal arms dealer because of how overbroad, and in many cases out of date, the regulations were. For example technical restrictions meant to cover export of flight simulators/trainers meant that anything more powerful than about a GeForce2 was controlled, that's how out-of-date the requirements were . So this isn't "ZTE violates export controls", it's "ZTE does business with a country the US doesn't like".
Having said that, I don't understand why ZTE didn't just tell the US to take a running jump.
But the power output on WiFi is fairly low (I think 5 watts or maybe 0.5 watts, I can't remember). I wouldn't sleep right next to one (there is a warning to keep about 8 inches away from it),
This is a non-solution to a "problem" that those involved don't want solved. If you can't accidentally forget to turn off your camera just before you accidentally kill someone by accidentally shooting them by accident in an accidental way that accidentally doesn't get recorded, police will either find some other way to bypass it (it malfunctioned, ignore the hammer marks on the case) or refuse to use it.
That's not surprising, the "Zero" in the name is its market share, it was rushed out as a panicked response to other sub-$10 devices. So the Zero W is more zero market share, but now with WiFi.
His figures are pretty suspect too, I'm sure there are more than just "18-34 young, white females" listening. How does he even know it's only 18-34 women? Did he count them all? Is it like a group pee where they all get up at the same time to go to the restroom, so you get a single bloc of between 18 and 34 women listening?
You're thinking about it in the wrong way. Currently it's an opt-in mechanism to force you to app all your apps from the Windows Store, in the same way that the Windows 10 malgrade was also opt-in initially. Then one day you'll click on a close box and Microsoft will take it as you authorising a mandatory lockdown on non-MS approved apps. This isn't a feature, it's stage 0 of making Windows 10 even more of a panopticon-jail.
Nonononono, don't bring it back to Froyo or anything else. The one nice thing about having a phone that was abandonware the minute I paid for it is that you can't have more Google crap than it already has shovelled onto it any more.
And that's the problem, that SVN has crap handling of colliding values. They use their own homebrew NoSQL store, FSFS, which doesn't handle things like duplicates in any way because it's NoSQL and web scale and stuff, like MongoDB. So the message here is "don't build your app around a crap NoSQL database store", not "SHA-1 will kill you".
Anyway, I've gotta get back to my job shovelling pig shit, and administering anal suppositories to sick horses.
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I hope this world's largest laser the army is getting will involve a monster truck with a giant penis-shaped laser on top, driven by Beef Supreme. Then we can Monday Night rehabilitate Russia! Murica, Fuck Yeah!
Uhh, did you actually read as far as the second paragraph of the article you're commenting on?
"most of these lagging companies have conflicts of interest due to their classified work for U.S. government agencies... such associations limit industry staff with U.S. security clearances from fixing security holes based on leaked information from the CIA."
The information that Wikileaks has made available is still classified, even if it's public. If you work for an organisation that handles government contracts, and some of your employees have security clearances, then you can't receive classified information to help you fix an 0day, even if the classified information is now public. It was the same with the Snowden stuff, if someone had wanted to DoS everyone in the US with a security clearance all they'd have had to do is get one of the TS docs published with security markings intact on the front page of the NYT, LA Times, and so on.
The reason why Wikileaks has to be so careful is so they don't get the companies receiving the information into trouble. In many cases, when the rules you have to play by are obviously insane, the only winning move will be not to play.
That was my reaction as well. What's next, will they be retiring their biplanes and closing the smoking saloons on their airliners?
The fact that we can't build a truly accurate clock is actually a safety mechanism built into the universe. As Professor T.Pratchett demonstrated in his groundbreaking analysis "The Thief of Time", the one thing we don't need is a perfectly accurate clock.
The fact that you can transparently MITM a TLS connection, as the interception proxies do, shows how broken the entire HTTPS ecosystem is. If any random proxy can MITM you without the TLS layer raising alarms, then so can the NSA, CIA, FSB, MSS, and anyone else who cares to exploit HTTPS' broken ecosystem. The only difference will be that the various TLAs will hopefully do it in a less broken manner than the commercial vendors do, so you can't tell you're being intercepted while your browser happily displays its padlock icon to tell you everything seems legit.
Suspicious activity involving cellphone monitoring? Tell you what, start with the FBI, NSA, CIA, DHS, and local cops. On the remote chance that it isn't one of them, get back to me.
Personally I think the Oxford comma is a good idea. However, if that's what the coding style says, then that's the coding style one uses for Maine law.
Personally I think it's all a commanist plot!
That was my reaction as well. Instead of:
If you are wondering why smaller file sizes are important, it is quite simple -- the web. If websites can embed smaller images, users can experience faster load times while using less data.
the summary should read:
If you are wondering why smaller file sizes are important, it is quite simple -- the web. If websites can embed smaller images, they can use the saved space to load five different Javascript frameworks at 5MB apiece.
You're probably using the wrong setting. Or at least, someone is.
So it wasn't on medium high then?
this demands investigation to see who dropped the ball and why (incompetence? proft?).
Some countries at least seem to be getting it right. Here's coverage of this from New Zealand in which the meter vendors point out that they use mostly current transformers and shunt resistors, a tiny fraction use Hall effect sensors, and none use Rogowski coils.
DST is an evil Democrat conspiracy. Half the country, in particular California, are already suffering from drought, and then they add another hour of sunshine to further parch it. I'm looking forward to Trump repealing the unnecessary extra sunlight at the first opportunity.
Not that I have any Vista machines any more, but why drop Vista support?
It's a dry run for their dropping XUL later this year. In their ongoing pursuit of zero percent market share they want to trial a smaller drop now before they go for the big one when they kill all their plugins.
They're not backdoors, they're front doors. The typical Chinese product is mostly a collection of security holes tied together with buffer overflows and XSS, there's so much there it's not like you need any actual skill to exploit them. OK, there are backdoors as well, or more accurately phone-homes, but it's hard to spot them in the mass of front doors, side windows, and roof hatches.
That seems to answer my question of "should I upgrade?". Actually I have a more general question, apart from 2017 allowing me to leverage the synergy of the cloud in more cromulent ways than before, is there any reason to move from 2015? Specifically, have they improved the compiler diagnostics or PREfast analysis in any significant way (2013 and 2015 were identical in that regard)? That's what I really want a compiler for, the rest is just window-dressing.
I code all my apps in COBOL
I app all my apps in Intercal.
This also seems highly political. The old ITAR controls, whose current form is what ZTE were prosecuted under, are so overbroad and vague that virtually any piece of technology is a controlled item. Some years ago we ran a Dell equipment catalogue up against them and found that roughly 50% of everything in there was covered by one or more export controls. Almost everyone taking a laptop out of the country was an illegal arms dealer because of how overbroad, and in many cases out of date, the regulations were. For example technical restrictions meant to cover export of flight simulators/trainers meant that anything more powerful than about a GeForce2 was controlled, that's how out-of-date the requirements were . So this isn't "ZTE violates export controls", it's "ZTE does business with a country the US doesn't like".
Having said that, I don't understand why ZTE didn't just tell the US to take a running jump.
But the power output on WiFi is fairly low (I think 5 watts or maybe 0.5 watts, I can't remember). I wouldn't sleep right next to one (there is a warning to keep about 8 inches away from it),
Further if you're an Apple monitor.
Yawn. It's now worth more than gold, call me back when it's reached the value of a tulip bulb in 1637, or a CDO in 2008.
This is a non-solution to a "problem" that those involved don't want solved. If you can't accidentally forget to turn off your camera just before you accidentally kill someone by accidentally shooting them by accident in an accidental way that accidentally doesn't get recorded, police will either find some other way to bypass it (it malfunctioned, ignore the hammer marks on the case) or refuse to use it.
That's not surprising, the "Zero" in the name is its market share, it was rushed out as a panicked response to other sub-$10 devices. So the Zero W is more zero market share, but now with WiFi.
His figures are pretty suspect too, I'm sure there are more than just "18-34 young, white females" listening. How does he even know it's only 18-34 women? Did he count them all? Is it like a group pee where they all get up at the same time to go to the restroom, so you get a single bloc of between 18 and 34 women listening?
Maybe Subway just need to do this, then they'd be fine.
You're thinking about it in the wrong way. Currently it's an opt-in mechanism to force you to app all your apps from the Windows Store, in the same way that the Windows 10 malgrade was also opt-in initially. Then one day you'll click on a close box and Microsoft will take it as you authorising a mandatory lockdown on non-MS approved apps. This isn't a feature, it's stage 0 of making Windows 10 even more of a panopticon-jail.
Nonononono, don't bring it back to Froyo or anything else. The one nice thing about having a phone that was abandonware the minute I paid for it is that you can't have more Google crap than it already has shovelled onto it any more.
And that's the problem, that SVN has crap handling of colliding values. They use their own homebrew NoSQL store, FSFS, which doesn't handle things like duplicates in any way because it's NoSQL and web scale and stuff, like MongoDB. So the message here is "don't build your app around a crap NoSQL database store", not "SHA-1 will kill you".
Anyway, I've gotta get back to my job shovelling pig shit, and administering anal suppositories to sick horses.