Here Maps is really, really good. I replaced Google's crappy map app as soon as I found out about Here. It's main problem seems to be lack of mindshare.
This assumes that your cellular provider isn't too cheap to pay the licensing fee required to be allowed to include time data in the info the BTS broadcasts.
(It's like monopoly telcos in the 1970, everything is a value-added extra).
Backups should never be read by the server to ensure it has no dependency on the data.
If you never read your backups, how do you verify that the data was successfully backed up? I've seen dual-backup systems fail because, after several years of apparent backups, when the data was needed it turned out that nothing (copy #1) and the wrong data (copy #2) had been backed up.
Yep, that's been pretty much my experience, and it does seem to be quite widespread. The issue in academia isn't so much fraud, you don't really get into it because you expect to scam money or get rich, and most are pretty dedicated (the stereotype of "my wife thinks I'm with my mistress, my mistress thinks I'm with my wife, but I'm actually in the office proving theorems" isn't too far from the truth), it's making sure that an enthusiastic but misguided researcher doesn't spend the next 20 years going down some rathole with very little benefit to anyone. Allocation of funding is a really tough problem with no easy fix, the least awful one might be a benevolent-dictator model, but those are hard to find. Read Diego Gambetta's "Codes of the Underworld" for an example of how it can go wrong in Italian academia.
Quite probably. Everyone seems to know how the game is played, presumably including the people issuing the grants, it's just the way things are done. Note that this isn't a case of people gold-plating and then pocketing the difference, they are doing useful research with the money, it's just that the stuff being researched is often difficult to get funded, and vice versa. Think of it as scrounging in the military, you need to get X done, the official channels are unworkable, so you sort it out by other means.
You have to understand how these grants work, given that the amount of effort required to obtain them is very high and the chances of success quite low, what researchers will do is submit a grant request for some ludicrous (relative to the work being performed) amount of money and often tautological research, knowing that when they get the money they'll do the basic work necessary to fulfil the grant requirements and then use the bulk of the money to do the work they actually wanted to do but couldn't get the funding for. Like you, I've seen million-dollar grants go to something that could be done for $5,000, but then there was no intention of using the money for the supposed purpose, it was for other, more useful work.
I've found the killer isn't so much RAM as CPU. I use an ultrabook (I travel a lot, so the lighter the better), and find the top CPU hog about 95% of the time is Firefox, when that's running the fan almost never stops because Firefox has the CPU at 10%+ load (everything else is 0.4%, 0.2%, that sort of thing). Needless to say, this doesn't help battery life.
Then there are the spikes, like when you're opening a web page and Firefox sits there at 25% load (quad-core machine, so it's pegging one of the cores at 100%) doing nothing but updating a spinner. I don't know how they manage to do this, you're blocked in a select() and yet it's somehow managing to use 100% CPU. Oh, and since they also haven't figured out timeouts (which is built into select() for fscks sake) the 100% CPU consumption lasts until you close the tab that Firefox is failing to open a connection for.
Doesn't work, they either need to connect out to report data or you need to connect in to read data from them. You then end up with this ghastly mishmash of per-device firewall config rules to handle the requirements of each unit.
So what though? If you're an American, then I don't hear you trying to solve anything. If you're not, then why should anyone in America spend one second caring about your opinion?
Well, at least you've immediately demonstrated beyond doubt that you're definitely an American.
If you don't want Microsoft to gather information from your beta testing of Microsoft products, don't become a beta tester.
You don't have a choice, everyone who has Windows Update enabled beta-tests (or perhaps alpha-tests) for Microsoft. "The re-re-re-re-re-release of KB3.14159265 causes blue-screens on any weekday with a Y in it, no idea what's wrong but please stand by for a re-re-re-re-re-re-release once we figure it out".
If you want that, go with a clone like the Orange Pi, that's got GigE and bunch of other stuff (built-in flash, a proper barrel jack connector to power things, etc). The only question I'd have about it is compatibility, I really just want a replacement Pi that I can use the same software on, not a new dev.project.
I don't care about the overhead of a $5 USB Wifi dongle, the killer is the at the time possibly OK but in perpetuating it totally stupid decision to power the thing from a freaking cellphone charger rather than a 12V barrel jack connector. Anything I build with a Pi that involves attaching USB peripherals tends to end up as a spaghetti mess of a UBEC with splitter to feed the Pi and a powered USB hub hacked up to not backfeed power to the Pi but power the peripherals that the Pi can't power itself. I've ended up with Pi's pushed into the corner of a largeish weatherproof case that's otherwise filled with all the wiring and kludgery to get around the power problems.
Oh dear Cthulhu, how can you get a simple summary wrong on so many levels?
Firstly, SHA-1 is a hash function, not a cipher, so you can't "decrypt it".
Secondly, there's no immediate attack on it, it's just known to not be as strong as it should be. With a couple of simple precautions (e.g. using a high-entropy cert serial number) you can make it more resistant to known issues. It's not a total fix, but it helps.
Thirdly, Mozilla doesn't control Symantec. Symantec were asked by a private customer to be allowed to use a small number of SHA-1 certs for their payment terminals, which have absolutely nothing to do with Mozilla.
Fourthly, "other companies" have nothing to do with it, this is a decision by the CA. It just happened to be discussed on the Mozilla forums.
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Twenty-fifthly, it's a pretty odd distinction to make over cert issuance, if they'd issued a few weeks earlier (before the end of 2015) they'd have got cert with a one-year validity, so valid till the end of 2016. By not having them issued until now they're supposed to get one with an effective zero validity. All this is doing is allowing a private user with no connection to Mozilla to get the same effect as if it had bought the certs a few weeks ago.
It's also unclear where, or even if, you can buy the thing (having CPU from Soviet Russia, or at least Putinstan, would be cool:-). So it seems like a different version of something like the Ci20 Creator, which has been around for awhile.
That was my thinking as well, we've already got HTTP4Google (a.k.a. "HTTP 2.0"), TLS4Google (a.k.a "TLS 1.3"), Google phones (Android), Google laptops (Chromebooks), they're proposing Google-optimised hard drives, why don't they get their own planet where they can dictate everything the way they want it.
That was my feeling too. Microsoft is giving the Linux community a huge boost with their consumer-hostile Windows 10, and instead of taking advantage of it they're busy shooting each other in the foot over irrelevancies so trivial that you can't even explain them to a normal person (it came up in a discussion last night, one non-geek eventually summed it up as "this is why we think computer people are all a bit crazy").
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Here Maps is really, really good. I replaced Google's crappy map app as soon as I found out about Here. It's main problem seems to be lack of mindshare.
This assumes that your cellular provider isn't too cheap to pay the licensing fee required to be allowed to include time data in the info the BTS broadcasts.
(It's like monopoly telcos in the 1970, everything is a value-added extra).
Contrary to popular belief, not all Germans are known as "Guenter Gottfried" and "Friedelumurr Gieselheart",
No, many of them are called Sepp, particularly in the south.
In an American high school you don't have to prove anything
In Russian high school, proof anythings you.
OK, it's gonna need a bit more work, but it's a start, it's a start. Probably need to work in a Putin reference somewhere.
This bit doesn't sound right:
Backups should never be read by the server to ensure it has no dependency on the data.
If you never read your backups, how do you verify that the data was successfully backed up? I've seen dual-backup systems fail because, after several years of apparent backups, when the data was needed it turned out that nothing (copy #1) and the wrong data (copy #2) had been backed up.
Piggers are gonna go all the way this year!
Well, OK, at least mostly...
Yep, that's been pretty much my experience, and it does seem to be quite widespread. The issue in academia isn't so much fraud, you don't really get into it because you expect to scam money or get rich, and most are pretty dedicated (the stereotype of "my wife thinks I'm with my mistress, my mistress thinks I'm with my wife, but I'm actually in the office proving theorems" isn't too far from the truth), it's making sure that an enthusiastic but misguided researcher doesn't spend the next 20 years going down some rathole with very little benefit to anyone. Allocation of funding is a really tough problem with no easy fix, the least awful one might be a benevolent-dictator model, but those are hard to find. Read Diego Gambetta's "Codes of the Underworld" for an example of how it can go wrong in Italian academia.
Quite probably. Everyone seems to know how the game is played, presumably including the people issuing the grants, it's just the way things are done. Note that this isn't a case of people gold-plating and then pocketing the difference, they are doing useful research with the money, it's just that the stuff being researched is often difficult to get funded, and vice versa. Think of it as scrounging in the military, you need to get X done, the official channels are unworkable, so you sort it out by other means.
You have to understand how these grants work, given that the amount of effort required to obtain them is very high and the chances of success quite low, what researchers will do is submit a grant request for some ludicrous (relative to the work being performed) amount of money and often tautological research, knowing that when they get the money they'll do the basic work necessary to fulfil the grant requirements and then use the bulk of the money to do the work they actually wanted to do but couldn't get the funding for. Like you, I've seen million-dollar grants go to something that could be done for $5,000, but then there was no intention of using the money for the supposed purpose, it was for other, more useful work.
I'm a transgendered glacier and I resent that remark, you insensitive clod!
I've found the killer isn't so much RAM as CPU. I use an ultrabook (I travel a lot, so the lighter the better), and find the top CPU hog about 95% of the time is Firefox, when that's running the fan almost never stops because Firefox has the CPU at 10%+ load (everything else is 0.4%, 0.2%, that sort of thing). Needless to say, this doesn't help battery life.
Then there are the spikes, like when you're opening a web page and Firefox sits there at 25% load (quad-core machine, so it's pegging one of the cores at 100%) doing nothing but updating a spinner. I don't know how they manage to do this, you're blocked in a select() and yet it's somehow managing to use 100% CPU. Oh, and since they also haven't figured out timeouts (which is built into select() for fscks sake) the 100% CPU consumption lasts until you close the tab that Firefox is failing to open a connection for.
Doesn't work, they either need to connect out to report data or you need to connect in to read data from them. You then end up with this ghastly mishmash of per-device firewall config rules to handle the requirements of each unit.
You're only saying that because you've never seen "ET Porn Home" in all its VHS glory.
So what though? If you're an American, then I don't hear you trying to solve anything. If you're not, then why should anyone in America spend one second caring about your opinion?
Well, at least you've immediately demonstrated beyond doubt that you're definitely an American.
If you don't want Microsoft to gather information from your beta testing of Microsoft products, don't become a beta tester.
You don't have a choice, everyone who has Windows Update enabled beta-tests (or perhaps alpha-tests) for Microsoft. "The re-re-re-re-re-release of KB3.14159265 causes blue-screens on any weekday with a Y in it, no idea what's wrong but please stand by for a re-re-re-re-re-re-release once we figure it out".
If you want that, go with a clone like the Orange Pi, that's got GigE and bunch of other stuff (built-in flash, a proper barrel jack connector to power things, etc). The only question I'd have about it is compatibility, I really just want a replacement Pi that I can use the same software on, not a new dev.project.
I don't care about the overhead of a $5 USB Wifi dongle, the killer is the at the time possibly OK but in perpetuating it totally stupid decision to power the thing from a freaking cellphone charger rather than a 12V barrel jack connector. Anything I build with a Pi that involves attaching USB peripherals tends to end up as a spaghetti mess of a UBEC with splitter to feed the Pi and a powered USB hub hacked up to not backfeed power to the Pi but power the peripherals that the Pi can't power itself. I've ended up with Pi's pushed into the corner of a largeish weatherproof case that's otherwise filled with all the wiring and kludgery to get around the power problems.
I use uBlock and Disconnect and a handful of other extensions. I never have issues with ads or javascript.
Don't worry, Mozilla are working hard to change that (via deprecation of the extension API).
Oh dear Cthulhu, how can you get a simple summary wrong on so many levels?
It's also unclear where, or even if, you can buy the thing (having CPU from Soviet Russia, or at least Putinstan, would be cool :-). So it seems like a different version of something like the Ci20 Creator, which has been around for awhile.
Naah, it'll take them years to decrypt words like Etterretningstjenesten so the Norwegians are pretty safe.
That was my thinking as well, we've already got HTTP4Google (a.k.a. "HTTP 2.0"), TLS4Google (a.k.a "TLS 1.3"), Google phones (Android), Google laptops (Chromebooks), they're proposing Google-optimised hard drives, why don't they get their own planet where they can dictate everything the way they want it.
That was my feeling too. Microsoft is giving the Linux community a huge boost with their consumer-hostile Windows 10, and instead of taking advantage of it they're busy shooting each other in the foot over irrelevancies so trivial that you can't even explain them to a normal person (it came up in a discussion last night, one non-geek eventually summed it up as "this is why we think computer people are all a bit crazy").
I've always found this tells me almost everything I need to know about Windows 10.