Fingerprints are neither username nor passwords. They are a "what you are" authentication factor and a very good way to secure a physical device like a phone. A variety of techniques can be used to defeat fingerprint scanners in the same way that locks are pickable. Still, it requires dedication : first steal the phone, then pick up fingerprints, make the fake finger and unlock. It is also common to require a password in addition to the fingerprint if the phone hasn't been used for some time. For most people, it is a more than adequate level of security.
All drives are ticking time bombs, that's why you need backups if you don't want to lose data and RAID if availability is important. HDDs suddenly fail sometimes. And although it is a less common failure mode than on SSDs, you can't rely on auditory clues. Also, you are unlikely to ever hit the wear limit on SSDs with a normal workstation or gamer type usage. Something else will break before that.
They dropped XMPP support from the Hangout client but their servers still support it. So : Hangouts -- Google chat with 3rd party XMPP client : OK Google chat with 3rd party XMPP client-- Other XMPP users : OK Hangouts -- Other XMPP users : not OK
Horribly wrong? It is just a silly name. From the internet, I would have expected something celebrating national socialism and reproductive functions. It is good once in a while when people don't take themselves too seriously. Silly things also tend to be memorable as long as it is not overdone.
This is a generation that has egos so big it makes the Boomers look modest! Millennials don't care about the past. They don't care about building on good ideas rather than bad. They don't care about what users want. They're so sure that their ideas are "right" that they force them on others.
Rejecting the past is what "generations" do. What you said is what people of every single generation in existence said since the beginning of life itself. Just replace "boomers" with the generation before them and "millennials" by the one after.
Putting IOCCC-style code in the middle of an opensource project is an excellent way of getting everyone's attention. What you are looking for is the underhanded C code contest where the point is to hide evil stuff in clean looking code.
Most netbooks were full fledged PCs able to run Windows, had ethernet and full-sized USB ports. What they offer is just a small tablet with a keyboard. In fact you could just buy a small BT keyboard and use the smartphone you already have.
Looking at the cost of a water tower, it seems that you are right. Seen in an article : a 2000 m3 water tower, 60m high, costs around $4 million. It stores around 333 kWh of potential energy. That's about $12000 per kWh. A Tesla powerwall is $3500 for 10 kWh, or $350 per kWh, or 35 times cheaper.
It looks like unless you have a mountain nearby, from an energy storage perspective, elevated water tanks are not the solution.
The internet is better than ever. It is now so easy to find information on even the smallest thing it is incredible. People whine about "fake news". Sure, there are fake news, bullshit flying around every corner, etc... But now, you can actually check things more easily than before. I realized how much bullshit I was fed decades ago and thanks to the internet, I am now able to recognize as such. The reason I believed so much bullshit is that I simply didn't have other sources. Now, with just a few Google and Wikipedia searches, you can find the answer backed by primary sources with every debatable point discussed by competent people. Fake news and other bullshit have always existed. They are easier to identify now. I say we are going in the right direction. The only trap that I think we must be weary about is that it is now much easier to fall into an echo chamber. However all resources to get out of it are right here, both in term of counterarguments and in ways to overcomes ones cognitive biases. I think that we'll learn and things will continue getting better.
What Notepad++ did is just a patch to prevent a specific exploit from being used, the underlying "vulnerability" is still there. This may be effective against inexperienced script kiddies but It won't stop the CIA or any self respecting cracker. DLL hijacking is actually a feature rather than a bug on general purpose OSes like Windows and Linux. It is very useful for development. Eliminating these kinds of vulnerabilities at a fundamental level means locking down the system, which can be done (ex : Microsoft AppLocker) but it is typically not what power users (the kind that use Notepad++) want.
Like most things, it's bullshit until it works. Then it's genius.
I suspect it will be bullshit for a very long time then. And by the time it becomes genius, if it does, the implementation will probably look nothing like the Hyperloop. If the only thing we keep from the Hyperloop is the idea of running trains in a vacuum, then it will just appear as one of the many attempt we made during the last 100 years.
Well, airplanes still have pilots even though they pretty much fly themselves. And airline pilot told me that the reason he is in the plane is mostly for passengers to feel safe. They are just starting making conductorless trains even though in many cases the conductor does nothing but push a button. There is value in having a human on board that goes beyond operating the vehicle.
A perfectly valid reason. What people call "lazy" is what drives humanity forward. After all, farmers are just lazy guys who keep their food sources close by instead of hunting and gathering like real men.
The system is doubly broken since it considers that a plumber is a low intelligence profession. A plumber, especially a self-employed plumber needs a well functioning brain. You may be expected to enter someone's home and fix a leak when the only indication is a puddle of water on the floor. Also, everything is a mess, half of the pipes are in the wall the other half is behind bolted down furniture and there is no room to put a wrench. You are on your own and your client won't let you go and certainly won't pay you until it's fixed. I say it requires serious problem solving skills. If you are self-employed, you also get all the trouble of running a business : keeping the books, taxes, contracts, inventory, etc... Good plumbers are highly sought after and well paid.
That absurdity is probably what saved your cousin. He was deemed a moron and got a job deemed fit for morons, two mistakes canceled out and a smart guy got a good job.
Hardware audio codecs are integrated ADC/DACs. Their main purpose is act as a bridge between the analog and the digital part of the audio system. Usually they don't know anything about digital audio formats. While they have the same name as software codecs, they operate on a different level. Software codecs convert a stream of bits into a different stream of bits, hardware codecs convert an electrical signal into a different electrical signal. To make things even more confusing, things like mp3 implemented in hardware can are also called a hardware codec. However, it is generally not people mean when they are talking about audio codecs on a motherboard.
Start our own equipment company, with full parts availability and no lock-in. They'll be selling like hotcakes!
Not really, because you are going to charge more for it. It is the same situation as with razor and printers. They make the product cheap, expecting to profit on maintenance. They also use planned obsolescence in order to guarantee a stable revenue stream. With full part availability you won't have these options, and you'll have to make money in other ways, for example by charging a higher initial price. Also, in order to make such a model sustainable, you have to convince customers that the higher prices you charge are worth the investment. For this you need a trust, which require good marketing and a flawless record, which, in turn costs money and it will show on the final price... See how attractive vendor lock-in is. The whole point of making a law is that the free market isn't able to fix this problem by itself and there are issues that go beyond consumer satisfaction, like e-waste management.
Behind mobile computing lies huge datacenters full of powerful servers. This is Intel's new market. Intel isn't pushing that hard for the embedded market. They made a few half-assed attempts but that's about it. The reason they don't push harder, I think, is price. There is plenty of competition in the mobile market and margins are thin. Intel is a big US-based company with high running costs, there is no way it could win a price war. It is much better suited for high performance computing where margins are higher but large investments are required.
I've run out of memory in large projects on other IDEs.
It means that your "other IDE" is a memory hog. Visual Studio is quite light for the amount of features it offer, you won't get to 4GB that easily.
In fact, that limit pushes Microsoft to reduce their memory consumption. That alone is worth staying at 32 bits. Software eating up all your memory for no good reason is one of my pet peeves.
Let's assume the following : - 25% of servers run Linux - 50% of servers run Windows - Linux is compatible with ARM - 1% of server CPUs are ARM, the remaining 99% are Intel - All ARM servers run Linux - The situation with Windows Server will now be the same as with Linux regarding platforms.
With these generous assumptions in mind, Intel market share will drop from 99% to 97%, that's 2% less sales, big deal... The reason servers don't run ARM is not because of incompatibilities. It is because they need more computing power than ARM chips can offer.
Pay male employees 30% less. Why 30% you say when the gap is closer to 20%. That's just because most executives are male and they don't want their pay to be affected of course.
They are talking about a bypass, not a break. So that's most likely vulnerabilities. For example : tricking the software into silently switching into a non-secure mode, stealing keys using a trojan, exploiting convenient features such as password recovery, etc...
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Fingerprints are neither username nor passwords. They are a "what you are" authentication factor and a very good way to secure a physical device like a phone.
A variety of techniques can be used to defeat fingerprint scanners in the same way that locks are pickable. Still, it requires dedication : first steal the phone, then pick up fingerprints, make the fake finger and unlock. It is also common to require a password in addition to the fingerprint if the phone hasn't been used for some time. For most people, it is a more than adequate level of security.
Anyone else thought about The Jargon File?
It is not that at all.
All drives are ticking time bombs, that's why you need backups if you don't want to lose data and RAID if availability is important.
HDDs suddenly fail sometimes. And although it is a less common failure mode than on SSDs, you can't rely on auditory clues. Also, you are unlikely to ever hit the wear limit on SSDs with a normal workstation or gamer type usage. Something else will break before that.
They dropped XMPP support from the Hangout client but their servers still support it.
So :
Hangouts -- Google chat with 3rd party XMPP client : OK
Google chat with 3rd party XMPP client-- Other XMPP users : OK
Hangouts -- Other XMPP users : not OK
Horribly wrong? It is just a silly name.
From the internet, I would have expected something celebrating national socialism and reproductive functions.
It is good once in a while when people don't take themselves too seriously. Silly things also tend to be memorable as long as it is not overdone.
This is a generation that has egos so big it makes the Boomers look modest! Millennials don't care about the past. They don't care about building on good ideas rather than bad. They don't care about what users want. They're so sure that their ideas are "right" that they force them on others.
Rejecting the past is what "generations" do.
What you said is what people of every single generation in existence said since the beginning of life itself. Just replace "boomers" with the generation before them and "millennials" by the one after.
Putting IOCCC-style code in the middle of an opensource project is an excellent way of getting everyone's attention.
What you are looking for is the underhanded C code contest where the point is to hide evil stuff in clean looking code.
Just wait 1 minute before clicking "Submit" after you hit "Preview".
It will do exactly as you said.
Most netbooks were full fledged PCs able to run Windows, had ethernet and full-sized USB ports.
What they offer is just a small tablet with a keyboard. In fact you could just buy a small BT keyboard and use the smartphone you already have.
Looking at the cost of a water tower, it seems that you are right.
Seen in an article : a 2000 m3 water tower, 60m high, costs around $4 million. It stores around 333 kWh of potential energy. That's about $12000 per kWh.
A Tesla powerwall is $3500 for 10 kWh, or $350 per kWh, or 35 times cheaper.
It looks like unless you have a mountain nearby, from an energy storage perspective, elevated water tanks are not the solution.
The internet is better than ever.
It is now so easy to find information on even the smallest thing it is incredible.
People whine about "fake news". Sure, there are fake news, bullshit flying around every corner, etc... But now, you can actually check things more easily than before. I realized how much bullshit I was fed decades ago and thanks to the internet, I am now able to recognize as such. The reason I believed so much bullshit is that I simply didn't have other sources. Now, with just a few Google and Wikipedia searches, you can find the answer backed by primary sources with every debatable point discussed by competent people.
Fake news and other bullshit have always existed. They are easier to identify now. I say we are going in the right direction.
The only trap that I think we must be weary about is that it is now much easier to fall into an echo chamber. However all resources to get out of it are right here, both in term of counterarguments and in ways to overcomes ones cognitive biases. I think that we'll learn and things will continue getting better.
What Notepad++ did is just a patch to prevent a specific exploit from being used, the underlying "vulnerability" is still there. This may be effective against inexperienced script kiddies but It won't stop the CIA or any self respecting cracker.
DLL hijacking is actually a feature rather than a bug on general purpose OSes like Windows and Linux. It is very useful for development. Eliminating these kinds of vulnerabilities at a fundamental level means locking down the system, which can be done (ex : Microsoft AppLocker) but it is typically not what power users (the kind that use Notepad++) want.
Like most things, it's bullshit until it works. Then it's genius.
I suspect it will be bullshit for a very long time then. And by the time it becomes genius, if it does, the implementation will probably look nothing like the Hyperloop. If the only thing we keep from the Hyperloop is the idea of running trains in a vacuum, then it will just appear as one of the many attempt we made during the last 100 years.
Well, airplanes still have pilots even though they pretty much fly themselves. And airline pilot told me that the reason he is in the plane is mostly for passengers to feel safe.
They are just starting making conductorless trains even though in many cases the conductor does nothing but push a button. There is value in having a human on board that goes beyond operating the vehicle.
A perfectly valid reason.
What people call "lazy" is what drives humanity forward. After all, farmers are just lazy guys who keep their food sources close by instead of hunting and gathering like real men.
The system is doubly broken since it considers that a plumber is a low intelligence profession.
A plumber, especially a self-employed plumber needs a well functioning brain. You may be expected to enter someone's home and fix a leak when the only indication is a puddle of water on the floor. Also, everything is a mess, half of the pipes are in the wall the other half is behind bolted down furniture and there is no room to put a wrench. You are on your own and your client won't let you go and certainly won't pay you until it's fixed. I say it requires serious problem solving skills. If you are self-employed, you also get all the trouble of running a business : keeping the books, taxes, contracts, inventory, etc...
Good plumbers are highly sought after and well paid.
That absurdity is probably what saved your cousin. He was deemed a moron and got a job deemed fit for morons, two mistakes canceled out and a smart guy got a good job.
Hardware audio codecs are integrated ADC/DACs. Their main purpose is act as a bridge between the analog and the digital part of the audio system. Usually they don't know anything about digital audio formats.
While they have the same name as software codecs, they operate on a different level. Software codecs convert a stream of bits into a different stream of bits, hardware codecs convert an electrical signal into a different electrical signal.
To make things even more confusing, things like mp3 implemented in hardware can are also called a hardware codec. However, it is generally not people mean when they are talking about audio codecs on a motherboard.
Start our own equipment company, with full parts availability and no lock-in. They'll be selling like hotcakes!
Not really, because you are going to charge more for it.
It is the same situation as with razor and printers. They make the product cheap, expecting to profit on maintenance. They also use planned obsolescence in order to guarantee a stable revenue stream.
With full part availability you won't have these options, and you'll have to make money in other ways, for example by charging a higher initial price. Also, in order to make such a model sustainable, you have to convince customers that the higher prices you charge are worth the investment. For this you need a trust, which require good marketing and a flawless record, which, in turn costs money and it will show on the final price...
See how attractive vendor lock-in is.
The whole point of making a law is that the free market isn't able to fix this problem by itself and there are issues that go beyond consumer satisfaction, like e-waste management.
Behind mobile computing lies huge datacenters full of powerful servers. This is Intel's new market.
Intel isn't pushing that hard for the embedded market. They made a few half-assed attempts but that's about it. The reason they don't push harder, I think, is price. There is plenty of competition in the mobile market and margins are thin. Intel is a big US-based company with high running costs, there is no way it could win a price war.
It is much better suited for high performance computing where margins are higher but large investments are required.
I've run out of memory in large projects on other IDEs.
It means that your "other IDE" is a memory hog.
Visual Studio is quite light for the amount of features it offer, you won't get to 4GB that easily.
In fact, that limit pushes Microsoft to reduce their memory consumption. That alone is worth staying at 32 bits. Software eating up all your memory for no good reason is one of my pet peeves.
Let's assume the following :
- 25% of servers run Linux
- 50% of servers run Windows
- Linux is compatible with ARM
- 1% of server CPUs are ARM, the remaining 99% are Intel
- All ARM servers run Linux
- The situation with Windows Server will now be the same as with Linux regarding platforms.
With these generous assumptions in mind, Intel market share will drop from 99% to 97%, that's 2% less sales, big deal...
The reason servers don't run ARM is not because of incompatibilities. It is because they need more computing power than ARM chips can offer.
Or has it became 85% darker?
Pay male employees 30% less.
Why 30% you say when the gap is closer to 20%. That's just because most executives are male and they don't want their pay to be affected of course.
They are talking about a bypass, not a break. So that's most likely vulnerabilities.
For example : tricking the software into silently switching into a non-secure mode, stealing keys using a trojan, exploiting convenient features such as password recovery, etc...
This is a robot jumping in a warehouse : https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (jumps are at the end of the video)