Why should anyone believe Facebook when they've been caught red-handed manipulating trending news stories?
Because it's easy to not get your news from facebook. Besides this is all major egg on their face.
Unless you believe that there are thousands of small business owners with childlike english and hours of spare time to shit up comments sections all over the internet.
I thought about how they'd break a book cipher. I suppose you're right. I'll still stand by the statement that for the average person storing archives or sending a message, it's more important to conceal the existence of secret messages than it is to use secure encryption. I realize this statement borders on flamebait.
Hardly, Machine learning is just now starting to re-catch up to our current processing power. Metal neural networks still have a lot of catching up to do and we're making new progress with sensors every day.
If you have a secure channel now over which you can distribute n bits of data, then you can distribute an n-bit one-time pad and then later you can use an insecure channel to send an n-bit message securely.
Yeah that's the academic ruling on the subject but the reality is that it's easy to covertly distribute a one time pad, or the information required to generate a one time pad and as long as that information is not leaked you're ok.
As far as n bits of data, you don't need to transfer N bits of data to encrypt N bits of data. You can distribute the first 10 elements of a sequence, the name of a book, or address of a website. Codebreakers have been known to possess libraries of such possible key sources for this very reason but you have to have fucked up pretty bad to earn a time block on such a codebreaking system and if you're aware of this fact it is probably not hard to select pads that aren't going to make it into the library.
Yeah they're pricks. Having to plan around regulation that can change at the whims of a few unelected bureaucrats is extremely bad for business and thus bad for us too. Too bad we can't give the telecoms the inch they need for good business cause first thing they'll take a mile and bribe congress to write some consumer fucking bill full of subtle bought and paid for loopholes. "Net neutrality and child protection act for true patriots"
Why would I read the article? I come to slashdot for the girlz Anyhow fixing JPEG is not the answer. It has way too many legal issues. Anyone who complains about it's state likes to send faxes and write checks.
One valid concern they had with the FCC net neutrality is the ease and speed that the rules could change. Business likes to plan around regulation they know will be there tomorrow.
I actually know a little about the JPEG codec and you already can use it for completely lossless and even totally uncompressed images but most people don't know that. Neither of us is capable of saying whether this would free the new pointlessly backward comparable image from JPEG's legal issues. Image formats don't need a bunch of backward comparability but if you did want to migrate off the format like you say it would be as easy as adding a 2nd encoding to the file. But why? Just make a new format, it more or less worked for GIF and PNG.
So please explain why we need to be concerned with jpeg backward compatibility? So we can keep the same file name? That's pretty silly and is asking for endless trouble. Worrying about the the world's most technically illiterate people is a surefire way to end up with software like microsoft outlook.
The windows Desktop is actually what ruins the windows kernel which is surprisingly not bad at all. It's Windows backward compatibility that shits things up the most. I'd say that the windows desktop is actually quite horrible In 1995 most people had little exposure to computers so the start button was invented so that they had nothing to do but click on the giant button that says START. From there they were shown an extremely limited set of options so that they can't get lost. Microsoft half assedly extended this philosophy into other parts of windows, like the control panel category view. I guess for the use case that someone who cant use a computer can pick from a limited set of options and manually set their IP address if they need to.
Now windows 10 has came out and it's clearly designed by committee and that committee was formed to use microsoft's desktop OS dominance to get users accustomed to their mobile products UI at the expense of desktop users, this is also why they decided to give upgrades away for free. It's not an upgrade it's an advertisement for windows phones and surface.
Now ironically the mobile products are dead/dying off even though they weren't bad and windows sucks worse than ever. More and more people are switching to linux, which only became prominent because microsoft thought little of charging hobbiests and developers corporate prices for their personal use IT software and dev tools.
Microsoft is a lumbering giant, it's success is practically a law of nature at this point but they just can't quite shake their culture of acting like complete fucking assholes for even the smallest possible unfair advantage
How exactly is he in the US? He's an australian. The best news in the US is probably the Strategic Forecast.
I mean I know it's your job to post this shit but at least put in effort. You're by far the least believable shill I've ever seen and that's saying a lot. You should't post on slashdot because we're a nation of trolls from well before 4chan or in your case dvachan and we see right through you, I'm getting 2nd hand troll embarrassment from you.
No he's probably paid to post whatever his boss tells him. We have many right-leaning slashdotters, nutters, and rightwing nutters. With a few notable exceptions most of them actually have good or excellent karma!!
With some exception slashdot is rather tolerant of reasonably articulate or insightful viewpoints that go against it's generally liberal status quo. The reason we have extremely low quality buzzword filled shitposts like that one is because some Shillco associate is able to easily make his post quota here since we don't ban and don't require registration. Not only that but he'll be likely to get poster involvement which seems to be a recent requirement to meet post count. Presumably so they don't wander about the internet posting places that nobody goes.
I'm pleased to see this sort of thing happening at a local level. If every municipality enacts a hodgepodge of badly written net neutrality laws then telecom providers will be too scared to do anything even approaching the slow lanes for stupid people models of their fantasies and their opponents will be far too numerous to challenge in court.
It's exactly the way these litigious corporate greedheads operate so it will be wonderful to see them get a taste of their own medicine.
IANAL but state laws like this essentially become federal laws for the purpose of business (provided they're actually enforced). Introducing red tape and risk to the money making schemes intended to deliver consumers to the content delivery dark ages with all the associated billing models makes such bullshit unpalatable to the sort of pointy haired bastards fighting against net neutrality.
The plan with all these energy schemes is that once you allow businesses to come into existence around them, they may figure out how to do it efficiently enough to become profitable. Sometimes it works like in the case of solar or wind, sometimes not so much like with ethanol.
Bitcoin's transaction fees were higher than paypal unless you wanted to wait days for a transaction to go directly to the ledger. Of course it's a stupid time to be investing.
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Bingo! Politics aren't rational at all.
We won't be fooled just because you pretend to be a liberal
This is as good as news aggregation sites get. Some may seem smarter but they're just better behaved and have the ability to ban their worst cases.
Yeah right you have access to google to find facts on your own if you actually care. Besides he's not exactly making a point either.
I suspect you'll get a bonus if someone argues with you Ivan.
ps. where is the next social media platform... I want it bad.
Nice try ivan.
If we say yes do you get a bonus?
Why should anyone believe Facebook when they've been caught red-handed manipulating trending news stories?
Because it's easy to not get your news from facebook. Besides this is all major egg on their face.
Unless you believe that there are thousands of small business owners with childlike english and hours of spare time to shit up comments sections all over the internet.
I thought about how they'd break a book cipher. I suppose you're right.
I'll still stand by the statement that for the average person storing archives or sending a message, it's more important to conceal the existence of secret messages than it is to use secure encryption. I realize this statement borders on flamebait.
Hardly,
Machine learning is just now starting to re-catch up to our current processing power. Metal neural networks still have a lot of catching up to do and we're making new progress with sensors every day.
If you have a secure channel now over which you can distribute n bits of data, then you can distribute an n-bit one-time pad and then later you can use an insecure channel to send an n-bit message securely.
Yeah that's the academic ruling on the subject but the reality is that it's easy to covertly distribute a one time pad, or the information required to generate a one time pad and as long as that information is not leaked you're ok.
As far as n bits of data, you don't need to transfer N bits of data to encrypt N bits of data.
You can distribute the first 10 elements of a sequence, the name of a book, or address of a website. Codebreakers have been known to possess libraries of such possible key sources for this very reason but you have to have fucked up pretty bad to earn a time block on such a codebreaking system and if you're aware of this fact it is probably not hard to select pads that aren't going to make it into the library.
Yeah they're pricks. Having to plan around regulation that can change at the whims of a few unelected bureaucrats is extremely bad for business and thus bad for us too. Too bad we can't give the telecoms the inch they need for good business cause first thing they'll take a mile and bribe congress to write some consumer fucking bill full of subtle bought and paid for loopholes. "Net neutrality and child protection act for true patriots"
Why would I read the article? I come to slashdot for the girlz
Anyhow fixing JPEG is not the answer. It has way too many legal issues.
Anyone who complains about it's state likes to send faxes and write checks.
One valid concern they had with the FCC net neutrality is the ease and speed that the rules could change. Business likes to plan around regulation they know will be there tomorrow.
I actually know a little about the JPEG codec and you already can use it for completely lossless and even totally uncompressed images but most people don't know that. Neither of us is capable of saying whether this would free the new pointlessly backward comparable image from JPEG's legal issues. Image formats don't need a bunch of backward comparability but if you did want to migrate off the format like you say it would be as easy as adding a 2nd encoding to the file. But why? Just make a new format, it more or less worked for GIF and PNG.
So please explain why we need to be concerned with jpeg backward compatibility? So we can keep the same file name? That's pretty silly and is asking for endless trouble. Worrying about the the world's most technically illiterate people is a surefire way to end up with software like microsoft outlook.
The windows Desktop is actually what ruins the windows kernel which is surprisingly not bad at all. It's Windows backward compatibility that shits things up the most. I'd say that the windows desktop is actually quite horrible In 1995 most people had little exposure to computers so the start button was invented so that they had nothing to do but click on the giant button that says START. From there they were shown an extremely limited set of options so that they can't get lost. Microsoft half assedly extended this philosophy into other parts of windows, like the control panel category view. I guess for the use case that someone who cant use a computer can pick from a limited set of options and manually set their IP address if they need to.
Now windows 10 has came out and it's clearly designed by committee and that committee was formed to use microsoft's desktop OS dominance to get users accustomed to their mobile products UI at the expense of desktop users, this is also why they decided to give upgrades away for free. It's not an upgrade it's an advertisement for windows phones and surface.
Now ironically the mobile products are dead/dying off even though they weren't bad and windows sucks worse than ever. More and more people are switching to linux, which only became prominent because microsoft thought little of charging hobbiests and developers corporate prices for their personal use IT software and dev tools.
Microsoft is a lumbering giant, it's success is practically a law of nature at this point but they just can't quite shake their culture of acting like complete fucking assholes for even the smallest possible unfair advantage
Sasha's first day on trolling job, please go easy on him.
"programmers" should get a clue?
It sounds an awful lot like you couldn't code your way out of a wet paper bag.
How exactly is he in the US? He's an australian. The best news in the US is probably the Strategic Forecast.
I mean I know it's your job to post this shit but at least put in effort. You're by far the least believable shill I've ever seen and that's saying a lot. You should't post on slashdot because we're a nation of trolls from well before 4chan or in your case dvachan and we see right through you, I'm getting 2nd hand troll embarrassment from you.
What's his point? In 2018 nobody would read shitty news sites and see their crap ads or promote murdoch's political agendas without social media.
No he's probably paid to post whatever his boss tells him. We have many right-leaning slashdotters, nutters, and rightwing nutters. With a few notable exceptions most of them actually have good or excellent karma!!
With some exception slashdot is rather tolerant of reasonably articulate or insightful viewpoints that go against it's generally liberal status quo. The reason we have extremely low quality buzzword filled shitposts like that one is because some Shillco associate is able to easily make his post quota here since we don't ban and don't require registration. Not only that but he'll be likely to get poster involvement which seems to be a recent requirement to meet post count. Presumably so they don't wander about the internet posting places that nobody goes.
I'm pleased to see this sort of thing happening at a local level. If every municipality enacts a hodgepodge of badly written net neutrality laws then telecom providers will be too scared to do anything even approaching the slow lanes for stupid people models of their fantasies and their opponents will be far too numerous to challenge in court.
It's exactly the way these litigious corporate greedheads operate so it will be wonderful to see them get a taste of their own medicine.
IANAL but state laws like this essentially become federal laws for the purpose of business (provided they're actually enforced). Introducing red tape and risk to the money making schemes intended to deliver consumers to the content delivery dark ages with all the associated billing models makes such bullshit unpalatable to the sort of pointy haired bastards fighting against net neutrality.
Low effort trolling is not to be praised but msmash did a good job here.
The plan with all these energy schemes is that once you allow businesses to come into existence around them, they may figure out how to do it efficiently enough to become profitable. Sometimes it works like in the case of solar or wind, sometimes not so much like with ethanol.
Bitcoin's transaction fees were higher than paypal unless you wanted to wait days for a transaction to go directly to the ledger. Of course it's a stupid time to be investing.
Who are these people?