"We have deployed TLS at a large scale using both hardware and software load balancers. We have found that modern software-based TLS implementations running on commodity CPUs are fast enough to handle heavy HTTPS traffic load without needing to resort to dedicated cryptographic hardware."
- Doug Beaver, Facebook
The overhead for SSL is not the encryption. Not on a modern CPU it isn't. Any overhead is due to the extra communication steps to set up the connection. But HTTP 1.1 will do a single handshake and reuse the connection.
"On our production frontend machines, SSL/TLS accounts for less than 1% of the CPU load, less than 10 KB of memory per connection and less than 2% of network overhead. Many people believe that SSL/TLS takes a lot of CPU time and we hope the preceding numbers will help to dispel that."
- Adam Langley, Google
See: https://istlsfastyet.com/
Actually, most cards in Europe now are contactless.
That is a bit of an exaggeration. About 40% of cards in the north European country where I live are contactless.
And for purchases below a certain amount, typically 35 Euros, you don't need to enter a PIN.
The limit varies between countries and some have no limit.
The first paragraph is facts only. The second is an interpretation of Russian intentions but is hardly original or controversial. This is not so much about Trump vs Clinton or Democrats vs Republicans, this is about a corrupt tyrant, Putin, vs western democracies. In France Macron's campaign reported thousands of attacks on its servers och accused Russian media of spreading false statements about Macron. Reports say that Russia has targeted 27 western countries with hacking and disinformation.
Russia did much more that Facebook advertising. They hacked the democratic party and had Wikileaks published 20000 internal stolen emails. This was denied by the Trump campaign and Trump instead at a rally said, ""Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing". US intelligence released a statement stating that Russia was responsible
and Obama kicked out a number of Russian diplomats and enforced sanctions on Russia.
While Trump claimed it "could be Russia, but it could also be China, it could also be lots of other people. It also could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds".
Russia is trying to undermine faith in US democracy, and not only that but is interfering in the election process of many western counties. This is what Theresa May said about it a month ago: “I have a very simple message for Russia. We know what you are doing. And you will not succeed. Because you underestimate the resilience of our democracies, the enduring attraction of free and open societies, and the commitment of western nations to the alliances that bind us."
Not quite what you want perhaps, but EU has mandated something called General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for EU citizens, that will be enforced in May 2018. After that people can ask a company what personal data it store about them, and to explain why it stores that data. GDPR also contains the "right to erasure" with which anyone can ask a company to remove their personal data. Google is located in Ireland due permissive legislation. That disappears with GDPR.
Most people probably only know about Google, so like or not, it is the obvious default choice.
DuckDuckGo is available and easily set as default if you want to.
Personably I'm impressed by FF 57.
"According to the NEA, identified uranium resources total 5.5 million metric tons, and an additional 10.5 million metric tons remain undiscovered—a roughly 230-year supply at today's consumption rate in total. Further exploration and improvements in extraction technology are likely to at least double this estimate over time."
- Scientific American 2009
So bring on the robots! We need humans to stop doing trivial jobs and start really improving the lives of everyone.
The big problem with this is income distribution. This is what Stephen Hawking has to say on the subject:
"If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality."
SciAm turned to crap in the early '00s, when they went full-force with the "climate change" memes....
Byte only went as far to make me not care, SciAm went much farther by going out of their way to push a left-wing agenda.
SciAm talking about global warming, something that about 97 percent of climate scientists agree
is real and largely caused by humans, is entirely appropriate for a science magazine
and has nothing to do with left or right wing politics.
Our country is essentially occupied by globalists.
I assume then that you are proponent of the of the opposite of globalism, i.e. nationalism, and oppose multiculturalism?
Personally the the connection between nationalism with militarism worries me.
I haven't seen data for 2016 or 2017.
Tourism in France has gone up continuously between 2010 to 2015 by roughly 10%.
Paris is the fifth most visited city in the world, and France the most visited country.
In the same time period the tourism in Egypt has gone down from about 14 to 9 million, but 2010 was a peak year.
Belgium's curve is remarkably flat but has gone up about 15% in that period.
Fake news. See the following Independent or many other serious sites:
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
"Kuwait has denied imposing a travel ban on nationals from several Muslim-majority countries, a move that was praised by US President Donald Trump.
The story was propagated by news web sites popular with Mr Trump’s supporters including Breitbart, Infowars and Sputnik."
A real hydrogen bomb is much more difficult to produce than an A-bomb. Experts are saying that what NK might have done is mixed a hydrogen isotope with a normal A-bomb. That would technically make it a hydrogen bomb, but not a true fusion bomb that starts a massive fusion reaction.
And new buses in Stockholm have USB sockets for charging mobiles, as well as some Swebus buses between Stockholm and Oslo and between other cities.
I expect that USB ports with free electricity will become more common on public transport.
You have a good point.
There are a number of countries in the Eurozone with lower GNI (Gross national income) per capita than Greece:
Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Slovakia, Malta, Portugal and Slovenia.
However Poland, though a part of EU and poorer than Greece, is not a part of the Eurozone.
On the Beach is considered sf by The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
"Shute's two Australian sf novels remain his best known works of genre interest."
...
"Much closer to the bone is the famous On the Beach (1957), adapted for BBC Radio as On the Beach (1957) and filmed as On the Beach (1959), a Near Future tale (see Holocaust, Post-Holocaust) in which nuclear World War Three eliminates all life in the northern hemisphere, as confirmed by an Australian submarine sent north to trace a mysterious radio message, but finding the Pacific Rim, including San Francisco (see California), entirely desolated."
It's a story concerning the future and the end of the world, clearly sf.
Slashdot Mirror
If you are interested there is a simple performance comparison of nonecrypted HTTP 1.1 and encrypted HTTP2 at: https://www.httpvshttps.com/
"We have deployed TLS at a large scale using both hardware and software load balancers. We have found that modern software-based TLS implementations running on commodity CPUs are fast enough to handle heavy HTTPS traffic load without needing to resort to dedicated cryptographic hardware."
- Doug Beaver, Facebook
The overhead for SSL is not the encryption. Not on a modern CPU it isn't. Any overhead is due to the extra communication steps to set up the connection. But HTTP 1.1 will do a single handshake and reuse the connection.
"On our production frontend machines, SSL/TLS accounts for less than 1% of the CPU load, less than 10 KB of memory per connection and less than 2% of network overhead. Many people believe that SSL/TLS takes a lot of CPU time and we hope the preceding numbers will help to dispel that." - Adam Langley, Google
See: https://istlsfastyet.com/
35 should be 25.
Actually, most cards in Europe now are contactless.
That is a bit of an exaggeration. About 40% of cards in the north European country where I live are contactless. And for purchases below a certain amount, typically 35 Euros, you don't need to enter a PIN. The limit varies between countries and some have no limit.
The first paragraph is facts only. The second is an interpretation of Russian intentions but is hardly original or controversial. This is not so much about Trump vs Clinton or Democrats vs Republicans, this is about a corrupt tyrant, Putin, vs western democracies. In France Macron's campaign reported thousands of attacks on its servers och accused Russian media of spreading false statements about Macron. Reports say that Russia has targeted 27 western countries with hacking and disinformation.
Russia did much more that Facebook advertising. They hacked the democratic party and had Wikileaks published 20000 internal stolen emails. This was denied by the Trump campaign and Trump instead at a rally said, ""Russia, if you're listening, I hope you're able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing". US intelligence released a statement stating that Russia was responsible and Obama kicked out a number of Russian diplomats and enforced sanctions on Russia. While Trump claimed it "could be Russia, but it could also be China, it could also be lots of other people. It also could be somebody sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds".
Russia is trying to undermine faith in US democracy, and not only that but is interfering in the election process of many western counties. This is what Theresa May said about it a month ago: “I have a very simple message for Russia. We know what you are doing. And you will not succeed. Because you underestimate the resilience of our democracies, the enduring attraction of free and open societies, and the commitment of western nations to the alliances that bind us."
Not quite what you want perhaps, but EU has mandated something called General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) for EU citizens, that will be enforced in May 2018. After that people can ask a company what personal data it store about them, and to explain why it stores that data. GDPR also contains the "right to erasure" with which anyone can ask a company to remove their personal data. Google is located in Ireland due permissive legislation. That disappears with GDPR.
Most people probably only know about Google, so like or not, it is the obvious default choice. DuckDuckGo is available and easily set as default if you want to. Personably I'm impressed by FF 57.
"According to the NEA, identified uranium resources total 5.5 million metric tons, and an additional 10.5 million metric tons remain undiscovered—a roughly 230-year supply at today's consumption rate in total. Further exploration and improvements in extraction technology are likely to at least double this estimate over time." - Scientific American 2009
So bring on the robots! We need humans to stop doing trivial jobs and start really improving the lives of everyone.
The big problem with this is income distribution. This is what Stephen Hawking has to say on the subject:
"If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality."
See: http://iopscience.iop.org/arti... and: http://iopscience.iop.org/arti...
SciAm turned to crap in the early '00s, when they went full-force with the "climate change" memes. ...
Byte only went as far to make me not care, SciAm went much farther by going out of their way to push a left-wing agenda.
SciAm talking about global warming, something that about 97 percent of climate scientists agree is real and largely caused by humans, is entirely appropriate for a science magazine and has nothing to do with left or right wing politics.
Our country is essentially occupied by globalists.
I assume then that you are proponent of the of the opposite of globalism, i.e. nationalism, and oppose multiculturalism? Personally the the connection between nationalism with militarism worries me.
I haven't seen data for 2016 or 2017. Tourism in France has gone up continuously between 2010 to 2015 by roughly 10%. Paris is the fifth most visited city in the world, and France the most visited country. In the same time period the tourism in Egypt has gone down from about 14 to 9 million, but 2010 was a peak year. Belgium's curve is remarkably flat but has gone up about 15% in that period.
That is my experience too, on several computers and operating systems.
It is incorrect. The official Kuwait statement: http://www.kuna.net.kw/Article...
Fake news. See the following Independent or many other serious sites: http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
"Kuwait has denied imposing a travel ban on nationals from several Muslim-majority countries, a move that was praised by US President Donald Trump. The story was propagated by news web sites popular with Mr Trump’s supporters including Breitbart, Infowars and Sputnik."
Groovy is cool. Also note that Java8 comes with Nashorn (JavaScript) and Shell Scripting. And Nashorn allows you to call Java code.
A real hydrogen bomb is much more difficult to produce than an A-bomb. Experts are saying that what NK might have done is mixed a hydrogen isotope with a normal A-bomb. That would technically make it a hydrogen bomb, but not a true fusion bomb that starts a massive fusion reaction.
And new buses in Stockholm have USB sockets for charging mobiles, as well as some Swebus buses between Stockholm and Oslo and between other cities. I expect that USB ports with free electricity will become more common on public transport.
You have a good point. There are a number of countries in the Eurozone with lower GNI (Gross national income) per capita than Greece: Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Slovakia, Malta, Portugal and Slovenia. However Poland, though a part of EU and poorer than Greece, is not a part of the Eurozone.
And searching Wikipedia reveals that Switzerland plans to close down FM radio by 2024.
Nobody else is phasing out FM or even planning to phase out FM.>
A (much discussed) study for Swedish parliament recommended that FM radio be closed down 2022.
On the Beach is considered sf by The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
...
"Shute's two Australian sf novels remain his best known works of genre interest."
"Much closer to the bone is the famous On the Beach (1957), adapted for BBC Radio as On the Beach (1957) and filmed as On the Beach (1959), a Near Future tale (see Holocaust, Post-Holocaust) in which nuclear World War Three eliminates all life in the northern hemisphere, as confirmed by an Australian submarine sent north to trace a mysterious radio message, but finding the Pacific Rim, including San Francisco (see California), entirely desolated."
It's a story concerning the future and the end of the world, clearly sf.
See the whole entry at: http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com...
There is also an interesting entry on Speculative Fiction.