I see that you got modded flamebait, but it appears to be true that members of ethnic groups that a person does not have much to do with do appear to "look alike". Our built-in facial recognition system appears to become fine-tuned to work with the faces that surround us, and is less efficient at other facial types. So for someone who hardly ever meet different ethnic Chinese, distinguishing the faces of Chinese can indeed be hard. And I'm sure the opposite is true too - to a Chinese who has not seen or met many Westerners, they may have a hard time telling them apart, unless there are severe differences like "beard vs shaven", "black vs white" or visible deformities. Likewise, it appears to be harder to estimate the age of people from ethnic groups one is unfamiliar with.
This might be an opportunity.for facial recognition to assist us, throwing up the name, age and some short info on people when it can be determined. It might even help some people tell Bill Murray and Tom Hanks apart.
that proof's SO RIGHT you had to try "downmod hide it"
Um, no. I only have one account, and don't post as an anonymous coward, so I don't get to downmod anyone in this thread. It's others that downmodded your post, likely because of your incoherent ramblings being, well, "so wrong".
YOU DEFINITELY CAN'T, troll!
Think about it: Are everybody who disagrees with you trolls, or could it be that you are a smidgeon paranoid?
It's known protectionvs. reverse engineering: PROOF: "Packing an executable file is a way of compressing executable code firstly to minimize filesizes, but often it is also used to complicate the reverse engineering process"
Also known as "security through obscurity", as I said in my post.
I don't have to prove a negative. That's like saying "prove that god doesn't exist". The onus is on those who make claims to back them up, not on others to disprove them.
All it would take was one example to prove your claim. How hard would that be, if what you claimed were true?
Hint: Instead of posting URLs to posts that nobody will bother to follow, try to actually back up your wild claims with some actual meaningful text. Without bolding random words, without changing the subject and referring to it, and without a P.S. at the end. If you looked less like a kook, perhaps some would take you more seriously. As it is, your postings elude that you probably have some mental problems, and are incapable of engaging in normal discussions like others here do. I can't help you with the former, but am willing to help you with the latter. But you have to be willing to learn posting etiquette.
No I'm not (it helps hide how I detect it) by obfuscation hiding functions/methods where I summon an.exe size for even 1 BYTE in sizecheck (no virus is that small)
You don't know much about writing viruses; that much is clear, because checking the size is a waste. One popular approach for viruses is to put the original file elsewhere (where elsewhere can either be elsewhere on a file system, or for file systems that support it, in a resource fork or attribute list of the same file), and then pad the virus to the desired file length. For weak CRCs, even change the padding to return the same CRC.
But worse, you also then prevent the binary from running on systems where the binaries are always modified before being run, for example by rebase/prelink, or by adding library paths to the executable, or systems which depend on setting contexts on files, or requires nx bit set, or... Making assumptions about the runtime environment is so 1990s.
Security through obscurity is what you're attempting here, and you require people to lower their security if it's too high.
Think of the 'big 4' as cars, and your ISP as the roads you drive them on. It's a lot easier to choose a different car than to have a second set of roads built in your area.
This is more like the "big 4" being cities, and your ISP owns the roads. Should the NJ road authorities be able to say that you have to pay $15 instead of 15c tolls if you intend to drive to Boston, or that you can't use their roads at all if you came from Old Dime Box, TX?
The big 4 Amazon, Facebook, Netflix and Google are rapidly consolidating to control just about everything we see, hear or do on the Internet all over the entire world.
Right now, nothing stops me from using (or creating) other services. A repeal of NN can change that. If I put up, say, a tech blog, and don't want to partner with any of the above, ISPs can simply block or throttle access to my web sites. Not to mention non-web traffic, which may soon be an extra charge...
You know that the tulip is just a parable, right? Its usefulness is as a symbol for greed based crazes. What the craze is about and how they differ is irrelevant - it's the psychological drive to jump on a craze in the belief that you'll become rich that's the issue. Any such speculative mania inevitably fails, no matter what the subject of the speculation is.
Disruptive technologies? Well, so was railroads and the internet, but that didn't prevent the railroad mania and dot.com bubbles. It's irrelevant what is speculated on; the issue is that once it becomes a loop feeding on itself, attracting more and more people, it becomes a certainty that it will end badly, and the losers will be those who had the highest hopes and least understanding that it was a risk. People who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
I'm one of those people that are basically past the age of reproduction that you talk about and I spend close to zero on medical care, basically glasses, which I've had to spend money on since I left home. Likewise for my parents while they were alive though towards the end they did have to spend a couple of digits a year on medications, perhaps 10% of their income. Looking at your user ID #, you're probably one of those old people too, it's a shame if it is costing you that much money for medical care.
It's those older than us that rack up the costs. Once you hit nursing home age or contract a severe age related ailment, the costs go way up. On average, when a person hits late 70s / early 80s, the total medical expenses (including medicare, insurance, out-of-pocket and charitable) exceeds the income the person once had. As aging proceeds, the expenses continue to grow.
Some are less lucky. One person I know contracted memory impairment just a few years into retirement, and now pays around $5k per month for assisted living, plus a huge amount of medical expenses. Just a 10% copay is a killer when you have to pay for things like regular MRIs. And it's only going to get worse.
Could be they don't teach how semicolons are used in school anymore. The youth of today probably think their use are as separators in video game titles.
Yes, if only to teach the less savvy not to get into a market at the peak of a bubble.
Don't get into a market before the peak either, unless you're an unscrupulous jerk who like to take money from others who don't understand as much as you do. Anyone with an iota of sympathy for fellow man will steer clear of anything that smells like a bubble.
It is infinitely divisible, but each blockchain transaction can be expensive, especially if you want to see it posted anytime in the next few days. Things like the Lightning Network are trying to help with that... but stuff like that is still alpha quality.
And to the point, the more people use bitcoin for actual purchases, fragmenting it more and more while adding to the chains, the longer the transactions are going to take. Large scale speculation where people primarily sit on the bitcoins and don't make a large amount of purchases is what keeps it from collapsing completely.
If panic breaks out, the system will likely collapse to the point that even if you find buyers, they can't buy, because the transaction time is so long that the value changes significantly during transaction, if the transaction can be completed at all.
Don't walk under any skyscrapers or sail below bridges until this is resolved, one way or another.
Yes. Bitcoin does come with some risk associated with it. You can get hacked and lose everything. The value could drop. But why is Wallstreet and the traditional currency peddlers putting in so much effort to denounce it? Hmmmm...
That many are against it for their own greedy reasons does not constitute evidence that it isn't flawed.
If it looks like a tulip and smells like a tulip...
I guess it didn't occur to you that a lot of people might say to themselves "I wish I had time to stop and get something, but I don't so I'll go without."
Looking at those around me, no that does not occur to me. By looks, it seems more plausible that the "go without" becomes "I didn't have time for a burger two hours ago, so I'll have two now. With fries".
Babysitting is one obvious way the old folks help their genes.
The total costs of living for an elderly person including all medical costs is on average into six-digit dollar figures per year. You can hire some pretty good babysitters for that. (Not even counting the inheritance.)
In the past, being a store of knowledge was also very important and is perhaps still important.
Also a fount of wrong knowledge. My grandmother was a racist ("I have nothing against negros; I think everyone should have one") who thought colds could spontaneously occur if not dressing well, believed the fumes from a fireplace was good for the lungs, and that there was a man in the sky who would make you burn for eternity if you slept with your hands under the comforter.
I don't get seafood at a place that doesn't specialize in it because the quality will suffer and seafood is sketchy enough to begin with.
Personally, I find that the places that specialize in seafood are the worst, with almost no variety from what bumpkins expect. Everything is breaded and served with lemon, to camouflage any taste of the actual seafood. Shrimp is never peeled. Nothing is poached. And you have the choice between cod, salmon, generic whitefish ("scrod") and if lucky, Patagonian toothfish (marketing name: "Chilean sea bass"). Eel? Mackerel? Herring? Sardines? Stockfish? Coldwater shrimp? No chance.
You have to go to the ethnic restaurants to get real seafood.
How is there a limited amount of customers? If I could get my orders faster I would go more often.
The obvious hard limit is the total amount of food everyone can eat.
In reality, much less, due to people who don't have the time no matter how fast the fast food place is because you have to go there, people who prefer homemade food, people who prefer home delivery, people who prefer to eat while watching TV, people who prefer fine dining, people with special dietary needs, children who rely on being fed with the rest of the family, and so on. There may still be growth potential, but not all that much, and certainly not enough for every existing restaurant to double their throughput.
If you make an efficient enough ordering system your employees don't need to speak English: just a manager or someone taking care of the elderly who can't work your machines to order themselves.
It's not just the elderly. Machines can't take special requests like "a decanter for the wine", "a non-frosted glass for the beer", "no legumes due to allergy" or someone wanting their steak blue or with an egg yolk. They won't be able to answer questions like "are your mashed potatoes free of skin?" or "which dessert is the least sweet?"
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I see that you got modded flamebait, but it appears to be true that members of ethnic groups that a person does not have much to do with do appear to "look alike". Our built-in facial recognition system appears to become fine-tuned to work with the faces that surround us, and is less efficient at other facial types.
So for someone who hardly ever meet different ethnic Chinese, distinguishing the faces of Chinese can indeed be hard. And I'm sure the opposite is true too - to a Chinese who has not seen or met many Westerners, they may have a hard time telling them apart, unless there are severe differences like "beard vs shaven", "black vs white" or visible deformities.
Likewise, it appears to be harder to estimate the age of people from ethnic groups one is unfamiliar with.
This might be an opportunity.for facial recognition to assist us, throwing up the name, age and some short info on people when it can be determined. It might even help some people tell Bill Murray and Tom Hanks apart.
that proof's SO RIGHT you had to try "downmod hide it"
Um, no. I only have one account, and don't post as an anonymous coward, so I don't get to downmod anyone in this thread. It's others that downmodded your post, likely because of your incoherent ramblings being, well, "so wrong".
YOU DEFINITELY CAN'T, troll!
Think about it: Are everybody who disagrees with you trolls, or could it be that you are a smidgeon paranoid?
Hell, they're even remarking how the plugin is a "Firefox exclusive" right in the explanation press release.
Another way of saying nobody else were that stupid?
It's known protectionvs. reverse engineering: PROOF: "Packing an executable file is a way of compressing executable code firstly to minimize filesizes, but often it is also used to complicate the reverse engineering process"
Also known as "security through obscurity", as I said in my post.
I don't have to prove a negative. That's like saying "prove that god doesn't exist". The onus is on those who make claims to back them up, not on others to disprove them.
All it would take was one example to prove your claim. How hard would that be, if what you claimed were true?
Hint: Instead of posting URLs to posts that nobody will bother to follow, try to actually back up your wild claims with some actual meaningful text. Without bolding random words, without changing the subject and referring to it, and without a P.S. at the end.
If you looked less like a kook, perhaps some would take you more seriously. As it is, your postings elude that you probably have some mental problems, and are incapable of engaging in normal discussions like others here do. I can't help you with the former, but am willing to help you with the latter. But you have to be willing to learn posting etiquette.
How the FUCK are you going to recover the variable names, the preprocessor directives, and the comments?
You don't need them. Really.
And what if the original program had inline assembler? What are you going to do with that?
It will will generate code that does the same - it does not have to look the same, as long as what it does is the same.
Good programs use exe packers too as I said
Name one that's from this decade.
No I'm not (it helps hide how I detect it) by obfuscation hiding functions/methods where I summon an .exe size for even 1 BYTE in sizecheck (no virus is that small)
You don't know much about writing viruses; that much is clear, because checking the size is a waste.
One popular approach for viruses is to put the original file elsewhere (where elsewhere can either be elsewhere on a file system, or for file systems that support it, in a resource fork or attribute list of the same file), and then pad the virus to the desired file length.
For weak CRCs, even change the padding to return the same CRC.
But worse, you also then prevent the binary from running on systems where the binaries are always modified before being run, for example by rebase/prelink, or by adding library paths to the executable, or systems which depend on setting contexts on files, or requires nx bit set, or ...
Making assumptions about the runtime environment is so 1990s.
Security through obscurity is what you're attempting here, and you require people to lower their security if it's too high.
Think of the 'big 4' as cars, and your ISP as the roads you drive them on. It's a lot easier to choose a different car than to have a second set of roads built in your area.
This is more like the "big 4" being cities, and your ISP owns the roads. Should the NJ road authorities be able to say that you have to pay $15 instead of 15c tolls if you intend to drive to Boston, or that you can't use their roads at all if you came from Old Dime Box, TX?
The big 4 Amazon, Facebook, Netflix and Google are rapidly consolidating to control just about everything we see, hear or do on the Internet all over the entire world.
Right now, nothing stops me from using (or creating) other services.
A repeal of NN can change that. If I put up, say, a tech blog, and don't want to partner with any of the above, ISPs can simply block or throttle access to my web sites.
Not to mention non-web traffic, which may soon be an extra charge...
It certainly are.
You know that the tulip is just a parable, right?
Its usefulness is as a symbol for greed based crazes. What the craze is about and how they differ is irrelevant - it's the psychological drive to jump on a craze in the belief that you'll become rich that's the issue.
Any such speculative mania inevitably fails, no matter what the subject of the speculation is.
Disruptive technologies? Well, so was railroads and the internet, but that didn't prevent the railroad mania and dot.com bubbles.
It's irrelevant what is speculated on; the issue is that once it becomes a loop feeding on itself, attracting more and more people, it becomes a certainty that it will end badly, and the losers will be those who had the highest hopes and least understanding that it was a risk.
People who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
I'm one of those people that are basically past the age of reproduction that you talk about and I spend close to zero on medical care, basically glasses, which I've had to spend money on since I left home. Likewise for my parents while they were alive though towards the end they did have to spend a couple of digits a year on medications, perhaps 10% of their income.
Looking at your user ID #, you're probably one of those old people too, it's a shame if it is costing you that much money for medical care.
It's those older than us that rack up the costs. Once you hit nursing home age or contract a severe age related ailment, the costs go way up. On average, when a person hits late 70s / early 80s, the total medical expenses (including medicare, insurance, out-of-pocket and charitable) exceeds the income the person once had. As aging proceeds, the expenses continue to grow.
Some are less lucky. One person I know contracted memory impairment just a few years into retirement, and now pays around $5k per month for assisted living, plus a huge amount of medical expenses. Just a 10% copay is a killer when you have to pay for things like regular MRIs. And it's only going to get worse.
Less Climate Change, more Aeronautics and Space.
He probably heard what an enormous amount of pollution and climate gases the big rockets cause, and wanted it just in case it would annoy someone.
Stop using a web client to read e-mail, and it isn't a problem.
And if you're an admin, configure your SMTP servers to mark e-mail containing links to trackers as potential malware.
Could be they don't teach how semicolons are used in school anymore.
The youth of today probably think their use are as separators in video game titles.
Yes, if only to teach the less savvy not to get into a market at the peak of a bubble.
Don't get into a market before the peak either, unless you're an unscrupulous jerk who like to take money from others who don't understand as much as you do. Anyone with an iota of sympathy for fellow man will steer clear of anything that smells like a bubble.
It is infinitely divisible, but each blockchain transaction can be expensive, especially if you want to see it posted anytime in the next few days. Things like the Lightning Network are trying to help with that... but stuff like that is still alpha quality.
And to the point, the more people use bitcoin for actual purchases, fragmenting it more and more while adding to the chains, the longer the transactions are going to take. Large scale speculation where people primarily sit on the bitcoins and don't make a large amount of purchases is what keeps it from collapsing completely.
If panic breaks out, the system will likely collapse to the point that even if you find buyers, they can't buy, because the transaction time is so long that the value changes significantly during transaction, if the transaction can be completed at all.
Don't walk under any skyscrapers or sail below bridges until this is resolved, one way or another.
It's infinitely divisible, so if the transaction fees are small enough I can still use bitcoin to buy a pack of gum.
Not if it takes an hour for the transaction to be verified.
Yes. Bitcoin does come with some risk associated with it. You can get hacked and lose everything. The value could drop. But why is Wallstreet and the traditional currency peddlers putting in so much effort to denounce it? Hmmmm...
That many are against it for their own greedy reasons does not constitute evidence that it isn't flawed.
If it looks like a tulip and smells like a tulip...
I guess it didn't occur to you that a lot of people might say to themselves "I wish I had time to stop and get something, but I don't so I'll go without."
Looking at those around me, no that does not occur to me. By looks, it seems more plausible that the "go without" becomes "I didn't have time for a burger two hours ago, so I'll have two now. With fries".
Babysitting is one obvious way the old folks help their genes.
The total costs of living for an elderly person including all medical costs is on average into six-digit dollar figures per year. You can hire some pretty good babysitters for that. (Not even counting the inheritance.)
In the past, being a store of knowledge was also very important and is perhaps still important.
Also a fount of wrong knowledge. My grandmother was a racist ("I have nothing against negros; I think everyone should have one") who thought colds could spontaneously occur if not dressing well, believed the fumes from a fireplace was good for the lungs, and that there was a man in the sky who would make you burn for eternity if you slept with your hands under the comforter.
I don't get seafood at a place that doesn't specialize in it because the quality will suffer and seafood is sketchy enough to begin with.
Personally, I find that the places that specialize in seafood are the worst, with almost no variety from what bumpkins expect. Everything is breaded and served with lemon, to camouflage any taste of the actual seafood. Shrimp is never peeled. Nothing is poached. And you have the choice between cod, salmon, generic whitefish ("scrod") and if lucky, Patagonian toothfish (marketing name: "Chilean sea bass").
Eel? Mackerel? Herring? Sardines? Stockfish? Coldwater shrimp? No chance.
You have to go to the ethnic restaurants to get real seafood.
How is there a limited amount of customers? If I could get my orders faster I would go more often.
The obvious hard limit is the total amount of food everyone can eat.
In reality, much less, due to people who don't have the time no matter how fast the fast food place is because you have to go there, people who prefer homemade food, people who prefer home delivery, people who prefer to eat while watching TV, people who prefer fine dining, people with special dietary needs, children who rely on being fed with the rest of the family, and so on. There may still be growth potential, but not all that much, and certainly not enough for every existing restaurant to double their throughput.
If you make an efficient enough ordering system your employees don't need to speak English: just a manager or someone taking care of the elderly who can't work your machines to order themselves.
It's not just the elderly. Machines can't take special requests like "a decanter for the wine", "a non-frosted glass for the beer", "no legumes due to allergy" or someone wanting their steak blue or with an egg yolk. They won't be able to answer questions like "are your mashed potatoes free of skin?" or "which dessert is the least sweet?"