I mean, internal web applications don't need HTTPS, and yes, we can self-sign and force CA root to be distributed, but it's really just a pain in what is perfectly functioning software.
The only way to hit them requires you to either be on the the local network, or VPN in.
Firefox's warning is less than useful - the only way to disable it disables it for all sites, not just intranet ones. Chrome is probably going to be the same - disable it for all, or none, with no option to designate sites as intranet where the warning is suppressed and still have public internet sites have it.
Yes, we can upgrade our systems, though the current web applications work well enough that justifying spending thousands to upgrade doesn't seem worth it. Especially since it works (though looks a bit dated)
No shit. Why would you want a right-hand-drive car in Canada? Why would dealers even bother shipping them to Canada for resale when there are plenty of other markets in the world where they also drive on the left side of the road? If this were a story out of Australia or the UK, that's one thing... but Canada? Weird.
Well, you are allowed right-hand-drive cars in Canada (and US too). Though since you typically import them, you usually know what you're getting, and the why part is usually because it's a highly special car. Though usually it's some sort of supercar or other collectible car.
You know what you're getting in to - if you're looking for a car and see that the steering wheel is on the wrong side, you either know what you're doing, or imported it yourself. The fact is, the owner has a clue - most buyers of used vehicles won't buy a car that's "different" (e.g., steering wheel on wrong side) from what they're used to. Unless I wanted a specific car, I wouldn't take the right hand drive version because it will be odd. Plus they are licensed and insured differently due to the non-standard nature of the vehicle, so really, you know what you're getting into.
Right. Because the user taps in several places on the screen; but unless the display/digitizer is privvy to exactly WHAT App is running in the foreground, those taps and swipes are USELESS outside of the phone.
FUD.
No, it's not. Because if you log where you touch on the screen and where you swipe, you can probably figure out what's going on.
Look at the lock screen on your phone, and your keypad is probably laid out like every other keypad out there. In fact, it looks remarkably like the phone keypad too (if you're using a PIN). So any succession of taps in that region of the screen with the relatively wide spacing may be either a phone number, or the PIN code to unlock your phone.
Ditto with the keyboard - if you're making a bunch of taps in the lower 1/3rd of the screen, I don't need to know what you're running in order to guess you might be typing something. If I record the locations of the taps, and then try to play it back with various scaling on the keyboard, I might be able to recreate what you typed.
Heck, I might log information about when the touch screen chip is turned off so I can tell when you power it up, you're screen is probably locked and to note the next few taps and swipes.
Not to mention highly unreliable. You have to be able to perform the action, if the cop handcuffs you and then removes the phone from your pocket, how are you going to tap the button 5 times? And yes, cops are likely to do it in that order, they don't want to give you the opportunity to go for a weapon.
So I'm really not sure what this brings to the table. If you have access to your device to do this, you could have simply long-pressed the power button to reboot the phone and force a password instead.
The thing is, if you see a cop, you can quickly do this action and disable the fingerprint reader. Heck, if you have your phone in the pocket, you can quickly press the power button in 1-2 seconds, so when they ask you put your hands up, you can do it then put your hands up.
Or if the phone is in your hands, it isn't a big movement and you can do it while your hands are up and before the cops remove the phone from your hands.
Try it on any phone - you can press the power button 5 times really quickly (under 1 second, 2 seconds tops). Every other action requires a complex set of hand movements you probably cannot do quickly or while you're holding your phone.
So nothing of use like being able to edit menus and getting rid of useless apps that are forced down my throat like whatever DAZN is or Crackle. Or actually fixing issues that worked on PS3 media player like continuous play of what's in the folder. Instead of play 1 video, then stop.
The PS4 is a games machine. If you wanted a media player, you should've gotten the competitor's system, because they are focused on media and games.
Sony is treating the PS4 as games first, everything else second. They're going to remain this way pretty much for the rest of the console's life because it's obviously working.
People keep making this argument, but there is no evidence that there are natural monopolies. The only monopoly that I know of that can be claimed to have come into existence without government intervention is Standard Oil. I doubt that the monopoly could have survived much longer than it did even without the government actively breaking it up. I, also, suspect that some of the business practices it used to become a monopoly were violations of laws other than the Sherman Act.
A "natural monopoly" is a monopoly by some facet of geography. Infrastructure is a natural monopoly because allowing competition makes a mess of things - imagine what it would look like if all the poles had to have 10 power lines from 10 power companies to supply you power, 10 coax lines from 10 cable companies to supply you with tv/phone/internet and 10 phone lines for tv/phone/internet. And never mind the 10 sewer lines for companies to take your sewage, and water pipes to supply you with water. Ditto natural gas and other facilities all needed to support all this redundant infrastructure.
It is unwieldy. So instead, they have one sewage pipe, one water pipe, one gas pipe, one coax, one power cable and one TV line to your house. The company that maintains this infrastructure is a natural monopoly and should be heavily regulated (in fact, most of the time it's city owned and operated). The people on the other end - who supply you with the gas/water/power/etc can go pay a set fee to use the infrastructure to provide you with service.
So if you're going to break up Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, you use it that way - one division will maintain the infrastructure as a completely separate entity, heavily regulated. The other divisions that provide the service and content can do whatever the hell they want to do to attract your dollars.
Decryption was essentially negated. That's breaking a layer of security if there ever was one. Otherwise, why would the encryption be in place in the first place? That is the point of encryption, correct? To secure things?
A minor form. The secure enclave doesn't actually have to be encrypted, it could just be signed. All you need to know is when you start up, you verify that the image is properly signed and then you start the processor up. Encryption makes it so you don't actually have to verify it decrypted correctly - if someone tampered with the firmware, then the secure processor will crash. This lets you bypass a potential weakness in signature verification - it all boils down to a simple comparison in the end - does, and if you power spike the CPU at the right time, you might be able to tilt the comparison in your favor. With an encrypted blob, you're not doing a verification check - if it decrypts incorrectly, it will crash. On startup, the secure enclave can do a simple checksum of its image as well to make sure it decrypts correctly or lock up. But if you tampered with the encrypted blob, and it corrupted the image self-check, then at some point it will hit garbage and throw an exception.
It's not a huge deal it was decrypted, because presumably you cannot use the key to encrypt your own firmware. In fact, it's a good thing - one can analyze it for security flaws. As long as you can't inject your own firmware in (no encryption key) the system security is not compromised by release of the decryption key. The only compromise would come from bugs in the decrypted firmware, which is a good thing.
I would guess making a black box that could survive a crash and still have antennas that can communicate with a satelite despite being underwater or buried in debris would be a bit of a challenge.
They make external black boxes - as in black boxes that affix to the fuselage. If the plane crashes into a body of water, the black box will eject from the housing, float up and then send out an emergency beacon (which these days at the universal SAR at 406MHz means SAR can get notified and GPS coordinates within minutes). It can then be retrieved and the data extracted.
; I've driven a family member's minivan that has a camera on the right-side mirror, and when you signal a right turn it shows the image on the dash monitor. It shows a nice view that's a lot better than what I'd see with just the mirror, the main problem is it isn't always-on, and it doesn't integrate that well with the existing mirror (the display is in the middle of the dash, not near the mirror).
Ow, whiplash alert.
They will put the displays near where you're looking - the worst thing int he world would be to put the mirror display on the center dash, so you have to look at the center dash, then flick your head around to do a shoulder check. It would also allow for always-on mirrors so you can monitor the lane next to you for opportunities to make a lane change.
But the nice thing would be they can offer a greater field of view and reduce the size of the blind spot. You can also expect computer vision to be integrated to point out potential hazards similar to the current blind spot detection systems today.
The issue with scraping non-copyrightable data is that it is Theft of service: violations of terms users agree to in order to access the resource.
The owner of the server/website pays for processing time and bandwidth, AND the owner of the server DOES NOT HAVE TO provide a free-for-all --- everyone who owns a computer/network has a right to direct who can use the resources provided by their server/equipment and monthly ISP services, how, and in what manner.
Rate limits on page loads, bot detection and captchas on resources intended to be used by humans are commonplace for preventing bots from coming in and hogging resources, spamming, or mass-downloading things at the server owner's expense for purposes not useful to the owner of the server.
Yes, all correct. However, he cannot bar anyone from viewing that data - LinkedIn basically banned the company from scraping the data. Which is fine if they were being abusive and hammering the site, after which if they stop, they are allowed to access the data again.
What LinkedIn cannot do is simply say that data is public to anyone who browses it, EXCEPT YOU, because you want to do something with the data we didn't think to monetize.
Basically, because the data is available to all, it's available to all (within limits). You can't say anyone in the world can see your LinkedIn profile, except that guy over there just because he wanted to take that data and do something with it. (And "do something" is intentionally vague. Perhaps they want to contact you about a job offer, or other thing).
Windows defaults to Bing and Edge. No one cares about the defaults and quickly changes it over to something else because it's trivial to do. Google does not pay MS probably due to some combination of: 1) MS won't do it for any price because they want Bing to suceed 2) Google already *knows* how ineffective having the default in Windows seems to be from evidence, so it's not worth much
3) Microsoft is not allowed to.
Remember, Microsoft was found to be a monopoly and an abusive one at that, so they are looked at far more closely than anyone else, including Google and Apple (once a monopoly, always a monopoly).
About the worst Microsoft could do was offer cheap Windows licenses to those OEMs who do not change the defaults of Bing and IE - it was called Windows 8.1 with Bing. It was basically a free copy of Windows for low cost PCs.
OEMs were free to take it up, or pay for a regular Windows license - perhaps some OEMs struck deals with Google to make Google the default search provider, Chrome the default browser on their Windows installations. And yes, I've seen PCs like that with preinstalled Chrome and Google as default.
Google doesn't pay Microsoft, Google pays PC OEMs.
Spicer said its official. That makes everything he says subject to the presidential records act, and in no fashion a personal statement.
When he's no longer President, it goes back to a personal account.
His transgender ban is currently the big war on how much this matters. He can issue orders that generals don't take as orders, and suddenly it is an opinion, not policy, and a personal account. But as of right now, it represents the statements of the head of the Executive Branch, this is no longer a private account. They could have gone a different route, didn't.
Therein lies the problem. Had Trump just left his official tweets using @POTUS and kept liek @RealDonaldTrump to his own musings and whatever he ate for breakfast, then it's fine. But he loves the fact that his personal account has more followers than @POTUS, which means he does real announcements from his personal account.
And at that moment, it's an official statement and an official forum for interacting with government. Spicer's confirmation that yes, Trump's personal twitter account is ALSO an official White House announcement account transforms it into an official public forum for government announcements.
And at that point, your rights as a citizen kick in - you have the right to communicate with government via the first amendment. If you want to block someone for being disruptive, you can, but you better have your ducks in a row, or better yet, get a judicial opinion to ban someone.
And that's what Twitter needs to do - the "Block" button on @POTUS and while Trump is still president, @RealDonaldTrump must be disabled. If they feel someone is being disruptive, they need to get a judicial order stating such and delivered to Twitter directly who can apply the block. If you cannot convince a judge that what the guy says is disruptive, no block for you.
I've wondered about bringing back some legacy protocols, except over TLS, and with certificates for both sides:
1: NNTP -- separate the binary stuff from the non-binary, have a way to have a decent hierarchy structure, and that would beat the piss out of most forums out there.... 5: PostScript and lpr. We need a standard protocol that works with any/all printers.
NNTP is pretty useless unless you're on the backbone these days - article drops way too frequently. Luckily, sites like Easynews provide a nice NNTP-to-HTTP(S) service. You can use their NNTP servers, or you can access the same thing using a web browser (secured, if you want). About the only thing they don't have is an upload an NZB file and have it generate a web page of links for HTTP(S) or bulk (ZIP) downloading.
Printing - well, we have Internet Printing Protocol, which I believe can be secured, though we haven't figured out the printer driver issue yet. iOS' AirPrint seems to be driverless, but how it works is a mystery. Perhaps a combination of PostScript and self-contained PPD files?
It is an interesting dilemma, but it is 'solving' the problem with market forces instead of laws, which is an interesting phenomena. Before the internet it would probably have taken more effort to organize enough people to even figure out who owned the printing presses used to print [objectionable material] let alone organize enough people to form a worrisome boycott thereof. Extra legal mob rule can have its own issues, of course, but this all seems like a new level of organization compared to what could've been accomplished a scant 20 years ago.
Not really. The thing was, it wasn't widespread. If you had a tiny printing press and printed out flyers for a neighbourhood, you'd have a hard time figuring out who did it. If it was a giant printing press that went nationwide, then you'd easily know who's responsible (you don't get that big without people noticing and knowing).
The thing is, the internet has given the "small time" press the ability to print worldwide quite easily, so something destined for members of a group suddenly has world wide exposure, wanted or not.
I'm astonished to hear that absolutely no COTS digital electronics have ever experienced crash or corruption inducing single event effects (When did they change the acronym from SEE to SEI?). I'd be willing to bet that there have been SEE/SEI crashes, but generations of craptacular Microsoft operating systems have concealed them. It's quite clear from the Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer on board that the station is getting pelted with high energy protons day in and day out, not to mention the heavier stuff that contributes significantly to the radiation exposure astronauts have to keep track of. One of those particles hitting the right transistor will most certainly change the value stored in a DRAM cell, and now that we're talking about billions of cells with a transistor each, that's a lot of targets.
It's actually a matter of area. As in the area of the silicon that is vulnerable.
Right down here on earth, use of ECC DRAM is a must on a cluster, because most clusters are stuffed full of RAM That a SEU (single event upset - the current terminology) has a really good chance of upsetting a bit in the memory of a node in the cluster.
Someone tried to build a cluster of PowerMac G5 computers. The cluster could not be booted completely before an SEU caused a crash.
In a single system like a laptop, the area is low enough that you might not see it (especially if it hits memory that isn't actively being used). In a cluster, that changes things and on bit might affect the whole cluster.
I'm a big bitcoin proponent but government can stop it. They can shoot everyone who promotes bitcoin or possesses bitcoin; then they can kill everyone who they think promotes it or possesses it. That would do the trick.
Of course, the zombie apocalypse would end bitcoin as well. No electricity. No internet. No bitcoin.
Outside of draconian circumstances though - BTC is here to stay.
It's here to stay as a toy currency, that's it. Until it can scale up to millions of transactions per second instead of the sub-100 right now (it was 7 pre-split), it's not useful as a general currency because you can't, well, use it. People don't want to wait days or months for their transaction to be posted. Even back when 10 minutes was the average it was still pushing it.
And yes, networks like Visa and Mastercard are doing that volume.
Yes, the big problem might be blockchain technology because millions of transactions per second would ramp up the blockchain size quite rapidly - if each blockchain entry was 100 bytes, 1 million transactions would add 100MB to the blockchain in a second. If you scale up to the 7 million or so per second Visa does, that's the better part of a gigabyte per second of blockchain growth.
Because Motorola would not budge on price when IBM came to them wanting to use it in their new "PC", while second choice Intel would.
Actually, because the 68000 wasn't in production yet when IBM came around. Motorola had sample chips, but they weren't production ready (The 68000 was in production in November, 1980. The IBM PC launched in August, 1981).
Whereas the 8088 was long ready and in production, so IBM could get it all done in 12 months. The 68000 would be 3 months into the IBM design before it was ready for production.
1. I think you mean descendants not ancestors. 2. You think dealing with heirs is easier. I think it's harder because there can be many heirs, they got no relation to the movie business, no career or portfolio to think of and very often they don't have the same interest in the art - it's an inheritance and they want cold hard cash. And they know their little piece of it is blocking a big release so they try charging a lot for it. And if there's many such little pieces, the project might not be worth doing.
I think some Linux game porting companies have experienced this, the game developer didn't think there was business in making a Linux version. But if somebody else wants to do a port, then they charge a ridiculous license fee because if somebody's trying to buy it then it must be very valuable. There's some strange logic to this at times, sure a lot of people will let things they don't use or need go easily. But you also see cases where something has been rusting in a barn for years, but if you try buying it then they'd rather not sell than make a "bad" sale. Even though there's no indication they'll ever get the real value out of it.
Rights are a huge issue.
Some actors are just old and crotchety and refuse to sign for any more rights than they already have (Christopher Lloyd, for example). Whether it's they don't want to be bothered anymore by lawyers, or they don't want to sign away any more dignity, or whatever, they just refuse. This has affected a game I like to play (details below).
Old back catalogs are especially troublesome, especially prior to the invention of the VCR and thus many studios do not actually have permission to do "home video" releases because the concept of home video didn't exist when the show was shot. This applies especially to shows that have popular music in the soundtrack, because as anyone can tell you music licensing is a huge PITA. Many shows heavy on music have had to change out the songs for a home video release (WKRP, for example) because it's simply too hard and too difficult and too expensive to get all the licensing in place. Hell, SiriusXM couldn't get it right for pre-1970 music (which was often state licensed) and got sued by a bunch of old musicians for playing their songs without permission.
And yes, some descendants are also greedy - a lot of works are tied up merely because they could not obtain permission and the holdout decided to get greedy. Unfortunately, they usually overestimate the willingness of studios to deal - catalog shows don't earn much money to begin with.
And now we stream movies over the Internet, which in an of itself often requires another right - it's one thing to broadcast and syndicate, but you need permission to stream if you want that method of showing as well.
With modern shows, it's of course way easier since the contracts all state now that the content owner will be able to show it on both the little and big screen (TV and movie theatres), home video )VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray, not-invented-yet-format), digital formats (iTunes, Amazon, etc), streaming (Netflix, Hulu, etc) as well as future media not yet invented. This would apply to the show itself, plus any licensed materials, plus actor contracts, etc.
Complicating matters are virtual actors and using them to replace deceased actors. Back to the Future Part 2 caused a mild controversy at the Screen Actor's Guild when Crispin Glover tried to hijack production by demanding excessive compensation (he was slightly delusional, so that didn't help matters) - he basically wanted the same pay as Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, despite being a minor character. So they replaced him with someone else, wrote him out the story and did that whole upside-down thing so it wouldn't be completely obvious it wasn't Crispin Glover. This caused a huge stir. The SAG after that decided that once an actor plays a character, that character is theirs and you cannot replace who plays it without that actor's prior permission. (Doctor W
Several times in fact, various flavors. They actually aren't bad. Until you're on day 4 with the same damned fettuccine alfredo, then you start thinking of that hot girlfriend who couldn't boil water without messing up.
I cook. I enjoy cooking. I use spices to cut the salt and fat, and most people complement me on my cooking. I can't imagine any prepackaged meal being either A) better than I could make myself; or B) Healthier than I can make myself.
I can see C) faster than I can make myself; and D) humping it in a desert and wanna eat
/ protip: To cook pasta faster boil water// then put the water into ice cube trays/// voila! Next time you need boiled water just take it out of the freezer
Packaging food requires processing and the processing basically means having to compensate for the process in the preparation/cooking of the food. It's generally why prepackaged food is high in sodium - because salt is a great preservative, something you need in order to last between the factory to the distribution center to the retailer warehouse to the retailer and to the store shelf.
Food is perishable, and most of the stuff on the shelf, including the fresh stuff, has been around for weeks - produce is picked early and ripened on the truck so by the time it hits the shelf, it's ready. And produce typically has the shortest supply chain - the suppliers in general will ship directly to stores to save the shipping to the distribution center and retailer warehouses (saving up to a month). Everything else has been prepared to be preserved - either flash freezing, drying, canning or other preservation method. Some of them kill a lot of flavor, hence using a lot of salt to bring it back again.
Cooking it fresh will always taste better since you don't need to do any steps that kill flavor and nutrition and thus have to overcompensate to bring it back. Even so some of the foods are pre-packaged, but in general those items don't lose much in the process (pasta, for example, is generally bland to begin with, so drying doesn't really destroy anything). Other foods, like flour, generally just keep.
As for your tip - if you salted your pasta pot correctly, it won't freeze in a typical freezer. If it does, you're not salting it correctly (and this applies to both fresh and dried pasta) - you really want an ocean seawater level of salinity, if not dead sea. Plus, given how big pasta pots are, that's a LOT of ice cube trays.
ticket sales are down in the US because the movies are geared to the Chinese market. They're less desirable (weaker dialog so it's easier to dub, watered down plots to make it through Chinese censors) but folks still go see them, they just don't keep going again and again. Profits in the States are down but that's dwarfed by the profits in the US.
Exactly. Even a movie like Transformers doesn't hide it - Chinese production companies are right there front and center.
Heck, Huahua Media, according to IMDB are involved with the following 2017 films: Transformers 5, xXx Return of Xander Cage, Ghost In the Shell, Jack Reacher and Star Trek Beyond.
The Chinese are very interested in Hollywood movies, and Hollywood is more than willing to put up their usual crap to an audience that demands it and is willing to pay for it. Hell, if it isn't done in 3D, they will complain, so the Chinese are demanding more expensive 3D tickets, too (none of the complaints about 3D really affect anyone other than North America).
A good job means you can take vacation whenever you want to, because you work for an employer who understands work/life balance, and respects employee requests for time off
A great many employers do not have the luxury of offering their employees unrestricted vacation time. If UPS or the post office told people there would be no deliveries on monday, because the entire workforce wanted the day off to watch the eclipse, there would be open riots in the streets.
Or, what is your opinion of the power company having un-staffed nuclear plants because everyone wants to watch the eclipse?
You live in a fantasy world jackass, get off your horse and take a look around you
Sorry, but most good employers know when people take time off and plan around it. You may be surprised, but not too many people are going to see the eclipse.
You put in your request for time off in advance, maybe a few months to a few weeks, and they'll likely approve it because it can be slotted into the work. The more time you give, the easier they will at approving your request. Do it last minute and results can be iffy, but even so most employers will provide for short term leave, if possible.
For the eclipse, most people probably don't care. Or since it happens on a work day, they might take 10 minutes from their day to go outside and take a look, then head back in later. Given smokers take smoke breaks, that's all it's really going to amount to - a bunch of people taking a smoke break. Most people will just see a partial eclipse. Those who are going to travel to see the full eclipse have put in their vacation requests weeks ahead of schedule, because they needed to book hotels and other things.
And while people are expecting chaos near the total eclipse path, it's not as bad as you think - maybe a million people total over the entire band, out of a population of over 300 million is not going to seriously affect anything.
Ans UPS and USPS and others not doing deliveries? I'm sure they have more than a few people taking the day off. They either have replacement workers ready to cover (easy to do when you plan ahead), or plan for reduced throughput that day, because honestly, most packages will not be missed if they were delivered on a Tuesday instead of Monday. And if they were, then perhaps you should've paid for (guaranteed) express delivery instead of economy.
The world doesn't stop turning when people take vacations. Good employers plan for it - they know Thanksgiving is going to be an odd week, so they plan for reduced workforce around it - either delaying deadlines, hiring coverage workers, or just planning for reduced productivity. Same goes around the winter break. And summer too - employers plan for a good chunk of people to simply take time off during the summer. Hell, in China, Chinese New Year means the entire country is off a couple of weeks. If Foxconn and others can plan on their entire workforce going on holidays for two whole weeks, planning on a handful of employees missing every day isn't difficult.
Life happens. People get sick. Often the person you need that information from either goes on holiday, gets ill, or is otherwise indisposed when you need them most. And people live.
Employers that don't allow their staff to take vacations because it impacts their deliverables are not running an efficient ship. They're running a potential disaster - if missing one employee impacts the business to the extent that the business can falter, then it is a business that will falter. Basically, your boss is squeezing everyone, probably to make a few extra bucks. Well, they can make more money by getting rid of stuff like UPSes and RAID in the server room too - it's the same thing whether it's hardware, software, or wetware. You plan for any of those to go down, at the worst possible moment, too.
Um, no. Allowing a firmware change mechanism is the flaw here, and should not be commended. The time to harden a lock isn't after it's sold.
So tell me what internet-connected device, accessible from the internet, will be secure always?
The reason this lock is there is because it can be accessed over the Internet. Presumably, the instant AirBnB, the owner and the customer agree, the lock will be auto-provisioned with a new access code, and the code activated for the duration of the stay. Once the stay is over, the code auto-deactivates and thus the visitors cannot re-enter the dwelling after their stay is over.
Sure, you can do it old school and hand out keys, but those get annoying (and you can never be sure they haven't been duplicated). It's why most hotels use electronic door locks - when a guest checks in, the key cards are provisioned which also provisions the lock on their room. If you lose the card, they give out new cards and remove the old cards from the lock.
It also seems like actually a pretty useful error code to implement for use as a fallback for when the problem is roughly "Request was nonsense," on the general theory that the person should know if, in fact, the machine in question is a teapot or at all likely to be a teapot...
But... what about the Internet of Things? What if you really do have a webserver on your teapot? Is is going to just give you 418 errors or is it going to try to be useful?
Or is it simply saying we can't use HTTP(S) with teapots? I suppose it could work with emails instead... or maybe Slack?
There is no reason that listening on a socket needs to use ANY battery at all. It WOULD be wise to have a model for checking whether a packet is DoS/dealing with heartbearts before causing it to fire up the real app process, but given that, there is no reason why SIP can't be efficient. If the reasoning for this has anything to do with battery, then it's lazy.
No, it's not just a listening socket, because that wouldn't work on most networks (think NAT or firewalls).
You need a constant connection, which means you can't shut down the cell modem to the lowest power state (a network connection must be maintained, which means the modem must be awake and doing handoffs because that data connection must remain, whereas if it didn't have to keep a connection, it could simply sign off the old tower and sign onto the new tower at a relaxed pace, instead of having to go through handoff procedures and getting the data context from the new tower).
Or if it's WiFI, same, the WiFI radio must be kept active to respond to packets.
And if you think Apple has to do the same, well, at the cellular level, there are dozens of ways to wake up a phone remotely as long as it's attached to the network in a low power standby state. These were devised way back when phones were just phones - to get those 14 day standby required the entire system consume no more than about... 3-5mA or so. You cannot transmit (takes lots of power), and powering the receiver takes a lot of power as well, so the network was designed to ensure a handset can go into a very low power quiescent state and still get notified and on the network.
Maintaining a TCP connection already breaks all the power saving mechanisms built into cellular telephony. It's why Android and iOS both have out of band signalling mechanisms ("push notifications') so your VoIP and IM apps can get notified to fetch new messages. Good apps already use this, though there can often be a delay because the app has to get the notification, then request the system wake up, create a network connection, connect to the server, get the data, shut down the network connection and push a user notification, then go back to sleep.
I'd say most apps are probably already compliant, especially ones based on mobile usage and already use the iOS/Android mechanism for this because it saves power.
I'd think that jamming the frequency would be difficult since the transmitters are most likely many kW in power and if it is a component of the Dead Hand then the receiver is in Russia. I would also assume that the frequency is closely monitored and if you try to jam it, you get a visit from the FSB. It is also probably not the only trigger (random faults also happen, you wouldn't want to have nuclear war if the transmitter fails at the wrong time), but part of it.
Well, kW isn't that h ard to generate, since most radio stations are in the MW range or hundreds of kW. Though for shortwave, you don't need more than a few kW to reach around the world.
The thing is, the modulation is probably AM, which means attempts to jam it are easily discovered because AM modulation squeals when there are multiple transmitters on the same frequency and you can never completely jam it - if one is broadcasting a tone and someone else is broadcasting modulated speech, you can make out the speech. This property of AM radio is why aircraft still use AM for communications - it's easy to tell when multiple stations transmit, and it's possible to make out what someone is saying over the squeal.
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It's an annoying pain the butt.
I mean, internal web applications don't need HTTPS, and yes, we can self-sign and force CA root to be distributed, but it's really just a pain in what is perfectly functioning software.
The only way to hit them requires you to either be on the the local network, or VPN in.
Firefox's warning is less than useful - the only way to disable it disables it for all sites, not just intranet ones. Chrome is probably going to be the same - disable it for all, or none, with no option to designate sites as intranet where the warning is suppressed and still have public internet sites have it.
Yes, we can upgrade our systems, though the current web applications work well enough that justifying spending thousands to upgrade doesn't seem worth it. Especially since it works (though looks a bit dated)
Well, you are allowed right-hand-drive cars in Canada (and US too). Though since you typically import them, you usually know what you're getting, and the why part is usually because it's a highly special car. Though usually it's some sort of supercar or other collectible car.
You know what you're getting in to - if you're looking for a car and see that the steering wheel is on the wrong side, you either know what you're doing, or imported it yourself. The fact is, the owner has a clue - most buyers of used vehicles won't buy a car that's "different" (e.g., steering wheel on wrong side) from what they're used to. Unless I wanted a specific car, I wouldn't take the right hand drive version because it will be odd. Plus they are licensed and insured differently due to the non-standard nature of the vehicle, so really, you know what you're getting into.
No, it's not. Because if you log where you touch on the screen and where you swipe, you can probably figure out what's going on.
Look at the lock screen on your phone, and your keypad is probably laid out like every other keypad out there. In fact, it looks remarkably like the phone keypad too (if you're using a PIN). So any succession of taps in that region of the screen with the relatively wide spacing may be either a phone number, or the PIN code to unlock your phone.
Ditto with the keyboard - if you're making a bunch of taps in the lower 1/3rd of the screen, I don't need to know what you're running in order to guess you might be typing something. If I record the locations of the taps, and then try to play it back with various scaling on the keyboard, I might be able to recreate what you typed.
Heck, I might log information about when the touch screen chip is turned off so I can tell when you power it up, you're screen is probably locked and to note the next few taps and swipes.
The thing is, if you see a cop, you can quickly do this action and disable the fingerprint reader. Heck, if you have your phone in the pocket, you can quickly press the power button in 1-2 seconds, so when they ask you put your hands up, you can do it then put your hands up.
Or if the phone is in your hands, it isn't a big movement and you can do it while your hands are up and before the cops remove the phone from your hands.
Try it on any phone - you can press the power button 5 times really quickly (under 1 second, 2 seconds tops). Every other action requires a complex set of hand movements you probably cannot do quickly or while you're holding your phone.
The PS4 is a games machine. If you wanted a media player, you should've gotten the competitor's system, because they are focused on media and games.
Sony is treating the PS4 as games first, everything else second. They're going to remain this way pretty much for the rest of the console's life because it's obviously working.
A "natural monopoly" is a monopoly by some facet of geography. Infrastructure is a natural monopoly because allowing competition makes a mess of things - imagine what it would look like if all the poles had to have 10 power lines from 10 power companies to supply you power, 10 coax lines from 10 cable companies to supply you with tv/phone/internet and 10 phone lines for tv/phone/internet. And never mind the 10 sewer lines for companies to take your sewage, and water pipes to supply you with water. Ditto natural gas and other facilities all needed to support all this redundant infrastructure.
It is unwieldy. So instead, they have one sewage pipe, one water pipe, one gas pipe, one coax, one power cable and one TV line to your house. The company that maintains this infrastructure is a natural monopoly and should be heavily regulated (in fact, most of the time it's city owned and operated). The people on the other end - who supply you with the gas/water/power/etc can go pay a set fee to use the infrastructure to provide you with service.
So if you're going to break up Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, you use it that way - one division will maintain the infrastructure as a completely separate entity, heavily regulated. The other divisions that provide the service and content can do whatever the hell they want to do to attract your dollars.
A minor form. The secure enclave doesn't actually have to be encrypted, it could just be signed. All you need to know is when you start up, you verify that the image is properly signed and then you start the processor up. Encryption makes it so you don't actually have to verify it decrypted correctly - if someone tampered with the firmware, then the secure processor will crash. This lets you bypass a potential weakness in signature verification - it all boils down to a simple comparison in the end - does, and if you power spike the CPU at the right time, you might be able to tilt the comparison in your favor. With an encrypted blob, you're not doing a verification check - if it decrypts incorrectly, it will crash. On startup, the secure enclave can do a simple checksum of its image as well to make sure it decrypts correctly or lock up. But if you tampered with the encrypted blob, and it corrupted the image self-check, then at some point it will hit garbage and throw an exception.
It's not a huge deal it was decrypted, because presumably you cannot use the key to encrypt your own firmware. In fact, it's a good thing - one can analyze it for security flaws. As long as you can't inject your own firmware in (no encryption key) the system security is not compromised by release of the decryption key. The only compromise would come from bugs in the decrypted firmware, which is a good thing.
They make external black boxes - as in black boxes that affix to the fuselage. If the plane crashes into a body of water, the black box will eject from the housing, float up and then send out an emergency beacon (which these days at the universal SAR at 406MHz means SAR can get notified and GPS coordinates within minutes). It can then be retrieved and the data extracted.
They're called deployable black boxes.
Ow, whiplash alert.
They will put the displays near where you're looking - the worst thing int he world would be to put the mirror display on the center dash, so you have to look at the center dash, then flick your head around to do a shoulder check. It would also allow for always-on mirrors so you can monitor the lane next to you for opportunities to make a lane change.
But the nice thing would be they can offer a greater field of view and reduce the size of the blind spot. You can also expect computer vision to be integrated to point out potential hazards similar to the current blind spot detection systems today.
Yes, all correct. However, he cannot bar anyone from viewing that data - LinkedIn basically banned the company from scraping the data. Which is fine if they were being abusive and hammering the site, after which if they stop, they are allowed to access the data again.
What LinkedIn cannot do is simply say that data is public to anyone who browses it, EXCEPT YOU, because you want to do something with the data we didn't think to monetize.
Basically, because the data is available to all, it's available to all (within limits). You can't say anyone in the world can see your LinkedIn profile, except that guy over there just because he wanted to take that data and do something with it. (And "do something" is intentionally vague. Perhaps they want to contact you about a job offer, or other thing).
3) Microsoft is not allowed to.
Remember, Microsoft was found to be a monopoly and an abusive one at that, so they are looked at far more closely than anyone else, including Google and Apple (once a monopoly, always a monopoly).
About the worst Microsoft could do was offer cheap Windows licenses to those OEMs who do not change the defaults of Bing and IE - it was called Windows 8.1 with Bing. It was basically a free copy of Windows for low cost PCs.
OEMs were free to take it up, or pay for a regular Windows license - perhaps some OEMs struck deals with Google to make Google the default search provider, Chrome the default browser on their Windows installations. And yes, I've seen PCs like that with preinstalled Chrome and Google as default.
Google doesn't pay Microsoft, Google pays PC OEMs.
Therein lies the problem. Had Trump just left his official tweets using @POTUS and kept liek @RealDonaldTrump to his own musings and whatever he ate for breakfast, then it's fine. But he loves the fact that his personal account has more followers than @POTUS, which means he does real announcements from his personal account.
And at that moment, it's an official statement and an official forum for interacting with government. Spicer's confirmation that yes, Trump's personal twitter account is ALSO an official White House announcement account transforms it into an official public forum for government announcements.
And at that point, your rights as a citizen kick in - you have the right to communicate with government via the first amendment. If you want to block someone for being disruptive, you can, but you better have your ducks in a row, or better yet, get a judicial opinion to ban someone.
And that's what Twitter needs to do - the "Block" button on @POTUS and while Trump is still president, @RealDonaldTrump must be disabled. If they feel someone is being disruptive, they need to get a judicial order stating such and delivered to Twitter directly who can apply the block. If you cannot convince a judge that what the guy says is disruptive, no block for you.
NNTP is pretty useless unless you're on the backbone these days - article drops way too frequently. Luckily, sites like Easynews provide a nice NNTP-to-HTTP(S) service. You can use their NNTP servers, or you can access the same thing using a web browser (secured, if you want). About the only thing they don't have is an upload an NZB file and have it generate a web page of links for HTTP(S) or bulk (ZIP) downloading.
Printing - well, we have Internet Printing Protocol, which I believe can be secured, though we haven't figured out the printer driver issue yet. iOS' AirPrint seems to be driverless, but how it works is a mystery. Perhaps a combination of PostScript and self-contained PPD files?
Not really. The thing was, it wasn't widespread. If you had a tiny printing press and printed out flyers for a neighbourhood, you'd have a hard time figuring out who did it. If it was a giant printing press that went nationwide, then you'd easily know who's responsible (you don't get that big without people noticing and knowing).
The thing is, the internet has given the "small time" press the ability to print worldwide quite easily, so something destined for members of a group suddenly has world wide exposure, wanted or not.
It's actually a matter of area. As in the area of the silicon that is vulnerable.
Right down here on earth, use of ECC DRAM is a must on a cluster, because most clusters are stuffed full of RAM That a SEU (single event upset - the current terminology) has a really good chance of upsetting a bit in the memory of a node in the cluster.
Someone tried to build a cluster of PowerMac G5 computers. The cluster could not be booted completely before an SEU caused a crash.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/compu...
In a single system like a laptop, the area is low enough that you might not see it (especially if it hits memory that isn't actively being used). In a cluster, that changes things and on bit might affect the whole cluster.
It's here to stay as a toy currency, that's it. Until it can scale up to millions of transactions per second instead of the sub-100 right now (it was 7 pre-split), it's not useful as a general currency because you can't, well, use it. People don't want to wait days or months for their transaction to be posted. Even back when 10 minutes was the average it was still pushing it.
And yes, networks like Visa and Mastercard are doing that volume.
Yes, the big problem might be blockchain technology because millions of transactions per second would ramp up the blockchain size quite rapidly - if each blockchain entry was 100 bytes, 1 million transactions would add 100MB to the blockchain in a second. If you scale up to the 7 million or so per second Visa does, that's the better part of a gigabyte per second of blockchain growth.
Actually, because the 68000 wasn't in production yet when IBM came around. Motorola had sample chips, but they weren't production ready (The 68000 was in production in November, 1980. The IBM PC launched in August, 1981).
Whereas the 8088 was long ready and in production, so IBM could get it all done in 12 months. The 68000 would be 3 months into the IBM design before it was ready for production.
Rights are a huge issue.
Some actors are just old and crotchety and refuse to sign for any more rights than they already have (Christopher Lloyd, for example). Whether it's they don't want to be bothered anymore by lawyers, or they don't want to sign away any more dignity, or whatever, they just refuse. This has affected a game I like to play (details below).
Old back catalogs are especially troublesome, especially prior to the invention of the VCR and thus many studios do not actually have permission to do "home video" releases because the concept of home video didn't exist when the show was shot. This applies especially to shows that have popular music in the soundtrack, because as anyone can tell you music licensing is a huge PITA. Many shows heavy on music have had to change out the songs for a home video release (WKRP, for example) because it's simply too hard and too difficult and too expensive to get all the licensing in place. Hell, SiriusXM couldn't get it right for pre-1970 music (which was often state licensed) and got sued by a bunch of old musicians for playing their songs without permission.
And yes, some descendants are also greedy - a lot of works are tied up merely because they could not obtain permission and the holdout decided to get greedy. Unfortunately, they usually overestimate the willingness of studios to deal - catalog shows don't earn much money to begin with.
And now we stream movies over the Internet, which in an of itself often requires another right - it's one thing to broadcast and syndicate, but you need permission to stream if you want that method of showing as well.
With modern shows, it's of course way easier since the contracts all state now that the content owner will be able to show it on both the little and big screen (TV and movie theatres), home video )VHS, DVD, Blu-Ray, not-invented-yet-format), digital formats (iTunes, Amazon, etc), streaming (Netflix, Hulu, etc) as well as future media not yet invented. This would apply to the show itself, plus any licensed materials, plus actor contracts, etc.
Complicating matters are virtual actors and using them to replace deceased actors. Back to the Future Part 2 caused a mild controversy at the Screen Actor's Guild when Crispin Glover tried to hijack production by demanding excessive compensation (he was slightly delusional, so that didn't help matters) - he basically wanted the same pay as Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd, despite being a minor character. So they replaced him with someone else, wrote him out the story and did that whole upside-down thing so it wouldn't be completely obvious it wasn't Crispin Glover. This caused a huge stir. The SAG after that decided that once an actor plays a character, that character is theirs and you cannot replace who plays it without that actor's prior permission. (Doctor W
Packaging food requires processing and the processing basically means having to compensate for the process in the preparation/cooking of the food. It's generally why prepackaged food is high in sodium - because salt is a great preservative, something you need in order to last between the factory to the distribution center to the retailer warehouse to the retailer and to the store shelf.
Food is perishable, and most of the stuff on the shelf, including the fresh stuff, has been around for weeks - produce is picked early and ripened on the truck so by the time it hits the shelf, it's ready. And produce typically has the shortest supply chain - the suppliers in general will ship directly to stores to save the shipping to the distribution center and retailer warehouses (saving up to a month). Everything else has been prepared to be preserved - either flash freezing, drying, canning or other preservation method. Some of them kill a lot of flavor, hence using a lot of salt to bring it back again.
Cooking it fresh will always taste better since you don't need to do any steps that kill flavor and nutrition and thus have to overcompensate to bring it back. Even so some of the foods are pre-packaged, but in general those items don't lose much in the process (pasta, for example, is generally bland to begin with, so drying doesn't really destroy anything). Other foods, like flour, generally just keep.
As for your tip - if you salted your pasta pot correctly, it won't freeze in a typical freezer. If it does, you're not salting it correctly (and this applies to both fresh and dried pasta) - you really want an ocean seawater level of salinity, if not dead sea. Plus, given how big pasta pots are, that's a LOT of ice cube trays.
Exactly. Even a movie like Transformers doesn't hide it - Chinese production companies are right there front and center.
Heck, Huahua Media, according to IMDB are involved with the following 2017 films: Transformers 5, xXx Return of Xander Cage, Ghost In the Shell, Jack Reacher and Star Trek Beyond.
The Chinese are very interested in Hollywood movies, and Hollywood is more than willing to put up their usual crap to an audience that demands it and is willing to pay for it. Hell, if it isn't done in 3D, they will complain, so the Chinese are demanding more expensive 3D tickets, too (none of the complaints about 3D really affect anyone other than North America).
Sorry, but most good employers know when people take time off and plan around it. You may be surprised, but not too many people are going to see the eclipse.
You put in your request for time off in advance, maybe a few months to a few weeks, and they'll likely approve it because it can be slotted into the work. The more time you give, the easier they will at approving your request. Do it last minute and results can be iffy, but even so most employers will provide for short term leave, if possible.
For the eclipse, most people probably don't care. Or since it happens on a work day, they might take 10 minutes from their day to go outside and take a look, then head back in later. Given smokers take smoke breaks, that's all it's really going to amount to - a bunch of people taking a smoke break. Most people will just see a partial eclipse. Those who are going to travel to see the full eclipse have put in their vacation requests weeks ahead of schedule, because they needed to book hotels and other things.
And while people are expecting chaos near the total eclipse path, it's not as bad as you think - maybe a million people total over the entire band, out of a population of over 300 million is not going to seriously affect anything.
Ans UPS and USPS and others not doing deliveries? I'm sure they have more than a few people taking the day off. They either have replacement workers ready to cover (easy to do when you plan ahead), or plan for reduced throughput that day, because honestly, most packages will not be missed if they were delivered on a Tuesday instead of Monday. And if they were, then perhaps you should've paid for (guaranteed) express delivery instead of economy.
The world doesn't stop turning when people take vacations. Good employers plan for it - they know Thanksgiving is going to be an odd week, so they plan for reduced workforce around it - either delaying deadlines, hiring coverage workers, or just planning for reduced productivity. Same goes around the winter break. And summer too - employers plan for a good chunk of people to simply take time off during the summer. Hell, in China, Chinese New Year means the entire country is off a couple of weeks. If Foxconn and others can plan on their entire workforce going on holidays for two whole weeks, planning on a handful of employees missing every day isn't difficult.
Life happens. People get sick. Often the person you need that information from either goes on holiday, gets ill, or is otherwise indisposed when you need them most. And people live.
Employers that don't allow their staff to take vacations because it impacts their deliverables are not running an efficient ship. They're running a potential disaster - if missing one employee impacts the business to the extent that the business can falter, then it is a business that will falter. Basically, your boss is squeezing everyone, probably to make a few extra bucks. Well, they can make more money by getting rid of stuff like UPSes and RAID in the server room too - it's the same thing whether it's hardware, software, or wetware. You plan for any of those to go down, at the worst possible moment, too.
So tell me what internet-connected device, accessible from the internet, will be secure always?
The reason this lock is there is because it can be accessed over the Internet. Presumably, the instant AirBnB, the owner and the customer agree, the lock will be auto-provisioned with a new access code, and the code activated for the duration of the stay. Once the stay is over, the code auto-deactivates and thus the visitors cannot re-enter the dwelling after their stay is over.
Sure, you can do it old school and hand out keys, but those get annoying (and you can never be sure they haven't been duplicated). It's why most hotels use electronic door locks - when a guest checks in, the key cards are provisioned which also provisions the lock on their room. If you lose the card, they give out new cards and remove the old cards from the lock.
But... what about the Internet of Things? What if you really do have a webserver on your teapot? Is is going to just give you 418 errors or is it going to try to be useful?
Or is it simply saying we can't use HTTP(S) with teapots? I suppose it could work with emails instead... or maybe Slack?
No, it's not just a listening socket, because that wouldn't work on most networks (think NAT or firewalls).
You need a constant connection, which means you can't shut down the cell modem to the lowest power state (a network connection must be maintained, which means the modem must be awake and doing handoffs because that data connection must remain, whereas if it didn't have to keep a connection, it could simply sign off the old tower and sign onto the new tower at a relaxed pace, instead of having to go through handoff procedures and getting the data context from the new tower).
Or if it's WiFI, same, the WiFI radio must be kept active to respond to packets.
And if you think Apple has to do the same, well, at the cellular level, there are dozens of ways to wake up a phone remotely as long as it's attached to the network in a low power standby state. These were devised way back when phones were just phones - to get those 14 day standby required the entire system consume no more than about... 3-5mA or so. You cannot transmit (takes lots of power), and powering the receiver takes a lot of power as well, so the network was designed to ensure a handset can go into a very low power quiescent state and still get notified and on the network.
Maintaining a TCP connection already breaks all the power saving mechanisms built into cellular telephony. It's why Android and iOS both have out of band signalling mechanisms ("push notifications') so your VoIP and IM apps can get notified to fetch new messages. Good apps already use this, though there can often be a delay because the app has to get the notification, then request the system wake up, create a network connection, connect to the server, get the data, shut down the network connection and push a user notification, then go back to sleep.
I'd say most apps are probably already compliant, especially ones based on mobile usage and already use the iOS/Android mechanism for this because it saves power.
Well, kW isn't that h ard to generate, since most radio stations are in the MW range or hundreds of kW. Though for shortwave, you don't need more than a few kW to reach around the world.
The thing is, the modulation is probably AM, which means attempts to jam it are easily discovered because AM modulation squeals when there are multiple transmitters on the same frequency and you can never completely jam it - if one is broadcasting a tone and someone else is broadcasting modulated speech, you can make out the speech. This property of AM radio is why aircraft still use AM for communications - it's easy to tell when multiple stations transmit, and it's possible to make out what someone is saying over the squeal.