I believe part of the point is that anyone who brags about having nine degrees (with very, very few exceptions) is full of it. Not that they're lying but that the degrees that they hold are basically worthless. I've worked with some of the top engineering professors in their fields - they typically have two to four degrees, at least one of which is a PhD. Having nine associates degrees (err, certificates) is kind of like having 9 white belts from different martial arts schools. Bragging about it shows a lack of understanding of the value of education.
Kind of like "Instrumental in the development and implementation of 3ringmetals.com to brand the name of the worlds largest manufacturer of ring metals into the single dominating force on the internet..."
Guessed passwords are used every day to get a foothold into servers and applications.
Weak passwords are very problematic. One of the first things that an attacker is going to do if they can get access to the password hashes is run them through JtR or the like. You do know that password hasehs under a certain length in non-AD Windows aren't salted and can more or less instantly be cracked using rainbow tables, right?
But users do have problems with long and complex passwords which is part of why two factor authentication is increasingly important.
Do you mean kb/sec or kB/sec? Capitalization matter. If it's the former, you're wrong (480p YouTube is about 768kb/sec), if it's the latter, that's true but it's still way beyond the capacity of dial-up and some cell connections.
Video is bandwidth intensive. There's no way around that (though H.265 will help compared to the current generation). Whether video is strictly necessary for online education is another question, but very little of Coursera's network requirement is "scripts and redirects and google metrics."
They do (at least for the classes I took) let you just download the videos. No overhead there and even if you live in a rural location without access to high speed internet, if you can make it to a library or place with a high speed connection, you can save it and watch at home. The tests/assignments were all pretty low bandwidth - nothing dialup couldn't have handled if it had to.
In the US, you can deduct a fixed amount per mile traveled (currently $0.555/mile) rather than actual costs. That's very likely to be far better than what electricity costs would be and way simpler to track, particularly if you do any personal driving in the vehicle.
What planet did you do web development on? HTML4 totally evolved (that's quite literally what the 4.x stands for - an evolution from 3.x). And what people do now is vastly different than the capabilities and vision that the W3C had in mind in 1997.
High ground has little meaning in the world of ICBMs. It's all about (theoretically) firing them fast enough to kill your enemy before they can counterstrike.
The moon is an average of 380,000 km from the earth. The LGM-30 has a maximum speed (which it only reaches at the terminal phase of flight) of 24,100 km/h. Even if we theorize that without having to break gravity that the missile is 5 times as fast (pulling that number out of the air based on the fact that escape velocity from the moon is roughly 1/5 of earth), you're still looking at over 3 hours to get close to the earth.
The LGM-30, on the other hand, starts deploying the payload towards the target about five minutes after launch.
If there _had_ to be nuclear war, the powers that be would be *delighted* to get a three hour headstart for the bunkers (and time to properly target incoming missiles with defensive measures).
Lunar missiles would also be subject to ridiculously high maintenance costs, damage from the hazards of space, and would either have to have human operators living there (again, incredibly expensive) or you'd have to trust remote control of launches.
I've bought plenty of GPL software through retailers who didn't have to supply me with the source code.
"Your license to each App Store Product is subject to the Licensed Application End User License Agreement set forth below, and you agree that such terms will apply unless the App Store Product is covered by a valid end user license agreement entered into between you and the licensor of that App Store Product (the "Application Provider"), in which case the Application Providerâ(TM)s end user license agreement will apply to that App Store Product... You acknowledge that: you are acquiring the license to each Third-Party Product from the Application Provider"
Even if your argument was true, all they'd have to do is provide the ability to download the source code (which they get to charge for).
Please note that I disapprove of the new pricing plan, so don't take this as an endorsement of it.
It's not a truly terrible thing to be discouraging users from doing heavy duty video on cellular connections. 3/4G data connections can push a lot of data but the tower's network connection can easily get swamped. Encouraging users to load movie rentals at home from their broadband connection is a good thing - other than the spur of the moment aspect, there's no reason that users have to transfer those files over the air.
You might find buying an Android 4 phone/tablet easier than committing a felony. Except you flight things to the right and they're properly spaced out so you don't end up accidentally closing the wrong thing like in WebOS.
No, TCP is the protocol to use if you're moving video because you want to do an accurate transmission of the data and adding error checking to UDP is silly when there's a protocol that does it out of the box.
If you're talking on-demand playback, you might have a point, but the majority of the users out there have UDP port filtered and possibly firewalled and it's easier to just send data to TCP port 80 than deal with firewall issues.
Nope. The people can control a specific industry. For example, it would not be completely inaccurate to describe the British Health Service as socialized medicine. However, if the forced transfer of the people's money to private institutions and their shareholders is about as close to the opposite of socialization as you can get.
Government forcing private individuals to purchase something from a private entity simply because they're citizens is Socialist.
Ahem.
The core principle of socialism is that the means of production are owned by the people, thus no private entities. You're neatly proving the statement that the right routinely label anything they don't like socialist.
Well, yes, that's why I specified in this theoretical example that the salt was the initials of the website with the caps alternated. One needs the salt (which, yes, is not a true cryptographic salt, although I do know people who run their generic secure password plus a salt through hash algorithms and use the resulting hash as their password) to be memorable to the user and again, virtually no one is important enough that someone would sit there pulling apart an almost random password to figure out if the user salts their passwords per site and if so what it is.
You're spending waaaay too much time analyzing a throwaway example when the meat of the message is to subtly vary passwords so that if a website fails to properly store your password that the keys to the kingdom don't fall to the bad guys, that a simple technique can both dramatically improve the quality of one's passwords while safeguarding against bad programming and/or system administration.
Use unique passwords for everything important and use a secure but salted password for various sites. Let's say my generic secure password is $sJ55Pm#
I salt the secure password between the fives with the initials of the website alternating caps. So my/. password could be $sJ5Sd5Pm# and my World of Warcraft password could be $sJ5WoW5Pm#.
I only have to remember one good password and a formula. Someone clever enough could hand analyze the passwords and might spot the salting but realistically, very few people are worth that effort.
which makes me think there's no point in super complex "try and guess THIS one!" passwords.
One practices good password habits because they help when a site does things properly. Nothing is going to save you if a site is terribly set up but that doesn't mean you should abandon best practices.
1. Something good that you will actually carry with you. The micro-four thirds system has a good ecosystem of cameras and lenses that combine being reasonably small with reasonably good.
2. If you go with a DSLR, get a good prime (fixed length rather than zoomable) wide aperture (light opening width - the thing that looks like f/x.y. Lower values of x are better). Both Canon and Nikon have excellent F/1.8 50mm lenses are very reasonable prices. The fixed length means that you'll have to work harder at composition rather than just being able to wing it, which I think develops good habits. They are also less likely to break (fewer moving parts) and are very sharp (having a fixed length makes it easier to create sharp lenses).
Good security is about proper risk assessment. Unless you live a wildly criminal life and/or never surf the web on your phone, your chances of being stopped by the police and having your phone copied is minuscule compared to browsing to a malicious or compromised web site. Don't spend so much time worrying about ebola that you don't get your flu shot.
Really? A platform that's how many years old now and doesn't have a usable web browser (most browsers figured out that opening tabs in the background was good years ago and I've not seen a browser that didn't remember how far down in the previous page you were when you click back since the mid 90s) or (non-Kindle) e-reader application is what you think is a high-end platform with a alive dev base?
As a sound engineer, I'm curious what a "voltage/capcitance/current/frequency issue" is? I was mostly with you up until the frequency part.
The things that have been added to stereos (mostly surround processing, some simple source switching, and D/A converters) since the 70s aren't huge power sucks to the extent they would cause amplifiers to sound worse.
it's like saying "Lets add a 1000W lamp to this wall socket and not expect anything bad happen to the Audio on the same circuit."
As long as there's not a dimmer involved leaking into the circuit, a 1000 watt incandescent light sharing a circuit with a home stereo should have no effect unless you have a ridiculously loud and/or inefficient stereo.
Talk to any sound engineer (read non-audiphile subscriber) and they will have tons of stories on how fickle sound set ups can be when no one knowledgeable is watching the setup and correcting things.
Watching the setup and correcting things? You set up a system and pretty much just use it. You might re-tune a PA system once there's bodies in the seats acting as diffusers or raise or lower the overall volume based on the size of the crowd. But it's not like you sit there adjusting things about the amplification system itself as a matter of course during an event.
The big factor is that people just don't care about audio sounding good so manufacturers have cheaped out to save themselves money.
You can get a very capable Android cell phone from any of the major providers for under $100 these days. I've not been under contract since 2006 or so and I was able to get one with a second generation snagdragon processor and unlocked world capability for $150, but I'm also on a small provider that actively tries to avoid being evil.
It might be OK for the three applications you listed but I think you'd be disappointed by the media that the CPU can support and by how clumsy playing games would be on that tiny of a keyboard. But all of those things are true of my cell phone too, which I carry pretty much everywhere I go because it actively improves my life. If something's going to have a similar form factor to a phone, it has to give some reason to carry it in addition to the phone.
The only thing that makes this really distinctive is that the hardware is completely open, which only affects the user experience by giving a very, very small minority of people a happy glow.By doing this project badly, they're hurting their own cause.
These things have been out for two years or so and sold 1000 units (according to the claim on wikipedia). I wouldn't hold your breath on high resolution eInk. On the other hand, in two years or so you'll be able to get a fairly capable 7" Android tablet with everything you wanted (albeit with ethernet off a USB dongle) for around $200. Maybe 5" as well, although I don't know if that form factor will take off.
No, I'm pretty sure the only insane asshole involved is you.
Arduinos solve problems and are successful, despite being nice hardware. SheevaPlugs solve problems and are successful.
If people want to design and play with these for the fun of it, more power to them, but it's poorly conceived and will never be very successful at reaching the hands of hobbyists and they shouldn't be surprised when they fail. As I told the other gentleman, if they're dedicated to open hardware, they'd be better off creating open hardware for desktops where they wouldn't have bad space, heat, and power constraints rather than poorly duplicating functionality of something that most people carry around already.
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I believe part of the point is that anyone who brags about having nine degrees (with very, very few exceptions) is full of it. Not that they're lying but that the degrees that they hold are basically worthless. I've worked with some of the top engineering professors in their fields - they typically have two to four degrees, at least one of which is a PhD. Having nine associates degrees (err, certificates) is kind of like having 9 white belts from different martial arts schools. Bragging about it shows a lack of understanding of the value of education.
Kind of like "Instrumental in the development and implementation of 3ringmetals.com to brand the name of the worlds largest manufacturer of ring metals into the single dominating force on the internet..."
NO, and I mean ZERO, security breeches that I have been aware of in the last two decades can be traced to password guessing.
I really hope you don't work for any company I'm affiliated with.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/07/twitter_hack_explained/
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/twitter-hacked-again--with-a-guessed-password-1748730.html
Guessed passwords are used every day to get a foothold into servers and applications.
Weak passwords are very problematic. One of the first things that an attacker is going to do if they can get access to the password hashes is run them through JtR or the like. You do know that password hasehs under a certain length in non-AD Windows aren't salted and can more or less instantly be cracked using rainbow tables, right?
But users do have problems with long and complex passwords which is part of why two factor authentication is increasingly important.
You said 100KB/second.
KB is not a standard measurement of bandwidth for video. Again, did you mean kb (kilobit) or kB (kilobyte)?
Was this some sort of laughable attempt to appear knowledgeable
Indeed, but don't be too hard on yourself, just try to learn so you don't repeat the same mistakes.
What percentage of the bandwidth use for a week of classes is cachable javascript and what percentage is video/audio?
Do you mean kb/sec or kB/sec? Capitalization matter. If it's the former, you're wrong (480p YouTube is about 768kb/sec), if it's the latter, that's true but it's still way beyond the capacity of dial-up and some cell connections.
Video is bandwidth intensive. There's no way around that (though H.265 will help compared to the current generation). Whether video is strictly necessary for online education is another question, but very little of Coursera's network requirement is "scripts and redirects and google metrics."
They do (at least for the classes I took) let you just download the videos. No overhead there and even if you live in a rural location without access to high speed internet, if you can make it to a library or place with a high speed connection, you can save it and watch at home. The tests/assignments were all pretty low bandwidth - nothing dialup couldn't have handled if it had to.
In the US, you can deduct a fixed amount per mile traveled (currently $0.555/mile) rather than actual costs. That's very likely to be far better than what electricity costs would be and way simpler to track, particularly if you do any personal driving in the vehicle.
What planet did you do web development on? HTML4 totally evolved (that's quite literally what the 4.x stands for - an evolution from 3.x). And what people do now is vastly different than the capabilities and vision that the W3C had in mind in 1997.
High ground has little meaning in the world of ICBMs. It's all about (theoretically) firing them fast enough to kill your enemy before they can counterstrike.
The moon is an average of 380,000 km from the earth. The LGM-30 has a maximum speed (which it only reaches at the terminal phase of flight) of 24,100 km/h. Even if we theorize that without having to break gravity that the missile is 5 times as fast (pulling that number out of the air based on the fact that escape velocity from the moon is roughly 1/5 of earth), you're still looking at over 3 hours to get close to the earth.
The LGM-30, on the other hand, starts deploying the payload towards the target about five minutes after launch.
If there _had_ to be nuclear war, the powers that be would be *delighted* to get a three hour headstart for the bunkers (and time to properly target incoming missiles with defensive measures).
Lunar missiles would also be subject to ridiculously high maintenance costs, damage from the hazards of space, and would either have to have human operators living there (again, incredibly expensive) or you'd have to trust remote control of launches.
I've bought plenty of GPL software through retailers who didn't have to supply me with the source code.
"Your license to each App Store Product is subject to the Licensed Application End User License Agreement set forth below, and you agree that such terms will apply unless the App Store Product is covered by a valid end user license agreement entered into between you and the licensor of that App Store Product (the "Application Provider"), in which case the Application Providerâ(TM)s end user license agreement will apply to that App Store Product ... You acknowledge that: you are acquiring the license to each Third-Party Product from the Application Provider"
Even if your argument was true, all they'd have to do is provide the ability to download the source code (which they get to charge for).
Please note that I disapprove of the new pricing plan, so don't take this as an endorsement of it.
It's not a truly terrible thing to be discouraging users from doing heavy duty video on cellular connections. 3/4G data connections can push a lot of data but the tower's network connection can easily get swamped. Encouraging users to load movie rentals at home from their broadband connection is a good thing - other than the spur of the moment aspect, there's no reason that users have to transfer those files over the air.
You might find buying an Android 4 phone/tablet easier than committing a felony. Except you flight things to the right and they're properly spaced out so you don't end up accidentally closing the wrong thing like in WebOS.
Trying to move video files with TCP is silly.
No, TCP is the protocol to use if you're moving video because you want to do an accurate transmission of the data and adding error checking to UDP is silly when there's a protocol that does it out of the box.
If you're talking on-demand playback, you might have a point, but the majority of the users out there have UDP port filtered and possibly firewalled and it's easier to just send data to TCP port 80 than deal with firewall issues.
Socialism is the centralized control of the economy, not the ownership of the economy.
Care to back that up with any kind of citation?
Nope. The people can control a specific industry. For example, it would not be completely inaccurate to describe the British Health Service as socialized medicine. However, if the forced transfer of the people's money to private institutions and their shareholders is about as close to the opposite of socialization as you can get.
Government forcing private individuals to purchase something from a private entity simply because they're citizens is Socialist.
Ahem.
The core principle of socialism is that the means of production are owned by the people, thus no private entities. You're neatly proving the statement that the right routinely label anything they don't like socialist.
Alone, alternating caps adds next to no security.
Well, yes, that's why I specified in this theoretical example that the salt was the initials of the website with the caps alternated. One needs the salt (which, yes, is not a true cryptographic salt, although I do know people who run their generic secure password plus a salt through hash algorithms and use the resulting hash as their password) to be memorable to the user and again, virtually no one is important enough that someone would sit there pulling apart an almost random password to figure out if the user salts their passwords per site and if so what it is.
You're spending waaaay too much time analyzing a throwaway example when the meat of the message is to subtly vary passwords so that if a website fails to properly store your password that the keys to the kingdom don't fall to the bad guys, that a simple technique can both dramatically improve the quality of one's passwords while safeguarding against bad programming and/or system administration.
Use unique passwords for everything important and use a secure but salted password for various sites. Let's say my generic secure password is $sJ55Pm#
I salt the secure password between the fives with the initials of the website alternating caps. So my /. password could be $sJ5Sd5Pm# and my World of Warcraft password could be $sJ5WoW5Pm#.
I only have to remember one good password and a formula. Someone clever enough could hand analyze the passwords and might spot the salting but realistically, very few people are worth that effort.
which makes me think there's no point in super complex "try and guess THIS one!" passwords.
One practices good password habits because they help when a site does things properly. Nothing is going to save you if a site is terribly set up but that doesn't mean you should abandon best practices.
1. Something good that you will actually carry with you. The micro-four thirds system has a good ecosystem of cameras and lenses that combine being reasonably small with reasonably good.
2. If you go with a DSLR, get a good prime (fixed length rather than zoomable) wide aperture (light opening width - the thing that looks like f/x.y. Lower values of x are better). Both Canon and Nikon have excellent F/1.8 50mm lenses are very reasonable prices. The fixed length means that you'll have to work harder at composition rather than just being able to wing it, which I think develops good habits. They are also less likely to break (fewer moving parts) and are very sharp (having a fixed length makes it easier to create sharp lenses).
Ah, yes, legal advice from the intarweb. Worth every penny one pays for it.
Good security is about proper risk assessment. Unless you live a wildly criminal life and/or never surf the web on your phone, your chances of being stopped by the police and having your phone copied is minuscule compared to browsing to a malicious or compromised web site. Don't spend so much time worrying about ebola that you don't get your flu shot.
Really? A platform that's how many years old now and doesn't have a usable web browser (most browsers figured out that opening tabs in the background was good years ago and I've not seen a browser that didn't remember how far down in the previous page you were when you click back since the mid 90s) or (non-Kindle) e-reader application is what you think is a high-end platform with a alive dev base?
As a sound engineer, I'm curious what a "voltage/capcitance/current/frequency issue" is? I was mostly with you up until the frequency part.
The things that have been added to stereos (mostly surround processing, some simple source switching, and D/A converters) since the 70s aren't huge power sucks to the extent they would cause amplifiers to sound worse.
it's like saying "Lets add a 1000W lamp to this wall socket and not expect anything bad happen to the Audio on the same circuit."
As long as there's not a dimmer involved leaking into the circuit, a 1000 watt incandescent light sharing a circuit with a home stereo should have no effect unless you have a ridiculously loud and/or inefficient stereo.
Talk to any sound engineer (read non-audiphile subscriber) and they will have tons of stories on how fickle sound set ups can be when no one knowledgeable is watching the setup and correcting things.
Watching the setup and correcting things? You set up a system and pretty much just use it. You might re-tune a PA system once there's bodies in the seats acting as diffusers or raise or lower the overall volume based on the size of the crowd. But it's not like you sit there adjusting things about the amplification system itself as a matter of course during an event.
The big factor is that people just don't care about audio sounding good so manufacturers have cheaped out to save themselves money.
You can get a very capable Android cell phone from any of the major providers for under $100 these days. I've not been under contract since 2006 or so and I was able to get one with a second generation snagdragon processor and unlocked world capability for $150, but I'm also on a small provider that actively tries to avoid being evil.
It might be OK for the three applications you listed but I think you'd be disappointed by the media that the CPU can support and by how clumsy playing games would be on that tiny of a keyboard. But all of those things are true of my cell phone too, which I carry pretty much everywhere I go because it actively improves my life. If something's going to have a similar form factor to a phone, it has to give some reason to carry it in addition to the phone.
The only thing that makes this really distinctive is that the hardware is completely open, which only affects the user experience by giving a very, very small minority of people a happy glow.By doing this project badly, they're hurting their own cause.
These things have been out for two years or so and sold 1000 units (according to the claim on wikipedia). I wouldn't hold your breath on high resolution eInk. On the other hand, in two years or so you'll be able to get a fairly capable 7" Android tablet with everything you wanted (albeit with ethernet off a USB dongle) for around $200. Maybe 5" as well, although I don't know if that form factor will take off.
No, I'm pretty sure the only insane asshole involved is you.
Arduinos solve problems and are successful, despite being nice hardware. SheevaPlugs solve problems and are successful.
If people want to design and play with these for the fun of it, more power to them, but it's poorly conceived and will never be very successful at reaching the hands of hobbyists and they shouldn't be surprised when they fail. As I told the other gentleman, if they're dedicated to open hardware, they'd be better off creating open hardware for desktops where they wouldn't have bad space, heat, and power constraints rather than poorly duplicating functionality of something that most people carry around already.