I see the problem. GP didn't write the complete bitwise rotation idiom but I knew what they meant whereas you're evaluating it exactly as written. This is what I'm referring to and what GP was almost certainly trying to refer to as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Assuming 'uint32_t x' and ignoring any needed shuffling to load 'x' into the appropriate processor register, any 32-bit processor with a native bit rotation instruction.
Re: "allowing rules to move messages b/w accounts." - Thunderbird lets me create message filters that move messages matching specified criteria to any folder on any account I want. Could you clarify?
Thunderbird with a couple of add-ons lets you use a single Google account to store calendar events and contacts and have them two-way synchronized with multiple Thunderbird clients, and it works anywhere Thunderbird works. Outlook (as of the 2013 version) only supported one-way sync of Google Calendar. The best part is that Thunderbird and Gmail are both free, so you can have Outlook-style calendar and contacts sync across all your computers at no cost. Small businesses, especially those with multiple offices that need Outlook-like calendaring, benefit greatly from this, plus Thunderbird is faster than Outlook ever has been. Sadly, it's not as well-known as it ought to be. Thunderbird + Lightning + the Google syncing add-ons makes Outlook look like a bad joke.
Nothing would be sweeter than if this judge were kicked off the Internet at his home because of his IP matching a Rightscorp complaint. He's literally taking the position that this should be the law of the land, so why not?
See, herein lies the problem with the surveillance society. Once the watchers demonize encrypted communications as a tool only the Bad People(TM) would use, unencrypted, innocent-seeming messages become the communication tool of choice. This is "being hidden in plain sight." If you want to hide in a sea of automated data analysis, you simply duck your head below the noise threshold.
I used Pale Moon for a long time and even switched people from Firefox over to it regularly. Then more and more of the bill payment portals didn't work properly until I could not justify using it any longer due to having to install Firefox anyway just to be capable of paying the bills. I couldn't even leave product reviews on Newegg. I'd still be using Pale Moon if I could pay my bills with it. I even waited for a version that would work properly, but three updates went by and nothing changed. Sigh, back to Firefox.
Off topic: I've noticed that Chrome has gotten *really* terrible. The memory footprint and poor performance is astonishing. If Chrome is "fast," Firefox is Win98-on-i7 fast.
The fatal flaw with this argument is the assumption that knowledgeable people are looking at your code in the first place and that they have the time to sit there and audit your code in depth. I'm sure it happens but I doubt it happens very often. The somewhat recent and highly publicized OpenSSL bugs reminds us that "all bugs are shallow" only when enough experienced people are looking hard and long enough, but rarely in the real world (especially in such a "deep and wide" field like programming) can we expect such optimal conditions to occur.
This needs to be modded +5 because this is what everyone is failing to understand when they say "why take money from the smart people who built the machines to pay the lazy slobs who won't do anything at all?" As if we aren't already paying the least productive people in society a basic income; why should having a productive job mean you suffer more and have less money than the stereotypical three-child single mom on all the available forms of welfare imaginable? Between EBT, WIC, Section 8 housing, and the "Obamaphone," the least productive get a lot of free shit that the productive part-timer can't afford because no one's giving them a single thing for free. Disincentivizing employment through the current mess of a welfare system (in the USA at least) is incredibly fucking stupid. Basic income just says "everyone gets $1000 a month so they can survive. No more unemployment, food stamps, or Section 8, they just get a flat $1000 that doesn't come with preconditions and caveats so they can survive even if they lose their jobs, get seriously injured, get very sick, whatever."
Automation will not let us ignore this problem for much longer. At some point this is going to have to happen, whether or not the Limbaugh ditto-heads support it or deride it as "muh socialism."
Instead of spamming everyone with advertising, the money would be better spent giving free subscriptions or products to a few people so they can tell their friends about how great the thing is. The financial expense of the freebies would almost certainly be less than the cost of advertising that makes everyone hate your company for advertising at them forcefully and their product would grow through a grassroots process that can't be matched no matter how many dollars they throw at the marketing problem. Of course this won't work for big-ticket item companies like auto makers, but for companies larger than "small business" with an offering that would be very attractive to the general public it is a very viable and indeed a damned smart marketing tactic.
Microsoft does really great work on the kernel side of things. The leaked Windows NT4 and 2000 source code from way back in the day received generally good reviews from OS developers that examined the code quality. Every Windows NT release since 2000 has had massive improvements in the kernel and driver space. It's unfortunate that upgrading the NT kernel side requires "upgrading" the user-level software side to bring all of the trash that Microsoft does a really terrible job on. I'd happily take the Windows 10 kernel and drivers with the Windows 7 userspace dropped on top. In fact, that's what Windows 10 SHOULD have been.
Brilliant. Someone hand me a thesaurus and I'll find plenty of reasons why a search bar for finding your bearings in an unfamiliar environment is incredibly fucking stupid. You have to wonder who the genius at Microsoft is that thought this was such a wonderful idea. Joe User who hasn't ever heard of System Restore will not be able to find it when he searches for "fix my computer," but he'll certainly find the "I am from Microsoft and your computer is virus infected!" people promptly thanks to Bing(TM).
That's one of the absolute best Linus rants ever. It illustrates all the reasons he's the best person for what he does in one solid chunk of text. Sure, if it were a department manager sending it to a subservient, it'd be unprofessional. That's also not how a large open source project with no such strict hierarchy works. That is a shining example of what Linus does right when bad things start leaking into the project. It's also a shining example of what outsiders misinterpret because their heads are stuck in corporate hierarchical power struggle horseshit and (more recently) Tumblr/Twitter feminist style call-out culture.
Linux would be shit, as he's clearly doing exactly what he's supposed to do to keep it working and growing. Linus Torvalds is not a CEO or a department manager, he's indirectly responsible for managing the efforts of tens of thousands of people over an Internet-distributed platform with no regular face-to-face contact between any of them, and almost all of his communication is made public in the process. It is a very unique position. To pull in the "professional environment" bullshit of modern corporate offices and judge him by those standards is willfully ignorant and short-sighted at best.
Linus is only a douche where someone should know better or someone ignores what he's said multiple times. He is always gentle to the children of the flock (until they try to post the same busted patch eight times and he's told them why it can't be accepted seven times.) When he's mad, he's mad because someone is doing something that will damage Linux. Hell, if Linus was actually a douche, the whole "Sarah Sharp beating him with a feminism wiffle ball bat" incident wouldn't have gone well at all. Sarah Sharp is still pounding away at the USB code in the kernel and Linus is still just fine working with her. The press sensationalized a couple of posts in the thread but chose to ignore all of the respectful discussion thereafter; this is the only reason a lot of people think Linus is a real douchenozzle that needs to "be fired" or "quit."
Honestly, he's probably the best "boss" in a technical field that any of us have had the pleasure of observing. I have no doubt that 99.999% of Slashdot readers would have done a worse job than him. Not because they're incompetent or incapable of managing a project, but because it'd be very hard to do what he's done managerially any better than he has done it.
Incorrect. Anyone can remember three reasonably secure (read: long and not all lower case) passphrases. Use them in tiers where one is for "I don't care if my Slashdot/Ars Technica/Disqus/TPB account really gets hacked" and one is for "this is an email account that a lot of other accounts can be password reset to hijack, don't use this anywhere but on email accounts that need to be secure" and one is exclusively for bank accounts or other highly sensitive information. That way if "LOL We Use No TLS And MD5 And Store Password Hashes In Cookies Forum" gets hacked and someone cracks your forum account password from the hash, the only risk is to your not-too-important accounts and they don't have your email account password.
Or your 30 passwords can look like "Mfdajsio[][$#@5625429i04356kio:FSD===-F" and you can trust all of them to a password manager and pray that the one magical master password for that manager doesn't fall into the wrong hands, lest your single point of failure give up a list of all your accounts along with their corresponding passwords.
There is no comparison. Google Chrome is slow and badly behaved and Firefox is not. I don't understand all these reports that say "Chrome is so much faster than Firefox" when I routinely see a Chrome install with zero add-ons on a particular machine with recently cleared history and caches consistently slow down during use worse than a fresh Firefox install with ad blocking add-ons on the exact same machine.
There was also no dishonesty in my statements--I stated that I did not know if the option existed which is not the same as "other browsers don't have that." I do not use non-Firefox browsers on a regular basis.
I have no such experience. Neither do any of the people I install Firefox + Adblock {Plus,Edge} for. If Firefox doesn't work right today, it's rarely Firefox that is the problem. Firefox runs fine even on AMD C-50 and AMD V120 laptops. It is often Flash garbage on websites that ruin things in all browsers; using the "Ask to activate" option on the Flash plugin permanently solves that problem. I don't know that such an option exists in non-Firefox browsers.
The irony of an act with "secrecy" in the title that forces someone to proactively spout information...they've been doublespeaking for a long damn time in the government, eh?
It's possible that you have misunderstood what "public key" means. It does not mean that it is published for everyone in the world to see. In asymmetric encryption, each key consists of two parts: a public key and a private key. The public key is allowed to be known by anyone and can be used by anyone to encrypt something for the owner of the private key, or to decrypt something that was encrypted by the owner of the private key. That's why it is the "public key." Mere knowledge of what it is allows a person to securely encrypt what it sends to the private key holder and allows that person to validate that the person sending something to them IS the private key holder. It does not offer security in one direction (since one decryption key is "public") but it does offer validation in the direction that data security is not offered. Related: look up Diffie-Hellman key exchange for info on how asymmetric key pairs are used to initiate symmetrically encrypted secure data streams between hosts. Also look up how PGP keys are used to validate that an email was sent by a specific person and/or that the contents of the email were not changed by a "man in the middle."
If you were considering the "published" part, "published" also doesn't necessarily mean that the services are in a nice easy list on some server somewhere for the FBI to download. Of course, the Tor directory servers obviously handle.onion domain name resolution and that makes them a huge problem. You know the garbled names that.onion sites use? My suggestion was to make that the public key and to do away with directory servers, using something like DHT instead.
tl;dr: "Public key" doesn't mean "published key" and "published" doesn't necessarily mean "in an easy-to-read directory somewhere."
The simple fact that it uses "directory servers" for Tor stuff (including hidden services) means that there is centralization in the network. Centralization of control is the enemy of anonymous communications because it vastly shrinks the target surface area required to damage or intercept that communications. This is just another hole in the bottom of the anonymity boat for Tor users. A better system would publish services using the public key of a strong asymmetric encryption algorithm such that the only valid responses could be encrypted with the private key; flooding the network with bad information to turn yourself into the correct node for a given "hidden service" name simply wouldn't work.
Terrible behavior of children saw a meteoric rise over the last two decades combined with total neutering of teachers' ability to control behavior in the classroom for fear of being promptly fired. If a child wishes to be defiant and ignore all authority, the teacher has no options but to run to the principal's office.
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I see the problem. GP didn't write the complete bitwise rotation idiom but I knew what they meant whereas you're evaluating it exactly as written. This is what I'm referring to and what GP was almost certainly trying to refer to as well. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Assuming 'uint32_t x' and ignoring any needed shuffling to load 'x' into the appropriate processor register, any 32-bit processor with a native bit rotation instruction.
Re: "allowing rules to move messages b/w accounts." - Thunderbird lets me create message filters that move messages matching specified criteria to any folder on any account I want. Could you clarify?
Thunderbird with a couple of add-ons lets you use a single Google account to store calendar events and contacts and have them two-way synchronized with multiple Thunderbird clients, and it works anywhere Thunderbird works. Outlook (as of the 2013 version) only supported one-way sync of Google Calendar. The best part is that Thunderbird and Gmail are both free, so you can have Outlook-style calendar and contacts sync across all your computers at no cost. Small businesses, especially those with multiple offices that need Outlook-like calendaring, benefit greatly from this, plus Thunderbird is faster than Outlook ever has been. Sadly, it's not as well-known as it ought to be. Thunderbird + Lightning + the Google syncing add-ons makes Outlook look like a bad joke.
Nothing would be sweeter than if this judge were kicked off the Internet at his home because of his IP matching a Rightscorp complaint. He's literally taking the position that this should be the law of the land, so why not?
I chose neither because I use neither. JavaScript said unto me, "You need to select an option!"
See, herein lies the problem with the surveillance society. Once the watchers demonize encrypted communications as a tool only the Bad People(TM) would use, unencrypted, innocent-seeming messages become the communication tool of choice. This is "being hidden in plain sight." If you want to hide in a sea of automated data analysis, you simply duck your head below the noise threshold.
I used Pale Moon for a long time and even switched people from Firefox over to it regularly. Then more and more of the bill payment portals didn't work properly until I could not justify using it any longer due to having to install Firefox anyway just to be capable of paying the bills. I couldn't even leave product reviews on Newegg. I'd still be using Pale Moon if I could pay my bills with it. I even waited for a version that would work properly, but three updates went by and nothing changed. Sigh, back to Firefox.
Off topic: I've noticed that Chrome has gotten *really* terrible. The memory footprint and poor performance is astonishing. If Chrome is "fast," Firefox is Win98-on-i7 fast.
The fatal flaw with this argument is the assumption that knowledgeable people are looking at your code in the first place and that they have the time to sit there and audit your code in depth. I'm sure it happens but I doubt it happens very often. The somewhat recent and highly publicized OpenSSL bugs reminds us that "all bugs are shallow" only when enough experienced people are looking hard and long enough, but rarely in the real world (especially in such a "deep and wide" field like programming) can we expect such optimal conditions to occur.
Damn. Well said, and somewhat scary to think about.
This needs to be modded +5 because this is what everyone is failing to understand when they say "why take money from the smart people who built the machines to pay the lazy slobs who won't do anything at all?" As if we aren't already paying the least productive people in society a basic income; why should having a productive job mean you suffer more and have less money than the stereotypical three-child single mom on all the available forms of welfare imaginable? Between EBT, WIC, Section 8 housing, and the "Obamaphone," the least productive get a lot of free shit that the productive part-timer can't afford because no one's giving them a single thing for free. Disincentivizing employment through the current mess of a welfare system (in the USA at least) is incredibly fucking stupid. Basic income just says "everyone gets $1000 a month so they can survive. No more unemployment, food stamps, or Section 8, they just get a flat $1000 that doesn't come with preconditions and caveats so they can survive even if they lose their jobs, get seriously injured, get very sick, whatever."
Automation will not let us ignore this problem for much longer. At some point this is going to have to happen, whether or not the Limbaugh ditto-heads support it or deride it as "muh socialism."
Instead of spamming everyone with advertising, the money would be better spent giving free subscriptions or products to a few people so they can tell their friends about how great the thing is. The financial expense of the freebies would almost certainly be less than the cost of advertising that makes everyone hate your company for advertising at them forcefully and their product would grow through a grassroots process that can't be matched no matter how many dollars they throw at the marketing problem. Of course this won't work for big-ticket item companies like auto makers, but for companies larger than "small business" with an offering that would be very attractive to the general public it is a very viable and indeed a damned smart marketing tactic.
Nostrils, meet milk.
Microsoft does really great work on the kernel side of things. The leaked Windows NT4 and 2000 source code from way back in the day received generally good reviews from OS developers that examined the code quality. Every Windows NT release since 2000 has had massive improvements in the kernel and driver space. It's unfortunate that upgrading the NT kernel side requires "upgrading" the user-level software side to bring all of the trash that Microsoft does a really terrible job on. I'd happily take the Windows 10 kernel and drivers with the Windows 7 userspace dropped on top. In fact, that's what Windows 10 SHOULD have been.
Brilliant. Someone hand me a thesaurus and I'll find plenty of reasons why a search bar for finding your bearings in an unfamiliar environment is incredibly fucking stupid. You have to wonder who the genius at Microsoft is that thought this was such a wonderful idea. Joe User who hasn't ever heard of System Restore will not be able to find it when he searches for "fix my computer," but he'll certainly find the "I am from Microsoft and your computer is virus infected!" people promptly thanks to Bing(TM).
I think "on a shared workstation" means it was an electronic document and not a physical sealed envelope.
That's one of the absolute best Linus rants ever. It illustrates all the reasons he's the best person for what he does in one solid chunk of text. Sure, if it were a department manager sending it to a subservient, it'd be unprofessional. That's also not how a large open source project with no such strict hierarchy works. That is a shining example of what Linus does right when bad things start leaking into the project. It's also a shining example of what outsiders misinterpret because their heads are stuck in corporate hierarchical power struggle horseshit and (more recently) Tumblr/Twitter feminist style call-out culture.
Linux would be shit, as he's clearly doing exactly what he's supposed to do to keep it working and growing. Linus Torvalds is not a CEO or a department manager, he's indirectly responsible for managing the efforts of tens of thousands of people over an Internet-distributed platform with no regular face-to-face contact between any of them, and almost all of his communication is made public in the process. It is a very unique position. To pull in the "professional environment" bullshit of modern corporate offices and judge him by those standards is willfully ignorant and short-sighted at best.
Linus is only a douche where someone should know better or someone ignores what he's said multiple times. He is always gentle to the children of the flock (until they try to post the same busted patch eight times and he's told them why it can't be accepted seven times.) When he's mad, he's mad because someone is doing something that will damage Linux. Hell, if Linus was actually a douche, the whole "Sarah Sharp beating him with a feminism wiffle ball bat" incident wouldn't have gone well at all. Sarah Sharp is still pounding away at the USB code in the kernel and Linus is still just fine working with her. The press sensationalized a couple of posts in the thread but chose to ignore all of the respectful discussion thereafter; this is the only reason a lot of people think Linus is a real douchenozzle that needs to "be fired" or "quit."
Honestly, he's probably the best "boss" in a technical field that any of us have had the pleasure of observing. I have no doubt that 99.999% of Slashdot readers would have done a worse job than him. Not because they're incompetent or incapable of managing a project, but because it'd be very hard to do what he's done managerially any better than he has done it.
Incorrect. Anyone can remember three reasonably secure (read: long and not all lower case) passphrases. Use them in tiers where one is for "I don't care if my Slashdot/Ars Technica/Disqus/TPB account really gets hacked" and one is for "this is an email account that a lot of other accounts can be password reset to hijack, don't use this anywhere but on email accounts that need to be secure" and one is exclusively for bank accounts or other highly sensitive information. That way if "LOL We Use No TLS And MD5 And Store Password Hashes In Cookies Forum" gets hacked and someone cracks your forum account password from the hash, the only risk is to your not-too-important accounts and they don't have your email account password.
Or your 30 passwords can look like "Mfdajsio[][$#@5625429i04356kio:FSD===-F" and you can trust all of them to a password manager and pray that the one magical master password for that manager doesn't fall into the wrong hands, lest your single point of failure give up a list of all your accounts along with their corresponding passwords.
There is no comparison. Google Chrome is slow and badly behaved and Firefox is not. I don't understand all these reports that say "Chrome is so much faster than Firefox" when I routinely see a Chrome install with zero add-ons on a particular machine with recently cleared history and caches consistently slow down during use worse than a fresh Firefox install with ad blocking add-ons on the exact same machine.
There was also no dishonesty in my statements--I stated that I did not know if the option existed which is not the same as "other browsers don't have that." I do not use non-Firefox browsers on a regular basis.
I have no such experience. Neither do any of the people I install Firefox + Adblock {Plus,Edge} for. If Firefox doesn't work right today, it's rarely Firefox that is the problem. Firefox runs fine even on AMD C-50 and AMD V120 laptops. It is often Flash garbage on websites that ruin things in all browsers; using the "Ask to activate" option on the Flash plugin permanently solves that problem. I don't know that such an option exists in non-Firefox browsers.
The irony of an act with "secrecy" in the title that forces someone to proactively spout information...they've been doublespeaking for a long damn time in the government, eh?
It's possible that you have misunderstood what "public key" means. It does not mean that it is published for everyone in the world to see. In asymmetric encryption, each key consists of two parts: a public key and a private key. The public key is allowed to be known by anyone and can be used by anyone to encrypt something for the owner of the private key, or to decrypt something that was encrypted by the owner of the private key. That's why it is the "public key." Mere knowledge of what it is allows a person to securely encrypt what it sends to the private key holder and allows that person to validate that the person sending something to them IS the private key holder. It does not offer security in one direction (since one decryption key is "public") but it does offer validation in the direction that data security is not offered. Related: look up Diffie-Hellman key exchange for info on how asymmetric key pairs are used to initiate symmetrically encrypted secure data streams between hosts. Also look up how PGP keys are used to validate that an email was sent by a specific person and/or that the contents of the email were not changed by a "man in the middle."
.onion domain name resolution and that makes them a huge problem. You know the garbled names that .onion sites use? My suggestion was to make that the public key and to do away with directory servers, using something like DHT instead.
If you were considering the "published" part, "published" also doesn't necessarily mean that the services are in a nice easy list on some server somewhere for the FBI to download. Of course, the Tor directory servers obviously handle
tl;dr: "Public key" doesn't mean "published key" and "published" doesn't necessarily mean "in an easy-to-read directory somewhere."
The simple fact that it uses "directory servers" for Tor stuff (including hidden services) means that there is centralization in the network. Centralization of control is the enemy of anonymous communications because it vastly shrinks the target surface area required to damage or intercept that communications. This is just another hole in the bottom of the anonymity boat for Tor users. A better system would publish services using the public key of a strong asymmetric encryption algorithm such that the only valid responses could be encrypted with the private key; flooding the network with bad information to turn yourself into the correct node for a given "hidden service" name simply wouldn't work.
Terrible behavior of children saw a meteoric rise over the last two decades combined with total neutering of teachers' ability to control behavior in the classroom for fear of being promptly fired. If a child wishes to be defiant and ignore all authority, the teacher has no options but to run to the principal's office.