So there is something special about a memory chip built for mobile vs. a memory chip built for desktop?
Server, yes, ECC is fractionally more money. And there is a smaller market for specialized servers that may only have a few tens or hundreds of thousands of customers, so that boosts the price a bit.
But in both the server and mobile spaces, it's primarily an issue of gouging by the vendor. Especially in the mobile space where volume buying is the norm.
From my perspective, securing the boot loader is the first step. Then you need a binary checker (which has been around for a while), and a trusted vendor distributing the updates and binary checksums. With those two pieces in place, you can at least have some modicum of insurance that your binaries haven't been compromised since they were released by the vendor.
I wouldn't worry about custom executables, though -- how is a hacker supposed to even know they exist unless they've got inside info on your company and the programs they write?
Zynga's lucky he treated the barrage with a sense of humour.
He could have easily gone into "rant mode" about how people got his email address, torn a strip off them, and pissed off their customer base right royally.
No surprise that Zynga screwed up, though. They're kind of famous for doing that -- as well as ripping off other designer's game ideas.
All Snowden did is expose the bullshit. He didn't cause the bullshit. That's squarely on the backs of the NSA and the US government's "secret" legislation.
Only the worst of Java-script heavy pages slow down on modern hardware with any of the browsers. 99.999% of the time the "slow" is because of AJAX queries to an unresponsive website, and there is bugger all the browser can do about that.
I tweak code performance beyond reasonableness, too. It's a "hacker thing." But it's not something the user can really see or notice once the first rounds of tuning are done, though. But there's an ego involved in producing the best and fastest code possible, even if no one else can tell the difference without a nanosecond stopwatch.
Wait for the DVD or Blu-Ray to come out and watch it at home without all the annoyances.
I don't understand why anyone still goes to a theatre today with all the rude behaviour from the audience. You can't enjoy a movie at the theatre any more.
Does this mean Ubuntu will make the use of JDK 7 automatic? It's easy enough to make it your default instead of 6, but the default for 12.04 is still JDK 6. It's not nice to make the default an EOL product.
The screen refresh rate of the LCD pixels is not the same as the LED backlight refresh rate. The LCD refresh rate is more analagous to the refresh rate of an analogue monitor, and like phosphors, it does take some picoseconds for an LCD cell to fade once it's power is ceased, so you get the "smoothing" of the images in the same fashion.
The LED refresh rate, on the other hand, has to do entirely with the light behind the LCDs. Whether those shut off immediately or not I don't know, but I've certainly never had a problem and I'm very sensitive to refresh rates (they trigger migraines when too low.)
Switching to an older style monitor that doesn't use LED backlighting would resolve the problem for the original poster. Cranking up the refresh rates on the LEDs would induce more flickering, not less, because they don't have a decay/shutdown period according to them.
Let me know when these fantastic driverless cars are smart enough to drive home and plug themselves in to charge instead of hanging around in a parking lot all day. Just imagine how much downtown clutter would go away and become available for use if half the parking lots were gone because cars didn't stay downtown after dropping off their owner for a shift.
People don't understand other people's thoughts. At best they have a mental map that roughly corresponds to the gist of what they're saying and which triggers a patterned response thought in their heads.
While what I said was very tongue-in-cheek, it's also true. Even couples who love each other spend a large part of their time essentially shrugging their shoulders and thinking "Whatever" while going along with the situation or demands in order to avoid an unnecessary fight or argument.
People are not logical in their communications. They're fragmented and riddled with assumptions about culture, phrasing, and slang. Even when they speak a "common" language, such as English, people from different countries often have difficulty with casual communications because the details of the language as spoken in their homelands is so different.
Getting a voice recognition system to deal with accents is far from trivial, but even that is trivial compared to getting a system to grasp concepts from around the world.
Admit it: sometimes you don't even understand yourself, and wonder what triggered that random/perverse thought that just flashed by.
If they have a warrant for the drives, I don't believe the fifth applies any more than when you're required to provide the combination for a safe. In fact I'd say the exact same arguments both pro and con apply to the situation.
Yet despite this dragnet approach to surveillance, they didn't stop the Boston Bombers. Or that elementary school massacre. Or the nutbar who shot up a theatre. Or...
Congratulations to the United States.
Using nothing more than the pretext of "preventing another 9/11", your government has turned into a full-on Fascist Police State, complete with rah-rah patriotism, a vague and unstoppable enemy that can never be defeated (meaning there is never going to be an end to the surveillance requirements), and blatant support of corporatism over the rights or needs of the citizenry. Classic, textbook definition Fascism.
I was specifically thinking of crypto containers rather than individual encrypted files. I think a crypto container should be considered the same as a safe, but a crypto file should be considered as a code. It's a fine line distinction, but I don't believe they should be considered as equivalent.
Thus whole-drive encryption would be considered as a safe containing the protected documents.
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So there is something special about a memory chip built for mobile vs. a memory chip built for desktop?
Server, yes, ECC is fractionally more money. And there is a smaller market for specialized servers that may only have a few tens or hundreds of thousands of customers, so that boosts the price a bit.
But in both the server and mobile spaces, it's primarily an issue of gouging by the vendor. Especially in the mobile space where volume buying is the norm.
Try running Firefox on an old XP box with 512MB of RAM and see how JavaScript chugs.
I say again: Memory is cheap.
Blame the vendor.
Memory is cheap. Even for mobile devices. But the vendors want to bend you over backwards for every gigabyte.
So put the blame where it belongs: on those who would restrict memory arbitrarily.
64-bit processors are the norm nowadays. Screw anything constrained by 32 bits.
Scope creep has always been capable of consuming even the most generous of budgets.
From my perspective, securing the boot loader is the first step. Then you need a binary checker (which has been around for a while), and a trusted vendor distributing the updates and binary checksums. With those two pieces in place, you can at least have some modicum of insurance that your binaries haven't been compromised since they were released by the vendor.
I wouldn't worry about custom executables, though -- how is a hacker supposed to even know they exist unless they've got inside info on your company and the programs they write?
Yeah, but it could give a whole new meaning to the ever popular fart apps for phones... :P
This is editing? WTF is up with our so-called editors? This summary is so far from proper English it's not even funny.
I've read better instructions that came with Chinese products that are notorious for their bad translations.
Fuck off, asshole. The thorn character existed long before your birth.
Aren't Android apps written in Java syntax with a Google version of the JVM?
Zynga's lucky he treated the barrage with a sense of humour.
He could have easily gone into "rant mode" about how people got his email address, torn a strip off them, and pissed off their customer base right royally.
No surprise that Zynga screwed up, though. They're kind of famous for doing that -- as well as ripping off other designer's game ideas.
The US harmed itself with it's egregious spying.
All Snowden did is expose the bullshit. He didn't cause the bullshit. That's squarely on the backs of the NSA and the US government's "secret" legislation.
So maybe Apple or Motorola or someone do have a copy of the infamous Rob Ford Smoking Crack video in their archives.
Only the worst of Java-script heavy pages slow down on modern hardware with any of the browsers. 99.999% of the time the "slow" is because of AJAX queries to an unresponsive website, and there is bugger all the browser can do about that.
I tweak code performance beyond reasonableness, too. It's a "hacker thing." But it's not something the user can really see or notice once the first rounds of tuning are done, though. But there's an ego involved in producing the best and fastest code possible, even if no one else can tell the difference without a nanosecond stopwatch.
Wait for the DVD or Blu-Ray to come out and watch it at home without all the annoyances.
I don't understand why anyone still goes to a theatre today with all the rude behaviour from the audience. You can't enjoy a movie at the theatre any more.
Does this mean Ubuntu will make the use of JDK 7 automatic? It's easy enough to make it your default instead of 6, but the default for 12.04 is still JDK 6. It's not nice to make the default an EOL product.
The screen refresh rate of the LCD pixels is not the same as the LED backlight refresh rate. The LCD refresh rate is more analagous to the refresh rate of an analogue monitor, and like phosphors, it does take some picoseconds for an LCD cell to fade once it's power is ceased, so you get the "smoothing" of the images in the same fashion.
The LED refresh rate, on the other hand, has to do entirely with the light behind the LCDs. Whether those shut off immediately or not I don't know, but I've certainly never had a problem and I'm very sensitive to refresh rates (they trigger migraines when too low.)
Switching to an older style monitor that doesn't use LED backlighting would resolve the problem for the original poster. Cranking up the refresh rates on the LEDs would induce more flickering, not less, because they don't have a decay/shutdown period according to them.
Let me know when these fantastic driverless cars are smart enough to drive home and plug themselves in to charge instead of hanging around in a parking lot all day. Just imagine how much downtown clutter would go away and become available for use if half the parking lots were gone because cars didn't stay downtown after dropping off their owner for a shift.
That's right. Instead of cursing in public, Microsoft executives throw furniture...
Ever here of having a sense of humour? Must everything be dry and boring for the pedantic?
I doubt very much that you do.
People don't understand other people's thoughts. At best they have a mental map that roughly corresponds to the gist of what they're saying and which triggers a patterned response thought in their heads.
While what I said was very tongue-in-cheek, it's also true. Even couples who love each other spend a large part of their time essentially shrugging their shoulders and thinking "Whatever" while going along with the situation or demands in order to avoid an unnecessary fight or argument.
People are not logical in their communications. They're fragmented and riddled with assumptions about culture, phrasing, and slang. Even when they speak a "common" language, such as English, people from different countries often have difficulty with casual communications because the details of the language as spoken in their homelands is so different.
Getting a voice recognition system to deal with accents is far from trivial, but even that is trivial compared to getting a system to grasp concepts from around the world.
Admit it: sometimes you don't even understand yourself, and wonder what triggered that random/perverse thought that just flashed by.
If they have a warrant for the drives, I don't believe the fifth applies any more than when you're required to provide the combination for a safe. In fact I'd say the exact same arguments both pro and con apply to the situation.
Passwords are not "speech." They're "keys."
Yet despite this dragnet approach to surveillance, they didn't stop the Boston Bombers. Or that elementary school massacre. Or the nutbar who shot up a theatre. Or...
Congratulations to the United States.
Using nothing more than the pretext of "preventing another 9/11", your government has turned into a full-on Fascist Police State, complete with rah-rah patriotism, a vague and unstoppable enemy that can never be defeated (meaning there is never going to be an end to the surveillance requirements), and blatant support of corporatism over the rights or needs of the citizenry. Classic, textbook definition Fascism.
"Land of the Free" my ass.
I was specifically thinking of crypto containers rather than individual encrypted files. I think a crypto container should be considered the same as a safe, but a crypto file should be considered as a code. It's a fine line distinction, but I don't believe they should be considered as equivalent.
Thus whole-drive encryption would be considered as a safe containing the protected documents.