I'm torn on the idea of having one particular crypto implementation having first class citizen status in the language. It should help adoption and alleviate deployment headaches, but if that library turns out to have problems or just becomes obsolete it's even more of a hassle to work around it. Crypto algorithms are unusual in computer science in that they come with use-by dates. Most algorithms are timeless, but crypto changes constantly. What are the odds that in 5 years this becomes "that thing you shouldn't use but everybody uses it anyway because it's the default and its built in"?
Busses drive all day long every day. When are they supposed to recharge the batteries? At night? Are they going to lug around enough battery to keep a big heavy bus running all day long on its stop and go route? Even with regenerative breaking that's a huge ask for current and near term foreseeable battery technology.
I can't see cities jumping on the idea of busses that have to come back to the depot to be swapped out every 4 hours. It's also not clear to me how a vehicle carrying literally tons of high capacity batteries will be cheaper than a diesel/CNG vehicle of similar design.
While I've never worked directly with Stratus boxes, my understanding is that the machines have redundant and hot-swappable everything, so it's possible to completely replace half of the box while the other half is serving normally, and then switch it over and do the same on the other half. No unplanned outage might well mean that it never stopped doing whatever it is that the server is tasked with, even when parts of it had to be replaced or upgraded. Even the OS all the way down to the kernel can be upgraded without so much as a stall in application service.
But I also heard that they pay for that capability by being ridiculously expensive and slow.
There is no way the tickets for this will cost less than an airline flight over similar distances. Some people can do that (there are commuter flights), but not as a daily thing. Typically they'll work for a week then head home for the weekends.
That's starting to approach feeding the sentence into a speech to text system at one end and then sending the text over the air to be fed back into a text to speed converter.
$5/month for what has to be an incredibly thin selection with only 1,000 titles is just not a good deal. Maybe if they were financing a bunch of their own series this would make sense, but as is there are much better options out there for Anime fans.
NO *corporate* entity has EVER had ANY success WHATSOEVER in bringing down any service or p2p sharing that is run well and entirely within those networks. They are completely immune to DMCA, criminal or civil attacks.
No offense, but you are smoking crack. Onion sites get brought down all of the time. The Freedomhosting raid killed like 3/4 of the links on the Hidden Wiki. There are probably more FBI honeypots on TOR than there are "legitimate" kiddie porn sites, and they've had a pretty good run unmasking the users. Even the Silk Road got taken down and the owner thrown in jail. Keeping your site completely anonymous is incredibly difficult, almost as difficult as keeping it running at all on TOR it seems.
This shouldn't really be a surprise. Once you're big enough you have a giant target painted on your back both from the rightsholders and from people with an axe to grind. In the past there was always a steady churn of sites, and I fully expect that to keep happening as the well known sites are attacked and brought down and the vacuum appears again for startups to fill until they themselves get too big.
Frankly if a badguy has gone to the trouble to snail mail you they could have gotten your SSN way easier and faster with a bit of detective work. The fact that the site asked for you SSN so it can do credit monitoring makes sense too. I'd rate the chance that it was a phishing operation pretty low. If the site started asking you for your gmail passwords or bank logins that would be a red flag, but just the SSN isn't outside of what you would expect.
And if you were feeling extra paranoid you could call your bank and ask if they contracted out with that company for their 1 year of mostly useless credit monitoring. There probably isn't much your bank can do about a recording system on a number they don't own that doesn't even attempt to mimic their system. All phone numbers are just a few digits off from many other phone numbers. What are they going to do, buy up huge swaths of numbers just in case someone does something that almost never happens in real life? It's not even that great of an attack anymore since most people have cell phones that can hold millions of addresses and don't need to manually type numbers for common services anymore.
It seems like a design flaw to me since it happened on both shafts. That said, the whole point of a shakedown cruise is to find problems like this so they can be fixed before the ship it put into service. The headline could have read "Shakedown cruise finds problems, Navy promises to fix them."
The whole Alt-Right thing is a big misdirection. While they do exist and they did vote Trump, the group is made of people who were voting for Trump regardless. Their direct impact on the elections has been overstated.
What turned the election was the Democrats running an out of touch insider and taking the working class vote for granted even though Hillary made no secret of being in the pocket of the 1%. At least Trump listened to them enough to tell them what they wanted to hear.
Again, I don't see the difference. Rob a place for $5 or for $500 it is still robbery. Sentences may be different depending on the severity of the act, but the act itself is unchanged.
Somehow I don't think the telekinetic sex cult chapters are going to translate well to TV. I also thought it was amusing that the writeup called the novel timeless when my thought while reading it was that it was a product of its era, the 1960s. At least for the second half of the book. The first half should be no trouble to translate to TV, but I really do wonder where they are going to end it.
I really don't see the distinction there. Are you saying if the bots had to actually simulate the inputs and play a perfect game against one another for the purposes of farming coins it wouldn't be fraud? I'm still not sure I accept that it is fraud in any case. If this is fraud how is it not fraud when someone steals from the bank in Monopoly? Little brothers everywhere would be in so much trouble.
My guess is that it was the part where they sold the coins to other people knowing full well that EA could revoke the coins or terminate the accounts of anyone who bought them.
But yeah, the actual crime of writing a bot to farm coins seems more like a TOS violation than a felony. Punishment should probably be limited to getting kicked out of the game and never being allowed back online. Maybe even kicked out of EA online servers entirely.
One big well advertised week where your systems are already jammed with orders? How in the world do they avoid getting hit by every single DDOS extortion outfit at once?
UBI will happen right about the time we convince corporations and the rich to give up their power and status and be just normal people.
How are you going to convince someone to work at McDonalds or out in the fields picking strawberries if you have UBI? Shit jobs depend on people having no better options.
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I'm torn on the idea of having one particular crypto implementation having first class citizen status in the language. It should help adoption and alleviate deployment headaches, but if that library turns out to have problems or just becomes obsolete it's even more of a hassle to work around it. Crypto algorithms are unusual in computer science in that they come with use-by dates. Most algorithms are timeless, but crypto changes constantly. What are the odds that in 5 years this becomes "that thing you shouldn't use but everybody uses it anyway because it's the default and its built in"?
Busses drive all day long every day. When are they supposed to recharge the batteries? At night? Are they going to lug around enough battery to keep a big heavy bus running all day long on its stop and go route? Even with regenerative breaking that's a huge ask for current and near term foreseeable battery technology.
I can't see cities jumping on the idea of busses that have to come back to the depot to be swapped out every 4 hours. It's also not clear to me how a vehicle carrying literally tons of high capacity batteries will be cheaper than a diesel/CNG vehicle of similar design.
While I've never worked directly with Stratus boxes, my understanding is that the machines have redundant and hot-swappable everything, so it's possible to completely replace half of the box while the other half is serving normally, and then switch it over and do the same on the other half. No unplanned outage might well mean that it never stopped doing whatever it is that the server is tasked with, even when parts of it had to be replaced or upgraded. Even the OS all the way down to the kernel can be upgraded without so much as a stall in application service.
But I also heard that they pay for that capability by being ridiculously expensive and slow.
They have never heard of express trains? That's the typical solution to having too many small stops on a rail line.
There is no way the tickets for this will cost less than an airline flight over similar distances. Some people can do that (there are commuter flights), but not as a daily thing. Typically they'll work for a week then head home for the weekends.
Musk's cost estimates are also pure fantasy. $11 million/km for an elevated human rated pressure vessel? That's not even close to reasonable.
That's starting to approach feeding the sentence into a speech to text system at one end and then sending the text over the air to be fed back into a text to speed converter.
So I'll come back in 6 months to see if it makes sense yet.
$5/month for what has to be an incredibly thin selection with only 1,000 titles is just not a good deal. Maybe if they were financing a bunch of their own series this would make sense, but as is there are much better options out there for Anime fans.
No offense, but you are smoking crack. Onion sites get brought down all of the time. The Freedomhosting raid killed like 3/4 of the links on the Hidden Wiki. There are probably more FBI honeypots on TOR than there are "legitimate" kiddie porn sites, and they've had a pretty good run unmasking the users. Even the Silk Road got taken down and the owner thrown in jail. Keeping your site completely anonymous is incredibly difficult, almost as difficult as keeping it running at all on TOR it seems.
This shouldn't really be a surprise. Once you're big enough you have a giant target painted on your back both from the rightsholders and from people with an axe to grind. In the past there was always a steady churn of sites, and I fully expect that to keep happening as the well known sites are attacked and brought down and the vacuum appears again for startups to fill until they themselves get too big.
Frankly if a badguy has gone to the trouble to snail mail you they could have gotten your SSN way easier and faster with a bit of detective work. The fact that the site asked for you SSN so it can do credit monitoring makes sense too. I'd rate the chance that it was a phishing operation pretty low. If the site started asking you for your gmail passwords or bank logins that would be a red flag, but just the SSN isn't outside of what you would expect.
And if you were feeling extra paranoid you could call your bank and ask if they contracted out with that company for their 1 year of mostly useless credit monitoring. There probably isn't much your bank can do about a recording system on a number they don't own that doesn't even attempt to mimic their system. All phone numbers are just a few digits off from many other phone numbers. What are they going to do, buy up huge swaths of numbers just in case someone does something that almost never happens in real life? It's not even that great of an attack anymore since most people have cell phones that can hold millions of addresses and don't need to manually type numbers for common services anymore.
Why does the DNC handle email like my retirement age parents? Do they not have any young people working for them who know how email works these days?
They're trying to look less incompetent by saying that the staffer got taken in by a phishing email?
It seems like a design flaw to me since it happened on both shafts. That said, the whole point of a shakedown cruise is to find problems like this so they can be fixed before the ship it put into service. The headline could have read "Shakedown cruise finds problems, Navy promises to fix them."
The Navy didn't buy those shells, they were too expensive.
The whole Alt-Right thing is a big misdirection. While they do exist and they did vote Trump, the group is made of people who were voting for Trump regardless. Their direct impact on the elections has been overstated.
What turned the election was the Democrats running an out of touch insider and taking the working class vote for granted even though Hillary made no secret of being in the pocket of the 1%. At least Trump listened to them enough to tell them what they wanted to hear.
Again, I don't see the difference. Rob a place for $5 or for $500 it is still robbery. Sentences may be different depending on the severity of the act, but the act itself is unchanged.
I feel that works like this were trendsetting. This was one of the causes of the counterculture movement, not an effect.
But seriously, there is a blatant free love narrative running through the second half of the book.
Somehow I don't think the telekinetic sex cult chapters are going to translate well to TV. I also thought it was amusing that the writeup called the novel timeless when my thought while reading it was that it was a product of its era, the 1960s. At least for the second half of the book. The first half should be no trouble to translate to TV, but I really do wonder where they are going to end it.
I really don't see the distinction there. Are you saying if the bots had to actually simulate the inputs and play a perfect game against one another for the purposes of farming coins it wouldn't be fraud? I'm still not sure I accept that it is fraud in any case. If this is fraud how is it not fraud when someone steals from the bank in Monopoly? Little brothers everywhere would be in so much trouble.
Can Firefox now print a table without cutting off everything that won't fit on a single page?
My guess is that it was the part where they sold the coins to other people knowing full well that EA could revoke the coins or terminate the accounts of anyone who bought them.
But yeah, the actual crime of writing a bot to farm coins seems more like a TOS violation than a felony. Punishment should probably be limited to getting kicked out of the game and never being allowed back online. Maybe even kicked out of EA online servers entirely.
One big well advertised week where your systems are already jammed with orders? How in the world do they avoid getting hit by every single DDOS extortion outfit at once?
UBI will happen right about the time we convince corporations and the rich to give up their power and status and be just normal people.
How are you going to convince someone to work at McDonalds or out in the fields picking strawberries if you have UBI? Shit jobs depend on people having no better options.