I remember years and years ago when this first came out it was party to some of the worst looking games of all time. But bad games can be made on any platform, I'm sure someone could have made something good by now. Their website doesn't list any projects that use the library, which is very troubling. They haven't been just developing the library for their own sake for 16 years have they? Someone must be using it.
Wow, I can't wait until the Congressional hearings on the "hook up classes" held by the first school district that tries this. Teaching "children" about healthy sexual attitudes is a major taboo in the US. It undermines the message they were getting from their church and parents about sex being evil and dirty.
The Kickstarter has a handheld version with a battery, screen, and keyboard. You can install Wolfram Alpha on it as well (it comes by default with Rasbian now). It has better everything than a TI graphing calculator and costs $49.
Even cheap flat panel TVs usually have a lonely Composite jack somewhere on the back, just in case someone's grandfather wants to plug in the VCR. Of course this means you'll be limited to NTSC resolution and probably a fuzzy picture, but it's $9 and has built-in Wifi and Bluetooth so you don't need to hang a wired keyboard off of it like you do with the Pi. I'm not sure what I'd do with this, but that's true of all of these cheap little SBCs, and I usually find something worth doing.
The handheld version with the GPIO pins sticking out seems pretty cool. I'd really like to feel that keyboard before committing to it though.
The way I see it, MIcrosoft wasn't making that much money from consumers on version updates. Almost nobody buys a box copy of Windows to do the upgrade. They just upgrade when they buy a new computer. It's always been rather expensive and the past few versions of Windows have had additional barriers to entry (annoying changes to the UI for instance) to further discourage people from updating. With this system your new "made entirely of ribbons" OS interface is just a Windows Update away.
Several years ago I was really concerned about the 2038 rollover because so many protocols have hard baked 32 bit timestamp fields in them. Even if systems were updated the protocols might not be. But I've come to realize that once the systems are updated, the protocol tend to follow suit in the next revision, and in the next 23 years pretty much every protocol is going to go through at least one revision. There are still going to be a few holdouts that have trouble in 2038, but I'm expecting it to be as much of an event as the year 2000. A few fringe things act weird or even stop working, but pretty much everything important is OK.
If you let a bunch of loons run it's pretty easy to look good by comparison. Look at Mitt Romney. A terrible candidate by most measures, but still better than all of the frothing at the mouth crazies he was running against. This is especially important if you don't have a good centrist candidate and you need to make him look centrist by comparison.
Actually firing people is unpopular, even when you are "lowering the size of government". It means taking services away from people and reducing government oversight. It's better to just spend recklessly and then force the next president into financial crisis after financial crisis so they are forced to make the cuts instead.
That's why "debt doesn't matter" when the Republicans are in charge.
I thought he was implying that the current Republican slate was full of crazy old white men. For all of her numerous faults, Carly at least has one thing to differentiate herself from the pack. Two if you count the whole "drove a Fortune 500 company into the ground" thing.
Certainly you have heard of a place called Bengahzi? The Republican attack machine already considers it the worst attack on America since the War of Independence and according to them she personally orchestrated the attacks with help from Khaleid Sheik Mohammad and George Soros. They'll eventually get that report out of Congress saying exactly this if they try enough times.
Is that what those "5 years of experience in every technology ever invented, must be willing to relocate, starting salary $30k no benefits" jobs that litter job listing sites are?
Were you willing to guarantee your projects were defect free? The FAA is an excessively risk adverse organization. In some ways this is good, it's safer to fly from LA to London than it is to drive 10 miles from your house to the airport, even though you're in a metal tube traveling at nearly the speed of sound (so fast that human reaction times are effectively a moot point, once you see an obstacle in your way you are already dead) through all sorts of crazy weather and other challenges. The downside of this is that it is almost impossible to get them to replace a working system, even if the replacement is objectively better than the old one. One problem the FAA runs into on a regular basis is that tertiary technologies (like their network and comms systems) are constantly going obsolete and most of the vendors disappear and the only ones that remain jack their prices up into the stratosphere because they know they have a captive market.
There is objectively less innovation, literature, and even art from the Islamic world in the current day. You can measure scholarship per capita and it is not even close. They are squandering their human capitol on petty bickering and tribalism.
I've always been amused at the depth and quantity of nested DIVs on a Google Play store page. This is something that's going to be loaded on crappy cell phones and the code for the page is just monstrously large.
EXT4 encryption seems like a pretty good bullet point, especially with the TrueCrypt situation. I hope it's not fatally flawed in some way. Caveat: I have not looked at it yet.
One could argue that the Islamic world went through an reverse of the Enlightenment. An unenlightenment if you will. People like to blame the British for screwing everything up (they certainly did not help), but really they were exploiting the repressive and regressive systems held in place by petty tribalism that long predated their appearance.
This is going to be a continuing problem until they figure out how to get some separation between church and state. This separation will be difficult to achieve so long as assassination of potential political rivals remains commonplace. The christian world had the advantage of making the separation back when a King could be reasonably protected against assassination by simply living in a castle and keeping a close eye on his advisers and family. Today with high power sniper rifles and small but powerful bombs available to any random stranger it is much harder to avoid being assassinated.
The big problem with G+ is that it was basically Facebook by Google. They tried to make a big deal about the circles but I didn't know anybody who found that to be a compelling feature and it just made the site more of a headache to use. Plus if you really care you can do that on Facebook anyway. This wasn't like Myspace where the site was quickly swirling the drain and people needed someplace new to go. Facebook still works alright for most people (although the way they keep using every trick in the book to use "Top" view instead of "Most Recent" is still obnoxious) and their friends are already there. It never had that killer feature to overcome people's inherent inertia.
Did you read the cost per battery? There is your answer right there. The summary talks about saving money by buying power during off peak hours and using the battery when power is expensive, but you'll never made $6,500 doing that before the battery wears out.
Also, the power company IS doing this, but only halfway. It's subsidizing half the cost of the system up front. Honestly, this whole thing makes a lot more sense for the power company than it does for the end consumer.
That and there is no guarantee that they'll line up between the patient and the donor. He could be trying to beat his heart but all that's happening is his big toe is wiggling. I'm suspicious too.
I bet you were saying the same thing when Apple released a cellphone with no keypad that cost $600 and still made you pay a subsidy. Ok, that last part was some real bullshit on AT&Ts part. Still, it hasn't exactly been a massive flop for Apple.
It's a cache timing app. Pretty impressive that they were able to maintain the precise timing necessary to conduct the attack in Javascript, but still quite limited in what it can collect. Basically they can tell if certain cache lines are in use, and figure out maybe what those lines are shared with to do some behavior analysis on the victim. This application is a bit of a stretch, since learning the allocation patterns is not going to be easy.
Their other example is a user that has a machine with two VMs on it. One is highly secure (no network access) but has been rooted. The other has network access but no normal connection to the rooted VM. You can pass data from the secure VM to the network VM and then ex-filtrate the data using a malicious advertisement injected into a normal browsing session. It does require the victim to not understand that VMs are not airgapped though.
The paper assumes that your problem is exfiltrating data because the target has somehow gotten infected but is ultra-paranoid about outbound traffic from his machine. You can instead transfer the data to a javascript app running in a webpage on a different VM that may be less secure. It seems pretty cornercase to me, but every time I think that someone comes out with some crazy exploit that extracts all of your SSH keys or something from the box using what seems like a nearly useless exploit.
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I remember years and years ago when this first came out it was party to some of the worst looking games of all time. But bad games can be made on any platform, I'm sure someone could have made something good by now. Their website doesn't list any projects that use the library, which is very troubling. They haven't been just developing the library for their own sake for 16 years have they? Someone must be using it.
Wow, I can't wait until the Congressional hearings on the "hook up classes" held by the first school district that tries this. Teaching "children" about healthy sexual attitudes is a major taboo in the US. It undermines the message they were getting from their church and parents about sex being evil and dirty.
The Kickstarter has a handheld version with a battery, screen, and keyboard. You can install Wolfram Alpha on it as well (it comes by default with Rasbian now). It has better everything than a TI graphing calculator and costs $49.
Even cheap flat panel TVs usually have a lonely Composite jack somewhere on the back, just in case someone's grandfather wants to plug in the VCR. Of course this means you'll be limited to NTSC resolution and probably a fuzzy picture, but it's $9 and has built-in Wifi and Bluetooth so you don't need to hang a wired keyboard off of it like you do with the Pi. I'm not sure what I'd do with this, but that's true of all of these cheap little SBCs, and I usually find something worth doing.
The handheld version with the GPIO pins sticking out seems pretty cool. I'd really like to feel that keyboard before committing to it though.
The way I see it, MIcrosoft wasn't making that much money from consumers on version updates. Almost nobody buys a box copy of Windows to do the upgrade. They just upgrade when they buy a new computer. It's always been rather expensive and the past few versions of Windows have had additional barriers to entry (annoying changes to the UI for instance) to further discourage people from updating. With this system your new "made entirely of ribbons" OS interface is just a Windows Update away.
Several years ago I was really concerned about the 2038 rollover because so many protocols have hard baked 32 bit timestamp fields in them. Even if systems were updated the protocols might not be. But I've come to realize that once the systems are updated, the protocol tend to follow suit in the next revision, and in the next 23 years pretty much every protocol is going to go through at least one revision. There are still going to be a few holdouts that have trouble in 2038, but I'm expecting it to be as much of an event as the year 2000. A few fringe things act weird or even stop working, but pretty much everything important is OK.
If you let a bunch of loons run it's pretty easy to look good by comparison. Look at Mitt Romney. A terrible candidate by most measures, but still better than all of the frothing at the mouth crazies he was running against. This is especially important if you don't have a good centrist candidate and you need to make him look centrist by comparison.
Actually firing people is unpopular, even when you are "lowering the size of government". It means taking services away from people and reducing government oversight. It's better to just spend recklessly and then force the next president into financial crisis after financial crisis so they are forced to make the cuts instead.
That's why "debt doesn't matter" when the Republicans are in charge.
I thought he was implying that the current Republican slate was full of crazy old white men. For all of her numerous faults, Carly at least has one thing to differentiate herself from the pack. Two if you count the whole "drove a Fortune 500 company into the ground" thing.
Certainly you have heard of a place called Bengahzi? The Republican attack machine already considers it the worst attack on America since the War of Independence and according to them she personally orchestrated the attacks with help from Khaleid Sheik Mohammad and George Soros. They'll eventually get that report out of Congress saying exactly this if they try enough times.
There's no way the computer is going to win at Strip Poker.
Is that what those "5 years of experience in every technology ever invented, must be willing to relocate, starting salary $30k no benefits" jobs that litter job listing sites are?
Were you willing to guarantee your projects were defect free? The FAA is an excessively risk adverse organization. In some ways this is good, it's safer to fly from LA to London than it is to drive 10 miles from your house to the airport, even though you're in a metal tube traveling at nearly the speed of sound (so fast that human reaction times are effectively a moot point, once you see an obstacle in your way you are already dead) through all sorts of crazy weather and other challenges. The downside of this is that it is almost impossible to get them to replace a working system, even if the replacement is objectively better than the old one. One problem the FAA runs into on a regular basis is that tertiary technologies (like their network and comms systems) are constantly going obsolete and most of the vendors disappear and the only ones that remain jack their prices up into the stratosphere because they know they have a captive market.
There is objectively less innovation, literature, and even art from the Islamic world in the current day. You can measure scholarship per capita and it is not even close. They are squandering their human capitol on petty bickering and tribalism.
I've always been amused at the depth and quantity of nested DIVs on a Google Play store page. This is something that's going to be loaded on crappy cell phones and the code for the page is just monstrously large.
...from Diet Coke?
EXT4 encryption seems like a pretty good bullet point, especially with the TrueCrypt situation. I hope it's not fatally flawed in some way. Caveat: I have not looked at it yet.
One could argue that the Islamic world went through an reverse of the Enlightenment. An unenlightenment if you will. People like to blame the British for screwing everything up (they certainly did not help), but really they were exploiting the repressive and regressive systems held in place by petty tribalism that long predated their appearance.
This is going to be a continuing problem until they figure out how to get some separation between church and state. This separation will be difficult to achieve so long as assassination of potential political rivals remains commonplace. The christian world had the advantage of making the separation back when a King could be reasonably protected against assassination by simply living in a castle and keeping a close eye on his advisers and family. Today with high power sniper rifles and small but powerful bombs available to any random stranger it is much harder to avoid being assassinated.
The big problem with G+ is that it was basically Facebook by Google. They tried to make a big deal about the circles but I didn't know anybody who found that to be a compelling feature and it just made the site more of a headache to use. Plus if you really care you can do that on Facebook anyway. This wasn't like Myspace where the site was quickly swirling the drain and people needed someplace new to go. Facebook still works alright for most people (although the way they keep using every trick in the book to use "Top" view instead of "Most Recent" is still obnoxious) and their friends are already there. It never had that killer feature to overcome people's inherent inertia.
Did you read the cost per battery? There is your answer right there. The summary talks about saving money by buying power during off peak hours and using the battery when power is expensive, but you'll never made $6,500 doing that before the battery wears out.
Also, the power company IS doing this, but only halfway. It's subsidizing half the cost of the system up front. Honestly, this whole thing makes a lot more sense for the power company than it does for the end consumer.
That and there is no guarantee that they'll line up between the patient and the donor. He could be trying to beat his heart but all that's happening is his big toe is wiggling. I'm suspicious too.
I bet you were saying the same thing when Apple released a cellphone with no keypad that cost $600 and still made you pay a subsidy. Ok, that last part was some real bullshit on AT&Ts part. Still, it hasn't exactly been a massive flop for Apple.
A more apt comparison would be to Snake Oil salesmen.
It's a cache timing app. Pretty impressive that they were able to maintain the precise timing necessary to conduct the attack in Javascript, but still quite limited in what it can collect. Basically they can tell if certain cache lines are in use, and figure out maybe what those lines are shared with to do some behavior analysis on the victim. This application is a bit of a stretch, since learning the allocation patterns is not going to be easy.
Their other example is a user that has a machine with two VMs on it. One is highly secure (no network access) but has been rooted. The other has network access but no normal connection to the rooted VM. You can pass data from the secure VM to the network VM and then ex-filtrate the data using a malicious advertisement injected into a normal browsing session. It does require the victim to not understand that VMs are not airgapped though.
The paper assumes that your problem is exfiltrating data because the target has somehow gotten infected but is ultra-paranoid about outbound traffic from his machine. You can instead transfer the data to a javascript app running in a webpage on a different VM that may be less secure. It seems pretty cornercase to me, but every time I think that someone comes out with some crazy exploit that extracts all of your SSH keys or something from the box using what seems like a nearly useless exploit.