The point is not to encrypt email during transit. The point is to encrypt e-mail at all points between the correspondents. The mail should be encrypted clientside and remain encrypted while at rest on the servers as well as during transit. S/MIME and PGP/GPG do that. Encrypting only during transit means that plaintext is sitting around waiting to be hoovered up by Google (for ad profile building) and whatever other parties (NSA, hackers, etc) have access to Google's servers.
In an ideal world yes, but for now having mail thats encrypted whenever it traverses the internet and is cryptographically signed so you can verify the recipient is an improvement. Yes this requires trusting google (which users already have to do anyway), or not - you're free to use a different email provider and/or do all the crypto client side if you want.
They could at the very least provide signing, and verification of externally signed messages... If people started getting used to all messages being signed then phishing scams would become a lot less effective, and the presence of a signature doesn't have any negative side effects on anything else.
SGI NUMALink, the altix 350 series were 2u dual socket servers that could be stacked together with numalink cables, with the result being a cluster that showed up as a single multiprocessor host running a single kernel.
Stacked generally not, but connected together to form a fully functional computer absolutely.. Some components can be stacked, some can be daisy chained, some inserted into slots etc. The idea that they could all be stacked is just a slightly different way of connecting them together.
Is it possible to still buy a dumb tv? I want one that's basically just a monitor, i have an external audio receiver and various STBs, consoles etc... The TV just acts as a dumb display device with switchable inputs. It doesn't even need a built in receiver, just the HDMI and AV inputs.
I don't live in the US, so i can't pay any of those things with USD either, nor can i pay those things with gold or stocks. However what all of these and bitcoin have in common is that they can be exchanged for local currency which i can use for all of the things you've listed.
Generally those processors which operated a narrower external bus did so because memory and other peripherals were already more widely available (and cheaper) for the narrower bus... Processors in those days also generally operated internally at the same clock rate as the bus so memory was much less of a bottleneck than it is today. Some processors such as the motorola 68040 were advertised based on their bus clock rather than the internal clock.
Some highend machines had a much wider memory bus, for instance some of the sun ultra series could have a 512 bit memory bus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Such technology already exists but is generally used in laptops. You have a low performance integrated gpu, and a higher performance discrete one, and the discrete one remains powered off unless you're doing something which requires it.
Trade sanctions only hurt the average people, those with money and power can get everything they want via the black market. Infact trade sanctions only help the rulers of north korea, as it becomes much easier for them to restrict the flow of information.
Do facebook not disclose what information is collected via the buttons alongside the rules on how to implement them? If so, then it is the responsibility of each individual site to pass this information on to the end users...
Or written by people who primarily develop for non windows platforms where this isn't a problem... Why should developers on windows have to jump through so many hoops that they don't need to know about on other platforms?
Some browsers will auto save files to the designated downloads location, a malicious website can exploit this feature to get a dll into your downloads directory. If you then execute an installer from the same directory then you can be infected. Getting a file into your downloads directory is not a compromise as the file has not been executed, and on other platforms the presence of malware in your download directory is harmless unless you actually go out of your way to execute it.
Well the problem seems to be that Windows will load DLL files from the same directory that the executable is in by default, and this behaviour is retained for backwards compatibility because a lot of programs expect to work this way... This is yet another case of a serious design flaw in windows which causes ongoing security problems, and cannot be easily fixed without breaking compatibility and/or extra humps for users or developers to jump through.
This is exploitable by preloading a user's downloads directory with malicious dll files and then waiting for them to download and execute a binary installer from the same downloads directory. Which brings up other windows flaws, installers are usually executable binaries rather than a data file to be processed by a package manager (yes there is msi but it isn't commonly used)... Plus the fact that users commonly install software this way rather than going through a repository.
Other systems simply don't work this way... Libraries are never loaded from the current directory by default, applications on unix systems are usually expected to use system versions of libraries rather than bundling their own, and applications on osx are bundled up with their own libs if required. Linux users typically don't download and run arbitrary binaries, instead they select software from their repo.
This now seems to be another extra hoop that developers must jump through to make windows software, hassle that simply doesn't exist on any other platform.
The same hardware running closed source software is likely to cost even more... Software can easily be free of cost, but that's much harder to do with hardware because there is a cost associated with each and every unit produced.
Microsoft try very hard to retain backwards compatibility, and there are all kinds of nasty hacks for that purpose... The problem is that many things in windows were just so poorly designed that improvements can't really be made without breaking compatibility, scroll up and look at the post about console windows for instance.
Your losing a lot of the flexibility and security of SSH by doing it via RDP, eg if your using key based auth then your key must be stored on the rdp host, and you can't pipe stuff back and forth to your local machine.. Also, putty is pretty dated when it comes to encryption ciphers it supports, so you need to maintain a weak ssh configuration on your hosts.
Being in an office is often not productive at all... From my own experience of working remotely vs a city office, most of us get a LOT more done when we're at home for a variety of reasons.
The commute is unpleasant - the office is in a business district and none of us can afford to live nearby, we waste a couple of hours a day minimum travelling on crowded trains which is stressful, uncomfortable and tiring. There's lots of distractions in the office, when someone comes up and starts talking it derails your chain of thought, and when other people are being noisy nearby it's the same. When you're remote people don't call on the phone unless its urgent, otherwise they send an email which you can read when you've time to do so. The office environment is uncomfortable, obviously this is down to the individual company trying to be cheap and buying shitty desks/chairs and not fixing the climate control etc.
Not everyone works better at home, depending on the environment and presence of distractions there but a lot of people work much better from home. The more flexibility a company offers the better... There are many roles which simply don't need to be 9-5 in a fixed office.
I wrote a few simple scripts for Asterisk using a bunch of celebrity sound board samples (borat etc), but something with silence detection and some crude speech recognition could be a lot more amusing... I'm surprised there isn't already something like this you can download and plug into asterisk.
Wages have to be higher because the cost of living is higher, and the cost of living is higher because companies charge more for goods and services, part of the reason why they charge more is because they have to pay their workers more.
The problem is that companies are greedy and short sighted, so they will outsource to cheaper countries to reduce their costs... This will cut costs in the short term, but long term there will no longer be anyone able to afford your products.
They're only likely to stop if the time taken is their actual time, they will routinely leave scripts running slow attempts for months if nothing is done to stop them...
Maybe in the US, in some countries there are no such services at all or the services have much less content than the US versions (while also usually costing more).
Some places have slow/unreliable internet, metered internet, or internet which is slow/metered at peak times. Streaming doesn't work well in such areas as you generally want to watch at peak times.
Some people want to download content at home so they can watch it while they're away from home where they might not have reliable internet access.
Streaming services typically employ some kind of proprietary drm which limits what devices you can use for playback.
The streaming services just don't cut it, with torrents i can download content at night when the connection is fast and have them ready by morning for me to play on any device i want. I can watch them on my way to work on phone/tablet, watch at home on my laptop or tv, i can watch on my rooted android or my linux laptop. I can transcode the video to other formats if i need to.
If a service was available which let me download drm free video files in a standard format i would pay for it, but the current crop of streaming services are unusable for me.
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The point is not to encrypt email during transit. The point is to encrypt e-mail at all points between the correspondents. The mail should be encrypted clientside and remain encrypted while at rest on the servers as well as during transit. S/MIME and PGP/GPG do that. Encrypting only during transit means that plaintext is sitting around waiting to be hoovered up by Google (for ad profile building) and whatever other parties (NSA, hackers, etc) have access to Google's servers.
In an ideal world yes, but for now having mail thats encrypted whenever it traverses the internet and is cryptographically signed so you can verify the recipient is an improvement. Yes this requires trusting google (which users already have to do anyway), or not - you're free to use a different email provider and/or do all the crypto client side if you want.
They could at the very least provide signing, and verification of externally signed messages... If people started getting used to all messages being signed then phishing scams would become a lot less effective, and the presence of a signature doesn't have any negative side effects on anything else.
SGI NUMALink, the altix 350 series were 2u dual socket servers that could be stacked together with numalink cables, with the result being a cluster that showed up as a single multiprocessor host running a single kernel.
Stacked generally not, but connected together to form a fully functional computer absolutely.. Some components can be stacked, some can be daisy chained, some inserted into slots etc. The idea that they could all be stacked is just a slightly different way of connecting them together.
Is it possible to still buy a dumb tv?
I want one that's basically just a monitor, i have an external audio receiver and various STBs, consoles etc... The TV just acts as a dumb display device with switchable inputs. It doesn't even need a built in receiver, just the HDMI and AV inputs.
I don't live in the US, so i can't pay any of those things with USD either, nor can i pay those things with gold or stocks. However what all of these and bitcoin have in common is that they can be exchanged for local currency which i can use for all of the things you've listed.
Generally those processors which operated a narrower external bus did so because memory and other peripherals were already more widely available (and cheaper) for the narrower bus...
Processors in those days also generally operated internally at the same clock rate as the bus so memory was much less of a bottleneck than it is today. Some processors such as the motorola 68040 were advertised based on their bus clock rather than the internal clock.
Some highend machines had a much wider memory bus, for instance some of the sun ultra series could have a 512 bit memory bus:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Intel did it again with the first quad cores too, AMD delayed the release of their quad cores in order to do a true quad core design.
Such technology already exists but is generally used in laptops. You have a low performance integrated gpu, and a higher performance discrete one, and the discrete one remains powered off unless you're doing something which requires it.
Trade sanctions only hurt the average people, those with money and power can get everything they want via the black market.
Infact trade sanctions only help the rulers of north korea, as it becomes much easier for them to restrict the flow of information.
Do facebook not disclose what information is collected via the buttons alongside the rules on how to implement them?
If so, then it is the responsibility of each individual site to pass this information on to the end users...
Or written by people who primarily develop for non windows platforms where this isn't a problem...
Why should developers on windows have to jump through so many hoops that they don't need to know about on other platforms?
Some browsers will auto save files to the designated downloads location, a malicious website can exploit this feature to get a dll into your downloads directory. If you then execute an installer from the same directory then you can be infected.
Getting a file into your downloads directory is not a compromise as the file has not been executed, and on other platforms the presence of malware in your download directory is harmless unless you actually go out of your way to execute it.
Well the problem seems to be that Windows will load DLL files from the same directory that the executable is in by default, and this behaviour is retained for backwards compatibility because a lot of programs expect to work this way...
This is yet another case of a serious design flaw in windows which causes ongoing security problems, and cannot be easily fixed without breaking compatibility and/or extra humps for users or developers to jump through.
This is exploitable by preloading a user's downloads directory with malicious dll files and then waiting for them to download and execute a binary installer from the same downloads directory. Which brings up other windows flaws, installers are usually executable binaries rather than a data file to be processed by a package manager (yes there is msi but it isn't commonly used)... Plus the fact that users commonly install software this way rather than going through a repository.
Other systems simply don't work this way... Libraries are never loaded from the current directory by default, applications on unix systems are usually expected to use system versions of libraries rather than bundling their own, and applications on osx are bundled up with their own libs if required. Linux users typically don't download and run arbitrary binaries, instead they select software from their repo.
This now seems to be another extra hoop that developers must jump through to make windows software, hassle that simply doesn't exist on any other platform.
In which case, what happens if you want to install your applications somewhere other than the default progra~1 directory?
The same hardware running closed source software is likely to cost even more...
Software can easily be free of cost, but that's much harder to do with hardware because there is a cost associated with each and every unit produced.
Microsoft try very hard to retain backwards compatibility, and there are all kinds of nasty hacks for that purpose...
The problem is that many things in windows were just so poorly designed that improvements can't really be made without breaking compatibility, scroll up and look at the post about console windows for instance.
Your losing a lot of the flexibility and security of SSH by doing it via RDP, eg if your using key based auth then your key must be stored on the rdp host, and you can't pipe stuff back and forth to your local machine..
Also, putty is pretty dated when it comes to encryption ciphers it supports, so you need to maintain a weak ssh configuration on your hosts.
Being in an office is often not productive at all...
From my own experience of working remotely vs a city office, most of us get a LOT more done when we're at home for a variety of reasons.
The commute is unpleasant - the office is in a business district and none of us can afford to live nearby, we waste a couple of hours a day minimum travelling on crowded trains which is stressful, uncomfortable and tiring.
There's lots of distractions in the office, when someone comes up and starts talking it derails your chain of thought, and when other people are being noisy nearby it's the same. When you're remote people don't call on the phone unless its urgent, otherwise they send an email which you can read when you've time to do so.
The office environment is uncomfortable, obviously this is down to the individual company trying to be cheap and buying shitty desks/chairs and not fixing the climate control etc.
Not everyone works better at home, depending on the environment and presence of distractions there but a lot of people work much better from home. The more flexibility a company offers the better... There are many roles which simply don't need to be 9-5 in a fixed office.
No, it's not perfect it's just better.
I wrote a few simple scripts for Asterisk using a bunch of celebrity sound board samples (borat etc), but something with silence detection and some crude speech recognition could be a lot more amusing...
I'm surprised there isn't already something like this you can download and plug into asterisk.
Wages have to be higher because the cost of living is higher, and the cost of living is higher because companies charge more for goods and services, part of the reason why they charge more is because they have to pay their workers more.
The problem is that companies are greedy and short sighted, so they will outsource to cheaper countries to reduce their costs... This will cut costs in the short term, but long term there will no longer be anyone able to afford your products.
They're only likely to stop if the time taken is their actual time, they will routinely leave scripts running slow attempts for months if nothing is done to stop them...
And cause users to use inefficient steganography instead, thus using even more data...
Maybe in the US, in some countries there are no such services at all or the services have much less content than the US versions (while also usually costing more).
Some places have slow/unreliable internet, metered internet, or internet which is slow/metered at peak times. Streaming doesn't work well in such areas as you generally want to watch at peak times.
Some people want to download content at home so they can watch it while they're away from home where they might not have reliable internet access.
Streaming services typically employ some kind of proprietary drm which limits what devices you can use for playback.
The streaming services just don't cut it, with torrents i can download content at night when the connection is fast and have them ready by morning for me to play on any device i want. I can watch them on my way to work on phone/tablet, watch at home on my laptop or tv, i can watch on my rooted android or my linux laptop. I can transcode the video to other formats if i need to.
If a service was available which let me download drm free video files in a standard format i would pay for it, but the current crop of streaming services are unusable for me.