The parent is not right. The parent is just confusing free market with free software where standards are the cornerstone for interoperability. He got the right answer from the poster which was mod as troll. Really? There are dumbass all the board here to mod someone troll because he just tell him the truth with a reference for more credibility. Free market, free economy is not synonymous of free software and open software, etc. Do your homeworks kiddos.
The glasses may have limited resolutions, bandwidth, or battery life. A screen on the table might be better for children, or for collaboration. Yes, in theory the special glasses could display the same thing to each person, in the same way that 5 people could sit together and watch a movie on their phones, but that may be awkward or inefficient.
Do you really believe it is a good idea to consume energy for devices that have no real purpose? How efficient it is to waste energy on a myriad of useless devices? Once people will have to pay the energy bill, let me tell you the intelligent doorknob will not come to reality. Do you really think it is more efficient to watch a movie on a table turned into a screen rather than on a TV screen designed for this purposed and hanged to the wall? Andreessen is smoking weed.
Better compare with Jehova witnesses who are knocking at your door. Surely, your door prevent them to enter unless you open it, however while they are knocking at your door and you don't want to open, another legitimate person may knock as well and you will not let him/her enter because of the Jehova witnesses still knocking at your door. I don't believe there is a way to stop DDoS without stopping legitimate users since they are impersonating legitimate users. To stop them, you need to prevent them to impersonate legitimate users. Once done, you can filter them out.
Right, poorly designed GUI are not specific to open source projects. There is a lot of commercial products with poorly designed interface. In fact, coming with a good and sound design is hard. That's why over years there were rules written to guide the design of GUI. A lot of studies on how users are using GUI and other human interfaces are required to understand and decide on a good design. Even some commercial products don't get it right. Corporations are not always willing to spend dollars on the GUI. Even those spending good dollars on design are not always succeeding (a la Windows 8).
What about those companies increasing wages and providing better work conditions to their IT and CS technical workers? Couldn't be a better solution to make the profession more appealing to young people?
I am sure many people here can tell stories about IT and CS managers who do not have any kind of respect of their knowledgeable workers. They rather than stick on the KFC enterprise model where you want everyone to be able to do everyone else's job in order to pay the minimum wages since everyone is replaceable. In fact, they actually have a high replacement rate and they are responding to this by worsening the situation.
You didn't break any encryption here. Sorry to said so, but you still persist with this nonsense. The quantum key distribution is not encrypting anything, it transmits in clear the keys and the quantum effect is what tell you if the keys were compromised or not by someone looking at them. That's it and that's all. Whatever the keys are, one-time pad or anything else, the encryption will proceed thru another communication channel with classical encryption.
Worst, it seems you do not understand at all why one-time pads are not commonly used these days. Because they have to be at least the size of the message they intend to encrypt and they are wasting bandwidth. This constraint of not wasting bandwidth still exists even in a context of quantum key distribution.
"Quantum key distribution is supposed to be a perfectly secure method for encrypting information. Even with access to an infinitely fast computer, an attacker cannot eavesdrop on the encrypted channel since it is protected by the laws of quantum mechanics. In recent years, several research groups have developed a new method for quantum key distribution, called "device independence." This is a simple yet effective way to detect intrusion. Now, a group of Swedish researchers question the security of some of these device-independent protocols. They show that it is possible to break the security by faking a violation of the famous Bell inequality. By sending strong pulses of light, they blind the photodetectors at the receiving stations which in turn allows them to extract the secret information sent between Alice and Bob."
First of all, quantum key distribution is not a method for encrypting information. As its name judiciously indicates, it is a method to securely exchange encryption keys. This is not the same thing at all.
Second, the speed of the attacker's computer has no role in this attack and quantum key distribution has never claimed a code is unbreakable since there is no code to break here.
Third, quantum key exchange is a protocol, not a cipher. It relies on quantum mechanics features to tell Alice or Bob the just receive key is compromised or not since it is not possible for a man in the middle to observe the key without being noticed. That is the idea behind this mechanism. Once keys are securely exchanged between both parties, a classically encrypted communication can take place between both parties.
Of course, if you are blinding the receiver, it may be possible to tamper with the key, however, the blinded party should notice it has been blinded. The whole thing rests on very low luminosity photons exchange. If the light beam is too strong, it clearly no longer depicted the quantum characteristics needed to secure the key exchange. I don't really see where the problem is here since it is easy to determine the exchange can no longer be trusted due to high luminosity.
Exactly, banks are staring at the blockchain for international transactions. The blockchain will enable them to transfer funds at a fraction of the cost today. The worldwide infrastructure needed for international funds transfer is costing billion of dollars per year. The blockchain will enable them to save almost all this money for international transfers between financial institutions.
I don't see how it is a so good question. There is plenty of second hand motorized vehicles and machinery dealers in Middle-East that are buying from everywhere. Since they pay for containers, better to fill them. You will always find someone to sell your stuff to. ISIS is buying trucks from these guys. There is no big mystery or plot behind this story.
He is asking $1 million because his business lost money and he received threats. The money he is asking for is not to replace the fucking truck, you moron. Do you know how the world is working or what? You ask a compensation for damages and here it is obvious the damages value is much more higher than the original value of the truck. The dealership failed to fullfill his part of the contract. Too bad for him.
Back in the 60's and 70's people BLED for what they believed in, and were willing to go against the government, and the status quo populous.
Bullshit! In the 60's and 70's nobody would have bled for this. What people bled for in the 60's and the 70's, was civil rights. Not every cause is important enough to bleed for.
The truth is the predictions are not reliable and the climatic models are flawn. They are overfitting the data, hence this gives the impression they are actually good while they are not so good. Fitting almost perfectly past data doesn't mean the model is sound and good to predict future behavior. That is the main reason the governments are not that hot to actually take costly actions to reduce drastically the greenhouse gas emissions.
Being more alarmist and exagerrating consequences without anything to back it will not work neither.
Things like, "we are heading at a 5C increase, it's too late, Pacific islands will disappear in 10 years from now and so on does nothing to keep the credibility and pick the right actions given the limited resources availables.
It is not the first time a population has to move because of adverse climate effects. It happened all the time through the history of humanity. The only thing different here, is someone believes we can avoid this by some actions because this is caused by our own actions. As far as I know, no one has proven yet this is actually possible. Our climatic models are overfitting the data and are then poor at predicting the future.
I agree with the Red Delicious apple thing. I'm old enough to have tasted the original Red Delicious and it was a very good apple in that time. I can no longer find anything like that on displays these days. I tried many times in the hope to find this tasteful apple and finally gave up.
No I am not replying to myself. I just want to make my point clearer. Oracle stopped supporting Java 6 and 7 for security reasons. They are no longer patched and the recommendation is to move to Java 8. Do you know how many websites out there are still powered by Java 6 and 7? How many web browsers are still using Java 6 and 7? Where I currently work, a very large company, there is a ton of them. Who is complaining about this? (BTW, we are even having a lot, thousands, of workstations running on unpatched Windows XP).
I don't believe the problem software will percolate up to the users' attention given the very root problem is companies using in-house software DO NOT keep track of what version of OpenSSL their own developers are using. So, even if you patch the old versions, you have absolutely no guarantee your own developers will use the patched version. So, given this, why should OpenSSL developers continue to patch OLD versions which NOBODY keeps track? Seems to me waste of time and resources that could be dedicated to the latest versions instead. It takes two to tango. The security problem is not only on the OpenSSL developers team's shoulders. My experience, is in-house developers don't give a fuck about security unless you force them, and even it that case, they are often doing it wrong.
It seems to me you are just using the old Bluetooth generation devices which are power hungry. Bluetooth 4.x, called Low-Energy is fixing this problem.
This is democracy, a government by the street is no better than a plutocracy. You must realize the population is wider than those showing in the streets and the governement must decide accordingly to keep it a democratic regime and not decide because a bunch of people, no matter the size of crowd is, is walking in the street with banderoles.
Governement by the street is anarchy.
How many people were in the streets in Paris, including deciding people, after the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack last January? What did it change?
It may make people feeling good about themselves, but this isn't where the decisions are made and it shouldn't neither.
Fresh crop of computer science graduates should be those from which this should never happen. They are newly trained, supposed to be security awared. Particularily if they have to deal with web sites programming. This is the lamest excuse. I can rather than that old programmers getting a new assignement with web programming will not know how to circumvent such a problem even if they have heard about it in the news. Employers are often trying to save a few bucks on training of old farts.
However, I believe the real problem lies with the level of training, academic or not, the programmers have. Someone without any proper background may get assigned to a web application design. I have even seen architects without proper skills. I have seen managers which want to save a few bucks and asked to skip the error handling design and so on. This industry is sometimes really insane and these incomptent managers/architects are still rewarded until the company get hit by an exploit due to their incompetency.
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It is a good course, I took it once. I gives a pretty good idea of many aspects of ML. It is a good introductory course.
The parent is not right. The parent is just confusing free market with free software where standards are the cornerstone for interoperability. He got the right answer from the poster which was mod as troll. Really? There are dumbass all the board here to mod someone troll because he just tell him the truth with a reference for more credibility. Free market, free economy is not synonymous of free software and open software, etc. Do your homeworks kiddos.
The glasses may have limited resolutions, bandwidth, or battery life. A screen on the table might be better for children, or for collaboration. Yes, in theory the special glasses could display the same thing to each person, in the same way that 5 people could sit together and watch a movie on their phones, but that may be awkward or inefficient.
Do you really believe it is a good idea to consume energy for devices that have no real purpose? How efficient it is to waste energy on a myriad of useless devices? Once people will have to pay the energy bill, let me tell you the intelligent doorknob will not come to reality. Do you really think it is more efficient to watch a movie on a table turned into a screen rather than on a TV screen designed for this purposed and hanged to the wall? Andreessen is smoking weed.
Better compare with Jehova witnesses who are knocking at your door. Surely, your door prevent them to enter unless you open it, however while they are knocking at your door and you don't want to open, another legitimate person may knock as well and you will not let him/her enter because of the Jehova witnesses still knocking at your door. I don't believe there is a way to stop DDoS without stopping legitimate users since they are impersonating legitimate users. To stop them, you need to prevent them to impersonate legitimate users. Once done, you can filter them out.
The HTML5 player's behavior is configurable.
Right, poorly designed GUI are not specific to open source projects. There is a lot of commercial products with poorly designed interface. In fact, coming with a good and sound design is hard. That's why over years there were rules written to guide the design of GUI. A lot of studies on how users are using GUI and other human interfaces are required to understand and decide on a good design. Even some commercial products don't get it right. Corporations are not always willing to spend dollars on the GUI. Even those spending good dollars on design are not always succeeding (a la Windows 8).
What about those companies increasing wages and providing better work conditions to their IT and CS technical workers? Couldn't be a better solution to make the profession more appealing to young people?
I am sure many people here can tell stories about IT and CS managers who do not have any kind of respect of their knowledgeable workers. They rather than stick on the KFC enterprise model where you want everyone to be able to do everyone else's job in order to pay the minimum wages since everyone is replaceable. In fact, they actually have a high replacement rate and they are responding to this by worsening the situation.
You didn't break any encryption here. Sorry to said so, but you still persist with this nonsense. The quantum key distribution is not encrypting anything, it transmits in clear the keys and the quantum effect is what tell you if the keys were compromised or not by someone looking at them. That's it and that's all. Whatever the keys are, one-time pad or anything else, the encryption will proceed thru another communication channel with classical encryption.
Worst, it seems you do not understand at all why one-time pads are not commonly used these days. Because they have to be at least the size of the message they intend to encrypt and they are wasting bandwidth. This constraint of not wasting bandwidth still exists even in a context of quantum key distribution.
Obviously.
"Quantum key distribution is supposed to be a perfectly secure method for encrypting information. Even with access to an infinitely fast computer, an attacker cannot eavesdrop on the encrypted channel since it is protected by the laws of quantum mechanics. In recent years, several research groups have developed a new method for quantum key distribution, called "device independence." This is a simple yet effective way to detect intrusion. Now, a group of Swedish researchers question the security of some of these device-independent protocols. They show that it is possible to break the security by faking a violation of the famous Bell inequality. By sending strong pulses of light, they blind the photodetectors at the receiving stations which in turn allows them to extract the secret information sent between Alice and Bob."
First of all, quantum key distribution is not a method for encrypting information. As its name judiciously indicates, it is a method to securely exchange encryption keys. This is not the same thing at all.
Second, the speed of the attacker's computer has no role in this attack and quantum key distribution has never claimed a code is unbreakable since there is no code to break here.
Third, quantum key exchange is a protocol, not a cipher. It relies on quantum mechanics features to tell Alice or Bob the just receive key is compromised or not since it is not possible for a man in the middle to observe the key without being noticed. That is the idea behind this mechanism. Once keys are securely exchanged between both parties, a classically encrypted communication can take place between both parties.
Of course, if you are blinding the receiver, it may be possible to tamper with the key, however, the blinded party should notice it has been blinded. The whole thing rests on very low luminosity photons exchange. If the light beam is too strong, it clearly no longer depicted the quantum characteristics needed to secure the key exchange. I don't really see where the problem is here since it is easy to determine the exchange can no longer be trusted due to high luminosity.
And finally, it seems to me this is old news.
Exactly, banks are staring at the blockchain for international transactions. The blockchain will enable them to transfer funds at a fraction of the cost today. The worldwide infrastructure needed for international funds transfer is costing billion of dollars per year. The blockchain will enable them to save almost all this money for international transfers between financial institutions.
I don't see how it is a so good question. There is plenty of second hand motorized vehicles and machinery dealers in Middle-East that are buying from everywhere. Since they pay for containers, better to fill them. You will always find someone to sell your stuff to. ISIS is buying trucks from these guys. There is no big mystery or plot behind this story.
He is asking $1 million because his business lost money and he received threats. The money he is asking for is not to replace the fucking truck, you moron. Do you know how the world is working or what? You ask a compensation for damages and here it is obvious the damages value is much more higher than the original value of the truck. The dealership failed to fullfill his part of the contract. Too bad for him.
Back in the 60's and 70's people BLED for what they believed in, and were willing to go against the government, and the status quo populous.
Bullshit! In the 60's and 70's nobody would have bled for this. What people bled for in the 60's and the 70's, was civil rights. Not every cause is important enough to bleed for.
The truth is the predictions are not reliable and the climatic models are flawn. They are overfitting the data, hence this gives the impression they are actually good while they are not so good. Fitting almost perfectly past data doesn't mean the model is sound and good to predict future behavior. That is the main reason the governments are not that hot to actually take costly actions to reduce drastically the greenhouse gas emissions.
Being more alarmist and exagerrating consequences without anything to back it will not work neither.
Things like, "we are heading at a 5C increase, it's too late, Pacific islands will disappear in 10 years from now and so on does nothing to keep the credibility and pick the right actions given the limited resources availables.
It is not the first time a population has to move because of adverse climate effects. It happened all the time through the history of humanity. The only thing different here, is someone believes we can avoid this by some actions because this is caused by our own actions. As far as I know, no one has proven yet this is actually possible. Our climatic models are overfitting the data and are then poor at predicting the future.
I agree with the Red Delicious apple thing. I'm old enough to have tasted the original Red Delicious and it was a very good apple in that time. I can no longer find anything like that on displays these days. I tried many times in the hope to find this tasteful apple and finally gave up.
No I am not replying to myself. I just want to make my point clearer. Oracle stopped supporting Java 6 and 7 for security reasons. They are no longer patched and the recommendation is to move to Java 8. Do you know how many websites out there are still powered by Java 6 and 7? How many web browsers are still using Java 6 and 7? Where I currently work, a very large company, there is a ton of them. Who is complaining about this? (BTW, we are even having a lot, thousands, of workstations running on unpatched Windows XP).
I don't believe the problem software will percolate up to the users' attention given the very root problem is companies using in-house software DO NOT keep track of what version of OpenSSL their own developers are using. So, even if you patch the old versions, you have absolutely no guarantee your own developers will use the patched version. So, given this, why should OpenSSL developers continue to patch OLD versions which NOBODY keeps track? Seems to me waste of time and resources that could be dedicated to the latest versions instead. It takes two to tango. The security problem is not only on the OpenSSL developers team's shoulders. My experience, is in-house developers don't give a fuck about security unless you force them, and even it that case, they are often doing it wrong.
It seems to me you are just using the old Bluetooth generation devices which are power hungry. Bluetooth 4.x, called Low-Energy is fixing this problem.
Absolutely!
This is democracy, a government by the street is no better than a plutocracy. You must realize the population is wider than those showing in the streets and the governement must decide accordingly to keep it a democratic regime and not decide because a bunch of people, no matter the size of crowd is, is walking in the street with banderoles.
Governement by the street is anarchy.
How many people were in the streets in Paris, including deciding people, after the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack last January? What did it change?
It may make people feeling good about themselves, but this isn't where the decisions are made and it shouldn't neither.
It's probably coming from here.
I believe you dropped your brain in the blender.
And is this going to work? No. Nobody gives a fuck about protesters, but protesters themselves.
Fresh crop of computer science graduates should be those from which this should never happen. They are newly trained, supposed to be security awared. Particularily if they have to deal with web sites programming. This is the lamest excuse. I can rather than that old programmers getting a new assignement with web programming will not know how to circumvent such a problem even if they have heard about it in the news. Employers are often trying to save a few bucks on training of old farts.
However, I believe the real problem lies with the level of training, academic or not, the programmers have. Someone without any proper background may get assigned to a web application design. I have even seen architects without proper skills. I have seen managers which want to save a few bucks and asked to skip the error handling design and so on. This industry is sometimes really insane and these incomptent managers/architects are still rewarded until the company get hit by an exploit due to their incompetency.
I can give names, but I won't.