and skip fake webviews for crappy ad networks? no way
He can have it both ways though, that's my point. Make just the download page https, but put a page in front of it so he can keep serving his ads. I get the ads, it's not like the people who are using the software are paying for it and god forbid they donate to help the continued development. But there are technical solutions to this and the fact that he hasn't figured that out concerns me, especially since this is a security product he's making.
Yep! Couldn't recall what the brand name on them were. Had a customer (big health care org) that had a dozen or so of them on their DC floor. It was virtually impossible to have a conversation anywhere near that area of the data center. I imagine if OHSA ever somehow wondered in there they would have had the admins wearing hearing protection by the end of the day. I felt bad for the EMC tech who always seemed to be there replacing a drive or other parts on them. Poor bastard was probably deaf.
Then why not put the updates on updates.keepass2.whatever, and enable HTTPS on that but not the root? Every major web server I know of would allow for that type of configuration. I mean, if he can't figure that out, what else has slipped through the cracks?
Not if you're looking at a server in a datacentre. The bad guys can just rent a space in the next rack over and you're totally unaware that they're busy vacuuming up your keys for later exploitation.
Just install some of those oldschool EMC storage towers that sound like jet engines running 24/7. Sure your DC employees will go deaf but your keys won't leak!
Also known as lunchboxes. I remember them. The first "laptop" would probably be the IBM PC 5155. Came out in 1986 and featured a flip up, half clam shell monochrome display. I got to use one on a trip once (needed to write a school paper, so a friend loaned me one) in the very early 90's. The NEC UltraLite is the one that pretty much everyone credits with being the first "notebook". It used the same clamshell design that's familiar today.
Man it's amazing to think how far we've come in 30 years. Wait, that can't be right... *math* *math* *math* It is... Oh god, I'm old! how! Excuse me, I need to go drink some metamucil.
It makes no sense why anyone would put all this effort and energy into building this simulation. Energy is a limited resource. Whatever beings are harvesting the energy will use it to keep up and spread out themselves.
This thought is the result of the current abundance of resources on Earth, but this is just a temporary state. It has always been, and the end is already in sight.
You are making the assumption that physics inside a simulation is the same as it is outside. This doesn't have to be the case. Energy abundance outside the simulation could be many orders of magnitude greater than inside. For that matter the physics of the simulating universe may be vastly different than the simulated one. We do this now when we want to simulations of our own universe to account for the computational power available vs what would be required for a more realistic simulation. We simplify where we can.
Of course we will never know (unless the programmers of the simulation tell us, of course). Real or simulated, we are limited by boundaries our universe. Any attempt to step outside of it will, by its very nature, become a philosophical, and not a scientific, discussion.
It's a pretty boring game, at least for most of us NPCs (assuming we are, indeed, NPCs). Like, who would enjoy playing a game with your character gets up before sunrise, drives for an hour or more to go to work, sits at a desk all day, drives for an hour to get home, eats, and is too tired to do anything except sit in front of the TV for an hour or two before going to bed? And playing this almost every day for 40 or 50 years worth of their character's life. And then, on top of that, for the character to retire and die a few months later. Or for the character to get a fatal disease...
Nah, we're not in a game. If we were, it would have been turned off by now. And we'd see people standing at the side of a road (or sitting in their car, or whatever) not moving for periods of time while the player was/AFK 'cos their mother called them for dinner.
Farmville. EuroTruck Simulator. Office Manager Simulator. Warehouse Manager Simulator. The list goes on. We live in a virtual skinner box, playing games that are virtual skinner boxes. It's not turtles all the way down, it's skinner boxes!
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The Change My World Now Initiative transforms the conversation that children are having with themselves, their peers, their parents and their community. Instilling the ideas of self-reliance, self-worth, tolerance, and self-acceptance early in life will have a radical effect on children, their future, and their circles of influence, creating a cadre of young leaders, truly...Changing the World One Bright Light at a Time.
I'm pretty sure it's a child labor outsourcing company, run by children.
The issue is that many times they think that they won't be taken seriously if they don't use a bunch of jargon. I run into this type of thinking all the time within my field. Customer documents that read like they were written by the devil spawn resulting from a threeway between a lawyer, an engineer, and a marketing executive. It's a hard habit to get out of. People think if you use simple language the customer won't think you are good at what you do. I have to remind people that the document is for reading, not trying to show how smart you think you are. Plus, if the damn thing is actually readable, it might actually get read. Nothing sucks more than generating a 200 page document that it exists solely to check off a deliverable checkbox.
I always hated that term. Makes it sound like its only good for taking notes when it can in fact do far more.
I am aware of the fact that it's a marketing term coined to avoid getting sued for perpetuating the idea that you can leave the thing on your lap, switched on for days at a time with no adverse health effects.
The term, originally, referred to a then-new class of smaller laptops with a footprint about the size of a sheet of notebook (A4 in particular) paper. You have to remember that laptops were not exactly small or light back in the late 1980's when the term Notebook started to be used in marketing. The term was coined to distinguish the new devices, which would be closer to what we think of as laptops today, from their older, bulkier cousins.
The toasted skin issues gained prominence well after the term was introduced.
...except for the energy you're expending to get all your equipment and raw materials into orbit.
Of course, we could, someday, harvest most of our raw materials from comets and asteroids. Sure, I'd love to see this in my lifetime. I'm not optimistic, though.
You plan to live the several hundred years he was talking about? That's ambitious.
My problem with using USB-A for something like this is that the micro-USB connector is a peice of shit. Non-reversible and too easy to break. Charging with one is bad enough, but headphones? I would either have broken my phone several times over or just smashed it out of annoyance. USB-C would work better of course but it's not common yet.
Of course it wasn't announced, why would anyone want you to ditch their perfect person tracker that also sends unencrypted SMS and phone calls right to their servers?
People in-the-know find being tracked, while being aware that you are being tracked, to be a tactical advantage.
Telephones do not have many useful applications beyond making telephone calls and writing SMS. Yes, you can try to schedule events with them or use them as an alarm clock unless your battery runs out, but mostly they are just used for a bit of entertainment.
People in-the-know don't use mobile phones at all, except when they expect a call.
I didn't realize the definition of "in-the-know" was changed to "Old, outdated, left behind by current technology they are unable to adapt to their lives, typical/. user". When did that happen? Was there an announcement in the papers? I sure didn't see it in the latest news reel at the cinema.
Fresh install, sure. Everyone I know who had major issues with W10 went the upgrade route. I talked a few into doing a full refresh (basically reinstalls itself fresh) or reinstalling clean from media and the vast majority of times the issues went away.
People being afraid of using their cell phones too much is an effect i could live with.;)
If only it would end there I would agree. But it won't. For one, it will turn into a litigation nightmare. If you can convince a jury that your weak ass study evidence is valid then poof, a whole new revenue stream for lawyers. Then it will be the towers (any radio towers at this point) that people will scream about. No thank you.
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This judge is activist from bench and should be dis-bar and placed in peach.
In that part of the US they actually place them in pears.
We're talking about a pretty basic solution here, not PCI compliance audits.
and skip fake webviews for crappy ad networks? no way
He can have it both ways though, that's my point. Make just the download page https, but put a page in front of it so he can keep serving his ads. I get the ads, it's not like the people who are using the software are paying for it and god forbid they donate to help the continued development. But there are technical solutions to this and the fact that he hasn't figured that out concerns me, especially since this is a security product he's making.
Yep! Couldn't recall what the brand name on them were. Had a customer (big health care org) that had a dozen or so of them on their DC floor. It was virtually impossible to have a conversation anywhere near that area of the data center. I imagine if OHSA ever somehow wondered in there they would have had the admins wearing hearing protection by the end of the day. I felt bad for the EMC tech who always seemed to be there replacing a drive or other parts on them. Poor bastard was probably deaf.
Then why not put the updates on updates.keepass2.whatever, and enable HTTPS on that but not the root? Every major web server I know of would allow for that type of configuration. I mean, if he can't figure that out, what else has slipped through the cracks?
Especially since that loud knocking my hard drive's been making for the past week would totally drown out the coil whine.
I'm hoping that knocking sound goes away. Sometimes these things fix themselves, you know?
Well the good news is that it's pretty much guaranteed to go away on it's own. Now as for the bad news....
Not if you're looking at a server in a datacentre. The bad guys can just rent a space in the next rack over and you're totally unaware that they're busy vacuuming up your keys for later exploitation.
Just install some of those oldschool EMC storage towers that sound like jet engines running 24/7. Sure your DC employees will go deaf but your keys won't leak!
Woops, the 5155 was a lunchbox released in 1984. The 5140 is the IBM I was thinking about from 1986.
Also known as lunchboxes. I remember them. The first "laptop" would probably be the IBM PC 5155. Came out in 1986 and featured a flip up, half clam shell monochrome display. I got to use one on a trip once (needed to write a school paper, so a friend loaned me one) in the very early 90's. The NEC UltraLite is the one that pretty much everyone credits with being the first "notebook". It used the same clamshell design that's familiar today.
Man it's amazing to think how far we've come in 30 years. Wait, that can't be right... *math* *math* *math* It is... Oh god, I'm old! how! Excuse me, I need to go drink some metamucil.
It makes no sense why anyone would put all this effort and energy into building this simulation. Energy is a limited resource. Whatever beings are harvesting the energy will use it to keep up and spread out themselves. This thought is the result of the current abundance of resources on Earth, but this is just a temporary state. It has always been, and the end is already in sight.
You are making the assumption that physics inside a simulation is the same as it is outside. This doesn't have to be the case. Energy abundance outside the simulation could be many orders of magnitude greater than inside. For that matter the physics of the simulating universe may be vastly different than the simulated one. We do this now when we want to simulations of our own universe to account for the computational power available vs what would be required for a more realistic simulation. We simplify where we can.
Of course we will never know (unless the programmers of the simulation tell us, of course). Real or simulated, we are limited by boundaries our universe. Any attempt to step outside of it will, by its very nature, become a philosophical, and not a scientific, discussion.
It's a pretty boring game, at least for most of us NPCs (assuming we are, indeed, NPCs). Like, who would enjoy playing a game with your character gets up before sunrise, drives for an hour or more to go to work, sits at a desk all day, drives for an hour to get home, eats, and is too tired to do anything except sit in front of the TV for an hour or two before going to bed? And playing this almost every day for 40 or 50 years worth of their character's life. And then, on top of that, for the character to retire and die a few months later. Or for the character to get a fatal disease...
Nah, we're not in a game. If we were, it would have been turned off by now. And we'd see people standing at the side of a road (or sitting in their car, or whatever) not moving for periods of time while the player was /AFK 'cos their mother called them for dinner.
Farmville. EuroTruck Simulator. Office Manager Simulator. Warehouse Manager Simulator. The list goes on. We live in a virtual skinner box, playing games that are virtual skinner boxes. It's not turtles all the way down, it's skinner boxes!
Seriously, tell me WTF this company does:
Gina’s Ink, Incorporated has created a platform called the Change My World Now Initiative, which engages, educates and empowers American children, facilitating their ability to reach out and in turn, empower children in countries around the world to move beyond their present circumstances and to find the independence and dignity that education can provide.
The Change My World Now Initiative transforms the conversation that children are having with themselves, their peers, their parents and their community. Instilling the ideas of self-reliance, self-worth, tolerance, and self-acceptance early in life will have a radical effect on children, their future, and their circles of influence, creating a cadre of young leaders, truly...Changing the World One Bright Light at a Time.
I'm pretty sure it's a child labor outsourcing company, run by children.
The issue is that many times they think that they won't be taken seriously if they don't use a bunch of jargon. I run into this type of thinking all the time within my field. Customer documents that read like they were written by the devil spawn resulting from a threeway between a lawyer, an engineer, and a marketing executive. It's a hard habit to get out of. People think if you use simple language the customer won't think you are good at what you do. I have to remind people that the document is for reading, not trying to show how smart you think you are. Plus, if the damn thing is actually readable, it might actually get read. Nothing sucks more than generating a 200 page document that it exists solely to check off a deliverable checkbox.
I always hated that term. Makes it sound like its only good for taking notes when it can in fact do far more. I am aware of the fact that it's a marketing term coined to avoid getting sued for perpetuating the idea that you can leave the thing on your lap, switched on for days at a time with no adverse health effects.
The term, originally, referred to a then-new class of smaller laptops with a footprint about the size of a sheet of notebook (A4 in particular) paper. You have to remember that laptops were not exactly small or light back in the late 1980's when the term Notebook started to be used in marketing. The term was coined to distinguish the new devices, which would be closer to what we think of as laptops today, from their older, bulkier cousins.
The toasted skin issues gained prominence well after the term was introduced.
Airtrains!*
*patent pending
...except for the energy you're expending to get all your equipment and raw materials into orbit.
Of course, we could, someday, harvest most of our raw materials from comets and asteroids. Sure, I'd love to see this in my lifetime. I'm not optimistic, though.
You plan to live the several hundred years he was talking about? That's ambitious.
By the time you ship a batch of processors from Mars, it will be outdated by the time it gets to Earth :-)
No need to ship the processors from Mars to Earth!
The thing with Mars is its cold, so its an ideal place for data centers
Yea but man, those ping times....
My problem with using USB-A for something like this is that the micro-USB connector is a peice of shit. Non-reversible and too easy to break. Charging with one is bad enough, but headphones? I would either have broken my phone several times over or just smashed it out of annoyance. USB-C would work better of course but it's not common yet.
Well with Europe moving to require a standard phone charger in 2017, we'll see if Apple continues to play the proprietary game.
Doesn't it hurt to stick the charger in your ears though?
Of course it wasn't announced, why would anyone want you to ditch their perfect person tracker that also sends unencrypted SMS and phone calls right to their servers?
People in-the-know find being tracked, while being aware that you are being tracked, to be a tactical advantage.
Telephones do not have many useful applications beyond making telephone calls and writing SMS. Yes, you can try to schedule events with them or use them as an alarm clock unless your battery runs out, but mostly they are just used for a bit of entertainment.
People in-the-know don't use mobile phones at all, except when they expect a call.
I didn't realize the definition of "in-the-know" was changed to "Old, outdated, left behind by current technology they are unable to adapt to their lives, typical /. user". When did that happen? Was there an announcement in the papers? I sure didn't see it in the latest news reel at the cinema.
Or people working on video. Or PC Gamers who also stream on sites like Twitch. There are desktop users who can use that type of horsepower.
Fresh install, sure. Everyone I know who had major issues with W10 went the upgrade route. I talked a few into doing a full refresh (basically reinstalls itself fresh) or reinstalling clean from media and the vast majority of times the issues went away.
People being afraid of using their cell phones too much is an effect i could live with. ;)
If only it would end there I would agree. But it won't. For one, it will turn into a litigation nightmare. If you can convince a jury that your weak ass study evidence is valid then poof, a whole new revenue stream for lawyers. Then it will be the towers (any radio towers at this point) that people will scream about. No thank you.
I'm just waiting for the day we find out that DuckDuckGo is actually run by the NSA.