this one case is a bit more tricky, since the fbi can reasonably say that apple can do what they want and it's not even that expensive. anyone with apples toolset and more importantly the signing key can do what fbi is requesting. fundamentally it's not even about 'creating' such a tool and that it would open a can of worms. it wouldn't. if something that could be created in half a day by altering a few lines would be a can of worms then it would already be a can of worms. on iphone 5C. those few lines would be the line where is the check for ten tries and the amount of delay introduced between tries. that would be enough to brute force it with a robot finger. another few hours would have the sw just brute force through all combinations on the phone itself - at just a rate of 1 per second it would be just few hours and since you can query the cpu/soc multiple times per second if the given pin is correct then if it's a 4 number pin it would take only something along the lines of half an hour, 5 number one would be still under half a day and six not too much long either. the part on the cpu on 5C that coughs up the code does not have extra protections or limits or any of that fancy stuff that 5S would do.
because it's an iphone 5C and apple _CAN_ write firmware for it and load it on the phone to brute force the correct pin on the cpu to make the cpu cough up the encryption key this is not quite how apple spins it up. but apple doesn't want to admit(nor is it denying) that it can write the requested software - it's trying to argue that it doesn't have to, I guess in order to fight off further requests to modify firmwares that actually are delivered to consumer phones, which would need backdoors installed before hand.
on iphone 5S and onwards it would not be possible. but try explaining this to a normal journalist. if apple opens it, they think that iphones all can be opened in same way - and apple has been publicly saying that they can't open them, (which is true for newer iphones than the 5C). suppose they do open it for them? what then? lawsuits from 5C owners who could arguably argue that they were mislead with marketing about the capabilities of their phone.
so, on 5C the encryption key is on the cpu and can be queried multiple times per second with the right firmware and the right firmware can be loaded on boot from usb if you have apples signing keys(or if you can break the bootloader, I suppose). that is, on an iphone 5C the penalty wipe for guessing more than 10 times is performed in firmware loaded software and can be trivially circumvented if you have firmware source code and signing key. apple doesn't deny or admit this due to marketing and that it would confuse the hell out of people who don't understand the difference between 5c and 5s.
look for BOM on reprap.org for some printer or on thingiverse. or google for repstraps(repstrap being a term for a home built 3d printer that doesn't use 3d printed parts). people do them all the time.
the pitfall is that it takes time to get it working right. the upshot is that at least you know how the gddamn machine works - and maybe have a better chance of knowing why it's not working when it doesn't.
the upshot is that there's online stores where you could buy all the parts you need and there's really no compatibility issues that much either.. you're going to need to fabricate some parts anyways. linear guides, stepper motors, belts(or racks, depends how you do the movement. or heck just fishing strings), bearings, extruder, control board.. that's the basic list.
it's a lot less work than restoring a car though and a LOT cheaper..
well, it's ok by now. and you need good machining on the extruder/cooling it at the right spot. the trick is generating the commands beforehand on the computer(slicing) just well.
and it does not get any better from low budget to high(3000-4000) dollar hobby/home printers. they all do it same way and most of the printers on the market run the same control softwares and use the same boards, even use same heater/nozzle setups - so from that point it makes little difference if you buy a lulzbot or a prusa kit - what people seem to be able to output from them seems just the same as well.
also to the why a kit or not.. getting the settings right and grokking the capabilities is the hard part. the output from a 350$ kit(that's complete) can be just as good as from 3000$ makerbot 5th gen or others in that range. and plenty of people seem to be just as unable to make 2000-3000 dollar machines work as some others are with sub 1000.
some people get lucky right away and some don't. things like leveling, choosing right temperatures.. using more cooling for pla parts.. printing multiple copies if you're printing small cross section parts to avoid overheating and so forth. adjusting the slicer(!) .
basically, it doesn't get any better(easier) fundamentally until you hit 8000$++ mojo models. and even those don't make that much better quality - the only difference is that they're "push button" and if it doesn't work you call support. and you'll pay more for material.
the rep1/rep2 mbi and clones(wanhao, ctc) tend to be able to run sailfish firmware which is pretty good. repetier for reprap style atmel boards is actually quite good as well.
if you buy a cheap cheap kit, just put aside 25-70 for upgrading the extruder and mostly it would print just as fine as anything else. there are minor differences like.9/1.8 degree stepper motors, 12v vs 24v and such but those end up being pretty minor.
the biggest problem with them is that you can't leave them running unattended safely - there's some safety mechanisms in the firmwares but none of them are really foolproof fire safe.
makerbot replicator 1/2 and clones use different, very slightly different, kind of control board and run different (opensource) firmware than most repraps. it has minor feature differences on how it deals with pressure in the nozzle to other 8 bit boards. the only reason it works really well is due to open source contributions from couple of guys(mbi released buggy).
makerbot 5th gens use a properiaty board with closed firmware and they rolled their own stepper controllers as well(which are noisy as hell). the real downsides to 5th gen was/is that they released it with a really shitty extruder that cost 260$+ to replace after a filament jam - this is the reliability issue and a cost issue. now replicator 1 had kind of same problems at launch but the community found fixes for those, not so with the 5th gen. this spring makerbot is releasing/released a "fixed" extruder for it, that you have to buy! also the webcam in the 5th gen is a joke.
too busy, but look at the google groups for makerbot. they closed the official one down after 5th gen release do to the posts of people complaining..
I suspect that if you put a lens on it, you would end up with a light field camera.
aaaaanyways... this is wikipedia on light field camera: "A light field camera, also known as plenoptic camera, captures information about the intensity of light in a scene, and also captures information about the direction that the light rays are traveling in space. One type of light field camera uses an array of micro-lenses placed in front of an otherwise conventional image sensor to sense intensity, color, and directional information. Multi-camera arrays are another type of light field camera. Holograms are a type of film-based light field image."
which sounds almost exactly like a variation of this. it's the same exact concept.
makerbot 5th gen mini (1k abouts) is a piece of shit.
300 gets you a kit nowadays. a 300 bucks kit is better than 5th gen makerbots.. not better than last gen makerbots though. for under 1k you can get a clones of makerbot replicator 1/2 that are pretty decent(read: more reliable than 5th gen).
and now theres plenty of offerings in the 350-1000 dollars range. they're all pretty much based on same parts and tech though, which isn't really that bad since it means cheap parts for service.
oh that's why Finnish companies were free to trade high quality steel products to Cuba and Soviets at will and that's why USA didn't block further sales of advanced deep operation submarines to soviets....except USA pressured them not to when they felt like it. USA has been meddling with other countries trades with soviets and cuba since the WW2, making it practically impossible for anyone in the west to trade sufficiently advanced products to the eastern block(including cuba).
yes. the americans would meddle on per-trade basis. setting up an office would have been easy. getting the deal would have been easy. after that the americans(through CIA) would meddle, sometimes even after first greenlighting the trade in the first place! (KGB would meddle too, though).
you think slums don't have atm's? in a not so impoverished place over here the smallest you can take out from atm is about 2 bucks worth of money and that will pay for food for a day.
if you exchange sticks for rocks, you still need to pay the taxes on that transaction in dollars. that means you must have dollars. there is the value, since you can't run a business legally without them in USA. of course you could try to argue that what if everyone in the USA just ignored tax laws, then it wouldn't have value. then you wouldn't have USA either though.
if it's just stacked in random order then any daisychainable-multi-use bus... usb too.
stupid patent. the IDEA is worth fucking zero dollars. it's been had by many people many times. getting such a thing to sale from multiple hw providers.. now that would be novel.
look, do you know why there exists an entire product category of plastic connector protectors? BECAUSE EVERY SINGLE iphone 4/5/6 cable breaks at the stem in a year of normal use!
(seriously, apples cables are just as bad as any other, nokia used to make decent microusb cables but then they started ordering from the same places everyone else does and it's apple style copy shit)
actually with windows 10 you would need to start blocking them one by one and first block at hosts/dns resolve level and then ip..
because it tries, oh it tries so much. it has backup connections on backup connections to make it happen and it just needs one, really.
not to mention that they change when it gets updated.
the zdnet writer should be ashamed though. "various cloud hosts". if he can't tell which addresses to block to shut down telemetry then he shouldn't be fucking writing about not to be worried about the telemetry!
most crossings have facilities to put in checks if they want for some reason or another. the woman who drove for two days obviously has some brain problem or another. I mean come on, how many times was it necessary to fill up the gas? just to drive 38km?
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the point is, that working for yelp as it is, is stupid.
the company will have problems as result.
and just ducking behind hr doesn't really help.
smartphones are cheap.
atm machines are not.
meh. it's not so.
it's not about that at all.
however the court order is valid. because that case is on 5C...
this one case is a bit more tricky, since the fbi can reasonably say that apple can do what they want and it's not even that expensive. anyone with apples toolset and more importantly the signing key can do what fbi is requesting. fundamentally it's not even about 'creating' such a tool and that it would open a can of worms. it wouldn't. if something that could be created in half a day by altering a few lines would be a can of worms then it would already be a can of worms. on iphone 5C. those few lines would be the line where is the check for ten tries and the amount of delay introduced between tries. that would be enough to brute force it with a robot finger. another few hours would have the sw just brute force through all combinations on the phone itself - at just a rate of 1 per second it would be just few hours and since you can query the cpu/soc multiple times per second if the given pin is correct then if it's a 4 number pin it would take only something along the lines of half an hour, 5 number one would be still under half a day and six not too much long either. the part on the cpu on 5C that coughs up the code does not have extra protections or limits or any of that fancy stuff that 5S would do.
because it's an iphone 5C and apple _CAN_ write firmware for it and load it on the phone to brute force the correct pin on the cpu to make the cpu cough up the encryption key this is not quite how apple spins it up. but apple doesn't want to admit(nor is it denying) that it can write the requested software - it's trying to argue that it doesn't have to, I guess in order to fight off further requests to modify firmwares that actually are delivered to consumer phones, which would need backdoors installed before hand.
on iphone 5S and onwards it would not be possible. but try explaining this to a normal journalist. if apple opens it, they think that iphones all can be opened in same way - and apple has been publicly saying that they can't open them, (which is true for newer iphones than the 5C). suppose they do open it for them? what then? lawsuits from 5C owners who could arguably argue that they were mislead with marketing about the capabilities of their phone.
so, on 5C the encryption key is on the cpu and can be queried multiple times per second with the right firmware and the right firmware can be loaded on boot from usb if you have apples signing keys(or if you can break the bootloader, I suppose). that is, on an iphone 5C the penalty wipe for guessing more than 10 times is performed in firmware loaded software and can be trivially circumvented if you have firmware source code and signing key. apple doesn't deny or admit this due to marketing and that it would confuse the hell out of people who don't understand the difference between 5c and 5s.
look for BOM on reprap.org for some printer or on thingiverse.
or google for repstraps(repstrap being a term for a home built 3d printer that doesn't use 3d printed parts). people do them all the time.
the pitfall is that it takes time to get it working right. the upshot is that at least you know how the gddamn machine works - and maybe have a better chance of knowing why it's not working when it doesn't.
the upshot is that there's online stores where you could buy all the parts you need and there's really no compatibility issues that much either.. you're going to need to fabricate some parts anyways. linear guides, stepper motors, belts(or racks, depends how you do the movement. or heck just fishing strings), bearings, extruder, control board.. that's the basic list.
it's a lot less work than restoring a car though and a LOT cheaper..
well, it's ok by now. and you need good machining on the extruder/cooling it at the right spot. the trick is generating the commands beforehand on the computer(slicing) just well.
and it does not get any better from low budget to high(3000-4000) dollar hobby/home printers. they all do it same way and most of the printers on the market run the same control softwares and use the same boards, even use same heater/nozzle setups - so from that point it makes little difference if you buy a lulzbot or a prusa kit - what people seem to be able to output from them seems just the same as well.
also to the why a kit or not.. getting the settings right and grokking the capabilities is the hard part. the output from a 350$ kit(that's complete) can be just as good as from 3000$ makerbot 5th gen or others in that range. and plenty of people seem to be just as unable to make 2000-3000 dollar machines work as some others are with sub 1000.
some people get lucky right away and some don't. things like leveling, choosing right temperatures.. using more cooling for pla parts.. printing multiple copies if you're printing small cross section parts to avoid overheating and so forth. adjusting the slicer(!) .
basically, it doesn't get any better(easier) fundamentally until you hit 8000$++ mojo models. and even those don't make that much better quality - the only difference is that they're "push button" and if it doesn't work you call support. and you'll pay more for material.
the rep1/rep2 mbi and clones(wanhao, ctc) tend to be able to run sailfish firmware which is pretty good. repetier for reprap style atmel boards is actually quite good as well.
if you buy a cheap cheap kit, just put aside 25-70 for upgrading the extruder and mostly it would print just as fine as anything else. there are minor differences like .9/1.8 degree stepper motors, 12v vs 24v and such but those end up being pretty minor.
the biggest problem with them is that you can't leave them running unattended safely - there's some safety mechanisms in the firmwares but none of them are really foolproof fire safe.
makerbot replicator 1/2 and clones use different, very slightly different, kind of control board and run different (opensource) firmware than most repraps. it has minor feature differences on how it deals with pressure in the nozzle to other 8 bit boards. the only reason it works really well is due to open source contributions from couple of guys(mbi released buggy).
makerbot 5th gens use a properiaty board with closed firmware and they rolled their own stepper controllers as well(which are noisy as hell). the real downsides to 5th gen was/is that they released it with a really shitty extruder that cost 260$+ to replace after a filament jam - this is the reliability issue and a cost issue. now replicator 1 had kind of same problems at launch but the community found fixes for those, not so with the 5th gen. this spring makerbot is releasing/released a "fixed" extruder for it, that you have to buy! also the webcam in the 5th gen is a joke.
too busy, but look at the google groups for makerbot. they closed the official one down after 5th gen release do to the posts of people complaining..
I suspect that if you put a lens on it, you would end up with a light field camera.
aaaaanyways... this is wikipedia on light field camera: "A light field camera, also known as plenoptic camera, captures information about the intensity of light in a scene, and also captures information about the direction that the light rays are traveling in space. One type of light field camera uses an array of micro-lenses placed in front of an otherwise conventional image sensor to sense intensity, color, and directional information. Multi-camera arrays are another type of light field camera. Holograms are a type of film-based light field image."
which sounds almost exactly like a variation of this. it's the same exact concept.
makerbot 5th gen mini (1k abouts) is a piece of shit.
300 gets you a kit nowadays. a 300 bucks kit is better than 5th gen makerbots.. not better than last gen makerbots though. for under 1k you can get a clones of makerbot replicator 1/2 that are pretty decent(read: more reliable than 5th gen).
and now theres plenty of offerings in the 350-1000 dollars range. they're all pretty much based on same parts and tech though, which isn't really that bad since it means cheap parts for service.
java is doing just fine.
it's doing so fine that people are all the time trying to invent new stuff to write java.
oh that's why Finnish companies were free to trade high quality steel products to Cuba and Soviets at will and that's why USA didn't block further sales of advanced deep operation submarines to soviets. ...except USA pressured them not to when they felt like it. USA has been meddling with other countries trades with soviets and cuba since the WW2, making it practically impossible for anyone in the west to trade sufficiently advanced products to the eastern block(including cuba).
yes. the americans would meddle on per-trade basis. setting up an office would have been easy. getting the deal would have been easy. after that the americans(through CIA) would meddle, sometimes even after first greenlighting the trade in the first place! (KGB would meddle too, though).
put it on a card and take out at atm.
you think slums don't have atm's? in a not so impoverished place over here the smallest you can take out from atm is about 2 bucks worth of money and that will pay for food for a day.
if you exchange sticks for rocks, you still need to pay the taxes on that transaction in dollars. that means you must have dollars. there is the value, since you can't run a business legally without them in USA. of course you could try to argue that what if everyone in the USA just ignored tax laws, then it wouldn't have value. then you wouldn't have USA either though.
scsi.
if it's just stacked in random order then any daisychainable-multi-use bus... usb too.
stupid patent. the IDEA is worth fucking zero dollars. it's been had by many people many times. getting such a thing to sale from multiple hw providers.. now that would be novel.
or just some 101 or whatever nokia s30 device you find..
it's like a pager. except cheaper monthly cost and can call on it.
nobody uses pagers unless theres some burocratic or regulation reason anymore..
on wayland.
that is, on wayland gnome works just as .. well, dunno. maybe it's not so fucked up as a few years ago.
however, is this more indicative of gtk vs qt libs?
gtk sucks balls though.
resist cracking?
look, do you know why there exists an entire product category of plastic connector protectors? BECAUSE EVERY SINGLE iphone 4/5/6 cable breaks at the stem in a year of normal use!
(seriously, apples cables are just as bad as any other, nokia used to make decent microusb cables but then they started ordering from the same places everyone else does and it's apple style copy shit)
actually with windows 10 you would need to start blocking them one by one and first block at hosts/dns resolve level and then ip..
because it tries, oh it tries so much. it has backup connections on backup connections to make it happen and it just needs one, really.
not to mention that they change when it gets updated.
the zdnet writer should be ashamed though. "various cloud hosts". if he can't tell which addresses to block to shut down telemetry then he shouldn't be fucking writing about not to be worried about the telemetry!
you would notice.
most crossings have facilities to put in checks if they want for some reason or another. the woman who drove for two days obviously has some brain problem or another. I mean come on, how many times was it necessary to fill up the gas? just to drive 38km?
well the really simple stuff sure.
anything with an ounce of graphcis and it will pretty much run only with whatever it was intended for.
basically thats all you have in singapore, doofus. singapore is all about profit.
hmm i think you don't quite understand why jet planes are so popular for long haul. it's more efficient than you think clearly.
if you manage to find some voltage blown fuses sure but I guess those would be surge protectors.
a regular fuse would I guess work with brown outs to some extent.. (current gets higher as voltage goes down).
voltage dropping to half or about is a more common occurance in these parts of the somewhat developed but really not developed asia anyways...
unity needs quite a bit of coding to do anything novel...
oh wait.
well..
I suppose some boss has bonus riding on how many releases gets out.
but not riding on what features if any get included in them.
this looks like a plan to make releases, not to make development.