I went right out of high school at the age of 17 into an Ivy League school and pretty much went through a stress/depression meltdown, after which I left school. It took me about a year sitting at home to get motivated enough to try college again, but when I did, I pretty much ran the tables, graduating at the top of my classes in both undergrad and (after a few years off to pay off what hadn't been covered by scholarships and have kids) then grad school. However, the road back wasn't easy - working up to 64 hours a week while taking a 19-credit load and graduating at the undergraduate level with two degrees from a no-name school so I could demonstrate my freshman year was a fluke. It would have been a lot less expensive, stressful and risky to just have taken a year off before jumping into college, and my career would likely have been different with a few more connections from my original school.
>> Our intelligence agencies say computer security is a bigger problem than terrorism, than crime, than anything else
If course they would say that. Their primary concern is informing and sustaining the government. The rest of us are just interchangeable, disposable meatsacks.
>> I hate to see the main browsers controlled by conglomerates with records of being anti-competitive and playing games with privacy
You realize that conglomerates develop browsers for exactly this reason: they want to control and track eyeballs with a degree of lock-in that prevents competitors from getting a foothold. It's been that way for 20 years now.
FWIW, many people's main browser for news, events and other web browsing these days isn't even a "browser" - it's the Facebook app on their phone.
>> Baby boomers are retiring...Healthcare is likely to be the money major
If the ACA ever really kicks in with the "affordable" bit, a lot of the cost will be reducing the cost of expensive end-of-life care (and hopefully reducing the need for new healthcare employees). Reducing "needless" surgeries/treatments/medications and having more frequent and informative "do you still want to live when you're starting do to go, 'cause if you don't we can make it faster/less-painful/less-expensive" discussions are two of the main cost-reducing measures in other countries with nationalized health care.
Lemme stop you right there. Please try this instead: http://www.uscourts.gov/rules-policies/current-rules-practice-procedure
Rules of Criminal Procedure
The Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure govern criminal proceedings and prosecutions in the U.S. district courts, the courts of appeals, and the Supreme Court. Their purpose is to "provide for the just determination of every criminal proceeding, to secure simplicity in procedure and fairness in administration, and to eliminate unjustifiable expense and delay." Fed. R. Crim. P. 2. The original rules were adopted by order of the Supreme Court on December 26, 1944, transmitted to Congress on January 3, 1945, and effective March 21, 1946. The rules have since been amended numerous times...
>> How can the Supreme Court make laws ? That is a job of the legislature !!!!
These days, most of the "law" you're subject to actually comes from the executive branches via agency and department "regulations".
Here, it looks like the Supreme Court is charge of some regulations called the "federal rules on criminal procedures" and they changed them. And just like agency regulation changes, no legislative oversight is sought or needed.
>> "FBI sneaks radical expansion of power through courts, avoiding public debate."
This is the same route that everyone is pursuing today. Witness the recent changes in gay marriage (court decision), our new national health care "tax" (court decision), political speech contribution limits (court decision) and more.
It's getting to the point where "public debate" leading to "legislation" or "constitutional amendments" (i.e., changes in the law) almost seems like a thing of the past. Instead, you just stack the highest court you can find with like-minded people, then shove court cases involving your favorite issues at them until they issue the ruling you want - no messy democracy needed!
>> They are threatening to release Hillary's emails.
Forget that. Someone, somewhere, has some audio (and maybe video) from Hillary's transcript-less "Wall Street" speeches. It's just waiting to be used in an "October Surprise"...or quietly destroyed...for a price.
Our family is still happily using mp3s and torrents for most of our music and video content. (I did buy a Netflix subscription about three years ago.) But the iTunes pay-as-you-go model? Not really something I'm interested in on my just-over-six-figure income with three kids and a mortgage.
>> Sorry, I'm not buying $100 in smurfberries/brains to actually play a game to its conclusion
For free (no purchase needed to win) tower defense games on Android, I recommend Castle TD, ToyDefense and (Dragon) Lair Defense. I won all three and have still never spent a penny at the Play store. (I don't even have a credit card hooked up.) A good free RPG is Gurk. (I never play anything online on my phone.)
The only mobile games I play are tower defense or RPG, where you usually don't have be perfect with your timing, in large part because of this:
>> "They can be so focused on graphics that they forget they have to get the timing right
My kids mostly play PvP games involving decks and armies (rather than "punch" buttons, etc.) on their phones. The home console or PC emulators are what we all use for action/arcade games.
>> Why would anyone use Google Docs for anything more advanced than a shopping list?
Multiple devices. Collaboration - you can actually see where other people are looking on a doc and they can make changes in real time. Instant and frictionless sharing - what you share IS the doc, not a link to a download.
To me, it's a question of why would use use Microsoft Office for anything other final editions meant to be shared (in Office format) with the outside world?
Alternative to Google Docs and Microsoft Office. These days we use nothing but Google Docs internally, and a select few of us use Microsoft Office to write docs that interface with the outside world.
If it does multi-person realtime collaboration (which Google Docs does) I'll probably check it out.
AFAIK, password hashing isn't built into Rust; you have to bolt on the necessary security from a third party.
In Rust, the default "hash" function (std::hash - https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/hash/) uses SipHash 2-4, which isn't cryptographically secure (http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/17996/is-siphash-cryptographically-secure). Developers need to use a third party "crate" like pwhash (https://users.rust-lang.org/t/pwhash-a-password-hashing-verification-library/4581) to get some decent hashing algorithms in their Rust app, and even then, Rust developers still need to be smart enough not to pick one of the insecure options. (Fortunately, the pwhash doc is pretty good.)
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I went right out of high school at the age of 17 into an Ivy League school and pretty much went through a stress/depression meltdown, after which I left school. It took me about a year sitting at home to get motivated enough to try college again, but when I did, I pretty much ran the tables, graduating at the top of my classes in both undergrad and (after a few years off to pay off what hadn't been covered by scholarships and have kids) then grad school. However, the road back wasn't easy - working up to 64 hours a week while taking a 19-credit load and graduating at the undergraduate level with two degrees from a no-name school so I could demonstrate my freshman year was a fluke. It would have been a lot less expensive, stressful and risky to just have taken a year off before jumping into college, and my career would likely have been different with a few more connections from my original school.
>> Our intelligence agencies say computer security is a bigger problem than terrorism, than crime, than anything else
If course they would say that. Their primary concern is informing and sustaining the government. The rest of us are just interchangeable, disposable meatsacks.
>> I hate to see the main browsers controlled by conglomerates with records of being anti-competitive and playing games with privacy
You realize that conglomerates develop browsers for exactly this reason: they want to control and track eyeballs with a degree of lock-in that prevents competitors from getting a foothold. It's been that way for 20 years now.
FWIW, many people's main browser for news, events and other web browsing these days isn't even a "browser" - it's the Facebook app on their phone.
Firefox is dead.
>> Baby boomers are retiring...Healthcare is likely to be the money major
If the ACA ever really kicks in with the "affordable" bit, a lot of the cost will be reducing the cost of expensive end-of-life care (and hopefully reducing the need for new healthcare employees). Reducing "needless" surgeries/treatments/medications and having more frequent and informative "do you still want to live when you're starting do to go, 'cause if you don't we can make it faster/less-painful/less-expensive" discussions are two of the main cost-reducing measures in other countries with nationalized health care.
If you believe that plumbing doesn't require physical abilities, you've probably been dup'ed multiple times in your homeownership. :)
>> When machines replaced us in physical abilities, we moved on to jobs that require cognitive abilities.
Tell that to my plumber. My mechanic. The mason who just fixed my chimneys. The guy who mopped out the urinals this morning. Etc.
>> What's Your View On Benchmark Tools?
So..who are the "tools" - the shysters creating the benchmarks or the rubes consuming them?
Show me where the word "tax" appears in the AMA. :)
>> Reading the Wikipedia article
Lemme stop you right there. Please try this instead:
http://www.uscourts.gov/rules-policies/current-rules-practice-procedure
Rules of Criminal Procedure
The Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure govern criminal proceedings and prosecutions in the U.S. district courts, the courts of appeals, and the Supreme Court. Their purpose is to "provide for the just determination of every criminal proceeding, to secure simplicity in procedure and fairness in administration, and to eliminate unjustifiable expense and delay." Fed. R. Crim. P. 2. The original rules were adopted by order of the Supreme Court on December 26, 1944, transmitted to Congress on January 3, 1945, and effective March 21, 1946. The rules have since been amended numerous times...
>> How can the Supreme Court make laws ? That is a job of the legislature !!!!
These days, most of the "law" you're subject to actually comes from the executive branches via agency and department "regulations".
Here, it looks like the Supreme Court is charge of some regulations called the "federal rules on criminal procedures" and they changed them. And just like agency regulation changes, no legislative oversight is sought or needed.
>> "FBI sneaks radical expansion of power through courts, avoiding public debate."
This is the same route that everyone is pursuing today. Witness the recent changes in gay marriage (court decision), our new national health care "tax" (court decision), political speech contribution limits (court decision) and more.
It's getting to the point where "public debate" leading to "legislation" or "constitutional amendments" (i.e., changes in the law) almost seems like a thing of the past. Instead, you just stack the highest court you can find with like-minded people, then shove court cases involving your favorite issues at them until they issue the ruling you want - no messy democracy needed!
Communism is the best cure we have today for obesity. Just ask the North Koreans, or apparently the Chinese kids of 1985.
>> They are threatening to release Hillary's emails.
Forget that. Someone, somewhere, has some audio (and maybe video) from Hillary's transcript-less "Wall Street" speeches. It's just waiting to be used in an "October Surprise"...or quietly destroyed...for a price.
Fuck off! "Judean People's Front." We're the PEOPLE'S FRONT of Judea!
Our family is still happily using mp3s and torrents for most of our music and video content. (I did buy a Netflix subscription about three years ago.) But the iTunes pay-as-you-go model? Not really something I'm interested in on my just-over-six-figure income with three kids and a mortgage.
>> Sorry, I'm not buying $100 in smurfberries/brains to actually play a game to its conclusion
For free (no purchase needed to win) tower defense games on Android, I recommend Castle TD, ToyDefense and (Dragon) Lair Defense. I won all three and have still never spent a penny at the Play store. (I don't even have a credit card hooked up.) A good free RPG is Gurk. (I never play anything online on my phone.)
The only mobile games I play are tower defense or RPG, where you usually don't have be perfect with your timing, in large part because of this:
>> "They can be so focused on graphics that they forget they have to get the timing right
My kids mostly play PvP games involving decks and armies (rather than "punch" buttons, etc.) on their phones. The home console or PC emulators are what we all use for action/arcade games.
Trump, is that you again?
There's still Saturday Night Live? Who knew?
>> Why would anyone use Google Docs for anything more advanced than a shopping list?
Multiple devices. Collaboration - you can actually see where other people are looking on a doc and they can make changes in real time. Instant and frictionless sharing - what you share IS the doc, not a link to a download.
To me, it's a question of why would use use Microsoft Office for anything other final editions meant to be shared (in Office format) with the outside world?
>> manufactured outrage, and race/gender baiting doesn't sell as well as it used to guys
Have you missed this year's (US) presidential campaign then?
Candidate - Manufactured Outrage - Race/Gender Baiting
Clinton - Women's Rights - White Men!
Trump - Immigrants - Muslims! Mexicans!
Sanders - Capitalism - White Male Bankers!
And those are just the leaders in the popular polls. Overall I'd say outrage, and race/gender baiting is selling just fine.
Alternative to Google Docs and Microsoft Office. These days we use nothing but Google Docs internally, and a select few of us use Microsoft Office to write docs that interface with the outside world.
If it does multi-person realtime collaboration (which Google Docs does) I'll probably check it out.
AFAIK, password hashing isn't built into Rust; you have to bolt on the necessary security from a third party.
In Rust, the default "hash" function (std::hash - https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/hash/) uses SipHash 2-4, which isn't cryptographically secure (http://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/17996/is-siphash-cryptographically-secure). Developers need to use a third party "crate" like pwhash (https://users.rust-lang.org/t/pwhash-a-password-hashing-verification-library/4581) to get some decent hashing algorithms in their Rust app, and even then, Rust developers still need to be smart enough not to pick one of the insecure options. (Fortunately, the pwhash doc is pretty good.)
As per TFA, Lifeboat used MD5 hashes for passwords. Dumbasses. Who does that in 2016 anymore?