Anyone involved in the pitching or management of a VC funded startup will tell you - the purpose of the company is NOT to build a company, the purpose of the company is to create an acquisition target.
The VCs will actively pushback against product release, even against investing too much in building product over building hype to improve the value as an acquisition target.
Your example is actually incorrect. According to current interpretation of the Commerce Clause, there is no such thing as a local market exempt from federal control, as under the precedent of Wickard v. Filburn; SCOTUS: "[b]ut even if appellee's activity be local and though it may not be regarded as commerce, it may still, whatever its nature, be reached by Congress if it exerts a substantial economic effect on interstate commerce and this irrespective of whether such effect is what might at some earlier time have been defined as 'direct' or 'indirect". And that word "substantial", despite sounding so reasonable, was applied in its initial case to a single farmer who chose to feed his own cows his own grain instead of buying feed, so "substantial" under current precedent has already been scoped down to include things you do on your own land with your own property. I'll state again - the Constitution has been reinterpreted to mean nearly the opposite of what it actually says, in practice. You are free to be a consumer of approved goods you use in approved ways without asking permission, but you have few remaining unencumbered freedoms even on your own land. If you feel otherwise you aren't paying attention.
True, which is why the Constitution (and its Bill of Rights) also enumerates things the entire Government is not allowed to pass laws that infringe upon, which includes states, cities, municipal tax boundaries. Of course, those too have been reinterpreted into near meaninglessness, in most cases by having the evolving official interpretations of their plain English made so narrow and Legalistic that they no longer apply most of not all of the time...
I love your comment! You know, that is EXACTLY what the original intent of the US Constitution was - the founders essentially said 'here's a short list of what the Federal government is allowed to do, anything else is up to State legislatures to decide for themselves'. And since then, through a myriad of little cuts, the Constitution has been reinterpreted (as a "living" document) to mean the opposite, and anyone talking about State's Rights is now called a Racist (Because state's rights were cited during slavery debates, therefore all State's Rights are racist, see what they did there?) The Commerce Clause has been interpreted so widely that the Feds can claim authority over almost anything (Wickard v. Filburn: you can't feed your own wheat to your own animals if we tell you not to, as your production of wheat could influence the supply of wheat, which is sold across state boundaries, and therefore we can tell you what to do.) FISA lets our secret tribunals order anyone to do anything without even letting them talk to their own lawyer about it, and thanks to the latest interpretation of the All Writs Act now any court can order anyone to do anything. Welcome to the new definition of "freedom". And pick up that can.
Technically it could be cracked using existing techniques that involve depotting and e-beam probing of its chips, but we all know they aren't interested in the data on THIS phone, they want a skeleton key to crack everybody else's phone, ideally one that returns their handy "plug in cable and instantly download everything of interest" tool that so many LEOs are in love with.
If you have honor, and your employer does something deplorable, and its evident that such action is now considered normal, the only honorable reaction is to QUIT THAT JOB. I've done so, others have done so. Anyone still working for the FBI, NSA, or most divisions of the DOJ is demonstrating that they have decided that it is acceptable for the government to routinely commit crimes that were once considered more egregious than the majority of the acts of the criminals they now claim to be pursuing. Anyone still working at those agencies has decided that being part of the machine is more important to them than their honor.
Oh yeah - bitcoins are used by individuals to hide their transactions from advertisers, malware vendors, and parasitic financial services companies, while networks of shell companies are reserved for our ruling elite to hide their transactions from the unwashed masses (and tax authorities)... Tell ya what, you make your public, and I'll make mine public...
Babylonian religion predates Judaism and Islam by a long time, they worshiped lots of gods, lots of statues, a good deal of it adapted from Sumerians. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
I saw that in the paper, I was hoping someone might know something about Tek's old JND algorithm that's become known since then, or how it performs relative to SSIM or VQM in human subjective studies. Almost all the work in these spaces is patented or commercial...
I've played in this space in a former position. Interesting lessons learned: - PSNR is nearly worthless: An image with almost the same score can look terrible. Not all the time, but enough of the time. - The only quantitative test I found that worked reliably was an old analog Tektronix PQA500 (lots of work to use for digital CODEC.) - Management didn't like the PQA data (it said our product was terrible), decided to use PSNR data (product is great!) - Customers fixed this discrepancy and product line failed spectacularly (due to video quality, surprise!) - I never could find any published information sufficient to recreate the Tek PQA algorithm.
As an engineer who has designed devices and seen them deployed at a few companies with strong encryption, role based access control, auditing, and documented the thread models the system does and does not defend against, I'd take some exception to the hyperbole of "on any device anywhere". That said, yes, most companies don't care, and those of us that do fight a continual uphill battle against people who want to make security weaker so the products are easier to use. That also said, as someone familiar both the CALEA as well as what happens when you're visited by people asking for back doors, those people are certainly NOT interested in reasonably manged, audited, or in any way limited back doors - its always 'give us unlimited unaudited access or...'
Exactly this. Unless the advertising industry can 100% guarantee safety or warrant and accept 100% liability for repair of systems infected by drive-by exploits, I'll block ads. And due to overly complex systems implemented by too many poor coders and poorly tested leading to a never ending stream of 0-day attacks, this won't end. Google is making noise about trying, but its too late...
Does anyone here not believe that every citizen and resident's religious, political, and social associations aren't already sitting in federal databases? This is part of what TIA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., Prism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., and many of the related programs were really created for...
Nobody has found any real crypto weaknesses in TrueCrypt to date, in public or in any of the private crypto groups I know of. This article claims that two TrueCrypt driver bugs expose systems to a privilege escalation attack, and these have been fixed in VeraCrypt: http://www.itworld.com/article...
TrueCrypt probably triggered their warrant canary and the dev team decided to call it quits, since NSLs are so much fun to fight for people living in the formerly free country known as the US. In the mean time, code forked and picked up here: https://veracrypt.codeplex.com...
A decade ago I spent about two years on an embedded system running Nucleus, spent several months fixing bugs in the threading primitives, including the core spin-lock mutex that worked about 99.999% of the time under low-load conditions, but whose failure rate rose rapidly with load to about 2%. So much fun. Parts of that codebase looked like they were written by very low skill programmers.
Its common for intelligence organizations to label their IP block with other gov org names. Many of the SSH brute force scans I bothered to look up a few years ago originated from IP blocks owned by "China Railway Telecommunications Center".
Wire wrapped PCB containing a GPIO chip and a Z80 running my recreation of the 3" floppy protocol and a subset of PC BIOS (burned into an EPROM), a PAL with some delay lines to convert bus timings from Z80 to x86, a PC XT connector, a PC Winchester controller card which now talked to the Z80, and a 5MB? HD. The Commodore saw it as a 3" drive (which supported subdirectories) that happened to be quite a bit larger than the floppy. Later I taped up a PCB on large mylar sheets, still have the films in the garage somewhere, actually had a few of the boards manufactured for fun. (Think I had one of the chip sockets backwards, swapped IO pins on a 74?373, IIRC...) Worked nice, should have sold them. Thankful my dad funded the hobby, learned enough to open several career paths...
I've seen issues across several production environments where several.zip tools would miss files in very large archive sets, moving to.7z fixed these issues.
This should be simple to add even to a cubesat (having designed one myself), might require at most an additional U, there seems to be an interesting business / social opportunity to design a cheap one-shot module (maybe 1/4 U form factor) to deploy.
Trademarks may stink, but they're the law. If you come up with an app you want to protect in a business segment, the ONLY way to protect your use of that app name in stores and (if you managed to acquire it) the domain name is to get yourself a REGISTERED trademark on it for that market segment. You can do it yourself for a few hundred dollars (US only). Without it, others can make a [poor] copy of your work, legally take your domain name away, have your app removed from stores, and cause all sorts of problems. You may be better off renaming your app to something you obtain a trademark for and telling your customers why you renamed, then pay a laywer to beat someone else's REGISTERED trademark of a mark you were using, as that could easily cost tens of thousands or more. Remember, the "legal" system, like the "justice" system, is a massively rigged game for people with money and influence to use as a club. Nothing about them is fair or just in anything but name. There are billion dollar companies for whom playing this game is their basic business plan, and you having your own registered trademark at least blocks your easy removal from the most common search surfaces of the web...
Are you sure its radiation hasn't killed anyone? I've seen several "news" articles that claim a death toll of over 10,000 spread across the pacific, including thousands in California.
Sarcasm aside (and the above is true, in that those "articles" are floating out among fringe "environmentalist" sites), a HUGE part of the problem is in domestic nuclear industry that isn't replacing plants far past their operational lifetime with the newer and MUCH safer designs, since that would cost real money and the stockholders want that to be reexamined next quarter, after they sell. And short. Greed and stupidity on both sides...
DMLS printing uses metal powders sintered by high power lasers. The metals not only include Titanium and Inconel (rocket engine superalloy), but can include gradient transitions between them in the same piece. While some surface work may be required for some applications, the crystalline structure of the metal itself is of finer quality that that produced by machining + annealing used for high grade parts the old fashioned way.
These are not your homebrew melted plastic filament printers, and they are changing manufacturing.
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Heh, THIS.
Anyone involved in the pitching or management of a VC funded startup will tell you - the purpose of the company is NOT to build a company, the purpose of the company is to create an acquisition target.
The VCs will actively pushback against product release, even against investing too much in building product over building hype to improve the value as an acquisition target.
Your example is actually incorrect. According to current interpretation of the Commerce Clause, there is no such thing as a local market exempt from federal control, as under the precedent of Wickard v. Filburn; SCOTUS: "[b]ut even if appellee's activity be local and though it may not be regarded as commerce, it may still, whatever its nature, be reached by Congress if it exerts a substantial economic effect on interstate commerce and this irrespective of whether such effect is what might at some earlier time have been defined as 'direct' or 'indirect". And that word "substantial", despite sounding so reasonable, was applied in its initial case to a single farmer who chose to feed his own cows his own grain instead of buying feed, so "substantial" under current precedent has already been scoped down to include things you do on your own land with your own property. I'll state again - the Constitution has been reinterpreted to mean nearly the opposite of what it actually says, in practice. You are free to be a consumer of approved goods you use in approved ways without asking permission, but you have few remaining unencumbered freedoms even on your own land. If you feel otherwise you aren't paying attention.
True, which is why the Constitution (and its Bill of Rights) also enumerates things the entire Government is not allowed to pass laws that infringe upon, which includes states, cities, municipal tax boundaries. Of course, those too have been reinterpreted into near meaninglessness, in most cases by having the evolving official interpretations of their plain English made so narrow and Legalistic that they no longer apply most of not all of the time...
I love your comment! You know, that is EXACTLY what the original intent of the US Constitution was - the founders essentially said 'here's a short list of what the Federal government is allowed to do, anything else is up to State legislatures to decide for themselves'. And since then, through a myriad of little cuts, the Constitution has been reinterpreted (as a "living" document) to mean the opposite, and anyone talking about State's Rights is now called a Racist (Because state's rights were cited during slavery debates, therefore all State's Rights are racist, see what they did there?) The Commerce Clause has been interpreted so widely that the Feds can claim authority over almost anything (Wickard v. Filburn: you can't feed your own wheat to your own animals if we tell you not to, as your production of wheat could influence the supply of wheat, which is sold across state boundaries, and therefore we can tell you what to do.) FISA lets our secret tribunals order anyone to do anything without even letting them talk to their own lawyer about it, and thanks to the latest interpretation of the All Writs Act now any court can order anyone to do anything. Welcome to the new definition of "freedom". And pick up that can.
Technically it could be cracked using existing techniques that involve depotting and e-beam probing of its chips, but we all know they aren't interested in the data on THIS phone, they want a skeleton key to crack everybody else's phone, ideally one that returns their handy "plug in cable and instantly download everything of interest" tool that so many LEOs are in love with.
I feel that performant embiggens our language...
If you have honor, and your employer does something deplorable, and its evident that such action is now considered normal, the only honorable reaction is to QUIT THAT JOB. I've done so, others have done so. Anyone still working for the FBI, NSA, or most divisions of the DOJ is demonstrating that they have decided that it is acceptable for the government to routinely commit crimes that were once considered more egregious than the majority of the acts of the criminals they now claim to be pursuing. Anyone still working at those agencies has decided that being part of the machine is more important to them than their honor.
Oh yeah - bitcoins are used by individuals to hide their transactions from advertisers, malware vendors, and parasitic financial services companies, while networks of shell companies are reserved for our ruling elite to hide their transactions from the unwashed masses (and tax authorities)... Tell ya what, you make your public, and I'll make mine public...
Babylonian religion predates Judaism and Islam by a long time, they worshiped lots of gods, lots of statues, a good deal of it adapted from Sumerians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Otherwise no access is granted. Which means I'll have to wait a few hours for a torrent to appear, fine...
I saw that in the paper, I was hoping someone might know something about Tek's old JND algorithm that's become known since then, or how it performs relative to SSIM or VQM in human subjective studies. Almost all the work in these spaces is patented or commercial...
I've played in this space in a former position. Interesting lessons learned:
- PSNR is nearly worthless: An image with almost the same score can look terrible. Not all the time, but enough of the time.
- The only quantitative test I found that worked reliably was an old analog Tektronix PQA500 (lots of work to use for digital CODEC.)
- Management didn't like the PQA data (it said our product was terrible), decided to use PSNR data (product is great!)
- Customers fixed this discrepancy and product line failed spectacularly (due to video quality, surprise!)
- I never could find any published information sufficient to recreate the Tek PQA algorithm.
As an engineer who has designed devices and seen them deployed at a few companies with strong encryption, role based access control, auditing, and documented the thread models the system does and does not defend against, I'd take some exception to the hyperbole of "on any device anywhere". That said, yes, most companies don't care, and those of us that do fight a continual uphill battle against people who want to make security weaker so the products are easier to use. That also said, as someone familiar both the CALEA as well as what happens when you're visited by people asking for back doors, those people are certainly NOT interested in reasonably manged, audited, or in any way limited back doors - its always 'give us unlimited unaudited access or...'
Exactly this. Unless the advertising industry can 100% guarantee safety or warrant and accept 100% liability for repair of systems infected by drive-by exploits, I'll block ads. And due to overly complex systems implemented by too many poor coders and poorly tested leading to a never ending stream of 0-day attacks, this won't end. Google is making noise about trying, but its too late...
Does anyone here not believe that every citizen and resident's religious, political, and social associations aren't already sitting in federal databases? This is part of what TIA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., Prism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/..., and many of the related programs were really created for...
Nobody has found any real crypto weaknesses in TrueCrypt to date, in public or in any of the private crypto groups I know of. This article claims that two TrueCrypt driver bugs expose systems to a privilege escalation attack, and these have been fixed in VeraCrypt: http://www.itworld.com/article...
TrueCrypt probably triggered their warrant canary and the dev team decided to call it quits, since NSLs are so much fun to fight for people living in the formerly free country known as the US. In the mean time, code forked and picked up here: https://veracrypt.codeplex.com...
A decade ago I spent about two years on an embedded system running Nucleus, spent several months fixing bugs in the threading primitives, including the core spin-lock mutex that worked about 99.999% of the time under low-load conditions, but whose failure rate rose rapidly with load to about 2%. So much fun. Parts of that codebase looked like they were written by very low skill programmers.
Its common for intelligence organizations to label their IP block with other gov org names. Many of the SSH brute force scans I bothered to look up a few years ago originated from IP blocks owned by "China Railway Telecommunications Center".
Wire wrapped PCB containing a GPIO chip and a Z80 running my recreation of the 3" floppy protocol and a subset of PC BIOS (burned into an EPROM), a PAL with some delay lines to convert bus timings from Z80 to x86, a PC XT connector, a PC Winchester controller card which now talked to the Z80, and a 5MB? HD. The Commodore saw it as a 3" drive (which supported subdirectories) that happened to be quite a bit larger than the floppy. Later I taped up a PCB on large mylar sheets, still have the films in the garage somewhere, actually had a few of the boards manufactured for fun. (Think I had one of the chip sockets backwards, swapped IO pins on a 74?373, IIRC...) Worked nice, should have sold them. Thankful my dad funded the hobby, learned enough to open several career paths...
I've seen issues across several production environments where several .zip tools would miss files in very large archive sets, moving to .7z fixed these issues.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This should be simple to add even to a cubesat (having designed one myself), might require at most an additional U, there seems to be an interesting business / social opportunity to design a cheap one-shot module (maybe 1/4 U form factor) to deploy.
Trademarks may stink, but they're the law. If you come up with an app you want to protect in a business segment, the ONLY way to protect your use of that app name in stores and (if you managed to acquire it) the domain name is to get yourself a REGISTERED trademark on it for that market segment. You can do it yourself for a few hundred dollars (US only). Without it, others can make a [poor] copy of your work, legally take your domain name away, have your app removed from stores, and cause all sorts of problems. You may be better off renaming your app to something you obtain a trademark for and telling your customers why you renamed, then pay a laywer to beat someone else's REGISTERED trademark of a mark you were using, as that could easily cost tens of thousands or more. Remember, the "legal" system, like the "justice" system, is a massively rigged game for people with money and influence to use as a club. Nothing about them is fair or just in anything but name. There are billion dollar companies for whom playing this game is their basic business plan, and you having your own registered trademark at least blocks your easy removal from the most common search surfaces of the web...
Are you sure its radiation hasn't killed anyone? I've seen several "news" articles that claim a death toll of over 10,000 spread across the pacific, including thousands in California.
Sarcasm aside (and the above is true, in that those "articles" are floating out among fringe "environmentalist" sites), a HUGE part of the problem is in domestic nuclear industry that isn't replacing plants far past their operational lifetime with the newer and MUCH safer designs, since that would cost real money and the stockholders want that to be reexamined next quarter, after they sell. And short. Greed and stupidity on both sides...
DMLS printing uses metal powders sintered by high power lasers. The metals not only include Titanium and Inconel (rocket engine superalloy), but can include gradient transitions between them in the same piece. While some surface work may be required for some applications, the crystalline structure of the metal itself is of finer quality that that produced by machining + annealing used for high grade parts the old fashioned way.
These are not your homebrew melted plastic filament printers, and they are changing manufacturing.