I'm sad that Passopolis/Mitro hasn't gotten more love after the Mitro team open sourced it, and We Are Wizards took it over. Mitro was great before Twitter acquired the team behind it. Sadly, Passopolis has never bothered to get the Android client working again. I looked at building it myself, but the toolchain is ancient by Android standards..
Master key is a 128-bit AES key derived using PBKDF2 (SHA-1; 50000 iterations; 16 salt bytes) RSA with 2048-bit keys using OAEP-SHA1 (separate signing and encryption keys) AES with 128-bit keys in CBC mode with PKCS5 padding All encrypted data includes a MAC (HMAC-SHA1)
Full disclosure/shameless plug: I work internal IT for ExtraHop Networks.
Analytics platforms like ExtraHop do the analysis on streams of data in real-time so that what gets sent to the Big Data store (such as Elasticsearch) is structured or clean data that's more immediately useful.
However, it should be noted that there is a culture/counter-culture cycle at work as well. Punk rock grew because Rock lost a lot of its rebellious spirit as things like prog rock and glam became mainstream. Industrial was created by punks who were pissed that punk became mainstream as well. They set out to create something that could never become popular... and failed. Goth/Industrial has managed to make its way into shopping malls the world over via Hot Topic, The Crow, NIN, Anne Rice, and Twilight. Rap fulfills the rebellion role as well, and with the ability to record and transmit sound we have now, we end up with gangsters that have murdered people being paid millions of dollars to glorify the image of the 'thug life'. And now we have reaction videos of people trolling old folks with Skrillex. *shrug* Generally speaking, your parents music is going to sound dated to you because you grew up with it. And as your teen years roll around, that rebellious nature isn't going to be satisfied by miming your parents' taste. There is more to music than technical ability, there is no accounting for taste, and with the constantly morphing culture of a globalizing world, as well as the rapid pace of technology (remember, electric music as we know it very VERY new) who knows what tomorrow will hold. I do take heart in the fact that the pendulum seems to swing back and forth. You'll get bursts of creativity that the labels can't ignore followed by a decade of commercial crap.
Which is par for the course in rap and modern electronic production. Remember "Come to Me" by P. Diddy? *shudder* I'll never forgive Jimmy Page for assisting with that atrocity... And who knows how many rappers that have sampled/covered "Fly Like An Eagle". I still chuckle at the fact that Mix-A-Lot and 2 Live Crew both sampled the hell out of Kraftwerk... Actually, EVERYBODY samples Kraftwerk.;)
Sorry, I'm a DJ and an amateur electronica producer, so I'm highly opinionated on the subject. I think there is a fine line between artistic re-purposing (a la a collage), and just whole sale ripping off a song. I http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clubbed_to_Death_(song)
If you want to look up who sampled what from who, I highly recommend this site: http://www.whosampled.com/
Also, if want to see some pretty amazing hackery, check out how to recreated "Smack My Bitch Up" by Prodigy in Ableton Live. Its almost nothing but warped samples: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU5Dn-WaElI
“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources” Albert Einstein (among many others)
"Better, faster, stronger," Apple could have easily lifted those Kanye West lyrics for their press release announcing the coming of the iPhone 3GS in 2009.
*facepalm* Sorry, I know its a minor detail, but Daft Punk originally wrote "Better, faster, harder, stronger", and Kanye sampled it (with permission) for his song. They have a cameo in his video, which is an awesome tribute to Akira for those that haven't seen it.
[...]And try as hard as I like, A small crack appears In my diplomacy-dike. “By definition”, I begin “Alternative Medicine”, I continue “Has either not been proved to work, Or been proved not to work. You know what they call “alternative medicine” That’s been proved to work? Medicine.”[...]
This kind of bile and arrogance from elitists is exactly what makes Apple products more popular than other *NIX flavors, these days. This is exactly was repulses your everyday Joe from your platform, tools, and heroes of choice. No one wants to hang out with a bitter nerd except for other nerds with the same bitterness. So keep it up! My grandparent's and their Apple shares also thanks you!
I run Ubuntu on my server. I run Ubuntu on my desktop for day to day usage (oh, except for when SMPlayer, VLC, Totem, or xine won't play my DVDs correctly, or when I'm sick of GDM crashing, or the nVidia drivers not working quite right, or I want to get more than 4 hours of life out of my laptop's battery). I reboot into Windows for gaming (and no, WINE doesn't work for everything). And I boot into OS X if I want to get audio production done (see line above). Surprise! Mac OS X is better at somethings than Linux! Surprise! iPhones is better at somethings than Android!
You may now all return to being armchair experts....
I'm on T-Mobile at the moment (with an aging Android Dev Phone*), but my contract expired a while ago so I'm free to leave if I please. I definitely want to stick with the Android platform. For a while I was drooling over Sprint's EVO 3D, but I heard its battery life sucks when you use the 3D features a lot. I live in Seattle, BTW.
If Obama wasn't such a coward, the last president would be behind bars (along with most of his cronies), we'd have single-payer-for-all health care, and Wall Street would actually be held responsible for treating the economy the way Michael Vic treats dogs.... FTFY
The hypothetical situation with Bob the bomber and Sam the sharpshooter actually illustrates the point nicely. The fact that its come down to Sam or Bob committing violence means that negotiating and other non-violent tactics have failed. In other words, the people running the show did not have the competence required to defuse the situation so its come down to snipe or explodey.
Truthfully, a parent has not "failed" because they let a kid play a game like GTA. Rather, they only failed if they didn't accompany it with some explanation....
I've actually let my 7 year old play GTA on my PS3, but I made it clear it's a game where you play a "very bad person" and it's a story about people doing things you're not supposed to do in real life. She played a little bit, had fun driving the cars around and so forth, and basically got bored with it after a few minutes. So now? It's not some big "taboo" thing anymore to her. It's just another one of those games for "older people", and she's not that interested in playing some bad guy doing bad stuff.....
Sure, I believe there are things best kept away from kids until they're old enough to really understand and deal with the topics they present. But it's the job of a parent to make those judgment calls for themselves. Sometimes, maybe they're wrong... but overall, who else knows a kid better than their own mom or dad? I'd argue that trying to simply lock up some video game like GTA to prevent a kid from ever playing it is parental laziness. You can't prevent your kid from ever seeing or playing the game at somebody else's house, some day..... You may as well confront the thing head on.
THIS
I believe this is why I never became a smoker or even had an interest in trying pot while I was a teen. My parent were very open and didn't treat me like I was stupid. By having open discussions about things instead of totalitarian rules ("BECAUSE I SAID SO!") it removes the "rebellion factor". Now I feel sorry for all of my friends that are hooked and are struggling with quiting. Thanks Mom & Dad!:D
An even more interresting question is: why is consensuel sex in a movie rated 18, while a murder is rated 13 or so. The "we don't want the kids to imitate" argument doesn't work here.
Much along the same lines, I've always wondered why (at least in Washington State) the age of consent is 16, but you have to be 18 to buy porn.
So what? You can have sex, you just can't look at it? Is a 16-17 year old only allowed to have sex with a blind folder on?
Having just wiped my drive and installed Jaunty 64-bit, I have to say this release feels to me anything but slick. My alarm clock software (alarm-clock) freezes the GUI (except for the mouse cursor). Remote Desktop (vino) won't send screen updates if you're using closed source nvidia drivers + compiz. Maybe if I reinstall and go 32-bit instead of 64 some of my issues my go away. However, Ubuntu recommends you install the 64-bit version unless you have a good reason not to.
Looks like I might have "good reasons".
Don't get me wrong. I LOVE Ubuntu. However, as someone that uses and supports Mac OS X and XP as well as Ubuntu on a daily basis, I can tell you that "slick" is not the word to describe this release. Come on, guys! Some of these bugs have been open for months!
Oh well, I guess I'll never be able to get rid of my XP partition anyways. At least, not until Propellerheads, Ableton, and Native Instruments port their respective audio software packages to linux, which should happen sometime between now and when the private key for signing Xbox 360 games is publicly factored out.:)
Sorry... though I appreciate VLC, I think its far from the best media player. My vote would go to the numerous incarnation of MPlayer. From Xbox Media Center to SMPlayer on Linux and Windows to MPlayer OSX Extended on Mac OS X, MPlayer has always been able to play whatever weird codec or container I toss at it. Meanwhile, every time I've attempted to use VLC (mainly on OS X) I've become frustrated by hangs and crashes... Maybe I'll hate this version a little less?
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C++'s days are numbered.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"The designers were primarily motivated by their shared dislike of C++."
References:
"Dr. Dobb's: Interview with Ken Thompson": http://www.drdobbs.com/open-so...
"Less is exponentially more": http://commandcenter.blogspot....
""The Evolution of Go": https://talks.golang.org/2015/...
And I'm not the only one who agrees.
"Why ESR Hates C++, Respects Java, and Thinks Go (But Not Rust) Will Replace C"
https://slashdot.org/story/334...
I'm sad that Passopolis/Mitro hasn't gotten more love after the Mitro team open sourced it, and We Are Wizards took it over. Mitro was great before Twitter acquired the team behind it. Sadly, Passopolis has never bothered to get the Android client working again. I looked at building it myself, but the toolchain is ancient by Android standards..
https://passopolis.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Mitro uses Google's Keyczar on the server and Keyczar JS implementation on the browser.
Master key is a 128-bit AES key derived using PBKDF2 (SHA-1; 50000 iterations; 16 salt bytes)
RSA with 2048-bit keys using OAEP-SHA1 (separate signing and encryption keys)
AES with 128-bit keys in CBC mode with PKCS5 padding
All encrypted data includes a MAC (HMAC-SHA1)
People locking their front doors will force law enforcement to follow due process!
*GASP*!
I was incorrect. The 2015 iMac has a Skylake CPU.
Correct, but for the wrong reason:
There are currently no Apple products that utilize a Skylake CPU.
Full disclosure/shameless plug: I work internal IT for ExtraHop Networks.
Analytics platforms like ExtraHop do the analysis on streams of data in real-time so that what gets sent to the Big Data store (such as Elasticsearch) is structured or clean data that's more immediately useful.
However, it should be noted that there is a culture/counter-culture cycle at work as well. Punk rock grew because Rock lost a lot of its rebellious spirit as things like prog rock and glam became mainstream. Industrial was created by punks who were pissed that punk became mainstream as well. They set out to create something that could never become popular... and failed. Goth/Industrial has managed to make its way into shopping malls the world over via Hot Topic, The Crow, NIN, Anne Rice, and Twilight. Rap fulfills the rebellion role as well, and with the ability to record and transmit sound we have now, we end up with gangsters that have murdered people being paid millions of dollars to glorify the image of the 'thug life'. And now we have reaction videos of people trolling old folks with Skrillex. *shrug* Generally speaking, your parents music is going to sound dated to you because you grew up with it. And as your teen years roll around, that rebellious nature isn't going to be satisfied by miming your parents' taste. There is more to music than technical ability, there is no accounting for taste, and with the constantly morphing culture of a globalizing world, as well as the rapid pace of technology (remember, electric music as we know it very VERY new) who knows what tomorrow will hold. I do take heart in the fact that the pendulum seems to swing back and forth. You'll get bursts of creativity that the labels can't ignore followed by a decade of commercial crap.
My $0.02...
Which is par for the course in rap and modern electronic production. ;)
Remember "Come to Me" by P. Diddy?
*shudder*
I'll never forgive Jimmy Page for assisting with that atrocity...
And who knows how many rappers that have sampled/covered "Fly Like An Eagle".
I still chuckle at the fact that Mix-A-Lot and 2 Live Crew both sampled the hell out of Kraftwerk... Actually, EVERYBODY samples Kraftwerk.
Sorry, I'm a DJ and an amateur electronica producer, so I'm highly opinionated on the subject. I think there is a fine line between artistic re-purposing (a la a collage), and just whole sale ripping off a song. I http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clubbed_to_Death_(song)
If you want to look up who sampled what from who, I highly recommend this site:
http://www.whosampled.com/
Also, if want to see some pretty amazing hackery, check out how to recreated "Smack My Bitch Up" by Prodigy in Ableton Live. Its almost nothing but warped samples:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU5Dn-WaElI
“Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources” Albert Einstein (among many others)
I never claimed they wrote the music... I just took issue with the statement that the lyrics came from a Kanya song...
"Better, faster, stronger," Apple could have easily lifted those Kanye West lyrics for their press release announcing the coming of the iPhone 3GS in 2009.
*facepalm* Sorry, I know its a minor detail, but Daft Punk originally wrote "Better, faster, harder, stronger", and Kanye sampled it (with permission) for his song. They have a cameo in his video, which is an awesome tribute to Akira for those that haven't seen it.
*watches Daft Hands and Daft Bodies on youtube*
I give you, Tim Michin's "Storm"
[...]And try as hard as I like,
A small crack appears
In my diplomacy-dike.
“By definition”, I begin
“Alternative Medicine”, I continue
“Has either not been proved to work,
Or been proved not to work.
You know what they call “alternative medicine”
That’s been proved to work?
Medicine.”[...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhGuXCuDb1U
Thanks for keeping my Apple stock soaring, /.
This kind of bile and arrogance from elitists is exactly what makes Apple products more popular than other *NIX flavors, these days.
This is exactly was repulses your everyday Joe from your platform, tools, and heroes of choice.
No one wants to hang out with a bitter nerd except for other nerds with the same bitterness.
So keep it up! My grandparent's and their Apple shares also thanks you!
I run Ubuntu on my server.
I run Ubuntu on my desktop for day to day usage (oh, except for when SMPlayer, VLC, Totem, or xine won't play my DVDs correctly, or when I'm sick of GDM crashing, or the nVidia drivers not working quite right, or I want to get more than 4 hours of life out of my laptop's battery).
I reboot into Windows for gaming (and no, WINE doesn't work for everything).
And I boot into OS X if I want to get audio production done (see line above).
Surprise! Mac OS X is better at somethings than Linux!
Surprise! iPhones is better at somethings than Android!
You may now all return to being armchair experts....
I'm on T-Mobile at the moment (with an aging Android Dev Phone*), but my contract expired a while ago so I'm free to leave if I please. I definitely want to stick with the Android platform. For a while I was drooling over Sprint's EVO 3D, but I heard its battery life sucks when you use the 3D features a lot. I live in Seattle, BTW.
Who would you recommend?
I find it amusing that these stats are coming out right before PAX Prime...
I didn't realize /. was giving PUA advice now. ;)
Ahhh! Good point. I just tested it with another random link from TPB and got the same thing. Its still censorship, just of a more generalize kind. ;)
If Obama wasn't such a coward, the last president would be behind bars (along with most of his cronies), we'd have single-payer-for-all health care, and Wall Street would actually be held responsible for treating the economy the way Michael Vic treats dogs....
FTFY
I just tried to post the link to the torrent on my facebook, and got this:
This message contains blocked content that has previously been flagged as abusive or spammy. Let us know if you think this is an error.
Hmmmm... the link hasn't even been up that long, has it? Me thinks Zuckerberg and company are staying on Uncle Sam's friendly side...
WHAT WE NEED MORE OF IS SCIENCE!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89jt7zJzkNQ
"Zombies. Hari Seldon saw this coming..." -- Salvor Hardin, Foundation (Isaac Asimov) (Upon encountering a zombie)
The hypothetical situation with Bob the bomber and Sam the sharpshooter actually illustrates the point nicely. The fact that its come down to Sam or Bob committing violence means that negotiating and other non-violent tactics have failed. In other words, the people running the show did not have the competence required to defuse the situation so its come down to snipe or explodey.
Truthfully, a parent has not "failed" because they let a kid play a game like GTA. Rather, they only failed if they didn't accompany it with some explanation....
I've actually let my 7 year old play GTA on my PS3, but I made it clear it's a game where you play a "very bad person" and it's a story about people doing things you're not supposed to do in real life. She played a little bit, had fun driving the cars around and so forth, and basically got bored with it after a few minutes. So now? It's not some big "taboo" thing anymore to her. It's just another one of those games for "older people", and she's not that interested in playing some bad guy doing bad stuff.....
Sure, I believe there are things best kept away from kids until they're old enough to really understand and deal with the topics they present. But it's the job of a parent to make those judgment calls for themselves. Sometimes, maybe they're wrong ... but overall, who else knows a kid better than their own mom or dad? I'd argue that trying to simply lock up some video game like GTA to prevent a kid from ever playing it is parental laziness. You can't prevent your kid from ever seeing or playing the game at somebody else's house, some day..... You may as well confront the thing head on.
THIS
I believe this is why I never became a smoker or even had an interest in trying pot while I was a teen. My parent were very open and didn't treat me like I was stupid. By having open discussions about things instead of totalitarian rules ("BECAUSE I SAID SO!") it removes the "rebellion factor". Now I feel sorry for all of my friends that are hooked and are struggling with quiting. Thanks Mom & Dad! :D
An even more interresting question is: why is consensuel sex in a movie rated 18, while a murder is rated 13 or so. The "we don't want the kids to imitate" argument doesn't work here.
Much along the same lines, I've always wondered why (at least in Washington State) the age of consent is 16, but you have to be 18 to buy porn.
So what? You can have sex, you just can't look at it? Is a 16-17 year old only allowed to have sex with a blind folder on?
Try installing the Dropline Neu! icon set via synaptic/apt. I can't stand the default icons!
Having just wiped my drive and installed Jaunty 64-bit, I have to say this release feels to me anything but slick. My alarm clock software (alarm-clock) freezes the GUI (except for the mouse cursor). Remote Desktop (vino) won't send screen updates if you're using closed source nvidia drivers + compiz. Maybe if I reinstall and go 32-bit instead of 64 some of my issues my go away. However, Ubuntu recommends you install the 64-bit version unless you have a good reason not to.
Looks like I might have "good reasons".
Don't get me wrong. I LOVE Ubuntu. However, as someone that uses and supports Mac OS X and XP as well as Ubuntu on a daily basis, I can tell you that "slick" is not the word to describe this release. Come on, guys! Some of these bugs have been open for months!
Oh well, I guess I'll never be able to get rid of my XP partition anyways. At least, not until Propellerheads, Ableton, and Native Instruments port their respective audio software packages to linux, which should happen sometime between now and when the private key for signing Xbox 360 games is publicly factored out. :)
Sorry... though I appreciate VLC, I think its far from the best media player. My vote would go to the numerous incarnation of MPlayer. From Xbox Media Center to SMPlayer on Linux and Windows to MPlayer OSX Extended on Mac OS X, MPlayer has always been able to play whatever weird codec or container I toss at it. Meanwhile, every time I've attempted to use VLC (mainly on OS X) I've become frustrated by hangs and crashes... Maybe I'll hate this version a little less?