I would be happy to answer that right after you explain why you and your colleagues have been ignoring everyone and their fucking brother telling you your electronic voting machines are susceptible to manipulation for the past GD decade or more.
Personally, I don't really have any major need for a mirrorless system since the body size reduction is rendered moot once I start connecting up the big glass. In fact, the weight difference may alter the balance quite a bit on the bigger tele-photos ( 300mm f/2.8 and larger ).
I suppose the on sensor stabilization would be a benefit for some of my lenses, but the majority already have VR and those that don't I typically use with a tripod anyway. It's nice Nikon retains the use of F mount glass ( to the relief of all the folks invested in it ) but an adapter is just another piece of hardware that can go bad on you.
In addition, since the sensor is always active during composure ( like all mirrorless and / or live view on a DSLR ) I suspect it's going to burn through batteries at an accelerated rate necessitating the need to carry several of them. ( Heh, so much for weight reduction:D )
The lack of a secondary card slot is going to turn a lot of folks off to it. ( Though it does have Wi-Fi and Blutooth on camera without external adapters ) Since they went with the XQD format ( not an issue for me as my bodies already use it ) I can see why Nikon is offering their own branded versions of the card now.
Not bad for a first attempt at it I guess.
Will have to wait and see what the field reviews say.
Depending on what day / year it is ( and also who the corporate sponsor is ), there always seems to be some " study " that concludes that $product is bad / good for me.
This changes so frequently, it's impossible to remember what is what anymore.
This year, X is good for you ! A few years from now, X is bad for you ! A few years later, X is good for you again !:facepalm:
Just eat / drink what you want. In the end, you're gonna die from something anyway.
The definition of hate speech is a moving target and subject to the whim of those in charge at the time OR pressure from whatever voter demographic yells the loudest.
Today, you can't say anything meaningful without someone claiming to be offended by it.
Once enough folks claim to be offended, ( -waves wand- politico correcto ! ) it magically becomes hate speech.
Just. Like. That.
People don't need the government to protect them from words or ideas. If anything, the government needs to take a good look at itself and realize what a laughing stock shit show it has become.
The first step to fixing a problem is realizing you have one.
Unless there is some undisclosed backdoor ( possible, but unlikely ) in the software he's using to encrypt his messages, the more plausible scenario is the FBI has more control over his phone that he does. ( Probably true for all of us sadly )
They need only drop in some sneaky malware ( pick your favorite method up to and including your telco doing it for you ) and presto!, even the greatest crypto ever made can be rendered useless.
Moral of this story: If you can't confirm your platform ( in this case, the phone ) is secure, then you should assume none of the traffic going through it is secure either.
2nd Moral: If you're going to do any criminal shit of any kind, don't be stupid enough to do it over your GD phone.
Every time a company gets caught doing something stupid, they never accept responsibility for it. They just have a junior programmer, or software " bug " or whatever ready to go as the designated scapegoat.
Why spend your own money on litigation ( lawyers are expensive ) when you can rent a Congress Critter to draft a law forcing the rest of the world to do it for you ?
Seriously, the MPAA / RIAA have been trying to stop this since the days of cassette tape and Beta-Max and they have NEVER been successful. It sounds to me they're just tired of wasting their time and money and want to force everyone else to waste theirs for a while.
One might think the smarter move would be to put that money to better use so folks won't have much need to pirate anything. Example they fought tooth and nail against streaming / digital downloading claiming the end was nigh . . . . .
But here we are and legitimate streaming / downloading is pretty much the de-facto standard method of delivery now.
I swear I don't think the folks in charge over there look much past tomorrow when it comes to long term planning.
With Mid-Terms just around the corner the timing of this is basically grandstanding. This is simply something they'll use to generate hate for the other team.
If they were serious about security, they would have introduced this bill years ago.
This from the team that basically rigged their primary to ensure the " right " candidate would get the nod.
With all the uproar over access to private / personal data that is stored on a smartphone, I am shocked they don't simply secretly upload said data periodically to a cloud server instead and call it a backup.
Then they just have to bribe . . . . er. . . promise lucrative contracts to the Telco for access.
Then again, they may already do so and the rest of this is just misdirection.
that there is nothing on live TV worth recording in the first place.
From the " What folks really fucking want " department:
Create a DVR that just removes commercials entirely from a recorded broadcast and you're on to something. Actually, belay that . . . . .
Since that will get the lawyer types drooling over dreams of litigation, instead of removing the commercials completely, the DVR time shifts all the commercials to the end of the recorded program. That way, they're still there if you want to watch them, ( for you closet masochists out there ) and the advertising companies have nothing to bitch about since their Ads haven't been removed.
Why is it everyone except the lawmakers or product designers see how distracting these GD things are ?
Normally, I would say let nature take its course and those that die off due to being distracted during critical moments in life deserve it. It tends to tidy up the gene pool a bit.
However, the victims of this problem aren't always isolated to those who cause it. They have a tendency to impact anyone in the general area which is where I have a problem with it. It's no more the drowning child's fault for their parents being stupid than it is a random driver on the freeway getting slaughtered because the idiot that rear-ended them at high speed was texting on their phone at the time.
Basically, when common sense breaks down, laws have to be written in an effort to suppress the stupid. Until it happens, lots of innocent folks will suffer.
So the whole " OMG TEH CHILDRENS ARE DROWNING " isn't really a problem.
If you develop an application that is worth a damn AND not treat your userbase like the only reason they exist is to give you money, you won't need a subscription model.
One application off the top of my head that fits this description:
Zbrush from Pixologic
Cost me $600 many, many years ago and every update and even upgrades cost exactly nothing for legitimate, registered users.
One could say the pirated / cracked versions also cost nothing assuming you trust the folks doing the cracking to be honorable upstanding types. ( I don't, thus do I pay full price for quality applications I use frequently )
I have been burned too many times when an upgrade / update broke something and rendered the entire platform useless.
I want the option to determine if your application upgrades are worth my support or not.
This puts pressure on YOU to keep developing an application worthy of use vs being lazy because subscription dollars are rolling in.
Masters Level Nursing Courses via the University of Texas ( Arlington ) require that you have a webcam enabled where you and your computer / desk are in full view at all times during any test. ( It is monitored in real time during the test )
Before the test even starts, you will show your StudentID to the camera so they can verify you are who you claim to be. You must then pan the room with the webcam to show you are alone and that nothing is on or around your desk you can use to cheat. You are not allowed to leave the room once the test starts and you cannot talk with anyone.
Even though you can do all of your coursework and testing remotely via the above method, the certification tests ( NCLEX ) will require you to test at one of their approved locations.
If you can brute force my passphrase via Hashcat, you DESERVE to get access to my network.
Well, the Wi-Fi segment anyway. All my networks are isolated from each other. Wi-Fi traffic isn't allowed to talk with anything on the local network. Not even other clients.
The key you need to brute force:
Thirty two characters long. Upper / lower case, numbers and symbols.
Doing the math tells me I have nothing to worry about from Hashcat any time soon.
It's far more likely folks will resort to means other than brute force to obtain my key. Assuming access to my network is important enough for someone to try.
is there will be exactly zero consequences even after admitting they lied to pretty much everyone.
Zero. None. Nada. Zip.
As I posted in another thread about corporations and their standby scapegoats whenever they get caught doing something immoral, unethical or downright illegal, so too does the government have their pockets full of excuses ready to go when they fall into the spotlight of shame.
They always tend to blame everyone except themselves.
Yet, so deep is the bullshit, they are too blind to realize that the real problem, is them.
This would only make it even more difficult if researchers have to navigate their way through decoy code designed against finding real bugs in the first place.
Not to mention, bloated code becomes even MORE bloated code.:|
So the entire idea is " If you can't fix the bugs in the code, hide it amidst a bunch of fake bugs in code ? "
In the history of anything, has security through obscurity EVER worked in the long term ?
Anytime a company gets caught doing something unethical, they always seem to have their scapegoat ready to go. This scapegoat is more powerful than an entire ARMY of lawyers can ever hope to be. It's effectively their " Get out of Jail " free card.
Ever notice how: It's always a " glitch ", " computer error ", " junior programmer " or " hackers ". It's never, EVER the fault of the company. It's always something else.
No one goes to jail. The penalty is basically a slap on the wrist, the upper level executives are allowed to leave with their golden parachutes and the whole thing quietly fades away to a memory mostly forgotten a few years later.
I can count on one hand the TOTAL number of Tesla vehicles ( any of them ) I've actually seen driving around in and around the Houston / Galveston Metro area. ( Since Tesla became a company ) I've seen more Ferrari and Lamborghini than I have Tesla:|
I have yet to see a single charging station at all anywhere in Texas. ( I did spot a few in Colorado )
So, I'll take this " Outselling everyone " silliness with a grain of salt until I actually start seeing them in higher numbers.
will see a significant increase in Linux, macOS and may actually BE the death of the desktop.
Ironic that the folks who helped bring the desktop to the masses would also be the ones to kill it off.:| All in the name of greed.
There is exactly ZERO chance I will ever " rent " my operating system and cede what little control I have left to someone like Microsoft. I keep my drawing tablet ( Wacom Studio Pro / Win10 ) offline because I don't want it updating / breaking anything. Will be impossible to do with a Managed Desktop that is required to check in on a monthly basis to see if you are still " allowed " to use your computer:|
Once implemented, I'm pretty sure we're seeing the final days of Microsoft. The smart ones will start selling their stock off as soon as possible.
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I would be happy to answer that right after you explain why you and your colleagues have been ignoring everyone and their fucking brother telling you your electronic voting machines are susceptible to manipulation for the past GD decade or more.
NOW it's a big deal ? :facepalm:
Personally, I don't really have any major need for a mirrorless system since the body size reduction is rendered moot
once I start connecting up the big glass. In fact, the weight difference may alter the balance quite a bit on the bigger
tele-photos ( 300mm f/2.8 and larger ).
I suppose the on sensor stabilization would be a benefit for some of my lenses, but the majority already have VR and
those that don't I typically use with a tripod anyway. It's nice Nikon retains the use of F mount glass ( to the relief of all
the folks invested in it ) but an adapter is just another piece of hardware that can go bad on you.
In addition, since the sensor is always active during composure ( like all mirrorless and / or live view on a DSLR ) I :D )
suspect it's going to burn through batteries at an accelerated rate necessitating the need to carry several of them.
( Heh, so much for weight reduction
The lack of a secondary card slot is going to turn a lot of folks off to it. ( Though it does have Wi-Fi and Blutooth on
camera without external adapters ) Since they went with the XQD format ( not an issue for me as my bodies already
use it ) I can see why Nikon is offering their own branded versions of the card now.
Not bad for a first attempt at it I guess.
Will have to wait and see what the field reviews say.
Depending on what day / year it is ( and also who the corporate sponsor is ), there always seems to be
some " study " that concludes that $product is bad / good for me.
This changes so frequently, it's impossible to remember what is what anymore.
This year, X is good for you ! :facepalm:
A few years from now, X is bad for you !
A few years later, X is good for you again !
Just eat / drink what you want.
In the end, you're gonna die from something anyway.
See here's the problem.
The definition of hate speech is a moving target and subject to the whim of those in charge at the time OR pressure from whatever voter demographic yells the loudest.
Today, you can't say anything meaningful without someone claiming to be offended by it.
Once enough folks claim to be offended, ( -waves wand- politico correcto ! ) it magically becomes hate speech.
Just. Like. That.
People don't need the government to protect them from words or ideas. If anything, the government needs to take a good look at itself and realize what a laughing stock shit show it has become.
The first step to fixing a problem is realizing you have one.
when you can break the window ?
Unless there is some undisclosed backdoor ( possible, but unlikely ) in the software he's
using to encrypt his messages, the more plausible scenario is the FBI has more control
over his phone that he does. ( Probably true for all of us sadly )
They need only drop in some sneaky malware ( pick your favorite method up to and including
your telco doing it for you ) and presto!, even the greatest crypto ever made can be rendered
useless.
Moral of this story: If you can't confirm your platform ( in this case, the phone ) is secure,
then you should assume none of the traffic going through it is secure either.
2nd Moral: If you're going to do any criminal shit of any kind, don't be stupid enough to do
it over your GD phone.
and will say it again. . . .
Every time a company gets caught doing something stupid, they never accept responsibility for it. They just have a junior programmer, or software " bug " or whatever ready to go as the designated scapegoat.
Is basically what it boils down to.
Why spend your own money on litigation ( lawyers are expensive ) when you can
rent a Congress Critter to draft a law forcing the rest of the world to do it for you ?
Seriously, the MPAA / RIAA have been trying to stop this since the days of cassette
tape and Beta-Max and they have NEVER been successful. It sounds to me they're
just tired of wasting their time and money and want to force everyone else to waste
theirs for a while.
One might think the smarter move would be to put that money to better use so folks
won't have much need to pirate anything. Example they fought tooth and nail against
streaming / digital downloading claiming the end was nigh . . . . .
But here we are and legitimate streaming / downloading is pretty much the de-facto
standard method of delivery now.
I swear I don't think the folks in charge over there look much past tomorrow when it
comes to long term planning.
With Mid-Terms just around the corner the timing of this is basically grandstanding. This is simply something they'll use to generate hate for the other team.
If they were serious about security, they would have introduced this bill years ago.
This from the team that basically rigged their primary to ensure the " right " candidate would get the nod.
Which is why I wait for real world reviews / benchmarks before making a decision.
With all the uproar over access to private / personal data that is stored on a smartphone, I am shocked they don't simply secretly upload said data periodically to a cloud server instead and call it a backup.
Then they just have to bribe . . . . er. . . promise lucrative contracts to the Telco for access.
Then again, they may already do so and the rest of this is just misdirection.
that there is nothing on live TV worth recording in the first place.
From the " What folks really fucking want " department:
Create a DVR that just removes commercials entirely from a recorded broadcast and you're on to something.
Actually, belay that . . . . .
Since that will get the lawyer types drooling over dreams of litigation, instead of removing the commercials completely,
the DVR time shifts all the commercials to the end of the recorded program. That way, they're still there if you want to
watch them, ( for you closet masochists out there ) and the advertising companies have nothing to bitch about since
their Ads haven't been removed.
What self respecting nefarious type monologues their " evil plan " over Facebook Messenger ?!
( or any online Social Media platform for that matter )
The ultimate shame in the underworld is to get caught and put in prison KNOWING THAT MARK ZUCKERBERG helped make it happen :|
Why is it everyone except the lawmakers or product designers see how distracting these GD things are ?
Normally, I would say let nature take its course and those that die off due to being distracted during critical moments in life deserve it.
It tends to tidy up the gene pool a bit.
However, the victims of this problem aren't always isolated to those who cause it. They have a tendency to impact anyone in the general area
which is where I have a problem with it. It's no more the drowning child's fault for their parents being stupid than it is a random driver on the
freeway getting slaughtered because the idiot that rear-ended them at high speed was texting on their phone at the time.
Basically, when common sense breaks down, laws have to be written in an effort to suppress the stupid.
Until it happens, lots of innocent folks will suffer.
So the whole " OMG TEH CHILDRENS ARE DROWNING " isn't really a problem.
It's a symptom.
If you develop an application that is worth a damn AND not treat your userbase like the only reason they exist is to give you money, you won't need a subscription model.
One application off the top of my head that fits this description:
Zbrush from Pixologic
Cost me $600 many, many years ago and every update and even upgrades cost exactly nothing for legitimate, registered users.
One could say the pirated / cracked versions also cost nothing assuming you trust the folks doing the cracking to be honorable upstanding types. ( I don't, thus do I pay full price for quality applications I use frequently )
I have been burned too many times when an upgrade / update broke something and rendered the entire platform useless.
I want the option to determine if your application upgrades are worth my support or not.
This puts pressure on YOU to keep developing an application worthy of use vs being lazy because subscription dollars are rolling in.
Varies from campus to campus.
If your University is local to you, then you can opt to take the test on campus.
However, UT Arlington is about a twelve hour drive from here so an on campus test would be a bit rough :)
It would.
However, it would be a self defeating idea to cheat.
You can probably cheat your way through the coursework, but you still have to have a mastery of the material if you want to pass the NCLEX test.
At the higher levels ( Eg Nurse Practitioner and above ) you also go before a board to prove you know your shit.
This, it's best to just learn it. Is easier for you in the long run :D
For example:
Masters Level Nursing Courses via the University of Texas ( Arlington ) require that you have a webcam enabled where
you and your computer / desk are in full view at all times during any test. ( It is monitored in real time during the test )
Before the test even starts, you will show your StudentID to the camera so they can verify you are who you claim to be.
You must then pan the room with the webcam to show you are alone and that nothing is on or around your desk you can
use to cheat. You are not allowed to leave the room once the test starts and you cannot talk with anyone.
Even though you can do all of your coursework and testing remotely via the above method, the certification tests ( NCLEX )
will require you to test at one of their approved locations.
If you can brute force my passphrase via Hashcat, you DESERVE to get access to my network.
Well, the Wi-Fi segment anyway. All my networks are isolated from each other. Wi-Fi traffic isn't allowed to talk with anything on the local network. Not even other clients.
The key you need to brute force:
Thirty two characters long. Upper / lower case, numbers and symbols.
Doing the math tells me I have nothing to worry about from Hashcat any time soon.
It's far more likely folks will resort to means other than brute force to obtain my key. Assuming access to my network is important enough for someone to try.
Which, it's not.
is there will be exactly zero consequences even after admitting they lied to pretty much everyone.
Zero. None. Nada. Zip.
As I posted in another thread about corporations and their standby scapegoats whenever they get caught doing something immoral, unethical
or downright illegal, so too does the government have their pockets full of excuses ready to go when they fall into the spotlight of shame.
They always tend to blame everyone except themselves.
Yet, so deep is the bullshit, they are too blind to realize that the real problem, is them.
This would only make it even more difficult if researchers have to navigate their way through decoy code designed
against finding real bugs in the first place.
Not to mention, bloated code becomes even MORE bloated code. :|
So the entire idea is " If you can't fix the bugs in the code, hide it amidst a bunch of fake bugs in code ? "
In the history of anything, has security through obscurity EVER worked in the long term ?
Anytime a company gets caught doing something unethical, they always seem to have their scapegoat ready to go.
This scapegoat is more powerful than an entire ARMY of lawyers can ever hope to be.
It's effectively their " Get out of Jail " free card.
Ever notice how:
It's always a " glitch ", " computer error ", " junior programmer " or " hackers ".
It's never, EVER the fault of the company. It's always something else.
No one goes to jail. The penalty is basically a slap on the wrist, the upper level executives are allowed to leave with
their golden parachutes and the whole thing quietly fades away to a memory mostly forgotten a few years later.
It's a sad, sad state of affairs really.
While I do not work in San Francisco, I would wager this issue is the same across all the major cities.
That issue being you can not go to lunch at " lunch time " because a bazillion other people are also going to lunch.
Traffic during lunch hours is fucked, second only to rush hour periods.
IF you can manage to get through traffic, then you get to stand in line or wait for a table for half an hour or more.
By the time you actually GET to eat, you have to head back to the office if you want to get back on time.
In the end, it will be easier to just bring your lunch. . . which means the local eateries still miss out.
Unless they ban that too :|
I can count on one hand the TOTAL number of Tesla vehicles ( any of them ) I've actually seen driving around in and around the Houston / Galveston Metro area. :|
( Since Tesla became a company ) I've seen more Ferrari and Lamborghini than I have Tesla
I have yet to see a single charging station at all anywhere in Texas. ( I did spot a few in Colorado )
So, I'll take this " Outselling everyone " silliness with a grain of salt until I actually start seeing them in higher numbers.
will see a significant increase in Linux, macOS and may actually BE the death of the desktop.
Ironic that the folks who helped bring the desktop to the masses would also be the ones to kill it off. :|
All in the name of greed.
There is exactly ZERO chance I will ever " rent " my operating system and cede what little control I have :|
left to someone like Microsoft. I keep my drawing tablet ( Wacom Studio Pro / Win10 ) offline because I
don't want it updating / breaking anything. Will be impossible to do with a Managed Desktop that is required
to check in on a monthly basis to see if you are still " allowed " to use your computer
Once implemented, I'm pretty sure we're seeing the final days of Microsoft. The smart ones will start selling
their stock off as soon as possible.
This is typically the end result when wages do not keep pace with cost of living or inflation. It's been this way for quite a long time now.
This is also subjective based on where you live.
$130k doesn't go nearly as far in San Francisco or New York as it does in Houston or $lower_cost_of_living_city