"After spending two hours trying to solve a print problem, I remember co-mantra and with the repeat very patient and competent help, i can now relax. Many thanks co-mantra, I have a felling that it was a good day when i joined your organization."
Yeah, that's about the gist of all the comments on their website. They are all from English sounding names (James Wood) that use constructs nobody would use.
"...repeat very patient and competent help..." yeah, rinse and repeat. "...felling..." I've got a feeling it's a scam alright "...i joined your organization..." just to get help support, goodness me, all that traveling
And then you start looking, and find out that nobody of the "commenters" uses uppercase "I" except at the start of sentences. Hmm, might I suggest that all this was written by the same person?
With a high enough amount, my bank will also require to input the total sum in the calculator. A long time ago they did not say what the number meant (which is weird, because people will enter it without checking) but now it has been made explicit.
"I think the key in the article is "standard TV set" by which they mean a CRT. A CRT varies its HT current draw by scene brightness, and its quite visibly obvious when troubleshooting. Heck even a cheapie consumer grade wattmeter could probably detect it. On/. a CRT is probably not considered a "standard TV" anymore, but out in the real world, deployed CRTs on the ground showing shiney pictures probably still outnumber all other deployed and working technologies, at least for a few more years..."
Maybe in the third world, but in NL, you would really strugle to find a household that stills uses a CRT, let allone an electronics store, that still sells CRT's. I'm on my second LCD already, and I only buy when something breaks (ok, the remote broke, but a 17" wide screen without HDMI and FullHD is not much as main screen:).
I see CRT's regularly though - mostly in storage rooms in the house, because people keep stuff that works, and bringing the TV to the recycle center is a job in itself.
You don't need a million dollars to own two TV's. Second hand TV's especially come pretty cheap (compared to many other costs anyway, not that that matters if you are broke...)
And they would find out what you are displaying on two TV's, and the one that never zaps, or zaps in the middle of the movie, that's the one you are not watching.
It's an interesting idea, but besides the administrational monster that it would create, there is the problem of e.g. validity periods and other certificate fields. It would be pretty interesting to see how to get the main CA's working together on deciding to put what in the certificate. And what happens if decides that the key has been compromised, and the others don't really see it that way? Who's CRL are you going to trust? Three out of five again? Or would you have a "parent CA" that is trusted for all of that?
Putting extra signatures under the cert is not really an issue, but I can see a lot of snags already - and I' ve only just started thinking about it.
The rational backup strategy for my movie collection *is* a RAID-1. One of which has actually failed (Samsung 2GB) so I have to replace it *quick*. It's not 100 safe or anything, but it's a balanced decission in my opinion.
Documents are stored on my SSD, my RAID and online, but I don't need 3 GB for that anyway.
Poor buggers, their own site forwards you to www.theregister.co.uk:) So even entering the IP address won't work. If it is forwarding me, I think the server is still happily serving requests, to no avail. Yup, changing the hosts file has the wanted result all right.
Oh, and I've seen very few articles from the reg during Sunday, so they might be waiting for the work week to begin, sleeping off their weekend beers.
Nope, that space argument is very valid, just looking at the screenshots and seeing the file preview part still there makes me cringe. That's one way of proving yourself right. We had this awfull thing at the bottom taking up space, and now we've put something slightly smaller at the top, so we're OK...
It always gets to me that people want something to be more convenient for computers, when computers are so much better at recalculating everything. Now, I'm all for the abolition of the 12 hour clock and of the DST, since I think they are an inconvenience for both computers *and* humans. But only UTC? Hell no, that only makes it easier for some people and computers. It does not make sense for most of us.
And although it is easier to make mistakes in a program when calculating UTC into local time, I think that still beats people having to guess what the time of day actually means. I mean, imagine listening to the radio and the presenter said: "you know, we had lunch at 9!!! Imagine having lunch that late!!!". Then he could add "in Wisconsin" or something so people could go and start calculating (probably coming to the conclusion that what I just used as a random example does not make sense).
For the same reason I absolutely abhor the one K = 1024 people. I don't think it makes our calculations easier, and I honestly thing that the computer does not care a bit (nor 128 bits) if it is 1000 or 1024. It was a close enough number that fortunately was 2^10 (why 10, why not 8?) but it's time to let the computer do the calculations, not us.
In case you think I'm biased: UTC is really easy for me, since I'm into cryptography and thus into certificate and CRL validity periods. Cryptography is normally also calculated in 128 bit, 256 bit and 1024 bit calculations nowadays. I do of course use KiB and UTC date representations all the time.
What do you mean: can big disk arrays be build so that replacements can be automated? Of course they can be build, it would not even be that hard. Well, as long as you don't put drive/server production and delivery of the components or auto assembly in the automated system. I could not find one on google, I guess on such a large drive array, you can afford a human to replace some disks now and then. Humans are more flexible and more prone to see other problems occuring as well.
And as an engineer, I would say: because it shares a code base with other Microsoft products. But that does not make it less wrong. And the problem is two fold: why does it support it at all, widening the attack surface, and why does allow Excel, and then the OS that it compromises security in such a way. IMHO, talking security is about talking "security layers", and both at RSA and with current operating environments, the layers allow for too much to slip by.
I think it's amazing how much energy is spent by the brain as well. After a day of having 10 word documents open, a gazillion folders and trying to do something meaningful with all that, I am really really hungry. I can eat a large lunch and feel very hungry at five thirty. Compare that with a weekend day - even one spent puzzling if it is drowsy outside. I can eat almost nothing at all. Of course, then I get home and cannot always sleep since I've just done too little to exercise my other cells (I really really need to sport more, at least two times after work).
Currently I'm in a bit of a dip, and after 7 hours, I'm just spend. I just went home today before the official day was over, since it was no use sitting around there staring at the screen with my mind on everything but it. The best jobs are those where you can do a bit of travel (to something other than your work, not commuting), a bit of physical work and some creative behind-the-desk stuff. In that regard my dad had the perfect job: responsible for office furnishings at a large company. Oh well, at least I know what kind of chair to get:)
The most immature PL out there. No exception handling, everything done with (multiple) return values, a very immature API (without modules of any kind, just one big thing that Java is *trying* to get rid off). They've made sure it *compiles* really fast. Now that's nice for a PL that you really really really don't want to create a large system with. And did they really decide on a name that you cannot really google? Yes, they did:)
I see it as a hobby project of some programmers trying to get into language design, nothing more, nothing less.
Yep, and it is one of those things that stop being a problem once you are used to it. It will take some time though. It's one of the things you can see converted C++ programmers doing wrong (trying to work around problems not covered in initial design). That and the use of _, confusing chars and bytes, not keeping to Java coding practice and forgetting that Java strings are immutable (actually supported by the platform, toUpperCase() really is a misnomer).
Anyway, for business applications inheritence is not such a useful tool, and for data containers you might as well specify a bunch of interfaces from the start.
They build in this weakness to be able to present the paper - one more paper to let your research institute exist! AES is (mostly/partly?) from Leuven.
Nah, just joking, Leuven is pretty well respected, I don't think it will disappear overnight.
Yeah, I didn't expect they were looking at Windows 7 search to find anything. I expect they were just visiting Niels Ferguson and got talked over to include Microsoft in the paper.
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"After spending two hours trying to solve a print problem, I remember co-mantra and with the repeat very patient and competent help, i can now relax. Many thanks co-mantra, I have a felling that it was a good day when i joined your organization."
Yeah, that's about the gist of all the comments on their website. They are all from English sounding names (James Wood) that use constructs nobody would use.
"...repeat very patient and competent help..." yeah, rinse and repeat.
"...felling..." I've got a feeling it's a scam alright
"...i joined your organization..." just to get help support, goodness me, all that traveling
And then you start looking, and find out that nobody of the "commenters" uses uppercase "I" except at the start of sentences. Hmm, might I suggest that all this was written by the same person?
With a high enough amount, my bank will also require to input the total sum in the calculator. A long time ago they did not say what the number meant (which is weird, because people will enter it without checking) but now it has been made explicit.
"I think the key in the article is "standard TV set" by which they mean a CRT. A CRT varies its HT current draw by scene brightness, and its quite visibly obvious when troubleshooting. Heck even a cheapie consumer grade wattmeter could probably detect it. On /. a CRT is probably not considered a "standard TV" anymore, but out in the real world, deployed CRTs on the ground showing shiney pictures probably still outnumber all other deployed and working technologies, at least for a few more years..."
Maybe in the third world, but in NL, you would really strugle to find a household that stills uses a CRT, let allone an electronics store, that still sells CRT's. I'm on my second LCD already, and I only buy when something breaks (ok, the remote broke, but a 17" wide screen without HDMI and FullHD is not much as main screen :).
I see CRT's regularly though - mostly in storage rooms in the house, because people keep stuff that works, and bringing the TV to the recycle center is a job in itself.
You don't need a million dollars to own two TV's. Second hand TV's especially come pretty cheap (compared to many other costs anyway, not that that matters if you are broke...)
And they would find out what you are displaying on two TV's, and the one that never zaps, or zaps in the middle of the movie, that's the one you are not watching.
And, knowing a bit about side channel attacks and statistics, you would be wrong.
France is France :), but there are few countries more EU than France none the less (I guess the BeNeLux would be more EU, but that's about it).
It's an interesting idea, but besides the administrational monster that it would create, there is the problem of e.g. validity periods and other certificate fields. It would be pretty interesting to see how to get the main CA's working together on deciding to put what in the certificate. And what happens if decides that the key has been compromised, and the others don't really see it that way? Who's CRL are you going to trust? Three out of five again? Or would you have a "parent CA" that is trusted for all of that?
Putting extra signatures under the cert is not really an issue, but I can see a lot of snags already - and I' ve only just started thinking about it.
The rational backup strategy for my movie collection *is* a RAID-1. One of which has actually failed (Samsung 2GB) so I have to replace it *quick*. It's not 100 safe or anything, but it's a balanced decission in my opinion.
Documents are stored on my SSD, my RAID and online, but I don't need 3 GB for that anyway.
Burst throughput from the drive itself still can not surpass SATA throughput, and even SATA-3 is not *that* fast.
Poor buggers, their own site forwards you to www.theregister.co.uk :) So even entering the IP address won't work. If it is forwarding me, I think the server is still happily serving requests, to no avail. Yup, changing the hosts file has the wanted result all right.
Oh, and I've seen very few articles from the reg during Sunday, so they might be waiting for the work week to begin, sleeping off their weekend beers.
Nope, that space argument is very valid, just looking at the screenshots and seeing the file preview part still there makes me cringe. That's one way of proving yourself right. We had this awfull thing at the bottom taking up space, and now we've put something slightly smaller at the top, so we're OK...
It always gets to me that people want something to be more convenient for computers, when computers are so much better at recalculating everything. Now, I'm all for the abolition of the 12 hour clock and of the DST, since I think they are an inconvenience for both computers *and* humans. But only UTC? Hell no, that only makes it easier for some people and computers. It does not make sense for most of us.
And although it is easier to make mistakes in a program when calculating UTC into local time, I think that still beats people having to guess what the time of day actually means. I mean, imagine listening to the radio and the presenter said: "you know, we had lunch at 9!!! Imagine having lunch that late!!!". Then he could add "in Wisconsin" or something so people could go and start calculating (probably coming to the conclusion that what I just used as a random example does not make sense).
For the same reason I absolutely abhor the one K = 1024 people. I don't think it makes our calculations easier, and I honestly thing that the computer does not care a bit (nor 128 bits) if it is 1000 or 1024. It was a close enough number that fortunately was 2^10 (why 10, why not 8?) but it's time to let the computer do the calculations, not us.
In case you think I'm biased: UTC is really easy for me, since I'm into cryptography and thus into certificate and CRL validity periods. Cryptography is normally also calculated in 128 bit, 256 bit and 1024 bit calculations nowadays. I do of course use KiB and UTC date representations all the time.
What do you mean: can big disk arrays be build so that replacements can be automated? Of course they can be build, it would not even be that hard. Well, as long as you don't put drive/server production and delivery of the components or auto assembly in the automated system. I could not find one on google, I guess on such a large drive array, you can afford a human to replace some disks now and then. Humans are more flexible and more prone to see other problems occuring as well.
And as an engineer, I would say: because it shares a code base with other Microsoft products. But that does not make it less wrong. And the problem is two fold: why does it support it at all, widening the attack surface, and why does allow Excel, and then the OS that it compromises security in such a way. IMHO, talking security is about talking "security layers", and both at RSA and with current operating environments, the layers allow for too much to slip by.
"It is quite easy to exceed c in water, for example."
I'll take you up on that. Crate of beer?
"...although their Java continues existence in the form of J++."
For some meanings of "continues existence". Basically, if you ever thought that would keep seeing the light of day, then you're now truly borked.
I think it's amazing how much energy is spent by the brain as well. After a day of having 10 word documents open, a gazillion folders and trying to do something meaningful with all that, I am really really hungry. I can eat a large lunch and feel very hungry at five thirty. Compare that with a weekend day - even one spent puzzling if it is drowsy outside. I can eat almost nothing at all. Of course, then I get home and cannot always sleep since I've just done too little to exercise my other cells (I really really need to sport more, at least two times after work).
Currently I'm in a bit of a dip, and after 7 hours, I'm just spend. I just went home today before the official day was over, since it was no use sitting around there staring at the screen with my mind on everything but it. The best jobs are those where you can do a bit of travel (to something other than your work, not commuting), a bit of physical work and some creative behind-the-desk stuff. In that regard my dad had the perfect job: responsible for office furnishings at a large company. Oh well, at least I know what kind of chair to get :)
"and it can be omnipresent. Like a cloud"
You must have the worst weather ever!
They are trying to put the servers in a tree like configuration at the moment, and should be operable at an enhanced 20/25% output soon.
The most immature PL out there. No exception handling, everything done with (multiple) return values, a very immature API (without modules of any kind, just one big thing that Java is *trying* to get rid off). They've made sure it *compiles* really fast. Now that's nice for a PL that you really really really don't want to create a large system with. And did they really decide on a name that you cannot really google? Yes, they did :)
I see it as a hobby project of some programmers trying to get into language design, nothing more, nothing less.
Yep, and it is one of those things that stop being a problem once you are used to it. It will take some time though. It's one of the things you can see converted C++ programmers doing wrong (trying to work around problems not covered in initial design). That and the use of _, confusing chars and bytes, not keeping to Java coding practice and forgetting that Java strings are immutable (actually supported by the platform, toUpperCase() really is a misnomer).
Anyway, for business applications inheritence is not such a useful tool, and for data containers you might as well specify a bunch of interfaces from the start.
They build in this weakness to be able to present the paper - one more paper to let your research institute exist! AES is (mostly/partly?) from Leuven.
Nah, just joking, Leuven is pretty well respected, I don't think it will disappear overnight.
Yeah, I didn't expect they were looking at Windows 7 search to find anything. I expect they were just visiting Niels Ferguson and got talked over to include Microsoft in the paper.
In the time it would take to create such a thing efficiently, it would probably be possible to do it in 1/4th of the size :)