If you're worried about 16MB of Javascript code, you got bigger problems than whether the protocol is binary or not. And that suggests a new product feature-- a browser plug-in that blocks 1) any content using binary, and 2) any content over a maximum size, say 1MB. Less is more.
Both C# and SQL are languages. What do you,think the L stands for? While SQL is not designed as a complete stand-alone programming language, C# vs SQL is not exactly apples and oranges.
It's quite simple, younger workers are easier to mold into the latest fad development management methodologies (agile, etc.). Older workers have been through those attempts before, fell for it at one time, but don't anymore..
Manning may be having a "farce of a trial" but it's not correct to say "with no public scrutiny".
And Drake had his case thrown out. That's not to say there's no risk, but I think it is better to force our corrupt government to show their true colors and try to cover them up than to let them get away with the kind of tactics that are keeping Assange and Snowden effectively incapacitated. They don't need Gitmo when they've got the ability to keep them immobilized in embassies and transit zones, and they're not forced to trump up charges and create a kangaroo court either.
I'm in IT and I can't figure out the gibberish that passes for documentation on open source security products. Without exception, they presume you already undrstand the issues, or they explain them badly...
If he can get back to the US alive, he'd be better off turning himself over-- note that prosecutions for espionage in whistleblosing cases don't have a history of success, and it would likely further expand his cache as a hero.. But getting back alive is going to be the challenge, since the US clearly has no sense of limits when they're operating outside the country. He's probably already toast, as the CIA may have little in the way of access limits to him where he is. Like Assange, a whistlblower holed up like a rat is actually far better than one in custody that you have to convict via judge or jury and under public scrutiny.
No I am part of the niche market, I have several lighted viewmaster viewers, and a large collection of reels, a collection of stereoopticon cards and viewers, several Tru-Vue cards and viewers, amd quite a bit of stereo Realist items including a camera that I've used to takd my own 3D action photos. And I have stereo projection equipment as well for several formats, including for motion pictures (commercial theater equipment produced by Paramount for the pre-digital generation of 3D movies). But I've seen how my friends react to it all, there's just not enough of us 3D lovers to be any more than a niche market.
How many times is it going to take for these bozos to recognize that 3D has been around since the invention of photography and it's always been a niche market? Anyone who did NOT see this coming is completely unqualified to be working in marketing or the entertainment industry. Those who did see it coming merely used it as a means of generating short-term profit by fleecing the uninformed. Perhaps some day 3D will be ubiquitous, but it will take far more than an expensive TV with too little 3D content to get us there. 3D is routinely used as a boondoggle to sell short-lived products, that's mostly what it's been good for. The longest lived 3D product has been Viewmaster, which frankly, is not even as good as the old stereoopticon-- but the only reason it has survived (and barely, at that) is it's dirt cheap and a cute gimmic for about 5 minutes. Most viewmasters sit unused in a drawer for years and years or end up in thrift shops. I'm someone who loves 3D, but as much as I'd like it to succeed, I had no interest in buying a 3D equipped TV with nothing to watch but Avatar and a few cartoons. In fact, I haven't even gone blu-ray, since the value added given my eyesight these days is pretty minimal...
It'd be a little better because decent captcha generators won't generate the exact same symbol for a given letter every time specifically to foil OCR programs. But often captcha generators produce outputmthat even humans can't read...
As a Senator, Obama voted to let AT&T off the hook for wiretapping, when information about that became known. Anyone who before ever voting for Obama for president thought he respected a citizen's right to privacy, simply wasn't paying attention.
As long as this data is used to prosecute every telemarketer in the world who invariably must call a known terrorist sooner or later, it's a good thing. We'll know when it's effective as soon as those annoying carpet cleaning phonebots stop calling...
in fact, isn't that a way to provide plausible deniability? If every terrorist maintains an autodialer that's calling everyone, when they use their line to call their terrorist buds, they can just claim they were trying to sell,them something or other...
The best I can tell, "real" Agile attempts to apply pipelining to development, where processes are staggered and run in parallel. That makes sense, bit it's not an easy thing to do in practice,, especially when you have serial-oriented managers trying to comprehend what's going on at every step.
The problem is, all many of us have ever seen is "stuff called Agile". We've seen "Agile" imposed on us from the top down, essentially removing us from all responsibility for what happens with it. So, what you end up with are zombie teams going through the motions of "Agile" in order to please management.
I don't hate Agile, but in my experience the reason management is shoving it down our throats is that it gives them the ability to micromanage the projects to a previously unforseen degree. Gone are the days of trusting your developers to design or plan much of anything, it's all left up to incompetents. But I don't mind, it drags projects that should be done in weeks, into ones that take months. And when I bail their asses out every time they design themselves into a corner, no need for me to "I told you so" (though I undoubtedly did), I end up the hero. Agile would be the best job security I've ever had, if I cared anything about that.
Wake me up when they've got something a little more all-terrain. This thing couldn't negotiate it's way over a power cord, if it can even negotiate the pile in my carpeting (which looks doubtful)
I gave up on Firefox around version 1.4 when it became clear it was no longer anything like the lean, mean lightweight browser I was looking for, and once was it's apparent target. The bloat factor caused it to become irrelevant after that.
it's clear that reporting a vulnerability to someone in a position to actually fix it (such as the developer of the software) often doesn't work so well. We've seen severe negative effects as they strive to cover up rather than address the vulnerability, attacking the messenger instead. What better way to escalate a bug and get it fixed, than to sell it to the highest bidder and see it get exploited in the field by bad actors?
Your mistake is expecting much of anything from facebook. The sooner we all move to Diaspora where control isn't ceded to someone with a vested interest in selling ad space, the better.
Whether or not they are ACTUALLY storing everything is rather moot, since you can't tell when they are and when they're not. It's safest to assume everything is recorded, and that way you'll never be caught by surprise (nobody expects the FBI inquisition!). It's also prudent to assume that any encryption you are using will be cracked within your lifetime. Not that you shouldn't use it mind you, at the very least it might force them to earn their pay.
But why don't we all see if we can get Congress to raise their budget for hard drives by transmitting terabytes of hard to compress random noise to each other as if it were something important? We can prove they're trying to store it if all of a sudden the budget gets raised in the face of massive mounting debt and the sequester...
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I'll bet they were sick of trying to make do with old machines...
If you're worried about 16MB of Javascript code, you got bigger problems than whether the protocol is binary or not. And that suggests a new product feature-- a browser plug-in that blocks 1) any content using binary, and 2) any content over a maximum size, say 1MB. Less is more.
As long as they're not spying on our guns we're OK with it.
That pretty much explains it, doesn't it? If you don't bother to listen to users complaints, no wonder the products just keep getting worse.
Both C# and SQL are languages. What do you,think the L stands for? While SQL is not designed as a complete stand-alone programming language, C# vs SQL is not exactly apples and oranges.
It's quite simple, younger workers are easier to mold into the latest fad development management methodologies (agile, etc.). Older workers have been through those attempts before, fell for it at one time, but don't anymore..
Manning may be having a "farce of a trial" but it's not correct to say "with no public scrutiny". And Drake had his case thrown out. That's not to say there's no risk, but I think it is better to force our corrupt government to show their true colors and try to cover them up than to let them get away with the kind of tactics that are keeping Assange and Snowden effectively incapacitated. They don't need Gitmo when they've got the ability to keep them immobilized in embassies and transit zones, and they're not forced to trump up charges and create a kangaroo court either.
I'm in IT and I can't figure out the gibberish that passes for documentation on open source security products. Without exception, they presume you already undrstand the issues, or they explain them badly...
If he can get back to the US alive, he'd be better off turning himself over-- note that prosecutions for espionage in whistleblosing cases don't have a history of success, and it would likely further expand his cache as a hero.. But getting back alive is going to be the challenge, since the US clearly has no sense of limits when they're operating outside the country. He's probably already toast, as the CIA may have little in the way of access limits to him where he is. Like Assange, a whistlblower holed up like a rat is actually far better than one in custody that you have to convict via judge or jury and under public scrutiny.
No I am part of the niche market, I have several lighted viewmaster viewers, and a large collection of reels, a collection of stereoopticon cards and viewers, several Tru-Vue cards and viewers, amd quite a bit of stereo Realist items including a camera that I've used to takd my own 3D action photos. And I have stereo projection equipment as well for several formats, including for motion pictures (commercial theater equipment produced by Paramount for the pre-digital generation of 3D movies). But I've seen how my friends react to it all, there's just not enough of us 3D lovers to be any more than a niche market.
How many times is it going to take for these bozos to recognize that 3D has been around since the invention of photography and it's always been a niche market? Anyone who did NOT see this coming is completely unqualified to be working in marketing or the entertainment industry. Those who did see it coming merely used it as a means of generating short-term profit by fleecing the uninformed. Perhaps some day 3D will be ubiquitous, but it will take far more than an expensive TV with too little 3D content to get us there. 3D is routinely used as a boondoggle to sell short-lived products, that's mostly what it's been good for. The longest lived 3D product has been Viewmaster, which frankly, is not even as good as the old stereoopticon-- but the only reason it has survived (and barely, at that) is it's dirt cheap and a cute gimmic for about 5 minutes. Most viewmasters sit unused in a drawer for years and years or end up in thrift shops. I'm someone who loves 3D, but as much as I'd like it to succeed, I had no interest in buying a 3D equipped TV with nothing to watch but Avatar and a few cartoons. In fact, I haven't even gone blu-ray, since the value added given my eyesight these days is pretty minimal...
The House needs more things to vote to repeal over and over, Obamacare just isn't enough to keep them occupied.
It'd be a little better because decent captcha generators won't generate the exact same symbol for a given letter every time specifically to foil OCR programs. But often captcha generators produce outputmthat even humans can't read...
Maybe it's time to remind them that the Govt. probably doesn't need gun registration if it has all your emails and telephone records.
As a Senator, Obama voted to let AT&T off the hook for wiretapping, when information about that became known. Anyone who before ever voting for Obama for president thought he respected a citizen's right to privacy, simply wasn't paying attention.
As long as this data is used to prosecute every telemarketer in the world who invariably must call a known terrorist sooner or later, it's a good thing. We'll know when it's effective as soon as those annoying carpet cleaning phonebots stop calling...
in fact, isn't that a way to provide plausible deniability? If every terrorist maintains an autodialer that's calling everyone, when they use their line to call their terrorist buds, they can just claim they were trying to sell,them something or other...
The best I can tell, "real" Agile attempts to apply pipelining to development, where processes are staggered and run in parallel. That makes sense, bit it's not an easy thing to do in practice,, especially when you have serial-oriented managers trying to comprehend what's going on at every step.
The problem is, all many of us have ever seen is "stuff called Agile". We've seen "Agile" imposed on us from the top down, essentially removing us from all responsibility for what happens with it. So, what you end up with are zombie teams going through the motions of "Agile" in order to please management.
No, don't be in such a hurry to move on, I'm afraid the next management fad will suck at least as much.
I don't hate Agile, but in my experience the reason management is shoving it down our throats is that it gives them the ability to micromanage the projects to a previously unforseen degree. Gone are the days of trusting your developers to design or plan much of anything, it's all left up to incompetents. But I don't mind, it drags projects that should be done in weeks, into ones that take months. And when I bail their asses out every time they design themselves into a corner, no need for me to "I told you so" (though I undoubtedly did), I end up the hero. Agile would be the best job security I've ever had, if I cared anything about that.
Wake me up when they've got something a little more all-terrain. This thing couldn't negotiate it's way over a power cord, if it can even negotiate the pile in my carpeting (which looks doubtful)
I gave up on Firefox around version 1.4 when it became clear it was no longer anything like the lean, mean lightweight browser I was looking for, and once was it's apparent target. The bloat factor caused it to become irrelevant after that.
it's clear that reporting a vulnerability to someone in a position to actually fix it (such as the developer of the software) often doesn't work so well. We've seen severe negative effects as they strive to cover up rather than address the vulnerability, attacking the messenger instead. What better way to escalate a bug and get it fixed, than to sell it to the highest bidder and see it get exploited in the field by bad actors?
Your mistake is expecting much of anything from facebook. The sooner we all move to Diaspora where control isn't ceded to someone with a vested interest in selling ad space, the better.
Whether or not they are ACTUALLY storing everything is rather moot, since you can't tell when they are and when they're not. It's safest to assume everything is recorded, and that way you'll never be caught by surprise (nobody expects the FBI inquisition!). It's also prudent to assume that any encryption you are using will be cracked within your lifetime. Not that you shouldn't use it mind you, at the very least it might force them to earn their pay.
But why don't we all see if we can get Congress to raise their budget for hard drives by transmitting terabytes of hard to compress random noise to each other as if it were something important? We can prove they're trying to store it if all of a sudden the budget gets raised in the face of massive mounting debt and the sequester...