Google has a dual-class structure, with Class B stocks getting 10 votes per share. Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin, and Larry Page are the only ones who get to own Class B stocks. They collectively own a controlling interest in the company and intend for it to stay that way.
Seems to me that strategy really hampers their ability to cash out via selling their shares, since the sale of any shares (except to each other) effectively sells control.
Is it possible for an app to request access to the filesystem, then modify another existing app with a payload that makes it do all the dirty work? For example, take a legitimate and popular alternate phone/SMS app and modify it to call/SMS rogue numbers.
About 3.5 years ago I had a rather intuitive insight, and pulled a proverbial needle out of a haystack. That is, the intuition suggested I do something that I hadn't ever done before. I followed the suggestion & met the girl.
Did you trim the haystack so that she could find your needle?
being back in a large lecture hall, chin cupped in hand while the distant professor pauses his thickly accented monologue to scrawl something illegible on the blackboard.
$20 gets me a dinner buffet at one of the best sushi joints in town - and it's real fish, thankyewverymuch. This guys is overinflating his prices or wastes his money on nice napkins and funky lighting.
Oh it's definitely overinflated. The linear increase in quality comes at an exponential cost. But it is absurdly good.
Uh, no, they just make the sushi rolls with/actual sushi/ at that price point. If you consider $20 for a roll "hell of... special" then you're eating rolls that contain no fish, or fish from scary sources.
I take it you live in a city that's not on the Pacific ocean, that doesn't have a large Asian population, and which doesn't have a sushi restaurant on almost every block? You'd have to go to the best sushi restaurant in the city to hit the $20/roll mark and the food there will blow your mind.
Scratch that... they're both official sites -- one links to the other. I thought it was a reseller based on how cheesy the faked product box looks. This page has AES listed if you expand the "More Details" section under the Security header.
"WinRAR offers you the benefit of industry strength archive encryption using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with a key of 128 bits."
I agree that if you know of something better and can use it, that's all good. But barring a flaw in WinRAR's implementation of AES, I'm simply questioning why it's not a decent choice for someone who doesn't need the features of something along the lines of TrueCrypt and similar software.
It's a great archiver. It compresses, generally, better than WinZIP. That being said, using an archiver as your only means of encryption? Are you kidding me? I have a registered copy and it's only "encryption" is a password. Seriously.
WinRAR uses AES-128 for its password-based encryption. TrueCrypt uses AES-256 for its encryption (accessed via a password as well) with the option to chain together multiple crypto if you really wanted to. So while TrueCrypt is using stronger encryption, AES-128 is going to be good enough for the common user to protect their files from prying eyes. WinRAR can also encrypt the filenames themselves, so without having the password you can't even list the contents (unlike old WinZIP-style protection methods).
So other than how many bits of encryption are used, why is it such a terrible choice?
Yeah, if it was a web developer, they'd notice and would then think, "Shit, I wish PostgreSQL was like that. It's such a pain in the ass having to give it a username and password."
Right... because if someone exploits a security bug in your app (I know... your apps have no bugs) and is able to 'drop table users;' because the DB had no security mechanism, that would really rock. Instead, we have to suffer the tedium of only granting the privileges that the app needs and locking down all other functionality.
no kidding. when I read that the poster used WinRAR to encrypt/decrypt I about scoffed. Seriously. WinRAR? Wow.
Besides the feeling of smug superiority you get from using other (granted, more advanced) tools, is there actually something wrong with WinRAR? To some, I imagine it's the devil they know and are comfortable using.
It kind of goes to show how full of shit most tech blogs are. Almost all of them were talking about how Wave was the future, absolutely, after watching one indie youtube video about it explained in cute crayon drawings.
Perhaps there should be a rule for them. Just as with companies using the products they make is called eating their own dog food, blogs who promote someone else's failed product should have to eat their own dog shit.
I was going to try to find some cites to prove you wrong and I went to Google and typed in "naked children pictures enjoying pornographic" and thinking better of it, closed the browser window.
And with Google's auto-suggest, every keystroke you typed is already on Google's servers, logged to your IP address and all the history that Google has about you.
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If not play games? Cut each other open and feel around? Flatline?
Young whippersnapper, go watch Flatliners.
People want to have net neutrality, but giving the FEC the power to regulate will only lead to more problems in the future.
I agree. The Federal Election Commission would likely do a poor job regulating the internet.
Or only Quasi-evil.
Evil-lite.
just a little evil?
That would be "Evil [BETA]".
Google has a dual-class structure, with Class B stocks getting 10 votes per share.
Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin, and Larry Page are the only ones who get to own Class B stocks.
They collectively own a controlling interest in the company and intend for it to stay that way.
Seems to me that strategy really hampers their ability to cash out via selling their shares, since the sale of any shares (except to each other) effectively sells control.
Is it possible for an app to request access to the filesystem, then modify another existing app with a payload that makes it do all the dirty work? For example, take a legitimate and popular alternate phone/SMS app and modify it to call/SMS rogue numbers.
"a complicated non-electronic system called 'THE DRIVER" would monitor the state of the car and act appropriately "
Is that the system that is unable to differentiate between gas and breaks in a Toyota?
In some cases, this non-electronic system called "THE DRIVER" is unable to distinguish between brakes and breaks.
About 3.5 years ago I had a rather intuitive insight, and pulled a proverbial needle out of a haystack. That is, the intuition suggested I do something that I hadn't ever done before. I followed the suggestion & met the girl.
Did you trim the haystack so that she could find your needle?
being back in a large lecture hall, chin cupped in hand while the distant professor pauses his thickly accented monologue to scrawl something illegible on the blackboard.
It was really quite hypnotic?
The submission is from theodp... what did you expect, an anti-Amazon patent rant?
$20 gets me a dinner buffet at one of the best sushi joints in town - and it's real fish, thankyewverymuch. This guys is overinflating his prices or wastes his money on nice napkins and funky lighting.
Oh it's definitely overinflated. The linear increase in quality comes at an exponential cost. But it is absurdly good.
Uh, no, they just make the sushi rolls with /actual sushi/ at that price point. If you consider $20 for a roll "hell of... special" then you're eating rolls that contain no fish, or fish from scary sources.
I take it you live in a city that's not on the Pacific ocean, that doesn't have a large Asian population, and which doesn't have a sushi restaurant on almost every block? You'd have to go to the best sushi restaurant in the city to hit the $20/roll mark and the food there will blow your mind.
So the fact that a shitty retailer offered a $20 discount (the price of a sushi roll or bottle of wine)
That's one hell of a special sushi roll you've got there! Either that, or they really rip you off for sushi wherever you live.
That site appears to be a reseller.
Scratch that... they're both official sites -- one links to the other. I thought it was a reseller based on how cheesy the faked product box looks. This page has AES listed if you expand the "More Details" section under the Security header.
That site appears to be a reseller. Here's the official site:
http://www.rarlab.com/rar_archiver.htm
From that page:
"WinRAR offers you the benefit of industry strength archive encryption using AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) with a key of 128 bits."
I agree that if you know of something better and can use it, that's all good. But barring a flaw in WinRAR's implementation of AES, I'm simply questioning why it's not a decent choice for someone who doesn't need the features of something along the lines of TrueCrypt and similar software.
It's a great archiver. It compresses, generally, better than WinZIP. That being said, using an archiver as your only means of encryption? Are you kidding me? I have a registered copy and it's only "encryption" is a password. Seriously.
WinRAR uses AES-128 for its password-based encryption. TrueCrypt uses AES-256 for its encryption (accessed via a password as well) with the option to chain together multiple crypto if you really wanted to. So while TrueCrypt is using stronger encryption, AES-128 is going to be good enough for the common user to protect their files from prying eyes. WinRAR can also encrypt the filenames themselves, so without having the password you can't even list the contents (unlike old WinZIP-style protection methods).
So other than how many bits of encryption are used, why is it such a terrible choice?
It kind of depends on which part of the male anatomy we're talking about
Are we discussing the testicicles?
Yeah, if it was a web developer, they'd notice and would then think, "Shit, I wish PostgreSQL was like that. It's such a pain in the ass having to give it a username and password."
Right... because if someone exploits a security bug in your app (I know... your apps have no bugs) and is able to 'drop table users;' because the DB had no security mechanism, that would really rock. Instead, we have to suffer the tedium of only granting the privileges that the app needs and locking down all other functionality.
Perhaps there's been an increase in multimedia design students, for which I understand a Mac is best.
Perhaps the decrease in Windows use is due to a drop in enrollment for spreadsheet classes, for which I understand a PC is best.
no kidding. when I read that the poster used WinRAR to encrypt/decrypt I about scoffed. Seriously. WinRAR? Wow.
Besides the feeling of smug superiority you get from using other (granted, more advanced) tools, is there actually something wrong with WinRAR? To some, I imagine it's the devil they know and are comfortable using.
The post is practically trolling for stupid people.
20,000,000 beard seconds and a divorce later...
Does only being 4 inches have anything to do with why you got divorced?
Wow, that was just like the comment you made on your last turn.
It kind of goes to show how full of shit most tech blogs are. Almost all of them were talking about how Wave was the future, absolutely, after watching one indie youtube video about it explained in cute crayon drawings.
Perhaps there should be a rule for them. Just as with companies using the products they make is called eating their own dog food, blogs who promote someone else's failed product should have to eat their own dog shit.
I was going to try to find some cites to prove you wrong and I went to Google and typed in "naked children pictures enjoying pornographic" and thinking better of it, closed the browser window.
And with Google's auto-suggest, every keystroke you typed is already on Google's servers, logged to your IP address and all the history that Google has about you.
a = foo ? x : a;