If you kill off Javascript, you also kill off medial image imaging (my line of work) or a thousand other things you depend on but don't realize. Be careful what you wish for. The web is much bigger than the sea of annoying cookie notices, calls to action, and responsive design. Javascript, like or not, gets crap done:-) It's not perfect, but it's not so terrible either.
You see the language "Facebook does not provide any government with direct access to people's data" This might even be the literal truth, it doesn't preclude 3rd parties having access to that data and making it available to government(s) though, even if those 3rd parties would not exist were it not for government funding.
Your UID tells me you've been reading slashdot for at least 15 years, surely you remember how ad blockers worked back in the day? Most inline adverts were trivially identifiable (and successfully blocked) by their pixel dimensions or position on the page. Toss in some crowd sourcing to identify anything that falls through the gaps and it's a solved problem.
I don't mind if it's restricted in some way, once a week, month, year, etc., I really would like the ability to change my user ID though.
I would also like to see ponies return once in a while, and I want a lower UID:-) I never realized just how important that number would be in the real world.
Wireless devices - I think you mean point to point microwave communication systems. The majority of entries in the list are for unlicensed equipment, equipment that doesn't frequency hop away from active radar emitters, or equipment modified to operate on unlicensed frequencies. They might be wireless, but they aren't WiFi, nor are they radiating less than 100mW. These are outputting anywhere from several watts through to kilowatts.
Although the impact is a little indirect, medical imaging systems are often rate limited by the hard drive. (When they aren't hamstrung by network speed that is) Frame rates are more a measure of how quickly you can scroll through the image stacks - the scanners themselves don't actually give you an 'image', they give you a bunch of instance objects that can potentially contain a few thousand parameters each - a subset of these within each object define how the pixel data will be interpreted to generate image data appropriate for the display depth.
You might have a 3000 image CT because the tech sent the raw acquisition rather than the more pertinent diagnostic sections, the radiologist expects to be able to scroll these very large stacks end to end ideally in one or two mouse movements - and they want to see every single image as that happens too. You don't always have enough RAM to store the entire data set so you have to load it from the hard drive as needed - then parse it out. Even when a study does fit in RAM the rad will usually have one or two series dragged over to the viewports a fraction of a second after the thumbnail has rendered - they are already flicking at the scroll wheel waiting for some business to happen, behind the scenes the image loader is still asking the PACS for a list of instance UID's and the path to the raw data because WADO is too slow:-)
No matter how fast the hardware is, there's always some inefficiency that people notice. Within an emergency room setting these delays can sometimes be costly.
Which is unfortunate because there's nothing special about WiFi, satellite networks have been using the same (and vastly more complex) modulation methods for decades.
9 years ago I typed my name in to the JPL website (I think it was JPL) along with 434737 others, these were added to a CD and attached to the probe. Kind of cool thinking a few bits of all that data are mine. Even if it's just a fly by, it's still pretty awesome. Unless future humans venture out after it, it's never coming back our way, for me this seems just as worthwhile as if it had fuel enough to slow down and place itself in orbit.
From the Ubuntu website, (serverFaq) the only listed security concern seems to be that 'people might try and brute force the root password if the account is enabled', all other reasons are administrative. It's not highly discouraged, it's just a different approach.
Seems quite logical that someone would have been looking at the area, though the Indian ocean is a massive expanse of absolutely nothing but water. Generally speaking most LEO birds would have been in darkness for most of the flights duration in that region - I would humbly suggest another possibility would be that spy satellite operators take that as an opportunity to conserve power by shutting down EW kit, it is probable nothing was picked up at all - then again, why build a satellite that could pick up transmissions intended for Inmarsat when Inmarsat could just do that for you on request? (I'm not suggesting they actually do, but they certainly could)
If you tune through the HF band you can hear OTH radar active pretty much 24/7 - seems like that'd be the most probable system to have detected anything. Early on there was a suggestion that one of the pilots cell phones contacted a tower - seems like most people jumped on wiki and concluded this wouldn't work given the range of the system, or that the fuselage would block the transmission - if you delve a bit deeper in to the GSM spec., the distance from the tower would prevent the phone registering on the network due to the nature of TDMA, but it doesn't mean they didn't communicate with the base station controller at all.
Maybe in 30 or 40 years some 3 letter agency will declassify a mostly redacted but still interesting story...
Think bigger than just the Ocean. The general consensus is that it went south, the inmarsat data alone certainly points toward a southern track, but some of that data is based on assumptions about hardware calibration - the data alone does not rule out the possibility of a northern flight path no matter how remote. I'm a former Australian 3 letter agency drone, I have no additional insight on this than anyone else, though I do have a rather solid background in electromagnetic radiation.
Maybe some day a seat cushion will wash up on a beach, or someone motorbiking in northern china or climbing mountains in one of the 'stan' countries will trip over an aileron or something. I certainly hope so anyway, just so the families can get closure at the very least - might be some lessons in it for the aviation sector as well.
From the website you linked - in reference to the shim.... Seriously?! Which part of that doesn't take a month to understand for someone that just wants to zip down to staples and grab a laptop with the expectation the install media will "just work" like it always has done for the last decade?
To use it, rename shim.efi to bootx64.efi and put it in/EFI/BOOT on your UEFI install media. Drop MokManager.efi in there as well. Finally, make sure your bootloader binary is called grubx64.efi and put it in the same directory.
Now generate a certificate and put the public half as a binary DER file somewhere on your install media. On boot, the end-user will be prompted with a 10-second countdown and a menu. Choose "Enroll key from disk" and then browse the filesystem to select the key and follow the enrolment prompts. Any bootloader signed with that key will then be trusted by shim, so you probably want to make sure that your grubx64.efi image is signed with it.
I'm not sure about games, though I build web based medical imaging systems for a living these days, along with a whole slew of related information systems. DICOM objects are decoded fully in the browser and render on canvas almost as fast as they do in native applications - this includes features like window level, stack scrolling, X, localizer lines, multiple viewports, and a myriad of other computationally expensive features. Managing memory is the most chalenging aspect by far.
It's all written in native javascript, for what I do the frameworks are all too slow. So why web based when native performance is better and there are a thousand pre-built libraries and applications that are very nearly plug and play?
In simplistic terms, it's what people want, all they have to do is open a web browser and they have the latest version.
Not really impressive, there are already loads of phones beteween $30 and $50 USD being sold in Asia, most running stripped down versions of android. They may recapture some of the audience from back when Nokia was considered a leading brand, but this segment of the market is already flooded with 'China Phones', most offer better features as well.
You need root, XPosed and XPrivacy allow you to give bogus info to apps. The UI could use a little work but you get a deep level of control over app permissions. Along side auto run manager and a firewall of some kind and you pretty much have a non leaky tame android.
I agree with you, one difference though. There are tablets out there that have 2560x1600 pixels or more, and people with 20/20 that want everything to be tiny. The problem is the lack of choice, most apps dont include any way to shrink the giant fisher price widgets and 20 point fonts. I know I can change dpi settings per app with root, but this doesn't address poor UI design and the trend toward bigger, more white space, and fewer configuration options.
It's not about terrorism, it's about mass surveillance and the wildest dreams of people like Robert Hannigan. Osama and others were unpleasant for sure, but they also provided a convenient excuse for an enormous power grab. Every country with one or more three letter agencies were moving firmly in this direction since the early 90's (storage started to get cheap), we'd be in exactly the same place right now anyway, just that nobody would be talking about it.
Malcolm Gladwell has an interesting take with his 10,000 hour theory. If you are passionate about something and you live and breath it for long enough, you obviously get good at it. Most people are not quite so fanatical - but this is a choice, meaning they could be if they wanted to. And what is intelligence anyway? How do you quantify it such that one person is born with more of it than someone else?
I write medical imaging software, surounded by dozens of doctors every day that are not just out of earshot of the patients but sometimes not even in the same country. My sample size is obviously not representative of much at all, though at least in my tiny corner of the world the situation is the total opposite of what you describe. These people sigh and get upset when they see terminal disease, they cry when children are dying, they don't enjoy seeing people hurt and don't waste a second if it means life or death. They are often detached but they still care.
Don't mistake the human factor for doctors that are worried about getting sued because someone broke their pinky finger and had to wait for the guy having a heart attack to be treated first.
OP doesn't necessarily need to learn C or C++. The gap in other languages is closing faster than you might be aware. Have you taken a look at HTML 5 and canvas lately? There are a load of very detailed (fancy) 3D games using WebGL, not rudimentary at all.
I'm a former electronic warfare drone (Australian Navy) - I worked with radar and satellite primarily, though I also covered a myriad of other RF systems.
With your logic you also need to discount the southerly route not just because Malaysia and Thailand did nothing, but also because Indonesia never saw the aircraft. Further, Australian agencies have said they never saw anything even though the entire region is bathed in OTH radar. Not a peep from Keeling or Christmas island.
It seems more logical (from my background) that the aircraft went north, though until it is found it would be far more appropriate to assume nothing. The Inmarsat analysis is interesting, but it isn't boiler plate and the lack of intermediate ping data fuels suspicion.
You don't need a tinfoil hat to know the theory is entirely within the realms of possibility. VHF ACARS could certainly be received by a LEO bird. It could also be received by a passive ground source just as easily. You can even build your own receiver for a few hundred $USD.
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If you kill off Javascript, you also kill off medial image imaging (my line of work) or a thousand other things you depend on but don't realize. Be careful what you wish for. The web is much bigger than the sea of annoying cookie notices, calls to action, and responsive design. Javascript, like or not, gets crap done :-) It's not perfect, but it's not so terrible either.
You see the language "Facebook does not provide any government with direct access to people's data" This might even be the literal truth, it doesn't preclude 3rd parties having access to that data and making it available to government(s) though, even if those 3rd parties would not exist were it not for government funding.
Your UID tells me you've been reading slashdot for at least 15 years, surely you remember how ad blockers worked back in the day? Most inline adverts were trivially identifiable (and successfully blocked) by their pixel dimensions or position on the page. Toss in some crowd sourcing to identify anything that falls through the gaps and it's a solved problem.
Feature request: Change User ID.
I don't mind if it's restricted in some way, once a week, month, year, etc., I really would like the ability to change my user ID though.
I would also like to see ponies return once in a while, and I want a lower UID :-) I never realized just how important that number would be in the real world.
Wireless devices - I think you mean point to point microwave communication systems. The majority of entries in the list are for unlicensed equipment, equipment that doesn't frequency hop away from active radar emitters, or equipment modified to operate on unlicensed frequencies. They might be wireless, but they aren't WiFi, nor are they radiating less than 100mW. These are outputting anywhere from several watts through to kilowatts.
Although the impact is a little indirect, medical imaging systems are often rate limited by the hard drive. (When they aren't hamstrung by network speed that is) Frame rates are more a measure of how quickly you can scroll through the image stacks - the scanners themselves don't actually give you an 'image', they give you a bunch of instance objects that can potentially contain a few thousand parameters each - a subset of these within each object define how the pixel data will be interpreted to generate image data appropriate for the display depth.
You might have a 3000 image CT because the tech sent the raw acquisition rather than the more pertinent diagnostic sections, the radiologist expects to be able to scroll these very large stacks end to end ideally in one or two mouse movements - and they want to see every single image as that happens too. You don't always have enough RAM to store the entire data set so you have to load it from the hard drive as needed - then parse it out. Even when a study does fit in RAM the rad will usually have one or two series dragged over to the viewports a fraction of a second after the thumbnail has rendered - they are already flicking at the scroll wheel waiting for some business to happen, behind the scenes the image loader is still asking the PACS for a list of instance UID's and the path to the raw data because WADO is too slow :-)
No matter how fast the hardware is, there's always some inefficiency that people notice. Within an emergency room setting these delays can sometimes be costly.
Which is unfortunate because there's nothing special about WiFi, satellite networks have been using the same (and vastly more complex) modulation methods for decades.
9 years ago I typed my name in to the JPL website (I think it was JPL) along with 434737 others, these were added to a CD and attached to the probe. Kind of cool thinking a few bits of all that data are mine. Even if it's just a fly by, it's still pretty awesome. Unless future humans venture out after it, it's never coming back our way, for me this seems just as worthwhile as if it had fuel enough to slow down and place itself in orbit.
From the Ubuntu website, (serverFaq) the only listed security concern seems to be that 'people might try and brute force the root password if the account is enabled', all other reasons are administrative. It's not highly discouraged, it's just a different approach.
Seems quite logical that someone would have been looking at the area, though the Indian ocean is a massive expanse of absolutely nothing but water. Generally speaking most LEO birds would have been in darkness for most of the flights duration in that region - I would humbly suggest another possibility would be that spy satellite operators take that as an opportunity to conserve power by shutting down EW kit, it is probable nothing was picked up at all - then again, why build a satellite that could pick up transmissions intended for Inmarsat when Inmarsat could just do that for you on request? (I'm not suggesting they actually do, but they certainly could)
If you tune through the HF band you can hear OTH radar active pretty much 24/7 - seems like that'd be the most probable system to have detected anything. Early on there was a suggestion that one of the pilots cell phones contacted a tower - seems like most people jumped on wiki and concluded this wouldn't work given the range of the system, or that the fuselage would block the transmission - if you delve a bit deeper in to the GSM spec., the distance from the tower would prevent the phone registering on the network due to the nature of TDMA, but it doesn't mean they didn't communicate with the base station controller at all.
Maybe in 30 or 40 years some 3 letter agency will declassify a mostly redacted but still interesting story...
Think bigger than just the Ocean. The general consensus is that it went south, the inmarsat data alone certainly points toward a southern track, but some of that data is based on assumptions about hardware calibration - the data alone does not rule out the possibility of a northern flight path no matter how remote. I'm a former Australian 3 letter agency drone, I have no additional insight on this than anyone else, though I do have a rather solid background in electromagnetic radiation.
Maybe some day a seat cushion will wash up on a beach, or someone motorbiking in northern china or climbing mountains in one of the 'stan' countries will trip over an aileron or something. I certainly hope so anyway, just so the families can get closure at the very least - might be some lessons in it for the aviation sector as well.
From the website you linked - in reference to the shim.... Seriously?! Which part of that doesn't take a month to understand for someone that just wants to zip down to staples and grab a laptop with the expectation the install media will "just work" like it always has done for the last decade?
To use it, rename shim.efi to bootx64.efi and put it in /EFI/BOOT on your UEFI install media. Drop MokManager.efi in there as well. Finally, make sure your bootloader binary is called grubx64.efi and put it in the same directory.
Now generate a certificate and put the public half as a binary DER file somewhere on your install media. On boot, the end-user will be prompted with a 10-second countdown and a menu. Choose "Enroll key from disk" and then browse the filesystem to select the key and follow the enrolment prompts. Any bootloader signed with that key will then be trusted by shim, so you probably want to make sure that your grubx64.efi image is signed with it.
Have a read of this: http://spritesmods.com/?art=hd...
There is a decent chunk of compute power in the controllers.
I'm not sure about games, though I build web based medical imaging systems for a living these days, along with a whole slew of related information systems. DICOM objects are decoded fully in the browser and render on canvas almost as fast as they do in native applications - this includes features like window level, stack scrolling, X, localizer lines, multiple viewports, and a myriad of other computationally expensive features. Managing memory is the most chalenging aspect by far.
It's all written in native javascript, for what I do the frameworks are all too slow. So why web based when native performance is better and there are a thousand pre-built libraries and applications that are very nearly plug and play?
In simplistic terms, it's what people want, all they have to do is open a web browser and they have the latest version.
Not really impressive, there are already loads of phones beteween $30 and $50 USD being sold in Asia, most running stripped down versions of android. They may recapture some of the audience from back when Nokia was considered a leading brand, but this segment of the market is already flooded with 'China Phones', most offer better features as well.
You need root, XPosed and XPrivacy allow you to give bogus info to apps. The UI could use a little work but you get a deep level of control over app permissions. Along side auto run manager and a firewall of some kind and you pretty much have a non leaky tame android.
I agree with you, one difference though. There are tablets out there that have 2560x1600 pixels or more, and people with 20/20 that want everything to be tiny. The problem is the lack of choice, most apps dont include any way to shrink the giant fisher price widgets and 20 point fonts. I know I can change dpi settings per app with root, but this doesn't address poor UI design and the trend toward bigger, more white space, and fewer configuration options.
It's not about terrorism, it's about mass surveillance and the wildest dreams of people like Robert Hannigan. Osama and others were unpleasant for sure, but they also provided a convenient excuse for an enormous power grab. Every country with one or more three letter agencies were moving firmly in this direction since the early 90's (storage started to get cheap), we'd be in exactly the same place right now anyway, just that nobody would be talking about it.
This was lost decades ago.
Malcolm Gladwell has an interesting take with his 10,000 hour theory. If you are passionate about something and you live and breath it for long enough, you obviously get good at it. Most people are not quite so fanatical - but this is a choice, meaning they could be if they wanted to. And what is intelligence anyway? How do you quantify it such that one person is born with more of it than someone else?
I write medical imaging software, surounded by dozens of doctors every day that are not just out of earshot of the patients but sometimes not even in the same country. My sample size is obviously not representative of much at all, though at least in my tiny corner of the world the situation is the total opposite of what you describe. These people sigh and get upset when they see terminal disease, they cry when children are dying, they don't enjoy seeing people hurt and don't waste a second if it means life or death. They are often detached but they still care.
Don't mistake the human factor for doctors that are worried about getting sued because someone broke their pinky finger and had to wait for the guy having a heart attack to be treated first.
>>> Developers tell us that they are not sure how to start app development on the Web
Are they sure they are talking to developers or their paid staff? :-)
OP doesn't necessarily need to learn C or C++. The gap in other languages is closing faster than you might be aware. Have you taken a look at HTML 5 and canvas lately? There are a load of very detailed (fancy) 3D games using WebGL, not rudimentary at all.
I'm a former electronic warfare drone (Australian Navy) - I worked with radar and satellite primarily, though I also covered a myriad of other RF systems.
With your logic you also need to discount the southerly route not just because Malaysia and Thailand did nothing, but also because Indonesia never saw the aircraft. Further, Australian agencies have said they never saw anything even though the entire region is bathed in OTH radar. Not a peep from Keeling or Christmas island.
It seems more logical (from my background) that the aircraft went north, though until it is found it would be far more appropriate to assume nothing. The Inmarsat analysis is interesting, but it isn't boiler plate and the lack of intermediate ping data fuels suspicion.
Aside from the screen it doesn't really offer anything new. Most of the leading manufacturers have had similar devices for the last 5 months or so.
You don't need a tinfoil hat to know the theory is entirely within the realms of possibility. VHF ACARS could certainly be received by a LEO bird. It could also be received by a passive ground source just as easily. You can even build your own receiver for a few hundred $USD.