...because almost a month after the Yun was announced as being "available", it still isn't available from any of the major US distributors (digikey, mouser, adafruit, sparkfun, and a handful of others I've tried.) I'm not sure what's going on - I think distributors might be trying to clear out stock on existing WiFi boards.
You can buy it online from Arduino direct...if you want to pay nearly the value of the device in shipping. Seriously, they want $50 to ship a $60 board from Spain to the US.
Malala gets this one hands-down. Both made very important statements we must pay attention to, but a fucking headshot beats hanging out in a Russian airport IMHO.
I disagree, strongly. Have you actually listened to her speeches? Sample:
"If you want to see peace in Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan; if you want to end the war; to fight against the war; then instead of sending guns send books,â
Riiiiiiiiiiight. The only reason she's so popular is because she's a harmless photo-op for politicians who are sitting around doing noting. While everyone is happy to talk about little girls not getting to go to school because the Taliban blew up their school, nobody seems interested in the widespread murders of civilian boys and men, or conscription.
Most people think there's this massive imbalance in literacy rates. It's about 9%, between men and women.
That's unfortunate, but it hardly compares to the mass worldwide surveillance and conspiracies - or the courage required to acquire all those documents, leave your life behind, and kick a world power in the teeth.
Low light means you want the largest sensor well size you can (ie biggest individual-sized pixel), and a wide aperture lens. A few P&S cameras have both, but you're better off with an actual DSLR.
In terms of a body: the Panasonic GH2 is pretty popular among videographers for quality and controls; there are a bunch of firmware hacks out for it. If you don't mind not having video, you can pick up a used Canon 40D for peanuts, and it's a fantastic camera, and close to your price range.
In terms of lenses, you'll want the widest aperture lens you can afford. The simple/cheap way to do this is a fixed (prime) lens; figure out what focal length you need (for non-photographers, the "mm" in "100mm lens", aka "zoom factor".) Canon and Nikon both, for example, sell a 50mm f/1.8 lens that costs about $50-60. Even with the crop factor, might not be quite enough for your purposes, however.
A few days ago I saw an interesting comment about alternative fuels that re-cast the issue for me.
Namely: they're a distraction. By focusing on the "greenness" of the fuel for cars, be it gas, ethanol, hydrogen, CNG, electricity...we ignore the problem of operation space and storage space (not to mention, the inefficiency, energy-wise, of moving 2 tons of metal just to move one person.) As population grows, we don't have space for everyone to bop around by themselves in their car, nor do we have the space to put them when they're not in use. Bloomberg figured this out a couple of years ago, for example, and hence his strong push of cycle infrastructure in NYC, to great result.
Sure, more cars = not a problem in the middle of Nebraska. But in any metropolitan area, traffic is an enormous burden, and we cannot just throw more pavement at the problem. It's well known that adding lanes doesn't add capacity. We also don't have room for all these cars to park, at least not without paving every square inch in sight.
We need to get people out of their cars. That means higher gas taxes (which haven't been adjusted in decades), car-sharing systems, legal protection for pedestrians and cyclists, and infrastructure spending on pedestrian walkways, cycleways, usable long distance/regional/local public transit (and ending the insistence that public transit pay for itself, something "private" road/infrastructure users aren't expected to do). For example: it is *idiotic* that you cannot take luggage or a bicycle with you on the entire Amtrak northeast corridor.
Funding alternative fuels is fine, but don't do it if you won't fund alternative transportation infrastructure as well. Imagine what $2BN (what Obama wants to spend on "alternative fuels") can buy in terms of cycling and pedestrian infrastructure.
In Massachusetts, one party is completely dominant, to the point that 81% of the House, 90% of the Senate, and the Governor are all from the same party.
Romney, Swift, Celluci, and Weld were all republicans. Before Dukakis during the mid 1900's, there was a fairly even trade back and forth between republican and democratic governors. Go back even further, and it biases towards republicans. But please, don't let actual facts get in the way of your rant about MA being a "one party" state.
The supposed "liberalism" in Massachusetts isn't really that true - we're quite conservative, it's just that most people don't understand what the fuck "conservative" means - they think it means some christian right-winger.
Basically, we're good about following the constitution. The thing says everyone's created equal (as does our own constitution, which predates the US constitution) so it wasn't "liberal" to say "hey, gay people can get married too."
I remember back when the bombings happened and some jackhole congresscritter said something about us "cowering" and how we wished we could arm ourselves. To which many people said "Hey fuckwit, remember that thing called the American Revolution? We started that, with our state's CIVILIAN MILITIA." To this day, there are people with minuteman license plates, descendants of the original minutemen. All over the state are statues of minutemen, posing with their rifles. Every kid learns about the initial battles fought here, in grade school. We re-enact the battles every year, too. Got a statewide holiday to celebrate the affair as well.
"Yeah, they tax driving in Massachusetts. Is it any wonder the Bay State got the moniker: Taxachusetts?
Except you moved from a state with a local/state tax income of 11.2% (California) to one of 10.4% (Massachusetts.) MA is ranked 8th; California 4th. So please do shut the fuck up about "taxachusetts" - your taxes are LOWER than they were when you were in Commiefornia.
They "tax driving" everywhere. Roads are paid for from the primary source of taxes: state and federal income tax and local property taxes. Your excise and gasoline taxes don't come even close to paying for the roads you use, I assure you. The myth that drivers pay for the roads they use is just that - a myth. We all do, even if we don't use them. That's mostly because the gas tax hasn't been inflation adjusted in decades, nor has it been adjusted for increasing mileage cars get, nor has it been adjusted for the increased damage from heavier SUVs that are so damn popular now.
Consider that half of the people in the largest city in New England don't drive, and still are paying the same federal taxes. And have to use a public transit system that was saddled with billions of dollars in debt for a HIGHWAY construction project (the Big Dig). It's a miracle the MBTA keeps running despite being $6BN in debt.
That is a ridiculous statement. Work is lost every time a drive fails unless it happens to fail immediately after a backup. Full backups take lots of time. If you understood git better [SNIP]
Full backups? LOL, son.
It's not a ridiculous statement. Our backup system backs up 350+ machines every 15 minutes by default, as long as they have a working network connection, anywhere in the world that can reach our server; the client works by watching what files are changed, and periodically (every 2-3 days) doing a full scan in case it missed something. We dialed it back to once an hour based on user feedback - people felt an hour was more than acceptable in terms of lost productivity. We retain those revisions for about a week, and they're progressively paired down. Restores take seconds and are self-service, as is adding another machine to your account.
Furthermore, we use IMAP for email, so even if your workstation or laptop dies in a big puff of smoke, your email isn't lost.1995 called, wants to know why the fuck Linus is apparently using POP3.
If I had a dollar for every prick developer who thinks they know how to do IT, I'd be rich (and a lot saner.) Programmers are the worst to support by far because they have absolutely zero humility. Everyone else generally either asks how something should be done, or at least has the graciousness to ask if what they have in mind will work. Programmers just charge ahead and assume they know what they're doing because they've got a Mythbuntu box and a Linux NAS box at home...
The first bit regarding RdRand was inappropriate/rude, but the second half regarding ARM SoC developers most was beyond inappropriate without a doubt. He suggests twice that they're worthy of death, suggests specific methods of murdering them. Here's the bit the submitter didn't include:
"So if you see any, send them my love, and possibly puncture the brake-lines on their car and put a little surprise in their coffee, ok?"
Linus went out of his way to be nasty and insulting; it is not necessary nor acceptable to treat others in such a way. This kind of behavior has come up before here on Slashdot, and it is still immature, abusive, and mean-spirited.
Linus is exploiting his social status to bully others and I'm tired of people making excuses for it, particularly because he's in a leadership position and serves as a role model to many. The Linux dev community needs to stand up to language and behavior like this, or otherwise the message to young/new programmers they can/should act this way if they're successful enough, and if they're the target of such nastiness, the community will accept and condone it.
In general, I'm tired of excuses being made for bullies simply because they're valuable. Linus is no different from the varsity football star who goes around slamming people into lockers; a gorilla beating his chest. Were you ever bullied as a kid in school? Do you have a child in school being bullied? Remember how it made you feel? Yeah.
It's impossible to tell in general whether there's a vulnerability in a random number generator. It's a "computationally infeasible" problem, the best we can do is check for known deviations from randomness. If you know how it deviates, it's easy to check but beyond that there's no way to tell.
Unless the NIST tools are compromised as well, then yes, it's completely possible to verify how good hardware RNGs are. Also, few intel processors have built-in RNGs, at least not ones the Linux kernel can use. None of the machines we've bought in the last 5 years have them. When was the last major intel x86 processor to have one? P2/P3 based systems?
I always wondered why; now I think I know *exactly* why. Hardware RNGs increase crypto security; by removing them, the NSA can influence/corrupt OS-level pseudo-RNG routines.
I wonder how many of the software RNG projects like haveged are compromised...
If you were lost in Manhattan, chances are fairly good that you could walk to shelter before succumbing to the elements. And the Atacama is just about all dry and cold every day of the year.
Tell that to the forty or so homeless people a year who die of exposure in NYC.
You're wrong. Snowden chose publicity as his defence, so not NSA, nor FSB could have easily "disappeared" him without repercussions.
What repercussions? Son, in case you hadn't noticed, Russia is a world superpower and has been adopting a stronger and stronger military stance ever since Putin seized control.
Tell that whole "public" business to Alexander Litvinenko, whom Russia not only assassinated him, but did so in a purposefully highly visible, slow, unpreventable way.
Nevermind you're assuming a Russian Snowden would have even had a chance to go public before he was killed or captured. The only other country I can think of that is as bold about their clandestine ops is Israel. Russian Snowden would get a bullet to the brain and written up as a street crime and the world wouldn't blink a single eye.
how do we know that the session keys are chosen securely and not divulged with steganography somehow? I know that products have existed which did exactly that, revealing part of the encryption key in the encrypted data stream (and I know that because the vendor was fairly open about the practice).
If you're going to make such a massive claim, you need to back it up. Name the vendor/manufacturer and equipment, or I, and every other slashdot reader, will consider this bullshit.
It's easy to take this as an opportunity to denigrate the US. The level of corruption is far worse in Russia and the civil rights protections a fraction of what US citizens enjoy.
If Snowdon has been Russian and escaped with FSB documents, he wouldn't be alive right now. In case nobody noticed, Russia assassinates inconvenient people.
You are beyond lucky that the VCR head didn't shatter from the stress. Work out the kinetic energy of something spinning that fast. Ain't pretty.
Out of brazen curiosity: how did you reach 250,000 rpm from 65,000 rpm?
Most Atheists seem to be more on the Agnostic side of things; in that they acknowledge there might be, or there might not be a god. There is no solid proof either way though it's looking less and less likely given the claims of the Theists.
Stop trying to marginalize us. Agnostics call themselves agnostics or use a phrase of some sort to summarize their beliefs, and are usually fairly upfront about not wanting to be called atheists. Atheists by definition (hint: a-theist) do not believe in a god, and most of us are pretty goddamn emphatic about it.
Biology being what it is, it's reasonable to think that the health benefits of exercise are a multi-factor phenomenon and that any one chemical will deliver fewer benefits than the real thing.
This is true - for example, this almost certainly won't do anything for improving glycogen stores - but it'd certainly help for people who have been bedridden, the elderly, chemo patients, etc. It may also provide an easier start for people who are badly out of shape.
So many people abandon fitness kicks because the first few times it's really unpleasant/hard; it's a bit sad because the human body is actually pretty responsive and adaptive, and especially if you're in lousy shape, gains can be substantial if you simply give it a chance. For example, someone bikes into work for the first time, and they find it exhausting, so they say "meeeeh" and the bike gets sold or disappears into the basement. Except if they'd simply stuck with it for about a week or two, they'd find it easier and easier every day (note: it's totally OK, and good for you, to take a day or two off if it feels like you need it. The volume of training by 'serious' athletes might surprise many. It's also not particularly intense. It's just focused and smart, and yes, rest days are taken by even elite competitors.)
Also note: for those of you who have thought about biking for transportation or commuting but don't want to because "I'd get all sweaty": Slow. Down. Throw an extra X minutes in for your commute. Seriously. Just slow down. Bicycles are *the* most efficient form of human transport. For the same energy as walking, you can be doing significantly more speed. More speed = more cooling wind. Hottest day ever recorded in my city last year, and I biked in to work.
There's also a little bit of trying to scare off the metal scavangers by hinting that the copper cables and other metals that they might be able to recover are radioactive and could be VERY unhealthy to be around.
Risk hasn't seemed to deter any of the people who routinely break into power stations and (try) to steal copper from energized equipment.
A relative is a mid-level commander who came up from rank-and-file and we talked about this very subject a few weeks ago. His department bans helmet cameras, and it's a policy he said he agrees with strongly.
As part of their job, they interact with people in deeply intimate, traumatic, personal moments and events. They have no right to turn that event into a spectacle for YouTube, and privacy laws *do* apply here if medical aide is rendered, in addition to the ethical side of things. Firefighters, like doctors, often need the truth for their own protection or to save lives. Example: they don't care if you were cooking meth from a legal standpoint, they care about the toxic chemicals in your on-fire house. How do you think "Hey, we need to know: you making meth here?" will be answered with a camera on the FF's head?
Firefighters respond to many medical calls to speed response and/or assist with entry if the ambulance crew need it. What happens when a firefighter responds to a domestic violence incident and the victim sees a blinking camera in their face?
You need a swift kick in the groin for thinking that you have any right to be "virtually" present during those moments. Next time you need emergency services, I want you to think "Do I want a camera shoved in my face and this broadcast on youtube?"
Poor taste is getting all hysterical about 9-11 (good lord, what was that all about...), claiming she can't collaborate with people, and then declaring she's "going off the Internet."
Does she not know how to install GPG or something? She could've been a force to help get people into using GPG/PGP and whatnot (plus people have pointed out there's services like Kolab), but instead she just Left The Reservation.
Just because someone has been a hero doesn't grant *you* a magical shield to run around deflecting criticism of their actions.
Imagine a fuel cell in every cellular tower, with a CNG tank on-site in case both the power and gas lines fail (and can be refilled by truck). Imagine your central heating boiler being for home and water heating was generating free electricity as well as heat for a combined ~80% efficiency (almost as good as condensing boiler). Imagine every city block has a fuel cell the size of a utility cabinet, reducing transmission losses and easing strain on the power grid.
Imagine a firefighter's worse nightmare:
Electricity? Check.
Flammable gas? Check.
Unlimited supply of flammable gas? Check.
Neighborhood cogeneration might be interesting, but there's going to have to be some serious, serious thought put into making them safe.
Also: this does not solve the problem of needing carbon neutral energy sources. It's "better", but we've dug ourselves into a sufficiently deep enough hole that we're well past "better" being good enough. Nuclear, wind, solar, hydro. Anything else is just delaying the problem, not fixing it.
Calculated battery capacity is an estimate, nothing more, used by power management to decide when the computer should be force-slept, then suspended to disk to keep from damaging the battery (ie, it's not useful to wake up too late from sleep to do the suspend-to-disk.)
The SMC's estimate is just that: an estimate. Errors build up over time, and certain things fake it out a bit. For example, note the capacity, unplug the laptop, use it for 30 minutes, plug it in. Immediately the value will be different. It'll change again when fully charged. Your battery capacity didn't actually change. Even in a perfect world, since batteries have internal resistance, capacity gauges can never be perfect(if you draw at X you'll get less power out than if you draw out at X*0.8), and the battery's capacity varies with temperature. Battery degradation is impacted by temperature as well, so unless you're controlling for temperature of the pack, this was a completely useless endeavor. The only way this would have been useful would've been to cycle several (probably a dozen or more) batteries on lab-grade equipment in a temperature-controlled environment.
The noise and big upward swings alone should tell you that using the SMC's estimate for the purposes of statistical analysis or trending is virtually useless.
The stupid shit I see "enthusiasts" of any product obsess over is absurd. The time wasted on such an exercise far outweighs the impact it possibly could have had on the author (and probably even 9-10 other people combined.) The batteries last for well over 6 hours. Most people using a ultrabook with the battery life of a Macbook Air have plenty of opportunities to charge their machines during the course of a day.
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...because almost a month after the Yun was announced as being "available", it still isn't available from any of the major US distributors (digikey, mouser, adafruit, sparkfun, and a handful of others I've tried.) I'm not sure what's going on - I think distributors might be trying to clear out stock on existing WiFi boards.
You can buy it online from Arduino direct...if you want to pay nearly the value of the device in shipping. Seriously, they want $50 to ship a $60 board from Spain to the US.
Malala gets this one hands-down. Both made very important statements we must pay attention to, but a fucking headshot beats hanging out in a Russian airport IMHO.
I disagree, strongly. Have you actually listened to her speeches? Sample:
"If you want to see peace in Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan; if you want to end the war; to fight against the war; then instead of sending guns send books,â
Riiiiiiiiiiight. The only reason she's so popular is because she's a harmless photo-op for politicians who are sitting around doing noting. While everyone is happy to talk about little girls not getting to go to school because the Taliban blew up their school, nobody seems interested in the widespread murders of civilian boys and men, or conscription.
Most people think there's this massive imbalance in literacy rates. It's about 9%, between men and women.
That's unfortunate, but it hardly compares to the mass worldwide surveillance and conspiracies - or the courage required to acquire all those documents, leave your life behind, and kick a world power in the teeth.
Low light means you want the largest sensor well size you can (ie biggest individual-sized pixel), and a wide aperture lens. A few P&S cameras have both, but you're better off with an actual DSLR.
In terms of a body: the Panasonic GH2 is pretty popular among videographers for quality and controls; there are a bunch of firmware hacks out for it. If you don't mind not having video, you can pick up a used Canon 40D for peanuts, and it's a fantastic camera, and close to your price range.
In terms of lenses, you'll want the widest aperture lens you can afford. The simple/cheap way to do this is a fixed (prime) lens; figure out what focal length you need (for non-photographers, the "mm" in "100mm lens", aka "zoom factor".) Canon and Nikon both, for example, sell a 50mm f/1.8 lens that costs about $50-60. Even with the crop factor, might not be quite enough for your purposes, however.
A few days ago I saw an interesting comment about alternative fuels that re-cast the issue for me.
Namely: they're a distraction. By focusing on the "greenness" of the fuel for cars, be it gas, ethanol, hydrogen, CNG, electricity...we ignore the problem of operation space and storage space (not to mention, the inefficiency, energy-wise, of moving 2 tons of metal just to move one person.) As population grows, we don't have space for everyone to bop around by themselves in their car, nor do we have the space to put them when they're not in use. Bloomberg figured this out a couple of years ago, for example, and hence his strong push of cycle infrastructure in NYC, to great result.
Sure, more cars = not a problem in the middle of Nebraska. But in any metropolitan area, traffic is an enormous burden, and we cannot just throw more pavement at the problem. It's well known that adding lanes doesn't add capacity. We also don't have room for all these cars to park, at least not without paving every square inch in sight.
We need to get people out of their cars. That means higher gas taxes (which haven't been adjusted in decades), car-sharing systems, legal protection for pedestrians and cyclists, and infrastructure spending on pedestrian walkways, cycleways, usable long distance/regional/local public transit (and ending the insistence that public transit pay for itself, something "private" road/infrastructure users aren't expected to do). For example: it is *idiotic* that you cannot take luggage or a bicycle with you on the entire Amtrak northeast corridor.
Funding alternative fuels is fine, but don't do it if you won't fund alternative transportation infrastructure as well. Imagine what $2BN (what Obama wants to spend on "alternative fuels") can buy in terms of cycling and pedestrian infrastructure.
Dogs are mostly interested in being good pack animals and pleasing the alpha. When your handler is pleased by getting to search vehicles/bags/etc...
I'm almost completely convinced that police dogs are merely a slight sophistication of "Hey look, *smash*, your taillight is out."
Do rats have such social capabilities?
In Massachusetts, one party is completely dominant, to the point that 81% of the House, 90% of the Senate, and the Governor are all from the same party.
Romney, Swift, Celluci, and Weld were all republicans. Before Dukakis during the mid 1900's, there was a fairly even trade back and forth between republican and democratic governors. Go back even further, and it biases towards republicans. But please, don't let actual facts get in the way of your rant about MA being a "one party" state.
The supposed "liberalism" in Massachusetts isn't really that true - we're quite conservative, it's just that most people don't understand what the fuck "conservative" means - they think it means some christian right-winger.
Basically, we're good about following the constitution. The thing says everyone's created equal (as does our own constitution, which predates the US constitution) so it wasn't "liberal" to say "hey, gay people can get married too."
I remember back when the bombings happened and some jackhole congresscritter said something about us "cowering" and how we wished we could arm ourselves. To which many people said "Hey fuckwit, remember that thing called the American Revolution? We started that, with our state's CIVILIAN MILITIA." To this day, there are people with minuteman license plates, descendants of the original minutemen. All over the state are statues of minutemen, posing with their rifles. Every kid learns about the initial battles fought here, in grade school. We re-enact the battles every year, too. Got a statewide holiday to celebrate the affair as well.
"Yeah, they tax driving in Massachusetts. Is it any wonder the Bay State got the moniker: Taxachusetts?
Except you moved from a state with a local/state tax income of 11.2% (California) to one of 10.4% (Massachusetts.) MA is ranked 8th; California 4th. So please do shut the fuck up about "taxachusetts" - your taxes are LOWER than they were when you were in Commiefornia.
They "tax driving" everywhere. Roads are paid for from the primary source of taxes: state and federal income tax and local property taxes. Your excise and gasoline taxes don't come even close to paying for the roads you use, I assure you. The myth that drivers pay for the roads they use is just that - a myth. We all do, even if we don't use them. That's mostly because the gas tax hasn't been inflation adjusted in decades, nor has it been adjusted for increasing mileage cars get, nor has it been adjusted for the increased damage from heavier SUVs that are so damn popular now.
Consider that half of the people in the largest city in New England don't drive, and still are paying the same federal taxes. And have to use a public transit system that was saddled with billions of dollars in debt for a HIGHWAY construction project (the Big Dig). It's a miracle the MBTA keeps running despite being $6BN in debt.
That is a ridiculous statement. Work is lost every time a drive fails unless it happens to fail immediately after a backup. Full backups take lots of time. If you understood git better [SNIP]
Full backups? LOL, son.
It's not a ridiculous statement. Our backup system backs up 350+ machines every 15 minutes by default, as long as they have a working network connection, anywhere in the world that can reach our server; the client works by watching what files are changed, and periodically (every 2-3 days) doing a full scan in case it missed something. We dialed it back to once an hour based on user feedback - people felt an hour was more than acceptable in terms of lost productivity. We retain those revisions for about a week, and they're progressively paired down. Restores take seconds and are self-service, as is adding another machine to your account.
Furthermore, we use IMAP for email, so even if your workstation or laptop dies in a big puff of smoke, your email isn't lost.1995 called, wants to know why the fuck Linus is apparently using POP3.
If I had a dollar for every prick developer who thinks they know how to do IT, I'd be rich (and a lot saner.) Programmers are the worst to support by far because they have absolutely zero humility. Everyone else generally either asks how something should be done, or at least has the graciousness to ask if what they have in mind will work. Programmers just charge ahead and assume they know what they're doing because they've got a Mythbuntu box and a Linux NAS box at home...
The first bit regarding RdRand was inappropriate/rude, but the second half regarding ARM SoC developers most was beyond inappropriate without a doubt. He suggests twice that they're worthy of death, suggests specific methods of murdering them. Here's the bit the submitter didn't include:
"So if you see any, send them my love, and possibly puncture the brake-lines on their car and put a little surprise in their coffee, ok?"
Linus went out of his way to be nasty and insulting; it is not necessary nor acceptable to treat others in such a way. This kind of behavior has come up before here on Slashdot, and it is still immature, abusive, and mean-spirited.
Linus is exploiting his social status to bully others and I'm tired of people making excuses for it, particularly because he's in a leadership position and serves as a role model to many. The Linux dev community needs to stand up to language and behavior like this, or otherwise the message to young/new programmers they can/should act this way if they're successful enough, and if they're the target of such nastiness, the community will accept and condone it.
In general, I'm tired of excuses being made for bullies simply because they're valuable. Linus is no different from the varsity football star who goes around slamming people into lockers; a gorilla beating his chest. Were you ever bullied as a kid in school? Do you have a child in school being bullied? Remember how it made you feel? Yeah.
It's impossible to tell in general whether there's a vulnerability in a random number generator. It's a "computationally infeasible" problem, the best we can do is check for known deviations from randomness. If you know how it deviates, it's easy to check but beyond that there's no way to tell.
Unless the NIST tools are compromised as well, then yes, it's completely possible to verify how good hardware RNGs are. Also, few intel processors have built-in RNGs, at least not ones the Linux kernel can use. None of the machines we've bought in the last 5 years have them. When was the last major intel x86 processor to have one? P2/P3 based systems?
I always wondered why; now I think I know *exactly* why. Hardware RNGs increase crypto security; by removing them, the NSA can influence/corrupt OS-level pseudo-RNG routines.
I wonder how many of the software RNG projects like haveged are compromised...
If you were lost in Manhattan, chances are fairly good that you could walk to shelter before succumbing to the elements. And the Atacama is just about all dry and cold every day of the year.
Tell that to the forty or so homeless people a year who die of exposure in NYC.
You're wrong. Snowden chose publicity as his defence, so not NSA, nor FSB could have easily "disappeared" him without repercussions.
What repercussions? Son, in case you hadn't noticed, Russia is a world superpower and has been adopting a stronger and stronger military stance ever since Putin seized control.
Tell that whole "public" business to Alexander Litvinenko, whom Russia not only assassinated him, but did so in a purposefully highly visible, slow, unpreventable way.
Nevermind you're assuming a Russian Snowden would have even had a chance to go public before he was killed or captured. The only other country I can think of that is as bold about their clandestine ops is Israel. Russian Snowden would get a bullet to the brain and written up as a street crime and the world wouldn't blink a single eye.
how do we know that the session keys are chosen securely and not divulged with steganography somehow? I know that products have existed which did exactly that, revealing part of the encryption key in the encrypted data stream (and I know that because the vendor was fairly open about the practice).
If you're going to make such a massive claim, you need to back it up. Name the vendor/manufacturer and equipment, or I, and every other slashdot reader, will consider this bullshit.
Did you replace your NIC adapter or manually change the MAC address.
- sites can identify you by your network interface
What? Anything beyond the first-hop router has no idea what your MAC address is.
...they arrest gay people simply for being gay, and have threatened to arrest gay athletes.
This man fled Russia because of the reaction to his paintings of Putin in lingerie: http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/08/fearing-retribution-artist-behind-putin-lingerie-painting-leaves-russia/279181/
It's easy to take this as an opportunity to denigrate the US. The level of corruption is far worse in Russia and the civil rights protections a fraction of what US citizens enjoy.
If Snowdon has been Russian and escaped with FSB documents, he wouldn't be alive right now. In case nobody noticed, Russia assassinates inconvenient people.
You are beyond lucky that the VCR head didn't shatter from the stress. Work out the kinetic energy of something spinning that fast. Ain't pretty. Out of brazen curiosity: how did you reach 250,000 rpm from 65,000 rpm?
Most Atheists seem to be more on the Agnostic side of things; in that they acknowledge there might be, or there might not be a god. There is no solid proof either way though it's looking less and less likely given the claims of the Theists.
Stop trying to marginalize us. Agnostics call themselves agnostics or use a phrase of some sort to summarize their beliefs, and are usually fairly upfront about not wanting to be called atheists. Atheists by definition (hint: a-theist) do not believe in a god, and most of us are pretty goddamn emphatic about it.
If you were exposed in the Atacama, you would most likely be dead in less than 48 hours.
I live in a major US city where the same is true for a few months out of the year. Yawn.
RTFA, it emits no carbon.
Bullshit. It MUST. It's burning a fuel that HAS CARBON IN IT.
Biology being what it is, it's reasonable to think that the health benefits of exercise are a multi-factor phenomenon and that any one chemical will deliver fewer benefits than the real thing.
This is true - for example, this almost certainly won't do anything for improving glycogen stores - but it'd certainly help for people who have been bedridden, the elderly, chemo patients, etc. It may also provide an easier start for people who are badly out of shape.
So many people abandon fitness kicks because the first few times it's really unpleasant/hard; it's a bit sad because the human body is actually pretty responsive and adaptive, and especially if you're in lousy shape, gains can be substantial if you simply give it a chance. For example, someone bikes into work for the first time, and they find it exhausting, so they say "meeeeh" and the bike gets sold or disappears into the basement. Except if they'd simply stuck with it for about a week or two, they'd find it easier and easier every day (note: it's totally OK, and good for you, to take a day or two off if it feels like you need it. The volume of training by 'serious' athletes might surprise many. It's also not particularly intense. It's just focused and smart, and yes, rest days are taken by even elite competitors.)
Also note: for those of you who have thought about biking for transportation or commuting but don't want to because "I'd get all sweaty": Slow. Down. Throw an extra X minutes in for your commute. Seriously. Just slow down. Bicycles are *the* most efficient form of human transport. For the same energy as walking, you can be doing significantly more speed. More speed = more cooling wind. Hottest day ever recorded in my city last year, and I biked in to work.
There's also a little bit of trying to scare off the metal scavangers by hinting that the copper cables and other metals that they might be able to recover are radioactive and could be VERY unhealthy to be around.
Risk hasn't seemed to deter any of the people who routinely break into power stations and (try) to steal copper from energized equipment.
A relative is a mid-level commander who came up from rank-and-file and we talked about this very subject a few weeks ago. His department bans helmet cameras, and it's a policy he said he agrees with strongly.
As part of their job, they interact with people in deeply intimate, traumatic, personal moments and events. They have no right to turn that event into a spectacle for YouTube, and privacy laws *do* apply here if medical aide is rendered, in addition to the ethical side of things. Firefighters, like doctors, often need the truth for their own protection or to save lives. Example: they don't care if you were cooking meth from a legal standpoint, they care about the toxic chemicals in your on-fire house. How do you think "Hey, we need to know: you making meth here?" will be answered with a camera on the FF's head?
Firefighters respond to many medical calls to speed response and/or assist with entry if the ambulance crew need it. What happens when a firefighter responds to a domestic violence incident and the victim sees a blinking camera in their face?
You need a swift kick in the groin for thinking that you have any right to be "virtually" present during those moments. Next time you need emergency services, I want you to think "Do I want a camera shoved in my face and this broadcast on youtube?"
Poor taste is getting all hysterical about 9-11 (good lord, what was that all about...), claiming she can't collaborate with people, and then declaring she's "going off the Internet."
Does she not know how to install GPG or something? She could've been a force to help get people into using GPG/PGP and whatnot (plus people have pointed out there's services like Kolab), but instead she just Left The Reservation.
Just because someone has been a hero doesn't grant *you* a magical shield to run around deflecting criticism of their actions.
Imagine a fuel cell in every cellular tower, with a CNG tank on-site in case both the power and gas lines fail (and can be refilled by truck). Imagine your central heating boiler being for home and water heating was generating free electricity as well as heat for a combined ~80% efficiency (almost as good as condensing boiler). Imagine every city block has a fuel cell the size of a utility cabinet, reducing transmission losses and easing strain on the power grid.
Imagine a firefighter's worse nightmare:
Electricity? Check.
Flammable gas? Check.
Unlimited supply of flammable gas? Check.
Neighborhood cogeneration might be interesting, but there's going to have to be some serious, serious thought put into making them safe.
Also: this does not solve the problem of needing carbon neutral energy sources. It's "better", but we've dug ourselves into a sufficiently deep enough hole that we're well past "better" being good enough. Nuclear, wind, solar, hydro. Anything else is just delaying the problem, not fixing it.
Calculated battery capacity is an estimate, nothing more, used by power management to decide when the computer should be force-slept, then suspended to disk to keep from damaging the battery (ie, it's not useful to wake up too late from sleep to do the suspend-to-disk.)
The SMC's estimate is just that: an estimate. Errors build up over time, and certain things fake it out a bit. For example, note the capacity, unplug the laptop, use it for 30 minutes, plug it in. Immediately the value will be different. It'll change again when fully charged. Your battery capacity didn't actually change. Even in a perfect world, since batteries have internal resistance, capacity gauges can never be perfect(if you draw at X you'll get less power out than if you draw out at X*0.8), and the battery's capacity varies with temperature. Battery degradation is impacted by temperature as well, so unless you're controlling for temperature of the pack, this was a completely useless endeavor. The only way this would have been useful would've been to cycle several (probably a dozen or more) batteries on lab-grade equipment in a temperature-controlled environment.
The noise and big upward swings alone should tell you that using the SMC's estimate for the purposes of statistical analysis or trending is virtually useless.
The stupid shit I see "enthusiasts" of any product obsess over is absurd. The time wasted on such an exercise far outweighs the impact it possibly could have had on the author (and probably even 9-10 other people combined.) The batteries last for well over 6 hours. Most people using a ultrabook with the battery life of a Macbook Air have plenty of opportunities to charge their machines during the course of a day.