I am not in the US, so I do not know the whole story, but I agree with you. Giving benefits to certain customers spending more does not sound outrageous to me. I do not understand why all the negatives.
On a SIM Card you have a real OS, which runs several applications. One of these happens to be the USIM application which does the authentication to the network and handles the file system containing configuration files, primitive databases (SMS, Addressbook), etc. Applications can be native or Javacard based depending on the card. You can install new applications (or delete them) on the SIM card by SMS or IP-based connections if you have the needed keys. The mobile network operators do this to provide additional services to their clients. Heck they even have a sort of GUI Toolkit to build menus and simple dialogs. On most phones you can find the SIM Menu if you look for it to see some examples of this.
This. Prison is an abused form of punishment which we for whatever reason perceive as normal. Actually prison is absolutely inhumane and ofter disproportionate punishment to most kind of crimes. I also doubt that someone comes back from prison less dangerous then they entered. I mean being in a closed space with only criminals and (sometimes violent) cops is not something that makes you turn to the good side, quite the opposite.
Economic punishment for all kinds of economic crimes makes much more sense, and it must be proportionate too. Heck, physical punishment is more humane if it does not leave permanent scars/disabilities and probably more effective, too.
Yandex.Browser is what I use. It is Chromium based, but has some features from Opera. If you go to the Extensions tab you already find a good Adblocker which you just need to activate and you can configure it to block plugins (like Flash). You can then activate Flash selectively (either on a one-off basis or permanently for a domain).
I am a native Italian speaker, but speak Russian, German and English daily. German is by no means the best language when it comes to being both precise and concise. The cup for that goes to Russian hands down. Both Germans and Russians express themselves very clearly and unambiguously (well, when they need to) but Russian sentences are shorter on average. Italian, on the other hand, is either ambiguous (relies on context a lot) or very verbose if you cannot allow yourself to be misunderstood.
Regarding how it sounds, German is terrible but at least is generally easier to understand than English for a foreigner (some Americans seem to have a damn frog in their throat). Unless you made the mistake to speak to an old Bayern, then you might as well pretend to be deaf. Italian is generally pleasant (even the dialects) and Russian can be very pleasant, if spoken by a well educated person, or extremely rude and unpleasant if spoken by a gopnik.
In your majestic plan you forgot to mention how the hell is Microsoft going to force everyone to buy Surface laptops and PCs... they would have done that already if they could.
Try Yandex.Browser. It's based on Chromium, comes with an ad blocker and is snappier than Safari. I switched to that from Safari and never looked back. In settings you can set Google as default search engine if you do not like Yandex search (I don't).
But since the topic at hand has nothing to do with rape, let's get stop with unfitting analogies. A company that is offering HOSTING must take have a solid backup plan and security policies in place. Otherwise, even if the criminal who attacked them is solely responsible for the act, the attacked company is 100% responsible in front of their clients, just as it should be.
In the business world being totally incompetent to offer the service you want to offer is not justified. It has nothing to do with rape, burglary or anything else, really.
SmartCards actually mostly rely on symmetric algorithms for most applications. The only commonly used public key algorithm is RSA, which is not based on discrete logarithm. This leaves DSA, among the relatively common algorithms, but that is rarely used on SmartCards. What would be interesting to know, is how EC-DSA is affected, since it is slowly replacing RSA because of the reduced key size.
In principle, yes. But $32m? This means ruining this person's life forever, and all because he uploaded some sport shows. Sorry no, murderers have it easier, fraudsters (especially very big ones) have it much much easier, etc. Uploading shows, well it is somehow wrong, but it shouldn't cost you your life.
You know what emits a lot of infrared light? The sun. Nobody ever complained (if ever, we can "complain" about the emitted UV light).
Actually try this: take welder googles (not mask), remove the lenses and replace them with stacked sheets of red and blue light filter (Rosco was the brand I used). This will block almost all visible light but let near-infrared come through. Wear these glasses in bright daylight, just never ever stare at the sun, really just don't. However, the result is, that you will see in the near-IR spectrum. Your rods/cones are not very sensible to this frequencies, so it must be a bright sunny day, but it works.
Just don't look at the sun directly, while your pupils are completely open, you would burn your retina pretty quickly.
...what are the alternatives? Rolling your own crypto won't work well.
Unfortunately answers to this question can only be speculation. I wouldn't be extremely paranoid, but still it depends what you are trying to protect.
For Mac it is quite unlikely, since all the standard directories are english only. They just happen to have file named ".localized" in them, and the Finder (but not "ls") will show their localized name. I find this to be actually a pretty good approach since you can change language at any moment and system-created folders will also magically get a localized name.
To have the application fail if the locale is not english under Mac OS X you really need to go out of your way and do something contrived and stupid I guess. May DRM?
Back in the early days at mobileread.com Kovid was asked to to include an file management opt-out feature like iTunes, and he was 'meh, code it yourself'.
That's not a bad response at all, calibre is open source. "Code it yourself" does not meant he would not accept the patch, it just means he does not feel like doing it himself, which is reasonable
Sir, you are just either old or retro. There is no real, logical reason to keep around a 286 and 386, much less move data around between them. If you got access to the internet and are using gmail, ajax website and the likes you probably also a normal computer and can use things like dropbox, which are free to exchange data with your friends.
As far as I have understood the problem here is not the "lit portion" per-se, but the fact that it looks basically identical to the Microsoft one. If you see the Datel controller, you can hardly distinguish it from the Microsoft controller.
I am using Darcs and it seems to do the job. Is strange that it isn't even mentioned cause it has been around since quite some time and is pretty mature. The only problem I am having with Darcs is huge resource consumption (a copy of the repository is on a VPS with 256mb RAM, no swap) but you can move a repository by just copying it somewhere else (even across systems) without problems. What are the advantages of using Git/Mercurial/Bazaar? I think I need to mention that I am developing on OSX (but a copy of the repository is on a Linux system).
Actually he is mentioning Linux. GNUstep is a really good platform for experimenting with Objective-C. It should be stable and full-featured enough for the needs of learning. I started coding Objective-C on that about 6 years ago. Over time I switched to Mac, which of course provides me with a more stable environment for Objective-C programming, yet GNUstep was very useful and I guess it evolved since I last used it.
You say that you have only done a bit of Obj-C programming. The problem is that for small programs retain/release is much like malloc/free, but in bigger projects it becomes a life-safer. The conventions are very easy, even if you throw some CoreFoundation object in the equation.
The main difference between retain/release and malloc/free is that with retain = "I (object calling retain) need this object to stick around" and release = "I (object calling release) don't need this object anymore". Instead malloc = "create this", free = "nobody else in this process needs this". You can see yourself that while is usually trivial to determine if an object needs something it is referencing or not, doing so for the whole process everytime you try to get rid of an object is painful.
Note that now the Objective-C runtime offers garbage collection (except on the iPhone), which is of course a good step forward.
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I am not in the US, so I do not know the whole story, but I agree with you. Giving benefits to certain customers spending more does not sound outrageous to me. I do not understand why all the negatives.
Sir, should I ever need a lawyer I will make sure to contact you. Yours, The Devil
On a SIM Card you have a real OS, which runs several applications. One of these happens to be the USIM application which does the authentication to the network and handles the file system containing configuration files, primitive databases (SMS, Addressbook), etc. Applications can be native or Javacard based depending on the card. You can install new applications (or delete them) on the SIM card by SMS or IP-based connections if you have the needed keys. The mobile network operators do this to provide additional services to their clients. Heck they even have a sort of GUI Toolkit to build menus and simple dialogs. On most phones you can find the SIM Menu if you look for it to see some examples of this.
This. Prison is an abused form of punishment which we for whatever reason perceive as normal. Actually prison is absolutely inhumane and ofter disproportionate punishment to most kind of crimes. I also doubt that someone comes back from prison less dangerous then they entered. I mean being in a closed space with only criminals and (sometimes violent) cops is not something that makes you turn to the good side, quite the opposite.
Economic punishment for all kinds of economic crimes makes much more sense, and it must be proportionate too. Heck, physical punishment is more humane if it does not leave permanent scars/disabilities and probably more effective, too.
Yandex.Browser is what I use. It is Chromium based, but has some features from Opera. If you go to the Extensions tab you already find a good Adblocker which you just need to activate and you can configure it to block plugins (like Flash). You can then activate Flash selectively (either on a one-off basis or permanently for a domain).
I am a native Italian speaker, but speak Russian, German and English daily. German is by no means the best language when it comes to being both precise and concise. The cup for that goes to Russian hands down. Both Germans and Russians express themselves very clearly and unambiguously (well, when they need to) but Russian sentences are shorter on average. Italian, on the other hand, is either ambiguous (relies on context a lot) or very verbose if you cannot allow yourself to be misunderstood.
Regarding how it sounds, German is terrible but at least is generally easier to understand than English for a foreigner (some Americans seem to have a damn frog in their throat). Unless you made the mistake to speak to an old Bayern, then you might as well pretend to be deaf. Italian is generally pleasant (even the dialects) and Russian can be very pleasant, if spoken by a well educated person, or extremely rude and unpleasant if spoken by a gopnik.
Or to release it under public domain.
In your majestic plan you forgot to mention how the hell is Microsoft going to force everyone to buy Surface laptops and PCs... they would have done that already if they could.
Try Yandex.Browser. It's based on Chromium, comes with an ad blocker and is snappier than Safari. I switched to that from Safari and never looked back. In settings you can set Google as default search engine if you do not like Yandex search (I don't).
But since the topic at hand has nothing to do with rape, let's get stop with unfitting analogies. A company that is offering HOSTING must take have a solid backup plan and security policies in place. Otherwise, even if the criminal who attacked them is solely responsible for the act, the attacked company is 100% responsible in front of their clients, just as it should be.
In the business world being totally incompetent to offer the service you want to offer is not justified. It has nothing to do with rape, burglary or anything else, really.
SmartCards actually mostly rely on symmetric algorithms for most applications. The only commonly used public key algorithm is RSA, which is not based on discrete logarithm. This leaves DSA, among the relatively common algorithms, but that is rarely used on SmartCards. What would be interesting to know, is how EC-DSA is affected, since it is slowly replacing RSA because of the reduced key size.
In principle, yes. But $32m? This means ruining this person's life forever, and all because he uploaded some sport shows. Sorry no, murderers have it easier, fraudsters (especially very big ones) have it much much easier, etc. Uploading shows, well it is somehow wrong, but it shouldn't cost you your life.
You know what emits a lot of infrared light? The sun. Nobody ever complained (if ever, we can "complain" about the emitted UV light).
Actually try this: take welder googles (not mask), remove the lenses and replace them with stacked sheets of red and blue light filter (Rosco was the brand I used). This will block almost all visible light but let near-infrared come through. Wear these glasses in bright daylight, just never ever stare at the sun, really just don't. However, the result is, that you will see in the near-IR spectrum. Your rods/cones are not very sensible to this frequencies, so it must be a bright sunny day, but it works.
Just don't look at the sun directly, while your pupils are completely open, you would burn your retina pretty quickly.
...what are the alternatives? Rolling your own crypto won't work well. Unfortunately answers to this question can only be speculation. I wouldn't be extremely paranoid, but still it depends what you are trying to protect.
For Mac it is quite unlikely, since all the standard directories are english only. They just happen to have file named ".localized" in them, and the Finder (but not "ls") will show their localized name. I find this to be actually a pretty good approach since you can change language at any moment and system-created folders will also magically get a localized name. To have the application fail if the locale is not english under Mac OS X you really need to go out of your way and do something contrived and stupid I guess. May DRM?
Back in the early days at mobileread.com Kovid was asked to to include an file management opt-out feature like iTunes, and he was 'meh, code it yourself'.
That's not a bad response at all, calibre is open source. "Code it yourself" does not meant he would not accept the patch, it just means he does not feel like doing it himself, which is reasonable
or 4chan...
Sir, you are just either old or retro. There is no real, logical reason to keep around a 286 and 386, much less move data around between them. If you got access to the internet and are using gmail, ajax website and the likes you probably also a normal computer and can use things like dropbox, which are free to exchange data with your friends.
What about SDL? They seem to handle those aspects pretty well
As far as I have understood the problem here is not the "lit portion" per-se, but the fact that it looks basically identical to the Microsoft one. If you see the Datel controller, you can hardly distinguish it from the Microsoft controller.
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I am using Darcs and it seems to do the job. Is strange that it isn't even mentioned cause it has been around since quite some time and is pretty mature. The only problem I am having with Darcs is huge resource consumption (a copy of the repository is on a VPS with 256mb RAM, no swap) but you can move a repository by just copying it somewhere else (even across systems) without problems. What are the advantages of using Git/Mercurial/Bazaar? I think I need to mention that I am developing on OSX (but a copy of the repository is on a Linux system).
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Actually he is mentioning Linux. GNUstep is a really good platform for experimenting with Objective-C. It should be stable and full-featured enough for the needs of learning. I started coding Objective-C on that about 6 years ago. Over time I switched to Mac, which of course provides me with a more stable environment for Objective-C programming, yet GNUstep was very useful and I guess it evolved since I last used it.
You say that you have only done a bit of Obj-C programming. The problem is that for small programs retain/release is much like malloc/free, but in bigger projects it becomes a life-safer. The conventions are very easy, even if you throw some CoreFoundation object in the equation.
The main difference between retain/release and malloc/free is that with retain = "I (object calling retain) need this object to stick around" and release = "I (object calling release) don't need this object anymore". Instead malloc = "create this", free = "nobody else in this process needs this". You can see yourself that while is usually trivial to determine if an object needs something it is referencing or not, doing so for the whole process everytime you try to get rid of an object is painful.
Note that now the Objective-C runtime offers garbage collection (except on the iPhone), which is of course a good step forward.