Apple doesn't support CUDA (well, CUDA doesn't support Apple, lol)
No it supports GCD and OpenCL. OpenCL alone is a superior alternative to CUDA, couple that with GCD and OpenCL managing it all and it blows CUDA in the ground since your code can run on any number of processors and processor types (cpu/gpu/apu, the list goes on).
Its supported both of those far longer than I've owned multi-core machines, so perhaps its you that needs a time machine rescue.
I don't know a single video or audio production company around here that uses Macs anymore.
You're just an arrogant douche, worthless to any company.
You wouldn't get very far telling that to the owner/CEO of my company, because I'd again tell you to go fuck yourself.
I have more important things to do than listen to some retarded pissant rant on about 'open standards'.
I have shit to build and do, if IE gets that done, then IE gets that done. Your idealogical crusades do nothing to help me get work done, in fact, they are more often than not the cause of problems as I have to fire other pissants like you who think ranting and raving about a web browser is more important than producing the product you were hired to produce.
You're lucky I don't know who you work for, as if they have half a clue, they'd want to know what you think so they could fire you before you do something stupid to their business.
You go chase whatever flavor of web browser is trendy this week, my employees will just continue to work while you dick around with upgrades and downtime.
You have no idea how businesses work in the real world. Pretending that being restricted to a specific tool for a specific job is unordinary shows your ignorance and lack of experience. The more you talk, the more clear it is you've only ever 'worked' in 'fantasy land'
And his statement was... WTF kind of computer do you have that can't run Portal at your monitor refresh rate? Faster than your monitor refresh rate is dumb for Portal. If you're getting faster than refresh rate it probably means its not doing vsync in which case, it doesn't look the same.
and being purely selfish with ZFS is just nauseating anymore.
Uhm, your saying that its Oracles fault Sun and many other people dont' like the viral nature of GPL and intentionally licensed the software in such a way that prevents your silly fanboy license from being able to leech it? You're saying that its okay for you to have software your way... but not for anyone else to be free to have it their own way.
You're just another one of the freeloaders. Any talk about liberty is just bullshit your spewing to hide the truth.
My OS has been using ZFS for years without any problems, stop your whining, you got what you intended out of your license. GPL is incompatible with ZFS, not the other way around. Get a clue
It is impossible for the government to record all digital communications because they aren't privy to them. Unless you mean to tell me they have a back door in my open source mail servers which communicate on their own private networks within my organization over physically secure channels.
They don't ever get access to a lot of digital communications so they can not possibly be recording it all.
typical timothy story, so blindly false, yet somehow the moron keeps posting shit.
Its far easier for me to block my keyboard than it is to block my 3 27 inch montiors, and the laptop that powers them.
Now a days, users type their password so often that even grandma types it from muscle memory.
Secure defaults are always better than insecure defaults.
You've given no actual benefit to unmasking them, just pretend ones that don't actually exist. Considering how many places grandma uses the SAME password, anything you can do to obscure it from prying eyes is a good idea.
Long ago I had access to a rather large list of user passwords (hundreds of thousands).
From this list, I built up a 'proper' cracking order for passwords, trying all the ones in my password list first, by order of number of times that password appeared.
That list is pretty universal and still is a good start for cracking today, getting you significantly shorter times to crack passwords using common ones.
I'm not the first guy who did this, I'm not the last guy who did this, and I didn't even do a particularly impressive job at it as my goal was an academic exercise, not actually hacking accounts.
Your password wouldn't last long, assuming you could even find any place that would allow you to repeat a single symbol for the entire password. Everyone possible combination of catchy/easy to remember/neat passwords you can come up with are already done. Crackers are smart enough to not only use dictionaries but to use dictionaries in smart ways to augment their guessing patterns. Trying every dictionary word with various leetspeak translations is a good one.
An application for playing movies that _wanted_ to disable other monitors would just do that.
If done like Windows UAC, then it doesn't work because the password prompt prevents ALL monitors from being useful for anything else. All you can do is enter your password, until then, you don't see whats under anything on any monitor.
For most linux envs done right, the risk is disclosure of the/etc/shadow variant of the file severely mitigating the risk, but in Windows, you cannot use any sort of meaningful protection.
Really? Theres nothing you can do to a linux box that makes/etc/shadow as secure or more secure than %SYSTEM%\SAM
In fact, its far far easier to get at/etc/shadow on Linux than it is the SAM on Windows.
The SAM on windows requires special hoop jumping to read it, even with SYSTEM (real root equiv, not 'Administrator' which is less than all powerful).
Opening/etc/shadow is trivial as being root.
Both are easily defeated by simply booting from a different disk.
I'm curious as to how you expect maintainers to write software. Take an opinion poll on every line?
No, but they can work on the 'thinking' part.
Its common sense, well accepted fact, that you should hide the password. They have proven that they aren't even capable of understanding they don't know what they are doing. That is FAR more scary than them not knowing what they are doing.
If you don't know what you're doing, and you ask someone who does and then follow the advice, thats perfectly fine. When you clearly don't know what you're doing, don't ask anyone, don't even follow basic security principals that have been around longer than you've been alive... well then you're going to have people pointing out ways for you to be the deciding factor.
I write code almost every day for shit I don't know what I'm doing... I think put that code up for review by people who do... and then I fucking listen to what they have to say.
I don't have to know everything to program as if I know everything. I just have to know what I do and don't know, and who to ask for help.
The absolute WORST trait of almost ALL developers is that they won't ask for help when they don't know what they are doing. They still think it makes them look bad to ask for help, when not asking for help is what actually makes you look bad.
As another comment to yours said 'yes, but only because people saying it don't understand what they are saying'.
All security is through obscurity. The doors on your home use keys... the security is through the obsucrity of the pattern on the key. All currently known forms of encryption are security through obscurity, the password being the obscure part. Your car, be it the key kind or the RFID kind also uses an obscure identifier to let the car know its the right one.
Your bank uses the obscurity of your secret questions to help secure your account.
All security as its known on the face of the earth is security through obscurity unless you have a person physically restraining the 'hackers'
Those of us who don't jerk off to how longer our passwords are, don't use 10 digit passwords.
I say this as someone who has written more cryptography software than you've even used.
10 digit passwords are fucking stupid. I'll just bash your head in rather than trying to brute force your password. I assure you, you will give it up FAR faster than anyone can brute force it. Same is true with 6-9 character passwords. I'll have found you and bashed your head in years before the password would be brute forced.
Too many fucking 'social' requirements in games already. Go fuck yourself. I don't want to post my game scores on G+, no one else wants to fucking see them either. Nor do I want you to shove MORE ads down my throat. Its getting hard enough to avoid ad-laden games already, last thing I want in my games is for them to turn out as full of bloatware marketing crap as something like the Nexus series devices.
Realistically... Your desert eagle is going to worthless to you and become MINE when you're laying face down drowning in the blood pouring out the the back of your skull since I walked up behind you and you never saw me coming.
Get a clue, your gun doesn't make you invincible, just arrogant and cocky.
You do realize that in the early years of guns... people made their own bullets... RIGHT?
Its not like its hard to cast bullets from lead, I bought a kit for it. Came with everything I needed except the propane to heat it. I can get lead from any bait & tackle store, the explosive powder can be manufactured trivially at home.
Its rather trivial to make 'a gun' anyway. You should be less afraid of 3D Printers (which cost money) and more afraid of the Internet where you get directions on how to make guns with shit you can buy at the local hardware store and a few simple hand tools.
If you want to make a 'proper' gun, you print the gun parts in the cheap enviromentally friendly plastic they use in 3d printers anyway ( PLA )
Then you make a metal version using the 'lost PLA' method.
End result is that you can pretty easily make a METAL gun, with all the durability advantages that go with it.
Throw in a hone for the barral and you can make a pretty fucking accurate weapon out of a 3d printer or CNC machine that you can make cheap as shit. Or as the other article points out, just buy the 3d printer from Staples.
Until next year... when your mini-UPS battery doesn't hold a charge for shit...
How ofter do you see these batteries replaced? Whats that? Never? Oh yea, thats exactly how often TimeWarner replaces their VoIP units in homes...
Off-the-shelf solutions you refer to work for shit. Just because you think you know how reliable something is, doesn't make it true. You're pretending to live in a fantasy world of perfect UPSes...
Managing 100,000 UPSes that are NEVER serviced is going to be WAY WAY less reliable than 10 at a data center and a handful scattered around the various junction boxes as required, with regular maintenance.
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Apple doesn't support CUDA (well, CUDA doesn't support Apple, lol)
No it supports GCD and OpenCL. OpenCL alone is a superior alternative to CUDA, couple that with GCD and OpenCL managing it all and it blows CUDA in the ground since your code can run on any number of processors and processor types (cpu/gpu/apu, the list goes on).
Its supported both of those far longer than I've owned multi-core machines, so perhaps its you that needs a time machine rescue.
I don't know a single video or audio production company around here that uses Macs anymore.
So you just don't know any then?
I know how to run IT
when someone tripped over the power cord in the server room.
Those two statements are mutually exclusive. You don't know shit.
You're just an arrogant douche, worthless to any company.
You wouldn't get very far telling that to the owner/CEO of my company, because I'd again tell you to go fuck yourself.
I have more important things to do than listen to some retarded pissant rant on about 'open standards'.
I have shit to build and do, if IE gets that done, then IE gets that done. Your idealogical crusades do nothing to help me get work done, in fact, they are more often than not the cause of problems as I have to fire other pissants like you who think ranting and raving about a web browser is more important than producing the product you were hired to produce.
You're lucky I don't know who you work for, as if they have half a clue, they'd want to know what you think so they could fire you before you do something stupid to their business.
You go chase whatever flavor of web browser is trendy this week, my employees will just continue to work while you dick around with upgrades and downtime.
You have no idea how businesses work in the real world. Pretending that being restricted to a specific tool for a specific job is unordinary shows your ignorance and lack of experience. The more you talk, the more clear it is you've only ever 'worked' in 'fantasy land'
No one cares about your silly political ideals.
And his statement was ... WTF kind of computer do you have that can't run Portal at your monitor refresh rate? Faster than your monitor refresh rate is dumb for Portal. If you're getting faster than refresh rate it probably means its not doing vsync in which case, it doesn't look the same.
Really? I target POSIX specifically because of its cross platform consistency.
Linux is the only OS I know of that isn't POSIX compliant, so I think you're just a bit confused.
and being purely selfish with ZFS is just nauseating anymore.
Uhm, your saying that its Oracles fault Sun and many other people dont' like the viral nature of GPL and intentionally licensed the software in such a way that prevents your silly fanboy license from being able to leech it? You're saying that its okay for you to have software your way ... but not for anyone else to be free to have it their own way.
You're just another one of the freeloaders. Any talk about liberty is just bullshit your spewing to hide the truth.
My OS has been using ZFS for years without any problems, stop your whining, you got what you intended out of your license. GPL is incompatible with ZFS, not the other way around. Get a clue
Just for reference, 'NoSQL' is not new. We've all be using variations for years ... since that would include all berkley db databases.
Please don't throw around meaningless buzzwords like you know what they mean.
I really wish people like you could live in an actual shitty country.
Not that America is perfect, but you have no fucking idea what tyranny is.
No one else would post such obvious crap.
It is impossible for the government to record all digital communications because they aren't privy to them. Unless you mean to tell me they have a back door in my open source mail servers which communicate on their own private networks within my organization over physically secure channels.
They don't ever get access to a lot of digital communications so they can not possibly be recording it all.
typical timothy story, so blindly false, yet somehow the moron keeps posting shit.
Its far easier for me to block my keyboard than it is to block my 3 27 inch montiors, and the laptop that powers them.
Now a days, users type their password so often that even grandma types it from muscle memory.
Secure defaults are always better than insecure defaults.
You've given no actual benefit to unmasking them, just pretend ones that don't actually exist. Considering how many places grandma uses the SAME password, anything you can do to obscure it from prying eyes is a good idea.
Long ago I had access to a rather large list of user passwords (hundreds of thousands).
From this list, I built up a 'proper' cracking order for passwords, trying all the ones in my password list first, by order of number of times that password appeared.
That list is pretty universal and still is a good start for cracking today, getting you significantly shorter times to crack passwords using common ones.
I'm not the first guy who did this, I'm not the last guy who did this, and I didn't even do a particularly impressive job at it as my goal was an academic exercise, not actually hacking accounts.
Your password wouldn't last long, assuming you could even find any place that would allow you to repeat a single symbol for the entire password. Everyone possible combination of catchy/easy to remember/neat passwords you can come up with are already done. Crackers are smart enough to not only use dictionaries but to use dictionaries in smart ways to augment their guessing patterns. Trying every dictionary word with various leetspeak translations is a good one.
An application for playing movies that _wanted_ to disable other monitors would just do that.
If done like Windows UAC, then it doesn't work because the password prompt prevents ALL monitors from being useful for anything else. All you can do is enter your password, until then, you don't see whats under anything on any monitor.
For most linux envs done right, the risk is disclosure of the /etc/shadow variant of the file severely mitigating the risk, but in Windows, you cannot use any sort of meaningful protection.
Really? Theres nothing you can do to a linux box that makes /etc/shadow as secure or more secure than %SYSTEM%\SAM
In fact, its far far easier to get at /etc/shadow on Linux than it is the SAM on Windows.
The SAM on windows requires special hoop jumping to read it, even with SYSTEM (real root equiv, not 'Administrator' which is less than all powerful).
Opening /etc/shadow is trivial as being root.
Both are easily defeated by simply booting from a different disk.
I'm curious as to how you expect maintainers to write software. Take an opinion poll on every line?
No, but they can work on the 'thinking' part.
Its common sense, well accepted fact, that you should hide the password. They have proven that they aren't even capable of understanding they don't know what they are doing. That is FAR more scary than them not knowing what they are doing.
If you don't know what you're doing, and you ask someone who does and then follow the advice, thats perfectly fine. When you clearly don't know what you're doing, don't ask anyone, don't even follow basic security principals that have been around longer than you've been alive ... well then you're going to have people pointing out ways for you to be the deciding factor.
I write code almost every day for shit I don't know what I'm doing ... I think put that code up for review by people who do ... and then I fucking listen to what they have to say.
I don't have to know everything to program as if I know everything. I just have to know what I do and don't know, and who to ask for help.
The absolute WORST trait of almost ALL developers is that they won't ask for help when they don't know what they are doing. They still think it makes them look bad to ask for help, when not asking for help is what actually makes you look bad.
As another comment to yours said 'yes, but only because people saying it don't understand what they are saying'.
All security is through obscurity. The doors on your home use keys ... the security is through the obsucrity of the pattern on the key. All currently known forms of encryption are security through obscurity, the password being the obscure part. Your car, be it the key kind or the RFID kind also uses an obscure identifier to let the car know its the right one.
Your bank uses the obscurity of your secret questions to help secure your account.
All security as its known on the face of the earth is security through obscurity unless you have a person physically restraining the 'hackers'
Those of us who don't jerk off to how longer our passwords are, don't use 10 digit passwords.
I say this as someone who has written more cryptography software than you've even used.
10 digit passwords are fucking stupid. I'll just bash your head in rather than trying to brute force your password. I assure you, you will give it up FAR faster than anyone can brute force it. Same is true with 6-9 character passwords. I'll have found you and bashed your head in years before the password would be brute forced.
You are dumber, but thats a reflection on you and not the summary.
Orthogonal does not mean what you think it does.
Too many fucking 'social' requirements in games already. Go fuck yourself. I don't want to post my game scores on G+, no one else wants to fucking see them either. Nor do I want you to shove MORE ads down my throat. Its getting hard enough to avoid ad-laden games already, last thing I want in my games is for them to turn out as full of bloatware marketing crap as something like the Nexus series devices.
Realistically ... Your desert eagle is going to worthless to you and become MINE when you're laying face down drowning in the blood pouring out the the back of your skull since I walked up behind you and you never saw me coming.
Get a clue, your gun doesn't make you invincible, just arrogant and cocky.
You do realize that in the early years of guns ... people made their own bullets ... RIGHT?
Its not like its hard to cast bullets from lead, I bought a kit for it. Came with everything I needed except the propane to heat it. I can get lead from any bait & tackle store, the explosive powder can be manufactured trivially at home.
Nothing.
Its rather trivial to make 'a gun' anyway. You should be less afraid of 3D Printers (which cost money) and more afraid of the Internet where you get directions on how to make guns with shit you can buy at the local hardware store and a few simple hand tools.
If you want to make a 'proper' gun, you print the gun parts in the cheap enviromentally friendly plastic they use in 3d printers anyway ( PLA )
Then you make a metal version using the 'lost PLA' method.
End result is that you can pretty easily make a METAL gun, with all the durability advantages that go with it.
Throw in a hone for the barral and you can make a pretty fucking accurate weapon out of a 3d printer or CNC machine that you can make cheap as shit. Or as the other article points out, just buy the 3d printer from Staples.
Until next year ... when your mini-UPS battery doesn't hold a charge for shit ...
How ofter do you see these batteries replaced? Whats that? Never? Oh yea, thats exactly how often TimeWarner replaces their VoIP units in homes ...
Off-the-shelf solutions you refer to work for shit. Just because you think you know how reliable something is, doesn't make it true. You're pretending to live in a fantasy world of perfect UPSes ...
Managing 100,000 UPSes that are NEVER serviced is going to be WAY WAY less reliable than 10 at a data center and a handful scattered around the various junction boxes as required, with regular maintenance.