Then you do it anyway, very very publicly, and make it clear that you've been threatened and then point out to the public that they can assume any bullshit that happens to you or your family is a direct result of you pissing of 'the man'
And maybe they do something to you, but the resulting backlash will actually result in a change where as if you just do what they tell you because you're afraid of losing your freedom then you're really no different than they are.
Being a coward isn't an excuse for not doing the right thing.
We should be teaching our children to stand up and take one for the team if need be, but make sure the team isn't a bunch of lying politicians first. Not teaching them that its okay if the government threatens you to let them get by with it.
You do realize the reason they get by with it is because people are cowards who don't care about anyone but themselves, right?
So a company who provides support and consulting services for OpenStack deployments... says you should have help with your OpenStack deployment...
Yet the headline is something about it being 'debated'.
Are you guys fucking retarded? Seriously? Can you not read? What do you think is being 'debated'? Other than making up headlines that are flat out lies, what is the purpose of so ridiculously incorrect information?
Well, with iOS its true and its really easy to see with the debugger.
With Android it would be a flat out obvious lie since Android has only gotten partially sane power controls in 6 and its still an absolute joke.
I don't have any experience with Windows phone since Windows Phone was Windows CE, so I'll keep my mouth closed on that one.
Certain vendors have a reputation for speaking the truth, even if you don't like it. Others have a reputation for making promises they don't keep, and still others are actually 100% in the business of stealing your data and using it to sell shit at you. Perhaps if you started using devices from the first instead of the last, you'd have a much better experience.
uhm, lots of us are already using 'on demand' clouds... thats what you call an open stack install.
In fact, most intelligent companies with any sizable number of servers has, management of failures is ridiculously easier. So much so that the performance loss and extra complexity isn't worth mentioning well before you get to 20 physical servers. For those of us running hundreds and thousands... openstack isn't even a tiny bit complex compared to the shit we run on top of it.
UAVs above the clouds are effectively useless since they need to see below the clouds.
And their reference material makes little reference to beaming to a sat, instead it clearly shows ground stations
Because you know, hitting a sat in space moving at tens of thousands of miles an hour... while on an aircraft, moving at hundreds of miles an hour through the air in a different direction with wind turbulence and human operators... yea, thats EASY to keep a laser aimed at a tiny little sat...
They talk about using sats. they haven't even gotten close to DOING it because... THERE ISN'T ONE IN SPACE FOR THEM TO USE CAPABLE OF DOING THIS.
So don't tell me about how it works with sats when it has never worked with sats.
My system works with magic and doesn't need sats and its JUST AS REAL as what you think they are doing.
In movies, people with gun shot wounds to the abdomen die in seconds or minutes instead of hours or days too... but you don't care about that, eh?
You know aliens can't actually defy gravity like in independence day right?
I mean I could go on for days point out how movies don't actually represent reality, but its pretty silly of me to do so when the argument here is that a dude in a movie MIGHT have missed or the bullet MIGHT have went through the target to strike someone else and that makes him a murder... even though we clearly see int he movie that no such thing happened.
So since we're just making up bullshit about fictional events, I'm the POTUS so step off bitch.
The laser is irrelevant, its just the vector they are using to get a coherent beam rather than the typical pattern of radiation associated with RF operations.
A better Yagi antenna is really all they've done. And it could work great... depending on the particular atmospheric conditions at the time and what frequencies they are using. But really, alignment is the biggest issue I see here.
This isn't even actually new. I use a directed beam for my drone all the time (Again, YAGI), do it at home with hobby grade components. Wouldn't take much to make it more accurate and track better, other than money. The result however is that I'd be able to... well, do less than I can do now since I can't shoot a laser through a tree, regardless of the lasers wavelength, where as my radio will penetrate it to some extent and more importantly, will bounce around it.
I'm not really seeing the big data advantage here. You aren't collecting that much data from these things in the first place. You can already stream live HD video for hundreds of miles with COTS equipment that doesn't require EXACT line of site or perfect alignment. Thats what I can get as a hobbiest with very little effort in finding it. (you can get this shit on amazon)
This thing will have an advantage as the distance goes up, but it will also have a distinct disadvantage as the distance goes up. Lasers are better at long range Line of Sight transmission... but the further out you go, the harder it gets to actually hit the target. At the ranges involved (planetary) RF is a better choice in pretty much every way.
Lasers don't magically make for faster transmission mediums. They aren't magically faster than RF just because they are laser. Laser doesn't travel faster than RF, its just higher frequency so theres more bandwidth available in a small part of the spectrum to play with.
szczys is like a 15 year old who doesn't really understand the world real well yet and when he makes these amazing discoveries that we've all known for years... some how some idiot at slashdot... who is entirely unqualified to be anywhere near a 'news for nerds' site posts it to the front page because they aren't nerds and don't actually know that this shit is rather common knowledge among ACTUAL nerds and geeks.
If you look at his submission history, its something you would expect from your high school teenager.
CPU cache IS MEMORY, so how can it be slower than itself?
And before I quote the rest of your trash and make you look stupid, lets point out the most important fact here:
You can have RAM that runs as fast as CPU cache, you just can't afford it.. That CPU with 12MB of CPU cache is mostly expensive BECAUSE OF THE 12MB OF CACHE. and the difficulty in getting that much RAM to operate reliably at those speeds results in low yields, and increased consumer cost.
Even assuming we use the entire ~12MB of L3 cache as instruction cache (which is impossible really unless those instructions don't require any data access, which is utterly implausible), any modern CPU can blow through that in much less time than it takes a DDRx memory controller to set up a RAS.
Did you seriously imply that a Xeon CPU can blow throw 12MB of instruction cache in the amount of time it takes to do one complex instruction? That IS what you said. Which takes what? 40 clock cycles total, in the extreme worst case? (on anything with a 12MB cache which are going to all be high end/fast chips). So you're claiming that in 40 clock cycles it can empty a 12MB cache... No. In 40 clock cycles... it can load EXACTLY 40 registers with data from cache ASSUMING IT DOESN'T DO ANYTHING ELSE. So awesome, you just loaded 320 bytes of RAM into CPU registers... and didn't use it for anything at all.
Do a BSR or BSF on 64 bit number takes 16 clock cycles all by itself!
The one and only thing slower than memory access is disk access, and even there we are closing the gap. Memory has not gotten appreciably faster in a decade, unless of course you ask marketing people.
DDR3's base rate is 800MT/s. DDR4's base rate is 2133MT/s... yea, 2.5x is not appreciably faster or anything.
The one and only thing slower than memory access is disk access, and even there we are closing the gap.
Awe thats cute, you think SSDs are somewhere near RAM speeds. Just because SSDs are ridiculously fast at some things compared to spinning rust doesn't make them magically fast. We've had disks on arrays capable of saturating CPU bandwidth for years too.
This is literally the stupidest thing I've seen posted on Slashdot in a long time, since at least yesterday!
If you're referring to your post, then yes, I agree. It is pretty fucking stupid.
Do you know what DDR means? It means DOUBLE data rate. Twice as fast. (not really, but close enough for hand grenades). Do you have any idea what DDR2 did on top of that? And 3... and 4...
No, it isn't. You can not CURRENTLY by a PC that performs at the level my Xbox One does for the same price. You can lie and pretend that you can, but you can't actually do it.
To top if off, you can't find a PC that is as RELIABLE at running games as my XBone because of all the variations of hardware and shitty drivers that go with it.
My console is consistent in multiple ways, thats worth more than you're realizing.
I have a PC, I don't game on it because of EXACTLY that! When I play online games, I'm not evenly matched because my PC simply isn't fast enough, which makes crap play for me and everyone else, so I use a console.
Now what they're saying is that my nice 'its going to be the same hardware fro 8-10 years' console is going to be just another PC... but worse still an extremely locked down PC?
I knew I should have bought a PS4, but after having 3 PS2s die on me and the Sony rootkit episode and all the other shit they pull I just couldn't force myself to do it. Now basically there are no valid consoles for me to own:( Nintendo seems to be stuck thinking N64 graphics are still the target:(
What you described in the second paragraph is already how it works in current iOS versions. You can't update a locked phone without unlocking it OR wiping it.
I find it odd. I don't know anyone who thinks Apple should help the government. I realize this is the definition of anecdote... but still, this seems odd.
The transceiver in the NIC completely obliterates any data you can gather from relativistic effects in the delays it introduces in its own media converter to go from the chip to the wire line voltages.
Because quads with cameras make really excellent flying bombs?
Unfortunately the part they are missing is that these 'wifi' cameras work about as far as you can throw them, so they aren't really dangerous at all.
900/400mhz cameras are the ones to fear, they'll work for miles with off the shelf transmitters. Mine does about 1.5m and its only running at 250mw, its capable of 1000mw output
When your job is to sit around and make up things to magically make some silly idea you have 'fit' the real world, this is what happens.
You have a bunch of people who literally sit around and invent new ways of doing math that make absolutely no real sense, and have no really world evidence or proof to suggest they are even mildly accurate... and they invented some new model that has no relationship to reality and in their made up universe, it breaks general relativity. Oh and its actually impossible to ever test it, so its not even really debatable.
You might as well go play video games or use startrek as your definitive 'how the universe really workse'
Because that's what Sally was supposed to do, and in 99.9999993% of the time, it's the right thing to do.
No one told Sally that doing so might be a problem and Sally doesn't know what encryption even is, just like she doesn't know shit about how phones work in general so WHY THE FUCK WOULDNT SHE DO HER FUCKING JOB ASSHOLE?
Stop acting like little Sally has any blame in this.
So instead of the current situation where we have intel/amd processors doing something under the hood, using microcode as the language that translate the x86 environment into whatever is actually on the silicon... and you're going to add ARM to it, and maybe some other ones?
Thats cool and all, but its not really all that useful, and intel can pretty much already do that on any CPU it wants with a microcode update. ARM may not run as efficiently on the core that intel uses, but it can be done from a technical point of view.
Its not worth it. Thats why no one does it.
You'll effectively do nothing well.
Intel was an ARM licensee (probably still is), they know ARM as good as anyone outside of ARM itself... and they made entirely new silicon to run it (well technically they bought it if I recall correctly)... and it even had its own microcode... But what they never did was share a single core between both ARM and x86 CPUs that could change modes with a microcode update. No reason they couldn't other than its not efficient.
No, Apple isn't saying they could get access to the encrypted data.
The FBI is asking for apple to give them a version of the software that doesn't have the delay between password attempts and doesn't wipe the device after a certain number of tries.
Neither of these things mean it 'isn't encrypted properly', they in fact are an example of it working as it should.
To go further into your comments:
The FBI request won't work however for one glaring reason: You can't update a locked device without unlocking it because THE DEVICE REJECTS THE UPDATE REQUEST.
Apple designed it that way, intentionally.
You can wipe the device clean and put new software on it, but you still won't get at the data cause the device itself deletes it first, THEN starts the update process.
So basically, what you're saying about 'how it should be' is really 'how it is' and the FBI request is bunk.
America could always put on his big girl panties and have the tits to say no, and not go.
But instead, fuck it, no consequences for anyone but the guys on the very bottom of the food chain... The rowers get fucked, everyone else makes a fortune.
Charging a corporation is like giving a warning to a person - it does nothing.
No, its worse than that.
Giving a warning to a person goes on record and will almost certainly result in harsher punishment the next time around.
When a corporation does it, they get fined and thats it. Next time they just get fined again, not anything larger or anything, just again. No real reason not to continue.
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Then you do it anyway, very very publicly, and make it clear that you've been threatened and then point out to the public that they can assume any bullshit that happens to you or your family is a direct result of you pissing of 'the man'
And maybe they do something to you, but the resulting backlash will actually result in a change where as if you just do what they tell you because you're afraid of losing your freedom then you're really no different than they are.
Being a coward isn't an excuse for not doing the right thing.
We should be teaching our children to stand up and take one for the team if need be, but make sure the team isn't a bunch of lying politicians first. Not teaching them that its okay if the government threatens you to let them get by with it.
You do realize the reason they get by with it is because people are cowards who don't care about anyone but themselves, right?
So a company who provides support and consulting services for OpenStack deployments ... says you should have help with your OpenStack deployment ...
Yet the headline is something about it being 'debated'.
Are you guys fucking retarded? Seriously? Can you not read? What do you think is being 'debated'? Other than making up headlines that are flat out lies, what is the purpose of so ridiculously incorrect information?
Well, with iOS its true and its really easy to see with the debugger.
With Android it would be a flat out obvious lie since Android has only gotten partially sane power controls in 6 and its still an absolute joke.
I don't have any experience with Windows phone since Windows Phone was Windows CE, so I'll keep my mouth closed on that one.
Certain vendors have a reputation for speaking the truth, even if you don't like it. Others have a reputation for making promises they don't keep, and still others are actually 100% in the business of stealing your data and using it to sell shit at you. Perhaps if you started using devices from the first instead of the last, you'd have a much better experience.
uhm, lots of us are already using 'on demand' clouds ... thats what you call an open stack install.
In fact, most intelligent companies with any sizable number of servers has, management of failures is ridiculously easier. So much so that the performance loss and extra complexity isn't worth mentioning well before you get to 20 physical servers. For those of us running hundreds and thousands ... openstack isn't even a tiny bit complex compared to the shit we run on top of it.
UAVs above the clouds are effectively useless since they need to see below the clouds.
And their reference material makes little reference to beaming to a sat, instead it clearly shows ground stations
Because you know, hitting a sat in space moving at tens of thousands of miles an hour ... while on an aircraft, moving at hundreds of miles an hour through the air in a different direction with wind turbulence and human operators ... yea, thats EASY to keep a laser aimed at a tiny little sat ...
They talk about using sats. they haven't even gotten close to DOING it because ... THERE ISN'T ONE IN SPACE FOR THEM TO USE CAPABLE OF DOING THIS.
So don't tell me about how it works with sats when it has never worked with sats.
My system works with magic and doesn't need sats and its JUST AS REAL as what you think they are doing.
You do realize its a movie, right? Not real life?
Movie physics != Real Physics
In movies, people with gun shot wounds to the abdomen die in seconds or minutes instead of hours or days too ... but you don't care about that, eh?
You know aliens can't actually defy gravity like in independence day right?
I mean I could go on for days point out how movies don't actually represent reality, but its pretty silly of me to do so when the argument here is that a dude in a movie MIGHT have missed or the bullet MIGHT have went through the target to strike someone else and that makes him a murder ... even though we clearly see int he movie that no such thing happened.
So since we're just making up bullshit about fictional events, I'm the POTUS so step off bitch.
ITS A FUCKING MOVIE.
No, its is not dramatic.
The update is required as part of an IE patch that is a legitimate security fix.
If you want the security fix, you silently get the patch for this. If you don't want this, you can't get the security fix.
No where in the security fix description does it say its going to install something completely unrelated that nags you about updating to Windows 10.
Microsoft needs a severe spanking for this sort of bullshit.
The laser is irrelevant, its just the vector they are using to get a coherent beam rather than the typical pattern of radiation associated with RF operations.
A better Yagi antenna is really all they've done. And it could work great ... depending on the particular atmospheric conditions at the time and what frequencies they are using. But really, alignment is the biggest issue I see here.
This isn't even actually new. I use a directed beam for my drone all the time (Again, YAGI), do it at home with hobby grade components. Wouldn't take much to make it more accurate and track better, other than money. The result however is that I'd be able to ... well, do less than I can do now since I can't shoot a laser through a tree, regardless of the lasers wavelength, where as my radio will penetrate it to some extent and more importantly, will bounce around it.
I'm not really seeing the big data advantage here. You aren't collecting that much data from these things in the first place. You can already stream live HD video for hundreds of miles with COTS equipment that doesn't require EXACT line of site or perfect alignment. Thats what I can get as a hobbiest with very little effort in finding it. (you can get this shit on amazon)
This thing will have an advantage as the distance goes up, but it will also have a distinct disadvantage as the distance goes up. Lasers are better at long range Line of Sight transmission ... but the further out you go, the harder it gets to actually hit the target. At the ranges involved (planetary) RF is a better choice in pretty much every way.
Lasers don't magically make for faster transmission mediums. They aren't magically faster than RF just because they are laser. Laser doesn't travel faster than RF, its just higher frequency so theres more bandwidth available in a small part of the spectrum to play with.
This is a shitty slashvertisement.
szczys is like a 15 year old who doesn't really understand the world real well yet and when he makes these amazing discoveries that we've all known for years ... some how some idiot at slashdot ... who is entirely unqualified to be anywhere near a 'news for nerds' site posts it to the front page because they aren't nerds and don't actually know that this shit is rather common knowledge among ACTUAL nerds and geeks.
If you look at his submission history, its something you would expect from your high school teenager.
slower than even the slowest CPU cache.
CPU cache IS MEMORY, so how can it be slower than itself?
And before I quote the rest of your trash and make you look stupid, lets point out the most important fact here:
You can have RAM that runs as fast as CPU cache, you just can't afford it.. That CPU with 12MB of CPU cache is mostly expensive BECAUSE OF THE 12MB OF CACHE. and the difficulty in getting that much RAM to operate reliably at those speeds results in low yields, and increased consumer cost.
Even assuming we use the entire ~12MB of L3 cache as instruction cache (which is impossible really unless those instructions don't require any data access, which is utterly implausible), any modern CPU can blow through that in much less time than it takes a DDRx memory controller to set up a RAS.
Did you seriously imply that a Xeon CPU can blow throw 12MB of instruction cache in the amount of time it takes to do one complex instruction? That IS what you said. Which takes what? 40 clock cycles total, in the extreme worst case? (on anything with a 12MB cache which are going to all be high end/fast chips). So you're claiming that in 40 clock cycles it can empty a 12MB cache ... No. In 40 clock cycles ... it can load EXACTLY 40 registers with data from cache ASSUMING IT DOESN'T DO ANYTHING ELSE. So awesome, you just loaded 320 bytes of RAM into CPU registers ... and didn't use it for anything at all.
Do a BSR or BSF on 64 bit number takes 16 clock cycles all by itself!
The one and only thing slower than memory access is disk access, and even there we are closing the gap. Memory has not gotten appreciably faster in a decade, unless of course you ask marketing people.
DDR3's base rate is 800MT/s. DDR4's base rate is 2133MT/s ... yea, 2.5x is not appreciably faster or anything.
The one and only thing slower than memory access is disk access, and even there we are closing the gap.
Awe thats cute, you think SSDs are somewhere near RAM speeds. Just because SSDs are ridiculously fast at some things compared to spinning rust doesn't make them magically fast. We've had disks on arrays capable of saturating CPU bandwidth for years too.
This is literally the stupidest thing I've seen posted on Slashdot in a long time, since at least yesterday!
If you're referring to your post, then yes, I agree. It is pretty fucking stupid.
Do you know what DDR means? It means DOUBLE data rate. Twice as fast. (not really, but close enough for hand grenades). Do you have any idea what DDR2 did on top of that? And 3 ... and 4 ...
No, it isn't. You can not CURRENTLY by a PC that performs at the level my Xbox One does for the same price. You can lie and pretend that you can, but you can't actually do it.
To top if off, you can't find a PC that is as RELIABLE at running games as my XBone because of all the variations of hardware and shitty drivers that go with it.
My console is consistent in multiple ways, thats worth more than you're realizing.
I have a PC, I don't game on it because of EXACTLY that! When I play online games, I'm not evenly matched because my PC simply isn't fast enough, which makes crap play for me and everyone else, so I use a console.
Now what they're saying is that my nice 'its going to be the same hardware fro 8-10 years' console is going to be just another PC ... but worse still an extremely locked down PC?
I knew I should have bought a PS4, but after having 3 PS2s die on me and the Sony rootkit episode and all the other shit they pull I just couldn't force myself to do it. Now basically there are no valid consoles for me to own :( Nintendo seems to be stuck thinking N64 graphics are still the target :(
What you described in the second paragraph is already how it works in current iOS versions. You can't update a locked phone without unlocking it OR wiping it.
I find it odd. I don't know anyone who thinks Apple should help the government. I realize this is the definition of anecdote ... but still, this seems odd.
The transceiver in the NIC completely obliterates any data you can gather from relativistic effects in the delays it introduces in its own media converter to go from the chip to the wire line voltages.
Because quads with cameras make really excellent flying bombs?
Unfortunately the part they are missing is that these 'wifi' cameras work about as far as you can throw them, so they aren't really dangerous at all.
900/400mhz cameras are the ones to fear, they'll work for miles with off the shelf transmitters. Mine does about 1.5m and its only running at 250mw, its capable of 1000mw output
When your job is to sit around and make up things to magically make some silly idea you have 'fit' the real world, this is what happens.
You have a bunch of people who literally sit around and invent new ways of doing math that make absolutely no real sense, and have no really world evidence or proof to suggest they are even mildly accurate ... and they invented some new model that has no relationship to reality and in their made up universe, it breaks general relativity. Oh and its actually impossible to ever test it, so its not even really debatable.
You might as well go play video games or use startrek as your definitive 'how the universe really workse'
Because that's what Sally was supposed to do, and in 99.9999993% of the time, it's the right thing to do.
No one told Sally that doing so might be a problem and Sally doesn't know what encryption even is, just like she doesn't know shit about how phones work in general so WHY THE FUCK WOULDNT SHE DO HER FUCKING JOB ASSHOLE?
Stop acting like little Sally has any blame in this.
So instead of the current situation where we have intel/amd processors doing something under the hood, using microcode as the language that translate the x86 environment into whatever is actually on the silicon ... and you're going to add ARM to it, and maybe some other ones?
Thats cool and all, but its not really all that useful, and intel can pretty much already do that on any CPU it wants with a microcode update. ARM may not run as efficiently on the core that intel uses, but it can be done from a technical point of view.
Its not worth it. Thats why no one does it.
You'll effectively do nothing well.
Intel was an ARM licensee (probably still is), they know ARM as good as anyone outside of ARM itself ... and they made entirely new silicon to run it (well technically they bought it if I recall correctly) ... and it even had its own microcode ... But what they never did was share a single core between both ARM and x86 CPUs that could change modes with a microcode update. No reason they couldn't other than its not efficient.
No, Apple isn't saying they could get access to the encrypted data.
The FBI is asking for apple to give them a version of the software that doesn't have the delay between password attempts and doesn't wipe the device after a certain number of tries.
Neither of these things mean it 'isn't encrypted properly', they in fact are an example of it working as it should.
To go further into your comments:
The FBI request won't work however for one glaring reason: You can't update a locked device without unlocking it because THE DEVICE REJECTS THE UPDATE REQUEST.
Apple designed it that way, intentionally.
You can wipe the device clean and put new software on it, but you still won't get at the data cause the device itself deletes it first, THEN starts the update process.
So basically, what you're saying about 'how it should be' is really 'how it is' and the FBI request is bunk.
America could always put on his big girl panties and have the tits to say no, and not go.
But instead, fuck it, no consequences for anyone but the guys on the very bottom of the food chain... The rowers get fucked, everyone else makes a fortune.
Can we please stop giving the retarded toddler throwing temper tantrums attention?
He'll keep this shit up until it stops, so fuck stop talking about this ignorant no talent asshat and move along. Treat him like the child he is?
... execution time?
Disk storage and/or RAM footprint is not the only thing that results when it comes to code size differences.
When you want to do something realtime, big code is your enemy.
small footprint, modular, scalable
Those three things are mutually exclusive unless you change the definition so that it applies to basically anything on the planet.
Modular is never small, scalable generally isn't either.
Charging a corporation is like giving a warning to a person - it does nothing.
No, its worse than that.
Giving a warning to a person goes on record and will almost certainly result in harsher punishment the next time around.
When a corporation does it, they get fined and thats it. Next time they just get fined again, not anything larger or anything, just again. No real reason not to continue.