and surely they would be taking a cut of the app sales, so no hw only vector there.
moreover.. they don't yet have a profit vector for it.
Huh? There are thousands of companies that make money manufacturing and selling things. Why do you assume that their only path to profit is via apps and advertising? Toyota, Vizio, Samsung, Ikea, Asus, etc. seem to be doing pretty well selling things.
Valve has always said that if they were to go out of business, or shutdown their Steam service, they would release patches to all the games to make them playable without requiring Steam.
Damn I just bought an XFX 7850 last week. Performance seems good (though there was I blue screen when I first installed it, but I hadn't installed any drivers yet and it's been stable since), should I expect to be replacing it in a few months?
I don't know what media your listening to / reading. Investigative journalism is alive and well, even if the topics don't make national news. You say you're too young to notice Nixon, but there have been a few other major journalist / news initiated investigations since then. Gary Webb's "Dark Alliance" investigation linking the CIA to the drug trafficking, as well as the earlier investigation into Iran / Contra 10 years earlier. More recently, the uncovering of the NYPD spying on Mosques and Muslim groups in NY. Check out the Center or Investigative Reporting (http://cironline.org/) for more examples.
RFID is not GPS tracking, this isn't an issue about privacy. There's no new information being giving out. It's a technical improvement over standard photo ID badges. It's a school, they should have student IDs, for a number of reasons (security being just one).
The modern factory is turning an episode of the Jetsons, put material in one end and it poops out goods on the other end with minimal human involvement.
And do you consider this to be a good or a bad thing? I can only think that's it's a very good thing, let the machines do the boring work and let the people do what the machines can't. Automation and reducing the effort required to perform some action is always a good thing (short term, I'm not talking about developing a 100% dependence on automation and losing the ability to perform those actions without the machinery (ala Homer declaration upon seeing an iron lung machine, "and here I am like a chump breathing all by myself")).
If starting an install from scratch with no legacy software, I'd probably go with homebrew. But it's a real pain if you've already got a bunch of stuff installed and configured on your machine from over the years. It does not play well with other systems (e.g., fink or macports), but then again, none of them really do. I'll give it a shot on my next build.
Also, the system is not tied to the Kindle. It needs to be able to push content to iPhones / iPads, Android devices, Blackberries, Windows and Apple PCs over a global 3g network.
Hell, the global 3G network is going to cost more than 16M over the life of the contract. According to Amazons 3g coverage maps, they've got the North America, most of Europe covered (except for Belarus), India, Japan, Australia, and a few spots in South America, the Middle East, China, and SE asia.
You've supported this company for years and still haven't made a standard system image? I guess if they don't know any better it's a nice way to milk your customers. Good job, you make us all look great.
And what company over 5 people buys machines with bloatware? They going into Bestbuy?
But that only works for repeated transactions. Due to the types of projects Kickstarter is trying to fund, I person will probably only have a few projects in their lifetime.
I do agree with the verified identity though.
Your analysis is wrong. The search space is still the same, all possible combinations of allowable characters up to the maximum length allowed by the system.
Rainbow tables don't help with partial matches. The hashed value of "horse" in a rainbow table wouldn't match up with the hashed value of "a horse".
In the case of brute force cracking, whether you came to any answer faster than any other answer is going to be based on your search algorithm. The system doesn't know that the password has X characters, but it might know it has a minimum of Y characters. Is your search breadth first or depth first? to what depth? Even if we can know a priori that the password is made up of 4 case insensitive random words and not individual letters, how many possible words are there? The search space is 4^(num of possible words). Let's say there 10,000 possible words [that's not unreasonable, wiktionary has over 3 millions entries], according to wolfram alpha, the number of possible combinations is 9.98 x 10^6020... or over 6,000 decimal digits, the number of seconds since the big bang is on the order of 2x10^17, about 18 decimal digits....
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I'm wondering if Google just killed Roku with Chromecast.
...and it will form around the worst, most manipulative personality types... which also happen to be the worst leaders.
Actually, that's what makes good leaders. Good leaders are able to get a group to do what they want.
Or just unplug the kinect part.
and surely they would be taking a cut of the app sales, so no hw only vector there. moreover.. they don't yet have a profit vector for it.
Huh? There are thousands of companies that make money manufacturing and selling things. Why do you assume that their only path to profit is via apps and advertising? Toyota, Vizio, Samsung, Ikea, Asus, etc. seem to be doing pretty well selling things.
Valve has always said that if they were to go out of business, or shutdown their Steam service, they would release patches to all the games to make them playable without requiring Steam.
Damn I just bought an XFX 7850 last week. Performance seems good (though there was I blue screen when I first installed it, but I hadn't installed any drivers yet and it's been stable since), should I expect to be replacing it in a few months?
I don't know what media your listening to / reading. Investigative journalism is alive and well, even if the topics don't make national news. You say you're too young to notice Nixon, but there have been a few other major journalist / news initiated investigations since then. Gary Webb's "Dark Alliance" investigation linking the CIA to the drug trafficking, as well as the earlier investigation into Iran / Contra 10 years earlier. More recently, the uncovering of the NYPD spying on Mosques and Muslim groups in NY. Check out the Center or Investigative Reporting (http://cironline.org/) for more examples.
A believe Valve has an item in their EULA / contract that if they even shut down they will release / unlock / dedrm all purchased content.
RFID is not GPS tracking, this isn't an issue about privacy. There's no new information being giving out. It's a technical improvement over standard photo ID badges. It's a school, they should have student IDs, for a number of reasons (security being just one).
I actually have multiple ID badges that I where for work, depending on location. ID badges are for security as well.
The modern factory is turning an episode of the Jetsons, put material in one end and it poops out goods on the other end with minimal human involvement.
And do you consider this to be a good or a bad thing? I can only think that's it's a very good thing, let the machines do the boring work and let the people do what the machines can't. Automation and reducing the effort required to perform some action is always a good thing (short term, I'm not talking about developing a 100% dependence on automation and losing the ability to perform those actions without the machinery (ala Homer declaration upon seeing an iron lung machine, "and here I am like a chump breathing all by myself")).
Every episode had a different rendition of the song.
Huh? For a rectangular shape, area per diagonal is the same no matter what the ratio.
If starting an install from scratch with no legacy software, I'd probably go with homebrew. But it's a real pain if you've already got a bunch of stuff installed and configured on your machine from over the years. It does not play well with other systems (e.g., fink or macports), but then again, none of them really do. I'll give it a shot on my next build.
Also, the system is not tied to the Kindle. It needs to be able to push content to iPhones / iPads, Android devices, Blackberries, Windows and Apple PCs over a global 3g network. Hell, the global 3G network is going to cost more than 16M over the life of the contract. According to Amazons 3g coverage maps, they've got the North America, most of Europe covered (except for Belarus), India, Japan, Australia, and a few spots in South America, the Middle East, China, and SE asia.
I believe he or she's referring to themselves.
You've supported this company for years and still haven't made a standard system image? I guess if they don't know any better it's a nice way to milk your customers. Good job, you make us all look great. And what company over 5 people buys machines with bloatware? They going into Bestbuy?
If we draw the line at humanity, who would straddle that line?
Chimera.
So you put the guards and the doors of your facilities. What's the problem?
That's what insurance is. It's everyone subsidizing everyone else. It's pooled risk.
But they're not paying Microsoft, they're paying $99 to Verisign for a certificate. It's just like getting an SSL cert, it's a non-story.
No, 100 is by definition the mean IQ score.
They leave you in your grandfathered plan until that plan expires, usually 1 or 2 years. They simply don't allow you to renew that plan.
But that only works for repeated transactions. Due to the types of projects Kickstarter is trying to fund, I person will probably only have a few projects in their lifetime. I do agree with the verified identity though.
Your analysis is wrong. The search space is still the same, all possible combinations of allowable characters up to the maximum length allowed by the system. Rainbow tables don't help with partial matches. The hashed value of "horse" in a rainbow table wouldn't match up with the hashed value of "a horse". In the case of brute force cracking, whether you came to any answer faster than any other answer is going to be based on your search algorithm. The system doesn't know that the password has X characters, but it might know it has a minimum of Y characters. Is your search breadth first or depth first? to what depth? Even if we can know a priori that the password is made up of 4 case insensitive random words and not individual letters, how many possible words are there? The search space is 4^(num of possible words). Let's say there 10,000 possible words [that's not unreasonable, wiktionary has over 3 millions entries], according to wolfram alpha, the number of possible combinations is 9.98 x 10^6020... or over 6,000 decimal digits, the number of seconds since the big bang is on the order of 2x10^17, about 18 decimal digits....