Perhaps we could meet in person at some sort of structure designed for the officiating of such business.
So if you're buying from a business in another city or another country, perhaps you'd prefer to pay the travel industry to be your intermediary. Long-distance travel has always been the limiting factor of key-signing parties.
The repeated references to block chains and Merkle trees sound like someone has read the description of the Bitcoin protocol, is using the primitives described therein as a hammer, and sees Internet security as a nail. I'll explain some of them:
"Add public keys to major services" means give people a means to publish PGP keys through services that most end users already trust.
"Expanded trusted hardware" means personal handheld HSMs (hardware security modules).
"Add Merkle trees to the file system" means file systems that store revision history for all files in a tamper-evident manner.
"Build more block chains" means do something like Namecoin for storing hashes of file contents in the block chain.
"Build out cross-linked certified websites" appears to be something like Freenet, but I couldn't verify for this post because the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) web site that it cites is a short blurb, a bunch of videos, and one PDF being distributed with the wrong MIME type.
"Add homomorphic encryption" means ways of time-inefficiently doing computation directly on encrypted data without having to decrypt it. The article acknowledges that beyond things like hashed passwords, it's still impractical as of today.
"Add encryption" refers to protocols where both ends agree on a key that the intermediary forwarding server does not know, such as Off-the-Record instant messaging.
Ban closed source software on portable devices, ie. devices that someone may carry near other people without their decision.
You do know this would ban Game & Watch, Game Boy, Game Gear, Lynx, Nintendo DS, PSP, and PlayStation Vita, right? Or do you believe handheld video games ought never to have existed?
Microsoft got its start as a publisher of BASIC interpreters and continues to maintain Visual Basic. In the line-number era, before DEFSTR and DIM...AS statements, all string variable names in BASIC ended in a dollar sign. For example, this was valid code:
In addition, comment subjects on Slashdot are limited to 50 characters, and M$ saves seven.
Re: Try Stack Overflow and --synclines
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If you're building on *n?x, do more *n?x systems have cmake or a shell installed? If you're building on Windows, it comes with neither.
Be bold in fixing closed questions
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The most useful posts I see on [Stack Overflow], in terms of questions that I want answered, tend to be the ones that were locked for being in the incorrect format
Then put it into the correct format. Anyone can suggest edits to a question on a Stack Exchange site, and if the edit is accepted, the question goes to the reopen queue.
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So long as a question meets the guidelines set forth in Jon Skeet's essay, actions by "some power-tripping mod" can be appealed on Meta Stack Overflow.
Re:I hope they fixed the size issue.
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A compiler for embedded systems needs to understand and use a smaller foot print. Current version cannot run in less than 128MB of memory.
I think the idea is that even if you're targeting an embedded system, you're still hosting the compiler on something with a keyboard big enough to comfortably edit code, such as a server, desktop PC, or laptop PC. Even dinky little Atom-powered tablets come with 2 GB of RAM nowadays.
But there's a different size issue: footprint of the GNU implementation of the C++ standard library when it is statically linked. Years ago, I used devkitARM, a distribution of GCC targeting the Game Boy Advance, a platform with 256 KiB* of main RAM, 32 KiB of tightly coupled fast RAM generally used for the stack and certain inner loops, and 96 KiB of video memory. (It also had up to 32 MiB of cartridge ROM, but not if receiving the program from a GameCube or from the first player in a multiplayer network.) I compiled C++ "hello world" programs using the static Newlib and libstdc++ that shipped with devkitARM. A hello world program using <cstdio> was less than 16 KiB, including the statically linked terminal. So as long as I stuck to C libraries, I was fine. But a similar program using <iostream> produced an 180,032 byte executable, even after turning on relatively aggressive options to remove dead code. That left less than one-third of main RAM free for actual program code and data. I debugged into it, and the culprit turned out to be "locale" stuff (date, time, and currency formatting) that got initialized on std::cout even if the program never printed any date, time, or currency types.
* That's 262,144 bytes, about a quarter of a megabyte, or about a four-thousandth of a gigabyte.
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Perhaps you could demonstrate the difficulty of building a cross-GCC by phrasing your rant in the form of a good Stack Overflow question. Explain what you are trying to do, what web search queries you used, what you tried, what you expected, and what each failure looked like. If they are in fact "beginner problems", getting the question onto SO should eventually help future web searchers find the answer more easily. Or if Stack Overflow scares you, you might try looking at how it was done in devkitARM.
For line numbers in an M4 script, have you tried adding --synclines?
If error messages from some compiler or interpreter are unhelpful, have you tried filing bugs against said compiler or interpreter to improve the usefulness of its error messages?
This isn't even the first time AMD has done this. Back in the Quake III Arena days, renaming Quake3 to Quack3 would change its performance on a Radeon. Slashdot covered the Quack3 case
I think the idea is that you don't have to pay VAT for the bitcoins themselves because they're currency, but you still have to pay VAT for what you buy with them because what you buy with them are goods.
They tried Unicode before. It allowed spoofing comment scores. SoylentNews claims to support Unicode; I wonder how it prevents spoofing comment scores.
I think the idea is to search the web for bitcoin gift card (let me duck that for you) and then cash in your Bitcoins for credit at your favorite stores.
My reasoning is that "amount available to spend" on a debit card is how much money you have, and "amount available to spend" on a credit card is your credit limit.
IIRC, too many credit checks can impact a credit score
A credit check can be a "soft inquiry" or a "hard inquiry". Pulling your own credit report through a service like Annual Credit Report, Credit Karma, or Discover FICO is a soft inquiry, as is a lender sending you a "pre-selected" offer. They do not affect credit score. A hard inquiry happens when you've already applied for a loan and the bank is making a final decision on whether to lend. Though hard inquiries spread out over the course of several months indicate a risky borrower who overrelies on credit, multiple hard inquiries for a secured loan within two weeks are scored as one inquiry because they indicate shopping around.
Haven't you ever heard the conspiracy theories about stuff like Goodyear buying the patent for a 100,000 mile tire? Or GM buying the patent for a 100 mpg car?
How old are those theories? If they're more than 20 years old, then they should be running into one key difference between patents and copyrights: Unlike copyrights, patents expire.
This is 5:1 out of what kind of devices? Among desktop and laptop PCs, it's probably 5:1 the other way, with only 16% or fewer running OS X, X11/Linux, or something similar.
Japanese and Chinese syntax differ too much for parallels as close as those of Mandarin and Cantonese. Japanese puts the verb at the end (SOV) and marks noun case with postpositions (wa, ga, o, e). Chinese, on the other hand, puts the verb in the middle (SVO), more like English. (Other orders are possible: Welsh and Arabic put the verb at the beginning, or VSO, and Kashmiri and Dutch split the verb into a part that's second and a part at the end, or V2.)
Chinese also uses serial verb construction, where verbs before the sentence's main verb double as prepositions. For example, a sentence that glosses literally as "I sit aircraft depart Shanghai arrive Beijing travel" is understood as "I by aircraft from Shanghai to Beijing travel." (English is also SVO, but manner and place phrases follow the verb, producing "I travel from Shanghai to Beijing by aircraft.") In Japanese, each of these prepositional verbs would have to go after the noun and would probably need a participle ending like -tte to link them into the sentence.
For about eight centuries prior to World War II, Japanese used kanbun, a way to mark up Chinese text to show the equivalent word order in Japanese, allowing it to be read as Japanese. It used reordering marks called kaeriten.
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Perhaps we could meet in person at some sort of structure designed for the officiating of such business.
So if you're buying from a business in another city or another country, perhaps you'd prefer to pay the travel industry to be your intermediary. Long-distance travel has always been the limiting factor of key-signing parties.
The repeated references to block chains and Merkle trees sound like someone has read the description of the Bitcoin protocol, is using the primitives described therein as a hammer, and sees Internet security as a nail. I'll explain some of them:
"Add public keys to major services" means give people a means to publish PGP keys through services that most end users already trust.
"Expanded trusted hardware" means personal handheld HSMs (hardware security modules).
"Add Merkle trees to the file system" means file systems that store revision history for all files in a tamper-evident manner.
"Build more block chains" means do something like Namecoin for storing hashes of file contents in the block chain.
"Build out cross-linked certified websites" appears to be something like Freenet, but I couldn't verify for this post because the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) web site that it cites is a short blurb, a bunch of videos, and one PDF being distributed with the wrong MIME type.
"Add homomorphic encryption" means ways of time-inefficiently doing computation directly on encrypted data without having to decrypt it. The article acknowledges that beyond things like hashed passwords, it's still impractical as of today.
"Add encryption" refers to protocols where both ends agree on a key that the intermediary forwarding server does not know, such as Off-the-Record instant messaging.
Ban closed source software on portable devices, ie. devices that someone may carry near other people without their decision.
You do know this would ban Game & Watch, Game Boy, Game Gear, Lynx, Nintendo DS, PSP, and PlayStation Vita, right? Or do you believe handheld video games ought never to have existed?
emacs would be a great IDE if only it had a decent text editor
Does Viper count?
UWP apps will run on any Windows 10 device, including [...] Xbox One
Will UWP developer licenses become available without charge for Xbox One the way they are for Windows?
Microsoft got its start as a publisher of BASIC interpreters and continues to maintain Visual Basic. In the line-number era, before DEFSTR and DIM...AS statements, all string variable names in BASIC ended in a dollar sign. For example, this was valid code:
In addition, comment subjects on Slashdot are limited to 50 characters, and M$ saves seven.
If you're building on *n?x, do more *n?x systems have cmake or a shell installed? If you're building on Windows, it comes with neither.
The most useful posts I see on [Stack Overflow], in terms of questions that I want answered, tend to be the ones that were locked for being in the incorrect format
Then put it into the correct format. Anyone can suggest edits to a question on a Stack Exchange site, and if the edit is accepted, the question goes to the reopen queue.
So long as a question meets the guidelines set forth in Jon Skeet's essay, actions by "some power-tripping mod" can be appealed on Meta Stack Overflow.
A compiler for embedded systems needs to understand and use a smaller foot print. Current version cannot run in less than 128MB of memory.
I think the idea is that even if you're targeting an embedded system, you're still hosting the compiler on something with a keyboard big enough to comfortably edit code, such as a server, desktop PC, or laptop PC. Even dinky little Atom-powered tablets come with 2 GB of RAM nowadays.
But there's a different size issue: footprint of the GNU implementation of the C++ standard library when it is statically linked. Years ago, I used devkitARM, a distribution of GCC targeting the Game Boy Advance, a platform with 256 KiB* of main RAM, 32 KiB of tightly coupled fast RAM generally used for the stack and certain inner loops, and 96 KiB of video memory. (It also had up to 32 MiB of cartridge ROM, but not if receiving the program from a GameCube or from the first player in a multiplayer network.) I compiled C++ "hello world" programs using the static Newlib and libstdc++ that shipped with devkitARM. A hello world program using <cstdio> was less than 16 KiB, including the statically linked terminal. So as long as I stuck to C libraries, I was fine. But a similar program using <iostream> produced an 180,032 byte executable, even after turning on relatively aggressive options to remove dead code. That left less than one-third of main RAM free for actual program code and data. I debugged into it, and the culprit turned out to be "locale" stuff (date, time, and currency formatting) that got initialized on std::cout even if the program never printed any date, time, or currency types.
* That's 262,144 bytes, about a quarter of a megabyte, or about a four-thousandth of a gigabyte.
Perhaps you could demonstrate the difficulty of building a cross-GCC by phrasing your rant in the form of a good Stack Overflow question. Explain what you are trying to do, what web search queries you used, what you tried, what you expected, and what each failure looked like. If they are in fact "beginner problems", getting the question onto SO should eventually help future web searchers find the answer more easily. Or if Stack Overflow scares you, you might try looking at how it was done in devkitARM.
For line numbers in an M4 script, have you tried adding --synclines ?
If error messages from some compiler or interpreter are unhelpful, have you tried filing bugs against said compiler or interpreter to improve the usefulness of its error messages?
This isn't even the first time AMD has done this. Back in the Quake III Arena days, renaming Quake3 to Quack3 would change its performance on a Radeon. Slashdot covered the Quack3 case
I think the idea is that you don't have to pay VAT for the bitcoins themselves because they're currency, but you still have to pay VAT for what you buy with them because what you buy with them are goods.
They tried Unicode before. It allowed spoofing comment scores. SoylentNews claims to support Unicode; I wonder how it prevents spoofing comment scores.
Because unlike humans, trolls of the same gender do produce offspring.
How does that work biologically?
I think the idea is to search the web for bitcoin gift card (let me duck that for you) and then cash in your Bitcoins for credit at your favorite stores.
My reasoning is that "amount available to spend" on a debit card is how much money you have, and "amount available to spend" on a credit card is your credit limit.
IIRC, too many credit checks can impact a credit score
A credit check can be a "soft inquiry" or a "hard inquiry". Pulling your own credit report through a service like Annual Credit Report, Credit Karma, or Discover FICO is a soft inquiry, as is a lender sending you a "pre-selected" offer. They do not affect credit score. A hard inquiry happens when you've already applied for a loan and the bank is making a final decision on whether to lend. Though hard inquiries spread out over the course of several months indicate a risky borrower who overrelies on credit, multiple hard inquiries for a secured loan within two weeks are scored as one inquiry because they indicate shopping around.
Haven't you ever heard the conspiracy theories about stuff like Goodyear buying the patent for a 100,000 mile tire? Or GM buying the patent for a 100 mpg car?
How old are those theories? If they're more than 20 years old, then they should be running into one key difference between patents and copyrights: Unlike copyrights, patents expire.
the patent is for available credit, not bank account balance.
I thought if you were to query "available credit" on a debit card, you'd get the balance of the checking account it draws from.
This is 5:1 out of what kind of devices? Among desktop and laptop PCs, it's probably 5:1 the other way, with only 16% or fewer running OS X, X11/Linux, or something similar.
Japanese and Chinese syntax differ too much for parallels as close as those of Mandarin and Cantonese. Japanese puts the verb at the end (SOV) and marks noun case with postpositions (wa, ga, o, e). Chinese, on the other hand, puts the verb in the middle (SVO), more like English. (Other orders are possible: Welsh and Arabic put the verb at the beginning, or VSO, and Kashmiri and Dutch split the verb into a part that's second and a part at the end, or V2.)
Chinese also uses serial verb construction, where verbs before the sentence's main verb double as prepositions. For example, a sentence that glosses literally as "I sit aircraft depart Shanghai arrive Beijing travel" is understood as "I by aircraft from Shanghai to Beijing travel." (English is also SVO, but manner and place phrases follow the verb, producing "I travel from Shanghai to Beijing by aircraft.") In Japanese, each of these prepositional verbs would have to go after the noun and would probably need a participle ending like -tte to link them into the sentence.
For about eight centuries prior to World War II, Japanese used kanbun, a way to mark up Chinese text to show the equivalent word order in Japanese, allowing it to be read as Japanese. It used reordering marks called kaeriten.
Probably avoided making it a woman to avoid the possibility of comparisons to Gamergate.
I don't see how one's Internet communications would not be subsumed under "papers and effects".
Uncle-Woman.
No, that's a different film that comes out next month.