PNGcrush and kzip are the counterexamples which spring to mind. I think some of Charles Bloom's compressors are zlib-compatible too. I wonder what Zopfli is doing: some kind of optimal parse? If so, it's hardly novel.
Since I've posted I can't mod, but if I could I'd give you +1 interesting for the counter-intuitive observation. (Of course, what would make sense to most people from other cultures would be for the restaurants, especially the high-end ones, to pay enough that the waiters don't rely on tips).
I haven't RTFA either, but I suspect that someone along the line is overstating the point to attract attention, and that the real point is that many psychology papers extrapolate wildly from a highly biased population to universal human behaviour. Studies which use only North American subjects and claim that "people" (rather than "North Americans") statistically behave in a certain way would be one salient example, and another would be studies which use only students (easy to recruit if you're based in a university and willing to pay a very small fee for participation) and again claim that "people" behave in a certain way rather than "students at XYZ University".
Depends on the coarse food. I've seen some people with absolutely destroyed teeth due to chewing tough sugar cane. (The sugar probably doesn't help, but by itself I don't think it accounts for incisors which are as pointed as canines).
At the level of rhetoric, at least, your politicians already seem excessively reluctant to negotiate and compromise. Adding mid-term recalls for "not keeping their promises" would only make that worse.
The window width can be configured. Right-click the title bar and select Properties. From the pop-up window, go to the Layout tab.
I know. Exactly the same as MS-DOS Prompt. And MS-DOS Prompt and PowerShell are the only xterms I've ever encountered with this limitation. I can understand it in the case of a quick hack written at some point in the 80s, but I can't understand why PowerShell didn't take the opportunity to do it as well as other OSes were doing it in the late 90s (or possibly earlier, for all I know).
According to my quick test, tab completion did not wipe the rest of the line.
I've just tested too, and it still wipes it for me. I still seem to have 1.0, so maybe you're on version 2 and they've fixed it.
The way it transfers data between programs is interesting, but it has some frustrating usability issues, some of them inherited from MS-DOS Prompt. It still suffers from the fixed window width. It still uses the rectangular select for copy. Tab-completion will delete the rest of the line.
My understanding of Matthew Garrett's blog post is that it only writes to UEFI variable storage on a kernel crash, which (hopefully!) isn't a frequent occurrence.
they regulate and license firearms (unconstitutional practices here in the US)
That's not true. The US constitution prohibits blanket bans on firearms, but it doesn't prohibit regulation and licensing. Hawaii has mandatory registration of firearms and licensing of owners; so does the District of Colombia, in response to the Supreme Court overturning its blanket ban in DC vs Heller.
Now you're the one throwing around non sequiturs. I'm disputing your description of post-processing refocussing as useless: I'm not claiming anything about the current resolution of any particular product, and I'm certainly not planning to buy a light field camera in the next few years.
My initial idea for a work of art was to combine real-time refocussing with eye tracking to unfocus the area which the viewer is currently looking, focussing instead on something in the peripheral vision, conveying an impression of exclusion from the subject of the work. I'm sure Ai Weiwei could come up with something better. I don't think non-light field cameras could do this except for a subject which remains still enough to take several exposures.
I imagine that most Americans would feel that way, and I strongly suspect that you're an American. But my point is that different people see it differently: firstly because there isn't a universal "right" answer; and secondly because we've been brought up to see the world through different lenses. To take a somewhat silly but hopefully instructive example: according to Wikipedia, English is the only official language in 28 U.S. states. Imagine a bill which made English the only official language of France. It would be ludicrous, because it doesn't make sense in that cultural context, although it does in others.
I don't expect to persuade you to change your mind on any of your other points, but in the hope that I can convince you that there's more than one reasonable position I'll have a stab. Publishing personal data about someone who has explicitly asked you not to strikes me as invasive. Trustworthy businesses sometimes cease to be trustworthy or are bought out by untrustworthy companies, and in such a case I'd rather have the option to withdraw my consent for them to continue using my data. Actually, European data protection legislation may have already reduced the amount of junk mail I get from companies to which I've never given my name and address, although I don't have enough data to separate out the possible change of marketing focus towards other forms of advertising. And as for trying to legislate what you can do with an e-mail I sent you: have you seen the e-mail signatures which corporate legal insist on, or the EULA's they put on public-facing websites?
(b) as appropriate the rectification, erasure or blocking of data the processing of which does not comply with the provisions of this Directive, in particular because of the incomplete or inaccurate nature of the data;
(c) notification to third parties to whom the data have been disclosed of any rectification, erasure or blocking carried out in compliance with (b), unless this proves impossible or involves a disproportionate effort.
(Data Protection Directive). So Jewell at the very least would have a right to insist that news agencies publish corrections (and I'm relieved to read that he won libel actions too).
Some of your other examples don't make any sense to me, possibly because I'm missing some cultural background. Do you name and shame bad renters on a website? And with the employer background check - how is it going to help this ex-colleague if when another company does a background check along the lines of "What can you tell us about this guy who worked with you for 20 years?" the reply is "We have no record of that."?
...the "right to be forgotten" raises some free speech issues...
is one way to look at it, but the other way to look at it is that free speech raises some privacy issues. As the Stanford Law Review article recognises, there's a tension between the two and different cultures choose to give them different weights. That doesn't make either culture right or wrong.
The concept of "vegetarian" isn't very well established in Spain. I've been to a restaurant here with a veggie, and it was quite amusing. The waiter first wanted to know whether she ate chicken; and when that avenue of menu ideas was closed down, suggested a ham salad.
I'm going to have to jump through even more hoops to create a secure wireless channel.
What are you on about, you would sync it over an ssh/ssl direct connection and make sure the (cert) hash matches so you know you connected to the right device. Just get them on the same subnet and click sync on both devices (with a password you remember the first time).
That's precisely what I'm talking about: installing sshd on the desktop (or sshd on the phone and pscp on the desktop), checking hashes, and installing whatever sync software you're assuming are all hoops which have to be jumped through.
I know what public key cryptography is. My point is that if my keystore is on one computer (my phone), and I'm using another computer (my desktop) to authenticate, I would rather have to type a 96-bit password than a 1024-bit RSA key. And if the mechanism of getting the password/key material from phone to computer is anything other than typing then either I'm going to have to carry a cable around with me and deal with certificate exports and remembering to shred the files; or I'm going to have to jump through even more hoops to create a secure wireless channel.
I think you're addressing a different use case. The Keepass software running on my phone is indeed capable of storing a key rather than a password, but that's no use when I'm sitting at a desktop computer and I need to log in. Also, you talk about compromising a server and gaining the ability to log in: it's not clear whether you're assuming that the site I'm logging in to doesn't hash passwords or whether you're assuming a central server which stores the password/key database, but if it's the latter then that's not how Keepass works.
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PNGcrush and kzip are the counterexamples which spring to mind. I think some of Charles Bloom's compressors are zlib-compatible too. I wonder what Zopfli is doing: some kind of optimal parse? If so, it's hardly novel.
Since I've posted I can't mod, but if I could I'd give you +1 interesting for the counter-intuitive observation. (Of course, what would make sense to most people from other cultures would be for the restaurants, especially the high-end ones, to pay enough that the waiters don't rely on tips).
I haven't RTFA either, but I suspect that someone along the line is overstating the point to attract attention, and that the real point is that many psychology papers extrapolate wildly from a highly biased population to universal human behaviour. Studies which use only North American subjects and claim that "people" (rather than "North Americans") statistically behave in a certain way would be one salient example, and another would be studies which use only students (easy to recruit if you're based in a university and willing to pay a very small fee for participation) and again claim that "people" behave in a certain way rather than "students at XYZ University".
The summary says
Thus, they aren't ancestral to any of the living whales, but they could represent transitional steps on the way to today's whales.
If they're not ancestors, in what sense do they represent transitional steps? Are the two not synonymous?
Depends on the coarse food. I've seen some people with absolutely destroyed teeth due to chewing tough sugar cane. (The sugar probably doesn't help, but by itself I don't think it accounts for incisors which are as pointed as canines).
At the level of rhetoric, at least, your politicians already seem excessively reluctant to negotiate and compromise. Adding mid-term recalls for "not keeping their promises" would only make that worse.
The window width can be configured. Right-click the title bar and select Properties. From the pop-up window, go to the Layout tab.
I know. Exactly the same as MS-DOS Prompt. And MS-DOS Prompt and PowerShell are the only xterms I've ever encountered with this limitation. I can understand it in the case of a quick hack written at some point in the 80s, but I can't understand why PowerShell didn't take the opportunity to do it as well as other OSes were doing it in the late 90s (or possibly earlier, for all I know).
According to my quick test, tab completion did not wipe the rest of the line.
I've just tested too, and it still wipes it for me. I still seem to have 1.0, so maybe you're on version 2 and they've fixed it.
The way it transfers data between programs is interesting, but it has some frustrating usability issues, some of them inherited from MS-DOS Prompt. It still suffers from the fixed window width. It still uses the rectangular select for copy. Tab-completion will delete the rest of the line.
My understanding of Matthew Garrett's blog post is that it only writes to UEFI variable storage on a kernel crash, which (hopefully!) isn't a frequent occurrence.
they regulate and license firearms (unconstitutional practices here in the US)
That's not true. The US constitution prohibits blanket bans on firearms, but it doesn't prohibit regulation and licensing. Hawaii has mandatory registration of firearms and licensing of owners; so does the District of Colombia, in response to the Supreme Court overturning its blanket ban in DC vs Heller.
That's great until some idiot makes a small change and it starts converting your password to different bytes before hashing.
Now you're the one throwing around non sequiturs. I'm disputing your description of post-processing refocussing as useless: I'm not claiming anything about the current resolution of any particular product, and I'm certainly not planning to buy a light field camera in the next few years.
My initial idea for a work of art was to combine real-time refocussing with eye tracking to unfocus the area which the viewer is currently looking, focussing instead on something in the peripheral vision, conveying an impression of exclusion from the subject of the work. I'm sure Ai Weiwei could come up with something better. I don't think non-light field cameras could do this except for a subject which remains still enough to take several exposures.
Lytro trades off enormous, and irrecoverable, losses in resolution for features of dubious worth that are of no value to a photographer.
They may be of no value to a conventional photographer, but it's not unheard of for new technologies to lead to new art forms.
Sun? Did you see the size of the Java Bug Parade?
I think the free speech issues trump it.
I imagine that most Americans would feel that way, and I strongly suspect that you're an American. But my point is that different people see it differently: firstly because there isn't a universal "right" answer; and secondly because we've been brought up to see the world through different lenses. To take a somewhat silly but hopefully instructive example: according to Wikipedia, English is the only official language in 28 U.S. states. Imagine a bill which made English the only official language of France. It would be ludicrous, because it doesn't make sense in that cultural context, although it does in others.
I don't expect to persuade you to change your mind on any of your other points, but in the hope that I can convince you that there's more than one reasonable position I'll have a stab. Publishing personal data about someone who has explicitly asked you not to strikes me as invasive. Trustworthy businesses sometimes cease to be trustworthy or are bought out by untrustworthy companies, and in such a case I'd rather have the option to withdraw my consent for them to continue using my data. Actually, European data protection legislation may have already reduced the amount of junk mail I get from companies to which I've never given my name and address, although I don't have enough data to separate out the possible change of marketing focus towards other forms of advertising. And as for trying to legislate what you can do with an e-mail I sent you: have you seen the e-mail signatures which corporate legal insist on, or the EULA's they put on public-facing websites?
In the EU, people already have
the right to obtain from the [data] controller:
(a) [snip]
(b) as appropriate the rectification, erasure or blocking of data the processing of which does not comply with the provisions of this Directive, in particular because of the incomplete or inaccurate nature of the data;
(c) notification to third parties to whom the data have been disclosed of any rectification, erasure or blocking carried out in compliance with (b), unless this proves impossible or involves a disproportionate effort.
(Data Protection Directive). So Jewell at the very least would have a right to insist that news agencies publish corrections (and I'm relieved to read that he won libel actions too).
Some of your other examples don't make any sense to me, possibly because I'm missing some cultural background. Do you name and shame bad renters on a website? And with the employer background check - how is it going to help this ex-colleague if when another company does a background check along the lines of "What can you tell us about this guy who worked with you for 20 years?" the reply is "We have no record of that."?
It's not just that a JS engine is easy to implement: it's that it comes as standard as part of Java (since Java 6).
...the "right to be forgotten" raises some free speech issues...
is one way to look at it, but the other way to look at it is that free speech raises some privacy issues. As the Stanford Law Review article recognises, there's a tension between the two and different cultures choose to give them different weights. That doesn't make either culture right or wrong.
The concept of "vegetarian" isn't very well established in Spain. I've been to a restaurant here with a veggie, and it was quite amusing. The waiter first wanted to know whether she ate chicken; and when that avenue of menu ideas was closed down, suggested a ham salad.
I'm going to have to jump through even more hoops to create a secure wireless channel.
What are you on about, you would sync it over an ssh/ssl direct connection and make sure the (cert) hash matches so you know you connected to the right device. Just get them on the same subnet and click sync on both devices (with a password you remember the first time).
That's precisely what I'm talking about: installing sshd on the desktop (or sshd on the phone and pscp on the desktop), checking hashes, and installing whatever sync software you're assuming are all hoops which have to be jumped through.
I know what public key cryptography is. My point is that if my keystore is on one computer (my phone), and I'm using another computer (my desktop) to authenticate, I would rather have to type a 96-bit password than a 1024-bit RSA key. And if the mechanism of getting the password/key material from phone to computer is anything other than typing then either I'm going to have to carry a cable around with me and deal with certificate exports and remembering to shred the files; or I'm going to have to jump through even more hoops to create a secure wireless channel.
fingerprints are immutable
Nonsense. Skin problems; accidents with fire, sharp objects, or caustic chemicals; manual labour.
I think you're addressing a different use case. The Keepass software running on my phone is indeed capable of storing a key rather than a password, but that's no use when I'm sitting at a desktop computer and I need to log in. Also, you talk about compromising a server and gaining the ability to log in: it's not clear whether you're assuming that the site I'm logging in to doesn't hash passwords or whether you're assuming a central server which stores the password/key database, but if it's the latter then that's not how Keepass works.
Ssh. It's safer not to tell them.
I'd contact James Randi and collect my $1m.