> Mega claims that they could not decrypt your files. This is demonstrably false.
Not quite.. It requires all these things to happen:
1. Mega gets a reason to get your key (LEA for example) 2. Mega adds new JS just for you 3. You use the web interface 4. You log in 5. You don't notice the new code (Mega already have a chrome browser extension that would stop this by running its own code instead of the server's code iirc)
So.. They have to start looking for your key, you have to use the *web interface*, AFTER they decided that, and you have to run the new code.
None of these are a given. You can upload on an account, and then never log in again. Or use a non-web client (is for android and windows, at least). Or use a browser with the extension.
Hehe, yeah, the AA defense in TA had some problems with large air swarms. Think they just moved too fast for the in-game engine and defenses to keep up properly.
Hence, why you made large fucking swarms, and just set them to patrol the enemy base. They'd need an equal fuckton amount of air defenses to stop it, making it impossible to do anything else (and they slowly got killed, too.. And then your base stop existing)
Another TA fan! Wohoo! okay, I mostly turtled, built vulcan, and then just sent waves of Hawk's until the enemy base were gone, mine were gone, or he'd built too much air defense..
Anyway.. As a TA fan, I keep a close look on Planetary Annihilation - I just hope they get that good old TA feeling into it (they say they focus more on TA than SupCom, but we'll see)
Alpha is out, and there are a lot of gameplay videos out, but I am waiting for beta before I get my toes wet.
Deliver open API. Make a smartphone app. Add support for making "payment". Support QR.
Logic:
* Merchant makes payment entry (give it description, unique id, itemized bill if wanting to, and so forth)
* App (or own system) shows QR code with data
* User scans QR code
* User gets full details of the transaction
* User click "Pay" - data gets sent to paypal, which verifies, matches unique ID, and sends confirmation to merchant system.
* Merchant screen shows "Payment OK"
Alternatively you could use bluetooth or NFC to transfer the data instead of or in addition to QR.You could even set the phone app to connect to specific wifi or bluetooth connection automatically (if available) to send the data to paypal, so all devices with camera and wifi would be supported, no need for mobile internet.
PayPal already have the branding and infrastructure. They could do this in a week.
So if anyone can suggest a programming language to replace PHP I would love to know.
My personal favorite is python. It's easy to work with, logical, and really fits the way I think.
Some resources:
* Instant python - gives a quick rundown on basic python
* Ideomatic python - this is more about how one should use the language
Packages:
* Bottle micro web framework - small and doesn't have the niceties of the larger python frameworks, but it's great if you just want to get your feet wet, and do something right now
* VirtualEnv - Creates virtual python environments where you are free to experiment with different packages (and python versions) without affecting anything else.
* PIP - package manager. Works incredibly well with virtualenv, and have some neat features (like making a list of all packages and versions installed in active VirtualEnv)
Ummm... You're not in touch with reality, I see.. Going to bed now, so I'll make this short.
First, it's not hyperbole. This relates to Xbox 360, as that's the console I have. You'll be disconnected from xbox live if you start an unpatched game, and can't go online in any way (this also, iirc, includes gamer score earnings, online scoreboards and so on). Same for system updates.
Steam : It update silently in the background, you never notice.
Drivers: 1. many driver software (especially gfx card) will tell you it's a new version, and offer a one-click button to handle the rest themselves automatically. These are the only drivers that really matter, too. 2. Windows Update will also give you new drivers, automagically if you're insane enough 3. Most websites have a online "we-check-what-hardware-you-have" test or offer a download that will check that and then get the correct one.
You sound like you're about... 7 years out of date with your doom and gloom fire&brimstone speech. Good night
One thing I've been thinking about.. Everyone here assumes that the charging stations need to be placed out before the network of quads can start doing it's thing.
But, if you had some special mapping drones, lighter and longer reach, with terrain mapping fly out first, then make the charging stations modular..
The network could create a map of the area and build itself until it reached the target. And increasing network capacity would consist of adding more chargers and quads at the entry point,and the network could scale itself up. And when done, it can pack itself back together.
Big numbers. Comparison numbers: estimated number of atoms in the Earth: 1Ã--10^50 atoms estimated number of atoms in the Milky Way galaxy: 2.9Ã--10^76 atoms estimated number of atoms in the universe: 1Ã--10^80 atoms
The chance of a random hash collision, even factoring in birthday attack, is extremely small. It's also not a problem, even if it happens. As it is paired with a login name, you don't suddenly have person A logging in as person B.
And as noted, the length of a hash is fixed for the algorithm.
As someone who hasn't written such a scalable app, but have been interested in the issues around it, this was more or less my first thought too.
App part is usually just "throw hardware at it", but DB part can be really hairy. You can get far on a one machine DB, but once you need to go past that, you got trouble. Unless you've already taken that into consideration.
Also, it's good to be familiar with the common problems and workarounds for scaling. Caching is one such thing. Often you got several possible ways to do things, and some of them lends themselves better to scaling than others. Often with little or no extra work. Or it's just a small tweak to functionality, hardly noticeable that's needed. But something that will be a royal PITA to change later on.
So my advice: Get familiar with scaling problems and solutions, keep them at the back of your mind when creating the site, but don't go out of your way. Not yet, at least. Maybe take time to make easy "hook" areas in the code where you can insert scalability later (f.x design things so it's easy to move parts of it to RPC later on, and make it easy to later add caching to areas).
I'd just like to point out that gold have had the same characteristic, in the beginning it's easy to mine/wash/find, but as time goes it's getting harder and harder as all the easy spots are cleared out. And it's only economical to mine those harder spots out because the value of gold have risen.
Would you say gold is a pyramid scheme, because it was easier in the beginning? Bitcoin is in many ways digital gold, where the rarity comes from the resources it takes to "extract" bitcoins. Gold itself is not currency, but can be bought and sold. And also have fluctuations in value.
Personally I think bitcoin will be doomed in the long run, since there's a max limit to amount of coins, and coins will slowly fall out of the system (if the cryptographic wallet key is lost, all coins in that walled will be unable to be moved to a new address - and with time and Murphy's law, more and more coins will be rendered inactive).
Then why don't you just drum up a few hundred thousand bitcoins and sell them? You'll be bloody rich, AND you will have the pleasure of crashing BitCoin market and show everyone how right you are and how wrong they were.
Currently, 25 bitcoins are generated every 10 minutes. This will be halved to 12.5 BTC within the year 2017 and halved continuously every 4 years after until a hard-limit of 21 million bitcoins is reached within the year 2140.
To compensate for increasing hardware speed and varying interest in running nodes over time, the proof-of-work difficulty is determined by a moving average targeting an average number of blocks per hour. If they're generated too fast, the difficulty increases.
So the supply is rather fixed globally. If the demand is higher than the supply, there will be scarcity, and prices will rise. They might bounce up and down while the market adjusts, but as long as the demand is higher the average price will rise, until it's high enough that the demand is at the same level as the supply.
I got the Note 2 and I can use it one handed just fine.
But, your test is actually invalid, because it makes wrong assumptions.
with the tips of your fingers holding the far edge
That's not needed, finger tips just needs to be beyond the balance point at the middle of the back. Combine that with resting the phone edge to theflat of the hand, and you actually got a pretty decent grip.
There's the same rules in Norway. And providers almost never allow repeaters / boosters.
There was a case some years ago where someone set up such a repeater illegally, managed to cause a feedback loop with some cell towers, thus knocking half the town off the grid.
He sets out with his trusty weapon to save the world from the danger of the week.
After a long and awesome journey, he finally reach his destination.
Finally there, he slowly takes aim, breathes, and fire at The Killer Meteor. The meteor, alerted to his presence, fights back. What follows is a long action sequence only slowing down now and then so our hero can do manly poses.
After a long battle, and lots of shooting and fishing was done, there was only a small fragment left, just enough to spend the CGI budget, and show everyone how dangerous The Killer Meteor could have been.
No one was killed, and the world was again saved thanks to our hero.
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> Mega claims that they could not decrypt your files. This is demonstrably false.
Not quite.. It requires all these things to happen:
1. Mega gets a reason to get your key (LEA for example)
2. Mega adds new JS just for you
3. You use the web interface
4. You log in
5. You don't notice the new code (Mega already have a chrome browser extension that would stop this by running its own code instead of the server's code iirc)
So.. They have to start looking for your key, you have to use the *web interface*, AFTER they decided that, and you have to run the new code.
None of these are a given. You can upload on an account, and then never log in again. Or use a non-web client (is for android and windows, at least). Or use a browser with the extension.
Hehe, yeah, the AA defense in TA had some problems with large air swarms. Think they just moved too fast for the in-game engine and defenses to keep up properly.
Hence, why you made large fucking swarms, and just set them to patrol the enemy base. They'd need an equal fuckton amount of air defenses to stop it, making it impossible to do anything else (and they slowly got killed, too.. And then your base stop existing)
Python, Python is my favorite language, however it isn't that good for web.
Go home, comment. You're drunk.
Django, Pylons, Bottle, Flask, TurboGears, Zope, Web2Py...
And that's just some of the popular frameworks..
Another TA fan! Wohoo! okay, I mostly turtled, built vulcan, and then just sent waves of Hawk's until the enemy base were gone, mine were gone, or he'd built too much air defense..
Anyway.. As a TA fan, I keep a close look on Planetary Annihilation - I just hope they get that good old TA feeling into it (they say they focus more on TA than SupCom, but we'll see)
Alpha is out, and there are a lot of gameplay videos out, but I am waiting for beta before I get my toes wet.
Deliver open API. Make a smartphone app. Add support for making "payment". Support QR.
Logic:
* Merchant makes payment entry (give it description, unique id, itemized bill if wanting to, and so forth)
* App (or own system) shows QR code with data
* User scans QR code
* User gets full details of the transaction
* User click "Pay" - data gets sent to paypal, which verifies, matches unique ID, and sends confirmation to merchant system.
* Merchant screen shows "Payment OK"
Alternatively you could use bluetooth or NFC to transfer the data instead of or in addition to QR.You could even set the phone app to connect to specific wifi or bluetooth connection automatically (if available) to send the data to paypal, so all devices with camera and wifi would be supported, no need for mobile internet.
PayPal already have the branding and infrastructure. They could do this in a week.
an AI designs a more efficient car. A non-AI expert system designs a more efficient car. What is the difference between the AI and the non-AI?
The AI will be horribly bored and have this terrible pain in all the diodes down it's left side
Dang. Forgot a really important link!
* Python Quick Reference - a well-structured python reference, especially listing common variable types and functions attached to them
So if anyone can suggest a programming language to replace PHP I would love to know.
My personal favorite is python. It's easy to work with, logical, and really fits the way I think.
Some resources:
* Instant python - gives a quick rundown on basic python
* Ideomatic python - this is more about how one should use the language
Packages:
* Bottle micro web framework - small and doesn't have the niceties of the larger python frameworks, but it's great if you just want to get your feet wet, and do something right now
* VirtualEnv - Creates virtual python environments where you are free to experiment with different packages (and python versions) without affecting anything else.
* PIP - package manager. Works incredibly well with virtualenv, and have some neat features (like making a list of all packages and versions installed in active VirtualEnv)
Ummm... You're not in touch with reality, I see.. Going to bed now, so I'll make this short.
First, it's not hyperbole. This relates to Xbox 360, as that's the console I have. You'll be disconnected from xbox live if you start an unpatched game, and can't go online in any way (this also, iirc, includes gamer score earnings, online scoreboards and so on). Same for system updates.
Steam : It update silently in the background, you never notice.
Drivers:
1. many driver software (especially gfx card) will tell you it's a new version, and offer a one-click button to handle the rest themselves automatically. These are the only drivers that really matter, too.
2. Windows Update will also give you new drivers, automagically if you're insane enough
3. Most websites have a online "we-check-what-hardware-you-have" test or offer a download that will check that and then get the correct one.
You sound like you're about... 7 years out of date with your doom and gloom fire&brimstone speech. Good night
* Not having to deal with endless driver updates
* Consoles "just work". No maintenance, no constant fiddling with the system.
Oh, come on now. "The console has new upgrade. Upgrade now or be forever offline".
"This game has update too. Apply now or be forever alone."
One thing I've been thinking about.. Everyone here assumes that the charging stations need to be placed out before the network of quads can start doing it's thing.
But, if you had some special mapping drones, lighter and longer reach, with terrain mapping fly out first, then make the charging stations modular..
The network could create a map of the area and build itself until it reached the target. And increasing network capacity would consist of adding more chargers and quads at the entry point,and the network could scale itself up. And when done, it can pack itself back together.
At best, they send you money..
Hash collisions...
MD5: 128bit. 2^128. 3.40282366920938463463374607431768211456 Ã-- 10^38 combinations
SHA1: 160 bits. 2^160. 1.461501637330902918203684832716283019655932542976 Ã-- 10^48 combinations
SHA-256: 256 bits. 2^256. 1.1579208923731619542357098500868790785326998466564056403... Ã-- 10^77 combinations.
SHA-512: 512 bits. 2^512. 1.340780792994259709957402499820584612747936582059239337... Ã-- 10^154 combinations.
Big numbers. Comparison numbers:
estimated number of atoms in the Earth: 1Ã--10^50 atoms
estimated number of atoms in the Milky Way galaxy: 2.9Ã--10^76 atoms
estimated number of atoms in the universe: 1Ã--10^80 atoms
The chance of a random hash collision, even factoring in birthday attack, is extremely small. It's also not a problem, even if it happens. As it is paired with a login name, you don't suddenly have person A logging in as person B.
And as noted, the length of a hash is fixed for the algorithm.
As someone who hasn't written such a scalable app, but have been interested in the issues around it, this was more or less my first thought too.
App part is usually just "throw hardware at it", but DB part can be really hairy. You can get far on a one machine DB, but once you need to go past that, you got trouble. Unless you've already taken that into consideration.
Also, it's good to be familiar with the common problems and workarounds for scaling. Caching is one such thing. Often you got several possible ways to do things, and some of them lends themselves better to scaling than others. Often with little or no extra work. Or it's just a small tweak to functionality, hardly noticeable that's needed. But something that will be a royal PITA to change later on.
So my advice: Get familiar with scaling problems and solutions, keep them at the back of your mind when creating the site, but don't go out of your way. Not yet, at least. Maybe take time to make easy "hook" areas in the code where you can insert scalability later (f.x design things so it's easy to move parts of it to RPC later on, and make it easy to later add caching to areas).
I'd just like to point out that gold have had the same characteristic, in the beginning it's easy to mine/wash/find, but as time goes it's getting harder and harder as all the easy spots are cleared out. And it's only economical to mine those harder spots out because the value of gold have risen.
Would you say gold is a pyramid scheme, because it was easier in the beginning? Bitcoin is in many ways digital gold, where the rarity comes from the resources it takes to "extract" bitcoins. Gold itself is not currency, but can be bought and sold. And also have fluctuations in value.
Personally I think bitcoin will be doomed in the long run, since there's a max limit to amount of coins, and coins will slowly fall out of the system (if the cryptographic wallet key is lost, all coins in that walled will be unable to be moved to a new address - and with time and Murphy's law, more and more coins will be rendered inactive).
but for now there is no scarcity at all.
Then why don't you just drum up a few hundred thousand bitcoins and sell them? You'll be bloody rich, AND you will have the pleasure of crashing BitCoin market and show everyone how right you are and how wrong they were.
From here:
Currently, 25 bitcoins are generated every 10 minutes. This will be halved to 12.5 BTC within the year 2017 and halved continuously every 4 years after until a hard-limit of 21 million bitcoins is reached within the year 2140.
To compensate for increasing hardware speed and varying interest in running nodes over time, the proof-of-work difficulty is determined by a moving average targeting an average number of blocks per hour. If they're generated too fast, the difficulty increases.
So the supply is rather fixed globally. If the demand is higher than the supply, there will be scarcity, and prices will rise. They might bounce up and down while the market adjusts, but as long as the demand is higher the average price will rise, until it's high enough that the demand is at the same level as the supply.
But it does hold more data than your "It's so unsafe it will fall down and break horribly any moment now" statement :)
Anyway, it's a habit, and my personal experience tells me it's far less of a problem than your guessing says it should be.
You shouldn't hold your breath, I've had this phone since November, and I still haven't lost it while holding it that way.
Maybe I'm just not as clumsy as other people, but hey, no one is judging.
I got the Note 2 and I can use it one handed just fine.
But, your test is actually invalid, because it makes wrong assumptions.
with the tips of your fingers holding the far edge
That's not needed, finger tips just needs to be beyond the balance point at the middle of the back. Combine that with resting the phone edge to theflat of the hand, and you actually got a pretty decent grip.
That's funny. You know why? Because here in Norway you can't use USD to pay for anything except amongst a tiny group of people.
Not unless you convert them into real money first. I guess this shows that USD is just a toy currency and will never amount to anything in it's life.
No no no.
Step 1: Connect it to an old computer ... things from the web..
Step 2: Install squid
Step 3: Time to stock up on certain
There's the same rules in Norway. And providers almost never allow repeaters / boosters.
There was a case some years ago where someone set up such a repeater illegally, managed to cause a feedback loop with some cell towers, thus knocking half the town off the grid.
It starts, with a killer asteroid hurling towards the earth.
Our hero is summoned, and immediately springs into action.
He sets out with his trusty weapon to save the world from the danger of the week.
After a long and awesome journey, he finally reach his destination.
Finally there, he slowly takes aim, breathes, and fire at The Killer Meteor. The meteor, alerted to his presence, fights back. What follows is a long action sequence only slowing down now and then so our hero can do manly poses.
After a long battle, and lots of shooting and fishing was done, there was only a small fragment left, just enough to spend the CGI budget, and show everyone how dangerous The Killer Meteor could have been.
No one was killed, and the world was again saved thanks to our hero.
The End.
Linux-Friendly* Mini** PC Fast Enough*** For Steam Games****
* Just like every other PC
** Expensive
*** Slow as heck
**** Completely unusable for Steam games
PyPy might change that in the future, especially with the Transitional Memory branch.