I mean it's no different than me going around, running executables from random websites and then blaming Microsoft for not doing more to secure their OS.
It's entirely different, the plugin is supposed to be sandboxed.
Yes, and gzip isn't so slow that it can only be used on static content. Even if you always generate into a cached version, do you really want to spend 81x the CPU time to gain a few percent in compression, and delay the content load on the client each time that happens?
I am a proponent for more widescale use of encryption, but I am against braindead application of it as you seem to advocate for. As has been called out time and time again, the application of the encryption is critically important to it fulfilling its role. It's easy to get it so wrong in practice that all you provide your users is a false sense of security that encourages them to put more highly sensitive material than they otherwise would have at risk. Then there are other considerations. Once you bring encryption into the fold on every single aspect of your product, how easy is it to test and debug? Is your time to market now twice as long because you have to develop special QA tools rath than use something off the shelf? Is the data actually sensitive? What are these "tampering" and "certain types of attacks" that this encryption is going to protect against? Do you and your team actually understand what they are? If you don't, how do you know the encryption scheme you're using protects against them? What about export restrictions? Where does your product need to be distributed? Does your encryption help at all if your servers are rooted, since they can presumably decrypt all the data anyway? Is the encryption giving you a false sense of security around your customers data? If everything your product does is encrypted, are your customers going to be happy about their ability to implement compatible products? How can customers trust and validate your product if they can't see how it works?
"Encrypt everything" isn't a very well thought-out plan.
If you're going to go so far as to let them on to your network, instead of pranking them you could passively watch who they log into websites as in order to determine their identity, gather evidence, and file charges. Of course, disconnect your other systems - since if he's hacking your wifi he'll probably also try to probe your other devices.
Of course, IANAL, and perhaps monitoring such things is illegal even though it's going over your private network.
I've been looking into GPU-assisted rendering recently. Blender introduced the Cycles renderer not so long ago, and it runs on nVidia cards to accelerate ray traced rendering (apparently there were some problems with AMD). This allows for real-time previews but performance is obviously limited by the card and currently also by the memory on the card, which can limit your scene setup. There is also support for acceleration in LuxRender. This is a welcome addition to their lineup for me, since nVidia's 6xx series were not as strong performance-wise as some of their 5xx series cards for this purpose - at least I believe one of the Cycles developers had stated this at some point, plus a number of Cycles or LuxRender benchmarks led me to this conclusion - and the prospect of buying dual 6xx cards was very pricey in terms of up-front cost (2 cards fully loaded with 3GB is very pricey, plus big PSU), and in terms of keeping them running (power bill).Haven't bought anything yet, but this is definitely interesting.
If you're using it just for gaming, yeah, it's in the over-over-overkill category.
UPX is great! But I don't want every module on my system unpacking at runtime for the dozens of modules per process, or OS-provided libraries being any more tricky to debug with symbols, etc.
There's also a really easy solution to this: Change the loader so that if there isn't enough space to perform the ASLR then the load fails. You have to handle the loader failing when you're down to the end of your memory space anyway. Suddenly you are back to not knowing where to jump to again.
As others have pointed out before, check the laws of the countries that you are leaving and traveling to regarding encrypted materials and/or encryption software and what's legal (and risky) at each border crossing.
It's not a terribly good model. Since it came out it hasn't moved very much compared to the total time represented (24 hours, of which it seems to have always been in the last 15 minutes -- or about 1% of the available time).
Look at the clock face as presented on the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The range _is_ 15 minutes.
Also, perhaps the overall risk hasn't changed too much. There has been ongoing war, proliferation, food scarcity, fuel scarcity, pandemics, global warming, economic collapse in major nations, terrorism, drugs, etc.
but has no real value visually or comparatively.
Line more to the left, things are going better. Line upright, things are going bad. Or perhaps they hope that people will read the reasons they give instead of just looking at the graphic for 2 seconds, I don't know..
The Doomsday clock isn't predicting the end of the world, it's symbolic and reflects an assessment of the state of potentially many topics that pose a serious risk to our civilization. The closer the clock is to midnight, the worse condition we're considered to be in, all things considered. The clock moves forwards and back depending on the problems of the world, what we're doing about them, what we've committed to do about them, etc. etc.
If the clock were at midnight the world would not necessarily end, but we'd be in very bad shape (maybe imminent nuclear war, loss of energy supply, etc.)
When you have to post as AC to say you like Windows 8...
Anyway, I don't get why the few seconds faster boot time is such a big deal. How often do you boot your computer? And Metro is a disorganized full-screen monstrosity with a walled-garden app store and ad platform. It's there for Microsoft to make money ala Apple, not necessarily to make your life better. Saying that it makes you use the keyboard more is the opposite of efficiency when it's supposed to be a visual/touch UI. Design fail?
The fact that after so many years of backwards-compatible Windows versions they launched their first tablet device with a desktop environment that wouldn't run anything other than Office was a huge "wtf" to me. So now in the first few months of it's life Microsoft have polluted the Surface brand as the little tablet that couldn't. I thought the Pro might still stand a chance in the face of this until I read the 64Gb edition would cost $900 and have a 4hr battery life. Ultrabooks, despite being slightly larger, seem to be much more capable for the same price. I don't know what Microsoft was thinking. They p'd off their hardware partners to launch this?
The buck stops with Hillary. Or whomever else it can stop at short of Obama.
The President stood up during the 2nd Presidential debate, in front of the entire nation, and clearly stated the buck stops with him, and not Hillary Clinton. He made this point very clearly.
But don't let the very public and easily accessible facts get in the way of your rant.
Put one at the left, the other at the right, and make them so far apart that they CANNOT POSSIBLY BE CONFUSED even if the system is out by some number of pixels (or even some fraction of an inch)!
Why is this so complicated?
One accusation that can be made against voting machines requiring calibration is that they can be maliciously calibrated. You could calibrate it, for example, to be 1/3rd of the screen off horizontally, so that when someone touched the right-edge of e.g. the democrats side a republican candidate was selected. This would also mean if you touch the right-edge of the the republican side then no candidate would be selected, but you could posit that if no selection appeared people may be more likely to press again than if a check appeared in the wrong place (but still near your finger), and that people would be less likely to press the very right-edge of the display where the edge of the voting machine is than near the middle.
The fact is that voting machines that have these problems shouldn't be in use. In a non-cynical view, the apparent probability that this will occur during a vote should not be so high (it's made news in the last 2 elections at least now), and in a cynical view it raises serious questions about fraud and voters trust in the system. There are touch displays out there that don't constantly screw up like this.
Maybe the law should prohibit the use of electronic voting machines with resistive touch screens then, or any device that needs recalibrating too frequently based on the rate of people who are expected to use it.
Can't say I recall re-calibrating my iPad recently.
So you have two devices having problems connecting to your home access point, and you assume you need protection for your android devices? It sounds more like you need to fix a problem with your access point, in that it's stopped accepting connections. Maybe it's exhausted DHCP assignments for your devices, or your MAC addresses are being blocked - maybe because someone was trying to spoof them, maybe because of a bug in the access point.
Going from "my devices are having problems connecting to my access point at home only" to "help, hackers are attacking my android devices" is a bit of a stretch, isn't it?
And more of a stretch is how this got front page...
This is a blatant misrepresentation of the situation through omission of key facts, aka lie of omission. Google's core operating principle is to define each person and his/her interests and then serve ads based on these interests.
The amount of information they get from knowing what news each person follows and in what way is enormously valuable to google.
Let's say for the sake of argument that's true. So what? Newspaper X objects, removes itself, and Google still learns this because the end user _still_ searches for news and still clicks on results. Newspaper X, Y, Z object, there are a dozen more behind them. Let's say all of them collectively object, and Google News can't show news results for Brazil - an unlikely scenario. What will end users do when they can't see the headlines all on one page? They will still use conventional search to look for new, so Google still learns user preference.
Your whole line of argument is worthless. In fact, it's worse than that, it's backwards, because - and take a seat because this is really going to blow your mind - if Google knows what type of news you're likely to be interested in it can do a better job of getting you to news sites that serve that content, meaning you spend more time on their pages and perhaps monetize better (e.g. through ads or subscriptions). Yes, Google will deliver a higher "quality" user to you.
Maybe you should stop misrepresenting the situation.
Came here to say this. When you're C-level and you're getting thousands of millions of shares/options awarded to you, plus golden parachutes, it only makes sense to support a candidate whose tax policies favor these methods of income.
Enclosed fixtures are not the only problem with the Philips LED bulbs. They're also much heavier than regular bulbs, and in several mountings in my house where the bulb sits horizontally they are unusable because they weigh the bracket down until the bulb touches the glass, creating a very bright spot that hurts my eyes instead of diffused light. I've tried both the longer, yellow-colored bulbs and the shorter white ones that are more traditional in shape.
I just bought a home license for office from Costco for ~$120 with instant $20 rebate. It allows up to three licensed installations and it doesn't expire. Like many people, I don't upgrade instantly each time a new version of Office rolls around, so you can easily amortize that cost over say.. 3-4 years. So for my 3 licenses (only two of which I'm even using), I paid about $33/yr, or $16.50 per active license/yr and don't have to worry that the software will expire.
If I bought this subscription, I would be paying $100 every year, getting more licenses - even though I can't use more, so I'd be paying about $50 per active license per year - and I better keep paying it if I want to keep editing my files.
Value seems poor, even if I used more licenses, and even if I hadn't got the $20 rebate. Seems at first glance like a 2.5x markup in my case, in fact.
My experience suggests the opposite - I have to reload pages over and over again in Safari because it blows up every few page loads. Safari on iOS is, without any hesitation, one of the least stable pieces of software I've ever used.
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I mean it's no different than me going around, running executables from random websites and then blaming Microsoft for not doing more to secure their OS.
It's entirely different, the plugin is supposed to be sandboxed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There's_a_Hole_in_My_Bucket
Yes, and gzip isn't so slow that it can only be used on static content. Even if you always generate into a cached version, do you really want to spend 81x the CPU time to gain a few percent in compression, and delay the content load on the client each time that happens?
I am a proponent for more widescale use of encryption, but I am against braindead application of it as you seem to advocate for. As has been called out time and time again, the application of the encryption is critically important to it fulfilling its role. It's easy to get it so wrong in practice that all you provide your users is a false sense of security that encourages them to put more highly sensitive material than they otherwise would have at risk. Then there are other considerations. Once you bring encryption into the fold on every single aspect of your product, how easy is it to test and debug? Is your time to market now twice as long because you have to develop special QA tools rath than use something off the shelf? Is the data actually sensitive? What are these "tampering" and "certain types of attacks" that this encryption is going to protect against? Do you and your team actually understand what they are? If you don't, how do you know the encryption scheme you're using protects against them? What about export restrictions? Where does your product need to be distributed? Does your encryption help at all if your servers are rooted, since they can presumably decrypt all the data anyway? Is the encryption giving you a false sense of security around your customers data? If everything your product does is encrypted, are your customers going to be happy about their ability to implement compatible products? How can customers trust and validate your product if they can't see how it works?
"Encrypt everything" isn't a very well thought-out plan.
If you're going to go so far as to let them on to your network, instead of pranking them you could passively watch who they log into websites as in order to determine their identity, gather evidence, and file charges. Of course, disconnect your other systems - since if he's hacking your wifi he'll probably also try to probe your other devices.
Of course, IANAL, and perhaps monitoring such things is illegal even though it's going over your private network.
I've been looking into GPU-assisted rendering recently. Blender introduced the Cycles renderer not so long ago, and it runs on nVidia cards to accelerate ray traced rendering (apparently there were some problems with AMD). This allows for real-time previews but performance is obviously limited by the card and currently also by the memory on the card, which can limit your scene setup. There is also support for acceleration in LuxRender. This is a welcome addition to their lineup for me, since nVidia's 6xx series were not as strong performance-wise as some of their 5xx series cards for this purpose - at least I believe one of the Cycles developers had stated this at some point, plus a number of Cycles or LuxRender benchmarks led me to this conclusion - and the prospect of buying dual 6xx cards was very pricey in terms of up-front cost (2 cards fully loaded with 3GB is very pricey, plus big PSU), and in terms of keeping them running (power bill).Haven't bought anything yet, but this is definitely interesting.
If you're using it just for gaming, yeah, it's in the over-over-overkill category.
UPX is great! But I don't want every module on my system unpacking at runtime for the dozens of modules per process, or OS-provided libraries being any more tricky to debug with symbols, etc.
There's also a really easy solution to this: Change the loader so that if there isn't enough space to perform the ASLR then the load fails. You have to handle the loader failing when you're down to the end of your memory space anyway. Suddenly you are back to not knowing where to jump to again.
As others have pointed out before, check the laws of the countries that you are leaving and traveling to regarding encrypted materials and/or encryption software and what's legal (and risky) at each border crossing.
Maybe you should look at the post I was replying to, which certainly did conflate the doomsday clock with predictions of the end of the world.
It's not a terribly good model. Since it came out it hasn't moved very much compared to the total time represented (24 hours, of which it seems to have always been in the last 15 minutes -- or about 1% of the available time).
Look at the clock face as presented on the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The range _is_ 15 minutes.
Also, perhaps the overall risk hasn't changed too much. There has been ongoing war, proliferation, food scarcity, fuel scarcity, pandemics, global warming, economic collapse in major nations, terrorism, drugs, etc.
but has no real value visually or comparatively.
Line more to the left, things are going better. Line upright, things are going bad. Or perhaps they hope that people will read the reasons they give instead of just looking at the graphic for 2 seconds, I don't know..
The Doomsday clock isn't predicting the end of the world, it's symbolic and reflects an assessment of the state of potentially many topics that pose a serious risk to our civilization. The closer the clock is to midnight, the worse condition we're considered to be in, all things considered. The clock moves forwards and back depending on the problems of the world, what we're doing about them, what we've committed to do about them, etc. etc.
If the clock were at midnight the world would not necessarily end, but we'd be in very bad shape (maybe imminent nuclear war, loss of energy supply, etc.)
When you have to post as AC to say you like Windows 8...
Anyway, I don't get why the few seconds faster boot time is such a big deal. How often do you boot your computer? And Metro is a disorganized full-screen monstrosity with a walled-garden app store and ad platform. It's there for Microsoft to make money ala Apple, not necessarily to make your life better. Saying that it makes you use the keyboard more is the opposite of efficiency when it's supposed to be a visual/touch UI. Design fail?
The fact that after so many years of backwards-compatible Windows versions they launched their first tablet device with a desktop environment that wouldn't run anything other than Office was a huge "wtf" to me. So now in the first few months of it's life Microsoft have polluted the Surface brand as the little tablet that couldn't. I thought the Pro might still stand a chance in the face of this until I read the 64Gb edition would cost $900 and have a 4hr battery life. Ultrabooks, despite being slightly larger, seem to be much more capable for the same price. I don't know what Microsoft was thinking. They p'd off their hardware partners to launch this?
The buck stops with Hillary. Or whomever else it can stop at short of Obama.
The President stood up during the 2nd Presidential debate, in front of the entire nation, and clearly stated the buck stops with him, and not Hillary Clinton. He made this point very clearly.
But don't let the very public and easily accessible facts get in the way of your rant.
Put one at the left, the other at the right, and make them so far apart that they CANNOT POSSIBLY BE CONFUSED even if the system is out by some number of pixels (or even some fraction of an inch)!
Why is this so complicated?
One accusation that can be made against voting machines requiring calibration is that they can be maliciously calibrated. You could calibrate it, for example, to be 1/3rd of the screen off horizontally, so that when someone touched the right-edge of e.g. the democrats side a republican candidate was selected. This would also mean if you touch the right-edge of the the republican side then no candidate would be selected, but you could posit that if no selection appeared people may be more likely to press again than if a check appeared in the wrong place (but still near your finger), and that people would be less likely to press the very right-edge of the display where the edge of the voting machine is than near the middle.
The fact is that voting machines that have these problems shouldn't be in use. In a non-cynical view, the apparent probability that this will occur during a vote should not be so high (it's made news in the last 2 elections at least now), and in a cynical view it raises serious questions about fraud and voters trust in the system. There are touch displays out there that don't constantly screw up like this.
Maybe the law should prohibit the use of electronic voting machines with resistive touch screens then, or any device that needs recalibrating too frequently based on the rate of people who are expected to use it.
Can't say I recall re-calibrating my iPad recently.
This was a problem with electronic voting machines during the 2008 elections:
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20081029/0131342676.shtml
https://www.google.com/search?q=2008+voting+machine+screen+calibration
So you have two devices having problems connecting to your home access point, and you assume you need protection for your android devices? It sounds more like you need to fix a problem with your access point, in that it's stopped accepting connections. Maybe it's exhausted DHCP assignments for your devices, or your MAC addresses are being blocked - maybe because someone was trying to spoof them, maybe because of a bug in the access point.
Going from "my devices are having problems connecting to my access point at home only" to "help, hackers are attacking my android devices" is a bit of a stretch, isn't it?
And more of a stretch is how this got front page...
This is a blatant misrepresentation of the situation through omission of key facts, aka lie of omission. Google's core operating principle is to define each person and his/her interests and then serve ads based on these interests.
The amount of information they get from knowing what news each person follows and in what way is enormously valuable to google.
Let's say for the sake of argument that's true. So what? Newspaper X objects, removes itself, and Google still learns this because the end user _still_ searches for news and still clicks on results. Newspaper X, Y, Z object, there are a dozen more behind them. Let's say all of them collectively object, and Google News can't show news results for Brazil - an unlikely scenario. What will end users do when they can't see the headlines all on one page? They will still use conventional search to look for new, so Google still learns user preference.
Your whole line of argument is worthless. In fact, it's worse than that, it's backwards, because - and take a seat because this is really going to blow your mind - if Google knows what type of news you're likely to be interested in it can do a better job of getting you to news sites that serve that content, meaning you spend more time on their pages and perhaps monetize better (e.g. through ads or subscriptions). Yes, Google will deliver a higher "quality" user to you.
Maybe you should stop misrepresenting the situation.
Er.. thousands "or" millions.
Came here to say this. When you're C-level and you're getting thousands of millions of shares/options awarded to you, plus golden parachutes, it only makes sense to support a candidate whose tax policies favor these methods of income.
Enclosed fixtures are not the only problem with the Philips LED bulbs. They're also much heavier than regular bulbs, and in several mountings in my house where the bulb sits horizontally they are unusable because they weigh the bracket down until the bulb touches the glass, creating a very bright spot that hurts my eyes instead of diffused light. I've tried both the longer, yellow-colored bulbs and the shorter white ones that are more traditional in shape.
I doesn't seem very good value to me.
I just bought a home license for office from Costco for ~$120 with instant $20 rebate. It allows up to three licensed installations and it doesn't expire. Like many people, I don't upgrade instantly each time a new version of Office rolls around, so you can easily amortize that cost over say.. 3-4 years. So for my 3 licenses (only two of which I'm even using), I paid about $33/yr, or $16.50 per active license/yr and don't have to worry that the software will expire.
If I bought this subscription, I would be paying $100 every year, getting more licenses - even though I can't use more, so I'd be paying about $50 per active license per year - and I better keep paying it if I want to keep editing my files.
Value seems poor, even if I used more licenses, and even if I hadn't got the $20 rebate. Seems at first glance like a 2.5x markup in my case, in fact.
My experience suggests the opposite - I have to reload pages over and over again in Safari because it blows up every few page loads. Safari on iOS is, without any hesitation, one of the least stable pieces of software I've ever used.