FTFA: "Stocco said years from now the technology could be used, for example, by someone on the ground to help a flight attendant or passenger land an airplane if the pilot becomes incapacitated."
Or, you know, use fly-by-wire. A normal computer-to-computer interface is sufficient here, and already exists and is in widespread use.
It's the fault of HTML5+Javascript as rendered by a device with limited resources being significantly less efficient or responsive than native code or JVM bytecode. Heck, YouTube in HTML5 manages to be laggy on slightly old PCs that are far more powerful than today's phones.
Yeah, I've got plenty of Windows viruses on my Mac, and my Linux box too. Downloaded intentionally for the purpose of dragging into Windows VMs to see what they do. Then I promptly forget to delete them from the host OS because they're harmless there, and I have 5.5 TB of space.
>Enlighten me. What is the right way? This is HDMI, the thing that connects the box that renders a picture to the display. By this point, any closed captioning will already be put into the picture as it will be displayed. VGA doesn't have a text channel, why should HDMI?
Not being able to use Hulu when my connection is down IS annoying, but quite understandable. Having a single-player game that I bought on a disc and installed to my hard disk, which have ZERO online component, not work when I'm offline is also annoying. But it isn't so understandable and therefore more annoying.
It's like finding out your TV doesn't work during a power outage, vs. finding out your board games don't work when the power's out.
With closed source software, you're at the mercy of the manufacturer when it comes to even getting an acknowledgment of security issues, let alone receiving fixes in a timely fashion or before damage is already done.
This argument endlessly amuses me. Do you really think the exact same thing is not true of OSS-based browsers such as Firefox and Chrome?
Hint #1: If you have not personally evaluated the source code of the browser you are using, nor employed a skilled specialist to do so for you, then you are just as dependent on other parties over whom you have no direct control to identify and patch security issues before the bad guys exploit them. The theoretical possibility that you can examine the source code is just security theatre unless you actually spend the time and resources to do it.
Very true. However, I tend to have more faith in a large community of security-conscious geeks than I do in the Ballmer Bunch.
it just adds inconvenience when I want to do simple things like having a family member pick up one of my prescriptions ("Oh my god! We could never allow that, even if we had written authorization on file! Think of your privacy!").
That's DEFINITELY store policy rather than regulation. The Rite-Aid stores near Boston allow family members to pick up prescriptions.
No, he's saying it reduces the chance your finger will overlap 2 keys, which is true. By adding triangular dead space between keys (and by staggering the rows of keys), the design does this. However, as far as software is concerned (on most devices), your finger IS an single pixel, placed at the point where the touchscreen thinks the pressure is greatest.
Now, considering that the error in one's ability to aim tends to be circular (it's equally easy to miss by 1cm in any direction), these keys ought to be round and staggered.
>Thus, the fact that you did not return the program within a reasonable period operates as powerful evidence that you accepted the EULA.
Or possibly just that I had to OPEN the box to read the EULA, and no store will accept returns on opened software.
Secure data destruction could also prove interesting, if you follow today's standard of destroying the medium it's on. Time to replace those hard disk shredders with atom smashers!
As I recall, you would need computers about a trillion times more powerful than today's fastest supercomputer in order to break AES. So it'll be quite a while -- at the very least, you'll have fair warning and more than enough time to migrate all your data to a new, better encryption technology and/or shred it.
The other possibility is if a major flaw in AES is found. This can be handled by encrypting the data using multiple ciphers, say AES+Serpent. If one of them is broken, re-encrypt the data with a different pair of ciphers.
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FTFA: "Stocco said years from now the technology could be used, for example, by someone on the ground to help a flight attendant or passenger land an airplane if the pilot becomes incapacitated."
Or, you know, use fly-by-wire. A normal computer-to-computer interface is sufficient here, and already exists and is in widespread use.
It's the fault of HTML5+Javascript as rendered by a device with limited resources being significantly less efficient or responsive than native code or JVM bytecode. Heck, YouTube in HTML5 manages to be laggy on slightly old PCs that are far more powerful than today's phones.
Yeah, I've got plenty of Windows viruses on my Mac, and my Linux box too. Downloaded intentionally for the purpose of dragging into Windows VMs to see what they do. Then I promptly forget to delete them from the host OS because they're harmless there, and I have 5.5 TB of space.
You there! What are you doing with that dish?
Watching state-licensed satellite television.
Regex that and you'll also block "association." See Scunthorpe problem and clbuttic.
>Enlighten me. What is the right way?
This is HDMI, the thing that connects the box that renders a picture to the display. By this point, any closed captioning will already be put into the picture as it will be displayed. VGA doesn't have a text channel, why should HDMI?
Chrome used 5 cores on my 8-core Mac Pro (early 2008 model). I had 5 "Google Chrome Worker" tasks running.
Still not "as many cores as you can give it"...
I call shenanigans. No hot girl sends pictures to someone who posts on Slashdot.
Not being able to use Hulu when my connection is down IS annoying, but quite understandable. Having a single-player game that I bought on a disc and installed to my hard disk, which have ZERO online component, not work when I'm offline is also annoying. But it isn't so understandable and therefore more annoying.
It's like finding out your TV doesn't work during a power outage, vs. finding out your board games don't work when the power's out.
other than you dunking or getting the PC weight
So now the use of a scale voids the warranty?
But seriously, that's one heck of a typo to make...
With closed source software, you're at the mercy of the manufacturer when it comes to even getting an acknowledgment of security issues, let alone receiving fixes in a timely fashion or before damage is already done.
This argument endlessly amuses me. Do you really think the exact same thing is not true of OSS-based browsers such as Firefox and Chrome?
Hint #1: If you have not personally evaluated the source code of the browser you are using, nor employed a skilled specialist to do so for you, then you are just as dependent on other parties over whom you have no direct control to identify and patch security issues before the bad guys exploit them. The theoretical possibility that you can examine the source code is just security theatre unless you actually spend the time and resources to do it.
Very true. However, I tend to have more faith in a large community of security-conscious geeks than I do in the Ballmer Bunch.
it just adds inconvenience when I want to do simple things like having a family member pick up one of my prescriptions ("Oh my god! We could never allow that, even if we had written authorization on file! Think of your privacy!").
That's DEFINITELY store policy rather than regulation. The Rite-Aid stores near Boston allow family members to pick up prescriptions.
>Effective and potent diy marijuana pill kit: http://www.cannapill.com/
That's a LOVELY wiki you have there...
No, he's saying it reduces the chance your finger will overlap 2 keys, which is true. By adding triangular dead space between keys (and by staggering the rows of keys), the design does this. However, as far as software is concerned (on most devices), your finger IS an single pixel, placed at the point where the touchscreen thinks the pressure is greatest.
Now, considering that the error in one's ability to aim tends to be circular (it's equally easy to miss by 1cm in any direction), these keys ought to be round and staggered.
This is exactly what the Maemo version of xkbd has been doing on my N800 for a few years...
(what happened is Slashdot 2.0 is smart enough to auto-terminate my !)
Hmm, they fixed it now... Anyway, the problem seems to be Slashdot 2.0's too-long-title-chopper. The original title:
Nintendo Announces New <em>Mario Bros</em>, <em>Mario Galaxy</em>, <em>Metroid</</a>
It chopped off PART OF an </em> tag!
(just seeing what happens of I put an unterminated <em>...) -->
Probably easier to stick a small camera on a trained, live vulture...
Oops, formatting problem on that post...
>Thus, the fact that you did not return the program within a reasonable period operates as powerful evidence that you accepted the EULA.
Or possibly just that I had to OPEN the box to read the EULA, and no store will accept returns on opened software.
>Thus, the fact that you did not return the program within a reasonable period operates as powerful evidence that you accepted the EULA. Or possibly just that I had to OPEN the box to read the EULA, and no store will accept returns on opened software.
Secure data destruction could also prove interesting, if you follow today's standard of destroying the medium it's on. Time to replace those hard disk shredders with atom smashers!
As I recall, you would need computers about a trillion times more powerful than today's fastest supercomputer in order to break AES. So it'll be quite a while -- at the very least, you'll have fair warning and more than enough time to migrate all your data to a new, better encryption technology and/or shred it.
The other possibility is if a major flaw in AES is found. This can be handled by encrypting the data using multiple ciphers, say AES+Serpent. If one of them is broken, re-encrypt the data with a different pair of ciphers.
>unless you assume access to some yet-publicly-unknown method of cryptanalysis
Rubber hoses come to mind...
But then you don't get the wobbly windows. What good is any of this without wobbly windows?
Mod parent up -- the link works!