It isn't 24 combinations. 24 assumes 4 discrete numbers that are not reused (assuming it is only 4 numbers of course). the number or possibilities quickly escalates and you have the added complication of most people run the same few apps when they unlock a phone which of course are usually in the same position.
They banned them here in Australia over a decade ago after a number of incidents of people using them against planes. One such incident was my brother, still remember that night as federal police turned up to our property to find the offender that caused a plane to do an emergency aborted landing, while they let him off with a warning my parents certainly didn't.
The idea with a single underlying OS and API is they aren't ports anymore. You write a game for one and it runs on both. Consoles nowadays are just customised and specialised PC's, gone are the days when a port was a massive undertaking.
to avoid lockout, have machines emulate the phone and try every combination to unlock the phone (difficulty: developer)
It's not that it's difficult, it's just that it requires more time than the heat death of the universe to execute.
I don't deny the FBI director's assertion that they were unable to decrypt the phone; I deny his assertion that their failure constitutes any kind of problem.
The average user has a 4-6 digit pin, even if it is 8 or 10 digits you are looking at a few hours at most to crack it, You aren't searching for a 128 bit or 256 bit key here, just the users password to unlock.
Which tells you just how completely worthless certificates are.
No, it tells you how worthless Apple are. This is not a certificate failing, it is a management failing. Certificates themselves have all sorts of issues, but this is purely an Apple problem.
I don't like Amazon, BUT they didn't say unlimited data. They said unlimited Photos. This is the type of abuse that basically ends up hitting legitimate users where limits being imposed will be the end result.
The units are all wrong in the summary. It is 250kwh/square foot/per year. So the density per square foot is exponentially lower as is the extra monthly cost per square foot.
they targeting density not bitcoins directly, so if a datacenter is using a similar footprint then yeah they will get hit too. I imagine that this is actually targeting Datacenters that focus on bitcoin mining.
when they are using them at the density mentioned they are almost certainly being built in server rooms/data centers and the heat will just mean the rack cooling is chewing even more power.
It's not about whether people are bastards or not, obvious pricks exist everywhere. But a game is supposed to be entertainment, Why bother playing a game if you are not actually playing the game? perhaps the A/C's reply is right they do it not to play but to troll and piss others off.
Wonder if something of this size will have much affect on aquatic life that depends on electrical and magnetic fields. something of this size would have to have a pretty large affect on the surrounding environment in this area.
pornography is legal too, as are many other things in various places that aren't allowed on facebook. Personally I don't care one way or the other, but it is there site they are free to make whatever rules they like.
and who exactly is going to compensate them? they are a patent troll company, they would almost certainly be a shell company with zero assets and the directors with no direct liability. I am all for punishing the pricks that do this, but it aint happening under current laws.
If it is anything like a normal patent troll then this lawsuit is pointless, it will be a shell company that will just trade the patents to a new shell and evaporate leaving newegg with extra legal bills for no purpose. The whole business model of a patent troll is to have no real assets or employees to risk, just lawyers in a shell company.
So, if we start from an adjusted definition of conspiracy that means "conspiracies that managed to be kept hidden", the study makes a lot more sense.
My whole point is these are NOT conspiracies that they managed to keep hidden, they were eventually revealed, even if 25 years or more later. He has no data or knowledge of how many remained secret indefinitely nor is there any way to obtain that information. So at best he is working from a flawed data set that has to make a load of assumptions and guesses.
I don't think it accounts for those at all as it CAN'T. The fact is 99% of conspiracies could be wildly successful, but because they are successful we won't know or it could be every one of them has eventually failed, he is working from incomplete data, worse he is working from a heavily biased section of the data (i.e. data that leant towards failure). we don't know the data behind what leads to a successful conspiracy only what leads to failed ones. It also doesn't take into account that most people don't tend to believe people that come out about conspiracies. For a conspiracy to fail not only must it be leaked but it needs to be believed by the public. Someone could come out today and say he was the man on the grassy knoll and fired the fatal bullet (and be telling the truth), unless he had concrete proof all it would take is one agency saying he is disturbed or making it up and the conspiracy continues.
Not that I think any of those conspiracies are real. But I would have thought another critical factor would be the consequences for those involved. i.e. do they have threats to themselves or family hanging over their silence.
The last thing we want is for the PC to go back to the days when you had to have specific support for the graphics card in your games. PC's had to have the hardware abstracted to allow you to choose whichever card vendor/chip manufacturer you wanted without having to worry about whether it will work in your games. Consoles don't have this problem as they are fixed hardware specs and hence you can code close to the metal. Does abstraction offer the best performance? NOPE, but it is a fuck load better than worrying about compatibility for every fucking thing.
gaming takes a fraction of the bandwidth. if you are struggling with 2 people for gaming on 25Mbps then you have other problems as that is enough bandwidth for many times that number of gamers.
I don't need much at home either. I am on a 25 Mbps connection which easily handles all my families usage including streaming. But 100mbps in a Datacenter???? WTF, that is 1990's speeds, we have nothing below 1Gbps, most at 10Gpbs and some servers at 40Gpbs.
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It isn't 24 combinations. 24 assumes 4 discrete numbers that are not reused (assuming it is only 4 numbers of course). the number or possibilities quickly escalates and you have the added complication of most people run the same few apps when they unlock a phone which of course are usually in the same position.
The shooters are dead. How exactly is social engineering going to work against them?
They banned them here in Australia over a decade ago after a number of incidents of people using them against planes. One such incident was my brother, still remember that night as federal police turned up to our property to find the offender that caused a plane to do an emergency aborted landing, while they let him off with a warning my parents certainly didn't.
The idea with a single underlying OS and API is they aren't ports anymore. You write a game for one and it runs on both. Consoles nowadays are just customised and specialised PC's, gone are the days when a port was a massive undertaking.
I use both Linux and Windows at home. Linux really is not an option for gamers, at least not yet.
It's not that it's difficult, it's just that it requires more time than the heat death of the universe to execute.
I don't deny the FBI director's assertion that they were unable to decrypt the phone; I deny his assertion that their failure constitutes any kind of problem.
The average user has a 4-6 digit pin, even if it is 8 or 10 digits you are looking at a few hours at most to crack it, You aren't searching for a 128 bit or 256 bit key here, just the users password to unlock.
tools and management. The licenses are a pittance compared the cost of the hardware and the peoples time running them.
Which tells you just how completely worthless certificates are.
No, it tells you how worthless Apple are. This is not a certificate failing, it is a management failing. Certificates themselves have all sorts of issues, but this is purely an Apple problem.
I don't like Amazon, BUT they didn't say unlimited data. They said unlimited Photos. This is the type of abuse that basically ends up hitting legitimate users where limits being imposed will be the end result.
The units are all wrong in the summary. It is 250kwh/square foot/per year. So the density per square foot is exponentially lower as is the extra monthly cost per square foot.
they targeting density not bitcoins directly, so if a datacenter is using a similar footprint then yeah they will get hit too. I imagine that this is actually targeting Datacenters that focus on bitcoin mining.
when they are using them at the density mentioned they are almost certainly being built in server rooms/data centers and the heat will just mean the rack cooling is chewing even more power.
It's not about whether people are bastards or not, obvious pricks exist everywhere. But a game is supposed to be entertainment, Why bother playing a game if you are not actually playing the game? perhaps the A/C's reply is right they do it not to play but to troll and piss others off.
So being a cheater yourself, tell us what the fuck inspires you. It's a game, what possible enjoyment is there in cheating to win? why play at all?
new owners, same god aweful outright wrong summaries. 12 Thousand Euros not 12.
Wonder if something of this size will have much affect on aquatic life that depends on electrical and magnetic fields. something of this size would have to have a pretty large affect on the surrounding environment in this area.
pornography is legal too, as are many other things in various places that aren't allowed on facebook. Personally I don't care one way or the other, but it is there site they are free to make whatever rules they like.
and who exactly is going to compensate them? they are a patent troll company, they would almost certainly be a shell company with zero assets and the directors with no direct liability. I am all for punishing the pricks that do this, but it aint happening under current laws.
If it is anything like a normal patent troll then this lawsuit is pointless, it will be a shell company that will just trade the patents to a new shell and evaporate leaving newegg with extra legal bills for no purpose. The whole business model of a patent troll is to have no real assets or employees to risk, just lawyers in a shell company.
So, if we start from an adjusted definition of conspiracy that means "conspiracies that managed to be kept hidden", the study makes a lot more sense.
My whole point is these are NOT conspiracies that they managed to keep hidden, they were eventually revealed, even if 25 years or more later. He has no data or knowledge of how many remained secret indefinitely nor is there any way to obtain that information. So at best he is working from a flawed data set that has to make a load of assumptions and guesses.
I don't think it accounts for those at all as it CAN'T. The fact is 99% of conspiracies could be wildly successful, but because they are successful we won't know or it could be every one of them has eventually failed, he is working from incomplete data, worse he is working from a heavily biased section of the data (i.e. data that leant towards failure). we don't know the data behind what leads to a successful conspiracy only what leads to failed ones. It also doesn't take into account that most people don't tend to believe people that come out about conspiracies. For a conspiracy to fail not only must it be leaked but it needs to be believed by the public. Someone could come out today and say he was the man on the grassy knoll and fired the fatal bullet (and be telling the truth), unless he had concrete proof all it would take is one agency saying he is disturbed or making it up and the conspiracy continues.
Not that I think any of those conspiracies are real. But I would have thought another critical factor would be the consequences for those involved. i.e. do they have threats to themselves or family hanging over their silence.
The last thing we want is for the PC to go back to the days when you had to have specific support for the graphics card in your games. PC's had to have the hardware abstracted to allow you to choose whichever card vendor/chip manufacturer you wanted without having to worry about whether it will work in your games. Consoles don't have this problem as they are fixed hardware specs and hence you can code close to the metal. Does abstraction offer the best performance? NOPE, but it is a fuck load better than worrying about compatibility for every fucking thing.
gaming takes a fraction of the bandwidth. if you are struggling with 2 people for gaming on 25Mbps then you have other problems as that is enough bandwidth for many times that number of gamers.
I don't need much at home either. I am on a 25 Mbps connection which easily handles all my families usage including streaming. But 100mbps in a Datacenter???? WTF, that is 1990's speeds, we have nothing below 1Gbps, most at 10Gpbs and some servers at 40Gpbs.