Firewalls should by default assume applications executed by the user are valid since UAC is specifically designed to handle this.
Every PC should be behind a firewall already at the gateway/router level. So the only thing you're exposing yourself to is an internal network threat momentarily. The alternative is to by default block all user-executed applications on the PC and 99.9999999% of the time pissing off users. Pissed off users do one thing with near certainty: they disable the feature annoying them.
Better to expose users to internal threats for 3-4s on the off the chance they don't want the application through the firewall than to have nobody run a firewall ever.
Also good for telling you the weather. "Alexa what's the weather" when wandering around the house getting dressed in the morning.
That being said this "Alexa has won" bullshit is just that, total bullshit. Alexa has decent Harmony and Hue integrations but for native answers and knowledge she's a far distant fourth to GoogleNow, Cortana and Siri.
You can circumvent all of that by breaking reason itself. All you need is a "these aren't the droids you're looking for" fail safe in your simulation. You just create a logical fallacy that no matter how hard we think about it, we can't see around it. Aka in west world when the androids are shown modern technology "they see nothing".
Similarly you could simply alter the results of tests. Even if a simulation was definitively testable and the people created a machine to test it, all you have to do is change the output results of the test. You don't have to simulate the entire universe's quantum weirdness, just the specific subjects of a test.
Not to mention what is damaging to western democracies isn't damaging to the Kremlin. The Kremlin wants its citizens to know they are monitored. They don't care if WikiLeaks leaks details of their enforce mechanisms for publicly touted surveillance powers.
Now if they published corruption details that would be a different story.
Also apparently slashdotters who have never been nor meet anyone who was depressed. Which is incredibly depressing. I didn't realize basic treatment of depression has reached global warming levels of denial outside of scientologists and conservative Christians.
Good thing critical open source security software has never had a bug. Especially none affecting encryption and authentication of supposedly secure connections.
The more rare your requirements are, the more it is going to cost you,
At some point the supply is just too limited but the value doesn't increase. We have theoretical open positions for people who have incredibly rare niche skills, but we aren't willing to pay extra for them. They fall into the category of "would be nice to have" but the jobs that can do that work aren't terribly plentiful nor is the client willing to pay extra. We just don't compete for those jobs without someone on staff to handle them.
I suspect there are a lot of positions open in the world like that. "Gee whiz, it sure would be great to do some cool OpenCL accellerator jobs. But whatever, we've got a 2 year backlog of clients with standard C++ work. But if someone has OpenCL experience, be sure to flag them that would be a good hire."
Also education. My great great uncle had like 6 kids and was in the doctor for a checkup and the doctor asked him "how is the family?" "Oh... well you know, wife's pregnant again." "Great Uncle Bob, you're not Catholic, why so many kids?" "What do you mean?" My great uncle was shocked to discover that there were ways to have less children.
And the city can say "You may no longer use our utility poles." And then Comcast would have to spend an absurd amount of money to move their cable lines, negotiate with land-owners for right of way and have to do all of that while competitors buy up the old utility line rights. More likely that would lead to Comcast selling their cables to someone with a utility pole lease and exiting the business.
Ten years ago I would have laughed at you if you would have told me that I would be paying 15 bucks a month for a streaming music service.
And to think for the last 10 years you could have been enjoying the same service you get with Spotify but from the Zune Pass. But nooooo... everybody had to make fun of and laugh at the Zune and the Zune Pass.../bitterness
When one of my friends tries to explain to me how great this new Spotify thing is 10 years after I tried to to explain to them how great the Zune Pass was I just give them the death stare.
I would be interested in wireless internet myself. There are some condos near my house that have gigabit but I "only" get 250mbps/10mbps internet. (Honestly upload is the only thing that still bothers me with the internet). I would happily pay someone to put a small 7" antenna in their window for a wireless gateway and pay them like $10 a month or something for the window lease.
There should be a craigslist section for connecting people with gigabit to those who want it.
Editor's note: In short: hard drives from HGST, a subsidiary of Western Digital, and Toshiba were far more reliable than those from Seagate
I'm not sure that you can reach that conclusion from their data for the latest generation. The STD4000s were definitely hot garbage and the HGST 4TB were fantastic. But none of those drives are still on the market.
The Seagate STD8000s they are running have a combined 1.2M drive days with 38 failiures. That's 1 average failure every 32k days. They also have around 1.75 failures per thousand.
The WDC60 drives only have 40k days on them so they're still in the ballpark of similar performance. With 443 drives total again they are right around the 0/1 sample size. With such a small sample size the WDC is right on the edge of the margin of error on the sampling being larger than the failure rate of the Seagates.
The new HGST 8TB generation only has 45 drives to sample from so absolutely nothing can be learned from it.
I would say excluding the complete duds that were the ST4000s the Seagates are in their modern offerings equal to the WDCs.
Honestly this last generation is looking so good for failure rates that I would just pick on capacity/price which Seagate is offering the best value for. Everything is a RAID these days and I don't have thousands of drives so my chances of replacing a drive is minimal and even then my only "risk" is the time/performance hit to rebuild the new drive.
There is someone in the world with a net worth of up to $5 Billion USD and is one of the top 500 richest people in the world and nobody knows for sure who they are, what they might intend to do with that money, who they are affiliated with or what their ideology is.
Identifying an anonymous multi-billionaire and compiling a dossier on them is a pretty good use of tax money. There is a track record in recent American history where zealots with access to enormous financial resources cause a number of security concerns to the US... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Even if Satoshi is perfectly benign to American interests, *that* information is incredibly valuable national security intelligence. Knowing who not to worry about is useful information.
Something can be a tiny minority of the total market but still be the "most valuable" single thing. If you have 298 items at 0.3% value and one thing.6% it's double the size of its competition but still small relatively speaking. It is a bit misleading I think on the headline. It makes it sound like data is now 50%+ of the commodity market which would be silly since spending 51% of the economy on the data to sell 49% of goods and services would be bad advertising spending even if the goods and services could be provided for free.:D
We're talking about effectively a run-time compiled programming language. You have two choices: 1) You refuse to give the language power to do anything useful 2) You log what it did to detect bad actors.
The same is true of software. You either grant it the power to do useful things to the system (like copy/paste) or you run high level pattern matching (virus scan/active defense) which watches the processes for suspicious behavior. Even then, encrypting a hard drive is often both a useful and a malicious activity. Only a human who owns the system can determine which it is.
Microsoft's approach here is correct. They aren't hampering the user from using a scripting shell to do useful system management. Because most IT work is identical to a virus.
I was considering 99% totality. I figured "what's 1%" more but stuck to my guns and drove to the middle and... HOLY SHIT. I thought it was cool seeing the horizon fall dark. Very ominous. And just it being dark was pretty neat. And then I looked up at the sun and it was the most surreal, fantastical thing I've ever seen in my whole life.
99%... "neat". 100% "HOLY MOTHER OF GOD WHAT IS THAT?!".
The wonder an eclipse causes is apparently expressed by the function 1/((100-Eclipse%)/100)
I found cable TV to be unbearable to watch, what with the ridiculous amount of advertising.
I can't even stand to watch cable TV shows *on Netflix without ads* anymore. The ads are insufferable but without the ads you realize just how terrible the shows are on top of that.
"Jim and Karah are looking at houses. They want a $10k. house on the beach..." Fade to "... When we left Jim and Karah they were looking at a house on the beach for $10k..." Fade to "Hi my name is Karah, and my name is Jim and we're really wanting a $10k house on the beach."
#()@)! GET ON WITH IT ALREADY! The ads are so insufferable that they have to run recaps every 10 seconds in case you just tuned out due to the 5 minutes of ads.
the statistics say we should actually go for the product with few reviews,
I pick the most reviewed item with the same review because if it's 5 reviews I have no idea if the failure rate is 1/100 or 1/6. If there are 10,000 reviews I feel pretty good that if there is 8% 1(star) reviews then it probably has about an 8% failure rate.
What statistician says "you should study with the smallest sample size all else being equal"?!
Because manned space flight is mostly about science PR. One man or woman walks out in a kickass space suit and 1,000 school kids run off to become engineers and software developers. It's the same reason the Blue Angels exist. Every time a Blue Angel flies over a city 100 kids enlist in the Navy.
It's kind of also like how for every person who is a software developer a AAA game engine, there are a 1,000 programmers who are working on eCommerce shopping-cart code that were inspired to learn programming in order to "make games".
Because flight suit is ambiguous just as space suit is also ambiguous. They are not strictly speaking "EVA" suits but they are IVA space suits. To quote Wikipedia
Three types of spacesuits exist for different purposes: IVA (intravehicular activity), EVA (extravehicular activity), and IEVA (intra/extravehicular activity).
They're designed to be used in a vacuum. Therefore space suit is a perfectly acceptable term. Just because a suit isn't an EVA suit doesn't mean it's not also a space suit.
Since these will be used for the short vanity flight of the very rich, can we not call them astronauts and, instead, call them Space Douches, or something else?
No. These will be mostly used by Astronauts visiting the International Space Station.
I almost always use it unless I'm entering a coupon. It always goes to the same address and always uses the same credit card. So why bother going through the hassle. I just click "Buy Now" and I'm done.
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Firewalls should by default assume applications executed by the user are valid since UAC is specifically designed to handle this.
Every PC should be behind a firewall already at the gateway/router level. So the only thing you're exposing yourself to is an internal network threat momentarily. The alternative is to by default block all user-executed applications on the PC and 99.9999999% of the time pissing off users. Pissed off users do one thing with near certainty: they disable the feature annoying them.
Better to expose users to internal threats for 3-4s on the off the chance they don't want the application through the firewall than to have nobody run a firewall ever.
Also good for telling you the weather. "Alexa what's the weather" when wandering around the house getting dressed in the morning.
That being said this "Alexa has won" bullshit is just that, total bullshit. Alexa has decent Harmony and Hue integrations but for native answers and knowledge she's a far distant fourth to GoogleNow, Cortana and Siri.
You can circumvent all of that by breaking reason itself. All you need is a "these aren't the droids you're looking for" fail safe in your simulation. You just create a logical fallacy that no matter how hard we think about it, we can't see around it. Aka in west world when the androids are shown modern technology "they see nothing".
Similarly you could simply alter the results of tests. Even if a simulation was definitively testable and the people created a machine to test it, all you have to do is change the output results of the test. You don't have to simulate the entire universe's quantum weirdness, just the specific subjects of a test.
Not to mention what is damaging to western democracies isn't damaging to the Kremlin. The Kremlin wants its citizens to know they are monitored. They don't care if WikiLeaks leaks details of their enforce mechanisms for publicly touted surveillance powers.
Now if they published corruption details that would be a different story.
Also apparently slashdotters who have never been nor meet anyone who was depressed. Which is incredibly depressing. I didn't realize basic treatment of depression has reached global warming levels of denial outside of scientologists and conservative Christians.
Good thing critical open source security software has never had a bug. Especially none affecting encryption and authentication of supposedly secure connections.
The more rare your requirements are, the more it is going to cost you,
At some point the supply is just too limited but the value doesn't increase. We have theoretical open positions for people who have incredibly rare niche skills, but we aren't willing to pay extra for them. They fall into the category of "would be nice to have" but the jobs that can do that work aren't terribly plentiful nor is the client willing to pay extra. We just don't compete for those jobs without someone on staff to handle them.
I suspect there are a lot of positions open in the world like that. "Gee whiz, it sure would be great to do some cool OpenCL accellerator jobs. But whatever, we've got a 2 year backlog of clients with standard C++ work. But if someone has OpenCL experience, be sure to flag them that would be a good hire."
Also education. My great great uncle had like 6 kids and was in the doctor for a checkup and the doctor asked him "how is the family?" "Oh... well you know, wife's pregnant again." "Great Uncle Bob, you're not Catholic, why so many kids?" "What do you mean?" My great uncle was shocked to discover that there were ways to have less children.
And the city can say "You may no longer use our utility poles." And then Comcast would have to spend an absurd amount of money to move their cable lines, negotiate with land-owners for right of way and have to do all of that while competitors buy up the old utility line rights. More likely that would lead to Comcast selling their cables to someone with a utility pole lease and exiting the business.
Ten years ago I would have laughed at you if you would have told me that I would be paying 15 bucks a month for a streaming music service.
And to think for the last 10 years you could have been enjoying the same service you get with Spotify but from the Zune Pass. But nooooo... everybody had to make fun of and laugh at the Zune and the Zune Pass... /bitterness
When one of my friends tries to explain to me how great this new Spotify thing is 10 years after I tried to to explain to them how great the Zune Pass was I just give them the death stare.
Only if you aren't hosting a server. It would still probably be $2-$3 a month to host a micro VM in the cloud.
What really cracks me up is this comment:
Criticism about being a copycat doesnâ(TM)t faze Bhavin and neither does Slackâ(TM)s high profile investors and lofty valuation.
Copycat? Of what? Slack?! I like slack but Slack is just a copycat of AIM groups.
True, but I was assuming I would pay the $100/month for their bandwidth too.
Modem -> EdgeRouter -> PTP Wifi & local AP -> PTP Wifi -> AP.
I would be interested in wireless internet myself. There are some condos near my house that have gigabit but I "only" get 250mbps/10mbps internet. (Honestly upload is the only thing that still bothers me with the internet). I would happily pay someone to put a small 7" antenna in their window for a wireless gateway and pay them like $10 a month or something for the window lease.
There should be a craigslist section for connecting people with gigabit to those who want it.
Editor's note: In short: hard drives from HGST, a subsidiary of Western Digital, and Toshiba were far more reliable than those from Seagate
I'm not sure that you can reach that conclusion from their data for the latest generation. The STD4000s were definitely hot garbage and the HGST 4TB were fantastic. But none of those drives are still on the market.
The Seagate STD8000s they are running have a combined 1.2M drive days with 38 failiures. That's 1 average failure every 32k days. They also have around 1.75 failures per thousand.
The WDC60 drives only have 40k days on them so they're still in the ballpark of similar performance. With 443 drives total again they are right around the 0/1 sample size. With such a small sample size the WDC is right on the edge of the margin of error on the sampling being larger than the failure rate of the Seagates.
The new HGST 8TB generation only has 45 drives to sample from so absolutely nothing can be learned from it.
I would say excluding the complete duds that were the ST4000s the Seagates are in their modern offerings equal to the WDCs.
Honestly this last generation is looking so good for failure rates that I would just pick on capacity/price which Seagate is offering the best value for. Everything is a RAID these days and I don't have thousands of drives so my chances of replacing a drive is minimal and even then my only "risk" is the time/performance hit to rebuild the new drive.
why is the NSA looking for Satoshi?
There is someone in the world with a net worth of up to $5 Billion USD and is one of the top 500 richest people in the world and nobody knows for sure who they are, what they might intend to do with that money, who they are affiliated with or what their ideology is.
Identifying an anonymous multi-billionaire and compiling a dossier on them is a pretty good use of tax money. There is a track record in recent American history where zealots with access to enormous financial resources cause a number of security concerns to the US...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... Even if Satoshi is perfectly benign to American interests, *that* information is incredibly valuable national security intelligence. Knowing who not to worry about is useful information.
Something can be a tiny minority of the total market but still be the "most valuable" single thing. If you have 298 items at 0.3% value and one thing .6% it's double the size of its competition but still small relatively speaking. It is a bit misleading I think on the headline. It makes it sound like data is now 50%+ of the commodity market which would be silly since spending 51% of the economy on the data to sell 49% of goods and services would be bad advertising spending even if the goods and services could be provided for free. :D
We're talking about effectively a run-time compiled programming language. You have two choices: 1) You refuse to give the language power to do anything useful 2) You log what it did to detect bad actors.
The same is true of software. You either grant it the power to do useful things to the system (like copy/paste) or you run high level pattern matching (virus scan/active defense) which watches the processes for suspicious behavior. Even then, encrypting a hard drive is often both a useful and a malicious activity. Only a human who owns the system can determine which it is.
Microsoft's approach here is correct. They aren't hampering the user from using a scripting shell to do useful system management. Because most IT work is identical to a virus.
I was considering 99% totality. I figured "what's 1%" more but stuck to my guns and drove to the middle and... HOLY SHIT. I thought it was cool seeing the horizon fall dark. Very ominous. And just it being dark was pretty neat. And then I looked up at the sun and it was the most surreal, fantastical thing I've ever seen in my whole life.
99%... "neat". 100% "HOLY MOTHER OF GOD WHAT IS THAT?!".
The wonder an eclipse causes is apparently expressed by the function 1/((100-Eclipse%)/100)
I found cable TV to be unbearable to watch, what with the ridiculous amount of advertising.
I can't even stand to watch cable TV shows *on Netflix without ads* anymore. The ads are insufferable but without the ads you realize just how terrible the shows are on top of that.
"Jim and Karah are looking at houses. They want a $10k. house on the beach..."
Fade to
"... When we left Jim and Karah they were looking at a house on the beach for $10k..."
Fade to
"Hi my name is Karah, and my name is Jim and we're really wanting a $10k house on the beach."
#()@)! GET ON WITH IT ALREADY! The ads are so insufferable that they have to run recaps every 10 seconds in case you just tuned out due to the 5 minutes of ads.
Al Dufuq:
the statistics say we should actually go for the product with few reviews,
I pick the most reviewed item with the same review because if it's 5 reviews I have no idea if the failure rate is 1/100 or 1/6. If there are 10,000 reviews I feel pretty good that if there is 8% 1(star) reviews then it probably has about an 8% failure rate.
What statistician says "you should study with the smallest sample size all else being equal"?!
why should one care about aesthetics
Because manned space flight is mostly about science PR. One man or woman walks out in a kickass space suit and 1,000 school kids run off to become engineers and software developers. It's the same reason the Blue Angels exist. Every time a Blue Angel flies over a city 100 kids enlist in the Navy.
It's kind of also like how for every person who is a software developer a AAA game engine, there are a 1,000 programmers who are working on eCommerce shopping-cart code that were inspired to learn programming in order to "make games".
So call the flight suit a flight suit.
Because flight suit is ambiguous just as space suit is also ambiguous. They are not strictly speaking "EVA" suits but they are IVA space suits. To quote Wikipedia
Three types of spacesuits exist for different purposes: IVA (intravehicular activity), EVA (extravehicular activity), and IEVA (intra/extravehicular activity).
Boeing uses the same nomenclature. http://www.boeing.com/features...
They're designed to be used in a vacuum. Therefore space suit is a perfectly acceptable term. Just because a suit isn't an EVA suit doesn't mean it's not also a space suit.
Since these will be used for the short vanity flight of the very rich, can we not call them astronauts and, instead, call them Space Douches, or something else?
No. These will be mostly used by Astronauts visiting the International Space Station.
I do like the fact it has an actual helmet
Boeing has a helmet as well. You just wear it inside the hazmat-bubble.
I almost always use it unless I'm entering a coupon. It always goes to the same address and always uses the same credit card. So why bother going through the hassle. I just click "Buy Now" and I'm done.