Depends on the benchmark. It would completely fail if security,
Bullshit. These days, conventional exploits hardly matter -- blackhats (NSA and Russian mafia) don't reveal their toys, so these get fixed only when noticed by someone else, and that happens with similar speed for all major browsers. What counts is prevention, and for that you need powerful extensions. These exist only for XUL as webext doesn't expose sufficient APIs to allow blocking crap. Ergo, Waterfox and Firefox <=56 run circles security-wise around Google-Spyware, Microsoft-Spyware, and Firefox Quantum.
Quiet keyboards are for hipsters. A real {,wo}man uses Model M or a good counterfeit. Those somehow forced to use a laptop or phone can apt install bucklespring to get at least the audible part of goodness.
If neighbours don't complain, your keyboard is no good.
If you're into homeopathy you do it several times.
You'd need quite a lot more than several decimations. Assuming that homeopathy starts once the substance goes below 1/Avogadro number dilution, a sample of substance of as many grams as the atomic weight of its particles, requires at least 520 decimations.
And at the end, there are more left than there were at the start.
After a few years dip, indeed. The population of rats on those islands started from just a few rats that came from a ship, there's no doubt it can recover again. And the rats will be those you're least likely to catch. Assuming you don't decimate enough times that it doesn't leave at least one mommy rat and daddy rat. But then, a Noah's ark^W^Wdirty fishing ship comes by and we start again.
I'm talking about end user, not about a developer with a purchased license running some IDE on another machine, not even able to copy that program to a friend.
For me, a computer is something that can run arbitrary computing tasks. It's usually done in some sort of container with parts you don't have access to: on Windows, you can't mess with the system, on an Intel PC running Linux there's some supervising code at ring -17 spying on you, but inside that contained jail you are free to do what you want. User interface might be a touch screen, a ssh login over ethernet, a query dispatcher for a cluster, or perhaps even a deer hide tarpaulin for sending smoke signals, but there is one. One of biggest rules for Apple's App Store is not providing this ability.
For me, a computer is something that lets you do computing. An appliance might have a computer inside but doesn't expose it.
And who is SELLING these memory cards, anyway? That's not how you get rid of 'em. You get rid of 'em by losing them.
That kind person who made you lose the card is selling; he can't drink, smoke nor inject that card in its present form. And you did not get an opportunity to clean the data.
Thus, we'd need some way to encrypt the cards yet still be able to comfortably share them between diverse systems, as unless the card is sitting in the dust behind your couch, the data is likely to be used. Not by the direct "finder", but as soon as anyone pays for the copy, those nudes and bank statements will be out there. Oh, by the way: if you're evil enough, here's a business opportunity. Don't take it.
It's an iPhone, so yes. Apple is pretty insistent on not giving the user access to anything Turing-complete, thus it merely has a computer inside, no different from that set of computers doing your car's injection or setting rotation speed of your washing machine.
Tell me when I can install Perl and PostgreSQL and interact with them. Resources-wise, anything bigger than an Arduino can do so (there's a large gap between microcontrollers and stuff meant for general-purpose operating systems, the latter starting at 256-512MB ram). So all that power means nothing if you can't actually use it.
I think this is a new low for Slashdot. How bad into minutiae of rumours for a crap phone can you get? The only site this oh-so-vital piece of news could fit on would be fashion for hipsters.
Why not use true random number generators and avoid the need for hashes and secret seeds?
It's not about being fair, it's about proving there's no collusion with a fraudster who "accidentally" gets the random numbers before their effect is public. We want a scheme that can be verified after the fact.
That'd be an enormous benefit for the society. Every penny that this high paying financial industry earns is a penny that actual investors don't get.
Also, all those bright minds the HFT mafia employs would be freed for productive work. And the money saved from scalpers would pay for that work.
HFT is no different from ticket fraud: if a front runner buys all the tickets, both the venue and the patrons lose. And likewise, scalpers in both cases try to claim they provide benefits of some sort.
That'd be an enormous benefit for the society. Every penny that this high paying financial industry earns is a penny that actual investors don't get.
I have a hard time imagining a stupider thing to tax than reallocation of capital. It will still happen, but mostly inside of private equity groups, outside of public view, and out of reach of the taxman.
You can still watch and tax money coming into the group and leaving it. If they have a bad gentelman rule that this bit of profit belongs to member A and that bit to member B that's hidden from public view, I don't care -- they could play roulette for that money just the same. To get that profit, though, they need actions that are visible outside.
The first thing needed to make regulation work is to find a way to disallow those being regulated from bribing the regulators. Otherwise, you get Glass-Steagall removed and infinite copyright enacted. And only for this reason High Frequency Fraud still exists.
Uhm, no. The right way would be to artificially add a random delay of several minutes, with a reproducible generator based on the orders' hashes and some seed known in advance, to avoid foul play. The generator would also need to be based on all previous orders, to avoid gaming the system if the seed is "accidentally" leaked. Details are more complex but it's all well-researched stuff.
That would fix the high frequency trading abuse, which is nothing but pure theft, skimming a fraction from every bona-fide transaction.
Just one of so many simple solutions... if only the high frequency traders wouldn't collude with the rule makers...
Sounds like you're advocating making "Republican use only" roads in some states and "Democrat use only" in others. That's why the concept of common carrier is so important.
That's why we need a way of making payments that can't be arbitrarily denied by middle-men. Bitcoin was great before it got hijacked by ponzi scheme "investors".
The credit card mafia speaks with one voice, with Mastercard differing from VISA by nothing but name. They collude for prices, collude for policies, collude for denying business. And collude for bribing legislators to deny competitors who are not a part of the cartel.
I thought Patreon was already on thin ice with their content creators?
No idea about content creators, but they're kilometers under cold water with possible patrons, at least as I'm concerned. Any content creator that relies exclusively on Patreon will not get a broken penny from me.
This. A payment processor should never be allowed to refuse any legal transaction, when in a doubt that's the police's work not theirs. An ISP should never be allowed to ban or slow down any sites, any questions of legality need to go to the police not to the middlemen (and even then, it's not up to the ISP to enact bans). A non-curated (ie, done by the public rather than exclusively by the provider) news/blog/etc site should never be allowed to discriminate content based on political views. Etc, etc.
Slashdot Mirror
Sounds like AdBlock/uMatrix fail. No one cares about that hundred megs of Javascript crapware if you don't load it.
Depends on the benchmark. It would completely fail if security,
Bullshit. These days, conventional exploits hardly matter -- blackhats (NSA and Russian mafia) don't reveal their toys, so these get fixed only when noticed by someone else, and that happens with similar speed for all major browsers. What counts is prevention, and for that you need powerful extensions. These exist only for XUL as webext doesn't expose sufficient APIs to allow blocking crap. Ergo, Waterfox and Firefox <=56 run circles security-wise around Google-Spyware, Microsoft-Spyware, and Firefox Quantum.
Digital Rights Managemtn
You made a spelling error. The correct version has "Restrictions".
Quiet keyboards are for hipsters. A real {,wo}man uses Model M or a good counterfeit. Those somehow forced to use a laptop or phone can apt install bucklespring to get at least the audible part of goodness.
If neighbours don't complain, your keyboard is no good.
Well, don't forget Microsoft's take on ed. If you don't have any Windoze at hand, here's my packaging of FreeDOS' remake.
And the last thing anyone wants are islands overrun with hipsters.
While I was quite sure someone will post this joke, your particular take is awesome. You, sir, are teh winrar!
Nothing a few kittehs can't fix. Or wouldn't be had that species not domesticated humans to feed and serve them, degenerating to lazy bastards.
If you're into homeopathy you do it several times.
You'd need quite a lot more than several decimations. Assuming that homeopathy starts once the substance goes below 1/Avogadro number dilution, a sample of substance of as many grams as the atomic weight of its particles, requires at least 520 decimations.
And at the end, there are more left than there were at the start.
After a few years dip, indeed. The population of rats on those islands started from just a few rats that came from a ship, there's no doubt it can recover again. And the rats will be those you're least likely to catch. Assuming you don't decimate enough times that it doesn't leave at least one mommy rat and daddy rat. But then, a Noah's ark^W^Wdirty fishing ship comes by and we start again.
so the problem is work
Hell yeah. Sounds like an easy fix... Let's extend it to the rest of the year, just to be safe.
The GamerGate harassment from a few years back.
So she harassed GamerGate people as well. Another stone to the pile of abuse she lashed out.
Uhm, you should have warned us before linking to a SFW Oglaf page. And the actual page is here rather than some Wikia stuff that fails to load.
I'm talking about end user, not about a developer with a purchased license running some IDE on another machine, not even able to copy that program to a friend.
For me, a computer is something that can run arbitrary computing tasks. It's usually done in some sort of container with parts you don't have access to: on Windows, you can't mess with the system, on an Intel PC running Linux there's some supervising code at ring -17 spying on you, but inside that contained jail you are free to do what you want. User interface might be a touch screen, a ssh login over ethernet, a query dispatcher for a cluster, or perhaps even a deer hide tarpaulin for sending smoke signals, but there is one. One of biggest rules for Apple's App Store is not providing this ability.
For me, a computer is something that lets you do computing. An appliance might have a computer inside but doesn't expose it.
And who is SELLING these memory cards, anyway? That's not how you get rid of 'em. You get rid of 'em by losing them.
That kind person who made you lose the card is selling; he can't drink, smoke nor inject that card in its present form. And you did not get an opportunity to clean the data.
Thus, we'd need some way to encrypt the cards yet still be able to comfortably share them between diverse systems, as unless the card is sitting in the dust behind your couch, the data is likely to be used. Not by the direct "finder", but as soon as anyone pays for the copy, those nudes and bank statements will be out there. Oh, by the way: if you're evil enough, here's a business opportunity. Don't take it.
Oh, so now it's an "appliance"?
It's an iPhone, so yes. Apple is pretty insistent on not giving the user access to anything Turing-complete, thus it merely has a computer inside, no different from that set of computers doing your car's injection or setting rotation speed of your washing machine.
Tell me when I can install Perl and PostgreSQL and interact with them. Resources-wise, anything bigger than an Arduino can do so (there's a large gap between microcontrollers and stuff meant for general-purpose operating systems, the latter starting at 256-512MB ram). So all that power means nothing if you can't actually use it.
I think this is a new low for Slashdot. How bad into minutiae of rumours for a crap phone can you get? The only site this oh-so-vital piece of news could fit on would be fashion for hipsters.
Why not use true random number generators and avoid the need for hashes and secret seeds?
It's not about being fair, it's about proving there's no collusion with a fraudster who "accidentally" gets the random numbers before their effect is public. We want a scheme that can be verified after the fact.
That'd be an enormous benefit for the society. Every penny that this high paying financial industry earns is a penny that actual investors don't get.
Also, all those bright minds the HFT mafia employs would be freed for productive work. And the money saved from scalpers would pay for that work.
HFT is no different from ticket fraud: if a front runner buys all the tickets, both the venue and the patrons lose. And likewise, scalpers in both cases try to claim they provide benefits of some sort.
That'd be an enormous benefit for the society. Every penny that this high paying financial industry earns is a penny that actual investors don't get.
I have a hard time imagining a stupider thing to tax than reallocation of capital. It will still happen, but mostly inside of private equity groups, outside of public view, and out of reach of the taxman.
You can still watch and tax money coming into the group and leaving it. If they have a bad gentelman rule that this bit of profit belongs to member A and that bit to member B that's hidden from public view, I don't care -- they could play roulette for that money just the same. To get that profit, though, they need actions that are visible outside.
How about just putting all orders received in a certain amount of time (say 30 seconds) in the same bin.
Because all the trades would be placed in the last microsecond of the time window.
That works only if you know when the window ends. Just randomize its length.
The first thing needed to make regulation work is to find a way to disallow those being regulated from bribing the regulators. Otherwise, you get Glass-Steagall removed and infinite copyright enacted. And only for this reason High Frequency Fraud still exists.
Uhm, no. The right way would be to artificially add a random delay of several minutes, with a reproducible generator based on the orders' hashes and some seed known in advance, to avoid foul play. The generator would also need to be based on all previous orders, to avoid gaming the system if the seed is "accidentally" leaked. Details are more complex but it's all well-researched stuff.
That would fix the high frequency trading abuse, which is nothing but pure theft, skimming a fraction from every bona-fide transaction.
Just one of so many simple solutions... if only the high frequency traders wouldn't collude with the rule makers...
Sounds like you're advocating making "Republican use only" roads in some states and "Democrat use only" in others. That's why the concept of common carrier is so important.
That's why we need a way of making payments that can't be arbitrarily denied by middle-men. Bitcoin was great before it got hijacked by ponzi scheme "investors".
The credit card mafia speaks with one voice, with Mastercard differing from VISA by nothing but name. They collude for prices, collude for policies, collude for denying business. And collude for bribing legislators to deny competitors who are not a part of the cartel.
I thought Patreon was already on thin ice with their content creators?
No idea about content creators, but they're kilometers under cold water with possible patrons, at least as I'm concerned. Any content creator that relies exclusively on Patreon will not get a broken penny from me.
This. A payment processor should never be allowed to refuse any legal transaction, when in a doubt that's the police's work not theirs. An ISP should never be allowed to ban or slow down any sites, any questions of legality need to go to the police not to the middlemen (and even then, it's not up to the ISP to enact bans). A non-curated (ie, done by the public rather than exclusively by the provider) news/blog/etc site should never be allowed to discriminate content based on political views. Etc, etc.