The game site does not need to know what your capabilities are. If you try to run it, and it doesn't work, you don't try again. It doesn't need to know *any* of the fonts or even font-families you have installed, it just needs to do what the web has always done; Present a list of fonts the site designer would like the browser to use, if they are available and the user allows it. No site needs to know even the simple small/med/large screen size, as that can all be (and usually is) handled entirely within the browser via CSS.
Give them even less info than you propose and it'll still be too much, generally speaking.
It's called the "gut." Previously this organ was believed to be a series of smaller independent organs and tissues, but I've decided otherwise. Where's my Nobel Prize.
Would it be more or less insulting if I said basic arithmetic instead of civics? A tiny state like New Hampshire cannot "dictate the president of the entire country." If it could, nobody in any other state would bother voting. Those small states are "swing states" because they can "swing" a close election one way or the other -- which is tie breaking, not "dictating." A logic course wouldn't hurt the civics and mathematics courses. If you strengthen your powers of deductive reasoning, you won't need such simple concepts spelled out for you step by step so often.
Writing this on a W510 as well. I put an SSD in earlier this year, only because I've ditched my desktop and am actually going mobile with the laptop fairly often now.
I have been thinking of getting a new one lately, mainly because I really miss having a real numpad. I have a USB one but it's just not the same, too flimsy, moves around too much, and not where my brain expects it to be. However, Lenovo keeps jacking around with the keyboard layout for no good reason, and all the new Thinkpads have ditched the menu/context key on the right side between Ctrl and Alt, and put prtscr there instead. Good god why.
Actually, a one time pad IS perfect -- provided it is generated in a truly random fashion, and your definition of perfect isn't irrational.
I don't know who's telling you that "a lot of applications use a cut and paste prime", but they're probably wrong. Every standard application and library in wide use generates new primes every time it generates a new key. If it didn't, every key it generated would be the same, and this would be caught out fast.
Far more common is that the application is lazy about testing that the prime it has generated is actually prime, and if it's not, then breaking the key is made much easier.
There is, and has been since the lauded CLI "GUIs" (e.g. turbo pascal), a simple solution to this problem. Unfortunately many people simply don't understand the solution, and don't care to learn. In two steps:
1. Use an infinite progress bar (with or without a counter / percentage) rather than one based on time, when time is unknown or highly variable.
2. 'Step' the progress bar in code, don't use some automatically animated thing.
This provides positive user feedback that the operation will take an indeterminate amount of time, and also informs the user that the operation has not hung or stuck because it's still moving.
The MS file copy dialog failed because it didn't have a large enough sample window to make a guess about disk throughput or iops. Nearly all modern infinite progress indicators (computer, web, or mobile) fail because they use things like animated gifs or a separate thread to keep the indicator animation running, even when the task it's supposed to represent is stopped or slow.
Men like war, women no like war! Ooga oorga! *pounds chest*.
But wait just a minute here. I thought the whole point these jerks have been trying to make is that you can't pigeonhole them like this, and that girls like GIJoe as much as boys if just given a chance to play with them!
In other words, make up your minds. Then shut up because tired of this.
This is the kind of insight that sets their heads spinning around with green stuff spewing out. Suggesting that Star Wars stuff is scaring away the girls is no different from saying it's the computers themselves.
The satellites are certainly going to be affected by some kind of day/night cycles. I don't know what physics it is that you think you know, but being in space does not automatically mean being in the sun at all times. Geosync orbit sats have identical day/night cycles as the spot they are orbiting. LEO satellites like GPS or the ISS have day/night cycles that are absurdly short, a full cycle on the ISS lasts just 90 minutes; 45 min of light, 45 min of darkness.
To orbit in a way that the satellite is always receiving light requires a dawn/dusk polar orbit, which presents a pretty large logistical problem for getting the energy down from the satellite to wherever it's actually needed.
The answer to that appears to be technically yes, but practically no. The PDF of the forensic analysis says that not all of the card standard was implemented on the funcard.
First, it did not respond properly to parity errors in the data stream from the POS. The document says that "coding, testing, and deploying this countermeasure took less than a week." -- This means that POSes are updated or being updated to inject parity errors into the transaction to see if the card responds to them properly, an easy firmware fix for the hack to circumvent.
Second, the PDF says that the card responded incorrectly to a VerifyPIN command sent outside of a transaction context, which the standard requires (the PIN associated with the last transaction), and that "coding, testing, and deploying this countermeasure was done overnight." Again, something an attacker could address with a simple firmware update.
The document also says that "four other software-updatable countermeasures were developed and tested, but never deployed. These were left for future fraud control, if necessary.
In other words they found even more vulnerabilities but did not implement the fixes, choosing to wait until after they're exploited to do something about it.
I'm with you here. OP sounds like just being paranoid and probably is not quite properly setup. I setup a new domain last month with it's own self-hosted email and had no problems at all getting email through to any of the major providers. To avoid trouble, you need at a minimum:
- An IP address in a block that doesn't already have a terrible reputation.
- Working, correct reverse DNS that matches the SMTP banner.
- Working, correct forward DNS for the MX records that also matches the SMTP banner.
- Correct SPF/TXT records covering your mailserver, even if you know SPF is stupid.
- A mailserver not configured as an open relay (duh).
With all this in place, I have had no problems getting through on a system with a domain and mail handling less than a week old.
This is sort of what I figured. So basically it's just a buzzword for something the good sysadmins have already been doing for decades, when not hamstrung by some monolithic corporate culture or constrained by an insane ISO9k1 implementation.
That's what "DevOps" is to me. A meaningless buzzword. I did once see a "DevOps guy" lauded as some kind of hero for changing a haproxy configuration and reloading it.
Compression is not a problem on its own. There's a difference between recognizing a signal and being able to interpret or decode it. If you point a laser at the aliens and send them nothing but randomly chosen blocks from compressed files, they are still going to be able to detect the laser and determine that it is artificial. This is actually exactly what SETI radio astronomy projects look for, the carrier signal. They do not have the bandwidth to detect the subtle modulations used to encode a signal onto that carrier.
There's an error in your comparison. Looking back at the Egyptians, we are looking into our own past, which clouds our judgement on what the pictographs mean. We know that they were polytheistic, that they did create pictorial representations of their religious beliefs, mythical creatures, ceremonies, and so forth. Their culture was not entirely alien to us, and our knowledge of their culture colors our interpretation of the artifacts we find. There will be no such misleading contexts if we receive an alien transmission, or if they receive one from us. A diagram of a person pouring something in front of a device is likely to be interpreted quite literally at first.
From the article it does seem like Lord of The Flies was used as some kind of inspirational how-to manual. I don't expect it to take long before everyone is just chillin' on the beach, because why not? Apparently it's impossible to be fired now because nobody has a boss.. at least until Bezos hears about this.
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Would have voted "no" on this in the firehose. Guess that's why it didn't show up there.
The game site does not need to know what your capabilities are. If you try to run it, and it doesn't work, you don't try again. It doesn't need to know *any* of the fonts or even font-families you have installed, it just needs to do what the web has always done; Present a list of fonts the site designer would like the browser to use, if they are available and the user allows it. No site needs to know even the simple small/med/large screen size, as that can all be (and usually is) handled entirely within the browser via CSS.
Give them even less info than you propose and it'll still be too much, generally speaking.
It's called the "gut." Previously this organ was believed to be a series of smaller independent organs and tissues, but I've decided otherwise. Where's my Nobel Prize.
There's zero chance that an "image detection algorithm" flagged that statue. Zero.
Would it be more or less insulting if I said basic arithmetic instead of civics? A tiny state like New Hampshire cannot "dictate the president of the entire country." If it could, nobody in any other state would bother voting. Those small states are "swing states" because they can "swing" a close election one way or the other -- which is tie breaking, not "dictating." A logic course wouldn't hurt the civics and mathematics courses. If you strengthen your powers of deductive reasoning, you won't need such simple concepts spelled out for you step by step so often.
Go take civics again. You obviously failed the last time.
Firehose. Use it.
Writing this on a W510 as well. I put an SSD in earlier this year, only because I've ditched my desktop and am actually going mobile with the laptop fairly often now.
I have been thinking of getting a new one lately, mainly because I really miss having a real numpad. I have a USB one but it's just not the same, too flimsy, moves around too much, and not where my brain expects it to be. However, Lenovo keeps jacking around with the keyboard layout for no good reason, and all the new Thinkpads have ditched the menu/context key on the right side between Ctrl and Alt, and put prtscr there instead. Good god why.
Actually, a one time pad IS perfect -- provided it is generated in a truly random fashion, and your definition of perfect isn't irrational.
I don't know who's telling you that "a lot of applications use a cut and paste prime", but they're probably wrong. Every standard application and library in wide use generates new primes every time it generates a new key. If it didn't, every key it generated would be the same, and this would be caught out fast.
Far more common is that the application is lazy about testing that the prime it has generated is actually prime, and if it's not, then breaking the key is made much easier.
There is, and has been since the lauded CLI "GUIs" (e.g. turbo pascal), a simple solution to this problem. Unfortunately many people simply don't understand the solution, and don't care to learn. In two steps:
1. Use an infinite progress bar (with or without a counter / percentage) rather than one based on time, when time is unknown or highly variable.
2. 'Step' the progress bar in code, don't use some automatically animated thing.
This provides positive user feedback that the operation will take an indeterminate amount of time, and also informs the user that the operation has not hung or stuck because it's still moving.
The MS file copy dialog failed because it didn't have a large enough sample window to make a guess about disk throughput or iops. Nearly all modern infinite progress indicators (computer, web, or mobile) fail because they use things like animated gifs or a separate thread to keep the indicator animation running, even when the task it's supposed to represent is stopped or slow.
Men like war, women no like war! Ooga oorga! *pounds chest*.
But wait just a minute here. I thought the whole point these jerks have been trying to make is that you can't pigeonhole them like this, and that girls like GIJoe as much as boys if just given a chance to play with them!
In other words, make up your minds. Then shut up because tired of this.
This is the kind of insight that sets their heads spinning around with green stuff spewing out. Suggesting that Star Wars stuff is scaring away the girls is no different from saying it's the computers themselves.
That would mean getting rid of all the memory leaks, which everyone obviously loves.
To be fair, 40 or 41 was a great leap forward in the leak department.. at long last.
and makes demands, that's not a debate. That's a tantrum. There is no debate here.
The satellites are certainly going to be affected by some kind of day/night cycles. I don't know what physics it is that you think you know, but being in space does not automatically mean being in the sun at all times. Geosync orbit sats have identical day/night cycles as the spot they are orbiting. LEO satellites like GPS or the ISS have day/night cycles that are absurdly short, a full cycle on the ISS lasts just 90 minutes; 45 min of light, 45 min of darkness.
To orbit in a way that the satellite is always receiving light requires a dawn/dusk polar orbit, which presents a pretty large logistical problem for getting the energy down from the satellite to wherever it's actually needed.
The answer to that appears to be technically yes, but practically no. The PDF of the forensic analysis says that not all of the card standard was implemented on the funcard.
First, it did not respond properly to parity errors in the data stream from the POS. The document says that "coding, testing, and deploying this countermeasure took less than a week." -- This means that POSes are updated or being updated to inject parity errors into the transaction to see if the card responds to them properly, an easy firmware fix for the hack to circumvent.
Second, the PDF says that the card responded incorrectly to a VerifyPIN command sent outside of a transaction context, which the standard requires (the PIN associated with the last transaction), and that "coding, testing, and deploying this countermeasure was done overnight." Again, something an attacker could address with a simple firmware update.
The document also says that "four other software-updatable countermeasures were developed and tested, but never deployed. These were left for future fraud control, if necessary.
In other words they found even more vulnerabilities but did not implement the fixes, choosing to wait until after they're exploited to do something about it.
I'm with you here. OP sounds like just being paranoid and probably is not quite properly setup. I setup a new domain last month with it's own self-hosted email and had no problems at all getting email through to any of the major providers. To avoid trouble, you need at a minimum:
- An IP address in a block that doesn't already have a terrible reputation.
- Working, correct reverse DNS that matches the SMTP banner.
- Working, correct forward DNS for the MX records that also matches the SMTP banner.
- Correct SPF/TXT records covering your mailserver, even if you know SPF is stupid.
- A mailserver not configured as an open relay (duh).
With all this in place, I have had no problems getting through on a system with a domain and mail handling less than a week old.
Plugging random things into your computer can damage it.
Be sure to watch our followup segment on what could be in that suspicious red can you found labeled "free gas!" The results are horrifying!
If we were seeing laser light mixed in at those power levels, we'd know it immediately. It's extremely unnatural.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Almost ten years ago, still kicks ass.
This is sort of what I figured. So basically it's just a buzzword for something the good sysadmins have already been doing for decades, when not hamstrung by some monolithic corporate culture or constrained by an insane ISO9k1 implementation.
That's what "DevOps" is to me. A meaningless buzzword. I did once see a "DevOps guy" lauded as some kind of hero for changing a haproxy configuration and reloading it.
Compression is not a problem on its own. There's a difference between recognizing a signal and being able to interpret or decode it. If you point a laser at the aliens and send them nothing but randomly chosen blocks from compressed files, they are still going to be able to detect the laser and determine that it is artificial. This is actually exactly what SETI radio astronomy projects look for, the carrier signal. They do not have the bandwidth to detect the subtle modulations used to encode a signal onto that carrier.
There's an error in your comparison. Looking back at the Egyptians, we are looking into our own past, which clouds our judgement on what the pictographs mean. We know that they were polytheistic, that they did create pictorial representations of their religious beliefs, mythical creatures, ceremonies, and so forth. Their culture was not entirely alien to us, and our knowledge of their culture colors our interpretation of the artifacts we find. There will be no such misleading contexts if we receive an alien transmission, or if they receive one from us. A diagram of a person pouring something in front of a device is likely to be interpreted quite literally at first.
From the article it does seem like Lord of The Flies was used as some kind of inspirational how-to manual. I don't expect it to take long before everyone is just chillin' on the beach, because why not? Apparently it's impossible to be fired now because nobody has a boss.. at least until Bezos hears about this.