I always figured that if something was any good they wouldn't have to advertise it.
Yes, they have to tell you about radical NEW products but the more advertising you see for established products (eg. cars, beers,...), the more mediocre those products must be. If they really are better than the competition (as claimed), they'd be selling themselves.
When sites start to lose significant amounts of money, they're going to move to more and more annoying and integrated ads, until the ads become indistinguishable from the content itself..
I still won't see them, and if they hate their users that much then I probably won't care if they collapse.
I'm not sure why I should hate targeted ads. I actually see ads for things I'm interested in... instead of random stuff.
Nice theory.
What actually happens is you only ever see ads for something you bought two years ago and have no intention of buying again. Either that or something you looked at once and thought "How can people be so stupid...?" then you spend the next six months seeing dancing adverts for it.
Like scanners that show your nude body underneath? Like irrationally banning mundane items and liquids? By intrusive stare-downs and groping molestation? Or did you forget that actually killing somebody with one of those things requires some metal like, say, bullets and shell casings? Or do they make Carbon-fiber bullets and shell casings now? How about having dogs that smell propellant?
In the scenario presented in the story you could equally use a BIC pen as a blow-gun with a small dart with ricin/botulinum/polonium/whatever in it. Plus security probably wouldn't recognize it if they searched you and found it (unlike a bulky plastic gun with a cartridge in it).
Real humans have imagination/ingenuity. These stories always ignore that.
Probably some outrageously sexy SGI machine, like a Crimson, or an Onyx. You can probably pick one up today second hand for a fraction of the cost of an Amiga 3000 toy.
People pay for them? I gave mine away...on the condition that they came and carried it out of my house all by themselves. Those things are damn heavy.
I had so much trouble/expense with mine I eventually bought a color Laser printer instead. It turned out to be one of the best purchasing decisions I ever made, I would NEVER go back to using an inkjet.
TFA has just been updated saying it's MotoBlur with an automatically created Blur ID - it doesn't even ask you to create an account any more
I guess that was Motorola's way of "removing" MotoBlur from phones - remove the account creation UI, generate the account secretly without any prompting.
Whatever, Motorola deserves to be bankrupted over this. If I was a class-action lawyer I'd be getting in touch with this guy right now.
AES... is the sole most attacked cypher in history, and remains secure.
The 128-bit version remains secure. The 256 and 192-bit versions are believed secure but have shown cracks (they should really have had a couple more encryption rounds).
The 256/192-bit versions are just re-fiddlings of the 128-bit version, made to fulfill the NIST requirements for key sizes. This was largely a waste of time since 128-bits can't be brute-forced with any imaginable technology.
(My advice to any potential cryptograpy coders out there is to stick with the 128 bit version).
This is often quoted as an example of NSA's supposed superiority in cryptography but that happened back in the '70s when there were hardly any cryptographers or computers in the world.
The knowledge gap between the NSA and independent cryptographers has closed a lot since then.
The chances of being able to write some code which reproduces those values but ISN'T AES are less than the reciprocal of the number of atoms in the universe.
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I always figured that if something was any good they wouldn't have to advertise it.
Yes, they have to tell you about radical NEW products but the more advertising you see for established products (eg. cars, beers, ...), the more mediocre those products must be. If they really are better than the competition (as claimed), they'd be selling themselves.
The British have been making them since the 18th century for export all over their empire. Quite a few are still in use.
http://miniatures.about.com/od/scaleminiatures/ig/Corrugated-Iron-House/Moody-Gosset-House-Front-View.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_tabernacle
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefabricated_building
When sites start to lose significant amounts of money, they're going to move to more and more annoying and integrated ads, until the ads become indistinguishable from the content itself..
I still won't see them, and if they hate their users that much then I probably won't care if they collapse.
I'm not sure why I should hate targeted ads. I actually see ads for things I'm interested in... instead of random stuff.
Nice theory.
What actually happens is you only ever see ads for something you bought two years ago and have no intention of buying again. Either that or something you looked at once and thought "How can people be so stupid...?" then you spend the next six months seeing dancing adverts for it.
Seriously, I still fail to understand why the Qwerty keyboard still is the norm, even in virtual keyboard in mobile devices.
What's the problem with pushing a better keyboard like Dvorak?
Mainly because it isn't better.
In real tests, all the 'benefits' turn out to be placebo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvorak_Simplified_Keyboard#Controversy
I suspect most if not all nations do it to some extent, the questions are which ones and to what extent.
...and how many of them profess to be the "Land of the Free".
> we couldn't care less if they check 'who is talking to whom'.
> we
I think you meant "I".
Are you 100% sure you know what the people you call do in their free time?
You might be calling a terrorist/pedophile/drug dealer without knowing it.
I agree. A much better long term saving would be to fire the person who signed that plan.
OK, how about an Iceland...?
The people running the country no longer understand it. They're obsolete.
Time to take to the streets and kick them out.
Like scanners that show your nude body underneath? Like irrationally banning mundane items and liquids? By intrusive stare-downs and groping molestation? Or did you forget that actually killing somebody with one of those things requires some metal like, say, bullets and shell casings? Or do they make Carbon-fiber bullets and shell casings now? How about having dogs that smell propellant?
In the scenario presented in the story you could equally use a BIC pen as a blow-gun with a small dart with ricin/botulinum/polonium/whatever in it. Plus security probably wouldn't recognize it if they searched you and found it (unlike a bulky plastic gun with a cartridge in it).
Real humans have imagination/ingenuity. These stories always ignore that.
Probably some outrageously sexy SGI machine, like a Crimson, or an Onyx. You can probably pick one up today second hand for a fraction of the cost of an Amiga 3000 toy.
People pay for them? I gave mine away...on the condition that they came and carried it out of my house all by themselves. Those things are damn heavy.
Inkjets are cheap/easy/reliable?
I had so much trouble/expense with mine I eventually bought a color Laser printer instead. It turned out to be one of the best purchasing decisions I ever made, I would NEVER go back to using an inkjet.
TFA has just been updated saying it's MotoBlur with an automatically created Blur ID - it doesn't even ask you to create an account any more
I guess that was Motorola's way of "removing" MotoBlur from phones - remove the account creation UI, generate the account secretly without any prompting.
Whatever, Motorola deserves to be bankrupted over this. If I was a class-action lawyer I'd be getting in touch with this guy right now.
Don't know about deceit, but I do know that my Firefox's noscript blocked no less than sixteen (16) separate sites running scripts on TFA.
So if anyone has an interest in fast browsers, they have.
I mean, 16, what possible excuse is there for that on what is effectively just a news article?
News sites are by far the worst for that. The number of sites some of them them pull Javascript from is staggering.
70+ years of continuous operation for a pump isn't TOO terrible.
It's more of a MTBF than a garantee. Some of them fail after a much shorter time.
Or like a terrible pump design. Intelligent design my ass, more like idiotic design.
A truly intelligent design would have built-in redundancy in case the main pump fails.
We've got two eyes, two ears, two lungs, two kidneys ... why not two hearts?
Remember Apple sells me a device, Google sells me.
Riiiiight. Apple never spied on anybody.
I think it might be this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motoblur
Lots of phones/providers sync your personal data for you in case you lose your phone.
(And I'm sure there's an option somewhere to turn it off, although you never know with big corporations...)
You say that like the source to GCC isn't available....
I hope you compiled your copy of GCC by hand using pencil and paper.
Using any precompiled compiler on any precompiled file system or OS kernel would break the chain of trust.
Quantum computers don't work against AES.
AES ... is the sole most attacked cypher in history, and remains secure.
The 128-bit version remains secure. The 256 and 192-bit versions are believed secure but have shown cracks (they should really have had a couple more encryption rounds).
The 256/192-bit versions are just re-fiddlings of the 128-bit version, made to fulfill the NIST requirements for key sizes. This was largely a waste of time since 128-bits can't be brute-forced with any imaginable technology.
(My advice to any potential cryptograpy coders out there is to stick with the 128 bit version).
This is often quoted as an example of NSA's supposed superiority in cryptography but that happened back in the '70s when there were hardly any cryptographers or computers in the world.
The knowledge gap between the NSA and independent cryptographers has closed a lot since then.
It's not so easy to make sure that a program is a correct implementation of a mathematical algorithm or of an open standard.
There's a huge list of test vectors for AES published by NIST (among others): http://csrc.nist.gov/archive/aes/rijndael/wsdindex.html
The chances of being able to write some code which reproduces those values but ISN'T AES are less than the reciprocal of the number of atoms in the universe.
The solution to "cyberwarfare" is extremely simple: Don't connect your power stations and nuclear missile silos to the Internet.