"The kernel devs and Linus have probably contributed significantly more to the world than you have"
I keep people fed and develop new technologies to ensure people can remain fed. They do nothing nearly as important. The world could exist quite well without people like them. Not much of a world would exist without people like me.
Try again when you're not so ignorantly assumptive.
"For gaming with decent graphics at a decent (i.e. 30+) framerate, yes, it's gonna put out a lot of heat. You're looking at a 980 ti or Fury X to handle 4k"
Nope. Currently on a GeForce GTX260 Core216. 4K works juuuust fine. All the Doom, Quake3 (with forced resolution and widescreen mod) Half-Life, Binding of Isaac, Nation Red, Terraria, etc. all that runs at 4K pretty damned well. Since AAA gaming has gotten so shit that people are just bothering with "Reaction" pics and videos instead of actually playing the game to review, I really don't need to do the latest and greatest hardware since the latest and greatest gaming is shit and does not interest me.
On an overclocked E7500 (to E7800 speeds) I'm only using a 250W PSU. *yawn*
Are you that ignorant of current processor and GPU technology? I've been driving 2048x1536 (that would be 3K to you) on my desktop well over 15 years with Matrox. Qualcomm has Snapdragon, meant for MOBILE PHONES, driving 4K. For gaming, it ain't getting hot unless you do something STUPID like pick some power-hungry GPU. For video, even without acceleration from the GPU, a shit-tier i3 can handle 4K video. I was doing 1080p video on a Geforce 2 and Pentium 4 back when..... Naruto Shippuuden first came out and DB started doing 1080p encodes.
"I don't know what kind of crack you're on but the lasers I used would put out between 2 and 4 watts with over 20 lines across the entire visible spectrum."
Not necessarily. While these emitters are tunable, I doubt the red is getting down to 700nm, or the blue going into the 400-410nm violet range. Most RGB emitters, even tunable are peak 630nm red and 450-460nm blue. So this wouldn't cover the entire visible colorspace very accurately when it came to deeper reds and violets.
This is a tunable multi-wavelength laser with tunable red, green, and blue emitters. This makes it useful for scanning various things with different wavelengths at the same time so you may get multiple measurements at once. Good for protein fluorescence and stuff.
This is why Cloudflare got four of its routers wiped out during that last October DDoS. As soon as the network infrastructure was known and exploits located, it was the attack point. Security failure.
" I've been in the software business for almost 40 years,"
Software, not security.
"I suggest you study texts on encryption, and maybe read the technical details of how a good cloud-based password manager like LastPass actually works"
That's all I fucking need to know. A piece of paper holding my passwords is more secure in my wallet than my passwords are with LastPass or KeepPass. I also have the ability to actually defend my stuff if someone tries to take it, whereas someone hacks your shit and it's gone, you're fucked. By the time you realize it, it's too late, they've made off with your stuff.
"Your super-whiz-bang method still requires a password, it seems"
Good authentication requires everything, including a password. We could switch to biometrics, you're fucked because there are any number of ways to get around that, including taking your head off. With a password added for second verification (or third verification, in this case) taking your head does me no good unless I was able to get the password from you before hand.
"How do you hash the passwords for your sites? Still using MD5?"
You silly noobs using hashes and salts. Nowdays smart people embed that information in an image file, good old steganography. You think you got a password database? Enjoy the cluster of hentai you just downloaded. Get past the fact that there's information inside the image? Good luck decrypting the white noise format used to encode it. Unless you have used my server software, you aren't going to be able to do much with it.
"Obviously you have limited experience or familiarity with password managers. LastPass, among others, keeps your encrypted passwords "in the cloud", so that they are accessible even if your local disk "takes a dump"."
That's EXACTLY WHY I don't use it. Keep my passwords on SOMEONE ELSE'S COMPUTER?!?!?! That's FUCKUP NUMBER ONE of security.
" If you can come up with an authentication scheme better than passwords that you can get every online service to use, then please let us know."
Same fucking one I got my bank to switch to - same one that I've used on my anime forums for over a decade. Picture/your custom caption/password. Same fucking one I've been telling people on/. about for YEARS. Spammers haven't beaten it, hackers haven't beaten it (because it's actually more than two-factor auth) and even in the case of being hacked, you would still need the matching image file (which resides on another server and is accessed by a constantly-changing encrypted variable for filename so you can't just rip it) to make the phrase and password usable.
I've been at this game almost 30 years. When are you n00bs ever going to catch up with the basic security of things like Air Gaps and separated content passwords, which have been around since, well, PROHIBITION?
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"The kernel devs and Linus have probably contributed significantly more to the world than you have"
I keep people fed and develop new technologies to ensure people can remain fed. They do nothing nearly as important. The world could exist quite well without people like them. Not much of a world would exist without people like me.
Try again when you're not so ignorantly assumptive.
So, what, you never heard of the Denon Link cable?
"That's about 2 secs for an average microwave"
Most average microwaves are 800-1200W. 2000w is getting into industrial/commercial-level microwaves.
Linus needs to apologize for his devs going "Not my fucking fault!" when in fact it WAS their fault.
https://blog.algolia.com/when-...
Here's the company that found the actual problem and pinpointed it.
" Firstly, 3k is not 2048x1536, it would be 2880x1620."
Bah, you're right. Stupid brain got resolutions and pixel count mixed.
"For gaming with decent graphics at a decent (i.e. 30+) framerate, yes, it's gonna put out a lot of heat. You're looking at a 980 ti or Fury X to handle 4k"
Nope. Currently on a GeForce GTX260 Core216. 4K works juuuust fine. All the Doom, Quake3 (with forced resolution and widescreen mod) Half-Life, Binding of Isaac, Nation Red, Terraria, etc. all that runs at 4K pretty damned well. Since AAA gaming has gotten so shit that people are just bothering with "Reaction" pics and videos instead of actually playing the game to review, I really don't need to do the latest and greatest hardware since the latest and greatest gaming is shit and does not interest me.
On an overclocked E7500 (to E7800 speeds) I'm only using a 250W PSU. *yawn*
If the kernel devs and Linus don't apologize, they're all a bunch of self-absorbed shitlords and should be smacked off the face of this planet.
"A PC that drives 4k is going to be hot"
Are you that ignorant of current processor and GPU technology? I've been driving 2048x1536 (that would be 3K to you) on my desktop well over 15 years with Matrox. Qualcomm has Snapdragon, meant for MOBILE PHONES, driving 4K. For gaming, it ain't getting hot unless you do something STUPID like pick some power-hungry GPU. For video, even without acceleration from the GPU, a shit-tier i3 can handle 4K video. I was doing 1080p video on a Geforce 2 and Pentium 4 back when..... Naruto Shippuuden first came out and DB started doing 1080p encodes.
"I don't know what kind of crack you're on but the lasers I used would put out between 2 and 4 watts with over 20 lines across the entire visible spectrum."
http://www.repairfaq.org/sam/w... - Uhhh, what? I'm certainly not counting 20+ lines there.
Also, a measly 4 watts? I've got nearly double that in my pocket laser.
"Examples of active laser media include:
Semiconductors, e.g. gallium arsenide (GaAs), indium gallium arsenide (InGaAs), or gallium nitride (GaN).[4]"
So yes, semiconductors, AKA LEDs, ARE usable for a lasing medium.
So yes, it IS a LASER.
Krypton-Argon? Those purple-white 8000K+ junkers with a horrible green emissions unless the gas is under low pressure?
Sure, if you call purple with a tiny bit of green 'white.'
Not necessarily. While these emitters are tunable, I doubt the red is getting down to 700nm, or the blue going into the 400-410nm violet range. Most RGB emitters, even tunable are peak 630nm red and 450-460nm blue. So this wouldn't cover the entire visible colorspace very accurately when it came to deeper reds and violets.
Tri-band, multi-color, tunable.
EQ Peaks. Three tunable emitter crystals on the same substrate.
This is a tunable multi-wavelength laser with tunable red, green, and blue emitters. This makes it useful for scanning various things with different wavelengths at the same time so you may get multiple measurements at once. Good for protein fluorescence and stuff.
This is not the first WLL. Those have been available for at least half a decade.
This is the first SOLID STATE WLL.
What's unique is that they figured out a way to grow three different crystals next to each other on the same substrate without having fatal flaws.
Holy fuck can the editors even be bothered to fact-check?
Oh, yea, what editors?
This is why Cloudflare got four of its routers wiped out during that last October DDoS. As soon as the network infrastructure was known and exploits located, it was the attack point. Security failure.
And this is only going to get worse.
"No shotgun will knock down a drone at 500 ft"
Bullshit. I've seen 200+ yard shotgun slug shots, WITH ACCURACY, and you can find videos of them all over youtube.
" I've been in the software business for almost 40 years,"
Software, not security.
"I suggest you study texts on encryption, and maybe read the technical details of how a good cloud-based password manager like LastPass actually works"
https://blog.lastpass.com/2015...
That's all I fucking need to know. A piece of paper holding my passwords is more secure in my wallet than my passwords are with LastPass or KeepPass. I also have the ability to actually defend my stuff if someone tries to take it, whereas someone hacks your shit and it's gone, you're fucked. By the time you realize it, it's too late, they've made off with your stuff.
"Your super-whiz-bang method still requires a password, it seems"
Good authentication requires everything, including a password. We could switch to biometrics, you're fucked because there are any number of ways to get around that, including taking your head off. With a password added for second verification (or third verification, in this case) taking your head does me no good unless I was able to get the password from you before hand.
"How do you hash the passwords for your sites? Still using MD5?"
You silly noobs using hashes and salts. Nowdays smart people embed that information in an image file, good old steganography. You think you got a password database? Enjoy the cluster of hentai you just downloaded. Get past the fact that there's information inside the image? Good luck decrypting the white noise format used to encode it. Unless you have used my server software, you aren't going to be able to do much with it.
" within 5 to 10 ft of the charger."
My god the amount of power you'd waste just to get a usable bit of power several feet out is staggering.
Not to mention - you'll kill your devices faster because wireless charging makes more heat - which kills batteries.
Stick with a wire.
"Rolodex sits on your desk, open to any snoop that happens to walk past while you're not at your desk."
Given how socially-inept the majority of you geeks are, that shouldn't be a problem, should it?
Because nobody would want to interact with your social ignorance in the first place.
" Hint: you can't use an air gapped machine on the internet you moron."
Yes, you can. Do you even know what PROTOCOL is? Do you even know about SNEAKERNET, n00b?
" You can't fix stupid, no matter what you use."
That's exactly why many don't have a backup.
"Obviously you have limited experience or familiarity with password managers. LastPass, among others, keeps your encrypted passwords "in the cloud", so that they are accessible even if your local disk "takes a dump"."
That's EXACTLY WHY I don't use it. Keep my passwords on SOMEONE ELSE'S COMPUTER?!?!?! That's FUCKUP NUMBER ONE of security.
" If you can come up with an authentication scheme better than passwords that you can get every online service to use, then please let us know."
Same fucking one I got my bank to switch to - same one that I've used on my anime forums for over a decade. Picture/your custom caption/password. Same fucking one I've been telling people on /. about for YEARS. Spammers haven't beaten it, hackers haven't beaten it (because it's actually more than two-factor auth) and even in the case of being hacked, you would still need the matching image file (which resides on another server and is accessed by a constantly-changing encrypted variable for filename so you can't just rip it) to make the phrase and password usable.
I've been at this game almost 30 years. When are you n00bs ever going to catch up with the basic security of things like Air Gaps and separated content passwords, which have been around since, well, PROHIBITION?
"Some of us don't game, and only need "good enough" graphics to drive the display manager requirements"
Okay, here's your 256KB GPU RAM. Have fun!