You are a dummy for downloading from a http website without a checksum. No thank you.
What exactly is the point of supplying a checksum by the same route/download method as the file in question? Surely if the file can be modified, so can the checksum. Maybe it would be useful if people got the checksum and verified it was the same checksum everyone else saw, then verified the file with it, but that just doesn't happen.
Encrypted files have maximum entropy, just like absolutely random files.
That's absurd. If it was as random as random data, it would BE random data, and therefore garbage to anything you tried to decode it with. By definition, encrypted data contains a pattern. By definition, patterns are not random.
"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin." -- John von Neumann.
There is no way they would ever be approved for use on public roads.
Oh, they will, but the roads might need a few upgrades. As soon as it can be proven that a car can drive better than a person when the person is trying their best to drive safely, cars will be favoured, since we know people sometimes deliberately drive wrecklessly.
Unfortunately one of the upgrades will probably mean no unpredictable human drivers allowed on the same roads.
I'm curious about the $100,000 GPS system. They sell GPS add-ons for $70. So what kind of GPS costs $100,000? Military, I suppose.
Even if they could make the GPS more cheaply, wouldn't this imply that they expect the very accurate military-grade GPS service to be available to consumers in future? Galileo was abandoned, wasn't it?
Or is this "GPS" actually much more than a GPS -- something more like an aircraft tracking computer?
Flying @ 14,000' elevation aint easy for a helicopter
Irrelevant. The helicopter was given a pep-talk before take-off. Neither the confidence nor this determination of the helicopter were factors in the crash, and its endurance was second to none, as it has a lusty wife.
The last time I checked, the central guiding principle of our economy was to make more profit.
Profit is a variable within the system of money. It cannot be the exterior goal for which the system was created. I think you're confusing how a buggy system is working out after many iterations, with its intended purpose.
Speeding is a very human thing to do. It's natural for people to want to test their limits. If you've never driven any faster than X, you can never be confident about driving at X. Only when you know you can handle X+10, do you feel really able to handle X. It's human nature, and it should be catered for, not stamped out.
What they need is a system for tweeting about assholes in crappy, unsafe cars driving in crappy, unsafe way to the police so they can cut up their drivers licenses.
Good idea. Next time you post something I disagree with, I can just drive by your house, tweet your license plate to the cops, and have your life sufficiently destroyed that you never bother me again.
No, seriously, this is how the world works. That's what all those political scandals on TV are about: politicians employing the law to get rid of other politicians who are no longer deemed useful. Please don't encourage it.
One could argue, that Intels manufacturing yields and quality control, are so good, that they no longer have a significant quantity of chips that "fail" and are sold at a lower speed.
In other words, capitalist market forces (i.e., consumer demands) have worked to bring the price of goods down (i.e., supply).
Therefore, in order to extract as much $$$ out of the market as a whole, they are marking the high quality chips at lower speeds, and then marketing the unlock service to bring it up to full speed.
In other words, Intel have decided to bypass the central guiding principle of our economy, in order to make more profit.
The interesting part is that this is a chip company selling cheap, low-performance chips, but confirming that they can run at a higher spec if you're into overclocking and similar hacks. I've generally avoided overclocking as pushing a chip beyond its specifications, but if the company that makes it is happy to hack it, I am too.
Hell, a goddamn Visual Basic app from fifteen years ago kicked the butt of most modern web sites in usability, performance and ease of maintenance.
You underestimate the value of HTML as a GUI. After all, what was the point of gradually developing a standard set of well-tested GUI widgets over decades in OS X, Unix, NeXT, MGR, Amiga, GEM, DOS, Windows, if we're not going to let a bunch of un-aware flash "developers" re-attempt all the early mistakes?
Please stop using it to compare them and Google search for how to block ads in other browser if you need to.
Please study what you're talking about before ranting. Probably everyone who talks about adblocking in firefox has used junkbuster as a general network ad filter, or some windows equivalent.
The point is that adblock is BETTER. Check the chrome bug reports regarding the need for proper adblocking, even though it already had SOME adblocking, much like other browsers do.
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Judging by their lame excuses for going under, they were clearly using Google Wave as an internal management tool.
IE's rendering engine? ;)
What exactly is the point of supplying a checksum by the same route/download method as the file in question? Surely if the file can be modified, so can the checksum. Maybe it would be useful if people got the checksum and verified it was the same checksum everyone else saw, then verified the file with it, but that just doesn't happen.
I stand corrected... and more informed. Thanks :)
Might slow it down.
I observe humanity enough to know that they need some moderate freedom, and that denial only leads to extreme behaviours.
That's absurd. If it was as random as random data, it would BE random data, and therefore garbage to anything you tried to decode it with. By definition, encrypted data contains a pattern. By definition, patterns are not random.
"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin." -- John von Neumann.
Unless someone looks at his plaintext shell history that is.
Oh, they will, but the roads might need a few upgrades. As soon as it can be proven that a car can drive better than a person when the person is trying their best to drive safely, cars will be favoured, since we know people sometimes deliberately drive wrecklessly.
Unfortunately one of the upgrades will probably mean no unpredictable human drivers allowed on the same roads.
I'm curious about the $100,000 GPS system. They sell GPS add-ons for $70. So what kind of GPS costs $100,000? Military, I suppose.
Even if they could make the GPS more cheaply, wouldn't this imply that they expect the very accurate military-grade GPS service to be available to consumers in future? Galileo was abandoned, wasn't it?
Or is this "GPS" actually much more than a GPS -- something more like an aircraft tracking computer?
Irrelevant. The helicopter was given a pep-talk before take-off. Neither the confidence nor this determination of the helicopter were factors in the crash, and its endurance was second to none, as it has a lusty wife.
Damnit, I told Audi not to fit Kitt's microlock device before the car was tested against the Three Laws.
Profit is a variable within the system of money. It cannot be the exterior goal for which the system was created. I think you're confusing how a buggy system is working out after many iterations, with its intended purpose.
Sure. Althouhg, the push-button upgrade to give you the intelligence and dexterity to operate keys is a little more expensive...
How do you recognise these (even if you're not in my country)?
Speeding is a very human thing to do. It's natural for people to want to test their limits. If you've never driven any faster than X, you can never be confident about driving at X. Only when you know you can handle X+10, do you feel really able to handle X. It's human nature, and it should be catered for, not stamped out.
Good idea. Next time you post something I disagree with, I can just drive by your house, tweet your license plate to the cops, and have your life sufficiently destroyed that you never bother me again.
No, seriously, this is how the world works. That's what all those political scandals on TV are about: politicians employing the law to get rid of other politicians who are no longer deemed useful. Please don't encourage it.
They certainly do have a load of balls.
In other words, capitalist market forces (i.e., consumer demands) have worked to bring the price of goods down (i.e., supply).
In other words, Intel have decided to bypass the central guiding principle of our economy, in order to make more profit.
You're too understanding. Cooking recipes cannot be copyrighted. Neither should video decoding recipes.
The interesting part is that this is a chip company selling cheap, low-performance chips, but confirming that they can run at a higher spec if you're into overclocking and similar hacks. I've generally avoided overclocking as pushing a chip beyond its specifications, but if the company that makes it is happy to hack it, I am too.
You underestimate the value of HTML as a GUI. After all, what was the point of gradually developing a standard set of well-tested GUI widgets over decades in OS X, Unix, NeXT, MGR, Amiga, GEM, DOS, Windows, if we're not going to let a bunch of un-aware flash "developers" re-attempt all the early mistakes?
Please study what you're talking about before ranting. Probably everyone who talks about adblocking in firefox has used junkbuster as a general network ad filter, or some windows equivalent.
The point is that adblock is BETTER. Check the chrome bug reports regarding the need for proper adblocking, even though it already had SOME adblocking, much like other browsers do.
I was going to show you an honest cop, but I've nothing to gain from it, since he already happens to be flying and doing cartwheels next to a unicorn.
How would matching participants with their flatlines help?