What I don't get is: why don't they go after the data in the "cloud". Police should really be oiling their supoena-sending machines instead of spending time on virtually uncrackable crypto. From Skype, Steam and 3 email accounts (including Google), police could with good certainty know if I was at home or at work at a certain time, by looking at the IP address. If I'm out and about, If I was better at posting to Facebook, they could get geotagged images from my phone. Sometimes I listen to radio streamed over IP, and then they could even know when I go to the toilet (because I pause it). On Android phones, contact information is synced with Google. For legal investigations, where police can get subpoenas, it seems that they have a great future full of useful information ahead. Authorities outside of the US may have more trouble.
Mobile forensicator[sic] Jonathan Zdziarski found that the iPhone OS automatically decrypts data when a request for data is made, effectively making the encryption worthless for protecting data.
That's how how FDE usually works. The standard OS access control system controls which users can request data.
I would want a system that's 100 times as powerful as my current desktop if it was available, so I'd just put 100 of these "superphone" processors in a case and have a nice desktop. And if you only browse the web and check email, the tech is pretty much there to replace your desktop with a phone anyway. You have HDMI out, and bluetooth keyboards and mice.
Thinking more about it, the benefit of such a setup is the *massive* storage capacity that is possible with a tape robot. To get any benefit over standard drives, you have to either get a robot, or play one yourself (have the NAS send you an SMS: "please insert tape #10")
Yeah you want some kind of hierarchical file system, where files are staged form tape to disk one by one. Can't think of anything that exposes a standard filesystem interface at the moment (nothing that would work for home use, anyway)
Many antivirus companies have honeypots to detect new virii. It would be extremely interesting to independently trace the origin of things like Stuxnet.
gives you a better resampler (10 is max. quality at the cost of CPU, default is 3. Don't know if it affects latency, but I'd imagine it would.). PA will only output a single sampling rate, so for example all your MP3s at 44.1kHz will be will be resampled.
There are some good arguments against 96 kHz. Specifically, it is impossible to hear anything above about 22 kHz, and 44 kHz of PCM is sufficient to encode that. If your equipment is not perfectly linear up to 96 kHz, any error in reproduction of ultrasound can cause audible distortion.
Sorry for the overall poorly written post. I have to correct this: not "much" better, just a noticeable difference. If the DG's amp had worked, I probably wouldn't have heard a difference.
DG is the PCI version of DGX. I bought a DG, but the headphone amp is not supported on Linux, and there is no hardware volume control, but that's OK because you have 24 bit to play with. It was also branded heavily as a "gamer" card, but I suspect that's just to get the music fans to buy the more expensive cards. Anyway, it sort of worked for me, I got the ST as well. That's more like € 160, but it sounds much better on my 80 ohm headphones, and it's great on my stereo speakers too. I would like to get the Dolby Headphone effect on Linux, but the Headphone Spatialization effect in VLC is also pretty good, and more subtle.
So Linux users beware, the headphone amp on DG(X) is not supported on Linux
I take an USB or SATA drive when I visit my parents every 6 months or so. It's highly unlikely that I lose my laptop + desktop + on-site backup (USB drive), but I can certainly think of some scenarios like that. I keep the key for the backup in my wallet, but I gave them they key to the encryption on the live systems, just in case.
I have just seen "PAR" a couple of times here on slashdot, haven't used it, but it seems great for this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive . You need enough redundancy to allow one USB drive to fail. And I would rather get a SATA bay and use "internal" drives than having to deal with external USB drives. Get "green" drives, they are slow but cheap.
Also "interesting" that you can't edit documents while your kid is playing, because the account is in use. Can't even leave a document open on your laptop, then go to your gaming rig and play some dota. An often overlooked downside to steam. It's best to create a separate account for each game (and now software) you buy.
Just to clarify, the SSD caching is not simplistic because the developers are lazy, it's because it aims to have completely sequential writes to the cache device
As others have commented, Linux has bcache and flashcache. If don't need everything to be GPL, it also has ZFS, which I use. The RAM caching of ZFS is top notch, but the SSD caching is extremely simplistic. I find that it performs really well, though, and using RAID and data checksums gives peace of mind. The cache is flushed on boot, so it's not good for things like laptops. There is also a separate system for write buffering, in addition to the read cache.
I didn't RTFA yet, but Netflix has to have an immense infrastructure to serve its customers. Just imagine 2 Mbit per stream, then hundreds of thousands of streams, that's almost 1 Tbit/s. Multicast will not save us, because people are watching different things at different times (multicast would give us something like cable TV with DVRs) Some problem with the current situation: 1) If their customer base increases, the bandwidth requirement will be ridiculous, and will cause distortion to the structure of the internet (peering arrangements, etc). This could cause trouble. 2) The internet used to have trivial low cost of entry for small companies. Rich media changed that, and made hosting a real cost and a barrier to entry.
This proposal doesn't seem to address these problems though, it just gives more power to CDNs. (from a cursory browsing of TFA). And it seems very web-centric -- how would you do actual communications protocols on this?.
Can you back up the ebooks? This is *absolutely crucial*. A year or so ago, Amazon pulled existing copies of "1984" by George Orwell because of a licensing dispute. It would be naive to think that a government will not take advantage of this "kill switch" (and it doesn't even have to be a government to be scary, if a company can censor information that's just as bad). If you can back them up, on the other hand, then all is good. Doesn't matter if they're DRMed either, as long as you can load them back onto the reader, we're probably not headed for dystopia.
Stability is not a feature you can install. Actually, having the newest up to date and experimental software is mutually exclusive with stability At best you can coose to use a stable version or a "beta" at runtime (i.e., without rebooting).
Indeed they are missing out on a huge amount of hype by delaying global releases. TV and movie references all over the internet ( social sites). I haven't pirated any shows recently, but when the legal release comes in my country, I'll be like "meh". At least, there will be no sense of urgency -- if it's good TV I may want to watch it, but I can get a used DVD or soemthing.
Steam OS, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows 8, Apple Mac OS X"
This doesn't help me as a Linux user. I don't want to reboot every time I want to play a game, and even if I found that acceptable, I could just boot into windows.
After 5 years: "System requirements: SteamBox, Microsoft Windows 8, Apple iOS"
They'll end up making a "box" like everyone else. Is it really that hard to make a fucking general purpose software platform ?
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What I don't get is: why don't they go after the data in the "cloud". Police should really be oiling their supoena-sending machines instead of spending time on virtually uncrackable crypto. From Skype, Steam and 3 email accounts (including Google), police could with good certainty know if I was at home or at work at a certain time, by looking at the IP address. If I'm out and about, If I was better at posting to Facebook, they could get geotagged images from my phone. Sometimes I listen to radio streamed over IP, and then they could even know when I go to the toilet (because I pause it). On Android phones, contact information is synced with Google. For legal investigations, where police can get subpoenas, it seems that they have a great future full of useful information ahead. Authorities outside of the US may have more trouble.
That's how how FDE usually works. The standard OS access control system controls which users can request data.
I would want a system that's 100 times as powerful as my current desktop if it was available, so I'd just put 100 of these "superphone" processors in a case and have a nice desktop. And if you only browse the web and check email, the tech is pretty much there to replace your desktop with a phone anyway. You have HDMI out, and bluetooth keyboards and mice.
Thinking more about it, the benefit of such a setup is the *massive* storage capacity that is possible with a tape robot. To get any benefit over standard drives, you have to either get a robot, or play one yourself (have the NAS send you an SMS: "please insert tape #10")
Yeah you want some kind of hierarchical file system, where files are staged form tape to disk one by one. Can't think of anything that exposes a standard filesystem interface at the moment (nothing that would work for home use, anyway)
Many antivirus companies have honeypots to detect new virii. It would be extremely interesting to independently trace the origin of things like Stuxnet.
Also,
resample-method = speex-float-8
gives you a better resampler (10 is max. quality at the cost of CPU, default is 3. Don't know if it affects latency, but I'd imagine it would.). PA will only output a single sampling rate, so for example all your MP3s at 44.1kHz will be will be resampled.
There are some good arguments against 96 kHz. Specifically, it is impossible to hear anything above about 22 kHz, and 44 kHz of PCM is sufficient to encode that. If your equipment is not perfectly linear up to 96 kHz, any error in reproduction of ultrasound can cause audible distortion.
it sounds much better on my
Sorry for the overall poorly written post. I have to correct this: not "much" better, just a noticeable difference. If the DG's amp had worked, I probably wouldn't have heard a difference.
DG is the PCI version of DGX. I bought a DG, but the headphone amp is not supported on Linux, and there is no hardware volume control, but that's OK because you have 24 bit to play with. It was also branded heavily as a "gamer" card, but I suspect that's just to get the music fans to buy the more expensive cards. Anyway, it sort of worked for me, I got the ST as well. That's more like € 160, but it sounds much better on my 80 ohm headphones, and it's great on my stereo speakers too. I would like to get the Dolby Headphone effect on Linux, but the Headphone Spatialization effect in VLC is also pretty good, and more subtle.
So Linux users beware, the headphone amp on DG(X) is not supported on Linux
While it's true that it's "bit perfect", there can still be jitter if the clock on the sound card and the clock on the receiver aren't in sync.
I take an USB or SATA drive when I visit my parents every 6 months or so. It's highly unlikely that I lose my laptop + desktop + on-site backup (USB drive), but I can certainly think of some scenarios like that. I keep the key for the backup in my wallet, but I gave them they key to the encryption on the live systems, just in case.
I have just seen "PAR" a couple of times here on slashdot, haven't used it, but it seems great for this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parchive . You need enough redundancy to allow one USB drive to fail. And I would rather get a SATA bay and use "internal" drives than having to deal with external USB drives. Get "green" drives, they are slow but cheap.
For those distances I just read "miles" as "kilometers". A factor of 1.6 doesn't really make a huge difference for a casual understanding.
"Total Information Awareness" sounds pretty horrible, if *that* is the euphemism.
Also "interesting" that you can't edit documents while your kid is playing, because the account is in use. Can't even leave a document open on your laptop, then go to your gaming rig and play some dota. An often overlooked downside to steam. It's best to create a separate account for each game (and now software) you buy.
Just to clarify, the SSD caching is not simplistic because the developers are lazy, it's because it aims to have completely sequential writes to the cache device
As others have commented, Linux has bcache and flashcache. If don't need everything to be GPL, it also has ZFS, which I use. The RAM caching of ZFS is top notch, but the SSD caching is extremely simplistic. I find that it performs really well, though, and using RAID and data checksums gives peace of mind. The cache is flushed on boot, so it's not good for things like laptops. There is also a separate system for write buffering, in addition to the read cache.
I didn't RTFA yet, but Netflix has to have an immense infrastructure to serve its customers. Just imagine 2 Mbit per stream, then hundreds of thousands of streams, that's almost 1 Tbit/s. Multicast will not save us, because people are watching different things at different times (multicast would give us something like cable TV with DVRs) Some problem with the current situation: 1) If their customer base increases, the bandwidth requirement will be ridiculous, and will cause distortion to the structure of the internet (peering arrangements, etc). This could cause trouble. 2) The internet used to have trivial low cost of entry for small companies. Rich media changed that, and made hosting a real cost and a barrier to entry.
This proposal doesn't seem to address these problems though, it just gives more power to CDNs. (from a cursory browsing of TFA). And it seems very web-centric -- how would you do actual communications protocols on this?.
Can you back up the ebooks? This is *absolutely crucial*. A year or so ago, Amazon pulled existing copies of "1984" by George Orwell because of a licensing dispute. It would be naive to think that a government will not take advantage of this "kill switch" (and it doesn't even have to be a government to be scary, if a company can censor information that's just as bad). If you can back them up, on the other hand, then all is good. Doesn't matter if they're DRMed either, as long as you can load them back onto the reader, we're probably not headed for dystopia.
I've almost stopped cliecking Youtube links, half of them don't work. NASA should host their own videos.
And as a "side benefit", many Iranian people previously entrusted with internet access can no longer see independent (non-censored_ information.
Stability is not a feature you can install. Actually, having the newest up to date and experimental software is mutually exclusive with stability At best you can coose to use a stable version or a "beta" at runtime (i.e., without rebooting).
Indeed they are missing out on a huge amount of hype by delaying global releases. TV and movie references all over the internet ( social sites). I haven't pirated any shows recently, but when the legal release comes in my country, I'll be like "meh". At least, there will be no sense of urgency -- if it's good TV I may want to watch it, but I can get a used DVD or soemthing.
"System requirements:
Steam OS, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows 8, Apple Mac OS X"
This doesn't help me as a Linux user. I don't want to reboot every time I want to play a game, and even if I found that acceptable, I could just boot into windows.
After 5 years: "System requirements:
SteamBox, Microsoft Windows 8, Apple iOS"
They'll end up making a "box" like everyone else. Is it really that hard to make a fucking general purpose software platform ?
It's not a like game, because the *AA can change the rules when they want (or at least try to)!