Yes and no. On one hand, it wasn't the perfect landing. On the other hand, they waited 10 years for a successful landing. And it happened. That's gotta count for something.
Remember that ESA probe to Mars that died when it got there? These guys could've waited 10 years to find out that their probe crashed into the comet, or overshot it, or some other calamity befell the lander rendering it inoperative.
Instead, they did their science, got their data, and have a chance at doing a bit more in the future. That they couldn't do more is unfortunate, but there's a reason they demarcated certain tasks as primary and put enough juice into the thing to complete all of them.
The probability of abject failure was much higher than the probability of any success, even if imperfect. The fact that this was a partial success, and I would argue it's mostly a success, is worth something.
You're relying an awful lot on the service to do the vetting and the work of ensuring passenger (your) safety. Are you sure they're actually doing what they say they're doing?
A lot of regulations are preventative in nature, rather than reactive in the same sense that a metal gate is preventative, but a closed circuit camera is reactive. You seem to think it's sufficient to just have reactive measures in place.
There are simply too many moving parts to the usable Internet (the WWW). Everything from the browser to the DNS request can be compromised. And the browser itself is complex, speaking at a minimum of three languages (HTML, CSSx, Javascript) which, even if one or two are disabled, may still leak information.
And then, let's talk operating system. Unless your OS air gapped, it probably has holes in it that are exploitable. In fact, anything that interfaces with the network will potentially have exploitable holes. It could even be a side channel attack.
Finally, we get to the router. The router does most of what your computer does: DNS resolution, packet forwarding, etc. If the router is insecure in any way, you're also in trouble. If the router is compromised from the start (phone home, secret log, etc.), it's game over. Worse, unless you're running a DD-WRT router (and even if you are running one), you can't even audit the logic in your router.
If you want the kind of security that TOR promises, you're going to need to secure everything from the router to the browser. And that's hard. Chromebook is the closest thing, and even then you can't completely trust hardware you didn't build yourself.
I'm guessing here, but probably because the matter comprising the disc is homogenous. Since all planets start forming at roughly the same time, if the material were all approximately the same throughout, then the areas of local maximum gravity that are collecting the particles will be equidistant.
What happens next will be interesting, because with this assumption, there's more material as you get farther form the disc. That means the farther you go out, the larger the planets will become (you can sorta see that in our own solar system). The interactions between these newly-formed bodies will determine the eventual planetary sizes and positions, and if they collapse back into the star or get flung out into space or somehow manage a stable orbit.
Actually, at $0.02 earnings per share, they're profitable already.
Musk released all of the patents Tesla owns related to electric cars. I'm almost certain that if the other car manufacturers don't have a competing product in the works, they're smoking some really good stuff. Oil subsidies will only get them so far.
I can't wait for the Model 3. Once that hits the streets, you'll be seeing a lot more Teslas.
They put a tablet OS in their tablet, it doesn't have full Windows functionality.
Unfortunately, RT did have full Windows functionality. Which, when perfectly usable with keyboard and mouse, is completely useless when interacting via touchscreen.
Metro was usable (albeit barely at times) with a touchscreen. Too bad it was only half-assed and offered practically no functionality.
we need to seriously think about using digital equivalents of "one time pads" for high security applications..
We do. But OTP's are not practical for normal, every day usage. And despite what you might think, normal every day communication is not a high security application. The idea is to make it difficult to break into everybody's communications, not to make it difficult to break into anybody's. See the difference there?
PGP was never usable by ordinary people. PGP is as close to perfect security as you can get. Perfect security is hard. Ordinary people can't deal with hard things. Ergo (and I repeat) PGP is not usable by ordinary people.
You don't need perfect security for normal, everyday communications. You don't need to be certain that "Alice" online is actually the Alice you know in real life. You only need to be certain that "Alice" online is "Alice" online and not "Eve" online or "Mallory" online. That's a much easier problem. Self-signed certs (or any other sufficiently-strong encryption key) centrally stored by the IM service and are pinned by the client would be sufficient.
Yes, an attacker can compromise the service, and either or both clients at the same time, but if either client is compromised, you have bigger issues than secure communications.
The ideal candidate should be able to do both: Come up with a solution to a problem quickly, and also be able to research and evaluate the longevity of the solution. The more experienced the candidate, the more accurate the latter evaluation should be. There's little time in an interview, but given time the ideal candidate should be able to come up with better solutions than the initial one.
The experienced individual should at the very least, have a hunch as to a direction to start. You can spend days surfing Google if you don't know the right questions to ask. Your intellect gets you to the solution, but your experience points you in a good direction to start.
and why was there a monument to Steve Jobs anyway?
Sometime after Steve Jobs' death, the Russians managed to acquire his reality distortion field on the black market thinking they could use it to pacify the locals.
I wish I could dredge up some examples, but I seem to remember seeing some things which some of the astronauts said in the middle of a crisis which made them sound like it was just a little thing, when the rest of us would all be screaming "we're all gonna die we're all gonna die".
If it's coming from FBI servers, it can't be good. Must be malware. It's just like how pages served off the CIA and NSA's servers are called spyware. They're spies after all.
That's flat out wrong. Other countries have been and continue to meddle in Chinese affairs.
China does not have a history or culture in meddling in other countries' affairs, at least not the type of meddling that's associated with Western powers over the past five centuries. This is quickly changing as China's adapting to the needs of the 21st century, but it's largely ingrained in the philosophical underpinnings of Chinese culture. The cultural tenets that reinforce this begin with not pointing out the faults of other's houses if your own house suffers the same faults, and end with the (historical) idea that the Middle Kingdom is the strongest culturally and economically. In fact, this is the very premise that led to the disastrous Great Leap Forward (though the Cultural Revolution was a result of the complete opposite). That China could've been beaten by other countries economically was simply inconceivable. This cognitive dissonance resulted in, as you'd expect, insanity.
China's not benevolent, not by a long shot. But the Chinese have been playing this game for far longer, and are far more adept at it than most Westerners are willing to believe and able to recognize (even though they've been self-handicapped by starting at a point 50 years behind everyone else, they're catching up quickly). China understands how to acquire and retain power. If and when they do become a dominant superpower, historical European imperialism and modern American imperialism will look like a child's drawing against a da Vinci painting. This is assuming by then, people would even known where to look.
At which point, we can only hope that the American ideals of freedom and self (which are far more interesting, even if applied imperfectly) will not be buried under Chinese pressure to conform and behave. Unfortunately, I think our ignorant and powerful within our own society are currently more dangerous to these ideals than China is and could posssibly be for the next 30 or so years
The only hope we've got is if the Communist party collapses. That probably won't happen considering the rest of the world is basically keeping them in place by continuing to buy cheap stuff.
Sorry, I do have to bring something up. One of Microsoft's most lucrative patents is for FAT32. One of the reasons they're making so much money off FAT32 patents is because some genius standardizing SD flash cards put in a requirement that all SD cards use FAT32 ("genius" may or may not be sarcastic). Thus anyone who wants to include a SD card reader, including microSD cards, must license the patents from Microsoft.
However, the tides may be changing after Alice vs. CLS. Those FAT32 patents may not be valid anymore. In which case, Microsoft is about to lose a fairly large revenue stream.
I don't disagree that they are still fairly research-heavy, and that it's a good thing. The problem I see is that their business side (marketing, sales, etc.) has a history killing all the cool stuff that's coming out of their engineering side (including research). This closure may be symptomatic of a continuance of that culture under the new CEO, or it may not. Without intricate knowledge of the internal politics at play (because it's Microsoft and there's always politics at play there), it's hard to say for certain either way.
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Yes and no. On one hand, it wasn't the perfect landing. On the other hand, they waited 10 years for a successful landing. And it happened. That's gotta count for something.
Remember that ESA probe to Mars that died when it got there? These guys could've waited 10 years to find out that their probe crashed into the comet, or overshot it, or some other calamity befell the lander rendering it inoperative.
Instead, they did their science, got their data, and have a chance at doing a bit more in the future. That they couldn't do more is unfortunate, but there's a reason they demarcated certain tasks as primary and put enough juice into the thing to complete all of them.
The probability of abject failure was much higher than the probability of any success, even if imperfect. The fact that this was a partial success, and I would argue it's mostly a success, is worth something.
You're relying an awful lot on the service to do the vetting and the work of ensuring passenger (your) safety. Are you sure they're actually doing what they say they're doing?
A lot of regulations are preventative in nature, rather than reactive in the same sense that a metal gate is preventative, but a closed circuit camera is reactive. You seem to think it's sufficient to just have reactive measures in place.
All the dinosaurs live in Florida and Arizona so we're safe for now.
There are simply too many moving parts to the usable Internet (the WWW). Everything from the browser to the DNS request can be compromised. And the browser itself is complex, speaking at a minimum of three languages (HTML, CSSx, Javascript) which, even if one or two are disabled, may still leak information.
And then, let's talk operating system. Unless your OS air gapped, it probably has holes in it that are exploitable. In fact, anything that interfaces with the network will potentially have exploitable holes. It could even be a side channel attack.
Finally, we get to the router. The router does most of what your computer does: DNS resolution, packet forwarding, etc. If the router is insecure in any way, you're also in trouble. If the router is compromised from the start (phone home, secret log, etc.), it's game over. Worse, unless you're running a DD-WRT router (and even if you are running one), you can't even audit the logic in your router.
If you want the kind of security that TOR promises, you're going to need to secure everything from the router to the browser. And that's hard. Chromebook is the closest thing, and even then you can't completely trust hardware you didn't build yourself.
4 F's: fighting, fleeing, foraging and reproducing
One of these things is not like the other.
I'm guessing here, but probably because the matter comprising the disc is homogenous. Since all planets start forming at roughly the same time, if the material were all approximately the same throughout, then the areas of local maximum gravity that are collecting the particles will be equidistant.
What happens next will be interesting, because with this assumption, there's more material as you get farther form the disc. That means the farther you go out, the larger the planets will become (you can sorta see that in our own solar system). The interactions between these newly-formed bodies will determine the eventual planetary sizes and positions, and if they collapse back into the star or get flung out into space or somehow manage a stable orbit.
Actually, at $0.02 earnings per share, they're profitable already.
Musk released all of the patents Tesla owns related to electric cars. I'm almost certain that if the other car manufacturers don't have a competing product in the works, they're smoking some really good stuff. Oil subsidies will only get them so far.
I can't wait for the Model 3. Once that hits the streets, you'll be seeing a lot more Teslas.
They put a tablet OS in their tablet, it doesn't have full Windows functionality.
Unfortunately, RT did have full Windows functionality. Which, when perfectly usable with keyboard and mouse, is completely useless when interacting via touchscreen.
Metro was usable (albeit barely at times) with a touchscreen. Too bad it was only half-assed and offered practically no functionality.
Not to mention this is practically a dupe of an earlier story that actually has the link to the scorecard.
we need to seriously think about using digital equivalents of "one time pads" for high security applications..
We do. But OTP's are not practical for normal, every day usage. And despite what you might think, normal every day communication is not a high security application. The idea is to make it difficult to break into everybody's communications, not to make it difficult to break into anybody's. See the difference there?
PGP was never usable by ordinary people. PGP is as close to perfect security as you can get. Perfect security is hard. Ordinary people can't deal with hard things. Ergo (and I repeat) PGP is not usable by ordinary people.
You don't need perfect security for normal, everyday communications. You don't need to be certain that "Alice" online is actually the Alice you know in real life. You only need to be certain that "Alice" online is "Alice" online and not "Eve" online or "Mallory" online. That's a much easier problem. Self-signed certs (or any other sufficiently-strong encryption key) centrally stored by the IM service and are pinned by the client would be sufficient.
Yes, an attacker can compromise the service, and either or both clients at the same time, but if either client is compromised, you have bigger issues than secure communications.
And some people just want to sell more pizza.
You seem to know your stuff around glass. Klein bottles are child's play. Think you've got what it takes to make real projective planes?
The ideal candidate should be able to do both: Come up with a solution to a problem quickly, and also be able to research and evaluate the longevity of the solution. The more experienced the candidate, the more accurate the latter evaluation should be. There's little time in an interview, but given time the ideal candidate should be able to come up with better solutions than the initial one.
The experienced individual should at the very least, have a hunch as to a direction to start. You can spend days surfing Google if you don't know the right questions to ask. Your intellect gets you to the solution, but your experience points you in a good direction to start.
and why was there a monument to Steve Jobs anyway?
Sometime after Steve Jobs' death, the Russians managed to acquire his reality distortion field on the black market thinking they could use it to pacify the locals.
I don't know about prison, but you'd think that in Afghanistan, there'll always be sheep. Or goat.
If you think I'm kidding, there are places where young men practice on livestock to get experience before getting married.
From the first paragraph of the Obituary at cartalk.com:
"Turns out he wasn't kidding," said Ray. "He really couldn't remember last week's puzzler."
They're actually the galactic equivalent of potholes. Alien spaceships keep breaking apart every time they hit one.
I wish I could dredge up some examples, but I seem to remember seeing some things which some of the astronauts said in the middle of a crisis which made them sound like it was just a little thing, when the rest of us would all be screaming "we're all gonna die we're all gonna die".
How about: "Houston, we have a problem."
If it's coming from FBI servers, it can't be good. Must be malware. It's just like how pages served off the CIA and NSA's servers are called spyware. They're spies after all.
"Let's go places...whether you want to or not."
It wasn't a misunderstanding. The CNN intern just made a typo.
Which wouldn't be nearly as much of a problem if the change was actually to a functional link.
Maybe it's not the link. Maybe timothy's just broken.
That's flat out wrong. Other countries have been and continue to meddle in Chinese affairs.
China does not have a history or culture in meddling in other countries' affairs, at least not the type of meddling that's associated with Western powers over the past five centuries. This is quickly changing as China's adapting to the needs of the 21st century, but it's largely ingrained in the philosophical underpinnings of Chinese culture. The cultural tenets that reinforce this begin with not pointing out the faults of other's houses if your own house suffers the same faults, and end with the (historical) idea that the Middle Kingdom is the strongest culturally and economically. In fact, this is the very premise that led to the disastrous Great Leap Forward (though the Cultural Revolution was a result of the complete opposite). That China could've been beaten by other countries economically was simply inconceivable. This cognitive dissonance resulted in, as you'd expect, insanity.
China's not benevolent, not by a long shot. But the Chinese have been playing this game for far longer, and are far more adept at it than most Westerners are willing to believe and able to recognize (even though they've been self-handicapped by starting at a point 50 years behind everyone else, they're catching up quickly). China understands how to acquire and retain power. If and when they do become a dominant superpower, historical European imperialism and modern American imperialism will look like a child's drawing against a da Vinci painting. This is assuming by then, people would even known where to look.
At which point, we can only hope that the American ideals of freedom and self (which are far more interesting, even if applied imperfectly) will not be buried under Chinese pressure to conform and behave. Unfortunately, I think our ignorant and powerful within our own society are currently more dangerous to these ideals than China is and could posssibly be for the next 30 or so years
The only hope we've got is if the Communist party collapses. That probably won't happen considering the rest of the world is basically keeping them in place by continuing to buy cheap stuff.
Sorry, I do have to bring something up. One of Microsoft's most lucrative patents is for FAT32. One of the reasons they're making so much money off FAT32 patents is because some genius standardizing SD flash cards put in a requirement that all SD cards use FAT32 ("genius" may or may not be sarcastic). Thus anyone who wants to include a SD card reader, including microSD cards, must license the patents from Microsoft.
However, the tides may be changing after Alice vs. CLS. Those FAT32 patents may not be valid anymore. In which case, Microsoft is about to lose a fairly large revenue stream.
I don't disagree that they are still fairly research-heavy, and that it's a good thing. The problem I see is that their business side (marketing, sales, etc.) has a history killing all the cool stuff that's coming out of their engineering side (including research). This closure may be symptomatic of a continuance of that culture under the new CEO, or it may not. Without intricate knowledge of the internal politics at play (because it's Microsoft and there's always politics at play there), it's hard to say for certain either way.