I'm be more interested to know if they shared their private key for SSL/TLS. Since Apple's Safari (to the best of my knowledge) does not support perfect forward secrecy (PFS), someone recording the encrypted session could later decode the session contents if they ever acquired the private key at any point in the future. The conversation might go like this:
NSA: "Hey, we won't bother you all the time with requests if you'll just give us a copy of your private key." Apple: "Well, that would save us a bunch of time, effort and expense...but if the users ever discovered..." NSA: "No worries. Just hand it over whenever you get a new one." Apple: "Yeah, I guess we could point out we never give out the current one, only old keys we no longer use." NSA: " Well, just deny it, saying you did not give out the current keys. You can leave out that little detail about the old keys."
I should point out that IE doesn't support PFS either, so Microsoft could be in the same boat. I think Chromium and Opera support PFS, but I'm not 100% certain.
(This is not my field of study, so if I have this wrong, I'd appreciate a correction.)
yeah, great, another android fuck-up if you're tablet or phone is pre-loaded with it, you can't update to a newer version unless the manufacturer releases a newer version.. therefore i'm stuck to a very old version of quickoffice on my xoom...
That's not an Android fuck-up. That's the OEM's problem, and it has nothing to do with Android. I chose Nexus devices (4 and 7) to avoid this, as these are the devices Android was written for. For any non-Nexus device, you depend on the OEM for certain things that may or may not occur. As a Slashdot person, surely you know this, right?
I don't disagree. I'm not talking about IBM themselves, but executives outside the IT industry who don't understand the nuances of the PC market, and the whole concept of the FOSS movement. Those folks think Apple is doing it right with a closed garden, and were surprised that Android phones outsold Apple, Nokia and Microsoft.
My dad can't understand why people would buy a phone from that hippy (Jobs @ Apple), when you can get a phone from solid companies like Nokia and Microsoft. He thinks Google can't keep giving stuff away for free and it's all some huge con game - it just has to be.
The real issue is he is having a hard time recognizing the world has changed, and he needs to reevaluate his beliefs. Of course, he still thinks Japan copies everything from us and their cars are poor quality.
What's new here is the trend. Companies saw the RepRap project spawn a bunch of companies with a lot of compatibility from the start. Non-RepRap companies are seeing this as a threat to the investment they made using traditional methods (closed design, proprietary supplies and software).
Business people understand the IBM PC clone model. You had a market leader that everyone copied. The old-school thinking was they failed to protect their intellectual property, and lost market share to competitors who copied their design. In other words, they believe IBM could have kept nearly all the marked had they done a better job of keeping it closed, and bought Microsoft while they could.
RepRap and projects like it have upended that thinking. Arduino is seen as a component, not a product, by these people. But 3D printing is getting a lot of press, and business people are starting to take notice. When you create a 10 year plan, and can achieve a huge reduction in R&D spending, along with a reduction of risk, they take notice.
One of the concerns is the believe the a mature market only has room for two main competitors. That means you have a lot of losers. An open source machine makes it much more likely that your company will end up as one of the two majors, and that is a huge reduction of risk. This is becoming a hot topic among many executives. Many are somewhat scared and unsure what to do - if anything.
This is a bit unexpected. I've actually designed many products that are used to construct the grid, with several patents, so I have a bit of knowledge about it. Yet my post was modded flamebait. Wow - talk about shooting the messenger.
This is correct. The solution is not ready yet. People forget how bad pollution was with horses, and how much cleaner gas-burning cars were. A buildout of the current grid to handle electric cars is incredibly wasteful.
Solar isn't going to work for this. Nor fuel cells. There is a solution that will ultimately win. But it will take a radical change in the power distribution network. I'd love to go into detail, but I'm unable to for reasons I choose not to discuss.
Given the current state of the US electrical grid, I'm not confident it would fare well against a sudden increase of large battery packs being plugged in at once. Yeah, we can setup delayed or offset charging times, etc. But I'm not sure lawmakers or even the utility executives have a good grip on this.
But that might be the plan. A brownout would drive demand for the government to invest in the grid. Maybe.
But I'm not in a position to run the number, so I could be full of shit.
I think this is the SSD market maturing. For a while, Intel had good, but expensive drives. Then Intel stagnated for a while, as OCZ aimed to be the performance leader, but firmware issues and failed drives burned a bunch of us. Fast forward to today, and we see Samsung being very price aggressive with fast drives that are reliable. That's a perfect storm for OCZ.
Customer service was so bad, that I couldn't hear a word of their marketing.
I'd like to add that this is also a dynamic range issue. B&W film has a dynamic range of about 10 stops. But Kodachrome (the only transparency file I've used extensively) is only about 5 stops. Shooting a very dark-skinned bride in a white dress was a challenge. My Nikon DSLR has about 12 stops of dynamic range, making my life much easier.
My users will love this. They are getting bored with overly-complex parametric CAD models, driven by somebody's undocumented Excel macro, reaching into the Access-database-from-hell, that pulls the wrong tables from SQL Server and our "who-changed-this-field?" ERP system, fed from a LabView rats-nest-of-code system.
Should be fun when they call me, because "computers are YOUR job, not ours".
This article is not worth reading. Someone who doesn't use MS Word is whining about everyone standardizing on.DOC files.
His history is totally wrong - claiming Word came from work with Apple/Jobs/Macintosh, but it was actually on Xenix (called MultiTool, IIRC), then DOS before the Mac shipped. It was written by Charles Simonyi, who developed the first GUI word processor at Xerox PARC. So the development order was PARC, Xenix, DOS, then the Mac. Word 2.0 for DOS was an amazing tool, and I dumped Word Perfect for it.
He makes so many claims that are just flat-out wrong that I felt compelled to save others from this time sink.
Yes, they are different groups - much like the poser Apple fan boi (== HD rider), the scooter riders (== Win 8) and the sportbike guys (==GNU/Linux). Although I have a GSX-R 600 sportbike and a motocross bike, I have a blast riding my Honda 80cc scooter. You don't ride a scooter if you want to looks cool. Well, at least my scooter.
Yes, the Harley guys make fun of me. I get to laugh as I pass their broken-down bike by the side of the road.
But a modern Aluminum V6 with direct injection, making 320 hp/300 ft-lbs torque and weighing 150 lbs? That would be cool in a bike.
Uh... No it would NOT.
Clearly you are not an experienced motorcyclist. First off, any 1000cc sport bike will blow it off the road. Second, you can't get 320 hp/300 lb-ft torque to the ground - bike tires have curved cross-sections (necessary for turning) that limit the size of the contact patch, and thus the amount of power you can lay down. Third, 150 lbs is too damn heavy. So you end up with a extremely heavy bike, that handles like crap, gets beat by almost every sportbike on the road, and is way dangerous.
BTW, the Boss Hog motorcycle is the one using a cast iron V8. In my opinion, it's a slow, heavy, poor handling pig that should never have been built. People who want attention buy them, not people who like to ride.
As the the automaker CEO listened to his kids cry about their phone being almost unusable after a software upgrade, he realized the true genius of Steve Jobs.
Ah, you are quoting Chase Jarvis - who wrote a book with this as the title.
This is fine advice, if the goal is to persuade photographers to go ahead and use their smartphone, rather than whine about not having their good camera with them - thus missing the shot. But it offers zero assistance for camera selection.
The camera I have with me is the camera I select before I leave the house. That might be a tiny Nikon V1, or a large Nikon D800 DSLR. Or I might pack up the Sinar 4x5 view camera, as it is still unbeaten by any digital camera at any price. I only use my Nexus' camera for note taking, or to read a bar code. Perhaps the occasional snapshot. Frankly, I'd rather my phone have a 4MP camera with larger sensels, which should allow for better low-light sensitivity. But the fact is, no cellphone can hold a candle to any modern dSLR, and I believe a lot of people see the same number of pixels on both cameras and assume the quality must be pretty close. Sadly, this is not the case, and the phone vendor's pursuit of higher "megapixel rating" only makes it worse.
Today, I do not see any apps in general use that need or require access to memory beyond a contiguous block of data beyond 4GB (frankly far far less).
Lacking inside information, I could be wrong, but I believe you'll find Photoshop, Premier Pro, After Effects, Solidworks, PTC Creo, various FEA packages, and CAM applications all use blocks of RAM beyond 4GB. And that just a sample of MY machine.
More knowledgeable folks (i.e. coder's for the above apps) can correct me if I've got it wrong. But there is clearly a need for >32bit memory address space.
What I mean is that people use the mouse to scroll around, and not for the rest of it.
Uh... no. We use the mouse to draw the sketch before we apply the the data-driven parametric dimensions.
And, I don't care how many buttons your mouse has, it does not have more than a keyboard. What's more, only an idiot uses a mouse as a mouse just does not have the level of precision necessary for CAD.
Yes, a keyboard does have more keys, but the 80/20 rule applies. And saying people are stupid for using a mouse tells me you lack the understanding of how a CAD system works.
There probably are novices out there that never bothered to learn the short cuts, but anybody that cares about efficiency or precision is going to be using the keyboard almost exclusively.
I've been doing CAD since 1980. I wrote a CAD application. I've been and AutoCAD and SolidWorks instructor, and run user groups. If you think a mouse if not used, or unsuitable for CAD, the you are either a troll are greatly in need of proper instruction.
I used that Autodesk VR rig around 1992. It used a pair of Silicon Graphics workstations - each powered one side of the VR stereoscopic viewfinders. The DataGlove interface was interesting, but not very useful. There was lots of work in stereoscopic displays in the 90's using LCD-shuttered glasses. In fact, it looks a lot like the OP's video.
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I'm be more interested to know if they shared their private key for SSL/TLS. Since Apple's Safari (to the best of my knowledge) does not support perfect forward secrecy (PFS), someone recording the encrypted session could later decode the session contents if they ever acquired the private key at any point in the future. The conversation might go like this:
NSA: "Hey, we won't bother you all the time with requests if you'll just give us a copy of your private key."
Apple: "Well, that would save us a bunch of time, effort and expense...but if the users ever discovered..."
NSA: "No worries. Just hand it over whenever you get a new one."
Apple: "Yeah, I guess we could point out we never give out the current one, only old keys we no longer use."
NSA: " Well, just deny it, saying you did not give out the current keys. You can leave out that little detail about the old keys."
I should point out that IE doesn't support PFS either, so Microsoft could be in the same boat. I think Chromium and Opera support PFS, but I'm not 100% certain.
(This is not my field of study, so if I have this wrong, I'd appreciate a correction.)
Hey mods, why is my post considered any more "flamebait" than those of Snowden supporters?
Because all you did is call him a nutjob. You've added nothing to the conversation, other than an insult.
yeah, great, another android fuck-up if you're tablet or phone is pre-loaded with it, you can't update to a newer version unless the manufacturer releases a newer version.. therefore i'm stuck to a very old version of quickoffice on my xoom...
That's not an Android fuck-up. That's the OEM's problem, and it has nothing to do with Android. I chose Nexus devices (4 and 7) to avoid this, as these are the devices Android was written for. For any non-Nexus device, you depend on the OEM for certain things that may or may not occur. As a Slashdot person, surely you know this, right?
I don't disagree. I'm not talking about IBM themselves, but executives outside the IT industry who don't understand the nuances of the PC market, and the whole concept of the FOSS movement. Those folks think Apple is doing it right with a closed garden, and were surprised that Android phones outsold Apple, Nokia and Microsoft.
My dad can't understand why people would buy a phone from that hippy (Jobs @ Apple), when you can get a phone from solid companies like Nokia and Microsoft. He thinks Google can't keep giving stuff away for free and it's all some huge con game - it just has to be.
The real issue is he is having a hard time recognizing the world has changed, and he needs to reevaluate his beliefs. Of course, he still thinks Japan copies everything from us and their cars are poor quality.
What's new here is the trend. Companies saw the RepRap project spawn a bunch of companies with a lot of compatibility from the start. Non-RepRap companies are seeing this as a threat to the investment they made using traditional methods (closed design, proprietary supplies and software).
Business people understand the IBM PC clone model. You had a market leader that everyone copied. The old-school thinking was they failed to protect their intellectual property, and lost market share to competitors who copied their design. In other words, they believe IBM could have kept nearly all the marked had they done a better job of keeping it closed, and bought Microsoft while they could.
RepRap and projects like it have upended that thinking. Arduino is seen as a component, not a product, by these people. But 3D printing is getting a lot of press, and business people are starting to take notice. When you create a 10 year plan, and can achieve a huge reduction in R&D spending, along with a reduction of risk, they take notice.
One of the concerns is the believe the a mature market only has room for two main competitors. That means you have a lot of losers. An open source machine makes it much more likely that your company will end up as one of the two majors, and that is a huge reduction of risk. This is becoming a hot topic among many executives. Many are somewhat scared and unsure what to do - if anything.
This is a bit unexpected. I've actually designed many products that are used to construct the grid, with several patents, so I have a bit of knowledge about it. Yet my post was modded flamebait. Wow - talk about shooting the messenger.
This is correct. The solution is not ready yet. People forget how bad pollution was with horses, and how much cleaner gas-burning cars were. A buildout of the current grid to handle electric cars is incredibly wasteful.
Solar isn't going to work for this. Nor fuel cells. There is a solution that will ultimately win. But it will take a radical change in the power distribution network. I'd love to go into detail, but I'm unable to for reasons I choose not to discuss.
Given the current state of the US electrical grid, I'm not confident it would fare well against a sudden increase of large battery packs being plugged in at once. Yeah, we can setup delayed or offset charging times, etc. But I'm not sure lawmakers or even the utility executives have a good grip on this.
But that might be the plan. A brownout would drive demand for the government to invest in the grid. Maybe.
But I'm not in a position to run the number, so I could be full of shit.
I think this is the SSD market maturing. For a while, Intel had good, but expensive drives. Then Intel stagnated for a while, as OCZ aimed to be the performance leader, but firmware issues and failed drives burned a bunch of us. Fast forward to today, and we see Samsung being very price aggressive with fast drives that are reliable. That's a perfect storm for OCZ.
Customer service was so bad, that I couldn't hear a word of their marketing.
Well said. Thanks you.
I'd like to add that this is also a dynamic range issue. B&W film has a dynamic range of about 10 stops. But Kodachrome (the only transparency file I've used extensively) is only about 5 stops. Shooting a very dark-skinned bride in a white dress was a challenge. My Nikon DSLR has about 12 stops of dynamic range, making my life much easier.
I guess Huawei will start marketing the advantage of their "Water Gap".
"Our jack-booted thugs are water-gaped from your USA facility, while the same cannot be said of our competitors."
...and it includes free booze (which alleviates the concrete seat problem somewhat).
Ok, I'm willing to trade an inch of room for free booze.
Thanks for posting. I've been thinking of trying this.
My users will love this. They are getting bored with overly-complex parametric CAD models, driven by somebody's undocumented Excel macro, reaching into the Access-database-from-hell, that pulls the wrong tables from SQL Server and our "who-changed-this-field?" ERP system, fed from a LabView rats-nest-of-code system.
Should be fun when they call me, because "computers are YOUR job, not ours".
Hey, glad I could keep you in business.
This article is not worth reading. Someone who doesn't use MS Word is whining about everyone standardizing on .DOC files.
His history is totally wrong - claiming Word came from work with Apple/Jobs/Macintosh, but it was actually on Xenix (called MultiTool, IIRC), then DOS before the Mac shipped. It was written by Charles Simonyi, who developed the first GUI word processor at Xerox PARC. So the development order was PARC, Xenix, DOS, then the Mac. Word 2.0 for DOS was an amazing tool, and I dumped Word Perfect for it.
He makes so many claims that are just flat-out wrong that I felt compelled to save others from this time sink.
Yes, they are different groups - much like the poser Apple fan boi (== HD rider), the scooter riders (== Win 8) and the sportbike guys (==GNU/Linux). Although I have a GSX-R 600 sportbike and a motocross bike, I have a blast riding my Honda 80cc scooter. You don't ride a scooter if you want to looks cool. Well, at least my scooter.
Yes, the Harley guys make fun of me. I get to laugh as I pass their broken-down bike by the side of the road.
But a modern Aluminum V6 with direct injection, making 320 hp/300 ft-lbs torque and weighing 150 lbs? That would be cool in a bike.
Uh... No it would NOT.
Clearly you are not an experienced motorcyclist. First off, any 1000cc sport bike will blow it off the road. Second, you can't get 320 hp/300 lb-ft torque to the ground - bike tires have curved cross-sections (necessary for turning) that limit the size of the contact patch, and thus the amount of power you can lay down. Third, 150 lbs is too damn heavy. So you end up with a extremely heavy bike, that handles like crap, gets beat by almost every sportbike on the road, and is way dangerous.
BTW, the Boss Hog motorcycle is the one using a cast iron V8. In my opinion, it's a slow, heavy, poor handling pig that should never have been built. People who want attention buy them, not people who like to ride.
As the the automaker CEO listened to his kids cry about their phone being almost unusable after a software upgrade, he realized the true genius of Steve Jobs.
The best camera is the one you have with you.
Ah, you are quoting Chase Jarvis - who wrote a book with this as the title.
This is fine advice, if the goal is to persuade photographers to go ahead and use their smartphone, rather than whine about not having their good camera with them - thus missing the shot. But it offers zero assistance for camera selection.
The camera I have with me is the camera I select before I leave the house. That might be a tiny Nikon V1, or a large Nikon D800 DSLR. Or I might pack up the Sinar 4x5 view camera, as it is still unbeaten by any digital camera at any price. I only use my Nexus' camera for note taking, or to read a bar code. Perhaps the occasional snapshot. Frankly, I'd rather my phone have a 4MP camera with larger sensels, which should allow for better low-light sensitivity. But the fact is, no cellphone can hold a candle to any modern dSLR, and I believe a lot of people see the same number of pixels on both cameras and assume the quality must be pretty close. Sadly, this is not the case, and the phone vendor's pursuit of higher "megapixel rating" only makes it worse.
Today, I do not see any apps in general use that need or require access to memory beyond a contiguous block of data beyond 4GB (frankly far far less).
Lacking inside information, I could be wrong, but I believe you'll find Photoshop, Premier Pro, After Effects, Solidworks, PTC Creo, various FEA packages, and CAM applications all use blocks of RAM beyond 4GB. And that just a sample of MY machine.
More knowledgeable folks (i.e. coder's for the above apps) can correct me if I've got it wrong. But there is clearly a need for >32bit memory address space.
What I mean is that people use the mouse to scroll around, and not for the rest of it.
Uh... no. We use the mouse to draw the sketch before we apply the the data-driven parametric dimensions.
And, I don't care how many buttons your mouse has, it does not have more than a keyboard. What's more, only an idiot uses a mouse as a mouse just does not have the level of precision necessary for CAD.
Yes, a keyboard does have more keys, but the 80/20 rule applies. And saying people are stupid for using a mouse tells me you lack the understanding of how a CAD system works.
There probably are novices out there that never bothered to learn the short cuts, but anybody that cares about efficiency or precision is going to be using the keyboard almost exclusively.
I've been doing CAD since 1980. I wrote a CAD application. I've been and AutoCAD and SolidWorks instructor, and run user groups. If you think a mouse if not used, or unsuitable for CAD, the you are either a troll are greatly in need of proper instruction.
I used that Autodesk VR rig around 1992. It used a pair of Silicon Graphics workstations - each powered one side of the VR stereoscopic viewfinders. The DataGlove interface was interesting, but not very useful. There was lots of work in stereoscopic displays in the 90's using LCD-shuttered glasses. In fact, it looks a lot like the OP's video.
I should point out that the term "Space Controller" is a trademark for this product:
http://www.spacecontrol.us/spacecontrol-3d-mouse-spacecontroller.html
But I usually see the Logitech 3DConnexion Space Mouse, which is often (incorrectly) called a space controller:
http://www.3dconnexion.com/