This tool provides only a bunch of analogies for tech jargon, but many are not good.
An API to a turnstile??? Not really at all useful to most people. The "Cinderella" one for 2-factor authentication is better, but still leaves off the most critical requirement that the 2 factors be of different nature. Generally this means two of: Something you know (password), something you have (token), or something you are (biometrics)
I keep seeing claims for 2-factor that are only having more than one of "something you know" which is not real 2-factor. (Cindrella's slipper is, though.)
First, CODEC is short for coder-decoder. Whether it is done in hardware or software, any tool which performs the function of accepting a digital stream in a specified format and outputting it in a different digital format is a CODEC. H.264 is not quite a codec, but any software or hardware that accepts a data stream in a digital format and outputs it into another is a codec and H.264 is usually called a codec because it describes a a standard for taking a raw video data stream and compressing it into well known encoding. The actual input my be any most anything as long as the decode part of the codec can understand it.
Actually, CODEC took the old, analog/digital domain term "modem" (modulator/demodulator) and moved it into the all digital domain, keeping the order the same.
Not too long ago software was too slow to implement a real-time audio codec at a reasonable price, so most people assumed hardware when you talked about a codec. By not long ago, I mean beck in the 1980s. (Yes, I'm old.)
LastPass encrypts the passwords using a local master password with AES. The encrypted passwords are stored both locally and in the cloud. If the network is down, your passwords are available from the local copy, but, since you might have updated the data from another system, it will always attempt to update the data from the cloud nd fall back to local. The master password never leaves your system and unencrypted passwords don't either.
Plus, it runs on most everything; Linux/Unix, Windows, Mac, Android, iOS. It's a bit clunky in how it does passwords for apps on iOS, but works well with Android apps. I use in on FreeBSD, Android, Linux, and Windows.
Cell phone repair is tricky, but not even approaching impossible. As a former electronics tech (about 35 years ago), I was able to disassemble, repair, and re-assemble my Galaxy S4. It really was not difficult and, with a service manual, would have been trivial. Soldering and de-soldering surface-mount devices and tools to do so are required, but those are hardly impossible to obtain.
More importantly, the law is more about letting independent servicers, who are likely more skilled than I, to have the information and parts to repair the devices.
The battery argument is pretty bogus. It takes no service information to get a battery to over-heat. A service manual only reduces the risk.
If Apple wants Banks to cooperate by opening their payment network to iPhones , Apple must open up the iPhone NFC to mobile wallets from Banks. A competition commission cannot say its anti-competitive for incumbents to block Apple Pay but its not anti-competitive for Apple to not allow access to the NFC chip in an iPhone.
Apple's system explicitly collects NO extraneous information on transactions. Banks hate this as they had seen mobile device transactions as a chance to collect a lot of valuable data. Sellers also hoped to build added piles of marketing data that Apple Pay won't provide because its design simply does not have access to it..
California has open primaries and they generally seem to be working.
The result has been the election of more moderate and FAR more independent candidates. The are more moderate because the main-line party candidate (both parties) tend toward the extremes of their parties. More independent because the parties have poured vast resources into the main-line candidates and the moderates don't feel at all beholden to them, even though they generally host similar positions on most issues.
My state (California) voted in term limits many years ago and we have come to regret the unintended consequences. The problem is that 4-6 years is not long enough ot learn to deal with the entrenched interests. The result was that lobbyists, who are around much longer, became invaluable "helpers" to the large number of newly elected and inexperienced legislators and ended up effectively running the legislature. Their influence, always a concern, grew tremendously.
Now the term limits have been eased (also by popular vote) and it is hoped that this will help. We'll see in 5 or 6 years
Unless the rights holders can resolve the licensing mess for H.265, it looks dead in the water. ATM, VP9 looks like the best game in town for HD or higher compression encoding. Licensing may well have something to do with why there is no third-party API.
I hate really stupid terms and mid-end is really stupid.
You have an array of products and the most expensive and least expensive are hi-end and low end. All the rest are not "end"s. Mid-class or mid-line would work, but let's not start using such an oxymoronic term as "mid-end".
Calling anyone who disagrees, especially when they point out that you are wrong, a "shill" is just the same as any unsupported BS from a presidential candidate. Null content.
Several years ago I had the job of evaluating LastPass for $DAY_JOB. I tested it by capturing the data uploaded to the network and confirmed that it was AES encrypted using my password on my system and the data was all encrypted before leaving my system. the master password was never transmitted in any form that I could find. No traffic was generated to/from any other port or location.
While it is true that things might have changed since then, the server remains open source and you can confirm that it does not ever touch the master password in any form. More importantly, the system is heavily examined on a continuing basis by security researchers and, while vulnerabilities have been found, reported, and fixed, there has never been any question of the master password leaving the client.
With well over 100 unique, random, long passwords, some only used once or twice a year, I really lack other options than a password vault in a world where accounts might need to be accessed from a desktop, two laptops, and two phones running six OSes (2 VMs and one dual boot).
Encryptions is for criminals. Ordinary people don't need military grade encryption to protect themselves. It's primarily used to hide illicit activities from the police and serves no legitimate purpose.
Like it's no big deal if someone steals your trivially encrypted authentication for your bank account and takes all of your money? But let's go big time like they did in Bangladesh and simply steal directly from the banks.
Even FBI director Comey has stated that encryption is essential. He just believes in magic encryption faeries that will decrypt data that hides terrorists and pedophiles from the good guys. (I.e., Those he defines as good guys.)
This is really silly. All a barometer needs is either one or two tiny holes (depending on the design of the sensor). The sensor would need to be sealed to the sensor and water tight, of course, but that is required by any sensor they might use. This story is simply an excuse.
I'll guess two possible reasons for this:
1. Force more use of Apple patented and licensed tech for headphones
2. Allow DRM implementation at the headphone jack to further control what can be played on the iPhone
Actually, I think their approach is about right. People tend to follow a reasonably consistent schedule. If you plug your phone in every night and more or less nothing happens until 7:00 next morning, then only change to 80% (which is pretty conservative) or 85% (still avoids the levels that cause most of the damage to the lithium mesh) until about 6:30 and then charge to 100% and does the same based on recorded battery use throughout multiple averaged days, you can have a greater capacity when it is needed, but not have the charge above 90% except for short intervals. This would significantly extend battery life while not significantly reducing the usage time of the phone. Better modeling based on not just daily used, but also looking at day of the week would do even better.
I've been wishing laptops would do this for years. IBM and now Lenovo have been doing a far simpler battery life extension technique for years, but, when I have suggested that it would be good if FreeBSD or Linux do this, I've been unable to get much interest from developers and generally been unable to convince them that this would even be a good thing even when providing pointers to papers on research into l-ion battery behavior showing the significant damage keeping a battery at 100% for long periods does.
I saw a video several years ago that showed a photomicrograph recording showing the physical movement of the lithium grid during charge and discharge at or near "full charge" and how over-charging or even fully charging and holding that charge would slowly break down the grid. I put "full charge" in quotation marks because that number is picked by the manufacturer/designer as a trade-off between capacity and life. Wish I had saved a pointer to this. It was pretty dramatic.
Linux wasn't the first free UNIX (the BSDs) were plus Linux got all the GNU tools.
Actually, it kinda was. BSD was still tied up in the court battle with AT&T at the time. That is the reason I've seen stated that Linus wrote a new kernel.
If my router drops all packets to those IP addresses, it does not matter what is hard-coded or what Widows capabilities are short-cicuited. Almost everyone now has a router and all that I have used allow dropping packets to specified destinations. Cheap ones may not.
The issue of Windows changing this is valid, though. I suspect someone (or several of them) will start serving the list of addresses being used. Someone may well already be doing this.
If you use other Microsoft services, though, those will likely break if you do this.
Guess you missed the article on the benefits of many games to the human brain. It is the cover article in the July Scientific American. Many are very beneficial to cognitive capabilities in adults, especially older adults.
IME and AMT have been well documented for years. The Wikipedia article has been around since at least 2007 and was flagged by an editor as reading like an Intel ad. It fully describes the basic design and functionality of the system and only varies from the article in that AMT has now been incorporated into the chipset and is no longer a separate chip.
Even that its network connection is independent of the CPU and any filtering is described.
I have been aware of AMT since it was discussed as a way to do an psueudo-console connection on modern systems that lack a serial port in FreeBSD kernel debugging discussions. I suspect that Linux discussions also show how to do this as IT IS NOT SECRET!
I'm not really comfortable about it, but it is very useful, has been designed with security in mind and should be very difficult to suborn, and Intel considers it a feature that is advertised, so IS NOT A SECRET!
The neighborhood associations need to hire someone to drive back and forward on the route at 2.5 mph during peek hours.
At least in California, this will get tickets for obstructing traffic.
The law requires that if you have 5or more cars behind you and yo9u have no cars in front of you that you pull over and allow them to pass. This even applies when you drive the speed limit, but is open and shut at 2.5 MPH. Better check on the laws where you live.
Aside from data saving, I want to be able to listen to local sports broadcasts. Last night I missed the first half of the basketball game that was broadcast locally because the audio stream was unavailable except with a payment to the NBA for the "season" audio package. I could have streamed the telecast, but that would have severely eaten into my 3Gig of shared data for the month.
Of course, I was being cheap, I guess, but paying to listen to a game that would have been free if I had a radio was really annoying and more so as I know my phone had a perfectly good FM receiver that I could not use.
I had access to the tuner on my old HTC Thunderbolt. A pretty crappy phone, but I found the FM tuner quite nice and missed it a lot after switching to a Galaxy S4 a few years ago.
You are attacking the Catholic (universal) church but not making any attempt to deny the facts stated.
You could argue that the total destruction of ALL civilization would have been good and you might be right to argue that. There is no question that the church is almost entirely responsible for preserving European society. It is also responsible for many wrongs, but you might be careful if you assume that the demise of Christianity would have prevented these.The fear of witches and demons was common to all cultures of the time and this predates by centuries the founding of the Christian church. Killing those believed to have "super-natural" powers has gone on throughout early and pre-civilization. Xenophobia was pretty universal and being different invited hatred and often, death.
Do you really believe that in a complete anarchy things would have been better for anyone who was seen as different?
Religion and its attendant discipline kept civilization alive in Western Europe after the fall of Rome. I suspect it would do the same again.
That's the nicest description of the dark ages I've ever seen.
Nice or not, it is accurate. Virtually all knowledge that survived for several centuries did so in the hands of the church. (Or churches after the east-west schism of the 11th century.) Books were regularly hand copied as older copies deteriorated by priests. Almost no records from before the fall of Rome survived outside of those held by the church.
Whatever civilization survived the fall, and it was actually quite a bit, was as a result of the work of the church and its nearly universal European veneration.
The real question, so far unanswered and, at least in this forum, unasked, is why Amazon is doing this. They are not using it to sell Prime. They seem to be keeping rather quiet about it.
My first thought is that it is tied to licensing arrangements. You know... the contracts that say who gets access to what content and when. Some verbiage in some agreement that prevents Amazon from making something available to everyone, but allows it for a restricted percentage of customers. After all, while there are a LOT of Prime accounts, they are a small fraction of all Amazon accounts.
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This tool provides only a bunch of analogies for tech jargon, but many are not good.
An API to a turnstile??? Not really at all useful to most people. The "Cinderella" one for 2-factor authentication is better, but still leaves off the most critical requirement that the 2 factors be of different nature. Generally this means two of: Something you know (password), something you have (token), or something you are (biometrics)
I keep seeing claims for 2-factor that are only having more than one of "something you know" which is not real 2-factor. (Cindrella's slipper is, though.)
First, CODEC is short for coder-decoder. Whether it is done in hardware or software, any tool which performs the function of accepting a digital stream in a specified format and outputting it in a different digital format is a CODEC. H.264 is not quite a codec, but any software or hardware that accepts a data stream in a digital format and outputs it into another is a codec and H.264 is usually called a codec because it describes a a standard for taking a raw video data stream and compressing it into well known encoding. The actual input my be any most anything as long as the decode part of the codec can understand it.
Actually, CODEC took the old, analog/digital domain term "modem" (modulator/demodulator) and moved it into the all digital domain, keeping the order the same.
Not too long ago software was too slow to implement a real-time audio codec at a reasonable price, so most people assumed hardware when you talked about a codec. By not long ago, I mean beck in the 1980s. (Yes, I'm old.)
Plus, it runs on most everything; Linux/Unix, Windows, Mac, Android, iOS. It's a bit clunky in how it does passwords for apps on iOS, but works well with Android apps. I use in on FreeBSD, Android, Linux, and Windows.
Cell phone repair is tricky, but not even approaching impossible. As a former electronics tech (about 35 years ago), I was able to disassemble, repair, and re-assemble my Galaxy S4. It really was not difficult and, with a service manual, would have been trivial. Soldering and de-soldering surface-mount devices and tools to do so are required, but those are hardly impossible to obtain.
More importantly, the law is more about letting independent servicers, who are likely more skilled than I, to have the information and parts to repair the devices.
The battery argument is pretty bogus. It takes no service information to get a battery to over-heat. A service manual only reduces the risk.
If Apple wants Banks to cooperate by opening their payment network to iPhones , Apple must open up the iPhone NFC to mobile wallets from Banks. A competition commission cannot say its anti-competitive for incumbents to block Apple Pay but its not anti-competitive for Apple to not allow access to the NFC chip in an iPhone.
Apple's system explicitly collects NO extraneous information on transactions. Banks hate this as they had seen mobile device transactions as a chance to collect a lot of valuable data. Sellers also hoped to build added piles of marketing data that Apple Pay won't provide because its design simply does not have access to it..
The result has been the election of more moderate and FAR more independent candidates. The are more moderate because the main-line party candidate (both parties) tend toward the extremes of their parties. More independent because the parties have poured vast resources into the main-line candidates and the moderates don't feel at all beholden to them, even though they generally host similar positions on most issues.
Now the term limits have been eased (also by popular vote) and it is hoped that this will help. We'll see in 5 or 6 years
Unless the rights holders can resolve the licensing mess for H.265, it looks dead in the water. ATM, VP9 looks like the best game in town for HD or higher compression encoding. Licensing may well have something to do with why there is no third-party API.
I hate really stupid terms and mid-end is really stupid.
You have an array of products and the most expensive and least expensive are hi-end and low end. All the rest are not "end"s. Mid-class or mid-line would work, but let's not start using such an oxymoronic term as "mid-end".
"would provide opportunity for significant monetization and differentiation"
Calling anyone who disagrees, especially when they point out that you are wrong, a "shill" is just the same as any unsupported BS from a presidential candidate. Null content.
Several years ago I had the job of evaluating LastPass for $DAY_JOB. I tested it by capturing the data uploaded to the network and confirmed that it was AES encrypted using my password on my system and the data was all encrypted before leaving my system. the master password was never transmitted in any form that I could find. No traffic was generated to/from any other port or location.
While it is true that things might have changed since then, the server remains open source and you can confirm that it does not ever touch the master password in any form. More importantly, the system is heavily examined on a continuing basis by security researchers and, while vulnerabilities have been found, reported, and fixed, there has never been any question of the master password leaving the client.
With well over 100 unique, random, long passwords, some only used once or twice a year, I really lack other options than a password vault in a world where accounts might need to be accessed from a desktop, two laptops, and two phones running six OSes (2 VMs and one dual boot).
Encryptions is for criminals. Ordinary people don't need military grade encryption to protect themselves. It's primarily used to hide illicit activities from the police and serves no legitimate purpose.
Like it's no big deal if someone steals your trivially encrypted authentication for your bank account and takes all of your money? But let's go big time like they did in Bangladesh and simply steal directly from the banks.
Even FBI director Comey has stated that encryption is essential. He just believes in magic encryption faeries that will decrypt data that hides terrorists and pedophiles from the good guys. (I.e., Those he defines as good guys.)
The "sealed" is required to keep the phone water tight. The barometer doesn't care.
I'll guess two possible reasons for this:
1. Force more use of Apple patented and licensed tech for headphones
2. Allow DRM implementation at the headphone jack to further control what can be played on the iPhone
Actually, I think their approach is about right. People tend to follow a reasonably consistent schedule. If you plug your phone in every night and more or less nothing happens until 7:00 next morning, then only change to 80% (which is pretty conservative) or 85% (still avoids the levels that cause most of the damage to the lithium mesh) until about 6:30 and then charge to 100% and does the same based on recorded battery use throughout multiple averaged days, you can have a greater capacity when it is needed, but not have the charge above 90% except for short intervals. This would significantly extend battery life while not significantly reducing the usage time of the phone. Better modeling based on not just daily used, but also looking at day of the week would do even better.
I've been wishing laptops would do this for years. IBM and now Lenovo have been doing a far simpler battery life extension technique for years, but, when I have suggested that it would be good if FreeBSD or Linux do this, I've been unable to get much interest from developers and generally been unable to convince them that this would even be a good thing even when providing pointers to papers on research into l-ion battery behavior showing the significant damage keeping a battery at 100% for long periods does.
I saw a video several years ago that showed a photomicrograph recording showing the physical movement of the lithium grid during charge and discharge at or near "full charge" and how over-charging or even fully charging and holding that charge would slowly break down the grid. I put "full charge" in quotation marks because that number is picked by the manufacturer/designer as a trade-off between capacity and life. Wish I had saved a pointer to this. It was pretty dramatic.
Linux wasn't the first free UNIX (the BSDs) were plus Linux got all the GNU tools.
Actually, it kinda was. BSD was still tied up in the court battle with AT&T at the time. That is the reason I've seen stated that Linus wrote a new kernel.
If my router drops all packets to those IP addresses, it does not matter what is hard-coded or what Widows capabilities are short-cicuited. Almost everyone now has a router and all that I have used allow dropping packets to specified destinations. Cheap ones may not.
The issue of Windows changing this is valid, though. I suspect someone (or several of them) will start serving the list of addresses being used. Someone may well already be doing this.
If you use other Microsoft services, though, those will likely break if you do this.
Guess you missed the article on the benefits of many games to the human brain. It is the cover article in the July Scientific American. Many are very beneficial to cognitive capabilities in adults, especially older adults.
I suspect that "Fahrenhiet 451" would be near the top of that list.
Even that its network connection is independent of the CPU and any filtering is described.
I have been aware of AMT since it was discussed as a way to do an psueudo-console connection on modern systems that lack a serial port in FreeBSD kernel debugging discussions. I suspect that Linux discussions also show how to do this as IT IS NOT SECRET!
I'm not really comfortable about it, but it is very useful, has been designed with security in mind and should be very difficult to suborn, and Intel considers it a feature that is advertised, so IS NOT A SECRET!
The neighborhood associations need to hire someone to drive back and forward on the route at 2.5 mph during peek hours.
At least in California, this will get tickets for obstructing traffic.
The law requires that if you have 5or more cars behind you and yo9u have no cars in front of you that you pull over and allow them to pass. This even applies when you drive the speed limit, but is open and shut at 2.5 MPH. Better check on the laws where you live.
Aside from data saving, I want to be able to listen to local sports broadcasts. Last night I missed the first half of the basketball game that was broadcast locally because the audio stream was unavailable except with a payment to the NBA for the "season" audio package. I could have streamed the telecast, but that would have severely eaten into my 3Gig of shared data for the month.
Of course, I was being cheap, I guess, but paying to listen to a game that would have been free if I had a radio was really annoying and more so as I know my phone had a perfectly good FM receiver that I could not use.
I had access to the tuner on my old HTC Thunderbolt. A pretty crappy phone, but I found the FM tuner quite nice and missed it a lot after switching to a Galaxy S4 a few years ago.
You are attacking the Catholic (universal) church but not making any attempt to deny the facts stated.
You could argue that the total destruction of ALL civilization would have been good and you might be right to argue that. There is no question that the church is almost entirely responsible for preserving European society. It is also responsible for many wrongs, but you might be careful if you assume that the demise of Christianity would have prevented these.The fear of witches and demons was common to all cultures of the time and this predates by centuries the founding of the Christian church. Killing those believed to have "super-natural" powers has gone on throughout early and pre-civilization. Xenophobia was pretty universal and being different invited hatred and often, death.
Do you really believe that in a complete anarchy things would have been better for anyone who was seen as different?
Religion and its attendant discipline kept civilization alive in Western Europe after the fall of Rome. I suspect it would do the same again.
That's the nicest description of the dark ages I've ever seen.
Nice or not, it is accurate. Virtually all knowledge that survived for several centuries did so in the hands of the church. (Or churches after the east-west schism of the 11th century.) Books were regularly hand copied as older copies deteriorated by priests. Almost no records from before the fall of Rome survived outside of those held by the church.
Whatever civilization survived the fall, and it was actually quite a bit, was as a result of the work of the church and its nearly universal European veneration.
The real question, so far unanswered and, at least in this forum, unasked, is why Amazon is doing this. They are not using it to sell Prime. They seem to be keeping rather quiet about it.
My first thought is that it is tied to licensing arrangements. You know... the contracts that say who gets access to what content and when. Some verbiage in some agreement that prevents Amazon from making something available to everyone, but allows it for a restricted percentage of customers. After all, while there are a LOT of Prime accounts, they are a small fraction of all Amazon accounts.