Asymmetryk

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I'm prematurely dreaming of a browser plug in that can more intelligentl arrange page elements when I am heavily zooming in on text. The ability to select page trft6 enlarge would be great. I miss Opera browsers whole page zoom possible because they wrote their own display layer. Windows has lost so many years spawning graphics subsystems, I can't believe that a distro hasn't emerged for us olds. We'll give you green dollars for it on silver round things even ..

Asymmetryk

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I am probably not actually being realistic in terms of economic results and ROI, but the FIX library GP seems well established - making it documentation that's the case I would like to put forward : any code in a critical path, and what better than a financial exchange subsystem, can be purchased from any number of vendors with support, but how many have genuinely caring, intelligent, thoughtful and usable beyond the immediate remit, thorough and readable documentation? Cloth letter binder and loose leaf format with theoretical introduction, theory of operation, enumerated common implementation errors for examples together with laying out conventions for the payload / XML DTD - the docs you can write tests and tools against without the code.... I have signed off on a pretty penny or two to obtain docs like this, and hundreds of dollars per copy is totally reasonable. I'd thin film laminate select chapters and affix a dry wipe pen inside (how much would it be to custom some from All express?) and by the sounds of this situation I think you could see a standard adoption and satisfying return. Boxes, ring bind, shrink wrap and a 2nd color printed sparingly add up to something that management likes a lot, usually. Professional product support bridges the economicd to enterprise fees, imo..

Asymmetryk

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The understanding that I think that attentive observers are taking away from this games, is that the Olympics Committee and political cohort bring shame on the host nation, not glory. I hope I'm not being too sensitive, but I really have felt as if the Japanese people have been reacting not merely to the patent illogic and consequently unjustifiable dangers, but I like to think that the Japanese are reacting to the contemptuous and privileged solipsism of those responsible, with a demonstration of regret and protest that's going to make everyone start to see these organisers for who they are.

Asymmetryk

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when and where from can I get myself a recycled electronics gold watch / earrings for my lady geek? I feel very confident that this is going to happen, now, but I'm fascinated by the economics of the acquisition of the e-waste, in terms of "ore" density : it's a while since I was marvelling at the sight of the gold pad to pin wires in a ceramic package. Where's the highest quality and concentrations now?

Asymmetryk

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you enjoy your annual ex/cum-divi volatility and applying income tax and potentially overseas withholding taxes and exemptions and treaties rules?

the administration and process involved in setting dividends isn't very trivial either

and too often maintenance of dividend payments are placebos for lackadaisical areas of more important management responsibility

and it's too common for factions in the boardroom to be trying to serve and attract entirely different types of investors who would be better served with tracking stocks or demergers and so on

for some people any dividend unsupported by a very clear rationale is a red light but of course if you are doing in depth company analysis you may have all of this covered in your models and settlement and actions systems.

Asymmetryk

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I think the prosecution needs to be put to proof of every charge that's suddenly dropped where the dropped charge is the most appropriate and the charge the accused pleads to whether of their own accord or in bargain. It is absolutely not in the interests of justice to convict on secondary and tertiary charges for the purported purpose of punishment for a different unproven crime that is the crime society wants to deter.

Asymmetryk

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if I may be so bold ( and presumptuous my suggestion is of any value) I wondered if your friend would like the risk and structured securities aspects of actuarial catastrophe risk markets. This pretty much has everything in it, from chaos theory to the statistics of the cadence of liabilities upon the different kinds of financial engineering structure that are used to distribute * the liability and fund the most difficult to reinsure policies in the capital markets.

edit : * and package, according to a tremendous variety of fiscal requirements and risk appetites. And naturally covering the most extreme conditions liability payments is historically a fascinating insight into how we developed our world across and binding together such tenuous links.

Asymmetryk

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I don't know about today, but 15 years ago when my company held presentations about the value of print advertising that's grossly under bought, (with permission) we'd put everyone's favourite take out Pret sandwich in front of their seats, with the advertising sources on green fanfold line as placemats. We couldn't get better than 50 50 for exact choices but given the advantage of permission to obtain personal information we asked the secretaries with a (disclosed as payment for data) bribe. The line prints did the talking just as raw data - in 05 data mining was too precious for stunts and Xeon hadn't surpassed our ES45 alpha servers for system bandwidth.

Asymmetryk

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Exactly.

Then the Wikipedia Foundation should calibrate their appeals accordingly and the problem is solved.

Asymmetryk

5년 전discuss

my goodness the only thing that I can think of is that people are going to get incredibly angry, if these histories get parsed accurately by the wider public.

I'm not saying the general public, only a wider range of people who are less susceptible to being spun probably is enough of the population to swing the ultimate public views.

Asymmetryk

5년 전discuss

this is the second result from Google for "tedros Chinese support who election":

https://www.cfr.org/blog/who-and-china-dereliction-duty

Asymmetryk

5년 전discuss

I don't understand why it's not a crime to alter or suppress medical information on political grounds in any circumstances other than possibly a absolute necessity for protecting the [vast] majority by some way eg possibly avoiding panic reactions.

Asymmetryk

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so close... you need to put your car in jabberish (jedi jibberish) command console which will then correctly understand "cool jodi" as "Cool Jedi" and enter mind control mode after which you'll only have to think of calling Jodie and the other phone will be ringing on speaker...

Asymmetryk

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shouldn't everyone attending a top school be decidedly coasting along in some way about their education, so they can optimise preferred areas?

Asymmetryk

5년 전discuss

I'm going to use this story in the future for describing what Computer Associates (CA) business strategy for rolling up custom line of business applications contracts effectively amounts to, or did.

I was seventeen in 1990 and my girlfriend was throwing me out unless I got a job that week and I decided to cover myself and apply for a bunch of commission only telephone sales jobs that I felt that I could rely on one offer from the booby prize if I couldn't find better or a possibility that would buy me time. The first Monday afternoon interview I found myself talking to the manager of a magazine in the fastest growing quoted B2B publisher and I am thinking that I have blown it the conversation is faltering so I ask what format are media packs sent in and receive the most strained look so much to tell me I'm really done here and should make my excuses. Then I spot the pile of faxes overflowing the adjacent desk and work up the courage to inquire if the hard copies are needed for legal reasons and am I looking at a representative period of sales, spying the dollar invoices. This isn't helping me. The manager lifts up a nearby pile to reveal the first of many fax machines I am suddenly realising festoon every desk about 2 per 5 people. The room spins as I have flashbacks to my last summer job eternally loading and desnagging thermal fax rolls for my local pharmacy. Realising that I was done without a gambit I've still no idea what impetus was the cause but I blurted out "email doesn't have gophers in between you and your customers they'll answer your offers directly!" the cover sheets for every single fax had fluttered when the manager lifted them..Group Company... Operating Company... Country Region... Division... Department... Title...Recipient.... "URGENT ACTION REQUIRED TIME LIMITED QUOTATION ENCLOSED ACCORDING TO REQUEST "... and the longest paragraph of legal disclaimer insisting the recipient imdemnifies the sender for all sins expressly and especially in relation to the offered business contained within. "YOU mean I can sell through these things here!?!?!" the manager agitatedly pointing to the email address attached to the corporate address given by a display advertising page in his magazine. "Individually not only to some waste bin mailbox drop nobody cares about?". The total experience I held in any way whatsoever related to this was a blissful month using the Byte magazine exchange until C&D'd by my father on principle that I never told him about ancillary and necessary costs for a effectively essential second phone line he was certainly not putting in. I wasn't sure if I was right when I pointed to the ampersand @ sign and totally winged the dots were machine designation separators (thinking about bang paths) but in that very second my out reached and gambling hand found itself being shaken heartily and the smiling owner of this animated appendage was confirming "if I hire you you can't tell anyone else what you just told me - I hired you because I wanted someone who understands this not because you explained anything to me OK?". I was very OK indeed. I held my 18th birthday party in this office a few weeks later and I have just entered my 4th decade of finding computing knowledge goes very far indeed in the media industry.

Asymmetryk

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I actually think this is worse for Onetto because the "one-sided story based on...Onetto..." has Onetto extolling high abstract ideas for the ostensible wellbeing of employees when he obviously needed to be presenting hard cause and effect realities to his boss and caring for employee welfare directly on the ground. If you are discussing the lives of warehouse workers I just don't see how it's being responsible to spend your time writing academic papers only possibly able to affect very much more privileged employees if at all.

Asymmetryk

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I'm inclined to think that any computer used in good faith by law enforcement duly authorized to obtain evidence ought to be considered a "protected computer if it is specifically targeted as opposed to being affected by a ubiquitous harmful code not distributed with any expectations of causing harm to LEO discovery machines (eg the authors of ransom ware might reasonably expect law enforcement agencies to bare metal install known good OSs)

What worries me most about this disclosure is the potential for abuse inside law enforcement agencies and departments . What if a evidence gathering machine is deliberately not patched against this e exploit?

If I sold software like Cellebrite I would have at least attempted to make enforceable the cessation of licenses for any out of date instalation.

What really confuses me is why vendors like Cellebrite don't have a commercial case for at least some level of independent testing of their wares in order to provide a limited warranty for the operation and results.

Until now I actually thought it was necessary to obtain suchlike independent testing and make appropriate assurances to LEO to be able to legally sell such software in the first place.

Article concludes the uneasy status quo permits all parties to do their best work respectively. Unmentioned is that that at least pays lip service to the American Way of meriticracy and endeavour and the ideal ultimate effect of fairness to all.

ThIs is probably my naivety again ; but why can't laws prohibiting the use of 0Days exploitation work to the advantage of the law and society and commerce alike?

If zero day exploits had to be disclosed to a central independent organisation (comprised of members from LEO and civilian life and working on a mandatory equal resources footing to enable citizen participants without any need for corporate sponsorship) and there was a definite widow permitting the use of exploits ended with a mandatory tested patch release and public announcement, I don't see how it would be unfair or the unreasonable for anyone on either side of the law. I would even consider it isn't a bad thing to disclose vulns identified by software engineering and not discovered publicly, to be notified to federal agencies when identified. I actually think that we should do this already for the protection of our diplomats and overseas representatives.

Since we already have the instrumentation to selectively patch individual devices in widespread use, why cannot agencies request the exception of devices under surveillance to enable the security of the general public?

I realise this doesn't work for covert and unlawful intercepts. And there do exist reasons for covert intercepts to be carried out. However every advanced society should be pushing such incidents to the margins with every available force possible.

Security experts are worried about this argument because the global security of the USA is increasingly and credibly threatened. Show me how a well designed infrastructure for the protection of the innocent from unwarranted invasion, how I've outlined here, can possibly be a negative for law enforcement and national security and I'll eat my hat : the suggestions I'm making entirely reinforce the accessibility of intercept capabilities for lawful deployment and instrumentation for device specific code patching only enhances the potential for positive acquisition of intelligence on criminals and foreign agents. The USA should be peeling back the layers of the baseband implementations of 5G and immediately order the decommissioning of all 2G installations that are trivial to abuse.

The faster the USA creates a viable OSS 5G RAN code base the faster foreign potentially hostile competition is disabled in the race for budget handsets and deployment.

The number of people who have any interest in this field is small enough for background checks to not be prohibitive to open source goals. However serious consideration needs to be given to any blanket release to higher education institutions because the number of overseas students is simply too great to rule out hostile intentions.

Along the similar lines we need to undo academic publishing holds on legitimate interest interest in research. Because only hostile nations are served by making the distributors of publicly funded research available to the public.

I mentioned that last point because I think the most important argument of the article was about the blurring of the lines where actually really sensitive concerns do exist on the national basis that are being trivialized by a leading vendor of personal privacy communication software touting hacks in the way the author explained he found unbecoming and - unspoken but clear to me at least - dangerous to society as a whole.

Last year I implemented so called "content protection" software for my company which enables the restriction of eg sending emails with sensitive words included. Or the attachment of files. And in depth classification and full text inspection tools and services. This is a growth market right now and I would strongly encourage anyone wanting interesting and well paid consulting work to study this area and particularly spend time for looking at how many new entrants are appearing constantly. My company doesn't expect to see much benefits from this expensive software installation, but the purpose we have is to use the obtained metadata for eg graph database analysis for assisting with our own research and development of opportunities from customer provided documentation and research. We're planning on linking back to raw incorporation filing feeds on individual parties and even public LinkedIn posts and comments.

I'm mentioning that because the value of captured surveillance data in the raw becomes massively more potent information combined with the associated network of correspondents and individual sources and references.

At one time when I was young I thought the cost for academic research papers was the cost of government surveillance of interested parties obtaining advanced insights into technology and analysis and systems.

The software my company purchased is in theory capable of tracking the lifetime of a document that has been passed through any number of hands.

Obviously it's trivial to air gap your reading device. But consider the volume of individual papers and documents you consume in any given year and certainly for the hn crowd that's likely a large number.

Make it difficult for criminals to conceal the pathway taken up to their own devices by a very large number of information sources and the resulting black hole is a hypothetical perfect telltale snitch.

Conversely, it's perfectly possible to enable free acquisition of research documents by a intermediary for the consumption of a legitimate researcher or team. I have worked for 30 years in specialist publishing in industry association members journals paid for by advertising. The Internet allegedly destroyed the viability of my business. What did happen was advertising agencies suddenly declared print media dead and ceased operations in my field almost in choreographed unanimity. This was 25 years ago. I actually think that it was my field that Google was interested in when they declared reported in Advertising Age and other trade media to have, along with a consortium of the biggest publishing houses, that their multi year and multiple hundreds of millions of dollars project for trading printed advertising online had failed and mentioned that particular obstacles included the very problems my company overcame just to start trading in 96. I don't think Google wanted to help anyone sell consumer targeted advertising. They almost certainly even in 04 knew that would be their market to themselves. But highly vertical advertising within industry niches where what's being advertised often is incomprehensible without accompanying features commissioned by the publication to cover a niche within a niche and attract everyone in that market as advertisers. Take 200 thousand times 4 for quarterly issues and 50 thousand average readers by name times 4 a low "reach" estimate gives 1.6*10^11 pairs of eyeballs per year in this forgotten and buried business.

That's who will be only too happy to bear the infrastructure costs of the document management system necessary for a truly global scale tracking of research dissemination.

Don't dismiss this immediately only for concerns about privacy : this couldn't fly without a way to give real privacy for the protection of researchers needing to avoid any giveaway of their direction and interests. Legally double blind intermediary agents as proxies are far from trouble to implement and I know that demand exists for such a proxy among some customers of ours for a additional layer of privacy and discretion for their work.

We've almost forgotten because of the global economy how much the USA and critical input from other western nations is advanced compared to the row. I personally think that the expansion of university campus facilities has been happening because of foreign students demand and potentially profits from them assuming that zero interest rates continue until the debts are paid and assuming that that happens before the lifetime expectancy of the buildings erected creates a financial noose around higher educations head. The borrowing I've looked at doesn't have principal repayment horizons early enough by a very long way.

Such expansion of a surveillance of research rrs