I don't want to buy from most tech companies anymore either. interdiction, hard drive malware, you name it.

Very true. I sort of skipped over the security aspects to avoid any fights ;)

Java is pretty powerful, but that same power leads to both unnecessary weight and risks.

Although I'm not much of a Java fan- if someone told me to pick between javascript and java to live with forever and nothing else, I'd have to pick java though, but that's just it- trying to fit pegs in the wrong shape hole. Either way you don't get a good fit and I feel like in either case you're kind of just "trying to make it work for you" when you really should be using something else.

Node.js is specifically for using javascript on the backend and has no real application on the front end- of course Javascript itself does though.
Java has servlets, servers, web applets, and desktop applications.

Both technologies can do both sides. Java is of course much more feature rich with more low-level operations.

I don't think it's really a true apples to apples comparison - they both have their place. Some people like writing end-to-end java, some people like writing end-to-end javascript. But at this point in time, java on the web is kind of dwindling because it is a sledgehammer when all you need is a regular hammer in most cases and javascript end to end is on the rise but there's probably a plateau somewhere because javascript is only so performant and has some limitations. Most of us though I think use the more honed tools for the right jobs even if it means we can't use the same language end-to-end.

following up to myself- I was thinking of 180 degree or 90 degree fixed rotations (summary talked about being upside down), but it looks like these types of systems use varying rotations which makes sense. eg: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/v...

I'm not sure I see why you couldn't do a rotate of an image in one clock cycle since it's a precomputed 1:1 mapping of source address to destination address with no math involved (eg not like doing keystone correction or other manipulations). I can't imagine that taking tens of milliseconds?

do it in parallel in hardware. There are FPGA and ASIC solutions that can do hardware rotation, just send one through the rotate matrix into identical hardware. It costs twice as much, but in todays terms that still shouldn't be too bad.

There's no such thing as strong encryption with a backdoor. That backdoor will be exploited.

The solution really is allow whatever you want in transit but require companies to store the raw thing... which then leads to data breaches.. So just give up.

Correction, his ANPR/ALPR misread your plate and you came up with some kind of flag.

Just so you know, very little changed after the purchase. It's basically a sub-company done its own way.

If they'd been adhering to that for even unencrypted communications we might not have gotten so paranoid about it lately...

I have to wonder if their essential decryption and interception of content couldn't be construed as a DMCA violation and wiretapping.

My last of us won't start up unless I turn the network off, but it's definitely affecting some other things.

That was my favorite way of hiding things.

If google starts their own CA and gives away DV SSL certs (all sorts, counting wildcard, multi-domain), then I'm on board more or less. SSL should be free.

FWIW I have a 2013 Dodge Avenger with a V6- by no means luxury. no hill hold and I'm on a hill every day that requires gas and brake at the same time- otherwise it rolls back even in drive.