The original Star Trek was made of isolated episodes and not a series. You could play them in any order and they'd still make sense.

"Christmas"? What are yule speaking about?

I wish someone would get to work on that. Point is, calling out a device for not being able to do something no one else has gotten right isn't sound logic.

Many games sold on Steam lack a port to Linux. When a particular game neither is ported to Linux or works in Wine, the choices are either A. use Windows in a VM on a PC with two GPUs (one for each OS) and a CPU with VT-d (to forward the guest OS's GPU commands to the second GPU) or B. give up.

I would not consider not being alive as a loophole, but rather as a valid distinction. There are plenty of experiments involving human tissue. Do you object to all of them, or just some of them?

Your program is so fucking simple, if someone actually gave a fuck, they'd just write their own and make it look the same. But I imagine, they'd use one of the many other hosts file aggregator than your shit if they just want the functionality.

Big seller over there are $4k anatomically correct and life like female silicone dolls because for some odd reason there's way more males than females of marrying age. It's either that or turn gay. Lot of lonely guys in China.

Rock solid, still feels like new after 6+ years. I will consider a non-Sony VAIO for my next laptop, since it's the same design and manufacturing group, to the best of my understanding.

The thing is: developing actual, meaningful relationships requires going through a lot of superficial crap. You don't know in advance which people you are going to be able to relate to, so you sample around, and you first meet lots and lots of people who don't work out for you. If you don't go to that trouble, just how are you supposed to magically meet the rare person you actually hit it off with?

Now, you may say "it's not worth it". And who would I be to disagree? I make about 1 good friend every 20 years, because I mostly can't be bothered to socialize. But be aware that this is the price you pay for being a "hermit".

I think you should be doing an Apple-to-Windows comparison, personally.

thereitis wants to run the game on a PC running Linux, not on a Mac.

If you think you can clock well over a million miles travelling in suburbia and only test a small number of scenarios, then I guess I was wrong, we only have a small number of scenarios to deal with.

No, but the CEO, along with the CTO, are responsible for creating the policies which drive the procedures for the company. So while he may not be expected to know the specific implementation, he should know the policies and goals for corporate security. Bouncing those policies to some "VP of Security" only means those policies will not be taken seriously.

Surely, you must see that there is not a defining border or limit to it.

So? There's not a defining border or limit to lots of things. What's a big pile of sand? How many sand grains or kilograms or whatever do you want for a lower limit? Now, I put one sand grain onto three others: is that a big pile of sand? Are you willing to say it's not, even without a clear defining border?

Borders tend to be stretchy and vague, but in many cases there's cases that are clearly on one side or another.

if you have access to the server you have all the tools and information to decrypt the data so it doesn't matter if the data is encrypted or not.. they could export it decrypted from the server in plain text.. or they could copy it and decrypt it on their end once they have it.

And it's poorly written, poorly managed, poorly understood and completely under-appreciated by the C-suite until something goes pear-shaped.

If I may, let me ask a possibly silly question: Why do these companies always have to be interviewed by some Congressional committee? What's the point? I mean, the damage is already done, nothing Congress can do to change that. If a crime has been committed, those responsible should be prosecuted. If civil damages occurred, they should be sued. What's the point of the grandstanding by Congresscritters?

That said, a CEO who knows he is going to get publicly grilled ought to have all of his ducks in a row. There's no excuse for not knowing something as basic as "is your data encrypted".

And on the gripping hand, depending on how something is hacked, "at rest" encryption may just be totally useless. It will protect you if someone gets a raw copy of your database, but if they have access to your application infrastructure, that infrastructure will happily decrypt the data for them, because that's what it does. Meanwhile, you will take a *huge* performance hit on a lot of database operations. Really, I have trouble imagining the small additional security being worth the cost in performance. But maybe I'm not familiar with enterprise-scale operations - anyone who is care to comment?

To get over that, you must first get over the need to do something whilst looking at something else. That's easier said than done until neural interfaces become practical.

I'm struggling to understand WHY it required an internet connection.

It sounds like it serves as a remote control for the TV right in front of you and also a bunch of stuff you should be able to use your phone for.

Wiki page: Devices that can be controlled with Harmony include TV's, cable boxes, game consoles, smart lights, smart thermostats, smart locks and other connected devices with Wi-Fi

I guess it can turn a dumb TV into something you can control with your phone, though there are cheaper options
Why would you control your game consoles through something like this? Just seems like it would add latency and an extra step to fail.
Is there a smart thermostat or lock you can't control from your phone without this thing?

None of that seems like it needs an internet connection.

See subject: you routinely fail to understand the point the other person makes, freaks out and attacks them with nonsensical bullshit. Brockmire P.S=> learn to fucking write a comprehensible post. Brockmire

This depends on how the exploit happened. Run scp on encrypted at rest MySQL database files from the server to a remote machine to steal the data? And you've got jack shit. The whole point is to prevent different types of attacks.

Hopefully you can resolve some of the complaints about Go in the next version. But I'm afraid you're going to have to call it something else. Because Edsger Dijkstra says Go 2 Considered Harmful.

He should know this, but I also see your point. It's a real "got you" question. I'm sure the CEO knows exactly what encryption is, and roughly how it works, but may not know exactly what the difference between "encryption" and "encryption at rest" is, and didn't want to say something under oath that turned out to be wrong.

> I doubt anyone has guns for that purpose in canada, simply because they are so restricted with how you can transport them and use them, any situation where you would need to have the gun "at the ready" for defence, simply wouldn't be possible.

Weapons and ammunition in separate locked gun safes, I believe. It's been a long time and I never kept a gun at home, so I'm not the best resource for that information.

On the other hand, all sorts of medieval weapons are perfectly legal and I have a few on my walls. Even so, home invaders would likely have guns and I'm not trained for such situations anyway, so chances are I'd end up dead.

Luckily... it's CANADA, and as a general rule unless you are involved in crime or have a stalker ex (or you're a cop at work, I suppose), statistically you don't really have to worry about violent crime in most places.

Outside of somebody stealing your drives to look at them, encryption at rest isn't that vital since when the system is live the data are going to be effectively unencrypted for use. Considering the hack had nothing to do with physical theft of drives, it's kind of off topic.

It's like how Truecrypt can't protect your live database server from dumping data due to a SQL injection attack even if it protects the contents of the DB from physical hard drive theft.

We would have to do more than that whether we leave or not. We would have to stop evolution.

I've noticed the same trend in geographical availability of products or prices, or places that were for 'destination shopping'. A good example from the last couple of trips I took to major cities: The ladies want to hit some large and/or famous 'outlet shopping' area, claiming better prices or hard to get products.

Every time I go there, my suspicions are confirmed. Due to the wonder of modern day logistics and free trade, I can get the same merchandise and the same or better price in my small town in a different country. It wasn't this case 20 years ago... The modern economy has eliminated the need to travel anywhere to get decent wares.

This video is not exactly crystal-clear...

Am I the only one that misread the title as "shooting spree"?

I mean, it happens with such depressing regularity...

Not only are they ROT-13-ing the data, they're doing it twice for double strength security!

Except it seems more like a hack, than proper design. We tried really hard with 2.4 and 2.6 kernels, and could not come near the vxworks performance for a wireless BS/CPE. The 2.4 worked better. The 2.6 was faster, but crashed a lot and didn't make it out of development. Mind you, I hated vxworks and Wind River, but they could charge like a mofo because they knew they had better OS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

He also did a recent interview with NPR. (He's on a book tour) I found one of his responses very interesting.

Something all of us should remember.

... without a doubt ...

the phrase least likely to appear when there is certainty.

Why the heck would anyone expect a CEO to know the details of the software implementation? It's not his job to know, nor would I expect him to know, and whatever understanding he might have is probably not to be trusted.

      Other people in the company should know, but this, come on?

What success Go has had is almost entirely due to Google marketing.

Do not underestimate the snobbery factor. Go is supposedly designed[1] by a bunch a unix/plan9 luminaries, and that alone makes a lot of wannabe high-flying programmers fret in their pants.

[1] based on its underwhelming its design is, the actual work was probably done by some less talented imitators, and Ken Thompson &co just gave it a stamp of approval after fixing some long held pet peeves with C and C-like languages.