Regarding the first point, how would that help? The password has to be stored in the clear on the server. If an adversary got control of the box, then the adversary would get the password. And secondly, how would you search a database full of encrypted data? Homomorphic encryption isn't ready for prime time as I understand it.
1. It's much easier to compromise a DB into a dump with injection, insufficient access control etc. than dump the db, find out it's encrypted, then hack the app servers and find a key somewhere in the binary.
2. You can use key distribution schemes to the app servers.
3. If you need to 'live' search in personal data you're doing it wrong. You can move search to a fulltext engine for the stuff you really need, which is more difficult to dump and reassemble. E.g. if you search for city, you only have primary keys and cities in one system.
4. You should also not keep profiles, personal data and other data on one server. Compromising one of the access paths will compromise all your data.
The cleaner isn't horrible, it just suffers from a very opinionated design. Price wise, he'd half to cut his prices to 2/3rds what they are to make them even remotely worth it.
OTOH, Miele makes the best damned vacuums available, and doesn't bother with that whirly vortex shit. Their canisters without the optional HEPA filter meet or beat the filtration power in the Dyson Animal models; with the HEPA filter, there isn't any other brand on the market that can come close.
Disclaimer: I have a Miele, it has lasted me over ten years, and has yet to give me problems, and is the best cleaning vacuum I've ever had.
I bought a Dyson vacuum 5 years ago or so for 1/2 price from a clearance sale. It has been one of the best vacuums I have owned. Was it worth the original $400 price? Probably not, but for $200 I think it was a good deal.
I paid almost double that ($700 US), and it is still definitely worth it. The product does much better than any other I've used, it's easy to clean, and it takes all manner of abuse. It's one of my favorite household tools by a long stretch.
And Dyson, like Bose, is an extremely successful marketer.
Both companies have some very interesting engineering which is then translated into expensive consumer products that don't perform notably better than the competition, especially if you consider function (cleaning carpets, reproducing sound accurately) more important than features (no vacuum filter bag! Tiny speaker cubes!).
Of all the dyson products I have (2 vacs, 1 bladeless fan), customer service is the weakest link. The fan has a recall last year, they should have emailed customers shipping labels to print out to drop off the product at our convenience, but rather ask you to visit a local UPS B&M store and the store clerk had to fax the RMA request in. The whole thing took 2 hours on a busy Saturday. Completely failed customer service for a premium product that sells at 5x-10x the price of others. Yes the build quality is good, but not that good to worth 5x-10x the average price for the same product. And certainly not worth the hassles to deal with their customer support.
I've got a Dyson DC18 and it's been good as far as I can tell, but I haven't compared it with anything else. What did you replace it with? Is the replacement better? Did you try any side-by-side comparisons?
1. I've replaced it with a Miele and a Siemens (needed two)
2. The both clean better, I find less dirt in carpets and e.g. in corners than with the Dyson.
3. Personal subjective opinion: Having a bag is cleaner for me.
Huh. I have a Dyson vacuum; it works really well vs the other vacuums I've had. Might be a case of "have not bought decent vacuums before", but it does work.
At the moment, the best candidate for such a disruption may be MirageOS, written entirely in OCaml.
On the other hand, MirageOS has no hardware drivers and depends entirely on a Xen hypervisor. This may be a smart move to get it all going, but also means a fundamental dependency on yet another large piece of unsafe code.
Oh contraire, fitness is a 'success' because many think they should do more but don't have the willpower and then buy this magic device to overcome their lack of will.
This leads to hardware sales and non-usage.
Which makes it really hard for others to work on such a plattform.
That's a rather cynical view, no? Many people actively enjoy working out, and use these devices as a tracking tool rather than a motivational aide. It's a big market. No doubt your comment is true in some cases, but there have been plenty of contrary anecdotes too (people who've bought a fitness wearable and have become a lot healthier as a result).
I run 60km+ per week, I use wearables to track performance and do accurate heart rate training. I compete with my friends for distances, speeds, segments, Nike fuel any other metric we think is fun.
I don't lack will power (when my wearables run out of battery I still run).
So your comment sounds way off base to me. Just to give you a perspective you may not have seen.
"Many think" differently to what you said, as I illustrated. Which therefore actually defines wearables in "fitness" as a huge success, which is the exact opposite of the point you were making.
You have a whole industry built on wearables and fitness with millions of miles run/ridden/hiked/whatevered... That's hardly "non-usage".
Did you forget the point you were making?
If you need further convincing, look at the higher end of wearables, with Garmin, Polar, etc making specialised wearable devices, for specific sports and making a killing. Consumer-ising that space is surely a winning ticket. I mean that's essentially GoPros business model isn't it?
It's such a bad idea. Germany needed to be pressured into the Euro by Mitterand in exchange for Germanys unification. France didn't want a unified Germany with an independent currency.
1. Encrypt all database data, decrypt in application.
2. If you only do perimeter defense, you're doing it wrong.