does the city plan to provide these people with free smartphones to use the required app?
No, but the federal government provides (well, subsidies) dumbphone service for poor people. (They'll actually subsidize smartphone service as well, but only like 20% of it).
This was a recent evolution from when they just used to subsidize landline service, and now someone can choose whether to apply it to a landline or a cellphone.
But the whole purpose of the conversation thread you're participating in is that they only have enough for a relatively weak dirty bomb, explicitly not a WMD. The whole thread is about how the weapon is a lot more fear than real.
Truck bombs didn't move beyond "just fear" "Just fear" is the larger consequence of then the deaths that actually happened. The US left Beruit over 283 deaths? No, the US left over fear.
Moving beyond that means that the actual deathtoll is worse than the fear it engenders. Given the news coverage nowadays, that's likely going to be the result of a WMD.
Suicide vests and truck bombs (which actually kill and maim people) spring instantly to mind.
Suicide vests and truck bombs do kill people occasionally. The cost of dealing with the fear of suicide vests and truck bombs outweigh the actual consequences. I mean, it's always ghoulish to compare someone's death to thousands of people inconvenienced. But, as a society, we kinda have to figure out how much to spend to save someone's life.
And, with terrorism, we always overspend. We could provide free healthcare or construct safer cars and get more bang for our buck.
The reason that we do that is that terrorists use fear and the media to target the sense of security of millions. The few who get injured or killed are just the mechanism.
Seeing the bugfix, I would have assumed it was fixing an off-by-one error or similar. But yeah, I totally don't even understand why that fixes the problem with it staring me in the face.
I grant spying the problem is hard. It just seems like this is now a class of problems, like null pointer dereferencing or writing off the end of the array, that comes up frequently (and exclusively) in cryptography. In much the same way that we expect realtime high-performance programmers to be very concerned with cache misses and most others don't care. So, I would expect a code review to be constantly alert for this issue.
(1) How? I've heard about this, but never seen a demonstration I believe in. Any proof seems just to immortalize the assumptions/conditions handled, and is just as prone to bugs as the code. Note, otherwise, someone would have made a proof to code compiler.. See, "No Silver Bullet".
(2)Can it be that small? Everything relies on libraries, etc. Even well known libraries seem to have security holes. How do you take that into account?
ts secure storage on its Nexus devices has firmware in ROM. It can't be modified or updated like Apple's
Well, the only reason that iPhone didn't have the specialized hardware is it is 4 gens old. iPhones lead the way on specialized encryption hardware.
I'm not an Apple fanboy, but I'm not sure what other phone to use to protect my privacy. Windows 8 was great, no one used it so no malware. But 10 is not...
On the other hand, complying with this order makes it less likely that Congress will pass any kind of "no strong encryption" bill. And future, less reasonable requests can always be fought.
If Goldman Sachs/Morgan Stanley can pay 4-7 billion in fines, without admitting guilt or setting a (legal) precedent, I think Apple's lawyers can too.
Bullshit. Apple is allowed to charge reasonable rates to comply with the Writ. And reasonable rates can be determined by something as simple as cost of the employees' time and any materials required, plus overhead. They'll even recoup their electricity for the computers. They'll probably make a nominal profit on the work.
If, out of context, you ask the question, "Did Noah put all the animals on an ark before a great flood?" The answer can be yes, even if you don't believe that to be true. You can "know" it, you can answer the question truthfully, and yet not believe it to be true.
That's a bunch of nonsense, cleverly having a Schrodiger's the implicit assumption "according to Genesis". Everyone understands that you can have knowledge of Shakespeare without literally believing it to be true in the real world. But your claims about "Did Romeo love Juliet" are all clearly implicitly conditioned on being with respect to the play.
It's entirely possible that the extra work done by the few innovators not flipping burgers offsets the other costs to all the lazy people. And society as a whole benefits.
Why do we need all these workers? We're reaching the point where some factories are coming back from China, because it's a 100 person job in China, or 4 + robots in America.
The ideal is if there isn't enough work for everyone to bother themselves with a 40-hr work week.
What's wrong with people spending time on twitter, TV, drinking & sex. All of technological progress is, in theory, supposed to be about increasing how much time I spend doing fun things. And I try not to judge what people do that makes them happy.
Or do you think the only purpose of people is to toil in pain because someone ate an apple 6000 years ago?
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Probably not gunshot detectors. At 9 feet off the ground, those aren't terribly effective.
Advertising-supported privacy.
Joining my list of favorite oxymorons.
No, but the federal government provides (well, subsidies) dumbphone service for poor people. (They'll actually subsidize smartphone service as well, but only like 20% of it).
This was a recent evolution from when they just used to subsidize landline service, and now someone can choose whether to apply it to a landline or a cellphone.
But the whole purpose of the conversation thread you're participating in is that they only have enough for a relatively weak dirty bomb, explicitly not a WMD. The whole thread is about how the weapon is a lot more fear than real.
Yay, context.
Umm... no. Terrorist's biggest weapon is fear. The only weapon I can think of more effective than that is a WMD.
Truck bombs didn't move beyond "just fear" "Just fear" is the larger consequence of then the deaths that actually happened. The US left Beruit over 283 deaths? No, the US left over fear.
Moving beyond that means that the actual deathtoll is worse than the fear it engenders. Given the news coverage nowadays, that's likely going to be the result of a WMD.
Reality:
Suicide vests and truck bombs do kill people occasionally. The cost of dealing with the fear of suicide vests and truck bombs outweigh the actual consequences. I mean, it's always ghoulish to compare someone's death to thousands of people inconvenienced. But, as a society, we kinda have to figure out how much to spend to save someone's life.
And, with terrorism, we always overspend. We could provide free healthcare or construct safer cars and get more bang for our buck.
The reason that we do that is that terrorists use fear and the media to target the sense of security of millions. The few who get injured or killed are just the mechanism.
So, like, every terrorist weapon?
At least those used so far. I hope it never moves beyond that.
Seeing the bugfix, I would have assumed it was fixing an off-by-one error or similar. But yeah, I totally don't even understand why that fixes the problem with it staring me in the face.
I grant spying the problem is hard. It just seems like this is now a class of problems, like null pointer dereferencing or writing off the end of the array, that comes up frequently (and exclusively) in cryptography. In much the same way that we expect realtime high-performance programmers to be very concerned with cache misses and most others don't care. So, I would expect a code review to be constantly alert for this issue.
This technique is facinating. GnuPG came under a similar attack a year or two ago for its implementation of RSA. (By the R, I believe)
That they patched that instance, but did not fix their other implementations is a bit disturbing to me.
Like lead?
(1) How? I've heard about this, but never seen a demonstration I believe in. Any proof seems just to immortalize the assumptions/conditions handled, and is just as prone to bugs as the code. Note, otherwise, someone would have made a proof to code compiler.. See, "No Silver Bullet".
(2)Can it be that small? Everything relies on libraries, etc. Even well known libraries seem to have security holes. How do you take that into account?
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Well, the only reason that iPhone didn't have the specialized hardware is it is 4 gens old. iPhones lead the way on specialized encryption hardware.
I'm not an Apple fanboy, but I'm not sure what other phone to use to protect my privacy. Windows 8 was great, no one used it so no malware. But 10 is not...
On the other hand, complying with this order makes it less likely that Congress will pass any kind of "no strong encryption" bill. And future, less reasonable requests can always be fought.
If Goldman Sachs/Morgan Stanley can pay 4-7 billion in fines, without admitting guilt or setting a (legal) precedent, I think Apple's lawyers can too.
That's a bunch of nonsense, cleverly having a Schrodiger's the implicit assumption "according to Genesis". Everyone understands that you can have knowledge of Shakespeare without literally believing it to be true in the real world. But your claims about "Did Romeo love Juliet" are all clearly implicitly conditioned on being with respect to the play.
I should hope whomever we send has the good sense not to play 4e.
Inflection is hard to tell on the internet. Do you mean that positively or negatively? I get that this article is negative...
But, the phenomenon in the article doesn't really scale well, as given by our horrible current employment stats.
Way to beg the question.
It's entirely possible that the extra work done by the few innovators not flipping burgers offsets the other costs to all the lazy people. And society as a whole benefits.
Why do we need all these workers? We're reaching the point where some factories are coming back from China, because it's a 100 person job in China, or 4 + robots in America.
The ideal is if there isn't enough work for everyone to bother themselves with a 40-hr work week.
What's wrong with people spending time on twitter, TV, drinking & sex. All of technological progress is, in theory, supposed to be about increasing how much time I spend doing fun things. And I try not to judge what people do that makes them happy.
Or do you think the only purpose of people is to toil in pain because someone ate an apple 6000 years ago?
Because I"m hardpressed to imagine any advantage in making that assumption. And useless assumptions are bad
stackoverflow cannot block people with ad-blockers, because then they are blocking the people who answer questions and build their content.
Most other sites don't have 100% of their value coming from powerusers.
Well, I'm not sure if there's an entity that could, after acquiring Sourceforge, ruin it more than it was.