Would this not just encourage companies to found Totally Different Companies(TM) based entirely overseas, and contract them to do the server work, rather than just directly owning their overseas servers?
You've completely missed the point. Would users continue to use Google if all their results were sponsored garbage? No. And if people stopped using Google, they'd stop making money from advertising.
This is presumably why Google are reasonably well-behaved regarding making it clear what's sponsored and what's not.
Indeed. A significant problem with Slashdot. The reddit way (yes yes, reddit) is far superior: it doesn't cause the first serious comment to have such undue influence on the direction of the rest of the conversation.
Have you forgotten than it's the job of a search-engine to resist being influenced by SEO?
To be useful, a search-engine must provide the results which are most useful to the user, not necessarily the results that best benefit any of various businesses.
Don't forget, SEO is, almost by definition, an attempt to beat the system.
It's like saying the press is out to get you because they refuse to give you time on TV.
If an entangled pair of objects is shared between two parties, anyone intercepting either object alters the overall system, revealing the presence of the third party (and the amount of information they have gained).
I don't get this. How would the recipient know that what they've received is 'wrong'?
I sympathise with the sentiment, but the well-now-it-just-doesn't-work-at-all problem is real. A large proportion of IT projects fail. Government IT projects are no different. (If anything I assume they're worse, but I don't have numbers.) Pursuing a low-risk route, even if it means depending on Microsoft, isn't necessarily a mistake.
Other nations do not all fail at complex math, code, design or funding.
I presume you are writing as an American. You are quite mistaken.
Other nations may try to keep 5+ other countries out of a networked product as delivered.
I vaguely remember reading about the idea of encoding a bit into exactly one photon, and the possibility of using this to create a scheme where snooping could always be detected.
Annoyingly, I forget the details, and Google didn't turn up anything relevant looking.
There needs to be a way to verify how the hardware operates, or you just have to trust the manufacturer. Personally, I wouldn't.
Agree. If Blackphone don't go down the hardware-checking road, that rather weakens their case. It'll take more than this. (I don't know what they mean by 'make', or even if they're correct in the first place.)
A simple solution would be to have a physical mic/camera-disconnect switch...
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A restaurant supply reclamation company should surely have the expertise and the responsibility, no?
See also: Internet in the UK.
Wait a minute. You're saying pre-SP Windows XP isn't secure enough to be trusted as the basis for a country's democracy?
Now I've heard everything.
Would this not just encourage companies to found Totally Different Companies(TM) based entirely overseas, and contract them to do the server work, rather than just directly owning their overseas servers?
Unless you want to argue that the US should unilaterally disarm
What? Discontinuing research is the same thing as disarmament?
You've completely missed the point. Would users continue to use Google if all their results were sponsored garbage? No. And if people stopped using Google, they'd stop making money from advertising.
This is presumably why Google are reasonably well-behaved regarding making it clear what's sponsored and what's not.
while it's there
So, uh, delete it from Facebook...?
Such as, so someone will actually see it.
Indeed. A significant problem with Slashdot. The reddit way (yes yes, reddit) is far superior: it doesn't cause the first serious comment to have such undue influence on the direction of the rest of the conversation.
Have you forgotten than it's the job of a search-engine to resist being influenced by SEO?
To be useful, a search-engine must provide the results which are most useful to the user, not necessarily the results that best benefit any of various businesses.
Don't forget, SEO is, almost by definition, an attempt to beat the system.
It's like saying the press is out to get you because they refuse to give you time on TV.
Nice job hijacking the top comment.
You can port up but you can't port down.
Well, it's not impossible. I can name several games which have been ported from PC to less-powerful consoles.
That's why you'd have it opt-in. Let the security-conscious lead the way.
Let me guess: you enjoy having a go at anyone you perceive to be an Apple fanboy, and maintain that you are rationally neutral?
What? If I live alone in the desert, I have no soul?
What does that have to do with some idiot AC making accusations?
Sounds like they've correctly calibrated the definition of 'introvert'.
That's the one.
If an entangled pair of objects is shared between two parties, anyone intercepting either object alters the overall system, revealing the presence of the third party (and the amount of information they have gained).
I don't get this. How would the recipient know that what they've received is 'wrong'?
Right. And we're talking about a little person.
Step 1: Don't be in America.
And every modern browser sandboxes the fuck out of those environments.
Right, which is why Oracle Java has never had any trouble with security...
The 2005 changes to daylight saving time policy in the USA had a small effect on energy-consumption. Presumably there will be some effect in Russia, too.
At least then its your own countries option.
I sympathise with the sentiment, but the well-now-it-just-doesn't-work-at-all problem is real. A large proportion of IT projects fail. Government IT projects are no different. (If anything I assume they're worse, but I don't have numbers.) Pursuing a low-risk route, even if it means depending on Microsoft, isn't necessarily a mistake.
Other nations do not all fail at complex math, code, design or funding.
I presume you are writing as an American. You are quite mistaken.
Other nations may try to keep 5+ other countries out of a networked product as delivered.
What?
Isn't that true of any transmission medium?
I vaguely remember reading about the idea of encoding a bit into exactly one photon, and the possibility of using this to create a scheme where snooping could always be detected.
Annoyingly, I forget the details, and Google didn't turn up anything relevant looking.
Probably this one, founded in 1997.
There needs to be a way to verify how the hardware operates, or you just have to trust the manufacturer. Personally, I wouldn't.
Agree. If Blackphone don't go down the hardware-checking road, that rather weakens their case. It'll take more than this. (I don't know what they mean by 'make', or even if they're correct in the first place.)
A simple solution would be to have a physical mic/camera-disconnect switch...