Burning the place to the ground and starting over would be cheaper. The problem is they never figure that out until after the first hundred billion dollars are spent. And the bigger problem is when they do burn it all down and start over, the never remember to lock the politicians in first.
This is what every programmer worth his/her money thinks. The managers see a "working system with a huge number of years behind the belt" and "changes which may break it". They cannot comprehend a modern (D)VCS which is very capable of supporting development of two branches with minimal overhead.
To which one? To the fact that it was, you'll have to search yourself. I cannot remember where I saw it, after all it happened about 15 years ago. For the latter I have no evidence, but I think it is pretty obvious provided the former is true.
No it would not. France, Spain(?), Portugal, Italy(?) prohibited a diplomatic flight because there was a possibility Snowden was inside the (diplomatic immunity) plane. It had to land in Austria.
I do not think this the aim. The aim is to hide the "high level" algorith so that you cannot find it out. The obfuscation seems to be done by transforming the source, not binary.
This way if you have some "interesting" high level algorithm (to solve some real life problem) you can make reverse-engineering it not only a tad hard, but extremely difficult. For example, suppose I can solve NP in polynomial time. You can see from the virtual machine traces how one case of the problem is solved, but you cannot get solution (algorithm) to solve all cases.
As a foreigner I would never ever put my personal or my companys information in an American cloud as I am "too certain" or "too afraid" that the information is used for industrian espionage.
If they got a river or like, they will get hugely more electricity from that. Probably cheaper too, especially if there are few houses who share the construction. Just 10 meters height with 10 liters per second gives 1kW, and that is extremely small scale.
If image is blurred, there is not "all information". Depending on the amount of blurring you'll lose dynamic range, eventually all of it giving exactly zero information.
Check company called "Vupen". I would be hugely surprised if they did not have an easily explaitable hole in all the systems you mention. Actually I expect them to have dozens of them - per OS. Bloody hell, there is a security patch almost in every week in pretty much every OS there is!
Bitcoin is definitely a Ponzi. The fact that it does not "solicit" IMHO does not make it go away. Madoff didn't promise "little or no risk" and still it was a Ponzi. Key point is that all money coming in is from new users, there is no real value anywhere. When the Bitcoins inventor cashes his 20% of all "currency" he owns, the newcomers will be left emptyhanded. Just like in any other Ponzi.
Then there is the plus that the information is being used to give advantage to american companies over european or chinese (idustrial espionage). It will be bloody difficult to persuade "average red-neck" acknowledge that this is not good in the long run.
As a foreigner living in EU... we need gmail competitor in Germany.
Why would you WANT to be in a cafe? Why not in the hotel/hostel/B&B you stay in? Many hotels may require you to leave the room for an hour or two, but you can take a lunch then. Or use the hotel facilities (if such exist in a cheap hotel) - they most often are quieter than a cafe.
Libraries are other quiet places, many libraries have study rooms.
I bicycle during winter. -1 is very different from +1, not only because it means how I need to dress (raining v.s. snowing). Supercooled rain happens maybe once a winter, so it is not important. Besides, if the road is on snow and temperature is below zero you know it won't be very slippery, just "normal". But if the temperature is above, you know it is melting & icing and will be slippery. If there is no snow, then +1 means there can be some places with black ice, but overall it won't be that bad. If temperature is below zero moisture will freeze to the road and it can be very slippery. Zero does not tell me everything, but it does tell me a ton.
The melting point matters to people who live in regions of the Earth where temperatures goes below 0C. I leave it as on excercise to the reader why +1C is hugely different compared to -1C when going out. I am not claiming either is "better" weather, they are just very different. No matter whether there is snow on the gound or not.
I haven't seen a thermometer with fahrenheit scales for at least 20 years. Pound I have seen never. Some rulers do have inches, but not all. I do not know about Subways, I never go there. But I live in Scandinavia and we have always been more metric.
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Burning the place to the ground and starting over would be cheaper. The problem is they never figure that out until after the first hundred billion dollars are spent. And the bigger problem is when they do burn it all down and start over, the never remember to lock the politicians in first.
This is what every programmer worth his/her money thinks. The managers see a "working system with a huge number of years behind the belt" and "changes which may break it". They cannot comprehend a modern (D)VCS which is very capable of supporting development of two branches with minimal overhead.
To which one? To the fact that it was, you'll have to search yourself. I cannot remember where I saw it, after all it happened about 15 years ago.
For the latter I have no evidence, but I think it is pretty obvious provided the former is true.
Before 9/11 CIA admitted that the most important task for them is industrial espionage. Now it might be second most important.
But apparently not "to record".
Maybe the reason is that he really does not give a fuck (about the innocent people). He just said that to win the election
No it would not.
France, Spain(?), Portugal, Italy(?) prohibited a diplomatic flight because there was a possibility Snowden was inside the (diplomatic immunity) plane. It had to land in Austria.
I do not think this the aim. The aim is to hide the "high level" algorith so that you cannot find it out. The obfuscation seems to be done by transforming the source, not binary.
This way if you have some "interesting" high level algorithm (to solve some real life problem) you can make reverse-engineering it not only a tad hard, but extremely difficult. For example, suppose I can solve NP in polynomial time. You can see from the virtual machine traces how one case of the problem is solved, but you cannot get solution (algorithm) to solve all cases.
I know. I's NSA.
Seriously, how do we, or rather you americans, know NSA did not use blackmail?
Disclose more or lie more?
As a foreigner I would never ever put my personal or my companys information in an American cloud as I am "too certain" or "too afraid" that the information is used for industrian espionage.
If they got a river or like, they will get hugely more electricity from that. Probably cheaper too, especially if there are few houses who share the construction.
Just 10 meters height with 10 liters per second gives 1kW, and that is extremely small scale.
If image is blurred, there is not "all information". Depending on the amount of blurring you'll lose dynamic range, eventually all of it giving exactly zero information.
Mobile devices have one to two gigs of memory. Why GC works on PC with same amount of memory, but "has no place" in a mobile device?
Check company called "Vupen". I would be hugely surprised if they did not have an easily explaitable hole in all the systems you mention. Actually I expect them to have dozens of them - per OS.
Bloody hell, there is a security patch almost in every week in pretty much every OS there is!
Bitcoin is definitely a Ponzi. The fact that it does not "solicit" IMHO does not make it go away. Madoff didn't promise "little or no risk" and still it was a Ponzi.
Key point is that all money coming in is from new users, there is no real value anywhere.
When the Bitcoins inventor cashes his 20% of all "currency" he owns, the newcomers will be left emptyhanded. Just like in any other Ponzi.
http://www.vupen.com/english/
"defensive and offensive cyber security". Helsingin Sanomat, biggest newspaper in Finland, claims the company is selling security holes (most likely accompanied with easy way to use them) for governments and intelligence agencies.
In Finnish: http://www.hs.fi/ulkomaat/Tietoturva-aukoilla+tahkotaan+miljoonia/a1371264995752
A ton? How much traffic you'd expect one light bulb to have on an average day? Kilobyte? Whether you count wi-fi packets or usefull payload.
I think wi-fi lamp or light switch makes more sense than wi-fi bulb, for obvious reasons, though with LEDs the advantage is small.
Then there is the plus that the information is being used to give advantage to american companies over european or chinese (idustrial espionage).
It will be bloody difficult to persuade "average red-neck" acknowledge that this is not good in the long run.
As a foreigner living in EU ... we need gmail competitor in Germany.
No, I'm the "third man".
Why would you WANT to be in a cafe? Why not in the hotel/hostel/B&B you stay in? Many hotels may require you to leave the room for an hour or two, but you can take a lunch then. Or use the hotel facilities (if such exist in a cheap hotel) - they most often are quieter than a cafe.
Libraries are other quiet places, many libraries have study rooms.
I should add that zero tells me more than any other temperature. It tells more than few next most important ones added together.
I bicycle during winter. -1 is very different from +1, not only because it means how I need to dress (raining v.s. snowing). Supercooled rain happens maybe once a winter, so it is not important.
Besides, if the road is on snow and temperature is below zero you know it won't be very slippery, just "normal". But if the temperature is above, you know it is melting & icing and will be slippery. If there is no snow, then +1 means there can be some places with black ice, but overall it won't be that bad. If temperature is below zero moisture will freeze to the road and it can be very slippery. Zero does not tell me everything, but it does tell me a ton.
The melting point matters to people who live in regions of the Earth where temperatures goes below 0C.
I leave it as on excercise to the reader why +1C is hugely different compared to -1C when going out. I am not claiming either is "better" weather, they are just very different. No matter whether there is snow on the gound or not.
"Ditch the decimal" is the funniest argument ever.
Try to tell that to accountants: "sure, you do no longer buy 123 units $234 each, you buy A3 units, each costing ..."
I haven't seen a thermometer with fahrenheit scales for at least 20 years. Pound I have seen never. Some rulers do have inches, but not all. I do not know about Subways, I never go there.
But I live in Scandinavia and we have always been more metric.
I like the Japanese system: 2009-02-12 or sometimes 09-02-12. It has the additional advantage of being easily sortable.