Why not just take the literally 20 seconds to read what parts of the phone an app wants access to? Or at least the 5 seconds to make sure that there's nothing under the 'will cost you money' heading, unless it's an app where that makes sense (I think the only apps I have with entries under those headings are Google maps and Google voice, and both because they're allowed to initiate phone calls).
Yes, the user must approve giving the 'Trojan' access to sending text messages, which is included under a big banner that says "Things that can cost you money". Of course, after the 40th or 50th app installed, no one reads them anymore and just clicks the OK button, but Android does notify you of what it's capable of, and even that requires you to check the install apps from other sources button.
Do you run outside? Or more accurately, do you spend significantly more time outside (especially in the mornings) than you would have without your running habit. Lots of research into DSPS has shown that the only really effective treatment is bright, full spectrum light for 30-60 minutes in the morning. Getting up at 5am to go for a 10 mile run would certainly seem to fit the bill.
It's the internal motto at the company I work for and they hammer it home time and time again. And it pays off, the company is regularly rated high for ethics and trust, especially compared to other places in our industry. Not everyone feels the way you assume, some realize that lots of small costs now can pay off in the future by increasing the trust that your customers put in you.
If I remember right (and it's been a while) you can buy PLEX in game for real cash, and then exchange it in game for game cash. It's a way of A) Allowing players to exchange real money for in game money, and B) Allow players to buy their subscription using only in game money (without upsetting their finances because someone at some point paid for it).
This is equivalent to writing your representative and saying "This is how I think this issue should be handled". I'd rather see companies doing this and trying to put forward workable compromises than throwing hundreds of millions of dollars into lobbyists.
Tsunami's don't work that way. Generally, the wave out at sea (or even in the harbor) is quite small, it is only when it pushes up against a shelf of land that it rises 30 or more feet above the surface of the sea. Besides, cargo ships are big, huge in fact. Even a 100 ft rouge wave (which would be completely unheard of in a harbor) would have trouble significantly damaging one of them. When was the last time that you heard about a cargo ship sinking while docked at harbor?.
If you have unique skills perhaps. You will somewhat often see "Translate this paragraph from English to Japanese" (or something similar) posted for $2-$5. Of course, if you actually had the knowledge to do that it would take all of 5 minutes to do it and then you'd be done. The demand just isn't that high.
1) Turn one face 45 degrees 2) Pry upward on one middle edge piece until it pops out 3) Remove all edge and corner pieces 4) Put the cube back together, but flip exactly 1 edge piece 5) Give it to someone who knows how to solve it 6) Laugh maniacally when they just can't seem to get that last piece where it belongs.
You mean weekly beatings and anal rape is cruel and unusual punishment?! Hopefully someday our great grandchildren will look back on today's society and be appalled at the things we did, all the while thinking ourselves so enlightened.
It's not really their fault, the real computer forensics people are buried under a mound of work that would take years to work through even if the police agencies stopped sending new stuff. So the police are forced to move to people who are, shall we say, less than optimally qualified? I have no problem with the police using evidence garnered from people who actually know what they're doing, it's just that that doesn't happen as often as it should. And while waiting for the PC to be competently reviewed (8 months in this case) the accused is presumed guilty by everyone from their family, to the workplace, to the police.
Haha, that's even better, just tell the cops that you saw him opening an encrypted file and it came up with kiddie porn. You wouldn't even need to take the risk of downloading the porn yourself, just encrypt any old files and put them on his hard drive. He'll be unable to come up with the key and its off to jail for 2+ years. The risk, and squick factor, of your crime drops off considerably and the result is nearly (if not totally) the same.
First, to get cocaine one would have to get in contact with a seller, buy it, store it, bring it to work with me, etc. Every step of the way entails real legal and in some cases physical risk. There are, of course, risks associated with getting child porn too, but I'm willing to bet that someone who knows what they're doing would have near zero chance of getting caught downloading child porn once; most of the people that get caught are members of 'communities' of people who trade images back and forth.
Second, drugs don't have anywhere near the stigma that child porn does in our society. Someone finds a baggie of crack in your desk and you deny it's yours and are eventually found innocent, people will believe you. Someone finds child porn on you computer and you are instantly and forever labeled as the most disgusting form of human being imaginable. There was an article online a few months ago about a guy who was accused of having child porn, except that the pornstar in question showed up at his trial and testified that she was 25 (25 for christ sake!) at the time the movie was made. People in the comments section of the article were universally of the opinion that he got off on a technicality.
I don't think the idea of encrypting is to prevent the police from looking as much as it is to prevent someone getting the data on there in the first place.
I just checked the wiki, and they were searching out to a depth of 10^20. To put that in perspective, the sequence '123456789' is found within the first 10^9 digits of pi, which, if you don't take all the statistics into account, seems pretty incredible. As you say though, the sequence they found was an incredibly long sequence of 1's and 0's, apparently the product of 11 prime numbers in length which comes out to at least 10^11 (assuming the smallest primes are used). I wish I knew enough statistics to figure out what the probability of a binary string of that length in 10^20 digits are, but sadly I don't so I can't even evaluate how impressive it is.
The probability of that one message is vanishingly small, but they didn't set out looking for a circle of 1's surrounding a sea of 0's followed by a 2 (in base 11 by the way). They set out looking for... something. They didn't know what they were looking for, literally a 'know it when you see it' kind of search. As such, it is almost, in not completely, impossible to put a probability on finding something, since you don't really know what it is that you're looking for. So, at 1 trillion digits, there's 10^6 sequences of 10^6 numbers; times however many bases that you're going to look in. There might easily be a billion sequences of varying length that would appear significant. Finding something that appears out of the ordinary (even into sequences of 10^4 or more) in 1 trillion random digits might not be as unlikely as it seems.
The problem is, if you look long enough, hard enough, any message you can think of will appear in pi. Put it in Base 26 and you'll eventually find the complete works of Shakespeare (it might be 10^10^10^10 digits down, but it will be there). I was kind of disappointing in the book that Sagan didn't at least discuss the probability of finding something that appears significant by the time they reached the depth they were at.
The government does need some secrets. Some of the information in these documents is exactly the kinds of things they need secrets for. It just doesn't make sense to make public things like informant's names and our military strategies. There's plenty of other information in these docs that should be destroyed, I don't disagree with that. But saying "No secrets, EVER!"... that just doesn't work in reality, even if its a good ideal to shoot for.
You don't even need that, the attacker has access to everything, remember? They can just look at the file directly if it's predownloaded on the page or send the page the mouse over event for that element. I highly doubt that the people doing these algorithms are using a full web browser to pull and post data.
The phrase 'peak X' refers to gathering of a resource, not using or storing it. Peak oil is the point where we are pulling the more oil out of the ground than any time before (because production was still ramping up) or after (because there's less of it to pull out of the ground). By the definition, we hit peak Helium a long time ago when collected most of what was available under the great plains which were very unusually rich in Helium. Your basic point (that we're wasting our Helium reserves to meet some arbitrary deadline) is valid though.
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Either way they deserve to be fire and/or have the entire system of checks replaced by one that is more resistant to incompetence/corruption.
Or white and female, can't forget them.
Why not just take the literally 20 seconds to read what parts of the phone an app wants access to? Or at least the 5 seconds to make sure that there's nothing under the 'will cost you money' heading, unless it's an app where that makes sense (I think the only apps I have with entries under those headings are Google maps and Google voice, and both because they're allowed to initiate phone calls).
Yes, the user must approve giving the 'Trojan' access to sending text messages, which is included under a big banner that says "Things that can cost you money". Of course, after the 40th or 50th app installed, no one reads them anymore and just clicks the OK button, but Android does notify you of what it's capable of, and even that requires you to check the install apps from other sources button.
Do you run outside? Or more accurately, do you spend significantly more time outside (especially in the mornings) than you would have without your running habit. Lots of research into DSPS has shown that the only really effective treatment is bright, full spectrum light for 30-60 minutes in the morning. Getting up at 5am to go for a 10 mile run would certainly seem to fit the bill.
"Good ethics is good business"
It's the internal motto at the company I work for and they hammer it home time and time again. And it pays off, the company is regularly rated high for ethics and trust, especially compared to other places in our industry. Not everyone feels the way you assume, some realize that lots of small costs now can pay off in the future by increasing the trust that your customers put in you.
If I remember right (and it's been a while) you can buy PLEX in game for real cash, and then exchange it in game for game cash. It's a way of A) Allowing players to exchange real money for in game money, and B) Allow players to buy their subscription using only in game money (without upsetting their finances because someone at some point paid for it).
These are kindergarteners. No one ever said you should put a 5 year old in front of GTA4 for 3 hours a day and not expect any personality changes.
This is equivalent to writing your representative and saying "This is how I think this issue should be handled". I'd rather see companies doing this and trying to put forward workable compromises than throwing hundreds of millions of dollars into lobbyists.
Tsunami's don't work that way. Generally, the wave out at sea (or even in the harbor) is quite small, it is only when it pushes up against a shelf of land that it rises 30 or more feet above the surface of the sea. Besides, cargo ships are big, huge in fact. Even a 100 ft rouge wave (which would be completely unheard of in a harbor) would have trouble significantly damaging one of them. When was the last time that you heard about a cargo ship sinking while docked at harbor?.
If you have unique skills perhaps. You will somewhat often see "Translate this paragraph from English to Japanese" (or something similar) posted for $2-$5. Of course, if you actually had the knowledge to do that it would take all of 5 minutes to do it and then you'd be done. The demand just isn't that high.
1) Turn one face 45 degrees
2) Pry upward on one middle edge piece until it pops out
3) Remove all edge and corner pieces
4) Put the cube back together, but flip exactly 1 edge piece
5) Give it to someone who knows how to solve it
6) Laugh maniacally when they just can't seem to get that last piece where it belongs.
You mean weekly beatings and anal rape is cruel and unusual punishment?! Hopefully someday our great grandchildren will look back on today's society and be appalled at the things we did, all the while thinking ourselves so enlightened.
It's not really their fault, the real computer forensics people are buried under a mound of work that would take years to work through even if the police agencies stopped sending new stuff. So the police are forced to move to people who are, shall we say, less than optimally qualified? I have no problem with the police using evidence garnered from people who actually know what they're doing, it's just that that doesn't happen as often as it should. And while waiting for the PC to be competently reviewed (8 months in this case) the accused is presumed guilty by everyone from their family, to the workplace, to the police.
Haha, that's even better, just tell the cops that you saw him opening an encrypted file and it came up with kiddie porn. You wouldn't even need to take the risk of downloading the porn yourself, just encrypt any old files and put them on his hard drive. He'll be unable to come up with the key and its off to jail for 2+ years. The risk, and squick factor, of your crime drops off considerably and the result is nearly (if not totally) the same.
First, to get cocaine one would have to get in contact with a seller, buy it, store it, bring it to work with me, etc. Every step of the way entails real legal and in some cases physical risk. There are, of course, risks associated with getting child porn too, but I'm willing to bet that someone who knows what they're doing would have near zero chance of getting caught downloading child porn once; most of the people that get caught are members of 'communities' of people who trade images back and forth.
Second, drugs don't have anywhere near the stigma that child porn does in our society. Someone finds a baggie of crack in your desk and you deny it's yours and are eventually found innocent, people will believe you. Someone finds child porn on you computer and you are instantly and forever labeled as the most disgusting form of human being imaginable. There was an article online a few months ago about a guy who was accused of having child porn, except that the pornstar in question showed up at his trial and testified that she was 25 (25 for christ sake!) at the time the movie was made. People in the comments section of the article were universally of the opinion that he got off on a technicality.
I don't think the idea of encrypting is to prevent the police from looking as much as it is to prevent someone getting the data on there in the first place.
It could be worse, they could be charging people for child porn when said porn is perfectly legal. ...
Oh, wait. They've done that too.
I just checked the wiki, and they were searching out to a depth of 10^20. To put that in perspective, the sequence '123456789' is found within the first 10^9 digits of pi, which, if you don't take all the statistics into account, seems pretty incredible. As you say though, the sequence they found was an incredibly long sequence of 1's and 0's, apparently the product of 11 prime numbers in length which comes out to at least 10^11 (assuming the smallest primes are used). I wish I knew enough statistics to figure out what the probability of a binary string of that length in 10^20 digits are, but sadly I don't so I can't even evaluate how impressive it is.
The probability of that one message is vanishingly small, but they didn't set out looking for a circle of 1's surrounding a sea of 0's followed by a 2 (in base 11 by the way). They set out looking for... something. They didn't know what they were looking for, literally a 'know it when you see it' kind of search. As such, it is almost, in not completely, impossible to put a probability on finding something, since you don't really know what it is that you're looking for. So, at 1 trillion digits, there's 10^6 sequences of 10^6 numbers; times however many bases that you're going to look in. There might easily be a billion sequences of varying length that would appear significant. Finding something that appears out of the ordinary (even into sequences of 10^4 or more) in 1 trillion random digits might not be as unlikely as it seems.
The problem is, if you look long enough, hard enough, any message you can think of will appear in pi. Put it in Base 26 and you'll eventually find the complete works of Shakespeare (it might be 10^10^10^10 digits down, but it will be there). I was kind of disappointing in the book that Sagan didn't at least discuss the probability of finding something that appears significant by the time they reached the depth they were at.
The government does need some secrets. Some of the information in these documents is exactly the kinds of things they need secrets for. It just doesn't make sense to make public things like informant's names and our military strategies. There's plenty of other information in these docs that should be destroyed, I don't disagree with that. But saying "No secrets, EVER!"... that just doesn't work in reality, even if its a good ideal to shoot for.
You don't even need that, the attacker has access to everything, remember? They can just look at the file directly if it's predownloaded on the page or send the page the mouse over event for that element. I highly doubt that the people doing these algorithms are using a full web browser to pull and post data.
The phrase 'peak X' refers to gathering of a resource, not using or storing it. Peak oil is the point where we are pulling the more oil out of the ground than any time before (because production was still ramping up) or after (because there's less of it to pull out of the ground). By the definition, we hit peak Helium a long time ago when collected most of what was available under the great plains which were very unusually rich in Helium. Your basic point (that we're wasting our Helium reserves to meet some arbitrary deadline) is valid though.
Combination of not making sense and ridiculous units, it's kind of a twofer.