It may need some work from app vendors, but adding a wiretap option isn't hard. 1) Fed gets a warrant and gives it to the app company they want to tap. 2) App company creates a public/private key and gives the private key to the feds. 3) App then sends a copy of all the user's data to the feds using the unique public key (flag in the user's account or something). 4) After the warrant expires, the feed to the feds stops.
The keys are unique per warrant so criminals can't find the key. The feed is only transmitted during the period of the warrant so hackers couldn't just hack anyone. Feds only get to tap one user per warrant so no mass surveillance . App company makes the keys so Feds can't just reuse the same key for everyone.
I'm sure that I'm missing some details here, but it would work a lot better than a forced backdoor in encryption.
Is it possible that this is the cable companies lobbying the FCC to try and make sure people don't have the bandwidth to stream all their TV shows and cut the cord? The funny thing is, these cable companies are the same ones providing the Internet in most cases so they're not actually losing the customer.
The lawsuit specifically states "Neither Thao nor anyone else ever changed the battery in the iPhone", which is interestingly certain given the vintage and purchase date.
Not too interesting. I have an original 4S that still lasts 7 or more days standby on a charge. On the other hand, I had to just replace the battery on my iPhone 6 after 2.5 years.
The insurance company has already been paid through all of its customer's premiums. They are trying to get double their money back here.
Second, houses burn down all the time from all sorts of reasons and insurance companies don't go around suing toaster manufacturers, electricians, builders, etc. Insurance is supposed to handle these accidents. If 4S iPhones have been bursting into flames like the Note 7's were, they might have a claim, but not because a single out of date phone had an issue.
Most consumers are probably happy with their current PC's. They edit the odd document, use email, browse the web and that's it. A 12 year old Windows XP machine can do that very well still. Unless the machine actually dies, buying a new one is not on their mind or in their budget plans.
Even for companies, the current hardware they have works well enough for probably 90% of their employees. Upgrading hardware is not going to give them any increase in productivity so why buy anything new unless the old machine dies.
Even if the NSA told Microsoft about this bug a year or more ago, it wouldn't have helped China at all. They're running tens of thousands of stolen copies of Windows and on old versions like XP so any patch Microsoft released would have never been installed anyway.
The blame here is on China and any other companies that kept using XP passed it's end of support date. They made that decision, they have to live with it. If they can't afford Windows, there are some perfectly usable Linux distributions out there.
I don't think our broadband is worse up here. I get 150mbit/s access with Shaw Cable with a 1TB cap for only $80/mon CDN. Shaw has been providing great speeds at good prices for over a decade now.
Now, Rogers and Bell could be worse from what I hear.
You get the WorkPlace Shell, still considered one of the better graphical shells though the 2D graphics show its age.
I really liked the WorkPlace Shell, but I still find this project pretty pointless. It's like trying to get more coal miners working again - the world has moved on. I don't have any 20 year old programs from Windows 3.1 that I want to run anymore.
It would have been better if they created a new WorkPlace Shell as a new window manager on Linux, Mac or Windows. A lot of people hate the Windows 10 UI, so maybe this could have been an alternative.
I find it ironic that Microsoft is pushing everybody over to using GIT since it was created by Linus Torvalds to help the community develop and manage code for Linux better.
Yes, horizontal scrolling is definitely the second worst thing. You could actually find stuff on Netflix before they started scrolling thing horizontally. And since they can't put too many on there, you get to see maybe 50 titles out of the thousands in the category. I'd rather see a nice 5x10 grid and a next page button.
Then, every other video or book site copied the bad idea so they could have the same look.
An infinite web page is one that scrolls forever and would only get you one page view. I hate them because you always have to start scrolling from the top. Try finding a YouTuber's 500th video by scrolling. With page buttons, I could calculate which page in seconds.
I think infinite web pages was the worst idea that every site just had to copy to be part of the fad. I liked page number buttons. I can bookmark a page where I left off instead of scrolling a hundred times from the top again. It also doesn't use up all my computer's memory in Firefox or Chrome.
Just think with all those possible exploding phones coming back for replacement. The stores are going to be dangerous places with all those Note 7's sitting in boxes until they can ship them out. Not even sure the cargo airlines would want to permit them on board either.
The title on this Slashdot article is pretty misleading. It sounds like Sony was actually making the image sensors worse for some reason until you pick up your smartphone.
That's what I was thinking. Driver falls asleep since they don't have to pay attention as much, then it turns off and lets them drift into the oncoming lane.
Maybe they should just shake the car left and right a bit in the lane to jolt the driver. Or hit the brakes quickly a few times.
Has anyone considered the amount of damage a laser would cause on the ground when they miss their target? Bullets may eventually slow down and missiles might destroy a small area, but a laser that is on for a few seconds could leave a stripe across a large area of land depending on its strength and the plane's speed. Does a laser even have a range limit before its intensity dissipates or does it just go full strength until it finally hits something?
I've heard this number before but that number is actually $7/month per 1 mbit/s. Multiply that by the amount of mbit/s they get from their upstream connection. That said, it's still probably far far less than the total number of mbit/s they sold each of their users so they are making a huge profit.
Anything originating from inside their network should not be counted against the data cap or they would be charging you for something you didn't get. That being Internet data.
Now, I would be completely against them not applying the data cap to something that actually comes from Internet like Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, etc.
The government is always using scare tactics against the people saying we need to be protected. There's super bad people out there and they can't find them without seeing all our private data. What if we started telling people how bad it really would be without encryption?
Without encryption, your own neighbors would be able to see your emails as you transmit them, your banking details, etc. Anyone at the coffee shop could get this information from you. The government will be spying on you without your knowledge all the time. They'll know about everything you buy online, every web site you visit. Criminals will sit on the street outside of your home and watch your WiFi traffic to find things to blackmail you with.
Those are extreme's of course but there's probably lots of things we can think of to get the word out. Maybe even spin it to tell people how strong encryption is helping protect them every day. We just have to use examples they'll understand. Things like, "Your bank uses strong encryption to protect your bank information but Jeb Bush wants the government to see what your doing".
hitchBot was probably last seen alive on the BFvsGF channel on Youtube (vlog channel for PrankVsPrank). Near the end of the video they gave him a ride to the bench where he was probably picked up by the bad guys. Too bad they didn't trust the taxi driver to take him to New York.
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It may need some work from app vendors, but adding a wiretap option isn't hard. 1) Fed gets a warrant and gives it to the app company they want to tap. 2) App company creates a public/private key and gives the private key to the feds. 3) App then sends a copy of all the user's data to the feds using the unique public key (flag in the user's account or something). 4) After the warrant expires, the feed to the feds stops.
The keys are unique per warrant so criminals can't find the key. The feed is only transmitted during the period of the warrant so hackers couldn't just hack anyone. Feds only get to tap one user per warrant so no mass surveillance . App company makes the keys so Feds can't just reuse the same key for everyone.
I'm sure that I'm missing some details here, but it would work a lot better than a forced backdoor in encryption.
Is it possible that this is the cable companies lobbying the FCC to try and make sure people don't have the bandwidth to stream all their TV shows and cut the cord? The funny thing is, these cable companies are the same ones providing the Internet in most cases so they're not actually losing the customer.
Not too interesting. I have an original 4S that still lasts 7 or more days standby on a charge. On the other hand, I had to just replace the battery on my iPhone 6 after 2.5 years.
The insurance company has already been paid through all of its customer's premiums. They are trying to get double their money back here.
Second, houses burn down all the time from all sorts of reasons and insurance companies don't go around suing toaster manufacturers, electricians, builders, etc. Insurance is supposed to handle these accidents. If 4S iPhones have been bursting into flames like the Note 7's were, they might have a claim, but not because a single out of date phone had an issue.
Most consumers are probably happy with their current PC's. They edit the odd document, use email, browse the web and that's it. A 12 year old Windows XP machine can do that very well still. Unless the machine actually dies, buying a new one is not on their mind or in their budget plans.
Even for companies, the current hardware they have works well enough for probably 90% of their employees. Upgrading hardware is not going to give them any increase in productivity so why buy anything new unless the old machine dies.
Even if the NSA told Microsoft about this bug a year or more ago, it wouldn't have helped China at all. They're running tens of thousands of stolen copies of Windows and on old versions like XP so any patch Microsoft released would have never been installed anyway.
The blame here is on China and any other companies that kept using XP passed it's end of support date. They made that decision, they have to live with it. If they can't afford Windows, there are some perfectly usable Linux distributions out there.
I don't think our broadband is worse up here. I get 150mbit/s access with Shaw Cable with a 1TB cap for only $80/mon CDN. Shaw has been providing great speeds at good prices for over a decade now.
Now, Rogers and Bell could be worse from what I hear.
I really liked the WorkPlace Shell, but I still find this project pretty pointless. It's like trying to get more coal miners working again - the world has moved on. I don't have any 20 year old programs from Windows 3.1 that I want to run anymore.
It would have been better if they created a new WorkPlace Shell as a new window manager on Linux, Mac or Windows. A lot of people hate the Windows 10 UI, so maybe this could have been an alternative.
A lot of companies probably have their help desk people fix passwords for users which is enough power to cause a lot of damage.
I find it ironic that Microsoft is pushing everybody over to using GIT since it was created by Linus Torvalds to help the community develop and manage code for Linux better.
Yes, horizontal scrolling is definitely the second worst thing. You could actually find stuff on Netflix before they started scrolling thing horizontally. And since they can't put too many on there, you get to see maybe 50 titles out of the thousands in the category. I'd rather see a nice 5x10 grid and a next page button.
Then, every other video or book site copied the bad idea so they could have the same look.
An infinite web page is one that scrolls forever and would only get you one page view. I hate them because you always have to start scrolling from the top. Try finding a YouTuber's 500th video by scrolling. With page buttons, I could calculate which page in seconds.
I think infinite web pages was the worst idea that every site just had to copy to be part of the fad. I liked page number buttons. I can bookmark a page where I left off instead of scrolling a hundred times from the top again. It also doesn't use up all my computer's memory in Firefox or Chrome.
Just think with all those possible exploding phones coming back for replacement. The stores are going to be dangerous places with all those Note 7's sitting in boxes until they can ship them out. Not even sure the cargo airlines would want to permit them on board either.
The title on this Slashdot article is pretty misleading. It sounds like Sony was actually making the image sensors worse for some reason until you pick up your smartphone.
That's what I was thinking. Driver falls asleep since they don't have to pay attention as much, then it turns off and lets them drift into the oncoming lane.
Maybe they should just shake the car left and right a bit in the lane to jolt the driver. Or hit the brakes quickly a few times.
Has anyone considered the amount of damage a laser would cause on the ground when they miss their target? Bullets may eventually slow down and missiles might destroy a small area, but a laser that is on for a few seconds could leave a stripe across a large area of land depending on its strength and the plane's speed. Does a laser even have a range limit before its intensity dissipates or does it just go full strength until it finally hits something?
I've heard this number before but that number is actually $7/month per 1 mbit/s. Multiply that by the amount of mbit/s they get from their upstream connection. That said, it's still probably far far less than the total number of mbit/s they sold each of their users so they are making a huge profit.
God only needed 1 digit since he probably used PI as his base numbering system instead of 10.
Anything originating from inside their network should not be counted against the data cap or they would be charging you for something you didn't get. That being Internet data.
Now, I would be completely against them not applying the data cap to something that actually comes from Internet like Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, etc.
The government is always using scare tactics against the people saying we need to be protected. There's super bad people out there and they can't find them without seeing all our private data. What if we started telling people how bad it really would be without encryption?
Without encryption, your own neighbors would be able to see your emails as you transmit them, your banking details, etc. Anyone at the coffee shop could get this information from you. The government will be spying on you without your knowledge all the time. They'll know about everything you buy online, every web site you visit. Criminals will sit on the street outside of your home and watch your WiFi traffic to find things to blackmail you with.
Those are extreme's of course but there's probably lots of things we can think of to get the word out. Maybe even spin it to tell people how strong encryption is helping protect them every day. We just have to use examples they'll understand. Things like, "Your bank uses strong encryption to protect your bank information but Jeb Bush wants the government to see what your doing".
hitchBot was probably last seen alive on the BFvsGF channel on Youtube (vlog channel for PrankVsPrank). Near the end of the video they gave him a ride to the bench where he was probably picked up by the bad guys. Too bad they didn't trust the taxi driver to take him to New York.
We'll call it the B Ark! Just make sure we keep the telephone sanitizers...
Just make a huge bouncy castle and drop it from orbit. They're already good at that!
I wonder how much that bottled water from Ganymede is going to cost in California?!