Last I checked (and I check often), we have about as much idea how the mitochondria of a organic cell functioned as we do about the cultural habits of a octoped race from planet Kolob. We have absolutely no idea how cells work and we sure as hell have back asswards ideas about how the human body works. We try to apply science to things like nutrition and diet, but the truth is, we have absolutely no idea how the body works and we pretty much just guess our way along.
Don't get me wrong... I don't want us to stop, we probably will never understand how a human cell works. We will try this magical trial and error approach getting things wrong for thousands of years to come. Maybe we'll eventually have something representing a clue. For now, let's make sure that the whackos who become doctors and think they actually understand anything about the human body have some tools to try and keep us alive a bit longer. Sooner or later, we'll have to replace them... they really really suck at it
Mine has an i7, nVidia Graphics, 16gigs of RAM and a pretty high performance SSD. I'm not sure on what planet that's not a workstation. It's a tablet with better specs than any high end workstation I've ever used. If I need more, I plug it into my 56 Xeon core/768 gig cluster.
It is NOT however a game machine. I can play Final Fantasy XIII at 3000x2000, but the frame rate is the bare minimum before it's playable. I hope they put out a better GPU keyboard for it sooner or later
The shareholders report placed those $200 billion at much less if you play the numbers right. Apple is regularly borrowing against that cash in extremely large amount in the form of bonds. This allows them to keep most of their cash overseas. While they might have $200 billion in assets, they have a HUGE amount of liabilities to go with it. So... they probably really only have somewhere between $50 and $100 billion maybe even less as the remainder is security against the loans.
There was the other point that the holdings are of course in liquid assets, that doesn't mean that it is in cash. As the poster mentioned, if Apple were to cash out on that too quickly, it would hurt a lot of company which Apple likely depends on and therefore hurt Apple. If they could safely make more than a few billion per quarter liquid, it would be a miracle.
In reality, I don't think Apple will have cash flow problems (other than tax loopholes being closed) in the near future. But having $200 billion and being able to access $200 billion are two totally different things.
1) What the fuck is a "Checknian"? Are you the last person on this planet which can't see a squiggly red line beneath a work or are you using Netscape 4.7 to surf the web?
2) USAians? Benjamin Franklin spend the greatest part of his life publishing a newspaper where he intentionally edited all articles to ensure that the term American referred to the people who would rise up to establish a great nation. The people of all states would stand united under this great name American. He would teach the people of the USA to identify themselves under this great common title. If for 200+ years the word American as it is currently established within the Merriam Webster American English Dictionary has propagated throughout the world to identify a citizen or resident of the United States of America, is it actually necessary to apply the stupidity of suggesting that "American might confuse someone and therefore we should clarify with the far more accurate and socially sensitive term USAian"? Mexicans, Canadians, Brazilians, etc... they all know who they are and they may tease the US about the term American, but the word is here to stay. Quit being a dick.
3) Latino Invaders? Did they establish an army and march in and invade? Latino immigrants is more accurate. First of all, not everyone is actually against them coming to America. In fact, some people welcome them and wish them the best. America was made great by immigrants. Oddly, America's greatness seemed to decline about the time we tried to make it harder for immigrants to come. Consider historically all the great accomplishments of America and you'll find that nearly every single one of them were accomplished by immigrants or first generation Americans. America does not breed greatness, it never has. America attracts greatness. Greatness comes from people giving up absolutely everything a person knows or loves and risking everything to go to a place you're not welcome... all to go somewhere you can become great... and people like you want to shoot these people at the borders.
4) Obama... here's a president which while incompetent (it's a job requirement, see previous 43 presidents) is a pretty good person. He can't go door to door placing his hand on each head and curing all the sick and feeding all the poor. What he has attempted to accomplish over the past 7 years is to tried and make people healthy enough to work and pay taxes. He has tried to allow immigrants to contribute to the system and not only consume jobs, but to create new job markets and strengthen the US economy (no it doesn't happen over night.. it takes time... it may or may not fail). He has tried to establish good relations with as many countries of the world he could. He has started tearing down national borders and boundaries and tried to make America a productive part of Earth as a whole. He has tried to limit the strength of oil nations that controlled whether you could afford to drive to work. He has tried to clean up the mess in Afghanistan, Iraq, the Syria, etc... he failed, but the important thing is, he tried and it doesn't really matter who got stuck with that, there was/is no good answer there. But like Bush (pick one), Clinton, Reagan, etc... he's a good person. He tried, no matter how much people like you hated him to go to work each day and make America and the world as a whole a better place... just like his predecessors. Let's reiterate an earlier statement... quit being a dick.
5) Finally... President Putin.. yes... just like Obama and pretty much all presidents before him, Putin likes his country. Putin has made a career similar to how Obama had which would identify the illnesses of his country and try to correct them. Putin spends money on aiding and assisting their friends and neighbors all the time. This is part of being a leader of a country. Everyone who can chip in chips in.
Let me point out that when Abraham Lincoln died, (minor exaggeration coming) if anyone attended his funeral, it was to piss on his grav
CDC which while being a US agency where politics are sometimes played is generally a reliable source of information on diseases. They have not made any comments to confirm that any of your listed issues are a reality. They also don't deny them. They instead say "We don't know" which I assume means "We don't know yet".
The post you responded to takes one extreme and your response takes another.
As far as I can tell, there's nothing that links the Zika virus to spontaneous abortions, stillbirths or early infant mortality. In the cases where these issues are reported, Zika was a variable that should be investigated for linkage to the events, but a pregnancy has tens of trillions of variables involved over a 9 month period which all relate to those three issues. The presence of Zika in those cases means that there is an additional variable to consider which we can in fact research and hopefully identify as benign.
I'm not trying to be a denier, instead I'm trying to be a voice of reason. Making blanket statements regarding whether a virus does or doesn't cause medical issues is very dangerous and if there is too much of this going around, people may be infected globally with another disease called FUD which is currently mostly contained within the 51 states of the US (continental, Hawaii, Alaska, England). Remember that's a country where pregnant women are so scared of pregnancy to begin with that they attend Lamaze classes to learn how to breath.
The last thing we want is to unjustifiably cause expecting families even greater reasons to panic over child birth. So far as I can tell, about 7 billion living people worldwide were in fact born at some point. Only about 400 million of them were born in a country (the US) where the act of child birthing is treated as if there are 10000 terrorists coming from every angle to attack their unborn child. Probably about 200 million of these people were even born at a time before we went bat shit crazy. That said, America's infant mortality rate is among the worst in the first world.
So, what we do as mature responsible adults is that we respond with things like "Except that until we prove otherwise, there's a possibility and a legitimate concern that Zika can be linked to spontaneous abortions, stillbirths and early infant mortality".
And banks should be tortured for exploiting the poor with things like bounce check fees. And Walmart should not be allow to pay dividends approximately equal in value to the amount US tax payers are required to pay their employees in welfare and food stamps. And legal limits should be set on interest rates that can be charged by predatory operations like check cashing places who prey on the weak. And grocery stores should be required to stop wasting so damn much aisle space on shit like Corn Flakes when they should focus far more on Reese's cereal.
There are many injustices in this world. The problem with the government is that with almost no exceptions, people who think they would do a better job in office and are willing to actually sell their souls to get there are generally as bad as the last guy. Consider how much work it takes to get into such a position... then consider how much work those jobs require (mostly kissing the asses of the other politicians), then consider how little you can actually accomplish while there, then consider the scale of the tower of bureaucratic bullshit you can't possibly figure out on your own. It's really a mess and these things won't be fixed because the people willing to take the job are simply unqualified for it.
Somehow, unless you're just a raving lunatic (don't worry, we do in fact believe you are a genuine raving lunatic) and simply felt like ranting, I somehow believe you might have direct experience with ITT Tech and could have provided us with real life knowledge of how ITT works.
I have never met an ITT graduate before and for the most part, the few people I know who have tried ITT were... well... rednecks. This is not meant to be an insult so to say... and these are people I love like family. But they have purchased items from home shopping network and infomercials... even when they were talking about how money was really tight this month.
Can you tell use, possibly with a few less expletives or possibly with the same quantity but more appropriately placed what your experience was?
Prostitution is a crime which may or may not have victims. Where lack of prostitution tends to always have victims.
If you look at statistics worldwide, cities which are known for overlooking prostitution worldwide even though they have laws prohibiting it tend to have far lower rape incidents. I personally have a terror of diseases one risks by using the services of these ladies, so I wouldn't make use of them myself, but I do know consumers of their services. Some of them speak openly about it as if it makes perfect rational sense.
I worked with one guy for several years who would talk about hiring a prostitute no differently than the other guys would talk about going on a date. He didn't get into details about what he would do with these girls, but he knew that he was not the guy who would be able to find a mate for an evening at a bar (he unfortunately was not a pretty man) and his personality was too analytical and not warm enough to find someone long term. So, he came to grips with the fact that prostitutes were his only real option for sexual and possibly emotional companionship. He did inform me that he had found methods of hiring girls who were "their own pimps" and beholden to no one (other than the mortgage bank, electric company, telephone company etc...). He would never hire a girl who had a boss and he would go so far as to pay above asking prices and even give gifts.
I will admit, the way he made it sound, it very likely was the "purest way" of having something like a spouse he could find.
Prostitution has many forms. I have been to many bars where I've learned that it's very important to pay cash, using small bills for everything. I was visiting one bar where the moment I took an American Express Gold Card out of my wallet to pay for a drink for myself and a friend (this was in the rural areas of North Carolina) and he smacked his head and exclaimed "Here we go". This happened at around 1pm.
Three young ladies across the bar who were clad in outfits intended to draw the attention of men immediately discussed who gets to go first and the winner came around the bar moving her hips in a long practiced fashion. She came up to me and started talking with me where I explained I was not interested and I greatly appreciate the attention from such a nice young lady.
These three girls were prostitutes... not in the sense of having a price and a rental rate, but upon leaving high school, their only assets (since they were cheerleaders or whatnot) was their bodies and looks. They even lacked personalities as they never bothered learning anything worth conversing about while they were younger. My friend explained that their career path is to find someone who can afford to furnish them with a good life and in exchange, I would have someone willing to do nearly anything to earn her keep.
Common prostitution and this type of prostitution are in fact incompatible with each other as men willing to pay for women simply for the use of their bodies are likely better off with the short term rentals than with the long term ones. It's almost definitely less expensive... although I imagine that would depend on the price and frequency of the services desired.
Therefore it is EXTREMELY important to steer as many people (generally through legal means) away from prostitution as possible since these girls have no prospects otherwise. Even more, most of these girls are daughters of people who are most offended by prostitution and make the most noise about it demanding such laws.
But back to the crime issue.
If you visit any bar where there is sports played on TV, you are almost guaranteed to encounter what we fear most. There are many many guys there pumping up their testosterone levels and surrounding themselves in an environment which is legitimizing poor, caveman like behavior over competitions of domination. That so called "nice boy" down the road is in the hell den yelling at TVs while watching modern day gladiatorial competitions of fighters attempting to domin
That's irrelevant. I never heard of such a cost before now but I live in Europe.
If your technology requires so much work that the upgrade cost is needed to cover the work involved, your system is broken and you shouldn't charge your customers for your failures. It's embarrassing at the least. Who would want to do business with a company with such bad planning skills?
On the other hand, it could be that the most profitable market segment in the country which requires the most upgrades are lower income people. This means teenagers, college kids, poor people, etc... These are all groups that in America are treated as prey by large institutions... need proof, look at the concept of paying a bounced check fee of $50 for using a debit card which didn't have enough money on it. The people who can afford the $20 or $40 more often than not will have fees like that waived for "being such good customers".
Of course they do.. what's the alternative? These companies build wireless networks able to span across one of the largest countries in the world with demands from customers to have 4G when an LTE tower has an effective range of about 8 miles of line of sight or 1.6 miles of rough terrain. There are individual farms in the US that could require 20 or more high powered LTE towers for coverage.
It's not like Europe where there are 2-10 mobile service providers within a country and as soon as you cross to another country, you roam onto another network cleanly. Creating an LTE network in Europe costs nothing and the population density is much higher so the costs are covered more quickly. Also the governments understand the absolute critical importance of a functioning LTE network and fund their build out in to rural areas.
The US is too busy deciding between Trump and Clinton... It's like "Would you prefer to be shot in the left temple or the right temple?"... Either way, NATO will be going to war large scale within 3.5 years.
I seriously wonder how someone can live in the States anymore and not speak both English and Spanish.
Did you know that nearly every American has to study a second language in school at least for a few years?
Did you know that in civilized parts of Europe, every child is expected to started learning a second language in the 1st grade (English) and in middle school start with their third language which they generally achieve proficiency in... currently, my son is required to study 4 languages (if you include his own) and he is in the 8th grade and will be expected to study all of them for 5 years until he's reached real proficiency in them... and this is a normal public school.
Spanish is REALLY REALLY EASY... isn't probably the easiest language EVER... it's the only language I speak which requires no effort at all to learn. If you learn a new word, with few exceptions you know every possible way to use it. Each word you learn and remember immediately expands your vocabulary and language skills greatly. Due to it being a massively spoken language (most spoken native language in the world... more than mandarin) it doesn't get too polluted and as such if you learn one Spanish, you can communicate with more or less all of them.
Get yourself an audiobook and start learning Spanish. There are plenty of people in the US to practice with. Not being able to speak Spanish is almost pathetic.
We're talking about an app that will likely weigh in at 195megs to download and a car that probably has 60 microcontrollers with a protocol that transfers up to 24mbit/sec. Public key is ok.... in fact, public key can be used for the whole exchange, it can't be more than a few bytes.
That said, hacking into public key encryption is not realistic.
Hacking the Linux Bluetooth stack and writing to/dev/gpio is child's play. Bluetooth is such a massive cludge that just the radio code is practically a premade rootkit.
I give it about 2.5 hours before it's cracked the first time.
Tesla, a company with roots in technology and computers sucks at security. Microsoft, Google, Apple and slews of others (including the overwhelming Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc... community) could not on the best day make Bluetooth secure. I'm buying a BMW i3 right now which is extremely smart phone friendly and already know that simply because it's made by BMW it's an open hack fest since BMW is great at making things like drive trains and leather seats, when it comes to anything electronic, they're idiots.
So, here comes the infamous Volvo... a company who specializes in making automotive dinosaurs and they're going to make technology like this?
I believe Amy (Big Bang Theory) explained Volvo best when she made the statement "She was the only girl who would pass out drunk at wild college parties and wake up with more clothes on". That's Volvo in a nut shell... they could sell cars without any locks or security and people still wouldn't steal them.
I wonder if the FBI understands that this should be as embarrassing for them as the O.J. Simpson evidence cock up. It'll work for them this time, but due to their poor handling of evidence in this case, in the future, it will be borderline impossible to decrypt phones even with Apple's help.
Can anyone answer the question as to what the use case for an iPad Pro is?
I have an iPad Mini which I use for watching films on the plane. It's never been overly useful for much else except maybe as a lightweight e-book reader.
If you already own an iPad of some flavor or another, getting an iPad Pro doesn't really make much sense as opposed to simply buying a keyboard cover from Logitech for example.
Once Microsoft released the Surface Pro, I pretty much stopped using the iPad for much of anything other than films and maybe an occasional YouTube video. I only bring it on long haul flights because stripping DRM from iTunes movies takes too long and I keep forgetting to do it the night before, so it delays my exiting of the house by half an hour. I have to strip the DRM since Apple can't make software for a PC or Mac to save their lives and iTunes consumes battery like crazy.
iPad doesn't have a built in stand which means you have to use the fold up case... I do, But it's kinda crap compared to something decent.
If you need a device to be a laptop, well... a laptop is of course the best option. Pen, touch, touch pad and mouse support are the proper combination. Each type of input is suitable for a different work task. Also, a windowed environment is really really nice to have. I like to be able to switch between dozens of Windows quickly.
As for e-books... the Surface Book is awesome for that. It's light and easy to hold and has an amazing screen for reading. The only draw back to the Surface Book is that it's a little easy to get dirty and scuffed up.
So... you can by from Microsoft, Lenevo, etc... proper devices which can operate as tablet or as laptop and can be everything to everyone. Carrying an extra device doesn't make much sense.
So this is where the iPad Pro is supposed to come in. So you're typing a document and you need to move the cursor... so you have to use your clumsy fingers or stop to pickup a pen to move the cursor around. This is insanely inefficient. There's only one window with the possibility of split screen which is kinda clunky. Switching between apps is SLOW... things don't really run in the background either.
Now, iPad runs on Darwin with a different UI than OS X. The CPU/GPU even in my iPad Mini has far more balls than most CPUs and graphics cards I had up until recently. Apple has invested insanely heavily into development of fat binaries or into LLVM IL which means that most modern applications are probably about 99.8% ready to run without even recompiling on ARM if the system libraries are available. In reality, other than the fact that Apple would lose about 80% of their entire Mac Book business if they made the OS X UI available on iPad, they should have simply made it so you could run both user interfaces and switch between modes. Add a keyboard with a touch pad and they would have a pretty good product.
So... as far as I can tell, Apple worked really hard to make a Surface competitor that wouldn't steal business from their Mac Book business... they failed miserably.
In the end... what's the actual market segment for an iPad Pro? Is there a demand for someone to buy what is basically a crippled laptop?
I'm with mbkennel, there are many many many drones which are constantly improving for specifically attacking airplanes.
Making a small drone kamakazi is a far better idea than making a device which deploys weapons. Once the weapon leaves the deployment device (the jet fighter for example) it is extremely limited in its abilities to aim and eventually runs out of fuel etc... Creating one based on an airplane design which can be piloted either autonomously or remotely to chase a plane, smash into it and eliminate it is far more optimal. The cost itself is extremely low as well compared to multiple missiles and bullets deployed by a jet. It's more efficient as well.
So, this leads us to the follow up.
1) We believe no one is working on this tech. We don't actually know. 2) Why are we spending a trillion dollars on planes which require pilots and life support systems and all kinds of things like this when we should be focused on a making a factory which can autonomously produce large numbers of drones on demand extremely rapidly. Then instead of pissing away huge amounts of resources cluelessly, we can simply "print on demand" what we need and exploit the disposable nature of new tech. 3) Where is the value in piloted planes in 2016? Can you honestly say that a jet fighter can be superior to smaller, faster, more agile devices without the needs of transporting or risking humans?
The only answer I have is that most economies in the world depend on government sponsored jobs. Wasting tax payers money on worthless crap like this feeds larges amounts of money into the economy to produce jobs everywhere from useless sales people at DoE contractors down to the girl at the drive through window asking "Would you like fries with that?" three towns over where the floor cleaner lives. It's basically social welfare and/or something leaning towards basic income without saying socialism.
Governments of western nations generally are not allowed to build their own companies to compete with the free market. As such the only way to make government created jobs is to build stuff we don't really need. Sometimes, the only option is to just give money wastefully to some asshole sales guy who will jump off immediately with a golden parachute to avoid job losses.
I would like to see us be a little less stupid with the money than wasting it on putting pilots onto jet fighters and then having to publish articles about "Yeh... in the end, the F-35 is a good plane... the F-16 is a good plane too... I think I could get used to it... it seems like it was really really worth spending a trillion dollars to make another plane which isn't really clearly superior or really needed."
Can anyone actually make a clear statement like "The existence of the F-35 was worth it and the militaries which have it are now clearly better off than they were because of...."
Honestly, is the the right news groups for topics like the one in this thread? It doesn't contribute anything to anything and frankly if the people here are still stereotyping and actually establishing their universal beliefs based on these stereotypes, said people are really not contributing anything valuable to human kind.
Let's make this simple. The world has a lot of people. There are a lot of religions, races and nationalities... and if I understand an article I read a few years back, there are actually more than two naturally occurring genders, 17 if I recall the number correctly.
In every race and gender and nationality etc... there are every type of people. In my experience there is nothing within nature that decides whether a person is more or less of anything due to race, gender, etc...
Now, there are idiots, assholes, morons, schmucks, criminals, criminally stupid, evil, etc... in every category which seems to be proven by some of the contributors of this thread. It appears that society contributes greatly to deciding what kind a person one will be. I have learned that at least within America, there is a far higher likelihood that members of every genetic category will voluntarily choose to be the crap left over at the bottom of the barrel. On the other hand, like every other country on earth, America has an group of people which achieve excellence as well.
If you're the type of person who seems to think that race, gender, etc... define us and believe that the actions of the few define the many, then you actually do fit into a category yourself which you would truly find to be far worse than the categories you're placing others in. The good news is, most of these people usually end up removed from society in one way or another. The bad news is, it seems that at least some of them run for president.
nah... remember... if you're going to be a car person or a gun person (amazing how those seem to go hand in hand) then you have to make stupid comments about how they'll never be able to make a smart gun that works and that they'll never make a car which can drive itself as well as a human. They'll also never make a chess computer who can beat pretty much any huma...
All I know is that my perfect world requires that all roads are completely and totally off limits to any car which doesn't self drive. It's too bad it won't happen today.
Roads are for utility and transportation. Tracks are for fun. Cars are basically weapons and if we can improve the world by replacing human drivers we should NEVER hesitate. If all cars were required in 20 years to be self driving on the road then we can avoid traffic jams, improve safety, decrease harm to the environment by reducing the need for studded tires which damage roads, improve fuel efficiency, etc... humans are just not good enough to drive.
That said neither are computers for the moment... but they will be.
As soon as they make it public that they can open any iPhone they can get a court order for, people with something to hide from them will move to using more secure applications which are written by companies or people the FBI can't so easily influence with the American legal system.
Better yet, they'll move to using programs that are written by people who added security and wouldn't know how to hack them themselves.
So, basically, all they're doing is educating the criminals to use technologies that are more secure written by companies outside of their jurisdiction.
If they open this phone, it basically will guarantee they will never be able to get to "terrorist data" ever again.
How come no one ever bitches about this? I bet you that 99% of all terrorists have moved to using something more secure by now.
The founding fathers were just as big a bunch of dicks as the current lot. Often worse.
The "justice for all" bullshit was because they were pissed at what British Parliament did to the colonies by taxing them. King George III wasn't able to do much more than watch from the side lines. He was pissed at them too.
The truth is, more than half possibly 3/4 of the founding fathers probably would have hung Tim Cook and beat him until he cried like a girl and screamed "open it, open it".
I always wondered if those guys were so great and wise and pure and all that shit... why would they write a constitution which more or less would so easily let the country devolve into some religion where we have now existed for decades without a single amendment to improve the document by modernizing it for the times? Where's the review requirement? We treat the document as an absolute as if it is perfect in every way and to question that is borderline treason. Where is the part of the document which would protect civil liberties regarding electronic data protection? It's not there because the founding fathers didn't absolutely require that the constitution is reviewed and updated.
It was written by a bunch of pissy little bitches and a poet or two. They were all pissy at England and wrote a document to provide freedom from their oppressors for a million people or so and didn't give a shit whether it lasted 200 years in the future and certainly had no clue it would eventually be used to govern 400 million people from every country, race and religion as equals.
If you want to be true to yourself, with a few exceptions, these guys were mostly soulmates with Donald Trump. They weren't wise, they weren't great, they didn't shoot lightning bolts from their eyes and they didn't shit daffodils when they sat upon the bowl. They were men who :
a) Wanted to secure power for themselves and their families
b) Represented a group of truly fucked up people who believed righteousness was the Salem Witch Trials.
c) Believed black people were less valuable than dogs since you could love a dog.
d) Believed that religious freedom meant you should be free to believe in any form of Christianity you want.
e) The one odd ball or two who felt it was a chance to do something wholesome and good.
Don't place politicians pedestals. They might make impressive art, but they sure as hell are nothing more than people and very rarely are they more than sales people.
I don't remember if they have the feature, but don't they try to inform you when you've used a password before? If so, they probably keep the hash and wouldn't even need to use backups.
1) BB was a good platform for its time. It's near absolute inflexibility from a development perspective made it a good platform for security since it was hard enough to code, it was pretty hard to hack. Palm Pilot wasn't bad either in its time. 2) BB10 is not BB. It is based on QNX which (I have extremely extensive experience coding for at a system level in direct coordination with QNX themselves) and is otherwise an entirely new operating system consisting of millions of lines of code produced by hundreds of developers over a short span of a few years. 3) To suggest that much new and untested code (no it hasn't been) is sheer silliness and doesn't belong in a forum for people who claim to understand technology. It is mathematically impossible to develop that much code that fast with that many people and have a secure platform.
So, let's talk about this... an iPhone and a Blackberry compared side by side are equally insecure. Sure, the obvious routes probably aren't a problem, but hackers don't use obvious routes... well sometimes the do... depends on what you consider obvious:)
I have always hated people saying things like "I don't even run antivirus, I'm running a Mac. Unlike a PC, it's secure!". I would respond "Just because no one is openly hacking it currently doesn't mean it's secure".
BES is secure until the messages hit the phones. Once they reach the phone, all security is absolutely gone. Secure messages require secure keys. Secure keys are 3072 bits or longer (for now according to the NSA... this means they can crack 3072 but they believe others can't). Unless you are manually typing 768 hexadecimal characters into the phone every time you log in to use BES, the key used for decrypting your messages is stored on the phone somewhere.
The key to decrypt the keys is probably a pin code or possibly up to a 10 character password convenient to type on the BB keyboard without too many shifts, controls, etc...
If I can locate the store of the key, locate the code to decrypt the key, find the location of 2 or more messages which contain headers (all do), then with the proper computational power, I can obtain the key to decrypt all messages stored by BES on the phone. It's only a matter of CPU. While the number of possible passwords to decrypt the keys increases exponentially with each character in length, the fact a laptop can crack 6 characters in a few second, 8 characters in about 10 minutes, throw 65536 CPUs or a few FPGAs at the problem and it would do 10 characters in about 10 minutes.
I never have been figuring out why so many idiots think that BES is secure... to decrypt messages, the phone has to be storing the information required to decrypt them. At some level there must be a way to read the messages and the security isn't as strong as the door and the lock securing it. It's as strong as the box next to the door holding a spare key that is guarded by a simple code.
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Last I checked (and I check often), we have about as much idea how the mitochondria of a organic cell functioned as we do about the cultural habits of a octoped race from planet Kolob. We have absolutely no idea how cells work and we sure as hell have back asswards ideas about how the human body works. We try to apply science to things like nutrition and diet, but the truth is, we have absolutely no idea how the body works and we pretty much just guess our way along.
Don't get me wrong... I don't want us to stop, we probably will never understand how a human cell works. We will try this magical trial and error approach getting things wrong for thousands of years to come. Maybe we'll eventually have something representing a clue. For now, let's make sure that the whackos who become doctors and think they actually understand anything about the human body have some tools to try and keep us alive a bit longer. Sooner or later, we'll have to replace them... they really really suck at it
Mine has an i7, nVidia Graphics, 16gigs of RAM and a pretty high performance SSD. I'm not sure on what planet that's not a workstation. It's a tablet with better specs than any high end workstation I've ever used. If I need more, I plug it into my 56 Xeon core/768 gig cluster.
It is NOT however a game machine. I can play Final Fantasy XIII at 3000x2000, but the frame rate is the bare minimum before it's playable. I hope they put out a better GPU keyboard for it sooner or later
The shareholders report placed those $200 billion at much less if you play the numbers right. Apple is regularly borrowing against that cash in extremely large amount in the form of bonds. This allows them to keep most of their cash overseas. While they might have $200 billion in assets, they have a HUGE amount of liabilities to go with it. So... they probably really only have somewhere between $50 and $100 billion maybe even less as the remainder is security against the loans.
There was the other point that the holdings are of course in liquid assets, that doesn't mean that it is in cash. As the poster mentioned, if Apple were to cash out on that too quickly, it would hurt a lot of company which Apple likely depends on and therefore hurt Apple. If they could safely make more than a few billion per quarter liquid, it would be a miracle.
In reality, I don't think Apple will have cash flow problems (other than tax loopholes being closed) in the near future. But having $200 billion and being able to access $200 billion are two totally different things.
Let me start by asking a few things :
1) What the fuck is a "Checknian"? Are you the last person on this planet which can't see a squiggly red line beneath a work or are you using Netscape 4.7 to surf the web?
2) USAians? Benjamin Franklin spend the greatest part of his life publishing a newspaper where he intentionally edited all articles to ensure that the term American referred to the people who would rise up to establish a great nation. The people of all states would stand united under this great name American. He would teach the people of the USA to identify themselves under this great common title. If for 200+ years the word American as it is currently established within the Merriam Webster American English Dictionary has propagated throughout the world to identify a citizen or resident of the United States of America, is it actually necessary to apply the stupidity of suggesting that "American might confuse someone and therefore we should clarify with the far more accurate and socially sensitive term USAian"? Mexicans, Canadians, Brazilians, etc... they all know who they are and they may tease the US about the term American, but the word is here to stay. Quit being a dick.
3) Latino Invaders? Did they establish an army and march in and invade? Latino immigrants is more accurate. First of all, not everyone is actually against them coming to America. In fact, some people welcome them and wish them the best. America was made great by immigrants. Oddly, America's greatness seemed to decline about the time we tried to make it harder for immigrants to come. Consider historically all the great accomplishments of America and you'll find that nearly every single one of them were accomplished by immigrants or first generation Americans. America does not breed greatness, it never has. America attracts greatness. Greatness comes from people giving up absolutely everything a person knows or loves and risking everything to go to a place you're not welcome... all to go somewhere you can become great... and people like you want to shoot these people at the borders.
4) Obama... here's a president which while incompetent (it's a job requirement, see previous 43 presidents) is a pretty good person. He can't go door to door placing his hand on each head and curing all the sick and feeding all the poor. What he has attempted to accomplish over the past 7 years is to tried and make people healthy enough to work and pay taxes. He has tried to allow immigrants to contribute to the system and not only consume jobs, but to create new job markets and strengthen the US economy (no it doesn't happen over night.. it takes time... it may or may not fail). He has tried to establish good relations with as many countries of the world he could. He has started tearing down national borders and boundaries and tried to make America a productive part of Earth as a whole. He has tried to limit the strength of oil nations that controlled whether you could afford to drive to work. He has tried to clean up the mess in Afghanistan, Iraq, the Syria, etc... he failed, but the important thing is, he tried and it doesn't really matter who got stuck with that, there was/is no good answer there. But like Bush (pick one), Clinton, Reagan, etc... he's a good person. He tried, no matter how much people like you hated him to go to work each day and make America and the world as a whole a better place... just like his predecessors. Let's reiterate an earlier statement... quit being a dick.
5) Finally... President Putin.. yes... just like Obama and pretty much all presidents before him, Putin likes his country. Putin has made a career similar to how Obama had which would identify the illnesses of his country and try to correct them. Putin spends money on aiding and assisting their friends and neighbors all the time. This is part of being a leader of a country. Everyone who can chip in chips in.
Let me point out that when Abraham Lincoln died, (minor exaggeration coming) if anyone attended his funeral, it was to piss on his grav
Fairly irresponsible comment here.
CDC which while being a US agency where politics are sometimes played is generally a reliable source of information on diseases. They have not made any comments to confirm that any of your listed issues are a reality. They also don't deny them. They instead say "We don't know" which I assume means "We don't know yet".
The post you responded to takes one extreme and your response takes another.
As far as I can tell, there's nothing that links the Zika virus to spontaneous abortions, stillbirths or early infant mortality. In the cases where these issues are reported, Zika was a variable that should be investigated for linkage to the events, but a pregnancy has tens of trillions of variables involved over a 9 month period which all relate to those three issues. The presence of Zika in those cases means that there is an additional variable to consider which we can in fact research and hopefully identify as benign.
I'm not trying to be a denier, instead I'm trying to be a voice of reason. Making blanket statements regarding whether a virus does or doesn't cause medical issues is very dangerous and if there is too much of this going around, people may be infected globally with another disease called FUD which is currently mostly contained within the 51 states of the US (continental, Hawaii, Alaska, England). Remember that's a country where pregnant women are so scared of pregnancy to begin with that they attend Lamaze classes to learn how to breath.
The last thing we want is to unjustifiably cause expecting families even greater reasons to panic over child birth. So far as I can tell, about 7 billion living people worldwide were in fact born at some point. Only about 400 million of them were born in a country (the US) where the act of child birthing is treated as if there are 10000 terrorists coming from every angle to attack their unborn child. Probably about 200 million of these people were even born at a time before we went bat shit crazy. That said, America's infant mortality rate is among the worst in the first world.
So, what we do as mature responsible adults is that we respond with things like "Except that until we prove otherwise, there's a possibility and a legitimate concern that Zika can be linked to spontaneous abortions, stillbirths and early infant mortality".
And banks should be tortured for exploiting the poor with things like bounce check fees.
And Walmart should not be allow to pay dividends approximately equal in value to the amount US tax payers are required to pay their employees in welfare and food stamps.
And legal limits should be set on interest rates that can be charged by predatory operations like check cashing places who prey on the weak.
And grocery stores should be required to stop wasting so damn much aisle space on shit like Corn Flakes when they should focus far more on Reese's cereal.
There are many injustices in this world. The problem with the government is that with almost no exceptions, people who think they would do a better job in office and are willing to actually sell their souls to get there are generally as bad as the last guy. Consider how much work it takes to get into such a position... then consider how much work those jobs require (mostly kissing the asses of the other politicians), then consider how little you can actually accomplish while there, then consider the scale of the tower of bureaucratic bullshit you can't possibly figure out on your own. It's really a mess and these things won't be fixed because the people willing to take the job are simply unqualified for it.
Somehow, unless you're just a raving lunatic (don't worry, we do in fact believe you are a genuine raving lunatic) and simply felt like ranting, I somehow believe you might have direct experience with ITT Tech and could have provided us with real life knowledge of how ITT works.
I have never met an ITT graduate before and for the most part, the few people I know who have tried ITT were... well... rednecks. This is not meant to be an insult so to say... and these are people I love like family. But they have purchased items from home shopping network and infomercials... even when they were talking about how money was really tight this month.
Can you tell use, possibly with a few less expletives or possibly with the same quantity but more appropriately placed what your experience was?
Prostitution is a crime which may or may not have victims. Where lack of prostitution tends to always have victims.
If you look at statistics worldwide, cities which are known for overlooking prostitution worldwide even though they have laws prohibiting it tend to have far lower rape incidents. I personally have a terror of diseases one risks by using the services of these ladies, so I wouldn't make use of them myself, but I do know consumers of their services. Some of them speak openly about it as if it makes perfect rational sense.
I worked with one guy for several years who would talk about hiring a prostitute no differently than the other guys would talk about going on a date. He didn't get into details about what he would do with these girls, but he knew that he was not the guy who would be able to find a mate for an evening at a bar (he unfortunately was not a pretty man) and his personality was too analytical and not warm enough to find someone long term. So, he came to grips with the fact that prostitutes were his only real option for sexual and possibly emotional companionship. He did inform me that he had found methods of hiring girls who were "their own pimps" and beholden to no one (other than the mortgage bank, electric company, telephone company etc...). He would never hire a girl who had a boss and he would go so far as to pay above asking prices and even give gifts.
I will admit, the way he made it sound, it very likely was the "purest way" of having something like a spouse he could find.
Prostitution has many forms. I have been to many bars where I've learned that it's very important to pay cash, using small bills for everything. I was visiting one bar where the moment I took an American Express Gold Card out of my wallet to pay for a drink for myself and a friend (this was in the rural areas of North Carolina) and he smacked his head and exclaimed "Here we go". This happened at around 1pm.
Three young ladies across the bar who were clad in outfits intended to draw the attention of men immediately discussed who gets to go first and the winner came around the bar moving her hips in a long practiced fashion. She came up to me and started talking with me where I explained I was not interested and I greatly appreciate the attention from such a nice young lady.
These three girls were prostitutes... not in the sense of having a price and a rental rate, but upon leaving high school, their only assets (since they were cheerleaders or whatnot) was their bodies and looks. They even lacked personalities as they never bothered learning anything worth conversing about while they were younger. My friend explained that their career path is to find someone who can afford to furnish them with a good life and in exchange, I would have someone willing to do nearly anything to earn her keep.
Common prostitution and this type of prostitution are in fact incompatible with each other as men willing to pay for women simply for the use of their bodies are likely better off with the short term rentals than with the long term ones. It's almost definitely less expensive... although I imagine that would depend on the price and frequency of the services desired.
Therefore it is EXTREMELY important to steer as many people (generally through legal means) away from prostitution as possible since these girls have no prospects otherwise. Even more, most of these girls are daughters of people who are most offended by prostitution and make the most noise about it demanding such laws.
But back to the crime issue.
If you visit any bar where there is sports played on TV, you are almost guaranteed to encounter what we fear most. There are many many guys there pumping up their testosterone levels and surrounding themselves in an environment which is legitimizing poor, caveman like behavior over competitions of domination. That so called "nice boy" down the road is in the hell den yelling at TVs while watching modern day gladiatorial competitions of fighters attempting to domin
That's irrelevant. I never heard of such a cost before now but I live in Europe.
If your technology requires so much work that the upgrade cost is needed to cover the work involved, your system is broken and you shouldn't charge your customers for your failures. It's embarrassing at the least. Who would want to do business with a company with such bad planning skills?
On the other hand, it could be that the most profitable market segment in the country which requires the most upgrades are lower income people. This means teenagers, college kids, poor people, etc... These are all groups that in America are treated as prey by large institutions... need proof, look at the concept of paying a bounced check fee of $50 for using a debit card which didn't have enough money on it. The people who can afford the $20 or $40 more often than not will have fees like that waived for "being such good customers".
Of course they do.. what's the alternative? These companies build wireless networks able to span across one of the largest countries in the world with demands from customers to have 4G when an LTE tower has an effective range of about 8 miles of line of sight or 1.6 miles of rough terrain. There are individual farms in the US that could require 20 or more high powered LTE towers for coverage.
It's not like Europe where there are 2-10 mobile service providers within a country and as soon as you cross to another country, you roam onto another network cleanly. Creating an LTE network in Europe costs nothing and the population density is much higher so the costs are covered more quickly. Also the governments understand the absolute critical importance of a functioning LTE network and fund their build out in to rural areas.
The US is too busy deciding between Trump and Clinton... It's like "Would you prefer to be shot in the left temple or the right temple?"... Either way, NATO will be going to war large scale within 3.5 years.
I seriously wonder how someone can live in the States anymore and not speak both English and Spanish.
Did you know that nearly every American has to study a second language in school at least for a few years?
Did you know that in civilized parts of Europe, every child is expected to started learning a second language in the 1st grade (English) and in middle school start with their third language which they generally achieve proficiency in... currently, my son is required to study 4 languages (if you include his own) and he is in the 8th grade and will be expected to study all of them for 5 years until he's reached real proficiency in them... and this is a normal public school.
Spanish is REALLY REALLY EASY... isn't probably the easiest language EVER... it's the only language I speak which requires no effort at all to learn. If you learn a new word, with few exceptions you know every possible way to use it. Each word you learn and remember immediately expands your vocabulary and language skills greatly. Due to it being a massively spoken language (most spoken native language in the world... more than mandarin) it doesn't get too polluted and as such if you learn one Spanish, you can communicate with more or less all of them.
Get yourself an audiobook and start learning Spanish. There are plenty of people in the US to practice with. Not being able to speak Spanish is almost pathetic.
We're talking about an app that will likely weigh in at 195megs to download and a car that probably has 60 microcontrollers with a protocol that transfers up to 24mbit/sec. Public key is ok.... in fact, public key can be used for the whole exchange, it can't be more than a few bytes.
/dev/gpio is child's play. Bluetooth is such a massive cludge that just the radio code is practically a premade rootkit.
That said, hacking into public key encryption is not realistic.
Hacking the Linux Bluetooth stack and writing to
I live in Norway... Volvo here is as classy as a Ford Fiesta or an AMC Gremlin. As far as I know, even Swedes wouldn't want to be seen in one.
I give it about 2.5 hours before it's cracked the first time.
Tesla, a company with roots in technology and computers sucks at security. Microsoft, Google, Apple and slews of others (including the overwhelming Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, etc... community) could not on the best day make Bluetooth secure. I'm buying a BMW i3 right now which is extremely smart phone friendly and already know that simply because it's made by BMW it's an open hack fest since BMW is great at making things like drive trains and leather seats, when it comes to anything electronic, they're idiots.
So, here comes the infamous Volvo... a company who specializes in making automotive dinosaurs and they're going to make technology like this?
I believe Amy (Big Bang Theory) explained Volvo best when she made the statement "She was the only girl who would pass out drunk at wild college parties and wake up with more clothes on". That's Volvo in a nut shell... they could sell cars without any locks or security and people still wouldn't steal them.
I wonder if the FBI understands that this should be as embarrassing for them as the O.J. Simpson evidence cock up. It'll work for them this time, but due to their poor handling of evidence in this case, in the future, it will be borderline impossible to decrypt phones even with Apple's help.
Can anyone answer the question as to what the use case for an iPad Pro is?
I have an iPad Mini which I use for watching films on the plane. It's never been overly useful for much else except maybe as a lightweight e-book reader.
If you already own an iPad of some flavor or another, getting an iPad Pro doesn't really make much sense as opposed to simply buying a keyboard cover from Logitech for example.
Once Microsoft released the Surface Pro, I pretty much stopped using the iPad for much of anything other than films and maybe an occasional YouTube video. I only bring it on long haul flights because stripping DRM from iTunes movies takes too long and I keep forgetting to do it the night before, so it delays my exiting of the house by half an hour. I have to strip the DRM since Apple can't make software for a PC or Mac to save their lives and iTunes consumes battery like crazy.
iPad doesn't have a built in stand which means you have to use the fold up case... I do, But it's kinda crap compared to something decent.
If you need a device to be a laptop, well... a laptop is of course the best option. Pen, touch, touch pad and mouse support are the proper combination. Each type of input is suitable for a different work task. Also, a windowed environment is really really nice to have. I like to be able to switch between dozens of Windows quickly.
As for e-books... the Surface Book is awesome for that. It's light and easy to hold and has an amazing screen for reading. The only draw back to the Surface Book is that it's a little easy to get dirty and scuffed up.
So... you can by from Microsoft, Lenevo, etc... proper devices which can operate as tablet or as laptop and can be everything to everyone. Carrying an extra device doesn't make much sense.
So this is where the iPad Pro is supposed to come in. So you're typing a document and you need to move the cursor... so you have to use your clumsy fingers or stop to pickup a pen to move the cursor around. This is insanely inefficient. There's only one window with the possibility of split screen which is kinda clunky. Switching between apps is SLOW... things don't really run in the background either.
Now, iPad runs on Darwin with a different UI than OS X. The CPU/GPU even in my iPad Mini has far more balls than most CPUs and graphics cards I had up until recently. Apple has invested insanely heavily into development of fat binaries or into LLVM IL which means that most modern applications are probably about 99.8% ready to run without even recompiling on ARM if the system libraries are available. In reality, other than the fact that Apple would lose about 80% of their entire Mac Book business if they made the OS X UI available on iPad, they should have simply made it so you could run both user interfaces and switch between modes. Add a keyboard with a touch pad and they would have a pretty good product.
So... as far as I can tell, Apple worked really hard to make a Surface competitor that wouldn't steal business from their Mac Book business... they failed miserably.
In the end... what's the actual market segment for an iPad Pro? Is there a demand for someone to buy what is basically a crippled laptop?
I'm with mbkennel, there are many many many drones which are constantly improving for specifically attacking airplanes.
Making a small drone kamakazi is a far better idea than making a device which deploys weapons. Once the weapon leaves the deployment device (the jet fighter for example) it is extremely limited in its abilities to aim and eventually runs out of fuel etc... Creating one based on an airplane design which can be piloted either autonomously or remotely to chase a plane, smash into it and eliminate it is far more optimal. The cost itself is extremely low as well compared to multiple missiles and bullets deployed by a jet. It's more efficient as well.
So, this leads us to the follow up.
1) We believe no one is working on this tech. We don't actually know.
2) Why are we spending a trillion dollars on planes which require pilots and life support systems and all kinds of things like this when we should be focused on a making a factory which can autonomously produce large numbers of drones on demand extremely rapidly. Then instead of pissing away huge amounts of resources cluelessly, we can simply "print on demand" what we need and exploit the disposable nature of new tech.
3) Where is the value in piloted planes in 2016? Can you honestly say that a jet fighter can be superior to smaller, faster, more agile devices without the needs of transporting or risking humans?
The only answer I have is that most economies in the world depend on government sponsored jobs. Wasting tax payers money on worthless crap like this feeds larges amounts of money into the economy to produce jobs everywhere from useless sales people at DoE contractors down to the girl at the drive through window asking "Would you like fries with that?" three towns over where the floor cleaner lives. It's basically social welfare and/or something leaning towards basic income without saying socialism.
Governments of western nations generally are not allowed to build their own companies to compete with the free market. As such the only way to make government created jobs is to build stuff we don't really need. Sometimes, the only option is to just give money wastefully to some asshole sales guy who will jump off immediately with a golden parachute to avoid job losses.
I would like to see us be a little less stupid with the money than wasting it on putting pilots onto jet fighters and then having to publish articles about "Yeh... in the end, the F-35 is a good plane... the F-16 is a good plane too... I think I could get used to it... it seems like it was really really worth spending a trillion dollars to make another plane which isn't really clearly superior or really needed."
Can anyone actually make a clear statement like "The existence of the F-35 was worth it and the militaries which have it are now clearly better off than they were because of...."
Honestly, is the the right news groups for topics like the one in this thread? It doesn't contribute anything to anything and frankly if the people here are still stereotyping and actually establishing their universal beliefs based on these stereotypes, said people are really not contributing anything valuable to human kind.
Let's make this simple. The world has a lot of people. There are a lot of religions, races and nationalities... and if I understand an article I read a few years back, there are actually more than two naturally occurring genders, 17 if I recall the number correctly.
In every race and gender and nationality etc... there are every type of people. In my experience there is nothing within nature that decides whether a person is more or less of anything due to race, gender, etc...
Now, there are idiots, assholes, morons, schmucks, criminals, criminally stupid, evil, etc... in every category which seems to be proven by some of the contributors of this thread. It appears that society contributes greatly to deciding what kind a person one will be. I have learned that at least within America, there is a far higher likelihood that members of every genetic category will voluntarily choose to be the crap left over at the bottom of the barrel. On the other hand, like every other country on earth, America has an group of people which achieve excellence as well.
If you're the type of person who seems to think that race, gender, etc... define us and believe that the actions of the few define the many, then you actually do fit into a category yourself which you would truly find to be far worse than the categories you're placing others in. The good news is, most of these people usually end up removed from society in one way or another. The bad news is, it seems that at least some of them run for president.
I'm not 100% sure, but isn't this something from the movie Hackers?
Didn't the bad guy manage to get the FBI to chase down the kids because of a cyber pathogen?
I wonder if this cyber pathogen is named "The DaVinci Virus".
It worked for the guys in the movies... maybe it'll work for the lawyer.
nah... remember... if you're going to be a car person or a gun person (amazing how those seem to go hand in hand) then you have to make stupid comments about how they'll never be able to make a smart gun that works and that they'll never make a car which can drive itself as well as a human. They'll also never make a chess computer who can beat pretty much any huma...
All I know is that my perfect world requires that all roads are completely and totally off limits to any car which doesn't self drive. It's too bad it won't happen today.
Roads are for utility and transportation. Tracks are for fun. Cars are basically weapons and if we can improve the world by replacing human drivers we should NEVER hesitate. If all cars were required in 20 years to be self driving on the road then we can avoid traffic jams, improve safety, decrease harm to the environment by reducing the need for studded tires which damage roads, improve fuel efficiency, etc... humans are just not good enough to drive.
That said neither are computers for the moment... but they will be.
As soon as they make it public that they can open any iPhone they can get a court order for, people with something to hide from them will move to using more secure applications which are written by companies or people the FBI can't so easily influence with the American legal system.
Better yet, they'll move to using programs that are written by people who added security and wouldn't know how to hack them themselves.
So, basically, all they're doing is educating the criminals to use technologies that are more secure written by companies outside of their jurisdiction.
If they open this phone, it basically will guarantee they will never be able to get to "terrorist data" ever again.
How come no one ever bitches about this? I bet you that 99% of all terrorists have moved to using something more secure by now.
The founding fathers were just as big a bunch of dicks as the current lot. Often worse.
The "justice for all" bullshit was because they were pissed at what British Parliament did to the colonies by taxing them. King George III wasn't able to do much more than watch from the side lines. He was pissed at them too.
The truth is, more than half possibly 3/4 of the founding fathers probably would have hung Tim Cook and beat him until he cried like a girl and screamed "open it, open it".
I always wondered if those guys were so great and wise and pure and all that shit... why would they write a constitution which more or less would so easily let the country devolve into some religion where we have now existed for decades without a single amendment to improve the document by modernizing it for the times? Where's the review requirement? We treat the document as an absolute as if it is perfect in every way and to question that is borderline treason. Where is the part of the document which would protect civil liberties regarding electronic data protection? It's not there because the founding fathers didn't absolutely require that the constitution is reviewed and updated.
It was written by a bunch of pissy little bitches and a poet or two. They were all pissy at England and wrote a document to provide freedom from their oppressors for a million people or so and didn't give a shit whether it lasted 200 years in the future and certainly had no clue it would eventually be used to govern 400 million people from every country, race and religion as equals.
If you want to be true to yourself, with a few exceptions, these guys were mostly soulmates with Donald Trump. They weren't wise, they weren't great, they didn't shoot lightning bolts from their eyes and they didn't shit daffodils when they sat upon the bowl. They were men who :
a) Wanted to secure power for themselves and their families
b) Represented a group of truly fucked up people who believed righteousness was the Salem Witch Trials.
c) Believed black people were less valuable than dogs since you could love a dog.
d) Believed that religious freedom meant you should be free to believe in any form of Christianity you want.
e) The one odd ball or two who felt it was a chance to do something wholesome and good.
Don't place politicians pedestals. They might make impressive art, but they sure as hell are nothing more than people and very rarely are they more than sales people.
I don't remember if they have the feature, but don't they try to inform you when you've used a password before? If so, they probably keep the hash and wouldn't even need to use backups.
I'll address this in a few parts.
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1) BB was a good platform for its time. It's near absolute inflexibility from a development perspective made it a good platform for security since it was hard enough to code, it was pretty hard to hack. Palm Pilot wasn't bad either in its time.
2) BB10 is not BB. It is based on QNX which (I have extremely extensive experience coding for at a system level in direct coordination with QNX themselves) and is otherwise an entirely new operating system consisting of millions of lines of code produced by hundreds of developers over a short span of a few years.
3) To suggest that much new and untested code (no it hasn't been) is sheer silliness and doesn't belong in a forum for people who claim to understand technology. It is mathematically impossible to develop that much code that fast with that many people and have a secure platform.
So, let's talk about this... an iPhone and a Blackberry compared side by side are equally insecure. Sure, the obvious routes probably aren't a problem, but hackers don't use obvious routes... well sometimes the do... depends on what you consider obvious
I have always hated people saying things like "I don't even run antivirus, I'm running a Mac. Unlike a PC, it's secure!". I would respond "Just because no one is openly hacking it currently doesn't mean it's secure".
BES is secure until the messages hit the phones. Once they reach the phone, all security is absolutely gone. Secure messages require secure keys. Secure keys are 3072 bits or longer (for now according to the NSA... this means they can crack 3072 but they believe others can't). Unless you are manually typing 768 hexadecimal characters into the phone every time you log in to use BES, the key used for decrypting your messages is stored on the phone somewhere.
The key to decrypt the keys is probably a pin code or possibly up to a 10 character password convenient to type on the BB keyboard without too many shifts, controls, etc...
If I can locate the store of the key, locate the code to decrypt the key, find the location of 2 or more messages which contain headers (all do), then with the proper computational power, I can obtain the key to decrypt all messages stored by BES on the phone. It's only a matter of CPU. While the number of possible passwords to decrypt the keys increases exponentially with each character in length, the fact a laptop can crack 6 characters in a few second, 8 characters in about 10 minutes, throw 65536 CPUs or a few FPGAs at the problem and it would do 10 characters in about 10 minutes.
I never have been figuring out why so many idiots think that BES is secure... to decrypt messages, the phone has to be storing the information required to decrypt them. At some level there must be a way to read the messages and the security isn't as strong as the door and the lock securing it. It's as strong as the box next to the door holding a spare key that is guarded by a simple code.