TrueCrypt is exactly getting this treatment, crowd funding style.
After how many years? Truecrypt has been out for a decade, meets the definition of open source, and despite its relatively modest size is only now receiving audit to see if the source can be trusted and that the binaries everyone has been using were actually built from it.
As such I wouldn't hold much faith that just because Cyanogenmod is open that suddenly it's more secure than a proprietary product. It might be and open source is good for a raft of reasons, but I suspect anyone who wanted to throw an exploit could still bury it in plain sight if they wished. Cyanogenmod has a penchant for integrating bells and whistles so it might not even be somewhere obvious either.
At least this TextSecure protocol appears to be competently written though it does require some manual verification to prevent man in the middle attacks.
People who live longer and more productive lives pay more taxes and help the economy. It's in a government's interest to keep people healthy and reproducing. I suppose that once people retire that the incentive declines, but then again governments can simply the raise the age of retirement (as the UK has done). At some point the figures have to balance out.
I'm not "overlooking" anything. Assuming you are the original AC, you just ignored my obvious rebuttal of your BS and went off on a tangent. And what a tangent! You pull some hypothetical figure of life expectancy from your ass, proclaim it to be fact, extrapolate it into a "soylent green" type scenario and think it somehow validates the your original nonsense. It doesn't.
Cures are not perpetually profitable. Only treatments are.
Well that's a particularly cretinous argument. Purely from a profit perspective which is better for doctors, hospitals, "big pharma" and insurers - a dead kid or someone who is cured and goes on to live another 70 years, requiring all kinds of medical interventions during that time not just for himself but for any children he may have?
Alternatively it would drop you off at your front door and stop dead a mile down the road because a small leaf has obscured a sensor, or it can't figure how manoeuvre around an obstacle or it's confused by a road diversion sign. Then you can enjoy the delights of hauling your ass down the road respond to your stranded vehicle which might even need a tow if its out of power.
It is for this and a multitude of other every day scenarios that it is unlikely a vehicle like this is coming any time in the foreseeable future. Self drive will most likely mean advanced driving modes, which might include hands free driving in some limited and controlled circumstances. It will also most likely require a conscious and unimpaired driver behind the wheel to take over at very short notice.
The Silk Road was running in Tor as well and it got taken down. It just depends how high profile the service is and how badly the cops want to shut it down - a cost benefit thing. So if a service was laundering millions of bitcoins then the cops are sure as hell going to run an investigation on it. Also if I were a cop or an intelligence agency, I would be setting up some laundering services of my own. Perhaps some of these services running right now are sting operations.
I could see the potential benefit of using drones to facilitate express delivery of packages between depots or designated collection points. I don't see how they are practical for delivering all the way to some random recipient. At the very least someone would have to geotag a landing spot which was free from wires and other hazards - would they trust the customer to do that or would they need someone to come out? Aside from that I'm sure there are severe limits on the size and weight of the things it can deliver. Not to mention the cost of such a service.
Services like The Silk Road basically anonymized payments. The site ran a "tumbler" where incoming and outgoing payments were separated. Presumably the site also multiple wallets so incomings went in one wallet and outgoings from another. The wallets could be balanced out with random transactions between them. So anyone tracing it out would have a seriously hard time and could only make weak inferences.
I assume anyone could run such a service although it would be predominantly used for money laundering and therefore instantly attract the attention of law enforcement. Zero coin sounds like pretty much the same idea but in a more distributed way, to allow people to exchange money for a token and then redeem that token later, separating the transaction chain.
Why are states allowing themselves to be blackmailed like this? Why can't they just release "open source" text books and hand them out for free in EPUB format? Buy the kids an e-reader or a cheap tablet instead and load it up with the books. I bet it would work out far cheaper than physical books and would mean that neither publishers or one particular state (with a high % of idiots) could interfere with their curriculums.
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Only if CD playback proves to be an exploit that throws a multi billion dollar platform open to endemic piracy. Otherwise I doubt it.
And as one of the few people who actually used OtherOS, I still completely understand why they killed it.
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Oh let me google that for you. Oh wait, do it yourself.
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Extremely unlikely and besides Sony are already on record that they're working on the support. So it'll drop in some version of the firmware.
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A pretty lame reason to drop $400-500. Both systems will obviously support CD playback and ripping eventually and stuff like DLNA. I expect both companies just took the pragmatic view that such features take a long time to develop and test and are not critical at a hard product launch so best to bring them in later.
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That more or less summarises it for me. None of the 1st party or exclusives are much cop for either system and the 3rd party games are just the current gen's engine with some tweaks to lighting and resolution. Eventually they'll get there, but not just yet. I also expect that 6 months down the line and both platforms will roll out better firmwares and cloud services to go with it. They might even release consoles through retail which can be played out of the box without lengthy firmware downloads.
I really don't understand the mentality of anyone who buys a console at launch. Even if there were a few good games you'd be playing them for a very long time before any more appeared. It's not even like either console is backwards compatible to bridge the gap.
The PS4 is smaller than the second PS3 slim. I wouldn't call that a trip back to anything. The XBox One on the other hand is as big as the original 360 and looks like a crappy HTPC case. Look at the ars technica comparison if you want to see the difference.
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This is absurd. Risk of being exposed? I'm sure the NSA is more than capable of running a few fake personas.
TrueCrypt is exactly getting this treatment, crowd funding style.
After how many years? Truecrypt has been out for a decade, meets the definition of open source, and despite its relatively modest size is only now receiving audit to see if the source can be trusted and that the binaries everyone has been using were actually built from it.
As such I wouldn't hold much faith that just because Cyanogenmod is open that suddenly it's more secure than a proprietary product. It might be and open source is good for a raft of reasons, but I suspect anyone who wanted to throw an exploit could still bury it in plain sight if they wished. Cyanogenmod has a penchant for integrating bells and whistles so it might not even be somewhere obvious either.
At least this TextSecure protocol appears to be competently written though it does require some manual verification to prevent man in the middle attacks.
It's too bad that virtually 99% of sites will be using H264 AVC and AAC.
People who live longer and more productive lives pay more taxes and help the economy. It's in a government's interest to keep people healthy and reproducing. I suppose that once people retire that the incentive declines, but then again governments can simply the raise the age of retirement (as the UK has done). At some point the figures have to balance out.
I'm not "overlooking" anything. Assuming you are the original AC, you just ignored my obvious rebuttal of your BS and went off on a tangent. And what a tangent! You pull some hypothetical figure of life expectancy from your ass, proclaim it to be fact, extrapolate it into a "soylent green" type scenario and think it somehow validates the your original nonsense. It doesn't.
Cures are not perpetually profitable. Only treatments are.
Well that's a particularly cretinous argument. Purely from a profit perspective which is better for doctors, hospitals, "big pharma" and insurers - a dead kid or someone who is cured and goes on to live another 70 years, requiring all kinds of medical interventions during that time not just for himself but for any children he may have?
Well that is pretty cretinous reasoning. Measles used to be endemic, now it isn't. And why? Because people get vaccinated.
It is for this and a multitude of other every day scenarios that it is unlikely a vehicle like this is coming any time in the foreseeable future. Self drive will most likely mean advanced driving modes, which might include hands free driving in some limited and controlled circumstances. It will also most likely require a conscious and unimpaired driver behind the wheel to take over at very short notice.
The guy driving the car for starters since he was clearly travelling WAY about the posted speed limit.
The Silk Road was running in Tor as well and it got taken down. It just depends how high profile the service is and how badly the cops want to shut it down - a cost benefit thing. So if a service was laundering millions of bitcoins then the cops are sure as hell going to run an investigation on it. Also if I were a cop or an intelligence agency, I would be setting up some laundering services of my own. Perhaps some of these services running right now are sting operations.
I could see the potential benefit of using drones to facilitate express delivery of packages between depots or designated collection points. I don't see how they are practical for delivering all the way to some random recipient. At the very least someone would have to geotag a landing spot which was free from wires and other hazards - would they trust the customer to do that or would they need someone to come out? Aside from that I'm sure there are severe limits on the size and weight of the things it can deliver. Not to mention the cost of such a service.
Even better, you could steal the drone while you were at it.
I assume anyone could run such a service although it would be predominantly used for money laundering and therefore instantly attract the attention of law enforcement. Zero coin sounds like pretty much the same idea but in a more distributed way, to allow people to exchange money for a token and then redeem that token later, separating the transaction chain.
For the most part I agree, but the GPLv3 is positively toxic for certain kinds of deployment such as set top boxes.
They weren't scare quotes.
Why are states allowing themselves to be blackmailed like this? Why can't they just release "open source" text books and hand them out for free in EPUB format? Buy the kids an e-reader or a cheap tablet instead and load it up with the books. I bet it would work out far cheaper than physical books and would mean that neither publishers or one particular state (with a high % of idiots) could interfere with their curriculums.
And as one of the few people who actually used OtherOS, I still completely understand why they killed it.
Oh let me google that for you. Oh wait, do it yourself.
Extremely unlikely and besides Sony are already on record that they're working on the support. So it'll drop in some version of the firmware.
A pretty lame reason to drop $400-500. Both systems will obviously support CD playback and ripping eventually and stuff like DLNA. I expect both companies just took the pragmatic view that such features take a long time to develop and test and are not critical at a hard product launch so best to bring them in later.
I really don't understand the mentality of anyone who buys a console at launch. Even if there were a few good games you'd be playing them for a very long time before any more appeared. It's not even like either console is backwards compatible to bridge the gap.
The PS4 is smaller than the second PS3 slim. I wouldn't call that a trip back to anything. The XBox One on the other hand is as big as the original 360 and looks like a crappy HTPC case. Look at the ars technica comparison if you want to see the difference.
Cows produce 100 litres of methane every day so that's a lot of farting.
They probably need to remote desktop or get you to install remote software to "fix" whatever malware they intend to install.
You should set up a VM running XP and let them fuck around in that for a while.