The DOJ don't want you to be able to own a thing they can't open. It could be a new super-secure safe, a car with a security trunk, or an electronic device.
If they attack your right to own such a thing, they look like bad guys. So, they've been working behind the scenes to ensure you can't acquire such a thing to begin with. The secret moves against Truecrypt and now the iPhone encryption show this new strategy . I don't know how many other companies have been pressured also.
I think it's wrong, but I don't know what to do about it.
I watched the Arab Spring online on Al Jazeera English and really appreciated the live coverage. (Well, the hours of the live video feed from the cameras around the square in Cairo got a bit snoozy, but anyway...) Then Al Jazeera America (and their exclusive cable contracts) started up & I lost live coverage of anything because I wasn't a cable subscriber. I'm hoping this change puts things back to where they were.
I stole a copy of "Why a Slide Rule Works" from the high school library and was way ahead of my math class the following year on logarithms & exponents. Asimov was a pretty good teacher.
I still have a Post VersaTrig around here somewhere...
Police Officers will react exactly as they have been trained.
Some decades ago, a police agency in the south came up with "better" firearms training. They installed moving targets. The Officer would wait until the target began moving right to left, or vice-versa, and only then were they allowed to fire. Months of this "improved" training.
An Officer responded to a armed robbery call and, per training, parked not near the door, but some distance away. As the bad guy ran out the door of the business, the Officer fired at the moving target. As the store manager ran out the door chasing the bad guy, the Officer fired at the moving target.
I'm just saying that the training must be carefully thought through because that's how officers will respond. In fast situations Police don't evaluate and respond, they react.
Some folks believe the key to Electric car adoption is better batteries. The Powerhouse by Steve Levine follows the quest for better battery technology. It's not written as well as it might be, but it's still an interesting read...
Well, not very quickly from what I've seen. I recently installed Chrome on a Windows machine & it has Flash baked in. You can disable it, but you can't remove it.
I tuned in to say the same thing. Police departments all over the US use encrypted radios every day. I bought a used Motorola Sabre II on Ebay for use on the Ham bands & it still had the encryption chip installed. I removed it because even if you're not using it it's a heck of a drain on the battery.
Back in '92, as part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first B29 flight, the Boeing Employees Amateur Radio Society (BEARS) had a special event ham radio station on the air. They were set up near the airplane and when one engine was fired up as a demo, their station was unreadable for about 3 minutes. It was pretty neat to hear just over the radio....and, yes, I made a contact & got my special event QSL card from K7NWS with a nice photo of a B29 in flight..
It seems every few months someone discovers a vulnerability in a home router, and some websites even test multiple routers in a security "shoot-out". I've been reading these reports for years, but I've never seen an Apple router mentioned. Are Apple routers that much more secure or does no-one bother to test them?
Alerting the user to change the damaged battery makes sense. Now we need to convince the manufacturers to design devices which would make this possible.
Back about the time of the first iMac, Apple also introduced the "G3 (blue & white) Tower". A few months later, when everyone knew that a G4 Mac tower was in the works but hadn't been introduced yet, some aftermarket outfits offered an upgrade kit which allowed you to install a G4 processor in your G3 tower.
Apple released an update (disguised as something I can't remember, a video card update, perhaps) which broke all of these aftermarket G4 upgrade kits.
The behavior described in this court case was just the way Jobs ran things.
Some years back I decided to play around with FVWM. I was astounded with quality the man pages. FVWM isn't so much a window manager as it is a window manager *kit*, with lots & lots of configuration options. But the documentation is some of the best I've seen.
I've just been trying to work with lightdm here, myself (disable guest login & not auto-fill-in the last user name) and found the same as you. The config files have even been moved and no-one bothered to mention that.
Anyway, I usually end up in some user forum or other. Luckily I haven't had many unique problems. Almost always someone, somewhere, has had to figure it out before me & is willing to pass on the info.
Mine is a TPLINK WDR3600. Simultaneous dual-band, gigabit everything, 2 USB ports, and even a real power button (!). It's been running "ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT (12.09, r36088) " for a little more than a year and it's great.
This is the country where those in charge are so terrified of any change they had TV commercials promoting $1 coins - and then gave up on them. They are also afraid of big changes to US notes (why not make them from plastic like Australia does?) in order to fight counterfeiting. In this, as in all other technology, the USA will be well behind the rest of the world.
You all know that they have the technology - via the digital set-top boxes - to only charge you for the minutes you watch, but no-one even talks about that. Why am I paying for ESPN even when I'm watching NBC?
That's why the cable companies are "fighting" ala carte & will finally give in. They don't want folks really thinking about this.
If my phone company can charge me by the minute why can't the cable TV company?
I'll check this out - it's nice to see something from EFF that I can install to match my EFF stickers:). I wonder about cookies, tho. IME some websites won't work if you block their cookies & it's better to just accept cookies then delete them after.
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The DOJ don't want you to be able to own a thing they can't open. It could be a new super-secure safe, a car with a security trunk, or an electronic device.
If they attack your right to own such a thing, they look like bad guys. So, they've been working behind the scenes to ensure you can't acquire such a thing to begin with. The secret moves against Truecrypt and now the iPhone encryption show this new strategy . I don't know how many other companies have been pressured also.
I think it's wrong, but I don't know what to do about it.
Every engineer has five senses:
sight
hearing
touch
smell
taste
Every great engineer has two additional senses
horse
common
I watched the Arab Spring online on Al Jazeera English and really appreciated the live coverage. (Well, the hours of the live video feed from the cameras around the square in Cairo got a bit snoozy, but anyway...) Then Al Jazeera America (and their exclusive cable contracts) started up & I lost live coverage of anything because I wasn't a cable subscriber. I'm hoping this change puts things back to where they were.
CRC Standard Math Tables, 28th edition. Old, but still works.
Haven't used in years, but I'm not getting rid of it, either.
I can remember when the Feds wanted everyone with a CB radio to have a license, too.
As opposed to uncertain users, I guess...
I stole a copy of "Why a Slide Rule Works" from the high school library and was way ahead of my math class the following year on logarithms & exponents. Asimov was a pretty good teacher.
I still have a Post VersaTrig around here somewhere...
Police Officers will react exactly as they have been trained.
Some decades ago, a police agency in the south came up with "better" firearms training. They installed moving targets. The Officer would wait until the target began moving right to left, or vice-versa, and only then were they allowed to fire. Months of this "improved" training.
An Officer responded to a armed robbery call and, per training, parked not near the door, but some distance away. As the bad guy ran out the door of the business, the Officer fired at the moving target. As the store manager ran out the door chasing the bad guy, the Officer fired at the moving target.
I'm just saying that the training must be carefully thought through because that's how officers will respond. In fast situations Police don't evaluate and respond, they react.
Some folks believe the key to Electric car adoption is better batteries. The Powerhouse by Steve Levine follows the quest for better battery technology. It's not written as well as it might be, but it's still an interesting read...
http://www.goodreads.com/book/...
Well, not very quickly from what I've seen. I recently installed Chrome on a Windows machine & it has Flash baked in. You can disable it, but you can't remove it.
You won't be able to tell the difference, Doug. And that's guaranteed. Or your money back.
I tuned in to say the same thing. Police departments all over the US use encrypted radios every day. I bought a used Motorola Sabre II on Ebay for use on the Ham bands & it still had the encryption chip installed. I removed it because even if you're not using it it's a heck of a drain on the battery.
Back in '92, as part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the first B29 flight, the Boeing Employees Amateur Radio Society (BEARS) had a special event ham radio station on the air. They were set up near the airplane and when one engine was fired up as a demo, their station was unreadable for about 3 minutes. It was pretty neat to hear just over the radio. ...and, yes, I made a contact & got my special event QSL card from K7NWS with a nice photo of a B29 in flight..
It seems every few months someone discovers a vulnerability in a home router, and some websites even test multiple routers in a security "shoot-out". I've been reading these reports for years, but I've never seen an Apple router mentioned. Are Apple routers that much more secure or does no-one bother to test them?
Tom & Ray were doing a bit on "Boston'isms"...
Tom: "Okay, how 'bout this one... kahkis"
Ray: "kahkis? You mean like pants?"
Tom: "no.... like 'I need to go to the store but I can't find my kahkis' "
--------- ... RIP Tom.. gonna miss ya fella..
Alerting the user to change the damaged battery makes sense. Now we need to convince the manufacturers to design devices which would make this possible.
Back about the time of the first iMac, Apple also introduced the "G3 (blue & white) Tower". A few months later, when everyone knew that a G4 Mac tower was in the works but hadn't been introduced yet, some aftermarket outfits offered an upgrade kit which allowed you to install a G4 processor in your G3 tower.
Apple released an update (disguised as something I can't remember, a video card update, perhaps) which broke all of these aftermarket G4 upgrade kits.
The behavior described in this court case was just the way Jobs ran things.
Gee, what a surprise.
Some years back I decided to play around with FVWM. I was astounded with quality the man pages. FVWM isn't so much a window manager as it is a window manager *kit*, with lots & lots of configuration options. But the documentation is some of the best I've seen.
I've just been trying to work with lightdm here, myself (disable guest login & not auto-fill-in the last user name) and found the same as you. The config files have even been moved and no-one bothered to mention that.
Anyway, I usually end up in some user forum or other. Luckily I haven't had many unique problems. Almost always someone, somewhere, has had to figure it out before me & is willing to pass on the info.
Mine is a TPLINK WDR3600. Simultaneous dual-band, gigabit everything, 2 USB ports, and even a real power button (!). It's been running "ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT (12.09, r36088) " for a little more than a year and it's great.
This is the country where those in charge are so terrified of any change they had TV commercials promoting $1 coins - and then gave up on them. They are also afraid of big changes to US notes (why not make them from plastic like Australia does?) in order to fight counterfeiting. In this, as in all other technology, the USA will be well behind the rest of the world.
You all know that they have the technology - via the digital set-top boxes - to only charge you for the minutes you watch, but no-one even talks about that. Why am I paying for ESPN even when I'm watching NBC?
That's why the cable companies are "fighting" ala carte & will finally give in. They don't want folks really thinking about this.
If my phone company can charge me by the minute why can't the cable TV company?
I'll check this out - it's nice to see something from EFF that I can install to match my EFF stickers :). I wonder about cookies, tho. IME some websites won't work if you block their cookies & it's better to just accept cookies then delete them after.
Some small nuclear reactors can be quite stable and run for a long time...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
This might be a step in the right direction. I can't even leave an app review on the Play Store unless I sign up for Google +. Kill it now.