They'll have to wait their turn -- the Congressional investigating committees are all booked up until November 2016, investigating Benghazi and Planned Parenthood.
Indeed. Most people wrote "GOTO fail" off as a mistake, but I'd say more than likely it was planted.
If so, then at least the attackers there had the common decency to make it look like it could have been a mistake. Here they don't even try to hide their tracks -- shameless!:p
And electric doesn't actually help much because almost all diesel pollution is from heavy trucks which at present aren't really going to be made electric.
Pure electric big rigs won't be widespread anytime soon, but hybrid-electric trucks are a real thing.
I predict, that most â" if not all â" of the added capacity will be eaten by new hardware and features, as happened with the rest of the computer-industry.
And I predict that nobody (other than a few habitual complainers on Slashdot) will be the least bit bothered by that, because once you get to about 18 hours of battery life, that's good enough.
As long as my cell phone can keep going until I plug it in to the charger, just before I go to sleep, it doesn't matter at all to me whether it has 5 minutes of battery remaining or 5 hours. Either way, it will be fully charged again in the morning.
The reality is if government were serious and not themselves governed by corporate greed, they would do what they have done in war time, suspend all patents and force corporations to work together with universities and the government in order to achieve the best possible battery in the shortest possible time and then sort out the patents.
That strategy was a real winner for the USSR, it's what gave them the superior technology they needed to win the Cold War.
So it seems clear that the real reason for the government push for encryption backdoors is an attempt not to catch the most dangerous terrorists that they're constantly talking about, but rather a selection of "low-hanging fruit" of various sorts: Inept would-be low-level terrorists [...]
Yes, this is exactly who the government wants to get to -- inept low-level terrorists who aren't knowledgable or trained enough to consistently use secure/ISIS approved software and instead use the standard communications software that came with their cell phone or computer, because that's what is convenient and familiar to them.
And that isn't nothing, given that one of the big threats is "self-radicalizing individuals" who by definition won't be be elite ISIS commandos but rather otherwise-regular people who decided one day to prepare and commit an atrocity.
While I don't think mandating a government back door to all encrypted communications is a viable solution, let's not pretend the government doesn't have a valid use case here -- being able to monitor the communications of those people would give the government an opportunity to stop them before their big day.
Hmm, inventing a machine that removes CO2 from the air and converts it to solid form (for burial, or perhaps use as a building material) would be very helpful... especially if the machine can be powered using renewable energy, of course:)
Apple would have little reason to hide the fact that they were getting into building cars.
Since when has Apple ever needed a reason to hide things? A friend of mine went to work for Apple, he's no longer permitted to confirm or deny his own existence...
I hope they've verified that nothing bad happens when you stack the speakers module directly above or below the HDD module and then play music at top volume for a few hours:)
Are we witnessing the final stages of some sort of Trump Rhetorical Singularity?
It seems like every news cycle he has to top himself by saying something even more hyperbolic, and that in the last week the velocity of the hyperbole has been noticeably accelerating.
At this rate, I assume that by Saturday he will be calling for the immediate launching of nuclear missiles against every country that might harbor terrorist, and where he goes after that nobody can even speculate.
I don't think it's quite fair to call this "snitching" -- the feature worked as advertised, performing the function that the driver had agreed to have it perform, and likely even paid extra for. It's not like this monitoring service was installed behind her back or without her permission.
If she didn't have the foresight to realize that her summon-help-after-an-accident feature would also make it more difficult to get away with a hit-and-run, that's on her, not on the car.
If you're a sane businessperson, you make sure your server software is easily portable to any OS, so that when a particular vendor tries to hike their licensing fees, you can just say "thanks, no thanks" and move your software to some other platform as necessary.
Or, if you're completely blinkered and naive, maybe you've decided to irrevocably tie yourself and your company to a single vendor's platform, so that they can now do whatever they want to you and your only choice is to either pay up or rewrite your software from scratch.
If you find yourself paying lots of money to run your software on an OS named for and designed around its GUI interface --- in order to run your software on a headless server in the cloud -- you might be in the latter category.
Had I been there and they told me what they needed to do, I would have told them to look up red-black binary trees. They would have been done by 10 PM and gone home. Instead they spent the entire night "inventing" it and debugging all the issues involved.
You're right that re-inventing the wheel like that isn't efficient, but on the other hand, once you've gone through the process yourself, you end up with very intimate and visceral knowledge of how the algorithm works -- if they had simply reused an existing implementation, the algorithm would still be largely a "black box" to them.
What does the EPA do? Enforce laws passed by Congress. This is preschool-level civics, here.
Congress created the Environmental Protection Agency to, you know, protect the environment. So, when excess CO2 was determined to be a threat to the environment, the EPA was therefore authorized by existing law to take steps to address the problem. That's not my legal reasoning, that's the reasoning of the Supreme Court.
On an orbital class rocket your engine will have too much thrust making it impossible to hover. That is what SpaceX is trying to do. Land using a thrust to weight greater than one.
Speaking from a position of complete ignorance here -- is there no way to reduce the thrust of the rocket to the preferred rate?
Backslash-as-a-filepath-separator is extremely annoying, both because it's gratuitously different from every other OS, and because it's also used (in C, C++, and elsewhere) as an escape character, which can cause endless hilarity for anyone who isn't very careful about that.
And I'd also like them to replace the Windows DOS prompt with bash running inside a proper terminal window. Installed by default.
But I have no idea where this "zero knowledge encryption" label came from or what it's intended to actually mean.
Without going to extreme measures like actually reading the article, I'm going to guess that they mean encryption mechanisms where the service provider (read: Apple or Google) has no way to unilaterally decrypt the user's data, because the only place the decryption passwords/keys are ever stored is on the user's device.
Maybe the US Navy designed TOR to be vulnerable in the first place
Yes, it could have all just been an elaborate ruse... but given the fact that any software of non-trivial complexity has vulnerabilities in it somewhere, it's more likely that the designers of TOR didn't foresee every possible attack vector. This would make them neither more nor less nefarious than any other designers of (allegedly) secure software.
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They'll have to wait their turn -- the Congressional investigating committees are all booked up until November 2016, investigating Benghazi and Planned Parenthood.
Indeed. Most people wrote "GOTO fail" off as a mistake, but I'd say more than likely it was planted.
If so, then at least the attackers there had the common decency to make it look like it could have been a mistake. Here they don't even try to hide their tracks -- shameless! :p
And electric doesn't actually help much because almost all diesel pollution is from heavy trucks which at present aren't really going to be made electric.
Pure electric big rigs won't be widespread anytime soon, but hybrid-electric trucks are a real thing.
I predict, that most â" if not all â" of the added capacity will be eaten by new hardware and features, as happened with the rest of the computer-industry.
And I predict that nobody (other than a few habitual complainers on Slashdot) will be the least bit bothered by that, because once you get to about 18 hours of battery life, that's good enough.
As long as my cell phone can keep going until I plug it in to the charger, just before I go to sleep, it doesn't matter at all to me whether it has 5 minutes of battery remaining or 5 hours. Either way, it will be fully charged again in the morning.
The reality is if government were serious and not themselves governed by corporate greed, they would do what they have done in war time, suspend all patents and force corporations to work together with universities and the government in order to achieve the best possible battery in the shortest possible time and then sort out the patents.
That strategy was a real winner for the USSR, it's what gave them the superior technology they needed to win the Cold War.
There are plenty of real existing problems to complain about before ranting at plots from The Jetsons.
Jetsons? I thought this was the plot to Atlas Shrugged...
See the problem?
Maybe he's planning to enslave the natives.
From the article:
So it seems clear that the real reason for the government push for encryption backdoors is an attempt not to catch the most dangerous terrorists that they're constantly talking about, but rather a selection of "low-hanging fruit" of various sorts: Inept would-be low-level terrorists [...]
Yes, this is exactly who the government wants to get to -- inept low-level terrorists who aren't knowledgable or trained enough to consistently use secure/ISIS approved software and instead use the standard communications software that came with their cell phone or computer, because that's what is convenient and familiar to them.
And that isn't nothing, given that one of the big threats is "self-radicalizing individuals" who by definition won't be be elite ISIS commandos but rather otherwise-regular people who decided one day to prepare and commit an atrocity.
While I don't think mandating a government back door to all encrypted communications is a viable solution, let's not pretend the government doesn't have a valid use case here -- being able to monitor the communications of those people would give the government an opportunity to stop them before their big day.
Hmm, inventing a machine that removes CO2 from the air and converts it to solid form (for burial, or perhaps use as a building material) would be very helpful... especially if the machine can be powered using renewable energy, of course :)
Apple would have little reason to hide the fact that they were getting into building cars.
Since when has Apple ever needed a reason to hide things? A friend of mine went to work for Apple, he's no longer permitted to confirm or deny his own existence...
I hope they've verified that nothing bad happens when you stack the speakers module directly above or below the HDD module and then play music at top volume for a few hours :)
Annealing? I RTFS and am envisioning repeatedly setting the D-Wave on fire and letting it cool slowly.
As I recall, the Pentium 4 chip worked along those same lines.
How did gun control help prevent the multiple attacks in Paris?
It prevented the other attacks -- the ones you didn't read about because the attackers were unable to acquire the guns needed to carry them out.
Are we witnessing the final stages of some sort of Trump Rhetorical Singularity?
It seems like every news cycle he has to top himself by saying something even more hyperbolic, and that in the last week the velocity of the hyperbole has been noticeably accelerating.
At this rate, I assume that by Saturday he will be calling for the immediate launching of nuclear missiles against every country that might harbor terrorist, and where he goes after that nobody can even speculate.
Good times!
I don't think it's quite fair to call this "snitching" -- the feature worked as advertised, performing the function that the driver had agreed to have it perform, and likely even paid extra for. It's not like this monitoring service was installed behind her back or without her permission.
If she didn't have the foresight to realize that her summon-help-after-an-accident feature would also make it more difficult to get away with a hit-and-run, that's on her, not on the car.
If you're a sane businessperson, you make sure your server software is easily portable to any OS, so that when a particular vendor tries to hike their licensing fees, you can just say "thanks, no thanks" and move your software to some other platform as necessary.
Or, if you're completely blinkered and naive, maybe you've decided to irrevocably tie yourself and your company to a single vendor's platform, so that they can now do whatever they want to you and your only choice is to either pay up or rewrite your software from scratch.
If you find yourself paying lots of money to run your software on an OS named for and designed around its GUI interface --- in order to run your software on a headless server in the cloud -- you might be in the latter category.
Had I been there and they told me what they needed to do, I would have told them to look up red-black binary trees. They would have been done by 10 PM and gone home. Instead they spent the entire night "inventing" it and debugging all the issues involved.
You're right that re-inventing the wheel like that isn't efficient, but on the other hand, once you've gone through the process yourself, you end up with very intimate and visceral knowledge of how the algorithm works -- if they had simply reused an existing implementation, the algorithm would still be largely a "black box" to them.
Ad astra per aspera and all that...
Why do we all insist on learning things for professional gain, rather than for fun?
You know what's not fun? Working non-professional, minimum wage jobs all your life. Hence the desire for professional gain.
And we have since seen 50 years of industry move to China and elsewhere.
That would have happened anyway, since in China (until recently, anyway) and other third world countries, labor is dirt-cheap.
And in the meantime, I can breathe fairly clean, healthy air, even here in Los Angeles. Try that in Beijing....
What does the EPA do? Enforce laws passed by Congress. This is preschool-level civics, here.
Congress created the Environmental Protection Agency to, you know, protect the environment. So, when excess CO2 was determined to be a threat to the environment, the EPA was therefore authorized by existing law to take steps to address the problem. That's not my legal reasoning, that's the reasoning of the Supreme Court.
On an orbital class rocket your engine will have too much thrust making it impossible to hover. That is what SpaceX is trying to do. Land using a thrust to weight greater than one.
Speaking from a position of complete ignorance here -- is there no way to reduce the thrust of the rocket to the preferred rate?
Backslash-as-a-filepath-separator is extremely annoying, both because it's gratuitously different from every other OS, and because it's also used (in C, C++, and elsewhere) as an escape character, which can cause endless hilarity for anyone who isn't very careful about that.
And I'd also like them to replace the Windows DOS prompt with bash running inside a proper terminal window. Installed by default.
But I have no idea where this "zero knowledge encryption" label came from or what it's intended to actually mean.
Without going to extreme measures like actually reading the article, I'm going to guess that they mean encryption mechanisms where the service provider (read: Apple or Google) has no way to unilaterally decrypt the user's data, because the only place the decryption passwords/keys are ever stored is on the user's device.
Reductio ad absurdum noted. Now on to the harder part -- how can we most effectively prevent acts of terrorism without doing all of the above?
Maybe the US Navy designed TOR to be vulnerable in the first place
Yes, it could have all just been an elaborate ruse... but given the fact that any software of non-trivial complexity has vulnerabilities in it somewhere, it's more likely that the designers of TOR didn't foresee every possible attack vector. This would make them neither more nor less nefarious than any other designers of (allegedly) secure software.