I like that "...or whose intimate parts are exposed in whole or in part..." section. So any little side boob or butt cheek could get you sued. Maybe even an ankle if they wear a burka religiously or something. Wow, talk about open to abuse!
I seem to recall it's a 'broken clock', but of course, that whole statement is pre-digital. Speaking of which, I don't think a digital clock can get stuck, unless you are implying something involving body cavities. If so, can I direct you to some politicians and the housewares department?
Inert is a munitions that won't explode, period. Often a device filled with concrete. In the case of trying to imitate a c4 device, clay or playdo. However, almost anything can be made to explode if know what you're doing. So long ago in junior high (this was before all the stupid paranoia) in science class we made explosives from many things, including charcoal, sugar, and steel. It's just basic chemistry. As to the sugar, we didn't just make it explode, we also made some rocket motors from it. It's a high caloric material, so that kind of stuff is really easy with it. The worst of the lot was the steel. Needed oxidizers and stuff. It's been too long, and I don't remember what all we did with it. Oh well, posting that kind of stuff these days would probably have a swat team running a tank through your front door. It's amazing how ignorant and cowardly people are anymore.
The only secure system is the one that's completely destroyed, and even then... The question is how much effort, time, and money the crackers are willing to throw at it.
On Apples side, it may not be a total victory, but it's no where near pyrrhic. Apple hasn't been force to develop cracking software for it's own product, which is exactly what they were fighting about. Although I don't consider this a total win, as that would include setting a clear legal precedent that companies do not have to develop new products or capabilities to provide 'reasonable assistance' to law enforcement, I do feel they caused the FBI to retreat from the conflict because the FBI realized they'd loose this fight and such a precedent would be established, but to their embarrassment.
Ever hear of the IRA ? Just because you didn't know about people killing lots of unarmed civilians doesn't mean it wasn't happening. Also, and more importantly for this thread, why are we talking about mass murder when the thread is about corporate corruption scamming more money for a service they have no requirement to deliver on?
Exactly. They've already been given plenty of exclusions, exceptions, grants, tax breaks, and may other things to provide that which they still haven't provided, and now they want even more money with no requirement to actually deliver. They may have bought enough politicians to get what they want, but I doubt the public will fall for it.
Last time I checked, the danger level of a distracted pedestrian that isn't inside a museum without those velvet ropes was a damage threat of no actual injure and monetary costs not to exceed one latte. It's not like they kill other people, or plow through storefronts, or destroy vehicles worth thousands of dollars and up. I guess Lampitt is planning her next bill to be the Drunken Walker Bill where if you have an blood alcohol concentration exceeding 0.08 you get a an expensive ticket for drunk walking. Then of course, they'll have to start licensing people to walk, and they'll have to get insurance for it as well or they won't be legally allowed to walk, etc.
I wonder what would happen if they do get it pushed enough that they are allowed to bring their guns in. Would there be more iron there than a foundry? Let's say there were enough of these people afraid to be without a gun there, that we'll just say there were a lot of them. I don't know how large the crowd is expected to be, but let's say 15% of it is armed. What do you think would happen if in the midsts of all this, somebody were to yell "GUN!" ? I'm betting at least one or two yahoos would pull theirs. Then someone else would see them with their gun out, and possibly pull theirs and shoot. Then the lead infestation would probably occur with several people shooting in confused conditions crowded with people. Since in real world shootout conditions, even cops that have significant training for this kind of thing tend to miss a LOT, I'm betting just about the only ones not hit would be the shooters. I really wonder how they'd respond to that.
The problem is stupid programmers, or script monkeys, that make really bad assumptions or restrictions. It's not that hard to avoid these issues in the first place, unless you're working on a system that only has 256 bytes. Yes, I learned machine language on computers that literally only had 256 bytes. I'm definitely using the right term of byte, as in a group of 8 bits, each bit being a representation of a 1 or a 0. I know your phone 'may' literally have a billion times more memory/storage, but it's not always that convenient.
Of course here's a biggie to think about. Of all these outraged people pissed off at not getting the full bandwidth devouring mega-resolution version they thought they were downloading to their tiny handheld device, before the publishing of this 'revelation', I never once heard anyone complain about the quality of the netflix video on their phones. THEY HAD NO IDEA! Now mind you, we are talking about a crowd that can pick up when the shader in a video game is off by a tiny amount, or the frame rate is 3% slow, or the resolution was reduced by 8%. They have to visual skills to identify any monkeying around with the image, and yet they didn't spot anything at all wrong with netflix on their phones. I'm thinking the complainers have just succumbed to a massive video version of nocebo.
By they way, they were also stupid. My daughter watches netflix on her tablet or her moms phone all the time. I've seen the data usage rates and it was bloody obvious from the first time I checked that they were reducing the stream to something appropriate to the device being used instead of blasting out the full sized files.
e-ink/e-paper is really cheap to make, and yes, it does have some advantages for certain things, like viewing in sunlight, and it also has disadvantages, but that's another thread. The problem is it's new and marketing is getting themselves all worked up with the hopes of a premium profit orgy since this is new tech. Thus you have to pay utterly stupid prices to get your hands on it. It's too bad really, if they put it at a more realistic pricing, it would have already taken over the display world for various purposes. (Not video, it currently doesn't do color video worth a snot.)
Typosquatting isn't done to screw people over, it's done to screw them out of money. The generalized screwing over is just a byproduct of the financial redistribution efforts.
"No sir, we know exactly where it is. It's just that we can't currently communicate with it, board it, or in any way move or recover it." "Do you think the Americans would let us borrow the Hughes Glomar Explorer for a few weeks?"
No sir! It was demilled as per instructions via detonation in an old wreck that is not an aquatic habitat sir! (I have no idea how Navy would actually report that, so I'm using the hollywood junk which is probably wrong.)
That seems unlikely. Ask Japan for verification.:( Oh wait! I see, you were trying to make a James Bond reference joke. I wonder how many people got that.
And with all the knowledge already floating out there that a grad student in the USA has build a functional nuclear device that was only missing the fissionable material for it's core, and the fact that the USA made nukes with 1940s technology at a time period that even most scientist doubted it could be done, and North Korea has only in the last 2 years done anything that MIGHT be a nuclear detonation, but it was so wimpy compared to even the two used on Japan that the experts at analyzing this kind of stuff have publicly stated doubts about it having reached critical mass! So just because someone in this or another first or even second world country could do it with access to home depot, don't make bets that the NK can.
Have you ever tried to hold a meeting with North Korea? Yeah, neither have I, but we both can read about the many historical attempts at such. I don't know about you, but I have. For all that it matters, NK would have been more reasonable at most of those meetings if they'd have sent a rabid mime.
Broken Arrow, Bent Spear, and Dull Sword. I suspect all 3 terms, they are for different types of issues relating to that, were developed before an incident actually occurred. Though it seems likely at least one of them was after, but it's not like there's a unclassified history file on that kind of thing.:P To any of the paranoid out there, those terms are all known to the public, even if the incidents probably aren't. Hmmm... I wonder if anyone has stuck them on Wikipedia yet.
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Well that explains what kind of people the FBI have, and they are so keen to break locks.
I like that "...or whose intimate parts are exposed in whole or in part..." section. So any little side boob or butt cheek could get you sued. Maybe even an ankle if they wear a burka religiously or something. Wow, talk about open to abuse!
I seem to recall it's a 'broken clock', but of course, that whole statement is pre-digital.
Speaking of which, I don't think a digital clock can get stuck, unless you are implying something involving body cavities. If so, can I direct you to some politicians and the housewares department?
Inert is a munitions that won't explode, period. Often a device filled with concrete. In the case of trying to imitate a c4 device, clay or playdo.
However, almost anything can be made to explode if know what you're doing. So long ago in junior high (this was before all the stupid paranoia) in science class we made explosives from many things, including charcoal, sugar, and steel. It's just basic chemistry. As to the sugar, we didn't just make it explode, we also made some rocket motors from it. It's a high caloric material, so that kind of stuff is really easy with it. The worst of the lot was the steel. Needed oxidizers and stuff. It's been too long, and I don't remember what all we did with it. Oh well, posting that kind of stuff these days would probably have a swat team running a tank through your front door. It's amazing how ignorant and cowardly people are anymore.
Why is it the previous posters fault that SEATAC is a mess?
They can't. They didn't create it.
The only secure system is the one that's completely destroyed, and even then...
The question is how much effort, time, and money the crackers are willing to throw at it.
On Apples side, it may not be a total victory, but it's no where near pyrrhic. Apple hasn't been force to develop cracking software for it's own product, which is exactly what they were fighting about. Although I don't consider this a total win, as that would include setting a clear legal precedent that companies do not have to develop new products or capabilities to provide 'reasonable assistance' to law enforcement, I do feel they caused the FBI to retreat from the conflict because the FBI realized they'd loose this fight and such a precedent would be established, but to their embarrassment.
Obviously, ianal.
Ever hear of the IRA ?
Just because you didn't know about people killing lots of unarmed civilians doesn't mean it wasn't happening.
Also, and more importantly for this thread, why are we talking about mass murder when the thread is about corporate corruption scamming more money for a service they have no requirement to deliver on?
Exactly. They've already been given plenty of exclusions, exceptions, grants, tax breaks, and may other things to provide that which they still haven't provided, and now they want even more money with no requirement to actually deliver.
They may have bought enough politicians to get what they want, but I doubt the public will fall for it.
Last time I checked, the danger level of a distracted pedestrian that isn't inside a museum without those velvet ropes was a damage threat of no actual injure and monetary costs not to exceed one latte. It's not like they kill other people, or plow through storefronts, or destroy vehicles worth thousands of dollars and up.
I guess Lampitt is planning her next bill to be the Drunken Walker Bill where if you have an blood alcohol concentration exceeding 0.08 you get a an expensive ticket for drunk walking. Then of course, they'll have to start licensing people to walk, and they'll have to get insurance for it as well or they won't be legally allowed to walk, etc.
I wonder what would happen if they do get it pushed enough that they are allowed to bring their guns in.
Would there be more iron there than a foundry?
Let's say there were enough of these people afraid to be without a gun there, that we'll just say there were a lot of them. I don't know how large the crowd is expected to be, but let's say 15% of it is armed.
What do you think would happen if in the midsts of all this, somebody were to yell "GUN!" ?
I'm betting at least one or two yahoos would pull theirs. Then someone else would see them with their gun out, and possibly pull theirs and shoot. Then the lead infestation would probably occur with several people shooting in confused conditions crowded with people. Since in real world shootout conditions, even cops that have significant training for this kind of thing tend to miss a LOT, I'm betting just about the only ones not hit would be the shooters.
I really wonder how they'd respond to that.
The problem is stupid programmers, or script monkeys, that make really bad assumptions or restrictions.
It's not that hard to avoid these issues in the first place, unless you're working on a system that only has 256 bytes.
Yes, I learned machine language on computers that literally only had 256 bytes.
I'm definitely using the right term of byte, as in a group of 8 bits, each bit being a representation of a 1 or a 0.
I know your phone 'may' literally have a billion times more memory/storage, but it's not always that convenient.
Are you suggesting that as a rule of thumb?
Of course here's a biggie to think about. Of all these outraged people pissed off at not getting the full bandwidth devouring mega-resolution version they thought they were downloading to their tiny handheld device, before the publishing of this 'revelation', I never once heard anyone complain about the quality of the netflix video on their phones.
THEY HAD NO IDEA!
Now mind you, we are talking about a crowd that can pick up when the shader in a video game is off by a tiny amount, or the frame rate is 3% slow, or the resolution was reduced by 8%. They have to visual skills to identify any monkeying around with the image, and yet they didn't spot anything at all wrong with netflix on their phones.
I'm thinking the complainers have just succumbed to a massive video version of nocebo.
By they way, they were also stupid.
My daughter watches netflix on her tablet or her moms phone all the time. I've seen the data usage rates and it was bloody obvious from the first time I checked that they were reducing the stream to something appropriate to the device being used instead of blasting out the full sized files.
Reflected light and what?
;)
Refracted light?
Backlight?
Self illumination?
Quantum Superposition?
A Chihuahua-Mart?
Your mom?
Bananas?
Your sentence really kind of needs to be completed or some people will be lost, and others will go places you never imagined.
e-ink/e-paper is really cheap to make, and yes, it does have some advantages for certain things, like viewing in sunlight, and it also has disadvantages, but that's another thread. The problem is it's new and marketing is getting themselves all worked up with the hopes of a premium profit orgy since this is new tech. Thus you have to pay utterly stupid prices to get your hands on it.
It's too bad really, if they put it at a more realistic pricing, it would have already taken over the display world for various purposes. (Not video, it currently doesn't do color video worth a snot.)
Typosquatting isn't done to screw people over, it's done to screw them out of money. The generalized screwing over is just a byproduct of the financial redistribution efforts.
From everything I've heard people say, just about the only way to lose an NK sub from tracking was to have it implode.
"No sir, we know exactly where it is. It's just that we can't currently communicate with it, board it, or in any way move or recover it."
"Do you think the Americans would let us borrow the Hughes Glomar Explorer for a few weeks?"
No sir! It was demilled as per instructions via detonation in an old wreck that is not an aquatic habitat sir!
(I have no idea how Navy would actually report that, so I'm using the hollywood junk which is probably wrong.)
Sad thing is, that's probably true.
That seems unlikely. Ask Japan for verification. :(
Oh wait! I see, you were trying to make a James Bond reference joke.
I wonder how many people got that.
And with all the knowledge already floating out there that a grad student in the USA has build a functional nuclear device that was only missing the fissionable material for it's core, and the fact that the USA made nukes with 1940s technology at a time period that even most scientist doubted it could be done, and North Korea has only in the last 2 years done anything that MIGHT be a nuclear detonation, but it was so wimpy compared to even the two used on Japan that the experts at analyzing this kind of stuff have publicly stated doubts about it having reached critical mass!
So just because someone in this or another first or even second world country could do it with access to home depot, don't make bets that the NK can.
Have you ever tried to hold a meeting with North Korea?
Yeah, neither have I, but we both can read about the many historical attempts at such.
I don't know about you, but I have. For all that it matters, NK would have been more reasonable at most of those meetings if they'd have sent a rabid mime.
Broken Arrow, Bent Spear, and Dull Sword. :P
I suspect all 3 terms, they are for different types of issues relating to that, were developed before an incident actually occurred.
Though it seems likely at least one of them was after, but it's not like there's a unclassified history file on that kind of thing.
To any of the paranoid out there, those terms are all known to the public, even if the incidents probably aren't. Hmmm... I wonder if anyone has stuck them on Wikipedia yet.