For anything concerning Big Brother Is Watching You, go to the UK. All the more so, with the current ascent of tribalism and xenophobia in that country: they have to have the means to find out whether or not people belong there.
It would be a nice example of poetic justice: if a company is deserving of comeuppance, Microsoft is it. Mind you, Google is next in line for comeuppance, although that might take a few more years.
In the last couple of seasons it has become a rather pretentious, boring show. If it is going to remain like that, it might just as well not come back at all.
No wonder they ditched the 'Don't Be Evil' thing - at least, they don't look quite as hypocritical. You Google people apparently can't wait to become as despicable as Microsoft.
By and large, they are clearly answering what they think the ought to answer, or else what they think those commissioning the survey want to hear. It reminds me of those surveys in which people are asked how many times they have sex a year, the average answer being once every other day. You wish.
I guess they were not content with just keeping us burning with anticipation for the most explosive devices in the market. Not for nothing are they an on-fire company.
If the electricity to charge electric vehicles comes from dirty sources, how are they cutting emissions?
The thing is, that electricity can come from non-dirty sources, and will more and more do. An ICE vehicle, however, will always pollute. The writing is in the wall for ICE vehicles.
After having driven an EV, my feeling is that the death knell for the ICE in ordinary can already be heard. The technology is already there, and can do nothing but improve.
Shutting down projects. Either they have the attention span of a six-year-old, or they are largely useless. Another possibility is useless managers (an oxymoron?) desperate to justify their useless jobs.
It would seem that a straight A's school student these days is just an ordinary student. Everybody seems to be getting straight A's. Either that or else, statistically, a large percentage of parents lie. The fact is that, short of injuring your principal, being a straight A's student is not all that demanding.
of course RSA-1024 has been considered too weak to use for a number of years now.
From an academic point of view. However, nobody has been able to break anything beyond RSA-768, at least not publicly. And chances are that nobody has been able to break anything beyond that, period: the time, effort and money involved to break such keys are not worth the while, for such keys do not protect information that is all that valuable. Most likely, it is far easier and cheaper just to steal the keys, if necessary.
I already assume todays encryption IS broken or key stealing is not so difficult.
What Snowden revealed is that the NSA gets FAR more traction from traditional (and not so traditional) spying and eavesdropping techniques than from trying to break encryption schemes. In most circumstances, the latter approach will be far more involved and more costly.
Research on quantum computing is now over 35 years old, and it has been systematically hyped all along, while having very little to show for itself. Existing quantum computers have yet to solve anything that can't be solved by traditional computers far more cheaply, an at least as efficiently, for all practical purposes. The horizon for quantum computers capable of tackling non-trivial problems was ten years away ten years ago, and it still remains ten years away today. Finally, it is not even clear yet that the engineering associated with keeping qubits appropriately entangled for solving problems of interest can be developed, just we don't know whether the engineering associated with warp drives is attainable. True, practical quantum computers may be developed within the next ten years - but the may also never be developed - we don't know yet. At this point, I'd bet that we'll get practical controlled nuclear fusion before we get practical quantum computing - i.e. quantum computing that solves serious, non-Mickey Mouse problems.
I went from an SE, to an XS Max, and it was worth it for the massive screen size increase,
Unless you are built like your average NBA player, when putting it to your ear you will look like a complete dork. But then again, who uses a smartphone for phone calls?
What do you get from your antenna that is worth the while? I tried that a couple of years ago, and the only thing I could get were channels with preachers and soaps - plus a boatload of ads. I couldn't care less for preachers and soaps, and I just plain refuse to watch any ads. So, what material are you getting?
What the hell does that mean? That the app will stop working, period, if you are just a consumer? That you will need some sort of contract with Google to get it work? And who/what is taking over its capabilities? The sorry Duo/Allo pair? Google Voice? No-one? Quite frankly, more and more it looks as though Google is run by very fickle, very stupid people that, outside the entrenched ad business that they have, are useless. Worse than useless, for they seem to have a knack for creating confusion apparently for no good reason. Probably Google managers striving to justify their (largely) unnecessary jobs. Larry, Sergey, are you having fun being mostly evil? And all for the sake of a few billions more, that you can't spend anyway?
What is the profile of the people who fall for such scams? The popups - well, if you are not computer-savvy, I can understand. But, the phone? Somebody calls you, unsolicited, claiming to be So-and-So, and you just end up giving them your money? Really?
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For anything concerning Big Brother Is Watching You, go to the UK. All the more so, with the current ascent of tribalism and xenophobia in that country: they have to have the means to find out whether or not people belong there.
AR, AI, VR - synonymous of hype.
It would be a nice example of poetic justice: if a company is deserving of comeuppance, Microsoft is it. Mind you, Google is next in line for comeuppance, although that might take a few more years.
Unless being evil is more profitable. Right, Google?
In the last couple of seasons it has become a rather pretentious, boring show. If it is going to remain like that, it might just as well not come back at all.
Contractors using Windows. After all, the Navy seems to be married to Windows, even when it cripples its battleships.
There.
No wonder they ditched the 'Don't Be Evil' thing - at least, they don't look quite as hypocritical. You Google people apparently can't wait to become as despicable as Microsoft.
It would seem that Larry and Sergey are using a moron as their front-end person.
By and large, they are clearly answering what they think the ought to answer, or else what they think those commissioning the survey want to hear. It reminds me of those surveys in which people are asked how many times they have sex a year, the average answer being once every other day. You wish.
I guess they were not content with just keeping us burning with anticipation for the most explosive devices in the market. Not for nothing are they an on-fire company.
If the electricity to charge electric vehicles comes from dirty sources, how are they cutting emissions?
The thing is, that electricity can come from non-dirty sources, and will more and more do. An ICE vehicle, however, will always pollute. The writing is in the wall for ICE vehicles.
After having driven an EV, my feeling is that the death knell for the ICE in ordinary can already be heard. The technology is already there, and can do nothing but improve.
Shutting down projects. Either they have the attention span of a six-year-old, or they are largely useless. Another possibility is useless managers (an oxymoron?) desperate to justify their useless jobs.
It would seem that a straight A's school student these days is just an ordinary student. Everybody seems to be getting straight A's. Either that or else, statistically, a large percentage of parents lie. The fact is that, short of injuring your principal, being a straight A's student is not all that demanding.
Since cryptography depends on very large primes,
Only a small subset thereof does.
couldn't quantum computers actually be used to find very large primes that conventional computers would take years to find?
Classical computers can already find the primes of interest in cryptography very quickly and efficiently.
of course RSA-1024 has been considered too weak to use for a number of years now.
From an academic point of view. However, nobody has been able to break anything beyond RSA-768, at least not publicly. And chances are that nobody has been able to break anything beyond that, period: the time, effort and money involved to break such keys are not worth the while, for such keys do not protect information that is all that valuable. Most likely, it is far easier and cheaper just to steal the keys, if necessary.
I already assume todays encryption IS broken or key stealing is not so difficult.
What Snowden revealed is that the NSA gets FAR more traction from traditional (and not so traditional) spying and eavesdropping techniques than from trying to break encryption schemes. In most circumstances, the latter approach will be far more involved and more costly.
Research on quantum computing is now over 35 years old, and it has been systematically hyped all along, while having very little to show for itself. Existing quantum computers have yet to solve anything that can't be solved by traditional computers far more cheaply, an at least as efficiently, for all practical purposes. The horizon for quantum computers capable of tackling non-trivial problems was ten years away ten years ago, and it still remains ten years away today. Finally, it is not even clear yet that the engineering associated with keeping qubits appropriately entangled for solving problems of interest can be developed, just we don't know whether the engineering associated with warp drives is attainable. True, practical quantum computers may be developed within the next ten years - but the may also never be developed - we don't know yet. At this point, I'd bet that we'll get practical controlled nuclear fusion before we get practical quantum computing - i.e. quantum computing that solves serious, non-Mickey Mouse problems.
I went from an SE, to an XS Max, and it was worth it for the massive screen size increase,
Unless you are built like your average NBA player, when putting it to your ear you will look like a complete dork. But then again, who uses a smartphone for phone calls?
What do you get from your antenna that is worth the while? I tried that a couple of years ago, and the only thing I could get were channels with preachers and soaps - plus a boatload of ads. I couldn't care less for preachers and soaps, and I just plain refuse to watch any ads. So, what material are you getting?
This sounds as though one were talking about some remote future. Dude, we have less than 30 days left of 2018.
What the hell does that mean? That the app will stop working, period, if you are just a consumer? That you will need some sort of contract with Google to get it work? And who/what is taking over its capabilities? The sorry Duo/Allo pair? Google Voice? No-one? Quite frankly, more and more it looks as though Google is run by very fickle, very stupid people that, outside the entrenched ad business that they have, are useless. Worse than useless, for they seem to have a knack for creating confusion apparently for no good reason. Probably Google managers striving to justify their (largely) unnecessary jobs. Larry, Sergey, are you having fun being mostly evil? And all for the sake of a few billions more, that you can't spend anyway?
That's not a very large number of photons. Is it just my browser that is eating the up-arrow between 10 and 84?
What is the profile of the people who fall for such scams? The popups - well, if you are not computer-savvy, I can understand. But, the phone? Somebody calls you, unsolicited, claiming to be So-and-So, and you just end up giving them your money? Really?