My son is 3 and I have another on the way. This stuff really concerns me. When I was growing up I had to work a fast food job just to afford what we call a "dumb" phone now - at age 16. My sons will have, in their pocket, full access to the breadth of the internet by the age of 10, or be social outcasts for not. What does this mean for their generation? I like to be optimistic, but it can't be good.
I think you've identified the real cause of this data. Only someone with a victim complex would interpret this as "men sabotaging women's shows". Men simply watch way more television aimed at women due to them defining that as quality time.
I think you're making wild conclusions with your data. How many women are forced to cuddle on the couch while her husband watches Southpark? I'd be willing to bet not many. I've spent countless hours of my life watching terrible shows like sex and the city to meet imposed requirements of "quality time", and I know I'm not alone. When you already have an idea in your head it's easy to find causes for it isn't it? There's no conspiracy. No one's out to sabotage women's television.
Amen. Sex and the city IS a terrible show. It's junk food for the SJW agenda and anyone interested in benefiting from it. Men (the least likely to benefit from any modern social justice agenda) are acutely aware of this and develop appropriate opinions. Was someone under the impression that straight men liked sex and the city?
So... men can't dislike shows aimed at women? A show like sex and the city paints a pretty shallow, incomplete, and unfortunate picture of both sexes, it just tries overly hard to "empower" women while doing so. It's bad reviews are greatly deserved. What I gather from the tone of the article is that any SJW agenda deserves nothing but praise. *eye roll* This mentality is out of control. My wife hates a lot of the sports and sci-fi stuff I watch and would probably give them a bad review too.
I've always wanted to buy one, but they cost more than a MacBook (which I also don't buy) and they run their horrible new versions of Windows with no downgrade options. It's been humorous to watch Microsoft stop feasting on the elephant carcass they already caught, to chase Apple around, nipping at their heels but never quite catching them. I wonder how much money they've burnt in the last 5+ years on this nonsense.
How expensive is a PC that you would have anyway for any of the tasks you would like to do [...] How much more expensive is a PC that brings that up to console gaming parity? Certainly less than the cost of the console you are trying to reach parity with.
You had to have known this was a huge stretch when you were typing it, but figured maybe you could sneak the logic by. The fact is, in 99.9999% of cases you're wrong. A ps4 is $400. That's less than the cost of a GTX 970 already, not to mention the bigger power supply, more ram, bigger hard drive, better processor, larger case for air circulation, and full ATX form motherboard you'll need. Most people can solve their day to day computing needs with a $250 Chromebook.
How about Windows 10? That's a pretty damn good and topical complaint. Also I highly doubt you've only spent $1200 on a gaming PC in 15 years, unless you're completely happy with 10fps. I'm in the position right now where games like Witcher 3 simply don't run on my GTX 570 (5 years old), and my i5 proc is getting a little long in the tooth with paying 1080 video while gaming. To upgrade both to mid-range specs would cost at least $600. So I bought a ps4 instead. In no small part due to a new program at ebgames that lets you try a game for 7 days and bring it back no questions asked. This only applies to console games.
So with the ever increasing cost of computer hardware, and the frequency with which AAA games suck, there's a lot of reason to buy a console.
Virtually all of this will just make battery life worse, which is the biggest problem with wearables today. They keep trying to jam wearables down our throat without the necessary battery technology to make them viable. Nobody wants to charge their watch every day for the confidence of checking a text message on it.
Very informative, thank you. It's a bit odd to read about how your colleague is going through so much mental turmoil over the uncertainty of the FBI's interest in her, but then systematically refuses to return their calls. I'd recommend she return their call, record it, and publish it. This would help clear up some of the speculation and confusion. She seems extraordinarily and unusually afraid of law enforcement, which raises suspicion.
As I pointed out in another comment in this article, she's a very minor contributor. 3 commits in the history of the project, all relatively recent. This is publicly available information on Tor's github page.
I decided to verify some of this speculation with information easy to obtain.. It turns out she's a very minor contributor. 3 commits, ever. To suggest her code contributions wouldn't be reviewed by the plethora of more active maintainers is pretty wild. Tor is open source, the FBI can make "clever" contributions on their own. They don't need the secret help of a very minor contributor. Furthermore, exit nodes are a much better avenue for compromise.
Something fishy is going on here. If she's running and offering this bad of an excuse ("I don't want people to get hurt") it sounds like she's got something more I important to hide. Don't be surprised when more of this unravels and she turns out to be complicit in some illegal activities on that network.
Her reason for fleeing doesn't even make sense. The FBI doesn't need her to write compromising code, Tor is open source. If Tor is in a state where she's the linchpin for all code submissions, then that's a pretty gaping security problem with that software anyways. Furthermore, Tor has never really been as secure from law enforcement as its users like to think. There's only a handful of exit nodes, and law enforcement could do a lot by simply compromising one, code intact.
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I wouldn't be surprised if we find out later that she's running for very different reasons.
As any real security researcher will tell you: no system is 100% secure, no matter what. The best you can do is make your security complex enough that it takes too much time and/or the attacker loses interest. The more complex the security, the bigger the impact on usability; so it's a constant battle. Ironic, but not surprising as a hacking communication platform would be a natural target.
If the iOS app hasn't been manually opened in the past few hours (minutes?), no call or text notifications come in. How hard is that to get right?
That's likely an iOS limitation. You, nor the app developers, own anything about that platform and have a very limited access to whatever restricted api they sanction. You've explicitly agreed to that in the EULA you don't read, and the poisonous philosophy in software design that you willingly ignore. Are we supposed to feel sorry for iPhone users when something works the way Apple wants, and not the way *they* want? That'll be a cold day in hell.
What is this article getting at by mentioning "out of date" Linux versions? I vehemently enjoy my old Linux version of Skype. This generation of Microsoft has a troubling idea of what constitutes "new features". I don't want any of it. If only I could time-lock all my Windows friends into the same version.
Anonymous is proof that anything designed and managed by committee is doomed to chaos. They gained notoriety with some pretty basic hacks several years ago, as well as from DDOSing a couple big websites, based on some strong principles. Since then, they've just been an embarrassment. This move to political "hacktivism" could better be described as armchair extremism without focus. Some sects are against trump, some are for, etc. Regardless, activism isn't about picking political leaders, it's about core principles and ideals. And the Guy Fawkes mask has always been corny. Nothing screams basement dweller more than hiding your identity behind a character from your favorite movie. These guys are just embarrassing.
I have two machines in my house running Windows. On one of them I had to spend the time fiddling with registry keys to get the Windows 10 crap to go away, but on the other I didn't. The difference: it's not "genuine". It actually is licensed for a copy of Windows 7, but due to Microsoft's previous idiocy of shipping downgrades from 8 without the product key, the key was lost on this machine after a rebuild so it can never get genuine. I'm sure I could buy an HP OEM or some other nonsense, but I actually have a better functioning computer without resolving the licensing problem! Thanks Microsoft!
Again, it can become grey area but there's lots of precedent for this. Walking behind two people on the street and overhearing their conversation does not require a warrant. There may be stipulations on what you can use as evidence in a court, and this might be determined on a case by case basis by a judge, but for information gathering purposes it is perfectly legal. It's a small leap from this, to putting a microphone at a bus stop and parking around the corner. You may not like it, you may feel violated, but this is the way it's always been. There's no new over extension of power here.
Again, a warrant wouldn't be needed to survail a public area. You're confusing what's required to survail private property. To bug your house phone, would require a warrant. To listen to an open conservation on the street does not.
I know this fires up all the anarchist types, but it's not really that big of a deal. It's not illegal to record people in public. When you enter a public area you need to assume that you lose most of your rights to personal privacy. This includes being recording, video taped, searched, and seized. Of course, like anything in the law there's a fair amount of grey area and reason needs to be applied in all cases. Law enforcement bugging a public bench as part of a criminal investigation is not a new or extraordinary circumstance though.
How in the hell are you modded so high? If they can't reproduce the issue, how can they debug it? Furthermore, you think they're just failing to find that line someone put in by accident? if (rand()%3==0) delete(random_song();) . Fuck! There it is! This is obviously some very obscure syncing bug, or quite possibly something even stranger. I hate Apple with a passion and will look for any excuse to flame them, but even I can't get on board with this.
we can learn a lesson from WhatsApp [...] discourage it from ever becoming too popular
That's the lesson you've learned? Oi vey, I don't know if there's any hope for this Facebook generation. Here's a tip: don't centralize stuff you think is important. You send every message, encrypted or not, through a central hub of a private, for-profit, American company, and are surprised someone can just flick a switch and make it all go away? Look up XMPP and PGP. Tell your friends. Then, please apply this same criticism to every cloud service you use, social media account you have, and walled garden you actively support with your dollars.
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My son is 3 and I have another on the way. This stuff really concerns me. When I was growing up I had to work a fast food job just to afford what we call a "dumb" phone now - at age 16. My sons will have, in their pocket, full access to the breadth of the internet by the age of 10, or be social outcasts for not. What does this mean for their generation? I like to be optimistic, but it can't be good.
I think you've identified the real cause of this data. Only someone with a victim complex would interpret this as "men sabotaging women's shows". Men simply watch way more television aimed at women due to them defining that as quality time.
I think you're making wild conclusions with your data. How many women are forced to cuddle on the couch while her husband watches Southpark? I'd be willing to bet not many. I've spent countless hours of my life watching terrible shows like sex and the city to meet imposed requirements of "quality time", and I know I'm not alone. When you already have an idea in your head it's easy to find causes for it isn't it? There's no conspiracy. No one's out to sabotage women's television.
Amen. Sex and the city IS a terrible show. It's junk food for the SJW agenda and anyone interested in benefiting from it. Men (the least likely to benefit from any modern social justice agenda) are acutely aware of this and develop appropriate opinions. Was someone under the impression that straight men liked sex and the city?
So... men can't dislike shows aimed at women? A show like sex and the city paints a pretty shallow, incomplete, and unfortunate picture of both sexes, it just tries overly hard to "empower" women while doing so. It's bad reviews are greatly deserved. What I gather from the tone of the article is that any SJW agenda deserves nothing but praise. *eye roll* This mentality is out of control. My wife hates a lot of the sports and sci-fi stuff I watch and would probably give them a bad review too.
I've always wanted to buy one, but they cost more than a MacBook (which I also don't buy) and they run their horrible new versions of Windows with no downgrade options. It's been humorous to watch Microsoft stop feasting on the elephant carcass they already caught, to chase Apple around, nipping at their heels but never quite catching them. I wonder how much money they've burnt in the last 5+ years on this nonsense.
Do yourself a favor and watch Deadpool. Thank me later.
How expensive is a PC that you would have anyway for any of the tasks you would like to do [...] How much more expensive is a PC that brings that up to console gaming parity? Certainly less than the cost of the console you are trying to reach parity with.
You had to have known this was a huge stretch when you were typing it, but figured maybe you could sneak the logic by. The fact is, in 99.9999% of cases you're wrong. A ps4 is $400. That's less than the cost of a GTX 970 already, not to mention the bigger power supply, more ram, bigger hard drive, better processor, larger case for air circulation, and full ATX form motherboard you'll need. Most people can solve their day to day computing needs with a $250 Chromebook.
How about Windows 10? That's a pretty damn good and topical complaint. Also I highly doubt you've only spent $1200 on a gaming PC in 15 years, unless you're completely happy with 10fps. I'm in the position right now where games like Witcher 3 simply don't run on my GTX 570 (5 years old), and my i5 proc is getting a little long in the tooth with paying 1080 video while gaming. To upgrade both to mid-range specs would cost at least $600. So I bought a ps4 instead. In no small part due to a new program at ebgames that lets you try a game for 7 days and bring it back no questions asked. This only applies to console games.
So with the ever increasing cost of computer hardware, and the frequency with which AAA games suck, there's a lot of reason to buy a console.
Virtually all of this will just make battery life worse, which is the biggest problem with wearables today. They keep trying to jam wearables down our throat without the necessary battery technology to make them viable. Nobody wants to charge their watch every day for the confidence of checking a text message on it.
Very informative, thank you. It's a bit odd to read about how your colleague is going through so much mental turmoil over the uncertainty of the FBI's interest in her, but then systematically refuses to return their calls. I'd recommend she return their call, record it, and publish it. This would help clear up some of the speculation and confusion. She seems extraordinarily and unusually afraid of law enforcement, which raises suspicion.
As I pointed out in another comment in this article, she's a very minor contributor. 3 commits in the history of the project, all relatively recent. This is publicly available information on Tor's github page.
I decided to verify some of this speculation with information easy to obtain.. It turns out she's a very minor contributor. 3 commits, ever. To suggest her code contributions wouldn't be reviewed by the plethora of more active maintainers is pretty wild. Tor is open source, the FBI can make "clever" contributions on their own. They don't need the secret help of a very minor contributor. Furthermore, exit nodes are a much better avenue for compromise.
Something fishy is going on here. If she's running and offering this bad of an excuse ("I don't want people to get hurt") it sounds like she's got something more I important to hide. Don't be surprised when more of this unravels and she turns out to be complicit in some illegal activities on that network.
Her reason for fleeing doesn't even make sense. The FBI doesn't need her to write compromising code, Tor is open source. If Tor is in a state where she's the linchpin for all code submissions, then that's a pretty gaping security problem with that software anyways. Furthermore, Tor has never really been as secure from law enforcement as its users like to think. There's only a handful of exit nodes, and law enforcement could do a lot by simply compromising one, code intact. .
I wouldn't be surprised if we find out later that she's running for very different reasons.
As any real security researcher will tell you: no system is 100% secure, no matter what. The best you can do is make your security complex enough that it takes too much time and/or the attacker loses interest. The more complex the security, the bigger the impact on usability; so it's a constant battle. Ironic, but not surprising as a hacking communication platform would be a natural target.
If the iOS app hasn't been manually opened in the past few hours (minutes?), no call or text notifications come in. How hard is that to get right?
That's likely an iOS limitation. You, nor the app developers, own anything about that platform and have a very limited access to whatever restricted api they sanction. You've explicitly agreed to that in the EULA you don't read, and the poisonous philosophy in software design that you willingly ignore. Are we supposed to feel sorry for iPhone users when something works the way Apple wants, and not the way *they* want? That'll be a cold day in hell.
What is this article getting at by mentioning "out of date" Linux versions? I vehemently enjoy my old Linux version of Skype. This generation of Microsoft has a troubling idea of what constitutes "new features". I don't want any of it. If only I could time-lock all my Windows friends into the same version.
Anonymous is proof that anything designed and managed by committee is doomed to chaos. They gained notoriety with some pretty basic hacks several years ago, as well as from DDOSing a couple big websites, based on some strong principles. Since then, they've just been an embarrassment. This move to political "hacktivism" could better be described as armchair extremism without focus. Some sects are against trump, some are for, etc. Regardless, activism isn't about picking political leaders, it's about core principles and ideals. And the Guy Fawkes mask has always been corny. Nothing screams basement dweller more than hiding your identity behind a character from your favorite movie. These guys are just embarrassing.
I have two machines in my house running Windows. On one of them I had to spend the time fiddling with registry keys to get the Windows 10 crap to go away, but on the other I didn't. The difference: it's not "genuine". It actually is licensed for a copy of Windows 7, but due to Microsoft's previous idiocy of shipping downgrades from 8 without the product key, the key was lost on this machine after a rebuild so it can never get genuine. I'm sure I could buy an HP OEM or some other nonsense, but I actually have a better functioning computer without resolving the licensing problem! Thanks Microsoft!
Again, it can become grey area but there's lots of precedent for this. Walking behind two people on the street and overhearing their conversation does not require a warrant. There may be stipulations on what you can use as evidence in a court, and this might be determined on a case by case basis by a judge, but for information gathering purposes it is perfectly legal. It's a small leap from this, to putting a microphone at a bus stop and parking around the corner. You may not like it, you may feel violated, but this is the way it's always been. There's no new over extension of power here.
Again, a warrant wouldn't be needed to survail a public area. You're confusing what's required to survail private property. To bug your house phone, would require a warrant. To listen to an open conservation on the street does not.
I know this fires up all the anarchist types, but it's not really that big of a deal. It's not illegal to record people in public. When you enter a public area you need to assume that you lose most of your rights to personal privacy. This includes being recording, video taped, searched, and seized. Of course, like anything in the law there's a fair amount of grey area and reason needs to be applied in all cases. Law enforcement bugging a public bench as part of a criminal investigation is not a new or extraordinary circumstance though.
Did iTunes also break your shift key?
How in the hell are you modded so high? If they can't reproduce the issue, how can they debug it? Furthermore, you think they're just failing to find that line someone put in by accident? if (rand()%3==0) delete(random_song();) . Fuck! There it is! This is obviously some very obscure syncing bug, or quite possibly something even stranger. I hate Apple with a passion and will look for any excuse to flame them, but even I can't get on board with this.
we can learn a lesson from WhatsApp [...] discourage it from ever becoming too popular
That's the lesson you've learned? Oi vey, I don't know if there's any hope for this Facebook generation. Here's a tip: don't centralize stuff you think is important. You send every message, encrypted or not, through a central hub of a private, for-profit, American company, and are surprised someone can just flick a switch and make it all go away? Look up XMPP and PGP. Tell your friends. Then, please apply this same criticism to every cloud service you use, social media account you have, and walled garden you actively support with your dollars.