Aren't we confusing Judaism as a religion with the culture that surrounds it? A person can choose whether or not to be a member or follower of a religion. There are ethnic and cultural identities that are also historically linked to religions. Although I was raised in a Reform Jewish religious tradition (Bar Mitzvah, Confirmation, etc.) I have no interest in nor do I observe, follow, identify or believe in Judaism. I do have a cultural identity that is in part rooted in N.Y./N.J./Boston Ashkenaz Jewish culture. But I am not a Jew. If a person who was raised Catholic rejects the church and says they no longer want anything to do with it, don't people uually say that person is a former Catholic?
It seems to me that it's much simpler than having to make their own OS. Can't they just use Telegram or Wickr or if they must, make their own encrypted messaging app? If their messages are encrypted, with disposable keys, messaged that are deleted after they are read, etc., who cares if someone gets their phone?
I wouldn't call the Netflix UI great but I have no problem with the basics that you slagged them about. Using keyboard shortcuts makes stopping/starting (spacebar), skipping backward/forward (left/right cursor keys) very easy.
If ISIS or anyone/anything else is "removed" from the "Open Web" (i.e.no longer indexed by Google), then word would get out to use another search engine (easily found via Google) or the word will get out to go to a specific ISIS URL or to use a specific messaging app,etc. It might temporarily slow down access to their sites and they might reach a smaller number of potential recruits but a senior Google's excec to make this suggestion displays a staggering of stupidity.
They state quite plainly that data caps are *not* about network congestion. Their network is running just fine, even with the so-called "data hogs". The ONLY reason they are instituting data caps is that the average use is rising has risen to the point where instituting a tiered data usage system will make them a lot more money.
Ex. Many more households have *multiple* users streaming Netflix or similar services and they are exceeding 250gb / month. Charge them $10 per extra 50 gb. $10 X a few million users = a LOT of money for almost no expense on Comcast's part.
"You share with your contacts, but not their contacts. The networks you share aren't shared with your contacts' contacts. If your contacts want to share one of your networks with their contacts, they'd need to know your actual password and type it in to share the network."
There was a breakthrough re: civil asset forfeiture in January: Eric Holder announced that of the Federal Equitable Sharing Program. Local police agencies are no longer allowed to circumvent state restrictions on civil asset forfeiture by procuring nominal federal involvement in their investigations, thereby making those investigations governed by more forfeiture-friendly federal law. Many states have changed or are in the process of changing civil asset forfeiture laws to now require arrests or convictions before assets can be seized, rather than just suspicion. Police were using the Equitable Sharing program, which has a very low bar for seizing asset (the Fed keep 20% and gave the rest back to the police).
Local and state police have abused the Equitable Sharing Program to seize billions in cash from motorists without arresting them or even charging them with a crime. This has been so profitable for the police that an entire industry devoted to training cops on how to maximize their cash seizures from motorists has appeared. A lot of this money has gone to fund the so called militarization of the police. One of the most successful techniques in these seizures is delay minor traffic stops and pressure motorists to consent to vehicle searches or to allow for the arrival of drug/cash sniffing dogs.
After this change to the federal program the cops will be forced to follow more restrictive state laws. Hopefully this will provide less incentive for the cops to abuse the asset forfeiture laws.
It occurs to me that banning Palchohol will a boost to the cop and jail hotel business. Could make up for the slack created as the marijuana laws are relaxed...
Where I am, we have to ISP options: AT&T DSL, topping out at 5mb (really 3mb) or Comcast. For anything that could be called broadband, Comcast has a monopoly.
The change in definition means that the percentages of households that have more than one option for broadband has plummeted. Before this, asshat providers like Comcast could claim that there was ample competition and choice for consumers but now it will be undeniable that they have effective monopolies for true broadband in many markets. Props to FCC for making the move. Undoubtedly, it will be appealed as a delaying tactic, even though the FCC is fully within their purview to make the decision.
The problem is that if there's another terrorist attack is the U.S. then the panic will create a climate of fear and a strengthened Patriot Act., including an "emergency" on the unreadable encryption is almost a certainty. Additional attacks and we're probably looking at Constitutional Amendments that we would have considered unthinkable a few years ago.
In the system that I saw infected with CW 2.0, the encryption process seemed to have been relatively slow. The user noticed that something was weird was going on, put in a USB flash drive and copied their Documents folder to it. They saved approx half of the 200 or files before they were encrypted. I think the encryption pricess on CW 2.0 is just slow, rather than intentionally delayed but that's just my guess.
A couple of things to bear in mind: CW 2.0 basically leaves Windows in a normal bootable state. CW 2.0 launches it's ransom and warning msgs when you first boot but applications all run as expected. E.G. Word ran fine but of course you get an error message when you try to open a doc. Also, CW 2.0 doesn't need any special permissions or to run as Administrator: it's only accessing the data files available in the context of the user.
I recently got a referral from an older couple that also got hit by CryptoWall 2.0. Credit to them: as soon as they noticed that something wasn't right with their PC, they copied the Documents folder to a USB drive and shut off the computer. CryptoWall 2.0 encrypts files rather slowly and they were able to save about half of their files. Fortunately for them, they had never had gotten into the practice of storing precious photos on their PC.
BTW, CrytoWall 2.0 also encrypts all external and network attach storage. Someone cracked CrytoWall 1.0, and there was help for decrypting the files but 2.0 hasn't been cracked.
Real time surveillance and listening to phone calls, emails and text messages have been available for years via CALEA, which mandates that all ISPs provide access for this purpose for law enforcement (see the Wikipedia article). It's rather baffling that CALEA isn't mentioned more often.
The 2nd rev of the Intel Haswell SOC is due in 6-8 months and will enable tablets that weigh 1.5 lbs, get 10 hours of battery life, & cost $400. Yep, just like an iPad! Except that it will run full Windows and all the apps that you already own and have invested years in learning. Basically, they'll be Surface like devices (you'll want a detachable keyboard and touchpad when using Windows desktop apps): only lighter, longer lasting battery life and *much* cheaper. Plus the benefits of choice that come with having dozens of manufacturers producing them.
Microsoft historically has played the waiting game very well but this time they were just too impatient: they should have simply made Metro optional on non-tablet PCs for now, kept refining it and avoided this entire mess with Win 8. Metro just had to be ready when people start needing a touch interface on Windows. It hasn't happened yet, but it will definitely happen.
I don't have to speculate: I started my programming career at 41. This was back in 1986, so it was a different landscape back then. I had working doing PC tech support for a very large insurance company for 3 years, prior to which I had almost no computer experience. I did show a strong ability to grok the technology right off the bat and I was passionate about it and pretty much poured myself into all aspects of it. It was also a very exciting time - there was a lot of inspiration in the PC world.
I started programming as a natural extension to developing support systems using dBase and then Paradox on DOS, so my first steps were in 4GL. But after a couple of years,I decided that I wanted to learn Windows Programming. That meant diving into hard core C programming and wrestling with the with Win32 API. I did rather well all things considered. At that same insurance company, I was one of the lead programmers for in house desktop OS apps and I was also personally responsible for getting Windows established as the standard desktop OS and gleefully managed to piss off IBM in the process. Then I watched MS turn into total douche bags when they attacked me and my department for getting Borland products widely used in my company.
I finally got sick of the corporate scene and joined a small consulting firm where I focused on 4GL development with Pardox For Windows and then Cold Fusion when the web became dominant. After 15 years, I burned out on coding. Now I'm a full time DJ, part-time support and networking tech - poorer but happy.
So, I say go for it: coding is still one of those things that either you can do it or you can't and if you're good, you''ll find work.
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Aren't we confusing Judaism as a religion with the culture that surrounds it? A person can choose whether or not to be a member or follower of a religion. There are ethnic and cultural identities that are also historically linked to religions. Although I was raised in a Reform Jewish religious tradition (Bar Mitzvah, Confirmation, etc.) I have no interest in nor do I observe, follow, identify or believe in Judaism. I do have a cultural identity that is in part rooted in N.Y./N.J./Boston Ashkenaz Jewish culture. But I am not a Jew. If a person who was raised Catholic rejects the church and says they no longer want anything to do with it, don't people uually say that person is a former Catholic?
MDSec has a video showing a brute force of an iPhone 5S unlock (yes, I know the FBI phone is a 5C). I think it uses about $200 in parts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Apple execs are elitist, spoiled rich, pompous twats. Never had a clue before today.
It seems to me that it's much simpler than having to make their own OS. Can't they just use Telegram or Wickr or if they must, make their own encrypted messaging app? If their messages are encrypted, with disposable keys, messaged that are deleted after they are read, etc., who cares if someone gets their phone?
I watched it and I learned more about poor humor AND poor comedy.
I wouldn't call the Netflix UI great but I have no problem with the basics that you slagged them about. Using keyboard shortcuts makes stopping/starting (spacebar), skipping backward/forward (left/right cursor keys) very easy.
Let's see how they do when they lose a lot of those 20%...
Would hybrid technology yield be effective in aircraft?
If ISIS or anyone/anything else is "removed" from the "Open Web" (i.e.no longer indexed by Google), then word would get out to use another search engine (easily found via Google) or the word will get out to go to a specific ISIS URL or to use a specific messaging app,etc. It might temporarily slow down access to their sites and they might reach a smaller number of potential recruits but a senior Google's excec to make this suggestion displays a staggering of stupidity.
Fuck! I'm an only child. I'm screwed!
Oh come on, that's just too far fetched.They would never say "Good bye"!
Too busy moving on to the next one....
Read the leaked the Comcast memo.
They state quite plainly that data caps are *not* about network congestion. Their network is running just fine, even with the so-called "data hogs". The ONLY reason they are instituting data caps is that the average use is rising has risen to the point where instituting a tiered data usage system will make them a lot more money.
Ex. Many more households have *multiple* users streaming Netflix or similar services and they are exceeding 250gb / month. Charge them $10 per extra 50 gb. $10 X a few million users = a LOT of money for almost no expense on Comcast's part.
From the MS Windows Phone Wi-Fi Sense FAQ:
"You share with your contacts, but not their contacts. The networks you share aren't shared with your contacts' contacts. If your contacts want to share one of your networks with their contacts, they'd need to know your actual password and type it in to share the network."
There was a breakthrough re: civil asset forfeiture in January: Eric Holder announced that of the Federal Equitable Sharing Program. Local police agencies are no longer allowed to circumvent state restrictions on civil asset forfeiture by procuring nominal federal involvement in their investigations, thereby making those investigations governed by more forfeiture-friendly federal law. Many states have changed or are in the process of changing civil asset forfeiture laws to now require arrests or convictions before assets can be seized, rather than just suspicion. Police were using the Equitable Sharing program, which has a very low bar for seizing asset (the Fed keep 20% and gave the rest back to the police).
Local and state police have abused the Equitable Sharing Program to seize billions in cash from motorists without arresting them or even charging them with a crime. This has been so profitable for the police that an entire industry devoted to training cops on how to maximize their cash seizures from motorists has appeared. A lot of this money has gone to fund the so called militarization of the police. One of the most successful techniques in these seizures is delay minor traffic stops and pressure motorists to consent to vehicle searches or to allow for the arrival of drug/cash sniffing dogs.
After this change to the federal program the cops will be forced to follow more restrictive state laws. Hopefully this will provide less incentive for the cops to abuse the asset forfeiture laws.
Here's a very interesting article about research into police abuses nationwide and the Justice Department's responses (or lack of them):
http://www.politico.com/magazi...
It occurs to me that banning Palchohol will a boost to the cop and jail hotel business. Could make up for the slack created as the marijuana laws are relaxed...
Where I am, we have to ISP options: AT&T DSL, topping out at 5mb (really 3mb) or Comcast. For anything that could be called broadband, Comcast has a monopoly.
The change in definition means that the percentages of households that have more than one option for broadband has plummeted. Before this, asshat providers like Comcast could claim that there was ample competition and choice for consumers but now it will be undeniable that they have effective monopolies for true broadband in many markets. Props to FCC for making the move. Undoubtedly, it will be appealed as a delaying tactic, even though the FCC is fully within their purview to make the decision.
The problem is that if there's another terrorist attack is the U.S. then the panic will create a climate of fear and a strengthened Patriot Act., including an "emergency" on the unreadable encryption is almost a certainty. Additional attacks and we're probably looking at Constitutional Amendments that we would have considered unthinkable a few years ago.
Statements like this from Obama are just preparing everyone: one more terrorist attack in the U.S., and we can kiss legal encryption goodbye.
In the system that I saw infected with CW 2.0, the encryption process seemed to have been relatively slow. The user noticed that something was weird was going on, put in a USB flash drive and copied their Documents folder to it. They saved approx half of the 200 or files before they were encrypted. I think the encryption pricess on CW 2.0 is just slow, rather than intentionally delayed but that's just my guess.
A couple of things to bear in mind: CW 2.0 basically leaves Windows in a normal bootable state. CW 2.0 launches it's ransom and warning msgs when you first boot but applications all run as expected. E.G. Word ran fine but of course you get an error message when you try to open a doc. Also, CW 2.0 doesn't need any special permissions or to run as Administrator: it's only accessing the data files available in the context of the user.
I recently got a referral from an older couple that also got hit by CryptoWall 2.0. Credit to them: as soon as they noticed that something wasn't right with their PC, they copied the Documents folder to a USB drive and shut off the computer. CryptoWall 2.0 encrypts files rather slowly and they were able to save about half of their files. Fortunately for them, they had never had gotten into the practice of storing precious photos on their PC.
BTW, CrytoWall 2.0 also encrypts all external and network attach storage. Someone cracked CrytoWall 1.0, and there was help for decrypting the files but 2.0 hasn't been cracked.
Real time surveillance and listening to phone calls, emails and text messages have been available for years via CALEA, which mandates that all ISPs provide access for this purpose for law enforcement (see the Wikipedia article). It's rather baffling that CALEA isn't mentioned more often.
The 2nd rev of the Intel Haswell SOC is due in 6-8 months and will enable tablets that weigh 1.5 lbs, get 10 hours of battery life, & cost $400. Yep, just like an iPad! Except that it will run full Windows and all the apps that you already own and have invested years in learning. Basically, they'll be Surface like devices (you'll want a detachable keyboard and touchpad when using Windows desktop apps): only lighter, longer lasting battery life and *much* cheaper. Plus the benefits of choice that come with having dozens of manufacturers producing them.
Microsoft historically has played the waiting game very well but this time they were just too impatient: they should have simply made Metro optional on non-tablet PCs for now, kept refining it and avoided this entire mess with Win 8. Metro just had to be ready when people start needing a touch interface on Windows. It hasn't happened yet, but it will definitely happen.
I don't have to speculate: I started my programming career at 41. This was back in 1986, so it was a different landscape back then. I had working doing PC tech support for a very large insurance company for 3 years, prior to which I had almost no computer experience. I did show a strong ability to grok the technology right off the bat and I was passionate about it and pretty much poured myself into all aspects of it. It was also a very exciting time - there was a lot of inspiration in the PC world.
I started programming as a natural extension to developing support systems using dBase and then Paradox on DOS, so my first steps were in 4GL. But after a couple of years,I decided that I wanted to learn Windows Programming. That meant diving into hard core C programming and wrestling with the with Win32 API. I did rather well all things considered. At that same insurance company, I was one of the lead programmers for in house desktop OS apps and I was also personally responsible for getting Windows established as the standard desktop OS and gleefully managed to piss off IBM in the process. Then I watched MS turn into total douche bags when they attacked me and my department for getting Borland products widely used in my company.
I finally got sick of the corporate scene and joined a small consulting firm where I focused on 4GL development with Pardox For Windows and then Cold Fusion when the web became dominant. After 15 years, I burned out on coding. Now I'm a full time DJ, part-time support and networking tech - poorer but happy.
So, I say go for it: coding is still one of those things that either you can do it or you can't and if you're good, you''ll find work.