All security or encryption should be treated as breakable, so the real question is not is it breakable, but how much effort needs to be made to break it? This should also be put in the context of who we are really trying to protect data from?
I suppose they could name an event Cats vs the bottom feeding mice? We do now know there is not much difference between, bottom feeders, mice and sith lords.
This also shows the dangers of having a device depend on the cloud for its functionality, where the servers are run by a single private entity. As the summary indicates open standards can help, but so is the ability to be independent of cloud servers that are outside your personal network.
Hopefully someone will crack these or that Google will open source the device software. The cynical side of me has more faith in the former.
As for lifetime guarantees, there are no such thing, since in reality it translates to: life time warranty on the condition we don't get bought out.
Either that is because of a change in focus of Netflix or because the content providers are getting more difficult/greedier? Without an official comment from Netflix it is hard to know, but any change of focus of Netflix is probably triggered by the latter?
The one reason I would give for someone pirating: is that you can't be sure where to find the content or find the content in 1 year and at a reasonable cost. I appreciate content owners need to stay profitable, but there needs to be some sort of balance?
The first point here is to figure out the individuals behind this and who's sponsoring them. Then publish who they are and see if they still are interested in pursuing the matter.
Does Snowdon not have any files on this entity? Next bet it we sponsor the EFF to hire a private detective to do an investigation to the finances of flow of money to this entity? Also wondering whether this will be story enough to revive Groklaw?
My experience is data quality is always a challenge. Even commercial sources can have errors (free or volunteer sources more so), so I believe that a basic audit is always important before proceeding with any critical work.
This gets me wondering where you go legally for the less popular stuff? Discs may be a dying breed, but they still seem the best place, beyond the unofficial sources.
I wouldn't go that far, but I do think there needs to be a new distribution model. I don't know what it could be, but it should be designed with the Internet in mind.
I am wondering whether it should be illegal to require an 'about to be laid off employee' to train their replacements. IMHO, the requirement should be limited to employees who are resigning of their own accord.
Windows Phone, Windows Mobile, Windows CE? While I believe the last one is relegated to embedded devices, what is the right name for the Microsoft OS for the phones, since I always seem to hear a new variation?
I thought trading system typically relied on GPS based NTP servers in their own network?
Oh and if you want to make your one: http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/Ra... . While probably not as accurate as a commercial version, it is a tad slight cheaper.
If they allow me to customise the behaviour of the address bar that may already be one point for it. Just put me in the camp which likes to see the whole URL.
Don't let Hollywood know your friend is you charging money to see movies on his home theater. The movie studios will send their lawyers around real quick - that's a no no. Public performance? OK, pay a million dollars.
Actually, makes me wonder how they are going to prevent people bringing in cameras and sharing the movie with 'friends'? There is no one is kick you out of your own theatre room.
Possibly, but for people with their own home theatres this may be a good deal. The real question is what are the conditions around the price. For example, non-commercial, limited to 6 people, etc?
Can anyone tell me whether there ways of using UDP broadcast over the air? The idea is that you would have a wireless server, with an IP address throwing out packets for its content and then have wi-fi stations simply receiving these packets and making them available to systems on the local network. The idea being that you could simply set up a wi-fi router and then transmit. A little like a mesh, except it is one way.
Our genome is spaghetti code of the worst kind. If God exists, he is horrible coder.
It's been obfuscated for security. He/she doesn't want humans mucking with it.
Maybe being a master coder and tinkerer, the code base is a mixture of intended functionality, experiments, 'what if's, 'just in case' and 'just because'. It works well enough, as intended and it is fun just seeing things play out. God may not be playing dice, but may still be happy just sitting back and observing how things turn out.
We only use 50% of our brain... oh, now we know we use a vast amount more than that.
What I am trying to get at, is while something appears to be unused, their use may be a lot more subtle that we suspect. For example it can kick in as protective mechanism in some context, but otherwise appear dormant or non-functional. From a coding context, this is like the function that is called in 2% of cases, every 2 years, but not having it could mean a system crash of the worst kind. Again from a coding context, this is the sort of thing that sometimes gets pruned out and then everyone realises that it was what kept the system going when the moon turns blue (or some other funky situation). Instead of having a computer go offline, you have a living entity die because of some edge case, that was being handled with a now pruned gene.
Actually there is another way of looking at things. A application where every useful function has some defined offset and pruning something may cause lookup issues. In those cases the 'unused' code is better left in place 'just in case', since replacing it with a series of 'NOOP's doesn't provide a better solution either.
Companies should ensure all software sold to the French government have backdoors or have encryption weak enough to be useless, which uh would mean the French government wouldn't want to buy their software!?
The above is trying to illustrate a contradictory scenario that in many ways may happen if companies try to follow the French law. Sure in the case of phones and communication it is intended at non-government parties, but where does that line cross?
The other issue as we have recently seen is that enties of national interest will just use their own tools and the result will be a law that only hurts "law abiding" citizens.
It is hard, but between the NSA and the FBI they should be working hard to develop new techniques. Maybe the military could even chip in, if it really is an issue of national defence, as is the case in the IS argument? Wasn't the NSA meant to be the brain that could crack anything?
One benefit of having techniques that only governments can afford and have access to, is that the methods would be hard for a 'script kiddie' to reproduce.
One thing is that the encryption is probably hard, but probably predictable in some form, since the phone needs to be able to access the stored data rapidly and without taxing the processor too hard, since otherwise performance and battery would take a noticeable hit.
What are your Facebook privacy settings set to? All information public? If not, surely you don't having anything to hide? They may not be crimes, but still.
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All security or encryption should be treated as breakable, so the real question is not is it breakable, but how much effort needs to be made to break it? This should also be put in the context of who we are really trying to protect data from?
I suppose they could name an event Cats vs the bottom feeding mice? We do now know there is not much difference between, bottom feeders, mice and sith lords.
This also shows the dangers of having a device depend on the cloud for its functionality, where the servers are run by a single private entity. As the summary indicates open standards can help, but so is the ability to be independent of cloud servers that are outside your personal network.
Hopefully someone will crack these or that Google will open source the device software. The cynical side of me has more faith in the former.
As for lifetime guarantees, there are no such thing, since in reality it translates to: life time warranty on the condition we don't get bought out.
Either that is because of a change in focus of Netflix or because the content providers are getting more difficult/greedier? Without an official comment from Netflix it is hard to know, but any change of focus of Netflix is probably triggered by the latter?
The one reason I would give for someone pirating: is that you can't be sure where to find the content or find the content in 1 year and at a reasonable cost. I appreciate content owners need to stay profitable, but there needs to be some sort of balance?
The first point here is to figure out the individuals behind this and who's sponsoring them. Then publish who they are and see if they still are interested in pursuing the matter.
Does Snowdon not have any files on this entity? Next bet it we sponsor the EFF to hire a private detective to do an investigation to the finances of flow of money to this entity? Also wondering whether this will be story enough to revive Groklaw?
My experience is data quality is always a challenge. Even commercial sources can have errors (free or volunteer sources more so), so I believe that a basic audit is always important before proceeding with any critical work.
This gets me wondering where you go legally for the less popular stuff? Discs may be a dying breed, but they still seem the best place, beyond the unofficial sources.
I wouldn't go that far, but I do think there needs to be a new distribution model. I don't know what it could be, but it should be designed with the Internet in mind.
I am wondering whether it should be illegal to require an 'about to be laid off employee' to train their replacements. IMHO, the requirement should be limited to employees who are resigning of their own accord.
Windows Phone, Windows Mobile, Windows CE? While I believe the last one is relegated to embedded devices, what is the right name for the Microsoft OS for the phones, since I always seem to hear a new variation?
In the same way, if the phones aren't secure, then the FBI doesn't need Apple to get access, so why are they making such a scene?
I thought trading system typically relied on GPS based NTP servers in their own network?
Oh and if you want to make your one: http://www.satsignal.eu/ntp/Ra... . While probably not as accurate as a commercial version, it is a tad slight cheaper.
If they allow me to customise the behaviour of the address bar that may already be one point for it. Just put me in the camp which likes to see the whole URL.
$50 split 6 ways
Don't let Hollywood know your friend is you charging money to see movies on his home theater. The movie studios will send their lawyers around real quick - that's a no no. Public performance? OK, pay a million dollars.
Actually, makes me wonder how they are going to prevent people bringing in cameras and sharing the movie with 'friends'? There is no one is kick you out of your own theatre room.
A fool and his money soon parted.
Possibly, but for people with their own home theatres this may be a good deal. The real question is what are the conditions around the price. For example, non-commercial, limited to 6 people, etc?
Replying to myself, but looks like there is already one project
Can anyone tell me whether there ways of using UDP broadcast over the air? The idea is that you would have a wireless server, with an IP address throwing out packets for its content and then have wi-fi stations simply receiving these packets and making them available to systems on the local network. The idea being that you could simply set up a wi-fi router and then transmit. A little like a mesh, except it is one way.
It is not a question of left or right, but rather of the extremes. Both Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia were totalitarian in their own way.
He is trying to get attention by being honest? That's brand new it seems.
He is being honest about being dishonest!? Is that a redeeming attribute? - confused-
It's been obfuscated for security. He/she doesn't want humans mucking with it.
Maybe being a master coder and tinkerer, the code base is a mixture of intended functionality, experiments, 'what if's, 'just in case' and 'just because'. It works well enough, as intended and it is fun just seeing things play out. God may not be playing dice, but may still be happy just sitting back and observing how things turn out.
We only use 50% of our brain ... oh, now we know we use a vast amount more than that.
What I am trying to get at, is while something appears to be unused, their use may be a lot more subtle that we suspect. For example it can kick in as protective mechanism in some context, but otherwise appear dormant or non-functional. From a coding context, this is like the function that is called in 2% of cases, every 2 years, but not having it could mean a system crash of the worst kind. Again from a coding context, this is the sort of thing that sometimes gets pruned out and then everyone realises that it was what kept the system going when the moon turns blue (or some other funky situation). Instead of having a computer go offline, you have a living entity die because of some edge case, that was being handled with a now pruned gene.
Actually there is another way of looking at things. A application where every useful function has some defined offset and pruning something may cause lookup issues. In those cases the 'unused' code is better left in place 'just in case', since replacing it with a series of 'NOOP's doesn't provide a better solution either.
Companies should ensure all software sold to the French government have backdoors or have encryption weak enough to be useless, which uh would mean the French government wouldn't want to buy their software!?
The above is trying to illustrate a contradictory scenario that in many ways may happen if companies try to follow the French law. Sure in the case of phones and communication it is intended at non-government parties, but where does that line cross?
The other issue as we have recently seen is that enties of national interest will just use their own tools and the result will be a law that only hurts "law abiding" citizens.
It is hard, but between the NSA and the FBI they should be working hard to develop new techniques. Maybe the military could even chip in, if it really is an issue of national defence, as is the case in the IS argument? Wasn't the NSA meant to be the brain that could crack anything?
One benefit of having techniques that only governments can afford and have access to, is that the methods would be hard for a 'script kiddie' to reproduce.
One thing is that the encryption is probably hard, but probably predictable in some form, since the phone needs to be able to access the stored data rapidly and without taxing the processor too hard, since otherwise performance and battery would take a noticeable hit.
What are your Facebook privacy settings set to? All information public? If not, surely you don't having anything to hide? They may not be crimes, but still.
I am try to understand "it was" or "is becoming" a prison colony? ;)