It's not just that. Us technical people have a tendency to see a technical solution to every problem. It's just another aspect of the old saying "when all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail".
More often then not, purely technical, and even mostly technical solution is a bad one. This is where non-technical manager comes in. If he's good at his work, he'll be able to provide non-technical insights that will benefit the team greatly by pointing out solutions that are obvious to him, but may be very much non-obvious to people looking at the problem from purely technical standpoint.
Where and when I use my laptop? Yes, it is. That's why I use a laptop instead of desktop in those situations. My desktop is in every way superior to the best laptop you'll find on the market (except maybe pixel density of screens, which is irrelevant for me anyway).
I had a laptop like yours before. I had to lug around two spare batteries at the very least to get to the sweet spot of three to four hours without charging, and having to shut down the machine to swap batteries was a pain in the ass.
They fuck up at times because nothing is perfect. But they are pretty good at what they do in general. Or at least far better than most of their counterparts (though arguably that's because they have much bigger budgets).
Notably the case which you linked shows just how well they work. Even with such judgment made, nothing major actually happened. We don't know if Italian government approved it, it didn't impact relations in any meaningful way and the guy was still kidnapped and tortured. I'd call that a resounding success, as stated goal of getting the guy they were told to get and torturing him for information was achieved, and no meaningful impact on US-Italy relations has occurred in spite of the events that followed.
He's likely protected by GRU, or whatever they call their internal security organisation that largely mirrors FBI in many of its functions. That's obvious. Otherwise Snowden would have been dead or captured long ago. For all their flaws, US security apparatus is quite competent at what it does, including capturing or killing those it's tasked with capturing or killing.
If you have a decent nest egg to start with, it's still a country with greatest potential for personal growth. That is probably the single greatest advantage of USA from personal stand point.
They are already worse than China in terms of some of the human rights. After all, they destroyed one such right, right to privacy already. And they are doing it while accusing China of possibly doing it.
So that particular bridge has been burned down long, long ago.
And if you think that CIA doesn't use the "lest something happens to your family" just as much as other intelligence agencies, I have land on the moon to sell you.
Of course it does. After all, it runs what, 900p downscaled most of the time because it's actually pointless to have such a high native resolution in such a small screen? You just pay extra for extra pixels you don't actually use and that burn your battery down. Which is incidentally basically the entire box you lug with you because it has to be due to the screen. But you get to tell amazing stories about your awesome apple laptop with all those tiny pixels packed in the small screen that costs about ten times what laptop with 768p and better discreet GPU (but much worse CPU) costs.
Back before the fad, we had a name for people like you. Suckers.
After you remove the PR crap, the sentence becomes: "We didn't intend on weakening RSA's products".
It's not a denial of the backdoor. It's also not a denial of making a contract with NSA to backdoor the algorithm. It's merely a denial of intention on higher levels.
Classic plausible deniability, denial that means nothing if definite proof of this leaks next. They can simply claim they didn't know.
Security is a process. Security subversion is also a process. All of them include risks. The point of both is to ensure that risk is acceptable in comparison to the action and its reward.
When they "categorically deny weakining any RSA products" without all the caveats attached, it will be a denial. Until then, it's a denial of something that they weren't accused of, and not a word was said about what they were actually accused of.
We have plenty of examples of this kind of corporate speak in PR management, ranging from BP's fairly recent oil leak issue which was full of them to pretty much any other major industrial incident. We have people who spin this stuff for a living and make more doing so than 99% of population.
Not so. As long as backdoor itself is tightly in the hands of NSA only, as it apparently still is, this is a massive advantage for US security interests.
I bought my 768p 15" laptop because I could play more than slideshow games on it. No way I'd buy a currently trendy "lol look at my many pixels" device that doesn't offer any significant advantage while effectively hamstringing my ability to use anything that needs computational power to match the pixel count overkill on those devices.
Not sure what you're trying to prove here, but it's pretty obvious that you're factually incorrect in both claiming that this isn't a vaccine, or that it doesn't involve immune system.
No, it makes it look like it's actually sane in the current "more pixels is better" fad. It prioritizes having a good resolution and computational power to match it, rather than huge resolution and no computational power to support it which is the current fad.
I suspect what that means is that camera is automatically recording when camera software is running, and you can choose stills or video bits from what it has been recording, while it continues to record. At least that's what would make sense, as such operation does indeed require significant computational power, which appears to be the selling point of the tablet.
It's pretty unlikely that it would be recording when camera software is not running for reasons like battery life and privacy.
You misunderstand. These are proper medical terms. I don't call anything "secondary", I merely set the two separate classes. One is prophylactic, other is therapeutic.
While you are correct that this vaccine uses genetic therapy - like methods, it still fits a definition of a therapeutic vaccine.
Vaccine by definition is something that helps your immune system generate an immune response. Vaccines in general fall into two caterogies.
Prophylactic (this is the category where most vaccines fall into) which is given before the onset of disease to ensure the immune response when it attempts to infect the patient. Example: MMR vaccine.
Second category is therapeutic vaccine, which is given after the onset of disease to generate immune response during the disease. This is rare, as most diseases generate appropriate immune response when they hit, making vaccination's value minimal to harmful. However diseases with delayed infection such as rabies or autoimmune diseases that circumvent immune response such as HIV (may) benefit from therapeutic vaccination after infection.
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You've changed the subject twice now without responding to the arguments. I guess I hit a nerve?
It's not just that. Us technical people have a tendency to see a technical solution to every problem. It's just another aspect of the old saying "when all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail".
More often then not, purely technical, and even mostly technical solution is a bad one. This is where non-technical manager comes in. If he's good at his work, he'll be able to provide non-technical insights that will benefit the team greatly by pointing out solutions that are obvious to him, but may be very much non-obvious to people looking at the problem from purely technical standpoint.
Where and when I use my laptop? Yes, it is. That's why I use a laptop instead of desktop in those situations. My desktop is in every way superior to the best laptop you'll find on the market (except maybe pixel density of screens, which is irrelevant for me anyway).
I had a laptop like yours before. I had to lug around two spare batteries at the very least to get to the sweet spot of three to four hours without charging, and having to shut down the machine to swap batteries was a pain in the ass.
They fuck up at times because nothing is perfect. But they are pretty good at what they do in general. Or at least far better than most of their counterparts (though arguably that's because they have much bigger budgets).
Notably the case which you linked shows just how well they work. Even with such judgment made, nothing major actually happened. We don't know if Italian government approved it, it didn't impact relations in any meaningful way and the guy was still kidnapped and tortured. I'd call that a resounding success, as stated goal of getting the guy they were told to get and torturing him for information was achieved, and no meaningful impact on US-Italy relations has occurred in spite of the events that followed.
So old fashioned. CIA is far more advanced, outsourcing torture to other countries.
In a way, it does explain your commentary though. You still live in the twentieth century.
It sucks when your obvious strawman is strawmanned by another equally obvious strawman, doesn't it?
I'm going to take a guess that insurance company that insures vessel in trouble deals with these costs.
He's likely protected by GRU, or whatever they call their internal security organisation that largely mirrors FBI in many of its functions. That's obvious. Otherwise Snowden would have been dead or captured long ago. For all their flaws, US security apparatus is quite competent at what it does, including capturing or killing those it's tasked with capturing or killing.
I have land on the moon to sell you. Good prices.
If you have a decent nest egg to start with, it's still a country with greatest potential for personal growth. That is probably the single greatest advantage of USA from personal stand point.
They are already worse than China in terms of some of the human rights. After all, they destroyed one such right, right to privacy already. And they are doing it while accusing China of possibly doing it.
So that particular bridge has been burned down long, long ago.
And if you think that CIA doesn't use the "lest something happens to your family" just as much as other intelligence agencies, I have land on the moon to sell you.
Of course it does. After all, it runs what, 900p downscaled most of the time because it's actually pointless to have such a high native resolution in such a small screen? You just pay extra for extra pixels you don't actually use and that burn your battery down. Which is incidentally basically the entire box you lug with you because it has to be due to the screen. But you get to tell amazing stories about your awesome apple laptop with all those tiny pixels packed in the small screen that costs about ten times what laptop with 768p and better discreet GPU (but much worse CPU) costs.
Back before the fad, we had a name for people like you. Suckers.
So, how do you like lugging around 4-5 spare batteries and interrupting your gameplay about once an hour?
After you remove the PR crap, the sentence becomes:
"We didn't intend on weakening RSA's products".
It's not a denial of the backdoor. It's also not a denial of making a contract with NSA to backdoor the algorithm. It's merely a denial of intention on higher levels.
Classic plausible deniability, denial that means nothing if definite proof of this leaks next. They can simply claim they didn't know.
Possible? Yes. Likely? No.
Security is a process. Security subversion is also a process. All of them include risks. The point of both is to ensure that risk is acceptable in comparison to the action and its reward.
Correct. But you do not choose what is shared about you on social media. Which is what actually matters.
When they "categorically deny weakining any RSA products" without all the caveats attached, it will be a denial. Until then, it's a denial of something that they weren't accused of, and not a word was said about what they were actually accused of.
We have plenty of examples of this kind of corporate speak in PR management, ranging from BP's fairly recent oil leak issue which was full of them to pretty much any other major industrial incident. We have people who spin this stuff for a living and make more doing so than 99% of population.
Not so. As long as backdoor itself is tightly in the hands of NSA only, as it apparently still is, this is a massive advantage for US security interests.
I bought my 768p 15" laptop because I could play more than slideshow games on it. No way I'd buy a currently trendy "lol look at my many pixels" device that doesn't offer any significant advantage while effectively hamstringing my ability to use anything that needs computational power to match the pixel count overkill on those devices.
It is indeed, it's the first sentence in the wikipedia description:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine
Not sure what you're trying to prove here, but it's pretty obvious that you're factually incorrect in both claiming that this isn't a vaccine, or that it doesn't involve immune system.
No, it makes it look like it's actually sane in the current "more pixels is better" fad. It prioritizes having a good resolution and computational power to match it, rather than huge resolution and no computational power to support it which is the current fad.
I suspect what that means is that camera is automatically recording when camera software is running, and you can choose stills or video bits from what it has been recording, while it continues to record. At least that's what would make sense, as such operation does indeed require significant computational power, which appears to be the selling point of the tablet.
It's pretty unlikely that it would be recording when camera software is not running for reasons like battery life and privacy.
You misunderstand. These are proper medical terms. I don't call anything "secondary", I merely set the two separate classes. One is prophylactic, other is therapeutic.
While you are correct that this vaccine uses genetic therapy - like methods, it still fits a definition of a therapeutic vaccine.
Vaccine by definition is something that helps your immune system generate an immune response. Vaccines in general fall into two caterogies.
Prophylactic (this is the category where most vaccines fall into) which is given before the onset of disease to ensure the immune response when it attempts to infect the patient. Example: MMR vaccine.
Second category is therapeutic vaccine, which is given after the onset of disease to generate immune response during the disease. This is rare, as most diseases generate appropriate immune response when they hit, making vaccination's value minimal to harmful. However diseases with delayed infection such as rabies or autoimmune diseases that circumvent immune response such as HIV (may) benefit from therapeutic vaccination after infection.
Stop masturbating over weird definitions of things. It makes you a mass murderer of babies.