Circumstantial evidence. Incriminating perhaps, but not proof. It's just a variable name.
Still, even without the full cooperation of a target corporation, the NSA still has the ability to tap any domestic communication line they want, they certainly have access to some root CAs to sign any cert they want (Can you imagine Verisign getting the contract from ICANN otherwise?) and they always have the classic 'we want this and you can't tell anyone, not even your legal department to check validity' national security letter. So it's safe to assume that they can gain access to anything stored on US soil or by a US company. The real question after that is 'what do they want to read?' Your boring pictures of your dinner on instagram aren't going to be of any interest, but there are plenty of ways such power could be abused (Supplying valuable inside information to US companies China-style, digging up dirt on aspiring politicians or campaigners who draw the ire of agency chiefs or their bosses, or just bored employees looking to see if that hot woman they know has been sending any naked selfies to her husband). As the 'No Such Agency' is one of the most opaque (understandably) organisations in the US government, and the CIA is one rank behind, it's impossible to say just what they have been up to.
Need to work out timing issues - it's not clear how long this has been going on, and Gates hasn't been in charge at MS for a long time now.
If it dates back as far as the antitrust trial, then it is quite plausible that some strings may have been pulled in exchange for cooperation. It might explain why the very harsh sanctions were overturned on appeal and replaced with just a slap-on-the-wrist. But this is just groundless speculation - those events were prior to 9/11, before there even was a DHS, and back when the NSA was just a signals division working for the CIA and the word 'terrorism' didn't have the power to override the constitution. So it seems possible, but not likely.
I'd go with Florida - they don't seem to share Texas's uber-macho cowboy thing. No-one ever put a 'don't mess with Florida' bumper sticker on their car.
It could be 'voluntary' complience, with the quotemarks. The classic offer-you-can't-refuse approach. Perhaps a government representative just explained that one way or another the NSA was going to get total access, but if MS (or any other company) complied now they could at least deign the taps in a way suited to their infrastructure, whereas resisting the request would result - after a couple of sessions of congress - in a new law mandating an NSA-designed system be installed and probably break half their well-designed systems by forcing centralisation.
In the UK we used the same approach to compel ISPs to install anti-child-porn filters: The government never actually passed a law mandating ISPs install filtering, they just made it quite clear that they would pass a law if the industry didn't collectively do so 'voluntarily.' This suits the govermnent very well, because it means the filtering list can be maintained by the IWF, an ultra-secretive unaccoutable non-governmental organisation with all the procedural transparency of a lead brick. If they screw up and block wikipedia, no government department gets the blame and no embarassing enquery is launched.
I'm expecting exactly the same tactic will be used within a few years to pressure ISPs into blocking regular adult pornography too - there's already a major tabloid and a couple of MPs campaigning for it. To protect the children, of course.
The term may usually be considered racist, but his use of it was sarcastic: He was refering to the well-known but somewhat embarassing fact that minorities conficted of crimes in the US tend to recieve much harsher sentences than would a white person convicted of the same crime under the same circumstances.
The country still hasn't entirely gotten over the old racist ways. They are much diminished now, but not eliminated.
Until some mutant is born losing the patch and, in a world completly unprepared to handle such a person, swiftly amasses a vast fortune by reinventing the 419 scam and a bit of old-fashioned burglery.
I think his complaint is that to stay in the field he needs to develop his skills, but without seeing the 'rake in the cash' part - no matter how superhumanly skilled he may be, his wages won't reflect the effort put in.
Same story here. Seems it is quite common. Breezed through secondary school and A-levels without a single minute of revision and came out with good grades - then had a breakdown in university, at my first experience of intellectual failure.
The taunting isn't because he is an idiot. It's because he acted like an idiot, deliberately. He created his 'cowboy' persona, and showed a love of soundbites and a very informal manner of speech. Like all successful politicians, he was also something of an actor. He saw that there was a strong anti-intellectual element in the electorate, and deliberately appealed to them by looking far less intelligent than he really was.
That is, in my view, far worse than just being unintelligent. He deliberately turned education into something seen as a negative, and gave the impression that someone experienced in pracitcal cattle-wrangling would be more qualified to lead the country than a Harvard MBA... even though he had one himself.
Software is no issue, you can just store a description of the algorithms in ASCII. Even if the ASCII standard is lost, a little frequency counting will be enough to rediscover it.
A greater issue is keeping it readable to humans: In ten thousand years, English will probably be about as commonly-spoken as linear-A.
Most consumers are ignorant of technology. They don't know what firmware is, or even an OS.
They'll notice 'Oh noes, my new game won't work!' But they won't know why. Even if the phone is upgradeable, they won't realise this is an option. That's why many phones include some form of automatic updater.
Most consumers don't look at upgradeability, or even specifications, when deciding on a phone. They buy on two criteria: Does it look cool, and is it fashionable?
At 28nm? It's the difference between 'tiny' and 'almost as tiny.' The packaging is many times the size of the chip, so if you can get both chips in one package it won't add anything. Power is more important.
Tennessee might be a good contender. They've something of a track record for passing stupid laws, a strong creationist presence, and a lot of barely-concealed racism.
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Don't forget roads in urban areas. No power means no traffic signals.
Circumstantial evidence. Incriminating perhaps, but not proof. It's just a variable name.
Still, even without the full cooperation of a target corporation, the NSA still has the ability to tap any domestic communication line they want, they certainly have access to some root CAs to sign any cert they want (Can you imagine Verisign getting the contract from ICANN otherwise?) and they always have the classic 'we want this and you can't tell anyone, not even your legal department to check validity' national security letter. So it's safe to assume that they can gain access to anything stored on US soil or by a US company. The real question after that is 'what do they want to read?' Your boring pictures of your dinner on instagram aren't going to be of any interest, but there are plenty of ways such power could be abused (Supplying valuable inside information to US companies China-style, digging up dirt on aspiring politicians or campaigners who draw the ire of agency chiefs or their bosses, or just bored employees looking to see if that hot woman they know has been sending any naked selfies to her husband). As the 'No Such Agency' is one of the most opaque (understandably) organisations in the US government, and the CIA is one rank behind, it's impossible to say just what they have been up to.
Need to work out timing issues - it's not clear how long this has been going on, and Gates hasn't been in charge at MS for a long time now.
If it dates back as far as the antitrust trial, then it is quite plausible that some strings may have been pulled in exchange for cooperation. It might explain why the very harsh sanctions were overturned on appeal and replaced with just a slap-on-the-wrist. But this is just groundless speculation - those events were prior to 9/11, before there even was a DHS, and back when the NSA was just a signals division working for the CIA and the word 'terrorism' didn't have the power to override the constitution. So it seems possible, but not likely.
I'd go with Florida - they don't seem to share Texas's uber-macho cowboy thing. No-one ever put a 'don't mess with Florida' bumper sticker on their car.
It could be 'voluntary' complience, with the quotemarks. The classic offer-you-can't-refuse approach. Perhaps a government representative just explained that one way or another the NSA was going to get total access, but if MS (or any other company) complied now they could at least deign the taps in a way suited to their infrastructure, whereas resisting the request would result - after a couple of sessions of congress - in a new law mandating an NSA-designed system be installed and probably break half their well-designed systems by forcing centralisation.
In the UK we used the same approach to compel ISPs to install anti-child-porn filters: The government never actually passed a law mandating ISPs install filtering, they just made it quite clear that they would pass a law if the industry didn't collectively do so 'voluntarily.' This suits the govermnent very well, because it means the filtering list can be maintained by the IWF, an ultra-secretive unaccoutable non-governmental organisation with all the procedural transparency of a lead brick. If they screw up and block wikipedia, no government department gets the blame and no embarassing enquery is launched.
I'm expecting exactly the same tactic will be used within a few years to pressure ISPs into blocking regular adult pornography too - there's already a major tabloid and a couple of MPs campaigning for it. To protect the children, of course.
Or just about any scene in The Invention of Lying.
Or a certain speech given in Team America :>
The term may usually be considered racist, but his use of it was sarcastic: He was refering to the well-known but somewhat embarassing fact that minorities conficted of crimes in the US tend to recieve much harsher sentences than would a white person convicted of the same crime under the same circumstances.
The country still hasn't entirely gotten over the old racist ways. They are much diminished now, but not eliminated.
Until some mutant is born losing the patch and, in a world completly unprepared to handle such a person, swiftly amasses a vast fortune by reinventing the 419 scam and a bit of old-fashioned burglery.
I think his complaint is that to stay in the field he needs to develop his skills, but without seeing the 'rake in the cash' part - no matter how superhumanly skilled he may be, his wages won't reflect the effort put in.
Same story here. Seems it is quite common. Breezed through secondary school and A-levels without a single minute of revision and came out with good grades - then had a breakdown in university, at my first experience of intellectual failure.
The taunting isn't because he is an idiot. It's because he acted like an idiot, deliberately. He created his 'cowboy' persona, and showed a love of soundbites and a very informal manner of speech. Like all successful politicians, he was also something of an actor. He saw that there was a strong anti-intellectual element in the electorate, and deliberately appealed to them by looking far less intelligent than he really was.
That is, in my view, far worse than just being unintelligent. He deliberately turned education into something seen as a negative, and gave the impression that someone experienced in pracitcal cattle-wrangling would be more qualified to lead the country than a Harvard MBA... even though he had one himself.
"Unless you believe that someone would record child abuse on classified official documents."
This is the catholic church we are talking about. They've done exactly that before.
I've been trying to get friends to use it myself. Only got a small network running, but it certainly holds potential.
The NSA disagrees.
"Come look, give us money."
It was made as a tourist attraction. An effective one, even though it was never finished.
Software is no issue, you can just store a description of the algorithms in ASCII. Even if the ASCII standard is lost, a little frequency counting will be enough to rediscover it.
A greater issue is keeping it readable to humans: In ten thousand years, English will probably be about as commonly-spoken as linear-A.
They probably had it classified so high only two people were allowed to read it, and they both retired or died.
Most consumers are ignorant of technology. They don't know what firmware is, or even an OS.
They'll notice 'Oh noes, my new game won't work!' But they won't know why. Even if the phone is upgradeable, they won't realise this is an option. That's why many phones include some form of automatic updater.
Most consumers don't look at upgradeability, or even specifications, when deciding on a phone. They buy on two criteria: Does it look cool, and is it fashionable?
If an attacker can inject their own video stream, they can do far worse things than DoS.
User numbers. Tor takes effort to set up, while the greatest appeal of piracy is the speed and convenience.
None of his views on this particular issue are evident in the novel, except perhaps in the naming of the aliens - and that might just be coincidence.
So make the film, and ignore where it comes from. No need to dismiss a story just because of it's author.
Really, practically every author before 1900 was an extreme racist.
You'd be better off trying to get Shakesphere out of schools for his anti-Jewish views - those *did* get expressed in his plays.
I used to use ubuntu. Took one look at Unity and switched to xubuntu.
And just as importantly, it gives you someone to sue if it breaks down horribly.
At 28nm? It's the difference between 'tiny' and 'almost as tiny.' The packaging is many times the size of the chip, so if you can get both chips in one package it won't add anything. Power is more important.
Tennessee might be a good contender. They've something of a track record for passing stupid laws, a strong creationist presence, and a lot of barely-concealed racism.