Yes, the consumer stuff is the cheap products outsourced from China. However what they probably are doing is keeping a small workforce in high wage countries to interface with the enterprise customers. They will gather requirements, do the installs, etc. All of the actual development work will get shipped off to lower wage countries. So most of the people that never dealt with the customers are the ones that got cut.
So many people today have the ability to take videos. And yes they do a bit for personal use but they mostly stick with pictures. However we are still consumers of video content for most of the time. Why would this be different with computers? I'm not going to write every app I need from a set of APIs. How many of us do that now? The average person is still going to get a game with the great graphics and physics engine from some company. You aren't going to put that together yourself with a bunch of API calls.
I find it morally wrong to know of crimes that are about to be and giving that information only to those people who have paid you money. They should be stopping the attacks for everyone by alerting the authorities. But then there's no profit in that.
I wonder if there could be a case made against them for profiting because of an act of a crime. By not telling some of the potential victims they are conspiring with the hackers. I'm sure some lawyer would have a go with it.
I wasn't talking about the changes to the article in Wikipedia. I was referring to the information that was coming from the paywalled article. For example, if the Wikipedia article just has a brief statement about the results of a physics experiment we won't be able to see any information about how that experiment was performed and any assumptions that were made.
Oh, stop thinking logically. People do lots of things that don't make sense when you look at it that way. Not that I disagree with you but I've just seen it happen go the other way too many times.
For example at one office they kept track of the photocopier use per project. If you wanted to copy a single page you had to enter a project code into the copier before it would work.
At a government office one manager spent about $100k a year to license some data from the US to post on the website. This information that was freely available on the US website and all he had to do was link to their site but he wanted the traffic to help make him look good.
I stopped taking them seriously when there were a couple TEDx conferences in my city one year and the iTunes feed started filling up with a bunch of talks from these other conferences.
Unless we can verify that the information is correct then that data is useless to us. We don't know how it was gathered and what assumptions were made. Would the/. community accept a story on here that announced a new malaria treatment without a link to any further details? No, it would be torn apart asking for details. That's what we're being asked to believe with these articles.
What happens when an article get retracted or the online version gets updated? Are these few people going to be able monitor the journals and then update all of the Wikipedia entries?
Firstly, the CIA wouldn't need a warrant because they shouldn't be working on US soil. So I'll assume it's the FBI and that they have the warrant. Sometimes you just have to live with the fact that you can't get that information. Why should everyone give up their privacy so that the government can go after a relatively few people who, if there was a way to break the encryption, would just use another method? Do we all have to print legibly in English because the terrorists could make up their own language with code words written on paper? That's what we're being asked to do.
As for having encryption that just strong enough for $0.5M in resources it wouldn't take long for that to be affordable considering that computers double in speed every 12 to 18 months.
I think the idea is to make it like being hit while wearing a bullet proof vest. The vest usually stops the bullet but doesn't stop the energy. It just spreads it out over a larger area so it still is going to hurt you.
Then you get the idiots who get confused and use their more lethal gun instead. As in using their gun instead of their taser. http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/14/... (Warning - auto-playing video)
The problem is there are times when they need to use ammunition with more stopping power. For example if a car is driving at them or someone is shooting at them. They don't have time to switch ammunition or wouldn't want to mix up clips in a life threatening situation. There are also times when they need the more powerful ammunition to put down animals (after being hit by vehicles for example) but obviously there's not the urgency isn't there. There's just the need for the present ammunition so they couldn't only use less lethal rounds.
The best thing is human intelligence. They need people to gather intelligence directly and indirectly from the groups they are interested in. Not electronically, though it does have it's place. People have to be out in the field making connections.
Slurping in everyone's communications is not going to get them anything except maybe from the stupid people.
Author goes on to say that the difference between buying it outright and two years of monthly payments goes to Apple after pointing out that the person is signing up for a loan provided by a bank. I somehow doubt that the bank is doing this for free. I am guessing that Apple is not seeing anything above the cost of the iPhone and the difference is going to the bank. Apple gets two things from this. The first is that their income is spread out through the year. Right now they have one huge quarter that dwarfs the others. The other thing is that they have some certainty in the number of units of the next iPhone they are going to sell.
I think Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq showed the world exactly the US' ability to take whatever land and resources you wanted and needed. The US may have the best and biggest military and be able to overwhelm a territory but it's not so good at holding onto it against in a determined guerrilla fight. No oil was being extracted or refined in Iraq for the longest time despite the best efforts of the US. Hundreds of thousands of people died because of your actions yet all the world ever hears from American patriots is the few thousand US soldiers that died there as if none of the Iraqi citizens didn't matter. Some people only see that as representing your country and then you wonder why others hate you.
Partial credit because you came in so late. Of course if you get a discount then so do all of your allies: the UK and the Commonwealth (Canada, Australia, India,...); Russia; China;... Seems like most of the big emitters are here. Still want that discount?
Well if you are going to do then you are going to be giving out a lot of credits. The Arabs kept scientific culture alive during the "dark ages" and India has contributed lots to science such as 0.
Yeah, they were late to that party too. The US showed up three years late for the first one and something like that for the second one. A whole lot of people could have been saved if they had of done the proper thing and got involved earlier.
Since they only came out with large phones again I'm keeping my credit cards in my wallet. Though this was expected. Wonder how long I'll have to make my 5s last?
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Yes, the consumer stuff is the cheap products outsourced from China. However what they probably are doing is keeping a small workforce in high wage countries to interface with the enterprise customers. They will gather requirements, do the installs, etc. All of the actual development work will get shipped off to lower wage countries. So most of the people that never dealt with the customers are the ones that got cut.
So many people today have the ability to take videos. And yes they do a bit for personal use but they mostly stick with pictures. However we are still consumers of video content for most of the time. Why would this be different with computers? I'm not going to write every app I need from a set of APIs. How many of us do that now? The average person is still going to get a game with the great graphics and physics engine from some company. You aren't going to put that together yourself with a bunch of API calls.
Because it worked out so well when we got everyone "programming" their own stuff in Excel and Access.
Not my word. Not even my idea. There was an episode of Future Tense from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation Radio that dealt with this subject.
I find it morally wrong to know of crimes that are about to be and giving that information only to those people who have paid you money. They should be stopping the attacks for everyone by alerting the authorities. But then there's no profit in that.
I wonder if there could be a case made against them for profiting because of an act of a crime. By not telling some of the potential victims they are conspiring with the hackers. I'm sure some lawyer would have a go with it.
I would have gone with Rogers.
I wasn't talking about the changes to the article in Wikipedia. I was referring to the information that was coming from the paywalled article. For example, if the Wikipedia article just has a brief statement about the results of a physics experiment we won't be able to see any information about how that experiment was performed and any assumptions that were made.
This is just part of the gamification of everything.
Oh, stop thinking logically. People do lots of things that don't make sense when you look at it that way. Not that I disagree with you but I've just seen it happen go the other way too many times.
For example at one office they kept track of the photocopier use per project. If you wanted to copy a single page you had to enter a project code into the copier before it would work.
At a government office one manager spent about $100k a year to license some data from the US to post on the website. This information that was freely available on the US website and all he had to do was link to their site but he wanted the traffic to help make him look good.
I stopped taking them seriously when there were a couple TEDx conferences in my city one year and the iTunes feed started filling up with a bunch of talks from these other conferences.
Unless we can verify that the information is correct then that data is useless to us. We don't know how it was gathered and what assumptions were made. Would the /. community accept a story on here that announced a new malaria treatment without a link to any further details? No, it would be torn apart asking for details. That's what we're being asked to believe with these articles.
What happens when an article get retracted or the online version gets updated? Are these few people going to be able monitor the journals and then update all of the Wikipedia entries?
Firstly, the CIA wouldn't need a warrant because they shouldn't be working on US soil. So I'll assume it's the FBI and that they have the warrant. Sometimes you just have to live with the fact that you can't get that information. Why should everyone give up their privacy so that the government can go after a relatively few people who, if there was a way to break the encryption, would just use another method? Do we all have to print legibly in English because the terrorists could make up their own language with code words written on paper? That's what we're being asked to do.
As for having encryption that just strong enough for $0.5M in resources it wouldn't take long for that to be affordable considering that computers double in speed every 12 to 18 months.
I think the idea is to make it like being hit while wearing a bullet proof vest. The vest usually stops the bullet but doesn't stop the energy. It just spreads it out over a larger area so it still is going to hurt you.
Then you get the idiots who get confused and use their more lethal gun instead. As in using their gun instead of their taser. http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/14/... (Warning - auto-playing video)
The problem is there are times when they need to use ammunition with more stopping power. For example if a car is driving at them or someone is shooting at them. They don't have time to switch ammunition or wouldn't want to mix up clips in a life threatening situation. There are also times when they need the more powerful ammunition to put down animals (after being hit by vehicles for example) but obviously there's not the urgency isn't there. There's just the need for the present ammunition so they couldn't only use less lethal rounds.
The best thing is human intelligence. They need people to gather intelligence directly and indirectly from the groups they are interested in. Not electronically, though it does have it's place. People have to be out in the field making connections.
Slurping in everyone's communications is not going to get them anything except maybe from the stupid people.
Author goes on to say that the difference between buying it outright and two years of monthly payments goes to Apple after pointing out that the person is signing up for a loan provided by a bank. I somehow doubt that the bank is doing this for free. I am guessing that Apple is not seeing anything above the cost of the iPhone and the difference is going to the bank. Apple gets two things from this. The first is that their income is spread out through the year. Right now they have one huge quarter that dwarfs the others. The other thing is that they have some certainty in the number of units of the next iPhone they are going to sell.
I think Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq showed the world exactly the US' ability to take whatever land and resources you wanted and needed. The US may have the best and biggest military and be able to overwhelm a territory but it's not so good at holding onto it against in a determined guerrilla fight. No oil was being extracted or refined in Iraq for the longest time despite the best efforts of the US. Hundreds of thousands of people died because of your actions yet all the world ever hears from American patriots is the few thousand US soldiers that died there as if none of the Iraqi citizens didn't matter. Some people only see that as representing your country and then you wonder why others hate you.
Partial credit because you came in so late. Of course if you get a discount then so do all of your allies: the UK and the Commonwealth (Canada, Australia, India, ...); Russia; China; ... Seems like most of the big emitters are here. Still want that discount?
Well if you are going to do then you are going to be giving out a lot of credits. The Arabs kept scientific culture alive during the "dark ages" and India has contributed lots to science such as 0.
And North Korea calls itself democratic. What a country calls itself and what it is rarely have much in common.
Now, now, be fair. Japan forced their hand.
Yeah, they were late to that party too. The US showed up three years late for the first one and something like that for the second one. A whole lot of people could have been saved if they had of done the proper thing and got involved earlier.
Since they only came out with large phones again I'm keeping my credit cards in my wallet. Though this was expected. Wonder how long I'll have to make my 5s last?
Hope you don't want the last one and have to hear the other 89 first.