You spend time with your friends, then you find one you want to spend all your time with and proceed to make babies with them, babies with whom you then spend most of your time. Then they grow up and leave, but you're still working so you spend most of your day with coworkers. Then you retire and spend most of your time with that one friend you picked in your 20's, or by yourself.
I guess it's nice to have that formalized, but it ain't a big shock.
Multinationals are taking patent infringement claims to Chinese courts now. I think they may have finished stealing their way to parity and now find themselves needing to actually protect IP in general in order to protect theirs in particular.
How does this affect AMD? ATI was a Canadian company till AMD bought it, and they still design GPUs there. Can China still go after AMD's HQ in California, just so long as they stay in the US based systems?
What if you don't have a PKI, active directory, or even a unified network? Or you do, but the massive corporation that bought you doesn't want to set up a trust and occasionally sends down spreadsheets with unsigned macros?
For whatever reason, the infrastructure needed for code signing might not be available.
The problem with completely blocking macros is that they exist for a reason. I wrote one for some of my users that imported, sorted and formatted listings for open houses (I work for a real estate company) that saved them tons of work.
The solution is to disable macros in documents from the internet or that aren't in trusted locations, scanning macros, using protected view and a few other trust settings. Finding that perfect balance between security and functionality.
That would be powershell execution policy (set to signed or remote signed), enforcing protected view for office, blocking macros on files from the internet, scanning encrypted macros, and a few other trust and security GPOs.
I just realized that there are some I should really crank up for my network, so thanks for bringing this up. Looks like I'm going to have to push Office 2016 while I'm at it, we still have a lot of 2013 installations which don't have all the protections 2016 does.
Because what's more fun than a civil war? Last one only killed 2% of the population, so that's only 6 million of us murdered by friends and neighbors today. Plus a few thousand gang rapes. All in good fun and it bypasses all that annoying political discourse and civil society nonsense.
It's not because of the Electoral College. It's due to how we elect people from the local level on up to Congress. It even has a name - Duverger's Law. Single member districts with first past the post voting = a 2 party system.
Which brings up another important point - False advertising can be investigated and prosecuted by State agencies as well as the FTC. I don't know if false advertising is something the FCC can deal with.
They're saying that they won't use Twitter because the Chinese Communist Party won't allow it. I say that's all the more reason to use it. They don't make the rules for the entire world, they shouldn't even be making rules in China. A de facto dictatorship shouldn't be able to enforce it's will within Western Democracies.
Double down on the contest (I don't know how that would work), so the Chinese authors get pissed off at the Party and demand change.
Wait, the icebreaker can't leave because it would break the ice that's keeping other ships from leaving? Unless the problem is that they need to keep the breaker around to rescue trapped ships, that makes even less sense.
Was the CIA using it on routers in the US? That would be worth leaking - it would be a spy agency breaking all the rules to spy on Americans. I thought Wikileaks was for whistleblowers. Giving away the agency's secret tools isn't whistleblowing, it's treasonous. The public is not served by this. If anything, it puts the American people at a disadvantage.
Snowden blew the whistle on NSA wrongdoing. This isn't wrongdoing, it's the toolset of a public security agency that wasn't using them to violate the law or the rights of the people it defends, and now can't use at all.
that and icebreaker couldn't go out because there was too much ice. What kind of icebreaker can't sail near ice? Did they forget what the ship is designed for?
I guess it depends whether people want a computer that doesn't lie to them more than they want one that lies to others. If that's the general order of preferences, we could all agree not to make lying computers.
One of the great things about a computer is that you can rely on it's output. If you have a giant spreadsheet calculate a total, you can be assured the result is correct if you know the inputs are correct. If you've given your computer the ability to lie for advantage, then you'd better not be running a spreadsheet to calculate your IT budget. Even if it's designed only to lie to your advantage, it may decide that the more powerful it is the better off you are, so making it look like you need to make some upgrades is a desireable deception.
I'm not sure how many vacuum tubes it would take to replicate the IC in the first DynaTAC, but I'm pretty sure it would be too many to carry (ever pick up a tube fed instrument amplifier?). It would have had to be built into a car, if not have a car built around it. Which is why I can see the FCC calling it a low priority for being an ultra high-end luxury item. Even if you could afford a 1950 Packard Patrician Phone, the service fees would have been outrageous.
You already can't listen in on physically private conversations, like two people in a room you couldn't bug ahead of time, or any of the zillion ways spies and terrorists have passed messages in the past. It's hardly new that there are ways to communicate that can't be intercepted or monitored, it's just more convenient now. At least now security agencies can often tell if communication has occurred.
Well, more modern than what they had in the 40's and 50's anyhow. Anything that could be the size of a briefcase or smaller.
I think of "modern batteries" as lithium ion or nickle-metal hydride. In the 40's they would have had to use led-acid or nickel-cadmium. I think the lack of transistors would still be the bigger issue though (pun not originally intended, but readily accepted).
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I guess it's nice to have that formalized, but it ain't a big shock.
But I could be wrong.
How does this affect AMD? ATI was a Canadian company till AMD bought it, and they still design GPUs there. Can China still go after AMD's HQ in California, just so long as they stay in the US based systems?
and directed the Phantom Menace. Lucas did a terrible job with all but Episode IV.
For whatever reason, the infrastructure needed for code signing might not be available.
Ideally, yes. In practice it may not be so straightforward.
AV software can break an update. They've always advised disabling 3rd party AV software beforehand.
Don't forget the part where AV software can break the update process, which is why disabling it has always been a recommended step when updating.
What games? I had tons of games and random software when I first upgraded, didn't lose a thing.
...has favored 64 bit, leaving the ancient 16 bit programs that ran fine on XP (sensibly) incompatible?
The solution is to disable macros in documents from the internet or that aren't in trusted locations, scanning macros, using protected view and a few other trust settings. Finding that perfect balance between security and functionality.
I just realized that there are some I should really crank up for my network, so thanks for bringing this up. Looks like I'm going to have to push Office 2016 while I'm at it, we still have a lot of 2013 installations which don't have all the protections 2016 does.
Because what's more fun than a civil war? Last one only killed 2% of the population, so that's only 6 million of us murdered by friends and neighbors today. Plus a few thousand gang rapes. All in good fun and it bypasses all that annoying political discourse and civil society nonsense.
Close, but it's actually due to how we elect. It's called Duverger's Law.
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Which brings up another important point - False advertising can be investigated and prosecuted by State agencies as well as the FTC. I don't know if false advertising is something the FCC can deal with.
Double down on the contest (I don't know how that would work), so the Chinese authors get pissed off at the Party and demand change.
Which only makes it more perversely funny.
Snowden blew the whistle on NSA wrongdoing. This isn't wrongdoing, it's the toolset of a public security agency that wasn't using them to violate the law or the rights of the people it defends, and now can't use at all.
that and icebreaker couldn't go out because there was too much ice. What kind of icebreaker can't sail near ice? Did they forget what the ship is designed for?
One of the great things about a computer is that you can rely on it's output. If you have a giant spreadsheet calculate a total, you can be assured the result is correct if you know the inputs are correct. If you've given your computer the ability to lie for advantage, then you'd better not be running a spreadsheet to calculate your IT budget. Even if it's designed only to lie to your advantage, it may decide that the more powerful it is the better off you are, so making it look like you need to make some upgrades is a desireable deception.
If you can't trust the output, what good is it?
I'm not sure how many vacuum tubes it would take to replicate the IC in the first DynaTAC, but I'm pretty sure it would be too many to carry (ever pick up a tube fed instrument amplifier?). It would have had to be built into a car, if not have a car built around it. Which is why I can see the FCC calling it a low priority for being an ultra high-end luxury item. Even if you could afford a 1950 Packard Patrician Phone, the service fees would have been outrageous.
I mean, we don't want our computers to lie to us. Lying to humans is one of those things we should actively prevent, not develop.
You already can't listen in on physically private conversations, like two people in a room you couldn't bug ahead of time, or any of the zillion ways spies and terrorists have passed messages in the past. It's hardly new that there are ways to communicate that can't be intercepted or monitored, it's just more convenient now. At least now security agencies can often tell if communication has occurred.
I think of "modern batteries" as lithium ion or nickle-metal hydride. In the 40's they would have had to use led-acid or nickel-cadmium. I think the lack of transistors would still be the bigger issue though (pun not originally intended, but readily accepted).