Intelligence officials were, behind the scenes, questioning whether the benefits of gathering counter-terrorism information justified the colossal costs involved. Then Snowden went public and essentially forced the agency's hand.
Forced their hand? Last time I checked, they are: 1) still operating the program, and 2) tenaciously defending it.
And the co-pilot had to have blocked the door so that the pilot could not re-enter. From the article, there is a code that allows crew members to open the cabin door from the outside, but the pilot inside the cabin has the ultimate power to block access. So it seems the co-pilot deliberately overrode the ability of the pilot to access the cabin again.
Worse was how they would always ask for your phone number every time you bought anything! (I remember a comedian joking about this once... "Why does Radio Shack need your phone number to sell you batteries?") Luckily, I too would make up a fake number.
"...we measured the cortical potentials in response to mechanical touch on the thumb, index, and middle fingertips of touchscreen phone users and nonusers (owning only old-technology mobile phones). Although the thumb interacted predominantly with the screen, the potentials associated with the three fingertips were enhanced in touchscreen users compared to nonusers"
I was wondering about this, since I tend to use my index finger as much or more than my thumb the way I hold my phone.
The study found: "For example, using Java (on both Windows and Linux) to concatenate 1,000,000 1-byte strings in-memory and doing a single write to disk was 9,000 times slower than simply doing 1,000,000 disk writes. The in-memory approach was faster when the code was written in Python instead of Java, but was still hundreds of times slower than the write-to-disk-only approach when doing many concatenations. As expected, as the number of string concatenations decreased, the in-memory approach got closer and closer to the time required by the disk-only approach."
This does make some sense, as string concatenation in Java is well-known to be an inefficient process. (Hopefully they're using StringBuffer and not plain String!) But the fact that it holds true in Python also, albeit orders of magnitude better, is surprising.
Or taken alternately we can hypothesize that these service providers are different in some way. This would lead us to wonder what is different about these providers that causes the government to leave them alone? That's where things start getting interesting.
ahh sh*t. you just made my ball sac suck up a little bit into my abdomen. how the f**k are we supposed to have any privacy/security these days?! the damn tin hats were right!
Since when was rap the dominant genre for 30 years since the 80's?! Run DMC had one hit. Then there was Vanilla Ice ice baby.;-) It wasn't until the mid to late 90's that rap became more mainstream with top selling albums like Dr. Dre and Snoop. You going to try to tell me that NWA was a hit outside of a niche? And I would say it hasn't really declined since the 2000's; rap has just sort of merged into other popular genres and become incorporated. I mean, who hasn't Pitbull collaborated with by now?!
Of course, reading the memory from the computer you booted the hard drive from means you are potentially running a compromised machine if the hard drive is compromised.
But if you booted a different, known-good machine, then mounted the hard drive in question as a secondary drive, it seems feasible you should be able to read and verify the firmware.
Seagate's response here seems ridiculously out of touch, and I can only hope that their posture on this will adapt quickly as the news and newfound scrutiny of the hard drive firmware layer trickle through the organization's practices.
So, apparently Mega was singled out as dangerous because they have end-to-end encryption whereas other [B.S.] cloud storage providers like Dropbox don't. And so apparently this encryption enables "dangerous and illegal" activities online that the government can't monitor/prosecute.
But so I ask, how is this different than online backup service providers like Mozy and CrashPlan that allow client-side encryption and end-to-end encryption??!?!? Or even Amazon S3 for that matter?!
And if this is a harbinger of things to come and any end-to-end encrypted cloud service is going to be financially harassed into bankruptcy, what does that mean for data backup!? Because, personally, I would never consider any cloud storage service without encryption as a viable backup option.
I tell you, if you take this story, substitute "pussy flower trap" for "pitcher flower trap," and change wet->dry and dry->wet, you're writing a science article about how my wife trapped me into marriage.
Religion is like having a penis. It's fine to have one, it's fine to be proud of it. But when you start shoving it down my throat, we're going to have a problem.
LOL. And if I insult your penis? Will you slap me in the face it?
PROBLEM: First of all, it's impossible to know with certainty what might possibly offend someone. Second, even if you knew someone would be offended, that doesn't mean their viewpoint isn't worthy of the examination and dissection that will cause the offense.
I'm pretty sure there are a lot of things that would have offended the members of the Spanish Inquisition that are damn well worthy saying!
I agree, I really didn't expect that from this pope who has moved the church forward in a more liberal way on a lot of issues!!! I speak Italian, so I went to see what he actually said...
"Non si può provocare, non si può insultare la fede degli altri, non si può prendere in giro la religione degli altri.... Come se [mio grande amico] dice qualcosa contro la mia mamma. C’è un limite. Ogni religione che rispetti la vita e la persona umana ha dignità. E io non posso prenderla in giro. Questo è un limite."
**English translation:** "You cannot provoke, you cannot insult the faith of others, you cannot make fun of the religion of others.... Like if [my dear friend] says something about my mother. That's a limit. Each religion that respects life and human beings has dignity. And I cannot make fun of it. This is a limit."
On the other side, he has condemned the recent terrorist attack in Paris and killing in the name of religion and defended freedom of speech as a fundamental human right, but this statement I find quite disturbing.
The plant: “The plant’s key trapping surface is extremely slippery when wet, but not when dry. By ‘switching off’ their traps for part of the day, pitcher plants ensure that scout ants can return safely to the colony and recruit nest-mates to the trap. Later, when the pitcher becomes wet, these followers get caught in one sweep.”
My wife: Her pussy was always wet until we got married; then it dried up.
It's called digital hoarding, and I've got the bug too. =) Keep it all! Create a git repository in the root of your documents folder and keep every version of every file you've ever saved, or use a remote cloud backup with versioning. Either way use a remote cloud backup plus external hard drive backup! Only this way can you be sure to never lose any thought you ever had. I jest, but not really.
Or rather, they have no incentive to push software updates, so people will have a greater incentive to buy a new phone, even if, as we can see, old versions of Android have plenty of security vulnerabilities.
Yeah but, as if a security vulnerability is going to lead the average Android-toting club kid or soccer mom to go buy a new phone. How many people even know what a security vulnerability is or that their phones *can* have them, let alone find out when a new one is discovered and they should go buy a new phone (if that's the solution)? OTA updates are supposed to be "pushed" so people just click some "OK" button they don't understand.
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Someone please help me. I can't stop reading and posting to Slashdot!
Intelligence officials were, behind the scenes, questioning whether the benefits of gathering counter-terrorism information justified the colossal costs involved. Then Snowden went public and essentially forced the agency's hand.
Forced their hand? Last time I checked, they are: 1) still operating the program, and 2) tenaciously defending it.
For shame!
But they thought ahead...
The Federal Aviation Administration mandates that a flight attendant must sit in the cockpit when either pilot steps into the passenger area;
Europe didn't apparently.
I think you meant "fist".
123Password is very strong because it uses numbers and upper and lower case letters.
Those meters are stupid.
And the co-pilot had to have blocked the door so that the pilot could not re-enter. From the article, there is a code that allows crew members to open the cabin door from the outside, but the pilot inside the cabin has the ultimate power to block access. So it seems the co-pilot deliberately overrode the ability of the pilot to access the cabin again.
Worse was how they would always ask for your phone number every time you bought anything!
(I remember a comedian joking about this once... "Why does Radio Shack need your phone number to sell you batteries?")
Luckily, I too would make up a fake number.
"...we measured the cortical potentials in response to mechanical touch on the thumb, index, and middle fingertips of touchscreen phone users and nonusers (owning only old-technology mobile phones). Although the thumb interacted predominantly with the screen, the potentials associated with the three fingertips were enhanced in touchscreen users compared to nonusers"
I was wondering about this, since I tend to use my index finger as much or more than my thumb the way I hold my phone.
The study found: "For example, using Java (on both Windows and Linux) to concatenate 1,000,000 1-byte strings in-memory and doing a single write to disk was 9,000 times slower than simply doing 1,000,000 disk writes. The in-memory approach was faster when the code was written in Python instead of Java, but was still hundreds of times slower than the write-to-disk-only approach when doing many concatenations. As expected, as the number of string concatenations decreased, the in-memory approach got closer and closer to the time required by the disk-only approach."
This does make some sense, as string concatenation in Java is well-known to be an inefficient process. (Hopefully they're using StringBuffer and not plain String!) But the fact that it holds true in Python also, albeit orders of magnitude better, is surprising.
Or taken alternately we can hypothesize that these service providers are different in some way. This would lead us to wonder what is different about these providers that causes the government to leave them alone? That's where things start getting interesting.
ahh sh*t.
you just made my ball sac suck up a little bit into my abdomen.
how the f**k are we supposed to have any privacy/security these days?!
the damn tin hats were right!
Since when was rap the dominant genre for 30 years since the 80's?! ;-)
Run DMC had one hit. Then there was Vanilla Ice ice baby.
It wasn't until the mid to late 90's that rap became more mainstream with top selling albums like Dr. Dre and Snoop. You going to try to tell me that NWA was a hit outside of a niche?
And I would say it hasn't really declined since the 2000's; rap has just sort of merged into other popular genres and become incorporated. I mean, who hasn't Pitbull collaborated with by now?!
Of course, reading the memory from the computer you booted the hard drive from means you are potentially running a compromised machine if the hard drive is compromised.
But if you booted a different, known-good machine, then mounted the hard drive in question as a secondary drive, it seems feasible you should be able to read and verify the firmware.
Seagate's response here seems ridiculously out of touch, and I can only hope that their posture on this will adapt quickly as the news and newfound scrutiny of the hard drive firmware layer trickle through the organization's practices.
So, apparently Mega was singled out as dangerous because they have end-to-end encryption whereas other [B.S.] cloud storage providers like Dropbox don't. And so apparently this encryption enables "dangerous and illegal" activities online that the government can't monitor/prosecute.
But so I ask, how is this different than online backup service providers like Mozy and CrashPlan that allow client-side encryption and end-to-end encryption??!?!? Or even Amazon S3 for that matter?!
And if this is a harbinger of things to come and any end-to-end encrypted cloud service is going to be financially harassed into bankruptcy, what does that mean for data backup!? Because, personally, I would never consider any cloud storage service without encryption as a viable backup option.
that many more came after you.
ha ha! :-P
oh yeah, that happened too.
I tell you, if you take this story, substitute "pussy flower trap" for "pitcher flower trap," and change wet->dry and dry->wet, you're writing a science article about how my wife trapped me into marriage.
Religion is like having a penis. It's fine to have one, it's fine to be proud of it. But when you start shoving it down my throat, we're going to have a problem.
LOL. And if I insult your penis? Will you slap me in the face it?
Well, on the momma joke, he said he *would* retaliate with physical violence! Not exactly a shining exemplar of a peaceful religious leader.
Maybe you just haven't noticed the followup part of the metaphor...
What?
He thinks so.
Actually what he said is you can't offend anyone.
PROBLEM:
First of all, it's impossible to know with certainty what might possibly offend someone.
Second, even if you knew someone would be offended, that doesn't mean their viewpoint isn't worthy of the examination and dissection that will cause the offense.
I'm pretty sure there are a lot of things that would have offended the members of the Spanish Inquisition that are damn well worthy saying!
I wonder if they get Slashdot in China?
I agree, I really didn't expect that from this pope who has moved the church forward in a more liberal way on a lot of issues!!!
I speak Italian, so I went to see what he actually said...
"Non si può provocare, non si può insultare la fede degli altri, non si può prendere in giro la religione degli altri.... Come se [mio grande amico] dice qualcosa contro la mia mamma. C’è un limite. Ogni religione che rispetti la vita e la persona umana ha dignità. E io non posso prenderla in giro. Questo è un limite."
**English translation:**
"You cannot provoke, you cannot insult the faith of others, you cannot make fun of the religion of others.... Like if [my dear friend] says something about my mother. That's a limit. Each religion that respects life and human beings has dignity. And I cannot make fun of it. This is a limit."
On the other side, he has condemned the recent terrorist attack in Paris and killing in the name of religion and defended freedom of speech as a fundamental human right, but this statement I find quite disturbing.
The plant: “The plant’s key trapping surface is extremely slippery when wet, but not when dry. By ‘switching off’ their traps for part of the day, pitcher plants ensure that scout ants can return safely to the colony and recruit nest-mates to the trap. Later, when the pitcher becomes wet, these followers get caught in one sweep.”
My wife: Her pussy was always wet until we got married; then it dried up.
ba da boom!
It's called digital hoarding, and I've got the bug too. =)
Keep it all! Create a git repository in the root of your documents folder and keep every version of every file you've ever saved, or use a remote cloud backup with versioning. Either way use a remote cloud backup plus external hard drive backup!
Only this way can you be sure to never lose any thought you ever had.
I jest, but not really.
4.4 is not a "patch." That's a major release that some large proportion of the hardware out there will never receive support for!
Not the same thing.
Or rather, they have no incentive to push software updates, so people will have a greater incentive to buy a new phone, even if, as we can see, old versions of Android have plenty of security vulnerabilities.
Yeah but, as if a security vulnerability is going to lead the average Android-toting club kid or soccer mom to go buy a new phone. How many people even know what a security vulnerability is or that their phones *can* have them, let alone find out when a new one is discovered and they should go buy a new phone (if that's the solution)? OTA updates are supposed to be "pushed" so people just click some "OK" button they don't understand.