It doesn't really matter if a PC sells with Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 9. The market is melting away, and it's not because they're buying Macs or other PC maker's machines.
Back in the day Macworld used to have a small company area ("ghetto") so the public and press could easily find them. Was it in the south convention center?
They should do the same thing for any of the big tech trade shows.
Sometimes startups have to go, because one of their investors forced them to. When they money man insists, you go. The above idea should make it a bit more practical...though a targeted show is probably a much better use of your startup's money.
The obfuscated it for the same reason that passwords on-disk should be encrypted: to make it harder for idiots to figure out anything. If you really want to make life difficult you write self-modifying code, but I'm not sure that's possible anymore...
As an aside, I've wondered how mobile developers protect against someone decompiling their stuff and using their API key. I guess the answer is "they can't."
Well actually, you can stash the password in a system-level store, like a keychain, so it's not in plaintext. AFAIK that's what mac os x does.
They don't have to use plaintext - they could use, say, blowfish. Sure they key would have to be stored somewhere. But anything that isn't plaintext is more work to crack. It's substantially more work to dig a key out of a system and decrypt something than it is to do a
cat pasword_file
As someone once said, security is about layers. Sure the password will be unencrypted in RAM - but you don't have to make it easy for people to get it. Is WEP better than no encryption? Sure - the extra 10 minutes may dissuade someone and they'll move on. Plus breaking the encryption means intent, which may be useful if there ever was a court case stemming from the activity.
There's a big difference between "yeah, i broke the encryption, it was so easy" and "I just sort of stumbled on this network."
Luckily for the NSA, the guardian hasn't said anything about specific operations or people involved. The releases have been about methods and reach, which aren't the same. The only surprises there are that the NSA was more active than most people thought.
There's nothing in there that's mind-glowingly unbelievable, like the NSA hooked up some kind of transmitter to an eyeball and has been using that realtime video feed to monitor meetings.
Of course, there are a few more million documents, but I'm sure the really juicy ones are being withheld.
Program A was designed to do C, which could help in B
So by saying that A didn't help B is incorrect. C didn't do B. A helped C as designed.
This sort of retarded logic is all too common when technical people try and justify their failure.
The program as a whole hasn't worked. The metadata collection is part of the program, and it may be doing great - but it's value is basically 0, because the program's value is 0.
Of course we've spent billions of dollars on it with no real return. So there's that. It's kept a bunch of storage companies alive.
The great thing about buying Apple is you can always send them to the Apple store for support, once you determine you can't solve the problem via screen sharing.
A car EMP cannon has been one of those things that tech workers have talked about for years. You could use it to screw up data centers as well...or maybe the bank's power substation. How about a pacemaker?
My i7 MBP with hard drive and DVD is chugging away, and will chug away forever - or as close to forever as possible.
If you need the old ones they're still on Apple's refurb/clearance page. The only thing you can't get is the widescreen glossy display, which most people hated (though I have one and it's great).
Samsung cheats at benchmarks by changing the hardware behavior when it detects certain apps with specific names are running. Change the name, and the cheating stops.
That's the fundamental difference between Samsung and most of the rest of the Android devices. The name is the key to the cheat.
Funny how you're ignoring lots of detailed information about that. This has nothing to do with Apple, this has everything to do with Samsung/HTC/Android.
Any diagnostic test can be wrong, and the public and medical community is OK with that.
The problem isn't the test, it's that there's no way to verify that the recipient of the results has any idea what the results mean. If a human being is involved, at least you can pretend that someone attempted to make sure the person in question understood the results.
Personally, I think 23 and me is fine as it was. OTOH, the FDA has to deal with "the public", who is invariably stupid.
We were looking at what we could figure out about the architecture of healthcare.gov, and one problem is that it looks like it's using Oracle Identity Manager to manage the permissions of what users can/can't see. That means that OIM is burned in - and it's probably brutally slow, since every time you need to check a permission you go through OIM.
I'm not positive that's the case, but it fits given what pieces of the architecture I've seen. It would also explain why the system doesn't perform - permissions checking is always brutal, especially if you don't cache them. Caching permissions has more issues.
Drones will be a great defensive tool. For a few million dollars you could (or will be able to ) deploy a large swarm of drones that can disable or destroy naval targets costing orders of magnitude more than your drone force. That's great news for the countries that have no real need for a navy.
For offense, well, they make great flying bombs. Not everyone needs a predator drone that can be flown over and over. Sometimes all you need a a swarm of delivery agents that can come at a target from multiple directions...in waves, autonomously.
There's nothing the US can really do about it, so it's unclear what the point of this article is, except to trade drone use case ideas.
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It doesn't really matter if a PC sells with Windows 7, Windows 8, or Windows 9. The market is melting away, and it's not because they're buying Macs or other PC maker's machines.
Change means bugs. Why would you want to disrupt your production system to fix bugs introduced in a new release? What benefit would there be to you?
The system is built, and it works. Don't touch it unless you have to, or unless it was designed to be upgradeable.
From what I understand, Aegis already does this - and it did it a long time ago. Where has subby been, in the basement?
Back in the day Macworld used to have a small company area ("ghetto") so the public and press could easily find them. Was it in the south convention center?
They should do the same thing for any of the big tech trade shows.
Sometimes startups have to go, because one of their investors forced them to. When they money man insists, you go. The above idea should make it a bit more practical...though a targeted show is probably a much better use of your startup's money.
The obfuscated it for the same reason that passwords on-disk should be encrypted: to make it harder for idiots to figure out anything. If you really want to make life difficult you write self-modifying code, but I'm not sure that's possible anymore...
As an aside, I've wondered how mobile developers protect against someone decompiling their stuff and using their API key. I guess the answer is "they can't."
Why isn't a vasectomy or condoms covered by Obamacare? There's nothing in the law that specifies contraception coverage is female-only.
Seems fine to me. You must have mistaken it for iOS 7.
And on the other hand, stuff that actually benefits humanity has been done because of the Bible. So where is your god now?
Well actually, you can stash the password in a system-level store, like a keychain, so it's not in plaintext. AFAIK that's what mac os x does.
They don't have to use plaintext - they could use, say, blowfish. Sure they key would have to be stored somewhere. But anything that isn't plaintext is more work to crack. It's substantially more work to dig a key out of a system and decrypt something than it is to do a
cat pasword_file
As someone once said, security is about layers. Sure the password will be unencrypted in RAM - but you don't have to make it easy for people to get it. Is WEP better than no encryption? Sure - the extra 10 minutes may dissuade someone and they'll move on. Plus breaking the encryption means intent, which may be useful if there ever was a court case stemming from the activity.
There's a big difference between "yeah, i broke the encryption, it was so easy" and "I just sort of stumbled on this network."
Who are these enemies of which you speak? The Chinese? The Russians? The French? Al Q?
Do tell.
Luckily for the NSA, the guardian hasn't said anything about specific operations or people involved. The releases have been about methods and reach, which aren't the same. The only surprises there are that the NSA was more active than most people thought.
There's nothing in there that's mind-glowingly unbelievable, like the NSA hooked up some kind of transmitter to an eyeball and has been using that realtime video feed to monitor meetings.
Of course, there are a few more million documents, but I'm sure the really juicy ones are being withheld.
They can just stick a small ad before or after a picture is shown. If the content is amusing enough, people will click through.
They have to watch out that they don't make it a pain in the ass to bypass the ad. They already know this - not very many people like ads in general.
Program A was never designed to do B
Program A was designed to do C, which could help in B
So by saying that A didn't help B is incorrect. C didn't do B. A helped C as designed.
This sort of retarded logic is all too common when technical people try and justify their failure.
The program as a whole hasn't worked. The metadata collection is part of the program, and it may be doing great - but it's value is basically 0, because the program's value is 0.
Of course we've spent billions of dollars on it with no real return. So there's that. It's kept a bunch of storage companies alive.
The great thing about buying Apple is you can always send them to the Apple store for support, once you determine you can't solve the problem via screen sharing.
Stream that diesel from your car/truck's gas tank into the generator's gas tank, and you're all set.
A car EMP cannon has been one of those things that tech workers have talked about for years. You could use it to screw up data centers as well...or maybe the bank's power substation. How about a pacemaker?
Wow, that sounds exactly like how the rich operate.
He wants a widescreen matte non-retina display MBP.
Jesus, haven't people heard the good news about Internet shopping? It's 2013.
My i7 MBP with hard drive and DVD is chugging away, and will chug away forever - or as close to forever as possible.
If you need the old ones they're still on Apple's refurb/clearance page. The only thing you can't get is the widescreen glossy display, which most people hated (though I have one and it's great).
Samsung cheats at benchmarks by changing the hardware behavior when it detects certain apps with specific names are running. Change the name, and the cheating stops.
That's the fundamental difference between Samsung and most of the rest of the Android devices. The name is the key to the cheat.
Funny how you're ignoring lots of detailed information about that. This has nothing to do with Apple, this has everything to do with Samsung/HTC/Android.
Great attempt to troll, though!
Any diagnostic test can be wrong, and the public and medical community is OK with that.
The problem isn't the test, it's that there's no way to verify that the recipient of the results has any idea what the results mean. If a human being is involved, at least you can pretend that someone attempted to make sure the person in question understood the results.
Personally, I think 23 and me is fine as it was. OTOH, the FDA has to deal with "the public", who is invariably stupid.
We were looking at what we could figure out about the architecture of healthcare.gov, and one problem is that it looks like it's using Oracle Identity Manager to manage the permissions of what users can/can't see. That means that OIM is burned in - and it's probably brutally slow, since every time you need to check a permission you go through OIM.
I'm not positive that's the case, but it fits given what pieces of the architecture I've seen. It would also explain why the system doesn't perform - permissions checking is always brutal, especially if you don't cache them. Caching permissions has more issues.
Drones will be a great defensive tool. For a few million dollars you could (or will be able to ) deploy a large swarm of drones that can disable or destroy naval targets costing orders of magnitude more than your drone force. That's great news for the countries that have no real need for a navy.
For offense, well, they make great flying bombs. Not everyone needs a predator drone that can be flown over and over. Sometimes all you need a a swarm of delivery agents that can come at a target from multiple directions...in waves, autonomously.
There's nothing the US can really do about it, so it's unclear what the point of this article is, except to trade drone use case ideas.
Musk must have used the wrong formula when publicizing the Tesla rating.