Is not just CO2, there are more greenhouse gases and other affecting factors like i.e. deforestation. Check this map on countries contributing to climate change. The elephant in the room is US, comfortably first with 0.151C, then comes far China with 0.063 and Russia with 0.059.
Had broken it every winter since 1971? Because in australia last year they had to add 2 colors to the temperature charts because how hot things were then, and this year things aren't so far from that, and if 2 years is not enough you have the previous 40 contiguous years where the same trend was there. Thats the difference between long standing climate trends and the weather in a particular season of a limited area. Is the forest the one that matters, not the tree you just stumbled upon. And if you can see the forest because you are not high enough, maybe you should check what the people that can see the whole forest say. The cold fact is that the world as a whole is getting hotter.
The problem is focus, i suppose, but i'm not so sure how it works with i.e. google glass if you must watch something that you have pretty close to one of your eyes and other things far at the same time. In the other hand, if instead of dirt would be a section of your glasses tinted blue, would you notice it? Should not be something to be read, with sharp borders, and blocking vision, just something that must be noticed.
Won't be cheaper/less bulky instead of antenna and cpu to send the information to simply show an icon in your vision and let the wearer decide what to do? If must have that logic and let the doctors decide for the patient, an implant (in the arm or wherever, with more freedom to put more sensors) would be less cumbersome than putting on contact lenses every day for this. In fact, contact lenses with certain areas reacting to some chemical conditions in eyes surface changing color could need no circuits at all, and the wearear would have some icons on display when something is wrong.
So much effort defending Windows against Linux using cost of ownership as argument and this proves that Microsoft is still owning the Windows you "bought".
That don't seem coherent with the fact that the NSA sharing raw intelligence information with Israel, you know, before analizing it and determining if they can or not conduct some activities on them. Then the allies don't have that limitation, of course. But, you know, if they can lie even to the congress without consequences, why they would tell you the truth?
Obama case will be a bit different. In October 2008 he was willing to protect whisteblowers. Seems that since he come to power the discourse varied to be a bit friendlier with the NSA/CIA/etc. So, won't say that NSA has grown into a monster, because the monster already ate him.
That probably counts as accesible any truecrypt volume you have in AWS and other cloud servers. Regarding your PC and laptops, there is anything in the NSA catalog targetting specifically this? They could had put it in when you bought it. If well a backdoor installation could make things simpler, this hardware approach could survive OS reinstalls/replacements.
The keys of the kingdom (code/servers/etc) must not belong to a single company, and the code should be fully auditable. If they don't do that, then no, they won't be doing the same as BES.
A lot of the people that is there did a few things in the programming world, like PGP, zfone/zrtp, welcam, or kismet. But there are implied programmers when they are taking as base the safe parts of android, so linux, android, cyanogenmod and so on people probably will be in part responsible or taken part directly.
Anyway, regarding trust, the names of people that take decisions matter a lot, having there a lot of the people of Silent Circle and Geeksphone have an implied message.
The only name i don't see there is Ladar Levison, from Lavabit, that was in the Dark Mail Alliance, with Silent Circle. But if well will be a sister project, the focus will be in servers, not only mobile.
The average, non technical person is the one that gets caught (even for sneezing on public) in this kind of dragnet surveillance. The technical with a clue may use them, and maybe put them as policy for their companies, as is critical for them to have safe communications, so this is the target group. And the ones that they claim that they are after will rely on low tech communication anyway, so won't get caught. As with DRM, the ones that get hurt are the normal citizens and loyal consumers.
There are levels of communications that can be secured even with an hostile/insecure carrier. It can know where are you, but maybe not what you are sending and to who, (at least as pure data stream, if not as plain phone calls). Anyway, regarding hostile carriers or not, it should be safe against hostile/insecure sim cards too.
Now, that the actual number of devices with those radios is around 100000 could be an outdated number (50k in 2008 and 85k in 2012 according to Snowden documents, and maybe 100k by now according to other sources), and anyway, seems that be considered by them an obsolete technology, and targetting mainly offline computers and closed networks. Probably the kind of installations that won't disclose that they were intruded even if they found what happened. Landline phones and faraday cages could become very popular in some installations.
Probably there aren't used in US because may have other ways to get in, even in offline networks (maybe embedded 3g radios?) without needing to have that kind of reach.
The ability to clone (not specially genetic manipulation, but getting exact copies) should not be very dangerous. And we are doing some sort of it with bananas already, picking the best ones following certain criteria and cloning them. The problem, as with bananas, is that it will have the same vulnerabilities, if they become vulnerable to a particular strain of a disease and the industry becomes too dependant of the cloned ones instead of the "natural" ones.
It would work with already taken photos and stored all around internet? along with gps coordinates and date of the photo could give a good use a big (photographic) data.
Getting drunk and driving, meaning it or not, lead to a lot of innocent people killed, in fact, twice as much as in boston bombing in this particular case. The lulzsec attacks, in the other hand, had no life victims, falls more into the definition of pranks, or if you want, graffitting, than on the definition of crimes (unless you are in a country where the national intelligence sector wants the monopoly on that kind of crimes, and actually does orders of magnitude worse crimes).
Meanwhile getting drunk, driving a car and actually killing 4 people doing that gets no jail time at all. US law needs justice like a fish needs a bycicle.
The problem is that is global warming. The global surface temperature (among other indicators) is rising. That brings more energy to the climate system, but that don't means that the effects of that power will mean in the short term only heat episodes, i.e. stronger winds that goes thru the pole will bring cold wind to warmer areas. We are not good visualizing big trends that happens over a year or five in our normal life, we see the day to day episodes, we think that weather==climate, and to make things worse, we always see the toast landing with the butter side down, easily dismissing the other cases.
The bottom line is that the global system is heathing up, that causes changes in the climate patterns, and that causes sometimes more powerful weather conditions (a complex system where small variations causes big changes, remember the butterfly effect). Don't see only the cold weather in US, at the same time been record hot weather in south america and australia, warm winters in north europe and big sea storms in portugal and france, and those too are isolated episodes, but at least is a way to point that the earth is not freezing because you felt cold in US last week.
Since the 90's ive seen constantly scanned every internet connection for open ports, vulnerabilities, and common software with flaws. And when something had a known (may not by you, but by the exploiter) vulnerability, and was interesting enough (profit, fun, proof of concept, following political agenda or whatever) it was exploited. It is not the 90's anymore, the whole internet can be scanned in 45 minutes (and exists scans ready to use if you don't want to spend any time), if something can be used, it will. If you put the key to operate a critical system on a busy street or a shopping mall and a kid turns it causing chaos, it was nenligence from your part or from the one that ordered you to do so.
Too bad NSA is too busy checking what can be exploited by them (and planting backdoors every time they can, specially in foreing critical systems) instead of warning and fixing what can be exploited by others. Can't blame others if do the same as them.
people and companies with big salaries and/or contracts still putting critical systems on the open internet. And that will keep their salaries, contracts and continuing to do so even after this is exploited.
You can scan the entire internet in less than an hour by now. And there are databases of open ports on all of it already if you want to save that hour. If is critical, should not be even visible on internet.
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Is not just CO2, there are more greenhouse gases and other affecting factors like i.e. deforestation. Check this map on countries contributing to climate change. The elephant in the room is US, comfortably first with 0.151C, then comes far China with 0.063 and Russia with 0.059.
Had broken it every winter since 1971? Because in australia last year they had to add 2 colors to the temperature charts because how hot things were then, and this year things aren't so far from that, and if 2 years is not enough you have the previous 40 contiguous years where the same trend was there. Thats the difference between long standing climate trends and the weather in a particular season of a limited area. Is the forest the one that matters, not the tree you just stumbled upon. And if you can see the forest because you are not high enough, maybe you should check what the people that can see the whole forest say. The cold fact is that the world as a whole is getting hotter.
The change you voted for was edited after. But don't worry, things will change, just don't complain if it's for worse.
The problem is focus, i suppose, but i'm not so sure how it works with i.e. google glass if you must watch something that you have pretty close to one of your eyes and other things far at the same time. In the other hand, if instead of dirt would be a section of your glasses tinted blue, would you notice it? Should not be something to be read, with sharp borders, and blocking vision, just something that must be noticed.
Don't need to be "display", no led, no lcd, just a tinted/more opaque small area with a special shape, maybe something similar to eInk.
Won't be cheaper/less bulky instead of antenna and cpu to send the information to simply show an icon in your vision and let the wearer decide what to do? If must have that logic and let the doctors decide for the patient, an implant (in the arm or wherever, with more freedom to put more sensors) would be less cumbersome than putting on contact lenses every day for this. In fact, contact lenses with certain areas reacting to some chemical conditions in eyes surface changing color could need no circuits at all, and the wearear would have some icons on display when something is wrong.
I did, also read this politician calling for banning open source and anonymizing software. The precedent is set, just wait a few months.
So much effort defending Windows against Linux using cost of ownership as argument and this proves that Microsoft is still owning the Windows you "bought".
That don't seem coherent with the fact that the NSA sharing raw intelligence information with Israel, you know, before analizing it and determining if they can or not conduct some activities on them. Then the allies don't have that limitation, of course. But, you know, if they can lie even to the congress without consequences, why they would tell you the truth?
Obama case will be a bit different. In October 2008 he was willing to protect whisteblowers. Seems that since he come to power the discourse varied to be a bit friendlier with the NSA/CIA/etc. So, won't say that NSA has grown into a monster, because the monster already ate him.
That probably counts as accesible any truecrypt volume you have in AWS and other cloud servers. Regarding your PC and laptops, there is anything in the NSA catalog targetting specifically this? They could had put it in when you bought it. If well a backdoor installation could make things simpler, this hardware approach could survive OS reinstalls/replacements.
The keys of the kingdom (code/servers/etc) must not belong to a single company, and the code should be fully auditable. If they don't do that, then no, they won't be doing the same as BES.
A lot of the people that is there did a few things in the programming world, like PGP, zfone/zrtp, welcam, or kismet. But there are implied programmers when they are taking as base the safe parts of android, so linux, android, cyanogenmod and so on people probably will be in part responsible or taken part directly.
Anyway, regarding trust, the names of people that take decisions matter a lot, having there a lot of the people of Silent Circle and Geeksphone have an implied message.
The only name i don't see there is Ladar Levison, from Lavabit, that was in the Dark Mail Alliance, with Silent Circle. But if well will be a sister project, the focus will be in servers, not only mobile.
The average, non technical person is the one that gets caught (even for sneezing on public) in this kind of dragnet surveillance. The technical with a clue may use them, and maybe put them as policy for their companies, as is critical for them to have safe communications, so this is the target group. And the ones that they claim that they are after will rely on low tech communication anyway, so won't get caught. As with DRM, the ones that get hurt are the normal citizens and loyal consumers.
There are levels of communications that can be secured even with an hostile/insecure carrier. It can know where are you, but maybe not what you are sending and to who, (at least as pure data stream, if not as plain phone calls). Anyway, regarding hostile carriers or not, it should be safe against hostile/insecure sim cards too.
Maybe some of them were bought online and then intercepted by NSA to install that hardware. There is plenty of evidence that they are doing that kind of things, including a catalog, but not a lot of reports that show how they are actually doing it.
Now, that the actual number of devices with those radios is around 100000 could be an outdated number (50k in 2008 and 85k in 2012 according to Snowden documents, and maybe 100k by now according to other sources), and anyway, seems that be considered by them an obsolete technology, and targetting mainly offline computers and closed networks. Probably the kind of installations that won't disclose that they were intruded even if they found what happened. Landline phones and faraday cages could become very popular in some installations.
Probably there aren't used in US because may have other ways to get in, even in offline networks (maybe embedded 3g radios?) without needing to have that kind of reach.
The ability to clone (not specially genetic manipulation, but getting exact copies) should not be very dangerous. And we are doing some sort of it with bananas already, picking the best ones following certain criteria and cloning them. The problem, as with bananas, is that it will have the same vulnerabilities, if they become vulnerable to a particular strain of a disease and the industry becomes too dependant of the cloned ones instead of the "natural" ones.
Too late. Windows 9 is already planned for the next fail. And will be a lot more before Windows 20.
It would work with already taken photos and stored all around internet? along with gps coordinates and date of the photo could give a good use a big (photographic) data.
Getting drunk and driving, meaning it or not, lead to a lot of innocent people killed, in fact, twice as much as in boston bombing in this particular case. The lulzsec attacks, in the other hand, had no life victims, falls more into the definition of pranks, or if you want, graffitting, than on the definition of crimes (unless you are in a country where the national intelligence sector wants the monopoly on that kind of crimes, and actually does orders of magnitude worse crimes).
Meanwhile getting drunk, driving a car and actually killing 4 people doing that gets no jail time at all. US law needs justice like a fish needs a bycicle.
The problem is that is global warming. The global surface temperature (among other indicators) is rising. That brings more energy to the climate system, but that don't means that the effects of that power will mean in the short term only heat episodes, i.e. stronger winds that goes thru the pole will bring cold wind to warmer areas. We are not good visualizing big trends that happens over a year or five in our normal life, we see the day to day episodes, we think that weather==climate, and to make things worse, we always see the toast landing with the butter side down, easily dismissing the other cases.
The bottom line is that the global system is heathing up, that causes changes in the climate patterns, and that causes sometimes more powerful weather conditions (a complex system where small variations causes big changes, remember the butterfly effect). Don't see only the cold weather in US, at the same time been record hot weather in south america and australia, warm winters in north europe and big sea storms in portugal and france, and those too are isolated episodes, but at least is a way to point that the earth is not freezing because you felt cold in US last week.
Since the 90's ive seen constantly scanned every internet connection for open ports, vulnerabilities, and common software with flaws. And when something had a known (may not by you, but by the exploiter) vulnerability, and was interesting enough (profit, fun, proof of concept, following political agenda or whatever) it was exploited. It is not the 90's anymore, the whole internet can be scanned in 45 minutes (and exists scans ready to use if you don't want to spend any time), if something can be used, it will. If you put the key to operate a critical system on a busy street or a shopping mall and a kid turns it causing chaos, it was nenligence from your part or from the one that ordered you to do so.
Too bad NSA is too busy checking what can be exploited by them (and planting backdoors every time they can, specially in foreing critical systems) instead of warning and fixing what can be exploited by others. Can't blame others if do the same as them.
people and companies with big salaries and/or contracts still putting critical systems on the open internet. And that will keep their salaries, contracts and continuing to do so even after this is exploited.
You can scan the entire internet in less than an hour by now. And there are databases of open ports on all of it already if you want to save that hour. If is critical, should not be even visible on internet.