It's not HTC's responsibility to patch all devices. Each manufacturer has a different hardware configuration and usually runs their own "flavor" of Android - HTC's version of Android is different from Samsung's, which is different from Google's. It's not simply a case of Google saying "fix it" and shipping patches to every single Android device out there. Google doing that would be like the Debian group trying to ship Debian patches to Ubuntu - it wouldn't work.
HTC is merely saying "We're stepping up as soon as possible to patch devices that originated from us, starting with the HTC One M9."
The big deal is that this guy works in PR. A good chunk of PR these days is managing social media pages. This is just another way to say to his clients, "Look at me! I know how to avoid having my face on the internet despite having a Facebook profile! This clearly means I am the best person to manage your PR campaign, call my office today at (x) or send an email!"
AT&T does something very similar, but even more underhanded. I just had an old iPhone die on me, so I went in search of a new phone. As someone who had very little to no experience with buying smartphones (the iPhone was handed down by a family member) I quickly learned how badly you get screwed buying from any carrier.
I did some research first, and found out that AT&T sells new phones at rates far higher than you would pay on Amazon or anywhere else. Let me give the example of my phone, the HTC One M9. AT&T sells the M9 for $735 without contract, or "subsidized" at $200 to start and then an additional fee on your bill each month for two years.. that adds up to $735. Meanwhile, I got the same phone, unlocked from the manufacturer, at $600 (which is just over what my carrier would charge for a used high-end iPhone 5). I'm sure I could've saved more if I had bought a Nexus phone, but I wanted to make sure AT&T would allow my device (it'd be really, really hard for them to say "We can't accept this phone" when they're selling the same thing in their stores unless I had made a huge mistake and bought a non-GSM model).
I'd like to think I could actually hear the anguish in the voice of the person on the other end of AT&T's support line when I called in to activate my new SIM card.
From what I understand, Stagefright is a bug that can only be removed in one of two ways: either by an update from the manufacturer of your device, or rooting your device and manually removing the image viewer that Stagefright uses as a vector. There's really nothing an average (non-rooting) user can do to fix their devices but wait, and nothing they can really do to stop it happening to them short of turning their device off completely and preventing it from getting texts. Sure, it'll tell them that their device is vulnerable, but it's a case of "You're vulnerable to Stagefright and can do absolutely nothing about it short of rooting your device until your device manufacturer decides to release an update."
As the now-famous case of Adnan Syed has taught us, cell site records are pointless in criminal cases because they're unreliable as a means of determining where someone is apart from a very basic (ie; telling what state or city a person is in) level. The towers a phone's signal goes through are never the same twice - even someone repeating a call in the same location a mere second later would be routed differently. Syed's case shows just how badly the police abuse this: they used cell data taken months after the fact to build a story that didn't make sense and contradicted other evidence in the case. Despite what the police think, cell site data is not GPS and is not a reliable means of locating a person. Using cell site data this way is junk science on the level of the polygraph test.
The real answer is to keep cell site data out of court entirely.
The real question is, what are the odds that a car thief is going to spend the money (likely more than $30 if they're buying from someone who knows how to make one) or the time to learn how to make one of these? The barrier to entry just to get one of these working (having to have technical knowledge to put one together, having to hide it under the car and get the owner to open it first and potentially notice the device when it jams their unlock signal) means that thieves will stick to the tried-and-true $5 wrench method rather than try one of these.
The populace is hardly indifferent. Look at the mass amount of letters and phone calls and emails sent in during the SOPA and PIPA hearings, or during the FCC "Fast Lane" proposal. I'm sure you've heard the term "bread and circuses" - screwing with the Internet is the modern equivalent of taking away the circuses. If TPP wasn't being held entirely behind closed doors with only occasional leaks to inform the public, there would be a massive outcry about it as well.
Prices don't even surprise me anymore on any tabletop game stuff. This year was my first Gencon, and when I went to the exhibit hall I saw a bunch of stuff I had no idea even existed. Then, I walked by a booth selling stuff for a TCG called Weiss Schwarz, which has sets that are all based off various licensed animes and video games.
Not knowing the draw of the whole thing, I blew $15 on a Kill la Kill "Trial Box", which is basically a starter deck that always contains the same cards. I didn't intend to play it, more to use the cards as part of a display.
The real draw of Weiss Schwarz is that there is a ridiculously small chance to get a foil-stamped card of a character from whatever set you're buying with the signature of the voiceactor from the Japanese run of the anime on it. I pulled a signed Matoi Ryuko (main character of Kill la Kill) out of the box and found out later that they can go for $90 USD. There's actually a UK shop that sells it at something like 56 pounds.
That card is nothing compared to some of the Attack on Titan ones, which can go for upwards of $200 each.
Even stranger is that no one seems to actually play Weiss Schwarz. I actually asked in the TCG hall, and there were zero tables for it.. yet somehow, the Weiss Schwarz booth was totally sold out of everything but the two most popular sets within three hours of opening.
This has led me to the theory that a mysterious, invisible force I have nicknamed "Neckbeardus" exists in this universe, having entered it via a portal from a universe where people actually play Weiss Schwarz. Neckbeardus has one goal: buy all W-S stuff he can find, and then cart it off to his home universe. Legend has it that if you buy a box off W-S and leave it in a locked cabinet long enough, Neckbeardus will find it and when you go to open the cabinet you'll find the box replaced with money. If you put a microphone near the cabinet, it will pick up heavy breathing and talks of "Needing a mint foil Mikasa".
I also have the theory that if Heroclix was ever to launch a joint venture with the company behind Weiss Schwarz, the entire world economy would wind up collapsing as Neckbeardus buys all of the miniatures the moment they appear on the production line, making the production of any goods other than anime miniatures pointless. In the first week, all tabletop games permanently dissolve as they realize they can never possibly keep up with the money coming from Neckbeardus. Within two months, the United Nations is forced to declare any factories producing this theoretical hybrid as disaster zones as the massive amount of money causes buildings to collapse as they can no longer contain the sheer amount of currency inside.
The next year, anime miniatures have become a new one world currency and your company has created a space elevator made entirely of money going directly to Neckbeardus's home dimension to increase sales.
Really, it's a win-win until Neckbeardus runs out of money and the global economy collapses.
Heroclix definitely still exists. I saw a whole bunch of booths at Gencon selling Heroclix stuff, some of which I know sells for a metric ton of money. As for playing it, I have no idea - I didn't see it there, but it's entirely possible that it was there and I just missed it.
The reason they're doing this is pretty clear - for the first time, there's another tabletop RPG competing with D&D for the title of dominant brand in the fantasy tabletop RPG field, that being Pathfinder. I don't think the exact numbers have been released, but at Gencon this year it looked like Pathfinder was on pretty much equal footing with D&D in terms of people playing it (not to mention that Pathfinder got the entire Sagamore Ballroom this year when I've heard in previous years they only got half).
Honestly, it sort of surprises me they're trying to solidify the D&D brand given the stranglehold they have on the TCG market - Magic is easily bigger than most of the other top 5 TCGs (owned by companies that aren't Hasbro/Wizards) combined, and their godawful My Little Pony TCG is consistently the top seller at physical retailers (Target, Wal-Mart, etc).
From the article itself, the device they mention has a range of "about a foot". I think it'd be pretty hard to get between the magnetic coils and the device they're charging.
In AD 2015, Uber is violation the Ontario Highway Traffic Act!!
Uber Executive: "What Happen??" Uber Executive: "Somebody set up us the lawsuit!!"
The Taxi and Limo Drivers And Owners in the Province of Ontario, Canada: "HOW ARE YOU GENTLEMEN" Ttladoitpooc: "YOU HAVE CAUSED US TO LOST MONEY AND ARE VIOLATION OF THE ONTARIO HIGHWAY TRAFFIC ACT" Ttladoitpooc: "WE MAKE LAWSUE FOR FOUR HUNDRED MILLION CANADIAN DOLLARS OF CANADA" Ttladoitpooc: "YOU HAVE NO RECOUP CHANCE FOR LEGAL FEES MAKE YOUR TIME"
Uber Executives: "TAKE OFF EVERY ATTORNEY, FOR GREAT JUSTICE!!"
One of the biggest problems that existed in previous-generation games on Steam was the monopoly Microsoft had on controller support. Most games that were console ports only natively supported the Xbox 360 controller, and would only display button prompts in the X360 format. I don't think it was necessarily an intended monopoly on MS's part - part of it was definitely that PS3 controllers need custom drivers to work properly on the PC and part of it was lazy developers who figured that supporting the X360 controller was "good enough". The only recent game I can think of with native support for Sony controllers is Axiom Verge, but that was originally on PS3/PS4/Vita.
Oculus Rift and VR support is a growing thing in the industry, and I'd hate to see developers continue the Xbox-only trend because the Rift ships with an Xbox controller.
While I agree that a law is necessary to cement net neutrality in place, I think that it's actually better that the regulation started at the FCC level. The massive list of comments in favor of net neutrality is a warning to any member of Congress who would dare stand against net neutrality when the time to make legislation comes: if you stand against net neutrality, there are thousands of people who are going to do anything in their power to ensure you do not get re-elected, and no amount of corporate money is going to save you.
At the same time, I think that the FCC regulations will create a strong track record that shows net neutrality works and won't kill the big ISPs, thus removing that as a valid argument when the push for legislation arrives. When people see that net neutrality works (and makes their internet service better), it will be very difficult for the ISPs to make a case against no matter how much money they offer to donate. At the same time, the people in favor of neutrality can say, "The internet is a better place now that neutrality rules exist, and allowing the regulations to expand beyond Title II will only make things better."
Kaspersky themselves said that the Duqu authors were probably using them as a "utility target" to gain more access to their main target, which is believed to be anyone involved in the negotiations over Iran's nuclear program. The people from Kaspersky posited the idea that Duqu has no value to the people who wrote it - likely because by the time they attacked Kaspersky, they had already infected the people they were really after and could safely throw it away. It could also be that they purposely attacked Kaspersky for two reasons: to gain information on their detection methods and find ways around them, but also to ensure that no one else gets infected (thus avoiding a possible scandal for a state actor behind the attacks if people unrelated to their targets get hit).
I'm with the camp that thinks Israel is behind it. It only makes sense, given their involvement with Stuxnet and their high level of interest in Iran's nuclear program, plus the connection with the Auschwitz liberation date.
The northeastern United States has some of the worst potholes in the country, which are largely the result of heavy road wear from traffic combined with cold winters that either create or expand cracks in the pavement. The problem is that it gets so cold here in the winter that road crews are unable to apply asphalt to the road and have to use this "cold pack" stuff that serves as a temporary fix until it gets warm enough to spread asphalt. The "cold pack" is prone to erosion and often wears out multiple times during the winter.
I could see the road departments here using these sensors to figure out where the cold pack is eroding and fix it before it degrades completely.
I, for one, welcome this change to Internet Explorer. Now, I can know I am truly safe from man-in-the-middle attacks the next time I load a fresh Windows install and open IE10 so I can download Firefox.
This is true, but there would still be a huge contradiction in the law if the FISA courts ignore the Second Circuit. You'd have the FISA courts saying "Bulk surveillance is authorized under the USA Freedom Act for six months in the entire United States" versus the Second Circuit saying "Bulk surveillance is unconstitutional and any law authorizing it within the jurisdiction of the Second Circuit is void for that reason."
My guess is, if the FISA courts ignore the Second Circuit there will be a Supreme Court case on this, as tends to happen when you have conflicting authority at the appeals court level.
I wish the report would go into some detail about how close the ties that these workers have to terrorism were, even if they were anonymized. Were they members or former members of a terrorist group? Is one of their family members or close personal friends a terrorist? It's still a failure to find these people before hiring them, but there's a big difference between "We found that 73 people were former members of a group or groups classified as a terrorist organization" and "We found that 73 people had donated money to the wrong charity or have a distant relative that might be a member of a terrorist organization."
All the report says is that the 73 people were divided into 5 categories and that the TSA didn't have clearance for all 5 categories.
Des Moines, Feb. 26, 2016 - Officials from the Federal Election Commission have descended upon the capitol today after a bank of Microsoft-supplied vote tracking machines declared Free Software Foundation President Richard M. Stallman to be the undisputed winner of the 2016 Iowa Caucuses. Stallman, who won a record-breaking 100% of the vote, told journalists that he welcomes the results even though he had not previously declared himself as a candidate for the presidency. Stallman has already issued a statement declaring that if he is elected, "2017 will truly be the Year of the Linux Desktop."
Federal officials have insisted that the voting machines were somehow hacked, potentially by terrorists associated with The SCO Group, a former Unix developer infamous for years of frivolous lawsuits over the ownership of Linux. One official, speaking on condition that his name would not be published, said that The SCO Group had left "footprints" in the code used to hack the machines. "It was the strangest calling card we've ever seen," the official said, "When we looked at the code, half of it was the words "PWNZORED BY SCO" over and over again. Given the patterns we've seen with ISIS and Al-Qaeda, we can assume this is a terrorist group taking responsibility for the attack."
Locals in Iowa, however, believe the results to be legitimate. Several residents told reporters that "The results can't be any more corrupt than they already were" and "At least we won't have to listen to all those conspiracy posts on Slashdot if Hilary loses."
A spokesperson from Microsoft declined to comment on this story, saying "Bill's absolutely livid right now. The machines were supposed to glitch and give him 100% of the vote.. I mean, ensure a fair and accurate balance in making sure every vote counts. Needless to say, we are looking into it."
I've seen many a file-sharing site shutter its doors or become overly restrictive after even the merest hint of action by law enforcement officials, doing things like requiring logins to upload or download, sometimes even requiring people to sign in via social media (4Shared). The end result is that a lot of these places become borderline unusable.
Unlike a lot of those website operators, you have personally been dragged out of your home by law enforcement and had actions taken against MegaUpload by the United States government. It could be argued that you have more to fear as a "face" of file-sharing that the Department of Justice would want to make an example out of than pretty much any other file-sharing or torrent tracker operator out there (apart from maybe the Pirate Bay founders).
So my question is this: What drives you to keep going with Mega after having such things happen to you? What kind of mindset does it take to (metaphorically) keep spitting in the face of the United States government after having them raid your house by proxy?
The main link for this article is to what amounts to an opinion piece on some person's blog - it's completely unsourced, and really isn't news at all. The part about the NSA monitoring domestic internet communications without a warrant is probably a story, but it's tacked on to this blog post for no reason.
I think this is a misconception a lot of people have about the metadata collection programs. I read an article this morning that said the phone companies are and have been keeping metadata saved for 18 months, after which the data is (supposedly) deleted and overwritten. They're not paying any extra costs to do this, other than perhaps having to hire a few more compliance personnel to ensure that they're meeting the standards of the Freedom Act.
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It's not HTC's responsibility to patch all devices. Each manufacturer has a different hardware configuration and usually runs their own "flavor" of Android - HTC's version of Android is different from Samsung's, which is different from Google's. It's not simply a case of Google saying "fix it" and shipping patches to every single Android device out there. Google doing that would be like the Debian group trying to ship Debian patches to Ubuntu - it wouldn't work.
HTC is merely saying "We're stepping up as soon as possible to patch devices that originated from us, starting with the HTC One M9."
The big deal is that this guy works in PR. A good chunk of PR these days is managing social media pages. This is just another way to say to his clients, "Look at me! I know how to avoid having my face on the internet despite having a Facebook profile! This clearly means I am the best person to manage your PR campaign, call my office today at (x) or send an email!"
AT&T does something very similar, but even more underhanded. I just had an old iPhone die on me, so I went in search of a new phone. As someone who had very little to no experience with buying smartphones (the iPhone was handed down by a family member) I quickly learned how badly you get screwed buying from any carrier.
I did some research first, and found out that AT&T sells new phones at rates far higher than you would pay on Amazon or anywhere else. Let me give the example of my phone, the HTC One M9. AT&T sells the M9 for $735 without contract, or "subsidized" at $200 to start and then an additional fee on your bill each month for two years.. that adds up to $735. Meanwhile, I got the same phone, unlocked from the manufacturer, at $600 (which is just over what my carrier would charge for a used high-end iPhone 5). I'm sure I could've saved more if I had bought a Nexus phone, but I wanted to make sure AT&T would allow my device (it'd be really, really hard for them to say "We can't accept this phone" when they're selling the same thing in their stores unless I had made a huge mistake and bought a non-GSM model).
I'd like to think I could actually hear the anguish in the voice of the person on the other end of AT&T's support line when I called in to activate my new SIM card.
From what I understand, Stagefright is a bug that can only be removed in one of two ways: either by an update from the manufacturer of your device, or rooting your device and manually removing the image viewer that Stagefright uses as a vector. There's really nothing an average (non-rooting) user can do to fix their devices but wait, and nothing they can really do to stop it happening to them short of turning their device off completely and preventing it from getting texts. Sure, it'll tell them that their device is vulnerable, but it's a case of "You're vulnerable to Stagefright and can do absolutely nothing about it short of rooting your device until your device manufacturer decides to release an update."
As the now-famous case of Adnan Syed has taught us, cell site records are pointless in criminal cases because they're unreliable as a means of determining where someone is apart from a very basic (ie; telling what state or city a person is in) level. The towers a phone's signal goes through are never the same twice - even someone repeating a call in the same location a mere second later would be routed differently. Syed's case shows just how badly the police abuse this: they used cell data taken months after the fact to build a story that didn't make sense and contradicted other evidence in the case. Despite what the police think, cell site data is not GPS and is not a reliable means of locating a person. Using cell site data this way is junk science on the level of the polygraph test.
The real answer is to keep cell site data out of court entirely.
The real question is, what are the odds that a car thief is going to spend the money (likely more than $30 if they're buying from someone who knows how to make one) or the time to learn how to make one of these? The barrier to entry just to get one of these working (having to have technical knowledge to put one together, having to hide it under the car and get the owner to open it first and potentially notice the device when it jams their unlock signal) means that thieves will stick to the tried-and-true $5 wrench method rather than try one of these.
The populace is hardly indifferent. Look at the mass amount of letters and phone calls and emails sent in during the SOPA and PIPA hearings, or during the FCC "Fast Lane" proposal. I'm sure you've heard the term "bread and circuses" - screwing with the Internet is the modern equivalent of taking away the circuses. If TPP wasn't being held entirely behind closed doors with only occasional leaks to inform the public, there would be a massive outcry about it as well.
Prices don't even surprise me anymore on any tabletop game stuff. This year was my first Gencon, and when I went to the exhibit hall I saw a bunch of stuff I had no idea even existed. Then, I walked by a booth selling stuff for a TCG called Weiss Schwarz, which has sets that are all based off various licensed animes and video games.
Not knowing the draw of the whole thing, I blew $15 on a Kill la Kill "Trial Box", which is basically a starter deck that always contains the same cards. I didn't intend to play it, more to use the cards as part of a display.
The real draw of Weiss Schwarz is that there is a ridiculously small chance to get a foil-stamped card of a character from whatever set you're buying with the signature of the voiceactor from the Japanese run of the anime on it. I pulled a signed Matoi Ryuko (main character of Kill la Kill) out of the box and found out later that they can go for $90 USD. There's actually a UK shop that sells it at something like 56 pounds.
That card is nothing compared to some of the Attack on Titan ones, which can go for upwards of $200 each.
Even stranger is that no one seems to actually play Weiss Schwarz. I actually asked in the TCG hall, and there were zero tables for it.. yet somehow, the Weiss Schwarz booth was totally sold out of everything but the two most popular sets within three hours of opening.
This has led me to the theory that a mysterious, invisible force I have nicknamed "Neckbeardus" exists in this universe, having entered it via a portal from a universe where people actually play Weiss Schwarz. Neckbeardus has one goal: buy all W-S stuff he can find, and then cart it off to his home universe. Legend has it that if you buy a box off W-S and leave it in a locked cabinet long enough, Neckbeardus will find it and when you go to open the cabinet you'll find the box replaced with money. If you put a microphone near the cabinet, it will pick up heavy breathing and talks of "Needing a mint foil Mikasa".
I also have the theory that if Heroclix was ever to launch a joint venture with the company behind Weiss Schwarz, the entire world economy would wind up collapsing as Neckbeardus buys all of the miniatures the moment they appear on the production line, making the production of any goods other than anime miniatures pointless. In the first week, all tabletop games permanently dissolve as they realize they can never possibly keep up with the money coming from Neckbeardus. Within two months, the United Nations is forced to declare any factories producing this theoretical hybrid as disaster zones as the massive amount of money causes buildings to collapse as they can no longer contain the sheer amount of currency inside.
The next year, anime miniatures have become a new one world currency and your company has created a space elevator made entirely of money going directly to Neckbeardus's home dimension to increase sales.
Really, it's a win-win until Neckbeardus runs out of money and the global economy collapses.
Heroclix definitely still exists. I saw a whole bunch of booths at Gencon selling Heroclix stuff, some of which I know sells for a metric ton of money. As for playing it, I have no idea - I didn't see it there, but it's entirely possible that it was there and I just missed it.
The reason they're doing this is pretty clear - for the first time, there's another tabletop RPG competing with D&D for the title of dominant brand in the fantasy tabletop RPG field, that being Pathfinder. I don't think the exact numbers have been released, but at Gencon this year it looked like Pathfinder was on pretty much equal footing with D&D in terms of people playing it (not to mention that Pathfinder got the entire Sagamore Ballroom this year when I've heard in previous years they only got half).
Honestly, it sort of surprises me they're trying to solidify the D&D brand given the stranglehold they have on the TCG market - Magic is easily bigger than most of the other top 5 TCGs (owned by companies that aren't Hasbro/Wizards) combined, and their godawful My Little Pony TCG is consistently the top seller at physical retailers (Target, Wal-Mart, etc).
From the article itself, the device they mention has a range of "about a foot". I think it'd be pretty hard to get between the magnetic coils and the device they're charging.
In AD 2015, Uber is violation the Ontario Highway Traffic Act!!
Uber Executive: "What Happen??"
Uber Executive: "Somebody set up us the lawsuit!!"
The Taxi and Limo Drivers And Owners in the Province of Ontario, Canada: "HOW ARE YOU GENTLEMEN"
Ttladoitpooc: "YOU HAVE CAUSED US TO LOST MONEY AND ARE VIOLATION OF THE ONTARIO HIGHWAY TRAFFIC ACT"
Ttladoitpooc: "WE MAKE LAWSUE FOR FOUR HUNDRED MILLION CANADIAN DOLLARS OF CANADA"
Ttladoitpooc: "YOU HAVE NO RECOUP CHANCE FOR LEGAL FEES MAKE YOUR TIME"
Uber Executives: "TAKE OFF EVERY ATTORNEY, FOR GREAT JUSTICE!!"
Employers afraid of employees asking for raises, film at eleven.
One of the biggest problems that existed in previous-generation games on Steam was the monopoly Microsoft had on controller support. Most games that were console ports only natively supported the Xbox 360 controller, and would only display button prompts in the X360 format. I don't think it was necessarily an intended monopoly on MS's part - part of it was definitely that PS3 controllers need custom drivers to work properly on the PC and part of it was lazy developers who figured that supporting the X360 controller was "good enough". The only recent game I can think of with native support for Sony controllers is Axiom Verge, but that was originally on PS3/PS4/Vita.
Oculus Rift and VR support is a growing thing in the industry, and I'd hate to see developers continue the Xbox-only trend because the Rift ships with an Xbox controller.
While I agree that a law is necessary to cement net neutrality in place, I think that it's actually better that the regulation started at the FCC level. The massive list of comments in favor of net neutrality is a warning to any member of Congress who would dare stand against net neutrality when the time to make legislation comes: if you stand against net neutrality, there are thousands of people who are going to do anything in their power to ensure you do not get re-elected, and no amount of corporate money is going to save you.
At the same time, I think that the FCC regulations will create a strong track record that shows net neutrality works and won't kill the big ISPs, thus removing that as a valid argument when the push for legislation arrives. When people see that net neutrality works (and makes their internet service better), it will be very difficult for the ISPs to make a case against no matter how much money they offer to donate. At the same time, the people in favor of neutrality can say, "The internet is a better place now that neutrality rules exist, and allowing the regulations to expand beyond Title II will only make things better."
Kaspersky themselves said that the Duqu authors were probably using them as a "utility target" to gain more access to their main target, which is believed to be anyone involved in the negotiations over Iran's nuclear program. The people from Kaspersky posited the idea that Duqu has no value to the people who wrote it - likely because by the time they attacked Kaspersky, they had already infected the people they were really after and could safely throw it away. It could also be that they purposely attacked Kaspersky for two reasons: to gain information on their detection methods and find ways around them, but also to ensure that no one else gets infected (thus avoiding a possible scandal for a state actor behind the attacks if people unrelated to their targets get hit).
I'm with the camp that thinks Israel is behind it. It only makes sense, given their involvement with Stuxnet and their high level of interest in Iran's nuclear program, plus the connection with the Auschwitz liberation date.
The northeastern United States has some of the worst potholes in the country, which are largely the result of heavy road wear from traffic combined with cold winters that either create or expand cracks in the pavement. The problem is that it gets so cold here in the winter that road crews are unable to apply asphalt to the road and have to use this "cold pack" stuff that serves as a temporary fix until it gets warm enough to spread asphalt. The "cold pack" is prone to erosion and often wears out multiple times during the winter.
I could see the road departments here using these sensors to figure out where the cold pack is eroding and fix it before it degrades completely.
IE11. I was going to say IE11.
I, for one, welcome this change to Internet Explorer. Now, I can know I am truly safe from man-in-the-middle attacks the next time I load a fresh Windows install and open IE10 so I can download Firefox.
This is true, but there would still be a huge contradiction in the law if the FISA courts ignore the Second Circuit. You'd have the FISA courts saying "Bulk surveillance is authorized under the USA Freedom Act for six months in the entire United States" versus the Second Circuit saying "Bulk surveillance is unconstitutional and any law authorizing it within the jurisdiction of the Second Circuit is void for that reason."
My guess is, if the FISA courts ignore the Second Circuit there will be a Supreme Court case on this, as tends to happen when you have conflicting authority at the appeals court level.
I wish the report would go into some detail about how close the ties that these workers have to terrorism were, even if they were anonymized. Were they members or former members of a terrorist group? Is one of their family members or close personal friends a terrorist? It's still a failure to find these people before hiring them, but there's a big difference between "We found that 73 people were former members of a group or groups classified as a terrorist organization" and "We found that 73 people had donated money to the wrong charity or have a distant relative that might be a member of a terrorist organization."
All the report says is that the 73 people were divided into 5 categories and that the TSA didn't have clearance for all 5 categories.
Des Moines, Feb. 26, 2016 - Officials from the Federal Election Commission have descended upon the capitol today after a bank of Microsoft-supplied vote tracking machines declared Free Software Foundation President Richard M. Stallman to be the undisputed winner of the 2016 Iowa Caucuses. Stallman, who won a record-breaking 100% of the vote, told journalists that he welcomes the results even though he had not previously declared himself as a candidate for the presidency. Stallman has already issued a statement declaring that if he is elected, "2017 will truly be the Year of the Linux Desktop."
Federal officials have insisted that the voting machines were somehow hacked, potentially by terrorists associated with The SCO Group, a former Unix developer infamous for years of frivolous lawsuits over the ownership of Linux. One official, speaking on condition that his name would not be published, said that The SCO Group had left "footprints" in the code used to hack the machines. "It was the strangest calling card we've ever seen," the official said, "When we looked at the code, half of it was the words "PWNZORED BY SCO" over and over again. Given the patterns we've seen with ISIS and Al-Qaeda, we can assume this is a terrorist group taking responsibility for the attack."
Locals in Iowa, however, believe the results to be legitimate. Several residents told reporters that "The results can't be any more corrupt than they already were" and "At least we won't have to listen to all those conspiracy posts on Slashdot if Hilary loses."
A spokesperson from Microsoft declined to comment on this story, saying "Bill's absolutely livid right now. The machines were supposed to glitch and give him 100% of the vote.. I mean, ensure a fair and accurate balance in making sure every vote counts. Needless to say, we are looking into it."
I've seen many a file-sharing site shutter its doors or become overly restrictive after even the merest hint of action by law enforcement officials, doing things like requiring logins to upload or download, sometimes even requiring people to sign in via social media (4Shared). The end result is that a lot of these places become borderline unusable.
Unlike a lot of those website operators, you have personally been dragged out of your home by law enforcement and had actions taken against MegaUpload by the United States government. It could be argued that you have more to fear as a "face" of file-sharing that the Department of Justice would want to make an example out of than pretty much any other file-sharing or torrent tracker operator out there (apart from maybe the Pirate Bay founders).
So my question is this: What drives you to keep going with Mega after having such things happen to you? What kind of mindset does it take to (metaphorically) keep spitting in the face of the United States government after having them raid your house by proxy?
The main link for this article is to what amounts to an opinion piece on some person's blog - it's completely unsourced, and really isn't news at all. The part about the NSA monitoring domestic internet communications without a warrant is probably a story, but it's tacked on to this blog post for no reason.
I think this is a misconception a lot of people have about the metadata collection programs. I read an article this morning that said the phone companies are and have been keeping metadata saved for 18 months, after which the data is (supposedly) deleted and overwritten. They're not paying any extra costs to do this, other than perhaps having to hire a few more compliance personnel to ensure that they're meeting the standards of the Freedom Act.