That's it? I remember people dropping $3000 on a 30MB hard drive. Small business people. When $3000 was half the cost of a new car. Back whenn Americans were wealthier, in real terms.
The problem is one-size-fits-all approaches. Humans aren't uniform in interest or ability.
I took all of those math classes in high school, yet I've very recently used algebra to convert a recipe (volume and percent butterfat in various milk/cream measures) and trig for laying out a fix to a roof leak. Neither are non-useful for daily life nor restricted in usefulness to engineers. To be sure I use probability and statistics almost daily to make life decisions.
At the same time, nobody should be made to drop out because of an academic hurdle while they have any other knowledge pursuit interests. Learning shouldn't be run on a factory model.
There are competing implementations of full nodes in progress, some more useful than bitcoin-core. Some, like classic allow for bigger blocks, some others are more focused on having a full spec and compatibility.
There are some who claim that only the core c code binaries can be allowed to run. They DDOS competing nodes and talk trash about every competing codebase, trying to keep Bitcoin out of distros, off devices, etc. They claim that it's because Bitcoin is so fragile that only one codebase may be allowed to touch the Blockchain. Yet other codebases already are and it appears to be working.
I was interested to read the other day that a couple of the core developers are now funded by very old-world banking interests. It seems so odd to me to see self-proclaimed Bitcoin evangelists fighting against efforts to spread its adoption.
Meanwhile I saw a bitcoin vending machine in the vestibule of a restaurant the other day, next to the other candy machines, and was happy to be able to seamlessly exchange currencies in a few seconds. The arbitrage between that machine and Amazon makes purse.io a huge boon for local residents.
It means instruments can tell the difference but humans can't. Welcome to 1989.
I'll still need two cables for 8K at 120Hz, eh? That's OK, I've also been waiting for this kind of resolution for thirty years, so I'll be an early adopter this round. Maybe I'll upgrade to a 1.5-based spec when they get around to it.
It seems to say that if you have SSLv2 enabled on any service with your keys, you're vulnerable. Otherwise, not. A quarter of admins don't seem to know how to disable it.
. . . and I thought that Obama was was going to nominate himself for the empty seat on the Supreme Court
He can't do that. Biden will recess-appoint him after Obama resigns, and just before BIden walks into the DNC convention and kicks Sanders to the curb.
The megalo-CEO's like it just fine. The government creates a regulatory environment to ensure megalo-corps can out-compete the small businesses, precisely to create more ultra-rich.
Every politician who promises to soak it to the rich, to get votes, needs rich to soak, to get votes. In a democracy, they still need to get the votes, therefore they need to have the rich. Since they seek power most of all, and votes get them power, and votes require the rich, they're incentivized to create more rich.
Empirically it works out this way too, but it's really just a simple matter of looking at incentives, cause, and effect.
Boy, we need a (-1, Ad hominem) here. FWIW, the non-mass-media account is that he was working on a science-based aphrodisiac chemical and had _far_ too many of the local women at his compound, so he "needed" to be run out of town. Who knows what the real story is, but AFAIK there's no evidence of a crime.
Anyway, since Juniper hasn't come clean about the providence of the backdoors, he's probably right about who the contractor really worked for. Regardless of whether it was NSA, GCHQ, or whatever, the software engineering practices he advocates would definitely have caught it.
What can be gained by trying to dismiss such clearly correct recommendations to industry by engaging in fallacious reasoning? Cui bono?
Let's not pretend that Tim Cook, or virtually any executive at Apple, gives a shit about the US Constitution.
Whether he does or doesn't isn't terribly relevant. Tim "cares" about the privacy of his users. The 4th Amendment "cares" about the privacy of the people. They're aligned.
The Constitution that authorizes the government restricts the powers of said government. The government specifically is not authorized to obtain General Warrants; what they're asking for is the digital equivalent of King George's abuses.
Now, one might argue that the USG is no longer, practically, bound by the Constitution. But if that's the case, it's no longer authorized either. Most people would rather pretend it somehow is than admit they're living under despotism.
There's also another argument that the people need a fresh reminder of how abusive governments can be, every few generations. Jefferson wrote frequently on this, but then again he thought the Constitution should expire every 19 years so that each new generation could enter into the agreement voluntarily, and not be bound by the decisions of their ancestors.
The 4th Amendment 'guarantees' the people privacy against government intrusion until a judge decides it's OK for the government to search. Search. Not find, search.
The government can already get the data off this 5C if they want. Heck it doesn't even have the Secure Enclave. They can scrape the epoxy off the memory chips and read the data out in their lab. Did you see Snowden's recent video where he shows an example of this? They have a very precise robot-guided router to automate the process.
Incidentally, is anybody asking why they haven't done this already if they fear there's terrorism related data on this phone?
What they want, instead, is a electronic version of the General Warrants that contributed to starting the War for Independence - they want a guarantee of being able to find, not just search, on every device they'd like to look at.
Even with the Secure Enclave machines they can still work hard to extract the keys once they have physical access to the device. We all know nothing is secure once there is physical access.
Will they have to brute-force some PIN numbers? Of course. Searching can be hard work - nobody ever expected otherwise.
The idea that the government has the power to mandate an encryption bypass is antithetical to the nature of the 4th Amendment. Heck, Ben Franklin himself is famous for using multiple cyphers to coordinate said War *because* they had no privacy against the Colonial powers in their communications. Nobody thinks they suddenly forgot about all that when they were framing the Bill of Rights.
Right, but since greed can never be eliminated from the human condition, we must work to reject the power that creates the opportunity for these unjust advantages. It's succeeded several times in human history, whilst eradicating greed (and its partner corruption) has always failed.
Seriously. Fuck this particular guy for assisting DisneyCorp in its DMCA-abuse environment. Fritz Hollings was known as "the Senator from Disney" for a reason - they buy the best laws they can afford. Live by the sword, die by the sword, dude. Now at least there will be fewer Americans assisting Disney in its attacks on America.
Google could build a full-height 5.25" 'sled' that had a logic controller on it and a slide-out tray that would house six 'data cubes: each containing platters and heads that could be plugged in or out as they failed or needed upgrades. Replicating the logic 6x over is silly given today's CPU's. Frankly these things need to be SAS for compatibility but really just run PCIe to the sled and skip the discrete controller too, to get costs down more.
A broken WWW earns Google no money. Until we can defeat the botnet scourge, clean up reflection / amplification problems, and secure all the end points, offering stop-gap assistance may well aid their long-term revenue picture. It's perfectly rational to be nice and seek profit in the same venture.
Don't get me wrong, I am in favour of privacy, but I'm troubled by the absolute implications.
It's impossible to have a free society where every "Hollywood movie plot threat" can be neatly solved. Even (especially) heavily-controlled societies like prisons cannot eliminate crime.
If somebody is telling you that they can take away the risks inherent in life, watch your wallet and your freedom.
Another side is that, like an immunization, you are protecting the herd by making your system harder to crack
No, stock firmware on consumer-grade hardware is unambiguously lowest-bidder buggy trash. Open-source replacement firmware is remarkably more secure. Secure bootloading insecure crap is just putting lipstick on the pig.
Besides, the FCC said this wasn't their intent. We thought they were lying, so either they still are or now TPLink is. A shame, since I've been buying their gear lately for OpenWRT deployments, despite their annoying VLAN assignments. I can't see why they'd want to chase away customers, so I'll guess it's the FCC that's still lying.
Open source gives the people too much power for a totalitarian regime to tolerate. Open source crypto is being attacked in parallel - neither can be allowed to exist without a regime change.
I'm not certain about Apple but the way similar tech does this is to have read/write nvram but then burn an addressable fuse on the write line so it cannot ever be written again.
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That's it? I remember people dropping $3000 on a 30MB hard drive. Small business people. When $3000 was half the cost of a new car. Back whenn Americans were wealthier, in real terms.
The problem is one-size-fits-all approaches. Humans aren't uniform in interest or ability.
I took all of those math classes in high school, yet I've very recently used algebra to convert a recipe (volume and percent butterfat in various milk/cream measures) and trig for laying out a fix to a roof leak. Neither are non-useful for daily life nor restricted in usefulness to engineers. To be sure I use probability and statistics almost daily to make life decisions.
At the same time, nobody should be made to drop out because of an academic hurdle while they have any other knowledge pursuit interests. Learning shouldn't be run on a factory model.
There are competing implementations of full nodes in progress, some more useful than bitcoin-core. Some, like classic allow for bigger blocks, some others are more focused on having a full spec and compatibility.
There are some who claim that only the core c code binaries can be allowed to run. They DDOS competing nodes and talk trash about every competing codebase, trying to keep Bitcoin out of distros, off devices, etc. They claim that it's because Bitcoin is so fragile that only one codebase may be allowed to touch the Blockchain. Yet other codebases already are and it appears to be working.
I was interested to read the other day that a couple of the core developers are now funded by very old-world banking interests. It seems so odd to me to see self-proclaimed Bitcoin evangelists fighting against efforts to spread its adoption.
Meanwhile I saw a bitcoin vending machine in the vestibule of a restaurant the other day, next to the other candy machines, and was happy to be able to seamlessly exchange currencies in a few seconds. The arbitrage between that machine and Amazon makes purse.io a huge boon for local residents.
It means instruments can tell the difference but humans can't. Welcome to 1989.
I'll still need two cables for 8K at 120Hz, eh? That's OK, I've also been waiting for this kind of resolution for thirty years, so I'll be an early adopter this round. Maybe I'll upgrade to a 1.5-based spec when they get around to it.
Vimeo's play stutters like a bastard on most hardware. Youtube is far less embarrassing to put your content on.
Any Youtube competitors that know how to do buffering competently?
It seems to say that if you have SSLv2 enabled on any service with your keys, you're vulnerable. Otherwise, not. A quarter of admins don't seem to know how to disable it.
I don't understand why a superjet for rich people is something that should eat a single cent of NASA's budget.
In ten years, SpaceX will have accomplished everything NASA has planned for the next forty. They need a Plan B.
$20 for a buildable design is either entirely impossible or fantastically efficient.
. . . and I thought that Obama was was going to nominate himself for the empty seat on the Supreme Court
He can't do that. Biden will recess-appoint him after Obama resigns, and just before BIden walks into the DNC convention and kicks Sanders to the curb.
The problem is the high-end CEOs.
A problem for whom?
The megalo-CEO's like it just fine. The government creates a regulatory environment to ensure megalo-corps can out-compete the small businesses, precisely to create more ultra-rich.
Every politician who promises to soak it to the rich, to get votes, needs rich to soak, to get votes. In a democracy, they still need to get the votes, therefore they need to have the rich. Since they seek power most of all, and votes get them power, and votes require the rich, they're incentivized to create more rich.
Empirically it works out this way too, but it's really just a simple matter of looking at incentives, cause, and effect.
Boy, we need a (-1, Ad hominem) here. FWIW, the non-mass-media account is that he was working on a science-based aphrodisiac chemical and had _far_ too many of the local women at his compound, so he "needed" to be run out of town. Who knows what the real story is, but AFAIK there's no evidence of a crime.
Anyway, since Juniper hasn't come clean about the providence of the backdoors, he's probably right about who the contractor really worked for. Regardless of whether it was NSA, GCHQ, or whatever, the software engineering practices he advocates would definitely have caught it.
What can be gained by trying to dismiss such clearly correct recommendations to industry by engaging in fallacious reasoning? Cui bono?
Let's not pretend that Tim Cook, or virtually any executive at Apple, gives a shit about the US Constitution.
Whether he does or doesn't isn't terribly relevant. Tim "cares" about the privacy of his users. The 4th Amendment "cares" about the privacy of the people. They're aligned.
The Constitution that authorizes the government restricts the powers of said government. The government specifically is not authorized to obtain General Warrants; what they're asking for is the digital equivalent of King George's abuses.
Now, one might argue that the USG is no longer, practically, bound by the Constitution. But if that's the case, it's no longer authorized either. Most people would rather pretend it somehow is than admit they're living under despotism.
There's also another argument that the people need a fresh reminder of how abusive governments can be, every few generations. Jefferson wrote frequently on this, but then again he thought the Constitution should expire every 19 years so that each new generation could enter into the agreement voluntarily, and not be bound by the decisions of their ancestors.
Maybe I'm missing something here?
The 4th Amendment 'guarantees' the people privacy against government intrusion until a judge decides it's OK for the government to search. Search. Not find, search.
The government can already get the data off this 5C if they want. Heck it doesn't even have the Secure Enclave. They can scrape the epoxy off the memory chips and read the data out in their lab. Did you see Snowden's recent video where he shows an example of this? They have a very precise robot-guided router to automate the process.
Incidentally, is anybody asking why they haven't done this already if they fear there's terrorism related data on this phone?
What they want, instead, is a electronic version of the General Warrants that contributed to starting the War for Independence - they want a guarantee of being able to find, not just search, on every device they'd like to look at.
Even with the Secure Enclave machines they can still work hard to extract the keys once they have physical access to the device. We all know nothing is secure once there is physical access.
Will they have to brute-force some PIN numbers? Of course. Searching can be hard work - nobody ever expected otherwise.
The idea that the government has the power to mandate an encryption bypass is antithetical to the nature of the 4th Amendment. Heck, Ben Franklin himself is famous for using multiple cyphers to coordinate said War *because* they had no privacy against the Colonial powers in their communications. Nobody thinks they suddenly forgot about all that when they were framing the Bill of Rights.
>And what does "fusion solar" even mean?
Fusion solar makes a sound like this: "whooosh".
Five points to Slitherin.
Can an advantage be created? Lobby.
Right, but since greed can never be eliminated from the human condition, we must work to reject the power that creates the opportunity for these unjust advantages. It's succeeded several times in human history, whilst eradicating greed (and its partner corruption) has always failed.
Seriously. Fuck this particular guy for assisting DisneyCorp in its DMCA-abuse environment. Fritz Hollings was known as "the Senator from Disney" for a reason - they buy the best laws they can afford. Live by the sword, die by the sword, dude. Now at least there will be fewer Americans assisting Disney in its attacks on America.
Taxing medicine twice is among the more evil things one can imagine.
Google could build a full-height 5.25" 'sled' that had a logic controller on it and a slide-out tray that would house six 'data cubes: each containing platters and heads that could be plugged in or out as they failed or needed upgrades. Replicating the logic 6x over is silly given today's CPU's. Frankly these things need to be SAS for compatibility but really just run PCIe to the sled and skip the discrete controller too, to get costs down more.
I'd buy such things if they were on the market.
A broken WWW earns Google no money. Until we can defeat the botnet scourge, clean up reflection / amplification problems, and secure all the end points, offering stop-gap assistance may well aid their long-term revenue picture. It's perfectly rational to be nice and seek profit in the same venture.
Don't get me wrong, I am in favour of privacy, but I'm troubled by the absolute implications.
It's impossible to have a free society where every "Hollywood movie plot threat" can be neatly solved. Even (especially) heavily-controlled societies like prisons cannot eliminate crime.
If somebody is telling you that they can take away the risks inherent in life, watch your wallet and your freedom.
His next line was that he's made this offer and the USG's response was only that they wouldn't torture him.
[source: I was in the audience.] Good job with the reporting thing, TheHill.
n/t
Another side is that, like an immunization, you are protecting the herd by making your system harder to crack
No, stock firmware on consumer-grade hardware is unambiguously lowest-bidder buggy trash. Open-source replacement firmware is remarkably more secure. Secure bootloading insecure crap is just putting lipstick on the pig.
Besides, the FCC said this wasn't their intent. We thought they were lying, so either they still are or now TPLink is. A shame, since I've been buying their gear lately for OpenWRT deployments, despite their annoying VLAN assignments. I can't see why they'd want to chase away customers, so I'll guess it's the FCC that's still lying.
Open source gives the people too much power for a totalitarian regime to tolerate. Open source crypto is being attacked in parallel - neither can be allowed to exist without a regime change.
I'm not certain about Apple but the way similar tech does this is to have read/write nvram but then burn an addressable fuse on the write line so it cannot ever be written again.
Yeah, I have one of those cameras - by default it makes your security camera into a public webcam.
Now, I can do VLANs and put firewall rules in, but most people aren't even paranoid enough to think to look.
Then again, they just want to buy cheap crap off eBay, not hire a pro who knows the ins and outs of the product field.
For most cases of blaming cheap manufacturers, there's a cheap consumer who wants pro quality for rock-bottom pricing.