I would have thought that the Russians had no love whatsoever for the US and that they would like seeing Snowden release everything he has and leave the US with egg on their face.
Or are the Russians using the same tricks and tools as the US (under different code names) and that's why they dont want Snowden to speak out?
Ummm, WebKit (and all its forks) ARE LGPL, all having been forked from the original LGPL KHTML engine.
And the whole WebKit vs Blink issue happened because Apple (creator of WebKit) had no interest in a whole pile of WebKit stuff Google created for Android and Chrome and Google had no interest in a bunch of WebKit stuff Apple created for Safari, OSX and iOS. So rather than try and pretend that there was anything like a single WebKit anymore, Google decided to go its own way and call it "Blink".
If it was possible for me here in Australia to buy a reasonably cheap streaming account and watch the shows I want to watch when I want to watch them I would be very interested. Be much easier than trying to find copies on dodgy YouTube-clone streaming sites.
But as long as Rupert Murdoch and his Foxtel empire exist, it will never happen.
We were pushed into the F-35 by best-buddies Howard and Bush without even considering other options such as aircraft from Europe or older-but-still-suitable US aircraft. Then we were forced into buying the F/A-18 Super Hornet again without considering alternatives (I am still not buying the arguments that the F-111 Aardvark was really in need of retirement)
I dont claim to know what aircraft Australia should have bought instead of signing up for the F-35 and Super Hornet but I do know that the US needed Australia to fun a big chunk of F-35 development cost a LOT more than Australia needed to buy an aircraft that was years away from being an operational fighter jet.
The best CAPTCHA type thing I have seen is one that displays one larger image and 4 smaller images and asks you to match the content of one of the smaller images to the larger image (e.g. "drag the plug to the socket").
Does the US not have smaller banks or credit unions anymore? Is there some rule or law that forces people into using the services of the giant greedy corporate banks?
Or have the big banks bought all the little guys out?
There are plenty of clients out there for things like Drop-box that encrypt the data locally before uploading to the cloud and decrypt it when you pull it back down. Even a full-on raid on a data-center wont get your data if you use one of those.
But how selective are Nintendo when it comes to deciding whether you can have a devkit and play in their ecosystem or not?
If you want to play in the Apple ecosystem all you need is a Mac, an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad and $99 and you can develop for and publish on iOS. Android is even easier (you can do it on a PC, there is a bigger range of device options and IIRC you dont need to pay any costs to publish on Google Play)
Doing what Sony has done with the PS4 and Vita and having the 3DS/2DS and Wii U talking to each other seems like a logical move. For example, you could have Pokemon on the Wii U with special things to find that you can then transfer to X and Y on the 3DS (things you cant get just by playing X and Y alone)
The mistake Nintendo made with the Nintendo 64 was that they stuck with the cartridge format at the time when others (Sony, Sega) were going with optical disks. Sure the optical disks had the higher load times and potential piracy issues but they had much higher capacity which is why companies like Square jumped ship to the Sony machine.
The Gamecube failed because it was big, ugly and underpowered compared to its competitors and never really had any games other than the first party titles.
The Wii sold because it was cheap, attractive to families (in that it had more kid-friendly games and less super-violent not-kid-friendly games as well as having popular franchises like Mario and Zelda) and it had the motion control (and not only had it, used it well)
The mistake with the Wii U is the high cost of the console (coimpared to the Wii and relative to consoles like the 360, PS3, One and PS4), the crappy performance levels (which make it harder for games companies to justify the work to port their engines to it) and the lack of titles (the only Zelda game so far is a HD remake of an old title, there is no Wii U follow-up to Super Mario Galaxy yet and there is no Wii U Smash Bros title yet, just as an example)
Its a miracle Skype still works on my Nokia N900 (Linux phone, much better than the Windows Phone crap Nokia are doing now and still with functional Skype or at least as functional as Skype on a phone can get)
Given the kind of music Triple-J plays (and the kind of people who are likely listen to it instead of the mainstream commercial stations) I highly doubt any of the Top 100 winners are going to be manufactured mass-marked over-hyped pop crap.
What is needed is to take all the money being spent on capturing every piece of data the NSA can get its hands on and redirect that money into a massive hiring program aimed at dramatically increasing the number of people employed to turn all the data into useful information that the right people can take and act upon.
Capturing everyone's phone calls and internet data wont catch the next 9/11 hijackers or the next Boston bomber, especially since the next guys are going to assume that they are being spied upon when they use any kind of electronic communications and will use secret codes, one-time-pads and other things (as well as non-electronic communications methods that no wiretap can ever collect)
Calling it global warming isn't helping when we have things like the massive record-setting cold snap affecting the US right now.
We should be calling it climate change. Our climate is changing, we are seeing a much bigger frequency of cyclones, floods, heatwaves, cold snaps, blizzards and other severe weather events. Our climate IS changing and changing for the worse and I firmly believe that humans are the cause and that unless we stop sending so much gunk (a big whack of which comes from burning coal in dirty polluting coal fired power stations) into the atmosphere we will kill the planet.
I dont care if it puts hundreds (or even thousands) of coal miners out of a job, we need to STOP using coal as a fuel source for power generation PERIOD and we need to find alternatives FAST. (and yes those alternatives SHOULD include safe generation 4 and 5 nuclear reactor designs as well as solar thermal, geothermal, wave and tidal power and other options)
If its a co-op, why don't the people complaining about the prices get all the people who are part of the co-op (and are therefore the legal owners of the ISP) to call on the ISP to not charge so much.
These days its harder for teenagers to get "cool" cars to drive around in. Not just price (although the days of cars that teenagers can afford that are also "cool" are mostly gone) but also things like safety (i.e. older "cooler" cars are out because they dont have the safety of the newer boring cars) and power levels (some parents and such being concerned about their young drivers driving high powered cars and in some cases jurisdictions introducing restrictions on new/young drivers driving high powered cars)
I suspect many of the manufacturers will ignore VP9 and go with H.265 anyway because many of the big boys in consumer electronics are part of the H.26x patent pools through their codec patents and dont have to pay as much in royalties as the little guys do.
An even better idea would be to eliminate software from the equation completly.
Have a hardware device that contains the keys in secure storage that's on the same die as a fast hardware AES implementation (so they cant be read out by someone with full physical hardware access). Or alternately have the keys on some sort of removable storage that plugs directly into the specialized hardware (so as not to expose the keys to the host machine). The hardware would sit between the disk controller and the secure drive and basically MITM all data flowing in either direction and encrypt it as it went to the drive/decrypt it as it came from the drive).
Done properly it would prevent a lot of attacks including the attack described in TFA.
In my previous apartment, I had both a CFL and an incandescent bulb connected to the same switch (it was in the bathroom, the incandescent was in the toilet part and was too hard to get out of the funny shaped holder to replace with a CFL).
In all the years I lived in that place, I never observed any difference between the time it took for the CFL to turn on and the time it took for the incandescent to turn on. And this was a generic Phillips CFL bought from the supermarket for a few bucks. I also observed NO visible flicker on any of the CFLs I had in that place.
Anything that pushes ISPs towards net neutrality and that doesn't get shut down by ISP court challenges will be shut down by Congress once the ISPs throw a bunch of lobbying money to a few key "bought" people.
As long as the major ISPs continue to be content distributors as well as ISPs (and that's true in the mobile space as well as fixed-line internet) they will continue to spend as much money as it takes to ensure that their dinosaur content distribution business models don't get killed by this newfangled "internet" thing.
The solution is to end the subsidies for things like GMO corn and feedlot beef so that the artificial distortion of the market where unhealthy food is significantly cheaper than healthy food goes away.
Here in Australia I can buy (as an example from looking at one retailers online prices) mince for $6 (and that's the lean low fat good for you kind), Bolognese sauce for $2.17 and spaghetti for $2.44 for a total of $10.61 and get 4 reasonably filling servings out of that. It would cost over twice that to feed a family of 4 at McDonalds or KFC or the like.
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I would have thought that the Russians had no love whatsoever for the US and that they would like seeing Snowden release everything he has and leave the US with egg on their face.
Or are the Russians using the same tricks and tools as the US (under different code names) and that's why they dont want Snowden to speak out?
Ummm, WebKit (and all its forks) ARE LGPL, all having been forked from the original LGPL KHTML engine.
And the whole WebKit vs Blink issue happened because Apple (creator of WebKit) had no interest in a whole pile of WebKit stuff Google created for Android and Chrome and Google had no interest in a bunch of WebKit stuff Apple created for Safari, OSX and iOS. So rather than try and pretend that there was anything like a single WebKit anymore, Google decided to go its own way and call it "Blink".
If it was possible for me here in Australia to buy a reasonably cheap streaming account and watch the shows I want to watch when I want to watch them I would be very interested. Be much easier than trying to find copies on dodgy YouTube-clone streaming sites.
But as long as Rupert Murdoch and his Foxtel empire exist, it will never happen.
We were pushed into the F-35 by best-buddies Howard and Bush without even considering other options such as aircraft from Europe or older-but-still-suitable US aircraft. Then we were forced into buying the F/A-18 Super Hornet again without considering alternatives (I am still not buying the arguments that the F-111 Aardvark was really in need of retirement)
I dont claim to know what aircraft Australia should have bought instead of signing up for the F-35 and Super Hornet but I do know that the US needed Australia to fun a big chunk of F-35 development cost a LOT more than Australia needed to buy an aircraft that was years away from being an operational fighter jet.
The best CAPTCHA type thing I have seen is one that displays one larger image and 4 smaller images and asks you to match the content of one of the smaller images to the larger image (e.g. "drag the plug to the socket").
Does the US not have smaller banks or credit unions anymore?
Is there some rule or law that forces people into using the services of the giant greedy corporate banks?
Or have the big banks bought all the little guys out?
With both the Wii U and the DS having WiFi, any linkup could be done purely in software, no hardware cables needed.
There are plenty of clients out there for things like Drop-box that encrypt the data locally before uploading to the cloud and decrypt it when you pull it back down.
Even a full-on raid on a data-center wont get your data if you use one of those.
But how selective are Nintendo when it comes to deciding whether you can have a devkit and play in their ecosystem or not?
If you want to play in the Apple ecosystem all you need is a Mac, an iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad and $99 and you can develop for and publish on iOS. Android is even easier (you can do it on a PC, there is a bigger range of device options and IIRC you dont need to pay any costs to publish on Google Play)
Doing what Sony has done with the PS4 and Vita and having the 3DS/2DS and Wii U talking to each other seems like a logical move. For example, you could have Pokemon on the Wii U with special things to find that you can then transfer to X and Y on the 3DS (things you cant get just by playing X and Y alone)
The mistake Nintendo made with the Nintendo 64 was that they stuck with the cartridge format at the time when others (Sony, Sega) were going with optical disks. Sure the optical disks had the higher load times and potential piracy issues but they had much higher capacity which is why companies like Square jumped ship to the Sony machine.
The Gamecube failed because it was big, ugly and underpowered compared to its competitors and never really had any games other than the first party titles.
The Wii sold because it was cheap, attractive to families (in that it had more kid-friendly games and less super-violent not-kid-friendly games as well as having popular franchises like Mario and Zelda) and it had the motion control (and not only had it, used it well)
The mistake with the Wii U is the high cost of the console (coimpared to the Wii and relative to consoles like the 360, PS3, One and PS4), the crappy performance levels (which make it harder for games companies to justify the work to port their engines to it) and the lack of titles (the only Zelda game so far is a HD remake of an old title, there is no Wii U follow-up to Super Mario Galaxy yet and there is no Wii U Smash Bros title yet, just as an example)
Its a miracle Skype still works on my Nokia N900 (Linux phone, much better than the Windows Phone crap Nokia are doing now and still with functional Skype or at least as functional as Skype on a phone can get)
Given the kind of music Triple-J plays (and the kind of people who are likely listen to it instead of the mainstream commercial stations) I highly doubt any of the Top 100 winners are going to be manufactured mass-marked over-hyped pop crap.
What is needed is to take all the money being spent on capturing every piece of data the NSA can get its hands on and redirect that money into a massive hiring program aimed at dramatically increasing the number of people employed to turn all the data into useful information that the right people can take and act upon.
Capturing everyone's phone calls and internet data wont catch the next 9/11 hijackers or the next Boston bomber, especially since the next guys are going to assume that they are being spied upon when they use any kind of electronic communications and will use secret codes, one-time-pads and other things (as well as non-electronic communications methods that no wiretap can ever collect)
Calling it global warming isn't helping when we have things like the massive record-setting cold snap affecting the US right now.
We should be calling it climate change. Our climate is changing, we are seeing a much bigger frequency of cyclones, floods, heatwaves, cold snaps, blizzards and other severe weather events. Our climate IS changing and changing for the worse and I firmly believe that humans are the cause and that unless we stop sending so much gunk (a big whack of which comes from burning coal in dirty polluting coal fired power stations) into the atmosphere we will kill the planet.
I dont care if it puts hundreds (or even thousands) of coal miners out of a job, we need to STOP using coal as a fuel source for power generation PERIOD and we need to find alternatives FAST. (and yes those alternatives SHOULD include safe generation 4 and 5 nuclear reactor designs as well as solar thermal, geothermal, wave and tidal power and other options)
If its a co-op, why don't the people complaining about the prices get all the people who are part of the co-op (and are therefore the legal owners of the ISP) to call on the ISP to not charge so much.
These days its harder for teenagers to get "cool" cars to drive around in.
Not just price (although the days of cars that teenagers can afford that are also "cool" are mostly gone) but also things like safety (i.e. older "cooler" cars are out because they dont have the safety of the newer boring cars) and power levels (some parents and such being concerned about their young drivers driving high powered cars and in some cases jurisdictions introducing restrictions on new/young drivers driving high powered cars)
What you ask for already exists, its made by Unicomp using the original IBM designs and patents.
I suspect many of the manufacturers will ignore VP9 and go with H.265 anyway because many of the big boys in consumer electronics are part of the H.26x patent pools through their codec patents and dont have to pay as much in royalties as the little guys do.
When are they going to add 3D printing support to Blender. Design your part in Blender, hit "print" and out comes a piece of plastic.
An even better idea would be to eliminate software from the equation completly.
Have a hardware device that contains the keys in secure storage that's on the same die as a fast hardware AES implementation (so they cant be read out by someone with full physical hardware access). Or alternately have the keys on some sort of removable storage that plugs directly into the specialized hardware (so as not to expose the keys to the host machine). The hardware would sit between the disk controller and the secure drive and basically MITM all data flowing in either direction and encrypt it as it went to the drive/decrypt it as it came from the drive).
Done properly it would prevent a lot of attacks including the attack described in TFA.
In my previous apartment, I had both a CFL and an incandescent bulb connected to the same switch (it was in the bathroom, the incandescent was in the toilet part and was too hard to get out of the funny shaped holder to replace with a CFL).
In all the years I lived in that place, I never observed any difference between the time it took for the CFL to turn on and the time it took for the incandescent to turn on. And this was a generic Phillips CFL bought from the supermarket for a few bucks. I also observed NO visible flicker on any of the CFLs I had in that place.
BlackBerry may know security but there is no way to trust that they aren't in bed with the NSA (or the Canadian equivilant, the CSEC)
Anything that pushes ISPs towards net neutrality and that doesn't get shut down by ISP court challenges will be shut down by Congress once the ISPs throw a bunch of lobbying money to a few key "bought" people.
As long as the major ISPs continue to be content distributors as well as ISPs (and that's true in the mobile space as well as fixed-line internet) they will continue to spend as much money as it takes to ensure that their dinosaur content distribution business models don't get killed by this newfangled "internet" thing.
The solution is to end the subsidies for things like GMO corn and feedlot beef so that the artificial distortion of the market where unhealthy food is significantly cheaper than healthy food goes away.
Here in Australia I can buy (as an example from looking at one retailers online prices) mince for $6 (and that's the lean low fat good for you kind), Bolognese sauce for $2.17 and spaghetti for $2.44 for a total of $10.61 and get 4 reasonably filling servings out of that. It would cost over twice that to feed a family of 4 at McDonalds or KFC or the like.