GM's OnStar was supposed to work the same way, but that didn't stop the FBI.
And the only problem the judge had with it was that it prevented the occupants from calling 911 in case of an emergency, which is OnStar's primary purpose. In fact, this is what triggered the original lawsuit. The wife of a Mafia member got into a serious car accident and the OnStar button wouldn't work because the FBI was using the line already. https://www.cnet.com/news/cour...
This is quite the story. But I actually have an Amazon Echo. It turns off my lights ok, but I can’t find much else for it to do.
You should have bought yourself a clapper. A clapper can turn lights off and turn lights on.
The clapper can't be connected to the NSA/FBI 24 hours a day/seven days a week, but unfortunately, no device is perfect. As much as this saddens me to say this, the government will have to find a different way to get into your home.
Amazon is making an explicit play to be the home hub because it can automatically discover and set up lights, locks, plugs, and switches without the need for additional hubs or apps.
This is so exciting!
The editor-in-chief at ZDNET just discovered Network Service Discovery (NDS)
Please no one tell him that non-Amazon devices can also do the same thing, he will surely have a stroke once he finds this out.
From what I've read, Egypt's antiquities ministry is part of the reason why relatively little is known about the "nuts and bolts" construction details of the pyramids. It WANTS to preserve the aura of mystery, because the official narrative drives tourism and brings enormous amounts of money into Egypt. From their point of view, the absolute WORST thing that could happen is if someone were to demonstrate that the pyramids were no more special than a random freeway embankment.
I really doubt that your hypothesis, but I can think of a few reasons why Egypt's antiquities ministry might be blocking excavations.
1. In the past, excavation sites have been pilfered. 2. It takes money to excavate, secure, protect from the elements, display, catalog, and maintain artifacts. 3. Most of the archeologists are foreigners. And when foreigners write your history, their narratives can be quite unflattering and even racist. 4. The sites and artifacts could have been built by multiple civilizations, or multiple tribes, at different times. Admitting such things can be dangerous to a nation, because a neighboring country could claim to be descendants of that different civilization/tribe and lay claim to a piece of their land. 5. Technology for archeology is still improving. When we look at archeologists of the past, we often see the damage their excavations created as criminal. 6. If something is excavated and put into Egyptian museums, it risks being stolen, but it also risks being destroyed by Islamist fanatics.
A false positive implies that Google is wrong. Google is not wrong this case. Vortex.com is just not keeping its identity secure. Any email you receive from that domain should automatically be treated as suspect because it could have been sent by anyone.
I may not be able to send email directly from vortex.com because vortex.com has an SPF record, so at least, they secured that much, but anyone can easily forge an email header with the vortex.com domain name because they didn't bother to implement DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM)
If you knew the stock was going to tank wouldn't you unload everything?
I'm not saying one can know for sure what happened without doing an investigation.
But unloading stocks can be complicated. There are vesting schedules, tax implications, disclosure requirements, voting considerations for the control of the company, etc.
Water locks and water channels are already proven technologies. Even ancient China had them.
Once the water is level, it doesn't take much energy to pull a vessel on a channel. For instance in France, I've seen a horse pull a multi-ton vessel with no working motor without much effort at all.
And once the vessel is inside the pyramid and assuming the pyramid acts like a giant water reservoir, then filling up that reservoir and raising the water level, and then pulling the vessel to the side where you need the blocks shouldn't take much energy either.
The only tricky part might be the ancient water pumping mechanism and how efficient it was before the water would evaporate or seep away.
Ramps, boats and good rope. I pretty much guessed that as a child but you know well done to those involved.
No, not ramps.
Water channels, pumps, water locks, boats, and a tiny amount of rope but not as much rope as you'd think.
You'd need channels to get to the location of the pyramid, then you'd need a couple of water locks along the way to slowly get the vessels to the starting elevation of the pyramid.
But think of the pyramid as being one giant reservoir, once a vessel gets inside, the water inside the pyramid acts like an elevator, the water level rises to the level needed. The only tricky part is completing the last part of the pyramid, the very top, the capstone, but that shouldn't be much of an issue because the capstone would still be able to use that elevator 95% of the way.
She also says Facebook will give officials access to her "personal passwords, security questions and answers, and credit card information,"
Now, I can't be sure about the last two, but her "personal passwords"? Really? Facebook shouldn't even know her plain text personal passwords. At this point, and as much as I hate Trump and Jeff Sessions, I think this is just speculation on her part and she doesn't know what she's talking about.
I'm not making a moral argument. We've done much worse to some South American and Middle-Eastern countries ourselves.
My point is that, whether it's Mainland China trying to use a bunch of Buddhist monks to pass campaign contributions to the Bill Clinton campaign many years ago or whether it's a large foreign power that has the audacity to try to hack our elections, we need to strengthen our defenses and increase our safeguards if need be, and perhaps even retaliate if we deem the attacks serious enough.
After all, large foreign powers like China or Russia have quasi-unlimited budgets and battalions of hackers at their disposal. Our self-governance is at stake. If they tried it once without feeling our wrath, they're going to try it again.
Well, first off. President Donald Trump is our leader. He needs to tackle the attack head-on in a speech.
And no, he doesn't need to use the bully pulpit to defend himself or protect his fragile ego. As a country, we've been attacked and we're way past egos. And whatever he does, some haters are just going to hate. It's not his job to address that group. It's his job to address the rest of the American people.
Take the example of President George W Bush, he did many things wrong both before and after 9/11, but when 9/11 happened, at least he addressed the attack publicly and then launched a full investigation into what went wrong on our end. It didn't matter if the 9/11 commission would uncover things that were potentially embarrassing to him. This is just something that as a leader, he had to do. And no, national defense isn't just up to the individual States. Why are you suggesting a federal takeover of a state program? National defense is already a national responsibility. And for instance, the fact that our Federal government inspects our bridges and our most critical roads doesn't mean that the Federal government has taken over the role of building them or maintaining them itself.
In other words, we don't have to be followers of Hillary Satan herself, nor readers of the leftist New York Times, to believe that the Russians may have tried to meddle with last year's presidential elections. President Trump's own government almost admitted as much last Friday.
And if not Russia, someone did try to hack those elections in 20 states. And that's the important part, whoever it was, someone powerful seems to have launched a wide-scale assault on our democracy and on our country. And President Trump doesn't seem to be taking this assault on our country seriously at all.
you'll see an interstitial page that appears to validate your browser using some sort of javascript.
How do you move past that interstitial page? I'm not a bot, I swear. I just use an adblocker. And clicking on the link they tell me to click on just brings me back to the same page.
To me, CloudFlare has been synonymous with 404 and their CEO seems to be as delusional as Donald Trump. Instead of admitting that they can't follow through on their own marketing, they just double down on the lie.
I can't speak for the Go keyboard. I've never used it. Nor am I going to tell you the 3rd party software keyboard that I use, I think people should just try different keyboards until they find one that's right for them.
But for me, it offers speed and convenience (at the cost of privacy).
In other words, if privacy is your number one concern, please read no further, custom 3rd party keyboards are not for you.
My own keyboard knows what I'm going to say before I say it. It has access to my last twenty years of emails, sms/texts, and the little bit of social media content I've generated. It remembers previously used phone numbers, email addresses, and physical addresses. It shares information to the cloud and across devices. If I'm typing a previously used address into Waze or Google Maps on a new phone, it will do a better job of completing that address than either of those two applications will.
But don't visualize the typical auto-complete search form you might find on google, nor the typical PC auto expander application you might download from a shareware site, my keyboard may know the next words that I'm going to write, since it doesn't need me to type a single letter before suggesting words, but it still offers its suggestions word by word in case I need to deviate from my usual pattern (and offers me alternative suggestions from other patterns I've used). And in that sense, I think it's much less distracting than the auto-complete mechanism used on a google search form (on the google search form, auto-complete is more of an exploratory mechanism).
My keyboard knows grammar and spelling for my native French which I do not remember perfectly. It can do French accents, without me having to press and hold a key, or without me having to go into an alternate keyboard. It allows me to mix French and English when writing to family members (instead of highlighting all my mistakes in French when enabling the English spell checker, or highlighting all my mistakes in English when enabling the French spell checker). If you're trilingual, it allows you to use or mix up to three European languages at the same time.
I don't know how it handles non-European languages, but I would assume that there are third-party keyboards that specialize in Asian, Middle-Eastern, and other exotic languages. And if god forbid, if I don't want it to remember a particular porn website I use or the search keywords that I use on that porn site, I just long press on the suggestion to delete it from its database. Also, the keyboard is designed not to save what's entered into password fields.
And the default Android keyboard is great, in fact, it copied many of the great features 3rd party Android keyboards pioneered, but it is still playing catch up to some of those other 3rd party keyboards.
The judge already knows to change the default password. Or if he didn't already know, after this lawsuit, he certainly knows to not to keep the default password.
No, the Shield does have exclusive games (in addition to the regular Google Play ones).
Not that this matters, the "real" gamers are not buying the Shield.
And most of the people I know (two acquaintances, not very many) who have the Shield use it mostly to cast youtube videos and chrome tabs to it. And so, I'm pretty sure that they didn't need an Android TV, let alone an overpowered one with its own set of high graphics games.
A simple $35 Chromecast would have done the trick.
Given that in the UK, they'll go after idiot trolls that make racist comments targeting celebrities. Yes, that's pretty much it. Not that I'm defending those trolls, but calling them terrorists is a bit much.
The more people hear of this, the less likely they're going to send forged legal documents signed by a judge to Google (and possibly to other companies). And the less people do this type of crime, the more time and resources the FBI can dedicate to other problems.
If you don't want to carry a piece of paper in your wallet, I suppose you could keep one with a friend. As to the software, I'm sure it could be run on a server as well, but accessing that bit of info from the same computer would defeat that purpose because if that computer is compromised, so is your account.
In any case, I understand if you don't want to keep your email/youtube account secure, but if you want your bank account to be equally insecure, then you can't blame the bank when your online bank account gets taken over by someone else.
Google does not require SMS for 2-factor authentication. It never has.
1. SMS is one of the choices they give you, but it's not the only one.
2. You can also print a paper with a list of one-time codes.
3. Or you can buy a little piece of hardware on a keychain that will generate a different code every minute.
4. And/or you can install an app on a phone/tablet that will generate that different code every minute (without the need of internet access)
5. The source code for generating that code is even open source, so there is really no reason it can't be ported to most other computing devices out there.
Apparently, Facebook 2-factor authentication works the same way also. So there is really no excuse for having 2-factor authentication turned off on either Facebook or Google.
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GM's OnStar was supposed to work the same way, but that didn't stop the FBI.
And the only problem the judge had with it was that it prevented the occupants from calling 911 in case of an emergency, which is OnStar's primary purpose. In fact, this is what triggered the original lawsuit. The wife of a Mafia member got into a serious car accident and the OnStar button wouldn't work because the FBI was using the line already.
https://www.cnet.com/news/cour...
This is quite the story. But I actually have an Amazon Echo. It turns off my lights ok, but I can’t find much else for it to do.
You should have bought yourself a clapper. A clapper can turn lights off and turn lights on.
The clapper can't be connected to the NSA/FBI 24 hours a day/seven days a week, but unfortunately, no device is perfect. As much as this saddens me to say this, the government will have to find a different way to get into your home.
Amazon is making an explicit play to be the home hub because it can automatically discover and set up lights, locks, plugs, and switches without the need for additional hubs or apps.
This is so exciting!
The editor-in-chief at ZDNET just discovered Network Service Discovery (NDS)
Please no one tell him that non-Amazon devices can also do the same thing, he will surely have a stroke once he finds this out.
You mean like these traces?
http://sentinelkennels.com/Res...
From what I've read, Egypt's antiquities ministry is part of the reason why relatively little is known about the "nuts and bolts" construction details of the pyramids. It WANTS to preserve the aura of mystery, because the official narrative drives tourism and brings enormous amounts of money into Egypt. From their point of view, the absolute WORST thing that could happen is if someone were to demonstrate that the pyramids were no more special than a random freeway embankment.
I really doubt that your hypothesis, but I can think of a few reasons why Egypt's antiquities ministry might be blocking excavations.
1. In the past, excavation sites have been pilfered.
2. It takes money to excavate, secure, protect from the elements, display, catalog, and maintain artifacts.
3. Most of the archeologists are foreigners. And when foreigners write your history, their narratives can be quite unflattering and even racist.
4. The sites and artifacts could have been built by multiple civilizations, or multiple tribes, at different times. Admitting such things can be dangerous to a nation, because a neighboring country could claim to be descendants of that different civilization/tribe and lay claim to a piece of their land.
5. Technology for archeology is still improving. When we look at archeologists of the past, we often see the damage their excavations created as criminal.
6. If something is excavated and put into Egyptian museums, it risks being stolen, but it also risks being destroyed by Islamist fanatics.
A false positive implies that Google is wrong. Google is not wrong this case. Vortex.com is just not keeping its identity secure. Any email you receive from that domain should automatically be treated as suspect because it could have been sent by anyone.
I may not be able to send email directly from vortex.com because vortex.com has an SPF record, so at least, they secured that much, but anyone can easily forge an email header with the vortex.com domain name because they didn't bother to implement DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM)
If you knew the stock was going to tank wouldn't you unload everything?
I'm not saying one can know for sure what happened without doing an investigation.
But unloading stocks can be complicated. There are vesting schedules, tax implications, disclosure requirements, voting considerations for the control of the company, etc.
Water locks and water channels are already proven technologies. Even ancient China had them.
Once the water is level, it doesn't take much energy to pull a vessel on a channel. For instance in France, I've seen a horse pull a multi-ton vessel with no working motor without much effort at all.
And once the vessel is inside the pyramid and assuming the pyramid acts like a giant water reservoir, then filling up that reservoir and raising the water level, and then pulling the vessel to the side where you need the blocks shouldn't take much energy either.
The only tricky part might be the ancient water pumping mechanism and how efficient it was before the water would evaporate or seep away.
Ramps, boats and good rope. I pretty much guessed that as a child but you know well done to those involved.
No, not ramps.
Water channels, pumps, water locks, boats, and a tiny amount of rope but not as much rope as you'd think.
You'd need channels to get to the location of the pyramid, then you'd need a couple of water locks along the way to slowly get the vessels to the starting elevation of the pyramid.
But think of the pyramid as being one giant reservoir, once a vessel gets inside, the water inside the pyramid acts like an elevator, the water level rises to the level needed. The only tricky part is completing the last part of the pyramid, the very top, the capstone, but that shouldn't be much of an issue because the capstone would still be able to use that elevator 95% of the way.
She also says Facebook will give officials access to her "personal passwords, security questions and answers, and credit card information,"
Now, I can't be sure about the last two, but her "personal passwords"? Really? Facebook shouldn't even know her plain text personal passwords. At this point, and as much as I hate Trump and Jeff Sessions, I think this is just speculation on her part and she doesn't know what she's talking about.
If you're talking about the DACA amnesty, then at least President Trump seems to be on board with that one too.
I'm not making a moral argument. We've done much worse to some South American and Middle-Eastern countries ourselves.
My point is that, whether it's Mainland China trying to use a bunch of Buddhist monks to pass campaign contributions to the Bill Clinton campaign many years ago or whether it's a large foreign power that has the audacity to try to hack our elections, we need to strengthen our defenses and increase our safeguards if need be, and perhaps even retaliate if we deem the attacks serious enough.
After all, large foreign powers like China or Russia have quasi-unlimited budgets and battalions of hackers at their disposal. Our self-governance is at stake. If they tried it once without feeling our wrath, they're going to try it again.
Well, first off. President Donald Trump is our leader. He needs to tackle the attack head-on in a speech.
And no, he doesn't need to use the bully pulpit to defend himself or protect his fragile ego. As a country, we've been attacked and we're way past egos. And whatever he does, some haters are just going to hate. It's not his job to address that group. It's his job to address the rest of the American people.
Take the example of President George W Bush, he did many things wrong both before and after 9/11, but when 9/11 happened, at least he addressed the attack publicly and then launched a full investigation into what went wrong on our end. It didn't matter if the 9/11 commission would uncover things that were potentially embarrassing to him. This is just something that as a leader, he had to do. And no, national defense isn't just up to the individual States. Why are you suggesting a federal takeover of a state program? National defense is already a national responsibility. And for instance, the fact that our Federal government inspects our bridges and our most critical roads doesn't mean that the Federal government has taken over the role of building them or maintaining them itself.
The motor was receiving so much power that it would actually be destroyed if the power wasn't ocellated in that exact way.
I can imagine the sales pitch now.
The Dysonette, the only electric car that comes with its own built-in self-destruction mechanism.
Please see the bad argument on page 33 "Guilt by Association" in https://bookofbadarguments.com...
In other words, we don't have to be followers of Hillary Satan herself, nor readers of the leftist New York Times, to believe that the Russians may have tried to meddle with last year's presidential elections. President Trump's own government almost admitted as much last Friday.
And if not Russia, someone did try to hack those elections in 20 states. And that's the important part, whoever it was, someone powerful seems to have launched a wide-scale assault on our democracy and on our country. And President Trump doesn't seem to be taking this assault on our country seriously at all.
you'll see an interstitial page that appears to validate your browser using some sort of javascript.
How do you move past that interstitial page? I'm not a bot, I swear. I just use an adblocker. And clicking on the link they tell me to click on just brings me back to the same page.
To me, CloudFlare has been synonymous with 404 and their CEO seems to be as delusional as Donald Trump. Instead of admitting that they can't follow through on their own marketing, they just double down on the lie.
I can't speak for the Go keyboard. I've never used it. Nor am I going to tell you the 3rd party software keyboard that I use, I think people should just try different keyboards until they find one that's right for them.
But for me, it offers speed and convenience (at the cost of privacy).
In other words, if privacy is your number one concern, please read no further, custom 3rd party keyboards are not for you.
My own keyboard knows what I'm going to say before I say it. It has access to my last twenty years of emails, sms/texts, and the little bit of social media content I've generated. It remembers previously used phone numbers, email addresses, and physical addresses. It shares information to the cloud and across devices. If I'm typing a previously used address into Waze or Google Maps on a new phone, it will do a better job of completing that address than either of those two applications will.
But don't visualize the typical auto-complete search form you might find on google, nor the typical PC auto expander application you might download from a shareware site, my keyboard may know the next words that I'm going to write, since it doesn't need me to type a single letter before suggesting words, but it still offers its suggestions word by word in case I need to deviate from my usual pattern (and offers me alternative suggestions from other patterns I've used). And in that sense, I think it's much less distracting than the auto-complete mechanism used on a google search form (on the google search form, auto-complete is more of an exploratory mechanism).
My keyboard knows grammar and spelling for my native French which I do not remember perfectly. It can do French accents, without me having to press and hold a key, or without me having to go into an alternate keyboard. It allows me to mix French and English when writing to family members (instead of highlighting all my mistakes in French when enabling the English spell checker, or highlighting all my mistakes in English when enabling the French spell checker). If you're trilingual, it allows you to use or mix up to three European languages at the same time.
I don't know how it handles non-European languages, but I would assume that there are third-party keyboards that specialize in Asian, Middle-Eastern, and other exotic languages. And if god forbid, if I don't want it to remember a particular porn website I use or the search keywords that I use on that porn site, I just long press on the suggestion to delete it from its database. Also, the keyboard is designed not to save what's entered into password fields.
And the default Android keyboard is great, in fact, it copied many of the great features 3rd party Android keyboards pioneered, but it is still playing catch up to some of those other 3rd party keyboards.
I'm not sure what this would accomplish.
The judge already knows to change the default password. Or if he didn't already know, after this lawsuit, he certainly knows to not to keep the default password.
No, the Shield does have exclusive games (in addition to the regular Google Play ones).
Not that this matters, the "real" gamers are not buying the Shield.
And most of the people I know (two acquaintances, not very many) who have the Shield use it mostly to cast youtube videos and chrome tabs to it. And so, I'm pretty sure that they didn't need an Android TV, let alone an overpowered one with its own set of high graphics games.
A simple $35 Chromecast would have done the trick.
Given that in the UK, they'll go after idiot trolls that make racist comments targeting celebrities. Yes, that's pretty much it. Not that I'm defending those trolls, but calling them terrorists is a bit much.
Your example. Not mine.
http://www.latimes.com/world/m...
No, no problem. It's actually good news.
The more people hear of this, the less likely they're going to send forged legal documents signed by a judge to Google (and possibly to other companies). And the less people do this type of crime, the more time and resources the FBI can dedicate to other problems.
If you don't want to carry a piece of paper in your wallet, I suppose you could keep one with a friend. As to the software, I'm sure it could be run on a server as well, but accessing that bit of info from the same computer would defeat that purpose because if that computer is compromised, so is your account.
In any case, I understand if you don't want to keep your email/youtube account secure, but if you want your bank account to be equally insecure, then you can't blame the bank when your online bank account gets taken over by someone else.
Google does not require SMS for 2-factor authentication. It never has.
1. SMS is one of the choices they give you, but it's not the only one.
2. You can also print a paper with a list of one-time codes.
3. Or you can buy a little piece of hardware on a keychain that will generate a different code every minute.
4. And/or you can install an app on a phone/tablet that will generate that different code every minute (without the need of internet access)
5. The source code for generating that code is even open source, so there is really no reason it can't be ported to most other computing devices out there.
Apparently, Facebook 2-factor authentication works the same way also. So there is really no excuse for having 2-factor authentication turned off on either Facebook or Google.
What's a sound shower?