I've said it before and I'll say it again, this has all the hallmarks of an amateurish false flag operation against Anonymous. The track record of the "real" Anonymous shows a level and depth of skill that does not correlate with this lowball drivel.
It's the same thing with the user on slashdot called "Anonymous Coward". Sometimes, "Anonymous Coward" can be super insightful and eloquent, the rest of the time, I feel the FBI is trying to run a false flag operation against its reputation by spouting off spammy, racist, and idiotic comments under its handle. The FBI truly has no shame.
If he's talking about the Chinese, they don't need an NSA back door to hack systems in the U.S., they've been porking government and contractor systems for years. The Chinese have the designs for every nuclear weapon in our arsenal and the personnel records of hundreds of thousands of government workers, including their security clearance applications.
What would they get from an NSA back door that they don't already have?
I'll assume this last sentence is a rhetorical statement, and not an actual logical argument.
Because the same could be said of the NSA and the FBI, "they already have access to almost everything we have, why would they even want more access?"
doesn't seem to take into account human unquenchable thirst for more and more power.
Trump is a quick-tempered idiot with a very thin skin, who usually resorts to name-calling and half-true ill-thought out statements. I completely agree with that. And I wouldn't want him as a president.
That being said.
This week, Trump sent out a menacing message on Twitter about the Ricketts family, a wealthy clan of Republican political donors, after it was reported that Marlene Ricketts donated $3 million to a group opposed to Trump's candidacy. "They better be careful," Trump wrote of the family, "they have a lot to hide!" "It's a little surreal when Donald Trump threatens your mom," Marlene Ricketts's son, Tom, later told reporters.
The implication that Donald Trump was threatening the mom is ridiculously misleading.
The mom may have donated the 3 million dollars, but everyone (including the son) knows that the money came from her husband, the CEO of TD Ameritrade. Not only that, but since the wife Marlene is virtually unknown and has no job (except for being the wife of the billionaire), the son surely knows that those secrets are related to the husband's shady trading scams, and not anything that has to do with his mom.
Considering that in 2012, only 9% of people were willing to answer the phone and cooperate with Pew Research-sponsored telephone surveys. Before that, it was 15% in 2009, and before that in 2006, it was 21%. Now, please forgive me, I am just a layman and I don't know statistics, but I would assume that in 2016, assuming the same downward trend, that number could easily have reached 3% to 5%.
So is this what we're talking about? We're talking about 3% to 5% of American households, careless enough to answer questions from a complete random stranger on the telephone, more than half of which are also careless about their own privacy when it comes to the government. Why is this even news!?!?!
Of course, people who don't care about their privacy with a perfect stranger, do not care about their privacy when it comes to their government. It's self-selection. It's perfectly normal. In fact, the only surprising fact here is that it's only 51% of that self-selected 3% to 5% that hold that view. Personally, considering the way the question was worded and considering the very biased self-selection happening there, I am actually quite surprised that the percentage wasn't closer to 90% of that same 3% to 5%.
If anything, the results of this survey gives me hope about the American people. If 49% of the 3% to 5% of our most trusting people are also getting paranoid about our own government, then it means that even they have been paying attention lately.
Unless he believes Apple has the ability to decrypt the device and plans on socially engineering them.
Apple probably has the ability to get rid of the delay each time a password gets tried. That would go a long way to breaking the encryption.
Also, human beings are fairly habitual and consistent, and most still use easily breakable passwords. If you have access to other services that the target used, or other hardware, and possibly other passwords, in addition to any interview transcripts of their close family members and friends, you could probably narrow down the search space considerably.
Everyone with a laptop holds up the line for 30 minutes while their hard drive gets imaged? What if it's encrypted? What do they do about devices with dead batteries?
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Ok let's say they just seize everything and send it off to a central location for processing, and then ship it to wherever the traveler is staying when they're done.
You're being strangely optimistic. I very much doubt that the laptops/phones will be shipped back to their owners. The owners will be required to get their devices back in person several weeks later (so that they can easily be questioned, fined, or arrested, because of the content found on their devices).
This is not to say that a significant portion of those devices won't get disappeared/damaged/withheld indefinitely in the process. And this is not to say that this process will apply to everyone, if you're a law enforcement official, a politician, or a Sony executive, chances are that your devices won't get confiscated/imaged/scanned at the border.
I've never tried it with Picasa, but Google Photos on your phone will organize everything in a timeline for you, coupled with detailed maps and trajectories. The first time it did it. It did it automatically. I just had to save the slide show if I happened to like the way it automatically arranged it for me.
I can't for the life of me figure out how my photos in Photos are organized; the collections are randomly placed, and automatically uploaded pics from my Android phone clutter up everything (I've turned this off repeatedly and it keeps resurrecting itself).
That is really weird. For me, it sorts them by chronological order. Have you tried pinch zooming out? Pinch zooming is the way to navigate your collections.
This is nothing new. There apps that already do this. For instance, this one does it and it's not called MyShake. And I bet there are many more apps that do exactly the same thing if you just look for them.
He's right... Who starts a product launch event over an hour late and doesn't even acknowledge they ran behind?
Everyone does. It takes more than 30 seconds to check in 3,000 people and get them sitting down in an auditorium. When they said, show up at 7:30 PM sharp, that doesn't mean that the event starts at 7:30 PM. This isn't to say that the event didn't run behind, but saying that the event started over an hour late because it began at 8:45 PM is somewhat misleading.
Also, the blog post got really personal really fast. The guy could have made many of the same arguments without making it a personal attack on Elon Musk. And he could have done it privately first. After all, if you have a complaint, you deal with the manager, you email, or you call, and you try to attempt to remedy the situation through a private communication. You don't start immediately taking out your blow horn and start launching personal attacks at someone.
It's got a Bluetooth keyboard in it, which you can sync with pretty much anything. I've actually got it paired with a couple of different things because they'll never be in use at the same time.
You're making a good point. I have a bluetooth keyboard and many Android devices (including an Android TV), but unfortunately, I find I bought the wrong bluetooth keyboard for them.
I should have bought one of the bluetooth keyboard that comes with a switch on the side. This way, you can set it to device 1, device 2, device 3, by pushing the mechanical slider around. As it stands, my current cheaper bluetooth keyboard can not even remember the pairing of more than one device at a time, so I am forced to reset the pairing every time I switch to a different device.
Does SwiftKey phone home what users are typing? $250 million seems a lot for an input method, more reasonable for a large set of data for them to analyze.
Actually, it does way more than that.
It syncs between your different devices. And you give it access to your gmail (if you want) so it can mine data you inputed years ago, which is weird they didn't mention the gmail part. I have far more data on my gmail account than anything on Twitter, SMS, or Facebook.
Personally, I sync my gmail with it, plus everything else, but I don't mind. That app is super intrusive, yes, but it's also why it is so good. It knows what I am going to type before I type it and it's the only app I know that allows you to mix different languages when writing.
It kind of sucks that Microsoft bought it. Google is the really one that should have bought it instead.
Except uber decreases your chance for customers if you actually do that... Hence, they aren't really free to do what they want.
Do they really do that? Or is it the customers who decide to select the Uber driver with the highest star ratings and the most reviews?
By that logic, Amazon book authors who publish on Amazon must be employees of Amazon, and 3rd party developers who publish on Google Play must be employees of Google, since both companies will give higher visibility to their highest rated and most prolific writers/developers (assuming all the other search criteria given by customers are equal).
Wut? Wait a minute here... when did cars actually start cleaning themselves?
I am not sure why this even needs explaining.
People tend to take better care of their newer cars. For instance, my cousin was like that. When he got a new SUV, he would pamper it like nothing else. He used lots of wax and he would use a toothbrush to clean the inner rims of the wheels. Ten or twelve years later, the truck has a few bumps and scratches, it looks far from perfect anymore, and people write things like "WASH ME" using the tip of a finger on the dirt on his rear window.
Now, I'm not saying everyone is like my cousin, most are not, but many of the people who don't take care of their cars tend to be like him. It's human nature.
"They not only direct every aspect of a driver's workday...
Except that they actually don't. If a Uber driver doesn't feel like driving passengers, he doesn't do it. It's as simple as that. He gets to decide whether he works 5 minutes each decade, or ten hours a day. He gets to decide whether it's a hobby, a second job, or his main way to make a living. It really doesn't get freer than that.
"...they also profit off the entire day through data collection, not just the 'sale of a product.'"
New York Taxi services also profit from their drivers when they're not earning a fare.
New York Taxi companies carry advertisements on their roof, and a great number of them also rent taxis and medaillons to their drivers. So when a taxi driver doesn't have a customer he's working for, and earning zero money, he has this taxi meter in his head that is always on -- and that represents the amount of money he's paying to the taxi companies and to the taxi medaillon holders.
Interestingly enough, she said specifically that contractors from India working in the US are a protected class (at least in this state, YMMV)
Do you mean in Michigan where the this former manager is suing Yahoo from?
One big problem with Yahoo is that they also fired their lawyers. Firing your own lawyers for "low performance" is never a good idea. Now Anderson has a lawyer as an ally who is highly motivated to prove Yahoo wrong whatever happens.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again, this has all the hallmarks of an amateurish false flag operation against Anonymous. The track record of the "real" Anonymous shows a level and depth of skill that does not correlate with this lowball drivel.
It's the same thing with the user on slashdot called "Anonymous Coward". Sometimes, "Anonymous Coward" can be super insightful and eloquent, the rest of the time, I feel the FBI is trying to run a false flag operation against its reputation by spouting off spammy, racist, and idiotic comments under its handle. The FBI truly has no shame.
Apps in suspended state very much do use up system resources. Maybe not the CPU, but they'll use up the RAM.
Yes, but clearing the RAM takes more resources and more power than leaving it as is.
If he's talking about the Chinese, they don't need an NSA back door to hack systems in the U.S., they've been porking government and contractor systems for years. The Chinese have the designs for every nuclear weapon in our arsenal and the personnel records of hundreds of thousands of government workers, including their security clearance applications.
What would they get from an NSA back door that they don't already have?
I'll assume this last sentence is a rhetorical statement, and not an actual logical argument.
Because the same could be said of the NSA and the FBI, "they already have access to almost everything we have, why would they even want more access?"
doesn't seem to take into account human unquenchable thirst for more and more power.
Trump is a quick-tempered idiot with a very thin skin, who usually resorts to name-calling and half-true ill-thought out statements. I completely agree with that. And I wouldn't want him as a president.
That being said.
This week, Trump sent out a menacing message on Twitter about the Ricketts family, a wealthy clan of Republican political donors, after it was reported that Marlene Ricketts donated $3 million to a group opposed to Trump's candidacy. "They better be careful," Trump wrote of the family, "they have a lot to hide!" "It's a little surreal when Donald Trump threatens your mom," Marlene Ricketts's son, Tom, later told reporters.
The implication that Donald Trump was threatening the mom is ridiculously misleading.
The mom may have donated the 3 million dollars, but everyone (including the son) knows that the money came from her husband, the CEO of TD Ameritrade. Not only that, but since the wife Marlene is virtually unknown and has no job (except for being the wife of the billionaire), the son surely knows that those secrets are related to the husband's shady trading scams, and not anything that has to do with his mom.
The husband is the criminal, not the wife.
Seriously thought, this is the first malware I wouldn't mind downloading (except for the potential drain on my battery).
It disrupts the current model of ad click-baiting.
Considering that in 2012, only 9% of people were willing to answer the phone and cooperate with Pew Research-sponsored telephone surveys. Before that, it was 15% in 2009, and before that in 2006, it was 21%. Now, please forgive me, I am just a layman and I don't know statistics, but I would assume that in 2016, assuming the same downward trend, that number could easily have reached 3% to 5%.
So is this what we're talking about? We're talking about 3% to 5% of American households, careless enough to answer questions from a complete random stranger on the telephone, more than half of which are also careless about their own privacy when it comes to the government. Why is this even news!?!?!
Of course, people who don't care about their privacy with a perfect stranger, do not care about their privacy when it comes to their government. It's self-selection. It's perfectly normal. In fact, the only surprising fact here is that it's only 51% of that self-selected 3% to 5% that hold that view. Personally, considering the way the question was worded and considering the very biased self-selection happening there, I am actually quite surprised that the percentage wasn't closer to 90% of that same 3% to 5%.
If anything, the results of this survey gives me hope about the American people. If 49% of the 3% to 5% of our most trusting people are also getting paranoid about our own government, then it means that even they have been paying attention lately.
Unless he believes Apple has the ability to decrypt the device and plans on socially engineering them.
Apple probably has the ability to get rid of the delay each time a password gets tried. That would go a long way to breaking the encryption.
Also, human beings are fairly habitual and consistent, and most still use easily breakable passwords. If you have access to other services that the target used, or other hardware, and possibly other passwords, in addition to any interview transcripts of their close family members and friends, you could probably narrow down the search space considerably.
Everyone with a laptop holds up the line for 30 minutes while their hard drive gets imaged? What if it's encrypted? What do they do about devices with dead batteries?
[...]
Ok let's say they just seize everything and send it off to a central location for processing, and then ship it to wherever the traveler is staying when they're done.
You're being strangely optimistic. I very much doubt that the laptops/phones will be shipped back to their owners. The owners will be required to get their devices back in person several weeks later (so that they can easily be questioned, fined, or arrested, because of the content found on their devices).
This is not to say that a significant portion of those devices won't get disappeared/damaged/withheld indefinitely in the process. And this is not to say that this process will apply to everyone, if you're a law enforcement official, a politician, or a Sony executive, chances are that your devices won't get confiscated/imaged/scanned at the border.
I've never tried it with Picasa, but Google Photos on your phone will organize everything in a timeline for you, coupled with detailed maps and trajectories. The first time it did it. It did it automatically. I just had to save the slide show if I happened to like the way it automatically arranged it for me.
I can't for the life of me figure out how my photos in Photos are organized; the collections are randomly placed, and automatically uploaded pics from my Android phone clutter up everything (I've turned this off repeatedly and it keeps resurrecting itself).
That is really weird. For me, it sorts them by chronological order. Have you tried pinch zooming out? Pinch zooming is the way to navigate your collections.
This is nothing new. There apps that already do this. For instance, this one does it and it's not called MyShake. And I bet there are many more apps that do exactly the same thing if you just look for them.
Facebook could have just put a fig leaf over the offending parts...
For the puritanical Americans and for the Middle East.
For everyone else, they could have just left the image as is.
This post would have been a lot more believable if it had actually come from an Anonymous Coward.
He's right... Who starts a product launch event over an hour late and doesn't even acknowledge they ran behind?
Everyone does. It takes more than 30 seconds to check in 3,000 people and get them sitting down in an auditorium. When they said, show up at 7:30 PM sharp, that doesn't mean that the event starts at 7:30 PM. This isn't to say that the event didn't run behind, but saying that the event started over an hour late because it began at 8:45 PM is somewhat misleading.
Also, the blog post got really personal really fast. The guy could have made many of the same arguments without making it a personal attack on Elon Musk. And he could have done it privately first. After all, if you have a complaint, you deal with the manager, you email, or you call, and you try to attempt to remedy the situation through a private communication. You don't start immediately taking out your blow horn and start launching personal attacks at someone.
It's got a Bluetooth keyboard in it, which you can sync with pretty much anything. I've actually got it paired with a couple of different things because they'll never be in use at the same time.
You're making a good point. I have a bluetooth keyboard and many Android devices (including an Android TV), but unfortunately, I find I bought the wrong bluetooth keyboard for them.
I should have bought one of the bluetooth keyboard that comes with a switch on the side. This way, you can set it to device 1, device 2, device 3, by pushing the mechanical slider around. As it stands, my current cheaper bluetooth keyboard can not even remember the pairing of more than one device at a time, so I am forced to reset the pairing every time I switch to a different device.
Does SwiftKey phone home what users are typing? $250 million seems a lot for an input method, more reasonable for a large set of data for them to analyze.
Actually, it does way more than that.
It syncs between your different devices. And you give it access to your gmail (if you want) so it can mine data you inputed years ago, which is weird they didn't mention the gmail part. I have far more data on my gmail account than anything on Twitter, SMS, or Facebook.
Personally, I sync my gmail with it, plus everything else, but I don't mind. That app is super intrusive, yes, but it's also why it is so good. It knows what I am going to type before I type it and it's the only app I know that allows you to mix different languages when writing.
It kind of sucks that Microsoft bought it. Google is the really one that should have bought it instead.
Most nuclear weapons proliferation occurs through espionage. Soviet Union, China, Israel, Pakistan all used spies to get started.
Most nuclear weapons proliferation occurs through defectors. The US, Soviet Union, China, Israel, Pakistan all used defectors to get started.
Except uber decreases your chance for customers if you actually do that... Hence, they aren't really free to do what they want.
Do they really do that? Or is it the customers who decide to select the Uber driver with the highest star ratings and the most reviews?
By that logic, Amazon book authors who publish on Amazon must be employees of Amazon, and 3rd party developers who publish on Google Play must be employees of Google, since both companies will give higher visibility to their highest rated and most prolific writers/developers (assuming all the other search criteria given by customers are equal).
Wut? Wait a minute here... when did cars actually start cleaning themselves?
I am not sure why this even needs explaining.
People tend to take better care of their newer cars. For instance, my cousin was like that. When he got a new SUV, he would pamper it like nothing else. He used lots of wax and he would use a toothbrush to clean the inner rims of the wheels. Ten or twelve years later, the truck has a few bumps and scratches, it looks far from perfect anymore, and people write things like "WASH ME" using the tip of a finger on the dirt on his rear window.
Now, I'm not saying everyone is like my cousin, most are not, but many of the people who don't take care of their cars tend to be like him. It's human nature.
"They not only direct every aspect of a driver's workday...
Except that they actually don't. If a Uber driver doesn't feel like driving passengers, he doesn't do it. It's as simple as that. He gets to decide whether he works 5 minutes each decade, or ten hours a day. He gets to decide whether it's a hobby, a second job, or his main way to make a living. It really doesn't get freer than that.
"...they also profit off the entire day through data collection, not just the 'sale of a product.'"
New York Taxi services also profit from their drivers when they're not earning a fare.
New York Taxi companies carry advertisements on their roof, and a great number of them also rent taxis and medaillons to their drivers. So when a taxi driver doesn't have a customer he's working for, and earning zero money, he has this taxi meter in his head that is always on -- and that represents the amount of money he's paying to the taxi companies and to the taxi medaillon holders.
Solid reasoning.
In the US, Uber only accepts drivers with newer cars and on average newer cars tend to be cleaner.
Interestingly enough, she said specifically that contractors from India working in the US are a protected class (at least in this state, YMMV)
Do you mean in Michigan where the this former manager is suing Yahoo from?
One big problem with Yahoo is that they also fired their lawyers. Firing your own lawyers for "low performance" is never a good idea. Now Anderson has a lawyer as an ally who is highly motivated to prove Yahoo wrong whatever happens.
A removable battery is a necessary safety feature, and the only way to ensure the phone is powered off.
Not for me, it's perfectly safe for me now.
Once I figured out that the Faraday bag over my head needed breathing holes, my black fingers and my daily hypoxiation became a thing of the past.
Why does cycling attract so much cheating?
It's the low barrier to entry.
If I was the manufacturer of such a motor, I'd get in the race myself.
The cost of entry is very low and the potential upside in free publicity (once caught) is super high.
Is it just more publicized than that in other sports?
Yes, it is. As a semi-professional swimmer, I am thankful no one has caught on my methane powered propulsion system yet.