Indeed. And even for messaging, if you're using BES, then you can use your own keys for PIN-to-PIN messaging and then it's fully secure. This article is mostly FUD.
Except there's no story here, as BES, the service that corporate Blackberry deployments use, _is_ end to end--the encryption key pairs are generated by the company that deploys a BES installation, and neither RIM nor anyone else has access to them, unlike SSL certificates etc. The article is about the consumer BIS service and doesn't affect enterprise.
You should learn to think before letting your itchy Reply-clicking finger get the better of you. 1) Airborne rabies with influenza-like transmissibility would spread before you can manufacture and distribute enough vaccine to immunize all but a small fraction of the population. 2) A rabies-influenza hybrid would have the flu's core capability of very quickly changing its surface antigens, which makes the flu vaccines so hit and miss--the virus has the upper hand in this arms race--and those are things actively being sought out every flu season, whereas no one is actively working on airborne rabies vaccine--and once that hits, it will be too late to start work on it. 3) Once unvaccinated individuals are infected, the rabies post-exposure prophylaxis treatment has to be initiated immediately, and is sufficiently resource intensive that no more than a small fraction of the population can be simultaneously undergoing it.
It would be much better to try to create an airborne strain of rabies. It has a sufficiently long incubation period, and is also essentially 100% fatal without early treatment, which is much better performance than Ebola. Probably some kind of influenza/rabies hybrid is the best option.
Recent medical history is littered with the carcases of treatments which were demonstrated in mice and then failed to translate to human physiology, and any honest researcher will admit as much. It's a great way to get grant money, however.
While each thread needs a separate OpenGL context, contexts can share data. The usage mechanism is slightly different, but you can do multithreaded OpenGL just fine using this.
Many will argue that improving a population's chance of resisting tyrannical government is more important than saving even tens of thousands of lives per year. Arguably, it has forced the government to slow down its encroachment upon individual rights and freedoms versus what it could have attempted otherwise, were the threat of armed rebellion nil.
Rather, it's that some parts of psychology are less scientific than others. It's unfair to generalize. For example, cognitive psychology is completely scientific, with a stronger empirical basis than a physical science such as cosmology.
This post is one of those that sounds good on the surface in the "crowd pleaser" sense, but the argument presented is based on assumptions so flawed that it makes for a great example of "not even wrong".
Nearly everything you've written is is trivially refuted when you take an ounce of understanding of macroeconomics. Start here http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1905625
Please stop pulling made up "facts" out of your ass when it's clear you're completely ignorant of that which you speak of--not to mention that the rest of your argument falls apart due to its reliance on this flawed assumption.
Pure ASCII is only good for English, which makes your comment, some combination of biased, self-centered, arrogant, insensitive, and ignorant. In any case, the complexity of implementing Unicode surpasses that of adding markup-based formatting.
BES doesn't rely on 3rd party certificates so it's invulnerable to a class of man-in-the-middle attacks that can defeat SSL security. ActiveSync, being the only alternative to BES with any adoption, is especially bad as it forces one to use public certificate authorities.
but being a computer scientist does, in no way, shape or form, qualify a person as an actual scientist.
Computer science is almost as much a misnomer as a software engineering (no wonder that software engineering is the only one that you can hope to get a job with without being certified as a Professional Engineer). Despite being trained as a computer "scientist", I put far more weight into the words of an actual scientist than those of another computer "scientist", on ANY topic that requires rational and logical thought or informed conjecture, with the exception of narrow programming. Even in the case of algorithms, I would rather defer to a mathematician or logician than someone with a CS title.
> Asimov was not a programmer or OS designer, he was a writer and he used artistic license
Let's try this again: Asimov was a tenured professor of biochemistry whose speculative writings were informed by his scientific thinking.
Gotta love how you cherry-pick the facts you quote in order to promulgate your confirmation bias--he was just a fiction writer and his ideas are merely "artistic license" for dramatic purposes. Which is of course bullshit, which I say as an AI developer. His ideas have a lot more merit than that.
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I don't get it. Care to clarify?
BES has been using AES by default for many years, and will only use 3DES for decade-old handsets that don't support AES.
Indeed. And even for messaging, if you're using BES, then you can use your own keys for PIN-to-PIN messaging and then it's fully secure. This article is mostly FUD.
Except there's no story here, as BES, the service that corporate Blackberry deployments use, _is_ end to end--the encryption key pairs are generated by the company that deploys a BES installation, and neither RIM nor anyone else has access to them, unlike SSL certificates etc. The article is about the consumer BIS service and doesn't affect enterprise.
You should learn to think before letting your itchy Reply-clicking finger get the better of you. 1) Airborne rabies with influenza-like transmissibility would spread before you can manufacture and distribute enough vaccine to immunize all but a small fraction of the population. 2) A rabies-influenza hybrid would have the flu's core capability of very quickly changing its surface antigens, which makes the flu vaccines so hit and miss--the virus has the upper hand in this arms race--and those are things actively being sought out every flu season, whereas no one is actively working on airborne rabies vaccine--and once that hits, it will be too late to start work on it. 3) Once unvaccinated individuals are infected, the rabies post-exposure prophylaxis treatment has to be initiated immediately, and is sufficiently resource intensive that no more than a small fraction of the population can be simultaneously undergoing it.
It would be much better to try to create an airborne strain of rabies. It has a sufficiently long incubation period, and is also essentially 100% fatal without early treatment, which is much better performance than Ebola. Probably some kind of influenza/rabies hybrid is the best option.
Recent medical history is littered with the carcases of treatments which were demonstrated in mice and then failed to translate to human physiology, and any honest researcher will admit as much. It's a great way to get grant money, however.
While each thread needs a separate OpenGL context, contexts can share data. The usage mechanism is slightly different, but you can do multithreaded OpenGL just fine using this.
Many will argue that improving a population's chance of resisting tyrannical government is more important than saving even tens of thousands of lives per year. Arguably, it has forced the government to slow down its encroachment upon individual rights and freedoms versus what it could have attempted otherwise, were the threat of armed rebellion nil.
Rather, it's that some parts of psychology are less scientific than others. It's unfair to generalize. For example, cognitive psychology is completely scientific, with a stronger empirical basis than a physical science such as cosmology.
Trolling much? http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/muslimfaith.asp
What a load of bullshit. Everything you said thoroughly refuted here: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1905625
This post is one of those that sounds good on the surface in the "crowd pleaser" sense, but the argument presented is based on assumptions so flawed that it makes for a great example of "not even wrong".
Nearly everything you've written is is trivially refuted when you take an ounce of understanding of macroeconomics. Start here http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1905625
You wrote:
>Think about an isolated hunter gatherer society. They spend all of their time trying to survive.
What unmitigated bullshit! Foraging on average takes 6.5 hour per day in foraging societies which were studied by anthropologies. Proof: http://courses.washington.edu/anth457/timeallo.htm
In some cases, it is as little as 3 hours per day nearly year-round: http://ihhr.asu.edu/AMH/AM/1990%20Seasonality%20in%20a%20Foraging%20Society-%20Variation%20in%20Diet,%20Work%20Effort,%20Fertility,%20and%20Sexual%20Division%20of%20Labor%20Among%20the%20Hiwi%20of%20Venezuela.pdf
Please stop pulling made up "facts" out of your ass when it's clear you're completely ignorant of that which you speak of--not to mention that the rest of your argument falls apart due to its reliance on this flawed assumption.
Pure ASCII? You're right--the hell with all those people who would like to use a written language other than English!
Pure ASCII is only good for English, which makes your comment, some combination of biased, self-centered, arrogant, insensitive, and ignorant. In any case, the complexity of implementing Unicode surpasses that of adding markup-based formatting.
BES doesn't rely on 3rd party certificates so it's invulnerable to a class of man-in-the-middle attacks that can defeat SSL security. ActiveSync, being the only alternative to BES with any adoption, is especially bad as it forces one to use public certificate authorities.
but being a computer scientist does, in no way, shape or form, qualify a person as an actual scientist.
Computer science is almost as much a misnomer as a software engineering (no wonder that software engineering is the only one that you can hope to get a job with without being certified as a Professional Engineer). Despite being trained as a computer "scientist", I put far more weight into the words of an actual scientist than those of another computer "scientist", on ANY topic that requires rational and logical thought or informed conjecture, with the exception of narrow programming. Even in the case of algorithms, I would rather defer to a mathematician or logician than someone with a CS title.
> Asimov was not a programmer or OS designer, he was a writer and he used artistic license
Let's try this again: Asimov was a tenured professor of biochemistry whose speculative writings were informed by his scientific thinking.
Gotta love how you cherry-pick the facts you quote in order to promulgate your confirmation bias--he was just a fiction writer and his ideas are merely "artistic license" for dramatic purposes. Which is of course bullshit, which I say as an AI developer. His ideas have a lot more merit than that.
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6059486 PDF for those with no IEEE access: http://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=2062936&fileOId=2339120 The short version: nothing new here and equivalence to traditional multiple-antenna methods, with same bandwidth limitations; move along.
That paper and OAM in general has been thoroughly discredited by a peer reviewed IEEE paper: http://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=2062936&fileOId=2339120
That's a load of bullshit and peer reviewed IEEE paper proves it: http://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=2062936&fileOId=2339120
Peer reviewed IEEE paper proving grandparent is correct, you a troll, and OAM a scam: http://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=2062936&fileOId=2339120
Further discussion actually supports GP. Peer reviewed IEEE paper shows OAM is a scam: http://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=2062936&fileOId=2339120
Mod parent up! OAM has been discredited in peer-reviewed IEEE paper: OAM has been discredited in peer reviewed IEEE published paper: http://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=2062936&fileOId=2339120