Poll the solar users in Nevada... where the PUC just eliminated net metering, and so you get paid less for the power you generate than the power you consume all the time. There are proposals into the California PUC, which are almost always supported by PG&E, since it would force Smart Meters on places like San Francisco, and PG&E could charge a lot more for night time electricity than day time electricity (when you are using solar).
I called the decryption demand by the FBI stupid in front of her, and pointed out that all the Charlie Hebdo terrorists in the Paris attack coordinated with burner phones that they didn't use before or after the actual incident.
Perhaps she didn't get the fact that they didn't turn the phones in to the local "terrorist burner phone convenience dropbox" after the event?
State of the art? How is this any different than the viruses that were passed around 30 years ago on c64 floppies?
USB drives are large enough to contain Java and Python programs, so that recent college graduates can finally write viruses again. C64 floppies are not large enough.
We should condemn them for implementing in user space, as this article implies, because EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL is not a pain in the ass of everyone who wants to keep their proprietary code secret.
Those protection domain crossing overheads are the fault of the driver writers, not the "give us your f*cking source code that we are unable to write ourselves because we are incompetent" extortionists, right?
It's not like every graphics card company steals from each other, and doesn't want to be held accountable. "We make hardware; we would never steal!"... I'm totally right, right?
What I do care about is the fact that Apple and the FBI both are pretending that security through obscurity works, and that a lot of tech geeks are eating up that bullshit instead of demanding that Apple make their phones actually secure.
Cryptography is security through large number theory.
Perhaps when you are talking about "security through obscurity", you are referring to ASLR? Technically, that's statistical security, rather than obfuscation.
And the FBI is playing along because it supports their story that "strong cryptography is preventing us to get at the data of shooters and terrorists".
Which begs the $64 question:
Do we really give a Flying F--- that the FBI can't get at the data of shooters and terrorists, as long as they can get at the shooters and terrorists themselves?
Also: what precisely did the FBI do, or try to do, to prevent the San Bernardino incident in the first place?
So... "some guy said Uber wants to buy self driving cars instead of hiring drivers".
(1) Uber does not hire drivers; Uber uses contractors
(2) Uber is not a taxi company
(3) If Uber owned the cars, self driving or not, they damn well *would* be a taxi company
(4) Uber has no interest in *being* a taxi company, because that would cause them to fall under onerous regulations that the taxi companies have lobbied to put in place over the last century, as an anticompetitive measure to keep other taxi companies from coming into existence and competing against them.
It's pretty obvious that about the stupidest thing Uber could possibly do is buy self-driving cars. If self-driving cars ever become a viable thing, then Uber will most likely *contract* with the owners of the self-driving cars, rather than owning the cars themselves, and that way they can remain a ride sharing service, rather than getting sucked into the morass that is the taxi industry.
But can they sell phones that have FaceTime/iMessage in the UK? Even if the services aren't available (via geoIP fencing or something like that).
Steak knives are occasionally used to commit murder in the UK. Are they allowed to sell steak knives, which *might* be used in the commission of a crime? It's the same thing.
Of course, one way to preserve a caste system is to build data silos and restrict the lower castes from accessing anything not in said silos.
Given that they have prevented Facebook giving the poort devices, and they have prevented Facebook from giving the poor limited Internet access (which they could pay to expand by using a paid Internet plan, rather than the free one, and for which the device itself, which Facebook was gifting them, is the largest outlay required for participation)....
Aren't the lower castes *already* restricted from accessing anything not in those silos... and also anything in those silos... by not having any freaking access whatsoever?
one of the numerous (also draft) Codes of Practice attached to the complex bill – in this case, the one concerning 'equipment interference' – stipulates that CSPs (communication service providers) must "provide a technical capability to give effect to interception, equipment interference, bulk acquisition warrants or communications data acquisition authorisations."
Note the word MUST.
Note that Apple is only a CSP under that definition when it comes to FaceTime and iMessage, and that Google is only a CSP as far as GMail and Google Hangouts and Google Voice.
The obvious thing to do is to withdraw those services from the UK market, and if people in the UK use them anyway, when the servers are not sited in the UK, then that's the UK's problem to deal with. Perhaps they can license draconian firewall technology from China.
Didn't Apple provide just exactly this to China (where China can flash whatever modified iOS version they so choose with public keys that work?) I hope I'm mistaken, but remember reading that.
No.
There has been iOS targeting in China, but the way it's implemented is by using an enterprise enrollment key to redirect the App purchases to a pirate version of the App store that supplies the enterprise enrollment certificate to the iPhone, and which then gives you access to pirate content, which is basically a bunch of Apps that were purchased, and then re-signed with the enterprise key for the iPhone enrollment.
Because these Apps are res-signed, the original signature doesn't matter, and so along with the pirate App itself, they tend to stuff malware into the App bundle.
There's another Slashdot story today that talks about "installing malware without jailbreaking", and it comes down to precisely this: You enterprise enroll the iPhone, and then get third party (read: pirated content with malware attached) for the Chinese "App Store", which is running the enterprise certificate.
Apple shuts down these certs (and bad actor developer signing keys) any time they find Malware. But it's hard, in a country of 1.5B people, to shut down everyone who happens to be buying the next cert so that these bad actors (and state actors) can stay in business.
NB: It's actually *worse* than alluded to by the other article, since they can include certificate authority certs as well, which allows the vendor -- or the Chinese government -- to MITM attack SSL connections, by re-signing the certs for the site with the signing cert for the authority cert, and then just monitor all the SSL using a transparent proxy that decrypts all the traffic for analysis. This is, by the way, the reason you do not want to use a BYOD iPhone, if the company forces you to participate in enterprise enrollment of the device.
The only people in India posting about not giving limited free Internet access to the poor are those who already have Internet access. We didn't see the opposite side of the argument because it turns out poor people with no Internet access have a hard time posting things on the Internet.
I doubt the market would bear $5k/bullet, but you might be on to something. Perhaps by swapping lotteries for a bullet tax we could kill two birds with one stone, pardon the pun. The religious zealots get their anti-gamblings measure and their bullets--crazy as it sounds--, and the schools still get the money.
Does the government (military, police forces) get to pay the bullet tax too?
It's simple, we lock every American in their own jail cell 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Gun deaths will plummet.
Alternately, shut down Detroit, New Orleans, Oakland, and Baltimore, and the U.S. drops from #10 out of 44 countries for which there are statistics, to #41.
Which would put it lower than Germany, Sweden, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and Spain, but still higher than Japan or the UK (just like all those other countries are higher than Japan and the UK).
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I think you missed the "whoosh".
Poll the solar users in Nevada... where the PUC just eliminated net metering, and so you get paid less for the power you generate than the power you consume all the time. There are proposals into the California PUC, which are almost always supported by PG&E, since it would force Smart Meters on places like San Francisco, and PG&E could charge a lot more for night time electricity than day time electricity (when you are using solar).
How much "new" electricity is coming from coal?
All the electricity generated by the coal plants every day, of course.
You don't think they are running their light bulbs on old electricity, do you?
How about 100% indoor plumbing first?
Toilets? Starvation?
Worse. Government. Ever.
North Korea has a higher GDP per capita!
False.
(India is 168th, Best Korea is 196th.)
GDP doesn't stand for "Gross Domestic Product" in this context.
It stands for "God Damn Plumbing".
Uh, this may be because of something I said...
I called the decryption demand by the FBI stupid in front of her, and pointed out that all the Charlie Hebdo terrorists in the Paris attack coordinated with burner phones that they didn't use before or after the actual incident.
Perhaps she didn't get the fact that they didn't turn the phones in to the local "terrorist burner phone convenience dropbox" after the event?
How did the wrecking crew do anything?!?
Isn't Tommy Tedesco dead?
On top of their *existing* salaries?!?!
That's *so* totally frigging unfair!
State of the art? How is this any different than the viruses that were passed around 30 years ago on c64 floppies?
USB drives are large enough to contain Java and Python programs, so that recent college graduates can finally write viruses again. C64 floppies are not large enough.
I hear they are asking KPCB to fund them... begging for money? Now THAT'S a startup!
Personally, I believe...
We should condemn them for implementing in user space, as this article implies, because EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL is not a pain in the ass of everyone who wants to keep their proprietary code secret.
Those protection domain crossing overheads are the fault of the driver writers, not the "give us your f*cking source code that we are unable to write ourselves because we are incompetent" extortionists, right?
It's not like every graphics card company steals from each other, and doesn't want to be held accountable. "We make hardware; we would never steal!"... I'm totally right, right?
Oh. That's very different. The bamboo the passenger compartment is made of is bulletproof, right?
What I do care about is the fact that Apple and the FBI both are pretending that security through obscurity works, and that a lot of tech geeks are eating up that bullshit instead of demanding that Apple make their phones actually secure.
Cryptography is security through large number theory.
Perhaps when you are talking about "security through obscurity", you are referring to ASLR? Technically, that's statistical security, rather than obfuscation.
And the FBI is playing along because it supports their story that "strong cryptography is preventing us to get at the data of shooters and terrorists".
Which begs the $64 question:
Do we really give a Flying F--- that the FBI can't get at the data of shooters and terrorists, as long as they can get at the shooters and terrorists themselves?
Also: what precisely did the FBI do, or try to do, to prevent the San Bernardino incident in the first place?
"the source, who declined to be named"
So ... "some guy said Uber wants to buy self driving cars instead of hiring drivers".
(1) Uber does not hire drivers; Uber uses contractors
(2) Uber is not a taxi company
(3) If Uber owned the cars, self driving or not, they damn well *would* be a taxi company
(4) Uber has no interest in *being* a taxi company, because that would cause them to fall under onerous regulations that the taxi companies have lobbied to put in place over the last century, as an anticompetitive measure to keep other taxi companies from coming into existence and competing against them.
It's pretty obvious that about the stupidest thing Uber could possibly do is buy self-driving cars. If self-driving cars ever become a viable thing, then Uber will most likely *contract* with the owners of the self-driving cars, rather than owning the cars themselves, and that way they can remain a ride sharing service, rather than getting sucked into the morass that is the taxi industry.
Glad they are giving in to the pressure.
Me too!
The BC and Washington state orcas, which are arguably a distinct species are on the U.S. Endangered Species List.
What better way to help them survive, then by ending a captive breeding program?!?
Wait. Seeing a problem with the whole "bowing to pressure from people who are not professional wildlife biologists" thing...
But can they sell phones that have FaceTime/iMessage in the UK? Even if the services aren't available (via geoIP fencing or something like that).
Steak knives are occasionally used to commit murder in the UK. Are they allowed to sell steak knives, which *might* be used in the commission of a crime? It's the same thing.
Of course, one way to preserve a caste system is to build data silos and restrict the lower castes from accessing anything not in said silos.
Given that they have prevented Facebook giving the poort devices, and they have prevented Facebook from giving the poor limited Internet access (which they could pay to expand by using a paid Internet plan, rather than the free one, and for which the device itself, which Facebook was gifting them, is the largest outlay required for participation)....
Aren't the lower castes *already* restricted from accessing anything not in those silos ... and also anything in those silos ... by not having any freaking access whatsoever?
Whilst you are theoretically correct, actual nor, like whom, are largely extinct in the English spoken today.
FYI: So is "whilst".
IBM has not supported Apple directly but did so as part of the BSA. If they bring the Nazgul, the DOJ might have larger issues.
This is funny!
Not the least of which because, when I was working for IBM, we also called them "The Nazgul"...
one of the numerous (also draft) Codes of Practice attached to the complex bill – in this case, the one concerning 'equipment interference' – stipulates that CSPs (communication service providers) must "provide a technical capability to give effect to interception, equipment interference, bulk acquisition warrants or communications data acquisition authorisations."
Note the word MUST.
Note that Apple is only a CSP under that definition when it comes to FaceTime and iMessage, and that Google is only a CSP as far as GMail and Google Hangouts and Google Voice.
The obvious thing to do is to withdraw those services from the UK market, and if people in the UK use them anyway, when the servers are not sited in the UK, then that's the UK's problem to deal with. Perhaps they can license draconian firewall technology from China.
Didn't Apple provide just exactly this to China (where China can flash whatever modified iOS version they so choose with public keys that work?) I hope I'm mistaken, but remember reading that.
No.
There has been iOS targeting in China, but the way it's implemented is by using an enterprise enrollment key to redirect the App purchases to a pirate version of the App store that supplies the enterprise enrollment certificate to the iPhone, and which then gives you access to pirate content, which is basically a bunch of Apps that were purchased, and then re-signed with the enterprise key for the iPhone enrollment.
Because these Apps are res-signed, the original signature doesn't matter, and so along with the pirate App itself, they tend to stuff malware into the App bundle.
There's another Slashdot story today that talks about "installing malware without jailbreaking", and it comes down to precisely this: You enterprise enroll the iPhone, and then get third party (read: pirated content with malware attached) for the Chinese "App Store", which is running the enterprise certificate.
Apple shuts down these certs (and bad actor developer signing keys) any time they find Malware. But it's hard, in a country of 1.5B people, to shut down everyone who happens to be buying the next cert so that these bad actors (and state actors) can stay in business.
NB: It's actually *worse* than alluded to by the other article, since they can include certificate authority certs as well, which allows the vendor -- or the Chinese government -- to MITM attack SSL connections, by re-signing the certs for the site with the signing cert for the authority cert, and then just monitor all the SSL using a transparent proxy that decrypts all the traffic for analysis. This is, by the way, the reason you do not want to use a BYOD iPhone, if the company forces you to participate in enterprise enrollment of the device.
"Privacy advocates in India"
OK, be honest:
The only people in India posting about not giving limited free Internet access to the poor are those who already have Internet access. We didn't see the opposite side of the argument because it turns out poor people with no Internet access have a hard time posting things on the Internet.
Amazing, isn't it?
Gotta keep that caste system alive!
I doubt the market would bear $5k/bullet, but you might be on to something. Perhaps by swapping lotteries for a bullet tax we could kill two birds with one stone, pardon the pun. The religious zealots get their anti-gamblings measure and their bullets--crazy as it sounds--, and the schools still get the money.
Does the government (military, police forces) get to pay the bullet tax too?
It's simple, we lock every American in their own jail cell 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Gun deaths will plummet.
Alternately, shut down Detroit, New Orleans, Oakland, and Baltimore, and the U.S. drops from #10 out of 44 countries for which there are statistics, to #41.
Which would put it lower than Germany, Sweden, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and Spain, but still higher than Japan or the UK (just like all those other countries are higher than Japan and the UK).
http://www.nationmaster.com/co...
his job is basically to fund and promote anti-gun research
How is gun control "anti-gun"? More realistically it is anti-allowing-crazies-access-to-guns.
Or political opponents.
Or disenfranchised citizens.
Or colonists rebelling against the crown.