Thing is, I can imagine this thing carrying a parachute for an emergency, but it would have to be flying real high to be able to deploy it in time if engine cuts out unpredictably. Still leaves the question of take-off and landings (if engine dies when you're say 50 feet of the ground...). With airplanes and helicopters you can at least glide back.... with this thing, it would just fall like a rock.
For webmail, what would be wrong with: encrypt/decrypt via client side javascript, private key is stored in html5 storage thing, and is encrypted via user's password. The server never sees the user's private key, nor their password (authentication with server can happen via public/private keys (e.g. have the client digitally sign username/request, server can verify the signature, no need for passwords on the server).
This is what I don't get. The PR machine failed. Their reaction shouldn't have been to cover up and hide, and then somewhat admit to the truth. Snowden should've been called a hero, welcomed back, etc., Obama should've retired a few top folks from NSA, saying he wasn't aware of the full extent of the problem, and uh, oh, how would this ever happen, accept full responsibility (e.g. Reagan), make a big deal about dismantling the programs (while simply just renaming them)... and continue everything as is.
Everyone's happy, and only conspiracy nuts don't believe the official story. As it is, this is just proof that just 'cause you're paranoid, does not mean they're not after you.
There are problems encryption doesn't solve. Consider most popular Amazon S3 encryption solutions... you have encrypted data in S3, you startup EC2 instance with random-key-full-disk-encryption, grab data from S3 to process... data is never persisted in the clear, and always encrypted in-flight (ssh); but... you have to decrypt it... *somehow* your decryption key needs to get to that EC2 instance somehow (sure, you can ecrypt the disk, or run a key-server, or whatever, but then you'll need to send the key to decrypt that disk to mount it, or unlock the metakey, whatever, etc.).
You can't avoid doing this (assuming you want to use EC2 infrastructure to process the data---you can of course ofload data from S3 back into your systems, and process it within your environment... but who does that? The whole point is to be able to process S3 data via EC2).
Someone (NSA? your ISP? rogue staffer at the datacenter or anyone along the path) who can tap into that conversation between you and that EC2 instance can get the key.
It is not difficult to do port replication if you know what you're doing.
Most corps go with cloud solutions bet on this risk being low enough to warrant cost savings... but there's still a risk (perhaps in 5-years we'll find out that Amazon-NSA has been logging the initial-handshake of every EC2 instance on amazon.... giving them the ability to decrypt anything on S3).
Is it just visible light? Putting on my paranoid hat, I'd imagine they're capturing xray scans of all mail, etc. They might even have the entire text and inventory of everything you ship and recieve.
Wake me when C# programs run on anything other than Windows. GP is absolutely correct---if you actually try to use Mono for anything serious, you realize how quickly it starts to suck.
Indeed. Also, many cars disable playing wtih built-in NAV while car is in motion... but that is very frustrating when the passenger is trying to locate the route or find the right music in a playlist.
At the very least, if passenger side airbag is engaged, they should disable any driver restrictions on NAV (on assumption that it's the passenger that's doing the tinkering).
That's exactly what I think AI induced war will bring... Robots will just reason into the best way to end most problems on the planet would be to get rid of the humans.
(kinda like making cars a lot less safe will cut down on the number of cancer patients, etc.)
Well, it's called "sales" tax not "buying" tax. Makes sense to collected it at point of sale:-/
So if amazon movies to a state with no sales tax, it makes sense to collect their *local* tax for all customers (even those outside of that state). Perhaps what they're really interested in is interstate commerce tax, since that's what this is in disguise---except that would be unconstitutional....Why are they spending their efforts in creating a regressive tax instead of just getting rid of sales tax everywhere and increasing income tax on everyone?
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It says 60mph in the vice article.
With traffic, it'll be 50mph :-)
Thing is, I can imagine this thing carrying a parachute for an emergency, but it would have to be flying real high to be able to deploy it in time if engine cuts out unpredictably. Still leaves the question of take-off and landings (if engine dies when you're say 50 feet of the ground...). With airplanes and helicopters you can at least glide back.... with this thing, it would just fall like a rock.
For webmail, what would be wrong with: encrypt/decrypt via client side javascript, private key is stored in html5 storage thing, and is encrypted via user's password. The server never sees the user's private key, nor their password (authentication with server can happen via public/private keys (e.g. have the client digitally sign username/request, server can verify the signature, no need for passwords on the server).
This is what I don't get. The PR machine failed. Their reaction shouldn't have been to cover up and hide, and then somewhat admit to the truth. Snowden should've been called a hero, welcomed back, etc., Obama should've retired a few top folks from NSA, saying he wasn't aware of the full extent of the problem, and uh, oh, how would this ever happen, accept full responsibility (e.g. Reagan), make a big deal about dismantling the programs (while simply just renaming them)... and continue everything as is.
Everyone's happy, and only conspiracy nuts don't believe the official story. As it is, this is just proof that just 'cause you're paranoid, does not mean they're not after you.
Try using Swype. It's surprisingly easy to type things really fast and accurately with just a thumb.
"There's no way that is going to happen."
We should ask for their zombie apocaliplse speech :-)
Perhaps this one is just to monitor everyone in Utah?...
or.... A datacenter for each man woman and child in the US... that's exactly the way a beurocrat in charge of datacenter construction would think.
Indeed. The only thing IBM screwed up is put Fn key in the wrong spot... besides that, great keyboards/laptops.
There are problems encryption doesn't solve. Consider most popular Amazon S3 encryption solutions... you have encrypted data in S3, you startup EC2 instance with random-key-full-disk-encryption, grab data from S3 to process... data is never persisted in the clear, and always encrypted in-flight (ssh); but... you have to decrypt it... *somehow* your decryption key needs to get to that EC2 instance somehow (sure, you can ecrypt the disk, or run a key-server, or whatever, but then you'll need to send the key to decrypt that disk to mount it, or unlock the metakey, whatever, etc.).
You can't avoid doing this (assuming you want to use EC2 infrastructure to process the data---you can of course ofload data from S3 back into your systems, and process it within your environment... but who does that? The whole point is to be able to process S3 data via EC2).
Someone (NSA? your ISP? rogue staffer at the datacenter or anyone along the path) who can tap into that conversation between you and that EC2 instance can get the key.
It is not difficult to do port replication if you know what you're doing.
Most corps go with cloud solutions bet on this risk being low enough to warrant cost savings... but there's still a risk (perhaps in 5-years we'll find out that Amazon-NSA has been logging the initial-handshake of every EC2 instance on amazon.... giving them the ability to decrypt anything on S3).
I can imagine the interview process: ``Answer as truthfully as possible: Are you a good lier?''
Yes, also, from startrek. If the boot fits or something.
If that's not what they are up to then what on earth is the point of this?
Perhaps hand recognition. Maybe, when they get a letter with poison, they search for the same handwriting in same region, and then look at the names?
Is it just visible light? Putting on my paranoid hat, I'd imagine they're capturing xray scans of all mail, etc. They might even have the entire text and inventory of everything you ship and recieve.
Not to mention that at 1g it wouldn't take long to get to speed of light :-)
Feh. If light speed is too slow, we just need to increase the speed of light.
Wake me when C# programs run on anything other than Windows. GP is absolutely correct---if you actually try to use Mono for anything serious, you realize how quickly it starts to suck.
I'd vote for that. Would simplify things quite a bit.
Indeed. Also, many cars disable playing wtih built-in NAV while car is in motion... but that is very frustrating when the passenger is trying to locate the route or find the right music in a playlist.
At the very least, if passenger side airbag is engaged, they should disable any driver restrictions on NAV (on assumption that it's the passenger that's doing the tinkering).
Only one I've seen was Kansas airport (didn't see them in LAX, JFK, etc.).
By the time YOU care to convert a file and can't... there's no app, and NOBODY but you gives a damn about that file you got.
heck, mine sometimes randomly dials random folks on my contact list while *in* my pocket!
That's exactly what I think AI induced war will bring... Robots will just reason into the best way to end most problems on the planet would be to get rid of the humans.
(kinda like making cars a lot less safe will cut down on the number of cancer patients, etc.)
SG1 will save us...
Well... don't forget the influence of... Ancient Aliens (history channel doesn't lie!)
so a much larger percentage of the population is doing beurocratic-busy-work? :-)
(j/k, nyc probably has 99% of the population doing beurocratic-busy-work).
Well, it's called "sales" tax not "buying" tax. Makes sense to collected it at point of sale :-/
So if amazon movies to a state with no sales tax, it makes sense to collect their *local* tax for all customers (even those outside of that state). Perhaps what they're really interested in is interstate commerce tax, since that's what this is in disguise---except that would be unconstitutional. ...Why are they spending their efforts in creating a regressive tax instead of just getting rid of sales tax everywhere and increasing income tax on everyone?