Once that hole is plugged, there won't be a single point where an email isn't encrypted.
In transit perhaps, but not at rest. When your email sits in the inbox (or any folder) on your email provider's server, it is either not encrypted or your provider has the ability to decrypt it. Otherwise your email provider would not be able to display it / transfer it to you. This means that your provider can read your email, they can show it to the government, and if someone hacks your provider, the attackers and read your email as well. Unless you are running your own email server, transport protection doesn't really protect you. (It is of course better than not having transport protection, but it is not enough.)
If a CS student can't figure out GPG (or any encryption encryption system designed for public consumption), they probably shouldn't graduate.
It is true that encryption (or at least key management) is hard. In order to get it right, you need to understand how it works. Understanding how things work is a cornerstone of computer science and a required skill set.
Now for people who are not into computer science it would be nice if encryption were easier to use. The challenge is that if you don't manage your keys well, you are not really managing the security of your communication. The trick is finding the balance between "secure enough" and "easy enough to use".
... Well duh... optical signals can be modulated at high speed, we know that, used every day to pump data through glass fibers or change channels on your TV. Why is this news?
Because with 100Gb, we can change channels really fast.
Laws barring property rental are per se illegal, as the constitution does not give the government, at any level, the explicit right to dictate what one does (or does not do) with their own property. This goes for zoning as well.
Sure it does. It delegates or defers (depending on your view) to the states the authority to make laws that are not spelled out specifically in the constitution. States have done so, generally at the behest of their citizens. Granted money talks and not all citizens get an equal say, but the states do have the rights to make laws wherever not explicitly prohibited by the constitution (and federal law, which ultimately rolls up to the constitution.)
Zoning and property use laws are generally a good thing. I don't want a heavy industrial manufacturing process in the middle of my residential neighborhood. Because of this my neighbors and I (over history) have expressed this desire to government and zoning has occurred that prevents this.
It is a physical audio-visual media storage format that you can purchase in a store or online. Once you purchase a movie or other content on a DVD, you can watch it as many times as you want without any expiration or revealing to anyone how many times you have watched the content. This is in contrast to an online streaming model where the provider of the content can at any time decide that you can no longer watch the content and with which the content provider knows what you watch, when you watch it, and can sell or use that information without restriction.
While it can be argued that it is possible to copy the contents of a DVD or an online stream for unrestricted and offline use, doing so is likely against the law. Physical media purchases are a way to legally watch the content you want in an unrestricted way.
And as a person filling out surveys who knows (just a little) about math and statistics, I think of ratings on a bell curve. On a 1-10 scale almost nothing is actually a 1 or a 10. On that scale I would rate a 5 as average service and give a 7 or 8 to what I think is well above average service, 9 would be excellent service. You would only get a 10 if there was no possible way to do any better under any circumstances and you completely exceeded all of my expectations. Unfortunately people get dinged if they don't get all 10s. Sucks to be you if I have to fill out your survey.
Modern slot machines don't use the mechanics of the spinning wheels to decide if you win or lose. When you pull the lever (or push the button) the computer generates a random number and decides immediately if you are going to win or lose. The spinning wheels are just a display or a user interface to indicate the result to you. Where the wheels are going to stop is decided by the computer before they even start spinning. Yes, when the computer has decided that you are going to lose, it will spin the wheels and stop them so it looks like you were going win - it's part of the psychology of the game. Is it psychologically rigged, yes. Is it mathematically rigged, no.
Thank god I don't need to travel for business. Suckers.
The irony is that if you did travel for business you would travel enough to be treated well by the airlines and you wouldn't be a sucker. Traveling by air infrequently does suck, for many of the reasons you mention. If however you travel a lot, you will obtain status on one or more airlines. With status they treat you well. With status, you get nicer seats, don't have to pay to check luggage, can use TSA-Pre (the security fast lane), receive automatic re-booking for missed connections, significant priority for stand by travel, etc.
Funny -- if the airlines would charge me TWICE as much, and cut the bullshit charges along the way. Remove half the rows (or more now) and give me a nice big lav -- perhaps the entire tail section would be nice. You know, make it like it was in the 60's and 70's... or better. I just might consider flying a whole hell of a lot more than I do now (which is never).
In addition to keeping the receipts, consider making the square footage of the office bigger. You might want to do this because if you take the home office deduction, which you may be able to do if you truly have a home office, many of the things you deduct are calculated on a percentage of the square footage of your dedicated office space as compared to the total square footage of your home. Of course you want to check with your tax person, but you should include the tax aspect as part of your overall design.
Please call them protesters or demonstrators. Calling them water protectors is biased toward the protesters just as calling them dissidents or terrorists would be biased toward the pipeline supporters. The story itself is interesting and is news for nerds. I do want to hear about technology and possible indications (such as battery drain rate) that surveillance is occurring. I would prefer that the summary is not politically biased as I can make my own opinion as to if the pipeline is a good thing or a bad thing.
I know it is a pipe dream, but could we please get back to being a news (for nerds) site and not a political discourse site?
While on one hand this is a bit of advertising, on the other hand it is kind of cool technology.
Isn't the point of Atmos not to add more physical channels, but rather to add logical channels? Each logical channel contains positioning information and it is up to the specific implementation to map the logical channel to whatever physical channels are available. For example a logical channel might be a helicopter flying overhead from behind the listener's right to in front of the listener's left. If played on a a simple two speaker system the sound would move from right to left, on a 5.1 or 7.1 system you would get the surround effect, on a more exotic system with speakers on the ceiling you would get more precise directional sound. Concept being to encode what sounds should appear to be where in 3D space and let the system create the best sound it can with the speakers it has.
In theory, it seems like a good idea. Do we need it for home use, probably not. I am still pretty happy with my 5.1 system. That being said the concept of having the sound data describe not only what but where the sound should come from logically is kind of cool as it tends to future proof for new speaker systems.
My point is that while an administrator or the system itself can remove or suspend BitLocker, the system has to be up and running for this to occur. If you are using BitLocker correctly, booting the system (getting it up and running) requires human interaction in the form of PIN or password entry. BitLocker (and hard drive encryption in general) does not protect running systems, it protects systems that are shut down and powered down. It may protect hibernated systems in certain cases, but I wouldn't count on it.
I understand that that the actual key is not in the TPM, rather a way to unlock the key is. The point here is that a TPM is better because it securely allows a shorter and more human friendly PIN which is hardware protected as compared to an on disk password that does not have hardware protection against brute force attacks.
If you are doing BitLocker correctly, you have to type in a password every time you boot the computer. If you are doing is really right, that password is only a PIN used to unlock the actual encryption key stored in a Trusted Platform Module (hardware protected crypto storage device). This means that although a computer may update itself automatically if it gets powered up by an adversary, thus opening an opportunity for the diagnostic shell to have access to a temporarily disabled BitLocker, this could only happen if the adversary knows (or can coerce) the BitLocker password from you. While some may believe that there is a backdoor to BitLocker, this particular diagnostic window is not it because it should never be accessible by an adversary.
With hope, after we start backing up our data. And by backup, I mean offline backups taken at regular intervals. And by offline, I mean backups that require human intervention to be overwritten, typically some sort of removable media that requires human interaction to overwrite.
Pretty much any systems failure (including ransomware attacks) can be mitigated with proper backups.
The United States is known for the hard work of its people. The rest of the world has criticized the US's lack of work/life balance (many say the US spends too much time working, more than anywhere else.) Assuming this is true, it would be a reason that US workers are worth more - in general harder working people are more productive. I would say this is especially true in Information Technology, particularly software development where the amount of time required to stay current and keep up with changing technology is enormous.
As others have posted, the ultimate answer that the marketplace dictates the value, and the labor market place currently values American tech workers highly.
I would rather encourage young kids to be curious and to have other aspects that may lead to programming and other technology. Pushing programming and coding itself to young girls (boys as well) may turn kids off, where if you encourage things like curiosity, those who end up programming will have done so because they are passionate about it. People who are passionate about it end up being good at it, and we need more girls (and boys) that are actually good at programming.
This is prevented by policy (which you can trust or not), but the policy is that if any voter's ballot is in question due to signature, the voter is contacted by the elections office and given an opportunity to confirm that it is or is not their signature. As a voter you can also contact the elections office and confirm that your ballot has been received (and had its signature accepted). Records (and actual images of the mailing envelope signatures) are kept for each voter. So you can get your entire voting history (if you have voted or not, not your actual votes of course...) In my elections office, three different elections officers have to agree that the signature is not a match before the ballot is set aside.
Wyden's plan eliminates secret ballot so that people who vote the wrong way can be properly retaliated against.
Actually here in Oregon, the mail in ballot is still secret. You mark your optically scanable ballot (fill in the bubbles), and you put it in a provided secrecy envelope. Neither the ballot or secrecy envelope have any identifying marks on it. The secrecy envelope is put inside a mailing envelope that you sign and mail or hand deliver to a nearby drop box. When the ballots get to the elections office, your signature is checked by one elections official who marks you as voted. They then take the still sealed secrecy envelope and but it into a prefix specific box which another elections employee opens and counts (feeds into the machine) later. No one person gets to see your name and your marked ballot at the same time. Representatives of major parties and general members of the public are invited to watch the process. I have personally gone down to my local elections office and watched the process. It works as described.
In addition, the post office doesn't have to be secure. Here in Oregon when the ballots are received at the elections office (either by mail or drop off), the signature on the ballot envelope is manually checked (by an elections official) against your signature on file (when you registered to vote). If the signature doesn't match, the ballot is set aside as pending and elections office contacts the voter to ask what's up. To forge someone's ballot you would also have to forge their signature (and get it to the elections office before the real voter did.)
well if the data backs up the claims, its not sexist, or racist
I am not sure I agree. If the data says that $minority group is more violent then $non-minority, it may be statically true for a given set of statistics but we all (should) know that correlation is not causation and it may be that $minority group on average lives in a more dangerous place. Higher insurance rates for $minority group members would be racist, but charging higher rates for people (with out regard to race) living in a dangerous place would not be racist.
The trick of course is to be careful about allowing a company to use location as a proxy for race or other minority status.
...and it has been pared back so that it runs nippily over slower than average network speeds. It is the companion app to Facebook Lite, a stripped-down version of the social network...
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Once that hole is plugged, there won't be a single point where an email isn't encrypted.
In transit perhaps, but not at rest. When your email sits in the inbox (or any folder) on your email provider's server, it is either not encrypted or your provider has the ability to decrypt it. Otherwise your email provider would not be able to display it / transfer it to you. This means that your provider can read your email, they can show it to the government, and if someone hacks your provider, the attackers and read your email as well. Unless you are running your own email server, transport protection doesn't really protect you. (It is of course better than not having transport protection, but it is not enough.)
If a CS student can't figure out GPG (or any encryption encryption system designed for public consumption), they probably shouldn't graduate.
It is true that encryption (or at least key management) is hard. In order to get it right, you need to understand how it works. Understanding how things work is a cornerstone of computer science and a required skill set.
Now for people who are not into computer science it would be nice if encryption were easier to use. The challenge is that if you don't manage your keys well, you are not really managing the security of your communication. The trick is finding the balance between "secure enough" and "easy enough to use".
Because with 100Gb, we can change channels really fast.
Laws barring property rental are per se illegal, as the constitution does not give the government, at any level, the explicit right to dictate what one does (or does not do) with their own property. This goes for zoning as well.
Sure it does. It delegates or defers (depending on your view) to the states the authority to make laws that are not spelled out specifically in the constitution. States have done so, generally at the behest of their citizens. Granted money talks and not all citizens get an equal say, but the states do have the rights to make laws wherever not explicitly prohibited by the constitution (and federal law, which ultimately rolls up to the constitution.)
Zoning and property use laws are generally a good thing. I don't want a heavy industrial manufacturing process in the middle of my residential neighborhood. Because of this my neighbors and I (over history) have expressed this desire to government and zoning has occurred that prevents this.
If you have not successfully tested a restore and you do not have a completely offline copy, you do not have a backup.
Zimmerman's ionic batteries use actual lithium-metal, ...
Just don't drop it in water if it ever gets damaged.
Or feed it after midnight
DVD? What the fuck is that?
It is a physical audio-visual media storage format that you can purchase in a store or online. Once you purchase a movie or other content on a DVD, you can watch it as many times as you want without any expiration or revealing to anyone how many times you have watched the content. This is in contrast to an online streaming model where the provider of the content can at any time decide that you can no longer watch the content and with which the content provider knows what you watch, when you watch it, and can sell or use that information without restriction.
While it can be argued that it is possible to copy the contents of a DVD or an online stream for unrestricted and offline use, doing so is likely against the law. Physical media purchases are a way to legally watch the content you want in an unrestricted way.
And as a person filling out surveys who knows (just a little) about math and statistics, I think of ratings on a bell curve. On a 1-10 scale almost nothing is actually a 1 or a 10. On that scale I would rate a 5 as average service and give a 7 or 8 to what I think is well above average service, 9 would be excellent service. You would only get a 10 if there was no possible way to do any better under any circumstances and you completely exceeded all of my expectations. Unfortunately people get dinged if they don't get all 10s. Sucks to be you if I have to fill out your survey.
Opening a Word document, or any other Office document, shouldn't put your master boot record at risk, so that was just ridiculous of Microsoft.
It doesn't, not unless you grant administrative (root) privileges to users.
Nope. It's actually rigged. Watch the slots.
Modern slot machines don't use the mechanics of the spinning wheels to decide if you win or lose. When you pull the lever (or push the button) the computer generates a random number and decides immediately if you are going to win or lose. The spinning wheels are just a display or a user interface to indicate the result to you. Where the wheels are going to stop is decided by the computer before they even start spinning. Yes, when the computer has decided that you are going to lose, it will spin the wheels and stop them so it looks like you were going win - it's part of the psychology of the game. Is it psychologically rigged, yes. Is it mathematically rigged, no.
Thank god I don't need to travel for business. Suckers.
The irony is that if you did travel for business you would travel enough to be treated well by the airlines and you wouldn't be a sucker. Traveling by air infrequently does suck, for many of the reasons you mention. If however you travel a lot, you will obtain status on one or more airlines. With status they treat you well. With status, you get nicer seats, don't have to pay to check luggage, can use TSA-Pre (the security fast lane), receive automatic re-booking for missed connections, significant priority for stand by travel, etc.
Funny -- if the airlines would charge me TWICE as much, and cut the bullshit charges along the way. Remove half the rows (or more now) and give me a nice big lav -- perhaps the entire tail section would be nice. You know, make it like it was in the 60's and 70's ... or better. I just might consider flying a whole hell of a lot more than I do now (which is never).
You mean buy a first class ticket?
In addition to keeping the receipts, consider making the square footage of the office bigger. You might want to do this because if you take the home office deduction, which you may be able to do if you truly have a home office, many of the things you deduct are calculated on a percentage of the square footage of your dedicated office space as compared to the total square footage of your home. Of course you want to check with your tax person, but you should include the tax aspect as part of your overall design.
Please call them protesters or demonstrators. Calling them water protectors is biased toward the protesters just as calling them dissidents or terrorists would be biased toward the pipeline supporters. The story itself is interesting and is news for nerds. I do want to hear about technology and possible indications (such as battery drain rate) that surveillance is occurring. I would prefer that the summary is not politically biased as I can make my own opinion as to if the pipeline is a good thing or a bad thing.
I know it is a pipe dream, but could we please get back to being a news (for nerds) site and not a political discourse site?
While on one hand this is a bit of advertising, on the other hand it is kind of cool technology.
Isn't the point of Atmos not to add more physical channels, but rather to add logical channels? Each logical channel contains positioning information and it is up to the specific implementation to map the logical channel to whatever physical channels are available. For example a logical channel might be a helicopter flying overhead from behind the listener's right to in front of the listener's left. If played on a a simple two speaker system the sound would move from right to left, on a 5.1 or 7.1 system you would get the surround effect, on a more exotic system with speakers on the ceiling you would get more precise directional sound. Concept being to encode what sounds should appear to be where in 3D space and let the system create the best sound it can with the speakers it has.
In theory, it seems like a good idea. Do we need it for home use, probably not. I am still pretty happy with my 5.1 system. That being said the concept of having the sound data describe not only what but where the sound should come from logically is kind of cool as it tends to future proof for new speaker systems.
My point is that while an administrator or the system itself can remove or suspend BitLocker, the system has to be up and running for this to occur. If you are using BitLocker correctly, booting the system (getting it up and running) requires human interaction in the form of PIN or password entry. BitLocker (and hard drive encryption in general) does not protect running systems, it protects systems that are shut down and powered down. It may protect hibernated systems in certain cases, but I wouldn't count on it.
I understand that that the actual key is not in the TPM, rather a way to unlock the key is. The point here is that a TPM is better because it securely allows a shorter and more human friendly PIN which is hardware protected as compared to an on disk password that does not have hardware protection against brute force attacks.
If you are doing BitLocker correctly, you have to type in a password every time you boot the computer. If you are doing is really right, that password is only a PIN used to unlock the actual encryption key stored in a Trusted Platform Module (hardware protected crypto storage device). This means that although a computer may update itself automatically if it gets powered up by an adversary, thus opening an opportunity for the diagnostic shell to have access to a temporarily disabled BitLocker, this could only happen if the adversary knows (or can coerce) the BitLocker password from you. While some may believe that there is a backdoor to BitLocker, this particular diagnostic window is not it because it should never be accessible by an adversary.
With hope, after we start backing up our data. And by backup, I mean offline backups taken at regular intervals. And by offline, I mean backups that require human intervention to be overwritten, typically some sort of removable media that requires human interaction to overwrite.
Pretty much any systems failure (including ransomware attacks) can be mitigated with proper backups.
Hmm I first read the title as Convention instead of Conviction. Made the first read more interesting.
The United States is known for the hard work of its people. The rest of the world has criticized the US's lack of work/life balance (many say the US spends too much time working, more than anywhere else.) Assuming this is true, it would be a reason that US workers are worth more - in general harder working people are more productive. I would say this is especially true in Information Technology, particularly software development where the amount of time required to stay current and keep up with changing technology is enormous.
As others have posted, the ultimate answer that the marketplace dictates the value, and the labor market place currently values American tech workers highly.
I would rather encourage young kids to be curious and to have other aspects that may lead to programming and other technology. Pushing programming and coding itself to young girls (boys as well) may turn kids off, where if you encourage things like curiosity, those who end up programming will have done so because they are passionate about it. People who are passionate about it end up being good at it, and we need more girls (and boys) that are actually good at programming.
This is prevented by policy (which you can trust or not), but the policy is that if any voter's ballot is in question due to signature, the voter is contacted by the elections office and given an opportunity to confirm that it is or is not their signature. As a voter you can also contact the elections office and confirm that your ballot has been received (and had its signature accepted). Records (and actual images of the mailing envelope signatures) are kept for each voter. So you can get your entire voting history (if you have voted or not, not your actual votes of course...) In my elections office, three different elections officers have to agree that the signature is not a match before the ballot is set aside.
Wyden's plan eliminates secret ballot so that people who vote the wrong way can be properly retaliated against.
Actually here in Oregon, the mail in ballot is still secret. You mark your optically scanable ballot (fill in the bubbles), and you put it in a provided secrecy envelope. Neither the ballot or secrecy envelope have any identifying marks on it. The secrecy envelope is put inside a mailing envelope that you sign and mail or hand deliver to a nearby drop box. When the ballots get to the elections office, your signature is checked by one elections official who marks you as voted. They then take the still sealed secrecy envelope and but it into a prefix specific box which another elections employee opens and counts (feeds into the machine) later. No one person gets to see your name and your marked ballot at the same time. Representatives of major parties and general members of the public are invited to watch the process. I have personally gone down to my local elections office and watched the process. It works as described.
In addition, the post office doesn't have to be secure. Here in Oregon when the ballots are received at the elections office (either by mail or drop off), the signature on the ballot envelope is manually checked (by an elections official) against your signature on file (when you registered to vote). If the signature doesn't match, the ballot is set aside as pending and elections office contacts the voter to ask what's up. To forge someone's ballot you would also have to forge their signature (and get it to the elections office before the real voter did.)
well if the data backs up the claims, its not sexist, or racist
I am not sure I agree. If the data says that $minority group is more violent then $non-minority, it may be statically true for a given set of statistics but we all (should) know that correlation is not causation and it may be that $minority group on average lives in a more dangerous place. Higher insurance rates for $minority group members would be racist, but charging higher rates for people (with out regard to race) living in a dangerous place would not be racist.
The trick of course is to be careful about allowing a company to use location as a proxy for race or other minority status.
Really?