This reminds me of when Caldera systems sued IBM, thinking that it could get an easy win. Ha! Guess who had $50 million to waste on lawyers. Not Caldera.
Indeed.
Apple can throw more money at this than the entire FBI budget. Heck, Apple can throw more money at this than the FBI will have budgeted to them for the next 10 years.
No matter their wealth, the kings and castles rely on the services of the townsfolk. Either they all grow together or the kingdom declines.
As Machiavelli said; you (the Prince) should always take care of the people before you take care of the nobles. You can make and unmake nobles daily but you are stuck with the people (and if they come after you, you are in big trouble)!"
No, nothing happened to the cooling system. If they are powered down thats the very definition of 'nothing happening'!
Let me see if I understand what you're saying: The cooling system's power supply is not technically part of the cooling system?
Does that mean that the power supply in my computer is technically not part of my computer?
No, sure the power supply is part of the cooling system but, purely in the context of the cooling system, if its powered down then it isn't doing anything. If it isn't doing anything then, technically, in the context of the cooling system alone, nothing happened. This doesn't include side effects of the cooling system doing nothing and, therefore, having nothing happen to it.
Um, nothing happened to the cooling system in Fukushima, the backup generators and power feed lines were washed away, leaving no way at all to power the cooling systems.
"The problem wasn't the cooling system, it was the fact that the cooling system didn't work!"
No, nothing happened to the cooling system. If they are powered down thats the very definition of 'nothing happening'!
A tiny smart bomb, aimed at the Supreme Commander's location could save the lives and well-being of countless deprived citizens of N. Korea. It might be the greatest humanitarian action of this century. It would cost almost nothing to accomplish. Or we could do what we always do and kill citizens and soldiers by the thousands while leaving evil kings and dictators to continue their course. Even if our smart bomb missed the little guy it would give him something to think about and an incentive for him to change his attitude.
Ok lets see.
Millions of starving people kept in check by an oppressive regime. Remove repressive regime. Whats millions of starving people, who now have no overwhelming political or military control directing their lives, going to do? What could possibly go wrong? My guess is they'd eat one another. Then eat the South Koreans, Chinese and Russians.
...China needs a relatively stable NK (that doesn't actually carry out stupid shit) in order to maintain a buffer.
This brings up a fun question:
A "buffer" against... what? Puny South Korea? A Japan that is too demographically old/rich/disinterested in China to bother invading? The Philippines? Mongolia?
Historically, I get it - post-WWII, fears of Japan and such were rather justified. But it's been what, 70 years and a metric shitload of geopolitical changes? Pretty sure the whole buffer idea is a bit, shall we say, outdated.
The main reason for the existance of NK was to break up Korea and prevent a unified Korea from being an economic powerhouse dominating North Asia.
People look at NK today and its a basket case. But if Korea hadn't been broken up and that unified Korea had been under an economic management such as developed in South Korea, the agricultural wealth of the south and the mineral wealth of the north would have resulted in a nation which would be able to challenge even China, would have dwarfed Japan and would have been seen by the Soviet Union as a threat to their Eastern maritimes. South Korea has been doing pretty well industrially, great shipbuilding and other heavy industries. But thats nothing compared to what Korea COULD have been.
Consequently it was in the interest of all the regional powers, including the USA, to ensure that Korea was broken up.
For the Chinese, NK isn't a buffer in the normal sense of the world; its a handicap they are imposing on Korea as a whole.
Currently we mine 1-1.5% of the existing supply of gold annually.
That means that unless your economy grows less than that, or mining rates go up significantly, you are basically having deflation: Your gold becomes worth more over time.
Then the first asteroid ever prospected is found to have more gold and precious metals than have been mined from the Earth in all history.
Get Gatling guns on one ship, the next pirate crew will show up with an RPG. If I was a sailor on one of those ships, there would be no chance in frozen hell I would fire back on a pirate to protect some rich dude's shit on board that's probably insured anyway. You can be as gun-ho about this as you want from your armchair, I'm throwing my hands in the air and letting the pirates go with the cargo.
Except the pirates, the Somali ones, want you. They want to take you hostage and get a ransom for you. If they don't get ransom your ass is toast.
Algebra is easy.. it's all about getting X alone in the corner, so you can find his value. Geometry should go, along with the foreign language requirement.
More poets and philosophers. I heard Donald Trump talking about this just the other day.
Actually, it was Nancy Pelozi that advised all Americans to go on welfare (government dependency) and become writers and poets. Because all good liberals know that what we need, more than anything, is more misspelled crap bereft of any grammar and / or punctuation whatsoever, flowing out of America's basements.
These days its called 'blogging' and apparently its a career path.
How about a course in logic, particularly Boolean logic? I agree, very few people really need to understand logarithms or even polynomials. But learning how to think, and solve problems is important.
I was never any good at math. But I did really good in logic. I guess all those numbers just confuse me, in logic at least there are only 2 numbers so I got to focus on the algebra and reasoning components!!
Once you've robbed me, I have the right ot tell anyone of my past experience. Explain why you believe there's a right to censor my discussing my past just because you adversely affected it.
Well yeah once you've been robbed now you are a victim. For the rest of your life.
Do the crime, do the time, that should be the end of it.
The West's obsession with adding people to lists, especially "sex offender registries" which make it nearly impossible to live in any city environment, really amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. If you're still supposedly a threat to society then you should still be in jail. If you're OK to be released from jail then you've paid your dues to society and you should regain all of your rights.
What about the victim's freedom of speech? If you have committed a crime against someone then don't they have a right to say that you committed a crime against them without being censored? Seems the real victim here is the truth.
Uhh... except, of course, that the risk of recidivism is disproportionately high because this is a manifestation of a mental illness that is generally not treated, at all. Why do you think I should have no right to know that a predator is living next door to my daughters? "Done the time" is clearly an inadequate treatment for metnal illness, and given the rate of recidivism, parents have a right to now so that they can protect their children.
Some people seem to believe that its like 'treating gays', that being a 'sex offender' is just what that person is and curing them is impossible because its not a disorder. Like being gay.
You do not have to believe that Hillary Clinton is pure evil from the lowest depths of hell. Just that she is a self centered liar looking out only for herself. Or that anything she does for others is ancillary to getting hers in the process.
wow, so she's TOTALLY different from any other politician????
There is no doubt that McAfee speaks the truth here, but what he doesn't reference is that while the NSA and the FBI are retarded, there are huge numbers of folks in the US who do not subscribe to that policy and HAVE kept up on security and can spin the US Gov'mint up to speed quickly when the need arises, and it will. The US has traditionally been a late riser when it comes to open warfare, we mince in and get bloodied and then, come together in an economic juggernaut, uniting seemingly perpetual fighting sides of our country against any external threat, much like a bickering family consolidates against any outsider. Then when the threat is gone we go back to feuding like dysfunctional hamsters. I just hope we don't wait too long in the face of this more subtle threat...
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."
"Regardless of the provenance of the quote, Yamamoto believed that Japan could not win a protracted war with the US. Moreover, he seems to have believed that the Pearl Harbor attack had become a blunder even though he was the person who came up with the idea of a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. It is recorded that "Yamamoto alone" (while all his staff members were celebrating) spent the day after Pearl Harbor "sunk in apparent depression". He is also known to have been upset by the bungling of the Foreign Ministry which led to the attack happening while the countries were technically at peace, thus making the incident an unprovoked sneak attack that would certainly enrage the Americans."
The biggest blunder, though, was attacking Pearl Harbor while the US aircraft carriers were at sea.
The British spy agency GCHQ, with the knowledge and apparent cooperation of the NSA, acquired the capability to covertly exploit security vulnerabilities in 13 different models of firewalls made by Juniper Networks.
I hope we all understand now what “acquired the capability” means. The NSA planted a programmer within Jupiter Networks. The was no other way to “acquire" this capability.
Except that he just referenced a claim that the British acquired the capability by being told about the backdoor, and he then goes on to say that the Chinese acquired the same capability by discovering the backdoor through reverse-engineering. So there is another way after all.
Which raises the following possibilities, each just as plausible as "The NSA planted a programmer":
1. The Chinese planted a programmer, and the NSA or GCHQ discovered it via reverse-engineering and shared it with the other. 2. The Chinese planted a programmer, and the NSA discovered it during review of source-code shared as a condition of purchasing for sensitive government use. 3. A programmer was paid to create the backdoor by a non-governmental entity interested in corporate espionage, and all the state actors discovered it via reverse-engineering. 4. The backdoor was created unintentionally (e.g. failure to remove white-box test code before going to production), and all the actors discovered it via reverse-engineering and/or source review.
Basically, John presents no evidence whatsoever for his claim that the NSA caused the backdoor.
Ultimately, I do agree with his point he does make is that code inspections can catch and close both intentional and unintentional backdoors. But the rest of the article is FUD.
If the NSA discovered the backdoor on their own and didn't share it with Juniper so they could close it, that's arguably worse than if the NSA planted it themselves. At least if they planted it themselves, they could convince themselves that it's buried too deep to be discovered, but if they stumbled upon it themselves, then they *knew* it was discoverable and that it's likely that others had discovered it too.
If the NSA discovered a backdoor planted by GCHQ and the NSA then closed that backdoor that'd be in violation of the 5 eyes arrangement.
And don't forget, anything that GCHQ learns about American Citizens by spying on them through that backdoor would be shared right back to the NSA. So its win-win.
If you encountered someone who was arachnophobic would it be appropriate for you to wave spiders in front of them? Personally, I'd feel like such an act was contemptible and lacking in compassion for someone with a phobia. Sure, its valid to say that someone with arachnophobia should probably be helped to overcome their irrational terror of spiders and sure, some level of desensitization and gradual exposure to spider-related experiences might be an appropriate part of that treatment.
If the term 'homophobe' were appropriate then the same standard should apply. Gays shouldn't flaunt their gayness in front of someone who is homophobic; that would be totally inconsiderate. Sure, someone who is homophobic should be helped to overcome their irrational fear and sure desensitization might be an appropriate part of that treatment. But flaunting gayness in front of them and telling them "JUST ACCEPT US!!!" is definitely NOT appropriate.
Otherwise, if you don't agree that 'homophobes' should be treated with respect and dignity, then 'phobe' is NOT an appropriate term for what is going on here so you should stop using it.
Surely this makes sense even to the most ardent SJW?
If these people really are homo*phobes* then they are the VICTIMS here!
What's the moral question on gay sex? In all the years of debate, I've never seen anything other than "God said not to." Also some specious arguments that it leads to child rape and animal rape.
It doesn't really matter what the moral question is. That some people believe there is one is a personal issue for them to deal with.
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This reminds me of when Caldera systems sued IBM, thinking that it could get an easy win. Ha! Guess who had $50 million to waste on lawyers. Not Caldera.
Indeed.
Apple can throw more money at this than the entire FBI budget. Heck, Apple can throw more money at this than the FBI will have budgeted to them for the next 10 years.
I hope you die horribly.
Hey don't bully 12 year olds online!
The problem here is that a city, even in the Bay area, needs low and mid wage workers too in order to function.
Think about it this way: How is the Bay Area tech industry going to function when there's nobody left to staff their Starbucks'?
you'd think that homeless people can't staff a Starbucks!
No matter their wealth, the kings and castles rely on the services of the townsfolk. Either they all grow together or the kingdom declines.
As Machiavelli said; you (the Prince) should always take care of the people before you take care of the nobles. You can make and unmake nobles daily but you are stuck with the people (and if they come after you, you are in big trouble)!"
Let me see if I understand what you're saying: The cooling system's power supply is not technically part of the cooling system?
Does that mean that the power supply in my computer is technically not part of my computer?
No, sure the power supply is part of the cooling system but, purely in the context of the cooling system, if its powered down then it isn't doing anything. If it isn't doing anything then, technically, in the context of the cooling system alone, nothing happened. This doesn't include side effects of the cooling system doing nothing and, therefore, having nothing happen to it.
Surely thats obvious.
"The problem wasn't the cooling system, it was the fact that the cooling system didn't work!"
No, nothing happened to the cooling system. If they are powered down thats the very definition of 'nothing happening'!
A tiny smart bomb, aimed at the Supreme Commander's location could save the lives and well-being of countless deprived citizens of N. Korea. It might be the greatest humanitarian action of this century. It would cost almost nothing to accomplish. Or we could do what we always do and kill citizens and soldiers by the thousands while leaving evil kings and dictators to continue their course. Even if our smart bomb missed the little guy it would give him something to think about and an incentive for him to change his attitude.
Ok lets see.
Millions of starving people kept in check by an oppressive regime. Remove repressive regime. Whats millions of starving people, who now have no overwhelming political or military control directing their lives, going to do? What could possibly go wrong? My guess is they'd eat one another. Then eat the South Koreans, Chinese and Russians.
...China needs a relatively stable NK (that doesn't actually carry out stupid shit) in order to maintain a buffer.
This brings up a fun question:
A "buffer" against... what? Puny South Korea? A Japan that is too demographically old/rich/disinterested in China to bother invading? The Philippines? Mongolia?
Historically, I get it - post-WWII, fears of Japan and such were rather justified. But it's been what, 70 years and a metric shitload of geopolitical changes? Pretty sure the whole buffer idea is a bit, shall we say, outdated.
The main reason for the existance of NK was to break up Korea and prevent a unified Korea from being an economic powerhouse dominating North Asia.
People look at NK today and its a basket case. But if Korea hadn't been broken up and that unified Korea had been under an economic management such as developed in South Korea, the agricultural wealth of the south and the mineral wealth of the north would have resulted in a nation which would be able to challenge even China, would have dwarfed Japan and would have been seen by the Soviet Union as a threat to their Eastern maritimes. South Korea has been doing pretty well industrially, great shipbuilding and other heavy industries. But thats nothing compared to what Korea COULD have been.
Consequently it was in the interest of all the regional powers, including the USA, to ensure that Korea was broken up.
For the Chinese, NK isn't a buffer in the normal sense of the world; its a handicap they are imposing on Korea as a whole.
I guess you haven't seen one of the televised debates lately.
You mean those reality tv shows?
Currently we mine 1-1.5% of the existing supply of gold annually.
That means that unless your economy grows less than that, or mining rates go up significantly, you are basically having deflation: Your gold becomes worth more over time.
Then the first asteroid ever prospected is found to have more gold and precious metals than have been mined from the Earth in all history.
Get Gatling guns on one ship, the next pirate crew will show up with an RPG. If I was a sailor on one of those ships, there would be no chance in frozen hell I would fire back on a pirate to protect some rich dude's shit on board that's probably insured anyway. You can be as gun-ho about this as you want from your armchair, I'm throwing my hands in the air and letting the pirates go with the cargo.
Except the pirates, the Somali ones, want you. They want to take you hostage and get a ransom for you. If they don't get ransom your ass is toast.
Now do you want to defend yourself?
Algebra is easy.. it's all about getting X alone in the corner, so you can find his value. Geometry should go, along with the foreign language requirement.
Without geometry how will you find X's corner??
More poets and philosophers. I heard Donald Trump talking about this just the other day.
Actually, it was Nancy Pelozi that advised all Americans to go on welfare (government dependency) and become writers and poets. Because all good liberals know that what we need, more than anything, is more misspelled crap bereft of any grammar and / or punctuation whatsoever, flowing out of America's basements.
These days its called 'blogging' and apparently its a career path.
How about a course in logic, particularly Boolean logic? I agree, very few people really need to understand logarithms or even polynomials. But learning how to think, and solve problems is important.
I was never any good at math. But I did really good in logic. I guess all those numbers just confuse me, in logic at least there are only 2 numbers so I got to focus on the algebra and reasoning components!!
the US is a country spending nearly 1.4 trillion dollars per year on defense. It dwarfs the spending of the next 7 largest countries combined.
I wonder how much of that is actually spent on defense and how much is spent on offense
try unlocking mass shooter Syed Rizwan Farook
Good luck unlocking a dead man.
You'd think they would have preserved his fingers...
Once you've robbed me, I have the right ot tell anyone of my past experience. Explain why you believe there's a right to censor my discussing my past just because you adversely affected it.
Well yeah once you've been robbed now you are a victim. For the rest of your life.
Do the crime, do the time, that should be the end of it.
The West's obsession with adding people to lists, especially "sex offender registries" which make it nearly impossible to live in any city environment, really amounts to cruel and unusual punishment. If you're still supposedly a threat to society then you should still be in jail. If you're OK to be released from jail then you've paid your dues to society and you should regain all of your rights.
What about the victim's freedom of speech? If you have committed a crime against someone then don't they have a right to say that you committed a crime against them without being censored? Seems the real victim here is the truth.
Because once a victim, always a victim. Right?
Uhh ... except, of course, that the risk of recidivism is disproportionately high because this is a manifestation of a mental illness that is generally not treated, at all. Why do you think I should have no right to know that a predator is living next door to my daughters? "Done the time" is clearly an inadequate treatment for metnal illness, and given the rate of recidivism, parents have a right to now so that they can protect their children.
Some people seem to believe that its like 'treating gays', that being a 'sex offender' is just what that person is and curing them is impossible because its not a disorder. Like being gay.
You do not have to believe that Hillary Clinton is pure evil from the lowest depths of hell. Just that she is a self centered liar looking out only for herself. Or that anything she does for others is ancillary to getting hers in the process.
wow, so she's TOTALLY different from any other politician????
Now we only need some mass shootings and a song on schools saluting the Chinese flag.
And Chinese national anthem on every. single. fucking. sporting event.
There is no doubt that McAfee speaks the truth here, but what he doesn't reference is that while the NSA and the FBI are retarded, there are huge numbers of folks in the US who do not subscribe to that policy and HAVE kept up on security and can spin the US Gov'mint up to speed quickly when the need arises, and it will. The US has traditionally been a late riser when it comes to open warfare, we mince in and get bloodied and then, come together in an economic juggernaut, uniting seemingly perpetual fighting sides of our country against any external threat, much like a bickering family consolidates against any outsider. Then when the threat is gone we go back to feuding like dysfunctional hamsters. I just hope we don't wait too long in the face of this more subtle threat...
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve."
"Regardless of the provenance of the quote, Yamamoto believed that Japan could not win a protracted war with the US. Moreover, he seems to have believed that the Pearl Harbor attack had become a blunder even though he was the person who came up with the idea of a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. It is recorded that "Yamamoto alone" (while all his staff members were celebrating) spent the day after Pearl Harbor "sunk in apparent depression". He is also known to have been upset by the bungling of the Foreign Ministry which led to the attack happening while the countries were technically at peace, thus making the incident an unprovoked sneak attack that would certainly enrage the Americans."
The biggest blunder, though, was attacking Pearl Harbor while the US aircraft carriers were at sea.
From TFA:
The British spy agency GCHQ, with the knowledge and apparent cooperation of the NSA, acquired the capability to covertly exploit security vulnerabilities in 13 different models of firewalls made by Juniper Networks.
I hope we all understand now what “acquired the capability” means. The NSA planted a programmer within Jupiter Networks. The was no other way to “acquire" this capability.
Except that he just referenced a claim that the British acquired the capability by being told about the backdoor, and he then goes on to say that the Chinese acquired the same capability by discovering the backdoor through reverse-engineering. So there is another way after all.
Which raises the following possibilities, each just as plausible as "The NSA planted a programmer":
1. The Chinese planted a programmer, and the NSA or GCHQ discovered it via reverse-engineering and shared it with the other.
2. The Chinese planted a programmer, and the NSA discovered it during review of source-code shared as a condition of purchasing for sensitive government use.
3. A programmer was paid to create the backdoor by a non-governmental entity interested in corporate espionage, and all the state actors discovered it via reverse-engineering.
4. The backdoor was created unintentionally (e.g. failure to remove white-box test code before going to production), and all the actors discovered it via reverse-engineering and/or source review.
Basically, John presents no evidence whatsoever for his claim that the NSA caused the backdoor.
Ultimately, I do agree with his point he does make is that code inspections can catch and close both intentional and unintentional backdoors. But the rest of the article is FUD.
If the NSA discovered the backdoor on their own and didn't share it with Juniper so they could close it, that's arguably worse than if the NSA planted it themselves. At least if they planted it themselves, they could convince themselves that it's buried too deep to be discovered, but if they stumbled upon it themselves, then they *knew* it was discoverable and that it's likely that others had discovered it too.
If the NSA discovered a backdoor planted by GCHQ and the NSA then closed that backdoor that'd be in violation of the 5 eyes arrangement.
And don't forget, anything that GCHQ learns about American Citizens by spying on them through that backdoor would be shared right back to the NSA. So its win-win.
Lets put it this way.
If you encountered someone who was arachnophobic would it be appropriate for you to wave spiders in front of them? Personally, I'd feel like such an act was contemptible and lacking in compassion for someone with a phobia. Sure, its valid to say that someone with arachnophobia should probably be helped to overcome their irrational terror of spiders and sure, some level of desensitization and gradual exposure to spider-related experiences might be an appropriate part of that treatment.
If the term 'homophobe' were appropriate then the same standard should apply. Gays shouldn't flaunt their gayness in front of someone who is homophobic; that would be totally inconsiderate. Sure, someone who is homophobic should be helped to overcome their irrational fear and sure desensitization might be an appropriate part of that treatment. But flaunting gayness in front of them and telling them "JUST ACCEPT US!!!" is definitely NOT appropriate.
Otherwise, if you don't agree that 'homophobes' should be treated with respect and dignity, then 'phobe' is NOT an appropriate term for what is going on here so you should stop using it.
Surely this makes sense even to the most ardent SJW?
If these people really are homo*phobes* then they are the VICTIMS here!
What's the moral question on gay sex? In all the years of debate, I've never seen anything other than "God said not to." Also some specious arguments that it leads to child rape and animal rape.
It doesn't really matter what the moral question is. That some people believe there is one is a personal issue for them to deal with.
But its not a phobia.
To call it 'homophobia' devalues 'phobia'.