Mobile phones have 2 major constraints that desktops and servers largely lack: Space and heat. There simply isn't that much area for memory chips, so you can't just stick in extras. There's also little to no space around the chips, so no airflow, and thus very poor cooling. The denser the chip you chose the worse the heating issues become. A lower capacity chip can be placed closer to the processor, reducing latency and vastly simplifying board layout. Add price gouging on top of that and you get the current situation in mobile: low memory for high cost.
/. uses a small subset of UTF-8. It whitelisted certain characters, and then never updated the whitelist. The whitelist was implemented after people abused the right-to-left control characters to mess with the page layout.
Cesium fountain clocks last about 20 years, some a bit longer, before they need to get parts replaced for maintenance. The standard is transferred to a backup during this time, then transferred back. Improving on the lifetime of the individual clocks would help more than improving on the accuracy of the clocks.
AFAICT, most of the people who disable JS do so via NoScript (or a similar addon for other browsers) so they can allow it on a per-site basis as needed.
Well, let's read the summary: "Atlassian's turnkey solution for enterprise single sign-on and secure user authentication" So Atlassian is some company, and it's a single sign-on/authentication system used in businesses. And it lets a remote attacker take control of the servers it runs on, and possibly other computers in the business (via Active Directory, which is Microsoft's system administration/management package.)
The current state of the art can produce bug free (or largely bug free) code, it's just incredibly expensive to do so. It takes a huge amount of extra time to find all the bugs, and security bugs in particular have a tendency to be extremely subtle. A government can pay a large number of people to do nothing but search for security bugs, while a company can't afford that extra expense and many open source developers don't bother. Many eyes make all bugs shallow, but you need the eyes actively looking for bugs, and to have brains that can recognize very subtle errors.
The problem of security is primarily economic: It's too expensive to verify the security of software for most people who create software, so the security isn't verified. It's not too expensive for a government with vast resources to find holes in the security of software, so governments will expend vast resources to find holes in the security of software.
That's where OpenBSD's practices come in. Regular audits, changing which developers audit which parts of the code, a focus on security over all other concerns, etc. There doesn't have to be a loss in functionality to get good security, but the increased development resources needed mean that there often is such a loss. Something like Linux is a compromise position, it's more likely to be secure than a closed-source system where only approved parties can audit the code, but less likely to be secure than an OpenBSD style system where huge amounts of time are spent auditing the code.
Perhaps a lottery to see if you get to have kids. Over time only people with the most luck will be born, and eventually an incredibly lucky person or people will be born. They can go on the mission to insure success!
Which is already possible with the normal courts. Request to wiretap John Does #1-5, ask for the court order to be sealed for the duration it allows the wiretapping, etc. No need to have a secret court just to keep operational secrets secret.
http://rtftechnologies.org/physics/linac.htm is one of several examples of hobbyist-built particle accelerators. CW generators are pretty easy to build, the biggest issue tends to be corona suppression.
AFAIK they will bring it at least partway up the mountain, but they'll certainly stop at every interesting bit along the way. The rover is there to look at the interesting bits, climbing the mountain is just a way to get to some of them.
Actually, the original does make some sense, as it's possible to use github but not use it regularly. You could have a period of having a github account and putting up the occasional project/change, but not using it on a regular basis.
"According to another top official also involved with the program, the NSA made an enormous breakthrough several years ago in its ability to cryptanalyze, or break, unfathomably complex encryption systems employed by not only governments around the world but also many average computer users in the US. The upshot, according to this official: 'Everybody’s a target; everybody with communication is a target.'" from here.
That could be FUD, but I'd not trust a key size that small for RSA anyway.
If the NSA isn't doing anything wrong then they must not have anything to hide. Why haven't they declassified everything? Why is there even a classification system, if the only reason to hide things is because you're doing evil things?
Easy example: Someone with a burner phone is probably calling someone without one. Trace the locations of all calls made to the non-burner number, track those locations. Since pretty much every (large) retailer tracks phones by MIN (Mobile Identification Number, the last part of the international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) associated with all cell phones) to help track inventory, and records the type of payment used on all sales receipts it's not unlikely that the NSA can discover which phones were purchased with cash. They can then track these, and correlate patterns of numbers dialed by a succession of phones purchased with cash. Since cash purchases don't automatically show up in a database like credit/debit/check purchases do, it's likely possible to correlate purchases of cell phones showing up in a store's inventory management system which don't have corresponding credit/debit/check authorization checks made. Combined with the high-rate of in-store activation (most stores will activate the phone for you/help you set it up) it's conceivable to track all cash purchases that weren't immediately activated, and correlate with phones activated outside a short window from any cash purchase. Thinking of ways it's possible to track such things is really quite easy. There are almost certainly more things I've not thought of that the people at the NSA have. I'm certain they're doing those things, because it would take monumental stupidity not to. The NSA goons are malicious and anti-American, but they're clearly not stupid.
They cannot change the law whenever they want. "Article. V.
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate."
The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America can ONLY be changed via the process set out in Article V. Other laws can NEVER supersede it. The Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and if it says something is illegal then it's illegal, no matter what other laws may say.
They already got the plans for the F-35. That's a terrible plane that it a horrifically expensive money sink and under performs on almost every aspect.If we give them the F-22 plans too we can watch their pilots die from hypoxia!
Not exactly. If we accept that there's no globally valid frame of reference (via General Relativity) then no, it didn't already happen, at least not from our frame of reference. It has happened in some frames of reference, and after we see it happen will still not have happened in yet more frames of reference. But for us, it hasn't happened yet.
They don't suck. Or, to be more specific, they suck the same as any other body of their mass. So things can orbit them quite nicely, just like things can orbit normal stars, galaxies, etc.
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Mobile phones have 2 major constraints that desktops and servers largely lack: Space and heat. There simply isn't that much area for memory chips, so you can't just stick in extras. There's also little to no space around the chips, so no airflow, and thus very poor cooling. The denser the chip you chose the worse the heating issues become. A lower capacity chip can be placed closer to the processor, reducing latency and vastly simplifying board layout.
Add price gouging on top of that and you get the current situation in mobile: low memory for high cost.
F-Droid for open-source apps, including ad blockers. BotBrew for a debian-like package management system.
/. uses a small subset of UTF-8. It whitelisted certain characters, and then never updated the whitelist. The whitelist was implemented after people abused the right-to-left control characters to mess with the page layout.
These were angular acceleration sensors, not linear. Testing on the ground would involve tilting the rocket.
Cesium fountain clocks last about 20 years, some a bit longer, before they need to get parts replaced for maintenance. The standard is transferred to a backup during this time, then transferred back. Improving on the lifetime of the individual clocks would help more than improving on the accuracy of the clocks.
AFAICT, most of the people who disable JS do so via NoScript (or a similar addon for other browsers) so they can allow it on a per-site basis as needed.
Well, let's read the summary:
"Atlassian's turnkey solution for enterprise single sign-on and secure user authentication"
So Atlassian is some company, and it's a single sign-on/authentication system used in businesses.
And it lets a remote attacker take control of the servers it runs on, and possibly other computers in the business (via Active Directory, which is Microsoft's system administration/management package.)
The current state of the art can produce bug free (or largely bug free) code, it's just incredibly expensive to do so. It takes a huge amount of extra time to find all the bugs, and security bugs in particular have a tendency to be extremely subtle. A government can pay a large number of people to do nothing but search for security bugs, while a company can't afford that extra expense and many open source developers don't bother. Many eyes make all bugs shallow, but you need the eyes actively looking for bugs, and to have brains that can recognize very subtle errors.
The problem of security is primarily economic: It's too expensive to verify the security of software for most people who create software, so the security isn't verified. It's not too expensive for a government with vast resources to find holes in the security of software, so governments will expend vast resources to find holes in the security of software.
That's where OpenBSD's practices come in. Regular audits, changing which developers audit which parts of the code, a focus on security over all other concerns, etc. There doesn't have to be a loss in functionality to get good security, but the increased development resources needed mean that there often is such a loss. Something like Linux is a compromise position, it's more likely to be secure than a closed-source system where only approved parties can audit the code, but less likely to be secure than an OpenBSD style system where huge amounts of time are spent auditing the code.
Perhaps a lottery to see if you get to have kids. Over time only people with the most luck will be born, and eventually an incredibly lucky person or people will be born. They can go on the mission to insure success!
Which is already possible with the normal courts. Request to wiretap John Does #1-5, ask for the court order to be sealed for the duration it allows the wiretapping, etc. No need to have a secret court just to keep operational secrets secret.
http://rtftechnologies.org/physics/linac.htm is one of several examples of hobbyist-built particle accelerators. CW generators are pretty easy to build, the biggest issue tends to be corona suppression.
AFAIK they will bring it at least partway up the mountain, but they'll certainly stop at every interesting bit along the way. The rover is there to look at the interesting bits, climbing the mountain is just a way to get to some of them.
It's linked in the article as a jpeg.
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpeg/PIA16919.jpg
Actually, the original does make some sense, as it's possible to use github but not use it regularly. You could have a period of having a github account and putting up the occasional project/change, but not using it on a regular basis.
"According to another top official also involved with the program, the NSA made an enormous breakthrough several years ago in its ability to cryptanalyze, or break, unfathomably complex encryption systems employed by not only governments around the world but also many average computer users in the US. The upshot, according to this official: 'Everybody’s a target; everybody with communication is a target.'" from here.
That could be FUD, but I'd not trust a key size that small for RSA anyway.
If the NSA isn't doing anything wrong then they must not have anything to hide. Why haven't they declassified everything? Why is there even a classification system, if the only reason to hide things is because you're doing evil things?
Easy example: Someone with a burner phone is probably calling someone without one. Trace the locations of all calls made to the non-burner number, track those locations.
Since pretty much every (large) retailer tracks phones by MIN (Mobile Identification Number, the last part of the international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) associated with all cell phones) to help track inventory, and records the type of payment used on all sales receipts it's not unlikely that the NSA can discover which phones were purchased with cash. They can then track these, and correlate patterns of numbers dialed by a succession of phones purchased with cash.
Since cash purchases don't automatically show up in a database like credit/debit/check purchases do, it's likely possible to correlate purchases of cell phones showing up in a store's inventory management system which don't have corresponding credit/debit/check authorization checks made. Combined with the high-rate of in-store activation (most stores will activate the phone for you/help you set it up) it's conceivable to track all cash purchases that weren't immediately activated, and correlate with phones activated outside a short window from any cash purchase.
Thinking of ways it's possible to track such things is really quite easy. There are almost certainly more things I've not thought of that the people at the NSA have. I'm certain they're doing those things, because it would take monumental stupidity not to. The NSA goons are malicious and anti-American, but they're clearly not stupid.
Well, the cornea is very, very transparent. And all the layers are held together quite well, so finding a distinct layer likely is quite difficult.
Also Freenet has been around for quite a while, and should work well as a censorship resistant communications medium.
They cannot change the law whenever they want.
"Article. V.
The Congress, whenever two thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary, shall propose Amendments to this Constitution, or, on the Application of the Legislatures of two thirds of the several States, shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments, which, in either Case, shall be valid to all Intents and Purposes, as Part of this Constitution, when ratified by the Legislatures of three fourths of the several States, or by Conventions in three fourths thereof, as the one or the other Mode of Ratification may be proposed by the Congress; Provided that no Amendment which may be made prior to the Year One thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any Manner affect the first and fourth Clauses in the Ninth Section of the first Article; and that no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate."
The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America can ONLY be changed via the process set out in Article V. Other laws can NEVER supersede it. The Constitution is the supreme law of the land, and if it says something is illegal then it's illegal, no matter what other laws may say.
Well, it's the F-35, of course the plans don't make a working plane! Maybe they can figure out how to get one to perform to spec.
They already got the plans for the F-35. That's a terrible plane that it a horrifically expensive money sink and under performs on almost every aspect.If we give them the F-22 plans too we can watch their pilots die from hypoxia!
Not exactly. If we accept that there's no globally valid frame of reference (via General Relativity) then no, it didn't already happen, at least not from our frame of reference. It has happened in some frames of reference, and after we see it happen will still not have happened in yet more frames of reference. But for us, it hasn't happened yet.
They don't suck. Or, to be more specific, they suck the same as any other body of their mass. So things can orbit them quite nicely, just like things can orbit normal stars, galaxies, etc.