is for the next person who gets arrested and has their phone subjected to such hacking measures is to simply challenge it in court and demand to see everything about the extraction / bypass process.
After all, since you ARE hacking into the phone, we need to verify it's doing nothing nefarious and / or corrupting the data contained within it.
Much like how the LE Community will drop charges without revealing how / when / where they are using Stingrays, they'll drop the charges before they're forced to show their hand here as well.
You know their subscriber base has done nothing but increased in the past decade, yet they no longer need to throttle folks. This can only mean one of two things:
1) They didn't need to throttle back then either, regardless of the excuse they used. or 2) They've spent the money to upgrade their network to handle the increased traffic ( LOL )
for power hungry applications as they don't really handle thermal dissipation as well as their full size workstation brethren. Not to mention the high end hardware that can deliver the power you need will eat a battery so fast it's shocking.
Since the damn thing is going to have to be plugged in at all times anyway ( with the added bonus of that tiny ass screen ) why get a laptop for this sort of work ? ( I use CAD and DCC software and I'm sure as hell not going to do it on a 17" monitor on a road trip )
Additionally, I've never really liked laptops as their upgrade possibilities are extremely limited ( if they exist at all ).
than the GPS enabled " digital " license plate California wants to roll out other than the different spin put on it.
China does it = Evil Surveillance State California does it = No way we'll ever use it for nefarious purposes ! We pinky swear ! We're the good guys !:|
âoe I'll keep my smartphone and when I want privacy I will put the phone in a bag which is effectively a Faraday cage as well as a sound insulator. But thanks for the advice, you sad little paranoiac. âoe
Q. Do you think the following statement is true or false? “Buying a single company stock usually provides a safer return than a stock mutual fund.”
A: I work in IT, not the investment business. Considering this is one of those things you REALLY don't want to screw up, I have a financial advisor who is a fiduciary who answers these questions for me. I meet with this person bi-annually to discuss where we are and where we need to be in order for me to retire at 55. Based on the fact that I dump a considerable amount of my salary into retirement accounts ( and have done so for many years ) he is confident that I will be able to retire at my current planned age without any issues.
Thus, the short answer to these type questions are: Talk to my Finance Advisor.
If you're going to be competitive on the World Stage with Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and the like, you're first going to have to solve your education problem.
The country that will win this race has already figured out that they need a highly educated population to get there.
Period.
You don't get there by putting entire generations into debt so deep that they drown in it before their lives even get started. You don't get there with the piss-poor system we have in place today where only the rich have a realistic chance of getting such an education en masse. You don't get there when kids don't want to do well in school because they get ostracized for it. It isn't " cool " to be smart these days.
While difficult to do, the US needs to scrap the current model of our education system and go with one that will produce what we're looking for. Look at what is working in other countries and use their model if need be. Maybe reign in that defense budget a bit. Take the billions you were going to spend on yet another stealth bomber or aircraft carrier and put it towards something a bit more useful. ( I mean, damn, how many bombers and carriers do we really need ? )
Simply wishing for a thing doesn't get you there. You have to put in a serious effort first. ( Keyword: Serious. Not the shit-show we have today )
We will not militarize man-made islands in the South China Sea - China We will not consider a regime change for your country - USA I didn't inhale - Bill Clinton No new taxes - George Bush Sr Iraq has WMD - George Bush Jr We don't spy on American Citizens - NSA If you like the health care plan you have, you can keep it - Obama Cigarette smoking is no more ' addictive ' than coffee, tea or Twinkies - Big Tobacco
Man this list can go on forever, but you get the point. Trust isn't one of Googles strong points in the eyes of the public. There's too much money at stake NOT to be evil.
That " anonymous " survey they took is anything but. ( Like the ones my own company demands we take annually asking how amazing we think the company is )
They way they'll " fix " the pay problem is to fire all those who are complaining about the pay. Next survey will show a dramatic increase in the number of " happy " employees who think their pay is too generous.
Because of this amazing turn around, some high level executive will get an amazing bonus for doing such a great job for corporate morale !
"Of course that's true. But the point was, the narrative given assumed that the job market could only go up from where it was 30 years ago. Instead, it's much harder to find a job with qualifications because now everyone has a degree."
It's much harder to find a job with qualifications because companies went completely stupid when they decide what " qualifications " you should have for even a mediocre job.
Example: Executive Janitor
Our Ideal Candidate:
Fluent in English, Spanish, French and Swahili Must possess PH.D or fifteen+ years experience in some field we've never even heard of. 5+ Years coding experience in $not_yet_invented language preferred 10+ years of making coffee for ludicrous pay level executives preferred Willingness to work excessive hours, no OT, lots of travel, on call 24/7 Smartphone provided, so we can track you at all times. Company car provided . . . . hahahahaha no. You'll be using your own car.
Pay Range: $35k - $55k depending on qualifications
Why would they name their files to so closely match official Windows files KNOWING the first thoughts anyone will have will be along the lines of trojan, malware, virus ?
Why not name the damn things to reflect the program that installed them ?
The problem with trickling out the documents over such a long period of time is that people ultimately get bored or complacent with it all and pay little attention to it. It's human nature.
Think of the nightly news. It's full of non-stop murder and mayhem every single day and most of us don't even blink an eye at it anymore.
The Catch-22 part of the problem is this:
If you released it all en masse, many will raise hell for a few weeks then promptly forget about it as soon as the next tragedy or engineered distraction comes along. Either way, the information becomes irrelevant soon enough.
Personally, I think they should just release the cache and let folks decide for ourselves what we think of it all instead of continuing to dangle that carrot. Though, folks like The Guardian or The Intercept love to have their name in the headlines from time to time so folks remember they exist, so we'll probably be seeing bits and pieces of this forever.
I see little reason not to as the Government has had YEARS to pull folks from the field in the event the unredacted documents put anyone in harms way. If they haven't, then it tells me they're not concerned about it as they claim to be.
" This is the first time I've heard of this. My impression was that you get assigned to some role, and you pick up whatever skills you use in that role. "
Kindof. ( May also vary between Branch of service )
Recruiters are pressured to fill critical positions first and they will always try to steer you towards them if they can.
However, as long as you score well enough on the ASVAB test AND can meet the physical fitness and other requirements, AND you can be patient, you can pretty much choose whatever you want.
Most civilian jobs have a Military counterpart, but the opposite isn't always true. ( There isn't a big demand for helicopter door gunners outside of the service for example. )
If you know where your interests will be upon leaving the military, make sure you choose a rating / profession that will train you in those skills and you'll be that much better off when you rejoin the civilian world.
Realize, however, that some advanced fields will require longer terms of enlistment due to the extra time you will spend in school learning the skills to do the job.
Better idea, give them a two year education free of charge ( maintain a minimum gpa to qualify ) vs giving them cash that will be wasted on stupid shit that folks in the 18-21 range tend to buy with free money.
Also, noteworthy, give the Military a few years and they will train you with whatever skills you want. Choose a skill path which has a civilian counterpart and you're good to go.
Unless I'm mistaken, the whole reason folks are blaming / going after the guns instead of the person behind it is due to the difficulty of predicting who is going to snap and go on a rampage.
Did California just magically fix that little problem and can now identify " potential shooters " ?
I also don't see where bribing folks to behave is going to end well. This is one of those things where throwing money at it isn't going to work.
Last time an idiot in front of me at a light caused the same problems for similar reasons, ( he was playing with his phone and didn't notice the light went green after several seconds had passed ) I hit the horn to get his attention.
His reaction ?
HOW DARE they honk at me ! Let's get angry about it !
He was ready to fight because he got honked at for being a total idiot in the first place.
IMO, they should start revoking licenses because if you're not going to pay attention, you have no business driving as you put every one on the road with you at risk.
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is for the next person who gets arrested and has their phone subjected to such hacking measures is to simply challenge it in court and demand to see everything about the extraction / bypass process.
After all, since you ARE hacking into the phone, we need to verify it's doing nothing nefarious and / or corrupting the data contained within it.
Much like how the LE Community will drop charges without revealing how / when / where they are using Stingrays, they'll drop the charges before they're forced to show their hand here as well.
I swear, on Slashdot, Trump & Hillary have become Godwin's Law 2.0
It is nearly impossible NOT to find a reference to one or both of these idiots in every single topic. Every Damned One. O.o
You know their subscriber base has done nothing but increased in the past decade, yet they no longer need to throttle folks.
This can only mean one of two things:
1) They didn't need to throttle back then either, regardless of the excuse they used.
or
2) They've spent the money to upgrade their network to handle the increased traffic ( LOL )
for power hungry applications as they don't really handle thermal dissipation as well as their full size workstation brethren.
Not to mention the high end hardware that can deliver the power you need will eat a battery so fast it's shocking.
Since the damn thing is going to have to be plugged in at all times anyway ( with the added bonus of that tiny ass screen ) why
get a laptop for this sort of work ? ( I use CAD and DCC software and I'm sure as hell not going to do it on a 17" monitor on a road trip )
Additionally, I've never really liked laptops as their upgrade possibilities are extremely limited ( if they exist at all ).
than the GPS enabled " digital " license plate California wants to roll out other than the different spin put on it.
China does it = Evil Surveillance State :|
California does it = No way we'll ever use it for nefarious purposes ! We pinky swear ! We're the good guys !
âoe I'll keep my smartphone and when I want privacy I will put the phone in a bag which is effectively a Faraday cage as well as a sound insulator.
But thanks for the advice, you sad little paranoiac. âoe
Pot, meet kettle.
Can you still get Windows 7 or are you stuck with W10 only ?
My guess is the latter.
" Customers demand the best graphics, full voice acting, more features than the previous games, and so forth. "
I think I would just settle for a fully finished, properly beta tested, bug-free experience without half the game being locked behind day one DLC.
when WAS the last Science friendly administration ?
Late 60's ?
like forcing folks to to give the government something to target if you say something they disagree with. :|
Q. Do you think the following statement is true or false?
“Buying a single company stock usually provides a safer return than a stock mutual fund.”
A: I work in IT, not the investment business. Considering this is one of those things you REALLY don't want to screw up, I have a financial advisor who is a fiduciary who answers these questions for me. I meet with this person bi-annually to discuss where we are and where we need to be in order for me to retire at 55. Based on the fact that I dump a considerable amount of my salary into retirement accounts ( and have done so for many years ) he is confident that I will be able to retire at my current planned age without any issues.
Thus, the short answer to these type questions are: Talk to my Finance Advisor.
If you're going to be competitive on the World Stage with Quantum Computing, Artificial Intelligence, and the like, you're first going to have to solve your education problem.
The country that will win this race has already figured out that they need a highly educated population to get there.
Period.
You don't get there by putting entire generations into debt so deep that they drown in it before their lives even get started.
You don't get there with the piss-poor system we have in place today where only the rich have a realistic chance of getting such an education en masse.
You don't get there when kids don't want to do well in school because they get ostracized for it. It isn't " cool " to be smart these days.
While difficult to do, the US needs to scrap the current model of our education system and go with one that will produce what we're looking for.
Look at what is working in other countries and use their model if need be. Maybe reign in that defense budget a bit. Take the billions you were going to
spend on yet another stealth bomber or aircraft carrier and put it towards something a bit more useful.
( I mean, damn, how many bombers and carriers do we really need ? )
Simply wishing for a thing doesn't get you there. You have to put in a serious effort first.
( Keyword: Serious. Not the shit-show we have today )
Rewards come later.
Veterans are killing themselves in significant numbers.
Likely due to the persistent conflicts the US has participated in since Desert Storm kicked off in the 90's.
We will not militarize man-made islands in the South China Sea - China
We will not consider a regime change for your country - USA
I didn't inhale - Bill Clinton
No new taxes - George Bush Sr
Iraq has WMD - George Bush Jr
We don't spy on American Citizens - NSA
If you like the health care plan you have, you can keep it - Obama
Cigarette smoking is no more ' addictive ' than coffee, tea or Twinkies - Big Tobacco
Man this list can go on forever, but you get the point. Trust isn't one of Googles strong points in the eyes of the public.
There's too much money at stake NOT to be evil.
That " anonymous " survey they took is anything but. ( Like the ones my own company demands we take annually asking how amazing we think the company is )
They way they'll " fix " the pay problem is to fire all those who are complaining about the pay. Next survey will show a dramatic increase in the number of " happy " employees who think their pay is too generous.
Because of this amazing turn around, some high level executive will get an amazing bonus for doing such a great job for corporate morale !
"Of course that's true. But the point was, the narrative given assumed that the job market could only go up from where it was 30 years ago. Instead, it's much harder to find a job with qualifications because now everyone has a degree."
It's much harder to find a job with qualifications because companies went completely stupid when they decide what " qualifications " you should have for even a mediocre job.
Example: Executive Janitor
Our Ideal Candidate:
Fluent in English, Spanish, French and Swahili
Must possess PH.D or fifteen+ years experience in some field we've never even heard of.
5+ Years coding experience in $not_yet_invented language preferred
10+ years of making coffee for ludicrous pay level executives preferred
Willingness to work excessive hours, no OT, lots of travel, on call 24/7
Smartphone provided, so we can track you at all times.
Company car provided . . . . hahahahaha no. You'll be using your own car.
Pay Range: $35k - $55k depending on qualifications
I didn't think very highly of neither The Force Awakens nor The Last Jedi. ( They sucked hard imo )
Because of that, I didn't even bother to go see Solo.
These need a decent story behind them and not just flashy CGI. Crap with a Star Wars title is still crap.
being aware and powerless isn't much different than having power, yet being unaware.
The end result is the same.
Nothing changes.
Why would they name their files to so closely match official Windows files KNOWING the first thoughts anyone will have will be along the lines of trojan, malware, virus ?
Why not name the damn things to reflect the program that installed them ?
Deliver on your promises or be prepared to reap the whirlwind that follows.
These days, people have little patience for waiting.
The problem with trickling out the documents over such a long period of time is that people ultimately get bored or complacent with it all and pay little attention to it. It's human nature.
Think of the nightly news.
It's full of non-stop murder and mayhem every single day and most of us don't even blink an eye at it anymore.
The Catch-22 part of the problem is this:
If you released it all en masse, many will raise hell for a few weeks then promptly forget about it as soon as the next tragedy or engineered distraction comes along. Either way, the information becomes irrelevant soon enough.
Personally, I think they should just release the cache and let folks decide for ourselves what we think of it all instead of continuing to dangle that carrot. Though, folks like The Guardian or The Intercept love to have their name in the headlines from time to time so folks remember they exist, so we'll probably be seeing bits and pieces of this forever.
I see little reason not to as the Government has had YEARS to pull folks from the field in the event the unredacted documents put anyone in harms way. If they haven't, then it tells me they're not concerned about it as they claim to be.
" This is the first time I've heard of this. My impression was that you get assigned to some role, and you pick up whatever skills you use in that role. "
Kindof. ( May also vary between Branch of service )
Recruiters are pressured to fill critical positions first and they will always try to steer you towards them if they can.
However, as long as you score well enough on the ASVAB test AND can meet the physical fitness and other requirements, AND you can be patient, you can pretty much choose whatever you want.
Most civilian jobs have a Military counterpart, but the opposite isn't always true. ( There isn't a big demand for helicopter door gunners outside of the service for example. )
If you know where your interests will be upon leaving the military, make sure you choose a rating / profession that will train you in those skills and you'll be that much better off when you rejoin the civilian world.
Realize, however, that some advanced fields will require longer terms of enlistment due to the extra time you will spend in school learning the skills to do the job.
Better idea, give them a two year education free of charge ( maintain a minimum gpa to qualify ) vs giving them cash that will be wasted on stupid shit that folks in the 18-21 range tend to buy with free money.
Also, noteworthy, give the Military a few years and they will train you with whatever skills you want. Choose a skill path which has a civilian counterpart and you're good to go.
Unless I'm mistaken, the whole reason folks are blaming / going after the guns instead of the person behind it is due to the difficulty of predicting who is going to snap and go on a rampage.
Did California just magically fix that little problem and can now identify " potential shooters " ?
I also don't see where bribing folks to behave is going to end well. This is one of those things where throwing money at it isn't going to work.
Doesn't matter.
Last time an idiot in front of me at a light caused the same problems for similar reasons, ( he was playing with his phone and didn't notice the light went green after several seconds had passed ) I hit the horn to get his attention.
His reaction ?
HOW DARE they honk at me ! Let's get angry about it !
He was ready to fight because he got honked at for being a total idiot in the first place.
IMO, they should start revoking licenses because if you're not going to pay attention, you have no business driving as you put every one on the road with you at risk.