And you seem to have forgotten how to follow the money. Those profits don't come out of thin air. Public opinion is entirely within the interests of stockholders and company owners. When shareholders become absolute greedy fucks they need a smack upside the head so they get some perspective.
They could, trivially, some do this quite well already. The problem is that android permissions are non-configurable without root so you either accept what you're told the app will use, or you don't install it. Thus developers make assumptions about what their application can do, they don't bother to catch exceptions because they assume (right or wrong) they don't need to.
Now let me demystify your comment good sir, this time with some actual facts: The FCC order doesn't explicitly require phones with GPS at all, it requires the telco ultimately provide 50ft accuracy on location, then by 2018 they'll issue a deadline on when any device capable of calling 911 requires GPS.
Correct. But, you could flip that around and ask yourself how many times during the last decade or so have you done things the harder way, or reinvented the wheel, because you didn't understand HTTP headers well enough to leverage existing functionality?
I write medical imaging software, most MR / CT studies have anywhere from one to a few thousand images, every server call you can avoid makes for a happy radiologist. This might mean wedging various DICOM fields in the headers when thumbnails are downloaded so you can rapidly populate the UI, build up annotation layers, sort thumbnail stacks, all kinds of cool stuff.
This comment comes up every single time there is anything vaguely related to weather. The drooling idiot is usually quite open minded with valid questions about the direction of change - warmer, colder, more extreme, is it natural, how much impact do humans have, and so on. (Sure, there is the odd troll too) Just in the past year it seems anyone that would question these predictions quickly gets tagged as a denier. I really don't get it.
All of this presumes a single timeline where those events occurred in the same way for all observers. What if there are a large number of parallel universes that follow through on all of those possible threads? It seems to me this would make the probability of detecting evidence of time travel so close to zero that it simply wouldn't be found.
Even if you could jump through time instantly, the earth isn't going to be where you left it anyway, tricky business to be in...
Who watches the watchers? The same people that like to tell us there are checks and balances in place to prevent domestic spying? What makes you believe every device has an audit trail - or that every login is recorded?
Think of it this way, if a system was created in the 90's or 00's (On, for example, Solaris, or various flavors of UNIX) and still works perfectly fine, would you replace it? Would you disable things like RSH? Harden NIS / NFS and friends - there's a very long list of exploitable software. Or would you just do your best on the technical side and simply trust that the people you give positive vetted TS security clearances to are not going to do what Snowden did?
It's entirely conceivable that the NSA truly has no clue what the man had access to, and maybe never will.
There is nothing idiotic about allowing newline in a form field, just that most user interfaces are likely to have an event listener that does something a little more logical with \r, \n, or \r\n making it difficult or simply not possible to use.
In my day job I write medical imaging software, I'm not a radiologist though having seen tens of thousands of studies I think the image on the right was cherry picked. (Might be this immediately disqualifies my opinion, but something isn't right here : ) It almost looks like they didn't inject any iodine at all - The window levels are different, they both look like they came from different modalities with different slice thicknesses. The PDF has a lot of information about power levels, but no DICOM, no details about the imaging devices. It seems like a bit of an unfair comparison, certainly the gallium gives a more detailed result, but I'm not sure how useful that actually is over regular iodine.
What else is there to say? I would start by telling your telecommunications carrier to encrypt every single SS7 link they own. Different keys on every channel, in every trunk, everywhere, all of them. That one act would be utterly blinding. This 'meta data' problem could be solved easily and permanently, there is just no incentive to do so when your arms are tied or there is money to be made.
Any accident that has enough force to utterly destroy the driver / passenger safety cell of an exceptionally well built sports car was, by definition, being driven inappropriately on public roads.
If you already have flash installed it will periodically ask if you want to update, if you click yes, it does a drive by install of McAfee, no opt-out at all. That's pretty evil behavior.
In 3 letter agency circles the process is called "Traffic Analysis". Even if you use a prepaid SIM you toss away a few minutes later, the first time you reach out to anyone you've ever known, you cease to be unknown. Reach out to 3 or 4 people and it's game over, you're new identity is tossed in the same box as your old identity. Back to square one. The only way to hide from TA is to avoid exposure entirely. One person can keep a secret. Two people, not so much.
No need to turn up the sensitivity at all. SBIRS / STSS has been around since the 70's or 80's - these (optical / IR) satellites search for ballistic missile launches and track those already in progress. Wildfires and a myriad of other heat sources would logically be filtered out since they don't represent a military threat, certainly the NRO would whine about it exposing capability, but it seems to me that the USA already has this technology orbiting the earth already. These 3 letter agencies have taken a lot more than they've given back, maybe it's time to shift focus and put some of this hardware to better use.
It's not unusual to see birds up to 10,000 feet. Less common, but they have also been seen as high as 20,000 feet. Rarer still, airline pilots have encountered them almost as high as 30,000 feet.
Lathes, CNC cutters, drills, milling machines, and so on, all of this stuff while a tad on the expensive side, is not out of reach. There are also untold numbers of machine shops around the place.
I think this entire incident is more about pure stupidity and lack of common sense. The tools exist for the common human and have done for centuries. The sky isn't falling.
Nope, no money for a huge amount of work. This has been a growing industry here in the Philippines for at least the last 5 years. Google "sulit money from home" and you'll get an inkling of how popular it is. Most people get burned, promised a few thousand USD per month, never see a cent, and the only contact info they have is a cellphone number that is no longer in service. The majority of these businesses require an upfront 'starters' fee, usually somewhere around $50 to $100 USD - crazy, feeds and scams off the gullible at both ends. It brings a lot of money in to the country, so it won't stop any time soon.
Pretty good progress thus far? I'm inclined to add a few 4 letter expletives in amongst those words, that video left me staring in awe. : ) A few days back we had a video about an autonomous quadcopter thing that spent the better part of 10 minutes randomly turning in circles as it wandered through a building mock-up. This thing jumps up a few hundred feet vertically and horizontally away from the pad and then drops back down like a boss, utter perfection from my armchair.
Just to be clear, Mozilla removed the menu option to disable Javascript and also flipped the setting back to "on" for those of us that had it turned off.
It's a bit of a self destructive path they are on by doing things like this, I'm about ready to jump ship.
I'm a former ELINT drone - when I started working for various secret 3 letter agencies I told the psych I wanted to find out if UFO's actually exist, and that I daydream almost constantly - except on work time. I kid you not. (Now it'll be someones job to actually dig through the records and check this:-) I held a TS positive vetted clearance with pretty much every brief that exists within that domain for more than a decade. Some interesting crap goes on in the world for sure, though eventually I quit and moved to Asia. Is there an analogy here? You can pick one if you want, whatever makes you feel good, but I will respectfully say you should dig your head out of the sand and use some logic - what's the difference between whistle blowing with a good conscience about something illegal and whistle blowing with the moral guidance unit turned off? I don't see one myself. Illegal is still illegal if that's what your constitution and laws say.
I have no idea what my point is though. Just thought I'd share that.
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And you seem to have forgotten how to follow the money. Those profits don't come out of thin air. Public opinion is entirely within the interests of stockholders and company owners. When shareholders become absolute greedy fucks they need a smack upside the head so they get some perspective.
Cave Johnson should be an inspiration to us all.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
They could, trivially, some do this quite well already. The problem is that android permissions are non-configurable without root so you either accept what you're told the app will use, or you don't install it. Thus developers make assumptions about what their application can do, they don't bother to catch exceptions because they assume (right or wrong) they don't need to.
Now let me demystify your comment good sir, this time with some actual facts: The FCC order doesn't explicitly require phones with GPS at all, it requires the telco ultimately provide 50ft accuracy on location, then by 2018 they'll issue a deadline on when any device capable of calling 911 requires GPS.
Source: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/F...
Correct. But, you could flip that around and ask yourself how many times during the last decade or so have you done things the harder way, or reinvented the wheel, because you didn't understand HTTP headers well enough to leverage existing functionality?
I write medical imaging software, most MR / CT studies have anywhere from one to a few thousand images, every server call you can avoid makes for a happy radiologist. This might mean wedging various DICOM fields in the headers when thumbnails are downloaded so you can rapidly populate the UI, build up annotation layers, sort thumbnail stacks, all kinds of cool stuff.
This comment comes up every single time there is anything vaguely related to weather. The drooling idiot is usually quite open minded with valid questions about the direction of change - warmer, colder, more extreme, is it natural, how much impact do humans have, and so on. (Sure, there is the odd troll too) Just in the past year it seems anyone that would question these predictions quickly gets tagged as a denier. I really don't get it.
All of this presumes a single timeline where those events occurred in the same way for all observers. What if there are a large number of parallel universes that follow through on all of those possible threads? It seems to me this would make the probability of detecting evidence of time travel so close to zero that it simply wouldn't be found.
Even if you could jump through time instantly, the earth isn't going to be where you left it anyway, tricky business to be in...
Who watches the watchers? The same people that like to tell us there are checks and balances in place to prevent domestic spying? What makes you believe every device has an audit trail - or that every login is recorded?
Think of it this way, if a system was created in the 90's or 00's (On, for example, Solaris, or various flavors of UNIX) and still works perfectly fine, would you replace it? Would you disable things like RSH? Harden NIS / NFS and friends - there's a very long list of exploitable software. Or would you just do your best on the technical side and simply trust that the people you give positive vetted TS security clearances to are not going to do what Snowden did?
It's entirely conceivable that the NSA truly has no clue what the man had access to, and maybe never will.
There is nothing idiotic about allowing newline in a form field, just that most user interfaces are likely to have an event listener that does something a little more logical with \r, \n, or \r\n making it difficult or simply not possible to use.
In my day job I write medical imaging software, I'm not a radiologist though having seen tens of thousands of studies I think the image on the right was cherry picked. (Might be this immediately disqualifies my opinion, but something isn't right here : ) It almost looks like they didn't inject any iodine at all - The window levels are different, they both look like they came from different modalities with different slice thicknesses. The PDF has a lot of information about power levels, but no DICOM, no details about the imaging devices. It seems like a bit of an unfair comparison, certainly the gallium gives a more detailed result, but I'm not sure how useful that actually is over regular iodine.
This is how a more typical idoine image looks, some are more detailed, some worse, I guess my point is that you don't actually have any trouble seeing the iodine.
http://www.www.client14.com/sd/iodine.png
http://www.www.client14.com/sd/iodine2.png
What else is there to say? I would start by telling your telecommunications carrier to encrypt every single SS7 link they own. Different keys on every channel, in every trunk, everywhere, all of them. That one act would be utterly blinding. This 'meta data' problem could be solved easily and permanently, there is just no incentive to do so when your arms are tied or there is money to be made.
Any accident that has enough force to utterly destroy the driver / passenger safety cell of an exceptionally well built sports car was, by definition, being driven inappropriately on public roads.
If you already have flash installed it will periodically ask if you want to update, if you click yes, it does a drive by install of McAfee, no opt-out at all. That's pretty evil behavior.
In 3 letter agency circles the process is called "Traffic Analysis". Even if you use a prepaid SIM you toss away a few minutes later, the first time you reach out to anyone you've ever known, you cease to be unknown. Reach out to 3 or 4 people and it's game over, you're new identity is tossed in the same box as your old identity. Back to square one. The only way to hide from TA is to avoid exposure entirely. One person can keep a secret. Two people, not so much.
The FileSystem API along with FileReader kind of blur this point already.
No need to turn up the sensitivity at all. SBIRS / STSS has been around since the 70's or 80's - these (optical / IR) satellites search for ballistic missile launches and track those already in progress. Wildfires and a myriad of other heat sources would logically be filtered out since they don't represent a military threat, certainly the NRO would whine about it exposing capability, but it seems to me that the USA already has this technology orbiting the earth already. These 3 letter agencies have taken a lot more than they've given back, maybe it's time to shift focus and put some of this hardware to better use.
In an emergency you could use it to fry a sausage I guess. : )
It appears to be some kind of slashvertizement for a mobile credit card reader that plugs in to the headphone jack of an iphone.
It's not unusual to see birds up to 10,000 feet. Less common, but they have also been seen as high as 20,000 feet. Rarer still, airline pilots have encountered them almost as high as 30,000 feet.
The bird-danger zone is everywhere.
and consuming far more resources than those needed to support my own pitiful lifespan.
That part of your sentence didn't parse very well. : )
Lathes, CNC cutters, drills, milling machines, and so on, all of this stuff while a tad on the expensive side, is not out of reach. There are also untold numbers of machine shops around the place.
I think this entire incident is more about pure stupidity and lack of common sense. The tools exist for the common human and have done for centuries. The sky isn't falling.
Nope, no money for a huge amount of work. This has been a growing industry here in the Philippines for at least the last 5 years. Google "sulit money from home" and you'll get an inkling of how popular it is. Most people get burned, promised a few thousand USD per month, never see a cent, and the only contact info they have is a cellphone number that is no longer in service. The majority of these businesses require an upfront 'starters' fee, usually somewhere around $50 to $100 USD - crazy, feeds and scams off the gullible at both ends. It brings a lot of money in to the country, so it won't stop any time soon.
Pretty good progress thus far? I'm inclined to add a few 4 letter expletives in amongst those words, that video left me staring in awe. : ) A few days back we had a video about an autonomous quadcopter thing that spent the better part of 10 minutes randomly turning in circles as it wandered through a building mock-up. This thing jumps up a few hundred feet vertically and horizontally away from the pad and then drops back down like a boss, utter perfection from my armchair.
Just to be clear, Mozilla removed the menu option to disable Javascript and also flipped the setting back to "on" for those of us that had it turned off.
It's a bit of a self destructive path they are on by doing things like this, I'm about ready to jump ship.
I'm a former ELINT drone - when I started working for various secret 3 letter agencies I told the psych I wanted to find out if UFO's actually exist, and that I daydream almost constantly - except on work time. I kid you not. (Now it'll be someones job to actually dig through the records and check this :-) I held a TS positive vetted clearance with pretty much every brief that exists within that domain for more than a decade. Some interesting crap goes on in the world for sure, though eventually I quit and moved to Asia. Is there an analogy here? You can pick one if you want, whatever makes you feel good, but I will respectfully say you should dig your head out of the sand and use some logic - what's the difference between whistle blowing with a good conscience about something illegal and whistle blowing with the moral guidance unit turned off? I don't see one myself. Illegal is still illegal if that's what your constitution and laws say.
I have no idea what my point is though. Just thought I'd share that.