To be fair, tethering service costs the same one way or the other. It's just easier to 'steal' that service when your phone is unlocked. Not that I in any way, shape, or form support charging for tethering separately from phone data, it's how the contracts are written.
When something crashes on exit, it's usually due to some form of memory leak. Those aren't always trivial to investigate and fix. It's not as brain dead simple as you seem to imply.
One benefit of full disk encryption with a TPM chip is security against that kind of thing. If the disk is modified, you'll know. You wouldn't be able to plant evidence without detection. Mind you, when evidence is planted, you aren't trying to convince the victim. Rather, you're trying to convince a 3rd party such as a jury. Just because the victim knows the disk was messed with, it doesn't mean the prosecution will have trouble getting a conviction based on a planted external hard disk..
So really, the benefit comes as a defense against root kits being planted via physical access to the disk. More handy for the CNN reporter's laptop being messed with while in China. Or, in a consumer case, it'll be more of your win8 trusted boot which is used as a defense against your standard rootkit. Despite a software exploit, the hardware protection won't allow modification to system files go unnoticed.
Using my home desktop as an example, the typical law enforcement scenario would be the police executing a warrant and confiscating all the hardware in my house. First, if I'm not at my machine, the most sensitive data should not be available. RAM can be removed from a machine and read. I think there's a minute or two before the data is impossible to read. So any encryption keys loaded in RAM are vulnerable. I've seen reference to some neat systems which store keys in unused debug registers in the CPU. Kinda neat, but having the data dismounted when you lock/leave your machine is a pretty close 2nd.
Rather than a simple password-based scheme, I would have a remote server anonymously store the key. Your machine would create a secure connection to the key store server. You would request they value (encryption key) corresponding to some key. If the key is not requested for some period of time, it is destroyed. I have no idea how much time would exist between being arrested and being compelled to reveal a key. But given that you should have time to consult with a lawyer at the very least, you should be able to determine some period of time where the key is destroyed prior to you being required to supply the password. So, through no lack of cooperation on your part, the data is destroyed. And that's especially true if you are in prison with no ability to extend the timeout. I can't imagine why this scheme would be illegal to configure. As such, I also can't imagine how it would be obstruction of justice for the key to automatically self-destruct.
There are a ton of ways to improve on the particulars of that scheme to make it more secure and less prone to failure. I just wanted to be brief so I kept it simple. Ever since taking a coding theory course in school, I've loved the academics of encryption. And as a bit of a psychology/sociology/justice/politics nerd, I find these sorts of clashes between encryption and the real world incredibly fascinating.
But as far as justice goes, my views are to make things which should be illegal as difficult/impossible as you can in the first place. It always blows my mind how easily stolen hardware can be resold and used, break-ins can go unsolved, people can have no medical coverage, chronic speeders/drinkers not lose their license, unlicensed drivers use a car, etc. What so many call a "police state," I wish we had. I'm sick of how easy it is to abuse the system. And that goes for those abusing it from the top just as much as those examples at the bottom. Stealing an election or a billion dollars should be impossible too:)
Intel 320 SSDs use 128-bit AES. They're still bloody fast SSDs, one of the fastest over a 3.0 Gbit/s SATA connections. The encryption + 3.0 perf make these exceptionally good for corporate laptops.
The primary market is corporate security. They have no problem handing data over when legally required (officially).. but they want the encryption on a stolen device to be pretty damned hard to crack.
I don't think you can disable it entirely. It's more that you probably just won't touch it very often. I've been using the dev-preview for a little while now. There are some app bugs and such that'll toss you into metro but it's pretty clear to see that a 'traditional keyboard and mouse desktop user' won't have to touch it once their desktop is happily configured.
I don't have a fix for you but you're on the right track. I mean, the triple monitor configuration. I bought an ATI FirePro 2460 for work. It has some very special requirements (monitors must be identical) to allow you to configure three separate monitors. If they aren't identical, it will only support spanning/duplication. Luckily, in an office environment, it's a lot less trouble to order/trade to an identical hardware configuration. So good luck figuring yours out. I really love the extra space. It's really nice for development work when you want something like email/bug info + dev env + test at the same time to have the full context visible.
Except you don't typically use much of the metro UI on the desktop. You use a metro-style sidebar with hotkeys for various searches and config tasks (eg connecting to wifi) but that's about it. There's really not much reason to call up the start screen on the desktop. Maybe when there are a ton of metro apps I'll find some of the sidebar apps handy. You just have to remember, the win8 taskbar is an upgrade for multi-monitor (I have 3) power users as well. It has a taskbar on each screen and offers more customization. A lot of the OS stuff I rely on like the task manager, resource monitor, etc have also been drastically improved. It's pretty nice to use overall. The start screen doesn't actually get in the way. You can still get to my computer, control panel, libraries, etc without it. So overall, not really a huge loss. There's actually a new 'start-menu' like list that pops-up when you hover the bottom-left corner with some new stuff.
Oh, and even the metro UI can do multitask with a split screen UI for two apps at once:)
But if you take a different example, an iPhone, animations make their load-times much less noticeable. Instead of a sticky lagged feeling, the flashy effects are what gives it a responsive feel.
You're right but let me add something. In large software products (eg windows), this is generally the case at a granular level. There are people doing what you say at a feature-by-feature level. But there are also 'design' experts who specialize in the visual aspects of things. They'll notice if the colors don't mesh, if the typography is wrong, etc. Standard HCI style user studies won't make your software beautiful. It'd be like an artist going to a committee for input as they go about making a painting. You need the HCI for task-flow, discoverability, etc.. but you also need artists and UX 'designers' to develop your visual look and feel. Android + user testing doesn't result in iPhone asthetics.
How does that matter? If you want a.Sort() say you want a.Sort(). It doesn't have to compile perfectly to make sense. What's the point in giving someone access to auto-complete and a framework documentation if they don't know what they want?
If there's a case where the prevailing traffic is grossly different from the law, that's exactly the sort of location where this could help the most. Those are the cases where trying to enforce things with individual patrol cars is difficult. In the seattle area, the cameras I've seen installed typically mail out warnings to offenders for the first few months. I would expect that to be the case in a situation like the one you described. You could also phase it in by lowering the ticketing limits gradually. For the first month, only violators who are 20 MPH in excess of the limit are ticketed, and only to a maximum of 5% of traffic volume. The rest get warnings describing how their infraction will soon be ticketed. Then gradually adjust down the variables. Ideally, you'd be installing these in areas where accidents are common, such as a variable speed-limit zone leading into a congested area. People *could* go 80 MPH but the limit is set to 40 when there's stop-and-go traffic up ahead. Once they know it's strictly enforced, they won't feel the need to race all the way up to the traffic jam. The result is fewer severe rear-enders. The goal is to improve traffic safety, not make money. I think it's silly to think that there aren't good approaches to improving safety. If you want to point out examples of misuse, that's fine.. but it doesn't really change my point, which was that this can be a very helpful and effective tool to improve traffic safety.
Well, if they're all breaking the law, I don't see a huge problem with ticketing them all. That doesn't make enforcement wrong, it makes the speed limit wrong or shows a culture of civil disobedience likely due to a lack of enforcement over time. So those issues aside, you'd want this over an army of patrol cars because it's cheaper and impartial. Continued development on these enforcement devices will result in better laws, safer roads, and fairer fines for everyone. It really isn't a bad thing.. At least until we get fully automated cars on the road to remove human error, I see better enforcement as a good thing.
The "do people check to see if their votes were counted" problem could easily be solved by having random people collect some hashes at the end of the day from people on their way out. Add a barcode to the receipt and it would only take a second to scan. I'm sure there are lots of people who would be interested in helping to verify the validity of an election.
At least something like this would be dead simple to detect with a radar detector. Newer models also use GPS to alert you when you're approaching a known red-light camera location, etc. I'm about as slow/boring a driver as they come and even I see the benefit. A big thing is that I just like being aware of what's going on. I've never had a bullshit ticket.. but I swear, I'll be picking one of these up if I ever get one in the mail for a rolling stop on a right-turn for example. My room mate got one of these recently at a corner right by our office. He's been driving the same route for ten years without a problem. I'm pretty sure his rolling stop isn't killing anyone there. Now you see that first flash from the camera and people jam on their breaks and wait 5 seconds before they start moving again to make sure they don't get that 2nd flash & ticket. It's pretty annoying.
Being able to target multiple vehicles is a huge differentiator. Otherwise, they're practically useless on a busy road. If your goal is to enforce speed-laws on a busy 4-lane highway, this will make a big difference.
"According to scientists at the National Institutes of Health- the world's largest source of drug abuse research - marijuana use is associated with addiction"
They said it's associated with addiction. For example, someone who is addicted to cigarettes is more likely to smoke marijuana. Go figure. The wording just makes it sound like there are qualified people saying it's addictive on its own.
Empty space isn't a random jumble. Flash memory needs to be erased before it can be written to. So in this case, yes, there is a 3rd state. For more info, do a quick search for the trim command. Reading up on that will give you a general idea of what's going on here. That said, I don't know what makes up the difference in weight. I'm guessing either some states have a few extra electrons or it picks up a few simply by performing writes, kinda like it's getting dirty over time. I don't know enough about the physical mechanics of flash though to say...
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And by unlocked, I really mean jailbreaked..
To be fair, tethering service costs the same one way or the other. It's just easier to 'steal' that service when your phone is unlocked. Not that I in any way, shape, or form support charging for tethering separately from phone data, it's how the contracts are written.
When something crashes on exit, it's usually due to some form of memory leak. Those aren't always trivial to investigate and fix. It's not as brain dead simple as you seem to imply.
One benefit of full disk encryption with a TPM chip is security against that kind of thing. If the disk is modified, you'll know. You wouldn't be able to plant evidence without detection. Mind you, when evidence is planted, you aren't trying to convince the victim. Rather, you're trying to convince a 3rd party such as a jury. Just because the victim knows the disk was messed with, it doesn't mean the prosecution will have trouble getting a conviction based on a planted external hard disk..
So really, the benefit comes as a defense against root kits being planted via physical access to the disk. More handy for the CNN reporter's laptop being messed with while in China. Or, in a consumer case, it'll be more of your win8 trusted boot which is used as a defense against your standard rootkit. Despite a software exploit, the hardware protection won't allow modification to system files go unnoticed.
Using my home desktop as an example, the typical law enforcement scenario would be the police executing a warrant and confiscating all the hardware in my house. First, if I'm not at my machine, the most sensitive data should not be available. RAM can be removed from a machine and read. I think there's a minute or two before the data is impossible to read. So any encryption keys loaded in RAM are vulnerable. I've seen reference to some neat systems which store keys in unused debug registers in the CPU. Kinda neat, but having the data dismounted when you lock/leave your machine is a pretty close 2nd.
Rather than a simple password-based scheme, I would have a remote server anonymously store the key. Your machine would create a secure connection to the key store server. You would request they value (encryption key) corresponding to some key. If the key is not requested for some period of time, it is destroyed. I have no idea how much time would exist between being arrested and being compelled to reveal a key. But given that you should have time to consult with a lawyer at the very least, you should be able to determine some period of time where the key is destroyed prior to you being required to supply the password. So, through no lack of cooperation on your part, the data is destroyed. And that's especially true if you are in prison with no ability to extend the timeout. I can't imagine why this scheme would be illegal to configure. As such, I also can't imagine how it would be obstruction of justice for the key to automatically self-destruct.
There are a ton of ways to improve on the particulars of that scheme to make it more secure and less prone to failure. I just wanted to be brief so I kept it simple. Ever since taking a coding theory course in school, I've loved the academics of encryption. And as a bit of a psychology/sociology/justice/politics nerd, I find these sorts of clashes between encryption and the real world incredibly fascinating.
But as far as justice goes, my views are to make things which should be illegal as difficult/impossible as you can in the first place. It always blows my mind how easily stolen hardware can be resold and used, break-ins can go unsolved, people can have no medical coverage, chronic speeders/drinkers not lose their license, unlicensed drivers use a car, etc. What so many call a "police state," I wish we had. I'm sick of how easy it is to abuse the system. And that goes for those abusing it from the top just as much as those examples at the bottom. Stealing an election or a billion dollars should be impossible too :)
Intel 320 SSDs use 128-bit AES. They're still bloody fast SSDs, one of the fastest over a 3.0 Gbit/s SATA connections. The encryption + 3.0 perf make these exceptionally good for corporate laptops.
The primary market is corporate security. They have no problem handing data over when legally required (officially).. but they want the encryption on a stolen device to be pretty damned hard to crack.
I don't think you can disable it entirely. It's more that you probably just won't touch it very often. I've been using the dev-preview for a little while now. There are some app bugs and such that'll toss you into metro but it's pretty clear to see that a 'traditional keyboard and mouse desktop user' won't have to touch it once their desktop is happily configured.
If I had mod points, you'd get them!
I don't have a fix for you but you're on the right track. I mean, the triple monitor configuration. I bought an ATI FirePro 2460 for work. It has some very special requirements (monitors must be identical) to allow you to configure three separate monitors. If they aren't identical, it will only support spanning/duplication. Luckily, in an office environment, it's a lot less trouble to order/trade to an identical hardware configuration. So good luck figuring yours out. I really love the extra space. It's really nice for development work when you want something like email/bug info + dev env + test at the same time to have the full context visible.
Except you don't typically use much of the metro UI on the desktop. You use a metro-style sidebar with hotkeys for various searches and config tasks (eg connecting to wifi) but that's about it. There's really not much reason to call up the start screen on the desktop. Maybe when there are a ton of metro apps I'll find some of the sidebar apps handy. You just have to remember, the win8 taskbar is an upgrade for multi-monitor (I have 3) power users as well. It has a taskbar on each screen and offers more customization. A lot of the OS stuff I rely on like the task manager, resource monitor, etc have also been drastically improved. It's pretty nice to use overall. The start screen doesn't actually get in the way. You can still get to my computer, control panel, libraries, etc without it. So overall, not really a huge loss. There's actually a new 'start-menu' like list that pops-up when you hover the bottom-left corner with some new stuff.
Oh, and even the metro UI can do multitask with a split screen UI for two apps at once :)
But if you take a different example, an iPhone, animations make their load-times much less noticeable. Instead of a sticky lagged feeling, the flashy effects are what gives it a responsive feel.
You're right but let me add something. In large software products (eg windows), this is generally the case at a granular level. There are people doing what you say at a feature-by-feature level. But there are also 'design' experts who specialize in the visual aspects of things. They'll notice if the colors don't mesh, if the typography is wrong, etc. Standard HCI style user studies won't make your software beautiful. It'd be like an artist going to a committee for input as they go about making a painting. You need the HCI for task-flow, discoverability, etc.. but you also need artists and UX 'designers' to develop your visual look and feel. Android + user testing doesn't result in iPhone asthetics.
"In computer science, a binary tree is a tree data structure"
Yes, it starts by saying that a binary tree is a data structure... You enjoy your drinks. And yes, I do have a computer science degree.
Splitting hairs? It's a data structure, not an algorithm. There's a pretty fundamental difference.
You'd accept "binary tree" as an answer to "name an algorithm"? Yikes.
How does that matter? If you want a .Sort() say you want a .Sort(). It doesn't have to compile perfectly to make sense. What's the point in giving someone access to auto-complete and a framework documentation if they don't know what they want?
If there's a case where the prevailing traffic is grossly different from the law, that's exactly the sort of location where this could help the most. Those are the cases where trying to enforce things with individual patrol cars is difficult. In the seattle area, the cameras I've seen installed typically mail out warnings to offenders for the first few months. I would expect that to be the case in a situation like the one you described. You could also phase it in by lowering the ticketing limits gradually. For the first month, only violators who are 20 MPH in excess of the limit are ticketed, and only to a maximum of 5% of traffic volume. The rest get warnings describing how their infraction will soon be ticketed. Then gradually adjust down the variables. Ideally, you'd be installing these in areas where accidents are common, such as a variable speed-limit zone leading into a congested area. People *could* go 80 MPH but the limit is set to 40 when there's stop-and-go traffic up ahead. Once they know it's strictly enforced, they won't feel the need to race all the way up to the traffic jam. The result is fewer severe rear-enders. The goal is to improve traffic safety, not make money. I think it's silly to think that there aren't good approaches to improving safety. If you want to point out examples of misuse, that's fine.. but it doesn't really change my point, which was that this can be a very helpful and effective tool to improve traffic safety.
Well, if they're all breaking the law, I don't see a huge problem with ticketing them all. That doesn't make enforcement wrong, it makes the speed limit wrong or shows a culture of civil disobedience likely due to a lack of enforcement over time. So those issues aside, you'd want this over an army of patrol cars because it's cheaper and impartial. Continued development on these enforcement devices will result in better laws, safer roads, and fairer fines for everyone. It really isn't a bad thing.. At least until we get fully automated cars on the road to remove human error, I see better enforcement as a good thing.
The "do people check to see if their votes were counted" problem could easily be solved by having random people collect some hashes at the end of the day from people on their way out. Add a barcode to the receipt and it would only take a second to scan. I'm sure there are lots of people who would be interested in helping to verify the validity of an election.
Speed, accuracy, and trustworthiness aren't reasons?
At least something like this would be dead simple to detect with a radar detector. Newer models also use GPS to alert you when you're approaching a known red-light camera location, etc. I'm about as slow/boring a driver as they come and even I see the benefit. A big thing is that I just like being aware of what's going on. I've never had a bullshit ticket.. but I swear, I'll be picking one of these up if I ever get one in the mail for a rolling stop on a right-turn for example. My room mate got one of these recently at a corner right by our office. He's been driving the same route for ten years without a problem. I'm pretty sure his rolling stop isn't killing anyone there. Now you see that first flash from the camera and people jam on their breaks and wait 5 seconds before they start moving again to make sure they don't get that 2nd flash & ticket. It's pretty annoying.
Being able to target multiple vehicles is a huge differentiator. Otherwise, they're practically useless on a busy road. If your goal is to enforce speed-laws on a busy 4-lane highway, this will make a big difference.
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"According to scientists at the National Institutes of Health- the world's largest source of drug abuse research - marijuana use is associated with addiction"
They said it's associated with addiction. For example, someone who is addicted to cigarettes is more likely to smoke marijuana. Go figure. The wording just makes it sound like there are qualified people saying it's addictive on its own.
Empty space isn't a random jumble. Flash memory needs to be erased before it can be written to. So in this case, yes, there is a 3rd state. For more info, do a quick search for the trim command. Reading up on that will give you a general idea of what's going on here. That said, I don't know what makes up the difference in weight. I'm guessing either some states have a few extra electrons or it picks up a few simply by performing writes, kinda like it's getting dirty over time. I don't know enough about the physical mechanics of flash though to say...