If you don't care about the data behind the biometric lock, and the data you do care about is behind a different lock, why use biometrics at all? I am seriously asking here and genuinely am curious why.
If you are really serious, then you are a moron. There is obviously a huge space between perfect absolute quantum security and no security whatsoever.
For the vast majority of people, biometrics are convenient and "good enough". They have theoretical weakness that are almost never exploited in the wild. In practice, a fingerprint is more secure than a password.
It isn't like people are carrying nuclear launch codes on their phones. If my phone is stolen, and a thief makes 50,000 attempts to finally bypass my fingerprint, he will get... my grocery list.
He will NOT get my CC number linked to Apple-Pay, Walmart-Pay, or WeChat-Pay because those have an additional 4-digit PIN.
And California! Non-competes were critical to the development of silicon valley, making California one of the largest economic powerhouses in the world.
This should be modded up. Non-competes are mostly illegal in California, which means people and ideas flow between companies. This has led to the most successful tech industry in the world, the highest salaries, and the biggest profits.
Non-competes are bad for employees, bad for companies (in aggregate they are a prisoner's dilemma), bad for the economy, and by retarding progress, bad for humanity.
Resumes in China usually also include ethnicity and a photo of the applicant.
Job ads will often specify a gender and an age range. In some areas they will even specify a desired ethnicity, usually "Han only", although I have never seen that in a big city.
There are no restrictions on what you can ask in an interview. Age, marital status, number of children, do you have a boyfriend, etc, are all fair game.
This is not just a Chinese thing. This is the way it is in most countries outside North America and the EU.
Someone has to eat it, else it would just keep growing and taking over more and more of the Earth
Not true. No animal eats mistletoe, but it doesn't take over because many host tree species have evolved to cut of its sap supply with burls, and starve it.
If not being eaten was the only criteria for flourishing, then polar bears and Siberian tigers would be the dominant species on earth.
Bubblehead? What the everloving fuck are you talking about. She is freaking awesome.
I agree that she is awesome, and I agree with her on some issues.
But when she talks, listen to the details. Write down the numbers. Then go to Google and do a reality check. Many of the "facts" she rattles off are off by a factor of ten or more. And some of her policy proposals are what destroyed Venezuela. She is reality challenged.
I would say attacking the systems used to care for critically ill children is physically dangerous.
That is not what "physically dangerous" means. Would he physically assault anyone while cleaning bedpans? There is no evidence to suspect that. Can he run a DDoS attack while cleaning bedpans? Unlikely.
If access to the Internet is a really big concern, then he could be sentenced to repairing hiking trails in remote forests. For non-violent people, there is always a better alternative than prisons. Every other country in the world imprisons fewer people than America, and most have lower recidivism rates.
America's prison system is expensive, dysfunctional, and counterproductive. We need to end the knee jerk response of dealing with every problem by locking up more people. When a politician brags that he is endorsed by the police and prison unions, you should vote for the other guy.
Murderers can be paroled after 7 years, so 10 years in prison for a computer crime seems harsh.
They could put an ankle monitor on him, and he can spend 10 years cleaning bedpans in the hospitals he DDoSed. He would be contributing to society instead of a drain on the system.
Prisons should only be for people that are physically dangerous. For everyone else, there are more constructive punishments.
IF you're ethnic Han there's prosperity, any other race is shaken down, imprisoned, disappeared, robbed, cheated.
Not true. Most minorities in China are doing about as well as their Han neighbors. The big exceptions are Uyghurs and Tibetans.
In Xinjiang, much of the conflict is not Uyghur vs Han, but Uyghur vs Hui despite both being Muslim.
I have never been to Tibet, but I have been to the Tibetan region of Yunnan, including the city of Xianggelila. I traveled there from Lijiang, and the difference between the two cities is startling despite being only 60 miles apart.
Xianggelila is ethnically Tibetan, and was sullen. I was warned not to go out after dark. I saw a group of teenagers sniffing gasoline to get high, and in the morning there were several drunks passed out in the gutter on my street. There was litter everywhere, and many areas smelled like urine and vomit.
Lijiang is ethnically Naxi, and is a joyful place, with bustling nightlife. Troupes of entertainers were dancing in the street. Even street repair crews were singing and laughing while they worked. Many Naxi in Lijiang operate shops out of their homes, or rent spare rooms to visitors.
The Tibetans look at the Han and see "invaders". The Naxi look at the Han and see "customers". This difference in attitude makes a world of difference.
Couldn't you make stuff just as cheaply in Ghandi's India
No. Absolutely not. India is far more corrupt, bureaucratic, and inefficient than China. Chinese workers are four times as productive as Indians. All the supply chains are in China, and it is easy to find people with manufacturing expertise.
Plus is China, the corruption WORKS: You bribe one guy, and you get the permit to build your factory. In India, you bribe one guy, and he steps aside so you can deal with the next bureaucrat with his hand out. It can take years to get a license to operate a fruit stand. A car factory? Forget it.
Go visit both China and India. You will be astounded at the divergence in living standards. China is far more prosperous. There are reasons for that.
If the resolution of movies is so high that they are essentially applying a blur filter everywher
It is not a blur filter, and it is not being applied "everywhere". Only on skin. More specifically, only on the skin of the good people. The villains will still have bad complexions.
The next step should be to virtualize the concept of "celebrities" and just completely regenerate the appearance of the actors. So a filmmaker could hire anyone for the role, based solely on their ability to perform, and then switch their face and appearance in post-production to match the "star" of the film who doesn't actually exist.
There are virtual celebrities like Hatsune Miku, but in the future they will look like real people, only perfect.
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If apple doesn't like the price they can buy from any other LTE vendor.
... or they can sue Qualcomm for anti-competitive behavior.
Isn't that the intention of patents? They grant a limited-time monopoly (in exchange for the design details being made public).
No. Patents give you a limited monopoly. It is not illegal to have a monopoly.
It is illegal to ABUSE a monopoly through market manipulation, exclusive distribution deals, coercive licensing, and predatory pricing.
If you don't care about the data behind the biometric lock, and the data you do care about is behind a different lock, why use biometrics at all? I am seriously asking here and genuinely am curious why.
If you are really serious, then you are a moron. There is obviously a huge space between perfect absolute quantum security and no security whatsoever.
For the vast majority of people, biometrics are convenient and "good enough". They have theoretical weakness that are almost never exploited in the wild. In practice, a fingerprint is more secure than a password.
It isn't like people are carrying nuclear launch codes on their phones. If my phone is stolen, and a thief makes 50,000 attempts to finally bypass my fingerprint, he will get ... my grocery list.
He will NOT get my CC number linked to Apple-Pay, Walmart-Pay, or WeChat-Pay because those have an additional 4-digit PIN.
Er, light comes in discrete units of photons.
Sure, but they aren't all the same size. A red photon is half again the size of a blue photon (700 nm vs 450 nm).
So "just a little bigger than one photon" could mean a slightly bigger photon, or maybe a normal photon plus a tiny little photon like a gamma ray.
The mechanism they describe is also classical physics.
Most likely the journalist is a moron. QKD works via entanglement, not "detecting delays".
It is unlikely the engineers would have called it QKD if it isn't QKD.
It is very likely that the Bloomberg reporter completely misunderstood their explanation of how it works.
Delay detection would not work well because the speed-of-light in a glass fiber depends on the density of the glass, which varies with temperature.
I bet there is a lot of noise pollution
That must be a disappointment for people that go to game arcades for tranquility and quiet introspection.
And California! Non-competes were critical to the development of silicon valley, making California one of the largest economic powerhouses in the world.
This should be modded up. Non-competes are mostly illegal in California, which means people and ideas flow between companies. This has led to the most successful tech industry in the world, the highest salaries, and the biggest profits.
Non-competes are bad for employees, bad for companies (in aggregate they are a prisoner's dilemma), bad for the economy, and by retarding progress, bad for humanity.
Find out who has a passport and had approval to travel outside China.
They don't need approval to travel. With a few narrow exceptions, such as paroled criminals, anyone in China can get a passport.
The Mao era ended 43 years ago.
More Chinese travel abroad than citizens of any other country.
Resumes in China usually also include ethnicity and a photo of the applicant.
Job ads will often specify a gender and an age range. In some areas they will even specify a desired ethnicity, usually "Han only", although I have never seen that in a big city.
There are no restrictions on what you can ask in an interview. Age, marital status, number of children, do you have a boyfriend, etc, are all fair game.
This is not just a Chinese thing. This is the way it is in most countries outside North America and the EU.
Someone has to eat it, else it would just keep growing and taking over more and more of the Earth
Not true. No animal eats mistletoe, but it doesn't take over because many host tree species have evolved to cut of its sap supply with burls, and starve it.
If not being eaten was the only criteria for flourishing, then polar bears and Siberian tigers would be the dominant species on earth.
How the fuck was Jack going to MOVE the GIANT gold from the castle in the sky, genius?
He could use gravity. Gold is heavy, so gravity will move it downward.
And NOBODY told him they'd grow into a beanstalk leading to gold
But he was told they were magic, and they were.
Further you're overlooking the possibility the whole thing was a drunk's dream
Why would someone just make up a story? Occam's Razor says the magic beans were real, since that is the simplest explanation.
Bubblehead? What the everloving fuck are you talking about. She is freaking awesome.
I agree that she is awesome, and I agree with her on some issues.
But when she talks, listen to the details. Write down the numbers. Then go to Google and do a reality check. Many of the "facts" she rattles off are off by a factor of ten or more. And some of her policy proposals are what destroyed Venezuela. She is reality challenged.
You think shutting down a hospital computer system is not dangerous?
I agree that it was dangerous. I didn't say otherwise.
There is no excuse for what he did.
I agree.
And just because he used a keyboard instead of a knife a bunch of kids could have been just as dead from his criminal actions.
There is no evidence that anyone was harmed by his keyboard or his actions.
He was irresponsible and committed a crime. He did not commit a violent crime.
A DDoS is bad. Murder is bad. That doesn't mean a DDoS is murder. Keep some perspective. He disabled a website.
You are working under the mistaken assumption that people are rational...
95% of people are rational about incarceration. The other 5% are Americans.
If they were, we would be living in an entirely different world.
Nope. Just a different country.
Nobody "forced" Jack to buy magic beans either, per the analogy, dipshit.
Also the beans really were magic, so it wasn't just "marketing", and he got all the giant's gold, so the beans were a good deal.
Fee-fi-fo-fum, the bean analogy is really dumb.
I would say attacking the systems used to care for critically ill children is physically dangerous.
That is not what "physically dangerous" means. Would he physically assault anyone while cleaning bedpans? There is no evidence to suspect that. Can he run a DDoS attack while cleaning bedpans? Unlikely.
If access to the Internet is a really big concern, then he could be sentenced to repairing hiking trails in remote forests. For non-violent people, there is always a better alternative than prisons. Every other country in the world imprisons fewer people than America, and most have lower recidivism rates.
America's prison system is expensive, dysfunctional, and counterproductive. We need to end the knee jerk response of dealing with every problem by locking up more people. When a politician brags that he is endorsed by the police and prison unions, you should vote for the other guy.
Murderers can be paroled after 7 years, so 10 years in prison for a computer crime seems harsh.
They could put an ankle monitor on him, and he can spend 10 years cleaning bedpans in the hospitals he DDoSed. He would be contributing to society instead of a drain on the system.
Prisons should only be for people that are physically dangerous. For everyone else, there are more constructive punishments.
IF you're ethnic Han there's prosperity, any other race is shaken down, imprisoned, disappeared, robbed, cheated.
Not true. Most minorities in China are doing about as well as their Han neighbors. The big exceptions are Uyghurs and Tibetans.
In Xinjiang, much of the conflict is not Uyghur vs Han, but Uyghur vs Hui despite both being Muslim.
I have never been to Tibet, but I have been to the Tibetan region of Yunnan, including the city of Xianggelila. I traveled there from Lijiang, and the difference between the two cities is startling despite being only 60 miles apart.
Xianggelila is ethnically Tibetan, and was sullen. I was warned not to go out after dark. I saw a group of teenagers sniffing gasoline to get high, and in the morning there were several drunks passed out in the gutter on my street. There was litter everywhere, and many areas smelled like urine and vomit.
Lijiang is ethnically Naxi, and is a joyful place, with bustling nightlife. Troupes of entertainers were dancing in the street. Even street repair crews were singing and laughing while they worked. Many Naxi in Lijiang operate shops out of their homes, or rent spare rooms to visitors.
The Tibetans look at the Han and see "invaders". The Naxi look at the Han and see "customers". This difference in attitude makes a world of difference.
Apparently the best predictor of electoral success is candidate appearance
That explains AOC. Maybe I just have a thing for latinas, but I think she is hot, and a great dancer.
Too bad she is a total bubblehead when it comes to advocating policies.
an actual attempt at necessarily diverse Democracy in India...
The BJP, the ruling party in India, is about as "pro-diversity" as America's KKK.
Importing high-dollar whores to spy for foreign adversaries...
Slovenia is a member of NATO, and a solid American ally.
Couldn't you make stuff just as cheaply in Ghandi's India
No. Absolutely not. India is far more corrupt, bureaucratic, and inefficient than China. Chinese workers are four times as productive as Indians. All the supply chains are in China, and it is easy to find people with manufacturing expertise.
Plus is China, the corruption WORKS: You bribe one guy, and you get the permit to build your factory. In India, you bribe one guy, and he steps aside so you can deal with the next bureaucrat with his hand out. It can take years to get a license to operate a fruit stand. A car factory? Forget it.
Go visit both China and India. You will be astounded at the divergence in living standards. China is far more prosperous. There are reasons for that.
If the resolution of movies is so high that they are essentially applying a blur filter everywher
It is not a blur filter, and it is not being applied "everywhere". Only on skin. More specifically, only on the skin of the good people. The villains will still have bad complexions.
The next step should be to virtualize the concept of "celebrities" and just completely regenerate the appearance of the actors. So a filmmaker could hire anyone for the role, based solely on their ability to perform, and then switch their face and appearance in post-production to match the "star" of the film who doesn't actually exist.
There are virtual celebrities like Hatsune Miku, but in the future they will look like real people, only perfect.
Using it in things like political ads, well, that's a different question.
Why do you care? Do you base your vote on zit counts?