The shortened timeline has had "a profound effect on our ability to collect, particularly against citizens of the world," he said.
FTFY.
You see, Mr. Clapper, no one believes you, specially considering the fact that we don't know of any terrorists or their plots that you've been able to expose for the past 20 years. None. However we approximately know your budget and how terrorism is basically a non-issue for people 'cause the number of people dying of other causes is several magnitudes higher. This "war" on terrorism is a plot against people, not for people.
These devices have not redefined the way we phone, nor have they blown us away with unprecedented speeds, or wowed us with extraordinary battery life. Each of these new phones is merely a marginal improvement over last year's model.
Why is no one saying the same things about PCs? Modern smartphones are excellent at what they're doing, sans their poor battery life. Why would you want to switch your phone every 12 months, and why would you expect every generation to bring something new and incredible to the table?
Modern smartphones are already as powerful as 5-7 old PCs yet they consume roughly 100 times less power. I mean for all intents and purposes they are a miracle! You basically have a supercomputer in your pocket for fuck's sake. And yes, we haven't yet developed a good enough power source for them but it's not because we're not trying. It's because doing science nowadays is fucking hard. You just cannot go to your R&D department and tell them, "Hey, guys, let's make our phone better than the competition by inventing a new power source". It just doesn't work this way.
This whole, "show me more features or the smartphone has suddenly become boring", reeks of the most awful consumerism. Your 2-3 old smartphone suddenly doesn't work for you or what? If you have an excess of money to burn go invest them in biotechnology/new energy/aerospace/etc. companies.
That's all clear and understandable aside from the fact that I've heard that people are saying that UWP is a disaster for the desktop and you cannot write full-featured applications using this framework.
So, again where does the money come from when most people will keep on buying plain old Win32 application directly from ISVs (because they want to work, not to play) or cheap games off the Windows store (which doesn't quite offset the fact that Windows 10 is given for free or otherwise at a substantially reduced price)?
As the company's mobile device strategy continues to disintegrate, Microsoft may feel compelled to push harder on Windows 10 adoption and paid services to prove it can survive without a viable smartphone.
Microsoft throughout its history has never been profitable in regard to selling its own smartphones. To the contrary, its smartphone division has always been a money drain and it looks like they will stop bleeding soon by killing off Windows 10 Mobile. And since the number of smartphones running Windows 10 Mobile is about to become zero in the nearest future, I don't understand why Microsoft will have to push Windows 10 harder.
The human brain has a power consumption of roughly 30W. Show me a computer which has the same computational power as the human brain at this level of power consumption.
"We have limited capacity in our brain. It's at least a million times slower than computational electronics. "
He's joking right? I cannot believe the person holding such a high position at Google can spread such BS. There's no doubt that computers excel at simple mathematical operations, but the human brain has an unmatched level of parallelism which allows it for instance to properly identify unknown objects in a split second and do other "calculations" the computers can only dream of.
Those who have money and power believe they can buy their ticket out of this global catastrophe by hiring enough guards (strangely it has almost never worked for them). So, no, contrary to what science calls for, carbon emissions will keep on growing unabated.
Those who have no money, no power and more importantly no life (as it was mentioned previously on./ the poor have on average a significantly shorter life span) - don't care because they'll long be dead when the earth becomes insanely overpopulated and equally uninhabitable due to major geographical shifts in agriculture and sea level rise.
The future promises to be freaking crazy. No, I meant, ugly and scary. Wars, continued overpopulation, famines, etc.
Terrorists and criminals are increasingly using encryption to foil law enforcement efforts, even in the face of a court order.
Yeah, right.
Oh, wait, the most recent terrorist attacks in Belgium were carried out using disposable one time cell phones without using encryption of any kind.
Who are those politicians are trying to fool? Why the terrorists cannot create their own encrypted applications which do not save any data whatsoever? I mean we already have Telegram, Wire and many other apps with P2P encryption and timers which pretty much guarantee no party will ever be able to restore or decrypt the content of conversations.
I vividly remember that one of Snowden's documents said that CIA had been dealing with webcam OEMs for years and CIA basically made them implement a special feature in their drivers which allowed them to spy on the user without turning on the camera LED.
Which means you cannot trust your camera LED anymore. Which means you should cover it at all times unless you're OK with someone unknown videotaping you.
I don't know any serious organization or person which uses Facebook as a means of publishing serious data in the first place.
Perhaps there are serious ways in which FB can be used, but I cannot think of any. Communications? People still end up using their cell phones to set up meetings or exchange the most important information. Spreading of serious information/news/etc? FB is almost always secondary. Ah, blogging... no, most serious bloggers user wordpress/blogger/LiveJournal.
It's a chicken and egg problem I'm not going to argue about. One thing is sure: large screen TVs were sold even before HD content became available. As to what propelled what is quite debatable. LCD TV's were exorbitantly expensive when they were first introduced.
it's most likely the last resolution increase they're gonna charge people with. 8K for all intents and purposes might never materialize at home 'cause 99% of people out there just won't notice any difference (vs 4K).
I'd like to get a changelog of those as well. From their first revision (approximately starting at the time when Windows 8.1 was released).
Alternatively I'd love to get an official how-to on how to disable tracking in Windows 10 entirely. While we're at it, I'd love to know how to fully disable Metro features and Windows defender.
The second point is a limited number of rewrite cycles. There, FTFY.
Oh, while we are at it, SSD tend to fail spectacularly: i.e. usually when they perish you cannot extract any information at all vs. spinning platters which usually fail gradually.
P.S. If you wanna counter my first argument, fill your SSD up to 99% and then try to work with it continuously for quite some time. That 1% will get overwritten multiple times and your whole SSD will be prone to a failure. Those tests you've seen online all deal with continuous overwriting of the whole SSD and that rarely happens in real life. In real life pretty much no one continuously wipes clean its SSD to fill it up again and again.
they lose their identity and userbase. It's strange how they fail to understand that.
The Australis UI was the first step. Now this. Soon, a looming XUL deprecation which is an even worse idea -- I wonder what's the point of using Firefox will be then.
In short we had a fantastic web browser, now we have a Chrome wanna-be. Soon, we'll have a Chrome copy with Gecko underneath, but who on earth cares what rendering engine they are running?
First of all there are immortal cookies (infinite cache entries created specifically for your unique PC). Secondly, there's a unique combination of your web browser + OS + fonts + plug ins: https://panopticlick.eff.org/ Thirdly, there are unique patterns in your behaviour (websites that you visit and how frequently you do that) and other wonderful metrics to trace you.
If you want to avoid being traced and tracked there's just one way:
You buy a single time anonymous SIM card with Internet.
You go to some public place where there no web cameras installed or you're not under their monitoring.
You browse the web using at least TOR, or even better a combination of VPN + TOR.
You use the most common computer OS (Windows 7 64), the most common web browser (IE11/Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox) and the least number of browser plugins and extensions.
You do NOT login using Facebook/Google/Microsoft/Yahoo/etc. services, because these companies trace your presence on unrelated websites using various "Share Me" options.
You do NOT use Skype/WhatsApp/Vibe other apps.
You completely destroy your browser profile and this SIM card after you're finished.
This is actually a recipe for browsing the web anonymously however this is the reality of the modern web - not to be traced means to be anonymous as much as possible.
All other ways are only half measures. Or, like people have suggested, you may stop using the Internet completely. It should have long been renamed to a "Trackingnetwork".
I mean I cannot understand at all why FBI/CIA/police/government want backdoors in "encrypted" protocols.
After Snowden's revelations any halfwit with half a brain realizes that you cannot trust anything you haven't created yourself. Thus if you want real privacy/control/encryption, you will implement your own means of communication which employ proper encryption, which means only legal entities, people who trust official/commercial means of communication (WhatsApp, Viber, Skype, e-mail, etc.) will be spied on while real criminals will be out of reach.
Is this rhetoric about encryption is nothing more than a disguise to spy on all of us while those who have power won't be touched?
I would like./ editors to stop with "future Russian plans" stories, 'cause I can almost give you a warranty that given the today's economical situation in Russia, and given the fact that it's on the verge of collapse next to nothing will pan out in the nearest 20 to 50 years.
It would have been better if you'd run a story about the Russian ruble. It's dying. Oh, btw, my previous comment about Russia was modded "Troll" - I do hope that rabid Russian patriots here on./ will not miss this comment as well.
In a perfect corporate environment no network equipment is trusted by default, i.e. even if you install a malicious device the network will remain secure.
Nowadays, there's no other way due to BYOD: even though some companies may explicitly forbid the use of your own devices, realistically it's nigh impossible to implement which means you cannot and mustn't trust any devices on the intranet.
Judging from the users input and my own experience Plasma 5.5.3 still works and feels like an early beta other than a final product which has seen several minor releases.
I don't know what happened to the KDE project but surely something was lost during the transition from KDE 3.5.x to KDE 4.x/5.x.
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The shortened timeline has had "a profound effect on our ability to collect, particularly against citizens of the world," he said.
FTFY.
You see, Mr. Clapper, no one believes you, specially considering the fact that we don't know of any terrorists or their plots that you've been able to expose for the past 20 years. None. However we approximately know your budget and how terrorism is basically a non-issue for people 'cause the number of people dying of other causes is several magnitudes higher. This "war" on terrorism is a plot against people, not for people.
These devices have not redefined the way we phone, nor have they blown us away with unprecedented speeds, or wowed us with extraordinary battery life. Each of these new phones is merely a marginal improvement over last year's model.
Why is no one saying the same things about PCs? Modern smartphones are excellent at what they're doing, sans their poor battery life. Why would you want to switch your phone every 12 months, and why would you expect every generation to bring something new and incredible to the table?
Modern smartphones are already as powerful as 5-7 old PCs yet they consume roughly 100 times less power. I mean for all intents and purposes they are a miracle! You basically have a supercomputer in your pocket for fuck's sake. And yes, we haven't yet developed a good enough power source for them but it's not because we're not trying. It's because doing science nowadays is fucking hard. You just cannot go to your R&D department and tell them, "Hey, guys, let's make our phone better than the competition by inventing a new power source". It just doesn't work this way.
This whole, "show me more features or the smartphone has suddenly become boring", reeks of the most awful consumerism. Your 2-3 old smartphone suddenly doesn't work for you or what? If you have an excess of money to burn go invest them in biotechnology/new energy/aerospace/etc. companies.
We'll only know when and and, most importantly, if she manages to substantially outlive most people of her age.
That's all clear and understandable aside from the fact that I've heard that people are saying that UWP is a disaster for the desktop and you cannot write full-featured applications using this framework.
So, again where does the money come from when most people will keep on buying plain old Win32 application directly from ISVs (because they want to work, not to play) or cheap games off the Windows store (which doesn't quite offset the fact that Windows 10 is given for free or otherwise at a substantially reduced price)?
As the company's mobile device strategy continues to disintegrate, Microsoft may feel compelled to push harder on Windows 10 adoption and paid services to prove it can survive without a viable smartphone.
Microsoft throughout its history has never been profitable in regard to selling its own smartphones. To the contrary, its smartphone division has always been a money drain and it looks like they will stop bleeding soon by killing off Windows 10 Mobile. And since the number of smartphones running Windows 10 Mobile is about to become zero in the nearest future, I don't understand why Microsoft will have to push Windows 10 harder.
Here's another thing I've forgotten to mention.
The human brain has a power consumption of roughly 30W. Show me a computer which has the same computational power as the human brain at this level of power consumption.
"We have limited capacity in our brain. It's at least a million times slower than computational electronics. "
He's joking right? I cannot believe the person holding such a high position at Google can spread such BS. There's no doubt that computers excel at simple mathematical operations, but the human brain has an unmatched level of parallelism which allows it for instance to properly identify unknown objects in a split second and do other "calculations" the computers can only dream of.
Those who have money and power believe they can buy their ticket out of this global catastrophe by hiring enough guards (strangely it has almost never worked for them). So, no, contrary to what science calls for, carbon emissions will keep on growing unabated.
Those who have no money, no power and more importantly no life (as it was mentioned previously on ./ the poor have on average a significantly shorter life span) - don't care because they'll long be dead when the earth becomes insanely overpopulated and equally uninhabitable due to major geographical shifts in agriculture and sea level rise.
The future promises to be freaking crazy. No, I meant, ugly and scary. Wars, continued overpopulation, famines, etc.
Terrorists and criminals are increasingly using encryption to foil law enforcement efforts, even in the face of a court order.
Yeah, right.
Oh, wait, the most recent terrorist attacks in Belgium were carried out using disposable one time cell phones without using encryption of any kind.
Who are those politicians are trying to fool? Why the terrorists cannot create their own encrypted applications which do not save any data whatsoever? I mean we already have Telegram, Wire and many other apps with P2P encryption and timers which pretty much guarantee no party will ever be able to restore or decrypt the content of conversations.
Oh, here it is: FBI can spy on you through your webcam without triggering the indicator light... and has had the technology for several years. That's from 2013. I really doubt anything has changed in this regard, i.e. most, if not all, computer webcams are spying devices.
I vividly remember that one of Snowden's documents said that CIA had been dealing with webcam OEMs for years and CIA basically made them implement a special feature in their drivers which allowed them to spy on the user without turning on the camera LED.
Which means you cannot trust your camera LED anymore. Which means you should cover it at all times unless you're OK with someone unknown videotaping you.
To be fair Facebook seems like a toy.
I don't know any serious organization or person which uses Facebook as a means of publishing serious data in the first place.
Perhaps there are serious ways in which FB can be used, but I cannot think of any. Communications? People still end up using their cell phones to set up meetings or exchange the most important information. Spreading of serious information/news/etc? FB is almost always secondary. Ah, blogging ... no, most serious bloggers user wordpress/blogger/LiveJournal.
It's a chicken and egg problem I'm not going to argue about. One thing is sure: large screen TVs were sold even before HD content became available. As to what propelled what is quite debatable. LCD TV's were exorbitantly expensive when they were first introduced.
it's most likely the last resolution increase they're gonna charge people with. 8K for all intents and purposes might never materialize at home 'cause 99% of people out there just won't notice any difference (vs 4K).
Nowadays they are vanishly rare.
I'd like to get a changelog of those as well. From their first revision (approximately starting at the time when Windows 8.1 was released).
Alternatively I'd love to get an official how-to on how to disable tracking in Windows 10 entirely. While we're at it, I'd love to know how to fully disable Metro features and Windows defender.
revive the Presto engine!
Seriously, I would hate the world where everything revolves around WebKit though I've got a sneaking suspicion we already live in it.
The second point is a limited number of rewrite cycles. There, FTFY.
Oh, while we are at it, SSD tend to fail spectacularly: i.e. usually when they perish you cannot extract any information at all vs. spinning platters which usually fail gradually.
P.S. If you wanna counter my first argument, fill your SSD up to 99% and then try to work with it continuously for quite some time. That 1% will get overwritten multiple times and your whole SSD will be prone to a failure. Those tests you've seen online all deal with continuous overwriting of the whole SSD and that rarely happens in real life. In real life pretty much no one continuously wipes clean its SSD to fill it up again and again.
You might have missed Pale Moon - the people behind it forked Firefox just before Mozilla decided to foist universally hated Australis on its users.
they lose their identity and userbase. It's strange how they fail to understand that.
The Australis UI was the first step. Now this. Soon, a looming XUL deprecation which is an even worse idea -- I wonder what's the point of using Firefox will be then.
In short we had a fantastic web browser, now we have a Chrome wanna-be. Soon, we'll have a Chrome copy with Gecko underneath, but who on earth cares what rendering engine they are running?
Here's my old comment verbatim:
First of all there are immortal cookies (infinite cache entries created specifically for your unique PC). Secondly, there's a unique combination of your web browser + OS + fonts + plug ins: https://panopticlick.eff.org/ Thirdly, there are unique patterns in your behaviour (websites that you visit and how frequently you do that) and other wonderful metrics to trace you.
If you want to avoid being traced and tracked there's just one way:
This is actually a recipe for browsing the web anonymously however this is the reality of the modern web - not to be traced means to be anonymous as much as possible.
All other ways are only half measures. Or, like people have suggested, you may stop using the Internet completely. It should have long been renamed to a "Trackingnetwork".
I mean I cannot understand at all why FBI/CIA/police/government want backdoors in "encrypted" protocols.
After Snowden's revelations any halfwit with half a brain realizes that you cannot trust anything you haven't created yourself. Thus if you want real privacy/control/encryption, you will implement your own means of communication which employ proper encryption, which means only legal entities, people who trust official/commercial means of communication (WhatsApp, Viber, Skype, e-mail, etc.) will be spied on while real criminals will be out of reach.
Is this rhetoric about encryption is nothing more than a disguise to spy on all of us while those who have power won't be touched?
Well, fuck them.
I would like ./ editors to stop with "future Russian plans" stories, 'cause I can almost give you a warranty that given the today's economical situation in Russia, and given the fact that it's on the verge of collapse next to nothing will pan out in the nearest 20 to 50 years.
It would have been better if you'd run a story about the Russian ruble. It's dying. Oh, btw, my previous comment about Russia was modded "Troll" - I do hope that rabid Russian patriots here on ./ will not miss this comment as well.
In a perfect corporate environment no network equipment is trusted by default, i.e. even if you install a malicious device the network will remain secure.
Nowadays, there's no other way due to BYOD: even though some companies may explicitly forbid the use of your own devices, realistically it's nigh impossible to implement which means you cannot and mustn't trust any devices on the intranet.
Judging from the users input and my own experience Plasma 5.5.3 still works and feels like an early beta other than a final product which has seen several minor releases.
I don't know what happened to the KDE project but surely something was lost during the transition from KDE 3.5.x to KDE 4.x/5.x.