Hey, McAfee volunteered to do it. He sounds like the perfect guy for the job;)
The good news is that, after working on the project for 19 straight hours, he's produced what he insists is the decrypted contents of the phone. The bad news is that he was high on bath salts for 18 of those hours, and the decrypted contents consists of 80 handwritten pages containing nothing but the letter k. The worse news is that they appear to be written with feces.
For me, the big advantage of Picasa was the face recognition. Tag someone a few times, and it becomes extremely easy to find pictures of specific friends and relatives.
It isn't the tracking system they want to push, though. They want to push the Windows Marketplace to compete with the Android Play Store and Apple App Store...
There was actually a massive "App Store" on Windows long before IOS or Android even existed: Steam. Microsoft has been trying for years to siphon off Steam's role as the "gateway to gaming", and Valve lately has been working to "Microsoft-Proof" their business model with SteamOS and cross-platform games.
Either indict her now, or tell the world you don't intend to. Waiting until Sep/Oct to announce an indictment is flat out screwing the dems, leaving them with no viable candidate for the few weeks leading up to the election.
How many months did she stall before turning over the server, and the USB drive backup she had given to her lawyer? (Who isn't cleared to possess classified data, BTW.) If the timing is "flat out screwing the dems," that's on Hillary, (and on Dem primary voters - it's not like nobody knew this was building while she was stalling the investigation.)
IT was not against the law at the time to use a personal email server. She knows the law better than you do.
It was against the law at the time to store classified data in an unsecure manner. The statute in question is written very specifically:
-Whether the document is marked classified is irrelevant. Satellite imagery is automatically classified, regardless of whether it is specifically marked as such. -Intent is irrelevant. If you allow classified data in an insecure manner, it doesn't matter if you did so intentionally or through negligence, you have still broken the law.
She probably does know the law better the the average/. reader, she just doesn't care.
What he's saying is that the term "Solid State Disc" is not accurate, since the term "disc" describes a specific shape, and there's nothing disc-shaped in a Solid State "Disc". He's responding to the pedantic comment about iPhones not having "hard drives" by pointing out that Solid State Discs aren't actually discs.
Hence his last sentence:
Language is a social contract in which Alice agrees to try to make herself understood and Bob tries to understand. In this case, the lossy communication channel did the job.
In other words, "You know what he means, and being nit-picky about the technical terms just makes one look like an ass."
My father-in-law is a truck driver. About a year ago, he discovered audiobooks on CD and in the months following, tore through the collections of most local libraries. My wife and I decided to get him a subscription to an audiobook service for Christmas. Most of them are like book or record clubs - your membership buys you 1 or 2 a month. We went with Scribd because their audiobook rental was more like what we were looking for - basically a Netflix for audiobooks, an all-you-can-eat membership.
Now their audiobooks are limited to a "rotating collection" for rental, instead of the full catalog. I guess if they want to keep him as a customer, they better make sure that collection has stuff he's actually interested in.
In short, get everyone to use Tor and they'll be easily identifiable as they start using Facebook, social networking, as well as e-commerce and everything else.
I think the whole point of this exercise is to make Tor usage as widespread as possible. Right now, I'd imagine that Tor usage is an immediate red flag for further attention. But if you get millions of people using Tor for social networking, e-commerce, and other general, innocuous purposes, than it becomes just another security precaution, no more suspicious than having your phone PIN-locked.
This is partly the reason I make it a point to use Tor on a semi-regular basis myself.
And of course, the fact that the app is just called "Photos" makes it freaking impossible to Google for useful information if you run into problems with it.
Okay, thanks for explaining, but can you address the actual arguments being put forward? Particularly the point about the kinds of weapons used in those crimes not being particularly useful for self defence or hunting or even sport, and thus banning them not being too burdensome. Also the bit about what the limit is on the constitutional right, i.e. where the line is between "pea shooter" and "nuke".
OK, let me see:
People keep shooting up schools and other public places with automatic weapons.
No they don't. Thank you for demonstrating your ignorance.
Such weapons are not that useful for hunting,
I'm going to go out on a limb and say you've never been hunting. If I go by what you actually said, yes, automatic weapons wouldn't be all that useful for hunting. Semi-automatic weapons are very useful for hunting. If you're hunting migratory birds like geese or ducks, a semi-auto shotgun is much better, because, when you have an entire flock of birds coming in on your blind, you want to be able to get your shots off as quickly as possible. Same thing with varmint hunting like prairie dogs. Even with bigger game like deer, a semi-auto allows for a quicker follow-up shot if you miss with the first.
and of somewhat dubious value for self defence...
As said below, self-defense practically requires semi-auto. For home defense against a single attacker, a pump-action shotgun might suffice, but even then, semi-auto would be preferable.
Addressing your actual arguments is rather difficult, because your arguments are based around "Nobody needs automatic weapons - they're just used for shooting up schools." You make an argument based on ignorance and falsehoods, and then point out that I didn't address your points.
As for drawing the line somewhere between pea shooters and nukes - that line should be drawn by someone who actually knows what they're talking about - in other words, not you.
Okay, I don't live in the US, most of my gun knowledge comes from Call of Duty, so I got the terminology wrong. Whatever the kinds of guns they use are, I'm told "assault rifle" is wrong too. But honestly, if the best argument you can come up with against a ban is that someone used the incorrect name (when the meaning was obvious)...
The argument against the ban is not, "someone used the incorrect name," it's that the people calling for the ban are doing so from a position of ignorance. I don't blame you for this - as with most political issues, there's a lot of disinformation thrown around. In his last speech on gun control, Obama gave indications that he doesn't understand the difference between automatic and semi-automatic, complaining that people can buy automatic weapons at a gun show without going through a background check.
Just for your own education: Automatic weapon - pull the trigger, the gun keeps firing until you let go or run out of ammo. Semi-automatic - pull the trigger, the gun fires once. Then there are pump-action shotguns and lever- or bolt-action rifles, where you fire, then cycle the action to chamber the next round.
Reading calls for gun control from people who know nothing about guns is like reading about calls for banning encryption from people who know nothing about how computers work. To bring the analogy back to the actual article linked: in the same way that you can't eliminate backdoor-free encryption because there is already open-source encryption software available, home workshop gun production means that gun control will never eliminate guns.
Still at least it was better than a LONG time ago [Vax and VT220 era] when I saw one person labelling connections by yanking out an RS232 cable from a patch panel, waiting for a call "My terminal's died", asking which room they were in and making up a label and then plugging it back with "I think that may fix it" and getting pathetically grateful responses in return.
Ah, yes... The classic "Scream Test". Don't know what something does? Make it stop, then see who screams.
Australian translation is particularly difficult. Translating an American movie into any other language just involves either subtitles, or an alternative audio track. The Australian translation requires extensive CGI work to replace any depiction of American beer with something drinkable.
Also, if animals appear in the movie, at least half of them must be venomous.
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If Microsoft is working to replace actual teenagers, I'm OK with this.
Hey, McAfee volunteered to do it. He sounds like the perfect guy for the job ;)
The good news is that, after working on the project for 19 straight hours, he's produced what he insists is the decrypted contents of the phone. The bad news is that he was high on bath salts for 18 of those hours, and the decrypted contents consists of 80 handwritten pages containing nothing but the letter k. The worse news is that they appear to be written with feces.
In other words, a typical day for John McAfee.
What are you, some kind of posture-change denier?
Sorry, it seems your backup has developed cancer.
Sorry, it seems your backup has evolved sentience and has eaten three lab techs.
As an evil twin, I'm very much in favor of this. On the downside, I'll have to shave my goatee...
For me, the big advantage of Picasa was the face recognition. Tag someone a few times, and it becomes extremely easy to find pictures of specific friends and relatives.
It isn't the tracking system they want to push, though. They want to push the Windows Marketplace to compete with the Android Play Store and Apple App Store...
There was actually a massive "App Store" on Windows long before IOS or Android even existed: Steam. Microsoft has been trying for years to siphon off Steam's role as the "gateway to gaming", and Valve lately has been working to "Microsoft-Proof" their business model with SteamOS and cross-platform games.
He once said that the anti-virus software that currently bears his name is crap, so he's not wrong all the time.
Google is doing work for military-industrial-complex?
It's actually the other way around. Once Google has their killer robot army, they can finally force everyone to use Google+
I'll have to send them the info from Bobby Table's watch.
Either indict her now, or tell the world you don't intend to. Waiting until Sep/Oct to announce an indictment is flat out screwing the dems, leaving them with no viable candidate for the few weeks leading up to the election.
How many months did she stall before turning over the server, and the USB drive backup she had given to her lawyer? (Who isn't cleared to possess classified data, BTW.) If the timing is "flat out screwing the dems," that's on Hillary, (and on Dem primary voters - it's not like nobody knew this was building while she was stalling the investigation.)
IT was not against the law at the time to use a personal email server. She knows the law better than you do.
It was against the law at the time to store classified data in an unsecure manner. The statute in question is written very specifically:
-Whether the document is marked classified is irrelevant. Satellite imagery is automatically classified, regardless of whether it is specifically marked as such.
-Intent is irrelevant. If you allow classified data in an insecure manner, it doesn't matter if you did so intentionally or through negligence, you have still broken the law.
She probably does know the law better the the average /. reader, she just doesn't care.
What he's saying is that the term "Solid State Disc" is not accurate, since the term "disc" describes a specific shape, and there's nothing disc-shaped in a Solid State "Disc". He's responding to the pedantic comment about iPhones not having "hard drives" by pointing out that Solid State Discs aren't actually discs.
Hence his last sentence:
Language is a social contract in which Alice agrees to try to make herself understood and Bob tries to understand. In this case, the lossy communication channel did the job.
In other words, "You know what he means, and being nit-picky about the technical terms just makes one look like an ass."
My father-in-law is a truck driver. About a year ago, he discovered audiobooks on CD and in the months following, tore through the collections of most local libraries. My wife and I decided to get him a subscription to an audiobook service for Christmas. Most of them are like book or record clubs - your membership buys you 1 or 2 a month. We went with Scribd because their audiobook rental was more like what we were looking for - basically a Netflix for audiobooks, an all-you-can-eat membership.
Now their audiobooks are limited to a "rotating collection" for rental, instead of the full catalog. I guess if they want to keep him as a customer, they better make sure that collection has stuff he's actually interested in.
And of course, the fact that the app is just called "Photos" makes it freaking impossible to Google for useful information if you run into problems with it.
I'll add an endorsement for IrfanView as well. Great image viewer, and very useful for basic cropping and the like.
You do realize we still have tariffs now, right? There are thousands and thousands of pages of regulations defining all the tariffs that are in place.
Okay, thanks for explaining, but can you address the actual arguments being put forward? Particularly the point about the kinds of weapons used in those crimes not being particularly useful for self defence or hunting or even sport, and thus banning them not being too burdensome. Also the bit about what the limit is on the constitutional right, i.e. where the line is between "pea shooter" and "nuke".
OK, let me see:
People keep shooting up schools and other public places with automatic weapons.
No they don't. Thank you for demonstrating your ignorance.
Such weapons are not that useful for hunting,
I'm going to go out on a limb and say you've never been hunting. If I go by what you actually said, yes, automatic weapons wouldn't be all that useful for hunting. Semi-automatic weapons are very useful for hunting. If you're hunting migratory birds like geese or ducks, a semi-auto shotgun is much better, because, when you have an entire flock of birds coming in on your blind, you want to be able to get your shots off as quickly as possible. Same thing with varmint hunting like prairie dogs. Even with bigger game like deer, a semi-auto allows for a quicker follow-up shot if you miss with the first.
and of somewhat dubious value for self defence...
As said below, self-defense practically requires semi-auto. For home defense against a single attacker, a pump-action shotgun might suffice, but even then, semi-auto would be preferable.
Addressing your actual arguments is rather difficult, because your arguments are based around "Nobody needs automatic weapons - they're just used for shooting up schools." You make an argument based on ignorance and falsehoods, and then point out that I didn't address your points.
As for drawing the line somewhere between pea shooters and nukes - that line should be drawn by someone who actually knows what they're talking about - in other words, not you.
When Australia had a near-total ban on private firearm ownership, the firearm suicide rate plummeted, but the overall suicide rate stayed level.
Okay, I don't live in the US, most of my gun knowledge comes from Call of Duty, so I got the terminology wrong. Whatever the kinds of guns they use are, I'm told "assault rifle" is wrong too. But honestly, if the best argument you can come up with against a ban is that someone used the incorrect name (when the meaning was obvious)...
The argument against the ban is not, "someone used the incorrect name," it's that the people calling for the ban are doing so from a position of ignorance. I don't blame you for this - as with most political issues, there's a lot of disinformation thrown around. In his last speech on gun control, Obama gave indications that he doesn't understand the difference between automatic and semi-automatic, complaining that people can buy automatic weapons at a gun show without going through a background check.
Just for your own education: Automatic weapon - pull the trigger, the gun keeps firing until you let go or run out of ammo. Semi-automatic - pull the trigger, the gun fires once. Then there are pump-action shotguns and lever- or bolt-action rifles, where you fire, then cycle the action to chamber the next round.
Reading calls for gun control from people who know nothing about guns is like reading about calls for banning encryption from people who know nothing about how computers work. To bring the analogy back to the actual article linked: in the same way that you can't eliminate backdoor-free encryption because there is already open-source encryption software available, home workshop gun production means that gun control will never eliminate guns.
I have a feeling that Gordon Freeman answered a similar ad.
Still at least it was better than a LONG time ago [Vax and VT220 era] when I saw one person labelling connections by yanking out an RS232 cable from a patch panel, waiting for a call "My terminal's died", asking which room they were in and making up a label and then plugging it back with "I think that may fix it" and getting pathetically grateful responses in return.
Ah, yes... The classic "Scream Test". Don't know what something does? Make it stop, then see who screams.
Alternate translation: Would somebody who knows what they're doing please fix our crappy drivers?
Australian translation is particularly difficult. Translating an American movie into any other language just involves either subtitles, or an alternative audio track. The Australian translation requires extensive CGI work to replace any depiction of American beer with something drinkable.
Also, if animals appear in the movie, at least half of them must be venomous.