Sure, it's pedantic, but a DVD holds only about 9GB on a dual layer disc. It may be a disc with the same form factor, but it's not a DVD. You could just as well say "holds one Petabyte on a single CD", which also wouldn't be true.
Once the word is out this database exists, other uses will be found for it, either by the NSA or by other organizations. History has proven that once data exists, people will use it any way they want to.
They can be almost as effective if they only start monitoring those phone numbers that are correlated to "terrorism" because they get dialed by a foreign terrorist. They'd miss "historical data" but I doubt the effectiveness of that will weigh up to the giant loss of privacy people suffer because their "metadata" gets stored.
Nobody has even proven the effectiveness of this sort of measures against terrorism, it costs billions and the elected government is spying on the people that elected them in the first place. If you, as a politician, don't trust the people that voted for you, your democracy as a country is in serious trouble.
Really, if we'd only let people that are actually good at driving behind the wheel of cars, 90% of current driving license holders would be without transport. Driving licenses aren't about people being a danger to the people around them out cars. They are about keeping the ones that would cost more than they'd ever be able to put back into the economy from causing disasters.
Statistically, people are dangerous in cars, no matter what they do. We have to limit the good drivers to prevent the average and below drivers from doing a lot of damage as well. It's all about "getting by" without major things going wrong and having an objective system setting an acceptable risk factor on traffic for society, not about actual skill or safety of individuals.
Driving licenses are about "minimal requirements to possibly be able to operate a vehicle", nothing more, nothing less. You could in reality be a dangerous fucktard, but as long as you don't show any fucktarding wile you are taking your driving exam, you get the license if you show you are capable of mechanically operating a vehicle, looking around you to observe other traffic and show sufficient knowledge of traffic laws and regulations. You don't have to convince the inspector that you'd be doing all that for the rest of your life.
That's not an equivalent. That's the only way you can try and get "justice" if law enforcement doesn't take care of the perpetrators, but it's not a digital equivalent. Let me put it to you this way: If someone was to come into your house and murder your significant other. Would it be okay if the police were to find them and kill their significant other, without trial? Because that would be an equivalent too. The law deals with these things not by revenge or "an eye for an eye", but by (hopefully) proper research, apprehension of the suspects and a fair trial. Hacking back isn't any of those.
This is *not* about permanently disabling or blacklisting a phone. This is about making the phone unusable for the thief, but keeping it technically sound so the rightful owner could still use it if it has been recovered. It'd be trivial to blacklist an IMEI, just as it would be to circumvent the blacklist by reprogramming the baseband controller. It'd be trivial to implement a "self destruct" on the phone that could be triggered remotely, but then you'd have a phone that would need at least one chip replaced before it'd work again. This is about non-destructive locking and it relies on the OS not being rooted. They may find a way to do that on newer hardware, but as I understand it, all current hardware has been "owned" sufficiently for a software-only compromise to be sufficient.
20cm over hundreds of miles is not significant. You'd have more run down from surrounding hills adding to the water level than the inflow of one of the oceans. In essence, you'd have a river that would flow both ways. You probably still want locks though, if only to make sure that you don't have to dig your canal incredibly deep. It may be feasible to build the channel (mostly) at sea level, but there may still be some areas where placing a lock would save you so much money in digging that you can't ever get that back in fares.
What economic opportunity and freedom are you talking about exactly? Please give relevant examples that are true today and not 50 years ago.
The US export economy is currently mostly about exporting genetically modified soy and weapons. While the main export product in terms of money spent obviously is war, the USA is doing this at a loss, so it doesn't count. Software and IT services are an export product, but the money made from that is rapidly decreasing and in fact, due to taxes, is not in fact made or stored in the USA and does not benefit it's economy.
The internal economy is mostly centred around flipping burgers in fast food restaurants, producing marijuana (most profitable crop in the USA), waitressing and lawsuits over copyrights. While tax brackets for high income are slightly favourable compared to a lot of other "first world countries" the chance of actually making that much money is much lower in the USA than in most other "first world" countries.
The USA is currently importing most of it's (high) tech, clothing and most other mass manufactured products apart from about half of it's food. They are spending more money on things going abroad than they are making selling stuff abroad. In terms of US dollar value that may not look bad, but if you look at the amount of foreign currency spent and made, the USA is getting poor rapidly. This may mean that at higher poverty rates some plans that wouldn't work in a rich country suddenly are feasible and may count as an "economic opportunity", but apart from a few exceptions, nobody in the USA will have a fighting chance to benefit from this.
The USA is actually rather low on most rankings of things like press freedom, human rights organizations and such. Also, the USA has one of the highest percentages of their population in a stereotypical location for the anti-definition of free, in jail. Your definition of free may very well be rather unique compared to that of the rest of the world, or you haven't yet looked at how your definition of free would hold up in other countries.
Typical freedom arguments like "the right to bear arms" apply to a lot more countries than most Americans are aware of and are in general not required if you have a government and law enforcement that you can actually trust.
There is one USA freedom that I would actually really would like to see happening in Europe: The right to be forgotten. With all my metadata being stored by the USA government, I really doubt that the USA is taking that right seriously themselves, so I guess the value of that right isn't what it used to be....
What sort of definition is that? It's the first time I've seen it mentioned. Maybe you mean that mp3 uses a psycho-acoustic model that takes out "definition", spatial information and volume dynamics? Depending on the amount of "loss" in the compression, mp3 is somewhere in between "some musicians and audio purists are statistically able to distinguish between the compressed and non compressed format" to "a casual listener on a mediocre audio device may not hear the difference in a noisy environment." Both FLAC and MP3 encoded files with a lossless source file usually don't contain any frequencies above 20 KHz, so your dog will probably not hear things a human with non-damaged ears wouldn't. FLAC may be capable of storing such formats, but even straight-from-the-stylus-to-the-DAC style LP rips just don't contain these frequencies because the original artist never recorded them.
So yes, it's rather limited still. However, it's not the codec that's the limiting factor, it's the choice of the hardware vendors, since the codec itself is free to implement.
Police should try and catch the thief and return the phone to it's owner. GPS won't work, unless the thief has switched it on. Cell tower information would probably be sufficient enough to get near the thief. If word gets out that teams of cops are actually on full-time phone retrieval duty, thieves are going to be a lot more cautious about stealing phones. The reason this happens so much is that the chance the thieves get caught is way too low.
Blocking the IMEI means the thieves will change the IMEI on the phone. Yes, they figure out how to do that and for most not-so-recent phones there is a black market where you can get that done. For the popular new phones, it usually will get done soon after the phone gets on the market. It's a software/firmware thing usually, so IMEI blocking is not sufficient. If there is no software solution, often the baseband chip gets replaced, or the phone gets exported to a country that doesn't use foreign IMEI blocking lists. I'm fairly certain that thieves will find a solution for the kill-switch too, given time.
As far as I'm aware, Neanderthals were in fact quite hungry a lot of the time and didn't eat meat every day. They were going by on daily fruits, nuts and vegetables and only had meat when the hunt was successful.
You young whippersnapper get on the front page of SlashDot with questions on how to get job experience as a junior Windows admin. When I was your age I just installed the product and played a bit with it, asked some questions on usenet and then did an exam. Shortly after that, I discovered that once you had the certifications, there wasn't much of a career left to make with MicroSoft products so I switched to better paying operating systems and gigs. Look around you, plenty of jobs in IT don't even require knowledge of even a single MicroSoft product. You're just looking for jobs that require your skill set and find out that they also want MSSQL and MS-Exchange. They all want the world and are happy with a few countries, delighted with a whole continent. Just apply to the job and state that you've learned the rest of your CV's skills in relatively short time and have no doubt that you'll pick up exchange and sql quickly. That's what experience will teach you, not how to admin an Outlook frontend box....
I've worked for government in the Netherlands and I know how much a government desk top PC costs there. The Dutch government isn't as efficient as they can be with these, but 6000 UK pounds is still a lot more than the governmental institute I was working for was spending on their office IT infrastructure, per seat. If you would count in not just the Windows desktops but the Linux desktops they had there as well, you'd be looking at another 30% saving per seat, over the 2 platforms combined. The article may not be looking at "hidden costs" as much as they should, but even if you do, it's way too expensive.
If the police arrives with a warrant, you don't have to open the door for them. It is not a crime to not open that door. However, they have the right to knock it down and you can't claim damages that you may occur because of it. You don't have to actively assist the police in serving the warrant. As long as you are not actively obstructing them (putting up extra barricades, destroying evidence after they announced their warrant), you're not doing anything illegal.
If you know there is evidence against you on the encrypted device, you would be incriminating yourself by turning it over to the police. The police can presume there is evidence on the drive, but presumption is not proof. Once you hand over that evidence, it would be admissible and thus self incriminating.
You can't force someone to hand over that key. Not now and not in the past. However, the police has the right to open the safe any way they find fit if there is a search warrant. If they open the safe and you get convicted based on evidence found in the safe, the damage to the safe is yours to pay for. If they find evidence inside the locked safe, it's found in a lawful way and is admissible as evidence.
If they opened the safe without a proper warrant, they would be liable for damages to the safe and anything found inside the safe would not be admissible as evidence in a court case. That is why there are warrants. They are not about forcing people to hand over keys.
Also, the cameras don't record altitude or position. The GPS unit senses it and the computer unit in the lower part of the backpack records it on the SSD. The cameras aren't actually gopro equivalent. Their sensors have less pixels, but better sensitivity and color depth. The lenses are a lot less distorting than the ones on gopro cameras and have much less lens flare.
Most high tech stuff you buy in the stores today is made in china. Just like the Japanese got mocked in the seventies, you're doing the same to the Chinese right now. The Japanese are in the world top when it comes to high tech, research and manufacturing capabilities these days. They have been there since the eighties. The Chinese may not be up to the level of the Japanese just yet, at least not on a big scale, but they are more than capable of producing high tech planes, rockets, computer equipment and what's required to make these plans interesting to them.
These plans are littered all over the world. Every supplier of even a single part has lots of specifications and details of parts they have to interact with on their systems. If you hack just a few of those, you essentially get all the plans you need to build your own, or to find the weak spots in the design and adapt your own weapons on that. DOD may not have these plans on computers that are connected to the internet, but most suppliers do. It's a public secret these are the companies that get hacked and that is the way the plans get leaked or stolen.
Your statistics are most likely based on a sample base of 1 person, yourself. Standard deviation of your survey results make scientific value of said results a bit questionable.
You must mean Empirical? If you would mean English, you wouldn't have the same weights as you have now in the USA. Imagine the confusion you could prevent by teaching every American decimal counting and simple calculations. On the other hand, the 12 fingered citizens would disapprove....
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Sure, it's pedantic, but a DVD holds only about 9GB on a dual layer disc. It may be a disc with the same form factor, but it's not a DVD. You could just as well say "holds one Petabyte on a single CD", which also wouldn't be true.
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There are plenty more financial sites than 21 that do that. They must not have looked very hard or at a lot of sites.
Once the word is out this database exists, other uses will be found for it, either by the NSA or by other organizations. History has proven that once data exists, people will use it any way they want to.
They can be almost as effective if they only start monitoring those phone numbers that are correlated to "terrorism" because they get dialed by a foreign terrorist. They'd miss "historical data" but I doubt the effectiveness of that will weigh up to the giant loss of privacy people suffer because their "metadata" gets stored.
Nobody has even proven the effectiveness of this sort of measures against terrorism, it costs billions and the elected government is spying on the people that elected them in the first place. If you, as a politician, don't trust the people that voted for you, your democracy as a country is in serious trouble.
Really, if we'd only let people that are actually good at driving behind the wheel of cars, 90% of current driving license holders would be without transport. Driving licenses aren't about people being a danger to the people around them out cars. They are about keeping the ones that would cost more than they'd ever be able to put back into the economy from causing disasters.
Statistically, people are dangerous in cars, no matter what they do. We have to limit the good drivers to prevent the average and below drivers from doing a lot of damage as well. It's all about "getting by" without major things going wrong and having an objective system setting an acceptable risk factor on traffic for society, not about actual skill or safety of individuals.
Driving licenses are about "minimal requirements to possibly be able to operate a vehicle", nothing more, nothing less. You could in reality be a dangerous fucktard, but as long as you don't show any fucktarding wile you are taking your driving exam, you get the license if you show you are capable of mechanically operating a vehicle, looking around you to observe other traffic and show sufficient knowledge of traffic laws and regulations. You don't have to convince the inspector that you'd be doing all that for the rest of your life.
That's not an equivalent. That's the only way you can try and get "justice" if law enforcement doesn't take care of the perpetrators, but it's not a digital equivalent. Let me put it to you this way: If someone was to come into your house and murder your significant other. Would it be okay if the police were to find them and kill their significant other, without trial? Because that would be an equivalent too. The law deals with these things not by revenge or "an eye for an eye", but by (hopefully) proper research, apprehension of the suspects and a fair trial. Hacking back isn't any of those.
This is *not* about permanently disabling or blacklisting a phone. This is about making the phone unusable for the thief, but keeping it technically sound so the rightful owner could still use it if it has been recovered. It'd be trivial to blacklist an IMEI, just as it would be to circumvent the blacklist by reprogramming the baseband controller. It'd be trivial to implement a "self destruct" on the phone that could be triggered remotely, but then you'd have a phone that would need at least one chip replaced before it'd work again. This is about non-destructive locking and it relies on the OS not being rooted. They may find a way to do that on newer hardware, but as I understand it, all current hardware has been "owned" sufficiently for a software-only compromise to be sufficient.
20cm over hundreds of miles is not significant. You'd have more run down from surrounding hills adding to the water level than the inflow of one of the oceans. In essence, you'd have a river that would flow both ways. You probably still want locks though, if only to make sure that you don't have to dig your canal incredibly deep. It may be feasible to build the channel (mostly) at sea level, but there may still be some areas where placing a lock would save you so much money in digging that you can't ever get that back in fares.
What economic opportunity and freedom are you talking about exactly? Please give relevant examples that are true today and not 50 years ago.
The US export economy is currently mostly about exporting genetically modified soy and weapons. While the main export product in terms of money spent obviously is war, the USA is doing this at a loss, so it doesn't count. Software and IT services are an export product, but the money made from that is rapidly decreasing and in fact, due to taxes, is not in fact made or stored in the USA and does not benefit it's economy.
The internal economy is mostly centred around flipping burgers in fast food restaurants, producing marijuana (most profitable crop in the USA), waitressing and lawsuits over copyrights. While tax brackets for high income are slightly favourable compared to a lot of other "first world countries" the chance of actually making that much money is much lower in the USA than in most other "first world" countries.
The USA is currently importing most of it's (high) tech, clothing and most other mass manufactured products apart from about half of it's food. They are spending more money on things going abroad than they are making selling stuff abroad. In terms of US dollar value that may not look bad, but if you look at the amount of foreign currency spent and made, the USA is getting poor rapidly. This may mean that at higher poverty rates some plans that wouldn't work in a rich country suddenly are feasible and may count as an "economic opportunity", but apart from a few exceptions, nobody in the USA will have a fighting chance to benefit from this.
The USA is actually rather low on most rankings of things like press freedom, human rights organizations and such. Also, the USA has one of the highest percentages of their population in a stereotypical location for the anti-definition of free, in jail. Your definition of free may very well be rather unique compared to that of the rest of the world, or you haven't yet looked at how your definition of free would hold up in other countries.
Typical freedom arguments like "the right to bear arms" apply to a lot more countries than most Americans are aware of and are in general not required if you have a government and law enforcement that you can actually trust.
There is one USA freedom that I would actually really would like to see happening in Europe: The right to be forgotten. With all my metadata being stored by the USA government, I really doubt that the USA is taking that right seriously themselves, so I guess the value of that right isn't what it used to be....
What sort of definition is that? It's the first time I've seen it mentioned. Maybe you mean that mp3 uses a psycho-acoustic model that takes out "definition", spatial information and volume dynamics? Depending on the amount of "loss" in the compression, mp3 is somewhere in between "some musicians and audio purists are statistically able to distinguish between the compressed and non compressed format" to "a casual listener on a mediocre audio device may not hear the difference in a noisy environment." Both FLAC and MP3 encoded files with a lossless source file usually don't contain any frequencies above 20 KHz, so your dog will probably not hear things a human with non-damaged ears wouldn't. FLAC may be capable of storing such formats, but even straight-from-the-stylus-to-the-DAC style LP rips just don't contain these frequencies because the original artist never recorded them.
Adobe needs to install an updater for the installer. Continue?
So yes, it's rather limited still. However, it's not the codec that's the limiting factor, it's the choice of the hardware vendors, since the codec itself is free to implement.
Police should try and catch the thief and return the phone to it's owner. GPS won't work, unless the thief has switched it on. Cell tower information would probably be sufficient enough to get near the thief. If word gets out that teams of cops are actually on full-time phone retrieval duty, thieves are going to be a lot more cautious about stealing phones. The reason this happens so much is that the chance the thieves get caught is way too low.
Blocking the IMEI means the thieves will change the IMEI on the phone. Yes, they figure out how to do that and for most not-so-recent phones there is a black market where you can get that done. For the popular new phones, it usually will get done soon after the phone gets on the market. It's a software/firmware thing usually, so IMEI blocking is not sufficient. If there is no software solution, often the baseband chip gets replaced, or the phone gets exported to a country that doesn't use foreign IMEI blocking lists. I'm fairly certain that thieves will find a solution for the kill-switch too, given time.
As far as I'm aware, Neanderthals were in fact quite hungry a lot of the time and didn't eat meat every day. They were going by on daily fruits, nuts and vegetables and only had meat when the hunt was successful.
You young whippersnapper get on the front page of SlashDot with questions on how to get job experience as a junior Windows admin. When I was your age I just installed the product and played a bit with it, asked some questions on usenet and then did an exam. Shortly after that, I discovered that once you had the certifications, there wasn't much of a career left to make with MicroSoft products so I switched to better paying operating systems and gigs. Look around you, plenty of jobs in IT don't even require knowledge of even a single MicroSoft product. You're just looking for jobs that require your skill set and find out that they also want MSSQL and MS-Exchange. They all want the world and are happy with a few countries, delighted with a whole continent. Just apply to the job and state that you've learned the rest of your CV's skills in relatively short time and have no doubt that you'll pick up exchange and sql quickly. That's what experience will teach you, not how to admin an Outlook frontend box....
I've worked for government in the Netherlands and I know how much a government desk top PC costs there. The Dutch government isn't as efficient as they can be with these, but 6000 UK pounds is still a lot more than the governmental institute I was working for was spending on their office IT infrastructure, per seat. If you would count in not just the Windows desktops but the Linux desktops they had there as well, you'd be looking at another 30% saving per seat, over the 2 platforms combined. The article may not be looking at "hidden costs" as much as they should, but even if you do, it's way too expensive.
If the police arrives with a warrant, you don't have to open the door for them. It is not a crime to not open that door. However, they have the right to knock it down and you can't claim damages that you may occur because of it. You don't have to actively assist the police in serving the warrant. As long as you are not actively obstructing them (putting up extra barricades, destroying evidence after they announced their warrant), you're not doing anything illegal.
If you know there is evidence against you on the encrypted device, you would be incriminating yourself by turning it over to the police. The police can presume there is evidence on the drive, but presumption is not proof. Once you hand over that evidence, it would be admissible and thus self incriminating.
You can't force someone to hand over that key. Not now and not in the past. However, the police has the right to open the safe any way they find fit if there is a search warrant. If they open the safe and you get convicted based on evidence found in the safe, the damage to the safe is yours to pay for. If they find evidence inside the locked safe, it's found in a lawful way and is admissible as evidence.
If they opened the safe without a proper warrant, they would be liable for damages to the safe and anything found inside the safe would not be admissible as evidence in a court case. That is why there are warrants. They are not about forcing people to hand over keys.
Also, the cameras don't record altitude or position. The GPS unit senses it and the computer unit in the lower part of the backpack records it on the SSD. The cameras aren't actually gopro equivalent. Their sensors have less pixels, but better sensitivity and color depth. The lenses are a lot less distorting than the ones on gopro cameras and have much less lens flare.
The answer to that question is 42 If you don't understand that, you may have to work on your advanced math a bit more.
Most high tech stuff you buy in the stores today is made in china. Just like the Japanese got mocked in the seventies, you're doing the same to the Chinese right now. The Japanese are in the world top when it comes to high tech, research and manufacturing capabilities these days. They have been there since the eighties. The Chinese may not be up to the level of the Japanese just yet, at least not on a big scale, but they are more than capable of producing high tech planes, rockets, computer equipment and what's required to make these plans interesting to them.
These plans are littered all over the world. Every supplier of even a single part has lots of specifications and details of parts they have to interact with on their systems. If you hack just a few of those, you essentially get all the plans you need to build your own, or to find the weak spots in the design and adapt your own weapons on that. DOD may not have these plans on computers that are connected to the internet, but most suppliers do. It's a public secret these are the companies that get hacked and that is the way the plans get leaked or stolen.
Your statistics are most likely based on a sample base of 1 person, yourself. Standard deviation of your survey results make scientific value of said results a bit questionable.
You must mean Empirical? If you would mean English, you wouldn't have the same weights as you have now in the USA. Imagine the confusion you could prevent by teaching every American decimal counting and simple calculations. On the other hand, the 12 fingered citizens would disapprove....
They have a marsyard? Where can we get one?