Not at all that. From what I can read from the (equally bad) article, the claimed effect may be due to the (currently unobserved) Unruh effect. The Unruh effect is a hypothetical black body radiation observed by an accelerating observer. Basically, if you were accelerating in reference to a "stationary" observer, you observe yourself heating up (very, very slightly) while the "stationary" observer would not see this heat.
At least you'll have access to the source code and can give it to a new contractor for further work/fixes. The main problem as GP states is that you get binaries from organizations that either no longer exist or turn into extortionists to fix anything. If you have the source, at least that is no longer a valid excuse.
Please look up recent investigations in portions of that history. The Swiss banks (not talking about the populace) were not quite the saints they portray themselves to be (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/nazis/readings/sinister.html)
You forgot all about: CVE-2011-1991 and there must have been several others but I can't be bothered to look it up. Try opening Notepad with a debugger attached, you see all kinds of crap being loaded including IE stuff.
The Swiss didn't seem to have any issue turning over Jewish gold and bank accounts during their Nazi alliance. How sure can we be a "friendly state" doesn't secretly get the data anyway? The Swiss bankers didn't get rich by simply holding assets, they go with whatever the highest bidder wants.
Good encryption is the only way to keep your data safe, in Switzerland or elsewhere.
I want a 4K display that accepts DVI/DisplayPort and actually does 60 or 120Hz. I haven't seen any of these displays do anything beyond 30fps (measured, not reported back to the computer).
I've been "homeless" in the sense I didn't have an address, living out of cars and cheap motels without any friends or family to fall back on. I wasn't eligible for any assistance or unemployment due to being a recently (legally immigrated) alien resident.
I however never got into the situation where I didn't have enough money saved up, just a few hundred to do something like move away from the area and pay 2 months worth of rent on a room. In those situations where I was down on my luck, I got offered but never accepted job offers in places like NYC or SF because I knew that I couldn't survive there if the job didn't pan out.
I don't know how it's possible in the US for a single (mentally capable) person not to survive on part time jobs or minimum wage or even welfare if you're eligible, I've lived in countries with worse net income ($16k/year net income for 2 people, $700 rent for a very tiny apartment and not eligible for any assistance due to 'high wages').
Sleeping in a car is imho not really homeless; you still had options, you could've moved to a much cheaper living area away from SF (perhaps the mid-west), found a job there. There is a substantial amount of social welfare services that are easily accessible in the US as well if you (really) don't have a job.
The problem in the US with homelessness is that although there is this huge amount of money being pumped in it, the abuse of the system is rampant on both the giving and receiving side and there is really no help for people that don't have the mental capacity to figure out how the system works (the paperwork).
This is exactly the problem. I still use a first gen iPad and have had 2 iPhones over the course of the last 5 years as well. They don't "slow down" when using the Apple apps and other well-designed apps although some of the apps (especially games) simply "update" their games by putting in things like bigger textures without (the well documented feature) gracefully downgrading textures for older devices causing the older devices to slow down while playing the 'same' game. Same goes for online stuff, the websites are getting heavier by the day, even this site is guilty of it. There used to be just a single self-hosted tracker, now there are ~10 of them and libraries loaded from a dozen or so CDN's, an older device is not quite as fast as parsing JS to byte code when it takes ~500ms simply in network time to load everything.
Well in the same sense Christianity is not a religion either. There is plenty of Christian satire and it is actually quite difficult to distinguish satirists talking about Christianity and modern Christian rhetoric from pastors. So this ruling must be evenly applied to all prisoners.
Yes, it is unreasonable. First of all it's unconstitutional, second of all you can not 'solve' the problem without also giving access to pretty much every other entity in the world.
Soap doesn't stick to dirt. Soap sticks to grease, grease (or oil) is naturally on your hands. You are basically removing the top layer of 'grease' from your hand which contains most harmful bacteria (the layer of oils is part of your skin protection environment).
And if you ever wonder about these Dyson's, check out a well-used one. The water pools in the bottom rusting out the entire thing.
The viruses in the water are just to 'tag' where the germs land (vs. germs from other sources which are found on all surfaces). And no, soap and water does not kill all the germs on your hands, hell it doesn't even kill most of them.
A) That's not how BES "encryption" works. Even RIM has gotten off the notion of calling it "encryption" and are now calling it "scrambling". B) It is well known that not just India but a host of other countries have access to the keys. The Mounties are the least scary police agency in the world. C) There was a paper about 10 years ago that explained how to 'crack' the BB "encryption" scheme.
Read the BlackBerry website (it's linked through the story). All messages, even on the 'enterprise' version are "scrambled", the enterprise version simply uses a different key to "scramble"; in other support documents they point out that "scrambled" does not mean encrypted.
Read the spec. BES encryption keys (on your own server) get published to the Blackberry device the first time it connects (when it is by definition unaware of what your BES keys are) encrypted with the Blackberry Global Key. That is if there are no other back doors in the encryption (since the standard is closed source, you never really can be sure). They eventually (this was news about a decade ago) gave in to India and gave their government access to all systems in India, why do you think the US can't do something similar?
If your government (or anyone else for that matter) has or obtains the Global Key, they could read your server's key when it is pushed to the device given it has traveled through or been recorded by a government-friendly ISP/wireless provider. Given that the keys are created for servers, not per user, they only have to be able to obtain (or trick) 1 push communication to decrypt everything else.
Given that AT&T stores data at least from the 1980's onwards, it is likely that if a government wanted, they could retroactively obtain the data, decrypt the key and use that for any other data obtained through warrantless searches.
Not only that, but they took the safe, sent it outside the country to probably a we-spy-back-on-the-US country (eg. Israel) and let not just the hacker but possibly a host of other countries it passed through on the way (whatever North-African or European country UPS/FedEx has a depot in) mess with the phone.
Back in the day (and one of the many reasons RIM went down the tubes) was because they have global decryption keys for both BES and BIS. It's right there in the specifications and marketing of the Blackberry communications.
But then it wouldn't be "pretty" anymore. Typically the way these things are built, they are photo-op first and then later do the technical challenges get 'fixed'.
FMLA (Family Medical Leave) is not paid but you could get it as well even if you are male. Any policies regarding negative Paid Time Off would also have to apply to you.
It IS against federal law. FLSA does not require anyone to get any vacation but it does require that any policies are not discriminatory. So if you get less vacation than your female or Indian co-workers, you could sue them for discrimination.
Not sure whether you have a contract but employers may not discriminate in determining who gets vacation. If your co-worker gets vacation (paid or unpaid) because he's Indian, you should get some too, otherwise stick your HR department on your supervisor or even your attorney.
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Not at all that. From what I can read from the (equally bad) article, the claimed effect may be due to the (currently unobserved) Unruh effect. The Unruh effect is a hypothetical black body radiation observed by an accelerating observer. Basically, if you were accelerating in reference to a "stationary" observer, you observe yourself heating up (very, very slightly) while the "stationary" observer would not see this heat.
At least you'll have access to the source code and can give it to a new contractor for further work/fixes. The main problem as GP states is that you get binaries from organizations that either no longer exist or turn into extortionists to fix anything. If you have the source, at least that is no longer a valid excuse.
Please look up recent investigations in portions of that history. The Swiss banks (not talking about the populace) were not quite the saints they portray themselves to be (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/nazis/readings/sinister.html)
You forgot all about: CVE-2011-1991 and there must have been several others but I can't be bothered to look it up. Try opening Notepad with a debugger attached, you see all kinds of crap being loaded including IE stuff.
And at what point do your clients realize that all of the above behavior by companies can be avoided by simply using/writing open source solutions?
The Swiss didn't seem to have any issue turning over Jewish gold and bank accounts during their Nazi alliance. How sure can we be a "friendly state" doesn't secretly get the data anyway? The Swiss bankers didn't get rich by simply holding assets, they go with whatever the highest bidder wants.
Good encryption is the only way to keep your data safe, in Switzerland or elsewhere.
Not only that, but they are lobbying for more H1B's while hiring ~2000/year
I want a 4K display that accepts DVI/DisplayPort and actually does 60 or 120Hz. I haven't seen any of these displays do anything beyond 30fps (measured, not reported back to the computer).
I've been "homeless" in the sense I didn't have an address, living out of cars and cheap motels without any friends or family to fall back on. I wasn't eligible for any assistance or unemployment due to being a recently (legally immigrated) alien resident.
I however never got into the situation where I didn't have enough money saved up, just a few hundred to do something like move away from the area and pay 2 months worth of rent on a room. In those situations where I was down on my luck, I got offered but never accepted job offers in places like NYC or SF because I knew that I couldn't survive there if the job didn't pan out.
I don't know how it's possible in the US for a single (mentally capable) person not to survive on part time jobs or minimum wage or even welfare if you're eligible, I've lived in countries with worse net income ($16k/year net income for 2 people, $700 rent for a very tiny apartment and not eligible for any assistance due to 'high wages').
Sleeping in a car is imho not really homeless; you still had options, you could've moved to a much cheaper living area away from SF (perhaps the mid-west), found a job there. There is a substantial amount of social welfare services that are easily accessible in the US as well if you (really) don't have a job.
The problem in the US with homelessness is that although there is this huge amount of money being pumped in it, the abuse of the system is rampant on both the giving and receiving side and there is really no help for people that don't have the mental capacity to figure out how the system works (the paperwork).
This is exactly the problem. I still use a first gen iPad and have had 2 iPhones over the course of the last 5 years as well. They don't "slow down" when using the Apple apps and other well-designed apps although some of the apps (especially games) simply "update" their games by putting in things like bigger textures without (the well documented feature) gracefully downgrading textures for older devices causing the older devices to slow down while playing the 'same' game. Same goes for online stuff, the websites are getting heavier by the day, even this site is guilty of it. There used to be just a single self-hosted tracker, now there are ~10 of them and libraries loaded from a dozen or so CDN's, an older device is not quite as fast as parsing JS to byte code when it takes ~500ms simply in network time to load everything.
Well in the same sense Christianity is not a religion either. There is plenty of Christian satire and it is actually quite difficult to distinguish satirists talking about Christianity and modern Christian rhetoric from pastors. So this ruling must be evenly applied to all prisoners.
Yes, it is unreasonable. First of all it's unconstitutional, second of all you can not 'solve' the problem without also giving access to pretty much every other entity in the world.
Soap doesn't stick to dirt. Soap sticks to grease, grease (or oil) is naturally on your hands. You are basically removing the top layer of 'grease' from your hand which contains most harmful bacteria (the layer of oils is part of your skin protection environment).
And if you ever wonder about these Dyson's, check out a well-used one. The water pools in the bottom rusting out the entire thing.
The viruses in the water are just to 'tag' where the germs land (vs. germs from other sources which are found on all surfaces). And no, soap and water does not kill all the germs on your hands, hell it doesn't even kill most of them.
A) That's not how BES "encryption" works. Even RIM has gotten off the notion of calling it "encryption" and are now calling it "scrambling".
B) It is well known that not just India but a host of other countries have access to the keys. The Mounties are the least scary police agency in the world.
C) There was a paper about 10 years ago that explained how to 'crack' the BB "encryption" scheme.
Read the BlackBerry website (it's linked through the story). All messages, even on the 'enterprise' version are "scrambled", the enterprise version simply uses a different key to "scramble"; in other support documents they point out that "scrambled" does not mean encrypted.
Read the spec. BES encryption keys (on your own server) get published to the Blackberry device the first time it connects (when it is by definition unaware of what your BES keys are) encrypted with the Blackberry Global Key. That is if there are no other back doors in the encryption (since the standard is closed source, you never really can be sure). They eventually (this was news about a decade ago) gave in to India and gave their government access to all systems in India, why do you think the US can't do something similar?
If your government (or anyone else for that matter) has or obtains the Global Key, they could read your server's key when it is pushed to the device given it has traveled through or been recorded by a government-friendly ISP/wireless provider. Given that the keys are created for servers, not per user, they only have to be able to obtain (or trick) 1 push communication to decrypt everything else.
Given that AT&T stores data at least from the 1980's onwards, it is likely that if a government wanted, they could retroactively obtain the data, decrypt the key and use that for any other data obtained through warrantless searches.
Not only that, but they took the safe, sent it outside the country to probably a we-spy-back-on-the-US country (eg. Israel) and let not just the hacker but possibly a host of other countries it passed through on the way (whatever North-African or European country UPS/FedEx has a depot in) mess with the phone.
Back in the day (and one of the many reasons RIM went down the tubes) was because they have global decryption keys for both BES and BIS. It's right there in the specifications and marketing of the Blackberry communications.
But then it wouldn't be "pretty" anymore. Typically the way these things are built, they are photo-op first and then later do the technical challenges get 'fixed'.
Because most taxi's don't have GPS trackers and camera's or cab companies don't have logs?
FMLA (Family Medical Leave) is not paid but you could get it as well even if you are male. Any policies regarding negative Paid Time Off would also have to apply to you.
It IS against federal law. FLSA does not require anyone to get any vacation but it does require that any policies are not discriminatory. So if you get less vacation than your female or Indian co-workers, you could sue them for discrimination.
Not sure whether you have a contract but employers may not discriminate in determining who gets vacation. If your co-worker gets vacation (paid or unpaid) because he's Indian, you should get some too, otherwise stick your HR department on your supervisor or even your attorney.