What about TSA x-ray naked scanners - shouldn't TSA agents be jailed for child pornography? Shouldn't gov stop this first before going spying on everyone without a warrant like in a totalitarian regime?
All this gives them is the ability to see who is criticizing the gov. And who he talked to. 1984, here we come...
Today they spy all because some people may be bad... Tomorrow they'll start arresting people because gov thought they thought of committing a crime...
You are a bit naive. Any time law enforcement or a company wants the info, all they need to do is tell Apple to install the "real-time" reporting app over the air. Or maybe the "feature" is already a service of the OS just not activated - a single SMS may turn it on.
Btw, it will not only start tracking from time of activation, it will report all previous history since you bought the phone.
All this is speculation but that is the point - what is possible because all of the history is stored without your control.
What if your boss asks you for your logs while you were sick. You can't refuse cause he knows you have the logs. (of course you shouldn't work for a boss like that in the first place...) You can't say I deleted it cause you can't delete it;)
J2se is. J2me is not. That's three problem that Google faces.
Android doesn't implement/use/extend J2ME. Only J2SE classes are included.
I guess the main claim Oracle has is that Google should have used and licensed J2ME on mobile devices. Instead, Google implemented and extended J2SE.
J2SE was way too heavy for mobile devices before Google came in. That is way many phone manufacturers used J2ME instead. J2ME was such a pain to program for compared to J2SE.
I don't see how Oracle can force a manufacturer where to use J2SE. Since phones are just computers with VOIP/phone application, I don't see a problem using J2SE on them.
What makes a phone different from desktop - detached screen? From a laptop - folding screen? From a tablet...?
This is not true. Server certificate verification would fail and the user WOULD know. This is the whole point of using Certificates - verifying their chain of trust.
While prioritizing may be needed for wireless in general, it should be based on classes of services, like real-time services (VOIP) and non-real-time (SMS, HTTP, u-tube).
But you cannot prioritize based on companies or content providers. Like in your example, why a bank website should be more important than any other website? Or why Chase website to be faster than WaMu website? They must guarantee traffic is owner neutral - that my VOIP has same priority as Verizon VOIP.
What's preventing Verizon dropping packets of Vonage/Skype VOIP so Verizon phones "seem" to have better quality? Or dropping connection every 1-2 minutes like Comcast did (with bit-torrent sites)...
Like currently, Skype is available on Android only for Verizon, and only over 3g (no WiFi)
If skype doesn't want our business, maybe it's time we move on to some other client that works on Android and works over WiFi & 3g... Enough supporting companies trying to screw us... WhyTF did they block Fringe?!
You realize that "just a few feet of water" is more like 22 feet (7.5m) of water. At 35000 feet (10.5 km) cruising altitude for non-super sonic airplanes, air density is 25% of see level air density. 1 atmosphere is about the pressure of 10m of water column. Everest is "just" 8848 m, and yet very few can breathe easily without several days acclimatization. See altitude sickness. Even oxygen masks may not be enough at very low pressures.
What Intel probably did was: We will give you 50% off rebate any Intel CPU IF you don't sell any AMD CPU.
If you reject, you can't compete with the store next door which sells 30% bellow your invoice price and still makes 20% profit. In other words, you won't be able to sell Intel anymore.
His player reported 0.48 Mbps or 480 kbps and not 48 kbps!!!
From FTA: "Bringing up the Status window I noticed my download performance was a far cry from my 7 mbps speed, but rather a measly 0.48 mbps, about 1/14th the speed of my line:"
Even the screen image shows 1/2 Mbps. 480 kbps is nothing to complain about.
Log-in page loads over http:/// and then it submits to https:/// which is very vulnerable.
I hacker can change the login page (over http) to point to his own site. Before clicking submit you have to debug the page to find out if it is submitting to the correct site... and by that time it is too late. They can afterwards fake loading error and forward to original page...
And even worse, on some site I couldn't find a log-in form loaded over https.
Please note, that no fishing is required to do this - it can be done over live traffic. The attacker modifies the login page on the fly because it is loaded over http.
However, there are monitors with 60-80ms input lag! This is a whole 4-5 frames lag. Even video would be out of sync on such monitors (lips behind sound).
Now, most monitors have only 20-40 ms input lag and some have less then 10 or 0.
You just want to make sure the monitor you are buying is not the one with 70ms input lag.
Because this is not an infinite loop...
Try this:
while(true)/* do nothing */ ;
Its execution time line is parallel to the time line,
but we know parallel lines intersect in infinity... so this computer may actually reach there sooner than expected...;)
It's good what you can carry, but what if you have only a cup of water and you need to carry it 10 000 000 steps? Even a single 1 gallon bucket is enough to carry it.
So first guy will take 2 seconds, while the second one will take 4 seconds (even if it divides the cup in two buckets).
There are algorithms (like some compression algorithms) that will not produce best results if modified to be multi threaded.
I read an article explaing how you can use it long ago. I'll try to summarize it in a few words with some errors from my memory (it changes state after measurement too)
----- factoring (N=P*Q)
Let's say you have a quantum algorithm ("circuit") which computes p*q=n (n is the result, p,q - inputs)
If you use conventional computer p and q will be exact values, and you will get exact result n.
In quantum computing you use qubit vectors for p,q, and n. A single computation actually computes all possible values for p,q, and n such that p*q=n. (That is because qubits are superpositions of 0 and 1 instead of exact values.) This is called quantum parallelism.
Whenever you make a measurement, you will get a single solution (from all possible) with exact values for p, q, and n such that p*q=n.
Now, if N is some 2000 bit number used in a public key you want to break, you can use some tricks such that you measure n to be actually N you are interested in with some probability. The probablity of success is far greater then 2^-2000.
So you make a 1000 or 1000000 measurements (compared to 2^2000) and you will get n=N, but p and q from the same measurement will be the soultion to the factoring of N=P*Q.
----
How do you explain quantum parallelism.
Let's think of a qubit A as a vector A in 2-D space. If you project A on some basis vector B you get Ab = k*B, where k is a scalar, Ab the projection of A onto B. If k is positive then the measurement of A is 1, if k is negative then the measurement of A is 0,
Now, for the same A, there always exists basis vectors B0 and B1 such that the measurement of A onto them produces 0 and 1.
Example: A is (2,-3), then if B1 is (1,0) then Ab1 = 2*B1 => A will be measured as 1 if B0 is (0,1) then Ab0 = -3*B0 => A will be measured as 0
If you have a "qubyte" or 8 qubits, there always exists different basis vectors that produce all possible measurements from 0 to 255.
So, depending on your measurement, depends which result you will get, but all results are "there". There are tricks to measure a result closer to what you want it to be (n=N).
They want to make passport verification fool-proof. Something like this:
When you walk up to customs, camera takes a picture of you, software calculates biometric measures and compares them to the one stored in your passport.
Biometric measure is not comparing the 2 photos. It may also compare placement ratio of eyes, nouse, chin, etc. or even a fingerprint.
They hope this will be more accurate then a tired human looking at a picture and you and comparing them. Or maybe even pre-scanning before reaching customs...?
However, bioemetrics is not that accurate yet. Also they don't need RFID to do this.
Also note that EU is also going to do something similar (or so I have heard).
6000 only?!
In Bulgarian history, Bulgaria was created year 681 by current year counting, or year 6885 by our own counting...
So Bulgarians must be here before god came...:P
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What about TSA x-ray naked scanners - shouldn't TSA agents be jailed for child pornography?
Shouldn't gov stop this first before going spying on everyone without a warrant like in a totalitarian regime?
All this gives them is the ability to see who is criticizing the gov. ...
And who he talked to.
1984, here we come
Today they spy all because some people may be bad...
Tomorrow they'll start arresting people because gov thought they thought of committing a crime...
You are a bit naive.
Any time law enforcement or a company wants the info, all they need to do is tell Apple to install the "real-time" reporting app over the air.
Or maybe the "feature" is already a service of the OS just not activated - a single SMS may turn it on.
Btw, it will not only start tracking from time of activation, it will report all previous history since you bought the phone.
All this is speculation but that is the point - what is possible because all of the history is stored without your control.
What if your boss asks you for your logs while you were sick. You can't refuse cause he knows you have the logs. (of course you shouldn't work for a boss like that in the first place...) You can't say I deleted it cause you can't delete it ;)
Actually, Comcast already can do this as they monitor the traffic in a month - They have put a cap of 250 GB per month after which they cut you off.
Also charging per MB or GB is already done/supported by most cell phone carriers - ATT, Verison, ...
It also reminds me of dial-up pricing...
However, ISPs love to offer you "premium" unlimited service and then oversell it.
J2se is. J2me is not. That's three problem that Google faces.
Android doesn't implement/use/extend J2ME. Only J2SE classes are included.
I guess the main claim Oracle has is that Google should have used and licensed J2ME on mobile devices.
Instead, Google implemented and extended J2SE.
J2SE was way too heavy for mobile devices before Google came in. That is way many phone manufacturers used J2ME instead.
J2ME was such a pain to program for compared to J2SE.
I don't see how Oracle can force a manufacturer where to use J2SE.
Since phones are just computers with VOIP/phone application, I don't see a problem using J2SE on them.
What makes a phone different from desktop - detached screen? From a laptop - folding screen? From a tablet...?
So even if they wanted to buy it they won't be allowed?
They are allowed to die in battle but not to chose what to play?
Imagine the game was very realistic - It would give them big advantage to see their own weakness through the eyes of the enemy.
How is that any different than any WW2 game?
This is not true. Server certificate verification would fail and the user WOULD know. This is the whole point of using Certificates - verifying their chain of trust.
While prioritizing may be needed for wireless in general, it should be based on classes of services, like real-time services (VOIP) and non-real-time (SMS, HTTP, u-tube).
But you cannot prioritize based on companies or content providers. Like in your example, why a bank website should be more important than any other website?
Or why Chase website to be faster than WaMu website?
They must guarantee traffic is owner neutral - that my VOIP has same priority as Verizon VOIP.
What's preventing Verizon dropping packets of Vonage/Skype VOIP so Verizon phones "seem" to have better quality?
Or dropping connection every 1-2 minutes like Comcast did (with bit-torrent sites)...
Like currently, Skype is available on Android only for Verizon, and only over 3g (no WiFi)
If skype doesn't want our business, maybe it's time we move on to some other client that works on Android and works over WiFi & 3g...
Enough supporting companies trying to screw us...
WhyTF did they block Fringe?!
You realize that "just a few feet of water" is more like 22 feet (7.5m) of water.
At 35000 feet (10.5 km) cruising altitude for non-super sonic airplanes, air density is 25% of see level air density. 1 atmosphere is about the pressure of 10m of water column.
Everest is "just" 8848 m, and yet very few can breathe easily without several days acclimatization.
See altitude sickness. Even oxygen masks may not be enough at very low pressures.
What Intel probably did was:
We will give you 50% off rebate any Intel CPU IF you don't sell any AMD CPU.
If you reject, you can't compete with the store next door which sells 30% bellow your invoice price and still makes 20% profit.
In other words, you won't be able to sell Intel anymore.
I guess this shouldn't apply to Skype though...
It is 0.48 Mbps - you can see it in the screen image
The whole article is a miscalculation.
His player reported 0.48 Mbps or 480 kbps and not 48 kbps!!!
From FTA:
"Bringing up the Status window I noticed my download performance was a far cry from my 7 mbps speed, but rather a measly 0.48 mbps, about 1/14th the speed of my line:"
Even the screen image shows 1/2 Mbps.
480 kbps is nothing to complain about.
Can't believe nobody noticed this... is this ./ ?
Some credit card sites have this bug.
Log-in page loads over http:/// and then it submits to https:/// which is very vulnerable.
I hacker can change the login page (over http) to point to his own site. Before clicking submit you have to debug the page to find out if it is submitting to the correct site... and by that time it is too late. They can afterwards fake loading error and forward to original page...
And even worse, on some site I couldn't find a log-in form loaded over https.
Please note, that no fishing is required to do this - it can be done over live traffic. The attacker modifies the login page on the fly because it is loaded over http.
I tried charging RAZR using 2 different non-Motorola mini-USB 500mA chargers and it said "Cannot charge" on the phone.
Clearly it is not a 100mA/500mA issue. They intentionally lock it to their own chargers. That's why it requires drivers on PC...
It seems, Motorola has their own interpretation of the word 'standard'.
5ms is fine...
However, there are monitors with 60-80ms input lag!
This is a whole 4-5 frames lag. Even video would be out of sync on such monitors (lips behind sound).
Now, most monitors have only 20-40 ms input lag and some have less then 10 or 0.
You just want to make sure the monitor you are buying is not the one with 70ms input lag.
Because this is not an infinite loop... Try this: while(true) /* do nothing */ ;
Its execution time line is parallel to the time line,
but we know parallel lines intersect in infinity... so this computer may actually reach there sooner than expected... ;)
It's good what you can carry, but what if you have only a cup of water and you need to carry it 10 000 000 steps?
Even a single 1 gallon bucket is enough to carry it.
So first guy will take 2 seconds, while the second one will take 4 seconds (even if it divides the cup in two buckets).
There are algorithms (like some compression algorithms) that will not produce best results if modified to be multi threaded.
I read an article explaing how you can use it long ago. I'll try to summarize it in a few words with some errors from my memory (it changes state after measurement too)
----- factoring (N=P*Q)
Let's say you have a quantum algorithm ("circuit") which computes p*q=n (n is the result, p,q - inputs)
If you use conventional computer p and q will be exact values, and you will get exact result n.
In quantum computing you use qubit vectors for p,q, and n.
A single computation actually computes all possible values for p,q, and n such that p*q=n.
(That is because qubits are superpositions of 0 and 1 instead of exact values.)
This is called quantum parallelism.
Whenever you make a measurement, you will get a single solution (from all possible) with exact values for p, q, and n such that p*q=n.
Now, if N is some 2000 bit number used in a public key you want to break, you can use some tricks such that you measure n to be actually N you are interested in with some probability.
The probablity of success is far greater then 2^-2000.
So you make a 1000 or 1000000 measurements (compared to 2^2000) and you will get n=N, but p and q from the same measurement will be the soultion to the factoring of N=P*Q.
----
How do you explain quantum parallelism.
Let's think of a qubit A as a vector A in 2-D space.
If you project A on some basis vector B you get Ab = k*B, where k is a scalar, Ab the projection of A onto B.
If k is positive then the measurement of A is 1,
if k is negative then the measurement of A is 0,
Now, for the same A, there always exists basis vectors B0 and B1 such that the measurement of A onto them produces 0 and 1.
Example:
A is (2,-3), then
if B1 is (1,0) then Ab1 = 2*B1 => A will be measured as 1
if B0 is (0,1) then Ab0 = -3*B0 => A will be measured as 0
If you have a "qubyte" or 8 qubits, there always exists different basis vectors that produce all possible measurements from 0 to 255.
So, depending on your measurement, depends which result you will get, but all results are "there".
There are tricks to measure a result closer to what you want it to be (n=N).
What is the point of using both MD5 and SHA-1?
It would be better to use both SHA-1(M) and SHA-1(M+1)
But then it would be the equvalent of SHA-"320" so why not use SHA-512...
If you are going to use 2 hashes then just increase the bits of the better one.
Scenario 4 - 20 guys hammering with 20 hammers 20 hours a day and a robot overseeing them... All have jobs and all are happy ...
Actually, quantum computers will compile all possible options and then match the one u want...
One clarification why they are doing this:
They want to make passport verification fool-proof.
Something like this:
When you walk up to customs,
camera takes a picture of you,
software calculates biometric measures and
compares them to the one stored in your passport.
Biometric measure is not comparing the 2 photos. It may also compare placement ratio of eyes, nouse, chin, etc. or even a fingerprint.
They hope this will be more accurate then a tired human looking at a picture and you and comparing them. Or maybe even pre-scanning before reaching customs...?
However, bioemetrics is not that accurate yet.
Also they don't need RFID to do this.
Also note that EU is also going to do something similar (or so I have heard).
I think you mistake protons with photons.
Photons are light. Protons are not.
A Proton is a neutron with a positron.
Electrons, positrons, protons, and neutrons are particles with mass and they are not light.
When electrons or positrons move (current) they produce electro magnectic waves which are light.
What they develop is the ability of devices like CPU and memory to comunicate using light and thus giving them more bandwidth.
It's a small step toward faster computing and eventualy quantum computing...
6000 only?! In Bulgarian history, Bulgaria was created year 681 by current year counting, or year 6885 by our own counting... So Bulgarians must be here before god came... :P
The paint is made just from carbon and it emit carbon monoxide. This will not work in space - there is no oxigen there...