4K won't die like 3D because you don't have to wear funny glasses.
Panels will transition to 4K and then the panels will drop in price until they are the same price as 1080p panels. And then you'll buy one whether you have content for it or not.
And streaming companies will offer it, we just have to wait for H.265 decoders to become commonplace in households. I imagine the fall crop of consoles (PS4/XBOne) will be starting the wave, although it'll have to appear in $99 streamers before it really hits the big time.
Metro apps will be portable to Xbox One. Because Xbox One runs a variant of Windows 8/Windows Phone 8. It won't be hard.
And MS will run the system as a trusted computing system meaning you can only get the apps from their app store. And thus they'll take 30%. And they'll have full approval over all the apps to be sold.
Why did anyone think MS wasn't planning to do this? It's good business sense.
For anyone operating a VPN mail or other communications in any country you should consider that your government can compel you to produce information.
This intellectual exercise has been done a long time ago by those who looked a little deeper than you. It's why there were crazy ideas such as offshore data havens.
In the end, you can't really do anything about it. The government your company is under (at the very least, maybe other entities too) can compel you. So now it's just a matter of which government you're least worried about.
As to his comment about turning over the master key, it would have made no difference if they had protections on their master key. They didn't turn over their master key anyway. They did shut down, and they would have had to shut down either way. Because if they didn't shut down and had their key secure (say in an RSA box), the government would have just compelled to give them access to their key to sign stuff or to present as a credential. In other words to impersonate them.
The only way to avoid all this was to just shut down so there could be no mistake. If that key is used again, you know it's the NSA doing it, not Lavabit.
I would love to hear how Ed Felten thinks a private key can be both kept inaccessible and used tens of thousands of times a day to secure SSL connections.
Even if you keep it in a box, if the box will gleefully operate on the key thousands or millions of times a day, then you can just virtualize the key to a remote location (like say NSA HQ) by forwarding any requests to use the key to the box across the net. No need to even have the key at all in that case.
Complaining about companies not managing to keep schedules is valid. But suggesting they just delay a few months and ship after Christmas is absurd. And suggesting they delay an entire year makes no sense either. A tech product which is up-to-date for a Christmas release this year is behind the curve if it is delayed a year.
If you want to charge a non-lightning thing off it you only need a USB A (standard size) to microUSB B cable.
I have many of these lying around. And when I go on trips, I take only a two-headed cable (one micro USB, one mini USB) and a microUSB B to lightning adaptor as you mentioned. Then I can charge all the things I brought on my trip, whether Apple or not.
You can use the same charger you got with your iPod Mini (Apple's first USB charger) in 2005 on your iPhone, iPod or iPad today. And all recent Apple iDevices (for a couple years now) also support the USB charging spec standard, so you can use other chargers that weren't created for Apple's devices.
Although performance may vary since some chargers produce more current than others.
So you don't need to throw away or buy new chargers. Apple did change the device connector though, so you have to get a new cable. Your phone comes with one, so you should be set there. Maybe future phones won't come with them to save on materials there too. People would probably complain about that too.
The thing you call a 3.5mm jack is a 1/8th inch jack. Some joker just decided to rename it.
The 2.5mm jack is actually 2.5mm though, even though some call it a 3/32nd inch jack.
So there's no compatibility problem here, just some people who took the Orwellian tack of renaming something because its name incorporated units they didn't approve of.
They offer HDMI over the same microUSB connector via slimport or MHL. That requires multiplexing.
I think you are overestimating how difficult and expensive it would have been for the USB people to make a standard that was not orientation-sensitive. It seems far more likely to me that the same people who never noticed how annoying orientation was with the circa-1996 USB A connector didn't bother to take the time to attack the problem with the 3rd revision of the connector.
All this means is if I already have cable I can watch Netflix on my TV without having to own a computer, Apple TV, Roku, TiVo, Smart TV, Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, or Android device.
If I already have cable, I can pick up an Apple TV for about one month's cable bill.
He already turned Star Trek into a battle-oriented space opera. If anything that shows he has a decent handle of what Star Wars is. More than he has on Star Trek at least.
The phone comes with an authorized cable. So no one should be without a way to charge their phone.
And beyond that, the article says unauthorized cables aren't locked out, just a warning comes up. The summary incorrectly changes this to say the cables are locked out.
It does recognize you said "google" to start recognition, but assuming you pressed the button to start instead of that, it's all done on the server. Even on the Moto X, the processor just figures out that you said the trigger phrase, the recognition of the natural-language speech you say after that is all done on the server.
If you don't believe me, just try it when your phone only has an EDGE connection some time.
Google just has better feedback, they seem to have a better design.
Each person cannot be compelled to testify against himself in court.
While the author may intentionally not make a distinction, the Alice would only face contempt charges which rarely produce the levels of punishment as murder convictions do.
It's a poorly thought-out argument.
The issue with being compelled to testify is that the courts don't wish people to be applying their own judgement standards instead of the court. What happens if a person is lynched and no one who saw it testifies because by their own beliefs, it's okay to kill niggers? The idea is that the information is brought out and the law decides the punishment.
I don't know why there is a right to not self-incriminate. Apparently it comes from English common law, but I don't know the history of it. Maybe it's to discourage torture or other coercion?
It's not a question as to whether it's serious. It was always the case and could be assumed to be the case. If the JavaScript can get to your key to use it to encrypt/decrypt, it can also possibly upload. It's part-and-parcel of the design.
I pointed this out when MEGA was first announced. There always is the possibility of a system squirreling away your keys. You cannot design it out in software. The software reconstructs your key at some point, you then have to trust it discards after using it only for the use you requested it be used for.
I think the problem may be that you (and others) don't really understand what MEGA can promise and what they can actually deliver.
Anyway, you've now entered the realm of security paranoia. The only way to survive in this area is to review all the code you are going to put on your machine and to compile it yourself because if you don't, you don't know the delivered object matches the sources you reviewed. And don't forget to review all the code in the compiler(s) or interpreter(s) in play, because you verify they aren't inserting backdoors too.
After you get through all that, you only have to worry about whether your hardware (CPU) is inserting backdoors. There's no way to prove the CPU is actually executing the object code according to the spec unless you review every transistor in the CPU.
That's how you want it to be. It's zero-knowledge from MEGA's point of view. You generate your own key, keep it and use it to decrypt and encrypt stuff.
So of course if someone gets access to your computer they can get your key, it was on your computer all the time, by design.
His assertion that MEGA can get your key is what is a bit more surprising. But if you read it, he's simply saying it's conceptually possible that MEGA could use a script on their site to grab your key and send it to them. This is of course possible, but we have no way to know whether they've done it. If the javascript can access your key to encrypt/decrypt stuff, then it is also possible it can squirrel it away somewhere.
These are the same people who make tanks and anti-tank missiles. They make airplanes and surface-to-air missiles. They put body armor on their soldiers and hand them guns to shoot other soldiers with.
They know the power of Big Data, so they both try to use it to their advantage and try to mitigate the advantage it would give to their foes.
You can't say global release is a flawed model just by the piracy numbers. The key is the financials. If AMC can get more money from international rebroadcasters by offering it to them on a shorter timeframe, then global release has some merit.
And it is possible that the content is considered to be more valuable on the shorter timeframe, because the airers prefer their content be more "fresh".
Most of the conflict between "personal" and "business" comes when a service is provisioned for a relatively light load (residential) and then someone runs a business on it. The service just isn't designed to carry that much traffic, that incurs additional expenses which aren't within the residential fee structure.
If the service is metered, as you link to here, then they don't care how much traffic you run, they'll get paid more if you run a server and that'll provide the revenue needed to provision the line up for the higher traffic.
If American ISP service was metered, there wouldn't be much of an issue either. If you use it like a business, you'd pay like a business.
Hear me out. Snowden said he could wiretap you with just your email address.
This doesn't amount to that. All this is is a large database. All the data they get they put into a database. That's how they use "big data".
But you can only search for what's in there.
What will be in there is metadata from the metadata drag net (pen register/trap and trace). This includes email from/to, etc, but not the content. It also includes phone call from and to numbers but not the content, although Snowden said email, so I guess he wasn't talking about that.
Also in there will be the content of communications which were captured previously. This is what amounts to an actual wiretap. But they cannot capture these communications between Americans with a drag net, they have to get individual warrants (presumably secret FISA warrants).
So, if you gave your email to Snowden, he could look up everything which is in there, but unless you were already wiretapped, he wouldn't find any wiretap info. If you are American, he cannot put on a wiretap just by you supplying your email address.
So the original denials were correct. Snowden did overstate what he could do. He may not have been limited enough in what he could do, but this was not one of the things he could do.
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It'll be about streaming.
4K won't die like 3D because you don't have to wear funny glasses.
Panels will transition to 4K and then the panels will drop in price until they are the same price as 1080p panels. And then you'll buy one whether you have content for it or not.
And streaming companies will offer it, we just have to wait for H.265 decoders to become commonplace in households. I imagine the fall crop of consoles (PS4/XBOne) will be starting the wave, although it'll have to appear in $99 streamers before it really hits the big time.
It's a heck of a lot more phone than that thing and it was $250 (I got the one with the big storage, 8GB units were $200).
Why does anyone think it won't?
Metro apps will be portable to Xbox One. Because Xbox One runs a variant of Windows 8/Windows Phone 8. It won't be hard.
And MS will run the system as a trusted computing system meaning you can only get the apps from their app store. And thus they'll take 30%. And they'll have full approval over all the apps to be sold.
Why did anyone think MS wasn't planning to do this? It's good business sense.
For anyone operating a VPN mail or other communications in any country you should consider that your government can compel you to produce information.
This intellectual exercise has been done a long time ago by those who looked a little deeper than you. It's why there were crazy ideas such as offshore data havens.
In the end, you can't really do anything about it. The government your company is under (at the very least, maybe other entities too) can compel you. So now it's just a matter of which government you're least worried about.
As to his comment about turning over the master key, it would have made no difference if they had protections on their master key. They didn't turn over their master key anyway. They did shut down, and they would have had to shut down either way. Because if they didn't shut down and had their key secure (say in an RSA box), the government would have just compelled to give them access to their key to sign stuff or to present as a credential. In other words to impersonate them.
The only way to avoid all this was to just shut down so there could be no mistake. If that key is used again, you know it's the NSA doing it, not Lavabit.
I would love to hear how Ed Felten thinks a private key can be both kept inaccessible and used tens of thousands of times a day to secure SSL connections.
Even if you keep it in a box, if the box will gleefully operate on the key thousands or millions of times a day, then you can just virtualize the key to a remote location (like say NSA HQ) by forwarding any requests to use the key to the box across the net. No need to even have the key at all in that case.
Complaining about companies not managing to keep schedules is valid. But suggesting they just delay a few months and ship after Christmas is absurd. And suggesting they delay an entire year makes no sense either. A tech product which is up-to-date for a Christmas release this year is behind the curve if it is delayed a year.
If you want to charge a non-lightning thing off it you only need a USB A (standard size) to microUSB B cable.
I have many of these lying around. And when I go on trips, I take only a two-headed cable (one micro USB, one mini USB) and a microUSB B to lightning adaptor as you mentioned. Then I can charge all the things I brought on my trip, whether Apple or not.
You can use the same charger you got with your iPod Mini (Apple's first USB charger) in 2005 on your iPhone, iPod or iPad today. And all recent Apple iDevices (for a couple years now) also support the USB charging spec standard, so you can use other chargers that weren't created for Apple's devices.
Although performance may vary since some chargers produce more current than others.
So you don't need to throw away or buy new chargers. Apple did change the device connector though, so you have to get a new cable. Your phone comes with one, so you should be set there. Maybe future phones won't come with them to save on materials there too. People would probably complain about that too.
The thing you call a 3.5mm jack is a 1/8th inch jack. Some joker just decided to rename it.
The 2.5mm jack is actually 2.5mm though, even though some call it a 3/32nd inch jack.
So there's no compatibility problem here, just some people who took the Orwellian tack of renaming something because its name incorporated units they didn't approve of.
They offer HDMI over the same microUSB connector via slimport or MHL. That requires multiplexing.
I think you are overestimating how difficult and expensive it would have been for the USB people to make a standard that was not orientation-sensitive. It seems far more likely to me that the same people who never noticed how annoying orientation was with the circa-1996 USB A connector didn't bother to take the time to attack the problem with the 3rd revision of the connector.
http://www.smbc-comics.com/?id=2388
All this means is if I already have cable I can watch Netflix on my TV without having to own a computer, Apple TV, Roku, TiVo, Smart TV, Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, or Android device.
If I already have cable, I can pick up an Apple TV for about one month's cable bill.
So who cares?
https://medium.com/p/d48995e8eb5a
I didn't write it.
Link to indictment contained within too.
The worst example of advertisement through press release in recent memory.
At least on slashdot.
They didn't, but Tek's 4014 and 4051 looked kind of like they were doing that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpD1QXvtlcg&list=PL3DACE89AA461F5BC
He already turned Star Trek into a battle-oriented space opera. If anything that shows he has a decent handle of what Star Wars is. More than he has on Star Trek at least.
The phone comes with an authorized cable. So no one should be without a way to charge their phone.
And beyond that, the article says unauthorized cables aren't locked out, just a warning comes up. The summary incorrectly changes this to say the cables are locked out.
Pathetic coverage, slashdot.
It does recognize you said "google" to start recognition, but assuming you pressed the button to start instead of that, it's all done on the server. Even on the Moto X, the processor just figures out that you said the trigger phrase, the recognition of the natural-language speech you say after that is all done on the server.
If you don't believe me, just try it when your phone only has an EDGE connection some time.
Google just has better feedback, they seem to have a better design.
As long as Oracle's patents are valid, can anyone seriously believe this will go anywhere?
His fleet of boats isn't going to pay for itself.
Each person cannot be compelled to testify against himself in court.
While the author may intentionally not make a distinction, the Alice would only face contempt charges which rarely produce the levels of punishment as murder convictions do.
It's a poorly thought-out argument.
The issue with being compelled to testify is that the courts don't wish people to be applying their own judgement standards instead of the court. What happens if a person is lynched and no one who saw it testifies because by their own beliefs, it's okay to kill niggers? The idea is that the information is brought out and the law decides the punishment.
I don't know why there is a right to not self-incriminate. Apparently it comes from English common law, but I don't know the history of it. Maybe it's to discourage torture or other coercion?
It's not a question as to whether it's serious. It was always the case and could be assumed to be the case. If the JavaScript can get to your key to use it to encrypt/decrypt, it can also possibly upload. It's part-and-parcel of the design.
I pointed this out when MEGA was first announced. There always is the possibility of a system squirreling away your keys. You cannot design it out in software. The software reconstructs your key at some point, you then have to trust it discards after using it only for the use you requested it be used for.
I think the problem may be that you (and others) don't really understand what MEGA can promise and what they can actually deliver.
Anyway, you've now entered the realm of security paranoia. The only way to survive in this area is to review all the code you are going to put on your machine and to compile it yourself because if you don't, you don't know the delivered object matches the sources you reviewed. And don't forget to review all the code in the compiler(s) or interpreter(s) in play, because you verify they aren't inserting backdoors too.
After you get through all that, you only have to worry about whether your hardware (CPU) is inserting backdoors. There's no way to prove the CPU is actually executing the object code according to the spec unless you review every transistor in the CPU.
That's how you want it to be. It's zero-knowledge from MEGA's point of view. You generate your own key, keep it and use it to decrypt and encrypt stuff.
So of course if someone gets access to your computer they can get your key, it was on your computer all the time, by design.
His assertion that MEGA can get your key is what is a bit more surprising. But if you read it, he's simply saying it's conceptually possible that MEGA could use a script on their site to grab your key and send it to them. This is of course possible, but we have no way to know whether they've done it. If the javascript can access your key to encrypt/decrypt stuff, then it is also possible it can squirrel it away somewhere.
These are the same people who make tanks and anti-tank missiles. They make airplanes and surface-to-air missiles. They put body armor on their soldiers and hand them guns to shoot other soldiers with.
They know the power of Big Data, so they both try to use it to their advantage and try to mitigate the advantage it would give to their foes.
You can't say global release is a flawed model just by the piracy numbers. The key is the financials. If AMC can get more money from international rebroadcasters by offering it to them on a shorter timeframe, then global release has some merit.
And it is possible that the content is considered to be more valuable on the shorter timeframe, because the airers prefer their content be more "fresh".
Most of the conflict between "personal" and "business" comes when a service is provisioned for a relatively light load (residential) and then someone runs a business on it. The service just isn't designed to carry that much traffic, that incurs additional expenses which aren't within the residential fee structure.
If the service is metered, as you link to here, then they don't care how much traffic you run, they'll get paid more if you run a server and that'll provide the revenue needed to provision the line up for the higher traffic.
If American ISP service was metered, there wouldn't be much of an issue either. If you use it like a business, you'd pay like a business.
Hear me out. Snowden said he could wiretap you with just your email address.
This doesn't amount to that. All this is is a large database. All the data they get they put into a database. That's how they use "big data".
But you can only search for what's in there.
What will be in there is metadata from the metadata drag net (pen register/trap and trace). This includes email from/to, etc, but not the content. It also includes phone call from and to numbers but not the content, although Snowden said email, so I guess he wasn't talking about that.
Also in there will be the content of communications which were captured previously. This is what amounts to an actual wiretap. But they cannot capture these communications between Americans with a drag net, they have to get individual warrants (presumably secret FISA warrants).
So, if you gave your email to Snowden, he could look up everything which is in there, but unless you were already wiretapped, he wouldn't find any wiretap info. If you are American, he cannot put on a wiretap just by you supplying your email address.
So the original denials were correct. Snowden did overstate what he could do. He may not have been limited enough in what he could do, but this was not one of the things he could do.