I actually did (well, yesterday). I seem to remember him saying the only thing that would have survived the attack was his Google account... if he'd enabled 2 factor. Of course, if his phone was wiped, he still would have been in trouble.
With Google's two factor authentication you also have the option of printing a set of verification codes for when you do not have or have lost access to your phone.
And let's not forget that every database like this seems to get hacked, so this means that stalkers/burglars/whoever will also end up with the information.
Similarly we should not forget civil matters where attorneys will subpoena this information to be used against the other party. Contentious divorce? Subpoena all of the location data for the husband's car and see if we can catch him doing anything.
This is a good comment. No, I don't think anyone is asking you to blindly trust
NSA or any other element of government. But as government is ultimately here to
serve the people, you can't exclusively have distrust of every single action
government takes.
This is where your argument begins to veer off course because it is based on a false
assumption. That assumption is that the US government is there to serve the US
people and to serve them equally. That is no longer the case. The US government
now serves only the interests of the top 1% of its "people", where people now also
includes corporations. The conclusions drawn from this false assumption are thus
suspect at best. It is in the interest of the top 1% to keep themselves in that
position, so the government's actions are going to reflect that as well. BTW the
top 1% I am referring to are not determined by wealth, but by power and/or influence.
Government members consider themselves to be a part of this 1% as do high ranking
members of the intelligence committee. The result is a closed feedback loop that
is distancing the 1% from the remaining 99% with each passing day.
I was under the impression that locking the phone doesn't actually provide any security for the contents of the SD card, but only prevents the phone from being used. In other words, they could pop the SD card out and insert it into any suitably equipped PC and browse the data to their hearts content.
See? Another advantage of the iPhone. No SD card to worry about!
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
1 sheet 4'x8 5/8" thick plywood with oak surface: $35-$50 at HD
snip.
You're basicly(sic) making a 2'x8' frame with 2 rows of evenly space holes drilled part way through, running up the inside surfaces of the long boards
So to be clear, this bookcase is 2' wide, 8' tall, and 1' deep? Be sure your ceiling is at least 8' tall before building. Many homes don't have 8' ceilings any more.
One suggestion is to buy a 4th piece of 1" x 2" and use it to make a drilling jig for the shelf holes so that they are all positioned exactly the same from side to side and front to back. Be sure to mark the top of the jig or even better cut off a 3" piece and attach it as a cleat to one end of the jig.
Measure the diagonals of the frame to be sure they are the same before nailing on the back. This will insure that your bookcase is square.
Regarding coercion, it is often more effective to threaten someone's family than to threaten that someone. This method does not seem to offer protection against this kind of coercion.
Or in some cases they threaten to lock you in a room with your ex wife and your teenage kids if you don't tell them what they want to know.
I'm waiting for the day when insurance companies get in on the game and give you discounts or increase your rates depending on data mining of your social profile. If you want those discounts, you hand them the social data (like how people give up their purchasing data with store loyalty cards). If you refuse to provide that data, you get the"standard" (read: expensive) rate.
That sounds like too much trouble for them to go through when people will willingly give up their data. At least one of the insurance companies here in the US will (maybe) offer you a discount if you are willing to plug a monitoring device into your car's OBD-II port for a while and let them monitor your driving habits.
The most likely reason is that the app fell into a technical TOS violation,
I disagree. The fact that the details behind the removal was covered by an NDA somehow seems to indicate something deeper. Many apps are rejected and a few have been removed for TOS violations. I don't recall an NDA covering them. I'm interested in how Apple was somehow able to force an NDA over something like this. Do developers have to agree to something like this before submitting an app to the app store, or did Apple "suggest" that future submissions would not get approved if they talked about this one? Curious minds want to know!
While I do not enjoy trying to get into the hardened, heat sealed packages that a lot of things come in these days, I do like them. The reason I like them is that they require physical destruction of the package to open. This makes it much harder for certain big box electronics stores to resell used/returned items as new.
More like 420,000 people use(d) something I've never heard of?
Exactly. One of the articles even concludes with
Interestingly, while it gained popularity early on, most users who were reporting that they had received a password reset notice had forgotten they even registered with the service.
Until the power goes out and they can't recharge their Kindle...then they're going to be right back to the books. Let's ask all those people living in those areas of the U.S. that have been without power for the last 3-4 days how well their eBooks are working out for them now...
OK, power has been out here for over a week now. I've been reading books on my Kindle for at least 4 hours a day. It still has 63% battery left. If it does get low before the power is restored I have a small solar panel (about shoebox sized) that I can use to recharge it in an afternoon.
I know of none that send large amounts of "random" data large enough to cover any peaks of real data, allowing information to be learned about the peaks, if nothing else.
That sounds like a new project. Bury the signal in noise.
If you are interested in a decent (IMO) book about this, give
"Amped: A Novel" a read. It is written by Daniel H. Wilson, author of
"Robopocalypse: A Novel". "Amped: A Novel" revolves around people who have implants in their brains to cure neurological disorders, at least originally. Amplified intelligence occurs as a side effect, creating a schism between "amps" and "reggies", or regular people. Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt ensues.
PLEASE PLEASE buy a real transfer switch. It will only add another couple of hundreds of dollars, but prevents the backfeed from killing the guy trying to fix your power.
More like $300-$400 US for the switch, an additional $300-$400 US to get a qualified electrician to install it properly, and $50-$100 for the proper permits. YMMV of course based on location.
Having said that, it is something you really should do if you are going to connect a generator to your house wiring in any way, shape, or form. To expand a bit, a transfer switch connects your house wiring to your generator's power while at the same time disconnecting your house wiring from your power company's feed. If you don't disconnect from the power company, power from your generator can back feed onto the pole and ultimately down the line to where a lineman might be working. At best the lineman will detect that the line is still live and it will take time to track down your feed. At worst he could be electrocuted. No matter what, switching your house systems to generator power should automatically disconnect those systems from the public utility. If it takes two separate actions then one of them can be forgotten and someone can get hurt or killed.
Oh god, I love that idea.... and then, in the middle of it, you send the actual attack craft. "Guess which one's real, assholes!"
Probably the one not following a parabolic arc. If the golf ball "chaff" is going fast enough that the arc is undetectable, you don't need the fighters anyway.
This is good news. Now we can finally settle the question of whether commercial passenger aircraft do, in fact, jettison the contents of their waste tanks in flight.
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Camel Toes!(They are delicious) My wife doesn't charge me anything at all.
Which links back to the cheese racing argument earlier very nicely.
I actually did (well, yesterday). I seem to remember him saying the only thing that would have survived the attack was his Google account ... if he'd enabled 2 factor. Of course, if his phone was wiped, he still would have been in trouble.
With Google's two factor authentication you also have the option of printing a set of verification codes for when you do not have or have lost access to your phone.
And let's not forget that every database like this seems to get hacked, so this means that stalkers/burglars/whoever will also end up with the information.
Similarly we should not forget civil matters where attorneys will subpoena this information to be used against the other party. Contentious divorce? Subpoena all of the location data for the husband's car and see if we can catch him doing anything.
This is a good comment. No, I don't think anyone is asking you to blindly trust NSA or any other element of government. But as government is ultimately here to serve the people, you can't exclusively have distrust of every single action government takes.
This is where your argument begins to veer off course because it is based on a false assumption. That assumption is that the US government is there to serve the US people and to serve them equally. That is no longer the case. The US government now serves only the interests of the top 1% of its "people", where people now also includes corporations. The conclusions drawn from this false assumption are thus suspect at best. It is in the interest of the top 1% to keep themselves in that position, so the government's actions are going to reflect that as well. BTW the top 1% I am referring to are not determined by wealth, but by power and/or influence. Government members consider themselves to be a part of this 1% as do high ranking members of the intelligence committee. The result is a closed feedback loop that is distancing the 1% from the remaining 99% with each passing day.
I was under the impression that locking the phone doesn't actually provide any security for the contents of the SD card, but only prevents the phone from being used. In other words, they could pop the SD card out and insert it into any suitably equipped PC and browse the data to their hearts content.
See? Another advantage of the iPhone. No SD card to worry about!
Here are the stats on gun deaths for the U.S., Canada, and the U.K., from Wikipedia:
Because on a controversial topic like this I would certainly take Wikipedia's article as factual. [/sarcasm]
The ISS orbit height is 230 miles, we aren't quite there yet.
I wouldn't worry about that nearly as much as the 17,227 miles per hour of lateral velocity that you will need to shed along the way down.
You should enlist in the Armed Services, preferably in the infantry. I promise you all of the exercise you could ever want there.
They are so low on ideas they'll probably stoop to something like Aquaman next.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
- The Notebooks of Lazarus Long
1 sheet 4'x8 5/8" thick plywood with oak surface: $35-$50 at HD
snip.
You're basicly(sic) making a 2'x8' frame with 2 rows of evenly space holes drilled part way through, running up the inside surfaces of the long boards
So to be clear, this bookcase is 2' wide, 8' tall, and 1' deep? Be sure your ceiling is at least 8' tall before building. Many homes don't have 8' ceilings any more.
One suggestion is to buy a 4th piece of 1" x 2" and use it to make a drilling jig for the shelf holes so that they are all positioned exactly the same from side to side and front to back. Be sure to mark the top of the jig or even better cut off a 3" piece and attach it as a cleat to one end of the jig.
Measure the diagonals of the frame to be sure they are the same before nailing on the back. This will insure that your bookcase is square.
Regarding coercion, it is often more effective to threaten someone's family than to threaten that someone. This method does not seem to offer protection against this kind of coercion.
Or in some cases they threaten to lock you in a room with your ex wife and your teenage kids if you don't tell them what they want to know.
I'm waiting for the day when insurance companies get in on the game and give you discounts or increase your rates depending on data mining of your social profile. If you want those discounts, you hand them the social data (like how people give up their purchasing data with store loyalty cards). If you refuse to provide that data, you get the"standard" (read: expensive) rate.
That sounds like too much trouble for them to go through when people will willingly give up their data. At least one of the insurance companies here in the US will (maybe) offer you a discount if you are willing to plug a monitoring device into your car's OBD-II port for a while and let them monitor your driving habits.
The most likely reason is that the app fell into a technical TOS violation,
I disagree. The fact that the details behind the removal was covered by an NDA somehow seems to indicate something deeper. Many apps are rejected and a few have been removed for TOS violations. I don't recall an NDA covering them. I'm interested in how Apple was somehow able to force an NDA over something like this. Do developers have to agree to something like this before submitting an app to the app store, or did Apple "suggest" that future submissions would not get approved if they talked about this one? Curious minds want to know!
While I do understand that this is news and this is mostly a site for nerds, the whole article should just be modded "off-topic".
While I do not enjoy trying to get into the hardened, heat sealed packages that a lot of things come in these days, I do like them. The reason I like them is that they require physical destruction of the package to open. This makes it much harder for certain big box electronics stores to resell used/returned items as new.
More like 420,000 people use(d) something I've never heard of?
Exactly. One of the articles even concludes with
Interestingly, while it gained popularity early on, most users who were reporting that they had received a password reset notice had forgotten they even registered with the service.
Until the power goes out and they can't recharge their Kindle...then they're going to be right back to the books. Let's ask all those people living in those areas of the U.S. that have been without power for the last 3-4 days how well their eBooks are working out for them now...
OK, power has been out here for over a week now. I've been reading books on my Kindle for at least 4 hours a day. It still has 63% battery left. If it does get low before the power is restored I have a small solar panel (about shoebox sized) that I can use to recharge it in an afternoon.
I know of none that send large amounts of "random" data large enough to cover any peaks of real data, allowing information to be learned about the peaks, if nothing else.
That sounds like a new project. Bury the signal in noise.
If you are interested in a decent (IMO) book about this, give "Amped: A Novel" a read. It is written by Daniel H. Wilson, author of "Robopocalypse: A Novel". "Amped: A Novel" revolves around people who have implants in their brains to cure neurological disorders, at least originally. Amplified intelligence occurs as a side effect, creating a schism between "amps" and "reggies", or regular people. Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt ensues.
This is what happens when you use det cord between shells rather than using time fuse.
Crossing rainbows to get here.
PLEASE PLEASE buy a real transfer switch. It will only add another couple of hundreds of dollars, but prevents the backfeed from killing the guy trying to fix your power.
More like $300-$400 US for the switch, an additional $300-$400 US to get a qualified electrician to install it properly, and $50-$100 for the proper permits. YMMV of course based on location.
Having said that, it is something you really should do if you are going to connect a generator to your house wiring in any way, shape, or form. To expand a bit, a transfer switch connects your house wiring to your generator's power while at the same time disconnecting your house wiring from your power company's feed. If you don't disconnect from the power company, power from your generator can back feed onto the pole and ultimately down the line to where a lineman might be working. At best the lineman will detect that the line is still live and it will take time to track down your feed. At worst he could be electrocuted. No matter what, switching your house systems to generator power should automatically disconnect those systems from the public utility. If it takes two separate actions then one of them can be forgotten and someone can get hurt or killed.
Oh god, I love that idea. ... and then, in the middle of it, you send the actual attack craft. "Guess which one's real, assholes!"
Probably the one not following a parabolic arc. If the golf ball "chaff" is going fast enough that the arc is undetectable, you don't need the fighters anyway.
This is good news. Now we can finally settle the question of whether commercial passenger aircraft do, in fact, jettison the contents of their waste tanks in flight.