And will vindicate their choice by saying they had to do it because the other party winning because they supported a third is an even worse option. Too bad we don't have RCV; I will always vote for a third party first, but see Hillary as a slightly lesser evil to Donald based on racism and misogyny/
As far as ignorant stupidity goes, they both win. We've heard tons about Trump, but Hillary saying "People Under FBI Investigation Should Lose Constitutional Rights." Um, Hillary, innocent until proven guilty? Or how about how you propose to do that? Reveal everyone's FBI record and skip having a FOIA request to get that? That sounds rather invasive - why not put cameras in everybody's home like Seattle is doing and hide it from the public (I'm kidding, but that sounds like a wonderful Big Brother scenario, right, because why the fuck not?).
It's kind of unfair to call out just Apple here - name a single phone made in America. OK, maybe you know the Moto X is manufactured here... correction, it is assembled here, mainly if not exclusively from foreign parts at Wal-Mart level wages by a company called Flextronics.
In my experience, Apple's devices hold a charge longer and use battery more frugally than Android. Leaving them idle is absolutely no contest - my Nexus 7 is dead in a week, my iPad mini still has power after a month (though we're talking 10% - my iPad 2 is still in the 40-50% when idle for a month). My usage of these devices tends to be in spurts as I jump between supporting different projects and platforms, so they may be idle a month or two and then be in extremely heavy use for a month or two.
Hmm... that seems strange... p (or t) in the updated version seems to take all cases, so would return before it ever got to the final return function. That or I just don't know javascript that well (I've read and done a few examples, but not seriously studied it, so I'm going by C-like behavior). Isn't having a = redundant as far as the = goes, as well?
Um, that says Computers, Mathematics, and Statistics, while Engineers get their own category.
Number of people with a CSci degree working in some form of computer science or engineering: all of them, unless they're laid off and looking (one person).
Math majors I know have the following jobs: Accountant. Accountant. Sales and Accounting Senior Manager.
Statistics majors I know have the following jobs: job Manager non-STEM, looking for a job teaching Statistics (PhD from Ecole Normale Supérieure - US and French citizen) and his wife with the same PhD from the same place (waiting on US paperwork to work, she already has dual citizenship in Romania and France, so I think she's pursuing a green card rather than citizenship).
According to the article, they had to craft specific hardware to retrieve the PIN and I'm guessing you need to not only possess the phone, but pull it apart to use this exploit. I had a suspicion that the firmware security in that phone could be exploited with a hardware hack and it turns out that is true. From the sound of it, a remote exploit isn't possible using the method described.
My first thought was around the same lines- imagine if someone hacked your connection/phone while driving. My second thought was that is what self driving cars are for...
In any case, I really wonder if there will ever even be a market here, as many people are relatively averse to putting something in their eye. I know several people that refuse to wear contacts (and most got Lasik) just for that reason. That was never an option for me - my vision is too crappy to correct without replacing the lens (and at the moment, lens replacement means reading glasses, though as someone posts further down, this is being worked on).
Don't get Bill Gates' comments on this mixed up with Microsoft's stance on this. Microsoft has stated they back Apple, and even Gates backpedaled on it, saying he only supports breaking that one phone in order to fight terrorism.
The bad news is provisions in the USA FREEDOM Act actually allow the US government to tap digital encrypted communications, They also remove all responsibility from a company complying (so you can only sue the government) and can put a gag order on it, which is why sites like canary watch exist. I'm not exactly sure how this works in detail, but I read about it first on April fools day and wasn't sure if it was serious or a joke, but apparently reddit's canary disappeared that day, meaning they've received a gag order from the US government and are under surveillance. Makes me wonder if Slashdot needs or has one.
The majority of people not in the upper class live month-to-month and can't even afford a $500 car repair without borrowing money, much less invest it in stock. My wife and I took more of the long gamble investment-wise by investing in real estate and that is about to vest - we have one mortgage payment and $218 left and it is paid off. That will, if we need it, provide about $750 a month in income (about half what it takes in - the rest is bills/fees and reinvestment in the property).
So it's better to pay their salaries with welfare rather than increased wages? The way I look at it, Joe Taxpayer is stuck with the bill no matter how you cut it.
As someone who has automated my own job out of existence before, all I can say is there are other jobs. I moved laterally within my company when my job went away, but two of the guys got laid off. That project had the misfortune of ending in late August of 2001 and we had 40% layoffs October 1 with 30% more on top of that November 15 (so about 48% of employees got laid off in those two months). I happened to move to QA lead on a project that wasn't expendable and had all of its engineers outsourced already, but they needed a US lead (specifically, it was test automation). I didn't want to stay in that position, but it was a good place to be to survive layoffs.
Mine does too, but they don't monitor everything. I know they don't listen in on calls, for instance. They do know everything you install on the device, though.
A well regulated militia does not specifically mean you have to have the weapons in your home. You could require storing them in an armory and also require regular training with them as part of your militia duty.
The whole militia clause is kind of a joke, anyway. After the militia failed in the war of 1812, the US has always had a standing army, even though the Constitution says a professional army could only be created for 2 years (article 1, section 8, clause 12 if you want to look it up). The entire point of that clause was to NOT have a professional army so the country could avoid problems caused by them in other countries.
The Anti-Federalist sentiment at the time can be summed up by this: "standing army in times of peace, one of the most hurtful, and most dangerous of abuses." - James Burgh, Political Disquisitions,1774.
Was going to call you on that, but you mentioned Gates and his backpedaling. Microsoft actually claims to back Apple, but Gates, who is now mainly a board member and technical adviser, was waffling on that one.
With the GCC runtime exception I seriously doubt anything in zfs.ko has to be GPL as compiled. The only way the argument works is if a kernel object (ko) is considered part of the kernel vs being a shared library. In the "kernel" case, SFC is right. In the shared library case, Canonical is right. I personally agree with Canonical - if it looks like a duck and it flies like a duck, it's a duck.Kernel objects look and behave exactly like shared libraries in that the kernel doesn't need them to function, only to extend functionality, which is exactly what a shared library does.
Yeah, I'm not sure if they really have any grounds to stand on, but it really depends on how you look at it.
If you had this in application space, it would be something like this GPL_shared_library + Non_GPL_shared_library = GPL application The GPL application in this case would be the kernel, but just because the kernel is GPL, the Non_GPL_shared_library doesn't have to be. In application-space that is a completely legal setup and doesn't violate the GPL (copyleft only applies to the application). What they are arguing is that the kernel objects are not like shared libraries, they are part of the kernel and therefore they have to be GPL. You could make an argument from either position, but I personally agree with the shared library view.
Did some research - UID is hardware encoded on the 5c and the firmware implements the same functionality as Secure Enclave. Basically you need the same attack, just a different take on it.
Hmm... apparently it's a 5c, not 5s and that doesn't have Secure Enclave, I don't see why you couldn't just copy the phone into a VM and brute force the PIN. You could roll back the VM. Unless they have the UID stored in hardware like on the newer phones. Don't know.
Fairly certain the phone in question has Secure Enclave (I believe they said 5s, and I think that was the first with it). If it was just in software, you could copy the phone's memory into an emulator and guess 10 passwords and then restore the VM to its previous state and start again. Secure Enclave makes attacks have to be on the phone because the PIN and UID are embedded in hardware and can't be read. An attack would have to update the firmware for Secure Enclave and at make the UID and PIN readable or at least make the PIN brute force guessable by disabling the counter. The PIN and UID are combined to PBKDF2-AES encrypt the device.
Technically the FBI could still brute force the phone off the device, but brute forcing PBKDF2-AES isn't easy, especially without at least the UID. Here's a blog post on it from a couple years ago. Apparently law enforcement didn't crack the phones in the past, just bypassed the boot and read the cleartext data. With full phone encryption that isn't possible.
They said in the article this stuff is a gamma emitter (which also means it's a different isotope of iridium than most people know about), so no, you don't have to ingest it. A dirty bomb made with an alpha emitter would need to be ingested to be most effective (because dead skin stops it). Beta is a mixed bag. In any case, you are correct that dirty bombs definitely don't have the range or killing power of a nuke by a long shot.
Sunscreen is overrated. Sure it prevents you from radiation burns from too much UV-B, but you're also out in the sun too long exposed to other radiation, some of which is more likely to cause cancer than UV-B. I'd rather be out in the sun less time and collect the Vitamin-D I get from UV-B radiation, personally. Also some of it is toxic and may cause cancer on its own. Not to mention it kills the reefs, so you're not supposed to go into the water near reefs until it soaks into your skin.
Just looking at the wiki page for iridium and there appear to be two types of it at element 192. The one with the 73.8 day half life decays by beta emission, the one with a 241 year half life is a gamma emitter. Since they were using it for the gamma emissions, I would guess it has a significant amount of the latter isotope.
Being a gamma emitter, it probably would make a decent dirty bomb. That said, it probably also would cause very few deaths from radiation (dirty bombs are all about the fear, really). Would be a bitch to clean up, though.
The 1960s era insulation in my attic is exactly that - shredded newspaper treated with fire retardant. The main problem with it is that it tends to settle more than fiberglass and apparently doesn't insulate as well after it settles. Mine had dropped a good 6" (15cm) when I had additional fiberglass insulation blown in.
Some of the stuff I've seen suggest that Microsoft will continue to toss money at Windows Phone. It's still being used in Microsoft advertising like the Surface Hub (tossing stuff from the Hub to OneDrive and continuing on your phone), and it wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft pushes Hub integration with Windows phone in a Superbowl commercial. Then there's the Windows 10 based Lumia Denim email I got yesterday...
And before you ask, I have a Lumia phone for work, supplied by work, and not yet released in the US. One of the fun perks of being a key Microsoft partner I guess (though that project is about 1/6 of my job). It actually is a pretty sweet phone, and definitely runs circles around my two year old Samsung Galaxy S4 (not that there is any surprise there). I've used iPhones as well, and I really don't have any issues with any of the designs. They are all a little different, but also fairly intuitive (at least for anyone that has used computers).
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And will vindicate their choice by saying they had to do it because the other party winning because they supported a third is an even worse option. Too bad we don't have RCV; I will always vote for a third party first, but see Hillary as a slightly lesser evil to Donald based on racism and misogyny/
As far as ignorant stupidity goes, they both win. We've heard tons about Trump, but Hillary saying "People Under FBI Investigation Should Lose Constitutional Rights." Um, Hillary, innocent until proven guilty? Or how about how you propose to do that? Reveal everyone's FBI record and skip having a FOIA request to get that? That sounds rather invasive - why not put cameras in everybody's home like Seattle is doing and hide it from the public (I'm kidding, but that sounds like a wonderful Big Brother scenario, right, because why the fuck not?).
It's kind of unfair to call out just Apple here - name a single phone made in America. OK, maybe you know the Moto X is manufactured here... correction, it is assembled here, mainly if not exclusively from foreign parts at Wal-Mart level wages by a company called Flextronics.
In my experience, Apple's devices hold a charge longer and use battery more frugally than Android. Leaving them idle is absolutely no contest - my Nexus 7 is dead in a week, my iPad mini still has power after a month (though we're talking 10% - my iPad 2 is still in the 40-50% when idle for a month). My usage of these devices tends to be in spurts as I jump between supporting different projects and platforms, so they may be idle a month or two and then be in extremely heavy use for a month or two.
the second = was supposed to say >= but I forgot to escape the greater than
Hmm... that seems strange... p (or t) in the updated version seems to take all cases, so would return before it ever got to the final return function. That or I just don't know javascript that well (I've read and done a few examples, but not seriously studied it, so I'm going by C-like behavior). Isn't having a = redundant as far as the = goes, as well?
Um, that says Computers, Mathematics, and Statistics, while Engineers get their own category.
Number of people with a CSci degree working in some form of computer science or engineering: all of them, unless they're laid off and looking (one person).
Math majors I know have the following jobs: Accountant. Accountant. Sales and Accounting Senior Manager.
Statistics majors I know have the following jobs: job Manager non-STEM, looking for a job teaching Statistics (PhD from Ecole Normale Supérieure - US and French citizen) and his wife with the same PhD from the same place (waiting on US paperwork to work, she already has dual citizenship in Romania and France, so I think she's pursuing a green card rather than citizenship).
The only thing I fear more than that is Trump reaching the White House.
Looks like I vote third party again, but I think that was already a given for me.
According to the article, they had to craft specific hardware to retrieve the PIN and I'm guessing you need to not only possess the phone, but pull it apart to use this exploit. I had a suspicion that the firmware security in that phone could be exploited with a hardware hack and it turns out that is true. From the sound of it, a remote exploit isn't possible using the method described.
My first thought was around the same lines- imagine if someone hacked your connection/phone while driving. My second thought was that is what self driving cars are for...
In any case, I really wonder if there will ever even be a market here, as many people are relatively averse to putting something in their eye. I know several people that refuse to wear contacts (and most got Lasik) just for that reason. That was never an option for me - my vision is too crappy to correct without replacing the lens (and at the moment, lens replacement means reading glasses, though as someone posts further down, this is being worked on).
Don't get Bill Gates' comments on this mixed up with Microsoft's stance on this. Microsoft has stated they back Apple, and even Gates backpedaled on it, saying he only supports breaking that one phone in order to fight terrorism.
The bad news is provisions in the USA FREEDOM Act actually allow the US government to tap digital encrypted communications, They also remove all responsibility from a company complying (so you can only sue the government) and can put a gag order on it, which is why sites like canary watch exist. I'm not exactly sure how this works in detail, but I read about it first on April fools day and wasn't sure if it was serious or a joke, but apparently reddit's canary disappeared that day, meaning they've received a gag order from the US government and are under surveillance. Makes me wonder if Slashdot needs or has one.
The majority of people not in the upper class live month-to-month and can't even afford a $500 car repair without borrowing money, much less invest it in stock. My wife and I took more of the long gamble investment-wise by investing in real estate and that is about to vest - we have one mortgage payment and $218 left and it is paid off. That will, if we need it, provide about $750 a month in income (about half what it takes in - the rest is bills/fees and reinvestment in the property).
So it's better to pay their salaries with welfare rather than increased wages? The way I look at it, Joe Taxpayer is stuck with the bill no matter how you cut it.
As someone who has automated my own job out of existence before, all I can say is there are other jobs. I moved laterally within my company when my job went away, but two of the guys got laid off. That project had the misfortune of ending in late August of 2001 and we had 40% layoffs October 1 with 30% more on top of that November 15 (so about 48% of employees got laid off in those two months). I happened to move to QA lead on a project that wasn't expendable and had all of its engineers outsourced already, but they needed a US lead (specifically, it was test automation). I didn't want to stay in that position, but it was a good place to be to survive layoffs.
Mine does too, but they don't monitor everything. I know they don't listen in on calls, for instance. They do know everything you install on the device, though.
A well regulated militia does not specifically mean you have to have the weapons in your home. You could require storing them in an armory and also require regular training with them as part of your militia duty.
The whole militia clause is kind of a joke, anyway. After the militia failed in the war of 1812, the US has always had a standing army, even though the Constitution says a professional army could only be created for 2 years (article 1, section 8, clause 12 if you want to look it up). The entire point of that clause was to NOT have a professional army so the country could avoid problems caused by them in other countries.
The Anti-Federalist sentiment at the time can be summed up by this: "standing army in times of peace, one of the most hurtful, and most dangerous of abuses." - James Burgh, Political Disquisitions,1774.
Was going to call you on that, but you mentioned Gates and his backpedaling. Microsoft actually claims to back Apple, but Gates, who is now mainly a board member and technical adviser, was waffling on that one.
With the GCC runtime exception I seriously doubt anything in zfs.ko has to be GPL as compiled. The only way the argument works is if a kernel object (ko) is considered part of the kernel vs being a shared library. In the "kernel" case, SFC is right. In the shared library case, Canonical is right. I personally agree with Canonical - if it looks like a duck and it flies like a duck, it's a duck.Kernel objects look and behave exactly like shared libraries in that the kernel doesn't need them to function, only to extend functionality, which is exactly what a shared library does.
Yeah, I'm not sure if they really have any grounds to stand on, but it really depends on how you look at it.
If you had this in application space, it would be something like this
GPL_shared_library + Non_GPL_shared_library = GPL application
The GPL application in this case would be the kernel, but just because the kernel is GPL, the Non_GPL_shared_library doesn't have to be. In application-space that is a completely legal setup and doesn't violate the GPL (copyleft only applies to the application). What they are arguing is that the kernel objects are not like shared libraries, they are part of the kernel and therefore they have to be GPL. You could make an argument from either position, but I personally agree with the shared library view.
Did some research - UID is hardware encoded on the 5c and the firmware implements the same functionality as Secure Enclave. Basically you need the same attack, just a different take on it.
Hmm... apparently it's a 5c, not 5s and that doesn't have Secure Enclave, I don't see why you couldn't just copy the phone into a VM and brute force the PIN. You could roll back the VM. Unless they have the UID stored in hardware like on the newer phones. Don't know.
Fairly certain the phone in question has Secure Enclave (I believe they said 5s, and I think that was the first with it). If it was just in software, you could copy the phone's memory into an emulator and guess 10 passwords and then restore the VM to its previous state and start again. Secure Enclave makes attacks have to be on the phone because the PIN and UID are embedded in hardware and can't be read. An attack would have to update the firmware for Secure Enclave and at make the UID and PIN readable or at least make the PIN brute force guessable by disabling the counter. The PIN and UID are combined to PBKDF2-AES encrypt the device.
Technically the FBI could still brute force the phone off the device, but brute forcing PBKDF2-AES isn't easy, especially without at least the UID. Here's a blog post on it from a couple years ago. Apparently law enforcement didn't crack the phones in the past, just bypassed the boot and read the cleartext data. With full phone encryption that isn't possible.
They said in the article this stuff is a gamma emitter (which also means it's a different isotope of iridium than most people know about), so no, you don't have to ingest it. A dirty bomb made with an alpha emitter would need to be ingested to be most effective (because dead skin stops it). Beta is a mixed bag. In any case, you are correct that dirty bombs definitely don't have the range or killing power of a nuke by a long shot.
Sunscreen is overrated. Sure it prevents you from radiation burns from too much UV-B, but you're also out in the sun too long exposed to other radiation, some of which is more likely to cause cancer than UV-B. I'd rather be out in the sun less time and collect the Vitamin-D I get from UV-B radiation, personally. Also some of it is toxic and may cause cancer on its own. Not to mention it kills the reefs, so you're not supposed to go into the water near reefs until it soaks into your skin.
Just looking at the wiki page for iridium and there appear to be two types of it at element 192. The one with the 73.8 day half life decays by beta emission, the one with a 241 year half life is a gamma emitter. Since they were using it for the gamma emissions, I would guess it has a significant amount of the latter isotope.
Being a gamma emitter, it probably would make a decent dirty bomb. That said, it probably also would cause very few deaths from radiation (dirty bombs are all about the fear, really). Would be a bitch to clean up, though.
The 1960s era insulation in my attic is exactly that - shredded newspaper treated with fire retardant. The main problem with it is that it tends to settle more than fiberglass and apparently doesn't insulate as well after it settles. Mine had dropped a good 6" (15cm) when I had additional fiberglass insulation blown in.
Some of the stuff I've seen suggest that Microsoft will continue to toss money at Windows Phone. It's still being used in Microsoft advertising like the Surface Hub (tossing stuff from the Hub to OneDrive and continuing on your phone), and it wouldn't surprise me if Microsoft pushes Hub integration with Windows phone in a Superbowl commercial. Then there's the Windows 10 based Lumia Denim email I got yesterday...
And before you ask, I have a Lumia phone for work, supplied by work, and not yet released in the US. One of the fun perks of being a key Microsoft partner I guess (though that project is about 1/6 of my job). It actually is a pretty sweet phone, and definitely runs circles around my two year old Samsung Galaxy S4 (not that there is any surprise there). I've used iPhones as well, and I really don't have any issues with any of the designs. They are all a little different, but also fairly intuitive (at least for anyone that has used computers).