It is almost as if.... a paycheck prevents a person from understanding things that would be detrimental to the reception of said check.... and removal of that income can help to bring these issues into focus, especially when you realize someone else is now at the reigns and has the power to do unto you with the powers you used to have to do unto others.
Actually I think the best of the non-metric measurements is temperature. Sure, its true, the metric scale is better for many things. It is great for talking about boiling water, and freezing water, and relating them.
However, its hard to talk about comfortable room temperatures in C without resorting to fractional numbers. The 0-100 range is just too wide for daily use.
The F scale however is based around the normal sorts of human temperature ranges where 0 is around where we start talking about it being dangerously cold, and 100 is about where the heat is getting dangerous.... leaving quite a bit of room in the middle for discussing our daily comfort in simple whole numbers.
The moment I need to do anything technical though....of course you want metric!
and here I was thinking someone actually found something else teflon is good at (other than as pipe thread tape)....because pan coatings sure were a fucking flop.
The entire generation of people who chose teflon pans over cast iron were, quite simply, wrong.
Teflon is great non-stick, until you use it twice. Seasoned cast iron is constantly renewing its coating.
I guess 100 must be the weight of it in stone. Why the weight of it? Beats the fuck out of me, seems like a stupid designation; but, with no other reference, not even what the name of other batteries is, I just have to make assumptions.
What we do know is its a battery and its "juicier" what we don't know is if its apple or orange. Knowing tesla, they probably went with grape right?
Dude, I had norovirus within the past month. There is no way hand washing prevents its spread.
Noro happens in ANY environment where lots of people share space. Hell one investigation found that a person puking in one section of a resteraunt was responsible for another person across the room to get sick. It is, effectively, and airborn disease the moment someone vomits; which, in my experience, is often quite sudden and violent.
Additionally, it comes on so fast, its nearly impossible to self isolate unless you stay home the moment you get any headache. Shit you can practically track the diseases progression of symptoms by the hour! Then, on top of that, its viable on fabric for weeks or hard surfaces for months.
I honestly don't see much point in worrying too much about Noro, its just a fact of life.
No I think he doesn't mean EMP at all but something more like a HERF gun.
Similar concept, cause a flood of EM waves that induce currents where currents should not be and cause sensitive, unshielded electronics to malfunction catastrophically.
Not sure what the range on them is, but I would assume most drones are not that well shielded against something like this, and if they get close enough, it could even set their plastic bits on fire.... though... pretty sure at that range you could smack it with a broom handle.
This kind of thing actually happens fairly frequently. The various functions of intelligence and counter intelligence are well compartmentalized out of necessity.
It isn't, and hasn't for a long time, just been a story of these people duping eachother, but in fact, quite often, duping themselves.
In fact, I have even seen claims that some of the torture techniques used by the CIA were the result of SERE training, but SERE training was the result of incorrect information about the use of torture which originated in propaganda against our public enemies.
The snake has been devouring its tail for decades now. Saw a fascinating talk that touched on a lot of this recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
You say that now.... but.... actual conversation that happened (names have been changed to protect the terrible):
(driving down the road with a friend I had recently started hanging out with) me: "I know a family lives down that street, fucking crazy as fuck. Friend of mine dated their daughter, it was terrible, the day I picked him up and we loaded his shit into my car, she was telling him she was 'pregnant' again" her: "Lol my Brother had a kid with a crazy girl on that steet, Jodie Simpson"
And we are not in some small town either, there are probably 50 houses on that one street, we are about as densly populated a city as you find in the US. Some people still manage to stand out.
This is true, but I think this case clearly brings up that there was sever ethical oversight.
The end result of de-anonymized traffic is, by its very nature, a danger to the person de-anonymized.
It is one thing for researchers to prove that they can de-anonymize users, but, in doing so, they take on the responsibility of protecting that information. It is highly irresponsible for them to have stored any of those results in a form which could be correlated to specific sites.
In the future, I hope all such research will be more strictly aimed at proving concepts and will take steps to protect the data which they do de-anonymize.
It does, but its a silly thing to worry about. Remember the "could potentially" means, you don't even know that it would. The entire scenario is based on hypothetical lives that could be saved, in a fantastical scenario.
The real issue is what happens when these things are easy to break. The ability to access data is often abused, its well documented how often and how many people will abuse access they are given, even for mundane reasons. Do you have any idea how many people with access to medical records try looking up their neighbors? Its staggering.
So you have the real risks of bad security, and the imagined risk. The real risks include the obverse scenario. For every "terrorist" whose phone might betray accomplices, there are 10s or 100s of political dissidents whose lives would be endangered by the same.
The big progress here..... remember how it used to take years or even decades for DOJ lies to be exposed? Now all manner of government lies are just blasted to all hell within DAYS. It really is wonderful progress.
> Letting a young one have cash seems far more irresponsible - that creates a target for robbing, which I understand is a real concern for American children.
Don't believe everything you hear. This place went from a country where children ran around in front yards free to a place where helicopter parents don't let kids enter the back yard unsupervised mostly due to the fact that scary stories get more eyeballs on news programs than any rational reason.
The ones? Bullshit. Its not really even accurate to talk about them like two separate parties. They are big tent parties....99% the same, then they take the 1% of wedge issues and break them up so they can both pretend to be relevant.
What do you think the "War on Terror" is? Nothing but emotional bullshit. Be afraid!
What do you think it is when they talk about the Valor and Honor of soldiers? Emotional BS. Its just a sports team they want you to support.
Have you heard them on abortion? You would think not a single one of them had ever taken a biology course. Nothing but bleeding heart emotion. Same thing when they try to get you riled up about "welfare queens"....all emotional BS designed to make you ignore the realities.
Two sides....ONE COIN (and its a wooden nickel)
Democrats and Republicans are a colony organism, they are not in competition at all.
Actually, more than half are smart enough to realize that their vote is totally gamed and worthless anyway. This is one of the cases where the majority is correct too. Before you even figure in gerrymandering First past the post already guarantees a gamed system with permanent minority rule.
> And this solves the problem, doesn't it? Give it McAfee, he will screw up and erase all the data on the phone, problem solved.
I cannot even begin to express how much I want the FBI to take him up on this offer.
The idea of Presidential Candidate John McAfee's personal crack team of uberhackers being deployed in this case is just.... its everything a boy could hope for. Good work JM....go full Stark on that shit.
For several decades now they have been spending more and more money on drug laws. The amount just keeps going up and up, they were over a trillion 5 years ago with no dip in sight.
This leaves another problem, or many, but the central one is.... the addiction rate has basically been a horizontal line for the ENTIRE TIME.
So there is a scramble to A) Get some of that money and B) Justify why more needs to be spent on a failed policy that never had any hope of working.
Clearly the problem is the money is too easy to move....that is totally it. This time....this time they have it nailed. never mind that they used the exact same argument for $1000 and $500 bills....and that did nothing either.
Yes and no. I mean, I also hate apple. However, I was typing BUY APPLE in all caps at people yesterday over this. I absolutely love that they built this security feature into their phone. LOVE IT. It doesn't undo all of the hate I have for them over so many other issues.... but they won me over on this one.
That said...the article is right. This is a hole. I am not saying that 100% of the OS can't ever be updated, but, this particular feature could have been stored in immutable memory of some kind. This sort of feature should be as low level as possible for maximum security.
That said, I fully understand why they wouldn't go that far.... but I hope they will consider it now that they see what is at stake.
You would think nobody who decided to rob a bank would write the note on the back of mail addressed to themselves.
Hell you might think that nobody would think "hey, in this live production stock exchange trading system, lets try entering a value of -6"
Then you might think "Surely nobody developing a live production stock exchange trading system would ever simply cast a signed integer into an unsigned integer and allow a user to accidentally post a 69 trilliong dollar trade as a result?"
You would be wrong on all three, but, the first happened so many times you can find those for yourself: http://news.slashdot.org/story...
No, he has asked them to create a trojan firmware that can be loaded onto the phone as if it were a normal one. A trojan which could easily be reused on any phone, once the FBI get their grubby hands on it, and then there will be jack all that anyone can do about it.
They are asking Apple to do something which will effectively give them this same access in the future without a warrant, because the process will be repeatable. Even if Apple loads the rom themselves, the FBI will make a copy. They will expend great effort to make a copy, probably even enlisting the NSA for help.
If that rom file should ever be leaked or stolen, then it can be used by anyone.
But that is a terrible analogy because Apple can clearly help the FBI here. All they need to do is download the latest list of last years most common passwords, email it to them, and say "good luck".
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Now if we could only get the cool technology developed for something other than our war with Eastasia thanks.
The LAST thing we need is expanding military capability.
It is almost as if.... a paycheck prevents a person from understanding things that would be detrimental to the reception of said check.... and removal of that income can help to bring these issues into focus, especially when you realize someone else is now at the reigns and has the power to do unto you with the powers you used to have to do unto others.
Actually I think the best of the non-metric measurements is temperature. Sure, its true, the metric scale is better for many things. It is great for talking about boiling water, and freezing water, and relating them.
However, its hard to talk about comfortable room temperatures in C without resorting to fractional numbers. The 0-100 range is just too wide for daily use.
The F scale however is based around the normal sorts of human temperature ranges where 0 is around where we start talking about it being dangerously cold, and 100 is about where the heat is getting dangerous.... leaving quite a bit of room in the middle for discussing our daily comfort in simple whole numbers.
The moment I need to do anything technical though....of course you want metric!
and here I was thinking someone actually found something else teflon is good at (other than as pipe thread tape)....because pan coatings sure were a fucking flop.
The entire generation of people who chose teflon pans over cast iron were, quite simply, wrong.
Teflon is great non-stick, until you use it twice. Seasoned cast iron is constantly renewing its coating.
I wont go back.
Based on the title I duduce it is a battery.
I guess 100 must be the weight of it in stone. Why the weight of it? Beats the fuck out of me, seems like a stupid designation; but, with no other reference, not even what the name of other batteries is, I just have to make assumptions.
What we do know is its a battery and its "juicier" what we don't know is if its apple or orange. Knowing tesla, they probably went with grape right?
Dude, I had norovirus within the past month. There is no way hand washing prevents its spread.
Noro happens in ANY environment where lots of people share space. Hell one investigation found that a person puking in one section of a resteraunt was responsible for another person across the room to get sick. It is, effectively, and airborn disease the moment someone vomits; which, in my experience, is often quite sudden and violent.
Additionally, it comes on so fast, its nearly impossible to self isolate unless you stay home the
moment you get any headache. Shit you can practically track the diseases progression of symptoms by the hour! Then, on top of that, its viable on fabric for weeks or hard surfaces for months.
I honestly don't see much point in worrying too much about Noro, its just a fact of life.
No I think he doesn't mean EMP at all but something more like a HERF gun.
Similar concept, cause a flood of EM waves that induce currents where currents should not be and cause sensitive, unshielded electronics to malfunction catastrophically.
Not sure what the range on them is, but I would assume most drones are not that well shielded against something like this, and if they get close enough, it could even set their plastic bits on fire.... though... pretty sure at that range you could smack it with a broom handle.
This kind of thing actually happens fairly frequently. The various functions of intelligence and counter intelligence are well compartmentalized out of necessity.
It isn't, and hasn't for a long time, just been a story of these people duping eachother, but in fact, quite often, duping themselves.
In fact, I have even seen claims that some of the torture techniques used by the CIA were the result of SERE training, but SERE training was the result of incorrect information about the use of torture which originated in propaganda against our public enemies.
The snake has been devouring its tail for decades now. Saw a fascinating talk that touched on a lot of this recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
You say that now.... but.... actual conversation that happened (names have been changed to protect the terrible):
(driving down the road with a friend I had recently started hanging out with)
me: "I know a family lives down that street, fucking crazy as fuck. Friend of mine dated their daughter, it was terrible, the day I picked him up and we loaded his shit into my car, she was telling him she was 'pregnant' again"
her: "Lol my Brother had a kid with a crazy girl on that steet, Jodie Simpson"
And we are not in some small town either, there are probably 50 houses on that one street, we are about as densly populated a city as you find in the US. Some people still manage to stand out.
This is true, but I think this case clearly brings up that there was sever ethical oversight.
The end result of de-anonymized traffic is, by its very nature, a danger to the person de-anonymized.
It is one thing for researchers to prove that they can de-anonymize users, but, in doing so, they take on the responsibility of protecting that information. It is highly irresponsible for them to have stored any of those results in a form which could be correlated to specific sites.
In the future, I hope all such research will be more strictly aimed at proving concepts and will take steps to protect the data which they do de-anonymize.
It does, but its a silly thing to worry about. Remember the "could potentially" means, you don't even know that it would. The entire scenario is based on hypothetical lives that could be saved, in a fantastical scenario.
The real issue is what happens when these things are easy to break. The ability to access data is often abused, its well documented how often and how many people will abuse access they are given, even for mundane reasons. Do you have any idea how many people with access to medical records try looking up their neighbors? Its staggering.
So you have the real risks of bad security, and the imagined risk. The real risks include the obverse scenario. For every "terrorist" whose phone might betray accomplices, there are 10s or 100s of political dissidents whose lives would be endangered by the same.
Interesting, so basically, he plays whatever part is most convenient at the time. Sounds like someone the politicians must love.
The big progress here..... remember how it used to take years or even decades for DOJ lies to be exposed? Now all manner of government lies are just blasted to all hell within DAYS. It really is wonderful progress.
> Letting a young one have cash seems far more irresponsible - that creates a target for robbing, which I understand is a real concern for American children.
Don't believe everything you hear. This place went from a country where children ran around in front yards free to a place where helicopter parents don't let kids enter the back yard unsupervised mostly due to the fact that scary stories get more eyeballs on news programs than any rational reason.
Fear sells, and people buy it.
Which is hilarious when you remember that he was always a democrat and is a good friend of the Clintons.
It is almost like, the entire slate on both "sides" is just a bunch of actors playing parts.....almost right?
The ones? Bullshit. Its not really even accurate to talk about them like two separate parties. They are big tent parties....99% the same, then they take the 1% of wedge issues and break them up so they can both pretend to be relevant.
What do you think the "War on Terror" is? Nothing but emotional bullshit. Be afraid!
What do you think it is when they talk about the Valor and Honor of soldiers? Emotional BS. Its just a sports team they want you to support.
Have you heard them on abortion? You would think not a single one of them had ever taken a biology course. Nothing but bleeding heart emotion. Same thing when they try to get you riled up about "welfare queens"....all emotional BS designed to make you ignore the realities.
Two sides....ONE COIN (and its a wooden nickel)
Democrats and Republicans are a colony organism, they are not in competition at all.
Actually, more than half are smart enough to realize that their vote is totally gamed and worthless anyway.
This is one of the cases where the majority is correct too. Before you even figure in gerrymandering First past the post already guarantees a gamed system with permanent minority rule.
> And this solves the problem, doesn't it? Give it McAfee, he will screw up and erase all the data on the phone, problem solved.
I cannot even begin to express how much I want the FBI to take him up on this offer.
The idea of Presidential Candidate John McAfee's personal crack team of uberhackers being deployed in this case is just.... its everything a boy could hope for. Good work JM....go full Stark on that shit.
Only for a little while, you quickly develop a tolerance for it.
No you are missing something.
For several decades now they have been spending more and more money on drug laws. The amount just keeps going up and up, they were over a trillion 5 years ago with no dip in sight.
This leaves another problem, or many, but the central one is.... the addiction rate has basically been a horizontal line for the ENTIRE TIME.
So there is a scramble to A) Get some of that money and B) Justify why more needs to be spent on a failed policy that never had any hope of working.
Clearly the problem is the money is too easy to move....that is totally it. This time....this time they have it nailed. never mind that they used the exact same argument for $1000 and $500 bills....and that did nothing either.
Nice, good to hear they are doing it right.
Yes and no. I mean, I also hate apple. However, I was typing BUY APPLE in all caps at people yesterday over this. I absolutely love that they built this security feature into their phone. LOVE IT. It doesn't undo all of the hate I have for them over so many other issues.... but they won me over on this one.
That said...the article is right. This is a hole. I am not saying that 100% of the OS can't ever be updated, but, this particular feature could have been stored in immutable memory of some kind. This sort of feature should be as low level as possible for maximum security.
That said, I fully understand why they wouldn't go that far.... but I hope they will consider it now that they see what is at stake.
Exactly...
You would think nobody who decided to rob a bank would write the note on the back of mail addressed to themselves.
Hell you might think that nobody would think "hey, in this live production stock exchange trading system, lets try entering a value of -6"
Then you might think "Surely nobody developing a live production stock exchange trading system would ever simply cast a signed integer into an unsigned integer and allow a user to accidentally post a 69 trilliong dollar trade as a result?"
You would be wrong on all three, but, the first happened so many times you can find those for yourself:
http://news.slashdot.org/story...
No, he has asked them to create a trojan firmware that can be loaded onto the phone as if it were a normal one. A trojan which could easily be reused on any phone, once the FBI get their grubby hands on it, and then there will be jack all that anyone can do about it.
They are asking Apple to do something which will effectively give them this same access in the future without a warrant, because the process will be repeatable. Even if Apple loads the rom themselves, the FBI will make a copy. They will expend great effort to make a copy, probably even enlisting the NSA for help.
If that rom file should ever be leaked or stolen, then it can be used by anyone.
> "Judge orders arsonist to unburn-down house"
But that is a terrible analogy because Apple can clearly help the FBI here. All they need to do is download the latest list of last years most common passwords, email it to them, and say "good luck".
There...they helped. Works for me.