Just because my phone is traveling in a vehicle, does not mean that I am driving or even IN said vehicle.
It doesn't mean you are "for sure" but it does mean you are "most likely" and "within x [very high] certainty."
The vast majority of times people who own cell phones don't have it with them, they either left it at home, or forgot it somewhere in a stationary location.
If it is usually where They think it is, that is more than good enough that they can be "pretty sure" where you are.
Privacy is not retained by there being a small chance that the invasion of privacy is rarely and temporarily incorrect.
You won't be able to register your car if it doesn't have its snitchware.
That's a pretty idiotic proposal IMHO. I would vote "no."
That would never fly in my State (Oregon). If you think this could happen in your State, my advice, get a "ballot measure" system where you can exercise Direct Democracy. Then you don't have to worry about those kinds of idiotic conspiracy theories, because if they were to pass such a law, the People would simply revert it at the next election.
Actual "patriots" would sooner die than run away to Russia.
Real Patriots would face whatever consequences to do what is best for the nation.
Real Patriots who thought the government was acting illegally would stand up to that government at any cost they would not slink away into the darkness and hand national secrets to foreign governments.
Real Patriots would stay and fight for American principles against any threat, even a (nonexistent, in this case) threat of death.
Snowden didn't do any of that. He gave away national secrets and ran away, because he doesn't believe in America, doesn't trust American juries, and doesn't believe in Justice, or in fighting for it.
Snowden is not only a Traitor to America, he's also a Traitor to whatever American political forces would support his actions.
When they change communication methods is exactly when we discover new people to track. That works out even if we're slow to track their new methods, because we at least are tracking a small percent of the new method.
Mostly though this isn't used for "terrorism" or international law enforcement. It is used against governments where we're involved in military conflict, or might be. That is the main use case, hostile governments.
You can reasonably infer all of this by closely watching the military leaks during the early stages of new conflicts, such as Syria and Libya. When government officials try to go into hiding, that is exactly when we can break their whole communication system and find out what everybody is doing. That is what the signals people (NSA) see their job as, not any of the inane things people accuse them of, like industrial espionage. (which is handled by the CIA, if you believe any of the most credible accusations)
The report just says they didn't release or adopt any new encryption tools in a short timeframe associated with the leaks.
To meet the standard in the report, they would have had to have had more secure communication tools at the ready, but not deployed. They would have had to have known their security sucked, but have been communicating that way anyways, waiting for somebody to tell them that the NSA was listening so they would know to push the "super secret" button before talking, or something.
The report isn't a "lie" exactly, it is just totally full of shit.
I doubt that. It may be that the more effort foreign governments put into technology security, the more complex their use of technology will become, and the more information the NSA will be able to collect on them.
If he had "risked everything" he would have stayed here, and his trial would have focused the issue and forced debate.
He took the least risk he could to achieve his ends, which involved him escaping to whatever anti-American country would take him. Regardless of what else you think he is, he is clearly also a Traitor.
No, clearly you didn't, so "we" didn't. I did. All my technical friends did. Every single sysadmin I knew, knew about this. Everybody talked about the "government tap closets" in all the data centers.
It also turned out that the first year of leaks was mostly lies(!) taken from poorly written, inaccurate training PDFs, even though the leaks contained real information. What we know now lines up a lot better with what "everybody" in the sysadmin community was saying before Snowden than it does with the first year of leaks. So yeah. We knew.
And thanks to Greenwallet, or whatever his name is, most people never will know, because he spent their whole attention spans on misleading garbage so that he could stretch out the publishing.
No, it was about technology patents with no new technology where the business method was clearly not patentable. The formula for that patent category is, "existing business method + on a [computer/phone/etc] = new machine"
Yeah, they were proposing and building these giant 140ft by 40ft monstrosities that would have been disruptive to fishing and wildlife, and totally incompatible with the expectations of the community. Oregonians support wave power, but it needs to be slender buoys that are more like artificial kelp; something that creates artificial habitat, not something large and industrial that pushes nature out of the way.
There are actually a bunch of other pilot projects, some of which are more likely to move forwards.
Also keep in mind, they only had approval for the pilot project to test the feasibility. Nobody promised any permits for the large scale project. The pilot would have had to prove not only that it generated power, but also that it didn't interfere with wildlife or fishing. And it wasn't designed to meet the actual standards it would have needed to meet. Probably they thought they could bribe their way through, found out that doesn't work here, and are winding it down and blaming efficiency delays.
And, it turns out they don't have funding anyways, so they can't really move the project.
They admit in their press release that other companies have more mature products not only on the market, but proven.
It isn't for learning programming, it is for learning engineering.
The reason so many people use it for programming is because they're just using it as a toy and are programming it to fill a role that would otherwise be filled by a commercial-off-the-shelf hardware device, for example an indoor/outdoor thermometer.
The programming part in its natural environment is firmware programming, and indeed, you don't need something "special" you just need something truly small enough that you have to do real firmware work and not stuff all the work into general purpose programming languages.
What I don't like about this project is that they simply use all the work (software development) of the foundation and the RPi community to sell their product. They call it "compatibility" but in fact it means: let other people do all the work and we make money from it.
Someone is new to open source/designs I see. Arduino has a bazillion knockoffs that are compatible yet they still seem to be doing okay. Unless RPi isn't an open architecture - in which case, why do we advocate its use?
Yeah, not only new to "open," but using recycled complaints from the 90s. It is already well refuted; in emerging markets cooperation is the strongest form of competition, everybody benefits. And in established markets, "open" empowers startups and lowers barrier to entry, preventing monopoly abuse from the established players.
Please, please, will somebody tell these idiots to download a new stupid version?! This old one is tiring.
No need to go into the future for that, their past attitude and refusal to seek placement in upcoming devices might indeed play a role in their recent large layoff announcements, and their stock price has been basically flat since it dropped in the 2001 bust.
Look at Texas Instruments, who is friendly to customers and competes at all levels, including single units, and they're really strong with an increasing stock price since the bust. They're at about half their boom peak, with steady growth the past few years; growth that coincides with the rise of the Maker movement. Broadcom doesn't even show a positive blip, because RPi alone is nothing for market share and other than that one project, they refuse to sell to emerging markets.
Something I find funny about the Broadcom "we're too big and important to sell to you small or medium sized manufacturers; go get it from pipsqueaks" attitude is that the business often then falls to TI.... who has over twice Broadcom's market cap! Broadcom is a small fish in a big pond who thinks they're a big fish in a small pond. No wonder they have to "restructure."
It is actually even narrower than that; their mandate is to provide an embedded computer of choice for educators... in the UK! They're doing great at that, and even are somewhat useful to the broader "neckbeard-SBC" market. Even people who actually dev on something else like a BBB still have a RPi in a drawer somewhere. And that helps support engineering education in the UK. Good on them, even if their products sucks! (Not saying it does, just saying the rest is true even if you don't like the product)
Yes, but for some reason I find hard to fathom it attracts attention away from other products that would be just as good at fulfilling the same goals and *are* completely open.
Simple, it increases the total market. Competition isn't zero-sum unless the market is mature and flat. A product that gets a bunch of free press and increases the demand for the whole sector is helping their competition almost as much as themselves. In these types of growing markets, cooperation is the most powerful competition. And as such, in the long term it is normal to expect the more open competitors to do better. Not only do they have more appeal to the more serious customers, but they can share not only the good PR but also technical advances.
Most of the RPi customers are not hobbyists or makers or aspiring engineers, most of them are people who like geeky toys and bought it as a toy, similar to Lego(TM), where they can plug some stuff together, follow some instructions, and make an LED blink. Maybe they set up an indoor/outdoor garden thermometer. Impressive, yes? Well, it is impressive that these people's money is flowing into the Maker niche and growing it for everybody! Thanks guys!
Small volumes aren't loss-leaders here, they're higher margin!
Nobody is asking any of the chip companies to do loss-leaders, just to be willing to sell. Most companies are coming around and dealing with customers of all sizes now. They're usually not developing new chips for this market, just selling their existing chips to whoever wants them.
Broadcom needs to know a lot about you and have you sign a bunch of NDAs before they'll even take your money. Your money is NOT as good as someone elses, to them.
While it may in fact be true that RPi has more sales and more units sitting in drawers, I'd be really surprised if more people were using RPi than BBB for real projects they themselves were putting together based on their own ideas. I'm not against people doing "electronics by numbers" kits but that is most of RPi "users."
Some hand-waving about maybe the USB would drop audio data, maybe it wouldn't, well that is not really showing that you know one is better. That is showing you don't know but are heavily biased. You don't think a BBB can run audio, because you couldn't compile a new kernel? Are you sure you needed to? Really sure? Really double sure? If you couldn't get any help from people who know how to compile a kernel (that was nerd-101 when I started on linux, geeze) then how can you believe the people who told you that you needed to? Those people clearly don't even know.
It is funny because I use BBB to develope real-life audio prototypes. You're connecting spdif which is digital, did you know that HDMI includes a 48k digital output? That's why it doesn't have an analog audio output, because it has a high quality digitial output instead. There is also a new analog cape that gives good analog IO with a quality hardware CODEC and includes bluetooth.
Here is a site that explains how to interface with a DAC using I2S on the BBB. Oh, you thought that was an advantage that RPi had? No, I2S is something everybody has.;) http://www.element14.com/commu...
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Way to put the SCO in CISCO.
Just because my phone is traveling in a vehicle, does not mean that I am driving or even IN said vehicle.
It doesn't mean you are "for sure" but it does mean you are "most likely" and "within x [very high] certainty."
The vast majority of times people who own cell phones don't have it with them, they either left it at home, or forgot it somewhere in a stationary location.
If it is usually where They think it is, that is more than good enough that they can be "pretty sure" where you are.
Privacy is not retained by there being a small chance that the invasion of privacy is rarely and temporarily incorrect.
Dumb cellphones give away your triangulated location to within a few dozen yards, too.
If you really don't want to be tracked, you can't even use a pager.
Its not the tech, it's the usage.
That's why I plan to stick to a private intranet of things.
You won't be able to register your car if it doesn't have its snitchware.
That's a pretty idiotic proposal IMHO. I would vote "no."
That would never fly in my State (Oregon). If you think this could happen in your State, my advice, get a "ballot measure" system where you can exercise Direct Democracy. Then you don't have to worry about those kinds of idiotic conspiracy theories, because if they were to pass such a law, the People would simply revert it at the next election.
Actual "patriots" would sooner die than run away to Russia.
Real Patriots would face whatever consequences to do what is best for the nation.
Real Patriots who thought the government was acting illegally would stand up to that government at any cost they would not slink away into the darkness and hand national secrets to foreign governments.
Real Patriots would stay and fight for American principles against any threat, even a (nonexistent, in this case) threat of death.
Snowden didn't do any of that. He gave away national secrets and ran away, because he doesn't believe in America, doesn't trust American juries, and doesn't believe in Justice, or in fighting for it.
Snowden is not only a Traitor to America, he's also a Traitor to whatever American political forces would support his actions.
Maybe that is some sort of meme, but misunderstanding isn't "fixing," and neither is offering a different view.
You still didn't get it, there is a bunch of derp on your chin. Try wiping in bigger motions.
When they change communication methods is exactly when we discover new people to track. That works out even if we're slow to track their new methods, because we at least are tracking a small percent of the new method.
Mostly though this isn't used for "terrorism" or international law enforcement. It is used against governments where we're involved in military conflict, or might be. That is the main use case, hostile governments.
You can reasonably infer all of this by closely watching the military leaks during the early stages of new conflicts, such as Syria and Libya. When government officials try to go into hiding, that is exactly when we can break their whole communication system and find out what everybody is doing. That is what the signals people (NSA) see their job as, not any of the inane things people accuse them of, like industrial espionage. (which is handled by the CIA, if you believe any of the most credible accusations)
The report just says they didn't release or adopt any new encryption tools in a short timeframe associated with the leaks.
To meet the standard in the report, they would have had to have had more secure communication tools at the ready, but not deployed. They would have had to have known their security sucked, but have been communicating that way anyways, waiting for somebody to tell them that the NSA was listening so they would know to push the "super secret" button before talking, or something.
The report isn't a "lie" exactly, it is just totally full of shit.
I doubt that. It may be that the more effort foreign governments put into technology security, the more complex their use of technology will become, and the more information the NSA will be able to collect on them.
If he had "risked everything" he would have stayed here, and his trial would have focused the issue and forced debate.
He took the least risk he could to achieve his ends, which involved him escaping to whatever anti-American country would take him. Regardless of what else you think he is, he is clearly also a Traitor.
Nobody ever "had to" run off to Russia.
Justice is not so awful that escaping it is an absolute requirement.
But we didn't in 2006, did we?
No, clearly you didn't, so "we" didn't. I did. All my technical friends did. Every single sysadmin I knew, knew about this. Everybody talked about the "government tap closets" in all the data centers.
It also turned out that the first year of leaks was mostly lies(!) taken from poorly written, inaccurate training PDFs, even though the leaks contained real information. What we know now lines up a lot better with what "everybody" in the sysadmin community was saying before Snowden than it does with the first year of leaks. So yeah. We knew.
And thanks to Greenwallet, or whatever his name is, most people never will know, because he spent their whole attention spans on misleading garbage so that he could stretch out the publishing.
No, it was about technology patents with no new technology where the business method was clearly not patentable. The formula for that patent category is, "existing business method + on a [computer/phone/etc] = new machine"
Yeah, they were proposing and building these giant 140ft by 40ft monstrosities that would have been disruptive to fishing and wildlife, and totally incompatible with the expectations of the community. Oregonians support wave power, but it needs to be slender buoys that are more like artificial kelp; something that creates artificial habitat, not something large and industrial that pushes nature out of the way.
There are actually a bunch of other pilot projects, some of which are more likely to move forwards.
Also keep in mind, they only had approval for the pilot project to test the feasibility. Nobody promised any permits for the large scale project. The pilot would have had to prove not only that it generated power, but also that it didn't interfere with wildlife or fishing. And it wasn't designed to meet the actual standards it would have needed to meet. Probably they thought they could bribe their way through, found out that doesn't work here, and are winding it down and blaming efficiency delays.
And, it turns out they don't have funding anyways, so they can't really move the project.
They admit in their press release that other companies have more mature products not only on the market, but proven.
Assuming a person would buy as expensive a car either way, which is a reasonable assumption, you're saying after 4 years he's saving money.
So yeah, if you can afford the investment, it is cheaper to go electric in his location with his system.
Electric cars perform better, too.
citation please, i would love to get these subsidies for my ICE cars.
You already did! lolol
It isn't for learning programming, it is for learning engineering.
The reason so many people use it for programming is because they're just using it as a toy and are programming it to fill a role that would otherwise be filled by a commercial-off-the-shelf hardware device, for example an indoor/outdoor thermometer.
The programming part in its natural environment is firmware programming, and indeed, you don't need something "special" you just need something truly small enough that you have to do real firmware work and not stuff all the work into general purpose programming languages.
Here's what one person said about it:
What I don't like about this project is that they simply use all the work (software development) of the foundation and the RPi community to sell their product. They call it "compatibility" but in fact it means: let other people do all the work and we make money from it.
Someone is new to open source/designs I see. Arduino has a bazillion knockoffs that are compatible yet they still seem to be doing okay. Unless RPi isn't an open architecture - in which case, why do we advocate its use?
Yeah, not only new to "open," but using recycled complaints from the 90s. It is already well refuted; in emerging markets cooperation is the strongest form of competition, everybody benefits. And in established markets, "open" empowers startups and lowers barrier to entry, preventing monopoly abuse from the established players.
Please, please, will somebody tell these idiots to download a new stupid version?! This old one is tiring.
No need to go into the future for that, their past attitude and refusal to seek placement in upcoming devices might indeed play a role in their recent large layoff announcements, and their stock price has been basically flat since it dropped in the 2001 bust.
Look at Texas Instruments, who is friendly to customers and competes at all levels, including single units, and they're really strong with an increasing stock price since the bust. They're at about half their boom peak, with steady growth the past few years; growth that coincides with the rise of the Maker movement. Broadcom doesn't even show a positive blip, because RPi alone is nothing for market share and other than that one project, they refuse to sell to emerging markets.
Something I find funny about the Broadcom "we're too big and important to sell to you small or medium sized manufacturers; go get it from pipsqueaks" attitude is that the business often then falls to TI.... who has over twice Broadcom's market cap! Broadcom is a small fish in a big pond who thinks they're a big fish in a small pond. No wonder they have to "restructure."
It is actually even narrower than that; their mandate is to provide an embedded computer of choice for educators... in the UK! They're doing great at that, and even are somewhat useful to the broader "neckbeard-SBC" market. Even people who actually dev on something else like a BBB still have a RPi in a drawer somewhere. And that helps support engineering education in the UK. Good on them, even if their products sucks! (Not saying it does, just saying the rest is true even if you don't like the product)
Yes, but for some reason I find hard to fathom it attracts attention away from other products that would be just as good at fulfilling the same goals and *are* completely open.
Simple, it increases the total market. Competition isn't zero-sum unless the market is mature and flat. A product that gets a bunch of free press and increases the demand for the whole sector is helping their competition almost as much as themselves. In these types of growing markets, cooperation is the most powerful competition. And as such, in the long term it is normal to expect the more open competitors to do better. Not only do they have more appeal to the more serious customers, but they can share not only the good PR but also technical advances.
Most of the RPi customers are not hobbyists or makers or aspiring engineers, most of them are people who like geeky toys and bought it as a toy, similar to Lego(TM), where they can plug some stuff together, follow some instructions, and make an LED blink. Maybe they set up an indoor/outdoor garden thermometer. Impressive, yes? Well, it is impressive that these people's money is flowing into the Maker niche and growing it for everybody! Thanks guys!
Small volumes aren't loss-leaders here, they're higher margin!
Nobody is asking any of the chip companies to do loss-leaders, just to be willing to sell. Most companies are coming around and dealing with customers of all sizes now. They're usually not developing new chips for this market, just selling their existing chips to whoever wants them.
Broadcom needs to know a lot about you and have you sign a bunch of NDAs before they'll even take your money. Your money is NOT as good as someone elses, to them.
While it may in fact be true that RPi has more sales and more units sitting in drawers, I'd be really surprised if more people were using RPi than BBB for real projects they themselves were putting together based on their own ideas. I'm not against people doing "electronics by numbers" kits but that is most of RPi "users."
Some hand-waving about maybe the USB would drop audio data, maybe it wouldn't, well that is not really showing that you know one is better. That is showing you don't know but are heavily biased. You don't think a BBB can run audio, because you couldn't compile a new kernel? Are you sure you needed to? Really sure? Really double sure? If you couldn't get any help from people who know how to compile a kernel (that was nerd-101 when I started on linux, geeze) then how can you believe the people who told you that you needed to? Those people clearly don't even know.
It is funny because I use BBB to develope real-life audio prototypes. You're connecting spdif which is digital, did you know that HDMI includes a 48k digital output? That's why it doesn't have an analog audio output, because it has a high quality digitial output instead. There is also a new analog cape that gives good analog IO with a quality hardware CODEC and includes bluetooth.
Here is a site that explains how to interface with a DAC using I2S on the BBB. Oh, you thought that was an advantage that RPi had? No, I2S is something everybody has. ;)
http://www.element14.com/commu...