Part of the problem is that there isn't anything preventing someone from removing Windows 95, 3.1, or DOS 6.22 from their PC and installing an alternate supported operating system.
The big issue with phones is that many of them prevent the user from having the choice to discontinue use of the unsupported OS and move to a supported OS.
I'd argue that when a vendor takes measures to block consensual installation of a 3rd party OS that the vendor must take on the responsibility for ensuring the safety of user from the perspective of the original OS.
You can't buy anything with BTC without converting them between it and another currency.
You certainly can. In my case, I bought an ipad mini when the price spiked.
I can also be paid in almost any currency. In the US, I'm paid in dollars, food ('free' lunch at work), and I'm paid in college classes (tuition reimbursement).
Do you mean to tell me that my employer is not actually paying me when they give me things other than dollars? Please let the IRS know, because I'd love to not pay taxes on that if it wasn't actually compensation.
I mean how can anybody even say we have a left and a right when the left POTUS is as pro big brother as the right or say we have a right when their POTUS blows through as much cash as any left winger.
We do have a left and a right. What you are missing is the 'Up' and 'Down' which represents Authoritarian vs Libertarian.
So you have a Left Authoritarian, and Right Authoritarian.
So you really do get the option between left and right. What you don't get is choice for liberty.
Fault 1: You assume any conversation I have with my table companions must be obnoxious laughing?
That's up to him to decide, not you. The point is that you seem to be setting yourself up as arbiter of all that is annoying.
You have the option of not eating at a restaurant filled with people who annoy you. The restaurant owner has the option of kicking out people who are annoying.
You are asking for your own definition of annoying to be forced upon other people in a blanket manner.
The question is whether getting a warrant takes some time, and that this may impede actions to prevent criminal activity.
That's not a question, it's an argument. Framing it like a question puts the burdon on the person answering it to prove that the time it takes to get a warrant isn't going to interfere in preventing crime.
In this case, they didn't even try to prevent criminal activity, they actively induced it by posing as the phone owner.
The myth of the ticking time-bomb always comes up in these warrant discussions. Given the large amount of authority already granted to the police to detain people, and the rather short amount of time it takes to get a warrant in a 'time critical' situation, I'm finding it hard to come up with situations that warrant the lack of a warrant due to 'running out of time'.
The sad thing is, if my neighbor paid me $ so that I would cut down a tree in my yard to give him better reception, the broadcasters would probably claim that I'm profiting from their content as well.
I guess then that the only reason people want this is that they can't be bothered to put up their own antenna and PVR/streaming box, and prefer to pay a monthly fee instead?
I've literally done that at my parents house. I used a slingbox as the streaming box (Though I hate their forced middle-man behavior).
That said, it works great! But it requires one important thing: Real estate. That antenna has to go somewhere, the power must be paid for, and the computer occupies a non-zero amount of space in some building.
I don't have any friends in NYC to setup such a system, so I'd have to rent that space from someone and therefore I'd already be paying a monthly fee. Why not just pay a monthly fee to a company who also maintains the hardware? I can't rely on my parents to do much more than reset the power on the machine if something goes wrong, so offloading the support to a company is valuable to me.
If the FBI's looking for you and gets the proper documentation, then it is legal. full stop
For sufficient levels of proper documentation. I'm not convinced that today's warrants are given a sufficient amount of scrutiny. Without oversight, all human processes have a tendency to degrade.
If someone were given a task to perform, and there are no consequences if the task is not performed, it won't be long before the task sits uncompleted.
If the penalties for underperforming are less severe than the additional cost of full performance, expect underperformance.
The average person simply doesn't understand the behinds the scenes technology well enough to care.
The average person doesn't need to understand the technology to care. The problem is that very often the average person doesn't understand why they should care.
The second problem is that even when you do care, what does the average person have in the way of alternatives?
You can't be serious. And if you are, no wonder people take up smoking if that's the level of 'anti-smoking' advertising that concerned people are putting out.
I'll be honest with you, if you are concerned about my health, you probably should be more worried about the fact that I'm CLIMBING A MOUNTAIN. I'm quite sure that the bear that literally collided with me last year was just a slight bit more worrysome to my health than the pipe of tobacco I smoke MAYBE twice per year.
This is just trying to paint the world in black and white. There is nothing wrong with IndustrialComplex saying he is not a smoker, but on occasion he smokes a pipe of tobacco when he's hikes out into the wilderness. There is clearly a difference between a regular smoker that smokes everyday, multiple times, and someone that smokes on rare occasions. Maybe if the world wasn't filled with zealots trying their best to make smokers into pariahs, people wouldn't preface their comments by trying to assure you that they aren't a smoker.
That's pretty much it. Considering I generally only get to those mountain climbing trips once or twice per year, I probably inhale less smoke in an entire year than someone who never touched a cigarette but goes to the bar every other week.
video games on a camping trip? that just seems so...unnecessary. so wrong.
I don't smoke (according to the general definition of a 'smoker'). However, I do smoke tobacco. The catch is that I will take one pipe's worth of tobacco, and climb a mountain or hike 5 miles from the road. Upon reaching the peak (or a nook with an awesome view) or my 'zen spot' in the woods, I'll then setup my chair, light the pipe, and read a book.
It's a fun little reward that can add to the experience of the hike/climb. While it might not be the 'traditional' thing to do, I can certainly understand the fun of playing a game in the period of time after sundown but before sleep when you are camping.
How is it any different than reading a book for entertainment while camping?
It's not even worth evaluating. It's a poor/flawed analogy and that's all the analysis it requires.
People make the mistake of trying to come up with an analogy whenever technology is utilized. The problem is that an analogy is always 'not quite' right and very often providing an accurate and concise explanation of the actual technology is the best approach.
With that in mind, I liken people who worry about intermittent internet connectivity being an issue to people who worry about intermittent internet connectivity being an issue because it's a pretty valid concern!
Bizzaro slashdotified version: It's like people who worry about being able to vacuum their cars while driving on the highway and trying to empty the canister into big trucks like how bits get dumped onto the internet. If the big trucks were like street sweepers, then they could vacuum the street without requiring overhead electrical connections and the cars could dump out their vacuum canisters directly onto the street. Thanks Obama.
And, the people you need to be angry with are the agents of the airlines NOT the security folks
Well that's the catch22 isn't it? It's an amazing coincidence that when it comes to the security that your anger or problem should always be directed at the group other than the one you are currently talking to.
It's like a disfunctional marriage where somehow the household work gets done, but neither person has uttered a word to the other in 5 years.
Larger scorpions tend to be less venomous as well. I'm not saying that I should be scared of them, but it's like seeing flashing blue lights in your rear view mirror. For a split second, your heart jumps as you think you are getting pulled over.
With cicada killer wasps, there is that brief moment where your brain goes, 'Look out! A hornet! HOLY CRAP A GIANT MONSTER HORNET!', this occurs just before the rational portion of your brain goes, 'Stand down, adrenaline trigger, it's a benign cicada killer. Reduce alert level.'
Like walking into a spider web. Sure, you checked that the spider isn't stuck in your hair, but what if...
That would be extemely dependent on the hardware setup, and thus isn't workable since each system designer would have to build in such features not just in a standard manner, but in a manner that wasn't easily circumvented. Therefore, that's not something you are going to ever see.
Once the physical hardware is accessed, that's pretty much the point where the strength of encryption relies upon static protections.
Vampire taps into the Disk Drive's cables can easily prevent the disks from being erased (since we aren't likely to see disks with built in deadman switches...)
A software deadman's switch-like process is likely your best bet, and about the only thing you can really do at that point is to increase the polling frequency of the switch. So instead of checking the 'I'm alive' signal every 10 minutes, it would check it every 10 seconds.
Not that there aren't precautions a system designer can take, but for non-custom hardware designed specifically with anti-tamper features in mind, it's just going to be an academic exercise because encryption software must always strike a balance between security and accessibility. What's the point of data if you can't access it when you need to? Any increase in 'tripwires' that locks up the data will decrease in the data's accessability to the person who should have access to it.
I think your situation is more complicated than they plan.
If your RAM is non-volatile, why would you write it to flash memory, and then read it back in? You could just leave that data directly in RAM. Aren't you just describing a hibernation process? With non-volatile RAM, the hibernation process (write, powerdown, powerup, read) completely eliminates the write/read steps.
So you mention that the cost of writes is high compared to a low power maintenance state... That's true, but non-volatile RAM means that not only is the write unnecessary, but so is the low power maintenance state.
(I could of course, have completely misread your post, if so, I apologize. It just seemed like you were describing hibernation)
Man: "Delete all of the data you have on me." Equiexperitransunion: "OK. You have been purged from our records." Man: "Hehehe! Now for phase 2"
*The next day*
Man: "Hello, I would like a signature loan please" CreditCo: "No." Man: "But... I have a completely clean record" CreditCo: "You have no credit record. Therefore you are high risk, and we only make signature loans to people with known good credit histories" CreditCo: "You may however, apply for the entry level loans we offer to build a credit history. It's at a low rate too!" Man: "Fine, what's the limit?" CreditCo: "$250"
The airline is providing a service to ship your Kg. They aren't charging more to ship a male Kg, nor are they charging less to ship a female Kg.
Did you know that many tattoo parlors charge by the hour? How discriminatory is it that a woman can receive a greater percentage of skin coverage per hour than a man?
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Part of the problem is that there isn't anything preventing someone from removing Windows 95, 3.1, or DOS 6.22 from their PC and installing an alternate supported operating system.
The big issue with phones is that many of them prevent the user from having the choice to discontinue use of the unsupported OS and move to a supported OS.
I'd argue that when a vendor takes measures to block consensual installation of a 3rd party OS that the vendor must take on the responsibility for ensuring the safety of user from the perspective of the original OS.
That's what you think. You never noticed that I was sitting there with two extra cans and a pair of scissors!
The longer Godwin's law exists, the probability that its definition will be twisted to imply that someone 'wins or loses' a debate approaches 1.
You can't buy anything with BTC without converting them between it and another currency.
You certainly can. In my case, I bought an ipad mini when the price spiked.
I can also be paid in almost any currency. In the US, I'm paid in dollars, food ('free' lunch at work), and I'm paid in college classes (tuition reimbursement).
Do you mean to tell me that my employer is not actually paying me when they give me things other than dollars? Please let the IRS know, because I'd love to not pay taxes on that if it wasn't actually compensation.
I mean how can anybody even say we have a left and a right when the left POTUS is as pro big brother as the right or say we have a right when their POTUS blows through as much cash as any left winger.
We do have a left and a right. What you are missing is the 'Up' and 'Down' which represents Authoritarian vs Libertarian.
So you have a Left Authoritarian, and Right Authoritarian.
So you really do get the option between left and right. What you don't get is choice for liberty.
Is there really a noticeable difference between 1Gbps and 2?
Considering I'm paying $70/month for 0.005 Gbps the 2Gbps could provide 0 benefit over 1Gbps and I'd still want it at the price they are charging.
Fault 1: You assume any conversation I have with my table companions must be obnoxious laughing?
That's up to him to decide, not you. The point is that you seem to be setting yourself up as arbiter of all that is annoying.
You have the option of not eating at a restaurant filled with people who annoy you. The restaurant owner has the option of kicking out people who are annoying.
You are asking for your own definition of annoying to be forced upon other people in a blanket manner.
The question is whether getting a warrant takes some time, and that this may impede actions to prevent criminal activity.
That's not a question, it's an argument. Framing it like a question puts the burdon on the person answering it to prove that the time it takes to get a warrant isn't going to interfere in preventing crime.
In this case, they didn't even try to prevent criminal activity, they actively induced it by posing as the phone owner.
The myth of the ticking time-bomb always comes up in these warrant discussions. Given the large amount of authority already granted to the police to detain people, and the rather short amount of time it takes to get a warrant in a 'time critical' situation, I'm finding it hard to come up with situations that warrant the lack of a warrant due to 'running out of time'.
The sad thing is, if my neighbor paid me $ so that I would cut down a tree in my yard to give him better reception, the broadcasters would probably claim that I'm profiting from their content as well.
I guess then that the only reason people want this is that they can't be bothered to put up their own antenna and PVR/streaming box, and prefer to pay a monthly fee instead?
I've literally done that at my parents house. I used a slingbox as the streaming box (Though I hate their forced middle-man behavior).
That said, it works great! But it requires one important thing: Real estate. That antenna has to go somewhere, the power must be paid for, and the computer occupies a non-zero amount of space in some building.
I don't have any friends in NYC to setup such a system, so I'd have to rent that space from someone and therefore I'd already be paying a monthly fee. Why not just pay a monthly fee to a company who also maintains the hardware? I can't rely on my parents to do much more than reset the power on the machine if something goes wrong, so offloading the support to a company is valuable to me.
If the FBI's looking for you and gets the proper documentation, then it is legal. full stop
For sufficient levels of proper documentation. I'm not convinced that today's warrants are given a sufficient amount of scrutiny. Without oversight, all human processes have a tendency to degrade.
If someone were given a task to perform, and there are no consequences if the task is not performed, it won't be long before the task sits uncompleted.
If the penalties for underperforming are less severe than the additional cost of full performance, expect underperformance.
The average person simply doesn't understand the behinds the scenes technology well enough to care.
The average person doesn't need to understand the technology to care. The problem is that very often the average person doesn't understand why they should care.
The second problem is that even when you do care, what does the average person have in the way of alternatives?
Now it's my turn. Really?!
You can't be serious. And if you are, no wonder people take up smoking if that's the level of 'anti-smoking' advertising that concerned people are putting out.
I'll be honest with you, if you are concerned about my health, you probably should be more worried about the fact that I'm CLIMBING A MOUNTAIN. I'm quite sure that the bear that literally collided with me last year was just a slight bit more worrysome to my health than the pipe of tobacco I smoke MAYBE twice per year.
This is just trying to paint the world in black and white. There is nothing wrong with IndustrialComplex saying he is not a smoker, but on occasion he smokes a pipe of tobacco when he's hikes out into the wilderness. There is clearly a difference between a regular smoker that smokes everyday, multiple times, and someone that smokes on rare occasions. Maybe if the world wasn't filled with zealots trying their best to make smokers into pariahs, people wouldn't preface their comments by trying to assure you that they aren't a smoker.
That's pretty much it. Considering I generally only get to those mountain climbing trips once or twice per year, I probably inhale less smoke in an entire year than someone who never touched a cigarette but goes to the bar every other week.
The good news is that due to the psychic-doppler effect the frequency of the scream shifted so much it was in-psychic-audible.
video games on a camping trip?
that just seems so...unnecessary. so wrong.
I don't smoke (according to the general definition of a 'smoker'). However, I do smoke tobacco. The catch is that I will take one pipe's worth of tobacco, and climb a mountain or hike 5 miles from the road. Upon reaching the peak (or a nook with an awesome view) or my 'zen spot' in the woods, I'll then setup my chair, light the pipe, and read a book.
It's a fun little reward that can add to the experience of the hike/climb. While it might not be the 'traditional' thing to do, I can certainly understand the fun of playing a game in the period of time after sundown but before sleep when you are camping.
How is it any different than reading a book for entertainment while camping?
It's not even worth evaluating. It's a poor/flawed analogy and that's all the analysis it requires.
People make the mistake of trying to come up with an analogy whenever technology is utilized. The problem is that an analogy is always 'not quite' right and very often providing an accurate and concise explanation of the actual technology is the best approach.
With that in mind, I liken people who worry about intermittent internet connectivity being an issue to people who worry about intermittent internet connectivity being an issue because it's a pretty valid concern!
Bizzaro slashdotified version: It's like people who worry about being able to vacuum their cars while driving on the highway and trying to empty the canister into big trucks like how bits get dumped onto the internet. If the big trucks were like street sweepers, then they could vacuum the street without requiring overhead electrical connections and the cars could dump out their vacuum canisters directly onto the street. Thanks Obama.
And, the people you need to be angry with are the agents of the airlines NOT the security folks
Well that's the catch22 isn't it? It's an amazing coincidence that when it comes to the security that your anger or problem should always be directed at the group other than the one you are currently talking to.
It's like a disfunctional marriage where somehow the household work gets done, but neither person has uttered a word to the other in 5 years.
Larger scorpions tend to be less venomous as well. I'm not saying that I should be scared of them, but it's like seeing flashing blue lights in your rear view mirror. For a split second, your heart jumps as you think you are getting pulled over.
With cicada killer wasps, there is that brief moment where your brain goes, 'Look out! A hornet! HOLY CRAP A GIANT MONSTER HORNET!', this occurs just before the rational portion of your brain goes, 'Stand down, adrenaline trigger, it's a benign cicada killer. Reduce alert level.'
Like walking into a spider web. Sure, you checked that the spider isn't stuck in your hair, but what if...
That would be extemely dependent on the hardware setup, and thus isn't workable since each system designer would have to build in such features not just in a standard manner, but in a manner that wasn't easily circumvented. Therefore, that's not something you are going to ever see.
Once the physical hardware is accessed, that's pretty much the point where the strength of encryption relies upon static protections.
Vampire taps into the Disk Drive's cables can easily prevent the disks from being erased (since we aren't likely to see disks with built in deadman switches...)
A software deadman's switch-like process is likely your best bet, and about the only thing you can really do at that point is to increase the polling frequency of the switch. So instead of checking the 'I'm alive' signal every 10 minutes, it would check it every 10 seconds.
Not that there aren't precautions a system designer can take, but for non-custom hardware designed specifically with anti-tamper features in mind, it's just going to be an academic exercise because encryption software must always strike a balance between security and accessibility. What's the point of data if you can't access it when you need to? Any increase in 'tripwires' that locks up the data will decrease in the data's accessability to the person who should have access to it.
I think your situation is more complicated than they plan.
If your RAM is non-volatile, why would you write it to flash memory, and then read it back in? You could just leave that data directly in RAM. Aren't you just describing a hibernation process? With non-volatile RAM, the hibernation process (write, powerdown, powerup, read) completely eliminates the write/read steps.
So you mention that the cost of writes is high compared to a low power maintenance state... That's true, but non-volatile RAM means that not only is the write unnecessary, but so is the low power maintenance state.
(I could of course, have completely misread your post, if so, I apologize. It just seemed like you were describing hibernation)
Cicada killer wasps are freaking scary as hell. I'm not afraid of bees/wasps/hornets, but I sure as hell take care not to mess with them either.
Given that Cicadas are pretty 'big' bugs, watching a giant freaking panzer tank of a wasp fly off with one is freaky as hell.
No, but the leisurely lifestyle combined with diets rich in fats results in something not unlike kobe beef.
Honestly, I don't think that would be a problem.
Man defaults on loans.
Man: "Delete all of the data you have on me."
Equiexperitransunion: "OK. You have been purged from our records."
Man: "Hehehe! Now for phase 2"
*The next day*
Man: "Hello, I would like a signature loan please"
CreditCo: "No."
Man: "But... I have a completely clean record"
CreditCo: "You have no credit record. Therefore you are high risk, and we only make signature loans to people with known good credit histories"
CreditCo: "You may however, apply for the entry level loans we offer to build a credit history. It's at a low rate too!"
Man: "Fine, what's the limit?"
CreditCo: "$250"
The airline is providing a service to ship your Kg. They aren't charging more to ship a male Kg, nor are they charging less to ship a female Kg.
Did you know that many tattoo parlors charge by the hour? How discriminatory is it that a woman can receive a greater percentage of skin coverage per hour than a man?