I felt that way before I was 25 or so. I even swore by the IBM Trackpoint. Never needed to take my fingers off the keyboard.

In their late 20's, most people's shoulders, necks, backs and wrists start to ache either reaching up to the keyboard, or leaning over their display. It's ok for short periods of time, but after more than a few days...

If not, count yourself lucky.

I have to add to this: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/emails-show-nsa-rejected-hillary-clinton-request-for-secure-smartphone/

"...According to a summary of the meeting, the request was driven by Clinton's reliance on her BlackBerry for email and keeping track of her calendar. Clinton chose not to use a laptop or desktop computer that could have provided her access to email in her office..."

"...Mills also asked about waivers provided during the Bush administration to then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for her staff to use BlackBerrys in their secure offices. But the NSA had phased out such waivers due to security concerns..."

Why has this polarizing stupidity become regularly modded up here?

tip: cars don't stop at stop signs either.

"Rolling stop" you say?

You never slowed down more than a bicycle anyway.

This isn't quite right either.

There's a hard-coded "backdoor" password called: MASTER PASSWORD. If you set it, it means that you might be the IT shop setting up machines for the organization. If you don't set it, it's like buying a lock with a master key and leaving the master key in the lock... because you're not going to use the master key anyway, right?

For the storage issue, it looks like the EVO 840 had a bug which the EVO 850 might have addressed. No disclosure etc. I'm not sure if setting the master password, then using a ATA Secure Erase would scramble the DEK and render the traces of the previously stored DEK unusable. ATA Secure Erase has always been sensible when setting these things up, but it's all black-box voodoo anyway.

It's really dumb to assume otherwise.

BTW, if you think that having a master password on your device means that your encryption is sound, you probably wouldn't do much better setting up crypto in software. This kind of crypto doesn't quite handle the same use cases as software based crypto. It's not really sensible to do a direct comparison.

Some interesting bits from the paper: The EVO850 seems to have addressed an issue in the EVO840 storing the DEK before encrypting it with the user key. An ATA cryptographic erase was always a sensible way to (supposedly) scramble the DEK from the factory delivered DEK (who knows where it gets its entropy?).

The EVO850 with the master password feature disabled seems to be fine.... or am I missing something?

Don't you mean the repackagers?

CentOS developers were always RedHat. That's the point.

"... RH must make the source publicly available.."

That's not what the GPL says.

You only have to distribute the source code, or an offer to the source code to the recipient of the object code. It doesn't need to be public. RHEL's been good about making it public, especially since they do not publicly distribute the object code.

For CentOS to continue receiving the complete source code from IBM, they would need to subscribe to every single product that they republish the object code for.

This is not to say they couldn't get it from someone else who subscribed, but if IBM doesn't distribute RHEL in a similar omnibus form, it could be very difficult to set up reliable relationships with all the organizations which subscribe to every component of what is now RHEL.

When I was a kid the most compelling thing about computers to me was that it was unmoderated with no overarching purpose.

There were no *limits* placed upon me, no tedious curriculum and nobody who didn't-seem-to-quite-know-what-they-were-talking-about giving me emotional feedback on what I was doing. "yeah, but that's not the assignment/ you'll learn that stuff when you're older/ wow you understand that? you're so smart!"

Computers simply did not work if you used them incorrectly. There was no emotion in their response, and they were infinitely patient teachers.

Modern computers are a different thing.

China, Russia and Iran could hire teams of people to write news articles with bylines and promote them overtly, that's fine. China Daily, RT, Tehran times, are good examples.

Trolls aren't concerned with even writing news articles, not even slanted, biased news articles, the truth is immaterial to their objective, and certain truths run contrary to their objective. The trolls themselves pretend to be somebody else to disrupt conversations, recruit followers and expand their influence. They focus not on informing people, but on polarization and division. They're paid to do this, for this purpose.

https://tinyurl.com/y9dby46f

"Topic: NATO troops are embedded with Ukrainian armed forces

Keywords: ukraine news, russia and ukraine, ukraine policy, ukraine, NATO, PMC (private military company)

Task: Raise this topic on 35 municipal forums

Work begins after an initial post, written by a troll in a different department, is published on the LiveJournal social-networking site under the username flcrbgrjn. The post argues that foreign mercenaries are fighting on the side of Ukrainian soldiers and links to a video that purports to show two American soldiers in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol...."

The problem with this kind of discussion is that you're making generalizations about how other people use their devices.

Truth is, you don't know.

...and you certainly haven't met the gaggle of galaxy-gear wearing geeks around me. Fanbois with the latest toys from Samsung exist...

Derp, yeah, I meant a pension. They have piles of loot laying about from dead people and they use it to buy up provocative artwork.

Of course I meant penchant.

Germans know things about border controls. They invented the modern border wall with motion sensors and death strips.

The country was divided. Remember?

The East spied on people in depth, blackmailing and controlling them to spy on family members, friends and neighbours. They did this with conventional technology. Identity papers were important and often a matter of a life worth living, or death to escape it.

This has left a pension for provocative artwork, a deep respect for privacy and a healthy fear of government overreach.

Center-right media outlet before the world went insane.

Now you would call it "business journalism" or something.

It's immensely frustrating and has been going on for years.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7691303?page=67

My 4s took better shots. Even when I look at them on my 6s+ display. I see people complaining about the 7 and 8 with the same issues, and I immediately can tell an iPhone photo when somebody sends it to me.

In anything other than bright daylight, the watercolor effect on the images due to compression are horrible.

I would hate to have to give up the iPhone because I'm sick of the photos of my children looking embarrassingly bad, but the privacy issues around Google are difficult to accept.

Loading up the raw photo apps is probably the right way to go, but it's such a pain in the butt.