Uh.. the whole point of transport layer encryption is that you assume an attacker can record your communication and the encryption prevents the attacker from figuring out the real contents of the communication.

If you know for a fact that no unauthorized party can actually tap to your communication channel.. you don't even have to bother with the encryption in the first place.

The rest of the issue is due to the fact that the SS7 protocol is a byzantinely complex and very very old standard going way WAY back before data security was taken into account.

For all the people saying this is some intentional backdoor... if the NSA really were that smart to sneak this into a design-by-committee standard where hundreds of engineers spent years niggling over details, then you might as well give up now because you just said they are smart enough to insert backdoors into the Linux kernel or any other complex open source project too and they'll get away with it for decades before they get caught.

So what your saying is that if we took all the illegal -- uh "undocumented" immigrants from third-world countries that Obama lets in and dump them into the socialist paradise of Cuba that America's healthcare statistics will look massively better than Cuba's.

Oh, and that infant mortality statistic is complete B.S. In Cuba, they just let the premature babies die and it never counts as a live birth to mess up the statistics. In the U.S. they bend over backwards to save babies but since they aren't always successful, the statistics get skewed.

Proof: http://www.nationalreview.com/...

"US Government: yeah no problem. thanks for letting us run a torture prison in your country without complaining about it"

Cuban Government: Yeah, that amateur-hour operation down at Gitmo is not impressing us. We've been doing the real thing to any political dissident we don't like for the last 60 years. You just wet your panties because some terrorist had his feelings hurt.

There's exactly one fact that actually counts about Cuba's "universal healthcare": When Comrade Fidel gets a cold, the doctors that treat him are flown in from Spain via charter jet.

Don't believe me? Even pro-Castro sources flat out say it: http://www.laht.com/article.as...

The rest is a bunch of empty Michael Moore fapping.

P.S. --> Shouldn't the embargo make Cuba stronger? After all, the Revolution shouldn't be contaminated by evil American Capitalist Imperialism.. right?

And if you rich and black in Chicago, and get pulled over by police, it's not like they're going to ask you for your check stub before they unload their sidearm into you.

    --> What a pathetic joke. Since this obviously happens all the time in your racist deluded fantasy world, please post one article.. JUST ONE... from the last 30 days in Chicago where a black driver who pulled over for police was gunned down for no reason. Go ahead, I'm waiting.

Yes, I'm sure you just printed out that copy & pasted screed as your homework for your "cultural sensitivity" indoctrination course at the community college.

I hope the $20K in debt you'll get from that class is worth it when you are working at Starbucks bitching about all those evil whiteys who show up at 6AM for their cups of "white privilege".

Yeah, it would be interesting to see what happens if the residents of Gaza were turned into civilized people who were industrious and turned Gaza into an economically prosperous beachfront resort and started winning Nobel Prizes, just like regular Israel.

It would be a bit of a change from murdering their own children to dig tunnels underneath their neighbors for the sole purposes of indiscriminately murdering people they've never met.

"You tell your kids not to go to Chicago because of the crime, I tell mine not to go because of the police." --> "Politically Correct" racism, just as bigoted as some redneck telling his kids not to go to an integrated school because of the black kids.

Yeah, because the only way any black kid in Chicago has ever come to an untimely end was because those evil racist cops gunned him down for no reason. /Liberal self-reinforcing prejudice.

You obviously don't like your child very much if you want to convince him to mouth off to police instead of respecting them like anyone else should. If you really think the police are doing something wrong, the appropriate place to deal with it is in a courtroom, not some racial-war street fight that you are guaranteed to lose. You might find that if you drop your race-war attitude towards the police and treat them like human beings, they might just not be as "racist" as you think they are.

None of this crap would have been necessary in the first place if the police actually enforced these things called "immigration laws" instead of using this type of surveillance to set a precedent where they can do it to anybody and everybody for whatever reason.

Apparently it's OK to be sexist as long as it's in the "correct" direction.

Fun factoid: If the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) had been passed in the 1980s, then this little government side-show would be black & white unconstitutional... I'm pretty sure the supporters of the ERA wouldn't have liked the outcome...

So if you don't think it wasn't a problem.... then it WAS a problem.

Oh, and battery life (or lack thereof) in Google Glass is another big issue.

The Helix 2 is a more reasonably priced convertible 2-in-1 from Lenovo. The screen resolution isn't quite as high, but it's still a very reasonable 1920x1080 on an 11.6" display. I've run the thing on batttery for 8 solid hours doing standard office type work with wifi enabled and it performs very well.. and unlike the Yoga 3 it is truly a fanless design.

You might want to hold off until the "pro" keyboards that include the addtional battery become more widely available. Those should boost the battery life up to around 12 hours or so.

Uh.. I thought companies making profits was evil. Shouldn't we be applauding Intel for not making any money? Would you insult the Raspberry Pi project for giving away free devices?

I'd much rather live in a world with a made-up "Intel monopoly" that doesn't exist where Intel is literally the largest contributor to the Linux kernel that isn't a Linux-specific company (look it up, Intel is usually #3 right after the Linux foundation & Red Hat) vs. the very real ARM monopoly of intellectual property minefields, backdoored binary firmward blobs, opaque drivers, and poor support.

Venn Diagram:
1. People who claim that x86 can't run Android.

2. People (like me) who actually own Baytrail Android Tablets and have seen what they can do first hand (hint: for $150 I got a tablet that's flat-out better than an iPad Mini. I also get the warm & fuzzy feeling of supporting the only Android hardware vendor in the world that supports Linux with both money, developers, and gobs of GPL compliant driver code).

3. Overlap between the two circles: Empty Set.

It's one thing to prevent game review sites from playing one-upsmanship over each other by "leaking" early reviews (that are often incomplete and based on beta versions of the game). However, once you can buy the "finished" product, the only reason to have a continuing embargo is that you know the product sucks but you don't want to share that information.

Another strategy: Have game review sites flat out say that an embargo for a certain game is NOT lifting prior to the game going on sale. I know lots of NDAs have Fight Club clauses (you do NOT talk about the NDA).. but a clever game review site could probably get around that without actually saying "The Assassin's Creed Embargo Does Not Lift Until 11PM" or something similar.