I wouldn't doubt thaht the NSA has broken iPhone's encryption.
This proposal by NSA mirrors the Clipper Chip/Skipjack + Key Escrow system proposed back in the early 90s. People didn't trust the government with their keys THEN... why the hell should they do so NOW, given that government intrusion into our lives has only increased in the interim?
Unlike the 90s, by now they have proved they can't be trusted.
I'm surprised the USA makes advanced computer chips. I thought all that stuff was exported to Asia years ago.
Don't be ridiculous. Asia has made good on cheap manufacturing, but the majority of design AND cutting-edge fab is done in U.S. and Europe.
Intel should not have been allowed in the first place; it is a surprise to me that they have only been blocked now. There is a thin but very definite line between simple international commerce and treason.
IBM and Thomas Watson crossed that line in WWII.
Kids need to learn the consequences of embarrassing powerful people. That is one of the golden rules of modern society; thou shalt not embarrass thy superiors. Snowden forgot that, and this little punk forgot that.
Are you for real? It is hard to tell whether this is sarcasm, but I suspect that it is.
You respect your betters, or you get tossed in a cage. That's the law. Ingrain that into your kid's brains before puberty hits, or they will wind up in a cage too.
There are no "betters", in America. Hell, I had a very hard time trying to teach my British manager that, way back when. He felt justified in taking credit for my work, because he was a manager and a "better".
Haha.
But again, that's sarcasm. Here's what I actually suggest: pretend to respect your "betters", because in fact that's all they require: the facade. Then when they're not looking, prove they're not "better".
I don't mean backstabbing. I mean frontstabbing. Make the truth plain to all.
But who will register
Anybody. Just get a
BINGO! And I see I'm not the only one suspicious of her bizarre excuse for refusing to negotiate.
I'm of divided mind. I think she might actually be sincere but misguided. It seems like it must be one of the two. I think that we can agree that either way, it won't result in overall advantage for the employees, women or not.
I wonder if she will also propose that from now on, all employees will get the same raises.
We are talking about a simple number. One party wants to maximize it, the other minimize. There isn't any room for anything except a game of chicken there.
Nonsense. What we're talking about here is supposed to be a labor MARKET. In a market, people negotiate for prices. That's how markets get "price signals" that allow them to find the proper balance between supply and demand.
Pao wants to make it a "take it or leave it" deal, with the result, as one GP said, that the "price" will almost surely go down across the board over time.
No thanks.
Or they can take advantage of their vastly stronger position and simply refuse to indulge the candidates. Sure, they might miss out on "top talent", but it doesn't take that to maintain a message board.
While you have a point about message boards, again the result of not playing in the market is (which you have given kind of a sideways nod to): you will end up with lesser quality employees.
Children all over the country have been inspired to be law enforcement agents by shows like Criminal Minds, NCIS, Bones, and CSI.
TV shows and movies are the worst place to get inspired about tech - especially with regard to a life/career choice.
Jurassic park would have maybe not been as scary had their "raptors" looked like this.
Regardless, velociraptors still hate goto statements
Yeah but the cable sticking out of a suspicious package is a very quick and easy way to defuse such a device. And severely limits its placement, as you have to be within cable range of a phone jack you know the phone number to.
Well, I agree with some of the point but not some of the details.
You'd have to know the number anyway.
It wouldn't necessarily mean "a cable" coming out of a suspicious package. It could be a couple of fine wires leading out of the phone, under the couch. In the case of a pay phone, it could actually be inside the phone.
But I agree; in general a cell phone is more mobile and more concealable. Even so, I don't think there's enough of a difference to justify shutting off cell phones but not landlines.
all those tin-star dictator countries where people are fed into the meat grinder if they spit on the sidewalk. dude, shut down my iPhone and I'm throwing my sledgehammer right through your blue-tint screen.
Funny... they never even considered "turning off" land-line phones to prevent them being used to detonate bombs... though they are at least as capable and always have been.
In fact, a landline phone has enough voltage and current to ignite a fuse or squib all by itself... a lot easier than a cell phone.
An embedded microchannel in a MEMS plate resonator for ultrasensitive mass sensing in liquid. This is one published paper on (proteomics) mass spec using MEMS.
It's happening, you just don't notice it.
Have a toy helicopter or drone with a gyro or accelerometer or both? Guess what those are.
Etc. Like most true innovations that are adopted, it affects us mostly in a quiet way, used in things you don't even think twice about.
Really? Because from what I've seen, most forms of tyrannies take from those who have less and give to those who alrady had more. Please explain why you think that situation is better than the reverse?
Anybody who takes from you without permission and gives to others is a tyrant. It doesn't matter who it comes from, or who it goes to. Taking is taking.
There are a few rare times when that is justified (certain forms of taxation, for example), but it isn't justified nearly as often as it actually happens.
The worst that can be said is that Tim Cook has a "double standard" when it comes to advocating for gay rights in the USofA vs other countries.
I'm not even sure it's a "double standard". The US is (supposedly) built on the premise of equality and fairness for *all* its citizens. The same cannot be said for (all) other countries or cultures. I'm not supporting the bias of those other countries/cultures, just saying that Indiana and Arkansas are not China and Saudi Arabia. I'm pretty sure Carly knows this, but is being, as you said, a "concern troll" - which makes her the hypocrite.
How would you like to be able to know the chemical composition of something, just by taking a snapshot or video of it with your smartphone?
Or, more simply, I can tell things are made of "stuff" just by looking at them. Not sure why a casual user with a cell phone would care about anything more specific.
XOR is much much faster than your run-of-the-mill encryption algorithm.
OP and TFA are very misleading. XOR is not a "worthless" encryption method in itself... it all depends on how it is used.
For example, if used with a good quality key in a one-time pad, it is one of the few encryption methods that is even theoretically unbreakable.
But it does require a well-constructed key, and as with any one-time-pad scheme, key management is everything.
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