Comment Vasectomy? (Score 3, Insightful) 903
Why isn't a vasectomy or condoms covered by Obamacare? There's nothing in the law that specifies contraception coverage is female-only.
Why isn't a vasectomy or condoms covered by Obamacare? There's nothing in the law that specifies contraception coverage is female-only.
Seems fine to me. You must have mistaken it for iOS 7.
And on the other hand, stuff that actually benefits humanity has been done because of the Bible. So where is your god now?
Well actually, you can stash the password in a system-level store, like a keychain, so it's not in plaintext. AFAIK that's what mac os x does.
They don't have to use plaintext - they could use, say, blowfish. Sure they key would have to be stored somewhere. But anything that isn't plaintext is more work to crack. It's substantially more work to dig a key out of a system and decrypt something than it is to do a
cat pasword_file
As someone once said, security is about layers. Sure the password will be unencrypted in RAM - but you don't have to make it easy for people to get it. Is WEP better than no encryption? Sure - the extra 10 minutes may dissuade someone and they'll move on. Plus breaking the encryption means intent, which may be useful if there ever was a court case stemming from the activity.
There's a big difference between "yeah, i broke the encryption, it was so easy" and "I just sort of stumbled on this network."
Who are these enemies of which you speak? The Chinese? The Russians? The French? Al Q?
Do tell.
Luckily for the NSA, the guardian hasn't said anything about specific operations or people involved. The releases have been about methods and reach, which aren't the same. The only surprises there are that the NSA was more active than most people thought.
There's nothing in there that's mind-glowingly unbelievable, like the NSA hooked up some kind of transmitter to an eyeball and has been using that realtime video feed to monitor meetings.
Of course, there are a few more million documents, but I'm sure the really juicy ones are being withheld.
They can just stick a small ad before or after a picture is shown. If the content is amusing enough, people will click through.
They have to watch out that they don't make it a pain in the ass to bypass the ad. They already know this - not very many people like ads in general.
Program A was never designed to do B
Program A was designed to do C, which could help in B
So by saying that A didn't help B is incorrect. C didn't do B. A helped C as designed.
This sort of retarded logic is all too common when technical people try and justify their failure.
The program as a whole hasn't worked. The metadata collection is part of the program, and it may be doing great - but it's value is basically 0, because the program's value is 0.
Of course we've spent billions of dollars on it with no real return. So there's that. It's kept a bunch of storage companies alive.
The great thing about buying Apple is you can always send them to the Apple store for support, once you determine you can't solve the problem via screen sharing.
Stream that diesel from your car/truck's gas tank into the generator's gas tank, and you're all set.
A car EMP cannon has been one of those things that tech workers have talked about for years. You could use it to screw up data centers as well...or maybe the bank's power substation. How about a pacemaker?
Wow, that sounds exactly like how the rich operate.
He wants a widescreen matte non-retina display MBP.
Jesus, haven't people heard the good news about Internet shopping? It's 2013.
To do nothing is to be nothing.
