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Comment Re: Huh (Score 1) 126

Yes, they would be stored in the firmware somewhere.... on a military grade receiver only. If you have that then it becomes kind of a moot point if you can hack the firmware of a standard unit.

The keys would not be in the normal units because they don't need to be

Comment Re:Telegraph: They don't tap than service! (Score 1) 505

Isn't the point to encrypt with their public key, and they decrypt with their private key.

They encrypt with your public key, you decrypt with your private key?

How does a public key decrypt something at all?

Isn't the whole point that the PRIVATE key, is what you use to decrypt stuff sent to you, and since only your private key can decrypt it it's safe? If you can decrypt with a public key whats the point since your public key, is by definition, PUBLIC?!

Comment Re:I just had this conversation with a coworker: (Score 1) 547

You obviously haven't actually done this with many games on the PC. Whilst technically you should be able to, more often than not the only way to play the old game is via virtualization or some level of emulation. Or by buying it again from GOG who have re-written the parts than don't play nice with the newer OS's.

Evan buying old games from Steam is iffy and usually needs work-arounds to get running

Comment Re:Current generation Flash lasts about as long (Score 2) 372

Whilst I'll agree it's not up to HDD standards yet. There are two very important things to point out here.

1. Endurance gets worst as the size manufacturing size gets smaller. 19nm is the worst, not the best for endurance.

2. The massive speed benefits more than make up for the size disadvantage. Use SSD's today to store data you have backed up, or as a boot drive for an OS that's easily replaceable, for simply for a cache drive like Fusion drive or the Intel Windows drivers give you.

Don't exclude a revolutionary technology just because you need to be a little more careful how you store your data

Comment Re:Why does this not surprise me? (Score 4, Insightful) 443

And this will only make it worse, if you were a Joe Sixpack who saw this headline on a news site and currently purchased say, 50% of your music/vmovies and pirated the other 50%.

Would you continue purchasing given the chance your computer will be locked down, or would you just pirate all your music/movies now to be sure they can't install any rootkit?

Comment Re:it's drone maintenance (Score 1) 113

Nothing with any payload capacity in the multi-rotor family can stay in the air for 30mins

To give you and idea, a typical hobby quadcoptor with little to no payload has a flight time of ~ 10mins.

Various competitions are held to make quads with high flight times and people get 60-90mins in them, however those could never carry any payload and are doing nothing but hovering

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