Yup, you can take my usb stick and read it all you want. Unless you're particularly interested in seeing what I've been working on recently, it will quickly bore you silly. The most damage loosing it would do it inconveniencing me. Whereas encrypting the thing would prevent me simply hand it to people so they can access my files.
9% encrypt their flash drives vs. x% who cypher their paper docs before leaving the building?
I'm not saying it shouldn't be done - I'd hope someone actually carrying sensitive data around would encrypt it as a precaution, just as I hope the people I just sent a paper copy of my passport to will have the diligence to not take on the train and leave it on the table.
I myself doubt that wiretapping (even without encryption) is a desirable approach to get at data, as opposed to stealing computer drives. With the drives you get everything that has not been mailed yet as well as everything from years back, all in one go. Most evil doers would not only be interested in current correspondence, no?
It is also an issue of practicality. Drive encryption is very easy and unobtrusive to deploy and manage. The basic variant uses just the same password in the same login screen.
As opposed to that, key management, and other basic usage concerns on PGP or similar are not easy. Average Joe needs to know too way too much about how these things work, and IT Staff / Power users don't get enough flexibility. Your white collar people may have spared you a LOT of annoyances while you still were sysadmin, in fact.
It may be technically true but not meaningfully so.
No it isn't.
It's technically true that everyone will die sometime, but it isn't really meaningful in the context of making a film about it in the near future, which I presume the story is about (no, of course I didn't read it).
Sorry, I fscked it up for you.
The central government in China is seen pretty positive by most people in China.
However many "mass incidents" (protests, riots, etc) are taking place, and the number is increasing. I have heard numbers of tens of thousands of such "mass incidents" each year, but hard to impossible to get any reliable numbers on that.
It is the local governments that are highly unpopular, down to local leaders being murdered and the village celebrating: such a case is now going on. This as many if not most local leaders are very corrupt, and have local business interests as well. This has issues for land rights and environmental pollution. It's those leaders that the protests are targeted against primarily. E.g. the local mayor owns a large share in the local coal mine, and will thus turn a blind eye on safety issues. Large brothels or gambling dens that were housed across the police station - the owner being a brother of the police commissioner.
You won't see much protest targeting the central government, and most of those are people asking for help in problems with local officials.
You could be right, but none of the things you listed creates wealth, so I'm not sure what the point of listing them was. What, other than labour, creates wealth?
Knowledge. And not just knowledge gained through experimentation or research, sometimes you can gain profitable information just looking out the window at the right moment.
And hence, you miss the OP's point entirely.
Each individual restriction has some benefit, and may have even saved some people some misery. And each one may make sense - depending on how much you value freedom vs safety.
As a kid, I had a pocket knife and a bb gun (later a
But if I'd grown up in the same situation today, I imagine I'd probably have spent all day with the TV and Playstation. I'd have been safe, but out of my mind with boredom.
Well, while your opinion is appreciated, the article is talking about reboots. As far as "new" what about Fringe or Sanctuary?
You would need to translate them to an absolute scale (Kelvin or Rankine) to do a really meaningful comparison, but I would hope that most people that read English would be able to at least translate the temperatures into "pretty hot" and "a whole bunch hotter".
Even then, the temperatures may be less interesting than the amount of energy required to bring the materials to those temperatures (but adding energy at lower temperatures is probably easier).
Please tell me there's an actual MP3 of this song. PLEASE! Lie if you have to. I can't go on with life knowing that this song doesn't exist in a full audio version...
It's a franchise, they can't not have a new one. That's how Hollywood works now: yearly installments of something that's proven to be successful, with three-move reboots to relaunch the franchise and introduce it to new customers when the current viewership grows out of it.
"I've seen it. It's rubbish." -- Marvin the Paranoid Android