Comment Re:Hippocrites (Score 1) 279
They can already ping the device using E911 to have the phone's chipset turn the GPS on and report back your location.
They can already ping the device using E911 to have the phone's chipset turn the GPS on and report back your location.
In the US and Canada, they've required the implementation of mobile E911 phase 2. It requires the location of the device within 300m (max) within 6minutes of the location being asked for.
This is done both in the network (triangulation/timing) and with the cooperation of the chipset in the device, which already reports the location. AT&T already uses the GPS chips in the device - the phone's chipset grabs the data.
So, there is no reason to ask for the location from the device manufacturer if the location is already being provided by the network.
That the EU can't get their rules passed and in force (since 2003) [1] is their own problem. The technology is there, available and has been for over a decade.
This catches any organisation that doesn't have centralised control over all emails.
First, when it's subpoenaed, you can't stop looking for them. "I can't find it" isn't an answer. "It's been destroyed" is the answer.
So you need to re-create the full body of emails on an email server, here's where you look, listed in order of importance and difficulty:
1) The email server.
2) Backups of the email server.
3) The email servers that talk to that server that you control.
4) The backups of those servers.
5) The individual PCs of the persons involved in the conversations.
6) The backups of those PCs.
7) Old, retired PCs in storage.
8) Any backups of those PCs.
If you, as an organisation are told by a court to find the emails, you hunt through _all_ the systems you control to find them. This is why organisations have centralised control over documents and emails with defined document destruction schedules. Otherwise, you get caught like Microsoft did in the Netscape trial where an email that was supposed to have been destroyed was found on someone's PC.
This does not mean that there was an intent to hide anything, only that it takes longer to build up the entire list.
Providing an answer inside of a deadline is an entirely different problem to knowing the current time, and you definitely do not need an accurate clock source to do it.
Even driving a car doesn't require split second timing. If it did, human's wouldn't be able to do it. That's why we've got the 2s rule...
There is no "now" [1]. If you're relying on accurate timing from a network, you're already broken. If you require accurate local times, then you know that and know the error terms on your clocks. Standard OS clocks only tick at about 100hz, so you're always out by an average of 5ms anyways.
You don't need to buy a dumb TV. All you need to avoid is plugging it into a network.
If you don't plug your home theatre equipment into your network, it can't call home. Done.
The quote is this:
"We use industry standard methods to block VPNs. Always have and always will"
They're just fixing the bug.
Christchurch's earthquake resulted in building failures and caused loss of life. However, several buildings, while they later needed demolition, did stay up allowing evacuation.
The CTV building was the major failure, resulting in the death of 115 people (6 stories) [3]. A close one was the Hotel Grand Chancellor (26 stories) [2]. A frequent failure mode was the collapse of the stairwells [1].
However, you are correct, you are definitely safer being _inside_ a building. People who were on the street were killed by falling debris and masonry.
[1] http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/n...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H...
Actually, there is a lot of room in between where intelligence can help the home owner substantially.
There are huge differences in incremental costs for power generation and lines. The cost of switching on a peaking natural gas turbine plant for peak power generation increases the cost of electricity by insane amounts, from $50-200/Mwh to $20,000/Mwh (NZ numbers).
So, providers implement time-of-day metering which roughly matches up with demand. It still doesn't match up with the provider's incremental costs, but it's a signal. What would happen if they could pass it back in much more fine grained fashion?
Take a look at your dominant sources of power consumption:
1) Hot Water Heating - if electric, this is 25% of the household bill.
2) Heating/Cooling - another 50%
3) Fridge - 5%
All those items can be shifted by _hours_ without changing your comfort. That's 80% of a household's load which can be shifted/shed in times of high cost. If only you knew!
Now, add in fine-grained demand metering and charging and then add a signal back to your devices.
The single biggest thing that power companies worry about is demand. Long term, short term. They worry about it second by second, millisecond by millisecond even. If someone has a better short term model they can make money.
This is why power companies worry about the weather so much. It has very little to do with the sun or the wind. Who cares if you're a coal/natural gas plant?!?
Except you do. The generators all have consents that say that the can only take a certain amount of water from the river for cooling, and they can only raise the temperature of the river a certain amount. That means the temperature of the water (and air) are very important. There is a direct correlation between weather and the amount of power they can generate.
Add to that demand prediction. Sure, they've got a model, and smart meters tell them when you are likely to use power (based on previous patterns). However, Nest's data will tell them when you are going to use power. 100%. Even better, Nest is able to _delay_ that power use, or shift it to when it is cheaper. It will even result in a more stable grid, since that data feed will allow the generator to know when there's about to be a brownout.
New Zealand already does this with "ripple control" on water heaters. Suppliers turn water heaters OFF at the meter when power prices get to high.
This is not about snooping on what you do (the power companies already know), it's about the grid itself.
Sorry, that should be "value insurance deductible".
Databases already exist with stolen IMEIs. This will prevent those devices from registering on a carrier's network, rendering them wifi-only.
Both systems require the owner to report the theft, which you wouldn't do if your phone is >2-3 years old - value is > insurance deductible.
Since the existing systems are already not used, there won't be any change by any new system.
http://www.t-mobile.com/verify...
https://prod.eie.net.au/portal...
http://www.imei.info/blacklist...
The response is that thieves change the IMEI number (which can be hard). What is says is that any new system would have the same result - the thieves would change the identification number used to lock out the device.
In the US, anyone can buy a DVD and then rent it out. That's the right of first sale, and that's how RedBox did their rentals on day of release - they paid retail at WalMart.
The Maori didn't use bows and arrows.
I've got a large collection of movies (12TB). My backups are the physical DVD/BluRay/CD media. It does take a bit of time to restore a 4TB drive, rips are typically about 1GB/minute for BluRay or DVD.
My recommendation: don't store the collection as a single RAID array. That way, when you lose the array (which will happen), you don't lose the entire collection.
Personally, I'm too cheap to pay for the extra drives to implement mirroring, so I just use JBOD.
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