Comment Re:So, who's the "customer"? (Score 1) 556
Paranoid tinfoil hat wearers can't come up with conspiracies fast enough to catch up with reality.
True.
They come up with them much faster. Conspiracies are almost always far ahead of their time.
Paranoid tinfoil hat wearers can't come up with conspiracies fast enough to catch up with reality.
True.
They come up with them much faster. Conspiracies are almost always far ahead of their time.
Look at the job breakdowns. The vast majority are not developers--when running an infrastructure as large as theirs, you have a lot of need for auxiliary support staff (i.e. engineers, not software engineers).
until your website can handle the load. And it's not even a busy period.
They really should try flash heavy sites like YouTube.
I can have my battery life cut in half when using Chrome 10 on YouTube; so much so that I actually have to switch back to Firefox for extended browsing when I'm on the road. It's pretty poor because even if the video has stopped and it becomes an idle page it can still sit at 10-15+% while doing absolutely nothing (so I don't see how they can claim rendering speed is the cause).
There's a saying--there's no such thing as a friendly intelligence service.
The point of this isn't to be more open. The point is to make people think about what the CIA can do with today's technology if they could do that with the technology of yesteryear. Making the enemy overestimate your power is an important principle in deterrence.
Oh shi. I'm sure Mossad saw the revamped CIA website and were like "OH DAMN, IMAGINE WHAT THEY CAN DO NOW. THEIR WEBSITE IS TOTALLY AWESOME. RUN. HIDE YOUR CHILDREN.".
Because foreign intelligence services don't have more reliable ways of determining technology in the field at present time then some guestimation based on 50 year old photos in a flickr album.
No -- Apple are taking it a vote and strongly encouraging their shareholders to vote against it.
If the shareholders vote for it I am sure they will make efforts (slowly most likely) to appease the shareholders. That being said Apple management will know what is best for their company--likely more so then the few hundred thousand shareholders, bar a few key holders--and the reason is as GP suggested.
Succession plans reveal weaknesses in your line-up and create dissent between your top execs and this is a recipe for a falling stock price, which is bad for everyone.
If the screaming child REALLY REALLY wants to pour the detergent in to his mouth do you let him, despite knowing better?
Uh?
I think he is referring to some easy to find links to screenshots which is obviously of little concern no matter the resolution of those using it. The definition of "full size" he is referring to is more like "doesn't feel like I forgot my telescope in my other pants".
There are a couple here but they look nothing like the marketing material on the main page (and are almost 2 years old).
I agree but we are talking about whistle blowing and the security of government intelligence in general (ala the helicopter video and any thing Assange says he has on his black book if he gets taken down) not just these cables.
It is not a perfect world and the reality is that "don't participate in corrupt activities" is extremely naive. The issue I have is that everyone has a different definition of corrupt activities and leaving it up to the individual to leak classified material on a whim is impracticable.
I don't know how you think that works. One very cautious person considers a highly classified mission to be immoral, and thus leaks details, which the majority considers acceptable. Vigilante justice rarely works.
The approaches do need to be more sophisticated.
You mean like using a cell-phone camera to take a picture of a screen?
You can also encode a LOT of info into just one jpg or png of the family dog.
As for printing, you can use a 600dpi laser to output the whole bible in encoded format on 5 sheets of paper. So yes, you could walk out with 250,000 cables pretty quickly.
Not every office has the kind of hardware (or every person the skillset) required to minimise documents at the drop of a hat like that. While I concede that methods for this are readily available on the internet a lot of people with access to this intelligence just don't have the expertise to step through it and that is a strong enough deterrent in a lot of cases.
Keep in mind I am limiting my discussion to internal patriotic staff members 'freeing America' etc and not a well placed terrorist or foreign intelligence officer--that would be an entirely different ball game and arguably more-so a problem for security vetting offices.
Cameras with cell phones are banned at most defence facilities in the US I would imagine. That being said satellite locations are obviously a serious concern given the origin of the diplomatic cables.
It's not that it is impossible to leak information--that's never a goal--the idea is to increase the difficulty and risk to such a level that it is not worth it for the average employee to attempt to leak whatever mediocre information they have access to and that the employees the skill and access are more loyal and less likely to attempt it. In this way it is different to DRM because there is no inherent risk associated (for most people) as you are not going to lose your job or risk federal/military prison for your actions and thus there is nothing to dissuade you from attempting it.
For the record it is not particularly easy to use a printer to duplicate, say, 250,000 diplomatic cables and walk out with them under your arms. It's not particularly difficult to prevent the average employee from accessing IRC/IM either and the obvious risks attached to e-mail are far too high. The approaches do need to be more sophisticated.
asteroid*, sigh not a good start to my day!
I am curious how a crater six to 12 km across left a crater that has only just been noticed. The source is pretty low on the details.
Wouldn't this have been obvious on satellite?
The RL equivilent would perhaps be announcing that every day one random person caught littering shall be executed - it's also hugely excessive as a punishment, but it's a whole lot cheaper than hireing enough police to give every litterer a small fine, and you can be sure that the streets would get a lot cleaner.
This is basically what happens in singapore.
These include jaywalking, littering and spitting. Singapore has a mandatory caning sentence for vandalism offenses.
All seems condemned in the long run to approximate a state akin to Gaussian noise. -- James Martin
