Terrorists are a sometimes-maybe-sorta threat.
Even that is an overstatement.
Terrorists are a marginally greater threat than getting struck by lightning or killed by a falling vending machine, and less of a threat than bathtubs or death by falling out of bed.
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If you were exposed in the Atacama, you would most likely be dead in less than 48 hours.
I live in a major US city where the same is true for a few months out of the year. Yawn.
3.) How to shift the data securely
The governments of the world can potentially intercept ANYTHING.... A reporter can use a courier by land or plane and that person can be held in a cell for nine hours while being interrogated. But an in-person intercept is known to both parties.
Taking this concept further: after encrypting your data, xor the data with a onetime pad. Send only the pad by courier first; once the courier arrives at the destination with the onetime pad unmolested, send the other part of the data.
why would they care about your pirated or whatever TV? a super secret US intelligence agency that employs some of the smartest mathmatecians in the world is going to care about people's pirated movies instead of tracking down our enemies so the military can kill them
I assume you mean't "*isn't* going to care". And you have some starry eyes, my friend... you seem to think that the NSA must be like a James Bond movie. But once corruption becomes the operating mindset (and it has), it all ends up being about the same thing: the non-equal concentration of wealth and power. And the movie industry is very wealthy and powerful.
it is paramount to the NSA that they are covert.
Not any more.
Failure of Windows 8
Failure of Xbox One
Failure of Vista
Failure of the Kin
Failure of the Zune
Failure of Windows Phone 7
Failure of Windows Phone 8
Ummmm, what the fuck is a Kin?
[Checks Wikipedia Kin]
Kin was a mobile phone from Microsoft, manufactured by Sharp Corporation...
Microsoft invested two years and about US$1 billion developing the Kin platform.
How the fuck do you spend a billion dollars, and and fail so hard that a geek's geek had to google the name?
P.S.
You can add Bing to the list of failures, considering that "google" is now an English language dictionary verb synonym for "search", and "Bing" is just an annoying sound that hasn't earned dollar #1 of profit.
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If Balmer's retirement goes past past schedule like everything else, it could happen right on time for Obama to take the position and snag the Nobel Prize for Economics too.
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I'd be willing to quit his job for half that.
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Even half a Jobs would turn Microsoft around from the stagnating business it has become.
In this economy, good luck finding even a part-time-Jobs.
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It will be interesting to see how this affects Microsoft's stock price.
They'll go flying... like a chair through Windows.
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Oh heavens, it must be happening again. I'm obviously experiencing a relapse of those terrible hallucinations that have plagued me for years.
Oh, wait, she's real after all.
Dude, you posted a photo of a laptop sitting on the armrest of an empty couch
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I found it surprising that it seemed to be saying that most of the devices responded in under a microsecond, while others were over 10ms.
I'm pretty sure it was a single device that was tested 227 times.
The spec actually says the host must send a 20 ms wake up signal, then wait quietly for 10 ms. If we start counting from the beginning of the quiet period (the end of the wake up signal) then you get the odd seeming result that the device is usually ready "instantly <1 ms" and sometimes takes 13 ms. But if we start counting from the beginning of the wake-up signal we get the more reasonable seeming result that the device usually completes waking up in <21 ms and sometimes took up to 33 ms. The device was in violation of the spec in the occasional cases where the it took >30 ms to complete the activation.
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Atleast with the case of xHCI the 10ms is actually a minimum for both -- the specs do not indicate a maximum for the hardware to resume at all.
That's not how specifications work. Both sides are required to obey the spec for things to work. A minimum for one side is a maximum for the other side.
It's like we have a lunch break specification. The specification says that on a lunch break he must wait a minimum 30 minutes before sending the employee more work to do. This means the employee has a maximum 30 minutes to finish lunch.
What is happening here is that the employer (the computer) is obeying the spec. It's waiting the required minimum time, then sending a message "here's some work to do". The employee (the USB device) is late, still lingering out to lunch (in violation og the lunch rules) when he gets the work message. This employee (device) is responding "I'm not ready, I quit" and goes home (device disconnect).
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You're welcome.
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RTFA, it emits no carbon.
Bullshit. It MUST. It's burning a fuel that HAS CARBON IN IT.
1 + 1 = 3, for large values of 1.
