I imagine the NSA would have preferred that to have not happened. To anthropomorphize the FBI: it is like an officer of Planned Parenthood who frequently goes off message, talking about head measurements and quoting Margaret Sanger.
As a California resident, I have the impression I live in the technology center of the world, that I am part of the 6th largest economy in the world, and that California is a beautiful place to live - and more importantly, that once you move out of California you will not be able to move back.
Also we have Feinstein so that's... that's a joy.
PS: I love it how there's a desperate need for cheap housing, and developments are approved - but always priced for big-earners.
That's because nowhere near enough is approved. The US population growth rate is around 1%. If San Francisco were growing no faster than the country at large it would need to build housing for about 8500 people per year. San Francisco is currently building around 3500 homes per year.
And that's not even accounting for the massive economic boom going on here, or the surrounding municipalities which are largely doing worse on construction (cough cough Palo Alto).
I was initially confused thinking "how would they get the NAT information from my home router.. from the ISP?", then I remembered some providers do NAT at their level now. Sucked when AT&T did it - made it impossible to view the entry-level IP cameras we had remotely (well, I could have set up a VPN...)
I'm really hoping as drones become mainstream people will be made aware of their right to privacy and where they have it. I spend a fair amount of time watching clips of ignorant people attacking cameramen and drone operators in public.
This irks me. Like somehow you can claim this public space because you're in it? Every kid should be enrolled in a Civics class.
> This irks me. Like somehow you can claim this public space because you're in it? Every kid should be enrolled in a Civics class.
Just because something is legal doesn't mean it is socially acceptable.
Drones are normally really loud and annoying. In addition, the sound tends to radiate because it's above the things that would absorb the sound. If I'm out to enjoy some quiet on a trail, and I've got a gaggle of "Drunk Go-Pro Drone Bros", I'm going to be upset, and I'm going to have words with them (been there, done that).
The threat of a physical altercation is a good check on people who don't seem to get that, yes, you are causing problems for other people.
My point was that often drone operators are taking landscape shots of scenery which just happen to include people. Why does this person with the untenable expectation of privacy get to claim the recording rights to the scenery that belongs to everyone? How can they assert their right to privacy over the public landscape? It's infuriating. Believe me if I could avoid the people I and my friends would. It's impractical to ask everyone on the beach if it's okay to film them and I wouldn't have to if I were walking the beach with a handheld camera. Drones just make some people feel like they are personally being followed - and that's entirely their hangup (not mine). Take issue with the surveillance your local government asserts over its citizens with license plate scanners and red light cameras before you go threatening drone operators.
Anyway - people who attack cameramen very often say "What you're doing is illegal - I didn't give you permission to record me." - not, "Please don't record me, I would appreciate not appearing in your video." There's a HUGE difference here. They have every right to record you in public view, and you can ask nicely to avoid being caught in their view. This does NOT include threatening violence. What gets me is you only care about the 1 camera out of hundreds because there's a person behind it you can immediately see.
You are exactly the type of person who needs Civics.
Side note: If drones become a problem for hikers I expect to see certain areas like state parks adopt rules about drone usage to curb bad behavior. Hopefully such bans on drone operation will be carefully enacted, as drones have done a LOT to enable new perspectives on tired landscapes.
> This is what happens when you raise a generation of kids with nothing but the WWF for role models.
And the reason why we have regressed to needing to threaten someone physically is because an entire generation has been raised to believe that they are "special little flowers" who don't have to pay attention to the fact that what they do has an impact on other people.
While, yes, it is technically illegal to shoot a drone out of the sky over your own property, there is a reason why nobody has been willing to push the point in court.
What really pisses me off about this is I can't provide proof anymore that I made use of OtherOS. The later updates removed that functionality.
I remember at that time I was so excited thinking I'd get to use my PS3 as my main machine, my game console, and for bitcoin mining -- and a bluray player. I desperately wanted it to be my entertainment center for all purposes.
I had a few friends making money on it - I was a dreamer for sure...
At the time I remember there was a team working on hashing functions in hand-tuned assembly for the PS3's Cell processor that would take advantage of it's vector capabilities. I wanted to take their implementations and learn assembly well enough to write my own bitcoin miner. This was long before ASICs became a thing so the PS3 looked like a big money-making opportunity. :-)
I think she blogged about this because it's a very small incident, but it had a very powerful effect on her.
I worked at a womens' clothing store for a while and I often felt like my opinion wasn't valued. The staff was mostly made up of women and I was treated inappropriately in the form of sexual harassment and unprofessional workplace conversations. I tried my best to keep out of it but I must admit I made mistakes.
Anyway, in the morning we often had a 'ritual' that we'd all get coffee in the backroom and talk about anything the store needed that day. I really liked what seemed like a time for open communication in the beginning. Everyone would have their coffee mugs lined up next to the machine - but for some reason another gal always moved my mug to the other side - she'd often separate property by gender? It was strange, to say the least... I always just put my mug with the others, but I started noticing that she would separate them. Over time this began to really bother me simply because of how small and benign it should have been. I'd come in, glance over, see that my mug was off to the side by itself... and it was easy to feel like I wasn't part of the team.
It just felt like... after all the serious problems there had to be dumb small ones too. Like not being able to enjoy Friends after long day of working on Microsoft Flight Sim. Everything had to be a problem, no matter how small the thing was. A coffee mug. A favorite TV show.
I don't think it helps to say we can share much worse experiences. Sexism or whatever this is doesn't go away because by comparison she had it easier than others. It's clear she felt undervalued in her team and that's a problem - especially in terms of how her productivity (may) have suffered. Microsoft should be working to reduce dumb stuff like this so everyone can work at their peak productivity - with the side-benefit of feeling camaraderie among their colleagues.
Personally I'd just go buy my own damn TV and watch alone in my office? :p
> I think she blogged about this because it's a very small incident, but it had a very powerful effect on her.
If it's a very small incident, why is it such a big deal for her? Especially compared to the real harrassment by her mentor in the car?
> Over time this began to really bother me simply because of how small and benign it should have been.
Well, did you ask your coworker why she did that? Being an adult also means standing up for yourself (it doesn't have to be overly confrontational, just ask politely), especially since it apparently was just a single person, not bullying by your entire team.
When you reframe it, what she experienced with the TV is minor - but I'm saying the bigger issues seem even more serious when you deal with minor stuff too? It's like if you forgot to do a chore and you stub your toe while doing that chore?
As a followup to the thing I went through: I did confront my coworker. I spent a few weeks feeling like I couldn't bring it up because it's so small. This particular lady had always treated me funny so I didn't expect the conversation to go well. She said this was how they did it at her house (separating mugs) and I shouldn't care about it. I was the only dude on the staff so it just felt like I was being isolated from the group with mugs! I felt immature for even bringing it up. She stopped doing it for a while but when she switched shifts I'd get in the next day and see she'd done it again... it still makes me irrationally angry.
Well you'd think it's not really necessary to run Android in a VM. The Android x86 project should make it easy to run atop an existing Linux in a container.
Just as an aside: Docker doesn't seem very security-focused, I would not [yet] count on its containers being properly sandboxed. :>
They're pretty sandboxed, but every Android app gets a JVM, no exceptions allowed (even Android's pure C++ API is just a wrapper around JNI calls). And in the case of the old Dalvik VM, it's a terrible JVM.
> They're pretty sandboxed, but every Android app gets a JVM, no exceptions allowed (even Android's pure C++ API is just a wrapper around JNI calls). And in the case of the old Dalvik VM, it's a terrible JVM.
Wasn't Dalvik deprecated & replaced by ART (Andriod Runtime)? ART compiles apps AoT - IIRC; upon installation pre-Marshmallow, and while charging/idle Marshmallow going forward
Yep, hence me specifying the old one. ART cleans up a lot of things: no more 8-16KB main thread stacks, better code gen via AoT, fully precise collection, moving GC. It has some really ingenious features as well, like switching to a compacting GC with better throughput and space efficiency when an app goes in the background and latency is irrelevant. The switch to ART as default was actually in 5.0 (Lollipop).
It's almost enough to make me stop cursing Android developers and their children's children. Unfortunately version updates for non-Google devices are rare and everybody is still stuck supporting the majority of devices that are pre-Lollipop. Also it didn't make the APIs any better >:(
They're either messing up an investigation or destroying their public image.
1) Accidentally resetting the Bernadino terrorist's iCloud password
2) Withdrawing its demands from Apple after significant backlash
3) Asking for the ability to inspect browser history without a warrant
4) Modifying the computers they're "lawfully" allowed to breach - can we trust this evidence in court?
Wouldn't trust them with more authority that's for sure.