http://www.wikileaksparty.org.au/why-australians-should-be-w...
I just came back just now, just in case it was a co-incidence, and yep, it was not a co-incidence.
Your statement is what I mean. "Thinking things through" should be done during design. Once you have built system, its much harder to compensate for design flaws.
Programming is not designing. Designing is not programming. Fixing bugs is not designing.
You have to design into the UI system a means for it to compensate for changes in user behavior. You don't want a system that takes many uses to train. At the same time you don't want a system that is trained by a single use. For me this is the crux of the problem.
The happy medium that automatically detects deviations from a user's 'normal' behavior _and_ takes the correct action is very hard to design, as it involves AI fuzzy logic.
It's analogous to security flaws. If there is a flaw in the design, no amount of bug fixing will make the system secure, unless that 'bug fixing' changes the design.
That sounds like they would be proving a negative, which is impossible to do.
That won't stop them from trying. I hope there's a nearby friendly embassy. 8)
defn: "Information, esp. of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view"
http://mw1.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/propaganda
2: the spreading of ideas, information, or rumor for the purpose of helping or injuring an institution, a cause, or a person
3 : ideas, facts, or allegations spread deliberately to further one's cause or to damage an opposing cause; also : a public action having such an effect
> You don't think most countries have that kind of computing power?
The quote itself states that: "...or a large group with sufficient computing resources could pull it off."
I think you may have misunderstood my point of view. The point is, in his quote, the interviewee (Zachary Harris) singled out Iran. As it stands it is an out-of-the-blue assertion.
However, that sentence "But the government of Iran probably could" made the preceding paragraphs appear to be a vehicle to deliver a meme (like a shaggy-dog story). The rest of the article could have been great, I just stopped reading.
The journalist could have made a neutral statement about what entities have the resources to crack a 768-bit key. But they or their editor chose not to.
Instead, everyone that reads the article will go away with the meme "Iran, if they wanted to, could crack 768-bit keys". Which is, by common definition, propaganda.
It might be unintentional, i.e. the journalist is riding a wave of popular opinion, which they should not do; or it might be an attempt to load the article with link bait.
"But the government of Iran probably could"...At this point I stopped reading, as this article became propaganda.
Did you know this month is National Cyber Security Awareness Month, as advertized by the DHS?
Hoever, on iOS5, especially when zoomed in - page just scrolls.
On the demo page, when not zoomed in, it hard to tell if it actually slides or not because the button is completely covered by my finger tip.
Are you sure about that? "Flashback" is just one example. Apple has also approached an av vendor to help harden OSX.
Form factor is incredibly relevant.
For me it's not about escaping from vendor X, or operating system Y, it's about what the form-factor allows me to do.
It about having the freedom to chose where I want to sit and _the_posture_ I want to adopt when reading stuff on the internet.
Laptops/netbooks got us half-way there (no longer force to sit in a certain location). Their short-coming was you're forced to adopt a certain posture, or put something hard under it so it doesn't overheat (or burn you).
However, the ability of a well designed tablet to open another 'ergonomic dimension' does not guarantee that the tablet can maintain all the other ergonomics of other form-factors.
Some users realize this and think the fix is to make the new device 'morph' into that other form factor. I suspect that some team of people will realize that it can be achieved some other way that is simpler and sexier and make a mint from their idea. It will involve a revolution in input device hardware (and acceptance of that hardware) to get there though.
1) you don't have access to that type of information because either it is unknown, or it is unpublished.
2) you have no choice because the people selling your product have already made a promise to the customer.
For example, Google recommend using their CDN for a range of js libraries Why doesn't Chrome include these libs as precompiled scripts? On detecting a request for a script hosted on Google CDN, Chrome could check it's precompiled cache first and use it if available. For specific js libraries, this would eliminate some aspects of Sam Saffron's "The jQuery Tax".The release cycles of stable...
Last May, Texas tried to pass a bill to ban 'groping patdowns'.
The bill was passed by the Texan House of Representative, but then the federal government, approx 1-2 weeks later, threatened to shutdown all Texan airports because they would be a threat to the overall security. The bill failed to go any further on that threat.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/13/us-tsa-groping-tex...
http://www.texastribune.org/texas-legislature/82nd-legislati...
On paragraph states: "Proponents of requiring thick Whois argue that being able to access the thick data at both the registry and the registrar level will ensure greater accessibility of the data. The draft report of the Implementation Recommendations Team put together by ICANN's Intellectual Property Constituency stated "the IRT believes that the provision of WHOIS information at the registry level under the Thick WHOIS model is essential to the cost effective protection of consumers and intellectual property owners."
The doc is probably stale though. Not sure where to find the latest revisions.