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Yes, strong encryption will make it more difficult for law enforcement to do it's job. But so does the Miranda ruling. And the presumption of innocence. And a whole host of other protections written into the US Constitution and laws. That is one of the prices of freedom. Yes, freedom is not free.

Somebody really said the problem is that they didn't have enough money to encrypt their data? Really? The Federal Government is literally rolling in money. There's so much of it they are busy 100% of the time coming up with ways to spend it. It's apparent the person that said this has never...

This way too stupid, even for [H].

At least these people have Internet access. I'm on CenturyLink DSL, and they have oversold the capacity in my area so badly that the switch drops our connection all the time. If I reset the modem I can get it back for a while, but not for long. Sometimes for only 5 minutes. I've called customer...

The most important parts, the extruder head and the electronics/firmware can't be printed. So no, you didn't print a 3d printer with a 3d printer. This headline is just clickbait.

That could easily be circumvented by having the repeater take care of the keyfob response too. A better idea, but not fool proof, would be to make them frequency agile. This would add a bit of expense, but would make creating a repeater much more difficult, depending on the sophistication of the...

Brilliant!

OK, so sidestepping the who issue of whether the authorities did the right thing or not, I noticed that everybody assumes that this guy could actually do what he claims. Usually followed by questions of why this has not been "fixed" yet. But so far I have not seen any evidence that anybody has...

The only thing congressmen know is how to get themselves elected, and how to enrich themselves at our expense.

No wonder I don't get invited to these kind of meetings. My answer would be "Hey, retard, your requirements don't make sense!"

The flight and entertainment systems do not share a common tcp/ip network, so in that sense they are isolated. However, there is only a single satellite link, which they have to share. There are multiple, overlapping systems in place to ensure that data is properly routed and to prevent leakage...

They probably saw the Target debacle and thought if they spent a whole lot of money they could avoid something similar.

Reality does not exist.

Once again, a lot of ignorant ramblings here. I wish people would just STFU when they didn't know what they were talking about. Obviously this would not work if you just recorded the EKG raw, however there are elements of your heartbeat that are unique and would not change with rate. Most would...

You don't know what you are talking about. I've worked on this drive technology specifically. The media, heads, and drive electronics are exactly the same as on their PMR drives. Only the firmware is different. In the lab we could switch the same drive from PMR to SMR and vice versa with a...

Language doesn't matter, it's the type of software you work on and your level of experience that matters. Currently I use C (old school) for which they pay me over $150K/year. But it's for a large real-time embedded system and I have 30 years of experience. You PHP and C# app developers need not...

All you people arguing about how long it takes to make backups to a cloud based server missed something important: how long it takes to restore. I work with a woman who lost everything to the cryptolock virus. No problem, she thought, we have everything backed up to the cloud. But then she...

All public flight information is delayed by 5 minutes, so no, you really don't know what airplane is above you right now. Did you really think the FAA would provide that information in real time?

You can't enforce a contact to do something illegal. But putting that aside, yeah, those EULAs are gibberish.

It's this kind of thinking that is ruining our society today. You think it's OK to wrong someone because in your opinion the impact to them is small. Let me tell you a small story to show how wrong headed that is. I am a software engineer now, but my first paying job writing software was when...

First, I don't imagine why anybody puts a modern smart phone in their pocket. I can hardly stand a fairly pliable wallet, but something as big and stiff as a phone? Hell no! It's a $400+ portable computer, so start treating it like that. Use some comment sense people. So many stupid comments...

If you think hackers are a problem now, just wait for the self driving cars all networked together. What could possibly go wrong?

What's with all the hate? You'd think that most of the people here are game developers or something. Geez. These guys aren't asking for any money, just showing a demo of some interesting technology. If they can pull it off in a game, then great, we will all enjoy it. If not, then no skin off our...

I liked the out of focus effects, lens glinting, etc. The leaf on the ivy in the outside shot was very well done. Very high level stuff. If they can indeed do something like that in real time (even if only on a very high end system), then not only are we in for some great gaming experiences, but...

Of course it was wrong to hack their accounts and release their private photos. I don't think anyone is seriously disputing that, but it is hard to sympathize with people that don't take the most basic precautions to prevent themselves from being victimized. In a perfect world we wouldn't need...

But for $100 you will be able to buy a hack that says you were always going the speed limit.

Yes, starcrossed, everybody lies. Some are small and some are big, but when you lie to obtain property (money) that you didn't earn and don't deserve, then it's called FRAUD. And fraud is illegal. People go to jail all the time for fraud. What Comcast attempted here was fraud, and since the...

I guess I'm the only one that thinks it looks stupid.

I suppose the gripe is that you could borrow a friend's CD, rip it to the entertainment system in your car, and then just enjoy it after that without every paying a dime. But really, I doubt they will lose many sales even in that case. This is a money grab, pure and simple, just like the tobacco...

You don't know what you are talking about. I am a principle software engineer and I make right in the middle of that range. And there are some here that make more than me.

Sure, because the only thing preventing them from using cars as mobile bombs now is the lack of people willing to kill themselves for their cause. :rolleyes:

You are ALWAYS free to speak your mind. You are NOT however free from any consequences of said speech; unless you were talking about the government, then it's pretty much a free pass. So you are free to defame someone, in that you can't be arrested and put in jail for doing so, but you can be...

Companies exist to make a profit, not to serve the public good or anything else. They do that by providing the public (their customers) a product they want at a price they are willing to pay. Government (the way the US has defined it) has a completely different purpose: to allow the maximum...

I have Comcast and generally my dealings with them have been OK. A few years back I was having problems with poor TV; sound was cutting out on HD channels and some even had video breakups. So they sent out a service tech who replaced some cable in the house (from the wall to the TV and modem)...

A few years back when everyone was predicting that we would soon get all our entertainment though Internet streaming services, I said that prices would rise. People then informed me that they already paid for plenty of bandwidth, so I was wrong. I tried to point out that they were paying for...

I have a google account that I only use to communicate with a small number of people. I don't ever put it in a public posting like this or for signing up to other services. I get no spam on that account. Zero. Nada. Zilch. Not proof that this email harvesting bug was never exploited, so far it...

The RC guys might get the kind of power out of the Li batteries that they are claiming, however they don't tend to get a lot of recharge cycles on them. Which for their purposes does not matter as much because they don't use them on a daily basis. 50 use/recharge cycles is like a year or more of...

Color me unimpressed. I'm sure they could have improved the % if they had designed a program to mimic an 8 year old too. So what? Most adults think 13 year old children are stupid, and have probably run into a few, so they give the program a wide margin. I'll be that had the testers been other...

Ducman69, Ever forget to zip up after visiting the restroom? Ever? He's a young geek, going out to fly his toy. In his haste he just forgot to zip up. Probably forgot to put on deodorant as well. So are you going to arrest him for BO? Jeez, it's so obvious from the video that he wasn't...

I find the notion that "people will judge a company based on what their employees do when off the clock" just does not compute. In fact I find it retarded. I don't do this, does anybody else here? If this is the way our society really works then may I really do need to find that hermit cave. :(