Before I feel too badly for these industry giants, I will vaguely recall how they make excessive profits with little work, get money for nothing from governments, don't keep their promises, and have awful service.
There is a long way to go before i ever feel badly for them. I will certainly be long dead before that could potentially happen.
5G will have zero impact on anything but high-bandwidth applications at very short ranges (lots and lots of antennae)and all of them still rely on the base network architecture. Like previous Gs it is tacked on to the contemporary system. Or, you know, charging you more for 5G bandwidth that you don't actually need to access the content you are currently using is also pretty awesome.
Sorry you hated PTT. Nextel pretty much invented the mobile market in the States.
So they are/were leaps and bounds ahead of everyone else whose implementations still give significant false positive rates?
I suppose it doesn't matter since cops can always claim they are better than FR at a thousand meters in the dark in rain and fog when it turns out either or both misidentified someone. Don't care what FR, DNA tests, ID, or anything else says, he's the guy! I had to empty three clips into him. He was gonna turn me into a newt.
It's a standard problem with all manner of things which are designed or studied against the dominant culture (or WEIRD groups), which has inherent bigoted assumptions given they always want to deploy or generalize to the whole world. In fact, usually not against the group they took their assumed metrics from whatsoever. Even if the guy isn't making some kind of allusion to "they all look alike", he is still implying it because why bother mentioning "in the Middle East"?
Yes, there is a problem with deploying the technology, and _technologically_ it is irrelevant against whom you are deploying it.
It could simply mean that usage in Middle East was pretty much their only market prior, but that there is pretty much predicated on bigotry in the first place, even if Magalhaes didn't just happen to process a bit of endemic cultural racist script or outright intentionally other "Middle Easterners".
Was it worth noting? I probably would have noticed for a moment myself. But there is a lot of baked-in cultural bigotries, sometimes subtle, but generally the responses to potential moments in bigotry (conscious or unconscious) being pointed out are a bit telling.
Experience: I believe I can smell drugs in your blood, and the entire legal system should believe this also. Expertise: I am not actually required to know the laws I am theoretically enforcing; in fact, i can make up laws on the fly on good faith. Also I know how to get away with beating the daylights out of you.
Security through obscurity simply does not work. Much has been written on this. And given the nature of testing software available since ages ago, i would imagine attacker would be trying to break the code functionally rather than trying to run source in their heads.
If you want to toss something completely new into the market, though, open source doesn't make it magically more secure out of the gate, any more than big money closed source development does. Many eyes, especially the more qualified ones, over time, is what helps secure your source. Which also goes for your algorithms / novel theory.
Then you (or rather vendors using your system) have to make sure they don't bork it in their implementation of your implementation. Which was the weak spot several times with quantum crypto tools.
If this is all happening ultralocally inside a processor or device, it is less likely to be cracked until the attacker has possession. And you had been mentioning governments...
Many eyes, good eyes, over time. That is the security point of open source. It is only theoretical unless that happens, though. But a truly secure system should be secure regardless of who has the source. Closed systems, you don't know how well it was done in the first place, certainly not that many people checked it, you don't know who may have gotten hold of the source, and... since closed source counts on being closed for security, that is a huge weakness. It should be negligible for security reasons whether the source is closed or not, it certainly should not be counted on as a security factor. (And some seem to depend on that as the main bit of security, sadly.)
Re: So... Blame Facebook is OKAY if it doesn't meet YOUR standard of supporting users? It should spend big for lawyers, automatically taking the user's side?
The DMCA has what to do with this? Nothing. Supporting a bias? Non sequitur. Taking down every post someone doesn't like is bad business when you claim to be a social media and communications outfit. Loudly.
But writing articles from facts gathered is defamation. OK cool then.
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There is a long way to go before i ever feel badly for them. I will certainly be long dead before that could potentially happen.
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Sorry you hated PTT. Nextel pretty much invented the mobile market in the States.
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That's £1.9 billion in spying-on-you and attacking people we don't like money.
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Now that's what I call transparency!
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I suppose it doesn't matter since cops can always claim they are better than FR at a thousand meters in the dark in rain and fog when it turns out either or both misidentified someone. Don't care what FR, DNA tests, ID, or anything else says, he's the guy! I had to empty three clips into him. He was gonna turn me into a newt.
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Yes, there is a problem with deploying the technology, and _technologically_ it is irrelevant against whom you are deploying it.
It could simply mean that usage in Middle East was pretty much their only market prior, but that there is pretty much predicated on bigotry in the first place, even if Magalhaes didn't just happen to process a bit of endemic cultural racist script or outright intentionally other "Middle Easterners".
Was it worth noting? I probably would have noticed for a moment myself. But there is a lot of baked-in cultural bigotries, sometimes subtle, but generally the responses to potential moments in bigotry (conscious or unconscious) being pointed out are a bit telling.
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If you want to toss something completely new into the market, though, open source doesn't make it magically more secure out of the gate, any more than big money closed source development does. Many eyes, especially the more qualified ones, over time, is what helps secure your source. Which also goes for your algorithms / novel theory.
Then you (or rather vendors using your system) have to make sure they don't bork it in their implementation of your implementation. Which was the weak spot several times with quantum crypto tools.
If this is all happening ultralocally inside a processor or device, it is less likely to be cracked until the attacker has possession. And you had been mentioning governments...
Many eyes, good eyes, over time. That is the security point of open source. It is only theoretical unless that happens, though. But a truly secure system should be secure regardless of who has the source. Closed systems, you don't know how well it was done in the first place, certainly not that many people checked it, you don't know who may have gotten hold of the source, and... since closed source counts on being closed for security, that is a huge weakness. It should be negligible for security reasons whether the source is closed or not, it certainly should not be counted on as a security factor. (And some seem to depend on that as the main bit of security, sadly.)
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Re: So... Blame Facebook is OKAY if it doesn't meet YOUR standard of supporting users? It should spend big for lawyers, automatically taking the user's side?
But writing articles from facts gathered is defamation. OK cool then.
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I hope that Techdirt has quit censoring!
Me too, i have never seen any of your posts.
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The result was better. In theory.
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