Until they fix that weird off-centre trackpad, I'd continue suggesting people go Dell XPS, also the only PC laptop with a trackpad response even approaching that of a Macbook
I have yet to encounter an embedded map that could not have better been
- a static image
- a table of addresses with an external map link
It's not just the idea of wheeling around in some 256x256 box added at the last minute to a Contact Us page, the entire concept of an embeddable map is shit
Their main purpose seems to be to add 1 second to page loads across the web, and feed more clickstream back to the mothership
The main exception to this I can think of right now is Flightaware, but even that does not require such detailed rendering
If some condition existed that exceeded GPS intended design, you most certainly wouldn't learn of it first from some random anecdote on HN.. more likely the front page of the BBC as the transportation system instantly collapses
So the anecdote itself is noise, it's intended to show how seriously intractable a problem accurate time is, but it doesn't do that, instead it only demonstrates OP's lack of familiarity with GPS and willingness to regurgitate corporate old wives' tales
> Time SRE has at various points had take measures up to and including calling the USAF and telling them their satellites are fucked up
It's another cute anecdote, but Google culture is full of these, always scant on details and always intended to show how big/smart/important/complex/indispensable their engineering is.
"Had to" is a strong term here, it's made to sound like USAF could not possibly have noticed some deviation they were likely to correct of their own accord as a matter of routine as they had been doing for the 20 years of the GPS project prior to Google being founded.
The reality is drift and bad clocks are and always have been a feature of GPS, one explicitly designed for, one an entire staff exists to cope with, and designs depending on the absolute accuracy of a single clock have never been correct
The UK has 4.9x fewer population compared to the USA, yet manages 246x fewer deaths due to policy activity. While some of our police are armed (covering Northern Ireland only - 1.65m population) the majority are not.
The real problem is likely not having armed police, after all, Northern Ireland does not suffer a 246x increase in police-attributed deaths compared to the rest of the UK, but the expectation by police that theirs live are at risk - due to the common access of regular citizens to offensive weaponry
Yes, and consequently the platform should not (and in practice does not) receive declarations of high security in its default state. Ignoring PRISM, this is true of every major smart phone platform as they all have remote install and update abilities that excepting Android aren't generally straightforward to disable. Argumentum ad populum is not an excuse for doing something even when you know it's wrong.
Didn't mean to accuse you of anything :) I just think the real focus should be on how the data is being used so far, and why we can't all see it. The rest is presumably carefully shaped noise that is almost certainly best ignored
This isn't the data, it looks like data about the stories ICIJ have decided to publish, which, having led with a bunch of anti-Putin stories in our media despite Putin having no direct involvement, totally relegates to zero their reputation for doing a balanced job of handling the data.
Just give us the unredacted data otherwise we'll presume it is only being used as an instrument of propaganda, because you've already used it that way
Save the predictable accusations, I'm a British citizen depressed the BBC News site will be unreadable for another 6 months thanks to Brexit and this kind of crap
What it sounds like is they've been asked to prepare a new OS release that allows an unlimited number of attempts to enter the passphrase via some network link. The press release is written to sound like without a software release, it wouldn't be possible to mount this kind of attack, however attacks like this are generally possible regardless of having some specially modified and signed OS image: for example, by cutting power to the hardware precisely when it is clear a password was incorrect, before the hardware has time to implement any destructive actions. Attacks like this have been used against SIM cards since the 90s.
I'm ambivalent regarding Apple's stance. In principle they are doing the right thing, but in practice, it seems they may be kicking up a whole lot of fuss over a relatively minor issue (with the exception that providing an easy means to brute force a phone to the authorities sets a horrible precedent). As for creating a universal backdoor, it seems highly unlikely they couldn't produce a signed OS / coprocessor firmware image that wasn't locked to one of the various serial numbers associated with this particular device
edit: as mentioned below, this order entirely originates with Apple's use of DRM to prevent software modification. Had users actual control over the devices they own the FBI wouldn't need to request a signed firmware in the first place. Please think twice about what Apple might really be defending here before downvoting
Turn a profit by pumping crappy tech to the masses?