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The National Security Agency is amongst the most secretive of the US’ intelligence agencies. It employs genius-level coders and mathematicians in order to break codes, gather information on adversaries, and defend the country against digital threats. Help them hack you
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According to the GitHub account this news is almost a year old.
Their Lemongrenade was committed on July 27, 2016.
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Google is stepping up its efforts to block "extremist and terrorism-related videos" over its platforms, using a combination of technology and human monitors. Those people that hate cat videos must be stopped!
Making too light of it? Sorry, but it's about time they stepped up.
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Accenture Plc and Microsoft Corp are teaming up to build a digital ID network using blockchain technology, as part of a United Nations-supported project to provide legal identification to 1.1 billion people worldwide with no official documents. Blockchain is the new GUID?
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It is being reported that Intel has canceled all three of the following IoT product lines.
I'm shocked.
Intel Discontinues Joule, Galileo, And Edison Product Lines | Hackaday[^]
However, for my own projects I think of IoT projects as being "small".
Anything I wanted to do via IoT would always include an Arduino (especially Nano) which I can get for ~ $4 USD. Edison was always too expensive and overkill for what I wanted to do. My 2 cents.
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Warning: reading this may take a bit of "shine" off your new iToy.
Guardian, June 18, excerpt from Brian Merchant's book, "The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone" : [^]Quote: In 2012, 150 workers gathered on a rooftop and threatened to jump. They were promised improvements and talked down by management; they had, essentially, wielded the threat of killing themselves as a bargaining tool. In 2016, a smaller group did it again. Just a month before we spoke, Xu says, seven or eight workers gathered on a rooftop and threatened to jump unless they were paid the wages they were due, which had apparently been withheld. Eventually, Xu says, Foxconn agreed to pay the wages and the workers were talked down.
Quote: If you know of Foxconn, there’s a good chance it’s because you’ve heard of the suicides. In 2010, Longhua assembly-line workers began killing themselves. Worker after worker threw themselves off the towering dorm buildings, sometimes in broad daylight, in tragic displays of desperation – and in protest at the work conditions inside. There were 18 reported suicide attempts that year alone and 14 confirmed deaths. Twenty more workers were talked down by Foxconn officials.
Quote: The corporate response spurred further unease: Foxconn CEO, Terry Gou, had large nets installed outside many of the buildings to catch falling bodies. The company hired counsellors and workers were made to sign pledges stating they would not attempt to kill themselves.
Quote: One worker said 1,700 iPhones passed through her hands every day; she was in charge of wiping a special polish on the display. That works out at about three screens a minute for 12 hours a day.
More meticulous work, like fastening chip boards and assembling back covers, was slower; these workers have a minute apiece for each iPhone. That’s still 600 to 700 iPhones a day. Failing to meet a quota or making a mistake can draw public condemnation from superiors. Workers are often expected to stay silent and may draw rebukes from their bosses for asking to use the restroom
«Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.» Miss Piggy
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Of course, this would never happen at the Samsung, LG or HTC factories...
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Much worse happens in factories in many countries; your (apparent) inference that I am unaware of this gives you an "easy way out" of actually thinking about the content of the article ... I guess.
In the case of Apple, its unique stature (its vast wealth) in the world may mean that it can be brought to account in some ways.
«Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.» Miss Piggy
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Nono, I am not challenging your knowledge. The condition in those factories are unquestionably horrendous. I am protesting the innuendo of the article that Apple is worse than the others. One could argue that the real bad guys are Foxconn et cohortes, for having created such a system.
The flop-side is that mentioning Apple serves nicely as a click-bait/book-advertising for the publisher.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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megaadam wrote: I am protesting the innuendo of the article that Apple is worse than the others. If you read the article carefully, I think you may reach a different conclusion. There are several places in the article where there are specific statements acknowledging Apple is not "the worst."
When a great corporation with wealth equal to that of many nation-states proclaims itself, publicly, the "shining city on the hill," I think it's valuable to know what it really does.
«Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.» Miss Piggy
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You are right that I read it very sloppily. I have to take some of my words back.
But I am not sure that Apple has proclaimed itself the "shining city on the hill". Such proclamations though, can be heard from some of the fans.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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It is no secret that one of the factors enabled the 'Brave new world' of the western society is the slave-work in Chine... It is cheap and plenty... and far...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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If you ask me, during our lifetime we will see a trend in the opposite direction: India/China outsourcing to the west. Manufacturing prolly not, but stuff like programming might happen sooner than death.
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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What great empire was not built with slave-labor ?
«Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.» Miss Piggy
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As far as I know there is no exception...
However, first time in history slave-labor turns out as significant - the most significant - part of the globally created value... As we try to avoid fighting wars and no room left for exploration (of land and goods) we left with self driving economy and its value...
The next step will be robot-slaves...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Also wrong: See my post below. Large-scale slave labor came as a result of great empires rising, not as a cause.
Ordinary people create great empires, then become great people, then obtain lots of slaves as a decadent luxury, and then let their empire degrade into ruin when their luxuries are too expensive to maintain.
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Wrong: The U.S. and other western nations had high standards of living before China was industrialized.
If China didn't become a slave-holding Communist dictatorship, the Western world would have developed automation faster instead of depending on Chinese slave labor. Also, super-intelligent Western people who should be improving our standard of living instead create financial scams for Wall Street investment bankers and complex tax schemes to prop up failing big corporations.
The corrupt and abusive politics in all societies have only downsides and no upsides.
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I've read about Foxconn over the last couple of year and it's ugly and sad. It is one of the reasons I refuse to buy Apple products. I'd imagine most of the people working at Foxconn are poor rural young people with little education that move to the city so they can send money home. They have very little options and Foxconn takes advantage of that. The poor in developing countries are always taken advantage of, just different ways in different countries.
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jgakenhe wrote: They have very little options and Foxconn takes advantage of that. The poor in developing countries are always taken advantage of, just different ways in different countries. This is not in developing countries alone... Developed countries with problems take advantage too, using the motto: "You don't want to accept this conditions? Well... outside are there a bunch of people ready to take over your job"
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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It's not just Apple, and the situation with them is only as visible as it is in part because they've been pressuring Foxcon to improve the situation for their products, if you buy Samsung, or LG, or HP, or Dell, or etc; your components will still be assembled by either Foxcon or another company that takes equally large dumps on its low cost labor supply.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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The money will be put toward developing exascale computers, which are capable of a billion billion calculations per second. Will it support Freecell?
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We’ve got the scoop on why developers like to listen to music while they code… as well as some information on some unforgivable monsters. Anything to stop hearing the rattling going on in my head
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Well, that article singly failed to improve the knowledge in the world.
This space for rent
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Slow news day?
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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Weeks and weeks of slow news days. It's been wearing me down.
TTFN - Kent
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