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With a modularized, cellular wing design that looks like a flying set of cupboards, the unmanned aircraft is a hybrid of fixed-wing and rotary wing technologies designed to create a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft that boasts greater range and speed capabilities.

The goal is to build a demonstrator aircraft that can reach a top sustained speed of 300 to 400 knots (345 to 460 mph, 555 to 740 km/h), hover with an efficiency of at least 75 percent instead of the current 60 percent, reduce the cruise lift-to-drag ratio from five or six to 10, and carry a payload equal to 40 percent of the X-Plane's 10,000 to 12,000 lb (4,536 to 5,443 kg) gross weight.

The VTOL X-Plane is the result of Aurora Flight Sciences Corporation's Phase 2 design contract for the program and is aimed at addressing both vertical and horizontal flight requiements. DARPA says that by calling on over half a century of advanced air vehicle and aeromechanics design and testing, adaptive and reconfigurable control systems, and highly integrated designs, the VTOL X-Plane does away with conventional mechanical drive systems in favor of a modular approach.

For the iPhone 5c in question, you don’t need to hack the encryption key; you need to “make” the encryption key. It is generated from a combination of the user-created PIN or password and a unique key that Apple embeds in each iPhone 5c when it is manufactured. The FBI is asking Apple to create a new operating system with the ability to disable certain security protocols – specifically to defeat the limit on failed passcode attempts and to remove the delay caused by failed attempts. With this new weaker security protocol and forensic software written to try every possible PIN or password combination, the FBI hopes to regenerate the unique key required to open the phone.

It is important to note that this whole idea is only possible on iPhones older than the 5c running iOS 8 or earlier. iPhones with fingerprint scanners such as the 5s, 6 and 6s use a second processor called “secure enclave.” Even Apple can’t hack an iPhone that includes a secure enclave processor – not without creating a “backdoor.”

This is what Apple is worried about. You should be too. If the government served Apple with a lawful writ or subpoena to deliver the key to an iPhone 6s, it would not be able to comply. This case asks the question, should the government be allowed to compel any company that creates a digital security product to create a “backdoor” and make it available for any reason (lawful or other)?

The important thing about an iOS 9 “backdoor” in Apple’s case is that it could not be guessed or randomly generated; it would have to be an actual file – a metaphorical “skeleton key.” There’s a problem with skeleton keys, even digital ones: they can be copied. Importantly, they can be copied or stolen without the owner’s knowledge. The idea of creating a “skeleton key” defeats the purpose of encrypting it in the first place. If a key exists, it will be copied by both good and bad actors – that’s just a fact of digital life.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/apple-v-fbi-how-sound-smart-encryption-shelly-palmer

The unemployment numbers are out for February of 2016.  There were 242,000 jobs added and the National Unemployment Rate decreased to 4.9%.  In 1953, post 2 recessions, the National Unemployment Rate fell to an all time low of 2.5% whereas, OR and WA fell to 4.7% and 4.4% respectively.

As of December 2015 the unemployment rate for WA is 5.8% and OR is 5.5%.  With this being said, employers are finding it more and more difficult to obtain and retain talented employees due to rising salary's and enticing offers from other organizations.

Police are using a new tactic on governing neighborhoods.

Stazi like information networks are beginning to form watching people's movements and tracking crime.

Check out this article and let me know what you think about these new "gated communities" vs. freedom of speech

http://www.geekwire.com/2016/the-rise-of-nextdoor-in-seattle-neighborhood-social-network-sparks-community-and-controversy-in-modern-day-boomtown/

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The latest government takeover of the Zaman media outlet in Istanbul is "not a surprise at all,' a journalist who had been working in the country told RT, adding that "the press has never been free in Turkey.'
 

11 people on a motorcycle. Impressive.

Riot police were called to White Hart Lane Saturday as rival fans from two of London’s major soccer clubs clashed outside the stadium.
 

Eleven-year-old Alina Zykova received a Chihuahua puppy from Russian President Vladimir Putin in Sevastopol, Friday, after her family fled Donetsk because of the ongoing conflict.
 

Four bodies found after ferry capsizes off Bali coast – video shows passengers jumping off the deck into the sea from the rapidly sinking vessel.
 

Technology has moved the music industry into an age where playing with computers is perhaps more important than playing instruments, but not for one musician, who's been striving to combine classical and contemporary music-making methods.

The US State Department declined to answer questions about what information Washington may have shared with the Dutch authorities in the MH-17 probe. Dutch parliamentarians have criticized the absence of evidence the US said it had about the incident.

The U.S. Navy dispatches a carrier strike group containing the Nimitz-class nuclear-powered supercarrier USS John C. Stennis to the South China Sea.