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Rate These 53 Sub-$200 Hacker SBCs, Win 1 of 20
DeviceGuru writes: LinuxGizmos and Linux.com have just launched their annual 2-minute survey asking folks to rate their favorite hacker SBCs from a list of 53 single board computers that are priced below $200, supported by open documentation and Linux or Android OSes, and will ship before July. As usual, the survey's data will be made available publicly, but one big change this year is that participants can register for a random drawing that will give away 20 hacker SBCs, split equally among the BeagleBone Black, Imagination Creator CI20, Intel Edison Kit for Arduino, and Qualcomm DragonBoard 410c. (Emails submitted will only be used for selecting and notifying SBC drawing winners, say the sites.)
When did this kind of shit become the norm for Slashdot?
In fact, only personal data here is worth something. How can we give a meaningful vote if no single person used more than a few of these machines, and remembers some media hype on a bunch more, but far less than all?
So yeah, this whole survey is a scam.
The creatures outside looked from Alt-Right to Antifa; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
we get to own your data, but you *might* _have_a_chance_to_ win something, maybe.
Second prize is a guaranteed vector for identity theft!
Yes they "own" your email address, I suppose you are the sort of person that fears internet shopping too. Because the vendor then "owns" your physical address!
I would mock your inability to come up with the idea of creating a one-time-use email address but based on your post I probably couldn't make it pedestrian enough for you to understand.
I would mock your inability to come up with the idea of creating a one-time-use email address but based on your post I probably couldn't make it pedestrian enough for you to understand.
It took me less than 30 seconds to uncover that the survey is asking for the following data:
I would mock your inability to click a link and *read* it, your inability to understand that you can only claim a prize by providing the correct information to these question but it is clear that you are ignorant.
As for being 'one of those people' the answer is yes. I am 'one of those people who avoid creating vectors for identity theft'. Perhaps, one day, you'll be one of those people who whine and moan about the problems being a victim of ID theft has brought you however since you are ignorant the thinking would probably hurt you.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
I'd rather care if it can run step steppers 100khz+ rates reliably rather than if it has quad core or even 1ghz.
da faq though about the survey...
like.. the fuck do they expect to get answers on if boards that are not available are good or not? I was hoping it would be a good list of boards that can be bought, like, right now.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
Nice to know I'm not the only one whose first thought is "Who in the hell is gonna have enough experience with 53 fricking SBCs to actually give a rating on anything other than name recognition?".
OTOH if you wanted to gather a shitload of personal info this would be a cheap as hell way to do it, you wouldn't even have to actually give anything away just say you did and post a couple pics of some random guys holding one of the "winning" SBCs!
Considering how many FB and mobile data mining/ ID theft scams I have to warn folks about monthly? Any time some place I've never heard of has a "contest" like this it gives me serious pause, nice to see I'm not the only one.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
What I would really like to see is Arm 64bi@1Ghz+t, RTC, 4GB+, 2 SATA (power&Data, 2 ethernet (PoE in [& out with extern P/S] would be nice) with Arch or Fedora 22 linux on bootable SD and a case to mount 2 2.5 drives and the board.
There is no right to feel safe thru security vaudeville at the expense of everyone's freedom, privacy and tax money.
Ehh...
Whether something is worth my money or not, depends on what value the thing has to me, in cases where I am spending the money. For whatever reason. Note that "specs" isn't even mentioned in that sentence.
Apparently for you, anything under quad core / 1 Ghz / 1 GB = no value. For others though, that may be different (again: for whatever reason).
Funny, considering all of that except the email address is public record, and easy to access electronically (although not necessarily for free, but cheap in bulk). If that is all that stood in the way of identity theft, then making a new email address pulling the rest from public record would be so trivial it doesn't matter whether or not you put that information into a website.
Knowing a particular email address is associated with a particular interest (e.g. SBCs) on the other hand is not part of public record and something worth a small amount to advertisers for actually knowing, but isn't a slippery slope to identity theft.
...to rate their favorite hacker SBCs from a list of 53 single board computers...
Well, it's a good thing that DeviceGuru wrote the summary to include the acronym again...and then the definition just a few words away from it.
You mean, my cousin?
Unless they're particularly interested in the personal info of a specific subset of the population.
I would think if you wanted a "shitload" of personal data, you would pick something less esoteric than single board computers.
Random personal data isn't worth much. You can get that from the phone book. But names and emails associated with a specific esoteric interest are worth far more. I am interested in SBCs, embedded Linux systems, FPGA boards, ASIC services, electronic CAD, oscilloscopes, etc. I have spent $10k or more of my own money on this stuff, and influenced several million $ on behalf of my employers and clients. My email, phone number, and physical address would be worth something to a company with a new and interesting product in this area.
"Nice to know I'm not the only one whose first thought is "Who in the hell is gonna have enough experience with 53 fricking SBCs to actually give a rating on anything other than name recognition?"."
Any engineer able to read datasheets could give a theoretical review and rating.
Good thing I'm competent enough for that. Are you?
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Knowing a particular email address is associated with a particular interest (e.g. SBCs) on the other hand is not part of public record and something worth a small amount to advertisers for actually knowing, but isn't a slippery slope to identity theft.
My point is every puzzle has a entry point.
Your point Mr A.C was that it was an email address when, in fact, it was a whole lot more. So just stop back-peddling because you are just wasting everybody's time, including your own.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.
Any engineer worth having though also would understand that said "theoretical review" is only a very rough guide and would definately want to perform a more practical evaluation to determine things like how shitty the software support was and whether the needed functionality actually worked before committing to using the board in a design.
note: i'm known as plugwash most places but i screwd up registering that here somehow in the past and now can't register
That's what circuitry simulators are for.
Next!
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
Last year I was looking into getting either a Raspberry Pi or Beaglebone Black. BBB had a newer ARM rev for the CPU, so it can run more kinds of OS. But the RPi has the removable flash as its drive, so you can easily load whatever OS image you want, change OSs by switching flash chips, and if you hose it too badly you can take it out and reload, without worrying about whether you've bricked the board. Also, the specs at the time said the RPi had a better GPU, and could do 1080p at 60 Hz vs. only 30Hz for BBB, which means I can plug it into TVs and monitors without as much flicker. I chose the RPi.
BBB nominally costs a bit more, but by the time you buy cases and power supplies and flash and such, it pretty much balances out.
Bill Stewart
New Fast-Compression-only CPR http://preview.tinyurl.com/dy575ks
BS.
You will not get the HDL for the SoCs on the vast majority of SBCs and even if you could running HDL in a simulator is EXCRUCIATINGLY slow. There is a reason chip designers spend massive ammounts of money on large FPGA rigs, being able to run a design in progress at 1/10th realtime or so is a massive improvement over running it in a simulator.
So anything you can drop into your "circuit simulator" to represent the SBC will be at best a crude approximation. If you are really lucky you might get a crude IO approximation hooked up to an emulation core that roughly approximates the processor. More likely you won't even get that.
note: i'm known as plugwash most places but i screwd up registering that here somehow in the past and now can't register
The reasonable approximation is good enough. Try again when it isn't and things ultimately fail - not happening any time soon. Man can make it, man can break or remake it. End of story. If you can't accept that, re-check your reality.
Still waiting on Serviscope_minor to wake up to fucking reality and realize that Jessica Price isn't going to fuck him.
There was no backpeddling. Nothing you've said or pointed out changes that using a throwaway email address makes the information they get useless for identity theft.
A throwaway email address has no impact on the value of the physical, real world address data, it is irrelevant because the real world data does not change often.
The physical address remains the same and it remains a vector for ID theft to anyone creative enough to exploit it. Notice I said "vector" as in one piece of information, not everything. You say you should mock me but your lack of imagination to figure out how it is done is mockable.
Caution isn't paranoia and my point is that you are giving away your address details because you might win a prize. That doesn't change the fact that that information remains a vector for id theft when your original point was about email addresses.
If you don't think it's that bad releasing that information then include your real name, address and the other details in your response with a disposable email address and I'll show you what I can do with that information. I'll guarantee you might win a prize from supplying me with your real name and address.
My ism, it's full of beliefs.