That doesn't mean they'll give out the IMEI to anyone that calls. The above implies that it's the phone owner asking to have a specific IMEI blocked - not sure how useful it is as the thief could just pop in a SIM belonging to another network - while in this case the search team would at first have to be able to get the IMEI number somehow.
Which, as I understand things, is a deal breaker with most national telcos.
My telco of course issues my bill. No IMEI written on it. It'll also differ by which nationality those national telcos have - and I don't know about yours.
Not sure if they have my IMEI registered in the first place.
Of course not... then they could pwn you and your freedom loving cellphone.
Dunno what you're trying to say here. My phone is not sold by my service provider, so other than reading my IMEI after I put the sim in and connect, they don't know this.
When you hover your mouse over it, an underline appears, revealing it's a link. I was also at first wondering what those domain names are doing next to the headline. The UI designer really seems to go out of their way to hide the fact this is a link, and they seem to even try to hide the existence of the link by making it green on green.
GPS is passive. It only receives, doesn't send information.
The only way to get a GPS location from a phone is if the phone has the GPS function switched on, and then starts to send a GPS reading out through another channel - e.g. a WiFi or mobile data connection. In general this requires you to have an app running sending out your GPS coordinates to some server that records this info. Most phones don't have this function due to privacy concerns, and if they do, such records are (or at least, should) not be available to the general public to query.
Thanks. I did manage to find and read TFA, reading it quickly, hoping to find more info on how they tracked down the phone exactly. Missed this little bit.
Other than digging up a command to get the imei from my own phone directly, I wouldn't know how to get it.
Packing? Long gone.
Phone bill? Not written on it (and other people may have a hard time finding my phone bills - they'd have to start digging through my stuff).
Mobile phone company? Well, I hope they don't provide any information about me and my contract over the phone to just anyone that asks. Not sure if they have my IMEI registered in the first place.
Tens of thousands killed in the US-supported civil wars (supported by massive weapons supplies [blablabla]
You want stories about a major airline's IT infrastructure shitting itself? Slashdot is the right place.
You want stories about the latest twitter feud between Katy Perry and the Kardashians? Go on TMZ or people.com
You want to discuss your alleged "US-supported civil wars", Bush's crime against humanity or the plot to discredit Hillary Clinton? Go see Mother Jones or some other left wing website.
To each his own, and if you don't respect that there's other websites for you out there, lookup the website of the Westboro Baptist Church or the various youtube channels supporting ISIS, those people also think they know what matters and what doesn't.
The story is not much about the IT infrastructure, as it is about the number of inconvenienced people and flight delays. Barely a word on the technical side of what went wrong and how it's being solved (which would for most of this tech and IT minded crowd be quite interesting), and what's said about that part is mostly marketing speak. How does this make the story slashdot-worthy? Just because it involved computers?
Wonder why every little issue with aviation is newsworthy.
A couple thousand people delayed/inconvenienced due to computer glitch - headline news! Big problems! Get out the disaster mitigation plans!
Millions of people lost personal information to identity thieves: minor issue.
Tens of thousands killed in the US-supported civil wars (supported by massive weapons supplies - which recently I read are being increased significantly in the wake of Russia's involvement) in the Middle East: no problem, as that's not Americans/Europeans dying, and they're fighting "some evil regime".
Even hurricanes that swamp and knock out parts of Manhattan (without anyone wondering how come the US is so ill prepared against a bigger-than-average rainfall) for weeks, and it's barely as much reported on as a little aviation-related issue.
I was hoping this would also put an end to airliners having to share heaps of personal information with the US government about anyone flying to the US, transiting at any US airport (without entering the country) or even just flying through US airspace.
E-mail is great for people you know already - to send them a message now and then. Facebook is better for general updates; and their groups really can't be replaced by e-mail.
I have no idea what you're trying to say as Facebook is not a file sharing service, it's not an RSS feed service, and certainly not a Google search replacement. What I use Facebook mainly for is to reach out to and keep in touch with other people. For those purposes I see no viable alternative, as those people are on Facebook, and not on - well - basically any fancy social network you can write the software for. Even Google terribly failed with their attempt to create a serious competitor.
I do hope at least that you realise that the value and popularity of Facebook has nothing to do with the crappy interface and lacking features. It has everything to do with the people that use it.
Soda - a luxury product as it's not a necessity and there's the much cheaper alternative of tap water - down 25% while the population overall has increased a lot in size, and has become a lot richer within that same period.
Maybe not plummet, but a serious decline, and a decline that should worry any manufacturer.
With the amount of emoji in existence plus what's coming up I have indeed recently been wondering when the first novel will be published written exclusively using emoji characters!
First thought, I can fly up at maximum rate to a toll booth line, or line of traffic at a red traffic light, and the car will stop me without collision in dry conditions? That'll be TERRIFYING to the car in line. That'll mean MORE accidents for those accustomed to such systems in the wet or snow.
These systems do indeed not prevent moronic behaviour. Yet they do help to keep such morons (and, more importantly, the other people on the road) safe.
(It's like antilock brakes, they increase the stopping distance for those who properly apply brakes, but reduce it for those that don't, but nowadays everyone has to adapt to a different technique that is a greater stopping distance.)
Citation needed.
Second thought, I can push a button to keep the guy next to me from going anywhere because his brakes are now activated? I can get the guy on the highway who is a jerk to suddenly be stopped by using an app on my phone? The hacking potential is awesome!
Only if the system is somehow connected to an open network. Which is not necessarily the case.
Third thought, now if you drive over the speed limit, your car will brake wherever people decide you shouldn't be going faster than some amount, regardless of reasons for doing so, or your brakes will be worn down and overheated. Great.
Again only possible if your car is network connected, and the breaks have such a feedback possibility to reduce your speed. The easier way to accomplish this is course to fiddle with the throttle, considering you have gained access to the car already that should be no problem.
Your example shows poor driving overall: in this case keeping far too little distance between your car and the car in front of you.
There's not much technology can do against poor human driving, short of fully automating the car and removing the human factor from the equation all together.
Once in Korea I was picked out from the passport line: there was a ticking alarm clock in my luggage, and I had to come with them to open my luggage and show what's in. They didn't open it. The TSA destroying bags to inspect them is just sickening and reeks of arrogance and laziness. These "TSA-locks" are just one of the many symptoms of ineffective air traffic security theatre imposed on the world by the arrogant US government.
I never bother to put a lock on my luggage when flying. Those common tiny locks are ineffective anyway. If someone wants to open your bag, they can do anyway - just like the TSA - and you have no way to prove it was a thief, not the TSA, or that even anything was stolen. There's no insurance for checked luggage for that very reason, and it's always advised to not put any valuables in checked luggage. I just make sure my bag is zipped up properly, if a thief (either one working for airport or one that doesn't) wants to open the bag, they will do so no matter what lock you put on it. No lock is maybe even better than a backdoored lock.
This has nothing to do with Android or iOS. It's the web app, not the mobile phone app. And of course there's no issue for BB. It's just like *BSD. No-one uses it, so no-one targets it. Security by obscurity.
A too easy way to escape the sandbox of the browser. So this is a browser issue as well, allowing a web app to call external programs and run them with arbitrary data as input outside the sandbox the regular app is (supposed to be) running in.
I always thought that one of the interesting bits of a web app is that when the server updates it, all clients are automatically updated as well, latest when the page is reloaded or the browser is restarted. It seems I'm wrong there. There also doesn't seem to be an (easy) way to check the current version of the app - just checked in Chromium.
So LiDAR sends out a laser beam, then looks at reflections. It makes sense this can be flooded - just pick up the signal and send it back amplified, and it seems there's something really close. I assume at least they're looking for brightness rather than timing (distance travelled is very short and light is very fast) to determine the distance of an object.
This makes me wonder. Would it be possible for cars to pick up signals from other cars, and react to them?
Anything to prevent this from happening - and so also prevent such a disturbance attack from working?
Does it just have to do with rising prices? After all, there's always inflation, so rising prices as such are normal. Or does it more have to do with being able to do without the extra services?
GP suggests that next he's going to cut TV service. Obviously, TV service has little value to him, or he'd be willing to pay for that. Same for whatever other services Comcast offers. When Internet is the one remaining service, will GP cut that as well? Or suck it up and continue paying the higher fee, because it's the one service he actually cares about?
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That doesn't mean they'll give out the IMEI to anyone that calls. The above implies that it's the phone owner asking to have a specific IMEI blocked - not sure how useful it is as the thief could just pop in a SIM belonging to another network - while in this case the search team would at first have to be able to get the IMEI number somehow.
they'd have to start digging through my stuff
Which, as I understand things, is a deal breaker with most national telcos.
My telco of course issues my bill. No IMEI written on it. It'll also differ by which nationality those national telcos have - and I don't know about yours.
Not sure if they have my IMEI registered in the first place.
Of course not... then they could pwn you and your freedom loving cellphone.
Dunno what you're trying to say here. My phone is not sold by my service provider, so other than reading my IMEI after I put the sim in and connect, they don't know this.
When you hover your mouse over it, an underline appears, revealing it's a link. I was also at first wondering what those domain names are doing next to the headline. The UI designer really seems to go out of their way to hide the fact this is a link, and they seem to even try to hide the existence of the link by making it green on green.
GPS is passive. It only receives, doesn't send information.
The only way to get a GPS location from a phone is if the phone has the GPS function switched on, and then starts to send a GPS reading out through another channel - e.g. a WiFi or mobile data connection. In general this requires you to have an app running sending out your GPS coordinates to some server that records this info. Most phones don't have this function due to privacy concerns, and if they do, such records are (or at least, should) not be available to the general public to query.
Thanks. I did manage to find and read TFA, reading it quickly, hoping to find more info on how they tracked down the phone exactly. Missed this little bit.
Other than digging up a command to get the imei from my own phone directly, I wouldn't know how to get it.
Packing? Long gone.
Phone bill? Not written on it (and other people may have a hard time finding my phone bills - they'd have to start digging through my stuff).
Mobile phone company? Well, I hope they don't provide any information about me and my contract over the phone to just anyone that asks. Not sure if they have my IMEI registered in the first place.
Tens of thousands killed in the US-supported civil wars (supported by massive weapons supplies [blablabla]
You want stories about a major airline's IT infrastructure shitting itself? Slashdot is the right place.
You want stories about the latest twitter feud between Katy Perry and the Kardashians? Go on TMZ or people.com
You want to discuss your alleged "US-supported civil wars", Bush's crime against humanity or the plot to discredit Hillary Clinton? Go see Mother Jones or some other left wing website.
To each his own, and if you don't respect that there's other websites for you out there, lookup the website of the Westboro Baptist Church or the various youtube channels supporting ISIS, those people also think they know what matters and what doesn't.
The story is not much about the IT infrastructure, as it is about the number of inconvenienced people and flight delays. Barely a word on the technical side of what went wrong and how it's being solved (which would for most of this tech and IT minded crowd be quite interesting), and what's said about that part is mostly marketing speak. How does this make the story slashdot-worthy? Just because it involved computers?
Wonder why every little issue with aviation is newsworthy.
A couple thousand people delayed/inconvenienced due to computer glitch - headline news! Big problems! Get out the disaster mitigation plans!
Millions of people lost personal information to identity thieves: minor issue.
Tens of thousands killed in the US-supported civil wars (supported by massive weapons supplies - which recently I read are being increased significantly in the wake of Russia's involvement) in the Middle East: no problem, as that's not Americans/Europeans dying, and they're fighting "some evil regime".
Even hurricanes that swamp and knock out parts of Manhattan (without anyone wondering how come the US is so ill prepared against a bigger-than-average rainfall) for weeks, and it's barely as much reported on as a little aviation-related issue.
No, reaching out to I said. Also known as marketing. Facebook works great for that.
Particularly the reaching-out-to-tens-of-thousands-at-the-same-time part doesn't work that well with with e-mail.
I was hoping this would also put an end to airliners having to share heaps of personal information with the US government about anyone flying to the US, transiting at any US airport (without entering the country) or even just flying through US airspace.
E-mail is great for people you know already - to send them a message now and then. Facebook is better for general updates; and their groups really can't be replaced by e-mail.
I have no idea what you're trying to say as Facebook is not a file sharing service, it's not an RSS feed service, and certainly not a Google search replacement. What I use Facebook mainly for is to reach out to and keep in touch with other people. For those purposes I see no viable alternative, as those people are on Facebook, and not on - well - basically any fancy social network you can write the software for. Even Google terribly failed with their attempt to create a serious competitor.
I do hope at least that you realise that the value and popularity of Facebook has nothing to do with the crappy interface and lacking features. It has everything to do with the people that use it.
move on - good idea - I'm ready to move.
The question remains: where to? What is a serious alternative to Facebook? Anything else that (most of) my friends may be using as well?
Soda - a luxury product as it's not a necessity and there's the much cheaper alternative of tap water - down 25% while the population overall has increased a lot in size, and has become a lot richer within that same period.
Maybe not plummet, but a serious decline, and a decline that should worry any manufacturer.
With the amount of emoji in existence plus what's coming up I have indeed recently been wondering when the first novel will be published written exclusively using emoji characters!
First thought, I can fly up at maximum rate to a toll booth line, or line of traffic at a red traffic light, and the car will stop me without collision in dry conditions? That'll be TERRIFYING to the car in line. That'll mean MORE accidents for those accustomed to such systems in the wet or snow.
These systems do indeed not prevent moronic behaviour. Yet they do help to keep such morons (and, more importantly, the other people on the road) safe.
(It's like antilock brakes, they increase the stopping distance for those who properly apply brakes, but reduce it for those that don't, but nowadays everyone has to adapt to a different technique that is a greater stopping distance.)
Citation needed.
Second thought, I can push a button to keep the guy next to me from going anywhere because his brakes are now activated? I can get the guy on the highway who is a jerk to suddenly be stopped by using an app on my phone? The hacking potential is awesome!
Only if the system is somehow connected to an open network. Which is not necessarily the case.
Third thought, now if you drive over the speed limit, your car will brake wherever people decide you shouldn't be going faster than some amount, regardless of reasons for doing so, or your brakes will be worn down and overheated. Great.
Again only possible if your car is network connected, and the breaks have such a feedback possibility to reduce your speed. The easier way to accomplish this is course to fiddle with the throttle, considering you have gained access to the car already that should be no problem.
Your example shows poor driving overall: in this case keeping far too little distance between your car and the car in front of you.
There's not much technology can do against poor human driving, short of fully automating the car and removing the human factor from the equation all together.
Once in Korea I was picked out from the passport line: there was a ticking alarm clock in my luggage, and I had to come with them to open my luggage and show what's in. They didn't open it. The TSA destroying bags to inspect them is just sickening and reeks of arrogance and laziness. These "TSA-locks" are just one of the many symptoms of ineffective air traffic security theatre imposed on the world by the arrogant US government.
I never bother to put a lock on my luggage when flying. Those common tiny locks are ineffective anyway. If someone wants to open your bag, they can do anyway - just like the TSA - and you have no way to prove it was a thief, not the TSA, or that even anything was stolen. There's no insurance for checked luggage for that very reason, and it's always advised to not put any valuables in checked luggage. I just make sure my bag is zipped up properly, if a thief (either one working for airport or one that doesn't) wants to open the bag, they will do so no matter what lock you put on it. No lock is maybe even better than a backdoored lock.
This has nothing to do with Android or iOS. It's the web app, not the mobile phone app. And of course there's no issue for BB. It's just like *BSD. No-one uses it, so no-one targets it. Security by obscurity.
A too easy way to escape the sandbox of the browser. So this is a browser issue as well, allowing a web app to call external programs and run them with arbitrary data as input outside the sandbox the regular app is (supposed to be) running in.
What is more surprising:
many users aren't yet using the updated version.
I always thought that one of the interesting bits of a web app is that when the server updates it, all clients are automatically updated as well, latest when the page is reloaded or the browser is restarted. It seems I'm wrong there. There also doesn't seem to be an (easy) way to check the current version of the app - just checked in Chromium.
OK, OK so I made some technical errors in the first part of my post. That's understood, thanks for the replies.
Now I'd still love to hear whether car-car interference is possible, or why not, or how it could be prevented.
So LiDAR sends out a laser beam, then looks at reflections. It makes sense this can be flooded - just pick up the signal and send it back amplified, and it seems there's something really close. I assume at least they're looking for brightness rather than timing (distance travelled is very short and light is very fast) to determine the distance of an object.
This makes me wonder. Would it be possible for cars to pick up signals from other cars, and react to them?
Anything to prevent this from happening - and so also prevent such a disturbance attack from working?
Does it just have to do with rising prices? After all, there's always inflation, so rising prices as such are normal. Or does it more have to do with being able to do without the extra services?
GP suggests that next he's going to cut TV service. Obviously, TV service has little value to him, or he'd be willing to pay for that. Same for whatever other services Comcast offers. When Internet is the one remaining service, will GP cut that as well? Or suck it up and continue paying the higher fee, because it's the one service he actually cares about?