They could start with reducing the rates for prisoners talking with family on the outside to normal levels to reduce the non-criminal incentive to smuggle cellphones (including probably many thriving discount phone call businesses run by prisoners).
Ideally, they'd let prisoners freely make monitored calls and set up their own mini-tower to monitor. After all, if the goal is ACTUALLY successful re-integration into society, fostering family ties would be an important step.
Funny thing about that. Back when the mob owned the casinos, if someone got carried away and was wiped out, the standard was to give them dinner and a flight home. Now that they're corporate owned, the standard is to have security throw them out, bodily if necessary.
You seem to be confused a bit. The Intel ME firmware is the locked down part. I was NOT talking about EFI, UEFI, BIOS, PCI boot ROMS, or even applying a vendor created and signed update.
That doesn't make much sense either. Anyone big enough to go into the chip business for themselves can already reverse engineer Intel's products without much effort.
What they forgot is who owns the damned computer. Many devices have all of the same capabilities, usable for testing, diagnostics, and debugging new firmware, but most of them aren't as stupid as Intel about it. They require you to physically plug in to a JTAG interface.
Back in "the old days", you could "de-brick" a WRT54 using a simple hand made adapter to connect a PCs parallel port to the JTAG connection on the board and running a simple utility that would re-flash the WRT through JTAG.
In a world where the consumer that forks over the cash actually owns the device, all devices should expose a JTAG port, and none should be so stupid as to connect it to a Management Engine running secret signed and encrypted firmware that the rightful owner can't change.
So, how many complete engine rebuilds have you done? Ever built a house?
How many chips have you fabbed? Did you cut and polish the wafer yourself? Did you cut your own car keys? Did you sew your clothes and cobble your shoes?
People do care about the downstream effects. Expensive tractor repairs are a contributor when you wonder why your grocery bill is so damned high. It is an example of the problem faced by many in-industry and enthusiasts of electronics and IT. The target demographic of/. should be able to understand that, so the articles appear here.
As for the politicians, farmers vote. This is very much a daily concern for them.
First, I was quite clear that the billing is granular to the second, I was also clear that that was the very first hit, because it's just not worth thoroughly researching since I'm not intending to set up a robocall operation.
Yes, I do think it's cheap, since they are getting paid for each call they make.
When you consider that companies used to be willing to pay a much higher rate for a human being in the U.S. to actually sit in a cubicle giving the spiel rather than a recording or a voice synth, yes I believe they get enough money to make that worthwhile.
Face it, you were wrong because your information was decades out of date. Time to move on.
Apparently you WOULD be surprised how cheap it can be for VOIP in bulk. Consider, it's cheap enough that Google can afford to give them away.
For example, here, you can get a 4000 channel trunk for 85,000 Rand/month ($5815.53). If someone actually answers, it costs 0.49R/minute ($0.035) billed in 1 second intervals (great if you expect frequent hang-ups) for calls to the United States. Not at all a bad deal if you can get paid in USD and pay your expenses in R.
And that's literally the first hit on Google. I'm sure you can get it cheaper if you try.
The difference is that with the patch, it fails to a less unsafe condition compared to before the patch, with a warning light now to let the pilot know he'll need to be more vigillent. Before the patch, a single failure would cause the plane to repeatedly try to crash.
Actually, it's more confusing, and that's the problem.
If the pilot manually re-trims, MCAS is overridden for 5 seconds, then it adjusts the trim again. It's not hard to see how the pilot might mis-identify the ongoing problem as a recurrent momentary problem.
Screw jail. Lock them in a room. They get a stocked fridge, a toilet, and a microwave. Sadly (for them), they also get a phone. There are two rules. First, they MUST answer the phone every time it rings or a painfully loud horn will sound. Second, if they don't put it on hook and ready for the next call, the horn sounds until they do.
They must stay there until they have answered as many calls as they have made. Or they starve because it's hard to eat when the damned phone keeps ringing.
This event to be televised so others can learn from their mistake.
Actually, assuming each call takes 1 minute, and they call within a 12 hour window each day (in fact, many calls are shorter and they call into 3 time zones AND outside of the 8-8 window all the time), they would need about 3800 simultaneous dialers to do a billion calls a year.
Given voip software, that's easily doable with less than a half rack of hardware.
That's also pretty much freely scaleable, so with a full rack of hardware, they could easily do 2 billion calls a year.
Your figures sort of make sense if you assume 1 really desperate employee sitting at a desk with a princess phone and a long ass list of phone numbers, but that's not how it's done.
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They could start with reducing the rates for prisoners talking with family on the outside to normal levels to reduce the non-criminal incentive to smuggle cellphones (including probably many thriving discount phone call businesses run by prisoners).
Ideally, they'd let prisoners freely make monitored calls and set up their own mini-tower to monitor. After all, if the goal is ACTUALLY successful re-integration into society, fostering family ties would be an important step.
The prison payphones charge $10/minute to whoever accepts the call. They don't want to lose those sweet sweet kickbacks.
If you're going to listen to or watch anything that may be of "questionable" providence, better put ear muffs on your Alexa first or she might tattle.
Funny thing about that. Back when the mob owned the casinos, if someone got carried away and was wiped out, the standard was to give them dinner and a flight home. Now that they're corporate owned, the standard is to have security throw them out, bodily if necessary.
Perhaps you should read that link yourself.
If you ran something on it, it was using a scripted exploit that Intel did not intend to work. So, what did you run and how did you get it on there?
You seem to be confused a bit. The Intel ME firmware is the locked down part. I was NOT talking about EFI, UEFI, BIOS, PCI boot ROMS, or even applying a vendor created and signed update.
That doesn't make much sense either. Anyone big enough to go into the chip business for themselves can already reverse engineer Intel's products without much effort.
What they forgot is who owns the damned computer. Many devices have all of the same capabilities, usable for testing, diagnostics, and debugging new firmware, but most of them aren't as stupid as Intel about it. They require you to physically plug in to a JTAG interface.
Back in "the old days", you could "de-brick" a WRT54 using a simple hand made adapter to connect a PCs parallel port to the JTAG connection on the board and running a simple utility that would re-flash the WRT through JTAG.
In a world where the consumer that forks over the cash actually owns the device, all devices should expose a JTAG port, and none should be so stupid as to connect it to a Management Engine running secret signed and encrypted firmware that the rightful owner can't change.
Sorry, no. As long as the ME continues to exist and is not exclusively under the control of the machine's owner, the risk of remote exploit exists.
I can't imagine any border patrol agent saying a wall makes his job MORE difficult.
I can. A wall keeps you from seeing if there are people on the other side waiting for you to leave.
Honestly, walls have been a solved problem since medieval times.
More than should be.
When you do your own appendectomy, we want pictures.
BTW, what are you going to kill and butcher for your dinner tonight?
So, how many complete engine rebuilds have you done? Ever built a house?
How many chips have you fabbed? Did you cut and polish the wafer yourself? Did you cut your own car keys? Did you sew your clothes and cobble your shoes?
I guess you haven't seen the cost of farm equipment lately.
So you figure costs to a producer DON'T figure into the cost of a product? I don't know where you went to school, but you should demand a refund.
People do care about the downstream effects. Expensive tractor repairs are a contributor when you wonder why your grocery bill is so damned high. It is an example of the problem faced by many in-industry and enthusiasts of electronics and IT. The target demographic of /. should be able to understand that, so the articles appear here.
As for the politicians, farmers vote. This is very much a daily concern for them.
You mean other than charging 90% of the cost to upgrade just to deal with a crack in the screen that should be fixable for $50 or so.
The amount they get paid by their multiple customers also scales with the number of connections they make. This should be damned obvious.
First, I was quite clear that the billing is granular to the second, I was also clear that that was the very first hit, because it's just not worth thoroughly researching since I'm not intending to set up a robocall operation.
Yes, I do think it's cheap, since they are getting paid for each call they make.
When you consider that companies used to be willing to pay a much higher rate for a human being in the U.S. to actually sit in a cubicle giving the spiel rather than a recording or a voice synth, yes I believe they get enough money to make that worthwhile.
Face it, you were wrong because your information was decades out of date. Time to move on.
Apparently you WOULD be surprised how cheap it can be for VOIP in bulk. Consider, it's cheap enough that Google can afford to give them away.
For example, here, you can get a 4000 channel trunk for 85,000 Rand/month ($5815.53). If someone actually answers, it costs 0.49R/minute ($0.035) billed in 1 second intervals (great if you expect frequent hang-ups) for calls to the United States. Not at all a bad deal if you can get paid in USD and pay your expenses in R.
And that's literally the first hit on Google. I'm sure you can get it cheaper if you try.
The difference is that with the patch, it fails to a less unsafe condition compared to before the patch, with a warning light now to let the pilot know he'll need to be more vigillent. Before the patch, a single failure would cause the plane to repeatedly try to crash.
Actually, it's more confusing, and that's the problem.
If the pilot manually re-trims, MCAS is overridden for 5 seconds, then it adjusts the trim again. It's not hard to see how the pilot might mis-identify the ongoing problem as a recurrent momentary problem.
Screw jail. Lock them in a room. They get a stocked fridge, a toilet, and a microwave. Sadly (for them), they also get a phone. There are two rules. First, they MUST answer the phone every time it rings or a painfully loud horn will sound. Second, if they don't put it on hook and ready for the next call, the horn sounds until they do.
They must stay there until they have answered as many calls as they have made. Or they starve because it's hard to eat when the damned phone keeps ringing.
This event to be televised so others can learn from their mistake.
He seems to be imagining some sort of system with a mechanical hand to give the crank 3 or 4 quick turns and then tell "Mabel" who it wants to call.
Actually, assuming each call takes 1 minute, and they call within a 12 hour window each day (in fact, many calls are shorter and they call into 3 time zones AND outside of the 8-8 window all the time), they would need about 3800 simultaneous dialers to do a billion calls a year.
Given voip software, that's easily doable with less than a half rack of hardware.
That's also pretty much freely scaleable, so with a full rack of hardware, they could easily do 2 billion calls a year.
Your figures sort of make sense if you assume 1 really desperate employee sitting at a desk with a princess phone and a long ass list of phone numbers, but that's not how it's done.