For some people, it's likely that a single payment per month that includes the phone and the service is a nice and convenient way to make the purchase, especially if they are likely to upgrade the phone every couple of years anyway. For others, the a-la-carte purchase of phone and service is more appealing.
approach to fighting distracted driving. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work. (One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
(x) It blocks calling the cops on other drivers who pose a real threat (x) Telling a passenger from a driver isn't possible ( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money (x) It is defenseless against brute force attacks ( ) It will stop distractions for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it ( ) Users of phones will not put up with it ( ) Google & Apple will not put up with it ( ) The police will not put up with it (x) Requires too much cooperation from drivers ( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once ( ) Many users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers ( ) Drivers don't care about crashing ( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it ( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority (x) Affecting non-drivers (x) Asshats ( ) Jurisdictional problems (x) Other forms of distraction that are even more dangerous ( ) Unpopularity of weird new laws ( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money (x) Willingness of users to install inconvencing apps (x) Bluetooth tethering to the car's audio for handsfree use ( ) Technically illiterate politicians (x) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who text while driving (x) Dishonesty on the part of drivers themselves ( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering (x) Using a power button works better
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever been shown practical ( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable ( ) Phone use should not be the subject of legislation ( ) Blacklists suck ( ) Whitelists suck ( ) We should be able to drive however we want ( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud ( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks ( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually ( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers? ( ) Incompatibility with open source or open source licenses (x) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem ( ) I don't want the government tracking my phone ( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work. ( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it. ( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your house down!
Actually, it is more like solving a huge jigsaw puzzle, but without an actual picture of how it is supposed to look when it is completed, and with a picture that changes while trying to put it together.
My question is: where the HELL is the Labor Department and the Commerce Department on all this? The small company I work at went through a month of poking, prodding, audits, etc. by the Dept. of Labor looking for overtime violations or miscategorizing employees as salary vs. hourly, and all they found was $2000 over 3 years, and even that was questionable.
Actually, modern vehicles are actually pretty much immune from an EMP attack. Radio front-ends might get fried, but that's really about it. Vehicles are designed to withstand a quite nasty EMF environment from the ignition coil.
So, we're seeing the fingers of the horn-hairs pointing at each other for a failure that their brown-nosed underlings caused on both sides. Don't blame the geeks, blame the suits.
Keep in mind that all his script actually accessed was the login page itself, that the user agent string can be set to anything on any browser, and the request itself was no different from trying to access "http://the.site.com/p?000001" then "/p?000002"... etc. It didn't actually get to the *protected* data itself, and there isn't really any privacy interest or expectation in an email address itself, either.
Case sensitivity is the one big turn-off to using C-syntax to me. If I am going to deal with it, then I want my damn pointers back, so I'd just as soon work in C++ and have some actual power to go with the inconvenience. Otherwise, for just business-logic and general DB stuff, VB.NET is quite nice to work in.
This looks like a great sign that Microsoft may finally be recovering from the terrible case of recto-cranial inversion that Ballmer had inflicted on the company for so long. At least we can have some hope of it.
Wouldn't it make more sense to locate these labs in an incredibly isolated area like an island in the middle of the ocean or the Moon? Someplace that CAN be quarantined 100% in the event of a mishap?
This is an interesting variation of the camera lens bayonet mount that includes a "breakaway mode" if it is dropped that allows the lens to snap out without damaging the device or the mount. With a normal DSLR lens mount, that doesn't happen and the lens will remain firmly attached until one of the mounts breaks, whereas this one will release instead of breaking.
Various social engineers have been trying for decades to change human nature. It hasn't worked in the past and it won't work in the future any better than attempting to change cats into vegans would. Even if they manage to suppress the expression of the thoughts in one place, it just pops up elsewhere, or worse, festers into a sudden explosion of rage.
Consider the source - FTS: "Scott Corley, the Executive Director of immigration-reform group Compete America"
This isn't coming from a CEO, it's coming from a political activist. And of course, he is dead wrong about "The further you get away from your education the less knowledge you have of the new technologies...". Someone just out of school hasn't actually worked with the new technologies as they have trickled into existence as someone who has been in the field for years has.
There is really no way for any code running on top of another layer to verify that lower layer's integrity - it has to rely on what is reported and a malicious BIOS or UEFI layer can simply just lie to it. Hell, it's possible for a low-level hypervisor to run another, clean, BIOS/UEFI and simply virtualize every piece of hardware in the box. Likewise, it can block visibility of any traffic going in and out that it desires. This type of security has to happen at the network level instead - something outside of the device has to detect the suspicious traffic that such an attack must generate in order to be useful. That in turn requires that the networking gear has to be trustworthy and not itself owned by the attacker or have any backdoors installed at the factory (or chip maker, or etc etc).
China is the only one in that group that has any actual chance. The other two would not last a month in a ground war against the US military when it is in full-blown combat mode. One nuclear attack, even an EMP strike, would not defeat the USA, though it would be badly wounded for a period of time, and the attacker would most certainly be cluster-nuked into oblivion in retaliation.
Fulminate of Mercury hasn't been used as a priming compound in ages. Modern primers use lead styphnate, which is stable unless heated above 330 C, or hit with a sharp impact.
Allowing Internet connectivity reduces the centralized control that a totalitarian Communist system requires in order to protect the leaders and the system itself from the inconvenience of reality.
The bright low-beams (especially HID Xenons) really need an intelligent system behind them to aim the lights away from any oncoming traffic. My BMW does that - I can see the beam actively avoid oncoming cars, and aim below the tail lights of any cars ahead of me.
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6.2 GJ is also the heat content of a whopping 51 US gallons of gasoline. I use that much per month commuting to and from work.
For some people, it's likely that a single payment per month that includes the phone and the service is a nice and convenient way to make the purchase, especially if they are likely to upgrade the phone every couple of years anyway. For others, the a-la-carte purchase of phone and service is more appealing.
Your post advocates a
(x) technical ( ) legislative ( ) market-based ( ) vigilante
approach to fighting distracted driving. Your idea will not work. Here is why it won't work.
(One or more of the following may apply to your particular idea, and it may have other flaws
which used to vary from state to state before a bad federal law was passed.)
(x) It blocks calling the cops on other drivers who pose a real threat
(x) Telling a passenger from a driver isn't possible
( ) No one will be able to find the guy or collect the money
(x) It is defenseless against brute force attacks
( ) It will stop distractions for two weeks and then we'll be stuck with it
( ) Users of phones will not put up with it
( ) Google & Apple will not put up with it
( ) The police will not put up with it
(x) Requires too much cooperation from drivers
( ) Requires immediate total cooperation from everybody at once
( ) Many users cannot afford to lose business or alienate potential employers
( ) Drivers don't care about crashing
( ) Anyone could anonymously destroy anyone else's career or business
Specifically, your plan fails to account for
( ) Laws expressly prohibiting it
( ) Lack of centrally controlling authority
(x) Affecting non-drivers
(x) Asshats
( ) Jurisdictional problems
(x) Other forms of distraction that are even more dangerous
( ) Unpopularity of weird new laws
( ) Public reluctance to accept weird new forms of money
(x) Willingness of users to install inconvencing apps
(x) Bluetooth tethering to the car's audio for handsfree use
( ) Technically illiterate politicians
(x) Extreme stupidity on the part of people who text while driving
(x) Dishonesty on the part of drivers themselves
( ) Bandwidth costs that are unaffected by client filtering
(x) Using a power button works better
and the following philosophical objections may also apply:
(x) Ideas similar to yours are easy to come up with, yet none have ever
been shown practical
( ) Any scheme based on opt-out is unacceptable
( ) Phone use should not be the subject of legislation
( ) Blacklists suck
( ) Whitelists suck
( ) We should be able to drive however we want
( ) Countermeasures should not involve wire fraud or credit card fraud
( ) Countermeasures should not involve sabotage of public networks
( ) Countermeasures must work if phased in gradually
( ) Why should we have to trust you and your servers?
( ) Incompatibility with open source or open source licenses
(x) Feel-good measures do nothing to solve the problem
( ) I don't want the government tracking my phone
( ) Killing them that way is not slow and painful enough
Furthermore, this is what I think about you:
(x) Sorry dude, but I don't think it would work.
( ) This is a stupid idea, and you're a stupid person for suggesting it.
( ) Nice try, assh0le! I'm going to find out where you live and burn your
house down!
Actually, it is more like solving a huge jigsaw puzzle, but without an actual picture of how it is supposed to look when it is completed, and with a picture that changes while trying to put it together.
My question is: where the HELL is the Labor Department and the Commerce Department on all this? The small company I work at went through a month of poking, prodding, audits, etc. by the Dept. of Labor looking for overtime violations or miscategorizing employees as salary vs. hourly, and all they found was $2000 over 3 years, and even that was questionable.
Actually, modern vehicles are actually pretty much immune from an EMP attack. Radio front-ends might get fried, but that's really about it. Vehicles are designed to withstand a quite nasty EMF environment from the ignition coil.
Nobody can type "yum update openssl"?
So, we're seeing the fingers of the horn-hairs pointing at each other for a failure that their brown-nosed underlings caused on both sides. Don't blame the geeks, blame the suits.
Keep in mind that all his script actually accessed was the login page itself, that the user agent string can be set to anything on any browser, and the request itself was no different from trying to access "http://the.site.com/p?000001" then "/p?000002"... etc. It didn't actually get to the *protected* data itself, and there isn't really any privacy interest or expectation in an email address itself, either.
Case sensitivity is the one big turn-off to using C-syntax to me. If I am going to deal with it, then I want my damn pointers back, so I'd just as soon work in C++ and have some actual power to go with the inconvenience. Otherwise, for just business-logic and general DB stuff, VB.NET is quite nice to work in.
Uh, a Tesla doesn't have valves to time... just saying.
I am in the gearhead category. I'm just waiting for my little 328i to go out of warranty so I can start playing with some go-faster mods.
This looks like a great sign that Microsoft may finally be recovering from the terrible case of recto-cranial inversion that Ballmer had inflicted on the company for so long. At least we can have some hope of it.
Wouldn't it make more sense to locate these labs in an incredibly isolated area like an island in the middle of the ocean or the Moon? Someplace that CAN be quarantined 100% in the event of a mishap?
This is an interesting variation of the camera lens bayonet mount that includes a "breakaway mode" if it is dropped that allows the lens to snap out without damaging the device or the mount. With a normal DSLR lens mount, that doesn't happen and the lens will remain firmly attached until one of the mounts breaks, whereas this one will release instead of breaking.
Garbage in, garbage out.
No, a Bimmer!
Various social engineers have been trying for decades to change human nature. It hasn't worked in the past and it won't work in the future any better than attempting to change cats into vegans would. Even if they manage to suppress the expression of the thoughts in one place, it just pops up elsewhere, or worse, festers into a sudden explosion of rage.
Consider the source - FTS: "Scott Corley, the Executive Director of immigration-reform group Compete America"
This isn't coming from a CEO, it's coming from a political activist. And of course, he is dead wrong about "The further you get away from your education the less knowledge you have of the new technologies...". Someone just out of school hasn't actually worked with the new technologies as they have trickled into existence as someone who has been in the field for years has.
This looks like they were just incompetent and stupid rather than evil. Still, their credibility is now zero.
There is really no way for any code running on top of another layer to verify that lower layer's integrity - it has to rely on what is reported and a malicious BIOS or UEFI layer can simply just lie to it. Hell, it's possible for a low-level hypervisor to run another, clean, BIOS/UEFI and simply virtualize every piece of hardware in the box. Likewise, it can block visibility of any traffic going in and out that it desires. This type of security has to happen at the network level instead - something outside of the device has to detect the suspicious traffic that such an attack must generate in order to be useful. That in turn requires that the networking gear has to be trustworthy and not itself owned by the attacker or have any backdoors installed at the factory (or chip maker, or etc etc).
China is the only one in that group that has any actual chance. The other two would not last a month in a ground war against the US military when it is in full-blown combat mode. One nuclear attack, even an EMP strike, would not defeat the USA, though it would be badly wounded for a period of time, and the attacker would most certainly be cluster-nuked into oblivion in retaliation.
Fulminate of Mercury hasn't been used as a priming compound in ages. Modern primers use lead styphnate, which is stable unless heated above 330 C, or hit with a sharp impact.
Allowing Internet connectivity reduces the centralized control that a totalitarian Communist system requires in order to protect the leaders and the system itself from the inconvenience of reality.
The bright low-beams (especially HID Xenons) really need an intelligent system behind them to aim the lights away from any oncoming traffic. My BMW does that - I can see the beam actively avoid oncoming cars, and aim below the tail lights of any cars ahead of me.