Ironically, Asimov created the three laws because he was tired of stories where robots try to take over humanity or wipe us out. Wonder what he would have thought of the I Robot movie...
Are the sensors that detect things like occupants in other vehicles and train tracks and oncoming trains optional equipment, mandatory, or pure science fiction?
Because if they're optional, I'm not paying for that trim package.
Psssh, I'm totally buying that system, and then hacking it to report to every other vehicle that I'm a bus full of nuns and schoolchildren.
Oh, sure, that's a good plan: you just wait for the first super-villain to appear, and then see what happens.
You win the Internets for today. Congratulations.:D
I used to do software for industrial robots. Safety for the people around the robot was the number one concern, but it is amazing how easy it is for humans to give orders to a robot that will lead to it being damaged or destroyed. In practice, the robots would 'prioritize' protecting themselves rather than obeying suicidal orders.
It all comes down to how much you trust the user. Asimov thought most users were smart enough to not give orders that were that bad. Plus I think Asimov's robots were smart enough that they would try to carry out general orders without damaging themselves. For instance, "Come here as fast as possible," does not mean that the robot would burn out its motors while traveling to the person. So I guess even in universe you had to explicitly tell the robots to do something suicidal.
Side note, with the minor things like the Emory University incident (http://it.slashdot.org/story/14/05/17/051214/emory-university-sccm-server-accidentally-reformats-all-computers-campus-wide) it certainly seems that Windows tends to stop users from doing dumb things like formatting their system partition while running on it. Meanwhile, Linux and Unix have no such protections. "Unix was not designed to stop its users from doing stupid things, as that would also stop them from doing clever things." – Doug Gwyn Of course, no modern OS will let you do anything truly damaging to it without admin rights.
Unfortunately, ULA has stated that it would cost one Billion dollars to set up their own engine production here in the US. Sure that's nine tenths congressional/military bribes and lining shareholders pockets but expect the US to be paying for the factory any day now.
I suspect the ban on using Russian engines to launch the US military satellites is more of a posturing. Russian rockets and rocket engines are used mostly to launch civilian satellites.
Except the number one thing in the news lately about those engines has been the massive US military block buy of rockets that use them. When the judge ordered a preliminary injunction to keep ULA from buying them a bunch of US businessmen, bureaucrats, politicians, and military types freaked out. Which was practically a sign to the Russians saying, "You can hurt us."
The GPS thing is partly posturing, but mostly about limiting military accuracy in the off chance we try something stupid. It's not likely, but still an important military concern, and it goes perfectly with everything else that's going on.
The space station thing is probably all posturing, especially since the US is expected to start testing manned launches again by next year. What I can see them doing is raising prices to an outrageous degree. Get every cent they can to build their new launch complex. After all, Russia currently rents the Baikonur Cosmodrome from Kazakhstan.
They can't. These are certs that are added by the companies IT department, not certs that ship by default. In some places, like United States libraries, internet filters are mandated. So these places have a few choices, let the public potentially view naughty images via Google image search, downgrade all connections to http, or MITM everything. Guess which one of the three the politicians don't like.
The big thing those IT departments have to worry about is certificate pinning, which is where the browser stores the actual per website cert, and displays an error if it's changed. This is what Chrome does/is planning to keep people from MITMing Google in particular. I can see both Chrome and Mozilla being proactive, while IE focuses on the corporate clients and if anything becomes less secure.
Considering that those licenses all cover distribution I don't see the difference for an in company product. Especially since the difference between GPL and GPL 3 deals with preventing locked bootloaders. Now if you're doing embedded development or selling software, it's a completely different story. I don't agree with it, but I can see why companies want complete control of their products.
It's not illogical at all. You just mandate that all traffic goes through a room controlled by the government for "Lawful Intercept." That way you can say that it's done for law enforcement, but the reality is they're emulating the USA and keeping everything while also MITMing anything they feel like.
Disk image might be the same. The Snowden docs include things like hardware replacement of Ethernet jacks and firmware backdoors. Nasty stuff, and completely undetectable without destructive teardown or an X-ray machine and a ridiculous amount of time.
US Government contracting is insane paperwork wise, and bureaucrats have thrown every roadblock they can at SpaceX. When it looked like they couldn't stop them from competing with ULA they then went ahead and signed a huge multi-year sole source contract with ULA. The timing is pretty suspicious in and of itself. It reeks of corruption and kickbacks.
If SpaceX wins the lawsuit, then the bureaucrats will have to justify going with the more expensive option that uses Russian made engines. They'll probably say something about how age and reliability make it the better choice, but when they're proven wrong it will just help show how corrupt they are.
Uhm, not sure what exactly you're focusing on. Are you saying that lots of people are mentally ill, and shouldn't be allowed to do something like work anywhere dangerous, which is just about everywhere?
I would argue that one of the big problems is the stigmatization of mental illness. Here in the states the idea of even seeing a psychiatrist is met with scorn. Employers won't hire those people, and many people will treat them as though they were infectious. If it's something that may lead to violence then they're just locked up. Not exactly an environment that encourages treatment. Instead people tend to suffer through it, or just snap.
It's the same problem the US has with illegal drugs. If someone wants to get clean they can't just check themselves into a halfway house. Not only would it show up on any background check, including ones by apartments, but they would also end up arrested and thrown in jail.
I'm not saying the website isn't a big deal, but how many of those websites had the kind of advertising push that this one did? Plus, there's the whole fine if you don't have health insurance thing, and old insurance plans being canceled.
Half of the original problem with the website was the overuse of "Web 3.0" and not showing customers what they wanted to see without them creating an account beforehand. A few static pages on a high volume server could have prevented most of the embarrassing problems the original site had.
Actually my largest gripe is the site has a login E-Mail, and a separate E-mail for something else. The problem is the separate E-mail rejects anything that's not yahoo, google, hotmail, etc... It's really frustrating since they don't restrict the login E-mail.
Yeah, I mean think about the security of the oil infrastructure. Sure it's not "radiation," but an oil spill is a big deal. Oil is already shipped in takner cars which have a nasty habit of exploding on their own, much less with a little help. Then you have all those huge pipelines, and oil tankers. Not to mention offshore rigs, or messing with a fracking operation.
When it comes to energy or environmental security, nuclear plants are not where I would start.
This isn't even getting into the radiation deaths caused by, unguarded, stolen medical equipment.
Per the US constitution the Federal Government has the power to regulate interstate commerce. If they said that laws preventing direct marketing of interstate goods were unenforceable because it falls within the Fed's purview then many more laws would probably be affected. If they don't then it looks like the FTC is favoring Tesla. The only thing it wouldn't apply to is Alcohol, because the 21st amendment specifically gave the states the right to stop it from coming in.
Yeah, Ukraine agreed to disarmament and look what happened. I'm willing to bet that if that country exists in two years we'll see them performing at least one nuclear test.
They should have tried this after Fukushima, now it looks like any country that does disarm is just asking to be conquered.
So, ten years after the fact, you still remember the name "Joe Myers Ford"? Sounds like those ads succeeded in creating brand awareness.
Yes, but that's only a good thing if you subscribe to the notion of "all publicity is good publicity." In many cases the ad can do the opposite of what you want. Ex. People who remember Dr Pepper because "not for women."
I was sitting on Kubuntu for years before I jumped to Debian Testing with KDE. Those upgrades were anything but painless. Circular dependencies, broken audio, etc... Basically it was hell. Debian is much better.
As a bonus with Ubuntu deciding to switch to systemd with Debian there isn't really much of a difference between Kubuntu and Debian KDE Testing.
That's the joy of HTTP based stenography. You can firewall everything but port 80 and it still isn't enough.
Even if your using an ip ban hammer you're still playing whack a mole.
You can always use a honey pot and just ban people from the network, but then you'll get more stories like this one. Unless you like your workplace to be known as a penal institution that's not a good thing.
And just how are these 300,000+ routers being reprogrammed to use alternate malicious DNS settings? Is this conducted via some common firmware exploit, or dumb users leaving default admin password in place?
Either is quite possible, though default password issues require that a PC on the LAN already be infected.
Newer routers, especially the router/modem combo units, seem to have a randomly generated password that's printed on the device label. They also tend to come with WPA2 turned on with another randomly generated password that's also on the label. Proof that you can make devices more secure by default.
So I take it that segways are also banned in NY then?
If that's the law, then yes they are. Just because police ignore a law or even choose to break it doesn't make it any less illegal for you or I to break the law. They could even use this as an excuse to jail someone they don't like even while they're riding around on their own Segways. This is why people think that selective enforcement is basically handing police a ridiculous amount of power.
I thought GMS was introduced to address this issue (among other reasons) so that any bugs in new features could be fixed by sending out a GMS update, of course that doesn't solve the issue of not being able to push fixes for AOSP bugs directly to handsets.
That's the marketing pitch, but the reality is really much more sinister. The true goal is to replace AOSP with proprietary Google components.
This seems easy to fix. Most (all?) states have some sort of annual safety inspection requirement for keeping a car on the road.
Nope, most states say it's too much of a pain, and don't do any of that. In most of the US, if the car runs and you don't get pulled over it's good to go.
Huawei firmware is not known for its quality. It has so many nasty bugs and security holes, the remote firmware programming interface is just a safer way to do it.
Cisco and Juniper are much better (at least their boxes crash or do idiotic things a lot less than Huawei boxes), but still not anywhere close to safe enough for the job, as one can easily check by hunting for C and J firmware exploits in several sites.
I always point to this video when people ask what my big deal with Huawei is. The takeaway, they found early 1990s bugs and security everywhere, including all memory being world accessible and mapped read, write, execute. That means you just need an exploit, no privilege escalation necessary. Also, not only are these exploits easy to find, Huawei doesn't publish CVEs or changelogs for their new firmware. Combine that with most debugging features only being available in Chinese.... Yeah, I'll pass.
First Google result for Specular Map: "Specular maps are the maps you use to define a surface's shininess and highlight colour." Basically, every video game already does this. http://wiki.splashdamage.com/i...
One of the best videos I've seen showing some of the problems was the original Nvidia Ira tech demo. They mention things like how skin doesn't just reflect light off the surface, but absorbs and defracts it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
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Ironically, Asimov created the three laws because he was tired of stories where robots try to take over humanity or wipe us out. Wonder what he would have thought of the I Robot movie...
Are the sensors that detect things like occupants in other vehicles and train tracks and oncoming trains optional equipment, mandatory, or pure science fiction?
Because if they're optional, I'm not paying for that trim package.
Psssh, I'm totally buying that system, and then hacking it to report to every other vehicle that I'm a bus full of nuns and schoolchildren.
Oh, sure, that's a good plan: you just wait for the first super-villain to appear, and then see what happens.
You win the Internets for today. Congratulations. :D
I used to do software for industrial robots. Safety for the people around the robot was the number one concern, but it is amazing how easy it is for humans to give orders to a robot that will lead to it being damaged or destroyed. In practice, the robots would 'prioritize' protecting themselves rather than obeying suicidal orders.
It all comes down to how much you trust the user. Asimov thought most users were smart enough to not give orders that were that bad. Plus I think Asimov's robots were smart enough that they would try to carry out general orders without damaging themselves. For instance, "Come here as fast as possible," does not mean that the robot would burn out its motors while traveling to the person. So I guess even in universe you had to explicitly tell the robots to do something suicidal.
Side note, with the minor things like the Emory University incident (http://it.slashdot.org/story/14/05/17/051214/emory-university-sccm-server-accidentally-reformats-all-computers-campus-wide) it certainly seems that Windows tends to stop users from doing dumb things like formatting their system partition while running on it. Meanwhile, Linux and Unix have no such protections. "Unix was not designed to stop its users from doing stupid things, as that would also stop them from doing clever things." – Doug Gwyn
Of course, no modern OS will let you do anything truly damaging to it without admin rights.
Unfortunately, ULA has stated that it would cost one Billion dollars to set up their own engine production here in the US. Sure that's nine tenths congressional/military bribes and lining shareholders pockets but expect the US to be paying for the factory any day now.
I suspect the ban on using Russian engines to launch the US military satellites is more of a posturing. Russian rockets and rocket engines are used mostly to launch civilian satellites.
Except the number one thing in the news lately about those engines has been the massive US military block buy of rockets that use them. When the judge ordered a preliminary injunction to keep ULA from buying them a bunch of US businessmen, bureaucrats, politicians, and military types freaked out. Which was practically a sign to the Russians saying, "You can hurt us."
The GPS thing is partly posturing, but mostly about limiting military accuracy in the off chance we try something stupid. It's not likely, but still an important military concern, and it goes perfectly with everything else that's going on.
The space station thing is probably all posturing, especially since the US is expected to start testing manned launches again by next year. What I can see them doing is raising prices to an outrageous degree. Get every cent they can to build their new launch complex. After all, Russia currently rents the Baikonur Cosmodrome from Kazakhstan.
They can't. These are certs that are added by the companies IT department, not certs that ship by default. In some places, like United States libraries, internet filters are mandated. So these places have a few choices, let the public potentially view naughty images via Google image search, downgrade all connections to http, or MITM everything. Guess which one of the three the politicians don't like.
The big thing those IT departments have to worry about is certificate pinning, which is where the browser stores the actual per website cert, and displays an error if it's changed. This is what Chrome does/is planning to keep people from MITMing Google in particular. I can see both Chrome and Mozilla being proactive, while IE focuses on the corporate clients and if anything becomes less secure.
Considering that those licenses all cover distribution I don't see the difference for an in company product. Especially since the difference between GPL and GPL 3 deals with preventing locked bootloaders. Now if you're doing embedded development or selling software, it's a completely different story. I don't agree with it, but I can see why companies want complete control of their products.
It's not illogical at all. You just mandate that all traffic goes through a room controlled by the government for "Lawful Intercept." That way you can say that it's done for law enforcement, but the reality is they're emulating the USA and keeping everything while also MITMing anything they feel like.
Disk image might be the same. The Snowden docs include things like hardware replacement of Ethernet jacks and firmware backdoors. Nasty stuff, and completely undetectable without destructive teardown or an X-ray machine and a ridiculous amount of time.
US Government contracting is insane paperwork wise, and bureaucrats have thrown every roadblock they can at SpaceX. When it looked like they couldn't stop them from competing with ULA they then went ahead and signed a huge multi-year sole source contract with ULA. The timing is pretty suspicious in and of itself. It reeks of corruption and kickbacks.
If SpaceX wins the lawsuit, then the bureaucrats will have to justify going with the more expensive option that uses Russian made engines. They'll probably say something about how age and reliability make it the better choice, but when they're proven wrong it will just help show how corrupt they are.
Uhm, not sure what exactly you're focusing on. Are you saying that lots of people are mentally ill, and shouldn't be allowed to do something like work anywhere dangerous, which is just about everywhere?
I would argue that one of the big problems is the stigmatization of mental illness. Here in the states the idea of even seeing a psychiatrist is met with scorn. Employers won't hire those people, and many people will treat them as though they were infectious. If it's something that may lead to violence then they're just locked up. Not exactly an environment that encourages treatment. Instead people tend to suffer through it, or just snap.
It's the same problem the US has with illegal drugs. If someone wants to get clean they can't just check themselves into a halfway house. Not only would it show up on any background check, including ones by apartments, but they would also end up arrested and thrown in jail.
I'm not saying the website isn't a big deal, but how many of those websites had the kind of advertising push that this one did? Plus, there's the whole fine if you don't have health insurance thing, and old insurance plans being canceled.
Half of the original problem with the website was the overuse of "Web 3.0" and not showing customers what they wanted to see without them creating an account beforehand. A few static pages on a high volume server could have prevented most of the embarrassing problems the original site had.
Actually my largest gripe is the site has a login E-Mail, and a separate E-mail for something else. The problem is the separate E-mail rejects anything that's not yahoo, google, hotmail, etc... It's really frustrating since they don't restrict the login E-mail.
Yeah, I mean think about the security of the oil infrastructure. Sure it's not "radiation," but an oil spill is a big deal. Oil is already shipped in takner cars which have a nasty habit of exploding on their own, much less with a little help. Then you have all those huge pipelines, and oil tankers. Not to mention offshore rigs, or messing with a fracking operation.
When it comes to energy or environmental security, nuclear plants are not where I would start.
This isn't even getting into the radiation deaths caused by, unguarded, stolen medical equipment.
Per the US constitution the Federal Government has the power to regulate interstate commerce. If they said that laws preventing direct marketing of interstate goods were unenforceable because it falls within the Fed's purview then many more laws would probably be affected. If they don't then it looks like the FTC is favoring Tesla. The only thing it wouldn't apply to is Alcohol, because the 21st amendment specifically gave the states the right to stop it from coming in.
Yeah, Ukraine agreed to disarmament and look what happened. I'm willing to bet that if that country exists in two years we'll see them performing at least one nuclear test.
They should have tried this after Fukushima, now it looks like any country that does disarm is just asking to be conquered.
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So, ten years after the fact, you still remember the name "Joe Myers Ford"? Sounds like those ads succeeded in creating brand awareness.
Yes, but that's only a good thing if you subscribe to the notion of "all publicity is good publicity." In many cases the ad can do the opposite of what you want. Ex. People who remember Dr Pepper because "not for women."
I was sitting on Kubuntu for years before I jumped to Debian Testing with KDE. Those upgrades were anything but painless. Circular dependencies, broken audio, etc... Basically it was hell. Debian is much better.
As a bonus with Ubuntu deciding to switch to systemd with Debian there isn't really much of a difference between Kubuntu and Debian KDE Testing.
That's the joy of HTTP based stenography. You can firewall everything but port 80 and it still isn't enough.
Even if your using an ip ban hammer you're still playing whack a mole.
You can always use a honey pot and just ban people from the network, but then you'll get more stories like this one. Unless you like your workplace to be known as a penal institution that's not a good thing.
And just how are these 300,000+ routers being reprogrammed to use alternate malicious DNS settings? Is this conducted via some common firmware exploit, or dumb users leaving default admin password in place?
Either is quite possible, though default password issues require that a PC on the LAN already be infected.
Newer routers, especially the router/modem combo units, seem to have a randomly generated password that's printed on the device label. They also tend to come with WPA2 turned on with another randomly generated password that's also on the label. Proof that you can make devices more secure by default.
So I take it that segways are also banned in NY then?
If that's the law, then yes they are. Just because police ignore a law or even choose to break it doesn't make it any less illegal for you or I to break the law. They could even use this as an excuse to jail someone they don't like even while they're riding around on their own Segways. This is why people think that selective enforcement is basically handing police a ridiculous amount of power.
I thought GMS was introduced to address this issue (among other reasons) so that any bugs in new features could be fixed by sending out a GMS update, of course that doesn't solve the issue of not being able to push fixes for AOSP bugs directly to handsets.
That's the marketing pitch, but the reality is really much more sinister. The true goal is to replace AOSP with proprietary Google components.
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets...
This seems easy to fix. Most (all?) states have some sort of annual safety inspection requirement for keeping a car on the road.
Nope, most states say it's too much of a pain, and don't do any of that. In most of the US, if the car runs and you don't get pulled over it's good to go.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Huawei firmware is not known for its quality. It has so many nasty bugs and security holes, the remote firmware programming interface is just a safer way to do it.
Cisco and Juniper are much better (at least their boxes crash or do idiotic things a lot less than Huawei boxes), but still not anywhere close to safe enough for the job, as one can easily check by hunting for C and J firmware exploits in several sites.
I always point to this video when people ask what my big deal with Huawei is. The takeaway, they found early 1990s bugs and security everywhere, including all memory being world accessible and mapped read, write, execute. That means you just need an exploit, no privilege escalation necessary. Also, not only are these exploits easy to find, Huawei doesn't publish CVEs or changelogs for their new firmware. Combine that with most debugging features only being available in Chinese.... Yeah, I'll pass.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
First Google result for Specular Map: "Specular maps are the maps you use to define a surface's shininess and highlight colour." Basically, every video game already does this. http://wiki.splashdamage.com/i...
One of the best videos I've seen showing some of the problems was the original Nvidia Ira tech demo. They mention things like how skin doesn't just reflect light off the surface, but absorbs and defracts it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...