Just try a mini-ITX board, of which there are many designs.
Many are designed with 12v DC input specifically for auto use but obviously can also be powered by an external brick. I use a number of these for various purposes, including servers, and find them pefectly adequate for use.
It doesn't have to expose SMB to the outside world.
The exploit arrives as a phishing email. Once clicked, it looks for SMB on that machine. By using SMB, it can then infect other machines on the same network - and, more importantly, behind the firewall you carefully set up to block SMB from the Internet.
Moral: don't click on things you get randomly from the Internet. Also, don't click on things you get unexpectedly from colleagues in the same organization.
I'm using it now and have done for ~15 years. All my programs, files and storage are located on a big, fat server in a cupboard (closet) somewhere and I'm using a diskless Mini-ITX board as a client. Downstairs, my partner uses an old laptop as another client, netbooting in with F12. We can fire up other clients as and where nhecessary.
All my storage is centralised, I only have one box to update, hardware and/or software, and one box to secure. I can't tell the difference between using a client and logging on to the server (when I have to). What's not to like?
Just how long do you think the vacuum in the tube will last once an earthquake breaks the tube?
Depending where the break is, the car could either stop abruptly, reverse abruptly or even speed up depending where the break is in relation to the car. If the occupants are very lucky, they could just be left somewhere random inside a powerless tube. If not lucky, they could be mashed flat or even plough into the break at 700 mph.
Now that smartphones are ubiquitous, what's the point of SMS? Everyone has fast, easy, mobile access to email, which has none of the limitations of SMS (message size, tied to a device and not a person, etc.). Email, you can access on your phone, your PC, your tablet, or even a public web terminal in many cases. It even lets you communicate to someone without a phone!
Email requires you to have an email server, which either you or someone else (read: google) must host.
All you need for SMS is a phone number. No middle man.
I get invoices on my personal domain by email in.pdf format. Every one of them instructs me to print out a copy for my records. I'm sure that most people do exactly that because they can't get their heads around the idea that keeping a copy of the file is just as good and takes up much less physical space.
That works right up until the moment that your backing storage suffers a head crash.
Good luck showing those invoices to the taxman six months down the line.
If it is important, print it out. If it isn't, don't. Important here implies "These documents hold tax information or other details I am legally obliged to retain."
I still have to understand why people need to control everything from their smartphone, when there are simpler solutions that require much less of your precious free time to be implemented and used.
IoT means more than just "control everything from your smartphone".
The only IoT device that I knowingly have is an IP camera in the room where our grandchildren sleep whenever they come over to stay. It is only switched on when they are with us.
It isn't controlled from a smartphone. It is accessed from one or more tablets. It is blocked from accessing the internet at my firewall. If there are firmware updates, I will download them and apply them manually, not that I expect that to happen before the sun grows cold.
The point is, IoT can mean any device connected to your local network, not just the shiny things people automatically think of. If you have such a network, then you are responsible for everything that is connected to it.
Yup. Bought a LaserJet 4000 in 1999 and am still using it.
"Back in the day" HP made excellent hardware. I was using HP test gear in 1970 and there was very little that could touch it. This modern company has gone to the dogs.
AFAIK this is only about Microsoft choosing to support chip features in Win 10 only, not that the chip manufacturers are barring other OSes. If that assumption is right then I don't understand why such a misleading submission was posted without correction on Slashdot.
Because it means that even if you use another OS, you'll need a Windows 10 system in order to update the processor firmware.
Some of the older Intel processors required booting from DOS floppies (or a USB lookalike) to update firmware; been there, done that. This looks like an attempt to remove that limitation. Hey, if it just happens to make difficulties for the opposition at the same time, who's complaining?
The whole purpose behind developing the ability to land Falcon 9s on Earth is to eventually take them to Mars and land them.
You would need a lot less fuel to land on Mars and you wouldn't have to worry about water landings.
Once they get the techniques for producing fuel from Martian resources sorted out, that reuseable Falcon 9 is handy for getting stuff back into Martian orbit... and landing back on Mars again.
In practice, the only time someone has it unlocked is while they are using it. And you'd need to be in the bank app for it to matter. So the crook would have to be wandering public, looking for people using a banking app, then swipe the phone, and get to an ATM before the robbed person could call their bank.
You just said it yourself. All the crook has to do is stand near an ATM and wait for somebody with a smartphone to use it.
These are IP cameras, that is, a camera which runs a website that can stream whatever the camera is pointing to.
I recently bought one of these to act as a baby monitor. It needs an OS in order to run the web software and Linux is already available, so why not use it? I'm betting the configuration used chops out almost everything apart from the absolute essentials.
I have a Foscam FI8910W. The first thing to note is that initial configuration including a mandatory root password change/must/ be done using an Ethernet cable. At that point you can choose to use the wifi link or disable it; the same with uPnP. Wifi is paired with my wifi router and, as far as I can tell, only by connecting to the router with a MAC-listed client can anyone access the camera.
There is a Dynamic-DNS facility to access the camera over the Wild West Interwebs but that requires configuration which I have disabled as not required.
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Pity you seem to have skipped your English classes.
You might have learned how to write an essay or an argument properly, using actual paragraphs.
Just try a mini-ITX board, of which there are many designs.
Many are designed with 12v DC input specifically for auto use but obviously can also be powered by an external brick. I use a number of these for various purposes, including servers, and find them pefectly adequate for use.
Try here, although there are many other suppliers: http://mini-itx.com/
It doesn't have to expose SMB to the outside world.
The exploit arrives as a phishing email. Once clicked, it looks for SMB on that machine. By using SMB, it can then infect other machines on the same network - and, more importantly, behind the firewall you carefully set up to block SMB from the Internet.
Moral: don't click on things you get randomly from the Internet. Also, don't click on things you get unexpectedly from colleagues in the same organization.
Um, I thought that an engineer in the US was someone who drove a train?
Linux Terminal Server Program (LTSP).
I'm using it now and have done for ~15 years. All my programs, files and storage are located on a big, fat server in a cupboard (closet) somewhere and I'm using a diskless Mini-ITX board as a client. Downstairs, my partner uses an old laptop as another client, netbooting in with F12. We can fire up other clients as and where nhecessary.
All my storage is centralised, I only have one box to update, hardware and/or software, and one box to secure. I can't tell the difference between using a client and logging on to the server (when I have to). What's not to like?
I have one: people complain about Gnome. Maybe the reason is because Gnome is not part of systemd?
Yet.
Idiot.
Just how long do you think the vacuum in the tube will last once an earthquake breaks the tube?
Depending where the break is, the car could either stop abruptly, reverse abruptly or even speed up depending where the break is in relation to the car. If the occupants are very lucky, they could just be left somewhere random inside a powerless tube. If not lucky, they could be mashed flat or even plough into the break at 700 mph.
Now that smartphones are ubiquitous, what's the point of SMS? Everyone has fast, easy, mobile access to email, which has none of the limitations of SMS (message size, tied to a device and not a person, etc.). Email, you can access on your phone, your PC, your tablet, or even a public web terminal in many cases. It even lets you communicate to someone without a phone!
Email requires you to have an email server, which either you or someone else (read: google) must host.
All you need for SMS is a phone number. No middle man.
Absolutely. Just by posting the cash taken proves very little.
It has always irritated me that the money taken is used to claim that a movie is better than what came before.
Backsides on seats is what should be counted. If you take more money but less people came, that isn't a better movie.
Because a modern phone isn't really a phone any more.
It is what used to be called a Personal Digital Assistant, a handheld computer that might just occasionally be used for making voice phone calls.
It is a web browser, diary, ebook reader and everything else. Most people use them on wifi and avoid the phone companies whenever they can.
I can always tape over the microphone.
Oh, wait...
Try "Cycle of Fire" by Hal Clement.
I get invoices on my personal domain by email in .pdf format. Every one of them instructs me to print out a copy for my records. I'm sure that most people do exactly that because they can't get their heads around the idea that keeping a copy of the file is just as good and takes up much less physical space.
That works right up until the moment that your backing storage suffers a head crash.
Good luck showing those invoices to the taxman six months down the line.
If it is important, print it out. If it isn't, don't. Important here implies "These documents hold tax information or other details I am legally obliged to retain."
Now imagine a Microsoft version of GIMP...
...so even a child can use paint app.
But that still makes it too difficult for Marketing.
I still have to understand why people need to control everything from their smartphone, when there are simpler solutions that require much less of your precious free time to be implemented and used.
IoT means more than just "control everything from your smartphone".
The only IoT device that I knowingly have is an IP camera in the room where our grandchildren sleep whenever they come over to stay. It is only switched on when they are with us.
It isn't controlled from a smartphone. It is accessed from one or more tablets. It is blocked from accessing the internet at my firewall. If there are firmware updates, I will download them and apply them manually, not that I expect that to happen before the sun grows cold.
The point is, IoT can mean any device connected to your local network, not just the shiny things people automatically think of. If you have such a network, then you are responsible for everything that is connected to it.
Yup. Bought a LaserJet 4000 in 1999 and am still using it.
"Back in the day" HP made excellent hardware. I was using HP test gear in 1970 and there was very little that could touch it. This modern company has gone to the dogs.
AFAIK this is only about Microsoft choosing to support chip features in Win 10 only, not that the chip manufacturers are barring other OSes. If that assumption is right then I don't understand why such a misleading submission was posted without correction on Slashdot.
Because it means that even if you use another OS, you'll need a Windows 10 system in order to update the processor firmware.
Some of the older Intel processors required booting from DOS floppies (or a USB lookalike) to update firmware; been there, done that. This looks like an attempt to remove that limitation. Hey, if it just happens to make difficulties for the opposition at the same time, who's complaining?
This hyperloop bullshit is technologically impossible to construct and maintain, let alone protect against the simplest of threats or malfunctions.
Exactly what they said in 1900 about the airplane...
This.
The whole purpose behind developing the ability to land Falcon 9s on Earth is to eventually take them to Mars and land them.
You would need a lot less fuel to land on Mars and you wouldn't have to worry about water landings.
Once they get the techniques for producing fuel from Martian resources sorted out, that reuseable Falcon 9 is handy for getting stuff back into Martian orbit... and landing back on Mars again.
It probably fell out the back end of a cow.
And nothing of value was lost.
It's an e-reader.
You aren't going to be loading apps on it, you're going to be loading documents like .pdfs or .epubs.
If you want something that can run apps, buy a tablet!
In practice, the only time someone has it unlocked is while they are using it. And you'd need to be in the bank app for it to matter. So the crook would have to be wandering public, looking for people using a banking app, then swipe the phone, and get to an ATM before the robbed person could call their bank.
You just said it yourself. All the crook has to do is stand near an ATM and wait for somebody with a smartphone to use it.
These are IP cameras, that is, a camera which runs a website that can stream whatever the camera is pointing to.
I recently bought one of these to act as a baby monitor. It needs an OS in order to run the web software and Linux is already available, so why not use it? I'm betting the configuration used chops out almost everything apart from the absolute essentials.
I have a Foscam FI8910W. The first thing to note is that initial configuration including a mandatory root password change /must/ be done using an Ethernet cable. At that point you can choose to use the wifi link or disable it; the same with uPnP. Wifi is paired with my wifi router and, as far as I can tell, only by connecting to the router with a MAC-listed client can anyone access the camera.
There is a Dynamic-DNS facility to access the camera over the Wild West Interwebs but that requires configuration which I have disabled as not required.