Given that the cheapest internet service you can get for a phone is $50/mo, I'm surprised they include this in cars. A standard port to plug devices in would make more sense I think. Especially as all of this stuff becomes obsolete before it's driven off the lot.
I had a relative that contracted for some vehicle manufacturer's for a bit. A project manager "designed" the UI and the team wasn't allowed to deviate from it. Don't blame the UX experts because chances are they got overruled.
100% control means you control access. New software must be signed. If they can already get past the security to put in their own software, then they don't need to use a method so obscure as these. Never mind that the Spectre method is irrelevant here if you're not running VMs or interpreted languages with unknown scripts.
Because in reality the white house doesn't have a lot of power independent of Congress. Deep state or not, the president needs to get Congress as an ally to get things done. Which surprises a lot of people who assume the executive can just dictate orders and have it done. And it's dismaying when every four years the general public is highly interested in who is going to be president but doesn't bother voting for congress, state elections, the mayor, or even dogcatcher.
Right, Specture is a problem. But only if you use VM or Javascript or other interpretes. What it does is reinforce the idea to not trust unknown code. That is, continue using noscript on your browser and don't open the gates for stuff you don't know. People not yet using noscript should consider using it, or at the very least make regular backups of important data.
Web sites have a moral obligation to personally vet each and every script they serve up to the unsuspecting gullible public. Avoid the lure of convenient third party services that promise to do all the advertising work for you.
Sollution is to know what you are running on your CPU. Most of those processors are running on specialized devices that do no run arbitrary off-the-net code. PowerPC is big on network routers and such, MIPs has a chunk of the embedded market, and so forth. Google is talking about desktops, laptops, servers, and smartphones. That is, very high end processors. ARM has some of that space but it has an even bigger space in the lower end embedded device market.
If those CPUs are used in a product with 100% of control of the software running on them, then those CPUs are safe to use (barring a separate unrelated security breach).
I predict a boost in number of people using Noscript and similar plugins. Sometimes being paranoid is not a sign of being crazy, but a feature of being a realist.
If it only affects leakage within the same process, is that really an issue? A process can typically already read all of its own memory (depending upon how one defines "process"). The bug is if it could read memory from other processes or private kernel/system memory or there are memory droppings leftover from other VMs.
That's still not ALL processors. It's not even all processors from ARM, Intel, and AMD, as those companies do supply lower end models. The details of the exploits are still vague to me, but it sort of sounds like they're related to advanced processor designs; speculative execution, VM support, etc.
Well, being a parent is a job, and part of that job is training the children. Certainly when I grew up the parents would turn down the volume during some commercials, or I would be called to dinner during my favorite show. I think today there's a lot more tolerance for bad behavior from children. I see this in stores where a child is running around, playing with the toys, shouting, and meanwhile the parent seems oblivious to what's going on.
The reason for the Libertarian Party, why it is different from the Democrats and Republicans, is which freedoms to have. The Democrats are reasonably good (in the modern age) at allowing personal freedoms but who want regulations and oversight in the economic sector. The Republicans, traditionally, have been much more pro-corporate and want a hands off approach to economics but with a much heavier hand restricting personal freedoms. Libertarians advocate for both types of freedoms. But just like Democrats and Republicans can be extemist or moderate, the same is true for Libertarians.
In some way the libertarian wing of the Republican party is not really very libertarian as they're focusing on the freedom in economics but covering their eyes when it comes to the restrictions in personal freedoms. Similarly, though it's not talked about as much, there are libertarians in the Democratic party as well. Usually they're just called moderates.
A libertarian is not necessarily anti-tax or anti-regulation. But they want appropriate and smaller tax and regulation. They're not necessarily opposed to public owned infrastructure, they're not necessarily pro-corporation, they're not necessarily Randians.
That's true. There are a lot of libertarians, and I have some streak of it. But the Libertarian Party (capital L) is more dogmatic about what is or is not Libertarian. Even so, there is a new wave of libertarianism that has come along, partially with Republicans championing the cause, the tea party that has moved the Republican party to more extreme positions who seem to be leading a government dismantling push.
So there's a wide range of views just under that one umbrella. I am referring to slashdotters who self identify as libertarian who also seem dismayed that a local government is getting in involved in a new type of public service. This is not about criticizing federal or state governments for overbearing control or regulation, but local governments which have the most citizen and voter involvement.
Sure, there are drawbacks. That is why we should allow the voters of the municipalities to decide. Which the citizens of Fort Collins did. Of course, that sticks in the craw of people with firmly held political stance. But that's how democracy works, sometimes you win, and sometimes you lose. You may think the voters are misguided, but that is none of your damned business if you're not one of the citizens.
And if a city blocked access then it would be extremely easy to sue for restricting free speech (which a corporation can do, but a government cannot).
A lot of slashdotters have an inherent distrust of all government universally because they've drink the libertarian koolaid. Sure, you may have a political opinion that you are entitled to, but the citizens of this city voted and decided on a different approach. Democracy means that sometimes you lose.
The hypocrisy is that some of these people who are opposed to any municipality being allowed to do anything will turn around and appeal to the state legislature to overturn the will of the "misguided" voters. Of course it sweetens the pot if the corporations also provide, in an entirely unconnected and coincidental action, suitable campaign funds.
Only some roads. Not every road is toll road, the vast majority of all residential roads are paid for by the local governments. And that's a good thing. The free market sucks, and history has proven that it sucks, and there is a role for government no matter how much the anarchists wish it wasn't so.
And so your preference is to override the will of the voters for their own good? I really don't understand the thinking of you anti government people.
Comcast could do this, but they will not. In the same way the phone companies refused to supply service to rural or poor areas until the federal government came in and fixed this (allowing a nationwide monopoly in exchange for requiring universal service). This was a GOOD thing.
A lot of this oppositions isn't just from corporations, there's a huge libertarian swath that believes no government is the best government, and any municipal services are inherently evil. Thus the libertarian oriented question that implies taxes must have gone up; and if someone had said taxes did go up they would say "Aha! This proves that abusive corporations are far preferable to local governments responding to the will of the people."
Cheaper or not, it's what the citizens wanted. No amount of anti-government hand-wringing can change that or force the citizens to start loving the evil cable companies again.
These things seem oriented to the "Prime" member. People who honestly believe deep in their hearts that Amazon is an awesome company and that driving to actual stores to support a local economy is for old losers. They do buy the same stuff over and over from Amazon. Need toilet paper? Get Amazon to buy it. Need another liter of soda? Get Amazon to deliver it (and enter your house while you're gone to put it in the fridge). These are the people who scream at others "The $99 a year Pays For Itself!!!"
Sure, if you're a disabled shut in, then Amazon is great. If you're an able bodied person then spread your business around to more than one store and step outside now and then.
I don't think advertising is inherently evil, however I think the methods being employed this last decade absolutely is evil. Advertising should not involve an invasion of privacy.
Now you say there is money being made. That is true. However I'm unsure the money is where people think it is. Yes, Amazon is making big money, just like any advertising agency. I do not think however that Colgate is necessarily getting its money's worth here. After all, if the advertising is worth that much to the companies, then why isn't the consumer getting a significant discount on products that advertise to us non-stop? If getting the ads into Amazon Echo is that useful, they should give away the machines for free. Remember, we used to get FREE television shows in exchange for having advertisements (which we were never forced to watch with our eyes held open). That was a good deal with millions of people watched broadcast TV; but for Amazon Echo the number of customers is relatively small.
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Given that the cheapest internet service you can get for a phone is $50/mo, I'm surprised they include this in cars. A standard port to plug devices in would make more sense I think. Especially as all of this stuff becomes obsolete before it's driven off the lot.
I had a relative that contracted for some vehicle manufacturer's for a bit. A project manager "designed" the UI and the team wasn't allowed to deviate from it. Don't blame the UX experts because chances are they got overruled.
100% control means you control access. New software must be signed. If they can already get past the security to put in their own software, then they don't need to use a method so obscure as these. Never mind that the Spectre method is irrelevant here if you're not running VMs or interpreted languages with unknown scripts.
See, the deadline for first post is not actually arbitrary.
I think it is yes, it's the modern conspiracy theory that explains why nothing seems to change even though someone's favorite person gets elected.
Because in reality the white house doesn't have a lot of power independent of Congress. Deep state or not, the president needs to get Congress as an ally to get things done. Which surprises a lot of people who assume the executive can just dictate orders and have it done. And it's dismaying when every four years the general public is highly interested in who is going to be president but doesn't bother voting for congress, state elections, the mayor, or even dogcatcher.
There are federal laws and the constitution that deals with your example.
Right, Specture is a problem. But only if you use VM or Javascript or other interpretes. What it does is reinforce the idea to not trust unknown code. That is, continue using noscript on your browser and don't open the gates for stuff you don't know. People not yet using noscript should consider using it, or at the very least make regular backups of important data.
Web sites have a moral obligation to personally vet each and every script they serve up to the unsuspecting gullible public. Avoid the lure of convenient third party services that promise to do all the advertising work for you.
Sollution is to know what you are running on your CPU. Most of those processors are running on specialized devices that do no run arbitrary off-the-net code. PowerPC is big on network routers and such, MIPs has a chunk of the embedded market, and so forth. Google is talking about desktops, laptops, servers, and smartphones. That is, very high end processors. ARM has some of that space but it has an even bigger space in the lower end embedded device market.
If those CPUs are used in a product with 100% of control of the software running on them, then those CPUs are safe to use (barring a separate unrelated security breach).
I predict a boost in number of people using Noscript and similar plugins. Sometimes being paranoid is not a sign of being crazy, but a feature of being a realist.
If it only affects leakage within the same process, is that really an issue? A process can typically already read all of its own memory (depending upon how one defines "process"). The bug is if it could read memory from other processes or private kernel/system memory or there are memory droppings leftover from other VMs.
That's still not ALL processors. It's not even all processors from ARM, Intel, and AMD, as those companies do supply lower end models. The details of the exploits are still vague to me, but it sort of sounds like they're related to advanced processor designs; speculative execution, VM support, etc.
Well, being a parent is a job, and part of that job is training the children. Certainly when I grew up the parents would turn down the volume during some commercials, or I would be called to dinner during my favorite show. I think today there's a lot more tolerance for bad behavior from children. I see this in stores where a child is running around, playing with the toys, shouting, and meanwhile the parent seems oblivious to what's going on.
I could keep up, this was on residential roads and expressways.
The reason for the Libertarian Party, why it is different from the Democrats and Republicans, is which freedoms to have. The Democrats are reasonably good (in the modern age) at allowing personal freedoms but who want regulations and oversight in the economic sector. The Republicans, traditionally, have been much more pro-corporate and want a hands off approach to economics but with a much heavier hand restricting personal freedoms. Libertarians advocate for both types of freedoms. But just like Democrats and Republicans can be extemist or moderate, the same is true for Libertarians.
In some way the libertarian wing of the Republican party is not really very libertarian as they're focusing on the freedom in economics but covering their eyes when it comes to the restrictions in personal freedoms. Similarly, though it's not talked about as much, there are libertarians in the Democratic party as well. Usually they're just called moderates.
A libertarian is not necessarily anti-tax or anti-regulation. But they want appropriate and smaller tax and regulation. They're not necessarily opposed to public owned infrastructure, they're not necessarily pro-corporation, they're not necessarily Randians.
That's true. There are a lot of libertarians, and I have some streak of it. But the Libertarian Party (capital L) is more dogmatic about what is or is not Libertarian. Even so, there is a new wave of libertarianism that has come along, partially with Republicans championing the cause, the tea party that has moved the Republican party to more extreme positions who seem to be leading a government dismantling push.
So there's a wide range of views just under that one umbrella. I am referring to slashdotters who self identify as libertarian who also seem dismayed that a local government is getting in involved in a new type of public service. This is not about criticizing federal or state governments for overbearing control or regulation, but local governments which have the most citizen and voter involvement.
Sure, there are drawbacks. That is why we should allow the voters of the municipalities to decide. Which the citizens of Fort Collins did. Of course, that sticks in the craw of people with firmly held political stance. But that's how democracy works, sometimes you win, and sometimes you lose. You may think the voters are misguided, but that is none of your damned business if you're not one of the citizens.
And if a city blocked access then it would be extremely easy to sue for restricting free speech (which a corporation can do, but a government cannot).
A lot of slashdotters have an inherent distrust of all government universally because they've drink the libertarian koolaid. Sure, you may have a political opinion that you are entitled to, but the citizens of this city voted and decided on a different approach. Democracy means that sometimes you lose.
The hypocrisy is that some of these people who are opposed to any municipality being allowed to do anything will turn around and appeal to the state legislature to overturn the will of the "misguided" voters. Of course it sweetens the pot if the corporations also provide, in an entirely unconnected and coincidental action, suitable campaign funds.
Only some roads. Not every road is toll road, the vast majority of all residential roads are paid for by the local governments. And that's a good thing. The free market sucks, and history has proven that it sucks, and there is a role for government no matter how much the anarchists wish it wasn't so.
And so your preference is to override the will of the voters for their own good? I really don't understand the thinking of you anti government people.
Comcast could do this, but they will not. In the same way the phone companies refused to supply service to rural or poor areas until the federal government came in and fixed this (allowing a nationwide monopoly in exchange for requiring universal service). This was a GOOD thing.
The citizens are in favor of this. I know this may not agree with your personal views, but this is how democracy works.
A lot of this oppositions isn't just from corporations, there's a huge libertarian swath that believes no government is the best government, and any municipal services are inherently evil. Thus the libertarian oriented question that implies taxes must have gone up; and if someone had said taxes did go up they would say "Aha! This proves that abusive corporations are far preferable to local governments responding to the will of the people."
Cheaper or not, it's what the citizens wanted. No amount of anti-government hand-wringing can change that or force the citizens to start loving the evil cable companies again.
These things seem oriented to the "Prime" member. People who honestly believe deep in their hearts that Amazon is an awesome company and that driving to actual stores to support a local economy is for old losers. They do buy the same stuff over and over from Amazon. Need toilet paper? Get Amazon to buy it. Need another liter of soda? Get Amazon to deliver it (and enter your house while you're gone to put it in the fridge). These are the people who scream at others "The $99 a year Pays For Itself!!!"
Sure, if you're a disabled shut in, then Amazon is great. If you're an able bodied person then spread your business around to more than one store and step outside now and then.
I don't think advertising is inherently evil, however I think the methods being employed this last decade absolutely is evil. Advertising should not involve an invasion of privacy.
Now you say there is money being made. That is true. However I'm unsure the money is where people think it is. Yes, Amazon is making big money, just like any advertising agency. I do not think however that Colgate is necessarily getting its money's worth here. After all, if the advertising is worth that much to the companies, then why isn't the consumer getting a significant discount on products that advertise to us non-stop? If getting the ads into Amazon Echo is that useful, they should give away the machines for free. Remember, we used to get FREE television shows in exchange for having advertisements (which we were never forced to watch with our eyes held open). That was a good deal with millions of people watched broadcast TV; but for Amazon Echo the number of customers is relatively small.