A connection with a self-signed cert is, in a very-worst-case and highly unlikely scenario, only as insecure as the plaintext HTTP connections we use every day without batting an eye. Let's start treating them that way.
SSL-only would be a great first step in making life miserable for those NSA peeping toms.
What's that? I couldn't hear you over the sound of all these Like buttons trying to track me from every webpage in existence, even resorting to plain-HTML tracking if all else fails. GA stops working if you disable JS.
Let's not forget, this is the same guy who signed up for Google+ the day it launched and then closed his account because he "didn't want Google tracking him" or something like that.
He mocks the stupidity of the Average Joe right in front of their faces and they never catch on.
The same way your own population might eventually pick up an engineered virus you released into an enemy population as a bioweapon, but with computers.
mounting/noexec can help protect dumb users from themselves but won't help against a virus, since nothing as stupid as Autorun exists in Linux (I'm sure Canonical will take that as a challenge). Once the virus is running its unauthorized code somehow (on Linux the only attacks are basically against graphical file browsers),/noexec is barely a speedbump.
Each puzzle has a specific solution. Computers can recognize specific images quite easily. A person can feed image/solution pairs into their GOTCHA-solving script faster than you can make them.
I'd like to be the first to solve this but I think it'll be done before I finish my lunch break.
Yeah how dare they live where natural disasters could hit! They should be in one of the few regions in North America or Europe which have an unusually low number of natural disasters. Anywhere else and you might as well be sitting on god's shooting range like those crazy Japanese who nobody ever offers aid to due to their recklessness.
In the ABS incident, the brakes didn't fail, the car acted as it had never had ABS.
That's actually a very common problem I see on the track. The ABS system will "crash" on many cars when driven hard, I think the hard driving confuses the newer ABS control units that have accelerometer inputs. Drivers who rely on their ABS lock up their wheels, plow straight off a corner and say their ABS gave out. Even the new "Toyobaru," a track-oriented car, has this problem, but I've seen it in everything from economy cars to 6-figure sports cars.
Nothing that changing the half-assed software for something proper couldn't fix though. You never see this problem with the costly racing ABS systems used in purpose-built race cars (and I don't think they use accelerometers).
Sorry that's still very upper-middle class, arguably "rich," even if the people in question are about as responsible with their money as MC Hammer. He was hyper-rich at one point too.
You're almost right. In both situations, a law enforcement officer will assign fault in the accident and forward that information to the insurance companies. In a no-fault state, that report will go straight into the circular filing cabinet and the rates of everyone involved will go up. In a non-no-fault state, the insurance company will do a private assessment of the accident which will include the law enforcement officer's report as just one source of information (but nothing more - they really don't consider it that important), and this assessment may result in the rates of one or both of the people involved going up.
No-fault insurance does away with the work involved in the assessment, reduces responsibility on negligent parties, and gives an excuse to drive up the rates of good drivers, so of course that's the future.
Then there are the little tracking boxes which measure how you drive, and make a person who drives actively to avoid accidents look like a maniac, and make a person who drives smoothly while causing mayhem (AKA typical dangerous old fogey driver or cruising stoner) look like a saint. Those are the future too.
Maybe they are, Asimov probably looked about as dangerous and "un-American" as Larry the Cable Guy compared to me...on the other hand they never noticed Dzokhar Tsarnaev so I shouldn't be surprised if I'm off their radar entirely.
Then if it crashes you have to roll down the windows, shut down the car, get out, get back in, start the car, and roll the windows back up. And if you use Microsoft Interstate Explorer instead of installing a different navigation program, the brakes will be partially engaged the entire time the car is driving.
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This. If so, it will be a MASSIVE improvement.
A connection with a self-signed cert is, in a very-worst-case and highly unlikely scenario, only as insecure as the plaintext HTTP connections we use every day without batting an eye. Let's start treating them that way.
SSL-only would be a great first step in making life miserable for those NSA peeping toms.
Are you also horrified by ASLR, DEP or the very concept of layered security?
That's what I was going to say. This is a good idea but the scope of it is too small because it's far too specific.
The site is a privacy nightmare.
It was a privacy nightmare in the early days. Now it's a privacy bad acid trip.
What's that? I couldn't hear you over the sound of all these Like buttons trying to track me from every webpage in existence, even resorting to plain-HTML tracking if all else fails. GA stops working if you disable JS.
Let's not forget, this is the same guy who signed up for Google+ the day it launched and then closed his account because he "didn't want Google tracking him" or something like that.
He mocks the stupidity of the Average Joe right in front of their faces and they never catch on.
I can make something yell "Developers!" 37 times, make terrible decisions, and even throw chairs (as errors), but how do you simulate the sweat?
http://www.the-converter.co/
In space, nobody can hear you fap...
The same way your own population might eventually pick up an engineered virus you released into an enemy population as a bioweapon, but with computers.
mounting /noexec can help protect dumb users from themselves but won't help against a virus, since nothing as stupid as Autorun exists in Linux (I'm sure Canonical will take that as a challenge). Once the virus is running its unauthorized code somehow (on Linux the only attacks are basically against graphical file browsers), /noexec is barely a speedbump.
Your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.
This is why we can't have nice things....
Second thing I said out loud when I saw the headline, after "Shiiiiit!"
Fun trick: Copy the address into your URL bar, hit enter and then very quickly hit Escape.
Javascript isn't technically required to view the page (as shitty as that would be). They're just being dicks.
Wow I thought I was well clear of the Poe effect...
Each puzzle has a specific solution. Computers can recognize specific images quite easily. A person can feed image/solution pairs into their GOTCHA-solving script faster than you can make them.
I'd like to be the first to solve this but I think it'll be done before I finish my lunch break.
Yeah how dare they live where natural disasters could hit! They should be in one of the few regions in North America or Europe which have an unusually low number of natural disasters. Anywhere else and you might as well be sitting on god's shooting range like those crazy Japanese who nobody ever offers aid to due to their recklessness.
Change distros. Vote with your feet.
In the ABS incident, the brakes didn't fail, the car acted as it had never had ABS.
That's actually a very common problem I see on the track. The ABS system will "crash" on many cars when driven hard, I think the hard driving confuses the newer ABS control units that have accelerometer inputs. Drivers who rely on their ABS lock up their wheels, plow straight off a corner and say their ABS gave out. Even the new "Toyobaru," a track-oriented car, has this problem, but I've seen it in everything from economy cars to 6-figure sports cars.
Nothing that changing the half-assed software for something proper couldn't fix though. You never see this problem with the costly racing ABS systems used in purpose-built race cars (and I don't think they use accelerometers).
Sorry that's still very upper-middle class, arguably "rich," even if the people in question are about as responsible with their money as MC Hammer. He was hyper-rich at one point too.
I have a national brand of car insurance and it costs me $46.00 every 6 months. I even have a DUI on my record.
I pay about 5x that per car, my driving record is squeaky clean and when it comes to driving skill, I am the 1%. FML -_-
You're almost right. In both situations, a law enforcement officer will assign fault in the accident and forward that information to the insurance companies. In a no-fault state, that report will go straight into the circular filing cabinet and the rates of everyone involved will go up. In a non-no-fault state, the insurance company will do a private assessment of the accident which will include the law enforcement officer's report as just one source of information (but nothing more - they really don't consider it that important), and this assessment may result in the rates of one or both of the people involved going up.
No-fault insurance does away with the work involved in the assessment, reduces responsibility on negligent parties, and gives an excuse to drive up the rates of good drivers, so of course that's the future.
Then there are the little tracking boxes which measure how you drive, and make a person who drives actively to avoid accidents look like a maniac, and make a person who drives smoothly while causing mayhem (AKA typical dangerous old fogey driver or cruising stoner) look like a saint. Those are the future too.
I thought that would be a link to Batman Returns...(couldn't find the relevant scene on Youtube)
Maybe they are, Asimov probably looked about as dangerous and "un-American" as Larry the Cable Guy compared to me...on the other hand they never noticed Dzokhar Tsarnaev so I shouldn't be surprised if I'm off their radar entirely.
Then if it crashes you have to roll down the windows, shut down the car, get out, get back in, start the car, and roll the windows back up. And if you use Microsoft Interstate Explorer instead of installing a different navigation program, the brakes will be partially engaged the entire time the car is driving.