>> except as I typed my magnum opus windows rebooted to install updates...
Speak to the team responsible for pushing your Windows Updates. There are options to nag you to reboot the machine many times before it is force rebooted. There is no *technical* reason they should be rebooting out from under you unless you've ignored and snoozed and deferred a bunch of times.
The majority of Europe has ages of consent lower than 16.
Americans should be careful about throwing around the "shithole" moniker. Given our infant mortality, life expectancy, crime and illiteracy rates we live in a particularly fragile glass house. It is un-patriotic to ignore that.
SpaceX's constellation will be orbiting 35 times closer than GEO, at ~1,100 kilometers. So... "Pings of 7-8 ms minimum" is slightly more accurate.
As satellites near the end of their life they'll carefully lower these orbits down to less than 300km before de-orbiting them. Their documentation does not indicate if they'll continue active communications during that period. My guess is they won't because of the shorter orbital period, but I could be wrong.
If I were a last-mile monopoly Telco I would be slightly concerned. Mr. Musk's companies have a delightful habit of redefining the impossible.
It won't be crawling up your leg, in fact you probably won't notice at all.
You won't notice when the squawk box at your local drive-thru takes your order by AI.
You won't notice the automated pickers that replace farm workers to pick your produce.
You won't notice the automated tractors and sprayers that grow your food.
You won't notice that all of the people between submitting a mortgage application and getting the check at closing have been eliminated.
You'll remember your first ride in a driverless car. You'll forget the last time you rode with a human driven taxi.
You'll read your first AI written book because of slashdot headlines, but you won't notice the gradual decline of author photos and bios.
You probably didn't notice the news articles that were written by bots, and you can't really tell the difference.
You won't know when you hear your first AI written song.
You won't notice when one cashier attends 8 or 16 self-checkout kiosks because they mostly run themselves.
You won't notice when AI cuts the number of software bugs in half, then half again, then half again.
You won't notice when you call customer service and are 99% sure the person you are talking to is a computer. Then 80%. Then 50%. Then you'll feel a little weird about asking if Steve from Minnesota is a person or not. He knew your local baseball team and was joking about the weather, and he's got that midwestern accent, and you just aren't sure.
You'll finally notice when you are trying to help your kids or grandkids get ready for college and you think about it and wonder... "What the hell are they going to do?"
In Tennessee the cosmetology license required to legally wash hair in a salon requires 300 hours of formal education. To be able to perform manicures requires 600 hours and a full cosmetology license requires 1500 hours of schooling.
I am skeptical that this level of education is truly required to do this job competently.
They can learn a lot from other companies' experiences with this.
You have to be completely transparent about what you are collecting including giving the customer tools to view the telemetry data, samples of what it looks like, and explanations of every field including binary blobs. Couple that with a strong privacy policy and require the user to explicitly accept the privacy settings during the install wizard. Never make advertising or sales recommendations based on telemetry. Most importantly, be able to show how you are using telemetry to make the product better.
People will still assume you are using the telemetry for evil, but this gives you a decent leg to stand on in the argument.
When considering the remaining useful life of the station it's helpful to that the oldest modules are approaching 20 years in orbit, and took years to build before reaching orbit.
I seem to recall that the Russians indicated they are willing to separate the American segments and continue operating the station independently if necessary. This would not be trivial, as big chunks of the ECLSS are in the US Lab, Destiny, and Tranquility modules.
It's unclear what revenue streams could be supported by a private space station, but a great deal of space technology is "Build it and they will come".
I am somewhat skeptical of prospects of using the ISS for space tourism. The ISS doesn't have a shower, and the expedition crewmembers are strongly advised to work out in the gym every day, wearing the same clothes for multiple days... continuously for two decades. I assume that this has given it a uniquely fragrant bouquet that may not reflect well in the Yelp reviews.
That right there is Nevada beachfront property. An app is going to consume that data. To consume it requires access to it. If the hacker steals the keys used by the app to get the data then they can steal the data. To think less of it is naive.
My kids watched their 333Ã--480 Barney VHS tape enough times for the image quality to degrade to roughly half that.... Litte kids don't care. If they do, connect it to a monitor instead of the RF converter.
>> "Its impact can be severe if undetected." if it is undetected then people don't feel it anymore and have coped... So why would it even be severe ?
When you have this problem people think you are inattentive or don't care about them. You have to page people to find them in stores. Being able to thank your interviewers by name is very difficult. Meeting someone at an airport means you have to hold up one of the little signs like limo drivers to.
I'll never have a sales position because of it, for sure.
How about a VLC Playlist, a cron job to start VLC, and an Amazon "RCA Compact RF Modulator" http://amzn.to/2FnqowT (Amazon Link) to pipe the output from composite to Coax.
It's worth noting that the Spectre variant 2 update was only enabled if you installed the patch and also installed the microcode update from your hardware vendor.
This out-of-band update doesn't effect anyone who hasn't installed the updated hardware microcode yet.
Disabling the protection requires administrator rights. If you have administrator rights then you can attach a debugger to your victim process and dump its memory that way, no vulnerability required.
AutoDesk's Fusion 360 product is changing my mind on this.
Without F360 I'd be on FOSS cad/cam. I've tried many, and let me be the first to say they suck compared to commercial products. More specifically, foss cad is "ok". Foss cam is abysmal. Foss 4-axis or more cam is non-existent.
Now I can get the hobbyist edition of F360 for free, Commercial for $40/month (with occasional $99/year sales), and the pro version (with 5 axis capability) for $190/month or $1500 per year. Moving between editions is easy, and they don't watermark the free version's files either.
F360 is adding features crazy fast and most of the features flow all the way into the free version. The only thing I miss in the free version is 4th-axis CAM. By moving to the subscription model they've made software I couldn't afford available to me. It's a pretty good deal. Their investments in building a community, being responsive to user requests, teaching, and improving the product just makes it better.
>> I'd be curious to see how they plan on cooling the thing.
The reactor heat is transferred to the stirling engine hot ends via heat pipes. The Stirling engine cold end is connected to a large heat radiator by additional heat pipes.
For scale, the unit has an adjustable output of 1-10KW. A decent gaming PC consumes about 1 KW. A good hairdryer is 1.5kw. Dumping that amount of heat into the martian atmosphere is not a difficult engineering challenge. For comparison, the two RTGs on the curiosity rover each dump about 2kw of thermal energy.
Has there been an end-to-end test of the imaging system? That was neglected (for cost reasons) on a previous space telescope and it proved to be a false economy.
I disagree with this approach. If Congress wants Net Neutrality they should write it as a law, not just force the FCC to not repeal the existing rule which DOES NOT apply to wireless carriers.
Wireless carriers will be the big winners here. It gives them freedom their wired carriers don't have.
Encrypted ram protects you from physical attacks, i.e. cold boot or freeze the ram, power off, move the ram to another machine, and read the data out.
That wouldn't seem to apply here, as the CPU executing the instructions has the decryption key.
SEV would apply, and would keep a malicious hypervisor from reaching into a guest VMs memory space and digging around. That isn't what this class of vulnerabilities is though, and I don't see anything that indicates that SEV is used to separate kernel-mode and user-mode code within a machine.
Do you have any links from AMD that indicate these technologies are mitigations for this class of attack?
I don't see a launch abort system on the BFR, and I shudder when thinking about a propulsive emergency staging on top of the giant gas tank first stage. I know it's too soon to ask, but I'm curious to see what the abort options are. (Aside from Plan A don't abort and Plan C be incinerated.)
If you believe that net neutrality should be the law of the land then make it apply to wireless carriers as well as wired carriers. The former was exempt from the old version of NN.
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Kali is very quiet. When you fire up Wireshark or TCPDump you don't have to go turn a bunch of things off to get to a noiseless trace.
>> except as I typed my magnum opus windows rebooted to install updates...
Speak to the team responsible for pushing your Windows Updates. There are options to nag you to reboot the machine many times before it is force rebooted. There is no *technical* reason they should be rebooting out from under you unless you've ignored and snoozed and deferred a bunch of times.
The majority of Europe has ages of consent lower than 16.
Americans should be careful about throwing around the "shithole" moniker. Given our infant mortality, life expectancy, crime and illiteracy rates we live in a particularly fragile glass house. It is un-patriotic to ignore that.
This is so they'll have justification for active real-time censorship.
"Our users said they wanted us to police this, so we do."
SpaceX's constellation will be orbiting 35 times closer than GEO, at ~1,100 kilometers. So... "Pings of 7-8 ms minimum" is slightly more accurate.
As satellites near the end of their life they'll carefully lower these orbits down to less than 300km before de-orbiting them. Their documentation does not indicate if they'll continue active communications during that period. My guess is they won't because of the shorter orbital period, but I could be wrong.
If I were a last-mile monopoly Telco I would be slightly concerned. Mr. Musk's companies have a delightful habit of redefining the impossible.
It won't be crawling up your leg, in fact you probably won't notice at all.
You won't notice when the squawk box at your local drive-thru takes your order by AI.
You won't notice the automated pickers that replace farm workers to pick your produce.
You won't notice the automated tractors and sprayers that grow your food.
You won't notice that all of the people between submitting a mortgage application and getting the check at closing have been eliminated.
You'll remember your first ride in a driverless car. You'll forget the last time you rode with a human driven taxi.
You'll read your first AI written book because of slashdot headlines, but you won't notice the gradual decline of author photos and bios.
You probably didn't notice the news articles that were written by bots, and you can't really tell the difference.
You won't know when you hear your first AI written song.
You won't notice when one cashier attends 8 or 16 self-checkout kiosks because they mostly run themselves.
You won't notice when AI cuts the number of software bugs in half, then half again, then half again.
You won't notice when you call customer service and are 99% sure the person you are talking to is a computer. Then 80%. Then 50%. Then you'll feel a little weird about asking if Steve from Minnesota is a person or not. He knew your local baseball team and was joking about the weather, and he's got that midwestern accent, and you just aren't sure.
You'll finally notice when you are trying to help your kids or grandkids get ready for college and you think about it and wonder ... "What the hell are they going to do?"
In Tennessee the cosmetology license required to legally wash hair in a salon requires 300 hours of formal education. To be able to perform manicures requires 600 hours and a full cosmetology license requires 1500 hours of schooling.
I am skeptical that this level of education is truly required to do this job competently.
They can learn a lot from other companies' experiences with this.
You have to be completely transparent about what you are collecting including giving the customer tools to view the telemetry data, samples of what it looks like, and explanations of every field including binary blobs. Couple that with a strong privacy policy and require the user to explicitly accept the privacy settings during the install wizard. Never make advertising or sales recommendations based on telemetry. Most importantly, be able to show how you are using telemetry to make the product better.
People will still assume you are using the telemetry for evil, but this gives you a decent leg to stand on in the argument.
When considering the remaining useful life of the station it's helpful to that the oldest modules are approaching 20 years in orbit, and took years to build before reaching orbit.
I seem to recall that the Russians indicated they are willing to separate the American segments and continue operating the station independently if necessary. This would not be trivial, as big chunks of the ECLSS are in the US Lab, Destiny, and Tranquility modules.
It's unclear what revenue streams could be supported by a private space station, but a great deal of space technology is "Build it and they will come".
I am somewhat skeptical of prospects of using the ISS for space tourism. The ISS doesn't have a shower, and the expedition crewmembers are strongly advised to work out in the gym every day, wearing the same clothes for multiple days... continuously for two decades. I assume that this has given it a uniquely fragrant bouquet that may not reflect well in the Yelp reviews.
The article describes 32 Million gallons of mercury being released, 3.2E7 gallons
The US federal drinking water standard is 2 parts per billion or 1 part in 500 million, 1:5E8 gallons
Multiplying, that means this is safe if it is diluted in 1.6E16 Gallons of water.
The volume of the ocean is 3.52E20 gallons.
Is there a proposed mechanism that could cause the mercury to be concentrated in a specific region?
>> hacking and data theft will become impossible
muahahahahahahahahhahahhaha.
That right there is Nevada beachfront property. An app is going to consume that data. To consume it requires access to it. If the hacker steals the keys used by the app to get the data then they can steal the data. To think less of it is naive.
My kids watched their 333Ã--480 Barney VHS tape enough times for the image quality to degrade to roughly half that. ... Litte kids don't care. If they do, connect it to a monitor instead of the RF converter.
>> "Its impact can be severe if undetected." if it is undetected then people don't feel it anymore and have coped... So why would it even be severe ? When you have this problem people think you are inattentive or don't care about them. You have to page people to find them in stores. Being able to thank your interviewers by name is very difficult. Meeting someone at an airport means you have to hold up one of the little signs like limo drivers to. I'll never have a sales position because of it, for sure.
How about a VLC Playlist, a cron job to start VLC, and an Amazon "RCA Compact RF Modulator" http://amzn.to/2FnqowT (Amazon Link) to pipe the output from composite to Coax.
Long live channel 3!
It's worth noting that the Spectre variant 2 update was only enabled if you installed the patch and also installed the microcode update from your hardware vendor.
This out-of-band update doesn't effect anyone who hasn't installed the updated hardware microcode yet.
Disabling the protection requires administrator rights. If you have administrator rights then you can attach a debugger to your victim process and dump its memory that way, no vulnerability required.
AutoDesk's Fusion 360 product is changing my mind on this.
Without F360 I'd be on FOSS cad/cam. I've tried many, and let me be the first to say they suck compared to commercial products. More specifically, foss cad is "ok". Foss cam is abysmal. Foss 4-axis or more cam is non-existent.
Now I can get the hobbyist edition of F360 for free, Commercial for $40/month (with occasional $99/year sales), and the pro version (with 5 axis capability) for $190/month or $1500 per year. Moving between editions is easy, and they don't watermark the free version's files either.
F360 is adding features crazy fast and most of the features flow all the way into the free version. The only thing I miss in the free version is 4th-axis CAM. By moving to the subscription model they've made software I couldn't afford available to me. It's a pretty good deal. Their investments in building a community, being responsive to user requests, teaching, and improving the product just makes it better.
(Not paid shilling, just a happy customer.)
>> I'd be curious to see how they plan on cooling the thing.
The reactor heat is transferred to the stirling engine hot ends via heat pipes. The Stirling engine cold end is connected to a large heat radiator by additional heat pipes.
For scale, the unit has an adjustable output of 1-10KW. A decent gaming PC consumes about 1 KW. A good hairdryer is 1.5kw. Dumping that amount of heat into the martian atmosphere is not a difficult engineering challenge. For comparison, the two RTGs on the curiosity rover each dump about 2kw of thermal energy.
Has there been an end-to-end test of the imaging system? That was neglected (for cost reasons) on a previous space telescope and it proved to be a false economy.
I disagree with this approach. If Congress wants Net Neutrality they should write it as a law, not just force the FCC to not repeal the existing rule which DOES NOT apply to wireless carriers.
Wireless carriers will be the big winners here. It gives them freedom their wired carriers don't have.
Are these the same sources that attributed the Mirai botnet to Russia-sponsored actors?
We don't have a good track record of attributing these actions of late.
In their defense, the AMD article also looked like PR fluff too. Read the January 3rd update AMD published here.
https://www.amd.com/en/corpora...
They actually published something useful yesterday, 8 days after the public disclosure.
Encrypted ram protects you from physical attacks, i.e. cold boot or freeze the ram, power off, move the ram to another machine, and read the data out.
That wouldn't seem to apply here, as the CPU executing the instructions has the decryption key.
SEV would apply, and would keep a malicious hypervisor from reaching into a guest VMs memory space and digging around. That isn't what this class of vulnerabilities is though, and I don't see anything that indicates that SEV is used to separate kernel-mode and user-mode code within a machine.
Do you have any links from AMD that indicate these technologies are mitigations for this class of attack?
I don't see a launch abort system on the BFR, and I shudder when thinking about a propulsive emergency staging on top of the giant gas tank first stage. I know it's too soon to ask, but I'm curious to see what the abort options are. (Aside from Plan A don't abort and Plan C be incinerated.)
If you believe that net neutrality should be the law of the land then make it apply to wireless carriers as well as wired carriers. The former was exempt from the old version of NN.