Most people who leak things are smart enough to keep their mouth shut and NOT tell anyone who they are. This idiot was trying for glory and "street cred".
If you want to leak something you cover your ass and leak it in a way that is as untraceable as you can get. MSFT employee leaking windows 10.1? you go to a starbucks in a different town that you never visit and upload it to a dead drop. I suggest using a secure CD or thumb drive based OS like linux to do it as well so you can change the mac address easily so in case that starbucks has a high end security logging router, wear sunglasses and a baseball cap, maybe a fake beard.
The problem is all the ones you hear of are from people trying to get credit for it or to build a reputation for some wierd technomancer novel they think life is. Manning was a dipshit bragging about it trying to get himself some strange, Mitnick bragged about EVERYTHING, etc...
Because I will not be buying a 2016 Audi. or a 2020 Buick, etc....
Honestly until the car makers start making quality instead of crap, I wont be buying anything newer than 2007. Electronics made with consumer grade components in a car is bullshit. Exploded caps in BCM modules are unacceptable unless they are willing to give me a lifetime free replacement. bad soldering in a ECM is also unaceptable.
Right now the entire car industry is ran by complete morons that care about profits and not quality and safety. Until that changes, I am sticking with cars I can repair myself.
They need to get a lot lower than 20ms. 20 will still induce problems after time. Last time I tried the rift it was hugely noticable and bad. My wife almost started puking right away, But she get's car sick easy....
Most of the problem is latency. and there are no numbers telling us what the difference is. Is is 5ms now so all potential sickness problems are gone?? I'm betting they have the same latency which will still cause the "sick" problems the old version has.
they CAN deal with this. require a physical jumper on the device to be moved for firmware loading. all devices leave the factory blank and they flash their firmware in house when they arrive.
They dont want to do that, they want the 100,000 items to ship from china and never be touched again. Boo Hoo. man up and touch every item state side to protect your products integrity.
The CEO's bonus check would cover the required costs.
I'm siding with the import police on this one. I looked at the images and they look a LOT like a fluke DMM. The overall design is like their meters from a few years ago. Even the silk screening is the same style.
There you go bring in truth and reality into the whole FUD story.
This is Wednesday, we are all supposed to wave our arms in the air and scream how insecure linux is and Windows is the future. Tomorrow is dog on QNX day, bring your own lunch.
This is why you are supposed to ROTATE pesticides not using the same thing over and over and over. DDT has been out of use so long that I bet it is highly effective if they bring it back into use, but this time using it sparingly not dousing the entire countryside in thousands of gallons of it.
Leave me to my delusions that my professors gave me!
I honestly warn a lot of youngsters away from CS, "It is the new factory work". You leave college with all that debt and utopian dilusions that it is a noble profession and discover that it will chew you up and spit you out if you are not a part of a very specialized and needed segment that cant just replace you with another fresh grad.
This is why I LOVE embedded work, CS grads cant wrap their head around only having 6-8K total for program and storage. so us old farts cant be intimidated to spend 22 hour days 8 days a week at the office to meet retarded deadlines.
The best version of One Note was back in 2003 that on a tablet edition computer you could do handwriting. Why MS decided to be morons and NOT include the handwriting notepad on the ipad version I'll never understand.
Good coders are expensive. Medicore ones are a dime a dozen. Management thinks it is smarter to hire 10 medicore programmers for less money than 1-2 good ones.
Thus you get failed projects and exactly what they paid for.
Correct, I mis-identified the package, I have QFP on the brain as I have been searching ebay for some old stock to fix an old DSP board, looks like I have to scrounge for some TMS320's on old boards.
Some of the newer PLCC's have very dense pins on the surface mounted sockets. And honestly with I2C it is trivial to solder the chip on the board and simply provide a header to reprogram it. The funny part is a lot of the guys that really want socketed chips to use with their external programmer/reader do not realize that it is a lot easier and cheaper to use the on board solutions.
"I came to the conclusion that using it is a gross violation of all standards of professional code generation. "
Amen brother. Kids today cant be bothered with good code, and their spaghetti crap ends up as a "standard" in some places. look through a lot of the TI MSP embedded libraries and frameworks. We dont use ANY of it as it is all a bloated mess for a small embedded platform.
Exactly. Old C programmer here, it took me exactly 8 days to learn coding for OSX and iOS. It's just wrapping your head around things. and don't be afraid of saying,"what nimrod thought that was a good idea" at times, because I see a lot of idiocy inside the frameworks.
I also chuckle at things when I see what amounts to devolving to perl obscurity in a lot of the new stuff. People trying to save keystrokes and sacrifice readability, damn kids get off my libraries and frameworks.
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Most people who leak things are smart enough to keep their mouth shut and NOT tell anyone who they are. This idiot was trying for glory and "street cred".
If you want to leak something you cover your ass and leak it in a way that is as untraceable as you can get. MSFT employee leaking windows 10.1? you go to a starbucks in a different town that you never visit and upload it to a dead drop. I suggest using a secure CD or thumb drive based OS like linux to do it as well so you can change the mac address easily so in case that starbucks has a high end security logging router, wear sunglasses and a baseball cap, maybe a fake beard.
The problem is all the ones you hear of are from people trying to get credit for it or to build a reputation for some wierd technomancer novel they think life is. Manning was a dipshit bragging about it trying to get himself some strange, Mitnick bragged about EVERYTHING, etc...
Exactly, the whole thing is about punishing someone that dared to challenge a rich corporation.
If the Law was about being fair and just, he would be fined for 120% of what he gained from it, and court costs (Court, NOT overpaid lawyers)
but the law in the USA has nothing at all about being right and just. It's all about punishment and ruining peoples lives.
That is what I want. Active dashboard that highlights other cars with information.
Grand Am in the left lane 5 cars ahead, "Erratic Asshole tailgaiting at 80mph"
Prius ahead of you, " Hipster doing 67.2 and listening to Beck"
Because I will not be buying a 2016 Audi. or a 2020 Buick, etc....
Honestly until the car makers start making quality instead of crap, I wont be buying anything newer than 2007. Electronics made with consumer grade components in a car is bullshit. Exploded caps in BCM modules are unacceptable unless they are willing to give me a lifetime free replacement. bad soldering in a ECM is also unaceptable.
Right now the entire car industry is ran by complete morons that care about profits and not quality and safety. Until that changes, I am sticking with cars I can repair myself.
They need to get a lot lower than 20ms. 20 will still induce problems after time. Last time I tried the rift it was hugely noticable and bad. My wife almost started puking right away, But she get's car sick easy....
Most of the problem is latency. and there are no numbers telling us what the difference is.
Is is 5ms now so all potential sickness problems are gone?? I'm betting they have the same latency which will still cause the "sick" problems the old version has.
Why do I have to pay more? I suggest they make less obscene profits and lower executive wages to cover the cost of doing business.
they CAN deal with this. require a physical jumper on the device to be moved for firmware loading. all devices leave the factory blank and they flash their firmware in house when they arrive.
They dont want to do that, they want the 100,000 items to ship from china and never be touched again. Boo Hoo. man up and touch every item state side to protect your products integrity.
The CEO's bonus check would cover the required costs.
I'm siding with the import police on this one. I looked at the images and they look a LOT like a fluke DMM.
The overall design is like their meters from a few years ago.
Even the silk screening is the same style.
There you go bring in truth and reality into the whole FUD story.
This is Wednesday, we are all supposed to wave our arms in the air and scream how insecure linux is and Windows is the future.
Tomorrow is dog on QNX day, bring your own lunch.
Mostly because they are made by companies that do not hire engineers for thier OS but use one of the janitors or an IT guy that knows linux.
NEC Tv's you can easily get into Root from the serial port if you are fast enough when the TV boots. from there it's trivial to have some fun.
You are a rare one that actually cares about the craft.
as long as they have little S symbols on their chests so we can easily identify them.
News at 11.
Come on. really? nobody expected this?
This is why you are supposed to ROTATE pesticides not using the same thing over and over and over.
DDT has been out of use so long that I bet it is highly effective if they bring it back into use, but this time using it sparingly not dousing the entire countryside in thousands of gallons of it.
Leave me to my delusions that my professors gave me!
I honestly warn a lot of youngsters away from CS, "It is the new factory work". You leave college with all that debt and utopian dilusions that it is a noble profession and discover that it will chew you up and spit you out if you are not a part of a very specialized and needed segment that cant just replace you with another fresh grad.
This is why I LOVE embedded work, CS grads cant wrap their head around only having 6-8K total for program and storage. so us old farts cant be intimidated to spend 22 hour days 8 days a week at the office to meet retarded deadlines.
Good for you, but it still makes me weep that our industry has been turned into a sweatshop of medicore messes.
The best version of One Note was back in 2003 that on a tablet edition computer you could do handwriting. Why MS decided to be morons and NOT include the handwriting notepad on the ipad version I'll never understand.
There is a problem in the industry.
Good coders are expensive. Medicore ones are a dime a dozen. Management thinks it is smarter to hire 10 medicore programmers for less money than 1-2 good ones.
Thus you get failed projects and exactly what they paid for.
Correct, I mis-identified the package, I have QFP on the brain as I have been searching ebay for some old stock to fix an old DSP board, looks like I have to scrounge for some TMS320's on old boards.
Some of the newer PLCC's have very dense pins on the surface mounted sockets. And honestly with I2C it is trivial to solder the chip on the board and simply provide a header to reprogram it. The funny part is a lot of the guys that really want socketed chips to use with their external programmer/reader do not realize that it is a lot easier and cheaper to use the on board solutions.
The problem is a lot of managers that cant even understand programming 101 have latched onto framework crap like it's the holy grail.
Code quality across the board has dropped by a magnitude over the past 5 years out there.
"I came to the conclusion that using it is a gross violation of all standards of professional code generation. "
Amen brother. Kids today cant be bothered with good code, and their spaghetti crap ends up as a "standard" in some places. look through a lot of the TI MSP embedded libraries and frameworks. We dont use ANY of it as it is all a bloated mess for a small embedded platform.
Hell it's a bloated mess for any platform.
Exactly. Old C programmer here, it took me exactly 8 days to learn coding for OSX and iOS. It's just wrapping your head around things. and don't be afraid of saying ,"what nimrod thought that was a good idea" at times, because I see a lot of idiocy inside the frameworks.
I also chuckle at things when I see what amounts to devolving to perl obscurity in a lot of the new stuff. People trying to save keystrokes and sacrifice readability, damn kids get off my libraries and frameworks.
Yuck QFP is a lot better far better pin density and easier to insert or remove safely.
and he will NEVER get it.
Hell you cant get open microcode on the freaking processors.
Shuttleworth is starting to become a little nutty.
I call bullshit, you are not in a 50% tax bracket.