You're forgetting the other Slashdot commenting strategy:
"I have extremely unusual personal preferences and need this really unusual and almost contradictory set of features, I don't understand why anyone else would do it differently."
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Apple's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Apple faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Apple because Apple is dying. Things are looking very bad for Apple. As many of us are already aware, Apple continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Now where have I heard something like this before?
What bugs me about this is that I imagine that anything built into the car that could use internet connectivity will be locked into using the GM $5/day network, even if the widget in question is gaining access via Wifi to the OnStar wifi network and will not allow you to choose your own wifi (mobile hotspot, tethered phone, municipal wifi, etc).
For some reason I see a bunch of greedy bastards putting internet-aware applications into the car and then trying to squeeze you for the internet to make them work.
I don't know how robot soldiers identify targets, but presuming they have some mechanism whereby they only kill armed combatants it's not hard to see some advantages over human soldiers at least with respect to civilian noncombatants.
More accurate fire -- ability to use the minimal firepower to engage a target due to superior capabilities. Fire back only when fired upon -- presumably robots would be able to withstand some small arms fire and thus wouldn't necessarily need to shoot first and wouldn't shoot civilians.
Emotionally detached -- they wouldn't get upset when Unit #266478 is disabled by sniper fire from a village and decide to kill the villagers and burn the village. You don't see robots engaging in a My Lai-type massacre.
They also wouldn't commit atrocities against civilians, wonton destruction, killing livestock, rape, beatings, etc. Robots won't rape and pillage.
I thought that most liberal-leaning people have a love-hate relationship with Obama.
He was supposed to be their progressive knight in shining armor, but keeps doing all the usual political sell-outs to big business, big media, the security apparatus. No Wall Street guys did time, he kept fighting in Afghanistan, no real mea culpa on NSA monitoring. The only big liberal achievement was ACA, but even that seems a little compromised in many ways and I think hard-core progressives don't find it went far enough.
Of course Silicon Valley is also myopic on the subject of its own pet issues and I'm sure a lot of the love-hate is just self-centered -- he's not doing enough for my business/industry.
As I understand this, a vulnerable server can expose its private SSL key to an attacker. With this private key, I can decrypt all of its encrypted SSL traffic.
This correct so far?
Now, as I understand this so far, having the private key is great, but I need to be able to MITM the connection to decrypt anything.
How hard is this? At the transport layer, this would require snooping the network connection of the server; someplace locally on the LAN (easiest, port mirror, maybe) or at the ISP (harder, maybe less likely).
The other option would be some kind of DNS spoofing/vulnerability/cache poisoning, redirecting all the server traffic to a system I controlled and then piping it back out. How likely is this?
Even if I had the source code, it wouldn't do me personally any good as I couldn't grok what it did just from reading it. It would do me as much good as it did 99.99% of OpenSSL users.
Gag letters prohibit what they can say, they don't require them to make false statements of fact. You might make the argument that they could in fact be strong-armed through some extralegal method of making false statements of fact to engender false confidence in potential targets of spying, but that's getting a little into tinfoil hat territory.
In fact, I think an Apple statement of what little they can extract is pretty good and serves as a kind of interesting statement on what they believe is recoverable. It doesn't include third-party techniques or equipment that you might find in an NSA laboratory, but I don't know that Apple makes that kind of penetration test of their own devices.
So what exactly constitutes a "user generated active file"? Some kind of temp file kept open as long as an app is "open"? And what does "open" mean, really? Shows up when you double-click the home button? Many of those apps aren't really running, if you switch to them most seem to revert to cold-start behavior.
It makes me wonder if there's a paranoia step a person could take before entering a known security zone, like force-quitting the native apps in question, or whether powering the device off does this (which I always do anyway when dealing with a security checkpoint).
I would guess that by the time truly autonomous cars become widely available, there will be such good situational awareness (sensors, car-car communication, etc) that the only accidents that will happen will be utterly unavoidable, no-choice situations where the car has no reaction besides stopping, shutting off, isolating its power source and maybe deploying crash-absorbing air bags or something for crash survival. Like "the bridge collapsed" or "the trailer full of concrete pipes just dumped 50 feet ahead of me" or similar spontaneous failures of a physical nature.
I think cars will coordinate behavior and know what's happening around them to such a degree that the kind of unpredictable, what-will-the-guy-next-to-me do factor will be gone. Your car, the cars next to you, the cars behind you for the next mile will all know what's happening and do something in a coordinated manner in a way that people could never do.
I don't think the kind of accidents that happen because of information deficiencies, asymmetry, slow reaction time, etc. will exist anymore.
Current models have one, but my 2007 Volvo doesn't. Keyless drive was actually an upscale feature on this car, but at the time there was no factory remote start. And unfortunately keyless drive made adding remote start difficult, I seem to recall the workaround was the fairly unappealing idea of velcroing a keyfob under the dash(!).
There may be some kind of workaround/adapter now, but it's not worth it to me at this point.
My garage is insulated and I keep it heated to 42F in the winter, so I get heat out the vents in less than 3 blocks of driving. A lot of the time it wouldn't make a difference when I go home at night because I'm not line of sight to the car from where I'm working and the seat heaters kick in really fast.
Ironically, I'd actually like it more for air conditioning than for heat, but it's just not worth it at this point.
I think China and Russia are much more conflicted with each other than you describe. They nearly went to war over some river island in 1969.
While China certainly has a standing policy of accepting anything that goes on inside a country as its "internal affairs", that policy is a little sketchier when it comes to basically annexing territory of another sovereign state. It's not just internal affairs when the guy next door decides he wants to redraw your own Western boundary.
Russia may be willing to extend its raw material export economy to the Chinese, I think the Russians are more than a little anxious about the economic power and military ambitions that economic power can buy of its neighbor to the east.
The Chinese spent a long time somewhat under the shadow of the USSR and now that they are in a lot of respects seen as the #2 power in the world (in terms of gross military size plus economic clout at least), they are probably unwilling to cede much if anything to the Kremlin, especially on the topic of where the border should be and what's "historic Russian territory".
I'm sure the Chinese like to see Obama's fecklessness in the face of Putin's Ukrainian policy, anything that preoccupies Uncle Sam is great sport for Xi Jinping, but he cares about stability, and stability means a good economy and that means good business relations with Uncle Sam.
This is probably true in most states with decent sunshine laws. The problem is that it's a civil, not criminal, law, and about the only entity that can prove it has been done is a state auditor.
I would bet that even in states with good sunshine laws, most major police departments have secret agreements with vendors, some of which at the police departments request, and probably a few at the vendor's request.
I think more should be done about this -- it should be a termination for cause for the police chief in office unless they discovered it, cancelled it immediately and publicized the fact. The contract should become null and void as it violates state law. Any vendor agreeing to such a contract shall be barred from business with the department for five years.
The idea that the police are, in effect, engaging in secret outsourcing agreements should be repugnant.
The problem is, as an outsider, you're on the hook for protection money forever. You've got no leverage and they will just bleed you dry and then dispose of you.
As an insider, well, look what happens with top guys in DPRK when they fall out of favor -- they get hauled out of bed, shoved into a car and get shot someplace. And I don't think it's so easy to just be a low-profile yes-man, either. You don't get to be in the leadership or stay there without playing the game, which means angling for the spot above you while somebody angles for your spot.
I tried the drive off thing, too, although I kind wanted the car to either stop when the key was out of range or, even better, stop when I hit the "panic" button on the remote.
I'm not a slave to renwables, it just makes me crazy that we build those windmills and then turn them off when we don't know what to do with the electricity they generate. Desalination is just one use, making hydrogen for methane via electrolysis is another.
I also think that Obama could have done more for the economy when he took office by investing, NASA scale, into nuclear power and building a couple of gigwatts of nuke power in Northwestern Arizona, dedicating the power generation to desalination.
Funny thing about keyless.. I never drop my keys trying to get into the car or start it.. They never leave my pocket.
It does lead to the occasional idiot moment where I walk up to my car and tug on the door handle like a moron and wonder why it won't open or I push on the start button and have nothing happen because I left my key in another pocket.
I can't even lock the doors if the key is inside.. the car won't let it happen.
This sorta bugs me; there are about two times a year where I want to start my car, leave it running, lock it and run into a building for a couple of minutes. I can take my RF key out of the car, but with the car running it won't let me lock the door.
I would only consider doing this someplace in the dead of winter, like when leaving some small hotel in the middle of nowhere. Start car, carry down bags/check out, drive off.
One of the challenges for renewables like wind/solar is being able to generate power when the grid doesn't need it.
Maybe instead of stopping the windmills they should keep them spinning but use desal plants as a power sink for the "excess" power. It's by and large free energy they wouldn't even generate; you might as well generate it and use it to do useful work.
It's debatable whether the excess energy could desal enough water to make a difference.
The Mitsubishi HS-U52 was the best VCR I ever owned. The hifi stereo recording was so good I used to copy audio CDs from the library onto VHS. Back in the early 90s it was better quality than cassette and cheaper than DAT.
Why do SSD makers only make 2.5" SSDs? It seems like a lot of the capacity limitation is self-enforced by constraining themselves to laptop-sized drives.
Why can't they sell "yesterday's" flash density at larger storage capacities in the 3.5" disk form factor? For a a lot of the use cases, the 3.5" form factor isn't an issue. More, cheaper flash would enable greater capacities at lower prices.
The same thing is true for hybrid drives -- the 2.5" ones I've used have barely enough flash to make acceleration happen, a 3.5" case with a 2.5" platter and 120GB flash would be able to keep a lot more blocks in flash and reserve meaningful amounts for write caching to flash.
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You're forgetting the other Slashdot commenting strategy:
"I have extremely unusual personal preferences and need this really unusual and almost contradictory set of features, I don't understand why anyone else would do it differently."
You don't need to be a Kreskin to predict Apple's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Apple faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Apple because Apple is dying. Things are looking very bad for Apple. As many of us are already aware, Apple continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.
Now where have I heard something like this before?
What bugs me about this is that I imagine that anything built into the car that could use internet connectivity will be locked into using the GM $5/day network, even if the widget in question is gaining access via Wifi to the OnStar wifi network and will not allow you to choose your own wifi (mobile hotspot, tethered phone, municipal wifi, etc).
For some reason I see a bunch of greedy bastards putting internet-aware applications into the car and then trying to squeeze you for the internet to make them work.
I don't know how robot soldiers identify targets, but presuming they have some mechanism whereby they only kill armed combatants it's not hard to see some advantages over human soldiers at least with respect to civilian noncombatants.
More accurate fire -- ability to use the minimal firepower to engage a target due to superior capabilities. Fire back only when fired upon -- presumably robots would be able to withstand some small arms fire and thus wouldn't necessarily need to shoot first and wouldn't shoot civilians.
Emotionally detached -- they wouldn't get upset when Unit #266478 is disabled by sniper fire from a village and decide to kill the villagers and burn the village. You don't see robots engaging in a My Lai-type massacre.
They also wouldn't commit atrocities against civilians, wonton destruction, killing livestock, rape, beatings, etc. Robots won't rape and pillage.
I thought that most liberal-leaning people have a love-hate relationship with Obama.
He was supposed to be their progressive knight in shining armor, but keeps doing all the usual political sell-outs to big business, big media, the security apparatus. No Wall Street guys did time, he kept fighting in Afghanistan, no real mea culpa on NSA monitoring. The only big liberal achievement was ACA, but even that seems a little compromised in many ways and I think hard-core progressives don't find it went far enough.
Of course Silicon Valley is also myopic on the subject of its own pet issues and I'm sure a lot of the love-hate is just self-centered -- he's not doing enough for my business/industry.
I'm told that's what you get if you're a shitty (in any or all ways) place to work.
The good people will leave. They always have options.
The shitty people without options will stay. The ones who are just good enough not to get fired but not good enough to move someplace else.
Could they build a tunnel as a long conduit on the sea floor, perhaps giving it some flexibility to deal with the seismic activity in that area?
As I understand this, a vulnerable server can expose its private SSL key to an attacker. With this private key, I can decrypt all of its encrypted SSL traffic.
This correct so far?
Now, as I understand this so far, having the private key is great, but I need to be able to MITM the connection to decrypt anything.
How hard is this? At the transport layer, this would require snooping the network connection of the server; someplace locally on the LAN (easiest, port mirror, maybe) or at the ISP (harder, maybe less likely).
The other option would be some kind of DNS spoofing/vulnerability/cache poisoning, redirecting all the server traffic to a system I controlled and then piping it back out. How likely is this?
I've had encryption enabled since it became available.
Look at the source code and see.
Even if I had the source code, it wouldn't do me personally any good as I couldn't grok what it did just from reading it. It would do me as much good as it did 99.99% of OpenSSL users.
Gag letters prohibit what they can say, they don't require them to make false statements of fact. You might make the argument that they could in fact be strong-armed through some extralegal method of making false statements of fact to engender false confidence in potential targets of spying, but that's getting a little into tinfoil hat territory.
In fact, I think an Apple statement of what little they can extract is pretty good and serves as a kind of interesting statement on what they believe is recoverable. It doesn't include third-party techniques or equipment that you might find in an NSA laboratory, but I don't know that Apple makes that kind of penetration test of their own devices.
So what exactly constitutes a "user generated active file"? Some kind of temp file kept open as long as an app is "open"? And what does "open" mean, really? Shows up when you double-click the home button? Many of those apps aren't really running, if you switch to them most seem to revert to cold-start behavior.
It makes me wonder if there's a paranoia step a person could take before entering a known security zone, like force-quitting the native apps in question, or whether powering the device off does this (which I always do anyway when dealing with a security checkpoint).
..other cars of a similar price point?
In my mind, a Tesla is a luxury sedan more or less on par with BMW 7 series, Mercedes S550, Lexus LS460.
It'd be interesting to see how sales compare with those cars.
In retrospect, everything that worked out looks pretty smart, doesn't it?
Everything that didn't work out? Nobody talks about it.
I would guess that by the time truly autonomous cars become widely available, there will be such good situational awareness (sensors, car-car communication, etc) that the only accidents that will happen will be utterly unavoidable, no-choice situations where the car has no reaction besides stopping, shutting off, isolating its power source and maybe deploying crash-absorbing air bags or something for crash survival. Like "the bridge collapsed" or "the trailer full of concrete pipes just dumped 50 feet ahead of me" or similar spontaneous failures of a physical nature.
I think cars will coordinate behavior and know what's happening around them to such a degree that the kind of unpredictable, what-will-the-guy-next-to-me do factor will be gone. Your car, the cars next to you, the cars behind you for the next mile will all know what's happening and do something in a coordinated manner in a way that people could never do.
I don't think the kind of accidents that happen because of information deficiencies, asymmetry, slow reaction time, etc. will exist anymore.
Because stopping CIA data collection is a higher priority than making sure your people don't end up crippled from polio?
Sure, you can "blame" the CIA for this, but at a certain point isn't guaranteeing your kids won't get polio a little more important?
Current models have one, but my 2007 Volvo doesn't. Keyless drive was actually an upscale feature on this car, but at the time there was no factory remote start. And unfortunately keyless drive made adding remote start difficult, I seem to recall the workaround was the fairly unappealing idea of velcroing a keyfob under the dash(!).
There may be some kind of workaround/adapter now, but it's not worth it to me at this point.
My garage is insulated and I keep it heated to 42F in the winter, so I get heat out the vents in less than 3 blocks of driving. A lot of the time it wouldn't make a difference when I go home at night because I'm not line of sight to the car from where I'm working and the seat heaters kick in really fast.
Ironically, I'd actually like it more for air conditioning than for heat, but it's just not worth it at this point.
I think China and Russia are much more conflicted with each other than you describe. They nearly went to war over some river island in 1969.
While China certainly has a standing policy of accepting anything that goes on inside a country as its "internal affairs", that policy is a little sketchier when it comes to basically annexing territory of another sovereign state. It's not just internal affairs when the guy next door decides he wants to redraw your own Western boundary.
Russia may be willing to extend its raw material export economy to the Chinese, I think the Russians are more than a little anxious about the economic power and military ambitions that economic power can buy of its neighbor to the east.
The Chinese spent a long time somewhat under the shadow of the USSR and now that they are in a lot of respects seen as the #2 power in the world (in terms of gross military size plus economic clout at least), they are probably unwilling to cede much if anything to the Kremlin, especially on the topic of where the border should be and what's "historic Russian territory".
I'm sure the Chinese like to see Obama's fecklessness in the face of Putin's Ukrainian policy, anything that preoccupies Uncle Sam is great sport for Xi Jinping, but he cares about stability, and stability means a good economy and that means good business relations with Uncle Sam.
This is probably true in most states with decent sunshine laws. The problem is that it's a civil, not criminal, law, and about the only entity that can prove it has been done is a state auditor.
I would bet that even in states with good sunshine laws, most major police departments have secret agreements with vendors, some of which at the police departments request, and probably a few at the vendor's request.
I think more should be done about this -- it should be a termination for cause for the police chief in office unless they discovered it, cancelled it immediately and publicized the fact. The contract should become null and void as it violates state law. Any vendor agreeing to such a contract shall be barred from business with the department for five years.
The idea that the police are, in effect, engaging in secret outsourcing agreements should be repugnant.
The problem is, as an outsider, you're on the hook for protection money forever. You've got no leverage and they will just bleed you dry and then dispose of you.
As an insider, well, look what happens with top guys in DPRK when they fall out of favor -- they get hauled out of bed, shoved into a car and get shot someplace. And I don't think it's so easy to just be a low-profile yes-man, either. You don't get to be in the leadership or stay there without playing the game, which means angling for the spot above you while somebody angles for your spot.
I tried the drive off thing, too, although I kind wanted the car to either stop when the key was out of range or, even better, stop when I hit the "panic" button on the remote.
I'm not a slave to renwables, it just makes me crazy that we build those windmills and then turn them off when we don't know what to do with the electricity they generate. Desalination is just one use, making hydrogen for methane via electrolysis is another.
I also think that Obama could have done more for the economy when he took office by investing, NASA scale, into nuclear power and building a couple of gigwatts of nuke power in Northwestern Arizona, dedicating the power generation to desalination.
Funny thing about keyless.. I never drop my keys trying to get into the car or start it.. They never leave my pocket.
It does lead to the occasional idiot moment where I walk up to my car and tug on the door handle like a moron and wonder why it won't open or I push on the start button and have nothing happen because I left my key in another pocket.
I can't even lock the doors if the key is inside.. the car won't let it happen.
This sorta bugs me; there are about two times a year where I want to start my car, leave it running, lock it and run into a building for a couple of minutes. I can take my RF key out of the car, but with the car running it won't let me lock the door.
I would only consider doing this someplace in the dead of winter, like when leaving some small hotel in the middle of nowhere. Start car, carry down bags/check out, drive off.
One of the challenges for renewables like wind/solar is being able to generate power when the grid doesn't need it.
Maybe instead of stopping the windmills they should keep them spinning but use desal plants as a power sink for the "excess" power. It's by and large free energy they wouldn't even generate; you might as well generate it and use it to do useful work.
It's debatable whether the excess energy could desal enough water to make a difference.
The Mitsubishi HS-U52 was the best VCR I ever owned. The hifi stereo recording was so good I used to copy audio CDs from the library onto VHS. Back in the early 90s it was better quality than cassette and cheaper than DAT.
Why do SSD makers only make 2.5" SSDs? It seems like a lot of the capacity limitation is self-enforced by constraining themselves to laptop-sized drives.
Why can't they sell "yesterday's" flash density at larger storage capacities in the 3.5" disk form factor? For a a lot of the use cases, the 3.5" form factor isn't an issue. More, cheaper flash would enable greater capacities at lower prices.
The same thing is true for hybrid drives -- the 2.5" ones I've used have barely enough flash to make acceleration happen, a 3.5" case with a 2.5" platter and 120GB flash would be able to keep a lot more blocks in flash and reserve meaningful amounts for write caching to flash.