All these consumer-grade drones are going to use one or a short list of control signal types, should be easy to jam, and only a little more difficult to override with a stronger signal and flat-out take control of the drone in question, and just slam it straight into the ground. With any luck someone will publish an article on how to construct such a device, 'for educational purposes', of course. Then the whole question of invasive drone use will become moot.
You're ignoring the 'recording it off the radio' part. What if I record it off the radio and make an MP3 out of it, then pass that around to whoever on the Internet wants it? Then they come after me, and I tell them, "I recorded off the radio". Now what do they do? Shut down all the radio stations? What you're ignoring here is that long before the PC or the Internet this exact thing was going on, and the recording industry, if they'd had their way, would have made cassette recorders illegal to own, but it was a rediculous idea so that never happened. It's just as rediculous now.
He's from the generation where 'experimenting with computers' involved building and tinkering with them, not ordering prebuilt parts from NewEgg and plugging them together.
First computer I owned: CDP1802 project from the Popular Electronics article, expanded to 8KB of 2114 static RAM, serial I/O (AY-5-1013 chip), and integer BASIC in two 2708 EPROMs, everything hand-wired on perfboard. Used a model 33ASR Teletype that I got broken from a local highschool (repaired it myself) as the terminal, and loaded the I/O for the integer BASIC interpreter from paper tape. Good times..
Forrest Mims is the most widely read electronics author in the world. His sixty books have sold over 7.5 million copies and have twice been honored for excellence by the Computer Press Association. His "Engineerâ(TM)s Notebook" series of books for RadioShack are entirely hand-lettered and hand-illustrated to re-create the look of Forrestâ(TM)s own laboratory notebooks.
However - back to their standard argument - a person who downloads a song they want is a potential buyer who will no longer buy the song.
Sure.. and if I record a song I like off the radio instead of buying it, then I guess they have to sue me for that, and sue the radio station for 'making it available to me', and since much is distributed digitally still via mp3 compression, you can't say that the loss of quality over FM broadcast makes any difference; it's 'good enough for me', I can hear a song start-to-finish, so what if it's only FM quality? They're rediculous.
You know, if they're so gods-be-damned upset about people getting their 'intellectual property' for FREE, then why do they allow it to be played on free, over-the-air broadcast radio? Sure, there's commercials, but I can turn down the volume or switch stations quickly enough that those don't even reach my ears, and sure, you can argue that FM radio quality is shitty compared to CD quality, but you can make the same argument about MP3 compression or any other kind of compression, too. My argument runs into trouble if you're talking somethign lossess like FLAC or Apple Lossless, but still, the RIAA's arguments have never made much sense to me.
I guess the RIAA needs to exterminate all primates on the planet for potential copyright infringement, because we can take any million of them and have them poke away randomly at buttons marked '0' and '1', and eventually they'll re-create every song ever recorded, a clear violation of copyright law.
I don't care about drone near misses. I am much more interested in incidents where the drone crashes straight into the operator's own penis and scrotum. Has this sort of an event ever happened before?
No, it hasn't, and that's a damned specific and rather strange fetish to be afflicted with, and just because you brought it up, I'm invoking Rule 34 on you.
we've got a bunch of Republicans under the tent already
You know, if that means they're not backing Trump, then it's worth whatever you might have to bear, in my opinion. Trump is an extinction-level event for humanity just waiting to happen. The only good thing he's made happen is he's brought the real hardcore racists, bigots, and wingnuts come out of the shadows, so we know who all of them are now.
I'll still go re-read some text on libertarianism in it's various flavors, and (attempt to) vet the candidates under that flag. I think it's time for me to get off the fence, anyway. What I always say is, "If what you're doing doesn't work, try something else, repeat until success". There will be some facets of my personality that will still cluck their tongue at me for 'wasting' a perfectly good vote, but on the other hand, I'll at least feel like my hands are clean; when whoever it is in the White House does something monumentally stupid, I'll be able to put up my hands and say "Hey, I didn't vote for so-and-so, don't blame me!".
Your vote should not be associated, in any way, with your name.
In a perfect world, yes, however..
It should be truly anonymous. If it isn't then you have bigger problems.
That's the thing: I trust the federal U.S. government (or to be fair, various parts of it; otherwise it's like saying 'all Chinese are bad' or 'all Muslims are bad' when what you mean to say is 'the Chinese government is mostly bad' and 'some so-called Muslims are bad, but they're only Muslims in name, not in actions') about as far as I can throw it. Various three-letter agencies are up to their elbows in data collected on natural-born U.S. citizens, demonstrably so, so I assume that they're getting into who is voting for who and what, as data to add to their 'profiling' capabilities.
I'll have to read your comment more carefully later on and do some research.. but I'll be honest with you, I hate being 'categorized' and pigeon-holed, which is the smaller part I don't usually mention about why I don't consort with any political party. Eventually they all do something that rubs me the wrong way.
What, precisely, DO they have to do before you're satisfied?
No one likely will see this, but I'll say it anyway: They could go completely open-source with their firmware, allowing anyone and everyone to examine it, and compile it, compare the resulting binary to what's shipped on a device, and allowing the meticulous, cautious types to compile and upload the resulting binaries to their devices, ensuring that there aren't any backdoors in the code. It would also allow 3rd parties to fix any bugs themselves, if they so choose, to their own satisfaction. In a word: Transparency, that's what.
I'm not Libertarian, even if I've been told I have leanings in that direction.. but I also have some leanings in all directions; I'm registered as Independent (and sometimes as 'None of the above', and then I leave the line blank, just to thumb my nose at the whole thing and make someone wonder about it). More than once I've considered voting for some third-party candidate, but there's a problem with that: I know damned well that someone, somewhere, is keeping track of who is voting for whom, and if I vote for someone who is running as, say, Libertarian, then my vote is saying "I agree with everything this candidate stands for", which may or may not be true -- and you have to admit, some of the third-party candidates, very often, are bigger whack-jobs than Republican or Democrat candidates. I'd have to do tons of background research on any of them just to make sure that there isn't some gigantic red flag on them, like they believe in pederasty, or plural marriage, or has been associated with some seditionist militia, or whatever, that would end up with me on some FBI watchlist.
On the off-chance this guy is reading this: Having a 'None of the Above' choice on a ballot, would serve as a vote of 'No Confidence' in any of the candidates on the ballot, and if the majority votes 'None of the Above', then all the candidates would be disqualified, and the campaign process starts all over again, with and entirely different set of candidates; the person currently occupying the office being elected for would continue on an interim basis, until someone the majority can agree on actually gets elected. It would reduce the 'lesser of many evils' problem of elections.
Didn't I read somewhere (like on/.) a while back, that the cheap, shitty food that the poor have no choice but to eat, has much to do with children's brains not developing as well as their more healthily-fed peers?
..oh, and one more thing, before you even say it: yes, I'm angry, and if you're not angry at the political mess in this country right now? Then I have to wonder why.
I find it surprising that some of you don't recognize apathy and hyperbole when you see it. Will I vote for someone? Yes. Will I like it? Highly unlikely, I think every single last one of them is a jackass in one way or another. Also, I reject your entire premise, I don't want ANY of them 'representing' me. I'd just as soon that they all were on the same plane at the same time, and the plane crashes and kills them all; the country would probably be better off in the long run. That being said where is my 'none of the above/no confidence' check-box on the ballot? I think we desperately need one, so we can toss the lot of them out, and repeat the whole process until we get down to someone who may not be able to run fast enough to escape being elected, but that won't be a total jackass. If such a person exists. While I'm at it I'll close my eyes and wish real, real hard that Santa Claus actually does exist, and that magic is real, because that's about as likely to happen too.
At the rate things are going, I won't even bother to register to vote, let alone vote for any of them, because I don't think any of them are either qualified, or represent my interests.
Cisco systems will pretend to audit their firmware for backdoors -- while simultaneously be reaching behind them for their NSA/CIA/FBI payout for their 'services to their Country'
No, Sexconker, it's the H1-B workers who are cash cows for asshole U.S. corporations who keep firing U.S. workers and hiring them, so they can make more money off of destroying the middle class in this country.
You are all foreign cows. Mooo, MOOO go the H1-B cows!
I'm not really sure anymore what your point even is? MitM attacks could have been happening since before the Internet was opened to the general public, even, and considering that it started as a DARPA project, and considering that pretty much all illusions about the U.S. I may have ever entertained have now been shattered, I think it's been continuously surveilled since Day Zero. If you're implying that the CIA/NSA/FBI/whoever has sneaked into my house and is watching the whole three ethernet devices I have on my private network, then you're more paranoid than I am. All I'm saying is why the hell should I make it easier for criminals or tragically anal-retentive government types to be going through my informational underwear drawer or directly monitoring me in realtime by having a smartphone when week after week I have it demonstrated to me that you're a chump if you own one, especially when nobody even uses their phone as a phone, for most it's like some crazy twisted lifestyle? It just doesn't make any sense for me, especially if I'm having to pay exhorbitant prices for it all to start with. Oh and the mention of the 'anytime' minutes? That was supposed to illustrate how little I even use a cellphone as a phone; there might be, on a busy month, and entire hour of airtime used.
..and before you say it: No, I'm not a luddite. I work for a 'major microprocessor/SoC manufacturer', who ironically enough creates most of the technology I'm not interested in owning, and without the team I'm on there, none of it would work reliably. You're welcome.
Maybe. And just like when it was AOL and all the other 'walled gardens' back in the day, I'll just ignore it and move on to something else. Maybe there'll be a grass-roots movement to start a wireless mesh network, and anyone who wanted the Internet to remain what it was originally will move to that instead. Maybe it'll all just become a useless, tangled mess of a walled garden like you imply, and I'll just walk away from it and go read more books instead, or (gasp, scandalous!) actually talk to more people, live and in person, instead of having 'internet friends' (which I personally don't do, social media is utter crap and a cancer). Maybe we'll all be forced to worship Allah before any of that happens, or have our heads cut off on YouTube. Maybe space aliens will land and reveal to us that their ancestors are our real creators, and force everyone to worship them, and nothing will matter anymore because we'll all be in chains. Who the hell even knows? I just want to live out what's left of my life in relative peace and try to have some fun while it's still possible to do so.
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All these consumer-grade drones are going to use one or a short list of control signal types, should be easy to jam, and only a little more difficult to override with a stronger signal and flat-out take control of the drone in question, and just slam it straight into the ground. With any luck someone will publish an article on how to construct such a device, 'for educational purposes', of course. Then the whole question of invasive drone use will become moot.
You're ignoring the 'recording it off the radio' part. What if I record it off the radio and make an MP3 out of it, then pass that around to whoever on the Internet wants it? Then they come after me, and I tell them, "I recorded off the radio". Now what do they do? Shut down all the radio stations? What you're ignoring here is that long before the PC or the Internet this exact thing was going on, and the recording industry, if they'd had their way, would have made cassette recorders illegal to own, but it was a rediculous idea so that never happened. It's just as rediculous now.
Go to bed, Millennial, or Santa won't come with your Arduino and/or RPi.
He's from the generation where 'experimenting with computers' involved building and tinkering with them, not ordering prebuilt parts from NewEgg and plugging them together.
First computer I owned: CDP1802 project from the Popular Electronics article, expanded to 8KB of 2114 static RAM, serial I/O (AY-5-1013 chip), and integer BASIC in two 2708 EPROMs, everything hand-wired on perfboard. Used a model 33ASR Teletype that I got broken from a local highschool (repaired it myself) as the terminal, and loaded the I/O for the integer BASIC interpreter from paper tape. Good times..
Forrest Mims is the most widely read electronics author in the world. His sixty books have sold over 7.5 million copies and have twice been honored for excellence by the Computer Press Association. His "Engineerâ(TM)s Notebook" series of books for RadioShack are entirely hand-lettered and hand-illustrated to re-create the look of Forrestâ(TM)s own laboratory notebooks.
http://www.forrestmims.org/bio...
However - back to their standard argument - a person who downloads a song they want is a potential buyer who will no longer buy the song.
Sure.. and if I record a song I like off the radio instead of buying it, then I guess they have to sue me for that, and sue the radio station for 'making it available to me', and since much is distributed digitally still via mp3 compression, you can't say that the loss of quality over FM broadcast makes any difference; it's 'good enough for me', I can hear a song start-to-finish, so what if it's only FM quality? They're rediculous.
You know, if they're so gods-be-damned upset about people getting their 'intellectual property' for FREE, then why do they allow it to be played on free, over-the-air broadcast radio? Sure, there's commercials, but I can turn down the volume or switch stations quickly enough that those don't even reach my ears, and sure, you can argue that FM radio quality is shitty compared to CD quality, but you can make the same argument about MP3 compression or any other kind of compression, too. My argument runs into trouble if you're talking somethign lossess like FLAC or Apple Lossless, but still, the RIAA's arguments have never made much sense to me.
I guess the RIAA needs to exterminate all primates on the planet for potential copyright infringement, because we can take any million of them and have them poke away randomly at buttons marked '0' and '1', and eventually they'll re-create every song ever recorded, a clear violation of copyright law.
For maximum sarcasm, he needs to send each copy over the Internet, to another RPi -- which will store it in /dev/null. That ought to really frost them.
I don't care about drone near misses. I am much more interested in incidents where the drone crashes straight into the operator's own penis and scrotum. Has this sort of an event ever happened before?
No, it hasn't, and that's a damned specific and rather strange fetish to be afflicted with, and just because you brought it up, I'm invoking Rule 34 on you.
we've got a bunch of Republicans under the tent already
You know, if that means they're not backing Trump, then it's worth whatever you might have to bear, in my opinion. Trump is an extinction-level event for humanity just waiting to happen. The only good thing he's made happen is he's brought the real hardcore racists, bigots, and wingnuts come out of the shadows, so we know who all of them are now.
I'll still go re-read some text on libertarianism in it's various flavors, and (attempt to) vet the candidates under that flag. I think it's time for me to get off the fence, anyway. What I always say is, "If what you're doing doesn't work, try something else, repeat until success". There will be some facets of my personality that will still cluck their tongue at me for 'wasting' a perfectly good vote, but on the other hand, I'll at least feel like my hands are clean; when whoever it is in the White House does something monumentally stupid, I'll be able to put up my hands and say "Hey, I didn't vote for so-and-so, don't blame me!".
Your vote should not be associated, in any way, with your name.
In a perfect world, yes, however..
It should be truly anonymous. If it isn't then you have bigger problems.
That's the thing: I trust the federal U.S. government (or to be fair, various parts of it; otherwise it's like saying 'all Chinese are bad' or 'all Muslims are bad' when what you mean to say is 'the Chinese government is mostly bad' and 'some so-called Muslims are bad, but they're only Muslims in name, not in actions') about as far as I can throw it. Various three-letter agencies are up to their elbows in data collected on natural-born U.S. citizens, demonstrably so, so I assume that they're getting into who is voting for who and what, as data to add to their 'profiling' capabilities.
I'll have to read your comment more carefully later on and do some research.. but I'll be honest with you, I hate being 'categorized' and pigeon-holed, which is the smaller part I don't usually mention about why I don't consort with any political party. Eventually they all do something that rubs me the wrong way.
What, precisely, DO they have to do before you're satisfied?
No one likely will see this, but I'll say it anyway: They could go completely open-source with their firmware, allowing anyone and everyone to examine it, and compile it, compare the resulting binary to what's shipped on a device, and allowing the meticulous, cautious types to compile and upload the resulting binaries to their devices, ensuring that there aren't any backdoors in the code. It would also allow 3rd parties to fix any bugs themselves, if they so choose, to their own satisfaction. In a word: Transparency, that's what.
I'm not Libertarian, even if I've been told I have leanings in that direction.. but I also have some leanings in all directions; I'm registered as Independent (and sometimes as 'None of the above', and then I leave the line blank, just to thumb my nose at the whole thing and make someone wonder about it). More than once I've considered voting for some third-party candidate, but there's a problem with that: I know damned well that someone, somewhere, is keeping track of who is voting for whom, and if I vote for someone who is running as, say, Libertarian, then my vote is saying "I agree with everything this candidate stands for", which may or may not be true -- and you have to admit, some of the third-party candidates, very often, are bigger whack-jobs than Republican or Democrat candidates. I'd have to do tons of background research on any of them just to make sure that there isn't some gigantic red flag on them, like they believe in pederasty, or plural marriage, or has been associated with some seditionist militia, or whatever, that would end up with me on some FBI watchlist.
On the off-chance this guy is reading this: Having a 'None of the Above' choice on a ballot, would serve as a vote of 'No Confidence' in any of the candidates on the ballot, and if the majority votes 'None of the Above', then all the candidates would be disqualified, and the campaign process starts all over again, with and entirely different set of candidates; the person currently occupying the office being elected for would continue on an interim basis, until someone the majority can agree on actually gets elected. It would reduce the 'lesser of many evils' problem of elections.
This, exactly, and times 1E+6. They'll cause unnecessary damage to some people's lives.
Didn't I read somewhere (like on /.) a while back, that the cheap, shitty food that the poor have no choice but to eat, has much to do with children's brains not developing as well as their more healthily-fed peers?
If this became popular I'd predict a sharp increase in the theft of smartphones. Bad idea, Google.
..oh, and one more thing, before you even say it: yes, I'm angry, and if you're not angry at the political mess in this country right now? Then I have to wonder why.
I find it surprising that some of you don't recognize apathy and hyperbole when you see it. Will I vote for someone? Yes. Will I like it? Highly unlikely, I think every single last one of them is a jackass in one way or another. Also, I reject your entire premise, I don't want ANY of them 'representing' me. I'd just as soon that they all were on the same plane at the same time, and the plane crashes and kills them all; the country would probably be better off in the long run. That being said where is my 'none of the above/no confidence' check-box on the ballot? I think we desperately need one, so we can toss the lot of them out, and repeat the whole process until we get down to someone who may not be able to run fast enough to escape being elected, but that won't be a total jackass. If such a person exists. While I'm at it I'll close my eyes and wish real, real hard that Santa Claus actually does exist, and that magic is real, because that's about as likely to happen too.
Get off your lazy ass and vote.
Listen, asshole: If you don't get a statement meant to convey APATHY when you see it, then you're probably not very clever, so STFU.
At the rate things are going, I won't even bother to register to vote, let alone vote for any of them, because I don't think any of them are either qualified, or represent my interests.
Cisco systems will pretend to audit their firmware for backdoors -- while simultaneously be reaching behind them for their NSA/CIA/FBI payout for their 'services to their Country'
No, Sexconker, it's the H1-B workers who are cash cows for asshole U.S. corporations who keep firing U.S. workers and hiring them, so they can make more money off of destroying the middle class in this country.
You are all foreign cows. Mooo, MOOO go the H1-B cows!
I'm not really sure anymore what your point even is? MitM attacks could have been happening since before the Internet was opened to the general public, even, and considering that it started as a DARPA project, and considering that pretty much all illusions about the U.S. I may have ever entertained have now been shattered, I think it's been continuously surveilled since Day Zero. If you're implying that the CIA/NSA/FBI/whoever has sneaked into my house and is watching the whole three ethernet devices I have on my private network, then you're more paranoid than I am. All I'm saying is why the hell should I make it easier for criminals or tragically anal-retentive government types to be going through my informational underwear drawer or directly monitoring me in realtime by having a smartphone when week after week I have it demonstrated to me that you're a chump if you own one, especially when nobody even uses their phone as a phone, for most it's like some crazy twisted lifestyle? It just doesn't make any sense for me, especially if I'm having to pay exhorbitant prices for it all to start with. Oh and the mention of the 'anytime' minutes? That was supposed to illustrate how little I even use a cellphone as a phone; there might be, on a busy month, and entire hour of airtime used.
..and before you say it: No, I'm not a luddite. I work for a 'major microprocessor/SoC manufacturer', who ironically enough creates most of the technology I'm not interested in owning, and without the team I'm on there, none of it would work reliably. You're welcome.
Maybe. And just like when it was AOL and all the other 'walled gardens' back in the day, I'll just ignore it and move on to something else. Maybe there'll be a grass-roots movement to start a wireless mesh network, and anyone who wanted the Internet to remain what it was originally will move to that instead. Maybe it'll all just become a useless, tangled mess of a walled garden like you imply, and I'll just walk away from it and go read more books instead, or (gasp, scandalous!) actually talk to more people, live and in person, instead of having 'internet friends' (which I personally don't do, social media is utter crap and a cancer). Maybe we'll all be forced to worship Allah before any of that happens, or have our heads cut off on YouTube. Maybe space aliens will land and reveal to us that their ancestors are our real creators, and force everyone to worship them, and nothing will matter anymore because we'll all be in chains. Who the hell even knows? I just want to live out what's left of my life in relative peace and try to have some fun while it's still possible to do so.