Why the actual fuck does anyone need a gods-be-damned WiFi-enabled kettle in the first place? Too lazy to walk ten steps to the kitchen to turn the thing on? Really? Seriously, we've come to this?
You want to get all upset at someone, mister obvious hobby drone builder? Get mad at the dumbshits who kept flying their toys into places they didn't belong, because they're the ones who are ruining it for everyone now. Would you rather your toys become outlawed entirely instead? Maybe you get required to incorporate a transponder device as a requirement for registration, and maybe annually you have to have your toy inspected to ensure it's still got the correct and functioning transponder, and maybe you get thrown in jail for flying it without it. Tough shit.
Force them to carry transponders periodically transmitting their registration number. Make it part of the firmware operating the drone, and make it signed firmware, so if someone tries to alter it, the drone won't fly at all.
Either the government is trying to convince people that surveillance is OK by having an academic institution claim (falsely) that we're already OK with it, or over 90% of people just don't understand the ramifications of their supposedly secure traffic being monitored/surveilled; it's a coin-flip which one it really is.
MEMO TO GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE ASSHOLES: Get the fuck out of my business! You're TRAITORS to this country; YOU are the terrorists now, fuck the fuck off!
*shrug* don't know what to tell you, friend, I'm no doctor, let alone a sleep specialist, and everything I'm saying is just my opinion. Talk to a doctor if you think it's a real problem.
I have to question how anyone can use 23GB of data per month on a cellphone. Seriously, what are you doing with your life if you're using the Internet on your phone that much? It's excessive and I really can't blame Sprint for making the decision they're making, and anyone who is using anywhere near that much on their phone in a month on a regular basis, in my opinion, needs to take a hard look at what they're doing and why, and make some lifestyle changes.
Waking up with the sun (whether you can see it or not) isn't at all what I'm talking about, though, that's 100% natural, I'm talking about waking up because your alarm clock wakes you up, whether you're ready to wake up or not.
Now, that disclaimer having been made: I'm going to tell you exactly, precisely, how much sleep you need every night. You need exactly, precisely as much sleep as you need to sleep. If we could live in a world where you never had an alarm clock waking you up, and went to sleep when you wanted to go to sleep, allowing you to wake up naturally, you'd get exactly, precisely as much sleep as your body needed, every single night. Saying 'you need eight hours sleep a night!' is like saying 'you need to drink at least eight glasses of water per day!'; it's hand-waving, it's one-size-fits-all, it's an over-simplification, and it's fundamentally flawed. Unfortunately we live in a world where, unless you're independently wealthy and don't need to live on someone elses' imposed schedule, you need to get up at a specific time of the morning, and hustle to get to work on time. So in the end, it is what it is, and you get as much sleep as you can; maybe it's enough for you, maybe it's not. For me, anything less than six hours on a regular basis, and I start running into trouble, and if I'm sleeping more than 9 hours a night on a regular basis, I don't seem to have any energy and have problems getting moving once I'm out of bed. As described above, YMMV.
Gee whiz, all that infrastructure to be built on the Moon would require lots of personnel to construct, maintain, and operate; sounds to me like having a permanent colony on the Moon would be the first step in that process..
..which is what I've been saying for years now, and more than once here on Slashdot. Come on MIT, try to keep up, will you please?
So no matter what we are going to attach cars and the "street" to the Internet? That's a good idea?
Emphatically no, it's not, but that won't stop it from happening, any more than 'wireless charging' being a thing now couldn't be stopped from being marketed, despite the incredible inefficiency of it, or the 'internet of things' becoming a thing (and not being anything like secure, and why the hell, really, do you need your refrigerator connected to the gods-be-damned Internet anyway?), or 'The Cloud' being a thing, despite 'Cloud' providers deciding to go belly-up on you and leaving you high and dry and/or getting hacked for its' contents, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.. people want the Internet in their cars, because cars, like cellphones have become, are now more of a lifestyle choice than they are what they used to be made to be (transportation!), so of course you have to have all the comforts of home in your gods-be-damned car; I'm just waiting for there to be a toilet built into the drivers' seat, and some sort of shower facilities and a way to store and cook food, so you never have to leave the car, ever, for any reason. Anyway, back in Less Sarcasm Land, people want their cars to have all this wireless connectivity, and since they're rushing to market with this stuff, of course it's going to be a major attack vector for the entire vehicle. To be fair though even what we assumed were the most secure systems connected to the Internet have been hacked, which just proves the obvious: Anything can be hacked into. It's just a matter of time. You want unimpeachable security? Don't connect it to the Internet, or have any sort of wireless connectivity in the first place. I drive a 2008 Toyota Tacoma pickup with a 5-speed stick shift, it doesn't have wireless anything, and so far as I know, short of someone having physical access to the CANBUS, it's not hackable, and I like it that way.
You want your vehicle to be unhackable? Then it needs a physical switch you can flip that kills power to any and all radio transceivers in the vehicle, and I don't mean a 'soft' switch that has to be acted upon by software, either. Short of that being available, find the antenna(s) for any radio transceivers, disconnect them, and connect the transceiver to a dummy load. That won't completely stop them, but at worst it'll reduce the range by which it can be accessed to a few feet.
You are unaware that this code exists probably because you've lived your entire computer life inside a safe little virtual world created for you by people who are a lot smarter than you
Let me give you a clue, since you don't seem to have one, you arrogant piece of crap: I work for the company that made the microprocessor and PCH in the computer you're spouting nonsense on. Do not presume to tell me what I do and do not know.
Now, then: If you're so gods-be-damned smart, then how come you don't seem to understand that 100mW of RF, even right next to your (apparently rock-filled) head, isn't going to cause injury or death, or more to the point: the couple watts that your cellphone, right next to your head, also isn't causing?
As I already said: You should still be able to prevent Windows from executing any executable file through 'Deny' permissions being set on the targeted file -- and if Microsoft is somehow circumventing their own filesystem security in order to force Windows 10 down everyone's throat, then it really is time to start over with a non-Microsoft operating system.
I should also point out: I work for a -- AHEM! -- major microprocessor manufacturer, and they have Enterprise versions of Windows 7 all over the place -- and none of them have been force-upgraded to Windows 10; it is more than possible to prevent the forced upgrade from occurring, you just have to know how to do it.
From what I've been reading, it doesn't matter if you turn off Automatic Updates or not, it still goes right ahead and downloads and attempts to install itself.. just like any other malware.
Here's an idea: Find the executable in the Win10 install package that's run, go into it's Properties, Security tab, set 'Deny' for 'Read and Execute' for 'SYSTEM'. Should prevent the installer from running. If the OS changes the permissions against your express wishes, or it just keeps downloading new copies, then Microsoft is violating their own system security scheme; in that case, if it wasn't already time to get out, now it'll be time to get out and find a different OS. I've never been a huge fan of Microsoft (have managed to never pay for a single legal copy of any version of Windows) but I've put up with it. This behavior from them takes the cake, though; I'm done. The next box has to have something other than Windows on it. I can't tolerate an OS that countermands my express wishes and takes away all control from me like that.
Thanks sincerely for the useful information and helpful comments, which is noteworthy in this day and age when the Internet is so full of jerks and losers.:-) Now, if I ever get around to having spare cash to build a new box..
More specifically I need to be able to hack the OS at however deep a level as necessary, just like I do Windows, and a Guide to that would be helpful. The last time I tried dinking around with some distro of Linux (think it was some version of Redhat) I would get totally lost just trying to navigate around the filesystem, whereas I know where everything is in any version of Windows. Also I found something even as simple as installing software to be kind of confusing, believe it or not.
an incorrect setting can lead to physical damage to the device and potential harm to nearby humans
If code can damage the hardware then the hardware design is bad, and 100mW of transmit power isn't enough to cause harm to humans; your cellphone transmits with more power than that.
Also, I've known quite a few vegetarians (and a fair number of vegans) over the years; without exception, they're all weak, have some sort of funny health problem(s), and to be quite blunt their cognitive processes seem to be slightly impaired. Not a single athlete among them. I also work with a fair number of Indians, and they're all vegetarian; they're also small, skinny, and weak-looking. Don't know any of them personally enough to inquire about their health. None of the above is a great advertisement for swearing off meat. Again: Thanks, but no gracias.
No kidding. Can someone suggest a good book to get started with Linux? The next box I build is looking to have some flavor of it instead of any version of Windows.
I've been keeping track daily of everything I eat (not just calories, but macros) for years, so I know exactly what I'm eating. Lentils and beans are nutritionally about the same. You end up eating far too much fiber and far too much carbohydrate, leading to becoming overweight, if you use beans for your protein source. It's more or less the same with other plant-based protein sources. You can tell me to use something like soy protein powder, but now you're using an expensive, highly processed product instead of eating actual food. I'll even admit it's possible to find the perfect combination of plant-based foods to get all the aminos without eating too many carbs and fiber, but by the time you've done that you're limiting your diet so much that you'd better be OK with eating a very narrow selection the rest of your life. No thanks, I'll just keep eating meat.
And as a guy who hit 40, when you get a little older some things, like digestion, just don't work as good as they used to. And processed bean protein will almost certainly digest easier than red meat
..and as a guy who just hit FIFTY this year, eats meat every single day, has a bodyfat percentage somewhere between 9 and 12 percent, is an amateur athlete, and who has NO digestive issues to speak of, I say you need to look for other reasons for your problems than eating meat.
You're missing the point: they'd have people eating NO meat whatsoever. You, apparently, don't understand the ramifications of eating a strictly vegetarian diet: you WILL end up malnourished due to deficiency of at least one amino acid, since most plant-based proteins are deficient. Furthermore there are other substances in meat that are highly beneficial to human health, and you can't get them from plant-based sources.
The author of this article might be paranoid for the wrong reasons, but his message and intent are right: if you're not thinking more about how much you're letting your privacy be compromised, then you're not doing yourself any favors.
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Why the actual fuck does anyone need a gods-be-damned WiFi-enabled kettle in the first place? Too lazy to walk ten steps to the kitchen to turn the thing on? Really? Seriously, we've come to this?
Don't Be This Guy! is the takeaway. He isn't living, he's merely existing, and worse, he's existing only to do his corporate masters' bidding.
You want to get all upset at someone, mister obvious hobby drone builder? Get mad at the dumbshits who kept flying their toys into places they didn't belong, because they're the ones who are ruining it for everyone now. Would you rather your toys become outlawed entirely instead? Maybe you get required to incorporate a transponder device as a requirement for registration, and maybe annually you have to have your toy inspected to ensure it's still got the correct and functioning transponder, and maybe you get thrown in jail for flying it without it. Tough shit.
Force them to carry transponders periodically transmitting their registration number. Make it part of the firmware operating the drone, and make it signed firmware, so if someone tries to alter it, the drone won't fly at all.
Either the government is trying to convince people that surveillance is OK by having an academic institution claim (falsely) that we're already OK with it, or over 90% of people just don't understand the ramifications of their supposedly secure traffic being monitored/surveilled; it's a coin-flip which one it really is.
MEMO TO GOVERNMENT SURVEILLANCE ASSHOLES: Get the fuck out of my business! You're TRAITORS to this country; YOU are the terrorists now, fuck the fuck off!
Your opinion is terrible
and that is your opinon. If you don't like mine then that's tough for you.
I'm glad the world isn't limited by your imagination
Jerk.
*shrug* don't know what to tell you, friend, I'm no doctor, let alone a sleep specialist, and everything I'm saying is just my opinion. Talk to a doctor if you think it's a real problem.
I have to question how anyone can use 23GB of data per month on a cellphone. Seriously, what are you doing with your life if you're using the Internet on your phone that much? It's excessive and I really can't blame Sprint for making the decision they're making, and anyone who is using anywhere near that much on their phone in a month on a regular basis, in my opinion, needs to take a hard look at what they're doing and why, and make some lifestyle changes.
Waking up with the sun (whether you can see it or not) isn't at all what I'm talking about, though, that's 100% natural, I'm talking about waking up because your alarm clock wakes you up, whether you're ready to wake up or not.
This is just my opinion.
Now, that disclaimer having been made: I'm going to tell you exactly, precisely, how much sleep you need every night.
You need exactly, precisely as much sleep as you need to sleep. If we could live in a world where you never had an alarm clock waking you up, and went to sleep when you wanted to go to sleep, allowing you to wake up naturally, you'd get exactly, precisely as much sleep as your body needed, every single night.
Saying 'you need eight hours sleep a night!' is like saying 'you need to drink at least eight glasses of water per day!'; it's hand-waving, it's one-size-fits-all, it's an over-simplification, and it's fundamentally flawed.
Unfortunately we live in a world where, unless you're independently wealthy and don't need to live on someone elses' imposed schedule, you need to get up at a specific time of the morning, and hustle to get to work on time. So in the end, it is what it is, and you get as much sleep as you can; maybe it's enough for you, maybe it's not. For me, anything less than six hours on a regular basis, and I start running into trouble, and if I'm sleeping more than 9 hours a night on a regular basis, I don't seem to have any energy and have problems getting moving once I'm out of bed. As described above, YMMV.
I have a hard time taking someone seriously who uses "ain't" in a non-ironic manner. Now shut up and drink your Budweiser, and stop beating your wife.
Gee whiz, all that infrastructure to be built on the Moon would require lots of personnel to construct, maintain, and operate; sounds to me like having a permanent colony on the Moon would be the first step in that process..
..which is what I've been saying for years now, and more than once here on Slashdot. Come on MIT, try to keep up, will you please?
So no matter what we are going to attach cars and the "street" to the Internet? That's a good idea?
Emphatically no, it's not, but that won't stop it from happening, any more than 'wireless charging' being a thing now couldn't be stopped from being marketed, despite the incredible inefficiency of it, or the 'internet of things' becoming a thing (and not being anything like secure, and why the hell, really, do you need your refrigerator connected to the gods-be-damned Internet anyway?), or 'The Cloud' being a thing, despite 'Cloud' providers deciding to go belly-up on you and leaving you high and dry and/or getting hacked for its' contents, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.. people want the Internet in their cars, because cars, like cellphones have become, are now more of a lifestyle choice than they are what they used to be made to be (transportation!), so of course you have to have all the comforts of home in your gods-be-damned car; I'm just waiting for there to be a toilet built into the drivers' seat, and some sort of shower facilities and a way to store and cook food, so you never have to leave the car, ever, for any reason. Anyway, back in Less Sarcasm Land, people want their cars to have all this wireless connectivity, and since they're rushing to market with this stuff, of course it's going to be a major attack vector for the entire vehicle. To be fair though even what we assumed were the most secure systems connected to the Internet have been hacked, which just proves the obvious: Anything can be hacked into. It's just a matter of time. You want unimpeachable security? Don't connect it to the Internet, or have any sort of wireless connectivity in the first place. I drive a 2008 Toyota Tacoma pickup with a 5-speed stick shift, it doesn't have wireless anything, and so far as I know, short of someone having physical access to the CANBUS, it's not hackable, and I like it that way.
You want your vehicle to be unhackable? Then it needs a physical switch you can flip that kills power to any and all radio transceivers in the vehicle, and I don't mean a 'soft' switch that has to be acted upon by software, either. Short of that being available, find the antenna(s) for any radio transceivers, disconnect them, and connect the transceiver to a dummy load. That won't completely stop them, but at worst it'll reduce the range by which it can be accessed to a few feet.
You are unaware that this code exists probably because you've lived your entire computer life inside a safe little virtual world created for you by people who are a lot smarter than you
Let me give you a clue, since you don't seem to have one, you arrogant piece of crap: I work for the company that made the microprocessor and PCH in the computer you're spouting nonsense on. Do not presume to tell me what I do and do not know.
Now, then: If you're so gods-be-damned smart, then how come you don't seem to understand that 100mW of RF, even right next to your (apparently rock-filled) head, isn't going to cause injury or death, or more to the point: the couple watts that your cellphone, right next to your head, also isn't causing?
Please bugger off. You're boring me now.
No setting in Windows will stop it
As I already said: You should still be able to prevent Windows from executing any executable file through 'Deny' permissions being set on the targeted file -- and if Microsoft is somehow circumventing their own filesystem security in order to force Windows 10 down everyone's throat, then it really is time to start over with a non-Microsoft operating system.
I should also point out: I work for a -- AHEM! -- major microprocessor manufacturer, and they have Enterprise versions of Windows 7 all over the place -- and none of them have been force-upgraded to Windows 10; it is more than possible to prevent the forced upgrade from occurring, you just have to know how to do it.
From what I've been reading, it doesn't matter if you turn off Automatic Updates or not, it still goes right ahead and downloads and attempts to install itself.. just like any other malware.
Here's an idea: Find the executable in the Win10 install package that's run, go into it's Properties, Security tab, set 'Deny' for 'Read and Execute' for 'SYSTEM'. Should prevent the installer from running. If the OS changes the permissions against your express wishes, or it just keeps downloading new copies, then Microsoft is violating their own system security scheme; in that case, if it wasn't already time to get out, now it'll be time to get out and find a different OS. I've never been a huge fan of Microsoft (have managed to never pay for a single legal copy of any version of Windows) but I've put up with it. This behavior from them takes the cake, though; I'm done. The next box has to have something other than Windows on it. I can't tolerate an OS that countermands my express wishes and takes away all control from me like that.
Thanks sincerely for the useful information and helpful comments, which is noteworthy in this day and age when the Internet is so full of jerks and losers. :-) Now, if I ever get around to having spare cash to build a new box..
More specifically I need to be able to hack the OS at however deep a level as necessary, just like I do Windows, and a Guide to that would be helpful. The last time I tried dinking around with some distro of Linux (think it was some version of Redhat) I would get totally lost just trying to navigate around the filesystem, whereas I know where everything is in any version of Windows. Also I found something even as simple as installing software to be kind of confusing, believe it or not.
an incorrect setting can lead to physical damage to the device and potential harm to nearby humans
If code can damage the hardware then the hardware design is bad, and 100mW of transmit power isn't enough to cause harm to humans; your cellphone transmits with more power than that.
Also, I've known quite a few vegetarians (and a fair number of vegans) over the years; without exception, they're all weak, have some sort of funny health problem(s), and to be quite blunt their cognitive processes seem to be slightly impaired. Not a single athlete among them. I also work with a fair number of Indians, and they're all vegetarian; they're also small, skinny, and weak-looking. Don't know any of them personally enough to inquire about their health. None of the above is a great advertisement for swearing off meat. Again: Thanks, but no gracias.
This is the year of Linus!
No kidding. Can someone suggest a good book to get started with Linux? The next box I build is looking to have some flavor of it instead of any version of Windows.
I've been keeping track daily of everything I eat (not just calories, but macros) for years, so I know exactly what I'm eating. Lentils and beans are nutritionally about the same. You end up eating far too much fiber and far too much carbohydrate, leading to becoming overweight, if you use beans for your protein source. It's more or less the same with other plant-based protein sources. You can tell me to use something like soy protein powder, but now you're using an expensive, highly processed product instead of eating actual food. I'll even admit it's possible to find the perfect combination of plant-based foods to get all the aminos without eating too many carbs and fiber, but by the time you've done that you're limiting your diet so much that you'd better be OK with eating a very narrow selection the rest of your life. No thanks, I'll just keep eating meat.
And as a guy who hit 40, when you get a little older some things, like digestion, just don't work as good as they used to. And processed bean protein will almost certainly digest easier than red meat
..and as a guy who just hit FIFTY this year, eats meat every single day, has a bodyfat percentage somewhere between 9 and 12 percent, is an amateur athlete, and who has NO digestive issues to speak of, I say you need to look for other reasons for your problems than eating meat.
You're missing the point: they'd have people eating NO meat whatsoever. You, apparently, don't understand the ramifications of eating a strictly vegetarian diet: you WILL end up malnourished due to deficiency of at least one amino acid, since most plant-based proteins are deficient. Furthermore there are other substances in meat that are highly beneficial to human health, and you can't get them from plant-based sources.
The author of this article might be paranoid for the wrong reasons, but his message and intent are right: if you're not thinking more about how much you're letting your privacy be compromised, then you're not doing yourself any favors.