Works for jokes, but I bet those suckers are rather lightweight and will shatter when almost anything solid impacts them. Ever seen what happens when a quarter goes into a jet engine? It gets utterly mangled, and you can even tell which way the quarter hit on a blade by looking at the impressions. (nice flat hit is clear enough you can tell heads or tails)
EMP will affect any unshielded electrical system. A big part of the reason the military has been shielding stuff since they discovered that a high altitude nuke causes a nasty EMP. Of course, something that doens't need electricity, like some combustion engines, aren't bothered by it at all. Of course you can bet that hoverbike has lots of electricals, at the very least a processor to aid with balance & control, but as to shielding, probably not a thought that went through the engineers minds, especially when having to shave weight as much as they can get away with.
Why bother with something so exotic and unaimable, lob just about anything into those exposed lift blades they showed. For that matter, get the right colored rope or cable and watch those suckers clothesline themselves if they come in at predictable altitudes, or have multiple lines set up.
Besides, it's not like they can turn or stop worth a damn on those things.
Sure they look cool, and can ignore potholes while they fly in straight lines, but other than that, an expensive and risky waste of resources.
And yet staying in it caused no harm, and pulling out created lots of bad publicity and lack of trust for our country on a worldwide scale. Stupid move.
Considering that facial recognition is still in it's infancy and basically sucks with far too high of a failure rate, not just that it doesn't recognize someone it should, but also recognizes people as the wrong people, AND this sucker is linked to your wallet/bank account, I'd avoid it like the plague as it's still far too risky with little to no benefit for me.
I was always taught that if it has sensitive data, it's got to be secured. If it connects to anything else, it must be protected. If you don't want people doing things they aren't supposed to with it, you have to guard it against all inappropriate access and input.
Mind you, that was from pre-internet days, so who freaking dropped the ball and completely lost it when it comes to the basics with these kids?
Don't forget that the police don't like to document that kind of stuff that makes them look bad, so they usually don't. It's rather hard to get reliable numbers as the verifiable ones are statistically only a percentage of the real numbers.
Also, the availability of tasers has decreased police de-escalating situations and they quickly go to the I don't give a shit just fucking tase them approach. Not a good thing. They also like to use the, but it's non-lethal excuse. Any kind of assault by police should be a last resort instead their current go to attitude.
Pretty much all I've seen is trumpets blaming everything on either obama or hillary, whether it happened after obama was out of office, during his 2 terms, or things that happened before for that matter. They've really got some serious issues, but I don't think even freud could help them!
Yeah, there are plenty of people and companies that are many years, and sometimes a decade or more out of date on OS and security patches. It's sad, especially when they then get upset over how they got infected by a virus or other malware that's now eating their network when everyone else that wasn't running antique software was immune to. You don't want to know how many hundreds of thousands of machines I've seen that happen to.
Those are not rootkits whether you like them or not.
Sony on the other hand has rootkitted unsuspecting users.
I also live in a city where Sony once had a business. They are really hated here as they can't be trusted at all. They bounced paychecks 4 times (I know of 3, but people who work for them swear it was 4). They had gotten huge payoffs and tax incentives from the city in the first place (something I think isn't right, but that's another story), and then about halfway through the time they demanded even more or they'd bail. The city said no, we have an agreement, you already got your free money. Sony bailed. Lot of people got seriously screwed by Sony, and they are pretty unpopular here. Yes, this is in the USA.
Sure, I don't like some of the things Microsoft has done, but Sony is pure scum!
I've dealt with several offices in NASA before, and to be honest, in my opinion, they tend to cooperate with each other like male beta fighting fish in the same glass of water. Often I would attribute failure to comply with something like a FoIA request to such issues, but after reading the article, it really looks like somebody is being stonewalled. Note, it might not just be the writer, it may be a global stonewall everyone thing going on.
(ianal) As he uses it to communicate with the public, aka the american people, it's not being used for private purposes, it's being used for the office of the president of the united states. As such, that puts it in a whole different category. Everything he posts to it needs to be archived, and nobody that's an american citizen can be banned from it. Otherwise he's seriously screwing up and violating other rules and laws regarding POTUS.
The oldest recognized law in Oregon is that everyone has access to the beach, you can't impede or infringe on that right. It was inherited from the native inhabitants, and despite it not having been written down before hand, was well recognized and benefits everyone. Californian developers and the like that come up here and try to take over sections of the beach get a very rude legal awakening. They've also tried to sue for "loss of value", but they always lose because the property they bought never included the beach in the first place.
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So in other words you get off lighter than most sentences there if you can't pay million dollar fines.
Works for jokes, but I bet those suckers are rather lightweight and will shatter when almost anything solid impacts them. Ever seen what happens when a quarter goes into a jet engine? It gets utterly mangled, and you can even tell which way the quarter hit on a blade by looking at the impressions. (nice flat hit is clear enough you can tell heads or tails)
Nope, only unshielded electricals. It's not some magic weapon or anything like that.
EMP will affect any unshielded electrical system. A big part of the reason the military has been shielding stuff since they discovered that a high altitude nuke causes a nasty EMP.
Of course, something that doens't need electricity, like some combustion engines, aren't bothered by it at all.
Of course you can bet that hoverbike has lots of electricals, at the very least a processor to aid with balance & control, but as to shielding, probably not a thought that went through the engineers minds, especially when having to shave weight as much as they can get away with.
Why bother with something so exotic and unaimable, lob just about anything into those exposed lift blades they showed. For that matter, get the right colored rope or cable and watch those suckers clothesline themselves if they come in at predictable altitudes, or have multiple lines set up.
Besides, it's not like they can turn or stop worth a damn on those things.
Sure they look cool, and can ignore potholes while they fly in straight lines, but other than that, an expensive and risky waste of resources.
And yet staying in it caused no harm, and pulling out created lots of bad publicity and lack of trust for our country on a worldwide scale. Stupid move.
Are you kidding!?!?! These days 27 pages to an international agreement isn't even a freaking post-it note in scale!
As long as we don't have to watch, or listen to it, I don't really care. (I don't like either of them.)
Phone numbers are really easy to get! Heck, with a phone book and facebook you could probably get all the info you needed to scam most people.
Considering that facial recognition is still in it's infancy and basically sucks with far too high of a failure rate, not just that it doesn't recognize someone it should, but also recognizes people as the wrong people, AND this sucker is linked to your wallet/bank account, I'd avoid it like the plague as it's still far too risky with little to no benefit for me.
Mine won't, I have a rather measurable level of face blindness. For me, recognizing Asian faces is just as hard as recognizing ANY face.
I was always taught that if it has sensitive data, it's got to be secured. If it connects to anything else, it must be protected. If you don't want people doing things they aren't supposed to with it, you have to guard it against all inappropriate access and input.
Mind you, that was from pre-internet days, so who freaking dropped the ball and completely lost it when it comes to the basics with these kids?
Don't forget that the police don't like to document that kind of stuff that makes them look bad, so they usually don't. It's rather hard to get reliable numbers as the verifiable ones are statistically only a percentage of the real numbers.
Also, the availability of tasers has decreased police de-escalating situations and they quickly go to the I don't give a shit just fucking tase them approach.
Not a good thing.
They also like to use the, but it's non-lethal excuse.
Any kind of assault by police should be a last resort instead their current go to attitude.
Pretty much all I've seen is trumpets blaming everything on either obama or hillary, whether it happened after obama was out of office, during his 2 terms, or things that happened before for that matter. They've really got some serious issues, but I don't think even freud could help them!
Don't give them ideas!
Yeah, there are plenty of people and companies that are many years, and sometimes a decade or more out of date on OS and security patches. It's sad, especially when they then get upset over how they got infected by a virus or other malware that's now eating their network when everyone else that wasn't running antique software was immune to. You don't want to know how many hundreds of thousands of machines I've seen that happen to.
No it isn't.
You may hate them both, but in no way are they equivalent transgressions.
Wow! Talk about being way the f### off topic!
So, are you a troll?
Don't get me wrong, I'm hoping for that result before christmas, but this still isn't the place to post that junk.
Those are not rootkits whether you like them or not.
Sony on the other hand has rootkitted unsuspecting users.
I also live in a city where Sony once had a business. They are really hated here as they can't be trusted at all. They bounced paychecks 4 times (I know of 3, but people who work for them swear it was 4). They had gotten huge payoffs and tax incentives from the city in the first place (something I think isn't right, but that's another story), and then about halfway through the time they demanded even more or they'd bail. The city said no, we have an agreement, you already got your free money. Sony bailed. Lot of people got seriously screwed by Sony, and they are pretty unpopular here.
Yes, this is in the USA.
Sure, I don't like some of the things Microsoft has done, but Sony is pure scum!
I've dealt with several offices in NASA before, and to be honest, in my opinion, they tend to cooperate with each other like male beta fighting fish in the same glass of water. Often I would attribute failure to comply with something like a FoIA request to such issues, but after reading the article, it really looks like somebody is being stonewalled.
Note, it might not just be the writer, it may be a global stonewall everyone thing going on.
The Three Rules Of Computing:
1 Backup
2 BACKUP
3 See rules 1 & 2
For that matter...
When did his files become important to him, before or after he lost them?
A professional programmer that hasn't been backing up his work isn't much of a professional, now is he...
Though I have been blacklisting anyone that does that junk, maybe this will reduce my workload.
(ianal) As he uses it to communicate with the public, aka the american people, it's not being used for private purposes, it's being used for the office of the president of the united states. As such, that puts it in a whole different category. Everything he posts to it needs to be archived, and nobody that's an american citizen can be banned from it. Otherwise he's seriously screwing up and violating other rules and laws regarding POTUS.
The oldest recognized law in Oregon is that everyone has access to the beach, you can't impede or infringe on that right.
It was inherited from the native inhabitants, and despite it not having been written down before hand, was well recognized and benefits everyone.
Californian developers and the like that come up here and try to take over sections of the beach get a very rude legal awakening.
They've also tried to sue for "loss of value", but they always lose because the property they bought never included the beach in the first place.