The only problem with this patrol robot is, when someone steals it it won't be able to shoot them. Is it outfitted at least with the ability to zap the hell out of attackers? Or blast them with a massive amount of pepper spray?
Paralyze/incapacitate them until they can be arrested.
It is already accepted scientific fact that Earth's capacity to carry a population of humans who live *comfortably* is around 2 billion, meaning we're already 3 times overcapacity. If everyone on Earth lived at the same standard as Americans, it would require over 4 Earths to provide the resources.
Yes, Earth can carry more, but you're asking everyone then to live at a standard of living like Bangladesh. And even that is oversimplistic because there's no real way to contain things like sprawl (are you going to force people to live in ultra-dense cities?).
The pie-in-the-sky thinking that science can come along with some miracle fix for this mega-folly is delusional and not borne out in any science.
The fact is that the worst thing any human can do ecologically is to reproduce. Then add the fact that reproductive rates increase inversely proportionally with intelligence, and the future is bleak...
You can thank the liberal humanitarian politicians who think there's an endless supply of free stuff to give away from the impending disaster.
When the ship came to my town the local media was full of stories about people gawking at the huge behemoth. What's really unfortunate is that if people were seeing with their third eye rather than their deluded, sensual eyes which can be bedazzled, they would be lamenting such things, not celebrating them. That ship represents a human population that is spilling way out of control, killing Earth's ecosystems and wreaking environmental catastrophe. It represents the stripping of resources from Earth on vast scales which is totally unsustainable. That ship is a symbol of humankind's failure, not progress. If you don't believe it, wait 100 years.
What would be a true cause for celebration would be to *not* need such a ship, to limit our use of resources, to manage our population wisely, to live sustainably on Earth, not to continuously rape it on increasingly vast scales and act triumphalist about it.
Maybe the next/. story will be how all mobile devices have a secret, hidden OS called the bootloader that can be compromised by three-letter agencies...
I use AMT a lot as well, and have for years. My main question here is: How the fuck is this even remotely news material? Furthermore, why is it presented as some sort of conspiracy? Intel advertises this as a feature and never made any attempt to hide it. AMT is also off by default, by the way.
The only Intel feature I'm at all concerned about is SGX, which by design can't be audited, and has nothing to do with anything mentioned in TFS.
I agree. Seems like shitty "news" curating on the part of/.
The other thing is that you actually want and need to set a static address for the AMT interface for obvious reasons: If you use either Manageability Commander Tool or the web interface, you need to know where to connect to. It won't even let you activate the interface without setting a secure password (strong password policy is enforced and cannot be bypassed).
On my home systems I don't expose the AMT interface to the outside via my router, but if I were at a company I would have a special, secure log-in machine to access from outside to which the AMT systems would be exposed internally.
... it has a network interface that is demonstrably insecure...
Obviously no one is going to expose an AMT port through a firewall without taking precautions. That article sounds a little disingenuous to me as though they deliberately want to slam AMT technology.
I've always looked at AMT as a sort of built in Cyclades serial console server and the main feature I actually like about it is in fact the Serial Over LAN (SOL) feature. Every technology has risks but I think that this article might be deliberately alarmist.
I love AMT. AMT is definitely one feature of the Dell Optiplex small form-factor systems that I like to use for my headless home servers. Its like having a built-in Cyclades serial console server. For running headless systems its almost essential.
The only thing I don't like about it is that you need to have Windows installed to be able to update it as part of the updates released by Dell.
Umm no. Wifi goes through their wires. And they can detect and control anything that goes through them. They may allow things like the dark web to exist but then with the flip of a switch they can also cut it off. That is a far cry from freedom.
Of course someone will just say "we will live underground on Mars!". But that is pure Scifi at that point.
Just one correction: Actually that would not be scifi but rather fantasy, inasmuch as Star Wars for example is considered fantasy - not scifi - because so much of it is just scientifically preposterous and absurd. In fantasy the creators don't actually care about science. In scifi they do.
Its over and its lost. Its never going to happen. The only reason that what was known as the Internet in its early, more pure days existed was because it piggybacked off of a telecommunications network which was subject to strict regulation for other reasons. If none of that infrastructure had already existed and it was time to build the Internet again from scratch, there's no way in hell it would ever be open or free, and it will never be.
Maybe use amateur radio or something, but of course they can just jam that.
If I had mod points I'd mod you down. What gives you a right to dump on them? Its an Open Source project, totally free, totally dedicated to the right principles of freedom which is vastly more than much software. If you don't like it, develop your own or use another.
Without knowing the exact details, am really glad for the YouTube fix. Was having a *lot* of issues and sometimes multiple-daily crashes when playing YouTube videos in FF recently to the extent that I dedicated Chrome browser to being the YouTube viewer. There definitely was something going on, although I wish they had mentioned more about the details in their blog post today.
Is amazing what Firefox has evolved into - what web browsers themselves have evolved into - and Firefox is really at the forefront of this in good ways although I wish it was more stable.
It is a basic right of all humans to have privacy - in their personal lives, in their communications, in every type of comportment they make be it electronic or otherwise. Edward Snowden is a great crusader for one of the most basic, fundamental human rights that belongs to all: Not just Americans. Not just those who are not foreign leaders. But all.
The surveillance apparatus is an abomination against humanity and must be immediately and permanently dismantled.
I think Edward should definitely come back. Even if he has to spend up to 5 years in prison, I think it would be worth it. 5 years can go by fast if he keeps himself occupied. He could use those 5 years to study or do other things, and when he is out he can spend his life dedicated to promoting freedom and privacy, or whatever else he chooses. America is his home country.
Considering that Earth is already 400% overcapacity and that the human species is causing one of the greatest extinction events in the history of life on the planet, how is this not extremely welcome news???
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I can think of how both of those can be easily circumvented.
Radio Shack jamming technology, anyone?
The thing needs to have some way to defend itself.
The only problem with this patrol robot is, when someone steals it it won't be able to shoot them. Is it outfitted at least with the ability to zap the hell out of attackers? Or blast them with a massive amount of pepper spray?
Paralyze/incapacitate them until they can be arrested.
What a disgusting city. Great reasons to never want to ever visit nor do business with or in that multi-storey rancid, corrupt dumpster.
Pardon William Leonard Pickard
It is already accepted scientific fact that Earth's capacity to carry a population of humans who live *comfortably* is around 2 billion, meaning we're already 3 times overcapacity. If everyone on Earth lived at the same standard as Americans, it would require over 4 Earths to provide the resources.
Yes, Earth can carry more, but you're asking everyone then to live at a standard of living like Bangladesh. And even that is oversimplistic because there's no real way to contain things like sprawl (are you going to force people to live in ultra-dense cities?).
The pie-in-the-sky thinking that science can come along with some miracle fix for this mega-folly is delusional and not borne out in any science.
The fact is that the worst thing any human can do ecologically is to reproduce. Then add the fact that reproductive rates increase inversely proportionally with intelligence, and the future is bleak...
You can thank the liberal humanitarian politicians who think there's an endless supply of free stuff to give away from the impending disaster.
When the ship came to my town the local media was full of stories about people gawking at the huge behemoth. What's really unfortunate is that if people were seeing with their third eye rather than their deluded, sensual eyes which can be bedazzled, they would be lamenting such things, not celebrating them. That ship represents a human population that is spilling way out of control, killing Earth's ecosystems and wreaking environmental catastrophe. It represents the stripping of resources from Earth on vast scales which is totally unsustainable. That ship is a symbol of humankind's failure, not progress. If you don't believe it, wait 100 years.
What would be a true cause for celebration would be to *not* need such a ship, to limit our use of resources, to manage our population wisely, to live sustainably on Earth, not to continuously rape it on increasingly vast scales and act triumphalist about it.
Photocopying a book is lame. De-bind the book and run it through a photocopy machine that converts it to PDF with OCR.
Maybe the next /. story will be how all mobile devices have a secret, hidden OS called the bootloader that can be compromised by three-letter agencies...
I use AMT a lot as well, and have for years. My main question here is: How the fuck is this even remotely news material? Furthermore, why is it presented as some sort of conspiracy? Intel advertises this as a feature and never made any attempt to hide it. AMT is also off by default, by the way.
The only Intel feature I'm at all concerned about is SGX, which by design can't be audited, and has nothing to do with anything mentioned in TFS.
I agree. Seems like shitty "news" curating on the part of /.
The other thing is that you actually want and need to set a static address for the AMT interface for obvious reasons: If you use either Manageability Commander Tool or the web interface, you need to know where to connect to. It won't even let you activate the interface without setting a secure password (strong password policy is enforced and cannot be bypassed).
On my home systems I don't expose the AMT interface to the outside via my router, but if I were at a company I would have a special, secure log-in machine to access from outside to which the AMT systems would be exposed internally.
reading the first link it says:
... it has a network interface that is demonstrably insecure ...
Obviously no one is going to expose an AMT port through a firewall without taking precautions. That article sounds a little disingenuous to me as though they deliberately want to slam AMT technology.
I've always looked at AMT as a sort of built in Cyclades serial console server and the main feature I actually like about it is in fact the Serial Over LAN (SOL) feature. Every technology has risks but I think that this article might be deliberately alarmist.
I love AMT. AMT is definitely one feature of the Dell Optiplex small form-factor systems that I like to use for my headless home servers. Its like having a built-in Cyclades serial console server. For running headless systems its almost essential.
The only thing I don't like about it is that you need to have Windows installed to be able to update it as part of the updates released by Dell.
What's the difference between a "local" network and one that is not? It all owned and controlled by the same people.
Yes you could try to go out and lay your own wires, but they would rip them up faster than you could lay them.
We are fucked and there's no hope.
Umm no. Wifi goes through their wires. And they can detect and control anything that goes through them. They may allow things like the dark web to exist but then with the flip of a switch they can also cut it off. That is a far cry from freedom.
Of course someone will just say "we will live underground on Mars!". But that is pure Scifi at that point.
Just one correction: Actually that would not be scifi but rather fantasy, inasmuch as Star Wars for example is considered fantasy - not scifi - because so much of it is just scientifically preposterous and absurd. In fantasy the creators don't actually care about science. In scifi they do.
If this is what it takes to get a job, to hell with it. Because I will not participate in such shit ever.
So. Damn. Glad. I. Never. Used. Linkedin.
Its over and its lost. Its never going to happen. The only reason that what was known as the Internet in its early, more pure days existed was because it piggybacked off of a telecommunications network which was subject to strict regulation for other reasons. If none of that infrastructure had already existed and it was time to build the Internet again from scratch, there's no way in hell it would ever be open or free, and it will never be.
Maybe use amateur radio or something, but of course they can just jam that.
If I had mod points I'd mod you down. What gives you a right to dump on them? Its an Open Source project, totally free, totally dedicated to the right principles of freedom which is vastly more than much software. If you don't like it, develop your own or use another.
Without knowing the exact details, am really glad for the YouTube fix. Was having a *lot* of issues and sometimes multiple-daily crashes when playing YouTube videos in FF recently to the extent that I dedicated Chrome browser to being the YouTube viewer. There definitely was something going on, although I wish they had mentioned more about the details in their blog post today.
Is amazing what Firefox has evolved into - what web browsers themselves have evolved into - and Firefox is really at the forefront of this in good ways although I wish it was more stable.
It is a basic right of all humans to have privacy - in their personal lives, in their communications, in every type of comportment they make be it electronic or otherwise. Edward Snowden is a great crusader for one of the most basic, fundamental human rights that belongs to all: Not just Americans. Not just those who are not foreign leaders. But all.
The surveillance apparatus is an abomination against humanity and must be immediately and permanently dismantled.
No trackpoint.
I think Edward should definitely come back. Even if he has to spend up to 5 years in prison, I think it would be worth it. 5 years can go by fast if he keeps himself occupied. He could use those 5 years to study or do other things, and when he is out he can spend his life dedicated to promoting freedom and privacy, or whatever else he chooses. America is his home country.
It is insane to vote for her.
Considering that Earth is already 400% overcapacity and that the human species is causing one of the greatest extinction events in the history of life on the planet, how is this not extremely welcome news???