TFA's title is mislieading. The cable in question was wrongly wired. If you connect GND to V+, and V+ to GND, bad things *will* happen even with USB 1.0.
I thought USB 1.0 spec'ed over-current production for all power pins? (which is usually done using self-resetting polyfuses)
If she's taking that many photos, you should really consider upgrading her to something with a decent sensor and optics (there is no cellphone that can take DSLR-level photos, I don't care what the Genius at the Apple store says). If money is tight, a use Canon Mk I or II wouldn't be too expensive (yes, I realize the Mk I didn't officially have that designation, but that is how we refer to them - I own one).
Posting anon because I suspect your post was hyperbolic and I don't want to get in a discussion (with you or anyone else) about the merits of cell phone cameras.
Show me a DSLR that will fit into my wife's tiny purse so she'll take it around with her everywhere she goes.
It's not the cost that keeps a lot of people away from DSLR's, but the size and weight. I retired my Canon 40D DSL and stopped using it for travel pics because the camera and a few lenses was just annoying to carry around. I replaced it with a Canon G15 and have been very satisfied. I wanted the bigger sensor of the G1, but wanted the longer zoom of the G15, but found that the tradeoff was worth it, I don't do a lot of handheld low-light photography, so the smaller sensor hasn't been a problem, but I get a longer zoom when I want it.
The reason so many people take so many pictures with cell phones is not because the picture quality is stunning (though today's phones do surpass the quality of handheld dedicated point-and-shoot cameras of a few years ago), but because they have their phone all the time and the picture quality is "good enough".
A better tool would be to split the data among smaller files. A 1.44 GB BMP is sure to attract attention. 1440 one MB jpegs isnt. Am I right? Peeps?
I think it's easier to validate that a JPG file is really a JPG than a BMP, or at least it's harder to store arbitrary data in a JPG and still have it decodable as a JPG.
This is why Marketing shouldn't promise things that they can't deliver. They should know that "unlimited" has a specific meaning and if they don't mean it, they shouldn't promise it.
I hope that is a work desk, that you're in a cubical, and that you tried varied amounts of force. It's not that I don't like you, or anything. I just have this picture of people staring at you as if you're a lunatic and it'd be disappointing were it not true.
Cubicle? That's so 1990's, no one has cubicles anymore. It's just one big open area at work.
but i performed this experiment on my cheap sit-stand desk at home, it's not super stable at full extension, so it's easy to hit it hard enough to move stuff around.
The $1200 desk at work is a lot more stable than my $250 home desk, so it would take a much more substantial hit to get stuff to slide around.
For those who'll say "it's been done before:" no, not like this.
Yeah, one of my coworkers has a wireless charging Android phone of some sort, and every time someone bumps his desk it "breaks".
That said, given Apple's track record the past half-decade (in my experience, at least), I wouldn't be surprised if their offering is terribly buggy as well - at least at the software end of things.
I think I'd be more annoyed at people repeatedly bumping my desk hard enough to make my stuff slide around than I would at having to reposition my phone on the charger. Though I just tried it with my desk - my charger is "sticky" enough to grip the phone so when I bump the desk hard enough, the charger and phone slide together, the phone doesn't slide off the charger.
WHY oh WHY would a cable company need to have the service staying up while I am not watching?
Also to keep the program guide updated.
With over a gigabit/sec of downstream bandwidth available, they *could* just update the program guide every time you turn on the cable box by allocating a little more bandwidth to the program guide, no need to capture it continuously -- they could send out the next 2 hours worth of programming every few seconds to allow you to see what's on right now as soon as you turn on the cablebox, then send out the full program guide less frequently.
If its a DVR it needs to be on at all times so it can actually record the things you told it to record.
Also it needs to be powered up so it can update when the cable company has something to push to it (e.g. new encryption stuff)
The DVR I owned a decade ago didn't need to stay powered on 24x7, it just used a timer to turn itself on whenever it needed to record.
Likewise, it can schedule itself to check in twice a day to get "encryption stuff" or whatever else it needs. Or it could use a modern low power CPU to do housekeeping like that that doesn't need the entire device to be turned on.
40W a day 24x7 is over 300KWh/year of wasted power - that's more electricity than my household uses in a month. The simple fact is that the cable companies just don't care, it's not their money.
If they haven't paid their fees, I would think they would already have a warrant out, so what does this add to the process? More jails crowded with people pointlessly?
If they don't have the money to pay the fees, what does adding a 25% penalty add to the process?
We call them SCRATCH disks, a carry over from the tape reel drive days, SCRATCH TAPES.
I even do the same with my HDD's for temp downloads etc, I call them SCRATCH. The idea being, you just temporarly scratch the surface with data. Short lived data.
And SCRATCH monkeys, always mount a scratch monkey.
The alternative is to do away with fines as they are in essence "uncollectible." Or raise the traffic tickets from $15 to $1000 to make them worthwhile to collect.
What do you do when you encounter somebody that has $20 but not $1k? Toss them in jail, crediting them $100/day, while spending ~$100/day in expenses to keep them in jail?
Doesn't take many of them to exceed the money gotten from those who actually have it.
That's not how the modern for-profit justice system works, you don't get *credit* for serving time, instead you *pay* for serving time:
This is a perfect example of government and private industry working together. These are COURT fees that are either going to go uncollected, or will cost more to collect than the debt is worth. Many people are scofflaws; this partnership catches them.
The alternative is to do away with fines as they are in essence "uncollectible." Or raise the traffic tickets from $15 to $1000 to make them worthwhile to collect.
You don't see any problem with police telling you: pay the fine *and* a 25% surcharge to a private company or I'm taking you to jail?
If only that were true -- at least San Francisco was interesting when it was a gay mecca and center of the gay pride movement and people of all races, sexual orientation and income could live there. Now it's just full of boring well paid, mostly male and white techies, which pushes out all of the old interesting businesses in favor of bars and restaurants that cater to these newcomers that serve things like $20 locally grown hand-raised artisanal organic martinis with an olive on the side flown in daily from Venus.
I'm not sure if the licenses of openssh/dropbear ssh/libssh/libssh/... allow this, if they do, I think it's time for someone to hardcode some ssh configuration and publish it with some fucking restrictive license so that no one can tamper with the code legally, so he can buttfuck the fucking companies that do this shit..
You're not sure if they allow what? Hardcoded user passwords? Why wouldn't they? The password is outside of the responsibility of the OpenSSH server, I would hope that the OpenSSH license doesn't dictate system management practices - if a company wants to do something stupid, OpenSSH shouldn't prevent them from doing so. I don't know about the other opensource implementations, but putting any sort of restrictive license on OpenSSH would be a major shift in its licensing and would just shift manufacturers to different products.
But assuming that it is restricted by license, who is going to pay for all of this corporate buttfucking? License disputes are extremely expensive to litigate, and can an opensource project even recover "damages" for a product that they give away for free? Seems like the best they can hope for is to spend millions of dollars to get the company to stop what it's doing.
I beleive the community will prefer firewalls/routers that have such packages installed
I don't know what "community" you're talking about, but most of the community that is purchasing these off-the-shelf point and click security products couldn't tell you the difference between a management over SSH versus one over Telnet, so they certainly aren't going to be scouring the documentation to see which SSH implementation it uses. The users that care are already using something like pfSense.
Why would an IT professional use the same credentials for his AWS account as he does with his Amazon retail account? Just use a different email address for the AWS account (and not the email address that you've published on your business card, WHOIS, LinkedIn, etc). Either use a second email account just for AWS (they are free, you know?), or use an alias (i.e a gmail username+somespecialalias@gmail.com address)
He likely uses is Amazon credentials in several different browsers, the Amazon App, Kindle App, perhaps an Amazon instant video viewer on his TV, an Amazon Kindle device, etc. He's trusting a lot of different consumer apps and devices to keep a secret that could affect his livelihood. Not to mention the problem he's complaining about -- customer service for a retail company that wants to make sure he gets his packages.
... accessed such sites through encrypted addresses.
Do they mean Tor and such? Because if so, then how did they get addresses even when they were running it?
Also, why not just remove all the images so that the links show errors. You'd achieve the same end results but you wouldn't be hosting or DISTRIBUTING kiddie porn. Claim it was a drive failure or whatever.
Not to mention possibly being able to track the people who complained about the images being broken. Get them to use another, non-Tor, way to check when the images would be fixed.
Because they want the site visitors to click around enough that they can get infected by the malware that phones home and lets the FBI break through their anonymizing software. So when they cleverly cover their tracks by using an anonymous VPN to connect to another anonymous VPN to connect to an anonymous web proxy to connect to Tor, when they drop the anonymizers to buy more hand lotion from Amazon, the FBI can see their beacon and track them down.
"The license plate's identifiers are ignored most of the time by law enforcement."
Are automated plate scanners implemented/common yet? When they are, ALL visible plates will be queried.
You'd think that a senior DHS official would know that his organization tried to build a nationwide network of license plate scanners (and now is trying to contract out a commercial network that will let it do the same thing):
"If this goes forward," Gregory T. Nojeim, senior counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology tells the Washington Post, "DHS will have warrantless access to location information going back at least five years about virtually every adult driver in the U.S."
"If you lose control of your drone and someone gets hurt – or someone else's property gets damaged — then you should have the same duty to go to the scene of the accident, give your name and address, and cooperate with the police."
Don't drone operators *already* have to accept liability for damage/injury caused by their drone? With registration already mandatory, why will tiny little license plates improve anything? Those that are responsible will register their drone and will take responsibility for its operation. Those that are not responsible will just buy or print a fake "license plate" (or more likely, skip the license plate entirely) and fly their drone into a car and then walk away.
If you entice someone to do something with cash that they need or want, they are not volunteering
Wrong. In an army, volunteers generally means those who are not conscripts. But both get paid.
If people aren't doing it for the money, then why do they get paid?
You may want to google for terms like "false dichotomy".
I don't see the false dilemma - except for the few that are willing to sacrifice their health for the greater good without compensation, what do you think motivates "thousands of students looking to make money" to "volunteer" for medical experiments? Do you think those thousands of students would do it if not for the money?
Why is it so bad to just say what it is -- people getting paid to take on health risks for the benefit of others? No need to whitewash it and say that they all "volunteered" when they are really just there for the money.
You can compensate a volunteer and still have them be considered a volunteer. What the hell are you talking about?
The military in any country which doesn't have mandatory service is a "volunteer army". But they sure as hell get paid for it.
You're making up a definition of volunteer which isn't real in this case.
In the general sense, volunteers are not compensated:
Volunteering is generally considered an altruistic activity where an individual or group provides services for no financial gain. Volunteering is also renowned for skill development, and is often intended to promote goodness or to improve human quality of life. Volunteering may have positive benefits for the volunteer as well as for the person or community served.[1] It is also intended to make contacts for possible employment. Many volunteers are specifically trained in the areas they work, such as medicine, education, or emergency rescue. Others serve on an as-needed basis, such as in response to a natural disaster.
Military volunteers are a special case:
A military volunteer is a person who enlists in military service by free will, and is not a mercenary or a foreign legionnaire. Volunteers often enlist to fight in the armed forces of a foreign country. Military volunteers are essential for the operation of volunteer militaries.
volunteer means to freely offer, NOT necessarily to offer without compensation, hence a volunteer can be paid, and often is (volunteer firefighter, eg)!
Unless these people are independently wealthy and have no need for money, they are not "freely offering". If you entice someone to do something with cash that they need or want, they are not volunteering, it's an exchange of goods or services -- they are offering their body for money.
If people aren't doing it for the money, then why do they get paid?
I was wondering who would volunteer to take an experimental drug with unknown side effects until I read this later in the article:
Every year thousands of volunteers, often students looking to make extra money
While calling them 'volunteers' may make the industry feel better about it, it's not volunteering if they get paid, that's just making poor people into literal human guinea pigs.
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TFA's title is mislieading. The cable in question was wrongly wired. If you connect GND to V+, and V+ to GND, bad things *will* happen even with USB 1.0.
I thought USB 1.0 spec'ed over-current production for all power pins? (which is usually done using self-resetting polyfuses)
If she's taking that many photos, you should really consider upgrading her to something with a decent sensor and optics (there is no cellphone that can take DSLR-level photos, I don't care what the Genius at the Apple store says). If money is tight, a use Canon Mk I or II wouldn't be too expensive (yes, I realize the Mk I didn't officially have that designation, but that is how we refer to them - I own one).
Posting anon because I suspect your post was hyperbolic and I don't want to get in a discussion (with you or anyone else) about the merits of cell phone cameras.
Show me a DSLR that will fit into my wife's tiny purse so she'll take it around with her everywhere she goes.
It's not the cost that keeps a lot of people away from DSLR's, but the size and weight. I retired my Canon 40D DSL and stopped using it for travel pics because the camera and a few lenses was just annoying to carry around. I replaced it with a Canon G15 and have been very satisfied. I wanted the bigger sensor of the G1, but wanted the longer zoom of the G15, but found that the tradeoff was worth it, I don't do a lot of handheld low-light photography, so the smaller sensor hasn't been a problem, but I get a longer zoom when I want it.
The reason so many people take so many pictures with cell phones is not because the picture quality is stunning (though today's phones do surpass the quality of handheld dedicated point-and-shoot cameras of a few years ago), but because they have their phone all the time and the picture quality is "good enough".
"Unlimited" does have a very specific meaning, and in this case it means unlimited photos, not unlimited steganography.
I happen to have a very extensive collection of photographs of static from my TV and I need someplace to store them.
A better tool would be to split the data among smaller files. A 1.44 GB BMP is sure to attract attention. 1440 one MB jpegs isnt. Am I right? Peeps?
I think it's easier to validate that a JPG file is really a JPG than a BMP, or at least it's harder to store arbitrary data in a JPG and still have it decodable as a JPG.
So just store the data as 1 MB BMP's or TIFF's.
This is why we can't have nice things.
This is why Marketing shouldn't promise things that they can't deliver. They should know that "unlimited" has a specific meaning and if they don't mean it, they shouldn't promise it.
I hope that is a work desk, that you're in a cubical, and that you tried varied amounts of force. It's not that I don't like you, or anything. I just have this picture of people staring at you as if you're a lunatic and it'd be disappointing were it not true.
Cubicle? That's so 1990's, no one has cubicles anymore. It's just one big open area at work.
but i performed this experiment on my cheap sit-stand desk at home, it's not super stable at full extension, so it's easy to hit it hard enough to move stuff around.
The $1200 desk at work is a lot more stable than my $250 home desk, so it would take a much more substantial hit to get stuff to slide around.
For those who'll say "it's been done before:" no, not like this.
Yeah, one of my coworkers has a wireless charging Android phone of some sort, and every time someone bumps his desk it "breaks".
That said, given Apple's track record the past half-decade (in my experience, at least), I wouldn't be surprised if their offering is terribly buggy as well - at least at the software end of things.
I think I'd be more annoyed at people repeatedly bumping my desk hard enough to make my stuff slide around than I would at having to reposition my phone on the charger. Though I just tried it with my desk - my charger is "sticky" enough to grip the phone so when I bump the desk hard enough, the charger and phone slide together, the phone doesn't slide off the charger.
WHY oh WHY would a cable company need to have the service staying up while I am not watching?
Also to keep the program guide updated.
With over a gigabit/sec of downstream bandwidth available, they *could* just update the program guide every time you turn on the cable box by allocating a little more bandwidth to the program guide, no need to capture it continuously -- they could send out the next 2 hours worth of programming every few seconds to allow you to see what's on right now as soon as you turn on the cablebox, then send out the full program guide less frequently.
If its a DVR it needs to be on at all times so it can actually record the things you told it to record.
Also it needs to be powered up so it can update when the cable company has something to push to it (e.g. new encryption stuff)
The DVR I owned a decade ago didn't need to stay powered on 24x7, it just used a timer to turn itself on whenever it needed to record.
Likewise, it can schedule itself to check in twice a day to get "encryption stuff" or whatever else it needs. Or it could use a modern low power CPU to do housekeeping like that that doesn't need the entire device to be turned on.
40W a day 24x7 is over 300KWh/year of wasted power - that's more electricity than my household uses in a month. The simple fact is that the cable companies just don't care, it's not their money.
If they haven't paid their fees, I would think they would already have a warrant out, so what does this add to the process? More jails crowded with people pointlessly?
If they don't have the money to pay the fees, what does adding a 25% penalty add to the process?
We call them SCRATCH disks, a carry over from the tape reel drive days, SCRATCH TAPES.
I even do the same with my HDD's for temp downloads etc, I call them SCRATCH. The idea being, you just temporarly scratch the surface with data. Short lived data.
And SCRATCH monkeys, always mount a scratch monkey.
The alternative is to do away with fines as they are in essence "uncollectible." Or raise the traffic tickets from $15 to $1000 to make them worthwhile to collect.
What do you do when you encounter somebody that has $20 but not $1k? Toss them in jail, crediting them $100/day, while spending ~$100/day in expenses to keep them in jail?
Doesn't take many of them to exceed the money gotten from those who actually have it.
That's not how the modern for-profit justice system works, you don't get *credit* for serving time, instead you *pay* for serving time:
http://money.cnn.com/2015/09/1...
This is a perfect example of government and private industry working together. These are COURT fees that are either going to go uncollected, or
will cost more to collect than the debt is worth. Many people are scofflaws; this partnership catches them.
The alternative is to do away with fines as they are in essence "uncollectible." Or raise the traffic tickets from $15 to $1000 to make them worthwhile to collect.
You don't see any problem with police telling you: pay the fine *and* a 25% surcharge to a private company or I'm taking you to jail?
San Fran is full of faggots...
If only that were true -- at least San Francisco was interesting when it was a gay mecca and center of the gay pride movement and people of all races, sexual orientation and income could live there. Now it's just full of boring well paid, mostly male and white techies, which pushes out all of the old interesting businesses in favor of bars and restaurants that cater to these newcomers that serve things like $20 locally grown hand-raised artisanal organic martinis with an olive on the side flown in daily from Venus.
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I'm not sure if the licenses of openssh/dropbear ssh/libssh/libssh/... allow this, if they do,
I think it's time for someone to hardcode some ssh configuration and publish it with some fucking restrictive license so that no one can tamper with the code legally, so he can buttfuck the fucking companies that do this shit..
You're not sure if they allow what? Hardcoded user passwords? Why wouldn't they? The password is outside of the responsibility of the OpenSSH server, I would hope that the OpenSSH license doesn't dictate system management practices - if a company wants to do something stupid, OpenSSH shouldn't prevent them from doing so. I don't know about the other opensource implementations, but putting any sort of restrictive license on OpenSSH would be a major shift in its licensing and would just shift manufacturers to different products.
But assuming that it is restricted by license, who is going to pay for all of this corporate buttfucking? License disputes are extremely expensive to litigate, and can an opensource project even recover "damages" for a product that they give away for free? Seems like the best they can hope for is to spend millions of dollars to get the company to stop what it's doing.
I beleive the community will prefer firewalls/routers that have such packages installed
I don't know what "community" you're talking about, but most of the community that is purchasing these off-the-shelf point and click security products couldn't tell you the difference between a management over SSH versus one over Telnet, so they certainly aren't going to be scouring the documentation to see which SSH implementation it uses. The users that care are already using something like pfSense.
Amazon has this amazing review site where you can post reviews of all the products and services. Just log in and post a scathing 1 star review.
Can you point me to the AWS review site? I'd like to read their reviews.
Why would an IT professional use the same credentials for his AWS account as he does with his Amazon retail account? Just use a different email address for the AWS account (and not the email address that you've published on your business card, WHOIS, LinkedIn, etc). Either use a second email account just for AWS (they are free, you know?), or use an alias (i.e a gmail username+somespecialalias@gmail.com address)
He likely uses is Amazon credentials in several different browsers, the Amazon App, Kindle App, perhaps an Amazon instant video viewer on his TV, an Amazon Kindle device, etc. He's trusting a lot of different consumer apps and devices to keep a secret that could affect his livelihood. Not to mention the problem he's complaining about -- customer service for a retail company that wants to make sure he gets his packages.
Do they mean Tor and such? Because if so, then how did they get addresses even when they were running it?
Also, why not just remove all the images so that the links show errors. You'd achieve the same end results but you wouldn't be hosting or DISTRIBUTING kiddie porn. Claim it was a drive failure or whatever.
Not to mention possibly being able to track the people who complained about the images being broken. Get them to use another, non-Tor, way to check when the images would be fixed.
Because they want the site visitors to click around enough that they can get infected by the malware that phones home and lets the FBI break through their anonymizing software. So when they cleverly cover their tracks by using an anonymous VPN to connect to another anonymous VPN to connect to an anonymous web proxy to connect to Tor, when they drop the anonymizers to buy more hand lotion from Amazon, the FBI can see their beacon and track them down.
"The license plate's identifiers are ignored most of the time by law enforcement."
Are automated plate scanners implemented/common yet? When they are, ALL visible plates will be queried.
You'd think that a senior DHS official would know that his organization tried to build a nationwide network of license plate scanners (and now is trying to contract out a commercial network that will let it do the same thing):
http://www.autoblog.com/2015/0...
"If this goes forward," Gregory T. Nojeim, senior counsel at the Center for Democracy and Technology tells the Washington Post, "DHS will have warrantless access to location information going back at least five years about virtually every adult driver in the U.S."
And there's the root of your false dichotomy: "For no financial gain" != "Not compensated".
Which is the root of my argument that the pharmaceutical "volunteers" are not really volunteers, since they receive financial compensation.
"If you lose control of your drone and someone gets hurt – or someone else's property gets damaged — then you should have the same duty to go to the scene of the accident, give your name and address, and cooperate with the police."
Don't drone operators *already* have to accept liability for damage/injury caused by their drone? With registration already mandatory, why will tiny little license plates improve anything? Those that are responsible will register their drone and will take responsibility for its operation. Those that are not responsible will just buy or print a fake "license plate" (or more likely, skip the license plate entirely) and fly their drone into a car and then walk away.
Wrong. In an army, volunteers generally means those who are not conscripts. But both get paid.
You may want to google for terms like "false dichotomy".
I don't see the false dilemma - except for the few that are willing to sacrifice their health for the greater good without compensation, what do you think motivates "thousands of students looking to make money" to "volunteer" for medical experiments? Do you think those thousands of students would do it if not for the money?
Why is it so bad to just say what it is -- people getting paid to take on health risks for the benefit of others? No need to whitewash it and say that they all "volunteered" when they are really just there for the money.
You can compensate a volunteer and still have them be considered a volunteer. What the hell are you talking about?
The military in any country which doesn't have mandatory service is a "volunteer army". But they sure as hell get paid for it.
You're making up a definition of volunteer which isn't real in this case.
In the general sense, volunteers are not compensated:
Volunteering is generally considered an altruistic activity where an individual or group provides services for no financial gain. Volunteering is also renowned for skill development, and is often intended to promote goodness or to improve human quality of life. Volunteering may have positive benefits for the volunteer as well as for the person or community served.[1] It is also intended to make contacts for possible employment. Many volunteers are specifically trained in the areas they work, such as medicine, education, or emergency rescue. Others serve on an as-needed basis, such as in response to a natural disaster.
Military volunteers are a special case:
A military volunteer is a person who enlists in military service by free will, and is not a mercenary or a foreign legionnaire. Volunteers often enlist to fight in the armed forces of a foreign country. Military volunteers are essential for the operation of volunteer militaries.
basic english fail:
volunteer means to freely offer, NOT necessarily to offer without compensation, hence a volunteer can be paid, and often is (volunteer firefighter, eg)!
Unless these people are independently wealthy and have no need for money, they are not "freely offering". If you entice someone to do something with cash that they need or want, they are not volunteering, it's an exchange of goods or services -- they are offering their body for money.
If people aren't doing it for the money, then why do they get paid?
I was wondering who would volunteer to take an experimental drug with unknown side effects until I read this later in the article:
Every year thousands of volunteers, often students looking to make extra money
While calling them 'volunteers' may make the industry feel better about it, it's not volunteering if they get paid, that's just making poor people into literal human guinea pigs.