This is almost cool. The R-Pi is a nice little machine. not too powerful to challenge the big guys. not too worthless to be uninteresting.
Sufficiently interesting at all levels from bootstrap to random ABI changes to OS development to web servers to learn almost any programming language.
Vastly more interesting than a multi million dollar CDC 6400 or other machines from the 60's like IBM 1401 or PDP8. Way more powerful than a Kim-1 or an Apple I or II.
This may make the Pi funner still. Yes I am a fan of Pumpkin Pie.
I have always thought that for automated vehicles to be a reality, ALL traffic has to be automated. It takes almost an A.I. to be able to adjust to the random nature of human driving.
Not random... Regions have local habits that are not crafted in law. A LA driver will be at risk in Boston. A Mexico City driver will be at risk in Seattle. Goodness Rome and Athens are another set of rhythms without considering parking.
The flaw is that someone expects the written law to describe how drivers drive.
Please share whar you're on. The transducer, perhaps; the cop, though? Tell me you're joking. And then share whateber you're on, I want to be as funny as you.
If you want to drive a dog bonkers fire up a 35KHz perhaps 38KHz transducer well beyond human hearing (~25KHz). Dogs can hear to 40KHz... bats to 100KHz.
Now if you want the dog to bark on command invite the officer to observe initially the dog would bark at the stranger lurking at the fence... to ensure the dog does not stop trigger the acoustic transducer (quality tweeter almost get there) and the dog will continue to go crazy as long as you want.
AND the officer cannot hear anywhere near this frequency range because of road noise, siren volume and weapon reports at the range.
I would test the ability of officers to hear high pitched screams from children, women and men when tazered. If so they cannot hear someone "comply". The first link: The ultrasonic sound environment is intolerable to dogs. Dogs are repelled away from the Yard Gard Ultrasonic Repeller because they cannot adapt to the constantly changing array of ultrasonic signals emitted by this device. http://www.electronicpestcontr...
Exactly. That is why you see so many beware of dog signs. They want their property to be just as violent as their kind is.
The dog sign thing is in many areas a liability issue with two sides. The beware of the dog sign has been used in court to demonstrate that the owner maintained a nuisance. In other contexts the beware of the dog is an admonishment to not allow the dog to escape.
My favorite was in a big font "Do not feed the dog" at the bottom with ultra fine print "your arm, face and legs".
Many cat owners have "Beware the dog" signs the same way that many have security system signs on the lawn but no security system.
Dogs bark when something is wrong, or when they perceive that something is wrong. Letting your dog keep barking for any length of time (I think 10 minutes is too long in this case) is animal abuse. Either the dog needs something, is afraid of something, or is trying to warn you of something; ignoring it and letting it keep barking is not the answer. So yes, calling the cops over ANIMAL ABUSE is perfectly reasonable and only a narcissistic asshole dog owner would argue otherwise.
And in one of the above cases I suspect the presence of the police officer and a high volume ultra sonic transducer were the abusers. I could be wrong but some of us understand that measuring and observing things changes them. Ask Heisenberg's friends, most are old and cranky but what the heck!
(i submitted that without finishing) i simply created an incessant flow of legal documents from local council, police, neighbors, etc. in the end, the visits from annoyed policemen and council workers became unbearable and he moved. i managed to turn the whole neighborhood against him. now we have a new arsehole in his place but this one is just messy.
You just documented an abusive harassing uncalled for behaviour. Better plan to move soon.
It is important to rewrite this to "The big question is did they follow a legal procedure?".
I read too often that the department reviewed the incident and has ruled the official acted as per departmental policy. No one addresses the legality of departmental policy.
Consider asset forfeiture related policies. If the policy is in effect see valuables especially cash, grab it, do not provide a receipt with the exact sum. Do not bring the individual up on charges, do this for the poor or out of town visitors.
Consider policies in a training academy that that teach an officer to fire his weapon in concert with other officers to ensure fatalities. Such policies have evolved for many reasons one is to eliminate expensive hospital and life long care to the wounded and maimed. Death benefits are less expensive and the one witness that knows the truth is dead.
Departmental review is not a legal action. It is law outside of the law and is fundamentally as illegal as the mafia boss sending his minions out to execute the competition for his illegal actions.
Searching to see if there are more terrorists engaged in a coordinated attack? Seems like a reasonable and responsible thing to do.
Reasonable in this context, sure. Now that the data has been collected what else might they do with it?
The unreasonable process of parallel reconstruction wins convictions and is so effective in scoring wins in court such that prosecutors and persecutors alike want access to the data. Juries expect a case to be airtight today because of the theater of TV crime fighting. The reality is that a total parallel reconstruction of fiction will appear more airtight and more convincing than the truth which depends on facts.
Recently a local city was pondering the right of an officer to review all body and vehicle camera footage before they submit their action report. This was the union demanding it of the city.. Where is the union elected by the citizenship to demand closed door considerations... Does their report process also extend to phone metadata as well?
I would note that the review of video evidence is not extended to the defendant. Any discrepancy is held up as a lie in court and in the media to the disadvantage of the defendant.
In this case deploying an aircraft to slurp up conversations and other metadata makes a lot of sense on the surface. Further an aircraft may well allow improved communications so authorities can communicate with the public should terrorists attack cell service. Oh wait that is not part of the tool....
Such tools are very much double edge knives. Why is it that double edge knives are so illegal?
Today such tools are an omission under the law and the secrecy surrounding them sheds fruit from the poison tree to to a degree that some will regret.
11000+ gun related deaths a year in the states, in France there is well under 100 a year
In the USA there are well over 100 wrongful killings......
In the US we clearly have a problem. At one point I was of a mind that this was a mental health issue. Today I am convinced that the issue is vastly more complex.
Removing guns is not an option. Too many criminals are armed and our war on drugs and more has moved vast numbers of guns, people and yes cash into the criminal domain. News media is happy to cash in on eyeball capture and has apparently no organizational intent to be responsible. Each side has a strong bias toward agenda that panders to politicians, parties or an invested viewer base. It may be time to reinstate the old "News at 5 and 11" newscasts as a social and legal responsibility. Hearken back to Walter Cronkite and friends. While not perfect it was better than the crud of today.
The legal system that holds schools responsible to the the degree than only paranoid bureaucratic sycophant narcissistic SOBs seem able to survive. My pet rant is that zero tolerance had morphed into serious intolerance. The intolerant inflexible dictatorial individuals that make the news are examples of the cutting edge that fails to teach our children well. It fails to teach negotiation, responsibility, justice, due process, comportment and many more social skills.
Without these social skills the part of society that does have mental issues small and large will not have emotional tools to be safe members of society.
Lessons can be as simple as singing in a choir, marching in a band.. singing in tune and singing your part. Team sports teach cooperation, chess club teaches rules, drama can teach right and wrong. Debate club can teach many to listen critically to the BS on the media and identify, understand and dismiss false arguments. It can teach the reality that a better storyteller can hold sway over a room and win yet their position is bogus as all get out.
Reading -- read both fiction and non-fiction and learn how to tell the difference.
Removal of competing ideas from schools is symptomatic of the problem. Ideas, data, critical thinking all are needed to learn how to think. Ponder the loss of honest lessons by the removal of Tom Sawyer from schools.
Too skinny and there is not enough battery to call the SO and apologize. The LAST thing a family needs is a phone with a dead battery at the time you should be calling to get the dinner grocery list...
Of interest men often have shirt pockets that were designed for a pack of cigarettes while weight is important the dimensions can still fit a pocket.
Talk and standby time are critical for any phone I am willing to shell out upgrade cash for.
... problem solved. The only reason this attack vector exists in the first place is that people are too lazy to install their own equipment. Instead, they rent a Comcast Wifi router at an exorbitant cost and questionable security.......
Given the size and reach of Comcast the issue of questionable security is an issue of national security and worth a letter or three to your elected officials.
Individuals can be lazy and will be (yes should not be lazy) but large organizations cannot be.
Security flaws need to be addressed in prompt time frames and agencies that keep them secret because they believe them to be a tool of power need be squashed and the salary of the managers reduced %10 for each week beyond 90days should they fail to report to the vendor discoveries of security flaws.
I expect my calls to be private even on the street. Someone has to make an encryption app for the calls where you exchange keys in person and they are never on the network.
Expectation of privacy needs to be reviewed. Definitions of privacy should not be capricious. There is privacy in a crowded noisy room. There is privacy in the middle of an open field. There is privacy in the home. There is privacy in the bedroom (hotels have bedrooms). There is privacy in a special RF shielded, sound deadening special room.
A conversation in a restaurant while on a date has privacy expectation. There is privacy in the confessional of the catholic church.
To subject the population to privacy rules for NSA secret meetings is folly.
I had to laugh at this. I have to say that almost all of the automated attacks I ever see hitting my firewall are Linux server exploits.
I have managed many servers over the years, almost all of them Windows. I have had maybe 4 separate instances of one of my servers getting owned and they were all Linux servers.
Your view is illuminating yet the millions of laptops and home computers are not behind a well managed firewall.
This lack of quality firewalls in ISP provided hardware is a real problem. +1 for OpenWrt and friends.
>> Isn't that precisely what companies are doing with security bug bounty programs?
No, that's called "outsourcing QA"
I think we can also thank Snowden and many others that have noted how common it is that a Microsoft machine gets used in a farm of attack bots....
I know that I have written before that known flaws and exploits are a risk to national security. Some falsely believe knowing how to exploit systems is power but as script kiddies demonstrate these flaws are not only known by honest law enforcement.
The problem is finding a global definition of honest law enforcement for global companies to interact with.
Overqualified says good things about the educational system
or Overqualified says the list of jobs with interesting qualifications is shrinking.
Years ago help desk folk had to read schematics and source code. Now they read scripts designed to swap out idiot proof boxes.
Apple has an idiot proof magnetic quick release power connector (nice except for the patent). Apple has a new lightening USB magic connector that cares not which way is up (nice except for the patent). Apple has used the new lightening USB connector on a pen that is surely going to break off inside the new big iPad. Someone will read a script and replace pen after pen at $99.99+tax each.
No doubt advances in storage technology would go a long way towards making renewables feasible, however the prices need to come down for that to become a reality......
I wondered what the value of this was but saw a pun in your post. There is data center storage and off peak electric storage and load leveling.
Buildings full of robots, food, data, semiconductor fabrication, assembly,communication equipment all have large downtime risks and orderly shutdown risks.
Since these are pulled from recycled battery packs the costs are interesting.
These are lithium based -- I think the heavy iron based battery technology is the most likely urban future. Install them in underground vaults perhaps under the driveway then roof solar as well as off peak charging can be buffered with little environmental risk. The interface technology is still expensive but regulation and testing are settling down and cost reductions will follow.
I eventually found a way around this. I just started not giving a fuck what others thought about me. It may or may not work for others, but I found that the less I cared about the opinions of others the happier I am, and the more real friends I had.
I might comment that not giving a hoot is a modestly effective strategy. In the extreme it does risk dehumanization.
A valuable coping strategy is a thick skin. That is in some ways quite different than not giving a flipp.
One can go down the rat hole of discourse, cultural bias and small tall but I really want to discuss the weather.
They _want_ people who arn't completely broke but can't afford the credit so they'll keep making minimum payments forever.......
Yep, every dollar of debt you take puts $10 back into the sytem which they can then lend out to ten more suckers. Gotta love it.
Not completely. It might seem that people who pay off their credit cards every month would be refused credit under the "sucker system" y'all describe. But those people result in cash flow for the companies. If everyone made the easy minimum payments, it would be a big problem for them.
There are multiple games... like a casino.... each game has it's own odds and action.
The people that pay off their debt are a predictable cash flow. The fee that the merchant pays is what the casinos call action. With fees in the 2.5% to 3.5% the lender can make 12x2.5% on his bank... a 30% margin is not a bad business.
A second game is the individual with a constant balance of say $5000.. and a constant cash transaction rate of also $5000 a month. This is almost a double dip situation because the full $10,000 is subject to interest at near 25%per year and the $5000 action is also 30% so.
(30% of $5000)+(25% of $10,000)=$4000 Since on average the bank has floating $7500 this is a marvelous rate of return. The banks will argue and toss better data models and calculus at you but the difference is often padded with short term-overnight loans from the Fed. at one percent.
It is a racket (IMO), there are serious writedowns for fraud but I might assert the biggest expense is the layers of management and regulatory compliance. Most organizations do not care about regulatory compliance because it is a documented obligatory expense and comes of the books very quickly.
Our elected officials need to pay attention.... First they need to pay attention to regulations crafted under the rule of law. We no longer live in a world of law we live under a burden of dynamic regulations rubber stamped by laws that allow regulations to go into effect as a default fall through.
Comments like this illuminate the problem. When House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to defend her 2010 comment that “we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.” She and the press ignored the reality that the law was simply a framework for regulations that on the first iteration comprised 10x the page count of the law the reality is more obese...11,588,500 Words: Obamacare Regs 30x as Long as Law... http://www.cnsnews.com/news/ar... "Bureaucracies in the Obama Administration have thus far published approximately 11,588,500 words of final Obamacare regulations, while there are only 381,517 words in the Obamacare law itself. That means unelected federal officials have now written 30 words of regulations for each word in the law."
The USA has constitutional prohibitions against this kind of activity. So the NSA and friends have to make a show about complying with the law. British prohibitions against this are much weaker. So the government just comes clean about it.
....
Fair enough, but candidly, I just assume any searches I perform without cloaking are accessible to any number of interested parties.
There is a plugin worth playing with. To quote the description:
"Confuse surveillers by randomly browsing the internet. "Advertisers and government agencies attempt to build a profile of you based on your browsing history. Paranoid Browsing confuses that effort by making a background tab which browses the internet at random.
"PB was inspired by fictional software described in Cory Doctorow's book Little Brother: "It even throws up a bunch of 'chaff' communications that are supposed to disguise the fact that you're doing anything covert. So while you're receiving a political message one character at a time, [it] is pretending to surf the Web and fill in questionnaires and flirt in chat-rooms. Meanwhile, one in every five hundred characters you receive is your real message, a needle buried in a huge haystack."
"PB currently browses the "standard American" set of web pages, but you can easily modify this to look at ponies, go carts or whatever else you want profilers to think you're interested in. Code is available on GitHub and pull requests are appreciated: https://github.com/Xodarap/Par...
"Note: Since Paranoid Browsing clicks on links randomly, you will get some popups. I recommend having a dedicated window for PB.
What is the state of the samples? If the sample integrity has been maintained retesting is possible.
My bias is that the war on drugs has become vastly worse than the drugs themselves. Given my bias and opinion based cost analysis all drug offenders should be released with time served rubber stamps. The war on drugs has caused astounding social damage in the US and much of the world. Can we say "war zone" children. The WOD money would better be spent on the social and medical needs and consequences.
Addiction is very serious but once money is removed all of the associated crimes involved in the financing of addiction are vastly reduced both domestic and international. Addiction does cause harm to individuals. The WOD causes harm to communities and even nations.
The bigger fish involving truck loads of stuff and money are unlikely to be impacted.
Crack and meth are so evil that each citizen should be required to cultivate a marijuana plant of old green simply to make a less harmful choice available.
Drug addiction is real and a problem --- the WOD is worse.
A corner case would be at an intersection of two edge cases! Almost by definition.
Almost, consider a corner involving three surfaces.
This is perhaps the single best question I have seen in a decade. Bonus point for the asker.
End point case, overflow/out of bounds case, edge case, corner case...
I can offer some obvious, to me, thoughts. *) End points are sometimes ill defined and the last legal value and first illegal value must be correct... Off by one bugs fall into this... so does testing for zero in floating point land. Often found inside a function. *) Edge cases would be interface issues between two functions with a single arg() *) Corner cases functions with multiple args(). This simplicity ignores a lot!
In my experience labeling a bug with a type is more error prone than any type-unsafe language. Consider bogus asserts()....
But, I must admit, I almost got a Blackberry when my old phone broke, because I don't trust Android 'security' at all............
The troubles at Blackberry have opened the door for others. At one time Blackberry had a lock on industrial and government blessed portable phones and devices. They lost a lot when some nations mandated side doors. Now some of those nations have been hacked by international, state, local bad guys. These hacks have renewed the demand for security enhancements.
Time to update something -- always something in need of an update....
Actually I'd be less worried about the spying and more worried about the radiation dosage. X-Rays are ionizing radiation and exposure to them increases the risk of cancer. I don't know what the dosage you would get from one of these things is but if it can penetrate the metal bodywork of a car to look inside it will probably be a lot more than a typical medical X-ray.
There seems to be at least three issues here and little data to sort them out with. One data point is $$: "The technology was used in Afghanistan before being loosed on U.S. streets. Each X-ray van costs an estimated $729,000 to $825,000." This price point is high enough that a manager is needed. Sort of like the officers that drove automobiles in the early days when the military thought autos special.
X-ray imaging techniques based on Compton backscatter is likely the one involved here. Backscatter is not astoundingly efficient so a lot of energy may be involved. Sensor technology has also improved so much that it is difficult to know what the modern truth here is.
http://www.icdd.com/resources/... The above tells me that a single scan dose seems low. For the general population, the is 500 mrem above background radiation in any one year. However for long term, multi-year exposure, 100 mrem above background radiation is the limit set per year.
My concern with imaging tricks like this is that if the dose was so low the medical community with their unbounded deep pockets would be jumping on this. Consider a topic in the news of late. Mammograms.... the recent changes in recommendation are a result of efficacy and induced cancer numbers on the population. On average the total dose for a typical mammogram with 2 views of each breast is about 0.4 mSv or 0.004 REM and these backscatter tools imply a lot lower levels but are they. The dose reported may have a lot to do with resolution however the point tissue does could be very high. A 1x1mm beam resolving a 1x1cm area could be reported two orders of magnitude less than the true beam intensity.
This tells me that mammograms are being done wrong or we are reading the data with regard to these mobile backscatter trucks all wrong.
Any excitation beam with enough energy to scan into and through a loaded van and can also produce detectable returns from the internals of that van is not a trivial beam.
In part I think some serious marketing is happening. The near million dollar price tags combined with NDA and security letters may may make it difficult to scan through all the red tape.
Modest home made detector blocks should be able to detect these scans in passing and let folk discover the numbers and intensity of these scans for real.
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This is almost cool.
The R-Pi is a nice little machine.
not too powerful to challenge the big guys.
not too worthless to be uninteresting.
Sufficiently interesting at all levels from bootstrap to random ABI changes to OS
development to web servers to learn almost any programming language.
Vastly more interesting than a multi million dollar CDC 6400 or other
machines from the 60's like IBM 1401 or PDP8.
Way more powerful than a Kim-1 or an Apple I or II.
This may make the Pi funner still.
Yes I am a fan of Pumpkin Pie.
I have always thought that for automated vehicles to be a reality, ALL traffic has to be automated.
It takes almost an A.I. to be able to adjust to the random nature of human driving.
Not random...
Regions have local habits that are not crafted in law.
A LA driver will be at risk in Boston. A Mexico City driver
will be at risk in Seattle. Goodness Rome and Athens
are another set of rhythms without considering parking.
The flaw is that someone expects the written law to describe
how drivers drive.
Musicians understand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Please share whar you're on. The transducer, perhaps; the cop, though? Tell me you're joking. And then share whateber you're on, I want to be as funny as you.
If you want to drive a dog bonkers fire up a 35KHz perhaps 38KHz transducer well beyond
human hearing (~25KHz). Dogs can hear to 40KHz... bats to 100KHz.
Now if you want the dog to bark on command invite the officer to observe
initially the dog would bark at the stranger lurking at the fence... to ensure
the dog does not stop trigger the acoustic transducer (quality tweeter almost
get there) and the dog will continue to go crazy as long as you want.
AND the officer cannot hear anywhere near this frequency range because
of road noise, siren volume and weapon reports at the range.
I would test the ability of officers to hear high pitched screams from
children, women and men when tazered. If so they cannot hear
someone "comply".
The first link: The ultrasonic sound environment is intolerable to dogs.
Dogs are repelled away from the Yard Gard Ultrasonic Repeller because they cannot adapt to the constantly changing array of ultrasonic signals emitted by this device.
http://www.electronicpestcontr...
Here is why officers cannot detect this type of abuse.
http://www.neuroinnovations.co...
http://www.movingsoundtech.com...
Exactly. That is why you see so many beware of dog signs. They want their property to be just as violent as their kind is.
The dog sign thing is in many areas a liability issue with two sides.
The beware of the dog sign has been used in court to demonstrate that the owner maintained a nuisance.
In other contexts the beware of the dog is an admonishment to not allow the dog to escape.
My favorite was in a big font "Do not feed the dog"
at the bottom with ultra fine print "your arm, face and legs".
Many cat owners have "Beware the dog" signs the same way
that many have security system signs on the lawn but no security
system.
Dogs bark when something is wrong, or when they perceive that something is wrong. Letting your dog keep barking for any length of time (I think 10 minutes is too long in this case) is animal abuse. Either the dog needs something, is afraid of something, or is trying to warn you of something; ignoring it and letting it keep barking is not the answer. So yes, calling the cops over ANIMAL ABUSE is perfectly reasonable and only a narcissistic asshole dog owner would argue otherwise.
And in one of the above cases I suspect the presence of the police officer and a high volume ultra sonic
transducer were the abusers. I could be wrong but some of us understand that measuring and
observing things changes them. Ask Heisenberg's friends, most are old and cranky but what the heck!
(i submitted that without finishing) i simply created an incessant flow of legal documents from local council, police, neighbors, etc. in the end, the visits from annoyed policemen and council workers became unbearable and he moved. i managed to turn the whole neighborhood against him. now we have a new arsehole in his place but this one is just messy.
You just documented an abusive harassing uncalled for behaviour.
Better plan to move soon.
The big question is did they follow procedure?
....snip.....
It is important to rewrite this to "The big question is did they follow a legal procedure?".
I read too often that the department reviewed the incident and has ruled
the official acted as per departmental policy. No one addresses the legality
of departmental policy.
Consider asset forfeiture related policies. If the policy is in effect
see valuables especially cash, grab it, do not provide a receipt with the
exact sum. Do not bring the individual up on charges, do this for the
poor or out of town visitors.
Consider policies in a training academy that that teach an officer to
fire his weapon in concert with other officers to ensure fatalities. Such policies
have evolved for many reasons one is to eliminate expensive hospital and life long care to the
wounded and maimed. Death benefits are less expensive and the one
witness that knows the truth is dead.
Departmental review is not a legal action. It is law outside of the law and
is fundamentally as illegal as the mafia boss sending his minions out to
execute the competition for his illegal actions.
Searching to see if there are more terrorists engaged in a coordinated attack? Seems like a reasonable and responsible thing to do.
Reasonable in this context, sure.
Now that the data has been collected what else might they do with it?
The unreasonable process of parallel reconstruction wins convictions and
is so effective in scoring wins in court such that prosecutors and persecutors
alike want access to the data. Juries expect a case to be airtight today
because of the theater of TV crime fighting. The reality is that a total
parallel reconstruction of fiction will appear more airtight and more convincing
than the truth which depends on facts.
Recently a local city was pondering the right of an officer to review all
body and vehicle camera footage before they submit their action report.
This was the union demanding it of the city.. Where is the union elected
by the citizenship to demand closed door considerations...
Does their report process also extend to phone metadata as well?
I would note that the review of video evidence is not extended to the defendant. Any
discrepancy is held up as a lie in court and in the media to the disadvantage of the
defendant.
In this case deploying an aircraft to slurp up conversations and other
metadata makes a lot of sense on the surface. Further an aircraft may well
allow improved communications so authorities can communicate with the public should
terrorists attack cell service. Oh wait that is not part of the tool....
Such tools are very much double edge knives. Why is it that double edge
knives are so illegal?
Today such tools are an omission under the law and the secrecy surrounding them
sheds fruit from the poison tree to to a degree that some will regret.
11000+ gun related deaths a year in the states, in France there is well under 100 a year
In the USA there are well over 100 wrongful killings ......
In the US we clearly have a problem.
At one point I was of a mind that this was a mental health issue. Today
I am convinced that the issue is vastly more complex.
Removing guns is not an option. Too many criminals are armed and
our war on drugs and more has moved vast numbers of guns, people
and yes cash into the criminal domain.
News media is happy to cash in on eyeball capture and has apparently no organizational
intent to be responsible. Each side has a strong bias toward agenda that panders to
politicians, parties or an invested viewer base.
It may be time to reinstate the old "News at 5 and 11" newscasts as a social
and legal responsibility. Hearken back to Walter Cronkite and friends. While not
perfect it was better than the crud of today.
The legal system that holds schools responsible to the the degree than only paranoid
bureaucratic sycophant narcissistic SOBs seem able to survive. My pet rant
is that zero tolerance had morphed into serious intolerance. The intolerant inflexible
dictatorial individuals that make the news are examples of the cutting edge that fails to teach
our children well. It fails to teach negotiation, responsibility, justice, due process, comportment
and many more social skills.
Without these social skills the part of society that does have mental issues small and
large will not have emotional tools to be safe members of society.
Lessons can be as simple as singing in a choir, marching in a band.. singing in tune
and singing your part. Team sports teach cooperation, chess club teaches rules,
drama can teach right and wrong. Debate club can teach many to listen critically to the
BS on the media and identify, understand and dismiss false arguments. It can teach
the reality that a better storyteller can hold sway over a room and win yet their position
is bogus as all get out.
Reading -- read both fiction and non-fiction and learn how to tell the difference.
Removal of competing ideas from schools is symptomatic of the problem.
Ideas, data, critical thinking all are needed to learn how to think. Ponder the
loss of honest lessons by the removal of Tom Sawyer from schools.
Teach your children well.
Too skinny and it is too easy to bend and fold.
Too skinny and there is not enough battery to call the SO and
apologize. The LAST thing a family needs is a phone with
a dead battery at the time you should be calling to get the dinner
grocery list...
Of interest men often have shirt pockets that were designed for
a pack of cigarettes while weight is important the dimensions can
still fit a pocket.
Talk and standby time are critical for any phone I am willing to
shell out upgrade cash for.
... problem solved. The only reason this attack vector exists in the first place is that people are too lazy to install their own equipment. Instead, they rent a Comcast Wifi router at an exorbitant cost and questionable security. ......
Given the size and reach of Comcast the issue of questionable security is an issue
of national security and worth a letter or three to your elected officials.
Individuals can be lazy and will be (yes should not be lazy) but large organizations cannot be.
Security flaws need to be addressed in prompt time frames and agencies that keep them secret
because they believe them to be a tool of power need be squashed and the salary of the managers
reduced %10 for each week beyond 90days should they fail to report to the vendor discoveries
of security flaws.
I expect my calls to be private even on the street.
Someone has to make an encryption app for the calls where you exchange keys in person and they are never on the network.
Expectation of privacy needs to be reviewed. Definitions of privacy should not be capricious.
There is privacy in a crowded noisy room.
There is privacy in the middle of an open field.
There is privacy in the home.
There is privacy in the bedroom (hotels have bedrooms).
There is privacy in a special RF shielded, sound deadening special room.
A conversation in a restaurant while on a date has privacy expectation.
There is privacy in the confessional of the catholic church.
To subject the population to privacy rules for NSA secret meetings
is folly.
Linux doesn't have anti-malware products
I had to laugh at this. I have to say that almost all of the automated attacks I ever see hitting my firewall are Linux server exploits.
I have managed many servers over the years, almost all of them Windows. I have had maybe 4 separate instances of one of my servers getting owned and they were all Linux servers.
Your view is illuminating yet the millions of laptops and home computers
are not behind a well managed firewall.
This lack of quality firewalls in ISP provided hardware is a real problem.
+1 for OpenWrt and friends.
>> Isn't that precisely what companies are doing with security bug bounty programs?
No, that's called "outsourcing QA"
I think we can also thank Snowden and many others that have noted how
common it is that a Microsoft machine gets used in a farm of attack
bots....
I know that I have written before that known flaws and exploits
are a risk to national security. Some falsely believe knowing how
to exploit systems is power but as script kiddies demonstrate these flaws
are not only known by honest law enforcement.
The problem is finding a global definition of honest law enforcement
for global companies to interact with.
Overqualified says good things about the educational system
or
Overqualified says the list of jobs with interesting qualifications is shrinking.
Years ago help desk folk had to read schematics and source code.
Now they read scripts designed to swap out idiot proof boxes.
Apple has an idiot proof magnetic quick release power connector (nice except for the patent).
Apple has a new lightening USB magic connector that cares not which way is up (nice except for the patent).
Apple has used the new lightening USB connector on a pen that is surely going to break off inside
the new big iPad. Someone will read a script and replace pen after pen at $99.99+tax each.
No doubt advances in storage technology would go a long way towards making renewables feasible, however the prices need to come down for that to become a reality. .....
I wondered what the value of this was but saw a pun in your post.
There is data center storage and off peak electric storage and load leveling.
Buildings full of robots, food, data, semiconductor fabrication, assembly,communication equipment all have
large downtime risks and orderly shutdown risks.
Since these are pulled from recycled battery packs the costs are interesting.
These are lithium based -- I think the heavy iron based battery technology is
the most likely urban future. Install them in underground vaults perhaps
under the driveway then roof solar as well as off peak charging can be buffered
with little environmental risk. The interface technology is still expensive but
regulation and testing are settling down and cost reductions will follow.
a beowulf cluster of 4004s!
Or a cluster of Motorola MC14500 based machines.
http://tinymicros.com/mediawik...
http://www.google.co.uk/patent...
One could do worse than doodle through a thick engineering pad
and think about how to build a machine around either of these
classics.
Do we know if this affects node?
You have to feed your node server a polluted pile of js and that
requires the site to be compromised. So yes but....
For some reason Google just upgraded Chrome.....
I wonder if it is related...
Always load two browsers on your device and save one for the days when
the other is "ill". You got to be on Edge to understand this...
I eventually found a way around this. I just started not giving a fuck what others thought about me. It may or may not work for others, but I found that the less I cared about the opinions of others the happier I am, and the more real friends I had.
I might comment that not giving a hoot is a modestly effective strategy.
In the extreme it does risk dehumanization.
A valuable coping strategy is a thick skin. That is in some ways quite different than not giving a flipp.
One can go down the rat hole of discourse, cultural bias and small tall but I really want
to discuss the weather.
They _want_ people who arn't completely broke but can't afford the credit so they'll keep making minimum payments forever. ......
Yep, every dollar of debt you take puts $10 back into the sytem which they can then lend out to ten more suckers. Gotta love it.
Not completely. It might seem that people who pay off their credit cards every month would be refused credit under the "sucker system" y'all describe. But those people result in cash flow for the companies. If everyone made the easy minimum payments, it would be a big problem for them.
There are multiple games ... like a casino.... each game has it's own odds and action.
The people that pay off their debt are a predictable cash flow.
The fee that the merchant pays is what the casinos call action.
With fees in the 2.5% to 3.5% the lender can make 12x2.5% on
his bank... a 30% margin is not a bad business.
A second game is the individual with a constant balance of say $5000..
and a constant cash transaction rate of also $5000 a month. This is almost
a double dip situation because the full $10,000 is subject to interest at
near 25%per year and the $5000 action is also 30% so.
(30% of $5000)+(25% of $10,000)=$4000
Since on average the bank has floating $7500 this is a marvelous rate of
return. The banks will argue and toss better data models and calculus
at you but the difference is often padded with short term-overnight loans
from the Fed. at one percent.
It is a racket (IMO), there are serious writedowns for fraud but I might assert
the biggest expense is the layers of management and regulatory compliance.
Most organizations do not care about regulatory compliance because
it is a documented obligatory expense and comes of the books very quickly.
Our elected officials need to pay attention....
First they need to pay attention to regulations crafted under the rule of law.
We no longer live in a world of law we live under a burden of dynamic
regulations rubber stamped by laws that allow regulations to go into effect
as a default fall through.
Comments like this illuminate the problem. When House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) to
defend her 2010 comment that “we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.”
She and the press ignored the reality that the law was simply a framework for regulations that on the first iteration
comprised 10x the page count of the law the reality is more obese...11,588,500 Words: Obamacare Regs 30x as Long as Law...
http://www.cnsnews.com/news/ar...
"Bureaucracies in the Obama Administration have thus far published approximately 11,588,500 words
of final Obamacare regulations, while there are only 381,517 words in the Obamacare law itself.
That means unelected federal officials have now written 30 words of regulations for each word in the law."
Golly I got off track...
The USA has constitutional prohibitions against this kind of activity. So the NSA and friends have to make a show about complying with the law. British prohibitions against this are much weaker. So the government just comes clean about it.
....
Fair enough, but candidly, I just assume any searches I perform without cloaking are accessible to any number of interested parties.
There is a plugin worth playing with.
To quote the description:
"Confuse surveillers by randomly browsing the internet.
"Advertisers and government agencies attempt to build a profile of you based on your browsing history. Paranoid Browsing confuses that effort by making a background tab which browses the internet at random.
"PB was inspired by fictional software described in Cory Doctorow's book Little Brother: "It even throws up a bunch of 'chaff' communications that are supposed to disguise the fact that you're doing anything covert. So while you're receiving a political message one character at a time, [it] is pretending to surf the Web and fill in questionnaires and flirt in chat-rooms. Meanwhile, one in every five hundred characters you receive is your real message, a needle buried in a huge haystack."
"PB currently browses the "standard American" set of web pages, but you can easily modify this to look at ponies, go carts or whatever else you want profilers to think you're interested in. Code is available on GitHub and pull requests are appreciated: https://github.com/Xodarap/Par...
"Note: Since Paranoid Browsing clicks on links randomly, you will get some popups. I recommend having a dedicated window for PB.
"If you find PB useful, please consider donating to a top charity: http://www.effectiveanimalacti... "
What is the state of the samples?
If the sample integrity has been maintained retesting is possible.
My bias is that the war on drugs has become vastly worse than the drugs themselves.
Given my bias and opinion based cost analysis all drug offenders should be released
with time served rubber stamps. The war on drugs has caused astounding social
damage in the US and much of the world. Can we say "war zone" children.
The WOD money would better be spent on the social and medical needs and consequences.
Addiction is very serious but once money is removed all of the associated crimes involved in
the financing of addiction are vastly reduced both domestic and international. Addiction does
cause harm to individuals. The WOD causes harm to communities and even nations.
The bigger fish involving truck loads of stuff and money are unlikely to be impacted.
Crack and meth are so evil that each citizen should be required to cultivate a marijuana
plant of old green simply to make a less harmful choice available.
Drug addiction is real and a problem --- the WOD is worse.
A corner case would be at an intersection of two edge cases! Almost by definition.
Almost, consider a corner involving three surfaces.
This is perhaps the single best question I have seen in a decade.
Bonus point for the asker.
End point case, overflow/out of bounds case, edge case, corner case...
I can offer some obvious, to me, thoughts. ... so does testing for zero in floating point land.
*) End points are sometimes ill defined and the last legal value and first illegal value must be
correct... Off by one bugs fall into this
Often found inside a function.
*) Edge cases would be interface issues between two functions with a single arg()
*) Corner cases functions with multiple args().
This simplicity ignores a lot!
In my experience labeling a bug with a type is more error prone than ....
any type-unsafe language. Consider bogus asserts()
You mean Blackberry.
He did say 'large scale'.
But, I must admit, I almost got a Blackberry when my old phone broke, because I don't trust Android 'security' at all............
The troubles at Blackberry have opened the door for others.
At one time Blackberry had a lock on industrial and government blessed portable
phones and devices. They lost a lot when some nations mandated side doors.
Now some of those nations have been hacked by international, state, local bad guys.
These hacks have renewed the demand for security enhancements.
Time to update something -- always something in need of an update ....
Actually I'd be less worried about the spying and more worried about the radiation dosage. X-Rays are ionizing radiation and exposure to them increases the risk of cancer. I don't know what the dosage you would get from one of these things is but if it can penetrate the metal bodywork of a car to look inside it will probably be a lot more than a typical medical X-ray.
There seems to be at least three issues here and little data to sort them out with.
One data point is $$:
"The technology was used in Afghanistan before being loosed on U.S. streets. Each X-ray van costs an estimated $729,000 to $825,000."
This price point is high enough that a manager is needed. Sort of like the officers that drove automobiles in the early days when the
military thought autos special.
X-ray imaging techniques based on Compton backscatter is likely the one involved here.
Backscatter is not astoundingly efficient so a lot of energy may be involved.
Sensor technology has also improved so much that it is difficult to know what the
modern truth here is.
http://www.icdd.com/resources/...
The above tells me that a single scan dose seems low.
For the general population, the is 500 mrem above background radiation in any one year. However for
long term, multi-year exposure, 100 mrem above background radiation is the limit
set per year.
My concern with imaging tricks like this is that if the dose was so low the medical community
with their unbounded deep pockets would be jumping on this.
Consider a topic in the news of late. Mammograms.... the recent changes in recommendation
are a result of efficacy and induced cancer numbers on the population.
On average the total dose for a typical mammogram with 2 views of each breast is about 0.4 mSv
or 0.004 REM and these backscatter tools imply a lot lower levels but are they. The dose reported may
have a lot to do with resolution however the point tissue does could be very high. A 1x1mm beam resolving
a 1x1cm area could be reported two orders of magnitude less than the true beam intensity.
This tells me that mammograms are being done wrong or we are reading the data with
regard to these mobile backscatter trucks all wrong.
Any excitation beam with enough energy to scan into and through a loaded van and can
also produce detectable returns from the internals of that van is not a trivial beam.
In part I think some serious marketing is happening.
The near million dollar price tags combined with NDA and security letters
may may make it difficult to scan through all the red tape.
Modest home made detector blocks should be able to detect these scans in passing
and let folk discover the numbers and intensity of these scans for real.