Q: Why didn't the good jokes about the uncertainty principle make it to the thread?
A: They never left home -- "good jokes" and "uncertainty principle" don't commute.
Secretly thinks the pun is kinda funny, but expects -1 Offtopics instead...
At the end of the day, the whole "planet/not a planet" distinction isn't even particularly illuminating. It's much more useful, IMHO, to just look at the parameters and make up your own mind. How massive is it? What's its distance from the sun? What's its eccentricity? What's its inclination (please, no jokes about Uranus' inclination...)? What's its origin?
A binary planet/not planet distinction just doesn't tell you that much.
True. My sense, though, was that people don't feel entitled to mod their EFI/ignition/etc. -- I'm not at all disputing the fact that you might want to mod various aspects of your car.
If a geek buys a car and realizes that he/she can't just remap the ignition with a laptop and a USB cable (and instead must jump through some more substantial hoops), it's hardly news; if a geek realizes that she/he can't run arbitrary programs on a smart phone, there'll be dozens of/. articles about it =)
Malware targeting one or more of those processors would work regardless of what OS or applications were installed.
Ok...but how are you planning on executing that? You can write a piece of code that exploits some chip vulnerability, and compile it for Windows -- but it still gives you no advantage over just writing something which targets Windows in the first place.
And if you're capable of running arbitrary machine code on the host -- which is sort of what I take this article to suggest -- then you've got way bigger fish to fry in the security department...
Having said that, you're not running around in the right circles if you think there are no aftermarket automotive computers or software hacks for reflashing the existing computer(s).
Yeah, I'm running around in the circles where the timing's controlled by vacuum/centrifugal advance;)
I guess my point is more that if you buy a four-function calculator, you're not going to be upset when you figure out that there's no sin() button -- even though the processor in the calculator may be capable of doing that. Analogously, when you buy a phone, people get rather upset that they can't run arbitrary code on it. Sure, the company is controlling what you run -- but you bought it that way. I agree with what's been said before -- companies need to offer this, in which case the geek money will go with the most open phone 9 times out of 10.
Now, as to there being legal repercussions against hacking a phone, that's stupid -- the phone should be yours once you buy it.
It seems that people rarely complain about the proprietary engine/drive-by-wire/etc. management software in their car, unless it breaks (think the Toyota debacle of late). Is it just that phones that run *NIX "feel" like they should be open, as we (the greater/. community) know *NIX (Jurassic Park reference intentional...)? Granted, there are legitimate safety concerns for cars, but I imagine there are less drastic examples of this apathy towards device X, but the demand for openness on device Y (phone, game console, etc.).
That said, I have a clamshell VZW phone, and it does irk me that it's useless for anything except the basics.
Well, suppose the power mains to your block had a relatively low capacity. And suppose your neighbor starts growing copious amounts of a "cash crop" which is not exactly legal (analog: illegal torrents), hogging many kWh (dumbest unit ever...) in the process with grow lamps, which means you're constantly experiencing brownouts (analog: sluggish 'net). Would you be in favor of throttling electricity (analog: bandwidth) to said neighbor? What if the power company started throttling electricity to all grow lamps, even those used for legitimate gardening uses (analog: legal torrents)? My (rather shaky) point is that, although your best interests aren't taken to heart, perhaps someone's best interests are.
I do wonder what the Tesla could do sans a governor, but since it only has one forward gear, I imagine it might get a little upset in the ol' rev department...
I want Silverlight for Linux; essentially the only reason I ever boot into Windows is for Netflix's "Watch Instantly" feature.
Of course, my desire for this despite the DRM probably means I'm going to open-source fundamentalist hell...I mean, I even use the proprietary nVidia drivers...
The book notes that there is a cohesive set of concepts that binds cybersecurity investigators to a shared vision, of which is tries to be a source to.
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a Cosmopolitan, and promptly receives a roundhouse kick to the CPU...
Q: Why didn't the good jokes about the uncertainty principle make it to the thread?
A: They never left home -- "good jokes" and "uncertainty principle" don't commute.
Secretly thinks the pun is kinda funny, but expects -1 Offtopics instead...
Let's just hope Pluto doesn't die on the cosmic crapper.
I'm not even sure what that means.
At the end of the day, the whole "planet/not a planet" distinction isn't even particularly illuminating. It's much more useful, IMHO, to just look at the parameters and make up your own mind. How massive is it? What's its distance from the sun? What's its eccentricity? What's its inclination (please, no jokes about Uranus' inclination...)? What's its origin?
A binary planet/not planet distinction just doesn't tell you that much.
Wait, it's a joke! Don't mod me troll/flamebait!
True. My sense, though, was that people don't feel entitled to mod their EFI/ignition/etc. -- I'm not at all disputing the fact that you might want to mod various aspects of your car.
/. articles about it =)
If a geek buys a car and realizes that he/she can't just remap the ignition with a laptop and a USB cable (and instead must jump through some more substantial hoops), it's hardly news; if a geek realizes that she/he can't run arbitrary programs on a smart phone, there'll be dozens of
Malware targeting one or more of those processors would work regardless of what OS or applications were installed.
Ok...but how are you planning on executing that? You can write a piece of code that exploits some chip vulnerability, and compile it for Windows -- but it still gives you no advantage over just writing something which targets Windows in the first place.
And if you're capable of running arbitrary machine code on the host -- which is sort of what I take this article to suggest -- then you've got way bigger fish to fry in the security department...
Having said that, you're not running around in the right circles if you think there are no aftermarket automotive computers or software hacks for reflashing the existing computer(s).
Yeah, I'm running around in the circles where the timing's controlled by vacuum/centrifugal advance ;)
I guess my point is more that if you buy a four-function calculator, you're not going to be upset when you figure out that there's no sin() button -- even though the processor in the calculator may be capable of doing that. Analogously, when you buy a phone, people get rather upset that they can't run arbitrary code on it. Sure, the company is controlling what you run -- but you bought it that way. I agree with what's been said before -- companies need to offer this, in which case the geek money will go with the most open phone 9 times out of 10.
Now, as to there being legal repercussions against hacking a phone, that's stupid -- the phone should be yours once you buy it.
It seems that people rarely complain about the proprietary engine/drive-by-wire/etc. management software in their car, unless it breaks (think the Toyota debacle of late). Is it just that phones that run *NIX "feel" like they should be open, as we (the greater /. community) know *NIX (Jurassic Park reference intentional...)? Granted, there are legitimate safety concerns for cars, but I imagine there are less drastic examples of this apathy towards device X, but the demand for openness on device Y (phone, game console, etc.).
That said, I have a clamshell VZW phone, and it does irk me that it's useless for anything except the basics.
Horsepower/hours doesn't have dimensions of energy -- I think you want Horsepower-hours (multiplication, not division).
Well, suppose the power mains to your block had a relatively low capacity. And suppose your neighbor starts growing copious amounts of a "cash crop" which is not exactly legal (analog: illegal torrents), hogging many kWh (dumbest unit ever...) in the process with grow lamps, which means you're constantly experiencing brownouts (analog: sluggish 'net). Would you be in favor of throttling electricity (analog: bandwidth) to said neighbor? What if the power company started throttling electricity to all grow lamps, even those used for legitimate gardening uses (analog: legal torrents)? My (rather shaky) point is that, although your best interests aren't taken to heart, perhaps someone's best interests are.
Onward came the -1 Trolls...
Pretty sure 4) follows from 2), thus negating the need for 3).
Now, collecting underwear...therein lies the true mystery.
...it's Apple. Who cares? Since when did Apple mean anything but 'cute'? Hello Kitty stopped making servers. The world is feeling a tremendous loss.
And since when did Mercedes-Benz make anything but overpriced yuppie mobiles? Oh, wait...
1977 911S (2.7L) Targa, 340,000+ miles =)
I do wonder what the Tesla could do sans a governor, but since it only has one forward gear, I imagine it might get a little upset in the ol' rev department...
...but my computer ran out of batteries and I had to find an outlet.
Most places you want to drive, top speeds are greater than speed limits so acceleration is more significant.
You've never wanted to drive on the Bonneville salt flats?
I was listening to a report on the New porche.
I found the report on the New gazeboe much more entertaining.
But it's a wicked fast pile of duck shit...
Not really. Its top speed is a "mere" 125 mph, something my 33 year old Porsche can (or could, when new) beat.
As far as acceleration goes, though...yeah, it's very zippy.
I want Silverlight for Linux; essentially the only reason I ever boot into Windows is for Netflix's "Watch Instantly" feature.
Of course, my desire for this despite the DRM probably means I'm going to open-source fundamentalist hell...I mean, I even use the proprietary nVidia drivers...
Can we just go ahead and get a "-1, Goatse" mod option?
Perhaps we could get /. to display the dereferenced URL instead of bit.ly, etc. -- hardly rocket science (don't click on any of these, obviously...):
/dev/null http://bit.ly/d9LffL 2>&1 | grep -o 'http[^ ]*'
user@host:~$ wget -O
http://bit.ly/d9LffL
http://goatse.fr/
http://goatse.fr/
Type this into a terminal:
apt-get remove flashplugin-nonfree
So...you're logged in as root? I think I'll look elsewhere for security advice...
(I know, you can have it aliased to 'sudo apt-get', but I couldn't pass up an opportunity to be snarky.)
Inductance...now that's the stuff!
The book notes that there is a cohesive set of concepts that binds cybersecurity investigators to a shared vision, of which is tries to be a source to.
(My emphasis...)