Convicted felons like Kim Dotcom generate millions of dollars in illegal revenue off our stolen creative work.
This is hilarious, coming from a guy who writes a TV show about a gang of convicted felons who make millions of dollars in illegal revenue selling guns. You would think he of all people might be a little sympathetic to the idea of people stepping outside the law to provide a service when there is enough demand to do so.
Or we could all just grow up a little bit. If our kids aren't mature enough to handle anonymous threats then they need to learn how to.
I know that if anyone were to threaten me as an AC I wouldn't go so far as to get their IP tracked. If I did anything it would probably be to laugh in their face (metaphorically speaking).
I think facebook has not fallen so fast because it's funded by advertisers. Those advertisers still don't have any viable alternatives. It will take them jumping ship before the bubble will pop.
So someone anonymously said something. It's not like that's never been done before. It's not like that's a new issue in society. Haven't we come up with better ways to deal with this by now?
For instance, I can post anonymously right now on this very platform. How is that wrong?
If schools didn't act so stupidly they wouldn't have to be funded by corporations.
Yeah, you can hike up into the hills and get great views of the clouds of smog. I wasn't too impressed with the weather, the heat is oppressive when everything around you is glass or concrete.
Yes, the only thing that post really proves is that Satoshi is alive and paying attention to the news. The only way that account could prove it wasn't Dorian is if someone put Dorian in jail or something (without giving him any advance warning so he can't set up a delayed script) and THEN this post was made.
Well.. that or the real Satoshi could come forward (assuming it isn't this guy).
Shall I argue with your well written point? Shall I define my existence by being the antithesis of the way you define yours? Why would I go so far?
Your first paragraph is valid. I would only add that by the time you've listened to your good song 1500 times.. by the time you have reorganized your playlist 100 times.. have you not spent days or weeks of your life listening to the same thing over and over again while receiving only a marginally different experience each time? Could you not have grown more as a human or experienced life more fully as a human by listening to or doing something new and different during that time?
Perhaps you would be a better person without your favorite song. Perhaps it has been a crutch. Perhaps you, sir, have no heart beat.
Yes, it does seem to be implying a mental illness. I still consider that a step up from the "people don't work like that" attitude (as if I had said something absurd like "I like to walk around on three legs") that I've grown used to hearing.
I don't think so. I think society in general is still in the WHAT?? you can't not like music!! phase. There are still quite a few phases to go though before the general population will be able to comprehend that it's not a disability.
I've felt the emotion inherent in a particularly poignant melody. I've enjoyed songs. It's not a switch, it's a priority. I prefer to take in information or to process information that I have previously taken in. I find music to be the same mental state repeated over and over again.
I actually think it's due to having more ability than the common person to self-modulate my mental state, not less. I don't need music to put myself in a particular state of mind. I can do that all on my own. When I am in a group (like a party perhaps) that is all experiencing a common mental pattern due to having the same music played (loudly), then music makes sense. When I am alone then music makes no sense.
Perhaps the ability to transcend the need for music is something that you could be taught. Perhaps we could find out how to switch on a greater range of experiences in your mind.
Our society is so mindlessly pro music that whenever I've told people that "I don't like music" they look at me with a blank stare. It's just not something you are allowed to say in society today because some people define their lives by what music they like and what music they don't like. I, personally, find music to be a waste of time and meaninglessly repetitive in most situations.
Cudos to the people who made this study for bringing this phenomenon out into the open. For a long time the people who spend all day obsessing about which type of music they like have drowned out the voice of the people who would rather do something more productive.
Not that it's a revolution or anything. It only really becomes important when marketers or, say, someone you are on a date with asks you "what type of music are you in to?" The assumption there is that you must be in to some kind of music, because everyone is. But not everyone is.
I am one of the 1-3% mentioned. When I put my headphones on it's always an audio book. When I'm not listening to a book or doing something useful I find silence to be a lot more fulfilling than music. Music just gets in the way of constructive thought, and once you have heard a song a couple of times you've heard the song. Time to move on to something new.
Music just seems like a low-productivity and meaninglessly repetitive medium, irregardless of the quality of the song being played.
This is something I've always believed, but this is the first time I've ever seen that belief validated in any way by anyone. I think society does an excellent job of training people to like music already, and of telling people that they are weird if they don't.
You've obviously been spending all your time working with manufacturer approved devices in the manufacturer's API. Escalating privilege is trivial if you don't rely on the manufacturer's API.
So 1) Not true 2) Not true 3) Was my original point. Anything that standardizes the interface just serves to make things easier to hack.
Your baseless attempts at character assassination just make you sound desperate.
Your lack of imagination does not make a thing impossible. The radio, in most cases, has direct access to the CAN bus. Do you think every radio on the market has vetted their firmware for buffer over run exploits? The implementation of privileges on a CAN bus is a joke, as you can see in the video I posted a couple of posts up. The biggest impediments to someone writing a script that can take over your car are 1) There is very little money in it and 2) None of the CAN busses follow a standard protocol and each car manufacturer seems to just throw together whatever implementation they feel like.
Adapting an industry-wide standard would at least eliminate #2.
You don't know what his patent claims, aside from the oversimplification in the summary.
And what's your point.. or were you just stating the obvious?
Since it appears that no one knows specifically what the patent contains it's really no more than a nebulous threat to claim ownership over something that someone else did. It may or may not manifest in the future, and if it does then it was impossible for anyone in the present to know whether something they are building today infringes on it. No matter what this patent contains if it was ever granted it would be a complete abuse of the patent system.
Well, it can be valid if it covers a set of methods relating to how to use relays.
This guy seems to only want the patent so he can sell it to patent trolls. It seems that the patent office doesn't want to deny the patent because they know that as soon as they do he'll sue (again). I wouldn't call this guy an inverter, I would call him another part of the patent troll machine.
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Convicted felons like Kim Dotcom generate millions of dollars in illegal revenue off our stolen creative work.
This is hilarious, coming from a guy who writes a TV show about a gang of convicted felons who make millions of dollars in illegal revenue selling guns. You would think he of all people might be a little sympathetic to the idea of people stepping outside the law to provide a service when there is enough demand to do so.
But all of slashdot should know that a KiloByte is 1024 bytes
and a MegiByte is 1024 Kilobytes
WRONG! A MegiByte is when a wizard bites you.
That workflow requires quite a lot of manual maintenance, which also has a cost.
You fail to consider the cost of electricity, or the cost of redundancy in case the hard drive crashes.
Not generalizable. You have not proven that normal sex is equivalent to sex with whores.
Grubbing dirt out of the ground and burning it is a "dark ages" thing.
That sounds more like Star Trek to me.. or maybe Back to the Future. Getting energy directly out of raw dirt is defiantly sci-fi.
Or we could all just grow up a little bit. If our kids aren't mature enough to handle anonymous threats then they need to learn how to.
I know that if anyone were to threaten me as an AC I wouldn't go so far as to get their IP tracked. If I did anything it would probably be to laugh in their face (metaphorically speaking).
I think facebook has not fallen so fast because it's funded by advertisers. Those advertisers still don't have any viable alternatives. It will take them jumping ship before the bubble will pop.
So someone anonymously said something. It's not like that's never been done before. It's not like that's a new issue in society. Haven't we come up with better ways to deal with this by now?
For instance, I can post anonymously right now on this very platform. How is that wrong?
If schools didn't act so stupidly they wouldn't have to be funded by corporations.
This just in: The economy of the US now has mass, and lots of it!
Yeah, you can hike up into the hills and get great views of the clouds of smog. I wasn't too impressed with the weather, the heat is oppressive when everything around you is glass or concrete.
Hawaii isn't overcrowded. If you leave your towel wet for even an hour it will get mold on in though.
The main disadvantage of hawaii is that lots of things cost 25% more, due to increased shipping costs.
Yes, the only thing that post really proves is that Satoshi is alive and paying attention to the news. The only way that account could prove it wasn't Dorian is if someone put Dorian in jail or something (without giving him any advance warning so he can't set up a delayed script) and THEN this post was made.
Well.. that or the real Satoshi could come forward (assuming it isn't this guy).
Shall I argue with your well written point? Shall I define my existence by being the antithesis of the way you define yours? Why would I go so far?
Your first paragraph is valid. I would only add that by the time you've listened to your good song 1500 times.. by the time you have reorganized your playlist 100 times.. have you not spent days or weeks of your life listening to the same thing over and over again while receiving only a marginally different experience each time? Could you not have grown more as a human or experienced life more fully as a human by listening to or doing something new and different during that time?
Perhaps you would be a better person without your favorite song. Perhaps it has been a crutch. Perhaps you, sir, have no heart beat.
Yes, it does seem to be implying a mental illness. I still consider that a step up from the "people don't work like that" attitude (as if I had said something absurd like "I like to walk around on three legs") that I've grown used to hearing.
I don't think so. I think society in general is still in the WHAT?? you can't not like music!! phase. There are still quite a few phases to go though before the general population will be able to comprehend that it's not a disability.
I've felt the emotion inherent in a particularly poignant melody. I've enjoyed songs. It's not a switch, it's a priority. I prefer to take in information or to process information that I have previously taken in. I find music to be the same mental state repeated over and over again.
I actually think it's due to having more ability than the common person to self-modulate my mental state, not less. I don't need music to put myself in a particular state of mind. I can do that all on my own. When I am in a group (like a party perhaps) that is all experiencing a common mental pattern due to having the same music played (loudly), then music makes sense. When I am alone then music makes no sense.
Perhaps the ability to transcend the need for music is something that you could be taught. Perhaps we could find out how to switch on a greater range of experiences in your mind.
Our society is so mindlessly pro music that whenever I've told people that "I don't like music" they look at me with a blank stare. It's just not something you are allowed to say in society today because some people define their lives by what music they like and what music they don't like. I, personally, find music to be a waste of time and meaninglessly repetitive in most situations.
Cudos to the people who made this study for bringing this phenomenon out into the open. For a long time the people who spend all day obsessing about which type of music they like have drowned out the voice of the people who would rather do something more productive.
Not that it's a revolution or anything. It only really becomes important when marketers or, say, someone you are on a date with asks you "what type of music are you in to?" The assumption there is that you must be in to some kind of music, because everyone is. But not everyone is.
No.
I am one of the 1-3% mentioned. When I put my headphones on it's always an audio book. When I'm not listening to a book or doing something useful I find silence to be a lot more fulfilling than music. Music just gets in the way of constructive thought, and once you have heard a song a couple of times you've heard the song. Time to move on to something new.
Music just seems like a low-productivity and meaninglessly repetitive medium, irregardless of the quality of the song being played.
This is something I've always believed, but this is the first time I've ever seen that belief validated in any way by anyone. I think society does an excellent job of training people to like music already, and of telling people that they are weird if they don't.
You've obviously been spending all your time working with manufacturer approved devices in the manufacturer's API. Escalating privilege is trivial if you don't rely on the manufacturer's API.
So 1) Not true 2) Not true 3) Was my original point. Anything that standardizes the interface just serves to make things easier to hack.
Your baseless attempts at character assassination just make you sound desperate.
Your lack of imagination does not make a thing impossible. The radio, in most cases, has direct access to the CAN bus. Do you think every radio on the market has vetted their firmware for buffer over run exploits? The implementation of privileges on a CAN bus is a joke, as you can see in the video I posted a couple of posts up. The biggest impediments to someone writing a script that can take over your car are 1) There is very little money in it and 2) None of the CAN busses follow a standard protocol and each car manufacturer seems to just throw together whatever implementation they feel like.
Adapting an industry-wide standard would at least eliminate #2.
You don't know what his patent claims, aside from the oversimplification in the summary.
And what's your point.. or were you just stating the obvious?
Since it appears that no one knows specifically what the patent contains it's really no more than a nebulous threat to claim ownership over something that someone else did. It may or may not manifest in the future, and if it does then it was impossible for anyone in the present to know whether something they are building today infringes on it. No matter what this patent contains if it was ever granted it would be a complete abuse of the patent system.
Well, it can be valid if it covers a set of methods relating to how to use relays.
This guy seems to only want the patent so he can sell it to patent trolls. It seems that the patent office doesn't want to deny the patent because they know that as soon as they do he'll sue (again). I wouldn't call this guy an inverter, I would call him another part of the patent troll machine.
I think the article must have gotten it wrong.. I've heard several other places that WhatsApp sold for 16 billion.
I know it may not seem like much.. but, personally, I consider a $3 billion discrepancy to be something.
tl;dr? In short the wacky network architecture has indeed been making vehicles harder to hack.