Yup, and when everyone and -thing else has been hacked, I won't stand out as a target as much as before. We might even think of better ways to do ID...
I'm just glad they helped me quit entirely by breaking up many of the regular smoking habit patterns. Not as bad as combustion, if done right, but still not good.
Wouldn't know. Like many, I never really used Apache. NGINX doesn't use mod_perl...I use perl here with NGINX on all sorts of things - even RPis, and it's plenty good enough. The big boys don't use Apache at all...
Externalized cost of failure is the fail here too. Security isn't tested into devices (though that can help) of course. But when you can externalize the cost of fail - like say, Visa does into chargebacks and merchant fees, there's no incentive to do it right. If you're paying big malpractice insurance fees anyway, why care? It's not like companies are actually people or that even actual people these days have much in the way of morals, past look out for #1. Why do we let coal spew more Hg and more radioactive stuff in the air than even the worst alternatives? They (and the customer, you) don't pay and don't see the cost as obvious. Citation: Bruce Schneier. The med biz is more arrogant and clueless than most, to be sure. Doctors are gods, haven't you heard? After all, this stuff is all peer-reviewed by the house pets of almost-scientists.
So, a new illegal thing grows to a size admittedly the largest yet, but is trivial to bust.
This takes time to grow, for the grapevine to pass the word around.
By their own admission, the authorities state this was huge, and easy.
Yet it took a long time to get to.
Priorities? Who benefited by taking so long. Bribes, alphabet agency business, and.gov money laundering?
Total incompetence? Danger of stepping on the wrong toes? .
Inquiring minds want to know. And who killed the guy and which of the many possible reasons was it?
Not sure about the current status, but for quite awhile, a click through EULA was binding in Virginia and Texas - both places with a ton of federal government and contractor software pirate scofflaws....
Not an attempt to be funny...
I got hacked a couple times, evidently by dumpster divers behind a legit biz in the days of paper CC processing.
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Easy fix, worked ever since:
Setup a separate account at the bank for online stuff, in my case, with a debit card. Don't keep any real amount of money in the account. Just before clicking the final "check out" or "place my order", log into the bank and transfer just the right amount into the online account.
That account normally only has a small amount of money in it - $20-$50, which is all that can be stolen. I had to tell the bank to turn off auto-overdraft "protection" on the account, which used to be something they didn't like, but now they understand why (my banker does this for himself as well). I can lose $50 and not die. When I got hacked, it was the payroll account for a business I owned - that could have been a real problem!
Try CPAN. How to ___ with perl has been around longer and is far better.
I find python craps up my namespace and scope too easily, but then I've not used it anywhere near as much as the more developed perl.
And you can't paste a long program into a single line edit box as the indentation matters.
Whitespace as a statement delimiter is stupid, and it being popular just means that there are a lot of stupid people.
Ditto indentation. I'd rather have the choice.
Not many grownups here, I see...
Seems to me those fad languages are perl with all the good stuff left out.
Funny how easy it is to do things in perl, even with newer machines, NGINX, and whatever opsys and hardware.
Sure is tough to remember which parts of perl were left out of python, ruby, php and so on, and which perverted weak->strong typing conversions they do differently. One weird language is enough!
I'll take the one that takes the least typing and which gives you more choice to either write super clean code, or enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot, depending on mood. And with control over when garbage collection can run, so even some realtime stuff works well.
Because of this I'm building a LAN of things for my own use. I have no need to stoke or control my woodstove from on the road anyway, but I do like to have as much as possible on my homestead automated and monitored - verily, even stuffed into a database so I can see what the weather has been like at such and such a time over the years and so on.
Works for me - I rarely go out (living in what amounts to the Garden of Eden will do that for ya) - and no one gets my data if I don't want them to.
BUT! Now let's look at why things are the way they are. Artificial scarcity of both IPv4 addresses and um, profits. No one wants to settle for the margin they can get selling you something just once, now. Oh no, we all have to subscribe to almost everything (I Avoid this like the Plague - and do without if I hve to). .
So they have to insert themselves in the loop by owning a static IP and domain. Yeah, some of them are free NOW - how long before you get charged rent to even make your own home work? I'll ignore the snooping for the purpose of making this point. You're willingly handing over control via IoT and anything subscription model. Period. You might not like the eventual results.
I happen to have worked on numerous speech recog projects. While it's true that for "random speakers and connected speech", for a single speaker or just a fw on which you could train a little (get them to read a known story, or give you corrections to what your program thought it heard) - a single machine, in the pentium II days was enough to handle about 4 speakers in real time. We did this with a mod from IBM's viaVoice for transcribing doctor's notes way back when, and it worked great. In fact, in a way it's a security feature, as it only will recognize a few different talkers...And with very high accuracy only if they learn to "talk right" for that algo (it's easy, just a tiny pause between words and really say all the syllables in each word rather than slurring it all together).
I still think that routing everything back to some provider's server is evil for the reasons above, and yeah, as you point out - also it adds delay and error issues of its own.
Regardless of whether it's a speech interface or not.
Gee, people, this is obvious. The IoT is all about funneling all your stuff into someone else's domain. You don't have your own because we don't really have IPV6 yet, which is in part because the artificial scarcity of IPV4 addresses is a profit center for many, and a bridge a troll can sit under and charge passage fees for. Which could be your personal info (readily converted to $) or just plain rent (pay or your house quits working) down the road. XYZZY "as a service" is a wet dream for many big businesses, subscriptions tend to be a nice safe ongoing source of bucks compared to making useful things innovatively and competitively. Suck it up, or make your own.
I'm making my own - a LAN of things, here on my mostly off-grid homestead, as I have no need to change or monitor things from away from here - I'm retired and live in the boonies, but really, a robot to keep the woodstove going correctly is probably not in my immediate future anyway. I could, I suppose, if I carried a connected device with me all the time (I don't, and I don't go out often, as it's 30 mi round trip to the nearest store of any kind) and do things via emails or something, but the need for that is so tiny it's not on my radar. Running my solar system with backups is. Running the water collection system is. Warning me when my plumbing might freeze is. The idea in my case is to have a life in many ways similar to those who are rent-bound wage slaves, without those two disadvantages in live (having been there too). There's a lot I'll accept in order not to have to kiss butt all the time, even a "lower" standard of living, or to euphemize, living a little closer to the earth.
It's not that I don't like tech. I have way more than most do here, and made my fortune that let me retire at ~ age 45 with it. It's that I do like having control over my own life. Playing with tech is fun, even at > age 65. Having it own you? C'mon. I own my stuff, not the other way around.
Mod parent up. This is the limiting case we're heading for. Not everyone can design robots, or fix them, or be trained to, and we really don't have any smart ways of paying people who can't to just sit around and stay out of trouble, and even if we did...that money would come from...those same corps and people still creating value. They don't win in the long run without a complete re-think of how things are done. And this is from a card-carrying super-capitalist.
Really, this should be obvious. Outfit that sells stuff pays for a report that says they're being ripped off - likely inflated numbers - as a background to get legislation to tax DVR owners or whatever other skim they can easy-street or litigate from. "Look, we lose x-zillion bucks from every recorder". Sound familiar? Remember the "tax" on blank CD's and so forth, since "they can only be used to pirate"? This is how the big boys operate, we should have learned long ago.
Mips or flops/watt, and easy-cheap manufacture. I did some work in the real bipolar world, from discrete to ECL to - IIL (integrated injection logic, a TRW thing)....it was "hot stuff". Easier to make complimentary cmos such that you can make an inverter with just two transistors tieing the gates together - gotta drive both high and low some way. Enhancement mode CMOS is a lot easier to do that with.
Could but usually doesn't. As the hardware was more costly and slower, and labor relatively cheaper, mainframes ran in some sense "better" code with far less bloat and frillage. An A was just an A (ascii or baudot or ebcdic) - not a picture of a letter in some font taking many times the bits to store and draw for just one example. Audio or video which were (And still are) largely irreducible to small bits/second were right out for real time use.
Mainframes had "acceleration" hardware to compensate. Line printers took a few bits and did the drawing parts (as did plotters for other uses).
Now phones and modern PCs use accelerators for crypto, audio and video codecs, and for sure, don't bit bang the screen pixels.
This leaves enough CPU, admittedly faster now - to handle crap interpreted scripts, HTML rendering...a long list of silly stuff.
And no matter how much faster CPUs get - or in a possibly more important measure now, mips/watt - rather than code efficiently and use a low power cpu, we just accept shorter battery life, as the periodic table for some reason isn't driven my Moore's law - no new more electropositive or negative elements are to be found, period. (I see what I did there). No matter how much, we still waste enough to want more for the same results.
I'm enjoying my lawn. Having started with a PDP-8s, and today just working with all of the might of intel, down to arm (pi-3) and esp-8266 and teensies, this is a new world. But you still get more out of things if you write good code than most others would.
Or a faster odroid xu4 from hardkernel. They have fanless boxes available too - twice as fast, less money. I like mint on big boxes, but run odroidian (debian) on my xu4's as it's a lot less bloat and much faster.
In the boonies, where many of us heat with woodstoves, snail mail spam is called "free fuel". Some of us even write letters (though I tend to print mine as my handwriting isn't great, or maybe even include a gasp - paper check - for record keeping that doesn't have bit-rot and isn't subject to hacking quite the same as e-transfers are. Selection bias much?
I get more and more of my Amazon stuff via USPS, and it's a good deal, it seems. for all concerned. The USPS has to drive the route anyway, so why not carry something? On our rural route, UPS, FedEx etc can't make money, UPS in particular has a bad attitude as mentioned elsewhere and a high rate of damage to the product. I'm not sure how Amazon actually gets things to the local USPS so fast - clearly they didn't just mail it, as regular mail is never "two day" around here, but I'm getting the stuff on time.
Fedex has been super good from McMaster-Carr, sometimes under 20 hours from mouse click to delivery - in good shape and with good attitude - on *ground* shipping. I also have no clue how they manage that, other than that McMaster has warehouses all over. And they are good the few times Amazon uses them.
But really, in my case nothing beats the USPS these days (wasn't always so, they don't like big stuff) "out here". My mail persons are all nice as can be, know where to leave stuff if I'm not home (will even lock it in one of my cars if it seems valuable), don't get fiddly about details and make me go somewhere (at my further cost) to get what I already paid to have delivered to me. One of my mail people is a retired physicist doing it "for fun" and often drops in just to chat about my physics work. It's another world from what most city folk experience. We'd really hate to lose them "out here".
No way Amazon is making money off me. A small order every few days on prime - if you figure the UPS rates *I'd* pay, prime pays for itself in a month or two. Maybe that's what's driving them.
Of course they are a drug delivery device. One with far less damage than combustion versions, and easier to taper off with. I was an utterly addicted 3-pack a day smoker of full strength cigarettes. At age 62, couldn't make it up a flight of stairs - yes, they are bad for you. Vape, less bad. Smoking == stupid, I agree. But if you were addicted at age 14, it becomes hard to stop, and there's tremendous medical consensus that it's about the hardest addiction to kick. (having kicked a few others, I agree with scientific consensus on this) Been vaping, gradually diluting the nicotine fluid with USP glycerine for two years now. And now I can RUN up and down the stairs. Anecdotal, but I feel like it's winning. And damn, with the cost of cigs what it is and the cost of juice - it paid for itself in a month (fancy temp controlled rig and a few months worth of juice cost less than a month's cigs).
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I'm dead sure, having tried a few, that those e-cigs at the convenience store are BAD, and maybe worse than plain tobacco. It's easy to cherry-pick data, ain't it - troll.
And this is yet another reason to think that instead of paying too much attention to "oh shiny".
I was against them as "passwords" due to - you can't change them if you're hacked.
I guess Apple isn't magic fairy dust after all...oh, wait.
In cash to by a worthless piece of junk. Yet also has money to fight the FCC to avoid any hint of being fair to consumers, keep other companies off their "turf" and so forth - can't even let you have a set top box they don't get rent on - they'll die. Yet they can afford this loser?
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Yup, and when everyone and -thing else has been hacked, I won't stand out as a target as much as before. We might even think of better ways to do ID...
I'm just glad they helped me quit entirely by breaking up many of the regular smoking habit patterns. Not as bad as combustion, if done right, but still not good.
Wouldn't know. Like many, I never really used Apache. NGINX doesn't use mod_perl...I use perl here with NGINX on all sorts of things - even RPis, and it's plenty good enough. The big boys don't use Apache at all...
!this! ^^^
Externalized cost of failure is the fail here too. Security isn't tested into devices (though that can help) of course. But when you can externalize the cost of fail - like say, Visa does into chargebacks and merchant fees, there's no incentive to do it right. If you're paying big malpractice insurance fees anyway, why care? It's not like companies are actually people or that even actual people these days have much in the way of morals, past look out for #1. Why do we let coal spew more Hg and more radioactive stuff in the air than even the worst alternatives? They (and the customer, you) don't pay and don't see the cost as obvious. Citation: Bruce Schneier. The med biz is more arrogant and clueless than most, to be sure. Doctors are gods, haven't you heard? After all, this stuff is all peer-reviewed by the house pets of almost-scientists.
This takes time to grow, for the grapevine to pass the word around.
By their own admission, the authorities state this was huge, and easy.
Yet it took a long time to get to.
Priorities? Who benefited by taking so long. Bribes, alphabet agency business, and
Total incompetence? Danger of stepping on the wrong toes?
Inquiring minds want to know. And who killed the guy and which of the many possible reasons was it?
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Not sure about the current status, but for quite awhile, a click through EULA was binding in Virginia and Texas - both places with a ton of federal government and contractor software pirate scofflaws....
Not an attempt to be funny...
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Easy fix, worked ever since:
Setup a separate account at the bank for online stuff, in my case, with a debit card. Don't keep any real amount of money in the account. Just before clicking the final "check out" or "place my order", log into the bank and transfer just the right amount into the online account.
That account normally only has a small amount of money in it - $20-$50, which is all that can be stolen. I had to tell the bank to turn off auto-overdraft "protection" on the account, which used to be something they didn't like, but now they understand why (my banker does this for himself as well). I can lose $50 and not die. When I got hacked, it was the payroll account for a business I owned - that could have been a real problem!
Try CPAN. How to ___ with perl has been around longer and is far better. I find python craps up my namespace and scope too easily, but then I've not used it anywhere near as much as the more developed perl. And you can't paste a long program into a single line edit box as the indentation matters. Whitespace as a statement delimiter is stupid, and it being popular just means that there are a lot of stupid people. Ditto indentation. I'd rather have the choice.
Not many grownups here, I see... Seems to me those fad languages are perl with all the good stuff left out. Funny how easy it is to do things in perl, even with newer machines, NGINX, and whatever opsys and hardware. Sure is tough to remember which parts of perl were left out of python, ruby, php and so on, and which perverted weak->strong typing conversions they do differently. One weird language is enough! I'll take the one that takes the least typing and which gives you more choice to either write super clean code, or enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot, depending on mood. And with control over when garbage collection can run, so even some realtime stuff works well.
Works for me - I rarely go out (living in what amounts to the Garden of Eden will do that for ya) - and no one gets my data if I don't want them to.
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BUT! Now let's look at why things are the way they are. Artificial scarcity of both IPv4 addresses and um, profits. No one wants to settle for the margin they can get selling you something just once, now. Oh no, we all have to subscribe to almost everything (I Avoid this like the Plague - and do without if I hve to).
So they have to insert themselves in the loop by owning a static IP and domain. Yeah, some of them are free NOW - how long before you get charged rent to even make your own home work? I'll ignore the snooping for the purpose of making this point. You're willingly handing over control via IoT and anything subscription model. Period. You might not like the eventual results.
You have been warned!
I still think that routing everything back to some provider's server is evil for the reasons above, and yeah, as you point out - also it adds delay and error issues of its own.
Regardless of whether it's a speech interface or not.
I'm making my own - a LAN of things, here on my mostly off-grid homestead, as I have no need to change or monitor things from away from here - I'm retired and live in the boonies, but really, a robot to keep the woodstove going correctly is probably not in my immediate future anyway. I could, I suppose, if I carried a connected device with me all the time (I don't, and I don't go out often, as it's 30 mi round trip to the nearest store of any kind) and do things via emails or something, but the need for that is so tiny it's not on my radar. Running my solar system with backups is. Running the water collection system is. Warning me when my plumbing might freeze is. The idea in my case is to have a life in many ways similar to those who are rent-bound wage slaves, without those two disadvantages in live (having been there too). There's a lot I'll accept in order not to have to kiss butt all the time, even a "lower" standard of living, or to euphemize, living a little closer to the earth.
It's not that I don't like tech. I have way more than most do here, and made my fortune that let me retire at ~ age 45 with it. It's that I do like having control over my own life. Playing with tech is fun, even at > age 65. Having it own you? C'mon. I own my stuff, not the other way around.
Mod parent up. This is the limiting case we're heading for. Not everyone can design robots, or fix them, or be trained to, and we really don't have any smart ways of paying people who can't to just sit around and stay out of trouble, and even if we did...that money would come from...those same corps and people still creating value. They don't win in the long run without a complete re-think of how things are done. And this is from a card-carrying super-capitalist.
Really, this should be obvious. Outfit that sells stuff pays for a report that says they're being ripped off - likely inflated numbers - as a background to get legislation to tax DVR owners or whatever other skim they can easy-street or litigate from. "Look, we lose x-zillion bucks from every recorder". Sound familiar? Remember the "tax" on blank CD's and so forth, since "they can only be used to pirate"? This is how the big boys operate, we should have learned long ago.
Mips or flops/watt, and easy-cheap manufacture. I did some work in the real bipolar world, from discrete to ECL to - IIL (integrated injection logic, a TRW thing)....it was "hot stuff". Easier to make complimentary cmos such that you can make an inverter with just two transistors tieing the gates together - gotta drive both high and low some way. Enhancement mode CMOS is a lot easier to do that with.
Could but usually doesn't. As the hardware was more costly and slower, and labor relatively cheaper, mainframes ran in some sense "better" code with far less bloat and frillage. An A was just an A (ascii or baudot or ebcdic) - not a picture of a letter in some font taking many times the bits to store and draw for just one example. Audio or video which were (And still are) largely irreducible to small bits/second were right out for real time use.
Mainframes had "acceleration" hardware to compensate. Line printers took a few bits and did the drawing parts (as did plotters for other uses).
Now phones and modern PCs use accelerators for crypto, audio and video codecs, and for sure, don't bit bang the screen pixels.
This leaves enough CPU, admittedly faster now - to handle crap interpreted scripts, HTML rendering...a long list of silly stuff.
And no matter how much faster CPUs get - or in a possibly more important measure now, mips/watt - rather than code efficiently and use a low power cpu, we just accept shorter battery life, as the periodic table for some reason isn't driven my Moore's law - no new more electropositive or negative elements are to be found, period. (I see what I did there). No matter how much, we still waste enough to want more for the same results.
I'm enjoying my lawn. Having started with a PDP-8s, and today just working with all of the might of intel, down to arm (pi-3) and esp-8266 and teensies, this is a new world. But you still get more out of things if you write good code than most others would.
Let's tie these rocks together, surely they'll float now! == most mergers and acquisitions.
N+1thd. Just plain right and righteous. You win the internet today.
Or a faster odroid xu4 from hardkernel. They have fanless boxes available too - twice as fast, less money. I like mint on big boxes, but run odroidian (debian) on my xu4's as it's a lot less bloat and much faster.
In the boonies, where many of us heat with woodstoves, snail mail spam is called "free fuel". Some of us even write letters (though I tend to print mine as my handwriting isn't great, or maybe even include a gasp - paper check - for record keeping that doesn't have bit-rot and isn't subject to hacking quite the same as e-transfers are. Selection bias much?
I get more and more of my Amazon stuff via USPS, and it's a good deal, it seems. for all concerned. The USPS has to drive the route anyway, so why not carry something? On our rural route, UPS, FedEx etc can't make money, UPS in particular has a bad attitude as mentioned elsewhere and a high rate of damage to the product. I'm not sure how Amazon actually gets things to the local USPS so fast - clearly they didn't just mail it, as regular mail is never "two day" around here, but I'm getting the stuff on time. Fedex has been super good from McMaster-Carr, sometimes under 20 hours from mouse click to delivery - in good shape and with good attitude - on *ground* shipping. I also have no clue how they manage that, other than that McMaster has warehouses all over. And they are good the few times Amazon uses them. But really, in my case nothing beats the USPS these days (wasn't always so, they don't like big stuff) "out here". My mail persons are all nice as can be, know where to leave stuff if I'm not home (will even lock it in one of my cars if it seems valuable), don't get fiddly about details and make me go somewhere (at my further cost) to get what I already paid to have delivered to me. One of my mail people is a retired physicist doing it "for fun" and often drops in just to chat about my physics work. It's another world from what most city folk experience. We'd really hate to lose them "out here". No way Amazon is making money off me. A small order every few days on prime - if you figure the UPS rates *I'd* pay, prime pays for itself in a month or two. Maybe that's what's driving them.
I'm dead sure, having tried a few, that those e-cigs at the convenience store are BAD, and maybe worse than plain tobacco. It's easy to cherry-pick data, ain't it - troll.
And this is yet another reason to think that instead of paying too much attention to "oh shiny".
I was against them as "passwords" due to - you can't change them if you're hacked.
I guess Apple isn't magic fairy dust after all...oh, wait.
In cash to by a worthless piece of junk. Yet also has money to fight the FCC to avoid any hint of being fair to consumers, keep other companies off their "turf" and so forth - can't even let you have a set top box they don't get rent on - they'll die. Yet they can afford this loser?