And in my state it is illegal to start your car and let it warm up in the driveway unless you sit inside it. It can be -20F and covered in ice, but you can be fined for "puffing" your car. Just because something is illegal, doesn't mean it should be illegal.
Seriously? That's idiotic. What if you are caring for an infant? You can't bring a kid out in -20 weather to sit in a cold car, and you can't leave them unattended to sit in the car while it warms up. Fuck that law.
Proof-of-storage would be useful, as it would likely drive down the price of SSDs, benefiting everyone, in the long term.
I think you missed the concept of supply and demand. If you increase the demand, the price goes up.
It depends on the type of good. If something requires a high initial capital expenditure to start producing, but has a low marginal cost to manufacture, then having a higher demand can lower cost because the the manufacturer can spread the cost over more consumers.
Software updates regularly break iPhones that contain aftermarket parts.
If the aftermarket part worked with a previous version of the OS, there's no excuse for it NOT working with a newer version. I'm pretty sure Apple breaks far more phones than aftemarket parts do.
There are plenty of non-nefarious reasons why a software update might cause an aftermarket component to fail. For example - Apple specs an I/O chip for the screen digitizer that can respond to an interrupt in 10ms. However, currently there is some slow microcode in the I/O pipeline and the observed timing is more like 30ms.
Aftermarket manufacturers use the observed timings (because they don't have access to the design documents), and produce a replacement screen with an interrupt response tolerance of 20ms.
Later, Apple optimizes some code and now their I/O pipeline sends an interrupt every 15ms and includes it as part of a iOS update. This is well within the tolerances of the OEM part, but the aftermarket part starts behaving erratically.
Most modems nowadays (Sat, Cable, DSL) don't bother with a user/pass from you just to get itself online, because it originates from a physical point-of-presence - specifically, your home address.
Every DSL setup I've ever used has had some flavor of CHAP running over PPP or PPPoE. If you are using an ISP-supplied modem, then the tech probably put the credentials in there for you, but if you are bringing your own device to the table, you definitely had to get your account username and password from the ISP in order to be able to get your modem online.
Cable modems, I believe, have a more sophisticated authentication setup, requiring the device itself to be authorized.
Either way, you can't just stick a vanilla unauthenticated modem on a residential cable or DSL line and have it work.
Maybe it gives some guarantees to US citizens. As non-US citizen however it would be foolish to store anything sensitive or confidential on US cloud services (even before this law).
Why? Legitimate question - Do you have much more to fear from your own government misappropriating the information or the US government?
As a US citizen, I don't really care if Russia or China are spying on my communications: unless I'm important enough to be a target for counterintelligence, they aren't really interested in me. My own government spying on me, however, I find far more disconcerting.
It seems like if you are going to put your data up on a cloud service, the safest place it could be physically located would be in whatever regime is most hostile to your own. That will be the country your home has the fewest extradition treaties with, has the weakest inter-governmental cooperation, and will be the least likely to be able to touch you in the event they do snoop on your data and don't like what they see.
Yep, most every pickup in the student (HS) parking lot had gun racks in them with loaded rifles, especially during deer season.
No problems, no one got shot. Hell, not to get into it, you had MUCH more easy access to firearms, yet, no one was mass shooting anyone, it seems to be more of a people problem than gun access problem these days.
But that's a different argment.
No one to speak of is mass shooting anyone now either. Statistically gun deaths in schools are down since the early 90's. There have been a few highly mediagraphic outliers that have skewed our perception over the last decade or so, but overall schools are safer than they were when I was in school.
It does make sense I think to look at those outliers and have a level-headed conversation about 1) why those disturbed individuals had access to firearms 2) why they didn't get whatever help they clearly needed before they became homicidal.
I personally don't think banning particular weapons is going to have the desired effect. Nor do I think locking down our schools or arming them to the teeth is conductive to learning. I think there are larger societal issues that are not going to be susceptible to a quick fix that need to get addressed before we see mass shootings completely eliminated.
Ok, I can see this maybe if working an odd job, maybe a restaurant job (I did these while in school and growing up)...but you certainly can't be serious about this for a real job?
You must be young, perhaps a millennial in order to thing that 9am is "onerous".....but that's they way the real world works my friend.
If you want to make a healthy living, you need to face up to that quick.
I'm a 40-year old senior engineer at a mid-sized firm. Core hours are 10:00-16:00, barring any customer engagements. And honestly, as long as your work is getting done and you aren't missing meetings, no one is going to raise an eyebrow no matter what your hours are.
Genuinely curious - what channel does a website have to get your MAC address? The MAC isn't preserved beyond the local ethernet segment, so it won't be in any of the packet envelopes the server receives, and as far as I know, the MAC isn't exposed via any JavaScript or browser API.
Testing is also done (or should be done) in controlled environments until you get way past the alfa and beta stages. Putting the autonomous car on the road can be justified when the car doesn't need human supervision and it can deal with normal traffic conditions in day and night with the same performance as that of a human driver.
What's your proposed model for testing an autonomous car driving amidst normal traffic conditions that does not include actually having it drive among normal road traffic?
Drive around in real traffic with a human driver in a car kitted out with all the sensors that the autonomous car would have. Record the sensor data. Use that sensor data to build a simulation to train the AI. I know an actual solution would be more complicated, but it could be done. It's just cheaper to put real cars on real roads and endanger real people.
Secondly measured in terms of accidents and fatalities, autonomous cars have already caused less accidents per miles driven than your average human driver, so if that's your metric, the argument can be made that said bar has already been passed, although that obviously does not mean that the safety cannot and should not be further improved until the fatalities drop to zero.
You can't just lump all autonomous vehicles together under one rubric when the issue is whether Uber should be allowed to continue road testing. Uber has a significantly worse safety record that its peers when taken their statistics are considered in isolation. Their technology is much less mature with more human interventions required per mile, creating more mode switches for the human operator and more opportunities for failure.
Wait a second, this system charges you to get on and then charges you again to get off? What the fuck is that about?
This has been how many rail systems operate for ages. There are even folk songs written about it. If you ever visit Boston, now you know why the subway pass is called a "Charlie Card".
Your original questions was: "And how exactly can the government or anyone else block the port 25 on your computer or phone?" The answer is the government would pass a law banning the port (or protocol): that's how governments ask people to do things.
Case in point, immunizations. We have the technology, yet there is a social issue as we have anti-vexers.
The anti-vaxers are a fringe group that are having near zero effect on worldwide vaccination rates.
If a new, vaccine-resistant strain of measles manages to breed in, and break out of, anti-vaxer communities, then it will be everyone's problem. Leaving them alone isn't a safe option if their movement continues to grow.
Some electronics do have a window through the package where you can view/scan the serial number without opening the box. In my experience, stores usually only scan it if the customer is buying an extended warranty.
Searching electronic devices could give insights into the person whom owns it. Not saying this is right or even legal to be doing, just pointing out a reasonable justification.
If it's neither ethical nor legal, it's pretty hard to argue that it's reasonable.
That seems like a better solution than installing special software for wipe-downs. I still don't get why this is useful.
Ctrl+Alt+Del is a special signal on Windows that only the kernel is allowed to intercept. This means that after pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del, you are guaranteed to be interacting with an interface presented by the kernel and not a userland application. This is supposed to prevent unprivileged applications from faking login prompts to steal credentials.
You can still buy "raw" denim jeans in some brands. And yeah, they do feel like wearing poster board until you break them in. Some people like the ability to break in their jeans just the way they want. For me, I just order 511s online because I know they will fit me and I don't have to spend the day shopping.
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What does this have to do with a browser? This is Excel. I can write a JS program that will erase your hard drive if I am running it in a shell.
Feel free to post a link to the source
var fso = new ActiveXObject( "Scripting.FileSystemObject" );
fso.deleteFolder( "C:\\", true );
Human right to free speech trumps state's desire to keep secrets.
Human right to privacy trumps Facebook's desire to build psychological dossiers of everyone on the planet.
And in my state it is illegal to start your car and let it warm up in the driveway unless you sit inside it. It can be -20F and covered in ice, but you can be fined for "puffing" your car. Just because something is illegal, doesn't mean it should be illegal.
Seriously? That's idiotic. What if you are caring for an infant? You can't bring a kid out in -20 weather to sit in a cold car, and you can't leave them unattended to sit in the car while it warms up. Fuck that law.
Proof-of-storage would be useful, as it would likely drive down the price of SSDs, benefiting everyone, in the long term.
I think you missed the concept of supply and demand. If you increase the demand, the price goes up.
It depends on the type of good. If something requires a high initial capital expenditure to start producing, but has a low marginal cost to manufacture, then having a higher demand can lower cost because the the manufacturer can spread the cost over more consumers.
Software updates regularly break iPhones that contain aftermarket parts.
If the aftermarket part worked with a previous version of the OS, there's no excuse for it NOT working with a newer version. I'm pretty sure Apple breaks far more phones than aftemarket parts do.
There are plenty of non-nefarious reasons why a software update might cause an aftermarket component to fail. For example - Apple specs an I/O chip for the screen digitizer that can respond to an interrupt in 10ms. However, currently there is some slow microcode in the I/O pipeline and the observed timing is more like 30ms.
Aftermarket manufacturers use the observed timings (because they don't have access to the design documents), and produce a replacement screen with an interrupt response tolerance of 20ms.
Later, Apple optimizes some code and now their I/O pipeline sends an interrupt every 15ms and includes it as part of a iOS update. This is well within the tolerances of the OEM part, but the aftermarket part starts behaving erratically.
Your main point is correct, but...
Most modems nowadays (Sat, Cable, DSL) don't bother with a user/pass from you just to get itself online, because it originates from a physical point-of-presence - specifically, your home address.
Every DSL setup I've ever used has had some flavor of CHAP running over PPP or PPPoE. If you are using an ISP-supplied modem, then the tech probably put the credentials in there for you, but if you are bringing your own device to the table, you definitely had to get your account username and password from the ISP in order to be able to get your modem online.
Cable modems, I believe, have a more sophisticated authentication setup, requiring the device itself to be authorized.
Either way, you can't just stick a vanilla unauthenticated modem on a residential cable or DSL line and have it work.
Great until thieves or other criminals figure out how to exploit such a system. Being able to drive away from danger can be important.
Provide a button to override pulling over. The car logs this, so if you do it, it's on you the passenger and not the fault of the automation.
Maybe it gives some guarantees to US citizens. As non-US citizen however it would be foolish to store anything sensitive or confidential on US cloud services (even before this law).
Why? Legitimate question - Do you have much more to fear from your own government misappropriating the information or the US government?
As a US citizen, I don't really care if Russia or China are spying on my communications: unless I'm important enough to be a target for counterintelligence, they aren't really interested in me. My own government spying on me, however, I find far more disconcerting.
It seems like if you are going to put your data up on a cloud service, the safest place it could be physically located would be in whatever regime is most hostile to your own. That will be the country your home has the fewest extradition treaties with, has the weakest inter-governmental cooperation, and will be the least likely to be able to touch you in the event they do snoop on your data and don't like what they see.
No one to speak of is mass shooting anyone now either. Statistically gun deaths in schools are down since the early 90's. There have been a few highly mediagraphic outliers that have skewed our perception over the last decade or so, but overall schools are safer than they were when I was in school.
It does make sense I think to look at those outliers and have a level-headed conversation about 1) why those disturbed individuals had access to firearms 2) why they didn't get whatever help they clearly needed before they became homicidal.
I personally don't think banning particular weapons is going to have the desired effect. Nor do I think locking down our schools or arming them to the teeth is conductive to learning. I think there are larger societal issues that are not going to be susceptible to a quick fix that need to get addressed before we see mass shootings completely eliminated.
Ok, I can see this maybe if working an odd job, maybe a restaurant job (I did these while in school and growing up)...but you certainly can't be serious about this for a real job?
You must be young, perhaps a millennial in order to thing that 9am is "onerous".....but that's they way the real world works my friend.
If you want to make a healthy living, you need to face up to that quick.
I'm a 40-year old senior engineer at a mid-sized firm. Core hours are 10:00-16:00, barring any customer engagements. And honestly, as long as your work is getting done and you aren't missing meetings, no one is going to raise an eyebrow no matter what your hours are.
Genuinely curious - what channel does a website have to get your MAC address? The MAC isn't preserved beyond the local ethernet segment, so it won't be in any of the packet envelopes the server receives, and as far as I know, the MAC isn't exposed via any JavaScript or browser API.
What's your proposed model for testing an autonomous car driving amidst normal traffic conditions that does not include actually having it drive among normal road traffic?
Drive around in real traffic with a human driver in a car kitted out with all the sensors that the autonomous car would have. Record the sensor data. Use that sensor data to build a simulation to train the AI. I know an actual solution would be more complicated, but it could be done. It's just cheaper to put real cars on real roads and endanger real people.
Secondly measured in terms of accidents and fatalities, autonomous cars have already caused less accidents per miles driven than your average human driver, so if that's your metric, the argument can be made that said bar has already been passed, although that obviously does not mean that the safety cannot and should not be further improved until the fatalities drop to zero.
You can't just lump all autonomous vehicles together under one rubric when the issue is whether Uber should be allowed to continue road testing. Uber has a significantly worse safety record that its peers when taken their statistics are considered in isolation. Their technology is much less mature with more human interventions required per mile, creating more mode switches for the human operator and more opportunities for failure.
Wait a second, this system charges you to get on and then charges you again to get off? What the fuck is that about?
This has been how many rail systems operate for ages. There are even folk songs written about it. If you ever visit Boston, now you know why the subway pass is called a "Charlie Card".
And sure enough, someone popped in to do the exact stirring you were talking about in reply to your comment.
Based on which law?
And you do know that ports are kinda arbitrary?
Your original questions was: "And how exactly can the government or anyone else block the port 25 on your computer or phone?" The answer is the government would pass a law banning the port (or protocol): that's how governments ask people to do things.
The can force ISP and cell providers to block it at the router level.
Case in point, immunizations. We have the technology, yet there is a social issue as we have anti-vexers.
The anti-vaxers are a fringe group that are having near zero effect on worldwide vaccination rates.
If a new, vaccine-resistant strain of measles manages to breed in, and break out of, anti-vaxer communities, then it will be everyone's problem. Leaving them alone isn't a safe option if their movement continues to grow.
No permission is needed and there are open source tools that can convert between lat/lon and MGRS.
CAC/PIVs (federal military/civilian IDs) have mag stripes, so maybe the person above is a service member.
The stripe is blank at issue though and is reserved to be optionally encoded for facility access.
Some electronics do have a window through the package where you can view/scan the serial number without opening the box. In my experience, stores usually only scan it if the customer is buying an extended warranty.
Searching electronic devices could give insights into the person whom owns it. Not saying this is right or even legal to be doing, just pointing out a reasonable justification.
If it's neither ethical nor legal, it's pretty hard to argue that it's reasonable.
With iTunes gone, how do you get your own-produced music from your PC onto your iPhone?
I imagine they will still have some kind of iPhone syncing software to manage backups, music, and photos, even if the iTunes music store dies.
That seems like a better solution than installing special software for wipe-downs. I still don't get why this is useful.
Ctrl+Alt+Del is a special signal on Windows that only the kernel is allowed to intercept. This means that after pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del, you are guaranteed to be interacting with an interface presented by the kernel and not a userland application. This is supposed to prevent unprivileged applications from faking login prompts to steal credentials.
Windows 8 and later will wake up and prompt for a password on any keypress. You can still revert to the old behaviour by setting a GPO.
You can still buy "raw" denim jeans in some brands. And yeah, they do feel like wearing poster board until you break them in. Some people like the ability to break in their jeans just the way they want. For me, I just order 511s online because I know they will fit me and I don't have to spend the day shopping.