Say I take a timestamp and add one nanosecond to it. That will increment the timestamp if I test near the start of the epoch. But eventually it will be far enough from the epoch that one nanosecond falls off the end of the mantissa and now this fails.
You're limiting the concept of income to that which is produced through labor. But that's not the only source of income, or even primary source for the highest earners. There is also income via rents. Which has many forms, interest on borrowed money, dividends to investors, and rent for use of property.
Someone who "makes $1,000,000" might not get any of that via labor, but entirely because what they own entitles them to it. While capitalism tells us that capital creates more value, someone who inherited a real estate empire or a billion dollar portfolio has done nothing to create any capital or any value.
Consider that by flipping a few bits of ownership information, the investment that entitles someone who "makes $1,000,000" could be shifted to instead entitle another who "made $30,000" to that income. They go from $30,000 to $1,030,000 in an instant, but do no alter their life or production of tables in any way. And the former real estate baron goes from $1,000,000 to $0 in an instant, also without altering their life or anything they produce. Nothing produced has changed, no one has become more or less productive, yet a massive change in the distribution of wealth has occurred. In this case, creating economic value clearly is not related to income.
Let's suppose that only one Starbucks patron in a million watches porn at Starbucks, and let's suppose that you've visited Starbucks four times daily, seven days per week, for 10 years. That's just over 100,000 visits. The probability that you'd have seen a porn-watcher in 100K visits is 9.5%.
There's a flaw in the reasoning here. This assumes each time he goes to a Starbucks he observes exactly one other patron. They are usually more crowded than that, especially at times the OP is most likely to be visiting the.
The real question that needs answering, is one more likely to observe someone else's porn at Starbucks or get hit by lightning?
GPS + GLONASS has been around for a long time now.
No one used anything but GPS because it was free and it worked well enough. But that made having GLONASS as an non-US-controlled alternative to GPS useless. It's there, but nothing uses it. So the Russians required cell phones to have it to be sold in Russia, which was the lacking motivation for GNSS vendors to support GLONASS and now everyone does.
And is the result more accurate GNSS from the extra system? Not really. If you're in a location where GLONASS works better, then there's an improvement. But GPS is better most of the time. Adding the GLONASS position solution doesn't improve it. It just adds more error. Assuming you have good GPS reception, GPS alone is more accurate than GPS + GLONASS.
It'll probably be the same with Galileo.
It's also the case that the commodity GNSS chipsets didn't care about GLONASS support before they had to add it. They don't care about more accuracy. It's not something that sells phones.
If they did care about accuracy, then GPS has new signals called L1c, L2 and L5. They are better than the old C/A signal everything uses. Been around for years. Using a dual band receiver to get L1+L2 or L1+L5 would allow cancelling out the ionospheric delay. That would provide the biggest increase in accuracy to GNSS that remains to be had (besides post-processing). Survey level GNSS systems do this. But commodity GNSS doesn't care. Won't sell more phones.
How it's it better than just have a 2x2 matrix of four instances of Konsole? Isn't it just another window manager running inside a window at some point?
but, hey, now it compiles with "strict" compile flags, and finally exports the install location for DBUS interfaces via CMake.
Isn't that something dbus should do? The dbus-glib pkgconfig file has a partial set with interfaces_dir, system_bus_services_dir and session_bus_services_dir. The flaw is really with the kitware cmake module for dbus, which doesn't bother to expose any of those.
You should have patented the idea (*), then Apple would owe you licensing fees! Or they would perceive you as a threat and sue you out of existence. Maybe that's more likely.
(*) Technically one does not patent a concept or idea. But as someone who creates real complex software system that millions of people people have used, when I look at a software patent I see an idea, not an implementation.
Dialup standards progressed in a logical fashion from V.22 to V.32 to V.34 and so on. The bigger the number the faster the speed, so it made logical sense.
Hardly. V.22 was 1200 bps. Then you've got V.23, which is... also 1200 bps. For 2400 bps, we go backward from V.23 to V.22bis. Faster than that you had HST, CSP, and... V.24? Nope. V.22ter? Nope. Jump to V.32 9600 bps and then V.32bis at 14400 bps.
And after that, any guesses as to what was after V.32bis? V.33? No. Maybe we jump by 10 again to V.42? Well, V.42 is a modem standard supported by modems of the time. But it's not a modulation standard but rather an orthogonal standard for data compression! So you've got combos like V.32 + V.42 and V.32bis + V.42, or V.32bis + V.42bit.
This time we go to V.34 after V.23bis. But not immediately, first there is V.Fast and V.32terbo. Then we get to V.34 at 28,800 bps, later extended to 33.8k and called V.34bis or V.34+ or just V.34.
Now we skip V.41, V.42, V.42bis, and V.44 because those are compression standards (don't forget MNP-5) and jump all the way to V.90 to get 56k.
802.11a,b,g,n,ac,ax it actually a lot less complicated than modem standards were.
I used this to hack a WWIV based BBS system around 25 years ago. Heard about it from somewhere. What you did was place a file with a "..\..\" path into the archive and upload it to the BBS files section. The board would automatically unpack it on upload, or maybe you had to invoke a "download a file from inside a zip" feature on it, my memory is hazy on that. But it would unpack the zip, it would overwrite a executable that was part of the BBS software, and then when it ran that your trojan would run.
Isn't a press release about this kind of like a press release about the concept of buffer overflow exploits?
Indeed, I don't believe I know anything about those on SO when I response to a question. Perhaps if they are a native English speaker or not and a suspected native language.
It seems like an interesting research problem that could be solved. Do users of SO know the marginalized group status of other users? Do they think they know, but they are wrong? Do they think they don't know, but really they subconsciously do know? It would seem the data is there. Histories of interactions, text analysis of comments, surveys of users, and then get some real data on users and see the correlations.
Here's a possibility. Some members of "marginalized groups" expect preferential treatment. When no one knows they are in a marginalized group, they get treated exactly like everyone else. Since this is worse than they are used to, they view this as hostility.
Apply a password fuzzing algorithm to the new password. For instance, decrement the final character of the password. If their new password is "Password2", then hash "Password1" and see if it matches an old password. There's probably a tool somewhere used by hackers that attempts to guess new passwords from old passwords. Copy that fuzzing algorithm so any new password that 3litesec PWGuesser ScriptKiddie Pr0 will come up is checked for similarity and rejected.
Some stores do still have carbon-copy card copiers which will work on real cards with raised numbers.
When was the last time you used one? I recall using one at some sort of sale when I was in college, 20 years ago. I don't recall what the event was, but I do remember the card roller as, even twenty years ago, it was an archaic device and I hadn't seen one in years. Since then I can't think of single time I've used one. When the power was out or the network was down, they've always stopped accepting CC transactions.
They need to take into account not just the calories contained in the person eaten, but also the calories that will no longer be consumed by the eaten, who having been themselves consumed no longer consume themselves, and those calories are thus available to the eater.
Do you create software? Have you read a software patent?
Anyone who has done both will know that software patents, as the grandparent post said, are completely worthless to someone creating a working implementation of software which would be covered under the patent. Software patents describe a concept. They do not provide the details of a working implementation (because there is no working implementation) that would allow one to re-create the software.
I'm posting this on my 2013 LTE Nexus 7. Tablet that's still small enough to fit in a pocket. Can run everything I use it for. Looked into replacements when the orientation sensor stopped working and there was nothing comparable on the market.
Was able to fix the sensor by reseating a cable. Still running 4.4.4 due to horror stories of the 5 update on the LTE Nexus. Recently Google docs started crashing with an error in the logs from ART about some docs clipboard class failing compile time verification. Switching back to Dalvik fixed that, perhaps Google is now releasing apps that crash when using ART on KitKat?
If your liferaft didn't come with one, you could always buy one on amazon
Steven Callahan, adrift for 76 days in a liftraft, had three solar stills he used to make drinking water. He had to modify them to get them to actual be useful in the ocean.
I do lots of Linux development. Often I'll find kernel patch that's not in the mainline kernel yet, or was just recently added, that has some issues with it. With gmane I can browse the original discussion threads about the patch, import them into evolution, and then reply to one of the messages. And get the proper in-reply-to headers on my email, cc the proper groups and people, etc. I don't have the original thread in my inbox because I'm not subscribed to 200 different lists that I save all the messages from. But gmane is.
None of the other list archives (which aren't as good as gmane anyway) allow you do this.
Given the size and age of the galaxy, there should be intelligent life on many planets and it should have been there for a very long time. Long enough that we should have detected evidence of it. But that hasn't happened. Unless estimates of the age, size, or number of planets in the Milky Way are vastly overstated, and no new knowledge suggests anything of the kind, then there really is one other likely cause: Advanced intelligent civilizations don't last for millions of years.
If it was possible, then it would have happened, and it hasn't.
Which really isn't all that surprising. The last few thousand years have been an exponential orgy of consumption. Not just fossil fuels, but phosphate deposits for fertilizers, reachable metal ores, ocean fish stocks, forest products, etc. It's all going to run out, and then what? And what happens if any disaster, including the inevitable and unavoidable ones like a meteor impact or super-volcanism, sets our technology back even a few hundred years? How do you frack for oil with 1700s technology? How do you build a nuclear reactor with no copper? How do you made food production efficient enough that everyone isn't dedicated to it without phosphates?
Human technological advancement was a one time deal. Once it's stops, that's it for this planet, never again.
The DVRs are remotely managed. New software updates go out on a regular basis. So, yes the libraries are updated years after deployment.
The kernel, not so much. They use broadcom chips and broadcom isn't exactly the best at supporting linux. You have to use one of their kernels since they don't upstream anything and they don't update the kernels themselves.
I used to work for Arris. But we did the DVR software, which was originally a different company than the people doing the cable modems. The DVR software is a lot more secure than this. There still a PWOD protected technician interface, the DVRs are remotely managed device, but it doesn't let you do anything that would compromise the software. I'd be interested in seeing how someone would hack it. It shouldn't be possible to get a root shell.
Someone did want to allow the player to pair over wifi automatically to the gateway by having the WPA2-PSK be derived from the device ID. I tried to stress what a terrible idea that was but those were people in a different division who didn't need to listen to me.
The IBM PC-AT keyboard, circa 1984, has control as a large key above shift and to the left of the 'A' key, in its proper place. Alt is below shift. There are no right-hand alt or control keys and caps-lock is off on the right side below shift where the right control key is now. There was a large gap between the spaceback and caps-lock, since there was no right alt or windows key.
The PC-XT keyboard, circa 1981, had the same layout of control-shift-alt in the proper order on the left. The caps-lock key was on the far upper-right corner, above the numeric keypad.
It wasn't until the 101 key model M that IBM messed up and placed the caps lock key in the incorrect location above shift and next to 'A'.
Is there really no one else here who remebers typing away on the original PC keyboard, with the control key in the proper location, the giant plus key, break on the scroll lock key and printscreen on the dedicated '*' key?
The people in the region pay for it in the normal way too: with money. The federal government doesn't just give the dams away. They are still owned by a federal agency that sells the power to local utilities.
If enough people want to hack it you can. There is nothing designed to help you flash it, but not a lot was done to actively stop it. The built in reflash system using a USB mass storage device is protected. Uses openssl. I didn't write that part so I don't know the details that well but I have this feeling it could be hacked with only a moderate level of 1337 skillz.
If you open it up, there is nothing stopping you from reprogramming the flash chips.
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Say I take a timestamp and add one nanosecond to it. That will increment the timestamp if I test near the start of the epoch. But eventually it will be far enough from the epoch that one nanosecond falls off the end of the mantissa and now this fails.
You're limiting the concept of income to that which is produced through labor. But that's not the only source of income, or even primary source for the highest earners. There is also income via rents. Which has many forms, interest on borrowed money, dividends to investors, and rent for use of property.
Someone who "makes $1,000,000" might not get any of that via labor, but entirely because what they own entitles them to it. While capitalism tells us that capital creates more value, someone who inherited a real estate empire or a billion dollar portfolio has done nothing to create any capital or any value.
Consider that by flipping a few bits of ownership information, the investment that entitles someone who "makes $1,000,000" could be shifted to instead entitle another who "made $30,000" to that income. They go from $30,000 to $1,030,000 in an instant, but do no alter their life or production of tables in any way. And the former real estate baron goes from $1,000,000 to $0 in an instant, also without altering their life or anything they produce. Nothing produced has changed, no one has become more or less productive, yet a massive change in the distribution of wealth has occurred. In this case, creating economic value clearly is not related to income.
Let's suppose that only one Starbucks patron in a million watches porn at Starbucks, and let's suppose that you've visited Starbucks four times daily, seven days per week, for 10 years. That's just over 100,000 visits. The probability that you'd have seen a porn-watcher in 100K visits is 9.5%.
There's a flaw in the reasoning here. This assumes each time he goes to a Starbucks he observes exactly one other patron. They are usually more crowded than that, especially at times the OP is most likely to be visiting the.
The real question that needs answering, is one more likely to observe someone else's porn at Starbucks or get hit by lightning?
GPS + GLONASS has been around for a long time now.
No one used anything but GPS because it was free and it worked well enough. But that made having GLONASS as an non-US-controlled alternative to GPS useless. It's there, but nothing uses it. So the Russians required cell phones to have it to be sold in Russia, which was the lacking motivation for GNSS vendors to support GLONASS and now everyone does.
And is the result more accurate GNSS from the extra system? Not really. If you're in a location where GLONASS works better, then there's an improvement. But GPS is better most of the time. Adding the GLONASS position solution doesn't improve it. It just adds more error. Assuming you have good GPS reception, GPS alone is more accurate than GPS + GLONASS.
It'll probably be the same with Galileo.
It's also the case that the commodity GNSS chipsets didn't care about GLONASS support before they had to add it. They don't care about more accuracy. It's not something that sells phones.
If they did care about accuracy, then GPS has new signals called L1c, L2 and L5. They are better than the old C/A signal everything uses. Been around for years. Using a dual band receiver to get L1+L2 or L1+L5 would allow cancelling out the ionospheric delay. That would provide the biggest increase in accuracy to GNSS that remains to be had (besides post-processing). Survey level GNSS systems do this. But commodity GNSS doesn't care. Won't sell more phones.
It'll come from blockchain.
You see, by recording things in blockchain, the least efficient database ever conceived of, anything becomes possible.
How it's it better than just have a 2x2 matrix of four instances of Konsole? Isn't it just another window manager running inside a window at some point?
but, hey, now it compiles with "strict" compile flags, and finally exports the install location for DBUS interfaces via CMake.
Isn't that something dbus should do? The dbus-glib pkgconfig file has a partial set with interfaces_dir, system_bus_services_dir and session_bus_services_dir. The flaw is really with the kitware cmake module for dbus, which doesn't bother to expose any of those.
You should have patented the idea (*), then Apple would owe you licensing fees! Or they would perceive you as a threat and sue you out of existence. Maybe that's more likely.
(*) Technically one does not patent a concept or idea. But as someone who creates real complex software system that millions of people people have used, when I look at a software patent I see an idea, not an implementation.
Dialup standards progressed in a logical fashion from V.22 to V.32 to V.34 and so on. The bigger the number the faster the speed, so it made logical sense.
Hardly. V.22 was 1200 bps. Then you've got V.23, which is... also 1200 bps. For 2400 bps, we go backward from V.23 to V.22bis. Faster than that you had HST, CSP, and ... V.24? Nope. V.22ter? Nope. Jump to V.32 9600 bps and then V.32bis at 14400 bps.
And after that, any guesses as to what was after V.32bis? V.33? No. Maybe we jump by 10 again to V.42? Well, V.42 is a modem standard supported by modems of the time. But it's not a modulation standard but rather an orthogonal standard for data compression! So you've got combos like V.32 + V.42 and V.32bis + V.42, or V.32bis + V.42bit.
This time we go to V.34 after V.23bis. But not immediately, first there is V.Fast and V.32terbo. Then we get to V.34 at 28,800 bps, later extended to 33.8k and called V.34bis or V.34+ or just V.34.
Now we skip V.41, V.42, V.42bis, and V.44 because those are compression standards (don't forget MNP-5) and jump all the way to V.90 to get 56k.
802.11a,b,g,n,ac,ax it actually a lot less complicated than modem standards were.
I used this to hack a WWIV based BBS system around 25 years ago. Heard about it from somewhere. What you did was place a file with a "..\..\" path into the archive and upload it to the BBS files section. The board would automatically unpack it on upload, or maybe you had to invoke a "download a file from inside a zip" feature on it, my memory is hazy on that. But it would unpack the zip, it would overwrite a executable that was part of the BBS software, and then when it ran that your trojan would run.
Isn't a press release about this kind of like a press release about the concept of buffer overflow exploits?
Indeed, I don't believe I know anything about those on SO when I response to a question. Perhaps if they are a native English speaker or not and a suspected native language.
It seems like an interesting research problem that could be solved. Do users of SO know the marginalized group status of other users? Do they think they know, but they are wrong? Do they think they don't know, but really they subconsciously do know? It would seem the data is there. Histories of interactions, text analysis of comments, surveys of users, and then get some real data on users and see the correlations.
Here's a possibility. Some members of "marginalized groups" expect preferential treatment. When no one knows they are in a marginalized group, they get treated exactly like everyone else. Since this is worse than they are used to, they view this as hostility.
Apply a password fuzzing algorithm to the new password. For instance, decrement the final character of the password. If their new password is "Password2", then hash "Password1" and see if it matches an old password. There's probably a tool somewhere used by hackers that attempts to guess new passwords from old passwords. Copy that fuzzing algorithm so any new password that 3litesec PWGuesser ScriptKiddie Pr0 will come up is checked for similarity and rejected.
Some stores do still have carbon-copy card copiers which will work on real cards with raised numbers.
When was the last time you used one? I recall using one at some sort of sale when I was in college, 20 years ago. I don't recall what the event was, but I do remember the card roller as, even twenty years ago, it was an archaic device and I hadn't seen one in years. Since then I can't think of single time I've used one. When the power was out or the network was down, they've always stopped accepting CC transactions.
They need to take into account not just the calories contained in the person eaten, but also the calories that will no longer be consumed by the eaten, who having been themselves consumed no longer consume themselves, and those calories are thus available to the eater.
Do you create software? Have you read a software patent?
Anyone who has done both will know that software patents, as the grandparent post said, are completely worthless to someone creating a working implementation of software which would be covered under the patent. Software patents describe a concept. They do not provide the details of a working implementation (because there is no working implementation) that would allow one to re-create the software.
I'm posting this on my 2013 LTE Nexus 7. Tablet that's still small enough to fit in a pocket. Can run everything I use it for. Looked into replacements when the orientation sensor stopped working and there was nothing comparable on the market.
Was able to fix the sensor by reseating a cable. Still running 4.4.4 due to horror stories of the 5 update on the LTE Nexus. Recently Google docs started crashing with an error in the logs from ART about some docs clipboard class failing compile time verification. Switching back to Dalvik fixed that, perhaps Google is now releasing apps that crash when using ART on KitKat?
If your liferaft didn't come with one, you could always buy one on amazon
Steven Callahan, adrift for 76 days in a liftraft, had three solar stills he used to make drinking water. He had to modify them to get them to actual be useful in the ocean.
I do lots of Linux development. Often I'll find kernel patch that's not in the mainline kernel yet, or was just recently added, that has some issues with it. With gmane I can browse the original discussion threads about the patch, import them into evolution, and then reply to one of the messages. And get the proper in-reply-to headers on my email, cc the proper groups and people, etc. I don't have the original thread in my inbox because I'm not subscribed to 200 different lists that I save all the messages from. But gmane is.
None of the other list archives (which aren't as good as gmane anyway) allow you do this.
All Intelligent life is doomed, not just humans.
Given the size and age of the galaxy, there should be intelligent life on many planets and it should have been there for a very long time. Long enough that we should have detected evidence of it. But that hasn't happened. Unless estimates of the age, size, or number of planets in the Milky Way are vastly overstated, and no new knowledge suggests anything of the kind, then there really is one other likely cause: Advanced intelligent civilizations don't last for millions of years.
If it was possible, then it would have happened, and it hasn't.
Which really isn't all that surprising. The last few thousand years have been an exponential orgy of consumption. Not just fossil fuels, but phosphate deposits for fertilizers, reachable metal ores, ocean fish stocks, forest products, etc. It's all going to run out, and then what? And what happens if any disaster, including the inevitable and unavoidable ones like a meteor impact or super-volcanism, sets our technology back even a few hundred years? How do you frack for oil with 1700s technology? How do you build a nuclear reactor with no copper? How do you made food production efficient enough that everyone isn't dedicated to it without phosphates?
Human technological advancement was a one time deal. Once it's stops, that's it for this planet, never again.
The DVRs are remotely managed. New software updates go out on a regular basis. So, yes the libraries are updated years after deployment.
The kernel, not so much. They use broadcom chips and broadcom isn't exactly the best at supporting linux. You have to use one of their kernels since they don't upstream anything and they don't update the kernels themselves.
I used to work for Arris. But we did the DVR software, which was originally a different company than the people doing the cable modems. The DVR software is a lot more secure than this. There still a PWOD protected technician interface, the DVRs are remotely managed device, but it doesn't let you do anything that would compromise the software. I'd be interested in seeing how someone would hack it. It shouldn't be possible to get a root shell.
Someone did want to allow the player to pair over wifi automatically to the gateway by having the WPA2-PSK be derived from the device ID. I tried to stress what a terrible idea that was but those were people in a different division who didn't need to listen to me.
That's just not true!
The IBM PC-AT keyboard, circa 1984, has control as a large key above shift and to the left of the 'A' key, in its proper place. Alt is below shift. There are no right-hand alt or control keys and caps-lock is off on the right side below shift where the right control key is now. There was a large gap between the spaceback and caps-lock, since there was no right alt or windows key.
The PC-XT keyboard, circa 1981, had the same layout of control-shift-alt in the proper order on the left. The caps-lock key was on the far upper-right corner, above the numeric keypad.
It wasn't until the 101 key model M that IBM messed up and placed the caps lock key in the incorrect location above shift and next to 'A'.
Is there really no one else here who remebers typing away on the original PC keyboard, with the control key in the proper location, the giant plus key, break on the scroll lock key and printscreen on the dedicated '*' key?
The people in the region pay for it in the normal way too: with money. The federal government doesn't just give the dams away. They are still owned by a federal agency that sells the power to local utilities.
stop building Mexican-villa style buildings everywhere you go. It looks terrible next to an evergreen tree.
Don't worry, they cut all the trees down. Got to pack that lot with the biggest mcmansion that will fit.
If enough people want to hack it you can. There is nothing designed to help you flash it, but not a lot was done to actively stop it. The built in reflash system using a USB mass storage device is protected. Uses openssl. I didn't write that part so I don't know the details that well but I have this feeling it could be hacked with only a moderate level of 1337 skillz.
If you open it up, there is nothing stopping you from reprogramming the flash chips.