False positives are a major problem with computer antivirus
At least when the computer AV goes haywire, though, and renders the machine unbootable, you can always restore from backup and start over again.
You can't exactly do that with a human, if the antivirus accidentally kills off important parts of a vital system such as the brain.
Also..... it sounds like snakeoil. The human immune system is a highly-advanced highly-intelligent defense system with memory that learns much like the human mind does, and the human mind that which is what they're TRYING to mimick with their puny machine-learning system.
Seeing as the human immune system is highly effective, highly advanced, learning self-improving system, and an inspiration for computer antivirus ideas in the first place, AND the human immune system can't solve this problem...... what makes them possibly think they can have a working solution with a much more primitive thing?
One specific cancer.... sure..... but you need research and analytical thinking, to figure out what is going wrong and devise an attack/defense reliably, most likely.
If simple machine learning algorithms would work, then the human bodies would already be deriving the solution to the problem, instead of dying......
A SRV record cannot provide the full HTTPS directory and location of the API to be used, which doesn't allow for multiple versions of the API and multiple API endpoints.
A TXT record with a URI is just fine too for location of a HTTPS-based service down to the subdirectory level. If you want a SRV record, it should be a SRV record on the hostname referenced by the UR as in _https._tcp SRV blah blah blahI; however, the URI can just use the standard Port 443 for a HTTPS URL, or an alternate port can be specified in the URI.
They seized domains of their customers on the slightest of claims, e.g. unverified "this domain spammed me" claims
I think what they do these days, is if there's a spamming complaint, they "lock" the domain, turn off resolution, and to get it turned back on you'll have to pay a $199 Administrative fee to re-activate the domain, or a $99 fee to allow you to transfer the domain to another registrar.
It's been feasible for quite some years to load a remotely controlled vehicle up with explosives, and drive/fly it into a target.
It IS a problem that flying Drones are being used by criminals, though, to do things such as smuggle drugs into prisons. So remote controlled small vehicles are used for a crime, but those are commodities widely available to everyone.
As far as I know, the use of explosives and complex systems in the commission of a crime are pretty rare, and requires technical skill and knowledge that most violent offenders don't have. Remote controlled vehicles of significant size are highly-expensive or require specialized knowledge to configure, also, most people wouldn't have access to instructions and materials to make a large explosion; certainly not commodities that are within the capability of the average person to setup.
Also, violent offenders are probably in most cases not driven to murder as many people as possible as quickly as possible; Offenders have either become mentally unstable, OR want to accomplish something by targeting individual people for different reasons, these are not the kind of crimes that have an executive plan made out months in advance, with the acquisition of large bill of materials and implementation of bespoke devices to support their crime; If it's not sold at Wal-mart, a local store, or some popular Website ready to go, then it's probably not really going to be used in crimes.
The beauty of the deal is that if we choose to take full advantage of the free (software), we are uniquely situated to modernize our statewide IT systems over the next six years
NO! Modernizing your IT systems does not involve purchasing the most expensive Legacy SQL Server software on the block. Also, what happens when the 6 Years run out? The state will probably be paying Oracle more than $100 Million a year in licensing fees thanks to their "Free" deal, and now all their IT systems will be tied to Oracle's expensive legacy SQL products, instead of more affordable ones such as PostgreSQL, Hypertable/Cassandra or even Microsoft SQL Server.
then physically destroyed when completed. This is so that if we should make an error and be sued, all evidence of that error will have been destroyed and cannot be used against us in court.
This probably also means you can get sued if you DIDNT make an error, but now you can't prove that there was not an error, because you destroyed the evidence, and this has the potential to result in a default judgement against the company.
The intentional failure to keep proper records can be viewed as a deliberate attempt to conceal info from the court.
Yes. We're called "lawyers," and nearly everything we submit to the court in my jurisdiction (Oklahoma) is done not only on real paper, but in triplicate at minimum
So then you're in a special profession that has to deal with antiquated government filing systems which have not been updated to use technology that has been standard for more than 15 years.
But you don't need a printer with a high page-cost for this. A black and white laser should work fine. Plenty of good options where the cost to print will be less than $0.05, even if you're forced to use OEM cartridges, which is recommended for the longevity of the printer anyways ---- sometimes 3rd party cheap-o replacements have defects that can hurt the equipment, and not because of a software lock.
An inexpensive transmitter can blockout a 10 mile radius.
These frequencies being used by cell phones have ultra-short wavelength, close to the microwave ranges, and the HOAs would never notice such a small antenna which doesn't need to be more than a few feet off the ground to effectively jam cell phones for many miles.
On the other hand, if someone's dumb enough to put an intentional jammer of any kind on a tower, they would easily be tracked down, and they would then lose the tower, their operator license, all their equipment, and go to jail.
A bonafide ham will never be intentnionally jamming anything, and the parity law does not cover CB operators or other non-licensed.
The word 'Ham' is known to come from a slang term used in the early days of radio and telegraphy. See: http://www.arrl.org/ham-radio-...
The first wireless operators were landline telegraphers who left their offices to go to sea or to man the coastal stations. They brought with them their language and much of the tradition of their older profession. In those early days, every station occupied the whole spectrum with its broad spark signal. Government stations, ships, coastal stations and the increasingly numerous amateur operators all competed for time and signal supremacy in each other's receivers.
Many of the amateur stations were very powerful. Two amateurs, working each other across town, could effectively jam all the other operations in the area. Frustrated commercial operators would refer to the ham radio interference by calling them "hams." Amateurs, possibly unfamiliar with the real meaning of the term, picked it up and applied it to themselves. As the years advanced, the original meaning has completely disappeared.
You don't need to know Morse code anymore in the US to get any Ham license. So if that's all that was holding you back, then it shouldn't be a barrier anymore, because hardly anyone uses CW for purposes other than repeater identification.
On a good day we could shoot skip as far as some HAM operators, but didn't have as many rules. 10-7.
CB Operators have many more stringent restrictions than Ham operators do; It's not that they have fewer rules, but enforcement is a problem.... since there's no individual license, callsign, and required ID for CB operators. CB stations cannot have amplifiers. Limited to 5 watts. No repeaters, auxillary/linked stations, no automated comms. No communicating or attempting to contact a station more than 50 miles away. Must not hold a conversation longer than 5 minutes, without both stations ceasing transmission for 1 full minute.
Plus all the same restrictions on content as Hams: including No profanity/obscenity, No music, No codes/ciphers , No one-way broadcasts, No retransmitting messages from another source.
In fact, HOAs can still enact reasonable restrictions on satellite and TV antennas.
Only the rules that do not impair installation, maintenance, use, or reception of a high-quality signal are allowed.
Around here, mounting the antenna so close to the ground for Satellite, over the air TV reception, or Fixed wireless reception for internet (Which the rule also applies to), would prevent getting a quality signal.
I was under the impression that those covenants were unenforceable, as the FCC has direct jurisdiction
Unfortunately, that applies only to Satellite dishes and over-the-air TV reception antennas, not Amateur radio.
The rule (47 C.F.R. Section 1.4000) has been in effect since October 1996, and it prohibits restrictions that impair the installation, maintenance or use of antennas used to receive video programming. The rule applies to video antennas including direct-to-home satellite dishes that are less than one meter (39.37")
A "reasonable" HOA can help protect your investment, I guess, by preventing other people from massively changing the character of the area.
There really are some nasty extreme things a neighbor could do which would make things less appealing for you, and make your property hard to sell if they wanted to.
The covenants were willing agreed when they bought in though. So no, they can't put in that 200 foot tower, rent out their front yard to 5 families as a trailer park, never cut their grass, leave a bunch of broken-down cars as permanent yard ornaments, and wake up the neighborhood every morning with loud noises from their roosters, etc, etc.
I, for one, would abandon any bargain on the sale of a house, upon being told that there's an HOA involved. That is a total deal breaker. If I'm going to buy a house, I'm buying a place to live.
The trouble, is unless you go to great lengths in your due diligence, you are unlikely to discover the HOA and the HOA rules until the final stages of the transaction, when you have to sign on the dotted line, and the HOA rules are in the fine print on page 562, and you won't understand that they exist or what they mean without a consult with a real-estate attorney that has your interests at heart, and not making a quick sale.
Most directly - what your neighbor does to their property influences the value of yours.
That's true, but your neighbor doesn't have any right to have the value of their property improved by what you do to your property, unless they are agreeing to share the sales proceeds with you, when they sell their property, that is.....
There is a proper solution - the headphone jacks on the MacBook Pro also do optical audio out.
OK, but if Apple doesn't remove the analog electrically-conducted audio capability, someone can still covertly plug in an analyzer to my laptop when i'm away and listen to those "Chirps and warbles" created by memory access, in effort to try and steal my encryption keys by listening to the noise created by memory accesses.
sometimes even memory accesses can show up in the audio stream as chirps and warbles.
Ah, shoot... now it's a security issue. They would need to stop just throwing in a $0.50 commodity solution and start actually providing proper isolation for the audio lines; might as well drop the port and add another USB.
I think the primary use of the line-out and headphone jacks ARE for headphones and desktop speakers, by the way.
Removing support for it from a product for power users / professionals seems just downright malicious, even though the analog's clearly not for high-end Audiophile and content event presentation-quality playback applications.
During Full moon, the maximal area of alien death rays from the sun are reflected off the moon towards earth, and during new moon, the moon is not in place to absorb any of them, so they hit earth directly.
The most important thing the LEDs tell you is if you're connected or not, and if not.... whether it's the LAN or WAN link that's down, If Upstream is Synced, and if Downstream is Sync'ed, also on the Motorolas, the light turns Blue to indicate downstream bonding.
Anyways, the ISP knows what they mean and the support technician (If you get a smart one) may ask you what is happening with the lights to diag an internet issue.
So yeah.... I use them.
That said, the modem is installed near the back of a shelf facing the wall, so you won't be able to see the LEDs unless you try really hard or pull the equipment out for troubleshooting.
They're using flywheels in cars? How does that work?
I personally prefer Unicorn-powered cars. The range between refuelings is much much higher, they never need to be replaced, and there's practically zero maintenance required..
a WAP is a workspace device, like a computer or TV. It cannot be concealed in wiring closet that may be as much as 300 feet away and still hope to serve the area it's needed for.
300 feet is too far away, but that doesn't make a WAP a workspace device. WAP is still a network infrastructure device.
You can definitely put WAPs well outside the workspace, 30ft away is fine.
If you need WiFi in a bedroom, then best to install the AP outside that bedroom.
If that location is not the ideal location for antenna placement, then run the coax from the AP into the bedroom, to mount the antenna as far away from the AP base unit as needed.
I often see her room bathed in a green LED light at night, usually going directly to her face.
This is a bad thing..... I believe It falls under unprofessional install / bad choice of installation location, however, about light being cast in a bedroom, or in a hospital room: you should look at electronics before installing them, and make sure the way you install will not interfere with the use of sleeping areas, before you can call the job done. That's an aesthetic + ergonomic issue regarding the choice of orientation and exactly where to mount.
If you have no wiring closet or other suitable place to install network equipment besides a bedroom, then install at a suitable point, Or enclose inside a shroud or cabinet, as is commonly done with DVD players, cable boxes and such, to keep those subdued.
The light bothers some people however the light indicated useful info. Switching from led lights to an lcd strip can be an affordable solution to fix both problems.
An equally valid solution is to install the equipment properly, in appropriate wiring closets, or mounted with LEDs facing away from people: not in a location where the LEDs will be visible from a sleeping area. The manufacturers could also provide a cover or a "Show LEDs" button
reliable LEDs are necessary for troubleshooting purposes, and indicators that aren't Lit and easily seen would be flawwed.....
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False positives are a major problem with computer antivirus
At least when the computer AV goes haywire, though, and renders the machine unbootable, you can always restore from backup and start over again.
You can't exactly do that with a human, if the antivirus accidentally kills off important parts of a vital system such as the brain.
Also..... it sounds like snakeoil. The human immune system is a highly-advanced highly-intelligent defense system with memory that learns much like the human mind does, and the human mind that which is what they're TRYING to mimick with their puny machine-learning system.
Seeing as the human immune system is highly effective, highly advanced, learning self-improving system, and an inspiration for computer antivirus ideas in the first place, AND the human immune system can't solve this problem...... what makes them possibly think they can have a working solution with a much more primitive thing?
One specific cancer.... sure..... but you need research and analytical thinking, to figure out what is going wrong and devise an attack/defense reliably, most likely.
If simple machine learning algorithms would work, then the human bodies would already be deriving the solution to the problem, instead of dying......
A SRV record cannot provide the full HTTPS directory and location of the API to be used, which doesn't allow for multiple versions of the API and multiple API endpoints.
A TXT record with a URI is just fine too for location of a HTTPS-based service down to the subdirectory level. If you want a SRV record, it should be a SRV record on the hostname referenced by the UR as in _https._tcp SRV blah blah blahI; however, the URI can just use the standard Port 443 for a HTTPS URL, or an alternate port can be specified in the URI.
They seized domains of their customers on the slightest of claims, e.g. unverified "this domain spammed me" claims
I think what they do these days, is if there's a spamming complaint, they "lock" the domain, turn off resolution, and to get it turned back on you'll have to pay a $199 Administrative fee to re-activate the domain, or a $99 fee to allow you to transfer the domain to another registrar.
It's been feasible for quite some years to load a remotely controlled vehicle up with explosives, and drive/fly it into a target.
It IS a problem that flying Drones are being used by criminals, though, to do things such as smuggle drugs into prisons. So remote controlled small vehicles are used for a crime, but those are commodities widely available to everyone.
As far as I know, the use of explosives and complex systems in the commission of a crime are pretty rare, and requires technical
skill and knowledge that most violent offenders don't have. Remote controlled vehicles of significant size are highly-expensive or require specialized knowledge to configure, also, most people wouldn't have access to instructions and materials to make a large explosion; certainly not commodities that are within the capability of the average person to setup.
Also, violent offenders are probably in most cases not driven to murder as many people as possible as quickly as possible;
Offenders have either become mentally unstable, OR want to accomplish something by targeting individual people for different reasons, these are not the kind of crimes that have an executive plan made out months in advance, with the acquisition of large bill of materials and implementation of bespoke devices to support their crime; If it's not sold at Wal-mart, a local store, or some popular Website ready to go, then it's probably not really going to be used in crimes.
The beauty of the deal is that if we choose to take full advantage of the free (software), we are uniquely situated to modernize our statewide IT systems over the next six years
NO! Modernizing your IT systems does not involve purchasing the most expensive Legacy SQL Server software on the block.
Also, what happens when the 6 Years run out? The state will probably be paying Oracle more than $100 Million a year in licensing fees thanks to their "Free" deal, and now all their IT systems will be tied to Oracle's expensive legacy SQL products, instead of more affordable ones such as PostgreSQL, Hypertable/Cassandra or even Microsoft SQL Server.
then physically destroyed when completed. This is so that if we should make an error and be sued, all evidence of that error will have been destroyed and cannot be used against us in court.
This probably also means you can get sued if you DIDNT make an error, but now you can't prove that there was not an error,
because you destroyed the evidence, and this has the potential to result in a default judgement against the company.
The intentional failure to keep proper records can be viewed as a deliberate attempt to conceal info from the court.
Yes. We're called "lawyers," and nearly everything we submit to the court in my jurisdiction (Oklahoma) is done not only on real paper, but in triplicate at minimum
So then you're in a special profession that has to deal with antiquated government filing systems which have not been updated to use technology that has been standard for more than 15 years.
But you don't need a printer with a high page-cost for this. A black and white laser should work fine. Plenty of good options where the cost to print will be less than $0.05, even if you're forced to use OEM cartridges, which is recommended for the longevity of the printer anyways ---- sometimes 3rd party cheap-o replacements have defects that can hurt the equipment, and not because of a software lock.
Yes.... How did people not get that particular memo? I've been using only Laser printers with single-color Black toner for the past 16 years.
They have the lowest cost per page, and also the lowest maintenance costs for infrequently used equipment.
These days there's very little that really needs to be printed....
An inexpensive transmitter can blockout a 10 mile radius.
These frequencies being used by cell phones have ultra-short wavelength, close
to the microwave ranges, and the HOAs would never notice such a small antenna which doesn't need to be more than a few feet off the ground to effectively jam cell phones for many miles.
On the other hand, if someone's dumb enough to put an intentional jammer of any kind on a tower, they would easily be tracked down, and they would then lose the tower, their operator license, all their equipment, and go to jail.
A bonafide ham will never be intentnionally jamming anything, and the parity law does not cover CB operators or other non-licensed.
The word 'Ham' is known to come from a slang term used in the early days of radio and telegraphy.
See: http://www.arrl.org/ham-radio-...
You don't need to know Morse code anymore in the US to get any Ham license. So if that's all that was holding you back, then it shouldn't be a barrier anymore, because hardly anyone uses CW for purposes other than repeater identification.
On a good day we could shoot skip as far as some HAM operators, but didn't have as many rules. 10-7.
CB Operators have many more stringent restrictions than Ham operators do; It's not that they have fewer rules, but enforcement is a problem.... since there's no individual license, callsign, and required ID for CB operators. CB stations cannot have amplifiers. Limited to 5 watts. No repeaters, auxillary/linked stations, no automated comms. No communicating or attempting to contact a station more than 50 miles away. Must not hold a conversation longer than 5 minutes, without both stations ceasing transmission for 1 full minute.
Plus all the same restrictions on content as Hams: including No profanity/obscenity, No music, No codes/ciphers , No one-way broadcasts, No retransmitting messages from another source.
In fact, HOAs can still enact reasonable restrictions on satellite and TV antennas.
Only the rules that do not impair installation, maintenance, use, or reception of a high-quality signal are allowed.
Around here, mounting the antenna so close to the ground for Satellite, over the air TV reception, or Fixed wireless reception for internet (Which the rule also applies to), would prevent getting a quality signal.
I was under the impression that those covenants were unenforceable, as the FCC has direct jurisdiction
Unfortunately, that applies only to Satellite dishes and over-the-air TV reception antennas, not Amateur radio.
A "reasonable" HOA can help protect your investment, I guess, by preventing other people from massively changing the character of the area.
There really are some nasty extreme things a neighbor could do which would make things less appealing for you, and make your property hard to sell if they wanted to.
The covenants were willing agreed when they bought in though. So no, they can't put in that 200 foot tower, rent out their front yard to 5 families as a trailer park, never cut their grass, leave a bunch of broken-down cars as permanent yard ornaments, and wake up the neighborhood every morning with loud noises from their roosters, etc, etc.
I, for one, would abandon any bargain on the sale of a house, upon being told that there's an HOA involved. That is a total deal breaker. If I'm going to buy a house, I'm buying a place to live.
The trouble, is unless you go to great lengths in your due diligence, you are unlikely to discover the HOA and the HOA rules until the final stages of the transaction, when you have to sign on the dotted line, and the HOA rules are in the fine print on page 562, and you won't understand that they exist or what they mean without a consult with a real-estate attorney that has your interests at heart, and not making a quick sale.
Most directly - what your neighbor does to their property influences the value of yours.
That's true, but your neighbor doesn't have any right to have the value of their property improved by what you do to your property, unless they are agreeing to share the sales proceeds with you, when they sell their property, that is.....
There is a proper solution - the headphone jacks on the MacBook Pro also do optical audio out.
OK, but if Apple doesn't remove the analog electrically-conducted audio capability, someone can still covertly plug in an analyzer to my laptop when i'm away and listen to those "Chirps and warbles" created by memory access, in effort to try and steal my encryption keys by listening to the noise created by memory accesses.
If my website happens to have a picture on it, and you use image search to "Post" it to a friend
out of context, that's Copyright Infringement.
The accidental inclusion of porn should be the least of Apples' worries....
sometimes even memory accesses can show up in the audio stream as chirps and warbles.
Ah, shoot... now it's a security issue. They would need to stop just throwing in a $0.50 commodity solution and start actually providing proper isolation for the audio lines; might as well drop the port and add another USB.
I think the primary use of the line-out and headphone jacks ARE for headphones and desktop speakers, by the way.
Removing support for it from a product for power users / professionals seems just downright malicious, even though the analog's clearly not for high-end Audiophile and content event presentation-quality playback applications.
During Full moon, the maximal area of alien death rays from the sun are reflected off the moon towards earth, and during new moon, the moon is not in place to absorb any of them, so they hit earth directly.
The most important thing the LEDs tell you is if you're connected or not, and if not.... whether it's the LAN or WAN link that's down, If Upstream is Synced, and if Downstream is Sync'ed, also on the Motorolas, the light turns Blue to indicate downstream bonding.
Anyways, the ISP knows what they mean and the support technician (If you get a smart one) may ask you what is happening with the lights to diag an internet issue.
So yeah.... I use them.
That said, the modem is installed near the back of a shelf facing the wall, so you won't be able to see the LEDs unless you try really hard or pull the equipment out for troubleshooting.
Did you notice the report that disabling the lights made the thing stop working?
Kind of nuts.... I guess i'd just work on modding to stuff in a photoresistor in series with the diode.
As the ambient light in the room decreases, the value of a photoresistor increases reducing current flow and dimming the LED.....
They're using flywheels in cars? How does that work?
I personally prefer Unicorn-powered cars. The range between refuelings is much much higher, they never need to be replaced, and there's practically zero maintenance required..
a WAP is a workspace device, like a computer or TV. It cannot be concealed in wiring closet that may be as much as 300 feet away and still hope to serve the area it's needed for.
300 feet is too far away, but that doesn't make a WAP a workspace device. WAP is still a network infrastructure device.
You can definitely put WAPs well outside the workspace, 30ft away is fine.
If you need WiFi in a bedroom, then best to install the AP outside that bedroom.
If that location is not the ideal location for antenna placement, then run the coax from the AP into the bedroom, to mount the antenna as far away from the AP base unit as needed.
I often see her room bathed in a green LED light at night, usually going directly to her face.
This is a bad thing..... I believe It falls under unprofessional install / bad choice of installation location, however, about light being cast in a bedroom, or in a hospital room: you should look at electronics before installing them, and make sure the way you install will not interfere with the use of sleeping areas, before you can call the job done. That's an aesthetic + ergonomic issue regarding the choice of orientation and exactly where to mount.
If you have no wiring closet or other suitable place to install network equipment besides a bedroom, then install at a suitable point, Or enclose inside a shroud or cabinet, as is commonly done with DVD players, cable boxes and such, to keep those subdued.
The light bothers some people however the light indicated useful info. Switching from led lights to an lcd strip can be an affordable solution to fix both problems.
An equally valid solution is to install the equipment properly, in appropriate wiring closets, or mounted with LEDs facing away from people: not in a location where the LEDs will be visible from a sleeping area. The manufacturers could also provide a cover or a "Show LEDs" button
reliable LEDs are necessary for troubleshooting purposes, and indicators that aren't Lit and easily seen would be flawwed.....