good luck selling cars with such smart ass contracts then.
It won't be a problem.... Nobody ever reads them anyways. Also, accepting the EULA terms becomes a requirement not to own the car, But to Activate the software license key which enables the Self-Driving Option.
Don't agree to the EULA, then no AutoPilot for you.
Wait... at the same time as they refuse to remove b0rked PowerShell Aliases for 'Wget' and 'Curl' that mess up people who want to use those utilities, because that would be a "Breaking Change" ?
+Class action prohibited And Binding arbitration with Tesla for any accident that occurs as a result of you operating the vehicle, And a restriction that You may not convey any of your dispute rights or capability to sue us to any insurance company or other 3rd party; any claim must be pursued solely by you, with sworn statement that no insurer or 3rd party will have interest in any settlement paid to you for dispute resolution.
Are those working at all? What sort of condition is required to make 3 different colision detection systems fail all at once?
How about.... Because of the way those systems work, and the way the self-driving system works.. each of those systems is a single point of failure in some driving situations?
Meaning if just one of those systems goes offline or fails to do its job properly, then there are some crash risks/emergencies which will not be detected, or the self-driving system will not notice.
0. Upcoming global extinction event due to meteor impact combined with the automation of the workfource, outsourcing everyone, laying off 90% of employees in the next 10 years, and paying the rest minimum wage..... US degenerating to a communist state, Hillary seizing all the guns, ISIS bioterrorists deploying global anti-human microbes, launching dirty bombs and mass-executions, and North Korea nuking us all......
May happen before we get all those cool new technologies. Not to be pessimistic about it..... just be realistic. The world is going to hell amidst other good things being worked on.
Hate to break it to you, buddy, but it's still the only infrastructure-free method of global communication, which means it's just as effective as when it was first discovered.
Plasma bomb deployment systems sound like infrastructure to me.
Any decentralized solution where an https server knows how to decrypt your friends' data so you can see it in your browser is neither decentralized nor secure.
You can make the decryption of actual text occur within the browser using Javascript Crypto libraries.... Use digitally-signed scripts, Or by using an app.....
It's not a complete FB replacement, unless you can view the content in an Android / iPhone App.
Just consider about how the inconvenience of a native application is likely to hinder adoption. Also, many organizations don't let users install a native application, out of malware concerns.
Quartz today argues that perhaps voice notes is the best alternative to emails
My phone has this cool new feature that lets me automatically convert Voice notes, and Voicemail in particular, directly to text, and e-mails it to me, so I can read it in my Inbox. Works great. Highly-recommended. For those annoying times when telemarketers leave voicemail, or some co-worker hasn't learned to e-mail yet.
But because it is in a tube, it is much easier to fix.
Yes.... and because it's a tube, you can probably schedule regular preventative maintenance to help make sure mice don't get in; in the first place.
I'm thinking seal completely; pressurize the tube and maintain a slight pressure at all times with an inert gas which is either not breathable to critters, or contains repellents, or enough pesticides to ensure nothing gets in to chew on the cables.
until you realize that is the perfect transportation mechanism for rats and roaches to infiltrate every part of your city.
Put a wall in the tunnel every 2500 feet or so, requiring a small penetration for each cable passing through, and add a drain to the lowest section of each segment.
There aren't many critters that will live in a small box containing nothing (except cable) to eat, and if all access is sealed under normal conditions, then it's no good as a temporary shelter for most critters either, as the tunnels are likely to be at ground temperature (E.g. 40 or 50 degrees F, which is not conducive to roaches, and rats would either starve to death, or cause a fibre cut, resulting in the town sending the exterminators....).
Please name an alternative that is better. Because other than abandoning Facebook (which is the real solution)
The real solution could be a new Ad filtering methodology that Facebook cannot work-around.
For example; using a blacklist to target specific advertisers whose ads appeared on Facebook and specific Ad blocks.
Also, the blacklists could be used to set it up so that clicking on the ad will cause the target page to fail to display. "Ad Revenue Denial"
Furthermore, the long-term solution could be to DeCentralize the Facebook concept into a Peer-to-Peer network methodology, where users could participate in the social network through multiple providers.
Only a users' friends would be administered a Decryption participant key in order to decrypt my posts or selection of profile data allowed to them according to privacy settings.
people using said technologies as if they were mature are merely beta testers.
You call them beta testers.... I call them "Competitors for the next Darwin Award"
I'm looking at them and wondering if the Teslas are a net positive or a net negative for people.
Suppose I were planning on buying a new car in 2017 or 2018.... would I be safer on the road with a Tesla, or not?
Might be less safe because of the temptation for humans to become more dependent than appropriate on assist features which turn out to have flaws.
Also, I am concerned that if you as a driver get too used to drying an almost-autonomous vehicle, then it may become unsafe for you to later drive other vehicles ---- the assist features could program you with bad habits, such that you lose driving skills when operating your older pickup truck that doesn't have brake-assist + lane-assist+ etc.
Windows now includes some basic sandboxing and system protection from apps in user space, if such an app were able to use the Linux-y part of Windows to run code with system access
I would call that a bug in the sandboxing. If the Linux code is running as a system identity, then why should a sandboxed process be allowed to directly modify its memory?
If the sandboxed app has the privileges to do that, Then Wtf is the 'sandboxing' in the first place?
So obviously Bitfinex since they aren't wasting money on deposit insurance or excessive security, right?
They should do the deal with price determined by price of ALL well-known Exchanges and execute the transaction on whichever exchange they can make the fastest execution on And ensure an arrangement with to execute the transaction which provides them the cash before depositing their BTC to the exchange itself.
In other words, the Gov't need not rely on their insurance, because the Government will be receiving the cash before or at the same time as presenting the BTC for settlement.
But what if you miss an individual who is willing to pay a little more for what you have?
They're not going to pay a little more than $X US, for a liquid asset if the same number of coins can be purchased on a public exchange for $X US. There will have to be a discount to entice them to even participate in your private little auction event which will have onerous requirements and hoops for the buyer to jump through Versus other Bitcoin transactions.
Which exchange do they choose? The one who will give them the best exchange rate?
Absolutely. They will likely get a much better selling price Than if they held their own auction though. Their auction will be highly-inefficient..... Also, it's a PITA to qualify to bid in their auctions, if I recall, and settle the transaction Versus the interested Buyer just going to an exchange --- the only reason for a buyer to go through all the hassle involved in bidding on their auctions is to get a substantial discount Versus the major exchanges.
They are liquidating it. All seized property is sold at auction.
Currency is not.
Also.... how do they handle small amounts of stocks and bonds?
There's no need to hold your own auction, when the item is a commodity, and there are large public exchanges.
If they go through the expense and wasted time of holding their own auction, 'stead of hiring a good broker to liquidate it on the open market, then they're just stupid; they'll wind up getting less than market value for their goods......
It's totally circular..... you compromise the windows bits, then use the compromised Windows bits to compromise the Linux bits, then use the compromised Linux bits to compromise the Windows bits.
Why wouldn't you just use the initially-compromised Windows bits to wreak your evil and be done with it, then?
Unless your evil is corrupting the Linux-based application and making the Linux application serve bad data..... but that's not
Wait, are you saying that the encryption protocol can just be trivially modified?
Yes, you just need a wired proxy tunnelling device on your network that causes the actual payload sizes to change and generates additional payloads which will confuse anyone trying to listen.
Vehicles without wireless starting, wireless key-entry, and non-mechanical driver controls are best, But engine immobilizer with chip in the key is a good idea, As long as the programming procedure is physically secured. No reason you shouldn't be able to require an actual key exchange during programming requiring physical access: instead of having keys programmable based on information in some database.
UID number isn't everything. I've been on Slashdot since 1997. There hasn't always been this new-fangled user account system, and hasn't always been "cool to register". You just typed your name: that is what I was accustomed to.. many of us were reluctant to register due to privacy concerns and simply started posting as Anonymous, or took a few years SlashVacation from commenting.
If you REALLY want an effective deterrent, then get a lockable wheel clamp that you install on the front right or front left tire (Or Both), and stops the vehicle from being driven.
Also, if a thief is trying to defeat your wheel clamp, they will be in plain sight in the parking lot or public street....
Even better, the VIN is easily readable from outside the car.
So lock your car, put a piece of paper on top of the dash so it covers the VIN completely, paint/tape over VIN number on underside, and conceal VIN number in all locations where it's visible without opening the car first.
Put in LoJack and a car alarm with a long-distance notification and control features.
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good luck selling cars with such smart ass contracts then.
It won't be a problem.... Nobody ever reads them anyways. Also, accepting the EULA terms becomes a
requirement not to own the car, But to Activate the software license key which enables the Self-Driving Option.
Don't agree to the EULA, then no AutoPilot for you.
Wait... at the same time as they refuse to remove b0rked PowerShell Aliases for 'Wget' and 'Curl' that mess up people who want to use those utilities, because that would be a "Breaking Change" ?
+Class action prohibited And Binding arbitration with Tesla for any accident that occurs as a result of you operating the vehicle, And a restriction that You may not convey any of your dispute rights or capability to sue us to any insurance company or other 3rd party; any claim must be pursued solely by you, with sworn statement that no insurer or 3rd party will have interest in any settlement paid to you for dispute resolution.
Are those working at all? What sort of condition is required to make 3 different colision detection systems fail all at once?
How about.... Because of the way those systems work, and the way the self-driving system works.. each of those systems is a single point of failure
in some driving situations?
Meaning if just one of those systems goes offline or fails to do its job properly, then there are some crash risks/emergencies which will not be detected, or the self-driving system will not notice.
0. Upcoming global extinction event due to meteor impact combined with the automation of the workfource, outsourcing everyone, laying off 90% of employees in the next 10 years, and paying the rest minimum wage..... US degenerating to a communist state, Hillary seizing all the guns, ISIS bioterrorists deploying global anti-human microbes, launching dirty bombs and mass-executions, and North Korea nuking us all......
May happen before we get all those cool new technologies. Not to be pessimistic about it..... just be realistic. The world is going to hell amidst other good things being worked on.
Hate to break it to you, buddy, but it's still the only infrastructure-free method of global communication, which means it's just as effective as when it was first discovered.
Plasma bomb deployment systems sound like infrastructure to me.
I am sure that radio astronomers would agree with you on that one, as well as oppose this 'plan'
I also oppose this plan, because while it may be beneficial for some communications, It is harmful for others.
ALSO, this is putting environmental conditions at risk.... who knows what the long-term ramifications will be.
Furthermore, altering the earth's atmosphere Or otherwise attempting to jam communications should NOT be permissible methods of messing with an enemy.
Any decentralized solution where an https server knows how to decrypt your friends' data so you can see it in your browser is neither decentralized nor secure.
You can make the decryption of actual text occur within the browser using Javascript Crypto libraries.... Use digitally-signed scripts, Or by using an app.....
It's not a complete FB replacement, unless you can view the content in an Android / iPhone App.
Just consider about how the inconvenience of a native application is likely to hinder adoption.
Also, many organizations don't let users install a native application, out of malware concerns.
Quartz today argues that perhaps voice notes is the best alternative to emails
My phone has this cool new feature that lets me automatically convert Voice notes, and Voicemail in particular, directly to text, and e-mails it to me,
so I can read it in my Inbox. Works great. Highly-recommended. For those annoying times when telemarketers leave voicemail, or some co-worker hasn't learned to e-mail yet.
But because it is in a tube, it is much easier to fix.
Yes.... and because it's a tube, you can probably schedule regular preventative maintenance to help make sure mice don't get in; in the first place.
I'm thinking seal completely; pressurize the tube and maintain a slight pressure at all times with an inert gas which is either not breathable to critters, or contains repellents, or enough pesticides to ensure nothing gets in to chew on the cables.
until you realize that is the perfect transportation mechanism for rats and roaches to infiltrate every part of your city.
Put a wall in the tunnel every 2500 feet or so, requiring a small penetration for each cable passing through, and add a drain to the lowest section of each segment.
There aren't many critters that will live in a small box containing nothing (except cable) to eat, and if all access is sealed under normal conditions, then it's no good as a temporary shelter for most critters either, as the tunnels are likely to be at ground temperature (E.g. 40 or 50 degrees F, which is not conducive to roaches, and rats would either starve to death, or cause a fibre cut, resulting in the town sending the exterminators....).
Please name an alternative that is better. Because other than abandoning Facebook (which is the real solution)
The real solution could be a new Ad filtering methodology that Facebook cannot work-around.
For example; using a blacklist to target specific advertisers whose ads appeared on Facebook and specific Ad blocks.
Also, the blacklists could be used to set it up so that clicking on the ad will cause the target page to fail to display.
"Ad Revenue Denial"
Furthermore, the long-term solution could be to DeCentralize the Facebook concept into a Peer-to-Peer network methodology, where users could participate in the social network through multiple providers.
Only a users' friends would be administered a Decryption participant key in order to decrypt my posts or selection of profile data allowed to them according to privacy settings.
people using said technologies as if they were mature are merely beta testers.
You call them beta testers.... I call them "Competitors for the next Darwin Award"
I'm looking at them and wondering if the Teslas are a net positive or a net negative for people.
Suppose I were planning on buying a new car in 2017 or 2018.... would I be safer on the road with a Tesla, or not?
Might be less safe because of the temptation for humans to become more dependent than appropriate on assist features which turn out to have flaws.
Also, I am concerned that if you as a driver get too used to drying an almost-autonomous vehicle, then it may become unsafe for you to later drive other vehicles ---- the assist features could program you with bad habits, such that you lose driving skills when operating your older pickup truck that doesn't have brake-assist + lane-assist+ etc.
This is IP Address geolocation we're talking about here.
More often than not it gets the State and City wrong.
There's not a chance in hell of IP Address geolocation giving a reliable location down to the street address or location level.
So WTF would Law enforcement be showing up based on Maxmind results?
Windows now includes some basic sandboxing and system protection from apps in user space, if such an app were able to use the Linux-y part of Windows to run code with system access
I would call that a bug in the sandboxing. If the Linux code is running as a system identity, then why should a sandboxed process be allowed to directly modify its memory?
If the sandboxed app has the privileges to do that, Then Wtf is the 'sandboxing' in the first place?
The fact that it's still alive is largely due to Google's unwillingness to take the same hard line.
Microsoft and Mozilla's same unwillingness.
Also, a thousand or more software developers who have made Flash support integral to enterprise projects.
E.g. VMware vSphere's and vCloud directors' requirements for Flash to manage the virtualization systems and management platforms.
So obviously Bitfinex since they aren't wasting money on deposit insurance or excessive security, right?
They should do the deal with price determined by price of ALL well-known Exchanges and execute the transaction on whichever exchange
they can make the fastest execution on And ensure an arrangement with to execute the transaction which
provides them the cash before depositing their BTC to the exchange itself.
In other words, the Gov't need not rely on their insurance, because the Government will be receiving the cash before or at the same time as presenting the BTC for settlement.
But what if you miss an individual who is willing to pay a little more for what you have?
They're not going to pay a little more than $X US, for a liquid asset if the same number of coins can be purchased on
a public exchange for $X US. There will have to be a discount to entice them to even participate in your
private little auction event which will have onerous requirements and hoops for the buyer to jump through
Versus other Bitcoin transactions.
Which exchange do they choose? The one who will give them the best exchange rate?
Absolutely. They will likely get a much better selling price Than if they held their own auction though. Their auction will be highly-inefficient..... Also, it's a PITA to qualify to bid in their auctions, if I recall, and settle the transaction Versus the interested Buyer just going to an exchange --- the only reason for a buyer to go through all the hassle involved in bidding on their auctions is to get a substantial discount Versus the major exchanges.
They are liquidating it. All seized property is sold at auction.
Currency is not.
Also.... how do they handle small amounts of stocks and bonds?
There's no need to hold your own auction, when the item is a commodity, and there are large public exchanges.
If they go through the expense and wasted time of holding their own auction, 'stead of hiring a good broker to liquidate it on
the open market, then they're just stupid; they'll wind up getting less than market value for their goods......
This seems circular:
It's totally circular..... you compromise the windows bits, then use the compromised Windows bits to compromise the Linux bits, then use the compromised Linux bits to compromise the Windows bits.
Why wouldn't you just use the initially-compromised Windows bits to wreak your evil and be done with it, then?
Unless your evil is corrupting the Linux-based application and making the Linux application serve bad data..... but that's not
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Wait, are you saying that the encryption protocol can just be trivially modified?
Yes, you just need a wired proxy tunnelling device on your network that causes the actual payload sizes to change and generates additional payloads which will confuse anyone trying to listen.
Vehicles without wireless starting, wireless key-entry, and non-mechanical driver controls are best, But
engine immobilizer with chip in the key is a good idea, As long as the programming procedure is physically secured.
No reason you shouldn't be able to require an actual key exchange during programming requiring physical access: instead of having keys programmable based on information in some database.
UID number isn't everything. I've been on Slashdot since 1997.
There hasn't always been this new-fangled user account system, and hasn't always been "cool to register".
You just typed your name: that is what I was accustomed to.. many of us were reluctant to register due to privacy concerns and simply started posting as Anonymous, or took a few years SlashVacation from commenting.
If you REALLY want an effective deterrent, then get a lockable wheel clamp that you install on the front right or front left tire (Or Both), and stops the vehicle from being driven.
Also, if a thief is trying to defeat your wheel clamp, they will be in plain sight in the parking lot or public street....
Even better, the VIN is easily readable from outside the car.
So lock your car, put a piece of paper on top of the dash so it covers the VIN completely, paint/tape over VIN number on underside,
and conceal VIN number in all locations where it's visible without opening the car first.
Put in LoJack and a car alarm with a long-distance notification and control features.