Yeah, nice try! Everyone knows that there are large escalators placed around the ends of the earth for just that purpose: to make you beach-sitters think that the ships come over - or disappear behind - the "horizon".
The regional "emergency and urgency department" of Lombardia has developed an app called 112 Where Are U. This app is available (for free) for iOS and Android devices, works in a large number of Italian regions, and once installed on your smartphone it allows you to call 112 (the European Emergency Number) and send location information and additional data if available. This app can also be used when the caller cannot talk. I have heard of people that were saved out of bad situations thanks to the precise location information sent to first responders/police. And I'd have no hesitation to use this app if necessary.
Most people I know make their espresso with a moka pot. You can get a pot for less than 20 Euro and use it on a stove or electrically (various models exist). Add water in the bottom chamber and ground coffee in the basket above, apply heat and wait until it boils; makes an excellent espresso. We have pots in different sizes. It's kind of a must for any Italian household.
While searching for a generic image classification solution I happened to stumble over a project called miles-deep, a "Deep Learning Porn Video Classifier/Editor with Caffe". I have tried it out once (for strictly academic purposes, of course) and it yielded some interesting results. The classification of the acts from a test movie was not perfect, but some of the classifications were correct. It even gave information about what time into the movie a defined act started and when it ended. The project's author seems to be active on the site that shall not be named around here.
The town I live in in northern Italy was once famous for its "clean and healthy air". That was a century ago - nowadays, PM readings are published on the local newspapers and their websites only during the low-tourism months, and official sensor stations are placed in strategically less-interesting locations. A few weeks ago I bought a couple of SDS011 sensors, and I plan to place them on my balconies, hook them each up to a an Arduino with an RS485 module and have the data stored into my InfluxDB (which I already use to store energy consumption and other apartment-related data), but I haven't had the time yet to wire everything together.
The problem I see with collecting PM2.5/PM10 values from a drone or any moving vehicle: you only get readings for a given area for a specific point in time. Some of these readings could be exceptionally high or low for a variety of reasons (heavy wind? burning building?). In order to have some conclusive data you want to collect it from the same place over a period of time.
If one prefers an already complete solution with instructions and downloadable code: a group in Stuttgart, Germany, created the project Luftdaten (text in German and Polish, only). The website describes how to easily create your own (stationary) internet-connected sensor with a NodeMCU and SDS011 sensor, and hook it up with their (free) service. The data is collected and can be shown on a map. There are a number of sensors placed by individuals in Europe, and even a few in the USA. Even though the number of sensors is low at the moment, if this project gains some traction it could provide some interesting data.
The word "leverages" appears in TFS. There's no way I click on a link when "leverage" is on the same page - that word is a darling to the worst of marketing drones. I hear they kick puppies for fun.
That One Privacy Guy maintains a detailed VPN comparison chart. The chart lists the results for a number of criteria for each VPN provider. Information is gathered from public sources and by contacting the respective hotlines. There is also an article about choosing a VPN, and a review section.
The site is a bit slow to load, but if offers some good information. I like the fact that no recommendation is given, everyone can come to their own conclusions based on their requirements and the available data. From the FAQ:.
Q: Can you give me a recommendation?
A: Sorry, but to be unbiased, I created my project for others to make this determination for themselves. Everyone’s needs and threat models are different as well, so if I made a suggestion that conflicted with your needs, it could very well have the opposite effect as intended.
You're probably right. It is true for example that older PLCs didn't even offer a possibility to require authentication before anyone could connect and modify the code. My post was mainly a reaction to the many comments that implied that industrial automation has the security mindset of the average household IoT device.
At the international corporation I work for all production lines (for our own use) are planned, designed, assembled and programmed in-house; engineering designs the machine, construction assembles them, we develop the HMI, the business logic, and we program the PLCs. IT is extremely paranoid, as they should be. There is no outside vendor that can simply slap a WiFi node onto some robot.
Can someone please mod parent up? Hundreds of comments in this thread and this is the first insightful one. Preventative maintenance and relevant data collection is being done without connecting every single "robot" "to the internet".
I work in industrial automation, and the factories I know of and work with have a separate net for the production lines ("robots"), no access from the "human use network", no access from or to the internet. Collected data is sent to a local server or cluster via secure messaging, and that single point then may or may not have a way to send relevant data further up the chain to a remote server or cluster, via VPN. Although the internet might be used for the VPN connection, not one single point is ever exposed directly.
In addition to all of this, should an attacker ever make it into the local, machine-only network, reprogramming the robots would require the attacker to connect to the relevant PLCs - using the PLC manufacturer's proprietary tools - and actually know what they are doing. Unless they just want to thrash the system but make some subtle but destructive modifications, good luck making sense of the thousands of sensors and actuators with cryptic names that make up such a system. Maybe this wouldn't require state-level actors as parent wrote, but still a level of sophistication that is way beyond the common "infect computer, add to botnet"-attacker.
Even easier, PornHub doesn't use SSL, traffic is not encrypted, and your ISP is most likely already selling your midget milf interest to the highest bidder. At least that's what I was told by a friend.
Actually, I work in industrial automation. I'm a software architect and developer by training, and I run my own small company doing work for the manufacturing sector. This requires me to dive into various disciplines that are outside of my core competencies, like electronics, mechanics, hydraulics, and specific manufacturing processes, and this is one aspect of my job that I really love.
I know you were kidding with your "only person with a job"-remark, but having spent the past 16 years on production floors in industrial manufacturing plants I can say that it is true that a certain number of jobs have been replaced by automation. During this time, a certainly relevant number of jobs has also been replaced by outsourcing to other countries.
On the other hand, new jobs have been created - someone has to design, construct, develop and maintain all this new machinery; interdisciplinary engineers, architects, automation developers won't have a problem finding a job; QA has grown in importance and headcount; and maintenance staff in factories has to have a fairly high level of preparation and expertise.
Therefore I believe it is more important than ever that kids today get a solid and extensive education. What can be automated will be automated, and many other jobs will be outsourced to the "cheaper region du jour". But there are jobs that cannot be replaced any time soon.
He may well be a troll. Entirely possible. But the videos I've thus far seen were not of a trollish cast, and the "Death to All Jews" one in particular is not remotely anti-semitic.
He may very well not be anti-semitic (I can't be arsed to RTFA, and I don't care about him one way or the other), but if he simply wanted to raise attention to the fact that "support" can be bought online why didn't he have the guys wave a sign that says "I Stomp Kittens"? Would most likely have offended a different target but not cost him his contracts.
Why would he be surprised and "dumbfounded" that one can hire people to wave signs with an "over-the-top message" for money? Purely as an example, minimum wage in Uganda is $1.7 per month. Seen in that context, getting the equivalent for 3 months' worth of wages for a few minutes of waving a stupid sign sure looks like a nice windfall. Even in more affluent areas people will do crazy shit for $5.
Tear down said shared walls -- which as a side benefit will improve your Feng Shui-ishness and make your small abode look larger -- and retire your neighbours' WAPs to their original boxes of delivery. Work offline. Less is more!
Exactly; it feels so natural that it never occurred to me that not everybody might experience numbers the same way. I have since talked about it to some family members, DW, and friends, and while nobody else seems to associate numbers and colors, my father "sees" digits distributed in space (higher/lower). He also had never talked about that to anyone before, because to him it seemed the way numbers are supposed to be seen.
To a synaesthete, the number seven might appear red
I see each digit in a different color, and I've always thought that was the way for everyone. Only a few years ago - while reading "Born On A Blue Day" by Daniel Tammet - it occurred to me that this might not be the case.
Also, the best camera is always the one you have with you when you need it. You will likely have your phone close by when you want to take a picture of your daughter.
I get what people mean when they suggest to use a "real camera" instead of a smartphone (hobby photographer here), but current smartphone cameras do a fine job for most day-to-day situations. Nothing keeps you from breaking out your DSLR or other camera for "that special shot", but you won't be lugging one around all day, and it won't be in your pant pocket when you need it, especially when out of the house.
Because doctors, lawyers, accountants, engineers and other trusted professionals are less prone than software developers to do shady or outright illegal things when exercising their profession? I don't have any specific data about that, but members of any of the above categories pop up in the relevant sections on the news now and then. If you are a crook you're crook, and no regulating body neither an insurance will change that.
But of course nobody wants to pay for that, so they get what they pay for.
As far as TFS goes, none of of his customers have paid him to siphon their customer's data. If he wasn't happy with what his customers were willing to pay he could simply have not accepted the jobs.
OTOH there are many examples of software projects - some of them are mentioned on this site now and then - that were badly handled although absurdly high amounts of money have been paid.
Due to government requirements, our local public radio and television agency is soon switching to DAB+. This means that all devices that understand only DAB (without the +, very common until only a few years ago) will no longer be able to receive any channels and therefore be obsolete. Fortunately, FM will still be available, so my receiver from the 1980s will still be working fine. Everybody who bought into DAB too soon will have to buy a new device, though.
Depending on the browser you are using you can simply open the console and look at the page's source code there. Additionally, it will allow you to see network requests initiated by your browser and the server's response even for elements that are loaded and rendered after the initial loading of the page has completed (e.g. when you fetch data/content dynamically from the server), something a simple "View Page Source" will not show. This method of viewing a page's source has never yielded an "expired" message for me.
On a Mac: Chrome: menu bar: View -> Developer -> JavaScript Console (alt-cmd j) Safari: menu bar: Develop -> Show Web Inspector (alt-cmd-i -- you may need to enable "Show Develop menu in menu bar" under Preferences -> Advanced) Firefox: menu bar: Tools -> Web Developer -> Web Console
Unless you give the provider a whitelist of allowed addresses (or domains), they might have a hard time filtering all calendar spam. Are your company's Outlook servers run by your IT department or are you using an external provider? Outlook calendars don't seem* to be much different from iCloud calendars: anyone can send you an invitation unless the message containing the invitation gets caught by the mail spam filters.
* I don't have much experience with Outlook - one of my customers runs Outlook servers, and they accept calendar invitations from any sender.
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And what about tabs, f*cking pieces of steaming sh*t? How can you dare to ignore my blank space and indentation identity? What are you, animals? LOL.
You sound a bit agitated. Come here, all you need is a nice backrub and a warm hug...
Yeah, nice try! Everyone knows that there are large escalators placed around the ends of the earth for just that purpose: to make you beach-sitters think that the ships come over - or disappear behind - the "horizon".
The regional "emergency and urgency department" of Lombardia has developed an app called 112 Where Are U. This app is available (for free) for iOS and Android devices, works in a large number of Italian regions, and once installed on your smartphone it allows you to call 112 (the European Emergency Number) and send location information and additional data if available. This app can also be used when the caller cannot talk. I have heard of people that were saved out of bad situations thanks to the precise location information sent to first responders/police. And I'd have no hesitation to use this app if necessary.
It means we will soon see Fox News anchors in a new business attire.
Most people I know make their espresso with a moka pot. You can get a pot for less than 20 Euro and use it on a stove or electrically (various models exist). Add water in the bottom chamber and ground coffee in the basket above, apply heat and wait until it boils; makes an excellent espresso. We have pots in different sizes. It's kind of a must for any Italian household.
ESR has been called ESR on Slashdot and elsewhere for decades; he even answered questions here on /. in a story titled "ESR Answers Your Questions". This is about using a nickname, not an abbreviation.
The following is just a small selection from the past:
While searching for a generic image classification solution I happened to stumble over a project called miles-deep, a "Deep Learning Porn Video Classifier/Editor with Caffe". I have tried it out once (for strictly academic purposes, of course) and it yielded some interesting results. The classification of the acts from a test movie was not perfect, but some of the classifications were correct. It even gave information about what time into the movie a defined act started and when it ended. The project's author seems to be active on the site that shall not be named around here.
The town I live in in northern Italy was once famous for its "clean and healthy air". That was a century ago - nowadays, PM readings are published on the local newspapers and their websites only during the low-tourism months, and official sensor stations are placed in strategically less-interesting locations. A few weeks ago I bought a couple of SDS011 sensors, and I plan to place them on my balconies, hook them each up to a an Arduino with an RS485 module and have the data stored into my InfluxDB (which I already use to store energy consumption and other apartment-related data), but I haven't had the time yet to wire everything together.
The problem I see with collecting PM2.5/PM10 values from a drone or any moving vehicle: you only get readings for a given area for a specific point in time. Some of these readings could be exceptionally high or low for a variety of reasons (heavy wind? burning building?). In order to have some conclusive data you want to collect it from the same place over a period of time.
If one prefers an already complete solution with instructions and downloadable code: a group in Stuttgart, Germany, created the project Luftdaten (text in German and Polish, only). The website describes how to easily create your own (stationary) internet-connected sensor with a NodeMCU and SDS011 sensor, and hook it up with their (free) service. The data is collected and can be shown on a map. There are a number of sensors placed by individuals in Europe, and even a few in the USA. Even though the number of sensors is low at the moment, if this project gains some traction it could provide some interesting data.
Um, you do know that the 'J' in JSON doesn't stand for 'Java', right?
You woke my nitpick mode: The J in JSON literally stands for Java (and the S for Script).
I agree with the rest of your post, though.
I'd appreciate if they could cover up women's ankle hair, too...
The word "leverages" appears in TFS. There's no way I click on a link when "leverage" is on the same page - that word is a darling to the worst of marketing drones. I hear they kick puppies for fun.
That One Privacy Guy maintains a detailed VPN comparison chart. The chart lists the results for a number of criteria for each VPN provider. Information is gathered from public sources and by contacting the respective hotlines. There is also an article about choosing a VPN, and a review section.
The site is a bit slow to load, but if offers some good information. I like the fact that no recommendation is given, everyone can come to their own conclusions based on their requirements and the available data. From the FAQ:.
You're probably right. It is true for example that older PLCs didn't even offer a possibility to require authentication before anyone could connect and modify the code. My post was mainly a reaction to the many comments that implied that industrial automation has the security mindset of the average household IoT device.
At the international corporation I work for all production lines (for our own use) are planned, designed, assembled and programmed in-house; engineering designs the machine, construction assembles them, we develop the HMI, the business logic, and we program the PLCs. IT is extremely paranoid, as they should be. There is no outside vendor that can simply slap a WiFi node onto some robot.
Can someone please mod parent up? Hundreds of comments in this thread and this is the first insightful one. Preventative maintenance and relevant data collection is being done without connecting every single "robot" "to the internet".
I work in industrial automation, and the factories I know of and work with have a separate net for the production lines ("robots"), no access from the "human use network", no access from or to the internet. Collected data is sent to a local server or cluster via secure messaging, and that single point then may or may not have a way to send relevant data further up the chain to a remote server or cluster, via VPN. Although the internet might be used for the VPN connection, not one single point is ever exposed directly.
In addition to all of this, should an attacker ever make it into the local, machine-only network, reprogramming the robots would require the attacker to connect to the relevant PLCs - using the PLC manufacturer's proprietary tools - and actually know what they are doing. Unless they just want to thrash the system but make some subtle but destructive modifications, good luck making sense of the thousands of sensors and actuators with cryptic names that make up such a system. Maybe this wouldn't require state-level actors as parent wrote, but still a level of sophistication that is way beyond the common "infect computer, add to botnet"-attacker.
Even easier, PornHub doesn't use SSL, traffic is not encrypted, and your ISP is most likely already selling your midget milf interest to the highest bidder.
At least that's what I was told by a friend.
Actually, I work in industrial automation. I'm a software architect and developer by training, and I run my own small company doing work for the manufacturing sector. This requires me to dive into various disciplines that are outside of my core competencies, like electronics, mechanics, hydraulics, and specific manufacturing processes, and this is one aspect of my job that I really love.
I know you were kidding with your "only person with a job"-remark, but having spent the past 16 years on production floors in industrial manufacturing plants I can say that it is true that a certain number of jobs have been replaced by automation. During this time, a certainly relevant number of jobs has also been replaced by outsourcing to other countries.
On the other hand, new jobs have been created - someone has to design, construct, develop and maintain all this new machinery; interdisciplinary engineers, architects, automation developers won't have a problem finding a job; QA has grown in importance and headcount; and maintenance staff in factories has to have a fairly high level of preparation and expertise.
Therefore I believe it is more important than ever that kids today get a solid and extensive education. What can be automated will be automated, and many other jobs will be outsourced to the "cheaper region du jour". But there are jobs that cannot be replaced any time soon.
He may well be a troll. Entirely possible. But the videos I've thus far seen were not of a trollish cast, and the "Death to All Jews" one in particular is not remotely anti-semitic.
He may very well not be anti-semitic (I can't be arsed to RTFA, and I don't care about him one way or the other), but if he simply wanted to raise attention to the fact that "support" can be bought online why didn't he have the guys wave a sign that says "I Stomp Kittens"? Would most likely have offended a different target but not cost him his contracts.
Why would he be surprised and "dumbfounded" that one can hire people to wave signs with an "over-the-top message" for money? Purely as an example, minimum wage in Uganda is $1.7 per month. Seen in that context, getting the equivalent for 3 months' worth of wages for a few minutes of waving a stupid sign sure looks like a nice windfall. Even in more affluent areas people will do crazy shit for $5.
Tear down said shared walls -- which as a side benefit will improve your Feng Shui-ishness and make your small abode look larger -- and retire your neighbours' WAPs to their original boxes of delivery. Work offline. Less is more!
Exactly; it feels so natural that it never occurred to me that not everybody might experience numbers the same way. I have since talked about it to some family members, DW, and friends, and while nobody else seems to associate numbers and colors, my father "sees" digits distributed in space (higher/lower). He also had never talked about that to anyone before, because to him it seemed the way numbers are supposed to be seen.
I see each digit in a different color, and I've always thought that was the way for everyone. Only a few years ago - while reading "Born On A Blue Day" by Daniel Tammet - it occurred to me that this might not be the case.
Also, the best camera is always the one you have with you when you need it. You will likely have your phone close by when you want to take a picture of your daughter.
I get what people mean when they suggest to use a "real camera" instead of a smartphone (hobby photographer here), but current smartphone cameras do a fine job for most day-to-day situations. Nothing keeps you from breaking out your DSLR or other camera for "that special shot", but you won't be lugging one around all day, and it won't be in your pant pocket when you need it, especially when out of the house.
Because doctors, lawyers, accountants, engineers and other trusted professionals are less prone than software developers to do shady or outright illegal things when exercising their profession? I don't have any specific data about that, but members of any of the above categories pop up in the relevant sections on the news now and then. If you are a crook you're crook, and no regulating body neither an insurance will change that.
As far as TFS goes, none of of his customers have paid him to siphon their customer's data. If he wasn't happy with what his customers were willing to pay he could simply have not accepted the jobs.
OTOH there are many examples of software projects - some of them are mentioned on this site now and then - that were badly handled although absurdly high amounts of money have been paid.
Due to government requirements, our local public radio and television agency is soon switching to DAB+. This means that all devices that understand only DAB (without the +, very common until only a few years ago) will no longer be able to receive any channels and therefore be obsolete. Fortunately, FM will still be available, so my receiver from the 1980s will still be working fine. Everybody who bought into DAB too soon will have to buy a new device, though.
Depending on the browser you are using you can simply open the console and look at the page's source code there. Additionally, it will allow you to see network requests initiated by your browser and the server's response even for elements that are loaded and rendered after the initial loading of the page has completed (e.g. when you fetch data/content dynamically from the server), something a simple "View Page Source" will not show. This method of viewing a page's source has never yielded an "expired" message for me.
On a Mac:
Chrome: menu bar: View -> Developer -> JavaScript Console (alt-cmd j)
Safari: menu bar: Develop -> Show Web Inspector (alt-cmd-i -- you may need to enable "Show Develop menu in menu bar" under Preferences -> Advanced)
Firefox: menu bar: Tools -> Web Developer -> Web Console
Unless you give the provider a whitelist of allowed addresses (or domains), they might have a hard time filtering all calendar spam. Are your company's Outlook servers run by your IT department or are you using an external provider? Outlook calendars don't seem* to be much different from iCloud calendars: anyone can send you an invitation unless the message containing the invitation gets caught by the mail spam filters.
* I don't have much experience with Outlook - one of my customers runs Outlook servers, and they accept calendar invitations from any sender.