Usually I agree, and so do police and insurance companies. That's why the scam supposedly works. In this case, other cars box you in while someone cuts right in front of you and slams on the brakes with a car full of people. Then they bilk the system for every dollar they can get.
Apparently this actually happens, though I'd never heard of it before today. Assuming it's a real problem, an in-car computer with an array of sensors and such could log proximity and behavior of surrounding vehicles, illustrating the fault of the scammer.
There's nothing productive happening. You're effectively flipping a coin over and over and over again (as fast as your rig can), until you happen to be the first to hit.
Unfortunately the workload isn't doing protein folding or anything. Though that woulda been cool.
Labor force by occupation: farming, forestry, and fishing: 0.7% manufacturing, extraction, transportation, and crafts: 20.3% managerial, professional, and technical: 37.3% sales and office: 24.2% other services: 17.6%
and
Main industries petroleum, steel, motor vehicles, aerospace, telecommunications, chemicals, creative industries, electronics, food processing, consumer goods, lumber, mining, defense
You're right of course. Though in my particular case, my employer definitely isn't paying [somewhere over $70 k] per year, above-and-beyond my gross pay to employ me.
And to be fair to my employer, my salary seems to be reasonably commensurate with similar positions in small businesses in the Chicago suburbs, so I can't complain. I was just pointing out that 120k/yr looks like a truckload of money to some of us more lowly geeks.:)
I think it's likely the computers could provide evidence of a swoop-and-squat, more than cause them. Where presently it's almost always assumed that the following car didn't maintain an appropriate following distance, now the car computers could, in theory, provide evidence that someone was the victim of this scam. Now the perpetrators go to jail for fraud and reckless endangerment, the insurance company doesn't have to pay out and you don't get the same rate bump you would have. That's a big potential upside to using them, if it's done right!
Have you seen any other better designs out there worth considering? I have occasional use for knocking out little prototype parts, but it always seemed like anything below expensive, commercial turn-key was kinda... as you said... "tweaky".
I'd think the precision on makerbot, rep raps, etc. is sub-millimeter given that similar stepper motors I've seen driving the carriage and platform could get you there.
What's interesting though, is as you mentioned, using this light activated resin with none of the usual extruder complications. I'd really like to see some finished, intricate product out of the prototype. At 20th of a millimeter layer thickness for Z resolution, and good X,Y res, I'd like to see what you get.
Unfortunately a lot of us have (at least at one time) felt like we put up with the truly asinine for much, much less.:(
Though I completely agree with your point. I accept my small percentage of that salary per annum, at least in part, because I like where I work now. Sanity is a big bonus.
Likewise. I'd done lots of web development on a single monitor before going to work somewhere that issued all developers 2 lcd's. Since then, trying to use just one display is a miserable experience. So bad, in fact, I'd buy a second one out of pocket if they took it for someone else.
A recent blog post by Elon Musk over at the SpaceX site states that they're already profitable with existing contracts for Falcon 9 and future Falcon Heavy & Dragon launches. In the meantime, even China is already saying, "there's no way we could come close to that price". I think that's pretty amazing.
Considering how Amazon has become known for caving to the slightest pressure from law enforcement or even just a nosy senator [talkingpointsmemo.com], to host such an attack from EC2 seems extraordinarily stupid.
You're probably right, but I had to laugh that just a few posts up someone was complaining that they're not trigger-happy enough. Maybe they really have found a middle-ground.
It would make much more sense to launch it from somewhere hosted by a company that doesn't have a reputation for giving up their customer's data and shutting down even legitimate stuff that happens to run afoul of their vague guidelines.
I expect the doer[s] knew the hack would be done-and-over by the time anyone was issuing shut-downs. I'd guess the way to find them now has everything to do with the stolen data. Where it went, where it's being sold or used, etc.
Which makes me wonder if what the prize is after is just symptoms -> diagnosis recommendation, the ultimate miniaturized diagnostic equipment machine, or both. The winning criteria sounds like diagnosis alone, where the rest of the article talks about all the wireless sensors, networking, etc.
You can easily hack a server and put something in there that is NOT causing problems but acts as a relay for a S2S comms channel to hand off communication in a round robin or even random way. and if it's small messages like email it could go un-noticed on a server for years.
His method worked for 10 years with none of that work. You have to remember that Bin Laden is not an uber l33t haxxor or anything. The botnet method you describe would involve the inclusion of people unlike the sort he'd normally trust anyways, probably a money trail, intermediaries, etc. All weaknesses. And it's not like they never find people who create and manage botnets as it is. Imagine how fast we'd infiltrate each botnet and catch every operator if they were, "Enemy of the World #1".
Very much so, I'd say. The lesson here is they can find you no matter what. Even if you're paranoid enough to hide in a hole, buried in someones backyard under a pile of trash, like Hussein.
There's no such thing as the perfect hiding spot in the real world. There's always someone or something that will eventually betray your location. Except maybe for wherever 2-Pac and Elvis have been hiding.
I hear people complain about the hardware support for various things on occasion, but I have to admit, I haven't had anything come up broken since about 05 or 06. Maybe it's because I'm on more standard hw than I used to use... I honestly can't say. But it is a more bleeding-edge distro, so I'd be willing to cut it a little slack that way if I did encounter problems at some point.
But the "my wifi broke" thing aside, Ubuntu is the only option (if there could be one at all) for the major publishers to target. It simply has the greatest mindshare for for lowest-common-denominator linux on the desktop distro. So while stability and breadth of support is important, and Ubuntu should apparently do better for some people, there really are no logical alternatives for a desktop app company that wants to target the most people with the least amount of effort.
I think the idea is that viewing numbers, correlated with ad dollars, will always be less appealing than those of wrestling and ghost chasers. But the lesser numbers of scifi fans might be more willing to pay for a genuine scifi channel, which in theory, might offset lesser ad revenue and prove beneficial to everyone.
There will always be more oatmeal-brained pro wrestling fans out there, but scifi fans are passionate... and they might very well pay. I don't know if it'd work, but seems like an interesting thought anyways.
I don't inherently loathe television as a medium, I loath spoonfed bullshit supportded by psychologically manipulative bullshit.
Yeah it's not the medium, it's the dollars. And dollars follow the common viewer. It's sad really... we have all these channels that should be serving a niche, but they all eventually gravitate back to the same thing while chasing the revenue. I guess to serve a niche, you have to aim small... which doesn't work well for large cable networks.
As production costs decrease and distribution costs near zero, I'm hoping to see more independently developed, subscribed and distributed content on the tubes. It seems like the only way.
They were ballsy about it too when they made the change. Everyone saw it as a giant red flag, that they were trying to escape the shackles of their Sci Fi roots in favor of their more profitable ghosts and wrestling line-up. They just didn't care... which made it a not-so-subtle "f'you" to their existing viewers.
I used to think independently funded and produced content was a pipe dream, but I'm starting to think that's the only way anyone is going to risk producing for the genre anymore.
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I just right click on a link, open in new window, on the very rare occasion I want a new window. It's been there forever.
Or to start a blank one, Cntrl-N.
Usually I agree, and so do police and insurance companies. That's why the scam supposedly works. In this case, other cars box you in while someone cuts right in front of you and slams on the brakes with a car full of people. Then they bilk the system for every dollar they can get.
Apparently this actually happens, though I'd never heard of it before today. Assuming it's a real problem, an in-car computer with an array of sensors and such could log proximity and behavior of surrounding vehicles, illustrating the fault of the scammer.
There's nothing productive happening. You're effectively flipping a coin over and over and over again (as fast as your rig can), until you happen to be the first to hit.
Unfortunately the workload isn't doing protein folding or anything. Though that woulda been cool.
Export goods: agricultural products (soybeans, fruit, corn) 9.2%, industrial supplies (organic chemicals) 26.8%, capital goods (transistors, aircraft, motor vehicle parts, computers, telecommunications equipment) 49.0%, consumer goods (automobiles, medicines) 15.0% (2009)
And thought these were relevant:
Labor force by occupation: farming, forestry, and fishing: 0.7% manufacturing, extraction, transportation, and crafts: 20.3% managerial, professional, and technical: 37.3% sales and office: 24.2% other services: 17.6%
and
Main industries petroleum, steel, motor vehicles, aerospace, telecommunications, chemicals, creative industries, electronics, food processing, consumer goods, lumber, mining, defense
You're right of course. Though in my particular case, my employer definitely isn't paying [somewhere over $70 k] per year, above-and-beyond my gross pay to employ me.
:)
And to be fair to my employer, my salary seems to be reasonably commensurate with similar positions in small businesses in the Chicago suburbs, so I can't complain. I was just pointing out that 120k/yr looks like a truckload of money to some of us more lowly geeks.
I think it's likely the computers could provide evidence of a swoop-and-squat, more than cause them. Where presently it's almost always assumed that the following car didn't maintain an appropriate following distance, now the car computers could, in theory, provide evidence that someone was the victim of this scam. Now the perpetrators go to jail for fraud and reckless endangerment, the insurance company doesn't have to pay out and you don't get the same rate bump you would have. That's a big potential upside to using them, if it's done right!
I figured that would be the case.
Have you seen any other better designs out there worth considering? I have occasional use for knocking out little prototype parts, but it always seemed like anything below expensive, commercial turn-key was kinda... as you said... "tweaky".
I'd think the precision on makerbot, rep raps, etc. is sub-millimeter given that similar stepper motors I've seen driving the carriage and platform could get you there.
What's interesting though, is as you mentioned, using this light activated resin with none of the usual extruder complications. I'd really like to see some finished, intricate product out of the prototype. At 20th of a millimeter layer thickness for Z resolution, and good X,Y res, I'd like to see what you get.
Unfortunately a lot of us have (at least at one time) felt like we put up with the truly asinine for much, much less. :(
Though I completely agree with your point. I accept my small percentage of that salary per annum, at least in part, because I like where I work now. Sanity is a big bonus.
You just made me revisit Webmin after something like 10 years! Thanks for all your hard work, I think I'm going to give it a spin again.
Whoa... for 120k/yr I'd write everything in stone with a chisel if they wanted.
Likewise. I'd done lots of web development on a single monitor before going to work somewhere that issued all developers 2 lcd's. Since then, trying to use just one display is a miserable experience. So bad, in fact, I'd buy a second one out of pocket if they took it for someone else.
A recent blog post by Elon Musk over at the SpaceX site states that they're already profitable with existing contracts for Falcon 9 and future Falcon Heavy & Dragon launches. In the meantime, even China is already saying, "there's no way we could come close to that price". I think that's pretty amazing.
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Wonder how long you have to be on the job before you get to be the one holding the clipboard.
Considering how Amazon has become known for caving to the slightest pressure from law enforcement or even just a nosy senator [talkingpointsmemo.com], to host such an attack from EC2 seems extraordinarily stupid.
You're probably right, but I had to laugh that just a few posts up someone was complaining that they're not trigger-happy enough. Maybe they really have found a middle-ground.
It would make much more sense to launch it from somewhere hosted by a company that doesn't have a reputation for giving up their customer's data and shutting down even legitimate stuff that happens to run afoul of their vague guidelines.
I expect the doer[s] knew the hack would be done-and-over by the time anyone was issuing shut-downs. I'd guess the way to find them now has everything to do with the stolen data. Where it went, where it's being sold or used, etc.
Which makes me wonder if what the prize is after is just symptoms -> diagnosis recommendation, the ultimate miniaturized diagnostic equipment machine, or both. The winning criteria sounds like diagnosis alone, where the rest of the article talks about all the wireless sensors, networking, etc.
You can easily hack a server and put something in there that is NOT causing problems but acts as a relay for a S2S comms channel to hand off communication in a round robin or even random way. and if it's small messages like email it could go un-noticed on a server for years.
His method worked for 10 years with none of that work. You have to remember that Bin Laden is not an uber l33t haxxor or anything. The botnet method you describe would involve the inclusion of people unlike the sort he'd normally trust anyways, probably a money trail, intermediaries, etc. All weaknesses. And it's not like they never find people who create and manage botnets as it is. Imagine how fast we'd infiltrate each botnet and catch every operator if they were, "Enemy of the World #1".
I've often wondered if some gibberish spam contains convert messages of nefarious intent.
:)
I don't think that's the case. Money is a sufficient motivator.
Yes, I am convinced all spammers are terrorists.
Nevermind, I'd like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Very much so, I'd say. The lesson here is they can find you no matter what. Even if you're paranoid enough to hide in a hole, buried in someones backyard under a pile of trash, like Hussein.
There's no such thing as the perfect hiding spot in the real world. There's always someone or something that will eventually betray your location. Except maybe for wherever 2-Pac and Elvis have been hiding.
I have the same problem. And worse, it's not how we planned to build out the offices... it was a code requirement.
Sometimes the zeal to go green, however well intentioned, can be a real pain in the ass.
There's a new fossil watch that's similar to that, and I believe it's the successor to the TI dev watch (as they're now being sold on the TI store).
:)
http://www.metawatch.org/
https://estore.ti.com/MSP-WDS430BT2000D-Bluetooth-Wearable-Watch-development-system-with-Digital-display--P2447C42.aspx
https://estore.ti.com/MSP-WDS430BT1000AD-Bluetooth-Wearable-Watch-development-system-with-Analog-Digital-display--P2446.aspx
Seems like a neat toy to me.
I hear people complain about the hardware support for various things on occasion, but I have to admit, I haven't had anything come up broken since about 05 or 06. Maybe it's because I'm on more standard hw than I used to use... I honestly can't say. But it is a more bleeding-edge distro, so I'd be willing to cut it a little slack that way if I did encounter problems at some point.
But the "my wifi broke" thing aside, Ubuntu is the only option (if there could be one at all) for the major publishers to target. It simply has the greatest mindshare for for lowest-common-denominator linux on the desktop distro. So while stability and breadth of support is important, and Ubuntu should apparently do better for some people, there really are no logical alternatives for a desktop app company that wants to target the most people with the least amount of effort.
I think the idea is that viewing numbers, correlated with ad dollars, will always be less appealing than those of wrestling and ghost chasers. But the lesser numbers of scifi fans might be more willing to pay for a genuine scifi channel, which in theory, might offset lesser ad revenue and prove beneficial to everyone.
There will always be more oatmeal-brained pro wrestling fans out there, but scifi fans are passionate... and they might very well pay. I don't know if it'd work, but seems like an interesting thought anyways.
I don't inherently loathe television as a medium, I loath spoonfed bullshit supportded by psychologically manipulative bullshit.
Yeah it's not the medium, it's the dollars. And dollars follow the common viewer. It's sad really... we have all these channels that should be serving a niche, but they all eventually gravitate back to the same thing while chasing the revenue. I guess to serve a niche, you have to aim small... which doesn't work well for large cable networks.
As production costs decrease and distribution costs near zero, I'm hoping to see more independently developed, subscribed and distributed content on the tubes. It seems like the only way.
They were ballsy about it too when they made the change. Everyone saw it as a giant red flag, that they were trying to escape the shackles of their Sci Fi roots in favor of their more profitable ghosts and wrestling line-up. They just didn't care... which made it a not-so-subtle "f'you" to their existing viewers.
I used to think independently funded and produced content was a pipe dream, but I'm starting to think that's the only way anyone is going to risk producing for the genre anymore.